THE FOLGER BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Louis R. Cohen, Chair Philip Deutch, Vice-Chair Simon Russell Beale The Lord Browne of Madingley Peter Edwards Susan Sachs Goldman Wyatt R. Haskell Deneen C. Howell Maxine Isaacs Edward R. Leahy May Liang Carol L. Ludwig Ken Ludwig Roger Millay Louisa Newlin Andrew J. Nussbaum Andrew Oliver Gail Kern Paster Stuart Rose Loren Rothschild James Shapiro Lady Westmacott Laura J. Yerkovich Ex Officio Michael Witmore
SENIOR DIRECTORS
Michael Witmore, Director Daniel De Simone, Eric Weinmann Librarian Melody Fetske, Director of Finance and Administration Janet Alexander Griffin, Director of Public Programs Eric M. Johnson, Director of Digital Access Kathleen Lynch, Executive Director, Folger Institute Essence Newhoff, Director of Development Peggy O’Brien, Director of Education
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DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS Beth Emelson, Assistant Artistic Producer David Polk, General Manager Charles Flye, Production Manager Rebekah Sheffer, Assistant Technical Director Tim Guillot, Audience Services Coordinator Emily Tartanella, Public Programs Assistant Maegan Clearwood, Public Programs Administrative Assistant Kate Abbott, Adrianne Eby, Courtney Feiman, Kate Gifford, Marley Kabin, Emily Kester, Ben Lauer, Erin Simpson, Austin Wilt, House Managers Teresa Wood, Casting Assistant Jennifer Bowman, Folger Consort Manager Teri Cross Davis, Poetry Coordinator Katharine Pitt, Humanities Programs Assistant Emma Snyder, Executive Director, PEN/Faulkner Foundation Peter Eramo, Jr., Events Publicity and Marketing Manager WiT Media, Graphics Designer and Advertising Agency Jeanne Krohn, Graphic Designer Barbara Shaw, Playbill Typesetter Jane Pisano, Publications Consultant Stephanie Svoboda, Ticketing Operations Manager Christina Pinnell, Box Office Manager Kiersten Dittrich, Ticketing Sales Assistant Francesca Chilcote, Amanda Duchemin, Jeff Gan, Lee Garret, Keith Hock, Annie Immediata, Emily Kester, Heather Newhouse, Leslie Putnam, Adam Pyle, Box Office Assistants EXTERNAL RELATIONS Garland Scott, Head of External Relations Esther French, Communications Associate
DIVISION OF EDUCATION Corinne Viglietta, Assistant Director of Education Danielle A. Drakes, School Programs Manager Carol Ann Lloyd-Stanger, Visitor Education Programs Manager Katherine Dvorak, Education Programs Assistant Greg Armstrong, Education Administrative Assistant Maribeth Cote, Public Engagement Coordinator JC McElveen, Docent Chair Michael LoMonico, Senior Consultant on National Education Louisa Newlin, Senior Consultant OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT Mary Zehe, Assistant Director of Development for Operations Winnie Harrington Robinson, Senior Development Officer for Major Gifts Connie L. Perez, Senior Development Officer for Institutional Relations Cari Romeu, Senior Development Officer for Annual Giving Tiffany M. FitzGerald, Membership and Annual Fund Manager Leslie Gehring, Development Services Coordinator Colleen Robinson, Development Associate for Major Gifts Elena Forbes, Development Associate for Corporate Relations DIRECTOR’S OFFICE Yvonne Barton, Executive Assistant to the Director Lari Lavigne, Administrative Assistant, Executive Offices
FOLGER THEATRE 2015/16 SEASON Janet Alexander Griffin Artistic Producer
Beth Emelson
David Polk
Assistant Artistic Producer General Manager
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Production of
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Associate Sponsors Keith and Celia Arnaud Maygene and Steve Daniels William L. Hopkins Gail Kern Paster Scott and Liz Vance
Folger Theatre’s open-captioned performances are generously sponsored by Vinton and Sigrid Cerf Media Sponsor
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This production of Pericles was originally produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival Bill Rauch, Artistic Director Cynthia Rider, Executive Director
Charles Flye
Production Manager
William Shakespeare
Joseph Haj† Director
Jack Herrick
Music and Lyrics
Jan Chambers Scenic Design
Raquel Barreto Costume Design
Rui Rita*
Lighting Design
Amadon Jaeger Sound Design
Francesca Talenti Video Design
Sarah Lozoff
Movement Director
Michele Osherow
Resident Dramaturg
Joy Dickson
Casting Director, OSF
Gwen Turos**
Production Stage Manager
Elisabeth Ribar**
Assistant Stage Manager
†Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers *Member of United Scenic Artists **Member of Actors’ Equity Association
DIRECTOR’S NOTES Pericles was wildly popular during Shakespeare’s lifetime and in the decades following; indeed, it was among his most popular works. It was the play that reopened the London Globe Theatre in 1631 after it was shuttered because of the Plague. And it was the first Shakespeare play performed when the theatres reopened at the beginning of the Restoration after years of Puritan closure. With its themes of survival, loss, maturation and reconciliation, it is little accident that Pericles offered an opportunity for audiences to come together and understand themselves and their place in an arbitrary and unjust universe just a little better.
The play then fell into disregard, as the piece baffled (and continues to baffle) scholars and critics by its refusal to fit into traditional orthodoxies of what constitutes a well-made play. The play is only troublesome if one insists on its behaving like
other plays. Seen on its own terms, Pericles is a playful, funny, moving, and powerful meditation on what it is to be human.
T.S. Eliot called it “that very great play, Pericles,” and I am in agreement. The play is both underknown and undervalued. It is a powerful story that belongs to a folk tradition, a tale that is both spoken text and song and passed from generation to generation. And its message, finally, is one of healing. Our narrator, Gower, tells us that “Lords and Ladies in their lives / Have read it for restoratives.” I certainly have read it in exactly that way, and it has been a pleasure crafting this piece with such extraordinary collaborators.
“To sing a song that old was sung” is the first line of the play; and so begins our journey. —Joseph Haj
In Pericles, the title character is forced to flee his home country in the face of danger. Recognizing the similar plight of so many now in our world, Folger Theatre is partnering with USA for UNHCR to bring awareness and support for today’s refugees—many from what is now modern-day Tyre. Proceeds from concessions at the shows are being donated to the UN Refugee Agency, and we encourage audience members to contribute directly.
UNHCR is the world’s leading organization aiding and protecting refugees. For more information on how to help, visit www.unrefugees.org.
The Folger is partnering with USA for UNHCR for a special free Folger Friday on November 20 entitled Refugees from Pericles to Now. Visit www.folger.edu/lectures for more information. 4
CAST
(in alphabetical order)
Cleon/Cerimon/Pirate Pericles, Prince of Tyre Musician Gower Lysimachus/Lord Marina/Antiochus’ Daughter Helicanus/Fisherman/Bawd Leonine/Fisherman Thaisa/Dionyza Antiochus/Simonides/Pandar Lord/Sailor Lychorida/Diana Thaliard/Fisherman/Boult/Man Sailor/Lord/Pirate
Barzin Akhavan* Wayne T. Carr* Darcy Danielson Armando Durán* Michael Gabriel Goodfriend* Jennie Greenberry* Michael J. Hume* Cedric Lamar* Brooke Parks* Scott Ripley* Zlato Rizziolli Emily Serdahl U. Jonathan Toppo* Samuel L. Wick
Understudies Jacqueline Chenault (Lychorida/Diana) Jeff Keogh (Gower/Antiochus/Simonides/ Pandar) Keith Richards (Leonine/Helicanus/ Fisherman/Bawd) Stephen Russell Murray (Lords/Sailors/ Gents/Knights) * Members of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote, and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 49,000 actors, singers, dancers, and stage managers working in hundreds of theaters across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theater as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.
This production is performed with one 15-minute intermission. Please refrain from using cell phones, cameras, or other recording devices during the production.
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SYNOPSIS
The nautical tale of a wandering prince, Pericles is narrated by John Gower, a poet from the English past. Gower explains that Pericles, Prince of Tyre, hopes to win the hand of a princess in Antioch. When Pericles learns that she and the king, her father, are lovers, he flees for his life.
