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FOLGER THEATRE 2017/18 SEASON Janet Alexander Griffin Artistic Producer Beth Emelson Associate Artistic Producer
By
William Shakespeare
David Polk General Manager Charles Flye Production Manager
Directed by
Aaron Posner†
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Luciana Stecconi*
Kelsey Hunt*
Jesse Belsky*
Composer & Music Director Sound Design
Resident Dramaturg
Liz Filios
Patrick Calhoun*
Michele Osherow
New York Casting
Folger Casting
Eisenberg/Beans Casting Teresa Wood Production Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Julia Singer**
Jessica Short**
Season Sponsors Helen and David Kenney and Family Neal T. Turtell Scott and Liz Vance Production Sponsors Nicky Cymrot Nancy and Steve Howard
Contributing Sponsors
Media Sponsor
Keith and Celia Arnaud Jeffrey P. Cunard Maygene and Steve Daniels David and Margaret Gardner
Associate Sponsors
Barbra Eaton and Ed Salners Pam McFarland and Brian Hagenbuch Peter and Mary Jay Michel Folger Theatre’s production is part of Louisa and Bill Newlin Craig Pascal and Shakespeare in Victor Shargai American Communities, Tessa van der Willigen and a national program Jonathan Walters of the National Weissberg Foundation Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Folger Theatre’s open-captioned performances are generously sponsored by Vinton and Sigrid Cerf.
†Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society *Member of United Scenic Artists **Member of Actors’ Equity Association
FROM THE DIRECTOR Thank you all for joining us for this particular winter’s Tale. As you may imagine, we have been working diligently (and joyfully) to create it for you, and we could not be more pleased that you have joined us at this performance—taking time to engage with a piece of living art. In bringing the art to life, I sometimes feel bad that you, our wonderful and willing audience, can’t be with us in the rehearsal room when we are in the process of creating what you’re about to witness. The conversations we have are passionate and lively. While they focus on the story, text and characters, they also encompass our own lives, loves, and losses. The conversations get pointed, and even prickly sometimes. We argue and discuss. We make pronouncements and jokes (that sometime turn into some of our best ideas!) and learn a great deal from each other. You might be surprised by how much time we spend thinking about you… about how you might respond to this or that moment… if this or that ancient or archaic word will be understandable and, often, how the show will all add up for you at the end. You might be surprised at the depth of experience and true Shakespeare scholarship that our actors, designers, and dramaturg bring to the process. The cast you are watching are true lovers of 6
Shakespeare’s work. I can share that we are all thrilled and honored to be able to imagine and embody his work here on this stage, in this center of Shakespearean scholarship and performance. For myself, I could not be more pleased to be working on this play with this particular group of artists. They have brought such richness, variety, and personal depth to it. So much of what you see comes straight from their minds, hearts, and souls. You will not know what parts of their own lives they are tapping to bring such life to their characters, but these artists are all generous and courageous in truly remarkable ways. And then there’s the music! Performed by this amazing ensemble, it emerged out of our shared experience as we imagined a unique world of magic, spirit, hope, and heartbreak. I have loved this play for a long time. I think it is very strange and very wonderful. It defies simple solutions or pat answers. It demands breadth and complexity, not only from the artists presenting it, but from you, the audience, as well. So thank you for joining us. We are very glad you are here. –Aaron Posner
CAST
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Aldo Billingslea* Katie deBuys* Drew Drake* Liz Filios* Kimberly Gilbert* Grace Gonglewski* Richard R. Henry* Eric Hissom* Emily Kaye Lynn Daven Ralston* Joshua Thomas Michael Tisdale*
Polixenes and others Hermione and others Florizell and others Cleomenes, Mopsa, and others Emilia, Autolycus, and others Paulina and others Lord, Old Shepherd, and others Storyteller, Camillo, Antigonus, and others Dion, Dorcas, and others Mamillius, Perdita, and others Archidamus, Young Shepherd, and others Leontes
Understudies Melissa Graves (Hermione and others) Ty Hallmark (Paulina and others) Emily Kaye Lynn (Perdita, Autolycus, and
and others)
Séamus Miller (Florizell, Young Shepherd,
others)
and others)
K. Alan Richards (Storyteller, Old Shepherd,
Music composed and arranged by Liz Filios in collaboration with Eric Hissom, Emily Kaye Lynn, Daven Ralston, Josh Thomas, and the cast of The Winter's Tale. *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 Winter’s Tale. 7
FROM THE DRAMATURG When Folger Theatre announced The Winter’s Tale for the season, patrons approved the play as a fast favorite. It’s one of Shakespeare’s romances, a genre assigned in the 19th century to a set of four later, captivating, and peculiar works. Part tragedy, part comedy, these plays focus on family. They turn on the errors of men old enough to know better, delight us with fantastical elements, engage us with shifts in place and time. And then there are the daughters, so vital to the plays’ beyond-happy endings. In these tales: “A father throws away his daughter. And nothing will ever be right until he gets her back” (Cain, Equivocation). The ‘righting’ that takes place in The Winter’s Tale is foisted onto the younger generation: a lost daughter must be found or Sicilia’s king and country will be denied a future. That daughter’s discovery is sparked by the fervent heart of a son of Bohemia, one who is nearly lost himself. The royal fathers met in this play are similarly reckless: too willing to toss aside their children, too blind to know virtue when they see it. The kings’ brutality indicates a fear of displacement and a greedy interest in their beloveds’ hearts. Leontes describes the wife he persecutes as “one / Of us too much beloved.” Director Aaron Posner takes this cue to note those characters who love excessively, hazardously. One
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danger comes from too-little understanding of love’s demands. Leontes rejects outright the vulnerability that is convoy to love; Polixenes does too, though to lessdire ends. Psychologists tell us that “[l]ove is an admission of… powerlessness; the stability of love… a kind of illusion” (New Yorker, 8/4/13). But kings by nature buck the loss of power; Leontes’ queen suffers profoundly from the imbalance Leontes cobbles out himself. Hermione, strong in innocence, maintains, “mine integrity/being counted falsehood/… shall make/… tyranny tremble.” Perhaps it is the depth of this injustice—of attaching betrayal to so good a queen—that results in a re-purposing of falsehood in the play’s second half. Deception in Sicilia persists only in Leontes’ dreams, though it proves deadly. In Bohemia, deception is almost a friendly pastime. Deceit shows itself through disguise, petty theft, and play-acting. We see performances by a thief, shepherdess, king, prince, servant, and then by the thief and others once more. More Bohemians appear in disguise than out of it. It is when Perdita is “pranked up” as a goddess that a disguised Prince Florizell makes the astute observation that “all her acts are queens.” Deception enables
characters to feel their way toward truth. The player most devoted to deception is Autolycus, a “snapper up of trifles,” who proclaims herself to be “false of heart.” To her delight Autolycus’ falsehoods are unassailable: “If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would not suffer me; she drops booties in my mouth.” This trickster is the play’s unremitting performer, conning marks with stories, distracting them with song. It is she who contributes most directly to the longed-for assemblage at the play’s end. That victory comes not in spite of her deception, but because of it.
