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GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE AUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS THEATER
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MATT SHAKMAN
WELCOME TO THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE Photo by Jeff Lorch
BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA IS A WONDER—A BREATHTAKING DRAMA that unfolds on a brilliantly original canvas. It is the brainchild of the hugely talented Los Angeles-based playwright Inda Craig-Galván, who synthesizes a parent’s devastating loss with a quest through a fantastical world, all the while telling a story with ripped-from-the-headlines resonance. To celebrate this world premiere by one of America’s most exciting new playwrights—especially one based in our fair city—is an honor. Inda’s piece is among the most ambitious plays we’ve produced in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater. Before the Geffen, I ran the tiny, 30-seat Black Dahlia Theatre here in L.A. I have long been a firm believer that big things can happen in little spaces. And that sometimes there is even greater magic possible in an intimate venue. There was never any doubt that this play—though large in vision—needed a space that would immerse its audience, bringing us a hair’s breadth from the powerful, poignant drama at the core. It’s been a joy to watch the visionary director Robert O’Hara and his incredible cast and designers bring Inda’s script to life. They have matched her inventiveness every step of the way and blown the doors off of this 120-seat theater. Black Super Hero Magic Mama is a journey that will open your heart and show you what a truly original voice in the theatre can do. Enjoy the show! Matt Shakman Artistic Director
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WELCOME AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US today to experience the world premiere of the heartbreaking and highly inventive Black Super Hero Magic Mama. As we begin 2019, there is much to look forward to in the new year, including our annual Backstage at the Geffen fundraiser on Saturday, May 18. I am excited to share that award winning actor, singer and humanitarian Harry Belafonte will be accepting the Artistic Impact Award this year, with an additional honoree to be announced. Backstage at the Geffen is our single largest fundraiser of the year, helping to support the Geffen’s Education and Community Engagement programs, which serve more than 15,000 low-income youth, veterans, seniors and community members each year. In addition, we are also very excited to announce that Tony Award nominee Rory O’Malley will be the new host of the Geffen Playhouse: Unscripted podcast, now entering its third year in partnership with PodcastOne. Listeners around the world can not only enjoy exclusive, behind-the-scenes audio tours of widely acclaimed Geffen productions, but also hear conversations with some of today’s most compelling creative voices. For more information about what Geffen Playhouse has to offer throughout the year, please be sure to visit geffenplayhouse.org for updates. Thank you again for your loyalty and support of the Geffen Playhouse!
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“BEING FUNNY IN SAD TIMES”
An interview with playwright Inda Craig-Galván Photo by Julián Juaquin
By Rachel Wiegardt-Egel
IN BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA, INDA CRAIG-GALVÁN MANAGES AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK—she tackles the epidemic of police violence against Black peo-
Rachel Wiegardt-Egel: The play has so many tonal shifts, often within the same scene—including the use of a lot of humor. Why was it important to you to bring humor into the piece?
ple, one of the most wrenching issues of
Inda Craig-Galván: I’ve done a lot of sketch
our time, in a way that is not only honest
comedy. When I started writing plays, I
and deeply real but also somehow humor-
tried to write very serious plays, because
ous and wildly theatrical. At the beginning
I thought that was what playwriting was.
of rehearsals, I had the chance to chat with
I left my sketch comedy background in
Craig-Galván about the origins of the play,
my past and tried to leave it there—I
the role of fantasy in the world she’s created
compartmentalized it. And those early
and the importance of the audience being
plays sucked. When I decided—during my
allowed to laugh.
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wrote Black Super Hero Magic Mama—that
ass.” And then I realized, “oh gosh, that’s
I wanted to find my voice and not mimic
it.” On top of that, the theory that Sabrina
what I thought playwriting was, it occurred
[the main character of Black Super Hero
to me that I needed to stop separating
Magic Mama] has about Harry Potter and
my past from my present and my future. I
other fantasy stories—in which a child loses
realized that the plays that I responded to
a parent or has some other trauma and
were never just one or the other, comedy
then goes into a magical world, but doesn’t
or drama—I always preferred the plays that
really go anywhere—that theory is just my
did both. And I also realized that if I was
theory. It’s my personal theory that none
going to figure out who I was as a writer, it
of it is ever real—that they’re just these
would have to include the tropes of sketch
wonderful stories about how children cope
comedy—the moving around in time,
with extreme grief, but we forget that as
flashback, flash forward and being funny
we’re watching or reading and only see the
in sad times or finding sadness in funny
fantasy. Children aren’t the only ones that
times. It clicked. So that’s, I think, what I’ve
need that coping mechanism.
been doing ever since. RW: You speak about this piece as both a response to the expectations on grieving Black mothers and as an homage to fantastical stories. What was the spark of inspiration for you to bring these two seemingly disparate ideas together?
RW: What about this story do you think makes it right for the stage? ICG: There’s an element of us not knowing if it’s happening at all—thinking that maybe all of this is only happening in Sabrina’s mind. There are ways to show that in film or television, but I think the audience ends up
ICG: I was watching Tamir Rice’s mother
being let down. On stage, the audience can
at a press conference on the news when
be let in on the fact that something might
I started working on this play, so I knew
be happening in someone’s head—you can
I wanted to write something about the
show what’s happening in a brain on stage,
topic. Everything that I was seeing was
and everybody’s okay with it.
very sad, and I didn’t want to do that. The comic book elements came from a
RW: Is there anything else you want the
time when I was with my daughter and I
audience to know going in?
saw what seemed like a woman getting
ICG: I want people to know that it’s okay to
into an altercation with a man in a parking
laugh and it’s okay to find the joyous mo-
lot. They weren’t speaking English, and I
ments in the play. I didn’t intend to write a
didn’t want to approach because I thought,
play that’s just about grief. I want them to
“maybe he’s just telling her a story and
feel excited at the fights, and laugh at the
being very animated—or maybe she’s in
jokes, and find comfort in two boys hanging
trouble but I don’t know and I’ve got my
out together.
daughter with me.” We got in the car and I said to her, “If I were a superhero, I would
To read more about Black Super Hero Magic Mama,
have gone over there and just kicked his
please visit blog.geffenplayhouse.org.
