Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Sep 18 - Oct 21, 2012
Adapted & Directed by Annie Lareau Up Next: Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant
The cast and design team assemble for the first time in the tea room of the historic Panama Hotel.
a magical beginning
Hello! As we type this note we just learned, and are delighted to report to you, that Book-It is the recipient of a 2012 Governor’s Arts & Heritage Award. Such an honor and one we proudly hold dear as we embark upon our 23rd season. On that high note, welcome, friends! We are truly excited to present our amazing line-up for 2012-2013. You know we have a penchant for classics and, this year, two tried-and-true greats—Anna Karenina and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn— inspire us to further refine our theatrical techniques, and we embrace the challenge to stretch our artistic imaginations as we interpret these masterpieces in the Book-It Style. Over the years, Book-It has been honored to have the chance to work with amazing contemporary authors—a list that keeps growing. What a privilege it was last season to work with literary rock stars Jim Lynch, Ivan Doig and Garth Stein. We so enjoyed their brilliant stories and characters—it is always a pleasure for us to have the opportunity to meet their fans and introduce them to the Book-It experience. This year, we add to the mix two new-to-Book-It authors: Jamie Ford and Jess Walter, both of whom are fabulous Northwest Voices. The first rehearsal for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet was held in Seattle’s International District—smack dab in the middle of the story’s heart: The Panama Hotel. Author Jamie Ford joined us; we met the real Mrs. Pettison (Jan Johnson) who shared her inspiring story of how she came to purchase the hotel; and our friends at Wing Luke provided the opportunity to tour the authentic environs that the novel inhabits and, ultimately, to have a look at the abandoned belongings left by interned families in 1942—it provided an historical and magical
Elizabeth Daruthayan, Serin Ngai, and Kathy Hsieh.
Jose Abaoag and Annie Lareau; photos by Adam Smith.
beginning for this …Bitter and Sweet adventure. We’d like to thank Jamie Ford, Annie Lareau, the Wing Luke Museum, Jan Johnson, 4Culture, MOHAI, Densho, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington, Seattle Art Museum, and the Northwest African American Museum for helping to make this production a true collaboration. As always, our art and our mission are highly dependent upon your faith and support, for which we are ever appreciative. Enjoy!
jane jones & Myra Platt Founding Co-Artistic Directors
Meet Our 2012-13 Season Oh yeah. It’s going to be a good one.
Mainstage Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford | September 18 - October 28, 2012
Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant by John Irving | December 4 - 23, 2012
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy | February 5 - March 3, 2013
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | April 16 - May 12, 2013 Adapted from the original, uncensored text.
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter | June 7 - 30, 2013 Performed at the Jones Playhouse at UW.
family fun days Thank you, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco | Saturday, October 6, 2012
Never Forgotten by Patricia McKissack | February 16, 2013
Skippyjon Jones byJudy Schachner | May 11, 2013 Armadillo illustration by Livy Long.
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hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet by Jamie Ford
Adapted and Directed by Annie Lareau
cast
Jose Abaoag Akoni† Sydney Andrews Stan Asis Thomas Dang† Elizabeth Daruthayan† Marcel Davis* Matt Fulbright† Julie Hoang† David Hsieh Kathy Hsieh Laurence Hughes Narea Kang† Stephanie Kim Mariko Kita Kevin Lin† Serin Ngai Marianne Owen* William Poole† Nathan Pringle† Melissa Slaughter† Stephen Sumida Shawn Vines Rieko Wellington Grace Xie† Moses Yim
Miranda C. Pratt* Laura Karavitis*
Young Henry Ensemble Samantha / Ensemble Henry Sr. Ensemble Ensemble Sheldon Chaz / Ensemble Ensemble Mr. Okabe / Ensemble Mrs. Lee / Ensemble Mr. Preston / Ensemble Ensemble Keiko Mrs. Okabe / Ensemble Ensemble Ethel / Ensemble Mrs. Beatty / Ms. Pettison Denny / Ensemble Ensemble Ensemble Mr. Lee / Ensemble Oscar / Bud / Ensemble Ensemble Ensemble Marty / Dr. Luke / Ensemble Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager
Artistic Team
Carey Wong Jocelyne Fowler Andrew D. Smith Kevin Heard Bill Johns Anders Bolang
Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Fight Choreographer Production Manager
*Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
Title Support:
† Book-It Acting Intern
Season Support: Lucky Seven Foundation The Norcliffe Foundation
Additional generous support is provided by individuals and by the following (in alphabetical order): Century Link Foundation, The Ex Anima Fund, Fales Foundation Trust, Horizons Foundation, Humanities Washington, KeyBank Foundation, Macy’s Inc., The Medtronic Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, Nesholm Family Foundation, Nordstrom, City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, U.S. Bancorp Foundation. Thank you to all our supporters!
A Home Across the Sea
Chinese and Japanese immigration into the United States by alex miller
The communities of Seattle’s Chinatown and Nihonmachi (Japantown) have rich histories stretching back to the 19th century and the famed “Age of Immigration,� when thousands flocked to the shores of the United States.
Chinese Immigration From 1820 to 1892, while Russians, Poles, and Irish flocked to the East Coast, 360,000 Chinese immigrants came to the West Coast, settling in cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. The China they left was a dying empire, divided by a century of exploitation by Western powers. Wars and rebellions had left the farms across China devastated, creating food shortages for an already overpopulated country. Seeking financial security for their families, many Chinese men found their way across the Pacific and soon became the workforce for a vast new frontier. The Western territories were rich in Gold and other raw materials. American businesses looking to
capitalize on these resources hired Chinese laborers at wages cheaper than their American counterparts. In California, they became miners and railroad engineers. In Washington, they found jobs in fisheries and canning factories. In addition to manual labor, Chinese immigrants became entrepreneurs in their new cities. They owned and operated restaurants, laundromats, clothiers, and import businesses. Many eventually returned to China with their earnings and helped others to make the journey. Once in America, these new immigrants found help in the communal societies that became Chinatown. Benevolence associations were formed to protect the interests of their Chinese members, arranging passage for families and acting as intermediaries between the Chinese community and their Caucasian neighbors. Eventually, the Chinese immigrants became targets of distrust and outright persecution. The federal government intervened in an attempt to curb the numbers of Chinese immigrants, and in 1892 excluded Chinese from immigrating to the United States entirely.
