The Revolutionists

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Sarah Hankins Artistic Director

Kate Holland Executive Director

THE REVOLUTIONISTS

by Lauren Gunderson

Directed by Sarah Hankins

Scenic Design by Natalie Taylor Hart

Sound Design by G. Clausen

Costume Design by Jack A. Smith

Stage Manager Susan Proctor

Assistant Stage Manager Charli Cruz

Lighting Design by Maranda DeBusk

Voice

Xulee Vanecia J

Commissioned and first produced by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

THE REVOLUTIONISTS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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Olympe de Gouges .......................................................................... A.C. Donohue*

Marianne Angelle ............................................................................ Lalenja Harrington*

Charlotte Corday ............................................................................. Abigail Wilson

Marie Antionette ............................................................................. Elizabethe Gene

Marianne Understudy ...................................................................... Corin Davis

Marie & Charlotte Understudy ........................................................ Anna Rights

Marie & Olympe Understudy .......................................................... Markley Bortz

SETTING Paris, France TIME 1793

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CAST

A.C. Donohue* – she/her/hers - (Olympe) Recent regional credits include, for Burning Coal Theatre - The world premiere of, A Great Big Woolly Mammoth…(Leah); Camelot (Morgan Le Fay). For Theatre Raleigh - Rocky Horror Show (Magenta); Steel Magnolias (Truvy); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Flo); Other recent regional - White (Jane); Emilie La Marquise… (Madam); Off Broadway: The New Hopeville Comics (Molly); Believe (Elsie); 2084 (Ensemble). “Go raibh maith agat” to all keeping the arts alive, my family and Kelli (my partner in everything). Special shout outs to Sarah Hankins for giving me this opportunity, the great team at Triad Stage, and this wonderful cast and crew…sororité! Proud member AEA & SAG-AFTRA

www.acdonohue.com

Lalenja Harrington* – she/her/hers - (Marianne) Lalenja Harrington is an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at UNCG. As an artist dedicated to exploring the intersection of performance, activism and education, she is thrilled to be working with this beautiful team on The Revolutionists. Other credits include A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage), Keep a Song in your Soul: The Black Roots of Vaudeville (Old Town School of Music- Chicago), Dembe, Born Bad (Paper Lantern Theatre for our Tomorrow), A Time to Kill, Children of Eden (Little Theatre of Winston Salem), RENT (Winston Salem Theatre Alliance) and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Little Theatre of Winston Salem and Winston Salem Theatre Alliance).

Abigail Wilson – she/her/hers - (Charlotte) Graduate of UNC Greensboro with a BFA in Acting. She is a North Carolina native who now resides in Atlanta, GA. She continues her work in TV, film, and theatre with her most recent project being the Showtime limited series, George & Tammy. Abigail is happy to be back at Triad Stage where she has previously performed in A Christmas Carol.

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*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

Elizabethe Gene – she/her/hers - (Marie) Elizabethe was last seen on the Triad stage in 2016 during her Thesis role in RANDIUNT ABUNDUNT.

She is thrilled to be back and working with the incredible folks at Triad. Elizabethe has been kickin’ it in Atlanta with her three dogs and husband and when she’s not auditioning she’s painting or exploring the beautiful Georgia wilderness. She would like to extend her deepest gratitude to her husband, her parents and her friends for their endless support and to the Tourek family. If you’d like to know more about Elizabethe and her three crazy dogs give her a follow on Instagram!

@Elizabethe_Gene

Corin Davis – she/her/hers - (Marianne Understudy) Corin Davis is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. She attends North Carolina A&T where she is a senior in the BFA Acting Program. Corin was last seen in Triad Stage’s season opener, Rebellious by Mike Wiley where she made her professional debut as Spicy. She is grateful to be back and loves working with another amazing cast.

Anna Rights – she/her/hers - (Marie & Charlotte Understudy) Anna Rights is a UNCG graduate making her Triad Stage/ Professional Theatre debut! Anna would like to thank her loving parents, her amazing friends, and her silly little cat for always being there to support her!

Markley Bortz – she/her/hers - (Marie & Olympe Understudy) Markley

Bortz is a senior acting major at Elon University, and is thrilled to be a part of her first production at Triad Stage! University credits include The Cherry Orchard (Lyubov), The Inferior Sex (Vera), and Pheromone (Olive). Thanks to Sarah, the entire cast and crew, and love to friends and family back home and here!

