The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona Program

®

GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE GIL CATES THEATER

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MATT SHAKMAN

WELCOME TO THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography

THIS IS A SPECIAL PRODUCTION FOR ME FOR SO MANY REASONS. It is the first show in the first season I selected for the Geffen Playhouse. It is a world premiere and I am a passionate believer in developing and producing new work to add to the theatrical canon.

Even more than that, it is a world premiere by one of my favorite writers— José Rivera. His work is beguiling, emotional, inventive. And it is highly theatrical, embracing what can only be done on a stage, in front of a live audience. The depth and breadth of The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona is pure José Rivera. Romantic, wildly imaginative and timeless in its subject matter and themes.

José’s work is inextricably tied to the city of L.A. He came of age as a writer in this city and has had tremendous success on local stages. It is fitting that this great, sometime Angeleno is premiering his newest work here. Welcome home, José.

This production is also special because the Geffen welcomes back the brilliant director, Jo Bonney, who has helmed many powerful productions here including the smash hit Fat Pig. Jo has assembled a terrific cast and design team. Together they are bringing José’s latest work to life in a vivid, deeply felt, and impactful way.

Enjoy the start of the 2018/2019 season and I hope to see you at the next show!

Matt Shakman Artistic Director

2 PLAYBILL

JEFFERSON MAYS PHOTO BY JOHNNY ROZSA

ON SALE NOW! TICKETS AS LOW AS $30 310.208.5454 | geffenplayhouse.org/christmascarol

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Howard Tenenbaum CHAIR

Patricia Kiernan Applegate Beth Behrs Dr. Gene D. Block

in the Gil Cates Theater! On behalf of the Board and Advisory Board of the Geffen Playhouse, thank you for joining us for Matt Shakman’s inaugural season.

From producing brand new works, to reimagining timeless classics, to fostering the exceptional talent right here in our own Los Angeles communities, Matt has curated a season that we are remarkably proud to be a part of and eager to share with you. We recognize that it is a tough choice to leave the comfort of your own home, battling the Los Angeles traffic on top of life’s everyday challenges, to come to the theater, and we are excited to kick off this brand new season with you. Thank you for being here today to have a shared artistic experience, to build connections with those around you and to start meaningful conversations sparked by these highly theatrical, socially relevant works.

We are in the business of building new levels of understanding and compassion among us through live storytelling. Thank you for being a critical part of our artistic community this season.

Howard Tenenbaum Chair

Andy Spahn

Gil Cates Jr.

Steven Spielberg Steve Tisch Dr. Charles E. Young CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

Merle Dandridge Dr. Brad Edgerton

IN MEMORIAM

Mark Fleischer

Gilbert Cates

Sue Fleishman Patricia L. Glaser Adi Greenberg

FOUNDER

Marcia Israel-Curley Audrey Skirball Kenis

VICE CHAIR

Charles Kenis

Arthur Greenberg

Karl Malden

Martha Henderson

Jerry Perenchio

CHAIR EMERITUS

Loretta Everett Kaufman Jason Delane Lee Carla Malden Susan Mallory Barry Meyer

Edie Wasserman Lew Wasserman

LEGAL COUNSEL Peter Rosen LATHAM & WATKINS LLP

B. Scott Minerd Holly Rice Pamela Robinson

ADVISORY BOARD

CHAIR EMERITUS

Miranda Tollman

Linda Bernstein Rubin

CHAIR

Teri Schwartz

Ali M. Banki

Matt Shakman

Natasha Barritt

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Richard Sherman Fred Specktor Lorraine Spurge Cynthia P. Stafford Kimberly Steward Marc Weinstock

FOUNDING TRUSTEES

Stephanie Carson Lori Collins Ellyce R. Cooper Debra Davis Ann Gianopulos Priscila Giraldo Kirsten Hansen Eric Heer Laura Kennedy

Kirsten Combs

Wendy Kurtzman

Robert A. Daly

Yvonne Lee

David Geffen

Hannah Linkenhoker

Herbert M. Gelfand

Tiffany Mayberry

CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

Quincy Jones Jeffrey Katzenberg Glorya Kaufman Ginny Mancini Frank G. Mancuso

4 PLAYBILL

FOUNDING CHAIRMAN

Victoria Mann Simms

Mary Ann Cloyd

WELCOME TO THE 2018/2019 SEASON

Bruce M. Ramer

Harold A. Brown

Michael Centeno

Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography

Jerry Moss

Kevin Bright

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

BOARD CHAIR HOWARD TENENBAUM

Leslie Moonves

John McCrite Danny Passman Eric Rollins Allen Shay John Sonego

CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

Kevyn Wynn

Ron Meyer

Laurie Ziegler

BRIAN DENNEHY PHOTO BY T. CHARLES ERICKSON

AUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS THEATER

ON SALE NOW! TICKETS AS LOW AS $30 310.208.5454 | geffenplayhouse.org/hughiekrapps

THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION OF

WRITTEN BY

José Rivera SCENIC DESIGNER

COSTUME DESIGNER

Myung Hee Cho LIGHTING DESIGNER

Stephanie Kerley Schwartz SOUND DESIGNER

Lap Chi Chu

PROJECTION DESIGNER

Cricket S. Meyers

Hana S. Kim

DRAMATURG

Rachel Wiegardt-Egel PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Ross Jackson

Julie Ann Renfro

CASTING DIRECTOR

Phyllis Schuringa, CSA DIRECTED BY

Jo Bonney OPENING NIGHT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona was commissioned by Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois. This work was supported by a Theatre Commissioning and Production Initiative grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award Major support for this world premiere production provided by the Edgerton Foundation New Play Production Fund EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CIRCLE MEMBERS

Laurie & Bill Benenson • Martha Henderson • Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman • Jason & Yvonne Lee • B. Scott Minerd Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin • Kimberly Steward & Josh Godfrey • Miranda & Brett Tollman 6 PLAYBILL

CAST OF CHARACTERS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Maren / Lisandra ....................................................... Cate Scott Campbell* Orlando .................................................................................... Ricardo Chavira* Noelle / Paloma / Bobbi / Maria Sol ������������������������������� Zilah Mendoza* Abril / Nikki .................................................................... Onahoua Rodriguez* Manny / Priest / Eldon / Bernardo / Felipe ..... Juan Francisco Villa* *Indicates member of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

SETTING Here and There

TIME The Present

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 7

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES

CATE SCOTT CAMPBELL (Maren / Lisandra) Cate Scott Campbell is thrilled to be making her Geffen Playhouse debut. Stage credits include Tartuffe and Pride and Prejudice (South Coast Repertory), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (La Jolla Playhouse), Mommune (Chalk Rep), The Contrast (Mirror Repertory Company) and many shows as a member of The Groundlings Sunday Company. Television credits include How I Met Your Mother (CBS), Cousins For Life (Nickelodeon), You Kiddin’ Me (Facebook Watch), The Oh My Disney Show (Disney Digital) and multiple national commercial campaigns. Cate has created and starred in a number of critically acclaimed projects, including the digital series Tutored and the short films Math Brain and How I Do Math. Her podcast The Limit Does Not Exist (Forbes & PodcastOne) has been downloaded millions of times on iTunes and featured in The Washington Post and Adweek. Cate graduated from Northwestern University and has an M.F.A. in acting from UC San Diego.

8 PLAYBILL

RICARDO CHAVIRA (Orlando) Ricardo Chavira is a South Texas native whose acting career spans theater, film and television. His stage highlights include The Motherf**ker with the Hat at the National Theatre in London and the Off-Broadway production of Jesus Hopped the A Train. He has also appeared in regional theater productions across the U.S., including An Enemy of the People and A Streetcar Named Desire at the Guthrie Theater, Living Out, Tracers, Three Sisters, Dogeaters, ¡Bandido! and Macbeth. His television credits include Scandal; Jane the Virgin; Santa Clarita Diet; Hawaii 5-0; Castle; Burn Notice; Welcome to the Family; Desperate Housewives, garnering two SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series; George Lopez; 24; Joan of Arcadia; JAG; NYPD Blue; The Division and Six Feet Under. On the film side, he has appeared in Being Charlie, Powder and Gold, Don’t Let Me Drown, The Alamo, Piranha 3-D and Saving God. Chavira holds an M.F.A. in acting from the University of California, San Diego.

