The Way of the World Playbill

A NEW COMEDY ADAPTED FROM THE PLAY

BY WILLIAM CONGREVE

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY

THERESA REBECK

JANUARY 9 – FEBRUARY 11, 2018 #WayoftheFolger

THE FOLGER BOARD OF GOVERNORS Louis R. Cohen, Chair Susan Sachs Goldman, Vice-Chair Roger Millay, Vice-Chair Andrew Altman D. Jarrett Arp Simon Russell Beale The Lord Browne of Madingley Rebecca Bushnell Vinton Cerf Florence H. Cohen Lady Darroch Philip Deutch Wyatt R. Haskell Deneen C. Howell Maxine Isaacs May Liang Carol L. Ludwig Ken Ludwig Andrew J. Nussbaum Gail Kern Paster Stuart Rose Loren Rothschild Laura J. Yerkovich Ex Officio Michael Witmore

SENIOR DIRECTORS Michael Witmore, Director Abbey Silberman Fagin, Chief Advancement Officer 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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FOLGER THEATRE 2017/18 SEASON Janet Alexander Griffin Artistic Producer Beth Emelson Associate Artistic Producer

David Polk General Manager Charles Flye Production Manager

A new comedy adapted from the play by William Congreve

Written and directed by Theresa

Rebeck†

Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Alexander Dodge*

Linda Cho*

Donald Holder*

Sound Design

Resident Dramaturg

New York Casting

M.L. Dogg*

Michele Osherow

Eisenberg/Beans Casting

Folger Casting

Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Teresa Wood

Scott Hammar**

Jessica Short**

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

Season Sponsors Helen and David Kenney and Family Neal T. Turtell Scott and Liz Vance

Contributing Sponsor Denise Ferguson

Associate Sponsors Stephen and Anne Black Lou and Bonnie Cohen Andi H. Kasarsky Carl and Undine Nash Carolyn and Mark Olshaker

Folger Theatre’s opencaptioned performances are generously sponsored

by Vinton and Sigrid Cerf.

Originally produced by Dorset Theatre Festival, Dorset, Vermont Dina Janis, Artistic Director/Molly Hennighausen, Managing Director

Produced as a part of The Women’s Voices Theater Festival. #womensvoicesfest

o.b. hardison poetry

Kwame Dawes & Safiya Sinclair:

A Poetic Celebration of Reggae

Feb 5, 7:30pm

What’s On

talks

In Conversation: Peter Marks and Eric Tucker May 16, 7pm

at the folger talks

Brews and Banter Jan 26, 6:30pm with Ashley Austin Morris and Luigi Sottile

folger friday

Bernhardt/Hamlet Written and Directed

by Theresa Rebeck Starring Holly Twyford

Jan 19, 5pm

folger theatre

The Winter’s Tale

March 13 – April 22

folger consort

Music of Hildegard Von Bingen A Branch of Freshest Green

Feb 2–3

at Washington National Cathedral

screenings

RSC Live: Twelfth Night April 9, 7pm

CAST

(in alphabetical order)

Katrina Charles Mae Waitress Rene Lyle Henry Reg

Erica Dorfler* Brandon Espinoza* Eliza Huberth* Ashley Austin Morris* Kristine Nielsen* Daniel Morgan Shelley* Luigi Sottile* Elan Zafir*

Understudies Jennifer Hopkins (Rene) Rachael Montgomery (Katrina, Waitress) Stephen Russell Murray (Charles, Lyle)

Keanu Ross-Cabrera (Henry, Reg) Kathryn Zoerb (Mae)

*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 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.

This production is performed with one 15-minute intermission.

Please refrain from using cell phones, cameras, or other recording devices during The Way of the World.

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FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR First and foremost, The Way of the World is a funny play. Originally written in 1700, Congreve’s comedy satirizes the elite’s idle lifestyle and cynical approach to love, marriage, and sex. When I thought about adapting it for a contemporary audience, I was immediately hooked by the impulsive spirit and joyful abandon in the plot. Congreve’s critique of the hyper-wealthy and his premise that love and sex can be commoditized are something I saw reflected in our popular culture. There is so much backbiting in the original script that, when I first started working on this adaptation, it almost seemed too mean for a modern audience. However, our world changed with the 2016 election.

Mean became commonplace, even fashionable. A play from over 300 years ago suddenly felt powerfully of this moment.

Through the relationship of our young lovers, Mae and Henry, the play asks whether love is possible in a world that has so utterly ridiculed affection. Heiress to a huge fortune, Mae is searching for meaning, but she is compromised by her place in the world. Henry is at first attracted to Mae’s money, but then he finds himself actually falling for her—and no one’s more surprised than he. In such a jaded world as ours, is it possible for true love to exist? That universal question leads to unlimited comic scenarios.

Performing in the shadow of the US Capitol has heightened the play's immediacy for me. When the Waitress talks about working six jobs

just to make ends meet, I can’t help but think of all the people I know in similar situations. The lavish lifestyle of the 1% is a foreign world to most of us.

The wealth gap in America is becoming so wide that we are losing sight of how to relate to each other in meaningful ways. We have replaced sincere human connection with the cattiness of social media and reality TV. Through satirizing the idle rich, The Way of the World explores the nastiness and shallowness permeating modern society.

The Restoration ushered in a new era of women on stage, so it seems fitting to bring this play to DC during the Women’s Voices Theater Festival.

This version of The Way of the World is powerfully different from Congreve’s, not only because it’s adapted to a modern audience but also because as a female writer, my adaptation carries an inherent female perspective that empowers Congreve’s Lady Wishfort (our Rene) and endows our heiress (Mae) with a more complex spiritual life. It is a story that simultaneously embraces Folger Theatre’s impeccable classic credentials and also belongs in the contemporary female context.

I hope you enjoy the show and this talented cast as much as I have.

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FROM THE DRAMATURG The English Civil Wars cost England eighteen years of theater. Puritan values held that immorality was the story told on every stage and a 1642 act of Parliament made sure no one would be polluted by it. By the time the Stuart monarchy was restored in 1660, English audiences were ripe for theatrical entertainment. They had seen first-hand the absurdity of shifting power, the uncertainty of social contracts, the hypocrisy that passed for justice. Restoration comedy offered up a satirical cure to a society in need of correction; it exposed, with humor, the foulness beneath extended shows of decorum.

William Congreve’s plays are the theatrical greats of the late Restoration. He wrote five in all, four of them comedies. His earliest play The Old Bachelor led Dryden to claim that he “never saw such a first play in his life.” Bachelor ran for an almost unprecedented fourteen days (a palpable hit for that time).

The Way of the World was Congreve’s final piece for the theater and is considered “his most sophisticated and complete comedy, a masterpiece.”