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*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Lauren Gunderson – she/her/hers

Lauren is one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015 topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her play The Catastrophist, about her husband virologist Nathan Wolfe, premiered digitally in January 2021. She co-authored the Miss Bennet plays with Margot Melcon, and The Half-Life of Marie Curie premiered off-Broadway and at Audible.com. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You; Exit Pursued By A Bear; The Taming and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists Play Service (The Revolutionists; The Book of Will; Silent Sky; Bauer, Natural Shocks, The Wickhams and Miss Bennet) and Samuel French (Emilie). Her picture book Dr Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon is available from Two Lions/

Amazon. She is the book writer for musicals with Ari Afsar (Jeannette), Dave Stewart and Joss Stone (The Time Traveller’s Wife), Joriah Kwamé (Sinister), Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk (Justice and Earthrise), and Kira Stone (Built for This). She is a board member of The Playwrights Foundation. LaurenGunderson.com

Actors’ Equity Association (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

CREATIVE TEAM

Sarah Hankins – she/her/hers - (Artistic Director/Director for The Revolutionists) Sarah Hankins is honored to usher in our 20th Season, celebrating our renewed vision and commitment to amplifying diverse voices. Sarah joined the Triad Stage staff as Associate Artistic Director in 2017 and added Learning Director to her duties in August 2020. At Triad Stage she has directed White Lightning, Pride and Prejudice, and four seasons of A Christmas Carol, as well as appeared in The Passion of Teresa Rae King. Sarah worked in NYC for eight years as a freelance actor, director, and teaching artist with a thriving downtown career. Sarah is the former Artistic Director of the NYC eco-theatre Green Theatre Collective. Sarah was an Associate Artist at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, where she performed, directed, and taught for six years. Regional credits include: Virginia Shakespeare, Georgia Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Company, Bristol Riverside, Virginia Shakespeare, Depot Theatre, and Burning Coal. Sarah has taught or directed at The College of St. Elizabeth in NJ, UNCSA, Greensboro College, GTCC, UNCG, Elon University, and Guilford College. She is a proud Appalachian, the daughter of a newspaper editor and a quilter, and graduate of Davidson College and the UNCG MFA Directing Program. When not at the theater, you can find Sarah keeping bees in Montgomery County, creating cocktail infusions, and hanging with her ginger cat Toby. www.sarahhankins.com

Kate Holland – she/her/hers - (Executive Director) Kate Holland is a Multi-hyphenate theatre professional. Her specialties include General and Production Management, Stage Management, Directing, and Acting. Credits span on and off Broadway, tours, and significant work in educational theatre at schools such as Juilliard, NYU, and the University of Maryland. A current Ph.D. student in the University of Kentucky’s Arts Administration program, Kate’s research area is sustainable work practices in the theatre, with a particular focus around union labor and holistic approaches to worklife balance in the notoriously abusive entertainment industry.

Actors’ Equity Association (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

CREATIVE TEAM

G. Clausen – he/him/his - (Sound Designer)

G Clausen is a Sound Designer and Composer based in Winston Salem, North Carolina. His theatrical credits include Triad Stage: Rebellious, The 39 Steps, Member of the Wedding, Dirty Blonde, Fences, Don Juan, The Mystery of Irma Vep, And Then There Were None, A Christmas Carol and Two Wolves and a Lamb. Playmakers Repertory: How I Learned What I Learned, Native Son, Skeleton Crew. Studio Theatre: PYG or The Misedumacation of Dorian Belle (World Premier). Victory Gardens Theater: Queen of the Night (World Premier). Children’s Theatre of Charlotte: My Wonderful Birthday Suit, The Snowy Day and Other Stories by Ezra Jack Keats. Cape Fear Regional Theatre: Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Pyramid Theatre Company: The Last Supper, Too Heavy For Your Pocket, How I Learned What I Learned, Intimate Apparel, A Raisin in the Sun and Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies. Paper Lantern: Dembe, Born Bad, and Time Stands Still. Riverside Theatre: Sonnets for an Old Century, How I Learned What I Learned. Perceptions Theatre and Black Lives Black Words; Call For the Wailing Women. Rites and Reason Theatre: Tripping Over Roots.

He is also an Associate Sound Designer for Nevin Steinberg, working on Goddess (World Premier) at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Tattooed Lady (World Premier) at Philadelphia Theatre Company.

