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FOLGER THEATRE 2018/19 SEASON Janet Alexander Griffin Artistic Producer Beth Emelson Associate Artistic Producer
David Polk General Manager Charles Flye Production Manager
William Shakespeare By
Directed by
Aaron Posner†
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Andrew Cohen
Sarah Cubbage*
Max Doolittle*
Original Music and Sound Design
Resident Dramaturg
New York Casting
Lindsay Jones*
Michele Osherow
Eisenberg/Beans Casting
Folger Casting
Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Teresa Wood
Becky Reed**
Season Sponsors Maygene and Steve Daniels Helen and David Kenney and Family Roger and Robin Millay Neal T. Turtell Scott and Liz Vance 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.
Jessica Short**
Associate Sponsors Howard Brown Barbra Eaton and Ed Salners Rick Kasten Julianna Mahley Pam McFarland and Brian Hagenbuch Contributing Sponsors William and Louisa Newlin Keith and Celia Arnaud Carolyn and Mark Olshaker Jeffrey P. Cunard Production Sponsors Nicky Cymrot Nancy and Steve Howard John and Connie McGuire
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Open‐captioned Performance Sponsors Vinton and Sigrid Cerf †Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society *Member of United Scenic Artists **Member of Actors’ Equity Association
Winston Churchill (1874‐1965), great British statesman and leader during both World Wars, was fascinated by the history of his island nation. He read Shakespeare’s history plays and they inspired his own speeches and writings. During the 1930s he began a monumental project of A History of the English Speaking Peoples which was published in four volumes in 1956 after the Second World War. In spite of its grand title, “English Speaking” refers primarily to the British themselves and to Americans, rather than the multitudes of English speakers in the Empire. In writing about the history of England from Roman times to the present, Churchill shows his knowledge of Shakespeare’s history plays. Volume one contains the story of King John, of whom Churchill writes: “when the long tally is added it will be seen that the British nation and the English‐speaking world owe far more to the vices of John than to the labours of virtuous sovereigns,” and that fame is due to Magna Carta which John was pressed into signing by his disaffected barons. Churchill understands the importance of that document—“now for the first time the King himself is bound by the law.” Shakespeare does not include Magna Carta in his play, and Churchill comments that “little more was heard of the Charter until the seventeenth century,” during the standoff between Royalists and Parliamentarians. Going forward, “the Charter became…an enduring witness that the power of the Crown was not absolute.” When writing of King John’s dreadful death by dysentery, Churchill quotes his final lines from Shakespeare’s play: And none of you will bid the winter come To thrust his icy fingers in my maw…. I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait And so ungrateful, you deny me that. Churchill also turns to King John when he writes about the island of England standing fast against its enemies. In volume two of English Speaking Peoples, he ends his discussion of the great defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, remarking that shortly afterwards, Shakespeare was writing King John. The lines “Come the three corners of the world in arms,/ And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue/ If England to itself do rest but true,” must have resonated with Shakespeare’s audience, remembering the threat of invasion in 1588. But the play also resonates with Churchill when writing about German Dreadnoughts off the coast of England in 1914 in his history of World War I. Here he quotes again from King John: …that pale, that white‐faced shore, whose foot spurns back the ocean’s roaring tides . . . 4
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SYNOPSIS That water‐walled bulwark, still secure And confident from foreign purposes. Finally, Churchill turns to King John when writing about the importance of subordinates speaking the truth to their superiors. He had noted a number of weaknesses by the Allies following the Battle of the Somme in 1916, but they were not heeded, and Churchill remarks, “Sir Douglas Haig was not at this time well served by his advisers.” He goes on: “The whole habit of mind of a military staff is based upon subordination of opinion. It is not every councilor who, like the Bastard in King John, will say to his sovereign: ‘But if you be afeared to hear the worst,/ Then let the worst unheard fall on your head.’” He hastens to add, “it does not seem just to throw the reproach of this battle unpon Sir Douglas Haig”; there were many other forces at work which led to the “welter of slaughter” on the Western Front. In his very first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, Churchill spoke to his audience again through the words of the Bastard in King John: “According to the fair play of the world,/ Let me have audience . . .” It is this appeal to be heard that powered much of Churchill’s career in the thousands of words he spoke and wrote directed to his fellow British subjects and to allies around the world. –Georgianna Ziegler, Curator Explore A History of the English Speaking Peoples and The Malakand Field Force in the exhibition Churchill’s Shakespeare on display in the Great Hall through January 6, 2019.
The events in King John take place in the 13th century, well before Shakespeare’s other English history plays. After the death of John’s brother, Richard I (Richard the Lionheart), John begins his rule of England. John’s young nephew Arthur has a claim to the throne and is supported by the French. At first, a proposed marriage between the French crown prince and John’s niece Blanche calms Anglo‐French tensions. Then the Pope, in a dispute over recognizing an archbishop, excommunicates John and backs Arthur’s claim. War erupts, John captures Arthur and orders his death. Meanwhile, French forces reach England. John submits to the Pope to gain his aid. Rebellious English nobles join the French, but return to John when they learn the French prince plans to kill them. English forces under Philip Faulconbridge, the bastard son of Richard I, expel the French. King John is poisoned by a monk. His son ascends the throne to become Henry III.
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FROM THE DIRECTOR K ing John is clearly not one of Shakespeare’s most famous or popular plays. At least at this time. I’ve been told that in the past it was more fashionable and in demand. Chances are this will be your first King John while you may have seen a multitude of Midsummers. We’re all excited to have this opportunity to delve deeply into this remarkable play. We won’t dwell on its flaws. Not every play can be Hamlet or Twelfth Night, even if you are William Shakespeare. King John has many wonderful gifts, including remarkable characters, brilliantly evocative language, moving scenes, and it speaks to the complicated realities of governance. Shakespeare’s acute and penetrating vision is fully realized in his early history play. I believe the play is about Flawed Leaders and Leadership. It is about the complicated ways The Personal and The Political intersect. And it is focused on the Relentless Pursuit of Power—and the expense of that pursuit. It is about human love and all‐too‐ human frailty. And it is about the wonderfully complicated nature of family.
Lastly it is about something called Commodity. This is named in the play, and it is not an easy word to define. It means, I believe, Profit or Gain. It has come to stand for Greed. Commodity also represents those problematic choices and actions that we make to get what we most deeply desire. Tickling Commodity our unique hero, the Bastard, calls it, revealing it as ugly and common. No doubt the play is about many, many other things, and that is what we’re currently discovering every day in rehearsals. One of the great gifts of directing here at Folger Theatre (where I am told this is my 20th production!) is the opportunity to examine these great plays in close collaboration with an amazing group of actors, designers, scholars, and the entire extended Folger community. Each day brings new discoveries. In joining us, we invite you to delve into the fabulous and flawed riches and rewards which King John affords. –Aaron Posner
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CAST
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Akeem Davis* Louis the Dauphin, son of King Philip of France Brian Dykstra* John, King of England Maboud Ebrahimzadeh* Austria, Duke and loyal supporter of France Salisbury, a noble English Lord Kate Goehring* Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine Lady Faulconbridge Bigot, a noble English Lord Megan Graves Arthur, son of Constance and Geoffrey II Prince Henry, son to King John Alina Collins Maldonado* Blanche of Spain, niece to King John Kate Eastwood Norris* Philip Faulconbridge, the bastard son of Lady Faulconbridge by Richard the Lionheart Sasha Olinick* Chatillion, French emissary Cardinal Pandulph, Papal Legate Howard W. Overshown* Philip, King of France Melun, a noble French Lord Peter of Pomfret, a Prophet Brian Reisman Robert Faulconbridge Citizen English Messenger Holly Twyford* Constance, mother of Arthur Pembroke, a noble English Lord Elan Zafir* Hubert, personal attendant to King John Understudies Anne Nottage (for Kate Eastwood Norris) Matthew Pauli (for Sasha Olinick and Elan Zafir)
Daniel Riker (for Akeem Davis and Brian Reisman)
Emily Sucher (for Megan Graves and Alina Collins Maldonado) Shpend Xani (for Maboud Ebrahimzadeh and Howard W. Overshown) Elan Zafir* (for Brian Dykstra)
Claire Schoonover (for Holly Twyford and Kate Goehring)
*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.
