By Jessica Swale Directed by Robert Richmond
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FROM THE DIRECTOR “Try to learn how to make the familiar strange, and the strange familiar. Direct Shakespeare like it’s a new play, and treat every new play as if it’s Shakespeare.” –Sam Mendes Nell Gwynn is the first non Shakespeare play I have directed at the Folger. It was with great delight that I accepted the opportunity to direct Jessica Swale’s play, and Sam Mendes’ words were my guiding light throughout the rehearsal process. What a thrill it has been to bring this ageold story, told in a fresh new way, to this stage. From the 1600s to the 2000s, Nell Gwynn remains an inspiration. This extraordinary woman’s story of survival, vulnerability, tenacity, and honesty could not be more vital in our current cultural conversation. When Gwynn first took the stage, it was a groundbreaking moment. Swale’s play is a valentine to the inclusion she introduced, and to the power of theater to offer a shared experience for all people —no matter who or what you might be.
On the heels of the amazing Fall 2018 production of Macbeth, the creative team and I are once again steeped in the world of Restoration theater. The second of two productions sharing the same historical period, Nell Gwynn has been an opportunity for us all to deepen and extend our research further. It has inspired us to uncover more exciting plays, women, and other important figures of that time. This production of Nell Gwynn also introduces new talents to the Folger. During our extensive casting sessions for this project, we met many very talented artists. One of these artists was Alison Luff, who positively lit up the New York audition room. Alison’s authenticity and innate kindness make her a perfect fit for Nell Gwynn, and we are delighted to welcome her to the Folger stage. The journey of making this show has been a pleasure for the cast, crew, and designers alike. We are very happy to share it with you. Enjoy! – Robert Richmond 5
A CONVERSATION WITH THE PLA Jessica Swale talks to arts journalist Heather Neill about the world of Nell Gwynn Heather Neill: Nell Gwynn, orange seller and mistress of Charles II, is a figure of legend, but where did she come from? Jessica Swale: It’s hard to know exactly; workingclass lives weren’t recorded in enough detail for there to be accurate records, but many believe she was brought up in Coal Pan (Yard) Alley in Covent Garden, where her mother, “Old Ma Gwynn,” kept a brothel. Nell probably worked there, either serving drinks to clients or as a prostitute…. Her father died in a debtors’ prison and she had one sister called Rose. Part of the joy of writing Nell Gwynn has been sketching around the bones of the known facts, imagining and inventing. I never set out to write a documentarystyle play, but even if I had, the task would have proved impossible with the inconsistencies and contradictions in her history. What was theater like when it was reestablished after Cromwell’s Commonwealth? When Charles II returned from France in 1660, he licensed two theater companies in London: Killigrew’s “King’s Company” at Drury Lane and Davenant’s “Duke’s 6
Company” at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. I imagine Killigrew must have been under tremendous pressure as the two companies were in constant Jessica Swale competition…. As for John Dryden [poet and playwright, who is among Nell Gwynn’s characters], it is funny that so many of his plays are badly written, but he must have felt the weight of expectation; theater was reemerging after an eleven year gap, he was at the helm of the new culture, the King wanted new plays—it can’t have been easy. No wonder they reinvented so many familiar texts. There was a fashion for rewriting Shakespeare, cheering up the tragedies. King Lear was given a new ending in which Cordelia survives, and Dryden wrote a “new play” called The Enchanted Island, about Prospero and his two daughters—Miranda and Dorinda. Sound familiar? Yet, though his plays haven’t stood the test of time, he was a successful poet and even became Poet Laureate. How did the first actresses fit into the picture? Charles II had seen actresses on stage in Paris and decided it was high time we followed fashion. However, the early actresses got a rather raw deal. Writers knew the audiences’ interest in actresses was often voyeuristic, so played into this
AYWRIGHT by writing bodyexposing rape scenes, or writing “breeches parts,” in which women, disguised as tight trousered men (exposing their shapely legs) were then revealed to be female with the dramatic exposure of their breasts. Male audience members often paid an extra penny to watch the actresses change, many of whom were prostitutes. This was Nell’s world, but I wanted her to question it. You have actors demonstrating “attitudes,” poses to indicate emotions. Would the acting style have seemed alien to us? It’s easy to assume that it was melodramatic, but actually [diarist Samuel] Pepys describes the best actors as seeming real, so I wonder if the style somehow used precise physical positions as a structure, rather like ballet, whilst still being emotionally connected, like naturalism. The “attitudes” weren’t static poses but frameworks of movements and gestures that actors used to underscore the text. As theaters were large buildings, it was important that emotion could be read in an actor’s posture. Heightened emotion, stylized, but still real. How much is known of Nell’s relationship with the king? I think they really were in love. She was his favorite mistress for many years, and they spent a lot of private time together. He had a secret
passage built from his court rooms in Westminster to her house in Pall Mall, so they could rendezvous for card games and evenings away from the public. Unlike Barbara Castlemaine, she made no attempt to interfere in politics and never asked for a title for herself (though she did for her sons). Louise de Kéroualle, another favorite mistress and Nell’s rival, was tremendously unpopular and was known as “the Catholic whore.” There’s a story that a crowd once attacked Nell’s coach thinking Louise was inside, so Nell merrily stuck her head out and said, “Hold, good people, I am the Protestant whore!” which garnered whoops and cheers from the delighted onlookers. The Continued on page 9
Madame Ellen Gwinn and her two sons, Charles Earl of Beaufort and James Lord Beauclaire (by R. Tomson after Peter Lely). 1883. Folger Shakespeare Library.
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people loved her because she was one of them. And, of course, there’s Charles’ famous dying wish, “Let not poor Nellie starve.” Who was Arlington, the courtier? Arlington was an ambitious advisor to the king, significantly older and more experienced. I’ve conflated him with Buckingham to give Charles a righthand man. He may seem outspoken in his manner with the king, but the reality is that the court was terribly shaken after the Commonwealth, and it was essential that Charles didn’t put a foot wrong. The divine right of kings had just been reestablished, order restored, the aristocrats returned. If Arlington and his courtiers could ensure the king’s image was spotless, divine, he would stay on this pedestal. But, if his saintly image was tarnished by an affair with a prostitute from Coal Pan Alley, who would see him as divine then? What would stop the next Cromwell? One of your themes is celebrity. It’s fascinating to ask whether Nell’s celebrity was because of her brilliance as an actress or because she was the king’s mistress. Pamphleteers—like paparazzi today—would quickly report the activities of the famous, and Charles and his mistresses were the hot topic. There was such a frenzy to see him that they even allowed the public into the gallery to watch him eat dinner at night. There was a culture of writing lewd poems about society figures. So if there are a few
Rendering of King Charles II by Mariah Anzaldo Hale
dirty jokes in the play, don’t blame me. It’s all in the name of historical accuracy…. Was it difficult to distinguish fact from legend and gossip? Yes, and I made a decision early on that the play should be an entertaining homage to Nell rather than an attempt at documentary style historical accuracy…. The key events of the play are historically accurate, but I’ve allowed myself to embellish. Primarily, I wanted it to be fun. And if it’s a play that Nell would have enjoyed, that’s enough for me. Interview first appeared in Shakespeare’s Globe program with the play’s premiere in 2015. Reprinted with permission of Heather Neill, a freelance journalist and arts writer in the UK.