Chinese girls working on famine relief fund, Seattle, May 1921. Image courtesy of MOHAI.
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Chinese parade during the Go-Hing festival, Seattle, May 1921. Image courtesy of MOHAI.
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Japanese Immigration For the Japanese, emigration was at first less a necessity and more a personal choice. Until the mid-19th century, Japan had been completely isolated, foreign travel was forbidden severely limiting the presence of Western merchants and foreign influence. The first Japanese who came to America were students seeking a Western education in order to modernize Japan. Slowly, the Japanese government relaxed its emigration laws, allowing farmers and laborers to find work abroad. The relaxation of these laws coincided with the Chinese Exclusion Acts in the United States. The Act had cut off the ready source of cheap Chinese labor, so American businesses turned to the Japanese. Japanese labor became important to the maintenance of the railroads built by the Chinese. The fishing, farming, and lumber industries of the Northwest drew Japanese workers in large numbers. These Japanese-born immigrants called themselves Issei, the first generation. They were prevented by law from owning property or becoming American citizens. Their children, the Nissei (second generation), were born in the United States and therefore entitled to citizenship. They became the land- and business-owners of the budding Japanese communities. The children of this generation, Sansei, were, on the whole, more American than they were Japanese. Nonetheless, they still bore the stigma of not looking “American,� and were sometimes just as unwelcome as their Japaneseborn grandparents.
A Japanese church group in Seattle, 1909. Image courtesy of the University of Washington.
Storefronts in Seattle’s Japantown, ca.1910. Image courtesy of MOHAI.
Sources: www.seattlehistory.org Stanford M. Lyman, Chinatown and Little Tokyo: Power, Conflict and Community Among Chinese and Japanese Immigrants to America (Port Washington, N.Y.: Associated Faculty Press, 1986)
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It is a rare hot August day in Seattle. Despite the sweltering heat of a fourth-floor rehearsal from room with little ventilation, 30 actors and crew sit in a large circle as each of us share our personal family stories of immigration into this country. There are stories of French-Canadians being persecuted by the KKK in Maine, Korean children translating for their parents, Japanese who watched the planes fly over their farm in Hawaii the day of Pearl Harbor, and Chinese ancestors so deeply rooted in Seattle history that they are part of the original and continuing fabric of the International District. And those are just the first few stories to flow forth. I am inspired by the complexity and yet the similarity of all of the stories that have brought us to this place and made us all so passionate about this book and this play. These actors are passionate. Some of them have spent months deep in research, combing the archives of the Wing Luke Museum, attending art exhibits displaying art from Camp Minidoka, trying to find the deep truths of each of their characters. This play may be a work of fiction but the history is so much a part of us who live in this city that we are committed to discovering the truth between the lines. It is so paramount, in fact, to all of us that in a moment of silence toward the end of our discussion, one actor leaned in to everyone and said, “To honor the history of the people we play, whether we are in actuality of the same ethnicity or not, we must get it right. We must get it right.” So we have tried, with all of our passion, heart and hard work to do just that. I invite you to take this leap of faith with these incredible actors and enjoy the ride.
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Sydney Andrews, Stan Asis, and Moses Yim rehearse the Panama Hotel tea room scene.
Director Annie Lareau looks over a moment in the script with Stan Asis. Photos by Shannon Erickson.
Director
Author Jamie Ford; photo by Lawrence Kim.
Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Kaiping, China to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. An award-winning short-story writer, Ford is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and a survivor of Orson Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle’s Chinatown, he now lives in Montana (where he is on a neverending quest to find decent dim sum). Visit him at www.jamieford.com, where he can be found blogging about his next book, among other things. Bio from www.jamieford.com
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Cast Kathy Hsieh
Mrs. Lee / Ensemble
Kathy is an awardwinning actor, writer, and director. As an actor she has worked with the Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, Intiman, Taproot, ReAct, Freehold Theatre, Hedgebrook, Living Voices, and SIS Productions. She has also been featured in guest spots on TNT’s “Leverage,” the independent film Nothing Against Life, and the NBC movie In My Shoes, plus various voiceover jobs and audio-books. Kathy has appeared in Book-It’s Waxwings and Snow Falling on Cedars. As a writer, she has been featured in The Dramatist Magazine as “50 to Watch,” has been honored by the National Association of Asian American Professionals in Seattle as their Artist of the Year and by ArtsFund in 2003, and is the 2012 winner of Seattle’s Asian Pacific American Bash’s Innovator award.
Laurence Hughes Mr. Preston / Ensemble
Laurence is happy to be back at Book-It having previously been seen in Rebecca and currently in the touring show The Future Remembered. He has performed locally at ACT Theatre, On The Boards, Annex Theatre, Centerstage, Stone Soup Theatre, and GreenStage, and globally in San Francisco in Medea Knows Best, Prague in The Probe, Montana and Canada in Saltwater, and in the deconsecrated chapel of a château in central France on 9/11/2001 in Big Love. Sometimes he’s a professional poker player, but Book-It insiders know him best as Mr. Rachel Atkins.
Narea Kang †
Ensemble
Narea is thrilled to be making her Book-It main stage debut in this production. Previously, she toured Washington with Book-It’s educational program. Narea is also part of Pork Filled Players, Seattle’s longest running Asian American sketch comedy group. www.nareakang.com
Stephanie Kim Keiko
Stephanie is delighted to debut at Book-It with Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Her local work includes a recently-premiered, full-length indie, 100% Off: A Recession-Era Romance with writer/ director Shaun Scott. Theatrically, she was last seen in Seattle with ReAct’s Yellow Face
and Seattle Children’s Theatre’s A Single Shard, and in Chicago with Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis’ Yeast Nation and Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Funk It Up About Nothin’. Her education includes a BFA in performance, commedia training at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy, and work with the American Singer Seminar – Musical Theater Intensive with director Douglas Webster. Favorite credits include Myrrah, et al. in Metamorphoses; Maiko in Hana’s Suitcase; and Tiger Lily in Peter Pan.
Mariko Kita
Mrs. Okabe / Ensemble
Mariko is thrilled to be returning to BookIt in this wonderful adaptation. She previously appeared in Red Ranger Came Calling and “Booked-It All Over” with Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. A mother of three wonderful girls, she studied voice at Peabody Conservatory before pursuing a career in medicine. She has appeared locally with StoryBook Theater, Balagan Theatre, Live Girls! Theatre, and Lyric Light Opera.
