Detroit '67 Program by Baltimore Center Stage

15/16 SEASON Jane Austen’s

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE THE SECRET GARDEN X’S AND O’S AS YOU LIKE IT DETROIT ’67

DETROIT ’67 By Dominique Morisseau Directed by Kamilah Forbes

Apr 8–May 8

An Introduction to the World of the Play Dear Friends, Detroit ’67 was chosen for this season not only because it is an amazing play by a talented writer, but also because I knew it would speak to our audience, here and now. At its heart, this is a play about family. And many in Baltimore can appreciate the importance of family support set against social unrest. Playwright Dominique Morisseau captures the heart of a Detroit

family at a crucial time in the city’s history—and she does it with grace, humanity, wit, and insight.

I worked with Dominique before—including when I directed Skeleton Crew at the Lark Play Development Center and the world premiere of Detroit ’67 for the Public Theater in New York in 2013. Going on that

developmental journey together was an amazing privilege. Indeed, if I were to leave America for London right now, I’d say that working with Dominique was one of the highlights of my entire time in America. Brian Marable, Jessica Frances Dukes, Michelle Wilson, Dominique Morisseau, Kamilah Forbes, Amari Cheatom, and Sarah Nealis.

Not only the quality of her writing, but the quality of her re-writing,

is outstanding. Every time she writes something new it makes my heart smile and leaves me eager to read more. On top of all of it, I admire her

dedication to telling the story of her city and re-telling it and re-framing it for different audiences.

Dominique’s dedication to her art and her city are an inspiration, and we’re honored to help bring this play back, full circle, to its home. After closing at

Center Stage, this production will travel to Detroit Public Theatre as part of its inaugural season as a professional theater company. As an established

regional theater, we are excited to help this new theater company present Detroit ’67. We look at this relationship as a sort of mentorship. Like co-

commissions, this partnership allows both of our theaters to benefit from what one theater cannot always do alone. And in this case, Baltimore and Detroit have a lot in common—from our thriving cultural renaissances to

our experiences with social injustice—and this moving play has incredible relevance for both cities. Warmly,

Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director

The 2015/16 Season is dedicated to the memory of Peter Culman, Center Stage’s managing director from 1966 to 2000, a poet, a man of faith, a Chinese linguist, a devoted husband and father, an omnivorous reader, a world traveler, a professor of homiletics, a mentor, a friend, and a true leader.

Cast

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DETROIT ’67

Apr 8–May 8, 2016

2 Setting

3 Meet the Playwright

Dominique Morisseau Tells It like It Is

Motown and Madness

Bios: Cast

9 Bios: The Artistic Team

11 Audience Services

11 Bios: Staff

16 Education Feature

17 Supporter Spotlight

28 Staff

By Dominique Morisseau

In association with Detroit Public Theatre

CAST

(in alphabetical order)

Jessica Frances Dukes* Bunny

Brian Marable

Season 2015/16 Sponsor:

Center Stage is also made possible by: Center Stage is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive.

Sly

Sarah Nealis* Caroline

Michelle Wilson*

Laura Smith*

Victoria Solorio

Chelle Stage Manager Stage Management Intern

THE ARTISTIC TEAM

Detroit ’67 is sponsored by:

The William L. and Victorine Q. Adams Foundation & The Rodgers Family Fund

Amari Cheatom* Lank

Kamilah Forbes Director

Steve Broadnax Associate Director

Michael Carnahan Scenic Designer Dede Ayite Costume Designer Jen Schriever Lighting Designer

Justin Ellington Sound Designer

Alex Basco Koch Projection Designer

Lauren Imwold

Brandon Rashad Butts

Pat McCorkle

Production Dramaturg Assistant Director Casting Director

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

Lead Student Matinee Sponsor:

There will be a 15-minute intermission. PLEASE TURN OFF ALL ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

Support also comes from Detroit ’67 Media Partners:

The Nathan and Suzanne Cohen Foundation Fund for Commissioning and Developing New Plays The Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Judy and Scott Phares Director Kamilah Forbes is the Season 2015/16 recipient of the Lord Baltimore Capital Corporation Visiting Artist Fund.

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setting

TIME & PLACE

TIME: July, 1967 PLACE: Detroit, Michigan

Meet

THE PLAYWRIGHT

“Dominique is more than a playwright from Detroit, she is a force for social justice across all boundaries.” — Kamilah Forbes

Dominique Morisseau Playwright/Actress Dominique Morisseau is an alum of the Public Theater Emerging Writer’s Group, Women’s Project Lab, and Lark Playwrights Workshop. Credits include: Skeleton Crew (Sundance, Lark Barebones, Atlantic Theater Company/ Scott Rudin); Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem/NBT); Sunset Baby (Gate Theater, Labyrinth Theatre); Follow Me To Nellie’s (O’Neill, Premiere Stages). She has produced other original works with the Hip Hop Theater Festival, Penn State University, American Theatre of Harlem, and The New Group. Her three-play cycle, entitled “The Detroit Project,” includes Detroit ’67, Paradise Blue, and Skeleton Crew. Paradise Blue premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in July 2015, starring Blair Underwood and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Dominique is currently the Story Editor on the Showtime series Shameless. Awards: Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, two-time NAACP Image Award, Primus Prize commendation, Stavis Playwriting Award, Spirit of Detroit Award, U of M Emerging Leader Award, Weissberger Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper New American Play Prize, The Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation Award, and the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama.

Above: Carl Hendrick Louis and Gillian Glasco in Sunset Baby at Kitchen Theater, © 2014 Dave Burbank. Right: Jason Dirden and Nikiya Mathis in Skeleton Crew at Atlantic Theater Company, photo by Ahron R . Foster. Below: De’Adre Aziza, Kristolyn Lloyd, and Blair Underwood in Paradise Blue at Williamstown Theatre Festival, photos by T. Charles Erickson.

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Photo by Cassandra Miller

DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU

Tells It Like It I s Where does Detroit ’67 sit in your recently completed threeplay cycle, “The Detroit Project”? It was the first completed, but is the

second chronologically—between Paradise Blue (set in 1949) and Skeleton Crew (set in 2008). People hear that it’s a cycle of

related plays and ask, which characters flow through from one to another? My answer is Detroit: Detroit is the character these

plays have in common. I guess I’ve been

looking at a single community in different eras, exploring how that place and its

people have changed over time and with time. I didn’t write this particular play to

be current—only now do I recognize how “now” it is, really.

What would you say was your goal in creating it?

First, I had been reading all the plays of Pearl Cleage—she’s from Detroit originally—and was blown away by how she captured

Black women’s voices. She gives us voice in a way that August Wilson gives men

voice. Then I decided to read through all of

someone else’s work, and turned to Wilson. Reading his Century Cycle, I imagined how the people of Pittsburgh must feel seeing themselves, their city and their history, in

those plays; they must feel so seen! Simply put, I wanted to do that for Detroit.

Next, I realized that the only narrator for

Detroit tends to be the media, and that’s a sloppy, inaccurate, usually biased narrator. The Detroit I grew up in and understand was built on the backs of these small

communities made up of real people. And I wanted to tell a story from that perspective.

I wanted to bring the soul of that into the national conversation about Detroit. I wanted to give Detroit a voice of its own. Not to look good or bad, but to look human, in all the complicated ways that that happens. My job is not to fix a people, or to fix “my” people; my job is to let these people speak for themselves and see what happens. I just need to let ’em talk.

Why this piece of Detroit specifically?

