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 Renee Beaver, Kate Gifford, Elyse Jacks, John Royals, Erin Simpson, Austin Wilt, House Managers Jennifer Bowman, Folger Consort Manager Teri Cross Davis, Poetry Coordinator 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 Krohn Design, Graphic Designer Stephanie Svoboda, Ticketing Operations Manager Christina Pinnell, Box Office Manager Heather Newhouse, Box Office Lead Associate Amanda Duchemin, Box Office Associate for Group Sales Francesca Chilcote, Annie Immediata, Emily Kester, Thais Menendez, Rachel Messbauer, Anastasia Nikolis, 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 Mozur, Senior Development Officer for Annual Giving 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 CONSORT 2016/17 SEASON Janet Alexander Griffin Artistic Producer Robert Eisenstein Co-Artistic Director Beth Emelson Associate Artistic Producer Christopher Kendall Co-Artistic Director
Adaptor/Director
Music Director
Scenic Design
Mary Hall Surface
Robert Eisenstein
Tony Cisek*
Lighting Design
Costumer
Puppet Design
Andrew Cissna*
Adalia Tonneyck
Aaron Cromie
Choreographer
Casting
Consort Manager
Emma Jaster
Teresa Wood
Jennifer Bowman
General Manager
Production Manager
Production Stage Manager
David Polk
Charles Flye
Teresa Wood
The Second Shepherds’ Play Sponsors D. James Baker & Emily Lind Baker Gail Orgelfinger & Charles C. Hanna
Dedicated to our friend, musician Tom Zajac. This production is performed with one 15-minute intermission. Please refrain from using cell phones, cameras, or other recording devices during The Second Shepherds’ Play. *Member of United Scenic Artists
PRODUCTION CREDITS Assistant Technical Director Production Assistant Text Coach Mask and Puppet Consultant Assistant Scenic Designer Props Master Sound Engineer Master Electrician Assistant Master Electrician Wardrobe Head
Rebekah Sheffer Elizabeth Brodie Cassie Ash Matthew R. Wilson Paige Hathaway Tony Koehler Brandon Roe Alex Keen Amanda Kircher Cidney Forkpah
Graphic Design Publications Consultant Advertising Agency Marketing Design Consultant Production Photography Video Recording Host, Pre-Consort Discussions
Krohn Design Jane Pisano WiT Media Emily Tartanella Brittany Diliberto James Gardiner Robert Aubrey Davis
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CAST
(in alphabetical order)
Gill Ensemble Coll Musician Daw Musician Musician Angel/Ensemble Mary/Ensemble Sheep/Ensemble Mak Gib
Tonya Beckman* Danny Cackley Louis E. Davis Robert Eisenstein Megan Graves Brian Kay Daniel Meyers Emily Noël Lilian Oben Malinda Kathleen Reese Ryan Sellers Matthew R. Wilson*
Understudies Jacqueline Cheuault (Gill/Ensemble) David Mavricos (Mak/Ensemble) Ivan Zizek (Coll/Gib) Kathryn Zoerb (Daw/Mary/Angel)
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote, and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 49,000 actors, singers, dancers, and stage managers working in hundreds of theaters across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theater as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.
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FROM THE ADAPTOR/DIRECTOR
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Thumbing through a thick anthology of English literature as a 14-year-old, I discovered The Second Shepherds’ Play. While I struggled with the language, I loved the raucous comedy in the midst of a sacred story that I held dear. I vividly imagined medieval theatre makers taking their faith into the streets, delighting their audiences with a conniving sheep-stealer then inviting them to stand as hushed witnesses to the birth in Bethlehem. To me, this was theater at its best— where great mysteries were explored and celebrated on an immediate, human scale. I imagine such a theatre still. So I joyfully return to the Folger to bring this very old play once again to new life.
