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DEAR FRIENDS, Welcome to Other Desert Cities. This literate and thoughtful play by one of America’s most produced living playwrights drops us in the middle of a tumultuous family holiday. Emotions run high, dialogue cuts deep, and the wit is well-barbed with biting humor. I hope you enjoy it as much I enjoyed directing it. I’m pleased to announce that our 2015-16 season, our 43rd, will be filled with comedy, drama, classics, new work, and feature America’s finest theatre artists. We begin with a great comedy, The Underpants, a farcical romp from that wild and crazy funnyman Steve Martin. For the holidays we’ll revisit the family classic and high-flying favorite Peter Pan, a stellar

Next we invite you to enjoy Stupid F***ing Bird, a decidedly 21st century riff on The Sea Gull, direct from the adventurous and award-winning Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. Stupid Bird has been revived twice in Washington to sold-out houses, and after Syracuse it will move on to Portland, Oregon. After that we will present the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Based on Harper Lee’s cherished novel, this story of courage and justice speaks poignantly to us today as we continue to work toward fulfilling the promise of an America for all. Next up is a new play, The Christians, by a playwright to watch, Lucas Hnath. Set in a contemporary mega-church and performed as a Sunday service complete with a choir, this play asks questions about faith while recognizing the answers are not at all simple. The most talked about play at the Actors Theatre of

Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays, The Christians will soon be slated for productions next season in New York, Los Angeles, and right here. To close the season, Sherlock Holmes takes the stage in Ken Ludwig’s deliriously funny spoof Baskerville. In the style of The 39 Steps and Around the World in 80 Days, five actors portray a myriad of roles, including of course Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this reverent but hysterical send-up of the Arthur Conan Doyle tale The Hound of the Baskervilles Please join us next season, and remember subscribing is the best way to guarantee you’ll enjoy each and every moment of great theatre. Thank you so much for your support of Syracuse Stage, have a great summer, and I look forward to seeing you this fall.

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Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theatre, New York City, 2010. Other Desert Cities is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. April 8 - 26, 2015

CAST

D’Arcy Dersham.......................................................Brooke Wyeth Barbara Broughton.......................................................Polly Wyeth Ned Schmidtke..........................................................Lyman Wyeth Dori Legg................................................................Silda Grauman Joel Reuben Ganz..........................................................Trip Wyeth SETTING

The Wyeth home, Palm Springs, CA, December 24, 2004.

There will be one fifteen-minute intermission.

PERFORMANCE SPONSORSHIP

Mary & Larry Leatherman, April 10, Opening Night Elaine & Michael Shende, April 10, Opening Night Margaret, Susan, Amy & Bob Currier, April 15, 7:30 pm Bill & Nancy Byrne, April 17, 8 pm Drs. Elinor Spring-Mills & Darvin Varon, April 25, 8 pm Margaret, Susan, Amy & Bob Currier, April 25, 8 pm

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Assistant Lighting Designer: Michael Blagys Stage Management Apprentice: Marisa Andrews Stage Management Journeyman: Erin C Brett Sound Apprentice: Jade Taggart Electrics Apprentice: Ann Archer Wardrobe Supervisor: Sarah Stark Dresser: Christine McBurney Official Hotels for Guest Artists: The Genesee Grande Hotel, Parkview Hotel

Other Desert Cities is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The actors and stage manager in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

A NOTE FROM DIRECTOR TIMOTHY BOND ON FIRST EXPOSURE to Other Desert Cities a couple of years ago, I was struck by the love, humor, political sparring, and fragile emotions shared among the five characters that inhabit the play. Set in Palm Springs, California, the events of the play occur on a single day, Christmas Eve of 2004, but the memories and the arguments of the play span the period from Vietnam to the post-9/11 invasion in Iraq. I grew up in California in the 70s and was a teenager during that tumultuous time of societal upheaval, protest, and Ronald Reagan’s second term as governor. Other Desert Cities reignites in my memory 16

many family arguments that I witnessed and negotiated as the designated clown-peacemaker in my family. Jon Robin Baitz has penned a play that resonates deeply for those of us who lived through the travails of the 60s and 70s, and yet it speaks with profound and timely relevance as it echoes many of the arguments that plague and define our partisan divided nation today. In these perilous times, when we Americans seem horribly polarized politically and socially, it is fascinating to witness these divisions dramatized within the construct of the family, which is for all of us our first society. “Families get terrorized by

 Timothy Bond

their weakest member.” Playwright Baitz is a master of stating unarticulated truths that trigger in each of us memories of and personal reflections upon our own particular family’s secrets, while also binding us together collectively. In Other Desert Cities, the Wyeth family has a writer in its midst. I suspect nearly every family has secrets that have been deemed too dangerous or damaging to be spoken, let alone

written about and made public. The consequences of maintaining family secrets or seeking to reveal explosive truths are seemingly catastrophic to the psychic survival of the family and its members. As an artist, I find this play poses very potent and troubling questions: When is seeking the truth about family secrets off limits? Who determines what family 17

In these perilous times, when we Americans seem horribly polarized politically and socially, it is fascinating to witness these divisions dramatized within the construct of the family, which is for all of us our first society. stories get told? What is a writer’s responsibility to her family and to her art? Other Desert Cities confronts the Wyeths and all of us with these and other compelling questions. Humorous and harrowing, Jon Robin Baitz has given us an emotionally complex family drama that frightens and comforts us with its central truth: Whether we name it or not, whatever we’re in, we’re in it together.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE BY JOSEPH WHELAN A TROUBLING MEMoir of a troubled family relationship is at the center of Other Desert Cities. Written by Brooke, the adult daughter of Polly and Lyman Wyeth, the as yet unpublished manuscript contains an account of a deeply painful time from the family’s past. Not everyone is eager to revisit the episode, especially as rendered in prose and offered for public consumption. Publish or not? Either way, someone will be hurt. What the Wyeth family experiences might be considered a chief occupational hazard of the memoir and the memoir writer. As the poet Czesław Miłosz once said, “When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.” This seems 18

especially likely for families of writers who publish the kind of personal memoir under consideration in Other Desert Cities. Fiction writers can disguise people, places, and events in any number of inventive ways. Though the memoirist may rightly claim that a memoir is a literary representation of memory and not history, there is no denying that readers have an expectation of truthfulness if not necessarily factual fidelity. Some may have faulted Frank McCourt for reconstructing dialogue he could not possibly have remembered verbatim from when he was a child in his crib, but no one doubted the essential truth of Angela's Ashes or the accuracy of his portraits of the people involved.

Photo: Patrick Weishampel

 Joel Reuben Ganz and D’Arcy Dersham in Other Desert Cities.

As the poet Czesław Miłosz once said, “When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.” This seems especially likely for families of writers who publish the kind of personal memoir under consideration in Other Desert Cities. As a literary genre, the personal memoir is quite old and has its origins in shame. As Daniel Mendelsohn notes in a 2010 New Yorker article, “It all started late one night in 371 A.D., in a dusty North African town miles from anywhere worth going, when a rowdy sixteen-

year-old—the offspring of an interfaith marriage, with a history of bad behavior—stole some pears off a neighbor’s tree.” The rowdy youth, a miscreant named Aurelius Augustinus, eventually made good and is better known today as St. 19

Augustine. The book his thievery inspired is called Confessions. The stolen fruit, it turned out, was not so sweet. While Augustine admitted that he delighted in the thrill of being bad (“I loved my own undoing.”), his youthful indiscre-

In his own Confessions, the French philosophe Jean Jacques Rousseau shifts the emphasis from the kind of religious awakening experienced by Augustine to a more secular and literary unburdening of guilt: “. . . the desire to be in some measure relieved of [my burden] has greatly contributed to the decision I have taken to write my confessions.” As a reflection of changing times, the spiritual journey of Augustine became the personal exposé of Rousseau and set the stage for what Mendelsohn calls

 Karl Ove Knausgaard. Photo: André Løyning.

tion haunted him into adulthood and impelled him to undertake a candid examination of his early life. The resulting Confessions chronicled Augustine’s uncertain progress from dissolution to spiritual awakening, and thereby introduced what would become one familiar template for memoirists for centuries to come: the tale of redemption.

a “kind of therapeutic purge”, which for a while seemed to dominate the form and continues to thrive today (some critics might say ad nauseum). Although it is a literary hybrid, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s international phenomenon My Struggle certainly embraces this confessional tradition, with accompanying collateral damage. His six volume, autobio20

graphical novel is in some regard fiction, but it is undoubtedly, and admittedly by the author, an unflinching memoir, an excruciatingly detailed account of the author’s life that includes sometimes brutally frank portraits of those closest to him. Like Augustine and Rousseau, Knausgaard acknowledges that his motivation for writing My Struggle derived from an overwhelming sense of personal shame

“Writing is a way of getting rid of shame,” he continued. “When you write the whole idea is to be free." and a need to grapple with it. “I think ultimately it has to do with showing something that shouldn’t be seen,” he explained in an interview in The Guardian. “Writing is a way of getting rid of shame,” he continued. “When you write the whole idea is to be free. And what are you free from? From people looking at you. I think shame is an essential mechanism in social life. It regulates everything and makes people behave in a decent and appropriate way to each other. But I have kind of too much, an overdose.” He adds, that from the writer’s perspective, “concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.” Knausgaard has his critics, to be sure, but

he has his defenders as well, and the international success of My Struggle certainly indicates that his unflinching approach has led him to something of value. It also led him straight into conflict with a number of family members who were deeply offended by the work, particularly at Knausgaard’s portrayal of his late father. “Judas literature” is how 14 members of Knausgaard’s family described My Struggle in a letter to the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen. The writer’s wife Linda Bostrom, herself a writer and poet, suffered a breakdown as a result the tumultuous fallout following publication of the first two volumes. Bostrom and Knausgaard left 21

Norway and now live in Sweden with their young children. For his part, Knausgaard says that in hurting those close to him, he can’t help but feel he has done the wrong thing: “It fills me with sadness every time I talk about it.” Such is the difficult nature of the serious memoir and the risk for the serious writer. As teacher and author Susan Shapiro cautions would-be memoirists: “. . . while readers will applaud your brave, tumultuous disclosures, your relatives won’t. The first piece you write that your family hates means you found your voice. If you want to be popular with your parents and siblings,” she adds, “try cookbooks.”

