Tender Rain Program

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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.

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The Slutzker Family Foundation is thrilled to be partnering with Syracuse Stage as a season sponsor, including the show Tender Rain, which observes a richly layered emotional landscape as it explores intimacy, race, and the assumptions we all make about one another.

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LETTER FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

HELLO, FRIENDS.

Welcome to the world premiere of Tender Rain . We’re delighted you’re here. The presentation of this world premiere is a particular pleasure because it is the work of our resident playwright Kyle Bass. If you’re a subscriber, or if you follow our work, you know that this is the third mainstage play by Kyle we’ve produced. You may know too, that over the years Kyle has created work in a variety of other contexts for Syracuse Stage. From his Backstory production about James Baldwin to his work bringing to life the words and stories of local veterans, Kyle’s work is a through-line of our artistic identity. If you are new to Kyle’s work, we’re glad to introduce you to a story Kyle created many years ago but has particular relevance to our lives today. I heard Kyle describe Tender Rain as “symphonic” and I agree. The structure is complex, and the themes are interwoven. Knowing Kyle is also a skilled musician adds context to the play’s structure.

Few regional theatres are fortunate enough to have a resident playwright. Being a resident playwright doesn’t mean that we’ll produce a new play by Kyle every season or on a prescribed schedule. It means that Kyle’s voice

is a central one for Syracuse Stage. It means we have chosen to center playwrights and playwrighting here. And, most importantly, it means that we get to experience over time the diverse facets of a singular theatre artist. That’s a rare treat. Welcome!

With warm regards,

Robert Hupp Artistic Director

ROBERT HUPP.

PHOTO: BRENNA MERRITT.

SCENIC & PROJECTION DESIGNER

Se Hyun Oh

WIG DESIGNER

Bobbie Zlotnik

WORLD PREMIERE

PRESENTS

JULIE LUTZ COLD READ WORLD PREMIERE

Robert Hupp

Artistic Director

WRITTEN BY Kyle Bass

DIRECTED BY Rodney Hudson

COSTUME DESIGNER

Tracy Dorman

VIDEO/PROJECTION PROGRAMMER

Izmir Ickbal

STAGE MANAGER

Laura Jane Collins*

Jill A. Anderson

Managing Director

SEASON SPONSORS

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Dawn Chiang

FIGHT/MOVEMENT & INTIMACY SPECIALIST

Alec Barbour

CASTING

Bass/Valle Casting

Melissa Crespo

Associate Artistic Director

MEDIA SPONSOR

SOUND DESIGNER

Fabian Obispo

DIALECT COACHES

Amani Dorn & Blake Segal

May 3 - 21, 2023

Kyle Bass

Resident Playwright

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Tender Rain is produced by special arrangement with The Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc., 165 West End Ave., Suite 19C, New York, NY 10023. This program is made possible by American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding from the City of Syracuse Arts & Culture Recovery Fund Program, a regrant program of the City of Syracuse administered by CNY Arts.

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 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.

SCENIC & PROJECTION DESIGNER

Se Hyun Oh

SOUND DESIGNER

Fabian Obispo

COSTUME DESIGNER

Tracy Dorman

WIG DESIGNER

Bobbie Zlotnik

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Dawn Chiang

Izmir Ickbal

VIDEO/PROJECTION PROGRAMMER

CAST

(in alphabetical order)

Devereau Chumrau*.................................................Lily, Doctor Brian Dykstra*.....................................................Milton Millard

LeeAnne Hutchison*..........................................Dolores Millard

Marjorie Johnson*...............................................Ruthie Mimms

Erin Lockett.........................................................Deirdre, Aralia

Niall Powderly*........................................Eddie “Brother” James

Jenny Strassburg*...............................................Mary Honeycutt

UNDERSTUDIES

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

For Dolores Millard – Laura Austin*

For Mary Honeycutt – Lilli Komurek

For Deirdre, Aralia – Morgan Lewis†

For Milton Millard – Simon Moody

For Eddie "Brother" James – Derek Emerson Powell

For Lily, Doctor – Ahmanee Simmons

For Ruthie Mimms – Brenda Thomas*

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Student Assistant Director: Cricket Withall†

Student Assistant Costume Designer: Amaan Khan†

Student Assistant Lighting Designer: Mairead Cummins†

1st Production Assistant: Em Piraino

2nd Production Assistant: Erin C Brett

Stage Management Intern: Rebecca Hanai Malamud

Wig & Wardrobe Supervisor: Dylinn Andrew

Dresser: Caitlin Radziewski

Electrician/Board Op: Connor Beattie

Sound Engineer/A1: Shane Wright

A2: Chris Green

*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. The Author is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Tender Rain 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.

TENDER

RAIN

ON THE MUSIC OF TENDER RAIN

BY KYLE BASS

ONCE UPON A TIME, classical composers composed orchestral music to accompany stage dramas. This incidental music would underlie the mood of a dramatic performance on stage. Because it wasn’t meant to be the star of the show, much of the world’s incidental music is long faded from performance, but some examples have survived as stand-alone masterworks: Felix Mendelssohn’s incidental music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (from which we have that ubiquitous wedding march); Edvard Grieg’s music composed for Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, the father of modern drama; and Beethoven’s music composed

for the plays of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the very music which first seized my nascent dramatic imagination.

I was seven years old when my mother purchased a haul of old classical LPs at a garage sale, and I heard Beethoven’s music for the first time. It was his Egmont Overture, from his incidental music to Goethe’s tragic play. My fate had arrived in a cardboard box. I recall it as my first conscious experience of the power of artistic expression. I listened to the recording again and again and again on my father’s hi-fi stereo, and again, just this morning, for the first time since I was a teenager, and its emotion-bringing

Suddenly I understood that music, especially classical music—symphonies, concertos, chamber music—possessed a power beyond words but could still put something like a story (drama) into the air.

PLAYWRIGHT KYLE BASS.

PHOTO: BRENNA MERRITT.

contours and musical rhetoric— its drama—were awakened in my memory.

Very early on in my life, I heard in everyday speech a kind of music. I fell in love with words, and I wanted to capture and pin them down like butterflies under glass. I couldn’t help myself; I became a child poet. I made my first notebook by hand and named it “My Book of Sayings”. My mother or my father or one of my older siblings would spell words that captivated me but were beyond my spelling. My first intellectual crisis was the realization that there was a word for everything. And

with my discovery of Beethoven, suddenly I understood that music, especially classical music—symphonies, concertos, chamber music—possessed a power beyond words but could still put something like a story (drama) into the air.

Words and Music; Music and Words. I was hooked. I went on to study the flute, the violin, and classical piano, which I play to this day. So, it’s quite natural for me to speak of my playwriting in musical terms.