Pericles brings grain to Tarsus during a famine, but loses his ships and men in a storm. In Pentapolis, he wins a tournament and marries the king’s daughter, Thaisa. With Thaisa pregnant, she and Pericles sail for Tyre. Thaisa bears a daughter, Marina, at sea, but apparently dies. Her coffin drifts ashore at Ephesus, where she is revived and becomes a priestess of Diana. Pericles leaves the baby Marina with the king and queen of Tarsus. Fourteen years later, Marina, kidnapped by pirates, is sold to a brothel, but her eloquence protects her. Told that she has died, a grief-stricken Pericles rediscovers her. Guided by a vision from the goddess Diana, Pericles and Marina reunite with Thaisa.
DRAMATURG’S NOTES Pericles, Prince of Tyre is unusual among Shakespeare’s plays. The hero travels Odysseus-like from place to place on a fantastical quest to showcase honor, announce virtue, and dodge the fury of a perverse king.
Pericles is poised for success; his name is Greek for “far-famed.” But for this hero, the readiness is not all. Despite the Prince’s good intentions, his choices are imperfect, his judgment sometimes flawed. We do not blame so much as feel for the young man who comes face to face with natural and other disasters, fiends, fisherman, hustlers, and higher powers. Throughout, Pericles is as dumbstruck by occurrences as we are. But that’s what happens when narrative is left to a poet. 6
In appointing “ancient Gower” as guide, Shakespeare sets a course for medieval romance. John Gower, friend and rival to Chaucer, provided the source text for Pericles in his Confessio Amantis (1390). Gower’s running chronicle on stage alerts us to storytelling and of the ways stories connect individuals separated by place and time. “To sing a song that old was sung,” is Gower’s gentle aim; we’ll see how similar performances deliver the distant and the dead. The poet’s initial “song”— one of several set to music in director Joe Haj’s enchanting production—inclines our ears to hear, and broadens our engagement with the play’s stylized language. Gower admits deficiencies in his account and directs us to assist by
bending our minds, pardoning crimes, turning our thoughts and fancies. We’ve seen this move in Henry V, when the chorus requires that we work our “imaginary forces.” Gower’s attentions to his own activities alongside those of actors and audience underscore the play’s collaborative origins. This is one of several works Shakespeare coauthored; the less-seasoned George Wilkins is largely credited with Acts 1 and 2.
Perhaps because of this, varied sensibilities play out in Pericles himself: from the naïve Prince who arguably seeks a father more than he does a wife, to the aging King whose burdens are so great that his tongue buckles beneath them. He chooses silence for a time, unable to influence even his own story.
The broken hero does not grieve lost titles or kingdoms. What undoes Pericles is what undoes us all: the loss of family. His decision to settle in as Tyre’s king leaves him wretched. The duty of a sovereign is up for review, but under greater scrutiny is the obligation of a father. Too often in this play fathers are shockingly inadequate. There’s no justification for Antiochus’ horrifying lechery or Cleon’s consent to his wife’s twisted nurturing. Pericles, too, is not blameless; one might say that he did not lose his daughter so much as give her away.
But romance is a genre that permits recovery. And Pericles, Shakespeare’s first, toys with
recovery early on. In Act 2, a tempest-tossed Pericles recovers his father’s shield and thanks fortune for the ability to “repair” himself. Pericles is re-pered, or re-fathered, by this; he recalls his father’s wishes and uses the armor for protection. Pericles leaves no buckler for his baby girl when he deposits her at Tarsus. Instead, she’ll arm herself with inherited nobility, boasting of “ancestors / Who stood equivalent with mighty kings.” Marina’s sense of her father is based on others’ knowledge—on their singing of old songs—rather than on her own experience. And that won’t do. We’re told that the girl is Pericles’ “life’s delight,” but his loving from a distance does nothing to preserve her. Reuniting is essential for father and daughter both. Within seconds of encountering Marina, the diminished King shows signs of revival. That’s just the start of recoveries to come.
Critics refer to the play as fantastical and fairytale-like. Certainly the incredible events, coincidences, and intrusions by gods and pirates contribute to an otherworldly effect. But within that other world, it’s the familiar that’s most compelling. For Pericles, a wife’s presence trumps a goddess’s. He professes to be made new by conversation with his child. And we believe him. It is not so improbable, is it, to locate the music of the spheres in a familiar voice or to recover through our daughters’ tales? —Michele Osherow 7
PRODUCTION CREDITS Assistant Technical Director Humanities Programs Assistant Casting Assistant Associate Director Musical Direction Production Assistant Lighting Assistant Dance Captain Fight Captain Props Master Scenery Construction Costume and Wig Construction Wardrobe Head Wig Mistress Dresser Master Electrician Light Board Operator Sound Engineer Production Photography Promotional Video Archival Video Open Captioning
Rebekah Sheffer Katharine Pitt Teresa Wood Dawn Monique Williams Jack Herrick Elizabeth Brodie Andrew Lott Jennie Greenberry U. Jonathan Toppo Tony Koehler Bella Faccia, Inc. Oregon Shakespeare Festival Cidney Forkpah Cherelle Guyton Sadie Albert James Neylon Amanda Kircher Brandon Roe Teresa Wood Heather Daniels, Mark Fastoso, APTV WAPAVA C2
Acknowledgements: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Ted DeLong, Mica Cole, Alys E. Holden, Molly Norris, Donna Bachman; USA for UNHCR; Kelsey Truman; Gail Kern Paster; Phoenix Park Hotel; Moran Transportation; World Travel Service Folger Theatre is a member of Blue Star Theatres, CultureCapital, Cultural Tourism DC, League of Washington Theatres, Shakespeare Theatre Association, and Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
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CAST
Barzin Akhavan
Cleon/Cerimon/Pirate Arena Stage: The Arabian Nights; Contemporary American Theater Festival: Inana, Lidless. Regional: Four seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre (World Premiere of The Kite Runner, SFBATCC Best Lead Actor nomination), Arizona Theatre Company, Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, four seasons with the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Stage Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Idaho Repertory Theatre. International Tour: NTWS/ArkType: Aftermath. Film/television: The Jew of Malta, Anniversary, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, SMASH.
Wayne T. Carr
Pericles, Prince of Tyre New York: Joe’s Pub: Funk It Up; Pearl Theatre Company: Richard II. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Antony and Cleopatra, The Great Society, All the Way, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Bomb-itty of Errors, Troilus and Cressida; Milwaukee Repertory Theater: The Glass Menagerie, Trouble in Mind, Eurydice, A Christmas Carol; Indiana Repertory Theatre: Holes, Romeo and Juliet. Other theaters: American Players Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Fulton Theatre. Film/ television: Who’s Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? (Pasadena International Film Festival, Best Actor in a Short), Pleading Guilty (pilot), Matadors (pilot).
Darcy Danielson
Musician Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Medea/Macbeth/ Cinderella, The Pirates of Penzance, She
Loves Me, The Music Man, Cabaret Verboten, Rough Crossing, Green Shows; Seattle Repertory Theatre: Sunday in the Park With George; 5th Avenue Theatre: The Secret Garden; Village Theatre: Carnival, Kiss Me Quick Before the Lava Reaches the Village; A Contemporary Theatre: Merrily We Roll Along; Empty Space Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show, Smokey Joe’s Cafe; New Mexico Repertory Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show; Arkansas Repertory Theatre: The All Night Strut; Center Stage: Das Barbecü; Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities: She Loves Me; Oregon Cabaret Theatre: Resident Music Director, 18 seasons.