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CAST Barbara Broughton (Polly Wyeth) is pleased to be making her debut at Syracuse Stage. Her Broadway credits include the original Sunday in the Park with George and Music Music at City Center Theatre. Among her numerous Off Broadway credits are Grey Gardens at Playwrights Horizons, Concertina’s Rainbow at Cherry Lane Theatre, A Little Night Music at The York Theatre and The Red Truck at Epic Theatre. Some of her favorite regional roles include Big Edie in Grey Gardens (Studio Theatre D.C.), Mrs. Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (Dallas Theatre Center), Marianne in The Bird Sanctuary (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Emilia in The Comedy of Errors (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly (Hangar Theatre), Mercy Lott in Humble Boy (BoarsHead Theatre), Ester in The Price (Northern Stage), Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady (Pioneer Theatre), and Mme. De Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Annabelle in George Washington Slept Here (The Pittsburgh Public Theatre). National Tours: Sarah (Company), George M!. Television/Film: Law & Order, The Sunset Gang (PBS), and The Producers.

pany (The Sisters Rosensweig); Trinity Repertory Company (Social Creatures, House & Garden, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Christmas Carol, The Syringa Tree, Absurd Person Singular, Homebody/Kabul, Dinner with Friends); Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (Body Awareness, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom); The Vineyard Playhouse (Hotline, To Kill a Mockingbird, Irene’s Riff); Perishable Theatre (1:23, Falling Up, Lazarus Disposed); Elemental Theatre Collective (A Bright Room Called Day, Amadeus, King Stag); Trinity Summer Shakespeare (The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors). A graduate of Trinity Rep Conservatory's M.F.A. Acting Program, D’Arcy also holds a B.A. in Dramatic Literature from Oberlin College, and studied physical theatre under Jacques Lecoq at L’École Internationale de Théâtre in Paris. Voice and Speech faculty at the Brown/Trinity M.F.A. Program for eight years, and proud member of Actors Equity Association since 2002. With unending gratitude to all of my parents, whose support has meant everything to me. And for Billy. Joel Reuben Ganz (Trip Wyeth) Mr. Ganz is excited to make his Syracuse Stage debut and to continue the run of this fantastic production after its run at Portland Center Stage. He appeared on Broadway in War Horse (Lincoln Center Theater). Other New York credits include Macbeth (Lincoln Center

D’Arcy Dersham (Brooke Wyeth). Syracuse Stage debut. Work at other theatres includes: Portland Center Stage (Other Desert Cities); Merrimack Repertory Theatre (Dusk Rings a Bell); Portland Stage Com-

CAST Theater Educational), and The Clown Play (New York Fringe Festival). Regionally, Mr. Ganz appeared in Measure for Pleasure (Woolly Mammoth); Othello (The Shakespeare Theatre Company); The Book Club Play and Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Shear Madness and The Lisbon Traviata (The Kennedy Center); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Round House Theatre); The Death of Meyerhold and Take Me Out (Studio Theatre); Pangs of the Messiah, Honey Brown Eyes, and The Admission (Theater J); and The Illusion (Actor’s Express). Television credits include Unforgettable on CBS and What Would You Do? on ABC. Mr. Ganz is an associate artist with Faction of Fools, a commedia dell’arte troupe in Washington, D.C. Internationally, he worked on productions in Scotland, France, and Corsica. He received his B.A. in Theatre Studies from Emory University and his graduate degree from the International Theater School of Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. Mr Ganz teaches movement technique and works as a movement and aesthetics consultant. www.joelreubenganz.com

County, Enchanted April, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Prides Crossing, Glorious; Arena Stage: The Women; Folger Shakespeare Theatre: Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Melissa Arctic; Interact Theatre: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Letter, Great Expectations, Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, Christmas at the Old Bull and Bush; Humana Festival: This Beautiful City; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Recent Tragic Events (Helen Hayes nomination); Triad Stage: Snow Queen, Brother Wolf; Round House Theatre: Season’s Greetings, Escape from Happiness; Delaware Theatre: Diary of Anne Frank; Two River Theatre: Barefoot in the Park. Film: The Daft Penguin, El Camino, Double Negative, Guilty As Charged. TV: Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: CI, Homicide, As the World Turns, Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Ned Schmidtke (Lyman Wyeth) is delighted to be making his debut at Syracuse Stage and to be working again with director Timothy Bond. Recent stage appearances include You Can’t Take It With You, The Curse of Oedipus, Macbeth, and Tonight At Eight Thirty (Antaeus Company, Los Angeles); Loot (Ensemble Theatre Company, Santa Barbara); and Groundswell, The Pleasure of his Company, Sea of Tranquility, A Body of Water, Blue/ Orange, and Pericles (Old Globe Theatre, San Diego). Ned has worked two seasons at the Oregon

Dori Legg (Silda Grauman). NY: Syracuse Stage: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Toy Box Theatre: The Short Fall; Origin Theatre: Shaving the Pickle. Regional: Actor’s Theatre Of Louisville: Noises Off; Fulton Theatre: August: Osage

CAST Shakespeare Festival, as well as at the Utah, Illinois, and Stratford (Canada) Shakespeare festivals. Other regional credits include the Goodman and Steppenwolf theatres in Chicago, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Washington D.C., The Huntington Theatre, Boston, and the Long Wharf, New Haven. He was in the Broadway and National Tour of Aren’t We All with Rex Harrison and Claudette Col-

bert and the National Tour of Six Degrees of Separation with Marlo Thomas. Recent films include The Change Up, Accepted, and Wedding Crashers. He has also made many, many appearances on both daytime and primetime television. Ned’s been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association for over forty years, and for much of that time has served as a member of Equity’s National Council.

A R T I S T I C S TA F F William Bloodgood (Scenic Designer). William Bloodgood’s work was seen earlier this season in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. Among his many previous designs for Syracuse Stage are recent productions of The Whipping Man, The Glass Menagerie, August Wilson's Radio Golf, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Red, and Caroline, or Change. Well known in American regional theatres, he has worked in many, including Arena Stage in Washington, DC, Arizona Theatre Company, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Alley Theatre in Houston, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre in Seattle, the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where he has designed the scenery for 150 productions. In 2011 he was honored to design the Unites States national exhibit for the Prague Qua-

drennial of Performance and Space Design. He is the recipient of many awards for his designs, including the Oregon Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2002. Currently, he is a professor of scene design at the University of Texas at Austin. Devon Painter (Costume Designer) lives in Bradley Beach, New Jersey, and pinches herself often that she gets to do this to earn a living. Highlights in her design career include work for the Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Geva Theatre Center, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Launch Pad at UCSB, Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, Contemporary American Theater Festival, and American Players Theater. She was associate costume designer to the Tony Award-winning Desmond Heeley on The Importance of Being Earnest in 2011. Her work

A R T I S T I C S TA F F was included in the exhibit Curtain Call; Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance. She is a proud member of United Scenic Artists.

Casi Pacilio (Sound Designer) keeps busy with a variety of work and play in Portland and around the country. Credits include Threesome, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Dreamgirls, The Last Five Years, Othello, A Small Fire, Chinglish, Twist Your Dickens (2013 and 2014), The Mountaintop, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma!, The North Plan, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline, Black Pearl Sings!, Opus, futura (with composer Jana Losey), Ragtime (PAMTA Award 2010), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Snow Falling on Cedars, Crazy Enough, The Little Dog Laughed, Sometimes a Great Notion, Cabaret, The Pillowman, I Am My Own Wife, West Side Story, Celebrity Row, and eight seasons of JAW. National shows: Holcombe Waller Surfacing and Wayfinders; Hand2Mouth Theatre credits: Left Hand of Darkness, My Mind is Like an Open Meadow (Drammy Award 2011), Something’s Got Ahold Of My Heart, and PEP TALK. Other theatrical credits include Squonk Opera’s BigsmorgasbordWunderWerk (Broadway, PS122, national and international touring); I Am My Own Wife, I Think I Like Girls (La Jolla Playhouse); Playland, 10 Fingers, and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (City Theatre, PA). Film credits include Creation of Destiny, Out of Our Time, and A Powerful Thang. Recordings: Glitterfruit’s fruit snacks.

Dawn Chiang (Lighting Designer). Dawn’s prior designs for Syracuse Stage include August Wilson's Two Trains Running, Blithe Spirit, The Boys Next Door, The Glass Menagerie, Rent, Little Women, Fiddler on the Roof, A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, M. Butterfly, and The Dybbuk. She has designed the lighting at numerous regional theatres including Arena Stage, Denver Center Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and the Guthrie Theater. On Broadway, Dawn designed the lighting for Zoot Suit, was co-designer for Tango Pasion, and associate lighting designer for Show Boat, The Life, and the original production of La Cage Aux Folles. Off-Broadway, she has designed for the Roundabout Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and co-designed the first two seasons of the Encores! concert musical series at New York City Center. Dawn was resident lighting designer for New York City Opera, where her designs included A Little Night Music and La Fanciulla del West. Awards include two Dramalogue Awards and nominations for an American Theatre Wing/Maharam Design Award, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and San Francisco Bay Area Drama Critics Circle Award.

A R T I S T I C S TA F F Stuart Plymesser (Production Stage Manager) is back for his eighteenth season at Syracuse Stage where he has stage managed more than 60 plays, musicals, and special events, working with such talents as Olympia Dukakis, Frank Langella, Elizabeth Franz, and Phylicia Rashad. Stuart has worked at numerous regional theatres around the country and in Cape Town, South Africa and has toured nationally. Locally, he has also stage managed events for Syracuse Fashion Week. In addition, Stuart is adjunct faculty for Syracuse University’s Department of Drama and has been a guest speaker/lecturer at Ithaca College, Wells College, SUNY Oswego, and the Zabalaza Festival in Cape Town. Stuart is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers, as well as the United States Aikido Federation. www.stuartplymesser.com.