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This production is performed with one 15‐minute intermission. Please refrain from using cell phones, cameras, or other recording devices during the performance of King John. 9
FROM THE DRAMATURG One of the most exciting aspects of staging King John is the appeal of digging into a story not often told. The rehearsal room for this production has been hypercharged with questions, contests, clashes of interpretation. Under the scrutiny of this creative team, Shakespeare’s text and history appear evermore unstable, and evermore theatrically rich. The Life and Death of King John, written between 1590 and 1596, offers the earliest chronological setting of Shakespeare’s English histories. The action takes place at the start of the 13th century. We confront treacherous leaders, dubious policy, and “that sly devil…Commodity, the bias of the world.” Intricacies of plot aside, King John smacks of the familiar. John was the youngest son of the mighty Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II, England’s first Plantagenet king and founder of the Angevin Empire. Henry II’s territories stretched across England, and included parts of Ireland, Wales, and half of France (see map on page 14). John claimed the crown and lands after the death of his elder brother Richard I, or ‘Richard the Lionheart,’ a king described as “comely of person, … courageous and fierce, … courteous, … liberal, … eloquent in speech and wise” 10
(Holinshed, Chronicles of England). John was not so celebrated. He is “Bad King John” of the Robin Hood tales. Medieval chronicles stress John’s recklessness, his foul exploitations, and perverse temper. In our own century he has been called “an absolute rotter” and, in spite of Magna Carta, “the worst king in English History” (BBC Radio). In Shakespeare’s play, the mythic figure of Coeur de lion looms large over John’s court, highlighting the disparity between these brothers and kings. John’s grip on the throne is tenuous. His claim is challenged from within the Plantagenet line, and that challenge is weighted with the backing of France and Austria. Shakespeare exaggerates the illegitimacy of John’s kingship so that even Eleanor, the politically savvy Queen Mother, attributes his sovereignty to “strong possession much more than…right.” Legitimacy is a persistent subject in the play beyond John’s “borrowed majesty.” It is referenced to excess, affecting talk of kin, faith, law, morality, selfhood, reputation, appearance, apparel, and authority. Assumptions of what constitutes
legitimacy are turned upside‐ down. It is no accident that the most promising character to rule over England, the character most invested in national honor and strong governance, is called, simply, “the Bastard.” Shakespeare’s Philip Faulconbridge, illegitimate son of Richard I, is considered by some to be the play’s hero. He is certainly England’s best patriot, winning us with sharp humor and frank talk. The Bastard is our guide and commentator. His impressions are accessible enough: “Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!” If his skepticism for politicos is suppressed somewhat in the play’s second half, he nonetheless schools us in observation in the first. We can determine for ourselves the virtue of serving rulers whose value, as the saying goes, “for five pence …’tis dear.” Piercing observations and accusations shoot back and forth among characters, women central among them. King John is remarkable among the histories for offering up a vital feminine force. Eleanor, approaching 80 at the start, announces herself a soldier and heads into battle. Eleanor, Constance, and Blanche participate directly in the play’s conflict and insist on being heard:
“Hear me, O, hear me!;” “Hark, a word;” “O husband, hear me!” These women will not be silent, though too often the men they address are indifferent to hard and human truths. The magnificent speeches for which this play is praised may be a symptom of that indifference. While the mightiest of characters understand their own wants they don't seem to grasp much about the needs of their allies or enemies. The rhetorical cleverness and sheer number of declamations hint at a weakness of relationships in King John, as though human communication is a thing of craft and artifice. When examples of humanity do, at last, occur, their force exceeds that of the constant anachronistic cannon fire. Those human demonstrations will not come from King John’s authorities, either of church or state. Instead, the push to right the world’s imbalances comes from those stuck in the mire of their leaders’ judgment. The nameless citizen who blocks further “sacrifices for the field” has more majesty than dozens of the play’s kings. Such moments, too, are history, though their victories may be bounded in a nutshell, or in the field of a boy’s bright eye. –Michele Osherow 11
FROM THE FOLGER EDITIONS
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CAST Akeem Davis The Dauphin Folger Theatre: District Merchants (Helen Hayes nomination). Regional: People’s Light & Theatre: All My Sons; Theatre Horizon: Lobby Hero, In the Blood; InterAct Theatre: The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane, Marcus/Emma; Theatre Exile: Buzzer; Philadelphia Shakespeare Company: Henry V, Romeo and Juliet; Simpatico Theatre Project: The Brothers Size. Six‐time Barrymore Award nominated actor, recipient of the 2015 F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist.
Brian Dykstra John, King of England Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet. Broadway: Lucky Guy. Regional: Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park & B Street Theatre: Red; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: The Humans; The Alley Theatre: Cleo; American Repertory Theater: The Seagull; Arizona Theatre Company: Copenhagen; Pittsburgh Public Theatre: The Cherry Orchard, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, All The Rage; The Kitchen Theatre: Private Lives, STRANGERHORSE, Call Me Waldo, Clean Alternatives, A Marriage Minuet, A Play On Words. Off‐Broadway: Breaking Legs. Solo shows: HO!, Selling Out, Cornered & Alone, The Jesus Factor (DVD). International: Menier Chocolate Factory, (London): Americana Absurdum; Assembly Rooms, (Edinburgh): Clean Alternatives (playwright, Scotsman Fringe First Award). Film: Knight and Day, Freedomland, Poor Behavior, Corn. Television: Bull, Law & Order, Third Watch, Chappelle’s Show, HBO Def Poetry. briandykstra.net.
Maboud Ebrahimzadeh Salisbury and others Folger Theatre: Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar. Arena Stage: The Price; Round House Theatre: Small Mouth Sounds, The Book of Will, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; Olney
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Theatre Center: The Invisible Hand; The Kennedy Center: Mockingbird; Studio Theatre: Water by the Spoonful, Edgar and Annabel; Forum Theatre: The Pillowman, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Bobrauschenbergamerica, Scorched. Regional: Hartford Stage: Murder on the Orient Express; McCarter Theatre: Disgraced, Murder on the Orient Express; Milwaukee Rep: Disgraced; Theatre Exile: The Invisible Hand (Barrymore Award); Gulfshore Playhouse: The Liar; Center Stage: The Container. Television: Jessica Jones. Film: Imperium, Sally Pacholok. maboudebrahimzadeh.com
Kate Goehring Queen Eleanor and others National Tour: Angels in America (Miami Carbonell Award, LA Pride Award). Arena Stage: Orpheus Descending, Dancing at Lughnasa; Intiman Theatre: Heartbreak House; McCarter Theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Actors Theatre of Louisville: Slavs!, The Clean House; Alliance Theatre: The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls; North Carolina Theater: W;t (Broadway World Raleigh Award); Triad Stage: Radiunt Abundunt, Underneath the Lintel, The Glass Menagerie, The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead; The Goodman Theater: The Rover, Dancing at Lughnasa; Arizona Theater Company: How I Learned to Drive; A Contemporary Theater: Collected Stories (Footlights Award); The Huntington Theatre: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Glass Menagerie; Kansas City Repertory: Machinal, St. Joan, The Syringa Tree; Court Theatre: Othello, Measure for Measure; Bailiwick Repertory Theatre: Laughing Wild (After Dark Award, Joseph Jefferson Citation). Television: BBC, Comedy Central, ER, Gossip Girl.
