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MASTERWORKS & POPS 2016–17 REMAINING PERFORMANCES

PETER BAY, music director MAR 24/25 “Mahler in March” Peter Bay, conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 6 in A Minor, Tragic APR 7/8

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Gloria Quinlan, speaker Stephen Girko, clarinet COPLAND Lincoln Portrait CORIGLIANO Music from the Edge (first concert performance) COPLAND Clarinet Concerto DVORˇÁK Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 Masterworks Season Finale!

Gabriela Montero, piano RACHMANINOFF-RESPIGHI Cinq Études-tableaux RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 RESPIGHI Feste Romane Fascinating Gershwin™ with Joseph Joubert, piano Marvel at the extraordinary showmanship of pianist Joseph Joubert and Broadway voices Alicia Hall Moran and Destan Owens as they bring George Gershwin’s catalogue to life. Come hear your Austin Symphony and company perform some of Gershwin’s most memorable melodies, such as, “Fascinating Rhythm,” “I Got Rhythm,” “S’Wonderful,” Download the app: “Summertime,” and more. Help us conclude our 106th season with these two magnificent performances.

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Dave Steakley, Producing Artistic Director | Elisbeth Challener, Managing Director

ROBERT SCHENKKAN'S

STARRING

STEVE VINOVICH DAVE STEAKLEY

DIRECTED BY

Scenic Designer.......................................................................................................................................CLIFF SIMON Lighting Designer...................................................................................................................MICHELLE HABECK** Projection Designer ....................................................................................................................... K. ELIOT HAYNES Costume Designer .......................................................................................................... MICHAEL MCDONALD** Hair and Makeup Designer ............................................................................................................SERRET JENSEN Sound Designer ................................................................................................................................... CRAIG BROCK Music Director ............................................................................................................................ALLEN ROBERTSON Properties Designer ............................................................................................................................ STEVE BAGLIO Dialect Coach ..................................................................................................................AMANDA COOLEY DAVIS Dramaturg..................................................................................................................................RUSSELL M. DEMBIN Costume Design Assistant ............................................................................................................. EMILY GILARDI Costume Design Assistant ........................................................................................................ALANA ANTHONY Stage Manager (to February 19) ...........................................................................CATHERINE ANNE TUCKER* Stage Manager (February 29 - March 5) ........................................................................... BRYAN BRADFORD* Assistant Stage Manager .......................................................................................................... MEGAN BARRETT* Assistant Stage Manager ................................................................................................................. MEGAN SMITH Men's wigs and Lynda Bird's wig provided by Wig Boys. Other selected men's wigs provided by Allison Lowery.

Police Uniforms provided by Costume Rentals Corporation ("CRC"). *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ** Member of IATSE 829.

January 25 - March 5, 2017 • Topfer Theatre There will be a 15-minute intermission after Act I and a 10-minute intermison after Act II. Drinks are welcome in the theatre.

Kathleen and Harvey Guion Carolyn and Marc Seriff Carl and Claire Stuart

Mindy Ellmer Brian McCall

Executive Producers

Producers

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Commissioned by Seattle Repertory Theatre and developed by Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle World premiere co-produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Bill Rauch, Artistic Director; Cynthia Rider, Executive Director) and Seattle Repertory Theatre (Jerry Manning, Artistic Director; Benjamin Moore, Managing Director) THE GREAT SOCIETY was developed in part with assistance from The Orchard Project, a program of The Exchange (www.exchangenyc.org) THE GREAT SOCIETY is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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The Great Society Cast

Steve Vinovich

Cecil Washington, Jr.

Meredith McCall

Jeff Jeffers

David R. Jarrott

Shelby Davenport

James Davies

Michael Miller

Vincent J. Hooper

Zell Miller, III

Miles Chick

Garry Peters

Richard Romeo

Michelle Alexander

Nash Ferguson

Amber Quick

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The Great Society Cast President Lyndon B. Johnson .............................................................................................................. STEVE VINOVICH* Martin Luther King Jr. ............................................................................................................ CECIL WASHINGTON, JR.* Lady Bird Johnson/Ensemble ......................................................................................................... MEREDITH MCCALL Senator Bobby Kennedy/Seymore Trammel/John McCone/Charles Robb/Ensemble ............JEFF JEFFERS J. Edgar Hoover/Walter Cronkite/Clark Clifford/Ensemble .....................................................DAVID R. JARROTT Humphrey/Ensemble..................................................................................................................... SHELBY DAVENPORT* Gov. George Wallace/Richard Nixon/Sheriff Jim Clark/ Mayor Richard Daley/Norman Morrison/Ensemble.........................................................................JAMES DAVIES* Senator Everett Dirksen/Deke DeLoach/AMA President Appel/ Col. Al Lingo/Stanley Levison/General Wheeler/ Ensemble ..................................................... MICHAEL MILLER Stokely Carmichael/Hosea Williams/Marquette Frye/Ensemble .......................................VINCENT J. HOOPER Bob Moses/James Bevel/Rev. Dobynes/Ensemble ..........................................................................ZELL MILLER, III Adam Walinsky/Robert McNamara/Rep. Wilbur Mills/Ensemble..................................................... MILES CHICK Gen. Westmoreland/Gardner Ackley/Ensemble ................................................................................ GARRY PETERS Ralph Abernathy/Rep. Adam Clayton Powell/John Lewis/Ensemble....................................RICHARD ROMEO Sally Childress/Coretta Scott King/Ensemble ................................................................... MICHELLE ALEXANDER Jimmie Lee Jackson/Ensemble ............................................................................................................NASH FERGUSON Sheriff's Auxiliary/Muriel Humphrey/Lynda Bird Johnson/Pat Nixon/Ensemble.....................AMBER QUICK

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

*Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the Understudy Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans.

Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. actorsequity.org

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production and the taking of photographs, with or without flash, or by camera phone, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices – such as cell phones, pagers, etc. – and refrain from texting and/or tweeting during the performance.

Special Thanks Susanne Corlett Cathy Guivas Anne Wheeler, Communications Director from the LBJ Presidential Library Russ Whitlock from the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park

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The Great Society Cast STEVE VINOVICH (President Lyndon B. Johnson) has been doing this acting thing for a while. ZACH: All The Way. BROADWAY: All The Way, Loose Ends, Lost in Yonkers, The Magic Show, The Robber Bridegroom, The Grand Tour, The Secret Rapture. OFF-BROADWAY: Old Jews Telling Jokes. NATIONAL TOUR: The Dinner Party. REGIONAL: Over 100 plays and musicals.

Recently the American Shakespeare Festival: A Funny Thing Happened Forum, Westport Playhouse: Diary of Anne Frank, Pittsburgh Public: 1776 (Ben Franklin). OTHERS: Pasadena Playhouse: The Foreigner, The Little Foxes.

Laguna Playhouse: Art, The Price. Reprise: Kiss Me Kate, Strike up the Band, Babes in Arms.

Pacific Resident Theater: Awake and Sing, Golden Boy, All My Sons. Stratford: Twelfth Night with Lynn Redgrave. Public: A Midsummer 's Night Dream. NCT: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, How I Learned to Drive, Inherit the Wind.

FILM: The Intern, The Santa Clause, Awakenings, Mannequin, Puffin in The Swan Princess. TV: about 100 guest spots and two series, such iconic shows as Three’s Company, LA Law, Hill Street Blues, Roseanne, Star Trek, ER, Everybody Loves Raymond, Law & Order, Matlock, Touched by an Angel, Malcom in the Middle, and yes even Hannah Montana. COMMERCIALS: Over 200.

TRAINING: Juilliard Acting School under John Houseman, Strasberg Institute, Charles Nelson Reilly, Larry Moss, AWARDS: Three LA Drama Logue Awards. www.stevevinovich.com

to thank ZACH Theatre for the opportunity to showcase my talent in their beautiful theater, my family and friends for their huge support, and God for my gifts to share with the world.

MEREDITH MCCALL (Lady Bird Johnson/ Ensemble) – ZACH: The Santaland Diaries, The Who's Tommy; A Christmas Story; White Christmas; Ragtime; The Laramie Project 10 Years Later; Next to Normal; Fiction; The Drowsy Chaperone; Caroline, or Change; 365 Days/365 Plays; Present Laughter; Urinetown: The Musical; Cabaret; Side Man; The Pavilion; The Laramie Project; Little Shop of Horrors; Jouét; Pride’s Crossing; The Rocky Horror Show (1999 and 2006); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika; The Taffetas; Jack and Jill; Ruthless! The Musical; Rockin’ Christmas Party; Das Barbecu; Born Yesterday; Avenue X; Beehive: The 60's Musical; and Falsettos.

REGIONAL THEATRE: Hamlet, The Government Inspector, and The Robber Bridegroom - Guest Artist, Mary Moody Northen Theatre; Down the Drain and House of Several Stories with Imagine That; Jouét at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

ADDITIONAL CREDITS: M.A. in Theatre from Northwestern University. Meredith’s CD, The Joy in Your Heart, is available online through cdbaby.com/cd/meredithmccall.