WORK NOW, The Minetta Lane Theatre, The Women’s Project, La MaMa, E.T.C., New York Women in Film and Television, and The Jewish Repertory Theatre. She has cast the last three of the late August Wilson’s ten part play series: the original and touring productions of Radio Golf, the Broadway production of Gem of the Ocean, and the off-Broadway production of Jitney. Selected regional casting credits include: Syracuse Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, Trinity Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Longwharf Theatre, Alliance Theatre Company, The Goodman Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, Dallas Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and PlayMakers Repertory Theatre. Feature film credits include: Pushing Hands directed by Ang Lee, Underheat, starring Lee Grant, First We Take Manhattan, produced by Golden Harvest Inc., and Graves End, directed by Sal Stabile.

Harriet Bass (Casting) has been an independent New York casting director since 1989, casting for theatre, film, and television. In New York City Harriet has cast for ABC/TV, Fox Television Studios, Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre: NEW

P L AY W R I G H T Jon Robin Baitz. Jon Robin Baitz’s plays include The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, The End of the Day, Three Hotels, A Fair Country (Pulitzer Prize finalist 1996), Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Ten Unknowns, and The Paris Letter, as well as a version of Hed-

da Gabler (Broadway 2001). He created Brothers and Sisters, the TV series which ran for five seasons, until 2011. Other TV work includes PBS’ version of Three Hotels, for which he won the Humanitas Award, and episodes of The West Wing and Alias.

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P L AY W R I G H T He is the author of two screenplays: the film script for The Substance of Fire (1996) and People I Know (2002). He is a founding member of Naked Angels Theatre Company and on

the faculties of the M.F.A. programs at The New School for Drama, and SUNY Stony Brook/Southampton. His play Other Desert Cities won the Outer Critics Circle Award in 2011.

CO-PRODUCER Portland Center Stage inspires the Portland, Oregon community by bringing stories to life in unexpected ways. Founded in 1988, PCS is the city’s leading professional theatre and one of the top 20 largest regional theatre companies in the U.S. PCS attracts more than 150,000 theatregoers annually with its blend of classical, contemporary and premiere works, along with its summer playwrights festival, JAW. PCS also offers a variety of education and commu-

nity programs tailored for patrons of all ages. Our home, The Gerding Theater at the Armory houses the 590-seat U.S. Bank Main Stage and the 190-seat black box Ellyn Bye Studio. It was the first building on the National Register of Historic Places – and the first performing arts venue – to achieve a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certification. The Gerding Theater at the Armory opened to the public on Oct. 1, 2006.

DIRECTOR/PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Timothy Bond is in his eighth season as producing artistic director of Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Department of Drama. For Syracuse Stage he has directed Other Desert Cities, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, The Whipping Man, Two Trains Running, The Brothers Size, The Boys Next Door, Radio Golf, No Child..., Fences, The Price, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. He has 27 years experience in leading regional theatres throughout the country. Previously, he served for 11 years as associate artistic director of the famed Oregon Shakespeare Festival where

he directed 12 productions, including works by Shakespeare, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Lynn Nottage, Octavio Soliz, and Pearl Cleage. Prior to that, Bond spent 13 years with the Seattle Group Theatre, serving as artistic director from 1991 – 1996. While there he directed more than 20 plays including a number of world and West Coast premieres, and he oversaw the largest capital campaign in the company’s history, culminating in the completion of a new theatre complex in the Seattle Center. Bond has also directed at such prestigious theatres as The Guthrie, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville,

DIRECTOR/PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, A Contemporary Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and Geva Theatre. Bond received a Theatre Communications Group/ National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellowship Award and has twice won Backstage West’s Garland

Award for Outstanding Direction for Les Blancs (1998) and Blues for an Alabama Sky (1997). He served on the board of directors of the Theatre Communications Group from 1993 to 1997. Bond holds a BFA from Howard University and an MFA in directing from the University of Washington.

MANAGING DIRECTOR Jeffrey Woodward became the managing director of Syracuse Stage in 2008. For 17 years he served as the managing director for the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ. During his tenure, McCarter was honored with the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Woodward teaches Theatre Management in Syracuse University's Department of Drama and is a member of the board of the University Hill Corporation, the East Genesee

Regent Association, and CNY Arts. He has served on the Board of Trustees of Theatre Communications Group and as President of ArtPride New Jersey. He has also served as a panel chairman, panelist, and on-site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts. He has worked for Hartford Stage, the Mark Taper Forum, Northlight Theatre, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and served as a consultant to a number of organizations. He holds a BA from Pomona College and a MBA from New York University.

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turous, and entertaining productions of new plays, classics and musicals, and offer interactive education and outreach programs in Central New York.

square where renowned artists and audiences of all ages gather to celebrate our cultural richness, witness the many truths of our common humanity, and explore the transformative power of live theatre. Celebrating our 42nd season as a professional theatre in residence at Syracuse University, we create innovative, adven-

Vision: Syracuse Stage illuminates the

many truths of our common humanity through the transformative power of live theatre.

A B O U T S Y R A C U S E S TA G E Syracuse Stage is Central New York’s

These visiting artists are supported by a staff of artisans, technicians, educators, and administrators who are responsible for all facets of the theatre from building sets, props and costumes to marketing, development, and box office. A solid core of subscribers and supporters helps keep Syracuse Stage a vibrant artistic presence in Central New York. Year after year their support and patronage contribute to the success of the theatre. Additional support from government, foundations, corporations and Syracuse University helps to ensure the continued role of Syracuse Stage as a valued cultural resource for the community. Syracuse Stage is a constituent of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, and a member of the Arts and Cultural Leadership Alliance (ACLA), the University Hill Corporation and the East Genesee Regent Association.

premier professional theatre. Founded in 1974, Stage has produced more than 300 plays in 41 seasons including a number of world, American, and East Coast premieres. Each season 70,000 patrons enjoy an adventurous mix of new plays and bold interpretations of classics and musicals featuring the finest theatre artists. In addition, Stage maintains a vital educational outreach program that annually serves over 15,000 students throughout Central New York. Syracuse Stage is a member of The League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the largest professional theatre association in the country. America’s leading actors, directors and designers work and/or have worked at Stage including: Tony Award-winners Lillias White, Chuck Cooper and Elizabeth Franz, Emmy recipient Jean Stapleton, Sam Waterston, John Cullum, James Whitmore, Ben Gazzara and Ping Chong.

IN THE COMMUNITY An important aspect of the Syracuse Stage mission is to be an active partner and resource in the Central New York community. Each season Syracuse Stage is pleased to partner with a diverse group of community organizations in sponsoring and facilitating various programs, benefits and events. Ongoing and past partnerships include Arc of Onondaga, The

Burton Blatt Institute, ARISE, InterFaith Works of Central New York, Hospice of CNY, SUNY Upstate Medical/St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Onondaga County, The Learning Place, AIDS Community Resources, Syracuse Homes, The Chadwick Residence, The Child Care Council of Onondaga County, and Vera House, among others.

Angel Appeal 2014/15 SEASON

MAKE YOUR GIFT MATHER!

Kyle Anderson (center, as Corny Collins) and the Council Kids in Hairspray. Photographer Michael Davis.

By increasing your gift or making a new gift your support will be generously matched dollar for dollar by The Richard Mather Fund. Please make your commitment now and help Syracuse Stage bring the country’s leading theatre artists to our Stage and support educational programs that will reach more than 15,000 students this season.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL MEGGAN MADDEN AT 315.443.9848 OR VISIT WWW.SYRACUSESTAGE.ORG

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Syracuse Stage Gala

Avenue Q

Featuring Keb' Mo', Presented by the Syracuse Stage Board of Trustees and the Stage Guild June 19, 2015

Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx Book by Jeff Whitty Based on an Original Concept by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx Puppets Conceived and Designed by Rick Lyon Directed by Brian Cimmet Choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith April 24 – May 9 Opening Night: April 25

Three-time Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, guitarist and contemporary blues artist, Keb’ Mo’ will perform at Syracuse Stage’s Annual Gala. Over the past two decades Keb has cultivated a reputation as a modern master of American roots music through the understated excellence of his live and studio performances. His songs have been recorded by B.B. King, Buddy Guy, the Dixie Chicks, Joe Cocker and Robert Palmer. He’s collaborated with a host of other artists including Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, jazz diva Cassandra Wilson, Buddy Guy, Amy Grant, Solomon Burke and Little Milton. Keb also performs the theme song for the smash sit-com Mike & Molly and was music director for TV’s Memphis Beat.

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book, Avenue Q is part flesh (people), part felt (puppets) and packed with heart. This long-running Broadway hit is a laugh-out-loud musical that tells the story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets Kate (the girl next door), Rod (the Republican), Trekkie (the internet-surfing monster), Lucy the Slut (and proud of it), and other colorful types who help Princeton finally discover his purpose in life. A little bit naughty, a lot a bit nice, and with enough satire to satisfy the monster in all of us.

