Odyssey

Written and Directed by Lisa Peterson

Based on Homer’s The Odyssey Translated by Emily Wilson August 31,

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Cast, Creative & Production Teams of Odyssey

Letter from MTC’s Managing Director

Letter from The Acting Company’s Artistic Director

Note’s on Odyssey from the Adapter/Director

Cast Biographies

Creative & Production Teams Biographies

The Acting Company Leadership & Staff Biographies

Marin Theatre Company Leadership & Staff Biographies

About Marin Theatre Company

About The Acting Company & Acknowledgements

Marin Theatre Company Donors

From The Acting Company in association with Marin Theatre Company

The Acting Company

Kent Gash, Artistic Director Erik Schroeder, Managing Director

Devin Brain, Producing Director Margot Harley, Founder

Marin Theatre Company

Meredith Suttles, Managing Director

PRESENTS

Written and Directed by Lisa Peterson°

Based on Homer’s The Odyssey Translated by Emily Wilson

CAST

(in alphabetical order)

Anoud Layla Khoshnoudi*

Zee Zamo Mlengana*

Swing Abiola Obatolu*

Hana Anya Whelan-Smith*

Béa Sophie Zmorrod*

CREATIVE TEAM

Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Sound Design

Original Songs

Voice and Speech Coach

Dramaturg

Associate Director, Staff Director

Text and Script Consultant

Casting

Production Stage Manager

Tanya Orellana†

Sarita Fellows†

Russell H. Champa†

Sinan Refik Zafar†

Masi Asare

Xavier Clark

Jesse Cameron Alick

Margaret Lee

Janice Paran

Laura Schutzel, CSA

Stephanie Weinzapfel

The Acting Company’s production of Odyssey received its world premiere at Marin Theatre Company in September 2023.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

†Designers in our LORT Theatre are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

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ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR ODYSSEY

Movement Coordinator

Assistant Stage Manager

Associate Costume Designer

Assistant Scenic Designer

Assistant Lighting Designer

Sound Supervisor

Rehearsal Props Lead

Guitar Coach & Additional Arrangements

EDI Consultant

Production Assistant

Hair Consultant

Scenic Artist

Loudspeaker Voice & Additional Greek

Key Art Illustration

RUNNING CREW

Lighting & A/V Supervisor

Light Board Operator

Audio Engineer/A1

Wardrobe Supervisor

Margaret Lee

Cello Blanks

Matthew Lott

Danielle DeLaFuente

Charlie Mejia

Row Walters

Anna Dorodnykh

Peter Douskalis

Jacqueline Lawton

Elisaveta Alekumova

Cody Ainey

Stephanie P. Jucker

Ifigenia Gonis

Shirien Damra

Krys Swan

Mary Blake-Booth

Camille Rassweiler

Daria Perkova

MARIN THEATRE COMPANY STAFF

Managing Director

Artistic Producer

General Manager

Director of Production

Special Events & Engagement Manager

Education Programs Manager

Box Office Manager

Assistant Box Office Manager

Patron Experience Manger

Technical Director

Costume Shop Manager

ATD/Props Lead

Lighting & A/V Director

Grant Writer

Marketing Partner

Communications Partner

Development Partner

Meredith Suttles

Richard A. Mosqueda

Nichole Gantshar

Jessica Marchesi

Zphyna Caldwell

Euan Ashley

Jules Simons

Perry Parsons

Laura Odeh Steele

Jeff Klein

Daria Perkova

Liam Rudisill

Krys Swan

Nina O’Keefe

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THE ACTING COMPANY STAFF

Artistic Director

Managing Director

Producing Director

Director of Development

General Manager

Kent Gash

Erik Schroeder

Devin Brain

Hillary Cohen

Me gan Condit

Associate Producer B. Rafidi

Office Manager

Development Associate

Tour Production Manager & Audio Supervisor

Tour Company Manager

Tour Technical Director

Tour Lighting Supervisor

Tour Wardrobe Supervisor

Maddie Hopfield

Nayah Ferris

Row Walters

Esther Bermann

Rob White

Alissa Shea

Margarita R. Herrera

FROM MTC’S MANAGING DIRECTOR

We are so pleased that you’re joining us for the start of our 23-24 season here at Marin Theatre Company. When we were selecting productions, we focused our choices on one of our core values “to celebrate the richness of the human experience.” Odyssey illuminates this value with deep care and radical imagination, taking the power of a classic text’s epic questions around humanity and rooting it in the modern-day experiences of four courageous women on their own quest for belonging and home.

As the front page of Lisa Peterson’s script reminds us, “One must honor guests and foreigners and strangers…” (The Odyssey, Book 14). In my role as the Managing Director of MTC, I see so many parallels between Odyssey’s call to care for everyone who passes through and our role as an arts organization in relationship to this city, county, and beyond. Our artistic goal is to produce groundbreaking work, but at the heart of our mission is to be a vital space that honors our shared humanity while inspiring conversation, learning, and action throughout our local, state, and global communities.

In that spirit, we welcome each and every one of you into our space with open arms, a sense of belonging, and an invitation to see us as your artistic home. We provide food, shelter, and artistic engagement, welcoming you as guests and treating you as family.

Whether you are visiting for the first time or a subscriber for years, you are our purpose. Our partnership with The Acting Company has allowed us to welcome artists from all over the country and send out work on a national tour, a privilege and accomplishment we carry proudly.

I hope you are enriched by this powerful production and revolutionary voice for women through classic text. I hope you are lifted by the vibrant vision that is Odyssey and that it inspires you to join us for the rest of the season as a subscriber so that we have the privilege of welcoming you again and again.

Welcome!

Meredith Suttles | MTC Managing Director

MARIN THEATRE COMPANY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Matthew Purdon President

Josh Rafner Vice President

Barbara Roberts Treasurer

Wendy Feng Secretary

Naima Dean

Kipp Delbyck

Doug Frazier

Denmo Ibrahim

Jennifer McEvoy

Vera Meislin

Stacy Scott

Tara Sullivan

Floyd Thompkins

Penny Wright

FROM THE ACTING COMPANY’S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

On behalf of The Acting Company, I want to welcome you to Lisa Peterson’s adaptation of Odyssey. The Acting Company has a deep commitment to timeless storytelling that illuminates the human condition. Since becoming Artistic Director in 2021, we have been reaffirming our commitment to this mission with a bilingual English-Spanish language production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Leah C. Gardiner and a newly commissioned adaptation of The Three Musketeers by Kirsten Childs that celebrated Alexander Dumas’ Blackness.