JEFF JEFFERS (Senator Bobby Kennedy/ Seymore Trammel/John McCone/Charles Robb/ Ensemble) – ZACH: Debut. REGIONAL THEATRE: Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Beast) - The Playhouse San Antonio (2016). ADDITIONAL: Evita (Perón), Into the Woods (Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince), Les Misérables (Thenardier), Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Gaston), Oklahoma! (Ali Hakim), It’s a Wonderful Life Radio Play (Freddie Filmore), Come Blow Your Horn (Alan Baker).

FILM: Glassfire (2014). Jeff is also a former high school teacher, restaurant owner, and Fredericksburg city councilman, and holds degrees from Texas A&M University (B.S.) and Stephen F. Austin State University (M.A.).

CECIL WASHINGTON JR. (Martin Luther King) – ZACH: Debut. Cecil is from Birmingham, AL, and received his B.A. in Theatre Arts from Alabama State University along with a certificate in film and television from The New York school of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, NY. Cecil has performed in countless shows such as, 42nd Street as the first African American Julian Marsh, RENT as Bennie, The Color Purple as Mister (2x), Othello as Iago, King Triton in The Little Mermaid, Marius Pontmercy in Les Misérables, Delray Jones in Memphis the Musical ...to name a few. He recently played Sam Cooke in the world premiere of The Sam Cooke Story.

His upcoming role will be Curtis in Dreamgirls.

Cecil has also appeared on Law & Order, numerous independent films, autobiographies, promotional videos, and commercials. He'd like

DAVID R. JARROTT (J. Edgar Hoover/ Walter Cronkite/Clark Clifford/Ensemble) – ZACH: All The Way; Peter and the Starcatcher; Harvey; Ragtime; Hairspray; Dividing The Estate; Metamorphoses; Shear Madness; Side 40

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The Great Society Cast JAMES DAVIES (Gov. George Wallace/Richard Nixon/Sheriff Jim Clark/Mayor Richard Daley/ Norman Morrison/Ensemble) is thrilled to be spending the winter with the wonderful folks at the ZACH. NYC: James has acted Off-Broadway at 2econd Stage, Theatre for a New Audience and the New Ohio Theatre. He is a proud member of the Drilling CompaNY, having appeared in over twenty productions, most recently as Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare in the Park-ing Lot) and Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in Bryant Park). REGIONAL THEATRE: James has acted with Arena Stage, Folger Theatre, and Axial Theatre among others. FILM: James portrayed the lead role of the landlord in Collection Day, winner of the 2015 Best Short film at the Williamsburg Film Festival. He is a lifetime member of the Actor's Studio and an alumnus of the Catholic University of America.

For complete Theatre, Film, and TV credits, see website: JamesDaviesNYC.com.

Man (Austin Critics’ Table Nomination, Best Supporting Actor); Master Class. REGIONAL THEATRE: It’s A Wonderful Life at Penfold Theatre; Freud’s Last Session (B. Iden Payne Nomination, Best Actor) and The Price at Jarrott Productions; The Beautiful People (B. Iden Payne Nomination, Best Supporting Actor) at UT Department of Theatre and Dance; and many other productions at Austin Musical Theatre, Austin Shakespeare, The Public Domain Theatre and The State Theatre Company. Last summer, David served as a staging consultant for one of the plays in the Chelsea Rep LAB’s annual Festival of Short Plays in New York City. He has appeared in several short films and voiced national radio and TV commercials. After a four decade career as a #1 rated radio personality, David was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in 2011. Soon to be in Jarrott Productions’ regional premiere of the new British play The Herd. www.jarrottproductions.com SHELBY DAVENPORT (Humphrey/Ensemble) – ZACH: Debut. REGIONAL THEATRE: Resident Ensemble Players (The REP): Juno and the Paycock. Utah Shakespeare Festival: Othello, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, The Importance of Being Earnest. In Dallas, Undermain Theatre: The Appeal, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and at Theatre Three, Vieux Carre. The North Carolina Theatre: Shenandoah, Big River, The Diary of Ann Frank (National Tour). Burning Coal Theatre: Pentecost, Three Days of Rain.

The Raleigh Ensemble: Jeffrey, True West, Durang/Durang. Locally, Shelby has worked with Austin Shakespeare: Man and Superman (Tanner), Arcadia, Measure for Measure; The State Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, A Christmas Carol; and as an Equity Guest Artist at St. Edward’s Mary Moody Northern Theatre: Death and the King’s Horseman and The Way of the World. TELEVISION: American Crime, Prison Break, In An Instant, Up to Speed.

FILM: A Country Called Home. Shelby earned his B.F.A. in Theatre/Acting from the University of Texas and his M.F.A. in Classical Acting from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program.

MICHAEL MILLER (Senator Everett Dirksen/ Deke DeLoach/AMA President Appel/Col. Al Lingo/Stanley Levison/General Wheeler/ Ensemble) – ZACH: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Bob); One Man, Two Guvnors (Gareth/ Ensemble); All The Way (Hubert Humphrey); The King and I (Capt. Orton/Sir Edward); Closer (Dan); The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Peachy); Pride’s Crossing (Frazier / Pinky). REGIONAL: Disgraced (Isaac) at Austin Playhouse. Present Laughter (Morris); A Streetcar Named Desire (Mitch); Othello (Iago); Meda (Creon); Cyrano de Bergerac (de Guiche); As You Like It (Jaques); The Winter’s Tale (Leontes); Design for Living (Otto); and Pride and Prejudice (Darcy) at Austin Shakespeare.

Glassheart (The Beast) for Shrewd Productions.

The Miracle Worker (Captain Keller) at City Theatre. Galileo (Cardinal Barberini/Sagredo) at Mary Moody Northen Theatre. Requiem for Tesla (Tesla) for Rude Mechanicals. Training: B.F.A. in Theatre from Texas State University and an M.F.A. in Acting from UT Austin.

VINCENT J. HOOPER (Stokely Carmichael/ Hosea Williams/Marquette Frye/Ensemble) – ZACH: Ragtime, Les Misérables, Gospel at Colonus, and A Christmas Carol. REGIONAL THEATRE: Hairspray (Zilker Theatre Productions); Passing Strange, Chicago (Half 41

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The Great Masthead Society Cast GARRY PETERS (Gen. Westmoreland/Gardner Ackley/Ensemble) – ZACH: All The Way. REGIONAL THEATRE: Waiting for Lefty, The North Plan, and Men of Tortuga at Street Corner Arts; A Man for All Seasons, Of Mice and Men, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at City Theatre; Fahrenheit 451, John Gabriel Borkman, An Inspector Calls, and Molly Sweeney at Different Stages; A Soldiers Tale at Round Top Festival; As You Like It at Hidden Room Theatre. FILM: Boyhood, The Life of David Gale, Mars, Kings of the Evening, and The Wendell Baker Story. TV: The Leftovers.

ADDITIONAL CREDITS: Acting Intensive at Atlantic Theatre (NYC).

and Half Productions); Footloose, Rock of Ages (Boebe Productions). TELEVISION: Shots Fired (FOX), American Crime (ABC). OTHER THEATRE: Pippin, Bremen Town Musicians, Chicago, Footloose, Stone Soup (SummerStock Austin); Boys Next Door, Broke-ology (Texas State University). CONCERTS: Parade (Ground Floor Theatre); Deep In The Heart of ZACH with Brian Stokes Mitchell (ZACH Theatre).

AWARDS: 2015 B. Iden Payne Outstanding Featured Actor Award (Musical), 2013 B. Iden Payne Outstanding Young Performer Award.

INSTAGRAM: @VinnyHoops "Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom." - Stokely Carmichael - #BlackLivesMatter

RICHARD ROMEO (Ralph Abernathy/Rep. Adam Clayton Powell/John Lewis/Ensemble) – ZACH: All The Way. REGIONAL THEATRE: Romeo and Juliet at Austin Shakespeare, The Ballad of Emmitt Til at the Ensemble Theater, and Death and the King’s Horseman at Mary Moody Northen Theater. FILM: The Retrieval.

TELEVISION: The Leftovers, Guerrilla, The Lying Game, The Cool Factor and Cuts. OTHER THEATRE: The Whipping Man at City Theater, In the Blood with Back Porch Players, and Servant of Two Masters at Texas State University.

ADDITIONAL CREDITS: B.F.A and B.A. from Texas State University, Associates from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

ZELL MILLER, III (Bob Moses/James Bevel/ Rev. Dobynes/Ensemble) – ZACH: Debut. Zell is an theater artist based out of Austin, TX. He is a company member with Hyde Park Theater.

Miller is a writer/director/lead performer in the Austin Critics Table nominated Hands up Hoodies Down. He was the director of the awardwinning Hunger. He is the founder and artistic director of ZM3 Productions. He is a published playwright with Theater Communications Group for his autobiographical award-winning one man show The Evidence of Silence Broken.