Gala evening includes cocktails, silent auction, dinner and concert. Call 315.443.2709 for more information. For concert tickets only call Syracuse Stage Box Office 315.443.3275 or SyracuseStage.org

S Y R A C U S E S TA G E B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S CHAIR

Ann Clarke* Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University

PRESIDENT

Pat Colabufo Human Resource Manager Wegmans Food Markets

Robert Pomfrey* President & CEO POMCO Group Louis G. Marcoccia* Executive VP & Chief Financial Officer Syracuse University VICE CHAIR

Janet Audunson* Senior Counsel National Grid VICE CHAIR

Fran Nichols* Vice Chair Eric Mower + Associates VICE CHAIR

Richard Driscoll Group Manager Commercial Real Estate Lending M&T Bank Ellen Kimatian Eagen Sandra Fenske VP & General Counsel Lockheed Martin Corporation Helene Gold Private Voice & Piano Instructor

Melvin T. Stith* Professor, Whitman School of Management Syracuse University

Nancy Green Investment Advisor Edward S. Green & Associates

TREASURER

Larry Harris EVP and CFO Saab Defense and Security, USA

Bea Gonzalez* Dean, University College Syracuse University SECRETARY

Rod McDonald* Bond, Schoeneck & King Dan Berman Partner HancockEstabrook, LLP Timothy J. Bond** Producing Artistic Director Syracuse Stage & SU Dept. of Drama Lorraine Branham Dean/Professor, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Syracuse University Sandra Brown President Grandma Brown’s Beans, Inc. Nancy Byrne Community Volunteer Brian Cimmet Professor of Practice/Music Director SU Department of Drama

Jeffrey Hoone Executive Director, Coalition of Museum & Arts Centers Syracuse University Brian Howard Private Bank Market Manager Key Bank John Huhtala Relationship Manager Middle Market Commercial Banking Chase Gregg Lambert Dean’s Professor of the Humanities Syracuse University Larry Leatherman President MOST

Samantha Millier Associate Attorney Mackenzie Hughes LLP Kevin O’Connor Sr. Resident Director & Sr. VP Investments Merrill Lynch Virginia Parker* Retired Educator Annette Peters Marketing Director Syracuse Media Group Linda Pitonzo Syracuse Stage Guild President James Reed Sr. VP Marketing & Sales Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Michelle Schultz Senior Director, HR Business Partner Human Resources AXA Richard Shirtz Regional President NBT Bank L. John Steigerwald IV Marketing and Sales Representative Cathedral Candle Company Sharon Sullivan* Community Volunteer Wanda Thompson Sr. VP of Operations Upstate Medical University Phil Turner Pastor Bethany Baptist Church Jeffrey Woodward** Managing Director Syracuse Stage

Vincent Love President 100 Black Men of Syracuse Inc.

Ralph Zito** Chair Syracuse University Department of Drama

Kevin R. McAuliffe Partner Hiscock & Barclay

Michael Zoanetti VP Senior Wealth Advisor Tompkins Financial Advisors

Suzanne McAuliffe Retired Educator

*Executive Committee **Ex-Officio

S Y R A C U S E S TA G E E M E R I T U S C I R C L E We are grateful to the following individuals who have served as Members of the Stage Board of Trustees and continue to support Syracuse Stage at the Circle level. Jim Breuer Mary Beth Carmen Eddie Green Joan Green Elizabeth Hartnett

Claude Incaudo Howard C. Johnson Jack Mannion Margaret Martin Eric Mower

Judy Mower Michael Shende Jack Webb

S Y R A C U S E S TA G E G U I L D B O A R D PRESIDENT

RECORDING SECRETARY

Linda Pitonzo

Mary O’Hara

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Sara Lowengard

Gretchen Goldstein

VICE PRESIDENT, MEMBERSHIP

Julia Martin VICE PRESIDENT, FUNDRAISING

Jacki Goldberg VICE PRESIDENT, PUBLICITY

Kelly Gardner TREASURER

Ray Abdella

Deborah Borenstein Elaine Cardone Roxanna Carpenter Terry Delavan Sandi DiBianco Marsha Ferrara Grace Flusche Donna Green

Jessica Humphreville Barbara Ianuzi Lauren Kochian Ellen Lautz Amy McHale Carol Minkstein Beverly Short Marian Stanton Jean Straub Melissa Vassenelli Maryam Wasmund Ginny Yerdon

S Y R A C U S E S TA G E E D U C AT I O N A D V O C A C Y B O A R D Sara Bambino

Patricia Farrington

William Preston

CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE

MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL

HIGH SCHOOL

Todd Benware

Joe Goldberg

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL

Elizabeth Defurio

Fred Montas

NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL

MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL

Kimberly Doan

Kathleen Pickard

AUBURN HIGH SCHOOL

BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

Jennifer Sabatino CATO-MERIDIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL

Y O U N G A D U LT C O U N C I L Kristina Bell

Anna Capria

Molly North

10TH GRADE, JAMESVILLE-DEWITT

11TH GRADE, BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

12TH GRADE, JAMESVILLE-DEWITT

HIGH SCHOOL

Katherine Benware 10TH GRADE, CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

Hayley Bermel 12TH GRADE, CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL

Lily Byrne

HIGH SCHOOL

Brennan Carman 11 GRADE, CHRISTIAN

Alizah Smith

BROTHERS ACADEMY

11TH GRADE, LAFAYETTE

BIG PICTURE SCHOOL

Rose Collins 11TH GRADE, CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

Michel Dadey

9TH GRADE, CATO-MERIDIAN

12TH GRADE, LAFAYETTE

HIGH SCHOOL

BIG PICTURE SCHOOL

Dana Tooney 11TH GRADE, CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

SEASON SUPPORTERS*

Richard Mather Fund

The John Ben Snow Foundation, Inc.

*Corporate, Foundation and Government support received in the last 12 months from $3,000 - $100,000 and above.

OTHER DESERT CITIES SPONSORS

The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation is happy to support the Syracuse Stage production of Other Desert Cities. We value what Syracuse Stage brings to the cultural fabric of Central New York, making it a better place to live and work. Congratulations on another exciting season of diverse plays. Hiscock and Barclay is a proud supporter of the communities in which we practice and strive to make them a better place to work and live. The arts are important contributors to the quality of life we enjoy. We wish the cast and crew of all Syracuse Stage productions our best wishes and look forward to another entertaining season! Carrier is proud to continue to support Syracuse Stage and is delighted to sponsor the mainstage play Other Desert Cities this season. We Salute Syracuse Stage for remaining committed to its mission of bringing such exceptional performances and educational programming of live theatre to our community for over 40 years. M&T Bank. Continuing a long tradition of supporting the arts in the CNY community, M&T is pleased to sponsor Syracuse Stage’s production of Other Desert Cities. M&T has always maintained strong support for civic and educational experiences and recognizes the need to be actively involved in helping to achieve a better quality of life in our community. Upstate Medical University. Syracuse Stage is widely recognized as a sparkling gem in the Central New York performing arts scene. Syracuse Stage has been uniquely successful its rich tradition of attracting stimulating stage productions and has provided educational and performance opportunities for students and artists alike. Upstate Medical University is proud to be a long-time supporter. We offer a standing ovation to our neighbor: Syracuse Stage.

S Y R A C U S E S TA G E A N N U A L G I F T S Syracuse Stage depends on the generosity of contributions from individuals, corporations, businesses, foundations and government agencies. It is with much gratitude that we recognize the following donors to our annual campaign. Contributors listed below represent donations received in the past twelve months. For information regarding levels of contribution and benefits of each please contact the Development office at 315.443.3931 or visit syracusestage.org

C O R P O R AT E H O N O R R O L L $100,000+ Syracuse University

WAERn WRVOn

$50,000 - $99,999 Genesee Granden Syracuse Media Group – Season Sponsor

$5,000 - $7,499 Carrier Corporation Chase – Sizwe Banzi is Dead Excellus BlueCross BlueShield – Hairspray Lockheed Martin Employees Federated Fund Scherzi Photography + Videon The SU Humanities Center presents as part of the 2014 Syracuse Symposium™ on Perspective – August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson Syracuse Stage Guild – In the Next Room, or the vibrator play Tompkins Financial Advisors Upstate Medical University – Other Desert Cities Wegmans – Educational Programs

$14,000 - $24,999 M&T Bank – Other Desert Cities, M&T Stage for All, Educational Programs, Syracuse Stage Gala 2015 POMCO Group – Presenting Sponsor, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike $7,500 - $13,999 Bank of America – Children’s Tour, Annabel Drudge Business Journal News Networkn Hiscock & Barclay – Other Desert Cities iHeart Median KeyBank N.A. – Hairspray Lockheed Martin MST – August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and Military Initiatives NBT Bank – Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Syracuse New Timesn Syracuse Stage Board of Trustees

 = INCREASED GIFT,

$2,800 - $4,999 Exelon Generation Phoebe’s Urban CNYn $1,500 - $2,799 National Grid Syracuse Blue Printn $1,000 - $1,499 Action Printwear, Inc. n

Cooper Crouse - Hinds McIntosh Box & Pallet Co., Inc. $500 - $999 Anoplate Corp. Eastern Security Service Merrill Lynch Law Office of Keith D. Miller L. & J.G. Stickley« $250 - $499 ACLS Mailing & Fulfillment Freeman Interiors Geddes Federal Savings Hebert Financial Strategies/ Dennis & Judy Hebert« Reeves Farms Smith Contemporary Furniture/Smith Interiors Ltd The Mid-York Press, Inc. $75 - $249 Brady System Fulton Savings Bank Giarrusso Building Supplies Mauro-Bertolo Therapy Services, P.T., P.C. Sheats & Bailey PLLC Urist Financial & Retirement Planning Visual Technologies Ann Wolfson Associates

* = STAGE BOARD MEMBER, STAGE EMERITUS BOARD MEMBER,

n = IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION

Contributors listed have provided support in the past 12 months.

F O U N D AT I O N & G O V E R N M E N T H O N O R R O L L $100,000+ The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation – Presenting Sponsor, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, In the Next Room, Other Desert Cities, Founders’ Circle Member, New Sound Console

is Dead The Richard Mather Fund New York State Council on the Arts Shubert Foundation

$50,000 - $99,999 County of Onondaga, Administered by CNY Arts – Hairspray

$7,500 - $13,999 AXA Foundation The Gifford Foundation The Green Family Foundation«

$25,000 - $49,999 Allyn Foundation – Hairspray, New Sound Console Central New York Community Foundation, Inc. John F. Marsellus Fund – New Sound Console Robert Sterling Clark Foundation – Sizwe Banzi

$14,000 - $24,999 The John Ben Snow Foundation, Inc. - ArtsEmerging

$5,000 - $7,499 Grandma Brown Foundation – Hairspray« Theatre Development Fund, Inc. $2,800 - $4,999 The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation – August

Wilson’s The Piano Lesson Melvin & Mildred Eggers Family Charitable Foundation $1,500 - $2,799 Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation Frank & Frances Revoir Foundation« Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation – Education Initiatives $1,000 - $1,499 Henry A. Panasci, Jr. Charitable Trust $500 - $999 Peter & Wendy Blanck Family Foundation $250 - $499 The Horowitch Family Foundation