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A NOTE FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT By Inda Craig-Galván
I KEEP A PHOTO ON MY DESK OF A PLAYGROUND IN CLEVELAND, OHIO. There’s snow on the ground. Footprints in the snow where a boy had been playing all by himself, alone with his imagination. As a mother, I find the image of a Black boy playing pretend—without any friends—to be simultaneously wondrous and a little sad. I imagine the game he might have been imagining: a Wild West shootout, a standoff between the Rebel Alliance and Darth Vader’s droids, cops & robbers. I’ll never know. The before isn’t seen in this particular photo that I keep on my desk. This image was captured later. It’s the after. After police officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback responded to a call—a suspect brandishing a gun at the playground. Seconds after they arrived on scene, Loehmann fired twice, shooting the suspect. The “gun” was a toy. The “suspect” was 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Loehmann, by the way, had already been deemed unfit and emotionally unstable at his previous police station, but nobody at the Cleveland PD reviewed the officer’s personnel file before hiring him and setting him off in a patrol car. Tamir Rice died the next day. It was his last day. Tamir Rice would have no more after, happily ever or otherwise. No more playgrounds. No more games. No more. As is always the case, reporters went to the police chief for statements...and then to the mother. In any other instance, with any other mother and any other child, there is a respect for privacy. There exists an understanding that a mother who’s lost her child should—must—be allowed to grieve. But somewhere within our collective conscious’
numbness to “another one” of these shooting deaths, we—the media and society at large— have come to expect something else. The Black Mother must attend the rallies, lead the prayers and keep on going. She must show up. We bandy words like strong and brave. We solder our learned expectations to these newly-initiated members of this messed-upmothers-club. These women have shown up and played their part in this cyclical nightmare, because it is what is expected. That’s their burden, on top of their tragedy, that we’ve all come to accept. I wrote this play as a defiant response to that expectation of the Black Mother to show up and be brave and strong. What happens if a mother doesn’t? What if she can’t. What if she won’t. Is she then deemed unfit? Do we label her emotionally unstable? Or do we give her the care and consideration that we would give any other mother who has lost a child? In this mother’s time of grief, can we honor her by allowing her to just grieve? To just...be. I also wrote this play as an homage to the fantastical adventure stories my own children grew up with. Stories about the boy who lived, the girl who went to Oz, the children who went through the wardrobe. Their passages into wondrous worlds all begin with a tragedy: Harry Potter is unloved, living under the Dursleys’ stairs after his parents’ death; Dorothy gets conked on the head during a tornado; the Pevensie siblings are sent away for their own safety during World War II. For the mother in Black Super Hero Magic Mama, a tragic event propels her into a world where she gets to be the hero. Whether this means seeking vengeance, forgiveness or both, we get to see a Black woman on stage at the center of a fantasy in a way that we don’t often get to see ourselves portrayed. She is brave and strong; and she is also at times sad, angry, confused and even funny. She is human. GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 7
THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF
WRITTEN BY
Inda Craig-Galván DIRECTED BY
Robert O’Hara SCENIC DESIGNER
COSTUME DESIGNER
Myung Hee Cho LIGHTING DESIGNER
Alex Jainchill
Karen Perry
ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN BY
Lindsay Jones
PROJECTION DESIGNER
Yee Eun Nam
DRAMATURG
Rachel Wiegardt-Egel PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Susie Walsh
Lizzie Thompson
CASTING DIRECTOR
Phyllis Schuringa, CSA
OPENING NIGHT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019 Major support provided by the Edgerton Foundation New Play Production Fund, with additional support from The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation and The David Lee Foundation. Developed during a residency at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference in 2017. Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director; Preston Whiteway, Executive Director Black Super Hero Magic Mama was the winning play in the 2016 WomenWorks National Playwriting Competition, a program of The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Workshop production at Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC. Chad Henderson, Artistic Director EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CIRCLE MEMBERS
Laurie & Bill Benenson • Martha Henderson • Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman • Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin Kimberly Steward & Josh Godfrey • Miranda & Brett Tollman 8 PLAYBILL
CAST OF CHARACTERS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Flat Joe ...................................................................................... Noah Abbott* Connie Wright .............................................................. Reiko Aylesworth* Dave Lester ......................................................................... Walter Belenky* Coach Corey Brackett .................................................... Daryl C. Brown* Tom Blackman ..................................................................... Kevin Douglas* Sabrina Jackson ........................................... Kimberly Hébert Gregory* Tramarion Jackson ������������������������������������������������������������������� Cedric Joe* Lena Evers ...................................................... Cynthia Kaye McWilliams* *Indicates member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
SETTING A teenage boy’s bedroom.
TIME Present.
RUNNING TIME Approximately 95 minutes. There will be one 15 minute intermission.
PLEASE NOTE There is no photography or filming of any kind allowed in the theater. Please turn off all electronic devices, including cell phones. Thank you!
OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 9
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES
NOAH ABBOTT (Flat Joe) Noah Christopher Abbott is an up-and-coming American actor. He began his career in commercials, modeling, television and film at the early age of four. Noah lives in Inglewood. He attends Frank Parent Middle School in Los Angeles where he excels in sports and loves math. At the age of four, Noah said to his mom that he wanted to be inside the television. His aunt Terry took his pictures and a star was born. Noah loves acting and his family has always encouraged him to pursue his dreams as an actor and athlete. Noah is elated to play Flat Joe and is thankful for the opportunity to be in his first big stage play. He knows he is a lucky kid! Noah’s favorite genre is comedy and thrillers. Look for Noah in the independent feature film Thriller, coming soon. Noah thanks his agent and manager, who believe in him.