The Winter’s Tale is not the only play in which Shakespeare highlights the value of performance, or offers up truth as an effect of artifice. But in no play is art more closely linked to miracle, or are the bounds between art and nature more carefully trimmed. Back in Leontes’ court, Paulina has been curating an exhibit for almost two decades (in this production). To view the work we are required to “awake [our] faith.” Is the recovered Hermione a work of art or nature? To Leontes it does not matter; even a false Hermione “mock’d with art” feels to him like magic—with senses unsettled, trembling and all. –Michele Osherow
SYNOPSIS The “tale” of The Winter’s Tale unfolds in scenes set almost two decades apart. In the first part of the play, Leontes, king of Sicilia, plays host to his friend Polixenes, king of Bohemia. Suddenly, Leontes becomes unreasonably jealous of Polixenes and Leontes’ pregnant wife, Hermione. Leontes calls for Polixenes to be killed, but he escapes. Hermione, under arrest, gives birth to a daughter; Leontes orders the baby to be taken overseas and abandoned. The death of the couple’s young son, Mamillius, brings Leontes to his senses, too late. Word
arrives that Hermione, too, has died. In Bohemia, a shepherd finds and adopts the baby girl, Perdita. Two decades later, the story resumes. Polixenes’ son, Florizell, loves Perdita. When Polixenes forbids the unequal match, the couple flees to Sicilia, where the tale reaches its conclusion. Perdita’s identity as a princess is revealed, allowing her and Florizell to marry; Leontes and Polixenes reconcile; and Hermione returns in the form of a statue, steps down from her pedestal, and reunites with her family. —Folger Digital Texts www.folgerdigitaltexts.org 9
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Acknowledgements: James Rostron and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Sarah Burry, Rachel Dankert, Lynn Magnusson, Music on the Hill, Naomi Osborne, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Kristen Sieck, Abbie Weinberg, Mara Wessel. Folger Docents, Volunteer Ushers, and the Junior League of Washington, DC are vitally important to our success. Heartfelt thanks to these generous donors of time and talent.
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CAST Aldo Billingslea Polixenes and others California Shakespeare Theater: Othello, Black Odyssey, Fences; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Piano Lesson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; TheatreWorks USA: The Elephant Man, Radio Golf; Marin Theatre Company: Othello, Splittin’ the Raft; Portland Center Stage: Miss Julie; Aurora Theatre: This is How It Goes; Lorraine Hansberry: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; American Conservatory Theatre: Gem of the Ocean; Illinois Shakespeare Festival: Othello; Utah Shakespearean: Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost; Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Coriolanus; Arabian Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mr. Billingslea is Professor of Theatre Arts at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
Katie DeBuys Hermione and others Folger Theatre: Henry V, The Conference of the Birds, The Gaming Table; Theater J: The How and the Why; Round House Theatre: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Night Alive, Fool for Love, Seminar (Helen Hayes nomination); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, Stupid F***ing Bird (world premiere and re-mount); Shakespeare Theatre Company: Measure for Measure; Imagination Stage: Aladdin’s Luck; Regional: Portland Center Stage; Syracuse Stage: Stupid F***ing Bird; Indiana Repertory Theatre: The Giver; Capital T Theatre: Bug (B. Iden Payne Award, Best Actress), Killer Joe; Texas Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar.
Drew Drake Florizell and others Regional: Clarence Brown Theatre: Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol, South Pacific, Of Mice and Men,
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Three Penny Opera, Our Country’s Good, Rent; River and Rail Theatre: The Unusual Tale of Mary and Joseph’s Baby; Westcoast Black Theatre: Jitney. Film: The Adventures Of Cheap Chad, Moses Cove, 7 Rising.