Kevin Lin † Ensemble
Kevin is a junior at the University of Washington. There, he performs improv comedy with The Collective, “UW’s best and only improv troupe.” This will be his first time working with Book-It and, while he enjoys doing improv, he is excited to return to the stage. He has previously been seen in projects such as Ends Meet, The Awesome 80s Prom, and Alice in Wonderland. Kevin also really likes cats.
Serin Ngai
Ethel / Ensemble
Serin is an actress, playwright, theater producer, and family law attorney and partner at Olympic Law Group, PLLP. Serin was the original playwright of the episodic theatre show, Sex in Seattle, in which she also performed and produced many episodes. She sits on the SIS Productions board, which she helped establish, and is a producer with the theatre company, Azeotrope, which she helps run with her husband, and talented actor, Richard Nguyen Sloniker, and director Desdemona Chiang. Serin is excited to be back on stage after a hiatus from acting and honored to be working with Book-It and the talented artists working on this production.
Marianne Owen* Mrs. Beatty / Ms. Pettison
Marianne has worked on the stages of ACT Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Intiman, Village Theatre, The Empty Space, and Seattle Rep (as a company member) for the past 25 years. A founding member of the American Repertory Theater, her career also includes work at the Public Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Playwrights Horizons, Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, and the national tour of The Real Thing. She earned an MFA from Yale School of Drama and is cofounder of Bridging the Gap, a mentorship studio for Seattle actors and directors.
William Poole †
Denny / Ensemble
William is pleased to be making his professional theatre debut with Book-It. He discovered a love for acting as a student at the University of Washington where he recently graduated with a degree in biochemistry. His past credits at the UW include August: Osage County, Mr. Marmalade, and The Laramie Project.
Nathan Pringle † Ensemble
Nathan is super pumped and grateful to be in Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. As a recent graduate of the University of Washington, he is excited to start his post-college career in make believe with Book-It. His favorite roles include Bill in August: Osage County, Schmendiman in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Octavius Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra, and Vershinin in Three Sisters.
Melissa Slaughter † Ensemble
Melissa graduated last year from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design with a BFA in musical theatre. One year after moving to Seattle, she is pleased to be working with Book-It on a story close to her heart. In Seattle, Melissa has worked with Quiet Productions, Civic Light Opera, Pork Filled Players, and Centerstage Theatre.
Mr. Lee / Ensemble
Stephen has played older (mostly domineering) men since high school in Honolulu, Hawaii, in Teahouse of the August Moon and The King and I. Previous credits include And the Soul Shall Dance, Nisei Bar and Grill, and Gold Watch, all with the pioneering Asian American theatre group, Asian Exclusion Act. He played David in Paul Stephen Lim’s Mother Tongue at the University of Michigan and Vincent in Philip Gotanda’s Yankee Dawg You Die, produced by the Performance Network, where he was awarded Best Actor in 1993. Stephen reprised Iko’s Gold Watch in a 2006 community ceremony and reading. In 2008 he played Ozaki in SIS Productions’ staged readings of Paul Kikuchi’s Ixnay. During the day, he is professor of American Ethnic Studies at the UW.
Shawn Vines
Oscar /Bud / Ensemble
Shawn is happy for the opportunity to work on his first show with BookIt. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is both a heart-wrenching and heart-warming story and he is excited to work with the cast and crew to share this experience. Shawn likes this story because it shows how human beings sometimes do the most awful things with the best intentions, but time heals all wounds…or at least makes the scars more bearable.
Rieko Wellington
Ensemble
Rieko is excited to be appearing with Book-It for the first time. She is nine years old and is a fourth grader at University Child Development School. She has appeared in Cinderella with Broadway Bound Children’s Theatre, Music Man with Lyric Light Opera, where she recently played Ngana in South Pacific. She studies violin, does gymnastics, and loves to read.
Grace Xie † Ensemble
Grace is really excited to be a part of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. She was last seen in Odet’s Waiting for Lefty from Freehold Theatre’s Rehearsal and Performance class. Her favorite part so far has been Hotshot the monkey in Pirates: Cast Adrift with Umbrella Theatre. She is
currently studying the Meisner technique at Freehold Theatre and has studied improv with Unexpected Productions. She is also an aspiring voiceover artist in commercial, video games, animation, and cartoons.
Moses Yim
Marty / Dr. Luke / Ensemble
Moses is thrilled to be making his BookIt debut in Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. In July, he wrapped up ReAct’s encore presentation of Yellow Face, where he reprised his role as DHH, and was also a part of SIS Productions’ finale of Sex in Seattle. Born and raised in Seattle, Yim, who turns 29 in October, has been in various plays such as Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest, M*A*S*H, and Year Zero. A relative newcomer to the stage, Yim hopes to be in many more productions for years to come.
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Annie Lareau
Adapter / Director
In addition to her role at Book-It as director of touring and outreach productions, Annie has directed over 15 touring productions for Book-It, most notably Two Wheels North by Evelyn Gibbs and Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine, and several contributions to Guilty Pleasures. Annie has directed for Seattle Children’s Theatre Drama Department and 14/48, has taken part in ACT Theatre’s Bridging the Gap program, and has worked with University of Washington and Syracuse University. As an adapter, she has adapted several scripts for Book-It’s educational program as well as their mainstage production of My Ántonia. As an actor, she has worked with local theatres including Book-It, Seattle Shakespeare Company, The Empty Space, Theater Schmeater, and ArtsWest, and many others. She is the recipient of two Seattle Times Footlight Awards for her performances in ArtsWest’s The Vertical Hour as Nadia and Book-It’s My Ántonia as Ántonia. Annie is also a member of the Sandbox Arts Collective. She holds an M.Ed from Harvard University in arts and education and a BFA in acting and directing from Syracuse University. Annie lives in Wallingford with her beautiful sevenyear-old daughter, lovely eight-year-old stepdaughter, and her loving partner, David.