Megan Graves Arthur and others Folger Theatre: The Second Shepherds’ Play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Gloria; Arena Stage: The Great Society, The Little Foxes;
Studio Theatre: Translations; Constellation Theatre Company: Peter and the Starcatcher (Helen Hayes nomination); Forum Theatre: Love and Information, Passion Play, Clementine in the Lower 9; The Hub Theatre: Redder Blood (Helen Hayes nomination); Regional: Virginia Repertory Theatre: Peter and the Starcatcher; Virginia Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice.
Alina Collins Maldonado Blanche of Spain Kennedy Center TYA: Digging Up Dessa (world premiere), Where Words Once Were (world premiere); REP Stage: The Heidi Chronicles, Hunting and Gathering; Imagination Stage: Robin Hood, The Smartest Girl In The World, Óyeme, the beautiful; GALA Hispanic Theatre: El Paso Blue, Mariela en el desierto, Los empeños de una casa; Theater Alliance: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf; Forum Theatre: How We Got On, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Much Ado About Nothing; 1st Stage: The Good Counselor. Lincoln Center Theater: Where Words Once Were. alinacollinsmaldonado.com
Kate Eastwood Norris Philip Faulconbridge, the Bastard Folger Theatre: Macbeth (2018, 2008), Mary Stuart, The Taming of the Shrew (Helen Hayes nomination), Hamlet: Now I Am Alone, The School for Scandal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helen Hayes Award), Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, She Stoops To Conquer, The Tempest, Hamlet (1999); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Stupid F***ing Bird (Helen Hayes nomination), Full Circle, Fever/Dream, She Stoops To Comedy (Helen Hayes Award), Big Love, Bug; Arena Stage: The Book Club Play; Source Theatre: Intimate Exchanges (Helen Hayes nomination), Private Eyes; Round House Theatre: A Body of Water;
Washington Shakespeare Company: Strange Interlude (Helen Hayes nomination), The Taming of the Shrew. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival: Gnit, Eat Your Heart Out; Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Concerning Strange Devices From The Distant West; Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Playboy of the Western World, As You Like It, King Lear; Portland Center Stage: Bo Nita, The North Plan; Florida Stage: Ghostwriter; Delaware Theatre Company: Lucy.
Sasha Olinick Cardinal Pandulph and others The Hub Theatre (company member), Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, First Stage, Round House Theatre, Solas Nua, Studio Theatre, Theater J, MetroStage, Rep Stage, Forum Theatre, Imagination Stage, The In Series, WSC Avant Bard and the Maryland Shakespeare Company. Regional: Trinity Rep Company, Merry Go Round Playhouse, American Shakespeare Center, Vermont Stage and Ocean State Lyric Opera. Television: VEEP. Film: Enemy of The Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story.
Howard W. Overshown Philip, King of France and others Folger Theatre: Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, The Tempest; Interact Theatre at the Folger: Great Expectations (The Musical); Arena Stage: Blue (with Phylicia Rashad), The Great White Hope, YellowMan, Passion Play; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, The School for Scandal, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor; Theater J: Goodnight Irene; Source Theatre: The Dying Gaul; Signature Theatre: Never the Sinner; Baltimore Center Stage: Marley, The Christians. Broadway: Free Man of Color; MTC: Saint Joan; Lincoln Center Theater: Julius Caesar. Off‐Broadway: Orlando, YellowMan, Blue, Beauty on the (continued on page 21)
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PRODUCTION CREDITS Assistant Technical Director Assistant Directors Fight Choreographer Creative Consultants Production Assistant Props Master Set Construction Assistant Costume Designer Wardrobe Head Master Electrician Assistant Master Electrician Sound Engineer For Eisenberg/Beans Casting Casting Assistant Casting Interns Graphic Design & Advertising Agency Marketing Design Consultant Production Photography Archival Video Promotional and Production Video Open Captioning
Rebekah Sheffer Susannah Eig Peter Danelski Casey Kaleba† Kate Eastwood Norris Holly Twyford Christina Miller Tony Koehler Bella Faccia Inc. Jeannette Christensen Cidney Forkpah Alex Keen Kristen Roth Brandon Roe Courtney Hammond Presleigh Renner Savannah Schackett Grafik Emily Tartanella Teresa Wood WAPAVA APTV, Mark Fastoso C2 †Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
Acknowledgements: James Rostron and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Deborah Curren‐Aquino, Rachel Dankert, Linda Dusman, Naomi Osborne, Abbie Weinberg. 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. Folger Theatre is a member of Blue Star Theaters, CultureCapital, Cultural Tourism DC, theaterWashington, Shakespeare Theatre Association, and Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
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CAST Vine, Never the Sinner. Film: Never Here, Grand Street, Body of Lies, Pride & Glory, 13. Television: Elementary, White Collar, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Kings, Conviction, New Amsterdam, Guiding Light, All My Children, As the World Turns, Madam Secretary, Bull, The Affair, Allegiance. Lunt‐Fontane Fellow, 2018.
Brian Reisman Robert Faulconbridge and others Folger Theatre: As You Like It; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet Free For All; Round House Theatre: I’ll Get You Back Again; Constellation Theatre Company: The Caucasian Chalk Circle. 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. Upcoming: Olney Theatre Center: Once. Brian‐Reisman.com
Holly Twyford Constance and others Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart, The Taming of the Shrew, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Arcadia (Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Helen Hayes Award), All’s Well That Ends Well, Melissa Arctic, Twelfth Night, Othello, As You Like It, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet (Helen Hayes Award); Folger Consort: The Second Shepherds’ Play, The Tempest; Signature Theatre: A Little Night Music, On the Twentieth Century, The Little Dog Laughed (Helen Hayes Award), A Fox on the Fairway; Round House Theatre: The Sisterhood, Living Out; Studio Theatre: Time Stands Still, The Road to Mecca, The Steward of Christendom, Desk Set, Betty’s Summer Vacation, The Shape of Things (Helen Hayes Award), Far Away, Black Milk, The Internationalist; Theater J: Life in Refusal, There Are No Strangers, Lost in Yonkers, Becoming Doctor Ruth; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: We Are Proud to
Present..., Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Stop Kiss, Recent Tragic Events; Arena Stage: A Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Plough and the Stars, The Matchmaker, The Miser, Arcadia, On the Jump, An American Daughter. Regional: Arden Theatre Company: Private Lives, Candida. Directing: No Rules Theatre Company: Stop Kiss; Studio 2ndstage: Edgar and Annabel, Mary Kate Olsen is in Love; Factory 449: The Amish Project.
