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WELCOME The Public has had a wonderful year, a year in which many of our plans and programs bore glorious and exciting fruit.
1. 2014/15 at The Public 2. Downtown Season 3. Free Shakespeare in the Park 4. Mobile Unit 5. Public Works 6. Joe’s Pub 7. Public Forum 8. Under the Radar / Devised Theater Initiative 9. New Play Development 10. Beyond The Public 11. Board and Staff 12. Support & 14/15 Season Sponsors
Our Master Writer Chair, Suzan-Lori Parks, produced a masterpiece: FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3). This astounding play not only expressed Suzan-Lori’s genius, it demonstrated the immense artistic benefits that flow from giving a playwright a permanent staff position. Joe’s Pub produced the most successful and exciting “cross-over” show we have yet done, Bridget Everett’s bawdy and brilliant ROCK BOTTOM. Lear deBessonet’s thrilling Public Works program began a massive national expansion, with affiliate programs taking root in Dallas, Seattle and Detroit, and more on the way. Young Jean Lee, who originally came to us through the Devised Theater Initiative, created her provocative and edgy STRAIGHT WHITE MEN in the Martinson. All of these extraordinary women were joined by Cush Jumbo, Phyllida Lloyd, Anne Kaufmann, Tracey Scott Wilson, Anne Hathaway, Julie Taymor and the amazing, Tony Award-winning women of Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s FUN HOME on Broadway to create one of the most female-centered seasons in our history. Meanwhile, the Music Theater Initiative led to the moving FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, Michael Friedman and Itamar Moses’ breathtaking musical. The Mobile Unit doubled in size, taking Shakespeare to our most marginalized citizens. “Free” came downtown, with Free First Previews founding a tradition of making our downtown shows as radically accessible as Free Shakespeare in the Park. And, of course, there was HAMILTON. Already one of the great successes in American theater history, Lin-Manuel’s brilliant show embodies everything The Public stands for: inclusion, democracy, diversity, excellence. And our supporters have rallied around us. From the unwavering commitment of The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust to record growth in our member base, our community has been profoundly generous, and made all this work possible. A year at The Public is as all-encompassing, as eclectic, as contradictory, as inclusive as the city of New York. We invite you to turn these pages and reflect with us on the work that has made us proud over the past 12 months. And then, we invite you to come visit us in person. The strength of The Public is derived directly from the strength of our community. We look forward to seeing you soon.
Oskar Eustis
Patrick Willingham
Arielle Tepper Madover
Artistic Director
Executive Director
Board Chair
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WHO WE ARE
FULL-TIME STAFF
DOWNTOWN AUDIENCE MEMBERS
“Love it, love it, love it. The best lobby in town: young, old, straight, gay, every ethnicity. Divine.” Patron
PART-TIME STAFF
JOE’S PUB AUDIENCE MEMBERS
INTERNS
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK AUDIENCE MEMBERS
ARTISTS
CREW
10 LUCILLE LORTEL AWARDS 3 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 3 OBIE AWARDS 8 DRAMA DESK AWARDS 1 NY DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD 7 DRAMA LEAGUE AWARDS 1 OFF-BROADWAY ALLIANCE AND 5 TONYS FOR THE PUBLIC’S PRODUCTION OF FUN HOME ON BROADWAY
“ I feel lucky to be part of this family, the family of The Public Theater. It has held me up, inspired me, and made me better than I am.” Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director
WEB VISITORS
WE ARE “There is nothing like the energy and electricity of The Public. This theater takes risks and brings the best material to the stage.” Audrey Wilf, Trustee
ONE PUBLIC
TRUSTEES
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FEATURING Sterling K. Brown, Louis Cancelmi, Peter Jay Fernandez, Jeremie Harris, Russell G. Jones,Jenny Jules, Ken Marks, Jacob Ming-Trent, Tonye Patano, and Julian Rozzell Jr.
FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE
FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1,2&3)
WRITTEN BY Suzan-Lori Parks DIRECTOR: Jo Bonney SET DESIGN: Neil Patel COSTUME DESIGN: ESosa LIGHTING DESIGN: Lap Chi Chu SOUND DESIGN: Dan Moses Schreier
BOOK: Itamar Moses FEATURING Ken Barnett, Kyle Beltran, MUSIC & LYRICS: Michael Friedman Adam Chanler-Berat, CONCEIVED & DIRECTED BY: Daniel Aukin André De Shields, Carla BASED ON THE NOVEL BY: Jonathan Lethem Duren, Stephane Duret, CHOREOGRAPHY: Camille A. Brown Rebecca Naomi Jones, SET DESIGN: Eugene Lee Jahi Kearse, Kevin Mambo, COSTUME DESIGN: Jessica Pabst Malaiyka Reid, David Rossmer, Conor Ryan, LIGHTING DESIGN: Tyler Micoleau Kristen Sieh, Britton Smith, SOUND DESIGN: Robert Kaplowitz Brian Tyree Henry, Akron Watson, Alison Whitehurst, & Juson Williams
ROCK BOTTOM
CREATED & PERFORMED BY: Bridget Everett MUSIC & LYRICS: Bridget Everett, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, After ROCK BOTTOM’s with Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz incredible run in the fall, and Matt Ray Joe’s Pub celebrated DIRECTOR: Scott Wittman Bridget Everett’s success COSTUME DESIGN: Larry Krone for by revising their calendar to House of Larréon accommodate an LIGHTING DESIGNER: Jason Miller encore run from January February 2015. SOUND DESIGN: Jon Shriver
FEATURING Austin Pendleton, Pete Simpson, James Stanley, and Gary Wilmes
The journey of FATHER COMES HOME began in 2008 when Suzan-Lori Parks was selected as our Master Writer Chair. This full-time staff position gave her the opportunity to work consistently on the play, staged two Public Lab productions (2009 and 2014), and finally premiere the fully-realized production, deemed by the New York Times “THE BEST NEW PLAY OF THE YEAR.”
STRAIGHT WHITE MEN
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Young Jean Lee ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: Emilyn Kowaleski SET DESIGN: David Evans Morris COSTUME DESIGN: Enver Chakartash LIGHTING DESIGN: Christopher Kuhl SOUND DESIGN: Jamie McElhinney
“This is by far the most important and high-profile theater in terms of broadening one’s NYC audience.” Young Jean Lee
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Starting with FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, we proudly offered free tickets to the first preview of each production in our Downtown Season.
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DOWNTOWN
Here’s how we made sure New Yorkers of every background got to see this game-changing show.
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FREE! 3,148 TICKETS: LOBBY LOTTERY
FEATURING Carleigh Bettiol, Andrew Chappelle, Ariana DeBose, Alysha Deslorieux, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Sydney James Harcourt, Sasha Hutchings, Christopher Jackson, Brian D’Arcy James, Thayne Jasperson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Stephanie Klemons, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Javier Muñoz, Leslie Odom Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, Jon Rua, Phillipa Soo, Seth Stewart, Betsy Struxness, Ephraim Sykes, and Voltaire Wade-Greene
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“Hooray for The Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit! You have opened the eyes of some ‘swear to never smile’ tough guys.” Mobile Shakespeare Unit Audience Member at Rikers Island Men’s Correctional Facility
FEATURING Raffi Barsoumian, Christopher Kelly, Ben Mehl, Flor De Liz Perez, Amanda Quaid, David Ryan Smith, Tiffany Rachelle Stewart, and J.D. Webster
PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE
BY: William Shakespeare DIRECTOR: Rob Melrose SET DESIGN: Wilson Chin COSTUME DESIGN: Moria Sine Clinton COMPOSER: Michael Thurber
HAMILTON
MUSIC, LYRICS, BOOK: Lin-Manuel Miranda DIRECTOR: Thomas Kail INSPIRED BY THE BOOK ALEXANDER HAMILTON BY Ron Chernow CHOREOGRAPHER: Andy Blankenbuehler ORCHESTRATIONS & MUSIC DIRECTION: Alex Lacamoire SET DESIGN: David Korins COSTUME DESIGN: Paul Tazewell LIGHTING DESIGN: Howell Binkley SOUND DESIGN: Nevin Steinberg
The Mobile Unit’s
JOSEPHINE AND I
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY: 1,846 audience members Cush Jumbo had never been to Joe’s Pub, where the show was DIRECTOR: Phyllida Lloyd presented, before seeing SET AND COSTUME DESIGN: JOSEPHINE AND I! Anthony Ward LIGHTING DESIGN: Kate Ashton SOUND DESIGN: Will Pickens
FEATURING Grantham Coleman, Tessa Ferrer, and Michael Stahl-David
BUZZER
BY: Tracey Scott Wilson DIRECTOR: Anne Kauffman SET DESIGN: Laura Jellinek COSTUME DESIGN: Clint Ramos LIGHTING DESIGN: Matt Frey SOUND DESIGN: Bray Poor
In conjunction with the run of BUZZER, audience members reflected on the themes of the show through an interactive art installation in our lobby. Find it on Instagram! #theneighborhoodproject Photo by Joan Marcus
DOWNTOWN
ToasT was complemented by La Doña, a digital short film created in partnership with the Time Warner Foundation that reached audiences beyond the theater to generate conversation and awareness around incarceration. La Doña was viewed online by three times as many audience members than saw the production.
Public Lab
TOAST
BY: Lemon Andersen DIRECTOR: Elise Thoron SET DESIGN: Alexis Distler FEATURING Phillip James COSTUME DESIGN: Dede Ayite Brannon, Dan Butler, LIGHTING DESIGN: Jen Schriever Teddy Cañez, Keith David, SOUND DESIGN / ADDITIONAL MUSIC: F. Hill Harper, John Earl Robert Kaplowitz Jelks,Jonathan Peck, and Armando Riesco
The Mobile Unit’s For the first time since the re-launch of the Mobile Unit in 2011, we were thrilled to expand the program by touring a second production in the spring.
