IRT Program: "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Indiana Repertory Theatre

2020-2021 SEASON

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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by based on the book by

Mitch Albom

Original artwork by Kyle Ragsdale

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APPLAUSE TO A TRUE COMMUNITY CHAMPION ONEAMERICA | 2020-2021 SEASON SPONSOR OneAmerica is proud to support the IRT as one of Central Indiana’s most vibrant institutions. Our relationship reflects one of the longest running sponsorships in professional theater nationwide, and we’re pleased to have further extended our partnership support during these unprecedented times. Enjoy the 2020-2021 season!

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OUR MISSION & VISION MISSION

Live theatre connects us to meaningful issues in our lives and has the power to shape the human experience. The mission of the Indiana Repertory Theatre is to produce top-quality, professional theatre and related activities, providing experiences that will engage, surprise, challenge, and entertain people throughout their lifetimes, helping us build a vital and vibrant community.

VISION

The Indiana Repertory Theatre will be a life-long destination of choice for an ever-expanding audience of all ages and backgrounds seeking enjoyable and meaningful experiences. Using theatre as a springboard for both personal reflection and community discussion, our productions and programs will inspire our neighbors to learn about themselves and others. As an arts leader in the state of Indiana, the IRT's goal is to make Indiana a dynamic home of cultural expression, economic vitality, and a diverse, informed, and engaged citizenry.

AS AN INSTITUTION, WE VALUE... SUSTAINING A PROFESSIONAL, CREATIVE ATMOSPHERE

• The professional production of plays that provide insight and celebrate human relationships through the unique vision of the playwright • Professional artists of the highest quality working on our stages in an environment that allows them to grow and thrive • Our leadership role in fostering a creative environment where arts, education, corporate, civic, and cultural organizations collaborate to benefit our community PRUDENT STEWARDSHIP OF OUR RESOURCES

• Our public-benefit status, where the focus is on artistic integrity, affordable ticket prices that allow all segments of our community to attend, and community service • Fiscal responsibility and financial security based on achieving a balanced budget • Growing our endowment fund as a resource for future development and to ensure institutional longevity. INCLUSIVENESS

• The production of plays from a broad range of dramatic literature addressing diverse communities • The involvement of all segments of our community in our activities • Using theatre arts as a primary tool to bring meaning into the lives of our youth, making creativity a component of their education • The employment of artists and staff that celebrates the diversity of the United States

CONTENTS 3............................ Mission & Values 5 �� Profile 6.....................................Leadership 10 �� Staff 12........................Board of Directors 22....................................... Tuesdays with Morrie 30............................. Company Bios 34....................................Interview: Xavier Pierce 36...............................Donor Listing

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HERITAGE AND TRADITION

• Our role as Indiana’s premiere theatre for more than 40 years, recognized by the 107th Indiana General Assembly in 1991 as “Indiana’s Theatre Laureate” • The historic Indiana Theatre as our home, as a cultural landmark, and as a significant contributor to a vital downtown • Our national, state, and local reputation for 40+ years of quality creative work and educational programming • Our board, staff, volunteers, artists, audiences, and donors as essential partners in fulfilling our mission.

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INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE PROFILE HISTORY Since the Indiana Repertory Theatre was founded in 1971, it has grown into one of the leading regional theatres in the country, as well as one of the top-flight cultural institutions in the city and state. In 1991 Indiana’s General Assembly designated the IRT as “Theatre Laureate” of the state of Indiana. The IRT’s national reputation has been confirmed by prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Fund, the Theatre Communications Group–Pew Charitable Trusts, the Shubert Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation; and by a Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation. The IRT remains the largest fully professional resident not-forprofit theatre in the state. Last season, with a shorter production calendar due to the pandemic, we provided more than 85,000 live professional theatre experiences for audiences. These experiences included 34,000 students and teachers from 51 of Indiana’s 92 counties, making the IRT one of the most youth oriented professional theatres in the country. This season, as we find new methods to offer theatre within safety guidelines, a staff of 40 seasonal and year-round employees creates six productions for streaming audiences in Indiana and beyond. Actors, directors, and designers are members of professional stage unions.

The IRT’s history has been enacted in two historic downtown theatres. The Athenaeum Turners Building housed the company’s first eight seasons. Since 1980 the IRT has occupied the 1927 Indiana Theatre, which was renovated to contain three performance spaces (OneAmerica Mainstage, Upperstage, and Cabaret) and work spaces, reviving this historic downtown entertainment site. To keep ticket prices and services affordable for the entire community, the IRT operates as a not-for-profit organization, deriving more than 50% of its operating income from contributions. The Theatre is generously supported by foundations, corporations, and individuals, an investment which recognizes the IRT’s mission-based commitment to serving central Indiana with top-quality theatrical fare.

PROGRAMS This year the OneAmerica Season includes six productions from classical to contemporary, including the INclusion Series, which has lead support from the Margot L. Eccles Arts & Culture Fund. Young Playwrights in Process The IRT offers Young Playwrights in Process (YPiP), a playwriting contest and workshop for Indiana middle and high school students.

Educational Programs The IRT has a long-time commitment to student audiences. This season, we are sharing our six productions with students virtually. If you are interested in bringing IRT to your students through streaming productions, or hosting a virtual workshop with an artist, please email education@irtlive.com. Auxiliary services include study guides.

Meet the Artists Virtual pre-show chats offer audiences unique insights into each production.

IN HONOR OF FORMER IRT BOARD MEMBER AND COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPIST MARGOT LACY ECCLES, IRT’S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR POSITION HAS BEEN NAMED THE MARGOT LACY ECCLES ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. ESTABLISHED BY M. E. AND KATIE ECCLES, THIS GENEROUS GIFT NAMES AND ENDOWS THE IRT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR POSITION IN PERPETUITY. THIS GIFT WAS MADE TO HONOR BOTH THE LEGACY OF MARGOT ECCLES AND JANET ALLEN’S SIGNIFICANT TENURE AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AS WELL AS THEIR LONGTIME FRIENDSHIP.

LEADERSHIP: JANET ALLEN

Margot Lacy Eccles Artistic Director

Among the memorable productions she has directed on the IRT’s stages are The Glass Menagerie (1999), Ah! Wilderness (2002), The Drawer Boy (2004), James Still’s The House That Jack Built (2012), To Kill a Mockingbird (2016), Looking Over the President’s Shoulder (2008 & 2017), The Diary of Anne Frank (2011 & 2018) and Morning After Grace (2020).

