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RASTUS AND HATTIE by Lisa Langford Directed by Lanise Antoine Shelley Featuring Krystel McNeil David Goodloe Jasmine Bracey Colin Jones Kate Black-Spence Ryan Kitley Daniel Houle Dramaturg Mildred Marie Langford
Sound Design Olanrewaju Adewole
Audio Engineer/Post Production Editor Nathan Cox-Reed
Illustrator Roy Thomas
Video Editor Peter Marston Sullivan
Recording Production Manager Jennifer Aparicio
Recorded at Classick Studios in Chicago Voiceover Actors Courtesy of SAG/AFTRA Opening Night: Thursday, September 24, 2020 RASTUS AND HATTIE was first produced by Raymond Bobgan for Cleveland Public Theatre with funding from the Joyce Foundation Joyce Awards 16th Street Theater is a proud member of North Berwyn Park District and a member of Theatre Communications Group, National New Play Network, League of Chicago Theatres, and Oak Park Area Visitor’s Bureau.
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by Lisa Langford Audio play Adapted and Directed by Lanise Antoine Shelley NEEDRA.............................................................................................Krystel McNeil MALIK................................................................................................ David Goodloe HATTIE............................................................................................. Jasmine Bracey RASTUS.................................................................................................. Colin Jones MARLENE................................................................................... Kate Black-Spence DAVID....................................................................................................... Ryan Kitley DEAN HACKETT and SHOPKEEPER..................................................Daniel Houle Running time is 90 minutes plus one 5-minute intermission.
Production Staff Playwright . ......................................................................................................................... Lisa Langford Director and Adaptor of Audio Play ..................................................................... Lanise Antoine Shelley Dramaturg and Talkback Moderator.....................................................................Mildred Marie Langford Sound Designer/Audio Engineer.............................................................................. Olanrewaju Adewole Post Production Editor/Audio Engineer........................................................................ Nathan Cox-Reed Illustrator............................................................................................................................... Roy Thomas Video Editor ..........................................................................................................Peter Marston Sullivan Recording Production Manager . ................................................................................... Jennifer Aparicio Artistic Director ....................................................................................................................... Ann Filmer Managing Director........................................................................................................... Michele DiMaso Box Office Manager.......................................................................................................... Malcolm Callan
Special Thanks To Esteban Andres Cruz, Raymond Bobgan and Cleveland Public Theatre, Kathy Byrne and SAG/AFTRA, Max Fabian and Tightrope, Shawn Wallace, Kathleen Powers, Tony Churchill, Jenny Lam and Amara.org, Kristin Reeves and Ball State University Captioning and Subtitling Services Provided by Amara.org
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Cast & Company Biographies Lisa Langford (Playwright) is a writer and actor. Her play Rastus and Hattie is a 2019 Joyce Award winner (with Cleveland Public Theatre), and a finalist for both the 2019 Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival and the 2019 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Other plays include: How Blood Go, a 2019 August Wilson New Play Initiative selection at Congo Square Theatre; The Art of Longing, a Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers finalist; and Revolt. Ing., a 10-minute Black womanist play featured in Black Lives, Black Words’ I Am…Fest at the Goodman Theatre. She is an active member of the Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Dramatist Guild, and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Lanise Antoine Shelley (Director and Adaptor) is a Haitian actress, director, and painter. Selected directing credits include: Black and Blue, Muthaland (movement consultant at 16th Street Theater) Identity Lab (Lookingglass Theatre), The Tenant (Akvavit Theatre), RefuSHE Project (Voices & Faces Project), Rumors (DePaul University). She assisted: the world premiere of Plantation (Lookingglass Theatre, dir. David Schwimmer), Nell Gwynn (Chicago Shakespeare), The First Deep Breath (Victory Gardens Theatre) and The Snow Queen (choreographer American Repertory Theater), as well as staged readings at Stratford Shakespeare Festival. She holds a BFA in Directing, Acting, and Playwriting from Cornish College of the Arts, an MFA from ART/MXAT at Harvard University, certificate