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10 KISSING BARREN EARTH: YERMA, THEN & NOW
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YERMA Adapted and Translated by Melinda Lopez Based on the play by Federico García Lorca Directed by Melia Bensussen
Scenic Design Costume Design Cameron Anderson Olivera Gajic
Choreography Misha Shields
Fight Direction Claire Warden & Ted Hewlett
Sound Design Lighting Design Original Music Brian J. Lilienthal Brendan F. Doyle & Mark Bennett Mark Bennett Casting Alaine Alldaffer
Production Stage Manager Kevin Schlagle
Stage Manager Jeremiah Mullane
Conceived by Melinda Lopez and Melia Bensussen
This play was developed at the Huntington Theatre Company through the Huntington Playwriting Fellow Summer Workshop, July 2015. Yerma has taken place with the support of the Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program administered in partnership with HowlRound. Originally commissioned by American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California Carey Perloff, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director
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RESTORING A “JEWEL OF A THEATRE” Now that the Huntington Theatre Company is officially the sole owner of the Huntington Avenue Theatre, plans for the major renovation and restoration of the theatre complex are underway.
terrace in front of the theatre. The stage will be updated with new scenery rigging and a modern trap system. And of course, there will be plenty of brand-new restrooms throughout the complex.
Bruner/Cott Architects are currently in the schematic design phase, charged with revitalizing the historic theatre, as well as creating modern public spaces in an expansive 14,000 square foot two-story audience engagement center in the base of the residential tower next door. Known for their award-winning designs for seminal projects such as MASS MoCA and Harvard’s Smith Campus Center, Bruner/Cott has a reputation for thoughtful design that celebrates the heritage and craftmanship of the past while optimizing resources for the future.
“It’s a jewel of a theatre,” says lead architect Scott Aquilina. “And we are working to draw out and highlight the beautiful elements of the historic building, making it a better version of itself while also putting 21st century systems and comforts in place.” The new Huntington Avenue Theatre complex will be a resource to the entire Boston community and a new creative hub for ideas and culture, allowing the Huntington to further expand its services to audiences, artists, and the community.
Plans for the extensive theatre renovation include all-new mechanical and electrical systems, brand-new theatre seats that will be wider and more comfortable, and the preservation of historic period details including the original lighting fixtures and the restoration of an elegant outdoor
You are an important part of the Huntington’s future! We invite you to learn more about the Huntington’s transformation by visiting our website, attending upcoming events, and contributing to the Campaign for the Huntington Theatre Company.
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CAST (in alphabetical order) Juan..................................................................................................Christian Barillas Maria..............................................................................................Marianna Bassham Incarnación.............................................................................................Alma Cuervo Marta.......................................................................................................Evelyn Howe Veronica, Rosa Maria...................................................................Alexandra Illescas Yerma................................................................................................... Nadine Malouf Dolores...................................................................................................Jacqui Parker Victor.....................................................................................................Ernie Pruneda Guitarist............................................................................................. Juanito Pascual Percussionist..................................................................................... Fabio Pirozzolo Yerma will be performed without an intermission. The Huntington Theatre Company is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and more than 6,000 individual, foundation, and corporate contributors.
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AN UNCONTROLLABLE FATE: AN INTERVIEW WITH MELINDA LOPEZ
Melinda Lopez
Huntington Playwright-in-Residence Melinda Lopez’s work as a writer spans from stage to audiobooks: her play Sonia Flew was the inaugural production of the Wimberly Theatre in 2004; in 2018 her plays were published in Spanish and graced the stages of Cuba; more recently, her one-woman show Mala was released by Audible. As rehearsals began on her new adaptation of Yerma, she spoke with Literary/Marketing Apprentice Adriana Zuñiga about the discoveries Lorca made that resonate today.
What is your connection to Federico García Lorca? I’ve had a real passionate relationship with that playwright and poet for many years. I find I turn to his work because his voice as an author is so clear. He’s writing about the most basic elements of life: love, passion, revenge, and fertility. It’s very primal, poetic, and beautiful. When I was in graduate school at Boston University, I took a class with Rosanna Warren. In the class, I worked on Blood Wedding, and that was my first attempt at translating Lorca. What drew you specifically to Yerma? It’s Lorca’s least performed great play. A lot of people know The House of Bernarda Alba and Blood Wedding. Yerma is not often done because of poor translations. The story is so important, and the character at the center of the play is so compelling. She is a great theatrical heroine, and I want American audiences to get excited about her! What is your approach to play translation? You must decide if you want to convey the meaning or if you want to capture the sound of the original. Do you want the poems to rhyme like they do in Spanish, or do you want to convey something that’s more colloquial? In Spanish, everything is very sonorous, very beautiful, and sometimes it’s hard to accomplish that in English. I want the language to feel immediate and urgent spoken by real people. I found that so many translations of Lorca focus on getting the word-toword specifics. I want the play to feel it’s being spoken by the characters in the moment, while at the same time maintaining that magic of the world.
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Why did you choose to keep the original play’s rural setting in an agrarian society? The play is originally rooted in southern Spain where certain crops grow; they talk about sheep and apples. But everything revolves around a need for water. There are many agrarian communities in our country that face similar issues. I thought about the Central Valley in California, especially because there is a very large Latinx community of farmers working there and I wanted to keep that sense of connection to the Spanish language. But a lot of the play also feels like Vermont; it could really be anywhere in this country where water is precious and where people work closely with the land. These communities aren’t living in a pastoral romantic image presented in the play; one bad season can ruin a family economically. There are real stakes involved. How does Yerma speak to an audience today? The play’s focus is on a woman who is desperate to lead a traditional life. By traditional, I mean she wants to be a mom, have lots of children, and raise them while her husband goes out and earns a living. There are parallels between how Lorca views tradition in his culture with our own cultural icon of the “traditional” stay-at-home mom. In Lorca’s play, Yerma feels that she is destined to be a mother, and yet her body won’t cooperate. There’s a great dramatic conflict right there.
In Yerma’s longing to be a mother, you hear the playwright’s voice as well. Lorca was a gay man living at the beginning of the rise of fascism in Spain. There was no opportunity for people who did not fit the traditional model to have children. Yerma’s desperation for a child is not gendered. The play is about a person who is in conflict with their fate. It’s about being denied the opportunity to be fully yourself. That’s an internal conflict many of us experience. Melinda Lopez in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Mala, now available on Audible
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We have science and a deep understanding of how conception works. We want to believe that we have power over our own bodies, and over our own destinies. What I’ve learned from friends and colleagues who struggle with infertility is that we don’t have total control over our bodies. The play is not an investigation of assigning blame. It’s an investigation of what happens to a body and a soul when they cannot fulfill what they think they were born to do.
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KISSING BARREN EARTH: YERMA, THEN & NOW “El andaluz o grita a las estrellas o besa el polvo rojizo de sus caminos.” — Federico García Lorca [translated below] THEN When Federico García Lorca was 23, he wrote Poema del Cante Jondo, a book of poems that would make him famous throughout all of Spain, and later, the world. Drawing upon the tradition of the cante jondo (deep song), the collection of poetry marked a turning point in Lorca’s writing. Up until Poema, Lorca was influenced by surrealism — his first play El Maleficio de la Mariposa was a symbolist play about insects in love — but after Poema, his dramatic interests shifted to the tragedy of the everyday found in the cante jondo. Born in a rural village in the south of Spain, Lorca first heard the folk, notquite-flamenco sounds of the cante jondo sung from the throats of workers on his family’s farm. He fell in love with the ways in which the songs depicted unfathomable emotions truthfully, and he worked to replicate the effect in his work. “My whole childhood was centered on the village. Shepherds, fields, sky, solitude. Total simplicity,” Lorca once said, about the truth at his writing’s core, “I’m often surprised when people think that the things in my work are daring improvisations of my own. Not at all. They’re authentic details and seem strange to a lot of people because it’s not often that we approach life in such a simple, straightforward fashion: looking and listening.” Lorca had an instinctual understanding of the ways in which the cante jondo rejected middling feeling, dealing instead in strong emotion: “the Andalusian either cries to the stars or kisses the reddish dust of his roads” — life is deeply painful or deeply joyous, and there’s no in between. Similarly, Lorca’s greatest plays were lived in the extremes. Written in 1934, Yerma coincided with the rise of Francisco Franco’s tyrannical star. Civil war loomed, and the earth was about to be wetted with the blood of half a million people, but Lorca, well aware of the danger looming, chose to stay in the Spain he loved. He was murdered by nationalists in 1936. Yerma is a play about a woman who wants to be a mother, but — for some inexplicable reason — can’t be. It’s a play about extremes: of love, obsession, desire, joy, pain. Extremes that make us consider the human need for hope, for seeing a future, for finding answers as disaster looms; but as Lorca said about the cante jondo, we can say about Yerma, “in the depths of all this a question beats like a heart, but it’s a terrible question that has no answer.” So, what now?