Creating world-class professional theatre for central Indiana audiences of all ages has remained a career-long passion for Janet Allen. She began at the IRT in 1980 as the Theatre’s Janet’s leadership skills and community service have been first literary manager—dramaturg. After four years in New recognized by the Network of Women in Business–IBJ’s York City, she returned to serve ten years as associate artistic “Influential Women in Business” Award, a Distinguished director. Named the IRT’s fourth artistic director in 1996, she Hoosier Award conferred by Governor Frank O’Bannon, is now in her 25th season in that role. In January 2020, she Girls Inc.’s Touchstone Award for Arts Leadership, and the was named the Margot Lacy Eccles Artistic Director. Indiana Commission on Women’s “Keeper of the Light” Torchbearer Award. She is a proud alum of the Stanley K. During Janet’s tenure, the IRT has significantly diversified Lacy Leadership program (Class XIX) and was a 2013-14 Arts its services to both adults and children, expanded its new Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Arts Fellow. She play development programs, and solidified its reputation is a member of two honorary gatherings in the America as a top-flight regional theatre dedicated to diverse Theatre: the College of Fellows of the American Theatre programming and production quality. Janet’s passion for at the John F. Kennedy Center, and the National Theatre nurturing playwrights has led to a fruitful relationship with Conference. In 2017 she was named an Indiana Living James Still, the IRT’s playwright-in-residence for 23 years, Legend by the Indiana Historical Society. and the creation and production of 16 new works—the Indiana Series—that examine Hoosier and Midwestern Janet is a member of the Indianapolis Woman’s Club, the sensibilities (seven of them by James Still). Her collaboration Gathering, and Congregation Beth-El Zedeck. She serves with playwrights has brought the Theatre prestigious on the board of Summit Performance, a small professional grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Joyce Foundation, theatre company that produces work by and about and the Doris Duke Foundation, as well as numerous grants women. She lives in an historic house built in 1855 in the from the National Endowment for the Arts. Chatham Arch neighborhood with her husband, Joel Grynheim, and a lovely canine mutt. They enjoy following the adventures of their three adult children, who are thriving on various continents. 6

Suzanne serves as a member of the board of directors of the League of Resident Theatres, a nationwide association of regional theatres, and she is the associate treasurer of the organization. In 2016, she was honored to serve as a panelist for Shakespeare in American Communities in cooperation with Arts Midwest.

LEADERSHIP: SUZANNE SWEENEY Managing Director

Suzanne is a 22-year veteran of the IRT and is proud to work alongside her mentor and friend, Janet Allen, as co-CEO of the Theatre. Suzanne oversees all of the administrative functions of the organization, including marketing, fundraising, ticket office, house management, finance, human resources, information technology, and building operations. During her tenure, the Theatre has secured a long-term lease for the building with the City of Indianapolis and renovated the Upperstage Lobby and restrooms. In June 2020 the Theatre surpassed its $18.5 million goal for its Front and Center campaign, raising $20 million.

Suzanne is active in the community, having been the treasurer of Irish Fest for nine years, a member of the board of directors and treasurer of the Day Nursery Association (now Early Learning Indiana) for three years, and a past treasurer of IndyFringe. Suzanne is a graduate of the College of William & Mary (undergraduate) and Indiana University (M.B.A.). She started her career as a CPA; prior to coming to Indianapolis, she worked in finance for more than 10 years, living in such varied locales as Washington, DC; Dallas, Texas; Frankfurt, Germany; Honolulu, Hawaii; and even working for three months in Auckland, New Zealand (where, yes, she went bungee jumping). She is a proud alum of the Stanley K. Lacy Leadership Program (Class XXXI). Suzanne lives in Fall Creek Place with her 17-year-old son, Jackson, and their foxhound rescue dog, Gertie, and spends some of her downtime in Palatine, Illinois, with her partner, Todd Wiencek.

Top: DeLanna Studi in the IRT’s 2019 production of And So We Walked: An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears. Bottom: The cast of the IRT’s 2020 production of Murder on the Orient Express. Photos by Zach Rosing.

AS PART OF THE FRONT AND CENTER CAMPAIGN, SARAH & JOHN LECHLEITER GAVE A GIFT TO THE IRT IN HONOR OF JAMES STILL’S LONG-TIME RELATIONSHIP WITH THE IRT, CREATING THE JAMES STILL PLAYWRIGHT-IN-RESIDENCE FUND, WHICH WILL PROVIDE FUTURE SUPPORT FOR THE PLAYWRIGHT-IN-RESIDENCE AS WELL AS THE CREATION OF NEW WORK FOR THE IRT.

LEADERSHIP: JAMES STILL Playwright-in-Residence

During his 23 years as Playwright-in-Residence, IRT audiences have seen all three plays in James’s “Jack Plays” trilogy (The House That Jack Built, Appoggiatura, and Miranda), as well as Looking Over the President’s Shoulder; And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank; Amber Waves; The Little ChooChoo That Thinks She Can; April 4, 1968: Before We Forgot How to Dream; I Love to Eat: Cooking with James Beard; The Velveteen Rabbit; The Heavens Are Hung in Black; Interpreting William; Iron Kisses; The Gentleman from Indiana; Searching for Eden; He Held Me Grand, and The Secret History of the Future. James has directed many productions at the IRT, including Twelve Angry Men, A Doll’s House Part 2, The Originalist, Dial “M” for Murder, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Red, Other Desert Cities, God of Carnage, Becky’s New Car, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, The Immigrant, and Dinner with Friends. James is a member of the National Theatre Conference in New York, and a Kennedy Center inductee of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. Other honors include the Todd McNerney New Play Prize from the Spoleto Festival, William Inge Festival’s Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, and the Orlin Corey Medallion from the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America. His plays have been nominated

four times for the Pulitzer Prize, and have been developed at Robert Redford’s Sundance, the New Harmony Project, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Colorado New Play Summit, the Lark, Launch Pad at UC–Santa Barbara, Telluride Playwright’s Festival, New Visions/New Voices, and Fresh Ink. Three of his plays have received the Distinguished Play Award from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education, and his work has been produced throughout the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. “The Jack Plays” is the 2020 winner for drama of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award. Also in 2020 James wrote the short film A City of Stories commissioned by the New Harmony Project. Current projects include his new plays The Cratchits (in America) commissioned by the IRT, his adaptation of the classic Black Beauty, (A) New World, Dinosaur(s), and new play commissions with Prison Performing Arts (St. Louis) and American Blues (Chicago). He has recently written dozens of short new plays that are being performed on digital platforms across the country. James also works in television and film and has been nominated for five Emmys and a Television Critics Association Award; he has twice been a finalist for the Humanitas Prize. He was a producer and head writer for the TLC series PAZ, the head writer for Maurice Sendak’s Little Bear, and writer for the Bill Cosby series Little Bill. He wrote The Little Bear Movie and The Miffy Movie as well as the feature film The Velocity of Gary. James grew up in Kansas and lives in Los Angeles.

tenure at CTC, Ben directed in-house productions and took shows across the globe, as far afield as South Africa; he played a key role in fundraising, management, education, and strategic planning processes; and he helped guide the organization in addressing historical inequities and ensuring that the company’s work reflected the diversity of the local community. Prior to his role at CTC, Ben spent five years in California’s Bay Area, dividing his time between Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Bay Area Children’s Theatre.

LEADERSHIP: BENJAMIN HANNA Associate Artistic Director

Ben is a director, educator, and community engagement specialist whose passion for multigenerational theatre has influenced his work across the country. In all of his myriad roles, Ben is guided by the belief that access to high-quality theatre helps build creative, empathetic people and healthy communities. Ben is thrilled to be in his fourth season at Indiana Repertory Theatre, where he has directed This Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol (twice), The Little Choo-Choo That Thinks She Can, Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!,” and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. As associate artistic director, Ben manages casting both locally and nationally, helps guide education and community programming, and connects IRT to new artists and ideas. Dedicated to actively breaking down historical barriers of access to the theatre, he is excited about IRT’s work to create thoughtful, sustainable Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives.