REIKO AYLESWORTH (Connie Wright) Last seen as La Marquise De Merteuil at Antaeus Theatre Company in Les Liaison Dangereuses. Top Girls (Williamstown Theatre Festival, directed by Jo Bonney), Expats (New Group Theater, directed by Ari Edelstein), Humpty Dumpty by Eric Bogosian (McCarter Theatre Center), Robbers by Lyle Kessler (American Place Theater, directed by Marshall Mason), Missing Marissa Kissing Christine (Primary Stages, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley). Television/film: The Good Doctor, Scorpion, Hawaii 5-0, Lost, Damages, ER, 24, The Good Wife, Revolution, Oh Lucy, Mr. Brooks, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. For Andre and Nick.
WALTER BELENKY (Dave Lester) Born in Detroit, Michigan, Walter is an actor and visual artist. He is thrilled to be making his Geffen Playhouse debut. He has starred on television, in film and 10 PLAYBILL
on Broadway, as well as in many commercials. Most notably, he was in the original production of Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on Broadway that won the Tony Award for Best Play. He also originated the role of Mikey in the world premiere of Arthur Laurents’ New Year’s Eve opposite Marlo Thomas and Keith Carradine at the George Street Playhouse. He has his M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego. Much love to Rebecca, Leo and Luzella. Follow him on Instagram @walter_ belenky or through his website www.walterbelenky.com
DARYL C. BROWN (Coach Corey Brackett) Simply thrilled to be alongside the creative team at the Geffen Playhouse. Broadway and National Tours: Rent (Benny), The Lion King (Mufasa/Ensemble). Off-Broadway: Club 12 (Sebastian), Wrapped (Lionel), All Americans (Duncan). Regional theater: Six Degrees of Separation (Paul), “Master Harold” and The Boys (Willie), Godspell (John), Innocent Black (Percy), Wait Until Dark (Mike). Film/ television: All American (Pastor Weeks), NCIS (Commander Prasad), Castle, Gossip Girl (Jeffrey), Days of Our Lives (Orin Holt), The Young and The
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Restless (Edward James), New York Undercover (Officer Bronson). He holds two degrees: a B.S. in Sociology from The State University of New York and a Masters in Education from East Stroudsburg University. Special thanks to my love Trista, and my family for their unending love and support.
KEVIN DOUGLAS (Tom Blackman) Kevin Douglas is excited to make his Geffen Playhouse debut! Kevin and his family transferred to L.A. from Chicago. Chicago theater credits include: Northlight Theatre, Court Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre Company, where he is also an ensemble member. Some of Kevin’s favorite credits include: Black Diamond: The Years the Locusts Have Eaten, Lookingglass Alice, Around the World in 80 Days (Jeff Award nomination for Best Supporting Performer), Our Town (Co-directed by Anna Shapiro and Jessica Thebus), and Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting (Jeff Award nomination for Best Ensemble). Regional credits include: Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore Centerstage, Alliance Theatre and Kansas City Repertory Theatre. A playwright in his
own right, Kevin Douglas’ play Plantation!, directed by David Schwimmer, had its world premiere at Lookingglass Theatre Company last season. Kevin holds a B.F.A. in Acting from DePaul University.
KIMBERLY HÉBERT GREGORY (Sabrina Jackson) Kimberly Hébert Gregory is a combination of undeniable humor, clarity, intelligence and strength. You know her best from her roles in HBO’s Vice Principals, ABC’s Kevin Probably Saves the World, Better Call Saul, Two and a Half Men and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She starred in two previous shows at the Geffen Playhouse, Barbecue and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, earning Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations, as well as a NAACP Award. She holds two degrees, a B.A. in Psychology from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Clinical Social Work from The University of Chicago. Kimberly is an advocate for families and special needs children, and a voice for mental health services in underserved communities. She is an actor, a thinker, an advocate, a mother and a friend. She is happy to be sharing the message of this important work with this brilliant cast, and may a change soon come.
CEDRIC JOE (Tramarion Jackson) Cedric Joe, also known as “CJ” among family and friends, is 13 years old and currently in the 8th grade. He attends KIPP Philosophers Academy. Cedric Joe is very active and has participated in many sports activities involving football, baseball and basketball. With football being his favorite and wellplayed sport, he has a high football IQ and can eye football from a mature perspective. Upon being physically active, he began his acting career at the age of 5 months by winning a Baby Gap contest. He then found an agent that led him in the right direction to auditions. He started doing print work, leading to several national commercials, as well as television shows such as Game Shakers (Nickelodeon), Modern Family (ABC) and Good Trouble (Freeform). He just finished his first short film. Along with this, he starred in his first stage play called Loving Him and He’s Not Ready, where he played the character of Seth, the son of a single mom. Cedric Joe is an A-B student and excels well in the subjects of math and science. He is sociable and funny and is a leader amongst his peers. Cedric Joe has raw, GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 11
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES natural talent that gives him the courage to sing, dance and act, which has led him to the path he is on now. Cedric Joe is a well-rounded good kid.
CYNTHIA KAYE McWILLIAMS (Lena Evers) Cynthia Kaye McWilliams was born in Berlin, Germany, grew up in Kansas City, Kansas and graduated from the Theater School of DePaul University in Chicago. Her Chicago stage credits include First Breeze of Summer (Court Theatre) and several staged readings for Goodman Theatre and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. She is honored to be making her L.A. stage debut at the Geffen Playhouse. Cynthia currently stars in the Netflix series Prince of Peoria. Other television credits include recurring roles on Chicago Code (FOX), Survivors Remorse (STARZ), Nashville (ABC), Bosch (Amazon) and five seasons as a series lead on Real Husbands of Hollywood (BET). Cynthia has also voiced for Cartoon Network, the animated feature film Bilal and several video games, including Far Cry 5, HALO 5, Batman, Arkham Asylum and more. She holds a B.F.A. from The Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University. 12 PLAYBILL
INDA CRAIG-GALVÁN (Playwright) Inda is a Chicagoan living in Los Angeles. Where it’s warm. Inda’s plays have been developed and presented at theaters including Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan Lab, Kitchen Dog Theatre New Works Festival, The Old Globe, Chalk Repertory Theatre, Skylight Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Playwrights’ Arena MPAACT, Trustus Theatre Playwrights Festival, and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Honors: The Kilroys List, The Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, Blue Ink Playwriting Award, Urbanworld Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay, Jane Chambers Student Award for Feminist Playwriting, Black & Latino Playwrights Conference Winner, WomenWorks Playwriting Winner, Humanitas Play LA, and Princess Grace Award in Playwriting (runner-up). In addition to writing theater, Inda is a television staff writer on ABC’s The Rookie. M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing, University of Southern California.
