Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater committed to the advancement of bold and visionary contemporary playwrights, through the development and production of daring new work and the education of future theatermakers. Adam Greenfield has served as Artistic Director since 2020; Casey York became Managing Director in 2024. In a city rich with cultural offerings, Playwrights Horizons’ 53-year-old mission is unique among theaters of its size; the organization has distinguished itself by a steadfast commitment to centering the voice of the playwright. It’s a mission that is always timely, and one that’s necessary in the ongoing evolution of theater in this country. By expanding the U.S. theater canon with a wider range of voices, Playwrights Horizons aims to be a home for the exploration of playwriting and an anti-racist center of curiosity, dialogue, and artistic risk.
Playwrights Horizons offers a season of productions annually on their two stages. Each production is a world, U.S., or New York premiere. Additionally, writers are supported in every stage of their growth through the New Works Lab, a commissions program (supporting several of today’s most imaginative playwrights each year), and Almanac (a literary magazine about the theatrical art form). Much like Playwrights Horizons’ work, their audience is risk-taking and adventurous; and the organization is committed to strengthening their engagement and feeding their curiosity through all of its programming, onsite and online.
Ultimately, Playwrights Horizons believes that playwrights are the great storytellers of our time, offering essential contributions to civic discourse and illuminating life’s paradoxes. And they believe in the singularity of each writer’s voice, valuing the broad, eclectic spectrum and diversity of U.S. writers.
Playwrights Horizons Theater School
We are also an undergraduate theater program that offers an innovative four-year multidisciplinary training program that is consistently ranked as one of the best undergraduate training studios in the country. Recognizing the diverse needs and ambitions of the 21st-century theater artist, Playwrights Horizons Theater School is the only undergraduate studio training actors, directors, designers, choreographers, playwrights, and creators of devised work in a single setting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Our collaborative program is dedicated to the principle that each student is a whole artist to be nurtured, challenged, and celebrated.
Our Commitment
Playwrights Horizons commits to anti-racism in building a more just future for everyone — particularly those from historically oppressed communities, including the Lenape nation, whose land is home to our work. We acknowledge that the U.S. theater is born of a country founded on white supremacy and anti-Blackness, and we are dedicated to uprooting these and all systems of oppression. This work is ongoing and benefits our programming, staff, audiences, faculty, students, board, donors, and partners. We invite you to engage in this with us. As we expand the U.S. theater canon, we aim to make Playwrights Horizons a theater that is an anti-racist center of ideas, dialogue, curiosity, and a liberated imagination. To learn further, please head to phnyc.org/anti-racism. Playwrights Horizons crafted its Land Acknowledgment in collaboration with The Lenape Center, and we continually strive to align our actions with these words. In order to activate and build upon this statement, we encourage artists and staff who work with us to engage with local Indigenous cultural activities around New York City. Click here to learn more about events happening soon.
From the Playwright: Francesca D’Uva
I come from a long line of musicians on my mom’s side. Her parents were professional touring musicians from Peru. My grandpa, who is 102 now, can still play any tune by ear on guitar and piano. On the other hand, my dad quit playing the clarinet because his friends told him that the clarinet wasn’t cool, even though his band teacher said he could go to Juilliard. He told us that he always regretted quitting. He also told us a story about one time he was singing along with a song in the car as a kid and his favorite uncle told him to stop because he had a terrible voice.
But every holiday, my dad would sing songs and pull out his clarinet and play La Tarantella. And my grandpa, the actual musician, would accompany him on the guitar. Everyone would tease my dad about how he could only play one song and not very well and we would all laugh. But my grandpa never laughed at my dad. He was just happy to have someone to play with.
Those were my first influences. Musicians like my grandparents who were technical and could play anything, and people like my dad who let musical technique take a backseat in favor of the entertainment value. And so I became a musical comedian.
I didn’t perform comedy for over a year between March 2020 and September 2021. That was partially because of COVID-19 shutting down the comedy scene, but also because I lost my father to COVID in June 2020. The funny thing about it was that when I wasn’t performing comedy, I didn’t miss it at all. I actually felt like I might never want to perform again. I didn’t know whether it was because of my personal grief or the collective grief of the world, or the entanglement of the two.