ZILAH MENDOZA (Noelle / Paloma / Bobbi / Maria Sol) Zilah Mendoza has originated lead roles in the theater such as Ana in Lisa Loomer’s hit Living Out (Mark Taper Forum, Second Stage Theater), Matilde in Sarah Ruhl’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Clean House (Yale Repertory Theatre), Electricidad in Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad (Mark Taper Forum) and Perla in Juliette Carrillo’s Plumas Negras (Cornerstone Theater Company). Her performances have garnered awards including an Obie, a Garland and a Lortel nod in N.Y.C. for her work in Living Out, as well as numerous Backstage Awards for her work in Los Angeles. Mendoza has had recurring and guest-starring roles on Modern Family, The King of Queens, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Grey’s Anatomy, MAD TV, Law & Order, Medium and 24. She is the Associate Artistic Director of the Mentor Artists Playwrights Project (MAPP), a nonprofit arts-based literacy program working in North America.

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES

ONAHOUA RODRIGUEZ (Abril / Nikki) Onahoua Rodriguez is grateful to make her Geffen Playhouse debut with José Rivera’s The Untraslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona. She originated the role of Ceci for the Denver Center’s Theatre production of Lydia, followed by productions at Yale Repertory Theatre and Mark Taper Forum. Other theater credits include Anna in The Tropics (South Coast Repertory, directed by Juliette Carrillo, and at Coconut Grove Playhouse, directed by Nilo Cruz), Beauty of the Father (Seattle Repertory, directed by Sharon Ott), Blood Wedding (La Jolla Playhouse, directed

by Mark Wing Davey). In New York, she has appeared in plays at INTAR, Repertorio Español, MCC Theater, Beckett Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company and La Tea Theatre, among others. Film/television credits include Beyond The Lights, Major Crimes, Shameless, Mad Dogs, Drop Dead Diva, NCIS Los Angeles, Castle, Weeds and The Shield, among others. She is a graduate of AMDA (studio program, NY). To my Guiding Lights, husband and daughters, God parents/squad and family, couldn’t be here without your love and support.

JUAN FRANCISCO VILLA (Manny / Priest / Bernardo / Eldon / Felipe) Juan Francisco Villa has appeared in the NY Times Critic’s Pick Oedipus El Rey, by Luis Alfaro, directed by Chay Yew at the Public Theater in New York. He has portrayed Tennessee Williams in the Off-Broadway Abingdon Theatre Company production of The Gentleman Caller by Philip Dawkins at Cherry Lane Theatre. His Off-Broadway credits include The Play About My Dad (Collaboration Town/59E59), Nature of Captivity (Mabou Mines) and One Night in the Valley (INTAR). In Los Angeles, he starred in the autobiographical Empanada for a Dream (LATC), which he also wrote, and Kissing Che (Celebration Theater). His Chicago credits include Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Hillary and Clinton, Mojada (Victory Gardens Theater); 2666, El Grito del Bronx (Goodman Theatre); Our Lady of 121st Street (Steppenwolf Theater); Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue (Rivendell Theatre/Teatro Vista); Gun Show (16 Street Theater); and Take Me Out (Steppenwolf Theater Company). Villa’s television credits include Madame Secretary (CBS), Chicago PD (NBC), Blacklist: Redemption (NBC) and Betrayal (ABC).

JOSÉ RIVERA (Playwright) The first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award, for The Motorcycle Diaries, Rivera is also the author of 26 full-length plays including the Obie Award-winning Marisol and References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, both produced at the Public Theater, New York. Other plays include Cloud Tectonics (Playwrights Horizons), School of the Americas (Public Theater), The Maids (INTAR), Adoration of the Old Woman (INTAR), Massacre (Sing to Your Children) (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Brainpeople (ACT, San Francisco), Sonnets for an Old Century (Barrow Group), Another Word for Beauty (Goodman Theatre), Boleros for the Disenchanted (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Street of the Sun (Mark Taper Forum), Sueño (Manhattan Class Company) and Lovesong (Imperfect) (Chaskis Theatre, London). Screenplays include On the Road, The 33, Trade, Letters to Juliet and A Thousand Miles to Freedom. Rivera co-created and produced the NBC series Eerie, Indiana, and has written pilots for HBO, TNT and Showtime. Awards include a Fulbright Arts Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a McKnight Fellowship, a Rockefeller Grant, a Whiting Foundation Award and New York Council for the Arts grant. Rivera has mentored GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 9

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES the Sundance Screenwriting Lab in Utah, Jordan and India, and leads the New York-based Writers Group.

JO BONNEY (Director) Jo Bonney has directed the premieres of productions including Lynn Nottage’s Mlima’s Tale; Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living; Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home from the Wars; Hammaad Chaudry’s An Ordinary Muslim; John Pollono’s Rules of Seconds; Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig, The Break of Noon and Miss Julie; David Rabe’s An Early History of Fire; Paul Lucas’ Trans Scripts; Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature; Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Drama Desk & Lucille Lortel nominations for Best Director); Culture Clash’s American Night; Naomi Wallace’s The Hard Weather Boating Party and Fever Chart; Michael Weller’s Beast; Alan Ball’s All That I Will Ever Be; José Rivera’s Adoration of the Old Woman and References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot; Will Power’s The Seven (Lucille Lortel Best Musical); Darci Picoult’s Lil’s 90th; Christopher Shinn’s On the Mountain; Universes’ Slanguage/ Universes; Diana Son’s Stop Kiss and Anna Deavere Smith’s House Arrest; Jessica Goldberg’s Good Thing; Danny Hoch’s Some People and Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop; Eric Bogosian’s Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead and Humpty Dumpty, 10 PLAYBILL

among others. In addition, she has directed Suzan-Lori Parks’ Fucking A; John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair and Lost Girls; Lanford Wilson’s The Mound Builders; Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics; Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls; Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July (Lucille Lortel Best Revival); Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play and Lisa Loomer’s Living Out. Bonney is the recipient of an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Direction, a Lilly Award, as well as an Audelco Award.

She is also the editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century.

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 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.

STEPHANIE KERLEY SCHWARTZ (Costume Design) Geffen debut. With Jo Bonney as director, she designed costumes for Rules of Seconds by John Pollono at LATC. Recent projects: scenery for A Raisin in the Sun at A Noise Within and Magellanica, at Artist’s Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon. She is Resident Designer at Rogue Machine Theatre, where she designed scenery for Les Blancs, Super Variety Match Bonus Round, Honky and Pocatello, among many others. Credits in Los Angeles include scenery for Good Grief for Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, costumes for The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels at the Mark Taper Forum. At Theatre @ Boston Court, she designed scenery for Stupid F*cking Bird and Shiv and costumes for Golden Dragon. For Pasadena Playhouse, she designed scenery and costumes for Twelve Angry Men and scenery for Pygmalion. Her designs have been seen all over Southern California, including South Coast Repertory, East West Players, Skylight Theatre, Fountain Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Company, ICT and Circle X. Her work has received multiple awards and nominations, including the 2017 LADCC Kinetic Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theatrical Design. www.kerleydesign.com LAP CHI CHU (Lighting Designer) Recent works include world premieres of Lynn Nottage’s Mlima’s Tale (Public Theater, NY) and Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (The Playwrights Realm, Lincoln Center Theatre, NY).

He has designed regionally

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES for Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Berkeley Rep, American Contemporary Theater, Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Dallas Theater Center and Portland Center Stage. His New York design credits include New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, Second Stage Theater, Performance Space 122 and Kitchen Theatre Company.

