Once Program

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May 1 - 19, 2024

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Paik at Syracuse Stage on view in the mezzanine through May 19, 2024

From the series Adios 20th Century published by Point of Contact in The Americas Baroque (1993)

Photograph/Mixed Media, 10 x 7”

Point of Contact Art Collection

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OF CONTENTS 11 | Letter from the Managing Director 13 | Title 15 | Cast & Credits 16 | Taking Photos in the Theatre 18 | 50th Anniversary Celebration 24 | Dramaturgical Notes 30 | Cast & Artistic Team Bios 43 | Who We Are Our Mission Our Vision Our Core Values In the Community 45 | Anti-Racism Pledge About Syracuse Stage Land Acknowledgement 46 | Board of Trustees 47 | Emeritus Trustees Education Advocacy Board Young Adult Council 48 | Corporate, Foundation & Government Sponsors 49 | Sponsor Statements 50 | 50th Anniversary Campaign Gifts 51 | Individual, Corporate, Foundation, & Government Gifts 52 | In Honor of 56 | Planned Giving Matching Gift Program 58 | Syracuse Stage Staff
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The Slutzker Family Foundation is proud to be the Presenting Sponsor for the 50th Anniversary Season, celebrating 50 years of incredible storytelling in the Central New York community.

Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1917, Lillian Slutzker was a survivor. After fleeing Nazi control for England, she met her husband at a USO dance and later returned to his hometown of Rome, New York.

She dedicated her life to bettering her community. The Foundation’s purpose is to carry on her incredible legacy and fulfill her passion for Judaism, education, the arts, and enriching the community.

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LETTER FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

DEAR FRIENDS,

Welcome to Once, the final production of Syracuse Stage's 50th anniversary season! It has been our pleasure to share this season of celebration with you and to mark this momentous anniversary with reflection on all that has led to the thriving Syracuse Stage of today.

A visit to Stage is more than just entertainment; it's a culmination of the talent, dedication, and passion that have defined Syracuse Stage for half a century. It's a testament to the countless artists, both onstage and behind the scenes, who have poured themselves fully into creating unforgettable experiences for our community. With this final production of the season, we pay homage to the extraordinary contributions of the many artists whose work has been seen on our stages. Their artistry has left an indelible mark on Central New York, enriching our cultural tapestry and shaping the theatrical landscape for generations.

I am so proud to have played a part at Stage, and in this community, since 2016. As I prepare to leave Stage to begin a new position in Minnesota this summer, I am filled with gratitude for the relationships forged, the hospitality extended, and the unwavering support shown to me personally and to Syracuse Stage through some wonderful - and uniquely challenging - years. Your enthusiasm and commitment have been the driving

force behind our success, and I have no doubt that this vibrant community will continue to invest in and champion Stage for years to come. I can’t wait to see what’s ahead!

As you immerse yourself in the world of Once tonight, I invite you to reflect on the power of storytelling, the magic of live performance, and the enduring legacy of Syracuse Stage. Thank you for being part of this incredible journey.

With deepest appreciation and warmest regards,

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 JILL ANDERSON. PHOTO: BRENNA MERRITT.

IN MEMORIAM

May 9, 1976 – February 27, 2024

This production is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Jerry Johnson, co-costume designer for Once.

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Jerry L. Johnson

BOOK BY

Enda Walsh

PRESENTS

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová

BASED ON THE MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY John Carney

DIRECTED BY

Melissa Crespo

MUSIC DIRECTOR

Pearl Rhein

SCENIC DESIGN

Rodrigo Escalante

CO-COSTUME DESIGNERS

Jerry L. Johnson & Carmen M. Martinez

DIALECT COACH

Holly Thuma

Robert Hupp Artistic Director

PRESENTING SPONSOR

CHOREOGRAPHER

Fatima Sowe

LIGHTING DESIGN

Matthew Webb

STAGE MANAGER

Kyra Button*

Jill A. Anderson Managing Director

SEASON SPONSORS

SOUND DESIGN

Jacqueline R. Herter

CASTING

Bass/Valle Casting

Melissa Crespo

Associate Artistic Director

MEDIA SPONSORS

Kyle Bass Resident Playwright

PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL SPONSOR

COMMUNITY PARTNER

Orchestrations by Martin Lowe. Originally produced on Broadway by Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr., Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, and The Shubert Organization. Robert Cole, Executive Producer. In association with New York Theatre Workshop. Once was originally produced Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop in December 2011, Jim Nicola, Artistic Director, William Russo, Managing Director. Once was originally developed at the American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in April 2011. Diane Paulus, Artistic Director, Diane Borger, Producer. Once is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com Any video and/or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

May 1 - 19, 2024

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DIAL M FOR MURDER

OCTOBER 16 – NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher | From the original by Frederick Knott | Directed by Robert Hupp

An old-school, edge of-your-seat mystery.

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA

NOVEMBER 22 – JANUARY 5, 2025

Music by Richard Rodgers | Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Adapted for the stage by Tom Briggs from the Teleplay by Robert L. Freedman | Directed by Melissa Rain Anderson | Music Direction by Brian Cimmet | Choreographed by Jessica Chen Co-Produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama

Glass slippers, pumpkins, and dreams-come-true.

PRIMARY TRUST

JANUARY 22 – FEBRUARY 9, 2025

By Eboni Booth | Directed by Melissa Crespo

Poignant drama about embracing new beginnings.

KING JAMES

FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 16, 2025

By Rajiv Joseph | Directed by Jamil Jude Co-Produced with Indiana Repertory Theatre

A slam dunk of a show about unlikely friends, basketball, and LeBron James.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

APRIL 23 – MAY 11, 2025

By Kate Hamill | Based on the novel by Jane Austen Directed by Jason O’Connell

Love triumphs over tradition in this playful adaptation.

THE NATIONAL PASTIME

JUNE 11 – 29, 2025

A Julie Lutz Cold Read World Premiere

Written by Rogelio Martinez | Directed by Johanna McKeon

Baseball meets espionage meets psychological intrigue.

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CAST

(in order of speaking)

Guy.....................................................................Joe Boover*

Girl.....................................................................Ana Marcu*

Billy.....................................................................Sean Steele*

Da....................................................................Kurt Zischke*

Ex-Girlfriend...............................................Rachel Mulcahy*

Andrej....................................................Armando Gutierrez*

Réza ..............................................................Erica Swindell*

Švec.............................................................Scott Redmond*

Baruška............................................................Tina Stafford*

Ivanka...........................Catelyn Adelman, Kennady Lambert

Bank Manager...............................................Hayley Travers*

Emcee................................................................Pearl Rhein*

Eamon.......................................................Ruchir Khazanchi

UNDERSTUDIES

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

For Billy, Da, Bank Manager – Nathan Yates Douglass*

For Réza – Rachel Mulcahy*

For Andrej, Švec, Eamon, Emcee – Collin Purcell*

For Guy – Scott Redmond*

For Ex-girlfriend – Pearl Rhein*

For Girl – Erica Swindell*

For Baruška – Franca Vercelloni*

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union. Once is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. †Student, Syracuse University Department of Drama.

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ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Additional Arrangements: Pearl Rhein*

Dance Captain: Armando Gutierrez*

Scenic Model Builder: Jaime Mejia

Student Assistant Directors: Ethan Shavelson†, Haley Thompkins†

Student Assistant Costume Designer: Brooklyn Green†

Production Assistant: Em Piraino

Stage Management Intern: Hope Allen†

Young Actor Supervisor: AnnaRae Martin

Wardrobe & Wig Supervisor: Dylinn Andrew

Spotlight Operators: Erin C Brett, Chris Green

Electrician/Board Op: Alex Malli

A1: Kevin O’Connor

A2: Garrett Frink

Guitar Technician: Kenneth Meyer

SPECIAL THANKS

Special thanks to Edward Mastin, Dan and Ann Lent, Maria Lesinski, and Ben Hicks.

PROMOTIONAL PARTNERS

Kitty Hoynes, Mc Carthy’s Pub Cazenovia, The Limerick Pub, Marriott Syracuse Downtown, Shaughnessy’s Pub, Cashel House LTD, Janet Burke, Steve and Patty Ripley, Julia Rakus, Merlin Joseph Jr., Candice Bermudez, Javier Maymí-Pérez

TAKING PHOTOS IN THE THEATRE

Audience members may take photos in the theatre before and after the performance and during intermission. If you post photos on social media or elsewhere, you must credit the production's director and designers by including the names below. Please note: Photos are strictly prohibited during the performance. Photos of the stage are not permitted if an actor is present.

Video and audio recording is not permitted at any time in the theatre.

Photo credit: The Syracuse Stage production of Once | Book by Enda Walsh | Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová | Based on the motion picture written and directed by John Carney | Directed by Melissa Crespo | Music

Direction by Pearl Rhein | Choreography by Fatima Sowe | Scenic Design by Rodrigo Escalante | Co-Costume Design by Jerry Johnson & Carmen Martinez | Lighting Design by Matthew Webb | Sound Design by Jacqueline R. Herter

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SONG LIST

ACT ONE Leave

Song Without Words

Falling Slowly

North Strand The Moon

Ej Pada Pada If You Want Me

Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy Trying To Pull Myself Away

Say It To Me Now

Abandoned In Bandon Satisfy Me

Gold

ACT TWO

Act 2 Opening

A Butterfly on the Dance Floor Sleeping

When Your Mind’s Made Up

The Hill

Gold (a capella)

The Moon (Company Reprise) Falling Slowly (Reprise)

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50 CELEBRATING

Over the course of this anniversary season, we have been asking patrons to step into the specially constructed booth in the lobby to record their memories of Syracuse Stage. For this program, we have asked a professional observer and longtime champion of Syracuse Stage to share a memory.

MOST CONTROVERSIAL PRODUCTION EVER

Even four decades on, it is still the most argued-over production in the company’s history. Heatedly reviled by many at the time, Michel Tremblay’s Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra was written to push the margins and challenge audiences’ complacency. It succeeded.

Damnée was unique in another way in that this production, translated from the original French, had first been mounted in Toronto and then trucked in. We learned then that “shocking Canadian import” was not an oxymoron. Veteran subscribers willing to admit that they were old enough to attend Syracuse Stage forty-four years ago now have bragging rights for having seen it, no matter what they said at the time.

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Michel Tremblay’s Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra was written to push the margins and challenge audiences’ complacency. It succeeded.

 FRANK MOORE IN DAMNÉE MANON, SACRÉE SANDRA. BY MICHEL TREMBLAY. DIRECTED BY BILL GLASCO & JOHN VAN BUREK. PHOTO BY ROBERT LORENZ.
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At the beginning of the action we see what appears to be a man dressed in women’s clothing (Frank Moore), seated, all in white. In his monologue, or “confession,” peppered with the familiar seven once-taboo words, he speaks of an agonized narcissism that nonetheless revels in an obsession with sexual pleasure.

A second figure (Margot Dionne), dressed in black, carries an oversized rosary. With more anguish than the first speaker, she berates herself for her shortcomings in her personal relationship with the divine.

Early on during the performance I can recall using a small flashlight to reread the

program to make sure I knew who was who because the title gave both characters feminine modifiers. In a reversal of first impressions, Sandra was the name of the sex-driven narcissist, and thus “sacred,” while the prim, nun-like woman was Manon, the “damned” of the title.

From this we can see how the contrapuntal monologues will play out. The playwright is asking us to find the commonality of two outcast figures: the sacred in the profane and the profane in the sacred. He also invites comparison of religious and carnal ecstasy and the parallels of rituals and fetish objects. After the initial fireworks and we saw where

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 FRANK MOORE (LEFT) AND MARGOT DIONNE WITH DIRECTOR AND TRANSLATOR

JOHN VAN BUREK (CENTER) IN REHEARSAL FOR DAMNÉE MANON, SACRÉE SANDRA.

