TEETH Program

Who We Are

Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater dedicated to the development of contemporary American playwrights and to the production of innovative new work. In a city rich with cultural offerings, Playwrights Horizons’ 52-year-old mission is unique; we have distinguished ourselves by a steadfast commitment to centering and advancing 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.

We believe that playwrights are the great storytellers of our time, offering essential contributions to civic discourse and illuminating life’s greatest paradoxes. And we believe in the singularity of a writer’s voice, valuing the broad, eclectic spectrum and diversity of American writers. Here, writers are supported in every stage of their growth through our New Works Lab, Soundstage audio program, and Almanac, our literary magazine.

We present a season of productions annually on our two stages, each of which is a world, American, or New York premiere. Much like our work, our audience is risk-taking and adventurous; and we’re committed to strengthening their engagement and feeding their curiosity through all of our programming, onsite and online.

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, and to read our land acknowledgement, please head to phync.org/anti-racism.

Our Conviction

We are a home for the American writer. It is expressed in our very name: we are Playwrights.

From the Playwrights:

Michael R. Jackson

In my writing process there’s always a point when I have to stop thinking about the characters in theoretical terms and start embodying them in order to imbue their stories with greater emotional depth. With Teeth, that was somewhat easier to do because I was raised in a Christian household as a weekly member of a Baptist church, playing piano for three church choirs and going to Vacation Bible School almost every summer for 18 years. But that also meant stepping back into an ideology I hadn’t considered since I was a teenager flipping through the pages of the Bible, silently questioning everything. In church, I intuited that sex was natural for marriage and reproduction, but also dirty, sinful, and of the flesh that must be crucified to be born again. I also intuited that reconciling one’s spirituality and sexuality was impossible. Add being homosexual to it and it was even more of a non-starter. As a result, shame and desire were always in competition in my body.

In Teeth, all the characters share a similar desire/shame spiral which leads to transformations that put them either in concert or conflict with “the patriarchy.” But for them, the patriarchy is not about who gets to be CEO or President. It’s about who gets to have dominion over their (or others’) bodies. And the universe. In Teeth, confronting the patriarchy means confronting God the Father and the mythology from which he sprang. That’s a confrontation I’ve been itching to have ever since I first read about Adam and Eve being punished with exile from the Garden of Eden. And for what? Simple disobedience? Eating the forbidden fruit and coming to knowledge about their own bodies? And what about passing Original Sin down to all humankind? How does that work exactly? I’m reminded of singer-songwriter Tori Amos who once sang “I think the Good Book is missing some pages” in her own confrontation with God the Father as she attempted to marry the spiritual and the sexual without shame in her body. I like to imagine that Teeth represents our jagged entry scrawled into that same Good Book’s mythology.

Anna K. Jacobs

Until Michael and I started writing Teeth, I thought I was immune to the type of shame that the musical’s protagonist, Dawn, wrestles with as a young, Evangelical Christian woman.

I grew up in a pretty secular household. My Dad’s family’s Jewish and my Mum’s family’s Lebanese Maronite Christian, but neither one of my parents are particularly observant, and I fondly recall my adolescence as being a whirl of Christmas trees and Menorahs and conversations about global warming and boyfriends staying over and packs of condoms magically materializing in the cabinets of our upstairs bathroom. I was about as farremoved as a person can get from the purity culture that defines Dawn’s world.

But the more I composed for Dawn, the more I embodied her, and the more I embodied her, the more I was flooded with icky, uncomfortable memories: memories of feeling revolted by the way my body took on puberty, like I’d somehow followed a recipe wrong; memories of feeling like a tease and a killjoy anytime I’d extract myself from a boy who wanted to get more physical than I did; memories of feeling like I was too desirous and too overbearing and altogether just too much for the female form I inhabited. Through writing Dawn, I’ve been able to hold space for all the shame tangled up with these memories, and even make some peace with it. Which is good, because otherwise I might be stuck with a set of teeth in my vagina.

UP NEXT: Outside, the world is breaking apart. But in this startling, kaleidoscopic new play, you are safe – at least until closing time.

Staff Meal

Written

by

Abe Koogler

Directed by Morgan Green

Starts April 12

Tickets go on sale March 5

“Koogler’s brilliance as a playwright is how he captures the real while hinting at the eternal.”

New City Stage

Playwrights Horizons

Mainstage Theater

Artistic Director

Adam Greenfield

General Manager

Carol Fishman

presents

Teeth

Book and Music by Anna K.

Managing Director

Leslie Marcus

Jacobs

Book and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson

Featuring

Courtney Bassett

Jason Gotay

Alyse Alan Louis

Wren Rivera

Scenic Design

Adam Rigg

Orchestrations

Kris Kukul

Phoenix Best Will Connolly

Jenna Rose Husli Jared Loftin

Steven Pasquale Lexi Rhoades

Helen J Shen

Costume Design Enver Chakartash

Music Supervisor

Julie McBride

Hair, Wig, and Makeup Design

Robert Pickens

Katie Gell

Production Stage Manager

Amanda Spooner

Associate Artistic Director

Natasha Sinha

Lighting Design

Jane Cox

Stacey Derosier

Music Director

Patrick Sulken

Intimacy Director

Crista Marie Jackson

Stage Manager

Thomas Dieter

Sound Design

Palmer Hefferan

Music Contractor

Kristy Norter

Fight Director

Robert Westley

Press Representative Blake Zidell & Associates

SFX Design

Jeremy Chernick

Vocal Arrangement

Anna K. Jacobs

Props

Matt Carlin

Casting

Taylor Williams, CSA

Alaine Alldaffer, CSA

Choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly

Directed by Sarah Benson

Based on the screenplay TEETH by Mitchell Lichtenstein

Presented by special arrangement with Mark Gordon Pictures and LD Entertainment. Originally developed at Musical Theatre Factory. TEETH was developed with the support of Ars Nova. TEETH was developed, in part, at the 2016 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at MASS MoCA. TEETH was developed during a residency at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference in 2018 (Preston Whiteway, Alexander Gemingnani).

Cast

Promise Keeper Girl Becky

Promise Keeper Girl Fiona

Brad O’Keefe

Tobey/Truthseeker

Promise Keeper Girl Trisha Ryan/Truthseeker

Dawn O’Keefe

Pastor/Godfather/Truthseeker/Dr. Godfrey

Promise Keeper Girl Rachael

Promise Keeper Girl Stephanie

Promise Keeper Girl Keke

Production Stage Manager

Stage Manager

Setting

New Testament Village, present day.

