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9 Circles by Bill Cain

Directed by Michael Cotey Scenic Design Lighting Design Steve Barnes Noele Stollmack+

Costume Design Lyndsey Kuhlmann

Sound Design Grover Hollway

Properties Master Heidi Salter

Stage Manager Jessica Connelly*

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association + Member of USA 829

April 26 – May 16, 2021 Generously sponsored by Donna Martynski and Jan Serr & John Shannon. Next Act Theatre’s 2020-21 season is supported in part by a grant from the Milwaukee Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

9 CIRCLES was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Robert Egan, Artistic Director and South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival, Martin Benson and David Emmes, Producing Artistic Directors. Winner of the 2010 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize at Marin Theatre Company, where it received its world premiere under the leadership of Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director and Ryan Rilette, Producing Director 9 CIRCLES is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. ©2021. This Video recording was produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service and Bill Cain. All rights reserved

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THE CAST Reeves .............................................................................................................. Casey Hoekstra* Lieutenant/Civilian Lawyer .......................................................................... David Cecsarini* Young Female Lawyer/Shrink/Prosecution ................................................... Malkia Stampley* Army Attorney/Pastor ...................................................................................... Chiké Johnson* *Member of Actors’ Equity Association AC TO R S ’ E Q U I T Y A S S O C I AT I O N Equity, founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. Equity is governed by its own members through an elected Council, representing principal actors, chorus actors and stage managers living in three regions: Eastern, Central and Western. Members-at-large participate in Equity’s governance through a system of regional Boards and Committees. Equity has 28 designated area liaison cities with over 100 members each.

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DIR ECTOR’ S NOTES – MICHAEL COTE Y “Compassion is of value and enriches our life only when compassion is severe, which is to say when we can perceive everything that is good and bad about a character but are still able to feel that the sum of us as human beings is probably a little more good than awful. In any case, good or bad, it reminds us that life is like a gladiator’s arena for the soul and so we can feel strengthened by those who endure and feel awe and pity for those who do not.” - Norman Mailer So where were we? I asked that question on our first day of rehearsal in 2021, exactly one year to the day that we ended rehearsals due to the pandemic. We had gotten through one week last year before having to put the show on indefinite hold, but even in that short week you could tell that we had something special. Many thanks need to be given to David Cecsarini for keeping the pilot light on and committing to completing this process, allowing it to come, dare I say, full circle. After feeling like we’ve all been part of one of the circles of hell for the past year, it’s a real honor to come back with this amazing group of artists and tell this important story -- a story about a journey from great darkness to astonishing light which, in itself, is an apt way to describe the past year. Shortly before we began 9 CIRCLES the first time in 2020, I saw a screening of the documentary Midsummer in Newtown which interviewed a handful of parents whose children were killed in the horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The mother of one of the young girls who was murdered said something remarkable. She said that the person she thinks the most about in this world besides her daughter is her daughter’s shooter and all the opportunities their community missed to intervene in the trajectory of this troubled young man’s life -- all the calls for help, explicitly or otherwise, from someone battling a severe personality disorder -- and how he shouldn’t have been given access to guns, but rather love and support and structure from his whole community. She didn’t excuse his monstrous actions, but even in her grief this compassionate mother acknowledged that no one is born a monster. She pointed out that there are troubled young children just like him sitting in a first grade class that aren’t fated for tragedy. At the center of 9 CIRCLES is a similarly troubled young man named Daniel Reeves, who, like the shooter at Sandy Hook was not fated for tragedy nor born a monster. Not only is this troubled young man given access to guns, he’s made an instrument of war. He’s trained and expected to kill. He’s placed in the most unrelenting, disorienting and brutal circumstances imaginable, where performing the unimaginable can come at the flip of a switch for those who never should have been there in the first place. I think the fact 9 CIRCLES exists is a courageous act of compassion that only a Jesuit priest/ playwright like Bill Cain could perform. Ripped from the headlines, Cain was compelled to write this play as he learned not only the horrific details behind what one young man did as a soldier in Iraq, but more about the young man himself. (If you’d like to dive deeper into the real life events that inspired the play and an unflinching look into the Iraq War, read Black Hearts by Jim Frederick.) Cain has not written his play to give us simple answers, but to point us to the harder, more important work we can do as humans: to try and understand why people do terrible things. While we often champion the theatre as an engine of empathy, Cain’s uncompromising play asks us to stretch our capacity for empathy to include those who might not “deserve” it, for the people it’s easier to simply label as monsters. Ultimately for me, Cain’s play sheds light on 6