DIRECTED BY BILL GLASCO & JOHN VAN BUREK. PHOTO BY ROBERT LORENZ.

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The playwright is asking us to find the commonality of two outcast figures: the sacred in the profane and the profane in the sacred.

the argument was headed, Damnée became disarmingly static. It was plotless, and there were no more surprises. Well!

Given the furor in town, there were surprisingly few walk-outs. January, 1980, was the last season in the 250-seat Experimental—now Storch—Theatre. That was a time when most performances were sold out, and perhaps the disgruntled did not wish to abandon a precious ticket. Or with only two aisles, the theatre makes exiting awkward. (The company kept a confidential record of walk-outs, and the production to receive the most, protesting exits can be revealed to be 7 by Beckett (February, 1988) in the 499-seat Arch-

bold Theatre with four aisles.)

Season subscribers had been expecting a middlebrow, senior-citizen rom-com by non-political Soviet playwright Aleksei

Arbuzov called Old Times. It had been a warmly-received return-to-Broadway vehicle for a 65-year old Mary Martin

two years earlier. Cryptic “artistic differences” with the male lead, Broadway and Hollywood veteran Howard da Silva, led to the cancellation of the production and da Silva’s departure from town. For Storch this meant a dark theater in the middle of the season.

The overlooked prompt for Tremblay’s

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In a reversal of first impressions, Sandra was the name of the sex-driven narcissist, and thus “sacred,” while the prim, nun-like woman was Manon, the “damned” of the title.

 MARGOT DIONNE AND FRANK MOORE IN DAMNÉE MANON, SACRÉE SANDRA. BY MICHEL TREMBLAY. DIRECTED BY BILL GLASCO & JOHN VAN BUREK. PHOTO BY ROBERT LORENZ.
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invitation, Howard da Silva (19081986), cut a substantial figure. Blessed with a distinctive baritone, he had a long and celebrated career in New York and the movies. He had been the original Jud Fry in Oklahoma! (1943). Popularly, he was more associated with noirish films like The Lost Weekend (1945) and The Blue Dahlia (1946). Ironically he is best remembered now cast wildly against type as the cuddly Benjamin Franklin in the stage and screen versions of the musical 1776.

No stranger to our city, da Silva had played the lead in Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo (March, 1973) in the last season of Syracuse Repertory Theatre, limping predecessor to Syracuse Stage. He got to know quite a few people in town, especially Syracuse University faculty members. I spoke with him more than once. He could be charming, even ingratiating, but instant mood changes to something darker were always lurking. This once took the form of bellowing at a startled host, demanding that recorded music played at a reception be changed immediately.

The artistic difference came when da Silva demanded to cast a friend, a Syracuse University faculty wife, in the Mary Martin role. I had seen the professionally-trained woman perform and found her credible. Without any knowledge of what was said in the exchange, we can assume da Silva felt he was playing a strong hand. Only not as strong as that of the artistic director.

But Toronto? Despite being Gothamcentric Arthur Storch delighted in discovering the vibrant cultural scene in the Canadian metropolis only four

hours aways away. A favorite venue was the cutting-edge Tarragon Theatre, where he saw Damnée Manon as the dispute with da Silva was beginning to boil. The play had opened in Montreal two years earlier, and translator John Van Burek was co-directing the production Storch saw.

So here was the solution: an explosive, two-hander with a minimal set that looked as though it could be transported to open promptly in Syracuse, with minimal fuss. In-between was an international border, over which Congressman James Walsh proved to be a friend of the company.

The gamble was not as reckless as it might seem in a short summary. Two years earlier Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theatre, always a trend-setter, had staged Tremblay’s Bonjour, là, bonjour, drawing national attention. One of Tremblay’s early hits, Les Belle-soeurs, had been translated into more than a dozen languages, including Yiddish.

Damnée Manon appeared in New York City three years later at the La Mama Annex, directed by George Ferencz, the Sam Shepard specialist. Never a huge hit, it is still produced infrequently. The English title is sometimes changed to Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary. Wikipedia ranks it is as one the lesser among Tremblay’s thirty stage works.

Eight years later I spotted Tremblay by himself at an academic conference and found him to be easily approachable. When I said where I was from, he threw his hands in the air and exclaimed, “Ah, SEERacuse, they love me in SEERacuse!”

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CLOV: What is there to keep me here?

HAMM: The dialogue.

–from Endgame by Samuel Beckett

April 13, 2024 – This program note is dated because the day cited is Samue Beckett’s birthday. The famed Irish playwright was born on April 13, 1906. (Later in his life he would wryly observe the day was also a Friday the 13th and a Good Friday, which somehow may have influenced his artistic disposition.) While some regard Beckett as the greatest playwright of the last century, for others he will forever remain incomprehensible. It’s quite possible that there are a handful of (former) Syracuse Stage patrons who have not been back to see a show since 7 by Beckett in 1988.* Still, he is a giant among

Irish writers, often mentioned in the same breath with James Joyce and William Butler Yeats, and he is still revered in the city where Once is set.

It is also true that Beckett’s plays and theatre have had an outsized influence on Irish writers of succeeding generations including Enda Walsh, the book writer of this charming and heartwarming musical. Theatregoers beware: Once is not representative of Walsh’s work. Plays such as bedbound and Misterman (a stage triumph some years back for Walsh’s good friend Cillian Murphy) could easily slip

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While some regard Beckett as the greatest playwright of the last century, for others he will forever remain incomprehensible. It’s quite possible that there are a handful of (former) Syracuse Stage patrons who have not been back to see a show since 7 by Beckett in 1988.

 STEPHEN SPINELLA IN 7 BY BECKETT. BY SAMUEL BECKETT. DIRECTED BY ARTHUR STORCH. PHOTO BY LAWRENCE MASON, JR.
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undetected into any Beckett anthology, and the trilogy— The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, and Penelope—though genius, might well drive less adventurous theatregoers to try to slip un-detected out of the theatre and into the nearest pub. [File under “for future consideration:” are the generous number of welcoming pubs in Dublin at all related to the plays produced on the city’s stages? Seems like a worthy research project.]

It may be helpful to note, as the literary critic Richard Gilman pointed out, that in Beckett’s plays the stage itself and what happens on it, or just as often doesn’t happen, becomes a metaphor for our existence. The original French title of Waiting for Godot was En Attendant Godot , which

translates more directly as While Waiting for Godot. The subtle shift in emphasis alters the focus; it’s not so much about the waiting per se as about what the tramps, Didi and Gogo, do (or don’t do) as they await the arrival of the world’s most famous no-show. (For the record, Beckett once said that if he knew who Godot was, he would have said so.) And, what they do is entertain each other, look out for each other, keep each other mentally occupied (distracted), and use their being together to ward off loneliness, despair, and the kind of ill feelings that briefly make them want to use that solitary tree for deadly purpose. Beckett wrote Godot in 1952, not long after World War II. While it may not still have been the worst of times, it was still far from the best of times

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 CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM OF LITTLE WOMEN BY KIM OLER, ALISON HUBBARD, AND SEAN HARLEY, BASED ON THE NOVEL BY LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY ANTHONY SALATINO. PHOTO BY MICHAEL DAVIS.

While no one has made an exact count, it is no exaggeration to say that easily more than 1,000 actors have performed at Syracuse Stage in the last 50 years. It could quite possibly be 2,000. The current cast alone adds fourteen to the total.

in France and much of Europe. Beckett must have thought that a play about two tramps passing the time on a wasteland of a road, a play in which “nothing happens twice,” a play of non-sense, could somehow help. At bottom, isn’t that what plays are for?

The American composer John Cage once remarked: “Theatre exists everywhere around us and it is the purpose of formal theatre to remind us that this is so.” In a

sense, this is Beckett’s metaphor come full circle. Actors/characters play at living; we, mere mortals, live at playing. If the syntax doesn’t quite cohere, the observation still resonates. Shakespeare offers clarification with his famous speech about the purpose of playing: “whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as ‘twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and

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pressure.” The purpose of playing addressed to players, and there it is.

In order for the mirror of theatre to truly work, the audience must engage with flesh and blood actors—living, breathing, human beings on the stage, sharing the same space and time. To borrow from Shakespeare, this was and is, at the first and now, the distinguishing characteristic of theatre that sets it apart from all other art forms. Players. Actors.

While no one has made an exact count, it is no exaggeration to say that easily more than 1,000 actors have performed at Syracuse Stage in the last 50 years. It could quite possibly be 2,000. The current cast alone adds fourteen to the total. Some of these players were quite well-known, even famous, when they arrived at Stage. Others

became famous afterward. It can be great fun to sift through the sands of plays past and find a celebrity or two. A comprehensive search might yield upward of 50 or so familiar names, a small fraction of the total.

This means that the great majority of the actors who have played at Syracuse Stage, who have embodied the art, and held the mirror up to nature, reside in that less glamorous realm of the work-a-day: actors who ply their trade, share their talents, and move on. True, some return and some of those return with some frequency, but few. Unlike a repertory company, the audience doesn’t really get to know them. And yet, collectively, they are responsible for delivering the 50 years of theatre we are celebrating. With their bodies and voices, their skill and craft, they created every onstage moment of Syracuse Stage theatre. Mostly.

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Actors, of course, work in collaboration. It takes an entire team working onstage and off to make the magic of theatre. Across fifty years, the actors who have appeared at Syracuse Stage have been in collaboration with hundreds of playwrights, directors, designers, musicians, choreographers, and any number of coaches and specialists, from whose artistry and creativity emerged the work that has defined Syracuse Stage. As with the players, some have shared their gifts numerous times with Stage audiences, others, perhaps once. In this anniversary year, we celebrate them all. To name any one would be a disservice to the rest and off the point, like admiring an eyecatching stone and ignoring the mountain on which it was found.

Now, it is certainly true that all of the creative effort is made possible

by the hard work of Stage’s fulltime staff of artisans, technicians, and employees from the front of house to the corners of backstage. It is equally true that the history of any organization contains many facets. Stage has always been active in educational outreach and community engagement, and these aspects of the company’s historic contribution to the community are significant. But, for this moment, let’s let the plays and players be the thing(s). Syracuse Stage is a theatre first and foremost and its legacy is and will be measured most accurately in the merit of its productions and performances, those ephemeral fabrications, joined by artists and held together by dialogue.

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 CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM OF NATIVE GARDENS. BY KAREN ZACARÍAS. DIRECTED BY MELISSA CRESPO. PHOTO BY MICHAEL DAVIS.
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Catelyn Adelman (Ivanka) is excited to be appearing in her first performance at Syracuse Stage! Her recent credits include Les in Newsies, Jr. with Oswego Homeschool Association Performing Arts, and a chorus member in Brundibar with Oswego Opera Theatre. She is seven years old and is homeschooled. When not acting, she enjoys singing, reading, and playing with her family’s foster kittens. Catelyn thanks the entire Once team for their support and sends love to her parents.