MACBETH
FEATURING Rob Campbell, Keith Eric Chapelle, Jennifer Ikeda, Nicole Lewis, Teresa Avia Lim, Nick Mills, Daniel Pearce, James Udom
BY: William Shakespeare DIRECTOR: Edward Torres SET DESIGN: Wilson Chin COSTUME DESIGN: Amanda Seymour COMPOSER: Michael Thurber
Public Forum took GROUNDED’s conversation about the implications and morality of drone warfare beyond the stage in “Our Drone War,” a panel with Julie Taymor and experts Missy Cummings and Andrew Cockburn.
“I’m so lucky to call this my home away from home... So many of my dreams have taken flight here.” Anne Hathaway, Public Theater Trustee & featured in this season’s production of Grounded
GROUNDED
BY: George Brant DIRECTOR: Julie Taymor PERFORMED BY: Anne Hathaway ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUNDSCAPES: Elliot Goldenthal SET DESIGN: Riccardo Hernandez LIGHTING DESIGN: Christopher Akerlind SOUND DESIGN: Will Pickens
Production Support for our 2014/15 season: TodayTix was the sponsor of Free First Previews. HAMILTON was made possible with the generous support of The Blavatnik Family Foundation / Warner Music Group, Rhoda R. Herrick, and the Wilf Family Foundation. Josephine & I was made possible through the support of the Ian Madover & Arielle Tepper Madover Family Foundation. ToasT was developed, in part, at the Sundance Institute Theatre Program. Funding for the development of ToasT was provided by Time Warner Inc., and the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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UPTOWN
THE TEMPEST
FEATURING Jordan Barrow, Louis BY William Shakespeare Cancelmi, Francesca Carpanini, DIRECTOR: Michael Greif Nicholas Christopher, Jesse Tyler SET DESIGN: Riccardo Hernandez Ferguson, Chloe Fox, Rosharra COSTUME DESIGN: Emily Rebholz Francis, Thomas Gibbons, Frank Harts, Sunny Hitt, Brandon Kalm, LIGHTING DESIGN: David Lander Olga Karmansky, Tamika Sonja SOUND DESIGN: Acme Sound Partners and Lawrence, Rico Lebron,Danny Jason Crystal Mastrogiorgio, Tim Nicolai, ORIGINAL SCORE: Michael Friedman Matthew Oaks, Charles Parnell, CHOREOGRAPHY: Denis Jones Chris Perfetti, Rodney Richardson, Laura Shoop, Cotter Smith, Sam Waterston, and Bernard White
CYMBELINE
FEATURING Teagle F. BY William Shakespeare Bougere, Kate Burton, DIRECTOR: Daniel Sullivan Emma Duncan, Raúl SET DESIGN: Riccardo Hernandez Esparza, David Furr, COSTUME DESIGN: David Zinn Hamish Linklater, Tim LIGHTING DESIGN: David Lander Nicolai, Jacob MingSOUND DESIGN: Acme Sound Partners Trent, Patrick Page, Lily Rabe, Steven Skybell and ORIGINAL MUSIC: Tom Kitt David Ryan Smith CHOREOGRAPHER: Mimi Lieber
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK The Public continued our 53-year summer tradition of Free Shakespeare in the Park, bringing free theater to more than 100,000 audience members. Since 1962, over five million people have enjoyed more than 150 free productions of Shakespeare and other classical works and musicals at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park through our flagship program.
“I have always believed in ongoing artistic relationships, long term ones, as the most important thing to try and achieve in the theater. The continuity of these relationships is inseparable from the quality and success of our work.” –OSKAR EUSTIS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
The Public continued our mission to make SITP accessible to all by offering our first-ever Spanish language opencaptioned performances. Daniel Sullivan, Hamish Linklater, and Lily Rabe are all Shakespeare in the Park regulars! Sullivan has directed 7 critically acclaimed productions at the Delacorte, and Hamish Linklater & Lily Rabe have appeared in 3 shows there together.