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DIR ECTOR’ S NOTES – MICHAEL COTE Y all the Daniel Reeveses in the world and what responsibility we, the community, have in how they turn out. While there are no easy answers, this much is at least clear to me: we shouldn’t be asking young men and women to fight our wars abroad when they are already fighting a war within. Because they will lose, either one battle or the other (or both)and that is on us. Going back to the Norman Mailer quote above, when I was poised to direct 9 CIRCLES a year ago, I wasn’t so sure which was the story of Daniel Reeves: one where he endures life’s gladiatorial arena for the soul, or one where he does not. But I’m a different person today given all that has happened this past year, which includes, for me, becoming a father of a beautiful boy full of potential. Today I choose endures. I choose that despite what Reeves has done and despite where the story ends, I believe he does endure by traversing the great darkness and discovering the most astonishing light. And so even in a play filled with such bleakness, I think there is hope -- both in the possibility that the Daniel Reeveses of the world can come to know themselves and that we have learned to be there to guide them so that don’t have to take that journey alone. Lastly I want to give a big shout out to Mark Ard of Feast of Crispian, a veteran of the Marine Corps who served in Iraq. Mark joined us in rehearsals to share his experiences and his enthusiasm for our telling of a story that touches on what soldiers are going through. He reminded us again and again of the necessity of doing this play.

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BIOGR APHIES BILL CAIN (Playwright) Bill Cain is the author of 9 CIRCLES, which was awarded the Sky/Cooper Prize by Marin Theatre Company where it received its world premiere production. It has gone to production around the country including theaters in Boston, Denver and Los Angeles. His play HOW TO WRITE A NEW BOOK FOR THE BIBLE premiered in the 2011-12 season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre. Cain’s EQUIVOCATION received its world premiere production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and its New York premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club, as well as being produced at the Geffen Playhouse (Ovation Award for Best Play), Seattle Rep, Marin Theatre and Arena Stage. Other works include STAND-UP TRAGEDY, which earned six LA Critics Awards (including best production and distinguished writing) for its premiere at the Mark Taper Forum before moving around the country and eventually to Broadway. Screen credits include the series “Nothing Sacred” (co-creator/writer/producer) which aired on ABC, an adaptation of “Clover” for the Hallmark Channel and HBO, “Nightjohn,” which was named best American film of the year by The New Yorker, “Thicker Than Blood” (TNT), which was an adaptation of STAND-UP TRAGEDY, “Everything That Rises” (starring Mandy Patinkin), “Papa’s Angels” (starring Scott Bakula, Cynthia Nixon and Eva Marie Saint) and “Sounder.” He is the founder of the Boston Shakespeare Company, where he was Artistic Director for seven seasons, directing most of the Shakespeare canon. Awards include: Steinberg New Play Award (first ever recipient two years in a row), multiple Edgerton grants, Helen Hayes Awards, the Joe A. Callaway Award, a Peabody, the WGA Award for Episodic Drama and a Christopher Award, among others.

CASEY HOEKSTRA (Reeves) Casey is thrilled to return to Next Act (previously seen in BLOOD AT THE ROOT) for such an exciting and important piece of theater. Chicago: COMEDY OF ERRORS (Chicago Shakespeare) TWELFTH NIGHT (Writers Theatre) AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (Drury Lane Theatre). Regional: JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, PERICLES (Guthrie Theater); TWELVE ANGRY MEN (Indiana Repertory Theatre); EXIT THE KING, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, ARCADIA (American Players Theatre); A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Children’s Theater of Madison). Opera: MOBY-DICK (Chicago Opera Theater). Education: BFA in acting, University of Minnesota Guthrie Theater Training Program DAVID CECSARINI (Lieutenant/Civilian Lawyer) David’s professional theatre debut was played out with the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis as a journeyman actor in 1978. From 1980-86, he worked his formative years as an original company member of the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, WI. During his thirty-plus year Milwaukee residency, he has acted with many of its professional companies, including the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Skylight and the Milwaukee Rep. Appearing most recently as Max Prince in Next Act’s LAUGHTER ON THE 23rd FLOOR, other memorable acting assignments include Anthony in OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, Sir Robert Cecil in EQUIVOCATION, Vince Lombardi in 9 CIRCLES

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LOMBARDI: THE ONLY THING, Ben in LAST OF THE BOYS, Eddie in FOOL FOR LOVE, Bennett in MICROCRISIS, Ezra Pound in INCOMMUNICADO and “all the gang” in BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR. David has proudly served as Producing Artistic Director for Milwaukee’s Next Act Theatre for 29 years. He is fortunate to live in Whitefish Bay with his three beautiful girls: Miranda, Amalia and his ever-patient, life-partner wife, Deborah Staples Cecsarini. MALKIA STAMPLEY (Young Female Lawyer/ Shrink/Prosecution) Malkia is excited to be back at Next Act! She was previously seen in PRINCIPAL PRINCIPLE. She also serves as Artistic Producer of the Milwaukee Black Theater

Festival. Select theater productions include: TWO TRAINS RUNNING (Milwaukee Rep/Cincinnati Playhouse); THE COLOR PURPLE, DREAMGIRLS, A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Milwaukee Rep); DOUBT (Milwaukee Chamber); THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Manhattan Shakespeare Project); CROWNS (Skylight Music Theatre); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Theatre LILA/Children’s Theatre of Madison, Optimist Theatre); GOOD PEOPLE (Forward Theater); HOLES, A MIDNIGHT CRY and CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (First Stage); DREAMGIRLS (St. Louis Black Rep); BLACK NATIVITY and THE TALENTED TENTH (Congo Square); RAISIN (Court Theatre). TV credits: “Empire,” “Chicago PD,” “Shameless,” “The Chi” and “Work in Progress.” Film: HBO’s Native Son, Netflix’s Beats and independent films Killing Eleanor and Small Town Wisconsin. Malkia also plays