Our company’s deep commitment to celebrating the most exciting and dynamic artists currently working in our country is fully manifest in our commissioning Lisa Peterson to create a new, all-female adaptation of Homer’s epic poem. Lisa is a world-class playwright and director, and her adaptation centers on the storytelling impulse and the role it plays in human survival. As we all emerge from the shadows and struggles of the pandemic only to find ourselves in these increasingly turbulent times, there is an urgent need for the connection that storytelling can provide. In a darkened theatre, a shared experience has the power to change us as it reminds us of our common humanity.

SPECIAL THANKS

Odyssey rehearsed at Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York’s Spaces@520, New York, NY

Audited Financial Statements: Michael Schall, CPA, Sax, LLP

Legal Representation: Jason Baruch, Sendroff & Baruch, LLP

Sound equipment provided by: Bauder Audio Systems

Tour Transit by: Lamoille Valley Transportation Inc

Nick Bayer

William L. Fellows

Yorgos Karamalegos

Photos from Odyssey first rehearsal at The Acting Company.

Lisa Peterson’s unique and surprising adaptation and her brilliant direction of our company of Middle Eastern, North African and Eastern European actors is an ode to our collective need for home, forgiveness, and grace. It is vital and essential storytelling born out of a special collaborative impulse.

So, on behalf of The Acting Company, we welcome you to Odyssey! May it help show you the way home.

THE ACTING COMPANY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Earl D. Weiner Chair

Timothy K. Saunders, Jr. Vice Chair

Robert T. Goldman

Vice President

Lori-Ann Wynter Secretary

Jean-Luc Sinniger

Treasurer

Margot Harley

Founder

Harriet Harris

Dana Ivey

Ann James

Kevin Kline

Ezra Knight

Joan M. Leiman

Patti LuPone

Dakin Matthews

Randy Stuzin

Tejal Wadhwani

Nancy Bendiner Weiss

Mary

Rosemary Spaziani

Edgar Lansbury President Emeritus

Ann Fribourg Director Emeritus

Kent Gash | TAC Artistic Director

NOTES ON ODYSSEY FROM THE ADAPTOR/DIRECTOR

There is an important debate happening these days about “the classics”, especially those giant epics that have been taught as the pillars of “Western Literature” for centuries. Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey are smack dab in the middle of that argument. Should we keep these two ancient epics on a pedestal, and why--or why not? Whose story are they telling, and should it be told to the exclusion of other stories that have been kept silent? As I ask these questions of myself, I do find the essential humanity coursing through these Greek stories to be bottomless and compelling. And although I cannot help but find myself in awe of the power of The Iliad, I have to confess I never thought that I’d find my way to wanting to make an adaptation of The Odyssey. So many others have done it, and brilliantly; I didn’t think I could find my personal way into this classic hero’s journey, the story of Odysseus trying to get home. And then I read Emily Wilson’s incredible new translation, back in 2018 when it first came out. It was as it the wax had been pulled from my ears.

Emily’s translation keeps opening windows to many of the less famous but more complicated elements of The Odyssey: the focus on the Greek idea of xenia, or hospitality. In her hands, the story keeps touching down on the different ways that humans deal with guests and strangers, especially those that find themselves on the shores of a new land and need help. Over and over, Odysseus sets sail, is blown off course by a storm (usually caused by a malicious god), and has to start over on a new island, in an unfamiliar culture. That process in the story--this desperate journey to land somewhere safe--started me thinking about the contemporary odysseys taking place across the Mediterranean Sea in our times. In the EU, they call it a “migrant crisis” and it seems to be a crisis for sure. When I first became aware of this dangerous passage that lands all sorts of people on various small Greek islands and into a kind of limbo, it was 2016 and tens of thousands of Syrian refugees were trying to escape civil war in their country. Over the last seven years that conflict still rages, and now migrants from all over the surrounding continents, from the south, the east, the west and the north, are braving the dangerous seas to make not just a better life, but a safe one.

I’ve now become attuned to the gorgeous heartbreak in the poetry of The Odyssey. This earth is beautiful, full of creatures and lands that take our breath away. Nature can wrap us up, but it can also tear us apart. The stars above are sharp and lovely. We are all voyagers, but some are lucky, and some are not. The ancient storytellers remind us, and then repeat it: we must be good to one another. One day you are the host, then next you are the traveler. Take care.

BIOGRAPHIES

CAST

Layla Khoshnoudi (Anoud) is an IranianTexan actress based in New York. She received an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. Select theater credits include Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb); 7 Minutes (Waterwell); Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons); Bull in a China Shop (Lincoln Center); Dido of Idaho (Ensemble Studio Theater); I am Gordafarid (Noor Theater); Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); Will You Come With Me? (Play Company); Nobody’s Girl (NJ Rep); Wyoming (Lesser America). TV: Instinct (CBS); FBI (CBS); All Hail Beth (BricTV), My Ex is Trending (YouTube). Film: Long Nights, Short Mornings; Bad at Birthdays. Short films: Nadia Jaan; Androgen; Bookends.

Sophie Zmorrod (Béa) is an actor, vocalist and playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. Theatre: Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd (Trinity Repertory Company), Marjana and the Forty Thieves (Target Margin Theater), INVASION! (Ancram Opera House), Miss U in Promenade (The María Irene Fornés Marathon at The Public), Hamlet in Machine Learning Hamlet (MetaPhys Ed), The Protest (Cherry Lane Theatre), Ocean Filibuster (Pearl D’Amour) and James Joyce’s The Dead (Hangar Theatre). Brown/Trinity Rep: Robin in Wolf Play, Yitzak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Death in Everybody, Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, and Mona in Alexa Derman’s Play House. Film/ TV: For Life (ABC/Hulu). MFA in Acting from Brown/Trinity Rep, Stephen

Sondheim Fellow and David Wickham Prize in Playwriting. BA cum laude in Music from Columbia University. www. sophiezmorrod.com

Anya Whelan-Smith (Hana) recently completed a run of Hamlet at the Guthrie Theater, playing Ophelia. Other theater credits include:

2022 New Works Festival (Gulfshore Playhouse), His Girl Friday (Barrington Stage Company), A Class Act (Berkshire Theatre Group), Macbeth & Taming of the Shrew (MaineStage Shakespeare, repertory) and Blue Ridge (Williamstown Theater Festival, Original Workshop Production). TV: FBI: International (CBS), Law & Order: SVU (NBC). Film: Fall to Rise, Pizza Party, Souvenir Drunk (upcoming). MFA Acting, The Juilliard School.

Zamo Mlengana (Zee) is thrilled to be making her stage debut in Lisa Peterson’s Odyssey. Zamo recently earned a BFA in Fine Arts from New York City’s famed The Juilliard School, where she was a Shubert Foundation Scholar. Zamo proudly hails from Johannesburg, South Africa. She would like to thank God, her family and team for always supporting her.

