Stage Kiss by VIA MEDIA / BAYSTAGES

By Sarah Ruhl Directed by Susi Damilano

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR How we love the play within a play. Shakespeare loved them, with Midsummer and Hamlet containing the most famous ones. And Kiss Me, Kate does the Bard one better by slipping Shrew inside. In The Fantasticks, a band of players are hired to stage an elaborate seduction. Noises Off takes us backstage to watch the mayhem of putting on a show. And The Seagull begins with a play within a play.

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In the theatre, we love to investigate the point where illusion intersects reality, where “pretend” meets “real”. We know that even in life, the boundary between real and imagined can be a slippery slope; the boundary between false and sincere, between madness and sanity. We know that “all the world’s a stage,” and that we, the players, will play many roles. The very term, “stage kiss,” implies that it is not real. And yet, a kiss is still a kiss. Lips meet. Moisture is exchanged. Warmth is felt. It is the actor’s job to kiss. How does one kiss professionally? In my first high school play, I, a sophomore, had/got to kiss a senior. I was somewhat less than expert, and she suggested that her boyfriend give me pointers. Behind the theatre, he showed me and then said, “Now you try it.” Throwing myself into it on opening night, I worried I might anger the boyfriend, but received his thumbs-up at the cast party. How easily we slip from illusion to reality. How easily illusion becomes delusion, and a lie told over and over becomes more real. Stage Kiss is a love poem to the theatre, a dance that seduces us by stepping deftly across the line between real and the unreal, on stage and backstage, illusion and reality. It is an existential play, a piece of fluff, a love story wrapped in a love story, wrapped in a love story.

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Welcome to the

WALTER CASPER TEUFEL JR AUDITORIUM

with Producers DANA + GARY SHAPIRO, FRED + BETH KARREN and Associate Producers RICHARD + SUSAN LIEBERMAN presents

Our auditorium is dedicated and named after

Walter Casper Teufel Jr. (1932 – 2012).

by Sarah Ruhl directed by Susi Damilano

CAST

[ IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER ]

Kevin / Butler / Doctor / Pimp............................................Allen Darby Laurie / Millicent.................................................... Millie DeBenedet Millie / Maid / Angela.............................................Taylor Iman Jones He........................................................................... Gabriel Marin* She...............................................................................Carrie Paff* Director......................................................Mark Anderson Phillips* Husband...................................................... Michael Gene Sullivan* Understudies She........................................................... Laurel Scotland-Stewart Husband / Director.................................................... Robert Faltisco He / Kevin / Butler / Doctor / Pimp......................................... Sam Kim Laurie / Millicent / Millie / Maid / Angela.................................Katie Nix

CREATIVE TEAM

Director.....................................................................Susi Damilano Stage Manager........................................................ Tatjana Genser* Set Designers....................................... Bill English, Jacquelyn Scott Casting Director.........................................................Lauren English Set Dressing and Props............................................ Jacquelyn Scott Lighting Designer.......................................................... Robert Hand Sound Designer............................................. Theodore J.H. Hulsker Costume Designer..................................................Brooke Jennings Assistant Costume Designer............................................. Kitty Torres Dance Choreographer............................................... Morgan Dayley Fight Choreographer.................................... Mike “Miguel” Martinez Dialect Coach............................................................... Lynne Soffer Original Piano Composition............ Bill English, Theodore J.H Hulsker Originally produced by the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois on May 9, 2011. Robert Falls, Artistic Director, Roche Schulfer, Executive Director. Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the New York City premiere of “STAGE KISS” Off-Broadway in 2014. “Some Enchanted Evening” Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II This selection is used by special arrangement with Rodgers & Hammerstein: an lmagem Company, rnh.com All Rights Reserved.

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PRODUCTION TEAM Production Manager.................................................... Maggie Koch Technical Theatre Manager............................................Zach Sigman Asst. Technical Theatre Manager.......................................Tish Leung Production Assistants...................Issere Grier-Christopher, Beth Hall Master Electrician.............................................. Molly Stewart-Cohn Sound Engineer.........................................................Anton Hedman Carpenters...........................Sean Bryan, Elyse Fink, Yvette Guillen, Josh Lipps, Kourteney McCrary, Christy Ramirez, Shannon Signman Fight Captain............................................... Mark Anderson Phillips Scenic Painter........................................................... Karen McNulty Wardrobe Assistant............................................. Stephanie Dittbern Videography.......................................................... Shawn LaFrance Photography................................Jessica Palopoli, Todd Tankersley Electricians..................................... Kourteney McCrary, Will Poulin, Sarina Renteria, Corey Schaffer, Kirt Siders, Thomas Weaver Technical Theatre Intern.................................................Annie Tsang