ROBERT O’HARA (Director) Robert O’Hara has received 2 NAACP Awards (Best Director and Best Play), the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two OBIE Awards, Alpert Award and the Oppenheimer Award. He directed the world premieres of Nikkole Salter and Dania Gurira’s In the Continuum, Tarell McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays (Part 2), Colman Domingo’s Wild with Happy, Kirsten Childs’ Bella: An American Tall Tale, as well as his own plays Mankind, Bootycandy and Insurrection: Holding History. His recent plays Zombie: The American and Barbecue world premiered at Woolly Mammoth Theater and New York Shakespeare Festival, respectively. His recent directing projects include Kirsten Childs’ The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin at City Center/Encores Off Center, Universes’ Uni/Son (inspired by the poetry of August Wilson) at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare’s Macbeth at Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Slave Play at New York Theatre Workshop. He holds a Directing M.F.A. from Columbia University.
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES MYUNG HEE CHO (Scenic Designer) Myung Hee Cho is a set and costume designer for theater, opera, dance and live entertainment productions. She has designed The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona, Miss Julie, Extraordinary Chambers and WIT at Geffen Playhouse. Other design credits include set for Trojan Women, a new Korean opera at LIFT Festival in London, Holland Festival & Wiener Festwochen; Trans Scripts at ART; set and costumes for In the Body of the World at Manhattan Theatre Club and American Repertory Theater; The Thieving Magpie at Glimmerglass Opera; The Marriage of Figaro at Washington National Opera and Golden Fairytale Fanfare at Shanghai Disney Resort. Other selected credits are Stuck Elevator at ACT; Emotional Creature at The Linney Theatre, Berkeley Rep and Market Theatre, Johannesburg; The Magic Flute at the Canadian Opera Company and The Good Person of Szechuan at the Landestheater Linz, Austria. She is professor of stage design at UCLA and a recipient of Princess Grace Awards. KAREN PERRY (Costume Designer) Baltimore Center Stage: Fun Home, Skeleton Crew. Regional: Oklahoma (TUTS); Familiar (Woolly Mammoth, Guthrie Theater and Seattle Repertory Theatre); Citizen Market (City Theatre Company); Steel Magnolias, Miller, Mississippi, Hair, Dreamgirls, A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park, The Trinity River
Plays (Dallas Theater Center); The Lion in Winter (Guthrie Theater, directed by Kevin Moriarty); Porgy & Bess (Ensemble Theatre Company); Ma Rainy Bottom Blues, Having Our Say (Hartford Stage); Cabin in the Sky (Encore New York City Center); Dead & Breathing (The National Black Theatre); King Hedley II, Ma Rainey Bottom Blues, Lives of Reason, Seven Guitars, Sweet Blues, Guadalupe in the Guest Room (Two River Theater); Proof (Quick Silver Theater Company); stop. reset, The Piano Lesson (Signature Theatre); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Mark Taper Forum). Ballet: Cinderella Ballet Gala (Eglevsky Ballet). Last designed with Robert O’Hara: The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney (Public Theater and McCarter Theatre Center). Awards: Best Costume Design for Dreamgirls (Dallas Theater Center) from Black Theatre Award of Dallas. ALEX JAINCHILL (Lighting Designer) Alex is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer. Recent credits include: The Wiz (Theatre Under the Stars), Mankind (Playwrights Horizons), Macbeth (Denver Center for Performing Arts), UniSon (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). He was the associate lighting designer on two Broadway shows, Old Times (American Airlines) and Significant Other (Booth Theatre). He was also the associate lighting designer on the world premiere of Dear Evan Hansen. You can find out more about his work at alexjainchill.com.
LINDSAY JONES (Original Music & Sound Design) Broadway: The Nap, Bronx Bombers, A Time To Kill. Off-Broadway: Slave Play (New York Theatre Workshop), Privacy, Dry Powder (Public Theater); Mankind, Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons); Rx (Primary Stages) and many others. International: Royal Shakespeare Company (England), Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada). Regional: South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, The Old Globe, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Lookingglass Theatre Company and many others. Film/television scoring work: The Brass Teapot for Magnolia Pictures, A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2006 Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary Short Subject) for HBO Films. Awards: seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and 24 nominations; two Ovation Awards and three nominations; LA and SD Drama Critics Circle Awards; two ASCAP Plus Awards; multiple nominations for Drama Desk, Barrymore, Helen Hayes and IRNE, among many others. Founding member of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA) and The Collaborator Party. www.lindsayjones.com YEE EUN NAM (Projection Designer) Yee Eun Nam is a scenic and projection designer for opera, theater and any form of live GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 13
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES performances currently based in Los Angeles. Her recent theater design works include The Mountaintop (Garry Marshall Theatre); Skeleton Crew (TheatreSquared); Sweat (Mark Taper Forum); Bordertown Now (Pasadena Playhouse); Members Only, Dementia, A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story, Sweetheart Deal, La Olla (Latino Theater Company); Citizen: An American Lyric (Grand Park, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Fountain Theater); SAPO (Getty Villa); Lovesick and Generation Sex (Teatro Luna/ Victory Garden Theater). Opera/music theater design works include Notorious RBG (Skirball Cultural Center), Venus and Adonis/Savitri (New Camerata Opera, NYC), Lohengrin (New World Center, Miami), Backwards from Winter (Center for Contemporary Opera, NYC), Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (The Soraya, L.A.), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ariadne auf Naxo, The Tales of Hoffmann, Crucible, Deadman Walking, Cunning Little Vixen, L’enfant et les sortilèges, La bohème (Miami Music Festival, Miami), Don Giovanni (Freud Playhouse). M.F.A. in Theater Design at UCLA. www.yeeeunnam.com RACHEL WIEGARDT-EGEL (Dramaturg) Rachel is the Manager of New Play Development at the Geffen Playhouse, where she supports the artistic staff in season planning and fostering new work. This year, she spearheaded The Writers’ Room program, in which six Los Angeles-based playwrights will 14 PLAYBILL