Music

Conductor/Keyboard: Patrick Sulken

Drums/Percussion: Marques Walles

Bass: Steve Count

COURTNEY BASSETT

PHOENIX BEST WILL CONNOLLY

JASON GOTAY

JENNA ROSE HUSLI

JARED LOFTIN

ALYSE ALAN LOUIS

STEVEN PASQUALE

LEXI RHOADES

WREN RIVERA

HELEN J SHEN

AMANDA SPOONER

THOMAS DIETER

Guitar 1: John Putnam

Guitar 2: Liz Faure

Violin: Melissa Tong

Keyboard Programming: Randy Cohen, Randy Cohen Keyboards

Understudies

Understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

For Dawn: Helen J Shen, Julia Bain

For Brad, Tobey, and Ryan: Sean Doherty

For Pastor/Godfather/Truthseeker/Dr. Godfrey: James Sasser

For Fiona/Rachel: Julia Bain

For Trisha/Becky/Stephanie/Keke: Megan Stefanacci

About the Artists

COURTNEY BASSETT (Promise Keeper Girl Becky). Playwrights debut. Broadway: Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812. Off Broadway/NYC faves: Titanique, Bedbugs!!!, Thelma Louise Dyke Remix (NAMT). Regional: The Great Comet (A.R.T.) Pop! Who Shot Andy Warhol? (City Theatre Pittsburgh), The Sound of Music (Alabama Shakespeare), Lizzie (Theaterworks Hartford). Concerts: “Somewhere” vocalist for New York City Ballet’s West Side Story Suite, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, LPR, Broadway Sings. Film/TV: BROS, Manifest, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The 71st Annual Tony Awards, Late Night with Seth Meyers. Singer/Songwriter for band Starbird & the Phoenix. Upcoming: Kill the Whale: A Moby Dick Rock Opera.

PHOENIX BEST (Promise Keeper Girl Fiona). Playwrights debut. Broadway: Dear Evan

Hansen (Alana Beck), The Color Purple Revival (Swing). National Tour: 2017 North American Tour of Les Miserables (Eponine). Other theater: World Premiere of A.D. 16 at Olney Theatre Center (Mary), Dreamgirls at TUTS (Deena Jones), Macbeth In Stride at ART (Witch). TV/Film: The Best Man: The Final Chapters (Nicole), Twisted Assistant (Stella), Love Life (Ogechi), Estella Scrooge (Mercy & Charity), From Sea To Rising Sea (Lu).

WILL CONNOLLY (Brad O’Keefe).

Playwrights: Fly By Night (co-writer).

Broadway: Once (original company).

Off-Broadway & Regional: Clueless: The Musical (The New Group), This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic), After the Blast (LCT3), Once (NYTW, A.R.T.), Spacebar (The Wild Project), Be More Chill (Two River), Candida (Palm Beach Dramaworks; Carbonell Award).

Film/TV: Martin Eden (Kingdom County

Productions), The Gilded Age (HBO), Chicago Med (NBC), Deadbeat (Hulu), Person of Interest (CBS). BFA, NYU; MFA, Yale School of Drama. For Dad.

JASON GOTAY (Tobey/Truthseeker).

Playwrights debut. Gotay recently performed his autobiographical solo show Where You’ll Find Me (available on Audible). Broadway/New York credits include Bring it On: the Musical (OBC), Peter Parker/SpiderMan in Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, Che in NYCC’s Evita, Encores’ Call Me Madam, and Transport Group’s Renascence. He has appeared in the world premieres of The Prince of Egypt, Disney’s Freaky Friday, and A Bronx Tale. TV/Film credits include HBO’s Gossip Girl, Spoiler Alert, and Peter Pan Live! He has also performed sold-out solo acts at NYC’s Green Room 42, Le Poisson Rouge, Soho House, and Tavern on the Green. @jasongotay

JENNA ROSE HUSLI (Promise Keeper Girl Trisha). Playwrights debut. Jenna is thrilled to be making her off-Broadway debut in Teeth. After graduating from college this past spring, Jenna played Sister Mary Patrick in the International Tour of Sister Act in South Korea. She wants to thank her friends and family for their endless support and love. She also wants to thank God for guiding her to this new chapter in her life.

JARED LOFTIN (Ryan/Truthseeker). Playwrights Debut. Off-Broadway/New York: The Panic of ‘29 (59E59), Gigantic (Vineyard Theatre), Saturday Night (York Theatre). Regional: AD16 (Olney Theatre), Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (ATF), Peter Pan, All Shook Up, Fame, Joseph… Dreamcoat (Artpark). Film/TV: tick, tick… BOOM! (Netflix), Little America (Apple), Red Oaks (Amazon).

ALYSE ALAN LOUIS (Dawn O’Keefe). Playwrights debut. Recently: White Girl in Danger (Second Stage). Broadway: Amélie, Disaster, Mamma Mia. Off Broadway: Drama Desk Award Nomination for Soft Power as Hillary (The Public); A New Brain (Encores! Off-Center); The Civilians’ Pretty Filthy (Abrons). Regional: Pioneer Theatre Company, Denver Center, Barrington Stage Company, Center Theatre Group, The Curran, Bucks County Playhouse, Berkeley

Rep, Olney Theatre Center, City Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company. Original Cast Recordings: Soft Power (Grammy Nomination), Pretty Filthy, Amélie, Encores’ A New Brain.

STEVEN PASQUALE (Pastor/Godfather/ Truthseeker/Dr. Godfrey) is a Lucille Lortel Award winner for his performance in The Robber Bridegroom. Playwrights: The Spitfire Grill, Far From Heaven. He most recently starred in Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are Off-Broadway at The Shed. Broadway: American Son, JUNK, The Bridges of Madison County (Drama Desk & Drama League nominations), Reasons to Be Pretty. Additional Off-Broadway: Assassins (CSC; OCC nomination), A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center Theater; Drama Desk & OCC nominations), Assassins (NYCC Encores), The Wild Party (NYCC Encores),The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… (The Public Theater), A Soldier’s Play (Second Stage), Fat Pig (MCC), Beautiful Child (Vineyard Theater), Spinning Into Butter (Lincoln Center Theater). Select Other Theater: Guys and Dolls (Kennedy Center; Helen Hayes nomination), Carousel (Chicago Lyric Opera), Grapes of Wrath Opera (Carnegie Hall). Film: American Son, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, Aurora Borealis, The Last Run. TV: The Calling, The Good Fight, The Comey Rule, The Bite, Rescue Me, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Divorce, Billions, Bloodline, The Good Wife, The Code, Six Feet Under.

