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WRITTEN BY ED SCHMIDT DIRECTED BY J. NICOLE BROOKS♦*
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Additional support provided by the STS Foundation Andrew White♦ Artistic Director
Rachel E. Kraft Executive Director
Philip R. Smith♦
Producing Artistic Director
Heidi Stillman♦
Artistic Director of New Work
Sibyl Wickersheimer, USA
Alison Siple♦
Brian Bembridge♦, USA
Josh Horvath♦, USA
Rick Sims♦, USA
Maria DeFabo
Joel Hobson
Sean K. Walters
Scenic Designer
Co-Sound Designer
Tess Lauchaire*
Production Stage Manager
Costume Designer
Co-Sound Designer
Production Manager
Lighting Designer
Properties Designer Technical Director
CAST
Clancy Hope......................................................Kevin Douglas♦* Joe Louis....................................................Anthony Fleming III♦* Jackie Robinson...................................................Javon Johnson* Paul Robeson........................................James Vincent Meredith* Branch Rickey................................................Larry Neumann, Jr.* Bill “Bojangles” Robinson...................................Ernest Perry, Jr.* UNDERSTUDIES
Glenn Harston, James Earl Jones II*, Andrew White♦*, Greg Williams *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers ♦Lookingglass Theatre Company Ensemble Member, Artistic Associate or Production Affiliate
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PRODUCTION STAFF Assistant Director/Dramaturg...............................................................................Marti Lyons Production Coordinator......................................................................................Harriet Sogin Assistant Technical Director................................................................................Jen Seleznow Assistant Stage Manager..................................................................................Olivia Castillon Assistant Scenic Designer..............................................................................Krystyna Loboda Assistant Costume Designer...............................................................................Kristin DeiTos Assistant Lighting Designer...............................................................................Alec Bernstein Assistant Properties Designer.............................................................................Jesse Gaffney Master Carpenter.................................................................................................John Russell Carpenters..........................................................Andrew Knauff, Joel Lambie, Joshua Lansing, Dane Lewandowski, and Isaac Shoepp Scenic Charge.......................................................................................................Zoe Shiffrin Assistant Scenic Charge......................................................................................Sarah Dalton Scenic Artist......................................................................................................Meg Grgurich Master Electrician..........................................................................................Jabin Chartrand Assistant Master Electrician.....................................................................Christopher Wilham Electricians................................................................................Nicholas J. Carroll, Jeff Glass, Sarah Lackner, Nicole Malmquist, Sarah Mikrut, Jacob Snodgrass, Karen Thompson and Viv Woodland Wardrobe Supervisor......................................................................................David Galbreath Costume Supervisor........................................................................................Joanna Melville Costume Construction....................................................Fox Brothers Tailoring and June Saito Sound Engineer...................................................................................Christopher M. LaPorte Deck Crew..........................................................................................................Kelsey Lamm Casting...........................................................................Philip R. Smith♦ with Raymond Fox♦ Stage Management Apprentice........................................................................Daniel D. Drake Production Management Intern.....................................................................Lindsay Ricketts Technical Direction Intern...................................................................................Alex Bozeman Wardrobe Intern.....................................................................................................Kara Tesch Electrics Intern...................................................................................................Soren Ersbak *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers ♦Lookingglass Theatre Company Ensemble Member, Artistic Associate or Production Affiliate
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IN CONVERSATION
with J. Nicole Brooks and Ed Schmidt Interview by Literary Manager and Company Dramaturg MARTI LYONS
How did this collaboration come about? J. NICOLE BROOKS: I heard an audio version of Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting on this wonderful radio program called “The Play’s the Thing” on a local NPR affiliate in Los Angeles. I was listening to the program in my car on a Saturday night. When I parked I found that I could not leave the car until the program was over because it was just that good. Thrilled by a play that I’d only just heard for the first time, I knew I wanted to present it to the ensemble. So I began the process of tracking down the play and its author, Ed Schmidt. ED SCHMIDT: On my end, this came out of the blue. I wrote the first draft of this play at least twenty years ago. The last real production of the play that I’d been involved with was probably twelve or fifteen years ago. I always thought that it deserved a longer life. So when I got a call from my agent and he told me that the Lookingglass Theatre was interested in producing Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting I said, yes, of course. Then I met Nicky. We had an amazing discussion about the play over breakfast. Because we had similar ideas about the play and we liked and respected each other, I knew that if Lookingglass decided to do the production it would be in good hands.
Our theme for the season is “in just one moment everything changed.” I’m curious to know what drew each of you to this moment in history. ES: At the time I began writing Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting, I was reading an autobiography of Joe Louis. This autobiography was actually written in collaboration with an old sports writer named Art Rust, Jr. Though the book was a notoriously unreliable autobiography, it was a good story. In fact, there was one paragraph that said that in April of 1947, Branch Rickey, the president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, called together Joe Louis, Paul Robeson and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson so that they could inform Jackie Robinson about the racial issues he would face as a player in the major leagues. I thought that was pretty fascinating so I started to do research on this meeting and quickly realized that it never took place. Then I started to think, wouldn’t it be great to put these guys in a room together? This was the idea behind the play. JNB: What drew me to the play quite honestly is that each of these men influenced my life both personally and professionally. When I was a senior in college and I was facing some sort of benign racism at school, I can remember going to the library and checking out books about Paul Robeson Lookingglass Theatre Company 3
because I knew that he had confronted racial issues in his lifetime. I knew that what I was dealing with was nowhere near the severity of what those men and women faced back then but I drew a great deal of strength from Paul Robeson. I just had a great respect for this actor, athlete and scholar who spent much of his life promoting equal rights for minorities around the world. This guy was a true renaissance man and I think somewhere deep down inside I have always wanted to be like that. ES: It’s interesting because what drew me to Robeson was listening to my father’s records. There I was in the middle of Wisconsin putting on a record and listening to him sing “nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen” in that amazing voice. And honestly, though I hadn’t seen too many troubles in my life, something just hit me in the gut when I heard his voice. It’s funny that Nicky and I are coming at this from completely different angles and yet we are ending up in the same place. The play premiered in 1989. Does the meaning and relevance of the play change in the context of life in 2012? ES: For me the play is largely about what is the best way to bring about change in a society. It is an age-old question as relevant today as it was then. Should a person take the one step at a time approach as Mr. Rickey believed, or should he or she come out with guns blazing like Mr. Robeson? To some degree it’s the Martin Luther King, Jr. / Malcolm X debate. Today it’s not unlike some Democrats asking Obama to bring about immediate fundamental changes while others are willing to go at a more conservative pace. JNB: One of the things that tortures me after reading this play is how closely it parallels some of things going on in my life. I do strive and wish to be more like Paul Robeson but I feel a lot more like Joe Louis. I live in Los Angeles and work in the television and film industry. It is a joke right now to try to work as a 4 Lookingglass Theatre Company
black woman in LA because there are less than 7% of people of color working behind of the camera as writers and producers. And I feel like it’s difficult to take a stand. I’m getting caught in the “well they gave us that role once on that one TV show.” I really hate that. I want to scrape away at that. In that respect I am looking forward to the journey of working on this project because there’s a lot to be learned by observing the struggles of those men and women of that time. Mr. Rickey included. It’s always an interesting challenge to cast historical characters. What advice do you have for your cast members? ES: I’ve noticed in various productions that different actors tap into different aspects of the persona. For example, sometimes Joe Louis has been portrayed as an angry and volatile presence in the room. On the other hand, there have been some actors who have found something beyond the Robeson persona and portrayed him as being much more of a vulnerable character. It depends on the actor’s focus. JNB: As a director there are two tracks I like to follow. There is the technical track. For example, if you’re playing someone that is well known in history and technically he or she has a certain way of speaking, you have to abide by that. That being said I don’t want the actors to feel like they are just emulating what they see. The second track is that actors need to be a truthful to the organic experience that they are having while portraying their character. This is the inherent hurdle you have to jump over when you’re dealing with historical dramas. But who the hell wouldn’t want to play these guys? I would kill to play any of these gentlemen. And we’ve assembled a company of some of the best actors you’re going to see on stage. Just about all of them have been known in Chicago theatre for years and years. Seeing them onstage together will be like a rock concert. Or, rather, an all star game.