Congreve made exceptional use of Restoration stock characters and plot points. His comedies engage elements of scandal, deception, and bawdiness, and assign victory to young lovers. He noted the advantage of real women on stage.

Congreve’s women demonstrate an interest in self-sovereignty.

Millamant, the charismatic heroine 10

of The Way of the World, insists, “I’ll never marry, unless I am first made sure of my will and pleasure.” Her pleasure materializes in the form of the dashing and rakish-but-penitent Mirabell. But the heart wants what the heart wants. She bids liberty adieu. Congreve’s plays flaunt both male and female desire, and attend particularly to cravings for cash and copulation. It is worth noting that morality is not altogether absent from Congreve’s plays; it is, however, decidedly less attractive than wit. Congreve is a dramatist who makes intelligence sexy.

Theresa Rebeck’s biting and brilliant adaptation drives home how thoroughly Congreve is our contemporary. Her play depicts the scandalous goings-on of the 1%, and gives new meaning to “the comedy of manners.” There is a current of theatricality that is spot-on. The characters’ obsession with dress and accessories suggests that performance trumps real life among the East Hampton elite. Even nature must be enhanced unnaturally to merit a place in the elaborate design.

Attention is paid across the board to objects and to pretty things. There is something unsettling in the way characters fuse emotional and material attractions. We see this in casual bantering between friends: “If it weren’t for that vintage Louis Vuitton bag, I would never even speak to you.” The dysfunction is more striking when the Waitress, nameless and paid to be invisible, is

Lloyd’s Coffee House, London, by William Holland.

distressed to find that the bulk of lovely objects in rich people’s homes are forgotten, neglected by their owners. “What is the point of having all these things,” she asks, “if you don’t even know you have them?”

It is a resistance to objects as well as to her own objectification that inspires Mae, the play’s virtuous and disturbingly rich heroine, to make a change. Mae is compelling; her goodness is so clear that we are perhaps more delighted by her choices than we are surprised by them. What is unexpected is the propensity for change Mae inspires and ignites. Henry, initially a cad on the trail of Mae’s money, is startled by the depth of his affection for her.

He just may be bent on goals beyond a pursuit of property.

Others, too, surprise themselves with tiny epiphanies that permit them suddenly to examine their own imperfect behavior.

It’s not clear that any great change will come of it. Still, the desire to do and be better is potentially heroic; it is a marker of the play’s most noble characters. If that’s not the way of the world then it should be.

–Michele Osherow

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FROM COFFEE HOUSES TO COCKTAIL PARTIES In Theresa Rebeck’s adaptation of The Way of the World, characters sip blue martinis and other colorful drinks as a sign of their sophistication. Blue martinis are a particularly appropriate choice: this fashionable drink takes its color from blue curacao, a liqueur originally crafted by Lucas Bols, a Dutch contemporary of William Congreve, and flavored by the peels of the laraha orange, native to the Caribbean island of Curacao. Bols was able to bring such exotic flavors to his family distillery when he became a major shareholder in the Dutch East India Company.1 The Hampton elite in Rebeck’s adaptation distinguish themselves through such cosmopolitan consumption; in doing so, they echo a crucial theme in Congreve’s The Way of the World (1700), which opens in a “chocolate house,” an institution that plays a key role in this comedy, as do beverages with pharmaceutical properties. In the adaptation, characters end up in awkward sexual situations after their blue martinis; some eighteenthcentury critics, however, suspected coffee, tea, and chocolate as having similar effects on judgment and the body.

on those admired by travelers to the Ottoman Empire. In some coffee houses, proprietors even wore turbans to remind customers of the Ottoman origin this institution.

English chocolate came from the colonies, produced by slave labor—a brutal system that still haunts this treat.2 Tea, a drink now understood as quintessentially British, only became popular in the late seventeenth century with the marriage of King Charles II to the Portuguese Catherine of Braganza. The Portuguese has long enjoyed tea, a benefit from their ambitious trading voyages to China. In Congreve’s time, tea remained a relatively new import, and the English were in the process of developing socially significant rituals around this beverage, with the most important woman of the household presiding over the tea ceremony.3 Thus Congreve’s heroine is not being bossy by demanding control of her tea-table, but rather establishing her place in a complex social hierarchy.

Like the blue martini, they also signaled power struggles in a global context: in negotiating the terms of her marriage, the reluctant heroine of Congreve’s play insists that, in partial compensative for “dwindling” into a wife, that she remain “sole Empress” of her tea table. Tea, coffee, and chocolate have become commonplace beverages, but London saw its first coffee houses only one generation before Congreve’s play first opened.

In Congreve’s time, coffee houses were still exotic institutions, modeled

When characters drink their blue martinis in The Way of the World, they, like their predecessors, signal their own cosmopolitanism and their nation’s place in a global network of taste.

–Laura J. Rosenthal –University of Maryland 1

For more on his story, see https://www.lucasbols.com.

See Carol Off, Bitter Chocolate : The Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet. New York: New Press, 2008.

3 See Markman Ellis, et al. Empire of Tea : The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World. London, Reaktion Books, 2015.

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CAST Erica Dorfler Katrina Regional: Barrington Stage: THIS; American Repertory Theater: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812; Hollywood Bowl: West Side Story with the L.A. Philharmonic; Abrons Arts Center: Here’s Hoover; New York International Fringe Festival: The Motherline; Alliance Theatre: Bull Durham. OffBroadway: New World Stages: Avenue Q; Davenport Theater: Forbidden Broadway; York Theatre Company: Silk Stockings.

Broadway: Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, The Book of Mormon, Memphis, Baby It’s You!, Scandalous.

National Tours: Rent, Mamma Mia!. Film and television: The Book of Living and Dying, The Family. ericadorfler.com

Brandon Espinoza Charles Regional: Goodman Theatre: A View From the Bridge. Off-Broadway: St. Lukes: Baghdaddy (The New York Times Critic’s Pick); Atlantic Theater Company: Scarcity; Playwrights Realm: Substitution; Keen Company: Tea and Sympathy; NYSPF: Not Waving; Clurman Theater: What We Wanted. Broadway: Tuck Everlasting, Gypsy, Big, Les Misérables, The Will Rogers Follies. Film and television: The Leftovers, The Mysteries of Laura, The Following, Elementary, The Carrie Diaries, It Could Be Worse, Middle of the Night, Mr. Richardson.