in Classical Theatre from BADA in Oxford, England, and Birmingham Conservatory. She was Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s Chicago Fellow 2016 and Victory Gardens Theatre’s Directing Fellow 2019. Presently Lanise is the creator of Interracial Adoptee Panel Series sponsored by United States Foundation for the Children of Haiti. www.laniseantoineshelley.com Mildred Marie Langford (Dramaturg) is an LA based Actor, Writer, Content Creator and Producer. She recently ended very successful theatre runs of Gunshot Medley: Part 1 by Dionna Michelle Daniel; where she received an Ovation Award Nomination for Lead Actress in a Play and Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of Richard Wrights’ Native Son at Antaeus Theatre and Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre directed by Ovation Award nominee Andi Chapman. She is the Co-Creator, Co-Writer and Co-Executive Producer for the new web series Commune, and a Co-Producer/Writer for the upcoming dark anthology series Ticker. Her television and film credits include; Chicago MED, Masters of Sex, BOSS, Grow Up, Dimensional Shift, Analysis Paralysis, Magic Funhouse, Good Side of Bad, Your Beautiful Baby, Concrete Rose, Egg Day, Six Hour Pass, Kendra and Obi and Lot Lizards. She is also the co-founder for The Black Creators Collective; a new non-profit arts organization whose mission is to bring artistic knowledge and resources to underserved communities, while also creating and developing opportunities for artists of color, and a member of the new arts coalition Support Black Theatre (SBT). Roy Thomas (Illustrator) is a 4th year Drawing student and aspiring graphic novelist with a minor in Japanese language. His goal is to see diversity and fair representation in visual storytelling industries, both on screen and in the line of production. He was excited to have this as one of his first larger-scaled art projects.
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Cast & Company Biographies Kate Black-Spence (Marlene) is so grateful to be working on RASTUS AND HATTIE with such a talented group of people. In such unprecedented times, it has been a gift to be able to come together and still make meaningful art. This is Kate's first time working with 16th Street Theater. She has previously been seen on Chicago stages with BoHo Theatre (Three Days of Rain), Stage Left Theatre (Coward, Warped, Rabbit, What of the Night?), Cor Theatre (Love and Human Remains), and Prop Thtr (Neverland)- where she is currently an Artistic Associate. When she's not acting she's writing her own plays, ("Ghosts of Whitechapel," "Static Space" available on NPX) and is currently looking forward to a Quarantine-friendly film project which should be filming this fall. She sends her thanks to Dustin for working around her remote rehearsal schedules with grace, and her amazing mom, because she always thanks her mom. Jasmine Bracey (Hattie) is thrilled to be a part of this incredible project. Her Chicago credits include American Blues Theater, Goodman theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Chicago Dramatists. Regionally, she has worked with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Resident Ensemble Players, The Acting Company, and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. She is a proud faculty member at DePaul University and member of Actors Equity. David Goodloe (Malik) is a Chicago native, who has been acting professionally for over a decade. His theater credits include Defiance (Buffalo Theatre Ensemble), Skin for Skin (The Agency Collective Theater), for my brothers...whenever i may find them (Step Up Productions), An Improv Play (InFusion Theatre), A Fool Such As I (eta Creative Arts), The Last Saint on Sugar Hill ( MPAACT Theatre), and Between Legs & Open Ears (Black Ensemble Theater). He has worked with various production companies such as August Jackson Agency, Draft/FCB, Twist, T2 Studios, Back Ally Films, Crossroads Films, One at Optimus, Mothlight productions, Ferderici Video, and Elkhorn Entertainment. And his on-camera IMDB credits include Proven Innocent (20th Century Fox), Chicago Med & Chicago PD (Wolf Films/ Universal Television), D.I.N.K’s (Sole Productions), Thanks Mom (Breakwall Pictures LLC), Perceptions & Morning After (Acestroke Productions). For more information on his work, please go to www.davidgoodloe.com. Daniel Houle (Dean Hackett/Storekeeper) is excited to be working with 16th Street Theater. He received his BFA in acting from the University of Rhode Island in 2001 before touring with The National Players. Daniel moved to Chicago in 2002 and has since worked with Teatro Vista, Speaking Ring Theater Company, American Theater Company, Timeline Theater, Bohemian Theater Ensemble, Prop Theater, Step Up Productions,Silk Road Rising and most recently Drury Lane. Daniel would like to thank his family and friends for their continued love and support.
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Cast & Company Biographies Colin Jones (Rastus) has been seen around town at a number of dens of iniquity and enjoyed lending his voice to Rastus and Hattie. He believes in the power of the story well told to illuminate the lives of the people. Colin wishes everyone peace and love and thanks the universe for one more communion in the dark.