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AMANDA DEHNERT Supporters of EASTLAND
Recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award
Award-winning Artistic Director Andrew White weaves a tapestry of working class stories and colorful characters, giving voice to the victims and heroes of the forgotten 1915 tragedy on the Chicago River. Inspired by early American folk music, Eastland joins haunting lyrics to unforgettable melodies and soaring harmonies by Artistic Associate Andre Pluess and Ben Sussman. Additional support provided by The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, Gregory Cameron and Gregory Thompson, and Dr. Abbie Roth.
A DIRECTOR’S NOTE from J. Nicole Brooks
IN THIS DIGITAL AGE of smart phones, sleek laptop computers, tablets and iPads smaller than a legal pad of paper, GPS, flat screen HD-3D televisions, and Youtube.com, it’s hard to imagine that just 64 years ago people actually gathered around a radio for news of the world. There were no personalized internet radio services that chose music based on your favorites. Streaming only referred to an actual stream of water. There were no blogs, podcasts or tweets to discuss Joe Louis‘ second battle against Max Schmeling. Bill Robinson’s bright smile wasn’t a featured portrait on Facebook or Tumblr. Inventors, engineers, developers and businessmen contributed to how we experienced war, sporting events, music, theatre and advertisements. Radio, one can argue, contributed to how we met a young man from Southern California named Jack Robinson. After a long day of work, those who couldn’t attend the actual game at Ebbets, Comiskey, or Griffith Stadium J. Nicole Brooks with Artistic Associates Ant would gather hony Fleming III and Kevin Douglas around a radio and listen to the game. This journey of Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting was inspired by the love of baseball that I learned from my family. We followed the MLB (Major League Baseball), and with time I learned about the Negro Leagues. I grew up on the South Side in the Washington 6 Lookingglass Theatre Company
Park neighborhood. When a ball player would knock a homerun across the Dan Ryan, you could hear the fireworks nearly 20 blocks away. Til this day, a tiny smile crawls across my mother’s face when she hears those fireworks. Back then she’d always say “That’s right boys, put it on the board. For my 9th birthday, I got an autographed baseball from White Sox great Minnie Minoso. I didn’t care that it was a boys’ game. Receiving that ball made me want to break the rules. Baseball is a game of geometry. It has strict rules. But to me, baseball is much like the theatre. Kids don’t care much about having a field. They’ll play anywhere they please. Vacant lots. The street. Schoolyard. They improvise, just like we do in the theatre. Who needed bases when you could use a tree? A tire? A rock? My favorite baseball game as a kid was called “Piggy.” We riffed on the rules of baseball, because in our minds we could play the game anyway we wanted--as long as you stepped up to the plate, and tried to knock that ball into another world. Knock it past the closed doors and limitations. Those doors were kicked in by eminent athletes like Moses Fleetwood, Josh Gibson, and Jackie Robinson. I hope that we can all put down the digital whatchamacallits for a few minutes, step onto a field, step into a theatre, and appreciate this important moment in our American history.
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PROFILES KEVIN DOUGLAS (Clancy Hope/ Artistic Associate) is very excited to be back at the ‘Gglass! He is an Artistic Associate and his Lookingglass credits include Lookingglass Alice, Our Town, Around the World in 80 Days, Black Diamond, and most recently The Great Fire. Kevin’s other Chicago credits include Orlando at Court Theatre and before that A Civil War Christmas at Northlight. He is also a member of MPAACT (MA’AT Production Association of African Centered Theatre). Regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore Centerstage, Kansas City Rep and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta . Kevin would like to thank God for this opportunity and Nicky Brooks. ANTHONY FLEMING III (Joe Louis/Artistic Associate) was last seen on stage playing Levee in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by Ron O.J. Parson, at Actors Theater of Louisville and Milwaukee Rep. He last appeared at Lookingglass in the summer of 2010 in Lookingglass Alice, completing a run of 5 cities over 4 years and 445 performances as the Cheshire Cat. Other Lookingglass shows include Race, 1984, Manuscript Found in Saragossa, The Arabian Nights, Icarus, and Fedra. Mr. Fleming has also performed with Victory Gardens (Hambone, Free Man of Color, Denmark), Steppenwolf (Division St: America, Take Me Out, The Glass Menagerie), Chicago Theater Co.(Journal of Ordinary Thought, Cut Flowers), and Famous Door (Cider House Rules). Television credits include “Prison Break” (Season 1&2) on Fox and “The Beast” on A&E. Next, he will be shooting an 8 Lookingglass Theatre Company
independent film this spring with Lucia Mauro and Rick Snyder in Sardinia, Italy. JAVON JOHNSON (Jackie Robinson) is a founding ensemble member of Congo Square Theatre and a former NEA and TCG panelist. He is a multi-award-winning actor/writer whose awards include the Black Theater Alliance August Wilson Award, the Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, Sundance Theatre Lab, etc. Acting credits include Barbershop 2, “Prison Break,” “One Life to Live,” “House of Payne,” Daddy’s Little Girls, Othello in Othello, Sterling in Two Trains Running, Harold Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Flip in Stick Fly as well as Dave Robinson in Lombardi on Broadway. Javon has written national urban tours starring Vivica Fox, Boris Kodjoe, Richard Roundtree, Brian McKnight, James Avery, Robin Givens, Chante Moore and many others. Current projects: coproducer Invisible Life: The Movie with Edmonds Entertainment and eVision Films and Invisible Life: The Musical with original score by Ashford and Simpson. JAMES VINCENT MEREDITH (Paul Robeson) is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and an ensemble member at Steppenwolf where previous credits include Clybourne Park, Hot L Baltimore, The Tempest, Superior Donuts (also Broadway), Carter’s Way, The Crucible, The Bluest Eye (also Off-Broadway at New Victory Theater) and The Pain and the Itch. Other Chicago credits include Take Me Out (About Face Theatre), Duchess of Malfi and Othello (Writers’ Theatre), Much
PROFILES (CONTINUED) Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), as well as work at Goodman Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook and Piven Theater Workshop, where he is a member of the company ensemble. Regional credits include shows at Michigan Shakespeare Festival and First Stage in Milwaukee. Television credits include “Prison Break,” “ER,” “The Beast,” “Law and Order SVU,” “Detroit187,” “Chicago Code,” and “Boss.” LARRY NEUMANN, JR. (Branch Rickey) Lookingglass audiences may remember Larry as Richard Nickel in The Richard Nickel Story, and Austin in The Shaggs. Larry will next appear in Goodman Theatre’s The Iceman Cometh, in the role of Mosher. Favorite productions: Moon for the Misbegotten, 2009 Jeff Award, and Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (First Folio), Puppetmaster of Ludz (Writers’ Theatre), Cider House Rules, 2003 Jeff Award, and Hitting for the Cycle, 1996 Jeff Award (Famous Door), and Underneath the Lintel (Noble Fool). Film credits: Merry Gentleman, Stranger than Fiction, Stir of Echoes. A native Chicagoan, he lives with wife Sandy and their cats in Ravenswood Manor. Larry is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. ERNEST PERRY, JR. (Bill “Bojangles” Robinson) makes his Lookingglass Theatre debut with Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting. Perry was last seen as Eli in Hartford Stage’s production of Gem of the Ocean. Most recently Perry toured in co-productions of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom -Baltimore’s Centerstage, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Actors Theatre of Louisville and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Goodman Theatre: 30 years resident actor, including ten years as the Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol, Cry the Beloved Country, Tis a Pity She’s a Whore, Magnolia, Drowning Crow, Ties That Bind, An Enemy of the People, Let Me Live,