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multiple characters on the animated series Senior Living on YouTube. Subscribe to her channel “Malkia Talks” on YouTube. CHIKÉ JOHNSON (Army Attorney/Pastor) Chiké is happy to be returning to Next Act Theatre. He most recently appeared as Disciple Ufot in New York Theatre Workshop’s Production of RUNBOYRUN. Other recent productions: Sterling in TWO TRAINS RUNNING in a co-production between Cincinnati Playhouse and the Milwaukee Rep, Brucie in SWEAT at American Conservatory Theatre, Cyrus Smith in 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA at Lookingglass Theatre, Dr. Gibbs in OUR TOWN at the Milwaukee Rep, Walter Lee IN A RAISIN IN THE SUN, a co-production between Indiana Rep and Syracuse Stage. American Players Theatre where he played Vershinin, Lebret and Ageus. Dr. John Prentice in GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER in a co-production between Indiana Rep and Geva Theatre. Chiké has an extensive film and television background. Some of his film credits include: Captive State, The Surface, Ass Backwards and Friends With Benefits. Some of his television credits include, but are not limited to: “Empire,” “Suits,” “Chicago PD,” “Chicago Justice” and “Orange is the New Black.” MICHAEL COTEY (Director) Michael is excited to be back at Next Act after last directing another play by Bill Cain, EQUIVOCATION. He has also directed at Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Third Avenue Playhouse, First Stage, Northwestern University, UW-Madison, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, Illinois Wesleyan University and Youngblood Theatre. Michael has also assisted at Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare, Steppenwolf and

Milwaukee Rep, for prominent directors like Tony Award-winners Mary Zimmerman and Robert Falls. From 2009-2013 he was the Founding Artistic Director of Youngblood Theatre in Milwaukee. Regularly celebrated by the theater community and the press as one of the most exciting new Milwaukee theater ventures in decades, Youngblood provided professional opportunities to earlycareer emerging artists, introduced the works of provocative new playwrights and staged theatre in raw found spaces that invoked Milwaukee’s storied industrial past. He’s taught at UW-Madison, Roosevelt University, Northwestern and UW-Milwaukee. In 2020 Michael launched #ENOUGH: Play to End Gun Violence (www.enoughplays.com), a year-long initiative to give teens a platform to confront gun violence through playwriting, culminating in an evening of simultaneous staged readings across the country of the finalist plays. Theatres and schools from fifty communities in 23 states participated in the inaugural nationwide #ENOUGH reading, with over 1,100 artists involved. Michael graduated from UW-Milwaukee with a BFA in Acting and from Northwestern University with an MFA in Directing. In 2014 he was named UWM’s “Graduate of the Last Decade” and in 2020 he took on his most exciting role to date: Jackson Cotey’s dad. www.michaelcotey.com MALAINA MOORE (Directing Intern) Malaina is a Milwaukeebased actress and playwright. She wrote and starred in the awardwinning play WHITE PRIVILEGE that premiered on the Marquette University mainstage in 2019. Aside from WHITE PRIVILEGE, some of Malaina’s favorite productions have been STEW in the first annual Milwaukee Black Theatre Festival, CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY with Marquette, ELLIS with Cooperative Performance and PRINCIPAL PRINCIPLE 9 CIRCLES

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here at Next Act. She is also looking forward to seeing her play WHITE PRIVILEGE, professionally produced again at Chain Reaction Theatre Company in Minnesota in May 2021. Malaina is excited to be working with Next Act again in a new capacity, learning from Michael in his creative journey to sculpt this show and all of the other extraordinary artists on stage and behind the scenes. I hope you enjoy this deeply intimate and powerful story wherever you may be in the world. JESSICA CONNELLY (Resident Stage Manager) Jessica first began working with Next Act Theatre in 2003. Since 2006 she has been Next Act’s Resident Stage Manager, stage managing nearly 60 productions. A few of Jessica’s favorite projects include: DEAR ESTHER, MASTER HAROLD and the BOYS, LAST OF THE BOYS, THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP, GREETINGS, FAITH HEALER, PURGATORIO, GOING TO ST. IVES, VIGIL, GRACE, THREE VIEWS OF THE SAME OBJECT, TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992, BLOOMSDAY, SILENT SKY, EQUIVOCATION, I AND YOU and BLOOD AT THE ROOT (Next Act Theatre); A RISING WIND (John Michael Kohler Arts Center); CHESAPEAKE, TROJAN WOMEN, THE SHAPE OF THINGS and the US premier of SKIN TIGHT (Renaissance Theaterworks); DISGRACED, FENCES and BLUE ROSE (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); SANTALAND DIARIES (Marcus Center for the Performing Arts); HAIRSPRAY (Little Theatre on the Square). Jessica is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and an honors graduate of UWMilwaukee. She is the loving dog mom to two small furry babies; 8-year-old mini dachshunds lovingly named Auggie and Fritz. In loving memory of Cleopatra.