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CONSIDER THE ORANGE Devouring Nell Gwynn The historical Nell Gwynn provoked great fascination during her life, forming the subject of poems, pamphlets, and popular ballads, from the scurrilous to the rapturous to the just plain gossipy. While the immediate focus of that attention was upon Gwynn’s sexual power, images of and references to food also played a large role in describing her unique magnetism. Perhaps the single most potent symbol associated with her— one that echoed her extremes of sordidness and glamour, of Englishness and exoticism—was the orange. As part of Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures, the Folger’s first Mellon initiative in collaborative research, we set out to consider how food helped shape both Nell Gwynn’s life and how we think about her today. We don’t know exactly how Nell Gwynn got her professional start, but from an early age she probably engaged in food service. She once reportedly told a fellow actor that as a child she served liquor at a bawdy house (possibly the one run by her mother), and a contemporary source describes Nell as hawking herring, oysters, or turnips on Detail from Hieronymi Tragi, De stirpium… 1552. Folger Shakespeare Library. the London streets. She entered the world of the London theater as an orange seller, under the employment of Mary Meggs, a former prostitute known as “Orange Moll.” The Restoration theater was a vibrant, noisy place, where gallants and commoners mixed, talked, fought, drank, ate, and enjoyed the show. Meggs was granted an exclusive concession to sell “oranges, lemons, fruit, 10
sweetmeats and all manner of fruiterers and confectioners wares” at the King’s Company’s theater. She hired Nell and her younger sister, Rose, to do it for her. That a lowly orange girl at the base of the stage might make the leap to the boards themselves might seem unlikely, but in fact female criers were renowned for their strong and expressive voices, and they made their way as sympathetic characters into plays, such as Lady Conscience in Robert Wilson’s Three Ladies of London (1596), long before they appeared there as actors. Oranges, like Gwynn herself, held a curious fascination for Restoration England. Originating in tropical Asia, bitter oranges arrived in the Mediterranean with Arab traders in the Middle Ages, with sweet oranges following by the early 16th century. The English developed a taste for these imports from exotic, often hostile lands, and by Shakespeare’s time they were arriving by the boatload—a single ship from Spain delivered 40,000 oranges to English shores in 1568. The first English orangeries were established a dozen years later, and soon became a fashionable must have for aristocratic gardeners. By the Restoration, oranges, especially those grown by England’s old enemy Spain, were treasured. The memoirist Ann, Lady Fanshawe recorded in 1665 a gift of Spanish “orange water, which is reputed the best in the world.”
Just as oranges became the darlings of the wealthy, they were also becoming accessible to any theatergoing commoner. And their very sweetness and exoticism also opened them to charges of decadence and deceit. In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio accuses his lover, Hero, of infidelity, calling her “this rotten orange.” By the time Nell Gwynn got through with them, oranges would become so thoroughly associated with prostitution that Claudio’s slur in Much Ado would be dropped from most productions of the play from the 18th century to the 20th—the line was seen as simply too racy for a genteel audience. The orange’s oscillation between aristocratic icon and emblem of unruly female sexuality was embodied in the person of Nell Gwynn, the Restoration heroine who personified both. –David B. Goldstein, CoDirector Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures The Folger explores interconnections among theater offering, exhibition, and commissioned art through collaborative conversations sparked by Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures, the inaugural project in an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiative in collaborative research. Convened by the Folger Institute, the project touches on oranges in the Restoration theater, sugar production in the Caribbean, consumption in the aristocratic homes of England, and the professional cooks who began to leave a mark in the public consciousness.
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FROM THE DRAMATURG Nell Gwynn (1650–1687) may be unknown to contemporary playgoers, but her grit, wit and feisty talents deserve kudos even three and a half centuries past her initial turn on stage. Hats off to playwright Jessica Swale for seeing to it that she gets them. Gwynn was among the first women to perform in the English theater. She went from hawking oranges to peddling verse. As any good comedienne will tell you (and Nell preferred comedy to tragedy, hands down): timing is everything. Her foray into performance occurred precisely when an illiterate but exuberant citrus seller could sway a theatrical genre and a king’s heart tout de suite. When Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660, professional theater was restored to England. The King issued two patents to playing companies: the first to Thomas Killigrew, manager of The King’s Men (or Company); and the second to William Davenant, who managed The Duke’s Company. (Folger patrons will recognize Davenant as the adaptor of the Macbeth that opened the current season). For reasons about which we may speculate, the King encouraged the two companies to “henceforth permit women to play women’s parts.” Formal acting training was made available to women, but Gwynn was fasttracked to the boards, thanks to the attention of theater artists Charles Hart and John Lacey, and likely that of Killigrew himself. Gwynn 12
took to it. Her quick wit and earthy banter distinguished her from other female performers of the time, such as Moll Davies, Margaret Hughes, and Ann Marshall. Though to the discerning eye of diarist Samuel Pepys, Davies’s dancing was superior to Gwynn’s, Gwynn nevertheless delivered “so great performance of a comical part [a]s never, I believe, in the world before.” The use of “actoresses” affected activity on theatrical stages and pages alike. In the words of Swale’s Killigrew, the use of real women means female characters “won’t need to be so feminine anymore.” Rather than rehash portraits of idealized ladies defined by extraordinary chastity or patience, playwrights crafted roles with an eye toward the actresses who would play them. In the 17th century, a woman’s choice to embrace the stage would instantly distance her from traditional notions of temperance and virtue. The very nature of performance put an actress’s body on display, and feminine speech—an accepted sign of female wantonness—was the actress’s primary tool. These early women of theater were no shrinking violets. Scholars attending to Restoration Comedy consistently note a shift among female characters in their more pronounced demonstrations of wit, autonomy, and desire.