Pudd’N Pete, Play Mas, Miss Evers’ Boys, and Gas for Less. International: The Ice Man Cometh (Abbey Theatre-Dublin), My Children My Africa (Vienna’s English Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (RSC London, Thalia Theatre - Hamburg, Mc 93 Bobingy-Paris.) Broadway: Death and the King’s Horseman. Regional: Alliance Theatre, Centerstage Baltimore, Court Theatre, Cardinal Stage Company, Actors Theatre Louisville, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Cleveland Playhouse, City Theatre- Pittsburgh, Geva Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Body Politic Theatre, Silk Road Theatre, Congo Square, Black Ensemble Theatre, Kuumba Theatre, and City Lit Theatre. Film & TV: The Express, Roll Bounce, Promotion, Liar Liar!, Barbershop II, Color of Money, Rage in Harlem, 15 Minute Hamlet, “ER,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Early Edition,” The Untouchables, Unnatural Causes, and Lady Blue. J. NICOLE BROOKS (Director/Ensemble Member) is a proud Chicagoan currently residing in Los Angeles with a career in film, television, radio and theatre. She is an award-winning actor, who recently traveled to China to perform at the International Theatre Institute as a delegate for the U.S. Writing credits include Black Diamond: The Years the Locusts Have Eaten, Fedra: Queen of Haiti, Kamala Master Class, Midway Liquors, and Shotgun Harriet. She’s a tenderfoot in the world of directing, but proud to list Black Diamond as her first directing credit. This production is dedicated to its influences: The Negro Major Leagues, John Wesley Donaldson of the Chicago White Sox ball club, Mr. Ellis Foster, Melvin Abston, Mami, LA and the many Blacks who were Red Listed. Her brain and heart are on display at http:// doctaslick.blogspot.com and the Twitter handle is @DoctaSlick. Come over. ED SCHMIDT (Playwright) is best known for two plays he wrote and performed for small audiences in his Brooklyn home: The Last Supper, in which he prepared, cooked, and served a fourcourse meal for the audience; and My Last Play, in which, over the course of a hundred performances, he gave away all of his two thousand theater books, one to each audience member. His more conventional plays have been produced by the Old Globe, Pasadena Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Bonn (Germany) Biennale, Kennedy Center, Composers Collaborative, Sacramento Theater Company, Chicago Theater Company, L.A. Theater Works,
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PROFILES (CONTINUED) West Bank Café, and the Ironbound Theater. This play is dedicated to Willie Schmidt. www. edschmidt.info. SIBYL WICKERSHEIMER (Scenic Designer) is an award-winning set designer, artist, and an assistant professor in the USC School of Theatre. Sibyl’s regional design credits include productions at Lookingglass Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, The Kirk Douglas Theatre, The Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory and associate set design for SITI Company’s Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa. She has designed in numerous theatres and companies in Southern California, including over 10 productions at The Actors’ Gang of which her designs for 1984 and The Trial of the Catonsville 9 have toured across the US, Greece, Hong Kong, Australia, Spain, Mexico, and to Colombia this spring. Sibyl has designed several unique projects such as a modular stage for the large scale dinosaur and sabertooth cat puppet performances at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Toy Story Musical for a Disney cruise ship, and the set for Diavolo Dance Company’s Transit Space. She is currently creating a large scale installation series with Janne Larsen entitled Big Haul, which has been installed at both Hi-Lite and Weekend Space. Sibyl and Janne also together led a workshop, “Material Fetish,” at the
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2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Space and Architecture. ALISON SIPLE (Costume Designer/Artistic Associate) has previously designed costumes for The Great Fire, Icarus, Fedra: Queen of Haiti, and Black Diamond at Lookingglass, where she is an Artistic Associate. Recent projects include Goodnight Moon (Chicago Children’s Theatre), Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses (Hypocrites), Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis) and Pirates of Penzance (Hypocrites). Off Broadway: Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre) and The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide (Hypocrites at 59e59). Alison won the 2010 Equity Jeff Award for The Mystery of Irma Vep (Court Theatre) and the 2011 Non-Equity Jeff Award for Cabaret (Hypocrites). She also won Non-Equity Jeff Awards for Time and the Conways (Griffin Theatre) in 2006 and for Leonce und Lena (Hypocrites) in 2005. She recently was one of 12 artists to receive the 2011 3Arts Artist Grant. She is also an associate company member of The Hypocrites and a graduate of Northwestern University. Check out her work at alisonsiple.com. BRIAN BEMBRIDGE (Lighting Designer/ Production Affiliate) Lookingglass: over 15 productions including Hephaestus (Jeff Nom), Black Diamond (Jeff Nom), La Luna Muda, Summertime, Metamorphosis (Jeff Nom), and Hard Times (Jeff Award). Off Broadway: The Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Jean Cocteau Repertory, Theatre at St Clement. Chicago: Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court, Chicago Shakespeare, Second City, Chicago Theatre, Ravinia, Writers’, Timeline, Victory Gardens, Drury Lane, among others. Regional: Guthrie, Actors Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Arden Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Asolo Rep, St Louis Rep, Circle X Theater among others. Production Design: Wallace Shawn’s Marie and Bruce, Manfast, Stray Dogs, Late for Church, and Chalk. www. briansidneybembridge.com JOSH HORVATH (Co-Sound Designer/ Artistic Associate) Off Broadway: Clay (Lincoln Center). Lookingglass: The Great Fire, Around the World in 80 Days, Fedra, Hephaestus, Clay, 1984, They All Fall Down: The Richard Nickel Story. Chicago: Court, Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, About Face, Congo Square, Timeline, Eclipse, Steep, Griffin, Next, and Northlight. Regional: Kennedy Center, Center Theatre Group, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Kansas City Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Madison Rep, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Great River Shakespeare, and Illinois Shakespeare. Josh is co-owner of Aria Music Designs, LLC, and teaches sound design for theatre and film at Northwestern University, and is an artistic associate of Lookingglass. Current and upcoming shows: The Invisible Man, and Angels in America Parts 1 and 2 (Court).
