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F R O M T H E A RT I ST I C A N D M A N AG I N G D I R E C TO R S
Winter has arrived, and the holidays are upon us once more. It’s been an exciting year for Hartford Stage. We finished the first season I planned as Artistic Director, and launched our 50th Anniversary season. We premiered a new show starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Man in a Case, that is now heading on tour around the country. We opened two plays in classical repertory, and our production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder opened on Broadway. We have a lot to be proud of as a company this year, and we couldn’t do any of it without you. For Hartford Stage’s 50th Anniversary, and the show’s 16th Anniversary, we’ve decided to rejuvenate A Christmas Carol this year. The shops have been working all fall on new costumes, and re-imagined flying sequences have been choreographed. Michael Wilson and Max Williams have brought the show a new lustre, while keeping it true to the same heart. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
Hartford Stage continues its 50th anniversary celebration with a sparkling new production of Michael Wilson’s beloved adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Now in its 16th year, this production has become a Hartford holiday tradition seen by hundreds of thousands of children and adults. It is part of Michael Wilson’s lasting legacy as the fourth artistic director of Hartford Stage. We are so pleased to be able to give it new magical elements this year thanks in great part to a major grant from United Technologies, our principal sponsor for the production for the next 5 years. We are also grateful to George Richards for his generous contribution to Hartford Stage in his wife, Ann’s, memory. Ann and George have supported A Christmas Carol throughout the years and it is so befitting that Ann’s love of the show will live on in the costumes you are seeing today, designed by Alejo Vietti. On behalf of the board and staff of Hartford Stage, Merry Christmas!
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In Memory of Ann Richards
A member of our board from 1997 until 2011, Ann Richards was an ardent and tireless advocate for Hartford Stage. In particular, she was a great supporter of our annual production of A Christmas Carol. When our production of A Christmas Carol moved to The Bushnell and then back to Hartford Stage, Ann was a key leader who made that magic possible. When director Michael Wilson had the idea to add new effects to the production, including the flying ghosts, Ann stepped up once again to help. To celebrate Ann’s commitment to Hartford Stage and to A Christmas Carol, George Richards made a gift which has enabled us to reconstruct the costumes for this production in the course of the coming three years. Each costume bears a tag inside that reads “Costume Constructed in Memory of Ann Richards.” In this way, Ann’s spirit lives on in this production and in each performance. NEW COSTUME FOR THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT. DESIGN BY ALEJO VIETTI.
DARKO TRESNJAK
MICHAEL STOTTS
Artistic Director
Managing Director
P R E S E N TS
CHARLES DICKENS Adapted by MICHAEL WILSON
The classic story by
Choreographer
HOPE CLARKE
Scenic Design
Lighting Design Original Music & Sound Design
ROBERT WIERZEL
JOHN GROMADA
Wig Designer
Flying Effects
BRITTANY HARTMAN
Music Director KEN CLARK
Original Costume Design
ZACK BROWN Dialect Coach
Associate Set Designer Associate Lighting Designer
Production Stage Manager
MARTIN LECHNER*
ALEJO VIETTI
ZFX, INC. GILLIAN LANE-PLESCIA CATHERINE CHUNG
Costume Design
TONY STRAIGES
Dramaturg
ROBERT W. HENDERSON, JR.
Assistant Stage Manager
Youth Director
MEG FRIEDMAN* CHRISTINA PELLEGRINI Production Manager Associate Artistic Director
ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON BRYAN T. HOLCOMBE MAXWELL WILLIAMS
MAXWELL WILLIAMS Supervised by Original Director MICHAEL WILSON
Directed by
A Christmas Carol Presenting Sponsor and Legacy Sponsor:
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Welcome & Enjoy the Show! Please turn off your cellphones before the show. For your eating and drinking pleasure, snacks, soda, wine, beer, and mixed drinks are available at our concessions bar on both levels. You are welcome to bring drinks with you to your seat, but please NO DRINKS WITH ICE. The servers at concessions will be happy to remove ice from your drinks if you do not finish before it is time to go into the theatre.
Photography or video recording of any kind is prohibited without prior written permission. Accessible with seating for patrons with mobility requirements available in the front row of sections A, B, F & G. Parking vouchers are for sale at the box office for $6.50 prior to the show. Choose the MAT Garage, adjacent to Hartford Stage or the Church Street garage, located below the Hilton Hotel. Vouchers are valid on performance days only.
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IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Ebenezer Scrooge............................................................................Bill Raymond * ..................................................................................................... Charles Turner *† Mrs. Dilber, his housekeeper...................................................Noble Shropshire * Lamplighter..................................................................................Timothy Longo Bob Cratchit, his clerk..................................................... Robert Hannon Davis * Fred, his nephew........................................................................... Curtis Billings * Fred’s Wife..................................................................................Gillian Williams * First Solicitor................................................................................. Charlie Tirrell * Second Solicitor........................................................................... Charles Turner * Mr. Toby............................................................................................. Alex Dilallo Bettye Pidgeon, a doll vendor...............................................Johanna Morrison * Rich Lady..............................................................................Laura Sue Johnson Bert, a fruit and cider vendor................................................................Alan Rust * Mr. Marvel, a watchworks vendor............................................Michael Preston * Undertaker..................................................................................... Charlie Tirrell * Jacob Marley............................................................................Noble Shropshire * Spirit of Christmas Past.........................................................Johanna Morrison * Scrooge at 14.................................................................................Timothy Longo Scrooge at 30................................................................................. Curtis Billings * Mr. Fezziwig................................................................................... Charlie Tirrell * Mrs. Fezziwig................................................................................ Rebecka Jones * Nichola, Fezziwig’s daughter...............................................................Lexi Alioto Wendy, Fezziwig’s daughter........................................................Sarah Killough * Fiddler.............................................................................Andrew Patrick Mazer Dick Wilkins...................................................................................James Hussey Fezziwig’s Party Guests....................Michael Coale Grey, Patrick Chittendon Belle, affianced to Scrooge.........................................................Gillian Williams * Spirit of Christmas Present....................................................................Alan Rust * Mrs. Cratchit................................................................................. Rebecka Jones * Martha Cratchit.......................................................................... Emmaline Riley Mr. Topper....................................................................................Jacob Grannan Fred’s Sister-In-Law.....................................................................Sarah Killough * Guests at Fred’s Party................... Patrick Chittenden, Laura Sue Johnson, ..........................................................Timothy Longo, Madison Obery Spirit of Christmas Future......................................................................... Himself Old Josie................................................................................Johanna Morrison * Ghostly Apparitions & Citizens of London............................................................... ...............................Sarah Killough*, James Hussey, Michael Coale Grey, ......... Jenny Brescia, Lexi Alioto, Patrick Chittendon, Madison Obery Male Swing.......................................................................................Julian Sarria Female Swing...............................................................................Rebecca Maddy † Will perform the role on December 4 (10:30 am), 5 (10:30am), 6 (10:30 am), 10 (10:30 am), 11 (10:30 am), 12 (10:30 am), 13 (10:30 am), 17 (10:30 am), 18 (10:30 am)
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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THE CHILDREN OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL: Tim Cratchit.............................................. Ethan Pancoast or Fred Thornley IV Spoiled Child/Fred’s Party.................................... Sophie Alter or Ava Rozmajzl Schoolboys...................................................... Padraigh Fitzgerald or Ankit Roy ...............................................Alexander Bilodeau or Dermot McMillan ...................................................... Sammy Wetstein or Aidan McMillan Boy Scrooge/Fred’s Party..................John Henry Wenz or Ben Stone-Zelman Fan, Scrooge’s sister ........................................... Lauren Cassot or Allegra Rosa Claire, Fezziwig’s daughter.......................................... Emily May or Meg Conner Belinda Cratchit............................................. Tiana N. Bailey or Miranda Flood Peter Cratchit..................................Eric Murphy or Campfield Dean Heinrich Ignorance, Cider Child............................. Silvan Friedman or Bridget Dawson Want, Fruit Child................................ Tyra Harris or Luciana Giada Calcagno Turkey Boy...................................................... Aleksei Sandals or Brandon Szep THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION.
Assistant Director................................................................... James Will McBride Assistant Set Designer..........................................................................Blair Mielnik Assistant Costume Designer......................................................... Heather Lockard Assistant Lighting Designer.............................................................. Jimmy Lawlor Assistant Sound Designer............................................................................Matt Otto Assistant to the Choreographer...........................................................Derric Harris Dance Captain.................................................................................. Sarah Killough * Production Assistant...............................................................................Amy Lamm Understudies never substitute for listed actors unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance. For Mrs. Dilber, Jacob Marley: Robert Hannon Davis; Bert, Spirit of Christmas Past: Charlie Tirrell; for Scrooge: Curtis Billings; for Bob Cratchit: Michael Preston; for Female Apparitions, Beggar Woman, Rich Lady, Wendy, Nichola, Guest at Fred’s Party: Rebecca Maddy; for Male Apparitions, First Solicitor, Second Solicitor, Mr. Toby, Undertaker, Dick Wilkins, Fezziwig Party Guest: Julian Sarria; for Fred, Scrooge at 30: Timothy Longo; for Fred’s Wife, Belle: Madison Obery; for Second Solicitor, Lamplighter, Scrooge at 15: Andrew Mazer; for Bettye Pidgeon, Spirit of Christmas Past, Old Josie: Rebecka Jones; for Mr. Marvel: Alex Dilallo; for Mrs. Fezziwig, Mrs. Cratchit, Fred’s Sister-in-Law: Laura Sue Johnson; for Fiddler: Jacob Grannon; for Mr. Topper: Patrick Chittenden; for Martha: Lexi Alioto; for Guest at Fred’s Party: Michael Coale Grey.
The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. The Director is a members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR HARTFORD STAGE PROVIDED BY:
RESTAURANT PARTNER:
Artists subject to change.
FLYING EFFECTS PROVIDED BY
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CHARLES DICKENS Dickens (1812-1870) is widely considered the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era. His many novels include A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. Dickens was more popular during his lifetime than any previous novelist had been. His work functioned on many levels, and had a wide appeal; he was both a great comic writer and a serious and thoughtful critic of the society he lived in. The novels that were most successful in his time are not as a rule the same ones that we read most today –but A Christmas Carol has always been among the best-loved of his novels. He also wrote a couple of plays, and while neither of them were hits, many of the novels have been successfully dramatized and are regularly produced today. A Christmas Carol was the first of Dickens’ Christmas novels – a genre he created. He conceived of and wrote it in a few weeks, in the midst of his work on the much longer Martin Chuzzlewit. It’s the one great Christmas myth of modern literature, and quickly entered the general consciousness. When he died, a London costermonger’s girl is said to have exclaimed “Dickens dead? Then will Father Christmas die too?” Thackeray called A Christmas Carol “a national benefit, and to every man and woman who reads it a personal kindness.” Dickens wrote a further Christmas book almost every year for the next two decades, but while they did well, none had such a wide effect on the general culture. In 1858, Dickens started giving public paid readings of his work. A novelist who had once considered being an actor, he had always written work that lent itself well to reading aloud. The most popular of his readings were of A Christmas Carol and of the trial scene from The Pickwick Papers. He gave readings both in London and on tour over the next decade, culminating in a tour of the United States. A natural performer, he brought out the nuances in his work while also making good use of the dramatic effects. Each reading was about two hours in total, and these performances brought in a great deal of his income in the last decade of his life. No other major novelist (until Mark Twain began his tours) had taken on such a series of readings, and they were very successful, but they took their toll. The American tour in 1867-68 was the last he made, and contributed to the decline in his health. In 1869 he gave a series of farewell readings in London, and famously ended them with the lines “From these garish lights I vanish now forever…”, lines which were repeated only three months later on the card for his funeral. He died suddenly in 1870 at only 58, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Charles Dickens in his Study, 1859 by William Powell Frith, Victoria and Albert Museum.