He has a trilogy of shows inspired by his two children Zell IV, 17 years old and Blaise Marley, 9 years old. The critically acclaimed one-man performances My child, my child, my alien child and Oh sh@%t....it’s a girl and his latest Oh snap, my alien children are trying to kill me have had great success. He was featured in Tapestry Dance’s company America Dream and have plans to tour the show. Miller wants to thank his amazing partner Ashley, and his two children Zell IV and Blaise Marley. This performance is dedicated to the memory of Laurie Carlos.

MICHELLE ALEXANDER (Sally Childress/ Coretta Scott King/Ensemble) – ZACH: Mary Poppins (Miss. Corey/Mrs. Andrew); All The Way (Coretta Scott King/Fannie Lou Hamer/ Ensemble); The Gospel at Colonus (Singer Antigone); In the Next room, or the Vibrator play (Elizabeth); Xanadu (Melpomene/Medusa).

REGIONAL THEATRE: Clybourne Park (Francine/ Lena) with Penfold Theatre Company, Little Shop Of Horrors (Magenta) and Silence! The Musical (Ardelia) with Doctuh Mistuh Productions; Sing, Muse! With The Vortex Repertory Theatre; Avenue Q (Gary Coleman) with Austin Theatre Project; Austin is a Place(You Are Here) (Business Owner) with Theatre En Bloc, A Raisin in the Sun (Lena), Hair (Dionne), Spring of Love (Lucetta), and The Crucible (Tituba) with The City Theatre; Hairspray (Motormouth Maybelle), All Shook Up! (Sylvia), Seussical the Musical (Sour Kangaroo), with Idaho Repertory Theatre; One Hour 2 Live (Tisha Franklin) DAWN

MILES CHICK (Adam Walinsky/Robert McNamara/Rep. Wilbur Mills/Ensemble) – ZACH: All The Way. REGIONAL THEATRE: Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa, Dallas Theater Center.

TELEVISION: Fox Kids Club. OTHER THEATRE: Speed The Plow, True West, Annie, The Kentucky Cycle, and Hamlet. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: B.A. from Austin College; M.A. from Texas Tech University.

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The Great Society Cast Sheep); Mary Poppins (Mrs. Brill); One Man, Two Guvnors (Dolly); All The Way (Lurleen Wallace/ Muriel Humphrey), James & the Giant Peach* (Spiker) OTHER THEATRE: Hamlet (Gertrude), Present Company Theatre; A Streetcar Named Desire* (Stella), Cyrano de Bergerac (Roxane), Austin Shakespeare; Changelings (Luck Angel), The Vortex. NY AND REGIONAL THEATRE: All The Way from Magnolia Springs (Daisy Fay Harper) , Springer Opera House; Damn Yankees (Lola), Red Mountain Theatre Co.; Night of the Living Deepwater Horizon (Linda), ARSNova ANTFest; A Piece of My Heart (Mary Jo), The Living Theatre; Honey in the Rock, Hatfields and McCoys, The Wizard of OZ, Oklahoma!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music, Songs for a New World - Theatre West Virginia; First Lady Suite (Jackie Kennedy/ Lorena Hickock); ADDITIONAL CREDITS: Reconstruction - 2012 Artist in Residence at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center (*B. Iden Payne Award Winner)

Studios Brooklyn, New York; 13 Fat Girls and a Dead Cat (Randi) The Production Team New York. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: Industrials: background vocals for ICF International+Olson with Production For Studios; The Member of the Wedding (Berenice) with ACU Theatre, 2011-2012 B. Iden Awards for Outstanding Ensemble Performance (Xanadu), Outstanding Production (Avenue Q), 2012-2013 Outstanding Original Score and Cast Performance (Sing, Muse!) B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Abilene Christian University. Theatre Arts Director at Brentwood Christian School.

NASH FERGUSON (Jimmie Lee Jackson/ Ensemble) – ZACH: Debut. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: Has received training for B.F.A. in Theatre Performance at Baylor University.

Agency: BLVDtalent AMBER QUICK (Sheriff's Auxiliary/Muriel Humphrey/Lynda Bird Johnson/Pat Nixon/ Ensemble) – ZACH: Charlotte's Web (Narrator/

Save the Date–It's Guaranteed to be a Legendary Evening!

Saturday, May 6, 2017 Honoring Carolyn and Marc Seriff The most stylish and fun party of the season–there’ll be a whole lotta’ shakin’ goin’ on at this year's rock 'n' roll soiree! Proceeds from Red, Hot & Soul benefit ZACH Theatre's education programs.

Visit zachtheatre.org/rhs for information.

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Season Sponsors

Season Underwriter

Summer Camp Presenting Sponsor

Season and Presenting Sponsors

Official Healthcare Sponsor of ZACH Theatre

Leading and Supporting Production and Community Education Sponsors

Bonnie Cummins Fielder Fund

Topfer Family Foundation

The Brown Lupton Foundation

Sybil B. Harrington Endowment for the Arts

The Burdine Johnson Foundation

Lola Wright Foundation

Eric Copper

Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation Shield-Ayres Foundation

In Kind Support

Additional Funding

Media Sponsors

A Project of The Junior League of Austin

This project is supported in part by The Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

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Celebrate the music of Billie Holiday

“An experience you will never forget.”

– New York Observer

“Stunning.”

– The Huffington Post

Chanel. Photo: Charles Quinn.

APRIL 5-30, 2017 • TOPFER STAGE A musical play by Lanie Robertson

STARRING CHANEL

Directed by Michael Rader Musical Direction by Allen Robertson Pull up a chair, order a delicious cocktail, and turn back the hands of time in our swanky nightclub for an intimate evening with legendary jazz songstress Billie Holiday. “God Bless The Child,”“Strange Fruit,” “Don’t Explain,” and “My Man” are among the unforgettable hits you will savor from the lady who sings the blues. She’s got a life to sing.

Dan Jackson III and M. Jeremy Guiberteau Mary and Rusty Tally Supporting Sponsors

Producers

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The Artistic Staff

Dave Steakley

Cliff Simon

Michelle Habeck**

K. Eliot Haynes

Michael McDonald**

Serret Jensen

Craig Brock

Steve Baglio

Allen Robertson

Amanda Cooley Davis

Russell M. Demlin

Catherine Anne Tucker*

Bryan Bradford*

Megan Barrett*

Megan Smith

UNITED SCENIC ARTISTS LOCAL 829

A national theatrical labor union and professional association of Designers, Artists and Craftspeople.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ** Member of IATSE 829. ***Stage Directors and Choreographers Society

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About the Artistic Staff ROBERT SCHENKKAN (Author) received a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.F.A. from Cornell University. He has worked as an actor/writer on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in film, television, and at regional theatres across the country. Portions of The Kentucky Cycle were developed at the Mark Taper Forum’s ’88 and ’89 New Works Festivals, New Dramatists, the Ensemble Studio Theatre (New York and Los Angeles), the Long Wharf Theatre, and Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. The complete Cycle was awarded the largest grant ever given by The Fund for New American Plays and premiered in 1991 at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle. Robert's play Heaven on Earth won the 1989 Julie Harris/Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Award, participated in the 1989 Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, and premiered OffBroadway at the WPA Theatre. It is published

by Dramatists Play Service. Final Passages premiered at the Studio Arena Theatre under the direction of A.J. Antoon and was published both in TCG’s Plays in Process and by Dramatists Play Service. Tachinoki premiered at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Los Angeles and was designated a Critic’s Choice by the "L.A. Weekly." He is also the author of numerous oneacts. Prominent among them is The Survivalist, which premiered at ATL’s Humana Festival, went on to the EST Marathon in New York, Canada’s DuMaurier Festival and won the Best of the Fringe Award at the Edinburgh Festival.

Robert has written a film for Disney (Tall Tales) and a play (Magic) for the NBC series Plays for Television. He is a recipient of grants from the California Arts Council, New York State, the Vogelstein, and the Arthur foundations. Robert is a New Dramatists alumnus and a member of both the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Antaeus Project. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Mary Anne, and their daughter, Sarah.

at ZACH (winner of B. Iden Payne Award for Present Laughter) as well as for Riverside and Maltz-Jupiter Theatres in Florida, Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Oguinquit Playhouse in Maine, Alaska Center for Performing Arts in Anchorage and La Mirada in Los Angeles. He also designs edibly painted cakes (cliffcakes. com) and teaches young and upcoming designers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

MICHELLE HABECK (Lighting Designer) – ZACH: Mary Poppins; One Man, Two Guvnors; Sophisticated Ladies; The Gospel at Colonus; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; Mad Beat Hip & Gone; 33 Variations; Xanadu; and Dividing the Estate. BROADWAY: Slide Artist, Thoroughly Modern Millie; Associate Lighting Designer, The Boy from Oz, King Hedley II, and Movin’ Out. OPERA: Un Ballo In Maschera and The Elixir of Love for Austin Opera; Associate Lighting Designer, Julie Taymor’s Grendel. REGIONAL and OFF BROADWAY: Her freelance career as a lighting designer has been seen at many of the nation’s leading regional theatres including Lucillle Lortel Theatre, The Steppenwolf, The Goodman, The Alliance Theatre Company, Centerstage Baltimore, Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, and many others. Michelle is faculty at The University of Texas at Austin.