PROFILES (CONTINUED) RICK SIMS (Co-Sound Designer/Artistic Associate) has composed and designed sound for numerous Lookingglass productions and many other Chicago area theatres such as Steppenwolf, Congo Square, Writers’ Theatre, Lifeline, Griffin, The House, Court, ATC, Victory Gardens, Raven, Steep, Northlight and About Face. Out of town credits include Icarus at the Getty in L.A. with Lookingglass, and Gary at Boston Playwrights. Rick has won a Jeff Award for lyrics in Hephaestus and a BTAA award for Congo Square’s Brothers of the Dust and has received several nominations for both awards. Rick is an Artistic Associate of Lookingglass Theatre Company and an associate designer with Aria Music Designs (Ray Nardelli and Josh Horvath). Rick also wrote the book, music and lyrics for Lookingglass’ Hillbilly Antigone. MARIA DeFABO (Properties Designer) is captivated by creating and telling stories through the use of props. She is excited to be at Lookingglass again, where she has assisted with props for the past year. Besides the people at Lookingglass, some of her favorite people that she has made props for are: The Hypocrites, The House Theatre of Chicago, Steep Theatre, Rivendell Theatre, Next Theatre, Congo Square, Strawdog Theatre, The New Colony, LiveWire Chicago Theatre, Theo Ubique, Eclipse Theatre, and North Park University. Maria is a proud artistic associate at The Hypocrites where she just designed props and co-designed the scenery for Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses. She would love to meet to talk about how props make the world a better place. Feel free to contact her. mariadefabo.com TESS LAUCHAIRE (Production Stage Manager) is ridiculously happy to be back at Lookingglass after having had the pleasure of stage managing Oblivion (First Look 2011) and Where We’re Born (Next Up Rep 2011) at Steppenwolf Theatre. At Lookingglass, she has served as assistant stage manager for Ethan Frome, Peter Pan, Lookingglass Alice and Icarus. She has also worked at Chicago Shakespeare, The Raven, The Goodman, and the side project. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. OLIVIA CASTILLON (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be joining the
Lookingglass family for her first full-length production with the company. Previously with Lookingglass, Olivia was production assistant on the concert version of Eastland as part of the “In The Works” series at Millennium Park. Other Chicago credits include: stage management apprentice on To Kill a Mockingbird and Middletown and assistant stage manager on Samuel J. and K. and Want with Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Olivia is also a resident artist with Theater Mitu, an experimental theatre company based out of NYC. Prior to her return to Chicago, credits with Theater Mitu include: assistant director on the workshop of DR.C (or how I learned to act in eight steps) at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, assistant director on Blind Mouth Singing in collaboration with NAATCO, and production stage manager/tour manager on Death of a Salesman (BYU Tour). ANDREW WHITE (Artistic Director/ Ensemble Member) has appeared in more than thirty Lookingglass productions, most recently Ethan Frome. He has taught in various Lookingglass Education and Community programs and residencies and recently co-founded a new company, Mosaic Experience, which uses an arts-based approach to dialogue about diversity. He is currently writing a new play about the Eastland disaster of 1915 which will have its world premiere at Lookingglass this summer. His family in Evanston includes one wife, Shari, and two children, Julia and Asher. RACHEL E. KRAFT (Executive Director) is in her seventh season as the Executive Director of the Lookingglass Theatre Company. Her 20-plus years of experience in arts management include over a decade as director of development at the Goodman Theatre, in addition to key roles with the Arts and Business Council, Northlight Theatre and the Chicago Dance Coalition. Rachel is a charter board member of the documentary film organization the Kindling Group, a trustee of the Jewish Women’s Foundation of Chicago, and serves on the Alumnae Council of the Chicago Foundation for Women. She is an officer of both the League of Chicago Theatres and Theatre Communications Group, the local and national service organizations for theater.
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PROFILES (CONTINUED) PHILIP R. SMITH (Producing Artistic Director/Ensemble Member) most recently appeared as Ethan in Ethan Frome. Other Lookingglass credits include Will in Trust, Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days, Ivan in The Brothers Karamazov, Tinker Bosch in The Wooden Breeks and Creon in Hillbilly Antigone. Other recent credits include Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird and Rev. Parris in The Crucible at Steppenwolf and Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days at Baltimore’s Centerstage. Other regional credits include work at the McCarter Theatre, Seattle Rep, the Arden Theatre, BAM (NYC), and The Actors Gang (LA). Further Lookingglass credits include Metamorphoses, The Idiot, The Vanishing Twin, and Up Against It. TV and film credits include “Boss,” “Friends,” “Chicago Hope,” “Early Edition,” Kissing a Fool, Since You’ve Been Gone, High Fidelity, “Prison Break,” The Express and The Dilemma. As Producing Artistic Director, oversight includes Lookingglass casting and serving as the primary artistic liaison to the Marketing and Production departments. HEIDI STILLMAN (Artistic Director of New Work/Ensemble Member) Most recently at Lookingglass, Heidi co-wrote The Last Act of Lilka Kadison, co-directed Trust with David Schwimmer, and co-wrote/directed Hephaestus with Tony Hernandez at the Goodman. Other Lookingglass writing/directing credits include The
Brothers Karamazov, Hard Times (5 Jeff Awards, also traveled to The Arden in Philadelphia), and The Master and Margarita (with David Catlin). Directing credits at Lookingglass include The Wooden Breeks (by Glen Berger) and Hillbilly Antigone (book and music by Rick Sims). She also recently staged Laura Eason’s Around the World in 80 Days at Kansas City Rep. Other Lookingglass adaptation credits include The Old Curiosity Shop co-written with Ray Fox and Laura Eason (Jeff Award) and The Baron in the Trees with Larry DiStasi. She was last seen on stage in The Arabian Nights. Heidi was awarded the 2010 Raven Award for Excellence in Arts and Entertainment for The Brothers Karamazov. She lives in Chicago with her husband Rick and their eight-year olds Sadie and Jude. SPECIAL THANKS Abu Ansari, Betsy and Jim Benoit, LaShaun Brooks, Emilya Cachapero, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Bonnie Deshong, Richard Ditton, DuSable Museum of African American History, Kurt Ehrmann, Jonathan Eig (author of Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season), Facing History and Ourselves, Tony Fitzpatrick, Jon Harris, Linda Karn, Susan Loewenberg , Michael R. Lufrano, Sharina Martin, John McGowan, Matt Packer, Laura Ricketts. Ed Schmidt, Scott Silberstein, Abby Silverman, D’wayne Taylor, Melanie Thompson and Troy West
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LOOKINGGLASS COMPANY MEMBERS Ensemble
Eva Barr Mara Blumenfeld J. Nicole Brooks David Catlin Thomas J. Cox Lawrence E. DiStasi
Christine Mary Dunford Laura Eason Raymond Fox Joy Gregory Doug Hara David Kersnar