His awards include the 2018 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design, an Ovation Award, multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and a “Drammy” for best lighting, as well as a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. Chu is on the lighting design faculty at California Institute of the Arts. www.lapchichu.com CRICKET S. MYERS (Sound Designer) On Broadway, Cricket earned a Tony Nomination and a Drama Desk Award for her design of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Off-Broadway designs include The Marvelous Wonderettes. She has also designed regionally at La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Ahmanson, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Berkley Rep and Arena Stage.

Other selected L.A. theaters include East West Players, Ghost Road Theater Company, Celebration Theater and Circle X. She has earned 20 Ovation Nominations, as well as winning the Ruth Marley Award from the League of Professional Theater Women, the Kinetic Award for Outstanding Achievements in

Theatrical Design, an LADCC and a Garland Award. www.cricketsmyers.com HANA S. KIM (Projection Designer) Design credits include Little Black Shadows directed by May Adrales (South Coast Repertory), The Gangster of Love directed by Loretta Greco (Magic Theatre), Steal A Pencil For Me directed by Omer Ben Seadia (Opera Colorado), Wonderful Town directed by David Lee (L.A. Opera) and The Christians directed by Hana Sharif (Baltimore Center Stage). She is a 2018 Richard E. Sherwood Awardee from Center Theatre Group, member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and recipient of Princess Grace Award in Theater Design. Her designs have won Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards, Helen Hayes Award, Stage Raw Awards and StageSceneLA Awards. For portfolio, please visit: www.hananow.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 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).

ROSS JACKSON (Production Stage Manager) Ross Jackson is excited to continue his work with the Geffen Playhouse! A native of New Orleans, LA, Ross is now based in Los Angeles. His recent credits include: Skeleton Crew, Sell/Buy/ Date, Ironbound and A Funny Thing Happened... (Geffen Playhouse); Five Guys Named Moe (Ebony Repertory Theater); The Tempest and Deferred Action (Dallas Theater Center); The Crucible and A Lesson Before Dying (Clarence Brown Theatre); Aladdin and His Winter Wish and Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Knight (Lythgoe Family Panto); Nickel Mines (New York Musical Theatre Festival); The Lady Onstage, Orlando and True West (Profile Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Swan Shakespeare Festival) and several productions with the University of California, Irvine, from which he holds his Master of Fine Arts degree in stage management. Ross is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Love to Mom, Tom and Megan.

JULIE ANN RENFRO (Assistant Stage Manager) Julie is happy to be returning to the Geffen after recently stage managing Sarah Jones’ Sell/Buy/Date. Previous Geffen credits include Letters From A Nut and The Legend of Georgia McBride. Other theater credits include L.A. Opera, South Coast Repertory, Ojai Playwrights GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 11

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Conference, Pasadena Playhouse, Shakespeare Orange County, Laguna Playhouse, Sydney Independent Theatre Company and Long Beach Shakespeare Company. Julie is from Orange County, CA, where she received her B.A. in Theatre Arts from Vanguard University, and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

PHYLLIS SCHURINGA, CSA (Casting Director) Phyllis is an Artistic Associate and the Casting Director for the Geffen Playhouse. Recent casting includes Ironbound, Significant Other, 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 4 Artios nominations: 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 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.

12 PLAYBILL

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.

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,

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

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES 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 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, Regi-

na 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 Lindsey Ferrentino Michael Golamco Meghan Kennedy Matthew Lopez Martyna Majok

Michael Mitnick Jiehae Park John Pollono José Rivera Zoe Sarnak Robert Schenkkan Shaka Senghor & Daniel Beaty

Erika Sheffer Jen Silverman Nick Stafford The Vampire Cowboys David Wiener Lauren Yee Anna Ziegler

For more information on this program, please visit geffenplayhouse.org/newplays.

GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 13

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

GEFFEN AT A GLANCE

PRODUCTION STAFF FOR THE UNTRANSLATABLE SECRETS OF NIKKI CORONA Assistant Director Reena Dutt Assistant Scenic Designers Jeff Behm, Se Oh, Sydnie Ponic Assistant Costume Designer Alexandra Friedman Assistant Lighting Designer Rose Malone Dialect Coach Paul Wagar Wigs & Makeup April Metcalf Assistant Puppet Designer YiLin Zhao Properties Artisan Hazel Kuang Automation Operator Alex Norkus Stage Crew Randy Pound Stage Crew Will Kleist Production Assistant Lizzie Thompson

ADDRESS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Set provided by F&D Scene Changes Ltd. Lighting Equipment provided by Kinetic Lighting Sound Equipment provided by Jon Sound Inc. Production Photographer Darrett Sanders Media Filming Ramon Garcia Artwork Gravillis Inc.

BOX OFFICE WINDOW

SPECIAL THANKS UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Scene, Prop, Sound and Costume Shops; London Cleaners

UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION Geffen Playhouse is affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles, specifically the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Geffen Playhouse values its role as an important educational resource by providing students with master classes, workshops and internships. Students are also able to work and learn from distinguished visiting Geffen artists such as Alan Ayckbourn, Jon Robin Baitz, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, David Ives, Neil LaBute, David Mamet, Donald Margulies, Terrence McNally, John Rando and Kathleen Turner in areas of directing, playwriting, acting, design, dramaturgy, management and production. Geffen Playhouse also draws upon the distinguished experts in the university to enhance the theater’s programs and research.

This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT theaters are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

14 PLAYBILL

Geffen Playhouse 10886 Le Conte Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024 Administrative Offices ................. 310.208.6500 Mon – Fri ................................. 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Box Office Phone Line ................. 310.208.5454 Daily ............................................. 7:00 am –6:00 pm Audiences Services ...................... 310.208.2028 Daily .......................................... 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Please visit geffenplayhouse.org for hours, parking and more information.

TICKET SERVICES When shows are not in performance, the Box Office window is open:

Daily .......................................... 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm During the run of a show, the window will be open until curtain.

Please note: the Box Office window is unable to process exchanges and future sales one hour prior to curtain time on any performance day.

ACCESS ACCESSIBLE ACCOMMODATION

ASL

Geffen Playhouse is fully committed to ensuring a satisfying theater experience for our patrons with special needs or disabilities. Please contact the Box Office or an usher to discuss your needs.

Partial support for open captioning provided

by Theatre Development Fund.

AT THE THEATER LATE SEATING Should you arrive late to the theater or vacate your seat during the performance, please expect to be held in the lobby until an appropriate pause in the action on stage.

To minimize disturbance to other patrons, you may be seated in the first available location by the house staff even if it is different from your assigned seat. Be advised that some productions or circumstances may not allow for late or return seating.

NO PHOTOGRAPHY There is no photography or filming of any kind allowed in the theater. Please turn off all electronic devices, including cell phones.

FINDING MOMENTS OF MAGIC

An interview with playwright José Rivera

By Rachel Wiegardt-Egel, Dramaturg

THE UNTRANSLATABLE SECRETS OF NIKKI CORONA FOLLOWS A WOMAN DESPERATE TO MAKE CONTACT WITH HER TWIN, who is recently gone from this world, and the man who decides to help her. A love story and hero’s journey quest by turn, this play grapples with the quintessentially human question of what happens to us after death. A week into rehearsals on this world premiere, I sat down with playwright José Rivera to talk about the origins of this otherworldly story and the ways that magic finds its way into his work.

Rachel Wiegardt-Egel: What sparked the idea for this play?

José Rivera: About ten years ago, I was looking through Harper’s Magazine. They had printed a contract from a company in Minneapolis whose service was to connect people who are dying with people who want

to send a message to the other side. I instantly knew it was a play but I didn’t have characters or a story for quite some time.

Unfortunately, I had two deaths in the family a couple years ago and that helped crystallize all the things I was thinking about in terms of mortality and speculating on what death would feel like. So, the personal event married this concept, and suddenly there’s a play.

RW: When you first came across the concept, did it seem like more of an oddity or did it resonate with you?

JR: It was definitely an oddity. I thought, “who in the world would want to create something like this?” Later on, Maren was one of the first characters I created because I had to understand the kind of person who would have this idea of a business model. But I did think it seemed like this company was fulfilling a need that we all have, in a way. It made sense to me.