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NOW 85 years since Lorca’s Yerma, this translation and adaptation of the play marks Melinda Lopez’s fourth production at the Huntington. A critically acclaimed playwright, actress, and the Huntington’s playwright-in-residence, Lopez worked not only to retain Lorca’s genius by uplifting and preserving the story, mystery, and poetry of the play (translation), but also to approach the play with the questions and techniques of a contemporary playwright (adaptation). In doing double the work, Lopez conserved the truthful, extremely emotional influences of Lorca’s beloved cante jondo, while also finding ways to deepen an already deep song. “There are parts of the original text that I felt were going to hinder the audience’s experience and, in those moments, I’ve made different choices. One example of this is that Lorca wrote many of his characters as symbols instead of characters. He wrote ‘Woman 1,’ ‘Woman 2,’ etc.; I’ve given names to every single woman in the play and in doing so created specific characters with backstories that are important to Yerma’s arc.” By deepening the relationships between Yerma and her world, the emotions of the play vibrate at a higher frequency, and, ultimately, have the power to affect the audience more—a continuation of Lorca’s cante jondo. “Our people, the Andalusians,” Lorca said, continuing his lecture on the cante jondo, “cross their arms in prayer, gaze at the stars, and await, in vain, a sign of salvation. It is a gesture filled with pathos, but a true one. The cante jondo either poses a profound and unanswerable emotional question, or resolves it in death, the question of questions.” And as to how to resolve the questions at the heart of Yerma, Lopez adds, “the play resists neat interpretations. It’s Lorca’s way of asking us to welcome the mysteries of the unknowable.” Approach Yerma how Federico García Lorca, and now Melinda Lopez, each first approached it: by looking and listening. And surrender to the deep song. — J. Sebastián Alberdi
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Christian Barillas* (Juan) has theatre credits that include Native Gardens (directed by Jason Alexander) and As You Like It (directed by Bill Rauch) at Pasadena Playhouse; Curve of Departure, Amadeus, Peter and the Starcatcher, and The Motherf**ker with the Hat (South Coast Repertory); Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night (directed by Darko Tresnjak) at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Romeo and Juliet and Richard III at Utah Shakespeare Festival; Lydia (Yale Repertory Theatre and Denver Center for the Performing Arts); and Sonia Flew (Laguna Playhouse). Television and film credits include Ronaldo opposite Nathan Lane on “Modern Family” (recurring), “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Kominsky Method,” “Grace and Frankie,” “The Resident,” “The Bridge,” the CBS pilot for “The Jim Gaffigan Show” (series regular), and Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths. Mr. Barillas attended the University of North Carolina and received his MFA from University of California, Los Angeles. christianbarillas.com. Marianna Bassham* (Maria) has appeared in Romeo and Juliet, I Was Most Alive with You, Becoming Cuba, Our Town, and Luck of the Irish at the Huntington. Off Broadway credits include I Was Most Alive with You (Playwrights Horizons). Locally, Ms. Bassham is a resident acting company member with Actors’ Shakespeare Project where she has appeared in many productions. Other regional credits include Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Underground Railway Theater, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Greater Boston Stage Company, The Gamm Theatre (Rhode Island), and many others. Film and television credits include Moonrise Kingdom, The Makeover, “Olive Kitteridge,” and Hulu’s “Castle Rock.” She has received both Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards for her work. Alma Cuervo* (Incarnación) previously appeared in The Miracle at Naples at the Huntington. Broadway credits include On Your Feet, Beauty and the Beast, Cabaret, Titanic, The Heidi Chronicles, Ghetto, Quilters, Is There Life After High School?, Censored Scenes from King Kong, and Bedroom Farce. National touring credits include On Your Feet, Wicked, My Fair Lady, Cabaret, and M. Butterfly. Recent Off Broadway credits include Sondheim and Weidman’s Road Show (New York Shakespeare Festival); Allegro (Classic Stage Company); and Far From Heaven (Playwrights’ Horizons). Regional theatre credits include productions at the Alley Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Signature Theatre, and Syracuse Stage. Ms. Cuervo received an Obie Award for her performance in Uncommon Women and Others and a Barrymore Award for The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Philadelphia Theatre Company). Television credits include the miniseries “The Slap” and Norman Lear’s “A.K.A. Pablo.” Ms. Cuervo is a graduate of Tulane University and Yale School of Drama. Evelyn Howe* (Marta) has regional theatre credits that include The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress) and Necessary Monsters (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Lost Tempo (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Sotto Voce (Shakespeare & Company); and Arabian Nights (Central Square Theater). Recently, Ms. Howe played Johanny on season 2 of Showtime’s “SMILF.” evelynhowe.com.
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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ABOUT THE COMPANY Alexandra Illescas (Veronica, Rosa Maria) has theatre credits that include Mary Phagan in Parade (Front Porch Theatricals); Lucia in Off the Grid Theatre Company’s El Oso (2018 Boston Theater Marathon); and Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel, Naz in Mercury Fur, and Amy in Little Women (Boston Conservatory). alexandraillescas.com. Nadine Malouf* (Yerma) has recent Off Broadway credits that include Dead are my People (Next Door at NYTW and Noor Theatre); Intractable Woman and Oh My Sweet Land (The Play Company); queens and The Who & the What (LCT3); Today is my Birthday and Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73 Productions); and School for Scandal (Red Bull Theater). Regional theatre credits include A Thousand Splendid Suns (The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theater, and Theatre Calgary); the Helen Hayes Award-winning Salomé (Shakespeare Theatre Company); and Scorched (Syracuse Stage). She has developed new work at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, and Complicité. Television and film credits include “High Maintenance,” “The Looming Tower,” and May in the Summer. Ms. Malouf was awarded a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for A Thousand Splendid Suns and Lincoln Center Theater’s 2019 Emerging Artist Award. Jacqui Parker* (Dolores) previously appeared in A Civil War Christmas; Gem of the Ocean (understudy); and Breath, Boom at the Huntington. A former Huntington Playwriting Fellow, her play Jeanie Don’t Sing No Mo’ was read at the Huntington’s 2009 Breaking Ground Festival of New Work. Regional theatre credits include Rose in Fences (Gloucester Stage Company). Ms. Parker was the playwright-in-residence at Hibernian Hall where she wrote and directed six plays during their 2016–2017 season, including A Crack in the Blue Wall (IRNE Award nomination for Best New Play). Awards include an Elliot Norton Award, six IRNE Awards, and the 2004 Boston Theatre Hero Award given by StageSource. Ms. Parker is the artistic director of the Our Place Theatre Project and the founder of Boston’s annual African American Theatre Festival, where her plays Dark as a Thousand Midnights (IRNE Award for Best New Play) and Feathers on My Arms… Zora Neale Flying High have premiered. Ernie Pruneda* (Victor) was in the original Broadway cast of Sister Act. Regional theatre credits include Emcee in Cabaret (Wolfbane Productions); Usnavi De la Vega in In the Heights (Orlando Shakes); Clopin in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Terk in Tarzan (Tuacahn Center for the Arts); Marius in Les Misérables, Ritchie Valens in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, and Dean Hyde in All Shook Up (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse); as well as productions at Goodspeed Musicals, Olney Theatre Center, and the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. Television credits include the final season of “Gotham.” Mr. Pruneda will be reprising the role of Usnavi De La Vega in In the Heights at Music Theatre Wichita later this summer. He is a proud alumnus of Oklahoma City University. @Erniepee.
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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Juanito Pascual (Guitarist) is an international touring Flamenco guitarist and composer. Performance credits include Tanglewood, 92nd Street Y, Panama Jazz Festival, and Madrid’s Casa Patas. Previous Lorca work includes Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda Alba with Heartwood Regional Theater Company. Film credits include Call Me Francis (featured soloist) and Pink Panther 2 with Steve Martin. In 2018 he composed and performed the score for the Flamenco opera Garden of Names (Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre). He has released three albums of original music and is the author of The Total Flamenco Guitarist (Alfred Music). Mr. Pascual is a graduate of New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation program. juanitopascual.com. Fabio Pirozzolo (Percussionist) is a highly in-demand drummer, percussionist, and singer. His extensive performing experience includes drumming for internationally recognized performers such as Herb Reed and The Platters, Mario Frangoulis, George Perris, Jon Butcher, and Petroloukas Halkias, among others. Mr. Pirozzolo has taught master classes at Berklee College of Music, Harvard University, and Tufts University. He has worked at Emerson College and Boston Conservatory at Berklee as an accompanist for dance classes. Mr. Pirozzolo is a co-founder of many world music and modern jazz ensembles such as the Southern Italian group Newpoli, the global music ensemble Grand Fatilla, the indo-fusion group Sawaari, the modern Turkish music ensemble Çešni Trio, and the eclectic piano percussion group Duo Coniferous. fabiopirozzolo.com. Melinda Lopez (Adapter/Translator) is the playwright-in-residence at the Huntington Theatre Company. Her play Mala (ArtsEmerson, Guthrie Theatre, and Huntington Theatre Company) earned the 2017 Elliot Norton Award for Best New Play and an Arts Impulse Award for Best Solo Performance. It is available on Audible. Other playwrighting credits include Back the Night (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Becoming Cuba (Huntington Theatre Company and North Coast Repertory Theatre), Caroline in Jersey (Williamston Theatre Company), and Sonia Flew (Huntington Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, San Jose Repertory Theatre, among others). Her Spanish translations of Ser Cuba and Sonia Se Fue were presented at the 2018 National Theatre Festival in Camaguey, Cuba. Ms. Lopez is one of the Mellon Foundation National Playwright Residents (Huntington Theatre Company) and a 2019 Mass Cultural Council Fellow in Dramatic Writing. Ms. Lopez is also an actress and has appeared at the Huntington numerous times including Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town. She actively provides humanitarian aid for the people of Cuba and was mentioned by President Obama in his speech to the Cuban and American people in 2016. Mayor Martin J. Walsh declared October 29, 2016 “Melinda Lopez Day” in the city of Boston. Upcoming works include Mariel, a radio drama about the Mariel Boatlift set in both 1980 and 2018. Ms. Lopez received the 2019 Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence. Federico García Lorca (Playwright) was born in 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain. Mr. Lorca was an artist, poet, director, actor, pianist, and playwright. In the 1920s, Mr. Lorca was a part of Generación del 27, a group of artists that included Salvador Dalí. Also in the 1920s, Mr. Lorca published two of his most successful poetry collections: Canciones (Songs) and Romancero gitano (the Gypsy Ballads). In the 1930s, he
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ABOUT THE COMPANY shifted to playwriting and wrote Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), Yerma, and La Casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba). Mr. Lorca spent a few years abroad in Cuba and New York City. In 1931, he returned to Spain to manage and tour with the theatre troupe La Barraca. However, the eruption of the Spanish Civil War permanently halted his career. In 1936, at the age of 38, he was arrested and subsequently slain by fascist militiamen due to his liberal views and homosexuality. In 1986, the Spanish government commemorated the 50th anniversary of Mr. Lorca’s death by unveiling a monument at the site of his murder. Melia Bensussen (Director) previously directed A Doll’s House, Awake and Sing!, Luck of the Irish, and Circle Mirror Transformation at the Huntington. Other directing credits include work with Shakespeare & Company, Trinity Repertory Company, Sleeping Weazel, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New York Shakespeare Festival, MCC Theater, Primary Stages, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and many others. She has received two directing awards from the Princess Grace Foundation, including their top honor, the Statue Award for Sustained Excellence in Directing. Ms. Bensussen’s edition of Langston Hughes’ translation of Lorca’s Blood Wedding is published by Theatre Communications Group, and she is featured in Rebecca Daniels’ Women Stage Directors Speak, Nancy Taylor’s Women Direct Shakespeare, and in Jews, Theatre, Performance in an Intercultural Context. An Obie Award-winning director, she is on the executive board of the Society of Directors and Choreographers and serves as chair of the Arts Advisory Board for the Princess Grace Foundation. A longtime Emerson College faculty member, Ms. Bensussen is the incoming artistic director of Hartford Stage. Cameron Anderson (Scenic Design) designed the set for The Niceties (also for Manhattan Theatre Club, McCarter Theatre Center, and Geffen Playhouse) and Becoming Cuba at the Huntington. Recent projects include Photograph 51 (South Coast Repertory), Madame Butterfly (Pacific Symphony), West Side Story (Kilden Performing Arts Center, Norway and Vancouver Opera), and Simon Boccanegra (Teatro Colon, Argentina). Select Off Broadway credits include Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights’ Horizons, New Georges, LAByrinth Theater Company, Naked Angels, Ars Nova, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Les Freres Corbusier. Regional theatre credits include Trinity Repertory Company, Two River Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, and Shakespeare & Company. Select opera credits include Glimmerglass Festival, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Gotham Chamber Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Boston, and New England Conservatory. Upcoming projects include Byhalia Mississippi (The Kennedy Center), Sweat (Huntington Theatre Company), Fille du Regiment (Opera Saratoga), and Emmeline (Opera Tulsa). Ms. Anderson is an assistant professor of theatre arts at Brandeis University. cameronanderson.net. Olivera Gajic (Costume Design) has designed more than 150 theatre, opera, dance, and film productions. Notable projects include Jedermann (Salzburg Festival, Austria), God’s Ear (Vineyard Theatre), and the film I am a Seagull (Chekhov Project Company). New York credits includes American Symphony Orchestra, The Juilliard School, Company XIV, HERE, Classic Stage Company, New Georges, and The Lucille Lake Project. Regional work includes Berkshire Theatre Festival, Arden Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Two River Theater, Riverside Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory Company, California Shakespeare