Additional Delacorte Programming:
PUBLIC WORKS’ THE WINTER’S TALE
FEATURING Todd Almond, Christopher BY William Shakespeare Fitzgerald, Isaiah CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY: Johnson, Lindsay Lear deBessonet Mendez, David MUSIC & LYRICS: Todd Almond Turner and the Public Works Community CHOREOGRAPHY: Chase Brock Ensemble. SET DESIGN: Justin Townsend
COSTUME DESIGN: Paul Carey LIGHTING DESIGN: Tyler Micoleau SOUND DESIGN: Acme Sound Partners
FALL FOR DANCE
NEW YORK CITY CENTER’S FALL FOR DANCE FESTIVAL, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PUBLIC THEATER FEATURING: New York City Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Lil Buck. Photo by Carol Rosegg
14/15 Mobile Unit Tour Stops: Charlotte’s Place Lenox Hill Neighborhood House / Women’s Mental Health Shelter at Park Ave. Armory Brownsville Recreation Center Crossroads Juvenile Detention Center Queensboro Correctional Facility Faber Park Field House Rikers Island Correctional Facility Fortune Society Taconic Correctional Facility Hamilton Partnership for Paterson Rikers Island Correctional Facility GO Project Horizon Juvenile Center Bedford Hills Correctional Facility St. John’s Recreation Center DreamYard Project Pelham Fritz Recreation Center Highbridge Recreation Center Williamsbridge Oval Recreation Center Metropolitan Detention Center - Brooklyn Metropolitan Correctional Center - New York Fort Hamilton ICL Personalized Recovery-Oriented Services
“Being incarcerated brings gloom to my life, but today brightened because of your wonderful play.” Mobile Unit Audience Member @ Rikers Island Women’s Correctional Facility The Mobile Unit is made possible with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Ford Foundation and The Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Additional generous support provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies and Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP.
The Mobile Unit doubled its impact this year with two tours, presenting critically acclaimed free Shakespeare to prisons, shelters, and other community venues in all five boroughs. In addition to a three-week tour, each Mobile Unit production then “sits down” at The Public Theater downtown, providing New York audiences with access to worldclass Shakespeare. This season, the two tours –PERICLES and MACBETH—visited 23 venues in NYC and New Jersey.
IN THE COMMUNITY
The Public is committed to challenging assumptions about who is allowed to experience theater. Our community programs tear down barriers to the art form, with the Mobile Unit building new audiences and Public Works fostering new participants in its creation.
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IN THE COMMUNITY
YEAR-ROUND ACTIVITY:
PUBLIC WORKS seeks to engage the people of New York in making theater that is not only for the people, but by and of the people as well. Working deeply with five partner organizations representing each borough, Public Works invites members of diverse communities to participate in workshops, take classes, attend performances at The Public, and, most importantly, to join in the creation of an annual pageant production that is free to the people of the city of New York at the Delacorte.
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IMPROV STORYTELLING CHOREOGRAPHY PLAY READINGS
NEW IN 2015
THE WINTER’S TALE opened the Public’s 14-15 season, marking our 2nd annual pageant production featuring our entire Public Works Community Ensemble onstage at the Delacorte.
We launched ACTivate with 15 community members to plan activity for Public Works alumni.
We saw 23 shows at The Public with new audience members as part of the Ambassador Program.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS 1) DreamYard Project (Bronx) 2) Domestic Workers United (all boroughs, including Staten Island) 3) Children’s Aid Society (Manhattan) 4) Fortune Society (Queens) 5) Brownsville Recreation Center (Brooklyn)
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Lead support for Public Works is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, New York City Theater Subdistrict Council, The Tow Foundation, and The Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Additional support is provided by the New York Community Trust, New York State Regional Economic Development Council, David Rockefeller Fund, and Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP.
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“There is nothing like the thrill of discovery… Joe’s Pub is one of the best places in New York to find talent potentially strong enough to overcome the barrier facing singers outside the pop-rock-hiphop mainstream.” The New York Times
MANCES PERFOR
Joe’s Pub supports young and developing artists while providing established artists with an intimate space to perform and develop new work. A destination for audiences from around the world, standout performances this year included Jon Stewart, Betty Buckley, Ibeyi (US debut), Jane Lynch, John Early, The Hot Sardines, Madisen Ward & The Mama Bear (NYC debut), Beth Malone, Michael Cerveris, Ron Rifkin, Kool Keith, Cristin Milioti and Leslie Odom Jr. Additionally, the Pub hosts productions in The Public’s downtown season, including this season’s ROCK BOTTOM and JOSEPHINE & I, productions at Under the Radar, and Public Forum.
DRAMA CLUB: Seagulls by Caryl Churchill OCTOBER 26, 2014
PUBLIC FORUM
DRAMA CLUB: The Good Book by Denis O’Hare & Lisa Peterson SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
Public Forum presents the theater of ideas: conversations and performances with leading voices in politics, media, and the arts. Throughout the year, Public Forum enhanced the conversations we began in our downtown season through curated evenings of performance and dialogue during the run of select productions.
DUET: Alison Bechdel & Jonathan Lethem OCTOBER 27, 2014 DRAMA CLUB: Protest by Vaclav Havel NOVEMBER 9, 2014
Highlights from every Public Forum in the 2014-2015 season were made available online immediately following each event. Watch them on The Public’s YouTube.
DRAMA CLUB: The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder DECEMBER 14, 2014 DRAMA CLUB: An Evening with Desdemona & Emilia MARCH 16, 2015
Praised for highlighting themes of domestic violence in Huffington Post’s “Most Powerful Domestic Violence Moments of the Year.”