Ryan Kitley (David) is thrilled to be a part of this unique experience at 16th Street Theater. Most recently Ryan appeared as Flip Benham in ROE at the Goodman Theater. Favorite roles include Brian in Support Group for Men (Goodman Theater), Pale in Burn This and Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Shattered Globe Theatre), Austin in The Big Funk (Clock Productions), and Kaffe in A Few Good Men (Theatre at the Center). Additional credits include roles at Royal George Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Writers Theatre, The Matrix Theater, Colony Theater, The Organic Theatre, Mercury Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Piven Theatre, and Meadow Brook Theatre. Ryan received a Jeff Award for Best Ensemble in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Shattered Globe) and a Jeff nomination for Best Supporting Actor in The Big Funk (Clock Productions). Film and television credits include Chicago P.D., Empire, Chicago Fire, Boss, Detroit 1-8-7, Turks, Early Edition, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Miss March, Soul Survivors, Barbershop II, Dig Two Graves, Other People’s Children, and Guidance (best actor nomination - Midwest Film Fest). Ryan is a proud member of AEA. Krystel V. McNeil (Needra) is a Chicago actress, born and raised on the southside. Her most recent work includes Laura and the Sea and The Cake at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble where she is an ensemble member. Her work has also been seen in the touring production of Defamation (Canamac Productions), at Timeline Theatre ( In The Next Room/Vibrator Play), Windy City Playhouse, (Bootycandy ,directed by Robert O’Hara) Steppenwolf SYA (The Compass) Goodman Theatre (Objects In The Mirror). TV/Film: The Chi, NeXt, Soundtrack, Chicago P.D. Proven Innocent, CHI-RAQ, Gossamer. Krystel is a Graduate of Columbia College Chicago where she received her BA in Acting and Black World Studies. Olanrewaju Adewole (Sound Designer, Audio Engineer) From Southfield, Michigan. Started producing music and experimenting with audio in 2009 at Detroit School of Arts and then later went to Columbia College Chicago to study Audio. Now going on 7 years of working as a sound engineer and sound designer. Peter Marston Sullivan (Video Editor) is the principal owner of Marston McCoy Media. Founded on the principle that masterful storytelling is the basis for compelling communication, Marston McCoy Media is uniquely poised to create video and other digital messaging that is on point, on budget and on time. Pairing multimedia expertise with theatrical experience, the Marston McCoy team brings a unique perspective to every project – creating content that both captivates and cultivates an audience. Regardless of the goal – to build a client base, increase social media engagement, sell a product, market real estate, document an event, or simply give a memorable and personalized gift to someone special – the key is in the storytelling. Whatever the desired call to action, Marston McCoy’s digital media offerings will deliver results. Visit MarstonMcCoyMedia.com for more information. 6
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Cast & Company Biographies Jennifer Aparicio (Recording Production Manager) has been working in the Chicago theater scene for the past few years as a production manager and stage manager. Production management credits include work with Teatro Vista, Sideshow Theatre, and Oak Park Festival Theatre, among others. As a stage manager, Jennifer has worked with The New Colony, Broken Nose, Lifeline Theatre, and 16th Street Theater. Jennifer is an artistic associate with 16th Street Theater and Teatro Vista, and a proud member of Actors' Equity Association. Ann Filmer (Artistic Director) started 16th Street Theater in the fall of 2007 in order to foster dialogue where her family decided to settle: in Berwyn, Illinois. Before that, Filmer was a freelance director and a Michael Maggio directing fellow at Goodman. Before that, she worked alongside Russ Tutterow as Producing Director of Chicago Dramatists. Before that, she started Estrogen Fest in Chicago. Before that she started The Aardvark where she discovered she always wanted to work side by side with writers. Before that, she fell in love with theater in small spaces as Associate Artistic Director of Writers' Theatre. Before she fled Silicon Valley, she studied dance in her hometown of San Jose, California. She has directed premieres by Audrey Cefaly, Rohina