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STEVE BARNES (Scenic Designer) Steve is happy to work with Next Act Theatre for the very first time. He has enjoyed many years working in the Milwaukee and Madison area. His favorite credits include: DRIVING MISS DAISY, DEAR ELIZABETH and THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) [REVISED] at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, THE VIOLET HOUR and LETTICE AND LOVAGE at Renaissance Theaterworks and BURYING THE BONES at In Tandem Theatre. Steve has also worked with The Milwaukee Rep, First Stage Children’s Theater, Children’s Theater of Madison, Kohl’s Wild Theater and Racine Theatre Guild. NOELE STOLLMACK (Lighting Designer) Noele Stollmack is delighted to be back to work in a proper theatre with the Next Act Theatre Staff. Noele was last at Next Act to light their production of HOW TO WRITE A NEW BOOK FOR THE BIBLE. Noele’s lighting has appeared onstage at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Library of Congress Theatre, as well as the opera companies of Santa Fe, Ontario, Houston, Portland, Vancouver, New Orleans, Nashville, Madison and Milwaukee. Regional design for the theatre includes Jeff Daniels’ Purple Rose Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Houston’s Alley Theatre, Wisconsin’s Milwaukee Rep, Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Skylight Music Theatre, American Players Theatre, Forward Theatre and First Stage Children’s Theatre. As Lighting Director for Houston Grand Opera, she supervised the lighting and special effects for over 50 productions along with designing the lighting for such productions as Andrei Serban’s ELEKTRA, Dr. Jonathan Miller’s DER ROSENKAVELIER, AIDA and the world premieres of HARVEY MILK, DESERT OF ROSES and DRACULA DIARY. Her AIA award-winning architectural and public space lighting is installed throughout the Midwest.

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GROVER HOLLWAY (Sound Designer) Grover is a sound designer and engineer based in the Chicago area. His designs have been presented throughout the region including The House Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Adventure Stage Chicago, Broken Nose Theatre, Actors Gymnasium, Next Act Theatre, Waltzing Mechanics and Mudlark Theatre. In 2017, his design for THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE OZ (House Theatre) earned the Jeff Award for Midsize-Equity Sound Design. Grover works as a contracted designer for the Northwestern MFA program, with sound designs including WHITE, THE ORANGE GARDEN, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, THE GREAT GATSBY, THE TEMPEST and HIT THE WALL. Grover is a graduate of Northwestern University with a B.S. in Theatre.

OF THE JERSEY LILY. Her full time gig is as the Annual Campaign & Development Database Manager in the Development department at First Stage. Being a part of a theatre company like First Stage has brought her joy and a renewed love of all things theatre and proof of how theatre can change the lives of the young and set them up for success. Thank you to the theatre community of Milwaukee for giving her work and purpose!

LYNDSEY KUHLMANN (Costume Designer) Lyndsey returns to Next Act after previously designing PRINCIPAL PRINCIPLE, I AND YOU and GROUCHO: A LIFE IN REVUE. Some of her other local credits include: GRETEL!, MOCKINGBIRD, CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG and SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS (First Stage) and BEN BUTLER (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre). She holds a Master’s Degree in Costume Technology and Design from Ohio University and is in her 12th season as the Cutter/Draper in the First Stage costume shop.

MICHAEL VAN DRESER (Technical Director) Mike has served as Next Act Theatre’s Technical Director since 2011, taking on the additional roles of Facility Manager and Rental Coordinator in 2014. Previously, Mike was the resident Master Electrician and Light Board Operator. Mike studied with renowned Lighting Designer Jason Fassl. Some of Mike’s designs include I AND YOU, UnSILENT NIGHT, BRAVO, CARUSO!, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE LIVE RADIO SHOW, NO CHILD…, PERFECT MENDACITY and ONE TIME with Next Act Theatre and HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH, NEXT TO NORMAL, THE WILD PARTY and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS with All In Productions. When Mike is not working for Next Act, he is working on building his own production company that services technical theatre needs for high schools, colleges and other area theatre organizations. Mike looks forward to many more years with Next Act and the Greater Milwaukee theatre arts community.

HEIDI SALTER (Properties Master) Heidi Salter is returning to Next Act Theater as property designer. She has produced and directed dozens of productions over the years and is a founding member of Imagination Theatre where she directed INTO THE WOODS, DEATH OF A SALESMAN and RUN FOR YOUR WIFE, to name a few of her favorites. Heidi has also designed props for Renaissance Theaterworks’ PHOTOGRAPH 51 and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE

JANE FLIELLER (Development Director) This season marks Jane’s second with Next Act, having served as Producing Director for In Tandem Theatre, a Milwaukee-based theatre company she cofounded with her husband, Chris. Her work with In Tandem culminated in twenty-one years of producing critically-acclaimed, exciting live theatre for which she received an Artist 9 CIRCLES

