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L E T T E R F R O M T H E P R O D U C I N G A R T I S T I C D I R E C TO R “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” –James Baldwin “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” –Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. “I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” –Helen Keller

Dear Friends, Welcome to To Kill a Mockingbird. I am very pleased to have had the opportunity to direct this American classic and to present it to you. Deeper in this program is an interview in which I share my thoughts about the play and why I feel it is a story we need to revisit today. For now, I want to share these thoughts with you with the hope that we can all be inspired to stop putting off confronting the issues that divide us and to take action to pull our nation together.

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” –Robert F. Kennedy “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” –Dale Carneige “These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.”

Warm regards,

Timothy Bond Producing Artistic Director

–Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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CAST

(in alphabetical order) Sera Bullis..........................................................................Scout Matthew Caraccioli..............................................................Jem Anthony Cawley...................................................................Dill Liam Craig*................................................................Heck Tate Tanya J. Cumber..................................Mrs. Dubose’s Attendant Perri Gaffney*.............................................................Calpurnia William Hall, Jr.*...............................................Reverend Sykes John Keabler*.......................................Mr. Gilmer, Boo Radley Celia Madeoy*.......................................................Mrs. Dubose Christopher McHale*.......................Judge Taylor, Cunningham Mark Murphey*..............................................................Atticus John Pribyl*............................................Bob Ewell, Mr. Radley Rachel Towne........................................................Mayella Ewell Barbra Wengerd*......................................................Jean Louise Landon G Woodson*..........................................................Tom GALLERY

Cari Andrews, Yolanda C. Brown,Tanya J. Cumber Matellah Donzo, Kathye A. Goode, Winsome Graham Khimberlé A. Guy, Lanika S. Mabrey, Suheli Christina Ray Cora Thomas, Tashia A. Thomas, Derrick L. Whitt

P L AY S P O N S O R S H I P

Margaret & Don Martin, February 24, 7:30 p.m. Rosemary & William Pooler, Opening Night, February 26 Roberta & Rocco Mangano, Opening Night, February 26 Ann & Larry Harris, Opening Night, February 26 Suzanne & Kevin McAuliffe, March 11, 8:00 p.m. Sally Lou & Fran Nichols, March 12, 3:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m. Margaret & Don Martin, March 26, 8:00 p.m.

To Kill A Mockingbird 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. * Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Student, Syracuse University Department of Drama

IN MEMORIAM

Patricia MacKillop March 14, 1942 – February 4, 2016 Artist, teacher, and enthusiastic supporter of the arts in Central New York.

SETTING

Maycomb, Alabama, 1935

There will be one fifteen-minute intermission.

UNDERSTUDIES

Michael Hill (Jem), Adam Koss (Dill), Althea Simmons (Scout)

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Fight Captain: Stuart Plymesser* Assistant to the Director: Sergio Gomez† Student Assistant Lighting Designer: Hyrum Judkins† Stage Management Journeyman: Erin C Brett Stage Management Intern: Glory Walsh† Young Actor Supervisors: Michael Fernandez, Emily Piraino Follow Spot Operator: Basil Allen Wardrobe: Megan Berner, Christine McBurney Electrics Apprentice: Laura Gisondi Sound Apprentice: Ryan Johnson Deck Crew: Christopher Green, Brian McBurney, Michael Palmisano, Jeffrey Wilson Wardrobe and Wigs Supervisor: Sarah Stark Official Hotels for Guest Artists: The Genesee Grande Hotel, Parkview Hotel

A STORY THAT NEEDS TO BE TOLD AGAIN, RIGHT NOW AN INTERVIEW WITH TIM BOND BY JOSEPH WHELAN

JW: You said recently you’ve been thinking about To Kill a Mockingbird for a while. What prompted your initial interest? TB: Racial injustice and inequality concerning African American men is not new. It’s been going on for hundreds of years. But the string of cases over the past few years, going back to Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner and other unarmed black men and boys who have been killed, has been very disturbing to me. I decided I wanted to do a play that addressed the judicial system and inequality in justice as they

relate to African American men. To Kill a Mockingbird came to mind as one of the great American classics that tackles this subject. So I reread it and instantly felt it was a story that needed to be told again, right now. That was a year and a half ago, and unfortunately it seems to have become more relevant by the day. JW: Does it have particular resonance in an election year? TB: As this election cycle approached, I suspected that some candidates would engage in race baiting to rile up certain elements in our society

 Tim Bond

who have been very unhappy about Mr. Obama as our president. I felt it was going to happen and I wanted to be sure we were doing something this season that would address that. Plus, I want to reach the next generation of kids in our schools who may have read the book but may have never seen a stage version of it. I want to keep that story alive and very real in their consciousness. JW: What does the ex-

perience of the play offer that’s different than the book or the film? TB: One thing I really like about it is that it is more streamlined. It really hits the themes of xenophobia and racial injustice. And because there is the grown-up Jean Louise, 20 years later telling us this story, it gives a perspective from the future of looking back on a troubling event. I think this invites an audience to look back, too, and to realize how far we

haven’t come from that time in the 1930s. And the play, because of its immediacy, makes it inescapable to connect to the humanity of Tom, to the humanity of Boo Radley, and to the consciousnessraising that occurs for Scout and the other kids. It’s not an idea, it’s not up on a screen, it’s happening in real time right in front of you and that always makes these issues and themes more humanized and accessible and inescapable. JW: Why is it important that we have the perspective of Scout and the children? TB: Because she is not jaded and already numb to the truth, which allows us as adults (or fellow children) to see the truth unadorned, unjaded, unfettered. To have the gross injustice of Tom’s situation hit her for the first time and for that moment of awakening to happen works as a literary device that

forces us to relive that same horrible experience. It reminds us of the first time we had that realization: not all people are treated in an equitable way in our society. There is white privilege, there is racism, there is xenophobia. And when you see that through a kid’s eyes as opposed to having an adult tell you about it, it’s a different way to experience it. I think we see things afresh when we realize there are children involved. This is what drives the scene when Atticus squares off against the townspeople who want to lynch Tom. JW: Are there parallels between Boo and Tom? TB: In relationship to the town, they are both ostracized and treated as the “other” and “lesser than” and dehumanized, so they are very tied together in that sense. The kids have a feeling of Tom as a human being and are shocked and deeply disillusioned about justice

IT REMINDS US OF THE FIRST TIME WE HAD THAT REALIZATION: NOT ALL PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN AN EQUITABLE WAY IN OUR SOCIETY. when they come to learn that the cards are stacked against African Americans in a courtroom. And there is a kind of awakening in the realization that Boo is not the 6’6” squirrel-eating monster that people describe. There’s a parallel in the way society talks about and treats African Americans and talks about and treats people like Boo Radley. It’s not fair, it’s not the values they should have. The deeper question concerns the fact that Tom is never afforded his equal humanness in that society because of the color of his skin. Boo Radley is allowed to escape prosecution for something he

did, which could be considered unlawful. This underscores the disparity that exited—still exists— between the races in the way justice plays out. It wouldn’t be fair to make Boo die or go to jail because of that, but why was that never afforded to Tom? When will that ever be afforded to the Toms of the world is the greatest question we can ask, really. When will we get past our xenophobia? When will we stop demonizing people because of the color of their skin? When will all of us as Americans, whatever walk of life we hail from, truly be treated as equals in this nation?

1860 | 2015 WHEN DYLANN STORM Roof turned 21 in April, his father bought him a .45-caliber gun, a senior law enforcement source briefed on the investigation said Thursday.