Abiola Obatolu (Swing) is a 2023 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. She is thrilled to make her off-Broadway debut this fall in Lisa Peterson’s Odyssey with The Acting Company. Additional professional

credits include The Color Purple at Broadway at Music Circus Sacramento and This is How You Capture the Light at The Kennedy Center. During her time at CMU, Abiola was awarded the Helen Wayne Rauh Award for Excellence in Acting.

CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAMS

Lisa Peterson (Adapter / Director) is a two-time OBIE Award-winning writer/director. Her works include An Iliad, written with Denis O’Hare (NYTW, OBIE and Lortel Awards); The Good Book (co-written with O’Hare, Court Theater and Berkeley Rep); The Waves (adapted from Virginia Woolf with composer David Bucknam, NYTW). Lisa is renowned for directing new plays and classics across the country; recently she directed the world premiere of Doug Wright’s Good Night Oscar on Broadway. She was Associate Director at Berkeley Rep, Center Theatre Group, and La Jolla Playhouse. She is a recent recipient of the Gordon Davidson Award for Lifetime Achievement. Upcoming writing projects include The Song of Rome with O’Hare, and The Idea of Order with composer Todd Almond.

Tanya Orellana (Scenic Designer) (she/her) designs performance spaces for theatre and opera. Originally from San Francisco’s Mission District, she is a core member of the award-winning ensemble Campo Santo. Previous collaborations with Lisa Peterson include The Kind Ones

by Miranda Rose Hall at The Magic, Timon of Athens and Coriolanus at Utah Shakespeare Festival. Recent collaborations include Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2 directed by Jaime Castañeda, Fefu and Her Friends directed by Pam MacKinnon, Oedipus directed by Jenny Koons at The Getty Villa, The Industry’s Sweet Land, an immersive opera directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger, and LEAR by Marcus Gardley, co-directed by Eric Ting and Dawn Monique Williams. Tanya received her MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts and is the 2016 recipient of the Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award. She is a member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and an organizing member of La Gente: The Latine Production Network. www.tanyaorellana.com

Sarita Fellows (Costume Designer), born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, her more recent works include projects such as Death of a Salesman, Broadway; Drinking in America, Audible Minetta Lane Theater; Theater of the Mind, Denver Center of Performing Arts; Elyria, Atlantic Theater Co; A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Portland Center Stage, Blues for an Alabama Sky and Sweat, Guthrie Theater; Joy and Pandemic and Our Daughters Like Pillars, Huntington Theater; Seize the King, Alliance Theater; A Bright Room Called Day, Public Theater; Fefu and Her Friends, American Conservatory Theater. In the dance world, Sarita has worked with choreographers such as Liz Lerman, and Edisa Weeks. MFA in design from Tisch School of Design. Sarita also instructs at the University of Connecticut and Princeton. Recent awards include; Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design (The National Black Theater Festival 2022).

Lily Award (2020).

Russell H. Champa (Lighting Designer) previously designed Desire for The Acting Company at 59E59 Theatre. Current and recent projects include The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (The Dallas Opera), Josephine’s Feast (Magic Theater), Fefu and Her Friends (American Conservatory Theater), Becky Nurse of Salem (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Everest (Lyric Opera of Kansas City), and Thresh|Hold (Pilobolus). Broadway credits include China Doll (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre), In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) (Lyceum Theatre/ Lincoln Center Theater) and Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theatre). New York work includes Playwrights Horizons, Theater For A New Audience, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and New York Stage and Film. Regional work includes Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Wilma Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, California Shakespeare Theater, the Mark Taper Forum, and The Kennedy Center. Thanks J&J! PEACE. russellchampa.com

Sinan Refik Zafar (Sound Design)

Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me (also NYTW, National Tour). National Tour: What to Send Up When It Goes Down (also Playwrights Horizons, BAM, A.R.T.) Off Broadway includes Letters From Max (Signature); Which Way To The Stage, All The Natalie Portmans (MCC); To My Girls (Second

Masi Asare (Original Songs) Broadway: Paradise Square (lyrics, Tony/ Outer Critics Circle nominee). Off-Broadway/ International: Monsoon Wedding (lyrics), Notes From Now (contributed music/lyrics). Commissions: Theatre Royal Stratford East, Barbara Whitman/Grove, Lilly Awards, Concord Theatricals. In development: Delta Blue (music/lyrics), The Family Resemblance (book/music/lyrics, O’Neill), Rishvor (book/music/lyrics), Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood (music/lyrics). Her spy musical Sympathy Jones (music/ lyrics), and Marvel super hero play Mirror of Most Value have collectively had 100& productions. Honors: Dramatists Guild Fellow, Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award, Theater Hall of Fame Grant, Women to Watch on Broadway. Degrees: Harvard, NYU Tisch. Masi is on the theatre faculty at Northwestern.

Xavier Clark (Voice and Speech) is a bilingual Voice & Speech practitioner who studied voice under Alithea Phillips and Ursula Meyer, and apprenticed with Dawn-Elin Fraser. He recently served as the Dialect Coach for TFANA’s Orpheus Descending and as the Voice and Speech Coach for The Acting Company’s National Tour

Jesse Cameron Alick (Dramaturg) is a dramaturg, producer, poet, playwright, essayist, artistic researcher and science fiction expert. Jesse is the Associate Artistic Director at the Vineyard Theater in NYC where he is a dramaturg and producer. Jesse is an active freelance dramaturg at various off-Broadway theaters in the city, nationwide and in the UK. Jesse studied writing with Adrienne Kennedy and has taught theater courses, lectured at classes and mentored students at a myriad of programs, currently teaching at NYU.

Laura Schutzel, CSA (Casting) is thrilled to cast for The Acting Company. From 2003-2020, she worked with Tara Rubin Casting on Broadway, off-, and regional productions. Selected credits, in addition to TAC: NY Casting Director for The History Boys and The Farnsworth Invention, and Associate Director on many others (Broadway), Yale Repertory Theatre (15 seasons), Westport Country Playhouse, Second Stage, 2ST Uptown, LaJolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, The Old Globe. BA (Smith College), MFA Directing (OU). Member, CSA; Artios Award for Excellence in Regional Theatre Casting with Tara Rubin and Amy Potozkin, 2019. In her free time, she sees plays and shares audition tips.

@Laura_Schutzel

Stephanie Weinzapfel (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to join the company of Odyssey after seven years with the Production Department at Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville. Selected credits include the National Tours of Rent, Hairspray, and Cirque Dreams Illumination; Tours with multiple television and film

personalities, and numerous local productions across the Midwest.

Cello Blanks (Assistant Stage Manager) (they/them) is a stage manager based in Brooklyn, NYC with a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Cello pursues stage management with an emphasis in Theatre for Social Justice, Racial Trauma, and LGBTQ& History. Recent projects include: Sleep No More (Punchdrunk, NYC), Jagged Little Pill (RCI Theatricals), The Shining (Opera Paralléle), and The Wanderers (Roundabout Theatre Company). Big thanks to my friends & community for keeping me grounded!

