Love's Labor's Lost Playbill by Peter Eramo

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William Shakespeare

Scenic Design

Lee Savage*

Original Music and Sound Design

Lindsay Jones*

Folger Casting

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David Polk General Manager Charles Flye Production Manager

Directed by

Vivienne Benesch†

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Tracy Christensen*

Colin K. Bills*

Michele Osherow

Eisenberg/Beans Casting

Resident Dramaturg

New York Casting

Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Julia Singer**

Jessica Short**

†Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society *Member of United Scenic Artists **Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Open-captioned Performance Sponsors Vinton and Sigrid Cerf

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FROM THE DIRECTOR I was thrilled by the invitation to

direct Love’s Labor’s Lost here at the Folger. I have loved the play ever since I performed in a production of it in 1995, where I was transported by the ambition of its linguistic gymnastics, the big-heartedness of Shakespeare’s emerging worldview, the play’s charm, and all its endearing imperfections. Over twenty years later, I am still moved by all these elements, and I have loved reencountering the play from a director’s point of view, with a significantly more mature understanding of what love has to teach us.

When Artistic Producer Janet Griffin gave me a tour of the Folger, she walked me into the Paster Reading Room, and it took about three minutes before I turned to her and said, “Well, this is our Navarre!” A place of great reverence for learning, particularly dedicated to the use of Shakespeare as a “living art,” the Folger celebrates one of history’s greatest teachers of the human condition and his unparalleled use of language to understand that condition. As I began my research, I learned that the Folger had opened its

doors in 1932, and another “aha” moment occurred: the opportunity to set our production in the era of the Depression—a disconsolate period that begged for buoyancy, that was rife with the desire for both political and personal betterment (the New Deal was imminent), that was poised for women’s individuation, and which generated a popular culture that delighted in verbal repartee. This need to be transported out of our present situation, to escape from a tumultuous, seemingly hopeless social climate, is all too familiar to us today.

And so we travel now together to a gentler, more antic version of spring in DC . . . Enjoy!

–Vivienne Benesch

Learn more from Vivienne Benesch at the Stage Director Talk on May 2 at 6:30pm. Tickets are $15.

FROM THE DRAMATURG Because Love’s Labor’s Lost is one of Shakespeare’s early (some say very early) plays, there are those who might excuse, or worse, dismiss it. But that loss would be even more unfortunate than the loss announced in the play’s title. Critical attention to Love’s Labor’s Lost frequently emphasizes the play’s anticipation of later and, presumably, more beloved comedies such as Much Ado About Nothing or As You Like It. But this earlier work, generally dated between 1594-96, is shot through with surprising singularity. Like the swanky men of Navarre who open the action, the playtext seems keen to flex its literary muscle and “buy that honor which shall…make [it heir] of all eternity.”

Shakespeare rhymes more verses in this play than in any other—so much so that unrhymed text was flagged for significance by this poetically savvy cast. In Love’s Labor’s, the playwright outdoes himself in mocking literary trends: Petrarchan conventions and courtly matter are among those hardest hit. Compelling, too, is the way Love’s Labor’s subverts expectations of comedy without venturing into the murky discomfort of the later “problem plays.” There is no problem in Navarre that may not be solved by a quick turn of phrase or the swift foot of time. The play’s loving laborers are steeped in optimism and boyish aplomb. Wit fuels every action. If there is a touch 6

of the unseasoned in this work, it comes from the play’s confusion of linguistic ingenuity for bona fide affection.

Language is as much the matter of Love’s Labor’s as love itself. As William C. Carroll writes in the essay excerpted in this program, “the pun…is the linguistic DNA” of this work. The King and his lords dazzle with clever wordplay, twisting one another’s meaning at dizzying speed like a lexical ball spun on one finger. These rhetorical giants are too clever by half. Throughout the play, across class and gender, language is everyone’s playground. All recognize the pleasures to be had in using, coining, riffing, commanding, or lampooning others’ words. It is the simple Costard, rather than the aspiring scholars or their tutor, who uses the longest word found in all of Shakespeare: honorificabilitudinitatibus, from medieval Latin meaning “the state of being able to achieve honor.” Costard uses it in conversation with a mere boy, confirming their mutual access to honor. Language is evermore the great equalizer. Small wonder then that such a play should be presented within these Folger walls. Director Vivienne Benesch’s inspired choice to recreate the Folger’s Paster Reading Room on stage winks an approval of

both the enterprise to which the would-be scholars vow their service and tenderness of feeling that distracts them from it. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant describes the story of Henry and Emily Folger as “a double love story,” one romantic, the other literary.

Setting this production in the early 1930s (the Library opened in 1932), complements the Folgers’ passion for Shakespeare as a source of faith and hope. In Love’s Labor’s, Navarre’s King makes clear his aim to cultivate “a little academe/Still and contemplative in living art.” Though the early ‘30s saw America in the devastation of the Great Depression, the period gave rise to all manner of “living art.” During that time, the Public Works of Art Project and the more expansive Federal Art Project commissioned work from more than 10,000 artists charged with integrating art into Americans’ daily lives. Many artists taught in educational art centers, also sponsored by the FAP. Art was an essential source, in those hard times, of relief, community and learning. The young men in this play are neither still nor contemplative long enough to find this out, distracted by the arrival of the whip-smart French Princess and her lively companions. Berowne justifies the exchange of rare books for rarer beauty, insisting that “women’s eyes” provide whatever education

men need: “They are…the books, the arts, the academes,/That show, contain and nourish all the world.” It’s a stunning sentiment, and true enough if those ladies’ eyes are kept busy in a library, especially one devoted to turning old texts into living art, inside its walls and beyond them. –Michele Osherow

SYNOPSIS

In Love’s Labor’s Lost, the comedy centers on four young men who fall in love against their wills. The men, one of them the King of Navarre, pledge to study for three years, avoiding all contact with women. When the Princess of France arrives on a state visit, the King insists that she and her ladies camp outside the court. Even so, each young man falls in love with one of the ladies. Meanwhile, Don Armado, a Spanish soldier, falls for a servant girl, Jaquenetta. Costard mixes up two letters he is to deliver, one from Armado to Jaquenetta and the other from Berowne, one of the King’s companions, to Rosaline, one of the French ladies.