Elan Zafir Hubert Folger Theatre: The Way of the World. Arena Stage: Junk, The Golden Age of Debt (upcoming); Ford’s Theatre: Twelve Angry Men (upcoming), Ragtime (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble); Adventure Theatre: Jumanji (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Production); Shakespeare Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet Free for All and Main Stage, Othello, Salomé (Helen Hayes Award, Ensemble); Signature Theatre: Tender Napalm; The Welders: Happiness (and other reasons to die); REP Stage: Venus in Fur; Capital Fringe: The Unaccompanied Minor (writer and performer), Ben & Lucille; Mosaic Theatre Company: Paper Dolls, The Vagrant Trilogy. Regional: New York International Fringe Festival: Leaf in the Mailbox (Best Ensemble Award); Wings Theater: Raft of the Medusa. Edinburgh fringe: The Unaccompanied Minor; Television: The Making of the Mob, House of Cards, King of Crimes.
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CREATIVE TEAM Aaron Posner Director Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale, District Merchants (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Original Play), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Romeo and Juliet, The Conference of the Birds, The Taming of the Shrew (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Resident Play), Cyrano (co‐adaptor; Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director), The Comedy of Errors, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Arcadia, Macbeth (co‐director and co‐conceiver), The Tempest (2007), Measure for Measure (Helen Hayes Awards, Outstanding Director and Outstanding Resident Play), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director), Melissa Arctic (The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play), Twelfth Night, Othello, As You Like It (2001). Regional: Arden Theatre Company (Co‐Founder, Artistic Director, and Resident Director, 1988‐2006): more than 35 productions. Posner is the author of the plays Uncle Vanya Play, No Sisters, My Name Is Asher Lev, Stupid F**king Bird, The Chosen, Sometimes a Great Notion, Mark Twain’s A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage, and others.
Andrew Cohen Scenic Design Studio Theatre: Murder Ballad (Helen Hayes Award nomination); Olney Theatre Center: The Crucible; Theater J: Broken Glass; Mosaic Theater Company: Satchmo at the Waldorf; The Kennedy Center TYA: Darius and Twig; Imagination Stage: Charlotte’s Web, A Year with Frog and Toad; Forum Theater: Love and Information; Theater Alliance: Flood City, Still Life with Rocket. Off‐Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater: Where Words Once Were; 59E59: Occupied Territories. andrewcohendesigns.com
Sarah Cubbage Costume Design Folger Theatre: Sense and Sensibility (assistant); Studio Theatre: The Wolves, The Hard Problem; Olney Theatre Center: The
Crucible; Baltimore Center Stage: That Face; Everyman Theatre: The Roommate; Rep Stage: Dorian’s Closet; Syracuse Stage: In The Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (SALT Award nomination), Disgraced; American Repertory Theatre: The Lily’s Revenge (IRNE Award nomination), The Shape She Makes; Hangar Theatre: Gypsy; The Juilliard School: The Triumph of Love, Hippolyte et Aricie; Manhattan Concert Productions/David Geffen Hall: Crazy For You; Brooklyn Academy of Music: Dark Lark (Kate Weare Company), Eternal Now (Young Soon Kim); The Joyce Theatre: The Radio Show (AIM, Bessie Award); DCL Disney Cruise Line: Beauty & The Beast; Broadway Associate/ Assistant: Fish In The Dark, A Delicate Balance, It’s Only A Play, This Is Our Youth, Bullets Over Broadway, Big Fish.
Max Doolittle Lighting Design His work can be seen at at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, Mosaic Theater Company, Theater Alliance, Imagination Stage, Forum Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company ACA, Adventure Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Pointless Theatre Co, NextStop Theatre. Regional: Ars Nova, Juilliard School, New Ohio Theatre, New World Stages, Kitchen Theatre Company, Fulton Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Mississippi Opera Studio. Television: Anderson Cooper 360, Piers Morgan Live, and TED Talks. Aboard cruise ships: Wine Lovers the Musical.
Lindsay Jones Original Music and Sound Design Folger Theatre: The Tempest. Regional theaters include: South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre, The Old Globe, Steppenwolf, The Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Lookingglass Theatre Company, many others. Off‐Broadway: Public Theater: Privacy, Kings; Playwrights Horizons: Mankind, Bootycandy; Primary Stages:
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Rx; New York Theatre Workshop: Top Secret; many others. Broadway: The Nap, Bronx Bombers, A Time To Kill. International: Royal Shakespeare Company (England): Henry IV, parts 1 & 2; Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada): Titus Andronicus. Film and television scoring: Magnolia Pictures: The Brass Teapot; HBO Film: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2006 Academy Award Winner). Awards: Seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and 24 nominations; two Ovation Awards and three nominations; multiple nominations for Drama Desk, Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Craig Noel, among many others. lindsayjones.com
Michele Osherow Resident Dramaturg Folger Theatre: Macbeth (2018, 2008), The Winter’s Tale (2018, 2009), The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility, District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016, 2006), texts&beheadings/ ElizabethR, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar; Fiasco Theater Co.: 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, 1 Henry IV, The Tempest, Measure for Measure (dramaturg and actor). Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Eisenberg/Beans Casting New York Casting Folger Theatre: Saint Joan, The Winter’s Tale, The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, As You Like It, 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. Bedlam: Saint Joan/ Hamlet on tour, Pygmalion. Partners: Daryl Eisenberg, CSA and Ally Beans, CSA. Casting
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for film, theater, television, commercials, and new media. Broadway: Gettin’ The Band Back Together. Off‐Broadway: Baghdaddy, That Bachelorette Show, The Anthem, Around the World in 80 Days, Altar Boyz, and more. Regional/Other: School of Rock International Tour, Heartbreak Hotel (Chicago), Dallas Theater Center, Norwegian Cruise Line, Ivoryton Playhouse, Tenors of Rock, Davenport Reading Series, countless NYMF/Fringe. Film/TV: Cheerleader, Evol, Chandler, Camp, Mulligan. ebcastingco.com @EBCastingCo
Becky Reed Production Stage Manager Folger Theatre: Macbeth; The Kennedy Center TYA: The Cerulean Time Capsule; Olney Theatre Center: Marjorie Prime, I And You, Ain’t Misbehavin’; Rorschach Theatre: A Maze, She Kills Monsters; Spooky Action Theatre & machina eX: Happy Hour; Studio Theatre: The Effect, No Sisters; Theater J: Becoming Dr. Ruth, Everything Is Illuminated, Copenhagen. Assistant Stage Manager: Rep Stage, Signature Theatre, Theater J, Opera Lafayette, and others. National Tour: The Kennedy Center TYA: Elephant & Piggie’s We Are In A Play!. Regional: Playhouse on the Square: Grey Gardens, The 39 Steps, Dividing the Estate, From Up Here, Black Pearl Sings, Superior Donuts; Weathervane Playhouse: Alice in Wonderland.
Jessica Short Assistant Stage Manager Folger Theatre: Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra; Round House Theatre Company: Caroline, or Change, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, The Who & The What, Stage Kiss; The Kennedy Center TYA: The Cerulean Time Capsule; Forum Theatre: The Pillowman, Passion Play, The T Party, How We Got On; 1st Stage: The Good Counselor; Arena Stage: Healing Wars; Anacostia Playhouse: DC Dead: Mutation; Signature Theatre Company: Jelly’s Last Jam; Flying V: You, or Whatever I Can Get.