Gwynn offered up to audiences a clever mind, playful charm, skillful mimicry, and a frankness of appetite for which she was wholly unashamed. She took her mentor Charles Hart as a lover, and later Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst. When she captured the heart of Charles II, King of England, she insisted that to her he was Charles the third. Gwynn became the King’s mistress toward the end of the 1660s. Biographers write that he was taken by her “madcap wit, at once so innocent and penetrating” (Beauclerk). Plus, she taught Charles how to fish. Unlike his other mistresses (and this sovereign had more than a few), Gwynn did not press him for a title for herself, though she did so for their firstborn son. He became Charles, Duke of St. Albans, the only one of the couple’s two sons to survive to adulthood. Gwynn’s career did not end with her move from a theatrical house to a royal one. She returned to the stage after Charles’s birth, three years into her relationship with the King. The choice to continue with a career, however briefly, suggests her attachment to the art. Audiences flocked to Gwynn, impressed by her craft, her bedfellow, or both. Swale’s play indicates similarities between the theater and court, actor and politician, and the dangers and delights of a live audience. Gwynn coaches her hesitant King on the value of action, and on the benefits of collaboration and trust, essential
to players of all kinds. Her unexpected relationship with Charles II lasted over eighteen years until his death in 1685. On his deathbed, Charles spoke of his “poor Nelly,” urging her remembrance and, we might imagine, the conclusion of a quite remarkable run. –Michele Osherow
SYNOPSIS The Commonwealth is dead. Long live the King! As women first appear on the English stage, Nell Gwynn peddles oranges at the new theater in Drury Lane to help support her sister, Rose, and her mother. Crushing a heckling patron with her sharp wit and comedic grace, Nell catches the eye, and affection, of Charles Hart, lead actor in the King’s Company. Under Hart’s tutelage, she channels her charms into a different kind of performance, impressing the theater manager, Thomas Killigrew, as well as the playwright John Dryden. And so it is that Nell swaps orangeselling in the audience for acting on the stage. As she enchants her theatergoing public, Nell captures the heart of England’s new king, for whom mistresses offer the spice of life. Resisting the fierce objections of Lord Arlington, his chief political advisor, King Charles II grows devoted to a young actress raised up from her mother’s Coal Pan Alley brothel. But with the affections of Charles comes the acrimony of court life, and Nell must choose her favorite part to play. 13
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WHO’S WHO
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KING CHARLES II—Known as the “Merry Monarch,” Charles II reigned during the Restoration period following the English Civil War, in which his father, King Charles I, was executed. As a young man, he lived in exile for nine years in Continental Europe, from which he returned in 1660 with decidedly European cultural tastes. As king, he was criticized for his inability to act decisively, appearing fearful of upsetting the balance of power between him, Parliament, and his people. Without legitimate heirs, he named his younger brother James his successor—the last Catholic to reign in England. CHARLES HART—Lauded leading actor of the King’s Company, Hart performed at Drury Lane during the Restoration. It is widely believed that he and Nell were lovers, and that Hart helped train Nell as an actor. THOMAS KILLIGREW—Best remembered as manager of both the King’s Company and Drury Lane, Killigrew began his career as a dramatist. He supported the monarchy and went into exile during the Civil War. After the monarchy was restored to the English throne, for his allegiance Killigrew was granted a coveted royal license to form the King’s Company. He was later appointed Master of the Revels, the official who regulated England’s entertainment industry. JOHN DRYDEN—Dryden was one of the most prolific literary figures of the Restoration era. A playwright, translator, and poet, Dryden helped cultivate a distinct style of writing associated with the period. Working with actress Nell Gwynn, he wrote plays that would highlight her talents. King Charles II named Dryden England’s Poet Laureate.
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EDWARD KYNASTON—Kynaston made his name playing women’s roles. Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, referred to Kynaston as the “loveliest lady” he ever saw. Kynaston transitioned to playing male roles in 1662 when it became illegal for men to play female characters. LORD ARLINGTON—During the king’s European exile, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, served as an agent to England’s royal family. He later became secretary of state under Charles II. QUEEN CATHERINE—Daughter of Portugal’s king, Catherine of Braganza was married to King Charles II to secure an alliance between England and Portugal. She is said to have cared for Charles II, who spent most of his time with his many mistresses. Being Catholic in a Protestant land made Catherine an unpopular queen. Members of the court pressured the king to divorce the woman who had borne no heirs, but the two remained married until Charles II’s death. LADY CASTLEMAINE—Barbara Villiers became a favorite among the king’s mistresses, whom he appointed “Lady of the Bedchamber,” despite the queen’s vehement opposition. Villiers was deeply invested in politics: she vied for titles and involved herself in political rivalries in the government. She fell from the king’s favor when he met Louise de Kéroualle. LOUISE DE KÉ́ROUALLE—A French noblewoman, Louise de Kéroualle was a ladyinwaiting to the French king’s sister, with whom she traveled to England in 1670. Members of the court and Parliament conspired with French diplomats to use her to better relations with France. She, too, became a favorite mistress to Charles II—and a rival to Nell Gwynn for his affections.
CAST
(in alphabetical order)
Regina Aquino* Caitlin Cisco* Kevin Collins Christopher Dinolfo* Catherine Flye* R. J. Foster* Quinn Franzen* Michael Glenn* Nigel Gore* Jeff Keogh* Alison Luff* Alex Michell Zoe Speas
Lady Castlemaine, Louise de Kéroualle Rose Gwynn Musician Edward Kynaston Nancy, Ma Gwynn King Charles II Charles Hart John Dryden Thomas Killigrew Lord Arlington Nell Gwynn Ned Spigget Queen Catherine, Musician Understudies
Kimberly Braun (Nell Gwynn) Darrell Johnston (Charles Hart,
Robin Weiner (Musicians) Julie Weir (Lady Castlemaine, Louise de
King Charles II) Ned Read (John Dryden) Kevin Collins (Lord Arlington, Thomas Killigrew) Jack Schmitt (Edward Kynaston, Ned Spigget)
Kéroualle)
Renee Elizabeth Wilson (Rose Gwynn, Queen Catherine) Miranda Zola (Nancy, Ma Gwynn)
*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 AFLCIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.
