Next-Metal Children

Jenny Avery Artistic Director

Jim Davis Producing Director

Proudly presents the Midwest Premiere of

THE METAL CHILDREN

By Adam Rapp Directed by Joanie Schultz Scenic Designer Chelsea Warren

Costume Designer Joanna Mellville

Lighting Designer Jared Moore

Sound Designer Nick Keenan

Production Stage Manager Nancy Staiger* *Member, Actors’ Equity Association The Metal Children runs two hours and ten minutes.

There is a 15 minute intermission.

The Metal Children is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. The Metal Children is sponsored in part by a grant from The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The 2010-11 Season is sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, state agency.

The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince The Schubert Foundation The Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelly Foundation The Alphawood Foundation Next Theatre 1

T H E M E TA L C H I L D R E N Place: Tobin Falmouth’s apartment in the West Village in New York City and assorted locations in a town called Midlothia, somewhere in America’s heartland.

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Tobin Falmouth........................................................................................................ Sean Cooper* Bruno Binelli/Father Derby.................................................................................. Marc Grapey* Lynne/Roberta Cupp..........................................................................................Laura T. Fischer* Kong/Tami/Nurse.....................................................................................................Caitlin Collins Edith Dundee............................................................................................................Meg Thalken* Stacey Kinsella................................................................................................................Paul Fagen Vera Dundee................................................................................................................Caroline Neff Cooper/Nurse/Porky Pig Boy/Boy X...................................................................Nicole Ripley Otto Hurley................................................................................................................Bradley Mott* P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Production Manager..................................................................................................Patrick Fries Technical Director....................................................................................... Michael Smallwood Assistant Stage Manager.............................................................................Kelly Montgomery Properties Master.....................................................................................................Maria Defabo Master Electrician.....................................................................................................Mac Vaughey Charge Scenic Artist........................................................................................Coco Ree Lemery Fight Choreographer........................................................................................................ Jon Beal N E X T T H E AT R E S TA F F Artistic Director........................................................................................................... Jenny Avery Managing Director...........................................................................................................Jim Davis Audience Services Manager..................................................................................Jerry O’Boyle Production Manager..................................................................................................Patrick Fries Public Relations Consultant...................................... Shout Marketing & Media Relations Special Event Coordinator................................................................Stephanie Leese Emrich Special Event Interns.............................................Lakisha Thompson & Morgan Madison Graphic Designers.......................................................................... Robert Waters & Jim Davis Website Designers..................................................................................Orbit Media Solutions Insurance.................................................................................................Paczolt Financial Group Literary Intern........................................................................................................Scott Weinstein Casting Intern.............................................................................................. Jackson C. Haywood Artistic Intern........................................................................................... Elizabeth Sankarsingh Production Assistant.............................................................................................. Marla Benson *Member Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

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N O T E F R O M T H E D I R E C TO R Dear Theatergoer, In 2000, I was recently out of college, had a desk job at Steppenwolf Theatre, and started a theater company with my friends from school. I founded it with my best friend and primary collaborator, a very talented designer who I graduated with.

We’d been incredibly close for a couple of years, we’d confided deep truths to each other, she’d helped me through some tough times, and we founded this company.

It was surprising to me, then, that we had a massive falling out that broke our friendship and snowballed into a nasty war between us, over politics.

I wasn’t surprised that she was going to vote for Nader, as she presented herself as a neo-hippy. But when I called that a vote for Bush, and she insisted that Bush would be better than Gore, we launched into a fight that went from politics to the personal really fast. Every misunderstanding between us suddenly was brought to light, and our need to defend ourselves took precedence over the love we had for each other. It happened so quickly. She eventually left the theater company and we stopped speaking all together.

When I look back, this still amazes me. I like to think of myself as open-minded, as empathetic, as a good listener. I found out, when face to face with this opposing value system, I was none of those things. I thought I knew what was right. I thought I had the moral upper hand. I thought if I fought her hard enough she would see how mistaken she was. And I lost her friendship because of it.

In a time when the stresses of recession, natural disasters, and war has stressed and divided our country, we are all on the defensive. As we struggle to understand our changing cultural identity in trying times, the polarization of our nation grows strong, and a standoff is taking place. But as we stand on the battleground of our political and personal debates, we cease listening. We cease seeing the other point of view. We cease looking for compromise. We cease being open-minded.

And then we lose each other.