Ashley Austin Morris Waitress Regional: The Alley: The Other Place; Williamstown Theatre Festival: Romance Novels for Dummies. OffBroadway: Die Mommie Die, In the Day Light, Reading Under the Influence, Love Loss and What I Wore. Film and television: Divorce, High Maintenance, The Last O.G., The Big Bang Theory, The Good Wife, Time After Time, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Electric Company, Big Dogs (upcoming), Sully, Premium Rush, Generation Um, Art Machine, Putzel. A writer and standup comedian. Look for her solo show The End of There. ashleyaustinmorriscomedy.com

Kristine Nielsen Rene Regional: A.R.T.: FINGERSMITH. Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hir, Why Torture Is Wrong and the People Who Love Them, How I Spent Last Summer, Omnium Gatherum, Our Leading Lady, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie Award), Dog Opera (Obie Award). Broadway: Present Laughter, You Can’t Take It With You, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award), Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spring Awakening, The Greenbird, Jackie, The Iceman Cometh. Film and television: Theresa Rebeck’s Trouble, Happyish, Elementary, Morning Glory, The Savages, Small Time Crooks, Political Animals, NBC’s Sound of Music Live!, Amazon’s Zelda.

Eliza Huberth Mae Regional: Triad Stage: Vrooommm!; Williamstown Theatre Festival: A Doll’s House, Babs the Dodo, OKAY, Robin Hood, The Gnadiges Fraulein, Camp Monster. Off-Broadway: Ars Nova: Crude. Film and television: The Path, Excuse Me For Living. Artist As Citizen Award. Training: The Juilliard School.

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Daniel Morgan Shelley Lyle Regional: Hartford Stage: The Piano Lesson; Chester Theatre Company: Skeleton Crew; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: Safe House (St. Louis Theatre Circle Award Nomination); Geva Theatre and Cleveland Playhouse: Clybourne Park; Playmakers Repertory Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun; Contemporary

American Theatre Festival: The Insurgents; Pioneer Theatre Company: Find & Sign; Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: King Lear, The Three Musketeers, Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labor’s Lost. Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company: Hamlet; Oberon Theatre Ensemble: Othello; Classical Theatre of Harlem: Romeo and Juliet, Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death; The ArcLight: The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller. Film and television: Sidney Hall, Mr. Robot, Bull, Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Person of Interest, Law & Order.

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Theater: Raft of the Medusa. International: Edinburgh Fringe Festival: The Unaccompanied Minor, Super Earth; Television: The Making of the Mob, House of Cards.

Luigi Sottile Henry Signature Theatre: Sex with Strangers; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Zombie: The American. Regional: Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Shakespeare in Love, Othello, The Tempest; Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Buena Vista; Arden Theatre Company: The Three Sisters, Cyrano; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Seminar; Walnut Street Theatre: An Ideal Husband; Wilma Theater: Angels in America, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, Leaving; People’s Light and Theatre: The Cherry Orchard, Nathan the Wise; Utah Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing, The Three Musketeers; Milwaukee Repertory Theater: A Christmas Carol; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Lantern Theater: The Hothouse, The Lonesome West. luigisottile.com

Elan Zafir Reg Ford’s Theatre: Ragtime; Adventure Theatre: Jumanji; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Salomé (Helen Hayes Award, Ensemble); Signature Theatre: Tender Napalm; The Welders: Happiness (and other reasons to die); Rep Stage: Venus in Fur; Capital Fringe: Ben & Lucille. Regional: New York International Fringe Festival: Leaf in the Mailbox (Best Ensemble Award); Riant Theatre: This Is Your Life; Wings

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CREATIVE TEAM Theresa Rebeck Playwright and Director Theresa Rebeck is a prolific writer with success spanning theater, television, film, and literature. She has been named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World by Newsweek and The New York Times has referred to her as “one of her generation’s major talents.” Broadway: Seminar, Mauritius, Spike Heels, Bad Dates, Dead Accounts, Omnium Gatherum (Pulitzer Finalist, co-written with Alex Gersten). OffBroadway: The Understudy, The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, Collection and Our House, The Butterfly, View of the Dome. Regional: San Francisco Playhouse: Seared; Denver Center for the Performing Arts: The Nest; Dorset Theatre Festival: The Way of the World; Mark Taper Forum/Primary Stages: Poor Behavior. Television: Smash (creator), Dream On, Brooklyn Bridge, L.A. Law, American Dreamer, Maximum Bob, First Wave, Third Watch, Canterbury’s Law, Smith, Law and Order: Criminal Intent and NYPD Blue. Film: Poor Behavior, Trouble (upcoming), Harriet the Spy, Gossip, Sunday on the Rocks, Seducing Charlie Barker. Novels: Three Girls and Their Brother, Twelve Rooms With a View, I’m Glad About You. Awards: National Theatre Conference Award, William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, IRNE Award for Best New Play, Eliot Norton Award, Writer’s Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama, Hispanic Images Imagen Award, Peabody Award.

Alexander Dodge Scenic Design Shakespeare Theatre Company: School for Lies, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Measure for Measure, The Heir Apparent, The Liar, The Dog in the Manger; Arena Stage: Noises Off, On The Jump. Broadway: Anastasia, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards nominations), Present Laughter (Tony Award nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley, Hedda Gabler. Tours and international: Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame for

the La Jolla and Paper Mill Playhouses, also Japan and Germany; All New People for London West End, Manchester, and Glasgow. Opera: LA Opera: The Ghosts of Versailles; Minnesota Opera: Dinner At Eight; Deutsche Opera Berlin: Il Trittico.

Television: Julie’s Greenroom. alexanderdodgedesign.com

Linda Cho Costume Design Arena Stage (selected): Sovereignty, Good People, The Book Club Play, Noises Off! , Awake and Sing; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Measure for Measure, The Dog in the Manger. Regional: Goodman Theatre: Home From The Wars; Goodspeed: Rags; La Jolla Playhouse: Wild Goose Dreams; ACT: A Thousand Splendid Suns; Hartford Stage: Rear Window; The Old Globe Theatre: October Sky; McCarter Theater: A Christmas Carol; Berkeley Rep: Aubergine; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Othello. Broadway: Anastasia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations); A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award); Velocity of Autumn. Opera: Los Angeles Opera: Die Vogel, Ghosts of Versailles; Metropolitan Opera (upcoming): Samson et Delila.

Awards: Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, Ruth Morley Design Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women. lindacho.com

Donald Holder Lighting Design Shakespeare Theatre Company: Salomé (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design). Regional theater productions include plays at Center Stage, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Long Wharf Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe Theatre, Huntington Theater, South Coast Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Indiana Repertory, and many others. Broadway: More than fifty productions including Anastasia, Oslo, In Transit, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, The Father, The King and I, On the Twentieth Century, The Bridges of Madison County,

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Golden Boy, Spider-man: Turn Off The Dark, Ragtime, Movin’ Out, The Boy From Oz, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and many others.

Received two Tony Awards (The Lion King, South Pacific) and twelve Tony nominations.

Television: Smash.

