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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR In the early 21st Century, we already think of experience as being offline or online, and we are spending exponentially more of our time in digital realities. For many, surfing Facebook or Twitter, our heads buried in our computers and smartphones, our world is shrinking down to our 5-inch screen. The Oculus Rift is the Model T of what will soon usher in an explosion of virtual reality experiences. Ungoverned, unregulated, our digital world is rapidly becoming a vast and lawless frontier where anything goes, where any appetite can be satiated, any perversion condoned. Seven years ago at San Francisco Playhouse, Aaron Loeb’s First Person Shooter explored the collision of First Amendment rights with social responsibility. The play asked: “Do violent video game makers bear responsibility for the actual violence perpetrated by their games’ fans?” Today, we continue that debate with Jennifer Haley’s The Nether, which eloquently poses the question: Is it better for sick minds to perpetrate their proclivities in the sheltered digital world of the Hideaway? Or does such “practice” inevitably segue into REAL action? The U.S. Supreme Court recently dismissed the prosecution of a man who threatened his wife’s life on Facebook. He had committed no actual crime. And yet, there have been convictions for bullying, hazing, and online remarks that led to suicides. Many women have been brutally profiled and stalked online. Is there a difference between that and a catcall on the street? Where do we draw the line? How can we respect our treasured rights to free speech, the sanctity of the imagination and still exert some kind of control over the Wild West of the Internet?

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Andrew Teufel, president William Adler Susan Atherton Wilkes Bashford Brittny Bottorff Andre Glenn Chenoweth Susi Damilano Bill English Robert Hulteng Geoffrey Jue John Kalin Helen E. Land Steven Mayer William O’Keeffe Louis Parnell Sandra Robbins Dana Shapiro Christian Chadd Taylor John Trout Scott Walecka Rowland Weinstein

The Nether will provide you no answers. Like many great works of theatre, it poses only compelling questions as its brilliant protagonists battle it out in an antiseptic interrogation room and the glorious world of the Hideaway. Like the Pinkertons from Butch Cassidy, our detective is likely part of a vigilante force, hired to police the Nether before the government steps in. She battles with the blind passion and idealism of youth. Our brilliant cyber criminal has created a safe place where he can act out his fantasies without consequence. As far as he is concerned, he is harming no one. What will happen when humans go on life support to spend all their days in virtual realities? Should we allow that? In a world where nothing actually happens, can there be victims? Crimes? Do we have the right to regulate the enticement of unsuspecting players into depraved domains? Please stick around after the show to share your reactions. Or write me at: artisticdirector@sfplayhouse.org

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by Jennifer Haley directed by Bill English

ANDY KERR + NANCY THOMPSON associate producers

PRODUCTION UNDERWRITING THOMAS + BILLIE HORST director’s chair

KEVIN GAHAGAN set design

FRED CASPERSEN

CAST

[ IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER ]

Iris..................................................Matilda Holtz*, Carmen Steele* Sims................................................................ Warren David Keith● Doyle........................................................................ Louis Parnell● Morris........................................................................... Ruibo Qian● Woodnut........................................................................ Josh Schell Understudies Sims, Doyle.................................................................. Kevin Copps Woodnut.........................................................................Drew Reitz Morris.................................................................. Jessica Lea Risco

costume design

DR. + MRS. WILLIAM MCALLISTER lighting design props design

VALERIE BARTH sound design

CREATIVE TEAM

Director..........................................................................Bill English Stage Manager........................................................ Jamie D. Mann● Set Designers.....................................................................Nina Ball Casting Director.........................................................Lauren English Props Artisan........................................................... Jacquelyn Scott Lighting Designer..................................................... Michael Oesch♦ Sound Designer............................................. Theodore J.H. Hulsker Costume Designer..................................................Brooke Jennings ●

* Holtz and Steele alternate in the role of Iris. member, Actors' Equity Association ♦ member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829

Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre, Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director, produced the World Premiere of THE NETHER in Los Angeles, CA in 2013.

Our mission is to share stories that uplift our spirits, deepen self-awareness and nurture compassionate community.