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CREATIVE TEAM Janet Alexander Griffin Artistic Producer As Director of Public Programs, Griffin has established Folger Theatre as a home for creative, contemporary approaches to classic theater. She has produced more than 25 seasons of theater, including the majority of Shakespeare plays, as well as the work of many other playwrights; more than 800 concerts of early music; and a like number of other cultural events. Her leadership of Folger Theatre has seen the theater recognized with 147 nominations and 30 awards for excellence from Washington’s Helen Hayes Awards. These include four awards for Outstanding Resident Production, most recently received for Sense and Sensibility in 2017. Bard Records, created by Griffin, has released 23 titles of music by Folger Consort and others, and Folger Theatre has seven fully dramatized Shakespeare audio books available through Simon and Schuster. Projects commissioned or developed include Lynn Redgrave’s Shakespeare for My Father and Rachel and Juliet; The Fairy Queen and other presentations of Baroque music and Shakespeare with Derek Jacobi, Richard Clifford, and other celebrated artists; Roger Rees’ What You Will; The Second Shepherds’ Play adapted by Mary Hall Surface; Aaron Posner’s District Merchants; Caroline Shaw’s The Tempest; The Gravedigger’s Tale with Louis Butelli; and the upcoming immersive theater presentation by Third Rail Productions. She was the first to bring to Washington a Shakespeare’s Globe production and to take Folger programming to London’s Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe, as well as other venues in Washington, New York, and California. Other Folger programs stewarded by Griffin are the O.B. Hardison Poetry series, celebrating its 50th season; screenings from the Royal Shakespeare Company; and lectures and readings by theater professionals, early modern scholars, and contemporary literary figures.
Beth Emelson Associate Artistic Producer Folger Theatre: since 2004. Off‐Broadway: Producing Director, Atlantic Theater
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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, Member, Board Member, Naked Angels. She produces for both the Nantucket and Tribeca Film Festivals as well as teaching producing for New York University.
Folger Theatre Folger Shakespeare Library, opened in 1932, featured the first replica in North America of an Elizabethan theater, a 250‐seat space designed to suggest the innyard playing spaces. Founders Henry and Emily Folger envisioned it as a place for the performance of the plays in Shakespeare’s style, and the first nationally televised broadcast of a Shakespeare play in the US was Julius Caesar from the Folger stage in 1949. Folger Theatre produces seasons of Shakespeare, other plays from the period of the Folger’s rare collection, and new work, including commissions, inspired by the period, including award‐winning stagings of more than 70 percent of Shakespeare’s canon, as well as classical and Restoration work. Folger Theatre has collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Guthrie, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and other theaters across the country. Folger Theatre is the recipient of 30 Helen Hayes Awards including four for Outstanding Resident Production for Sense and Sensibility, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and Measure for Measure.
STAFF DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS Beth Emelson, Associate Artistic Producer/ Associate Director of Public Programs David Polk, General Manager Charles Flye, Production Manager Rebekah Sheffer, Assistant Technical Director Emma Poltrack, Public Programs Administrative Assistant Elizabeth Andrew, Public Programs Intern Manna�Symone Middlebrooks, Casting Assistant Esther Young, Interim Audience Services Manager Renee Beaver, Courtney Feiman, Kate Gifford, Allison Marino, John Royals, House Managers David Mozur, Folger Consort Manager Teri Cross Davis, Poetry Coordinator Grace Ann Roberts, Humanities Programs Coordinator Peter Eramo, Jr., Events Publicity and Marketing Manager Grafik, Graphics Designer and Advertising Agency Barbara Shaw, Playbill Typesetter Emily Tartanella, Marketing Design Consultant Jane Pisano, Publications Consultant
Greg Armstrong, Administrative Assistance for Education Programs Kate Tallis, Docent Chair Michael LoMonico, Senior Consultant on National Education Louisa Newlin, Senior Consultant OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT Mary Zehe, Assistant Director of Development for Operations Cari Romeu Mozur, Senior Development Officer for Individual Giving Ari Silber, Senior Development Officer for Corporate and Foundation Relations Sumana Chatterjee, Senior Development Officer Leslie Gehring, Development Services Coordinator Elizabeth Stevens, Development Associate for Annual Giving DIRECTOR’S OFFICE Brian Rothbart, Executive Assistant to the Director INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Matt Bogen, Head of Information Technology Deontre Hayes, IT Systems & Support Specialist Luis Sato, Systems Engineer Stephanie Svoboda, Tessitura Administrator
Marianne Wald, Box Office Manager Grace Murtha, Box Office Lead Associate Tiana Bias, Bailey Blumenstock, Francesca Chilcote, Sierra Fritz, Annie Immediata, Rachel Messbauer, Ian Patrick, Gabby Wolfe, Box Office Assistants EXTERNAL RELATIONS Garland Scott, Head of External Relations Esther French, Digital Managing Editor Ben Lauer, Communications and Social Media Assistant Esther Ferington, Contributing Editor DIVISION OF EDUCATION Corinne Viglietta, Assistant Director of Education Kate Haase, Visitor Education Programs Manager Katharine Dvorak, Education Project Manager
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SUPPORTERS 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 The Helen Clay Frick 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 (1987‐ 2015), recognizing the creation of the Lily St. John McKee Memorial Fund.
Additional support for Folger Consort comes from: Early Music Endowment Fund Eunice & Mones E. Hawley Early Music Endowment Fund The Estate of Pamela L. Kopp
Corporate, Foundation, and Government Support: Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully acknowledges the kind support of the following institutional donors. The list below includes gifts of $1,000 or more received between September 1, 2017 and August 31, 2018.
William S. Abell Foundation, Inc. American Friends of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Inc. Paul M. Angell Family Foundation B. H. Breslauer Foundation The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Capitol Hill Community Foundation Anthony & Anna L. Carozza Foundation Clark‐Winchcole Foundation Marshall B. Coyne Foundation The Cynipid Fund, a Donor Advised Fund of the Renaissance Charitable Foundation D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts Dimick Foundation Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Lorraine S. Dreyfuss Theatre Education Fund The Lee & Juliet Folger Fund The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust The Helen Clay Frick Foundation The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Graham Holdings Heinz Family Foundation Holland & Knight LLP Mark & Carol Hyman Fund JFW, Inc. KieranTimberlake Lannan Foundation Lawrence Family Foundation MARPAT Foundation The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation Mars Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 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 Nepeni Foundation The Newberry Library OLIN Overseas Hardwoods Company The Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Pine Tree Foundation of New York The Nora Roberts Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation Nadia Sophie Seiler Memorial Fund Arts Midwest – Shakespeare in American Communities Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia Share Fund The Shubert Foundation Tillotson Design Associates Weissberg Foundation Wells Fargo
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 September 1, 2017 and August 31, 2018.
