THE FOLGER BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Louis R. Cohen, Chair Susan Sachs Goldman, Vice-Chair Roger Millay, Vice-Chair Andrew Altman D. Jarrett Arp Simon Russell Beale The Lord Browne of Madingley Rebecca Bushnell Vinton Cerf Lady Darroch Philip Deutch Peter Edwards Wyatt R. Haskell Deneen C. Howell Maxine Isaacs May Liang Carol L. Ludwig Ken Ludwig Andrew J. Nussbaum Andrew Oliver Gail Kern Paster Stuart Rose Loren Rothschild James Shapiro Laura J. Yerkovich Ex Officio Michael Witmore
SENIOR DIRECTORS
Michael Witmore, Director Abbey Silberman Fagin, Chief Advancement Officer 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 Peggy O’Brien, Director of Education
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DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS Beth Emelson, Associate Director of Public Programs David Polk, General Manager Charles Flye, Production Manager Rebekah Sheffer, Assistant Technical Director Kate Abbott, Audience Services Coordinator Emma Poltrack, Public Programs Administrative Assistant Bridget Reilly, Intern Teresa Wood, Casting Assistant Renee Beaver, Courtney Feinman, Kate Gifford, Elyse Jacks, Kaiya Lyons, Bridget Reilly, John Royals, Erin Simpson, Austin Wilt, House Managers Jennifer Bowman, Folger Consort Manager Teri Cross Davis, Poetry Coordinator Emma Snyder, Executive Director, PEN/Faulkner Foundation Grace Ann Roberts, Humanities Program Assistant Peter Eramo, Jr., Events Publicity and Marketing Manager WiT Media, Graphics Designer and Advertising Agency Barbara Shaw, Playbill Typesetter Emily Tartanella, Marketing Design Consultant Jane Pisano, Publications Consultant Krohn Design, Graphic Designer Stephanie Svoboda, Ticketing Operations Manager Christina Pinnell, Box Office Manager Heather Newhouse, Box Office Lead Associate Amanda Duchemin, Box Office Associate for Group Sales Xavier Boudreaux, Francesca Chilcote, Annie Immediata, Thais Menendez, Rachel Messbauer, Anastasia Nikolis, Leslie Putnam, Marianne Wald, Box Office Assistants EXTERNAL RELATIONS Garland Scott, Head of External Relations Esther French, Communications Associate Ben Lauer, Communications and Social Media Assistant
DIVISION OF EDUCATION Corinne Viglietta, Assistant Director of Education Danielle A. Drakes, School Programs Manager Katherine Dvorak, Education Programs Assistant Greg Armstrong, Education Administrative Assistant Maribeth Cote, Public Engagement Coordinator Carrol Kindel, 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 Mozur, Senior Development Officer for Annual Giving 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 2016/17 SEASON Janet Alexander Griffin Artistic Producer Beth Emelson Associate Artistic Producer
David Polk General Manager Charles Flye Production Manager
By William Choreographer
Shakespeare Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch† Composer
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sound Design
Resident Dramaturg
New York Casting
Folger Casting
Alexandra Beller†
Heather Christian
Charlotte Palmer-Lane* Eric Southern* Michele Osherow
Fight Choreographer
Casey Dean Kaleba Season Sponsors Helen and David Kenney and Family Roger and Robin Millay Neal T. Turtell Scott and Liz Vance
Daryl Eisenberg, CSA
Daryl Eisenberg Casting
John McDermott* Leon Rothenberg*
Teresa Wood
Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Karen Currie**
Production Sponsors Nancy and Steve Howard John and Connie McGuire Contributing Sponsors Maygene and Steve Daniels David and Margaret Gardner
Folger Theatre’s production is part of Shakespeare in American Communities, a national program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership
with Arts Midwest.
Megan Ball**
Associate Sponsors Pam McFarland and Brian Hagenbuch Carl and Undine Nash William and Louisa Newlin Weissberg Foundation Folger Theatre’s opencaptioned performances are generously sponsored by Vinton and Sigrid Cerf
†Member of Stage Directors and Choreography Society *Member of United Scenic Artists **Member of Actors’ Equity Association
In Association with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
FROM THE DIRECTOR A s You Like It is a call to action, a glorious celebration of great risk-taking and human folly, entreating us to embrace both the sublime and the ridiculous.
The people in this play are seekers. They seek refuge, they seek society, they seek love and they seek joy. They take great risks to obtain these goals. And we are asked to come along with them—to witness and be challenged by the risks, to be the joyseekers as well.
When our heroine Rosalind is banished from the court, her beloved cousin Celia hatches their escape plan, risking her life to become a refugee with Rosalind, and cementing the bond of one of the greatest friendships ever rendered in literature. As we witness the displaced people in the forest, questions of what it’s like to be a refugee surge forth: Who are we when we are stripped of possessions, of homeland, of a life we had built for ourselves? What is it that cannot be taken away? What does it mean to start again?
Once our banished Rosalind finds herself in the forest, it’s no accident that one of the first people she sees there is Silvius, a lovelorn shepherd who says:
But if thy love were ever like to mine— As sure I think did never man love so— How many actions most ridiculous Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?
And with that, the play moves beyond the plot of seeking refuge to become an exploration of a different kind of risk: falling in love and all the 4
wonderfully ridiculous things love can make us do. But Rosalind has no intention of making a fool of herself. In her disguise as a man, she can safely explore her theories about love from a distance, ensuring she will never be hurt. She questions age-old platitudes about people dying of heartbreak, declaring: “Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them. But not for love.” She is a realist. But when her love Orlando laments, “I can live no longer by thinking,” Rosalind realizes that all the reasoning in the world cannot save her from the leap of faith that one has to ultimately take.
As You Like It celebrates both Rosalind’s hard examination of love and our folly in love: the speechlessness, the woe-isme feeling of dread, the longing, the paralyzing fear, and finally, the beauty of the ridiculous and very risky leap— the absolute joy of jumping in. It reminds us that we are all fools, and that perhaps the only way to gain anything is to be willing to risk and make a fool of yourself. There are worse things than being a fool.
My hope is that you will find refuge here at the Folger with fellow seekers; that you will bear witness to a true moment played out in front of you that you might recognize as wholly, deeply human; that you will join us in this celebration of both the ridiculous and the sublime nature of love. And whatever state you find yourself in today, I hope we can take our orders from the Duke to “forget this newfall’n dignity, and fall into our rustic revelry.” –Gaye Taylor Upchurch
CAST
(in alphabetical order)
Rosalind Audrey Oliver Charles Adam and Corin Touchstone Duke Senior and Duke Frederick Silvius Musician and Ensemble Orlando Celia Phoebe Jaques Dennis and William
Lindsay Alexandra Carter* Kimberly Chatterjee* Michael Glenn* Will Hayes Jeff Keogh* Aaron Krohn* Allen McCullough* Brian Reisman Daven Ralston Lorenzo Roberts* Antoinette Robinson* Dani Stoller* Tom Story* Cody Wilson
Understudies
Laura Artesi (Phoebe, Audrey, Ensemble) Kevin Alan Brown (Adam and Corin, Oliver) Luis Alberto Gonzalez (Jaques) Will Hayes (Orlando) Jeff Keogh (Duke Senior and Duke Frederick)
Lilian Oben (Celia) Matthew Pauli (Touchstone, Charles) Rafael Sebastian (Silvius, Dennis and William) Dani Stoller (Rosalind)
*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. New Hearing Loop Technology (Telecoil) Our theater is equipped with an Induction Hearing Loop for state-of-the-art assisted listening. If your hearing aid has a T-coil, please toggle to that setting to receive our audio signal directly without using the headset and only wearing the lariat. Headsets are available for those without T-coil technology. If you are using a headset, please help avoid feedback by turning down your hearing aids.