When I started performing again in the fall of 2021, I was only interested in performing new material because the thought of doing any of my old material made me nauseous. Like I would be entering a fun house mirror
version of my former life. So I started working on a musical which contained a fever dream sequence where the Virgin Mary and Mrs. Claus have a romantic affair. But every time I performed what I was working on, it felt horrible and pointless and unfunny.
Then I wrote a song about the only thing I knew at the time: that I did not want to perform at all! And it was the first thing I’d written in years that actually made me laugh. I felt like I had figured out that I had been trying to outrun my reality on stage. And my reality was that my inner feeling of safety and peace, a product of my happy upbringing, had been completely shattered by grief. The only way I could return to comedy would be if I embraced the ways I’d changed. I started performing old material again and it didn’t sting as badly as I imagined. And with my director Sam Max, I was able to turn my experience into a show where I straddle the line of my past and present identities.
UP NEXT IN THE JUDY THEATER | STARTS JAN 11
What were humans really like before they died out?
An uncanny view of the present moment, as we straddle the analog world that was and the post-human world to come.
Written by Jordan Harrison Co-directed by David Cromer & Caitlin Sullivan
Playwrights Horizons
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Artistic Director
Adam Greenfield
General Manager Carol Fishman
Managing Director
Casey York
THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG
Written and performed by
D’Uva
Production Design
Sam Max
Dramaturg Celeste Yim
Associate Artistic Director Natasha Sinha
Directed by
Lighting Design Zack Lobel
Props Matt Carlin
Production Stage Manager Siena Yusi
Press Representative Blake Zidell & Associates
Francesca
Sam Max
About the Artists
FRANCESCA D’UVA (Writer and performer) is an experimental comedian and composer living in Brooklyn. Playwrights Horizons debut. She has performed all around New York City. Francesca was the 2022 Performance AIRspace Resident at Abrons Arts Center. She appeared in Adult Swim’s Three Busy Debras and in HBO’s Fantasmas. She was also a writer on the upcoming Adult Swim animated series Women Wearing Shoulder Pads.
SAM MAX (Director and Production Designer) is a New York-based director, writer, and filmmaker working in the U.S. and Germany. Playwrights Horizons debut. Recently Sam made their dual directorial and playwriting debut at the historic Deutsches Theater Berlin, where their work remains in the house’s repertoire, and where they are an ongoing Guest Director. This past fall their newest play Double Serpent opened the new artistic leadership of Staatstheater Wiesbaden in a production directed by Venice Biennale artist Ersan Mondtag. The play was complimented for its “combination of anguish and pleasure” (SWR Kultur) and the overall production was called a “masterpiece of precision and nuanced imagery” (Egbert Tholl, SDZ). Referred to as a new kind of “theater anarchism,” Sam’s work for stage was recently acquired by Suhrkamp Theater Verlag, one of Europe’s leading publishing houses of fine literature. In New York Sam is a sevenyear resident of New Dramatists, and they have presented their work at Under the Radar Festival, Abrons Arts Center, Paradise Factory, among many others. For their work in theater and performance, they are a winner of the Chesley-Bumbalo Playwriting Award, the Lotos Award in the Arts and Sciences, and they also earned an Honorable Mention for the Relentless Award. As a filmmaker, Sam’s “formally assured and chillingly acted” first short, Chaperone, held its World Premiere at Sundance (Filmmaker Mag). It subsequently played over three-dozen festivals internationally, including Palm Springs (Jury Special Mention for Best U.S. Short) and Fantasia. Sam was awarded the Horizon Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at 24fps, and their work was
shortlisted for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival. In 2022 Sam was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Sam is represented by Untitled. sammax.info
ZACK LOBEL (Lighting Designer) is a lighting and video designer working across theaters, museums, and nightclubs. Playwrights Horizons debut. Lobel’s designs have been featured at the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, HERE Arts, among others. He is a resident video designer at the historic Webster Hall, and the lighting director for Omari Wiles’ Bessie awardwinning dance company. Current: Edges of Ailey at the Whitney Museum (Lighting Team). @zacklobel
CELESTE YIM (Dramaturg) is a writer from Toronto, Canada. Playwrights Horizons debut. They are currently a writer for Saturday Night Live. Celeste was a 2021 Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow and the 2019 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Canadian Women Artists’ Award for Playwriting. Celeste received their MFA in Playwriting from Tisch at NYU.