LEXI RHOADES (Promise Keeper Girl

Rachael). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Sugar (Theater Row), Sistas the musical (St. Luke’s Theater/Netflix/BET Networks), The Yellowbrick Road (Lortel Theater), Stompin at the Savoy (York Theater), The Magic School Bus (TWUSA), Volleygirls (Sisu Productions), The Little Mermaid (DCL). Regional: The Witch in Into the Woods (PCPA) and Lorrell in Dreamgirls (Portland Center Stage). Lexi loves performing her own Cabaret shows around the world. She thanks God, her family, her manager, Susan Campochairo Confrey of CBU Mgt. and agent, Padraic of JC William Agency.

WREN RIVERA (Promise Keeper Girl

Stephanie, they/them) feels incredibly lucky to be part of this dental dream ballet. They’ve been lucky to be in Jagged Little

Pill on Broadway, play Jules in Between the Lines Off-Broadway, and make their television debut on Apple TV’s WeCrashed amongst other wonderful projects. They are represented by KMR and Emery Entertainment. Follow along: @w.t.rivera

HELEN J SHEN (Promise Keeper Girl Keke, U/s Dawn). Playwrights debut. Theater: Sunset Boulevard (ACT of CT), The Lonely Few (Geffen Playhouse), Man of God (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Upcoming: The Lonely Few (MCC Theater). BFA University of Michigan.

JULIA BAIN (U/s for Dawn, Fiona, Rachel). Playwrights Debut. National Tour: Waitress. Select NYC/Regional: How To Build A Bomb, Into The Woods, Sylvia, All Shook Up. BFA: Ithaca College. Endless thanks to the Teeth team, my family and friends, Henderson Hogan Agency, and Noah. @juliabain

SEAN DOHERTY (U/s for Brad, Tobey, Ryan). Playwrights debut. National Tour: Jagged Little Pill, The Lightning Thief. Regional: Eighty-Sixed (Diversionary Theatre), Men With Money (Aurora Theatre). Education: Millikin University. Special thanks to his family, friends, and most importantly, his boyfriend Ashton for always cooking dinner, walking Chuck, and generally being the best. Love you. Instagram: @SeanDDoherty. Twitter: @ SeanDoherty.

JAMES SASSER (U/s for Pastor/Godfather/ Truthseeker/Dr. Godfrey). Playwrights debut. Broadway: Riverdance. Tour: Jesus Christ Superstar (Pilate). Off: Forbidden Broadway, Suburb, Infinite Joy, Showtune. Regional: South Pacific (Emile/Houston TUTS), Sweeney Todd (Sweeney/FCMT), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Lawrence/Engeman), Curious Incident... (Ed/ Village Theatre), A Little Night Music (Fredrik/ Lucky Penny). TV: Succession, Madam Secretary, The Good Fight. Education: MSM & NYU-Tisch GMTWP. Writer (musicals): Bottle Shock!; Cubamor; By Georges! Writer (TV): “Forsyth County”. Special thanks to UIA, and love you SKL. @jamesdsasser

MEG STEFANACCI (U/s for Trisha, Becky, Stephanie, Keke, they/she) is an actor from Monmouth County, New Jersey. Playwrights debut. They recently graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts with a BFA in Acting. She has previously been seen as Marnie

in Holy Week by Sam Giberga. Meg is extremely excited to be making their off Broadway debut in Teeth at Playwrights Horizons. She would like to thank her friends and family for all of their endless love and support!

MICHAEL R. JACKSON (Book and Lyrics). Playwrights: A Strange Loop (in association with Page 73 Productions). His Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle winning A Strange Loop received 11 Tony nominations and two wins in 2022. Other works: White Girl in Danger (Vineyard Theater and Second Stage). Other awards and associations include: Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2022, a New Professional Theatre Festival Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, an ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, a Whiting Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, an Antonyo Award, a Fred Ebb Award, a Windham-Campbell Prize, a Dramatist Guild Fellowship. He is an alum of Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group.

ANNA K. JACOBS (Book and Music) is a Jonathan Larson and Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award-winning composer, lyricist, and book writer. Playwrights debut. Other works: POP! (Yale Rep, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Studio Theatre; book/lyrics by Maggie-Kate Coleman), Anytown (George Street Playhouse; book by Jim Jack), Harmony, Kansas (Diversionary Theatre; book/lyrics by Bill Nelson), Echo (Musical Theatre Factory), and Stella and the Moon Man (Sydney Theatre Company/ Theatre of Image; with Richard Tulloch and Adrian Kelly). She also penned the screenplay for The Real Gemma Jordan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) which she is now adapting into a stage musical with composer-lyricist, Rob Rokicki.

Upcoming: A House Without Windows with playwright Anna Ziegler and The Tale of Moana for Disney Cruise Line. Instagram:@ theannakjacobs

SARAH BENSON (Director) is an Obie award-winning theater director based in New York City. Playwrights debut. Recent credits include: Jackie Sibblies Drury’s

Fairview (Soho Rep, TFANA & Berkeley Rep), Suzan-Lori Parks’ In The Blood (Signature Theater). At Soho Rep: Richard Maxwell’s Samara with music by Steve Earle, César Alvarez and The Lisps’ Futurity (ART, Walker Arts Center and in New York with Ars Nova), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon (Soho Rep & TFANA), Lucas Hnath’s A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, Sarah Kane’s Blasted, David Adjmi’s Elective Affinities featuring Zoe Caldwell (site-specific). Benson also directed the award-winning Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical (Townhall) for the 2019 Super Bowl. Upcoming: César Alvarez’s Noise. She has been a Director of Soho Rep since 2008 and is currently serving her last season. During Benson’s tenure the theater has garnered fifteen OBIE awards and the Drama Desk Award for Sustained Artistic Excellence.

RAJA FEATHER KELLY (Choreographer). Playwrights: A Strange Loop, The KILL ONE Race, If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka. Artistic Director of the feath3r theory (TF3T), a dance-theater-media company. Kelly has created 18 eveninglength premieres with the feath3r theory, most recently UGLY Part 3: BLUE at Chelsea Factory. The company’s latest work, The Absolute Future, premieres in 2024. His choreography was seen in White Girl in Danger at the Second Stage Kiser Theater, written by Michael R. Jackson and directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. He choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop, and is also a choreographer for Off Broadway theater with frequent collaborators like Jackson, Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and Sarah Benson. Recent works include Bunny Bunny (UC San Diego), We’re Gonna Die (Second Stage Theater), SUFFS (The Public Theater), Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse), and Scenes for an Ending for the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.