Maranda DeBusk – she/her/hers - (Lighting Design) Maranda DeBusk is an artist and educator specializing in lighting and media designs. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Lighting Design at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Last seen at Triad Stage designing lights for The Passion of Teresa Rae King in 2018, Maranda is thrilled to be working with the wonderful folks at Triad Stage again. Select Design Credits: Lexington Children’s Theatre, Lexington, KY; Nashville Children’s Theatre, Nashville, TN; Virginia Stage Company, Norfolk, VA; and Warehouse Theatre, Greenville, SC. Select Associate Credits: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI; and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Her work has been shared internationally as an Emerging Artist at the World Stage Design Expo in 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan; and as a Featured Emerging Artist at the Prague Quadrennial in 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic. At the core of all of her work is her belief in the power of the dramatic arts to create positive change in our communities. The greatest work is that which when let out into the world, improves it.

Natalie Taylor Hart – she/her/hers - (Scenic Design) Triad Stage: Having Our Say, Our Town (Scenic Consultant), Fences (Finalist, World Stage Design, Taipei 2017), White Lightning; Atlanta: The Bluest Eye (Synchronicity Theatre), Bootcandy (Actor’s Express) New York: Tech

Actors’ Equity Association (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

CREATIVE TEAM

Support (59E59TH, Off-Broadway); Tartuffe (Queens Theatre, Off-Off-Broadway); Slave Shack (Algonquin Theatre). Regional: Life in the Fat Lane (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); As You Like It (Burning Coal Theatre); Oldfriends. com, Blithe Spirit, Kind Lady (Monomoy Theatre, Cape Cod). Educational: 13 seasons at Elon University; The Crucible (Columbia University), Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (The Hartt School). Exhibitions: USITT Design Expo, Prague Quadrennial, World Stage Design. MFA, Ohio University. Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Performing Arts at Elon University. Proud member of IATSE Local USA 829. natalietaylorhart.com

Revolutionists. She is also a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke obtaining her master’s in clinical mental health in counseling.

Xulee Vanecia J – (Voice) Vanecia “Xulee”

Gitana Havner – she/her/hers - (Production Manager) She is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama with a concentration in design and technical production. Her previous credits include stage manager for Lexington Live’s Into the Woods, assistant stage manager for La Boheme, Porgy and Bess for Greensboro Opera, and Dracula, Man of La Mancha and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Triad Stage. Production Manager for Rebellious, Tunes for the Holidays and Valentine Concert at Triad Stage, Little Shop of Horrors for Imagine Youth Theatre, and Lead Technician for Gary Taylor Dance and High Point Ballet’s Nutcracker. She has entered into the role as Production Manager again for Triad Stage’s The

Iris-Rose, MFA, is a Playwright, Actress, and Activist originally from Greensboro, North Carolina. Vanecia is a professor of voice & movement at NC A&T SU and UNCG. She been teaching voice & dialects for the last 10 years starting her working with UNLV. She is trained in the voice work of Kristin Linklater, Joan Melton, The Expressive Actor and the dialect work of Paul Meier. She recently did voice coaching for the Richard B Harrison Players: A Night at The Museum and Dearly Departed.

Denise Johnson – she/her/hers - (Director of Production) Denise Johnson is thrilled to join Triad Stage as Director of Production. Production Management credits include The Addams Family, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, A Chorus Line, The Drowsy Chaperone, Little Shop of Horrors, and Into the Woods. A Raleigh native, Denise began her professional career as a performer at North Carolina Theatre in Raleigh, under the leadership of then Artistic Director, Terrence Mann. She has worked extensively in New York City and around the country at major Regional theatres as a performer, director,

Actors’ Equity Association (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional Actors and Stage Managers. Equity fosters the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

CREATIVE TEAM

choreographer, and stage manager. Denise was last seen on stage in Jason Robert Brown’s Parade, with Jeremy Jordan and Laura Benanti, The Scarlet Pimpernel with Tony Yazbeck and Laura Osnes, and the 25th Anniversary production of Crazy For You, directed/choreographed by Susan Stroman. She also has a background in competitive show choir as a choreographer, show designer and adjudicator, and her national awardwinning groups helped inspire the popular TV show, Glee. After returning to NC, Denise became Production Manager and a Director/ Choreographer at Greensboro Day School, and is the resident Stage Manager for the Triad International Ballet (La Bayadere, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, etc.) She is a frequent guest artist in the area of Musical Theatre and Stage Management, teaching at colleges, universities, and theatre conventions around the country.

Susan Proctor* – she/her/hers - (Stage Manager) An Equity Stage Manager for many decades, Dr. Proctor is very happy to be back in the booth. After teaching and directing plays in university, for 30 years or so, and a great retirement party she went back to Stage Management as well as directing, mainly in Kansas City, MO. She served as Stage Manager for Anna in the Tropics and The Odd Couple for Metropolitan Theatre Ensemble and A Number for Kansas City Actors Theatre. She is loving to be a part of Triad Stage’s post pandemic reopening season.