Liz Filios Cleomenes, Mopsa, and others Regional: Arden Theatre Company: Candide, Sunday in the Park with George, Passion (Barrymore Award, Outstanding Actress in a Musical); Wilma Theatre: Eurydice; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: The Tempest; South Coast Repertory Theatre: The Tempest; Walnut Street Theatre: Vincent In Brixton; People’s Light & Theatre Company: Cinderella, Noises Off; Lantern Theatre: Red Velvet, As You Like It; Cape Town Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana; Teatro Avvaloranti: Il Racconto D’Inverno; Inis Nua: Midsummer: A Play With Songs (Barrymore Award, Outstanding Actress in a Musical). Television: The Sunny Side Up Show, PBS Kids’ Sprout. Sound Design & Composition: Lantern Theatre: An Iliad; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet, The Ice Princess; People’s Light & Theatre: The Matchmaker. lizfilios.com
Kimberly Gilbert Emilia, Autolycus, and others Folger Theatre: Othello; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Arsonists, Marie Antoinette (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Lead Actress), Stupid F***ing Bird (world premiere and re-mount); Taffety Punk Theatre Company: Twelfth Night, Enter Ophelia, distracted; Round House Theatre Company: The Book of Will, Angels In America; Studio Theatre: Jumpers for Goalposts, Three Sisters/No Sisters; Theater J: Broken Glass, Life Sucks; Mosaic Theatre Company: Charm; Ford’s Theatre: Jefferson’s Garden, The Laramie Project; Forum Theatre: Pluto; The Kennedy Center: A Light in the Storm.
Grace Gonglewski Paulina and others Regional: Arden Theatre Company: Stupid F***ing Bird, A Little Night Music, August: Osage County, Hedda Gabler, Candida, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Moon for the Misbegotten; Arena Stage: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Walnut Street Theatre: The Heiress, Three Tall Women, The Voysey Inheritance, The Rivals, The Last Flapper, Shooting Simone, A Streetcar Named Desire, among others; Cape Cod Playhouse: The Beard of Avon; Cape May Stage: The Owl and the Pussycat, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Private Lives, Going to St. Ives, among others; Delaware Theatre Company: As You Like It, Design For Living, Inspecting Carol; Mt. Gretna Theatre: Gaslight; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: 10 seasons—Julius Caesar (twice), The Taming of the Shrew (twice), A Moon For The Misbegotten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Blythe Spirit, The Merry Wives of Windsor; Orlando Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Hand to God, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Laramie Project (Barrymore Award, Best Ensemble); Wilma Theatre: Travesties, Galileo, Body Awareness (Barrymore Award, Best Ensemble); Theatre Exile: Bug; 1812 Productions: Daughters of Genius, Boston Marriage; and a tour of Ireland with Interact Theatre Company. Off-Broadway: The Flea Theatre: The Guys. Awards: Five Barrymore Awards, F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Theatre Artist, Dorothy Haas Fellowship, Independence Foundation Recipient. Grace is the voice of Tums, Alex’s Lemonade Stand, Carsense, and many banks, casinos, hospitals, and politicians around the country.
Theater: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, the musical; New York City Center Encores!: Fiorello!; Paper Mill Playhouse/La Jolla Playhouse: Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame; Yale Repertory Theatre: The Winter’s Tale; Long Wharf Theatre: Guys and Dolls; The Old Globe: The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Westport Country Playhouse: Room Service; Intiman Theatre Festival: The Mystery of Irma Vep; Baltimore Center Stage: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. National tours: Man of La Mancha, Sweet Charity, Urinetown, Jesus Christ Superstar. Cast albums: Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Eric Hissom Storyteller, Camillo, Antigonus and others Folger Theatre: Timon of Athens, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Cyrano, Arcadia (Helen Hayes Award), Macbeth; Round House Theatre Company: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Actors Theatre of Louisville: Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged); Asolo Repertory Theatre: Glengarry Glen Ross, The Game’s Afoot; Arden Theatre Company: Our Town, August: Osage County; Milwaukee Repertory Theater: Eurydice; Two River Theater Company: Melissa Arctic; Syracuse Stage: Around the World in Eighty Days; Cape Playhouse: The Mystery of Irma Vep; Orlando Shakespeare Theater: Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Private Lives, Art, Wittenberg. Off-Broadway: New York Fringe Festival: China–The Whole Enchilada. National Tour: The 39 Steps. Film: Out of Time. Television: Mortal Kombat, Sheena, One Tree Hill.
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Emily Kaye Lynn
Lord, Old Shepherd, and others Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano. OffBroadway: The Public
Dion, Dorcas, and others Regional: InterAct Theatre: Sensitive Guys (World Premiere); The Kimmel Center: Flash of Time (World Premiere); People's Light & (continued on next page)
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CAST Theatre: Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin; Shakespeare in Clark Park: Coriolanus; Media Theatre: West Side Story; Compass Rose Theatre: Romeo and Juliet. BFA, Shenandoah University. emilykayelynn.com
Daven Ralston Mamillius, Perdita, and others Folger Theatre: As You Like It; Theater J: Everything is Illuminated; Keegan Theatre: Top Girls, The Bockety World of Henry and Bucket; Imagination Stage: Wonderland: Alice's Rock and Roll Adventure; Studio Theatre: Three Sisters/No Sisters; Hub Theatre: The Magi; Rorschach Theatre: A Bid to Save the World; Solas Nua: Wild Sky; WSC Avant Bard: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Friendship Betrayed, The Madwoman of Chaillot; Arts on the Horizon: Space Bop, Snow Day. davenralston.com
Joshua Thomas Archidamus, Young Shepherd, and others MetroStage: Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been; Studio Theatre: Three Sisters; Baltimore Center Stage: Young Playwrights Festival (2014-16), Mobile Unit Incubator, Cyrano de Bergerac; Baltimore Shakespeare Factory: Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing; Single Carrot Theatre: Social Creatures.