In his native Minnesota, Ben was honored to serve on the education staff of Penumbra Theatre Company, the nation’s leading African American theatre, where he helped to expand their education and outreach offerings. His proudest accomplishments during his four years with the company include growing the nationally recognized Summer Institute for Activist Artists into a three-year multidisciplinary social justice theatre training program, developing a multigenerational quilting circle, and helping to create and facilitate a racial equity training program through the company’s RACE workshop series. Ben holds a degree in theatre arts from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He grew up on a small rural farm and fell in love with theatre at the age of eleven. He continues to create for his new favorite audience: his five nieces and nephews.

Ben joined the IRT leadership team following the completion of a prestigious 18-month Theatre Communications Group Leadership University Award. This highly competitive grant, administered by TCG and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supported his artistic associate position at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, the nation’s largest theatre for young audiences. During his Frankie Bolda and audience members in the IRT’s 2019-2020 production of The Little Choo-Choo That Thinks She Can. Photo by Zach Rosing.

INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE STAFF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Margot Lacy Eccles Artistic Director Janet Allen Managing Director Suzanne Sweeney

Individual Giving Manager Kay Swank-Herzog Director of Development Jennifer Turner ELECTRICS

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Production Manager Malia Argüello Associate Artistic Director Benjamin Hanna Company Manager Hillary Martin Resident Dramaturg Richard J Roberts General Manager Jane Robison Playwright-in-Residence James Still COSTUME SHOP

Assistant Controller Danette Alles Payroll & Benefits Specialist Jennifer Carpenter MARKETING

Marketing Communications Manager Kerry Barmann Director of Marketing & Sales Danielle M. Dove Graphic Designer Alexis Morin Associate Director of Marketing Elizabeth Petermann

Draper Erica Anderson Costume Shop Manager Guy Clark Wardrobe Supervisor Bailey Lewis

Charge Scenic Artist Claire Dana Scenic Artists Zahra Hakki Jim Schumacher

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Development Systems Brady Clark Institutional Giving Manager Eric J. Olson

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Manager of Public Operations Margaret Lehtinen Building Services Dave Melton

Housekeeping Leila Spicklemire Ticket Office Manager Kim Reeves Tessitura Administrator Molly Wible Sweets Assistant Ticket Office Manager Eric Wilburn PROPERTIES SHOP

Properties Manager Geoffrey Ehrendreich Properties Carpenter Madelaine Foster SCENE SHOP

Carpenters Lee Edmundson Ariana Sarmiento Fielding Technical Director Chris Fretts Master Carpenter David Sherrill Automation Carpenter Hayley Wenk SOUND & VIDEO

Audio Engineer Brittany Hayth Resident Sound Designer Todd Mack Reischman STAGE MANAGEMENT

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It is incredibly gratifying to serve as chair of our Indiana Repertory Theatre. The IRT is perhaps even more important to our community and its citizens when we cannot physically be together. I have been deeply moved by the hard work and dedication of our staff, bringing theatre to our audience in these extraordinary times. We are blessed with amazing leadership and talent. I want to give a special thank you to all of our patrons and partners who supported our successful Front and Center capital campaign, raising $20 million. How critical that will be for the future of our IRT, for generations to come! On behalf of the Board of Directors, I thank you for joining us this season— one which will inspire and entertain.

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MEMBERS Allison Barkel Project Lead the Way IRT Offscript Advisory Council Liaison Keith A. Bice Dentons Bingham Greenebaum Amy Burke Butler University Michael P. Dinius Noble Consulting Services, Inc. Laurie Dippold KAR Global, Inc. Daniel C. Emerson* Indianapolis Colts Troy D. Farmer Fifth Third Bank James W. Freeman OneAmerica Financial Partners, Inc., Retired Ron Gifford RDG Strategies LLC Bruce Glor J.P. Morgan Christopher Gramling Eli Lilly and Company Ricardo L. Guimarães Dow AgroSciences, Retired

Julian Harrell Faegre Drinker Mike Harrington Eli Lilly and Company, Retired Michael N. Heaton Katz Sapper & Miller Holt Hedrick Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. Brenda Horn Ice Miller LLP, Retired Rebecca Hutton Leadership Indianapolis Elisha Modisett Kemp Corteva Agriscience Joy Kleinmaier IU Health Jill Lacy The Lacy Foundation Sarah Lechleiter Community Volunteer Alan Mills Barnes & Thornburg LLP Detra Mills Round Room Inc. Michael Moriarty Frost Brown Todd LLC

Brian Payne Central Indiana Community Foundation Lauren Petersen TechPoint Peter Racher Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP Peter N. Reist Oxford Financial Group Susan O. Ringo Community Volunteer Myra C. Selby Ice Miller LLP Mike Simmons Jupiter Peak, LLC Shelly Smith Ernst & Young Susan L. Smith Community Volunteer Amy Waggoner Salesforce L. Alan Whaley Ice Miller LLP, Retired Heather Wilson Frost Brown Todd LLC

BOARD EMERITUS Robert Anker* Rollin Dick Berkley Duck* Dale Duncan* Michael Lee Gradison* (in memoriam) Margie Herald

David Klapper David Kleiman* E. Kirk McKinney Jr. (in memoriam) Richard Morris* (in memoriam) Jane Schlegel*

Wayne Schmidt Jerry Semler* Jack Shaw* William E. Smith III* Eugene R. Tempel*

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Our role at the IRT is to create stories that invite our community to reflect on our collective history, and the journeys that make up this vibrant place we call home. We also create stories that offer new perspectives, give us time to laugh or maybe shed a tear, or see something about our shared humanity in a new way. CONTINUING OUR MISSION WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OUR DONORS. Become a member of our Repertory Society and be part of what makes our city a great artistic community. Donors giving $1,500 or more each season will join this exclusive group and gain access to a slate of benefits created to extend your access to our art and enhance your theatergoing experience. REPERTORY SOCIETY BENEFITS INCLUDE: Exclusive Special Events, VIP Ticket Concierge, and much much more! Katie Bradley, Andrew May and Gavin Lawrence in the IRTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2020 production of Murder on the Orient Express. Photo by Zach Rosing.

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The Celebrity Radio Show is the IRT’s annual fundraising event and is known for putting the FUN in fundraiser. This year the Celebrity Radio Show will truly lean into its theme as we will be watching and participating from home. Mark your calendars now for March 12, 2021, and join us virtually for a night of fun with a silent auction, local celebrities, and a few surprises! LEARN MORE: IRTLIVE.COM/RADIOSHOW

The cast of the IRT’s 2020 Celebrity Radio Show. Photo by B. Media House.

SAVE THE DATE: MARCH 12, 2021

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by based on the book by

Mitch Albom

STREAMING FEBRUARY 8 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 21, 2021 ONEAMERICA MAINSTAGE

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THE COMPANY Mitch_____________________________________ RYAN ARTZBERGER Morrie____________________________________ HENRY WORONICZ

SETTING 1995; Morrie’s home in West Newton, Massachusetts, and beyond

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Original New York production produced by David S. Singer, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Joey Parnes, Amy & Scott Nederlander, Harold Thau, Moira Wilson, and Shadowcatcher Entertainment. Originally presented by New York Stage and Film Company and the Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar, 2002.

Tuesdays with Morrie was supported by a playwright’s residency and public staged readings at the 2001 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut. “The Very Thought of You,” words & music by Ray Noble. Copyright © 1934 by Range Road Music, Inc., and Quartet Music. All rights in the USA administered by Range Road Music, Inc. (ASCAP). All rights in Canada administered by Redwood Music Ltd. (PRS). Pianist: Gary Walters Singer: Sarah Errington Special Thanks to Dr. Robert M. Pascuzzi, Professor of Neurology, IU School of Medicine Filmed by arrangement with SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement. Scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local 829, IATSE. The video or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited.