IN 1860, THE NEW YORK Herald offered up a dispatch on the doings of runaway slaves residing in Canada. “The criminal calendars would be bare of prosecution but for the negro prisoners,” the report claimed. Deprived of slavery’s blessings, blacks quickly devolved into criminal deviants who plied their trade with “a savage ferocity peculiar to the vicious negro.” Blacks, the report stated, were preternaturally inclined to rape, “When the lust comes over them they are worse than the wild beasts of the forest.”

It’s not known whether that handgun was used when Roof allegedly opened fire Wednesday night at a prayer meeting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people. “You rape our women, and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go,” Sylvia Johnson, a cousin of the church’s slain pastor, said the gunman told his victims, according to CNN affiliate WIS.

–FROM “THE BLACK FAMILY IN THE AGE OF MASS INCARCERATION” BY TA-NEHISI COATES, THE ATLANTIC, OCTOBER 2015

–CNN WIRE AND MARY BETH MCCADE, JUNE 18, 2015

MASS INCARCERATION IN AMERICA • The United States has 4.4% of the world’s population and almost 22% of the world’s incarcerated individuals.

• Blacks and Hispanics represent 30% of the general population, but 60% of those incarcerated. • In 2000, one in 10 black males between the ages of 20 and 40 was incarcerated, 10 times the rate of their white peers.

• At 700 per 100,000, the U.S. incarcerates far more people than Vladmir Putin’s Russia, 450 per 100,000, and China, which has four times the population but half a million fewer inmates.

• In 2010, one third of all Black male high-school dropouts between the ages of 20 and 39 were imprisoned, compared with only 13% of their white peers.

• In 1970, there were approximately 300,000 people in American prisons. From the mid-70s to the mid- 80s, the number doubled. From the mid80s to the mid-90s it doubled again. There are now 2.2 million people in prison or jail, an additional 3.94 million on probation, and 851,000 on parole.

• Among all black males born since the late 1970s, one in four went to prison by their mid-30s; among those who dropped out of high school, seven in 10 did.

CAST Sera Bullis (Scout) is beyond excited to be making her Syracuse Stage debut! An 8th grade home schooler, Sera plays piano, guitar, ukulele and is a singer/songwriter who was recently featured on Carrie Lazarus’ Extraordinary Talent of the Week. Sera has sung the National Anthem at several large venues including Arthur Ashe Stadium, The Carrier Dome, and NBT Bank Stadium. Film credits include Young Lily in the local production of AKA Alice and musical theatre credits include: Jungle Book (Snake), Honk! (Frog), Sound of Music (Gretel), Little Mermaid (Flounder), Les Miserables (Gavroche), Will Rogers Follies (James), and Junie B. Jones (Herb/Camille). Sera would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support!

clude: Snow White (Prince Charming), Alice in Wonderland (White Rabbit), and Cinderella (Prince Charming). Matthew also performed in the recent SHSTA-award winning Oswego High School production of Pippin (Ensemble), and has earned a film credit as Antoine de St. Exuperey, for inclusion in SUNY Oswego’s production of Fahrenheit 451. Anthony Cawley (Dill) is thrilled to be cast in the role of Dill Harris in Syracuse Stage’s production of To Kill a Mockingbird! Anthony is a 6th grade student at JamesvilleDeWitt Middle School. From a young age, Anthony displayed a fondness for make-believe and pretend. His theatrical interests intrigued and amazed his family and caregivers. Anthony has been in over 14 performances at Syracuse Children’s Theater (SCT) including Into the Woods (Jack) and Jungle Book (Baloo), and considers SCT as part of his extended family. Author Bruce Coville cast Anthony for the voice of the character Mike Foran for an audiobook recording of My Teacher is an Alien. In the summer of 2015, Anthony was cast as Michael (the curious boy) in the upcoming feature film American Dresser, filmed in Syracuse. In Anthony’s spare time he enjoys swimming, soccer, creating videos, and dog sitting. He wants to thank all his friends and family for their continued love and support.

Matthew Caraccioli (Jem) is excited to return to Syracuse Stage after his recent appearance in Peter Pan (John Darling). A seventh grade student at the Oswego Middle School, Matthew also plays the cello and participates in the school chorus group, Con Brio. His acting and singing credits include several community productions: Wonderland (Mad Hatter), Peter Pan (Peter), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie), Grease (Teen Angel), It’s A Wonderful Life (Young George Bailey), and High School Musical (Ryan Evans). School credits in-

CAST Liam Craig (Heck Tate) last appeared at Syracuse Stage in Inherit the Wind in 1999. Broadway: Boeing Boeing (understudy; performed). Off-Broadway: The Killer (Theatre for a New Audience), The Internationalist (Vineyard), Aunt Dan and Lemon (The New Group), Two Noble Kinsmen (Public). Regional: The Tempest, The Government Inspector (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Accidental Death of An Anarchist (Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep), Servant of Two Masters (Yale Rep, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Guthrie, Seattle Rep), A Doctor In Spite of Himself (Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep), The Scene (Alley Theatre, Hartford Stage), The Lady from the Sea (Intiman).Television: Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon), Unforgettable, Mercy, Rescue Me, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Film: The Royal Tenenbaums. Liam received his MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program.

Arts Alliance of Chicago Award Outstanding Actress, The Essential Theatre; Helen Hayes Award nomination Best Actress), To Kill A Mockingbird (Virginia Stage), Polk County (McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage). Film and TV: As The World Turns (recurring Nurse Bentley), Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU, So Close, Deep Trouble, Fake Preacher (features). Books: The Resurrection of Alice (PerriTales.com), Managing Artists in Pop Music, and The Business of Broadway (both with Mitch Weiss Skyhorse Publishing). www.PerriTales.com. To God Goes All the Glory. William Hall, Jr. (Rev. Sykes) is pleased to be returning to Syracuse Stage for his third time having previously appeared in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, Fences, and The Boys Next Door, also directed by Timothy Bond. His theatre credits include August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Jitney, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Gem of the Ocean, Seven Guitars, and The Piano Lesson. Other credits include Driving Miss Daisy (also the movie), I’m Not Rappaport, and Death of a Salesman, among others. He is very thankful to be back in Syracuse to be part of this important work.

Perri Gaffney (Calpurnia) Stage credits: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (St. Louis Rep), Steel Magnolias (American Stage), The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry (Perseverance, USF), A Raisin in the Sun (Geva), Macbeth, Death and the King’s Horseman, Intimate Apparel (OSF), The Resurrection of Alice (eta Creative Arts; Black Theatre Alliance Award Best Actress, also Best Playwright and Best Play nominations, African American

Michael Hill (u/s Jem) is happy to return to Syracuse Stage. He is an 8th grade student at Christian Brothers Academy. Michael’s previous roles include Gavroche in Cortland

CAST Repertory Theater’s production of Les Miserables, Scrooge as a Boy in Syracuse Stage’s production of A Christmas Carol, and Charlie in the short film, The Ferryman. He has also appeared in Hello Dolly! (Ensemble), Schoolhouse Rock, Jr. (Joe), and Aesop’s Musical Foibles (Aesop). Michael plays the violin and has attended the Suzuki Institute at Ithaca College. He is a member of his school’s orchestra and chorus and enjoys fishing, scuba diving, skiing, and traveling to new places with his family.

Best Son Ever Award (sometimes) from his mother. Other: designed an interactive storytelling program for families and child caregivers called Explorey Stories, look for it on Instagram or www.JohnKeabler.com; Training: MFA from The Old Globe. Adam Koss (u/s Dill) is very excited to participate in this production at Syracuse Stage. It will be his first stage performance outside of a school play. Adam is a fifth grade student at the Syracuse Hebrew Day School. When he is not on stage, Adam enjoys baseball, karate, football, video games, and playing piano. Adam would like to thank the staff at Syracuse Stage for giving him this opportunity. He would also like to thank his sister, Lauren, for helping him with his lines and his mom, dad, brother, and bubbie for driving him to rehearsals.