Row Walters (Production Manager and Audio Supervisor) is thrilled to join The Acting Company family again on tour. She is a freelance production manager, sound and lighting designer & technician in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and New York City. Most recently she has been production managing independent films across the country. Favorite shows include Legally Blonde (Kidz Theater), A Hard Time (FringeArts), Sunday in the Park with George (Temple University). Row has her BFA in Lighting Design from Syracuse University. Much Love to Daria and Otto.

Margaret Lee (Associate Director, Staff Director & Moovement Coordinator) is a Hawaii-born, NYCbased director/movement director. Current: Install Director of Scarlet Night (Virgin Voyages’ signature immersive show). Past: Director for Moxie Arts NY (3 commissioned World Premieres), From A To Double D by Mandy Murphy (IRT Theater), The Golden Spike by Don Nguyen & The Lobbyists (BRIC House Artist Studio), Resident Director of immersive nightclub-theatre Eschaton. While serving as Artistic Director of Chicago

troupe 33rd Street Productions, she focused on fostering cross-disciplinary creativity with artists primarily in STEM, in addition to helming productions of Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon, Venus in Fur by David Ives, and Company by Stephen Sondheim. She has been fortunate to assist Kathleen Marshall, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, and David Mendizabal at theatres such as The Old Globe, MCC Theater, New York Stage & Film, and Long Wharf Theatre. Margaret is a Drama League Directors Project Alumna, a member of Roundabout Directors Group, a Fled Collective member, and an SDC Associate Member. LeeMargaret.com

Danielle DeLaFuente (Assistant Scenic Designer) (she/her) is a Chinese and Latina scenic designer based in New York and is thrilled to be the Assistant Scenic Designer on this show! Her recent design credits include The Boy Who Kissed the Sky (Company One), While We Wait (The New School), The Sitayana (The Tank), and Incognito (Bay Street Theater). Her recent associate design credits include Twelfth Night (The Old Globe), Once Upon a Bridge (American Players Theater), Blues for an Alabama Sky (McCarter Theater Center), and Mr Parent (Lyric Stage Company). She would like to that Tanya and the entire team! danielledelafuente.com.

Matthew Lott (Associate Costume Designer) is an NYC-based Costume and Set Designer for Theatre, Opera, and Dance. He received his MFA at NYU Tisch – Design for Stage and Film, and an MA in Theatre – Critical Theory and Dramaturgy from Univ. of Nebraska Omaha. New York credits include the world premiere of the Lucy Thurber play A Daughter and Some Sons, Director Lisa Rothe; An Ideal Husband, Director Janet Zarish; Twelve Ophelias, Director Nemuna Ceesay;

Rhinoceros, Director Alex Moggridge. Associate Costume Designer on Drinking in America, Director Mark Armstong; Wicked Bodies, Choreographer Liz Lerman.

Janice Paran (Text and Script Consultant) (she/her) is an independent dramaturg and consultant supporting new work in theater, opera and dance. She has worked closely with numerous writers and artists, including Annie Baker, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Beth Henley, Branden JacobsJenkins, Emily Mann, Ife Olujobi, Dael Orlandersmith, Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, Phantom Limb Company, Polly Pen, Sarah Ruhl, Mfoniso Udofia, Stephen Wadsworth and Tracey Scott Wilson. Formerly the Director of Play Development at McCarter Theatre in Princeton NJ, she also worked for several years as a dramaturg and program associate for the Sundance Institute Theatre Program, both in the U.S. and internationally.

Esther Bermann (Company Manager) is excited to join The Acting Company again after working with them in 2020 on a tour in conjunction with The Juilliard School. As a freelance stage manager, her credits include New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, The Public Theater, New York City Center, NYMF, NYU, and Bushwick Starr. Additionally, she has over 20 years of dance and theater performance experience and has worked in the administrative offices of Dance/ NYC and Pentacle. She holds a BA in dance and drama from University of California, Irvine.

Rob White (Technical Director) is very excited to be working on The Acting Company’s production of Odyssey. He has two decades of experience building scenery in professional

and academic settings. Some notable national tour builds include, SpongeBob the Musical, Frozen, and the 25th anniversary national tour of Riverdance.

Alissa Shea (Lighting Supervisor) is very excited to be working her first contract with The Acting Company. They attended The University of Florida and have previously worked with Pacific Conservatory Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, Chamber Theatre Productions, and most recently on tour with FELD Entertainment’s Disney on Ice. She is very excited for each audience member to experience their own Odyssey through our production.

Anna Dorodnykh (Rehearsal Props Lead) Off-Broadway: Love & Science (Props Designer), A Sherlock Carol (Deck/Props), Romeo & Bernadette (Deck/Props) Regional: CSTC - Atlanta, West Side Story (Associate Director), Int’l Tour: The Original Broadway Production of Evita (Resident Director, China Tour).

Elisaveta Alekumova (Production Assistant) is a recent graduate from Messiah University with a triple emphasis in theatre acting, directing, and tech. This summer she worked as an assistant stage manager for Pride and Prejudice and Lear as well as a stage manager for Todrick the Not-SoTerrible with the Texas Shakespeare Festival. She is excited and grateful for the opportunity to work with The Acting Company.

Margarita R. Herrera (Wardrobe Supervisor) is thrilled to join The Acting Company on her first national tour! An alumna of NYU Steinhardt’s Educational Theatre program, her off-Broadway credits include The Chinese Lady (Wardrobe Supervisor,

Ma-Yi Theatre at The Public) Richard III and As You Like It (Wardrobe Dresser, Shakespeare in the Park), The Whitney Album (Wardrobe Supervisor, Soho Repertory) and various works at The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. She would like to thank her family, friends, and her beloved cats, Gwen and Liza, for their support.

THE ACTING COMPANY LEADERSHIP & STAFF

Kent Gash (The Acting Company Artistic Director) became The Acting Company’s Artistic Director in Winter 2021. He brings to the Company professional collaborations with stellar living dramatists Tarell Alvin McCraney, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Robert O’Hara, Dominique Morisseau, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Regina Taylor, among many others. He has also directed dynamic modern reconsiderations of Alexander Dumas, Langston Hughes, Noël Coward, Duke Ellington, Frank Loesser, Stephen Sondheim, William Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and August Wilson. As a director, Kent’s productions have been seen at leading U.S. theaters including the Public Theater, Steppenwolf, the Guthrie, Fords Theatre and The Acting Company’s newly commissioned production of The Three Muskateers, centering Dumas and the Black origins of the classic swashbuckler at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, playing through October 2023. Upcoming: the world premiere musical Billy Strayhorn: Something To Live For. Kent was Associate Artistic Director of Alliance Theatre and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He is the founding director of NYU-Tisch’s New Studio on Broadway, he serves on the SDC Foundations’ Lloyd Richards New Futures Residency for Black Directors selection committee and the Princess Grace

Foundation Arts Advisory Council.