DRAMA CLUB: Celebrating 50 Years of Fighting For Justice with El Teatro Campesino APRIL 13, 2015 DRAMA CLUB: Antigone by Sophocles MAY 10, 2015 OUR DRONE WAR MAY 19, 2015
BEYOND THE STAGE
While FUN HOME prepared to open on Broadway and FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE played in the Newman Theater, authors Alison Bechdel (Fun Home, Are You My Mother?) and Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude, Dissident Gardens) came together to discuss storytelling, graphic novels, and what it’s like to see their lives turned into musicals.
El Teatro Campesino founder Luis Valdez and a cast of major Latino talents and thinkers joined Public Forum to discuss whether art can change social policy. This Forum celebrated the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding on the front lines of the Delano Grape Strike in 1965.
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social practice, the Festival fills The Public for 10 days of performance and discussion that point to the future of the art form. 2015 marked the Festival’s 11th year.
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2015 Companies in the Festival Agrupación Señor Serrano (SPAIN) Daniel Fish (USA) Companhia Hiato / Leonardo Moreira (BRAZIL) Under the Radar Festival provides a Marie-Caroline Hominal (SWITZERLAND) high-visibility platform to support Taylor Mac (USA) artists from diverse backgrounds Mehr Theatre Group / Amir Reza Koohestani (IRAN) who are redefining the act of making Mariano Pensotti (ARGENTINA) theater. Showcasing artists from Toshi Reagon (USA) Stan’s Café (UK) around the world, richly distinct Ikechukwu Ufomadu (USA) in perspectives, aesthetics, and Reggie Watts (USA)
“The Devised Theater Working Group helped us widen our lens and think more deeply and intentionally about what we’re doing.” DarkMatter, DTWG Artist
2015 Devised Theater The Devised Theater Initiative Working Group Companies: extends the activities of UTR Lucy Alibar year-round at The Public. This year Katherine Brook + Shonni Enelow / TELE-VIOLET we launched the Devised Theater DarkMatter Working Group, bringing together The Deconstructive Theatre Project artists who are creating new notions, Daniel Koren The Mighty Third Rail and PUBLIQuartet visions, and rhythms of theater, James Harrison Monaco & Jerome Ellis from real-time film to the spoken Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble
word, from absurdist comedy to scifi concerts. Their work is featured in the Incoming! series at UTR.
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The 2015 Under the Radar Festival was made possible with the generous support of the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
EARLY STAGINGS & WORKSHOPS The Time Warner Foundation is the Founding Sponsor of the Emerging Writers Group.
Public Studio FIDELIS by Christina Gorman
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NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT
Each year, The Public works with hundreds of artists at every stage of their careers on projects at every stage of development. Our relationships throughout the artistic community are lifelong and the bedrock of the work we produce each year. From reading a first script to fully realized productions, this is a snapshot of our new play development activities over the past 12 months.
FULL PRODUCTIONS
Many shows developed at The Public receive a full production on one of our six stages and often go on to a future life, including cast recordings, tours, and Broadway runs.
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BEYOND THE PUBLIC
BEYOND THE PUBLIC
This year, four of The Public’s recent productions came to life beyond our stages. After beginning their journeys at The Public, we are proud to share these productions with the world.
APPLE FAMILY PLAYS
Toured Germany, Austria, UK 4/23 – 5/23/14
HERE LIES LOVE Opened in London 10/14/14
FUN HOME
2015 Tony Best Musical
HAMILTON
Opened on Broadway 8/6/15
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Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director), Arielle Tepper Madover (Board Chair), and Patrick Willingham (Executive Director)
BOARD & STAFF