Development of THE NETHER was supported by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center during a residency at the National Playwrights Conference 2011, Preston Whiteway, Executive Director, Wendy Goldberg, Artistic Director. Developed at the Lark Play Development Center, NYC New York Premiere at the MCC Theater February 24, 2015 UK premiere first co-produced by Headlong Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre on July 17, 2014 at the Royal Court and was subsequently transferred to the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Scott M Delman in association with Tulchin Bartner Productions, Lee Dean & Charles Diamond, 1001 Nights, JFL Theatricals/GHF Productions, Scott & Brian Zeilinger / James Lefkowitz. The West End premiere took place on February 24, 2015 at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London

Performances: January 19 to March 5, 2016 The perfomance runs 80 minutes. There is no intermission. Videotaping or other recording of this production is strictly prohibited. 4

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PRODUCTION TEAM

Welcome to the

Production Manager.................................................... Maggie Koch Technical Theatre Manager............................................Zach Sigman Asst. Technical Theatre Manager.......................................Tish Leung Production Assistants............................Angela Knutson, Sarah Selig Production Intern....................................................... Sarah Gibbons Master Electrician.............................................. Molly Stewart-Cohn Sound Engineer.........................................................Anton Hedman Carpenters................................ Kat Bausch, Elyse Fink, Josh Lipps, Kourteney McCrary, Dashiell Menard, Danielle Pena, Victor Richardson, Shannon Signman Scenic Painter........................................................... Karen McNulty Wardrobe Assistant............................................. Stephanie Dittbern Videography.......................................................... Shawn LaFrance Photography...................................Jeffrey Adams, Jessica Palopoli Electricians...............................Kourteney McCrary, Corey Schaffer, Andrea Schwartz, Kirt Siders, Thomas Weaver Stage Management Intern................................................ Keili Elliott

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 Coordinator.................................................Hillary Bray Patron Services Manager..........................................Tiiu Eva Rebane Box Office Associate................................................ Noelle Harrison Concessions Manager.......................................... Natalia Hermosilla Lead Front of House Manager....................................... Rebecca Hodges Front of House Team.....................Anthony Aranda, Jessica Charles, Alex Fine, Issere Grier-Christopher, Angela Knutson, Bebe LaGrua, Sarah Selig Development Intern........................................................Sonya Berg Artistic Intern.................................................................Claire Wong Education Intern.............................. Henrietta Key , Alexandra Mays Graphics.................................................................. Tatjana Genser Key Art................................ Chad Vaughan, bluejeanblack designs Publicist ..................................................................... Anne Abrams ●

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WALTER CASPER TEUFEL JR AUDITORIUM Our auditorium is dedicated and named after

Walter Casper Teufel Jr. (1932 – 2012).

This fulfilled his wish to bequeath a portion of his estate to an arts organization where his impact would be significant. And indeed it is. His gift gave us the confidence to move into a much-needed larger space and continue our mission to share stories that deepen selfawareness, nurture compassionate community and inspire.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES JENNIFER HALEY (Playwright) is a playwright whose work delves

HALEY

into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on our human relationships, identity, and desire. She won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, The Nether, produced in Los Angeles, offBroadway, and on London’s West End. Other plays include Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, a horror story about suburban video game addiction, and Froggy, a noir thriller with interactive media design and a live soundtrack. Jennifer has worked with Center Theatre Group, Royal Court Theatre, Headlong, Sonia Friedman Productions, the Humana Festival of New Plays, American Conservatory Theater, The Banff Centre, Sundance Theatre Lab, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Lark Play Development Center, PlayPenn and Page 73. She is a member of New Dramatists in New York City and lives in Los Angeles, where she founded the Playwrights Union.

KEVIN COPPS (U/S: Sims, Doyle)

COPPS

HOLTZ

KEITH

has appeared with numerous companies in the Bay Area over the past ten years, including Theatre Rhinoceros, Sleepwalkers, Ragged Wing Ensemble, Theatre Q, Dragon Productions, The Pear, No Nude Men, Willows Theatre Company and Los Altos Stage Company. Productions include The Cherry Orchard, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde , Mame , Breaking the Code , Walking the Dead, As Bees in Honey Drown, The Art of Dining, The History of the Devil and Disney in Deutschland. Before moving to San Francisco around the turn of the century, he worked in the classical music business in New York and Los Angeles.

MATILDA HOLTZ (Iris) is thrilled

to be performing in her first production at San Francisco Playhouse. She has appeared in Musical Theatre Work’s productions of Seussical the Musical , Legally Blonde and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Last May, Matilda performed at the Dallas Bilingual Theater Festival in a play in French and English written and directed by students and teachers at French American International School where she is in 8th grade.