Jack A. Smith – she/her/hers - (Costume Design) Jack is a costume designer for Theater, Musical Theater and Dance as well as a teacher and costume historian, and currently teaches at Texas State University. His career has spanned from educational theater to regional theaters around the United States. As a costume designer he loves discovering the intimate details of a character and collaborating with actors, dancers, choreographers and directors to bring those characters to life more fully for the audience. Jack also has an intense passion for the history of dress, and through that history discovering the values, aesthetics and ideals of a culture and people of an era by what they wear. He has spent countless hours in museums around the country and the world. He has also studied lace making in Le Pue, France and has made many trips to the tiny village spending hours learning the techniques central to bobbin lace production. He is also an avid quilter and produces both domestic quilts as well as art quilts. He has used quilting as a form of activism. An example of the Activist Quilting produced a quilt for the San Francesco Gay Men’s Choir’s 40th anniversary tour, The Lavender Pen Tour. The quilt was comprised of the state blocks of the states the tour visited, those are California, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia as well as 147 friendship stars (the name given to a four-pointed star in quilting). The quilt was quilted with friends and strangers and was given to the SGMC to take on the tour with them.

HOUSE RULES AND OTHER HELPFUL INFORMATION

• Food and beverages purchased at the lobby bar are allowed inside the theatre, but we ask that you are respectful of your fellow audience members and enjoy them quietly.

• Smoking/vaping is strictly prohibited throughout the building.

• Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the House Manager.

• Personal electronic devices, including cellular phones, must be turned off prior to the performance.

• Listening assistance devices are available at the Box Office.

• Photographic or sound recording of the performance is expressly prohibited by law. So, no cameras or recorders, please. Your cooperation is appreciated.

• For the enjoyment of all audience members, every attendee must have a ticket and sit in their own seat (no “babes in arms” or children in laps).

Thank you for respecting all Triad Stage facilities. If you have any questions, please ask the bartender, House Manager, or a Box Office Associate for clarification.

Actors’ Equity Association has updated their policies to allow individual venues to establish their own risk management with regard to COVID-19 protocols.

Triad Stage will base our protocols on the current risk level denoted by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) for Guilford County, as noted at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

When Risk is LOW

• Masks – Not Required

• Vaccination – Not Required

• Social Distancing – Not Required

Production/Acting company members/Staff who have been exposed to someone with symptoms should test and if negative wear a mask for rehearsal and work on site. Positive results must stay home.

• Masks will be made available for anyone wishing to wear one.

When Risk is MEDIUM

• Masks – Required for those at high risk (self-identified)

• Vaccination – Not Required, attend at own risk

• Social Distancing – When Possible

• Masks will be made available for anyone wishing to wear one.

• Production/Acting Company/Staff will test Weekly.

When Risk is HIGH

• Masks – Required for all, except for performers on stage

• Vaccination – Not Required, attend at own risk

• Social Distancing – When Possible

• Those at high risk should not attend.

• Production/Acting Company/Staff will test Bi-weekly. Mask wearing outside of the theater will be encouraged.

Ticketholders and Event Attendees:

If you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or have tested positive for COVID-19 near your scheduled performance date, please contact the Box Office. We are happy to help arrange new seats at a future performance. We can be reached via phone Tuesday - Saturday 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 336.272.0160. You can also email us 24/7 at boxoffice@triadstage.org

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Members (All internal constituents):

If you are not feeling well, you should test, mask, and/or stay home. Alert COVID Safety Manager, stage management, or production management. If you test positive, isolate yourself immediately. The full company will mask for up to ten days and test on day 1 and day 6 of exposure to positive case. For company members who test positive, you may not return to the theater until you test negative.

If you have or suspect you have COVID-19, please stay home.

ABOUT TRIAD STAGE

Since opening in 2002, Triad Stage has produced over 140 Mainstage productions (including 20 World Premieres), 20 holiday shows (including 3 World Premieres), 10 UpStage Cabaret productions and numerous special events, and has sold over 610,000 tickets. Triad Stage has built a case for support that includes close to 2,500 Season Passholders (42% of our capacity) and more than 800 annual donors. Triad Stage is known for ground-breaking productions in our downtown Greensboro facility that includes a 300-seat thrust theater and an 80-seat cabaret space.