Armando Durán
Gower Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Happiest Song Plays Last, The Tempest, Richard III, King Lear, The Liquid Plain, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, Seagull, August: Osage County, Hamlet, Ruined, The Merchant of Venice, Don Quixote, A View from the Bridge, The Cherry Orchard, Lorca in a Green Dress, By the Waters of Babylon, Antony and Cleopatra, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Comedy of Errors, King John, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry VI: Part One, Julius Caesar, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Life is a Dream, The Good Person of Szechuan, Oedipus Complex, Napoli Milionaria!, Handler, Two Sisters and a Piano, El Paso Blue. Other theaters include: Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet (Hamlet); South Coast Repertory: The Hollow Lands; Yale Repertory Theatre: Lydia; Cornerstone Theater Company: Los Vecinos; Seattle Repertory Theatre: By the Waters of Babylon; Los Angeles Theatre Center: Short Hairs and Long Shots; California Repertory Company: Cyrano de Bergerac (Cyrano).
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CAST
Michael Gabriel Goodfriend
Lysimachus/Lord Folger Theatre: Richard III; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Measure for Pleasure, Stunning; Contemporary American Theater Festival (2010, 2012): Lidless, Inana, Captors. OffBroadway: Treasure Island, London Cries, Arrivals; 59E59 Theatres: The English Bride, Eternal Equinox; Irondale Ensemble Project: Hamlet, Degenerate Art, Peter Panic, The Mother, Wasted!; Pearl Theatre Company: Twelfth Night. Regional theaters include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Getty Center, Fountain Theatre, Yale Cabaret Hollywood (co-founder), East L.A. Classic Theatre, A Noise Within, Peterborough Players, Centenary Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, Fulton Theatre, Triad Stage, City Theatre (Pittsburgh), Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara, Madison Repertory Theatre, Seven Angels, Yale Repertory Theatre. Film/television: First, Jackson, The Commission, The Shrink is In, Monk, The District, Helter Skelter, Firefly’s Fantastic Fables (pilot), Strong Medicine, L.A. Doctors, To Serve and Protect, A Will of Their Own. Radio: Sirius XM: Left Jab, Edge of Sports (writer, executive producer), Air America: The Majority Report (producer). Awards and Honors: Pittsburgh Post Gazette “Year’s Bests” (Intimate Apparel), Garland Award for Best Production (Beast on the Moon), Helen Hayes Award nominee, Best Ensemble (Measure for Pleasure), New Hampshire Theatre Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Laughing Stock), Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference semifinalist.
Jennie Greenberry
Marina/Antiochus’ Daughter Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Into the Woods, Antony and Cleopatra, The Cocoanuts; Wallis Annenberg Center: Into the Woods; Music Theatre Wichita: Spamalot; Kansas City Repertory Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, Pippin, A Christmas Story: The Musical, A Christmas Carol; Spinning Tree Theatre: Ain’t
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Misbehavin’, Shipwrecked!; New Theatre Restaurant: Hairspray; Coterie Theatre: Seussical the Musical, Once on This Island, The Wiz, U:BUG:ME; Allenberry Playhouse: Footloose; American Heartland Theatre: Murder by the Book. Off-Broadway: New Victory Theatre: Lucky Duck.
Michael J. Hume
Helicanus/Fisherman/Bawd Kennedy Center (with Oregon Shakespeare Festival): The Magic Fire; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: 58 productions, including: Seagull, Macbeth, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Winter’s Tale, She Loves Me; Capital Rep (Albany, NY, Co-Founder): directed and acted in more than 35 productions, including Frankenstein, The Norman Conquests, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard; Seattle Repertory Theatre (with Oregon Shakespeare Festival): All The Way, The Great Society (premiere): American Conservatory Theatre: Cyrano de Bergerac, The Ruling Class, Street Scene, Richard III; Hartford Stage: Woyzeck, Julius Caesar; Syracuse Stage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; South Coast Repertory: The Would-Be Gentleman, The House of Blue Leaves; Pittsburgh Public Theater: Hedda Gabler. OffBroadway theaters include: Lucille Lortel Theatre, Orpheum Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle Repertory Company, New Dramatists, Manhattan Punchline, HB Studios (study with Uta Hagen).
Cedric Lamar
Leonine/Fisherman Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra; Heart of America Shakespeare Festival: Henry V, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew; Unicorn Theatre: Bug, Topdog/Underdog; Shakespeare Festival/LA: Twelfth Night; Prospect Theatre Company: Unbound. Off-Broadway/National Tour: The Acting Company: The Three Musketeers, Macbeth, Richard III. Vienna Chamber Opera: A Good Man (world premiere). Winner of 2012 Waltz-Astoria Ultimate SingerSongwriter Competition. cedriclamar.com.
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Brooke Parks
Zlato Rizziolli
Thaisa/Dionyza Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Henry V, The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa, Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Pride and Prejudice; Yale Repertory Theatre: Hamlet; Shakespeare and Company: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Mother Courage; Geva Theatre Center and Arizona Theatre Company: Wait Until Dark; A Noise Within: The School for Wives, A Flea in Her Ear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Matchmaker; Illinois Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Williamstown Theatre Festival: The Autumn Garden; Yale School of Drama: Baal, The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, Marat/Sade, The Seagull, Our Town.
Lord/Sailor Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Antony and Cleopatra; Southern Oregon University: Three Sisters, Arms and the Man, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Our Town, The Drunken City, La Terrasse, Little Shop of Horrors; Foothill College: The Crucible, The Winter’s Tale; Los Altos Stage Theatre: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches; Portola Valley Conservatory: The Servant of Two Masters; Southern Oregon University: The Illusion.
Antiochus/Simonides/ Pandar DC: Washington Stage Guild: The Game of Love and Chance. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Pericles, Antony and Cleopatra. Regional: Connecticut Repertory Theatre: Hairspray, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Music Man, Gypsy; Playmakers Repertory Company: Pericles, The Little Prince, Opus, Nicholas Nickleby, As You Like It, Big River, Noises Off; Actors Theatre of Charlotte: Bug, I Am My Own Wife, Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Human Race Theatre: The Dazzle; American Conservatory Theater: Shlemiel the First; Moscow Art Theater: Six Characters in Search of an Author; Taiwan National Theatre: King Stag; American Repertory Theatre: Ubu Rock, The Tempest, Tartuffe, Man and Superman, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Cincinnati Playhouse: Alchemy of Desire; La Jolla Playhouse: The Who’s Tommy, Much Ado About Nothing. OffBroadway: Theatre Row: Scapin. Film/television: Ricki and the Flash, Sugar!, Profiler, Guiding Light, Conan.
Thaliard/Fisherman/Boult/Man Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: A Wrinkle in Time, A Streetcar Named Desire, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, Henry V, The Imaginary Invalid, Henry IV: Part One, Throne of Blood, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, Distracted, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Gibraltar, The Visit, Antony and Cleopatra, Handler, The Tempest, Wit, Hamlet, The Three Musketeers, Vilna’s Got a Golem, Death of a Salesman, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Awake and Sing!, Pravda, Blood Wedding, Mad Forest, The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors, Richard II. Brooklyn Academy of Music: Throne of Blood.
Scott Ripley
Emily Serdahl
Lychorida/Diana Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Southern Oregon University: Our Town, Arms and the Man, Avenue Q, The Drunken City, The Metal Children; Oregon Fringe Festival: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Metamorphoses.
U. Jonathan Toppo
Samuel L. Wick
Sailor/Lord/Pirate Folger Theatre: Richard III. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Pericles, Antony and Cleopatra; Island Shakespeare Festival: The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III; Southern Oregon University: The Drunken City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Illusion, Our Town, Three Sisters, Lucky Stiff, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Metal Children.