WARREN DAVID KEITH ● (Sims)

is delighted to make his San Francisco Playhouse debut in The Nether. Most recently he has been performing Be Here Now, a solo show on the life and times of Ram Dass, in Berkeley, San Francisco, San Diego, Maui and New York City. He has worked at A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Magic Theatre, Aurora Theatre, Marin Theatre PARNELL

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Company, TheatreWorks, Theatre First and Word for Word. His film credits include Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Fargo and A Serious Man. He teaches at the Nueva School and A.C.T.

LOUIS PARNELL ● ( D o y l e )

is pleased to return to San Francisco Playhouse where he last performed in Into the Woods. Most recently he directed Moments Of Truth and acted in The Couch for 3Girls Theatre. He has worked extensively as an actor and director with numerous companies in the Bay Area including A.C.T., Center Rep, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company and TheatreWorks, as well as with many smaller nomadic companies. He works regularly with the Playhouse and has appeared in their productions of Art, Bell, Book and Candle, Coronado, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Fantasticks (2004 and 2010), It Had To Be You, The Violet Hour, Cabaret (SFBATCC award) and Man Of La Mancha (SFBATCC award), as well as directing Reunion and Reckless (SFBATCC nomination f o r d i r e c t i o n ) . H e ’s b e e n nominated for SFBATCC awards 12 times - winning five - and has accumulated various other awards for his work. He has performed numerous film, commercial and television roles including Trauma, Nash Bridges, America’s Most Wanted and a PBS documentary on Ralph Ellison that was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival. He is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

RUIBO QIAN ● ( Morris ) New

York and regional credits include

Tiger Style! (Alliance Theatre), Water by the Spoonful (Old Globe Theatre), Henry IV, Part I (Pearl Theatre Company), You for Me for You (Woolly Mammoth Theatre) and The Tempest (Continuum Company). Television and film credits include Broad City (Comedy Central), Mozart in the Jungle (Amazon), Jessica Jones (Netflix) and the upcoming film Manchester by the Sea . Ruibo holds an MFA from the NYU Graduate Acting Program and a BFA from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. ruiboqian.com

DREW REITZ ( U/S: Woodnut )

is so excited to be working with SF Playhouse for the first time! Recent credits include In Love and Warcraft (Custom Made Theatre), The Walls of Jericho (Pear Theatre), and The Columnist (Dragon Productions). Drew holds a BA in drama from San Francisco State University, where favorite productions include Avenue Q (Brian) and The Unmentionables (Don). He is a proud alum and teacher at the Young Actors Theatre Camp. You can catch him next as Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods with Palo Alto Players. drewreitz.com

JESSICA LEA RISCO ( U/S:

Morris) is thrilled to be working with San Francisco Playhouse for the first time! Ms. Risco hails from Minnesota’s lake country where she received a BA in theatre and english from Gustavus Adolphus College. She has worked in Minneapolis, New York City, Tucson, Honolulu and now the San Francisco Bay Area, which has become her home. Locally, she has worked with The Actors Theatre of San Francisco ( Savage in Limbo and A Delicate Balance), the One-Minute Play Festival (Playwrights Center), the O’Neill Festival (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Iceman Cometh ) and was recently seen as Lulu in OffBroadway West’s The Birthday Party which was nominated for Best Ensemble (TBA Awards). Some favorite roles include: Harper Pitt in Angels in America, May in Fool for Love, and Ellie Dunn in Heartbreak House. A big thank to Mark for all of his love and support! jessicarisco.wix.com/jessicarisco

JOSH SCHELL ( Wo o d n u t )

is pleased to be back at San Francisco Playhouse where he was last seen in Jerusalem. Other credits include the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s Ada and the Memory Engine (Central Works), Fifth of July (Aurora), Our Town (Shotgun Players), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (O’Neill Foundation), The Bereaved (Crowded Fire), A Lie of the Mind (Boxcar), Pelleas and Melisande (The Cutting Ball Theater) and In the Red and Brown Water (Marin Theatre Company). Independent films include For the Coyotes (Official Selection, 2015 Bend Film Festival), Pleased to Meet You (Showcase Selection, 2014 Lucerne Int’l Film Festival), The Anniversary at Shallow Creek (Special Screening, 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival), Squeezebox , The Whistler , Before the Cabin Burned Down and Maker’s Mark . He holds a BFA from the University of Southern California and attended A.C.T.’s Young Conservatory. josh-schell.com

QIAN

REITZ

CARMEN STEELE (Iris) is excited to

make her debut with San Francisco Playhouse in The Nether. Carmen was seen singing and acting as Young Kim in Show Boat with the San Francisco Opera, which was released worldwide on DVD. She has performed for the American Conservatory Theater in A Christmas Carol for two seasons as Tiny Tim and one season as Little Fan. Other roles include Raggedy Anne in Lyricabella Production's of Whiskers! , Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Ariel in The Tempest with the San Francisco Summer Shakespeare Festival Camp. She has studied acting and musical theater with the American Conservatory Theater since 2011. Steele is a 6th grade student at Katherine Delmar Burke School and loves drama, writing plays, skiing and tennis.

