THE FOLGER BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Louis R. Cohen, Chair Susan Sachs Goldman, Vice-Chair Roger Millay, Vice-Chair D. Jarrett Arp Simon Russell Beale The Lord Browne of Madingley Rebecca Bushnell Vinton Cerf Lady Darroch Philip Deutch Peter Edwards Wyatt R. Haskell Deneen C. Howell Maxine Isaacs May Liang Carol L. Ludwig Ken Ludwig Andrew J. Nussbaum Andrew Oliver Gail Kern Paster Stuart Rose Loren Rothschild James Shapiro Laura J. Yerkovich Ex Officio Michael Witmore
SENIOR DIRECTORS
Michael Witmore, Director Daniel De Simone, Eric Weinmann Librarian Melody Fetske, Director of Finance and Administration Janet Alexander Griffin, Director of Public Programs Eric M. Johnson, Director of Digital Access Kathleen Lynch, Executive Director, Folger Institute Peggy O’Brien, Director of Education
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DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS Beth Emelson, Associate Director of Public Programs David Polk, General Manager Charles Flye, Production Manager Rebekah Sheffer, Assistant Technical Director Kate Abbott, Audience Services Coordinator Emma Poltrack, Public Programs Administrative Assistant Bridget Reilly, Intern Teresa Wood, Casting Assistant Courtney Feiman, Kate Gifford, Erin Simpson, Austin Wilt, House Managers Jennifer Bowman, Folger Consort Manager Teri Cross Davis, Poetry Coordinator Katharine Pitt, Humanities Programs Assistant Emma Snyder, Executive Director, PEN/Faulkner Foundation Peter Eramo, Jr., Events Publicity and Marketing Manager WiT Media, Graphics Designer and Advertising Agency Barbara Shaw, Playbill Typesetter Jane Pisano, Publications Consultant Stephanie Svoboda, Ticketing Operations Manager Christina Pinnell, Box Office Manager Heather Newhouse, Box Office Lead Associate Kiersten Dittrich, Group Sales Assistant Francesca Chilcote, Amanda Duchemin, Annie Immediata, Emily Kester, Emily Myrick, Leslie Putnam, Box Office Assistants EXTERNAL RELATIONS Garland Scott, Head of External Relations Esther French, Communications Associate Ben Lauer, Communications and Social Media Assistant
DIVISION OF EDUCATION Corinne Viglietta, Assistant Director of Education Danielle A. Drakes, School Programs Manager Katherine Dvorak, Education Programs Assistant Greg Armstrong, Education Administrative Assistant Maribeth Cote, Public Engagement Coordinator JC McElveen, Docent Chair Michael LoMonico, Senior Consultant on National Education Louisa Newlin, Senior Consultant
OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT Mary Zehe, Assistant Director of Development for Operations Winnie Harrington Robinson, Senior Development Officer for Major Gifts Connie L. Perez, Senior Development Officer for Institutional Relations Cari Romeu, Senior Development Officer for Annual Giving Tiffany FitzGerald, Membership and Annual Fund Manager Leslie Gehring, Development Services Coordinator Colleen Robinson, Development Associate for Major Gifts Elena Forbes, Development Associate for Corporate Relations DIRECTOR’S OFFICE Yvonne Barton, Executive Assistant to the Director Lari Lavigne, Administrative Assistant, Executive Offices
FOLGER THEATRE 2016/17 SEASON Janet Alexander Griffin Artistic Producer Beth Emelson Associate Artistic Producer
David Polk General Manager Charles Flye Production Manager
Based on the novel by
Jane Austen Adapted by
Kate Hamill Directed by
Eric Tucker† Choreographer
Alexandra Beller Lighting Design
Jesse Belsky
New York Casting
Daryl Eisenberg, CSA Daryl Eisenberg Casting
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Sound Design
Resident Dramaturg
John McDermott*
Mariah Hale*
James Bigbee Garver Michele Osherow
Folger Casting
Production Stage Manager
Teresa Wood
Diane Healy**
Production Sponsor Nicky Cymrot
Associate Sponsors Howard M. Brown Louis and Bonnie Cohen Denise Gwyn Ferguson Gail Kern Paster
Assistant Stage Manager
Elisabeth Ribar**
Season Sponsors Helen and David Kenney and Family Roger and Robin Millay Neal T. Turtell Scott and Liz Vance
Folger Theatre’s open-captioned performances are generously sponsored by Vinton and Sigrid Cerf.
Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Sense & Sensibility was developed and premiered by Bedlam (Eric Tucker, Artistic Director; Andrus Nichols, Producing Director) in 2014. Presented by special arrangement with Dramatist’s Play Service, Inc. New York. †Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers *Member of United Scenic Artists **Member of Actors’ Equity Association
FROM THE DIRECTOR Jane Austen would love Facebook. She would spend endless hours tweeting her friends all about Edward Ferrars’ newest waistcoat. She’d Instagram and Snapchat her way through London society. She’d thoroughly enjoy watching Mr. Darcy on The Bachelor with a bevy of eligible young creatures swarming and swooning around him each week.
people we can’t have and people we shouldn’t have and people our parents hate. We find love and lose love and talk about love and dream about love and obsess about love. Some of us have happy endings and some of us don’t. People get married and have babies and spend their lives together after falling in love and sometimes love has nothing to do with it.
When commenting on Jane as a teenager, one of her neighbors called her: “the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembered.” So, we’re telling this story, not And although she was liberal with her relationship advice, Jane herself because Jane Austen would have been a ferocious tweeter (“if I loved never married. you less I might be able to talk Somehow, in the end, she managed about it more”), but because Jane Austen was writing about all of us to write some of the most for all time. Because she’s insightful memorable love stories the world and funny and deliciously witty and has ever known, and like William edgier than we remembered, and in Shakespeare himself, her stories have endured the test of time. Like spite of never finding love herself, she managed to write one of the Shakespeare, Austen’s characters are three dimensional, fully formed, best endings since Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. magnificent (however flawed) human beings. I think that if Jane Austen had written plays, they’d sound like this Austen’s stories resonate with us one. And if she were alive, we’d today because not all that much totally be Facebook friends. has really changed about people. We love gossip and intrigue and – Eric Tucker celebrity. We fall in love with 4
CAST
(in alphabetical order)
Mrs. Dashwood/Anne Steele Mrs. Jennings John Dashwood/John Willoughby Sir John Middleton Margaret Dashwood Elinor Dashwood Colonel Brandon Edward Ferrars Fanny Dashwood/Lucy Steele Marianne Dashwood
Cate Brewer (Mrs. Jennings) Vince Eisenson (John Dashwood/
Lisa Birnbaum* Caroline Stefanie Clay* Jacob Fishel* Michael Glenn* Nicole Kang* Maggie McDowell* James Patrick Nelson* Jamie Smithson* Kathryn Tkel* Erin Weaver*
Understudies
John Willoughby) Amanda Forstrom (Marianne Dashwood) Connor Hogan (Edward Ferrars) Lilian Oben (Mrs. Dashwood/Anne Steele, 2nd Cover Mrs. Jennings)
Alex Piper (Colonel Brandon,
Sir John Middleton)
Laura Rocklyn (Elinor Dashwood) Sara Dabney Tisdale (Margaret Dashwood, Fanny Dashwood/ Lucy Steele)
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote, and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 49,000 actors, singers, dancers, and stage managers working in hundreds of theaters across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theater as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org. New Hearing Loop Technology (Telecoil) Our theater is now equipped with an Induction Hearing Loop for state-of-the-art assisted listening. If your hearing aid has a T-coil, please toggle to that setting to receive our audio signal directly without using the headset and only wearing the lariat. Headsets are available for those without T-coil technology. If you are using a headset, please help avoid feedback by turning down your hearing aids.