MATT CARLIN (Props). Matt has been the Props Supervisor at Playwrights Horizons since 2022. Broadway: Home (Roundabout), Stereophonic (Original Props) Select Off-Broadway credits include Teeth (New World Stages), Walden (2ST), Buena Vista Social Club, A Simulacrum (Atlantic), The Comeuppance (Signature) and american (tele)visions (NYTW). He received his B.F.A. from Pace University. @mattcarliin
SIENA YUSI (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to be working with Playwrights Horizons as a proud alumnus of Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU Tisch. Playwrights Horizons debut. Siena is an NYC-based stage manager who is passionate about supporting the creation of imaginative and intentional live performance. Specializing in new play development, Siena has collaborated with institutions such as The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, The Play Company, Waterwell, KGM Theatricals, and PAC NYC, among others. Proud AEA member.
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS is a writer’s theater committed to the advancement of bold and visionary contemporary playwrights, through the development and production of daring new work and the education of future theatermakers. Adam Greenfield has served as Artistic Director since 2020; Casey York became Managing Director in 2024. In a city rich with cultural offerings, Playwrights Horizons’ 53-yearold mission is unique among theaters of its size; the organization has distinguished itself by a steadfast commitment to centering the voice of the playwright. It’s a mission that is always timely, and one that’s necessary in the ongoing evolution of theater in this country. By expanding the U.S. theater canon with a wider range of voices, Playwrights Horizons aims to be a home for the exploration of playwriting and an anti-racist center of curiosity, dialogue, and artistic risk.
“You
Playwrights Horizons Staff
OPENING NIGHT: NOVEMBER 24, 2024
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ....... ADAM GREENFIELD
MANAGING DIRECTOR .............. CASEY YORK
GENERAL MANAGER ........... CAROL FISHMAN
Associate General Manager .......................Noah Silva
Company Manager Noa Saunders
General Managment Fellow ............. James Noonan
ARTISTIC STAFF
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC
DIRECTOR ...................... NATASHA SINHA
Literary Director ...................................... Lizzie Stern
Director of Artistic Development....Karl Baker Olson
Lead Technical Supervisor .............. Liam D. O’Brien
Studio Operations Associate ................. Angel Rivas
Studio Associates Whitney Andrews, Anjali Cornish, Kevin Kong, Rebecca McCray, Lane Pigford, Choice Plasencia, Adante Power, Rebecca Samuelson, Destini Stewart
SPECIAL SERVICES
Legal Counsel ................................. Farber Law, LLC; Andrew Farber, Esq Communications Consultant..... Ted Stephens III / The Numad Group, Brendan Whipple, Tony Cotte Accountants .....................Lutz & Carr/Shari Ferrara Insurance ........................... Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. of New York, Inc./AliceFay Prine Architect Mitchell Kurtz Architect, PC Telephone Services RingCentral Computer Systems Lansend/Ashwin Pai Website Design Made Media
Digital Advertising .............. Allied Global Marketing Telemarketing .................................................SMART, Strategic Marketing for the Arts Custodial Services ...........Impressive Cleaning Inc. Concessions ................................. Sweet Hospitality
Audio Describer and Touch Tour Consultant................ Andrea Miskow ASL-Interpretation Consultant............... SignNexus
AUTHOR’S THANKS
I am deeply grateful to my entire family for their unwavering love and support, with a special thank you to my mom, Giovanna, and Pat for making me who I am and for always believing in me. Thank you, Kaylee, for your support, love and patience throughout this process. Special thanks to Ali at Abrons Arts Center for believing in this show from the beginning, and to The Barn at Lee and Otion Front Studios for providing additional time and resources to develop this work at various stages of the process. Thank you to the entire team at Playwrights Horizons. Finally, I want to thank all my friends or anyone who offered kind words, ideas or support in any way while we were working on this show.
CREDITS
The set was built in the Playwrights Horizons Scenery Shop.