RISCO

SCHELL

SUSI DAMILANO (Producing

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 , 2016.01 • BAYSTAGES.COM

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BILL ENGLISH (Director) 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 barn-like 700-seat hall to the current gracious and intimate 200-seat 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. Mr. English’s direction for this production is sponsored by Thomas + Billie Horst.

NINA BALL (Set Designer) San Francisco Playhouse design

credits include Trouble Cometh, Tree , Camelot , My Fair Lady (winner SFBATCC award), Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Period of Adjustment , Reborning , and The Fantasticks. Her work has also been seen at American Conservatory Theater, Cal Shakes, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Aurora Theatre Company, Center REP, Z Space and many other venues. In addition to theatre, Ball also works as a production designer in film and television. Upcoming shows include Chester Bailey at A.C.T., Little Erik at Aurora Theatre Company and Shotgun Players' entire season of shows in repertory. Ms. Ball’s set design for this production is sponsored by Kevin Gahagan.

LAUREN ENGLISH (Casting

Director) is a founding company m e m b e r at S an F r an c i s c o 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 credits include TACT’s Off-Broadway 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 twotime SFBATCC Award winner and three-time Dean Goodman Award recipient. Lauren trained at Foothill Theatre Conservatory and earned an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.

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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. Ms. Jenning’s costume design is sponsored by Fred Caspersen.

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 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 experience working at many Bay Area companies including San Jose Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, Berkeley Repertory 10

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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.

JAMIE D. MANN (Stage Manager) ●

is returning to San Francisco Playhouse, where he previously stage managed Dogfight. Previous credits include The Book of Mormon (tour) as well as Resident Stage Manager at TheatreWorks, where his credits include The Great Pretender, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Silent Sky, Warrior Class, The Loudest Man on Earth , Being Earnest , Somewhere, 33 Variations, Upright Grand , Of Mice and Men , The Pitmen Painters, Clementine in the Lower 9, Fly By Night, Snow Falling on Cedars, 39 Steps and Superior Donuts, plus the New Works Festival productions of Laugh , Triangle , Wild with Happy and Fly By Night. Other credits include Mrs. Whitney (Magic Theatre), 2 X Malmud - The Jewbird and The Magic Barrel (Word for Word/The Jewish Theatre), The Last Yiddish Poet (The Jewish Theatre), and Dirty Blonde, Rock ’N’ Roll, Always…Patsy Cline, Altar Boyz, Blade to the Heat, The Diary of Anne Frank and Beehive (San Jose Stage Company, where he was also Production Manager for several seasons). He is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz.

MICHAEL OESCH ♦ ( L i g h t i n g

Designer) is a lighting designer for musicals, dance, theatre, opera, and film. Since first working with SF Playhouse in 2007, he has designed lights for Company, Tree, Into the Woods, Camelot, Reasons To Be Pretty, My Fair Lady, Becky Shaw, Period of Adjustment, Tigers Be Still , The Fantasticks , Coraline , Animals Out of Paper, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Scene, Cabaret and Man of La Mancha. He has also designed lighting for numerous companies in the Bay Area including Smuin Ballet, Magic Theatre, Trinity Lyric Opera, Contra Costa Musical Theatre, Broadway By the Bay, Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre, 13th Floor Dance, West Wave Dance Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, El Teatro Campesino, Theatre Artaud, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and New Conservatory Theatre Center. Michael is a proud member of United Scenic Artists

Local 829, the union of professional theatrical designers. Mr. Oesch’s lighting design is sponsored by Dr. + Mrs. William McAllister.

JACQUELYN SCOTT (Props Artisan)

works as production designer and propsmaster for theaters and film companies throughout the Bay Area. She is thrilled to return as set codesigner 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. Mr. Oesch’s props design is sponsored by Dr. + Mrs. William McAllister.