After 20 years of productions, in the past year, Triad Stage has reemerged as a professional regional theater that celebrates diverse voices, perspectives, and lived experiences through artistic expressions that inspire deep and palpable questions that face our community, selves, and world.

Our organizational culture is shaped by our expanded Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEIA), Anti-Racism, zero-tolerances harassment policies, and by community standards. Triad Stage is an arts hub for our community, facilitating conversation and inspiring creativity. We celebrate new work, amplify diverse voices, share the stories of our changing region, and provide opportunities for fostering the arts in the Triad, including a Creativity Lab. We value community partnerships which include other arts organizations, university partners, and local businesses. We create learning environments that spark imagination and we commit to mentoring the next generation of arts workers.

With the purpose of increasing access and diversifying participation through powerful and inspiring theatrical experiences, Triad Stage increases impact through expanded networks and durable relationships, celebrates our many communities in ways that reflect the unique and vibrant Triad region, and is building a thriving arts enterprise that is healthy, adaptive, and accountable.

Triad Stage is a barrier-breaking, inclusive, and accessible artistic hub with a focus on building community partnerships, sparking conversation about issues that face our world, and fostering the arts in our state. Triad Stage commits to the responsibility of providing and maintaining brave and healthy working and learning environments and to action steps to improve the creative spaces for all who engage with Triad Stage. Core to our mission are locally-focused arts and engagement through powerful professional productions and programs.

Triad Stage is guided by the Core Values of Adventure (we explore new territory, artistically, and other, to achieve greater impact), Collaboration (we work together to achieve our goals; we aren’t siloed), Diversity (we build an organization that is reflective of our greater community), Excellence (we value a consistently high level of work, both artistically and organizationally), Inclusiveness (we incorporate historically marginalized voices in programs, decisions, and direction setting), and Stewardship (we take seriously the investment the community makes in us and are prudent managers of those resources).

TRIAD STAGE’S NEW PLAY INITIATIVE

As we embark on our next 20 years, we are committed to developing new work through our New Play Initiative. We are investing in the Tennessee Williams and Lorraine Hansberry’s of tomorrow by supporting their work today with workshops, premieres, and – most importantly – time to be creative and take risks. We were proud to kick off this initiative in Fall 2022 with the World Premiere of Rebellious, which was commissioned in 2017 by Triad Stage with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts and a private donor. Throughout our closure we cultivated the play with virtual developmental workshops designed to provide playwright Mike Wiley with opportunities to explore ideas, hear the script, and have the space and time to build the story.

In addition to this World Premiere in Season 20, we held a developmental workshop of NYC playwright Patricia Lynn’s Jekyll, a contemporary adaptation of the gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Jekyll received a week of rehearsal followed by four workshop readings, giving the playwright time for feedback, reflection, and adjustments. As she considers what she has learned in the workshop readings, Patricia Lynn has a year to hone the script for a full production in Fall 2023.

The New Play Initiative gives playwrights the support to develop new work at Triad Stage with the ultimate goal of a world premiere production included in every season. Your support of the New Play Initiative can make a big impact on the classics of tomorrow!

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On average, Season Passholders save at least 30% on the cost to see all 3 MainStage shows.