ENDOWMENT & PLANNED GIFT DONORS $5,000 - $7,499 Mary Louise Dunn Fund«

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS All new and increased gifts this season are matched dollar for dollar by the Richard Mather Fund. Founders’ Circle $7,500 - $24,999 Paul Phillips, MD & Sharon* Sullivan« Playwrights’ Circle $5,000 - $7,499 Daniel Bingham & Gail Hamner – August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson Bill & Nancy* Byrne« – Hairspray Helene* & Neil Gold« Mary & Larry* Leatherman«

Judy & Eric Mower* Sandra Lee Fenske* & Joe Silberlicht Elinor Spring-Mills & Darvin Varon« Producers’ Circle $2,800 - $4,999 Pete & Mary Beth* Carmen Margaret, Amy & Bob Currier« Louis* & Susan Marcoccia Suzanne* & Kevin* McAuliffe«

Judith Sayles & David Murray« Frederick & Virginia* Parker Mrs. Sherwin Radin The Spina Family Dr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Welch Directors’ Circle $1,500 - $2,799 Janet* Audunson & David Youlen« Joan Christy & Thomas Bersani

Nancy Seward & Tim Bond Cathy & Jim Breuer Sandra* L. Brown« Laurie Clark Kristin & Sidney Cominsky Dana & Peggy Dudarchik James Eagen & Ellen* Kimatian Eagen Barbara & Michael Flintrop Joan & Eddie Green* Winifred E. Greenberg Ann & Larry* Harris Betsy Hartnett* Barbara & Brian* Howard Mr. & Mrs. Claude* Incaudo Tamara Jacobs & David Epstein Peter Cannavo & Helen Jacoby Mr. & Mrs. Dudley Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Howard C. Johnson Randy & Elizabeth Kalish« Bea Gonzalez* & Michael Leonard« Mr. John F.X. Mannion* & Mayor Stephanie A. Miner Nancy Green* & Tony Marschall Margaret* & Don Martin Sally Lou & Fran* Nichols« Kevin* & Michelle O’Connor John & Sheila Parker William & Rosemary Pooler Bob* & Kellie Pomfrey Nancy & Steve Rogers Dene A. Sarason Elaine & Michael* Shende Leslie Kohman & Jeffrey Smith Dr. & Mrs. Sam Spalding« Patricia & Melvin* Stith« Cindy Sutton & Family« Cherry & Peter Thun Linda & Jack* Webb Glenda & Larry Wetzel Laurie & Michael* Zoanetti Benefactors $1,000 - $1,499 Maria & Paul Badami« Marya & John Frantz and Sutton Real Estate Company, LLC Joyce Homan Susan Beth Burgess & Michael S. Nilan Jan & David Panasci« Sandra Hurd & Joel Potash

Athenia Rogers Margaret & Richard* Shirtz« George & Rita Soufleris Stars $500 - $999 Dr. & Mrs. Richard Aubry Marion & Bob Barbero Daniel* & Sarah Berman Louise Birkhead Patti & Frank Borer Craig & Kathy Byrum Drs. Alexander* & Margaret Charters« Frank N. Decker Donald Blair & Nancy Dock Richard & Therese Driscoll John Druke« Lew & Elaine Dubroff Clay & Dora Elliott Mary Ann Finn« Allan & Nirelle Galson Michael & Jacki Goldberg Donna Graber« Marie & Joseph E. Grasso« Bonnie & Gary Grossman Deb & Sam Haines Theodore C. & Antonia M. Hansen Donna Mahar & David Heisig Della & Philip Holtzapple David Jacobs & Douglas Goldschmidt« John & Gloria Kennedy« Gregg Lambert* Rachel May & Tom Brockelman« Barbara Beckos & Arthur McDonald« John P. & Elizabeth Y. McKinnell Jane Merrill John MacAllister & Laurel Moranz Anne Morford Tina Press & David Rubin Gracia & Rick Sears Walter & Nancy Shepard Brian & Kathy Sischo Corinne & Lynn Smith James & Vicki Smith H. Paul Steiner Raymond & Linda Straub Nancy Kramer & Doug Sutherland Wanda Thompson* Tiso Family Leah Weinberg

In Tribute Contributions have been made to Syracuse Stage to honor someone, celebrate a special occasion or offer an expression of sympathy in memory of a loved one.

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Adelson In memory of Laura Edell Sarah B. Alden in memory of Jacqueline Coley In Memory of Arlene Alpaugh Allene Ayling in honor of Don Ayling Rose Erma Angotti in tribute of 43 years in real estate Juanita Balamut in tribute of Marion A. Sevier Mrs. Gwynne Bellos in honor of Dr. Neal S. Bellos Sherly Day-Bernthal in tribute of Murray Bernthal Carrie Berse in memory of Betty Lourie Dr. Stuart Bretschneider in tribute to Cindy Bretschneider Carol Bryant in honor of Virginia Parker Marion L. Burke in honor of Barbara B. Liptak Jim Clark and Sharon Gordon In Honor of Betty Lourie and Lou Kempton The Central New York Community Foundation in memory of Betty Lourie Vicki and David Dansky in memory of Betty Lourie Susan G. Dorn in memory of Phillip K. Dorn

Lorraine* Branham & Melvin Williams« Lori Ott & Jeffrey Woodward Angels $250 - $499 George & Sandra Abbott Mr. Timothy Atseff & Ms. Margaret G. Ogden Anne Barash Joanne & Jim Beckman Diane & Orville Boden Donna Marie & Michael F. Bocketti Anthony & Nancy Bottar Dick Bowman Dr. Sharon Brangman & Charlie Lester« Susan & Thomas Brett« Mrs. William L. Broad Walter D. & Angel W. Broadnax Mark & Maren Brown Marlene A. Brown Marion L. Burke« Ann & Steve Chase Pat Colabufo* Goodwin Cooke Thomas & Deborah Coyle Mr. W. Carroll Coyne Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Dannible Sandra Marie DiBianco Alan B. Dolmatch Walter & Linda Dudas« Jonathan & Rosanne Ecker Marsha & Benjamin J. Ferrara Maryann Finn Michael & Grace Flusche Anita & Allen Frank Philip & Marilyn Frankel David & Sylvia Fry Charles R. Gallagher« Ernest Giraud Penny & Ernie Giraud Jean Jeffery Greene Jerry & Beth Groff Ellen & Dave Hardy Dr. & Mrs. Donald M. Haswell Drs. Joe & Paula Himmelsbach Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Holstein Anne Barash & Eric Holzwarth Randall LaLonde & Patricia Homer Carrie Mae Weems & Jeffrey* Hoone

Dr. Peter & Mary Huntington Elaine & Steven Jacobs Lex & Helen Joseph Norma Kelley Stephen & Janet Kimatian Penelope J.M. & Stephen M. Klein Mary Rose Kott Ellen & Terry Lautz Linda & Dan Lowengard Marlene & Scott MacFarlane Candace & John Marsellus Albert Marshall Philip & Kim Mazza Amy & Myles McHale, Jr. Sam & Margaret McNaughton Samantha Millier Bernard P. & Leslie A. Molldrem Anne Morford Betty Jane & Larry Myers Linda & Donald Napier Maria Maniscalco & James Nellis Dorothea & Douglas Nelson John & Joan Nicholson* Mike & Maggie O’Connor Phyllis & Chuck Olmsted David & Susan Palen Janice & David Panasci Robert & Teresa Parke Robert & Jane Pickett Marilyn Pinsky Kathy & Dan Rabuzzi Rissa & Michael Ratner Mark Re & Nancy Pasquale James* & Theresa Reed Arnie & Libby Rubenstein Ellen & Lome Runge Jane Burkhead & Robert Sarason Lois & Ted Schroeder Ellen Schwartz« Marilyn & Mike Sees« James W. Shults Rhoda Sikes Carol & Dirk Sonneborn« Laurence Sovik Sharon Springer, MD Helene & George Starr John Steigerwald* Dr. J. Martin & Jackie Talcik Robert & Rosemarie Tenney Cynthia G. Tracy Elizabeth A. Tumbridge Pastor Phil M. Turner/ Bethany Baptist Church Sara & Jay Wason

June M. Estes in honor of Gerald L. Estes Mrs. Blanche & Ms. Carol Everingham, in honor of WWII, Purple Heart Veteran, Robert I. Everingham Barbara Genton in honor of Donna Perricone Peggy Ginniff in honor of my parents Harold & Mildred Ginniff Jacki & Michael Goldberg - in tribute of Natalie Goldberg Syracuse MT Student Tom & Christine Hafner in tribute of Peter Hafner Patti & Bill Haggerty in memory of Marilyn Parratt Kip & Terri Hargrave in honor of Gus Hargrave & Rick Menke Kelly and Colleen Harrison in honor of Kathleen D. Harrig Kathlyn Heaton in honor of Sharon Waletzko Heidi Holtz in memory of Betty Lourie Drs. Timothy & Lisa Izant in honor of the Izant Brothers Linda & Bob Jackson in honor of Kevin Crewell Doris King in memory of Austin Hoffman II Richard & Joan Kollgaard in honor of Don Buschmann & Tracey White Robert & Ellen LaBerge in tribute of Daniela Varon Lorraine LaDuke in honor of Mrs. Cecile LaDuke Janet W. Lowe in honor of Bob Moss Gerald Mager in tribute of Thomas A. Brisk Mary S. Mahoney in

Marylou & Kurt Watson Wilbur & Linda Webb« – in support of AudioDescribed Performances Lynda & Terry Wheat John & Mitzi Wolf Mary Jane Woodward Kathy, Tony, Victoria & Lukas Zappala Supporting Cast $100 - $249 Dr. & Mrs. Jerrold Abraham Judy & Bud Adams Bev & George Adams Sally Alden Howard & Sara Alexander David & Amy Allyn Kal Alston Kristi Andersen Robert & Jeanne Anderson Alice & Bob Andrews Nathan Andrews Tony Antonello & Danielle Quintus James & Nancy Asher Holmes & Sarah Bailey George S. Bain Ed & Joan Bangel Nancy Barnum Joseph and Linda Barry Gerhard & Carole Baule Andrew & Margot Baxter« Ms. Gwynne Bellos Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Berger Dr. & Mrs. William Berkery Wanda Warren Berry Roslyn Bilford« Gerald & Barbara Black Cynthia A. Blume Gary & Fran Bockus Katherine & Jack Boyce Mary Brady Bernard B. & Ona Cohn Bregman Robert Moss & Michael Brennan Virginia Brennan James & Joyce Bresnahan Jenifer Breyer Rachel May & Tom Brockelman G. Martin & Kathleen Brogan Jennifer Bryer Philip & Helen Buck Robert & Mary Burdick Mary & Bill Butler Frank & Kathy Campagna Fran & Larry Campbell

