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Folger Shakespeare Library Board of Governors D. Jarrett Arp, Chair Richard D. Batchelder, Jr. Sir Simon Russell Beale, CBE Jeff Bleich Rebecca Bushnell Vinton Cerf Florence H. Cohen Debbie Driesman Susan Sachs Goldman Rosa Joshi Derek Kaufman J. May Liang Eugene Pinkard Stuart Rose Sir Charles Roxburgh, KCB Paul Smith Ramie Targoff Ayanna Thompson Michael Witmore, ex officio

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THE FOLGER

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. The Folger welcomes millions of visitors online and in person. It provides unparalleled access to a huge array of resources, from original sources to modern interpretations. With the Folger, you can experience the power of performance, the wonder of exhibitions, and the excitement of pathbreaking research. The Folger offers the opportunity to see and even work with early modern sources, driving discovery and transforming education for students of all ages. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. During our building renovation, ﬁnd us on the road and online at folger.edu.

FROM THE DIRECTOR • creating more accessible experiences • widening access to our collection

One of our goals at the Folger is to reintroduce Shakespeare to a changed and changing world. Our dream unfolds on a living stage in which diverse cultures and traditions intermingle within a thriving democracy, a good dream to have when your home base is the nation’s capital. We start with Shakespeare and the period in which he lived, but we seek always to engage the present.

As we acknowledge the complexity of history and our engagement with all, we are mindful that the ground on which we perform and live are the traditional lands of the Nacotchtank and Piscataway peoples, past and present. Our stewardship of these lands must follow their example. Because we are a truth-seeking institution, we are working to engage with tribal groups, scholars, and artists in a spirit of understanding and partnership so that we may better honor these places and their peoples.

Here is what you should expect from us as you follow our journey around our community and, ultimately, come back home to our landmark building in 2023. We commit to: • venturing out to communities with bold, thoughtful programming • engaging with learners of all ages, stages, and abilities • making diversity, equity, and inclusion a guide for thought and action

Chris Hartlove

I want to welcome you to this production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play that tells the story of the transformative power of love. You will experience that in this glorious space of the National Building Museum, the ﬁrst off-site home to a Folger Theatre production since we began our renovation.

• embracing antiracism as a positive, foundational source of change

Please enjoy the show, and please come back to the Folger when we re-open in 2023! Michael Witmore Director, Folger Shakespeare Library

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FOLGER THEATRE

The award-winning Folger Theatre in our nation’s capital bridges the arts and humanities through transformational performances and programming that speak inclusively to the human experience. Folger Theatre continues its legacy through exciting interpretations and adaptations of Shakespeare and expands the classical canon through cultivating today’s artists and commissioning new work that is in dialogue with the concerns and issues of our time. Folger Theatre thrives both on its historical stage and in the community, engaging audiences wherever they happen to be. Collaboration is a tentpole of theater—it takes many hands, hearts, and perspectives to serve a story. It is our joy and privilege to do this in partnership with our neighboring institutions such as the National Building Museum and Round House Theatre, the site of our fall co-production, The Tempest. As we reawaken to the possibilities beyond our front door, Folger Theatre is excited to continue the journey into the magic and wonder of dreams to come.

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Welcome to The Playhouse! If it is your ﬁrst time enjoying a Folger Theatre performance, you’ve come at the perfect time! We are part of the Folger Shakespeare Library situated on Capitol Hill. FSL is a special place in the process of becoming even more so— we are in the middle of a multi-year renovation to make it a more dynamic and inviting place for all to visit! You’ll be able to engage with cool historical items from our collection in new gallery spaces, satisfy your curiosity through deep learning and exploration, hang out in our Great Hall for talks, lectures, music, and poetry; grab food and drinks with family and friends, chill in the garden on a sunny afternoon, and absorb yourself in creative and interpretative performances by local, national and international artists and scholars. Come be part of the new Folger when we reopen later in 2023! Until then, Folger Theatre will be on the road. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the crowning-jewel of our returning season. An opportunity to reinvigorate our hope through the magic of fairies, journeying through mystical forests, and the inevitable need we all have to ﬁnd love in all of its manifestations. Oh yeah, it’s a lot of fun too! For the next 90 minutes I invite you to leave the outside world behind and engage with the otherworldliness of Shakespeare’s most enchanting of comedies. Before you sit back and lose yourself in all the fun, I’d like to share three quick things to help ensure we all have a great time! Safety First. Whatever we do, we’re going to do it with utmost safety. Folger Theatre will engage in the COVID safety precautions that are

required by law and agreed upon by our partners and key stakeholders. We will offer nothing less than the highest level of safety and protection for our staff, our partners, our artistic company, and for you, our audience. So we kindly ask that you keep your mask on, unless drinking, throughout the performance (and we’ll give you a kind nudge in case you need a reminder). We’re trying to make this experience as comfortable and accessible for as many people as possible. Our patron services team — from the moment you arrive until the moment you exit the building — will be here to help guide you in and out of the theater safely, find the bathrooms, and explore the exhibition. We’ll have the show streaming for you in the lobby if you have to run to the restroom and we will help you find the right moment to re-enter. Folger Theatre is for everyone. From the youngest to the oldest, from the furthest zip code to the closest, regardless of income or formal education level, whether it’s your first show with us or your 100th: You are welcome here. And the performance you are about to experience was created with you in mind. Dreams are the practice of hope. During the show, our artists love to hear your responses—your oohs and aahs, sighs and claps, your tears and laughter as the moments inspire you! It lets us know we’re really building this dream together through the give and take of a shared live experience. Let the Dream begin! Karen Ann Daniels Artistic Director, Folger Theatre Director of Programming, Folger Shakespeare Library

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National Building Museum Hello and welcome to the National Building Museum. The Museum was founded by an act of congress in 1980 to inspire curiosity about the world we design and build. This exciting partnership with Folger Shakespeare Library has enabled the design and build of a theatrical world and an immersive experience for visitors—a hallmark of NBM’s annual Summer Block Party. Like in years past, we relish the opportunity to transform our historic Great Hall with cultural activations and elevated design. I like to think we are living in a time when more people care more than ever about building a better world. In this sense, the mission of the National Building Museum has never been more relevant. This mission is activated through our four guiding Pillars of Impact: Equity, Environment, Innovation and Wonder. It is the Pillar of Wonder that makes tonight so special. To see The Playhouse come alive within the Museum’s Great Hall is clearly a wondrous achievement. We invite you to return to discover our exhibitions, and explore our summer activities and programs. The Museum tells stories about why design, construction, planning and engineering matter and how you can make a difference in your community. Our Summer Block Party offers daily activities and programs to jump into the world of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Thank you for coming and enjoy the show! Aileen Fuchs, President and Executive Director

University of South Carolina Our Theatre Program places a special emphasis on Shakespeare and our relationship with the Folger Theatre has been an important partnership. More than 35 years ago, known then as Folger Theatre Group, UofSC ﬁrst employed professional actors from the company as guest artists and teachers at our Columbia, South Carolina campus. Collaboration has expanded in the last 15 years, including professional student internships at the Folger that help our emerging artists prepare for careers in the industry. Ten years ago a series of mobile “pop up Globe” projects inspired our faculty to explore our own touring outdoor Shakespeare stage. Such a tool could expand our community engagement mission and impact people across the state of South Carolina and beyond. This was the origin of the Shakespeare Festival Stage that you are experiencing now in the extraordinary National Building Museum. There were many versions of this stage during the four-year partnership between the National Building Museum, Folger Theatre, and University of South Carolina resulting in today’s event. Starting from approximations of the Elizabethan Globe, each version attempted to keep the fundamental elements of the Globe’s staging, entrances, levels, movement ﬂow, and thrust into the audience, while becoming more contemporary as the process evolved. The Shakespeare Festival Stage before you, hosting this production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is just the start, a launch of a multi-year mission to serve a wide variety of communities with outdoor productions of Shakespeare. Jim Hunter, Chair