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of the Year Award from the Milwaukee Arts Board, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the 2019 Footlights People’s Choice Awards and numerous Best of the Year recognitions through the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Shepherd Express. A former stage manager, Jane toured nationally with the Great American Children’s Theatre Company and has worked locally for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, First Stage Children’s Theatre, Theatre Tesseract, Next Act Theatre and Next Generation Theatre. For several years, Jane was the stage manager for ComedySportz, a position she originated. Jane’s directing credits include In Tandem, Carroll University, Broadway Baby Dinner Theatre, South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, Whitefish Bay High School and Marquette University. A.J. MAGOON (Marketing Director) A Milwaukee-based arts administrator and actor, A.J. holds a BA in Theatre Arts and a minor in Public Relations from Marquette University. He has performed various administrative duties for Summit Players Theatre, First Stage, Theatre Gigante and Theatre Nervosa and came to Next Act from Bottom Line Marketing and Public Relations. In addition to his behindthe-scenes work, A.J. has been seen onstage with First Stage, Renaissance Theaterworks, Theatre Gigante, Voices Found Repertory, Summit Players Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (Young Playwrights Festival), Theatre Nervosa, Quasimondo Physical Theatre, Off the Wall Theater, Windfall Theatre and Cooperative Performance. Outside of theatre, he enjoys baking and spending time in the great outdoors. GRACE DEWOLFF (Education Manager) Grace is a Milwaukee born-and-raised theatre maker with experience as a professional actor and as an auxiliary theatre teacher in a multitude of MPS schools. Before working 16

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at Next Act, she taught in educational outreach programs at First Stage, Skylight, Arts@Large and The Rep and continues to bring professional theatre experiences to classrooms and students in and around Milwaukee. When not at Next Act, Grace can be found traveling to the Edinburgh, Scotland Fringe Festival or rehearsing a staged sword fight (someday maybe both at once). LIBBY AMATO (Administrative Assistant/Deck Chief) Libby has been a member of the Next Act family for more than 15 years in a variety of roles, including House Manager, Ticket Office Attendant, Actor and Deck Chief. As of summer 2020, she’s delighted to add Administrative Assistant to the list. Libby is a long time Milwaukee theatre professional. She also recently turned her weird hobby (soap-making) into a small business venture. In her free time she enjoys running by the lake and hanging out with her elderly cat.

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Generously giving since April 2020. Anonymous (3) Bob Balderson Donna and Donald Baumgartner Haly Besaw Marcia Brooks and Edward Hammond Michael and Ericka Burzynski Miles and Barbara Capron Lois Cecsarini Judges John and Jean DiMotto Jane M. Foster Four Four Foundation Pam Frautschi Tim and Sue Frautschi Lori Morse and Rob Gardenier William N. and Janice V. Godfrey Family Foundation Trust Judith Goetz Greater Milwaukee Foundation The Colton Charitable Fund INVESTORS ($5,000 Robert Gardenier and Lori - $9,999) Morse Charitable Fund CAMPAC (Milwaukee Jami and Joe Hanreddy County Funding) Andrew and Paula Holman The Einhorn Family Richard and Esther Huiting Foundation Jewish Community Foundation Greater Milwaukee Foundation Pam Kriger Donor Judith A. Keyes Family Fund Advised Fund Werner W. and Susan M. Jack and Lucy Rosenberg Krause Family Fund Donor Advised Fund Angela Jacobi Mark and Ginny Kannenberg Nancy L. Laskin Mary Ann and Charles LaBahn City of Milwaukee Arts Board John Mahony and Nonprofit Management Fund Evelyn Burdick J. Michael Reavis Donna Martynski Bert L. and Patricia S. Thomas and Renee Steigleder Charitable Trust McCutcheon Christine Symchych Guy and Mary Jo McDonald and Jim McNulty Kathleen McElroy and Wisconsin Arts Board David Newby Wisconsin Arts Board Joyce Mielke (Cares Act Funding) Dwight and Marleen Morgan Wilfred Wollner Jr. Daniel P. and Julie Murray Sandra Zingler and Kathy Nusslock Barbara Johnson David Paris Dentistry Clare M. Peters PRODUCER’S CIRCLE Charitable Trust ($1,000 - $4,999) Dan and Anna Robbins James and Terri Alioto Mary Ruffolo and Ben Litwin David and Patricia Anderson Howard and Sue Schoenfeld VISIONARIES ($10,000 and above) Bader Philanthropies Patty Compton Greater Milwaukee Foundation Ildy and Skip Poliner Fund Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Dorothy Inbusch Foundation, Inc. Sheldon and Marianne Lubar The Martin Family Foundation Vincent L. Martin and Janet Dowler Martin Revocable Trust Milan Racic The Shubert Foundation Julia and David Uihlein United Performing Arts Fund; Bright Minds and Kasey’s Fund