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Theater, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Drury Lane Theatre, Hanger Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Barrington Stage Company, TheatreWorks, American Stage Theatre Company, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Folger Theatre, Hangar Theatre, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Gajic is a Barrymore Award winner and a Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Costume Design. She has also received a NEA/TCG CDP for Designers, IT Award, and the TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. Ms. Gajic is a member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829. oliveragajic.com. Brian J. Lilienthal (Lighting Design) previously designed Awake and Sing! at the Huntington. Off Broadway credits include Cherry Lane Theatre, 59E59, and La MaMa. Regional credits include Trinity Repertory Company, PlayMakers Repertory Company, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Cleveland Play House, The Kennedy Center, Arden Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and more than 60 productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville as the resident lighting designer. Mr. Lilienthal has spent 11 seasons as the resident lighting designer for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He holds a BFA from Emerson College and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Mr. Lilienthal currently teaches lighting design at Tufts University and plays drums in a jump blues band that performs throughout the Boston metro area. BrianJLilienthal.com. Mark Bennett (Original Music/Sound Design) has Huntington credits that include Ripcord, A Confederacy of Dunces, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Seagull, Persephone, The Rose Tattoo, and Dead End. Broadway scores include Junk; Macbeth; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Driving Miss Daisy; A Steady Rain; The Coast of Utopia (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play); Henry IV; Golda’s Balcony; and The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?. Off Broadway credits include Nantucket Sleigh Ride and The City of Conversation (Lincoln Center Theater) and An Iliad (Obie Award). Original score credits include eight Shakespeare in the Park productions as well as Socrates, The Seagull, and Dogeaters (The Public Theater and New York Shakespeare Festival); and Mad Forest and My Children! My Africa! (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional credits include productions at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, and Center Theatre Group. Mr. Bennett was the composer for Sam Mendes’ The Bridge Project (Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Old Vic Theatre). He is the recipient of a 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Sound Design, a 1998 Bessie Award, the Ovation Award, the American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Design Award, and 14 Drama Desk Award nominations. Brendan F. Doyle (Sound Design) recently designed The Chalk Cycle and World of Wires (MIT Music and Theatre Arts), MacBeth (Shakespeare & Company), Blood on the Snow (The Bostonian Society), and Breath and Imagination (ArtsEmerson). Upcoming design projects include Topdog/Underdog and The Waverly Gallery. Mr. Doyle is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829. Misha Shields (Choreography) previously worked on Ripcord, A Doll’s House, Milk Like Sugar, and I Was Most Alive with You at the Huntington. Off Broadway credits include Baghdaddy (Chita Rivera Award nominee for Best Choreography, St. Luke’s Theatre), Wonderland (Atlantic Theater Company), Who’s Your Baghdaddy? Or How I Started the Iraq War (The Actor’s Temple), and The Orion Experience (XL Nightclub). Other New York credits include productions at the Signature Theatre, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Dixon Place, Julia Miles Theater, The Zipper
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ABOUT THE COMPANY Factory, and the St. Bart’s Players. Regional theatre credits include OBERON (American Repertory Theater), Adirondack Theatre Festival, Company One Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Yale University, Fordham University, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and various web series and music videos. This fall, Ms. Shields will be choreographing the new musical, Loch Ness, at the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival. mishashields.com. Alaine Alldaffer (Casting) is the casting director for Playwrights Horizons, where her credits include Grey Gardens (also for Broadway), Clybourne Park (also for Broadway), Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama Desk and Obie awards for Best Ensemble and an Artios Award for casting), and The Flick (Playwright Horizons and Barrow Street Theatre). Television credits include “The Knights of Prosperity” (aka “Let’s Rob Mick Jagger”) for ABC. Associate credits include “Ed” for NBC and “Monk” for USA. Ms. Alldaffer has also cast productions for Arena Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. She credits Lisa Donadio as her associate casting director. Kevin Schlagle* (Production Stage Manager) previously worked on Indecent; Romeo and Juliet; Sherlock’s Last Case; Fall; Skeleton Crew; Tartuffe; Merrily We Roll Along; Ripcord; Topdog/Underdog; Bedroom Farce; Sunday in the Park with George; Can You Forgive Her?; Milk Like Sugar; A Confederacy of Dunces; A Little Night Music; after all the terrible things I do; Come Back, Little Sheba; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Smart People; Venus in Fur; Our Town; God of Carnage; Ruined; and Prelude to a Kiss at the Huntington. Other theatre credits include American Repertory Theater, New Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. His opera credits include Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Baroque, Boston Opera Collaborative, Guerilla Opera, New England Conservatory, Boston University’s Opera Institute, and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. He holds a BFA in stage management from Boston University and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. Jeremiah Mullane* (Stage Manager) has stage managed A Doll’s House, Part 2; Man in the Ring; Fall; Bad Dates; A Guide for the Homesick; The Who & the What; A Doll’s House; Tiger Style!; August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned; Disgraced; Choice; The Second Girl; Awake and Sing!; Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; The Seagull; The Cocktail Hour; The Jungle Book; and Invisible Man at the Huntington. He has regional credits that include Blood on the Snow at Boston’s Old State House (The Bostonian Society); Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and King Lear (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); First You Dream and Follies (The Kennedy Center); Really Really, The Boy Detective Fails, Chess, [title of show], and Giant (Signature Theatre); and As You Like It, The Alchemist, The Way of the World, Julius Caesar, and Major Barbara (Shakespeare Theatre Company). He is a graduate of Ithaca College with a BA in drama and computer science. Peter DuBois (Artistic Director) is in his 11th season as artistic director at the Huntington where he has directed updated revivals of classic plays such as Romeo and Juliet and Tartuffe, world premiere plays such as Bernard Weinraub’s Fall, Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People, and Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet, and the beloved Stephen Sondheim musicals Sunday in the Park with George and A Little Night Music,
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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among many others. He has directed acclaimed productions and world premieres in Boston, New York, and London’s West End of works by Gina Gionfriddo, Bob Glaudini, David Grimm, Zach Braff, Stephen Belber, Paul Weitz, and Laura Eason. Mr. DuBois has also worked with artists including Greg Kinnear (The Power of Duff), Sutton Foster (Modern Terrorism, Becky Shaw, Trust), Bobby Cannavale (Trust), Peter Dinklage (Richard III), Zach Braff (All New People), and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Jack Goes Boating), to name a few. He served for five years as associate producer and resident director at The Public Theater, preceded by five years as artistic director of the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. Mr. DuBois has directed multiple episodes of the podcast “Modern Love,” including its debut with Lauren Molina. Prior to his work at Perseverance, Mr. DuBois lived and worked in the Czech Republic where he co-founded Asylum, a multi-national squat theatre in Prague. His productions have been on the annual top ten lists of The New York Times, Time Out, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsday, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, The Evening Standard, The Boston Globe, and Improper Bostonian, and was among 12 featured for the 2013 Bostonian of the Year by The Boston Globe Magazine. Michael Maso (Managing Director) has led the Huntington’s administrative and financial operations since 1982. He has produced more than 200 productions in partnership with three artistic directors and is one of the most well-regarded managing directors in the theatre industry. Under his tenure, the Huntington has received over 160 Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards, as well as the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Mr. Maso received the 2016 Massachusetts Nonprofit Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as TCG’s 2012 Theatre Practitioner Award, the Huntington’s 2012 Wimberly Award, StageSource’s 2010 Theatre Hero Award, the 2005 Commonwealth Award (the state’s highest arts honor), and the 2000 Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. In 2004 the Boston Herald honored him as Theatre Man of the Year. Mr. Maso led the Huntington’s 10-year drive to build the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, which opened in September 2004, and is currently leading the redevelopment and renovation of the Huntington Avenue Theatre. He previously served on the Boston Cultural Planning Steering Committee, and as a member of the board for ArtsBoston, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and StageSource. From 1997 to 2005 Mr. Maso served as the president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). In 2005, he was named as one of a dozen members of the inaugural class of the Barr Fellows Program. Prior to the Huntington, he served as the managing director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, general manager of New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company, business manager for PAF Playhouse on Long Island, and as an independent arts management consultant based in Taos, New Mexico. Christopher Wigle (Producing Director) is in his 19th season at the Huntington where he has produced over 80 productions. He has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally for Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Bay Street Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre. Working primarily as a stage manager, his credits include the original productions or New York premieres of Six Degrees of Separation (John Guare), subUrbia (Eric Bogosian), The Designated Mourner (Wallace Shawn), Some Americans Abroad (Richard Nelson), Desdemona (Paula Vogel), Racing Demon (David Hare), Sex and Longing (Christopher Durang), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Alfred Urhy), and Sophistry (Jonathan Marc Sherman). Additional credits include the award-winning Broadway revivals of The Heiress and The Most Happy Fella, as well as two seasons as workshop director for the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY The Huntington Theatre Company is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premier cultural assets. Since its founding in 1982, the Huntington has received over 160 Elliot Norton and Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, as well as the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. In the past 36 years, the Huntington has played to an audience of 3.5 million, presented over 200 plays (18 of which went on to Broadway or Off Broadway), and served over 500,000 students, community members, and other cultural organizations. Under the direction of Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso, the Huntington brings together world-class theatre artists from Boston, Broadway, and beyond with the most promising new talent to create eclectic seasons of exciting new works and classics made current. A longstanding anchor cultural institution of Huntington Avenue, the Avenue of the Arts, the Huntington now fully owns the Huntington Avenue Theatre and is planning a transformational renovation and expansion of the historic venue, adding firstrate, modern amenities including a new entrance and expansive lobby, as well as expanding services to audiences, artists, and the community. The Huntington built the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) in 2004 as a home for its new work activities and to provide a much-needed resource for the local theatre community. At the Calderwood Pavilion, the Huntington provides first-class facilities and audience services at significantly subsidized rates to dozens of organizations each year, including some of Boston’s most exciting small and mid-sized theatre companies. The Huntington serves 200,000 audience members each year at the Huntington Avenue Theatre and the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Through a diverse and impactful range of nationally-renowned education and community programs, the Huntington engages 36,000 young people and patrons in underserved neighborhoods each year. These programs include the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest, the August Wilson Monologue Competition, the Huntington Community Membership Initiative, playwriting programs called EPIC: Youth and EPIC: Elders, and the Student Matinee Series. The Huntington is a founding partner of Codman Academy Charter Public School and has collaborated with Codman for 18 years to create and teach its innovative, interdisciplinary humanities curriculum and run the Codman Summer Theatre Institute. A national leader in the development of new plays, the Huntington has produced more than 120 world, American, and New England premieres to date. Through the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, the cornerstone of its new work activities, the Huntington supports local writers through two-year fellowships and is also proud to serve as a home for Playwright-in-Residence Melinda Lopez. The Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form and is committed to mentoring local playwrights, educating young people in theatre, and serving as a catalyst for the growth of dozens of Boston’s emerging performing arts organizations.