What distinguishes The Second Shepherds’ Play is how a farcical tale is inserted so remarkably into a biblical episode. We see through our laughter the holy family to come in the antics of a most unholy of families (the sheep-stealing Mak, the resourceful Gill, and their unwieldy “lamb” in the cradle). The audience of the day would have expected Mak to get his just reward for what was then a capital offense. But the writer of The Second Shepherds’ Play captures in Mak’s merciful fate the kind of grace that the shepherds, as well as
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the faithful watching the play, believed came down at Christmas. The anonymous writer further shows his skill in developing three distinct personalities for his shepherds (unlike the more generic shepherds in other mystery plays and, indeed, in the Bible). Each has his own perspective on the injustices of the day. They tell us clearly that the world is out of whack. Coll grumbles about the inequities of the yeoman farmers, Gib grouses about the difficulty of marriage (an opposite picture of the selfless love to come at Christmas), and the young Daw complains of the mistreatment of servants by their masters. That these biblical shepherds are chronicling the woes of
contemporary rural England and are able to walk from Yorkshire to Bethlehem was not considered anachronistic. For the play’s author and his community, Christ’s birth was not a past event but an everunfolding mystery, present in everyday life. At this performance, in this place that is not unlike a medieval town square or banquet hall, we too are a community. We are bound as fellow travelers on this good earth and also by our shared faith in music, theater, and the imagination. Let us celebrate the light that can pierce the darkness and find in the warm heart of this midwinter’s drama. –Mary Hall Surface
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ABOUT THE MUSIC When we decided to stage a version of The Second Shepherds’ Play as part of the Folger Consort season originally in 2007, we realized we had a major hurdle to surmount: there is only one reference to a song in the play, and it is impossible to know for sure what tune was used. Music was an integral part of medieval life in so many ways, and what we know of the performing tradition makes it easy to imagine a 15th- or early 16thcentury performance of the play that incorporates songs and instrumental music. We first thought to use music from many different periods and even different countries, but as we explored this more closely, we saw it made more sense to use songs and instrumental pieces that the original author of the play could have known. All of the music you will hear in this performance is English, and all of it is from the 16th century or earlier. As is befitting a work that celebrates simple shepherds, a lot of our selections have a decidedly popular tone. There is little lofty court or chapel music here. In England of the early 15th century, the Church had not completely succeeded in its struggle against native paganism, especially among the common people. Customs and beliefs from the old religion were still maintained. The medieval Church dealt with this problem in many ways. Some customs, such as the hanging of wreaths of mistletoe and 8
ivy, were simply absorbed and became integral parts of popular Christianity. To reach the masses, however, the Church had to use every possible attraction. Important feasts, especially Christmas, were made as elaborate and eye-catching as possible, with colorful processions and music to ornament the liturgy. The first Christmas carols had their origins here. Their basic purpose was to involve the people in the Church through instructive texts, beautiful melodies, and dance-like rhythms. The word carole in previous centuries referred to a dance song, and that character still seems present in many examples from the 13th century. We have used several of these carols in our production this evening, including the opening Nova, Nova, as well as Nowell, Nowell. There is a distinctive quality to the English music of the time of The Second Shepherds’ Play that sets it apart from continental style of the same era. This distinction was perhaps due to indigenous folk practices. As reported by Giraldus Cambrensis in 1198: When they make their music together, they sing tunes not in unison, as is done elsewhere, but in parts with many simultaneous modes and phrases. Therefore, in a group of singers…you will hear as many melodies as there are people…yet, they all accord in one consonant and properly constituted composition…. This specialty of the race is no product of trained musicians, but was acquired through long-standing popular practices.
The English were also aware of the pleasures of the third and sixth, intervals that were considered dissonant by theorists. As one musician stated, “the mo imperfit tones a man synges in the treybell the merrier it is.” We begin our play early in this era’s musical tradition with some of the very few surviving instrumental pieces from 14th-century England—a monophonic estampie, which is the form of every surviving medieval dance. The first polyphonic song you will hear this evening is a wonderful and famous example of the merry sound of imperfect tones. Angelus ad virginem has the distinction of being the one piece of music that has a direct association with Geoffrey Chaucer: the dandy young scholar in “The Miller’s Tale” sings it to the accompaniment of a psaltery in order to charm his lady visitors. After the group of 15th-century carols heard after intermission, we introduce some later tunes. There is a wonderful progression to the play, and the gradual appearance of some 16th-century music helps with the transformation and wonder of the later scenes. You will hear, among the earlier tunes, the lovely anonymous lute ayre: Sweet was the song the Virgin sung, the tune alone is heard and then with the accompaniment, the justly famous Coventry Carol with its expressive cross relations, and Dives and Lazarus, the ravishing folk song collected and set by R.V. Williams in the early 20th century.