The men confess to each other that they are in love and devise a pageant for the ladies, who set a trap for them by exchanging their identifying markers. When word comes that the Princess’s father is dead, the ladies reject the men’s proposals as rash and impose a year’s delay before any further wooing. –Folger Digital Texts

FROM THE FOLGER EDITIONS

PRODUCTION CREDITS Assistant Technical Director Assistant Director Production Assistant Text and Voice Coach Dramaturgical Intern Set Construction Props Master Hair Designer Assistant Costume Designer Wardrobe Head Assistant Lighting Designer Master Electrician Assistant Master Electrician Sound Engineer For Eisenberg/Beans Casting Casting Intern Graphic Design & Ad Agency 2019/20 Graphic Design & Ad Agency Marketing Design Consultant Promotional and Production Photography Promotional Video Archival Video Open Captioning

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Acknowledgements: The Asolo Theater, Cleveland Play House, Beth DeBold, Goodspeed Opera House, Great Lakes Theater, The Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage, Taylor Johnson, Carol Kutzer, Milwaukee Rep, James Rostron and St. Marks Episcopal Church, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Kristen Sweick, TDF Costume Collection, Jjana Valentiner, Washington National Opera, 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. 16

CAST

(in alphabetical order)

Josh Adams Tonya Beckman* Louis Butelli* Matt Dallal Zachary Fine* Megan Graves* Eric Hissom* Yesenia Iglesias Edmund Lewis* Amelia Pedlow* Kelsey Rainwater* Joshua David Robinson* Susan Rome* Jack Schmitt Chani Wereley

Dull, Marcade Boyet, Jaquenetta Holofernes Longaville Berowne Mote Don Armado Maria Costard Princess of France Rosaline King of Navarre Nathaniel Dumaine Katherine

Understudies

Matt Dallal (Berowne) Fabiolla da Silva (Boyet, Jaquenetta, and

Nathaniel)

Danielle Gallo (Mote) John Floyd (Dumaine and Longaville) Yesenia Iglesias (Rosaline)

Melanie Lawrence (Maria and Katherine) Seamus Miller (Don Armado and

Holofernes)

Jack Novak (Costard, Dull, and Marcade) Jack Schmitt (King of Navarre) Chani Wereley (Princess of France)

*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.

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CAST

Josh Adams

Dull, Marcade Theater J: Trayf, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…; Theater Alliance: The Events, The Raid; Mosaic Theater: The Agitators, Hooded, Or Being Black for Dummies; Rorschach Theatre: REYKJAVIK; Keegan Theatre: American Buffalo (Ireland Tour), An Irish Carol, A Few Good Men (Ireland Tour); We Happy Few Productions: Henry V, Chalk, The Tempest; Everyman Theatre: An Inspector Calls; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Appropriate; Live Art DC: The Merry Death of Robin Hood, R+J Star-Crossed Death Match; Scena Theatre: The Cripple of Inishmaan; Studio Theatre: The Big Meal; 1st Stage: The Cripple of Inishmaan. Film: Dinner with the Alchemist, Geographically Desirable, The Coming Storm.

Tonya Beckman

Boyet, Jaquenetta Folger Theatre: The Second Shepherds’ Play, Twelfth Night, The Gaming Table, As You Like It, The Game of Love and Chance; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Love’s Labor’s Lost, Lady Windermere’s Fan, School for Lies; Arena Stage: Age of Innocence; Round House Theatre: Crime and Punishment, Alice (Helen Hayes ensemble nomination), A Wrinkle in Time; Olney Theatre Center: The Millionairess, Rancho Mirage; The Kennedy Center: American Scrapbook, Unleashed, Shear Madness; Studio Theatre: The Internationalist, The Long Christmas Ride Home; Theater J: Jewish Queen Lear, Mikveh, Yellow Face; Ford’s Theatre: Sabrina Fair; Mosaic Theatre Company: After the War; Constellation Theatre: Skin of Our Teeth (Helen Hayes lead actress nomination); Forum Theatre: Passion Play; many roles at Taffety Punk Theatre Company (company member). Regional theaters include work at: Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse, Fulton Theatre, Totem Pole Playhouse, Public Theatre of Maine, Purple Rose Theatre, Human Race Theatre. tonyabeckman.com

Louis Butelli

Holofernes Folger Theatre: Davenant’s Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Gravedigger’s Tale, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar (2014, 2000), Twelfth Night (Helen Hayes nomination), Henry V, Henry VIII (Helen Hayes Award), Othello; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Taming of the Shrew. Regional theaters include work at: Hartford Stage, American Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival. OffBroadway: Sleep No More, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, Agamemnon, Othello, Twelfth Night; The New Victory Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; 47th St. Theater and Ars Nova: CYCLOPS: A Rock Opera (also director, cowriter, NYMF Award, Pulitzer Jury nomination, 3 LA Weekly Award nominations). Television: The Knick, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Unusuals, All My Children, Benders. @louisbutelli

Matt Dallal

Longaville Regional: Living Room Theatre: Lucy Caldwell’s Three Sisters, Adam & Evie; Riverside Repertory Theater: The Pirates of Penzance, West Side Story; The Candlelight Pavilion: Spamalot. Cruise Line: Disney Magic, Tangled, Twice Charmed, Disney Dreams. Concert: Second Stage: Saturday Night.

Zachary Fine

Berowne Folger Theatre: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Helen Hayes Award). As an actor: Regional: includes work at The Guthrie Theatre, Playmakers Rep among others. OffBroadway: includes work at The Acting Company, The Mint Theater, The Pearl Theatre, Red Bull Theatre Company, Fiasco, Theater For A New Audience, and New York Classical Theater. Broadway: China Doll.

Television and film: Person of Interest, BlackBox, One Life to Live. As a director: Teatro Helenico: El Bien Del Pais (Our Country’s Good) (Spanish language premiere); Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Key West Theater; Thin Air Shakespeare Festival, Birdland: Between The Moon and Me. As a writer: The Lark, EAT Festival’s One Man Talking, Space on Ryder Farm, IRT, The Acting Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and Playmakers Rep. Teacher of clowning and games at NYU.

Megan Graves

Mote Folger Theatre: King John, The Second Shepherds’ Play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Gloria; Arena Stage: The Great Society, The Little Foxes; Olney Theatre Center: Oil (American Premiere); Studio Theatre: Translations; Constellation Theater 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.