SPECIAL FUNDING
Season productions are supported, in part, by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Rea Charitable Trust, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
STAFF FOR THS IS MY FAVORITE SONG
Company Manager ............................. Noa Saunders
Production Stage Manager ...................... Siena Yusi
Carpenters ............................. Kya Naugle, Mike Weir
Production Electrician .......................James Deng
Assistant Production Electrician .................................. Caelyn Speicher
Electricians ............................................Darcy Burke, River Knight, Jon Naranjo
Light Board Operator Jon Naranjo
Lighting Programmer Fiona Govin
QLab Programmer Bailey Trierweiler
Sound Board Operator ........................ Ross Monroe
Audio Supervisor..... Dylan Carrow, Kevin Novinsky
Artwork Design ....................................... Jordan Best
House Managers ............ Ashley Burton, Ryan Juda, Jodie Liebowitz, Aingea Venuto
WARNING: The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside this theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money damages. FIRE NOTICE: The exit indicated by a red light and sign nearest to the seat you occupy is the shortest route to the street. In the event of fire or other emergency please do not run – WALK TO THAT EXIT. Thoughtless persons annoy patrons and endanger the safety of others by lighting matches or smoking in prohibited areas during the performances and intermissions. This violates a city ordinance and is punishable by law. FIRE COMMISSIONER
The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of actors’ equity association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 is the union representing scenic, costume, lighting, sound and projection designers in Live Performance.
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Stereophonic
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS
Michael R. Jackson
A Strange Loop
2022 Tony Award
2020 Obie, Lortel, Drama Desk awards
Annie Baker
The Flick
2013 Obie Award
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Bruce Norris
Clybourne Park
2012 Tony Award
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I Am My Own Wife
2004 Tony Award
Stephen Sondheim
& James Lapine
Sunday in the Park with George
Wendy Wasserstein
The Heidi Chronicles
1989 Tony Award
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Driving Miss Daisy
NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS
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Stereophonic
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School Pictures
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Downstate
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Corsicana
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
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Wish You Were Here
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Selling Kabul
2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist
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Wives, Men On Boats
Tori Sampson
If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka
Larissa FastHorse
The Thanksgiving Play
Craig Lucas
I Was Most Alive with You
Dan LeFranc
Rancho Viejo, The Big Meal
Max Posner
The Treasurer
Adam Bock
A Life, A Small Fire
Lucas Hnath
The Thin Place,
The Christians
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Bootycandy
2015 Obie Award
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Jordan Harrison
Log Cabin,
Marjorie Prime
Maple and Vine
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Taylor Mac Hir
Heidi Schreck Grand Concourse
Anne Washburn
Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
Madeleine George
The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence
2014 Pulitzer finalist
Richard Greenberg, Scott Frankel, & Michael Korie Far From Heaven
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The Great God Pan, After the Revolution
Samuel D. Hunter
The Whale
2013 Lortel Award
Gina Gionfriddo
Rapture, Blister, Burn
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Detroit
2011 Pulitzer finalist
2013 Obie Award
Kirsten Greenidge
Milk Like Sugar
2012 Obie Award
Annie Baker
Circle Mirror Transformation
2010 Obie Award
Melissa James Gibson
This
Doug Wright, Scott Frankel, & Michael Korie
Grey Gardens
2006 OCC Award
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Fabulation
2005 Obie Award
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Go Back to Where You Are,
She Stoops to Comedy
2003 Obie Award
Richard Nelson & Shaun Davey
James Joyce’s The Dead
2000 Tony Award, Lortel Award, and Drama Critics’ Circle Award
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Goodnight Children Everywhere
Kia Corthron Breath, Boom
Kenneth Lonergan Lobby Hero
Kirsten Childs
Bella: An American Tall Tale 2017 Audelco Award
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
2000 Obie Award
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Miss Witherspoon
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1982 Obie Award
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The Dining Room, Later Life
Jon Robin Baitz
The Substance of Fire
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Violet
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Landau
Floyd Collins
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Assassins
1991 Drama League Award
William Finn
March of the Falsettos Falsettoland
Clare Barron
Dance Nation
2017 Susan Smith
Blackburn Prize
2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist
Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine Sunday in the Park with George 1985 Pulitzer Prize
Michael R. Jackson
A Strange Loop
2020 Pulitzer Prize
2022 Tony Award
Bruce Norris
Clybourne Park
2011 Pulitzer Prize
2012 Tony Award
Photos of Dance Nation and A Strange Loop by Joan Marcus. Sunday in the Park… by Gerry Goodstein. Stereophonic by Chelcie Parry.
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Sam Gonzalez Chairman Retired Corporate Executive
Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. The theater offers careerlong advocacy and artistic and technical resources to artists. As an audience member, you are an important part of our mission and of our proud 53-year tradition. We would like to thank all of the individuals and institutions in both the public and private sectors whose donations help to sustain our annual programs and productions. For more information about making a donation, visit phnyc.org/give.