This production is performed with one 15-minute intermission. Please refrain from using cell phones, cameras, or other recording devices during As You Like It.
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FROM THE DRAMATURG A s You Like It is a favorite among contemporary audiences. It’s a play designed to please. There’s an abundance of songs, quotable bits, a wrestling match, a winged love-God, clever word-play, and a happily-everafter final scene. And then there’s Rosalind, recognized by scholar James Shapiro as “Shakespeare’s most beloved heroine.”
“If,” as characters claim, “there be truth in sight” there is much to recommend Rosalind, not least of which is the truth she’s unafraid to tell. She speaks her heart outright. Within minutes of meeting Orlando she gives him a chain from around her neck and confesses herself “overthrown.” The girl wastes no time. It’s not just Rosalind’s investment in love that we admire, but also her determination that she and Orlando love wisely and love well. She debunks romantic myth in favor of a love for “Fridays and Saturdays and all.” That Rosalind exposes love as “a madness” grounded in deceit while she herself goes incognito as Ganymede, underscores her aptitude for comedy and courage. Here is another of Shakespeare’s plays in which truth is revealed through feigning—a nod to the art of theatre.
Rosalind-as-Ganymede’s attempts to flaunt love’s mundanity only adds to the zany depiction of romantic love in this play. It is impossible to separate romance from the ridiculous. Silvius claims folly is a kind of litmus test for love; nothing onstage contradicts him. As much as 6
Shakespeare’s plot drives the coupling of Rosalind and Orlando, along with the yoking together of “country copulatives,” romantic love does not, in and of itself, prove vital. Ganymede puts it best: "The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person videlicet in a love cause."
And yet, because characters’ lives are at stake in court and country, the play throws into sharp relief relationships on which lives depend. Friendships in As You Like It are lifesustaining, fierce, and unchanging. We see and hear of friends’ sacrifices from the start: old Adam abandons security for Orlando’s sake; “loving lords” follow the ousted Duke to the Forest of Arden. No sooner does the play indicate ties that bind than we see them being tested. When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, Celia rallies instantly: “do not seek … / To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out.” Such commitment among friends spans differences of gender, class, age, and origin.
It’s in Arden where characters most intensely confront difference and their responses are inspiring. Upon arrival in the forest, Rosalind sees a stranger’s misery and better comprehends her own. Touchstone’s instinct to lord it over woodland yokels is squelched by Corin’s natural philosophy. The ability to spot humanity in others is best modeled
by Duke Senior. He addresses his comates as “brothers in exile” and extends that fellowship to new acquaintances, putting their needs before his own. “Thou seest,” he tells his comrades, “we are not all alone unhappy.”
That there is unhappiness in Arden is important; anyone can afford generosity in Paradise. But the unhappiness to which the Duke refers is mollified by community. Duke Senior discusses sorrow and its remedy. It is in response to the Duke that Jaques philosophizes on man’s “seven ages” beginning famously with “All the world’s a stage…” His remarks compel our own participation in dual communities:
SYNOPSIS
In As You Like It, witty words and romance play out against the disputes of divided pairs of brothers. Orlando’s older brother, Oliver, treats him badly and refuses him his small inheritance from their father’s estate; Oliver schemes instead to have Orlando die in a wrestling match. Meanwhile, Duke Frederick has forced his older brother, Duke Senior, into exile in the Forest of Arden.
Duke Senior’s daughter, Rosalind, and Duke Frederick’s daughter, Celia, meet the victorious Orlando at the wrestling match; Orlando and Rosalind fall in love. Banished by her
one is the theater; the other is humankind.
Rosalind moves seamlessly between the two, taking on the role of Ganymede with more than modest skill. It’s hard to say when she’d have dropped the curtain on her performance. Orlando tires of it before she does, being "at the height of heart heaviness" with only the thoughts of Rosalind to sustain him. Arden is a world of Rosalind’s imagining; her imagination leads to liberty, to action. Before the play’s end, she’ll direct the behavior of lovers, a father, a cousin and one god of marriage. She’s made a world, as she likes it and charges us, among other things, to do the same.
—Michele Osherow
uncle, Rosalind assumes a male identity and leaves with Celia and their fool, Touchstone. Orlando flees Oliver’s murderous plots.
In the Forest of Arden, Rosalind, in her male disguise, forms a teasing friendship with Orlando. Oliver, searching for Orlando, reforms after Orlando saves his life. Rosalind reveals her identity, triggering several weddings, including her own with Orlando and Celia’s with Oliver. Duke Frederick restores the dukedom to Duke Senior, who leaves the forest with his followers.
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A Modern Perspective by Susan Snyder, Swarthmore College
In some ways, As You Like It is as difficult to pin down as its permissive name suggests. Plot provides the usual framework for investigating a play, but here the plot is all huddled into the beginning and the end. For the middle three acts the normal impetus of dramatic action is more or less left on hold. In the opening act, things happen quickly. At the other end of the play, the usurper Duke Frederick is converted, repents, and gives up the throne to the rightful duke, Rosalind’s father; and all the young people get married. In between, very little happens, in a plot sense.
Compared with most Shakespeare plays, As You Like It noticeably lacks a strong forward thrust. The other comedies have pressing questions: Will the mixups created by Oberon’s magic love juice in A Midsummer Night’s Dream be sorted out? How will the shrew be tamed in the play of that name? Instead of forces like these pressing us onward, what we have in the Forest of Arden is something like “time out” in a basketball game. While the clock is on, the action rushes forward. Then the clock is stopped, and there is a period of time that doesn’t “count.” Urgencies are suspended. Time is out: out
of its customary course, displaced from the usual relentless sequence, not pressing on with problems to be solved and deadlines to be met, liberated from its own rules. Arden is a place to test out poses and hypotheses: to take on a different role or position in a playful, temporary way to see how it feels or find out what can be learned from a perspective that is not your habitual one. The Arden interlude is “time out,” not only from exigencies of plot action, but also from the power relations inherent in the usual social structure (usual in the court of the early scenes and in
Design by Andrea LeHeup, SoleilNYC.com. Opposite: Lillie Langtry as Rosalind in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Photograph, late 19th century. Folger Shakespeare Library.
the world of Shakespeare’s audience as well). This normative society is hierarchical, vesting power in the senior male: the father, and then the eldest brother, who under the law of primogeniture inherited all the father’s power and wealth. Women and younger brothers were subordinate. But not in the Forest of Arden. The play seems to resist the status quo on various fronts, enacting the wish to choose one’s marriage partner freely and to measure the worth of men independent of any conferred superiority. But the dramatic outcome is carefully balanced. To be sure, younger brother Orlando does come out on top of elder brother Oliver. But Duke Senior (emphasize the word senior) is restored to rightful rule. And in approving his daughter’s choice of a non-noble younger son as husband, he also makes Orlando heir to the dukedom. The father-duke thus accepts Rosalind’s independent selection of her own husband but at the same time makes sure that the ruler who succeeds him will be male and erases the class difference by elevating Orlando’s rank. Anarchic wishes are acted out and satisfied, but contained.