Joe Boover (Guy) is an actor/musician/playwright and songwriter. He’s lived in New York City for over 12 years and currently lives between Worcester, Massachusetts and Dublin, Ireland. His musical, The Doormen , which he co-created with Victor Verhaeghe and Jason Cohen, won Best Production last year in the New York Theatre Festival. Recently Joe was music director for PigPen Theatre Company’s whimsical production of Phantom Folktales onboard Virgin Cruise-lines’ Scarlet Lady. Joe served as music director and composer (on the Baroque Lute) for a collection of songs in Shakesperience Productions’ Twelfth Night. Joe writes and performs original songs and continues to collaborate in theatre making in whatever capacity he can. He is thrilled to be a part of Syracuse Stage’s season in this magical production. Past credits include Million Dollar Quartet, National Tour (and several regional productions) Million Dollar Quartet Christmas at Bucks County Playhouse, Godspell, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Plaid Tidings, Little Women, Minnesota Moon, Theodore in The Valley, and many more. Joe sends his thanks and love to his incredibly inspiring family, brilliant friends, and to the love of his life/wife, Babs (who hails from Dublin and originally coached him on his accent!) and everyone who came out today to see our show. Joe would like to dedicate his performance to Eileen Lawter. Joe Loves You! www.JoeBoover.com

Nathan Yates Douglass (u/s: Banker, Da, Billy) is delighted to join Syracuse Stage whilst returning to this gorgeous show that has held so much meaning in his life. He is grateful to have worked all over the country and the world as a multi-instrumentalist and actor. As a singer-songwriter, he has released numerous singles and a full-length album which can be streamed on all music platforms (as Nathan Yates). Notable credits include The Buddy Holly Story (The MUNY); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Jersey Boys, and the world premiere of Heartbreak Hotel (Ogunquit Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (Endstation Theatre). As a rockabilly-bass specialist, he has appeared in numerous productions of Million Dollar Quartet, Million Dollar Quartet Christmas and shows in a similar vein. Sláinte!

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Armando Gutierrez (Andrej, Dance Captain) is excited to be making his Syracuse Stage debut! Most recently he originated the role of Fred Schultz in Run, Bambi, Run at Milwaukee Rep. Off-Broadway: The Gospel According to Heather starring Katey Sagal and the Grateful Dead musical, Red Roses, Green Gold. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in Park, Florida Studio Theatre, People’s Light, John W. Engeman, Florida Rep and Forestburgh Playhouse. Bass player for the band, Saddlemen. Special thanks to PMA, the entire Once team, my family and Lanae. @tecatemando

Ruchir Khazanchi (Eamon) is an actor, musician, and educator originally from Omaha, Nebraska. He graduated from Northwestern University with concentrations in Theatre, Musical Theatre, Creating the Musical, and Screen Acting. His original shows and music have been performed and recognized in New York and Chicago at The Fled Collective, The Tank, The American Music Theatre Project, Davenport’s Piano Bar, Brooklyn Children’s Theatre, and New Musicals Inc. In addition to his work as an actor and musician, Ruchir works as the Program Coordinator for the Tony Award-winning nonprofit, Broadway For All. Off-Broadway: The 24 Hour Plays (Classic Stage Company); New Federal Theatre BIPOC Showcase (Woody King Jr. New Federal Theatre). Regional: Fiddler on the Roof (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Guards at the Taj (Chester Theatre Company); The Apple Tree (Porchlight Music Theatre); The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (TheatreSquared); Mr. Dickens’ Hat (Northlight Theatre); Legally Blonde (Paramount Aurora); Kiss (Haven Chicago); Something in the Game (American Music Theatre Project). Film/TV: Insight (Pilot, ABC); The Becomers (Feature Film, Dark Star Productions). Thank you to GBM, my family, my friends, and my teachers. www.ruchirkhazanchi.com

Kennady “Kenna” Lambert (Ivanka) is excited to be in this production of Once. Kenna is a 2nd grader at East Syracuse Elementary. While Kenna is only 8 years-old she has three years of acting experience. She loves Syracuse Children’s Theatre, and just finished up Bugsy Malone with Great Northern Artists Collaborative. Kenna loves acting in front of an audience, but someday wants to be an astronaut. Kenna wants to thank Syracuse Stage for this incredible opportunity. She’d also like to thank her brothers and cousin Journey for always pushing her to be brave and do her best.

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Ana Marcu (Girl ) is so excited to be back at Syracuse Stage playing a role that she dreamed of playing while training here at the Syracuse University Department of Drama. She is a performer, teacher, music director, and writer, born and raised in Oregon, now based in NYC. New York and off-Broadway: Gogol (Todd Almond, Josh Schmidt); Chapters (Alanya Bridge); Georama (Playwrights Horizons); 90210! The Musical! (Theatre 80). Regional & Tours: A Christmas Carol (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Once (California Center for the Arts, Escondido); Jersey Boys (Theatre Aspen); Disney On Classic (Japan National Tour); Man of La Mancha (Arizona Theatre Company); Million Dollar Quartet (NCL); As You Like It (Great River Shakespeare Festival); Peter Pan and Hairspray (Syracuse Stage); The Music Man (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Film and Television: My Hero (Feature Film). B.F.A.: Syracuse University. IG: @a_marcu. Special thanks to my professors, my family, my love, Alex, and to the music.

Rachel Mulcahy (Ex-Girlfriend, u/s: Réza) is wildly happy to be making her Syracuse Stage debut! She currently resides in NYC, but originally hails from Skaneateles, NY. It’s good to be home. Past credits include: The World Premiere of The Railway Children (Northern Stage), Bright Star (Florida Studio Theatre), The Buddy Holly Story (Forestburgh Playhouse), Once (Geva Theatre, Northern Stage, Ivoryton Playhouse, The Engeman Theater), Shakespeare in Love (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), Ring of Fire (Timberlake Playhouse) and the National Tour of A Charlie Brown Christmas. She would like to thank this fabulous cast and creative team as well as ATB Talent and her incredible friends, family and fiancé. Check out RACH on Spotify/Apple Music! @therachmusic

Collin Purcell (u/s: Andrej, Švec, Eamon, Emcee) is absolutely thrilled to be making his Syracuse Stage debut! Born and raised in Syracuse, Collin has been seeing shows at Stage since he was a child and is so excited to be back in town and working with this amazing team. Regional credits include: You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Charlie Brown), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nick Bottom), Romeo and Juliet (Prince), RENT (Roger), Once Upon A Mattress (Prince Dauntless) at the Redhouse Arts Center; Twelfth Night (Fabian, u/s Sir Toby), Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato), A Christmas Carol (Vicar), and The Snow Queen (Trygve) with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. When not on a traditional stage Collin spends his time playing music at Renaissance Festivals as well as performing with the nationally touring 1960’s folk music group A Band Called Honalee. He also loves playing with his friends in a Grateful Dead cover band. Collin holds a B.A. in Theatre from Hamilton College. He would like to thank Melissa for this amazing op-

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portunity, as well as the rest of the cast, crew, and team behind this production for making something so full of love and light, as well as making Stage a great place to come to work everyday. He’d also like to thank his incredible family, loved ones, friends, and mentors for their constant support and love.

Scott Redmond (Švec, u/s: Guy) is a New York-based actor, most recently seen in RENT at Theatre Under The Stars in Houston, and on the national tour of Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma!. Additional recent credits include Francois & The Rebels (The Public Theater), Becomes a Woman (Mint Theater), Ride the Cyclone (Alliance Theatre, Original Cast Recording), Freedom Riders (NYMF, Original Cast Recording), and After Forever (Amazon Prime). Huge thanks to DDO, the Syracuse Stage team, Bass/ Valle Casting, my instrument teachers Rick and Ethan, and endless thanks to friends and family! scottredmondactor.com @notscottredmond

Pearl Rhein (she/her) (Music Director, Emcee, u/s: Ex-Girlfriend) is an actor, singer, musician and music-maker based in New York. She was in the original Broadway cast of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. Theater career highlights include playing Jo March in Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Little Women at The Dallas Theater Center, Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale directed by Melia Bensussen at Hartford Stage, and ensemble member in the NYC revival of Nightclub Cantata by Elizabeth Swados. Other theater credits include Ars Nova, The Irish Rep, Mint Theater, Red Bull, The Civilians, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), A.R.T. (Boston), and The La Jolla Playhouse. TV credits include Succession (HBO), Bull (CBS), The Blacklist (NBC), and Younger (TVLand). Pearl is also a composer-lyricist, arranger, and orchestrator for Musical Theater; a favorite recent collaboration was writing band arrangements and producing backing tracks and demos for Hatchetation, a new musical about Cary A. Nation by Amy Jo Jackson. Pearl would like to thank Melissa for the opportunity to collaborate, Olivia for speaking up, and Jordan for everything. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, AFM, Ring of Keys and Maestra. On most social media: @pearlrhein. pearlrhein.com

Tina Stafford (Baruška) is a New York City based actress, thrilled to be making her Syracuse Stage debut. She most recently delighted audiences at the Olney Theatre Center as Mrs. Wylie in Lend Me a Soprano. National Tours: the “First” Once First National Tour, Seven Brides, Jolson the Musical. Regional: Arena Stage, the Paper Mill, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Westport, Bucks County, La Jolla, and Cape Playhouses, Goodspeed Musicals, Barrington Stage Company, Asolo Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Kansas City Rep, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Utah Shakespear-

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ean Festival, and the Texas and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, Geva Theatre Center, Denver Center, Hangar Theater, CATF. Ms. Stafford is a proud union member.

Sean Steele (Billy) is so beyond excited to “Leave” big ole NYC and head to “The North Strand” of Syracuse! You might have seen Sean as Don in Kinky Boots off-Broadway. Other favorite roles include Brick (Escape to Margaritaville), Shrek (Shrek), Edgar Bean (Titanic), Marcellus (The Music Man), Tony (Most Happy Fella), and Galahad (Spamalot) among others. Sean couldn’t climb up “The Hill” without his army of “Gold.” Those family and friends keep him from being a “Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy.” Thank you to “The Moon” and back to the incredible creative team of this show as well as all of the Syracuse Stage staff. I’m beyond honored that you would “Say It to Me Now” and let me be a part of this. My endless gratitude and love to Ben and Erica at Headline Talent. Lastly, to M, you are the only person in the world I will be “Falling Slowly” in love with.

Erica Swindell (Réza, u/s: Girl) is a Brooklyn based actor, musician, and songwriter, and is thrilled to be making her Syracuse Stage debut. As a musician, she performs as the lead violinist for Eagles and backing vocalist to Don Henley and Joe Walsh among others. She has toured the world with Eagles, most recently as the Concertmaster for the Hotel California Tour 35 piece orchestra. As a recording artist, she has appeared on albums by American Authors, Chelsea Cutler, and Faouzia. Her live performances can be seen on Austin City Limits, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Ellen, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NPR, and The Howard Stern Show. Broadway and World Tour: Once. Off-Broadway: Mary Broome (Mint Theater Company). NYC Theatre: Romeo and Juliet (American Globe Theatre) Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (Penn Shakes). TV: Quantico (ABC). B.F.A. Acting Marymount Manhattan. Big thanks to Lohne/Graham Management and all my love to Erik. @ericaswindell

Hayley Travers (Bank Manager) is an actor and musician based in NYC. Favorite regional credits include: The Secret Garden (Shakespeare Theatre Company) The Secret Garden (Theatre Under The Stars), Silence! The Musical (Studio Theatre), Yuletide Celebration (Indianapolis Symphony), I’ll Be Seeing You (West Virginia Symphony, Fairfax Symphony). Musical Theater: American University. Cello: New England Conservatory. For Noah and T12&3. Hayleytravers.com @hayleymtravers

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Franca Vercelloni (u/s: Baruška), born in NYC and raised in Rome, NY, has family and friends in Syracuse and Central New York and has wanted to work at Syracuse Stage since childhood. NY stage credits include City Center Encores: Dear World (w/Donna Murphy) and off-Broadway: Drama Desk nominated productions A Christmas Carol and I’m A Stranger Here Myself. Select Regional: The Buddy Holly Story (Engeman Theatre), Cowgirls (Florida Studio Theatre), Family Game Night (w/ Kathleen Turner, Provincetown Theater). NY Fringe Festival hit solo show: Classically Trained, Practically Broke. Concerts: Ragtime on Ellis Island (w/ Brian Stokes Mitchell), Perfectly Marvelous (w/Audra McDonald), Cabaret (w/Carolee Carmello). TV: The Deuce, Search Party, Bull. Film: The Big Bad Swim. MAC Nominated pianist/entertainer at iconic NYC piano bar Marie’s Crisis. Acclaimed for leading interactive virtual singalongs during covid lockdown, featured in the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, American Theatre Wing’s “Working in the Theatre” and on the cover of The New York Times Arts Section. www.francavercelloni.com @FrancaVerce

Kurt Zischke (Da) Syracuse Stage debut. Broadway, offBroadway and National Tours include Signs of Life, Whistle Down the Wind, The Buddy Holly Story, The Three Sisters, Antigone, King Lear, A Doll’s House, The Beaux’ Stratagem, George Abbott’s Broadway, Barbara’s Blue Kitchen and Ulysses in Nighttown, among others. Regionally, he has appeared across the country in over 130 productions, ranging from Julius Caesar (Brutus) to My Fair Lady (Henry Higgins) at such theatres as The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Old Globe, Northern Stage, The Alliance, The Huntington, The Pioneer, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Westport Country Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arkansas Rep, The Cape Playhouse, Geva, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, The Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, and the Utah, New Jersey, and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals. He is a graduate of Stanford University and The Neighborhood Playhouse, where he studied under Sanford Meisner. Kurt is married to actress Victoria Adams-Zischke, and most proud of their daughter Scout, who attends American University in Washington, D.C. In memory of Barry Katz.