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

When we first realized, long about May, that the world would require different stories of us in the pandemic, one of the first plays I thought of was Tuesdays with Morrie. It contains so many of the emotions and questions we hold now, inviting us to consider deeply what it means to be alive in the face of possible death. And the play does this with both the tools of humor and the act of summoning the real emotions of confronting loss. Amid these polarities, celebrated writer Mitch Albom, with a remarkable assist from playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, actually succeeds in giving us great insights into what it means to live fully, and to love with abandon no matter how much time is given us, all while telling the story of an impending death. And amazingly, we have a remarkably good time witnessing this journey, in part because now we are all more aware that we share this journey: the play is an open-hearted entreaty to face down the things that separate us from our best selves. 24

Watching Mitch struggle to prioritize his high stress, globetrotting, workaholic life, where he has left very little space for navigating his emotional needs or his relationships, seems eerily familiar to many of us. Before the pandemic, so many of our cultural messages supported this view of ambition, rampant capitalism, and growing workplace demands as pinnacles of achievement. But once the pandemic lengthened into months, and so many of us were stopped in our tracks, time itself began to illustrate the choices we make to achieve at the expense of living a meaningful life. Mitchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey to this realization is not the work of a pandemic: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the work of American values run amok. But for our lives now, we see that viewpoint more clearly as a choice rather than a cultural imperative. The conditions of our world have forced us to stop and reflect and rethink, literally, what it means to be human, and hopefully, to count our blessings.

Ryan Artzberger and Jon Farris in the IRTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2007 production of Tuesdays with Morrie.

BY JANET ALLEN, MARGOT LACY ECCLES ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

As this second foray into making theatre art that is delivered virtually, we have come to really count our IRT blessings: we have created safe, if somewhat unusual conditions in which to make our art, keep many talented artisans and administrators employed, provide mission-based art to our patrons, and feature the art making of some wonderful local and national artists. In

Tuesdays with Morrie, we celebrate gratitude for associate artistic director Ben Hanna, and for this opportunity to experience his work outside of the realm of holiday and youth fare. We celebrate the work of four wonderful designers. Two are local: Rob Koharchik, in his 60th design for us, who is designing scenery for the first three shows of our season; and Guy Clark, our in-house costume designer and shop manager. Two are from the national theatre community: Xavier Pierce, bringing his fourth exquisite lighting design to our stages; and Melanie Chen Cole, the sound designer and composer, whose work we are finally going to experience fully after missing our opportunity when we had to cancel The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin in the lockdown. Melanie will do what we are learning to do as a theatre community: she will design the show without ever leaving her home in LA, and our amazing sound department will execute that design as she Zooms and listens in! And we are particularly blessed in this tumultuous time to enjoy the mastery of two magnificent local actors: Ryan Artzberger and Henry Woronicz. Both have made life-changing theatre-going experiences for us in the past and now join forces to create something meaningful for our times. Ryan played Mitch in IRTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2007 production of Tuesdays with Morrie on the Upperstage, so he brings with him many insights into the work; Henry has played any number of qualifying roles in recent years (King Lear at IU, and even Morning After Grace last year where he wrestled with the truths of aging and loss). We truly look forward to experiencing their chemistry in this production. I write this on the winter solstice, the darkest day in the year; yet many things give us hope for the return of light and more healthful times in our world. We hope that this production, winging its way into your home through the magic of the internet, will solace you a bit and bolster your spirits for the journey ahead where we can hug and dance with abandon.

Henry Woronicz in the IRTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2020 production of Morning After Grace. Photo by Zach Rosing.

LEADING WITH OUR HEARTS BY BENJAMIN HANNA, DIRECTOR

I first encountered Tuesdays with Morrie when a high school teacher read the book aloud to us in homeroom. The story effortlessly crossed generations, the room full of misty eyes, deep belly laughs, and roaring applause. I remember thinking how powerful it was to hear the story of two grown men sharing deep truths with each other through mentorship. Morrie was the real deal: someone who had figured this whole life thing out. If you are lucky, you know and love a Morrie. Your lifeteachers may not come to mind immediately. Perhaps, like Mitch, your pursuit of progress has relegated them to the recesses of your memory. But they are there, somewhere, waiting to recount their pearls of wisdom and sage advice. One of my mentors bears a striking resemblance to Morrie. My dear grandfather, Frank Haughland, died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2006. I can still remember him charming crowds of people, even as the disease ruthlessly took his ability to speak. Frank had a way of making everyone feel special, and he delighted in sharing his opinion with anyone who would listen. Every time I 26

visited, I feared that the disease would have taken away his joyful, mischievous smile. My grandma said he was too stubborn for that to happen, and he maintained his dry sense of humor, his zest for living, and his kindness until the end. I turned 38 this year—the same age we find Mitch as he reencounters Morrie. Like Mitch, I have often found myself speeding from meeting to meeting, grabbing a quick bite between rehearsals, and filling my days with to-dos and should-haves. But the pandemic has changed the structure of our days, and when not at work or doing essential tasks, I am alone now more than I have ever been before. This period of isolation has shown me how little space I have made to slow down and find joy in life’s smaller moments. As I revisit the story of Mitch and Morrie, I recall the teachings of my many mentors. I hope that Tuesdays with Morrie inspires you to remembering the words of your Morrie, whoever and wherever they may be, and that you live joyfully in our new year. Original artwork by Kyle Ragsdale

MORRIE SCHWARTZ | TEACHER Morrie Schwartz wrote his own epitaph: “A Teacher to the Last.” In 1959 he began a life-long career teaching sociology at Brandeis University. He continued teaching classes after he was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 76, incorporating what he was learning about the meaning of life as he faced impeding death. When ABC-TV’s Nightline producer heard

of these classes, Ted Koppel flew to Boston for the first of three interviews with Morrie. The shows were among the highest rated ever for Nightline. During the final weeks of his life, a former student, Mitch Albom, made a series of trips to visit Morrie. This experience led Albom to write Tuesdays with Morrie, which became a best-selling memoir in 1997.

MITCH ALBOM | AUTHOR Mitch Albom is the author of 11 books, including The Five People You Meet in Heaven, For One More Day, and The Next Person You Meet in Heaven, as well as Tuesdays with Morrie. His books have collectively sold more than 40 million copies, been published in 45 languages, and been made into several television movies. A nationally syndicated columnist for the Detroit Free Press and a nationally syndicated radio

host for WJR, Albom was named top sports columnist in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors 13 times. Formerly a panelist on ESPN’s The Sports Reporters, Albom now appears regularly on SportsCenter. He serves on numerous charitable boards and has founded or directed several charities in metropolitan Detroit.

JEFFREY HATCHER | PLAYWRIGHT The IRT has previously produced four of Jeffrey Hatcher’s plays: Holmes and Watson (2018), inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2012), which was nominated for an Edgar Award; Tuesdays with Morrie (2007), co-written with author Mitch Albom; and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (2003). Hatcher’s other plays include Morrie Schwartz & Mitch Albom, 1996.

