Heroes of the Fourth Turning Program

HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

BY WILL ARBERY DIRECTED BY SIVAN BATTAT

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UP NEXT PEOPLE, PLACE & THINGS BY DUNCAN MACMILLAN DIRECTED BY DAVID MUSE

NOV 09 – DEC 11, 2022

PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS Emma is an actress. She also has an addiction, and it’s trying to kill her. In rehab, but not ready for recovery, Emma just wants to escape—through drugs, through performing, through anything that lets her make her own reality. David Muse directs his first production in the new Victor Shargai Theatre with a stunning production that evokes the vivid and disorienting world of intoxication and lies as Emma decides whether to fight for her recovery and the people, places, and things she’ll face there.

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FRIENDS, Heroes of the Fourth Turning is an extraordinary play. It is extraordinary in its craft: playwright Will Arbery composes terrific dialogue, skillfully intermingles the personal with the philosophical, and orchestrates the play’s five voices with the sensitivity of a musician. (The play is deliberately written like a fugue; you can listen for the five distinct voices—bass, tenor, alto, mezzo-soprano, soprano.)

It is also extraordinary in its content. The play does something very rare in the theatre: fill the stage with conservatives and have them talk about politics and religious philosophy. Having grown up in a particular part of conservative America, Arbery felt compelled to provide audiences with access to it—to present these people, in all their humanity and complexity.

Validating or condemning a worldview isn’t this play’s project.

Arbery sets out to represent his character’s positions without prejudice, and develops their emotional lives as fully as their intellectual viewpoints. At its core, this is a play about troubled people, about loneliness and feeling lost, which is recognizable regardless of which side you’re on. I think that’s one of the reasons why this play has been so buzzed about in theatre circles, because theatre goers, generally a progressive lot, aren’t used to processing feelings of identification with characters whose beliefs are so different from theirs.

Director Sivan Battat began her professional career at Studio, spending the 2015-2016 season as our Directing Apprentice.

She served as Assistant Director for that year’s plays and generally immersed herself in the goings-on of our artistic department. Sivan has spent the intervening years continuing to distinguish herself professionally, and it gives me particular pleasure to welcome her back.

This year’s season of six major productions is our fullest in three years, as we continue to recover from the meteor strike that was COVID. We count ourselves lucky to be able to rebuild alongside our audiences, whose support has been palpable during these challenging times. I’m so glad that you’re here as we kick the season off, and look forward to sharing the rest of it with you.

Yours,

DAVID MUSE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

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STUDIO THEATRE

DAVID MUSE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRESENTS

HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING BY WILL ARBERY DIRECTED BY SIVAN BATTAT Heroes of the Fourth Turning was developed by The Cape Cod Theatre Project, Hal Brooks, Artistic Director

Heroes of the Fourth Turning is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning in 2019 Nothin’ Written by Townes Van Zandt ©1970, JTVZ Music (ASCAP), Katie Bell Music (ASCAP), Will Van Zandt Publishing (ASCAP)

REBECCA ENDE LICHTENBERG EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

SET DESIGNER YU SHIBAGAKI COSTUME DESIGNER DEBRA KIM SIVIGNY LIGHTING DESIGNER AMITH CHANDRASHAKER SOUND DESIGNER/COMPOSER SINAN REFIK ZAFAR PROPS DESIGNER DEB THOMAS DIALECT COACH JERI JEANNINE MARSHALL FIGHT DIRECTOR ROBB HUNTER DRAMATURG ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ALISON MCLEOD CASTING BY TAYLOR WILLIAMS, CSA DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION JEFFERY MARTIN Underwritten by

TERESA AND DAN SCHWARTZ

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CAST JUSTIN GREGORY CONNORS* EMILY SOPHIA LILLIS* KEVIN LOUIS REYES MCWILLIAMS* TERESA LAURA C. HARRIS* GINA NAOMI JACOBSON* This production will be presented without an intermission.