THE BOARD OF Oskar Eustis Liev Schreiber Joseph Papp† Speaker of the New TRUSTEES Stephen L. Feinberg Alexandra Shiva HONORARY COUNCIL York City Council CHAIR Hilary C. Feshbach Warren J. Spector Laurie Beckelman Honorable Tom Arielle Tepper Madover Candia Fisher Steven C. Taub Colin Callender Finkelpearl VICE CHAIR Faith E. Gay Teresa Tsai Joan K. Davidson Commissioner, Pat Fili-Krushel Anne Hathaway Grace Lyu Morgan Freeman Department of TREASURER Kevin Kline Volckhausen Ruth W. Houghton Cultural Affairs Jim Steinberg Debby Landesman Robin Wagner Gil Shiva Honorable Mitchell SECRETARY Ashley Leeds Sam Waterston George C. Wolfe Silver Gail Merrifield Papp Barbara Manocherian Audrey Wilf EX-OFFICIO Commissioner, New TRUSTEES Julio Peterson Timothy Wilkins Honorable Bill de York City Renée Beaumont Lisa Garcia Quiroz Frances Wilkinson Blasio Department of Parks Andrea E. Bernstein Charlotte Relyea Patrick Willingham Mayor of the City of and Recreation Zach Buchwald Wendi Rose Anne Clarke Wolff New York CHAIRMEN EMERITI Gordon J. Davis, Esq. Lizanne Rosenstein FOUNDER Honorable Melissa Kenneth B. Lerer Eric Ellenbogen Mark Rosenthal Mark-Viverito Warren J. Spector †Deceased
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WE ARE ONE PUBLIC ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Casting Associate: DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC Director, Individual and Fields OSKAR EUSTIS Kate Murray WORKS AND RESIDENT Major Gifts: Sandra Major Gifts Consultant: Casting Assistant: DIRECTOR: Klass Hueskes EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Jan Gura Rebecca Feldman LEAR deBESSONET PATRICK WILLINGHAM Senior Development Telefundraising Associate Director of Officer, Institutional Executive Assistant to the Casting Intern: Representatives: Ari Rudess Public Works: Partnerships: Artistic Director: Norma Cesler, Ellen Laurie Woolery Alex Tonetta Leah Cloney-Matthes Liberty, A.G. Lommerse Public Works Associate: Associate Director, Administrative Chief of DIRECTOR OF THE Sarah E.R. Grosman Development Staff: Rosalind Barbour DEVISED THEATER CHIEF FINANCIAL Public Works Community Administration: Administrative Assistant to INITIATIVE/ OFFICER: Leslie Brand Impact Coordinator: CO-DIRECTOR OF THE the Artistic Director RACHEL PIVNICK Shariffa Ali Corporate Relations UNDER THE RADAR and Executive Director: Director of Finance: Manager: FESTIVAL: Ellen Shadburn Public Works Interns: Danny Williams Marquez Andrews MEIYIN WANG Alexandra Daniels, Strategy and Planning Director of Human Donor Systems Eden Schwartz Co-Director of the Under Manager: Ciara Murphy Resources: Liz Sharp Manager: Jason Cabral Director of IT: the Radar Festival: Executive Office Intern: Mark Russell Institutional Giving Rhiannon Tasker Resident Artists: Arthur Pinori Under the Radar Tarell Alvin McCraney, Manager: MASTER WRITER CHAIR: Tessitura Business Kristen Gongora Associate Director: Daniel Sullivan SUZAN-LORI PARKS Services Manager: Andrew Kircher Individual Giving Director Of Voice And Frances O’Connell Devised Theater Speech: Andrew Wade Manager: ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC Controller: Sara Harris Gina Napolitano Initiative Program Shakespeare Scholar In DIRECTOR: Accounts Payable Assistant: Development Manager: Administrator: Residence: MANDY HACKETT Lily Lamb-Atkinson Becca Niemeyer James Shapiro Assistant to the Associate Josiah Grimm Donor Communications Payroll Administrator: Music Contractor In Artistic Director: Coordinator: DIRECTOR OF JOE’S Residence: Jack Phillips Moore Natalie Wirshbo Dani Lencioni PUB: SHANTA THAKE Dean Sharenow Literary Manager and Human Resources Development Manager, Associate Director of Assistant to the Master Associate: Gina Chung Special Events: Joe’s Pub: Writer Chair: Jesse Alick Director of Special Network Administrator: Brooke Benedetto Alex Knowlton Artistic Projects: Musical Theater Initiative Development Associate, Ian Malinowski Marketing Manager: Stephanie Ybarra Consultant: Ted Sperling Web Developer: Institutional Giving: Michele Renkovski Special Artistic Projects Literary Interns: Peter Appleby Kim Furano Press Manager: Assistant: Noah Rubenstein, Development Associate, IT Analyst: Joe Reecher Yuri Kwon Andrew Broussard Suzanne Willett Artist Relations Assistant Line Producer Individual Giving: SENIOR DIRECTOR OF Manager: Ben Easton to Mobile Shakespeare Kelsey Moriarty ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: MARKETING: Production Manager: Unit: Roxanna Barrios Research Associate: MARIA GOYANES TOM McCANN Susie Sofranko Assistant to the Associate Jon Shriver Director of Marketing: Development Assistant, Head Lighting Designer: DIRECTOR OF Producer: Jarrett Key Shannon Lacek Major Gifts: Ania Parks PUBLIC FORUM: Line Producer: Rachel Newman Art Direction and Senior Artist Relations & JEREMY McCARTER Jacob Padrón Development Assistant, Graphic Designer: Production Associate: Assistant Line Producer: Kirstin Huber Individual Giving: Ashley MaGee, Development Trent Anderson Michael Norton Membership and Jhani Randhawa Administrator: Associate Producer Intern: Press & Marketing Individual Giving Intern: Marketing Manager: Hemmendy Nelson Joshua Jaeger Reynaldi Lindner Lolong Caroline Lux Intern: Callie Baker Director of Special CASTING: JORDAN Digital Marketing Special Events Archival Artist: Events: Kristina Hoge THALER, HEIDI GRIFFITHS Michael Arthur Associate: Alaina Bono Assistant: Katharine House Photographer: Kevin Yatarola