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CURTIS BILLINGS FRED | SCROOGE AT 30 Hartford Stage: The Crucible, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Summer and Smoke, 8 by Tenn, The Night of The Iguana, Macbeth, Camino Real, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, Williams Marathon 1, 2 & 3 (readings): The Mutilated, Vieux Carre, Masks Outrageous, The Purification, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Strangest Kind of Romance, The Long Goodbye. Broadway: Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. Off-Broadway: The Trip to Bountiful, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby. Off-Off Broadway: The Drunk (also co-writer/producer). Regional: Theaterworks: The Exonerated; Paper Mill Playhouse:Summer and Smoke; The Cleveland Playhouse:Enchanted April. The Alley Theatre: The Zoo Story (directed by Edward Albee); Misalliance; Gross Indecency:The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; Picasso at the Lapin Agile; A Christmas Carol; A Streetcar Named Desire; Houston Shakespeare Festival: The Tempest, King Lear; Two Gentlemen of Verona; CAC of New Orleans: Fragments (Directed by Edward Albee).
ROBERT HANNON DAVIS BOB CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: Our Town, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, 365 Days 365 Plays; Brand:NEW: Welcome to Jesus, American Hero, Horton Foote’s The Shape of the River, Stuff Happens; Peter & Jerry: A Play by Edward Albee (u/s). Regional: Goodspeed Musicals: Show Boat; TheaterWorks: The Exonerated (Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Best Ensemble); Shakespeare & Company, Tulane Shakespeare Festival, Swine Palace Productions, Monomoy Theatre, Playhouse on Park. Voice & Dialect Coach: Hartford Stage (Abundance, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, To Kill A Mockingbird), Yale Repertory Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Teaching: Professor of Acting, Voice and Speech at the Hartt School Theatre Division, Shakespeare & Company Training Programs, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Theater Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities’ Rose Playhouse Institute, Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. Television: Sesame Street.
REBECKA JONES MRS. FEZZIWIG | MRS. CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: The Crucible, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Brand:NEW. New York: The Drunk, Salvage. Regional: Long Wharf Theatre: Sixteen Wounded; Shakespeare & Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King John; Elm Shakespeare Company: Macbeth, The Tempest. Other: Private Eyes, Acting Out: an evening of original short plays, Anton in Show Business, Gathering Shells, The Comedy of Errors, A Streetcar Named Desire, Angels in America, The Normal Heart, Brighton Beach Memoirs. Education: MFA, Ohio University. Rebecka is a Co-Artistic Director and founding member of Theatre 4, a New Haven, Conn.-based theatre company (t4ct.org).
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SARAH KILLOUGH WENDY | FRED’S SISTER-IN-LAW GHOSTLY APPARITION | DANCE CAPTAIN Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Shape of the River (reading). Tour: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Theatreworks/USA). Regional: Les Miserables (Pioneer Theatre); Born Yesterday, Once Upon a Mattress, Three Men on a Horse, Lion in Winter, Trip to Bountiful, Honk! (Monomoy Theatre). Education: The Hartt School, Interlochen Arts Academy.
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BETTYE PIDGEON | THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PAST | OLD JOSIE Hartford Stage: Noises Off!, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas (fifteenth year), Summer and Smoke (also Papermill Playhouse), Brand:NEW Festival: Stuff Happens; Williams Marathon. Regional: TheaterWorks: The Credeaux Canvas, Talking Heads; The Monomoy Theatre: The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue by David Grimm, Betrayal, The Corn Is Green, The Father, Noises Off!, The Dresser, The Matchmaker. Cleveland Playhouse: The Guardsman, The Importance of Being Earnest, Steve Martin’s The Underpants; Indiana Rep: Noises Off!; North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (core member 9 years, 18 roles); Milwaukee Repertory Theatre: Shirley Valentine, Lettice and Lovage; Virginia Museum Theatre; Walnut Street Theatre; PlayMakers Rep; Theatre By The Sea; Denver Center Theatre; Northern Stage Company; A.C.E.; London Stage Productions; Peninsula Players; Stage West. Roles range from Regan in King Lear to Dollie Levi in The Matchmaker. Films: Critical Condition, Double Exposure. Television: Perry Mason, Matlock, Diagnosis Murder, One Life To Live, PBS: Infamous Love (George Sand/ Fredric Chopin) Other Credits: Currently: Voice and Speech Coach at The Hartt School, University of Hartford Theatre and Vocal Division; Dialect Coach for Universal Pictures, Great Britain; appearances with symphony orchestras as St. Joan in Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake, Narrator, King David and Narrator, Festival Triptych by Robert Ward. Connecticut Concert Opera: Lakme. Daughter Of The Regiment Recent: Eleanor, Lion in Winter; (Monomoy Theater); Journey Of The Soul, New Haven Choral & Hartt Choral (U of H); Berthe, Pippin (Lincoln Theater, U of H).
MICHAEL PRESTON MR. MARVEL Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, Fräulein Maria. Theatre: Member of the Shaliko Company in New York City, founded by Leonardo Shapiro. He also worked with such artists as John Sayles, David Cale, Wynn Handman and Theodora Skipitares. From 1991 until 2000 he toured the world as one of the Flying Karamazov Brothers, which included three different runs on Broadway. With them he collaborated on and performed 9 different shows, ranging from the post-modern tragedy Le Petomane, to an update of Room Service (winner of an L.A. critic’s award in 1998). They were nominated for an Olivier award in London for Best Comedy in 1994. More recently, he directed their show, Life: A Guide for the Perplexed. He co-directed Peter and the Wolf, with Barbara Karger, which was choreographed by Doug Elkins, in Amsterdam in 2001. Fräulien Maria (choreographed by Doug Elkins and co-directed with Barbara Karger) has just finished touring the country after four years. He is an Associate Professor of Theater and Dance at Trinity College, Hartford.
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BILL RAYMOND SCROOGE Hartford Stage: A Moon for the Misbegotten, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas; Brand:NEW: The Measure of My Days. International: Bavarian State Opera Festival (Munich, Germany): Moses und Aron. Broadway: Gypsy (with Patti Lapone). Off-Broadway: City Center, Gypsy; Public Theater, Wooster Group: Hamlet; MTC: End Game, Blur, Wonder of The World; Mabou Mines (member from 1974-1990; performed throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia): Cold Harbor (Obie for performance), Prelude to Death in Venice (Obie for performance), B. Beaver Animation, The Shaggy Dog Animation (Obie for production), Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, Dressed Like An Egg (Obie for production). Regional: Long Wharf: A Moon the the Misbegotten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; New Jersey Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet; American Conservatory Theatre: Scapin (Drama-Logue Award); La Jolla Playhouse: What The Butler Saw (Drama-Logue Award), Visions of Simone Marchard; Goodman Theatre: Speed of Darkness; also productions at the Cleveland Play House and Wilma Theater. Film: Lincoln, Foreclosure, Michael Clayton, What Alice Found, A Hole In One, Dogville, Spring Forward, Summer of Sam, Twelve Monkeys, The Ref, Disappearances, Stranger In The Kingdom, Where The Rivers Flow North, My New Gun, True Identity, City of Hope, Quick Change, How I Got Into College, Eight Men Out, Baby It’s You. Television: Damages, The Wire (HBO), Ed, Third Watch, Death In The Family, I’ll Fly Away, Law & Order, Stephen King’s Golden Years, The Murder of Mary Phagan, Miami Vice. Mr. Raymond is deeply grateful to Hartford Stage, Michael Wilson and Max Williams, and the entire casts and crews of A Christmas Carol for fifteen wonderful, nuturing years.
ALAN RUST BERT | THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, The Trip to Bountiful, Brand:NEW Festival of New Work, Is He Dead? (Reading). Off Broadway: Broadway, The Three Musketeers. Regional: Playhouse on Park: Equus; Goodspeed Musicals: 1776; Northern Stage: A Lesson From Aloes, Harvey, The Price, Substance of Fire; The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: School For Scandal, A Few Good Men; North Carolina Shakespeare Company: The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, A Christmas Carol, Just a Song at Twilight; The Monomoy Theatre: The Dresser, My Fair Lady, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; The Actor’s Ensemble: K2, Old Times; directed extensively in the United States as well as Sydney, Australia, Goteborg, Sweden, Birmingham, England and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Professional: Has been a member of the International Theatre Institute and a panelist at conferences in Istanbul, Turkey and in the former Soviet Union. Served as president of the National Theatre Conference for two terms and has been a member of numerous committees in national and international theatre programs. Founding member of the World Theatre Training Institute establish in Vienna Austria. Held positions at The University of Washington, The State University of New York at Purchase, The University of Detroit, The North Carolina School of the Arts, where he served as Dean, The University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Mr. Rust has been the Artistic Director of Monomoy Theatre on Cape Cod for the past 34 years, and is also the Director of the Theatre Division of The Hartt School at the University of Hartford.
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NOBLE SHROPSHIRE MRS. DILBER | JACOB MARLEY Hartford Stage: Macbeth, La Dispute, The Tempest, The 39 Steps, Noises Off!, Macbeth, Our Town, A Christmas Carol–A Ghost Story of Christmas, Brand:NEW Play Festival. Broadway: Underling in The Drowsy Chaperone; Royal National Theatre’s premiere of Tennessee Williams’s Not About Nightingales with Trevor Nunn; Candida (Roundbout). Off-Broadway: Parris in The Crucible (Roundabout); CSC (9 seasons): title roles in Hamlet, Peer Gynt, Tartuffe, Leonce & Lena, as well as the Fool in King Lear, Mephisto in Faust, Hummel in Ghost Sonata, Robespierre in Danton’s Death, Gayev in The Cherry Orchard; La Mama. Regional: Actors Theatre Louisville, Alley Theatre, ART, Arena Stage, Asolo, Cincinnati Playhouse, City Theatre, Denver Center, Great Lakes, PlayMakers, Phoenix Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Co., Pittsburgh Public, Rep Theater St. Louis, Stage West, Westport Country Playhouse. Television: Roger Stifdik in Strangers with Candy, Loving, Guiding Light. Film: The Asylum Seekers, The Uninvited. Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. For Malcolm.
CHARLIE TIRRELL FIRST SOLICITOR | UNDERTAKER | MR. FEZZIWIG Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol–A Ghost Story of Christmas. Regional: Hamlet (Yale Rep); Uncle Vanya, The Front Page (Long Wharf); 1776 (Goodspeed); Berkshire Playwrights Lab seasons ‘09-‘12; Much Ado About Nothing, Robin Hood (Elm Shakespeare Co.); The Price (Chester Theatre Company); Johnny Guitar, Anything Goes (Seven Angels); An Impossible Life (Shakespeare & Co./reading). Education: Paul Smiths College. Professional Positions: Member - Society of American Foresters, Professional Forester (CT/MA).
CHARLES TURNER SECOND SOLICITOR | SCROOGE † Hartford Stage: The Orphans’ Home Cycle, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fences; Dream on Monkey Mountain (Director). Broadway: On Golden Pond; Dividing the Estate, The Little Foxes (LCT); Twelfth Night (Vivian Beaumont). Off-Broadway: Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby, The Seven (NYTW); The Asphalt Kiss (59 E 59); The Cherry Orchard, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Classical Theater of Harlem); Macbeth (NYSF). Regional: The Oedipus Plays (Shakespeare Co., Washington D.C. and Athens Festival); Hamlet, The Amen Corner (Long Wharf); King Lear (Yale Rep); Monkey Mt. (Mark Taper); The Apple Tree (Theatre for a New Audience); Fences (Weston Playhouse); Frederick Douglass (Edinburgh Festival); Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime (Avignon Festival). London: The Gospel According to Broadway (BBC Symphony, narrator). Film: Presumed Innocent; Super Cops; Cop Land; Hangin’ with the Homeboys. Television: Law & Order, Dave Chappelle, Sesame Street, One Life to Live. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama; Chichester College (UK). Awards: Audelco Award (NYC) Best Director, Musical, Bessie Smith.