Michael Tisdale Leontes Studio Theatre: Straight White Men. Regional: Seattle Repertory Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company: Venus in Fur; Huntington Theatre Company: All My Sons; Bard Summer Stage: Camille; Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Glass Menagerie; Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Fraulein Else; La Jolla Playhouse; Long Wharf Theatre; McCarter Theatre; The Ahmanson: Romeo and Juliet. Off-Broadway: Ensemble Studio Theatre: Photograph 51; The Committee: The Private Lives of Eskimos; Theatre for a New Audience: Waste; The Houseman: Never the
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Sinner. As a playwright, Mr. Tisdale’s works have been developed and/or produced by Atlantic Theater Company, New York University, Hartford Stage, Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab, American Theatre Company in Chicago, New York Theater Workshop, and Cleveland Public Theater. His award-winning short films have appeared in over forty festivals around the world including Sundance, Beloit, San Paolo, Nashville, Heartland, and Cleveland International. Michael is a Fox Fellow and 2011 recipient of the Charles Bowden Award for continued excellence in New York Theater, and a 2014 O’Neill Semi-Finalist. Film: After You Left, Freedom. Television: Unforgettable, Law & Order, Third Watch.
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CREATIVE TEAM Aaron Posner
Kelsey Hunt
Director Folger Theatre: District Merchants (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Original Play), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Romeo and Juliet, The Conference of the Birds, The Taming of the Shrew (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Resident Play), Cyrano (co-adaptor; Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director), The Comedy of Errors, Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Arcadia, Macbeth (co-director and coconceiver), The Tempest (2007), Measure for Measure (Helen Hayes Awards, Outstanding Director and Outstanding Resident Play), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Director), Melissa Arctic (The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play), Twelfth Night, Othello, As You Like It (2001). Regional: Arden Theatre Company (Co-Founder, Artistic Director, and Resident Director, 1988-2006): more than 35 productions. Posner is the author of the plays No Sisters, My Name Is Asher Lev, Stupid F**king Bird, The Chosen, Sometimes a Great Notion, Mark Twain’s A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage, and others.
Costume Design Ford’s Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Collective Rage, The Nether, Cherokee; Studio Theatre: Bad Jews, Carrie: The Musical, Edgar & Annabel; Theater J: The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Copenhagen, The Last Schwartz, The Sisters Rosensweig, Life Sucks, Body Awareness; Round House Theatre Company: Stage Kiss; Olney Theatre Center: The Price; Maryland Opera Company: Die Fledermaus; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice; Off-Broadway: 59E59: Occupied Territories. Kelseyhuntdesign.com
Luciana Stecconi Scenic Design Ms. Stecconi’s work includes designs for Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Theater J, Round House Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Mosaic Theatre Company, Imagination Stage, The Library of Congress, Catholic University, American University, Georgetown University, Synetic Theatre, Gala Hispanic, Opera Lafayette, Adventure Theatre MTC, 1st Stage, Spooky Action. Regional: Northern Stage, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage Company, Everyman Theatre. Awards: 2010 Mayor’s Art Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist, 2006 Ira Gershwin Prize in theater excellence from Brandeis University. lucianastecconi.com
Jesse Belsky Lighting Design Folger Theatre: Sense and Sensibility, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Ford’s Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Studio Theatre: The Effect, Three Sisters/No Sisters, and ANIMAL; Arena Stage: The Year of Magical Thinking; Signature Theatre: The Mystery of Love and Sex; Round House Theatre: Handbagged, The Book Of Will; Theater J: Everything is Illuminated; Olney Theatre Center: The Magic Play; Everyman Theatre: Deathtrap, Blithe Spirit, Outside Mullingar, The Roommate. Regional: Actor's Theater Louisville: The Magic Play; Portland Center Stage: The Magic Play; Yale Repertory Theatre: Lydia, Rough Crossing; Triad Stage: The 39 Steps, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Shipwrecked, Kingdom of Earth; Playmakers Repertory Company: The Year of Magical Thinking; Mabou Mines: Glass Guignol. New York: 59E59: The Body Politic; Midtown Theater: My Trip Down the Pink Carpet; La Mama Annex: Lysistrata, The Women of Troy. Touring: Bang On A Can/Asphalt Orchestra: Unpack the Elephant. International: Lee Breuer’s Antigone (Athens, Greece); Anonymous Ensemble: THEBEST (Brisbane, Australia); Theater Roes: The Return (Athens, Greece) Dance: Japhy/ Wideman Dance: CANE. www.jessebelsky.com
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Patrick Calhoun Sound Design Folger Theatre: Mary Stuart, Richard III, Twelfth Night; Mr. Calhoun’s work includes designs for: Shakespeare Theatre Company, Theater J, Round House Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, The Hub Theatre (company member), Anacostia Playhouse, No Rules Theatre Company, The National Gallery of Art, Dance Exchange; Regional: Center Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrington Stage Company, Triad Stage, Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Utah Festival Opera, Theatre West Virginia, The Arts Collective at HCC. patrickcalhoun.info
Michele Osherow Resident Dramaturg Folger Theatre: The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility, District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (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: The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility, District Merchants, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Henry V. 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/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: Cheerleader, Evol, Chandler, Camp, Mulligan. www.ebcastingco.com. @EBCastingCo
Julia Singer Production Stage Manager Ford’s Theatre: Jefferson’s Garden, Death of a Salesman, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 110 in the Shade, A Christmas Carol, The Guard, Freedom’s Song, Driving Miss Daisy; The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences: Elephant and Piggie: We are in a Play!, Me…Jane. The Juilliard School: This Is Our Youth, The Seagull, Cymbeline, A Little Night Music, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, You Are Here.