Aside from me and my entire family being from Detroit, I wanted to dive into Detroit’s history and look at the important moments that changed the landscape of our city. And 1967 was definitely one of the more definitive moments. So many people don’t grow up learning about what happened. It’s not taught in schools. It’s not kept alive through conversation. So I went out to learn about it on my own. And when I found out that it was sparked by these after-hours parties, I got very excited about the idea of putting an after-hours basement party on-stage. Because I knew they were a big deal in the ’60s, and I had never seen that world before.

How do you feel about this play having its Detroit premiere at Detroit Public Theater?

So many people have asked me, when are you coming to Detroit? When are you bringing this play to Detroit? I knew how to take my play home, and how to do it the right way; I’ve been open to bringing it home and staying involved throughout in the right way, and that way just wasn’t right until now. More and more small theaters

are there, trying to make a start, to make it work—my hope for this production moving on is to be part of that. My goal (among many) is to support this ambitious new theater company [Detroit Public Theater] in their inaugural season. So many good pieces are lining up, so many good people getting involved, to make this possible at last. It feels right.

Music seems like a big part of your life, not to mention the play. Can you talk a bit about the music in the piece?

Music helps to give me a sense of the world within a play. Whenever I write, I use music as the backdrop. It informs the world, gives me a local color, a language for the period, the attitude and the spirit of what I’m writing. Motown is definitely a no-brainer when it comes to Detroit in the ’60s. But my instinct was to look for groups or singers that I wasn’t already hip to. What people listened to on a record in 1967 is not necessarily the song that was the most popular. I wanted these characters to listen to music that had a particular message or point of view that spoke to where they were or what they were going through, not just what was the most popular. “My Baby Loves Me” transports me to another world whenever I listen to it. It reminds me of my mother. Somewhere subconsciously, that song lives in my mind and in my heart. It’s like this song is family.

Compiled from conversations at Center Stage rehearsal and from Northlight Theatre.

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Get Ready – The Temptations Shop Around – The Miracles What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye

“Lover of mine gone to a faraway land / Serving your country on some faraway sand / If you should get lonely / Remember that your heart belongs to me.”

MOTOWN

My Girl – The Temptations Cruisin’ – Smokey Robinson Dancing In The Street – Martha & the Vandellas

–The Supremes, “Your Heart Belongs to Me”

Lauren Imwold, Production Dramaturg

“Detroit was jamming. Detroit was alive.” – Marvin Gaye

Detroit’s Motown style emerged from the diverse cultural melting pot of “The Motor City”—including the city’s many waves of immigrants. The industrial center’s growing Black middle class embraced and generated music of all genres, which could be heard in countless performance halls as well as all over the streets: “Detroit was a real music town. You heard it everywhere, from radios and record players, outside the doors of the clubs that kids like us were too young to enter legally, from guys and girls standing out on the street singing. It sounds like a scene out of a musical, but that’s truly how it was.”

“We just had this family of people

coming in—all purposeful, and all a part of this. They felt like they were

coming in to a magical place and it did turn out to be magical.”

–Berry Gordy, Motown Records “Motown really transcended America. All of a sudden, there was a sound that

everybody could relate to. It was just really good music that we could dance to and sing to, and it was just a good thing. And I really do think that Motown contributed

not just to a wonderful thing in the music world, but to the Civil Rights Movement.” –Rick, a Detroit native

“When listeners would call me to request a certain song, they would refer to the

various artists by their first names. It was like they were personal friends. That’s how close the fans felt to Motown, and all of its artists.” –Tom Shannon, Radio host

– Otis Williams, The Temptations

In 1959, visionary entrepreneur Berry Gordy established the Motown record label, housed in a small home sporting the optimistic sign “Hitsville USA.” Within a year, Gordy’s family of artists were dubbed “the Sound of Young America.” An exciting amalgam of passionate vocals; the call-and-response of the African diasporic tradition; and a fusion of all-American pop, jazz, and Rhythm and Blues, Motown was revolutionary in successfully marketing Black music across racial boundaries and around the country. Celebrated chiefly for up-tempo love songs and toe-tapping tunes, the label also featured lyrics that increasingly reflected the changing times.

“Father, father / We don’t need to escalate / You see, war is not the answer / For only love can conquer hate / You know we’ve got to find a way / To bring some lovin’ here today.” – Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On”

For Once In My Life – Stevie Wonder Stop! In The Name Of Love – The Supremes

Two Lovers – Mary Wells Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross My Guy – Mary Wells

“By midnight on Tuesday, July 26, Detroit’s skyline was scorched red with burning gas fumes. A ball of confusion swept through the Motor City, and the local music scene came face-to-face with forces it was powerless to contain. Sixties soul would continue its bittersweet journey for many years to come, but something happened in the brutal month of July that changed Detroit’s image forever.”

Around 4 am on Sunday, July 23, 1967

—against a background of long-simmering tensions—plainclothes police officers raided a “blind pig” (an illicit after-hours bar) in Detroit’s Twelfth Street neighborhood, a hub of Black nightlife. The officers expected a few patrons, but instead found 82 people celebrating the return of two Vietnam veterans. The situation quickly escalated, and by mid-afternoon, the first fire broke out. Over the following five days—as state police, then National Guard, and finally Army paratroops—were called in, as many as 10,000 people joined in the violence while 100,000 more gathered to watch. By week’s end, 43 people died, 473 were injured, and over 7,000 (ranging in age from four to 82) were arrested. Some 2,500 stores were looted or burned, and 400 families rendered homeless.

–Stuart Cosgrove, Detroit *67: The Year That Changed Soul

“The first hours were just like a holiday. All the kids wandered

around sayin’, real amazed like, ‘The fuzz is scared; they ain’t going to do nothin’.” All the guys who’d been sittin’ on us—‘specially those shopkeepers who charged us 60 cents for a 45-cent half-gallon of milk—they got some dues paid.” –A young Detroiter

“Man, how can you call this place a home? This ain’t no motherfucking home. This is a prison. I’d just as soon burn down this damn place as any other.” –A Detroit resident

“With the amount of shooting going on around here, we’re lucky 430 weren’t killed.” –A Detroit resident “The cat on Twelfth Street can look a hundred yards away and see another black cat living in an eight-room house with a 1967 Pontiac and a motorboat on Lake Michigan. It’s all so close, and yet it’s all so far

away, and the frustration just eats them up.” – A Detroit schoolteacher

“That’s why I am reaching out my hand to be your friend / This unrest between races has got to come to an end / Don’t let the color of my skin confuse you.” –The Temptations, “Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite The World)”

Baby I Need Your Loving – Four Tops I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye

Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours – Stevie Wonder Please Mr. Postman – The Marvelettes War – Edwin Starr

MOTOR CITY

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THE CAST

Photos, clockwise from top: Amari Cheatom; Jessica Frances Dukes and Sarah Nealis; Kamilah Forbes; David Burdick, Dede Ayite, and Stephen Richard; Michelle Wilson.

Amari Cheatom*—Lank.

Center Stage: debut. Off Broadway—Signature Theatre: Zooman and the Sign; The Public Theater: The Lower Ninth, The Book of Grace; Sundance Theatre Festival: Origin Story; When January Feels like Summer; New Federal Theatre: The Toilet; A Ballad of Sad Young Men; Age of Grace. Regional—True Colors Theatre: Cracking Zeus, Fetch Clay Make Man; Freddie Hendricks Youth Ensemble of Atlanta. The Juilliard School—The Winter’s Tale (King Leontes), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Bynum Walker), King Lear (Edmund the Bastard), Beau Willimon’s War Story (Sean), St. James Infirmary (Banner). Film—The Mikki Howard Story, Deeper Than Blue, The Alchemist Cookbook; Newlyweeds (Shaka King); Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino); Knucklehead (Ben Bowman); Night Catches Us (dir. Tanya Hamilton, with Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington); Disparity of Forces. TV—Numbers (CBS), Chase, Detroit 187 (ABC), Georgetown (ABC).