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Caroline Panzer

Linda Jackson

Marti Sykes and Andy Sykes

Milan Giving Fund

Jenna Johnson

Judith Hyman and Richard Rosen

Eleanor Procton

Orton Jones

Jansen Lasley

Irene Cohen and Irving Cohen

Mark Espeland

Karen Niehans

William Osborne

Susan Hanks

Kristin Landrum

Michele Levy and Pat Levy

Eric Lee

Jill Alventosa-Brown

Howard Jones

Michiko Stavert

Elizabeth Lindsey

Rebecca Bullock

Julie Middleton and James Middleton

Dan Moran

Susan Preston

Janet Williamson-Reese

Eugene Simpson

Sharon Rimm

Larissa & Wayne Sexton

Phyllis Setzer and George Setzer

Timothy and Robin Lane

Patricia Copeland

Brian Crean

David VanSchoick

Lynn Bresko Corrigan and Thomas

Corrigan

Thomas Oakley

Linnea & Scott Crowell

Debbie & Eugene Russell

John Small

Sharon Johnston

Christine Freeman

Barbara Osborne

Helen Poole

Daniel Wood

Chris Grimes

Jane Fletcher

Kat Rice Bruns and Henry Bruns

Mary Lou Strohl and Glenn Strohl

Willie Taylor

Martin Friedman

Jane McKim and Thomas McKim

Steve Culver

Charles Carter

Lynn Fisher

Tim Maher

Linda & Mac Stroupe

Jerri Linn Phillips

Kimberly Allee

Mr. Van King

David Stansfield

Margaret Newlin

Douglas Lemley

Jan & Scott Simkins

Joanie Tomar

Corinne Segal and Fred Waxman

Janet Craft and David Craft

Kate Cummings and Lee Cummings

Russell Williams and Ann Lynch Williams

Sandy Redden

Angenita Boone

Robert Hoekstra

Frederick & Nancy Sharpless

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Friend

$100.00 - $249.99

Ronnie Grabon

Martha J. Haines

Mary McConnell

Mr. & Mrs. Victor Ackermann

Judy White and Len White

Judy Wicker and Bob Wicker

Cindy McCauley

Hodges Carroll and Joe Carroll

Elaine Stover and F. Nelson Stover

Andy Stern and Judy Pellarin

Ms. Marcy Maury

Patricia Gray

Nan Poplin and Roger Poplin

Marie Brown and Tom Brown

Kathy Cissna

Verne Nielsen Weatherby and B.J. Weatherby

Cs Harris

Eileen Leggio

Moses Goldberg and Pat Goldberg

Linda Anderson and Gary Anderson

Debra Dykes and Julius Dykes

Leonard Samet

Johanna Cockburn

Elizabeth Cone and Benjamin Cone

Karol Neufeld

Wendell Putney and Phoenix Putney

Mr. David Brown

Barbara Purdie

Yolanda Leacraft

Bruce and Dora Brodie

Craig & Lyn Mankoff

Jay Young

David Rice

Katie Armistead

Peggy & Jack Macdowell

Betty & Charles Rogers

Joyce Fulcher

Kevin Hanner

Betty & Don Edwards

Hetty Savage

Alane Frakes and William Frakes

Lynn Allison

Nancy Walkeer

Cathy Hamilton

Carole Clapp and Jordan Clapp

Andrew Bowen

Don Morrison

Sara Russell

David & Julie Yick-Koppel

Doug Murray

Penne Prigge

Mary Lois Brugler

Donations as of July 1, 2022 to March 1, 2023.

If you detect an error, please reach out to us at donate@triadstage.org so we can properly thank you for your generosity.

Special Thanks

Sunny Gravely Foushee, The TAB Arts Center, and the Artists Bloc for: “Women Behaving

Badly Exhibit: 15 Female Artists from the Triad”

TJ Scott

Hope and Jackson Cameron-Smith

The Tourek Family

Tom Troyer

BOARD AND STAFF

Board of Trustees

Officers

Deborah Hayes (she/her/hers), Board Co-Chair

Sarah M. Saint (she/her, they/them), Board Co-Chair

Cassandra Lowe Williams, Board Co-Chair

David Allen, Treasurer

Brandon Bensley, Secretary

Members at Large

Margaret Arbuckle (she/her/hers)

Johanna Cockburn (she/her/hers)

Jewell E. Cooper

Carrie Dufresne

Michael John Garrigan

Ronald W. Lawrence (he/him/his)

Eric Nottke

Butch Shumate

Triad Stage Staff

Sarah Hankins, Artistic Director

Kate Holland, Executive Director

Tabitha Davis, Bookkeeper/Office Manager

Mary K. Reading, Audience Services Manager

Daniel Morrison, House Manager and Volunteer Coordinator

Denise Johnson, Director of Production and Facilities

Tom Lapke, Director of Marketing

Martha Latta, Box Office Associate

Yassin Nur, Box Office Associate

Vance Routh, Box Office Associate

Catheryn Wright, Box Office Associate

Graphic Design by Neidy Perdomo

For THE REVOLUTIONISTS

Allie Fauklner (they/she), Assistant Director

Charli Cruz (he/they), Assistant Stage Manager

Sara Beth Corriher (she/her), Costume Shop Manager

Brandon Jarmasek (he/him), Props Supervisor

Sean Saari (he/him), Electrics Supervisor

Taylor Dankovich (she/her), Sound Supervisor

David Rawlins (he/him), Scenic Charge

TJ Scott (he/him), Master Carpenter

Fred Farmer (he/him), Carpenter

Chris Ku (he/him), Carpenter

Joy Callan (she/her), Technical Director

Helen Merikson (she/her), Sound Board Op

Mazie Audin (she/her), Light Board Op

Madison L.D Parrish (she/they), Wardrobe Supervisor

Taylor Parrish (she/her), Run Crew/ Dresser

Thank You