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CAST Regina Aquino Lady Castlemaine, Louise de Kéroualle The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences: Where Words Once Were (World Premiere); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Describe the Night (upcoming), The Arsonists; Olney Theatre Center: Tiger Style! (upcoming); Studio Theatre: Vietgone, Red Light Winter, Dog Sees God (Helen Hayes nomination), Polaroid Stories; Theater Alliance: The Events, brownsville song (bside for tray); Synetic Theater: A Christmas Carol, The Little Mermaid; Rorschach Theatre: Brainpeople; Catalyst Theatre: We Are Not These Hands; Fountainhead Theatre: Top Girls; Discovery Theater: Tigers, Dragons, and Other Wise Tails, Seasons of Light. Broadway: Lincoln Center & Kennedy Center TYA: Where Words Once Were. International: Actor’s Actors Inc. Manila: Our Country’s Good. Film: Double Tap. Television: Codeword Secret.
Caitlin Cisco Rose Gwynn Select New York credits: New Ohio Theatre/La Guardia Performing Arts Center: Songs About Trains; Adler Studio Theater: Loving and Loving; OffBroadway: The Cell Theatre: The Hundred We Are; Regional: Baltimore Center Stage: The White Snake; Capital Rep: 4000 Miles; UV Theater: The Three Sisters, The Seagull; Television: Orange is the New Black. caitlincisco.com
Kevin Collins Musician Constellation Theatre Company: Peter and the Starcatcher (Helen Hayes Award); Solas Nua: The Frederick Douglas Project; Imagination Stage: Wiley and the Hairy Man (Helen Hayes Award); Scena Theatre: The Cripple of Inishmaan; LiveArts DC: Love’s LaBEERs Lost; NextStop Theatre: Richard III; Lean & Hungry Theater: As You Like It; Drunk Tank Productions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth.
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Christopher Dinolfo Edward Kynaston Folger Theatre: Henry IV, Part 1; Ford’s Theatre: Jefferson’s Garden; Olney Theatre Center: Fickle, Hay Fever; Theater J: Sons of the Prophet; Arena Stage: The Normal Heart; Round House Theatre: Next Fall; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Clybourne Park; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Imaginary Invalid, The Alchemist; Studio Theatre: The History Boys; Adventure Theatre: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; Solas Nua: Johnny Meister and The Stitch. Television: Veep.
Catherine Flye Nancy, Ma Gwynn Folger Theatre: Henry V, The Comedy of Errors, The School for Scandal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Clandestine Marriage, All’s Well That Ends Well, She Stoops to Conquer (Helen Hayes nomination, Outstanding Supporting Actress), The Dresser, Private Lives, Lettice and Lovage; Arena Stage: My Fair Lady, George Don’t Do That! (Helen Hayes nomination), Shirley Valentine (Helen Hayes nomination); Shakespeare Theatre Company: Design for Living, Major Barbara, Camino Real, A Woman of No Importance, Volpone, Richard III, Twelfth Night; MetroStage: Shakespeare’s Will, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Seamarks, Rapture (Helen Hayes nomination); Studio Theatre: Moonlight, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Russian Postal Service, Blue Heart; Round House Theatre: Pride and Prejudice (Helen Hayes nomination), Wintertime, Woman in Mind, Absurd Person Singular. Work at additional area theaters includes Signature Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Washington Stage Guild, Olney Theatre Center, and The Kennedy Center. Awards: 13 Helen Hayes nominations for acting and directing, and the Helen Hayes Award for The Pirates of Penzance.
R.J. Foster King Charles II Regional: TheatreSquared: All The Way; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Richard III, The Comedy of Errors; Playhouse on Park: Othello; Bristol Riverside Theatre: Twelfth Night. OffBroadway: Classical Theatre of Harlem/Lincoln Center: Antigone; Billie Holiday Theatre: A Small Oak Tree Runs Red; Classical Theatre of Harlem: Three Musketeers (AUDELCO nomination for Best Supporting Actor); Shakespeare Exchange: Much Ado About Nothing; The Gallery Players: Richard III (AUDELCO nomination for Best Lead Actor); The Shakespeare Forum: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Gallery Players: Othello; Fordham Alumni Theater at Lincoln Center: Deep Are The Roots; Metropolitan Playhouse: Life of Galileo; Pulse Ensemble Theatre: Twelfth Night; Pearl Theatre Company: Hamlet, Cave Dwellers, Toys in the Attic; Bank Street Theater: Edward II. Television: The Code, The Village, Power, Person of Interest, Homeland, The Blacklist, Made in Jersey, Blue Bloods, Damages, Choice, Guiding Light, Fringe, 12:01.
Quinn Franzen Charles Hart Regional: Guthrie Theater: Familiar, We Are Proud to Present...; Intiman Theatre: Angels in America (parts 1 and 2), Romeo and Juliet, Dirty Story; Seattle Rep: Familiar, Hound of the Baskervilles; Seattle Shakespeare Theatre: Othello, Importance of Being Earnest (Gregory Award nomination for Best Lead Actor). OffBroadway: 59e59: Threesome; Gym at Judson: Diaspora. Film: Detective, Detective. Television: Billions, The Blacklist, Younger, Grimm. quinnfranzen.com
Michael Glenn John Dryden Folger Theatre: As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility (Helen Hayes Awards, Outstanding Production and Outstanding Ensemble), The Gaming Table, Henry VIII (Helen Hayes
nomination, Outstanding Ensemble), Hamlet, Arcadia, Twelfth Night, Elizabeth the Queen; Round House Theatre: Stage Kiss, THIS; Studio Theatre: Jumpers for Goalposts (Helen Hayes nomination); Arena Stage: Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Helen Hayes nomination), Good People; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Clybourne Park (Helen Hayes nomination); Olney Theatre Center: Marjorie Prime, Neville’s Island; Theater J: Brighton Beach Memoirs (upcoming), Photograph 51; Constellation Theatre Company: Absolutely! (Perhaps), Scapin, A Flea in Her Ear, On the Razzle; Longacre Lea: Fear, Cat’s Cradle, The Hothouse, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Helen Hayes nomination); Signature Theatre: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Fallen From Proust; Washington Stage Guild: The Underpants, A Skull in Connemara, Major Barbara (Helen Hayes nomination); African Continuum Theatre: Blood Knot (Mary Goldwater Award).