John Musial Dan Ostling David Schwimmer Joey Slotnick Philip R. Smith Heidi Stillman
Tracy Walsh Andrew White Temple Williams Mary Zimmerman
Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi Tony Hernandez Lauren Hirte Joshua Horvath
Eric Huffman Louise Lamson Andre Pluess Rick Sims
Alison Siple Lisa Tejero Troy West
Sage Reed Nick Rupard Scott Silberstein
Ben Spicer Jonathan Templeton
Artistic Associates
Chris Binder Kevin Douglas Anthony Fleming III Sara Gmitter Production Affiliates
Patia Bartlett Jason Burkett Brian Sydney Bembridge Ray Nardelli Eva Breneman Mele Ortiz
ENSEMBLE UPDATE EVA BARR is farming hard on DreamAcres in southeastern Minnesota. She is also producing and creating all sorts of theatrical events right there on that farm and other fine venues. Learn about Flourish summer arts and agriculture workshops/camps at www.flourishsummercamp.org. MARA BLUMENFELD recently designed My Fair Lady at Asolo Rep for Frank Galati, is working with Mary Zimmerman on The White Snake for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and looks forward to being back home at Lookingglass for Cascabel and Eastland. DAVID CATLIN appeared this winter in House Theatre’s production of The Nutcracker and will direct The Little Prince next spring at Northwestern. David teaches acting at Northwestern. THOMAS J. COX appeared in Lookingglass’ production of The Great Fire this fall, and is spending the winter and spring being a stay-at-home dad with Joanie and serving as the Master Teacher for Lookingglass’ Education and Community Programs. LAWRENCE E. DiSTASI is currently practicing handstands or working at The Actors Gymnasium Circus and Performing Arts School, where he is CoArtistic Director. He recently appeared in the concert version of Lookingglass’ Eastland for the “In the Works” series at Millennium Park. CHRISTINE MARY DUNFORD is developing The Memory Ensemble, a Lookingglass-Northwestern (CNADC) program that uses improvisation to improve quality of life for people experiencing memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s Disease, and her adaptation of a book about living with memory loss is in development in gglassworks. She will be teaching as an adjunct instructor at Northwestern in 2012, and will be performing in Eastland with Lookingglass this summer. LAURA EASON’s productions in 2011/2012 include: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Actors Theatre, Denver Center, St. Louis Rep, Kansas City and the New Victory in NYC) and Sex with Strangers (Sydney Theatre Company, Australia). Current commissions: Denver Center, Arden, Lookingglass and a new musical for Writers’ Theatre. www.lauraeason.com RAYMOND FOX is currently appearing in Unnecessary Farce at First Folio Theatre. JOY GREGORY’s play previously produced with Lookingglass, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, ran
this past June at Playwrights Horizons. She is a writerproducer on the new ABC Family series “Switched at Birth,” which also premiered in June. DOUG HARA recently appeared in the concert version of Lookingglass’ Eastland for the “In the Works” series at Millennium Park. He will be seen this winter in Honk at Two River Theatre in Red Bank, NJ and in Cyrano at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia this spring. DAVID KERSNAR is currently directing Pulcinella for Lookingglass and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as well as King of Hearts for Roosevelt University. JOHN MUSIAL recently wrote and directed The Great Fire at Lookingglass. DAN OSTLING has enjoyed being in Chicago teaching this fall. Upcoming projects include Eastland here at Lookingglass, Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park at the Mark Taper Forum, The Convert directed by Emily Mann at McCarter Theater, and Mary Zimmerman’s White Snake at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. DAVID SCHWIMMER produced and directed the film Trust which is available on iTunes. He and his wife welcomed their first child last May, and he is currently filming The Iceman. JOEY SLOTNICK most recently starred in the world premiere of Ethan Coen’s Happy Hour at the Atlantic Theater Co. in New York City. TRACY WALSH recently choreographed a dance for The Last Act of Lilka Kadison at Lookingglass. She works in a school where she also runs an after school drama program. TEMPLE WILLIAMS is Executive Vice President and General Manager of 51 Minds, a television production company. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Cyndi Finkle and their daughter Sullivan Clare Williams. MARY ZIMMERMAN was in Boston this fall with Candide, which won five Joseph Jefferson Awards in Chicago and six Helen Hayes awards in Washington, D.C. last season. This winter she is directing an adaptation of the Chinese story White Snake at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. For J. NICOLE BROOKS, PHILIP R. SMITH, HEIDI STILLMAN and ANDREW WHITE see the PROFILES section. Lookingglass Theatre Company 13
LOOKINGGLASS ANNUAL FUND You have been an important part of our audience. We now invite you to be an important part of the donor family that helps bring theatre to life in Chicago. Lookingglass Theatre Company depends on the generous, ongoing investment of its donors and patrons to create innovative and artistically excellent theatrical productions, and to share its ensemble-based techniques with underserved youth in the Chicago community. These tax-deductible contributions bridge the gap between ticket sales and the actual costs of Lookingglass programming. We invite you to be part of the collaboration that makes great theatre possible by donating to The Lookingglass Annual Fund. Whatever the amount, your gift will help sustain the breadth and quality of Lookingglass’ work, both onstage and in the community. To make a donation by phone or for more information on making a gift to the Annual Fund, please contact the Development Department at 773.477.9257 ext. 122.
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CORPORATE & FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS Leading Benefactors
Landmark Benefactors
The Hearst Foundations
Cornerstone Benefactors
The Crown Family The Edgerton Foundation Prince Charitable Trusts The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Righteous Persons Foundation
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Producing Benefactors
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This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council
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STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIRMAN
Richard Ditton PRESIDENT
Joseph A. Brady III VICE PRESIDENTS
Paul Gray John McGowan Dr. Annabelle S. Volgman TREASURER
Tim Malishenko SECRETARY
Edward Filer ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Andrew White
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Rachel E. Kraft
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRMAN
Lisa Naparstek Green
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Alex Miller
Ernie A. Arias Leigh Buchanan Bienen David Catlin Richard H. Chapman Frank M. Clark III Thomas J. Connolly Al DeVaney Roe Faraone Charlie Frankel Julie Gardziola Lee Golub Jon Harris Dawn Hillman Michael Jacobson Dr. Elena Kamel Rocque E. Lipford Jr. Laura Matalon Melinda McMullen Jill Reznick Meier Thomas O’Neill Robert Palffy Jane Quinn Abbie Roth Matthew Smith Darren Snyder Jeffrey Steigelman James Stern Nancy Timmers Diane Whatton Charlotte Whitaker