FROM THE DIRECTOR Welcome to the Folger Theatre’s 2022 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a play by William Shakespeare that first premiered in 1605. It doesn’t matter whether this is your first outing with the most produced playwright of all time or your fiftieth encounter; we hope you allow yourselves to enter the dream. Today, you’ll see this beloved work in the former Pension Building—now the National Building Museum—which was completed in 1887. (It’s okay— look up. WAY UP.) The Elizabethan Stage was designed by the University of South Carolina’s Jim Hunter a few years ago, and the theater where you now sit was built seemingly just a few minutes ago, under the guidance of Production Designer Tony Cisek. This opportunity at the National Building Museum is not just about scale or spectacle but insisting that the human beings that inhabit this stage are the stuff that dreams are made of. This Great Hall becomes a gathering place, away from all our pockets of isolation, into what we hope feels like a space of wonder, laughter, enchantment, complicated truths, and an antidote for loneliness. As a high schooler in the San Francisco Bay Area, I would 8

dedicate countless lunch hours to reading and rehearsing Shakespeare, never really thinking that the Bard was as interested in me as I in him, but still I longed for that validity to say the words and revel in a humanness so rarely found. As an immigrant—a perpetual outsider—I looked to discover and validate my Americanness, even with a catalogue of works that seemingly did not reflect my lived experiences. Still, it’s my goal to step inside these worlds and find what Joseph Campbell would refer to as the monomyth, the story that connects us all. And in it, we find our shared humanity, and, if we’re lucky, a shared liberation. The adventure from the Folger Theatre’s original home into the majesty of this atrium gives us an opportunity to truly examine a Midsummer that highlights local and national artists and audiences with an open-hearted and open-minded welcome and inquiry. Through this timeless contemporary frame, we hope to create a production that celebrates love, transformation, and the crazy, faith-filled act of theater-making itself. Victor Malana Maog

FOLGER THEATRE Karen Ann Daniels Artistic Director

Beth Emelson Director of Producing

By William Shakespeare Production Design Tony Cisek *

Festival Stage Design Jim Hunter*

Costume Design Olivera Gajic*

Lighting Design Yael Lubetzky*

Sound Design and Composer Brandon Wolcott*

Choreographer Alexandra Beller†

Intimacy Coordinator Chelsea Pace†

Fight Choreographer Cliff Williams III†

New York Casting Eisenberg/Beans Casting

Resident Dramaturg Michele Osherow

Production Stage Manager P. Vanessa Losada**

Assistant Stage Manager Leigh Robinette**

Directed by Victor Malana Maog†

In Association with the National Building Museum and the University of South Carolina Folger Theatre gratefully acknowledges the kind support of the following:

Season Sponsors Maygene and Steve Daniels Helen and David Kenney and Family The Late Neal T. Turtell

Production Sponsors Nicky Cymrot Nancy and Steve Howard Robin and Roger Millay Contributing Sponsors Keith and Celia Arnaud Louis and Bonnie Cohen Denise Gwyn Ferguson Margaret and David Gardner

Associate Sponsors Dr. David E. Johnson and Ms. Wendy Frieman Timothy J. Carlton Peter and Mary Jay Michel Gail Kern Paster

Special thanks to Share Fund †Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society *Member of United Scenic Artists **Member of Actors’ Equity Association

CAST

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Rotimi Agbabiaka* Bryan Barbarin* Renea S. Brown* Danaya Esperanza* John Floyd Brit Herring* Lilli Hokama* Hunter Ringsmith* Jacob Ming-Trent* Nubia M. Monks* Shinji Elspeth Oh John-Alexander Sakelos* Sabrina Lynne Sawyer Kathryn Zoerb

Theseus and Oberon Demetrius Helena Egeus and Puck Flute Snout Hermia Lysander Bottom Hippolyta and Titania Philostrate Peter Quince Snug Starveling

Understudies Brooke Kempf (Snout and Flute) Cerra Cardwell (Peter Quince and Philostrate)

Jordan Essex (Bottom) Izzy Gholl (Helena and Hermia) Brit Herring* (Theseus and Oberon)

Shinji Elspeth Oh (Snug and Starveling) Sabrina Lynne Sawyer (Puck and Egeus)

Khalid Taylor (Lysander and Demetrius) Kathryn Zoerb (Hippolyta and Titania)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is 90 minutes long without an intermission. Please refrain from using your phones, cameras, or other recording devices during the performance.

*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

CAST Rotimi Agbabiaka Theseus and Oberon Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre: Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1,2, and 3; California Shakespeare Theatre: House of Joy, Macbeth, A Raisin In The Sun; American Conservatory Theater: Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1,2, and 3; Magic Theatre: runboyrun, Sojourners; Marin Theatre Company: Choir Boy; We Players: Julius Caesar, Psychopomp; Shotgun Players: Black Rider; Brava Theater: Bootycandy (Theatre Bay Area Award), An American Ma(u)l; Presidio Theatre: The Magic Lamp; TheatreWorks: Once On This Island. Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons: If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka. Film: MANIFESTO, Dayroom. rotimionline.com.

Bryan Barbarin Demetrius Regional: The La Jolla Playhouse: Get on Board; The Old Globe: On This Spot; Cygnet Theatre: Water by the Spoonful, Parade, Man of La Mancha; Lambs Players Theatre: Oz, Music Man, Harvey, The Glory Man, Around the World in 80 Days; New Village Arts: Big River; Intrepid Shakespeare Company: Hamlet; San Diego Repertory Theatre: The Three Penny Opera. BryanBarbarin.com

Renea S. Brown Helena Folger Theatre: The Folger Shakespeare Project. Round House Theatre: Nollywood Dreams; Arena Stage: Change Agent; Quintessence Theatre: The Little Princess; American Shakespeare Center: Much Ado About Nothing, A King and No King, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; Kennedy Center/Second City: Love

Factually; Island Shakespeare Theatre: Othello, Sense and Sensibility, Twelfth Night; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Tempest; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth; Brave Spirits Theatre: Coriolanus, Trojan Women Project; Theatre Prometheus: Macbeth, Cymbeline, Good Kids; NextStop Theatre: Pride and Prejudice; Prince George’s Shakespeare Festival: The Tempest, As You Like It; Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy for Classical Acting: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, As You Like It. @4realdarklady @boxothbard

Danaya Esperanza Puck and Egeus Regional: Shakespeare Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet; Next Chapter Podcasts: Coriolanus; Geva Theatre Radio: The Bleeding Class; Milwaukee Repertory Theater Zoom: Mother’s Tongue; Acting Company Zoom: Letters from Cuba; Arizona Theatre Company Zoom: Alma; Denver Center [DCPA]: Alma; New York Stage and Film: Annie Salem . . .; Seattle Rep: Joe Turner Vino y Se Fue; McCarter Theatre: Protect the Beautiful Place; The Goodman Theatre: Another Word for Beauty. Off-Broadway: Theater for a New Audience/ Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Merchant of Venice; Play On! Podcasts: Coriolanus; Rattlestick Playwrights Theater/Broadway Podcast Network: Isolated Incidents; Working Theater: Missing Them; National Black Theatre: Bayano; The Public Theater: for colored girls . . ., The Tempest Mobile Unit, Twelfth Night Mobile Unit; CSC/OSF: Play On! Shakespeare; Esperance: Breitwisch Farm; New York Theatre Workshop: Mary Jane, Othello; Playwrights Horizons/ Clubbed Thumb: Men on Boats; Soho Repertory Theater: Washeteria; Signature Theatre: Our Lady of Kibeho. Film: After Party. Television: The Blacklist, Elementary. Training: The Juilliard School.