Nigel Gore Thomas Killigrew Folger Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra. Regional: Colorado Shakespeare Festival: Richard III (Westword Denver Award, Best Actor), Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Public Theatre (Boston): Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Eliot Norton Award, Outstanding Actor), Travesties, Arcadia, among others; Oldcastle: A Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Lion in Winter, Ride Down Mt. Morgan; Orlando Shakespeare Theater: Julius Caesar; Shakespeare & Company: The Tempest (Outstanding Actor nomination), Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Mother of the Maid, Women of Will (Shanghai, Prague, The Hague, Mexico); Lyric, Boston: Nicholas Nickleby (Eliot Norton Award Outstanding Actor nomination). New York: TFANA: A Doll’s House, The Father; Bedlam: Sense and Sensibility, The Seagull, Women of Will. International: Prague Shakespeare Festival: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Women of Will. UK: Colchester Repertory: Coriolanus. Film: The Last Knights. Television: Brotherhood (seasons 2 and 3).
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CAST Jeff Keogh
Zoe Speas
Lord Arlington Folger Theatre: Davenant’s Macbeth, As You Like It, Mary Stuart, District Merchants (u/s), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (u/s), Pericles (u/s), Romeo and Juliet (u/s); Studio Theatre: Translations; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Round Table Theatre Company: Macbeth, Hamlet; Miami Theatre Center: company member (2007 2010).
Queen Catherine, Musician Regional: American Shakespeare Center: Jane Austen’s Emma, As You Like It, The Man of Mode, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar, The Importance of Being Earnest, Arms and the Man; Florida Studio Theatre: Mack The Knife: The Bobby Darin Songbook; Virginia Repertory Theatre: Equivocation; Virginia Shakespeare Festival: The Merchant of Venice, Turn of the Screw, Richard III; Richmond Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth; Onomatopoeia Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rhinoceros; Radio Theatre NYC: Murder on Broadway, Ghosts of Christmas Past; Oracular Theatre: Julius Caesar. International: Wales Theatre Company (UK): The Dylathon. Member of AGVA. @zvspeas
Alison Luff Nell Gwynn Regional: Pasadena Playhouse: Breaking Through (world premiere) (Ovation Award nomination, Best Leading Actress); Theatre Aspen: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Ovation Award winner, Best Supporting Actress). OffBroadway: I’ll be Damned. Broadway: Escape to Margaritaville (OBC), Les Misérables, Matilda, Ghost (OBC), Scandalous (OBC), Mamma Mia. National tours: Wicked, Mamma Mia. Television: FBI. Instagram: @thebonesband
Alex Michell Ned Spigget Regional Theatre: The Argyle Theatre: Peter and the Starcatcher; Ensemble Stage: Slow Dance on The Killing Ground. alextmichell.com Instagram: @_alexmichell_
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CREATIVE TEAM Jessica Swale
Kim Sherman
Playwright Shakespeare’s Globe: Nell Gwynn (Olivier Award, Best New Comedy), Blue Stockings (Evening Standard nomination, Most Promising Playwright); Bremen Shakespeare Company: All’s Well That Ends Well; Wanamaker Playhouse: Thomas Tallis. Adaptations: UK Tour: The Jungle Book; Watermill Theatre: Sense and Sensibility, Far from the Madding Crowd; Grosvenor Park, Chester: Stig of the Dump, The Secret Garden. New work: The Mission, The Playhouse Apprentice. Additional Awards: BAFTA JJ Screenwriting Bursary. Film (upcoming): Nell Gwynn (Working Title Films), Horrible Histories (Altitude), Summerland (starring Gemma Arterton), and original projects for Studio Canal and Fox Searchlight. Other work: Associate Artist with NGO Youth Bridge Global; author of a bestselling series of drama games books; active member of Times Up UK.
Original Music Shakespeare Theatre Company: Timon of Athens, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Importance of Being Earnest. Regional: Guthrie Theater: Volpone; Baltimore Center Stage: Hamlet, The Tempest, All’s Well That Ends Well, Gum, Macbeth; Yale Repertory Theater: On the Verge, Edward II, Hamlet, The Seagull, The Duchess of Malfi, As You Like It, School for Wives, The Marriage of Figaro/Figaro Gets a Divorce, Twelfth Night, The Beaux Stratagem. Broadway: I Hate Hamlet. OffBroadway: The Acting Company: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, O Pioneers!. Musical Theater Scores: O Pioneers! (Bay Area Theatre Critics Award), HeartLand, The Two Orphans, Honor Song For Crazy Horse. Opera: Ada, Three Visitations, Love’s Comedy. kdsherman.com
Robert Richmond Director Folger Theatre: Davenant’s Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar (2014, 2001), Richard III, Twelfth Night, Henry V, Othello, Henry VIII. Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library audio recordings: Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Full Circle Productions: The Pavilion, Arden of Faversham; Theatre South Carolina: The Crucible. Regional theaters include: The Lost Colony, La Jolla Playhouse, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Two River Theater Company. Off Broadway: Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy Of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Iliad: Book One, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Agamemnon. He is Artistic Director of Theatre South Carolina, Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Carolina. Film: Dreadful Sorry (South Carolina Film Commission’s 2010 Production Grant recipient). robertrichmond.com
Tony Cisek Scenic Design Folger Theatre: Davenant’s Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, District Merchants, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar (2014), Richard III, Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello (2011), The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Much Ado About Nothing (2009, 1998), 1 Henry IV, The School For Scandal, The Tempest (2007, 2000), Romeo and Juliet (2005, 1997), Melissa Arctic, Elizabeth the Queen, Twelfth Night (costumes), As You Like It (2001), Shakespeare’s R & J, Hamlet; 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 theater: Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, Alliance Theatre, South Coast Rep, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Cleveland Play House, Intiman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Two River Theater Company, Delaware Theatre Company. Off Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company: Beyond Glory; New York Theatre Workshop: columbinus. tonycisek.com
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CREATIVE TEAM Mariah Anzaldo Hale
Matt Otto
Costume Design Folger Theatre: Davenant’s Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, Sense and Sensibility, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Twelfth Night (Helen Hayes nomination), Henry V, Henry VIII (Associate Costume Designer, Helen Hayes nomination), Othello (Associate Costume Designer). Regional: Papermill Playhouse: A Comedy of Tenors, A Bronx Tale (Associate); Cleveland Playhouse: A Comedy of Tenors (Associate); Goodspeed Opera/Norma Terris: Both Barrels; McCarter Theatre: Murder on the Orient Express (Associate); Algonquin Arts Center: The 39 Steps (Perry nomination.); American Stage Company: The Butter and Egg Man; Dallas Theater Center: Arsenic and Old Lace (Associate); Roundabout Theatre for WIL Studios: Picnic, Company. OffBroadway: A Good Swift Kick. National Tours for WIL Studios: Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Music of the Night. Broadway for WIL Studios: A Bronx Tale, Chicago, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Laughter on the 23rd Floor. MariahHaleDesign.com