RW: Do you often find that something in GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 15

the real world will give you a new idea for a piece of writing?

JR: Usually, yeah. A long time ago, I was driving through L.A. and I saw a pregnant hitchhiker in the rain on the side of the street, and that became Cloud Tectonics.

I had an uncle who died homeless in San Diego of a heroin overdose, and that eventually became Marisol. My divorce, in a way, became References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot. So, there’s always a deeply personal inspiration for the plays.

RW: So much of your work has magical realism. Why do you think you gravitate toward that style?

JR: Allan Havis, a playwright who teaches down in La Jolla, calls my style “mad realism.” I like “mad realism.” I grew up with a mother who wanted to be a nun and we had pictures of angels all over the house.

My grandparents told ghost stories. Seeing magic in the world just felt like how you perceive life. I didn’t know anything about magic realism, really, until I started reading One Hundred Years of Solitude in college and suddenly everything that I grew up with was there on the page—the same love stories, stories of obsession, stories of interacting with spirits. What nailed it was seeing Sam Shepard’s work in the late seventies. Buried Child is also magic realism. I asked myself as a young writer, “what can I contribute that isn’t already being done by a hundred other writers?” And I said, “I’m going to see if I can translate the magical stories of my childhood and my culture into theater.”

RW: How do you find the balance between what’s real and what’s magical in your plays?

JR: For me, “magic” is just another way to explore the metaphors for the psychological state of the characters. Think of Chagall’s painting The Kiss, which depicts two people kissing and floating. Obviously we don’t float in life, but the float is a metaphor for their 16 PLAYBILL

feelings. It’s the same thing in magic realism.

There’s a great scene in One Hundred Years of Solitude where one of the sons is shot in front of a firing squad and his blood falls to the ground, travels across the floor, goes outside, down the street, up the stairs, around the corner and ends up at his mother’s feet.

It’s this beautiful metaphor for their connection, a literal representation of that connection. The magic of a play is only really valid if it’s connected to the psychology of the characters and the reality of the moment.

You ask yourself, “what is the theatrical metaphor that would make this come alive in a resonant and deep way that hits you as hard as possible?” That’s where the magic flourish would happen.

RW: When did you know you wanted to be a playwright?

JR: I knew really, really, really early. I wrote several plays in high school, and one of them was produced. In college, I wrote a play a year, which I produced and directed. For a while, I also wanted to be an actor and I didn’t want to be a half-assed writer or a half-assed actor, and I thought I had to make a firm choice.

So, around the time I was 22, I decided that I would be a writer full-time.

RW: With Dante’s Inferno being an inspiration for the piece, do you think people need any context going into the play?

JR: If anybody knows Dante’s Inferno, it will certainly resonate on another level for them, but you don’t need to know it. It’s quite different, because Dante was dealing with sin, and in his world, the worst sin you could commit is treason against the king or God. So, the center of hell is the devil chewing on Judas Iscariot. For me, it’s far more interesting to talk about karma and what you can do to balance your karma. And I assume everyone thinks about death and what it will be like. Do we stay the same? Do we still have a personality? Can we communicate? There’s

a built-in sense of wonder and questioning about death and the other side that I think the audience will bring with them.

RW: This play deals with serious subject matter, but manages to do so in a fantastical—sometimes even whimsical—way. When you’re working on a new piece, do you have a sense of the tone early on or does the subject matter lead you there?

JR: Character comes first, for me. I’m trying to populate the world of the play and think about the kinds of people we would find there, and that will tell me the tone. But I like a lot of humor even in my darkest plays. We need the relief of it.

RW: You live in New York now but were an Angeleno for many years—is there a particular resonance to this play premiering in this city?

JR: This is a big play, so it’s great to have it on a big stage—literally big, but also, emotionally, this is a big place. When I lived here, I saw Geffen productions and I always dreamed of working here. So, it’s a nice homecoming in that way. This particular play is very personal, much more personal than I’ve written in a long time. So, feeling like I’m in a theater that’s taking care of the play is really nice. And I have so many friends here who will hopefully come, and those reunions will be really nice too.

RW: Switching gears a bit, how do you balance writing for film, television, and theater?

JR: It’s a constant juggling act. I have no control over it. I’m often working on multiple projects, mostly because you never know when something’s going to come up, especially in TV and film. I love film and I love television, but I will write theater for the pure love of it and I won’t write film and TV just for the love of it. And when I’m really moved to explore personal issues, I will write a play.

RW: What is it about theater that you feel lends itself more to those topics?

JR: My theater writing comes from the storytelling traditions in my family. When my grandparents, who were illiterate, lived with us, they told stories around the kitchen table. Oral storytelling is primal and organic to me, so theater is too. I’ve never taken a playwriting class. I didn’t go to graduate school.

When something has to be personal and I don’t want to worry about artifice so I can get to the essence of a story, theater seems the most natural way.

RW: Is there something you wish someone had said to you as a young writer that you’d like to say to young playwrights starting out today?

JR: Don’t be in a hurry. Accept a certain loss of control—which is not necessarily a bad thing. Be faithful to the people who believe in you. It’s a cliché, but I wish someone had said, “always be true to yourself.” Always know your strengths, know your limitations. Be honest about your taste. And I wish someone had taught me how to work in the rehearsal room—how to speak with a director and cast, how to look at a floor plan, those kinds of things. The collaborative part of theater took me some time to understand.

RW: Is there a character in the play with whom you most identify?

JR: I think my favorite character in the play is Lisandra, because she’s trying very hard but it’s very hard for her to try. She’s not a people person but she’s stuck with people, and she approaches it with humor but sometimes loses her temper. Sometimes I identify with Manny, with his whimsical but grounded sense of reality. I’ve been Noelle.

I’ve been Orlando. In my life, I’ve been almost everybody in this play.

To read more about The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona, please visit blog.geffenplayhouse.org.

GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 17

DID YOU KNOW? Thanks to the generosity of Geffen Playhouse donors, each season Geffen Playhouse serves more than 15,000 low income students, youth, seniors, veterans and community members with our wide range of education and community engagement programs.

Student enjoys the matinee of Significant Other as part of the High School Partnerships Program Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography

Thousands of Los Angeles youth who have never stepped foot inside of a theater will experience the life-changing power of the arts with our High School Partnerships Program.

Veterans Writing and Performance Project participants and attendees Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography

10th graders living in an area of Los Angeles where more than 50% of their peers drop out of high school will gain access to an immersive theater arts and writing program with the Geffen Playhouse Literacy Project serving Mendez High School in Boyle Heights and Jordan High School in Watts.

Seniors and adults who are challenged by extreme economic circumstances or physical disabilities will have the opportunity to attend plays and participate in workshops with our Lights Up Program.

Seniors participate in a pre-show workshop as part of our Lights Up program Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography

Veterans who are feeling disconnected from society and who are living with significant challenges will gain year-round access to special programs thanks to our Veterans Writing and Performance Project.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE WORK WE DO IN THE COMMUNITY AT GEFFENPLAYHOUSE.ORG/IMPACT

DONATE TODAY

geffenplayhouse.org/donatenow

DONOR BENEFITS Donate now to support these programs and enhance your experience at the Geffen Playhouse with an array of benefits.*

Enjoy Opening Nights at the Geffen Playhouse Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography

DONOR BENEFITS INCLUDE: YOUR NAME OR COMPANY NAME IN THE PROGRAM INVITATIONS TO OPENING NIGHTS WHICH INCLUDE COMPLIMENTARY VALET PARKING AND A CAST PARTY A CARD FOR COMPLIMENTARY COFFEE ALL SEASON LONG

ACCESS TO THE MARCIA ISRAEL-CURLEY FOUNDERS ROOM WITH COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS AND PRIVATE RESTROOMS VIP PARKING DIRECTLY NEXT DOOR TO THE THEATER INVITATIONS TO SPECIAL EVENTS

*Benefits based on donation level.