This production is performed with one 15-minute intermission. Please refrain from using cell phones, cameras, or other recording devices during Sense & Sensibility.
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FROM THE DRAMATURG Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how.…one is intimate with him by instinct. –Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Jane Austen was a Shakespeare fan. References to his plays appear throughout her novels, and her characters’ relationships to Shakespeare recommend or condemn them. In Mansfield Park, an impromptu reading of Henry VIII sparks intimate talk. Though the heroine is skeptical of the reader’s virtue, “she could not abstract her mind five minutes; … his reading was capital and her pleasure in good reading extreme.”
If Austen chuckled at commingling a ‘good read’ of her own with one by Shakespeare, imagine her delight at being called “the prose Shakespeare” in subsequent decades. The Victorians based the comparison on her rendering of realistic, engaging characters, and the recognizable worlds that contained them. Walter Scott said as much in his review of Emma, commending the author’s “knowledge of the human heart” and her “art of copying from nature … that which is daily taking place.” Later enthusiasts linked Austen to Shakespeare for her impressive “art of telling.” It is telling that Austen’s celebrity, like Shakespeare’s, increases with each century. Comparisons persist. Edmund Wilson observed “only two reputations have never been affected by the shifts of fashion: Shakespeare’s and Austen’s.”
Austen’s characters differ from Shakespeare’s, but their journeys are marked by sublime language, wit, irony, and an inclination to expose 6
social unease. Austen is suspicious of conventional morality; she needles audiences to gloss words like ‘good,’ ‘fair,’ and ‘Christian.’ Consider the introduction of John Dashwood in Sense: “He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed.” Exquisite tang aside, such remarks signal the fickle moral gauge among gentry.
The title of Sense and Sensibility prepares us to assess the merits of being guided by prudent intellect rather than pandering to feeling. S&S is considered Austen’s most didactic novel, with the Dashwood sisters representing competing approaches to life: Elinor exemplifies good sense; Marianne champions emotion. The plot ties ‘sense’ to the dominant social code while it accuses ‘sensibility’ of indulging the individual, sometimes at a cost.
Scholars debate which sister is the novel’s proper heroine, with most weighing in heavily in Elinor’s corner. Their reason rests (spoiler alert) on Elinor’s getting what she wants. That Marianne does not has led to disappointment, particularly among feminist critics who consider Elinor’s desires too conformative.
But if Austen took lessons from Shakespeare, she’d know that marriage has a place in comedy. Marriage is, she will write in Emma, the “origin of change.” Change confronts all Austen heroines. C.S. Lewis describes their progress as a discovery of mistakes. But the errors they face are more society’s than their own. The women’s uncanny ability to spot opinion and practice in need of revision marks them as progressive. If they make accommodations in their alliances, they
likewise position themselves as correctives to established authority.
Austen’s world, like our own, could use some improvement. Her narrators and characters signal imperfections as they find them. The clarity and sting of those observations titillate, educate, and consistently surprise us. The thrill of that surprise explodes at full force in Kate Hamill’s gorgeously fresh and funky adaptation. Hamill’s text drives
home the power of the word, not just because Austen knew how to write, but also because her characters knew how to talk. Director Eric Tucker does with actors what Austen does with prose: he offers up exceptional arrangements to hilarious and inspired ends. The production bursts with sense and sensibility. We should be intimate with both by instinct. – Michele Osherow
FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT
One of the things I love about the classics is that they connect us to people who came before. We may be transported back centuries, but we can still recognize ourselves in characters we meet: in their hopes, fears, and dreams. Something immortal filters through to us; we see glimpses of people that we never personally knew.
For that reason, I’d like to talk about a friend: John Buxton.
Most of you didn’t have the pleasure of meeting John. John was a charming, almost unfairly handsome, unbelievably witty man. He could make you literally collapse with laughter. He played the piano so beautifully, it’d make your heart hurt. He was a wonderful, dexterous actor; a generous, compassionate friend; and the whip-smart life of every party. John was involved in the development of Sense & Sensibility from the beginning, from the first reading in a teeny-tiny back room in NYC. He brought the charming Willoughby and the alarming Fanny to vibrant life: people from another time. People he never could have known. His
versatility was thrilling. He made it look easy. At the workshop of Sense & Sensibility in 2012, John had some stomach pains—he was pretty sure it was an ulcer. It wasn’t. Before we got to the world premiere, our funny, charming, sensitive friend was gone.
The script of Sense & Sensibility is dedicated to him. And I hope, so much, that it contains some tiny part of what he brought to the table: his wit, his sparkle, his generosity of spirit, his artistic virtuosity, his love of life. I’m sure Eric’s production at Folger Theatre contains all this and more.
I truly believe that if you feel some connection with the classics, with these characters on the stage, you are, in some small way, meeting exceptional people who passed out of this life before you were lucky enough to cross their paths.
That’s the way I felt working on this play. And if you do feel that connection, I hope you take a moment and think fondly of those who have gone before, including John: a much-missed collaborator, cast mate, and friend. – Kate Hamill 7
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PRODUCTION CREDITS Assistant Technical Director Humanities Programs Assistant Assistant Director Assistant to the Director Production Assistant Dance Captain Assistant Dance Captain Assistant Scenic Designer Set Construction Props Master Assistant Costume Designer Wig Designer Wardrobe Head Costume Construction
Sound Engineer Master Electrician Assistant Master Electrician Dialect Coach For Daryl Eisenberg Casting Casting Coordinator Casting Assistant Advertising Agency Marketing Design Consultant Pre-production Photography Production Photography Promotional Video Archival Video Open Captioning
Rebekah Sheffer Katharine Pitt Katie Burris Bailey Nassetta Elizabeth Brodie Diane Healy Lisa Birnbaum Clifton Chadick Bella Faccia, Inc. Tony Koehler Sarah Cubbage Anne Nesmith Cidney Forkpah Ansaldo Costumes, Adalia Tonneyck, Natalia Kurkzewski, Tessa Lew and Jane Hosticka Fink Brandon Roe James Neylon Amanda Kircher Catherine Flye Jon Farber Sasha Pensanti WiT Media Emily Tartanella James Kegley Teresa Wood Lee Fanning, Mark Fastoso, APTV WAPAVA C2
Acknowledgements: Charles Aldrich and English Country Dance DC, Beth Blickers, Capitol Hill Hotel, Alex Cohen, Lauren Frautschi, Alan Katz, Moran Transportation, Carole O’Gara, Martin Platt, Michelle Diane Sebastian, Signature Theatre, Abbie Weinberg, World Travel Service.
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.