K. ELIOT HAYNES (Projection Designer) is an award-winning designer from Austin. ZACH: Buyer & Cellar, The Santaland Diaries, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, RENT, August: Osage County, and Doubt. Other design credits include The Head, Riddley Walker, and The Crapstall Street Boys for Trouble Puppet Theater; The Importance of Being Earnest, Blood Wedding, Tartuffe, and Hamlet for Mary Moody Northen Theatre; The Orchid Flotilla and Once There Were Six Seasons for Glass Half Full Theater; Switch Shift Go, Flush, and Everything Between for Ariel Dance Theater.

Part of the ZACH family for years, Eliot is the Assistant Technical Director of The Mary Moody Northern Theatre at St. Edward’s University and a technical consultant for Fusebox Festival.

CLIFF SIMON (Scenic Designer) – ZACH: All The Way. Cliff designed original Off-Broadway production of Fame (pre-Broadway run) at the Truck and Warehouse Theatre; sets for Playwrights Horizons and T. Schreiber Studios.

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About the Artistic Staff MICHAEL MCDONALD (Costume Designer) – ZACH: All The Way, Peter and the Starcatcher, Crowns, Dirty Blonde, Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, Omnium-Gatherum, Take Me Out, and Hank Williams: Lost Highway. BROADWAY and WEST END: Hair (Tony Award, Drama Desk and Hewes Award nominations, Diane Paulus, Director). OFF-BROADWAY: The Public: Hair at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Jericho at 59E59 Theater, Almost Home for The Directors Company, The Irish Curse at Soho Rep, A Perfect Future at the Cherry Lane, Amahl and the Night Visitors at Lincoln Center. REGIONAL: God of Carnage at George Street Playhouse, Take Me Out at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (Kevin Kline nomination), Oklahoma! at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, The Foreigner at Maltz Jupiter, and Johnny Baseball at A.R.T. (IRNE Nomination).

Project: Ten Years Later; Next to Normal; RENT; Metamorphoses; The Drowsy Chaperone; Becky’s New Car; Our Town; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Love, Janis; The Grapes of Wrath; Let Me Down Easy; Shooting Star; Caroline, or Change; and Porgy and Bess.

STEVE BAGLIO (Properties Designer) began as a properties assistant with Feld Entertainment's Disney on Ice and has enjoyed employment on union and non-union crews across the globe with International Broadway and arena tours including Dragone Entertainment Group, The House of Dancing Water in Macau, China, and Big League Productions’ My Fair Lady. Steve also worked as a technical assistant for The Theatre School at DePaul University and as the assistant production manager at the Walmart Amphitheater. Steve moved to Austin this past fall, and is thrilled to be a properties designer for The Great Society. He thanks the love of his life, Melissa Baglio for her support and encouragement.

SERRET JENSEN (Hair and Makeup Designer) – ZACH: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Mary Poppins; One Man, Two Guvnors; Mothers and Sons; Peter and the Starcatcher; A Christmas Carol; The King and I; The Who’s Tommy; The Gospel at Colonus; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; A Christmas Story; Les Misérables; Mad Beat Hip & Gone; 33 Variations; Spring Awakening; Love, Janis. Originally from Houston, she has been the resident designer for The Alley Theatre, Divergence Vocal Theatre, body suspension group C.o.R.E., and other performance art groups and children’s theatres. She has worked on productions with Houston Grand Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Houston Ballet, Theater Under the Stars, and the Society of Performing Arts, and several national tours.

ALLEN ROBERTSON (Musical Director) is a two-time Emmy Award®-winning music director, composer, writer, actor, and director.

He has worked on hundreds of productions nationally and internationally, including 24 years of shows at ZACH. Off Broadway: Radio City Music Hall; The Flaming Idiots. Allen has recorded for Disney Records, and many TV and radio commercials. He is a writer/composer of 12 musicals, 60 TV episodes, 2 film scores, and a ballet. He has been recognized by the Texas Legislature, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, The Texas Music Educators Association, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the National Association of Parenting Publications for his contributions to the arts.

CRAIG BROCK (Sound Designer) is ZACH’s Resident Sound Designer, and has worked as a recording engineer and music producer since 1989. ZACH: Mary Poppins; Priscilla, Queenof the Desert; One Man, Two Guvnors; Sophisticated Ladies; Mothers and Sons; All The Way; Peter and the Starcatcher; A Christmas Carol; The King and I; The Who’s Tommy; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; The Gospel at Colonus; A Christmas Story; Les Misérables; Sandra Bernhard in Concert; 33 Variations; One Night with Janis Joplin; Megan Hilty in Concert; Harvey; Tru; Ragtime; Mad Beat Hip & Gone; White Christmas; Xanadu; The Laramie Project; The Laramie

AMANDA COOLEY DAVIS (Dialect Coach) – ZACH: One Man, Two Guvnors; Mary Poppins; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. ELSEWHERE: Freud's Last Session; The Price; The Herd at Jarrott Productions; The Importance of Being Earnest at City Theatre; Expecting Isabel at Moxie Theatre; Crimes of the Heart at Scripps Ranch Theatre.

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About the Artistic Staff MEGAN BARRETT (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be working on The Great Society.

Select stage management credits include: ZACH: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Mary Poppins; Tribes; A Christmas Carol; Evita; All The Way; A Year With Frog and Toad; The Who’s TOMMY; In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play; Gospel at Colonus. OTHER THEATRE: The Invention of Love and Macbeth at Austin Shakespeare; Blood Brothers and The Merry Wives of Windsor at Texas Shakespeare Festival; Into the Woods and The Fantasticks at Western Playhouse. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: Megan holds an M.F.A. in Stage Management from The California Institute of the Arts and a B.S. in Theatre from Lamar University. Megan is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

with The Old Globe, Playwrights Project, North Coast Repertory, SDSU, Borough of Manhattan Community College. M.F.A. in Acting from Brooklyn College; M.A. in Theatre Arts from San Diego State University. Amanda was recently nominated for a BroadwayWorld Austin Award for her performance in Arthur Miller's The Price with Jarrott Productions.

RUSSELL M. DEMBIN (Dramaturg) – ZACH: All The Way and The Gospel at Colonus. NEW YORK CITY: Underground, GBS, and Flashback. OTHER THEATRE: Hands on a Hardbody, Spamalot, Cabaret, The Producers, and Annie Get Your Gun at Albany, N.Y.'s Park Playhouse; supervising dramaturg, The Producers, at SUNY New Paltz.

ADDITIONAL CREDITS: managing editor, American Theatre; administrator, American Theatre Archive Project; graduate assistant, Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism.

MEGAN SMITH (Assistant Stage Manager) – ZACH: Stage Management for Charlotte's Web, Buyer & Cellar, Alice in Wonderland, Tribes, Winnie the Pooh, Cenicienta, A Christmas Carol, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Cat in the Hat, Sciencetricks, A Christmas Story, and HCA's The Little Mermaid. REGIONAL THEATRE: Guys and Dolls at TexARTS, The Taming of the Shrew and The Invention of Love at Austin Shakespeare, Plaza Suite and To Kill a Mockingbird at Judson Theatre Company in Pinehurst, NC, and numberous productions at The Theater Barn in New Lebanon, NY, and Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, CT. Hailing from Lenexa, KS, Megan hold a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre from the University of Kansas.

CATHERINE ANNE TUCKER (Stage Manager) – ZACH: Stage Management for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Mary Poppins; ANN; Tribes; Evita; Sophisticated Ladies; All The Way; Peter and the Starcatcher; A Christmas Carol (2016, 2015, 2014); The Gospel at Colonus; Les Misérables; One Night with Janis Joplin; Mad Beat Hip & Gone; White Christmas; Next to Normal; and Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins as well as many special events. OFF-BROADWAY: Lapsburgh Layover and Be a Good Little Widow with Ars Nova; I Never Sang For My Father with Keen Co.; and Sparkling Object with Canal Park Playhouse. REGIONAL THEATRE: Much Ado About Nothing at Austin Shakespeare Festival and Cyrano de Bergerac at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. OTHER CREDITS: Production Assistant for The Daily Show with John Stewart, Special Events Manager for NAAP, Dusty Film Festival and Ars Nova Benefit.

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BRYAN BRADFORD (Stage Manager) – ZACH: Some stage managment credits include: Crowns; Take Me Out; 33 Variations and In the Next Room, or the vibrator play. As a stage manager, Bryan has worked on Broadway on Newsies, Rock of Ages, Kinky Boots, and Pippin.

He would like to thank Dave Steakley and his ZACH family for this opportunity.

Live, pre-show entertainment ❘ Drink specials ❘ Snacks The lobby bar offers a range of beverages, sweets, and gourmet hors d’oeuvres. The bar is open 90 minutes before, and one hour after showtime.