Current as of August 2015
Burnell, Kate DeWall, Seasonal Assistant Marketing Associate: Keli Goff, , Glenn Gordon, Associate Production Sal Nicosia Managers: Chris David Shum Elizabeth Irwin, Paola Manager: Caity Joy Capozzi, Marissa Colon Lázaro-Muñoz, Patricia Graphic Designer and Assistant Production House Managers: Photographer: Tammy Manager: Leandro Zaneti Director of Operations Ione Lloyd, Jiehae Park, Ricardo Pérez González, Allegra Cottone, Shell Production Administrator: and Facility Stefanie Febus, Jennifer Kelly Moore Management: Ishmael Sarah Sander Junior Graphic Designer: Gaspard, Kat Glaudini, (Izee) Figueroa Kameron Neal Assistant to the Lourdes Mendez, SPECIAL SERVICES Operations Manager: Marketing Assistant: Production Executives: Michael Raymond, Helen Bennett Michael Finnigan Organizational Gabriel Lozada Michelle Resto Development Consultant: Building Engineers: Sponsorship Consultant: Production Office Emergency Assistants: Susan Adam Rose Polidoro Assistant: Rachel London Winslow Harrington, Bonnie Davis, Jeff Louis D Gioppo Managing Partner of Marketing Intern: Programming Budget Deglow, Joseph Fusco, Manager: Joe’s Pub LLC: Assistant Building Heather O’Donovan Casey Cordon Peter Kendall, Kevin Abbott Engineer: Jefferson Scenery Supervisor: Karen Lichtman, Anne David Aguilar Associate Managers: Joseph Powell Director of Marie Neisler, Megan K.B. Berton, Ali Grieb, Communications: Assistant Scenery Rogers, Manny Vega, Christine McKenna, Housekeeping Candi Adams Supervisors: Mary Beth Jeffrey Vizcaino Supervisor: Rob Resto Jersey Katz Griffin, Jason Paradine Senior Press Manager: GENERAL MANAGER: Assistant Housekeeping Zachary Faulisi, Chef of Julie Danni Charge Painter: JEREMY ADAMS The Public Supervisor: Amparo Hugh Morris-Stan Associate Press Manager: Assistant General Institutional Design: Lopez De Nova Laura Rigby Scene Shop Foreman: Manager: Operations Assistants: Pentagram/Paula Scher Aaron Treat Elisabeth Bayer Photographers: George E. Darnell Brown, Costume Master: Director of Ticket Services: General Management Joseph, Joan Marcus, Adonis Garcia, Javier Luke McDonough Administrator: Jimmy Godsey Morales, Jose Paulino, Carol Rosegg, Martha Emily Hammond Cook Costume Shop Manager: Box Office Manager: Swope, Simon Luethi Hector Rivera, Vanessa Watters Senior Company Zachary Ford Attorneys: Davis Wright Cleaners: Frank Fried, Manager: Costume Shop Foreman: Associate Box Office Tremaine LLP/Graham Efrain Martinez, Alba Rebecca Sherman Megan McAfee Manager: Anthony Conty Coleman; Mitchell Mendez, Aracelis Company Manager: Audio Supervisor: Call Center Manager: Silberberg & Knupp LLP/ Mendez, Luisa Varga, Liza Witmer Corrine Livingston Kate Longosky Gerald T. Hathaway; Giodani Collado Assistant Company Assistant Audio Proskauer Rose LLP/Allan Head Call Center Front Desk Manager: Supervisor: Matt Bell, Bloom; Gibson, Dunn & Representative: Administrator: Eric Heather Lessard Malachy Kronberg, Crutcher LLP/ Andrew Kaleda Davis Delgado, Jasmine Ford Kenien Spann General Management Lance; Venable LLP / Ticket Services Staff: Information Desk: Intern: Spencer Lutvak Susan E. Golden, Sharon Video Supervisor: David Armstrong, Iyanna Jose Paulissen-Dougan, M. Connelly Bryan Maier Betaudier, Jay Bush, Andy Reinhardt Capital Projects Jessica Cauttero, Audio/Video Office PRODUCTION Consultant: Denham Wolf Echevarria, Joseph Ford, Assistant: EXECUTIVE: Script Readers: Bethany Fustos, Carrie Miller Freeman RUTH E. STERNBERG House Physician: Ben Beckley, Brendan Brian LaPerche, Brandon Audio/Visual Shop Associate Production Leonard, David Loewy, Dr. Bruce Yaffe O’Sullivan, Lizzy Perkins, Foreman: Sean Kraft Executive: Accountants: Dominique Brillon, Marvin Rodriguez, Angela Delaney Kircher Properties Master: Lutz & Carr LLP Jessica Owens, Laura Josh Rozett, Derek Smith, Senior Production R. Jay Duckworth Caton, Lauren Keating, Architectural Consultant: Bryna Turner Manager: Jim Szekely Prop Shop Manager: Michele Travis, Rebecca Ennead Architects Sara Swanberg Production Managers: Wear, Samantha Egle, Insurance: Arthur J. Theater Manager: Jonathan Grenay, Tom Herman Gallagher Risk Lighting Supervisor: Richard C. Denney III Jonathan Pellow, Management Services/ Zach Murphy 2014-15 Emerging Jeff Harris AliceFay Prine Writers Group: Kevin Assistant Lighting Artigue, Damon Chua, Supervisors: Holly