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“Time out” does not mean that a whole social system can be cast permanently into anarchy. At the very end of the play, the actor who plays Rosalind stands alone onstage to deliver the epilogue. It is a position of power, and the speaker accentuates how unusual it is by starting out, “It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue.” It was not the fashion, either, in Shakespeare’s time to see a lady as autonomous and powerful as Rosalind has been in this play. But we should bear in mind that
Shake espeare’s Rosalind was played by a male actor. This epilogue functions, like e any of Shakespeare’s epilogues, to effect a transition from the fictional world of the play to the real world in live Proceeding which the spectators live. with this transition, the Rosalind actor continues, “If I were a woman ...” But he is no longer a woman, and the woman has lost her special power. “Time out” is ovver, and the game goes on.
Excerrpted from the Folger Shakespeare e Librar y Edition (New Y York: ork: W Washington ashington Squarre Prress, ess, 1997). Available in print, e-book, and as a frree, ee, mobile-friendly verrsion at www w.folg . gerrdigitaltexts.org .folg g.
Clockwise, beginn ning opposite page at top left: “Peace! Here comes Robert Dudley. Rosalind: o u Like It, Act III, scene 2. my sister ”, As You You Colored engravin ng g g, 19th century; y; Nicola d’Ascenzo. Seven Ages of Man, As You You Like It, Act II, scene 7, Paster Reading Room at Folger (detail). Stained glass, 1932; Jerry Richardson (Orlando) and Holly TTwyford wyford (Rosalind), As You You Like It, directed by Aaron Posnerr, Folger Theatre, 2001. Photo by Ken Cobb; Salvador Dali. William Shakespeare: Come vi piace ((A As You You Like It). Rome, 1948; Hugh Thomson. Orlando pinning his poems to a tree, As You You Like It, Act III, scene 2. Drawing, early 20th century. Folger Shakespeare Library.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Rebekah Sheffer Katie Burris Elizabeth Brodie Kimberly Chatterjee Kimberly Chatterjee Tony Koehler Clifton Chadick Bella Faccia, Inc. Elaine Sabal Cidney Forkpah Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Teresa Lee, Adalia Tonneyck Sound Engineer Brandon Roe Master Electrician Alex Keen Assistant Master Electrician Amanda Kircher For Daryl Eisenberg Casting Casting Coordinator Jon Farber Casting Assistant Sasha Pensanti Advertising Agency WiT Media Production Photography Teresa Wood Promotional Video Lee Fanning, Mark Fastoso, APTV Archival Video WAPAVA Open Captioning C2
Assistant Technical Director Assistant Director Production Assistant Dance Captain Vocal Coach Props Master Assistant Scenic Designer Set Construction Scenic Painter Wardrobe Head Costume Construction
Acknowledgements: Chris Batstone, Kate Liberman, Davis McCallum and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Balance Gym; Lewis Piano Movers; World Travel Service; Alan Katz; Emily Noel; David Rabi; Abbie Weinberg; Heather Wolfe. Folger Docents, Volunteer Ushers, and the Junior League of Washington DC are vitally important to our success. Heartfelt thanks to these generous donors of time and talent. 12
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CAST
Lindsay Alexandra Carter
Rosalind Regional: Cirque du Soleil with UNCSA: La Boite Rouge, LUNA; No Rules Theatre: Unlimited; Peppercorn Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Education: Rouge. Television: Madam Secretary. lindsayalexandracarter.com
Kimberly Chatterjee
Audrey Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, So Please You. OffBroadway: Playwrights Horizons: The Christians. Off-Off Broadway: Classical Theatre of Harlem: The Tempest. Television: High Maintenance. kimberlychatterjee.com
Michael Glenn
Oliver Folger Theatre: Sense and Sensibility, The Gaming Table, Henry VIII (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination), Hamlet, Arcadia, Twelfth Night, Elizabeth the Queen; Round House Theatre Company: Stage Kiss, THIS; Studio Theatre: Jumpers for Goalposts (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination); Arena Stage: Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination), Good People; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Clybourne Park (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination); Olney Theatre Center: Marjorie Prime, Neville’s Island; Theater J: Brighton Beach Memoirs (upcoming), Photograph 51; Constellation Theatre Company: Absolutely! (Perhaps), Scapin, A Flea in Her Ear, On the Razzle; Longacre Lea: Fear, Cat’s Cradle, The Hothouse, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination); Signature Theatre: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Fallen From Proust; Washington Stage Guild: The Underpants, A Skull in Connemara, Major Barbara (Helen Hayes Supporting Actor nomination); African Continuum Theatre: Blood Knot (Mary Goldwater Award).
Will Hayes
Charles Folger Theatre: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (u/s); Open Circle Theatre: The Who’s Tommy; Synetic Theater: As You Like It, The Man in the Iron Mask, Romeo and Juliet; Olney Theatre Center: Colossal; Studio Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show; Arena Stage: Camp David; Wooly Mammoth: House of Gold; Flying V: The Oregon Trail; Longacre Lea: Goldfish Thinking; WSC Avant Bard: King John, The Tooth of Crime, The Mistorical Hystery of Henry (I)V; American Century Theatre: Macbeth. willhayes.net
Jeff Keogh
Adam and Corin Folger Theatre: Mary Stuart, District Merchants (u/s), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (u/s), Pericles (u/s), Romeo and Juliet (u/s); Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Round Table Theatre Company: Macbeth, Hamlet; The Playground Theatre: company member 2007 to 2010.
Aaron Krohn
Touchstone Regional theater includes work at Westport Country Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Theatre Under the Stars, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, The Alley Theatre. Broadway: Cabaret, Macbeth, The Farnsworth Invention, The Coast of Utopia, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, The Invention of Love. Off-Broadway: Red Bull Theatre: Coriolanus; The New Group: Clive; Mint Theater: The Glass Cage, Echoes of the War; La MaMa ETC: Philoktetes. International: Stratford Shakespeare Festival: The Homecoming, Twelfth Night, Henry V. Sam Mendes’ Bridge Project: As You Like It, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, The Cherry Orchard. Film and television: I Love You But I Lied, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: SVU, Welcome to New York.
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CAST
Allen McCullough
Duke Senior and Duke Frederick Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Baltimore Center Stage: Twelfth Night; Cape Fear: Amadeus; Westport Playhouse: The Diary of Anne Frank; TheatreWorks Hartford: The Seafarer; Roundabout Theatre Company (national tour): Twelve Angry Men; The Irish Repertory Theatre: The Hairy Ape; Living Room Theatre: Men of Tortuga, Exit the King, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull; Hubbard Hall: Our Town, The Real Thing, Private Lives, As You Like It; Long Wharf: The Crucible; OffBroadway: Men of Tortuga, Ashes to Ashes, Murder in the First; also Williamstown Theatre Festival, Theatre for a New Audience, The Shaw Project, Ensemble Studio Theater. Film and television: Martha Marcy May Marlene, Vinyl, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Onion News. allenmcc.com
Daven Ralston
Musician and Ensemble Hub Theatre: The Magi; Rorschach Theatre: A Bid to Save the World; Solas Nua: Wild Sky; WSC Avant Bard: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Friendship Betrayed, The Madwoman of Chaillot; Arts on the Horizon: Space Bop, Snow Day; Prince George County Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights’ Workshop: Cleave, The Found Dog Ribbon Dance; Venus Theatre: Light of Night, We Are Samurai. Upcoming: Arts on the Horizon: Nutt and Bolt. Film: Macbeth Unhinged; Kara. davenralston.com.
Brian Reisman
Silvius Shakespeare Theatre Company: Othello, The Taming of the Shrew; Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, The Arabian Nights, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Delaware Shakespeare Festival: The Comedy of Errors. Brian-Reisman.com
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Lorenzo Roberts
Orlando Regional: ACT: Dangerous Liaisons, The Royale, The Mystery of Love and Sex; Seattle Immersive Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Seattle Shakespeare Company: Henry IV Part 1, Othello.