John Keabler (Mr. Gilmer, Boo Radley) joins his first production with Syracuse Stage and he is honored that Tim Bond gave him the chance to portray one of great characters in American Literature. Broadway: Many Broadway street corners playing his guitar for money or hugs. Off-Broadway: Cherry Lane Theatre: Psycho Therapy; Regional: The Shakespeare Theatre: Henry IV Part I and II; The Old Globe: Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, In This Corner (world premiere); Virginia Stage Company: K2; Florida Studio Theatre: The Columnist (regional premiere); Kentucky Repertory: The Taming of the Shrew, The Glass Menagerie, Les Liasions Dangereuses; Creede Repertory: Crazy For You, Light Up the Sky. Film: Faith, Love and Whiskey, Sugar (starring Alice Ripley). Television: Madam Secretary, 30 Rock, American Speed, American Genius, The Men Who Built America, All My Children. Awards:

Celia Madeoy (Mrs. Dubose, Dialect Coach) performs her sixth season at Syracuse Stage and the Department of Drama Complex. While on Performance & Voice Faculty with the Department of Drama, Celia played the Adult Woman in Spring Awakening, Mrs. Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol, Frances Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aunt Ev in The Miracle Worker, and was director of last season’s Measure for Measure. She originated the role of Flo in the world premiere of the new North

CAST American production of Saturday Night Fever at the 2015 Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival. Other regional credits include performing at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, and the Blackfriars Playhouse at American Shakespeare Center where she spent a year performing as Lady Macbeth, Emilia in Othello, and Phoebe in As You Like It. Celia also played Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare & Company for which she was named most outstanding actress of the Berkshires that season. At the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, she directed and devised Olga Knipper in To Chekhov With Love in repertory with Brian Friel’s, Afterplay, and looks forward to returning to the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe to perform in Who Killed Pablo Neruda?

ia Stage Company, Merrimack Rep, and the Magic Theatre among others. A native of Pittsburgh, PA and an Actors’ Equity member since 1978. Mark Murphey (Atticus) is pleased to be making his debut with Syracuse Stage. In 2015 he played President Lyndon Johnson in the PBS documentary JFK-LBJ A Time for Greatness. He has been an actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 32 seasons where he most recently performed as Robert MacNamara in All the Way and The Great Society, which toured to the Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle. His many other credits at OSF include Hamlet in Hamlet, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Leontes in The Winters Tale, Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Iago in Othello, Posthumus in Cymbeline, Cassius in Julius Caesar, and many more. Among the contemporary roles he has done there are: Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Virgil in Bus Stop, Dr. Pearce in The Pool of Bethesda, Michael Bern in Daughters of the Revolution, and Kit Carson in The Time of Your Life. He was also with the American Conservatory Theater for seven seasons. Other theatre credits include: A Contemporary Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Geva Theatre Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Rubicon Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, Great Lakes Theater Festival, South Coast Repertory,

Christopher McHale (Judge, Cunningham) Broadway: Piaf, Execution of Justice, The Iceman Cometh, Julius Caesar, and King Lear. August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Golden Boy, and Macbeth at the Lincoln Center Theater. Off Broadway: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar, King John, Macbeth, Othello, and Richard III at the New York Shakespeare Theatre Workshop. Defiance at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Regional: Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Virgin-

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CAST and The Alley Theatre. Awards: Drama-Logue award for Hamlet in Hamlet (OSF), and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (A.C.T.) He has been an actor with three Tony Award-winning theatre companies. Education: B.A. degree in Drama from Baylor University.

Althea Simmons (u/s Scout) most recently appeared in a variety of roles in Appleseed Productions’ Old Time Christmas Video Hour, and as Picadilly Poll in Treasure Island; she was in the ensemble in the Red House production of Carousel; she has also appeared for Covey Theatre as Madeline in All I want for Christmas is….!; and as Dagmar in I Remember Mama and Virginia in The Old Time Christmas Radio Hour, also for Appleseed Productions. Althea has danced with the Moscow Ballet in The Great Russian Nutcracker, and has appeared in a regional commercial for Petland; she is a student of Academy of the Dance, and plays on the basketball team at St. Rose of Lima school where she is in sixth grade.

John Pribyl (Bob Ewell, M. Radley) joins his second production at Syracuse Stage after playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He just finished playing Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Children’s Theater of Madison. He recently returned to the Utah Shakespearean Festival where he has played roles such as Shylock, Prospero, and Mark in Art. John worked for 20 years at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and his favorite roles include Don Armado and Berowne in Love’s Labor’s Lost, Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, Caliban in The Tempest, Richard in Fuddy Meers, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Joseph Surface in The School for Scandal, Falstaff in Henry IV, Part One, Lord Are in Restoration, Eisenring in The Firebugs, and Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing. Other theatres include American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Intiman Theatre, Sacramento Theatre Company, Tacoma Actors Guild, Seattle Children’s Theatre, ACT in Seattle, Group Theatre, and Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. BFA, Montana State University; MFA, Wayne State University, Detroit.

Rachel Towne (Mayella Ewell) is a recent graduate from the Syracuse University Department of Drama, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. She previously appeared in Syracuse Stage’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Helena. Most recently however, she performed in Comedy of Errors with Allentown Shakespeare in the Park. Barbra Wengerd (Jean Louise) Selected New York Theatre: Taming of the Shrew (New Duke on 42nd); A Wilder Christmas (Peccadillo Theater Company); Tamburlaine

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CAST (Target Margin), All God’s Chillun Got Wings (Civic Ensemble); Medea (Jean Cocteau Rep); Maybe Baby, It’s You (Penguin Rep); Fit for Feet (Vital Theatre Company); Blank Canvas (HERE Arts Center); The Inn at Lake Devine (Tongue in Cheek). Selected Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (National Shakespeare Company - National Tour); The Glass Menagerie (Arizona Theatre Company); Leaving Iowa (The Royal George); Panic (International Mystery Writers’ Festival); Cyrano de Bergerac, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well (The Old Globe). TV/Film: The Family, I Shudder, The Digressions,

#ThatThingFromBefore. MFA, University of San Diego. Landon G Woodson (Tom) is from Passaic, NJ. He attended Rutgers University, New Brunswick where he graduated with a B.A. in Religion then went on to the Mason Gross School of the Arts where he earned his M.F.A. in Acting. Previous credits include Machinal, Topdog/Underdog, Raisin in the Sun (Rutgers Theater Company) Repairing a Nation (Crossroads Theatre Company), Clybourne Park (Chautauqua Theater Company), Bike America (Ma-Yi Theater Company), and Mountaintop (Kitchen Theatre Company).