Medieval music presents modern performers and listeners alike with some great challenges. In spite of the best efforts of historians, we know relatively little about the conventions of medieval performance practice, and we probably will never know very much more. In most cases, we are dealing with cultures that were literate only at the very highest social levels. Until the end of the 12th century, there was no reliable way to notate rhythms, and earlier notation even of pitches can be sketchy at best. Instrumentalists were by and large not part of the literate elite, and so we can count the surviving sources of instrumental music on our fingers. To compound our problems, the people who wrote about music in the Middle Ages were theorists more interested in philosophical speculations about the divine music of the spheres than in practical music-making. Almost any use of instruments in the performance of medieval music is bound to be speculative, and there are almost as many problems with vocal music. Why, then, does medieval music continue to fascinate performers and the listening public? The best reason is that there simply is so much good music from the Middle Ages. Old does not mean inferior or less sophisticated. There is a strength and power in these tunes, words, and forms that still speaks directly to us, perhaps in ways that later music has neglected in favor of other charms. –Robert Eisenstein 9
SONGS AND MUSIC Estampie instrumental Dou way Robin/ Motet for Mary—on a folksong ground Sancta mater graciae instrumental Nova, nova Angelus ad virginem Meri it is instrumental En vrai amour instrumental Conductus instrumental Blow thy horne, hunter La doune cella instrumental
15th-century carol Song on the Annunciation— mentioned by Chaucer Old song about winter and cold, sorrow and fasting From Henry VIII’s Manuscript 14th-century 14th-century round Dance from the mid-16th-century Mulliner Book
La bounette instrumental
Dance from Mulliner Book Dance from Mulliner Book Country dance
La shymize instrumental Half-hannikin instrumental Intermission Ye have so longe kepyt scheep instrumental
15th-century song Edi beo thu hevene Quene instrumental song for Mary Philip’s Dumpe instrumental 16th-century lute piece Sweet was the song the Virgin sung 16th-century carol Nowell, nowell 15th-century carol The Shaking of the Sheets instrumental Country dance Gloria in excelsis deo From the mass—Gabriel’s words to Mary Dives and Lazarus instrumental Traditional song— collected by R. V. Williams Coventry Carol 16th-century carol 14th-century
Greensleeves Sommerset Wassail
Renaissance tune—original Christmas words Wassailing song
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CAST Tonya Beckman Gill Folger Theatre: Twelfth Night, The Gaming Table, As You Like It, The Game of Love and Chance; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Love’s Labor’s Lost, Lady Windermere’s Fan; Studio Theatre: The Internationalist, The Long Christmas Ride Home; Arena Stage: Age of Innocence; Round House Theatre: Crime and Punishment, Alice (Helen Hayes Ensemble nomination, directed by Mary Hall Surface), A Wrinkle in Time; Olney Theatre Center: The Millionairess, Rancho Mirage; Kennedy Center: American Scrapbook, Unleashed, Shear Madness; Theater J: Mikveh, Yellow Face; Ford’s Theatre: Sabrina Fair; Mosaic Theatre Company: After the War; Forum Theatre: Passion Play; many roles at Taffety Punk Theatre Company (company member). Regional: Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse, Fulton Theatre, Totem Pole Playhouse, Public Theatre of Maine, Purple Rose Theatre, Human Race Theatre. tonyabeckman.com
Danny Cackley Ensemble Folger Theatre: Othello (u/s); Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Metromaniacs; Studio Theatre: The Walworth Farce (u/s); National Players: Macbeth, Comedy of Errors, Odyssey (Tour 65); WSC/Avant Bard: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Flying V Theatre: Flying V Fights: Love is a Battlefield; Brave Spirits Theatre: Romeo & Juliet, The Tragedy of Messalina (reading); Young Playwrights’ Theater: New Play Festival(s) 2012/2013, Express Tour 2012; Lean & Hungry Theater: The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing; Faction of Fools: A Commedia Romeo & Juliet, Tales of Marriage & Mozzarella, Classics Made Foolish. dannycackley.com
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Louis E. Davis Coll Theater Alliance: Word Becomes Flesh, Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea; Rorschach Theatre: A Bid to Save the World, She Kills Monsters; We Happy Few: CHALK; Fringe Festival: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, 1001 Days; Television: Investigation Discovery Channel’s House of Horrors: Abducted & Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry…
Robert Eisenstein Musician See Creative Team Biographies
Megan Graves Daw Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Arena Stage: The Little Foxes; Forum Theatre: Passion Play, Clementine in the Lower 9; The National Theatre’s Children’s Theatre: The BFG; Imagination Stage: The BFG (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding TYA Production), Inside Out, The Night Fairy, The Magic Finger; 1st Stage Theater: One Man, Two Guv’nors, The Cripple of Inishmaan; Adventure Theatre MTC: The Twelve Days of Christmas; No Rules Theatre Company: Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers (world premiere). Regional: Virginia Repertory Theatre: Peter and the Starcatcher; Virginia Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice. Upcoming: Constellation Theatre Company: Peter and the Star Catcher.
Brian Kay Musician Performances at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Shriver Hall and The Boston Early Music Festival. Performed with Trio Sefardi, Folger Consort, Eya, Apollo’s Fire, Ayreheart,
CAST Hesperus, Twa Corbies, and is a founding member of the early music improvisation group Divisio. Radio: NPR, Baltimore’s WYPR, Baltimore’s 98ROCK, Boston’s WGBH, and Cleveland’s WCLV. Recordings: Record labels Avie and Sono Luminus and three solo albums Ocean, Three Ravens, and Moonsong. Lectures at Yale University, The Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University, The Maltz Center, and BaldwinWallace College among others. Artist-inResidence at the Cushman School in Miami in 2012 and performed at Plymouth Prison in Massachusetts.