Malik, Rebecca Gilman, Will Dunne, Tanya Saracho, Andrea Thome, Aline Lathrop, Brett Neveu, Karan Zacarias, Susan Hahn, A. Zell Williams, Stephanie Alison Walker, Laura Jacqmin, Kathleen Cahill, Mia McCullough. She is the adaptor/director of five works by world-renowned visual artist Tony Fitzpatrick and adapted/directed The South Side by Chicago journalist Natalie Moore. She is spending 2020 in reflection: listening, reading, trying and failing while learning how to become a more compassionate leader and anti-racist. Michele DiMaso (Managing Director/Education Director) Michele is already a familiar figure at the Theater where she has served as a teaching artist for the past eight years and is also a artistic associate! And now she can add Managing/Education director to her roles at 16th Street! After receiving her MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, Michele became an active participant of the theater community in Chicago. Her credits include co-artistic director of Yugen Theater, company member of Footsteps Theater, and founding member of Babes with Blades. She has had the privilege of working with Defiant Theater, Shattered Gobe, Steppenwolf, Timeline and more. Michele has put her fight skills to use by choreographing violence and intimacy design for many theaters in and around Chicago. She is a member of Equity and SAG-AFTRA. Michele appeared in the film, The Watcher, and the television show, Early Edition. For the past 15.5 years, Michele has been living the role of a lifetime; proud mother to Joey and Jake. Malcolm Callan (Box Office) An Associate Artist since 2011, Malcolm joined the staff in February 2020. He served as Ann Filmer’s Assistant Director for Rohina Malik’s Yasmina’s Necklace both in its world premiere at 16th Street and its successful 2017 run at the Goodman. At 16th Street he has appeared onstage in Merchild, Letters From Dad, Agreed Upon Fictions, “8”, How To Be Good, Love & Drowning, and The Beats. Other Chicago onstage credits include work with Steppenwolf, Northlight, TimeLine, Eclipse, Stage Left, Jackalope, The Artistic Home, Silk Road Rising, LiveWire Chicago and Trap Door Theatre where he appeared as The New Neighbor in both Chicago productions of The Word progress On My Mother’s Lips Doesn’t Ring True by Matei Visniec, at the 2013 Sibiu International Theatre Festival, and in a tour of Hungary and Romania. He is a frequent collaborator as both actor and director with Chicago Dramatists. Malcolm is a graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting.
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Statement from the Board The 16th Street Theater NFP Board stands in solidarity with Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and all people of color experiencing racism and injustice. We recognize that we must do more to fight the racism that affects every institution in the country. We must change in order to create a just and peaceful world. By doing so, we acknowledge our privilege and take responsibility for our actions that have contributed to systems, institutions and policies that perpetuate racial injustices. Both individually and together, the Board is committed to fighting racism and inequality. We hold ourselves accountable and, when we fall short, we pledge to listen, try harder, and do better until racial oppression no longer affects our community.
Indigenous Land and Territories Acknowledgment This audio play was produced by 16th Street Theater in Berwyn and recorded at Classick Studios in Chicago, both of which are located on the unceded land of the Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) people. The actors and other members of the production team rehearsed from their homes throughout the Chicago area, on the unceded lands of the Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Peoria, Bodéwadmiakiwen (Potawatomi), Myaamia, and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ peoples. We ask you to join us in acknowledging these communities, their elders both past and present, as well as future generations. 16th Street Theater also acknowledges that it was founded upon exclusions and erasures of many Indigenous peoples, including those on whose land this institution is located. This acknowledgment is part of our commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. If you’re interested in learning which indigenous peoples occupied the lands where you live, work or play, here is a very helpful and informative link: https://native-land.ca.