ADAM RIGG (Scenic Designer) is an awardwinning set and costume designer based in New York. They have designed over 75 world premieres. Playwrights debut. Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center Theater; Tony Nomination; Outer Critics Circle Award). Off-Broadway:

White Girl in Danger (2nd Stage & The Vineyard), On Sugarland (NYTW, Lucille Lortel Award), Cullud Wattah (The Public), Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA, Henry Hewes Design Award), and Is God Is (Soho Rep). Upcoming: El Niño (Metropolitan Opera), Illinoise (Park Avenue Armory), Lincoln in Bardo (LA Opera/Metropolitan Opera).

ENVER CHAKARTASH (Costume Designer) is a British-born Turkish Cypriot. Playwrights: Stereophonic, The Trees, Catch as Catch Can. Broadway: A Doll’s House, Is This A Room. Off-Broadway: Public Obscenities (Soho Rep), Wolf Play (MCC/Soho Rep), English (Atlantic Theater Company/Roundabout Theatre Company), Bodies They Ritual (Clubbed Thumb). Other recent works: Tina Satter/Half Straddle’s Ghost Rings; The Wooster Group’s A Pink Chair, The B-side, The Town Hall Affair, Early Shaker Spirituals; Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group’s POWER. Film: Reality (HBO).

JANE COX (Co-Lighting Designer).

Playwrights: Kin, Wilder, Memory House, Doris to Darlene, The Flick, The Whale, 100 Saints You Should Know. Jane Cox is a lighting designer for theater, opera, dance and music, and Director of the Program in Theater and Music Theater at Princeton University. Long-standing collaborators include Ruben Santiago-Hudson, John Doyle, Elise Thoron, Shariffa Ali, Caitríona MacLaughlin, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sam Gold, and Monica Bill Barnes. Jane is a three-time Tony nominee and curated the symposium Sound and Color: The Future of Race in Design at the Park Avenue Armory in 2023.

STACEY DEROSIER (Co-Lighting Designer).

Playwrights: Regretfully, So the Birds Are. Other credits: Daphne (Lincoln Center Theater), All The Devils Are Here (DR2), The Refuge Plays (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Half God of Rainfall (NYTW), Uncle Vanya (O’Henry), How to Defend Yourself (NYTW), On Set with Theda Bara (Exponential Festival), Cornelia Street (Atlantic Theater Company), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Manhattan Theatre Club), Fat Ham (Public Theater & National Black Theater). Derosier is a 2018 Lilly Award and Daryl Roth Prize recipient.

PALMER HEFFERAN (Sound Designer)

Playwrights debut. Hefferan has designed over 80 productions across the country. In 2022, she received a Tony Award nomination for her work on The Skin of Our Teeth at Lincoln Center Theater. Broadway credits: Just For Us (Hudson Theatre), The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center), Grand Horizons (Second Stage), The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54). Select Off Broadway credits: Waiting for Godot, Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA), The Comeuppance, Fabulation, The Death of the Last Black Man... (Signature Theatre); Merry Wives, shadow/ land, Wild Goose Dreams (The Public), Flex, Becky Nurse of Salem, Marys Seacole (Lincoln Center), Nollywood Dreams, BLKS, Collective Rage, School Girls (MCC). Awards: 2019 Obie Award (Sustained Excellence in Sound Design).

JEREMY CHERNICK (Special Effects Designer) Playwrights: Detroit, Mr. Burns, a post-electric play. Jeremy Chernick has worked on over 50 Broadway productions, including Sweeney Todd, The Outsiders, and Hadestown. Jeremy has designed effects with the Disney Theatrical Group for Hercules, Frozen, Aladdin, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Tarzan. Jeremy’s work has been featured in prominent performing and visual arts institutions across the United States and the globe. Jeremy serves as head designer for J&M Special Effects in Brooklyn.

KRIS KUKUL (Orchestrations). Playwrights debut. Current Projects: Beetlejuice (Music Supervisor, Orchestrator; Broadway/ Worldwide), Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, (Arrangements/Vocal Music Supervisor), Michael Cassel Group’s You’re the Voice. Other recent work: Sing Street (Huntington), The Beautiful Lady (La MaMa), In The Green (Lincoln Center), David Byrne’s Joan of Arc (Public), Michael Kimmel and Lauren Pritchard’s Songbird, Head Over Heels (Pasadena Playhouse), Elizabeth Swados’ Runaways (New York’s City Center), and The Last Goodbye (Old Globe). For 10 seasons, Kris was the resident music director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

JULIE McBRIDE (Music Supervisor). Playwrights: Unknown Soldier. McBride is

currently the music director for Moulin Rouge! on Broadway. Other Broadway credits: SpongeBob SquarePants! (music director), INK at Manhattan Theatre Club (music director), Head Over Heels (music director), Pretty Woman (associate conductor), Amazing Grace (associate conductor), Finding Neverland (assistant conductor). Off-Broadway/regional: A Transparent Musical (Mark Taper Forum), Row (Williamstown), Next to Normal (Second Stage), These Paper Bullets! (Yale Rep, Atlantic Theatre Company), Deathless (Goodspeed), Miss You Like Hell (La Jolla, Public Theatre), Daddy Long Legs (11 regional productions).

PATRICK SULKEN (Music Director): Playwrights debut. New York music direction: Pretty Woman (Broadway), Little Shop of Horrors, We Are The Tigers, Letters to the President (Cooper Union), Gigantic (Vineyard). Regional: Double Helix (Bay Street), Fly (La Jolla Playhouse), Peter and the Starcatcher (1st national tour, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep). Broadway orchestras: & Juliet, Beetlejuice, Mean Girls, Kinky Boots, Anastasia, Gigi. He is the arranger and orchestrator of Alice in Wonderland, Jr. and Dare to Dream, Jr. for Disney Theatrical. @patricksulken

KRISTY NORTER (Music Contractor) is a Music Coordinator and freelance musician specializing in woodwind instruments. Music Coordinator credits include: Some Like It Hot, Cabaret, Hell’s Kitchen, The Outsiders, Lempicka, SIX (Broadway and National Tours), New York New York, Back to the Future, Merrily We Roll Along (Broadway), Mr. Saturday Night, Cyrano, Black No More, The Harder They Come, SUFFS, The Tempest (Shakespeare in the Park), Kristin Chenoweth’s For the Girls Concert Series, Kristin Chenoweth’s Christmas at the Met, Broadway Backwards and Jessica Vosk at Carnegie Hall.