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, Ten Chimneys, A Picasso, Three Viewings, Work Song, Scotland Road, and Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which he adapted for the screen as Stage Beauty. Other films include The Good Liar starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen, Mr. Holmes, The Duchess, and Casanova. Hatcher also wrote for the long-running TV series Columbo. 27

“A TREE’S LEAVES ARE MOST COLORFUL JUST BEFORE THEY DIE” ROB KOHARCHIK | SCENIC DESIGNER Tuesdays with Morrie is a memory play, as Mitch tells us about a former professor and the conversations they had about life lessons. The set design is centered around creating spaces for those memories, using those items that would best assist in the storytelling. Over the course of the play, we see Morrie’s health decline; and as the story progresses, we see him move from his favorite chair to a wheelchair and then to his bed. Even though his body fails him, his mind stays sharp until the end, imparting wisdom and life lessons to his former student Mitch.

Preliminary sketch by scenic designer Rob Koharchik.

GUY CLARK COSTUME DESIGNER Tuesdays with Morrie is, at its heart, a reminiscence: a loving portrait of a cherished teacher, painted by a former student, who also crafts a revealing sketch of himself. As in all memory plays, the audience is invited to time travel with our narrator, Mitch, and we trust him to guide us through the years of his story, drawing our attention to particular moments in his memories, passing over others. Not every new memory requires a complete costume change to tell this story. Rather than showcasing every subtle shift in men’s fashions through the years of the play, I hope the costumes will instead help the actors to embody the emotional journey of the story they offer us.

MELANIE CHEN COLE SOUND DESIGNER & COMPOSER I was very excited to be asked to work on this show, because I remember enjoying the book version of Tuesdays with Morrie years ago. What struck me about the story, rereading it now, is how much the themes of love and hope stand out. I believe that they’re both things we need the most right now. There is so much music in this production, and I’m excited to collaborate with a talented Indianapolis pianist, Gary Walters, to bring it all to life.

Preliminary costume sketch for Morrie by designer Guy Clark.

THE COMPANY

RYAN ARTZBERGER | MITCH Ryan’s IRT credits include Murder on the Orient Express, A Christmas Carol, The Diary of Anne Frank, Holmes and Watson, Noises Off, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Crucible, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, God of Carnage, Julius Caesar, Fire in the Garden, Rabbit Hole, Iron Kisses, Death of a Salesman, and Macbeth. Ryan is a member of Indianapolis Shakespeare Company, where he has directed Hamlet and As You Like It and appeared in Coriolanus, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, and Othello. At the Phoenix Theatre he performed in Reasons to Be Pretty. Regional credits include the Seattle Children’s Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre and the Studio Theatre in Washington DC, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Kansas City Rep, Lookingglass, and Great Lakes Theater Festival. Ryan is a graduate of Ohio University and the Juilliard School.

HENRY WORONICZ | MORRIE At the IRT, Henry has acted in Morning After Grace; Twelve Angry Men; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Holmes and Watson; The Originalist; The Mousetrap; Red; An Iliad; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Young Lady from Rwanda; and King Lear; he has also directed The Three Musketeers and Romeo and Juliet. Regional acting and directing credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Boston Shakespeare Company, Center Stage, Delaware Theatre Company, Hong Kong Repertory Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Meadow Brook Theatre, Syracuse Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre, and the Alabama, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Utah Shakespeare festivals. He was seen on Broadway in Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington. Television credits include Seinfeld, Cheers, Third Rock from the Sun, Star Trek, and Law & Order. At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he was a resident actor/director from 1984 to 1991 and artistic director from 1991 to 1995. Henry also served as executive producer at Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival from 2008 to 2009, the head of M.F.A. Acting at Illinois State University from 2009 to 2012, and a visiting professor in the Department of Theatre at IU Bloomington from 2014 to 2017.

BENJAMIN HANNA | DIRECTOR Ben is in his fourth year as associate artistic director at Indiana Repertory Theatre. He is a director, new play developer, educator, and community engagement specialist whose passion for multigenerational theatre has influenced his work across the country with companies such as Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Penumbra Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Steppingstone Theatre, and the Bay Area Children’s Theatre. In all of his myriad roles, Ben is guided by the belief that access to high-quality theatre helps build creative, empathetic people and healthy communities. At the IRT, Ben has directed This Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, The Little Choo-Choo That Thinks She Can, Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!,” and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. (see full bio on page 9)

ROB KOHARCHIK | SCENIC DESIGNER Rob has designed 60 productions for the IRT, including all four Going Solo Festivals and such shows as This Wonderful Life, Murder on the Orient Express, Looking Over the President’s Shoulder (2018 & 2008), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Mousetrap, On Golden Pond, The Mountaintop, The Miracle Worker, Crime and Punishment, To Kill a Mockingbird (2009), Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet (2004), and The Turn of the Screw. Rob’s regional credits include the Walnut Street Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Weston Playhouse, Geva Theatre, and American Players Theatre. A 2000 and 2011 Arts Council–Lilly Endowment Creative Renewal Fellow, Rob holds an M.F.A. in set design from Boston University and a B.S. in theatre from Ball State. He teaches theatre design at Butler University.

GUY CLARK | COSTUME DESIGNER A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Guy manages the Indiana Repertory Theatre costume shop. His design work for IRT includes costumes for Morning After Grace, Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!,” The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Originalist, Stuart Little, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Giver, The Velveteen Rabbit, Red, And Then They Came for Me, The House That Jack Built, God of Carnage, I Love to Eat, and Mary’s Wedding. In 2007, Aretha Franklin commissioned him to design and build a dress for her performance at that year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, and the following year, he created the two gowns she wore to President Obama’s inaugural balls. Guy is a member of Indianapolis Shakespeare Company, where he has designed costumes for several productions. He has also designed costumes for several Dance Kaleidoscope concerts.

XAVIER PIERCE | LIGHTING DESIGNER Xavier has designed This Wonderful Life, The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, and Pipeline at the IRT. Other designs include White Noise at the Public; How to Catch Creation, Othello, and Shakespeare in Love at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Native Gardens, Harvey, and Blithe Spirit at the Guthrie; Smart People and Native Gardens at Arena Stage; The Roommate at Steppenwolf; Angels in America, Parts 1 & 2, and Pride and Prejudice at St. Louis Rep; Nina Simone: Four Women at Seattle Rep; Fun Home at Baltimore Center Stage; Misery at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Noises Off at Syracuse Stage; Fences at Long Wharf Theatre and McCarter Theatre; Peter and the Starcatcher, 4000 Miles, The Mountaintop, and Detroit ’67 at PlayMakers Rep; Everybody, The Glass Menagerie, black odyssey, and Fences at Cal Shakes; Hamlet and Pippin at Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre; Othello at America Repertory Theatre; and many more.