Dr. Richard & Nina Sterne Cantor« Ronald M. Capone Joan Carlon« Peter Carney Tom & Maryann Carranti Timothy McLaughlin & Diane Cass« Dr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Cassady Robert E. & Dorothy C. Chambers Steve & Mary Chapin Susan Chappuis« Joseph L. & Janice L. Charles Tony & Carolyn Cimino« Joan Cincotta Malcolm Clark R. Peter & Janet H. Clarke Carolyn & Sam Clemence James A. Clinton Mr. & Mrs. Craig Cobb Gregory Cohen Dr. & Mrs. Paul S. Cohen Sylvia & William Cohen« Martha Cole Milt & Miggs Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Robert Colley« Michele Combs« Joan & Robert D. Conine« Roger & Judy Corwin Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cote Mr. & Mrs. Douglas L. Cotton Orazio & Genevieve Covelli Elizabeth Cowan Tracy Cromp George W. Curry Jamie and Julie Cyr Peter & Margaret Darby John S. & Catherine J. Davies Clive & Sandra Davis Arthur & Juleen Delaney Paula A. Dendis Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Derrenbacker David C. Dickinson Delores R. Dixon Elizabeth & Evan Dreyfuss Jeff & Linda Drimer David & Robin Drucker Lynn Cleary & David Duggan Karen Dunn Nancy & Tony Ebersole Dr. Nabila A. Elbadwi/ Radiotherapy Associates of Upstate NY Betsy & Bill Elkins

honor of John Francis Mahoney John Huppertz & Diane Mastin in honor of Fran & Sally Lou Nichols Carl Peterson & Margaret Maurer in memory of Jacqueline Coley Mr. Wallace J. McDonald in memory of Betty Lourie Richard Midlam in tribute of Barbara Midlam Lois Moran in honor of Joan & Raymond Lee Janice Nelson in honor of Bea & Irving Solomon Brenda Neuss in tribute of Christine Lightcap Pamela K. Reisman Monaco in tribute of Dorothy & Marshall Reisman Mark Cywilko & Marianne Moosbrugger in honor of Isabell A. Cywilko In honor of Kathryn Mulligan Liz Nguyen in tribute of Jack P. Bleich Joy & Al Oliver in honor of Rebecca Oliver & Hillary Gale Joan & Lawrence Page – in tribute of the musicians of the orchestra who accompany some productions Susan A. Parker in honor of Virginia B. Parker Dr. Paul E. Phillips & Ms. Sharon Sullivan in memory of Betty Lourie Karleen Preske in tribute of Kathleen Wilkinson Anita Rathbun in honor of Mildred Rathbun

Richard Ernst Susan A. Estabrook Cissie Fairchilds« Lori & Christopher Farrell Tom & Jane Ferguson James & Barbara Finlon Joseph & Lillian Fischer Dan & Colleen Fisher Karen & William Fisher Katherine Flack Robert & Terry Flower Theresa Flyn Geraldine Forbes & Sidney Greenblatt Len Fonte Kathleen Forrest« Drs. Tess & Jeff Freedman« Ellie & Cyril Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Freer Judith Fox Martin & Daisy Fried Melanie & Mark Fullerton Edgar & Eva Galson David & Bernice Gaynor Margaret Gelfuso Barbara W. Genton« Dr. & Mrs. Henry George III Mr. & Mrs. John Gerson Michele & Carl Gildemeyer Frank & Anne Girardi Peggy Ginniff James Godleski Sheila Goldie Phyllis Goldman« Robert & Karen Goldman Gretchen & Jeff Goldstein Mrs. Lewis H. Goodman Linda Fabian & Dennis Goodrich Lawrence & Dorothy Gordon Drs. Michael & Wendy Gordon Judith & Samuel Gorovitz David Graham William J. Gray« Stephen & Julia Graziano Dr. Roger & Vicki Greenberg James Godleski Carol Guido« James M. Hahn Elaine & Gregory Hallett Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Halsey Ruth Hancock Kevin & Denise Hanlon Carole & Mark Hansen Milena Hansen Bill & Kathy Harmand David & Lib Hayes Nancy & Bud Haylor

Lionel Lee Hector Alan & Dorothy Heller Lee & Nancy Herrington Mary Hershberger Celaine & Victor Hershdorfer Jacqueline Hicks« Camille & Mark Hill Judy & John Hoepner Marcia Hayden-Horan & Philip Horan Patricia & John Hottenstein Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hovey Guy & Patricia Howard Karen Heitzman & James Howe Dr. Anne Hunt John Huppertz & Diane Mastin Dr. Harold Husovsky & Dr. Susan E. Stred« Jim & Sherri Hyla Pam Hyland John & Linda Isaac Janet & John Isabelle Virginia Jacob Anne Jamison & Peter Vanable« Mr. & Mrs. Jastrzab Daniel & Rhea Jezer Sisters Janet & Joan James Aiello & Pam Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Howard C. Johnson Pamela Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen L. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Johnston Michael & Lynette Jozefczyk Marjorie T. & Joseph V. Julian Kankus Family Dr. and Mrs. Allan Kanter Jan & James Kaplan Phil & Judy Kaplan Robin & Mark Kasowitz Carolyn & Gregory Keefe John & Jane Keegan David & Noel Keith Jean Kimber Barbara & Richard Kimm Doris King« Russell & Joan King Sally & Dick Kinsey Richard & Joan Kollgaard Barbara Sutton & Liz Kolodney Dr. Sylvia Betcher & Martin Korn« Donald & Margo Koten Kathy & Scott Krell Margaret Kufel

David Relyea in honor of Paula Relyea Nancy Remchuk in honor of Timothy Bond Erica Rube in honor of Jackie Goldberg cochairing the Gala Elaine Rubenstein in memory of Betty Lourie Lorne & Ellen Runge in tribute of Betty Lourie Terry & Marilyn Ryan in honor of Shirley Gersony Lois & Mike Schaffer in memory of Betty Lourie Nancy Scheutziw in tribute of Syracuse Stage Staff/Volunteers Mr. & Mrs. Jacob H. Schuhle in memory of William Whiting Mansukh J. Shah in memory of Indira M. Shah Mel Shindler in honor of Tracey White John W. Sivak, Jr. in memory of Phoebe P. Sivak Corrine and Lynn Smith in support of Open Captioning H. Paul Steiner in honor of Renée & Ben Vivan Summerville, June 7, 1968 Darcie Bowden Judy & Jim Sweet in memory of Kara Sweet Gobron Peter & Hanora Vander Sluis in memory of Hildegarde B. Vander Sluis Ron Theel in memory of Karen Theel Gary Walters in memory of Patti Grycka Carol Bryant & Richard Ward in honor of Virginia & Fritz Parker

Jill Ladd Stephen & Cheryl Ladenheim Hume & Peggy Laidman Jay & Linda Land L. Lardy & E. Pennington« Phyllis & Harlan LaVine Linda & Jim LeMessurier Mark & Jeannette Levinsohn Bonnie Levy Elizabeth D. Liddy Edward & Carol Lipson Brian & Susan Lison Joanne Lloyd« K.B. Lloyd Paul Brown & Susan Loevenguth Harlan London, Ph.D.« Betsy Long« John & Marian Loosmann Nick & Cathy Lozoponi Eugene & Christine Lozner Thomas Luck Tom Miller & Mary MacBlane Patricia & James MacKillop John & Janet Mallan« J.R. Manier Jon M. Maloff Louis & Nancy Maresca Mary K. Massad Fred & Virginia Marty Elizabeth G. Mascia Grace & Richard Mason John & Gloria Mandly Rick Manier Ann M. Marshall Nancy & Tony Marshall Frederick & Virginia Marty Mary K. Massad Michael Mattson Mr. & Mrs. Peter Mazzaferro Drs. Toni & Bob McCormick Don & Rena McCrimmon Michael McGrath Pat McGrath Brian & Cheryl McIntyre Bev & Dave McKay Marilyn McKnight Brian McLane Diane Cass & Tim McLaughlin« Dr. & Mrs. James L. Megna Mary & Eckart Meisterfeld Ben & Julie Merchant« Clifford & Marjorie Mellor Ann R. Melvin Sis Merrell Elizabeth & Walter Merriam David Michelo & Peggy Ruzzie

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Miller Dan & Terry Miller Merrill L. Miller, M.D. David & Beth Mitchell Gail & Peter Mitchell June M. Mitchell James Mitscher Robert & Barbara Moore John Palmer & Liz Morgenthein Dr. & Mrs. Charles Muniak« Mary Jane & Stephen Nathan« Richard & Barbara Natoli Nancy Needham« Cathryn Newton Stephen W. Nevins Douglas & Gail Nielsen Dennis & Doren Norfleet Neil Novelli« Brenda Neuss Robert & Beth Oddy Howard McLaughlin & Mary O’Hara Sally O’Herin Albert & Joy Oliver Donna & Richard O’Neil Timothy & JoDean Orcutt Deborah O'Shea Cathy L. Palm Connie & Peter Palumb Susan Parker Francis McMillan Parks David & Cynda Penfield Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Penner Kenn & Annette* Peters David & Susan Pickard Mary & Barry Pickard Richard & Neva Pilgrim David & Linda Pitonzo Joe & Karen Porcello Howard & Ann Port Tom & Camille Potter Kathryn and Daniel D. Rabuzzi Mrs. John Raper« David & Linda Rezak Robert & Christina Rhinehart Mr. & Mrs. David A. A. Ridings Brian & Chris Rieger Julie and Boyd Rimel« Michael Rogan & Cindy Wheeler Avard & Patricia Rogers Howard J. Rose Nancy Machles Rothschild Elaine Rubenstein Maria & Richard A. Russell