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Production History 2008 Season One Machos created by Teatro Luna *The Ascension of Carlotta by Will Dunne What Does the Sun Sound Like? by Arlene Malinowski *Aiming for Sainthood by Arlene Malinowski *The Scarlet Ibis by Susan Hahn ***The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg Kita y Fernanda by Tanya Saracho (J) Season Two 2009 Get to Know Me Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith S-e-x-OH! created by Teatro Luna Blurred Vision by Tekki Lomnicki *Mixing it Up by Marilyn Campbell & Maria Merrin The Me, Mom & Dad Show! by Martie Sanders *Unveiled by Rohina Malik The Last Barbecue by Brett Neveu Season Three 2010 What is Home? *This Train by Tony Fitzpatrick The End of the Tour by Joel Drake Johnson Unveiled by Rohina Malik @ Victory Gardens Our Lady of the Underpass by Tanya Saracho Incognito by Michael Fosberg This Train by Tony Fitzpatrick @ Steppenwolf Garage *Menorca by Robert Koon Season Four 2011 Season of Change The Beats adapted by Marilyn Campbell Wake by Hillel Levin @ Fitzgerald’s (reading) Dental Society Midwinter Meeting by Laura Jacqmin ***Our Dad is in Atlantis by Javier Malpica The Crowd You’re in With by Rebecca Gilman *Our Holiday Stories by Berg, Malik & Saracho Season Five 2012 Love, Faith and the Unknown Accidental Rapture by Eric Pfeffinger Enfrascada by Tanya Saracho *Love thy Neighbor…Till It Hurts by Julie Ganey *Nickel History: The Nation of Heat by Tony Fitzpatrick @ Swolf *All Kinds of Crazy by Arlene Malinowski *Love and Drowning by Will Dunne Season Six 2013 The American Dream The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by Mike Daisey Empanada for a Dream by Juan Francisco Villa (J) “8” by Dustin Lance Black @ The Arts Center of Oak Park (reading) Living Large in a Mini Kind of Way by Diane Rodriguez **Broken Fences by Steven Simoncic Ready Player One: Berwyn Reads! by Morton Students Season Seven 2014 How to Be Good *Do-Gooder by Laura Jacqmin How to Be Good reading of Nick Hornby’s novel at FitzGerald’s **Pinkolandia by Andrea Thome *The Gun Show by EM Lewis Mariposa Nocturna created by Stephanie Diaz *Agreed Upon Fictions by Shayne Kennedy Our Holiday Stories 2015 by E Berg, R Koon, T Saracho
Season Eight 2015 Fathers, Daughters, Mothers, Sons *The Art of Disappearing by Stephanie Alison Walker Letters from Dad at FitzGerald’s (reading) *Graveyard of Empires by Elaine Romero *Merchild by Aline Lahtrop Mariposa Nocturna created by Stephanie Diaz Season Nine 2016 Loyalty *Yasmina’s Necklace by Rohina Malik (J) ***The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarias *Carroll Gardens by A. Zell Williams Killadelphia and **Dogs of Rwanda by Sean Christopher Lewis Season Ten 2017 The Journey Blizzard ’67 by Jon Steinhagen (J) **Into The Beautiful North adapted by Karen Zacarias from the novel by Luis Alberto Urrea *Muthaland by Minita Gandhi (J) Pop Up Series 2017: 9 One-Night Readings Season Eleven 2018 Heroes Yasmina’s Necklace by Rohina Malik at Goodman ***Harbur Gate by Kathleen Cahill Black and Blue (reading) by Sean Christopher Lewis The Wolf at the End of the Block by Ike Holter *The Hero’s Wife by Aline Lathrop *Koalas by J Joseph Cox Season Twelve 2019 Shadows / Light ***Small Jokes About Monsters by Steven Strafford Brujaja by Melissa DuPrey (Pop Up at Morton West) The South Side by Natalie Moore *Good Enough by Julie Ganey Bell’s Palsy by Debbie Banos (Pop Up at Morton East) *His Shadow by Loy Webb Los Tequileros by Dolores Diaz (Pop Up at Jedlicka) * world premiere ** rolling world premiere *** Chicago premieres bold = playwrights-in-residence 16th Street does the numbers through 2019 Season 60 full productions + 19 one-night Pop Up Readings 63 plays by Illinois playwrights 54 plays by women 36 plays by writers of color 25 world premieres, 4 RWP, 7 Chicago premieres 14 second productions 12 playwrights-in-residence 8 Jeff Nominations 7 co-pros with Teatro Luna and Teatro Vista TONYS American Theater Wing Award 2013 & 2016 Best Emerging Theatre Award 2013 (Broadway in Chicago & Chicago Magazine) Fox Fellowship Award 2018 TCG Core Member of National New Play Network