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HAcreator From M of Broathe ILT dwa ON y’s

Celebrate Life and Love

“A big, pulsing power surge of a show, igniting a new energy source for musical theater.”

– Newsday

MAY 31 - JULY 2, 2017 • TOPFER STAGE Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda Book by Quiara Alegría Hudes Conceived By Lin-Manuel Miranda Directed by Michael Balderrama Musical Direction by Allen Robertson

This groundbreaking, vibrant musical won the Tony Award for Best Musical for Lin-Manuel Miranda and his dynamic creative team behind Broadway’s most talked about breakout hit Hamilton. Set in NYC’s Washington Heights, this “Upper West Side Story” dazzles with sizzling song and dance, as the hopes, romances, and dreams of a community ignite over the July 4th weekend. Joyous, infectious, and moving!

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2016-2017 Mainstage Season

May 31-July 2, 2017 January 25-March 5, 2017

Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda Book by Quiara Alegría Hudes Conceived By Lin-Manuel Miranda Directed and Choreogrpahed by Michael Balderrama Musical Direction by Allen Robertson

This is the second of Robert Schenkkan’s LBJ plays exploring Texas’ own political mastermind and his memorable years in the White House. Despite division over the Vietnam War and ongoing civil rights issues, Johnson championed the most ambitious legislative work – an end to poverty and racial injustice, education for all schoolchildren, healthcare for seniors, and voting rights – in his vision of a Great Society. In this political thrill ride, The Great Society examines who we are, asks how we got here, and dreams of how great we could yet become.

This groundbreaking, vibrant musical won the Tony Award for Best Musical for LinManuel Miranda and his dynamic creative team behind Broadway’s most talked about breakout hit Hamilton. Set in NYC’s Washington Heights, this “Upper West Side Story” dazzles with sizzling song and dance, as the hopes, romances, and dreams of a community ignite over the July 4th weekend. Joyous, infectious, and moving!

Texas Premiere Written by Robert Schenkkan Directed by Dave Steakley Starring Steve Vinovich

July 26-September 3, 2017

Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux Original Concept and Direction by Floyd Mutrux Inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins Directed by Dave Steakley Musical Direction by Allen Robertson

April 5-30, 2017

A musical play by Lanie Robertson Starring Chanel Haynes-Schwartz Directed by Michael Rader Musical Direction by Allen Robertson

They came together to make music. And together they made history. Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins join forces for one night only on December 4, 1956 at Sun Records Studio in Memphis for the greatest jam-session ever. Relive this legendary night as you rock along to such classics as “Blue Suede Shoes,”“Folsom Prison Blues,” and “Great Balls of Fire.” There will surely be a “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” in the Topfer Theatre for this epic night of music from rock n’ roll’s greatest icons.

Pull up a chair, order a delicious cocktail, and turn back the hands of time in our swanky nightclub for an intimate evening with legendary jazz songstress Billie Holiday. “God Bless The Child,”“Strange Fruit,”“Don’t Explain,” and “My Man” are among the unforgettable hits you will savor from the lady who sings the blues. She’s got a life to sing.

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2016-2017 Theatre for Families Season

April 14-May 7, 2017 Written by José Casas

February 17- April 30, 2017

Directed by Nat Miller Starring Diego Rodriguez

Book lyrics by Mo Willems Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma Directed and Choreographed by Abe Reybold

Mario is a hard working auto mechanic in east LA who is left to raise his son, JJ, after the passing of his mother. In order to honor her memory and cope with his lack of connection with his father, JJ begins to build an arcade out of leftover cardboard from his dad’s garage. It is through JJ’s imagination and ingenuity that he is able to connect to himself and his family. Inspired by the YouTube sensation, Caine’s Arcade, this bilingual play celebrates culture, imagination, perseverance, and family. jj’s arcade will be coproduced with Teatro Vivo and presented at the Mexican American Cultural Center.

When Gerald and Piggie get together, anything is possible. They might wear silly hats, get invited to a fancy pool costume party, or learn a crazy new dance. Based on the wildly popular, beloved book series, this lively musical features Gerald and Piggie and the delightful back-up singers, the Squirrelles, who together discover the fun of being in a play and the joy of friendship. Bring your “bestus” friend and share the laughter.

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ZACH Leadership DAVE STEAKLEY (Producing Artistic Director) is now in his 26th

Photo: Kirk Tuck.com

season, and is dedicated to creating a theatre of, by and for Austin – a place where our entire community gathers to share an intimate and extraordinary theatre experience. Led by Dave’s vision, the creation of the Topfer Theatre came to fruition, opening in October 2012 with the acclaimed musical Ragtime. Anna Deavere Smith says, “Dave is the future. The YES in his theater’s walls is as palpable as the walls themselves. That YES, I believe, will lead to something brand new, to connect with a broader, more global audience.”

With Dave as artistic leader, ZACH has produced multiple World Premieres by Anna Deavere Smith, Steven Dietz, Jaston Williams, Everett Quinton, John Walch, Allen Robertson and The Flaming Idiots. ZACH served as the Central Texas hub of the nationwide 365 Plays/365 Days Festival by Suzan-Lori Parks. Dave created the first bilingual adaptation of Webber and Rice’s musical Jesucristo Superstar, and set The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans with a jazz/R&B reinvention, which received national acclaim from The New York Times and about which Todd Gershwin says, “It was Dave’s creative production of Porgy and Bess that really opened my eyes to the need to finally allow a creative team to interpret the opera in a fresh manner, which led to the recent Broadway production.”

Dave has directed many ZACH productions, and some favorite experiences include: Mary Poppins, Tribes, Mothers and Sons, All the Way, A Christmas Carol: A Rockin’ New Musical, The Who’s Tommy; The Gospel at Colonus; Harvey; 33 Variations; Ragtime; Next to Normal; Hairspray; August: Osage County; RENT; Metamorphoses; Our Town; Caroline, or Change; The Clean House; Take Me Out; I Am My Own Wife; Urinetown; Crowns; OmniumGatherum; Hedwig; Jelly’s Last Jam; The America Play; Dreamgirls; Angels in America and the first professional repertory production of The Laramie Project, and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later.

His regional directing credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, New Stage Theatre, American Heartland Theatre, WaterTower Theatre, and Pittsburgh’s City Theatre. He is the playwright of ZACH’s A Christmas Carol, Rockin’ Christmas Party, and Keepin’ It Weird, featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and American Theatre. Dave serves as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.

City of Austin Mayors Kirk Watson and Lee Leffingwell declared, respectively, May 18, 2001 and October 22, 2011 as “Dave Steakley Day” on the occasion of his 10th and 20th ZACH Anniversaries. He is the recipient of the 2015 First Tee of Greater Austin Courtesy Award, the 2013 Human Rights Campaign Austin Visibility Award, 2010 Kick Ass Award, 2005 Austin Circle of Theaters’ “Outstanding Contribution to Austin Theatre” Award, seven Austin Chronicle “Best of Austin Best Stage Director” awards, the 2000 Austin Under 40 Outstanding Arts and Entertainment Award, and multiple Austin Critics’ Table and B. Iden Payne Awards for “Outstanding Director/Choreographer.” In 2009, he was crowned Austin Dancing with the Stars Champion, and he has a cameo in Richard Linklater’s 2012 film Bernie with Jack Black.

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ZACH Leadership

Photo: Kirk Tuck.com

ELISBETH CHALLENER (Managing Director) joined ZACH Theatre as Managing Director in June of 2007, with responsibility for strategic planning, management, finances, marketing, and fundraising for the organization. Under Elisbeth’s leadership, ZACH successfully designed, built and opened the new Topfer Theatre, which has won significant awards and widespread acclaim completing the largest capital campaign in ZACH’s history. In August 2014, ZACH celebrated the successful conclusion of the $23.5M campaign! Other accomplishments during her nine years at ZACH include creating a new multi-year strategic plan that will move the organization into the next phase of its significant expansion, increasing revenue from single ticket sales by 79 percent and increasing revenue from season ticket sales by 139 percent. At a time when many arts organizations in Austin and around the nation have been struggling, ZACH has grown its operating budget from $3 million to $9 million dollars and has operated “in the black” throughout Elisbeth’s tenure.

Elisbeth has led her team in developing innovative new offerings on ZACH’s expanded campus including full-service bars and nightly pre-show entertainment; an exclusive skyline lounge in the Topfer Theatre for donors; and making the theatre available as a red-carpet venue for SXSW, The Daily Show, as well as other major community events. Two years ago, ZACH proudly launched The Dave Steakley Dream Fund designed to enhance the artistic vision of ZACH’s Producing Artistic Director and to maintain production quality and the facility needs of ZACH’s Topfer Theatre and campus.

Before moving to Austin, Elisbeth was Executive Director of Montalvo Arts Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. She led Montalvo’s growth from a small, community-based organization into a major presenting venue and home to an internationally acclaimed artists’ residency program. During nearly two decades at Montalvo, her other accomplishments included increasing ticket sales from less than $500,000 to more than $4 million, expanding the patron base from 6,000 to 80,000 and raising more than $20 million for capital projects.