UNDERSTUDIES JUSTIN OLEV ALEKSANDER EMILY SARAH BOESS KEVIN ETHAN WILLIAMS TERESA REBECCA BALLINGER GINA LIZ WEBER

SETTING A town of 7,000 in western Wyoming August 19, 2017 Two days before the solar eclipse One week after the Charlottesville riot

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

The Director and/or Choreographer is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

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NOTE FROM THE DRAMATURG Will Arbery was the second youngest of eight children in a household of conservative Catholic academics—his parents work at a small school in Wyoming similar to the one in Heroes. He remembers staying up past his bedtime listening to his parents’ students and colleagues debating history and poetry and political theory, ancient texts and current political events. Their conservatism, he says, “was poetic, passionate, and nuanced.” His parents were friends with a gay couple in the neighborhood. They also hosted a rally for Pat Buchanan in 1996, whose “America first” rhetoric and not-quite dog-whistle defense of “non-Jewish whites” has been credited with paving the way for the hard-right’s takeover of the Republican party.

By 2016, Arbery was settled in New York City, a year and a half out of graduate school at Northwestern, with burgeoning recognition for his plays. After Trump won the election, the airwaves were full of talk of Red America, Blue America, and the echo chambers separating them, and Arbery thought back to the range of voices and opinions from the conservative intellectuals of his childhood. Heroes of the Fourth Turning is, he says, “an attempt to capture the feelings of drunken nights under the big sky, talking about God.” Arbery locates this conversation among four young people, a few years on the other side of their undergraduate experience at the Catholic college on the edge of the Wyoming wilderness. Each of them is wrestling with how they’ve been called to

live: in the realities of post-college life; in relationship to the secular world; and in the United States in mid-August 2017, a week after the Charlottesville riots.

“What do we do with our love for someone we think might be making the world worse?” asks Arbery. He stands apart from the Christian conservatism he calls “a secret and shrewd force in our country.” He isn’t asking for empathy from audiences who might disagree with his characters’ stances on abortion, rights for LGBTQ people, or their unwillingness to engage with their own whiteness. He’s asking instead for the gift of taking these characters’ spiritual pain seriously, hoping to create a spark of understanding between people who feel deep recognition of this world and people who reject it.

“My mother says it’s a play about fissures—the spaces between people, and I think that’s right,” Arbery says. But beyond the distance between people of radically different belief systems, he wonders if there could be something resembling growth: “Are we addicted to this pain we are in? Are we villainizing each other because it sustains us? Or do we really want to heal?”

ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL DRAMATURG For more on Arbery’s skepticism about empathy or for context on the cultural and intellectual background of the play, please visit the Studio Theatre website.

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playwright WILL ARBERY is a playwright from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters. His play Evanston Salt Cost Climbing will have its New York premiere at The New Group in Fall 2022, and his play Corsicana premiered at Playwrights Horizons in Summer 2022, directed by Sam Gold. His play Heroes of the Fourth Turning premiered at Playwrights Horizons in Fall 2019 and was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of numerous awards, including the 2020 Obie Award for Playwriting, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play and the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award.

His other plays include Plano at Clubbed Thumb, You Hateful Things at New York Theatre Workshop’s Dartmouth Residency, and Wheelchair published by 3 Hole Press. He’s currently under commission from Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Audible.

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director

sivan battat

SIVAN BATTAT (she/they) is a theatre artist and community organizer who began their career at Studio as an Artistic Apprentice. Recent credits include the upcoming world premiere of Layalina by Yosep al Zebari at the Goodman Theatre; the New York premiere of Girlfriend by Todd Almond with music by Matthew Sweet for the Drama League’s DirectorFest; Assistant Directing Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress on Broadway; and Baba Karam by Sanaz Toossi and McArabia by Sevan K. Greene for Atlantic Theatre Company’s Middle Eastern MixFest. Sivan is the Associate Artistic Director of Noor Theatre, an Obie-winning company dedicated to supporting, developing, and producing the work of theatre artists of Middle Eastern descent. In the 2021–2022 season, Sivan was the Directing Fellow at Roundabout Theatre Company, the Leo Shull Musical Directing Fellow with the Drama League, and a member of Theatre Communications Group’s Rising Leaders of Color cohort. Sivanbattat.com.