Carey Wong
Scenic Designer
Carey’s theatre credits include the Berkeley Rep, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, Intiman, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Village Theatre, Childsplay, Phoenix Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Prince Music Theater, and Hey City Theater. He has been resident designer for Portland Opera, Opera Memphis, and Wildwood Park for the Arts. Regional opera credits include Seattle Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, New York’s Valhalla Wagnerfest, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Carolina, Orlando Opera, and Vancouver Opera. Recent projects have included The Magic Flute with the Beijing and Macao Music Festivals, Una Pareja de Miedo with Nearco Producciones in Spain, The Nutcracker with Ballet Arizona, Sylvia with Seattle Rep, The Pitmen Painters with ACT Theatre, A Single Shard with Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Dialogues Des Carmelites with Portland State University. Carey is a graduate of Yale College and attended the Yale School of Drama. www.careywong.com
Andrew D. Smith Lighting Designer
Andrew is pleased to return to Book-It, having designed The Cider House Rules, Emma, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Locally, his work has been seen at Seattle Rep, New Century Theatre Company, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Public Theater, Azeotrope, Theater Off Jackson, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, ArtsWest, On The Boards, Velocity Dance Center, and Broadway Performance Hall. Andrew has worked nationally at Flint Youth Theatre, Horizon Theater Company, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Roust Theater, and Cardinal Stage Company. Andrew received the 2010 & 2011 Gregory Award for Outstanding Lighting Designer as well as the 2010 Seattle Times Footlight Award. Andrew holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA from the University of Washington, where he currently teaches.
Jocelyne Fowler Costume Designer
A graduate of the University of Washington, Jocelyne studied theatre with a concentration in costume design and construction. Her design credits include Book-It’s Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant; Vashon Opera’s Eugene Onegin; Seattle Musical Theatre’s Legally Blonde; Youth Theatre Northwest’s The Sound of Music, Cinderella: Rockin’ * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. † Book-It Intern
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the ’80s, The Crucible, The Who’s Tommy, and 2010 and 2011’s Haunted Forest; Theatre 912’s Everything in the Garden, Jason and Medea, and The Cherry Orchard; Harlequin Productions’ The Americans Across the Street; SecondStory Repertory’s The Dancing Princess, The Princess and the Pea and Children of Eden; ReAct Theatre’s Driving Miss Daisy, A Language of Their Own, and Yellow Face; Live Girls’ Quickies 13 and Emerald City; Ghostlight Theatricals’ Freak Storm and Hedda; and Seattle Pacific University’s Much Ado About Nothing.
Kevin Heard
Sound Designer
Kevin is happy to be back at Book-It helping to bring this wonderful world to life. Recent credits include Sense and Sensibility with Book-It; Wittenberg with Seattle Shakespeare Company; Blink, a lost installation and When You Point at the Moon with Kyle Loven; Hairspray, Godspell, and The Music Man with Village Theatre KIDSTAGE; and The Yellow Wood, a new musical with Contemporary Classics. Upcoming designs include Loss Machine at On the Boards; Pandora and The Box with eSe Teatro at ACT Theatre; and Scrooge, the Musical at Seattle Musical Theatre. Kevin is head sound engineer for the Leo K. Theatre at Seattle Rep, an engineer at Teatro ZinZanni, and a freelance consulting sound engineer and designer. http://heardaudio.com
Bill Johns
Fight Choreographer
Bill is thrilled to be back at Book-It again. As an actor, he has appeared in Sense and Sensibility as Henry Dashwood and Sir John Middleton, A Confederacy of Dunces as Mr. Gonzales and Dorian Greene, in Peter Pan as Smee, and Broken for You as Bruce, Sam, and Dermit. He has also worked locally with ACT Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Intiman’s Living History program, Village Theatre, Taproot Theatre Company, Seattle Public Theater, Annex Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and continues to work on various TV, film, voice-over and video game projects. He is married to author Stephanie Kallos and has three children— Brynn, Noah, and Sam.
Miranda C. Pratt* Stage Manager
Miranda is thrilled to be working on her first show at Book-It. Her Seattle theatre credits include Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Threepenny Opera, Electra, and Taming of the Shrew; Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Dancing at Lughnasa; 14/48; Theater Schmeater; Paradise Theatre School; and
Balagan Theatre. Miranda also serves as the production manager for Seattle Shakespeare Company. Prior to moving to Seattle, she worked at the La Jolla Playhouse on a workshop production of Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention and at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis on Bad Dates and Completely Hollywood Abridged. Miranda has a BFA in stage management from Webster University’s Conservatory of Theater Arts in St. Louis, Missouri.
Laura Karavitis*
Assistant Stage Manager
Laura is thrilled to be a part of Book-It’s season opener! After receiving her BA in theatre arts from Washington State University, she has toured internationally with magician David Copperfield, spent time with the V Theatre at Planet Hollywood, Michigan Tech University’s Rozsa Performing Arts Center, and regionally with Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, where she worked over 15 shows in 12 months.
anders bolang
Production Manager
A graduate of Whitman College and the Yale School of Drama, Anders served as production manager for Tacoma Actors Guild and as technical director for the California Theatre Center and Whitman College. As a carpenter, he has created scenery for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Intiman, and Yale Rep, among others. On stage, Anders has performed at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Delaware Theatre Company, Yale Rep, Book-It, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Harlequin Productions, Tacoma Actors Guild, and as a guest artist with the Boston Pops. In New York, he has performed at the Performing Garage, NY Theatre Workshop, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Anders has appeared on “As the World Turns” and “One Life to Live,” the feature films Police Beat and Helene, and in industrial training films and voice-overs.
jane jones
Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director
Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 25 years of staging literature, she has performed, adapted, and directed works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 30 years, she has played
leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres. Most recently she played the role of Miss Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations (Seattle Times Footlight Award). Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. At Seattle Rep, she codirected with Tom Hulce, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Backstage West Award, best director) and in New York (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). Jane directed Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage winning the 2008 Drammy award for Best Direction and Production. For Book-It, she has directed and/or adapted The House of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale of Two Cities, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, and The Cider House Rules, Parts One and Two, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and Book-It were honored to be named by the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region. She is a recipient of the 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Award. Book-It was also honored with a Mayor’s Arts Award in 2010.
myra platt
Founding Co-Artistic Director
As co-founder, director, adapter, actor, and composer, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 65 world-premiere stage adaptations. Her adapting/directing credits include The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Roman Fever, A Little Cloud, A Telephone Call, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Directing credits include Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday. She co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Telephone Call, and I Am of Ireland. As an actress, Myra most recently appeared as Susan Duff in Prairie Nocturne, Judith in The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Edna in The Awakening, and Margaret in
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staff Howards End. Outside of Book-It, Myra has performed at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, New City Theatre, and the Mark Taper Forum. Myra is thrilled to have been a recipient with Jane Jones of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Founders Award, the 2010 Women of Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal, and to have been named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region.
charlotte m. tiencken Managing Director
Charlotte is an arts administrator, director, producer, and educator who has been working in the arts producing and presenting fields for 30 years. Before moving back to the Seattle area in 2003, she was general manager at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts for four seasons. Charlotte is a member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is past president of the Board of Arts Northwest. She has served on the board of the Pat Graney Dance Company, sat on granting panels for the Washington State Arts Commission, 4Culture, and on the Board of Theatre Puget Sound. She teaches at Seattle Pacific University, University of Washington, and Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She is married to Bill and lives on Vashon Island with her three cats and two dogs.