Joanie Schultz Director

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N E X T T H E AT R E B OA R D A N D A S S O C I AT E S Next Theatre Company is looking for a few good men and women!

Next Theatre Co. is always looking for enthusiastic, committed individuals to join our dynamic group of board members. Please email Judy Kemp, Board Vice President at judykemp@aol.com if you are interested in more information.

Board of Directors Robert Andalman, President Judy Kemp, Vice-President Jeff Emrich, Treasurer Ann Zastrow, Secretary Muriel Chalem Arnold Kanter Jordan Nerenberg Greg Rothman David Saunders Ralph Segall Adrienne Voltattorni John Wertymer

Artistic Associates David Cromer Victoria “Toy” DiOrio Diane Fairchild Laura T. Fisher Jennifer Gadda Allen Gilmore Cindy Gold Sarah Gubbins Tim Hendrickson Scotty Iseri Celise Kalke Carson Kreitzer Richard Lundy Bill McGough

Michael Montenegro Bill O’Connor Justin D.M. Palmer Keith Parham Lisa Portes Wendy Robie Joshua Schmidt Kimberly Senior Michelle Tesdall Penelope Walker Natalie West Joseph Wycoff Matthew J. York

P R O F I L E S O F AC T I N G C O M PA N Y Caitlin Collins (Tami, Kong, Nurse) is thrilled to make her Next Theatre debut.

Regional credits include Anna in Magnolia at the Goodman Theatre, the current production of Red Kite Round-Up with Chicago Children’s Theatre, and the original cast of The American Girl Revue at The American Girl Place. She is a recent graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in Theatre and a certificate in Music Theatre where favorite roles include Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Offred in The Handmaid’s Tale, Kim MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie, Constanze in Amadeus, and The American Music Theatre Project’s Not Wanted On The Voyage. Many thanks to Gray Talent, friends, family, and to Scott.

Sean Cooper* (Tobin) is making his Next Theatre debut. He just closed the world premiere production of Jackie and Me with Chicago Children’s 4 Next Theatre

Theatre. Other theatre credits include Honus and Me and Dandelion Wine (Chicago Children’s Theatre), The Crowd You’re in With (Goodman Theatre), These Shining Lives (Rivendell Theatre) Wedding Play (About Face Theatre), Cradle of Man (Victory Gardens), Red Herring (Northlight Theatre), Mojo (Mary-Arrchie) Eurydice, Melancholy Play, Mad Forest, Book of Days (Piven Theatre), A Lesson Before Dying (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Final Toast (International Mystery Writers Festival), Lysistrata (Running With Scissors), H2O and K. (The Neo-Futurists), and a slew of shows with The Shakespeare Project of Chicago.

His film and television work includes Whirlybird, A Pirate’s Life, The Malcontents, and a guest starring role on The Beast.

Paul Fagen (Stacey) is honored to be making his Next Theatre debut with The Metal Children.

He is a proud member of Strawdog Theatre Company where he recently reprised his role as Father Toulon in Red Noses (Jeff Nomination- Best Ensemble), and also played Mister Shu Fu in The Good Soul of Szechuan.

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Additional theatre credits include: Company (Griffin Theatre), bobrauschenbergamerica (Chicago Fusion Theatre), The Attempters (The House Theatre), Caucasian Chalk Circle, A Bright Room Called Day,The Crucible (Speaking Ring Theatre), and multiple performances with Quest Theatre Ensemble.

He is currently a student at the Black Box Studio in Chicago.

Laura T. Fisher* (Lynne/Roberta Cupp) is a Next Theatre Artistic Associate. Previously at Next: End Days, Defiance, Frozen, Helen and Julius Caesar. Elsewhere in Chicago: Goodman: Seagull, Trojan Woman, Finishing the Picture and The Mamet Festivals performances of The Shawl and Home.

Victory Gardens: Relatively Close, Big Blue Nail and Half and Half. Chicago Shakespeare: Kabuki Lady Macbeth and Cymbeline. Lookingglass: Summertime.

Collaboraction: The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Remy Bumppo: The Secret Rapture (Jeff Nomination) Famous Door: Cider House Rules, A Mislaid Heaven, The Living, Early and Often (Jeff Award, After Dark Award) Remembrance and Hushabye Mountain (Jeff Nominations). Regional: Indiana Repertory: Arcardia. Laura has created and performed works with Plasticene and Cardiff Giant and performed with the CSO, The Lyric Opera, WBEZ’s Stories on Stage, and Nextbook. This year Laura appeared in the television pilot ATF and Steven Soderbergh’s film Contagion.