The great American playwright Edward Albee (who selected an earlier and differently titled it -

Very early on in my life, I heard in everyday speech a kind of music. I fell in love with words, and I wanted to capture and pin them down like butterflies under glass.

eration of Tender Rain for his Great Plains Theater Conference) believed one could learn a lot about playwriting from looking at architecture and by listening to the music of Bach. I frequently use invisible musical structures to build my plays. For instance, my fourcharacter drama Possessing Harriet is written in the three movements (allegro, adagio, presto) of a string quartet. As a playwright I consider myself a composer, a composer for an astonishing instrument called an actor. My plays are informed and shaped by music and by musical language, and always, always, always, by pounding rhythms into the keyboard as I write.

I consider Tender Rain a symphonic drama –symphonic in its structure and emotional textures, with the interweaving of dramatic motifs, musicological configurations of scenes, musical elision, and the use of lyrical speech. While you will not hear any

of it in the play, in one way or another, Tender Rain carries the DNA of each of these pieces of music:

The Double Violin Concerto by Bach

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14 (2nd movement) & Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 by Samuel Barber

Adagio Cantabile (from Cinnamon Grove) by R. Nathanial Dett

Piano Concerto in G Major (2nd movement) by Maurice Ravel

Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninov

The Flute Concerto (5th movement – “Amhrán”) by Christopher Rouse

Beim Schalfengehen (from Vier Letzte Lieder/Four Last Songs) by Richard Strauss

While almost all the “influential” music I’ve listed above comes out of the European classical tradition, most of

As a playwright I consider myself a composer, a composer for an astonishing instrument called an actor. My plays are informed and shaped by music and by musical language, and always, always, always, by pounding rhythms into the keyboard as I write.

the music in this production of Tender Rain emerges from African American music traditions. While it evokes blackness, I use it to enfold and articulate all the characters in the play, black and white, to depict the universality of our human difficulties, losses, regrets, shame, absolution (?)… It isn’t incidental music; it is an essential element of the story I mean to tell.

Finally, there’s the music of the rain in Tender Rain, underscoring dramatic action and setting theatrical moods. I had prayed for rain to be part of this production. So, I borrow the music of Langston Hughes’ “April Rain Song” and bid you:

Let the rain kiss you

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops

Let the rain sing you a lullaby…

TENDER RAIN

SCENIC AND PROJECTION DESIGN

Scenic and projection designer Se Hyun Oh said in early conversations director Rodney Hudson was adamant that there should be nothing on the stage: no architecture, no walls, no doors. Oh interpreted Hudson’s directive to mean there should be no distractions. The space should be more of an essence than a specific locale. The goal should be to let the people stand out. “We should see faces,” Oh says.

Oh found inspiration in a series of stark photos taken by Walker Evans that appeared in the November 1946 edition of Fortune magazine under the title "On a Saturday Afternoon in Detroit." The black and white images depict a variety of peo-

ple (faces) captured mostly in threequarter profile as they walked by a section of what appears a wall made of plywood. The simple and spare wall became the floor of the Tender Rain set, darkened to diminish reflection from the stage lights.

For the necessary objects on stage, Oh looked to another American artist, the minimalist Donald Judd, to create wooden box like chairs and tables that can serve multiple uses as required for the play. Oh sees the play as being more emotional than political and in that way more like dance.

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COSTUME DESIGN

If the scenic design allows for some abstraction, the costume design is the opposite, according to Tracy Dorman who has designed costumes for many Syracuse Stage productions including the recent Our Town. Each character is a specific individual grounded in the time and place of the play (the South in the mid 1950s), yet, each is also iconic, much like a character in an opera. Using palette, silhouette, and fabric choice, Dorman creates the individual look for each character. In conversations with playwright Kyle Bass and director Rodney Hudson, she says they arrived at the idea to

give some characters a representative color, as referenced in the script. For example, Dolores is in a blue dressing gown and Mary is in a yellow slip. This evolved into an idea of using a floral motif to connect some of the characters in subtle ways, expanding on the idea of the pervasiveness of nature in the play and their setting—the idea of growth/rain/ideas of femininity. When the script calls for transformations—which happen on stage—they are accomplished through small but precise gestures.

 COSTUME SKETCHES COURTESY OF TRACY DORMAN.

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LIGHTING DESIGN

The setting of the play is intentionally open and spare, with the focus on language, character and specific music, according to designer Dawn Chiang. Lighting helps us to establish the place and mood of each scene, while the transitions are more fluid and dreamlike. As implied in the play’s title, rain plays an important part of the story – so lighting the rain effectively is key. Side lighting is one of the best ways to make that rainfall visible to the audience.

SOUND DESIGN

Intimate and subtle is how designer Fabian Obispo describes the soundscape for Tender Rain. Elements include an almost constant presence of rainfall, and music, mostly vocal, and environmental sounds establish the world the characters inhabit. Certain specific sounds noted in the script are executed live by the actors on stage to suggest memories and recall aural images from the past.

Devereau Chumrau (Lily, Doctor) is thrilled to be making her Syracuse Stage debut in Tender Rain! A native Angeleno, Devereau pursued her love of storytelling on stage and screen at the University of Ghana, London Study Centre of the Arts, Cal State Northridge, Florida State University’s Asolo Conservatory. Her favorite credits include TV: Dexter (Showtime), Raising Whitley (OWN Network), Key & Peele (Comedy Central); Theatre: Detroit ‘67 (TheatreSquared), House of Joy (San Diego Rep), Las Meninas (Asolo Rep), As You Like It (Independent Shakespeare Co.); Film: Twilight: Storytellers (Lionsgate), Alita: Battle Angel (Fox); and the now BAFTA and Academy Award winning Avatar 2: The Way of Water (Disney). Devereau thanks the incredible creatives, cast, and crew of Tender Rain, her amazing reps and management team, and her phenomenal friends and family! devereau.com

Brian Dykstra (Milton Millard ) is an actor, playwright and HBO def Poet. Broadway: Lucky Guy (with Tom Hanks) Great Society (with Brian Cox). London: Americana Absurdum . Regional: Jerusalem (Rooster Byron) , Red (Mark Rothko), King John (King John), Banned From Baseball (Pete Rose), A Doll ’s House Part 2 (Torvald), All The Way (LBJ), The Humans, (Erik), Copenhagen (Heisenberg).

Brian is the only person other than Mos Def and Dave Chappelle to appear on both Chappelle’s Show ( Blind Ambition and White People Dancing ) and HBO def Poetry in the same season. Other TV and film: The Good Fight, The Blacklist, Stay, The Affair, Bull, Third Watch, Law & Order, Knight and Day, Freedomland, Corn, Another Bed, Spectropia. Playwright: Hiding Behind Comets, Clean Alternatives, Education, Silence, etc . Currently: writing a few TV shows: …mr. wizard…, A Sane Policy, and Double Down, a musical: Crazy, Make Crazy, and three plays: Art Thieves, a sequel 18 years later to his play Hiding Behind Comets called In Plain Sight, and On The Docket. Brian is married to the woman of his dreams. He is loath to stand for the anthem until Black Lives are treated like they Matter. briandykstra.net.