Carnegie-Mellon (BFA, Acting) and UCLA (MFA, Directing).

Erik Schroeder (The Acting Company Managing Director) served as managing director of The House Theatre of Chicago, director of marketing at Lookingglass Theatre, worked at the Manhattan Theatre Club and received the Theatre Communications Group Leadership U Fellowship, funded by The Mellon Foundation. He is a co-producer of Hadestown (Broadway, West End & National Tour). Erik was an adjunct instructor at Columbia College Chicago, board member of The Hypocrites, and speaker at UChicago, Loyola, NAMP, League of American Orchestras, and INTIX. He has produced or performed at 54 Below, American Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Florida Studio Theatre. Graduate of St. Olaf College and the Commercial Theatre Institute.

Devin Brain (The Acting Company Producing Director) has held increasingly significant roles at The Acting Company since starting as Staff Repertory Director during our 2012-2013 season. In his own artistic practice, Devin is a freelance stage director specializing in contemporary productions of classical texts, as well as original work. Select recent productions include: Othello, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, You / Emma by Paz Pardo (an adaptation of Madame Bovary), Exposure by Laura Zlatos (an exploration of the life and work of Francesca Woodman), Bones in the Basket (on original adaptation of Russian Fairy Tales), Middletown by Will Eno, Breath of Kings (his adaptation of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V), Blacktop Sky by Christina Anderson, and The Droll {or, a play about the END

of theatre} by Meg Miroshnik. Devin holds an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama where he also served as Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret.

Hillary Cohen (The Acting Company Director of Development)’s arts administration work represents experience at Vox Populi co-operative art gallery, Manhattan Theatre Club, Film Forum, Wave Hill public garden and cultural center, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Cherry Lane Theatre, and New York Classical Theatre. She has served as a Creative Space Grant panelist for the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York. Hillary studied Nonprofit Management at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and is a graduate of Drexel University with a degree in Corporate Communication and a Theatre Production minor. She is a proud IATSE Local One spouse.

Megan Condit (The Acting Company General Manager) is the most recent addition to The Acting Company’s leadership. Prior to her current position, she ran the Client Operations team at StepStone Group. Megan has her MFA in Playwrighting from Columbia University. Her plays have been performed in New York, Seattle, Oakland and Los Angeles. She was a participant in the Royal Court Residency and a semi-finalist to be part of the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project. In the nonprofit sector, Megan has been part of the Jordan Education Trust, Lookingglass Theatre, Classic Stage Company, and the Geffen Playhouse staffs.

B. Rafidi (The Acting Company Associate Producer) comes to The Acting Company after working as a freelancer in stage and production management for 7 years. Select stage

management credits include I Wanna F*ck Like Romeo and Juliet (New Light Theater Productions), Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (The Acting Company), and The Medora Musical (StageWest Entertainment). Rafidi also worked for three years as the Production Activities Manager for The Juilliard School’s Center for Innovation in the Arts after finishing a stage management apprenticeship there (‘18-’19). @rafidi0913

MARIN THEATRE COMPANY LEADERSHIP & STAFF

Meredith Suttles (Managing Director) (she/her) is an arts leader with an extensive background in creative and performing arts in the areas of development, management, strategic planning, fundraising, and performance. She has held senior leadership roles at TheaterWorksUSA, Soho Repertory Theatre, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and the New York City Opera. Meredith is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and former EmcArts: Arts Leaders as Cultural Innovators (ALACI) Fellow. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., a Steering Committee Member of the Black Theatre Commons and currently serves on the Board of Directors of viBe Theater Experience.

Richard A. Mosqueda (Artistic Producer) (He/She/They) is a queer, Mexican-American theater producer and director who is committed to adventurous new works by queer artists of color. As a director, they have worked with such companies as New Conservatory Theatre Center, Portland Center Stage, Theatre Rhinoceros, Custom Made Theatre, Halcyon Theatre, and Shotgun Players.

Richard was selected to be part of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation 2017-2018 Observership Class, where he observed the TonyNominated director Leigh Silverman on Soft Power, A Play with a Musical at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. They are the founder and producer for Epic Party Theatre in San Francisco. She holds a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University. SDC Associate Member.

Nichole Gantshar (General Manager) is a former dramaturg turned arts administrator. She spent five years as Executive Director of Rochester City Ballet and also worked for Tulsa Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Prior to her administrative career, she worked for Richmond Ballet, Syracuse Stage, Hangar Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Milwaukee Ballet. Among her awards, she was twice nominated as an Outstanding Young Woman of America and received a LMDA residency grant to serve as the production dramaturg for the Atlanta Ballet’s production of The Great Gatsby.

Zphyna Caldwell (Special Events & Engagement Manager) (she/her) first began working with Marin Theatre Company in 2011 as a Resident Teaching Artist and Community Engagement Coordinator. She is thrilled to have returned in 2022 as MTC’s Special Events Coordinator. Zphyna has also worked as as a Resident Teaching Artist with the Performing Arts Academy of Marin, the GATE Academy and St. Hilary’s School. Beyond being a Teaching Artist, Ms. Caldwell has developed fully comprehensive Theatre Programs for the Cities of Mill Valley and Sausalito. In 2016 Zphyna founded her own youth performing arts company, Interactive Enrichment. Based in

Sausalito, Interactive Enrichment has a primary focus on Musical Theatre, Ensemble Skills and Improvisation. www.InteractiveEnrichment.com

Euan Ashley (Education Programs Manager) (He/Him/His) is excited to be joining the MTC staff as an Educator Coordinator! He is an actor and San Francisco native with a strong belief that the best theatre comes from a place of passion and that arts education is crucial for people of all ages. Even though his training is primarily as an actor he is happy to do anything theatre related, having started at MTC as a box office associate before moving to his current position. He recently graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts and Dance from Sonoma State.

Jules Simons (Box Office Manager) (she/her/hers) is elated to be a part of the MTC team. With a background in playwrighting and production management, she is excited to gain new experiences as the Box Office Manager. She is a New Orleans native, though she spent the last five years at Ohio University, from which she holds a BA in Theater and will be completing her Master of Art Administration virtually this summer. She found a new passion for disability advocacy within the performing arts after serving with AmeriCorps at Easter Seals Wisconsin Respite Camp in 2021. When not petting her cat, she is working towards a world in which including people with disabilities is the standard.