Jessica Short Assistant Stage Manager Folger Theatre: The Way of the World, Antony and Cleopatra; Round House Theatre Company: Caroline, or Change, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, The Who & The What, Stage Kiss; Kennedy Center TYA: The Cerulean Time Capsule; Forum Theatre: The Pillowman, Passion Play, The T Party, How We Got On; 1st Stage: The Good Counselor; Arena Stage: Healing Wars; Anacostia Playhouse: DC Dead: Mutation; Signature Theatre: Jelly’s Last Jam; Flying V: You, or Whatever I Can Get.
Janet Alexander Griffin Artistic Producer Director of Public Programs for the Folger Shakespeare Library since 1982. She has produced 85 plays, including 30 Shakespeare plays, for which Folger Theatre has been recognized with 141 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 (continued on next page)
CREATIVE TEAM 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. She is the 2015 recipient of the 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, a comedy series for HBO, and she produces for both the Nantucket and Tribeca Film Festivals as well as teaching producing for New York University.
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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.
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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 Blair Coats, Hannah Dewhurst, 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 Grafik, 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, Rachel Messbauer, Grace Murtha, Ian Patrick, Madeline Shelton 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, 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 Brian Rothbart, Executive Assistant to the Director Laura Kelly, Administrative Assistant, Executive Offices INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Stephanie Svoboda, Tessitura Administrator
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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 February 1, 2017 and January 31, 2018.
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 The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust The Helen Clay Frick Foundation The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Graham Holdings
Hannay Reels Heinz Family Foundation Mark & Carol Hyman Fund Junior League of Washington Kieloch Consulting KieranTimberlake Kislak Family 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 The Newberry Library 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 February 1, 2017 and January 31, 2018.
$50,000+ Jarrett & Nora Arp Florence & Neal S. Cohen Louis & Bonnie Cohen Nicky Cymrot Maygene & Steve Daniels Susan Sachs Goldman Mr. Arthur F. Kinney J. May Liang & James Lintott Jacqueline Badger Mars John & Connie McGuire Roger & Robin Millay Darcy & Andy Nussbaum Gail Kern Paster Mr. & Mrs. B. Francis Saul, II Dr. Lois Green Schwoerer Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Small $25,000-$49,999 Rebecca Bushnell & John Toner Peter & Rose Edwards Deneen Howell & Donald Vieira
Eugene A. Ludwig & Dr. Carol Ludwig Timothy & Linda O’Neill Laura Yerkovich & John Winkler
$15,000 -$24,999 Ms. Doris E. Austin Twiss & Patrick Butler The Honorable C. Boyden Gray Catherine Held Helen & David Kenney William & Louisa Newlin Loren & Frances Rothschild Neal T. Turtell Scott & Liz Vance $10,000-$14,999 Anonymous David & Margaret Gardner Dr. Stephen H. Grant & Ms. Abigail B. Wiebenson Mr. & Mrs. Ty Hosler Mr. & Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. Nancy & Steve Howard Maxine Isaacs Dr. David E. Johnson & Ms. Wendy Frieman Mr. & Mrs. H. Axel Schupf Drs. Michael L. Witmore & Kellie Robertson $5,000-$9,999 Anonymous Judy Areen & Richard Cooper Keith & Celia Arnaud Bill & Evelyn Braithwaite Vinton & Sigrid Cerf Jeffrey P. Cunard Emily & Michael Eig Denise Gwyn Ferguson Elizabeth H. Hageman Wyatt R. & Susan N. Haskell Mr. Ken Hitz & Ms. Liselott Liungman Andi H. Kasarsky Mr. Michael K. Kellogg Karl K. & Carrol Benner Kindel Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Kuhta Ken Ludwig & Adrienne George Dr. Nancy Klein Maguire Mr. & Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart Carl & Undine Nash Gail Orgelfinger & Charles Hanna Mr. Ben Reiter & Mrs. Alice Goldman Reiter Joanne Ruxin Louis B. Thalheimer & Juliet A. Eurich Tara Ghoshal Wallace Professor R L Widmann Ellen & Bernard Young $2,500-$4,999 Anonymous (4) Gary & Mary Ellen Abrecht