CAST John Floyd Flute Folger Theatre: Davenent’s Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Unknown Soldier; Trustus Theatre: Marcus: or The Secret of Sweet, Peter and the Starcatcher, Marie Antoinette; Theatre South Carolina: The Three Musketeers, Hamlet, The Trojan Women, The Women of Lockerbie, Ajax in Iraq, Yellowman, King Lear, The Importance of Being Earnest. @iJohnFloyd

Brit Herring Snout Everyman Theatre: Great Expectations; Arena Stage: A Raisin in the Sun; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Critic & The Real Inspector Hound, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Alchemist; Annapolis Shakespeare Company: Macbeth; Avant Bard: Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight; Washington Stage Guild: Red Herring, The Apple Cart, Back to Methuselah, Hard Times, Inventing Van Gogh; Off-Broadway: The Devil and Billy Markham, In Paradise. Brit is a member of The Marble Hearts, a local rockabilly band. marblehearts.com

Lilli Hokama Hermia Folger Theatre: Amadeus. Regional: Colorado Springs Fine Arts: Guadalupe in the Guest Room; Dallas Theatre Center/The Old Globe: Little Women; Lincoln Center Theater: The Wolves (u/s); Baltimore Center Stage: Antigone; Kitchen Theatre Company: Matt and Ben; Chester Theatre Company: Now Circa Then, I and You; Colorado Shakespeare Festival: Troilus and Cressida, The Taming of the Shrew; Aurora Fox Arts Center: The

Arabian Nights, She Kills Monsters; New works: The Wave That Set the Fire, Companions LLC; Theatre Esprit Asia: Coming To America, Foundations. Television: Prodigal Son. Coproduced and codirected Rat Jaw, Stomping Ground Theatre Project; Writer and Performer, We Hear You—A Climate Archive, Coal and Ice, Kennedy Center. VoiceOver and motion capture for upcoming video games. @_ill_lil_

Jacob Ming-Trent Bottom Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody (original cast), Shrek the Musical (original cast). Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Drama Desk nomination), Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Lucille Lortel Award), Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, The Tempest. Red Bull: The Alchemist (Lucille Lortel Award nomination). Lincoln Center Theater: On the Levee; Theater for a New Audience: The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Acting Company: The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Film: Superﬂy, The Forty-Year Old Version; R#J; The Possession of Hannah Grace. Television: Watchmen; White Famous; Ray Donavan; Feed the Beast; Only Murders in the Building; New Amsterdam; God Friended Me.

Nubia M. Monks Hippolyta and Titania The Guthrie: A Raisin in the Sun; Ten Thousand Things: The Comedy of Errors; Women’s Theatre Festival: Othello; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, How To Catch Creation, Hairspray; The Old Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; La Jolla Playhouse: Wild Goose Dreams; A Guthrie Experience 2017: Incurable: A Fool’s Tale; University of California, San Diego: La Bête, Damascus, Native Son, The Taming of the

Shrew, Are You There?, What of the Night?, A Raisin in the Sun, 53% Of. UPCOMING Scratchpad Series Playwright at The Playwrights Realm. AWARDS 2021–2022 Jerome Playwriting Fellowship at the Playwrights’ Center. TRAINING M.F.A., Acting, University of California, San Diego; A Guthrie Experience; B.A., Religion, Vanguard University. @_onlynubia (IG)

Shinji Elspeth Oh Philostrate Prague Shakespeare Company: She Wolf, Twelfth Night. shinjielspethohactress.com

Hunter Ringsmith Lysander Bridge Street Theatre: Clarkston; New Swan Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice; Piknik Theatre Company: Midsummer Night’s Dream; Colorado Shakespeare: Cymbeline, Henry VI pt. 2, Equivocation (Henry Award Nominee, Best Supporting Actor); Lake Dillon Theatre Company: Bad Jews, Ghost: The Musical, Sister Act: The Musical, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, First Date; Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof, The Merchant of Venice; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: Fiddler on the Roof, Much Ado About Nothing; Great River Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, Twelfth Night; Red House Arts Center: Gross Indecency, A Man of No Importance; Dallas Theater Center: A Christmas Carol. Training: BFA: Southern Methodist University, MFA: University of California, Irvine. hunterringsmith.com @hringsmith

John-Alexander Sakelos Peter Quince Folger Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra (u/s); Regional: Shakespeare Theatre Company/ACA Repertory: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus. New York: Hamlet Isn’t Dead: Much Ado About Nothing; Hip2Hip Theatre: Troilus and Cressida. Tours: The Lightning Thief, The Gershwin’s Real Magic. International: The Hydrama Theatre: The EumenidesHydra; Film: Flowers by Peter. Television: Answers to Everything. Training: BFAThe University of Michigan, MFAGeorge Washington University.

Sabrina Lynne Sawyer Snug National tour: National Players (Olney Theatre Center): A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Raisin in the Sun. Training: BA, Theater, University of Southern California. sabrinalynnesawyer.com

Kathryn Zoerb Starveling Folger Theatre: Amadeus, The Second Shepherds’ Play (u/s), The Way of the World (u/s); Taffety Punk Theatre Company: suicide.chat.room, At a Loss; Rep Stage: A Young Lady of Property; WSC Avant Bard: King Lear; The Puppet Co: Rapunzel; Faction of Fools Theatre Company: Missed Connections, Bean & Widge Go to the Park, Foolish Fridays Seasons 1 & 2, Our Town, The Miser, The Cherry Orchard, The Great Commedia Hotel Murder Mystery, Foolish Fairytales; Brave Spirits Theatre: ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A King and No King; Imagination Stage: The Night Fairy (u/s); Baltimore Shakespeare Factory: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale, Love’s Labor’s Lost. KathrynZoerb.com