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Sempercor Foundation Jan Serr and John Shannon Foundation Sandra M. Seymour John and Pamela Shefchik Dr. Mark and Nancy Smuckler Gilbert Southwell III and Tracy Luber Eileen and George Stone Tom and Linda Streifender Way and Jacquelyn Thompson Jr. David and Cheryl Walker Dick and Diane Wright Charitable Fund DIRECTORS ($500 - $999) James Alioto Kathy and Tom Alpren Anonymous (2) Dr. Richard and Mrs. Diana Barthel Brooke Billick and Susan Bickert Sue Bronson and Dan Frankel The James Cauley and Brenda Andrews Charitable Fund Anne Chapman and Scott Maul Tom and Mary Belle Chatton Kathryn and Kelly Clark Karen and Robert Dean Margaret Dethloff Patrick and Patti Doughman Sandy Duffy John F. Emanuel Robert Ferriday III and Barbara McMath Helen and Bert Forster Meghan Gauger and Samuel Garst Tom Gauthier Greater Milwaukee Foundation Compton/Jacobsen Family Fund Sherry and Norm Malmon Philanthropic Fund Donna and Tony Meyer Fund Bill and Gwen Werner Fund Diana and Ron Hankes James and Mary Ann Hanson Jill Heavenrich

T H A N K YO U N E X T AC T T H E AT R E S U P P O R T E R S Roy and Sigrid Jablonka Cathy Jakicic Jewish Community Foundation Lucy and Jack Rosenberg Donor Advised Fund L. William and Nicole Teweles Donor Advised Fund Annie Jurczyk and Steve Miller Annie Jurczyk Realty, LLC Kerri Kilbourne Dale and Barbara Lenz Brian and Susan Manthey Lee Marquardt John and Linda Mellowes Melanie and Frank Popa Gus and Joanne Ricca Susan A. Riedel Sarah Sobeck Pieper Electric, Inc./ Ideal Mechanical Richard Stone Martin and Janet Tierney Scott Wilke

David and Kelly Guthery The Halverson Charitable Gift Fund Michael and Lyn Hamilton Carrie Hitchcock and Norman Moses Hal Horneffer Buck Charles and Mary Kamps Richard and Diane Kane James Kaplan and Kay Stiefel Thomas M. Kelly Donald and Renee Kielich Noreen and Gary Killian Neil and Kathleen Knutsen Susan LeVine and Kevin Mackey Greg and Susie Lochen Christine Martin Douglas Mickelson Kenn Miller and Wendy Walker Miller Wendy Moeller Robert and Theresa Muselman Jean Novy LEADING ACTORS Christine and James O’Brien ($250 - $499) Gregory and Holly Orlowski George Affeldt David Paris June and Paul Ambro Donald Petersen Charles and Mary Anderson Dave and Carole Pucely Charitable Fund Herbert Quigley and Anonymous Christine Radiske Katie Bayliss and Tom Mann David and Pat Rierson Natalie Beckwith Paul and Lynn Rix Nic Bernstein Billi and Chris Schoggen Glendon and Susanne Bogdon Pam Seccombe Robert and Sharon Brenner Mary Anne Siderits Foundation Jill Broekhuizen Sharon and Gary Simon Jess Brownell and Les and Marcia Singer Shirley Conlon Katherine M. Smith Dan and Rebecca Burzynski Wayne and Kathy Sojkowski Neal and Carla Butenhoff John and Mary Splude Jane and Steve Chernof Gregory Strowig Shirley Conlon and Marjorie Sutton Jess Brownell Chuck and Barb Taylor Armando and Jo Covelli Steven Tietz and Cathy Kathleen and Randolph Dean Markwiese Rod and Sharon Lee DePue Jeffrey and Penny Timm Cathy Dills Phyllis M. Tubesing Carol Z. Dolphin Lupe Ugent-Ewert and Feast of Crispian Andrew Alan Ewert Sarah Ford and Randall Klumb Sheryl Van Haren Natalie Frankel George Volkaitis Greater Milwaukee Foundation Donna and Jerry Walsh McDonald Charitable Fund Dennis and Sue Webb

Marie Weiss Sandra Wicker Eve Joan Zucker SUPPORTING ACTORS ($100 - $249) Cindy Amini Robert Amsden and Jeanne Williams Anonymous (7) Richard Antonacci Jerry Apple Barbara Becker Don and Nancy Behrens Dennis and Paula Berg Mark and Diane Betz Paul and Mindy Biedrzycki Julie and William Bonnell Andee and Chuck Bram Mr. and Mrs. John Brandl Kathy Brengosz Cheri and Tom Briscoe Russell and Karen Brooker Daniel and Janet Brophey Mary Buchel and Larry Salsbury Philip and Ann Buechler The Pete and Laurie Byrne Family Fund Marie T. Campos Alice H. Cecsarini Suzanne Chernik Eric and Jeanne Christiansen Karen Connell Betsy and Dan Corry David Counard Kathy Dahlk Stew Edwards and Joanne Danforth Randall Daut and Patricia Ryan Jane Dennis Lynda Di Pierro Marcee Doherty-Elst and Christopher Elst Julie Dolinky The Durant Family Fund MB and SD Eckels Michael Evans Brian and Susan Faracy Abe Fenster and Ethel Lieberthal Abraham Fenster David Flores Wayne Frank James and Margo Frey 9 CIRCLES