Earlier in her career, Elisbeth served as Administrative Director for the San Francisco Boys Chorus, Education/Outreach Director of the Fairmount Theatre of the Deaf and as department chair and faculty member of the performing arts department of The Purnell School in New Jersey.

Elisbeth graduated from the Boston Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts in Drama and Musical Theatre. She attended the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program, The Center for Excellence in Nonprofit Management Leaders Institute in San Jose, California and served in leadership roles for the American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley, Saratoga Rotary Club and the Arts Council of Silicon Valley.

Elisbeth currently serves on the Board of Directors and is Development Committee Chair and President Elect of the National Alliance of Musical Theatre in New York, and has served on NAMT’s Festival of New Musicals Committee and Executive Committee. She has been a panelist for The Houston Arts Alliance, City of Austin, National Alliance of Musical Theatre, National Fund for New Musicals, and Theatre Communications Group. Elisbeth has always had a passion for the theatre and performed for many years in summer stock, dinner theatre and semi-professional productions on the East Coast and in California.

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Masthead ZACH Staff Artistic and Production Staff

Producing Artistic Director..................................................................................................................................... Dave Steakley Associate Artistic Director .........................................................................................................................................Abe Reybold Director of Production .......................................................................................................................................................Paul Flint Assistant Production Manager ............................................................................................................................Lesley Fairman Production Coordinator .......................................................................................................................................T. Scott Wooten Company Manager.....................................................................................................................................................Austin Collins Technical Director ...................................................................................................................................................... Michael Essad Scene Shop Foreman....................................................................................................................................................Tom Lucenti Lighting and Stage Operations Supervisor .....................................................................................................Melissa Baglio Master Electrician....................................................................................................................................................... Nick Swanson Stage Crew Chief ...........................................................................................................................................................Taylor Novak Audio Supervisor .............................................................................................................................................................Craig Brock Properties Master ...........................................................................................................................................................Steve Baglio Scenic Charge .................................................................................................................................................................. J. Aaron Bell Costume Shop Manager ................................................................................................................................................ Blair Hurry Assistant Costume Shop Manager ............................................................................................................... Brandy Lee Harris Wardrobe Supervisor...............................................................................................................................Christina Montgomery Draper.............................................................................................................................................................................. Wayne Fowks

General Management

Managing Director ............................................................................................................................................Elisbeth Challener Executive Coordinator..............................................................................................................................................Renelle Bedell Director of Finance .......................................................................................................................................................Linda Wilson Accounting and Budget Specialist ............................................................................................................Lakeisha Van Buren Accounting and Budget Specialist ...............................................................................................................................Jeff Taylor Accounting and Human Resources Assistant ........................................................................................................ Christi Zay Information Systems & Tessitura Manager .................................................................................................Allen Greathouse Director of Human Resources ..........................................................................................................................................Jen Nieri Human Resources Project Coordinator ............................................................................................................Melissa Hoang

Development Staff

Chief Development Officer ....................................................................................................................................Charlie Frasier Associate Director of Development..............................................................................................Kimberly Theodore Sidey Special Events Manager .....................................................................................................................................Cathleen Berdan Individual Giving Manager................................................................................................................................ Brittney Woolley Development Assistant .............................................................................................................................................Liana Putrino Grant Writer .........................................................................................................................................................................Amy Nunn

Education Staff

Director of Education ........................................................................................................................................................Nat Miller Associate Director of Education ...................................................................................................................................Chad Dike Pre-Professional Manager................................................................................................................Jennifer Young Mahlstedt Education Associate............................................................................................................................................Kate Shaw-Nappi Education Assistant ..................................................................................................................................................... Shannon Fox

Marketing and Sales Staff

Chief Marketing and Community Engagement Officer .......................................................................Rachel Applegate Senior Marketing Manager ...................................................................................................................................... Rick Sanchez Art Director......................................................................................................................................................................... Rona Ebert Public Relations Manager .........................................................................................................................................Lauren Lovell Digital Media and Marketing Communications Specialist..............................................................Michael Ferstenfeld Senior Ticketing Services Manager ..........................................................................................................................Greg Garcia Assistant Box Office Manager ........................................................................................................................................Ali Jaynes Lead Box Office Associate ................................................................................................................................................Kim Stacy Group Sales Associate ................................................................................................................................................ Alyson Mintz Box Office Associates.................................................................................. Tony Douglas, Daniel Lonzo, Sascha Streckel, Lauren Charters, Camara McClellan Priority Seating Manager ................................................................................................................................ Bette O’Callaghan Priority Seating Representatives ............................................................. Alyson Mintz, Josie Pardo, Leigh Anne Smith

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ZACH Staff Patron Services Staff

Director of Facility Operations and Patron Services ................................................................................. Amanda Adams Patron Services Manager ............................................................................................................................................. Kyle Sigrest Lead Events Manager ........................................................................................................................................ Keri-Dawn Solner Production Events Manager ....................................................................................................................... Raymond Gutierrez Bar Manager...................................................................................................................................................................... Chris Smith Assistant Bar Manager ........................................................................................................................................Paloma Mayorga House Managers .............................................................................................Dee Castillo, Kendra Dobson, Kathy Garrett, Terri Housworth, Ernestina Martinez, Janie Paez Bartenders ................................................................................... Will Phillips, Ben Grimm, Nate Bortmas, Jessica Hovind, Hannah Hagar, Iggy Mwela, Matt LeMond, James Taylor

Facilites Staff

Facility Manager .............................................................................................................................................................. Jay Holland Assistant Facilities Manager ..................................................................................................................................Andrew Clarke Facility Maintenance Lead ......................................................................................................................................... Leon Presley Facilities Crew ..................................................................................................................................................................Justin Taylor

The Great Society Production Crew Costumes

Stitchers ..........................................................................Emily Eoff, Alana Anthony, Avery Renyolds, Brandy Lee Harris, Laura Luna, Jennifer Ball, Cristal Martinez, Laura Luna, PJ Kelly, Sabrina Loyless, Ruby Luna Rojas, Joshua Brown, Jessica Boettger, Joseph Harrington III Draper............................................................................................................................................. Wayne Fowks, Shannon Healy Lead Dresser........................................................................................................................................................................... Sally Hall Wig Assistant/Wardrobe Crew .....................................................................................................................................Jillian Tully Wardrobe Crew ..........................................................Ruby Luna Rojas, Joshua Brown, Jordan Visage, Jaimee Garner, Sabrina Loyless

Scenic

Carpenters ...............................Wesley Falk, Dennis J. Riley, Christopher Dominguez, Zach Miranda, Justin Smith Scenic Artists .................................................................................................................................................................Roger Mason

Properties

Properties Artisan ......................................................................................................................Marshall Tosko, Megan Barrett Properties Painters .................................................................................................................Kelsey Kilcrease, Jonathan Biehl

Audio

Lead Audio Engineer ...............................................................................................................................................Peter Martinez Audio Operator ...............................................................................................................................................................Alex Cottam

Lighting and Video

Master Electrician....................................................................................................................................................... Nick Swanson Lighting Board Operator .............................................................................................................................................Alison Lewis Followspot Operator................................................................................................................................................Jackie Sindelar Lighting Overhire ..........................................................................................................Chris Conard, Jenn Crump, Luke Null

Stage Operations

Stage Crew Chief & Automation Operator ..........................................................................................................Taylor Novak Flame Effects and Special Effects Operator .........................................................................Megan Barrett, Taylor Novak Flyman.............................................................................................................................................................................Zach Miranda Deck Crew ......................................................................................................................................................................Michael Davis Props Crew....................................................................................................................................................................... Dezi Townes Deck Crew Sub ........................................................................................................................................................ James Redondo Stage Ops Overhire ............................................ Corey Green, Ian Berry, Zach Miranda, Colleen Doyle, Audie Odat, Paul Davis, James Redondo, Justin Taylor, Ra'Shawn Bump, Dezi Townes, Scruffy

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ZACH Theatre Board of Trustees Executive Committee

Trustees

Brian McCall, President Texas State University System

Sergio Alcocer, Trustee Janet K. Baxter, Janet K. Baxter Oil & Gas Larry Connelly, Trustee Eric Copper, Austin Portfolio Real Estate Candice Hunter Corby, Cobra Legal Solutions, LLC Aaron Day, Texas Land Title Association Revolution Spirits Distilling Company Jay Fox, Baylor Scott & White Health Donn Gauger, Falcon Insurance Agency Inc. Rebecca Glenn Gindele, Reilly Realtors Gary Goldstein MD, Helpen Consulting LLC Deborah Green, Trustee Cindy Greenwood, Cindy Greenwood Residential Wendy Harvey, The Arbor Nestor Ho, Silicon Labs Kathy Hutto, Jackson Walker L.L.P Dan Jackson, Trustee Carmen Luevanos, Texas Gas Service Bruce McCann, The University of Texas Carla McDonald, Trustee Jon McElhaney , Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC. Deborah O’Connell MD, Trustee Mike O’Krent, LifeStories Alive, LLC Harriet O’Neill, Law Office of Harriet O'Neill Candace Partridge, Psychologist Jim Pitts, Texas State House of Representatives, District 10 Annette Renaud, Trustee Lesa Rossick, Market Ambassador Mari Ruckel, Texas Oil and Gas Association Joy H. Selak, PhD, MINDPOP Carolyn Seriff, Trustee Samantha L. Slate, Dell Leslie Sweet, H-E-B Robert A. Stoltz, Trustee Mary Herr Tally, Trustee Bobbi Topfer, Trustee Brad Wiewel, Texas Trust Law Kevin D. Witcher, The Chubb Corporation Stacey Zoll, Charles Schwab