M.L. Dogg Sound Design Regional: Seattle Repertory Theatre: Here Lies Love; Huntington Theatre: The Who and the What, after all the terrible things I do, Smart People, Sons Of the Prophet; A.R.T.: In the Body of the World, The Shape She Makes; Actors Theatre of Louisville: Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival), Tribes; Geffen Theatre: The Power of Duff, Rapture, Blister, Burn; Milwaukee Repertory Theater: The Diary of Anne Frank. Broadway: Oh, Hello on Broadway, The Pee-wee Herman Show. Off-Broadway: New Group: Downtown Race Riot; Women’s Project: What We’re Up Against, transFigures; Signature Theatre: Jesus Hopped the A Train, The Open House; Playwrights Horizons: Aubergine; Roundabout Theatre: Little Children Dream of God; Ars Nova: Jacuzzi, The Lapsburgh Layover; Public Theater: Here Lies Love (co-design, Lortel Award); Second Stage Theatre: Modern Terrorism.

Michele Osherow Resident Dramaturg Folger Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility, District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2006, 2017), texts&beheadings/ElizabethR, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Fiasco Theater Co.’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet (dramaturg and actor), Twelfth Night, Henry V, The Conference of the Birds, The Taming of the Shrew, The Gaming Table, Othello (2011, 2001), Cyrano, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, Hamlet, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Much Ado About Nothing, Arcadia, The Winter’s Tale, 1 Henry IV, Macbeth, The Tempest, Measure for Measure (dramaturg and actor). Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Eisenberg/Beans Casting New York Casting Folger Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility, District Merchants, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Henry V. Partners: Daryl Eisenberg, CSA and Ally Beans, CSA. Casting for film, theater, television, commercials, and new media. Broadway: Gettin’ The Band Back Together. Off-Broadway: Baghdaddy, That Bachelorette Show, The Anthem, Around the World in 80 Days, Altar Boyz, and more.

Regional and other: Bedlam's Saint Joan/Hamlet on tour, Dallas Theater Center, Norwegian Cruise Line, Ivoryton Playhouse, Tenors of Rock, Davenport Reading Series, countless NYMF/Fringe. Film/Television: Cheerleader, Evol, Chandler, Camp, Mulligan. www.ebcastingco.com. @EBCastingCo

Scott Hammar Production Stage Manager Shakespeare Theatre Company: Richard II, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Mary Stuart; Woolly Mammoth Theater Company: Fat Men In Skirts, Mud People, The Fever, Kvetch, Free Will and Wanton Lust; Signature Theatre: Giant; Kennedy Center: Shear Madness, Oman O Man (International Project with Debbie Allen). Dallas Theater Center: Tartuffe, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Children of a Lesser God, Cardinal Tosca; National Theater of the Deaf: In A Grove, Farewell My Lovely, Dybbuk, King of Hearts.

International Stage Management Work: China, India, Nepal, Japan, Mexico. Film: The Lamp at Midnight, The Light Princess, Ozzie Davis and Ruby Dee PBS Special.

Jessica Short Assistant Stage Manager Folger Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra; Round House Theatre: Caroline, or Change, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, The Who & The What, Stage Kiss; Kennedy Center TYA: The Cerulean (continued on page 19)

PRODUCTION CREDITS Assistant Director Assistant to the Director Production Assistant Assistant Scenic Designer Props Master Set Construction Assistant Costume Designer Wardrobe Head Costume Construction Assistant Lighting Designer Master Electrician Light Board Operator Sound Engineer For Eisenberg/Beans Casting Casting Assistant Casting Interns Advertising Agency Marketing Design Consultant Production Photography Promotional & Production Video Archival Video Open Captioning

Katharine Pitt Linda Lombardi Christina Miller Ann Beyersdorfer Tony Koehler Bella Faccia, Inc. Robert Croghan Cidney Forkpah Ansaldo Costume Christopher Annas-Lee Alex Keen Kristen Roth Brandon Roe Courtney Hammond Alexa Johnson, Laura Pavles WiT Media Emily Tartanella Teresa Wood Lee Fanning, Mark Fastoso, APTV WAPAVA C2

Acknowledgements: Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Amanda Kircher, Light Rental House (to come), Moran Transportation, Naomi Osborne, Abbie Weinberg, Capitol Hill Hotel, Capitol Hill Stay.

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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CREATIVE TEAM Time Capsule; Forum Theatre: The Pillowman, Passion Play, The T Party, How We Got On; 1st Stage: The Good Counselor; Arena Stage: Healing Wars; Anacostia Playhouse: DC Dead: Mutation; Signature Theatre: Jelly’s Last Jam; Flying V: You, or Whatever I Can Get.

Folger Theatre Folger Shakespeare Library, opened in 1932, featured the first replica in North America of an Elizabethan theater, a 250-seat space designed to suggest the innyard playing spaces. Founders Henry and Emily Folger envisioned it as a place for the performance of the plays in Shakespeare’s style, and the first nationally televised broadcast of a Shakespeare play in the US was Julius Caesar from the Folger stage in 1949. Folger Theatre produces seasons of Shakespeare, other plays from the period of the Folger’s rare collection, and new work, including commissions, inspired by the period.

Including award-winning stagings of more than 70 percent of Shakespeare’s canon, as well as classical and Restoration work, Folger Theatre premiered the original Shakespeare for My Father, Lynn Redgrave’s reminiscence of her theatrical family, as well as Roger Rees’ What You Will; co-produced Teller and Aaron Posner’s magical Macbeth, released on video; was the first Washington venue to present a production from Shakespeare’s Globe; and has collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Guthrie, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and other theaters across the country. Folger Theatre is the recipient of 30 Helen Hayes Awards including for Outstanding Resident Production for Sense and Sensibility, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and Measure for Measure.

Janet Alexander Griffin Artistic Producer Director of Public Programs for the Folger Shakespeare Library since 1982. She has produced 85 plays, including 32 Shakespeare plays, for which Folger Theatre has been recognized with 146 nominations and 30 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, which in final development toured internationally and earned Redgrave a Tony Award. Responsible for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s season of performing arts and cultural events, she has overseen the growth of the Folger Consort early music series and developed contemporary literature and lectures at Folger, including the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series and Folger’s partnership with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, bringing the country’s most renowned writers to the Washington, DC area.

Beth Emelson Associate Artistic Producer Folger Theatre: since 2004. Off-Broadway: Producing Director, Atlantic Theater Company (OBIE and Drama Desk Award winner); Producing Director, Classic Stage Company (Lortel and OBIE Award winner).

Broadway and Off-Broadway: Associate Executive Producer, Lincoln Center Theater (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle, Lortel and OBIE Award winner); General Management Associate: Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Public Theater; Producing Director, Member, Board of Directors, 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.