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CAST
Lisa Birnbaum
Mrs. Dashwood/Anne Steele Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Taming of the Shrew. Regional: Connecticut Rep: Lysistrata; Playmakers Rep: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Theatre Workshop of Nantucket: The Moscows of Nantucket; The Long Wharf Theatre: Italian American Reconciliation; Huntington Theatre Company: The Cry of the Reed; Yale Rep: All’s Well That Ends Well; Williamstown Theatre Festival: Romeo and Juliet, Anything Goes, Triangle, Spring Awakening, I Have Loved Strangers. OffBroadway: Griffin Theatre: 210 Amlent Ave; Elektra Theatre: F#%king Up Everything; York Theatre: I’m Getting My Act Together...; Acorn Theatre: Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party; The Living Theatre: Lizzie Borden; 59E59th: On Island. Film: Callie Wants a Solo. Television: Deception, Law & Order, Guiding Light, What Would You Do. lisabirnbaum.com
Caroline Stefanie Clay
Mrs. Jennings Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Duchess of Malfi; Forum Theatre: Clementine in the Lower 9, Gidion’s Knot; Ford’s Theatre: The Widow Lincoln; Arena Stage: The Blood Quilt. Broadway: Doubt, The Royal Family. Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons: Breath Boom; Atlantic Theater Company: Force Continuum; NYTW: Light Raise; Signature Theatre/Public Theater: Funnyhouse of a Negro. Regional theaters include: Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre. Tours: Doubt (Helen Hayes Award for Best Supporting Actress in Non-Resident Production). Film: Everybody’s Fine, Sherrybaby, Morning Glory. Television: Law & Order: SVU, House of Cards, The Knick.
Jacob Fishel
John Dashwood/ John Willoughby Regional: Two River Theater Company: Henry V, As You Like It; Intiman Theatre: The Real Thing. Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof. Off-Broadway: TFANA: King Lear, The Broken Heart; Roundabout Theatre Company: The Common Pursuit; The Public Theater: Titus Andronicus; Red Bull Theater: Women Beware Women; NYSF: Macbeth. Film: A Night Without Armor, Across the Sea, How I Got Lost. Television: Cold Case, Medium, Without a Trace, Numb3rs.
Michael Glenn
Sir John Middleton Folger Theatre: The Gaming Table, Henry VIII (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination), Hamlet, Arcadia, Twelfth Night (2003), Elizabeth the Queen; Round House Theatre: Stage Kiss, THIS; Studio Theatre: Jumpers for Goalposts (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination); Arena Stage: Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination), Good People; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Clybourne Park (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination); Olney Theatre Center: Marjorie Prime, Neville’s Island; Theater J: Brighton Beach Memoirs (upcoming), Photograph 51; Constellation Theatre Company: Absolutely! (Perhaps), Scapin, A Flea in Her Ear, On the Razzle; Longacre Lea: Fear, Cat’s Cradle, The Hothouse, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination); Signature Theatre: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Fallen From Proust; Washington Stage Guild: The Underpants, A Skull in Connemara, Major Barbara (Helen Hayes Supporting Actor nomination); African Continuum Theatre: Blood Knot (Mary Goldwater Award).
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CAST
Nicole Kang
Margaret Dashwood New York: The Drama League: Endangered Species; The New American Theater Co.: Endangered Species; MadCapRep: Poloroid Stories; The New York Shakespeare Exchange: The Rape of Lucrece; The Access Theater: Trojan Women; Miles Square Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Instagram: cole_kangaroo
Maggie McDowell
Elinor Dashwood Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Song for a Future Generation; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: The Liar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: The Winter’s Tale, The Marriage of Figaro; Vermont Shakespeare Company: The Winter’s Tale, Will; Texas Shakespeare Festival: The Taming of the Shrew, Ernest in Love; Cape May Stage: Time Stands Still. OffBroadway theaters include: Playwrights Horizons New Works Lab, HERE, Joe’s Pub, Fresh Ground Pepper. MaggieMcDowell.com
James Patrick Nelson
Colonel Brandon Olney Theatre Center: Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest. Regional Theater: Berkeley Rep: Pericles; Mirror Rep: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Actors Shakespeare Project: The Duchess of Malfi; Central Square Theater: Galileo; Depot Theatre: Living Together. Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company: Three, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ivanov; Mint Theater: Rutherford and Son; New Brooklyn Theatre: The Death of Bessie Smith. NYC Fringe Festival: Old Familiar Faces (Innovative Theater Award nomination). Original Work: Signature Center: The Second Sun; The Custom. National Tour: American Shakespeare Center: Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Knight of the Burning Pestle, A Christmas Carol. Film: Adam, Being, The Reaper
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(upcoming). Television: Tin Man, In Between Men. james-patrick-nelson.com
Jamie Smithson
Edward Ferrars Signature Theatre: Cake Off; Arena Stage: Fiddler on the Roof; Imagination Stage: Seussical the Musical, Double Trouble, Jack and Phil; No Rules Theater Company: Boeing, Boeing, In Love and Warcraft (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination), Sketch!; Everyman Theater: Crimes of the Heart. Regional theaters include: The Guthrie Theater, The Acting Company, The Guthrie Lab, Mile Square Theater, Crescent Stage, The Village Repertory Theater, Charleston Stage.
Kathryn Tkel
Fanny Dashwood/Lucy Steele Woolly Mammoth Theater Company: An Octoroon; Ford’s Theatre: The Guard; Mosaic Theater Company: Promised Land; Rep Stage: Venus in Fur, Hunting and Gathering; Everyman Theatre: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Kennedy Center TYA: Mockingbird. Regional: Arizona Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet; San Jose Repertory Theatre: Legacy of Light, Secret Order; San Francisco Playhouse: Den of Thieves, The Story; Lorraine Hansberry Theatre: Almost Nothing, Day of Absence; California Conservatory Theatre: Steel Magnolias; Willows Theatre Company: The Kentucky Cycle; Just Theatre: 1001; Boxcar Theatre: Museum, Headspace, Animal Kingdom, Manners and Civility.
Erin Weaver
Marianne Dashwood Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (Helen Hayes nomination), The Comedy of Errors, Arcadia (Helen Hayes Award), The Tempest. Signature Theatre: Xanadu (Helen Hayes nomination), The Last Five Years (Helen Hayes nomination), Company (Helen Hayes Award); Arena Stage: Mother Courage and Her
Children (Helen Hayes Award); Round House Theatre: Ordinary Days (Helen Hayes Award), The Nutcracker, A Wrinkle in Time, A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage; Imagination Stage: Night Fairy; Adventure Theater: A Lump of Coal for Christmas. Regional: Delaware Theatre Company: A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage (Barrymore Award nomination); People’s Light and Theatre Company: eight productions including Gossamer, Cinderella (Barrymore Award, Best Ensemble), Jack & the Beanstalk (Barrymore Award nomination), Treasure Island (Barrymore Award nomination); Two River Theater Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Our Town (New Jersey Star Ledger Award), A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage (New Jersey Star Ledger Award), Mary’s Wedding; Act II Playhouse: Syncopation, Mary’s Wedding (Barrymore Award nomination); Arden Theatre Company: Into the Woods. National Tour: Les Misérables.