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 Steve Martin’s The Underpants. Among his many previous designs for Syracuse Stage were recent productions of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, Other Desert Cities, The Whipping Man, The Glass Menagerie, An Iliad, 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 United States national exhibit for the Prague Quadrennial 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. Suzanne Chesney (Costume Designer) is pleased to return to Syracuse Stage where she previously designed Turn of the Screw and Blithe

A R T I S T I C S TA F F Spirit. Other recent credits include Clybourne Park, The Glass Menagerie, and The Diary of Anne Frank (Pittsburgh Public Theater). Recent NY credits include The Cripple of Inishmaan (Juilliard), Teresa’s Ecstacy (Cherry Lane), Feeder - A Love Story (terraNOVA Collective), and Iphigenia at Aulis (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble). Suzanne is an active member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre where she has designed over a dozen productions including Fast Company, Isaac’s Eye by Lucas Hnath, the NY premier of Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51, Lenin’s Embalmers, Headstrong, White People, Lucy, Close Ties, End Days, and (currently running) Please Continue. www.SuzanneChesney.com

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 a Syracuse Area Live Theater (SALT) award, two Drama-Logue 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. Michael Keck (Sound Designer) The Bacchae (Portland Center Stage); Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, The Great White Hope, Derek Walcott’s: The Odyssey, Community Carol, I AM A MAN (Arena Stage); August Wilson’s Jitney, Escape From Happiness, Criminal Genius, The Norman Conquest, Copenhagen, Intimate Apparel, The Glass Menagerie (Milwaukee Rep); Othello (Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Great Lakes Theater Festival); It Ain’t Nothing but the Blues (Prince Music Theater – Barrymore Nomination); Doubt (People’s Light & Theatre Co – Barrymore Nomination); Young Lady from Rwanda (People’s Light & Theatre Co - Barrymore Nomination); An Ideal Husband (Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Great Lakes Theater Festival); The Piano Lesson, TopDog/ UnderDog, Gem of the Ocean, Fences, Death and the Kings Horseman, Measure for Measure, Henry IV, Part I,

Dawn Chiang (Lighting Designer). Dawn’s prior designs for Syracuse Stage include Other Desert Cities, 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

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and SUNY Purchase, NY; Rutgers University, NJ; The Hartt School, Hartford, CT; and The North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston Salem, NC. His stage movement and combat choreography has been seen at many American venues including The Acting Company, Lincoln Center Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, The New York Theatre Workshop, The Wooster Group, The Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC; The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN; Cleveland Shakespeare Festival; and The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., among others. Kyle Bass (Dramaturg) has served as production dramaturg on many Syracuse Stage productions, including August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, Blithe Spirit, Scorched, The Whipping Man, The Glass Menagerie, Moby Dick, The Brothers Size, Red, Caroline, or Change, Radio Golf, No Child…, August Wilson’s Fences, The Price, Little Women, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. He worked closely with Ping Chong on the creation of Tales from the Salt City, which had its world premiere at Syracuse Stage. As a writer, Kyle is a two-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, for fiction in 1998 and the 2010 fellowship in playwriting, a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. He is the co-author (with director-writer Kim Bass) of the original screenplay Day of Days. The film stars award-winning veteran actor Tom Skerritt and is

Felix Ivanov (Fight Director) is a graduate of the prestigious Schukin Theatre School at the Vakhtangov Academy Theatre and the Stasov Musical School (violin) in Moscow, Russia. He has choreographed the combat, movement, and character dance scenes for over three hundred Russian drama and puppet theatres, motion pictures, and television. Presently, Felix is an assistant professor in the Department of Drama at Syracuse University. He has previously taught at The Juilliard School, The Actors Center, Brooklyn College,

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A R T I S T I C S TA F F scheduled to for release in 2016. His stage plays include Wind in the Field, Bleecker Street, Fall/Out, produced by the Kitchen Theatre, The Heart of Fear, published in the journal Stone Canoe; and Northeast, which appeared in the journal Callaloo. His one-man play Carver at Tuskegee was produced as part of Syracuse Stage’s BackStory! series. Kyle is the co-author (with Ping Chong) of Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo, which had its world premiere at Syracuse Stage and was subsequently produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York City. Kyle is currently working with acclaimed visual artist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Carrie Mae Weems on her theatre piece Grace Notes: Reflections for Now, which will have its world premiere at the 2016 Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina in June. Kyle is also currently writing a new play titled Possessing Harriet, which is commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association, and the screenplay adaptation of the novel Milk by Darcey Steinke. Kyle’s prose and other writings have appeared in the journals Folio and Stone Canoe, among others, and in the anthology Alchemy of the Word: Writers Talk about Writing. In addition to serving on many arts and writing competition panels, Kyle has been visiting writer at State University of New York at Oswego and has appeared as a guest on National Public Radio’s “Tell Me More,” discussing race in American theatre. He has taught in the MFA Creative Writing program at Goddard College since

2006. He also teaches playwriting at Syracuse University and at Colgate University. Kyle is drama editor for the award-winning journal Stone Canoe. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Goddard College and is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild of America. Stuart Plymesser (Production Stage Manager) is in his nineteenth 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. 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 WORK NOW, The Minetta Lane Theatre, The Women’s Project, La

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A R T I S T I C S TA F F 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, Mer-

rimack 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.

C R E AT I V E T E A M and around the world. His inspiration and integrity attracted to the company fine writers including C.P. Taylor, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Arthur Miller, Roald Dahl, and E.B. White - to name just a few. He once said he hoped to be remembered as E.B. White described Charlotte… “…a true friend and a good writer.”

Christopher Sergel (Adaptation). Christopher Sergel’s interests and talents led him on many adventures throughout the world. As captain of the schooner Chance, he spent two years in the South Pacific; as a writer for Sports Afield magazine, he lived in the African bush for a year; as a lieutenant commander during WWII, he taught celestial navigation; as a playwright, his adaptation of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio was seen on Broadway. But throughout his life, his greatest adventure and deepest love was his work with Dramatic Publishing. During this time, he wrote adaptations of To Kill a Mockingbird, Cheaper By the Dozen, The Mouse That Roared, Up the Down Staircase, Fame, Black Elk Speaks, and many more. His love of theatre and his caring for writers made him a generous and spirited mentor to many playwrights here

Harper Lee (Author). Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She was the youngest of four children. Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a lawyer and member of the Alabama State Legislature. One of her childhood friends was Truman Capote, who would become famous for writing the 1966 nonfiction novel In Cold Blood. In 1944, Lee began attending Huntingdon College before transferring to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. During

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C R E AT I V E T E A M her junior year, she began studying law. For one year during her studies, Lee was an exchange student at England’s Oxford University. She moved to New York City in 1949 to pursue a career as a writer, working as a reservations clerk for Eastern Airlines and the British Overseas Air Corp (BOAC) to make ends meet. In 1956, with the help of her friends, composer Michael Martin Brown and his wife Joy, Lee was able to find a literary agent. In 1960, Lee published her first novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The book’s success

won her the Pulitzer Prize for Literature the following year. In 1962, the book was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. Since its publication, the book has been translated into more than 40 languages, and it is estimated that it continues to sell around a million copies every year. In 2007, Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That same year, she suffered a stroke that required her to move into an assisted living home in Monroeville. A second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015.

DIRECTOR/PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Tim Bond is in his ninth season as producing artistic director of Syracuse Stage where 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, 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. 45

INTERIM MANAGING DIRECTOR Diana Coles is in her 31st season with Syracuse Stage and had planned to retire from her position as administrative director this past July. However, she was asked to fill in as interim managing director until the search is completed for that position. She is doing so gladly and enjoying “topping off” her career serving the theatre she loves and cares about. Prior to coming to Syracuse Stage, she had been business manager at Missouri Repertory Theatre (now Kansas City Rep) following many years as concert and tour manager of the Office of Cultural Events for the University of MissouriKansas City. In that capacity, she managed the annual seven state tour of MRT and also sponsored residencies of major dance and theatre companies such as Stars of the American Ballet, Pilobolus, Alvin Ailey Dancers, The Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, St.

Louis Symphony Orchestra, Newport Jazz Festival, Guthrie Theatre, and The Acting Company. She served as assistant to the project director during construction for the UMKC Performing Arts Center, which housed the Conservatory of Music and the Spencer Theatre. In addition to having worked on the management side of over 280 LORT theatre productions in 50 years, she was a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, Missouri Arts Council, Nebraska Arts Council Year Long Program Panel, and the Mid-America Assembly on the Future of the Performing Arts. She has been a consultant for MerryGo-Round Playhouse, Kansas City Ballet, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Avila College, Missouri Dance Theatre, Association of Community Arts Councils of Kansas, and the Unicorn Theatre.