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Rodrigo Escalante (Scenic Designer) is originally from El Salvador and based in New York City. Recent credits: El Otro Oz (Atlantic Theater), Vámonos (INTAR) HOLA Award Outstanding Design Winner; La Gringa (American Stage) BroadwayWorld Tampa Best Scenic Design Winner; Queen of Basel

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(Theaterworks Hartford); Hunts Point Ensemble’s Romeo and Juliet (Public Theater Shakespeare Initiative) featured in the 2023 PBS Documentary ‘The First Folio’; The African Company Presents Richard III (Great River Shakespeare Festival); Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Billie Holiday Theater); Fedra -Queen of Haiti (Barnard College); Our Town (University of Rochester); Always… Patsy Cline (Great River Shakespeare Festival); and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Cape Fear Regional Theater). For more info visit: www.rodrigoescalante.com

Jerry L. Johnson (Co-Costume Designer) taught design, stagecraft, and speech communication at Salem State University. He has taught at Dillard University, Delgado Community College and Florida A&M University, and he was honored to design the national tour of Drumline Live. In New York City, he designed for Harlem School of the Arts, Columbia University, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Jean Cocteau Repertory, and Flux Theatre Ensemble. Jerry’s Broadway work includes: Disney’s Lion King, Disney’s Little Mermaid, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera, Cinderella, and Rockette’s Christmas Spectacular. While working in fashion, he was the Production Coordinator for: Marc Jacobs, Alice + Olivia, and Thakoon. His regional theatre credits include: The Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Papermill Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theatre, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festive, Arkansas Rep and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Internationally, he worked for ETA Hoffman theatre in Bamberg Germany. In summer 2020, he worked on two new plays at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival: Michael Weller’s A Welcome Guest and Dale Orlandersmith’s Antonio’s Song. At Salem State, Jerry has designed costumes for Macbeth, A Free Man of Color, Poison of Choice, Uncommon Women and Others, Gunplay: A Play about America, Much Ado About Nothing, The Visit, and The Laramie Project, and directed The White Witch of Rose Hall.

Carmen M. Martinez (Co-Costume Designer) is an assistant professor and the program coordinator of the Theater Design and Technology in the Department of Drama, where she teaches costume and scenic design. Among her credits in Syracuse are: What the Constitution Means to Me (Syracuse Stage), Push, Pull, Together, Apart (Syracuse Stage Theatre for the Very Young), and the last five Syracuse Stage Children’s Tour productions (Red Riding Hood, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Girl Who Swallowed A Cactus, Danny King of The Basement, Suzette Who Set To Sea). Prior to Syracuse, Martinez lived in New York City, where she founded and ran her own studio, all of the things, making and designing everything from small costume pieces to fully realized productions. Among her clients were Katy Perry (2017 Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala performance), Lisa Lampanelli (Stuff’d), and several theaters and performance spaces in the city (Atlantic Theater, the Cherry Lane Theater, the Park Avenue Armory). Her design cred-

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its include The Wild Party (Syracuse University Drama Department), James and The Giant Peach (Atlantic Theater), and King Lear (Cherry Lane Theater). Before focusing in theater, Martinez worked as a graphic designer at both the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Martinez’s focus is in storytelling, color, and the ways in which all artforms interconnect and relate to each other. YSD ‘14, RISD ‘08.

Matthew Webb (Lighting Designer) is excited to return to Syracuse Stage this season, having previously lit The Play That Goes Wrong. In Central New York, Matt frequently spends parts of his summers with Cortland Rep, including for the upcoming My Fair Lady, and he’s been nominated for three SALT awards for his lighting at CRT. Elsewhere, Matt’s designed with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Arden Theatre, Seattle Rep, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Arkansas Rep, ZACH Theatre, and many others, and he created architectural lighting for two years with Sighte Studio in Brooklyn. A Gulf South native, Matt is currently on the faculty of the University of Houston, where he heads the M.F.A. and B.F.A. lighting programs, and he holds degrees from Mississippi State and the University of Washington. www.mwebbdesign.com

Jacqueline R. Herter (Sound Designer) has served as resident sound designer at Syracuse Stage and Syracuse University Department of Drama since 1997. She shifted and combined theatrical design with video/film design for the 20/21 season. Herter has designed for Indiana Repertory Theatre, Studio Arena, the Wilma, Geva, Round House, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Virginia Stage, and the Hangar Theater as well as other theatres across the nation. Some favorite designs have been: Annapurna, Beauty and the Beast, Next to Normal, Mary Poppins, Nine, Hairspray, The Overwhelming, Caroline, or Change, The Miracle Worker, The Wolves, The Day Room, The Christians, Radio Golf, Parade, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Red Noses, The Real Thing, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, M. Butterfly, A Raisin in the Sun, A Lesson Before Dying, Copenhagen, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Inherit the Wind, and Big River.

Holly Thuma (Dialect Coach) teaches Voice/Verse in the Syracuse University Department of Drama and is a certified associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. She has served as vocal and dialect coach for many Department of Drama productions including Top Girls, Violet, To Chekhov with Love for the Edinburgh Festival, Major Barbara, Romeo and Juliet, among others. For Syracuse Stage she was vocal coach for Mickey Rowe in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Holly’s acting and directing credits include productions with Quantum Theatre, the Dallas Theatre Center, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, City Theatre Company where she was a founding member, Perry Mansfield New Play Festival, as well as independent films. A passionate believer in arts education, Holly’s career has included development

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and direction of performance programs for underserved children through the Pittsburgh Public Theater and for the Hope Academy of Music and the Arts. She is a proud union member of Actors Equity and SAG/AFTRA.

Kyra Button (Stage Manager) is proud to hold a B.F.A. in Stage Management from Syracuse University’s Department of Drama and is excited to be back in the complex to work on this production of Once. Kyra’s previous credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Henry V, and Dreamgirls (Virginia Stage Company), ABCD (Barrington Stage Company), Antigone, Where Did We Sit On The Bus?, Tiny Houses, Into The Breeches, Pipeline, and Shakespeare In Love (Cleveland Play House), Hurricane Diane (Dobama Theatre), Baby Camp (Leviathan Labs), Resistance (Semicolon Theatre), The Heart’s Impatience (Shufflefoot Theatre Company), A Streetcar Named Desire (St. Ann’s Warehouse), Medea and Dreamgirls (Red House Arts Center), This Day Forward (The Vineyard Theatre), and The Intergenerational Project (Rose Bruford, London), along with readings at Ars Nova, MCC, and Westport Country Playhouse, just to name a few. It’s always nice to come home.

Bass/Valle Casting (Casting) formerly Harriet Bass Casting, is a leading NYC boutique casting office. To know more about their upcoming projects and casting philosophy please visit www.bassvallecasting.com. Harriet Bass has cast for ABC/TV, Fox Television Studios, The Public Theatre: NEW 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 Radio Golf, Broadway Gem of the Ocean, and off-Broadway Jitney. Harriet is also a leading educator in audition technique, side and monologue coaching, and the business of acting. She has taught at the nation’s top universities and professional training programs. Gama Valle is a director, playwright, screenwriter, children’s book author, and casting director. His casting credits include: The American Tradition, The Great Novel, Split Second, I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet, among others. He is a proud member of New Light Theatre Ensemble and the recipient of the Van Lier Directing Fellowship at Repertorio Español. Gama received the First Prize in playwriting from Puerto Rico’s Institute of Culture for his play Queishd&Dilit. Their regional casting credits include: Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, Trinity Rep, San Jose Rep, Geva, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Merrimack Rep, Longwharf Theatre, Alliance Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Kansas City Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, Dallas Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Portland Center Stage, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Feature films 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.

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Melissa Crespo (she/her) has made a career of developing new plays, musicals, and opera around the country and abroad. She recently directed the musical El Otro Oz by Tommy Newman, Mando Alvarez, and Jaime Lozano at Atlantic Theatre Company. Other favorite past credits include, Espejos: Clean by Christine Quintana (Hartford Stage & Syracuse Stage), Bees and Honey by Guadalís Del Carmen off-Broadway at MCC Theater, and form of a girl unknown by Charly Evon Simpson (Salt Lake Acting Company). As a playwright, her play Egress, co-written with Sarah Saltwick, had a world premiere at Amphibian Stage and won the Roe Green Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting at Cleveland Play House. She is one of the Founding Editors of 3Views on Theater, an online publication conceived by The Lillys. Fellowships and residencies include: Time Warner Fellow (WP Theatre), Usual Suspect (NYTW), The Director’s Project (Drama League), Van Lier Directing Fellow (Second Stage Theatre), and the Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow (Arena Stage). Melissa received her M.F.A. in directing from The New School for Drama. https://www.melissacrespo.com

CHOREOGRAPHER

Fatima Sowe makes her Syracuse Stage debut. Regional credits include: Choreography for Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812; Once; Kate Hamill’s Pride & Prejudice (Hangar Theater); Cardboard Piano (TimeLine Theatre). Dramaturgy for Gem of the Ocean; School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Goodman Theater); Caroline, or Change (TimeLine Theatre & Firebrand Theater). Assistant Direction for True West; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Steppenwolf Theatre Company).

CREATIVE TEAM

Enda Walsh (Book) is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter and director. His recent work includes the play Arlington and the opera The Second Violinist which both premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival in 2016 and 2017 respectively. He also worked on the new musical, Lazarus, with David Bowie, which opened at New York Theatre Workshop in December 2015. Enda adapted and directed Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers, which ran both in Glasgow and New York. His work has been translated into many languages and has been performed internationally since 1996. In 2014 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Galway University.

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Glen Hansard (Music and Lyrics) is an award-winning musician with a host of real-life songs and lilting vocals that reflect a passion for his diverse influences. Film: The Commitments, Once. Albums: Between Two Shores, This Wild Willing, Didn’t He Ramble, Rhythm and Repose, Strict Joy, the soundtrack of Once (Academy Award for Best Original Song, “Falling Slowly;” Olivier award for Outstanding Musical Contribution), The Swell Season, The Cost, Burn the Maps, Set List, For the Birds, Dance the Devil, Fitzcarraldo, and Another Love Song.