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SUPPORTERS Bill & Sunny Alsup D. James Baker & Emily Lind Baker Ms. Lisa U. Baskin Stephen & Anne Black Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Brown Howard M. Brown Mr. & Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, III Mr. William J Camarinos Mr. & Mrs. Perry Cofield Philip J. Deutch & Marne L. Levine Ms. Dorothea W. Dickerman & Mr. Richard Kevin Becker Barbra Eaton & Ed Salners Rose & John Eberhardt Estate of Lady Roslyn Sheena Parkinson Abbey S. & Kenneth M. Fagin Ruth Hansen & Lawrence Plotkin John & Meg Hauge Ms. Deidre Holmes DuBois & Mr. Christopher E. DuBois William L. Hopkins Frank F. Islam & Debbie Driesman Rick Kasten Mr. Derek Kaufman & Dr. Leora Horwitz Mrs. Justine Mascioli Kenney Arthur & Yvonne Koenig Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Lyon Julianna Mahley J.C. & Mary McElveen Pam McFarland & Brian Hagenbuch Peter & Mary Jay Michel Martin & Elaine Miller Jane & Paul Molloy Dr. Rebeccah Kinnamon Neff Andrew Oliver & Melanie Du Bois Carolyn & Mark Olshaker Patricia A. Parker Drs. Eldor & Judith Pederson Mrs. Jacqueline L. Quillen Heddy & Trip Reid Dr. Markley Roberts Ms. Joanna S. Rose Susan & Frank Salinger Howard Shapiro & Shirley Brandman Paul Smith & Michael Dennis Robert J. & Tina M. Tallaksen Diane Tipton Bradt & David Bradt Gail Weinmann & Nathan Billig Ms. Nicole Winard Nyla & Gerry Witmore Ms. Louisa Woodville & Mr. Nigel R. Ogilvie Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Zarr
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Bess & Greg Ballentine Michael S. Berman & Deborah Cowan Dr. James E. Bernhardt & Ms. Beth C. Bernhardt Dr. Peter W. M. Blayney & Dr. Leslie Thomson Dr. & Mrs. David W. Blois Ms. Gigi Bradford & Mr. Jim Stanford Mr. & Mrs. David G. Bradley Dr. A. R. Braunmuller 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. D. Elizabeth Crompton Ms. Harriet H. Davis Dr. & Mrs. William Davis Ms. Rachel Doggett Mr. John F. Downey Steve Dunn & Tom Burkhardt The Folger Five Mr. Robert Fontenrose Carla & George Frampton Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Galvin Ms. Gail Gibson Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Gill Brent Glass & Cathryn Keller Ms. Barbara Goldberg Ms. Patricia Gray Karen & Kevin Greene Ann Greer Janet & Christopher Griffin Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn & Dr. John Y. Cole Mr. & Mrs. Ridgway Hall Martha Harris Florence & Peter D. Hart Jill Hartman 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. Michael B. Jennison Mr. & Mrs. David H. Jones Sherman & Maureen Katz Theresa & Robert Keatinge Mr. Bruce Kieloch
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kolson Mr. & Mrs. Russell LaMotte Col. Denny Lane & Ms. Naoko Aoki Mr. & Mrs. J. Ronald Langkamp Ms. Elizabeth Lanier Daniel Levinson 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 The Honorable John D. Macomber Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Marks Mr. & Mrs. John McGinnis Mr. & Mrs. George K. Miller John & Paula Millian Mary & Cyril Muromcew Cullen & Anna Marie Murphy Mr. Terence R. Murphy & Ms. Patricia A. Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Myers Mrs. Jean F. Nordhaus Dr. Lena Cowen Orlin Anne Parten & Philip Nelson Ms. Rebecca Penniman & Mr. Louis Wittenberg Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Phillips Ms. Cynthia L. Rapp Mrs. Donald Rappaport Earl & Carol Ravenal Ms. Shana Regon & Mr. Timothy O’Toole Lola C. Reinsch Mr. James R. Repucci Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reynolds Mr. David Roberts & Dr. David Spencer 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 Cary Sherman James Baker Sitrick David Smith & Ilene Weinreich Gabriela & Douglas Smith Mr. Gerald Southern Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Stanley John & Alison Steadman Ms. Joanne M. Sten Dr. Ann Swann Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Swope Mr. Leslie C. Taylor Mr. & Dr. Ron Tenpas Amy & Mark Tercek Mary Augusta & George D. Thomas
SUPPORTERS 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 Ms. Carolyn L. Wheeler Mr. Donald E. White & Ms. Betty W. Good-White Ms. Mary-Sherman Willis & Mr. C. Scott Willis Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Wilshere Beverly & Christopher With Mr. Douglas Wolfire Anne & Fred Woodworth Dr. Georgianna Ziegler
$500-$999 Anonymous (4) Dr. Robert S. Adelstein & Mrs. Miriam A. Adelstein Dr. Peter J. Albert & Ms. Charlotte Mahoney Dr. Boris Allan & Ms. Kathleen L. Pomroy Mr. & Mrs. David B. Barefoot Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Barry Ms. Kyle Z. Bell & Mr. Alan G.R. Bell Mr. Brent James Bennett Mr. Kirke Bent Ellen S. Berelson & Larry Franks Professors David M. Bergeron & Geraldo de Sousa Ms. Kathleen Bergin Drs. Robin & Clare Biswas Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Bochner Dr. Jean C. Bolan Dr. James J. Bono & Dr. Barbara J. Bono Dr. Mary H. Branton Mrs. Adrianne Brooks Kathleen Burger & Glen Gerada John Byrd & Lina Watson Mr. & Mrs. Lewis R. Cabe Dympna C. Callaghan Ph.D Dr. & Mrs. William C. Carroll Professor Carmen A. CasĂs Dr. Sheila T. Cavanagh Ms. Melissa W. Clark Mr. & Mrs. William D. Coleman Mr. & Mrs. John J. Collins Robert W. Cover II & Bonnie Lepoff Ms. Melissa Darby Ms. Sarah A. Davidson Ms. Jeanne De Sa Mr. Daniel De Simone & Ms. Angela Scott