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STAFF DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS Beth Emelson, Associate Artistic Producer/ Associate Director of Public Programs David Polk, General Manager Charles Flye, Production Manager Rebekah Sheffer, Assistant Technical Director Kate Abbott, Audience Services Coordinator Emma Poltrack, Public Programs Administrative Assistant Sarah Burry, Mara Wessel, Public Programs Interns Teresa Wood, Casting Assistant Renee Beaver, Courtney Feiman, Kate Gifford, Elyse Jacks, Allison Marino, John Royals, House Managers David Mozur, Folger Consort Manager Teri Cross Davis, Poetry Coordinator Grace Ann Roberts, Humanities Programs Assistant Devin Symons, Program Consultant, PEN/Faulkner Foundation Peter Eramo, Jr., Events Publicity and Marketing Manager WiT Media, Graphics Designer and Advertising Agency Barbara Shaw, Playbill Typesetter Emily Tartanella, Marketing Design Consultant Jane Pisano, Publications Consultant Christina Pinnell Rawls, Box Office Manager Marianne Wald, Box Office Supervisor Amanda Haddock, Box Office Associate for Group Sales Francesca Chilcote, Sierra Fritz, Annie Immediata, Maddie Lederer, Conor MacVarish, Rachel Messbauer, Grace Murtha, Ian Patrick, Madeline Shelton, Box Office Assistants

DIVISION OF EDUCATION Corinne Viglietta, Assistant Director of Education Danielle A. Drakes, Community and Schools Partnerships Manager Kate Haase, Visitor Education Programs Manager Katharine Dvorak, Education Project Manager Greg Armstrong, Administrative Assistance for Education Programs Carrol Kindel, 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 Cari Romeu Mozur, Senior Development Officer for Annual Giving Sumana Chatterjee, Senior Development Officer Leslie Gehring, Development Services Coordinator Elizabeth Stevens, Development Associate for Annual Giving Colleen Robinson, Development Associate for Major Gifts Elena Forbes, Development Associate for Institutional Relations DIRECTOR’S OFFICE Laura Kelly, Administrative Assistant, Executive Offices INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Stephanie Svoboda, Tessitura Administrator

EXTERNAL RELATIONS Garland Scott, Head of External Relations Esther French, Communications Associate Ben Lauer, Communications and Social Media Assistant

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FOLGER THEATRE SPONSORS

SUPPORTERS 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.

Corporate, Foundation, and Government Support: Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully acknowledges the kind support of the following institutional donors. The list below includes gifts of $1,000 or more received between December 1, 2016 and November 30, 2017.

American Council of Learned Societies American Friends of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Inc. Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Blavatnik Family Foundation The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Capitol Hill Community Foundation Anthony & Anna L. Carozza Foundation Clark-Winchcole Foundation Marshall B. Coyne Foundation D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts Dimick Foundation Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Lorraine S. Dreyfuss Theatre Education Fund The Lee & Juliet Folger Fund John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation

The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust The Helen Clay Frick Foundation The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Graham Holdings Hannay Reels Heinz Family Foundation Holland & Knight LLP Mark & Carol Hyman Fund Junior League of Washington Kieloch Consulting KieranTimberlake Kislak Family Foundation Lannan Foundation MARPAT Foundation The Nancy Peery Marriott Foundation Mars Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Mosaic Foundation (of R. & P. Heydon) National Capital Arts & Cultural Affairs Program & the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Humanities Overseas Hardwoods Company Pine Tree Foundation of New York The Nora Roberts Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation Nadia Sophie Seiler Memorial Fund Shakespeare in American Communities Share Fund The Shubert Foundation Weissberg Foundation Wells Fargo

Individual Donors Folger Shakespeare Library gratefully acknowledges the kind support of the following individuals. The list below includes gifts and pledges of $250 or more received between December 1, 2016 and November 30, 2017.

$50,000+ Jarrett & Nora Arp Vinton & Sigrid Cerf Florence & Neal S. Cohen Louis & Bonnie Cohen Maygene & Steve Daniels Susan Sachs Goldman David Hannay Mr. Arthur F. Kinney J. May Liang & James Lintott John & Connie McGuire Roger & Robin Millay Darcy & Andy Nussbaum Gail Kern Paster Mr. & Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II

Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Small

$25,000-$49,999 Rebecca Bushnell & John Toner Twiss & Patrick Butler Peter & Rose Edwards Eugene A. Ludwig & Dr. Carol Ludwig Timothy & Linda O’Neill Laura Yerkovich & John Winkler $15,000 -$24,999 Helen & David Kenney The Honorable John D. Macomber William & Louisa Newlin Loren & Frances Rothschild Neal T. Turtell Scott & Liz Vance $10,000-$14,999 Nicky Cymrot Miguel & Patricia Estrada Catherine Held Mr. & Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Nancy & Steve Howard Deneen Howell & Donald Vieira Maxine Isaacs Dr. David E. Johnson & Ms. Wendy Frieman Jacqueline Badger Mars Craig Pascal & Victor Shargai Mr. & Mrs. H. Axel Schupf Drs. Michael L. Witmore & Kellie Robertson $5,000-$9,999 Anonymous (2) Judy Areen & Richard Cooper Keith & Celia Arnaud Bill & Evelyn Braithwaite Jeffrey P. Cunard Emily & Michael Eig Denise Gwyn Ferguson Dr. Stephen H. Grant & Ms. Abigail B. Wiebenson The Honorable C. Boyden Gray Andi H. Kasarsky Mr. Michael K. Kellogg Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Kuhta Ken Ludwig & Adrienne George Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart Carl & Undine Nash Andrew Oliver & Melanie Du Bois Gail Orgelfinger & Charles Hanna Mr. Ben Reiter & Mrs. Alice Goldman Reiter Gabriela & Douglas Smith David & Liz Steinglass Louis B. Thalheimer & Juliet A. Eurich Tara Ghoshal Wallace Ellen & Bernard Young