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PERICLES:
A MODERN PERSPECTIVE by Margaret Jane Kidnie, University of Western Toronto
Pericles is a play haunted by loss. Sometimes loss is figured as a sudden and calamitous separation from one’s friends and belongings, as when Pericles at the top of the second act is washed ashore after a shipwreck at sea, hungry and cold, or when Thaisa, Pericles’ wife, wakes from death to find herself alone in a strange country. At other moments, loss is evoked through the death, or seeming death, of a close family member or friend. Pericles mourns his wife, and later his daughter, Marina; Marina, in turn, early brought on stage as a newborn, makes her first entrance as an adult in Act 4, grieving the loss of her nurse, Lychorida. For Marina, as for the rest of her family, the world seems “a lasting storm, / Whirring me from my friends” (4.1.21–22). In Shakespeare’s tragedies, death tends to function as a terminus. Death may be shocking, but it imposes on the plot a sense of finality and closure. Yet the romances, among which Pericles is typically numbered, work to a different effect. Works in this genre, a troubling blend of comedy and tragedy to which Shakespeare turned late in his career, look beyond death to its painful aftermath. Death comes early and produces not “silence,” as Hamlet would have it, but desire. In Pericles, this desire takes the form of a deep longing for the recovery of what has been lost. Such intense longing can bring with it danger, as we see in the play’s opening episodes set in the nightmarish fairy-tale kingdom of Antioch. Family lineage, naming, identity, and the desires prompted by loss—themes linked in such a startling manner at Antioch—shape the scenes that follow. But not everything that At left: Wayne T. Carr (Pericles), Pericles, directed by Joseph Haj. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2015. Photo by Jenny Graham. At right: John Byam Lister Shaw. Pericles. Pen and ink drawing, ca.1900; Thomas Stothard. Marina singing before Pericles. Oil on canvas, ca. 1825. Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Clockwise: John Byam Lister Shaw. Pericles. Pen and ink drawing, ca.1900; Alexandre Bida. Marina kidnapped by pirates, Pericles, Act IV, scene 1. Watercolor, nineteenth century; From The works of Mr. William Shakespeare: in six volumes. Pericles, Act III, scene 2. Engraving, 1709. Folger Shakespeare Library.
is lost remains beyond recovery. In seeking a wife, for example, Pericles is also seeking a father (more precisely, a father-in-law) to stand in place of his own father. Later, symbolically clad in his father’s armor— a token of his heritage lost to him through shipwreck, but fortuitously pulled from the sea—he finds in King Simonides at the court of Pentapolis “my father’s picture” (2.3.41). His marriage to Simonides’ daughter, Thaisa, is thus framed by a memory of personal loss. When Thaisa, much later, seems to die in childbirth, the grieving Pericles reproaches
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the gods, asking “Why do you make us love your goodly gifts / And snatch them straight away?” (3.1.25–26). But Fortune’s wheel continues to turn, eventually transforming even this adversity into good. Thaisa, buried by her husband at sea in Act 3, is found alive at the end of Act 5. Brought back to life either by magic or art, Thaisa remains dead to the story until she is recovered from the convent by her husband and daughter, thereby regaining both her identity within that family and her former place in the narrative as wife and mother. Such a sequence of events is
Clockwise: William Shakespeare. Pericles. London, 1609; John Byam Lister Shaw. Pericles. Pen and ink drawing, ca.1900; John Massey Wright. Pericles, Act III, scene 2. Watercolor, late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Folger Shakespeare Library.
not plausible outside of the theater; but neither are returns from death.
Pericles dramatizes not what we know will happen but what we wish could happen. Even in fantasy, however, the ending is tinged with sadness. The characters never get back the lost years, and some deaths are irreversible. Pericles offers a bittersweet tale of suffering and loss eventually brought to a close with the achievement of a qualified happiness. But the wished-for happy ending cannot entirely dispel problems encountered over
the course of the play; and while deep desires prompted by loss are eventually fulfilled, the possibility of future loss remains ever-present. This tragicomic romance embraces within its closing tableau the potential for still more secrets, and further riddles. Excerpted from the Folger Shakespeare Library Edition (New York: Washington Square Press, 2005). Available in print, e-book, and as a free, mobile-friendly version at www.folgerdigitaltexts.org.
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CREATIVE TEAM Joseph Haj
Director In February 2015, Joseph Haj was named the eighth artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Haj came to the Guthrie from PlayMakers Repertory Company in North Carolina where he served as Producing Artistic Director since 2006. Haj has directed and acted at theaters throughout the United States including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mark Taper Forum, Alley Theater, NY Public Theater, and the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C., where his 2010 production of Hamlet was nominated for six Helen Hayes Awards, winning for Outstanding Production. Outside of traditional theaters, Haj has directed projects in a maximum-security prison in Los Angeles, in the West Bank and Gaza, and in rural South Carolina. Haj was the 2014 recipient of The Zelda Fichandler Award, was named by American Theatre magazine as one of the 25 theater artists who will have a significant impact on the field over the next quarter century, and was recipient of the NEA/White House Council Millennium Grant awarded to 50 of America’s finest artists. He has served on the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group and is a member of Under the Radar’s Director’s Circle.
Jack Herrick
Music and Lyrics Folger Theatre: Hamlet. Kennedy Center: Fool Moon; Ford’s Theatre: Kudzu. Regional: Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas; La Jolla Playhouse: Big River; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Pericles; Lime Kiln Theater: Ear Rings, Munci Meg, The Tempest; Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Playmakers Repertory Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Pericles. OffBroadway: Promenade Theatre: A Lie of the Mind; Playwrights Horizons: Wilder; John Houseman Theatre: Lone Star Love; Lincoln Center: Big Apple Circus. Broadway: Richard Rogers Theatre, Ambassador Theatre, Brooks Atkinson Theatre: Fool Moon. International: Theater Company of Wales, Altoner Theater of Hamburg: A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
Awards: Tony Award for Fool Moon, Kevin Kline Award for Bah! Humbug!, Lucille Lortel nomination for Lonestar Love, Drama Desk nomination for A Lie of the Mind and Fool Moon, Helen Hayes nomination for Hamlet. Redclayramblers.com.
Jan Chambers
Scenic Design Folger Theatre: Hamlet (costumes). Regional: PlayMakers Repertory Company (resident set and costume designer): 4000 Miles, Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spike, Red, Henry IV and V – The Making of a King, Fences, Pericles, Angels in America, Nicholas Nickleby, Topdog/Underdog, Doubt, The Tempest, Metamorphosis, The Glass Menagerie, and others; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Pericles (set), Henry V (costumes); Charlotte Repertory Theatre: Signature (set and costumes); Carolina Ballet: Carmen (set); North Carolina Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, The Miser (costumes); Profile Theater Project: Silver River (set and costumes); Victory Garden Theater: Hard Love (set); Merrimack Repertory Theatre: Lovers (set); Archipelago Theatre (resident set and costume designer): The Narrowing, Out of the Blue, The Woman in the Attic, Blue Roses, Eulogy for a Warrior, Ten in One, Those Women, and others. unc.edu/~janc/JanChambersDesigner/.
Raquel Barreto
Costume Design Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Pericles, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Water by the Spoonful; California Shakespeare Theater: The Triumph of Love, Romeo and Juliet, Uncle Vanya, Pericles; Syracuse Stage: The Underpants. Other regional theaters include: San Jose Repertory Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, Latino Theater Company, Getty Villa Theater, Odyssey Theatre, Magic Theater, Campo Santo Theatre Company, Cutting Ball Theater. Opera: OperaUCLA, San Francisco Lyric Opera. Dance: collaborations with choreographers Barak Marshall (BODYTRAFFIC, Joyce Theater; Los Angeles Philharmonic, Walt Disney Concert Hall; Jacob’s Pillow; The Broad Stage), Yolande Snaith, Allyson Green, Robert Moses, Jeff Slayton. Teaching: Costume Design faculty at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
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CREATIVE TEAM Rui Rita
Lighting Design Broadway: The Trip to Bountiful, Velocity of Autumn, Present Laughter, Dividing the Estate, Old Acquaintance, Enchanted April, The Price, A Thousand Clowns. Off-Broadway: Second Stage: The Happiest Song Plays Last; Roundabout Theatre Company: Just Jim Dale, Talley’s Folly, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore; Signature Theatre: The Piano Lesson, Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle; TFANA: Engaged (Obie Award), All’s Well That Ends Well; Manhattan Theatre Club: Nightingale, Moonlight and Magnolias; Lincoln Center Theater: Big Bill, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Far East; Variety Arts Theatre: Dinner with Friends. Regional theaters include: Alley Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Center Theatre Group, Ford’s Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Kennedy Center, Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Two River Theater Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Amadon Jaeger
Sound Design Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival sound engineer: Head Over Heels, Into the Woods, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Unfortunates, Animal Crackers, Measure for Measure; Artswest Playhouse: Little Women: The Musical; Southern Oregon University: Urinetown: The Musical, Arcadia.