Mark Birkhead Treasurer Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase
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Former Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons
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Playwrights Horizons is a recipient of support from The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Eileen Silvers & Rick Bronstein
Laurie Smith
Craig & Rebecca Waldman
David Wertheimer & Alice Fricke
Jennifer & Benjamin Whitfield
Lynne Whitman & Dan Solender
$1,000–$1,799
Anonymous (4)
Unyi Agba
Julia Bator
Eric Bennett
Al Berr
Susan M. Borozan
Brian Carney
Linda & Arthur Carter
Betty Ann Cook
Candice Cook Simmons
Liz Fallon Culp
Connie & Yves de Balmann
Anthony Edwards
Mariana Elder
The Nora Ephron and Nicholas Pileggi Foundation
Laura Fant
Robert Fleischer
Patricia Gannon-Lovier & Lester Lovier
Jill A. Garland & Andy Loose
Ethan Geto & Michele de Milly
Kiki Ramos Gindler & David Gindler
Dr. & Mrs. Rob & Audrey Greenfield
Adam Greenfield & Jordan Harrison
Bob Hall
David Harrison
Nancy Heller & Holly Gewandter
Jill Leslie Goldman
William H. Hill
Katherine Humpstone & Jeremy Koch
Kelly Fowler Hunter
Helaine Kaplan
Robert J. Katz
Linda R. Kidani
Bret Kobler
Amy B. McIntosh & Jeffrey Toobin
Lowell & Sandra Mintz
Herbert A. Morey
Rosemary Newman
Tom O’Connor
Carol Ostrow
Florence Quinn
Lori & Lee Parks
Susan & Richard Pasternak
Jim Provost
Leslie & Eileen Quick
Andrea Rattner
Dr. S. Abraham Ravid
Richard Ravitch & Kathleen Doyle
Meredith Schade
Joshua Schulteis
Gordon Shearer
Harry Simmons III
Ian Slater
Joe Tippett
Maria Vecchiotti
Hena Vora
Susan Wallace
Nancy Weinstock
Charles White
Ronald Whittier Family Foundation
Kevin W. Williams
$500-$999
Anonymous (3)
Rebecca Allan & Laura Kaminsky
Liz Armstrong
Adrian Bailey
Monica Bernheim
Aimée Brown Price
Susan Burden
Hector Camacho
Marc Chouchani & Lan Nguyen
Betsy Cohen
Michael Cyril Creighton
Jeff & Nancy Davis
Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman
Anton Faron
Peter Filiaci
Mary Beth Forshaw
Sandra Garner
Ross Gillman
R.K. Greene
Cathleen M. Healy
Cristy Hill & Richard Mizer
Lynn E. Hopkins
Kathy Inch & Bonnie Jansen
Jessica Jennison
Thomas Kessler
Courtney Lee-Mitchell
John A. & Betty Levin
Anne Lynch
Jane Macan
Robert S Macdonald
Joann & Matthew McGrath
Ann Miner
Evangeline Morphos
Saadiya Mutawakil
Lauren Newman
Beth Nathanson
Asha & DV Nayak
Joshua Safran & Calderón Camacho Safran
Tim Shan
Andrew W. Siegel
Robert H. Sinclair
Cory Michael Smith
Joyce Victor
Alice Wang
Deborah & Kenneth Whitmore
Suzanne Wilcox and Nancy Seus
Carmen Rita Wong Ulrich
Kofi Yankey
Richard Zuckerman
Elisa Zuritsky
Generation PH
Generation PH is a community of theatergoers ages 45 and under who attend Playwrights Horizons productions; mingle with artists, artistic staff, and our Board of Trustees at exclusive parties and receptions; and see theater in a new way by talking to writers about the development of their plays. Plus, a portion of each membership is a tax-deductible contribution that directly supports these amazing artists and their new work. For more information, go to phnyc.org/genph.
LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE
Katrina E. McCann, Co-Chair
Nick Russo, Co-Chair
BEST FRIEND ($700+)
Frank & Nicole Azzopardi
Anirudh Balan
Richard Berg
Eugene Brodach
Lauren DeGeorge
Emily Erstling
Max Evans
Betsy & Andrew Fippinger
Taena Kim
Sammy Lopez
Bryan McCaffrey
Deborah McCandless
Katrina E. McCann
Courtney J. Mitchell
Marc Pickard
Nicholas P. Russo
Jonathan & Cochleen Sands
Carlo Steinman
Aleksandra Szczepanowska & Gordon Shearer
Carol & Robert Walport
Alexandra C. Wood
Elizabeth Wu
Jason Wu
DEVOTED FRIEND ($400–$699)
Louis Blachman
Matt Freeman & Adam Rosen
Naoki Sasamoto & Trevor Kokal
GOOD FRIEND ($200–$399)
Anonymous
Matching Gifts
Eugene Brodach
Betsy Fippinger
Bryan McCaffrey
Carlo Steinman
Aleksandra Szczepanowska
Anthony Beltran
Henri Benhaim
Madeline Cook
Allison Curran & Michael Hilkin
Brett East
Christopher Fox
Deborah Grant & Serge Tanjga
Mac Ingram
Cara Kantrowitz
Robert Laqui
Noa Naaman
Jessie Pitluk & Jacob Trussell
Andrew Rasmussen
Jenna Ready
Varsha Sinha
David Stuckey
Martin Woodard
Danielle Zarbin & Kate Bussert
NEW FRIEND ($100–$199)
Anonymous
Andrew Alkon
Mary Angelo
Rudy Bamenga
Jonah Baum
Paige Blansfield
Qianna Brooks
Adam Chasen
Edward & Emily Delman
Tyler Forni
Joe Gery
Daniel Hoppers
Samantha Kamelhar
Carol Walport
Robert Walport
Elizabeth Wu
Jason Wu
Mitchell Krieger
Sylvie Kuyisenga
Anthony M. Laura
Jocelin Lee
Cara Lonergan
Matt Loomis
Kate Napalkova
Laura Napoli
Gina Napolitano
Eliana Oliva
Achiro Olwoch
John O’Malley
Amy Pan
Jacob Romanoski
Amy Rosenbaum
Noah Rosenblum
Richard Semegram
Leah Shapiro
Duvi Stahler
Gregory Stern
Regina Stuzin
Cynthia J. Tong
Yash Varma
John Vaszari
Ariel Woodiwiss
Matthew Wright
Kenneth Ross Yelsey
Laura Zlatos
Many companies have matching gift programs that enable our donors to double their donations. Playwrights Horizons thanks these companies for matching the gifts of their employees and supporting our theater. For more information about matching gifts, please contact Susan Ferziger, Associate Director of Institutional Giving, at sferziger@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3142.
Bank of America
Benevity Fund
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs Gives
JP Morgan Chase Foundation
The New York Community Trust
United Way of Greater New Haven, Inc.
Legacy Circle
Playwrights Horizons gratefully acknowledges those who have chosen to become a member of our Legacy Circle by including a Charitable Bequest for Playwrights Horizons in their estate plans through wills, retirement accounts, life insurance ownerships, and real estate. Members of this group receive invitations to exclusive events and insider information on organizational goals and plans To learn more, or to join, please contact Benjamin Weisman, Director of Development, at bweisman@phnyc.org.
Caroline Aquino
Joan B. Cohen
Ruth Cohen
Liz Fallon Culp
Ann B. Dickinson
Howard Epstein
Jane Epstein
Susan Ferziger
Jill Garland
Sam Gonzalez
Barbara Kreisberg
Stu Kreisberg
Leslie Marcus
FreeWill
Joseph Andrew Moskal
Enid Nemy
Dmitri Nesterenko
William Louis Nist
Dorinda J. Oliver
Courtney Patterson
Monroe Robertson
Linda Rothstein
Wendi Royal
Judith O. Rubin
Robert E. Rubin
Mikael Salovaara
James Schied
Carole Schwartz
Mal Schwartz
Louise Schwarz
Georgina Spelvin
Briel Lauren Steinberg
The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation
Emily Tworek
Madeline Virbasius
Benjamin Weisman
Rachel Wilder
Amy Hoi Yan Yuan
Playwrights Horizons has partnered with FreeWill to offer a free, legal will service. In less than 20 minutes, you can write or update your legal will, for free. Secure your future and support the next generation of new voices in the American theater. Visit www.freewill.com/playwrightshorizons to learn more. Include a bequest to Playwrights Horizons and join the Legacy Circle today.