Laura Odeh Steele (Patron Experience Manager) (she/her/hers) is excited to expand her love for theatre career in an administrative capacity at MTC. As a professional actor, Laura was first seen at MTC in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. In addition, she has work on Broadway, off-Broadway and

regionally at theatres including Lincoln Center Theatre, Irish Repertory Theatre, The Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre, and Berkeley Rep. She has worked with directors including James Lapine, Moisés Kaufman, Mark Lamos, Meredith McDonough, Bill Rauch, Don Roos and Charlie Kaufman. In addition to her acting career, Laura has taught in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance at Sonoma State University since 2019. She received her MFA from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Jeff Klein (Technical Director) started first working at MTC as an overhire carpenter in January 2006, was hired full time as the Assistant Technical Director in October 2006. With 9 seasons and nearly 5 dozen productions to his name here, he was then promoted to Technical Director in June of 2015. A native Texan originally from San Antonio, Jeff has worked in all aspects of theatre. Getting the theatre itch in high school with some minor acting roles, he attended college graduating with a B.A. in Humanities with a Theatre minor. Eventually moving into a full time technical/ behind in the scenes career in his mid 20s, Jeff has a storied history working from theme park venues in Texas to a magic show in Branson, MO and then landing in the San Francisco Bay Area which he has been proud to call home since 2005. While Jeff misses the time acting on stage, he considers himself a character of life and does his best undertaking the roles of comedy (and drama, of course) that seemingly come at him everyday.

Jessica Marchesi (Director of Production) is overjoyed to be returning to MTC after a nearly 20 year hiatus. Jessica is a native San

Franciscan who has been working in professional theater for over 30 years, mostly in production management. Originally trained as an actor and director, her additional training and experience as a technician and designer led her to shift her focus to production. After starting her PM career at the San Francisco Fringe Festival and the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Jessica served as MTC’s PM from 2001-2005, under then Artistic Director Lee Sankowitz. Since leaving the Bay Area, her career has taken her all over the country. During that time she managed production and operations for a wide variety of companies, including Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, Arkansas Repertory Theatre and the Walton Arts Center in Arkansas, and Horizon Theatre in Atlanta, GA, but the bulk of her career was spent at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California. SCR specializes in new play development, and while she was there she had the great pleasure of helping launch over 50 world premieres, many of which have gone on to great success, including A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Lucas Hnath), Vietgone (Qui Nguyen), Cambodian Rock Band

(Lauren Yee), Silent Sky and Emelie (Lauren Gunderson), The Language Archive (Julia Cho), and many more. Jessica’s journey has been personal as well as geographical, and she is proud to have recently come out as Trans and is excited to begin her new life among old friends.

Daria Perkova (Costume Shop Manager) (she/they) is a Bay Area native costume designer. She first took an interest in costuming when she was just 4 years old, watching Sailor Moon at her grandparents house and making props out of cardboard. She first stepped into theatre at her high school and fell in love with the magic of backstage production ever since. She has a BFA in Theatrical Costume Design from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and returned here to the Bay to pursue a full time career in costuming. She is the current Costume Shop Manager and Wardrobe Lead here at MTC, as well as the Assistant Costume Designer for the current 2022-23 season. She has recently costume designed How Black Mothers Say I Love You at Theatre Rhinoceros in SF and Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya at Chabot College

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Liam Rudisill (Assistant Technical Director) (he/him) is a carpenter and props maker who has been working with Marin Theatre Company since moving to the Bay Area in 2014. He’s excited to be back at full capacity as Assistant Technical Director. Recent design credits include Boys Go to Jupiter (Word for Word at Z Space); The Sound Inside, Pass Over, Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, Dunsinane, August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, and Justice: A New Musical (MTC).

ABOUT MARIN THEATRE COMPANY

Marin Theatre Company is the Bay Area’s premier mid-sizedtheatre and the leading professional theatre in the North Bay. MTC is committed to the development and production of new plays, with a comprehensive New Play Program that includes productions of world premieres, readings, and workshops by the nation’s diverse emerging and established playwrights. MTC’s numerous education programs serve more than 4,500 students from over 40 Bay Area schools each year. MTC envisions theatre as a vital space for sharing diverse stories to build a more just and equitable world. MTC is dedicated to inspiring conversation, learning and action to build more inclusive communities. We do this by providing a sustainable home for developing the work of diverse American playwrights and producing innovative theatrical experiences. MTC was founded in 1966 and is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

ABOUT THE ACTING COMPANY

The Acting Company develops actors by touring professional theater across America. Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley with the first graduating class of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School, the Company has launched the careers of two generations actors, including Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Mary Lou Rosato, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, Lorraine Toussaint, Frances Conroy, Harriet Harris, Jeffrey Wright, and Jesse L. Martin, among many others. In 2003, the Company was awarded the Tony honor for Excellence in the Theater and to date their work has been seen by over 4 million people in 48 States, 10 foreign countries, on and Off-Broadway. New works commissioned by the Company include plays Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, John Guare, Beth Henley, Tony Kushner, Lynn Nottage, Meg Miroshnik, Ntozake Shange, Maria Irene Fornés, Marsha Norman, Samm-Art Williams, and Wendy Wasserstein. The Company’s education programs bring professional productions, in-school residencies, and teacher training workshops to thousands of students in underserved schools and disadvantaged communities each year.

ACKOWLEDGEMENTS

The Acting Company’s 2023 National Tour is made possible, in part, by support from the Axe-Houghton Foundation; Booth Ferris Foundation; the Howard Gilman Foundation; The Rona Jaffe Foundation; The Lucille Lortel Foundation; Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; The Morris and Alma Shapiro Fund; The Shubert Foundation; and many generous individual donors to whom we are ever grateful. The Acting Company gratefully acknowledges the indelible memories of Anne L. Bernstein (1948-2021), Louanna O. Carlin (1937-2021), Carol Crowley (1930-2023), Jill Edelson (1933-2020), and Elinor Bunin Munroe (1920-2017).

MARIN THEATRE COMPANY DONORS

Marin Theatre Company acknowledges the generous support of the following individuals, foundations and corporations whose contributions make our extraordinary theatre productions and education programs possible. To join our family of contributors, receive sponsorship information or if you have questions about your gift, please contact the Development Department at development@marintheatre.org or 415.322.6035.

The following gifts were received between July 1, 2022-July 31, 2023.