LeeAnne Hutchison (Dolores Millard) is very happy to be back at Syracuse Stage where she previously appeared in Eureka Day directed by Robert Hupp, as well as in the Cold Read Festival 2019 curated by Kyle Bass. At Arkansas Rep, she played Barbara Weston in Hupp’s production of August: Osage County and Bev/Kathy in Clybourne Park directed by Cliff Fannin Baker. OffBroadway credits include Tennessee Williams’ A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Ellen McLaughlin’s Septimus and Clarissa, God in God Shows Up, and Gail in Our Brother’s Son (at Sig-

nature Theatre). Regionally, she has played Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire (West Virginia Public), Sex with Strangers (The Kitchen Theatre and Geva), Flint (by Jeff Daniels at Shadowland Stages), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Shaker Bridge Theater, NH), The Tempest (Saratoga Shakespeare), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hamptons Shakespeare). Favorite OffOff-Broadway credits include The Third Policeman (La Mama/Nomad Theatrical) Eurydice in Orpheus (at HERE with Taylor Mac), and Innocents directed by Rachel Dickstein. Film (upcoming): Trivia About You (with Grant Neale by Amy Berryman) and A View of the World From Fifth Avenue (Robert Sisters Pictures) Television: Law & Order: SVU, Jessica Jones, The Other F Word, The White House Plumbers (coming soon to HBO). Heartfelt thanks to Kyle Bass, Rodney Hudson, Robert Hupp, this inspiring cast and crew, my husband Grant, and Mama Anne. www.leeannehutchison.com

Marjorie Johnson (Ruthie Mimms) is thrilled to be making her Syracuse Stage debut. Ms. Johnson has created and recreated a wide range of characters across the country and abroad. Most recently she portrayed Lena Younger in A Raisin in the Sun at The Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, Ct., Rose in The Last Romance at The New Theatre & Restaurant in Kansas City, MO. Some of her other favorite roles include Dotty

in Colman Domingo’s Dot at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City, which garnered her the Lead Actress AUDELCO Award. The Candy Lady in Katori Hall’s Hoodoo Love at the Cherry Lane Theatre, which won her the Best Supporting Actress AUDELCO Award. Mrs. Antrobus in The Skin of our Teeth at The Delaware Theatre Co. in Wilmington for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the Philadelphia Critics Award, and Sojourner Truth and Zora Neale Hurston in The Pen & the Podium at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Some of her TV and film roles include the upcoming film Rob Peace, Armageddon Time, Modern Love, Bull, Sneaky Pete , Mozart in the Jungle , Nurse Jackie, The Leftovers, Law & Order: SVU, and American Gangster.

Erin Lockett (Deirdre, Aralia) is an actor from Oakland, CA, who received her B.F.A. in acting from Ithaca College and will start her M.F.A. in acting from Brown University this fall. Some of Erin’s favorite roles have been Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ithaca Shakespeare Company), Annie Easley in Commanding Space (Syracuse Stage), and Mia in Bee Trapped in Inside the Window (HartBeat Ensemble). For her full resume head to elockett.com . She’s very excited to be at Syracuse Stage with this incredible cast!

CAST

Niall Powderly (Eddie “Brother” James ) is an actor and theatre maker. His credits among others include Three Sisters (Two River Theater), Suitcase Under the Bed (Mint), Dmitry Krymov’s Square Root of Three Sisters (International Festival of Arts and Ideas), Midsummer! (Edinburgh Fringe), Big St. Germain (CG at the Signature Theatre) Phaedra’s Love and Dr. Faustus (YSC), Indecent (Yale Rep). Film/TV Quantico, New Amsterdam, Washington Black. B.F.A.: NYU, M.F.A.: Yale

Jenny Strassburg (Mary Honeycutt ) is thrilled to be making her Syracuse Stage debut. She has worked extensively in NY theatre as well as regional theatres across the country. Favorite credits include Life Sucks (Ella, Wheelhouse Theatre), Shakespeare in Love (Viola, Capital Rep), Venus in Fur (Vanda, Capital Rep), A Streetcar Named Desire (Stella, Virginia Stage), Pride and Prejudice (Lydia, Pioneer Theatre Co), The Importance of Being Earnest (Cecily, Alabama Shakespeare Co), and The Great Gatsby (Daisy, Alabama Shakespeare Co). Recent TV/Film credits include FBI: Most Wanted, The Equalizer, Bull, Law and Order: SVU, as well as the role of Karen in the final installment of NBC Peacock’s fan favorite The Best Man , with Terrence Howard, Taye Digs, and Harrold Perrineau. Early 2023 will see

the release of indie feature Baggage Claim, and she begins preproduction for her own series Liitle Girl’s Room. She currently lives in Harlem with her husband Loren, daughter Willa, and puppy Penny.

Laura Austin ( u/s Dolores Millard ) OffBroadway: The Yellow House (La Mama), Odysseus DOA (Lion Theatre). Regional: Fun Home (Encore Musical Theatre Festival), Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Syracuse Stage) I’m Not Rappaport, The Little Dog Laughed, Next to Normal , Assassins , Spelling Bee , Broadway Bound , Six Degrees of Separation, Wit (Red House Theatre), Tom Jones, Fifth of July (Dorset Theater Festival). Film: The Night House (Rebecca Hall), Hooked, Bastion. TV: 21 Jump Street (Fox), Raising Miranda (Brian Cranston/CBS), LA Law (NBC), Sons and Daughters (CBS), Freddy’s Nightmares (Lorimar) Dream On (HBO). Upcoming: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (5 for the Show Productions).

Lilli Komurek (u/s Mary Honeycutt ) is so honored to join the world premiere of this beautiful play by Kyle Bass.

Previous Stage credits: Our Town, The Picture of Oscar Wilde, and Charles Martin’s Medea. Favorite roles include Adelaide, Audrey, Amalia, Helena, Trina, the Baker’s Wife, Songs for a New World, and Joss in Love is Love is Love: The Mu-

sical (Feinstein’s/54 Below and original cast album). Regional: Sandra in Big Fish, Mother Superior in Sister Act, Lily in The Secret Garden, Into the Woods, Almost, Maine (Redhouse Arts Center); The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Footloose, State Fair, Grand Hotel (The Rev); The Honky Tonk Angels, Footloose (Cortland Repertory Theatre); and The Skin of Our Teeth (Hangar Theatre). Lilli is an award-winning director and homeschooling mama to two of the coolest humans she knows. @lillikomurek

Morgan Lewis (u/s Deirdre, Aralia) is honored to be joining Syracuse Stage in the world premiere of Tender Rain.