Markéta Irglová (Music and Lyrics) is an Academy Award-winning musician and actor born in the Czech Republic. Film: Once and Milluji tě Modře. Albums: Muna, Anar, The Swell Season, the soundtrack of Once (Academy Award for Best Original Song, “Falling Slowly,” Olivier award for Outstanding Musical Contribution), Strict Joy

John Carney (Original Screenplay) is a Dublin-based writer-director who came to the world’s attention following the box office hit and critically acclaimed musical feature film Once, which garnered multiple Independent Spirit, Sundance and Raindance awards. Previously, John was a bassist in the Irish rock band the Frames, where he met Glen Hansard. These musical roots continue to be evident in John’s work with his latest production, Can a Song Save Your Life?. Other projects include Dogs of Babel for David Heyman and Nathan Kahane starring Steve Carrell and a feature adaptation of M.R. James’s Casting the Runes for Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.

MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL

Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these musicals to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 100,000 professional, community and school theatres in the US and in over 150 countries worldwide. MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theatre, and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway Junior® shows are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by elementary and middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s School Editions are musicals annotated for performance by high school students. MTI maintains its global headquarters in New York City with additional offices in London (MTI Europe) and Melbourne (MTI Australasia).

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Robert Hupp is in his eighth season as artistic director of Syracuse Stage. He recently directed Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Our Town, The Play That Goes Wrong, Eureka Day, Annapurna, Talley’s Folly, Amadeus, Noises Off, Next to Normal, and The Three Musketeers for Stage. Prior to coming to Central New York, Robert spent seventeen seasons as the producing artistic director of Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock. He directed over 30 productions for Arkansas Rep ranging from Hamlet to Les Miserables to The Grapes of Wrath. In New York City, Robert directed the American premieres of Glyn Maxwell’s The Lifeblood and Wolfpit for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble. He also served for nine seasons as the artistic director of the Obie Award-winning Jean Cocteau Repertory. At the Cocteau, Robert’s directing credits include works by Buchner, Wilder, Cocteau, Shaw, Wedekind and the premieres of the Bentley/Milhaud version of Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, and Eduardo de Filippo’s Napoli Millionaria. He has held faculty positions at Pennsylvania’s Dickinson College and, in Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Hendrix College. Robert served as vice president of the Board of Directors of the Theatre Communications Group and has served on funding panels for the New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, the Theatre Communications Group, the New Jersey State Council of the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. While in Arkansas, Robert was named both Non-Profit Executive of the Year by the Arkansas Business Publishing Group, and Individual Artist of the Year by the Arkansas Arts Council. He and his wife Clea ride herd over a blended family of five children, one dog, and two cats.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Jill A. Anderson has served as managing director of Syracuse Stage since 2016. Jill is responsible for Stage’s more than $8 million operating budget and has oversight of fundraising, marketing, and operational matters within the organization. Prior to joining Stage, Jill spent a decade as general manager at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. During her tenure, the O’Neill completed a $7 million capital campaign and campus expansion, doubled its operating budget, and was honored with the National Medal of Arts and a Regional Theatre Tony Award. Under the O’Neill’s aegis, Jill also developed the Baltic Playwrights Conference, an annual international new play development retreat held in Hiiumaa, Estonia. Previously, Jill spent five years in the production office at Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage, after working as a stage manager in Minnesota, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. In addition to her work at Stage, Jill is an instructor in the theater management program of the Syracuse University Department of

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Drama, building on her work with high school and college students elsewhere, including at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Jill has been recognized as part of the Central NY Business Journal’s “40 Under Forty” and serves on numerous municipal and non-profit boards. Jill is delighted to call Central New York home, but will always be a proud cheesehead, originally hailing from Marshfield, Wisconsin.

RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT

Kyle Bass is the author of Tender Rain, which premiered at Syracuse Stage last season, and Possessing Harriet, which premiered at Syracuse Stage and has been produced at Franklin Stage Company, East Lynne Theater Company, HartBeat Ensemble and is published by Standing Stone Books. Salt City Blues was produced at Syracuse Stage in the 21/22 season, and Citizen James, or The Young Man Without a Country, about a young James Baldwin, was commissioned by Syracuse Stage, has streamed nationally, was recently presented at Brown University and is under option for an international feature film. Toliver & Wakeman was commissioned by and premiered at Franklin Stage Company. His libretto for Libba Cotten: Here This Day, an opera based on the life of American folk music legend Libba Cotten, was commissioned by The Society for New Music. With Ping Chong, Kyle is the co-author of Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo, which premiered at Syracuse Stage and was produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York. His other full-length plays include Baldwin vs. Buckley: The Faith of Our Fathers, which has been presented at Cornell University, Colgate University, the University of Delaware, and Syracuse University, and Separated, a documentary theatre piece about student military veterans at Syracuse University, which was presented at Syracuse Stage and the Paley Center in New York, and Leeboe & Sons. Kyle is the co-author of the original screenplay for the film Day of Days (Broad Green Pictures, 2017) and is a three-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. He is currently developing a television series with co-writer Jaffe Cohen. As dramaturg, Kyle has collaborated with acclaimed visual artist Carrie Mae Weems, and was the script consultant on Thoughts of a Colored Man, which premiered at Syracuse Stage in 2019 and opened on Broadway in 2021. Kyle is Assistant Professor of Theater at Colgate University, where he previously served as Burke Chair for Regional Studies. He has also taught in the M.F.A. creative writing program at Goddard College, at Syracuse University, and at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. Kyle was the Susan P. Stroman Visiting Playwright at the University of Delaware and the Flournoy Visiting Playwright at Washington & Lee University. He holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from Goddard College, is a proud

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member of the Dramatists Guild of America and is represented by the Barbara Hogenson Agency. A descendant of African people enslaved in New England and the American South, Kyle resides and writes in Upstate New York where his family has lived free and owned land for nearly 225 years.

WHO WE ARE

Syracuse Stage is the non-profit professional theatre company in residence at Syracuse University. We are nationally recognized for creating stimulating theatrical work that engages Central New York, and for our significant contribution to the artistic life of Syracuse University, where we are a vital partner in achieving the educational mission of the University’s Department of Drama.

OUR MISSION

Syracuse Stage tells stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experience.

OUR VISION

Reimagining what's possible for regional theatre–through active inclusion, innovative outreach, and bold productions–Syracuse Stage shapes the culture and social vitality of Central New York, enriches the Syracuse University student experience, and fosters change in ourselves, our communities, and our world.

OUR CORE VALUES

People - Actively including diverse individuals, communities, ideas, and perspectives. Passion - Commitment to integrity, excellence, and enthusiasm in our work. Curiosity - Fostering an innovative and adaptive environment that elicits wonder.

IN THE COMMUNITY

Stage has collaborated with a myriad of institutions in the Syracuse area. Community partners include 100 Black Men of Syracuse, AccessCNY, ARC of Onondaga, ARISE, ArtRage, CNY Reads, Interfaith Works of Central New York, La Casita, McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center, Onondaga Historical Association, Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park, SUNY Upstate Medical University, the VA Medical Center, and Vera House. Additionally, the educational department collaborates with many CNY schools.

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ANTI-RACISM PLEDGE

Syracuse Stage stands firmly against racism and discrimination. We pledge to stand with under-represented and oppressed communities and to advance antiracism in all aspects of our work, including the outward facing, public dimension of our creative endeavors and the less visible internal practices of the organization.

ABOUT SYRACUSE STAGE

Originally constructed as the Regent Movie House in 1914, the physical space of Syracuse Stage has seen many films, musicians, actors, and artists pass through its doors over the course of the past century. The Syracuse Stage that exists today is a non-for-profit professional theatre company founded in 1974, and a longstanding League of Resident Theatres (LORT) member. Since its inception, Stage has produced over 350 shows, both plays and musicals, within its walls. Now, Stage produces six to seven shows per season, while also offering educational programs to students, various pre- and post-show events, and fundraising events each year. Stage is Central New York’s only LORT theatre and one of the largest performing arts organizations in the area. Stage has a strong commitment to giving the community access to a range of high-quality productions; it is equally committed to bringing in actors, designers, and directors who are among the leading theatre professionals, both locally and across the nation.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Syracuse Stage respectfully acknowledges the Onondaga Nation, Firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee, the Indigenous people on whose ancestral lands we now stand.

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SYRACUSE STAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Rocco Mangano Partner

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PRESIDENT

Herman R. Frazier* Senior Deputy Athletics Director Syracuse University

CHAIR-ELECT/VICE CHAIR

Richard Driscoll Sr. Commercial Banking Relationship Manager Commercial Banking Division NBT Bank

TREASURER

Brett Padgett*

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Syracuse University

SECRETARY

Sharon Sullivan Community Volunteer

AT-LARGE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER

Phil Turner Pastor Bethany Baptist Church

Jill A. Anderson** Managing Director Syracuse Stage

Janet Audunson Assistant General Counsel National Grid

George S. Bain Freelance Editor and Writer

Barbara Beckos Retired - Syracuse Stage

Nancy Byrne Community Volunteer

Dr. Ruth Chen* Professor of Practice Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science

Robin Curtis NYS Lic. RE Asso. Broker Hunt Real Estate ERA

Denise Dyce Associate Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations

Syracuse University

Colleen A. Gaetano

Retired- Vice President Global Education & Artistry Estée Lauder Companies, NYC

Helene Gold

Private Voice & Piano Instructor

Jacki Goldberg Community Volunteer

Nancy Green Managing Member

Edward S. Green & Associates

Larry Harris EVP and CFO Saab, Inc.

Robert Hupp** Artistic Director

Syracuse Stage

Cydney Johnson* Vice President for Community Engagement and Government Relations

Syracuse University

Rebecca Karpoff* Professor of Practice, Musical Theater/Coordinator of Vocal Instruction, Musical Theater Syracuse University Department of Drama

Kathy Kelly

Retired - Health Educator, PNP

Larry Leatherman Retired - Bristol-Myers Squibb, MOST

Dan Lent Vice President Citizens Bank

Rob Lentz EVP of Enterprise Operations Zeta Global

Maria Lesinski Attorney Newman and Lickstein

Anthony Malavenda Retired - Duke’s Root Control

Julia Martin Partner Bousquet Holstein

Suzanne McAuliffe Retired - Educator

Rod McDonald Bond, Schoeneck & King

Molly Mulvihill Sr. Relationship Manager Global Commercial Banking Bank of America

Fran Nichols Retired - Mower, Inc.

Mona Paradis Stadium International Trucks

Virginia Parker

Retired - Educator (1996 - 2023)

Molly Ryan Partner, Goldberg Segalla LLP

Robert Sarason Retired - Lawyer, Organizer, Fundraiser

Melvin T. Stith Dean Emeritus, Whitman School of Management

Syracuse University

Cora Thomas Radio Host and Office Manager, WAER

Michael S. Tick* Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University

Dr. Amy Tucker Chief Medical Officer SUNY Upstate Medical University

Andrea Waldman Community Volunteer

Maryam Wasmund Chief Financial Officer Filtertech Inc.

Ralph Zito** Chair

Syracuse University Department of Drama

*University Trustee

**Ex-Officio

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SYRACUSE STAGE EMERITUS TRUSTEES

We are grateful to the following individuals who have served as Members of the Stage Board of Trustees and continue to provide significant support to Syracuse Stage.