develop new plays at the Geffen, culminating in a reading series next summer. She has previously worked in a dramaturgy/literary management capacity at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, McCarter Theatre Center, Marin Theatre Company and the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Favorite past dramaturgy projects include the world premiere of Alena Smith’s Icebergs (Geffen Playhouse), Nick Payne’s Constellations (Geffen Playhouse), a workshop of Jason Grasl’s Lying with Badgers (Native Voices at the Autry Festival of New Plays) and Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention (Williamstown Theatre Festival). SUSIE WALSH (Production Stage Manager) In Los Angeles, Susie has stage managed over 150 shows at theaters such as the Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre and Los Angeles Theatre Center, as well as Pasadena Playhouse. Favorites are By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Superior Donuts, Waiting for Godot, The Heiress, Flower Drum Song, Stuff Happens, Arcadia, The Drowsy Chaperone and Endgame. In New York, Susie stage managed Putting it Together with Carol Burnett. She loves Ken. LIZZIE THOMPSON (Assistant Stage Manager) Lizzie Thompson is honored to be making her stage managerial debut at the Geffen Playhouse. She has previously worked as a production assis-
tant at the Geffen on shows including Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Significant Other and Ironbound. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she received her B.S. from Allegheny College and her M.F.A. in Theater from Long Island University. Lizzie would like to thank her mom and dad for always believing in her, Charley for putting up with her (especially during tech week) and her Geffen family. PHYLLIS SCHURINGA, CSA (Casting Director) Phyllis is an Artistic Associate and the Casting Director for the Geffen Playhouse. Recent casting includes Ironbound, Skeleton Crew, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Guards at the Taj, Outside Mullingar, Bad Jews, The Night Alive, Switzerland and American Buffalo at the Geffen, and Shiv at The Theatre @ Boston Court. She has received 5 Artios nominations: Significant Other, Actually, Barbecue, Barcelona, The Country House. Before joining the Geffen, she was the Casting Director for Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago where her favorites include Frank Galati’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath (also La Jolla Playhouse, National Theatre in London and Broadway, where it received the Tony Award for Best Play), the original production of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile (and subsequent productions including Westwood Playhouse and Briar Street Theater in Chicago), Austin Pendleton’s
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Orson’s Shadow and Charles L. Mee’s Time to Burn. Broadway transfers include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony Award for Best Revival) and The Song of Jacob Zulu. She is a member of the Casting Society of America and the Ovation Rules Committee.
MATT SHAKMAN (Artistic Director) Matt Shakman has directed three highly acclaimed productions for the Geffen Playhouse: the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of Wait Until Dark and Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews. His theatrical work has also been seen at Primary Stages in New York and South Coast Repertory. Matt founded and was the artistic director of the Black Dahlia Theatre in Los Angeles, which was named “one of a dozen young American companies you need to know” by American Theatre magazine and “Best Small Theatre” by Los Angeles magazine. Under his leadership, the Black Dahlia garnered numerous Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and LA Stage Alliance nominations and awards. In 2011, the Los Angeles Drama
Critics Circle awarded him the Milton Katselas Award for Career Achievement in Direction. Matt is also well-regarded for his achievements in television and film. He is a director and producer for FX’s long-running show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and has directed episodes of Game of Thrones (DGA nomination), Mad Men, Fargo and The Good Wife. His feature film debut, Cut Bank, starring John Malkovich, Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Dern, premiered at the Toronto International and Los Angeles Film Festivals and was released by A24. Shakman is a graduate of Yale University and holds a B.A. in History of Art and Theater.
GIL CATES, JR. (Executive Director) As Executive Director, Gil Cates, Jr. leads the Geffen Playhouse in its mission to inform, entertain and inspire diverse audiences with live theater of the highest caliber—both within and beyond the non-profit theater’s walls. He has proudly served on the Geffen Playhouse Board since 2012. Gil’s theater credits include the award-winning Names (Matrix Theatre Company) starring Dixie Carter and Greg Mullavey, Three Sisters and David
Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre (both at Syracuse Stage). Gil’s film credits include The Surface (starring Sean Astin and Geffen Playhouse alumnus Chris Mulkey), Jobs (starring Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, as well as Geffen Playhouse alumni Matthew Modine and Ron Eldard) and the 2011 feature film Lucky (starring Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor). In addition, Gil produced and directed the critically acclaimed Life After Tomorrow, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, which premiered on Showtime. His other films include Deal (starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning) and The Mesmerist (starring Geffen Playhouse alumnus Neil Patrick Harris). Gil’s television directorial debut was an episode of the NBC comedy Joey, starring Emmy winner Matt LeBlanc. He studied at the National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, and holds a B.F.A. in Drama from Syracuse University.
REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer) Regina Miller has advised non-profit institutions, foundations and corporations on strategy, analysis and fundraising. She GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 15
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES has consulted for Array Alliance, The Entertainment Industry Foundation, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project and Kershaw’s Challenge, among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina worked for the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, where she produced an innovative human rights exhibition that traveled to 14 international destinations around Europe, Asia and the U.S. She also served as the Director of
Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, where she led strategic planning and development while executing policies that advanced the organization’s visibility and growth. Additionally, Regina has a strong passion for teaching. After graduating from University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she taught in preschools and kindergartens in New York. From the age of 13, Regina worked as a professional dancer on Broadway as
well as with a number of prominent modern dance ensembles. Fusing two of her interests, she created a highly successful program that incorporated dance therapy and creative movement into an early childhood curriculum as well as writing and producing a television show based on this concept. In addition to being a published author and photographer with Tallfellow Press and Prometheus Books, Regina has taught and lectured at numerous schools in New York, Los Angeles and abroad.