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HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY TRUSTEES & ADVISORS BOARD OF TRUSTEES David R. Epstein Chairman Sharon Malt President Carol B. Langer Treasurer Sherryl Cohen Clerk Carole Alkins David Altshuler Neal Balkowitsch John Cini Gerard H. Cohen
John Cohen Carol G. Deane James J. Dillon Betsy Banks Epstein William Finard David Firestone John Frishkopf Ann T. Hall Arthur C. Hodges Frederick Jamieson Nada Despotovich Kane Shelly Karol David Leathers Rumena Manolova- Senchak William P. McQuillan Ann Merrifield
Sandra Moose Anne M. Morgan Cokie Perry Bryan Rafanelli Mitchell J. Roberts John D. Spooner Linda H. Thomas Linda Waintrup J. David Wimberly Mary Wolfson Warren R. Radtke Trustee Emeritus
BOARD OF ADVISORS Neal Balkowitsch Kate Taylor Co-chairs Nancy S. Adams Kitty Ames Steven M. Bauer Camilla Bennett Nancy Brickley Jim Burns Suzanne Chapman J. William Codinha Bette Cohen Ivy B. Cubell Deborah First Anne H. Fitzpatrick
Maria Farley Gerrity Paul Greenfield Thomas Hamilton III Janice Hunt Linda Kanner Loren Kovalcik Sherry Lang Joie Lemaitre Jon A. Levy Tracie Longman Nancy Lukitsh Charles Marz Noel McCoy Thalia Meehan Daniel A. Mullin David R. Peeler
Tania Phillips Gail Roberts Donna J. Robinson Robert H. Scott Valerie Shey Ben Taylor George Ticknor Stephen M. Trehu Juliet Schnell Turner Tracey A. West John Taylor Williams Bertie Woeltz Melissa Wylie Fancy Zilberfarb Linda Zug
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GIFTS TO THE HUNTINGTON’S COMPREHENSIVE CAMPAIGN The Huntington Theatre Company is extremely grateful for the extraordinary generosity of early donors to our Comprehensive Campaign, a five-year initiative launched in July 2017, designed to fund the renovation and expansion of our Huntington Avenue Theatre complex, grow and diversify our programs and offerings, increase the Annual Fund, and enhance our reserve and endowment funds. We are currently in the leadership phase of the Campaign. At the successful conclusion of the Campaign in 2022, generous donors to this effort will have provided the Huntington with the strongest possible foundation with which to serve and thrive as a vital part of the cultural fabric of Boston and beyond. To learn more about the Campaign, please contact Elisabeth Saxe, Chief Development Officer, at 617 273 1579 or esaxe@huntingtontheatre.org.
$10 million and above Anonymous $5 million – $9,999,999 Carol G. Deane Betsy and David Epstein
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
$1 million – $4,999,999 The Bigbird Fund Dr. John and Bette Cohen Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Susan and David Leathers Liberty Mutual Foundation Sharon and Brad Malt Ann Merrifield and Wayne Davis
Sandra Moose and Eric Birch‡ Jill and Mitchell Roberts Nancy and Edward Roberts Mr. J. David Wimberly Linda and Brooks Zug 2 anonymous gifts
$500,000 – $999,999 Constance and Lewis Counts Denise and William Finard Jane and Fred Jamieson Carol B. Langer
Nancy Lukitsh Marilyn and Jay Sarles John D. Spooner
$250,000 – $499,999 Nancy Adams and John Burgess Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges Shelly and Steve Karol Massachusetts Cultural Council $100,000 – $249,999 The Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson Jim Dillon and Stone Wiske Karen and David Firestone Debbie and Bob First John Frishkopf and Brett Mattingly $50,000 – $99,999 Michael Barza and Judith Robinson Suzanne Chapman Maria and Daniel Gerrity Nada Despotovich Kane
Cokie and Lee Perry Dr. Paul S. Russell Linda and Daniel Waintrup Mary Wolfson Gardner C. Hendrie and Karen Johansen Elizabeth and Woody Ives Ms. Anne M. Morgan Kate and Ben Taylor Linda H. Thomas
Sherry Lang Joie Lemaitre Noel McCoy and Jack Fabiano Rumena and Alexander Senchak
The Huntington Theatre Company expresses gratitude for the generosity of donors to the Comprehensive Campaign under $50,000.
as of May 10, 2019
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ANNUAL FUND | PATRONS CIRCLE The Huntington Theatre Company expresses its appreciation to all our Annual Fund donors for their generosity. Contributed revenue accounts for almost half our operating budget. Every gift to the Annual Fund is essential to fulfilling our mission. Patrons Circle donors provide vital philanthropy to support our world-class productions, emerging playwrights, and award-winning education and community programs. In recognition of their generosity, Patrons receive special access to our artistic process, artists, and leaders. To learn more, contact our Patrons Concierge at 617 273 1523 or visit huntingtontheatre.org/support.
Grand Benefactor Patrons ($100,000 and above) Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Betsy and David Epstein Carol G. Deane Mr. J. David Wimberly Gold Benefactor Patrons ($50,000 – $99,999) Barbara and Amos Hostetter Dr. John and Bette Cohen Nancy and Edward Roberts Constance and Lewis Counts 1 anonymous gift Donald Fulton‡ Gardner C. Hendrie and Karen Johansen Silver Benefactor Patrons ($25,000 – $49,999) Ann Merrifield and Wayne Davis Stephen Chapman Paula O’Keeffe Amey A. Defriez‡ Jane and Neil Pappalardo Shelly and Steven Karol Cokie and Lee Perry Carol B. Langer Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Sullivan Nancy Lukitsh Bill and Linda McQuillan Benefactor Patrons ($10,000 – $24,999) Charles and Kathleen Ames M. Baldwin Family Fund Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson Jane Brock-Wilson John Cini and Star Lancaster Sherryl and Gerard Cohen, in honor of Neal Balkowitsch Jeffrey Dover and Tania Phillips, in honor of Erin Byrne and Sandra Yong Margaret Eagle Jennifer Eckert and Richard D’Amore Denise and William Finard Karen and David Firestone Nicki Nichols Gamble Maria and Daniel Gerrity Karen and Gary Gregg Ann and John Hall Donna and Jay Hanflig Nada Despotovich Kane Marjie and Robert Kargman
Adrienne Kimball Loren B. Kovalcik/IntePros Consulting Joie Lemaitre Cecile and Fraser Lemley Mr. and Mrs. David Long Tracie L. Longman and Chaitanya Kanojia Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rawson, in memory of Marjorie and Edward Rawson Robert M. Rosenberg, in honor of Mary Wolfson Dr. Paul S. Russell Marilyn and Jay Sarles Coralie and Steve Schwartz Valerie Shey The Lawrence and Lillian Solomon Fund George and Kathryn Ticknor John Travis Linda and Brooks Zug 1 anonymous gift
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ANNUAL FUND | PATRONS CIRCLE (continued) Premier Patrons ($5,000 – $9,999) Nancy Adams and John Burgess Michael Barza and Judith Robinson Steven M. Bauer Camilla Bennett Joseph L. Bower and Elizabeth Potter Susan and Michael Brown Jim Burns Katie and Paul Buttenwieser Brant Cheikes and Janine Papesh J. William Codinha and Carolyn Thayer Ross Laura and Neil Cronin Joanne D’Alcomo and Steve Elman Anne W. Deane Jack Fabiano and Noel McCoy Mr. and Mrs. William Fink Anne H. Fitzpatrick
Norman and Madeleine Gaut Mary Beth and Chris Gordon Hodges Charitable Foundation Janice and Roger‡ Hunt Paul and Tracy Klein David A. Kronman Sherry Lang John and Jean Lippincott Gregory Maguire Charles Marz Thalia Meehan and Rev. Gretchen Grimshaw Amy Merrill, in honor of Donna Glick Sharon Miller Daniel A. Mullin Neubauer Family Foundation, in memory of Eric Birch Ned Murphy and Ann-Ellen Hornidge David Parker and Janet Tiampo
Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Powell Gail Roberts Donna J. Robinson Adrienne and Arnold Rubin, in honor of Sherry Cohen Debbie and Darin Samaraweera Rumena and Alexander Senchak Robert Sherblom♦ Kate and Ben Taylor Jean C. Tempel Drs. Stephen and Beth Trehu Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tritman Juliet Schnell Turner Norman Weeks Bertie and Anthony Woeltz Justin and Genevieve Wyner Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Zilberfarb 3 anonymous gifts
Preferred Patrons ($2,500 – $4,999) Alice and Walter Abrams Jill and John Avery, in memory of Eric Birch Dr. Susan E. Bennett and Dr. Gerald Pier Clark and Susana Bernard Christina and Ky Bertoli♦ Carolyn Birmingham Nancy and Richard Brickley Kevin and Virginia Byrne Peggy and Anton Chernoff Nancy Ciaranello Mr. and Mrs. John S. Clarkeson Rosalie Florence Cohen Catherine and Peter Creighton Ellen and Kevin Donoghue Jonathan Dyer and Thomas Foran Edmund and Betsy Cabot Charitable Foundation Matthew Fine, in honor of Gerry Cohen Mark E. Glasser and Frank G. McWeeny Peter and Jacqueline Gordon Phil Gormley and Erica Bisguier
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Paul Greenfield and Sandra Steele Garth and Lindsay Greimann Jeanne Hagerty Deborah and Martin Hale Betsy and David Harris Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hartmann Rosalind and Herbert Hill Bob Hiss and Mary Riffe Hiss Prof. and Mrs. Morton Z. Hoffman Emily Hughey Terence Janericco Linda and Steven Kanner Paul and Elizabeth Kastner Seth and Mary Kaufman Ted and Ann Kurland Drs. Lynne and Sidney Levitsky Jon A. Levy Ann Lord-Brezniak Ann D. Macomber The Mancuso Family Mary T. Marshall Mike and Mary McConnell Joseph Misdraji Coleen Pantalone Jackie and Bob Pascucci
George Pettee, in memory of Pamela Tucker Richard Powers and Stephen Schram Sally C. Reid and John D. Sigel Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, in memory of Eric Birch Victoria and John Rizzi Mr. and Mrs. Owen W. Robbins Mona Roberts, in memory of Clara H. Jones Jan and Joe Roller Ellen Sheehy and Scott Aquilina Rebecca Jean Smith Vivian and Lionel Spiro Bruce and Emily Stangle Noni and Bob Stearns Helen and Jack Stewart Kenneth R. Traub and Pamela K. Cohen Mindee Wasserman Dr. Elaine Woo Melissa and Jay Wylie Christopher R. Yens and Temple Gill 3 anonymous gifts
ANNUAL FUND | PATRONS CIRCLE (continued) Patrons ($1,000 – $2,499) Carol Baker George and Katharine Baker Kate and Gordon Baty Mr. and Mrs. George Beal Howard H. Bengele Deborah L. Benson and Frederic J. Marx Edward Boesel Lori Bornstein and Alan Rothman Stephen and Traudy Bradley Pam and Lee Bromberg Patricia and Paul Buddenhagen, in memory of Eric Birch A. William and Carol Caporizzo Cara and Anthony Casendino Ronald G. Casty George and Mary Chin Ken and Ginny Colburn Dennis Condon and Robert Cummings Beth and Linzee Coolidge Dean K. Denniston, Jr. Tim and Linda Diering Virginia Drachman and Douglas Jones Susan Ellerin Becky and Bruce Epstein Jerome and Vivien Facher Barbara and Larry Farrer Newell Flather Susan Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Garrison Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Gates Lori and Michael Gilman Mr. K. Frank Gravitt Drs. Laura Green and David Golan Irene and Stephen Grolnic Louis and Patti Grossman Katherine Haltom H. Patricia Hanna Diane and Kirk Hartung Kathleen Henry and Kim Marrkand