CRISTA MARIE JACKSON (Intimacy Director). Playwrights debut. Broadway: Between Riverside and Crazy (Helen Hayes), West End: Mad House (The Ambassadors Theatre). Off-Broadway/Regional: Dig (Primary Stages), Dodi & Diana (HERE), Little Rock (Loretto Theater), Things of Dry Hours (NYTW), The Tempest (The Elm Shakespeare

Company), Belleville (Asolo Rep). Tour: Alegria: In A New Light (Cirque du Soleil). Film/TV: No Hard Feelings, Dumb Money, American Horror Story (FX), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), Mayor of Kingstown (Paramount+).

ROBERT WESTLEY (Fight Director) has choreographed movement and staged violence for Broadway productions, Off-Broadway, and West End productions and films developing unique and exciting performances of dance, clowning, aerial acrobatics, and martial art. Playwrights: The Thanksgiving Play. Broadway: I Need That, starring Danny DeVito, Bernhardt/ Hamlet, A Bronx Tale: The Musical, Hand to God, Gettin’ the Band Back Together. Off Broadway: Teenage Dick (Public Theater), Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (MTC), Things of Dry Hours (New York Theatre Workshop). West End: Mad House.

MATT CARLIN (Props). Playwrights: Stereophonic, Wet Brain, Regretfully, So the Birds Are, The Trees, Catch as Catch Can, Downstate, Wish You Were Here. Select Off-Broadway credits include Buena Vista Social Club, A Simulacrum (Atlantic), The Comeuppance (Signature), american (tele) visions (NYTW) and Lessons in Survival: 1971 (Vineyard). Matt also works as a props artisan and his work has been seen on Broadway in Back to the Future: The Musical and The Thanksgiving Play. He received his B.F.A. from Pace University.

ROBERT PICKENS & KATIE GELL (Wig, Hair, and Makeup Design). Wigmaker Associates has provided wigs for dozens of film and television productions including; Oppenheimer, Blonde, Babylon, Succession, The Whale, Stranger Things, The Bear, Westworld and many more. Broadway: Grey House, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Other: Here We Are. Various regional theatre productions including: A Chorus Line, Jersey Boys (MUNY), Cinderella (Opera San Jose).

RANDY COHEN KEYBOARDS has programmed keyboards or provided electronic music tech services for over 100 Broadway shows including Hamilton, Book of Mormon, Kinky Boots, Dear Evan Hansen, and Rock of Ages. Film/TV: Include Sesame Street, Electric Company. Thanks to Tim, Sam, and Nick.

TAYLOR WILLIAMS, CSA (Casting) is an Artios Award-winning casting director. Playwrights: Stereophonic. Select film: The Front Room (A24), Omni Loop (2am Films), Good One (Smudge Films). Broadway: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, POTUS: Or…, Slave Play, What the Constitution Means to Me. Upcoming: Sam Gold and Amy Herzog’s An Enemy of the People with Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli and Victoria Pedretti on Broadway, spring 2024. Taylorwilliamscasting.com

AMANDA SPOONER (Production Stage Manager). Playwrights: Corsicana, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, Log Cabin. Amanda Spooner is a stage manager and educator, based in New York. She has worked on Broadway and throughout the country. She is the founder of the grassroots campaign Year of the Stage Manager, the Director of Education for the Stage Managers’ Association, an ambassador for the Parent Artist Advocacy League, and participates in a number of committees with Actors’ Equity Association. Amanda received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama and serves on faculty at Ithaca College. Amanda is a member of the Playwrights Artistic Advisory Council. She loves stagemanaging a lot but she loves her son, Jack, more.

THOMAS DIETER (Stage Manager).

Playwrights: Downstate. Broadway: Camelot, Caroline, or Change. Off-Broadway: Scene Partners (Vineyard Theatre), Poor Yella Rednecks, Golden Shield (Manhattan Theatre Club), Kinky Boots (Stage 42); Shhhh, The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company), for colored girls..., The Loophole (Public Theater), The Mood Room (BAM, Big Dance Theater), Dig, The Confession of Lily Dare (Primary Stages). New York/ Regional: Ars Nova, Deaf West Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Playwrights Realm, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Love to Dylan.

MITCHELL LICHTENSTEIN (Original Screenplay) is a filmmaker, producer and actor. In addition to the cult classic film Teeth, he wrote and directed Angelica, Happy Tears, and the short Resurrection. As an actor, he appeared in the Playwrights Horizons production of Harry Kondoleon’s

Anteroom and in the Broadway debut of Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer (1995). On film, he co-starred in Robert Altman’s Streamers (Best Actor –Venice Film Festival) and Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (Independent Spirit Award Nomination – Best Male Lead). He is currently developing his dark comedy play Storiented. mlichtenstein.com

PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS is dedicated to cultivating the most urgent American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, as well as to developing and producing their bold new plays and musicals. Adam Greenfield became Artistic Director in 2020; Leslie Marcus has served as Managing Director since 1993. Now in its 52nd season, Playwrights builds upon its diverse and renowned body of work, counting 400 writers among its artistic roster. In addition to its onstage work each season, Playwrights’ singular commitment to nurturing American theater artists guides all of the institution’s multifaceted initiatives: our acclaimed New Works Lab, a robust commissioning program,

an innovative curriculum at its Theater School, and more. Robert Moss founded Playwrights in 1971 and cemented the mission that continues to guide the institution today. André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981–1992. Don Scardino succeeded him and served until 1996. Tim Sanford, the organization’s longest-serving Artistic Director, held the position from 1996-2020. Over its 52-year history, Playwrights has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including seven Pulitzer Prizes, 15 Tony Awards, and 47 Obie Awards.

Playwrights Horizons Staff

OPENING NIGHT: MARCH 11, 2024

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR .......