Jessica Frances Dukes*— Bunny. Center Stage:

Beneatha’s Place, Clybourne Park (Best Actress for both). Off-Broadway—Playwrights Horizons: Bootycandy (Obie Award). Regional—Arena Stage: King Hedley II, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Arden Theatre: Stick Fly; Geva Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun, The Piano Lesson; Indiana Repertory: The Piano Lesson; Cleveland Playhouse: Trip to Bountiful; Woolly Mammoth Theatre (company member): Bootycandy, The Vibrator Play, Full Circle, Eclipsed, Fever/ Dream, Antebellum (Helen Hayes ens/nom), Starving; Folger Theatre: The Conference of The Birds; Olney Theatre: The Piano Lesson; Studio Theatre: Passing Strange, Caroline, or Change; Round House Theatre: Trip to Bountiful and Permanent Collection; Ford’s Theatre: Jitney; Tribute Productions: Spunk (Helen Hayes Best Actress nom); Theater Alliance: The Bluest Eye, Insurrection: Holding History (Helen Hayes ens/nom) and more. TV—The Good Wife (CBS); A Raisin in the Sun Revisited (PBS); NBC Showcase Alumni (2015). Education—MFA from Catholic University.

Brian Marable—Sly.

Center Stage: debut. Regional—Performance Network Theater: The Mountaintop (Martin Luther King, Jr.), The Piano Lesson (Boy Willie); Purple Rose Theater: Superior Donuts (Franco). Film/ TV—Have a Little Faith (Hallmark Movie), The Citizen (2012, Monterey Media), Low Winter Sun (AMC), Standing in the Shadows of Motown (James Jamerson). Education— Howard University, Wayne State University. Brian is currently exploring writing for the stage in a collaborative play titled Grow, which looks at marijuana law and property rights with 4Theatrsake, a Detroit-based theater company. Life credits include father, son, brother, Detroiter.

Sarah Nealis*—Caroline.

Center Stage: debut. Off Broadway—SoHo Playhouse: Bill W. & Dr. Bob. Regional— Contemporary American Theater Festival: We Are Pussy Riot, Everything You Touch; Alley Theatre: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Asolo Rep: Venus in Fur; Magic Theater: What We’re Up Against; Denver

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audience

THE ARTISTIC TEAM

Kamilah Forbes—Director. Center Stage:

debut. Broadway—associate director credits include Holler if Ya Hear Me, A Raisin in the Sun, Lucky Guy, Stick Fly, The Mountaintop, Def Poetry Jam (tour). Recent directing— People’s Light: All My Sons; National Black Theater: Fried Chicken & Latkes featuring Rain Pryor; Arena: Blood Quilt; True Colors: Detroit ’67; Labyrinth: Sunset Baby; 651 Arts: Circle Unbroken; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Scourge; Summer Stage: Sweet Billy and the Zooloos; Kennedy Center: Tribute to Marvin Gaye. Other—Lincoln Center Theater, Public Theater, Lark Play Development Center, Arena Stage, Alliance Theater. TV—credits include The Wiz Live (associate director, NBC); HBO’s Def Poetry Jam (producer); and HBO’s Brave New Voices (executive producer). Professional— Hi Arts/Hip-Hop Theater Festival: Producing Artistic Director; Kennedy Center: Curator in Residence. Education—Howard University.

Steve Broadnax—Associate Director.

Center, Huntington Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, Indiana Rep, Syracuse Stage, Cal Shakes, NJ Rep. Film/TV—Keep In Touch (Best First Feature – Calgary Int’l Film Festival), I Love You But I Lied (LMN). Education—BA from UC Berkeley; ACT (SF); Caymichael Patten Studios (NYC).

Michelle Wilson*—Chelle.

Center Stage: Mainstage debut. Broadway—A Raisin in the Sun (Ruth u/s). New York—Public Theater: Detroit ’67 (Chelle, world premiere, dir. Kwame Kwei-Armah); Premiere Stages: Follow Me to Nellie’s, The People Before the Park; NYC Fringe Festival, The Classical Theater of Harlem, O’Neill Playwright Festival. Regional—New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Indiana Rep, Stella Adler Theater; developmental work at The Lark, Center Stage. Film/TV—Blue Bloods, ER, Reverse Cowgirl, Nehemiah, Sink, The Bicycle. *Member of Actor Equity Association

Center Stage: debut. Regional and Tour—Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival: The Hip Hop Project, an award-winning, full-length original play directed, choreographed, and conceived by Steve. Writing credits include—American Taboo, Smash/Hit, Hard To Say I Love You, Sex Love, And Everything In Between. Directing credits include—Classical Theatre of Harlem, National Black Theatre, The Black Theatre Troupe, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Moore Theatre, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, National Arts Festival (South Africa). Acting credits include— Arkansas Repertory: Dreamgirls; R.L. at the Crossroads; Pennsylvania Centre Stage; St. Louis Black Rep; St. Louis Repertory Theatre; St. Louis Muny; Lincoln Amphitheatre; Westport Playhouse; Ozark Actors Theatre. Professional—Associate Professor of Theatre Head Graduate Acting at Penn State University. Education—MFA in Acting from Penn State, BFA in Musical Theatre from Webster University in St. Louis.

Michael Carnahan—Scenic Designer.

Center Stage: debut. Off-Broadway— Atlantic Theater Company: Skeleton Crew; 59E59: I and You; Second Stage: The Happiest Song Plays Last; Signature Theatre: The Piano Lesson, The First Breeze of Summer; Life Could Be A Dream, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Three Mo’ Tenors, Pygmalion, Howie the Rookie, Brando. Tours—Cheers, Live On Stage; A Christmas Story The Musical. Regional—credits include Arena

SERVICES

DINING

The on-site café, Pure@Arts Café, will run a limited menu of ready-made gourmet sandwiches, salads, and soups starting two hours prior to curtain and through intermission for each performance. Refreshments including wine and beer will be available. During Wednesday Matinees, the café will also be serving the Towson student community, so alcohol will not be available for those performances.

DRINKS

Drink and food are NOT permitted in the theater.

PHONES

Please silence all phones and electronic devices before the show and after intermission.

RECORDING

Photography and both audio and video recording are strictly forbidden.

ON-STAGE SMOKING

We use tobacco-free herbal imitations for on-stage smoking and do everything possible to minimize the impact and amount of smoke that drifts into the audience. Let our Box Office or front of house personnel know if you’re smoke sensitive.

ACCESSIBILITY

Wheelchair-accessible seating is available for every performance.

We offer free assistive listening devices, braille programs, and magnifying glasses upon request. An Open Captioned performance† is available one Sunday performance of each production. Two performances also feature Audio Description†.

PARKING

FREE parking is available in the Union Parking Garage for all Towson shows, with the exception of Wednesday Matinees when students will occupy the Union Garage. Patrons attending Wednesday Matinees can park in Lot 14, and, in those instances, shuttle service will be provided. A Paratransit shuttle is also available from both lots. Call 410.704. RIDE when you arrive and it will take you to the accessible entrance of the Center for the Arts building.