Eric Hissom

Don Armado Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale, Timon of Athens, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Cyrano, Arcadia (Helen Hayes Award), Macbeth; Round House Theatre Company: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Actors Theatre of Louisville: Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged); Asolo Repertory Theatre: Glengarry Glen Ross, The Game’s Afoot; Arden Theatre Company: Our Town, August: Osage County; Milwaukee Repertory Theater: Eurydice; Two River Theater Company: Melissa Arctic; Syracuse Stage: Around the World in Eighty Days; Cape Playhouse: The Mystery of Irma Vep; Orlando Shakespeare Theater: Much Ado

About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Private Lives, Art, Wittenberg. Off-Broadway: New York Fringe Festival: China–The Whole Enchilada. National Tour: The 39 Steps. Film: Out of Time. Television: Mortal Kombat, Sheena, One Tree Hill.

Yesenia Iglesias

Maria Signature Theatre: Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity; Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Round House Theatre: The Legend of Georgia McBride; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Hamlet, King Charles III; Constellation Theatre Company: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Arabian Nights; Imagination Stage: The Smartest Girl in the World, Óyeme, the beautiful; Source Festival: Buried Cities; Seattle Children’s Theatre: Mwindo; Theatre 22: Water by the Spoonful; Side Country Theatre: Passing Strange; Shakespeare Miami: Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew.

Edmund Lewis

Costard Folger Theatre: Saint Joan. Regional: McCarter Theatre: Bedlam’s Hamlet/Saint Joan; American Repertory Theatre: The Tempest. Off-Broadway: Bedlam: Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet, Pygmalion, Peter Pan, Saint Joan, New York Animals, Sense & Sensibility, Twelfth Night, What You Will, Hamlet/Saint Joan. Film: Have You Seen Calvin, Marriage & Other Tragedies.

Amelia Pedlow

Princess of France Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Metromanics, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice. Regional: The Guthrie: Playing with Fire; The Hangar: Fortune; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Pride and Prejudice, The General from America;

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CAST

The Old Globe: Red Velvet, Metromanics; La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, and Huntington Theatre Company: Ether Dome; Denver Center: The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet, The Liar; Cleveland Playhouse: Legacy of Light; Virginia Stage: The Diary of Anne Frank. Off-Broadway: Red Bull Theatre Company: The Metromanics, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Primary Stages: Pride and Prejudice; Classic Stage Company: The Liar, The Heir Apparent; The Pearl: You Never Can Tell. Television: The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Shades of Blue, The Blacklist.

Kelsey Rainwater

Rosaline Shakespeare Theatre Company: Macbeth, Hamlet; Regional: Capital Repertory Theater: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley; The Flea: Blanket of Dust; Pioneer Theatre Company: Twelfth Night; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Three Musketeers. International: Sam Wanamaker Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Television: Broad City, Elementary.

Joshua David Robinson

King of Navarre Arena Stage: JQA; African Continuum Theatre: Blues for an Alabama Sky. Regional: PlayMakers Repertory: Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Libby Appel’s Three Sisters; Cleveland Playhouse: All the Way; The Guthrie: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Macbeth. Off-Broadway: Theatre at St. Clement’s and The New Victory Theater: X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation; Cherry Lane Theatre: The Convent of Pleasure; 59E59 Theatres: Sense of an Ending; Theatre for a New Audience: Twelfth Night; The New Victory Theater: Julius Caesar.

Susan Rome

Nathaniel Arena Stage: Indecent (Helen Hayes ensemble nomination), The Great Society, All the Way; Studio Theatre: If I Forget (Helen Hayes nomination), Hand to God (Helen Hayes nomination); Theater J: Roz and Ray, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Helen Hayes Award), After the Revolution (Helen Hayes nomination), and many other plays; Olney Theatre Center: The Diary of Anne Frank; Baltimore Center Stage: Indecent, After the Revolution, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Mud Blue Sky, An Enemy of the People; Kansas City Repertory Theatre: Indecent, and many other plays. Film: Fishbowl, My One and Only, A Dirty Shame. Television: House of Cards, The Wire. susanrome.com

Jack Schmitt

Dumaine Regional: American Players Theatre: As You Like It, The Recruiting Officer, Measure for Measure; Actors Theatre of Louisville: Dracula, A Christmas Carol, The Tens, You Across From Me; Children’s Theater of Madison: A Christmas Carol; Beck Center for the Arts: Really Really.

Chani Wereley

Katherine Constellation Theatre Company: Aida; Keegan Theatre: American Idiot (Helen Hayes nomination), Dogfight; NextStop Theatre Company: Godspell; Monumental Theatre Company: Pippin (Helen Hayes nomination), Bonnie and Clyde; Red Branch Theatre Company: The Bridges of Madison County. chaniwereley.com

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CREATIVE TEAM Vivienne Benesch

Director PlayMakers Repertory Company: Producing Artistic Director since 2016: Galileo, Leaving Eden, Mr. Joy, The May Queen, The Three Sisters, Love Alone, RED, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Chautauqua Theater Company and Conservatory: Artistic Director for 12 seasons: Romeo and Juliet, Amadeus, among over 20 others as director or actor. Additional work at other regional theaters includes The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Trinity Repertory Company. Winner of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s Zelda Fichandler Award, 2017. As an actor, Vivienne has received an OBIE award and performed on and off Broadway, as well as at many of the great regional theaters in the country including Major Barbara and Henry V at Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Lee Savage

Scenic Design Shakespeare Theatre Company: Richard III (Helen Hayes nomination), Tamburlaine the Great, Edward II, Henry V, Richard II, Much Ado About Nothing (Helen Hayes Award), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helen Hayes nomination), The Tempest, Twelfth Night (Helen Hayes Award); Washington National Opera: La Boheme; Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Studio Theatre: Between Riverside and Crazy; Signature Theatre: Little Dog Laughed, La Cage Aux Folles, Passion. New York and Off-Broadway: The Acting Company: Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation; Theatreworks USA: Dr. Doolittle, The Lightning Thief; Labyrinth Theater Company: Muscles in Our Toes, Sunset Baby, Thinner Than Water; The Women’s Project: Collapse; LCT3: AllAmerican; Roundabout: The Dream of the Burning Boy, Ordinary Days; Atlantic Theater Company: Oohrah!; Clubbed Thumb: punkplay. Regional theaters include work at: Asolo Repertory Theatre, Chautauqua Theater Company, Dallas Theater Center, The Glimmerglass Festival, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, The Wilma Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, and others.