Ms. Christy Desmet Mr. & Mrs. Daniel A. DeVincentis Prof. Frances Dolan Dr. Ross W. Duffin & Dr. Beverly J. Simmons Ms. Roberta L. Ellington Marjorie & Anthony Elson Dr. William E. Engel Louise H. Engle Mr. Douglas H. Erwin & Dr. Wendy Wiswall Ms. Marietta Ethier Mrs. John Eustice Ms. Margaret Ezellmainzer Mr. & Mrs. Prentiss E. Feagles Mr. Gerald M. Feierstein Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Feinberg Charles Fendig & Maria Fisher Melody & Albert Fetske Mr. Leo S. Fisher & Ms. Sue J. Duncan Ms. Tracy Fisher Ms. Alice Fitch Ms. Patricia G. Foley & Mr. John P. Villarosa Jere Gibber & J.G. Harrington Donald Gilman Ms. Michelle Gluck & Dr. Walter Smith Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Goelzer Mr. Lawrence J. Goffney, Jr. & Dr. Betty J. Forman Mr. & Mrs. Michael Goldstein Ms. Ann V. Gordon & Mr. Martin Singer Professors Suzanne & Philip Gossett Mr. Matthew Gross Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Haller Drs. Donna B. & Gary D. Hamilton Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hazen Mrs. Anthony E. Hecht Mr. Thomas Heil Ms. Cynthia Herrup June & George Higgins Prof. Peter Holland Professor Jean E. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kalb Sarah & David Kelly Mr. Christopher Kendall & Ms. Susan Schilperoort Katherine & Duncan Kennedy Ms. Caroline Kenney Wendy & Robert Kenney Professor John N. & Pauline King Dr. & Mrs. Philip A. Knachel Dr. Roslyn L. Knutson Dr. Marcel C. LaFollette & Mr. Jeffrey K. Stine Ms. Faith S. Lambert Dr. Douglas M. Lanier Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon Dr. Robert Lawshe Mr. Michael Lebovitz
Ms. Sandy Lerner Mr. & Mrs. Roger N. Levy Lilly S. Lievsay Prof. Julia R. Lupton Ms. Giovanni Lynch Dr. Kathleen Lynch & Mr. John C. Blaney Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Lynch Dr. Lynne Magnusson Dr. Laurie Maguire Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Mancini Mr. Winton E. Matthews, Jr. Mr. James W. McBride Ms. Catherine McClave Dr. Brian R. McNeill Dr. Heather A. McPherson Beverly J. Melani & Bruce E. Walker Professor Michael J. Mendle Estate of Julienne M. Michel Dr. Rogers B. Miles Mr. Hilary B. Miller & Dr. Katherine N. Bent Dr. & Mrs. Andy B. Molchon Ann K. Morales Ms. Sheila A. Murphy Theodore & Mary Eugenia Myer Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm B. Niedner Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Palmer Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Parr Mr. & Mrs. Peter Parshall Dr. Hans S. Pawlisch Linda Levy Peck Ms. Sheila J. Peters Mr. & Mrs. Carl F. Pfeiffer Ms. Julie Phillips Dr. & Mrs. Warren S. Poland Mr. Eric Rasmussen Dr. Timothy Raylor & Ms. Vanessa A. Laird Mr. Jonathan Rich Gerd & Duncan Ritchie Mr. Peter Rogen Mr. Peter Rose & Ms. Alicia Kershaw Dr. & Mrs. Jason P. Rosenblatt John & Lynn Sachs Grace K. & Vincent N. Schiraldi Dr. James Shapiro Mr. James Siemon Dr. Donna S. Simmons & Mr. James Simmons Professor Meredith Skura Marilyn & Hugh South Professor Richard E. Spear & Professor Athena Tacha Robert Staples & Barbara Fahs Charles Mr. & Mrs. Albert P. Stauderman Ms. Lillian D. Stephens Dr. Garrett Sullivan Dr. Patricia E. Tatspaugh Mr. John M. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. John C. Towers Ms. Kathryn M. Truex
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SUPPORTERS James & Carol Tsang Mr. & Mrs. James T. Turner Dr. Arina van Breda Tessa van der Willigen & Jonathan Walters Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Van Voorhees Professor Susan R. Wabuda Mr. Christopher White Webster Professor Paul Werstine Clint White, WiT Media Professor Michael Winkelman Ms. Abby L. Yochelson & Mr. Wallace Mlyniec Phyllis Jane Young
$250-$499 Anonymous (5) Catherine N. Abrahams Ms. Monica Lynn Agree Mr. & Mrs. David G. Ahern Mr. Thomas Ahern Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Stewart F. Aly Ms. Jerrilyn V. Andrews & Mr. Donald E. Hesse Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Bachmann Ms. Suzanne Bakshian & Mr. Vincent A. Chiappinelli Mr. & Mrs. Albert H. Barclay Mr. Iain Bason Ms. Danielle M. Beauchamp Mr. & Mrs. David M. Beckmann Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Blackwood Ms. Mary C. Blake Mr. James L. Blum Ms. Heather Boedeker 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. Thomas Brody Mr. Stanley C. Burgess, Jr. Ms. Victoria Butler & Mr. Tim Carney Ms. C. Dawn Causey Colonel & Mrs. Larry M. Cereghino Mr. Wallace W. Chandler Mr. John Chester Ms. Molly C. Clay Linda & John Cogdill Mr. David M. Colbert Ms. Mary Cole Mr. Robert S. Cole, Jr. Dr. Theresa M. Coletti 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