Francesca Talenti
Video Design Folger Theatre: Hamlet. Regional: REDCAT: Palm Quart; PlayMakers Repertory Company: Penelope, Pericles; Burning Coal Theatre Company: Hysteria. Off-OffBroadway: The Brick Theatre: The Uncanny Valley (Playwright/Director). Film/television: Writer/director of more than 20 independent films and animations. Awards: Best Animation, Adobe Digital Cinema Festival; Honorable Mention, Sundance Film Festival; Kauffman Foundation fellowship; WGBH, Independent Television Service and Latino Public Broadcasting grants. Teaching:
Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sarah Lozoff
Movement Director Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Antony and Cleopatra, Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, A Wrinkle in Time, The Unfortunates. Other credits: Principal dancer and founding member of Ballet Rosario Suarez. Teaching: Dancing People Company (Ashland); Gabriela Charter School, Everybody Dance, Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, LA Ballroom Program (Los Angeles); New World School of the Arts, Thomas Armour Youth Ballet, Rosario Suarez Dance Academy, Inner City Children’s Touring Dance Company (Miami).
Joy Dickson
Casting Director—Oregon Shakespeare Festival Eight seasons at OSF. Other theaters include: Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum (including Taper Too, Taper New Works, Juneteenth, P.L.A.Y.), Ojai Playwrights Conference, Geffen Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Cleveland Play House, Ahmanson Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Pasadena Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, A.S.K. Theater Projects. Film/television: Sundance Film Festival: Terri, Stephanie Daley, The Business of Strangers, The Tao of Steve, Lush; Cinevegas: Easier with Practice; Edinburgh Film Festivals: Easier with Practice; Deauville Film Festival: Stephanie Daley, The Business of Strangers; Tribeca Film Festival: Interview with the Assassin; HBO/U.S. Comedy Arts Festival: The Independent; Toronto Film Festival: Perdita, Durango; Bedford Falls Productions/NBC: Quarterlife; NBC: The Men’s Room; The WB: Off Centre; UPN: The Mullets. Teaching: Adjunct professor, California Institute of the Arts.
Michele Osherow
Resident Dramaturg Folger Theatre: texts&beheadings/ElizabethR, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet (dramaturg and actor), Twelfth Night, (continued next page)
CREATIVE TEAM Henry V, The Conference of the Birds, The Taming of the Shrew, The Gaming Table, Othello (2011), Cyrano, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Hamlet, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Much Ado About Nothing, Arcadia, The Winter’s Tale, 1 Henry IV, Macbeth, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello (2001), Measure for Measure (dramaturg and actor). Regional: Quotidian Theatre Company: Afterplay (actor), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (actor), Captain Drew on Leave, Dublin Carol, The Carpetbagger’s Children, The Mollusc, Tomorrow (actor), The Seagull (actor), Valentine’s Day (actor), While We Have the Light (actor), Uncle Vanya (actor), A Little Trick (actor); Jewish Repertory Theatre: The Dybbuk (actor); Arden Theatre Company: The Chosen, As You Like It (actor), Love’s Labors [sic] (actor). Currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Dawn Monique Williams
Associate Director Regional directing credits include: Othello, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, By the Way Meet Vera Stark, In the Blood, Children of Eden, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Little Shop of Horrors, Burial at Thebes, Medea, The Trojan Women, La Ronde. International, Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Scapin the Cheat, Anna Bella Eema, The Tempest. Associate Director: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Antony and Cleopatra. Assistant Director: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Unfortunates, Cymbeline (2013 Phil Killian Directing Fellow). Hartford Stage: Snow Falling on Cedars, Water by the Spoonful. TheatreWorks: Intimate Apparel. California Shakespeare Theater: The Tempest. Shakespeare & Company: Romeo and Juliet. Awards: Leadership U: One-on-One program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, 2011 New York – Fall Directing Fellow, Drama League Directors Project. dawnmoniquewilliams.com.
Gwen Turos
Production Stage Manager Kennedy Center: Welcome Home, Jenny
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Sutter. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Pericles, The Tempest, Richard III, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Animal Crackers, Henry V, The Language Archive, Julius Caesar, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, The Visit, Oedipus Complex, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Noises Off, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Life Is a Dream, Troilus and Cressida, Wit, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, El Paso Blue, Rosmersholm, and Measure for Measure.
Elisabeth Ribar
Assistant Stage Manager Folger Theatre: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar. Imagination Stage: When She Had Wings; Olney Theatre Center: The Tempest, Bedlam’s Hamlet and Saint Joan, A Christmas Carol, Sleuth, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Sound of Music; Adventure Theatre: The Jungle Book; Signature Theatre: Beaches; Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Wallenstein, Coriolanus; Regional: Heritage Theatre Festival: Next to Normal, Annie Get Your Gun, Little Shop of Horrors, Oliver!.
Janet Alexander Griffin
Artistic Producer Director of Public Programs for the Folger Shakespeare Library since 1982. She has produced 81 plays, including 28 Shakespeare plays, for which Folger Theatre has been recognized with 135 nominations and 23 awards for excellence in acting, direction, design, and production from Washington’s Helen Hayes Awards. Among new work she has developed at Folger was Lynn Redgrave’s solo show, Shakespeare for My Father, which in final development toured internationally and earned Redgrave a Tony Award nomination. Responsible for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s season of performing arts and cultural events, she has overseen the growth of the Folger Consort early music series and developed contemporary
CREATIVE TEAM literature and lectures at Folger, including the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series and Folger’s partnership with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, bringing the country’s most renowned writers to the Washington, DC area.
Beth Emelson
Assistant Artistic Producer Folger Theatre: since 2004. Off-Broadway: Producing Director, Atlantic Theater Company (OBIE and Drama Desk Award winner); Producing Director, Classic Stage Company (Lortel and OBIE Award winner). Broadway and Off-Broadway: Associate Executive Producer, Lincoln Center Theater (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle, Lortel and OBIE Award winner); General Management Associate: Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Public Theater; Producing Director and Member, Naked Angels. She has also produced several short films, a comedy
series for HBO and she produces for both the Nantucket and Tribeca Film Festivals as well as teaching producing for New York University.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Founded by Angus Bowmer in 1935 and winner of a 1983 Tony Award for outstanding achievement in regional theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival presents an eightmonth season of 11 plays that include works by Shakespeare as well as a mix of classics, musicals, and new works. The Festival also draws attendance of more than 400,000 to almost 800 performances every year and employs approximately 575 theatre professionals. In 2008, OSF launched American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle, a 10-year cycle of commissioning new plays that has already resulted in several OSF commissions finding success nationwide.
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FOLGER THEATRE SPONSORS
Additional support for Folger Theatre comes from
Joan and Peter Andrews Mildred Grinnell Clarke Public Programs Endowment Wyatt R. and Susan N. Haskell Public Programs Endowment Fund John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Public Programs Endowment Fund Dimick Foundation MARPAT Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Shakespeare in American Communities Shubert Foundation Share Fund Theatre Programs Endowment With special thanks to the family and friends of Lily St. John McKee (19872015), recognizing the creation of the Lily St. John McKee Memorial Fund.
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Corporate, Foundation, and Government Support
Heinz Family Foundation Corina Higginson Trust Holland & Knight LLP Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. acknowledges the kind support of the Mark and Carol Hyman Fund following institutional donors. The list Lannan Foundation below includes gifts of $1,000 or more The Ludwig Family Foundation received between October 1, 2014 and The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation September 30, 2015. MARPAT Foundation Anonymous Mars Foundation B.H. Breslauer Foundation Marshall B. Coyne Foundation The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz The Mosaic Foundation Foundation (of R. & P. Heydon) Capitol Hill Community Foundation National Capital Arts and Cultural Anthony & Anna L. Carozza Foundation Affairs Program and the Central Children’s Charities, Inc. U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Clark-Winchcole Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Council on Library and Information National Endowment for the Resources Humanities D.C. Commission on the Arts and Overseas Hardwoods Company Humanities, an agency Pine Tree Foundation of New York supported in part by the The C.B. Ramsay Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Nora Roberts Foundation Dimick Foundation Shakespeare in American Communities Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Share Fund The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund The Shubert Foundation The Foster Family Fund Diana Davis Spencer Foundation John Edward Fowler Memorial United Technologies Foundation Weissberg Foundation The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
SUPPORTERS Individual Donors
Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully acknowledges the kind support of the following individuals. The list below includes gifts and pledges of $250 or more received between October 1, 2014 and September 30, 2015.