FEEDBACK

We hope you have an enjoyable, stress-free experience! Your feedback and suggestions are always welcomed: info@centerstage.org. Open Captioning & Audio Description performances of Detroit ’67 are on Sun, May 1. Audio Description at both 2 pm and 7:30 pm. Open Captioning at 7:30 pm. †

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Stage, American Conservatory Theater, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Two River Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Laguna Playhouse, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Northlight Theatre, Signature Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, Arsht Center, Musical Theatre West, San Jose Repertory, Center Rep. Associate scenic designer credits include: Broadway—Allegiance, The River, Peter and The Starcatcher, ANN: The Ann Richards Play, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Importance of Being Earnest, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, All About Me, White Christmas, Curtains. michaelcarnahandesign.com.

Dede Ayite—Costume Designer. Center

Stage: debut. Recent regional—Lincoln Center Theatre: The Royale; Arena Stage: Blood Quilt, Five Guys Named Moe; The Public: Toast, The Urban Retreat, Manahatta, Hollow Roots. Other design credits include— Steppenwolf Theatre: Marie Antoinette (Joseph Jefferson Award); Dallas Theatre Center: Stagger Lee; Lincoln Center LCT3: brownsville song (b-side for tray); CalShakes Theater: A Raisin in the Sun; Two Rivers, NJPAC: The Music Man in Concert; Intar: Adoration of the Old Woman; UM, Amherst: Woyzeck; TMTC: Look Upon Our Lowliness; Improv Everywhere/BBC America: COPPER Project; soloNOVA Festival: Last Laugh; NYU: Mary Stuart; Harlem Stage: Holding it Down; Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute: Vassa; Urban Stages: Illmatic; Yale Repertory Theatre: The Piano Lesson; Summer Stage: American Schemes. International—Trinidad: Smile Orange. TV—Kurt Metzger (Comedy Central), Fox Shortcoms (FOX Network). Education—MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Justin Ellington—Sound Designer/Composer. Center Stage:

debut. Broadway—Other Desert Cities. Off Broadway—New York Theatre Workshop: Fetch Clay Make Man, The Seven; Lincoln Center Theater: Other Desert Cities; MCC: The Break Of Noon, The Pride. Recent regional—Dallas Theater Center: Romeo and Juliet, Stagger Lee; People’s Light: All My Sons; True Colors: Detroit ’67 (both w/ Kamilah Forbes); Alliance Theater: Top Dog Underdog, King Hedley II; McCarter Theater: Fetch Clay Make Man; Stratford Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It. Other credits include—National Theater London, Royal Shakespeare Company, New York Stage and Film, Hartford Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown, Chautauqua Theater Company, Center

Theater Group. Awards—2010 Grammy Award winner, 2011 ASCAP Award winner. justinellington.com.

Jen Schriever—Lighting Designer.

Center Stage: Stones in His Pockets. Broadway—Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed (starring Lupita Nyong’o); John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown (also filmed for HBO). Off Broadway—Signature: Night is a Room; Second Stage: Mala Hierba, American Hero; The Public: ToasT, A Second Chance; Labyrinth: Sunset Baby; Soho Playhouse: Triassic Parq; Woman’s Project: Bright Half Life; Abrons: I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees. Regional—Goodman: Rapture Blister Burn; Goodspeed: Theory of Relativity; Studio: Between Riverside and Crazy; Woolly Mammoth: Guards at the Taj, Marie Antoinette; Signature: Sunday in the Park with George; Papermill: The Other Josh Cohen; Folger: Romeo And Juliet, The Conference of the Birds, The Taming of the Shrew; Williamstown: American Hero. Dance—Liz Lerman: Healing Wars. Opera— Metropolitan: Pearl Fishers, Die Fledermaus; Mariinsky (Russia): La Traviata, Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Professional— Adjunct Professor Purchase College. Member: Wingspace.

Alex Basco Koch—Projection Designer. Center Stage: Pride and

Prejudice, Marley, One Night in Miami…, The Mountaintop, ReEntry (also Round House, Actors Theater of Louisville). Broadway— Walter Kerr: Irena’s Vow. Off Broadway and other New York—Signature Theatre: The Liquid Plain; Waterwell: Goodbar (Under the Radar 2012); TerraNOVA Collective: Feeder; Repertorio Espanol: En el Tiempo de las Mariposas, La Casa de los Espiritus; Urban Stages: ReEntry, The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion; Ensemble Studio Theatre: Lenin’s Embalmers. International—Mori Theater, Chile: La Casa de los Espiritus. Regional— Court Theatre (Chicago): The Invisible Man (also Studio Theatre in DC); Director’s Company, Theater MITU, Electric Pear, Shalimar, SummerStage, Little Opear Theater, The New Ensemble. Professional— Technical design for New Georges at sLD and Big Art Groups Dead Set II & III. alexbascokoch.com.

Lauren Imwold—Production Dramaturg—is the Dramaturgy Intern for the 2015/16 Season at Center Stage. She has interned in Education at Penumbra’s Summer Institute and in Operations at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. She has a BA in Theatre Arts with a minor in African and African-American Studies

from Loyola University New Orleans. She has presented a paper (2013) and facilitated a workshop (2014) at the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference. She is especially interested in social justice oriented theater and arts education. She would like to thank Gavin Witt for this incredible opportunity.

Pat McCorkle—Casting Director. Center

Stage: Pride and Prejudice, Marley, One Night in Miami…, Amadeus, Wild with Happy, Twelfth Night, A Civil War Christmas. Broadway—54 Productions including: Amazing Grace, On The Town, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway—Over 60 Productions including: Clever Little Lies, Shear Madness, Stalking the Bogeyman, Freud’s Last Session, Tribes, Our Town, Almost Maine, Driving Miss Daisy. Film—over 60 projects including: A Morning Son, Year by the Sea, Junction, Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Basic, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard III, School Ties. TV/New Media—45 shows including: My America I and II (For BCS), Saint George, Twisted, humans for Sesame Street, Californication (Emmy nom.), Max Bickford (CBS), Hack (CBS), Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, Chapelle’s Show. mccorklecasting.com

Laura Smith*—Stage Manager. Center

Stage: Resident Stage Manager: As You Like It; 4000 Miles; After the Revolution; It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Amadeus; Wild with Happy; Twelfth Night; Stones in His Pockets; dance of the holy ghosts; Clybourne Park; Beneatha’s Place; The Mountaintop; Bus Stop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man; Gleam; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Cyrano; Working it Out; Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Regional—Shakespeare Theater Company: Salome; Contemporary American Theater Festival: World Builders; Everyman: Pygmalion, Shipwrecked, The Exonerated, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Gem of the Ocean, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, A Number, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Yellowman; Woolly Mammoth: Gruesome Playground Injuries, House of Gold, The Unmentionables, Vigils, After Ashley; Folger: Measure for Measure, Olney Theatre: Stuff Happens; Theater Alliance: Headsman’s Holiday, Pangea, [sic].