Daniel Meyers Musician Performances at the Kennedy Center, Shakespeare’s Globe on Broadway (Twelfth Night and Richard III), Newport Folk Festival, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, York (UK) Early Music Festival, the Cambridge Revels, and on NPR. Ensembles include Folger Consort, Seven Times Salt, Meravelha, The Newberry Consort, and Early Music New York. Director of Early Wind Studies for the Five Colleges (MA) with lectures/performances at Harvard, NYU, Tufts University, and Brandeis University. Also performs traditional Irish and Scottish music with Ulster Landing, and southern Italian/Mediterranean folk music with Newpoli.
Emily Noël Angel Folger Consort: Measure + Dido, Shakespeare and Purcell, The Merchant of Venice, A Renaissance Christmas, Map of the World, Christmas in New Spain. Concert: Washington National Cathedral: St. Matthew Passion; Strathmore: The Music of Jessica Krash; Lyric Fest at AVA: Poe Fest; Handel Choir of Baltimore: Messiah; Washington Bach Consort: Mass in B Minor. Opera: Ente Concerti Città di Iglesias: Dido and Aeneas, Rigoletto; Amsterdam Grachtenfestival: Riders to the Sea; Cathedra: The Witch of
Endor; American Opera Theater: La Calisto, La Didone, David et Jonathas, Jephthe. Tours with folk ensemble Floyds Row.
Lilian Oben Mary/Ensemble Folger Theatre: Sense and Sensibility (u/s), District Merchants (u/s), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (u/s); Prince George’s Summer Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night; Constellation Theatre: Journey to the West; Cohesion Theatre: Twelfth Night; Women’s Voices Theatre Festival: DuirWyyd: The Dreamer’s Doorway; Factory 449 (Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage): The Weight of Water; Capital Fringe Festival: Out of Silence, Miss Emma’s Matchmaking Agency for Literary Characters; Studio Theatre (British Invasion Series): The Witness; Colonial Players of Annapolis: Communicating Doors (WATCH nomination, Outstanding Lead Actress); Roundhouse Theatre: Annual One-Minute Play Festival; Pinky Swear Productions: The Tiny House Plays; Young Playwright’s Theatre: Girls Write Out, New Writers Now, New Play Festival.
Malinda Kathleen Reese Sheep/Ensemble The Kennedy Center: The Night Before Christmas, The Snow Queen, Why the Chimes Rang; Warner Theatre: At Home in the World. Regional: Powerhouse Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. New York: Lincoln Center: At Home in the World; New World Stages: Broadway Artist Alliance Showcases 2009–2014. London: The Oval House Theater: The Unnatural Tragedy (world premiere). Educational: How the Lighthouse Became an Island (world premiere), Time Stands Still, 2023 (world premiere). International Tour (USA, Japan, Uganda): At Home In the World. Film: The Great White Way. YouTube: Google Translate Sings Series. youtube.com/ MalindaKathleenReese
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CAST Ryan Sellers Mak Shakespeare Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Signature Theatre: West Side Story, The Threepenny Opera, Miss Saigon; Studio Theatre: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Imagination Stage: The Night Fairy, Anime Momotaro, P. Nokio, The Wind In The Willows; Synetic Theater: The Taming of the Shrew, The Three Musketeers, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Host and Guest, The Master and Margarita, Antony and Cleopatra, Don Quixote, Dante, Romeo and Juliet, Othello; Creative Cauldron: Turn of the Screw; The Hub Theatre: Carried Away On The Crest Of A Wave. Riverside Center: West Side Story. National Tour: Five Little Monkeys. Television: Nightmare Next Door, House of Cards.