Antoinette Robinson
Celia Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Our Town; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing; Seattle Children’s Theater: Edge of Peace; Guthrie Theatre: Time Sensitive; Hyde Park Theater: Mr. Marmalade, The Motherf*cker with The Hat; The Queens Company: Sir Patient Fancy, The Winter’s Tale, The Taming of The Shrew. OffBroadway: New York Classical Theater: As You Like It. Film: Ol’ Daddy, Consumed, 9 Actors.
Dani Stoller
Phoebe Folger Theatre: District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Olney Theatre Center: The Diary of Anne Frank; 1st Stage: Bat Boy (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Blithe Spirit, The Italian American Reconciliation; The Keegan Theatre: Dogfight, Hair; Signature Theatre: Really, Really, Dying City; Kennedy Center Millennium Stage: Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s The Brontes; Studio Theatre: Carrie, Invisible Man. National Tour: Big Nate with ATMTC. Upcoming: As author: Signature Theatre/Sig Works: World Premiere, Fortune Cookies for Easy Women Smoking Cigarettes. Danistoller.com. zenandsugarfree.com.
Tom Story
Jaques Folger Theatre: The School for Scandal, 1 Henry IV; Studio Theatre: The Invention of Love, A Number, Moonlight, The Pillowman, Pop, Legends!, The York Realist, The Wolfe Twins, Silence!, Moth (director), Terminus (director); MetroStage: Fully Committed; Arena Stage: The Bookclub Play, Oliver; Roundhouse Theatre: Next Fall, Seminar; Ford’s Theater: Sabrina Fair, 1776, Our Town, The Glass Menagerie; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Twelfth Night, The Rivals, The Government Inspector, Richard II, Henry V, Design For Living, Major Barbara, The Winter’s Tale. McCarter Theatre: Loot, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, Tartuffe. Yale Repertory Theatre: Tartuffe; Seattle Repertory Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Berkshire Theatre Festival: The Glass Menagerie, The Misanthrope, The Heidi Chronicles, Life’s A Dream, Design For Living (director) and others. O’Neill Theatre, Missouri Rep, Northern Stage, The Hub Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Mint Theatre. Affiliated Artist at The Shakespeare Theatre Company and Cabinet Member at Studio Theatre. Awards: Fox Foundation Fellowship, Berkshire Eagle Award, Seven Helen Hayes Awardnominations.
Cody Wilson
Dennis and William Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Measure for Measure, So Please You; Western Playhouse: Miss Saigon; Tecumseh Outdoor Theater: Tecumseh!; New York: New York Shakespeare Exchange: Titus Andronicus; Inwood Shakespeare: Henry IV Parts 1&2; Creative Concept Productions: Haram Iran. Television: Impractical Jokers.
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CREATIVE TEAM Gaye Taylor Upchurch
Director Arena Stage: The Year of Magical Thinking; Studio Theatre: Animal (Helen Hayes nominations for Outstanding Director and Outstanding New Play); Atlantic Theater Company: Harper Regan, Bluebird, Our New Girl; Women’s Project: Bethany (Lucille Lortel nomination for Outstanding Play); Rattlestick Playwrights Theater: Stay (Obie Award for The Hill Town Plays); The Old Globe Theatre: The Last Match; South Coast Repertory: Of Good Stock; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, An Iliad (also at West Point).
Alexandra Beller
Choreographer Folger Theatre: Sense and Sensibility. OffBroadway: Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility (Lucille Lortel nomination for Outstanding Choreography). New York: La MaMa ETC: milkdreams; New York Live Arts: You Are Here, Art is as is and as it is not…; 92nd Street Y: Why Things Fall; Movement Research: other stories; Brooklyn Arts Exchange: egg; Abrons Art Center: what comes after happy, egg; Dixon Place: other stories; P.S.122: Why Things Fall; Danspace Project at St. Mark’s: We Sink As We Run, other stories; The Connelly Theatre: other stories; Joyce SoHo: other stories, 50 Ways to Find a Mate, Waiting for Chekhov or a Bit of Rope, Sifting Miracles; HERE Art Center: us, You Are Here, other stories, what comes after happy; University Settlement Society of New York: Moving Men, or Telling Left From Right, We Sink as We Run; Roulette: Surprise Every Time; Symphony Space: what comes after happy; Dance New Amsterdam: Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight, other stories, piece, egg, what comes after happy, Give up, or a bird lying on its back; Green Building: Give up, or a bird lying on its back, milkdreams; The Tank: us, “I.” Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It; Smith Opera House: Then Quiet the Hook; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston: other stories, egg; Jacob’s Pillow Dance: Why Things Fall, other stories; Kendall Hall: We Sink As We Run;
Wellspring Theatre: We Sink As We Run; Pease Theatre: We Sink As We Run; Cyprus Dance Festival: lie where I fall; The Patterson: us; Berkshire Fringe Festival: us. International: Duo MultiCultural Art Center: piece; Bytom Festival (Poland): what comes after happy, egg; Open Look Festival (St. Petersburg): what comes after happy, egg; Digital Dance Festival (Korea). alexandrabellerdances.org
Heather Christian
Composer Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare: As You Like It, Macbeth, Measure for Measure; West Yorkshire Playhouse: Of Mice and Men, Animal Wisdom. National Theater in London: Mission Drift (Herald Angel, Fringe First, Drama League Outstanding Performance Nomination, Drama League Best Musical Nomination). Center Stage Baltimore: As You Like It. Off-Broadway: BAM: The World Is Round (Obie Special Citation). Film: Gregory Go Boom (Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Short Fiction), Pauline Alone, Woman in Deep, Man Rots from Head, Lemon (upcoming Sundance 2017 feature). Named Time Out NY Magazine’s “Ones to Watch.” www.heatherchristian.bandcamp.com for more music.
Casey Dean Kaleba
Fight Choreographer Folger Theatre: Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, The Gaming Table, Othello, Hamlet, 1 Henry IV. Guthrie Theatre: King Lear; Ford’s Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Round House Theatre: Angels in America, Father Comes Home From the Wars, Young Robin Hood, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; Signature Theatre: West Side Story, The Gulf, Miss Saigon, Really, Really; Olney Theatre Center: Sweeney Todd, Dial M for Murder, Spring Awakening, Camelot; Constellation Theatre: The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Helen Hayes nomination), Gilgamesh, Zorro; Rorschach Theatre: She Kills Monsters, Neverwhere, Living Dead in Denmark, This Storm Is What We Call Progress. Television: Men at Arms:
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CREATIVE TEAM Reforged, The American Experience: A Prince Among Slaves. toothandclawcombat.com
John McDermott
Scenic Design Folger Theatre: Sense and Sensibility. Studio Theater: Time Stands Still. Shakespeare in Clark Park: Henry IV; New York Shakespeare Festival: The Singing Forest. New York Theater Workshop: Play Yourself. Atlantic Theater Company: This Thing of Darkness, White People; Bedlam: Hamlet, Saint Joan, New York Animals, Sense and Sensibility, The Seagull, Dead Dog Park; Rattlestick Playwrights Theater: 3C, Lady, The Undeniable Sound of Right Now, The Revisionist, Saved or Destroyed; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, Measure For Measure, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Shakespeare and Company: Red Velvet, The Comedy of Errors, An Unexpected Man, Sotto Voce, The Taming, Ugly Lies the Bone. Assistant Professor, Adelphi University.