EXECUTIVE PARTNER CIRCLE

$25,000+

David Catania & Diana Gay-Catania

Matthew Purdon & Liz Sklar

Robert J. and Paula B. Reynolds Fund

Christopher B. & Jeannie Meg Smith

PARTNER CIRCLE

$10,000-$24,999

Anonymous

Gerald Cahill & Kathleen King

Thomas W. Edwards & Rebecca Parlette-Edwards

Kenneth and Vera Meislin

Fred and Kathleen Taylor Charitable Fund

Michael Wall and Wendy Feng

PRODUCER CIRCLE

$5,000-$9,999

Anonymous

Franklin Amster

Cheryl & Rick Brandon

Lynne Carmichael

John & Shelley Chesley

Ron Clyman & Francoise Mauray

Doug Frazier

Jill & Steven Fugaro

Susan & Dennis Gilardi

Barbara & Jim Kautz

Melanie Maier

Bill and Janet McAllister Fund

Ivan Poutiatine

Rosenberger Family Fund

Barbara and Eric Roberts

Betty & Jack Schafer

Susan and Joel Sklar

Vickie Soulier

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER CIRCLE

$1,000-$4,999

Anonymous

Helen & Thomas Anawalt

Lois Kelly Ashley

Mary Jane Baird

Joan Beavin

Carl & Fumiko Bielefeldt

Lynn Brinton & Dan Cohn

Janet Brown

Noel Butler, In memory of Phil Kurjan

Gatian’s Fund

Kipp Delbyck

Stephanie A. Douglass

Stephen and Sharon Edelman

Erin Elliot

Theresa W. and Richard A. Ellis, MD

Judith & Philip Erdberg

Jeff Freedman & Marie Boylan

David Gelfand and Ellen Daniell

Ms. Margot Golding

David Goldman

Gerry Goldsholle and Myra Levenson

Kenneth & Joan Gosliner

Linda Groah

Karen Gottlieb

Michelle and Normand Groleau

Larry and Rebekah Helzel

Brian and Jocelyn Herndon

Sandra Hess

Mark and Lori Horne

Chris and Kenneth Hurwitz

Coreen & Mark Jamison

Kelley Family Charitable Fund

William Kissinger

Dirk & Madeleine Langeveld

Kathleen and John Leones

Paulette Lueke

Scott MacLeod and Linda Kislingbury

Marymor Family Fund

Andrew F. and Ann B. Mathieson Fund

Stephanie Moulton-Peters & Roger Peters

Victoria H. Newton & Cheryl Longinotti

Kiki Pescatello

Priscilla Pittiglio

Suzanna G. Pollak

Michael Poutiatine

Robert and Donys Powell

Drs. Janice & James Prochaska

Gordon Radley

Gary Robinson & Danny Field

Thomas and Jill Sampson

Laura Scher and Ian Altman and the Barn Road Foundation

Kurt Schindler

Eric Schwartz and Magda Wesslund

Valerie Stoll Schwimmer

Kate Sears

Diana & Richard Shore

John Simpson and Suzanne Cross

Steven Sockolov & Susan Snyder

Tara J. Sullivan

Stephen Symonds

Beverly Tanner and Jerry Herman

Lisa Rogers Taylor

Dr. Samuel Test

Will & Leslie Thompson

Diane and Bob Wagner

Elizabeth Werter and Henry Trevor

Wilder Family Charitable Trust

Penny Wright

Vic Woo & Phil Brewer

Susan York Charitable Fund

FRIENDS OF MTC CIRCLE

Contributor

$500-$999

Anonymous (4)

Paul F. and Geraldine Alpert

Robert Anderson & Lois Stevens

Robert Bailey

Stephen Bischoff

Adrian & Daniel Blumberg

Dr. Paula Campbell

The Leo J. and Celia Carlin Fund

Nancy & Gary Carlston

Henni Cohen and Lee Trucker

Pat & Amanda Conran

John Eichhorst & Jennifer Blackman

Larry Fahn

Karen Haydock

Bill & Susan Hoehler

Mark & Roberta Hoffman

Katz Family Foundation

Susan Kolb

Harriet and Tom Kostic, Kostic Family Fund

Stephen and Gail Lazarus

Purple Lady/Barbara Meislin Fund

Dr. Kurt Menning

Carol Mimura & Jeremy Thorner

Kathryn E. Olson

John S. Osterweis Philanthropic Fund

Paul Gelburd and Diane Parish

Marianne and Steven Porter

Hector Richards

Jean Bee Chan & Ken Ross

Mark & Tobi Rubin

Diane & Ed Ryken

David A Shapiro, MD & Sharon L Wheatley

Marsha Silberstein

Judy and Greg Smith

Valerie Sopher

Stephanie Splane

Richard & Jean Stenquist

Susan J Wittenberg

Julie & Tony Zanze

Friend

$100-$499

Anonymous (13)

Chris Andersson

Joseph D. and Gail P. Anguilo

Stacy Hering Astor

Janet Bamberger

Nancy Barash

Geraldine Barsotti

Frank & Lee Battat

Robert and Barbara Baum

Susan & Bill Beech

Steve Beecroft

David and Michele Benjamin

Gail V. Bernstein

Linden Berry

Brad & Robyn Bilfelt

Steve Bischoff

Annette Blanchard and John Hewitt

Little Fawn Boland

Joan & Nick Boodrookas

Felix Braendel

Josh Brier & Grace Alexander

Meryl Brod

Amy & Mark Brokering

Bromley Carson Fund

George & Cindy Brown

Stephen Bryant

The Buehler Family

Gabriella Calicchio & Michael Janes

Anne-Marie Caple

Chris Carter

Heidi H. Cary

Alan & Caren Cascio

Steven & Karin Chase

Ann & Rick Clarke

Judith Cohen & Malcolm Gissen

Barbara Gay & Richard Cohn

Cheryl Coles

Naomi Conroy

Bob Bowen & Linda Crouse

Christina Crow

Betsey & John Cutler

Christina Dallera

Ms. Paula Davis

James T. Diamond Jr.