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HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

BY WILL ARBERY DIRECTED BY SIVAN BATTAT SEPTEMBER 21 – OCTOBER 23, 2022

On the edge of the Wyoming wilderness, the last guests linger late into the night at a celebration for the new President of their conservative Catholic college. Reunited after seven years, the friends toss back whiskey and name-check Thomas Aquinas, Hannah Arendt, Steve Bannon, even Bojack Horseman, tracking their distance from each other and the people they thought they’d be by now. Will Arbery’s portrait of conservatives trying to make sense of where they—and their country—stand is an incisive yet personal look at the intelligence and despair of the Catholic right.

PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS

BY DUNCAN MACMILLAN DIRECTED BY DAVID MUSE NOVEMBER 9 – DECEMBER 11, 2022

Emma is an actress. She also has an addiction, and it’s trying to kill her. In rehab, but not ready for recovery, Emma just wants to escape—through drugs, through performing, through anything that lets her make her own reality. David Muse directs his first production in the new Victor Shargai Theatre, a theatrical tourde-force that evokes the vivid and disorienting world of intoxication and lies as Emma decides whether to fight for her recovery and the people, places, and things she’ll face there.

ENGLISH

BY SANAZ TOOSSI DIRECTED BY KNUD ADAMS JANUARY 11 – FEBRUARY 12, 2023

“English Only.” It’s 2008 in Karaj, Iran and four adult students are studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language, the key to their green card, medical school, family reunification. Playing out in awkward lessons of word games and mistranslation, English is both a comedy of miscommunication and a look at the ways speaking a new language can expand your world and change your voice.

A hit in its 2021 New York premiere, Studio presents playwright Sanaz Toossi in her Washington, DC debut.

CLYDE’S

BY LYNN NOTTAGE DIRECTED BY CANDIS JONES MARCH 1 – APRIL 2, 2023

No one would accuse Clyde of having a soft heart: Sure she hires former convicts for the greasy kitchen of her truck-stop sandwich joint, but she knows what they owe her and holds that power tight. Her line cooks might be stuck, but their hopes haven’t flickered out yet, fed by tentative connections and a fierce competition to create the perfect sandwich. PulitzerPrize winner Lynn Nottage’s sweet and savory comedy trades in wonder, Wonder Bread, and the healing powers of food.

GOOD BONES

BY JAMES IJAMES DIRECTED BY PSALMAYENE 24

MAY 10 – JUNE 11, 2023

Aisha’s moved back to the block, but the neighborhood’s changed. She’s an urban planner, returning to her hometown, renovating a townhouse that’s seen better days.

Aisha tries to convince her husband to spring for crown molding and endures the noise that blares from the street all night. But when their contractor is caught up in an act of violence a block away, Aisha’s homecoming becomes more complex than she expected.

A Studio-commissioned play by 2022 Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames, Good Bones explores gentrification and belonging, displacement and upward mobility, and being haunted by a legacy you’re only just beginning to understand.

FUN HOME

MUSIC BY JEANINE TESORI BOOK AND LYRICS BY LISA KRON BASED ON THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

BY ALISON BECHDEL DIRECTED BY DAVID MUSE JUNE 28 – JULY 30, 2023

Alison is 9, begging her father to play with her. She is 19, overcome by the aching and joyous pain of first love. She is 43, an out lesbian hunting for the truth of her brilliant, volatile, and closeted father’s life and death. She is all three at once, trying to untangle the central mystery of her childhood: How did she survive their shared hometown, when her father could not? With a score that ranges from exuberant 70s pop to aching melodies and dissonant harmonies of characters longing to be known, Fun Home is the Tony Award-winning story of a daughter and father, of coming out and coming to terms with a life shaped by a family’s secrets.

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GREGORY CONNORS (Justin) is an actor and mechanical engineer based in New York. He has performed Off Broadway in Coriolanus at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park and can be seen on television in The Good Fight (Paramount+), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), and The Blacklist (NBC). He received his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and BS in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Akron.