Charlotte Palmer-Lane
Costume Design Half Moon Theatre: The World Goes Round, It’s a Wonderful Life Radio Play; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, The Three Musketeers, The Liar, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, An Iliad; Mint Theater Company: Rutherford and Son; Penguin Rep Theatre: Drop Dead Perfect, My Name is Asher Lev, Playing the Assassin; Hudson Stage: Family Reunion, The God Game, Outside Mullingar, Other Desert Cities. BBC costume design: The Chronicles of Narnia, Miss Marple, Doctor Who, She’s Been Away. Film: Guarding Tess, Quiz Show. charlottepalmerlane.squarespace.com
Eric Southern
Lighting Design Kennedy Center: Play/Pause (BAM and national tour as well); UrbanArias: Paul’s Case. Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Sell/Buy/Date; LCT 3: The Harvest, Bull in a China Shop, Ghostlight; Playwright’s Horizons: Pocatello, Indian Summer; The
Civilians: Rimbaud in NY; The New Group: Steve; Pearl Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Taste of Honey; Barrow Street: Buyer and Cellar (London, Center Theater Group, National Tour as well); Carnegie Hall: Collected Stories: memoir with David Lang; Prototype Festival: Paul’s Case, The Good Swimmer; ADI, The Kitchen, Susan Marshall and Company: Chromatic. His extensive work with the award-winning group 600 Highwaymen has been seen throughout the US and Europe. Eric has also worked with Atlantic Theater Company, Mint Theater Company, Rattlestick Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Guthrie Theater, The Kennedy Center, Baltimore Centerstage, Long Wharf Theater, The Huntington Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Magic Theater, among others.
Leon Rothenberg
Sound Design Arena Stage: Pullman Porter Blues, The Lion. Regional: ACT, Williamstown Theater Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Huntington Theater, Merrimack Repertory Theater, Delaware Theater Company, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Two River Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, The McCarter Theater, North Shore, Theatre By The Sea. Broadway: Violet, The Realistic Joneses, The Nance (Tony Award), The Heiress, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, NYCC, Manhattan Theater Company, Primary Stages, Tectonic, Women’s Project, Public Theater. International: Cirque du Soleil, National Theatre of Cyprus, Dijon Festival. klaxson.net
Karen Currie
Production Stage Manager Kennedy Center: Oliverio, Mockingbird, Orphie and the Book of Heroes; Theater J: The Christians, The Last Schwartz, Another Way Home, Sons of the Prophet, G-D’s Honest Truth, Yentl, Freud’s Last Session,
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CREATIVE TEAM Honest Truth, Yentl, Freud’s Last Session, After the Revolution, The Hampton Years, Woody Sez, Body Awareness, The Whipping Man, The Religion Thing, Imagining Madoff, The Moscows of Nantucket, The Odd Couple, The Four of Us, Lost in Yonkers, The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall, Honey Brown Eyes, Speed the Plow; Signature: The Fix, Cabaret, Saturday Night, Sycamore Trees, Les Miserables (YPS), The Happy Time; Shakespeare Theatre: Cymbeline (YPS); American Century Theater: Seascape, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Drama Under the Influence, The Autumn Garden; WSC Avant Bard: The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Titus Andronicus. NYC: The Last Session.
Megan Ball
Assistant Stage Manager Taffety Punk: Bootleg Shakespeare Henry VI, Part 1, An Iliad, The Rape of Lucrece, Phaeton. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Becoming Sylvia, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers; Tent Theatre: Steel Magnolias, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940. meganmball.com.
Michele Osherow
Resident Dramaturg Folger Theatre: Sense and Sensibility, District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, texts&beheadings/ElizabethR, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Fiasco Theater Co.’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet (dramaturg and actor), Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Conference of the Birds, The Taming of the Shrew, The Gaming Table, Othello (2011, 2001), 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, 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
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Company: The Chosen, As You Like It (actor), Love’s Labors [sic] (actor). Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Daryl Eisenberg, CSA
Daryl Eisenberg Casting New York Casting Folger Theatre: Sense and Sensibility, District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Henry V. Theater credits include: Who’s Your Baghdaddy, Brave New World, That Bachelorette Show, White’s Lies, The Anthem, The Dodgers, Speakeasy Dollhouse/ The Brothers Booth, Around The World In 80 Days, My Big Gay Italian Wedding, Miss Abigail’s Guide…, My First Time, The Awesome 80s Prom, F#%king Up Everything, Altar Boyz, Norwegian Cruise Line, Davenport Reading Series, Aaron Grant Theatrical, Stageworks Media, Gotham Stage Company, and countless festivals, readings, and workshops. Film credits include: Cheerleader, EVOL, Hypebeasts, Sleep (HBO). Television credits include: Casting Associate on Gossip Girl (Warner Bros/The CW) and Cashmere Mafia (Sony/ABC). Web/New media includes: Limetown, The Bunny Hole, Pipture: Characters. Graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Member of Casting Society of America. @DECasting
Janet Alexander Griffin
Artistic Producer Director of Public Programs for the Folger Shakespeare Library since 1982. She has produced 85 plays, including 30 Shakespeare plays, for which Folger Theatre has been recognized with 140 nominations and 24 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 toured internationally (in final development) and earned Redgrave a Tony Award. 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
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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. She is the 2015 recipient of the Burbage Award from the American Shakespeare Center.
Beth Emelson
Associate 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.
other states, and regularly achieve over 80% capacity under its open-air Theater Tent. HVSF also takes the magic of Shakespeare and live theater throughout the tri-state region by touring limited runs of fan favorites through its HVSF On The Road series and by bringing student-oriented productions and education programs to nearly 50,000 elementary, middle, and high school students and educators each year. HVSF’s acclaimed arts education programs also include training for early-career theater artists by way of its Conservatory Company, professional development for educators, and free audience engagement offerings before and after performances throughout the summer. More information can be found at hvshakespeare.org.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Celebrating its 31st season in 2017, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF) is a critically acclaimed (The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal), professional, non-profit theater company based in Garrison, NY, one hour north of Manhattan. HVSF was named among The New York Times’ 50 Essential Summer Festivals in 2016, was Hudson Valley Magazine’s 2016 Editors’ Pick for Best Summer Theater, and was nominated for a Drama League Award for its 2015 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Festival has established a reputation for lucid, engaging, and highly inventive productions featuring exceptional industry talent and a backdrop of stunning vistas overlooking the Hudson River at historic Boscobel House and Gardens. Each year, its productions attract a total audience of more than 35,000 from the Hudson Valley, New York City, and beyond, including New Jersey, Connecticut, and 40
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FOLGER THEATRE SPONSORS
Additional support for Folger Theatre comes from:
Joan and Peter Andrews Mildred Grinnell Clarke Public Programs Endowment Dimick Foundation The Helen Clay Frick Foundation Wyatt R. and Susan N. Haskell Public Programs Endowment Fund John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Public Programs Endowment Fund MARPAT Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Shakespeare in American Communities Shubert Foundation Share Fund Theatre Programs Endowment
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With special thanks to the family and friends of Lily St. John McKee (1987-2015), recognizing the creation of the Lily St. John McKee Memorial Fund.