Allison Dunmore † Assistant Director
Alex Miller † Dramaturg
Bob Antolin Music Instructor
Tim samland Master Carpenter
Devon Bright Master Electrician
Kristyne Hughes Properties Master
Lauren Karbowski Dresser
Carmen Rodriguez Scenic Artist
Shannon Erickson Scenic Artist
clare strasser Properties Artisan
Megan Tuschhoff Properties Artisan
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Angelo Domitri Board Operator
Erol Hendrickson Board Operator
Megan Mills † Costume Shop Intern
bill danner Scene Shop Manager
Jocelyne Fowler Costume Shop Manager
Victoria Thompson Production Stage Manager † Book-It Intern
special thanks to Historic Panama Hotel Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience Seattle Children’s Theatre University of Washington Joann Byrd Danielle Girard The historic photographs used in the set were graciously loaned to Book-It by: Janet Aviado and Bob Fisher Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience Todd Mayberry and the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington Howard Giske PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection at The Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)
meet our partner Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience is the country’s only museum devoted to the Asian Pacific American experience. Inside, you’ll learn where many Asian immigrants found their first home and meal in the States. Chinatown Discovery Tours, a subsidiary of The Wing, offers Bitter and Sweet, the official walking tour that complements the book. “The official Bitter and Sweet tour is a lovely way to see the real Chinatown-International District and discover the places frequented by Henry and Keiko—get an in-depth look at the neighborhood’s rich history, diversity, and layers of stories.” -Jamie Ford For more information, call the Wing Luke Museum at (206) 623-5124 or visit them online: www.seattlechinatowntour.com or www.wingluke.org
honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support!
Literary legends $50,000+
Leadership Circle, cont.
Nobel Award Society, cont.
ArtsFund Matthew N. Clapp, Jr. The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Gladys Rubinstein
Lynn Murphy** Nesholm Family Foundation Whitney & Jerry Neufeld-Kaiser Tom & Cheryl Oliver** Myra Platt & Dave Ellis** Puget Sound Business Journal David Quicksall & Rachel Glass** Lynne & Nick Reynolds** Matt Sauri Seattle Center Foundation Martha Sidlo Garth & Drella Stein** Deborah Swets** Jim & Kathy Tune Kris & Mike Villiott** April J. Williamson Lucy Zuccotti**
John Schaffer Ten Mercer* Sara Thompson & Richard Gelinas Kerry P. Thompson Jared Watson Jay Weinland & Heather Hawkins Virginia Sly & Richard Wesley Judith Whetzel Tim Wood & Anne McDuffie Merrily Wyman & Karen Bryant Anonymous (2)
Literary Champions $25,000+ 4Culture The Boeing Company Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Ann Ramsey-Jenkins
Literary HEROES $10,000+ N. Elizabeth McCaw & Yahn W. Bernier Jeff & Amanda Cain** City of Seattle Office Of Arts & Cultural Affairs Stellman Keehnel Lucky Seven Foundation Emily Anthony & David Maymudes The Norcliffe Foundation Safeco Insurance Foundation The Seattle Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Shirley & David Urdal Washington State Arts Commission Anonymous (2)
Literary Classics $5,000+ Boeing Gift Matching Program Sonya & Tom Campion CenturyLink Foundation The Ex Anima Fund Humanities Washington KUOW 94.9 Public Radio* The Medtronic Foundation Mary Metastasio** Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Nordstrom Mary Pigott Larry & Michell Pihl U.S. Bancorp Elizabeth Warman** Richard Weening Mary Ann & Robert Wiley Andrew & Trish Zuccotti**
Leadership Circle $2,500+ Monica Alquist** Karen Brandvick Baker & Ross Baker** Cheryl Boudreau Steven Bull & Christiane Pein** Joann Byrd** Canonicus Fund D. Thompson & Karen Challinor Tony & Emily Cox Garry & Kay Crane Fales Foundation Trust Tom & Cande Grogan John & Ellen Hill Horizons Foundation Jane Jones & Kevin McKeon** KeyBank Foundation Margaret Kineke & Dennis West** Macy’s Inc.
Nobel Award Society $1,000+ All One Family Fund Stephen & Salli Bauer Janet Boguch & Kelby Fletcher Elizabeth Bourne Patricia Britton** The Bungie Foundation Wendy Cohen & John Chenault Catherine Clark & Marc Jacques Amy & Matthew Cockburn George & Carolyn Cox Davidson & Co. Matching Emily Davis Allan & Nora Davis Robert Hovden & Ron DeChene Mark Dexter & Deborah Cowley The Eureka Foundation Expedia Gives Matching Gift Program Sandra K. Farewell Elizabeth & Paul Fleming Susan George Peter Godman & Munira Rahemtulla Amy & Thaddeus Hanscom** Lucy Helm Harold & Mary Frances Hill Heather Howard Pam Ingalls Lea Knight Agastya Kohli Marsha Kremen & Jilly Eddy Anne & Steve Lipner Ed & Laura Littlefield Craig Lorch Ellen & Stephen Lutz Darcy & Lee MacLaren Melissa & Don Manning** Donald E. Marcy Holly & Bill Marklyn Sarah Merner & Craig McKibben Steve Miller & Pamela Cowan Glenna Olson & Conrad Wouters Will Patton & Joni Ostergaard Peter & Jane Powell** Jo Ann & Jim Roberts Marc & Stacie Scattergood
Pulitzer Award Society $500+ :Nota Bene Cellars* Shawn & Lynne Aebi Earl Alexander* Virginia L. Anderson Ruth Bailey The Bayless Family Mary Murfin & Doug Bayley** Luther Black & Christina Wright Lindsay & Tony Blackner John Bradshaw Judy Brandon & H. Randall Webb Avery Brooke Jeff Youngstrom & Becky Brooks Leo Butzel & Roberta Reaber Mary Anne Christy & Mark Klebanoff Amy & Paul Curtis Emily Davis Dottie Delaney Diane Douglas Jim & Gaylee Duncan Julie Edsforth & Jabez Blumenthal Brent & Katie Enarson Joyce Erickson Firesteed Cellars* Liz Fitzhugh & Jim Feldman R. Brooks Gekler Jean Gorecki & Dick Dobyns T.A. Greenleaf & Rebecca Roe Laurie Griffith Dr. Benson & Pamela Harer Phyllis Hatfield Carol Hodgman Jason Holtman Clare Kapitan & Keith Schreiber Pam Kendrick Donald Kunze Annie Lareau** Liam Lavery Bill Block & Susan Leavitt Daniel & Julia Little Stephen E. Lovell Sheila Lukehart & Jim Brinkley Ruth McCormick Marcie & John McHale Jean McKeon John O’connell & Joyce Anne Latino Blair Osborn & Alice Cunningham Deborah & Jeff Parsons Meta L. Pasternak Paula Riggert
honoring book-it contributors Book-It would like to thank the following for their generous support!