Tracy Christensen

Costume Design Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Boys From Syracuse, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Rock Opera; The Kennedy Center: My Fair Lady, Regina, Camelot; Merry-GoRound Playhouse: Anne of Green Gables (Syracuse Area Live Theater Awards nomination); Goodspeed: Guys & Dolls (Connecticut Critics Circle Award nomination); Great Lakes Theater: Mamma Mia! (Cleveland Critics Circle Award). Broadway: Souvenir, Sunset Boulevard; Chautauqua Theatre Company for 10 seasons. Off-Broadway: Cherry Lane Theatre: Pride and Prejudice; Pearl Theatre Company: Major Barbara; Lucille Lortel Theatre: Seussical The Musical (Lucille Lortel Award nomination). English National Opera: Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd. Concerts: Carnegie Hall: Candide; Avery Fisher Hall: Company; Ravinia: Gypsy. Faculty: SUNY Purchase. tracychristensen.com

Colin K. Bills

Lighting Design Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: An Octoroon, Stupid F***ing Bird, The Convert, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, A Bright New Boise, Oedipus el Rey, Clybourne Park, Dead Man’s Cell Phone; dog & pony dc: A Killing Game, Beertown, Courage and Punch…that’s the way we do it. Regional theaters include work at: Arena Stage, The Berkshire Theater Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Everyman Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Forum Theatre, Imagination Stage, Intiman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Marin Theatre Company, Metro Stage, Olney Theatre Center, Opera Lafayette, Opéra Royal Versailles, Portland Center Stage, Round House Theatre, The Smithsonian, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Synetic Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Theater J, The Washington Revels, The Wilma Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Winner of three Helen Hayes Awards and recipient of a Princess Grace Fellowship in Theater. Training: Dartmouth. colinkbills.com

CREATIVE TEAM Lindsay Jones

Original Music and Sound Design Folger Theatre: King John, The Tempest. Regional theaters include work at: South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre, The Old Globe, Steppenwolf, Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Chicago Shakespeare, Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Lookingglass, many others. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: Privacy, Kings; Playwrights Horizons: Mankind, Bootycandy; Primary Stages: Rx; New York Theatre Workshop: Top Secret; many others. Broadway: The Nap, Bronx Bombers, A Time To Kill. International: Royal Shakespeare Company: Henry IV, parts 1 & 2; Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada): Titus Andronicus. Film/TV scoring: The Brass Teapot for Magnolia Pictures; A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2006 Academy Award Winner) for HBO Films. Awards: 7 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: Nell Gwynn, King John, Davenant’s Macbeth, Saint Joan, 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, 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, Macbeth, 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: Nell Gwynn, King John, 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. Broadway: Gettin’ The Band Back Together. Off-Broadway: Baghdaddy, That Bachelorette Show, The Anthem, Around…80 Days, Altar Boyz, Bedlam’s Pygmalion, and more. Regional and other: Bedlam: Saint Joan/Hamlet on tour (played at Folger Theatre), 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 and Television: Cheerleader, Evol, Chandler, Camp, Mulligan. Partners: Daryl Eisenberg, CSA and Ally Beans, CSA. Casting for film, theater, television, commercials, and new media. ebcastingco.com @EBCastingCo

Julia Singer

Production Stage Manager Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale; Ford’s Theatre: 12 Angry Men, Born Yesterday, Jefferson’s Garden, Death of a Salesman, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 110 in the Shade, A Christmas Carol, The Guard, Freedom’s Song, Driving Miss Daisy; The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences: How to Catch a Star, Elephant and Piggie: We are in a Play!, Me…Jane. The Juilliard School: This Is Our Youth, The Seagull, Cymbeline, A Little Night Music, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, You Are Here.

Jessica Short

Assistant Stage Manager Folger Theatre: Nell Gwynn, King John, Davenant’s 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

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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 Clay and Emily Jordan 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, with 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.

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 148 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 Confection with Third Rail Projects. 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 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.

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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 Leonor Fernandez, Serena Kemp, Nevaeh McBeth, Public Programs Interns Manna-Symone Middlebrooks, Casting Assistant Heather Newhouse, Patron Services Manager Esther Young, Interim Audience Services Manager Lizzy Andrew, DJ Batchelor, RenĂŠe Beaver, Ryan Driscoll, Kate Gifford, Kaiya Lyons, Allison Marino, John Royals, House Managers David Mozur, Folger Consort Manager Teri Cross Davis, Poetry Coordinator Grace Ann Roberts, Humanities Program 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

Marianne Wald, Box Office Manager Grace Murtha, Box Office Lead Associate 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 Manager

DIVISION OF EDUCATION Corinne Viglietta, Assistant Director of Education Kate Long, Visitor Education Programs Manager Katharine Dvorak, Education Project Manager Heather Newsom, Manager of Teacher and Student Programs 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 Gabrielle Canning, Casual Development Sumana Chatterjee, Senior Development Officer Leslie Gehring, Senior Manager, Development Services Coordinator Anne M. McKiterick, Development Associate for Major Gifts Cari Romeu Mozur, Associate Director of Development Michael Reddy, Development Associate for Institutional Giving Rachael Dealy Salisbury, Senior Development Officer for Planned and Major Gifts Ari Silber, Senior Development Officer for Corporate and Foundation Relations Elizabeth Stevens, Manager, Membership and Individual Giving DIRECTORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S OFFICE Brian Rothbart, Executive Assistant to the Director Allison Theveny, Administrative Assistant INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Matt Bogen, Head of Information Technology Deontre Hayes, IT Systems & Support Specialist Luis Sato, Systems Engineer Stephanie Svoboda, Tessitura Administrator

Building on the legacy of Henry and Emily Folger, the Folger Shakespeare Library will construct a new pavilion to share our peerless collection with 21st-century audiences. New engaging galleries and inviting public spaces will make our exhibitions more accessible and expand our reach. The Wonder of Will campaign will raise $50 million to support this effort as well as the many programs that bring Shakespeare and his world to life.

The reimagined west garden and accessible entry plaza to the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rendering by KieranTimberlake, architects.

For more information about The Wonder of Will, please visit www.folger.edu/wow or contact the Advancement Office at 202.548.0303.