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CREATIVE TEAM Kate Hamill
Playwright Off-Broadway: World Premiere Sense & Sensibility (in which she originated the role of Marianne Dashwood) produced by Bedlam and named one of the Top Ten Plays of 2014 by both The Huffington Post and Ben Brantley of The New York Times. Her play Vanity Fair will debut next season at The Pearl Theatre Company in New York City under the direction of Eric Tucker. Her play Pride and Prejudice was developed at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and her musical In the Mines was developed at Theater Latte Da. Kate is a company member of Bedlam and a member of both AEA and the Dramatists’ Guild. katehamill.com
Eric Tucker
Director Wall Street Journal Director of the Year, 2014. Off-Broadway: Bedlam: Sense & Sensibility (Off-Broadway Alliance Award; Lucille Lortel Award nomination, Best Director; Drama League Award nomination, Best Revival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Drama League Award nomination, Best Revival; Wall Street Journal Best Classical Production, 2015; The New York Times’ Critics’ Pick), Bedlam’s Saint Joan (The New York Times’ Top Ten; Time Magazine’s Top Ten; Off-Broadway Alliance Best Revival, 2014), Bedlam’s Hamlet (The New York Times’ Top Ten; Time Out NY’s and Backstage Critics’ Pick); Tina Packer’s Women of Will, The Belle of Belfast. Bedlam: Dog Park, New York Animals (world premiere by Steven Sater and Burt Bacharach), Twelfth Night and What You Will (The New York Times’ Critics’ Picks), Sense and Sensibility (The New York Times’ Top Ten; The New York Times’, Wall Street Journal’s, and Time Out NY’s Critics’ Picks), The Seagull (Wall Street Journal’s Best Classical Production, 2014), Saint Joan and Hamlet (NYC, DC, Boston, Elliott Norton Outstanding Visiting Production and Outstanding Ensemble, Boston Globe’s Top Ten). Additional work includes productions at: Central Square Theatre: Copenhagen; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Kirk: The Libertine (IRNE nomination, Best Director); Stella Adler Theatre: Hamlet (with William Hurt); The Actors’ Gang: Mate, Macbeth (Best Overall Production and Best Director nominations LA Weekly). Eric is the Artistic Director of Bedlam.
Alexandra Beller
Choreographer Off-Broadway: Bedlam: Sense and Sensibility (Lucille Lortel Award nomination, Outstanding Choreography). Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It; Smith Opera House: Then Quiet the Hook; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston: other stories, egg; Jacob’s Pillow Dance: Why Things Fall, other stories; Kendall Hall: We Sink As We Run; Wellspring Theatre: We Sink As We Run; Pease Theatre: We Sink As We Run; Cyprus Dance Festival: lie where I fall; The Patterson: us; Berkshire Fringe Festival: us. New York: La MaMa: milkdreams; New York Live Arts: You Are Here, Art is as is and as it is not…; 92nd Street Y: Why Things Fall; Movement Research: other stories; Brooklyn Arts Exchange: egg; Abrons Art Center: what comes after happy, egg; Dixon Place: other stories; P.S.122: Why Things Fall; Danspace Project at St. Mark’s: We Sink As We Run, other stories; The Connelly Theater: other stories; Joyce SoHo: other stories, 50 Ways to Find a Mate, Waiting for Chekhov or a Bit of Rope, Sifting Miracles; HERE Art Center: us, You Are Here, other stories, what comes after happy; University Settlement Society of New York: Moving Men, or Telling Left From Right, We Sink as We Run; Roulette: Surprise Every Time; Symphony Space: what comes after happy; Dance New Amsterdam: Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight, other stories, piece, egg, what comes after happy, Give up, or a bird lying on its back; Green Building: Give up, or a bird lying on its back, milkdreams; The Tank: us. “I.” International: Duo MultiCultural Art Center: piece; Bytom Festival (Poland): what comes after happy, egg; Open Look Festival (St. Petersburg): what comes after happy, egg; Digital Dance Festival (Korea). alexandrabellerdances.org
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CREATIVE TEAM John McDermott
Scenic Design Studio Theater: Time Stands Still. Regional: Shakespeare in Clark Park: Henry IV; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, Measure For Measure, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Shakespeare & Company: Red Velvet, The Comedy of Errors, An Unexpected Man, Sotto Voce, The Taming, Ugly Lies the Bone. OffBroadway: New York Shakespeare Festival: The Singing Forest. New York Theater Workshop: Play Yourself. Atlantic Theater Company: This Thing of Darkness, White People; Bedlam: Hamlet, Saint Joan, New York Animals, Sense and Sensibility, The Seagull, Dead Dog Park; Rattlestick Playwrights Theater: 3C, Lady, The Undeniable Sound of Right Now, The Revisionist, Saved or Destroyed. Assistant Professor, Adelphi University.
Mariah Hale
Costume Design Folger Theatre: Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Henry V, Henry VIII (Associate Costume Designer), Othello (Associate Costume Designer). Regional: Papermill Playhouse: A Bronx Tale; Cleveland Playhouse and McCarter Theatre: Comedy of Tenors; Goodspeed Opera/Norma Terris Theatre: Both Barrells; American Stage Company: The Butter and Egg Man; Algonquin Arts Center: The 39 Steps, A Year with Frog and Toad; Kline Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Yvonne Theater: Nine, The Misanthrope. Off-Broadway: Variety Arts Theater: A Good Swift Kick; New York Music Theatre Festival: Cyclops: A Rock Opera. Associate Costume Designer: Regional: Dallas Theater Center: Arsenic and Old Lace. The Lost Colony: The Lost Colony. Madison Square Garden: A Christmas Carol. Roundabout Theater Company: Picnic, Company. Broadway and National Tours: Smokey Joe’s Café, Chicago, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Music of the Night, Disney’s King David. mariahhaledesign.com
Jesse Belsky
Lighting Design Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Studio Theatre: Animal; Signature Theatre: The Mystery of Love and Sex; Everyman Theatre: Deathtrap, Blithe Spirit, Outside Mullingar. Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre: Lydia, Rough Crossing; Triad Stage: The 39 Steps, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Shipwrecked, Kingdom of Earth; Playmakers Repertory Company: The Year of Magical Thinking; Mabou Mines: Glass Guignol. Off-Broadway: 59E59: The Body Politic; Midtown Theater: My Trip Down the Pink Carpet; La Mama Annex: Lysistrata, The Women of Troy. Touring: Bang On A Can/Asphalt Orchestra: Unpack the Elephant. International: Lee Breuer’s Antigone (Athens, Greece); Anonymous Ensemble: THEBEST (Brisbane, Australia); Theater Roes: The Return (Athens, Greece). Dance: Japhy/ Wideman Dance: CANE. jessebelsky.com
James Bigbee Garver
Sound Design Folger Theatre: District Merchants. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Kiss (upcoming), Lights Rise On Grace; Signature Theatre: Sex With Strangers, Vini Vidi Vici; Round House Theatre: Stage Kiss; Theater J: Brighton Beach Memoirs (upcoming), Our Class; Studio Theatre: The Hard Problem (upcoming), Cock, Lungs, Mary Kate Olsen Is In Love, The Walworth Farce, New Electric Ballroom, Moth, Contractions, Skin Tight, 2-2 Tango; Synetic Theater: Kafka’s Metamorphosis; Word Dance Theater: Once Wild, Faces Of Love. Regional: ACT Theatre (Seattle): Fail Better; Performance Space 122: Terrible Things; Atlantic Theater Company: The Three Sisters; Joyce SoHo: Self Evident; Japan Society: The Lady AoiOI. OffBroadway: Lincoln Center: the Tiny Dance Film Series; Theater Row Studios: A Bicycle Country. Museum Installations: National Museum of Natural History: Sound Lab; National Museum of American History: Mobile Audio Cart; American Museum of Natural History: Water=Life; Megapolis Audio Festival: Silosphere. Member of Theatrical (continued on next page)