FROM THE DRAMATURG Shakespeare’s plays regularly demonstrate and explore the possibilities of art. Art is the point on which his plots often turn: a statue enables resurrection; music of the spheres reunites the estranged; embroidered linen invites treachery. But it is the practice and potential of theatrical art that Shakespeare most often references, renders and interrogates in his work. His characters self-consciously exploit theatrical devices to test, charm, condemn, delight, deceive, outwit, abuse or amaze those around them. Theatre itself is a subject in his plays, and a means, says Director Victor Malana Maog, “to make the impossible possible.” Nowhere does Shakespeare attend more to theatrical enterprise and potential than in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It makes the play irresistible to those who practice theatre and to those who crave its incomparable pleasures. Maog’s sleek adaptation brings the play’s theatrical emphasis front and center. We open with a troupe of amateur actors intent on staging a play. These “rude mechanicals” (3.2) provide a crash-course on theatrical process: casting, scheduling, script development, technical considerations, and issues surrounding textual interpretation and audience. Starting the play in the theatrical world underscores the freedoms within it. Boundaries are instinctively crossed by these artists. In preparing their performance, they are not limited by gender, education, class— or even by species, matter or physics. Theatre is the great equalizer. Before the play’s end, a weaver’s impromptu song will result in his being courted by a fairy “of no 16

common rate” who offers to elevate him similarly (3.1). Indeed, all the working-class mechanicals will effectively displace Athens’ elite; the Duke, his Duchess, lords and ladies will be relegated to the periphery while actors take center court. Note, too, that unlike most comedies (spoiler alert), Midsummer’s ultimate goal is not a set of marriages but rather the performance of a play. Boundaries crossed by artists are just the start. The play’s young lovers will break literal, social and metaphorical boundaries, too. They venture beyond city limits into dark woods to evade Athenian law. In the world controlled by fairies, new rules apply. Female desire is privileged there, and consequences come from denying it: consider that Hermia’s chaste choice to sleep apart from her beloved leads Puck to mistake Lysander for Demetrius. And the ruler of the fairy kingdom is immediately sympathetic to Helena’s plight, at whatever cost to Demetrius. Love is something over which fairies have sway. Their other magical exploits are more familiar, echoing theatrical practices introduced by Peter Quince’s company. Helena, for example, enters the play wishing she was Hermia; once in the woods, she is essentially re-cast in that role when the male lovers direct their attentions exclusively toward her. Both Peter and Puck take charge of others’ entrances and exits, and both actors and fairies are keen on performance. Puck is tickled pink to stumble across the “hempen

homespuns’” rehearsal, and proclaims his willingness to “be an auditor/An actor too” (3.1). The similarities between the enchanted worlds of fairies and theatres is bolstered in this production through doublecasting (a practice Peter Quince disparages, but effective here). Ultimately, it is Bottom who cements the magical connection between theatrical and supernatural worlds by resolving that his fairy ‘dream’ is a story best fit for the stage. Both worlds are sites of transformation. In keeping with the play’s splendid notions of what theatre does and can do, our adaptation pushes against some boundaries still conspicuous within this work. Those of you familiar with Midsummer will recognize that at the close of Oberon and Titania’s first encounter we swap the two roles, enabling the Fairy Queen to have the upper hand, keep close her changeling, and steer Oberon’s desire in directions unforeseen. With Titania at the helm, those lost within the wood—and the play itself—benefit from her influence. We also chose to flag assumptions made about these characters’ identities and appearances. And we elected to explore options other than shame for the lovefest in the fairy bower, transforming that union from a “vile thing” (2.2) to a delicious, unexpected thrill. We’ve taken some liberties; but this, too, is a theatrical practice modeled in Midsummer. In truth, liberations of all sorts informed this production, from our immense and gorgeous playhouse in the National Building Museum, to the band of theatre artists joining us for the first time, to

the new audiences we hope to discover— and then there’s the genuine joy (freedom!) of returning to the theatre, together. Because, as Midsummer announces outright, when our “minds transﬁgured so together / More witnesseth than fancy’s images / And grows to something of great constancy,” the result is “strange and admirable” (5.1)! –Michele Osherow

SYNOPSIS In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another. Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Titania uses magic to make Oberon fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by Puck or Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe. –Adapted from the Folger Shakespeare edition

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CREATIVE TEAM Victor Malana Maog Director American Conservatory Theater: Her Portmanteau; California Shakespeare Theatre: Macbeth; Magic Theatre: In Old Age (world premiere); Drury Lane: South Paciﬁc; Marriott Theatre: West Side Story; Williamstown: Cyrano, White People; Off Broadway: 2g/New Ohio: Galois; Ohio Theater: Tempest; Disney Parks Live Entertainment; ABC/Disney Casting Project; Associate/Assistant Director: Second Stage: Metamorphoses, Tiny Alice, The Public Theater: Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? by Adrienne Kennedy (world premiere). Awards: NEA/TCG Directing Fellowship; Second StageVan Lier Directing Fellowship, Cornerstone Theatre Company Alvater Fellowship; VCCA Sweet Briar Fellow; TCG SPARK Leader; American Theatre Magazine’s inaugural “People to Watch.” victormaog.com

Alexandra Beller Choreographer Folger Theatre: Sense and Sensibility, As You Like It. Off-Broadway and Touring: Sheen Center/ Judson Gym/American Repertory Theatre/Portland Center Stage: Sense and Sensibility (Helen Hayes Award, Lucille Lortel Nomination, IRNE Best Choreography); OffBroadway: 59E59: The Mad Ones Duke Theatre: Bedlam’s Peter Pan; Lincoln Center Theatre: How to transcend a happy marriage; Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona , As You Like It; Taylor Mac: The Young Ladies of…;HERE: Chang(e); Contemporary American Theater Festival/Milwaukee Repertory Theater): Antonio’s Song; La MaMa/La Jolla Playhouse/touring: Fandango for Butterﬂies (and Coyotes); Directing/ Choreographing: Make Thick My Blood, an adaptation of Macbeth (Opening Off Broadway July ‘22). Artistic Director of Alexandra Beller/Dances 2002-present:

Dance Theatre Workshop, Symphony Space, Jacob’s Pillow, 92 St Y, Movement Research, PS 122, Institute for Contemporary Art, Russia, Poland, Korea, US touring. BFA/MFA Dance, CMA (Certiﬁed Movement Analyst in Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals). Faculty at Princeton University.

Tony Cisek Production Design Folger Theatre: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Amadeus, Nell Gwynn, Davenant’s Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, District Merchants, Mary Stuart, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello (2011, 2001), Henry VIII, Much Ado About Nothing (2009, 1998), The School For Scandal, The Tempest (2007, 2000), Romeo and Juliet (2005, 1997), Elizabeth the Queen, As You Like It (2001), Shakespeare’s R & J, Hamlet (1999); Folger Consort: The Second Shepherds’ Play (2016, 2007), Comus. DC theater: Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Theater J, Theater Alliance, The Kennedy Center. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage at The Armory, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Intiman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage, Berkshire Theatre Group. OffBroadway: Roundabout Theatre Company: Beyond Glory; New York Theatre Workshop: columbinus. tonycisek.com

Jim Hunter Festival Stage Design Folger Theatre: Richard III, Julius Caesar. Work at other theaters includes: Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Theatre

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Virginia, Phoenix Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Florida Stage, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Veggie Tales Live National Tour, Wall Street Danceworks, Fulton Opera, Arizona Broadway Theatre, Florida Studio Theater, The Lost Colony, as well as others. Jim teaches design at the University of South Carolina and serves as Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. He is currently the President of the National Association of Schools of Theatre and member of the Board of Trustees for the Council of Arts Accrediting Associations. Member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, in scenery and lighting design. jimhunterdesigns.com.

Yael Lubetzky

Olivera Gajic Costume Design Folger Theatre: The Conference of the Birds. Other credits include over two hundred theater, opera, dance, and ﬁlm productions to her credit. Most notably: Salzburg Festival, Austria: Jedermann; Vineyard Theatre: God’s Ear; Company XIV: Judgement of Paris, Snow White, Le Serpent Rouge, Betting On the Mouse; The Lucille Lake Project, etc. Film: Chekhov Project Company: I am a Seagull. Olivera’s work has been shown at exhibitions including the U.S. national exhibit at the 2004 & 2007 Prague Quadrennial and Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance (Lincoln Center), Costume at the Turn of the Century (Moscow), Vesuario a Scena (Mexico City). Olivera is a recipient of the 2004 NEA/TCG CDP for Designers, 2010 IT Award for Outstanding Costume Design, 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, 2012 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Costume Design. She recently received the 2014 Bessie Award Recipient for Outstanding Visual Design.