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THE STAFF Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE is an

award-winning British playwright, director, actor, and broadcaster. At Center Stage he has directed Marley, One Night in Miami... (Top Production 2015, City Paper, The Baltimore Sun), Amadeus, dance of the holy ghosts, The Mountaintop, An Enemy of the People, The Whipping Man, (named Best Director, City Paper), and Naomi Wallace’s Things of Dry Hours. In 2014, Kwame was named Best Director in City Paper’s Best of Baltimore, and he was a finalist for SDC’s Zelda Fichandler Award for Best Regional Artistic Director. Among his works as playwright are Elmina’s Kitchen, Let There Be Love, A Bitter Herb, Statement of Regret, and Seize the Day. Beneatha’s Place debuted at Center Stage in 2013 as part of The Raisin Cycle. Other directorial credits include Wallace’s The Liquid Plain at New York’s Signature Theatre, Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew at the Lark Play Development Center, New York’s Public Theater’s productions of Comedy of Errors (NYT’s Critic’s Choice), Much Ado About Nothing, the World Premiere of Detroit ’67 (Best Director nom.), and the World Premiere of The Liquid Plain at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has served on the boards of TCG, Steinberg Playwright Awards, The National Theatre, and The Tricycle Theatre (London), and as Artistic Director for the World Arts Festival in Senegal. He was named the Chancellor of the University of the Arts London, and in 2012 was named an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Managing Director Stephen Richard has

worked in ballet, museums, and theater, with his longest tenure at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. As Arena’s Executive Director, he planned and managed the theater’s capital campaign for the Mead Center for American Theater. He has taught arts management at Georgetown University and George Mason University, among others. He has also served on the boards and committees of some of the nation’s most prestigious arts organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, American Arts Alliance, the League of Resident Theatres, and Theatre Communications Group. He currently serves on the board of directors of Maryland Citizens for the Arts.

Associate Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif is a director,

playwright, and producer. She served as Associate Artistic Director, Director of New Play Development, and Artistic Producer at Hartford Stage; recently as Program Manager of the ArtsEmerson Ambassador Program; and as Developmental Producer/Tour Manager of Progress Theatre’s musical The Burnin’. Hana also served as co-founder and Artistic Director of Nasir Productions, which brings theater to underserved communities. Directing credits include The Whipping Man, Gem of the Ocean (six CCC nominations), Gee’s Bend (CCC Award Best Ensemble, two nominations), Next Stop Africa, Cassie, The Drum, and IFdentity. Hana has directed numerous developmental workshops, including Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s The

Chat and Chew Supper Club. Her plays include All the Women I Used to Be, The Rise and Fall of Day, and The Sprott Cycle Trilogy. Hana is the recipient of the 2009–10 Aetna New Voices Fellowship and Theatre Communications Group (TCG) New Generations Fellowship.

Stage in 2003, after nearly 15 years in Chicago as an actor, director, dramaturg, translator, and teacher—and co-founder of the classically based greasy joan & co theater. Among his translations and adaptations are a half-dozen Shakespeare plays, including a Jeffnominated version of Pericles. In addition to working as a dramaturg on scores of productions, readings, and workshops at Center Stage, he has helped develop new work around the country. Before making his Center Stage mainstage directorial debut with Twelfth Night, Gavin directed more than a dozen Young Playwrights Festival entries, as many new play readings, and the 50th Anniversary Decade Plays for Center Stage. A graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago, he has taught at the University of Chicago, DePaul, and locally at Towson and Peabody Conservatory; served on the advisory boards of several theaters; and spent more than a decade as a regional vice president of the national association of dramaturgs, LMDA.

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James Nicola, Artistic Director at New York Theatre Workshop

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Associate Director/Director of Dramaturgy Gavin Witt came to Center

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across the country. We thank these

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hand to provide guidance and advice to

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experienced professionals who are on Center Stage leaders, board, and staff.

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Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director at Center Theatre Group

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Feature: Education

A BALTIMORE STORY JERRY MILES JR.

Spoken word poetry is Jerry Miles Jr.’s thing. The 28-year-old Baltimore poet, college advisor, and drama teacher discovered this when he joined Center Stage’s Encounter high school theater ensemble as an 11th-grade student at St. Frances Academy. Encounter is a weekly after school workshop for high school students, running annually from September through May. During the program, teens work together to learn different artistic disciplines and develop performance pieces, which are presented at a few smaller performances throughout the year. The program culminates in a fully staged final production in the spring. “Encounter introduced me to all types of things—poetry, theater, dance, writing. It celebrates everything. It really inspired me, and made me an artist. It made me realize spoken word was my thing,” says Jerry. After several years as an Encounter student, Jerry became an English and creative writing major at the University of Baltimore and has since become a Center Stage teaching artist. He’s also worked with Center Stage as a Young Playwrights Festival advisor, Encounter and Camp Center Stage teacher, and as a volunteer for Backstage @ Center Stage and other community events. Center Stage Community Programs & Education Director Roz Cauthen describes Jerry as “amazing.” She says, “He empowers other people. He found the value of art in our life, and gives back with energy, spirit, promotion, and constantly asking ‘how can I be involved?’” In this year of transition for Center Stage, it was uncertain where Encounter would be able to have its Martin Luther King Jr. Day presentation. Jerry stepped up by making it possible for the show to go on at St. Frances Academy, where he is an alumnus and a college advisor. “I just love the program. It focuses on all forms of art, and the best part is it’s a diverse group of students,” he explains. “To sit in a circle with someone who may be a different race or sexuality than you, has a disability or thinks completely differently than you think, it makes you understand different perspectives. Kids are seeing the world through different eyes. It’s such an awesome program.” It’s this transformative experience that helps build community and connections. “It’s definitely a family,” says Jerry.

This year’s spring Encounter performance is Sunday, May 15, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Baltimore. 16

Camp Center Stage is a two-week day camp for students in grades 1-12, using the performing arts to inspire self-confidence and self-awareness. Session One (Grades 1–6): June 20–July 1 Session Two (Grades 1–6): July 5–15

Session Three (Grades 7–12): July 18–29 Registration is now open. Scholarships are available. In Partnership with the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, located at 811 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD 21201.

centerstage.org/camp

30th Annual Young Playwrights Festival Monday, May 2, 2016 7 pm at Towson University Join us for an awards ceremony and professionally staged readings of plays by Maryland students in grades K–12. All members of the community are invited to attend. This event is FREE with a $5 suggested donation.

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Community Programs & Education at Center Stage Expanding Physical Space and Community Engagement with Roz Cauthen and Elizabeth Himelfarb Hurwitz at the Helm

On any given day, Roz Cauthen, Director of Community Programs & Education, and her team are juggling meetings all over Baltimore. They could be working with partner arts institutions on future collaborations, undertaking site visits with community partners such as Health Care for the Homeless and the Weinberg Center, or visiting one of the 18 schools they partner with each season. Roz credits Center Stage for nurturing artists and providing opportunities for growth and advancement. She is most proud of former Camp Center Stage students who are now theater majors in college and three who are now Baltimore City school teachers. She also likes the fact that her team can be flexible enough to fill specific needs or opportunities, and they are always looking for meaningful projects. “It’s about being innovative and responsive to the community, like the Marley concert we did on Penn and North during the Baltimore unrest last April,” she said. Coming to Baltimore as an MFA candidate at Towson University, Roz met some artists working at Center Stage and parlayed the acquaintance into part-time work on Encounter (an ensemblebased training program for high school students). She has truly risen through the ranks—from assisting with Encounter, to working fulltime as Education Coordinator for seven years, and now serving as the director of the department.

Joining Roz in her first year as Chair of the Center Stage Board’s Community Programs & Education Committee is trustee Elizabeth Himelfarb Hurwitz. Elizabeth is a second generation Board member; her father Richard served on the Board from 1985–2002. Elizabeth works in innovation at Jhpiego, a Baltimore-based global health nonprofit. Her earliest memories at Center Stage date to childhood: She Loves Me, Hamlet, and the opening of the Head Theater. “Great theater can be transformative,” said Elizabeth. “It should be accessible to everyone. Roz and the artistic leadership team have laid out a vision of radical inclusion. We see it as a matter of social justice. I believe that the approaches we’re experimenting with here in Baltimore will set a national standard.” Since becoming Chair, Elizabeth has focused on facilitating new connections, including a partnership with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. When the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Education Studio and a new 99-seat theater open in Center Stage’s newly renovated Calvert Street home, Roz and Elizabeth will have even more meaningful stories to share. They want to create a collaborative space where plays, workshops, and classes are offered to families and children of all ages. Thank you for your tireless dedication to all of Baltimore’s communities, Roz, Elizabeth, and all of the Community Programs & Education team!