LOUIS REYES MCWILLIAMS (Kevin; he/him) is an actor, writer, and teaching artist. He has appeared Off Broadway in Coriolanus at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, Anna Karenina: a riff at The Flea, and The War Boys at Columbia Stages. His regional credits include Teenage Dick at Huntington Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Pasadena Playhouse; Little Women at Dallas Theater Center and The Old Globe; No Cure at Playwrights’ Center; A Christmas Carol and An Iliad at Trinity Rep; Unknown Soldier at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Macbeth at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; and A Tale of Two Cities and Jane Eyre with the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble.

His writing has been workshopped and produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Brown University/Trinity Rep, and Stanford University.

He received his BA from Stanford University and his MFA from Brown University, where he was the 2019 Richard Kavanaugh Fellow. louismcwilliams.com.

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SOPHIA LILLIS (Emily) had her breakout moment playing Beverly Marsh in It (2017) and reprised the role for the film’s sequel It Chapter Two (2019). Other roles include the younger version of Amy Adams’ Camille Preaker in Sharp Objects (HBO) and the title character in Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase. Sophia played the title role of Gretel in Orion Pictures’ Gretel & Hansel, directed by Osgood Perkins, and was the lead in the Netflix original series I Am Not Okay with This, created by Jonathan Entwistle. Most recently she wrapped production on Wes Anderson’s next feature Asteroid City starring alongside Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, and Scarlett Johansson; and the independent feature The Adults opposite Michael Cera.

Sophia will star in the upcoming Paramount film Dungeon’s & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves opposite Chris Pine and Hugh Grant, which will be released in March 2023.

LAURA C. HARRIS (Teresa; she/her) returns to Studio Theatre after appearing as Lauren in Kings, Edward/Victoria in Cloud 9, Mandy in Time Stands Still, Gena in Bachelorette, and Lydia in Red Speedo.

Other DC credits include The Heiress at Arena Stage; Silent Sky at Ford’s Theatre; Fairview at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, NSFW, Seminar, Amadeus, Young Robin Hood, and 26 Miles at Round House Theatre; The Flick and Tender Napalm at Signature Theatre; Cry It Out at Everyman Theatre; Vicuña & The American Epilogue at Mosaic Theater Company; Awake and Sing! at Olney Theatre Center; Love and Information, Passion Play, and World Builders at Forum Theatre; Our Class at Theater J; and The Winter’s Tale and The School for Scandal at Folger Theatre. Laura is a member of the acting company of the nonprofit Only Make Believe, and a graduate of Middlebury College. lauracharris.com.

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NAOMI JACOBSON (Gina) is an affiliated artist with Shakespeare Theatre Company and a Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company member of 25 years. Selected credits include The Children and The Remains at Studio Theatre, The Guardsman at The Kennedy Center, Born Yesterday at Ford’s Theatre, Mary T. & Lizzy K. at Arena Stage (world premiere), Richard III at Folger Theatre, Becoming Dr. Ruth at Theater J, Cabaret at Signature Theatre, The Critic / The Real Inspector Hound at Guthrie Theater, Pericles at Goodman Theatre, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) at Milwaukee Rep, Shakespeare in Love at Baltimore Center Stage, Bad Dog at Olney Theatre Center, and Ten Chimneys at Arizona Theatre Company (world premiere). Naomi’s received three Helen Hayes Awards and 12 nominations, the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship, the Anderson-Hopkins Award for Excellence in Theater Arts, and a DC Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant. Voiceover work includes NPR, PBS, Discovery Channel, and the Smithsonian Institution. naomijjacobson.com. On social media at @naomijactive (Instagram).

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YU SHIBAGAKI (Set Designer) is a New York-based set designer originally from Nagoya, Japan. Her recent credits include Sense and Sensibility at American Players Theatre; The Royale at Kansas City Repertory Theatre; School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play at Goodman Theatre; I, Banquo and I, Cinna (the poet) at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Dishwasher Dreams at Hartford Stage and Writers Theatre; Her Honor Jane Byrne at Lookingglass Theatre Company; and more. She is a USA 829 member. Yushibagaki.com.