Lighting Design Regional: 5th Avenue Theater: BLISS; Paramount Theatre: Cabaret (Jefferson Award nomination); American Conservatory Theater: Her Portmanteau; Drury Lane: Evita, South Paciﬁc, West Side Story; Riverside Theatre: Carousel, Million Dollar Quartet, Smokey Joe’s Café, Chicago; Milwaukee Repertory Theatre: West Side Story; Syracuse Stage: The Three Musketeers; Arkansas Repertory Theatre: Les Misérables, Native Gardens, August Osage County, Bridges of Madison County; Trinity Repertory Company: The Piano Lesson, FALL, A Preface to The Alien Garden; The Children’s Theatre Co: Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse; TUTS: Elf; Pioneer Theatre CO: The Will Rodger’s Follies. Broadway: Russel Simmons Def Poetry Jam (Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event). Off-Broadway: The New Group: Downtown Race Riot; The Public Theater: Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance); Playwrights Horizons: The Moment When. NEA/TCG Designer Grant recipient.

Brandon Wolcott Original Music and Sound Design The Shed: Dragon Spring, Phoenix Rise; 600 Highwaymen: The Record, The Fever. Off-Broadway: 3LD: Counting Sheep; Playwrights Horizons: Dance Nation, The Profane; Signature Theater: Venus, Everybody, Signature Plays; Barrow Street Theatricals: Coriolanus, Hit the Wall; LCT3: Kill Floor; MCC Theater: The Nether (Lucille Lortel nomination); The Public Theater: The Good Person of Szechwan, Titus Andronicus; Park Avenue Armory: Habeas Corpus, Kiss the Air. Collaborations with Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Faye Driscoll, Nicolas Jaar, Elizabeth Streb, Woodshed Collective, Jane Comfort, (continued on page 26)

EXPLORE

CREATIVE TEAM Red Bull, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, and many more.

Eisenberg/Beans Casting Casting Folger Theatre: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Amadeus, 1 Henry IV, Love’s Labor’s Lost, 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. New York Theatre: Bedlam, Baghdaddy, SuperHero, Cherry Lane’s Mentor Project, WP Pipeline Festival, and more. Regional/Other: LivelyMcCabe/ CuzBro: May We All; Broadway in Chicago: Heartbreak Hotel; Dallas Theater Center, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Norwegian Cruise Line, Ivoryton Playhouse, Tenors of Rock, Wheelhouse Theatre Co, countless NYMF/Fringe. Film: The Cathedral (Sundance), The MisEducation of Bindu, A Case of Blue, Shadows (HBO), Hands That Bind, Project Pay Day, Kendra and Beth, Evol, Cheerleader. Television: Timberwood, Mulligan. Podcasts/New Media: Limetown, Shipworm, City of Ghosts, Falling in Love with Mr. Dellamort, Verdict. ebcastingco.com facebook.com/ ebcastingco

Michele Osherow Dramaturg Folger Theatre: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Amadeus, 1 Henry IV (2019, 2008), Love’s Labor’s Lost, Nell Gwynn, King John, 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 Company’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet (dramaturg and actor), Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Conference of the Birds, The Taming of the Shrew, The Gaming Table, Othello (2011, 2001), Cyrano, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Hamlet, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Much Ado About Nothing, Arcadia, The Tempest, Measure for Measure (dramaturg and actor). Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Chelsea Pace Intimacy Choreographer Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: A Strange Loop, Hi Are You Single; Studio Theatre: John Proctor is the Villain, White Noise; Signature Theatre: Detroit ‘67, RENT, Daphne’s Dive; Arena Stage: Seven Guitars; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Measure for Measure, Dracula, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Diary of Anne Frank. Broadway: Lyceum Theatre: A Strange Loop; Off-Broadway: The Shed: Help; INTAR: Bundle of Sticks; Film: The Tender Bar, Forever Tonight, Good Taste. Television: Harlem, RAMY, A League of Their Own (forthcoming), The Best ManFinal Chapters (forthcoming). Kennedy Center Gold Medallion 2021. chelseapace.com.

Cliff Williams, III Fight Choreographer Folger Theatre: Macbeth; Arena Stage: Disgraced, The Shoplifters, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Gem of the Ocean; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Everybody, Vanity Fair, Othello (2017 Free For All); Center Stage: As You Like It; Studio Theatre: Chimerica; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Familiar, Dead Man’s Cell Phone; The Welders: Girl in the Red Corner (Helen Hayes Award). Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville: Dracula, The Scene, Six Years; Long Wharf Theatre: Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville. CliffWilliamsIII.net

P. Vanessa Losada Production Stage Manager The Kennedy Center: Beastgirl; GALA Hispanic Theatre: Ella es Tango, El Perro del Hortelano; The Smithsonian’s Discovery Theatre: Once Upon a Moon, Hear Me Say My Name, Cuentos: Muy Magicos, Retratos: My Portrait, Myself ; Adventure Theatre: Finding Christmas, Morning Announcement.

Leigh Robinette Assistant Stage Manager Arena Stage: Change Agent, The Originalist, Dear Evan Hansen, Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof, Mother Courage and Her Children; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: There’s Always the Hudson, Describe the Night, Gloria, Botticelli in the Fire, Familiar, The Arsonists, Hir, Baby Screams Miracle, The Second City’s Black Side of the Moon, An Octoroon, Guards at the Taj; Kennedy Center: The Second City’s Love, Factually; Theater J: Love Sick, The Jewish Queen Lear; Huntington Theatre Company: Candide, Sons of the Prophet. Off-Broadway: Second Stage: Dear Evan Hansen.

Karen Ann Daniels Artistic Director and Director of Programming The Public Theater: Shakespeare: Call and Response (Mobile Unit Summer of Joy), Measure for Measure (Mobile Unit), Black Issues ISSUES “Blextravaganza (Joe’s Pub), (Drama Desk Special Award 2021 for Mobile Unit); In Transit: MICHA MUSICA (Mobile Unit/Joe’s Pub).The Old Globe: The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Skeleton Crew, Native Gardens, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing (Globe for All); The Ruby in Us (commission), Powers New Voices Festival: Dissecting Fortune; Ex Games; Ethel and Eleanora; An Evening with the San Diego Black Artist Collective (CoProducer, 2021); The Black Presence Project, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (coLAB), The Living Altar, La Visita de

Abuela, La Muerte Descansa en Paz, The Living Room Play. Taproot: Brownie Points (West Coast premiere), Storybook Theater: Lil’ Red, Studio East: Carphology, Arabian Nights, Around the World in 80 Hours; Village Theatre: Once on This Island. She is known for creating authentic engagement with communities, as co-producer and facilitator for the Shakespeare in Prisons Conference, a commissioned playwright, actor, director, singer and a 2021 Atlantic Fellow on Racial Equity, a network of leaders from the US and South Africa working to deepen their personal leadership and build expansive new futures in which Black people, and all people of color, are seen, valued and respected.

Beth Emelson Director of Producing and Associate Director of Programming Folger Theatre: since 2004. OffBroadway: 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.