Clark-Winchcole Foundation Council on Library & Information Resources Marshall B. Coyne Foundation D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Corporate, Foundation, and Endowment for the Arts Government Support: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully Foundation acknowledges the kind support of the Dimick Foundation following institutional donors. The list Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation below includes gifts of $1,000 or more received between December 1, 2015 and The Max & Victoria Dreyfus November 30, 2016. Foundation, Inc. The Lee & Juliet Folger Fund Anonymous The Samuel Freeman AARP Charitable Trust William S. Abell Foundation, Inc. The Helen Clay Frick Foundation British Council Graham Holdings The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz The Richard & Mica Hadar Foundation Capitol Hill Community Foundation Foundation Heinz Family Foundation Anthony & Anna L. Carozza Holland & Knight LLP Foundation
SUPPORTERS Mark & Carol Hyman Fund iTunes KieranTimberlake Lannan Foundation MARPAT Foundation The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation Mars Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Moleskine The Mosaic Foundation (of R. & P. Heydon) National Capital Arts & Cultural Affairs Program & the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities National Recreation Foundation Overseas Hardwoods Company The Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Renaissance Charitable Foundation The Nora Roberts Foundation Nadia Sophie Seiler Memorial Fund Share Fund The Shubert Foundation Weissberg Foundation
Individual Donors for Folger:
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 December 1, 2015 and November 30, 2016.
$50,000+ The Lord Browne of Madingley J. May Liang & James Lintott
$25,000-$49,999 Jarrett & Nora Arp Florence & Neal S. Cohen Louis & Bonnie Cohen Eugene A. Ludwig & Dr. Carol Ludwig Roger & Robin Millay Darcy & Andy Nussbaum Mark Pigott KBE & Cindy Pigott Loren & Frances Rothschild Neal T. Turtell
$15,000-$24,999 Susan Sachs Goldman Helen & David Kenney The Honorable John D. Macomber William & Louisa Newlin Gail Kern Paster Stuart & Mimi Rose
Mr. & Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II Scott & Liz Vance
$10,000-$14,999 Mr. Harry Bookey Vinton & Sigrid Cerf Nicky Cymrot Maygene & Steve Daniels Peter & Rose Edwards Mr. Douglas Evans David & Margaret Gardner William L. Hopkins Mr. & Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Nancy & Steve Howard Deneen Howell & Donald Vieira Maxine Isaacs Jacqueline Badger Mars John & Connie McGuire Andrew Oliver & Melanie Du Bois Mary Parsons Craig Pascal & Victor Shargai Joanne Ruxin Mr. & Mrs. H. Axel Schupf Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Small Drs. Michael L. Witmore & Kellie Robertson $5,000-$9,999 Anonymous Judy Areen & Richard Cooper Keith & Celia Arnaud Roger & Julie Baskes Bill & Evelyn Braithwaite Twiss & Patrick Butler Heather & Dick Cass Dr. Thomas Cohen & Dr. Lisa Cohen-Fuentes Denise Gwyn Ferguson Stephen H. Grant Catherine Held Dr. David E. Johnson & Ms. Wendy Frieman Andi H. Kasarsky Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel Dr. David Eric Lees & Dr. Daniele F. Huntington Richard & Jane Levy Ken Ludwig & Adrienne George Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart J.C. & Mary McElveen Ms. Penny Moden Carl & Undine Nash Courtney & Scott Pastrick Mr. Ben Reiter & Mrs. Alice Goldman Reiter Gabriela & Douglas Smith Louis B. Thalheimer & Juliet A. Eurich Tara Ghoshal Wallace Ellen & Bernard Young
$2,500-$4,999 Anonymous (3) Gary & Mary Ellen Abrecht D. James Baker & Emily Lind Baker Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Brown Howard M. Brown Dr. Rebecca Weld Bushnell & Mr. John David Toner Susan & Dixon Butler Professor Carmen A. Casís Brian & Karen Conway Jeffrey P. Cunard Ms. Dorothea W. Dickerman & Mr. Richard Kevin Becker Barbra Eaton & Ed Salners Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Gill Ruth Hansen & Lawrence Plotkin Wyatt R. & Susan N. Haskell Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois & Mr. Christopher E. DuBois Rick Kasten Mr. Arthur Koenig Mr. Richard H. Levy & Ms. Lorraine Gallard Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Lyon Julianna Mahley Mark McConnell & Leslie Delagran Pam McFarland & Brian Hagenbuch Peter & Mary Jay Michel Martin & Elaine Miller Cullen & Anna Marie Murphy Dr. Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff Melanie & Larry Nussdorf Carolyn and Mark Olshaker Timothy & Linda O’Neill Gail Orgelfinger & Charles Hanna Deborah C. Payne Drs. Eldor & Judith Pederson Mrs. Jacqueline L. Quillen Ms. Lola Reinsch Dr. Lois Green Schwoerer Robert J. & Tina M. Tallaksen Mr. Leslie C. Taylor Ayanna Thompson Professor R L Widmann Ms. Nicole Winard Nyla & Gerry Witmore $1,000-$2,499 Anonymous (4) John & Nancy Abeles Bess & Greg Ballentine Ms. Lisa U. Baskin Ms. Gigi Bradford & Mr. Jim Stanford Mr. & Mrs. David G. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, III Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Callahan
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SUPPORTERS William J. Camarinos Mr. Richard H. Cleva Mr. Mark D. Colley & Ms. Deborah A. Harsch Mr. Edwin P. Conquest, Jr. Mr. Eric Cooper Mr. Douglas R. Cox Ms. Judith Matthews Craig Professor Adele S. Davidson Ms. Harriet H. Davis Dr. & Mrs. William Davis Porter & Lisa Dawson Mr. Daniel De Simone & Ms. Angela Scott Mr. John F. Downey Marjorie & Anthony Elson The Folger Five Carla & George Frampton Eric Friedenwald-Fishman Brent Glass & Cathryn Keller Ms. Barbara Goldberg Ms. Patricia J. Gray Ann Greer Dr. Martha Gross & Mr. Robert Tracy Elizabeth H. Hageman Ms. Agnes M. Hardison & Mr. Francisco J. Sanchez Mrs. O.B. Hardison, Jr. Martha Harris Florence & Peter D. Hart Mr. Joseph M. Hassett & Ms. Carol Melton Ms. Anita G. Herrick Eric H. Hertting Mrs. Wilhelmina Holladay Mr. Michael B. Jennison Mr. & Mrs. David H. Jones Professor John N. & Pauline King Ms. Faith S. Lambert Col. Denny Lane & Ms. Naoko Aoki Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Langkamp Mr. Hiram G. Larew Dr. Carole Levin Mr. Robert Liberatore Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence H. Liden Mr. & Mrs. Robert Case Liotta David Lloyd, Realtor Abbe D. Lowell & Molly A. Meegan Mr. & Mrs. David J. Lundsten Mr. Thomas G. MacCracken Patricia Magno Dr. Mary Patterson McPherson Ms. Barbara M. Meade Ms. Chloe Miller Jane & Paul Molloy Dr. Tina Morris Ms. Mary Morton