For more information about Roz’s excellent work, visit centerstage.org/educationbook. Detroit ’67 | 17

Congratulations Bank of America is proud to sponsor the Center Stage Professional Internship Program. This highly competitive program is helping to create the next generation of theater makers. Not only will these young people have the opportunity to learn from the professionals at Center Stage, they will also build their own portfolios as they launch their careers. We at Bank of America recognize that a strong employment foundation leads to a better financial future. Therefore, we are proud to congratulate the 2015/2016 interns and wish them all the success in their future endeavors. Visit us at bankofamerica.com/local

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support center stage The following list includes gifts of $250 or more made to the Center Stage Annual Fund between March 15, 2015 and March 15, 2016.

Although space limitations make it impossible for us to list everyone who helps fund our artistic, education, and community programs, we are enormously grateful to each person who contributes to Center Stage. We couldn’t do it without you!

INDIVIDUALS & FOUNDATIONS:

The Center Stage Society represents donors who, through their annual contributions of $1,500 or more, provide special opportunities for our artists and audiences. Society members are actively involved through special events, theater-related travel, and behind-the-scenes conversations with theater artists. SEASON SPONSORS (50,000+)

The Annie E. Casey Foundation Ellen and Ed Bernard The Charlesmead Foundation Lynn and Tony Deering Charles E. Noell III Judy and Scott Phares Lynn and Philip Rauch The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Sharon and Jay Smith The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Ms. Katherine L. Vaughns +

The Fascitelli Family Foundation

Jeannie Murphy

Scot T. Spencer

Genine and Josh Fidler

The Jim and Patty Rouse Charitable Foundation

Mr. Gilbert H. Stewart and Ms. Joyce L. Urich

Charles and Leslie Schwabe

Mr. Michael Styer

Barbara and Sig Shapiro

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thomasian

Theatre Communications Group

Mr. Kenneth Thompson

United Way of Central Maryland Campaign

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher West

Daniel P. Gahagan John Gerdy and E. Follin Smith Baroness G.D. Godenne M.D.+ The Goldsmith Family Foundation The Laverna Hahn Charitable Trust Ms. Wendy Jachman Francie and John Keenan Townsend and Bob Kent Keith Lee Ken and Elizabeth Lundeen The Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds Mr. and Mrs. George M. Sherman

Donald and Mariana Thoms

Mr. Todd M. Wilson and Mr. Edward Delaplaine

Ellen J. Remsen Webb and J.W. Thompson Webb

DESIGNERS’

Loren and Judy Western Ms. Linda Woolf DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE ($2,500- $4,999)

PRODUCERS’ CIRCLE

Mr. Louis B. Thalheimer and Ms. Juliet A. Eurich

Anonymous

The Miriam Jay Wurts Andrus Trust

Department of VSA and Accessibility at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Lois and Irving Blum Foundation

($25,000-$49,999)

The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Awards www.BakerArtistAwards.org Penny Bank James and Janet Clauson Jane and Larry Droppa EMC Arts The JI Foundation Kathleen Hyle Marilyn Meyerhoff Terry H. Morgenthaler and Patrick Kerins Mr. J. William Murray The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital ARTISTS’ CIRCLE

($10,000- $24,999)

Anonymous The William L. and Victorine Q. Adams Foundation and The Rodgers Family Fund The Bunting Family Foundation Stephanie and Ashton Carter The Cordish Family The Helen P. Denit Charitable Trust Ms. Amy Elias and Mr. Richard Pearlstone

PLAYWRIGHTS’ CIRCLE ($5,000- $9,999)

The Abell Foundation

Taunya Banks

Drs. Joanna and Harry Brandt Sylvia and Eddie Brown August and Melissa Chiasera Mr. Jed Dietz and Dr. Julia McMillan

Peter and Millicent Bain

The Harry L. Gladding Foundation/ Winnie and Neal Borden

Meredith and Adam Borden

Robert and Cheryl Guth

James T. and Francine G. Brady

David and Elizabeth JH Hurwitz

Mary Catherine Bunting

Susan and Steve Immelt

The Nathan & Suzanne Cohen Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Jennings

The Delaplaine Foundation, Inc. Walter B. Doggett III and Joanne Doggett Ms. Nancy Dorman and Mr. Stanley Mazaroff Brian and Denise Eakes Beth and Michael Falcone Dick and Maria + Gamper Fredye and Adam Gross Jay Jenkins and T.J. Hindman Murray Kappelman The Hecht-Levi Foundation, Inc. The John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc. Maryland Humanities Council Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Joseph, in honor of Lynn Deering Mr. and Mrs. Earl Linehan/The Linehan Family Foundation in honor of Terry Morgenthaler The Macht Philanthropic Fund of The Associated

($1,500- $2,499)

Anonymous Scott and Katherine Bissett Meredith and Joseph Callanan The Caplan Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jon Carnell Gene DeJackome and Kim Gingras Dr. and Dr. Matthew Freedman Ms. Suzan Garabedian Pamela and Jonathan Genn, in honor of Beth Falcone Sandra Levi Gerstung The Gladstone Family Foundation, in honor or Dr. Pebble Kranz Len and Betsy Homer Ralph and Claire Hruban The A. C. and Penney Hubbard Foundation Cheryl Hudgins Williams and Alonza Williams Francine and Allan Krumholz Maryland Charity Campaign Dave and Chris Powell Stephen Richard and Mame Hunt Barbara P. Shelton

The McCrickard Family Fund for Charitable Giving

Dr. Edgar and Betty Sweren

Jim and Mary Miller

Nanny and Jack Warren, in honor of Lynn Deering

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mohler, Jr. John and Susan Nehra Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Pakula Nathan and Michelle Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Todd Schubert

Krissie and Dan Verbic

Sydney and Ron Wilner Drs. Nadia and Elias Zerhouni + Deceased

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Smith Scott and Mimi Somerville Detroit ’67 | 19

COMPANY

(750-$1,499) Anonymous

Ms. Diane Abeloff, in memory of Martin Abeloff Ms. Tracy Bacigalupo and Mr. Jake Baker Steve and Teri Bennett

Mr. and Mrs. Marc Blum

John and Carolyn Boitnott Jason and Mindy Brandt Ms. Susan Bridges and Mr. Bill Van Dyke

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rojas Mrs. Bette Rothman + Gail B. Schulhoff

Bayinnah Shabazz, M.D.

The Sinksy-Kresser-Racusin Memorial Foundation

Dana and Matthew Slater, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Robert and Terri Smith

Bonnie and Stuart Stainman

Marilyn Leuthold

Richard and Lynda Davis

Dr. and Mrs. John Lion

Gwen Davidson

James DeGraffenreidt and Mychelle Farmer David and Emily Demsky

Marty Lidston and Jill Leukhardt Kenneth and Christine Lobo

The Ethel M. Looram Foundation, Inc.