Pulitzer Award Society, Cont.
National Book Award Society, Cont.
National Book Award Society, Cont.
Lawrence & Karen Robins Dr. Robert & Donna Marie Saunders Jil & Eric Scollard Pamela & Nate Searle Seattle International Film Festival* Gail & John Sehlhorst** Craig Shank & Meredith Stelling Michael & Jo Shapiro Meg Silver Tamara Stenshoel Richard & Irene Strand Kimberly & Mike Strand LiAnn & Stephen Sundquist Tammy Talman The Film School* William & Lynette Thomas Molly Thompson & Joe Casalini Mr. & Mrs. Frederick W. Titcomb Karen & Ron Van Genderen Pop Cap Games Matching Fund Jennifer Weis Robert & Leora Wheeler Shannon Williams Steve Wilson & Julie Lin Jay Hereford & Margaret Winsor David & Sally S. Wright Mary & Gerald Zyskowski Anonymous (2)
Garagiste Wine* Julia Geier & Phil Borges John Matthew Geyman Katharine Godman & Jerry Collum Anke Gray Jenny Haight & Josh Windsor Mimi Haley Laura Hanson Stephanie Hilbert Wendy Hilliker Marty Hoiness Nancy Holcomb Cynthia Huffman & Ray Heacox Melissa Huther Yvonne Ingalls Cory Jacobson Brent Johnson Kris Jorgensen & Margey Rubado Mary J. Klubben Sarah Kohut & Jim Grant Kristin Koon Frank Lawler & Ann McCurdy Dr. Eric Rose & Eleni Ledesma Erin Leff Victoria Leslie Mark Lewington Arni Litt & Lori Eickelberg Elizabeth Love Josie & Doug Manuel Nancy Manula Marcia Mason Jim McDonald Metropolitan Market* Donna & Robert Parker Charles Montange Marc & Emily Mora Margaret Morrison Susan & Furman Moseley Betty Ngan & Tom Mailhot Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert Steve Pellegrin & Mary Anne Braund Corliss J. Perdaems Judy Pigott David Pollock Linda Quirk Charles & Doris Ray Shawn & Mike Rediger Bradley Renner Anne Repass Linden Rhoads Karen & Eric Richter Romio’s Pizza & Pasta* Jill & Stephen Rosen H. Stewart Ross Marci Saaijenga Don & Marty Sands Savage Color Printing* Sonya Schneider & Stuart Nagae Frank Schumann & Heather Pullen Aime & Mike Servais Peter Sill & Marcia Joslyn Sill Donn Skrivanek
Standard Insurance Company Employee Giving Campaign Christine Stepherson Janice Strand Paul Stucki & Christina Chang Alison G. Swanberg Gail Tanaka Terry Tazioli Samuel Teitzel The 5th Avenue Theatre* Emory & Laura Thomas Deborah & Andrew Thompson Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West** Edward & Genevieve Tremblay Janet & Stan Vail Sheila Valencia & Walter Parker Ruth Valine & Edward McNerney Jerry Watt & Vreni VonArx Watt Sandra Waugh Sally & Charles Weems Eddie Westerman Hope Wiljanen Rachel Wilsey & Sam Bernstein Patty Wilson Janet & Lawrence Wilson Richard Wilson & Lloyd Herman Young deNormandie, P.C. Jane Zalutsky
National Book Award Society $250+ Doug Adams Christina Amante Connie Anderson Kimberly D. Baker Ma Barker & Mom Chow Deb & Bill Bigelow Barry Boone & Mary Wilson Annette Bostwick Gail & Doug Boushey Bruce Bradburn & Meg Holgate Adelaide H. Brooks & Robert Pennell Letitita Brown Linda Bugni David & Rachel Bukey Diana & Chuck Carey The Carey Family Foundation Jack & Cynthia Clay Samantha Cooper** Virginia Davison Julia De Haan Nancy & Bruce Deane Sandra & Paul Dehmer Mary DeLorme & Mark Schleck Nancy Dirksen Mary Dombrowski Carol & Greg Druse Beth L. Dubey Pamela & Kenneth Eakes Constance L. Euerle Heidi Evatt Stan & Jane Fields James & Denise Fortier Robert Foster*
Pen/Faulkner Award Circle $100+ ACT Theatre* • Carol Adams • Bob & Marcia Almquist • Georgina Alquist • William G. Anderson • Seth Armstrong • Amy Arvidson • Cinnimin Avena • Michelle Badion • Maxine Bailey • Jennifer Sue & Russ Banham • Jo Ann & Tom Bardeen • Tina Baril & Dafydd D. Rhysjones** • Roger Tucker & Becky Barnett • Shawn Baz & Ellen Bezona • Lindsay Bealko • Rebecca Benton • Maribeth Berberich • Beth Berman • John Bianchi & Scott Warrender • Nancy L. Bittner • Watson & Jane Blair • Mark Blatter • Marlin & Ellen Blizinsky • Marisa Bocci • Rebecca Bogard • Jane Bogle • Richard Bohrer • Broadway Center For The Performing Arts* • Gretchen Broderson • Julia Buck • Virginia Bullard • Melanie Calderwood • Jane Camden • Carri Campbell • Michela Carpino & Rick Klingele • Carl & Terry Chadsey • Sylvia & Craig Chambers • Gerry & Kristine Champagne • Lynne & David Chelimer • City Of Seattle Matching Gifts • Catherine Clemens • Harvey Sadis & Harriett Cody • Jane Commet • Julie Conklin • Susan Connors • Robert & Mary Cooper • Covestic, Inc. • Terry Coyne • Carol Crosby • Reidun Crowley • Jim Wilder & Margaret Curtin • Nancy Cushwa • Michelle Czech • Deborah Daoust • Melinda Deane & Dan Wheetman • Sherri Del Bene • Dorothy & Jim Denton • Marie Doman • Dan Drais • Vasiliki Dwyer • Susan M. Dyer • Sarah L. Easterbrook • Eight Bells Winery* • Nancy Ellingham • Lynne Ellis • Marilyn Endriss • Kim & Rob Entrop • Jane Faulkner & Marc Kittner • Deborah Ferguson • Laura Ferri • Mary Ellen Flanagan • Carolyn & Rob Fletcher • Anne Fox • Jayn & Hugh Foy • Kai Fujita • Laurel Garcia & Shi Kai Wang*
Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.