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premier professional theatre. Founded in 1974, Stage has produced more than 300 plays in 42 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

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

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THE CHRISTIANS

KEN LUDWIG’S BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY

The Christians

Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

By Lucas Hnath directed by Timothy Bond Co-Produced With the Wilma Theatre April 6 - 24

Based on a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle Directed by Peter Amster May 11 - 29

Do you have the courage to change your heart? Pastor Paul is much-loved and much-respected, but he has a difficult sermon to deliver. What will be the impact of his words on his loyal congregation? What consequences for his family? For himself? Playwright-to-watch Lucas Hnath invites people of all faiths, believers and non-believers, to engage in a conversation about the seemingly insurmountable distance between us. Set in a contemporary mega-church and performed as a Sunday service with sermons, scripture, and a full choir, The Christians has quickly become one of the most talked about new plays in the country.

A madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes’ most famous case. Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) turns Arthur Conan Doyle’s frightening tale into a fast-paced, murderously delightful, comedy thriller as five actors take on a multitude of roles, including the famous sleuth and Dr. Watson. Like The 39 Steps (2010) only with a lot more howling! Peter Amster (The Fantasticks, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Moby Dick, and A Christmas Carol) returns to Syracuse Stage to direct this inspired comedy.

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The Spitfire Grill: A Musical

A Flea in Her Ear

Music and Book by James Valcq Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley Based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff Directed by Ralph Zito Musical Direction by Brian Cimmet Choreography by Andrea Leigh-Smith April 1 - 10 Opening Night: April 2

A new version of Georges Feydeau’s farce By David Ives Directed by Stephen Cross May 6 - 14 Opening Night: May 7

In French playwright Georges Feydeau’s famous bedroom farce an insurance salesman wrongly accused of infidelity by his wife becomes entangled in a web of misunderstanding, intrigue, jealousy, and mistaken identity as ridiculous as it is complicated. Played at break-neck comic speed, this explosively funny delight rollicks with antic, pell-mell humor complete with slamming doors, revolving beds, and wildly amiss gun shots. Mon Dieu!

A soul-satisfying, country-flavored work of theatrical imagination, The Spitfire Grill glows with an abundance of warmth, spirit, and goodwill. A feisty parolee named Percy follows her dreams to a small town in Wisconsin and finds a place for herself working at Hannah’s Spitfire Grill. Aged and troubled, Hannah would like to sell the Grill, but there are no takers in the forgotten town of Gilead. A simple idea proposed by Percy brings new life to the Grill and renewed hope to the people of the town, including one long gone but not so far away. A graceful and compelling story buoyed by soaring and instantly infectious melodies.

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The Central New York Community Foundation is a proud supporter of Syracuse Stage’s production of To Kill a Mockingbird and its enduring lessons about combating racism and injustices wherever they may occur. We recognize and value the immeasurable contribution Syracuse Stage makes to our region, especially when a production spurs critical conversations and builds stronger relationships in communities where we live, work and play. We wish the cast and crew of Syracuse Stage our very best as they present this timeless tale. The Allyn Foundation enthusiastically supports Syracuse Stage’s production of To Kill A Mockingbird. This classic American story profoundly condemns racial prejudice and injustice. It poignantly shows that only through empathy, understanding and our faith in humanity can we overcome injustice.

AXA is thrilled to support Syracuse Stage and values its contribution to the Central New York arts community. We wish the cast and crew of all Syracuse Stage productions success and look forward to another entertaining season!

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD SPONSORS

Chase is delighted to support this season’s award-winning play To Kill a Mockingbird. We applaud Syracuse Stage for their commitment to enriching the lives of so many by delivering outstanding productions and vital educational programming for more than 40 seasons.

Lockheed Martin is pleased to sponsor this season’s production of To Kill a Mockingbird. Lockheed Martin and its Central New York based employees congratulate and thank Syracuse Stage for its commitment to bringing the very best of theatrical entertainment to Central New York and as a result, contributing to our high quality of life.

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORTERS*

The John Ben Snow Memorial Trust

Richard Mather Fund

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

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 $25,000 - $99,999 Genesee Grande Syracuse Media Group $14,000 - $24,999 M&T Bank POMCO Group $7,500 - $13,999 Bank of America – Children’s Tour Business Journal News Network Barclay Damon Chase iHeart Media KeyBank N.A. Lockheed Martin MST NBT Bank Syracuse New Times Syracuse Stage Board of Trustees WAER WRVO

 = INCREASED GIFT,

$5,000 - $7,499 Carrier Corporation Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Lockheed Martin Employees Federated Fund Scherzi Photography + Video The SU Humanities Center presents as part of the 2015 Syracuse Symposium™ on Networks Syracuse Stage Guild Tompkins Financial Advisors Wegmans $2,800 - $4,999 Phoebe’s Urban CNY $1,500 - $2,799 McIntosh Box & Pallet Co., Inc. Syracuse Blue Print $1,000 - $1,499 Action Printwear, Inc.  Cooper Crouse - Hinds $500 - $999 Anoplate Corp.

Eastern Security Service Heritage Masonry Restoration 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 Liberty Mutual Reeves Farms Smith Contemporary Furniture/Smith Interiors Ltd The Mid-York Press, Inc. $75 - $249 Brady System Fulton Savings Bank Giarrusso Building Supplies Sheats & Bailey PLLC Urist Financial & Retirement Planning Visual Technologies Ann Wolfson Associates

* = STAGE BOARD MEMBER, STAGE EMERITUS BOARD MEMBER, as of February 1, 2016

n = IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION

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 $75,000+ County of Onondaga, Administered by CNY Arts The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation $25,000 – $74,999 Central New York Community Foundation, Inc. John F. Marsellus Fund The Richard Mather Fund New York State Council on the Arts Shubert Foundation

$14,000 - $24,999 The John Ben Snow Memorial Trust Allyn Foundation $7,500 - $13,999 AXA Foundation The Gifford Foundation $2,800 - $7,499 The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Melvin & Mildred Eggers Family Charitable Foundation

$1,500 - $2,799 Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation Frank & Frances Revoir Foundation Theatre Development Fund, Inc. $1,000 - $1,499 Henry A. Panasci, Jr. Charitable Trust $250 - $999 Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation The Horowitch Family Foundation

ENDOWMENT & PLANNED GIFT DONORS $100,000 - $124,999 In Honor and Memory of Sheldon P. Peterfreund and Josephine A. Peterfreund

$5,000 - $7,499 Mary Louise Dunn Fund

$2,500 - $4,999 Dr. William J. Clark, Jr. 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 Bill & Nancy* Byrne Mary & Larry* Leatherman Judy & Eric Mower* Sandra Lee Fenske* & Joe Silberlicht Elinor Spring-Mills & Darvin Varon

Producers’ Circle $2,800 - $4,999 George Bain Pete & Mary Beth* Carmen Margaret, Amy & Bob Currier Helene* & Neil Gold Louis* & Susan Marcoccia Suzanne* & Kevin* McAuliffe Judith Sayles & David Murray Sally Lou & Fran* Nichols Frederick & Virginia* Parker Bob* & Kellie Pomfrey 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 Ed and Susan Downing Therese & Richard* Driscoll Dana & Peggy Dudarchik Barbara & Michael Flintrop Joan & Eddie Green*