$25,000+
Anonymous Vinton and Sigrid Cerf Susan Sachs Goldman J. May Liang and James Lintott The Honorable Eugene A. Ludwig and Dr. Carol Ludwig The McKee family in loving memory of Lily St. John McKee Roger and Robin Millay Herman J. Obermayer Mark Pigott KBE and Cindy Pigott Stuart and Mimi Rose
$15,000 -$24,999
Louis and Bonnie Cohen Philip J. Deutch and Marne L. Levine David and Margaret Gardner Maxine Isaacs Helen and David Kenney and Family The Honorable John D. Macomber Ann K. Morales William and Louisa Newlin Andrew Oliver and Melanie Du Bois Dwight and Kirsten Poler Mr. and Mrs. Loren Rothschild Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II Neal T. Turtell
$10,000-$14,999
Anonymous The Lord Browne of Madingley Twiss and Patrick Butler Heather and Dick Cass Nicky Cymrot Maygene and Steve Daniels Mr. and Mrs. Peter Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Deneen Howell and Donald Vieira Edward and Patricia Leahy Jacqueline B. Mars John and Connie McGuire Darcy and Andy Nussbaum Gail Kern Paster Joanne and Paul Ruxin
$5,000-$9,999
Judy Areen and Richard Cooper Neal and Florence Cohen Mr. Kevin M. Downey and Ms. Michele Jolin Drs. Julian and Elizabeth Eisenstein Ms. Denise Gwyn Ferguson Lisa Fuentes and Thomas Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Galvin Stephen H. Grant Wyatt R. and Susan N. Haskell
Nancy Jacobson and Mark Penn Andrea Kasarsky Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel Dr. Anne M. King Michael Klein and Joan Fabry Amanda and Tom Lister Ken Ludwig and Adrienne George John and Susan Magee J.C. and Mary McElveen Chip Newton and Liz Smith Mr. Dusty Philip Alice and Ben Reiter Mr. and Mrs. H. Axel Schupf Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Sedgwick Gabriela and Douglas Smith The Steinglass Family Louis B. Thalheimer and Juliet A. Eurich Scott and Liz Vance Tara Ghoshal Wallace Drs. Michael L. Witmore and Kellie Robertson Ellen and Bernard Young
$2,500-$4,999
Anonymous (2) Gary and Mary Ellen Abrecht Keith and Celia Arnaud Jarrett and Nora Arp D. James Baker and Emily Lind Baker Roger and Julie Baskes Hon. and Mrs. Samuel R. Berger Michael S. Berman and Deborah Cowan Mr. Peter England Blau Bob Bradway Bill and Evelyn Braithwaite Ms. Marilyn Brockway Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Brown Howard M. Brown Peter Brown and Margaret Hamburg Mr. Mark D. Colley and Ms. Deborah A. Harsch Brian and Karen Conway Jeffrey P. Cunard Porter and Lisa Dawson The Honorable and Mrs. John Deutch Barbra Eaton and Ed Salners Marjorie and Anthony Elson Jeff Franzen Wendy Frieman and David Johnson Ruth Hansen and Lawrence Plotkin Catherine Held Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois and Mr. Christopher E. DuBois William L. Hopkins Rick Kasten Professor John N. and Pauline King Mr. Arthur Koenig Julianna Mahley Drs. Daniel and Susan Mareck Mark McConnell and Leslie Delagran Mr. and Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart
Pam McFarland and Brian Hagenbuch Peter and Mary Jay Michel Martin and Elaine Miller Jane and Paul Molloy Hazel C. Moore Cullen and Anna Marie Murphy Carl and Undine Nash Melanie and Larry Nussdorf Gail Orgelfinger and Charles C. Hanna Craig Pascal and Victor Shargai Mr. Scott D. Pearson and Ms. Diana Farrell Jon Ralph and Patty Gibson Dr. Sara D. Schotland David Smith and Ilene Weinreich Robert J. & Tina M. Tallaksen Ayanna and Derek Thompson Mr. James Timberlake and Ms. Marquerite Rodger Tessa van der Willigen and Jonathan Walters Toby and Stacie Webb Nyla and Gerry Witmore Anne and Fred Woodworth
$1,000-$2,499
Anonymous (5) John and Nancy Abeles Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Allbritton Mr. Brent James Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Bracewell Ms. Gigi Bradford and Mr. Jim Stanford Mr. and Mrs. David G. Bradley Mr. and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, III Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Callahan William J. Camarinos Professor Carmen A. CasĂs Mr. Richard H. Cleva Mr. Edwin P. Conquest, Jr. Mr. Eric Cooper Ms. Harriet H. Davis Mr. John F. Downey Ms. Kristin L. Dukay Rose and John Eberhardt Dr. William E. Engel Nancy M. Folger and Sidney Werkman Mr. and Mrs. Bill Foulkes Carla and George Frampton Debbie Goldberg and Seth Waxman Mr. and Mrs. Kingdon Gould, Jr. Ms. Patricia J. Gray Ann Greer Dr. and Mrs. Werner L. Gundersheimer Dr. Elizabeth H. Hageman Mrs. O.B. Hardison, Jr. Martha Harris Florence and Peter D. Hart Dr. Peter I. Hartsock Mr. Joseph M. Hassett and Ms. Carol Melton John and Meg Hauge Ms. Karen L. Hawkins
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SUPPORTERS Mr. and Mrs. Keith B. Hennessey Ms. Anita G. Herrick Eric H. Hertting Mr. Michael J. Hirrel Mr. and Mrs. David H. Jones Sherman and Maureen Katz Ms. Caroline Kenney Ms. Maria L. Kocylowsky Mr. and Mrs. J. Ronald Langkamp Richard and Jane Levy Finlay and Wilda Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Robert Case Liotta David Lloyd, Realtor Mr. and Mrs. Jan Lodal Ms. Caroline Lopez Mr. and Ms. Michael and Nga Lopez Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Lyon Mr. Thomas G. MacCracken Mr. Winton E. Matthews, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory McBride Mr. Christopher McKee Ms. Barbara M. Meade Mr. Hilary B. Miller and Dr. Katherine N. Bent Dr. Barbara A. Mowat Mary Muromcew Dr. Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nordhaus Timothy and Linda O’Neill Anne Parten and Philip Nelson Drs. Eldor and Judith Pederson Ms. Rebecca Penniman and Mr. Louis Wittenberg Dr. and Mrs. Joram Piatigorsky Earl and Carol Ravenal Mr. and Mrs. Trip Reid Ms. Lola Reinsch Mr. David Roberts and Dr. David Spencer Dr. Markley Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rubin Lelia and Robert Russell John and Lynn Sachs Mr. and Mrs. K. Dudley Schadeberg Dr. Richard Schoch Christopher Schroeder and Alexandra Coburn Dr. Marianne Schuelein and Mr. Ralph M. Krause Dr. Lois Green Schwoerer Dr. James Shapiro Ms. Joy Shashy Joan Shorey Norman and Ellen Sinel James Baker Sitrick Shirley and Albert H. Small Ms. Ann L. Starkey Ms. Joanne M. Sten Dr. Ann Swann Mr. Leslie C. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Tim Thornton Dr. Martha Gross and Mr. Robert Tracy Mr. Nigel Twose and Ms. Priscilla Annamanthodo
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Mrs. Eric Weinmann Gail Weinmann and Nathan Billig Mr. David Weisman Mr. Theron Westervelt Mr. Donald E. White and Ms. Betty W. Good-White Professor R L Widmann Philip and Tricia Winterer Beverly and Christopher With Mr. Douglas Wolfire Laura Yerkovich and John Winkler Mr. and Mrs. Alan Wurtzel
$500-$999