Terry & Lynda Wheat in memory of Kathy Goldfarb-Findling Lynda & Terry Wheat in memory of Betty Lourie Joanne Wickman in memory of Arlene Alpaugh Octavia Wilcox in honor of Ethel May Pierce Janet & Larry Wolf in memory of Frederick I. Wolf

Linda & Bob Ryan Don & Florence Saleh Richard & Jill Sargent Kelly & Tony Scalzo M. Gelfuso & P. Scheibe Keith Schroeder Janice Scully Jeffrey & Abby Scheer Robert Scheer Nancy Mudrick & Eric Schiff George & Sharon Schmit Herbert & Hillery Schneiderman Mr. & Mrs. Jacob H. Schuhle Margaret Schuhle Ruth Seaman Thelie Trotty-Selzer and Jon Selzer« Constance Semel Drs. Peter Cronright & Judy Setla Rick & Betsy Severance Rob & Cheryl Shallish Mark Watkins & Brenda Silverman Barbara & David Simon Dr. & Mrs. Robert Slavens Dr. & Mrs. L. Ryan Smart Craig & Martha Smith Debbie & David Smith Judith B. Smith Robert & Sheila Smith Harold & Ruth Smulyan Gwen Kay & Jef Sneider Marcene Sonneborn Rosemary Baker & Stu Spiegel Helen E. Stacy Anne Stagnitti John Steinburg & Karl Crossman

Dr. & Mrs. Dennis J. Stelzner Deborah & Jim Stewart Dr. Lawrence Stewart« Nona Stewart Jill & Ron Stratton Nan Strickland Thomas Talbot Joan & Gene Tarolli Laura M. Terpening Dr. & Mrs. James A. Terzian Christine & Richard Thomas Jim & Terry Toole Dr. Richard & Mavis Tornatore Marguerite Conan & James A. Traver Gregg Tripoli Jean & John Tromans Tom & Mollie Tucker Marc & Susan Viggiano Dina & Gershon Vincow Meghan & T.J. Vitale Fred & Patricia von Mechow Frank & Alice Vreeland Ann Vaccaro Barbara Vural Anita S. & Robert L. Wagner Kashi & Kameshawar Wali Mrs. Barbara Wanamaker Dr. & Mrs. Donald Washburn Wilbur & Linda Webb – Audio Description Sally Webster Miriam Weiner Steven Shahan & Elizabeth Weinstein Ruth S. Weinstock Margaret Harding & Joseph Whelan Evelyn D. White Stacey White Elizabeth & James Wiggins Pauline & Robert Williamson Alex & Lola Winter Tina Winter Ivan & Bonnie Wolf Tom & Carol Wolff Kelly Wypych« Cynthia A. Zacharek Judy & Steve Zdep, DDS Friends $75 - $99 Rose Erma Angotti John & Mary Ann Baichi Gail & Dennis Baldwin Theresa & Dennis Bardenett Jon & Trish Booth

Dr. & Mrs. Denis F. Branson Bob & Kathy Brown Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Brust Dr. & Mrs. Deane Cady Sharon F. Campanelli Tim Cassidy Joseph Cerroni and Linda Tassa Gary & Shannon Comins Mike & LaRae Cottrell Paula derBoghosian Mr. and Mrs. D. Devendorf« Sharry W. Doyle« Mary Ellen Drabot Charles & Kimberly Driscoll« James & Marlene Dunford Ronald Ferguson Molly Fitzpatrick Cliff & Jane Forstadt N. Gordon Gray Jane Guiles Milena Hansen Dr. & Mrs. Harris« Holly S. Hart Robert & Denise Heater Miriam Hudecheck Elizabeth B. Humphreys Janet Jaffe Nancy Freeborough-Kaczmar Linda & Bob Kashdin« Alexander & Joan Keilen John & Susan Kline Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Kruth Robert & Lauren Lalley Lois M. Easterday & Susan J. Lamanna Eileen & James Lantier Joanne Lloyd Louisa & Carlos Lopez« Patricia & Donald MacLaughlin Thomas A Brisk & Gerald M. Mager Doug & Randi Matousek Ryan & Alyson McDermott Nancy & John Merrill Robt & Maureen Minich Verner & Jane Mize Robert Moore David & Janet Muir Janet S. Munro Deirdre Neilen Brenda Neuss Ellen O’Connor Karen Orr Kathy Palm Anita Pisano Steve & Kate Pynn«

Contact Us We endeavor to provide a complete listing of all donors in all individual giving categories. However, if your gift is not listed or is listed incorrectly, please accept our apologies, and contact the Development Office. at (315) 443-9848.

Brian Silfer & Amy Romano Barbara Rothschild Joseph Serroni & Linda Tassa Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Schneider Lennie & Elizabeth Turner Marc & Marcy Waldauer JoAnn Wallace Larry Volan & Sara Warner Dianne D. Webb Anna Giacobbe & Peter Welge Backers $50 - $74 Bobbi Alcock David B. Allen Susan Andrews Beatrice Angus« Judith and Kénel Antoine« Al & Jane Arras Keyshan and Maxine Arjomand Ralph C. Best Mr. and Mrs. Bickford Edward and Jane Bognaski Judith and Bradley Bowers Karen Brundage Gregory Bryce« Ann & William Burrows Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Caswell Vel Chesser Robert Colley« Margaret & David Compton Robert Connelly Julia & William Consroe Peter & Elizabeth Costello« Jerilyn Costich Amy Cramer« Margie & Tim Creamer Angela Daddabbo« Roger DeMuth Dr. & Mrs. James Dispenza Anne & Donald Doherty

Essie Dorsey Beth M. Drew« Clarence Dunham Barbara Edlund Patricia K. Eisenberg Stephanie & Kevin Elliott Tom Erwin« Eileen Foss Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Friedman Eva Fuld Jennifer & Carlos Gavilondo N. Gordon Gray Neal Greenfield Lisa Greenky Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Groat Annette & Monroe Guisbond Milena Hansen Polly Hearenrich & John Friedman Charlotte Haas & Gary Quirk Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Helmer Nancy & Richard Hetey« Sally Holben Beth & William Hoyer« Nancy & Robert Holcomb

Becky J. Howard« John J. Hunt Barbara Karper Mary Keib & Peter Smith Susan Kimmel Diane King Kathleen & John Kolb« H. Scott & Linda Tousey Kraemer Lorraine LaDuke Lauren & Robert Lalley Luella Laney Linda LeBlanc« Joan Leskoske Susan & Gerald Lotierzo Emile Martin Peggy Matshall Hannah McClennen Mary Ellen McDonald« Ronald Means Carl Mellor« Ms. Leslie Molldrem Joseph Moorman M. Janice Nelson Marilyn Novins« Jane Ondich

Matching Gift Program The following companies will match gifts of their employees, retirees and spouses with a gift of their own to Syracuse Stage. Ask your personnel office for a matching gift form, send the completed form with your gift – and we’ll do the rest! AT&T Allied-Signal, Inc. American Express Company Avon Products, Inc. AXA Equitable Bank of America Borden, Inc. Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation CIGNA Corporation CNA Foundation Chemical Bank Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Citicorp & Citibank, N.A. Coopers Industries Foundation Crouse Hinds Co. – Cooper

Industries Deluxe Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation Emerson Electric Co. Equitable Life Assurance Society Farmer & Traders Life Ins. Co. Fireman’s Fund Insurance GE Foundation General Foods Corporation GlaxoSmithKline John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance The Home Depot Foundation Honeywell IBM Corporation J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Sue & Dennis Payne Mr. & Mrs. James H. Price Ann Roesgen Stevens Mrs. Edith Schmitz« Meg Schneider Sherryl Seigfreid Beverly & Walter Short« David & Barbara Simon« Janet & Rick Smith Anne Sonne Rosalie G. Spitzer« Randi & Tom Starmer Myrna Sullivan Martha Sutter Christine & Richard Thomas Diane & Victor Tice« Judy & Morris Torres Francis Uhlir Ann Vaccaro Beth & Stephen Waldron Mary Lou & Thomas Walsh, Jr.« Diane Webb Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Wilson Denise & Steve Wrinn Carol & Horace Zellar

Johnson & Johnson Kemper National P&C Co. Key Foundation Lever Brothers Company Marine Midland Bank, N.A. McDonald’s Corporation Merrill Lynch Mobil Oil Corporation The MONY Group Mutual Life Insurance Co. NCR Corporation National Grange New York Telephone Niagara Mohawk Foundation Owens-Illinois, Inc. Pitney Bowes The Prudential Foundation Charles Schwab Radio Shack Rockwell Automation Trust SmithKline Beecham Labs The St. Paul’s Companies The Travelers Companies United Parcel Service United Technologies Corp. Verizon Welch Allyn Xerox Corporation

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Producing Artistic Director..........................................................................................Timothy Bond Managing Director..................................................................................................Jeffrey Woodward Resident Dramaturg.............................................................................................................Kyle Bass Dramaturgy Student Intern..........................................................................................Tringa Ajeti Artistic Assistant...............................................................................................................Chris Botek Director of Educational Outreach...........................................................................Lauren Unbekant Education Outreach Manager.................................................................................Kate M. Laissle Education Assistant.........................................................................................................Len Fonte Teaching Artists..........Jessica Bland, Trisha Harris, Bella Poynton, Darian Sundberg, Corinne Tyo P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F