DEBRA KIM SIVIGNY (Costume Designer; she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Washington, DC. She was the costume designer for TempOdyssey at Studio Theatre. Her recent designs include scenic design for Sense and Sensibility at Everyman Theatre; Head Over Heels at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma; and Tuesdays with Morrie at Theater J; costume and scenic design for The Royale at Olney Theatre Center and 1st Stage Theater; and costume design for Waiting for Godot at Barrington Stage Company and Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 at Hangar Theatre. With The Welders, she wrote and designed the set for Hello, My Name Is... an immersive event about Korean adoptees which was exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial in 2019. She is the recipient of a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Set Design and a five-time nominee. Debra is an Assistant Professor of Scenic and Costume Design at George Mason University. debsivigny.com.

AMITH CHANDRASHAKER (Lighting Designer) has worked with The Public Theater, Second Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Atlantic Theater

Company, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Colorado, and The Atlanta Opera. Amith has worked on dance pieces by Alexander Ekman, Liz Gerring, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and Rennie Harris. He is the recipient of a Drama Desk Award and a Henry Hewes Design Award. Amith is an Assistant Professor of Lighting at the University of Maryland.

SINAN REFIK ZAFAR (Sound Designer; he/ him) was the sound designer for the Broadway and national touring production of What the Constitution Means to Me. Off Broadway, he has worked with MCC Theater, Second Stage, The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick Theater, and The Movement Theatre Company. Regional theatre credits include The Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and more. sinanzafar.com.

DEB THOMAS (Props Designer) is a props and set designer for theatre, television, and film. From 2009 to 2019, she was Studio’s Props Director. Studio credits include properties design for John Proctor is the Villain, Pass Over, Love! Valor! Compassion!, Sylvia, and SubUrbia, set design for Terminus, and assistant set design for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Additional credits include properties design for The Till Trilogy, Marys Seacole, Eureka Day, and Milk Like Sugar at Mosaic Theater Company and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife and Freud’s Last Session at Theater J. She was a sculptor and sculpture consultant for TLC’s DC Cupcakes (2010-2013) and a Washington Bureau set designer for TV Tokyo, as well as doing the original set design for Discovery Channel’s Puppy Bowl. Work includes production design for Dolley Madison and art direction HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING

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produ for Alexander Hamilton (PBS American Experience), and set and props design for Jamestown: Against All Odds (Discovery Channel’s Moments in Time).

ROBB HUNTER (Fight Director) has directed movement and violence for many Studio productions including Pass Over, Vietgone, The Effect, Hand to God, Bad Jews, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Reasons to Be Pretty, Invisible Man, Superior Donuts, Red Speedo (Helen Hayes nomination) and The Walworth Farce (Helen Hayes nomination).

He has also directed movement/violence for Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Helen Hayes Award for HIR and nomination for An Octoroon), Signature Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Washington National Opera, Ford’s Theatre and many others. He is a member of SDC, AEA, SAG/AFTRA, and is recognized as one of only 20 Fight Masters by the Society of American Fight Directors. He is on faculty at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting, is the Choreographer in Residence at American University and is a teaching artist for the Studio Acting Conservatory. His prop company, Preferred Arms, supplies prop weapons to theatres nationwide. preferredarms.com.

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ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL (Dramaturg; she/ her) is the Literary Director at Studio, where she has dramaturged the world premieres of John Proctor is the Villain, I Hate it Here, Queen of Basel, No Sisters, I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart, Red Speedo, Dirt, Lungs, and The History of Kisses, among others, as well as productions of The Hot Wing King, White Noise, Tender Age, Flow, Until the Flood, 2.5 Minute Ride, Cry It Out, Translations, Curve of Departure, Wig Out!, Straight White Men, Hedda Gabler, Jumpers for Goalposts, Bad Jews (twice), The Apple Family Plays, Invisible Man, Sucker Punch, The Golden Dragon, and The New Electric Ballroom, among others. Prior to joining Studio, she spent eight seasons at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she headed the literary department and coordinated project scouting, selection, and development for the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She is the co-editor of eight anthologies of plays from Actors Theatre and editor of 11 editions of plays through Studio. Adrien-Alice holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