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James & Ann Coyle Ms. Katheryn L. Cranford Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Daniels Vice Adm. Dirk J. Debbink Mr. Robin L. Dennis Drs. Alan & Cynthia Dessen Mr. Joe Dickey & Ms. Martha Blaxall Marilyn Dillihay & Guy Standen Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Donaldson M P Donovan Dr. Terry Dwyer & Dr. Marcy F. Petrini Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Eager Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Eater Mr. David J. Edmondson Professor Lars Engle Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Farber Dr. Robert J. Fehrenbach Arthur & Shirley Fergenson Ms. Laurie Fletcher & Dr. Allan Fraser Mr. Gregory Flowers 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 Ms. Kit Gage & Mr. Steven Metalitz Mrs. Joanne Garris Ms. Nancy C. Garrison Mr. Christopher Gassett Mrs. Nanette Gibbs Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prof. James A. Glazier Mr. Gregg H.S. Golden & Dr. Laura George 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 Mr. Jim Hake Col. Wesley P. Hallman & Dr. Silvana Rubino-Hallman David Hannay Dr. Susan R. Haynes & Dr. Carl C. Baker Ms. Barbara W. Hazelett Robert E. Hebda Patricia Henkel Prof. Heather A. Hirschfeld & Prof. Anthony Welch Dr. Mack P. Holt Mrs. Wilma E. Hommel Dr. Henry Ridgely Horsey Dr. Thomas Hudson Mr. & Mrs. Paul Huey-Burns Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hut Ms. Lou Ivey Ms. Elizabeth M. Janthey
Mr. & Mrs. E. Stewart Jeffries 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 Mrs. Margot Kelly Mr. Edward Kenney Mr. Robert L. Kimmins Mr. Robert S. Kirk Ms. Lynne Myers Klimmer Dr. Michael Knable Mr. Michael Kolakowski Mr. & Mrs. George Koukourakis Edward & Kathleen Kovach Kim & Elizabeth Kowalewski Mr. Richard Krasnow Mr. & Mrs. Simon C. Krinsky Mr. Barry Kropf Ms. Sarah Kyrouac Mr. & Mrs. David J. Lacki Mr. David W. Lankford Drs. Douglas & Janet Laube Marian & Stuart Lemle Mr. Zachary Lesser Dr. Calvin C. Linnemann & Rev. Patricia G. Linnemann Ms. Mary Frances Lowe Wes MacAdam Mr. James Mach Dr. Deborah L. Malkovich & Dr. William Freimuth Mr. & Mrs. Martin C. Mangold Ms. Allison Mankin & Dr. Jim Carton Mr. Tom Manteuffel & Ms. Rachel Manteuffel Dr. Lewis Markoff & Dr. Caroline Samuels Dr. Steven W. May Ms. Susan McCloskey Dr. Richard McCoy Mr. Patrick J. McGraw Mr. & Mrs. Stephen W. McHenry Marilyn & Charles McMillion Ms. Nancy Elizabeth Meiners Ms. Chloe Miller Ms. Kristie Miller & Mr. Thomas Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. W. Todd Miller Mrs. Ina J. Millsaps Hazel C. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey C. Morell Professor Chandra Mukerji Mr. Kevin Nettesheim Mr. Mike Newton & Dr. Linda Werling Ms. Mary L. Noonan Mr. Joe M. Norton Michael & Karen O’Connell Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Olexson Mr. & Mrs. Ernest T. Oskin
SUPPORTERS Mr. & Mrs. David M. Osnos Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. O’Sullivan Betty Ann Ottinger Elizabeth Crewson Paris Mr. Stephen Partridge Ms. Barbara A. Patocka Stan Peabody Mr. & Mrs. Kevin L. Pearson Mr. James R. Pepper Mr. Thomas Perry Dr. & Mrs. Joram Piatigorsky Mr. Joseph Pierro Mr. & Mrs. James S. Polk Drs. Maria T. & Thomas A. Prendergast Mr. Woodruff M. Price Mr. Terry Quist Mr. Henry Raine Robert Ramsey & Elizabeth Brown Mr. & Mrs. Steve Randolph Mr. & Mrs. Firoze Rao Mr. & Mrs. Erik M. Rasmussen John & Barbara Ratigan Mr. Peter S. Reichertz Mr. Philip J. Reynolds Dr. Alice Riginos Ms. Lauren G. Roberts & Mr. Juan E. Sanchez Winnie & Alexander Robinson Mr. Philip K. Rogers Ms. Emily Rose & Mr. James H. Marrow Mr. & Mrs. David Rose Ms. Janet A. Sanderson 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 Ms. Sharon H. Schoeller Mr. Kurt R. Schwarz & Ms. Patsy G. Kennan 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 Dr. Bruce R. Smith Mr. & Mrs. D. Joe Smith Ms. Laura Smith Dr. Richard B. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Sollinger Mr. Robert Spann & Ms. Elizabeth Whiteley Mr. Steve Spaulding & Dr. Alicen B Spaulding Ms. Sheila Kautt Ms. Cathleen Ann Steg & Mr. Schuyler E. Schell
Mr. Daniel Steiner Tom & Pat Stevens 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. & Mrs. John V. Thomas Mrs. Ellen Tunstall Ms. Helen G. Urquhart 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 Dr. Gail C. Weigl Ms. Judith Weintraub Dr. & Mrs. John R. Wennersten Ms. Jacqueline West Ms. Dorothy B. Wexler Sandy & Jon Willen Gary & Josephine Williams Mr. & Mrs. Roy L. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Scott M. Wilson Ms. Betsy L. Wolf Ms. Edith C. Wolff Dr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Worden Mrs. Eleanora M. Worth Irene & Alan Wurtzel Mrs. Laetitia Yeandle Dr. Robert G. Young Dr. Ried R. Zulagerr 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 *Deceased
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