Rosetta and Matt DeVito

Nancy Magnuson and Jay Harrell, in honor of Betty and Edgar Sweren

Ms. Mary Downs

Matthew and Eileen Margolies

Susan and Joachim Diedrich The Suzy and Eddie Dunn Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler

The Manziello Family Foundation The Dr. Frank C. Marino Foundation, Inc. Jeanne E. Marsh

Mary L. McGeady

Clair Zamoiski Segal, in honor of Judy Witt Phares Dr. Carl Shanholtz and Dr. Ruth Horowitz

The Earle and Annette Shawe Family Foundation Leslie Shepard

Mr. Bruce Sholk and Ms. Beth Kaplan Dr. and Mrs. Edward M.M. Sills

Susan Somerville-Hawes, in honor of the Encounter Program Sharon and John Stanton Clare H. Stewart, in honor of Bill Geenen

The Campbell Foundation, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. John Strahan

Mr. G. Brian Comes and Mr. Raymond Mitchener, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler

Dr. and Mrs. Frank R. Witter

Mr. James Engler

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Meredith

Cindy and Fred Thompson

Bob and Susie Fetter

Stephanie F. Miller, in honor of The Lee S. Miller, Jr. Family

Laura and Neil Tucker, in honor of Beth Falcone

Ms. Cheryl Casciani

Bill and Liz Dausch, in honor of Sharon and Jay Smith

The Richard and Rosalee C. Davison Foundation The Deering Family Foundation/ Lawrie Deering and Albert F. DeLoskey The Honorable and Mrs. E. Stephen Derby

The Eliasberg Family Foundation Sue and Buddy Emerson, in appreciation of Ken and Elizabeth Lundeen Sidney Emmer

Amy and Scott Frew

Frank and Jane Gabor

José and Ginger Galvez Dr. Neil Goldberg

Ms. Hannah B. Gould

Stuart and Linda Grossman

Thomas and Barbara Guarnieri Bill and Scootsie Hatter

Rebecca Henry and Harry Gruner, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Sandra and Thomas Hess Mrs. Harriet S. Iglehart

George and Holly Stone

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius P. Darcy

Lynne Durbin and John-Francis Mergen

Dr. and Mrs. Donald D. Brown

Susan and Brian Sullam

Mary and Barry Menne

Mr. William J. Sweet and Ms. Geraldine Mullan

Patricia Yevics-Eisenberg and Stewart Eisenberg

Sandra and John Ferriter

Jeston I. Miller

Ms. Cathy Tipper

Tracy Miller and Paul Arnest, in honor of Stephanie Miller

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tyler

Dr. Laurie S. Zabin

Mr. Calman Zamoiski, Jr., in honor of Terry Morgenthaler

ADVOCATES ($250-$749) Anonymous

Bradley and Lindsay Alger, in honor of George J. Staubus The Alsop Family Foundation Mrs. Alexander Armstrong

Deborah and Stephen Awalt Mrs. Pamela Ayd

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bair Mike Baker

The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bank Family Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation

The Herschel and Judith Langenthal Philanthropic Fund Jonna and Fred Lazarus

Dr. and Mrs. George Lentz, Jr. Mr. Stephan Levine Mr. Alan Macksey

Mrs. Diane Markman

Ms. Sybil Mead and Mr. Dan Leraris Joseph and Jane Meyer

Mr. and Mrs. John Michel Tom and Cindi Monahan

The Montag Family Fund of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, in honor of Beth Falcone Roger F. Nordquist, in memory of Joyce C. Ward Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ogburn Dr. Bodil Ottesen

Linda Hambleton Panitz

Robin and Allene Pierson, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Bonnie L. Pitt

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Porter

Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Fleishman Lindsay and Bruce Fleming Dennis Flynn Donna Flynn

Elborg and Robert Forster

Mary Louise Foster, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Ms. Nancy Freyman

Dr. Neal M. Friedlander and Dr. Virginia K. Adams Mr. Francis X. Gallagher Mark and Patti Gillen Megan M. Gillick

Hal and Pat Gilreath

The Jaye and Dr. Ted Bayless Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation

Dr. Larry Goldstein and Dr. Diane Pappas

Ms. Lorinda Belzberg, in honor of Lynn and Tony Deering

Louise Hager

Ms. Patricia Baum

Melissa A. Behm

Rachel and Steve Bloom, in honor of Beth Falcone

The H.R. LaBar Family Foundation Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Bill and Winnie Flattery

Amy and Bruce Barnett

Mr. Larry Jennings Mr. Barry Kropf

Andrea and Samuel Fine, in memory of Carole Goldberg

Terry L. Gladden

Ms. Anne Berman

Ms. Shirley Kaufman

Teri L. Menke

Linda Eberhart

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Imes Joseph J. Jaffa

The James and Gail Riepe Family Foundation, in honor of Lynn Deering

Bob and Maureen Black

Harriet and Bruce Blum

Moira Bogrov, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Jan Boyce

Mr. Paul Burclaff

Ms. Deborah W. Callard Cindy Candelori Ms. June Carr

Mr. and Mrs. David Carter Ms. Sue Lin Chong

Mr. Bruce Goldman

Marsha Grayson and Harold Hersch Mr. and Mrs. Randy Guttman Betsy and George Hess Sue Hess

Mrs. James J. Hill, Jr., in memory of James J. Hill Jr. Barbara and Sam Himmelrich, in honor of Monica Sagner

Dr. Dahlia Hirsch and Dr. Barry Wohl Ms. Irene Hornick

Sarah and John Issacs

James and Hillary Aidus Jacobs Ann H. Kahan

Mr. John Kane

Richard and Judith Katz

Dr. and Mrs. Myron Kellner

Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Christ

Stephen and Laurie Kelly, in memory of Rodney Stieff

Brenda M. Cley, M.D.

Alane and George Kimes

Ann K. Clapp

Ms. Clare Cochran

Mr. William Coffey

Joan Develin Coley and Lee Rice Ida and Emmett Collins, in honor of Elizabeth Hurwitz The Elsa and Stanton Collins Charitable Fund

Combined Charity Campaign

Combined Federal Campaign Mr. William Cooke

B.J and Bill Cowie, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Janet M. Curnoles, in honor of Sarah Curnoles

Ms. Deborah Kielty

Deborah King-Young and Daniel Young

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knodell

Donald Knox and Mary Towery, in memory of Carolyn Knox and Gene Towery Ms. Nancy Kochuk

Joseph M. and Judy K. Langmead Kevin Larrawe and Lucy Robins Lainy Lebow-Sachs and Leonard Sachs

Dr. and Mrs. Yuan C. Lee

Mr. Raymond Lenhard, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Lesser

Faith and Ted Millspaugh

James W. and Shirley A. Moore Dr. and Mrs. C.L. Moravec

Ms. Jill Morgenthaler, in honor of Terry Morgenthaler Wilbert Moultrie

George Murnaghan

Stephen and Terry Needel Claire D. O’Neill

Ms. Jo-Ann Mayer Orlinksy

Fronda Cohen Ottenheimer and Richard Ottenheimer

The P.R.F.B. Charitable Foundation, in memory of Shirley Feinstein Blum Michael and Phyllis Panopoulos Justine and Ken Parezo

Fred and Grazina Pearson Linda and Gordon Peltz

Dr. and Mrs. James M. Pepple Mr. William Phillips

David and Wendy Pitts

Leslie and Gary Plotnick

Janet Plum, in memory of Jeffrey J. Plum

Ms. Dorothy Powe, in memory of Ethel J. Holliday Jill and Darren Pratt

Robert E. and Anne L. Prince Carolyn Raff

Dr. Jonas Rappeport and Alma Smith Cyndy Renoff and George Taler Phoebe Reynolds

Natasha and Keenan Rice Mrs. Peggy L. Rice

Alison and Arnold Richman Ida and Jack Roadhouse

Jane and Stanley Rodbell and James R. Shapiro

Susan Rosebery and Barbara Blom

Wendy Rosen and Richard Weisman

Michael Rosenbaum and Amy Kiesel Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr. Kevin and Judy Rossiter