Morgan is a current junior musical theatre major at the Syracuse University Department of Drama and a Nashville native. She was most recently seen at Syracuse Stage as Mrs. Phelps in the Stage/ Department of Drama co-production Matilda the Musical. Her recent Department of Drama credits include Arviragus in Play-On Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and the ensemble/ Mia’s understudy in The Myth of the Mountain. Morgan recently received the B. Iden Payne Award for her performance as the Queen of Hearts in J. Quinton Johnson ’ s ( Hamilton) production of Alice’s Wonderland. She’d like to thank the Tender Rain company, as well as her professors, friends, and family - shout out to Mama Lewis, Dad, and Miles. Enjoy the show! Feel free to follow her on Instagram @morgmlew

Simon Moody ( u/s Milton Millard ) has been immersed in theatre and film for more than 40 years and has performed on stages in Australia, England, and CNY, and in several indie film productions. Simon has been honored to receive TANYS awards for Excellence in Acting (Benedick - Much Ado About Nothing, Petruchio - The Taming of the Shrew, Friar Lawrence - Romeo and Juilet) and numerous SALT Award nominations, including the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Patsy - Spamalot). Recent notable performances include Van Helsing – Dracula, Polonius - Hamlet; Julius Caesar (for which he was nominated for the SALT Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play); Friar Lawrence - Romeo and Juliet, and Kurt Muller - Watch on the Rhine (for which he was also nominated for the SALT Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play). Simon has performed in virtual productions of Love’s Labour’s Lost (Boyet); Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch), The Importance of Being Earnest (Rev. Chasuble) Much Ado About Nothing (Don John) and The Tempest (Prospero), and more recently, a live production of The Tempest (King Alonso). Simon last appeared at Syracuse Stage in Baldwin vs. Buckley: The Faith of Our Fathers, a reenactment of the historic debate between William H. Buckley and James Baldwin, a wonderful experience. In addition to the stage, Simon has been particularly active in film, including international film entrant, RuneRunner , and

Binge 2, a Hulu production that was filmed in Syracuse last year. Most recently, Simon appeared in The Offering, another indie short film produced by the acclaimed Coleman Brothers. Simon is truly thrilled to have the opportunity to understudy for the role of Milton and keen to be back on stage. Many thanks to Kyle Bass and all involved in this unique and insightful play for including me. Much love to my beloved bride, Ashley, for her constant support and tolerance, and to our children for their indulgence with my eccentricities. Theatre is life!

Derek Emerson Powell ( u/s Eddie “Brother” James) is honored to return to Syracuse Stage after appearing as Howie Newsome/+ in Our Town and Max/Jonathon (u/s) in The Play That Goes Wrong. NYC: Love is Love is Love: The Musical (Feinstein’s/54 Below). Regional: Maxmillian/Peter in By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, Andre in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Joey in Sister Act, Paris in Romeo and Juliet (Redhouse Arts Center), Edward Hyde/+ in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Chenango River Theatre), First Man in Kiss Me, Kate (Cortland Repertory Theatre), Zeus in An Odyssey (Hangar Theatre), Baron Del Cedro in The Fan (The Cherry Arts), Reverend Hopkins in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Millbrook Playhouse). Derek is a core member of the Building Company Theater ensemble, which devises new works and facilitates Forum Theatre work-

shops for the Syracuse community. @derekemersonpowell

Ahmanee Simmons (u/s Lily, Doctor) last appeared at Syracuse Stage in Our Town. A graduate of SUNY Oswego, she received her B.A in theatre with a concentration in acting/directing. Some of her credits include Macbeth (Lennox), Dead Man’ s Cell Phone (director), The Good Doctor (assistant director), Clybourne Park ( Francine/Lena ), Not Someone Like Me (Nancy), and most recently in Macbeth (Witch/ King Duncan/Murder). Ahmanee was nominated at the KCACTF for her role in Clybourne Park (2017) and her direction of Dead Man’s Cell Phone (2019). She is also recognized as 2019’s Honorary Member of Alpha Psi Omega.

Brenda Thomas ( u/s Ruthie Mimms) returns to Syracuse Stage after nearly forty years when she appeared as the Nurse in Romeo & Juliet directed by Arthur Storch. In the intervening years, Brenda has worked at Geva, Buffalo Studio Arena, Cornell University Theatre in winter only. Needless to say, it’s a delight to be in Syracuse in the spring. Among the regional theatres where she has performed are The Guthrie, Baltimore Center Stage, San Jose Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Berkshire Theater Festival as well as Off-Broadway. Her last stage

appearance was in The Sty of the Blind Pig at Hartford TheatreWorks for which she won a Connecticut Critics’ Circle Award. For the past eleven

years, Brenda was the owner of Garden Nanny, a landscape gardening business that she closed just in time to return to theatre in Tender Rain.

ARTISTIC STAFF

Se Hyun Oh (Scenic and Projection Designer) is a Korean born set designer based in NYC. Off-Broadway credits: Once Upon A Korean Time (Ma-Yi Theatre/ La Mama Theatre); The Unbelieving (The Civilians/ 59E59 Theatres); Mister Miss America (AFO Theatre/ Rattlestick Theatre). Selected regional credits: The Chinese Lady, Rooted (Cincinnati Playhouse); King John (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Man of God (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse); Underneath the Lintel (Geffen Playhouse); Tiger Style!, A Doll’s House Pt.2, Cambodian Rock Band, Yoga Play, Office Hour (South Coast Rep); Hold These Truths (People’s Light Theatre); Dinner and Cake (Everyman Theatre). He graduated from Northwestern University with an M.F.A. in theatre design. Member of USA Local.

Tracy Dorman (Costume Designer) has designed over a dozen productions at Syracuse Stage over the past two decades, most recently Our Town. She has designed at regional theatre and opera companies around the country, including Asolo Repertory Theatre, Maltz-Jupiter, Gulfshore Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Cleveland Play House, Geva, Milwaukee

Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Drury Lane (Chicago), Kansas City Rep, Manhattan School of Music, Virginia Opera, Kentucky Opera, Opera Omaha, Chicago Opera Theatre, Glimmerglass, and New York City Opera. From 2005-2008 she was an associate costume designer on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns, for which she won a 2007 Emmy Award for Costume Design. Tracy continues to work in TV along with her theatre and opera work; most recently she has worked on Law & Order: SVU (NBC), West World (HBO), and The Equalizer (CBS). Please visit www.tracydorman.com for a more extensive listing of production credits.

Dawn Chiang (Lighting Designer) designed the lighting for numerous Syracuse Stage productions, including Amadeus, Eureka Day, I and You, Native Gardens, Next to Normal, Talley’s Folly, To Kill a Mockingbird, Other Desert Cities, The Glass Menagerie, and Two Trains Running. She has designed the lighting at numerous regional theatres including Denver Center Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, South Coast Repertory, Alliance Theatre,

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Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theater, Arena Theatre, and Geva Theatre. On Broadway, Dawn designed the lighting for Zoot Suit, was co-designer for Tango Pasion, and associate lighting designer for Show Boat, The Life, and the original production of La Cage Aux Folles. Off Broadway, she has designed for the Roundabout Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and co-designed the first two seasons of the Encores! concert musical series at City Center. Dawn was resident lighting designer for New York City Opera, where her designs included A Little Night Music and Fanciulla del West. She is the lighting designer for the award winning FDNY Fire Zone at Rockefeller Center, New York. Awards include two Lighting Designer of the Year Awards (Syacuse Area Live Theatre), two Dramalogue awards, a THEA award (Themed Entertainment Association) and nominations for the Maharam Design Award from American Theatre Wing, Los Angeles Drama Critics’ and San Francisco Bay Area Critics’ Award.