PRODUCTION CREDITS General Manager Company Manager Production Manager/Technical Director Assistant Technical Director Interim Assistant Technical Director Associate Director Assistant to the Director

David Polk Chanel Johnson Charles Flye Rebekah Sheffer Rhiannon Sanders Devin E. Haqq Cat Thomas

Voice and Text Coach

Jeri Jeannine Marshall

Production Assistant

Kelli Jones

Assistant Choreographer Dance Captain Fight Captain Intimacy Captain

Myah Shein Danaya Esperanza P. Vanessa Losada P. Vanessa Losada

Festival Stage Construction* Scenic Construction Scenic Painter Installation Design Curtains and Drape Construction Seating Construction Props Master

Bella Faccia Inc. and Paul Falcon Design Foundry and Cory Frank Christine Barnette Southside Design & Building Fabrikate and Rose Brand Seating Solutions Chelsea Dean

Assistant Costume Designer Wig Design Wardrobe Head Second Hand

Adalia Tonnyeck J. Jared Janas Cidney Forkpah Christine Barringer and Andrew Reilly Maria Bissex, Hannah Herold, and Courtney Wood Marie Jeanne Dusseck and Edward Dawson George Washington University Program of Theatre and Dance Costume Shop

Stitchers Tailors Costume Construction

Rigging and Lighting Assistant Lighting Designer Production Electrician Master Electrician Lighting Programmer

Atmosphere Heather Reynolds Jim Jenets Alex Keen Ben Fichthorn

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Musicians

Emil Abramyan, Alex Camp, Alexander Davis, Grey Paulus Original Music of the Mechanicals by John Floyd, Britt Herring, Jacob Ming-Trent, John-Alexander Sakelos, Sabrina Lynne Sawyer, Kathryn Zoerb Sound Engineer Sound Equipment Assistant Sound Engineer Marketing Consultants Advertising Agency Typesetter Graphic Design Consultant Production Photography Promotional Videographer Archival Video Open Captioning

Stanley Kelly PRG, Inc Rebecca Gustafson Peggy Ryan and Natalie Graves Tucker OpenBox9 Barbara Shaw Emily Tartanella Brittany Diliberto and Cameron Whitman Mari Harsan Studios WAPAVA C2

Acknowledgements: Louis Butelli, Hillary Caldwell, Capitol Hill Hotel, Tameika Chavis, Janet Alexander Griffin, Andrew F. Griffin, Mariah Hale, Jessica Ko, Dunniela Kaufman Levin, Katelyn Manfre, Moran Transportation, Cody Nickell, Kate Eastwood Norris, Matt Otto, Robert Richmond, Chase Rynd, Betsy Salazar, Leon Swerdel-Rich, Jamee Telford, Ray Jones, Capitol Hill Stay, Rentex, Nicole Pace from Sojourn LLC, Terry Tyler from World Travel Service; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Maria Manuela Goyanes, Emika Abe and Dylan Arredondo. The Staff of the National Building Museum with a special acknowledgement to Aileen Fuchs, Executive Director; Cathy Frankel, Vice President for Exhibitions and Collections; Jacquelyn Sawyer, Vice President of Education and Engagement; Esther White, Vice President of External Relations and Development; Lori Ann Youngblood, Vice President of Operations and Strategy; Chris Frame, Special Events Director; Amanda Hodges, Visitor Services Manager; and Meghan Kolbusch. 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.

PARTNERS The National Building Museum inspires curiosity about the world we design and build. We believe that understanding the history and impact of architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, construction, and design is important for all ages. Through exhibitions and educational programs, we show how the built world has power to shape our lives, communities, and futures. Visit www.nbm.org. The University of South Carolina is a globally recognized, highimpact research university committed to a superior student experience and to innovation in learning, research and community engagement. Founded in 1801, the university is a top-tier Carnegie Foundation research institution offering the No. 1 ﬁrst-year student experience among public universities and more than 300 academic degree programs. More than 50,000 students are enrolled at one of 20 locations throughout the state, including the research campus in Columbia. With 60 nationally ranked academic programs — including top-ranked programs in international business, the nation’s best honors college and distinguished programs in engineering, law, medicine, public health and the arts — the university is helping to build healthier, more educated communities in South Carolina and around the world.

SUPPORTERS Folger Theatre Sponsors

Folger Shakespeare Library

With special thanks to those donors who have supported Folger Theatre with sponsorship gifts over the past two years.

Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully acknowledges the kind support of the following donors. The list below includes gifts and pledges of $250 or more received between June 01, 2021 and June 01, 2022.

Season Sponsors

$50,000+

Maygene and Steve Daniels Helen and David Kenney and Family Neal T. Turtell*

Production Sponsors Nicky Cymrot Nancy and Steve Howard Robin and Roger Millay

Contributing Sponsors Judy Areen and Richard Cooper Keith and Celia Arnaud Howard M. Brown Timothy J. Carlton Denise Gwyn Ferguson Louis and Bonnie Cohen Margaret and David Gardner Dr. David E. Johnson and Ms. Wendy Frieman Gail Kern Paster Weissberg Foundation

Artist Sponsors Karl K. and Carrol Benner Kindel

Associate Sponsors Pam McFarland and Brian Hagenbuch Andrea “Andi” Kasarsky Rick Kasten Julianna Mahley

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 (1987-2015), recognizing the creation of the Lily St. John McKee Memorial Fund.

Anonymous Richard D. Batchelder, Jr. Rebecca Bushnell & John Toner Vinton & Sigrid Cerf D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts Jody Enders Stephen Kieran J. May Liang & James Lintott Dr. Nancy Klein Maguire Jacqueline Badger Mars Share Fund Ramie Targoff & Stephen Greenblatt

$25,000-$49,999 Twiss & Patrick Butler Fund The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Maygene & Steve Daniels Susan Sachs Goldman Lannan Foundation The Honorable Eugene & Dr. Carol Ludwig Kathleen Lynch & John Blaney Jack McKay Robin & Roger Millay David M. Taylor

$15,000 -$24,999 D. Jarrett & Nora Arp Florence & Neal Cohen Louis & Bonnie Cohen Mr. Jonathan Hope & Ms. Ayanna Thompson Dr. David E. Johnson & Ms. Wendy Frieman Leander & Stephanie McCormick-Goodhart William & Louisa Newlin Dr. Peggy H. O’Brien & Mr. Michael Ellis-Tolaydo Gail Kern Paster The Nora Roberts Foundation Shakespeare’s Globe, USA

$10,000-$14,999 The Boston Foundation The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.