CAMPAIGN DONORS We proudly recognize and acknowledge the individuals and foundations who have generously made philanthropic commitments of $25,000 or more as of April 3, 2019

$5 Million +

Stuart and Mimi Rose

$2,500,000 to $4,999,999

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

$1,000,000 to $2,499,999

Anonymous (2) Vinton and Sigrid Cerf Florence and Neal Cohen The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Susan Sachs Goldman Maxine Isaacs J. May Liang and James Lintott Neal T. Turtell

$500,000 to $999,999

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Louis and Bonnie Cohen The Honorable Eugene and Dr. Carol Ludwig

Sara Miller McCune Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II Share Fund

$250,000 to $499,999

Jeffrey P. Cunard and Mariko Ikehara Margaret and David Gardner Wyatt and Susan Haskell

Derek and Leora Kaufman Jacqueline Badger Mars Gail Kern Paster

$100,000 to $249,000

Anonymous D. Jarrett and Nora Arp Dr. Bill and Evelyn Braithwaite Marcus Coles Nicky Cymrot Maygene and Steve Daniels Denise Gwyn Ferguson Stephen H. Grant

The Hearst Foundations Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel Arthur F. Kinney Ken Ludwig and Adrienne George The Estate of Herman J. Obermayer Loren and Frances Rothschild Paul Smith and Michael Dennis

$50,000 to $99,999

Philip Deutch and Marne Levine William L. Hopkins John and Connie McGuire Peter and Mary Jay Michel The Estate of Barbara Mowat Darcy and Andrew Nussbaum

Lois Green Schwoerer Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Small Scott and Liz Vance Nyla and Gerry Witmore, Drs. Kellie Robertson and Michael Witmore

$25,000 to $49,999

Anonymous Keith and Celia Arnaud Judith Areen and Richard Cooper Rebecca Bushnell and John Toner Twiss and Patrick Butler

Heather and Dick Cass Peter and Rose Edwards William and Louisa Newlin Deneen Howell and Donald Vieira Laura Yerkovich and John Winkler

FOLGER THEATRE SPONSORS

THANK YOU TO OUR MOST GENEROUS GALA SPONSORS

Lead Sponsors Vinton and Sigrid Cerf Florence and Neal Cohen Susan Sachs Goldman J. May Liang and James Lintott Prime Sponsors The Honorable Eugene and Dr. Carol Ludwig Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Globe, USA Stuart and Mimi Rose 28

SUPPORTERS Additional support for Folger Theatre comes from:

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 Theatre Programs Endowment

With special thanks to the family and friends of Lily St. John McKee (19872015), recognizing the creation of the Lily St. John McKee Memorial Fund.

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 March 16, 2018 and March 15, 2019.

William S. Abell Foundation, Inc. American Friends of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Inc. B. H. Breslauer Foundation The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Capitol Hill Community Foundation Anthony & Anna L. Carozza Foundation Clark-Winchcole Foundation The Dallas Morse Coors 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 Delaplaine Foundation, Inc. Dimick Foundation Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Lorraine S. Dreyfuss Theatre Education Fund The Lee & Juliet Folger Fund John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust The Helen Clay Frick Foundation The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Gilbane Building Company/ Emre Ozcan Graham Holdings

William Randolph Hearst Foundations Heinz Family Foundation Mark and Carol Hyman Fund JFW, Inc. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts KieranTimberlake Lannan Foundation Lawrence Family Foundation The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation Mars Foundation The Mosaic Foundation (of R. & P. Heydon) National Capital Arts & Cultural Affairs Program & the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts OLIN Overseas Hardwoods Company The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Pine Tree Foundation of New York Queen’s University Belfast The Nora Roberts Foundation Nadia Sophie Seiler Memorial Fund Shakespeare’s Globe, USA Shakspere Society of Philadelphia Share Fund The Shubert Foundation Tillotson Design Associates Weissberg Foundation

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 March 16, 2018 and March 15, 2019.

$50,000+

Anonymous Dr. Bill & Evelyn Braithwaite Vinton & Sigrid Cerf Florence & Neal Cohen Mr. Marcus Coles Jeffrey P. Cunard & Mariko Ikehara Philip Deutch & Marne Levine Denise Gwyn Ferguson Margaret & David Gardner Dr. Stephen H. Grant & Ms. Abigail B. Wiebenson William L. Hopkins Derek & Leora Kaufman Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel J. May Liang & James Lintott The Honorable Eugene & Dr. Carol Ludwig Ken Ludwig & Adrienne George Sara Miller McCune Peter & Mary Jay Michel Estate of Barbara Mowat Stuart & Mimi Rose Loren & Frances Rothschild

Paul Smith & Michael Dennis Scott & Liz Vance

$25,000-$49,999

Judith Areen & Richard Cooper Keith & Celia Arnaud Twiss & Patrick Butler Heather & Dick Cass Louis & Bonnie Cohen Susan Sachs Goldman Roger & Robin Millay William & Louisa Newlin Nyla & William G. Witmore

$15,000 -$24,999

Maygene & Steve Daniels Emily & Michael Eig The Honorable John D. Macomber Jacqueline Badger Mars J.C. & Mary McElveen Gail Kern Paster Mr. & Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II Neal T. Turtell Drs. Kellie Robertson & Michael Witmore

$10,000-$14,999

Anonymous Peter Andrews D. Jarrett & Nora Arp The Honorable Matthew Barzun & Mrs. Brooke Barzun Nicky Cymrot Miguel & Patricia Estrada Mr. & Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Nancy & Steve Howard Deneen Howell & Donald Vieira Mr. Lewis E. Lehrman Nancy Klein Maguire, Folger scholar Leander & Stephanie McCormick-Goodhart John & Connie McGuire Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Small

$5,000-$9,999

Anonymous (3) Ms. Gigi Bradford & Mr. Jim Stanford Ms. Judith Matthews Craig Peter & Rose Edwards Melody & Al Fetske Ruth Hansen & Lawrence Plotkin Wyatt R. & Susan N. Haskell John & Meg Hauge Mr. Ken Hitz & Ms. Liselott Liungman Maxine Isaacs Dr. David E. Johnson & Ms. Wendy Frieman Andrea “Andi” Kasarsky Arthur & Yvonne Koenig Mr. Michael Lebovitz & Ana Paludi Mark McConnell & Leslie Delagran Gail Orgelfinger & Charles Hanna Mrs. Frank Perdue Mr. Ben Reiter & Mrs. Alice Goldman Reiter