SARAH SELIG (Production

Assistant) is a graduate of SFSU with her BA in Theater. Her playhouse credits include: Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party , Coraline , Wirehead, Period of Adjustment, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Motherfucker with the Hat , Camelot , Jerusalem , Promises, Promises, Stupid Fucking Bird, and Company. Other stage management credits include Io Sperro Che Balli (Teatro Della Pergola,Florence, Italy), The 9th Annual Bay One Acts Festival (Three Wise Monkeys), Annie (Broadway By the Bay) and the world premieres of Forever Never Comes (Crowded Fire Theater) and The Nature Line (Sleepwalkers Theatre). Lots of love to the cast of this awesome show and my wonderful playhouse family!

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. ●

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[$10,000+] Ginger & Moshe Alafi • Cristina Banks • C.J. David Davies & Ama Torrance • The Fleishhacker Foundation • Helen E. Land • Jackie & Richard Mayer • Dana & Gary Shapiro • Andrew Teufel Rowland Weinstein

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[$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. ] 2016.01 • 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 • Geoffrey Jue Andy Kerr + Nancy Thompson • Helen E. Land • Dana + Gary Shapiro Michael B. Wisper • 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 Stephen + Diane Heiman • Mr. Robert Hulteng • Don + Sherie Morrison • Arthur Rock + Toni Rembe Andrew S. Teufel • Rowland Weinstein + Savannah Jo Lack

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

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER [$5,000+] Castillian Fund ★ • Steven + Karin Chase ★ • Loni + Bob Dantzler • Bill English + Susi Damilano ★ • Ellen + Bruce Hall John + Catharine Kalin ★ • Duff + Carol Kurland • Richard + Susan Lieberman • Craig + Lorraine Mautner Steven + Niko Mayer • Dr. + Mrs. William McAllister ★ • Dugan Moore • Jan + Howard Oringer ★ • Sandra + James Robbins Margaret Sheehan • Marcy Taylor Pattinson • Nancy Thompson + Andy Kerr ★ • Ama Torrance + C.J. David Davies Jeanne + Spencer Wang • Margaret Zweiback + Zack Wasserman

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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.

PATRON OF THE ARTS [$2,500+] Richard Andersen + Ursula Schorn ★ • David Anderson + Nancy Kaible • Anonymous • Valerie Barth Buz + Anne Battle • David + Cynthia Bogolub • Karen + David Crommie • Joan Eckart ★ • Ruth + Les Finkelstein • Kevin Gahagan • Thomas + Billie Horst • Eleanor + Richard Johns • Sue Kubly • Sandra Mattos ★ • Jackie + Richard Mayer ★ Peggy + Edwin Mihm • Sophie-Charlotte Moatti • Bill + Ursula Moffett • Harry + Kay Rabin • Paul Romeo + Lynne Stark Barbara + Richard Rosenberg • Marilyn Rutz + David Levy • Mike Smith • William + Terilyn Voegtle

INNER CIRCLE [$1,000+] Anonymous (2)★ • Claire Axelrad + Mark Pahlavan • Kate Beckwith • Joseph Belanoff + Katherine Blenko Michele + David Benjamin • Rita + Irwin Blitt • Marie Bourget • Neil + Cris Bray ★ • Maxine Brownstein Dave Caldwell + Amelia Martin ★ • Alex + Ann Campbell • Dr. Paula Campbell • Frances Campra ★ The Leo J. and Celia Carlin Fund • Fred Caspersen • Bill Cawley + Nancy Austin • Jill Connolly • David + Ann Crockett • Roy + Helga Curry • David Demarest • Isabelle Dokouzian • Thalia Dorwick • Tom Driscoll + Nancy Quinn • Chuck Edelstein • Delia Ehrlich • Lisa Fischer • Richard Fouts • James Garrick • Miriam Gauss • Mrs. Arlene Getz ★ • Gary + Yvonne Goddard • Ari Greenburg + Andrea Lee • Buck + Carolyn Hall Charles Hardeman + Kathryn Coopes-Hardeman • Kirk Herlitz • Bob Holub ★ • Lorraine Honig • Richard + Terry Horrigan • Daniel + Debra Hunter • Jeannie Kaufman • Erwin L. Kelly • Susan Kolb • Carolyn Koster + Edward J. Taggart ★ • Sue + Jerry Krumbein • Astrid Lacitis • Bonnie Levinson • Tom + Stephanie Lima Dexter + Kathie Lowry • George Lucas + Tom Rothgiesser • Karl + Ann Ludwig ★ • Patricia Lund + Charles Yingling • Erin + Stephen Lurie • Andrew Maguire + Doug Cyr • Bob + Carol Marcus • Joel Marcus + Carol Davis • Linda Marks ★ • Karin + Gregory McClune • John McGehee • Kathleen McManus • Rob Mitchell + Jaime Caban • Betty + Clifford Nakamoto • Virginia Newhall • Karin Nichols • Kenneth Noyes ★ Dr. + Mrs. Jorge Ochoa ★ • Aurelio Perez ★ • Greg Phillips • Barry + Ann Reder • Eddie Reynolds + Ed Jones ★ Deborah Robbins + Henry Navas ★ • Linda Romley-Irvine + Perry Irvine ★ • Joan Rost, in memory of Clayton Rost ★ • Lois + Arthur Roth ★ • Fran Rushing • Deborah Dashow Ruth, in memory of Leo Ruth ★ Robert Schooler • Erin J Searfus ★ • Jack Shahin • Gae Shulman • Howard Simons • Peggy Skornia Russell Stanaland • Jenn + David Stringer • Joseph Sturkey • Carol Sundell ★ • David Thomas Maggie + Larry Thompson • David + Marcia Vastine • Mary Wais ★ • Carol + Howard Wayne Beth Weissman • Elizabeth Werter + Henry Trevor • Linda Whalen • Wilder Family • David + Karima Wilner