CREATIVE TEAM Sound Designers and Composers Association. bigbee.org
Michele Osherow
Resident Dramaturg Folger Theatre: District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pericles, texts&beheadings/ElizabethR, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet (dramaturg and actor), Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Conference of the Birds, The Taming of the Shrew, The Gaming Table, Othello (2011, 2001), Cyrano, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Hamlet, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Much Ado About Nothing, Arcadia, The Winter’s Tale, 1 Henry IV, Macbeth, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2006), Measure for Measure (dramaturg and actor). Regional: Quotidian Theatre Company: Afterplay (actor), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (actor), Captain Drew on Leave, Dublin Carol, The Carpetbagger’s Children, The Mollusc; Tomorrow (actor), The Seagull (actor), Valentine’s Day (actor), While We Have the Light (actor), Uncle Vanya (actor), A Little Trick (actor); Jewish Repertory Theatre: The Dybbuk (actor); Arden Theatre Company: The Chosen, As You Like It (actor), Love’s Labors [sic] (actor). Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Daryl Eisenberg, CSA
Daryl Eisenberg Casting New York Casting Folger Theatre: District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Henry V. Theater credits include: Who’s Your Baghdaddy, Brave New World, That Bachelorette Show, White’s Lies, The Anthem, The Dodgers, Speakeasy Dollhouse/ The Brothers Booth, Around The World In 80 Days, My Big Gay Italian Wedding, Miss Abigail’s Guide…, My First Time, The Awesome 80s Prom, F#%king Up Everything, Altar Boyz, Norwegian Cruise Line, Davenport Reading Series, Aaron Grant Theatrical, Stageworks Media, Gotham Stage Company, and countless festivals, readings, and workshops. Film credits include: Cheerleader,
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EVOL, Hypebeasts, Sleep (HBO). Television credits include: Casting Associate on Gossip Girl (Warner Bros/The CW) and Cashmere Mafia (Sony/ABC). Web/New media includes: Limetown, The Bunny Hole, Pipture: Characters. Graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Member of Casting Society of America. @DECasting
Diane Healy
Production Stage Manager Regional theaters include: Shakespeare & Company, Oldcastle Theatre Company, Bard College, Green Mountain College, East Tennessee State University, and St. Andrew’s University. Off-Broadway: Bedlam: 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.
Elisabeth Ribar
Assistant Stage Manager Folger Theatre: District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pericles, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar. Imagination Stage: When She Had Wings; Olney Theatre Center: Dial “M” for Murder, The Tempest, Bedlam’s Hamlet and Saint Joan, A Christmas Carol, Sleuth, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Sound of Music; Adventure Theatre: The Jungle Book; Signature Theatre: Beaches; Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Wallenstein, Coriolanus. Regional: Heritage Theatre Festival: Next to Normal, Annie Get Your Gun, Little Shop of Horrors, Oliver!.
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Janet Alexander Griffin
Artistic Producer Director of Public Programs for the Folger Shakespeare Library since 1982. She has produced over 85 plays, including 30 Shakespeare plays, for which Folger Theatre has been recognized with 140 nominations and 24 awards for excellence in acting, direction, design, and production from Washington’s Helen Hayes Awards. Among new work she has developed at Folger was Lynn Redgrave’s solo show, Shakespeare for My Father; District Merchants by Aaron Posner; and The Second Shepherds’ Play, on stage again this season. Responsible for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s season of performing arts and cultural events, she produces Folger Consort, the early music ensemble in residence, with the Consort’s 40th season featuring the fourth collaboration with Derek Jacobi in a unique blending of music and Shakespeare. She also directs the Folger’s humanities and literary programs—the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series and the collaboration with PEN/Faulkner Foundation—which for over four decades have presented talks and readings by the finest writers. She received the 2015 Burbage Award from the American Shakespeare Center.
Beth Emelson
Associate Artistic Producer Folger Theatre: since 2004. Off-Broadway: Producing Director, Atlantic Theater Company (OBIE and Drama Desk Award winner); Producing Director, Classic Stage Company (Lortel and OBIE Award winner). Broadway and Off-Broadway: Associate Executive Producer, Lincoln Center Theater (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle, Lortel and OBIE Award winner); General Management Associate: Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Public Theater; Producing Director and Member, Naked Angels. She has also produced several short films and a comedy series for HBO. She produces for both the Nantucket and Tribeca Film Festivals as well as teaching producing for New York University.
FOLGER THEATRE SPONSORS
Additional support for Folger Theatre comes from:
Joan and Peter Andrews Mildred Grinnell Clarke Public Programs Endowment Wyatt R. and Susan N. Haskell Public Programs Endowment Fund John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Public Programs Endowment Fund Dimick Foundation The Helen Clay Frick Foundation MARPAT Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Shakespeare in American Communities Shubert Foundation Share Fund Theatre Programs Endowment With special thanks to the family and friends of Lily St. John McKee (1987-2015), recognizing the creation of the Lily St. John McKee Memorial Fund.
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Corporate, Foundation, and Government Support:
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully The Lee & Juliet Folger Fund acknowledges the kind support of the The Samuel Freeman Charitable following institutional donors. The list Trust below includes gifts of $1,000 or more received between August 1, 2015 and The Helen Clay Frick Foundation July 31, 2016. The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Anonymous Graham Holdings AARP Heinz Family Foundation William S. Abell Foundation, Inc. Holland & Knight LLP British Council Mark & Carol Hyman Fund The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz iTunes Foundation Capitol Hill Community Foundation KieranTimberlake Lannan Foundation Anthony & Anna L. Carozza MARPAT Foundation Foundation The Nancy Peery Marriott Clark-Winchcole Foundation Foundation Council on Library & Information Mars Foundation Resources Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Marshall B. Coyne Foundation Moleskine D.C. Commission on the Arts & The Mosaic Foundation Humanities, an agency (of R. & P. Heydon) supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts National Capital Arts & Cultural Affairs Program & the U.S. The Gladys Krieble Delmas Commission of Fine Arts Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Dimick Foundation
SUPPORTERS National Endowment for the Humanities National Recreation Foundation Nepeni Foundation Overseas Hardwoods Company The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation The Nora Roberts Foundation Shakespeare in American Communities Share Fund The Shubert Foundation Weissberg Foundation
Individual Donors for Folger:
Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully acknowledges the kind support of the following individuals. The list below includes gifts and pledges of $250 or more received between August 1, 2015 and July 31, 2016.