Donors enjoying Gil Cates, Jr., Matt Shakman and Regina Miller speaking at a special donor-only event at Fellow Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography

FOR A FULL LIST OF DONOR BENEFITS PLEASE VISIT GEFFENPLAYHOUSE.ORG/BENEFITS

DONATE TODAY

geffenplayhouse.org/donatenow

ANNUAL DONORS Geffen Playhouse recognizes the following individuals and organizations for their generous support of our Annual Fund and Backstage at the Geffen. Donors are listed at the Associate level and higher for gifts made between June 1, 2017 and August 1, 2018.

In appreciation, donors enjoy a host of special benefits including house seats, complimentary drinks, receptions and much more.

For more information, please call Jamie Mikelich at 310.208.6500 ext. 128.

ANGELS

Herbert M. & Beverly J. Gelfand

$100,000+

In Memory of Alice Ghostley & Felice Orlandi

Anonymous (2)

Karen & Russell Goldsmith

Patricia Kiernan Applegate

Guggenheim Partners Investment Management Holdings, LLC

Natasha & Nick Gross Claudia & Kevin Bright City National Bank Mary Ann Cloyd David Geffen Foundation Louise & Dr. Brad Edgerton Edgerton Foundation Find Your Grind Foundation The Adi & Jerry Greenberg Foundation Martha Henderson Mellody Hobson & George Lucas

Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Rabbi Uri D. Herscher & Dr. Myrna Herscher Cindy & Alan Horn Glorya Kaufman Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation Latham & Watkins LLP Susan & David Leveton Fay & Frank Mancuso John McCrite & Juan Lopez Donna McKenna & Flynn Chernos

K Period Media

Kelly & Ron Meyer

Marilyn & Jeffrey Katzenberg Fund for Arts Education at the Geffen Playhouse

B. Scott Minerd Jerry Moss

Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman

Moss Foundation

Keyes Automotive Group

Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

L&N Andreas Foundation

Madeline & Bruce Ramer

Mr. and Mrs. Jason & Yvonne Lee

Holly Rice & Vince Gilligan

Shubert Foundation

Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander

Judith & Bruce Stern Kimberly Steward & Josh Godfrey Jodi & Howard Tenenbaum

Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin Richard & Barbara Sherman

UCLA

Skirball Foundation

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE

Cynthia P. Stafford

$50,000 - $99,999

Miranda & Brett Tollman

Audi of America, Inc

The Walt Disney Company

Ben/Joyce Eisenberg Foundation

Ken Willner & Jim Stine

Elizabeth & Gil Cates, Jr.

Judy & Chancellor Charles E. Young

Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer & Melvin Keefer

Dirk & Natasha Ziff

20 PLAYBILL

Karen & Vic Smith

ANNUAL DONORS

ARTISTIC CIRCLE $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous (2) Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Hilary & Jack Angelo Robert C. Baral Laurie & Bill Benenson Bright Rentals The Rebecca Susan Buffett Foundation Valarie De La Garza & Michael Centeno City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Dwight Stuart Youth Fund The Edward A. & Ai O. Shay Family Foundation Twentieth Century Fox Carol & Paul Frimmer The Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Foundation Patty Glaser & Sam Mudie Los Angeles County Arts Commission George Lucas Family Foundation Susan & Peter Mallory Marcia Israel Foundation, Inc. Bradley Mindlin Napa Valley Grille James L. Nederlander & Margo MacNabb Nederlander The Simms/Mann Family Foundation STK Los Angeles Shel & Cynthia Stone Elaine Wynn

PRODUCER $10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (3) Ariel Investments Hank Azaria Cathy & Shel Bachrach Beam Suntory Beth Behrs & Michael Gladis The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Charles A. Black, Jr. Bliss Spa Board of Supervisors County of Los Angeles Eileen & Harold Brown Roma Downey & Mark Burnett California Arts Council The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Stephanie & Jonathan Carson Janice & Billy Crystal

Carole Bayer Sager & Robert A. Daly Merle Dandridge & Christopher Johnston Edward Avedis Dr. & Mrs. Paul Eisenberg Fellow Lisa Field, Field Family Foundation Eric Flamholtz & Yvonne Randle Susan & Mark Fleischer Susan Fleishman The Friedman Group Gagosian Gallery, Inc Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, Inc. Ann & Jim Gianopulos Goldman Sachs Andy & Carlo Brandon-Gordon Manuela & James Goren Greater Los Angeles New Car Dealers Association Arthur Greenberg Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger, LLP C. Curtis Grisham In Memory of Morris A. Hazan Eva Aaronson & Bucky Hazan Samantha & Eric Heer Jean Himmelstein Stanley Iezman & Nancy Stark Liberty Ross & Jimmy Iovine Julie & David Kavner Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall The Lear Family Foundation The Lowy Family Padma & Rao Makineni Carla Malden & Norman Beil Mona Malden Ginny Mancini Jonathan Manahan Nancy & Michael McClelland Wendy & Barry Meyer Steve McInnes Mary Bianco & The MOCA Foundation Northern Trust, NA Mo Ostin Paradigm Talent and Literary Agency Paramount Pictures Laurie MacDonald & Walter Parkes Popland Studios David Robinson PricewaterhouseCoopers Monica & Philip Rosenthal, Rosenthal Family Foundation Richard Ruskell Pastries Thomas L. Safran Dr. Bernard & Gloria Salick

Hon. Nicole A. Avant & Ted Sarandos Susan & Martin Schmitt In Memory of Diane Barnett-Shapiro Sony Pictures Entertainment Nancy Heller & Fred Specktor Sugarfish Thomas Safran & Associates Thompson Coburn LLP Mike Thaxton Steve Tisch Daniel Tongbai & Henry Clancy Sandy & Kevin Tsujihara U.S. Bank Foundation Uniworld River Cruises Inc Joanne & Ken Weinman Aurora & Marc Weinstock Well Done Catering Westfield Group Richard & Mae Ziman David Zuckerman & Ellie Kanner-Zuckerman

DIRECTOR $5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous (2) 1WMN/OCTV Pat & Sandy Adams Jehan F. Agrama & Dwora Fried AMC TV Amgen Foundation Annapurna Pictures Hilaria & Alec Baldwin Mara & Jonathan Blum Yael & Scooter Braun Mara W. Breech Foundation Heather Thomas & Skip Brittenham The Eli & Edythe L. Broad Foundation Cindy & Bob Broder Brotman Foundation of California Amanda Brown & Justin Chang Maya Burkenroad & Tai Lopez Glenn & Lynn Cardoso Marcy Carsey Dr. Fanya Carter, PhD Comcast | NBC Universal Ellyce R. Cooper & Barry Cohen Creative Artists Agency Debra Davis Robin Dearden & Bryan Cranston Deutsche Bank Gayle & Dan Devin Susan & Jonathan Dolgen Dream Warrior Group Fielding Edlow & Larry Clarke Lawrence N. Field Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 21

ANNUAL DONORS G.E. Foundation Jennifer Garner Kiki & David Gindler Priscila Giraldo Sue & Steve Glusker Gloria & Peter Gold Mary Ann & Irwin Gold Lori & Ken Goldman Craigar Grosvenor Leo S. Guthman Fund Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Waren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman LLP ICM Partners Linda Janger Bernice Jeffrey Sir Elton John & David Furnish Marvin Jubas & Janet Wald Jubas Melina Kanakaredes Mannon Kaplan Sally & Dr. Manny J. Karbelnig KIND Bars Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Samantha Kurtzman-Counter & Alex Kurtzman Wendy Kurtzman Susan & Yair Landau Drs. Gerald & Barbara Levey Lionsgate Jody Lippman Los Angeles magazine Sherry Martin Anne Stringfield & Steve Martin Merle & Jerry Measer Marcia & Brett Molotsky Kate Moran & Mikki Rosenberg Rio & Frank Morse Newmeyer & Dillion LLP Benedicta & Geoffry Oblath Orlando Hotel Carol & Bill Ouchi Shana & Don Passman Soundis & Danny Passman Cheryl Petersen & Roger Lustberg Pink Sands Club, Canouan Marc Platt The Poker People Mark E. Pollack Pottash/Ferguson Family Foundation Kim & Dale Reed Kay & Bob Rehme Judith Reichman, MD Joyce Rey The Richenthal Foundation Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer Ronen Levy Events In Memory of Rikki Rosen 22 PLAYBILL