Mindy Ellmer, Immediate Past President Legislative Consulting Adam Schramek, Vice President Norton Rose Fulbright Carl Stuart, Treasurer Carl Stuart Investment Advisor Inc. Tom Terkel, Secretary FourT Realty A. Robert Fischer, General Counsel Jackson Lewis P.C. Will Coombes, Development Committee Chair Visa, Inc. Laura Merritt, Membership Committee Chair Boulette Golden & Marin L.L.P. Eric Natinsky, Education Committee Chair Quick Technologies, Inc. Derrick Evans, Community Engagement Committee Chair NXP Semiconductor Michael Heidler, At Large Vinson & Elkins LLP Bettye Nowlin, At Large Trustee Nelda A. Treviño, At Large Trustee Dave Steakley Producing Artistic Director ZACH Theatre Elisbeth Challener Managing Director ZACH Theatre

Distinguished Fellows Alice Kleberg Reynolds Melvin Pape Ex-Officio Sara Hensley Mayor Lee Leffingwell

Honorary Life Members Marla Bommarito-Crouch Alvin J. Golden Kenneth O. Johnson Susan Longley Philip K. Maxwell Sue Maxwell

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Business and Community Partners ZACH Theatre would like to extend our sincere thanks to the Business and Community Partners who support our productions, education and community outreach programs and operations through cash and in-kind contributions. Sponsorship of ZACH Theatre provides an opportunity to align your business with one of our city’s most innovative arts organizations. As a business and community partner, you will not only receive first-class entertainment for your clients and employees, but also enhance your brand and reach new customers, gaining valuable recognition among audiences who are eager to support our sponsors.

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$10,000-$14,999 The Brown Lupton Foundation Dagar’s Catering/DNA Events David Kurio Designs Kirk Tuck Photography Kurant Events Lola Wright Foundation Marquee Event Group Pink Avocado Catering Rackspace Samsung Sybil B. Harrington Endowment for the Arts Topfer Family Foundation Wells Fargo Advisors $5,000-$9,999 3M Austin American Statesman BBVA Compass Bank Bonnie Cummins Fielder Fund The Burdine Johnson Foundation CANTINE Italian Cafe & Bar Castle Hill Fitness Chubb Insurance Eric Copper, Austin Portfolio Real Estate IGT Junior League of Austin LatinWorks The MOD Studio Norton Rose Fulbright On Ramp Access Palate Films Shield-Ayres Foundation The Steam Team Texas Coffee Traders USA Compression Partners, LLC

$2,500-$4,999 Clean Scapes Do512 Family Frost Bank JP Morgan Chase Southwest Airlines The Steeping Room Texas Gas Service Toasties Sub Shop Twin Liquors $1,000-$2,499 Charles Quinn Photography Gusto Italian Kitchen + Wine Bar The Marv and Joyce Kaiser Foundation The Pacey Family Foundation $1-$999 Austin Nites Party Bus Barton Springs Saloon Bearing Financial Advisors, LLC Cowgirls & Flowers Rosco Labs Treaty Oak Distillery

Special thanks to the following organizations who match the gifts of their employees: Ameriprise • Apple • Applied Materials • AT&T • Bank of America • Chevron • Dell ExxonMobil General Electric • Google • Home Depot • Hospira • Humana • IBM Michael and Susan Dell Foundation • Microsoft • National Instruments The Pew Charitable Trusts • Silicon Labs • Topfer Family Foundation • Visa This list reflects contributions made from August 1, 2015 through October 31, 2016, from businesses, foundations and public agencies to support ZACH’s annual activities. Thank you again for your generous support. For more information on how your business or organization can get involved at ZACH, please contact Kimberly Theodore Sidey, Associate Director of Development, at 512-476-0594 x232 or ksidey@zachtheatre.org.

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Individual Contributors ZACH Theatre thanks the following individuals and family foundations for their generous gifts to support the work on our stages and in the community. This list reflects individual contributions to our Annual Fund from Janurary 1, 2016 to January 1, 2017. To join our family of supporters, please contact Brittney Woolley at 512-476-0594 x270, or email bwoolley@zachtheatre.org.

The Great Scotts are an exclusive group of individuals and couples who substantially support ZACH Theatre with annual operating gifts of $1,200 or more. The enhanced financial commitment made by the Great Scotts enables ZACH to bring important culture opportunities to the youth and adults of Central Texas, and in turn through year round social events and behind-the-scenes activities, the Great Scotts have a tremendous amount of fun! We deeply appreciate and thank our current Great Scotts.

Executive Producer’s Plus Circle ($12,500+) Anonymous* James Armstrong and Larry Connelly Jeff and Marcy Carpenter* Pamela and Scott Reichardt Carolyn and Marc Seriff* Carl and Claire Stuart Executive Producer’s Circle ($10,000+) Anonymous* Mindy Ellmer Eric and Maria Groten Kathleen and Harvey Guion Phyllis Parmer and Mark Plummer Producer’s Circle ($7,500+) Dr. Gary and Karen Goldstein Deborah Green and Clayton Aynesworth Cindy Greenwood Michael and Sarah Heidler Dan Jackson III and M. Jeremy Guiberteau Brian McCall Jack and Carla McDonald Jerome Murray Bettye and Bill Nowlin Mary Herr Tally and Rusty Tally Jessica and Greg Weaver* Director’s Circle ($6,000+) ABE Charitable Foundation Sergio Alcocer Jamie Barshop Carolyn Bartlett and Jesus Fraire Jan and Lewis Bock* Will Coombes and Brian Luna Ken and Candice Corby A. Robert Fischer Ronda and Kelly Gray Dr. and Mrs. Lacy H. Hunt Kathy Hutto and Allen Beinke IBM Corporation Joan and Jeffrey S. Lava Shanny Lott Lee Manford and Casey Blass Phil and Sue Maxwell John and Marcy Melanson Mike and Suzanne Kennedy Laura Merritt and J.P. Kloninger* Michelle and Eric Natinsky* Harriett O'Neill and Kerry Cammack

Deborah O’Connell and William Stassen Candace and Michael Partridge Jan and Gary Pickle The Honorable James R. Pitts Karen Pulaski Annette Renaud Lesa and Bill Rossick Chari and Adam Schramek Robert Stoltz and Eve Michaels Tom and Colleen Terkel Mort and Bobbi Topfer† Nelda Trevino* Jan and Neile Wolfe Designer’s Circle ($3,000+) Anonymous* Jade and Greg Ausley Charles Barnett MichelleBourianoff and Juan Zalles Jean Cheever Gail Commagere Karen and David Craig Kristen and Aaron Day Bill Dickey Bill Dickson Kathleen Dorran Kim Eckert and Gil Cantu Derrick Evans Jacque and Jay Forrest Tim and Rosiland George* Joshua and Rebecca Gindele Justin and Wendy Harvey Brian Hencey and Chuck Ross Jeanne and Van Hoisington Nester Ho and Heather Bland-Ho Johanne Ibsen-Wolford and Steve Wolford Diane Ireson and Rowland Cook Dana and Dennis Jakubowicz Maxx Judd and Donn Gauger Carmen Luevanos Lana Macrum and Jeffrey Craig Bruce McCann Jon and Heather McElhaney Linda McDonough Christine and Louis Messina Gail and Tommy Morgan Robert Nutt III Harriett O'Neil and Kerry Cammack Hiten and Melissa Patel Robin and Jeff Picard Todd and Colleen Preheim* Faith Roberts Jim and Trish Roberts-Miller Mari and Grant Ruckel 60