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Jarrett & Nora Arp Florence & Neal S. Cohen Mr. Marcus Coles Jeffrey P. Cunard Nicky Cymrot Maygene & Steve Daniels Philip J. Deutch & Marne L. Levine
David & Margaret Gardner Dr. Stephen H. Grant & Ms. Abigail B. Wiebenson Mr. Arthur F. Kinney J. May Liang & James Lintott Eugene A. Ludwig & Dr. Carol Ludwig Ken Ludwig & Adrienne George Jacqueline Badger Mars John & Connie McGuire Peter & Mary Jay Michel Estate of Barbara Mowat Darcy & Andy Nussbaum Stuart & Mimi Rose Loren & Frances Rothschild Mr. & Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II Lois G. Schwoerer Scott & Liz Vance
$25,000‐$49,999
Heather & Dick Cass Vinton & Sigrid Cerf Louis & Bonnie Cohen Susan Sachs Goldman Deneen Howell & Donald Vieira William & Louisa Newlin Timothy & Linda O’Neill Gail Kern Paster Nyla & Gerry Witmore
$15,000 ‐$24,999
Ms. Doris E. Austin Helen & David Kenney Nancy Klein Maguire, Folger scholar Roger & Robin Millay Neal T. Turtell
$10,000‐$14,999
Anonymous (2) Peter Andrews The Honorable Matthew Barzun & Mrs. Brooke Barzun Twiss & Patrick Butler Emily & Michael Eig Catherine Held Mr. & Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Nancy & Steve Howard Maxine Isaacs Frank F. Islam & Debbie Driesman Mr. Derek Kaufman & Dr. Leora Horwitz Mr. Lewis E. Lehrman J.C. & Mary McElveen Mr. & Mrs. H. Axel Schupf Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Small Estate of Roger J. Trienens Ms. Margaret Whitehead Drs. Michael L. Witmore & Kellie Robertson
$5,000‐$9,999
Anonymous (2) Judith Areen & Richard Cooper Keith & Celia Arnaud Peter & Rose Edwards Miguel & Patricia Estrada
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SUPPORTERS Denise Gwyn Ferguson The Honorable C. Boyden Gray Elizabeth H. Hageman Wyatt R. & Susan N. Haskell John & Meg Hauge Mr. Ken Hitz & Ms. Liselott Liungman Mr. & Mrs. Ty Hosler Dr. David E. Johnson & Ms. Wendy Frieman Andrea “Andi” Kasarsky Mr. Michael K. Kellogg Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel Arthur & Yvonne Koenig Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Kuhta The Honorable John D. Macomber Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick‐Goodhart Martin & Elaine Miller Andrew Oliver, Jr. & Melanie B. Du Bois Gail Orgelfinger & Charles Hanna Mr. Ben Reiter & Mrs. Alice Goldman Reiter Joanne Ruxin Louis B. Thalheimer & Juliet A. Eurich Tara Ghoshal Wallace Professor R L Widmann Ellen & Bernard Young
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Anonymous (4) Gary Abrecht D. James Baker & Emily Lind Baker Mr. & Mrs. David G. Bradley Evelyn & Bill Braithwaite Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Brown Howard M. Brown Mr. & Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, III Rebecca Bushnell & John Toner Mr. William J Camarinos Ms. Dorothea W. Dickerman & Mr. Richard Kevin Becker Barbra Eaton & Ed Salners Abbey S. & Kenneth M. Fagin Robert & Carole Fontenrose Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois & Mr. Christopher E. DuBois William L. Hopkins Justine & David Kenney Mrs. Peter Lockwood David & Lenka Lundsten Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Lyon Julianna Mahley Mark McConnell & Leslie Delagran Pam McFarland & Brian Hagenbuch Ann K. Morales Carl & Undine Nash Dr. Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff Melanie & Larry Nussdorf Carolyn & Mark Olshaker Patricia A. Parker Craig Pascal & Victor Shargai Drs. Eldor & Judith Pederson
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Mrs. Jacqueline L. Quillen Dr. Markley Roberts Ingrid Rose Susan & Frank Salinger Howard Shapiro & Shirley Brandman David Smith & Ilene Weinreich Paul Smith & Michael Dennis Allan & Kim Stypeck Robert J. & Tina M. Tallaksen Mr. Leslie C. Taylor Mary Augusta & George D. Thomas Diane Tipton Bradt & David Bradt Gail Weinmann & Nathan Billig Ms. Nicole Winard Ms. Louisa Woodville & Mr. Nigel R. Ogilvie Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Zarr
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Anonymous (4) John & Nancy Abeles Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Adelman Dr. Robert S. Adelstein & Mrs. Miriam A. Adelstein Esthy & Jim Adler Bill & Sunny Alsup Bess & Greg Ballentine Ms. Lisa U. Baskin Mr. Richard David Batchelder, Jr. Ms. Margaret A. Bauer & Mr. Lane Heard Michael S. Berman & Deborah Cowan Dr. James E. Bernhardt & Ms. Beth C. Bernhardt Dr. Peter W. M. Blayney & Dr. Leslie Thomson Ms. Gigi Bradford & Mr. Jim Stanford Dr. A. R. Braunmuller Colonel & Mrs. Lance J. Burton Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Callahan Ian Cameron & Susan Rice Mr. Richard H. Cleva Leslie & Ray Clevenger Mr. Mark D. Colley & Ms. Deborah A. Harsch Mr. Edwin P. Conquest, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William E. Cooke Ms. Sara Cormeny & Mr. Peter Miller Mr. Douglas R. Cox Ms. D. Elizabeth Crompton Ms. Harriet H. Davis Dr. & Mrs. William Davis Ms. Rachel Doggett Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Donaldson Mr. John F. Downey Rose & John Eberhardt Marjorie & Anthony Elson Louise H. Engle Charles Fendig & Maria Fisher Nancy M. Folger The Folger Five
Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Galvin Gail McMurray Gibson Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Gill Brent Glass & Cathryn Keller Ms. Barbara Goldberg Ms. Patricia Gray Karen Greene Ann Greer Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn & Dr. John Y. Cole Ridgway & Jill Hall Martha Harris Florence & Peter D. Hart Mr. Joseph M. Hassett & Ms. Carol Melton Mrs. Anthony E. Hecht Terrance & Noel Hefty Ms. Anita G. Herrick Mr. Joel Hiebert Michael J. Hirrel Mr. David H. Hofstad Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Hurst Mr. Michael B. Jennison Hannah L. & David H. Jones Lawrence & Meg Kasdan Sherman & Maureen Katz Theresa & Robert Keatinge Stephen Kieran & Barbara DeGrange Kieran Professor John N. & Pauline King Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kolson Mr. & Mrs. Russell LaMotte Mr. Lawrence H. Landweber & Mrs. Jean R. Landweber Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Langkamp Ms. Elizabeth Lanier Daniel Levinson Mr. & Mrs. Robert Case Liotta David Lloyd, Realtor Sandra Lotterman Mr. James Lynch Mr. Thomas G. MacCracken Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Marks Mr. & Mrs. John McGinnis Mr. & Mrs. George K. Miller The Honorable Mary V. Mochary Jane & Paul Molloy Mary & Cyril Muromcew Sheila A. Murphy Terence R. Murphy O.B.E. & Patricia Sherman Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Myers Dr. Alan Nelson Mrs. Jean F. Nordhaus Dr. Lena Cowen Orlin Charles & Susan Parsons Anne Parten & Philip Nelson Ms. Cynthia L. Rapp Mrs. Donald Rappaport Ms. Rebecca Ravenal Ms. Shana Regon & Mr. Timothy O’Toole Heddy & Trip Reid Lola C. Reinsch Mr. James R. Repucci Mr. David Roberts & Dr. David Spencer