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SUPPORTERS $2,500-$4,999 Anonymous (2) Gary & Mary Ellen Abrecht Bill & Sunny Alsup D. James Baker & Emily Lind Baker Stephen & Anne Black Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Brown Howard M. Brown The Lord Browne of Madingley Mr. William J Camarinos Mr. & Mrs. Perry Cofield Brian & Karen Conway Ms. D. Elizabeth Crompton Philip J. Deutch & Marne L. Levine Ms. Dorothea W. Dickerman & Mr. Richard Kevin Becker Professor Peter Erickson & Ms. Lisa Corrin Estate of Lady Roslyn Sheena Parkinson Abbey S. & Kenneth M. Fagin Mr. Robert Fontenrose David & Margaret Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Gill Ruth Hansen & Lawrence Plotkin Wyatt R. & Susan N. Haskell John & Meg Hauge Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois & Mr. Christopher E. DuBois William L. Hopkins Mrs. Justine Mascioli Kenney Frank F. Islam & Debbie Driesman Rick Kasten Arthur & Yvonne Koenig Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Lyon Julianna Mahley Mark McConnell & Leslie Delagran J.C. & Mary McElveen Pam McFarland & Brian Hagenbuch Peter & Mary Jay Michel Martin & Elaine Miller Jane & Paul Molloy Dr. Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff Carolyn & Mark Olshaker Patricia A. Parker Drs. Eldor & Judith Pederson Heddy & Trip Reid Ms. Joanna S. Rose Stuart & Mimi Rose Susan & Frank Salinger Howard Shapiro & Shirley Brandman Robert J. & Tina M. Tallaksen Mr. & Mrs. J. R. Tonkel Tessa van der Willigen & Jonathan Walters Professor R L Widmann Nyla & Gerry Witmore Ms. Louisa Woodville & Mr. Nigel R. Ogilvie

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$1,000-$2,499 Anonymous (5) John & Nancy Abeles Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Adelman Ms. Lisa U. Baskin Michael S. Berman & Deborah Cowan Dr. James E. Bernhardt & Ms. Beth C. Bernhardt Dr. Peter W. M. Blayney & Dr. Leslie Thomson Ms. Gigi Bradford & Mr. Jim Stanford Mr. & Mrs. David G. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, III Susan & Dixon Butler Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Callahan Heather & Dick Cass Mr. Richard H. Cleva Leslie & Ray Clevenger Dr. Thomas Cohen & Dr. Lisa Cohen-Fuentes Mr. Mark D. Colley & Ms. Deborah A. Harsch Mr. Edwin P. Conquest, Jr. Mr. Eric Cooper Ronald M. Costell, M.D. & Marsha E. Swiss Mr. Douglas R. Cox Ms. Harriet H. Davis Dr. & Mrs. William Davis Ms. Rachel Doggett Mr. John F. Downey Steve Dunn & Tom Burkhardt Rose & John Eberhardt Carla & George Frampton Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Galvin Ms. Gail Gibson Brent Glass & Cathryn Keller Ms. Barbara Goldberg Ms. Patricia Gray Ann Greer Mr. & Mrs. Ridgway Hall Martha Harris Florence & Peter D. Hart Mr. Joseph M. Hassett & Ms. Carol Melton Terrance & Noel Hefty Ms. Anita G. Herrick Michael J. Hirrel Mr. David H. Hofstad Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Hurst Mr. & Mrs. David H. Jones Sherman & Maureen Katz Mr. Derek Kaufman & Mrs. Leora Horwitz Theresa & Robert Keatinge Dr. Anne M. King Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kolson Col. Denny Lane & Ms. Naoko Aoki Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Langkamp Mr. Hiram G. Larew

Richard & Jane Levy Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence H. Liden Mr. & Mrs. Robert Case Liotta David Lloyd, Realtor Sandra Lotterman Abbe D. Lowell & Molly A. Meegan Mr. & Mrs. David J. Lundsten Mr. James Lynch Mr. Thomas G. MacCracken Mr. & Mrs. John McGinnis Ms. Chloe Miller Mr. & Mrs. George K. Miller John & Paula Millian Dr. Barbara A. Mowat* Mary & Cyril Muromcew Cullen & Anna Marie Murphy Mr. Terence R. Murphy & Ms. Patricia A. Sherman Mrs. Jean F. Nordhaus Dr. Lena Cowen Orlin Ms. Rebecca Penniman & Mr. Louis Wittenberg Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Mrs. Jacqueline L. Quillen Ms. Cynthia L. Rapp Earl & Carol Ravenal Mr. James R. Repucci Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Mr. David Roberts & Dr. David Spencer Dr. Markley Roberts Ms. Laura Selene Rockefeller Mary Jane Ruhl Mr. Josh Samet & Ms. Juli Baer Dr. Marianne Schuelein & Mr. Ralph M. Krause Prof. Barbara A. Shailor Ph.D & Prof. Harry W. Blair II Ph.D Dr. James Shapiro Cary Sherman James Baker Sitrick David Smith & Ilene Weinreich Mr. Gerald Southern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Stanley John & Alison Steadman Ms. Joanne M. Sten Dr. Ann Swann Mr. & Dr. Ron Tenpas Mary Augusta & George D. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Tim Thornton Mr. Anand Trivedi Mr. Nigel Twose & Ms. Priscilla Annamanthodo Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan The Honorable Seth Waxman & Ms. Debra Goldberg Toby & Stacie Webb Mrs. Eric Weinmann Mr. David Weisman & Ms. Jacqueline Michel Ms. Gloria M. Weissberg Ms. Kimberly R. West

SUPPORTERS Mr. Donald E. White & Ms. Betty W. Good-White Ms. Mary-Sherman Willis & Mr. C. Scott Willis Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Wilshere Ms. Nicole Winard Professor Michael Winkelman Beverly & Christopher With Mr. Douglas Wolfire Anne & Fred Woodworth Ms. Abby L. Yochelson & Mr. Wallace Mlyniec Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Zarr Dr. Georgianna Ziegler

$500-$999 Anonymous Dr. Robert S. Adelstein & Mrs. Miriam A. Adelstein Mr. Thomas Ahern Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Howard Ahmanson Dr. Peter J. Albert & Ms. Charlotte Mahoney Bess & Greg Ballentine Mr. & Mrs. David B. Barefoot Ms. Kyle Z. Bell & Mr. Alan G.R. Bell Mr. Brent James Bennett Mr. Kirke Bent Mr. Richard Ben-Veniste & Ms. Donna Grell Professors David M. Bergeron & Geraldo de Sousa Ms. Kathleen Bergin Drs. Robin & Clare Biswas Dr. & Mrs. David W. Blois Dr. Jean C. Bolan Dr. James J. Bono & Dr. Barbara J. Bono Dr. Mary H. Branton Mrs. Adrianne Brooks Kathleen Burger & Glen Gerada Dr. James C. Bulman John Byrd & Lina Watson Mr. & Mrs. Lewis R. Cabe Dr. & Mrs. William C. Carroll Professor Carmen A. CasĂ­s Dr. Sheila T. Cavanagh Barbara Fahs Charles & Robert Staples Ms. Melissa W. Clark Mr. & Mrs. William D. Coleman Mr. & Mrs. John J. Collins Robert W. Cover II & Bonnie Lepoff Ms. Melissa Darby Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. DeVincentis Prof. Frances Dolan Marjorie & Anthony Elson Dr. William E. Engel Louise H. Engle Mr. Douglas H. Erwin & Dr. Wendy Wiswall Ms. Marietta Ethier Mrs. John Eustice