Lori & David Rousso Jackie & Jeff Schaffer Jody & Arthur Schmid The Michael Schwab Family Carol ‘Jackie’ & Charles Schwartz Steve & Paula Mae Schwartz Tina & David Segel Jane & Terry Semel Sidley Austin LLP Lorraine Spurge & Patrick Mitchell Randy Stabler Audri & Stan Tendler Karen Zoller, MD & David Tillman, MD Karen & William Timberlake The Travel Corporation Stan Vashovsky/AMBULNZ Paul Wachter Warner Bros. Entertainment Lynn & Mark Williams Samantha & John Williams Rita Wilson & Tom Hanks Karen & Rick Wolfen Kevyn Wynn In Loving Memory of Herman Ziegler Ruth & Stan Zicklin Ziffren Brittenham LLP Zimmerman Advertising LLC

SPONSOR $3,000 – $4,999 Janis Adams & John Lyons Amy Aquino & Drew McCoy Aversa Foundation Madelyn Bennett & Eric Gibson Paula & Bruce Bennett Shelly & Libby Bergen Carolyn & Marty Bloom Susan J. Booth & Christopher Wadden VJ Boyd Robert Brook & Jacqueline Kosecoff Scott, Susan & Joshua Corwin Victoria Dummer Sonia & Robert Freedman and Family Marion Goldenfeld Grand Solmar Resort Shana Harris Alan & Michelle Heilpern Stephen Sass & Steven Hochstadt Gail Hollander Ali Jahangiri Meg & Lawrence Kasdan Lenny & David Kelton Marla & Daniel Klein Thea & Neal Koss

La Valencia David & Tam Lachoff Keith Legoy Sandy Little Parise Livanos Walter & Karen Loewenstern Renee & Meyer Luskin Vicki Magasinn & Robert Somer Jane & Rand Marlis Stewart Mayeda Sheila & Joel Mendelsohn Michael R. Oppenheim Michael Parks & Judith Hayward Lindy Robbins Craig E. Rogers Sue Rosenwasser Paula & Allan Rudnick Renee & Biff Sherman Allen Blue & Kira Snyder Susan & Peter Van Haften Jennifer von Schneidau Denise & Peter Walsh The Waterman Family Foundation Leslie White & Al Limon

PARTNER $1,500 - $2,999 Anonymous Miriam Aguiar Olga S. Alderson Patti & Harlan Amstutz Bonnie & Bill Apfelbaum Bonnie R. Arnold Robert E. & Maria H. Barron Richard Bautzer & David McDowell Eric Baydian Michael Beerman Patricia & Mark Benjamin Gregg Bernstein Jamie & Robert Blume Dr. Wallace P. Brithinee Chancellor Albert Carnesale & Mrs. Robin Carnesale Steven Cerasale & Mary Katherine Cocharo William & Patricia Chin Darcy & Dean Christal Richard Clareman In Recognition of Carl & Barbara Cohen Linda & John Coleman Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Ted Cordes In Loving Memory of Ed Cypert Janine Cristiano Pam Dawber & Mark Harmon Danny DeVito & Rhea Perlman Steven Doren Anne Dougherty Rich S. Eisen

ANNUAL DONORS El San Juan Hotel & Casino in Puerto Rico FENDI Americas Burt & Nanette Forester Jackie Fox Anita Dann Friedman & Harvey Friedman G2 Graphic Service, Inc. Helen & Arthur Geoffrion Charlotte Gold Dr. Irene Goldenberg Louis & Linda Goldsman Helene Gordon Jill Grey Sunny & Alvin Grossblatt Deborah & Allen Grubman The Guerin Foundation Karney Guren Family Foundation Faith Henkin Lysa & Grant Heslov Lynne & Michael Heslov In Honor of Development Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob Brian Irving & Dayna Cussler Nancy & Len Jacoby Carrie Johnson Trudy & Albert Kallis Meredith & David Kaplan Willette & Manny Klausner Kent Klavens & Judy Vourlas Katherine Kleindienst Joyce Lederer Lydia & Chuck Levy Elisabeth & Jeffrey Lipsman Jennifer & Robert Lopata Sonia Luna Janis B. McEldowney Sue McHugh & Herb Seese Catherine Miller Patrice & James Mitchell Jonathan Moonves John Murphy Austin Musick The New York Palace Bruce Nowel Liza & Conan O’Brien Carol & Alan Ostroff Tara & Robert Pietri Herbert & Marilyn Piken Tom Politowski Ronald Raznick Joyce & Harvey Reichard In Memory of Frances Richman Leslie & Doug Robinson Susie Rome Nancy Stephens & Rick Rosenthal and The Rosenthal Family Foundation Wil Rosser Nancy & Ted Sanborn

Susan Schwarz & Stuart Berton Jed Seidel Sempra Engergy Foundation Peggy & Robert Shapiro John & Lori Shaw Joan & Jerry Snyder Snyder Family Foundation Bruce & Patti Springsteen Susan & Donald Starr Mitch & Sherry Stein Nora Stines Patricia Strange Aaron Stroud Tanino Ristorante Rose Tarlow Paul Tetreault Catherine & Leonard Unger Craig Wakehouse Julie & Peter Weil Ophelia & Adam Weiss Gelena & Seth Weissman John & Connie Weston Alison Whalen & Steve Marenberg Betty White William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Chris Williams Fred Wolf Cherie Wrigley Patricia Youngman Elena & Drew Zager Barbara & Stanley Zax Leslie & Robert Zemeckis Ellen & Arnold Zetcher

EDUCATION ADVOCATE $1,000 - $1,499 Anonymous AnonyMoose Foundation Harry & Gay Abrams/Abrams Artists Agency Dr. Richard Ackerman & Miriam Shakter Merryl & David A. Alpert Laura & Harvey Alpert Charitable Foundation Ares Management LLC Margaret Campbell Arvey Judith Ashmann-Gerst & Robert Gerst Russ, August & Kabat Shelley & Rick Bayer Sigrid & Alan Belinkoff Karen Bell & Robb Cox The Belles Family Susan & Eric M. Bender Wendy & John Bergquist Diane & Jim Berliner Sharon & Arthur Berrick John Bjorge & Mary McKelvey

Joe Blackstone & Jamie Mohn The Bordy & Leibovic Families Brenda & Alan Borstein Helen Breitwieser & James Jacks Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Prevention The Busch-Schifino Family C&O Trattoria Andrew Carlberg Peg Casey David, Christine & Leah Cates Jane Cates Elena & Jonathan Cates & Family Melissa Cates, Roger Claman & Family Martha Chase David Clark Sachiko T. Cochran MD & Joseph T. Araki Marc Cohen Phil Johnston & Jill Cordes Ruth Daugherty Carolyn Dirks/Brett Dougherty Jan & Thea Drayer Barbara & Ed Dreyfus Dr. & Mrs. William M Duxler In Honor of Education & Community Engagement Colleen M. Ellis Terri & David Elston Ari Emanuel Kristin & Robert Farr Lynne & Michael Feldman Susanna Felleman & Erik Feig Sydney M. Finegold, M.D. Sterling Franklin Ben & Susan Friedman Pat & Sandy Gage Jeanne & Arnold Geffner Diane & Bruce Gewertz Cherna & Dr. Gary Gitnick Ellie Kitta & Ron Goldie Roz & Abner Goldstine Ellie Goodman Jonathan Greenberg Jack Grossbart & Marc Schwartz Penny Grosz & Eugene Korney Deidre Hall Kay Harrington Harris Family Foundation Murray & Gail Heltzer Zvia Hempling Richard Rasiej & Joan Herman Lynda & Neal Hersh Jim Hliboki & Hildi Snodgrass Dr. John D. Hofbauer & Dr. Laura E. Fox Rand Hoffman & Charlotte Robinson Roger & Linda Howard Toni Hoyt Victoria Jackson Terry & Marc J. Jacoby Joseph B. Gould Foundation