SUPPORTERS Louis B. Thalheimer & Juliet A. Eurich Tara Ghoshal Wallace Margaret Whitehead Nicole & Steve Winard Ellen & Bernard Young

$2,500-$4,999

Anonymous (3) Gary Abrecht D. James Baker & Emily Lind Baker Mr. & Mrs. David G. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Brown Howard M. Brown Rebecca Bushnell & John Toner Mr. William J Camarinos Porter & Lisa Dawson Barbra Eaton & Ed Salners Rose & John Eberhardt Abbey S. & Kenneth M. Fagin Mr. Gary Ford & Ms. Nancy Ebb The Honorable Constance B. Harriman & The Honorable Edward Whitfield Mr. David H. Hofstad Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois & Mr. Christopher E. DuBois Rick Kasten Richard & Jane Levy Mrs. Peter Lockwood Sandra Lotterman David & Lenka Lundsten Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Lyon Julianna Mahley Pam McFarland & Brian Hagenbuch Martin & Elaine Miller Jane & Paul Molloy Ann K. Morales Terence R. Murphy, O.B.E. & Patricia Sherman Murphy Dr. Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff Dr. Klaus Nehring Carolyn & Mark Olshaker Craig Pascal & Victor Shargai Mrs. Jacqueline L. Quillen Whayne & Ursula Quin Dr. Markley Roberts Susan & Frank Salinger Howard Shapiro & Shirley Brandman David Smith & Ilene Weinreich Mr. Murry Stegelmann Robert J. & Tina M. Tallaksen Ms. Ruth Taylor Kidd Mary Augusta & George D. Thomas Diane Tipton Bradt & David Bradt Tessa van der Willigen & Jonathan Walters Toby & Stacie Webb Gail Weinmann & Nathan Billig Professor R L Widmann Peter & Ingrid Willson Ms. Louisa Woodville & Mr. Nigel R. Ogilvie Mr. David Zapolsky & Ms. Lynn Hubbard

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Zarr

$1,000-$2,499

Anonymous (6) John & Nancy Abeles Esthy & Jim Adler Bess & Greg Ballentine Ms. Lisa U. Baskin Richard D. Batchelder, Jr. Ms. Margaret A. Bauer & Mr. Lane Heard Mr. James Baxter Mr. Brent James Bennett Dr. James E. Bernhardt & Ms. Beth C. Bernhardt Colonel & Mrs. Lance J. Burton Susan & Dixon Butler Ian Cameron & Susan Rice Ms. Mary Cole & Mr. Richard Moriarty Mr. Mark D. Colley & Ms. Deborah A. Harsch Mr. Eric Cooper Dr. & Mrs. Herbert L. Cooper Estate of Victor V. Dahl Dr. & Mrs. William Davis Ms. Dorothea W. Dickerman & Mr. Richard Kevin Becker Mr. Donald Dinan Natalie Marie (née Hughes) Diorio Mr. John F. Downey Dr. Ross W. Duffin & Dr. Beverly J. Simmons Marjorie & Anthony Elson Mrs. John Eustice Mr. Donald Farrow Charles Fendig & Maria Fisher Ms. Laurie Fletcher & Dr. Allan Fraser Nancy M. Folger Robert & Carole Fontenrose Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Galvin Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Gill Brent Glass & Cathryn Keller Ms. Barbara Goldberg Ms. Patricia Gray Dr. Martha Gross & Mr. Robert Tracy Ms. Rosemary T. Haas Ridgway & Jill Hall Martha Harris Florence & Peter D. Hart Jill Hartman Mr. Joseph M. Hassett & Ms. Carol Melton Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hazen Mrs. Anthony E. Hecht Terrance & Noel Hefty Ms. Anita G. Herrick Ms. Johanna Hickman Mr. Joel Hiebert Mr. & Mrs. Ty Hosler Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Hurst Lawrence & Meg Kasdan Sherman & Maureen Katz

Ms. Caroline Kenney Justine & David Kenney Professor John N. & Pauline King Dr. Marcel C. LaFollette & Mr. Jeffrey K. Stine Mr. Lawrence H. Landweber & Mrs. Jean R. Landweber Col. Denny Lane & Dr. Naoko Aoki Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Langkamp Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence H. Liden Mr. & Mrs. Robert Case Liotta Mr. Thomas G. MacCracken Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Marks Ms. Barbara M. Meade Mr. & Mrs. George K. Miller Mary & Cyril Muromcew Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Myers Carl & Undine Nash Katherine Neville & William Woodward Mrs. Jean F. Nordhaus Andrew Oliver, Jr. & Melanie B. Du Bois Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Palmer Charles & Susan Parsons Anne Parten & Philip Nelson Mr. Joseph Perta Mr. & Mrs. Carl F. Pfeiffer Dr. & Mrs. Warren S. Poland Ms. Cynthia L. Rapp Ms. Shana Regon & Mr. Timothy O’Toole Heddy & Trip Reid Lola C. Reinsch David Roberts & David Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Rose Mary Jane Ruhl John & Lynn Sachs Mr. Josh Samet & Ms. Juli Baer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Saunders Lois G. Schwoerer The Honorable Theodore Sedgwick James Baker Sitrick Gabriela & Douglas Smith Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Stanley John & Alison Steadman Joanne M. Sten Mr. Leslie C. Taylor Amy & Mark Tercek Mr. & Mrs. Tim Thornton Estate of Mary E. Weinmann Mr. David E. Weisman Christie & Jeff Weiss Dorothy B. Wexler Mr. Donald E. White & Ms. Betty W. Good-White Kathie & Mike Williams Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Wilshere Anne & Fred Woodworth Laura Yerkovich & John Winkler Georgianna Ziegler