Jim Breuer

Sandra Brown

Mary Beth Carmen

Bea González

Joan Green

Elizabeth Hartnett

John Huhtala

Margaret Martin

Kevin McAuliffe

Eric Mower

Judy Mower

Michael Shende

Richard Shirtz

Jack Webb

Michael Zoanetti

SYRACUSE STAGE EDUCATION ADVOCACY BOARD

Sara Bambino

CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL

Todd Benware

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

Jordan Berger

JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL

Rhiannon Berry

LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL

Elizabeth Defurio NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL

David Fisselbrand AUBURN HIGH SCHOOL

Melissa Morgan BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

Matthew Phillips

JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL

Linda Ponza SOLVAY HIGH SCHOOL

Jennifer Sabatino CATO-MERIDIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL

YOUNG ADULT COUNCIL

Paige Blair

CAZENOVIA HIGH SCHOOL

Sadie Broderick

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Natalie Corbin

JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL

Ella Culligan

LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL

Joliette Doyle

TULLY JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Nina Doyle-Gonzalez

MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL

Kate Fennessy

AUBURN HIGH SCHOOL

Claire Foran

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Anqi Geng

MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL

Kennedy Hilton

FAYETTEVILLE-MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

Mira Jensen

CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOL

Beatrix Karn

CAZENOVIA HIGH SCHOOL

Sophia Kelly

CATO MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Stephanie Kelly

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

Margot Klein

CHARLES W. BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

Tessa Komar

FAYETTEVILLE-MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

Rei Korthas

HOMESCHOOLED

Madison Macomber

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Zoie Markowski

SOLVAY HIGH SCHOOL

Minerva Miller

FAYETTEVILLE-MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

Octavia Miller

FAYETTEVILLE-MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

Harper Shute

FAYETTEVILLE-MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

Caleb Smith

MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL

Francesca Smith

BISHOP GRIMES JR./SR. HIGH SCHOOL

Abbie Sundet

PAUL V. MOORE HIGH SCHOOL

Zariah Taylor

JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL

David Warne Peters

CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOL

Rebecca Wheeler

HOMESCHOOLED

Sophia Zogby

CATO MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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SYRACUSE STAGE ANNUAL FUND GIFTS

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. For information regarding levels of contribution and benefits of each please contact the Development office at 315-443-3931 or visit syracusestage.org.

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SPONSORS

Richard Mather Fund

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CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SPONSORS

Contributions listed above are current as of April 12, 2024. and reflect operating support of $5,000+ and in-kind donations of $10,000+.

The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation is proud to be a sponsor of the arts in Central New York. We recognize the deep importance live theatre plays in shaping the cultural and social vitality of our community. In these challenging times, theatre brings us together to be inspired and celebrate the richness of the human experience. We are delighted to continue to support Syracuse Stage and this very special production of Once

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ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN GIFTS

Syracuse Stage's 50th Anniversary Season is presented by Slutzker Family Foundation

Sarah Alden

Jackie Anderson

Robert & Jeanne Anderson

Frank Badagnani

George S. Bain

Rosemary Baker & Stuart Spiegel

Keith Batman & Barbara Post

Helen Beale

Jean Beers

Carrie Berse & Chris Skeval

Michael & Jennifer Blowers

Leslee Boissy

Thomas & Carol Boll

Jon & Patricia Booth

Mary Brady

Dennis & Mary Anne Brady

Marion Brillati

Angel Broadnax

Paul Brown & Susan

Loevenguth

Marlene Brown

Pamela Brown-Benjamin

Gary & Kathleen Bruno

Lia & Dean Burrows

Kathleen Burt

Patricia Bush

Nancy & William Byrne

Lori Campitello

Rich & Mary Cappelli

Anthony & Carolyn Cimino

Patricia & Sandy Colabufo

Nicholas & Louanne Colaneri

Elaine Coppola

Raymond W. Cummings, Jr.

Kevin & Kristin Curtis

Therese & Walter Dancks

Anthony & Deborah D'Angelo

Bill & Terry Delavan

Roger & Naomi DeMuth

Robert Desimone

Mary DiSanto

James & Leona Dowd

Ron Ehrenreich & Sondra Roth

Richard Ellison & Margaret Ksander

Linda Fabian & Dennis Goodrich

Carole Farfaglia

Carol Fedrizzi

Alan Fischler & Karen McDonold

David & Karen Fitch

Molly Carole Fitzpatrick

Robert & Terry Flower

Peter Frantzis

Nancy Freeborough

George & Halina Gagne

Jim & Carol Galvin

Barbara Genton

Neil & Helene Gold

Jacki & Michael Goldberg

Douglas Goldschmidt & David Jacobs

William Goodwin

Muffy & Herbert Baird

Hansen

Tom & Cynthia Helmer

Kenneth Hendel

Steven Herwood

Michele Hickman

Judy Huckle

Robert & Clea Hupp

Norma Huxter

Linda Imboden

Emily Johnson & Vijay

Ramachandran

Deborah Joiner

Laura & Ed Jordan

Gwenn & John Judge

Michael & Audrey Kane

Brian Kane & Phyllis

Perrotti

James & Jan Kaplan

Dana Keefer

John & Gloria Kennedy

Stewart Koenig & Judy Schmid

Dean Kolts

Jill Ladd

Lorraine LaDuke

Andrea Latchem

Stephen Lessie

Linda Loomis

Tony Malavenda & Martine

Burat

Rocco & Roberta Mangano

Wade Manning

Nicholas Martin

Kevin & Suzanne McAuliffe

Andreas & Margaret Meier

Carl Mellor

Michael & Claudia Miceli

Gail Mitchell

Bruce Moseley & Leigh

Yardley

Janet Munro

As of April 12, 2024.

Claire Myers

Richard & Barbara Natoli

Marty & Millie Newshan

Becky Nicandri

Leslie Noble & Bill Morris

Sally O'Herin

Marjorie Ostrander

Cindy Paikin

Ricky & Whitney Pak

David & Susan Palen

Cathy Palm

Nolan & Phyllis Palsma

Peter & Constance Palumb

Robert & Teresa Parke

Susan Perriello

Debra Petzold

Jane Pickett

Duane & Karleen Preske

Nancy Radoff

David Rankert

Jean Reilly

The Dorothy and Marshall

M. Reisman Foundation

Todd Relyea

Ross & Melanie Relyea

Patrick & Kuni Riccardi

Terry & Monica Richmond

James & Tricia Sadowski

Robert Sarason & Jane

Burkhead

Mike & Marilyn Sees

Barry & Jenny Shulman

Theresa Slosek & Ronald

Wilson

Joseph & Carolyn Smith

Vinodhini Subramanian

John & Jamie Sutphen

Amy Sweeney

Delia & Sandy Temes

Angi Tipton

John Toomey

Hon. Karen M. Uplinger

Joseph & Carole Valesky

Nancy Wadopian

Marc & Marcy Waldauer

Mark Watkins & Brenda Silverman

Liz & David Wei

Lynda Wheat

Dr. Kelvin White

Tom & Desiree Wight

Evelyn B Williams

Diana Wolpert

Leslie & Jerry Zaborsky

Joyce Zadzilka

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INDIVIDUAL, CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS

New and increased gifts this season will be matched by The Richard Mather Fund.

It is our goal to provide a complete list of all donors $100+. Nevertheless, if your gift is not listed or is listed incorrectly, please accept our apologies, and contact the Development Office at 315-443-9848.

$100,000+

CNY Arts, Inc

Onondaga County

Syracuse University

$50,000 - $99,999

Advance Media New York

New York State Council on the Arts

The Dorothy & Marshall M. Reisman Foundation

$20,000 - $49,999

George S. Bain

iHeart Radio

Richard Mather Fund

National Endowment for the Arts

$10,000 - $19,999

Bank of America

Richard Bunce

Nancy & William Byrne Cathedral Candle Company

JP Morgan Chase

Cumulus Radio

Nancy Green & Tony Marschall

Elizabeth Hartnett

M&T Bank

News Channel 9

The John Ben Snow Foundation & Memorial Trust

Sharon Sullivan & Paul Phillips

Urban CNY

WAER

WRVO

$5,000 - $9,999

Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation

Bousquet Holstein

Dr. Ruth Chen & Chancellor Kent Syverud

CNY Business Journal

CNY Latino

Roger & Naomi DeMuth

Dramatists Guild

Foundation

Peggy & Dana Dudarchik

The Estate of Mary Louise Dunn

Colleen Gaetano

Neil & Helene Gold

Jacki & Michael Goldberg

Larry & Ann Harris

Hayner Hoyt Corporation

Kathy Kelly & Len Weiner

Larry & Mary Leatherman

Rocco & Roberta Mangano

Mangano Law Office, PLLC

Kevin & Suzanne McAuliffe

Eric & Judy Mower

Claire Myers

NBT Bancorp Inc

Sally Lou & Fran Nichols

Joel Potash & Sandra Hurd

Melvin & Patricia Stith

Theatre Development Fund

Wegmans

Kristen Weslowski

$3,500 - $4,999

Ashley McGraw Architects

Janet Audunson & David Youlen

Brine Wells, LLC & Marriott Downtown Syracuse

Pete & Mary Beth Carmen

Ernst & Young LLP

Maggie & Jake Feldmeier

John & Kimberly Huhtala

Inner Harbor Radio

Cydney Johnson & Jeff Comanici

Selma Radin

Sam & Carolyn Spalding

Syracuse University Humanities Center

Maryam Wasmund

$1,800 - $3,499

Barbara Beckos & Arthur McDonald

The Benz Family

Kathleen Bice

Francine Boutet

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation

Constance Bull

Craig & Kathy Byrum

James Clark & Sharon Gordon

Robin Curtis

Barbara Sheklin Davis

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Edward & Susan Downing

Dick & Therese Driscoll

Melvin & Mildred Eggers

Family Charitable Foundation

Michael & Barbara Flintrop

Herman Frazier & Caroline

Beal

Dennis & Judi Hebert

David & Sally Hootnick

Robert & Clea Hupp

Randy & Elizabeth Kalish

Leslie Kohman & Jeffrey

Smith

Daniel & Ann Lent

Robert Lentz & Anne Russ

Maria Lesinski & Benjamin Hicks

Lockheed Martin

Employees' Federated Fund

Tony Malavenda & Martine

Burat

Julia & Lee Martin

Rod & Jana McDonald

Walter & Elizabeth Merriam

Anne Morford

Molly & Kevin Mulvihill

Brett & Jeannie Padgett

Mona & John Paradis

Amy Parker

As of April 12, 2024. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months and does not include gifts made to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

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Michael & Rissa Ratner

Molly Ryan & Tim Byrnes

Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead

Sentry Life Insurance Co of New York

Sharye Skinner

Deirdre Stam

Raymond & Linda Straub

Douglas Sutherland & Nancy Kramer

Michael & Cathy Tick

Dr. Amy Tucker

Joshua & Andrea Waldman

$1,200 - $1,799

James & Nancy Asher

Debbie & Candido Bermudez

Donald Blair & Nancy Dock

Jim & Cathy Breuer

Ana Díaz-Diez & Javier Maymi-Perez

Fox 68

Paul & Carolyn Frymoyer

Dorothy & Lawrence Gordon

Andrea Graham

Deborah & Samuel Haines

Heritage Masonry Restoration, Inc.