Emily & Michael Eig Estate of Elizabeth Eisenstein Denise Gwyn Ferguson The Lee & Juliet Folger Fund Gilbane Building Company Dr. Stephen H. Grant Ruth Hansen & Lawrence Plotkin Mr. & Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Nancy & Steve Howard Maxine Isaacs The Honorable John D. Macomber The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation Mars Foundation Morgan Fund at Seattle Foundation Mr. & Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II The Shubert Foundation David Smith & Ilene Weinreich Ms. Ednajane Truax Nicole & Steve Winard

$5,000-$9,999 Anonymous (5) Keith & Celia Arnaud Ambassador Jeff Bleich & Ms. Becky Bleich Ms. Gigi Bradford & Mr. Jim Stanford Heather & Dick Cass Ms. Judith Matthews Craig Philip Deutch & Marne Levine Melody & Albert Fetske Mr. & Mrs. William Foulkes The Helen Clay Frick Foundation John & Meg Hauge Mr. David Hitz Mr. David H. Hofstad Helen & David Kenney Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel Mr. Michael Lebovitz & Ms. Ana Paludi Mr. Myron Lehtman Dr. Kathleen M. Lesko Mr. Larry Lu Lu J.C. & Mary McElveen Mr. Charles E. Moleski Terence R. Murphy, O.B.E. & Patricia Sherman Murphy Mr. Daniel Neal & Ms. Heller An Shapiro The Nussdorf Family Gail Orgelfinger & Charles Hanna Patricia A. Parker Dwight & Kirsten Poler Mr. Ben Reiter & Mrs. Alice Goldman Reiter Gabriela & Douglas Smith Paul Smith & Michael Dennis Ms. Szilvia E. Szmuk-Tanenbaum Louis B. Thalheimer & Juliet A. Eurich

SUPPORTERS Mary Augusta & George D. Thomas Ms. Kathryn M. Truex Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan Tara Ghoshal Wallace Kathie & Mike Williams

$2,500-$4,999 Gary Abrecht Bill & Sunny Alsup Ms. Jerrilyn V. Andrews & Mr. Donald E. Hesse Mr. David E. Brewster & Ms. Linda L. Ayres D. James Baker & Emily Lind Baker Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Brown Howard M. Brown Capitol Hill Community Foundation Timothy J. Carlton The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts Ms. Harriet H. Davis Porter & Lisa Dawson Dr. Terry Dwyer & Dr. Marcy F. Petrini Rose & John Eberhardt Mr. Leo S. Fisher & Ms. Sue J. Duncan Nancy Ebb & Gary Ford Florence & Peter D. Hart Wyatt R. & Susan N. Haskell Ms. Christine Healey & Mr. Ryan C. Brown The H. John Heinz Family Fund of the Pittsburgh Foundation Ms. Anita G. Herrick Deidre Holmes DuBois & Christopher E. DuBois Rosa Joshi Andrea “Andi” Kasarsky Derek & Leora Kaufman David & Lenka Lundsten Mark McConnell & Leslie Delagran Martin & Elaine Miller Mr. E. Craig Moody Hon. & Mrs. Thomas Moukawsher Carl & Undine Nash Prof. Klaus Nehring & Dr. Yang-Ro Yoon Mr. & Mrs. Michael Neuman Mike Newton & Dr. Linda Werling Darcy & Andrew Nussbaum Shari Lawrence Pfleeger & Charles P. Pfleeger

Whayne & Ursula Quin Lt. Gen Robt E Schmidle, Jr., USMC (ret) & Pamela E. Schmidle Lois G. Schwoerer Prof. Barbara A. Shailor Ph.D & Prof. Harry W. Blair II Ph.D Joanne M. Sten Robert J. & Tina M. Tallaksen Amy & Mark Tercek Toby & Stacie Webb Mr. David Weisman & Ms. Jacqueline Michel Nyla & William G. Witmore Ms. Louisa Woodville & Mr. Nigel R. Ogilvie Mr. David Zapolsky & Ms. Lynn Hubbard

$1,000-$2,499 Anonymous (5) Dr. Peter J. Albert & Ms. Charlotte Mahoney American Friends of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Inc. Bess & Greg Ballentine Ms. Lisa U. Baskin Mr. Richard Ben-Veniste & Ms. Donna Grell Ms. Ann Billingsley Dr. Jean C. Bolan Susan & Dixon Butler Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Callahan Ms. Doritt Carroll Ms. Merritt Chesley Mr. Richard H. Cleva Professor Anne E. Coldiron Mr. Mark D. Colley & Ms. Deborah A. Harsch Mr. & Mrs. William E. Cooke Ronald M. Costell, M.D., & Marsha E. Swiss Mr. Andrew C. Cross & Ms. Jamie M. Patten Jeffrey P. Cunard & Mariko Ikehara Ms. Sarah A. Davidson Dr. & Mrs. William Davis Ms. Maura Dollymore Lorraine S. Dreyfuss Theatre Education Fund Dr. Ross W. Duffin & Dr. Beverly J. Simmons Mr. Douglas H. Erwin & Dr. Wendy Wiswall Mrs. John Eustice Abbey S. & Kenneth M. Fagin Ms. Laurie Fletcher & Dr. Allan Fraser

Robert & Carole Fontenrose Mr. William Gembus Jere Gibber & J.G. Harrington Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Gill Ms. Barbara Goldberg Mr. Gregg H.S. Golden & Dr. Laura George Ms. Patricia Gray Dr. Martha Gross & Mr. Robert Tracy Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn & Dr. John Y. Cole Michael J. Hirrel An anonymous donor advised fund at the Chicago Community Foundation Ms. Elizabeth A. Hylton Ms. Elizabeth M. Janthey Mr. Glen Johnson Ms. Belinda Kane Sherman & Maureen Katz The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Ms. Kathleen Knepper Kathleen Cogan Kovach Mr. & Mrs. Russell LaMotte Dr. Calvin C. Linnemann & Rev. Patricia G. Linnemann Mr. & Mrs. Robert Case Liotta Mrs. Peter Lockwood Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Lyon Mr. Thomas G. MacCracken Mr. Edward McNicholas Ms. Antoinette Miller Ms. Kristie Miller Dr. Robert S. Miola The Honorable Mary V. Mochary Jane & Paul Molloy Mr. Jonathan Mormino Betty & Jeffrey Myers Dr. Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Mrs. Jean F. Nordhaus Dr. Jessie Ann Owens Oxford University Press, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Peter Parshall Charles & Susan Parsons Anne Parten & Philip Nelson Dr. Hans S. Pawlisch Estate of Marion D. Perret Ms. Sheila J. Peters Mr. Norman Philion Mr. Eugene Pinkard & Ms. Liska Friedman Michael & Penelope Pollard Mr. Arthur Warren & Mr. James Pridgen Ms. Kristine Pumphrey

SUPPORTERS Ms. Rosamond Wolff Purcell & Mr. Dennis Purcell Daniel L. Rabinowitz & Ann F. Thomas Mrs. Donald Rappaport Ms. Rebecca Ravenal Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Mr. James Roberts Dr. Markley Roberts Dr. Karen Robertson Mr. James Sandman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Saunders Marilyn & Hugh South Ms. Nancy E. Stanley Tom & Pat Stevens Mr. Douglas Struck Ms. Ruth Taylor Kidd Mr. Leslie C. Taylor Mr. Nigel Twose & Ms. Priscilla Annamanthodo The Honorable Seth Waxman & Ms. Debra Goldberg Gail Weinmann & Nathan Billig Ms. Kimberly R. West Ms. Carolyn L. Wheeler Dr. Brandy J. White Mr. Donald E. White & Ms. Betty W. Good-White Professor R L Widmann Mr. Pat M. Woodward Jr. Anne & Fred Woodworth Ms. Helena E. Wright Dr. Justin Zaremby & Dr. John S. Gordon Mr. Gerald Zarr

$500-$999 Anonymous (2) Mr. & Mrs. Howard Ahmanson Ms. Ann Allen Abdulhamit Arvas Mr. & Mrs. David Bair Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Barry Ms. Kyle Z. Bell & Mr. Alan G.R. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bott Kathleen Burger & Glen Gerada Ms. Victoria Butler & Mr. Tim Carney Mr. & Mrs. Lewis R. Cabe Professor Carmen A. Casís Ms. Jillian Catalanotti Dr. Caroline M. Chiccarelli Leslie & Ray Clevenger Linda & John Cogdill Eric & Michelle Cornish Dr. John W. Cox & Dr. Lo-Ann T. Nguyen-Cox Ms. Jeanne De Sa