STAFF Artistic Director................................................................Bill English Producing Director......................................................Susi Damilano Production Manager.................................................... Maggie Koch Resident Stage Manager.......................................... Tatjana Genser* Associate Artistic Director.......................................... Jordan Puckett Resident Playwright........................................................Aaron Loeb Casting Director.........................................................Lauren English Casting Associate..................................................... Monique Hafen Education Director....................................................... Kathleen Lee Marketing Director.................................................... Donny Gilliland Marketing Associate................................................... Jeffrey Adams Administrative Manager......................................Charlotte Brockman Accounting Manager.......................................... Camille Chenoweth Individual Gifts Manager.....................................................Ken Levin Development Manager............................................... Daniel Kessler Stewardship and Events Coordinator................................Hillary Bray Patron Services Manager..........................................Tiiu Eva Rebane Box Office Associate................................................ Noelle Harrison Concessions Manager.......................................... Natalia Hermosilla Front of House Team.....................Anthony Aranda, Jessica Charles, Alex Fine, Issere Grier-Christopher, Rebecca Hodges, Angela Knutson, Bebe LaGrua, Sarah Selig Theatre Management Intern................................................Alfred Wu Dramaturgy Intern............................ Austin Owen, Nicholas Anthony Marketing Intern............................................... Andrew Abel Gomez Development Intern .............................................. Mathew Eldridge Education Intern...................................................... Alexandra Mays Graphics.................................................................. Tatjana Genser Publicist ..................................................................... Anne Abrams Cover Art: Chad Vaughan | bluejeanblack designs Special Thanks: Daren Carollo, Ed Johnson, Liz Martin, Annemaria Rajala, Todd Tankersley All images and/or content provided by San Francisco Playhouse staff, contractors and/or creative artists unless otherwise credited. Opinions expressed by contractors, contributors and/or creative artists do not necessarily reflect the views of VIA MEDIA. Photo credits are included as provided.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES SARAH RUHL (Playwright) Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received

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her MFA from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. In 2003, she was the recipient of the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award and the Whiting Writers’ Award. She was a member of 13P and of New Dramatists and won the MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. She was recently the recipient of the PEN Center Award for a mid-career playwright, the Feminist Press’ Forty under Forty Award, and the 2010 Lilly Award. She is currently on the faculty at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family. Plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee for best new play), The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Passion Play, a cycle (Pen American Award, The Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center), Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award), Melancholy Play, Eurydice, Orlando, Demeter in the City (NAACP nomination), Late: a cowboy song, Three Sisters and, most recently, The Oldest Boy, Stage Kiss and Dear Elizabeth. Her plays have been produced on Broadway at the Lyceum by Lincoln Center Theater, off-Broadway at Playwrights’ Horizons, Second Stage and Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater, and downtown at Clubbed Thumb and Classic Stage Company. Her plays have been produced regionally all over the country, with premieres at Yale Repertory Theater, the Goodman Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Madison Repertory Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cornerstone Theater and the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago. Her plays have also been produced internationally in London, Germany, Australia, Canada and Israel, and have been translated into Polish, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, Korean, German and Arabic.

DARBY

ALLEN DARBY (Kevin/Butler/

DEBENEDET

Doctor/Pimp) is thrilled to be making his SF Playhouse debut in such a terrific play. After working in Los Angeles and the greater Bay Area, Allen is glad to finally do a show in his native San Francisco. Last summer he was seen in The Liar, Macbeth, and The Rover at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Other regional credits include Enter the Guardsman (Jewel Theatre Company), As You Like It (Marin Shakespeare Company), Henry VI, Part 1 (The Production Company) and Kiss Me, Kate (Cabrillo Music Theatre). He has worked with the SF Arts Education Project as a student and now resident artist in the school system. Allen studied at the British American Drama Academy and holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Southern California. Love to Dad, Claire, Emma and Scrappy.

MILLIE D E BENEDET (Laurie/ Millicent) is an actress and director here in the Bay Area. She received her BFA in acting FALTISCO

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from DePaul University’s Theatre School in Chicago, Illinois. She is one of the creative directors for San Francisco’s premier sketch comedy troupe, Killing My Lobster. Other performance credits include PlayGround, BATS Improv and Second City Detroit.

ROBERT FALTISCO (U/S: Husband/ Director) is excited to work on his first show at San Francisco Playhouse. Credits include Home is Where and Stories from the ‘Loin with A.C.T.’s Stage Coach. In LA, he played Max in Suburban Motel (Hudson Theater), Dr. Dark in Burning Desires (Gascon Theater), Noah Joad in the West Coast premiere of The Grapes of Wrath and Christopher in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens at the Attic Theater. In Houston he appeared in All My Sons, Major Barbara and Chekov’s A Marriage Proposal. Film work includes the shorts Alone, Red and Rhapsody on Rails and features Godzilla (1998) and Alien Resurrection. He is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and

recently completed his thesis on Tennessee Williams, earning an MA in humanities and literature from CSU.

TAYLOR IMAN JONES (Millie/ Maid/Angela) is so honored to be making her San Francisco Playhouse debut! A Bay area native, some of her recent credits include Lexi in Hookman (Encore/Z Space), Alice in Lizzie (Ray of Light), Anita in West Side Story (Broadway By the Bay) and the title role in Mary Poppins (Berkeley Playhouse). She’s also had the pleasure of working at PCRT, CCMT, Center Rep’s MainStage and OffCenter, Diablo Theatre Company, Bay Area Children’s Theater, singing the national anthem for the 2015 opening day game for the Oakland A’s and acting in Green Day’s American Idiot (National Tour). Coming up is The Unfortunates at A.C.T. taylorimanjones.com SAM KIM (U/S: He/Kevin/Butler/ Doctor/Pimp) left the start-up world with a goal to better understand what motivates humanity to progress. This led him to begin his actor training at A.C.T. in the Studio and Summer Training Congress. Prior to Stage Kiss at San Francisco Playhouse, Sam has been involved in films. GABRIEL MARIN * ( H e ) i s

delighted to return to San Francisco Playhouse where he was previously seen in Storefront Church, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The MotherF**ker with the Hat (SFBATCC Award), Wirehead, Landscape of the Body, Bug, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, and Our Lady of 121st St. Locally Marin has appeared in over 50 productions with American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, Black Box Theatre, Cal Performances, Center REP, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, PlayGround, San Francisco Fringe Festival, San Jose Rep, San Francisco Playhouse, TheatreWorks, The Jewish Theatre, Thick Description, Word for Word and Z Space. He has performed on NBC, CBS, PBS and the BBC.