Director of Production Operations...........................................................................Don Buschmann Assistant Production Manager..................................................................................Dianna Angell Company Manager/Production Management Assistant...............................................Brian Crotty Student work study..............................................................................................Araceli L. Aquilar Technical Director.......................................................................................................Randall Steffen Assistant Technical Director...................................................................................Rebecca Schuetz Scene Shop Foreman..................................................................................................Michael King Master Carpenter..............................................................................................Elizabeth Nosewicz Carpenters...........................................................................................Mike Kuhla, Simone Scalici Graduate Assistant............................................................................................Christopher Zacher Scene Shop Intern......................................................................................................Alex Petersen Student work study.................................................................................................Emma Antenen Scenic Charge Artist................................................................................................Holly K. LaGrow Assistant Scenic Artist..............................................................................Kristen Prescott-Ezickson Graduate Assistants...............................................................Loren Bartnicke, Carlie Miller Sherry Properties Coordinator................................................................................................Mary Houston Props Carpenter.....................................................................................................Tammy Goetsch Props Artisan.................................................................................................................Lisa Letson Graduate Assistant.....................................................................................................Chelsea Jones Student work study.............................................................Ashley Kyker, Emily Mae Timmerman Prop Shop Volunteer.......................................................................................................Ryan Ross Costumer.....................................................................................................Gretchen Darrow-Crotty Assistant Costumer..................................................................................................Meggan Camp Cutter-Drapers...........................................................................Catherine Hennessy, Jennifer Peet First Hand...............................................................................................................Victoria Lillich Stitchers...................................................................................Amanda Moore, Cynthia Papworth Craftsperson/Shopper................................................................................................Sandra Knapp Wardrobe and Wig Supervisor.......................................................................................Sarah Stark Hair Stylist.............................................................................................................Kristina Scalone Student work study.................................Kathryn Bailey, Kiersten Kozbial-Wu, Charity Van Tassel Master Electrician.................................................................................................David M. Bowman Electrician...............................................................................................................Miles Dudgeon Electrics Apprentice......................................................................................................Ann Archer Student Assistants....................................................Gregory Folsom, Ryan Gibson, Anna LiDestri

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Resident Sound Designer/Audio Engineer............................................................Jonathan R. Herter Assistant Audio Engineer......................................................................................Kevin O’Connor Sound Apprentice........................................................................................................Jade Taggert Graduate Assistant......................................................................................................Stefan Zoller Production Stage Manager........................................................................................Stuart Plymesser Stage Manager....................................................................................................Laura Jane Collins Stage Management Journeyman..................................................................................Erin C Brett Stage Management Apprentice...............................................................................Marisa Andrews A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S TA F F

Administrative Director...................................................................................................Diana Coles Director of Marketing and Communications...............................................................Patrick Finlon Publications Director/Assistant Marketing Director................................................Joseph Whelan Group/Corporate Sales Manager................................................................................Tracey White Public Relations Manager....................................................................................Kristina Starowitz Graphic Designers.......................................................................Jonathan Hudak, Brenna Merritt Group Sales Assistants...........................................................................Amanda Kurey, Julia Slater Marketing Interns..........................................................................Emily C. Wagner, Ashley Judge Director of Development............................................................................................Barbara Beckos Assistant Director of Development......................................................................Katherine Keeney Development Assistant.........................................................................................Meggan Madden Development Intern..................................................................................................Sergio Gomez Comptroller...................................................................................................Mary Kennett Morreale Human Resources Manager/Business Associate........................................................Kathy Zappala Director of Information Management & Technology................................................Garrett Wheeler Student Assistant........................................................................................................Justin Ramer Director of Ticketing & Subscription Services.............................................................Miguel Tarrats Assistant Director of Ticketing & Subscription Services................................................Jon Wilson Assistant Box Office Managers............................................................Lisa Doerle, Stasya Erickson Angel Appeal Telefunding Manager..........................................................................Kathy Zappala Patron Sales and Services...........................................Brian Balamut, Jasmin Fink, Dennis Lennox Box Office Assistants.............................Jalina Brown-Omar, Stephanie Burnham, Tatiana Fenner, Amy Gleitsman, Farhana Mustafa, Nicholas Paro Adam Segrave, Maggie Siciliano Interpreters for the Deaf.....................Brenda Brown, Angelo Coppola, Mikki Evans Sue Freeman Joanne Jackowski, Sarah Korcz, Zenna Preli, Shaun Standford Open Captioning.........................................................................................................Chris Botek Audio Description.........................................................................Kate M. Laissle, Joseph Whelan Director of Audience Services................................................................................Wayne Yaddow, Jr. Student Assistant House Managers...........Louisa Britt, Tatiana Fenner, Troy Hussmann, Natalie Oliver Bartenders...........................Meg Pusey Anthis, Patrick Cummings, Michael King, Michael Kulha Community Services Officer......................................................................................Stacey Emmons Custodians........................................................................Kitty Ashby, Delores Bachus, Tony Rogers

ACCESSIBILITY PERFORMANCES 2014/15 OTHER DESERT CITIES

Sat. Apr. 18, 3:00 S Sat. Apr. 25, 3:00 AD Wed. Apr. 15, 2:00 O Sun. Apr. 26, 2:00 O American Sign Language = S Sign Language Interpreted Performance Series supported in part by Welch Allyn, in memory of Susan Thompson. An American Sign Language Interpreted performance is offered for every production. For the most advantageous viewing, be sure to mention your interest in sign interpretation when reserving tickets. Open Captioned Performances = O Open Captioning is provided for two matinee performances of every production. A small screen, placed to the side of the stage, displays text corresponding to the play’s dialogue and other sounds. Open Captioning can be viewed from most seats in the theatre. However, for the most advantageous viewing, please contact the Box Office. Open Captioning is supported by grants from Theatre Development Fund’s TAP Plus Praagram, NYSCA and donations from individuals and corporations. Audio-Described Performances = AD Simultaneous live narration and pre-show description for blind and visually impaired patrons. Please call the Box Office in advance to reserve headsets. Audio Enhancement: Syracuse Stage offers an infrared hearing system for patrons with up to 70% hearing loss. Headsets can be reserved free of charge through the Box Office or at the Coat Room before curtain. Wheelchair Seating and Accessibility: Syracuse Stage is wheelchair accessible. Please call the Box Office at 315-443-3275 to arrange wheelchair seating.

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G E N E R A L I N F O R M AT I O N SYRACUSE STAGE 820 East Genesee Street Syracuse, NY 13210-1508 Administration: 315/443-4008 Box Office: 315/443-3275 www.SyracuseStage.org SINGLE TICKET PRICES Opening Night: $54, $50, $30 Evenings: Fri., Sat.: $51, $48, $30 Sun., Tues., Wed., Thurs.: $40, $37, $30 Matinees: Wed., Sat., Sun.: $47, $43, $30 Previews: $35, $32, $30 All tickets can be purchased at the Syracuse Stage Box Office or online anytime at www.SyracuseStage.org. Prices may vary for opening nights and for Hairspray. DISCOUNTS Available for senior citizens and students. Call the Box Office for prices. GROUP DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE Available for groups of 10 or more; additional discounts for student/senior citizen groups. Call Tracey White: 315/443-9844. RUSH TICKETS Rush tickets are available for purchase at a discounted rate on the day of the show for all performances by cash or check. Limited availability. BOX OFFICE HOURS The Box Office is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. noon to 6 p.m., and two hours before each performance. Box Office phone: 315/443-3275. Box Office fax: 315/443-1408. GIFT CERTIFICATES Call the Box Office or visit us online at www.SyracuseStage.org. PARKING Entrance to the enclosed parking garage on Irving Avenue is on the corner of Madison Street and Irving, next to the MadisonIrving Medical Building. For hours of operation and parking costs, call (315) 475-4742. There is an open parking lot between Phoebe’s Garden Cafe and the garage maintained by Syracuse University. BEEPERS AND CELL PHONES For the actors’ safety and in consideration of the audience please turn off all cell phones; check your beeper and leave your seat number with an usher at the Coat Room prior to the performance. They will monitor your beeper and notify you if there is an emergency. FIRE NOTICE The exit indicated by a red sign nearest the seat you occupy is the shortest route to the street. In the event of an emergency, walk to that exit and follow the house staff ’s directions. SMOKING POLICY Smoking is not permitted in this building or any public building in accordance with Syracuse University and New York State policy. We ask that our patrons who smoke do so outside of our theatre. QUIET CHILDREN Quiet children over the age of five are welcome at Syracuse Stage performances. We do ask that adults remove disruptive children to the lobby.

TICKET EXCHANGE All tickets may be exchanged. Please call the Box Office 24 hours prior to the earliest performance involved in the exchange. Single ticket exchanges carry a $5 fee per ticket. 6Pack holders may make one free exchange per show. Subscribers may make unlimited free exchanges; upgrade charges may apply. Subscribers who missed a scheduled performance and did not exchange may use their Extra Value Ticket or purchase a missed performance pass for $5. LATECOMERS In order to ensure the safety and concentration of the actors and the uninterrupted enjoyment of our patrons, latecomers will be seated at the earliest, appropriate break in the performance in the closest available seats. BUY IT IF YOU LIKE IT! Many of the items featured in our productions are available for purchase. For information contact Mary Houston, Props Master: (315) 443-2437. TO VOLUNTEER AS AN USHER If you would like to get a backstage view of Syracuse Stage, or would like to expand your social circle, this is the ideal opportunity for you. All we ask for is a positive attitude, a smiling face and the willingness to commit a few hours a month. Please call our House Manager at (315) 443-3219 for more information. OPEN CAPTIONING We are pleased to offer two open captioned performances for each mainstage play. Open captioning provides a simultaneous display of the play’s dialogue on a screen next to the stage. AUDIO-DESCRIBED PERFORMANCES Simultaneous live narration and pre-show description for blind and visually impaired patrons. Please contact Box Office in advance to reserve headsets. AUDIO ENHANCEMENT We offer an infrared listening system for patrons with up to a 70% hearing loss. Headsets can be reserved free of charge through the Box Office or at the Coat Room before curtain. SIGNED INTERPRETED PERFORMANCES Tuesday evenings, the third or fourth week of each production, we offer performances for the hearing impaired. WHEELCHAIR ACCOMMODATIONS Syracuse Stage is wheelchair accessible. Please call the Box Office to arrange wheelchair seating. EMERGENCY TELEPHONE CONTACT To be reached in an emergency, please leave your name and seat location at the Coat Room when you arrive. This is the only way we can locate you. In case of an emergency you may be reached at (315) 443-9922. WWW.SYRACUSESTAGE.ORG Subscribe, purchase 6Packs and single tickets 24-7. Information, schedules, reviews and more. PLEASE . . . The use of cameras and recording devices is not permitted. Please do not bring drinks and/or food into the theatre. ADVERTISER SUPPORT Syracuse Stage encourages audience members to support the businesses advertised in our program.

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