MELANIE CHEN COLE | SOUND DESIGNER & COMPOSER Melanie is delighted to make her IRT debut with this production. She is a San Diego–based freelance sound designer. Her recent regional credits include A Christmas Carol, Alabama Story, Buzz, and Romeo and Juliet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (South Coast Rep); White Pearl (Studio Theatre in Washington DC); Noura, Tiny Beautiful Things, and The Imaginary Invalid (the Old Globe); the 2019 POP Tour Light Years Away, At the Old Place, and the 2017 POP Tour #SuperShinySara (La Jolla Playhouse); Silent Sky (Tantrum Theatre/Ohio University); Steel Magnolias (Dallas Theater Center); and Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood (PlayMakers Repertory Company). Melanie holds an M.F.A. in sound design for theatre and dance from UC–San Diego. melaniesound.com

THE COMPANY RICHARD J ROBERTS | DRAMATURG This is Richard’s 31st season with the IRT, and his 23rd as resident dramaturg. He has also been a dramaturg for the New Harmony Project, Write Now, and the Hotchner Playwriting Festival. He has directed IRT productions of A Christmas Carol (four times), Bridge & Tunnel, The Night Watcher, Neat, Pretty Fire, The Cay, The Giver, The Power of One, and Twelfth Night. Other directing credits include Actors Theatre of Indiana, the Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Edyvean Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis Civic Theatre, Carmel Symphony Orchestra, Butler University, University of Indianapolis, and Anderson University. Richard studied music at DePauw University and theatre at Indiana University and has been awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

NATHAN GARRISON | PRODUCTION COORDINATOR This is Nathan’s 25th season at the IRT. He has also worked with Center Stage in Baltimore, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Brown County Playhouse; and he is a company member with the Indianapolis Shakespeare Company.

ARTIST SPONSORS Thank you to the following IRT Donors who use their generous gift to recognize and celebrate the artists that bring our stories to life. JACKIE NYTES & PATRICK O’BRIEN

SPONSORS OF HENRY WORONICZ

DAVID & LESLIE MORGAN

SPONSORS OF RYAN ARTZBERGER

DAVID I. & BETTY KLAPPER

MICHAEL DINIUS & JEANNIE REGAN-DINIUS SEASON SPONSORS OF NATHAN GARRISON

WAYNE & SUSAN SCHMIDT

SPONSORS OF BENJAMIN HANNA

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NO. 6

by T.J. Young

family, racial tensions, & healing MARCH 11 – 28

As city-wide riots approach their neighborhood, a Black family shelters in their apartment above the small dry-cleaning business they own. When they find themselves protecting an intoxicated White man from the street, tensions inside the apartment amplify and secrets are revealed. Inspired by the killing of a young Black man by Cincinnati police in 2001, the play bears witness to the ongoing violence against Black citizens while reaching for the possibility of hope.

CYRANO based on the book by

Edmond Rostand adapted for the stage by

Jo Roets

epic, intimate romance

APRIL 15 – MAY 2

The most dashing of heroes, the wittiest humor, passionate romance, heartbreak, tragedy, and a really big nose. It’s everything you could want in a night of theatre! This thrillingly theatrical gem sparkles with all the enchantment, intrigue, and sacrifice of love—and love lost.

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XAVIER PIERCE LIGHTING DESIGNER

Xavier Pierce has designed Pipeline and The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 at the IRT. This season he is designing our first three productions: This Wonderful Life, Tuesdays with Morrie, and the upcoming NO. 6. HOW DID YOU FIRST GET INTERESTED IN THEATRE? I was born in Atlanta and raised in Miami. In elementary school I won a lot of oratory contests. Then a fine arts magnet school opened, which allowed me the opportunity to be in theatre. Then I got into an inner-city touring dance company, and I was with them for eight or nine years. The son of the woman who led the program started getting into lighting and production, and that was intriguing. When I transitioned into high school, it wasn’t a great one, so I began to go on more jobs with the dance company, and I learned more about lighting. But I wasn’t doing well in school, and I was worried they were going to kick me out of the magnet program. I thought if I learned something that no one else could do, they would have to keep me. The lighting person was a senior, and he was graduating, so I set myself up to take over after he was gone. I did my undergrad at Florida A&M University, a historically black university in Tallahassee. I studied theatre and fine arts. I also took classes at Florida State University, which is just across the railroad tracks from FAMU. I was getting two very different educations in lighting. At FAMU, I was getting a very hands-on experience of lighting, designing a whole bunch of shows with a whole bunch of people. At 34

FSU, I was taught the structural components of lighting. With those two educational modalities, I became a super-lighting kid! In the summer I would be at the Santa Fe Opera; then when I graduated I was with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. When I finished there I was with Arena Stage for a year assisting a whole bunch of designers. From there I decided I wanted to be in New York. But I didn’t have any money and I didn’t know anybody, so I figured the only way I could do it was if I went to grad school. I applied at NYU, and luckily, two of the professors were designers I had assisted at Arena Stage, so NYU offered me an assistantship. After I finished grad school, my professor Robert Wierzel asked me to assist him when he designed Fela! on Broadway. That was a big deal for me. Bill T. Jones was directing it and choreographing it, and the show was comprised of mostly black people. It was wonderful to be around so many black people at the height of their professions. It gave me a lot of understanding of how the industry works. It gave me a lot of understanding about being around my people in the art making process. And it gave me something to look forward to as I moved into my career.

HOW DOES LIGHTING DESIGN FEED YOUR SOUL? That’s a really good question after having been away from it for nine months. From the beginning, from high school, the thing that has always excited me is that you can communicate without talking. There’s a state in lighting that allows you to leverage all the emotional weight that you have infused into the lighting design to move people in a way that is imperceptible or perceptible. Because I was a dancer, there is a connection to the unspoken word. There is a connection to the metaphysical space. There is a connection to speaking without actually speaking. To this day, my mantra is I want people to feel the light as opposed to see the light. The thing that is different now, after I have been doing this for a minute—I realize now that I am the best version of myself when I am at the tech table. I’m focused, streamlined, communicative, passionate, no-nonsense, always judging and critiquing the work in process, always striving to be better. But now, at this point in time, I also realize that lighting is just a part of who I am, and not all of who I am. I think artists really need to understand that. We need to really understand who we are, especially when the work is not there. So in this time of reckoning, in the time of COVID, I have had to really pinpoint who I am, as it relates to work. I’ve had to divest myself from Xavier Pierce, lighting designer, and invest myself in Xavier Pierce—and Xavier Pierce, lighting designer.

WHAT’S IT LIKE WORKING AT THE IRT? It seems like the institution is steadily evolving towards a good place. The institution welcomes criticism and welcomes ideas from different backgrounds and different people. That is very powerful. And I don’t know that I would have been emotionally intelligent enough to pick up on that a year or two ago. But now, I think it’s everything. An institution’s ability to question itself, an institution’s ability to stay connected to its artists, and value its artists; creating a space in which they allow criticism, they allow positive feedback, they value the artist so the artist is always doing good work—I think that level of integrity surrounding artists, and making the artists the focal point of the institution, allows the institution to do great work. At the IRT, I feel like I’m part of the process, the whole process of the institution, as opposed to just one show. And now that I’ve done several shows here, it feels like I’m part of the institution. When I was coming up in my career, I thought that you would have one home. I spent my formative years at Arena Stage, and I thought, oh, this is my home. But now that I’ve been in the industry for a while, to have a number of homes, a number of places where I can sit down at the table, a number of places where I can discuss and work things out, is comforting to me. Being in a space that is becoming an artistic home, and building that relationship and partnership—it is of deep, deep, deep value, and something that I really love and cherish.

The cast of the IRT’s 2020 production of The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963. Photo by Zach Rosing.

THE SUPPORTING CAST

INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE DONORS

WHAT IF YOU SAW ONLY HALF THE PLAY? Ticket revenue covers just half of what it costs to produce world-class professional theatre at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. The IRT gratefully acknowledges the remarkable support we receive from our generous and committed donors whose contributions ensure that the show does go on!