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rusk Mr. Al Russell

Sheila and Steve Sachs Steven and Lee Sachs

Monica and Arnold Sagner

Ms. Gloria Savadow, in honor of the Encounter Program The Eugene and Alice Schreiber Philanthropic Fund Mr. Richard Schwartz

Dr. and Mrs. Henry Tyrangiel Ms. Katherine Urquhart Mr. Eli Velder

Mr. and Mrs. David Warshawsky Robin Weiss and Timothy Doran Mr. John Wessner

Ms. Camille Wheeler and Mr. William Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. and Edith F. Winegard Dr. Richard H. Worsham Velda Yelity-Paul

Eric and Pam Young

Mr. William Zerhouni + Deceased

SPECIAL GRANTS & GIFTS:

The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

GOVERNMENT GRANTS

Center Stage is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. Funding for the Maryland State Arts Council is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Center Stage’s catalog of Education Programs has been selected by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities as a 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Finalist. Baltimore County Executive, County Council, & Commission on Arts and Sciences Carroll County Government

Howard County Arts Council through a grant from Howard County Government

Center Stage has been funded by the Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.

GIFTS IN-KIND Atwater’s

Baltimore STYLE

The Baltimore Sun Jake Boone

The Brewer’s Art Casa di Pasta

The Classic Catering People The Charles Theater

The City Paper Cunningham’s Floors, ect.

CORPORATIONS

THE 2015/16 SEASON IS MADE POSSIBLE BY

Gertrude’s Restaurant Gianni’s Italian Bistro HBP

HoneyBaked Ham Co. The Helmand

Hotel Monaco

PRESIDENTS’ CIRCLE

Anonymous

Iggie’s

The Baltimore Life Companies

Jericho Staging

The Jewish Times

Cho Benn Holback + Associates

Jon Levinson

Environmental Reclamation Company

La Cakerie

Ernst & Young

Mamott

Maryland Office Interiors

Maryland Public Television

Mitchell Kurtz Architect, PC

T. Rowe Price Foundation, Inc.

Mount Vernon Stable and Saloon

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann

McGuireWoods LLP

PromoWorks

Republic National Distributing Company

Funk & Bolton, P.A.

Howard Bank

Oriole’s Pizza and Sub Ravenbeer

PLAYWRIGHTS’ CIRCLE

PRODUCERS’ CIRCLE

Merritt Properties, LLC. PricewaterhouseCoopers Saul Ewing LLP

Shugoll Research The Signman

Venable, LLP

Union Craft Brewing

Wells Fargo Bank

Village Square Café

A Vintner’s Selection

Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.

WYPR Radio

DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE

Ware House 518

www.thecheckshop.us

American Trading and Production Corporation

The following employers match the charitable donations of their employees. Many employers match donations 2:1. Simply contact your human resources department, and in one easy step you can double your level of support to Center Stage.

Baxter, Baker, Sidle, Conn & Jones, P.A. Charcoalblue Keast & Hood Marriott

MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES

Maryland Transit Administration

The Abell Foundation, Inc. Bank of America

Pessin Katz Law P.A.

BGE

Schoenfeld Insurance Associates

Becton Dickinson & Company

The Black & Decker Corporation

Wright, Constable, & Skeen, LLP

Brown Capital Management, Inc. The Annie E. Casey Foundation Constellation Energy

ARTISTS’ CIRCLE

E-Bay Foundation

Exxon Corporation

Chapel Valley Landscape Company Chesapeake Plywood, LLC

GE Foundation

Froehling & Robertson

Illinois Tool Works Foundation JMI Equity

Kraft Foods

McCormick Foundation

Norfolk Southern Foundation PNC Bank

SunTrust Bank

T. Rowe Price Foundation

UBS Wealth Management We make every effort to provide accurate acknowledgement of our contributors. We appreciate your patience and assistance in keeping our lists current. To advise us of corrections, please call 410.986.4026.

DESIGNERS

PNC Charitable Trusts

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Terry H. Morgenthaler, President Edward C. Bernard, Vice President August J. Chiasera, Vice President Beth W. Falcone, Vice President Brian Eakes, Treasurer J.W. Thompson Webb, Secretary Penny Bank Katharine C. Blakeslee* Meredith Borden James T. Brady C. Sylvia Brown* Stephanie Carter Lynn Deering Jed Dietz Walter B. Doggett III Jane W.I. Droppa Amy Elias Juliet A. Eurich Daniel Gahagan C. Richard Gamper, Jr. Suzan Garabedian Adam Gross Cheryl O’Donnell Guth Martha Head* Elizabeth J. Himelfarb Hurwitz Kathleen W. Hyle Ted E. Imes Wendy Jachman Joe Jennings Murray M. Kappelman, MD* John J. Keenan E. Robert Kent, Jr. Joseph M. Langmead* Bjoern Leyser Kenneth C. Lundeen* John McCardell Marilyn Meyerhoff* Hugh W. Mohler, Jr. J. William Murray Charles E. Noell III Judy M. Phares Esther Pearlstone* Philip J. Rauch Harold Rojas Monica Sagner* Renee C. Samuels Rosenfeld Todd Schubert Charles Schwabe George M. Sherman* Robert W. Smith, Jr. Scott Somerville Scot T. Spencer Michael B. Styer Harry Thomasian Kenneth Thompson Donald Thoms Krissie Verbic Linda S. Woolf * Trustee Emeriti

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The Baltimore Community Foundation has been helping people who love Baltimore for generations.

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Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be surprised at the variety of creative ideas people have come up with, and the range of charitable plans weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve helped them design and bring to life.

What will your gift to Baltimore be? Explore the possibilities at www.bcf.org/sharethelove

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THANK YOU TO WELLS FARGO FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE ONLINE AUCTION FOR CENTER STAGE!

2016 Spring Play Lab: Shadowboxer (May 13–15)

Presented in association with Carolyn Black-Sotir Music by Frank Proto Libretto by John Chenault Directed by Leon Major

Shadowboxer is a jazz opera that traces legendary boxing champion Joe Louis’ personal and professional journey against the backdrop of American history. Fri, May 13, 7:30 pm (at Morgan State University) Sat, May 14, 7:30 pm (at Peabody Institute) Sun, May 15, 3 pm (at Peabody Institute)

$10 | $5 for Members

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PLAY LAB

New play development at Center Stage is made possible in part by The Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation and the Nathan and Suzanne Cohen Foundation Fund for Commissioning and Developing New Plays.

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July 8-31 in Shepherdstown: Where the future of the American Theater spends the summer.

pen/man/ship A maritime quest for truth By Christina Anderson / Directed by Lucy Tieberghien

NOT MEDEA AN NNPN ROLLING WORLD PREMIERE An explosive take on love and motherhood By Allison Gregory / Directed by Courtney Sale

THE WEDDING GIFT A WORLD PREMIERE A stunning spectacle of comedy and drama By Chisa Hutchinson / Directed by May Adrales

20TH CENTURY BLUES A WORLD PREMIERE A kaleidoscopic anthem for all generations By Susan Miller / Directed by Ed Herendeen

THE SECOND GIRL An ode of passion, heartbreak, and humor By Ronan Noone / Directed by Ed Herendeen

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Britt Whittle and Jamil A.C. Mangan in North of the Boulevard by Bruce Graham. CATF 2014. Photo by Seth Freeman

Jazz on Third Thursdays

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April 21 May 19 June 16 July 21

5pm Doors 6pm Show $8 Members

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