SUPPORTERS Laura Selene Rockefeller Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Rose Mary Jane Ruhl John & Lynn Sachs Mr. Josh Samet & Ms. Juli Baer Dr. Marianne Schuelein & Mr. Ralph M. Krause Dr. Donna S. Simmons & Mr. James Simmons James Baker Sitrick Gabriela & Douglas Smith Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Stanley John & Alison Steadman Joanne M. Sten Robin & Mark Swope Amy & Mark Tercek Ayanna Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Tim Thornton Mr. Anand Trivedi Mr. Nigel Twose & Ms. Priscilla Annamanthodo Tessa van der Willigen & Jonathan Walters Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan Toby & Stacie Webb Mrs. Eric Weinmann Mr. David Weisman & Ms. Jacqueline Michel Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Weiss Ms. Kimberly R. West Dorothy B. Wexler Ms. Carolyn L. Wheeler Mr. Donald E. White & Ms. Betty W. Good‐White Kathie & Mike Williams Peter & Ingrid Willson Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Wilshere Anne & Fred Woodworth Laura Yerkovich & John Winkler Georgianna Ziegler
$500‐$999
Anonymous (3) Mr. & Mrs. Howard Ahmanson Dr. Peter J. Albert & Ms. Charlotte Mahoney Dr. Boris Allan & Ms. Kathleen L. Pomroy Mr. & Mrs. David B. Barefoot Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Barry Ms. Kyle Z. Bell & Mr. Alan G.R. Bell Mr. Brent James Bennett Mr. Kirke Bent Professors David M. Bergeron & Geraldo de Sousa Ms. Kathleen Bergin Drs. Robin & Clare Biswas Dr. & Mrs. David W. Blois Dr. Jean C. Bolan Dr. James J. Bono & Dr. Barbara J. Bono Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bott Dr. Mary H. Branton Mrs. Adrianne Brooks Dr. James C. Bulman Kathleen Burger & Glen Gerada
Mrs. Frances Burka Susan & Dixon Butler John Byrd & Lina Watson Mr. & Mrs. Lewis R. Cabe Dympna C. Callaghan Ph.D Dr. & Mrs. William C. Carroll Professor Carmen A. Casís Dr. Sheila T. Cavanagh Ms. Melissa W. Clark Ms. Molly C. Clay Dr. Anne Coldiron Mr. & Mrs. William D. Coleman Dr. Theresa M. Coletti Mr. & Mrs. John J. Collins Ronald M. Costell, MD & Marsha E. Swiss Mr. John W. Crofts Ms. Sarah A. Davidson Ms. Jeanne De Sa Mr. Daniel De Simone & Ms. Angela Scott Ms. Christy Desmet Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. DeVincentis Prof. Frances Dolan Dr. Ross W. Duffin & Dr. Beverly J. Simmons Steve Dunn & Tom Burkhardt Ms. Roberta L. Ellington Dr. William E. Engel Ms. Margaret Ezellmainzer Mr. Gerald M. Feierstein Melody & Al Fetske Mr. Leo S. Fisher & Ms. Sue J. Duncan Ms. Tracy Fisher Ms. Alice Fitch Ms. Laurie Fletcher & Dr. Allan Fraser Ms. Patricia G. Foley & Mr. John P. Villarosa Folger Central Library Division Heather & Clinton Forsythe Ms. Ann Geracimos Jere Gibber & J.G. Harrington Donald Gilman Ms. Michelle Gluck & Dr. Walter Smith Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Goelzer Mr. Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr. & Dr. Betty J. Forman Ms. Ann V. Gordon & Mr. Martin Singer Professor Suzanne Gossett Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Haller Drs. Donna B. & Gary D. Hamilton Jill Hartman John & Cheri Hayes Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hazen Mr. Thomas Heil Patricia Henkel Ms. Cynthia Herrup June & George Higgins Mr. & Mrs. Fred Hill Prof. Peter Holland Professor Jean E. Howard
Mr. Christopher Kendall & Ms. Susan Schilperoort Wendy & Robert Kenney Ms. Erna Kerst Dr. & Mrs. Philip A. Knachel Dr. Roslyn L. Knutson Dr. Marcel C. LaFollette & Mr. Jeffrey K. Stine Dr. Douglas M. Lanier Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon Dr. Robert Lawshe Mr. Michael Lebovitz Ms. Sandy Lerner Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence H. Liden Lilly S. Lievsay Prof. Julia R. Lupton Dr. Kathleen Lynch & Mr. John C. Blaney Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Lynch Dr. Lynne Magnusson Dr. Laurie Maguire Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Mancini Mr. Winton E. Matthews, Jr. Mr. James W. McBride Ms. Catherine McClave Dr. Brian R. McNeill Beverly J. Melani & Bruce E. Walker Professor Michael J. Mendle Dr. Rogers B. Miles Theodore & Mary Eugenia Myer Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Michael & Karen O’Connell Mr. & Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin Betty Ann Ottinger Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Palmer Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Parr Mr. & Mrs. Peter Parshall Dr. Hans S. Pawlisch Linda Levy Peck Ms. Sheila J. Peters Ms. Julie Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Dr. & Mrs. Warren S. Poland V. E. Powell Mr. Eric Rasmussen Dr. Timothy Raylor & Ms. Vanessa A. Laird Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Mr. Jonathan Rich Gerd & Duncan Ritchie Peter Rose & Alicia Kershaw Dr. & Mrs. Jason P. Rosenblatt Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Saunders Prof. Barbara A. Shailor PhD & Prof. Harry W. Blair II PhD Dr. James Shapiro Mr. James Siemon Kay & George Simmons Professor Meredith Skura Dr. Richard B. Smith Marilyn & Hugh South Professor Richard E. Spear & Professor Athena Tacha Ms. Lillian D. Stephens Tom & Pat Stevens
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SUPPORTERS Mr. Douglas Struck Dr. Garrett Sullivan Dr. Patricia E. Tatspaugh Mr. John M. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. John C. Towers Ms. Kathryn M. Truex James & Carol Tsang Mr. & Mrs. James T. Turner Dr. Arina van Breda Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Van Voorhees Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. von Seelen Professor Susan R. Wabuda Mr. Christopher White Webster Ms. Judith Weintraub Professor Paul Werstine Professor Michael Winkelman Ms. Abby L. Yochelson & Mr. Wallace Mlyniec
$250‐$499
Anonymous (6) Ms. Monica Lynn Agree Mr. & Mrs. David G. Ahern Mr. Thomas Ahern Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Alexander Ms. Jerrilyn V. Andrews & Mr. Donald E. Hesse Ms. Suzanne Bakshian & Mr. Vincent A. Chiappinelli Ms. Meredith Barbour Ms. Danielle M. Beauchamp Mr. & Mrs. David M. Beckmann Ellen S. Berelson & Larry Franks Dr. Katherine Berry & Mr. Christian Buchmann Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Blackwood Ms. Mary C. Blake Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Blum Mr. James L. Blum Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Bochner Ms. Heather Boedeker Dr. Dorothy P. Boerner Mr. Henry H. Booth Professor Jackson Campbell Boswell & Mrs. Ann C. Boswell Ms. Gwen W. Brewer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Brody Mr. Stanley C. Burgess, Jr. Ms. Victoria Butler & Mr. Tim Carney Professor Charles Butterworth Mr. Timothy J. Carlton Mr. Joseph Casey & Ms. Constance Pierce Casey Ms. C. Dawn Causey Colonel & Mrs. Larry M. Cereghino Mr. Wallace W. Chandler Mr. John Chester Ms. JoAnn Clark Mr. & Mrs. Perry Cofield Linda & John Cogdill Mr. David M. Colbert Ms. Mary Cole Mr. Robert S. Cole, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Gary R. Correll Robert W. Cover II & Bonnie Lepoff Drs. John W. Cox &