Sound Design Folger Theatre: Davenant’s Macbeth, Timon of Athens; New York: The Barrow Group: Abigail’s Party, Muswell HIll, The Thing With Feathers, Enemy of the People; Cherry Lane Theatre: King Lear, A Patron of the Arts, Nollywood Dreams, Esai’s Table; LDK Productions: Arden Everywhere/As You Like It; The Amoralists: Triggered, Stained, and Armed; New York Musical Festival: The Cadaver of Syno: A Pope Musical; Colt Couer: Empathitrax; Regional: Solas Nua: Johnny Meister and the Stitch (Helen Hayes nomination); Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Our Town, Love’s Labor’s Lost; Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Fly; Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma: James and the Giant Peach; Brown/Trinity Rep: Stone Cold, Dead Serious; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Yale Rep: Stones in His Pockets. mattotto.com
Andrew F. Griffin Lighting Design Folger Theatre: Davenant’s Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, Twelfth Night, Henry V (Helen Hayes Award), Othello (Helen Hayes nomination); Olney Theatre Center: The Producers, Avenue Q, A Chorus Line, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown; Signature Theatre: The Last 5 Years; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: You for Me for You; Synetic Theater: King Lear (Helen Hayes Award), The Tempest (Helen Hayes nomination), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello; Theater J: Race. Regional: Asolo Rep: Sweat; Yale Repertory Theatre: The Moors; Riverside Theatre: A Chorus Line; Yale Dramatic Association: The Wild Party; Yale School of Drama: Othello, The Children, Don Juan, The Master and Margarita, Measure for Measure; Yale Summer Cabaret: Midsummer, Orlando, Antarctica!, Phaedra’s Love; International: He Left Quietly (Toronto, Canada). AFGLighting.com
Eisenberg/Beans Casting New York Casting Folger Theatre: King John, Saint Joan, The Winter’s Tale, The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility, District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Henry V. Broadway: Gettin’ The Band Back Together. OffBroadway: 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
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Diane Healy Production Stage Manager Folger Theatre: Saint Joan, Timon of Athens, Sense and Sensibility. Regional theater: McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Oldcastle Theatre Company, Bard College, Green Mountain College, East Tennessee State University, and St. Andrew’s University. OffBroadway: Bedlam: Pygmalion, Peter Pan, Cry Havoc!, Twelfth Night and What You Will, Sense and Sensibility; Theatre for a New Audience: The Father, A Doll’s House; Mabou Mines: Imagining the Imaginary Invalid; Primary Stages: Perfect Arrangement; Barrow Street Theatre: Hit The Wall, Tribes. Work in other theaters includes: Playwrights Realm, Atlantic Theatre Company, LCT3, Soho Playhouse, Keen Company, LaMama, The Civilians, Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Jessica Short Assistant Stage Manager Folger Theatre: 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 What, Stage Kiss; Kennedy Center TYA: The Cerulean Time Capsule; Forum Theatre: The Pillowman, Passion Play, The T Party, How We Got On; 1st Stage: The Good Counselor; Arena Stage: Healing Wars; Anacostia Playhouse: DC Dead: Mutation; Signature Theatre: Jelly’s Last Jam; Flying V: You, or Whatever I Can Get.
Michele Osherow Resident Dramaturg Folger Theatre: King John, Davenant’s Macbeth, 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
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Folger Theatre Folger Shakespeare Library, opened in 1932, featured the first replica in North America of an Elizabethan theater, a 250seat 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 awardwinning 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 (continued on next page)
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CREATIVE TEAM seasons of theater, including the majority of Shakespeare plays, as well as the work of many other playwrights; more than 800 concerts of early music; and a like number of other cultural events. Her leadership of Folger Theatre has seen the theater recognized with 147 nominations and 30 awards for excellence from Washington’s Helen Hayes Awards. These include four awards for Outstanding Resident Production, most recently received for Sense and Sensibility in 2017. Bard Records, created by Griffin, has released 23 titles of music by Folger Consort and others, and Folger Theatre has seven fully dramatized Shakespeare audio books available through Simon and Schuster. Projects commissioned or developed include Lynn Redgrave’s Shakespeare for My Father and Rachel and Juliet; The Fairy Queen and other presentations of Baroque music and Shakespeare with Derek Jacobi, Richard Clifford, and other celebrated artists; Roger Rees’ What You Will; The Second Shepherds’ Play adapted by Mary Hall Surface; Aaron Posner’s District Merchants; Caroline Shaw’s The Tempest; The Gravedigger’s Tale with Louis Butelli; and Confection with Third Rail Projects (upcoming). 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. OffBroadway: Producing Director, Atlantic Theater Company (OBIE and Drama Desk Award winner); Producing Director, Classic Stage Company (Lortel and OBIE Award winner). Broadway and OffBroadway: Associate Executive Producer, Lincoln Center Theater (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle, Lortel, and OBIE Award winner); General Management Associate: Brooklyn Academy
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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 Delaney Hill, Arielle Fishman, Public Programs Interns MannaSymone Middlebrooks, Casting Assistant Heather Newhouse, Patron Services Manager Lizzy Andrew, DJ Batchelor, Renée Beaver, Ryan Driscoll, Kate Gifford, Kaia Lyons, Allison Marino, John Royals, Esther Young, 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, Patrick Kilbride, Rachel Messbauer, Ian Patrick, Gabby Wolfe, Box Office Assistants EXTERNAL RELATIONS Garland Scott, Head of External Relations Esther French, Digital Managing Editor Ben Lauer, Communications and Social Media Assistant
DIVISION OF EDUCATION Corinne Viglietta, Assistant Director of Education Kate Haase, Visitor Education Programs Manager Katharine Dvorak, Education Project Manager Greg Armstrong, Administrative Assistance for Education Programs Kate Tallis, Docent Chair Michael LoMonico, Senior Consultant on National Education Louisa Newlin, Senior Consultant OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT Mary Zehe, Assistant Director of Development for Operations Cari Romeu Mozur, Senior Development Officer for Individual Giving Ari Silber, Senior Development Officer for Corporate and Foundation Relations Sumana Chatterjee, Senior Development Officer Rachael Dealy Salisbury, Senior Development Officer for Planned and Major Gifts Leslie Gehring, Development Services Coordinator Elizabeth Stevens, Development Associate for Annual Giving Anne M. McKiterick, Development Associate for Major Gifts Michael Reddy, Development Associate for Institutional Giving Gabrielle Canning, Casual Development DIRECTOR’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
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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 (1987 2015), 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 December 16, 2017 and December 15, 2018.