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Dr. Barbara A. Mowat Ms. Essence Newhoff & Dr. Paul Gardullo Mrs. Jean Nordhaus Mr. Christian O’Connell Mr. Ari Orenstein & Ms. Yana Kondakova Dr. & Mrs. George R. Packard, III Charles & Susan Parsons Anne Parten & Philip Nelson Ms. Rebecca Penniman & Mr. Louis Wittenberg Earl & Carol Ravenal Mr. David Roberts & Dr. David Spencer Melinda & Howard Rubin Mary Jane Ruhl Mr. Josh Samet & Ms. Juli Baer Mr. & Mrs. K. Dudley Schadeberg Dr. Richard Schoch Dr. Marianne Schuelein & Mr. Ralph M. Krause Howard Shapiro & Shirley Brandman Dr. James Shapiro Joan Shorey John & Alison Steadman Mr. Hubert M. Stiles Jr. & Obe’s Book Club Amy & Mark Tercek Mr. & Mrs. Tim Thornton Mr. & Mrs. Peter D. Trooboff Mr. Nigel Twose & Ms. Priscilla Annamanthodo The Honorable Seth Waxman & Ms. Debra Goldberg Toby & Stacie Webb Mrs. Eric Weinmann Mr. Donald E. White & Ms. Betty W. Good-White Ms. Mary-Sherman Willis & Mr. C. Scott Willis Philip & Tricia Winterer Beverly & Christopher With Mr. Douglas Wolfire Anne & Fred Woodworth Laura Yerkovich & John Winkler Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Zarr
$500-$999 Anonymous (3) Dr. Robert S. Adelstein & Mrs. Miriam A. Adelstein Dr. Peter J. Albert & Ms. Charlotte Mahoney Mr. & Mrs. David B. Barefoot Ms. Kyle Z. Bell & Mr. Alan G.R. Bell Mr. Brent James Bennett
Mr. Richard Ben-Veniste & Ms. Donna Grell Drs. Robin & Clare Biswas Dr. Jean C. Bolan Mr. Henry H. Booth Dr. Mary H. Branton Mr. & Mrs. James D. Bridgeman Mrs. Adrianne Brooks Lord & Lady Browne of Ladyton Kathleen Burger & Glen Gerada John Byrd & Lina Watson Mr. & Mrs. Lewis R. Cabe Ms. Diana Carl The Honorable & Mrs. Raymond C. Clevenger, III Mr. & Mrs. William D. Coleman Mr. & Mrs. John J. Collins Ronald M. Costell, M.D., & Marsha E. Swiss Mr. Owen J. Costello & Ms. Erlin R. Webb Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Daniels Mr. & Mrs. Clark Evans Downs Dr. Ross W. Duffin & Dr. Beverly J. Simmons Rose & John Eberhardt Dr. William E. Engel Louise H. Engle Ms. Marietta Ethier Mrs. John Eustice Mr. Gerald M. Feierstein Charles Fendig & Maria Fisher Melody & Albert Fetske Ms. Tracy Fisher Mr. Robert Fontenrose Mr. Roland M. Frye, Jr. & Ms. Susan M. Pettey Jere Gibber & J.G. Harrington Ms. Michelle Gluck & Dr. Walter Smith Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Goelzer Sayre N. Greenfield, PhD & Linda V. Troost, PhD Mr. Bruce N. Gregory & Ms. Paula Causey Janet & Christopher Griffin Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hazen Mrs. Anthony E. Hecht June & George Higgins Mr. Michael J. Hirrel Mr. David H. Hofstad Katherine & Duncan Kennedy Wendy & Robert Kenney Mr. Bruce Kieloch Mr. Richard Krasnow Dr. Marcel C. LaFollette & Mr. Jeffrey K. Stine Dr. Robert Lawshe Mr. Michael Lebovitz
SUPPORTERS Mr. & Mrs. Terry Lenzner Mr. & Mrs. Jan Lodal Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Lopez Mr. James Mach Mr. Winton E. Matthews, Jr. Ms. Catherine McClave Ms. Gail McKee Marilyn & Charles McMillion Beverly J. Melani & Bruce E. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Miller Mr. Hilary B. Miller & Dr. Katherine N. Bent Hazel C. Moore Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Mr. Terence R. Murphy & Ms. Patricia A. Sherman Theodore & Mary Eugenia Myer Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Mr. & Mrs. Dave Nurme Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Parr Ms. Sheila J. Peters Mr. & Mrs. Carl F. Pfeiffer Ms. Julie Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Dr. & Mrs. Warren S. Poland Ms. Gerit Ann Quealy Mrs. Donald Rappaport Mr. Jonathan M. Rich Gerd & Duncan Ritchie Mr. Peter Rogen Prof. Barbara A. Shailor Ph.D & Mr. Harry W. Blair II Mr. & Mrs. Cary H. Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bland Smith Marilyn & Hugh South Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Stanley Ms. Joanne M. Sten Ms. Susan Sutton Mary Augusta and George D. Thomas Ms. Kathryn M. Truex Mr. & Mrs. James T. Turner Mr. Scott F. Turow Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Webber Mr. Christopher White Webster Ms. Jacqueline West Mr. Gerald Widdicombe Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Wilshere Phyllis Jane Young
$250-$499 Anonymous (2) Professor Sharon Achinstein Ms. Monica Lynn Agree Mr. Thomas Ahern Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Alexander Dr. Boris Allan & Ms. Kathleen L. Pomroy
Mr. & Mrs. Stewart F. Aly Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Andrews Ms. Jerrilyn V. Andrews & Mr. Donald E. Hesse Mrs. Philip Aspden Ms. Doris E. Austin Ms. Suzanne Bakshian & Mr. Vincent A. Chiappinelli Mr. Seymour Barasch Mr. Donald Baur Ms. Alexandra Beatty Mr. & Mrs. David M. Beckmann Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Benson Dr. Katherine Berry & Mr. Christian Buchmann Ms. Mary Josie Blanchard Dr. & Mrs. David W. Blois Mr. Steven Bloom Mr. James L. Blum Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Bochner Mr. George H. Booth, II Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bott Mrs. Anne Clare Bourne Ms. Gwen W. Brewer Drs. John Brineman & Sandra Chai Mr. & Mrs. John R. Brinkema Capt. & Mrs. John Brownell Dr. James C. Bulman Mr. Charles Burger & Ms. Nancy Broers Mr. Stanley C. Burgess, Jr. Colonel and Mrs. Lance J. Burton Ms. Victoria Butler & Mr. Tim Carney Ms. Patricia Catalano Colonel & Mrs. Larry M. Cereghino Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Chaldekas Mr. John Chester Ms. JoAnn Clark Linda & John Cogdill Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Cohen Dr. John Cox & Dr. Lo-Ann Nguyen-Cox James & Ann Coyle Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Craft, Jr. Ms. Katheryn L. Cranford Ms. Ann Curley Ms. Sarah A. Davidson Vice Adm. Dirk J. Debbink Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. DeVincentis Mr. James B. Dinneen, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Bill Donohue Colleen Dougherty Ms. Frances G. Durako Dr. & Mrs. Josef C. Dvorak Dr. Terry Dwyer & Dr. Marcy F. Petrini Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Eager
Dr. William Eamon Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Eater Mr. David J. Edmondson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Eig Mr. & Mrs. Emerson J. Elliott Mr. Douglas H. Erwin & Dr. Wendy Wiswall Dr. Robert J. Fehrenbach Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Field Anne & Lucas Fischer Ms. Laurie Fletcher & Dr. Allan Fraser Nancy M. Folger & Sidney Werkman Mr. Douglas Freeman Mr. William K. Frymoyer Mrs. Joanne Garris Mr. & Mrs. Francis M. Garrison Ms. Nancy C. Garrison Mr. & Mrs. William B. Garrison, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Gibson Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mr. Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr. & Dr. Betty J. Forman Mr. Gregg H.S. Golden Mr. & Mrs. Michael Goldstein Ms. Ann V. Gordon & Mr. Martin Singer Professors Suzanne & Philip Gossett Mr. John E. Graves, RIA & Ms. Hanh Phan Neal & Janice Gregory Ms. Maria E. Grosjean Mr. & Mrs. C. David Gustafson Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn & Dr. John Y. Cole Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Haller Ms. Margaret A. Harlow Dr. Susan R. Haynes & Dr. Carl C. Baker Mr. & Mrs. Keith B. Hennessey Dr. Heather A. Hirschfeld & Prof. Anthony Welch Larry & Amanda Hobart Ms. Jessica Honigberg Dr. Henry Ridgely Horsey Ms. Rosemarie R. Howe Mr. Gareth L. Howell Mr. Webb C. Howell Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Hurst Ms. Elizabeth M. Janthey Mr. & Mrs. James Jordan Dr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Justus Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kalb Ms. Sara W. Kane Ms. Mary E. Kelly Mr. Christopher Kendall & Ms. Susan Schilperoort