Berny and Sarah Schiff Joy and Dan Selak Samantha L. Slate Laura and Mike Snavely Sadi Sparks Brenda Thompson Trisa Thompson and Jack Jacobi Tripathi Builder Inc.* Billy Wilkinson and John Kerrigan Kevin Witcher and Rick O’Donnell Leslie and David Wolff Stacey and Mitch Zoll* Stage Manager’s Circle ($1,200+) Anonymous (2)* Linda Aaker Abigail Adams Hunter John and Diana Argersinger Richard Atkin Brent, Amee, and Luke Baker Mindy Bakker-Brown Thomas D. Barrett Becky Beaver and John Duncan Dr. Charles Bell Linda Benge and Paul Robshaw Phillip L. Berry and Susan Landers Julianna and Malcolm Borgendale Anne Boyd Boyd Family Russell Bridges and Ralph Salinas Jeff and Pam Brown* Lynda and Tim Brown Dan Bullock and Annette Carlozzi Christina Carson* Elisbeth Challener and Brett Bachman Donna Clay Shelton K. Coleman Robert Cratchit Mary Lockwood Crouch John Crow and Marcus Loy JoAnn Dalrymple and Regan Ellmer James Dammann and Sharon Vaughn Darrell and Brenda David Lori Dennis and Karen Verser Dr. Bill and Pat Evans Dr. Harvey and Gloria Evans In Memory of Mary Margaret Farabee Rex Gore Ronda and Kelly Gray† Iris Groten Cass Haecker and Larry Steinman Susan B. Hammer Don Hammill Nyla Harper and Tobi Taub Richard Hartgrove and Gary Cooper

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Individual Contributors Catherine and George Hessler Robert and Frances Hieronymus Stephanie and Jody Hooten Marjorie and David Hunter Jenny and Peter Hutchen/ The Reinhold Family Foundation John and Kimberly Ireland* Dirk and Betty Jameson William E. Jones, MD Scott Joslove Chad and Kim Jowers Suzanne and Keith Kaminsky Pat Koen Hank and Nancy Kojzarek Sandi and Bob Kolitz Ken and Diane Kramer Margaret Kress L’Aiglon Foundation Myra Leo and Billy Atkins Dr. Emma Linn Tom and Alaire Lowry Bob Luther and Clint Phillips Michael and Suzanne Maine Drs. Roseann Mandziuk and James Studer Skipp Manson Julia Marsden Terry Matthews Tom Mays and Orlando Zayas Stephen and Sherry Maysonave Elizabeth and Reuel Nash Mike and Linda O’Krent Kathleen and Martin Otto Brandon and Alicia Phipps* Timothy and Bethany Pickering* William Pratt* Jim Raup Tracy Rawl Joe and Patty Rotunda Lynne andStuart Sargent† Nancy Scanlan Quata and Jerry Schoolar Peter Schram and Harry E. Ullmann Marcia and Barry Silverberg Greg Sovey Beth and Jack Stockton Venus and Bill Strawn† Shannon, Shane, Kaitlin, and Gracee Street Lonnie Karotkin-Taub and Albert Taub Mr. and Dr. Christopher Thomas* Vincent Thompson and David Thomas Mark and Ledi Trutna Karen Tuel and Doug Powell Patricia and William Uhls Lanny Vickery and Kim Greene Tracy Walsh and Eric Long† Sherri and Travis West† Ching and Man-Li Yew

Leading Role - Membership ($600+) Anonymous (2)* Laura Agnew and Hill Abell David Aronofsky* Donna Ayala Deborah Beilman* Jill and Tim Blackwood Ted Blaylock John and Fleur Blazier Barbara Bobb Scott Branson and Tina Coverman Sue and Dewey Breland Britton and Britton Insurance Marco and Michelle Camacho Kelli and John Carlton Ruth Casarez Randy Cavazos* Deborah Carbin† Cynthia Clark Jimmy and Kathy Clark Charles and Dian Cox Elaine Crockett Mrs. Gayle R. Cullington Beverly Dale Joanne Debyah Leola Decker Carl and Laura Dobbs Claude and Susan Ducloux Kate Ludeman and Eddie Erlandson David and Pam Frager Friedel Family Foundation by Lynne and Steve Gellman Freeit Data Solutions Marilyn Gaddis, PhD Fred and Betty Glosser Graham/Walker Family* James Griffin* Jim and Corinne Grimes* Dr. Ellen M. Grimm and Dr. Michael J. Grady Scott and Laura Grubb* Martin Grygar and Travis Maese Dr. Juan Guerrero, MD Tim and Dorothy Hald, CPA Melvin and Brian Hamburg-Maas James and Brandy Hammack Michele Haram Carisa Herweck and Valerie Esparza Kenneth Heydrick and Larry Stephens Jim and Linda Holcombe David Honeycutt Shirley and Doug Hudson William and Marilyn Ingram Bobby and Nancy Inman† Coleman A. and Lola H. Jennings Andrew and Christina Johnson James Jones The Jordan Family Dr. H. Daviss King Jr. Judith Knotts* Laura Lee and Joseph Kozusko 61

Nalie Lee-Wen* Rebecca and Jackson LeMond Carey Leva and Elizabeth Danon-Leva Clay and Katy Levit* Carolyn Mann and Jesse Gutierrez Pamela Mathison Lisa Mauro* Kimberly and Alan McCollum Maria McDonald*† Paul McGill* Lynn E. McNeil and Torbin McEwen Gil and Christy McQuillan Lynn Meyer and Rick Clemens Jennifer, Genn, Waylon, and Wyatt Muniz Coach Nakumbe Terry and Patrick O’Daniel Mary Pape Connie and Samuel Pate Sue Patrick Lisa Paulson and Michael O'Toole Constance Pechal Doug and Sally Pendergras Phillip and Randy Pensabene Jenny Preece Tom and Kit Randall Joe and Karen Rascati Patrick and Lily Reznik Jody Richardson Karin Richmond Regina Rousseau Ellar Salmon* The Schanen Family Thomas Scott and Irma Guerra-Scott Jason and Elizabeth Seriff Amy Shipherd Stephen Skaggs and Jay Kleine Delbert and Joan Smith Larry and Susan Smith Donna Snyder and Richard Donahue Don and Anna Sorensen Ryan and Bryna Stryker Donna Stockton Hicks† John and Cynthia Theodore Donald Tompkins Christian Trembley Retta Van Auken* Thomas and Karen Vaughn Mark and Mary Venghaus Craig Wallace Maggie Walsh Carol Whalen Brooke and Chris Wilbratte* Jay Willems and Dennis Nauert Robert and Danielle Wills* Linda Wilson Jan and Lois Wood Stan and Hilary Young

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Online: zachtheatre.org Phone: 512-476-0541 x1 In person: 202 South Lamar, Austin, TX 78704 Monday-Saturday, Noon-7 p.m. during performances (Noon-5 p.m. all other times) Sundays, Noon-2:30 p.m. during performances

Group Sales Groups of 8 or more receive discounts and may place advance ticket orders based on availability. We can assist you in everything from planning your pre-show cocktail hour to arranging caterers for a post-show gathering in one of our beautiful spaces. For more information and to schedule you groups, please contact Alyson Mintz, Group Sales Associate, at 512-476-0594 x245 or email groupsales@zachtheatre.org.

Latecomers and Seating At show time, all empty seats are released back to the house to seat those patrons on stand-by. If you are running late to your performance, phone the Box Office so that we are aware that you are on your way and can hold your seats. Any patron arriving after curtain will be seated at the discretion of House Management. Our ushers will show you to your seat, if it’s easily accessible. If the seat is not accessible, you will be shown to an available seat at a break. At intermission, you’re welcome to relocate to your ticketed seat location.

Special Needs A Box Office Associate will be pleased to assist you with any special seating needs when you purchase your tickets. We have wheelchair and limited mobility seating in all of our theatres, and provide accessible restrooms, entry doors, and walkways. To access the second-level Serra Skyline Lounge in the Topfer Theatre, you many use the elevator located in the lobby. Assisted listening devices are available at the Box Office free of charge. For more information about any of these services, please contact the Box Office at 512-476-0541 x1.

Drinks and Dining ZACH’s bars and lounges open 90 minutes prior to show time. The Topfer lounge remains open post-show for an opportunity to meet and mingle with the cast. Preorder your drinks at the bar, and they will be waiting for you at intermission and postshow. Our bars accept all major credit cards, and you may run a tab during your visit.

ZACH’s lounges and bars offer a selection of wines, cocktails, and craft beers. Our Kleberg and Topfer bars offer a wide range of liquor selections including our popular wells and single malt scotches. Gourmet appetizer plates and small bites are also available.

Transportation ZACH’s Box Office staff will happily assist you in arranging a taxi for post-show.

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Book lyrics by Mo Willems Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma Directed and Choreographed by Abe Reybold Now through April 29 ZACH’s Kleberg Theatre Gerald and Piggie and their back-up singers, the Squirrelles, discover the fun of being in a play and the joy of friendship in this delightful and funny musical. Age 3+

Co-produced with Teatro Vivo Directed by Nat Miller April 14 - May 7, 2017 Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center Inspired by the YouTube video sensation, Caine’s Arcade, this bilingual play celebrates culture, imagination, and family. Age 7+

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The Brown Lupton Foundation

Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation Robert C. Harrington Foundation Fund

Lola Wright Foundation

Additional Funding

A Project of The Junior League of Austin

This project is funded and supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

For information about corporate sponsorships contact: Kim Theodore Sidey, Associate Director of Development ksidey@zachtheatre.org • 512- 476-0594 x232

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