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Lo‐An T. Nguyen‐Cox James & Ann Coyle Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Daniels Ms. Surekha Davies Vice Adm. Dirk J. Debbink Mr. Robin L. Dennis Drs. Alan & Cynthia Dessen Mr. Joe Dickey & Ms. Martha Blaxall M P Donovan Colleen Dougherty Dr. Terry Dwyer & Dr. Marcy F. Petrini Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Eager Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Eater Professor Lars Engle Mr. Douglas H. Erwin & Dr. Wendy Wiswall Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Farber Dr. Robert J. Fehrenbach Arthur & Shirley Fergenson Ms. Joyce Flaherty Mr. Jonathan Fleming Mr. Gregory Flowers Mr. James Forman Mr. John Franzén Mr. Douglas Freeman Ms. Nancy Frey Ms. Rhonda Friedler Mr. Roland M. Frye, Jr. & Ms. Susan M. Pettey Mr. & Mrs. William K. Frymoyer Ms. Kit Gage & Mr. Steven Metalitz Patricia Gallagher & Stephen Greenberg Mrs. Joanne Garris Mr. & Mrs. Allan Gerson Mrs. Nanette Gibbs Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Gibson Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prof. James A. Glazier Mr. Gregg H.S. Golden & Dr. Laura George Mr. Kim Z. Golden Mr. & Mrs. Michael Goldstein Mr. Federico Grau Mr. John E. Graves, RIA & Ms. Hanh Phan Sayre N. Greenfield, PhD & Linda V. Troost, PhD Mr. Bruce N. Gregory & Ms. Paula Causey Neal & Janice Gregory Janet & Christopher Griffin Ms. Maria E. Grosjean Dr. Martha Gross & Mr. Robert Tracy Mr. & Mrs. C. David Gustafson Robin Langfan & Jay M. Hammer David Hannay Ms. Joan E. Hartman Ms. Barbara W. Hazelett Robert E. Hebda Ms. Kimberly Hiebert Prof. Heather A. Hirschfeld & Prof. Anthony Welch Dr. Henry Ridgely Horsey Dr. Thomas Hudson
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Huey‐Burns Ms. Elizabeth M. Janthey Mr. & Mrs. E. Stewart Jeffries Mr. & Mrs. James Jordan Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kalb Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Kampschroeder Ms. Belinda Kane Ms. Sara W. Kane Mr. Gordon Kaplan Mr. Randall KC Kau & Ms. Elizabeth M. Olmsted Dr. Sean Keilen Sarah & David Kelly Mrs. Margot Kelly Ms. Kay Kendall & Mr. Jack Davies Ms. Caroline Kenney Andrea & Joseph Kerr Mr. Robert L. Kimmins Mr. & Mrs. James King Mr. Robert S. Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Steve Kitchen Ms. Lynne Myers Klimmer Dr. Michael Knable Ms. Kathleen Knepper Mr. James Knighton Mr. Michael Kolakowski Mr. & Mrs. George Koukourakis Edward & Kathleen Kovach Kim & Elizabeth Kowalewski Mr. Richard Krasnow Mr. Barry Kropf Ms. Sarah Kyrouac Mr. & Mrs. David J. Lacki Col. Denny Lane & Ms. Naoko Aoki Mr. David W. Lankford Drs. Douglas & Janet Laube Professor Maurice Dupont Lee Mr. Zachary Lesser Mr. Ross Lindholm Dr. Calvin C. Linnemann & Rev. Patricia G. Linnemann Joseph & Sonya Livingston Mr. & Mrs. Jan Lodal Ms. Linda Lohse Wes MacAdam Mr. Carl Mahoney Dr. Deborah L. Malkovich & Dr. William Freimuth Ms. Allison Mankin & Dr. Jim Carton Mr. Tom Manteuffel & Ms. Rachel Manteuffel Dr. Lewis Markoff & Dr. Caroline Samuels Dr. Steven W. May Ms. Susan McCloskey Dr. Richard McCoy Mr. Patrick McGraw Marilyn & Charles McMillion Ms. Nancy Elizabeth Meiners Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Miller Mrs. Ina J. Millsaps Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey C. Morell Mr. E. James Morton & Ms. Matthild C. Schneider Professor Chandra Mukerji Mr. & Mrs. Tam Murray Mr. & Mrs. Eric & Nancy Nelkin
SUPPORTERS Mr. Kevin Nettesheim Mr. Mike Newton & Dr. Linda Werling Ms. Mary L. Noonan Mr. Joe M. Norton Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Olexson Ms. Sharon N. Ollison Mr. & Mrs. David M. Osnos Ms. Patricia J. Overmeyer Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Mr. & Mrs. Kevin L. Pearson Mr. Thomas Perry Dr. & Mrs. Joram Piatigorsky Mr. & Mrs. James S. Polk Dr. Lois Potter Drs. Maria T. & Thomas A. Prendergast Mr. Woodruff M. Price Mr. Terry Quist Mr. Daniel L. Rabinowitz Mr. Henry Raine Robert Ramsey & Elizabeth Brown Mr. & Mrs. Erik M. Rasmussen John & Barbara Ratigan Earl & Carol Ravenal Mr. Peter S. Reichertz Ms. Carol Reitz Mr. Philip J. Reynolds Dr. Alice Riginos Ms. Lauren G. Roberts & Mr. Juan E. Sanchez Winnie & Alexander Robinson Mr. Peter Rogen Ms. Emily Rose & Mr. James H. Marrow Ms. Janet A. Sanderson Mr. Stephen R. Saph Jr. Dr. Joan Saxton Professor Moses S. Schanfield Drs. Alan N. & Geraldine P. Schechter Mr. Eugene Schied Ms. Jamie Schlessman Lt. Gen Robt E Schmidle, Jr., USMC (ret) and Pamela E. Schmidle Mr. Kurt R. Schwarz & Ms. Patsy G. Kennan Ms. Rita L. Schwarz Mr. D. Stanton Sechler Professor & Mrs. Mortimer Sellers Dr. Sherry Wood Shuman & Mr. Philip B. Shuman Mr. Elliott Simon Dr. Bruce R. Smith Ms. Laura Smith Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Sollinger Mr. Gerald Southern Ms. Carol Sox Mr. Steve Spaulding & Dr. Alicen B Spaulding Robert Staples & Barbara Fahs Charles Mr. & Mrs. Albert P. Stauderman Ms. Cathleen Ann Steg & Mr. Schuyler E. Schell Mr. Daniel Steiner Ms. Victoria Steuerwalt Mr. Robert Stoddart Dr. James Waller Stone
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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 (3) Professor Judith H. Anderson Ms. Doris E. Austin Dr. Carol Barton Professor Jackson Campbell Boswell Dr. Norma Broude & Dr. Mary D. Garrard William J Camarinos Professor Carmen A. Casís Florence and Neal S. Cohen Ms. Mary Cole The Honorable Esther Coopersmith Drs. John W. Cox & Lo‐An T. Nguyen‐Cox Dr. James R. & Mrs. Rachel B. Dankert Mr. Douglas Evans Susan Fawcett & Richard Donovan Christine M. Feinthel 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 Lizabeth Staursky Hurst Maxine Isaacs Bruce Janacek Mrs. Robert J.T. Joy Andi H. Kasarsky Paul & Margaret Kaufman 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 Ken Ludwig & Adrienne George Dr. Nancy Klein Maguire Mark McConnell & Leslie Delagran Pam McFarland & Brian Hagenbuch Roger & Robin Millay Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Jennifer Newton Dr. Jessie Ann Owens 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 Richard E. Spear & Athena Tacha Spear Robin Swope Ednajane Truax Neal T. Turtell Scott & Liz Vance Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan Barbara Wainscott Dr. Barbara A. Wanchisen Dr. Richard M. Waugaman, MD & Elisabeth P. Waugaman, PhD Professor R L Widmann George W. Williams The Honorable Karen Hastie Williams Dr. Georgianna Ziegler *Deceased 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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