ADAM GREENFIELD

MANAGING DIRECTOR ..........LESLIE MARCUS

GENERAL MANAGER ........... CAROL FISHMAN

Associate General Manager........................Noah Silva Company Manager ..............................Noa Saunders

Assistant Company Manager and Head House Manager HyoJu Hong

General Management Fellow........ Victoria Ungvarsky

ARTISTIC STAFF

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ....................... NATASHA SINHA

Literary Director....................................... Lizzie Stern

Director of Artistic Development Karl Baker Olson

Literary and Community Engagement Assistant ............... May Treuhaft-Ali

Assistant to the Artistic Director .......Victoria Provost

Artistic Fellow Emily Zhou

Script Readers ............... Rebecca Chan, Noah Ezell, James La Bella, Fiona Selmi, Aydan Shahd

CASTING DIRECTOR ........ ALAINE ALLDAFFER

Associate Casting Director ...................Lisa Donadio

Con Edison Casting Fellow ......................Emma Hart

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT .......... BENJAMIN WEISMAN

Associate Director, Institutional Giving and Campaign ................................Susan Ferziger

Individual Giving Manager ......... Madeline Clouston

Institutional Giving Associate .......... Chani Sebazco

Individual Giving Associate Mihika Miranda

Development Assistant & Board Liaison ................................... Pam Muñoz

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING ....................... TERESA BAYER

Audience Services Manager ............ Katasha Nelson

Marketing Assistant Libby Carr

Box Office Manager ........................ Brittany Kressler

Assistant Box Office Manager ........Anne Amundson

Box Office Associate ........................ Michelle Dastur

Student Ambassador Program Admin Meg Knorr

Marketing Fellow ................................. Anjali Cornish

DIGITAL AND DESIGN

Graphic Design Manager

Jordan Best

Digital Content Producer ..................... Chelcie Parry

Digital Strategy Consultant ................... Alison Koch

GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE ............... BLAKE ZIDELL & ASSOCIATES

CONTROLLER ............................... HOJAE LEE

Senior Finance Manager ...........................Suzen Bria

Data Analytics Manager .......... Bonita Carol Thomas

DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES ................ LAUREN BURCHERI

Administrative and Office Coordinator....................... Derresha Webb

DIRECTOR OF EQUITY & INCLUSION .................. HECTOR RIVERA

PRODUCTION STAFF

PRODUCTION MANAGER ............ JAY JANICKI

Technical Director .................................... Ed Massari

Assistant Technical Director Justus Herrera

Costume Shop Manager ................... Michael Graller

Props Supervisor ...................................... Matt Carlin

Lighting Supervisor ..............................Maxx Serpica

Production Coordinator Carol Almonte

Building Manager ............................ Gustavo Naranjo

Stage Management Fellows ............... Nina Schatell, Holly Adam

ARTISTIC ADVISORY COUNCIL

Daniel Aukin, Sivan Battat, Alana Raquel Bowers, Catherine Coray, Jorge Cortiñas, Madeleine

George, Christine Toy Johnson, Francis Jue, Jenny Koons, Todd London, David Mendizábal, Deepa

Purohit, Heather Raffo, Amanda Spooner, Awoye

Timpo, Jason Veasey.

COMMISSIONED ARTISTS

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Commissions

David Adjmi, Dave Harris, Lucas Hnath, Ike Holter, Julia Jordan

Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Commissions

Kate Attwell, Christopher Chen, Heather Christian, Mia Chung

Kate and Seymour Weingarten Commissions

César Alvarez, Kate Cortesi, Emily Feldman, Dylan Guerra, Ianne Fields Stewart

Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Program for Commissioning Women in the Performing Arts

Danai Gurira, Aleshea Harris, Sarah B. Mantell, Antoinette Nwandu

Amal Commission

Mona Mansour

Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman Commissions for Emerging Playwrights

Brittany K. Allen; John J. Caswell, Jr.; Julia Izumi; Vera Starbard (Tlingit/Dena’ina)

M.E.W. Commissions

David Adjmi, Anne Washburn

Peter Shaffer Commission

Agnes Borinsky, Jordan E. Cooper, Phillip Howze, Mara Nelson-Greenberg

Berwin Lee & Brown London NY Playwrights Inc. Foundation

Mona Pirnot

Pinnacle Commission, co-commissioned with South Coast Repertory Theatre

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

RESIDENT THEATER COMPANIES

Clubbed Thumb, Musical Theatre Factory, SPACE on Ryder Farm

PLAYWRIGHTS DOWNTOWN ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR ..................

EVA ROSA-FERRERA

PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS THEATER SCHOOL DIRECTOR

............................ NICOLE WEE

Manager of Academic Affairs Kenny Wang

Manager of Student Productions Leslie N. Ivery

Production Coordinator Ryan Courtney

FACULTY LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE

Lead Seminar Teacher ....................... Emily Hartford

Area Head, Acting ...........................Jedadiah Schultz Jesse Alick, Marika Kent, Emily Mendelsohn, Atticus Orsborn

PLAYWRIGHTS REHEARSAL STUDIOS

Client Services Manager ................... James Wyrwicz

Lead Technical Supervisor .............. Liam D. O’Brien

Studio Operations Associate ................. Angel Rivas

Studio Associates..Sebastian Alberdi, Anna DeNoia, Rebecca Kane, Kevin Kong, Trish Price, Rebecca Samuelson, Destini Stewart, Ryan Szelong

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 ........................................ Blenderbox

CRM Software ...............................Tessitura Network

Closed Captioning......................................... GalaPro

Digital Advertising Allied Global Marketing Telemarketing SMART, Strategic Marketing for the Arts

Custodial Services ........... Impressive Cleaning Inc.

Concessions ..................................Sweet Hospitality

Security Services................ Elite Investigations, LLC

AUTHORS THANKS

Mitchell Lichtenstein, Ars Nova, The NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program, Musical Theatre Factory, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, The National Alliance of Musical Theatre, Derek Zasky, Emma Feiwel, David Berlin, Marlo Hunter, Portia Krieger, Luke Redmond, Lenny Redmond, Eli Redmond, Kent Nicholson, Meg Zervoulis, Lynne Shankel, Alexander Geminiani, Shakina Nayfack, Tori Amos, Katie Gamelli

SPECIAL THANKS

Michela Rodriguez, Andy Jones, Marina Hyson, Cameron Foltz

CREDITS

The set was built by the Playwrights Horizons Scenery Shop. Costumes were made by Brooks/Masline & Siam Costumes shops and by the Playwrights Horizons Costume Shop. The VR headsets were built by Randy Carfagno Productions.

SPECIAL FUNDING

This production has received generous support from The Frederick Loewe Foundation. 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.