12% Special Events 9% Corporations
THE LUESTHER T. MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST
2% Members 5% Summer Supporters
26% Foundations
Provides Leadership Support for the Public Theater’s Year-Round Activities
20% Partners & Young Partners
THE PHILIP AND JANICE LEVIN FOUNDATION
Lead Supporter of The Public’s Access & Engagement Programming
7% Government 19% Major Gifts, Trustees & Production Supporters
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT: Gary K. Lippman Tiger Baron Foundation $500,000+ Steinberg Charitable Trust Frederick Loewe TodayTix The Blavatnik Family The Andrew and Dana Foundation Foundation Stone Family Foundation Anne Clarke Wolff William & Aimee Maroney Theater Subdistrict Ford Foundation Anonymous (2) Council, LDC Sally Klingenstein Martell The LuEsther T. Mertz $25,000 - $49,999 Time Warner Inc. Charitable Trust Diane & Adam Max Renée Beaumont The Tow Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon McKinsey & Company, Inc. Andrea & Tom Bernstein Foundation Teresa Tsai MetLife Foundation The Blackstone Group Bernard & Anne Spitzer Venable LLP Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Zach Buchwald & Buddy $100,000 - $499,999 Newhouse Audrey and Zygi Wilf Hammonds Patty & Jay Baker Anonymous (4) Luigi Caiola & Sean McGill The Jerome A. & Estelle R. Newman Assistance Fund Bank of America $50,000 - $99,999 Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. News Corporation Timothy & Michele Barakett American Council of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Foundation Matt Pincus & Sarah Min Learned Societies The Hamilton LLP Bloomberg Philanthropies George T. Delacorte Fund Playwrights of New York Consolidated Edison for Maintenance The New York Community Lisa Garcia Quiroz Company of New York, Inc. One57 and Extell Trust - The George Judith B. Resnick Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Development Company T. Delacorte Fund for Performance at the The Ruth Easton Fund of the Gordon J. Davis and Peggy The David Rockefeller Fund Cooper Davis Delacorte Theater in Edelstein Family Foundation Wendi Rose Central Park Debevoise & Plimpton LLP May & Samuel Rudin Family Edgerton Foundation Delta Air Lines Foundation Scott M. Delman Stephen Feinberg & Doris Duke Charitable Celia Rumsey The Gladys Krieble Delmas Susan Foote Foundation Foundation Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Susan Edelstein James G. Dinan Samuels Foundation, Inc. Anne & Adam Shulman Hilary & Joe Feshbach Eric Ellenbogen Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Faith Gay Candia Fisher LLP EMC Arts Herman Goldman Foundation The Howard Gilman Skadden, Arps, Slate, Barbara H. Freitag Foundation Meagher & Flom LLP The Horace W. Goldsmith Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver Foundation Rhoda R. Herrick Warren Spector & & Jacobson LLP Margaret Whitton Ashley Leeds and The Philip and Janice Levin Gail Furman Christopher M. Harland Foundation Jim & Lori Steinberg Rebecca Gold The Ian Madover & The New York Community The Ira and Leonore S. Roslyn Goldstein Arielle Tepper Madover Trust Gershwin Philanthropic Family Foundation Fund Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, The Marc Haas Foundation JANA Partners LLC Barbara Manocherian Wharton & Garrison LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Joel Isaacson & Co., LLC The Henry and Marilyn Taub Stavros Niarchos Penguin Random House Foundation Foundation Mark Rosenthal & Kirkland & Ellis Foundation Lisa Roumell Alexandra Shiva & Judi & Douglas Krupp Sally K. Tycher Jonathan Marc Sherman The SHS Foundation Pat Fili-Krushel & The Walt Disney Company The Shubert Foundation Kenneth Krushel Robert Sterling Clark Timothy A. Wilkins Foundation Debby & Rocco Landesman The Harold & Mimi Frances & Frank Wilkinson Steven & Benay Taub Jayne Lipman & Anonymous (6) Robert Goodman TIDE
THE IAN MADOVER & ARIELLE TEPPER MADOVER FAMILY FOUNDATION THE HAROLD & MIMI STEINBERG NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT FUND
At The Public Theater Supports the Creation & Development of New Plays
14/15 SEASON SPONSORS
Nearly $22 million in contributions supported our work over the past year:
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