Linda & David Kagel Joyce & Don Kaiserman Marcy Kaplan & Eric Gold Mali Heled Kinberg Barbara & Stuart Klabin Judy Knapp Leslie & Norman Koplof Carol Krause The Kriloff Family Lena & Mark Labowe Barbara & Andrew Leigh Bethany Joy Lenz Cathleen Fitzpatrick Linder Steven & Nancy Lippman Judith Locke Karen & Peter Locke The Jennifer and Greg Malins Foundation Eric G.C. Mark David Israeli & Dr. Marie Mazzone Jeanne McDonald-Powers & Travis Powers The Miles Family Hillary & Lance Milken Cookie Miller Catherine & Craig Miller Philip & Joan Miller Andrew & Laura Mintzer Joanne & Joel Mogy Thaine & Elizabeth Morris Carol & Jerry Muchin Albert & Barbara Nichols Deborah & Stacey Olliff Ornest Family Foundation London, Alex & Marty Padilla Gia Paladino & Michael Wise Jacalyn & Paul Pepperman Daniel & Denise Perlstein Craig Piligian Sari L. Polinger Ruth Popkin Alex Register Rabbi Steven & Didi Carr Reuben Donald B. & Susan F. Rice Carrie & Ken Richman Esther & Howard Richmond Dr. Robert Rigg Judi & Tim Ritchie Beth Roberts & Warren Smith Dolores Rogers Eden & Steven Romick Brad & Nancy Rosenberg David Rosenberg Allison & Bennett Rosenthal Charitable Foundation Virginia Ross Daryl & Steven Roth Philip & Janet Rotner David A. & Karen Richards Sachs Ajay Sahgal Janet Salter In Memory of Maxwell Hillary Salter Mark San Filippo GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 23

ANNUAL DONORS Gerald Sauer Dawn & Joel Scherer Jane & Bill Schopf Toni & John Schulman David Schwartz Foundation, John S. Schwartz Dan & Cynthia Schwartz John Schwartz Phyllis & Martin Shephard Doris & Michael Sherman Sherwood Country Club Holly & Larry Shulman Rita & Jose Sigal Robin & Robert L. Sills Ron Silverman & Soraya Ross Drs. Matthew & Marion Solomon The Somaini Family Arleen & Llyod Sorkin Jordan Strauss Photography Barbra Streisand & James Brolin David & Katherine Stritzinger Eric Strom & Eileen Goodis Chana Taft The Tatasciore Family Anne C. Taubman & David Boyle John Teeples & Nicolas Martinez, Jr. Barbara & Larry Tenan Andrea & David Tenenbaum Robyn Tenenbaum Nancy Thomas Martin Tobias Triada Palm Springs John Turmes Leon & Stephanie Vahn Daniel & Shauna Valenzuela Kathryn & Alan Van Vliet Marcia Williams & Gene Lucero Judith & Philip Winik Jan & Edward Woods Christina Wren Drs. Anna & Stephen Yallourakis Marcie & Howard Zelikow Bobbi & Walter Zifkin

ARTISTIC ADVOCATE $500 - $999 Anonymous (3) Norman & Toshka Abrams Sylvia Almstadt Irene Baron Joanna & Miles Benickes Yvette Bergeron & Dean Bailey Nat & Robin Bernstein Michael J. Bordy Krisena & Scott Borenstein Nina & Hon. Anthony Borwick Rolando Boyce Carol J. Bradshaw 24 PLAYBILL

Paula Brand Janet & Mark Brown Scott Carter & Bebe Johnson Shelby & Lee Chaden Sandra Chan & Richard Pezner Cindy Clark Becky & Mike Clements Ginger Conrad Shawn Cunningham Robert Daseler Muriel Dance & Alvin Martin Marcia Diamond John Dominguez Roni & Ethan Eller David & Joyce Evans Elizabeth A. Evans Helen Fielding Marjorie & Arthur Fine Judith R. Forman & Richard N. Weiner Gwen & Jacob Friend Lois Gallop Sharlene & Sol Galper Benita & Bert Ginsberg Lori & Robert Goodman Gabi & Rob Greenberg Vicki Greene Roni & David Greenwalt Beverly Hanson Richard Hart Sheila & Chester Hasday Hella Hershon Jack Hileman & Roxanne Huddleston Hilton Union Square hotel Dorothy Hoffman Kelley M. Hogan Brett Johnson Judith & Steaven Jones Robert Jones Yvonne & Damien Jordan Avi Kamienny Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Kamine Dean Kauffman & Carlos Andres Mosquera-Tangarife Patricia Keating Beverlee Bickmore & James Kelly Dr. Louanne Kennedy Nancy Kenney Dr. Ann & Mr. Jonathan Kirsch Joel Koppelman Deborah Lacusta & Daniel Castellaneta Joan & Christopher Larkin Cristo & Jeanne Lavagnino Marla E. Levine Anita & Burton Levinson Lola Levoy 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 Sue & Monty Mohrman Paula Moseley, EdD Bill Mullins Norma Myers Mark & Diane Neubauer Robert & Anita Nitta Justin Okin Carol Parry & John Fox Pier South Ruth Pilot Astrid & Howard Preston Dr. Stephen & Lani Rabin Gary & Gail Rachelefsky Redbury New York Mildred Reid Linda & Manny Rider 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 & Jesse Shaughnessy Melinda & Yossi Sidikaro Carol & Arthur Silbergeld Manish Singh Leah Sklar Trudy Sokol Irina & Alex Stavchanskiy Arthur Stern Stevens & Associates Cost Reduction Specialists. Inc. William Stringer Alec Sulkin Mr. & Mrs. David Tann Meg Thomas Marjorie Thomson Ira & Laurie Waldman Bill & Kate Walsh Marcia & Dr. Charles Wasserman Polly & Herb Weinberg Pat West Bruce & Marci Wiseman Karen & Frank Wurtzel Anthony P. Zinge

ASSOCIATE $250 - $499 Anonymous (11) Terry & Richard Abrams Barbara Adams Loren Adams Elaine & Michael Agran Geraldine & Harold Alden

Charles & Annick Allen Peter Anderson Robert C. Anderson Val Andler Philip Angerhofer & Stephen A. Jones Eloise & Mark Appel Jc & Jack Appelbaum Barbara & Ethan Aronoff Marc & Elizabeth Axelrod Lynne Babbitt Robert Baker Cecilia Ball Elizabeth & Barry Bar-El June Bartczak Judith & Thomas Beckmen Patricia Belcher Richard N. Berger Marsha C. Berkowitz Joane Berlin Virginia Bohrer Brian Borello Toby Bornstein Armida Brashears Leah Lynn Broidy Laurrie Brooke Mitchell Brown Diana Buckhantz David & Kathy Burke Marcia Burnam Michelle Butler & Mark Blackham Laura D. Campbell Marlene & David Capell Anthony Carbone Ling Chan Barry Charles Diane Chernansky Lionel Conway Gail Cottingham Susan Georgine Craig 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 Ronald Eng Kerry English

ANNUAL DONORS Lidia & Mauricio Epelbaum Jim Esserman Rena & Peter Falk Judy & Mike Fantasia Dr. Francesco Federico 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 Sandy & Donald French Carolyn Fried Elaine Friedman Kenneth J. Friedman & Marilynn J. Friedman Family Foundation Lynn & Barry Friesen Catherine Froloff Laurelle Frome & Brady Frome Gina Furth Lee Gardenswartz Patricia Geffner Leslie & Mort Gerson Russell Gersten Linda & Tom Givvin Jill Glasband Dr. Diane & Michael Glazer Richard & Lori Glucksman Hannah Godwin Carol & Neil Goldberg Lorain Goldberg Mark & Molly Goldberg Francine Golden & Marvin Schlossman Ellie & Barry Goldstein Dina Goldstein Jay Gordon & Meyera Robbins Roger Gordon Liz Gottainer & David Sadkin Julie C. Graham, Olivia C. Zeiden, Liam D. Zeiden Gigi & Don Grant Shelley Hill Grant Debbie & Glenn Gray Madelyne Green Gary & Jeannie Greenberg Randi & Jerome Greenberg Marcy & Edgar Gross 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 Jackson Henry Michael & Candie Herman Winifred C. Hervey