Anonymous Dr. Robert S. Adelstein and Mrs. Miriam A. Adelstein Dr. Peter J. Albert and Ms. Charlotte Mahoney Mrs. Jo Ellen Allen Mrs. Janet Baran and Mr. Mark LeVota Ms. Lisa U. Baskin Ms. Kyle Z. Bell and Mr. Alan G.R. Bell Mr. D. Jeffrey Benoliel and Mrs. Amy Branch Benoliel Drs. Robin and Clare Biswas Ms. Mary C. Blake Dr. Jean C. Bolan Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bott Dr. Mary H. Branton Mrs. Adrianne Brooks Kathleen Burger and Glen Gerada Ms. Maria Alexia Burke John Byrd and Lina Watson Mr. and Mrs. Lewis R. Cabe Ms. Diana Carl Mr. Wallace W. Chandler Mr. Todd Christofaro Mr. Charles W. Clark Leslie and Ray Clevenger Mr. Eli Cohen and Dr. Virginia Grace Cohen Dr. Anne Coldiron Mr. and Mrs. John J. Collins Ronald M. Costell, M.D., and Marsha E. Swiss Mr. and Ms. Robert W. Cover Mr. and Mrs. Warren J. Cox S. Cudiner Mr. and Mrs. David and Janice Curtin Dr. and Mrs. William Davis Mr. Steven des Jardins Ms. Dorothea W. Dickerman and Mr. Richard Kevin Becker Ms. Sheri Dillon Clark and Emilie Downs Mr. Craig G. Dunkerley and Ms. Patricia Haigh Mr. Steven H. Dunn Louise H. Engle Mr. Douglas H. Erwin and Dr. Wendy Wiswall Mrs. John G. Esswein
Ms. Marietta Ethier Ms. Tracy Fisher Mr. Gregory Flowers Nancy M. Folger and Sidney Werkman Mr. Robert Fontenrose Mrs. Florence Bryan Fowlkes Mr. William V. Garetz Ms. Elizabeth H. Gemmill Jere Gibber and J.G. Harrington Ms. Michelle Gluck and Dr. Walter Smith Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Goelzer Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn and Dr. John Y. Cole John and Gail Harmon Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hazen Terrance and Noel Hefty June and George Higgins Mr. David H. Hofstad Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Jackson Mr. Kenneth Karmiole Ms. Linda Katcher Mr. and Mrs. David Kelly Mrs. Margot Kelly David and Anne Kendall Wendy and Robert Kenney Mr. and Mrs. James King Mr. and Mrs. George Koukourakis Col. Denny Lane and Ms. Naoko Aoki Mr. David W. Lankford Dr. Robert Lawshe Mr. Michael Lebovitz Dr. Carole Levin Lilly S. Lievsay Ms. Rachel M. Lilly Mr. Douglas T. Lwin Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Mancini Ms. Catherine McClave Dr. Heather A. McPherson Dr. Mary Patterson McPherson Beverly J. Melani and Bruce E. Walker Ms. Kristie Miller and Mr. Thomas Hawkins Dr. and Mrs. Andy B. Molchon Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey C. Morell Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Mr. Terence R. Murphy and Ms. Patricia A. Sherman Ted and Mary Eugenia Myer Ms. Essence Newhoff and Dr. Paul Gardullo Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Mr. and Mrs. Dave Nurme Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. O’Connell Mr. Lee Oestreicher and Ms. Alejandra Miranda-Naon Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Parr Ms. Sheila J. Peters Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Pfeiffer Ms. Julie Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Dr. and Mrs. Warren S. Poland Mrs. Jacqueline L. Quillen Mrs. Donald Rappaport
SUPPORTERS Ms. Shana Regon and Mr. Timothy O’Toole Gerd and Duncan Ritchie Mr. David Riz Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Salter Ms. Tatiana Serafin and Mr. Mick A. Kalishman Prof. Barbara A. Shailor, Ph.D and Mr. Harry W. Blair II Marilyn and Hugh South Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Stanley John and Alison Steadman Ms. Theresa A. Sullivan Dr. C. Jan Swearingen Ms. Marsha E. Swiss Mr. John M. Taylor Mrs. Mary Augusta Thomas and Mr. George Thomas Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Tonkel Ms. Kathryn M. Truex Mr. and Mrs. James T. Turner Mr. Scott F. Turow Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Van Voorhees Mr. Christopher White Webster Ms. Carolyn L. Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Wilshere Mr. and Mrs. David A. Wilson Ms. Katherine Wyatt and Mr. Al Vasquez Dr. Robert G. Young
$250-$499
Anonymous Catherine N. Abrahams Ms. Monica Lynn Agree Mr. Thomas Ahern Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Alexander Dr. Boris Allan and Ms. Kathleen L. Pomroy Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Alspach Ms. Jerrilyn V. Andrews and Mr. Donald E. Hesse Ms. Pamela Auerbach Ms. Doris E. Austin Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Bachmann Ms. Suzanne Bakshian and Mr. Vincent A. Chiappinelli Bess and Greg Ballentine Mr. Seymour Barasch Mr. and Mrs. David B. Barefoot Ms. Christina Baumel Mr. and Mrs. David M. Beckmann Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Benson Mr. Kirke Bent Dr. James E. Bernhardt and Ms. Beth C. Bernhardt Ms. Katherine A. Berry Mr. Michael C. Blaugrund Mr. James L. Blum Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bochner Professor Jackson Campbell Boswell and Mrs. Ann C. Boswell Ms. Gail S. Bower Ms. Gwen W. Brewer Mr. and Mrs. John R. Brinkema
Capt. and Mrs. John Brownell Dr. James C. Bulman Colonel and Mrs. Lance J. Burton Dr. Rebecca Weld Bushnell and Mr. John David Toner Professor Charles Butterworth Ms. Karen Canova Dr. and Mrs. Kent Cartwright Colonel and Mrs. Larry M. Cereghino Dr. Morris J. Chalick Mr. John Chester Linda and John Cogdill Mr. Eli A. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Cohen Mr. and Mrs. William D. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Correll Dr. John Cox and Dr. Lo-Ann Nguyen-Cox James and Ann Coyle Ms. D. Elizabeth Crompton Ms. Christina C. Daub Mr. Daniel De Simone and Ms. Angela Scott Dr. Janice F. Delaney Mr. and Mrs. Paul Denig Mr. Robin L. Dennis Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Dodds Ms. Colleen Dougherty Ms. Frances G. Durako Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Eater Mr. and Mrs. Michael Eig Dr. Robert J. Fehrenbach Ms. Susan Feinberg and Mr. John Popham Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fendig Melody and Albert Fetske Mr. and Mrs. Camden Fine Anne and Lucas Fischer Ms. Laurie Fletcher and Dr. Allan Fraser Mr. John Franzén Mr. Roland M. Frye, Jr. and Ms. Susan M. Pettey Mrs. Joanne Garris Ms. Nancy C. Garrison Mr. Mark Gilkey Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mr. Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr. and Dr. Betty J. Forman Mr. Gregg H.S. Golden Mr. James Robert Golden Mr. and Mrs. Michael Goldstein Ms. Ann V. Gordon and Mr. Martin Singer Professors Suzanne and Philip Gossett Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Grace Mr. John E. Graves, RIA and Ms. Hanh Phan Dr. Sayre N. Greenfield and Professor Linda V. Troost Neal and Janice Gregory Janet and Christopher Griffin Dr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Guerci Mr. and Mrs. C. David Gustafson
Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Haller Col. Wesley P. Hallman and Dr. Silvana Rubino-Hallman Margaret and David Hannay Dr. Susan R. Haynes and Dr. Carl C. Baker Ms. Barbara W. Hazelett Mr. Robert Hebda Mrs. Anthony E. Hecht Dr. Heather A. Hirschfeld and Prof. Anthony Welch Dr. Dee Ann Holisky Dr. Mack P. Holt Dr. Henry Ridgely Horsey Ms. Elizabeth M. Janthey Mr. Herbert A. Johnson Dr. Candace Katz and Mr. Hadrian R. Katz Ms. Mary E. Kelly Christopher Kendall and Susan Schilperoort Mr. Joseph P. Kerr and Dr. Andrea M. Kerr Mr. Robert L. Kimmins Ms. Lynne Myers Klimmer Mr. Michael Kolakowski Dr. Natasha Korda Kim & Elizabeth Kowalewski Mr. Richard Krasnow Mr. Michael Laird Dr. David R. Lampe David Larch and Deborah Roudebush Drs. Douglas and Janet Laube Ms. Susan Lee and Mr. Stephen Saltzberg Mr. and Mrs. Terry Lenzner Mr. and Mrs. Marc Levinson Mr. and Mrs. Roger N. Levy Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Liden Mr. Roy Lind Dr. Frances Litrenta Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lockwood Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Lotterman Mr. Joseph Loewenstein and Ms. C. Lynne Tatlock Mr. and Mrs. David J. Lundsten Dr. Kathleen Lynch and Mr. John C. Blaney Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Lynch Mr. William F. Maher, Jr. and Ms. Michelle M. Berberet Dr. Deborah L. Malkovich and Dr. William Freimuth Mr. and Mrs. Martin C. Mangold Ms. Allison Mankin and Dr. Jim Carton Dr. Kevin B. Marvel Mr. and Mrs. James W. McBride Mr. Patrick J. McGraw Mr. Steven J. Metalitz and Ms. Kit J. Gage Ms. Linda S. Moore Mr. Gerald J. Morris Mr. Jeffery Moser Ms. Melissa Moye and Mr. Joel Starr