Fabian Obispo (Sound Design) returns to Syracuse Stage where his credits are Possessing Harriet , Constant Star, King Lear, and Dear. Recent off-Broadway credits include The Chinese Lady (Lucille Lortel nomination) Out of Time , Once Upon a Korean Time, and his musical Felix Starro. Other credits for off-Broadway theatres include The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, Atlantic Theatre

Company, Manhattan Class Company, The New Group, MaYi Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience, The Acting Company, Women’s Project, Primary Stages, and Classic Stage Company. He has designed extensively for regional theatres including Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alliance Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Indiana Repertory, Minneapolis’ Children's Theatre Company, PlayMakers Repertory Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse and Alabama Shakespeare Festival among others. He is a recipient of the Berkshires Theatre Critics Award and the Barrymore. His music for the movie Vancouver was awarded best original score by the International Motion Picture Award, LA Film Festival’s Indie Short Fest Award, and South Film and Arts Academy Festival Award.

Bobbie Zlotnik (Wig Designer). OffBroadway: Emojiland (Drama Desk nomination), Fairycakes , Mornings At Seven, The Book of Merman, Drop Dead Perfect, Disenchanted, Forbidden Broadway, Bed Bugs!!!. National Tours: On Your Feet, Emojiland, Cocomelon LIVE. PCPA: Pride and Prejudice, Hairspray, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, My Fairytale, Caroline, or Change. The Lex: Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Newsies, Music Man.

ARTISTIC STAFF

Park Playhouse: Matilda the Musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’. Penguin Rep: The Virtuous Life of Joseph Andrews, Souvenir. Tuacahn: Wonderland. Bucks County Playhouse: Evita. PCLO: Godspell. Hangar Theatre: Kinky Boots. Theatre By The Sea: Love and Other Fables. Film/TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Gilded Age, A Spectacular Christmas, Halston, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.

Izmir Ickbal (Video/Projection Programmer) is a multidisciplinary theatre designer who currently serves as an assistant professor of theater design and technology in the Department of Drama in Syracuse University. Ickbal graduated with an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama and is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. More info: izmirickbal.com

Alec Barbour ( Fight/Movement & Intimacy Specialist ) is a Rochester, NY, based actor, intimacy director, fight choreographer, and playwright. He relishes the opportunity to create visceral, authentic moments of violence and intimacy that are thrilling for audiences, while being safe and fun for actors. He is a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, and an intimacy director with IDC. He received his M.F.A. in acting at the Hilberry Repertory Theatre at Wayne State University in Detroit. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and SAG/ AFTRA, and he teaches acting at Syracuse University. Intimacy Direction: (For Syracuse Stage) Ama-

deus. (For Syracuse University Department of Drama) As You Like It, Movie Night, Romeo and Juliet, Everybody, Wild Party. (For Wallbyrd Theatre Co.) Bard Bending: Fight Club!, Two Gentlemen of Verona. (For Utica College) Dracula. Fight Direction: (For Syracuse Stage) Amadeus, Suzette who Set to Sea, Deathtrap, Disgraced. (Syracuse University Department of Drama) As You Like It, Movie Night, Cymbeline, Sender, In Love and Warcraft, Wild Party, Kiss Me, Kate. (University of Rochester) Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (with J. David Brimmer). (Nazareth College) Spring Awakening, Hayfever, Vinegar Tom. (Le Moyne College) Squirrels, The Play That Goes Wrong, She Kills Monsters, Macbeth in Concert, Romeo & Juliet in Concert, The Liar. (Hilberry Repertory Theatre) The Cripple of Inishmaan, Macbeth, The Mousetrap, Moon Over Buffalo. (Wayne State University) Arabian Nights, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, SubUrbia. (Wallbyrd Theatre Co) Bard Bending: Fight Club!, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Dracula.

Blake Segal ( Dialect Co-coach ) is an actor and dialect coach, and he is delighted to return to Syracuse Stage. Dialect coaching credits include NYC: Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, The Araca Project, Fault Line Theatre; Regional: Geva Theatre Center, Berkshire Theatre Group, Two River Theater, PlayMakers Rep, Cleveland Musical Theatre, Luna Stage, Passages

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Theatre, and Walkerspace at SoHo Rep; Educational: Yale School of Drama, Fordham, Columbia, Syracuse, Kean, and Stella Adler. Blake currently serves on the voice/verse faculty of Syracuse University’s Department of Drama. As an actor, he has performed on film and television, off-Broadway, in major regional theatres across the country, and on the national tour of Mary Poppins. M.F.A. in acting: Yale School of Drama. www.blakesegal.com

Amani Dorn ( Dialect Co-coach ) is an actor/singer/dancer/teacher from Austin, TX, currently residing in Atlanta, GA. She received an M.F.A. in acting from the University of California, Irvine, and has 18 years of professional experience in performance, teaching, and coaching. She got her start performing in musicals in Austin while an undergrad at the University of Texas and has since performed and coached with and for actors all over the world. While pursuing her M.F.A., she was introduced to Knight-Thompson Speechwork and Fitzmaurice Voicework and has since pursued both certifications and continues her career as a dialect coach. amanidorndialects.com

Laura Jane Collins (Stage Manager). Syracuse Stage credits include: Espejos: Clean, Matilda The Musical, Somewhere Over the Border, The Play That Goes Wrong, I and You, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 , Talley’s Folly, Amadeus, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Elf The Musical, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-

Time, Next to Normal, The Magic Play, Stupid F***ing Bird, Chinglish, Scorched, and The Boys Next Door. Regional credits include: Footloose, 42nd Street, Grease, South Pacific, Anne of Green Gables: A New Folk Rock Musical, Ghost (The Rev, formerly Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival); The Foreigner, Third, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Around the World in 80 Days (Hangar Theatre). LJ is a graduate of the stage management program in the Syracuse University Department of Drama.

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

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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 The-

atre, 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.

PLAYWRIGHT/RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT

Kyle Bass is the author of Possessing Harriet , which premiered at Syracuse Stage, was subsequently produced at Franklin Stage Company, at the East Lynne Theater Company, 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 and has streamed nationally since 2021 and has been optioned for an international feature-length film. Kyle’s new play Toliver & Wakeman was commissioned by Franklin Stage Company where it premieres later this year. 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 National Medal of Arts recipient Ping Chong, Kyle is

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the co-author of Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo, which premiered at Syracuse Stage and was subsequently 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. He has also been commissioned by Theatre Nohgaku and is the co-author of the original screenplay for the film Day of Days (Broad Green Pictures, 2017). Kyle is a three-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (fiction in 1998, playwriting in 2010, screenwriting in 2022), a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award,

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and a Pushcart Prize nominee. As dramaturg, he has collaborated with acclaimed visual artist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow 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 and he has appeared with Symphoria, the symphony orchestra of Central New York. His plays, screenplays, and other writings have appeared in the journals Callaloo and Stone Canoe, among others, and in the anthology Alchemy of the Word: Writers Talk about Writing. Kyle is an assistant professor in the Department of Theater at Colgate University, where he was previously the 2019 Burke Endowed Chair for Regional Studies. Previously, he was faculty in

the M.F.A. creative writing program at Goddard College, taught in the Departments of Drama and African American Studies at Syracuse University, and the Theatre Department 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 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.

