From the Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company

Welcome back to Marin Theatre Company! After 20 months without live theatre, I can’t begin to tell you how amazing it is to have you back in our beloved Boyer Theatre. Everyone at MTC is incredibly proud of the digital work that we were able to bring you during the pandemic—The Catastrophist by our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright in Residence Lauren M. Gunderson, the multi-media Brilliant Mind by Mill Valley’s own Denmo Ibrahim, and American Dreams by Leila Buck—all of which were seen around the country and across the globe. But nothing compares to having you back in this intimate theatre for the experience of sharing the world premiere of a new play.

And what a new play to welcome you back! The final installment in Lauren M. Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s effervescent Christmas at Pemberley trilogy—Georgiana and Kitty. This third chapter in the series includes everything you’ve come to expect from our visits to Jane Austen’s amazing world—a phenomenal ensemble cast of characters, comedy, music, romance, just a dash of impending tragedy, and, of course, the heart of this amazing trilogy—love and family.

I want to extend a huge thank you to our playwrights, Lauren and Margot, for ensuring that this premiere was able to happen here at MTC. This journey has been five years in-the-making and I’m honored it continues tonight.

With this production we are also welcoming many familiar artists back to our theatre—director Meredith McDonough, designers Fumiko Bielefeldt, Madeleine Oldham, Nina Ball and Wen-Ling Liao and actors Adam Magill, Laura Odeh, Lauren Spencer, and

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Madeline Rouverol, as well as many newcomers including composer and musical director Jenny Giering and actors Aidaa Peerzada, Alicia M. P. Nelson, Daniel Duque-Estrada, Emilie Whelan and Zahan F. Mehta.

We also have amazing new staff throughout the company who have joined us that I hope you will meet in the coming months including Managing Director/CEO Meredith Suttles, Associate Artistic Director Nakissa Etemad, and NNPN Producer in Residence Richard A. Mosqueda, as well as Education Coordinators & Teaching Artists Alicia M. P. Nelson and Daniel Duque-Estrada (who you may also notice are in the cast!).

And of course, this is only the beginning! Next up we are thrilled to bring you the West Coast Premiere of the Broadway version of Antoinette Nwandu’s urgent Pass Over, our Associate Artistic Director’s selection, the World Premiere of Yussef El Guindi’s Hotter Than Egypt in a co-production with Seattle’s A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), and the West Coast Premiere of Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside. Please consider joining us for all of these amazing American plays by becoming a season subscriber today.

And to each of you who helped to sustain us throughout the pandemic, thank you for prioritizing Marin Theatre Company for our community. If you donated to our survival, bought a ticket to a virtual production, attended a virtual education class, called with words of encouragement, or wrote us a hopeful email, please know we could not have made it without you. We still have a long way to go to return to full recovery, but with your help I’m certain we will make it.

So, here we are, together again. Let’s keep those masks up and keep each other safe.

Welcome back. It’s Christmastime at Pemberley.

Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Wendy Feng Co-Chair Barbara Morrison Co-Chair Kathryn Olson Vice President John Chesley Secretary Fred W. Taylor Treasurer Bethany Byrd-Hill Kipp Delbyck William Felch Denmo Ibrahim Vera Meislin Christian Mills Matthew Purdon Robert Reynolds Stacy Scott Penny Wright