Matthew R. Wilson Gib/Mask and Puppet Consultant Folger Theatre: The Comedy of Errors, 1 Henry IV. Faction of Fools (former Artistic Director, Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Emerging Theatre): Hamlecchino, The Great One-Man Commedia Epic; Kennedy Center: Shear Madness; Constellation Theatre: Taking Steps, The Green Bird; Taffety Punk: suicide.chat.room, “Bootleg” Two Noble Kinsman and Love’s Labour’s Lost; dog & pony: Beertown (Helen Hayes nomination, Outstanding New Play). Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre: Pirates of Penzance; New England Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Clarence Brown Theatre. OffBroadway: 45 Bleecker: Hecuba; Tribeca Playhouse: Love’s Labour’s Lost; LaMaMa E.T.C., Cherry Lane; New York Comedy Club. Television: House of Cards, As the World Turns. Professor at The University of Mississippi. MFA, Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting; PhD candidate, University of Maryland. MatthewRWilson.com
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CREATIVE TEAM Mary Hall Surface
Emma Jaster
Adaptor/Director Folger Consort: The Second Shepherds’ Play (2007). Director/Playwright: Theatre of the First Amendment: Sing Down the Moon, Perseus Bayou (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical), Mississippi Pinocchio, The Odyssey of Telémaca, Lift: Icarus and Me; Round House Theatre: Alice; National Symphony Orchestra: Miranda’s Waltz; National Gallery of Art: Who’s in the Hopper, Framed: Roy Lichtenstein, Forward, 54th!; Kennedy Center: The Nightingale, Prodigy, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Word Dance Theater: Preludes—Ducan, Sand and Chopin; Imagination Stage: The Hundred Dresses, Perseus Bayou; Choral Arts Society: Family Christmas Concerts 2007–2014; Atlas Performing Arts Center: Stay Awake. Founding Artistic Director of Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival. She is a national teaching artist for the Kennedy Center and Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom. maryhallsurface.com
Choreographer Theater J: Our Class (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Resident Play), Falling Out of Time; Center Stage: Stones in His Pockets; Round House Theatre: Young Robin Hood; Constellation Theatre: Gilgamesh; Happenstance Theater: Cabaret Macabre. Regional: Double Edge Theatre: Shahrezade; The Cutting Ball Theatre: Antigone, Communique no.10. New York: Heartbeat Opera Company: Dido & Aeneas, Heartbeat on the Highline; LoftOpera: Cosi Fan Tutte; HERE Arts: Moshesh, Epyllion. Film: Self & Selfie. Artist Fellowship from the DCCAH, ODC Pilot Residency SF, Studio 210 Residency SF, HARP Residency NYC. emmajaster.com
Robert Eisenstein Co-Artistic Director, Folger Consort Over 200 productions and performances with Folger Consort over the past 40 years include the recent Measure + Dido at The Kennedy Center and Napa Valley Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice at Strathmore, The Fairy Queen, and Hildegard Von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum at the Washington National Cathedral. Director of the Five College Early Music Program; Music Director of the Five College Opera Project production of Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero. Faculty member of Mount Holyoke College, where he teaches music history and performs viola da gamba, violin, and medieval fiddle. He is an active participant in Five College Medieval Studies. Recipient of Early Music America’s Thomas Binkley Award for outstanding achievement in performance and scholarship by the director of a college early music ensemble.
Tony Cisek Scenic Design Folger Consort: The Second Shepherds’ Play (2007), Comus. Folger Theatre: Timon of Athens (upcoming), District Merchants, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, 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. Work at other DC theaters includes: Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Theater J, Theater Alliance, The Kennedy Center. Regional theaters include: Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, Alliance Theatre, South Coast Rep, Milwaukee Rep, 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: Beyond Glory, columbinus. tonycisek.com
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CREATIVE TEAM Adalia Tonneyck
Aaron Cromie
Costumer Folger Theatre: Assistant Costume Designer for: Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Conference of the Birds, The Gaming Table, Othello, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Orestes: A Tragic Romp. Washington Stage Guild: Red Herring, Magic; Savannah Actors Theater: Agnes of God; The Madriea School: Kiss Me Kate, The Cherry Orchard, Anything Goes, Footloose; Howard University: The African American; G.W.U: The Tempest, HAIR; Traveling Players Ensemble: Cymbeline, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Two Gentleman of Verona, The Miser, Learned Ladies, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, As You Like It, The Picture, The Blue Monster, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Tragic Events, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. adaliavera.com
Puppet Designer Folger Consort: Second Shepherds’ Play (2007 Production. Puppets, Performer); Folger Theatre: The Comedy of Errors (Masks), Measure for Measure (Puppets), The Two Gentleman of Verona (Masks). Other DC Credits: Faction of Fools: Hamlecchino, The Miser, Titus Andronicus (Masks); The Shakespeare Theatre: Ion, Hamlet (Puppets); Studio Theatre: The Long Christmas Ride Home (Puppets). Regional: Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Arden Theatre, Shakespeare in Clark Park, Lantern Theater, Wilma Theater, 1812 Productions, Two River Theatre Company, Delaware Theatre Company, Pearl Theater. Grantee, Jim Henson Foundation, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Independence Foundation. Fivetime Barrymore Award winner. www.aaroncromie.com
Teresa Wood Andrew Cissna Lighting Design Round House Theatre: Father Comes Home from the Wars, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Ironbound, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Rapture Blister Burn; Signature Theatre: Sex with Strangers, The Flick; Catalyst Theatre Company: 1984; Ford’s Theatre: One Destiny; Studio Theatre: Murder Ballad, Silence the Musical; Theatre J: After the Revolution, Yentl; Olney Theatre Center: Passion for Justice; Forum Theatre: Passion Play, Valparaiso; Theatre Alliance: Gross Indecency, Blue/Orange, In on It; Kennedy Center TYA: American Scrapbook, Mockingbird, Blues Journey; Imagination Stage: A Year with Frog and Toad; Adventure Theatre: The Happy Elf, Pinkalicious, Holes. Regional: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Jitney; Playmakers Repertory Theatre: Seminar; Milwaukee Repertory Theatre: Noises Off, Harvey; Perseverance Theatre Company: Noises Off.