Ernest & Debra Dibenedetto

Molly & Brett Dick

Kerry Weiner & Andy Elkind

Ms. Jane Elkins

Joe Faimali & Dorita Decker

Leland & Susan Faust

Pam Feagles

Jordan Felling

Doug & Jane Ferguson

Lisa Ferguson

Mardi Finegan

Kathleen E. Foote

Betsy Foy

Christie Fraser

Gail Gallagher

David Gast

Rita & Kent Gershengorn

Gail and Mervin Giacomini

Helene & Lewis Gibbs

Bruce and Linda Goldman

Edward Granger

Mark Green

Michelle Green

Mark Greenside

Douglas and Carolyn Grey

Gini and Gordon Griffin

Kris Malone Grossman & Ed Grossman

Patricia Oji Haas

Anita Hagopian

Robert Hall

Thomas M. Harlan

Marc & Peggy Hayman

Gillian A. Hayward Donation Fund

Ian Hinchliffe

Karen Hirsch & Jim Condit

Adrienne Hirt & Jeffrey Rodman

Jennifer Hochschild

Mim Hodge

Heidi Hofer

Matt and Robin Hoffman

Teri & Patricia Hollowell

Dr. Richard Horrigan

Karen Houston

Kip & Sara Howard

Dabney Ingram

Elisabeth & Howard Jaffe

Elizabeth Jameson

Janet Johns

Sheila-Merrle Johnson

Will Johnson

Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein

Susan Keener

Barbara Kerr

Heidi Kirsch

Mark Kushner

Monica Lange

Amy Lauer

Kate Lauer

Sharon Leach

Gretchen Leavitt

Judy and Robert Leet

David Lesnini

Joan Levison

George Lindfelt

Jennifer S. Lindsay

Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation

Nanette & Bill Londeree

David and Carolyn Long

The Long Family

Dr. Laurence & Mrs. Samantha Lyons

Lynn MacDonald

Kathleen Maher

Mary Malaspina

Samara & Tania Malik

Lynn Mason

Ms. Margaret Mason

Megan McCall

John & Cindy McCauley

Andy & Jane McClure

Nelson and Julia Ishiyama and Terrie McDonald

Teresa McGlashan

Kevin & Paula McGrath

Joe McGuire

Consuelo McHugh

Margaret McHugh

Karen McLennan

Sandy Mendler

Roberta & Spencer Michels

Sandra Mikesell

Mary-Ann Milford

David and Cordelia Miller

Don & Barbara Miller

Kimberley Milstead

Christian Mills & Carolina Dangord

Everett and Julia Moore

Susan Morris

Barbara Morrison

Barry & Jane Moss

Margaret Moster

Chris & Bonnie Mumford

Riyan Mustaq

Robert Newcomer

Molly Noble

Jane Nydorf

Constance J. O’Connor

Connie Oclassen

Marta A. Osterloh

David Pasta

Ms. Rebecca Pauling

Sara Pearson

Jonathan & Susan Peck

Robert & Audrey Pedrin

Lynn Perry

Stephen Piatek

Mariana Poutiatine Cotten

Marcia Pizzo-Meyers

Jack & Jessica Powell

Geneviève Duboscq & Lynn Prime

Barbara Smith, Joveena Alleyne and Halifu Prince

The Laurence Pulgram and Kelli Murray

Charitable Fund

Charles A. Quick and Virginia B. Quick, Quick

Family Bright Future Fund

Angela and Josh Rafner

Dr. and Mrs. Joel Renbaum

Edward L. Reynolds and Hernan Correa

Susan Reynolds

Julianne Z. Rohmaller

Marit Roman

Jessica Romm

Mel & Ruth Ronick

Benjamin & Barbara Rooks

Francoise Rothstein

April H. Rox

Angelo and Kimberly Salarpi

Ellen & Donald Schell

Laura & Michael Scott

Carol and Randolph Selig Family Philanthropic Fund

Judy Shaper

Carole & Douglas Sheft

Alyson Sinclair

Dr. Dorothy Slattery

Shelagh Smith

Lauren & Jason Snell

Deborah Spanier and Ronald Fishman

Louis & Bonnie Spiesberger

Kate Stacy

Renee Marler and Timothy Standing

Joseph Stecher

Drs. Shayna & Elliott Stein

Joe & Diane Stemach

Ken & Dana Stokes

Gretchen and Grover Stone

Daniel & Maureen Stuempfig

Donald & Edith Suttles

Svetcov Family Fund Candace Swimmer and Phil

Rosenthal

Susan Terris

Cynthia Lynn Thomas

Beverly Thorman

Kathryn Thyret

Beatrice Tocher

Mark Toney

Evelyn Topper

Vanessa Topper

The Norman and Carol Traeger Foundation

Bruce Tremayne & Mary Diltz

Sherri Tull

Madeline Valentine

Mary Van Voorhees

Meredith J. Watts

Kenneth & Ellen Weber

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Weikert

Paul Werner

Janet & William Whitmer

Linda Wilford

Holly & Bruce Williams

Carolyn and Fred Wood

Sandra Yoffie

Michelle Young

Ms. Dara Zandanel

MEMORIAL GIFTS

In memory of Phil Kurjan

Noel Butler

In memory of Carl G. Berry

Linden Berry

In memory of Vivienn Fosman

Purple Lady/Barbara J. Meislin Fund

In memory of Gloria Guth

David Pasta

In memory of Henry Higgins

Bill & Vanessa Higgins

In memory of Jim Horan

Ms. Margaret Mason

In memory of Cary James

Elaine James

In memory of Peter Maier

Terry & Larry Hill

In memory of Herman and Dorothy Smith

Barbara Smith, Joveena Alleyne and Halifu Prince

In memory of Cathy Teague

Nanette Londeree Anonymous

TRIBUTE GIFTS

In honor of Jim Horan

Mardi Finegan

In honor of Jim Horan

Matt and Robin Hoffman

In honor of Jim Horan

Mary Malaspina

In honor of Jasson Minadakis

David Catania & Diana Gay-Catania

In honor of Jasson Minadakis

Jack & Jessica Powell

In honor of Ivan Poutiatine

Michael Poutiatine

In honor of our son, David Everett Moore

Everett and Julia Moore

In honor of Carla Zilbersmith

Hon. Molly Noble

In honor of Tara Sullivan and Molly Horan, and in memory of Jim Horan

Stephen Symonds

In honor of Tara Sullivan

Gail Gallagher

In honor of Meredith Suttles

Donald & Edith Suttles

THE LEGACY GIVING SOCIETY OF MARIN THEATRE COMPANY

Linden & Carl Berry‡

Jack Bissinger‡

Dave & Bobbie Chapman

John & Shelley Chesley

Sheldon Doing & Steve DeHart

Fred Drexler‡

Thomas W. Edwards & Rebecca Parlette Edwards

Joseph & Antonia Friedman

Brian & Tracy Haughton

Sandra Hess

Shirley Loube‡

CORPORATIONS • FOUNDATIONS • GOVERNMENT

MTC PARTNER | $50,000+

Californians For The Arts

Clay Foundation West

Marin Community Foundation

Melody Wireless Infrastructure

The Shubert Foundation

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

VIP PRODUCER | $15,000-$49,999

Kimball Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

The Bernard Osher Foundation

California Arts Council

Haughton Family Charitable Fund

Stacy Scott Fine Cateringº

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER | $10,000-$14,999

Koret Foundation

The Tournesol Project

Melanie Maier

Gladys Perez-Mendez‡

Ivan & Lochiel Poutiatine‡

Leigh & Ivy Robinson‡

Gage Schubert‡

Beverly Tanner

Fred & Kathleen Taylor

Nancy Thomson‡

Phil Woodward & Connie Majoyy

PREMIERE PRODUCER | $5,000-$9,999

3 Badge Beveragesº | August Sebastiani

Acqua Hotelº

Brooks Note Wineryº | Garry & Joanne Brooks

Marin Cultural Association

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER | $3,000&

Carol Selig, Selig Floral Designº

County of Marin

PRODUCER | $1,000–$4,999

Body Kineticsº

Clyman Family Foundation

Compass

Marin Charitable Association

Mill Valley Market

National Philanthropic Trust

The Rock Foundation

The Tow Foundation

Whistlestopº