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GILLIAN WILLIAMS FRED’S WIFE | BELLE Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol–A Ghost Story of Christmas. OffBroadway: Assistant Director, Fiasco Theater’s Cymbeline (Theatre for a New Audience). Regional: Cabaret (Trinity Rep); Submerged (American Theatre Company); Hamlet, Boom (Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre); Perceval (NYC Fringe Festival). Film: Self Storage, A Dream of Flying. Television: The Good Wife. Education: Brown University/Trinity Rep (M.F.A.), Sarah Lawrence College (B.A.). Awards: American recipient of the 2011 International Actor’s Fellowship from Shakespeare’s Globe (UK). THE HARTT SCHOOL ENSEMBLE
LEXI ALIOTO NICHOLA | GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Brand:NEW: Welcome to Jesus, Airlock. Theatre: The Winter’s Tale (Capital Classics). Education: Currently pursuing a B.F.A in Actor Training at The Hartt School (May 2014); Productions include Richard III (Lady Anne), Light Up The Sky (Francis Black), The Cherry Orchard (Madame Ranyevskaya).
JENNY BRESCIA GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Carla in Nine (Manhattan Summer Voice Festival); Brenda in Hairspray (Forestburg Playhouse); Rachel in Inherit The Wind (Forestburg Playhouse/FTAC tour). Independent/Student Film: The Twin (2013); Every Door (2011). Education: BFA Music Theatre 2014, The Hartt School; Manhattan School of Music 2011 (vocal, acting); Laura Majestic (Harp Program). Awards: Outstanding vocalist (NYS Educators Association).
PATRICK CHITTENDEN GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Macbeth (u/s), La Dispute (u/s). Education: Currently pursuing BFA at The Hartt School (May 2014); Productions include Richard III (Richmond, Lord Hastings), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Speed), Light Up the Sky (Carlton Fitzgerald), The Cherry Orchard (Yepikhodov).
ALEX DILALLO MR. TOBY Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Cleveland Shakespeare Festival); Arsenic and Old Lace; Measure for Measure (Great Lakes Theater Festival). Education: Senior in The Hartt School’s BFA Conservatory; Productions include Spectre.
JACOB GRANNAN MR. TOPPER Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale (Capital Classics). Education: Pursuing a B.F.A in Actor Training at The Hartt School (May 2014); Productions include Sophistry, The Cherry Orchard, Light up The Sky and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Recently completed an eight week Shakespeare study abroad program with his acting class in Birmingham, England.
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MICHAEL COALE GREY PARTY GUEST | GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: Cosmo Brown in Singin’ in the Rain, Phaedra the Enigma in La Cage aux Folles, Governor in The Best Little...in Texas (Mac-Haydn Theatre, Inc.). Education: BFA Musical Theatre, The Hartt School (May 2014); Productions include P.T. Barnum in Barnum, King in Big River, Ugly in Honk! (The Hartt School); Long time student at the Paper Mill Playhouse. Follow me on Twitter: @MichaelCGrey
JAMES HUSSEY DICK WILKINS | GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Debut. Education: B.F.A. in Actor Training, The Hartt School; Productions include The Cherry Orchard (Pischick), Light up the Sky (Owen Turner), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Sir Thurio); Richard III (William Catesby/Edward IV).
LAURA SUE JOHNSON PARTY GUEST Hartford Stage: Macbeth (u/s), La Dispute (u/s). Television/Commercials: Extra Work – British TV Series Grange Hill. Education/Training: B.F.A. in Actor Training, The Hartt School (Senior); Productions include Richard III (Duchess of York), Two Gentleman of Verona (Lucetta), Light up the Sky (Nan Lowell), Cherry Orchard (Charlotta), Metamorphoses (Scientist/Second Narrator/Therapist), Confusions (Lucy/Milly); L.A.M.D.A – Grade 5.
TIMOTHY LONGO LAMPLIGHTER | SCROOGE AT 14 Hartford Stage: Debut. Education: Acting at The Hartt School; Productions include The Cherry Orchard, Light Up The Sky, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Richard III.
REBECCA MADDY FEMALE SWING Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Fastrada in Pippin, Mrs. Stratton/Ensemble in Barnum, A Sweetheart/Female Ensemble in Dreamgirls, Chicago Trio/Ensemble in Footloose (Ivoryton Playhouse). Film: Grandpa is a Weirdo, Creepy Crawley, Female Elf in the Lake Compounce promotional videos. Education: BFA Musical Theatre, The Hartt School (Senior).
ANDREW PATRICK MAZER FIDDLER Hartford Stage: Debut. Education: Actor Training Program, The Hartt School (Senior); Productions include The Cherry Orchard, Light up the Sky, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Richard III (title role; directed by Robert Hannon Davis). Film: Has studied Film Acting at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and at NYFA, and has accrued many film credits.
MADISON OBERY PARTY GUEST | GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Macbeth (u/s), La Dispute (u/s), Brand:NEW: Evidence of Things Not Seen. Education: BFA Acting Program, The Hartt School (Fourth Year).
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EMMALINE RILEY MARTHY CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: Macbeth (u/s), La Dispute (u/s). Education: Actor Training, The Hartt School (May 2014); Productions include: Richard III, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Light Up the Sky, The Cherry Orchard.
JULIAN SARRIA MALE SWING Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Fiddler on the Roof, Tommy, Les Miserables (Woodstock Playhouse); Ragtime, Sound of Music (Connelly Theatre). Education: BFA Music Theatre, The Hartt School (May 2014). THE CHILDREN OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL
SOPHIE ALTER SPOILED CHILD | FRED’S PARTY Hartford Stage: Debut. Theater: Lullaby League/Ensemble in The Wizard of Oz (Connecticut Family Theatre); Ensemble in Beauty and the Beast (Bristol Theatre Arts); Sheila/Jennie in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Cricket Kaufman/lead role in Class Clown (Hartford Children’s Theater “On The Road”); Ensemble Orphan in Annie, Alfie/Oompa Loompa in Willy Wonka (Hartford Children’s Theater). Film: Black Saturday (General Slocum Disaster docu-drama), Stevesongs Marvelous Day. TV: Welcome to Grandpaville (web series). Training: A Class Act (ABC Pilot Prep Audition Workshop); improvisation and acting classes, (Playhouse on Park); Basic Acting Technique (Hartford Children’s Theater); ballet, hip hop (beginner level).
TIANA N. BAILEY BELINDA CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: A Christmas Carol; I Need an Angel; Tappin’ to His Love; Sincerely, My Sister. Education/Training: Hartford Children’s Theatre (Musical Cabaret); Hartford Stage (Musical Theatre). Other: American Girl Fashion Show, Active member of The First Cathedral Youth Choir and Dance Team.
ALEXANDER BILODEAU SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: Macbeth (u/s). Theatre: Godspell, Jr. (Lamb Studios, Performing Arts Center Summer Project); Law & Order, Fairy Tale Unit (East Windsor Middle School); Oliver (Good Company Theatre); Seussical the Musical (East Windsor High School); Other Christmas plays and school drama skits. Other: Plays Trumpet and Saxophone; Prior acting training from Performing Arts Center after-school program. Awards: Recipient of 2013 Sylvester McKinney Scholarship from East Windsor Public Schools to attend Performing Arts Summer Program.
LUCIANA GIADA CALCAGNO WANT | FRUIT CHILD Hartford Stage: Debut. Education: Reggio Magnet School of the Arts in Avon (Kindergarten). Other: Luciana sings and speaks fluent German and was spellbound by the world of theatre at a young age. At age five, A Christmas Carol is her first play and her passion and determination to give it her best shot have been inspiring.
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LAUREN CASSOT FAN Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Jemima Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Warner Theatre); Toby in Bunnicula (Playhouse on Park); Cricket Kaufman in Class Clown, Ramona Quimby in Ramona Quimby (Hartford Children’s Theater). Education/Training: 8th grader at Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy; The Hartt School Summer Vocal Institute: Musical Theater Intensive (2013). Other: National Junior Honor Society. Interests: Rock climbing, archery, and dance.
MEG CONNOR CLAIRE Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Willy Wonka Jr., Narnia, Annie Jr., Cinderella. Education/Training: Jazz piano with Greg Babel, Hartt Community Division; Irish step dancing, tap, jazz, ballet. Other: West Hartford Inter-Elementary orchestra, Bristow Big Band, Bristow Middle School Concert Band.
BRIDGET DAWSON IGNORANCE | CIDER CHILD Hartford Stage: Debut. Training: Bridget began studying dance at the Griffith Academy of Dance when she was only 3 years old (Ballet and Irish dance). She has performed in St. Patrick’s Day shows, as well as the Griffith Recital (2012, 2013).
PADRAIGH FITZGERALD SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: The Mitten (Hartford Children’s Theatre). Education/ Training: University of Hartford Tap and Ballet, Dance Express Tap and Jazz. Other: “Small Town, Big Talent” community talent show.
MIRANDA FLOOD BELINDA CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: Les Miserables (Exit 7 Players); Gretl in The Sound of Music (UUSGS); Princess Ying Yaowalak in The King and I (St. Michael’s Players); Amanda Banks in 6 Words (Valley Repertory Company). Education/Training: 6 years dancing with Artistic Dance Conservatory; 2 years of ballet performance with Kinetic State Youth Ensemble; 2 years with ADC Performance Jazz Team.
SILVAN FRIEDMAN IGNORANCE | CIDER CHILD Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock, Character Matters, We Come from Everywhere (Hartford Children’s Theatre). Film: An Evening With Oliver, The 50 Cent Smile, Dawn, Time To Pretend, Dreamers, Nightlight, Goldfish. Commercials: Care. com/Betreut.de Commercial, Hasbro Transformers and Hasbro Beam Box Industrials. Training: Acting classes at Hartford Children’s Theatre and Hartford Stage; voice lessons at Hartford Stage and with Ms. Helen Walton; Connecticut Children’s Chorus at The Hartt School; Ballet/Tap/Jazz at Terry’s School of Dance/A-1 Dance Studio. Other: Silvan is homeschooled and enjoys performing on stage and for film. Interests: Taekwando, Piano and Guitar. www.silvanfriedman.com
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TYRA HARRIS WANT | FRUIT CHILD Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Education/Training: RJ Kinsella Magnet School of Performing Art; Hartford Stage (Musical Theatre Workshop). Other: Tyra has performed in several school productions at Kinsella including Aladdin and the Cultural Heritage Celebration. Interests: golf, soccer, piano, violin, singing and dancing.
CAMPFIELD DEAN HEINRICH PETER CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: King Arthur, (A Sword Called Excalibur), Children’s Stage Adventures; Gentry, (Death Aboard the Duchess), Odyssey Community School; Lysander, (A Midsummer Nights Dream), Children’s Stage Adventures; Judge, (Godspell), C.A.S.T. Children’s Theatre; Mayor, (The Emperor’s New Clothes), Children’s Stage Adventures; Gambler, (Guys & Dolls), C.A.S.T. Children’s Theatre; Mr. Salt, (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), C.A.S.T. Children’s Theatre. Film: Altered Evil. Education/Training: John Casablancas Modeling & Career Center, Children’s Stage Adventures, C.A.S.T. Children’s Theatre. Awards: Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Heroism Award. Other: Student at Odyssey Community School, Manchester, CT; Member of Filming Chargers Video Production Club at WIN-TV.