Production Stage Manager The Suzanne Farrell Ballet: 2014–2016 Seasons (ASM); The Kennedy Center: Side Show (PA), Man of the House (SM), The Guardsman (PA), Follies (PA); Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Tempest—Free For All (ASM), A Midsummer Night’s Dream— Macao (PA), Tartuffe (PA), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (PA), The Heir Apparent (PA), Cymbeline (PA), Richard II/Henry V (PA), Twelfth Night (PA); Source Festival 2016 (PSM).
Cassie Ash Text Coach Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (AD), Mary Stuart (AD); Brave Spirits Theatre: A King and No King (Director, upcoming), The Maid’s Tragedy (Dramaturg), Arden of Faversham (Dramaturg); Studio Theatre 2ndStage: Mary-Kate Olsen Is In Love (AD). Regional: American Shakespeare Center: A Christmas Carol (Co-director), Hamlet (AD), The Comedy of Errors (AD), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (AD). Artistic Associate with Brave Spirits.
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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 is Lynn Redgrave’s solo show, Shakespeare for My Father; District Merchants by Aaron Posner; and The Second Shepherds’ Play, first seen in 2007. 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 CONSORT SPONSORS Folger Consort Sponsors Premiere Sponsors Andi H. Kasarsky Craig Pascal & Victor Shargai Performance Sponsors D. James Baker & Emily Lind Baker Gail Orgelfinger & Charles C. Hanna Robert J. & Tina M. Tallaksen Artist Sponsors Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel To learn more about sponsorship call Cari Romeu at 202.548.8777, or visit www.folger.edu/sponsor.
Additional support of Folger Consort comes from Early Music Endowment Fund Eunice & Mones E. Hawley Early Music Endowment Fund The Estate of Pamela L. Kopp
Corporate, Foundation, and Government Support Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully acknowledges the kind support of the following institutional donors. The list below includes gifts of $1,000 or more received between October 1, 2015 and September 30, 2016.
Anonymous AARP William S. Abell Foundation, Inc. British Council The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Capitol Hill Community Foundation Anthony & Anna L. Carozza Foundation Clark-Winchcole Foundation Council on Library and Information Resources Marshall B. Coyne Foundation D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
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Dimick Foundation Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. 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 iTunes KieranTimberlake Lannan Foundation MARPAT Foundation The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation Mars Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Moleskine The Mosaic Foundation (of R. & P. Heydon) National Capital Arts & Cultural Affairs Program & the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities National Recreation Foundation Nepeni Foundation Overseas Hardwoods Company The Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation The Nora Roberts Foundation Share Fund The Shubert Foundation Weissberg Foundation
Eugene A. Ludwig & Dr. Carol Ludwig Roger & Robin Millay William & Louisa Newlin Darcy & Andy Nussbaum Gail Kern Paster Mark Pigott KBE & Cindy Pigott Loren & Frances Rothschild Neal T. Turtell $15,000 -$24,999 Helen & David Kenney The Honorable John D. Macomber Andrew Oliver & Melanie Du Bois Stuart & Mimi Rose Mr. & Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II Scott & Liz Vance $10,000-$14,999 Jarrett & Nora Arp Nicky Cymrot Maygene & Steve Daniels Peter & Rose Edwards Mr. Douglas Evans David & Margaret Gardner William L. Hopkins Mr. & Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Nancy & Steve Howard Deneen Howell & Donald Vieira Maxine Isaacs Jacqueline Badger Mars J.C. & Mary McElveen John & Connie McGuire Mary Parsons Craig Pascal & Victor Shargai Joanne Ruxin Mr. & Mrs. H. Axel Schupf Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Small Tara Ghoshal Wallace Drs. Michael L. Witmore & Kellie Robertson
$5,000-$9,999 Anonymous Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully Judy Areen & Richard Cooper acknowledges the kind support of the Keith & Celia Arnaud following individuals. The list below Roger & Julie Baskes includes gifts and pledges of $250 or Twiss & Patrick Butler more received between October 1, Heather & Dick Cass 2015 and September 30, 2016. Dr. Thomas Cohen & Dr. Lisa Cohen-Fuentes $50,000+ The Lord Browne of Madingley Denise Gwyn Ferguson Stephen H. Grant J. May Liang & James Lintott Wendy Frieman & $25,000-$49,999 David Johnson Louis & Bonnie Cohen Andi H. Kasarsky Neal & Florence Cohen Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel Susan Sachs Goldman Richard & Jane Levy
Individual Donors
SUPPORTERS Ken Ludwig & Adrienne George Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart Ms. Penny Moden Carl & Undine Nash Mrs. William F. Nelson Courtney & Scott Pastrick Mr. Ben Reiter & Mrs. Alice Goldman Reiter Gabriela & Douglas Smith Louis B. Thalheimer & Juliet A. Eurich Nyla & Gerry Witmore Ellen & Bernard Young