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Alan & Elizabeth Whaley Cliff & Molly Williams Heather Wilson John & Margaret Wilson James B. Winner Frederick & Jacquelyn Winters William Witchger, II & Kimberly Witchger John & Linda Zimmermann

DONOR GUILDS ANNUAL CAMPAIGN GIFTS $300 – $1,499 | JULY 1, 2020 – JANUARY 11, 2021 DRAMA GUILD $750 – $1,499 David & Mary Allen Pat & Bob Anker Anonymous (4) John & Mary Bartley Jesse L. & Carolynne Bobbitt Charlie & Cary Boswell Thomas & Victoria Broadie Sherry A. Butler Paul & Renee Cacchillo Dr. & Mrs. John J. Coleman III Edward & Elizabeth Frazier Elizabeth Hansen Don & Carolyn Hardman Crystal L. Jones M.D. Aldy & Natinne Keene Betsy & Ted Kleinmaier Vally Allen and Charley Koehler James LaMonde* James & Sara Lootens James M. McMechan David H. Moore, M.D. & M. Kristine Beckwith, M.D. John & Carolyn Mutz Rob & Sara Norris Ann Marie L. Ogden Deb & Greg Perkins Roger & Anna Radue Thomas & Jill Ristine Sallie Rowland Richard & Christine Scales Thomas & Teresa Sharp *Denotes sustaining members

Lee Shevitz Rosemarie Springer Ed & Jane Stephenson John & Deborah Thornburgh Carlos Wright* THEATRE GUILD $300 – $749 Allison & Jeff Ackerman John & Eileen Ahrens* Todd Allen Andritsch Anonymous Constance C. Beardsley* Dan & Barb Bickel Mr. & Mrs. J. Burton Black Barbara & Christopher Bodem* Karry K. Book & John P. Hansberry Charles W. Brown & Louise Tetrick Vince & Robyn Caponi Robert Cedoz John Champley & Julie Keck Steve & Kim Chatham Jeff & Jeni Christoffersen Brady Clark Richard Clark Robert & Jennifer Cochrane William & Judy Coleman Jerry & Carol Collins Karen Dace* Fr. Clem Davis* Jeffrey & Barbara Dean Paul & Carol DeCoursey* Mary & Steve DeVoe

Eric Diters Lori Ecker & Ronnie Katz Bob & Patricia Edwards Dr. & Mrs. John & Sheryn Ellis Sherry Faris Drs. Eric Farmer & Tate Trujillo & Christopher Scott* Margie Ferguson* Kerry Foster Eric & Hayley Frandsen Roger & Susan Frick The David T. & E. Jean Fronek Charitable Fund, a fund of Hamilton County Community Foundation Peter Furno & Pamela Steed Phyllis & Ed Gabovitch Mary Lee Gambone & Doug Brooks Priscilla Gerde Phylis & Paul Gesellchen Todd & Jan Gillespie Thecla Gossett Howard & Linnea Green John & Mary Ann Grogan Diane Hall Mr. & Mrs. David J. Hamernik Emily F. (Cramer) Hancock* Don & Elizabeth Harmon Tim & Jennifer Holihen Greg & Patricia Jacoby Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Jahnke George & Dianne Kelley*

Sunah C Kim Dorantes* Linda L. Kirby Rachel Barrett Knight & Jacob Knight* Steven & Mary Koch* Michelle Korin* Dr. Loretta Kroin Andra Liepa Charitable Fund, a Donor Advised Fund of the U.S. Charitable Gift Trust Jane Lommel Carlos & Eleanor Lopez Linda Lough* Mark Magee* Lyle & Deborah Mannweiler Dr. & Mrs. Peter Marcus* Seth & Marsha McCorkle Donald & P.J. McCullough William McNiece R. Keith & Marion Michael Rev. Mary Ann Moman* Jim & Shantel Morris Jim & Judi Mowry John & Beth Murphy Sharon & Dan Murphy* Susan & Jim Naus Dr. LeeAnne M. Nazer Niels & Kathy Ostergaard Merrell & Barbara Owen Robert M. & Kelli DeMott Park Beverly Petsel Dixie Platt and Michael Burke

THE SUPPORTING CAST

INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE DONORS

DONOR GUILDS CONTINUED ANNUAL CAMPAIGN GIFTS $300 – $1,499 | JULY 1, 2020 – JANUARY 11, 2021 THEATRE GUILD CONTINUED $300 – $749 The David and Arden Pletzer Endowment Fund, a fund of Hamilton County Community Foundation Davie & Dorian Poole Richard & Diane Rhodes Richard & Ann Riegner

Robert & Cynthia Robinson Elizabeth Russell Alice Schloss Donor Advised Fund, a fund of Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis John Shearin* Dr. Jill Shedd* Lillian Smith* Luke Stark* David & Lori Starr

Dr. Nenetzin Stoeckle* Nela Swinehart* Steve & Barb Tegarden* Garrett & Elaine Thiel Mary Ann Thiel Dr. James & Linda Trippi Robert & Barbetta True* Barbara S. Tully* Ron Walker Bill & Ann Walters

Dorothy Webb Judge Martha Wentworth Rob Whitacre A. Donald & Jeanette Wiles Prof. Gail F. Williamson Reba Boyd Wooden* Brant & Lorene Wright Ms. Robina Zink & Family Charitable Trust Zionsville Physical Therapy*

TRIBUTE GIFTS IN HONOR OF THE WORK OF ROB JOHANSEN Lori Ecker & Ronnie Katz

IN HONOR OF MARY & GENE TEMPEL Anna Fender

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAREST HUSBAND RICHARD W. JUDY Jane Lommel

IN HONOR OF DR. DOROTHY WEBB Alice McColgin

IN MEMORY OF JANICE SEIDENSTICKER John & Alicia Reuter

OVATION SOCIETY The Ovation Society is an exclusive program that recognizes donors that have made a legacy gift to the IRT. The IRT truly appreciates those individuals whose gift will ensure that the Theatre can continue to provide meaningful and inspirational experiences for future generations of Hoosiers. Gary Addison Janet Allen & Joel Grynheim Pat & Bob Anker Frank & Katrina Basile Charlie & Cary Boswell Ron & Julia Carpenter John R. Carr (in memoriam) John & Mary Challman Sergej R. Cotton Mr & Mrs Thomas & Sue Dapp Nancy Davis & Robert Robinson Rollie & Cheri Dick Nancy & Berkley Duck Dale & Karen Duncan

Jim & Julie Freeman Meg Gammage-Tucker David A. & Dee Garrett (in memoriam) Michael Gradison (in memoriam) Emily F. (Cramer) Hancock Bruce Hetrick & Cheri O’Neill Tom & Nora Hiatt Bill & Nancy Hunt David Kleiman & Susan Jacobs Frank & Jacqueline La Vista Andra Liepa Charitable Fund, a Donor Advised Fund of the U.S. Charitable Gift Trust

Barbara MacDougall Donald & Ruth Ann MacPherson Stuart L. Main (in memoriam) Michael R. & Sue Maine Megan McKinney Sharon R. Merriman David & Leslie Morgan Michael D. Moriarty Richard & Lila Morris Mutter Marines—Jim & Carol Deena J. Nystrom Marcia O’Brien (in memoriam) George & Olive Rhodes (in memoriam)