Ms. Dorothea W. Dickerman & Mr. Richard Kevin Becker Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Eater Ms. Susan Edmondson Ms. Roberta L. Ellington Marjorie & Anthony Elson Dr. William E. Engel Louise H. Engle Mr. Gerald Feierstein & Ms. Carolyn McIntyre Charles Fendig & Maria Fisher Ms. Jo Anne Freed Chris & Susan Gifford Donald Gilman Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Goelzer Professor Suzanne Gossett Mr. Bruce N. Gregory & Ms. Paula Causey Ms. Maria E. Grosjean Donald & Susan Guiney Mr. & Mrs. C. David Gustafson Mr. Robert T. Haas & Ms. Anne Roger Ms. Sheridan Harvey Mrs. Anthony E. Hecht Ms. Vicki R. Herrmann Mr. & Mrs. Paul Huey-Burns Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Hurst Ms. Virginia James Dr. Karen Lisa Jerome Mr. James Johnston Dr. & Mrs. Russel C. Jones Ms. Sara W. Kane Mr. Kenneth Karmiole Barbara & Steve Keller Mr. Christopher Kendall & Ms. Susan Schilperoort Mr. & Mrs. Keith L. Knowlton Dr. Marcel C. LaFollette & Dr. Jeffrey K. Stine Dr. Denny Lane & Dr. Naoko Aoki Mr. Daniel Larkins Mr. Mark Samuels Lasner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon Dr. Frank Lemoine Professor Fred J. Levy & Ms. Nancy Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence H. Liden Ms. Esther M. Mackintosh Ms. Ellen Maland & Mr. Donald B. Adams Mr. Tom Manteuffel & Ms. Rachel Manteuffel Dr. Lewis Markoff & Dr. Caroline Samuels Mr. Winton E. Matthews, Jr. Mr. Roger Mattioli Ms. Catherine McClave Mr. & Mrs. George K. Miller

Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Miller Mr. & Ms. Stephen S. Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Vince Morelli Sheila A. Murphy Donald Nathan Ms. Willa Nathan Mrs. Winkle W. Nemeth Professor Leonard Niehoff Mr. Joe M. Norton Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. O’Sullivan Mrs. Marina S. Ottaway Mr. Henry Otto Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Palmer Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Parr Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Mrs. Judith Paulos Linda Levy Peck Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Dr. & Mrs. Warren S. Poland Mr. & Mrs. James S. Polk Mr. John R. Preston Joanne Ruxin Dr. Jacob B. Salomon Dr. James Shapiro Dr. & Mrs. Daniel A. Shore Patricia L. Sims, Esq. & David M. Sims, Esq. Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Sollinger Richard Spear & Athena Tacha Spear Mr. Carl Steidtmann Mr. Paul Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Donald Street Mr. Tom Strikwerda Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell A. Sutterfield Mr. John M. Taylor Ms. Lynn Trundle James & Carol Tsang Mr. & Mrs. James T. Turner Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Van Voorhees Ms. Christine L. Vaughn & Mr. Christopher A. Dunn Ms. Linda Wanerman Mr. Christopher White Webster Mr. David Weiss Ms. Jacqueline West Dorothy B. Wexler Dr. & Mrs. Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Ms. Maureen Wilkin Mr. Michael A. Winkelman Dr. Robert Wittes & Dr. Janet Wittes Laura Yerkovich & John Winkler Ms. Abby L. Yochelson & Mr. Wallace Mlyniec

SUPPORTERS $250-$499 Anonymous (14) Mr. Robert Adler Mr. Stephen Ahern Mr. Thomas Ahern Jr. Carolyn & Bob Axt Ms. Suzanne Bakshian & Mr. Vincent A. Chiappinelli Ms. Mary W. Ballard Mr. & Mrs. David B. Barefoot Ms. Danielle M. Beauchamp Mr. & Mrs. David M. Beckmann Mr. Brent James Bennett Ellen S. Berelson & Larry Franks Dr. Katherine Berry & Mr. Christian Buchmann Ms. Catherine Blake & Dr. Frank Eisenberg Mr. Lawrence M. Blim Dr. & Mrs. David W. Blois Mr. James L. Blum Dr. Dorothy P. Boerner George H. Booth, II Dr. Roberta Brody Dr. James C. Bulman Professor Charles Butterworth Mr. Eric J. Carpenter Faya Causey Professor Susan P. Cerasano Dr. Morris J. Chalick Ms. Patricia Clark Mr. Randall Clark & Ms. Lauren St. John Adam & Debbie Cohen Dr. & Mrs. Eliot A. Cohen Mr. David M. Colbert Mr. Robert S. Cole, Jr. Ms. Terri Cole Dr. Theresa M. Coletti Mr. & Mrs. John Scott Colley Mr. & Mrs. John J. Collins Mr. John W. Conlee Marianne Constable Ms. Helen A. Cook Robert W. Cover II & Bonnie Lepoff Ms. Louise K. Crane Mr. John Cuddy Mr. Jefferson James Davis Mr. & Mrs. Dominick Demarco Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. DeVincentis Mr. John Driscoll Col. & Mrs. Valentine Dugie Ms. Farleigh Earhart Mr. Edward L. Eisenstein Ms. Erika Elvander Susan Fawcett & Richard Donovan Ms. Joan P. Ferrell John & Paula Finedore Ms. Joyce Marie Flaherty Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Foreman

Mr. Dennis Fravel Ms. Rhonda Friedler Mr. Roland Mushat Frye, Jr. & Ms. Susan M. Pettey Dr. Mary C. Fuller Dr. Robert A. Gaines Patricia Gallagher & Stephen Greenberg Professor Alison F. Games Mr. Christopher Gassett Ms. Elizabeth Gemmill Brent Glass & Cathryn Keller Mr. & Mrs. Michael Goldstein Mr. John E. Graves, RIA & Ms. Hanh Phan Ms. Ann Greer Neal & Janice Gregory Ridgway & Jill Hall Ms. Leslie A. Hall & Mr. William L. Busis Ms. Michelle C. Hamecs Professor Joan E. Hartman Ms. Karen L. Hawkins Ms. Barbara W. Hazelett Ms. Glenna M. Hazeltine Robert E. Hebda Mr. Kent Heimer & Ms. Dawn Hoffmann Mr. & Mrs. Jay Herson Mr. & Mrs. Fred Hill Ms. Sari Hornstein Professor Jean E. Howard Mavis Huang & Erica Huang Mr. & Mrs.* Richard S. Huffman Ms. Sandra Hussey Mr. Thomas E. Joseph Mr. Peter Judd Dr. & Mrs. Paul L. Kaufman Dr. Arthur B. Kennickell Mr. Clark H. Killion Mr. Robert L. Kimmins Mr. & Mrs. Steve Kitchen Mr. Thomas F. Koegel & Ms. Anne U. LaFollette Mr. Michael Kolakowski Dr. Natasha Korda Ms. Diane Kresh Ms. Suzanne Labiner Mr. Matthew P. LaFortune & Ms. Erin M. Graham Mr. David W. Lankford Drs. Douglas & Janet Laube Mr. John D. Lawrence Dr. Robert Lawshe Dr. Carole Levin Mr. Roy Lind Ms. Freddi Lipstein & Mr. Scott Berg Joseph & Sonya Livingston Mr. Joseph Loewenstein & Ms. C. Lynne Tatlock Professor Kathleen P. Long

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