NATIONAL COUNCIL
VICE PRESIDENT OF EVENT LOGISTICS, THEME AND DECOR
TREASURER
Billy Dec Carol Genis Todd Leland* J. Scot Pepper* Kevin Rochford* EMERITUS COUNCIL
Geoffrey Baer Elizabeth Barrett Richard Bromley Barton L. Eilts Julie Foley Celia G. Leventhal Cynthia Nedeau Donna Schatt Lane Winter Vanderslice Arnold Widen, M.D. *PRESIDENT EMERITUS
Christine Mary Dunford James Johnson John Morris
JUNIOR BOARD FOUNDERS
David Schwimmer Billy Dec III Joey Slotnick PRESIDENT
Tai Duncan
Lindsay Knight
VICE PRESIDENT OF SPONSORSHIP
Alecia Dantico
VICE PRESIDENT OF MEMBERSHIP
Cameron Croft
VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING AND PR
Tam Hebert SOCIAL COMMITTEE CHAIR
Ryan Duffy
VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE CHAIR
Steve McQuown
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Todd Toborg
Jessica Barrutia
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LOOKINGGLASS STAFF ARTISTIC ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
MARKETING DIRECTOR OF MARKETING
PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND CREATIVE COORDINATOR
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF NEW WORK
MARKETING ASSISTANT
Andrew White
Philip R. Smith Heidi Stillman
ASSISTANT TO EXECUTIVE AND ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
Raymond Fox
LITERARY MANAGER AND COMPANY DRAMATURG
Marti Lyons
BUSINESS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Rachel E. Kraft
GENERAL MANAGER
Michele V. Anderson BUSINESS OFFICE COORDINATOR
Kathryn Dysard IT AND OFFICE COORDINATOR
Erik Schroeder
Heather Anderson Stephanie Shum
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Jennifer McCarthy Bienemann
MANAGER OF INDIVIDUAL GIVING
Kathleen Emmert
E D U C A T I O N A N D WARDROBE SUPERVISOR COMMUNITY David Galbreath PROGRAMS MASTER ELECTRICIAN DIRECTOR OF Jabin Chartrand EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS SOUND ENGINEER
Lizzie Perkins
Christopher M. LaPorte
MASTER TEACHER
Thomas J. Cox EDUCATION ASSISTANT
Jessica Lind
Felicia Bavirsha, Caroline Donnelly, Andi Sharavsky and Jamila A. Woods
MANAGER OF CORPORATE, PRODUCTION FOUNDATION AND PRODUCTION MANAGER GOVERNMENT GIVING
Megan Opel
Joel Hobson
FUNDRAISING EVENTS COORDINATOR
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Sarah Gehrki
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE
Renee Flint
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Harriet Sogin
DIRECTOR OF AUDIENCE SERVICES
Jonathan L. Green
ADMINISTRATIVE AND ARTISTIC INTERNS
Sean K. Walters
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Lizz Edele
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Chad S. Wachob BAR SUPERVISOR
Tamara Becker GROUP SALES ASSOCIATE
Jessica Simon
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Jude Hansen Mara Stern
Thomas Sparks
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Lookingglass applauds the benefactors of THEATRE THAT MOVES: THE CAMPAIGN FOR LOOKINGGLASS HOPE ABELSON● RICHARD DITTON Contributor of the women’s restroom THE GREEN FAMILY Howard Green & Lisa Naparstek Green David Green● & Mary Winton Green JP MORGAN CHASE Contributor of the Studio Theatre BURTON● & ANNE KAPLAN DOLORES KOHL KAPLAN & MORRIS KAPLAN● THE LELAND FAMILY Contributors of the chimney passageway LOOKINGGLASS ENSEMBLE FRIENDS & FAMILY Contributors of the Compass Room
LOOKINGGLASS JUNIOR BOARD Contributors of the box office MELINDA MCMULLEN Contributor of the women’s dressing room THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY Contributor of the balcony LORI & J. SCOT PEPPER DAVID L. SCHWIMMER Sound system contributed in honor of Syd & Mac Colman; Lighting System contributed in honor of Bea and Bert Schwimmer● NANCY AND MICHAEL TIMMERS Contributors of the men’s dressing room
●We gratefully acknowledge our deceased donors.
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DONORS Lookingglass Theatre Company gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the many individuals, corporations, foundations and government grantors who support Lookingglass and its innovative artistic and education programs. We are pleased to recognize contributions received October 1, 2010 to October 1, 2011. We work diligently to keep our donor lists accurate and up-to-date. Please bring any unintentional errors, additions or needed corrections to the attention of Kathleen Emmert in the Development Office at (773) 477-9257 ext. 153. Corporate, Foundation and Government Supporters Magnificent Benefactors ($500,000 and up) City of Chicago Rahm Emanuel, Mayor State of Illinois: Department of Commerce and Community Affairs Eminent Benefactors ($100,000-$499,999) Hyatt Hotel Corporation Park Hyatt – Chicago United Airlines Walgreen Co. Leading Benefactors ($50,000-$99,999) Alphawood Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Righteous Persons Foundation Sara Lee Foundation Target
Landmark Benefactors ($25,000-$49,999) Allstate Insurance Company Clark Hill PLC ComEd Hearst Foundations Polk Bros. Foundation JP Morgan Chase Foundation KPMG Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Northern Trust The Shubert Foundation Cornerstone Benefactors ($15,000-$24,999) Abbott Laboratories BMO Harris Bank The Crown Family Righteous Persons Foundation Edgerton Foundation Fifth Third Bank Goldman Sachs Prince Charitable Trusts The Harold and Mimi
Steinberg Charitable Trust STS Foundation Distinguished Benefactors ($10,000-$14,999) Baxter International, Inc. CNA Foundation Illinois Arts Council, a state agency Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Podmajersky, Inc. The Private Bank Underwriters Laboratories Producing Benefactors ($5,000-$9,999) Aon Hewitt Bessemer Trust Boeing Company Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Ruth Davee Foundation Dr. Scholl Foundation HSBC
John R. Halligan Charitable Fund James S. Kemper Foundation The Siragusa Foundation Directing Benefactors ($2,500-$4,999) Danone Waters Of America Ariel Investments City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events TCG: Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship Wrightwood Neighbors Association Participating Benefactors ($1,000-$2,499) The Donald W. Collier Charitable Trust II Irving Harris Foundation The Rhoades Foundation
Individual Supporters $100,000 and above Richard A. Ditton $50,000 to $99,999 Lisa Naparstek Green and Howard Green David L. Schwimmer $25,000 to $49,999 Jake and Paige Canepari Paul and Dedrea Gray Melinda McMullen and Duncan Kime Abbie Helene Roth and Sandra Roth Nancy and Michael Timmers $10,000 to $24,999 Mary Jo and Doug Basler Leigh and Henry Bienen Joe and Shannon Brady Douglas Brown Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly Penny and Jay Feuerstein Howard Green in honor of Lisa Green Dawn Hillman Timothy and Jane Malishenko
Jill and Jonathan Meier Jane Quinn and Jeffrey McCarthy Matthew and Beth Smith Dr. Annabelle Volgman and Keith Volgman Judd and Frieda Weinberg Char Whitaker $5,000 to $9,999 Cleopatra and James Alexander William and Sharon Baker Joyce and Bruce Chelberg Kay Collier Richard A. Ditton in honor of Lisa Green Roe Faraone Raymond Frick Lee and Sandy Golub David● and Mary Winton Green Mary Winton Green and Sarah and Dan Cohan in honor of Lisa Green Bruce and Vicki Heyman Alex and MIchael Jacobson Dr. Elena and Perry Kamel Linda Karn Rachel E. Kraft Todd and Barbara Leland
●We gratefully acknowledge our deceased donors.