Steven & Elaine Jacobs

Kevin & Jessica Kopko

Newman & Linkstein, LLP

Kathy & Dan Rabuzzi

David Rankert

Frank and Frances Revoir Foundation

Richard & Margaret Shirtz

James Shults

John Steigerwald IV

Jack & Linda Webb

John & Mitzi Wolf

Michael & Laurie Zoanetti

$600 - $1,199

Alanna Abreu

Chris Arnold

Guthrie & Louise Birkhead

Marlene Blumin

BMI Supply

Brenda Bousfield & David Marcus

Thomas & Susan Brett

Angel Broadnax

Amy & Tom Clark

Jerilyn Costich

Mark Cywilko & Marianne Moosbrugger

Stephen & Emily DiMarco

Allen & Anita Frank

Bea Gonzalez & Michael

Leonard

Daniel & Julia Harris

Joyce Day Homan

HUNT Mortgage

Richard & Margaret Ingraham

John & Maren King

Victor & Linda Lebedovych

Bob & Pat Lebel

Susan Lison

James MacKillop

Charles Martin & Johanna

Keller

Susan Martineau

John & Elizabeth McKinnell

James & Elizabeth Megna

John & Joan Nicholson

Sally O'Herin

David & Susan Palen

David & Janice Panasci

Paolo & Nicole Pastore

Mickey & Pat Piscitelli

William Porter

Charles & Sharon Primerano

Edward & Lois Schroeder

Gracia Sears

Beth & Tobias Sienel

Sharon Sutter

Robert & Anita Wagner

David & Daryll Wheeler

Angela Winfield & Lance Lyons

$300 - $599

Susan & Allison Ambrosie

Charles Amos

Dianne Apter

Timothy Atseff & Margaret Ogden

Paul Barron & Leah Weinberg

Andrew & Margot Baxter

Edward & Angela Bernat

Alice Borning

Eric & Carol Boyer

Carmelita Britton & Richard Probert

Marlene Brown

Gary & Kathleen Bruno

Ronald Capone

Paul & Linda Cohen

Anita Cottrell

Susan Crossett

James & Suzanne Cusack

Linda Czerkies

Frederick Dever

Charley & Kim Driscoll

In Honor of

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.

Warren Abrahams, in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Dr. Mark & Kathy Adelson, in memory of Laura Edell.

Bethany Anthony, to my big sister, Rebekah Tadros, the biggest star I know.

Thomas Antonini, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Badger State Civic Fund, in memory of Hal & Ruth Smulyan.

George S. Bain, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Candice Bermudez & Joe Guido, in memory of Ginny Parker.

The Bermudez & Guido Families, in honor of the marriage of Candice Bermudez & Joseph Guido.

Carrie Berse & Chris Skeval, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Gus & Susan Birkhead, in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Louise Birkhead, in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Kathy Brodsky, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Carol Bryant, in honor of Virginia Parker.

Craig & Kathy Byrum, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Molly & Travis Corley, in honor of Fran Nichols for his birthday.

As of April 12, 2024. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months and does not include gifts made to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

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Claire Duffy

William & Elizabeth Elkins

Richard Ernst

Elizabeth Etoll

Linda Fabian & Dennis Goodrich

Karen Goldman

Judith Hand

Muffy & Herbert Baird

Hansen

David & Ellen Hardy

Joseph & Paula Himmelsbach

Barbara & Ronald Hoffman

Robert & Christina Keim

David & Noel Keith

Tim & Susan Kennedy

John & Gloria Kennedy

James LeGro

Mark & Jeannette

Levinsohn

George & Roseann Lorefice

Donald & Patricia

MacLaughlin

John & Candace Marsellus

Albert Marshall

Donyce & Kenneth

McCluskey

Margot McCormick

Mary Ellen McDonald

Daniel & Terry Miller

David & Beth Mitchell

Janet Moore

Susan Moskal

James & Kathleen Muldoon

Janet Munro

Marty & Millie Newshan

Doren Norfleet

Robert & Teresa Parke

Patricia A Parker

Michael & Susan Petrosillo

Jane Pickett

Susan Pieczonka

Susan Plemons

Howard & Ann Port

YiWei Qi & Julie Yu

Scott Reinhart

Jennifer Roberts

Roberta Savage

William Schuyler

Mike & Marilyn Sees

Robert & Cheryl Shallish

Geraldine Sheehan

Dr Craig A Simmons

Joseph & Carolyn Smith

Jeffrey Sneider & Gwen Kay

Paul & Jean Soper

Michael Stanton

George & Helene Starr

H. Paul Steiner

Carter & Nan Strickland

Cora Thomas

Victor & Diane Tice

Phil & Janice Turner

Joseph & Carole Valesky

Peter Vanable & Anne

Jamison

Lynda Wheat

John & Judy Winslow

Mary Yurco

Deborah & Michael Zahn

$150 - $299

Jerrold & Harriet Abraham

Mark & Kathy Adelson

James Aiello

Kristi Andersen

Robert & Jeanne Anderson

John Andrake

Beatrice Angus

Michelle Arora

Frank Badagnani

Holmes & Sarah M Bailey

Rosemary Baker & Stuart

Spiegel

Rosanne Barbaglia

Nancy Barnum

Jean Beers

Janine Bernard

Dr. Sylvia Betcher & Martin

Korn

David Blair

Mary Brady

Dennis & Mary Anne Brady

Stephen Butler

Michael Byrne

Andrea Calarco

Lexi Carlson & Sebastian

Karcher

Delores Carney

Joseph Cerroni & Linda

Tassa

Douglas & Diane Chilson

Joe & Nancy Clayton

Sam & Carolyn Clemence

Donna Coloton

Raymond Colton

David & Peg Compton

Robert & Joan Conine

Terri Cook

Molly & Travis Corley

Elizabeth Cowan

Richard Cross & Kathryn Davis

Karl Crossman & John Steinburg

Paul & Cynthia Curtin

CVS

Oran Day

Carol Decker

Bill & Terry Delavan

Kate DiDonato

In Honor of

(Continued

Ana Díaz-Diez & Javier Maymi-Perez, dedicated to the memory of Pedro DíazMolina.

John Eng-Wong & Priscilla Angelo, in memory of Ruth Smulyan. The Farfaglia Family, in memory of Edward J. Farfaglia.

Zachary Ferris, in memory of Virginia Parker.

Leila Ann Finkelstein, in memory of Ruth Smulyan beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and friend.

Kim Fontana, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Brant & Ellen Rosborough Ford, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Nancy Freeborough, in memory of Virginia Parker.

Jacki & Michael Goldberg, in memory of our dear Ginny Parker. May her memory be a blessing!

Andrea Graham, in honor of Ana Díaz-Diez.

Winnie Greenberg, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Briann Greenfield, in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Gail S Hauss, in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Guy & Patricia Howard, in memory of Viriginia Parker.

Joan Kesselring, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Leslie Kohman & Jeffrey Smith, in memory of Ginny Parker.

As of April 12, 2024. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months and does not include gifts made to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

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Diane Dimond

Linda & Alan Dolmatch

Elizabeth Drew & Joe Marusa

Nathaniel & Karen Dunn

Denise Dyce

Kathleen Effler

Wynn Egginton

Lorraine Erlenback

Cynthia Ferguson

Michael & Mrs. Fish

Molly Carole Fitzpatrick

Gerard Flynn

Kim Fontana

Lois & Jill Fowler

Jeffrey & Teresa Freedman

Barbara Friedman

Thomas & Karen Fruehan

Dan Gaffney

Allen & Nirelle Galson

Claudia Gasiorowski

Robert Geiger

Edward & Debbie Genalo

Rosamond Gifford Foundation

Ernest & Lynne Giraud

Kathryn Glynn

Douglas Goldschmidt & David Jacobs

Bernice Gottschalk

Roger & Vicki Greenberg

Chip & Kate Grosso

Charlotte Haas & Gary Quirk

Patricia Haggerty

Gregory & Elaine Hallett

Nancy Hanna

Mark & Carole Hansen

Ann & Richard Harris

Georgina Hegney

Michael & Elizabeth Hennessy

Karl & Mary Herba

William & Phyllis Highland

Kathleen Hinchman

Donna & Joseph Hipius

Howard & Linda Hollander

Michael Hungerford & Margaret Ryniker

Roger & June Jesmain

Daniel & Rhea Jezer

Philip & Judith Kaplan

Randy Karcher

Norma Kelley

Amy Kemp

Shelly Kempton

Diane King

Russell & Joan King

Trudy & Earl Kletsky

Barry & Kathy Kogut

Richard & Roxanne

Kopecky

Janice Kophen

Lorraine LaDuke

W & Nancy Lambright

Andrea Latchem

Bonnie Levy

Edward & Carol Lipson

Mary Lombardo

Michelle Lonergan

John & Marian Loosmann

Vito Lovecchio

Gerald Mager

Frederick & Virginia Marty

Elizabeth Mascia

Douglas & Randi Matousek

Janice Mayne

Wallace & Gayonne McDonald

Timothy McLaughlin & Diane Cass

Kathleen McLeod

Sam & Margaret McNaughton

Andreas & Margaret Meier

Clifford & Marjorie Mellor

Diana Ingraham Milkovic

Donna Miller

Leslie & Barney Molldrem

Danielle Montagne & Mark Zlotnick

Elizabeth Mosher

Alan & Rosalind Napier

Richard & Barbara Natoli

Margaret O'Brien

Katharine O'Connell

Bryan O'Quinn

Marjorie Ostrander

Joan & Lawrence Page

Cathy Palm

John & Robert Parsons

William & Merriette Pollard

Eileen Ponto

Linda Raulli

Steve Reiter & Annegret Schubert

Todd Relyea

Lynn Richer

Terry & Monica Richmond

Michael Riecke & Anthony McEachern

Cathy Robinson

Nancy Machles Rothschild

Elaine Rubenstein

Richard & Jill Sargent

Jennifer Scalione

George & Sharon Schmit

Denise Seltzer

Roger & Nancy Sharp

Nancy Sharpe

Judith Smith

Jonathan Solomon

In Honor of

(Continued

Suzanne Lourie, in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Thomas & Mary Lou Mees, in loving memory of Ginny Parker.

The Moore Family, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Susan Moore-Palumbo & Frank Palumbo, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Elizabeth Mosher, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Claire Myers, in memory of Drs. Lawrence & Betty Jane Myers, for granting me my love of theatre.

Wendy Neikirk Rhodes & Adrian Rhodes, in honor of Ginny Parker.

Fran & Sally Lou Nichols, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Anonymous, in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Peter & Connie Palumb, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Patricia A Parker, in memory of my dear sister-in-law, Virginia Parker.

Eileen Ponto, in memory of Emily Ponto.

Anonymous, in memory of Lorne Runge.

Gail Ruterman, in honor of Ruth Smulyan.

Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Lois & Ted Schroeder, in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Edward & Lois Schroeder, in memory of Virginia Parker.

Maura Harling Stefl, in memory of Ginny Parker.