Diane Hight Penny Hildebrand Edgar Hirst Cina Hodges Paul Gordon Hoffman & Sue Caren Hoffman Melvin Horowitz InSight Consulting Partners Jackie & Warren Jackson Barbara Jacobs Frederic A. & Nancy Jacobus Janice Jerde Jeanne Johnson Robert Jones & Julie Anne Robinson Roz & Jerry Joseph Martha Kadue Adriana Kahane Joanne & Larry Kahn Linda Kaplan Donald Kates Owen Kato Morgan Kay Jim Keily Michael Keir William & Renee Kendall Cynthia King Donna & Jeffrey Klein Dr. Phyllis Klein Leana Kleinman & Jerald Johnson Laurie & Milton Klorman Delores Komar & Susan Wolford Charles Kristenson Sharon & Lawrence Lavenberg Rhonda Lawrence Learning Encounters Ann Leland Adam Lesh Maxine & Gary Levine Karen & Ron Levine Dr. & Mrs. Isaac Levy Rick & Vivian Levy Victor & Madeline Lindenheim Joanne Lindsay Leslie & Adam Lobel Alex Loewenthal Lori & Tom Low Loris & Kory Lunsford Anne L. Lynch Barbara Marcus MNM Locations Annette Marmalefsky Phyllis & Bert Massing Douglas Mcavoy, Jr. Kathleen McCarthy Sheri and Jim McCashin Cynthia Melville Bhaskar & Sumi Menon Eileen & Paul Meshekow Dr. & Mrs. H. Reed Metzger Nick & Vaughan Meyer Sara & Henry Michrowski Judith & Jeff Milman Teddie J. Milner

Julien Minard Peter Minarik & Sharon Vera Thomas Mitchell Barrett Moore Christy & Leon Moore Marvin & Jean Moore Christopher Morden Shelagh Moriarty Howard J. Morris John Moschitta Charlotte C. Myers Robert M. Nelson Sarah & Clifford Nelson Sherri & Arnie Nelson Jeff Newman Margery Nicolson Charna & Allen Nissenson Doreen & Donald Nortman Adrienne & Arthur Omansky Dr. Ronald & Iris Onkin Janie Orenstein Patricia O’Toole Sharon Oxborough Ron Ozur Sylvia & Robert Paris Edward Parker Abhilash and Kelly Patel Dr. Kristine Penner & Steven Klein Naidu & Jane Permaul Berta & Lou Pitt Jack & Jane Pollock Zazi Pope Cheryl & Mel Posner Susan Poulson Michael & Gloria Rausch Marianne Reynolds Linda & Erin Rice Mara Richards Linda & Steve Richman William & Polly Ridgeway Barbara & David Rognlien Louis Rohl Amy Roland Robert Rosania Barry Rosen & Neil Bokal Maxine & Gene Rosenfeld Beverly and Mel Rosenthal Lawrence Ross & Linda Nussbaum Terry Ross Robert & Susan Rovner Rand Rusher Terry Ryan Noriko Salamon Jay & Linda Sandrich Susan & Kenneth Sarno Maxine Savitz Linda & Cliff Schaffer Melanie Scher Malcolm Schneer & Cathy Liu

Gary & Karen Schneider Joel & Sonia Schneider Stanley Schneider Brandon Scott Marc Seltzer Annette & Leonard Shapiro Barbara Vickery & Martin Shapiro Melanie Sharp & Kevin Miller Tom & Judy Sharp Shelly & Greg Sherwin 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 Joyce & Roger Stewart Frances & Sy Strasberg Holly Strom Penny Strowger Mr. Kayser Sume & Dr. Renee Sabshin Miriam & Gene Summ Ann Sunderland Lance & Maureen Tan Cathy & Asher Thompson Ann Thorvik Judy & Art Tompkins Joyce & Josh Trabulus Brigitta Troy Dr. Gerald D. Turbow Richard Turner Dr. Harold Urman Deborah Valdez Erich Van Lowe Anthony Vasek Carole Wagner-Vallianos & Peter Vallianos Ann W. Wang Elisa Wayne Sherry Weinman & Michael Umansky Ben & Rose Weinstein Bruce Whizin Baker Wiles Lawrence Will Karen & Gary Winnick Dr. Joseph Wu Kimberly & Andrew Zakanych Arnold & Tricia Zane Lynn & Meir Ziv Sandy Zwirn

HAVE WE MADE AN ERROR? To report a misspelling or omission in these listings, please contact the Development department at 310.208.6500 ext. 128

GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 25

Matt Shakman

Gil Cates, Jr.

Artistic Director

Executive Director

ARTISTIC Amy Levinson Associate Artistic Director Phyllis Schuringa Artistic Associate / Casting Director Young Ji Artistic Coordinator / Company Manager Rachel Wiegardt-Egel Manager of New Play Development Carley Johnson Literary Intern

PRODUCTION Daniel Ionazzi Production Manager Jill Barnes Associate Production Manager / Company Manager Sam Craven-Griffiths Technical Director Rich Gilles Properties Master James Grabowski House Sound Supervisor Darren Rezowalli Lighting & Video Supervisor Ramine Ameli Assistant Lighting Supervisor Liz Rose Wardrobe Supervisor

ADMINISTRATION

Jamie Mikelich Director of Individual Giving & Spotlight Manager Mark San Filippo Associate Director of Planned Giving & Donor Relations Scott Kriloff Associate Director of Individual Giving & Donor Relations Taylor Cerny Development Associate Jessie Sherman Development Assistant

EDUCATION Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community Engagement Carolyn Marie Wright Manager of Education & Community Engagement Celia Rivera Community Engagement Coordinator Brian Allman, Darien Battle, Ramy El-Etreby, David Guerra, Michael McClain, Robert Paterno, Carissa Pinckney, Tara Ricasa, Celia Rivera, Jessica Winward Teaching Artists

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Jessica Buzzard Director of Marketing & Communications

Behnaz Ataee Chief Financial Officer

Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Audience Development

Peter Banachowski Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst

Brian Dunning Director of Content & Creative

Kisha Wilson Payroll Specialist & Staff Accountant

Zenon Dmytryk Director of Public Relations

Clay Dzygun Office Coordinator

Zack Hamra Associate Director of Audience Services & Ticketing

Marguerite Harris Receptionist

DEVELOPMENT Regina Miller Chief Development Officer Ellen Catania Senior Vice President of Development Jessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations

Kevin O’Brien Marketing Manager

Janice Bernal Box Office Manager Alyssa Tyson Box Office Manager Clifton Adams, Vaneh Assadourian, Britney Campbell, Zoe Halsne, Lexy McAvinchey, Sam Peurach, Jonathan Ramos, Cameron Reck, Celia Rivera, Bryn Woznicki Box Office Staff 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, Nathaniel Meek, James Porter, Madison Shamoun, Dennis Woullard House Managers Kailey Bray, Ryan Brophy, Danie Hakimi, Otniel Henig, Hunter Lowden, Olivia Lowe, Austin Merrill, Keith Mitchell, JoJo Nwoko, Thea Paino, Charley Stern, Charmee Taylor, Adam Turney, Isaac Vaughn, Robin Vega Ushers Rob Mersola Bar Manager & Mixologist Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager Skylar Adams, Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, Sarah Drescher, Ryan Turner Bartenders/Event Staff

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Karim Bouzzit System Administrator

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Quinn Francis Outreach Coordinator

Miguel del Castillo Facility Manager

Ramon Garcia Video Producer

Mario Santillan-Perez Custodial

Kristina Leach Social Media Associate

Juan Carlos UmaĂąa Cleaning Custodial

Wendell Pascual Production Artist

Camerina Martinez Cleaning Custodial

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.

26 PLAYBILL