DIRECTOR

Rodney Scott Hudson. Rodney is so pleased to be working on this production of a Kyle Bass play; having recently directed Possessing Harriet at SUNY Cortland. For Syracuse Stage Rodney has appeared as the Lion in The Wizard of Oz, as Fagin in Oliver!, as Captain Hook in Peter Pan, as Malvolio in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, sang in the musical Jacques

Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and played the role of Judge Randolph in A Few Good Men. Other representative roles include Mephistopheles in Faust, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Boyet in Love’s Labours Lost, Lennie in Of Mice and Men, Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and many roles in

Elizabeth Swados’ musical romp Alice in Wonderland with Meryl Streep. He was a member of the acting company of Harvard’s American Repertory Theater for three years. Rodney has appeared as a soloist with ten symphonic organizations including the Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and the Minnesota Orchestra, singing the Broadway musical repertoire. He was a series regular for NBC’s Marblehead Manor and appeared in the two-character film, A Lady in Waiting, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Rodney was a faculty member at Syracuse University for 26 years. He has directed over 30 productions for the Department of Drama.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Robert Hupp is in his seventh season as artistic director of Syracuse Stage. He recently directed 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 Awardwinning 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 $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 Mas-

MANAGING DIRECTOR

sachusetts. In addition to her work at Stage, Jill is an instructor in the theater management program of the Syracuse University Department of 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.

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Melissa Crespo . OffBroadway credits include Bees & Honey (MCC, upcoming); ¡Figaro! (90210) (Duke on 42nd Street). Regional: Sheepdog (Contemporary American Theater Festival); Yoga Play (Syracuse Stage and Geva Theatre Center); Native Gardens (Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre Center, and Portland Center Stage) and Selena Maria Sings (Childsplay).

Melissa is the co-writer of Egress (Amphibian Stage and Salt Lake Acting Company). Professional positions include associate artistic director, Syracuse Stage, and founding editor, 3Views on Theater. Awards include NYWF Director Award (The Lillys), and Roe Green Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwrighting (Cleveland Playhouse). Education: M.F.A. in Directing, The New School for Drama.

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.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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

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.

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.

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.

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 nonfor-profit professional theatre company founded in 1974, and a longstanding League of Resident Theatres (LORT) member. Since its inception, Stage has produced over 300 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.

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SYRACUSE STAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

CHAIR

Rocco Mangano Partner Mangano Law Office, PLLC

PRESIDENT

Herman R. Frazier*

Senior Deputy Athletics Director Syracuse University

PAST CHAIR/VICE CHAIR

Nancy Green

Managing Member

Edward S. Green & Associates

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

Zellar Homes Rep.

Richard Driscoll

Sr. Commercial Banking Relationship Manager Commercial Banking Division NBT Bank

Denise Dyce

Associate Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations

Syracuse University

Helene Gold Private Voice & Piano Instructor

Jacki Goldberg Community Volunteer

Bea González

Retired - Vice President for Community Engagement Syracuse University

Larry Harris EVP and CFO Saab, Inc.

John Huhtala Relationship Manager Middle Market Commercial Banking Chase

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

Anthony Malavenda Retired - Duke’s Root Control

Julia Martin Partner Bousquet Holstein

Kevin R. McAuliffe Partner Barclay Damon

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

Molly Ryan Partner, Goldberg Segalla LLP

Robert Sarason

Retired - Lawyer, Organizer, Fundraiser

L. John Steigerwald IV Marketing and Sales Representative Cathedral Candle Company

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

Ralph Zito** Chair

Syracuse University Department of Drama

Michael Zoanetti VP Senior Wealth Advisor Tompkins Financial Advisors

*University Trustee **Ex-Officio

SYRACUSE STAGE EMERITUS CIRCLE

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

Jim Breuer

Mary Beth Carmen Joan Green

Elizabeth Hartnett

Margaret Martin Eric Mower

Judy Mower

Michael Shende

Jack Webb

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

Christian Almeida DURGEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Emily Ball

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

Lily Beckman

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Paige Blair

CAZENOVIA HIGH SCHOOL

Sadie Broderick

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Ella Culligan

LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL

Graziella Cullipher

CHARLES W. BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

Erin DeGraw

UNION SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL

Luke DeLorenzo

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

Yahye Farah

SYRACUSE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Luiza Gripp

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Gracie Henning

LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL

Kennedy Hilton

FAYETTEVILLE MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

Stephanie Kelly

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

Margot Klein

CHARLES W. BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

Tessa Komar

FAYETTEVILLE MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

Joey Lake

LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL

Madison Macomber

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Zoie Markowski

SOLVAY HIGH SCHOOL

Zinat Mohammadi

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Stella Nesci

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Will Radford

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

Mabel Roane

MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL

Sylus Roane MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL

Ava Schneider

LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL

Syd Shaw

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Francesca Smith

BISHOP GRIMES JR./SR. HIGH SCHOOL

Caleb Smith

MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL

Abbie Sundet

PAUL V. MOORE HIGH SCHOOL

Rebecca Wheeler HOMESCHOOL

SYRACUSE STAGE ANNUAL 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

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SPONSORS

Contributions listed above are current as of March 30, 2023 and reflect operating support of $5,000+ and in-kind donations of $10,000+.

SPONSORS

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 Tender Rain.

INDIVIDUAL, CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS

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

$100,000+

Nancy & William Byrne

Slutzker Family Foundation

Syracuse University

The Dorothy & Marshall M. Reisman Foundation

$50,000 - $99,999

Advance Media New York

CNY Arts, Inc.

Steven & Marianne Mills

NYSCA

Onondaga County

City of Syracuse Arts & Culture Recovery Fund Program

The Shubert Foundation

$20,000 - $49,999

George Bain

iHeart Radio

M&T Bank

Richard Mather Fund

National Endowment for the Arts

$10,000 - $19,999

Bank of America

Cathedral Candle Company

Central New York

Community Foundation

Jacki & Michael Goldberg

Nancy Green & Tony Marschall

Elizabeth Hartnett

JKW Foundation

JP Morgan Chase

Rocco & Roberta Mangano

NBT Bancorp Inc.