$500-$999

Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Howard Ahmanson

SUPPORTERS Dr. Peter J. Albert & Ms. Charlotte Mahoney Dr. Boris Allan & Ms. Kathleen L. Pomroy Ms. Doris E. Austin Mr. & Mrs. David Bair Mr. & Mrs. David B. Barefoot Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Barry Ms. Kyle Z. Bell & Mr. Alan G.R. Bell Mr. Kirke Bent Ms. Kathleen Bergin Drs. Robin & Clare Biswas Dr. Jean C. Bolan Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bott Kathleen Burger & Glen Gerada Mrs. Frances Burka John Byrd & Lina Watson Mr. & Mrs. Lewis R. Cabe Timothy J. Carlton Professor Carmen A. CasÃs Ms. Molly C. Clay Leslie & Ray Clevenger Dr. Anne Coldiron Mr. & Mrs. William D. Coleman Mr. & Mrs. John J. Collins Ronald M. Costell, MD & Marsha E. Swiss Mr. Douglas R. Cox James & Ann Coyle Mr. John W. Crofts Ms. Sarah A. Davidson Ms. Jeanne De Sa Mr. & Mrs. David Deutsch Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. DeVincentis Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Donaldson Steve Dunn & Tom Burkhardt Ms. Roberta L. Ellington Dr. William E. Engel Louise H. Engle Ms. Marietta Ethier Mr. Gerald Feierstein & Ms. Carolyn McIntyre Mr. Leo S. Fisher & Ms. Sue J. Duncan Ms. Tracy Fisher Ms. Marcia G. Flanigan The Folger Five Nancy M. Folger Heather & Clinton Forsythe Donald Gilman Ms. Michelle Gluck & Dr. Walter Smith Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Goelzer Svetlana Gromova & Henry Horsey Mr. & Mrs. C. David Gustafson Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn & Dr. John Y. Cole Ms. Kristi Hafner Elizabeth H. Hageman Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Haller Robin Langfan & Jay M. Hammer Dr. Peter I. Hartsock John & Cheri Hayes Ms. Vicki R. Herrmann

Michael J. Hirrel Mr. Michael B. Jennison Hannah L. & David H. Jones Mr. Christopher Kendall & Ms. Susan Schilperoort Joseph Kerr Ms. Erna Kerst Stephen Kieran & Barbara DeGrange Kieran Mr. James Knighton Mr. Barry Kropf Mr. David W. Lankford Drs. Douglas & Janet Laube Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon Frances & Emery Lee Ms. Sandy Lerner Dr. Carole Levin Mr. & Mrs. Jan Lodal Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Lynch Ms. Ellen Maland & Mr. Donald B. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Mancini Ms. Allison Mankin & Dr. Jim Carton Cathleen A. Massey Mr. Winton E. Matthews, Jr. Mr. James W. McBride Ms. Catherine McClave Mr. & Mrs. David McGrath Marilyn & Charles McMillion Dr. Brian R. McNeill Dr. Heather McPherson Dr. Dan Melamed & Ms. Sharlene Weatherwax Beverly J. Melani & Bruce E. Walker Sheila A. Murphy Theodore & Mary Eugenia Myer Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Parr Mr. & Mrs. Peter Parshall Ms. Sheila J. Peters Dr. Susan Piepho Ms. Gerit Ann Quealy Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Dr. James Shapiro Dr. Donna S. Simmons & Mr. James Simmons Kay & George Simmons Marilyn & Hugh South Richard Spear & Athena Tacha Spear Professor Raymond J. St. Leger Mr. & Mrs. Albert P. Stauderman Tom & Pat Stevens Mr. Douglas Struck Robin & Mark Swope Mr. John M. Taylor Ms. Lynn Trundle James & Carol Tsang Mr. & Mrs. James T. Turner Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Vajs Dr. Arina van Breda Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Van Voorhees Ms. Christine L. Vaughn & Mr. Christopher A. Dunn

Mr. Christopher White Webster Ms. Jacqueline West Mr. Michael A. Winkelman Ms. Abby L. Yochelson & Mr. Wallace Mlyniec Andy & Mary Zehe

$250-$499

Anonymous (8) Mr. Robert Adler Mr. & Mrs. David G. Ahern Mr. Stephen Ahern Mr. Thomas Ahern Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Stewart F. Aly Ms. Jennifer Apostol Ms. Suzanne Bakshian & Mr. Vincent A. Chiappinelli Ms. Meredith Barbour Mr. & Mrs. David M. Beckmann Dr. Donald R. Bennett Ellen S. Berelson & Larry Franks Professors David M. Bergeron & Geraldo de Sousa Dr. Katherine Berry & Mr. Christian Buchmann Ms. Mary C. Blake Mr. James L. Blum George H. Booth, II Mr. Henry H. Booth Professor Jackson C. Boswell Ms. Gwen W. Brewer Mr. & Mrs. John R. Brinkema Chris Brown and Mary Rollefson Dr. James C. Bulman Ms. Victoria Butler & Mr. Tim Carney Mr. Joseph Casey & Ms. Constance Pierce Casey Ms. C. Dawn Causey Mr. Wallace W. Chandler Mr. John Chester Ms. JoAnn Clark Mr. Richard H. Cleva Ms. Melanie B. Cline Mr. David M. Colbert Mr. Robert S. Cole, Jr. Dr. Theresa M. Coletti Ms. Kathleen Comerford Mr. John W. Conlee Mr. & Mrs. William Conrad Mr. & Mrs. William E. Cooke Robert W. Cover II & Bonnie Lepoff Ms. D. Elizabeth Crompton Vice Adm. Dirk J. Debbink M P Donovan Colleen Dougherty Mr. & Mrs. John Douglass Dr. Terry Dwyer & Dr. Marcy F. Petrini Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Eager Mr. Ted Eisenstein Mr. Douglas H. Erwin & Dr. Wendy Wiswall Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Farber

SUPPORTERS Mr. & Mrs. Prentiss E. Feagles Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Feldmayer Arthur & Shirley Fergenson Ms. Shelley N. Fidler Ms. Joyce Flaherty Mr. Gregory Flowers Mr. James Forman Mrs. Florence Bryan Fowlkes Mr. John Franzén Ms. Nancy Frey Ms. Rhonda Friedler Mr. Roland M. Frye, Jr. & Ms. Susan M. Pettey Mr. & Mrs. William K. Frymoyer Mrs. Joanne Garris Mr. & Mrs. Allan Gerson Mrs. Nanette Gibbs Gail McMurray Gibson Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prof. James A. Glazier Mr. Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr. & Dr. Betty J. Forman Mr. Gregg H.S. Golden & Dr. Laura George Mr. Kim Z. Golden Mr. & Mrs. Michael Goldstein Professor Suzanne Gossett Mr. John E. Graves, RIA & Ms. Hanh Phan Sayre N. Greenfield, PhD & Linda V. Troost, PhD Neal & Janice Gregory Ms. Maria E. Grosjean Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Guttentag Mr. Clifford Hackett Ms. Bonnie Hammerschlag David Hannay Ms. Joan E. Hartman Ms. Lucia Hatch Ms. Barbara W. Hazelett Dr. & Mrs. James A. Heath Robert E. Hebda Mrs. Carrie Y. Hess Ms. Kimberly Hiebert Mr. & Mrs. Fred Hill Prof. Heather A. Hirschfeld & Prof. Anthony Welch David Holland & Mary Brady Ms. Anna Rapp Hostrop Professor Jean E. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Paul Huey-Burns Mr. David R. Hughes Ms. Elizabeth M. Janthey Mr. & Mrs. E. Stewart Jeffries Ms. Vickie Johnson Mr. & Mrs. James Jordan Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kalb Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Kampschroeder Ms. Belinda Kane Dr. & Mrs. Herschel Kanter Mr. Randall KC Kau & Ms. Elizabeth M. Olmsted Theresa & Robert Keatinge