She teaches at The Conservatory at Act One Studios. Laura congratulates her friend Jenny Avery on a brilliant first season as Artistic Director.

Marc Grapey (Bruno) Next Theatre debut.

Most recently appeared at Victory Gardens as Jerry in At Home at the Zoo. Other Chicago theatre credits include work at The Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Writer’s Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook and Famous Door. Broadway debut in 2005 opposite Matthew

Broderick and Nathan Lane in the hit revival of The Odd Couple. Regional: Actor’s Theatre of Louisville; HBO Comedy and Arts Festival, Aspen. Films include Chicago Overcoat, The Company, Ali, While You Were Sleeping, Watch It!, The Daytrippers, Adventureland and Superbad.

Television: The West Wing, Two and a Half Men,Law and Order S.V.U., Arrested Development and Sex in the City.

Bradley Mott* (Otto), who is making his debut at Next Theatre with The Metal Children, has been working in the Theatre, Television, and Film for over 30 years.

His work includes everything from Classics (A Midsummer Night’s Dream,Twelfth Night, Henry IV, Part 1, Romeo & Juliet, The Moliere Comedies, A Flea in her Ear, You Can’t Take it With You, Born Yesterday, Miracle on 34th Street) to Musicals (My Fair Lady, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum, Crazy for You, Spamalot) to Contemporary plays (Marvin’s Room, Sylvia, Slavs, A Laughing Matter,The Sunshine Boys).

His film and television work includes: The Accidental Tourist,The Applegates, Stranger Than Fiction, Roseanne, A Different World, and ER. In addition to his acting, Bradley has taught for over 30 years at Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, Nyack, and CAP21. He is happily married to The Reverend Susan Osborne-Mott and is the proud father of Andrew and Emily.

Caroline Neff (Vera) The Metal Children marks Caroline’s debut with Next Theatre and her third collaboration with Joanie Schultz, with whom she has worked on A Brief History of Helen of Troy and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings at Steep Theatre. As a proud ensemble member, her other Steep credits include Harper Regan, Coronado, and Of Mice and Men. Caroline was most recently seen in Griffin Theatre’s Port, where she also performed in Stage Door, and Be More Chill.

She has had the great fortune of working with Strawdog, St. Crispin’s Day; Mary-Arrchie, Cherrywood, Saved; and Jackalope, Moonshiner. She is a graduate of Columbia College. Many thanks to Jenny and Joanie.

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Nicole Ripley (Cooper/Nurse/Porky Pig Boy/Boy X) is delighted to be making her Next Theatre debut. Nicole has worked with Sojourn Theatre in Portland, OR, New Beast Theatre, The Building Stage, Redmoon Theater, Chicago Fusion Theatre, among others. She also serves in the Education Departments at Writers’ and Steppenwolf Theatre. An alum of Northwestern University’s Theatre Department, Nicole has also studied at the St. Petersburg Arts Academy and Moscow Art Theatre in Russia and, under a Luce Scholars Fellowship, worked as an artist-in-residence for a year and a half with Gabfai Theatre in Thailand. Many thanks to Jenny and Joanie.

Meg Thalken* (Edith Dundee) has been making her living as an actress here in Chicago for over 30 years. Most recently in A Guide for the Perplexed at the Victory Gardens Theater where she also has appeared in Four Places, Symmetry, Hanging Fire, Cahoots (with Sharon Gless),

Winter (with Julie Harris), Voice of Good Hope, A View of the Dome, Working Magic, Still Waters, The Long Awaited, and the Chicago Theatres on the Air production of Emma’s Child. Elsewhere she has appeared in Don Juan In Hell for Northlight, The Heidi Chronicles at both National Jewish Theatre and the Halsted Theatre Center, Solomon’s Choice at NJT, My Fat Friend at Pheasant Run, Life With Father at the Playhouse, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Laundry & Bourbon at Travel Light, and Bagtime at Wisdom Bridge. TV credits: Detroit 187, ER, What About Joan, Turks, Chicago Hope, Early Edition, EZ Streets, The Untouchables, Chicago Story, Jack & Mike, Justice: Greylord Style, The Richard Speck Case and Through Naked Eyes. Filmwork: Hannah Free, Check Please, The Company, U.S. Marshals, Poltergeist III, A Family Thing, The Babe and Class. As with most actors in Chicago, a good deal of her day to day work is done in TV and radio commercials, both on-camera and as a voice-over. Meg can be heard regularly in a variety of roles on The Twilight Zone on radio stations across the country. She also teaches Acting and Scene Study at Columbia College Chicago. Meg is married to film and TV production designer Gary Baugh, and they have two daughters, Molly and Riley. Proud member of Actors Equity since 1980.