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 Robert J. & Tina M. Tallaksen Mr. Leslie C. Taylor Ayanna Thompson Tessa van der Willigen & Jonathan Walters Professor R L Widmann
$2,500-$4,999 Anonymous (3) Gary & Mary Ellen Abrecht D. James Baker & Emily Lind Baker Bill & Evelyn Braithwaite Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Brown Howard M. Brown Rebecca Bushnell & John Toner Susan & Dixon Butler Professor Carmen A. Casís Brian & Karen Conway Jeffrey P. Cunard 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 Rick Kasten 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 Julianna Mahley Mark McConnell & Leslie Delagran Pam McFarland & Brian Hagenbuch Peter & Mary Jay Michel Martin & Elaine Miller Cullen & Anna Marie Murphy Dr. Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff Melanie & Larry Nussdorf Carolyn & Mark Olshaker Timothy & Linda O’Neill
$1,000-$2,499 Anonymous (3) John & Nancy Abeles Bess & Greg Ballentine Ms. Lisa U. Baskin 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 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. & Mrs. William Davis Porter & Lisa Dawson Mr. Daniel De Simone & Ms. Angela Scott Mr. John F. Downey Marjorie & Anthony Elson The Folger Five Nancy M. Folger & Sidney Werkman Carla & George Frampton 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 Eric H. Hertting Mrs. Wilhelmina Holladay Mr. Michael B. Jennison Mr. & Mrs. David H. Jones Professor John N. & Pauline King Ms. Faith S. Lambert Col. Denny Lane & Ms. Naoko Aoki Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Langkamp Mr. Hiram G. Larew Dr. Carole Levin 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 & Cyril Muromcew Ms. Essence Newhoff & Dr. Paul Gardullo 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 Earl & Carol Ravenal Mr. & Mrs. Trip Reid Mr. David Roberts & Dr. David Spencer Melinda & Howard Rubin Mary Jane Ruhl Mr. & Mrs. K. Dudley Schadeberg Dr. Richard Schoch Dr. Marianne Schuelein & Mr. Ralph M. Krause Howard Shapiro & Shirley Brandman Dr. James Shapiro Joan Shorey John & Alison Steadman Mr. Hubert M. Stiles Jr. & Obe’s Book Club
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SUPPORTERS 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 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 Dr. Peter J. Albert & Ms. Charlotte Mahoney 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 John Byrd & Lina Watson Mr. & Mrs. Lewis R. Cabe Ms. Diana Carl The Honorable & Mrs. Raymond C. Clevenger, III 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 Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Daniels Mr. Steven des Jardins
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Mr. & Mrs. Clark Evans 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. 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 Sayre N. Greenfield, PhD & Linda V. Troost, PhD Mr. Bruce N. Gregory & Ms. Paula Causey Mr. Harry Gutman 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 Mr. Richard Krasnow Dr. Marcel C. LaFollette & Mr. Jeffrey K. Stine Dr. Robert Lawshe Mr. Michael Lebovitz Mr. and Mrs. Terry Lenzner Ms. Nina Levine Mr. & Mrs. Jan Lodal 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 Mr. Hilary B. Miller & Dr. Katherine N. Bent Mr. James Eric Minton & Col. Sarah J. Smith Hazel C. Moore Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Mr. Terence R. Murphy & Ms. Patricia A. Sherman
Theodore & Mary Eugenia Myer Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Mr. & Mrs. Dave Nurme Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Parr Ms. Sheila J. Peters Mr. & Mrs. Carl F. Pfeiffer Ms. Julie Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Dr. & Mrs. Warren S. Poland Ms. Gerit Ann Quealy Mrs. Donald Rappaport Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Mr. Jonathan M. Rich Gerd & Duncan Ritchie Mr. Peter Rogen Prof. Barbara A. Shailor PhD & 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. Joanne M. Sten Ms. Susan Sutton Mary Augusta & George D. Thomas Dr. Nancy Eve Thomas & Mr. Nick Olmos-Lau Ms. Kathryn M. Truex 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) 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 Dr. Ilona D. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Benson Dr. Katherine Berry & Mr. Christian Buchmann Mr. Steven Bloom
SUPPORTERS Mr. James L. Blum Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Bochner Mr. George H. Booth, II Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bott Mrs. Anne Clare Bourne Ms. Gwen W. Brewer Drs. John Brineman & Sandra Chai Mr. & Mrs. John R. Brinkema Capt. & Mrs. John Brownell Dr. James C. Bulman Mr. Charles Burger & Ms. Nancy Broers Colonel & Mrs. Lance J. Burton Ms. Victoria Butler & Mr. Tim Carney Ms. Patricia Catalano Colonel & Mrs. Larry M. Cereghino Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Chaldekas Mr. John Chester Ms. JoAnn Clark Linda & John Cogdill 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. Mr. & Mrs. Bill Donohue 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 Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Field Anne & Lucas Fischer Ms. Laurie Fletcher & Dr. Allan Fraser 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 Mr. John E. Graves, RIA & Ms. Hanh Phan Mrs. Claire Gibson Green 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 David Hannay Ms. Margaret A. Harlow Mr. George Hayes Dr. Susan R. Haynes & Dr. Carl C. Baker Ms. Barbara W. Hazelett Mr. Robert Hebda Mr. & Mrs. Keith B. Hennessey 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 Mr. Robert S. Kirk Ms. Lynne Myers Klimmer Mr. James Knighton Mr. Michael Kolakowski Ms. Jennefer D. Kopczynski & Mr. Jonathan P. Adams Mr. & Mrs. George Koukourakis