Mr. & Mrs. Prentiss E. Feagles Dr. Robert J. Fehrenbach Mr. Gerald M. Feierstein Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Feinberg Charles Fendig & Maria Fisher Melody & Albert Fetske Ms. Tracy Fisher Ms. Alice Fitch Mr. Gregory Flowers Jere Gibber & J.G. Harrington Ms. Michelle Gluck & Dr. Walter Smith Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Goelzer Neal & Janice Gregory Janet & Christopher Griffin Mr. Matthew Gross Drs. Donna B. & Gary D. Hamilton Jill Hartman Ms. Barbara W. Hazelett Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hazen Robert E. Hebda Mrs. Anthony E. Hecht June & George Higgins Prof. Peter Holland Professor Jean E. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kalb Mr. Kenneth Karmiole Sarah & David Kelly Mr. Christopher Kendall & Ms. Susan Schilperoort Katherine & Duncan Kennedy Ms. Caroline Kenney Wendy & Robert Kenney Dr. & Mrs. Philip A. Knachel Mr. Michael Kolakowski Dr. Marcel C. LaFollette & Mr. Jeffrey K. Stine Ms. Faith S. Lambert Dr. Douglas M. Lanier Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon Dr. Robert Lawshe Frances & Emery Lee Ms. Sandy Lerner Mr. & Mrs. Roger N. Levy Lilly S. Lievsay Mr. Roy Lind Prof. Julia R. Lupton Ms. Giovanni Lynch Wes MacAdam Mr. Carl Mahoney Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Mancini Mr. Winton E. Matthews, Jr. Mr. James W. McBride Ms. Catherine McClave Ms. Susan McCloskey Dr. Heather A. McPherson Beverly J. Melani & Bruce E. Walker Mr. David Messer Estate of Julienne M. Michel Mr. Hilary B. Miller & Dr. Katherine N. Bent Dr. & Mrs. Andy B. Molchon

Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Theodore & Mary Eugenia Myer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Myers Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Parr Mr. & Mrs. Peter Parshall Anne Parten & Philip Nelson Ms. Sheila J. Peters Mr. & Mrs. Gary M. Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Carl F. Pfeiffer Ms. Julie Phillips Dr. & Mrs. Warren S. Poland Mr. Eric Rasmussen Dr. Timothy Raylor & Ms. Vanessa A. Laird Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Mr. Jonathan Rich Gerd & Duncan Ritchie Dr. & Mrs. Jason P. Rosenblatt John & Lynn Sachs Grace K. & Vincent N. Schiraldi Dr. Lois Green Schwoerer Professor Meredith Skura Marilyn & Hugh South Mr. Robert Spann & Ms. Elizabeth Whiteley Mr. George H. Spencer Ms. Lillian D. Stephens Ms. Constance Sullivan Mr. John M. Taylor Ms. Kathryn M. Truex James & Carol Tsang Mrs. Ellen Tunstall Mr. & Mrs. James T. Turner Mr. Scott F. Turow Dr. Arina van Breda Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Van Voorhees Professor Susan R. Wabuda Mr. Christopher White Webster Ms. Carolyn L. Wheeler Clint White, WiT Media Phyllis Jane Young

$250-$499 Anonymous (5) Catherine N. Abrahams Ms. Monica Lynn Agree Mr. & Mrs. David G. Ahern 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 Ms. Doris E. Austin Ms. Suzanne Bakshian & Mr. Vincent A. Chiappinelli Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Barclay Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Barry Ms. Danielle M. Beauchamp Mr. & Mrs. David M. Beckmann Ellen S. Berelson & Larry Franks Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Blackwood

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SUPPORTERS Ms. Mary C. Blake Mr. James L. Blum Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Bochner Dr. Dorothy P. Boerner Mr. Henry H. Booth Professor Jackson Campbell Boswell & Mrs. Ann C. Boswell Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bott Ms. Gwen W. Brewer Mr. & Mrs. James D. Bridgeman Mr. & Mrs. John R. Brinkema Ms. Ann Brody Cove & Dr. Laurence A. Cove Dr. James C. Bulman Ms. Victoria Butler & Mr. Tim Carney Mr. Timothy J. Carlton & Ms. Jill Walling Ms. C. Dawn Causey Colonel & Mrs. Larry M. Cereghino Mr. Wallace W. Chandler Mr. John Chester Ms. Molly C. Clay Linda & John Cogdill Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Cohen Mr. Robert S. Cole, Jr. Ms. Marianne Constable Doug & Kathy Cook Ms. Melissa Cook Mr. & Mrs. William E. Cooke Mr. & Mrs. Gary R. Correll Drs. John W. Cox & Lo-An T. Nguyen-Cox James & Ann Coyle Ms. Katheryn L. Cranford Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Daniels Vice Adm. Dirk J. Debbink Mr. Robin L. Dennis Marilyn Dillihay & Guy Standen Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Donaldson Dr. Terry Dwyer & Dr. Marcy F. Petrini Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Eater Mr. David J. Edmondson Ms. Roberta L. Ellington Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Farber Susan Fawcett & Richard Donovan Arthur & Shirley Fergenson John & Paula Finedore Ms. Laurie Fletcher & Dr. Allan Fraser Mr. John Franzén Mr. Douglas Freeman Ms. Nancy Frey Ms. Rhonda Friedler Mr. Roland M. Frye, Jr. & Ms. Susan M. Pettey Mr. William K. Frymoyer Mrs. Joanne Garris Ms. Nancy C. Garrison Mr. Christopher Gassett Donald Gilman

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Mr. Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr. & Dr. Betty J. Forman Mr. Gregg H.S. Golden & Dr. Laura George Mr. & Mrs. Michael Goldstein Professors Suzanne & Philip Gossett Mr. John E. Graves, RIA & Ms. Hanh Phan Sayre N. Greenfield, PhD & Linda V. Troost, PhD Neal & Janice Gregory Ms. Maria E. Grosjean Mr. & Mrs. C. David Gustafson Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn & Dr. John Y. Cole Elizabeth H. Hageman Mr. Jim Hake Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Haller Col. Wesley P. Hallman & Dr. Silvana Rubino-Hallman Dr. Susan R. Haynes & Dr. Carl C. Baker Dr. & Mrs. James A. Heath Patricia Henkel Mr. Erich S. Hintze & Ms. Kristina G. McNeff Dr. Heather A. Hirschfeld & Prof. Anthony Welch Mrs. Wilma E. Hommel Dr. & Mrs. James R. Howe Dr. Thomas Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hut Ms. Lou Ivey Ms. Elizabeth M. Janthey Ms. Vickie Johnson Mr. & Mrs. James Jordan Dr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Justus Ms. Sara W. Kane Mr. Gordon Kaplan Mr. Randall KC Kau & Ms. Elizabeth M. Olmsted Dr. John Kelley Mrs. Margot Kelly Mr. Edward Kenney Andrea & Joseph Kerr Mr. Robert L. Kimmins Mr. Robert S. Kirk Ms. Lynne Myers Klimmer Mr. & Mrs. George Koukourakis Edward & Kathleen Kovach Kim & Elizabeth Kowalewski Mr. & Mrs. Simon C. Krinsky Ms. Sarah Kyrouac Mr. & Mrs. David J. Lacki Dr. David R. Lampe Mr. David W. Lankford Drs. Douglas & Janet Laube Mr. Michael Lebovitz Marian & Stuart Lemle Mr. Zachary Lesser Dr. Naomi Conn Liebler Mr. Joseph Loewenstein & Ms. C. Lynne Tatlock