William S. Abell Foundation, Inc. American Friends of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Inc. Arts Midwest Shakespeare in American Communities B. H. Breslauer Foundation The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Capitol Hill Community Foundation Anthony & Anna L. Carozza Foundation ClarkWinchcole 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 & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Lorraine S. Dreyfuss Theatre Education Fund The Lee & Juliet Folger Fund The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust The Helen Clay Frick Foundation The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Graham Holdings Heinz Family Foundation Holland & Knight LLP Mark & Carol Hyman Fund JFW, Inc.
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 National Endowment for the Arts Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Nepeni Foundation The Newberry Library OLIN Overseas Hardwoods Company The Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Pine Tree Foundation of New York Queen’s University Belfast The Nora Roberts Foundation Nadia Sophie Seiler Memorial Fund Shakespeare 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 December 16, 2017 and December 15, 2018.
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Ms. Ann V. Gordon & Mr. Martin Singer Ms. Maria E. Grosjean Mr. & Mrs. C. David Gustafson Ms. Kristi Hafner Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Haller David Hannay Jill Hartman John & Cheri Hayes Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hazen Mr. Thomas Heil Patricia Henkel Ms. Cynthia Herrup June & George Higgins Mr. & Mrs. Fred Hill Mr. Christopher Kendall & Ms. Susan Schilperoort Wendy & Robert Kenney Ms. Erna Kerst Kathleen Cogan Kovach Mr. Barry Kropf Dr. Marcel C. LaFollette & Mr. Jeffrey K. Stine Mr. David W. Lankford Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon Dr. Robert Lawshe Mr. Michael Lebovitz Ms. Sandy Lerner Dr. Kathleen Lynch & Mr. John C. Blaney Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Lynch Dr. Lynne Magnusson Dr. Laurie Maguire 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 Dr. Brian R. McNeill Beverly J. Melani & Bruce E. Walker Theodore & Mary Eugenia Myer Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Michael & Karen O’Connell Betty Ann Ottinger Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Palmer Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Parr Mr. & Mrs. Peter Parshall Linda Levy Peck Ms. Sheila J. Peters Ms. Julie Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Dr. Susan Piepho Dr. & Mrs. Warren S. Poland V. E. Powell Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Mr. Jonathan Rich Gerd & Duncan Ritchie Peter Rose & Alicia Kershaw Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Saunders Professor Moses S. Schanfield Prof. Barbara A. Shailor PhD & Prof. Harry W. Blair II PhD Dr. James Shapiro
Kay & George Simmons Marilyn & Hugh South Richard Spear & Athena Tacha Spear Professor Raymond J. St. Leger Tom & Pat Stevens Mr. Douglas Struck Dr. Garrett Sullivan Mr. John M. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. John C. Towers Ms. Kathryn M. Truex Ms. Lynn Trundle James & Carol Tsang Mr. & Mrs. James T. Turner Dr. Arina van Breda Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Van Voorhees Mr. Christopher White Webster Ms. Judith Weintraub Professor Paul Werstine Mr. Michael A. Winkelman Maureen & Brent Yacobucci Ms. Abby L. Yochelson & Mr. Wallace Mlyniec
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Anonymous (7) Mr. Robert Adler Ms. Monica Lynn Agree Mr. & Mrs. David G. Ahern Mr. Thomas Ahern Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Stewart F. Aly Ms. Jerrilyn V. Andrews & Mr. Donald E. Hesse Mr. & Mrs. David Bair Ms. Suzanne Bakshian & Mr. Vincent A. Chiappinelli Ms. Meredith Barbour Mr. Henry Barton Mr. James Baxter Ms. Danielle M. Beauchamp Mr. & Mrs. David M. Beckmann Ellen S. Berelson & Larry Franks Professors David M. Bergeron & Geraldo de Sousa Dr. Katherine Berry & Mr. Christian Buchmann Ms. Mary C. Blake Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Blum Mr. James L. Blum Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Bochner Ms. Heather Boedeker Mr. Henry H. Booth Professor Jackson C. Boswell Ms. Gwen W. Brewer Mr. & Mrs. John R. Brinkema Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Brody Mr. Stanley C. Burgess, Jr. Ms. Victoria Butler & Mr. Tim Carney Professor Charles Butterworth Mr. Timothy J. Carlton Mr. Joseph Casey & Ms. Constance Pierce Casey Ms. C. Dawn Causey Colonel & Mrs. Larry M. Cereghino
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SUPPORTERS Mr. Wallace W. Chandler Mr. John Chester Ms. JoAnn Clark Mr. & Mrs. Perry Cofield Linda & John Cogdill Mr. David M. Colbert Mr. Robert S. Cole, Jr. Ms. Kathleen Comerford Mr. John W. Conlee Drs. John W. Cox & LoAn T. NguyenCox James & Ann Coyle Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Daniels Ms. Surekha Davies Vice Adm. Dirk J. Debbink Dr. & Mrs. Donald DeNucci Drs. Alan & Cynthia Dessen Mr. Joe Dickey & Ms. Martha Blaxall M P Donovan Colleen Dougherty Dr. Terry Dwyer & Dr. Marcy F. Petrini Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Eager Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Eater Dr. & Mrs. Seth Eisen Mr. Douglas H. Erwin & Dr. Wendy Wiswall Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Farber Arthur & Shirley Fergenson Ms. Shelley N. Fidler Ms. Constance Filling Mr. Leo S. Fisher & Ms. Sue J. Duncan Ms. Joyce Flaherty Mr. Jonathan Fleming Mr. Gregory Flowers Mr. James Forman Mrs. Florence Bryan Fowlkes Mr. John Franzén Mr. Douglas Freeman Ms. Nancy Frey Mr. Roland M. Frye, Jr. & Ms. Susan M. Pettey Mr. & Mrs. William K. Frymoyer Ms. Kit Gage & Mr. Steven Metalitz Patricia Gallagher & Stephen Greenberg Mrs. Joanne Garris Mr. & Mrs. Allan Gerson Mrs. Nanette Gibbs Gail McMurray Gibson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Gibson Donald Gilman 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. Federico Grau