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Hibbard, in honor of David Wimberly Barbara Hirshfield and Cary Coen, in honor of Sherry Cohen Jean Holmblad and Robert Zaret Lyle Howland Susan M. Hunziker Adrienne and Peter Jaffe Holly and Bruce Johnstone Katherine and Hubie Jones Jill and Stephen Karp John and Marilyn Keane Liza Ketchum and John H. Straus, MD Gail King and Christopher Condon Dorothy and Richard Koerner Susie and David Kohen Randy and Valda Kreie Anne and Geoff Lafond, in honor of David Wimberly Barrie Landry Rhonda and Stewart Lassner Mr. and Mrs. Francis V. Lloyd III Anthony Lucas Joseph Machera Janet Mack Stuart and Yvonne Madnick Mahmood Malihi Joan C. McArdle Louise and Sandy McGinnes Jack and Susan McNamara Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell, in memory of Ginnie Wimberly Michael and Donna Moskow Bill and Ginny Mullin Jonette Nagai and Stephen O’Brien Fred and Julie Nagle Mark Nelke and Bill Snavely Peter C. Nordblom Eric and Elizabeth Nordgren Tom Norris
Janet and David Offensend Dr. and Mrs. John William Poduska, Sr. Mrs. Murray Preisler Suzanne Priebatsch Warren R. Radtke and Judith Lockhart-Radtke Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rawson, in honor of Sherry Cohen Katharine and William Reardon Jessica and David Reed Lynn and John Reichenbach Sharon and Howard Rich Michael and Jane Roberts Sue Robinson Terry Rockefeller and William Harris Sari and Bernard Rosman Susan and Geoffrey Rowley Allison K. Ryder and David B. Jones Rohini Sakhuja Diane and Richard Schmalensee William Schutten Tom Shapiro and Emily Kline Jane E. Shattuck Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sherbrooke Mark Smith and John O’Keefe Madeline Spencer Spoon Hill Groundhog Fund Nancy and Edward Stavis Beth and Michael Stonebraker Lise and Myles Striar Hope and Adam Suttin Mary Verhage Robert C. Volante Dr. Ronald Weinger Sallyann Wekstein Tracey Allyson West Howard and Veronica Wiseman P.T. Withington Jerold and Abbe Beth Young 4 anonymous gifts
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Sustaining Supporters ($500 – $999) Danielle Belanger and Jonathan Aibel and Julie Rohwein Rosanna Alfaro Robert Sparkes Elizabeth Aragao♦ Martin S. Berman and John and Rose Ashby, in honor Mary Ann Jasienowski Jerry M. Bernhard of Ann Hall Leonard and Jane Bernstein Carolyn and John Baird Linda Cabot Black Foundation John and Molly Beard Jeffrey Borenstein Kathleen Beckman
Barry Brown and Ellen Shapiro Mrs. Barbara Buntrock-Schuerch Jim Burns, in honor of Sherry Cohen Eric Butler♦ Susan and Don Casey Patricia Chadwick and Norman Cantin Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Cheston, Jr.
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ANNUAL FUND | SUPPORTERS CIRCLE (continued) Linda and John Christian Janet L. Comey, in honor of Michael T. Comey Alison Conant and Richard Frank Nancy Myers Coolidge Sidney and Egil Croff Karolye and Fernando Cunha Lloyd and Gene Dahmen David and Katherine Davis Marguerite Davoren Terry Decima Joan Dolamore Gordon Edes Dr. Rachela Elias and Gedalia Pasternak Martha A. Erickson Ellen Fallon Jonathan S. Felt Pierre Fleurant Dr. and Mrs. Richard Floyd Hilary and Chris Gabrieli Sharon and Irving Gates Moira and Barry Gault, in honor of Nancy E. Carroll Harry and Deborah Graff, in honor of the J. David Wimberly Family Susan Greco Katherine Gross Theodore and Sally Hanson James Harburger, MD and J. Bridget Reischer Gail and Jan Hardenbergh Eunice M. Harps Elizabeth Harrison Dr. and Mrs. George Hatsopoulos Erin Higgins Mr. and Mrs. Thomas High Peggy and Ronald Hillegass, in honor of Nancy and Tom Hamilton Toini and Carl Jaffe Peter Jenkins Peter Jenney Leonard W. Johnson, in memory of Virginia Wimberly Continuing Supporters ($250 – $499) James Alexander and Thomas Stocker David and Holly Ambler Tammy Arcuri Mr. and Mrs. James Banker Emily Barclay and John Hawes Elizabeth Barrett David Barry Desiree and Jacob Barry♦ Bill and Annie Barton, in honor of Ann Hall Mr. and Mrs. Milton E. Berglund John Biderman
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Gopal Kadagathur and Sarah Gallivan, in memory of Eric Birch Rev. Dr. Katherine Kallis Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Karon Nancy R. Karp Jane Katims and Daniel Perlman Amelia and Joshua Katzen Michael and Dona Kemp Mary S. and Duncan Kennedy Jill Kneerim John and Sharon Koch Yuriko Kuwabara and Walter Dzik Kristine Langdon, in memory of Eric Birch Nancy and Gresh Lattimore Jenny and Jay Leopold Nancy Levy Kate Lewandowski and Adam Guren♦ Darline Lewis and Marshall Sugarman Dr. and Mrs. David Lhowe Elizabeth Lintz Babette and Peter Loring Anne Lucas Joseph Machera Barbara A. Manzolillo Edward Marram Bronwyn Martin, in memory of Travis Martin Marion Martin, in memory of Travis Martin W. Kathy Martin and David L. Johnson James D. Maupin Amy Mazur Dan and Mary Miller Adam and Denise Moehring Julie Nadal William Pananos Marianne Pasts Ellen C. Perrin Susan Pioli and Martin Samuels James Poterba and Nancy Rose, in memory of Eric Birch Martin and Deborah Quitt
Lisa and Tom Redburn Charles Reed and Ann Jacobs Carla Reeves and Luis Borrero Michelle and Aaron Rhodes♦ Richard and Jean Roberts Henrietta and Heaton Robertson Barbara Roby Anne Romney Christine and David Root Diane Rosenberg Pauline and Robert Rothenberg Kathleen and William Rousseau George A. Russell, Jr. Vinod and Gaile Sahney David and Anne Salant Susan and Bob Schechter, in honor of Donald Nelson and Neal Balkowitsch Barbara Schmitt William and Elisabeth Shields Kay Shubrooks David Shuckra and Clifford Wunderlich James Shuman Edward and Maybeth Sonn Judy and Herb Spivak, in honor of Sherry Cohen Lee Steele Bob and Dorothy Stuart Beth and Larry Sulak Margaret M. Talcott and L. Scott Scharer Janet Testa Judy Thomson Rosamond B. Vaule, in memory of Eric Birch John and Cheryl Walsh, in memory of Kevin J. Walsh Mrs. Raymond Walther Constance V. R. White Margaret J. White, in honor of Sherry Cohen Richard and Frances Winneg Clark Wright and Lisa Goldthwait Wright 2 anonymous gifts
Robert Bienkowski Ellen and Donald Bloch Drs. Brian and Rachel Bloom Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon C. Bolton III Chris Borden and Kim Swain Eric and Sandra Brenman Jeremiah J. Bresnahan Allan and Rhea Bufferd Diane Buhl and Mark Polebaum Thomas Burger and Andree Robert Daniel C. Burnes Renee Burns Margaret Bush
Maryellen Callahan Charles R. Carr Ronna M. Casper and Isaac Greenberg Fritz Casselman and Susan Ashbrook Mary Chin Scott Chisholm and Afshan Bokhari Judith Clementson John Clippinger Priscilla Cogan and C.W. Duncan Phyllis Cohen Steven and Arlene Cohen
ANNUAL FUND | SUPPORTERS CIRCLE (continued) Steven Coleman and Christine Tunstall Carolyn and Ted Colton Robert and Amanda Crone Catherine Crow Harold S. Crowley, Jr. James F. Crowley Paul Curtis Peter A. Cygan Harriet Davis, in memory of Eric Birch Raymond De Rise Jane and Stephen Deutsch George Dhionis Susan and Digger Donahue, in loving memory of Eric Birch Lisa and Oliver Dow Walter and June Downey Owen Doyle Grace Durrani Mr. Glenn Edelson Diane F. Engel Phyllis Fairchild Nicole Faulkner Roger Ferguson and Chris Gaucher Ariane and Stefan Frank Joseph Genovese Jack and Maureen Ghublikian Celia and Walter Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Goetze Dr. and Mrs. J. Max Goodson Suzanne Greenberg Susan Haller Daniel W. Halston and Liliane R. Wong Kate Haney Judith Harris Lewis Hays Yolanda K. Henderson Ann Karen Henry Chris Herring Andrew Himmelblau Esther and Richard Hochman Judith Horrigan Lindsey Humes Charlene and John Ingham, in memory of Eric Birch Jill Jackson Kerry Ann James Candace Jans Richard Johnston Mark and Tess Jrolf Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kalowski Neal Kane Yetta Katz Mr. and Mrs. James P. Keeney Paul Kelly Joan G. Kinne
Nancy Korman and Ken Elgart Dr. Marcel and Gail Korn Drs. Carol and Ben‡ Kripke Joan and Albert Kuhn Carol Lazarus Ned and Patsy Leibensperger Timothy Leland and Julie Hatfield Pamela F. Lenehan, in memory of Eric Birch Richard E. Levin June K. Lewin, in memory of Ted Kazanoff Laurel C. Lhowe Sigrid Lindo Caroline and James Lloyd Jim and Allie Loehlin Priscilla Krey Loring Paul Mahoney Shari Malyn and Jonathan Abbott Robert Mann Marietta Marchitelli Amy and Bill Marshall Erin Martin John and Sally Matsun Arthur Mattuck Lindsay McNair Gabriella Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Tremont Miao Helene and Alan Michel Lindsay Miller and Peter Ambler Dorian Mintzer and David Feingold Margaret Mone John Montgomery Bob and Laurie Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Moynihan The Munzer Family Eileen Murray Ted and Mary Eugenia Myer, in honor of Louise and Arthur McGinnes Martha Narten Nader Nazari Kimberly and David Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Newbury, Jr. Carol and Davis Noble, in memory of Eric Birch Nancy and Chris Oddleifson James Packer Steve Pattyson Michael Pavel Payne/Bouchier, Inc. Suzanne and Bob Petrucci Mr. and Mrs. Harry Photopoulos Josephine Pizzuto, in memory of Pat Pizzuto Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Proulx Peter and Suzanne Read Mr. and Mrs. William Reed
Christina Rifkin Patricia Robinson Etta and Mark Rosen Abby Rosenfeld Leila Joy Rosenthal Michelle Rosner and Ken Kurnos Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rotenberg Nancy L. Russell Dr. and Mrs. Norman Sadowsky Kim and Eric Schultz Mark Seliber Diana Seufert Sayre Sheldon Linda and David Sherman, in celebration of Eric Birch James Shields and Gayle Merling Candelaria Silva-Collins and Tessil Collins Margaret and Michael Simon Rita and Harvey Simon Ellen L. Simons Peter L. Smith and Donna J. Coletti Michele Steinberg Glenn and Katherine Strehle Karen and Hale Sturges Ellen Beth Suderow Rebecca Sullivan Linda Sutter and Steven Centore Jacob Taylor and Jean Park Mark Thurber Patricia Tibbetts Clarence Travis Mario and Judy Umana Robert Unsworth Pat and Steve Vinter Kenneth Virgile and Helene Mayer Christopher Wade David and Susan Wahr Susan Warshauer, in memory of Eric Birch Richard and Sally Watts Susan Weiler Sylvia Welsh Sharon and David White Howard and Veronica Wiseman, in honor of Sherry Cohen Elizabeth P. Wolf Mary and Gary Wolf David C. Wright Marilyn Wright Mr. and Mrs. John Wyman Lorena and Robert Zeller Robert and Shirley Zimmerman 1 anonymous gift, in memory of Eric Birch 10 anonymous gifts
This list reflects gifts received during the 12 months prior to May 10, 2019. ♦ Member of the Hunt, the Huntington’s community of young donors. For more information or to join, visit huntingtontheatre.org/thehunt. ‡ Deceased Every effort has been made to assure accuracy of listings. Please bring errors or omissions to the attention of Elizabeth MacLachlan at 617 273 1523 or emaclachlan@huntingtontheatre.org.