As of April 12, 2024. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months and does not include gifts made to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

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Dirk & Carol Sonneborn

James Sonneborn

Patricia & Michael St. Leger

Mark & Beth Steigerwald

Kathleen & Mark Sunheimer

Thomas & Carole Taylor

Amy Tibolla

James & Deborah Tifft

Andrew & Kathleen Tompkins

Charles Tremper

Joseph Tucker

Hon. Karen M. Uplinger

Susan Wadley

Marc & Marcy Waldauer

David & Mary Walsh

Francis & Elaine Walter

Donald & Martha Washburn

Connie Webster

Howard Weinstein

Fred & Karen Whitney

George & Mrs Whitton

Tom & Desiree Wight

Christopher & Renee Wiles

Roger & Carolyn Williams

Tom & Carol Wolff

Steven & Judith Zdep

Loretta Zolkowski

$100 - $149

Ellen Agnew

Al & Jane Arras

Mary Roberts Bailey

Marjory Baruch

Jackie Bays

Mary & Peter Bearkland

Carrie Berse & Chris Skeval

Daniel Bilow & Holly Hart

Diana Biro & Eric Rogers

Jon & Patricia Booth

Bernard & Ona Cohn Bregman

Anna Bridy

Robert & Helene Brophy

Bob & Kathy Brown

Patricia Bush

William & Mary Butler

Richard & Nina Cantor

Marjorie Carter

Nancy Christy

Lou & Rosa Clark

Martha Cole

Cheryl Cole

John & Deloris Coleman

Elaine Coppola

Anthony & Mary Anne

Corasaniti

Joyce Crossley

Christine Dascher

Lynette & Ethan Davis

Sue Ellen Deion

Paula Dendis

James & Mike Doleski

James & Leona Dowd

Rebecca Downing

Eric Drath

Clay & Dora Elliott

Pamela Ellis

Richard Ellison & Margaret Ksander

Stanley & Penny Emerick

Mark & Marci Erlebacher

Laurie Fabian

Casey Holmes Fee

Brant & Ellen Rosborough Ford

John Friedman & Polly Ann Heavenrich

Mary Beth Gannon

Caroline Garner

Norma Gawlowicz

Gregory Gazda

Sally Generous

Michael & Wendy Gordon

Rosanna Grassi

William Gray

Mark & Cynthia Dowd

Greene

Briann Greenfield

Seth & Lisa Greenky

William & Ann Griffith

James Hahn

Roberta Hampson

Beth Hansen

Gail Hauss

Elizabeth Hayes

Gordon Hayes

Pamela & James Helmer

Rachel Hopkins

Judy Huckle

Sofia Hvozda

Wanda Irish

Sue Jones

Alexander Joseph

Michael & Audrey Kane

Marlene Kelly

Jean Kimber

Alan Kinney

Sheldon & Karen Kruth

Kathleen LaGrow

Robert & Lauren Lalley

Amanda Lee

Dennis Lerner

Michael & Jean Loftus

Susan Lotierzo

Julia Mahaney

Jon Maloff

Paul Manfredo

Paul Marshall

Karin Martinez

John Mathiason

In Honor of (Continued

H. Paul Steiner, in memory of Fritz & Ginny Parker.

Nan & Carter Strickland, in memory of Virginia Parker.

Sharon Sullivan & Paul Phillips, in memory of Viriginia B. Parker.

Diane R. Swords, in memory of my dear friend Ginny Parker, supporter of theater and of peace and social justice.

Anonymous, in memory of Virginia Parker.

Anonymous, in memory of Genn & Ted Thuma.

Kristen Weslowski, in memory of Richard Brandt.

Lynda Wheat, in memory of my friend Linda Drimer.

Lynda Wheat, in memory of Virginia Parker.

Laura & Connor Williams, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Anonymous, in honor of my sister Katelyn Yonkers who works as a seamstress at Syracuse Stage.

John & Mary McCulley

Philip & Martha McDowell

Linda McKeown

Howard McLaughlin & Mary O'Hara

Gail Meagher

Thomas & Mary Lou Mees

Eckart & Mary Meisterfeld

Marcia & Dave Mele

Syracuse Mets

David Michel & Peggy Liuzzi

Dr. Merrill L. Miller

Thomas Miller & Mary MacBlane

Gail Mitchell

Julian & Jennifer Modesti

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Don Moore

Susan Moore-Palumbo & Frank Palumbo

Joseph Moorman & Catherine Gerard

David & Janet Muir

Brandon Murphy

Tina Nabinger

Wendy Neikirk Rhodes & Adrian Rhodes

Michael Newman

Jane Ondich

Judy Oplinger

John & Elizabeth O'Sullivan

Thomas & Eleanor Pendergast

Marianna Pernia

Anita Pisano

Kevin & Rachel Porter

Duane & Karleen Preske

Colleen Prossner

Charles & Patricia Prutzman

Steve & Kate Pynn

Mary Rose Ranieri

John & Dorothy

Reiffenstein

William & Gretchen Roberts

Stacy Roberts

Bob Rose

Ann Rothschild

Rocco Rufo

John & Judy Sabene

Jeffrey & Abby Scheer

Lowell Seifter & Sharon

McAuliffe

Steven & Robin Sisskind

Madeline Slate

David Smith

Alan & Jean Smith

William Smith

Milton & Mary Stevenson

Bethany Stewart

Susan Stred & Harold Husovsky

Jennifer, Bridget & Audrey

Stromer-Galley

Martha Sutter & David Ross

Kristin & Steve Swift

Brady Systems

Ron Thiele & Lynne Pascale

James Traver & Marguerite

Conan

John & Jean Tromans

Aaron Tussing

Anthony & Martha

Viglietta

Bob & Claudia Visalli

Timothy & Nancy Volk

Marcia Walsh

Mark Watkins & Brenda Silverman

Ardyth Watson

David Whitman

Matthew & Sonya Williams

Deborah Wood

Samuel & Robin Young

Leslie & Jerry Zaborsky

Joyce Zadzilka

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PLANNED GIVING

A planned gift is a way to make a significant and lasting gift to Syracuse Stage. By making a bequest to the theatre, you are assuring that Syracuse Stage will continue to inspire, stimulate, and entertain Central New York audiences for generations to come, as well as maintain its high artistic standards that are recognized locally, and nationally. For more information about planned gifts contact: Ana Díaz-Diez, Director of Development 315-443-3931 or ajdiazdi@syr.edu

Dr. William J. Clark, Jr. Fund

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Deborah O'Shea

In Honor and Memory of Sheldon P. Peterfreund and Josephine A Peterfreund

Michael and Rissa Ratner

The J. Zimmeister-Yarwood Estate

MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM

Many 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!

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JP Morgan Chase PLATINUM

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National Grid

Bousquet Holstein, PLLC

Sharon Sullivan & Paul

Phillips

GOLD

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Mower Agency

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SILVER

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BRONZE

George S. Bain

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Bank of America

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ETARBELEC W I T H US! Thankyoutooursponsors!

SYRACUSE STAGE STAFF

Artistic Director.............................................................................................................Robert Hupp

Managing Director.....................................................................................................Jill A. Anderson

Associate Artistic Director............................................................................................Melissa Crespo

Resident Playwright..............................................................................................................Kyle Bass

PRODUCTION STAFF

Director of Production Operations...........................................................................Don Buschmann

Associate Director of Production Operations..........................................................Dianna Angell

Company Manager and Production Management Associate......................................Brian Crotty

Assistant Company Manager.....................................................................................Sarai Ford

Technical Director..................................................................................................Randall Steffen

Assistant Technical Director............................................................................Rebecca Schuetz

Scene Shop Foreman...........................................................................................Michael King

Technical Assistant...................................................................................................Liz Daurio

Carpenters...............................................................................John Gamble, Brian McBurney

Student Employees................................................................Emma Thoms, Gray Westbrook†

Scenic Charge Artist...................................................................................................Emily Holm

Lead Scenic Artist................................................................................................Laurel Arnold

Scenic Painter....................................................................................................Jessica Culligan

Student Employee...........................................................................................Rosario Figueira†

Props Supervisor............................................................................................................Mara Rich

Assistant Prop Supervisor............................................................................Christine Goldman

Craftpersons....................................................................................Alexis Frizzell, Nora Galley

Costume Shop Manager..........................................................................Gretchen Darrow-Crotty

Assistant Costume Shop Manager.....................................................................Amanda Moore

Cutter-Draper...................................................................................................Kathryn Rauch

First Hand.........................................................................................................Victoria Lillich

Stitchers.......................................................................................Emily King, Katelyn Yonkers

Craftsperson/Shopper.........................................................................................Sandra Knapp

Wardrobe Supervisor.........................................................................................Dylinn Andrew

Student Employee...................................................................................................Sofia Pizer†

Lighting and Projection Supervisor...............................................................................Jed Daniels

Electricians/Board Operators.................................................................Travis Burt, Alex Malli

Resident Sound Designer/Audio Engineer.....................................................Jacqueline R. Herter

A1/Audio Engineer.........................................................................................Kevin O’Connor

A2/Sound Engineer..............................................................................................Garrett Frink

Production Stage Manager....................................................................................Stuart Plymesser

Stage Managers.................................Kyra Button, Laura Jane Collins, Bianca Mercado-Boller

Production Assistants.........................................................................Erin C Brett, Em Piraino

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SYRACUSE STAGE STAFF

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

General Manager....................................................................................................Michael McCurdy

Comptroller..............................................................................................Mary Kennett Morreale

Associate General Manager...................................................................................Jacob G. Ellison

Director of Information Management & Technology...................................Garrett Diaz-Wheeler

Audience Services Manager.......................................................................................Korrie Taylor

House Managers.........................................Pat Condello, Ella Lafontant, Alyssa Otoski-Keim, Adam Secor, Donna Stuccio

Bartenders.................................................................................Michelle Cannizzo, Meg Pusey

Audience Services Interns...........................................................Yushan Deng†, Lubeini Yang†

Front of House Work Study Staff..............Nathan Ayotte†, Olivia Busche†, Carolyn Burch†, Christian Elwood†, Sami English†, Henry Herbert, Andrej Humiston†, Henry Jackson, Henry Killbourne†, Violet Lanciloti†, Arieza Mari Martin Magalang, James O’Leary, Lucia Santoro-Velez, Kevin Sene, Eva Spaid, Jakobi Deshun Oliver, Hazel Kinnersley, Delaney Teague

Director of Development.............................................................................................Ana Díaz-Diez

Development Associate................................................................................Candice Bermudez

Development Intern..............................................................................Jakobi Deshun Oliver†

Director of Community Engagement..................................................................Joann Maria Yarrow

Director of Education.......................................................................................................Kate Laissle

Community Engagement and Education Coordinator........................................Theorri London

Education Interns...............................................................Olivia Wernecke†, Cricket Withall†

Director of Marketing and Communications..............................................................Joanna Penalva

Interim Director of Marketing and Communications.................................................Joseph Whelan

Audience Development Manager.........................................................................Tracey White

Creative Director, Marketing.............................................................................Brenna Merritt

Marketing Content and Publications Manager................................................Matthew Nerber

Box Office Manager.................................................................................Courtney Richardson

Assistant Box Office Manager.....................................................................Ahmanee Simmons

Box Office Show Supervisor.................................................................................Trevor Miller

Graphic Designer............................................................................................Jonathan Hudak

Marketing Associate..........................................................................Talia Gabriel-Shenandoah

Box Office Intern....................................................................................................Ginger Bai†

Executive Assistant............................................................................................................Julia Rakus

Sign Language Interpreters.....................................................................Brenda Brown, Sue Freeman

Open Captioning........................................................................Jacob G. Ellison, Michael McCurdy

Audio Description........Kate Laissle, Talia Gabriel-Shenandoah, Ahmanee Simmons, Joseph Whelan

Community Services Officers.......................................................Stacey Emmons, Joseph O'Connor

Custodians...........................................................................................Tony Rogers, Candace Velario

†Student, Syracuse University Department of Drama.

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Cast members in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Written by Agatha Christie. Adapted by Ken Ludwig. Directed by Robert Hupp. Scenic design by Czerton Lim. Costume design by Tracy Dorman. Lighting design by Dawn Chiang. Projection design by Nitsan Scharf. Sound design by Daniela Hart and Uptown Works. Wig design by Bobbie Zlotnick. Photo by Mike Davis.

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IDENTITY & ILLUSION

Mistaken identities, misadventures, mystery, and mayhem—don’t miss a moment of the 2024 season!

July 22 - August 19, 2024

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE | Gilbert & Sullivan

Set sail on a delightfully absurd adventure of swashbuckling fun for the whole family.

July 23 - August 17, 2024

LA CALISTO | Cavalli / Faustini

Nymphs and satyrs cavort with the gods in this bawdy comedic caper.

July 27 - August 18, 2024

PAGLIACCI | Leoncavallo

The shocking tale of jealousy and revenge which blurs the line between art and reality. Arrive early to picnic while enjoying a preshow performance on the new outdoor stage!

July 28 - August 20, 2024

ELIZABETH CREE | Puts / Campbell

Music Hall murder mystery becomes modern masterpiece.

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