KATIE NIX (U/S: Laurie/Millicent/ Millie/Maid/Angela) is thrilled to make her San Francisco Playhouse debut. Trained as an opera singer, her experience spans a broad range from baroque opera to contemporary theatre. Recent credits include Sunday in the Park with George (Dot) at Foothill Music Theatre, Cosmic Ray and the Amazing Chris (Emily) at Louisville’s Thompson Street Opera and Don Giovanni (Zerlina) at Waffle Opera. Degrees from San Francisco Conservatory and the University of Michigan. katienix.com

JONES

CARRIE PAFF * (She) is thrilled

to be back at San Francisco Playhouse after appearing in Stupid Fucking Bird and Ideation last season. Other credits include This Is How It Goes, Collapse and A Delicate Balance at Aurora; Every Five Minutes and The Other Place at Magic Theatre; After the War at A.C.T.; The Big Meal and A Picasso at San Jose Rep; A Streetcar Named Desire, Tiny Alice and It’s a Wonderful Life at Marin Theatre Company; Double Indemnity at A.C.T. in Seattle and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at Arizona Theatre Company. Internationally, she appeared in Joan Rivers: A Work In Progress at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in London. Film work includes Quitters, Love & Taxes and This is Hamlet. This fall she hits the big screen in Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur as Lurleane, a not so good dinosaur. She holds a master’s degree in educational theater from New York University and is the cofounder of StageWrite, Building Literacy through Theatre. Carrie was named one of “Ten Bay Area Actors We Love” by the San Jose Mercury News. carriepaff.com

KIM

MARIN

MARK ANDERSON PHILLIPS *

(Director) Regional/International: As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); The Big Meal, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, The Weir, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (San Jose Repertory Theatre); Hir, True West, Stones in His Pockets (Magic Theatre), Ideation, Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party (San 2015.11 • BAYSTAGES.COM

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Francisco Playhouse); Good People, Waiting for Godot, Tiny Alice (Marin Theatre Company); Clybourne Park (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Arizona Theatre Company); Double Indemnity (A Contemporary Theatre Seattle); Salomania, Miss Julie, Salome, Small Tragedy (Aurora Theatre); Fallen Angels, Time Stands Still, The 39 Steps, Opus, Theophilus North, The Grapes of Wrath (TheatreWorks); Measure for Measure, Henry V (California Shakespeare Theatre); Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and A Christmas Carol (Center Repertory Company). Film: Joan Rivers, a Piece of Work. TV: Nash Bridges, This is Macbeth, This is Hamlet, Flummox and Friends. markandersonphillips.com

LAUREL SCOTLAND-STEWART

PHILLIPS

(U/S: She) is delighted to have this opportunity to work with San Francisco Playhouse. She has performed with several Bay Area theatre companies, most recently The Collected Works and Studio A.C.T.’s Performance Project. Favorite past roles include Irena in I Never Saw Another Butterfly and Skinner in The Castle. She studied acting and performance at Tisch School of the Arts’ Experimental Theatre Wing. She also holds a PhD in philosophy.

MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN *

SCOTLAND-STEWART

SULLIVAN

(Husband) is an award-winning actor, writer and director. Among his favorite roles have been Dr. Watson in The Hound of the Baskervilles and Diabelli in 33 Variations (TheatreWorks); Prospero in The Tempest (African-American Shakespeare Company); The Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future in A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theatre); Mr. Potter (and 12 others) in It’s A Wonderful Life (Marin Theater Company) and all seven of the people he played in Dogfight (San Francisco Playhouse). Michael is also a member of the Tony Award winning (and despite its misleading name, never silent) San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he has written, acted in and/or directed almost thirty productions. In addition to his many critically8

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acclaimed scripts for SFMT Michael is also the author of the award-winning stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, which has been performed in Europe, Asia, Central and South America, Australia and throughout the U.S.

SUSI DAMILANO (Director)

is co-founder and Producing Director of San Francisco Playhouse. Directing credits include Playhouse productions of Company, Stupid Fucking Bird, Into the Woods, A Behanding in Spokane, Den of Thieves a n d W i r e h e a d ( S F B ATC C directing nomination), the West Coast Premieres of Honey Brown Eyes(SFBATCC directing nomination), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Coronado, The Mystery Plays, Roulette and the world premieres of Rhett Rossi’s From Red to Black and Daniel Heath’s Seven Days in the Sandbox Series. She is a five-time recipient of the SFBATCC award for Best Female Performance in Abigail’s Party, Harper Regan, Bug, Six Degrees of Separation, and Reckless. At the Playhouse she has performed leading roles in Tree, Bauer, Abigail’s Party, Harper Regan, Coraline, Slasher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Landscape of the Body, First Person Shooter, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, The Crucible, Kimberly Akimbo, Our Town and The Smell of the Kill.

BILL ENGLISH (Set Designer/

Composer) is a co-founder of San Francisco Playhouse and, in 12 years with Susi Damilano, has guided its growth from a bare bones storefront to the second largest theatre in San Francisco. He designed the first theatre space at 536 Sutter Street and personally reconfigured a barnlike 700-seat hall to the current gracious and intimate 200seat venue. Along the way he has served as director, actor, set, light and sound designer, winning SFBATCC nominations or awards in all those categories. Bill is also an accomplished musician and builder. Milestone accomplishments include bringing Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis to the Bay Area by directing three of his plays, commissioning 12

playwrights and moving world premieres from workshop to Sandbox Series to mainstage to New York, including the recent New York transfer of San Francisco Playhouse production of Bauer, the upcoming New York transfer of Ideation and presenting the very first production of Grounded by George Brant which recently opened at the Public Theater. He coined the phrase “the empathy gym” and it drives everything at San Francisco Playhouse.