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16th Street Theater Supporters The Visionaries $5000 and up The MacArthur Funds for Culture, Equity, and the Arts at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Arts Work Fund - Arts for Illinois Relief Fund Illinois Arts Council, A State Agency Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation National New Play Network The Imagine Team $1000 to $4999 American Theatre Wing Arts Midwest Canamac Productions Patrick Chambers Nancy Clark Joe Graber & Judith Alexander Melanie Halvorson Alan R. Hinds Sabine Krauss & Leighton Shell Mark & Martha Laubacher Todd Logan & Wendy Smith LUMA8 Joseph Maffey and Kimberly Sluis Arlene Malinowski and Dan Clark Northeastern Illinois University Julia Pavlicek Carl Rinder & Ellen Cutter Kathy Schroer & Gordon Waldron Roche Schulfer & Mary Beth Fisher David & Sandra Sokol Susan Stall & Charlie Hoch David Stanford David Staskowski & Brian Brock Coleman & Deborah Tuggle The Believers $500-$999 Cory Anderson Anonymous William Blair and Company Bill & Kathleen Corbett Deborah Donovan & James Kane Julia Eckersley & Ian Morrison Susan Greenberg Dr. Robert Henry & Ms. Sheila Ryan-Henry Laura & Eric Jordahl Georga & Allen Parchem Paul Pedersen & Richard Sehl Teresa Powell
Jose Ramirez & Thomas Stebbins Nancy Rich Joan Suchomel Kristen & Scott Vehill The Nurturers $250-$499 Anonymous Sharon & Alec Bloyd-Peshkin Andy Chesanek Ann Courter & Norman Hirsch Paul & Susan Crowe Ms. Julie Danis Colleen & Brenton Diers Loretta and Robert Harper Karen Heller and Robert Becker Donor Advised Fund Marie Hovi & Brian Strand Ms. Joan Kohn Barbara Korbel Peter Kunz Jeffrey & Jennifer Levitt Corinne Lyon Michael Neal and Lisa Bleed Timothy Ness & Thomas Thompson The Maura O`Hara and Robert Wielgos Charitable Fund Donna Oswald Kathleen M. Perry Donna Prenta Tom & Maribeth Rasmussen Brian & Lois Thiessen Love Barry Waid The Planners $249-$100 Jonathan Abarbanel Aetna Foundation, Inc. Karen Alanis John Anderson Sheila Anderson Christopher Banks Sandra Bauman Laura Baylie Susan Beach & Rich White Hope Bell Andrew Bendelow Deron Bisbikis & David McDoniel Philomena & David Boulanger Susan Bowen Debbie Bradt & Michael Bradt Patrick Brown Jessica Burford Mary Burian & Dennis Stack Cathy Busking
Douglas Cablk Marilyn Campbell Lowe Susan Charrette Mary Susan & David Chen Wendye Clarendon Carol Conboy Eileen Cook Michelle Courvais Trudel Bill Crozier Esteban Cruz Mrs. Karen DeCraene James Dolson Lawrence Doyle Deanna Dunagan Will Dunne Deanna L Durica & John F Chrastka Barbara Durkin Debbie Durrer Ardythe Edwards Tracey Eisman Marea Filmer Ms. Nancy Fjortoft Bryan Fonseca Tom Fontana Jesse Gaffney Martha Glynn & Roger Masson Jose Gonzalez Robert Gould Soraida Guccione Charles Gutfeld Tariq Hassan Barbara Heskett & Alan Robertson Reidun Hilleman Tom & Suzy Jackson Michael Jones Douglas Kelner Anne Koerber & Mary Nelson Marie Kruse Linda Kulikowski Robert Kunz Vicki Ledajaks Zbigniew Malecki Joseph McDonald & Madeleine Raymond Jen McGann Corrine & Eric Miller Lorraine Owles Julie & Joe Pacetti Patricia & Ray Paolicchi Julia and Rick Perkins Ms. Beverly Pierce Kathleen Powers Karen & Jim Quinn Alexander Ramos Tom Ray
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16th Street Theater Supporters Mark Ryan Martha Ryan Rainer Schochat Theresa M Schultz Karen Schumpp Jodi Sees Elizabeth Shatto Valerie Siciliano Jonathan & Nancy Sidman Gicel Mercado & Saul Soberanes Bob Spatz Lisa Spellman Stephen Spencer Sara Stevenson & Mark Breen Thomas Sutton The Saints- Tom and Donna Ray Kathryn Tracey Niall Tracey Leigh Uttich Sandra Van Goethem Mary Wacker Kathryn Walley Carol and Reini Wasemiller Trent and Beverly Weable Louis Weeks & Joyce Colton Mark & Diane Weiner Anne White Mr. Neil M Whittle Carolyn Williams Melody Woodsum Robert Wyatt & Terri Lackey Linda Zimnie The Critics $50-$99 Janet & William Alexander Amanda Anderson Marianne Angell Fatena Atiq Patricia Baker Phoebe Banks Catherine Bartholow Anne Benton James Block Ms. Judy Blue