News Channel 9

Sharon Sullivan & Paul Phillips

The John Ben Snow Foundation & Memorial Trust

WRVO

$5,000 - $9,999

Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation

Richard Bunce

Dr. Ruth Chen & Chancellor Kent Syverud

Cumulus Radio

Peggy & Dana Dudarchik

Neil & Helene Gold

Larry & Ann Harris

J.M. McDonald Foundation

Larry & Mary Leatherman

Tony Malavenda & Martine Burat

Kevin & Suzanne McAuliffe

Eric & Judy Mower

Sally Lou & Fran Nichols

Virginia Parker

Joel Potash & Sandra

Hurd

Raymour & Flanigan

Furniture

Theatre Development Fund

Tompkins Trust Company

Urban CNY

Vanguard Charitable WAER

Wegmans

$3,500 - $4,999

The Benz Family

Kathleen Bice

Sandra Brown

Pete & Mary Beth

Carmen

Roger & Naomi DeMuth

Julia & Lee Martin

Selma Radin

Melvin & Patricia Stith

Kathy Kelly & Len Weiner

$1,800 - $3,499

Janet Audunson & David

Youlen

Barbara Beckos & Art McDonald

Constance Bull

Craig & Kathy Byrum

James Clark & Sharon

Gordon

The Estate of William

Clark Jr.

CNY Latino

Bob & Bobbie Constable

Robin Curtis

Barbara Davis

Edward & Susan Downing

Dick & Therese Driscoll

Excellus BlueCross

BlueShield

Michael & Barbara

Flintrop

Herman Frazier & Caroline Beal

Bea Gonzalez & Michael

Leonard

Deborah & Samuel Haines

David & Sally Hootnick

John & Kimberly Huhtala

Robert & Clea Hupp

Randy & Elizabeth Kalish

Leslie Kohman & Jeffrey

Smith

Daniel & Ann Lent

Melvin & Mildred Eggers

Family Charitable Foundation

Walter & Elizabeth

Merriam

Anne Morford

Molly & Kevin Mulvihill

Claire Myers-Usiatynski

Mona & John Paradis

Peterson Guadagnolo

Consulting Engineers

Rosemary Pooler

Michael & Rissa Ratner

Molly Ryan & Tim Byrnes

Robert Sarason & Jane

Burkhead

Richard & Margaret Shirtz

Sharye Skinner

Sam & Carolyn Spalding

David & Deirdre Stam

Raymond & Linda Straub

Cynthia Sutton

Theatre Communications Group

Michael & Cathy Tick

Dr. Amy Tucker

Joshua & Andrea

Waldman

$1,200 - $1,799

James & Nancy Asher

Debbie & Candido

Bermudez

Donald Blair & Nancy

Dock

As of March 30, 2023. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months.

Francine Boutet

Jim & Cathy Breuer

Ana Díaz-Diez & Javier

Maymi-Perez

Frank and Frances Revoir Foundation

Fox 68

Dorothy & Lawrence Gordon

Dennis & Judi Hebert

Cydney Johnson & Jeff Comanici

Kevin & Jessica Kopko

Rod & Jana McDonald

David Rankert

James Shults

John Steigerwald IV

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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.

James Aiello, In memory of Pamela Johnson

Anonymous, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

Anonymous, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

Anonymous, In loving memory of Cat

Hennessy, may we all remember her joy.

Anonymous, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

George Bain, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

Debbie & Candido Bermudez, In memory of my mother Mary Tolassi Watson.

Chris Carbone, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

Chris Chin, In loving memory of Cat Hennessy.

James Clark & Sharon Gordon, In loving memory of Cat Hennessy.

Sharon & James Crosier, In memory of our talented cousin Cathy "Cat" Hennessy.

Ana Díaz-Diez & Javier Maymi-Perez, Dedicated to the memory of Pedro Díaz-Molina.

Carole Farfaglia, In memory of Edward Farfaglia.

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Lorefice

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McAuliffe

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Burton

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Spiegel

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Brady

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Ellen Butler

Andrea Calarco

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Cambareri

Ronald Capone

Pamela Caraccioli

Lexi Carlson & Sebastian

Karcher

Delores Carney

Dannielle Carr

Judith Carr

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Tassa

Maureen Clark

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David & Robin Drucker

Denise Dyce

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Wynn Egginton

Ron Ehrenreich & Sondra Roth

William & Elizabeth Elkins

In Honor of (Continued)

Adam Ganderson, In memory of Catherine Mary "Cat" Hennessy.

Margaret Gelfuso, In memory of Peter Scheibe.

Erica Girouard, In memory of Catherine "Cat" Hennessy.

Carmen Giunta, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

Erin Horner, In memory of Catherine Hennessy.

Donald Hughes, In memory Cat Hennessy.

Marjorie T. Julian, In honor of Ed Farfaglia.

Liz Kolodney, In memory of Peggy Marshall.

Shane & Cheryl Kurowski, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

Marcia Locke, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

Leonard Lu, In memory of Catherine "Cat" Hennessy.

Mark & Megan Morettini, In honor of Francis O'Connor and Peter Ceravolo.

Claire Myers-Usiatynski, In memory of Drs. Lawrence & Betty

Jane Myers.

Rose Ann & Gerlad Napierski, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

Judy Oplinger, In memory of Tim Rice.

Patty Pack, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

Virgina Potter, In memory of Catherine "Cat" Hennessy.

Marilyn Shelleman, In memory of Ron Shelleman.

Greg & Linda Ellstrom

Stanley & Penny Emerick

Elizabeth Etoll

Marcia Finch

Molly Carole Fitzpatrick

Gerard Flynn

Leonard Fonte

Kurt Frazier

Elinor Freeman

Dan Gaffney

Allen & Nirelle Galson

Margaret Gelfuso

Neil Gold

Andrea Graham

Rosanna Grassi

Roger & Vicki Greenberg

Thomas Greenwood

William & Ann Griffith

John & Patty Grossmann

Harold Hackney & Janine

Bernard

Gregory & Elaine Hallett

Beth Hansen

Mary Haven & John Zasada

Pamela & James Helmer

Christopher Henke & Carolyn Hsu

Donna & Joseph Hipius

Victor Jenkins

Emily Johnson & Vijay Ramachandran

Gwenn Judge

Philip & Judith Kaplan

James & Jan Kaplan

Pieter & Sandra Keese

David & Noel Keith

Mary Kelly

Amy Kemp

Tim & Susan Kennedy

John & Gloria Kennedy

Diane King

Russell & Joan King

Barry & Kathy Kogut

Robert & Lauren Lalley

Eric & Susan Lambert

Andrea Latchem

Bruce & Marilyn Laubacher

Victor & Linda Lebedovych

Bonnie Levy

David & Cindy Lewis

James Light

John Limbeson

Edward & Carol Lipson

Martha Holly Loew

Mary Lombardo

Linda Loomis

John & Marian Loosmann

Dan & Linda Lowengard

Donald & Patricia

MacLaughlin

John & Janet Mallan

Robert & Nancy Mandry

Julie March

Frederick & Virginia Marty

Elizabeth Mascia

Douglas & Randi Matousek

John McAllister & Laurel

Moranz

John & Mary McCulley

Andreas & Margaret Meier

Clifford & Marjorie Mellor

Lois Meyer

David Michel & Peggy

Liuzzi

Dr. Merrill L. Miller

Daniel & Terry Miller

David & Beth Mitchell

Julian & Jennifer Modesti

Janet Moore

Joseph Moorman & Catherine Gerard

Susan Moskal

Nancy Mudrick

David & Janet Muir

James & Kathleen Muldoon

Charles & Judith Muniak

Alan & Rosalind Napier

Richard & Barbara Natoli

Aaron & Cosmina Nolan

Loraine Odonnell

Jane Ondich

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Marjorie Ostrander

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Pendergrast

James Perry

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Petrosillo

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William & Merriette

Pollard

Eileen Ponto

John Przepiora

Elizabeth Quilter

John & Dorothy

Reiffenstein

Steve Reiter & Annegret

Schubert

In Honor of (Continued)

Kristina Starowitz, In memory of Cat Hennessy.