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

STAFF FOR TEETH

Company Manager ..............................Noa Saunders

Production Stage Manager ........... Amanda Spooner

Stage Manager ....................................Thomas Dieter

Assistant Company Manager and Head House Manager ........................ HyoJu Hong

Stage Management Fellows ............... Nina Schatell, Holly Adam

Associate Director ................................. Dante Green

Associate Choreographer.......................... Chris Bell

Assistant Choreographer Amanda Clement

Fight, Dance, and Intimacy Captain Wren Rivera

Associate Music Director Noah Teplin

Copyists.......................... Noah Teplin, Conor Keelan

Keyboard Programmer......................... Randy Cohen

Associate Scenic Designer ................ Natalie Eslami

Associate Costume Designer ................. John Polles

Assistant Costume Designer.......... Miriam Cortes, Nikki Maltezos

Assistant Lighting Designers ................. Tess James, Amara McNeil

Associate Sound Designer Stephen Jensen

SFX Design Manager Katia Carmichael

Associate SFX Designer Charlotte McPherson

Dialect Coach ....................................Deborah Hecht

Assistant Properties Supervisor ............ Sean Frank

Props Artisans...................Antonia Howard, Ali Mark

Assistant Costume Shop Manager ......Miriam Cortes

Scenic Charge .................................. Jess Fitzpatrick

Painters ....................... Emily Tabler, Michael Hayes, Clare Cantus, Isabella Hollis

Carpenters ...... Emily Tabler, Sam Spear, Mike Weir, Josh Morgan, Kya Anaugle, Steve Waggoneer, Ezra Feldman, Dulfy Trinidad, David Kapland

Wardrobe Supervisor Jacob Kramer

Wig Supervisor Katie Crandall

Wardrobe Crew .................................. Dom Letterii

Costume PA ...................................... Aleta Findlay

Dresser...................................... Margarita Herrera

Stitchers .................... Katie Friedman, Raul Luna, Julia Veiga, Sydney Howell

Assistant Lighting Supervisor................ Liam Corley

Electricians ..........Alyssa Paulo, Liam Corley, Max Carney, Rhylke Caputo, Vincent Randazzo, Eva Shannon Dabek, Andrew Carey, Shane Crowley, Akvinder Kaur, Judy Kagel

Lighting Programmer Roya Abab

Light Board Operator ...............................Jason Kelly

Spot Operators ........... Rhylke Caputo, Alyssa Paulo

Automation Operator ................................. Mike Weir

Deck Crew .................... Rico Froehlich, Julia Sprung

SFX Technician ...................................... Gabby Irving

Audio Supervisor ............................... Kevin Novinsky

A1 ........................................................ Colten Langfitt

A2 ......................................................... Taylor Riordan

Artwork Design ...............................................SpotCo

House Managers Ashley Burton, Kimberly Chatterjee, Jodie Liebowitz, Colleen Litchfied, Jennifer A. Rico, Lily Welsh

Accessibility Assistants .................. Martha Bennett, Ruby Locklear Erin Rosenfield, Ruby Locklear

Relaxed Performance Consultant .......... Becca Yure

Audio Describer and Touch Tour Consultant................ Andrea Miskow

ASL-Interpretation Consultant.................SignNexus

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.

Once on This Island

“A mainstay of Off Broadway, Playwrights Horizons possesses one of the most distinguished histories among New York’s producers of new work. The list of playwrights discovered or supported by Playwrights Horizons is practically a Who’s Who of contemporary drama.”

The New York Times

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

Doug Wright

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

Alfred Uhry

Driving Miss Daisy

NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS

David Adjmi

Stereophonic

Milo Cramer

School Pictures

John J. Caswell, Jr. Wet Brain

Bruce Norris

Downstate

Drama Critics’ Circle Circle Award

2024 Obie Award

Mia Chung

Catch as Catch Can

Will Arbery

Corsicana

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist

Sanaz Toossi

Wish You Were Here

Sylvia Khoury

Selling Kabul

2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist

Jaclyn Backhaus 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

2015 Kesselring Prize

2016 Obie Award

Robert O’Hara

Bootycandy

2015 Obie Award

Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty

Jordan Harrison

Log Cabin,

Marjorie Prime

Maple and Vine

2015 Pulitzer finalist

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

Amy Herzog

The Great God Pan, After the Revolution

Samuel D. Hunter

The Whale

2013 Lortel Award

Gina Gionfriddo

Rapture, Blister, Burn 2013 Pulitzer finalist

Lisa D’Amour

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

Lynn Nottage

Fabulation

2005 Obie Award

David Greenspan

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

Richard Nelson

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

Christopher Durang

Miss Witherspoon

2006 Pulitzer finalist, Betty’s Summer Vacation

1999 Obie Award, Sister Mary Ignatius

Explains It All For You

1982 Obie Award

A.R. Gurney

The Dining Room, Later Life

Jon Robin Baitz

The Substance of Fire

Jeanine Tesori & Brian Crawley

Violet

1997 Obie Award, Lortel Award, and Drama Critics’ Circle Award

Adam Guettel & Tina Landau

Floyd Collins

1996 Obie Award and Lortel Award

Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman

Assassins

1991 Drama League Award

William Finn

March of the Falsettos Falsettoland

Photos of Dance Nation and A Strange Loop by Joan Marcus. Sunday in the Park… by Gerry Goodstein. Once on This Island by Martha Swope.

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

Clare Barron Dance Nation

2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist Bruce Norris Clybourne Park

2011 Pulitzer Prize 2012 Tony Award

Playwrights Horizons

Family of Donors

Board of Trustees

Judith O. Rubin Co-Chairman Arts Patron

Sam Gonzalez Co-Chairman Director of Operations, Pfizer Medical Pfizer Inc.

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 52-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.

André Bishop

Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Bryce L. Friedman Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Ethan Geto Principal, Geto & de Milly, Inc.

Fell Gray

Head of Brand and Creative, Arizent

Adam Greenfield Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons

Kelly G. Griffin

Head of Creative and Content Strategy, Warner Music Group Film and TV

Eric M. Gural Co-Chief Executive Officer, GFP Real Estate

Robert W. Jones Co-Founder, Antares Technologies

Larissa FastHorse Vice Chairman Writer

Alex Levy Vice Chairman President, A.H. Levy & Co.