MORGAN DAYLEY ( D a n c e Choreographer) feels super lucky to be back with San Francisco Playhouse working on such an amazing project! Other projects with the Playhouse include April in Company and Vivien in Promises, Promises. Morgan loves to be involved in many facets of the performing arts including acting, choreographing, dancing and directing. Favorite choreography projects include Annie, The Phantom of the Opera, and Singin’ in the Rain (where she taught 75 people to tap dance). Morgan earned her MFA in musical theatre performance from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is a theatre/dance educator in East Palo Alto. LAUREN ENGLISH (Casting Director) is a founding company member at San Francisco Playhouse where she casts all the mainstage and Sandbox Series productions. Favorite Playhouse roles on stage include Kate in Seminar, The Pilot in Grounded, Steph in reasons to be pretty, Becky in Becky Shaw, Sally in Cabaret, Emily in Our Town and Lisa in The Glory of Living. New York theater: TACT’s OffBroadway production of The Cocktail Party, Hamlet at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and The Idealist at The New York Times Theatre. She has also worked at the Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Lark Theatre and Playwrights Realm. Local work includes Word for Word, Marin Theatre Company, Marin Shakespeare Company, PlayGround and Magic Theatre. She is a two-time SFBATCC Award winner and three-time

Dean Goodman Award recipient. Training: Foothill Theatre Conservatory, MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.

TATJANA GENSER * (Stage Manager) is classically trained in philology and an autodidact in everything that’s practical. She’s been working as a stage manager and designer (graphics, costumes, props, special effects) for 20 years. Thanks to her fiancé and kitty for being the best men in her life. ISSERE GRIER-CHRISTOPHER

(Production Assistant) is happy to be back at San Francisco Playhouse. She has worked as a production assistant on previous shows such as reasons to be pretty, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Storefront Church, Seminar, Ideation, Promises, Promises and Tree; and as spotlight operator on Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Into the Woods. She is currently attending school studying theatre production and aspires to stage manage.

BETH HALL (Production

Assistant) In 2014, Beth moved to San Francisco to accept an internship with San Francisco Playhouse. In her time in the city, she has been lucky enough to work with a number of amazing theaters in the Bay Area and is thrilled to be continuing on with the Playhouse this season! Some of Beth’s recent credits include Dogfight and Promises, Promises (San Francisco Playhouse), in a word (Sandbox Series), #julys (Bay Area Playwrights Festival), Heroes, G e e k s , a n d Po w e r f r e a k s (StageWrite) and King of the Yees (Playwrights Foundation). She would like to say a special thank you to her family and friends for being a constant support system and always believing in her.

ROBERT HAND ( L i g h t i n g Designer) is the design associate at American Conservatory Theater. Prior to his work at A.C.T. he spent eleven seasons with Atlanta Ballet as the lighting director and resident lighting designer where he designed over twenty-five new works, many of 2015.11 • BAYSTAGES.COM

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which remain in their permanent repertoire. Other design credits include original lighting designs for Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, English National Ballet, North Carolina Theater, Milwaukee Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Anchorman 2 and Scary Movie 5. He looks forward to many future artistic endeavors with San Francisco Playhouse.

THEODORE J.H. HULSKER ,

(Sound Designer/Composer) sound designer and former baby model, is happy to be back at San Francisco Playhouse. Theodore has designed numerous productions at the Playhouse including Into the Woods, Seminar and Tree. His work can also often be heard at the Shotgun Player’s Ashby Stage where he designed Assassins, Woyzeck, Strangers Babies, Antigonick and Our Town. He is a Mugwumpin company member and past work with them includes The Great Big Also, Luster and Blockbuster Season. In 2012 He received the Eric Landisman Fellowship for emerging designer and has been thrice nominated for SFBATCC Awards for sound design. In addition to his work as a sound designer he curates a monthly art event called Klanghaus in North Oakland. theodore-hulsker. squarespace.com

BROOKE JENNINGS (Costume Designer) is ecstatic to join the San Francisco Playhouse family with this beautiful production of Stage Kiss. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz’s theater arts Master’s program, Brooke has designed costumes in the Bay Area and New York. Credits include Peter Pan (Berkeley Playhouse) Ondine at Sutro (We Players), A Lie of the Mind, Bad Jews (Asst. Designer, Magic Theatre), The Singularity, Crooked, Ransom, Texas (Virago Theatre), In Love and Warcraft, This is Our Youth, Grey Gardens, How the World Began, Late, A Cowboy Song, The Crucible (Custom Made Theater Co.), The Rocky Horror Show (City Lights Theater Company) and A Year with Frog and Toad (Asst.

Designer, Santa Cruz Shakespeare). Brooke received a 2015 TBA Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design for her work on We Players’ Ondine at Sutro, directed by Ava Roy and Carly Cioffil.