Winifred E. Greenberg Ann & Larry* Harris Betsy Hartnett* Mr. & Mrs. Claude* Incaudo Peter Cannavo & Helen Jacoby Mr. & Mrs. Dudley Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Howard C. Johnson Randy & Elizabeth Kalish Bea Gonzalez* & Michael Leonard Roberta & Rocco* Mangano Mr. John F.X. Mannion* & Mayor Stephanie A. Miner Nancy Green* & Tony Marschall Margaret* & Don Martin Kevin* & Michelle O’Connor Sheila R. Parker & John F. Parker, M.D. William & Rosemary Pooler 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 Anonymous Maria & Paul Badami Marya & John Frantz and Sutton Real Estate Company, LLC Ann & Dan Lent Linda & Dan Lowengard Susan Beth Burgess & Michael S. Nilan Jan & David Panasci Sandra Hurd & Joel Potash Margaret & Richard* Shirtz George & Rita Soufleris Raymond & Linda Straub Stars $500 - $999 Marion Barbero Daniel* & Sarah Berman Jeffrey Bogart Rachel May & Tom Brockelman

Drs. Alexander* & Margaret Charters Steven* & Seanne Chase Diana Coles Frank N. Decker John Druke Lew & Elaine Dubroff Jim & Patty Dungey Karen & Nat Dunn Clay & Dora Elliott Mary Ann Finn Grace & Michael Flusche Sylvia & David Fry Allan & Nirelle Galson Michael & Jacki Goldberg Donna Graber David Jacobs & Douglas Goldschmidt Deborah Haines David Heisig & Donna Mahar Theodore Hansen John & Gloria Kennedy Penelope J.M. & Stephen M. Klein John MacAllister & Laurel Moranz Kim & Phillip Mazza Barbara Beckos & Arthur McDonald John P. & Elizabeth Y. McKinnell Jane Merrill Anne Morford Dorothea P. Nelson Nancy & Steve Rogers Tina Press & David Rubin Corinne & Lynn Smith James & Vicki Smith H. Paul Steiner Nancy Kramer & Doug Sutherland Wanda* Thompson Lorraine* Branham & Melvin Williams Angels $250 - $499 Mr. Timothy Atseff & Ms. Margaret G. Ogden Joanne & Jim Beckman Donna Marie & Michael F. Bocketti Dr. Sharon Brangman & Charlie Lester Susan & Thomas Brett Walter & Angel Broadnax Mark & Maren Brown Marlene A. Brown Marion L. Burke

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 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 Carrie Berse in memory of Betty Lourie 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 Barbara Genton in honor of Donna Perricone Peggy Ginniff in honor of my parents Harold & Mildred Ginniff

Craig & Kathy Byrum Ann* Clarke Pat Colabufo* Goodwin Cooke Mr. W. Carroll Coyne Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Dannible Bill & Terry Delevan Sandra Marie DiBianco Alan B. Dolmatch Walter & Linda Dudas Jonathan & Rosanne Ecker Anita & Allen Frank Melanie & Mark Fullerton Charles R. Gallagher Ernest Giraud Penny & Ernie Giraud Jerry & Beth Groff Dr. & Mrs. Donald M. Haswell Drs. Joe & Paula Himmelsbach Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Holstein Joyce Homan Randall LaLonde & Patricia Homer Carrie Mae Weems & Jeffrey* Hoone Elaine & Steve Jacobs Lex & Helen Joseph Robin & Mark Kasowitz Norma Kelley Stephen & Janet Kimatian Mary Rose Kott Ellen & Terry Lautz Marlene & Scott MacFarlane Candace & John Marsellus Albert Marshall Samantha* Millier Anne Morford John Palmer & Liz Morgenthein Betty Jane & Larry Myers Linda & Donald Napier Maria Maniscalco & James Nellis Dorothea & Douglas Nelson John & Joan Nicholson Michael & Maggie O’Connor Phyllis & Chuck Olmsted David & Susan Palen Ralph & Mary Lou Penner Robert & Jane Pickett Marilyn Pinsky Rissa & Michael Ratner James* & Theresa Reed Arnie & Libby Rubenstein Jane Burkhead & Robert Sarason

Lois & Ted Schroeder Ellen Schwartz Marilyn & Mike Sees James W. Shults Rhoda Sikes Carol & Dirk Sonneborn Laurence Sovik Helene & George Starr L. John* Steigerwald IV Tiso Family Cynthia G. Tracy Anita Wagner Linda Webb – in support of Audio-Described Performances Lynda & Terry Wheat John & Mitzi Wolf Mary Jane Woodward Supporting Cast $100 - $249 George & Sandra Abbott Dr. & Mrs. Jerrold Abraham Judy & Bud Adams Judith Adams Dr. George P. Adams & Mrs. Beverly C. Adams Sally Alden Kal Alston Robert & Jeanne Anderson Nathan Andrews Tony Antonello & Danielle Quintus Rosemary Baker & Stu Spiegel Holmes & Sarah Bailey Gail & Dennis Baldwin Ed & Joan Bangel Theresa & Dennis Bardenett Nancy Barnum Joseph & Linda Barry Andrew & Margot Baxter Gwynne Bellos Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Berger Roslyn Bilford Nicki Bisson Gerald & Barbara Black Gary & Fran Bockus Richard Bowman Virginia Brennan Jenifer Breyer Caroline & Nicholas Brust Carol Bryant Jennifer Bryer Helen Buck Mary & Bill Butler Naomi & Jim Cannon Joan Carlon Tom & Maryann Carranti

Jacki & Michael Goldberg - in tribute of Natalie Goldberg Syracuse MT Student Tom & Christine Hafner in tribute of Peter Hafner 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 Doris King in memory of Austin Hoffman II Richard & Joan Kollgaard in honor of Don Buschmann & Tracey White Lorraine LaDuke in honor of Mrs. Cecile LaDuke Janet W. Lowe in honor of Bob Moss Gerald Mager in tribute of Thomas A. Brisk 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 Lyn Morsillo & Vanessa Kalette in honor of Tracey White & Mary Kennett Janice Nelson in honor of Bea & Irving Solomon Brenda Neuss in tribute of Christine Lightcap In honor of Kathryn Mulligan Joy & Al Oliver in honor of Rebecca Oliver & Hillary Gale

Timothy McLaughlin & Diane Cass Dr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Cassady Susan Chappuis Joseph L. & Janice L. Charles Ann & Steve Chase Anthony & Carolyn Cimino Joan Cincotta Malcolm Clark Carolyn & Sam Clemence Dr. & Mrs. Paul S. Cohen Sylvia & William Cohen Martha Cole Mr. & Mrs. Robert Colley Michele Combs Margaret & David Compton Mr. & Mrs. Robert Congel Joan & Robert D. Conine William & Julia Consroe Orazio & Genevieve Covelli Elizabeth Cowan George Curry Jamie & Julie Cyr Peter & Margaret Darby Clive & Sandra Davis Carol Decker Paula A. Dendis Delores R. Dixon Susan Dorn Cynthia & Mark Dowd Greene Sharry Doyle Elizabeth & Evan Dreyfuss David & Robin Drucker Karen Dunn Nancy & Tony Ebersole S. Emerick Richard Ernst Susan Estabrook Cissie Fairchilds Lori & Christopher Farrell Tom & Jane Ferguson Marsha & Benjamin Ferrara James & Barbara Finlon Karen & William Fisher Molly Fitzpatrick Katherine Flack Robert & Terry Flower Geraldine Forbes & Sidney Greenblatt Len Fonte Kathleen Forrest Judith Fox Philip & Marilyn Frankel Jeff & Tess Freedman Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Freer Melanie & Mark Fullerton