EMILY MAY CLAIRE Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Gladys Herdman in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Ivoryton Playhouse); Spirit Past, Beggar in A Christmas Carol (Killingworth Theater); Children’s Choir in Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Thomaston Playhouse); Clown in Barnum (Ivoryton Playhouse); Munchkin Flower in The Wizard of Oz (Warner Theater); Young Mowgli in The Jungle Book, Assistant Director for Treasure Island (Missoula Theater). Television/Commercials: Birthday Club, Boston (Party Girl); State of Connecticut , CMT League (Student). Education/Training: Violin, String Ensemble Orchestra, Fiddle, Voices on the Thames, Joyful Noise Choir.
AIDAN MCMILLAN SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Shakespeare Everywhere (Artfarm); Loves of Cass McGuire (Vintage Players). Film: Don’t Open the Egg, I’ll Fly Away. Television/ Commercials: PBS SteveSongs Recess Rocks. Education/Training: Oddfellows Children Theater, Traditional Fiddle with Craig Edwards, Swain Strings Program, Hartford Stage Cabaret, guitar at Middletown Music Academy.
DERMOT MCMILLAN SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Shakespeare Everywhere (Artfarm); Loves of Cass McGuire (Vintage Players). Film: Don’t Open the Egg, I’ll Fly Away. Television/ Commercials: PBS SteveSongs “Recess Rocks”. Education/Training: Oddfellows Children Theater, Traditional Fiddle with Craig Edwards, Swain Strings Program, Hartford Stage Cabaret, guitar at Middletown Music Academy.
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ERIC MURPHY PETER CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: Macbeth, A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Prince Eric in A Little Mermaid (Newington Children’s Theater); Once Upon a Mattress (Long Lake Camp for the Arts); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Willy Wonka, Oliver! (Warner Theater). Television/Commercial: Welcome to Grandpaville. Education/Training: Mark Twain Players Improv Group (Hartford Stage); Tap (Warner Theater); Studied viola for five years; member of select choir “Arioso” at Avon Middle School. Other: Eric enjoys performing standup comedy, watching movies, running and hanging out with friends.
ETHAN PANCOAST TINY TIM Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Ensemble/Snow Child in Carousel (Goodspeed Opera House). Television: Christmas promo with Mike Ditka for ESPN. Music: Performed violin at Carnegie Hall with the “School For Strings” May 2011. Education: Third Grade at West Hill School, Rocky Hill. Other: Ethan’s favorite sport is baseball and dreams of playing professionally one day.
ALLEGRA ROSA FAN Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: Shrek the Musical, Seussical (Artful Living); Annie (Backstage Players); Thirteen (Middletown Teen Theatre); Les Miserables, The Little Mermaid, Alice in Wonderland, Jr. (Haddam-Killingworth Theatre), Annie, Jr. (Bushnell Theatre). Film: English, Beyond, Duty Trumps Doubt. Commercial: National Association of Health Underwriters, CT Chapter. Education: Haddam-Killingworth Middle School (Eighth Grade). Training: Stage Left Dance Studios; Voice with Rebecca Degnan; Shoreline Singers Summer Program; A Class Act (NYC); Performing Arts Program Summer Intensive, Bushnell; Stage Left Studios Musical Theatre. Awards: That’s Entertainment Regional Competition 2013, 1st Place Overall Vocal Category; and a Special Judges Award, “Broadway Bound”. Special Events: Orange Bowl Half-Time Show 2013. Other: Member of National Junior Honor Art Society and National Junior Honor Society.
ANKIT ROY SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Once on This Island (Cast Children’s Theatre). Education: Windermere Elementary School, Ellington (Third Grade).
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AVA ROZMAJZL SPOILED CHILD | FRED’S PARTY Hartford Stage: Debut. Other: Plays violin with the Hartt School of Music Stringendo Orchestra. Sings and plays violin with the St. Anthony Church Youth Choir, Bristol, CT.
ALEKSEI SANDALS TURKEY BOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol, Macbeth. Regional: Joe Crowell, Our Town (Little Theatre of Manchester). Education: R.J. Kinsella Magnet School of Performing Arts (Seventh Grade/ majoring in Musical Theater and Dance). Training: C.A.S.T. Children’s Theatre; iTheatrics Summer Workshop (NYC); Tap, Hip Hop, and Ballet (Northstar Dance Academy); Fencing (Farmington Valley Fencing Academy); Voice (Summit Studios); Hartford Children’s Theater Musical Cabaret Troupe; Stagedoor Manor Summer Acting Camp (original production:Yes, Virginia,The Musical; Annie). Television: Companions and Homemakers commercial. Other: Aleksei loves video games, watching football and playing with his dog, Burton.
BEN STONE-ZELMAN BOY SCROOGE | FRED’S PARTY Hartford Stage: JoJo in Seussical (Education Summer Studio). Theatre: Jeremy Jacob in How I Became A Pirate, Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka (Hartford Children’s Theater); Junior/ Fritzin CONNetic Dance’s Nutcracker Suite & Spicy; Mayor in The Wizard of Oz (C.F.T). Education/Training: Broadway Dreams Summer Intensive; Musical Theatre Cabaret Troupe, Hartford Stage; Ballet Theatre Company; Hartford Children’s Theatre. Awards: H.C.T. “Kid of the Summer” 2012.
BRANDON SZEP TURKEY BOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Kurt in The Sound of Music (Westchester Broadway Theatre); Quentin in Teddy and Alice (Seven Angels Theatre); L.J. in Home For The Holidays (Westchester Broadway Theatre); Zack in The New Kid, Charley Bates in Oliver!, JoJo in Seussical (Random Farms Kids Theater); Randolph in Bye, Bye Birdie (The Warner Theatre). Television: Boardwalk Empire. Education/Training: Julia Mendelsohn (voice); Jen Rudin and Denise Simon (acting); Jazz/Tap/Musical; Theatre Dance/Acrobatics (Dance Molinari).
FRED THORNLEY IV TINY TIM Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Carousel (Goodspeed Musicals). Education/ Training: Noah Webster Micro Magnet Society School (Third Grade); UHARTT Community Division Tap Program (2010 to Present). Awards: Employee of the Year 2012-2013 at Noah Webster Micro Magnet Society School.
JOHN HENRY WENZ BOY SCROOGE | FRED’S PARTY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Education: Smith School in West Hartford (Fourth Grade). Other: Member of Holy Family Monastery Children’s Choir; enjoys hockey, baseball, sailing, reading and making movies.
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SAMMY WETSTEIN SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: Gavroche in Les Miserables (Landmark Community Theatre); Winthrop in Music Man (Theatre Guild of Simsbury), Fagin’s Boy in Oliver! (Good Company Theater). Education: SLS, Simsbury, Conn (Fifth Grade). Other: Enjoys Legos, playing outside, climbing, ropes courses. Plays piano, cello, and started bassoon.
MICHAEL WILSON ADAPTOR | SUPERVISING ORIGINAL DIRECTOR Michael Wilson’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas is enjoying its 16th holiday season at Hartford Stage, where he was Artistic Director from 1998 to 2011. His script premiered in 1990 at Houston’s Alley Theatre where it’s currently playing its 18th season; it is also in its 10th season at Washington D.C’s Ford’s Theatre. Dramatists Play Service published his adaptation in 2009. In 2010, Wilson received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for his direction of Horton Foote’s three-part epic The Orphans’ Home Cycle. On Broadway, he directed last season’s Tony Award winning revival of The Trip to Bountiful. Other Broadway productions include the Tony nominated Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Dividing the Estate, Enchanted April, and Roundabout’ Theatre Company’s revival of John Van Druten’s Old Acquaintance. His Off-Broadway credits include Christopher Shinn’s Picked and What Didn’t Happen; Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore; and Lanford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly, among many others. Wilson makes his screen-directing debut this February with the Lifetime film version of The Trip to Bountiful starring Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams and Blair Underwood.
MAXWELL WILLIAMS DIRECTOR | ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Prior to his appointment as Associate Artistic Director, Maxwell Williams served as Resident Director for 3 seasons at Hartford Stage, where he has directed productions of Boeing-Boeing, The 39 Steps and Dying City, numerous readings and workshops, and remounts the theater’s annual production of A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Mr. Williams’ directing credits include world premieres and revivals at theaters across the country, including 59E59 Theatres, the Bank St. Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Capital Repertory Theatre, Chance Theater, Workshop Theater Company, and Monomoy Theater, as well as work for the Pasadena Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Primary Stages, and the Alley Theatre, Houston. He served as associate director for the Broadway production of Horton Foote’s Dividing the Estate, as well as Foote’s 9-play epic The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Hartford Stage and Signature Theatre), and has assistant directed on Broadway, for Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Center Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company and the American Repertory Theatre. A member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and Directors Lab West, he has been adjunct faculty or visiting artist at NYU, Trinity College, Mt. Holyoke College and the Hartt School, University of Hartford, from which he graduated with honors in the inaugural class of the Theatre Division.
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HOPE CLARKE CHOREOGRAPHER Hartford Stage: Resurrection, The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue, Rough Crossing, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, ...Love, Langston, The Colored Museum, Spunk. Broadway: A Free Man of Color (Lincoln Center); Caroline, or Change, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Tempest (also done in Central Park), West Side Story, Grind, Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope, Purlie, Hallelujah, Baby!. Off-Broadway: The Reckoning, House of Flowers, One Last Look, Othello, A Raisin in The Sun, Dark of The Moon. International: National Theatre: Caroline, or Change. Regional: Alliance Theater: Jesus Christ Superstar; Barrington Stage and Pioneer Theatre: South Pacific, Mack and Mabel; Lyric Opera: Amistad; Delacorte Theatre: The Tempest. Regional/ director: Duke Theater Showcase: In Gathering; The Multi Series at York Theatre: Hallelujah, Baby! Dance: soloist: Katherine Dunham Company, Talley Beatty, Louis Johnson; Principal dancer: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Television: New York Undercover, Law & Order. Honors: Tony nomination, best choreography for Jelly’s Last Jam; Drama-Logue Award, Joseph Calloway Award and NAACP Image award for the same piece; first black director and choreographer to do a major tour of Porgy & Bess and the Dance Jazz version for Dallas Black Theatre.
TONY STRAIGES SCENIC DESIGN Hartford Stage: designs include The Great Magoo, Summer and Smoke, Noises Off!. Broadway: designs include Timbuktu!, A History of the American Film, John Curry’s Ice Dancing, Richard III, Sunday in the Park with George, Rumors, Into the Woods, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, I Hate Hamlet, Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual, Artist Descending a Staircase, Golden Child, Enchanted April. Off-Broadway: designs include Messiah, Diamonds, Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein, Tea at Five, From Door to Door, Meet Me in St. Louis, Chasing Manet, Treasure Island, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Regional: includes Arena Stage, Williamstown Theater Festival, Center Stage, Alley Theater, Old Globe, American Repertory Theater, Yale Rep, Guthrie, Cleveland Playhouse, People’s Light and Theater. Ballet: Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Royal Ballet of Sweden. Awards: Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Maharam Foundation, Friends of New York Theater, Drama Critics Circle, California Robby and Drama-Logue, Dallas Critics Circle, Connecticut Critics Circle, Virginia Phoebe.