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SUPPORTERS Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Myers Dr. and Mrs. Alan Nelson Ms. Martha Newman Mr. Mike Newton and Dr. Linda Werling Ms. Diane Ney Mr. John F. Niemeyer and Mrs. Mary Frances Niemeyer Ms. Alice L. Norris Ms. Laurie E. Osborne Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin Mr. and Mrs. David M. Osnos Dr. Betty Ann Ottinger Mr. Henry Otto Ms. Patricia J. Overmeyer Dr. Jessie Ann Owens Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Park Dr. Michael P. Parker Mrs. Margaret Bouslough Parsons Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Pearson Linda Levy Peck Drs. Maria T. and Thomas A. Prendergast Mr. Woodruff M. Price Ms. Gerit Ann Quealy Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Quinn Ms. Barbara Racine Mr. Robert E. Ramsey and Ms. Elizabeth Brown Mr. and Mrs. Erik M. Rasmussen Mr. Leon S. Reed and Ms. Lois S. Lembo Dr. Joshua S. Reid Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Ms. Jennifer Richards Mr. Christopher J. Robey Winnie and Alexander Robinson Ellen and Richard Rodin Ms. Emily Rose and Mr. James H. Marrow Miss Rhonda Rose Mr. Leslie Rosenbaum and Ms. Debra Derickson Mrs. Betty Sams Ms. Janet A. Sanderson Mr. Thomas Glenn Saunders Mr. Kurt R. Schwarz and Ms. Patsy G. Kennan Mr. D. Stanton Sechler Professor and Mrs. Mortimer Sellers Dr. Sherry Wood Shuman and Mr. Philip B. Shuman Mr. Paul M. Siegel Kay and George Simmons Mr. Joseph L. Smith and Ms. Cheryl S. Roesel Ms. Phyllis Smith Ms. Rose Solari and Mr. James Patterson Ms. Cathleen Ann Steg and Mr. Schuyler E. Schell Mr. Daniel Steiner Mr. Carl Wesley Stephens and Ms. Catherine L. Moore
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Ms. Margaret Sulvetta Dr. Deborah F. Tannen and Dr. Michael Macovski Mr. and Mrs. John V. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Grant P. Thompson Mr. Anand Trivedi Mr. and Mrs. James C. Tsang Mr. George S. Tulloch Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Vajs Dr. Arina van Breda Drs. Alden and Virginia Vaughan Dr. and Mrs. Peter J. Ventimiglia Mr. Eliot A. Wadsworth Dr. Barbara A. Wanchisen Ms. Patricia A. Webster Dr. and Mrs. John R. Wennersten Ms. Marice C. Werth and Mr. Peter Dodson Ms. Dorothy B. Wexler Mr. James E. Whittaker Sandy and Jon Willen Gary and Josephine Williams Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Williams Dr. Duncan Wu Mr. and Mrs. Alan S. Wyatt Mr. Daniel Yabut Dr. Georgianna Ziegler
The First Folio Society
The list below includes all friends who have included the Folger Shakespeare Library in their estate plans through a will commitment, a life income gift, or a beneficiary designation in a life insurance policy or retirement plan.
Anonymous (2) Professor Judith H. Anderson Ms. Doris E. Austin Dr. Carol Barton Ms. Mary Cole The Honorable Esther Coopersmith Dr. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Wendy Frieman and David Johnson Dr. Elise Goodman (bequest will be in memory of Elise Goodman and Rolf Soellner) Mrs. Karen Gundersheimer Dr. Werner L. Gundersheimer Dr. Elizabeth H. Hageman Dr. Jay L. Halio Catherine Held Eric H. Hertting Mr. Michael J. Hirrel Dr. Dee Ann Holisky Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois and Mr. Christopher E. DuBois Ms. Elizabeth J. Hunt Maxine Isaacs Mrs. Robert J.T. Joy Dr. Elizabeth T. Kennan Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel Professor John N. King Pauline G. King Merwin Kliman Professor Barbara Kreps Dr. Carole Levin
Lilly S. Lievsay Dr. Nancy Klein Maguire Pam McFarland and Brian Hagenbuch Mr. Gene B. Mercer Professor H. C. Erik Midelfort and Ms. Anne L. McKeithen Roger and Robin Millay Dr. Barbara A. Mowat Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Herman J. Obermayer Gail Kern Paster Linda Levy Peck Dr. Sylvia Holton Peterson Professor Kristen Poole Professor Anne Lake Prescott Dr. Mark Rankin Dr. Markley Roberts Dr. Richard Schoch Mrs. S. Schoenbaum Lisa Schroeter Dr. Lois Green Schwoerer Mr. Theodore Sedgwick Albert H. Small Drs. Alden and Virginia Vaughan Mr. William McC. Vickery Barbara Wainscott Dr. Barbara A. Wanchisen Dr. Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. and Elisabeth P. Waugaman, Ph.D. Professor R L Widmann The Honorable Karen Hastie Williams Dr. Georgianna Ziegler
Every effort has been made to ensure that this list of donors is correct. If your name is misspelled or omitted, please accept our sincere apologies and inform the Development Office at (202) 675-0321.
collection, the Folger Shakespeare Library is an internationally recognized research library offering advanced scholarly programs in the humanities; an innovator in the preservation of rare materials; a national leader in how Shakespeare is taught in grades K-12; and an award-winning producer of cultural and arts programs—theater, music, poetry, exhibits, lectures, and family programs, which connect broader audiences to our collections and support the living legacy of Shakespeare in contemporary life.
A gift to the American people from
industrialist Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily Jordan Folger, this library opened in 1932.
Folger Theatre is the vibrant centerpiece of the Folger’s public programs. With a focus on Shakespeare, Folger Theatre produces plays reflecting the breadth of the library’s peerless collection. In this unique setting, with
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collaborations between artists and experts, Folger Theatre produces innovative stagings that have been commended as “breathtakingly original… strikingly contemporary” (The Washington Post).
Led since 1991 by Artistic Producer Janet Alexander Griffin, Folger Theatre has received 135 nominations and 23 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in acting, direction, design, and production. During the recent seasons Folger Theatre has received the Outstanding Resident Play Award for its productions of Measure for Measure in 2007, Hamlet in 2011 and The Taming of the Shrew in 2013.
Other highlights from Folger Theatre’s producing history include these Helen Hayes Award recipients or nominees for outstanding production: Romeo and Juliet (2013), Orestes: A Tragic Romp (2010), Henry VIII (2010), Arcadia (2009), Macbeth (2008), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2006), Melissa Arctic (2006), She Stoops to Conquer (2002), Shakespeare’s R & J (2001), Much Ado About Nothing (1998), and Romeo and Juliet (1997).
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