ALISON MCLEOD (Production Stage Manager; she/her) is a stage manager and activist whose credits include the National Music Theater Conference (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center); Bakkhai (Baltimore Center Stage); How to Defend Yourself (Victory Gardens Theater); Hamlet (Gloucester Stage Company); Djembe! The Show (Apollo Theater, Chicago); Assassins (Flint Repertory Theatre); Julius Caesar (Montana Shakespeare in the Schools); New Stages Festival (2016, 2017) and Twist Your Dickens (Goodman Theatre); and 1984, The Compass, Between Riverside and Crazy, Straight White Men, and BLKS (Steppenwolf Theatre Company).”

uction TAYLOR WILLIAMS (Casting Director) is an Artios Award-winning Casting Director who has cast various productions across the country. Broadway credits include POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive; Slave Play (remount and original, Center Theatre Group, New York Theatre Workshop); Is This A Room and Dana H; and What the Constitution Means to Me (New York Theatre Workshop, Barrow Street, National Tour).

Benefit credits include The Great Work Begins featuring scenes from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America for amfAR and Ratatouille: the TikTok Musical for the Actors Fund.

Taylor is the resident casting director at Page 73 Productions. Notable productions include On Sugarland, Sanctuary City, and Othello with Daniel Craig at New York Theatre Workshop; Whitney White’s The Amen Corner at Shakespeare Theatre Company; Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! for Fisher Center at Bard and its current national tour; and Aleshea Harris’ Is God Is at Soho Rep.

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PRODUCTION STAFF TECHNICAL DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER MCDONNELL

LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR RAVEN MOORE

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR DEVIN MAHONEY

CASTING TAYLOR WILLIAMS, CSA

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER PHOEBE SWEATMAN

CASTING ASSOCIATE NIA SMITH

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR EMILY ABRAMS

COVID SAFETY MANAGER LINDSEY MADSEN

ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER CHRISTINA KOUNI SMITH

COVID SAFETY ADMINISTRATOR GAELYN SMITH

GUITAR COACH JAIME IBACACH

CULTURAL CONSULTANT AMY DISALVO

SOUND BOARD OPERATOR JON ZIELKE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

JOHN CUDDEBACK ERIC JENISLAWSKI EMBODIED PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SARA MINDEL MAYA LAWRENCE AND AIERELLE JACOB AT THE ALLIANCE THEATRE

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leadership

DAVID MUSE in his thirteenth season as Artistic Director of Studio Theatre, where he has directed Cock (the in-person and digital productions), The Children, The Remains, The Effect, The Father, Constellations, Chimerica, Murder Ballad, Belleville, Tribes, The Real Thing, An Iliad, Dirt, Bachelorette, The Habit of Art, Venus in Fur, Circle Mirror Transformation, reasons to be pretty, Blackbird, Frozen, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. As Studio’s Artistic Director, he has produced 105 productions; established Studio R&D, its new work incubator; significantly increased artist compensation; created The Cabinet, an artist advisory board; and overseen Open Studio, a $20M expansion and upgrade of Studio’s four-theatre complex.

Previously, he was Associate Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, where he has directed nine productions, including Richard III, Henry V, Coriolanus, and King Charles III (a co-production with American Conservatory Theater and Seattle Rep). Other directing projects include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at Arena Stage, The Bluest Eye at Theatre Alliance, and Patrick Page’s Swansong at the New York Summer Play Festival. He has helped to develop new work at numerous theatres, including New York Theatre Workshop, Geva Theatre Center, Arena Stage, New Dramatists, and The Kennedy Center. David has taught acting and directing at Georgetown, Yale, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy of Classical Acting. A nine-time Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Direction, he is a recipient of the DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist and the National Theatre Conference Emerging Artist Award. David is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.