ALEJO VIETTI COSTUME DESIGN Hartford Stage: The Mystery of Irma Vep, Our Town, Frankie and Johnny, Bad Dates, Dying City and Mistakes Were Made. New York: Beautiful (Broadway). Works at New York City Opera, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, MCC, Atlantic Theatre Company, Irish Rep and The New Group, among others. Select Regional: Alley Theatre, Longwharf, Old Globe, Guthrie, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodspeed, Arena Stage, Saint Louis Repertory Theatre, Paper Mill, Pittsburgh Public, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Colorado Ballet, Wolf Trap Opera and Minnesota Opera. Other: Ringling Brothers, Edinburgh Fringe, Donetsk Opera (Ukraine). Upcoming: Radio City Rockettes Heart & Lights. TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award Recipient.
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ZACK BROWN ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Broadway: Tony Awardwinning revival of On Your Toes (Scenery & Costumes). Regional: Arena Stage: The Importance of Being Earnest, Candide, Of Thee I Sing, Animal Crackers, Tales From The Vienna Woods, On The Town, Twelfth Night, Arcadia; Kennedy Center: Don Quixote; Circle In The Square: 14 productions including Suddenly Last Summer, Salome (American Theatre Wing nom., set), Tartuffe (filmed for PBS, Drama Desk nom.), The Importance of Being Earnest (Tony nom.), St. Joan (Drama Desk nom., costumes), The Night of the Iguana, Devil’s Disciple, Loose Ends. Opera Company credits: Washington Opera: Principal Designer (42 productions from 1979 to 1994, scenery and costumes); Santa Fe; San Francisco: La Gioconda (two Emmy Awards); Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto; New York City Opera; Houston Grand Opera. Ballet credits: American Ballet Theatre; Milwaukee Ballet; Atlanta Ballet; Hamburg Ballet; Hamburg Staatsoper: On The Town (Scenery & Costumes). Education: University of Notre Dame, Yale School of Drama.
ROBERT WIERZEL LIGHTING DESIGN Hartford Stage: Divine Rivalry, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Scene, Edgardo Mine, Constant Star, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, Happy Days, Loot, Romeo & Juliet, Arms and The Man, Morocco, The Stick Wife, Pericles, On The Verge, The Mystery Plays. Broadway: FELA! a musical; David Copperfield’s Dreams and Nightmares; Roundabout Theatre: Deep Blue Sea. London: FELA!, National Theatre. Other credits: NYSF; MCC Theatre; Signature Theatre Company; Mostly Mozart Festival. Regional: A.C.T. (San Francisco); Westport Country Playhouse; Arena Stage; Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Shakespeare Theatre DC; Long Wharf; Goodman Theatre; The Guthrie; Mark Taper Forum and the Berkley Rep, among others. Opera: Productions with the opera companies of Paris (Garnier); Tokyo; Toronto; Boston; San Diego; San Francisco; Houston; Washington; Seattle; Virginia; Chicago; Glimmerglass and New York City Opera among others. Dance: numerous collaborations with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (27 years). Future: In development for Superfly, new musicals. Education: MFA/ Yale School of Drama. Adjunct faculty/ NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
JOHN GROMADA ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN Hartford Stage: Original Music and sound for many productions. Highlights include: The Crucible, Divine Rivalry, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore,Camino Real, Enchanted April,, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Macbeth, others. Broadway: Original scores for more than thirty productions including The Trip to Bountiful, The Best Man, Seminar, Clybourne Park, The Columnist, Man and Boy, Next Fall, Dividing the Estate, Proof, Prelude to a Kiss, A Bronx Tale, Well, Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, Sight Unseen and A Few Good Men. Other NY: Domesticated, The Old Friends, Old Hats, My Name is Asher Lev, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Shipwrecked!, The Singing Forest, Streamers, The Screwtape Letters, Pig Farm, Small Tragedy, many others; Public Theater: Measure for Measure, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe- all at the Delacorte; and The Singing Forest, The Skriker, Machinal, and The Swan, others. Regional: More than 300 productions at leading theatres here and abroad. Television: The Interrogators. Awards: Tony nomination, 3 Drama Desk awards, Henry Hewes, Lucille Lortel, Obie, Eddy, Drama-Logue, NEA Opera Music Theatre Fellowship, Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, ASCAP awards. Other: More info and at www.johngromada.com. Music and ringtones from the this show available at itunes.
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GILLIAN LANE-PLESCIA DIALECT COACH Hartford Stage: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (and 0n Broadway), Divine Rivalry, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Bay at Nice, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Edgardo Mine, The Carpetbagger’s Children, The Glass Menagerie, DollHouse, Rough Crossing, The Clearing, A Christmas Carol, A Streetcar Named Desire. Broadway: War Horse, Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Off-Broadway: Howard Katz, A Christmas Carol (at Madison Square Garden with F. Murray Abraham and with Jim Dale), Homebody/Kabul, The Misanthrope, Beautiful Thing. Public Theater: Kit Marlowe. Acting Company: Jane Eyre. National Tour: War Horse. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville; Alley Theatre; American Players Theatre; Arena Stage; Banff Center for Fine Arts; Bay Street Theatre; CenterStage Baltimore; Guthrie Theater; George Street Playhouse; Goodman Theatre; Goodspeed Opera; Huntington Theatre; Long Wharf Theatre; McCarter Theatre; Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; NJ Shakespeare; Steppenwolf Theatre; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Shakespeare Theatre DC; TheatreWorks; Yale Rep; Canadian Stage Company; Lyric Opera of Chicago. Teaching: Juilliard School, Other: Series of self-instruction dialect material for actors, used worldwide. Education: Royal Academy of Music Diploma (Speech and Drama); MA, Theater, Florida State University.
KEN CLARK MUSIC DIRECTOR Hartford Stage: The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Our Town, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Regional: Connecticut Repertory Theatre: over 100 productions since 1979. Recent: How to Succeed, Hairspray, The Secret Garden, Blood Brothers. Upcoming: Drood, Legally Blonde. Other credits: University of Connecticut, lecturer in Class Piano.
BRITTANY HARTMAN WIG DESIGN Hartford Stage: Macbeth, La Dispute. Broadway: Assistant Designing A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (premiering this fall) and The Radio City Rockettes 2013. Regional: Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Ohio Light Opera, The Cleveland Playhouse. Education: BA Theatre, Ashland University.
DERRIC HARRIS ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Broadway: A Free Man Of Color, Dance Of The Vampires, Kiss Me, Kate. 1st National Tours: Fosse, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Off-Broadway: Purlie, Tenderloin, House of Flowers and On A Clear Day.....( all at City Center Encores!); Paul Robeson: All American, Much Ado About Nothing, The Little Rock 9. Regional: Jimmy in Dreamgirls, Man 1 in The Colored Museum, Spunk, Master Harold and the Boys, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, God Is So Good, Boogie, ich habe dich sehr lieb...a work in progress, Elergies, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Film and Television: One Life To Live, All My Children, As the World Turns, Rodney, Thieves and Liars.
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ROBERT W. HENDERSON, JR. ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Recent: credits include Khmer Arts Ensemble’s Bend in the River, MN, NY; Royal Ballet of Cambodia’s The Legend of Apsara Mera, NY; Compagnie de Danse Jean-Rene Delsoin on their Center StageSM tour; Race (TheatreWorks, Hartford); Khmeropedies I & II, CT, NY, Amsterdam, Spoleto USA; Mary’s Wedding and Tazewell Thompson’s A Christmas Carol (Westport Country Playhouse); Les Misérables, Proof, Dracula, Doubt, Rent, The Laramie Project, I Am My Own Wife, among others (Theatre Three, NY); Barneys NY and select Tiffany & Co. flagship store display windows; Brooklyn Historical Society’s exhibitions The Emancipation Proclamation and Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom; Associate Designer for the Permanent Exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America, NY. Worked on the international premiere of the new opera Where Elephants Weep presented in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Education: MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Design.
MARTIN LECHNER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Regional: Worked numerous shows at various regional theatres including: Weston Playhouse, American Repertory Theatre, Boston; The Shakespeare Theatre, DC; New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; Alley Theatre, Houston; La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego, CA. Education: University Of California, San Diego. Other: Extensive touring, including national tours—Jolson: The Musical, Cinderella, Blast 2: Shockwave, classical touring theatre—The Acting Company, American Repertory Theatre musical review shows, dance pieces, and cultural shows from China and Japan.
MEG FRIEDMAN ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Hartford Stage: Macbeth, La Dispute. Broadway: Matilda, Memphis, The Story of My Life. Off-Broadway: Two by Two, Happy Hunting and more at the York Theatre Company; The Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Ars Nova; Chix 6 and more at the Queens Theatre. National Tour: The Light in the Piazza, First National Tour; Julius Caesar and The Comedy of Errors in repertory (The Acting Company). Regional: Goodspeed Musicals, John W. Engeman Theatre, TheaterWorks Hartford, Reprise! Theatre Company, Riverside Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse. Education: UCLA, School of Theater, Film & Television. 2013_11-5_HartStageAd-v2 11/5/13 12:55 PM Page 1
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Johanna Morrison and the Children of A Christmas Carol in A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.
Now in our 50th Anniversary season, Hartford Stage is one of the nation’s leading resident theatres, known internationally for producing classics, provocative new plays and musicals, and neglected works from the past, as well as a distinguished education program that reaches 21,000 students annually. Hartford Stage has earned many of the nation’s most distinguished awards, including a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Margo Jones Award for Development of New Works, OBIE awards, two New York Critics Circle Awards, a Dramatists Guild/ CBS Award and an Elliot Norton Award, and has produced nationally renowned titles, including the Broadway productions of Enchanted April and Our Country’s Good and the Off-Broadway productions of The Orphans’ Home Cycle and The Carpetbaggers Children. The Hartford Stage production of A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder opened this past fall at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway. The leading provider of theatre education programs in Connecticut, Hartford Stage’s offerings include student matinees, in-school theatre residencies, teen performance opportunities, theatre classes for students (ages 3-18) and adults, afterschool programs and professional development courses.
50TH ANNIVERSARY HONORARY COMMITTEE Edward Albee • Elizabeth Ashley • Ellen Burstyn • Olympia Dukakis • Hallie Foote Hal Holbrook • Quiara Alegría Hudes • Dana Ivey • Charles Kimbrough Angela Lansbury • Jefferson Mays • Kate Mulgrew • Matthew Modine • Novella Nelson Bill Raymond • Campbell Scott • Richard Thomas • Alfred Uhry • Michael Yeargen
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“My wife and I have fond memories of the first season. It opened in what we now refer to as The Old Place on Kinsley Street, and the opening play was Othello. It was either in Othello, which Jacques Cartier directed, or Rashomon, which Joel Oliansky (another co-founder) directed, but in one of the two, most of the actors were on the steel-springed shoes—semi-stilts—that ceiling plasterers at the time used. Can’t for the life of me remember the point of the stilts, but it made a vivid impression. The new enterprise was off to a wellreceived start.”
50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS Hartford Stage celebrated 50 magical years of theatre with a conversation with past artistic and managing directors on November 3 and a performance featuring current and past artists on November 4!
Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak, Managing Director Michael Stotts, Former Artistic Director Mark Lamos, Former Managing Director David Hawkanson and Founding Artistic Director Jacques Cartier.
—DON NOEL, 49-YEAR SUBSCRIBER
View other reminisces, photos and video from the past 50 years at www.hartfordstage.org.
Darko Tresnjak and Dana Ivey.
Lisa O’Hare. Photos by The Defining Photo. Charles Kimbrough as Iago in Othello (1964).
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Annalee Jefferies and David Patrick Kelly in Edward Albee’s Seascape (2002). Photo by T. Charles Erickson.