Shveta Kakar Partner, Pryor Cashman LLP

Leslie Marcus Managing Director, Playwrights Horizons

Katrina E. McCann Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP

Juliet Moser Literary and Theatrical Enthusiast

Robert Moss Founder, Playwrights Horizons

Mark Musico Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP

Mitra O’Neill Partner, Walden Macht & Haran LLP

Alan Poul

Executive Producer/Director, Boku Films

Mark Birkhead Co–Treasurer Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase

Erin Laber Co–Treasurer Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Jill Crovitz Secretary Principal, Crovitz Consulting

Nick Russo Vice President of Sales Marketing, Raptive

Tim Sanford

Former Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons

Dana M. Seshens Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Candice Cook Simmons Chief Strategy Officer, Candarah Media

Sean Walsh Media Strategist

Steven Weinstock President & CEO, Truly Original

Rachel Wilder Freelance Writer

Bruce Nathan Wilpon Partner, Sterling Equities

Jide Zeitlin

Institutional Support

Institutional supporters of Playwrights Horizons receive many benefits, such as complimentary tickets, discounts for their employees, and public recognition. For more information about how your company can support Playwrights Horizons, please contact Susan Ferziger, Associate Director of Institutional Giving, at sferziger@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3142.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

Bret Adams & Paul Reisch Foundation

Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation

Citi

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation

Howard Gilman Foundation

Jerome L. Greene Foundation Fund in The New York Community Trust

The Marc Haas Foundation

The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation

The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation

MacMillan Family Foundation

The Mellon Foundation

Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater

The Richenthal Foundation

The Scherman Foundation

Sir Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation

The SHS Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

The Spingold Foundation

Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

Tiger Baron Foundation

Venturous Theater Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation

Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation

The W Trust

$10,000–$24,999

21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund

Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Carter Fund

Charina Foundation

Con Edison

Frederic R. Coudert Foundation

Creative Partners Productions

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Empire State Development Corporation

EY

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PricewaterhouseCoopers

Proskauer Rose LLP

The Rea Charitable Trust

RuthMary Westfall Foundation

S&P Global

Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation

The Travelers Companies, Inc.

The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund

Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation

The Wilke Family Foundation

$2,500–$9,999

The Theodore H. Barth Foundation, Inc.

The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust

The Durst Organization

Nancy Friday Foundation

Green Curtain Productions

Government Support

National Endowment for the Arts

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Disability Forward Fund

New York City Council at the request of Speaker Adrienne Adams and Council Members Erik Bottcher and Carlina Rivera

New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature

Jujamcyn Theaters

Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation

The Liman Foundation

The Frederick Loewe Foundation

Lucille Lortel Foundation

Morgan Stanley

The New York Community Trust

NYSCA/TDF TAP Plus

The Jerome Robbins Foundation

The Rosenthal Family Foundation/Nancy Stephens and Rick Rosenthal

$500–$2,499

Actors’ Equity Foundation

The Betsy and Alan Cohn Foundation, Inc.

Creative Artists Agency

Crosswicks Foundation, LTD. Lutz & Carr CPAs, LLP

National Alliance for Musical Theatre

Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation

William Morris Endeavor

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

Artistic Director’s Circle

The Playwrights Horizons Artistic Director’s Circle includes our most dedicated individual donors who have committed to gifts of $10,000 or more each year for a three-year period. The Artistic Director’s Circle joins with the Playwrights Horizons Board of Trustees in supporting the vision of Artistic Director Adam Greenfield. Members of the Artistic Director’s Circle are considered loyal partners in developing and producing new plays by some of the most adventurous and talented artists working in theater today. For more information about the personalized benefits and access available for the Artistic Director’s Circle, please contact Benjamin Weisman, Development Director, at bweisman@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3145.

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Mark & Lillian Banchik

Svante Bergström

Mark Gordon

Jarrett & Maritess Lilien

Chien Cho Liu

Dorinda J. Oliver

Barbara Raho

Individual Support

Nancy & Roger L. Strong, Jr.

Seymour & Kathleen Weingarten

Cathy & Stephen Weinroth

Individual supporters of Playwrights Horizons receive exclusive benefits ranging from complimentary tickets to intimate dinners and cocktail parties with artists, staff, and Board members. For more information about how you can support Playwrights Horizons, please contact Benjamin Weisman, Development Director, at bweisman@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3145.

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A.R. Gurney

Svante Bergstrom

Mark Birkhead

Jill & Chuck Crovitz

Angela M. Crossman & Bryce L.

Friedman

Eric & Nancy Gural

Alex Levy

The Darnell-Moser Charitable Fund

Mark Musico

Mitra O’Neill

Vinnie & Loretta O’Toole

Judith O. & Robert E. Rubin

Dan Safin

Dana Seshens & Robert Kresberg

Nancy & Roger L. Strong, Jr.

Wendy Vanden Heuvel

Sean Walsh & Henry Tisch

$10,000–$24,999

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Roger Altman & Jurate Kazickas

Elaine S. Bernstein

Ruth & Robi Blumenstein

Joan Cohen

Glenn & Eva Dubin

Mr. Mark T. Gallogly and Ms. Elizabeth B. Strickler

Ianiece Gatlin

Sam Gonzalez

Fell & Charles Gray

Tara & Clifford Harris

Tom Healy & Fred P. Hochberg

Robert W. Jones

Lisa Kentgen

Erin Laber

Chien Cho Liu

Berwin Lee London

Lynton Foundation

Stephen & Carolyn McCandless

Katrina E. McCann

Alan Poul

Dr. Robert A. Press

Barbara Raho

Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation

Seymour & Kathleen Weingarten

Tali and Boaz Weinstein Philanthropic Fund

Bruce Nathan Wilpon

$5,000–$9,999

Seth Ard

Barbara & Paul Bernstein

John & Jill G. Bishop

Matt Bosch

Frank & Deenie Brosens

Charles Cahn

Ruth Cohen

Rob Cordell

Christopher & Michelle DeLong

Cheryl & Blair Effron

Lori & Edward Forstein

Carson Gleberman

James Gleick & Cynthia Crossen

Laurie Goldberger & Leslie Kogod

Mark Gordon

Judith & Douglas Krupp

Gina Maria Leonetti

Niclas Nagler & David Alberto Alvarez

Carole Pesner

Nicholas P. Russo

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Marisa Sechrest

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The Wilder Family

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David desJardins & Nancy Blachman

Richard Feiner & Annette Stover

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Marlene Marko & Loren Skeist

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Arun Subramanian

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$1,800–$2,999

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Angela and Jacob Buchdahl

Maggie & Don Buchwald

Mike Castellon

Jonathan L. Cohen

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Laurie Smith

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Jennifer & Benjamin Whitfield

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The season’s most acclaimed new play is headed to Broadway.

Performances begin April 3rd at the Golden Theater.

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