$50,000+ The Lord Browne of Madingley J. May Liang & James Lintott
$25,000-$49,999 Louis & Bonnie Cohen Susan Sachs Goldman The Honorable Eugene A. Ludwig & Dr. Carol Ludwig Roger & Robin Millay Mark Pigott KBE & Cindy Pigott Loren & Frances Rothschild Neal T. Turtell $15,000-$24,999 Neal & Florence Cohen Helen & David Kenney The Honorable John D. Macomber William & Louisa Newlin Darcy & Andy Nussbaum Andrew Oliver & Melanie Du Bois Gail Kern Paster Stuart & Mimi Rose Mr. & Mrs. B. Francis Saul II Scott & Liz Vance $10,000-$14,999 Anonymous Jarrett & Nora Arp Vinton & Sigrid Cerf Nicky Cymrot Maygene & Steve Daniels Peter & Rose Edwards William L. Hopkins Mr. & Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Deneen Howell & Donald Vieira Maxine Isaacs Jacqueline B. Mars John & Connie McGuire Craig Pascal & Victor Shargai
Joanne Ruxin Mr. & Mrs. H. Axel Schupf Drs. Michael L. Witmore & Kellie Robertson
$5,000-$9,999 Anonymous Judy Areen & Richard Cooper Celia & Keith Arnaud Twiss & Patrick Butler Heather & Dick Cass Dr. Thomas Cohen & Dr. Lisa Cohen-Fuentes Denise Gwyn Ferguson Stephen H. Grant & Abigail B. Wiebenson David Johnson & Wendy Frieman Andrea Kasarsky Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel Ken Ludwig & Adrienne George J.C. & Mary McElveen Ms. Penny Moden Mrs. William F. Nelson Courtney & Scott Pastrick Mr. Ben Reiter & Mrs. Alice Goldman Reiter Gabriela & Douglas Smith Louis B. Thalheimer & Juliet A. Eurich Tara Ghoshal Wallace Ellen & Bernard Young
$2,500-$4,999 Anonymous (3) Gary & Mary Ellen Abrecht Roger & Julie Baskes Bill & Evelyn Braithwaite Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Brown Howard M. Brown Rebecca Bushnell & John Toner Susan & Dixon Butler Brian & Karen Conway Philip J. Deutch & Marne L. Levine Ms. Dorothea W. Dickerman & Mr. Richard Kevin Becker Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Gill Ruth Hansen & Lawrence Plotkin Wyatt R. & Susan N. Haskell Catherine Held Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois & Mr. Christopher E. DuBois Mr. Arthur Koenig Dr. David Eric Lees & Dr. Daniele F. Huntington Mr. Richard H. Levy & Ms. Lorraine Gallard Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Lyon Patricia Magno Mark McConnell & Leslie Delagran
Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart Pam McFarland & Brian Hagenbuch Peter & Mary Jay Michel Martin & Elaine Miller Cullen & Anna Marie Murphy Carl & Undine Nash Dr. Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff Melanie & Larry Nussdorf Carolyn & Mark Olshaker Timothy & Linda O’Neill Gail Orgelfinger & Charles Hanna Anne Parten & Philip Nelson Deborah C. Payne Drs. Eldor & Judith Pederson Mrs. Jacqueline L. Quillen Ms. Lola Reinsch Dr. Lois Green Schwoerer Mr. Leslie C. Taylor Ayanna Thompson Tessa van der Willigen & Jonathan Walters Professor R L Widmann Nyla & Gerry Witmore
$1,000-$2,499 Anonymous (3) John & Nancy Abeles Dr. Peter J. Albert & Ms. Charlotte Mahoney Bess & Greg Ballentine Ms. Lisa U. Baskin Mr. Peter England Blau Ms. Gigi Bradford & Mr. Jim Stanford Mr. & Mrs. David G. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, III Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Callahan William J. Camarinos Professor Carmen A. CasĂs Mr. Richard H. Cleva Mr. Mark D. Colley & Ms. Deborah A. Harsch Mr. Edwin P. Conquest, Jr. Mr. Eric Cooper Mr. Douglas R. Cox Ms. Judith Matthews Craig Ms. D. Elizabeth Crompton Professor Adele S. Davidson Ms. Harriet H. Davis Dr. and Mrs. William Davis Porter & Lisa Dawson Angela Scott Mr. John F. Downey Marjorie & Tony Elson The Folger Five Nancy M. Folger & Sidney Werkman Carla & George Frampton
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SUPPORTERS Eric Friedenwald-Fishman Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Galvin Brent Glass & Cathryn Keller Ms. Barbara Goldberg Ms. Patricia J. Gray Ann Greer Dr. Martha Gross & Mr. Robert Tracy Elizabeth H. Hageman Mrs. O.B. Hardison, Jr. Martha Harris Florence & Peter D. Hart Mr. Joseph M. Hassett & Ms. Carol Melton Mr. & Mrs. Keith B. Hennessey Eric H. Hertting Mrs. Wilhelmina Holladay Mr. & Mrs. David H. Jones Professor John N. & Pauline King Ms. Maria L. Kocylowsky Ms. Faith S. Lambert Col. Denny Lane & Ms. Naoko Aoki Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Langkamp Mr. Hiram G. Larew Dr. Carole Levin Richard & Jane Levy Mr. Robert Liberatore Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence H. Liden Mr. & Mrs. Robert Case Liotta David Lloyd, Realtor Abbe D. Lowell & Molly A. Meegan Mr. & Mrs. David J. Lundsten Mr. Thomas G. MacCracken Dr. Mary Patterson McPherson Ms. Barbara M. Meade Ms. Chloe Miller Jane & Paul Molloy Dr. Tina Morris Ms. Mary Morton Dr. Barbara A. Mowat Mary Muromcew Theodore & Mary Eugenia Myer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Nordhaus Mr. Christian O’Connell Mr. Ari Orenstein & Ms. Yana Kondakova Dr. & Mrs. George R. Packard, III Charles & Susan Parsons Ms. Rebecca Penniman & Mr. Louis Wittenberg Dr. & Mrs. Warren S. Poland Ms. Gerit Ann Quealy Earl & Carol Ravenal Mr. & Mrs. Trip Reid Mr. David Roberts & Dr. David Spencer Howard & Melinda Rubin Mary Jane Ruhl
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Mr. & Mrs. K. Dudley Schadeberg Dr. Richard Schoch Dr. Marianne Schuelein & Mr. Ralph M. Krause Howard M. Shapiro & Shirley Brandman Dr. James Shapiro Joan Shorey Shirley & Albert H. Small John & Alison Steadman Ms. Joanne M. Sten Mr. Hubert M. Stiles Jr. & Obe’s Book Club Dr. Ann Swann Amy & Mark Tercek Mr. & Mrs. Tim Thornton Mr. & Mrs. Peter D. Trooboff Mr. Nigel Twose & Ms. Priscilla Annamanthodo The Honorable Seth Waxman & Ms. Debra Goldberg Toby & Stacie Webb Mrs. Eric Weinmann Gail Weinmann & Nathan Billig Mr. Donald E. White & Ms. Betty W. Good-White Ms. Mary-Sherman Willis & Mr. C. Scott Willis Ms. Nicole Winard Philip & Tricia Winterer Beverly & Christopher With Mr. Douglas Wolfire Anne & Fred Woodworth Laura Yerkovich & John Winkler Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Zarr