Celia Leventhal Rocque and Anne Lipford John McGowan and Dave Robbins Irene Phelps Kevin Rochford Joan and Paul Rubschlager Patrick G. And Shirley W. Ryan Foundation Jeffrey and Michelle Steigelman James Stern $2,500 to $4,999 Anonymous Liz Barrett Elizabeth and Jim Benoit Leigh and Henry Bienen in honor of Lisa Green Deborah Bricker Richard and Marilyn Bromley Greg Cameron and Greg Thompson Patricia Cox Al DeVaney Lisa and Geoffrey Dybas Peter and Paula Fasseas Valerie Foradas Charlie and Stephanie Frankel
Richard and Mary Gray Mark Gunton Blair Finberg Hoffman Adam Ith and Caroline Perry Karen and Larry McCracken Michelle and Kevin Mize Jordan and Jean Nerenberg Family Foundation Deborah and Stephen Quazzo George and Kathleen Rummel Rosemary Schnell Langhorne and Marilyn Smith Darren and Anne Snyder Bonnie and Jim Spurlock Julie Thauer Lorrayne and Steve Weiss Diane and Chris Whatton Young Ensemble $1,500 to $2,499 Pat and Howard Adelman Christopher D. Allen Anonymous Peter Chun in memory of Andrew H. Chun
DONORS (CONTINUED) Peter, John, Richard, Elaine, and Brian Chun in honor of Andrew H. Chun Donald and Cathy Dabisch Dolores Kohl Kaplan and Morriis● Kaplan Celia G. Leventhal Rebecca Libman Paul M. Lisnek† and Brian F. Lozell Marc and Beth McCormack Preston and Irena Simons Stephanie and John Tipton
Penelope and Robert Steiner Chuck Taylor Kenneth and Tracey Stephens Jon and Jane Stillman Nancy and Michael Timmers in honor of Lisa Green Scott Turow Susan Schaalman Youdovin and Charlie Shulkin Leslie and Robert Zentner
$1,000 to $1,499 Warren L. Batts Maria Bechily and Scott Hodes Larry and Susanne Broutman Joseph Burns Alecia Dantico Tom and Mary Dee Dr. J. Anthony Dillon Debra Cafaro Jennifer Costanzo and Jeffrey Roberts Paul Dykstra and Spark Cremin Sidney and Sondra Epstein Heather and Paul Haaga Bob and Connie Hickey Thomas Kehoe Thomas and Pascale Kichler Mr. Howard Learner Anat and Amos Madanes in honor of Lisa Green Lisa Mazzullo Alice and Gregory Melchor Pamela G. Meyer Rickie and Alexander Miller Terry and Lanny Passaro David and Valeria Pruett Jane Quinn and Jeffrey McCarthy in honor of Lisa Green Raiselle and Kenneth Resnick Jenny Rothkopf and Eric Huffman Margaret Simpson and Mary Ellen Diaz
$500 to $999 Anonymous (2) Brian and Lorraine Arbetter Tremaine Atkinson Donna Baiocchi Scott Barnett Ed and Robin Berman Barbara and John Blair Professor William Calder Alan and Carolyn Ciamporchero Frank and Michelle Clark Mary Dombrowski Richard and Inese Driehaus Jennie Lyons Fogarty Gerald Freedman Richard Gilbert Paul and Dedrea Gray in honor of Lisa Green Alex Harris Jon and Allie Harris Bill Hood Martin Horner Allan and Carolyn Horwich Tim and Monica Jaster Stephen Javaras Rob and Kathleen Katz Thomas Kichler Catherine and Douglas Knuth Rachel E. Kraft and Doug Brown in honor of Lisa Green Celia G. Leventhal in memory of Andrew H. Chun Marc and Cindy Levin Nona and John Long
Ravi Lumpkin Drs. Annette and John Martini David and Kim Mazzella Kim Mazulla John McGowan In Honor of Lisa Green Melinda McMullen and Duncan Kime in honor of Lisa Green Melissa Neel Charlotte and Michael Newberger James Oates and Adam Grymkowski Lee and Sharon Oberlander Out of The Box Foundation Jean Pierre and Michele Boustany Claire Prussian Arthur Rhodes Bill Savage Harry Seigle Scott Silberstein Diljeet Singh Michael Slaby Joey Slotnick Fred and Nikki Stein Barbara and Steven Stone in honor of Lisa Green Donald and Sylvia White Nevena Zee $250 to $499 Anonymous Jim Blake and Kelly Morgan Mark Braun Janet Burch and Joel Guillory Keith Cardoza Theodore Chung Abby Clough Cynthia Brown and Peter Colovos Ann Cummins Jo Anne Davis Teresa Dickinson Jim and Lynn Drew Ryan Eakes Laura Eason Glenn Eckstein Steven B. Edelstein, MD
†This donor is ensuring Lookingglass’ future with a generous bequest. ●We gratefully acknowledge our deceased donors.
Joey Ford Timothy and Janet Fox Joan and Guy Gunzberg Jerry and Patty Hanner Lauren Hirte David and Vicki Hood Eric Janssen Karen and Jerry Johnson Joan and Steve Kraus Jack and Debbie Kelleher Carrie Klen Rosemary Krimbel and John Garton Simon and Lydia Lambert Cindy and Jim Lamson Elisa Lee in memory of Andrew H. Chun Joan and Murray Levin Fran and Chuck Licht Alice Lung in memory of Andrew H. Chun Dan Lynch Kim Lynch Petros and Christine Kyvelos Gary Metzner and Scott Johnson Kelly Morgan and Jim Blake Peggy Nelson Bruce Oltman Robert Pasinato Fraser and Ellen Perkins Nickie Petratos Ralf Pole Ronald Rolighed Jordan Rummel Joanne and Paul Ruxin David and Marilyn Samson Donna Schatt Carol and Dean Schroeder Roche Schulfer and Mary Beth Fisher Jay and Anna Schwartz Jeff and Maggie Schwartz Renee and Michael Sichlau Phil Smith Michal-Ann Somerman Joshua Sommerfeld Devora Grynspan and Sam Stupp Karen L Swaback
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DONORS (CONTINUED) Elaine Taylor Laura and Terrence Truax Annamarie Weaver Garrett Weliever Andy and Shari White Doug Wilson Dennis and Linda Wilt Marco Zerepa Barbara Zibell $100 to $249 Christiana and Oluwatope Adesanya John and Mary Alukos Anonymous (4) Jeffrey Arena The Arkebauer Family James Bachner John and Linda Baer Patricia Bangert Emily Barr Dinah Barthelmess Philip Bellnan Arta and Adrian Beverly Jennifer Bienemann in honor of Lisa Green Mary Anne and Joe Bigane Michael Bloomberg Gregory Bork Nancy J. Bothne Adam and Jill Brent The Robert Britz Family Brett Buchness and Amy Beamer in memory of Andrew H. Chun Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Family Mike and Cathy Cahill Karen A. Callaway Elisabeth Cerf Jacqueline Charak Lorry and Sandra Charak Harry Chernin Foundation Mariestella Chun in memory of Andrew H. Chun Nora Daley and Sean Conroy Jim Corrigan Edward Corwin Cameron Croft John and Monique Crossan Bruce and Laurie Davidson Brooks Davis Robert and Quinnâ—? Delaney Dave and Tracy Deno Carol Desimone Sidney and Mulbe Dillard Milton Diller Roberta S. Dillon Michael Dobbyn Michael and Emily Doss Tom Drake John Dunford Ryan Duffy Tai Duncan French and Jan Eason Julia and Michael Eidelman Terri Jo Englund Tim and Jane Evans
Janice Feinberg Michael Fielder Mary Finneran Jan and Bill Flapan Nona C. Flores Paul Fong Lucinda Fox Father Mark A. Fracaro Jana French Richard and Lois Fuhrer Judy A. Saslow Gallery Micah Garb and Kathleen Fabiny Ethel and Bill Gofen Jane Grady and Alan Pulaski Sharran Greenberg Sam and Roslyn Grodzin The Groth Family Scott Fehlan and Cassing Hammond in honor of Abbie Roth, MD Jeffrey Grover Robert S. Guenther Solomon Gutstein Michael Hansen Diane and Sol Hara Doug Hara Paula and David Harris Steven and Lenore Harris Debra and Mark Hass Sharon Heil Angeline Heisler Leo Henikoff Joyce Herdliska Donald and Karen Hester Larry Higa James Hilly Caroline Hoke Tom and Margie Hurwich Mary Hynes-Berry and Gordon Berry Diane Ireland Valluvan Jeevanandam David Johnson George Jones Ann Kaizerman Warren and Nancy Katz in honor of Dr. Elena Kamel Larry and Clare Keen Peggy Kelly and Dan Dutile Diana and Neil King Carol Kipperman Lori Kleinerman Nicole Klime Jackie and Lionel Knight M. Koenigsknecht and N. Armatas Rhonda Kokot Caroline Kraft Linda and Theodore Kraft Jeanne Laduke Anne Lanser Bennett Leventhal and Young Shiu Kim Susan and Ira Levin Susan Levitt Richard and Joanne Levy Karen Li Sharon and Bob Lindgren Katherine Logue Nancy and Jeff Lowenthal
â—?We gratefully acknowledge our deceased donors.