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SUPPORTERS Andrea & Joseph Kerr Ms. Judith Kimball Mr. Robert L. Kimmins Ms. Lynne Myers Klimmer Mr. James Knighton Ms. Jennefer D. Kopczynski & Mr. Jonathan P. Adams Mr. Richard Koretz & Ms. Judith Bauer Mr. & Mrs. George Koukourakis Mr. Edward M. Kovach & Mrs. Kathleen C. Kovach Kim & Elizabeth Kowalewski Dr. Karen Ordahl Kupperman Mr. David W. Lankford David Larch & Deborah Roudebush Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon Mr. & Mrs. Marc Levinson Professor Fred J. Levy & Ms. Nancy Taylor Lilly S. Lievsay Mr. Roy Lind Dr. Frances Litrenta Mr. Joseph Loewenstein & Ms. C. Lynne Tatlock Mr. & Mrs. David Longnecker Mrs. Stephen Lotterman Dr. Kathleen Lynch & Mr. John C. Blaney Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Lynch Wes MacAdam Dr. Deborah L. Malkovich & Dr. William Freimuth Ms. Allison Mankin & Dr. Jim Carton Dr. Lewis Markoff & Dr. Caroline Samuels Ms. Ann I. McClellan Mr. Patrick J. McGraw Sean & Melissa McKenna Mr. Steven J. Metalitz & Ms. Kit J. Gage Mr. & Mrs. George K. Miller Mr. James Eric Minton & Col. Sarah J. Smith Ms. Linda S. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey C. Morell Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Myers Dr. Klaus Nehring Mrs. Nancy Nelkin Mr. & Mrs. Michael Neuman Mr. Mike Newton & Dr. Linda Werling Ms. Diane Ney Mr. & Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin Mr. & Mrs. David M. Osnos Betty Ann Ottinger Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Palmer
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Mr. & Mrs. John Pastoral Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Dr. Hans S. Pawlisch Mr. & Mrs. Kevin L. Pearson Linda Levy Peck Mr. Joseph Perta Drs. Sylvia Holton Peterson & William Peterson Dr. & Mrs. Joram Piatigorsky Ms. Ann Portocarrero Ms. Valerie Elizabeth Powell Drs. Maria T. & Thomas A. Prendergast Mr. Terry Quist Mr. & Mrs. Erik M. Rasmussen Mr. Leon S. Reed & Ms. Lois S. Lembo Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Dr. Markley Roberts Winnie & Alexander Robinson Dr. Kenneth Rock Ms. Laura Selene Rockefeller Ellen & Richard Rodin Ms. Theresa Rusch Ms. Janet A. Sanderson Mr. Thomas Glenn Saunders Mr. Kurt R. Schwarz & Ms. Patsy G. Kennan Mr. D. Stanton Sechler Professor & Mrs. Mortimer Sellers Dr. Sherry Wood Shuman & Mr. Philip B. Shuman Dr. & Mrs. Paul A. Sieving Kay & George Simmons Mr. Joseph L. Smith & Ms. Cheryl S. Roesel Ms. Katharine Sodergreen Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Sollinger Mr. Steven Solow Mr. Robert Spann & Ms. Elizabeth Whiteley Mr. Steve Spaulding & Dr. Alicen B. Spaulding Dr. Edward Starr Mrs. Thomas Stauffer Ms. Cathleen Ann Steg & Mr. Schuyler E. Schell Mr. Daniel Steiner The Steinglass Family Mr. Carl Wesley Stephens & Ms. Catherine L. Moore Ms. Victoria Steuerwalt Mr. & Mrs. Donald Street Allan & Kim Stypeck Ms. Theresa A. Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Bruce N. Tanzer Mr. Jonathan Taylor & Ms. Diane Shaughnessy
Mr. & Mrs. John V. Thomas Dr. Nancy Eve Thomas & Mr. Nick Olmos-Lau Mr. & Mrs. Grant P. Thompson Ms. Elizabeth Tobey James & Carol Tsang Dr. Arina van Breda Dr. & Mrs. Peter J. Ventimiglia Drs. Betsy & Alkinoos Vourlekis Mr. Ronald E. Wagner & Dr. Ruth Scogna Wagner Ms. Wendy Wall Mr. Thomas Weaver Dr. & Mrs. John R. Wennersten Ms. Teresa S. Whiting Mr. & Mrs. Roy L. Williams Dr. Janet Wittes Ms. Betsy L. Wolf Dr. Howard Wolf Drs. Eric & Sandra Wolman Mr. Clark M. Wright Irene & Alan Wurtzel Mr. & Mrs. Alan S. Wyatt The Yacobucci Family Mr. Gregory Jackson
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 Professor Carmen A. CasĂs Ms. Mary Cole The Honorable Esther Coopersmith Susan Fawcett & Richard Donovan Wendy Frieman & David Johnson Dr. Elise Goodman (bequest will be in memory of Elise Goodman & 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 & Mr. Christopher E. DuBois William L. Hopkins Ms. Elizabeth J. Hunt Maxine Isaacs Bruce Janacek
SUPPORTERS Mrs. Robert J.T. Joy Dr. Elizabeth T. Kennan Karl K. & 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 & Brian Hagenbuch Mr. Gene B. Mercer Roger & Robin Millay Dr. Barbara A. Mowat Ms. Sheila A. Murphy 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 Neal T. Turtell Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan Barbara Wainscott Dr. Barbara A. Wanchisen Dr. Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. & 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. Please accept our sincere apologies if you find any information here to be incorrect. Call the Development Office at 202.675.0321.
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From left to right: Celeste Jones in District Merchants; Louis Butelli in Twelfth Night; Wayne T. Carr in Pericles; Michael Sharon and Deidra LaWan Starnes in Julius Caesar.
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. The Folger welcomes millions of visitors online and in person. We provide unparalleled access to a huge array of resources, from original sources to modern interpretations. With the Folger, you can experience the power of performance, the wonder of exhibitions, and the excitement of pathbreaking research. We offer the opportunity to see and even work with early modern sources, driving discovery and transforming education for students of all ages. A gift to the American people from industrialist Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily Jordan Folger, the library opened in 1932. S hakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Join us online, on the road, or in Washington, DC.
Open: Mon.–Thurs. & Sat., 10am–5pm; Fri., 10am–8pm; and Sun., 12pm–5pm Gift Shop: Tues.–Sat., 12pm–5pm
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 collaborations between artists and experts, Folger Theatre produces innovative stagings that have been commended as “breathtakingly original… strikingly contemporary” (The Washington Post). Folger Theatre has received 140 nominations and 24 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 The Taming of the Shrew (2013), Hamlet (2011), and Measure for Measure (2007) and nominations for many other productions. Learn more at www.folger.edu
Building & Exhibition Tour: Mon.–Sat., 11am, 1pm & 3pm; and Sun. 12pm & 3pm
Reading Rooms Tour: Sat. at 12pm; limited to 15 participants. Reserve 29 in advance at tours@folger.edu
Photo by Jeff Malet
Photo by Teresa Wood
Photo by Teresa Wood
Photo by Teresa Wood
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