P R O F I L E S O F P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Nancy Staiger* (Production Stage Manager) is pleased to be returning for her second season at Next. Previous productions with Next Theatre include Boom, End Days, Return to Haifa , War With The Newts and Madagascar. Before moving to the Chicago area, Nancy served as the Resident Production Stage Manager at Laguna Playhouse, a LORT theatre in Southern California.

Of the nearly forty productions stage managed there, favorites include: The Romance of Magno Rubio, The Woman in Black, American Buffalo, Rounding Third, The Shape of Things, Shear Madness, Forever Plaid, Always Patsy Cline (with Sally Struthers) and the Playhouse produced national tours of Copenhagen, and The Belle of Amherst (with Julie Harris). Nancy moved to Chicago to be with family, enjoy the “great weather” 6 Next Theatre

and participate in exciting theatre. So far there are no regrets!

Joanie Schultz (Director) is very excited to direct on Mr. Rapp’s work once again.

This is her fourth time collaborating with Rapp, having assistant directed his world premiere production of Red Light Winter at Steppenwolf Theatre, she subsequently directed Should’ve Never for the Collaboraction Sketchbook; the Chicago Premiere of Stone Cold Dead Serious at Circle Theatre; and the Midwest premiere of Faster at the side project. She also recently directed A Brief History of Helen of Troy and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (Jeff Award for Best Ensemble) for Steep Theatre Company; The Ring Cycle for the Building Stage; Shining City for Redtwist Theatre Company; and Wreckage and Many Loves for Caffeine Theatre. Ms. Schultz has

PROFILES OF PRODUCTION STAFF (cont.)

directed Savitri and The Telephone for Chicago Opera Theater and National Opera Week; and Acis and Galatea, the Chicago Cultural Center summer opera, which was the first fully-staged opera at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. She recently directed new play workshops at The Goodman Theatre, Next Theatre, and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Ms. Schultz holds an MFA from Northwestern University; was a Drama League Fellow; The Goodman Theatre’s Michael Maggio Directing Fellow; a participant in the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; and currently teaches directing at Columbia College Chicago. www.joanieschultz.com Adam Rapp (Playwright) is an Obie-award-winning playwright and director. He is the author of numerous plays, which include Nocturne (American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop), FASTER (Rattlestick), Animals & Plants (A.R.T.), Finer Noble Gases (26th Humana Festival, Rattlestick), Stone Cold Dead (A.R.T., Edge Theatre), Blackbird (The Bush, London; Edge Theatre), Gompers, (Pittsburgh City Theatre), Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons/Edge Theatre), American Sligo (Rattlestick), Bingo With The Indians (The Flea), KINDNESS (Playwrights Horizons), and Red Light Winter (Steppenwolf, Scott Rudin Productions at Barrow Street Theatre), which was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Recent world premieres include The Metal Children (The Vineyard Theatre), The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick), and The Edge of our Bodies (35th Annual Humana Festcial of New American Plays). He has published seven novels for young adults, including The Buffalo Tree (Front Street Books, 1997), which was struck from the curriculum at Muhlenberg High School in Reading, Pennsylvania in 2005, and Punkzilla (Candlewick Press, 2009), which was recently named a 2010 Michael J. Printz Honor Book. He is also the author of the adult novel, The Year Of Endless Sorrows (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 2006), and the graphic novel, Ball-Peen Hammer (First Second Books, 2009). His new novel, The Children and the Wolves, is forthcomNext Theatre 7

P R O F I L E S O F P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F ( c o n t .) ing from Candlewick Press this fall. His playwriting honors include The Helen Merrill Award, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, and The Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Nick Keenan (Sound Designer) is thrilled to be returning to Next this season. Nick has designed over 100 shows in the Chicago area, including shows at Court (Sizwe Banzi is Dead, The Illusion, The Piano Lesson), Goodman (Strange Interlude), the Hypocrites (K), Rivendell (These Shining Lives), TUTA (The Wedding), A Red Orchid (Not a Game for Boys), BackStage (How I Learned to Drive), Raven (Book of Days, A Few Good Men), and his artistic home, New Leaf Theatre (Redeemers, Curse of the Starving Class, The Man Who Was Thursday, Touch, Six Years, The Dining Room). Nick has assisted at the Chicago Shakespeare (Amadeus) and the Goodman Theatre (Trip to Bountiful, Shining City).