Carolyn & Sean Garner David & Bernice Gaynor Margaret Gelfuso Barbara W. Genton Michele & Carl Gildemeyer Frank & Anne Girardi Peggy Ginniff James Godleski Phyllis Goldman Robert & Karen Goldman Mrs. Lewis H. Goodman Linda Fabian Goodrich & Dennis Goodrich Lawrence & Dorothy Gordon Judith & Samuel Gorovitz Joseph & Marie Grasso William J. Gray Stephen & Julia Graziano Dr. Roger & Vicki Greenberg Jerry & Beth Groff James M. Hahn Patricia Haggerty Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Halsey Mrs. Stuart Hancock, Jr. Carole & Mark Hansen Milena Hansen Margaret Harding & Joseph Whelan Bill & Kathy Harmand David & Lib Hayes Nancy & Bud Haylor Lionel Lee Hector Alan & Dorothy Heller Mary Hershberger Celaine & Victor Hershdorfer Jacqueline Hicks Camille & Mark Hill David & Sally Hootnick Marcia Hayden-Horan & Philip Horan Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hovey Guy & Patricia Howard John Huppertz & Diane Mastin Dr. Harold Husovsky & Dr. Susan E. Stred Jim & Sherri Hyla Virginia Jacob Richard Jaeger Janet Jaffe Anne Jamison & Peter Vanable Susan and Theodore Jarosz Mr. & Mrs. Jastrzab Sisters Janet & Joan James Aiello & Pam Johnson Pamela Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen L. Johnson

Susan A. Parker in honor of Virginia B. Parker Dr. Paul E. Phillips & Ms. Sharon Sullivan in memory of Betty Lourie 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 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 Corrine and Lynn Smith in support of Open Captioning H. Paul Steiner in honor of Renée & Ben & Tracey White Union Bank and Trust in Honor of Betty Lourie Carol Bryant & Richard Ward in honor of Virginia & Fritz Parker Lynda & Terry Wheat in memory of Betty Lourie JoAnne Wickman in honor of Arlene Alpaugh Janet Willis in memory of Genevieve Thuma

Thomas & Corinne Johnston Michael & Lynette Jozefczyk Marjorie T. & Joseph V. Julian Kankus Family Dr. & Mrs. Allan Kanter Jan & James Kaplan Dr. & Mrs. Philip Kaplan Carolyn & Gregory Keefe Jane & John Keegan Joan & Alexander Keilen David & Noel Keith Jean Kimber Barbara & Richard Kimm Doris King Russell & Joan King Sally & Dick Kinsey Theresa & Stephen Kline Richard & Joan Kollgaard Dr. Sylvia Betcher & Martin Korn Kathy & Scott Krell Jill Ladd Hume & Peggy Laidman Jay & Linda Land L. Lardy & E. Pennington Phyllis & Harlan LaVine Mark & Jeannette Levinsohn Bonnie Levy Elizabeth D. Liddy Edward & Carol Lipson Joanne Lloyd K.B. Lloyd Harlan London, Ph.D. Betsy Long John & Marian Loosmann Nicholas & Cathy Lozoponi Tom Miller & Mary MacBlane James & Patricia MacKillop John & Janet Mallan J.R. Manier Louis & Nancy Maresca Rick Manier Ann Marshall Frederick & Virginia Marty Mary K. Massad Michael Mattson Mr. & Mrs. Peter Mazzaferro Noreen & Donald McCrimmon William & Pamela McGarry Michael McGrath Pat McGrath Brian & Cheryl McIntyre Bev & Dave McKay Marilyn McKnight Brian McLane Diane Cass & Tim McLaughlin

Nancy & M. James McPherson Dr. & Mrs. James L. Megna Mary & Eckart Meisterfeld Clifford & Marjorie Mellor Ann R. Melvin Ben & Julie Merchant Sis Merrell Elizabeth & Walter Merriam David Michelo & Peggy Ruzzie Dan & Terry Miller Merrill L. Miller, M.D. Beth & David Mitchell June M. Mitchell James Mitscher Robert & Barbara Moore Tina Morgan Kathleen & James Muldoon Dr. & Mrs. Charles Muniak Mary Jane & Stephen Nathan Richard & Barbara Natoli Nancy Needham Brenda Neuss Cathryn Newton Dennis & Doren Norfleet Neil Novelli Brenda Neuss Robert & Beth Oddy Ute Oestreicher Howard McLaughlin & Mary O’Hara Sally O’Herin Albert & Joy Oliver Donna & Richard O’Neil Timothy & JoDean Orcutt Deborah O’Shea Kathy Palm Peter & Constance Palumb Susan Parker Kenn & Annette* Peters David & Susan Pickard Richard & Neva Pilgrim David & Linda Pitonzo Ann & Howard Port Kathy & Dan Rabuzzi Jean Raper Mark Re & Nancy Pasquale Robert & Christina Rhinehart Brian & Chris Rieger Julie & Boyd Rimel Michael Rogan & Cindy Wheeler Howard J. Rose Elaine Rubenstein Ellen & Lorne Runge Maria & Richard A. Russell

Linda & Bob Ryan Don & Florence Saleh Richard & Jill Sargent Jeffrey & Abby Scheer Robert Scheer Nancy Mudrick & Eric Schiff George & Sharon Schmit Mr. & Mrs. Jacob H. Schuhle Margaret Schuhle Ruth Seaman Gracia & Kendrick Sears Thelie Trotty-Selzer & Jon Selzer Rick & Betsy Severance Craig Simmons Craig & Martha Smith Debbie & David Smith Judith B. Smith Robert & Sheila Smith Harold & Ruth Smulyan Gwen Kay & Jef Sneider Marcene Sonneborn Helen E. Stacy Anne Stagnitti Deirdre & David Stam John Steinburg & Karl Crossman Dr. Lawrence Stewart Jill & Ron Stratton Myrna & E.D. Sullivan Thomas Talbot Laura M. Terpening Christine & Richard Thomas Marguerite Conan & James A. Traver Charles F. Tremper Gregg Tripoli Jean & John Tromans Lennie Elizabeth Turner Dina & Gershon Vincow T.J. Vitale Fred & Patricia von Mechow Frank & Alice Vreeland Ann Vaccaro Kashi & Kameshwar Wali Mrs. Barbara Wanamaker Larry Volan & Sara Warner Dr. & Mrs. Donald Washburn Linda Webb--Audio Description Elizabeth Weinstein & Steven Shahan Ruth S. Weinstock Anna Giacobbe & Peter Welge Peter N. Wells Evelyn D. White

Elizabeth & James Wiggins Garrett Wikoff Pauline & Robert Williamson Alex & Lola Winter Tina Winter Lori Ott & Jeffrey Woodward Kelly Wypych Friends $75 - $99 Rose Erma Angotti John & Mary Ann Baichi Gail & Dennis Baldwin Leslie Bender Jon & Trish Booth G. Martin & Kathleen Brogan Bob & Kathy Brown Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Brust Dr. & Mrs. Deane Cady Tim Cassidy Joseph Cerroni & Linda Tassa Rosa & Lou Clark Mike & LaRae Cottrell Mr. & Mrs. D. Devendorf

Charles & Kimberly Driscoll Mary M. Duffin Ronald Ferguson Cliff & Jane Forstadt David & Nancy Grant N. Gordon Gray Milena Hansen Julia & Daniel Harris Miriam Hudecheck Elizabeth B. Humphreys Nancy Freeborough-Kaczmar Linda & Bob Kashdin Lois M. Easterday & Susan J. Lamanna Joanne Lloyd Paul G. Brown and Susan Loevenguth Louisa & Carlos Lopez Gerald M. Mager Robert Moore Janet S. Munro Deirdre Neilen Anita Pisano Steve & Kate Pynn

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.