THE NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Supporting artists is central to the mission of the Geffen Playhouse, and play commissions are a cornerstone of that support. To commission a playwright to write a play means making a commitment to their voice, craft and vision, with the hope of sharing the fruits of their work on our stage. The Geffen Playhouse’s New Play Development Program is made possible, in large part, through the leadership and generosity of donations from: The Edgerton Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Fay & Frank Mancuso, Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald, Hilary & Jack Angelo and Mary Bianco, The MOCA Foundation. We are proud to have the following artists under commission: Rachel Bonds Colman Domingo Michael Golamco Meghan Kennedy Matthew Lopez Martyna Majok
Michael Mitnick Jiehae Park John Pollono Zoe Sarnak Robert Schenkkan Erika Sheffer
Jen Silverman Qui Nguyen & Vampire Cowboys David Wiener Lauren Yee Anna Ziegler
For more information on this program, please visit geffenplayhouse.org/newplays.
THE WRITERS’ ROOM A group for Los Angeles-based playwrights, The Writers’ Room is a product of the Geffen’s deep commitment to supporting new plays and specifically to fostering bold, relevant work by the vibrant artistic community of Los Angeles. During this one-year residency, playwright members gather monthly at the Geffen to share their work and receive feedback from their peers and the Geffen’s artistic staff, culminating in a play reading series. Angelica Chéri Dipika Guha
Chelsea Marcantel Brian Otaño
Liza Powel O’Brien Matt Schatz
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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PRODUCTION STAFF FOR BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA Assistant Director Daniel Zuhlke Assistant Scenic Designer James Maloof Associate Costume Designer Myelette Nora Assistant Projection Designer Emily Clarkson Costumes Built by Brent Bruin, Betty Fenner Davis Wig/Hair Designer Megan Ellis Wardrobe Supervisor Audrey Lastar Assistant Properties Master Cami Viand Properties Carpenter Patrick Squibb Automation Technician Tyler Brogla Stage Crew Miriam Levenson Sound Board Operator Mario Gurrola Writer’s Assistant Mary Kamitaki Studio Teachers Harrison Welsh, Amanda Ragge Scenic Carpenters James Cowan, Curt Gavin, Erin Long, Arielle Rossi, Philip Rossi, Reese Siedlecki, Marianna Wnorowski
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ANNUAL DONORS Phyllis & Franklin Tell Barbara & Larry Tenan Andrea & David Tenenbaum Robyn Tenenbaum Nancy Thomas Marjorie Thomson Martin Tobias Triada Palm Springs John Turmes Leon & Stephanie Vahn Daniel & Shauna Valenzuela Kathryn & Alan Van Vliet Marcia & Dr. Charles Wasserman, Ph.D. Marcia Williams & Gene Lucero Kevin Williamson Judith & Philip Winik Jan & Edward Woods Christina Wren Bobbi & Walter Zifkin
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Beverly Hanson Richard Hart Mary Hartley Sheila & Chester Hasday Hella Hershon Jack Hileman & Roxanne Huddleston Hilton Union Square hotel Dorothy Hoffman Paul Gordon Hoffman & Sue Caren Hoffman Kelley M. Hogan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Holmes Brett Johnson Judith & Steaven Jones Robert Jones Yvonne & Damien Jordan Avi Kamienny Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Kamine Marcy Kaplan & Eric Gold Patricia Keating Beverlee Bickmore & James Kelly Dr. Louanne Kennedy Nancy Kenney Dr. Ann & Mr. Jonathan Kirsch Steven Klein Joel Koppelman Deborah Lacusta & Daniel Castellaneta Joan & Christopher Larkin Cristo & Jeanne Lavagnino In Memory of Katie Layman Marla E. Levine Anita & Burton Levinson Lola Levoy Lawrin & Linda Lewin Robin Lewin Tracey Lewin Brenda & Warren Lincoln Joe LoTruglio Dr. Linda Maeder Marcus Mancini Goran Marnfeldt Mr. & Mrs. Phillips H. Marshall Gina Martino Kathy & Jim McCaffery Sara Miller Sue & Monty Mohrman John Moschitta Paula Moseley, EdD Bill Mullins Norma Myers Mark & Diane Neubauer Robert & Anita Nitta Justin Okin Gia Paladino & Michael Wise Carol Parry & John Fox Karen Peter Ruth Pilot Astrid & Howard Preston Dr. Stephen & Lani Rabin Redbury New York Mildred Reid Carlene Ringer Ronda & Fred Rose Joyce & Dean Ross Blanche & Bruce Joel Rubin Anne Sacks Tawny & Jerry Sanders
Chris T. Schmidt Nancy & Steven Schneider Susan & Peter Schwab Janet & Michael Schwartz John H. Scott Nicole Sexton Ed Shaughnessy Carol & Arthur Silbergeld Manish Singh Martin & Leah Sklar Trudy Sokol Donald B. Spradlin Irina & Alex Stavchanskiy Arthur Stern Stevens & Associates Cost Reduction Specialists. Inc. William Stringer Mr. & Mrs. David Tann Meg Thomas In Memory of Ginny Truesdale Baron Vaughn Ira & Laurie Waldman Bill & Kate Walsh Polly & Herb Weinberg Pat West Bruce & Marci Wiseman Anthony P. Zinge