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ANNUAL FUND | CORPORATE, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT FUNDERS The Huntington Theatre Company is grateful to receive support from a wide range of corporations, foundations, and government agencies that support the Huntington’s annual operations, as well as our award-winning productions and education and community programs. For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Diana Jacobs-Komisar, Institutional Giving Manager, at 617 273 1514 or djkomisar@huntingtontheatre.org. Executive Season Producers ($100,000 and above) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Barr Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
Kingsbury Road Charitable Foundation** Lucy R. Sprague Memorial Fund** MEDITECH Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Season Co-Producers ($50,000 – $99,999) Hershey Family Foundation Massachusetts Cultural Council**
Patrons ($10,000 – $14,999) Alfred E. Chase Charity Foundation Boston Summer Arts Institute** BPS Arts Expansion Fund at EdVestors** Peoples’ United Community Foundation** The Tiny Tiger Foundation**
Production Sponsors ($25,000 – $49,999) Bank of America** Cabot Family Charitable Trust Edgerton Foundation Liberty Mutual Foundation** National Endowment for the Arts Benefactors ($15,000 – $24,999) Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Foundation
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Supporters ($5,000 – $9,999) Atlantic Philanthropies Locke Lord Morgan Lewis Morrison Foerster Proskauer LLP Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation**
Rockland Trust Company Ropes & Gray LLP WilmerHale Members ($2,500 – $4,999) Boston Cultural Council Jackson and Irene Golden 1989 Charitable Trust** Rodgers Family Foundation Roy A. Hunt Foundation** Surdna Foundation Thank you to our in-kind contributors Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP High Output MAX Ultimate Food Noble Ford Productions Rafanelli Events
** Education and community programs donor
THE HUNTINGTON LEGACY SOCIETY BUILDING A LEGACY OF GREAT THEATRE — The Huntington Legacy Society is comprised of philanthropists who want to ensure that great theatre lives on in Boston for generations to come. With our home now secure on the Avenue of the Arts, gifts through wills or estate plans are vital to a successful future for the Huntington. These gifts ensure that together we can continue to produce great theatre and have a lasting impact through our award-winning youth, education, and community initiatives. To learn about ways to give now and for the future, please visit huntingtontheatre.org/legacy. If you have already included the Huntington in your will or estate plans, or if you wish to discuss how you can participate, please contact Celina Valadao, Major Gifts Officer, at 617 273 1536 or cvaladao@huntingtontheatre.org.
Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson Howard H. Bengele Suzanne Chapman Brant A. Cheikes Sherryl and Gerard Cohen Carol G. Deane Jim Dillon and Stone Wiske Susan Ellerin Arthur C. and Eloise W. Hodges Jane and Fred Jamieson Mary Ellen Kiddle Carol B. Langer Joie Lemaitre
Sharon and Brad Malt Bill and Linda McQuillan Mary C. O’Donnell Nancy and Edward Roberts Steve Stelovich Robert C. Volante Linda and Daniel Waintrup Margaret J. White J. David Wimberly Veronica and Howard Wiseman Mary Wolfson Genevieve and Justin Wyner 1 anonymous
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT! Now through June 30, your new or increased Annual Fund gift will be matched dollar for dollar by Huntington board members. Help us meet the challenge by making your gift today! huntingtontheatre.org/donate 617 273 1522 Many thanks to matching donors Gerry & Sherry Cohen and an anonymous couple.
Romeo and Juliet student matinee
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CALDERWOOD PAVILION AT THE BCA • GENERAL INFORMATION Contact Information for the Huntington Theatre Company The Huntington Theatre Company performs in three beautiful theatres in two dynamic Boston neighborhoods. The 890-seat Huntington Avenue Theatre is on the Avenue of the Arts (264 Huntington Avenue), diagonally across from Symphony Hall. The 370-seat Virginia Wimberly Theatre and 250-seat Roberts Studio Theatre are part of the Calderwood Pavilion in the historic South End, on the campus of the Boston Center for the Arts (527 Tremont Street). Website: huntingtontheatre.org Ticketing Services: 617 266 0800 Ticketing Services email: tickets@huntingtontheatre.org Administrative office: 617 266 7900 Administrative office email: thehuntington@huntingtontheatre.org Lost and Found: 617 933 8608
Ticketing Services Hours Ticketing Services is generally open Tuesday – Saturday, noon–curtain (or 6pm); Sunday, noon – curtain (or 4pm). Hours change weekly. For the most up-to-date hours, please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call Ticketing Services at 617 266 0800.
Huntington Group Discounts Discounts available for groups of 10 or more, plus groups have access to backstage tours, talks with artists, and space for receptions. Contact Brenton Thurston for more information at 617 273 1661 or groups@huntingtontheatre.org.
Public Transportation We encourage patrons to use public transportation to the Calderwood Pavilion whenever possible. The Pavilion is located near the MBTA Green Line Copley and Arlington Stations; Orange Line and Commuter Rail Back Bay Station; and the Tremont Street & Union Park stop on the #43 Bus which travels between Park Street and Ruggles Station. For more information, please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call Ticketing Services.
Parking near the Calderwood Pavilion Parking is available at the Atelier 505 Parking Garage located next to the Calderwood Pavilion at 505 Tremont Street (entrance on Warren Avenue), the Garage @ 100 Clarendon Street, and other nearby locations. For more information about parking, please visit huntingtontheatre.org or call Ticketing Services at 617 266 0800.
Please note that these parking options are independently owned and operated, and are not affiliated with the Huntington or the Calderwood Pavilion.
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Refreshments Snacks, wine, beer, soft drinks, and coffee are available before opening curtain in the main lobby. Food is not permitted inside the theatre. Drinks purchased at concessions are permitted inside the theatre.
Babes in Arms Children under the age of five are not permitted in the theatre.
Cameras The use of all cameras and recording devices, including cell phone cameras, in the theatre is strictly prohibited.
Pagers and Cellular Phones Please silence all watches, pagers, and cell phones during the performance.
Wheelchair Accessibility The Calderwood Pavilion is fully accessible, and can accommodate both wheelchair and companion seating in the orchestra and mezzanine sections. Please notify us when you purchase your tickets if wheelchair accommodations will be required and confirm arrangements with the House Manager at 617 933 8672.
Hearing Enhancement The Calderwood Pavilion is equipped with an FM hearing enhancement system. Wireless headphones are available free of charge at the coat check in the main lobby for your use during a performance.
Restrooms Located in the main lobby and mezzanine lobby. All restrooms are wheelchair-accessible.
Coat Check Located in the main lobby.
If You Arrive Late In consideration of our actors and other audience members, latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the management.
If Your Plans Change We hate to see empty seats when so many of our performances sell out. Please consider donating any tickets you can’t use. For more information please call Ticketing Services at 617 266 0800.
Large Print Programs Large print programs are free of charge and are available at the coat check.