$500-$999 Anonymous (3) Dr. Robert S. Adelstein & Mrs. Miriam A. Adelstein Mr. & Mrs. David B. Barefoot Ms. Kyle Z. Bell & Mr. Alan G.R. Bell Mr. Brent James Bennett Mr. Richard Ben-Veniste & Ms. Donna Grell Drs. Robin & Clare Biswas Dr. Jean C. Bolan Mr. Henry H. Booth Dr. Mary H. Branton Mr. & Mrs. James D. Bridgeman Mrs. Adrianne Brooks Lord & Lady Browne of Ladyton Kathleen Burger & Glen Gerada Ms. Maria Alexia Burke John Byrd & Lina Watson Mr. & Mrs. Lewis R. Cabe Ms. Diana Carl Leslie & Ray Clevenger
Dr. Anne Coldiron Mr. & Mrs. William D. Coleman Mr. & Mrs. John J. Collins Ronald M. Costell, M.D. & Marsha E. Swiss Mr. Owen J. Costello & Ms. Erlin R. Webb Jeffrey P. Cunard Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Daniels Mr. Steven des Jardins Clark & Emilie Downs Dr. Ross W. Duffin & Dr. Beverly J. Simmons Rose & John Eberhardt Mr. David J. Edmondson Dr. William E. Engel Louise H. Engle Ms. Marietta Ethier Mr. Douglas Evans Mr. Gerald M. Feierstein Charles Fendig & Maria Fisher Melody & Albert Fetske Ms. Tracy Fisher Mr. Robert Fontenrose Mr. Roland M. Frye, Jr. & Ms. Susan M. Pettey Jere Gibber & J.G. Harrington Mrs. Kenneth W. Gideon Ms. Michelle Gluck & Dr. Walter Smith Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Goelzer Mr. Harry Gutman Dr. Peter I. Hartsock Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hazen Mrs. Anthony E. Hecht June & George Higgins Mr. Michael J. Hirrel Mr. David H. Hofstad Katherine & Duncan Kennedy Wendy & Robert Kenney Mr. Bruce Kieloch Dr. Marcel C. LaFollette & Mr. Jeffrey K. Stine Dr. Robert Lawshe Mr. Michael Lebovitz Mr. & Mrs. Terry Lenzner Ms. Nina Levine Dr. Frances Litrenta Mr. & Mrs. Jan Lodal Mrs. Stephen Lotterman Mr. James Mach Kevin & Sally Majkut Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Mancini Mr. Winton E. Matthews, Jr. Ms. Catherine McClave Ms. Gail McKee Marilyn & Charles McMillion Beverly J. Melani & Bruce E. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Miller
SUPPORTERS Mr. Hilary B. Miller & Dr. Katherine N. Bent Hazel C. Moore Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Mr. Terence R. Murphy & Ms. Patricia A. Sherman Ms. Essence Newhoff & Dr. Paul Gardullo Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Mr. & Mrs. Dave Nurme Mr. & Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Parr Ms. Sheila J. Peters Mr. & Mrs. Carl F. Pfeiffer Ms. Julie Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Ms. Ann Portocarrero Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Mr. Jonathan M. Rich Gerd & Duncan Ritchie Mr. Peter Rogen Prof. Barbara A. Shailor Ph.D & Mr. Harry W. Blair II Mr. & Mrs. Cary H. Sherman Dr. Sherry Wood Shuman & Mr. Philip B. Shuman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bland Smith Marilyn & Hugh South Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Stanley Ms. Susan Sutton Mary Augusta & George D. Thomas Dr. Nancy Eve Thomas & Mr. Nick Olmos-Lau Mr. & Mrs. James T. Turner Mr. Scott F. Turow Mr. Christopher White Webster Ms. Jacqueline West Mr. Gerald Widdicombe Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Wilshere Phyllis Jane Young
$250-$499 Anonymous (2) Catherine N. Abrahams Professor Sharon Achinstein Ms. Monica Lynn Agree Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Alexander Dr. Boris Allan & Ms. Kathleen L. Pomroy Mr. & Mrs. Stewart F. Aly Ms. Jerrilyn V. Andrews & Mr. Donald E. Hesse Mrs. Philip Aspden Ms. Doris E. Austin Mr. Seymour Barasch Mr. Donald Baur Ms. Alexandra Beatty Mr. & Mrs. David M. Beckmann
Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Benson Mr. Kirke Bent Dr. Katherine Berry & Mr. Christian Buchmann Ms. Mary C. Blake Mr. Michael C. Blaugrund Mr. James L. Blum Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Bochner Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bott Mrs. Anne Clare Bourne Ms. Gwen W. Brewer Drs. John Brineman & Sandra Chai Mr. & Mrs. John R. Brinkema Capt. and Mrs. John Brownell Dr. James C. Bulman Mr. Charles Burger & Ms. Nancy Broers Colonel & Mrs. Lance J. Burton Ms. Victoria Butler & Mr. Tim Carney Colonel & Mrs. Larry M. Cereghino Mr. John Chester Ms. JoAnn Clark Linda & John Cogdill Mr. Eli Cohen & Dr. Virginia Grace Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Cohen Dr. John Cox & Dr. Lo-Ann Nguyen-Cox James & Ann Coyle Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Craft, Jr. Ms. Katheryn L. Cranford Ms. Ann Curley Vice Adm. Dirk J. Debbink Ms. Alicia Delahunty Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. DeVincentis Mr. James B. Dinneen, Jr. Colleen Dougherty Ms. Frances G. Durako Dr. & Mrs. Josef C. Dvorak Dr. Terry Dwyer & Dr. Marcy F. Petrini Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Eager Dr. William Eamon Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Eater Mr. & Mrs. Michael Eig Mr. & Mrs. Emerson J. Elliott Mr. Douglas H. Erwin & Dr. Wendy Wiswall Mrs. John Eustice Dr. Robert J. Fehrenbach Charlie & Florita Field Anne & Lucas Fischer Ms. Laurie Fletcher & Dr. Allan Fraser Mr. John Franzén Mr. Douglas Freeman Mr. William K. Frymoyer
Mrs. Joanne Garris Mr. & Mrs. Francis M. Garrison Ms. Nancy C. Garrison Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Gibson Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mr. Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr. & Dr. Betty J. Forman Mr. Gregg H.S. Golden Mr. & Mrs. Michael Goldstein Ms. Ann V. Gordon & Mr. Martin Singer Professors Suzanne & Philip Gossett Mrs. Claire Gibson Green Sayre N. Greenfield, Ph.D & Linda V. Troost, Ph.D Mr. Bruce N. Gregory & Ms. Paula Causey Neal & Janice Gregory Janet & Christopher Griffin Mr. & Mrs. C. David Gustafson Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn & Dr. John Y. Cole Mr. & Mrs. Ridgway Hall Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Haller Margaret & David Hannay Mr. George Hayes Dr. Susan R. Haynes & Dr. Carl C. Baker Ms. Barbara W. Hazelett Mr. Robert Hebda Mr. Mark E. Herlihy & Ms. Ann M. Kappler Dr. Heather A. Hirschfeld & Prof. Anthony Welch Larry & Amanda Hobart Dr. Henry Ridgely Horsey Ms. Rosemarie R. Howe Mr. Gareth L. Howell Mr. Webb C. Howell Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Hurst Ms. Elizabeth M. Janthey Mr. & Mrs. James Jordan Dr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Justus Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kalb Ms. Sara W. Kane Ms. Mary E. Kelly Mr. Christopher Kendall & Ms. Susan Schilperoort Andrea & Joseph Kerr Ms. Judith Kimball Mr. Robert L. Kimmins Dr. Anne M. King Ms. Lynne Myers Klimmer Mr. James Knighton Mr. Michael Kolakowski Ms. Jennefer D. Kopczynski & Mr. Jonathan P. Adams Mr. & Mrs. George Koukourakis