T H A N K YO U N E X T AC T T H E AT R E S U P P O R T E R S Linda Gaalaas Laura Gordon and Jonathan Smoots Stephanie Govin-Matzat Reed and Nancy Groethe David Haase Robert and Jill Hartmann Janis Heinze Cynthia Hiteman Dotty Holman Linda Jaeger Pat Janisch Richard and Joan Janisch Doug and Logan Jarecki Kristine Jensen Ken and Judy Kaplan Dale and Susan Karpen Michael Katzoff, MD Caryn Kaufman Stan Kay Ellen Kellen Laurie and Bruce Kestelman Jewish Community Foundation Joan and Robert Klein Donor Advised Fund Joe Kmoch Mary S. Knudten Dennis and Carolyn Kois Carolyn Korona Kleo and Thomas Kritz Ann and Terry Krueger Konrad Kuchenbach Anne Kumor Kurtz/Larme Family Fund Helen Kuzma Dane and Dana LaFontsee Barbara Leitner Jason and Carol Leonard Ronald Leonhardt Dennis and Karen Leyer E.O. Lieberthal Ross Lloyd Sherry and Richard Lundell Kathleen and Kenneth Maciolek Lois Malawsky Margaret Malnory and Thomas Silbernagel Judy Martel Robin and Tom Martin Elaine McDermott Rachel McGraw and Patrick Brady David McIntosh Patricia McMahon 20

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Donna Menzer and James Schultz Chuck and Cindy Meyer Patricia Monroe Virginia Mueller Alicia Mullins Michael Murray David N. Nevin, MD Alex Ng and Carol Julin Tim and Deborah Nustad John F. Oberwetter Chris O’Brien Jane O’Connell Kathy and Alan Olsen Suzanne Osetek Judy Payne John Payton and Roger Hansen Jeanne Pehoski Kate and Dave Perry David and Louise Petering John Peters Jill Anna Ponasik and William Bradley David Powell Lynn Preston and Craig Petros Kathleen and Michael Quirk Kathleen M. Quirk Nancy Radke Patricia A. Rauch Mary and Ross Read Richard and Donna Reinardy Sean Rierdon Patricia and Allen Rieselbach Susan J. Riordan Marianne and Matthew Robbins Darlene Roberts Ronald and Sandy Roller Tom and Judy Saeger Heidi Salter Linda Gale Sampson Robert Schellhammer and Maureen Holt Cory and Joe Schlangen Jeff Schmeckpeper Schmeckpeper/Ramsey John F. Schneider Jeff and Joicelyn Schwager Rozanne Screven Beth Shepard Amy and Joe Silvers Gretchen P. Spencer Robert Spencer and Michael Necroto Jerrel and Judith Stanley

Betty Staples Alice Jo Star Dan and Valerie Stefanich Charitable Fund Steven and Jean Stern Curtis Stockhausen Laura Sutherland J. Tanner and W. Hable Paul and Donna Tanzer Diane Lynn Thomas Marie and Tom Thornton Alice and Stephen in Oshkosh Sara Toenes Lynn Tolcott James Toth and Karen Johnson Andrea Toussaint Jo and Herb Trask Leon Travanti and Carolyn White-Travanti Dennis and Carol Trinastic Susan Tyndall Robert and Marlene Urch Jann and Sue Van Dreser Bob and Louise VerWert Jim and Kathie Vint Catherine Washabaugh Phyllis Wax Alyce and Russell Weiss Betty White Prati and Norm Wojtal Heather and Rocky Wruck John and Susan Zientek JOURNEYMEN ($25 - $99) Curt and Joan Anderson Anonymous (31) Susan Armour Seidman Ronald and Barbara Auer Jerry and Gail Baccetti Janet Bashirian Caroline C. Basley Drs. William Baurecht and Helen Bannan Geoffrey and Karen Bilda Derin Bjugstad Margaret Blodgett and Ken Miller Pamela Booth Richard and Jane Browne Dana Brzezinski Mary and Rick Burbey Susanne Burwell Dave and Mary Carlson Connie Casper Judith Christianson

T H A N K YO U N E X T AC T T H E AT R E S U P P O R T E R S Flora Coker Roberta Coles Cynthia Cooper Barbara Corning and John Koeppen Jean Crane Elizabeth Daly and Richard Daggett Mary E. D’Amico and Mary M. Ruzinski Smith Anne Landre and Charlie Dee Patricia DeFrain Rose Delaney Peggy Dickson Dietz Family Fund Kit Donahue Scott Downey David Dreger Kathleen Drury Shawn Duffy Carol Dussault Diane and Jeff Edwards Linda and Mike Edwards-Savage Edward and Alice Eisendrath John and Marie Elsner Russel Evans Mark and Mary Flagg Suzanne Freshley Judy Ganzke Rosalie Gellman David and Nancy Giffey James Gingery Irv and Reesa Gottschalk Jim Gramentine Ron Oshima and Kari Gunderson Ellen Gyland Richard and Susan Hackl Rita Hale Winifred Hammermeister Rollie Hanson Katie and Tom Heinen Cliff Heise Cary and Karen Henson Nona Hill and Clark Johnson Carol Hoernke and Nancy Dean David Hoffman Donna Hoffman Molly Hoholik Mary Kay Jiricka David Johnson Debra and Peter Johnson Debra Jupka Kathie and John Karkheck