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STAFF Peter DuBois
Michael Maso
ADMINISTRATION General Manager................................................Sondra R. Katz Associate General Manager............................................... Melissa Rose General Management Assistant.................................. Katy Poludniak Company Managers........................Jazzmin Bonner, Meagan Garcia Executive Assistant to the Managing Director.......................................................Mackenzie Cala
Subscriptions Coordinator......................................... Carolyn Andrews Ticketing Associates.......................Michaela Buccini, Fanni Horvath Full Time Customer Service Rep.....................................................Josh Fried Customer Service Reps.......................................Aaron Christo, Sue Dietlin, Kaylah Dixon, Kristina Dugas, Amanda Haag, Shana Jackson, Marissa Kennedy, Patrick Mahoney, Zoe Nadal, Katelyn Reinert, Yurika Watanabe
Finance Director of Financial Management................. Glenda Fishman Accounting Manager.............................................................. June Zaidan Accounting Coordinator............................................................Jon Slater Accountants....................................Alexander, Aronson, Finning, CPA
ARTISTIC Producing Director.......................................Christopher Wigle Associate Producer................................................... Rebecca Bradshaw Director of New Work.................................................Charles Haugland Playwright-in-Residence..................................................Melinda Lopez Literary Associate.....................................................J. Sebastián Alberdi Assistant to the Artistic Director...................................... Caley Chase Literary & Marketing Apprentice.................................Adriana Zuñiga Casting Assistant............................................................................Kat Klein Huntington Playwriting Fellows................................. MJ Halberstadt, Brenda Withers
Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director
Human Resources Director of Human Resources.......................... Nina E. Nicolosi Human Resources Coordinator.................................... Michael Comey Payroll and Reporting Specialist...................................April Swiniuch Administrative Support Assistant...............................Sarah Schnebly Information Technology IT Director................................................................Scott Poole Network Administrator....................................................... Dan Moloney Theatre Operations Director of Theatre Operations................Timothy H. OConnell Patron Experience Coordinator...........................................JB Douglas Theatre Operations Apprentice........................................ Alicia Weber Security Coordinator...............................................................Greg Haugh Custodian.................................................................................Jose Andrade Calderwood Pavilion Calderwood Pavilion Manager................................. Katie Most Calderwood Pavilion House Manager........................Julie Cameron Calderwood Pavilion Stage Supervisor......................Rachael Hasse Calderwood Pavilion Management Associate...............................Matt Feldman-Campbell Calderwood Pavilion Apprentice....................................... Teresa Cruz Calderwood Facilities Technician.............................Luis Rodriquez Calderwood Pavilion Assistant House Managers..........................................Paul Fox, Gabe Hughes, Ksenia Lanin, Micaela Slotin Calderwood Pavilion Front of House Staff..........................................Chabreah Alston, Cullen Burling, Mia Coffin, Barbara Crowther, Linnea Donnelly, Sean Dorgan, Casey Greenleaf, Kerry Lydon, Tiniqua Patrick, Nick Perron, Mirabella Pisani, Sarah Schnebly, Ciera-Sadé Wade Huntington Avenue Theatre Huntington Avenue Theatre Front of House Staff.......................Erica Brown, Delali Davies, Terrence Dowdye, Kristina Dugas, Owen Elphick, Kendrick Evans, Robin Goldberg, Ariana Goldsworthy, Tiwat Laoboonchai, Lynn Liccardo, Shawn Lindaberry, Patrick Mahoney, Will Morrison, Samantha Myers, Yurika Watanabe Ticketing Services Ticketing Services Manager......................................................Ellen Holt Assistant Ticketing Services Manager................. Brenton Thurston Calderwood Pavilion Ticketing Coordinator....................Noah Ingle Huntington Avenue Theatre Ticketing Coordinator.....................................................Robin Russell
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DEVELOPMENT Chief Development Officer................................Elisabeth Saxe Director of Development................................Jessica Morrison Senior Major Gifts Officer..........................................Margaret J. White Major Gifts Officer..............................................................Celina Valadao Development Events Manager....................................... Emma Blaxter Institutional Giving Manager...........................Diana Jacobs-Komisar Individual Giving Manager...............................................Annalise Baird Campaign Manager...........................................................Robin Valovich Development Operations & Database Administrator............................................ Darnell Graham Manager of Development Research & Stewardship...............................Elizabeth MacLachlan Development and Events Coordinator.....................Mirabella Pisani EDUCATION Interim Co-Directors of Education.......................Meg O’Brien, Alexandra Smith Education Associate.............................................................. Daniel Begin Education Associate..............................................................Marisa Jones Teaching Artist Fellow...................................................................Ivy Ryan Education Apprentice........................................................Dylan C. Wack Teaching Artists....................................Naheem Garcia, Keith Mascoll, Allie Meek-Carufel, Trinidad Ramkissoon MARKETING Director of Marketing............................................Anne Rippey Associate Director of Marketing...................... Meredith Mastroianni Tessitura Analytics Manager........................................... Derrick Martin Digital Media Specialist.............................................................. Paul Lazo Graphic Designer..................................................................Lauren Calder Promotions & Community Coordinator.....................................................Cheyenne Cohn-Postell Digital Marketing Coordinator..............................................Leah Reber Marketing Associate............................................................Laura Cafasso Literary & Marketing Apprentice.................................Adriana Zuñiga PUBLIC AFFAIRS Director of Public Affairs and Strategic Partnerships...................................... Temple Gill Publicist...............................................................................Danielle Morales Community Membership Coordinator.....................................................Candelaria Silva-Collins Co-op Student, Northeastern University......................................................Tarik Jones
STAFF (continued) PRODUCTION Director of Production................................... Todd D. Williams Associate Director of Production................................... Bethany Ford Production Management Apprentice.............................. Lucas Dixon Scenery Technical Director.................................................. Dan Ramirez Associate Technical Director........................................ Adam Godbout Assistant Technical Director..................................................Dan Oleksy Assistant Technical Director........................................Michael Huxford Scene Shop Foreman..............................................................Mike Hamer Master Carpenter....................................................................Larry Dersch Carpenters.....................................Andrew Cancellieri, Milosz Gassan, Christian Lambrecht, Nick Hernon Carpenter/Scene Shop Assistant...........................Carolyn Daitch Huntington Avenue Theatre Stage Carpenter...........................................................Joseph Fanning Scenery Apprentice............................................... John Graham Parker Properties Properties Master.............................................Kristine Holmes Assistant Properties Master.............................................Justin Seward Properties Artisan.....................................................................Ian Thorsell Properties Run................................................................Andrew DeShazo Properties Apprentice................................................. Duncan Kennedy Paints Charge Scenic Artist............................................Kristin Krause Assistant Charge Scenic Artist...........................Romina Diaz-Brarda Scenic Painting Apprentice..................................................Rhi Sanders
Costumes Costume Director.......................Carolyn Hoffmann-Schneider Assistant Costume Director................................. Virginia V. Emerson Costume Design Assistant...................................... Kathryn Schondek Head Draper...........................................................................Anita Canzian Tailor/Draper............................................................................ Aryn Murphy First Hand............................................................................Rebecca Hylton Costume Crafts Artisan/Dyer............................................Denise M. Wallace-Spriggs Wardrobe Supervisor..........................................................Christine Marr Associate Wardrobe Supervisor.............................Barbara Crowther Wigmaster...............................................................................Troy Siegfreid Costumes Apprentice...............................................................Luisa Earle Electrics Lighting & Projections Supervisor................. Katherine Herzig Assistant Lighting Supervisor....................................... Bridget Collins Calderwood Pavilion House Electrician............................Taylor Ness Huntington Avenue Theatre House Electrician................................................................... Sean Baird Sound Sound Supervisor................................................. Ben Emerson Sound Engineer........................................................................... J Jumbelic Calderwood Pavilion Sound Engineer............................................................ Jesse McKenzie Sound Apprentice................................................................Paula Halpern
Additional Staff for Yerma Intimacy Consultants..........................Claire Warden, Ted Hewlett Music Director....................................................................Jesse Sanchez Assistant to the Director........................................... Zoë Golub-Sass Production Assistant.................................................. Georgina Coffey Carpenters.................................. Andrew Adamopoulos, Lisa Berg, Ben Cuba, Cat Denial, Taylor Dobbs, Victor Gutierrez, Riley Hillyer, Giovani Hoyos-Corrales, George Pinto, Kyle Salvaggio, Stephen Sampson, Zachary Stern, Slava Tchoul
Scenic Artists..................................................Katie Keaton, India Lee, Elektra Newman, Rachel Burke First Hand.......................................................Katie Kenna, Jen Bennet Stitcher.................................................................................... Jaclyn Cohen Assistant Lighting Designer.............................................Kat C. Zhou Electricians............................................Carmen Alfaro, Dean Covert, Kevin Dunn, Tyler Ericson, Russell Feinstein, Michael Jarvis, Brian Masters, Evyn Newton, Connor O’Brien, Jonathan Rooney, Jennifer Timms, Brittany Trymbulak Audio Run Crew..........................................................Lexie Lankiewicz
The composer would like to thank Jesse Sanchez and the production’s musicians, Juanito Pascual and Fabio Pirozzolo, for their artistic contributions to the creation of the score for Yerma.
The Huntington Theatre Company is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), an association of the nation’s leading resident professional theatres; Theatre Communications Group, a national service organization for the nonprofit professional theatre; StageSource, a regional alliance of theatre artists and producers; and ArtsBoston, the voice and resource for the arts in Greater Boston. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. The director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union. The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
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GUIDE to LOCAL THEATRE BLUE MAN GROUP, Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., 800-BLUE-MAN. Ongoing. This giddily subversive offBroadway hit serves up outrageous and inventive theatre where three muted, blue-painted performers spoof both contemporary art and modern technology. Wry commentary and bemusing antics are matched only by the ingenious ways in which music and sound are created. CYMBELINE, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare on the Common, 617-426-0863. Jul 17–Aug 4. Free Shakespeare on the Common once again takes up residence in the heart of the city with Shakespeare’s mystical dramedy. The fates of King Cymbeline and his family are decided through a journey of deception, intrigue and separation. Join his daughter Imogen as she is swept into a nearly mythic realm of mistaken identities, twists and turns, and the all-consuming quest for true love. MASQUERADE, Cherry Orchard Festival and Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia, Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St., 617-824-8400. Jun 18 & 19. Based on the verse drama by Mikhail Lermontov and featuring a star-studded cast of Russia’s most acclaimed actors, this study of jealousy and pride within the gossip-ridden aristocracy of 1830s St. Petersburg unmasks the captivating and guileful revelry that keeps morality teetering on a razor’s edge. MISS SAIGON, Citizens Bank Opera House, 539 Washington St., 866-523-7469. Jun 12–30. Experience the acclaimed new production of the legendary musical. An epic story of a young Vietnamese woman named Kim who meets an American G.I., changing their lives forever, this stunning spectacle features a sensational cast of 42 and a soaring score that includes Broadway hits like “Last Night of the World,” “The Movie in My Mind” and “The Heat Is On in Saigon.” SHEAR MADNESS, Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 Warrenton St., 617-426-5225. Ongoing. It’s a day like any other at the Shear Madness salon, when suddenly the lady upstairs gets knocked off. Whodunit? Join the fun as the audience matches wits with the suspects to catch the killer in this wildly popular comedy.