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Mr. John E. Graves, RIA & Ms. Hanh Phan Sayre N. Greenfield, PhD & Linda V. Troost, PhD Mr. Bruce N. Gregory & Ms. Paula Causey Neal & Janice Gregory Janet & Christopher Griffin Dr. Martha Gross & Mr. Robert Tracy Robin Langfan & Jay M. Hammer Ms. Bonnie Hammerschlag Ms. Joan E. Hartman Ms. Barbara W. Hazelett Dr. & Mrs. James A. Heath Robert E. Hebda Ms. Kimberly Hiebert Prof. Heather A. Hirschfeld & Prof. Anthony Welch Dr. Henry Ridgely Horsey Dr. Thomas Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Paul HueyBurns Ms. Elizabeth M. Janthey Mr. & Mrs. James Jordan Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kalb Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Kampschroeder Ms. Belinda Kane Ms. Sara W. Kane Mr. Randall KC Kau & Ms. Elizabeth M. Olmsted Ms. Maja Keech Dr. Sean Keilen Mrs. Margot Kelly Sarah & David Kelly Ms. Kay Kendall & Mr. Jack Davies Ms. Caroline Kenney Joseph Kerr Mr. Robert L. Kimmins Mr. & Mrs. James King Mr. Robert S. Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Steve Kitchen Ms. Lynne Myers Klimmer Dr. Michael Knable Ms. Kathleen Knepper Mr. James Knighton Mr. Michael Kolakowski Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kolson Mr. & Mrs. George Koukourakis Kim & Elizabeth Kowalewski Mr. Richard Krasnow Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Kuhta Ms. Sarah Kyrouac Mr. & Mrs. David J. Lacki Col. Denny Lane & Ms. Naoko Aoki Drs. Douglas & Janet Laube Mr. Edward Lawrence & Ms. Erin White Lilly S. Lievsay Mr. Ross Lindholm Dr. Calvin C. Linnemann & Rev. Patricia G. Linnemann Joseph & Sonya Livingston Mr. & Mrs. Jan Lodal Ms. Linda Lohse Ms. Mary Frances Lowe
Wes MacAdam Mr. Carl Mahoney Dr. Deborah L. Malkovich & Dr. William Freimuth Mr. & Mrs. David R. Maltby Mr. Tom Manteuffel & Ms. Rachel Manteuffel Dr. Lewis Markoff & Dr. Caroline Samuels Ms. Susan McCloskey Mr. Patrick McGraw Marilyn & Charles McMillion Ms. Nancy Elizabeth Meiners Dr. Rogers B. Miles Ms. Kristie Miller & Mr. Thomas Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Miller Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey C. Morell Professor Chandra Mukerji Mr. & Mrs. Tam Murray Carl & Undine Nash Mr. & Mrs. Eric & Nancy Nelkin Mr. Kevin Nettesheim Mr. Mike Newton & Dr. Linda Werling Ms. Mary L. Noonan Mr. Joe M. Norton Douglas W. & Maria T. O’Donnell Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Olexson Ms. Sharon N. Ollison Mrs. Patricia Olsen Mr. & Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin Mr. & Mrs. David M. Osnos Ms. Patricia J. Overmeyer Ms. Susan Pacholski & Mr. Nigel Purvis Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Ms. Nancy J. Patterson & Mr. Douglas Holl Mr. & Mrs. Kevin L. Pearson Mr. Thomas Perry Dr. Sylvia Holton Peterson & Dr. William Peterson Dr. & Mrs. Joram Piatigorsky Mr. & Mrs. James S. Polk Dr. Lois Potter Drs. Maria T. & Thomas A. Prendergast Mr. Woodruff M. Price Mr. Terry Quist Daniel L. Rabinowitz & Ann F. Thomas Mr. Henry Raine Robert Ramsey & Elizabeth Brown Mr. Peter S. Reichertz Heddy & Trip Reid Ms. Carol Reitz Mr. Philip J. Reynolds Dr. Alice Riginos Ms. Lauren G. Roberts & Mr. Juan E. Sanchez Winnie & Alexander Robinson Mr. Peter Rogen Ms. Emily Rose & Mr. James H. Marrow Mr. & Mrs. David M. Rosenbaum
SUPPORTERS Ms. Janet A. Sanderson Mr. Stephen R. Saph Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James P. Schaller 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 Mr. D. Stanton Sechler Professor & Mrs. Mortimer Sellers Dr. Bruce R. Smith Ms. Martha Nell Smith Ms. Phyllis Smith Dr. Richard B. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Sollinger Mr. Gerald Southern Mr. Steve Spaulding & Dr. Alicen B Spaulding Robert Staples & Barbara Fahs Charles Dr. Edward Starr Mr. & Mrs. Albert P. Stauderman Ms. Cathleen Ann Steg & Mr. Schuyler E. Schell Mr. Daniel Steiner Ms. Victoria Steuerwalt Mr. Robert Stoddart Dr. James Waller Stone Ms. Kristina Straub & Dr. Carol Goldburg Mr. & Mrs. Donald Street Ms. Theresa A. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Paul Taskier Mr. Jonathan Taylor & Ms. Dianne Shaughnessy Mr. & Mrs. John V. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Grant P. Thompson Ms. Helen G. Urquhart Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Vajs Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan Ms. Joyce C. Vialet Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. von Seelen Mr. Ronald E. Wagner & Dr. Ruth Scogna Wagner Bryan & Diana Watabe Ms. Yvette Webster Mr. & Mrs. William J. Weinhold Mr. & Mrs. Stanley N. Wellborn Dr. & Mrs. John R. Wennersten Ms. Jacqueline West 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 Mrs. Eleanora M. Worth Mary S. & Andrew J. Zehe Georgianna Ziegler
The First Folio Society The list below includes all friends who have included the Folger Shakespeare Library in their estate plans through a will commitment, a life income gift, or a beneficiary designation in a life insurance policy or retirement plan.
Anonymous (4) Professor Judith H. Anderson Ms. Doris E. Austin Dr. Carol Barton Professor Jackson C. Boswell Dr. Norma Broude & Dr. Mary D. Garrard William J Camarinos Professor Carmen A. Casís Florence and Neal S. Cohen Ms. Mary Cole The Honorable Esther Coopersmith Drs. John W. Cox & LoAn T. NguyenCox 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 Barbara Wainscott Dr. Barbara A. Wanchisen Dr. Richard M. Waugaman, MD & Elisabeth P. Waugaman, PhD Professor R L Widmann George W. Williams The Honorable Karen Hastie Williams Dr. Georgianna Ziegler 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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