Pen/Faulkner Award Circle, cont.
O. Henry Award Circle, cont.
Cezanne Garcia • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program • Bill Gill • Siobhan Ginnane • Vicki & Gerrie Goddard** • Joan & Steve Goldblatt • Dona Golden • Suzanne Goren • David Nash & Pat Graves • Pamela Greenwood • Jean Grief • Emily Grogan Goodwin & Marcus Goodwin • Scott Guettinger • Nancy Guppy • Dr. Rena Hamburger • Laura & John Hammerlund • Elizabeth Hanna & Donald Fleming • Faith Hanna • Larry Hanson • Wier Harmon • Marcia L. Harper • Brenda Hartman • Ellen & David Hecht • Eric & Susan Helland • Rebecca Herzfeld & Gordon Crawford • Rita Hibbard • Diana Hice • Susan & Jim Hogan • David S. Hogan* • Kate Hokanson • Lisa Holderman • Carolyn Holtzen • Mary & Eric Horvitz • Karen L. Howard • Julie Howe & Dennis Shaw • Robert Hunter • Claire Hur • IBM Matching Grants Program • Alison Inkley • Eva Jackson • Lawrence Jackson • Robert C. Jenkins • Kent Johnson • Christy Johnson • Christopher Monck & Susan K. Jones • Lorna Jordan • David Kasik & Jan Levine • Rebecca Kavoussi • Owen Kikuta • Katherine King • Shannon & Richard Knipp • Lillian Koblenz & Majeed Al-Mateen • Dean W. Koonts • Alan Kristal • Fay Krokower • Francis J. Kwapil • Ken Lanier • Jeanne Leader & Stephen Ooton • Christine Lewis • Karen Lewis-Smith • Bonnie Lewman • Madalene Lickey • Jamie & Andrea Lieberman • Cynthia Livak • Adelaide Loges • Carol Lumb • Lynda by Design* • Mary Frances Lyons • Joan Machlis • Barbara Maduell • Lynn Manley & Alexander Lindsey • Elizabeth Mathewson • Elaine Mathies • Jim McClaine • Susan McCloskey • Phil & Lee McCluskey • Kathy McCluskey • Samuel McCormick & Charmain Jondall • Deirdre & Jay McCrary • Maggie McDonald • Morna McEachern & Grant Brockmeyer • James & Kaaren McElroy • Viola Joan McNeil • Merck Partnership for Giving • Margaret Metastasio • John Mettler • Jeanne Metzger • Katie Mitchell • Sara & Paul Mockett • George & Marion Mohler • Becky Monk • Richard Monroe • Terry & Cornelia Moore • Eleanor Moseley • Martha Mukhalian • Pam & Don Myers • Kim Namba • Donna & Dennis Neuzil • Dorothy & Aaron Nicholls • Pam & Scott Nolte • Curtis & Marion Northrop • Jeanette O’Connor • Chris Ohweiler • Nancy & Stephen Olsen • Kevin & Linda O’Morrison • Clare & Austin O’Regan • Pat O’Rourke • Don & Judy Ostrow • Timothy O’Sullivan • Pacific Office Automation, Inc.** • Pacific Northwest Ballet* • Jeff & Lauren Packman • Susan Parker • Terry Paugh • Reen Payne & Bruce Putnam • Sherry Perrault • Gloria Pfeif • Cynthia Phelps • Jennifer Phillips • Paula Pimental • Anne & Lee Pipkin • PopCap Games* • Susan Porterfield • Judith Powers • Puget Sound Energy Foundation • QFC* • Michelle Quackenbush • Diana Rakow • Kathryn Ramos • Michelle Rebert • Brian & Roberta Reed • Connie Reed • Esther Reese • Dennis & Jean Reichenbach • Jeannette & Stephen Reynolds • Roberta Roberts • Elizabeth Romney • Marga Rose Hancock • Barbara Roser • Kristine Ruppelt • Beth Rutherford • Patricia Rytkonen & William Karn • Julie Sarkissian • Kathy Saunders • B. Charlotte Schreiber
Seattle Repertory Theatre* • Earl & Charyl Kay Sedlik • Mark Seklemian • William Selig • Allen E. Senear • Meredith Lehr & William Severson • Audrey & John Sheffield • David Silverman • Shellie Slettebak • Marilyn Sloan • Adam Smith & Jennifer Teunon • Carol Smith • George & Susan Smith • Barbara Spear • St. Clouds Restaurant* • Noah Seixas & Dana Standish • Diane Stevens • Andrea Swope • Debra & Mark Szalwinksi • Theresa Tamura • Eric & Cassandra Taylor • Anne Terry • Kristin & Mark Thomas • Cappy Thompson • Carol Tobin • Diane & Bert Turnbull • Marcia Utela • Susan VanZanten • Ruth Verhoff • Verizon Foundation • Village Theatre* • Christina Villiott • Vino Aquino* • Jorie Wackerman • Margot & Thomas Washington • Washington State Employee Combined Fund • James Weber • Kayla Weiner • Morton & Judy Weisman • Adam Westerman • Gregory Wetzel • Jean & David White • Bill & Paula Whitham** • Margaret Whittemore • Jane Wiegenstein • Carol & Bryan Willison • Lauren Wilson • Bruce Winchell • WorldWise Jewelry* • Wright Runstad & Co. • Samantha Wykes • Robert Winsor & Valerie Yockey • Sam Zeiler & Dawn Frankwick • Tracey Zheng Anonymous (9)