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50 Years of Design at Hartford Stage
When Jacques Cartier founded Hartford Stage 50 years ago, he asked John Conklin, a fellow Yale School of Drama alumnus, to come design for the new company. Conklin, who had just designed his first Broadway show (Tambourines to Glory), took on every show in the company’s first two seasons. He continued to design on and off for the company for the next thirty years. Conklin’s career has become a model of what’s possible: he designs both opera and theatre, sets and costumes; he received the Robert L.B. Tobin award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatrical Design; and he was Glimmerglass Opera’s Associate Artistic Director for 18 years. His notable Hartford Stage productions include Antony and Cleopatra (1981-82 Season), Pericles (1986-87), Peer Gynt (1988-89), and The Merchant of Venice (1993-94.) Since then, hundreds of designers, up-and-coming and well established, Tony-winners and film designers, have passed through Hartford Stage, including Michael Yeargen, Jennifer Tipton, Santo Loquasto, Christine Jones, Riccardo Hernandez, Susan Hilferty, Darron L. West, Ming Cho Lee, David C. Woolard, Jess Goldstein, Rachel Hauck,
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Catherine Zuber, Stephen Strawbridge, Jeff Cowie, Tony Straiges, Marina Draghici, Christopher Akerland, Eugene Lee, Fabio Toblini, Linda Cho, Alexander Dodge, Jane Shaw, and Suttirat Larlarb. Designers often have long-lasting collaborations with a certain director: in addition to his seasons with Jacques Cartier, John Conklin was also the designer on a number of important productions for Mark Lamos, Hartford Stage’s third Artistic Director. David C. Woolard designed the costumes for a number of shows for Michael Wilson (the company’s fourth Artistic Director), including the The Orphans’ Home Cycle (2009-10). Last season, set designer Alexander Dodge and costume designer Linda Cho designed both A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (opening on Broadway in the fall of 2013) and Twelfth Night, the latest productions in their longstanding collaborations with Darko Tresnjak, who is Hartford Stage’s current Artistic Director. Hartford Stage produces six shows each season, along with the annual holiday revival of A Christmas Carol. Each production is built in Hartford, with Hartford Stage’s production staff working all season to fabricate the sets, costumes and props envisaged by the designers. In addition to the set, costume, lighting and sound designers for each show, it takes approximately fifty additional artists and craftspeople to bring each of Hartford Stage’s seven productions per year from the design to the stage.
In celebration of Hartford Stage’s 50th Anniversary Season, the STAGECRAFT exhibit consists of a selection of costumes, props and scenic elements from the company’s extensive collection. For updated dates and locations, please visit hartfordstage.org.
STAGECRAFT Tour Dates/Locations:
Through December 16, 2013 New Britain Museum of American Art January 21-March 5, 2014 Mark Twain House March 6-May 14, 2014 New England Carousel Museum, Bristol May 15-August 10, 2014 William Benton Museum of Art at UConn
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DARKO TRESNJAK ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF HARTFORD STAGE
Darko Tresnjak is the fifth Artistic Director for Hartford Stage, where he has directed Macbeth, La Dispute, Twelfth Night, Breath & Imagination, The Tempest, Bell, Book & Candle and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, which he also directed on Broadway. He was the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Shakespeare Festival in San Diego from 2004 to 2009. His directing credits at the Old Globe include Cyrano de Bergerac, Coriolanus, The Women, The Pleasure of His Company, All’s Well That Ends Well, Bell, Book and Candle, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, A Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Pericles. He received four awards from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle: for outstanding direction of Cyrano de Bergerac, The Winter’s Tale, and Pericles and for Excellence in Artistic Direction. In 2011, Tresnjak directed Titus Andronicus at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada, City of Angels for Goodspeed Musicals, and his acclaimed production of The Merchant of Venice, featuring F. Murray Abraham as Shylock, completed a national tour. The production originated in 2007 at Theatre for a New Audience and transferred to the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of their Complete Works Festival. Tresnjak’s directing career began at the Williamstown Theatre Festival where over eight seasons he directed The Skin of Our Teeth, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Love of Three Oranges, Princess Turandot, The Blue Demon, The Winter’s Tale, Moving Picture, and Under Milk Wood. He has also directed at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Vineyard Theatre Company, and Blue Light Theater Company. From 20022004 he was Director in Residence at Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company where his productions included What the Butler Saw, Heartbreak House, and Amphitryon. Tresnjak recently directed Der Zwerg, Der Zerbrochene Krug, and Die Vögel for Los Angeles Opera, the inaugural productions of their acclaimed Recovered Voices cycle. The productions were released last fall on DVD/Blu-Ray by Arthaus Musik. He has also directed at Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Florida Grand Opera, Sarasota Opera, and Virginia Opera. Connecticut audiences will know Tresnjak’s work from Goodspeed Musicals where he directed Carnival, Amour, and A Little Night Music; Long Wharf Theatre where he directed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; and Westport Country Playhouse where he directed Hay Fever and Princess Turandot. Tresnjak grew up in Yugoslavia, the United States and Poland. He was educated at Swarthmore College and Columbia University and became an American citizen shortly after graduation. Between college and graduate school, he studied at the Martha Graham School, performed with numerous Philadelphia dance and theatre companies, and toured across the United States and Japan with Mum Puppettheatre. He is the recipient of grants from Theatre Communications Group, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Alan Schneider Award for Directing Excellence.
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MICHAEL STOTTS MANAGING DIRECTOR
Michael Stotts is in his eighth season as Managing Director of Hartford Stage. Recent accomplishments include an $11 Million Capital and Endowment Campaign, and the renovation and expansion of the Stage’s theatre facility. In 2010, in partnership with Michael Wilson, he produced Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle which went on to a successful run at New York’s Signature Theater and won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, among others. During his three-year tenure as Managing Director at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Mr. Stotts produced a significant number of new plays including works by Paula Vogel, Craig Lucas, James Lapine and Julia Cho, among others. Sixteen Wounded by Eliam Kraiem moved to Broadway in 2004, and Cho’s BFE and Lapine’s Fran’s Bed with Mia Farrow subsequently transferred to Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons. Prior to Long Wharf he served as Managing Director at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and for nine years he served in the same capacity at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison, New Jersey, where he successfully initiated and managed a $7.5 million capital campaign to build the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, which opened in 1998. Mr. Stotts began his professional career at the Manhattan Theatre Club where he served in a number of management capacities from 1986–1990. Mr. Stotts currently serves on the boards of Hartford Performs and Billings Forge Community Works. He was a co-founder and President of the Connecticut Arts Alliance, a statewide arts advocacy organization; he continues to serve on that board as well. In New Jersey, Mr. Stotts served as Chairman of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance and served on the board of ArtPride New Jersey. In 2005, Mr. Stotts was honored with a Distinguished Advocate Award from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, and in 2011 he received the Commission’s Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Arts Administration Fellowship.
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Aetna New Voices Fellow: Janine Nabers A season-long engagement, the Aetna New Voices Fellowship provides an artistic home for important playwrights of color to develop work and become involved in the ongoing life of Greater Hartford. The residency includes working with Hartford Stage’s education department, advancing community development, and the commissioning of a new work, as well as a series of readings and workshops throughout the year. The 2013-14 Fellow is playwright Janine Nabers. A native of Houston, Texas, Janine Nabers is a 2013 graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship at Juilliard. Her play Annie Bosh is Missing premiered in August 2013 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre CompaJanine Nabers ny. A 2012-2013 New York Theatre Workshop Playwriting Fellow, she is also a member of the MCC Playwrights Coalition and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages. She was Page 73’s 2011 Playwriting Fellow and is an alumna of the Ars Nova Playgroup, the Soho Rep Writer/ Director Lab, the Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellowship, the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and the 2010 and 2011 Sundance Theatre Labs. Presently Janine is working on commissions from Playwrights Horizons and Berkeley Rep. Her new musical Mrs. Hughes was developed as the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival fellowship musical and was part of the 2013 Yale Institute for Musical Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club’s 7@7 series, and the Theatreworks New Works Now Festival.
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Past Aetna New Voices Fellows Past Fellows include Matthew Lopez (201213) whose play Somewhere will make its East Coast premiere at Hartford Stage this season; Quiara Alegría Hudes (2008-09) who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Water by the Spoonful, produced at Hartford Stage; and Daniel Beaty (2007-08) author of Breath & Imagination which premiered at Hartford Stage last season.
Matthew Lopez
Marking its ninth year as the sole funder of this essential program, Aetna, Inc., builds healthy communities by promoting volunteerism, forming partnerships, and funding initiatives to improve the quality of life for its employees and customers. Daniel Beaty
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The Hartt School/Hartford Stage Partnership in Training Now in its seventh year, The Hartt School/Hartford Stage Partnership in Training offers a unique alliance of an undergraduate acting conservatory program and a respected professional theatre—one of only two such collaborations in the country. This partnership helps ensure that acting students at the Hartt School receive rigorous training and bring their skills, imagination and intellect to the demands of a professional theatre setting. Hartford Stage staff and guest artists lead classes and workshops and faculty and students appear in Hartford Stage productions. Hartt students have been seen in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off!, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Brand:NEW Festival of New Work, Antony & Cleopatra, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Crucible, The Tempest and Twelfth Night.
The University of Massachusetts Graduate Internships at Hartford Stage Linking one of the most respected graduate programs in theatre with the Tony Award-winning Hartford Stage, the University of Massachusetts Graduate Internships give Master of Fine Arts students in design, directing and dramaturgy the opportunity to work alongside the country’s most exciting artists. The Graduate Internships provide a valuable professional testing ground for students and are a natural complement to the practical, hands-on approach of UMass’ graduate program. In turn, Hartford Stage is enriched by the participation of the next generation of theatre artists. UMass students have worked on Boeing-Boeing, Zerline’s Tale, Gee’s Bend, Motherhood Out Loud, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Snow Falling on Cedars, The 39 Steps, the Brand:NEW Festival of New Work and Hedda Gabler. From Top: Hartt School student Ben Cole in The Tempest. • Nafe Katter and Hartt School student Douglas Lyons in To Kill a Mockingbird. • Hartt Students Kendra Underwood and Michael Gregory in Antony & Cleopatra.