Lee Ann and William Kingston Celia Klehr Pat Klister Lilane Koehn Mace Katherine Koetting David and Jennifer Konieczka Daniel and Maureen Konkol Jessica Franken and David Korr Marilyn Kupka Marcia and Robert Lange Russ and Cecile Langford Sally Lemke Michael and Barbara Levin Debra Liebhauser Charlie and Patti Lomas Gordon Lugauer Mary Ellen Lukaszewicz Mary Madden Kurt Magoon Marcus Promotions Inc. Al and Marti Marino Courtney and Mark Marlaire Kent Mayfield and Jack Ford Doug and Joan Maynard Will McGraw Julie S. McHale Chris and Dennis Merritt Lisa Mosier Bruce Murphy and Rosemarie Balistreri Gene and Mary Newell Jo Anne Nissen Loretta O’Boyle Kit O’Meara Jill and Paul Paradowski Lauren Parker Barbara and Patrick Patterson Dennis and Rebecca Pelzek Therese Philipp Corliss Phillabaum Katja Phillabaum Marsha Poulsen Barbara and Richard Prodehl Joseph and Susan Puhek Pamela Quebbeman David Kozlowski and Sandra Raduenz Dorotheann Rauch Elaine Reis Jovanka Ristic Linda Roethlisberger and Dennis Hennessy Lynne Schade Michael and Jan Schade

Victoria Schaefer Debra Schampers Alex Scheurell Ted Schulte Christine Schultz Kevin Schumacher Martin Schwartz Kathleen Scullin Julie Seidlitz Barbara A. Sem Naomi and Mort Soifer Vince and Julie Sperka Susan Stein Linda Stephens Philippa Claude and Tony Stretton Karin Sundelius John Surber Carolyn Sweers Joan Tarachow Aria Thornton James and Jean Tobin Janet Trigg Jeanne and Paul Troglia Judith Uelmen Ann and Bob Ulatt Michael and Julie Van Dreser Kathi Villarreal Joanne and Richard Vogt Mark and Yvonne Wagner Cherry and Jim Wardrip Barbara Weiss William and Patricia Wolf Gregory and Diane Zarse Allyn Ziegenhagen and Lorri Croft

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TRIBUTE GIF TS In honor of Pam Best Cathy Dills In memory of Eric Butlein Stephen and Nancy Einhorn In honor of Eric Christiansen W. Brett Christiansen In memory of Bob Connelly Rosemary Connelly In memory of Tom Gauthier Dennis and Susan Daye Liz, Fred, Margie & Jean Doepkens (Desmarais cousins) Beth Dorsey Eileen and Howard Dubner Tom and Barb Garibaldi James Gauthier Jim and Sue Gauthier Margaret Gran Holly Grassin-Kremmel Helga Ickert Annie Jurczyk Jay and Kay Kaun Lin Family Joyce Mielke Cheryl Orgas and William Meeker Diane and Rich Pine Julie Bamberger Roubik

Peter and Emily Sensenbrenner Susan Stein John and Pam Stockbridge Michael Taibleson Corinthia Van Orsdol Jon and Karin Welstead Terry and Kathy Young In memory of John Edward Holland Konrad Kuchenbach In memory of Evan Jaeger Linda Jaeger In honor of Grace Lusby Betty Staples In memory of Jan Martin Mark and Ginny Kannenberg In memory of Joseph Pollack Irv and Reesa Gottschalk In honor of Rosie Ryan Schabach In memory of John Styberg Jerry and Patricia Styberg In memory of Jo Ann Tomm Tim and Deborah Nustad In memory of my husband Randy White Marilyn White In honor of Alice Zinky James Zinky

THANK YOU FOR MATCHING YOUR EMPLOYEES’ AND RETIREES’ DONATIONS! Ameriprise Financial Robert W. Baird & Co. EMD Millipore Corporation GE Foundation Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Johnson Controls Foundation Reader’s Digest Foundation US Bank Foundation WE Energies Foundation Check with your Human Resources department and find out if they will match your donation and double the impact of your gift. We are grateful to ALL our donors. Your generosity makes a tremendous difference in our ability to provide artistic and educational programming to the Greater Milwaukee community. We make every effort to keep this list accurate. Should you find an error, please accept our apologies and call Jane at 414-278-7780 or email jane@nextact.org to make any corrections. 22

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David Anderson...........................................................President Daniel P. Murray.................................................Vice President Paul Barno........................................................Acting Secretary Brooke Billick...................................................Acting Treasurer Cathryn Jakicic...................................Immediate Past President

Directors Terri Alioto Haly Besaw Michael Burzynski t Mohammad N. ElBsat Steve Marcus t

Donna Martynski John McGivern Sean Rierdon Susan Schoenfeld Sandy Zingler

t = Former Board President

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