MAGGIE KOCH ( P r o d u c t i o n Manager) is thrilled to have worked for San Francisco Playhouse for 10 years, starting as an intern, moving to production assistant then resident stage manager and now into her new title of Production Manager. She would like to thank Bill and Susi for giving her this great opportunity, her husband Ed for his love and always making her laugh and her friends and family for their constant support. Go Pirates! TISH LEUNG (Asst. Technical Theater

Manager) has 15 years of experience working at many Bay Area Theater companies including San Jose Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts. She is excited to be building a second season with San Francisco Playhouse’s mainstage shows and also technical manager for Sandbox Series.

MIKE “MIGUEL” MARTINEZ (Fight Choreographer) is a 35 year veteran of the stunt industry, who began his stage combat career in the wild west stunt shows at San Jose’s Frontier Village, before going on to work in film, television and commercials. Some of his film credits include stunt double for Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Angels in the Outfield, The Matrix: Reloaded. More recent works are Transformers: Age of Extinction, San Andreas, Jurassic World and fight coordinator for the Wachowski siblings’ hit Netflix series Sense8. His first show with San Francisco Playhouse, Camelot, garnered an SFBATCC Award for Fight Choreography. Other Playhouse shows include Ideation, Jerusalem, Promises, Promises, Company, Dogfight and the Sandbox Series productions From Red to Black and

77%. “Most of my choreography comes from boxing, Muay Thai and growing up in Oakland.”

JACQUELYN SCOTT (Set Co-

Designer/Set Dressing and Props) works as production designer and propsmaster for theaters and film companies throughout the Bay Area. She is thrilled to return as set co-designer for Stage Kiss. Previous credits include Company, Dogfight, Tree, Into The Woods, Jerusalem, Abigail’s Party, A Behanding in Spokane (San Francisco Playhouse); A Lie of the Mind, Buried Child, The Happy Ones, Annapurna, The Lily’s Revenge, The Brothers Size, Oedipus El Rey, Goldfish, Octopus (Magic Theatre); Assassins, God’s Plot (Shotgun Players); The Companion Piece (Z Space); American Hwangap (The Play Company, New York); and all around art department for Terri Timely, Park Pictures, PaperDog and Heist.

ZACH SIGMAN (Technical Theatre

Manager) is thrilled to be working his second season at San Francisco Playhouse. He has been working in theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area for the last 20 years for companies like San Jose Repertory Theatre, American Musical Theatre of San Jose, TheatreWorks, Opera San Jose and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

LYNNE SOFFER (Dialect Coach) has served as dialect/text coach on over 235 productions at A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Magic Theatre, Cal Shakes, Marin Shakes, the Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, Arizona Theatre Co., Arena Stage, Seattle Rep and Denver Center among others, including seven productions for San Francisco Playhouse. Her film and television credits include Fruitvale Station - the Oscar Grant story (2013), Metro, Duets, The Land of Milk and Honey and America’s Most Wanted. Ms. Soffer is also a professional actor, director and teacher of actors and is the recipient of the 2011 Lucy Jordan Humanitarian Award from Actors’ Equity.

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[$5,000+] K.M. Gahagan • Robert & Jan Ginsberg • Jeff Rodman & Adrienne Hirt • George Sarlo Foundation

[$1,000+] Cynnie Anderson & Jerry Rampelberg • Richard Andersen & Ursula Schorn • Christina, Gina & Raymond Banks • Katharine Beckwith Joseph Belanoff & Katherine Bienko • David & Michele Benjamin • Dr. Paula Campbell • Isabelle Dokouzian • Mary & Tom Foote Karen Grassle • Betty Hoener • Linda Romley Irvine & Perry Irvine • Flora Lynn Isaacson • Ed Jones & Eddie Reynolds • Catharine & John Kalin Beth & Fred Karren • Bob & Marilyn Kriegel • Astrid Lacitis • Helen E. Land • Colleen & David Leof • Colleen & Erin Lurie Bill & Janet McAllister • Gregory & Karin McClune • Bill & Ursula Moffett • Henry Navas & Deborah Robbins • Marcy Taylor Pattinson Jerry Rampelberg • Joan Rost, In memory of Clayton Rost • Arthur & Lois Roth • Gary & Dana Shapiro • Margaret Skornia, In memory of Nancy Blair Cris & Lorna Strotz • Dr. Daniel Tanita • David & Marcia Vastine [ Special notations indicate pro bono services and in-kind gifts ♦ or Rising Star Program ★ support. ] 2015.11 • BAYSTAGES.COM

LEGACY CIRCLE We gratefully knowledge the following patrons for making a legacy commitment to San Francisco Playhouse.

GIFTS RECEIVED The Estates of Nancy Blair • Walter Casper Teufel Jr • Delphine Zeuli

GIFTS DESIGNATED Anonymous • Susan Atherton • Ludmila Eggleton • Asim Bhansali + Brittny Bottorf Kathy + Tim Hewetson • Ed Jones + Eddie Reynolds • Andy Kerr + Nancy Thompson Helen E. Land • Dana + Gary Shapiro • Gerhard P. Woelke JOIN THE LEGACY CIRCLE TODAY! Share your passion for intimate theatre with generations to come. Planned giving allows you to designate a portion of your estate to provide long-term stability to our mission and serve generations to come. It may provide you with substantial tax advantages and even income during your lifetime. Please email daniel@sfplayhouse.org or call 415.361.4767 for more information.