Jane W. Schlegel Michael Skehan Michael Suit (in memoriam) Gene & Mary Tempel Jeff & Benita Thomasson Christopher J. Tolzmann Alan & Elizabeth Whaley John & Margaret Wilson

*Denotes sustaining members

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT ANNUAL CAMPAIGN GIFTS $300+ | JULY 1, 2020 – JANUARY 11, 2021 CORPORATE AARP Indiana Corteva Agriscience Navient Community Fund OneAmerica Financial Partners Oxford Financial Group, Ltd. PNC Printing Partners

FOUNDATION The Ackerman Foundation Elba L. & Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation, Inc. The Jerry L. and Barbara J. Burris Foundation Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Christel DeHaan Family Foundation The Margot L. Eccles Arts & Culture Fund, a fund of CICF

The Glick Family Foundation Lilly Endowment, Inc. Nicholas H. Noyes Jr. Memorial Foundation The Penrod Society The Shubert Foundation United Way of Central Indiana’s Nonprofit Restart Program

GOVERNMENT Arts Council of Indianapolis Indiana Arts Commission Indiana Arts Commission, with special thanks to the Arts, Cultural & Destination Marketing Organization Grant Program and the Indiana Arts Emergency Relief Fund National Endowment for the Arts

IN-KIND/TRADE ANNUAL CAMPAIGN GIFTS $300+ | JULY 1, 2020 – JANUARY 11, 2021 The Basement

THE ALAN AND LINDA COHEN EDUCATION FUND Eli Lilly and Company

FRONT and CENTER Front and Center is a campaign to support the long-term sustainability of the IRT. It is with deep appreciation that we thank the individuals and organizations who have committed a gift to keep the IRT Front and Center! Michael & Jennifer Abbott A.J. Allen & Kathy Maeglin Janet Allen & Joel Grynheim Dr. Patrick & Danette Alles Pat & Bob Anker Anonymous (6) Susan & Carl Arvin Tammara D. Porter Avant & Jesse Avant Bob & Toni Bader Kay Jett Baker Charles Bantz & Sandra Petronio Allison Barkel Frank & Katrina Basile Mark Bear Gerald & Moira Berg

Leo Bianchi & Jill Panetta Susie & Joel Blum Karry Book & John Hansberry Sheila Barton Bosron & Bill Bosron Dan Bradburn & Jane Robison Amy Burke Brady Clark Mary Beth Claus Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Alan & Linda Cohen The Cohen Family Foundation, Inc. John & Ulla Connor Sammi Coppedge & Joel Weyrauch Don & Dolly Craft

Ethan & Anne Craig Daniel & Catherine Cunningham Mike & Irene Curry Claire Dana & Chris Fretts Brian & Jodie Daugherty Ann & Kenneth Dee Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Gary Denney & Louise Bakker Tom Detmer Mary & Steve DeVoe Rollie & Cheri Dick Michael Dinius & Jeannie Regan-Dinius Jim & Deana Dinsmore Laurie Dippold

Danielle M. Dove Nancy & Berkley Duck Duke Realty Julie Dunigan M.E. & Katie Eccles Geoff Ehrendreich Dan & Ginny Emerson Patricia Fansler Troy Farmer Drs. Richard & Rebecca Feldman Jeff & Chery Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Forde Jim & Julie Freeman David & Ann Frick Drs. Cherryl & Shelly Friedman Tom & Jenny Froehle

THE SUPPORTING CAST

INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE DONORS FRONT and CENTER CONTINUED Front and Center is a campaign to support the long-term sustainability of the IRT. It is with deep appreciation that we thank the individuals and organizations who have committed a gift to keep the IRT Front and Center! Jan & Rick Fulmer David A. & Dee Garrett (in memoriam) Kathy & Gene Gentili Ron & Kathy Gifford Nadine & Alvin Givens Bruce Glor Susan & Charlie Golden Dave & Mary Lou Gotshall Laurie Gutmann Tom Haas Endowment Fund Benjamin Hanna Mike & Judy Harrington Michael N. Heaton Donald & Teri Hecht Holt Hedrick Aaron Henze Ann Hinson William & Patricia Hirsch Lindsey & Tom Horan Brenda S. Horn Jan Hornaday & Brett Brewer Bill & Nancy Hunt Rebecca Hutton The Indianapolis Fellows Fund, a fund of The Indianapolis Foundation The Indianapolis Foundation, a CICF affiliate Johnson Grossnickle & Associates Jim & Nancy Kean Michael Kirkmeyer David Kleiman & Susan Jacobs John & Susan Kline Gary Knott & Colette Irwin-Knott

Steve & Bev Koepper Kurt & Judy Kroenke Jill & Peter Lacy Lacy Foundation Sarah & John Lechleiter Margaret Lehtinen & Dr. Lawrence Mark Elisabeth Lesem Shelby Lewis Hugh & Olga Lilienkamp Lilly Endowment, Inc. Linnea’s Lights, LLC John & Laura Ludwig Bill & Susie Macias Michael R. & Sue Maine Hillary Martin & Rudy Bustamante Vince & Kristy Mathews Lauren McDaniel Andrew & Amy Michie Korea Milledge Amber Mills Lawren Mills & Brad Rateike David & Robin Miner Sidney & Sharon Mishkin David & Leslie Morgan Michael D. Moriarty Vicki Murphy Carl Nelson & Loui Lord Nelson Nicholas H. Noyes, Jr. Memorial Foundation, Inc. Jackie Nytes & Michael O’Brien Eric & Suzanne Olson OneAmerica Financial Partners The Payne Family Foundation, a fund of CICF

Randy D. Pease Ben Pecar & Leslie Thompson Patricia Pelizzari Mel & Joan Perelman Deb & Greg Perkins Samantha Pezzute Jeff Pigeon Scott & Susan Putney Peter & Karen Reist Tony Ren George & Olive Rhodes (in memoriam) Richard & Diane Rhodes Sue & Bill Ringo The Robert S. and Margot L. Eccles Charitable Fund, a fund of CICF Richard J Roberts Kathy Sax Dale & Teresa Schaeffer Dan & Patty Schipp Maggie Barrett Schlake & Joshua Schlake Jane W. Schlegel Wayne & Susan Schmidt Nanette Schulte & Matthew Russell Michael & Holly Semler Mark & Gerri Shaffer Jack & Karen Shaw Simmons Family Foundation, a fund of CICF Doug Sims & Amanda Jackson Michael Skehan Joyce & Steve Smidley Kendra & Andrew Smith

Sue & Mike Smith Victoria Smith & Scott Wampler Rosemarie Springer Doshia & John Stewart Dan & Diana Sullivan Martin & Lee Summers Richard & Lois Surber Suzanne Sweeney & Todd Wiencek Randy Talley Jay & Barbara Taylor Gene & Mary Tempel Adam Ternet Jeff & Benita Thomasson Gordon & Mary-Anne Thompson Tony & Jane Tietz Steve & Maria Tilmans Miriam Friedman Towles Dr. & Mrs. James Trippi Jennifer C. Turner John & Kathy Vahle Jennifer & Gary Vigran Amy Waggoner Cheryl & Ray Waldman Dr. Rosalind Webb Carol Weiss Alan & Elizabeth Whaley David P. Whitman & Donna L. Reynolds Heather & Andy Wilson John & Margaret Wilson Terry & Nancy Young Joseph Zielinski & Bethany Lowery

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