Dr. Donald & Alice Lewis • Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd • Frank Lott • Terry Mace • Kenneth Mackenzie & Teresa Rich-Mackenzie • David & Joy Maimon • Melodie Martin • Kim Mats Mats • Ellen Maxson • Sharon McAuliffe • Theresa & J. Douglas McLean • Cindy McRoberts • Mecca Café* • Julie & Mike Metzger • Barbara & Terrance Miller • Gary Miller • Shyla & Donald Miller • Minter’s Earlington Greenhouse* • Sarah Mixson • Joan Moritz • Elizabeth Morrison & Geoff Crooks • Christine Mosere • Susan & Harold Mozer • Susan L. Neff • On The Boards* • Helen Ortiz • Lynn & Neal Parker • Dorothy Pearson • Ed & Carol Perrin • Pamela R. Perrott • Richard B. & Barbara Peterson • Katherine Phelps • Piper’s Creek Nursery* • Suzanne Pitre & John Stone • Laura Ploudre • Portage Restaurant* • Thomas W. Pratt • Mary Price • Marjorie Priest • Patricia & Jackie Pritchard • Andrea Ptak & Aaron Houseknecht • Racha Noodles And Thai Cuisine* • Barbara & Daniel Radin • Grace Reamer • Nancy Reichley & Timothy Higgins • RN74* • Sally Rochelle • Barbara Rollinger • B. Ann Rotermund • Donna Sand • Christine & Michael Sannella • Scarecrow Video* • Judy Scheerer • Greg & Cynthia Scheiderer • Ellen Schiff • Julie Schoenfeld • Nancy Schroder • Ann Schuh • Seattle Art Museum* • Seattle Children’s Theatre* • Seattle Men’s Chorus* • Janna Silverstein • Diane Snell • Linda Snider • Jill Snyder • Ruth Solnit • Janet Sorby • Pat T. Starkovich • Jane Stevens • Julie Stohlman • Anne Stoltz • Sheila Striegl • Margaret Swain • Taproot Theatre* • Sally & Robert Telzrow • Laura Thomas • Awnie Thompson • Bonnie Thompson Norman • Margey Thoresen • Deborah Torgerson • T.S. McHughs* • Marcellus Turner • UW World Series* • Muriel Van Husen • Vashon Opera* • Julie Vergeront • David Wallis • Tom & Kristi Weir • Julie Weisbach • James & Sharon Welch • Irina West • Connie & Les Wiletzky • Michael Winters • Kathrin Young • Dallas Young & Ursula Pontieri • Anonymous (6)
O. Henry Award Circle $50+ Judith Alexander • Amgen Foundation • Diane Anderson • Anita A. Austin • Anne & Roger Baker • Putnam Barber • Dana Beiber • Lisa Bergstrom • Colette Bjorkelo • Audrey Blair • Diane Blake • Julia Bolz • Books By The Way* • Anne Boyer • Bridge Partners LLC • Linda Buckingham • Tisha Cain • Gwyneth W. Casazza • Elizabeth CeriniLopis • Meggen Chadsey • Elizabeth Chamberlin • Joyce Chase • Carl Chew • Kristy & Bruce Clay • Combined Federal Campaign • Mary E. Comtois • John W. Corder • Stephanie Czerwonka • Marilyn & Don Davidson • Robin Dearling • Martha DeMar • Tom Donnelly • Marcia Donovan • Lorna Dykes • Susanne Elizer • Margot & Dave Elsner • Sara Elward • Polly Feigl • Chandler & Janice Felt • Chad & Jennifer Ferrell • Laura Fischetti • Fredia Flowers • Patricia Fritz • Kris & Lori Fulsaas • Mary Gagliardi • Phil & Thea Galante • Elizabeth Gaskill • Elizabeth Gilchrist • Ann Glusker & Peter Hunsberger • Google Matching Gifts Program • Linda Gould • James Graham • Kathryn Greenberg • Carla & Kirk Griswold • Carolyn Gross • Ellen Hale & Brian Rodgers • Susan E. Hamilton & Timothy Bates • Corina Hardin • Elizabeth Hebener • Elizabeth & Matthew Hedlund • Terri Helm-Remund • Kate Hemer • Lorayne Hendrickson • Catherine Hennings • Nancy & Norbert Hertl • Chris Higashi • Mary Hinderliter • Karin Hirschfeld • Cole Hornaday • Susanne Hussong • Andrea & Scott Ichikawa • Wendy Jackson • Nancy Juhos • Joan Kalhorn • Joan Karkeck • Malia & Chang Kawaguchi • Millett & Patricia Keller • Marjorie Kettells • Sherrie & Ken Kilborn • James & Vicki King • King County Employee Chartiable Campaign • Stephen Feldman & Katherine Knowlton • Kristi’s Grooming Company* • Barb & Art Lachman • Asha & Lillian Lahiri • Ellen Langley • Carol Levin • Larry Lewin
Gifts in Honor & memory Nancy L. Celms, Kate C. Hemer, Connie Hungate, and Margaret M. Marshall in memory of William Rees Phillips Corliss Perdaems in memory of Judy Runstad’s father, Gerry Wright Manville Barbara Rollinger in memory of Stephanie Prince’s mother, Mildred Prince Sonja M. Coffman in memory of Helen Robinson *denotes in-kind donation **denotes in-kind plus monetary support This list reflects gifts received March 1, 2011 – August 22, 2012. Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgements. Please email Development Associate Samantha Cooper, samanthac@book-it.org with any changes that may be required.
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board of directors Steven Bull, President Architect, Workshop for Architecture + Design Joann Byrd, Vice President Journalist & Editor, Retired Kristine Villiott, Treasurer CPA, Minar and Northey LLP Thomas Oliver, Secretary Educator Monica Alquist Dir. of Events & Special Projects, Puget Sound Business Journal Karen Brandvick-Baker Public Relations & Communications Consultant Amanda Cain Librarian, American Philanthropic, LLC Jane Jones Founder & Founding Co-Artistic Director, Book-It Margaret Kineke Senior V.P., D.A. Davidson & Co.
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