PRODUCER CIRCLE DONORS Donors at this level enjoy recognition around a production of their choice, are invited to readings and working rehearsals and receive many other great benefits for their generous gifts.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER [$25,000+] Susan Atherton • Barbara + Gerson Bakar • Nancy Blair, In Memoriam • Paul Graham William J. Gregory • Diane + Stephen Heiman • Mr. Robert Hulteng Savannah Jo Lack + Rowland Weinstein • Don + Sherie Morrison Helen E. Land • Toni Rembe + Arthur Rock Andrew S. Teufel

PRODUCER [$10,000+] Bill + Marsha Adler • Cynnie Anderson + Jerry Rampelberg ★ • Asim Bhansali + Brittny Bottorff ★ Clay Foundation - West • Bruce Colman + Margaret Sheehan • Mary + Tom Foote Jan + Robert Ginsberg • Margot Golding • Betty Hoener • Geoffrey Jue • Maurice Kanbar Beth + Fred Karren • Colleen + David Leof, In memory of Nick Covatta ★ • Ellen Michelson • William O’Keeffe Kathleen Fowler + Jeffrey Pfeffer • Jerry + Phyllis Rosenberg • Martha Seaver + Scott Walecka Dana + Gary Shapiro • Christian Chadd Taylor • John Trout Paul Underwood, In loving memory of Dr. Ronald Hugh Gorman ★ • Arne + Gail Wagner

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER [$5,000+] David Anderson + Nancy Kaible • Castillian Fund ★ • Karin + Steven Chase ★ • Bob + Loni Dantzler ★ • Joan Eckart ★ Susi Damilano + Bill English ★ • C.J. David Davies + Ama Torrance • Les + Ruth Finkelstein • Bruce + Ellen Hall Eleanor + Richard Johns • Catharine + John Kalin ★ • Andy Kerr + Nancy Thompson • Sue Kubly Richard + Susan Lieberman • Craig + Lorraine Mautner • Niko + Steven Mayer • Dr. + Mrs. William McAllister ★ Edwin + Peggy Mihm • Sophie-Charlotte Moatti • Dugan Moore • Howard + Jan Oringer • Marcy Taylor Pattinson Harry + Kay Rabin • James + Sandra Robbins • Paul Romeo + Lynne Stark • Jeanne + Spencer Wang Zach Wasserman + Margaret Zweiback

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INNER CIRCLE DONORS Inner Circle members enjoy an enhanced theater experience, complete with access to the Nancy Blair Lounge and VIP ticketing services. Membership starts at $1,000 and lasts one year from gift date.

ANGEL [$2,500+] Richard Andersen + Ursula Schorn ★ • Anne + Buz Battle • Cynthia + David Bogolub David + Karen Crommie • Thomas Horst • David Levy + Marilyn Rutz • Sandra Mattos ★ Jackie + Richard Mayer ★ • Bill + Ursula Moffett • Terilyn + William Voegtle

INNER CIRCLE [$1,000+] Anonymous • Nancy Austin + Bill Cawley • Claire Axelrad + Mark Pahlavan ★ • Valerie Barth Kate Beckwith • David + Michele Benjamin • Joseph Belanoff + Katherine Blenko ★ • Irwin + Rita Blitt Marie Bourget • Cria + Neil Bray ★ • Maxine Brownstein • Jamie Caban + Rob Mitchell Dave Caldwell + Amelia Martin ★ • Alex + Ann Campbell • Dr. Paula Campbell • Frances Campra ★ The Leo J. + Celia Carlin Fund • Ralph Caspersen • Jill Connolly Kathryn Coopes-Hardeman + Charles Hardeman • Ann + David Crockett Roy + Helga Curry • Doug Cyr + Andrew Maguire • Carol Davis + Joel Marcus • David Demarest Isabelle Dokouzian • Thalia Dorwick • Tom Driscoll + Nancy Quinn • Jeff + Susan Dunn ★ Chuck Edelstein • Delia Ehrlich ★ • Lisa Fischer • Richard Fouts • Kevin Gahagan • James Garrick Miriam Gauss • Mrs. Arlene Getz ★ • Gary + Yvonne Goddard • Ari Greenburg + Andrea Lee Buck + Carolyn Hall • Bob Holub ★ • Lorraine Honig • Richard + Terry Horrigan • Daniel + Debra Hunter Ed Jones + Eddie Reynolds ★ • Jeannie Kaufman • Erwin L. Kelly • Susan Kolb Carolyn Koster + Edward J. Taggart • Jerry + Sue Krumbein • Astrid Lacitis • Bonnie Levinson Stephanie + Tom Lima • Dexter + Kathie Lowry • George Lucas + Tom Rothgiesser • Ann + Karl Ludwig ★ Patricia Lund + Charles Yingling • Erin + Stephen Lurie • Bob + Carol Marcus • Linda Marks ★ Gregory + Karin McClune • John McGehee • Kathleen McManus • Betty + Clifford Nakamoto Henry Navas + Deborah Robbins ★ • Virginia Newhall Karin Nichols • Kenneth Noyes Dr. + Mrs. Jorge Ochoa • Aurelio Perez ★ • Greg Phillips • Ann + Barry Reder Linda Romley-Irvine + Perry Irvine ★ • Barbara + Richard Rosenberg Joan Rost, In memory of Clayton Rost ★ • Arthur + Lois Roth ★ • Fran Rushing Deborah Dashow Ruth, In memory of Leo Ruth ★ • Robert Schooler ★ • Erin Searfus ★ Jack Shahin • Gae Shulman • Peggy Skornia • Mike Smith • Russell Stanaland David + Jenn Stringer • Joseph Sturkey • Carol Sundell ★ • David Thomas • Larry + Maggie Thompson Henry Trevor + Elizabeth Werter • David + Marcia Vastine • Mary Wais ★ • Carol + Howard Wayne Beth Weissman • Linda Whalen • The Wilder Family • David + Karima Wilner