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SUPPORTERS Mr. Edward M. Kovach & Mrs. Kathleen C. Kovach Kim & Elizabeth Kowalewski Mr. Richard Krasnow Dr. Karen Ordahl Kupperman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon Mr. & Mrs. Marc Levinson Professor Fred J. Levy & Ms. Nancy Taylor Lilly S. Lievsay Mr. Roy Lind Mr. Joseph Loewenstein & Ms. C. Lynne Tatlock Ms. Charlene Longnecker Dr. Kathleen Lynch & Mr. John C. Blaney Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Lynch Wes MacAdam Dr. Deborah L. Malkovich & Dr. William Freimuth Ms. Allison Mankin & Dr. Jim Carton Dr. Lewis Markoff & Dr. Caroline Samuels Mr. James W. McBride Ms. Ann I. McClellan Mr. Patrick J. McGraw Sean & Melissa McKenna Ms. Susan McNabb & Mr. Brent Hillman Mr. Steven J. Metalitz & Ms. Kit J. Gage Mr. & Mrs. George K. Miller Eric Minton & Sarah J. Smith Ms. Linda S. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey C. Morell Mr. Gerald J. Morris Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Myers Dr. Klaus Nehring Mrs. Nancy Nelkin Dr. Alan Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Neuman Mr. Mike Newton & Dr. Linda Werling Ms. Diane Ney Ms. Alice L. Norris Mr. & Mrs. Douglas O’Donnell Dr. Betty Ann Ottinger Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Palmer Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Dr. Hans S. Pawlisch Mr. & Mrs. Kevin L. Pearson Linda Levy Peck Mr. Joseph Perta Dr. and Mrs. Joram Piatigorsky Ms. Valerie Elizabeth Powell Drs. Maria T. & Thomas A. Prendergast Mrs. Donald Rappaport
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Mr. Leon S. Reed & Ms. Lois S. Lembo Dr. Markley Roberts Winnie & Alexander Robinson Dr. Kenneth Rock Ms. Laura Selene Rockefeller Ellen & Richard Rodin David Larch & Deborah Roudebush Ms. Theresa Rusch Mr. & Mrs. Albert L. Salter Ms. Janet A. Sanderson Mr. Thomas Glenn Saunders Mr. Kurt R. Schwarz & Ms. Patsy G. Kennan Mr. D. Stanton Sechler Professor & Mrs. Mortimer Sellers Dr. & Mrs. Paul A. Sieving Kay & George Simmons Mr. Joseph L. Smith & Ms. Cheryl S. Roesel Ms. Phyllis Smith Ms. Katharine Sodergreen Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Sollinger Mr. Steven Solow Mr. Robert Spann & Ms. Elizabeth Whiteley Mr. Steve Spaulding & Dr. Alicen B. Spaulding Professor Richard E. Spear & Professor Athena Tacha Ms. Janet C. Stavropoulos Ms. Cathleen Ann Steg & Mr. Schuyler E. Schell Ms. Elizabeth Stein Mr. Daniel Steiner The Steinglass Family Mr. Carl Wesley Stephens & Ms. Catherine L. Moore Ms. Victoria Steuerwalt Mr. & Mrs. Donald Street Allan & Kim Stypeck Ms. Theresa A. Sullivan Mr. Bruce Tanzer Mr. & Mrs. Paul Taskier Mr. Jonathan Taylor & Ms. Diane Shaughnessy Mr. & Mrs. Grant P. Thompson Ms. Elizabeth Tobey James & Carol Tsang Mrs. Ellen Tunstall Ms. Julie Uno Dr. Arina van Breda Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan Dr. & Mrs. Peter J. Ventimiglia Drs. Betsy & Alkinoos Vourlekis Mr. Eliot A. Wadsworth Mr. Ronald E. Wagner & Dr. Ruth Scogna Wagner
Ms. Wendy Wall Mr. Edward P. Washburn & Ms. Michele J. Orza Mr. Thomas Weaver Mr. & Mrs. William J. Weinhold Dr. & Mrs. John R. Wennersten Ms. Katheryne H. West & Mr. Ralph W. West, Jr. Ms. Teresa S. Whiting Gary & Josephine Williams Mr. & Mrs. Roy L. Williams Dr. Janet Wittes Mr. Clark M. Wright Marjorie Williams Wright Irene & Alan Wurtzel The Yacobucci Family The First Folio Society
The list below includes all friends who have included the Folger Shakespeare Library in their estate plans through a will commitment, a life income gift, or a beneficiary designation in a life insurance policy or retirement plan.
Anonymous (2) Professor Judith H. Anderson Ms. Doris E. Austin Dr. Carol Barton Professor Carmen A. Casís Ms. Mary Cole The Honorable Esther Coopersmith Susan Fawcett & Richard Donovan Wendy Frieman & David Johnson Dr. Elise Goodman (bequest will be in memory of Elise Goodman & Rolf Soellner) Mrs. Karen Gundersheimer Dr. Werner L. Gundersheimer Dr. Elizabeth H. Hageman Dr. Jay L. Halio Catherine Held Eric H. Hertting Mr. Michael J. Hirrel Dr. Dee Ann Holisky Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois & Mr. Christopher E. DuBois William L. Hopkins Ms. Elizabeth J. Hunt Maxine Isaacs Mrs. Robert J.T. Joy Dr. Elizabeth T. Kennan Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel Professor John N. King Pauline G. King Merwin Kliman Professor Barbara Kreps Dr. Carole Levin Lilly S. Lievsay Dr. Nancy Klein Maguire
SUPPORTERS Pam McFarland & Brian Hagenbuch Mr. Gene B. Mercer Professor H. C. Erik Midelfort & Ms. Anne L. McKeithen Roger & Robin Millay Dr. Barbara A. Mowat Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Gail Kern Paster Linda Levy Peck Dr. Sylvia Holton Peterson Professor Kristen Poole Professor Anne Lake Prescott Dr. Mark Rankin Dr. Markley Roberts Dr. Richard Schoch Mrs. S. Schoenbaum Lisa Schroeter Dr. Lois Green Schwoerer Mr. Theodore Sedgwick Albert H. Small Neal T. Turtell Barbara Wainscott Dr. Barbara A. Wanchisen Dr. Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. & Elisabeth P. Waugaman, Ph.D. Professor R L Widmann
The Honorable Karen Hastie Williams Dr. Georgianna Ziegler
Every effort has been made to ensure that this list of donors is correct. Please accept our sincere apologies if you find any information here to be incorrect. Call the Development Office at 202.675.0321.
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From left to right: Celeste Jones in District Merchants; Louis Butelli in Twelfth Night; Wayne T. Carr in Pericles; Michael Sharon and Deidra LaWan Starnes in Julius Caesar.
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