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Nadine Francis West* Vice President
OFFICERS Jill Adams* President Sue Ann Collins* David R. Jimenez* Treasurer Secretary
GOVERNING DIRECTORS Lois Anderson R. Kelley Bonn* Patti Broad Michele B. Bush Kimberley L. Byrd* Marla J. Byrnes* Susan J. Copeland Richard G. Costello* Robert J. Crowder Sonya D. Dockett Joseph E. Fortuna Michael Grunberg Renata Hayes* William P. Herdegen, III Jeffrey S. Hoffman* Robert V. Lally* Katherine Lambert Roger Loeb John B. Lynch, Jr. Margaret Marchak Judith C. Meyers Marjorie E. Morrissey Eric D. Ort Charlie Ortiz Esther A. Pryor Michael D. Nicastro* Wilfred R. Noel Robert A. Penney Tom Richards Christopher J. Rixon Barbara Rubin John L. Sennott, Jr. Bruce Simons* Robin L. Smith Ileen Swerdloff Peter L. Tedone Judith E. Thompson Brooke Whittemore* John H.P. Wheat Linda Cheverton Wick C. Robert Zelinger Maxwell M. Belding Beverly P. Greenberg
LIFE DIRECTORS George L. Estes III Arnold C. Greenberg Belle K. Ribicoff Anne H. Rudder Linda Fisher Silpe
HONORARY DIRECTORS John Alves Margaret B. Amstutz David Carson Sara Marcy Cole Susan G. Fisher Andrew M. Fleischmann George A. Ingram* Elsa Daspin Suisman Allan B. Taylor Sherwood S. Willard Patty Willis Joel B. Alvord Ellsworth Davis+ John W. Huntington+ Edward Lane-Reticker+ Scott McAlister+ Deanna Sue Sucsy
PAST PRESIDENTS Paul L. Bourdeau* David W. Clark, Jr. Elliot F. Gerson Thomas J. Groark, Jr. Walter Harrison David M. Klein Janet M. Larsen Thomas D. Lips Tuck Miller Christina B. Ripple* Jennifer Smith Turner Peter R. Wilde+
EX OFFICIO DIRECTORS Darko Tresnjak Michael Stotts Artistic Director Managing Director John B. Larson Dannel P. Malloy Pedro E. Segarra
Congressional Representative 1st District of Connecticut
Governor, State of Connecticut
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Darko Tresnjak Artistic Director*
Michael Stotts Managing Director
(*position permanently endowed by Janet S. Suisman)
ARTISTIC Maxwell Williams,
Associate Artistic Director
Elizabeth Williamson, Senior
Dramaturg/Director of New Play Development
Harriette Holmes, Executive Assitant
to the Artistic and Managing Directors Janine Nabers, Aetna New Voices Fellow
Bruce Turk, Fox Foundation
Resident Actor Fellow Writers Currently Under Commission:
Luis Alfaro, Marcus Gardley, Matthew Lopez, Janine Nabers, Will Power, Craig Wright. GENERAL MANAGEMENT Emily Van Scoy, General Manager Stacie J. Snyder,
PRODUCTION Bryan T. Holcombe, Production Manager Andy Palmer,
MARKETING, SALES & COMMUNICATIONS David Henderson, Director of
Samantha Donnelly,
Todd M. Brandt, Associate Director of
Arielle Goldstein, Amy Lamm,
Taylor G. Benedum,
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Production Assistants
Set Construction & Scenic Art Aaron D. Bleck, Technical Director Mike Beschta, Assistant Technical Director Samantha Beschta, Master Carpenter Christopher Nelson, Tina LaPonte, Ian Sweeney, Carpenters Curt Tomczyk, Charge Scenic Artist Carrie Peters, Stage Carpenter
Assistant General Manager
Scott Bartelson,
Management Associate
FINANCE Michael P. Sandner, Director of Finance Cheryl Winter, Bookkeeper DEVELOPMENT John Bourdeaux, Director of Development Casey Grambo, Development Assistant Kera Jewett, Individual Giving Manager Kristen Michaels, Events Manager Jim Morgan, Institutional Giving Manager Allison Whitehall, Grants Manager EDUCATION Jennifer Roberts, Director of Education Nina Pinchin, Associate Director of Education
Robert Reader,
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Aurelia Clunie,
Education Associate for Student Audiences
Ayla Kapiloff,
Education Associate for School Programs
Hunter Parker,
Education Associate for Adult Programs
Emely Larson, Studio Manager Chelsea Caplan, Education Sales Coordinator
Costumes & Wardrobe Blair Gulledge, Costume Shop Manager
Britt Watts, Costume Shop Assistant B.W. Sellers, Draper Pat Van Horn, First Hand SB Parks, Costume Crafts Julia Bowers, Wardrobe Supervisor Emma Tremmel, Wig/Wardrobe Properties Todd R. Kulik, Properties Manager Erin Keller, Properties Artisan Lighting Aaron Hochheiser, Master Electrician Jennifer M. Philp, Assistant Master Electrician
Cazimir Bzdyra, Light Board Operator Sound Michael Miceli, Audio/Video Supervisor Hunter Spoede, Audio/Video Engineer For this Production Marianne Krostyne, Draper Costume Construction:
Nikki Fazzone, Kerry Gibbons Wig Construction:
2013–2014 Apprentices Athena Ellis, Arts Administration James Will McBride, Artistic Siri Nelson, Costumes McKenzi Swinehart, Development Samantha Martinson, Education Yuki Katayama, Marketing Katy Persutti, Production Management Elaine Gray, Props Aarron Schuelke, Scenic Arts 2010 RENOVATION ARCHITECT Mitchell Kurtz Architect PC
Lauren “L-Dawg” Cecil, Farah “Fancy” Chaney, Karin Cravin, Bryan Sommer, Marcha Willard Carpenters:
Kurt Fenster, Mathew Hennessey, Melissa Nelson,
Marketing, Sales & Communications Marketing, Sales & Communications Graphic Designer & Brand Manager
Tim Kendrick, Data Services Manager Charles MacNaughton, Digital Media Manager
Theresa M. MacNaughton, Community Engagement Associate
Audra Mailhot,
Public Relations Manager
T. Charles Erickson, Company Photographer
Sales Center Joe Frederick, Director of Sales Darlene Herrick,
Administrative Assistant / Sales Representative Sales Center Representatives:
Mike Davirro, Todd Merrell, Linda Young Patron Services Matt Robinson,
Audience Services Manager
Darryl VanOudenhove, Box Office Manager
Pete Carey,
Subscriptions Manager
Katya Collazo, Box Office Supervisor Customer Service Representatives:
Anthony Bell, Erin Buck, Alexandra Fischbein, Sierra Vazquez House Management Lew Michaels,
Associate Director of Theatre Operations
Alicia Catania, House Manager House Operations Staff:
Brittany Boncek, Bruce Catania, Sam Chiasson, Sheznarda Flores, Antonio Giovannucci, Connor Green, Lindsey Hoffman, Elizabeth Malvo, Andrew Mentus, Cady Michaels, Joan Ouellette, Tanya Rivera Volunteer Advisory Board Ann Cooke, President Doug Cooke, Jill Dugas, Carol Durant-Holtzclaw, Sandy Weston, Pat Tyson, Gayle Barrett, Michael Brezel, Martha Schwartz, Bobbie Werner
Props Craftpersons:
Ryann D. Lee, Craig Harlow, Kevin DeChello Allison Jackson, Props Painter Run Crew:
Jamie Steffen, Abby Boone, Heather Klein, Tim Leininger, Matt Hennessey, Ryan Szakal, Alex Zinovenko, Ryan Kelly
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2013/2014 50TH ANNIVERSARY LEGACY SPONSORS
SOMEWHERE
NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT
PRODUCTION SPONSOR
Adams & Knight The Edgerton Foundation The John and Kelly Hartman Foundation The Lucille Lortel Foundation The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Robinson & Cole LLP
Travelers United Technologies Corporation
LOVE AND OTHER FABLES
2013/2014 50TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT SPONSORS
Love and Other Fables is supported by the 50th Anniversary NCTF/Ford Foundation Fund for New Work Love and Other Fables is a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award
Bank of America Greater Hartford Arts Council Hoffman Auto Group
2013/2014 SEASON PRODUCTION SPONSORS CLASSICAL REPERTORY FOR A NEW GENERATION PRODUCTION SPONSORS
The John and Kelly Hartman Foundation The Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation ASSISTING PRODUCTION SPONSOR
Federman, Lally & Remis LLC
LA DISPUTE
ASSISTING PRODUCTION SPONSOR
The Saunders Foundation ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY:
Aged In Wood Productions Elephant Eye Theatricals LLC
CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP The Barnes Group Hartford Steam Boiler Milliman True Benefit UBS/Lips Rousseau Partners XL Group
PRODUCTION SPONSOR
SEASON RESTAURANT PARTNER
The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation
DISH Bar and Grill
MACBETH
AETNA NEW VOICES FELLOWSHIP
ASSISTING PRODUCTION SPONSOR
Aetna
Hinckley Allen Macbeth is part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, a national program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY OUTREACH Aetna The Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, as recommended by Linda & David Glickstein The Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, as recommended by Beatrice Koopman The Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, as recommended by Harry Solomon Barnes Foundation The J. Walton Bissell Foundation Eugene G. & Margaret M. Blackford Memorial Fund Ensworth Charitable Foundation Fisher Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William Foulds Family Foundation Greater Hartford Arts Council Greater Hartford Automobile Dealers Association The Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial Charitable Trust Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Aaron and Simon Hollander Funds Lincoln Financial Group McDonald Family Trust National Corporate Theatre Fund The Charles Nelson Robinson Fund
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SBM Charitable Foundation Travelers Wells Fargo
OPERATING AND CAPITAL SUPPORT Acorn Alcinda Foundation All Waste The William H. & Rosanna T. Andrulat Charitable Foundation Bank of America Blum Shapiro City of Hartford Connecticut Department of Economic & Community Development The William & Eva Fox Foundation/TCG Harry E. Goldfarb Family Foundation Greater Hartford Arts Council Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Hartford Stage Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The John & Kelly Hartman Foundation The Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation The Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation The Hugh M. Joseloff and Helen H. Joseloff Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Worth and Louise Loomis Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Katharine K. McLane & Henry R. McLane Charitable Trust Morgan Stanley The Shubert Foundation Sparta Insurance Holdings, Inc. Travelers United Technologies Corporation
Amica Companies Foundation AT&T Foundation Matching Gift Program Bank of America Chubb Group of Insurance Companies CIGNA Crum & Forster Dominion Foundation Hewlett-Packard IBM Corporation ING Foundation Larson Lighting Design Services Mass Mutual Pfizer Incorporated Prudential Foundation Stanley Black & Decker The Phoenix Companies The Travelers Foundation The UBS Foundation United Technologies Corporation Walt Disney Company Foundation XL Global Services
MEDIA SPONSORS
IN-KIND SUPPORT Adams & Knight Jill Adams & Bill Knight Amtrak Angie Augustinos Paul L. Bourdeau Michele Bush Joyce Cohen Sebastain Dunn Hilton Hartford David Jimenez David & Jan Klein Hans J. Kuss Roger Loeb, Allan S. Goodman, Inc. Gay Lustig Minuteman Press Belle K. Ribicoff Barbara Rubin Temple Street Townhouses Wadsworth Atheneum Linda C. Wick
MATCHING GIFTS Major corporations or their affiliated foundations encourage support of Hartford Stage by matching their employee’s contributions or making gifts in recognition of their employees’ volunteer activities with Hartford Stage. We applaud them for their philanthropic policies that have benefited the theatre. ACTEX Publications Aetna Foundation, Inc. America’s Charities