Dr. Sean Keilen Mrs. Margot Kelly Sarah & David Kelly Ms. Kay Kendall & Mr. Jack Davies Wendy & Robert Kenney Ms. Judith Kimball Mr. Robert L. Kimmins Mr. Robert S. Kirk Drs. Michael Knable & Maree Webster Mr. Michael Kolakowski Mr. & Mrs. George Koukourakis Kathleen Cogan Kovach Ms. Sarah Kyrouac Mr. & Mrs. David J. Lacki Mr. Edward Lawrence & Ms. Erin White Dr. Robert Lawshe Daniel Levinson Lilly S. Lievsay Ms. Tamara K. Liller Mr. Ross Lindholm Dr. Calvin C. Linnemann & Rev. Patricia G. Linnemann Joseph & Sonya Livingston Mr. Joseph Loewenstein & Ms. C. Lynne Tatlock Ms. Linda Lohse Ms. Mary Frances Lowe Kathleen Lynch & John Blaney Dr. Deborah L. Malkovich & Dr. William Freimuth Dr. Lewis Markoff & Dr. Caroline Samuels Ms. Susan McCloskey Mr. Patrick McGraw Sean & Melissa McKenna Professor Jennifer McNabb Dr. Judith Mechanick Ms. Nancy Elizabeth Meiners Mr. Steven J. Metalitz & Ms. Kit J. Gage Ms. Kristie Miller & Mr. Thomas Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Miller Mr. Nathaniel Montague Mr. & Mrs. Tam Murray Mr. & Mrs. Eric & Nancy Nelkin Ms. Essence Newhoff & Dr. Paul Gardullo Mr. Nick Newlin & Ms. Joanne Flynn Mr. Joe M. Norton Douglas W. & Maria T. O’Donnell Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Olexson Mrs. Patricia Olsen Mr. Aloysius U. Ordu Mr. & Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin Mr. & Mrs. David M. Osnos Ms. Patricia J. Overmeyer Dr. Jessie Ann Owens Ms. Susan Pacholski & Mr. Nigel Purvis Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Stan Peabody

Ms. Jane Pearce Linda Levy Peck Dr. Sylvia Holton Peterson & Dr. William Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. James S. Polk Dr. Lois Potter Mr. Woodruff M. Price Mr. Michael J. Quigley & Mr. Chad E. Martin Mr. Terry Quist Robert Ramsey & Elizabeth Brown Mr. & Mrs. Erik M. Rasmussen Ms. Tonya Rawe Mr. Peter S. Reichertz Mr. Christopher N. Reichow Dr. Joshua S. Reid Ms. Carol Reitz Mr. Philip J. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. David Robinson Winnie & Alexander Robinson Ms. Emily Rose & Mr. James H. Marrow Mr. & Mrs. David M. Rosenbaum Mr. Edward Rowland & Mrs. Salley Cotten-Rowland Mr. Stephen R. Saph Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David Satinsky Mr. & Mrs. James P. Schaller Professor Moses S. Schanfield Drs. Alan N. & Geraldine P. Schechter Mr. Eugene Schied Ms. Jamie Schlessman Lt. Gen Robt E Schmidle, Jr., USMC (ret) & Pamela E. Schmidle Mr. Kurt R. Schwarz & Ms. Patsy G. Kennan Ms. Rita L. Schwarz Rebecca Scott & Neal Racioppo Mr. D. Stanton Sechler Professor & Mrs. Mortimer Sellers Mr. Roald Severtson Dr. Sherry Wood Shuman & Mr. Philip B. Shuman Dr. Bruce R. Smith Ms. Phyllis Smith Dr. Richard B. Smith Mr. Gerald Southern Mr. Steve Spaulding & Dr. Alicen B Spaulding Ms. Sheila Kautt Dr. Edward Starr Mr. Daniel Steiner Ms. Allison Stockman Dr. James Waller Stone Ms. Theresa A. Sullivan Dr. Ann Swann Mr. Jonathan Taylor & Ms. Dianne Shaughnessy Mr. & Mrs. John V. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Grant P. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Tocci Mr. Jeffrey Toretsky Ms. Susan Wilcox Turner

SUPPORTERS Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan Ms. Yvette Webster Mr. & Mrs. William J. Weinhold Ms. Judith Weintraub Ms. Gloria M. Weissberg Dr. & Mrs. John R. Wennersten Ms. Carolyn L. Wheeler Sandy & Jon Willen Gary & Josephine Williams George W. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Roy L. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Scott M. Wilson Ms. Betsy L. Wolf Ms. Edith C. Wolff Drs. Eric & Sandra Wolman Maureen & Brent Yacobucci

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 (4) Professor Judith H. Anderson Ms. Doris E. Austin Dr. Carol Barton Professor Jackson C. Boswell Dr. Norma Broude & Dr. Mary D. Garrard William Camarinos Professor Carmen A. CasĂs Florence & Neal 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 Ms. Christine M. Feinthel Wendy Frieman & David Johnson Susan Sachs Goldman 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 Ingrid Rose Dr. Richard Schoch Mrs. S. Schoenbaum Lisa Schroeter

Dr. Lois Green Schwoerer The Honorable Theodore Sedgwick Albert H. Small Richard Spear & Athena Tacha Spear Robin Swope Ednajane Truax Neal T. Turtell Scott & Liz Vance Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan 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

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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CAFÉ BERLIN ON CAPITOL HILL

Homemade pastries are the glory of Café Berlin’s kitchen. Also try the smoked loin of pork and the sauerbraten. Reservations accepted. 322 Massachusetts Ave, NE (202) 543-7656 cafeberlin-dc.com