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Joanna Melville (Costume Designer) This is Joanna’s first show at Next.

Design credits in the Chicago area include work at Lifeline, A Red Orchid, Shattered Globe, Strawdog, Backstage Theatre, Glenview Theatre Guild and Quest Theatre Ensemble - where she is a company member. Joanna is also the 2010 Jeff Non-Equity Award winner for Costume Design.

Kelly Montgomery (Assistant Stage Manager) is currently completing her final year at The Theatre School at DePaul University, where she will graduate this June with B.F.A in Stage Management. Her Theatre School credits include Cabaret, A Raisin in the Sun, The House of Blue Leaves, The Chairs, Electriciadad, Urinetown, Hurrah for the Last Who Dies, and Tales as Old as Africa. Local credits include Heroes (Remy Bumppo), Not Wanted on the Voyage (American Music Theatre Project in collaboration with Northwestern University), The Gondoliers (DePaul Opera Theatre), and A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre, intern).

Jared Moore (Lighting Designer) resides in Chicago where he has lit more than 150 shows in a variety of genres, over the past seven years. He is a resident designer/artistic associate with the Hypocrites, NoMi LaMad Dance Inc., and New Leaf Theatre, where he is a company member. His work has garnered him five Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards for Outstanding Design and two After Dark Awards. His selected design credits have included Frankenstein, Oedipus, The Hairy Ape (Hypocrites); The Man Who Was Thursday, Touch, The Permanent Way (New Leaf ); Winter Pageant Redux, Twilight Orchard (Redmoon); Dark At the Top of the Stairs (ATC); Jerry Springer: The Opera, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Inventing Van Gogh, The Christmas Schooner (Bailiwick Rep); Twelfth Night (City Lit); Meet Me in St. Louis (Circle); Roasting Chestnuts (Noble Fool); Falsettos (Porchlight); Porno, Salome (Side Project); Sylvia (Metropolis); The Conversation, Misery (Pyewacket); Proof (Hippodrome State Theatre); and assistant designs at Drury Lane-Oakbrook, Marriott Lincolnshire, Chicago Shakespeare, and Writers’ Theatre. Outside his work in Chicago, he

P R O F I L E S O F P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F ( c o n t .) has had productions run Off-Broadway, in the NYC International Fringe Festival, Boston, Maine, Florida, & Georgia.

Chelsea Warren (Scenic Designer) is excited to be working on her second production at the Next after designing costumes for last season’s Boom. Recent Chicago projects include: Acis & Galatea at Chicago Cultural Center and Millennium Park Stage; The Hollowlands at Steep Theatre; B-Lo Niagara at the Building Stage’s Objects in Motion, Urinetown at the University of Chicago, Flight of the Dodo and Dirty Cowboy at Lifeline Theatre. International work includes: designing Air/Stone, an unveiling event for an International Sculpture Park in Southern Australia; and Woman In the Dunes with Parisian company, Unikaji in residency in Zagreb, Croatia. Chelsea received her MFA in Stage Design from Northwestern University.

Jenny Avery (Artistic Director) has been an Artistic Associate with Next for the past five years and performed in a number of Next productions, including The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Long Christmas Ride Home and most recently, War with the Newts. Jennifer brings a rich experience in arts administration, having served as Development Director and Managing Director for Roadworks Productions, the Director of Education at American Theater Company, and the assistant to the Executive Director of the Harris Music and Dance Theater. She is an Associate Artistic Director of Strawdog Theatre Company, where she has been a company member for the past 11 years.

Jim Davis (Managing Director) joined the Next Theatre Company staff in 2006 as Production Manager, a position he held until he became Managing Director in July 2010. Jim has several hundred productions on his resume that span over 25 years in the business, working here in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and on tour.