Joseph and Kathleen Madden David Mahvi Cathleen R. Marine Jennifer Marling Inge K. Marra Alexandria and Patrick Marren Winifred Martin James Mather Stacey and Patrick McCusker Sandra McNaughton Roger K. Metz David Morris Diane Moses Rob Murphy Sarah and David Murphy Eileen M. Murray M and M Murzanski Patricia Naguib Marvin and Beth Najberg Geraldine Nolen James and Dana Noonan Ray and Esther Paice Georgia and Allen Parchem Helene Paris Sheldon Patinkin Elyse Pearlman Brad Perkins Mark and Gail Prete Hilda Raisner and Bob Kiolbassa Robson Family Eleanor and Robert Roemer Rabbi and Mrs Robert Rosen Ruth and Larry Rosen Judy and Warner Rosenthal Neil Ross, MD and Lynn Hauser, MD Abbie Helene Roth and Sandra Gladstone Roth in honor of Lisa Green John and Patricia Scala Ezra and Orit Schwartz Robert Schwartz Julia Scott Susan Shapiro in memory of Andrew H. Chun Liz and Jeff Sharp James Shilling in memory of Andrew H. Chun Regis Simpson Raymond and Janice Skowron Slusar-Goldman Family Ms. Amy Smith David and Jean Sogin Rand Sparling and Adrienne Meisel Bonnie Spring, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Stenhouse, Jr. Dorothy Ruggles Stern Terry and Ruth Stevig Lisbeth Stiffel Jane Stone Theater Un-Speak-Able Stacey L. Thomas Dr. Sabrina Tsao
Rebecca Tung Dr. and Mrs. Jeffry Tyler and Family Andrea and Gerald Vigue Soo Lee Waltz in memory of Andrew H. Chun Dr. Claire C. Wang Bruce and Sandra Wechsler David and Susan Weidenfeld James and Mary Weidner Diane Whatton in honor of Lisa Green Helen Widen Janet and Les Wilson Michael Wise Rebecca Woan Sarah R. Wolff and Joel L. Handelman Wayne Wong Patricia Wyant Eddie and Lisa Zeitler David and Suzanne Zesmer David and Elizabeth Zott $50 to $99 John Alletto Daniel Alpert Jessica Barrutia Jeanette and Vernon Bartels Danuta Berger Estelle Burke Michael Burke Lawrence Choate Nancy Cohen Martha Clemons Sharon Conway Ann Cooper in memory of Andrew H. Chun Diane Cooper Phyllis Deerinck John and Margaret Dombrowski Gilbert Dominguez Bettie Dwinell Betty Eaton Richard and Sandi Elkins Jorge Fernandez Catherine Flaa Ms. Karen Flax Janet W. Fox Joan and Ron Fox Mary Jo Franklin June Golmin Veronica and Jeffrey Gomez David C. Hawley Roberta and Robert Heiman Wendy Heimann and Joseph Nunes Olympia Hernandez Christine Hodak James Holzhauer Barbara and Edward Humbert Mr. and Mrs. Kirk James Anthony and Kathleen Janik in honor of Andrew H. Chun Annika Jaspers
DONORS (CONTINUED) Robert K. Johnston Monica and Paul Kepes Mr. Allan and Tanya Klasser Maria Kolb Joy Kottra Peter Kratochvil Charles Krugler in memory of Andrew H. Chun Lorraine Kulpa Jeffery and Susan Larry Bob Larson John and Jill Levi Olga and Mark Levitan Bruce Lockwitz H. B. Lottero
Hope MacGregor Lesley Martin Chuck and Sylvia Meyers Jamison Miles Victoria Napier Rose Pagonis in memory of Andrew H. Chun Phyllis Parish Barbara Payne Marilyn Perno James Peters and Patricia Casler Richard and Aurora Phelps Sally Pritscher Adele Rapport
Louise Reed Trish Rich Kendra Robinson Robert and Mindy Rose Ursula Sanne Elizabeth Schmidt Michael Schneiderman Michael Scott and Joy Clendenning Jerome Seidenfeld Smita and Maarten Shah Benjamin Shapiro June Shulman Janice Skowron Patricia Stolfe Gerard A. Swick
Susan Taylor Margaret Trboyevic Mark Valdez Jonathan Wagner Michelle and Fred Weber Sharyn Weiss Oren Jacoby and Elizabeth West in memory of Andrew H. Chun Leslie Wichers Nancy Widder Arnie and Judy Widen Clifton J. Wilkow Reyna and James Windsor
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SERVICES, AMENITIES & COURTESY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE 875 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2200 Chicago, IL 60611 (773) 477-9257 THEATRE AND BOX OFFICE 821 N. Michigan Ave. (Theatre entrance on Pearson Ave.) Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 337-0665 BOX OFFICE HOURS Tuesday through Friday 10am until curtain Saturday and Sunday noon until curtain Closed Monday Order by phone: (312) 337-0665 Order online: www.lookingglasstheatre.org SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscribers receive priority seating, advance ticket sales, unlimited free ticket exchanges, great offers at partner restaurants, invitations to exclusive events, discounts on tickets, education classes and camps, and discounted parking. Call (312) 337-0665 or visit www.lookingglasstheatre.org/ subscribe to subscribe online. GROUP SALES Groups of 10 or more save up to 20% based on group size and performance date. For more information, call (312) 337-0665 or e-mail groupsales@lookingglasstheatre.org. GIFT CERTIFICATES Lookingglass gift certificates are perfect for all occasions. Available in any denomination, gift certificates can be exchanged for tickets to any Lookingglass production. Gift subscriptions offer the recipient guaranteed seats and the numerous perks and discounts available only to subscribers. To order, call the box office at (312) 337-0665 or stop by the next time you attend a show.
PHYSICAL ACCESSIBILITY Lookingglass Theatre is accessible to wheelchairs, those who cannot walk stairs, and patrons who are hearing impaired. Please notify the box office in advance of your visit so that we can best accommodate your needs. Box office: (312) 337-0665. LOST AND FOUND Lost and found information may be exchanged at the box office; please call (312) 337-0665. CAMERAS AND RECORDING DEVICES The use of cameras—with or without a flash— recorders, or other electronic devices is strictly prohibited. PAGERS, PHONES AND WATCH ALARMS Patrons are asked to silence pagers, cellular phones and watch alarms before entering the theatre. LATECOMERS Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management and may have to wait until a suitable break in the action of the play to be seated. Smoking is prohibited. Lookingglass Theatre is not responsible for personal property. Lookingglass Coat Check is available for $1 per item; all proceeds benefit Season of Concern. We cannot accept fur coats. Thanks to The Saints: Volunteers for the Performing Arts for providing ushers. For information, visit www.saintschicago.org or call (773) 529-5510. Thanks to Carolyn Dunn, Lookingglass’ Saints volunteer usher coordinator.
ENTER TO WIN tickets to a Lookingglass production by filling out our audience survey. Surveys are located in our lobby, or can be completed online at www.lookingglasstheatre.org/survey.
Lookingglass would like to thank our official coffee sponsor, Lavazza, whose products are available in the lobby.
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