PREFERRED CARRIER
OFFICIAL HOST HOTEL
GENERAL COUNSEL Day Pitney LLP Jackson Lewis LLP MacDermid, Reynolds & Glissman, P.C. Robinson & Cole LLP
CURRENT CONTRIBUTORS LIST COMPLETE AUGUST 2013 Impact Creativity is an urgent call to action to save theatre education programs in 19 of our largest cities. Impact Creativity brings together theatres, arts education experts and individuals to help over 500,000 children and youth, most of them disadvantaged, succeed through the arts by sustaining the theatre arts education programs threatened by today’s fiscal climate. For more information on how “theatre education changes lives,” please visit: www.impactcreativity.org
($250,000 OR MORE) The James S. and Lynne P. Turley Ernst & Young Fund for Impact Creativity Clear Channel Outdoor* CMT/ABC* ($100,000 OR MORE) The Hearst Foundations ($50,000 OR MORE) AOL* ($10,000 OR MORE) Christopher Campbell/ Palace Production Center* Lisa Orberg Frank and Bonnie Orlowski The Ralph and Luci Schey Foundation The Schloss Family Foundation Southwest Airlines* James S. Turley John Thomopoulos Wells Fargo ($5,000 OR MORE) Steven and Joy Bunson Paula Dominick Christ Economos Mariska Hargitay* Ogilvy & Mather* The Maurer Family Foundation ($1,000 OR MORE) Nick Adamo Mitchell J. Auslander Ryan Dudley Bruce R. Ewing Jessica Farr Steve & Donna Gartner Glen Gillen Peter Hermann Janet and Howard Kagan John Major Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart George S. Smith, Jr. Florence Miller Memorial Fund Theodore Nixon Carol Ostrow RBC Wealth Management Isabelle Winkles *Includes In-kind support
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Hartford Stage depends on the generosity of thousands of individuals and families each year. It is with immense gratitude that we recognize the following donors to our annual and capital campaigns. PRODUCER ($25,000+) Jill Adams & Bill Knight Cynthia Kellogg Barrington + The Cheryl Chase and Stuart Bear Family Foundation The Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, as recommended by Beatrice Koopman Jeffrey and Nancy Hoffman Belle K. Ribicoff George T. Richards
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER ($15,000+) Sue A. Collins George & Laura Estes The Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, as recommended by Linda & David Glickstein Janice & David Klein Christopher & Janet M. Larsen Ezra & Chrissie Ripple William & Judith Thompson
OVATION SOCIETY ($10,000+) Maxwell & Sally Belding Paul & Joanne Bourdeau Rick & Susan Copeland Rick & Jane Costello Beverly & Arnold C. Greenberg Walter & Dianne Harrison George & Helen Ingram Marc & Tammy Levine Jane & Roger Loeb Marjorie E. Morrissey Tom Richards Donald & Linda Slipe Nadine Francis West & Arnold B. West Brooke & Ted Whittemore Maggie & Sherwood Willard The Zachs Family
BENEFACTOR ($7,500+) Marla & John Byrnes Chloe & Wes Horton
PATRON SOCIETY ($3,500+) Arnold & Peg Amstutz Andra Asars Christopher & Kimberley Byrd Sara & David Carson Sara M. Cole Sonya Dockett & Anthony Nwachukwu
Sam & Jessica Fingold Susan & Robert Fisher Molly Garrett Bob & Frankie Goldfarb Grunberg Family Foundation Carrie and Jonathan Hammond Greg and Renata Hayes Bill & Peggy Herdegen David & Beth Jimenez Nafe E. Katter The Doris & Simon Konover Family Foundation Elizabeth & Michael Krall Robert & Anne Lally Katherine J. Lambert Alan & Marcia Lazowski Barri Marks Judith Meyers & Dick Hersh Tuck & Ki Miller Paul & Grace Mitchell Robert A. & Joan C. Penney Barbara Rubin Peter+ & Betsy Russell Phil & Robin Schonberger John & Donna Sennott Elisabeth & Bruce Simons Mr. & Mrs. Nelson A. Sly Robin L. Smith The Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, as recommended by Harry Solomon Sally Speer Allan & Sally Taylor Linda Cheverton Wick & Walter Wick Mark & Patty Willis
PARTNER ($1,200+) Victoria & Leonard Albert Lawrence & Ruth Alexander Lois & Bruce Anderson Duff Ashmead & Eric Ort Cynthia Bates & Jonathan Russell Jim and Joan Betts Kelley & Walter Bonn Ellen Brown John Bracker & Rachel Countryman Michele Bush Lynne & Austin Carey Coleman H. & Jo Champlin Casey Anna & David Clark Robert J. Crowder Lois & Bill Druckemiller Susan & Stanley Fellman Ruth Fitzgerald & Dave Sageman Joseph & Rose Fortuna Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Franklin Marilda L. Gándara & Scott O’Keefe Gary & Alice Gold
David & Cynthia Gordon Floyd W. Green III Tom & Eunice Groark Doris & Ray Guenter David & Gail Hall Steve & Ellen Harris Dennis Hersh John W. Huntington David & Sharon Jepson Bernard & Gale Kosto Lee G. Kuckro Andrew & Lauren Lieberman John & Beth Lynch Neal & Amy Mandell Margaret Marchak & Mark Schreier Sharon & Henry Martin Ellen & Allan Mayer E. John McGarvey H.R. McLane Carole & Edward T. McPhee Jr. Neil & Tricia Mitchill Lynda B. Moecker Sue & Bill Monks Daniel & Arlene Neiditz Michael & Colleen Nicastro Janice Niehaus Wilfred R. Noel Russell J. & Margo S. O’Connor Nicholas Ohly & Sara Huntington Ohly Jeffrey and Kristin Pomeroy Esther A. Pryor Hal Reed Andrew Ricci, Jr., M.D. & Jacqueline A. Muschiano Susan E. Riley Dr. & Mrs. Russell Robertson Douglas H. Robins J. Schermerhorn Scott Schooley & Giuliana Musilli Robert K. Schrepf Jennifer Smith Turner & Eric Turner Marge & Ted Storrs Elsa & Michael Suisman Mark & Ileen Swerdloff Marie-Claire & J.P. van Rooy Sharon L. Vasquez Patricia Walker Jacqueline R. Werner Mr. & Mrs. John H.P. Wheat Gary & Diane Whitney Nancy C. Wilde Paul B. Zolan & Kate D. Steinway
ADVOCATE ($600+) Anonymous (3) John and Angela Arrington Sam & Janet Bailey Shari G. Cantor
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Mr. & Mrs. T. W. Chabot Sandra & Arnold Chase Blair Childs Candice Chirgotis & Jim Keller Carol & Tim Covello Laura & Timothy Curry Robert & Deborah Cushman Kathy & Scott Demsey Genevieve DeSantis Henry Dominioni Tom & Tina Dugdale George K. Fenn, Jr. Carol Gabrielson Fine Ted & Chris Fishman Tom Fogarty David B. Foster Peter & Laurie Frenzel Mrs Mary P. Gibbons Bob & Peg Giles Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Goode Mr. William Gough & Ms. Mary Jane Cook Cate & John Grady-Benson Mrs. Harry J. Gray Ira Greenbaum Rachel K. Grody Virgil & Ruth Guzulescu Joyce P. Hall John & Bonnie Hamill Irma & Mort Handel Guy & Diane Hayes Herb & Ilana Hirsch Mr. & Mrs. Samuel G. Huntington III Marian Kellner & Timothy McLaughlin Mrs. Sidney R. Kennedy Jr. & Ms. Susan Kennedy Barbara and Paul Kiefer Maxine Klein & David Zeleznik Joel M. & Naomi Baline Kleinman Keith & Elaine Knowlton Kohn-Joseloff Foundation Drs. Leo Lefrancois & Lynn Puddington Tom & Margah Lips Ted & Adlyn Loewenthal Cynthia Mackay Joe Marfuggi Leta Marks Katharine & Hugh McLean D. Kent Morest Ms. Michele Mueller Stpehen & Ann Marie Mulready Paul & Arlene Norman William Orsini & Walter Smith Patricia Pac & Paul L. LeTendre Mrs. Sidney Pinney Kenneth & Mary Jane Quarti Rev. Robert Ricciardi Donna C. Richards
Laura and John Roche Rosalie Roth Linda & David Roth Arthur & Carole Roueché Dr. Elizabeth N. Rumohr & Mr. Richard F. Rumohr Jonathan & Sherry Schreiber Don C. Sikes The Carol Sirot Foundation Robert H. & Sharon Smith Andrew & Kate Smith Phyllis Spragg Henry “Skip” Steiner Michael Stotts & David Mayhew Richard & Jane Tedder Alvin & Lesley Morgan Thompson Michael & Helena Thomson Darko Tresnjak Dudley Watkins Jean M. Weigert, MD & Daniel Millstein Kathie & Ray Wilson Ms. Ruth Ann Woodley & Mr. Peter Gourley
HARTFORD STAGE STAFF ANNUAL GIVING The following members of the Hartford Stage staff have generously participated in this year’s annual giving campaign. Taylor Goodell Benedum Sam & Mike Beschta John & Suzanne Bourdeaux Todd & Rebecca Brandt Alicia Catania Aurelia Clunie Heidi & Joe Frederick David Henderson Bryan & Traci Holcombe Kera Jewett Ayla Kapiloff Tim Kendrick Todd Kulik Emely & Steve Larson Audra Mailhot Kristen Michaels Jim Morgan Andy Palmer Liz Paradis Hunter Parker Jennifer & Nathan A. Roberts Michael P. Sandner Matt Smart Stacie J. Snyder Mike Stotts & David Mayhew Darko Tresnjak Emily Van Scoy Elinor Watts
Allison Whitehall Max Williams Elizabeth Williamson Cheryl Winter
MEMORIAL & HONORARY IN MEMORY OF DR. JOHN M. GIBBONS:
Mrs. Mary P. Gibbons IN MEMORY OF JACK AND PATSY HUNTINGTON:
John W. Huntington IN HONOR OF THE MARRIAGE OF KRISTEN & LEW MICHAELS:
Emily Van Scoy IN HONOR OF RYAN NAGEL:
Lauren Macaluso Marlene O’Neill IN MEMORY OF ANN S. RICHARDS:
Anonymous (2) Anthony & Sandra Abatiell Beth Alexoff Douglas & Claudia Anderson Joan & Norm Armour Julianne Belcher Mary Ann & Bill Blair Kenneth & Judith Boudreau Emily Burke & Matilda Lanzel James & Margaret Carroll David & Sherry Cordani Susan P. Davison Jack A. Dinos Ruth S. Edwards Fiduciary Investment Advisors Mrs. Jack Friel George & Helen Ingram Bud & Eunice Kelly Janice & David Klein Martin Kushner Michele Lazzari-Lombardo Ed & Betsy LeGard Beverly A. Longo Ted & Tracy McCourtney Mrs. Mary N. McGrath Paul & Linda McKay Elaine & Tom Meek Tuck & Ki Miller Chris & Niki Mitsos Susan A. Murdock Mark & Ann Persun Greg Reid Belle K. Ribicoff Ezra & Chrissie Ripple The Riverside Company Howell K. Rosenberg Don Rushin Doris R. Sanborn Jeff, Linda & Lori Sharbaugh Donald & Linda F. Silpe Roxanna Smith
+ Deceased Donors printed in red or blue have shown extraordinary loyalty to Hartford Stage. Those whose names are printed in red have given at least 25 years of continuous, uninterrupted support. Those whose names appear in blue have given 10 years of continuous, uninterrupted support.
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Frank Stiegler Marge & Ted Storrs Michael Stotts & David Mayhew Molly Tatting Top Drawer Consignment Tuck Leadership Program The Walker Family Thomas & Sara White IN HONOR OF BARBARA RUBIN’S BIRTHDAY:
Kathy Bloomquist Ann Cowen Barbara Fernandez Lynn Ferrari Jo-Anne Leventhal Pat McLaughlin Sue Persio
SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY The Shakespeare Society comprises individuals who have provided for the future of Hartford Stage in their estate plans. Hartford Stage is deeply grateful for their generosity and foresight. Anonymous (19) Mr. & Mrs. William I. Atwood Maxwell & Sally Belding Mr. & Mrs. Paul Bourdeau Mrs. Joan Brown Kimberley & Christopher Byrd Marla & John Byrnes Edward C. Cape Mario R. Cavallo Anna & David Clark Sue A. Collins Kathy Frederick & Eugene Leach Dieter & Siegelind Johannes Nafe E. Katter Janice & David Klein Joel M. & Naomi Baline Kleinman
Katherine J. Lambert Christopher & Janet M. Larsen Tom & Margah Lips Helen Ingram Judith Meyers & Richard Hersh Tuck & Ki Miller Judge Jon O. Newman Belle K. Ribicoff Ann+ & George Richards Ezra & Chrissie Ripple Dr. & Mrs. Russell Robertson Barbara Rubin Robert K. Schrepf Donald & Linda Silpe Jennifer Smith Turner & Eric Turner Mary Stephenson Elsa & Michael Suisman Michael Wilson & Jeff Cowie Michael & Ellen Zenke
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