LOCAL/REGIONAL THEATRE FREAKY FRIDAY, North Shore Music Theatre, 62 Dunham Rd., Beverly, 978-232-7200. Jul 9–21. In Disney’s new madcap body swap musical comedy about a mother and daughter who 36 YERMA
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VIETNAM VOYAGE: A new version of Miss Saigon, the epic musical set during the dying days of the Vietnam War that was created by much of the team behind the equally epic Les Misérables, comes to the Citizens Bank Opera House June 12–30. magically spend a day in each other’s shoes, Katherine and Ellie face a variety of challenges trying to get through the day, ultimately learning about life on the other side of the generation gap to a pop/rock score by Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prizewinners Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Next to Normal). FUN HOME, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Roberts Studio Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Jun 8–30. A heartbreaking and fiercely funny show about seeing one’s parents through grown-up eyes based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling memoir, this groundbreaking musical introduces us to Alison at three different ages, revealing memories that celebrate the curiosity of childhood and the complexities of family. HELLO, DOLLY!, Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, 1 Bath Road, Brunswick, Me., 207-725-8769. Jul 17–Aug 3. The blockbuster Broadway hit bursts with humor, romance, high-energy dancing and some of the greatest songs in musical theatre history. Follow the romantic and comic exploits of strong-willed matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi as she travels to New York to find a match for the miserly “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder. MAMMA MIA!, New Bedford Festival Theatre, Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, 684 Purchase St., New Bedford, 508-994-2900. Jul 19–28. The story-telling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs tell the hilarious story of a young woman’s search for her birth father. This sunny and funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise where, on the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. NONE BUT THE BEST, In Good Company, Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds, 286 Waverley Ave., Newton, 617-641-
GUIDE TO LOCAL THEATRE (continued) 9142. Jun 8 & 9. In the post-Civil War era, a family paper born in Boston, The Youth’s Companion, was a welcome touchstone in half a million homes across the nation, featuring the voices of poets and presidents, reports on science and tales of travel. This outdoor production of the play by Patrick Gabridge reveals the story of reclusive publisher Daniel Sharp Ford, who quietly used his wealth to help thousands of disadvantaged people. PARAGON PARK, The Company Theatre, 30 Accord Park Dr., Norwell, 781-871-2787. Jul 26–Aug 18. The acclaimed musical returns, featuring an original script and score and a cast of fascinating characters, some based on actual figures from Hull’s rich and sordid history. The story begins with the 1985 auction of the Paragon Carousel and travels back to 1905, when whaling mogul George A. Dodge realizes his dream of constructing a fantastical play-land on the shore. George leads the way for a new day of leisure, entertainment and excitement at Nantasket Beach, as the forbidden love of a Boston Brahmin girl and an Italian immigrant gondolier unfolds under his reign. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Balch Arena Theater, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, 866-811-4111. Jun 5–30. Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel about the romantic entanglements of the Bennet sisters abandons the drawing room for a comic playground of sexually repressed characters skirmishing to accomplish their own hopes and dreams. TEA AT FIVE, Huntington Avenue Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., 617-933-8600. Jun 22–Jul 14. Academy Award winner Faye Dunaway portrays Katharine Hepburn in the pre-Broadway premiere of the acclaimed play by Matthew Lombardo. Ensconced in her Fenwick home, a now-retired Hepburn reflects on her turbulent childhood, her unlikely rise to stardom and her heart-breaking 27-year affair with Spencer Tracy. THIS GIRL LAUGHS, THIS GIRL CRIES, THIS GIRL DOES NOTHING, Wellesley Repertory Theatre, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre at Wellesley College, 106 Central St., Wellesley, 781283-2000. Jun 5–30. In this modern-day fable, triplet sisters are left in a forest by a woodcutter father and forced to find their own way in the world. From this fairytale beginning, three resolutions are made, and the girls go their separae ways. Years later, having circled a globe and fought Vikings, toppled lighthouses, tamed wilds and achieved greatness, the three meet again, as women. THE THREE MUSKETEERS, Greater Boston Stage Company and Front Porch Arts Collective, 395 Main St., Stoneham, 781-279-2200. Jun 6–30. It’s all for one and one for all as D’Artagnan and the three musketeers fight to protect the ones they love from the sinister exploits of Cardinal Richelieu. Featuring a diverse cast, this action-packed, humor-filled and romantic take on Alexandre Dumas’ classic reminds us that you should always fight for what you believe in. TREASURE ISLAND, Maine State Music Theatre, Pickard Theater, 1 Bath Road, Brunswick, Me., 207-725-8769. Jun 26–Jul 13. Join young Jim Hawkins on the adventure of a lifetime as Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale comes to musical life. After the death of Jim’s father, Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney are charged with protecting Jim on the voyage, but Long John Silver has other plans for them all.
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Excitement and forbidden romance unfold as visionary George Dodge creates a fantastical playland on Nantasket Beach. A sweeping spectacle across eight decades, don’t miss this award-winning original musical.
July 26–August 18, 2019 30 Accord Park Dr., Norwell 781-871-2787 • companytheatre.com
MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE Join the high seas adventure as the swashbuckling tale of Treasure Island comes to musical life.
June 26– July 13, 2019 Brunswick, ME 207-725-8769 • msmt.org
NEW BEDFORD FESTIVAL THEATRE
Over 60 million people worlwide have fallen in love with the characters, the story and ABBA’s music, that make it the ultimate feel good show. “You Know You’re Gonna Love It!”
July 19–28, 2019 • 8 performances only Zeiterion Performing Arts Center 684 Purchase St., New Bedford 508-994-2900 • Zeiterion.org SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION
BOSTON DINING GUIDE L–Lunch • D–Dinner • B–Breakfast C–Cocktails • VP–Valet Parking SB–Sunday Brunch • LS–Late Supper
BACK DECK, 2 West St. (corner of Washington), 617-6700320. With three deck spaces and a menu of grill-focused favorites, Back Deck invites everyone to gather around patio tables and chairs for a charcoal-cooked meal and backyardinspired cocktails. Its ambiance brings the outdoors inside with floor-to-ceiling open windows, carriage lighting, lush green planters, glazed brick and an open kitchen. Drawing inspiration from a roof deck, this restaurant is the ultimate urban retreat. L, D, Sat & SB, C. BackDeckBoston.com. BISTRO DU MIDI, 272 Boylston St., 617-426-7878. Located in one of Boston’s most coveted locales overlooking the picturesque Boston Public Garden, Bistro du Midi showcases French bistro cuisine with coastal New England influences, all in a warm, welcoming and beautiful setting. L, D, Sat & SB, LS, C, VP. bistrodumidi.com. CITYPLACE, On Stuart Street between Tremont and S. Charles streets in the State Transportation Building. Enjoy handcrafted beers at Rock Bottom Brewery, delicious treats from Panera Bread and gourmet Chinese at P.F. Chang’s as well as specialty pizzas, custom burritos and coffee from Starbucks and Dunkin’. B, L, D, C. cityplaceboston.com. DAVIO’S NORTHERN ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE, 75 Arlington St., 617-357-4810. This Boston institution is located in Park Square, within walking distance to all theaters. The Northern Italian steakhouse menu includes a selection of homemade pastas and Brandt meats (aged New York sirloin, Niman Ranch pork chop, Provini porterhouse veal chop), as well as Davio’s classics and selection of fresh seafood, before or after the theater. Enjoy a lighter fare menu in the spacious bar and parlor area. D Sun–Tue 5–10 p.m., Wed–Sat ’til 11 p.m.; LS Sun–Tue ’til 11 p.m., Wed– Sat ’til midnight; L Mon–Fri, SB 11 a.m.–3 p.m. VP. davios.com. EXPLORATEUR, 186 Tremont St., 617-766-3179. French in spirit and Californian in its dedication to ingredient-driven cuisine and passionate approach to dining, this all-day cafe, restaurant and bar boasts a menu of French classics with a unique spin that keeps its farmers, foragers and artisans front and center. B Fri–Sun 10 a.m.–3 p.m.; D Sun–Wed 5–9 p.m, Thu–Sat ’til 10 p.m.; C Mon–Thu 3–11 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 a.m.–midnight, Sun ’til 11 p.m. Cafe open daily 7:30 a.m.–10 p.m. explorateur.com. 38 YERMA
FAJITAS & ’RITAS, 25 West St., 617-426-1222. Established in 1989, Fajitas & ’Ritas is an easygoing restaurant and bar that features fresh, healthy Texan and barbecue cuisine at bargain prices. An all-around fun place to eat, drink and hang out, the walls are decorated with colorful murals and the bar boasts some of Boston’s best—and sturdiest—margaritas. L, D Mon & Tue 11:30 a.m.–9 p.m.; Wed, Thu & Sat ’til 10 p.m.; Fri ’til 11 p.m.; Sun ’til 8 p.m. C. fajitasandritas.com. THE HUNGRY I, 71½ Charles St., 617-227-3524. In a twostory townhouse with three working fireplaces and an outdoor patio, Chef Peter Ballarin celebrates 30 years of French country cuisine and creative desserts. Signature dishes include venison au poivre and braised rabbit a la moutard. Private dining rooms available. L, D, SB, C. hungryiboston.com. MASTRO’S OCEAN CLUB, 25 Fan Pier Blvd., 617-530-1925. Mastro’s Ocean Club Seafood locations are recognized for their combination of world-class service, highly acclaimed cuisine and live entertainment in an elegant, energetic atmosphere. Reservations recommended. D Mon–Sat 5–11 p.m., Sun ’til 10 p.m. Lounge open daily at 4 p.m. mastrosrestaurants.com. MERITAGE RESTAURANT + WINE BAR, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-439-3995. Led by Chef Daniel Bruce, founder of the Boston Wine Festival, the innovative Meritage menu marries wine and food for a dynamic, sensory-evoking experience. Daniel’s deeply rooted ties with vintners from around the world are integrated in a unique vineyard-to-table concept. D Tue–Sat 5:30–10 p.m. meritagetherestaurant.com. PARKER’S RESTAURANT, Omni Parker House, 60 School St. at Tremont Street, 617-725-1600. Executive chef Gerry Tice celebrates nostalgic cuisine with a contemporary flair at Parker’s Restaurant, the birthplace of Boston Cream Pie, the Parker House Roll and Boston Scrod. B Mon–Fri 6:30–11 a.m., Sat–Sun 7–11:30 a.m., offering an elaborate buffet in addition to a la carte selections. L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.; D Mon– Thu 5:30–10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5–10 p.m. ROWES WHARF SEA GRILLE, Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, 617-856-7744. From harbor-facing outdoor terrace dining and summer nights filled with live music, to the chic yet casual dining room bursting with imaginative food and cocktails year-round, Rowes Wharf Sea Grille is one of the most exciting spots to dine on the waterfront for those looking to grab a bite to eat while strolling along Boston’s lively HarborWalk. B Mon–Fri 6:30–11 a.m., Buffet Sat & Sun 7–11 a.m., L 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m., Afternoon Tea 2:30–4 p.m., D 4:30–10 p.m. roweswharfseagrille.com. TOP OF THE HUB, 800 Boylston St., Prudential Center, 617-536-1775. Located 52 stories above the city, Top of the Hub is Boston’s special occasion favorite. With upscale American cuisine, live entertainment nightly, a spectacular view and romantic atmosphere, Top of the Hub promises a unique experience for both visitors and native Bostonians alike. L, D, C, SB. topofthehub.net. YE OLDE UNION OYSTER HOUSE, 41 Union St., 617-2272750. America’s oldest restaurant, now celebrating 191 years, serves Yankee-style seafood, beef and chicken, and is famed for the oyster bar where Daniel Webster dined daily. Specialties include clam chowder and fresh lobster. L & D Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 10 p.m. C ’til midnight. unionoysterhouse.com.
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