BENEFACTOR [$500+] Anonymous • Kedar Adour • Ronald + Susan Berman • Marcus + Sara Byruck • Dan Clarke + Maureen Laney • Edward Cullen ★ Gerry Devito ★ • Judith Duffy • Judi Elman • Rodney Farrow • Wesley + Bonnie Fastiff • Mike + Lea Ann Fleming Karen Grassle • Bruce Hasenkamp • Giles Havergal, in honor of Mrs. Sue Kubly • Peggy Heineman • Sandra Hess ★ Shirley James • Carolyn Jayne ★ • Janet Johns • Marilyn + Bob Kriegel • Peter + Diane Lawrence ★ • Carol Ludwig David Madfes • Alan Markle • Samuel Muir ★ • Thomas Owen • Gene + Seta Paige • John Pendleton + Natalie Rome Dianna + Dan Pisano ★ • Matthew Purdon + Elizabeth Sklar ★ • Philip + Carla Reed • James Reedy • Susan Rosenberg Diane Sampson • Richard + Diana Shore • Michael Siegel + Sharyn Solish • Joelle Spitzer Steefel • Barbara Stuart ★ Nancy Sturm + Robert Love • Theresa Sullivan • Michael B. Wisper • Gerhard Woelke • Kurt Young

FRIEND [$250+] Anonymous (2)★ • Rochael + George Adranly ★ • Beresford Amoroso • Carole Becker • Lauren + David Berman • Robin Brasso Wayne Bryan • Jennifer Burden ★ • Nancy Catena ★ • Alice Chambliss • Paula Clark • Bernice Clyman • Ronald Clyman • Judith Cohen + Malcolm Gissen • Betty + Patrick Crowley ★ • Suzanne Degen • Robert + Carol Freidenberg • Mort + Amy Friedkin, in honor of Dana Shapiro Craig Gibbs • Nathanael Gilmore + Shannon Pedersen • Gary Glaser + Christine Miller ★ • Jean + Milton Goldberg ★ • Ronald Goodman + Richard Leadbetter ★ • JoAna Gray • Justin + Corina Grey • Mary Lou + Sam Hartshorn • Fred Hartwick • Julie Hebert ★ Johnson + Johnson • Michael Jordan • Amy W. Kittiver ★ • Daniel Kocher • Terri Kwiatek • Lucinda Lee • Ken Levin • Rebecca Martinez Marshall Meyer • Anne Michel • Erica Nietfeld • Robert + Ruth O'Conner • Kenneth Odom • Lynette Pang + Michael Man ★ Ellen Richard • Jon + Carol Richards • Wayne Robins • Barbara + Saul Rockman • Jeff Rodman + Adrienne Hirt ★ • Anne + Martin Roher Barbara Rosenblum • Boyard Rowe • Dorothy Scott • Cynthia Sears • Barbara Shapiro • Bill + Holly Shepard ★ • Clint + Marilyn Smith Monica Steiner • John Stern • Lorna + Chris Strotz • Thomas Swift • 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. ] 2016.01 • BAYSTAGES.COM