Jim relocated to the Chicagoland area in the fall of 2006 from St. Louis, Missouri where he served as the Managing Director of St. Louis Shakespeare and as the Arts Center Manager of the St. Louis

Conservatory and Schools for the Arts before that. Also while in St. Louis, Jim found time for a busy freelance career, working as Production Manager for the Working Women’s Survival Show, and spending ten seasons as the Producing Artistic Director and ultimately Executive Producer of the St. Charles Christmas Traditions Festival as well as a scenic and lighting designer.

As a local freelancer, Jim spent three years as the Route Marshal Chairman of the Chicago Thanksgiving Parade and is currently in his fourth season as the Production Manager for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Welcome Yule, produced at Symphony Center’s Orchestra Hall. Jim is a proud Evanston resident and enjoys gardening in his spare time.

Jerry O’Boyle, (Audience Services Manager) began his work as a theatre administrator over 20 years ago. While filling a wide variety of positions at the Apple Tree Theatre in Highland Park, Jerry juggled a career behind and in front of the scenes. As an actor, he performed at Marriott’s Lincolnshire, Northlight Theatre, and Light Opera Works. He served as Artistic Director for The Round Barn Theatre (Nappanee, Indiana); and most recently, at Silk Road Theatre Project as Producer of Jeanne Sakata’s Dawn’s Light; Co-Director of Threads of Silk; and Box-Office Coordinator for Scorched. A native Chicagoan, Jerry spent four years touring North America and Asia as Edna in Hairspray. He is thrilled to have returned to his family in one piece. Career highlights include performing opposite Hollis Resnik in Hello, Dolly!, directing Ray Frewen in Shenandoah, and making sure your experience with Next Theatre Company is unprecedented in regards to customer service.

Patrick Fries (Production Manager) is thrilled to be working with Next Theatre once again. Pat has worked with Next on The UN Inspector, Dying City, Boom, End Days and War With the Newts. Previous credits include These Shining Lives, The Walls, Mary’s Wedding and 26 Miles (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble); Generic Latina 2010 and Lunatic(a)s (Teatro Luna); and Welcome Yule! (Chicago Symphony Orchestra). Thanks to the usual suspects.

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Anonymous (3) Robert & Carrie Andalman Bob & Trish Barr Susan T. Bart Muriel M. Chalem Lynne Curtis Linda W. Dillman Jeff Emrich Julianne Fahey Susan & Sy Frolichstein Edith Gaines Virginia & Gary Gerst Morris Goodman Paula Harbage David & Beth Hart Jill Huchital Ra Joy Arnold & Carol Kanter John Keller

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If you are interested in how you or your business can support the Next Theatre, contact Jerry O’Boyle, Audience Services Manager, at 847-475-1875 x10.

DONORS The Next Theatre Company extends its gratitude to the following individuals, corporations, & foundations whose support enables us to continue serving as Chicagoland’s hone for socially provocative & artistically adventurous work.

This list reflects gifts received between January 1, 2009 & March 15, 2011.

Next Era Producers ($5,000 +) Paul & Sunny Fischer Judy & Bob Kemp Jean & Jordan Nerenberg Fund For The Future Neal & Denise Robinson Rothman Family Foundation Robert & Carrie Andalman Arnold & Carol Kanter 10 Next Theatre

David & Judy Saunders Ralph and Nancy Segall Next Era Directors ($3,000 - 4,999) Anonymous Jeff Emrich David & Beth Hart Norma Olsen Elizabeth Tisdahl

Next Era Designers ($1,000 - 2,999) Anonymous Bob & Trish Barr Susan Bart Muriel M. Chalem Lynne E. Curtis Linda W. Dillman Doug Doetsch & Susan Manning Jim & Pam Elesh

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IN KIND SUPPORT Next Theatre Company gratefully acknowledges substantial in-kind support from the following businesses and individuals: PPM America Arts and Buisness Council of Chicago Brook Weiner LLC Jeff Emrich Judy & Bob Kemp The Orrington Hotel Paczolt Financial Mel Ruder & Drennen Stix Mirtsching Adrienne & Jack Voltattorni John & Karen Wertymer Whole Foods Market Ann Zastow

SPECIAL THANKS Whole Foods Market, Evanston Public Library, Evanston Athletic Club

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MISSION AND VISION Next Theatre Company produces socially provocative, artistically adventurous work. Our vision is to become a national destination for artists and audiences who share our belief that theatre can promote awareness and provoke change with more power than any other medium of expression.

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