H. Paul Steiner, In honor and memory of Fritz Parker.

Philip Syphrit, n memory of Cat Hennessy.

Hon. Karen M. Uplinger, In memory of John P. Copanas.

Orelí Uzdavinis & Juan De Leon, In honor of Ana Díaz.

Jacqueline Rich

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Carranti

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Severance

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Kay

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Celesia Ventura

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Viglietta

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Judith Waite

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Washburn

Mark Watkins & Brenda

Silverman

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Arjomand

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Jean Beers

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Susan Boettger

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Leslee Boissy-Weatherup

Jon & Patricia Booth

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Bernard & Ona Cohn

Bregman

James & Joyce Bresnahan

Robert & Helene Brophy

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Bob & Kathy Brown

Donna Johnson Brown

Sheera Buckley

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Nancy Virgil-Call

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Larry & Fran Campbell

Chris Carbone

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Christina Casella

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Karen Clarke

Barbara Clary

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Donna Coloton

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Tracy Cromp

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Kate DiDonato

Margrit Diehl

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Patricia Arcana & Thomas

Dorr

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Kathleen Effler

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Thompson

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Trombly

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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

Mary Louise Dunn Fund

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The Estate of Rosemary Curtis

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

Peterfreund

Matching Gift Program

The J. Zimmeister-Yarwood Estate

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!

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

Events Manager and Production Management Assistant......................................Audrey Flynn

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

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

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

Technical Assistant...................................................................................................Alex Farley

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

Student Employee............................................................................................Gray Westbrook

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

Scenic Artist........................................................................................................Riley Mankin

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 Assistant...................................................................................................CJ Forestiere

Lighting and Projection Supervisor..................................................................David M. Bowman

Assistant Master Electrician.....................................................................................Jed Daniels

Electricians/Board Operators..................................................Connor Beattie, Brian C. Jordan

Student Employee............................................................................................James Klemmer

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

Audio Engineer...............................................................................................Kevin O’Connor

Sound Engineer/A1.............................................................................................Shane Wright

Production Stage Manager....................................................................................Stuart Plymesser Stage Manager..............................................................................................Laura Jane Collins

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

SYRACUSE STAGE STAFF

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

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

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

Associate General Manager/Covid-19 Safety Officer.............................................Jacob G. Ellison

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

Business Office Intern...........................................................................................Liam Bierley

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

House Managers.............................Pat Condello, Ella Lafontant, Adam Secor, Donna Stuccio

Bartenders................................................................................................................Meg Pusey

Audience Services Interns....................................................................Jack Lin, Maya Royston

Front of House Associates............Hope Allen, Nathan Ayotte, Olivia Busche, Jade Fernandez, Henry Herbert, Sally Jewell, Sarah Schultz, Kevin Sene, Julia Snoonian, Eva Spaid, Malaika Wanjiku, Ada Wennstrom, Gracie Whaley, Maya Zepeda

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

Development Assistant................................................................................Candice Bermudez

Director of Community Engagement and Education.....................................................Joann Yarrow

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

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

Community Engagement and Education Interns..........................Erin Keith, Ada Wennstrom

Director of Marketing and Communications.....................................................................Amy Lebo

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

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

Audience Development Assistant...................................................................Talia Shenandoah

Senior Designer, Creative Content....................................................................Brenna Merritt

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

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

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

Marketing Interns.......................................................................Joyelle Ronan, Wesley Tipton

Patron Services Intern....................................................................................Soumya Tadepalli

Executive Assistant.........................................................................................................Cynthia Reid

Management Office Intern.......................................................................Lauren Kelly Witkowski

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

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

Audio Description...................................................................................Kate Laissle, Joseph Whelan

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

Custodians.........................................................................Dave Hall, Tony Rogers, Candace Velario

WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL

SEPT 21 – OCT 9

HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO

A new musical based on Alexandra Shiva’s documentary film | Book & Lyrics by Rebekah Greer Melocik | Music & Co-Arrangements by Jacob Yandura | Music Direction by Lily Ling

Music Supervision, Co-Arrangements, Orchestration by Matt Gallagher |

Choreographed by Mayte Natalio |

Directed by Sammi Cannold | Produced in association with Ben Holtzman, Sammy Lopez, and Fiona Howe Rudin

A heart-filled new musical, based on the Peabody Award-winning documentary of the same name, that explores what it means to belong, the courage it takes to put yourself out in the world, and the universal need to connect. Follow seven Autistic young adults as they come of age and find their ways in the world.

MAR 29 – APR 16

OUR TOWN

By Thornton Wilder

Directed by Robert Hupp

The American classic that reminds us to cherish every unimportant moment.

OCTOBER 18 -23

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NOV 25 – JAN 8

DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID

Music by Alan Menken | Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater Book by Doug Wright | Based on the Hans Christian Andersen story and the Disney film that was produced by Howard Ashman & John Musker and written & directed by John Musker & Ron Clements | Originally Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions

Directed by Melissa Rain Anderson Co-produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama Splashy family fun for the holiday season with added thrills courtesy of the high flying 2 Ring Circus.

WORLD PREMIERE MAY 3 - 21

TENDER RAIN

By Kyle Bass

Directed by Rodney Hudson

A man must confront the secrets of his past in order to move forward in this world premiere of Kyle Bass’ haunting play.

COLD READ FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS

Curated by Melissa Crespo | Free for subscribers, tickets required, available through the Box Office.

EAST COAST PREMIERE

FEB 15 – MAR 5

ESPEJOS: CLEAN

By

Christine Quintana | Spanish translation and adaptation by Paula Zelaya Cervantes

Directed by Melissa Crespo

In this engaging new drama, two women with very different experiences meet by accident and change each other in unexpected ways. Performed in Spanish and English with supertitles.

JUNE 7 - 25

CLUE

Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn | Written by Sandy Rustin

Additional Material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price | Based on the Paramount Pictures Motion Picture

Based on the Hasbro board game CLUE

Original Music by Michael Holland

Directed by Ben Hanna

Famous board game turned popular motion picture turned fabulously fun theatrical experience. Who did it? Where? And with what?