ADVOCATE [$100+] Anonymous (5)★ • Myles + Ida Abbott • Robert F. Adams • David Alcocer + Steven Thompson ★ • Mattie Alperton ★ • Sue Anawalt • Mike Anderson Vivian Anthony • Paul Asente • Aj Baker ★ • Lisa Baker ★ • Loretta + Hendrik Bakker • Kirk Baldwin • Ann Bancroft • Barbara Barnard ★ • Millie + John Barrett ★ Tom + Barbara Barrett ★ • Eve Barringer ★ • Nanci Beatty • Susan Beck ★ • Richard Behrendt ★ • Suzanne Beim ★ • Barbara Berk • Judith Berling ★ Barbara Bernstein • Stuart + Helen Bessler • Sandra + Bruce Beyaert ★ • Sandra Blair ★ • Terezie Norman Bohrer ★ • Sandra Bordessa ★ Peter + Monica Bornstein ★ • Julian + Beth Brandes ★ • Marilyn + George Bray • Linda Brewer ★ • Scott Brodie • Donna Brorby ★ • Dustin Brown ★ Marcia Brown-Machen • Howard Brownstein ★ • Gail Buchbinder • Dave + Barbara Burlington ★ • Hans Cardenas ★ • Summer + Adolfo Castells ★ • Daniel Caul ★ Elaine Chan • Nicholas Chan ★ • Andre Chenoweth • Gail Clark • Christi Clarke • Matt Clemenson • Mark Cohen + Jackie Pelavin ★ • Michael + Annette Cohn ★ Jeanne Coleman • Jim + Jocelyn Colopy ★ • Douglas + Rosemary Corbin • Gene Corr • Rafael Costas • Mike Crosby ★ • Suzanne Cross • Lloyd Darlow Debbie Degutis ★ • Andrea Delman ★ • Debra Demartini • David Desler ★ • Lawrence Dillon • Charles Dorris ★ • Susan + Jeff Dunn ★ • Robert Durham Jeanene Ebert ★ • Helene Edelman ★ • Thomas Edwards + Rebecca Parlette-Edwards • Carol Emory ★ • Paul Feasby • Jan Fernando ★ • Mary Field Krystyna Finlayson ★ • Laura B. Fleming ★ • Susan Fogarty ★ • Catz + Jean Forsman ★ • Stephen Francis • Gail Gabiati • Mary-kay Gamel • Aaron Gannon ★ Diana Gay-Catania + David Catania ★ • Kathleen Gee ★ • Denise Giacomini • Keith Gilbert ★ • John T. Gill • Sarah Gill ★ • Jason Gitlin • Meryl Glass Marcia Glick + Craig Conlon • Alberto Gobbi • Paul Goetz ★ • Burton Goldfine ★ • Judy + Mike Goldman • Keith Goldstein ★ • John Goodman + Kerry King Derek Gordon ★ • Sandra and Norman Gordon • Piers J.C. Greenhill ★ • Dennis Gregg ★ • Gerold Grodsky ★ • Jane Hansen • Betty Jo Haridson Alan Harris ★ • Barry Hayes • Mary Rose + Patrick Hayes ★ • Susan Heller • Sarit Helman ★ • Robert Eakin + Alvis Hendley • Mark Hernandez ★ Irene Hilgers ★ • Albert + Beverley Hillman • Al Hoffman • Pam Hong • Joan Huff ★ • Eva Incaudo ★ • Andrea Indart • Nancy Ingwersen • Richard Louis James ★ Ruth James • Betsy Jasny • William Jervis + Barushka Sholty ★ • Brian + Joanie Johnson • Sheila-Merle Johnson ★ • Jeff Johnston ★ • Karla Jones ★ Melanie Jones ★ • Joan Kaplan • Mike Kaplan ★ • Leslie Karren ★ • Jose Katz • Beryl Kay ★ • Deb Kessler + Lou Michetti ★ • Veronica Kiefer • Pat + Steve Klansko ★ George M. Knuepfel ★ • Joe + Peggy Koman ★ • Doug Konecky • Ann Kottler • Linda-Marie Koza ★ • Julia Krasner • Nancy Kuefler ★ • Michael Kwiecien ★ Gary + Louise Lambdin ★ • Lois Langer • Richard + Ann Lanzerotti ★ • Kenneth C. Larson + Linda Adams ★ • Stephen Laruccia • Glennis Lees Glazeski + Michael Glazeski ★ • Enid Leff • Jack Leibman • Emily Leider ★ • Evelyn Levin ★ • Margaret Levitt ★ • Michelle Liapes • Judy Love ★ • Sara Lovett Antonia Lozon ★ • Carl Winston Lumbly ★ • Jonathan Luskin • Theresa Lustig + Stanton Koppel ★ • Eve Lynch • Michael MacDonald, MD - Aesthetic Surgery Center ★ • Gail MacGowan • George Maguire • Mary Manangan • Brandy Marts • Nola Masterson + Bruce Jenett ★ • Irene + Frank Mattei George Mayer + Edward Wesley ★ • Dianne McCutcheon ★ • Bruce McDonald ★ • Ricki + Doug McGlashan • Marilyn + Charles Meier ★ • Carl + Judy Mendoza ★ Mark Mercer • Dana Merwin ★ • Maeve Metzger • Maria Meyer • Denise Michael + David Schirle ★ • Susan Minker ★ • Bart Minor ★ • Carol Mitchell + Peter Jarit Sheila Moore + John Dalton • Sarah + Peter Morse ★ • Amelia Motroni ★ • Richard Mountain, in honor of Jane Kennedy • Mark Niu • Ruth Nott NatalieNottage•JaneNurre★•Anne+JamieO'Connell★•PatriciaO'Connor★•RobertO'Connor★•JeanO'Donnell★•JohnO'Donnell•KeikoOkanoPederson★ Nancy Ozsogomonyan ★ • Lynne Painter ★ • Paula Paley • Maureen Parent • Anne + John Parker ★ • Sylvia Pascal • David Pasta • Joel Paul Stuart Pellman ★ • Julia Peterson • Susan Petit ★ • David Pezzi • Mary Pitts ★ • Jeremy Platt • Sam Pond ★ • Michael Poplardo • Bruce Porter • Lucille + Arthur Poskanzer • Barbara Purcell • Steve + Wilma Rader ★ • Michael Ray + Wendy Wisely ★ • Nick Ray • Tuesday Ray ★ • Libby Raymond + Paul Hybel ★ Christopher Reber • Rose Reed ★ • Rosemary Reed • Gordon Reetz • Judith Rino • Susan Robertson ★ • Christina Rogers ★ • Mark Rubenstein + Yvonne Lalanne ★ William Ryan • Gretchen Saeger ★ • Launa Jill Sanders • Laurel Schaeffer-Trent ★ • Bobbi Schear • James Schmidt ★ • Steven Paul Schmidt Penny Schreiber • Madeline + Arnold Schuster • Marjorie Seashore • Philip and Janet Seelinger • James Seeman ★ • Earl + Carren Shagley Roland Sheppard + Connie Suzuki • John Sheridan ★ • Frederica Shockley • Jean Shuh • Ron Shulman • Ellen Siegelman • Lane Silber • Sol Silver ★ Donald Simms ★ • John Simpson • Lynne Soffer ★ • Phyllis Spandorf ★ • Ann + James Spencer ★ • Thomas + Lucy Sponsler • Barbara Sprung Bill + Mary Ann Stein ★ • John Steinfirst ★ • John D. Stephens • Eric + Kay Sternberger • Bonnie Stiles ★ • Paula Stokes ★ • Dorian Stull ★ • Bruce Suehiro Joan Sullivan • Virginia Summerer • Jane Taber • Ronald Tauber ★ • Marion Taylor • Judy + Bob Toll ★ • Paul + Tania Tour-Sarkissian • Robert Trask Susanne Trowbridge + Joseph Mallon • Jim Turner ★ • Linda Vallee • Deborah Van Atta • William van Dyk + Margi Sullivan • George Waegell ★ Arlene Waksberg + Charles M. Clark ★ • Kitty Wallin ★ • Morey + Jonnie Weingarten ★ • Jill + Philip Weinstein • Robert Weston Betsy Willcuts, in memory of Ted Goeller ★ • John A. Williams • Karissa Wong • Joy Woo • Michael Zarrella • Norman + Lucille Zilber ★

[ ★ indicates Rising Star Program support. ] The donors listed made gifts to the Playhouse between the dates of 12.15.14 and 12.15.15.

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

THANK YOU! WHO ARE THE RISING STARS? Rising Stars are the future movers and shakers of the American theatre. They’re high

school students who are also actors, directors, writers and designers. They’re dreamers and doers and their journey is made possible by heroes like you. For $100, you can sponsor a local student for a four-play subscription to our mainstage season that includes four in-class lessons, four post-show talkbacks with professional artists and even backstage tours. Visit us online today and join the heroes above! This production is made possible by the Shubert Foundation, the Bernard Osher Foundation, Grants for the Arts, the Taproot Foundation, American Theatre Wing, Bothin Foundation and all of our generous volunteers, donors and supporters. We are grateful.

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