ASSOCIATE $250 - $499 Anonymous (11) Terry & Richard Abrams Barbara Adams Loren Adams Elaine & Michael Agran Geraldine & Harold Alden Helen Allan Charles & Annick Allen Peter Anderson Robert C. Anderson Val Andler Philip Angerhofer & Stephen A. Jones Eloise & Mark Appel Jc & Jack Appelbaum Barbara & Ethan Aronoff David Atkinson Marc & Elizabeth Axelrod Lynne Babbitt Robert Baker Cecilia Ball Thomas Barad Elizabeth & Barry Bar-El June Bartczak Jonathan Baruch Judith & Thomas Beckmen Patricia Belcher Ronit & Gil Benjamin Katia Benthale & Josh Lewensohn Richard N. Berger Marsha C. Berkowitz Joane Berlin Adam Bialow Brian Borello Toby Bornstein Armida Brashears Leah Lynn Broidy
Laurrie Brooke Mitchell Brown Diana Buckhantz David & Kathy Burke Marcia Burnam Melissa Burton Michelle Butler & Mark Blackham Laura D. Campbell Marlene & David Capell Anthony Carbone Richard Cassese Ling Chan Thomas Chappell Barry Charles Martha Chase Diane Chernansky Anselm Clinard Larry Conover Heidi Jo Corey Gail Cottingham Susan Georgine Craig Norman & Nancy Cravens Valerie & Donald Cravitz Ingrid Curtiss, MD Beverly D’Angelo Col. Tony, Donna & Taylor Daniell Hedva & Dr. Dudley Danoff Steven & Linda Darling Jeffrey S. Davidson Elizabeth De Oliveira & Moacyr Da Silva Bert Deixler Hal & Roberta Delevie Dr. Udayakumar Devaskar Denny & Cathy Dietz Carol Jean Doehring Fred & Marilyn Dorer Sandy & Gerry Dorfman Daryl & Paul F. Doucette Linda Dozier The Milton L. & Betty J. Dranow Family Foundation Jacki & Murray Drechsler Chiedu Egbuniwe Arlyne Elliot Ronald Eng Kerry English Lidia & Mauricio Epelbaum Jim Esserman Rena & Peter Falk Judy & Mike Fantasia Dr. Francesco Federico Jo & Larry Feldman Mimi Alpert Feldman Abby & Malcolm Field Paul and Karen Finkel Lisa & William Finkelstein Steven Fleenor Keith G. Fleer Lynne & Michael Flynn Fran Fredella & Scott Rubin Seth Freeman & Julie Waxman Renee Fraser Sandy & Donald French Carolyn Fried Kenneth J. Friedman & Marilynn J. Friedman Family Foundation
ANNUAL DONORS Lynn & Barry Friesen Catherine Froloff Laurelle Frome & Brady Frome Gina Furth Lee Gardenswartz Corinne B. Garson Patricia Geffner Leslie & Mort Gerson Seth Gettleson Linda & Tom Givvin Jill Glasband Charles Gherardi Dr. Diane & Michael Glazer Amy Glickman Richard & Lori Glucksman Carol & Neil Goldberg Lorain Goldberg Mark & Molly Goldberg Francine Golden & Marvin Schlossman Les Goldman Ellie & Barry Goldstein Dina Goldstein Jay Gordon & Meyera Robbins Roger Gordon Liz Gottainer & David Sadkin Julie C. Graham, Olivia C. Zeiden, Liam D. Zeiden Shelley Hill Grant Debbie & Glenn Gray Madelyne Green Gary & Jeannie Greenberg Randi & Jerome Greenberg Marcy & Edgar Gross Dr. Felicia D. Henderson Eve Haberfield & David N. Johnson Roberta L. Haft James Hahn Hanif Haji Kambiz & Sylvia Hakim Mary & Alan Halkett Jane Hall Monica & Mark Haloossim Roberta & Marc Hamilton Padraic Hannon Hanna Heiting Dr. Jacqueline Heller Jackson Henry Michael & Candie Herman Matthew Herrmann Winifred C. Hervey Diane Hight Gabrielle & David Hill Edgar Hirst Cina Hodges Gary Norman Holland Melvin Horowitz InSight Consulting Partners Jackie & Warren Jackson Barbara Jacobs Frederic A. & Nancy Jacobus Carla Janzen Michael Jeppson Jeanne Johnson Robert Jones & Julie Anne Robinson Roz & Jerry Joseph Martha Kadue
Adriana Kahane Joanne & Larry Kahn Jessica Kaltman & Robert Reznik David Kaminow Linda Kaplan Owen Kato Dana Katz Morgan Kay Jim Kelly Michael Keir William & Renee Kendall Cathy & Bill Kirkpatrick Cynthia King Donna & Jeffrey Klein Joanna Klein Leana Kleinman & Jerald Johnson Laurie & Milton Klorman Delores Komar & Susan Wolford Charles Kristenson Kimberly Kruse Carol Lande Sharon & Lawrence Lavenberg Rhonda Lawrence Learning Encounters Ann Leland Adam Lesh Maxine & Gary Levine Karen & Ron Levine Harla Levitt Dr. & Mrs. Isaac Levy Rick & Vivian Levy Katia Benthale & Josh Lewensohn June Lewin Victor & Madeline Lindenheim Joanne Lindsay Leslie & Adam Lobel Alex Loewenthal Renee Lonner Lori & Tom Low Mr. Eric Lund Loris & Kory Lunsford Anne L. Lynch Barbara Marcus Dean S. Marks Annette Marmalefsky Phyllis & Bert Massing Douglas Mcavoy, Jr. Kathleen McCarthy Sheri and Jim McCashin Derrick McCray Christina Medigovich Marcie & Steven Medof Cynthia Melville Bhaskar & Sumi Menon Robert Mercer & Carol Chanel Mercer Eileen & Paul Meshekow Dr. & Mrs. H. Reed Metzger Sara & Henry Michrowski Lois Miller Judith & Jeff Milman Teddie J. Milner Julien Minard Peter Minarik & Sharon Vera Thomas Mitchell MNM Locations
Marvin & Jean Moore Christopher Morden Howard J. Morris Charlotte C. Myers Sarah & Clifford Nelson Sherri & Arnie Nelson Jeff Newman Margery Nicolson Doreen & Donald Nortman Adrienne & Arthur Omansky Dr. Ronald & Iris Onkin Janie Orenstein Patricia O’Toole Sharon Oxborough Ron Ozur Cynthia & Todd Palm Sylvia & Robert Paris Edward Parker Lawrence Parker Abhilash and Kelly Patel Dr. Kristine Penner & Steven Klein Naidu & Jane Permaul Dr. David B. Peterson Berta & Lou Pitt Jack & Jane Pollock Matthew Pomerantz Naveena Ponnusamy Zazi Pope Cheryl & Mel Posner Susan Poulson Marvin Rapaport Michael & Gloria Rausch Marianne Reynolds Linda & Erin Rice Linda & Steve Richman William & Polly Ridgeway Barbara & David Rognlien Louis Rohl Amy Roland Peter Romwall Robert Rosania Barry Rosen & Neil Bokal Maxine & Gene Rosenfeld Adrienne Rosenthal Beverly & Mel Rosenthal Brad Ross Lawrence Ross & Linda Nussbaum Terry Ross Robert & Susan Rovner Sylvia Ruiz Rand Rusher Terry Ryan Noriko Salamon Susan & Kenneth Sarno Maxine Savitz Linda & Cliff Schaffer Melanie Scher Jennifer Schiff Malcolm Schneer & Cathy Liu Joel & Sonia Schneider Stanley Schneider Dean Teri Schwartz