Ms. Mary Frances Lowe Dr. Kathleen Lynch & Mr. John C. Blaney Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Lynch Ms. Karen Sue Lyon & Mr. Edward McManus Mr. James Mach Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Malarkey Dr. Deborah L. Malkovich & Dr. William Freimuth Mr. & Mrs. Martin C. Mangold Ms. Allison Mankin & Dr. Jim Carton Dr. Steven W. May Dr. Richard McCoy Dr. John F. McDiarmid Mr. Patrick J. McGraw Mr. & Mrs. Stephen W. McHenry Marilyn and Charles McMillion Dr. Brian R. McNeill Ms. Nancy Elizabeth Meiners Mr. Gregory V. Mersol Mr. Steven J. Metalitz & Ms. Kit J. Gage Ms. Kristie Miller & Mr. Thomas Hawkins Mrs. Ina J. Millsaps Hazel C. Moore Mrs. Nancy Nelkin Ms. Jennifer E. Newton Mr. Mike Newton & Dr. Linda Werling Ms. Alice L. Norris Mr. Joe M. Norton Michael & Karen O’Connell Mr. & Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin Mr. & Mrs. David M. Osnos Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. O’Sullivan Betty Ann Ottinger Ms. Annie Owens & Mr. Eric Broxmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Palmer Elizabeth Crewson Paris Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Dr. Hans S. Pawlisch Stan Peabody Mr. & Mrs. Kevin L. Pearson Linda Levy Peck Mr. James R. Pepper Ms. Julie Pfeiffer Dr. & Mrs. Joram Piatigorsky Mr. Joseph Pierro Mr. & Mrs. James S. Polk Ms. Valerie Elizabeth Powell Professor Anne Lake Prescott Mr. Woodruff M. Price Mr. Terry Quist Mr. Robert E. Ramsey & Ms. Elizabeth Brown Mr. & Mrs. Steve Randolph Mr. & Mrs. Firoze Rao Mrs. Donald Rappaport Mr. & Mrs. Erik M. Rasmussen Mr. John Ratigan

SUPPORTERS Mr. Peter S. Reichertz Dr. Alice Riginos Winnie & Alexander Robinson Mr. Peter Rogen Mr. Philip K. Rogers Ms. Emily Rose & Mr. James H. Marrow Mr. & Mrs. David Rose Mr. Stephen R. Saph Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Saunders Dr. Joan Saxton Drs. Alan N. & Geraldine P. Schechter Mr. Eugene Schied Lt. General & Mrs. Robert E. Schmidle, Jr., Retired Mr. D. Stanton Sechler Professor & Mrs. Mortimer Sellers Mr. & Mrs. Mark Shields Dr. Sherry Wood Shuman & Mr. Philip B. Shuman Kay & George Simmons Mr. Elliott Simon Ms. Laura Smith Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Sollinger Mr. Steve Spaulding & Dr. Alicen B Spaulding Professor Richard E. Spear & Professor Athena Tacha Mr. & Mrs. Albert P. Stauderman Ms. Cathleen Ann Steg & Mr. Schuyler E. Schell Mr. Daniel Steiner Dr. James Waller Stone Ms. Jeneva Stone Mr. & Mrs. Donald Street Mr. Douglas Struck Ms. Mary K. Sturtevant Allan & Kim Stypeck Ms. Theresa A. Sullivan Mr. Jonathan Taylor & Ms. Dianne Shaughnessy Mr. James Tennies Mr. & Mrs. John V. Thomas Dr. Rebecca Totaro Ms. Susan Wilcox Turner Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Vajs Ms. Joyce C. Vialet Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. von Seelen Mr. Ronald E. Wagner & Dr. Ruth Scogna Wagner Mr. Edward P. Washburn & Ms. Michele J. Orza Bryan & Diana Watabe Mr. Forrest F. Weight Mr. & Mrs. William J. Weinhold Dr. & Mrs. John R. Wennersten Ms. Jacqueline West Ms. Dorothy B. Wexler Ms. Beverly Wicker Sandy & Jon Willen Gary & Josephine Williams Ms. Mele Williams

Mr. & Mrs. Roy L. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Scott M. Wilson Ms. Betsy L. Wolf Ms. Edith C. Wolff Mrs. Eleanora M. Worth Irene & Alan Wurtzel The Yacobucci Family Dr. Robert G. Young Dr. Ried R. Zulager 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 Jackson Campbell Boswell William J Camarinos Professor Carmen A. Casís Ms. Mary Cole The Honorable Esther Coopersmith Drs. John W. Cox & Lo-An T. Nguyen-Cox Dr. James R. & Mrs. Rachel B. Dankert Mr. Douglas Evans Susan Fawcett & Richard Donovan Christine M. Feinthel 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 Lizabeth Staursky Hurst Maxine Isaacs Bruce Janacek Mrs. Robert J.T. Joy Andi H. Kasarsky Paul & Margaret Kaufman Dr. Elizabeth T. Kennan Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel Professor John N. King Pauline G. King Merwin Kliman Professor Barbara Kreps Dr. Carole Levin Lilly S. Lievsay

Dr. Nancy Klein Maguire Pam McFarland & Brian Hagenbuch Roger & Robin Millay Dr. Barbara A. Mowat* Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Jennifer Newton 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 Robin Swope Ednajane Truax Neal T. Turtell Scott & Liz Vance Drs. Alden & Virginia Vaughan Barbara Wainscott Dr. Barbara A. Wanchisen Dr. Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. & Elisabeth P. Waugaman, Ph.D. Professor R L Widmann George W. Williams The Honorable Karen Hastie Williams Dr. Georgianna Ziegler

WOMENS VOICES THEATER FESTIVAL Heidi and Mitch Dupler, Lead donors Additional funding comes from Andrew Rodger Ammerman in tribute to Josephine Friedman Ammerman The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Share Fund the official ticketing partner of the 2018 Women’s Voices Theater Festival.

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