BENEFACTOR [$500+] Anonymous • Kedar Adour • Ronald + Susan Berman • David + Lauren Berman • Dan Clarke + Maureen Laney Betty + Patrick Crowley ★ • Edward Cullen ★ • Gerry Devito ★ • Keith Doerge • Judith Duffy • Judi Elman • Bonnie + Wesley Fastiff Lea Ann + Mike Fleming • Karen Grassle • Fred Hartwick • Bruce Hasenkamp • Giles Havergal, In honor of Mrs. Sue Kubly Peggy Heineman • Sandra Hess ★ • Shirley James • Janet Johns • Bob + Marilyn Kriegel • Diane + Peter Lawrence ★ Robert Love + Nancy Sturm • Carol Ludwig • David Madfes • Michael Man + Lynette Pang • Alan Markle Samuel Muir ★ • Kenneth Odom • Thomas Owen • John Pendleton + Natalie Rome • Dan + Dianna Pisano ★ Matthew Purdon + Elizabeth Sklar ★ • Carla + Philip Reed • Susan Rosenberg • Richard + Diana Shore • Michael Siegel Joelle Spitzer Steefel • Theresa Sullivan • Gerhard Woelke

FRIEND [$250+] Anonymous ★ • George + Rochael Adranly ★ • Beresford Amoroso • Carole Becker • Robin Brasso • Wayne Bryan • Jennifer Burden ★ Alice Chambliss • Paula Clark • Bernice Clyman • Judith Cohen + Malcolm Gissen • Suzanne Degen • Anthony Degroot • Carol + Robert Freidenberg • Amy + Mort Friedkin, In honor of Dana Shapiro • Gary Glaser + Christine Miller ★ • Jean + Milton Goldberg ★ • JoAna Gray Corina + Justin Grey • Julie Hebert ★ • Adrienne Hirt + Jeff Rodman ★ • Carolyn Jayne ★ • Michael Jordan • Daniel Kocher • Terri Kwiatek Lucinda Lee • Ken Levin • Marshall Meyer • Anne Michel • Erica Nietfeld • Gene + Seta Paige • Sylvia Pascal • Ellen Richard Carol + Jon Richards • Wayne Robins • Anne + Martin Roher • Barbara + Saul Rockman • Dorothy Scott • Cynthia Sears • Barbara Shapiro Bill + Holly Shepard • Clint + Marilyn Smith • Monica Steiner • Chris + Lorna Strotz • Daniel Tanita • Fred + Kathleen Taylor Susan Terris • Daniel Vasquez • Diane + Richard Wiersba [ Special notations indicate pro bono services and in-kind gifts ♦ or Rising Star Program ★ support. ] 2015.11 • BAYSTAGES.COM