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 John P. Ronan Terry & Marilyn Ryan Martha Sutter Joseph Serroni & Linda Tassa JoAnn Wallace Mark Watkins & Brenda Silverman Dianne D. Webb

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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UNDERWRITERS

Michael & Jacki Goldberg POMCO Group The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation AMERICANA BLUES TABLES

Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC Harbridge Consulting Group Helene & Neil Gold National Grid Sharon Sullivan & Paul Phillips, MD

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Syracuse University University College of Syracuse University

DELTA BLUES TABLES

The Allyn Foundation Bank of America Barclay Damon, LLP Bousquet Holstein PLLC Faculy & Staff of Color Connection Group @ SU Hancock Estabrook, LLP David Katleski Ken Kavajecv & Verda Blythe

KeyBank KPMG LLP Mackenzie Hughes LLP ERIC MOWER + ASSOCIATES Ginny & Fritz Parker Rockacres Veterinary Hospital Sack and Associates Syracuse Stage Guild Upstate Medical University

GALA SPONSORS

Mary Beth & Pete Carmen M&T Bank NBT Bank Drs. Melvin & Patricia Stith Syracuse Media Group Austin, Alesandro & Josephson Group at UBS Financial Services Inc. GALA SUPPORTERS

Lynda & Terry Wheat

as of OCTOBER 1, 2015

S Y R A C U S E S TA G E S TA F F A R T I S T I C S TA F F

Producing Artistic Director..........................................................................................Timothy Bond Interim Managing Director.........................................................................................Diana C. Coles Resident Dramaturg........................................................................................................Kyle Bass Artistic Assistant..........................................................................................................Chris Botek Director of Educational Outreach......................................................................Lauren Unbekant Education Outreach Manager.................................................................................Kate Laissle Education Assistant...................................................................................................Len Fonte In-School Arts Coordinator.........................................................................Emmett Van Slyke Lead Teaching Artist.............................................................................................Corinne Tyo Teaching Artists...................Megan Barbour, Jessica Bland, Caitlin Friedberg, Allison Popieski 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........................................................................Bianca Boller, Leola Powell Technical Director..................................................................................................Randall Steffen Assistant Technical Director............................................................................Rebecca Schuetz Scene Shop Foreman...........................................................................................Michael King Master Carpenter...............................................................................................Simone Scalici Carpenters.................................................................................Phillip Dyke, Jordan Michaud Graduate Assistant...............................................................................................Eric Charlton Student Work Study.........................................................................................Emma Antenen Scenic Charge Artist...........................................................................................Holly K. LaGrow Assistant Scenic Artist.......................................................................Kristen Prescott-Ezickson Graduate Assistant...........................................................................................Loren Bartnicke Properties Coordinator...........................................................................................Mary Houston Props Carpenter..............................................................................................Tammy Goetsch Props Artisan...........................................................................................................Lisa Letson Graduate Assistant...............................................................................................Chelsea Jones Student Work Study.................................................Jessica Crawford, Emily Mae Timmerman Costumer................................................................................................Gretchen Darrow-Crotty Assistant Costumer............................................................................................Meggan Camp Cutter-Drapers.....................................................................Catherine Hennessy, Jennifer Peet First Hand.........................................................................................................Victoria Lillich Stitchers.....................................................................................Nicole Long, Katelyn Yonkers 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 Assistant Master Electrician..............................................................................Miles Dudgeon Electrics Apprentice............................................................................................Laura Gisondi Student Assistants................................................Greg Folsom, Anna LiDestri, Roslyn Palmer Resident Sound Designer/Audio Engineer.......................................................Jonathan R. Herter Assistant Audio Engineer................................................................................Kevin O’Connor Sound Apprentice...............................................................................................Ryan Johnson 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 66

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General Manager...............................................................................................................Jon Wilson Comptroller..............................................................................................Mary Kennett Morreale Human Resources Manager/Business Associate..................................................Kathy Zappala Business Office Work Study Assistant.........................................................Emily Buonsignore Director of Information Management & Technology...................................Garrett Wheeler-Diaz Student Assistant..................................................................................................Justin Ramer Director of Ticketing & Subscription Services........................................................Miguel Tarrats Assistant Director of Ticketing and Subscription Services........................Courtney Richardson Assistant Box Office Manager.................................................................................Lisa Doerle Patron Sales and Services.....................................Brian Balamut, Jasmin Fink, Dennis Lennox Box Office Assistants.....................................Phelicia Ball, Danielle Bertolini, Sophia Blayney Stephanie Burnham, Elizabeth Carson, Luke Earle Allisha Edwards, Elizabeth Gardner, Rupert Krueger Michael Roach, Rebecca Yaciuk Director of Audience Services.......................................................................Wayne E. Yaddow, Jr. Evening House Manager....................................................................................Donna Stuccio Substitute House Manager.............................................................................Patricia Condello Student Assistant House Managers.....................Drew Deal, Matthew Mueller, Natalie Oliver Bartenders.................................................................................Meg Pusey Anthis, Hero Scott Work Study Ushers................................Mallory Astrow, McKenna Batterson, Sophia Blayney Michael Bodomov, Tucker Breder, Ezekiel Edmonds Allisha Edwards, Madelyn Geltch, Caleb Grochalski Collin Hotchkiss, Sarah Hubner, Lauren Hughes Aliana Kilmer-Setrakian, Melissa Lawson, Alexander Aranyi Low Jenna Najjar, Devina Sabnis, Hannah Schaffer Director of Development...............................................................................................Tina Morgan Assistant Director of Development................................................................Katherine Keeney Development Assistant...................................................................................Meggan Madden Development Consultant..................................................................................Barbara Beckos Angel Appeal Telefunding Manager....................................................................Kathy Zappala Graduate Intern..............................................................................................Kimberly Grader Development Intern..........................................................................................Rebecca Yaciuk Director of Marketing and Communications..............................................................Joseph Whelan Group/Corporate Sales Manager.........................................................................Tracey White Group Sales Assistant........................................................................................Amanda Kurey Public Relations Manager..............................................................................Kristina Starowitz Graphic Designers.................................................................Jonathan Hudak, Brenna Merritt Marketing Interns....................................Suzanne El-Nabli, Madison Flavin, Molly Goldberg Rebecca Hansen, Alex Long, Jari Wilson 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 Community Services Officer.................................................................................Stacey Emmons Custodians........................................................................Kitty Ashby, Les Edwards, Tony Rogers 67

ACCESSIBILITY PERFORMANCES 2015/16

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Sat. Mar. 5, 3:00 S Sat. Mar. 12, 3:00 AD Wed. Mar. 9, 2:00 O Sun. Mar. 13, 2:00 O

THE CHRISTIANS

Sat. Apr. 16, 3:00 S Sat. Apr. 23, 3:00 AD Wed. Apr. 20, 2:00 O Sun. Apr. 24, 2:00 O

BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY

Sat. May. 21, 3:00 S Sat. May. 21, 3:00 AD Wed. May. 25, 2:00 O Sun. May. 29, 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.

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 Evenings: Fri., Sat.: $50, $46, $30 Sun., Tues., Wed., Thurs.: $41, $38, $30 Matinees: Wed., Sat., Sun.: $48, $45, $30 Previews: $36, $33, $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. 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. 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 SyracuseStage.org PARKING Entrance to the enclosed parking garage on Irving Avenue is on the corner of Madison Street and Irving, next to the Madison-Irving 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 The Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex is proud to be tobacco- and smoke-free. To help ensure a healthy and respectful environment, the use of all tobacco and tobacco-related products is prohibited on the property, including buildings, sidewalks, and parking areas. For more information visit: wellness.syr.edu/tobacco-free 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. Flex Pack 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 Coupon 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 to the right of 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 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 Flex Packs, gift certificates, 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 food into the theatre. Drinks in Syracuse Stage’s Approved Theatre Containers may be brought into the theatre. Those containers are available for purchase at the Gift Shop in the Coyne Lobby. ADVERTISER SUPPORT Syracuse Stage encourages audience members to support the businesses advertised in our program.