Mr. Edward M. Kovach & Mrs. Kathleen C. Kovach Kim & Elizabeth Kowalewski Dr. Karen Ordahl Kupperman Mr. David W. Lankford David Larch & Deborah Roudebush Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon Mr. & Mrs. Marc Levinson Professor Fred J. Levy & Ms. Nancy Taylor Lilly S. Lievsay Mr. Roy Lind Dr. Frances Litrenta Mr. Joseph Loewenstein & Ms. C. Lynne Tatlock Mr. & Mrs. David Longnecker Mrs. Stephen Lotterman 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 Ms. Linda S. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey C. Morell Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Myers Dr. Klaus Nehring Mrs. Nancy Nelkin Mr. & Mrs. Michael Neuman Mr. Mike Newton & Dr. Linda Werling Ms. Diane Ney Ms. Alice L. Norris Mr. & Mrs. Douglas O’Donnell Mr. & Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin Betty Ann Ottinger Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Palmer Mr. & Mrs. John Pastoral Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Dr. Hans S. Pawlisch Mr. & Mrs. Kevin L. Pearson Linda Levy Peck Mr. Joseph Perta Drs. Sylvia Holton Peterson & William Peterson
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SUPPORTERS Dr. & Mrs. Joram Piatigorsky Ms. Ann Portocarrero Ms. Valerie Elizabeth Powell Drs. Maria T. & Thomas A. Prendergast Mr. Terry Quist Mr. & Mrs. Erik M. Rasmussen Mr. Leon S. Reed & Ms. Lois S. Lembo Dr. Markley Roberts Winnie & Alexander Robinson Dr. Kenneth Rock Ms. Laura Selene Rockefeller Ellen & Richard Rodin 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. 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 Dr. Edward Starr Mrs. Thomas Stauffer 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. & Mrs. Bruce N. Tanzer 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
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Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan Dr. & Mrs. Peter J. Ventimiglia Drs. Betsy & Alkinoos Vourlekis Mr. Ronald E. Wagner & Dr. Ruth Scogna Wagner Ms. Wendy Wall 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 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. CasĂs Ms. Mary Cole The Honorable Esther Coopersmith Douglas Evans 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 Bruce Janacek 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 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 Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan Barbara Wainscott Dr. Barbara A. Wanchisen Dr. Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. & Elisabeth P. Waugaman, PhD 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. If your name is misspelled or omitted, please accept our sincere apologies and inform the Development Office at (202) 675-0321.
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THE FOLGER
Home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the Folger Shakespeare Library is a worldrenowned center for scholarship, learning, culture, and the arts. The library—a gift to the American people from industrialist Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily Jordan Folger—opened in 1932. The Folger is an internationally recognized research library offering advanced scholarly programs in the humanities; an innovator in the preservation of rare materials; a national leader in how Shakespeare is taught in grades K-12; and an awardwinning producer of cultural and arts programs—theater, music, poetry, exhibits, lectures and family programs— which connect broad audiences to its collections and support the living legacy of Shakespeare in contemporary life.
Open: Mon.–Thurs. & Sat., 10am–5pm; Fri., 31 10am–8pm; and Sun., 12pm–5pm Gift Shop: Tues.–Sat., 12pm–5pm
Engaging Washington-area audiences since 1977, Folger Consort is the early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Founding Artistic Directors Robert Eisenstein and Christopher Kendall create programs that offer opportunities to discover and enjoy music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Whether presenting concerts in the ensemble’s intimate home, the Folger’s Elizabethan-styled theater, or in the splendid reaches of Washington National Cathedral, the Folger Consort continues its tradition of bringing internationally noted guest artists to Washington, DC to join in its “early music chamber society.” Beyond its concert series, Folger Consort strives to deepen audiences’ understanding and appreciation of early music through seminars, discussions, recordings, radio programs, and unique collaborations with other programs of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Folger Consort has received five awards for Best Classical Chamber Ensemble by the Washington Area Music Awards.
Building & Exhibition Tour: Mon.–Sat., 11am, 1pm & 3pm; and Sun. 12pm & 3pm
Reading Rooms Tour: Sat. at 12pm; limited to 15 participants. Reserve 31 in advance at tours@folger.edu