PATRON [$100+] Anonymous ★ • Linda Adams + Kenneth C Larson ★ • Robert F. Adams • David Alcocer + Steven Thompson ★ • Mattie Alperton • Sue Anawalt Mike Anderson ★ • Vivian Anthony • Paul Asente • AJ Baker ★ • Lisa Baker ★ • Hendrik + Loretta Bakker • Kirk Baldwin • Barbara Barnard ★ Barbara + Tom Barrett ★ • John + Millie Barrett ★ • Eve Barringer ★ • Nanci Beatty • Susan Beck ★ • Richard Behrendt ★ • Lynda Beigel + Ellen Davis ★ Suzanne Beim ★Joanne + Joe Bellan • Barbara Bernstein • Bruce + Sandra Beyaert ★ • Sandra Blair ★ • Terezie Norman Bohrer ★ • Sandra Bordessa ★ Monica + Peter Bornstein ★ • Beth + Julian Brandes ★ • George + Marilyn Bray • Linda Brewer ★ • Donna Brorby ★ • Dustin Brown ★ • Marcia Brown-Machen Howard Brownstein ★Gail Buchbinder • Barbara + Dave Burlington ★ • Jaime Caban + Rob Mitchell • Hans Cardenas ★ • Adolfo + Summer Castells ★ Nancy Catena ★ Daniel Caul ★ • Nicholas Chan ★ • Andre Chenoweth • Charles M. Clark + Arlene Waksberg ★ • Gail Clark • Mark Cohen + Jackie Pelavin ★ Annette + Michael Cohn ★ • Jim + Jocelyn Colopy ★ • Craig Conlon + Marcia Glick • Douglas + Rosemary Corbin • Gene Corr • Rafael Costas • Mike Crosby ★ Suzanne Cross • Guy + Mary Cummins • John Dalton + Sheila Moore • Debbie Degutis ★ • Andrea Delman ★ • Debra Demartini • David Desler ★ Lawrence Dillon • Charles Dorris ★ • Robert Durham • Robert Eakin + Alvis Hendley • Helene Edelman ★ • Rebecca Parlette-Edwards + Thomas Edwards Carol Emory ★ • Paul Feasby • Lexi Feinberg ★ • Jan Fernando ★ • Krystyna Finlayson ★ • Susan K. Fisher • Laura B. Fleming ★ • Susan Fogarty ★ Catz + Jean Forsman ★ • Stephen Francis • Gail Gabiati • Mary-Kay Gamel • Aaron Gannon ★ • David Catania + Diana Gay-Catania ★ • Kathleen Gee ★ Keith Gilbert ★ • Sarah Gill ★ • Mitch Gitin • Glennis Lees Glazeski + Michael Glazeski ★ • Alberto Gobbi • Paul Goetz ★ • Burton Goldfine ★ Judy + Mike Goldman • Keith Goldstein ★ • Ronald Goodman + Richard Leadbetter ★ • John Goodman + Kerry King • Derek Gordon ★ Piers J.C. Greenhill ★ • Dennis Gregg ★ • Jane Hansen • Alan Harris ★ • Mary Lou + Sam Hartshorn • Barry Hayes • Mary Rose + Patrick Hayes ★ Sarit Helman ★ • Mark Hernandez ★ • Irene Hilgers ★ • Albert + Beverley Hillman • Al Hoffman • Pam Hong • Joan Huff ★ • Eva Incaudo ★ • Andrea Indart Richard Louis James ★ • Ruth James • Rosemary Jenckes ★ • Bruce Jenett + Nola Masterson ★ • William Jervis + Barushka Sholty ★ Sheila-Merle Johnson ★ • Jeff Johnston ★ • Karla Jones ★ • Melanie Jones ★ • Mike Kaplan ★ • Leslie Karren ★ • Jose Katz • Beryl Kay ★ • Maxine Kenin Deb Kessler + Lou Michetti ★ • Veronica Kiefer • Amy W. Kittiver ★ • Pat + Steve Klansko ★ • George M. Knuepfel ★ • Joe + Peggy Koman ★ Doug Konecky • Stanton Koppel + Theresa Lustig ★ • Ann Kottler • Linda-Marie Koza ★ • Julia Krasner • Nancy Kuefler ★ • Michael Kwiecien ★ Yvonne Lalanne + Mark Rubenstein ★ • Gary + Louise Lambdin ★ • Lois Langer • Ann + Richard Lanzerotti ★ • Stephen Laruccia Joan Lasselle + Stanley Shell • Enid Leff • Jack Leibman • Emily Leider ★ • Evelyn Levin ★ • Margaret Levitt ★ • Michelle Liapes • Judy Love ★ Sara Lovett • Carl Winston Lumbly ★ • Jonathan Luskin • Eve Lynch • Michael MacDonald, MD - Aesthetic Surgery Center ★ • George Maguire Joseph Mallon + Susanne Trowbridge • Brandy Marts • Frank + Irene Mattei • George Mayer + Edward Wesley ★ • Wanda McCaddon ★ Dianne McCutcheon ★ • Bruce McDonald ★ • Doug + Ricki McGlashan • Charles + Marilyn Meier ★ • Carl + Judy Mendoza ★ • Mark Mercer • Dana Merwin ★ Maeve Metzger • Maria Meyer • Denise Michael + David Schirle ★ • Susan Minker ★ • Bart Minor ★ • Peter + Sarah Morse ★ • Amelia Motroni Richard Mountain, In honor of Jane Kennedy • Mark Niu • Ruth Nott • Natalie Nottage • Jane Nurre ★ • Anne + Jamie O'Connell ★ • Patricia O'Connor ★ Robert + Ruth O'Connor • Jean O'Donnell ★ • John O'Donnell • Nancy Ozsogomonyan ★ • Lynne Painter ★ • Paula Paley • Maureen Parent Anne + John Parker★ • Bill Pattalochi • Keiko Okano Pederson ★ • Stuart Pellman ★ • Julia Peterson • Susan Petit ★ • David Pezzi • Mary Pitts ★ Sam Pond ★ • Michael Poplardo • Bruce Porter • Arthur + Lucille Poskanzer • Michael Powers ★ • Barbara + Mike Purcell • Steve + Wilma Rader ★ Nick Ray • Tuesday Ray ★ • Rose Reed ★ • Gordon Reetz • Judith Rino • Robert Ripps • Susan Robertson ★ • Christina Rogers ★ • Boyard Rowe William Ryan • Gretchen Saeger ★ • Laurel Schaeffer-Trent ★ • Bobbi Schear • James Schmidt ★ • Steven Paul Schmidt • Penny Schreiber Arnold + Madeline Schuster • Marjorie Seashore • James Seeman ★ • Earl + Carren Shagley • Roland Sheppard + Connie Suzuki ★ • John Sheridan ★ Frederica Shockley • Ellen + Ron Shulman • Michael Siegel • Lane Silber • Sol Silver ★ • Patricia Smith + Paul Werner • Lynne Soffer ★ Phyllis Spandorf ★ • Ann + James Spencer ★ • Lucy + Thomas Sponsler • Barbara Sprung • Bill + Mary Ann Stein ★ • John Steinfirst★ • John D. Stephens John Stern • Eric + Kay Sternberger • Bonnie Stiles ★ • Paula Stokes ★ • Dorian Stull ★ • Bruce Suehiro • Joan Sullivan • Margi Sullivan + William van Dyk Virginia Summerer • Jane Taber • Ronald Tauber ★ • Marion Taylor • Bob + Judy Toll ★ • Robert Trask • Jim Turner ★ • Deborah Van Atta George Waegell ★ • Lawrence Walker • Jonnie + Morey Weingarten ★ • Jill + Philip Weinstein • Robert Weston • Betsy T. Willcuts, In memory of Ted Goeller ★ Anne Winks • Michael Ray + Wendy Wisely ★ • Michael Wisper • Karissa Wong • Joy Woo • Michael Zarrella • Lucille + Norman Zilber ★

[ Special notations indicate pro bono services and in-kind gifts ♦ or Rising Star Program ★ support. ] The donors listed made gifts to the Playhouse between the dates of 11.01.14 and 11.01.15.

Please call the development department at 415.361.4763 or email development@sfplayhouse.org if you have a questions or would like to make a gift.

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