Brandon Scott Marc Seltzer Annette & Leonard Shapiro Barbara Vickery & Martin Shapiro Melanie Sharp & Kevin Miller Tom & Judy Sharp Steven & Annabelle Shulman Seymour & Dorothy Siegel Randi & Rand Singer Linda & Ronald Slates Diane Good & Frank Smith Marcia L. & Mark J. Smith Ronald Smith Karen Smits Christine Sorgi Stephanie Sourapas Melvin Spears Debra Spector M Leslie Stearns Frances & Sy Strasberg Holly Strom Penny Strowger Mr. Kayser Sume & Dr. Renee Sabshin Miriam & Gene Summ Ann Sunderland Lance & Maureen Tan Deborah Tavlin David & Cathy Thomas Ann Thorvik Judy & Art Tompkins Joyce & Josh Trabulus Marissa Trester Brigitta Troy Janet Tsjihan Dr. Gerald D. Turbow Dr. Harold Urman Deborah Valdez Erich Van Lowe Anthony Vasek Valerie Vetters The Vig Family Bobette Vikan Carole Wagner-Vallianos & Peter Vallianos Elisa Wayne Sherry Weinman & Michael Umansky Marsha & Steven Weiss Karen White Teresa White Bruce Whizin Baker Wiles Lawrence Will Susan Williams Karen & Gary Winnick Dr. Joseph Wu Marlow Wyatt Lisa Yen & Thomas Bajoras Kimberly & Andrew Zakanych Arnold & Tricia Zane Lynn & Meir Ziv Sandy Zwirn
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Matt Shakman
Gil Cates, Jr.
Artistic Director
Executive Director
ARTISTIC Amy Levinson Associate Artistic Director Daniel Ionazzi Producer Phyllis Schuringa Artistic Associate / Casting Director Young Ji Artistic Coordinator / Company Manager Rachel Wiegardt-Egel Manager of New Play Development
PRODUCTION Liz Brohm Hanrahan Production Manager Jill Barnes Associate Production Manager / Company Manager Evan Friedman Technical Director Brandon Mendoza Assistant Technical Director Rich Gilles Properties Master James Grabowski House Sound Supervisor Ramine Ameli Lighting & Projection Supervisor Liz Rose Wardrobe Supervisor
ADMINISTRATION Behnaz Ataee Chief Financial Officer Peter Banachowski Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst Clay Dzygun Office Coordinator
Mark San Filippo Director of Donor Stewardship
Alyssa Tyson Box Office Manager
Taylor Cerny Development Associate
Celia Rivera Assistant Box Office Manager
Jessie Sherman Development Assistant
Clifton Adams, Vaneh Assadourian, Britney Campbell, Lexy McAvinchey, Sam Peurach, Jonathan Ramos, Cameron Reck, Bryn Woznicki Box Office Staff
Austin Merrill Development Intern
EDUCATION Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community Engagement Joannarae Ibañez Manager of School & Community Programs Brian Allman Manager of Theater Education Celia Rivera Community Engagement Coordinator Brian Majestic Veterans Project Coordinator Darien Battle, Ramy El-Etreby, David Guerra, Michael McClain, Robert Paterno, Carissa Pinckney, Tara Ricasa, Celia Rivera, Jessica Winward Teaching Artists
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Patrick Brown Director of Marketing Zenon Dmytryk Director of Communications Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Audience Development Brian Dunning Director of Content & Creative
Sue Fleishman Communications Consultant
FRONT OF HOUSE Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events Mel Yonzon Front of House Manager Amy Farkas Lead Concierge Isaac Jay, Anya Pryjmak, Madison Shamoun, Dennis Woullard House Managers Kailey Bray, Ryan Brophy, Danie Hakimi, Jada Harris, Elza Hofeld, Lucy Houlihan, Otniel Henig, Hunter Lowden, Olivia Lowe, Austin Merrill, Keith Mitchell, Chuck Soo-Hoo, Charmee Taylor, Adam Turney, Isaac Vaughn, Robin Vega Ushers Rob Mersola Bar Manager & Mixologist Adam Carr Bar Captain Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager Skylar Adams, Brenda Davidson, Sarah Drescher, Ryan Turner Bartenders/Event Staff
Marguerite Harris Receptionist
Zack Hamra Associate Director of Audience Services & Ticketing
DEVELOPMENT
Kevin O’Brien Marketing Manager
Karim Bouzzit System Administrator
Regina Miller Chief Development Officer
Quinn Francis Outreach Coordinator
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Ellen Catania Senior Vice President of Development
Ramon Garcia Video Producer
Miguel del Castillo Facility Manager
Jessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations
Kristina Leach Social Media Associate
Mario Santillan-Perez Custodial
Wendell Pascual Production Artist
Juan Carlos Umaña Cleaning Custodial
Janice Bernal Box Office Manager
Camerina Martinez Cleaning Custodial
Jamie Mikelich Director of Individual Giving & Spotlight Manager
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. Geffen Playhouse, a not-for-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.
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