Jackie Bonin Carolyn Brinkman Pamela Brown Eileen Brusek-Kaczmarek Margaret Burk & Don Burk Michelle Bush Kathleen Cahill Patti Chess Judith Chrisman Aaron Christensen Kathy Clark Costco Wholesale Corporation Mike Curtin John Dante Janine & Bill Delmonico Alyssa Dickman Ms. Lisa Dillman Patricia Donegan Perry Doubt Aaron Freeman Emily Gage & Karen McMillin Judith Galleazzi Agatha Gallo Julie Ganey Mark Gilley Jean Gould Sharon & Larry Graff Dan Guzman Mr. Dan Haley Ricky Halle-Podell Judith Hamje Carl Hippensteel James Holbrook Peter Hood Paul and Joan Hruby Lisa Jackowiec Bonnie Jordan Steve Key in honor of Esteban, Aline, Ann, Michelle and the rest of the Write Club Barbara A. Kummerer Jason Kunesh Michelle Laforgia Judah Lambert
Tom Lang Laurie Larson Jessy Laubis Gintaras & Dalia Lietuvninkas Kathleen Lobato-Martinez Nancy Lynn Susan Marcinkus James & Iris Martin Marcia Moon Patricia Motto Katarzyna Muller Eileen Nicodemus Ms. Wendy Norris Betsey & Patrick O`Brien Elizabeth Oder David Olson and Rick Torres Lara Pawlak & Ulana Horalewskyj Mary F. Peranteau Pamela Pipkin Rob Presley Iris Price Michael Radzilowsky Linda Rios Joan A. Rossi Mark Ryan Sylvia Schade James Schipp Mary & Thomas Schmidt Stanley Sheft Grace Silverio Kenneth & Peggy Sinko Carrol Smith Ellen Taaffe Ilene Thornton Carl Tisone Jean Vanier Salvador Velasco Jr Greg Werstler & Ilyssa Fradin Werstler Roger Wilson Barbara & Charles Woods Miranda Zola
Please contact Malcolm Callan if your name is missing or incorrect so that we may fix it. We exist thanks to generous support from foundations, businesses and individuals like you who have graciously donated between September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2020. A special thanks to those who donated in-kind and to all who made our 2020 Benefit Bash such a success. Thank you! To learn more about 16th Street’s Imagine Capital Campaign to ensure our move into our new permanent home in 2020 to 1529 S. Harlem, please contact Ann Filmer (708) 795-6704 x105 ann@16thstreettheater.org www.16thstreettheater.org 12
16th Street Theater
North Berwyn Park District
Board of Commissioners President Jim Kearns Jr. Vice President Jeanmarie Hajer-O’Connor Treasurer Mark Sladek Commissioner John Kearns Commissioner Janet Mackin In Memoriam Ann Mackin May 13, 1924-July 12, 2020
The 16th Street Theater, NFP
Board of Directors
President Richard Sehl Vice-President Patrick Chambers Treasurer Susan Charrette Secretary Kristen Vehill Cory Anderson David Sokol Michael Radzilowsky Sandra Guzman Artistic Director Ann Filmer
16th Street Theater is housed by the Berwyn Cultural Center under the direction of the North Berwyn Park District. This facility is made available to the Park District through an intergovernmental agreement with the City of Berwyn. The Theater provides a cultural forum to be enjoyed by residents of Berwyn as well as surrounding communities. It is my pleasure to encourage and welcome you to partake in Berwyn’s cultural diversity exhibited through the performing arts. — Mayor Robert J. Lovero
The 16th Street Theater, NFP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing fundraising and financial support to the 16th Street Theater, which is a program organized and operated by the North Berwyn Park District to foster cultural enrichment and education for all in our community through the development and presentation of diverse works and writers for the stage. The North Berwyn Park District is proud to welcome you to its very own, 16th Street Theater. NBPD is dedicated to advancing appreciation for the arts and cultural diversity by providing consistent high quality yearround cultural arts performances, classes, events, and exhibitions for all ages, genres and areas of interest. Please enjoy the show and we hope you can plan a visit to see us again soon. Learn more about the North Berwyn Park District’s diverse programming for youth, teens, adults and seniors including sports, arts, fitness, trips and more by picking up our brochure in the lobby, calling (708) 749-4900 or visiting www.nbpd4fun.org. — Executive Director, Joseph Vallez, North Berwyn Park District www.16thstreettheater.org RASTUS AND HATTIE
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