REBECCA ENDE LICHTENBERG is the Executive Director at Studio Theatre, where she has led the institution for four seasons. She served as the Managing Director of Theater J for eight seasons, during which time she led the theatre through an Artistic Director transition and was instrumental in growing income by 29 percent. Prior to that, she worked in arts marketing at Sitar Arts Center, Theater J, and Ford’s Theatre. She previously served as the President of the Board of Forum Theatre, the Chair of the Adjudication Committee for theatreWashington, and a Helen Hayes Judge. She holds an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University, a Certificate in Budgeting and Finance from Georgetown University, and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management program.

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staff LEADERSHIP

PRODUCTION

DAVID MUSE

MADISON BAHR

AVI LITTKY

REBECCA ENDE LICHTENBERG

Assistant Production & Rentals Manager

BRANDEE MATHIES

CLARISSA SHIRLEY

Artistic Director

Executive Director

BIANCA BECKHAM

Director of Development

KATHRYN HUEY General Manager

HILARY JUDIS

Director of Marketing and Communications

JEFFERY MARTIN

Director of Production

ARTISTIC ADRIEN-ALICE HANSEL

Costume Shop Manager

CHRISTION JONES KIERAN KELLY

Senior Facilities Manager

CLARICE BERARDINELLI

Production & Events Apprentice

DELANEY DUNSTER

Stage Management Apprentice

INDIGO GARCIA

Electrics Apprentice

PHOEBE SWEATMAN

Sound & Projection Apprentice

DEVELOPMENT

DOM OCAMPO

TOBIAS FRANZÉN Development Operations Manager

SARAH COOKE

Institutional Giving Manager

KATIE FLEET Membership Coordinator MCKENNA CANTY Development Apprentice

GENERAL MANAGEMENT AMANDA ACKER Business Director

LINDSEY MADSEN Company Manager

CARMEN PIERCE

Management Associate

GAELYN SMITH

COVID Safety Administrator

PARKER NOLAN

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Audience Services Director

GABBY WOLFE

Assistant Box Office Manager Lead Box Office Associates

Box Office Associates

Directing Apprentice

BRITTANY K. ALLEN DAVE HARRIS ERIKA DICKERSONDESPENZA JAMES FRITZ JAMES IJAMES KATE MULVANEY KIMBERLY BELFLOWER MARTI LYONS SARAH DELAPPE

SHANE OLIVER

MIRANDA TAYLOR

SARAH VELKOVICH

Commissioned Artists

AUDIENCE SERVICES

KT AYLESWORTH TREVOR COMEAU

FRANCESCA SABEL

Producing and Community Engagement Apprentice

Marketing and Communications Apprentice

Stage Management Apprentice Technical Direction Apprentice

EMILY ABRAMS

Digital Marketing Associate

Interim Electrics Supervisor

Literary Director

Interim Creative Producer

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

JEFF KLEIN MARTHA HAHN MAYA BROWN NITSAN SCHRAF RACHEL JONES Lead House Managers

CORY MCCONVILLE DANIEL BINDER GAELYN SMITH KAIYA LYONS MARK BERRY

House Managers

ARYSSA DAMRON BOB REEG BRINDEN BANKS KECHE ARRINGTON LAYLA NABAVI SHANNON THOMPSON

Amy Weinberg CHAIR Rob Batarla VICE CHAIR Navroz Gandhi SECRETARY Belinda Elvan Nixon TREASURER Marc Albert Jeremías Alvarez Susan L. Butler CHAIR EMERITUS Karen Doyne Dr. Mark Epstein Mark W. Foster Susan L. Gordon Martin Klepper Albert G. Lauber Ronald Mason, Jr. Renee Matalon Larry Naake CHAIR EMERITUS Jamie C. Pate Katy Kunzer Rosenzweig Teresa Schwartz Luz Blancas Sevak Steven A. Skalet Bobbi Terkowitz CHAIR EMERITUS Terry Theologides Robert Tracy

EX-OFFICIO David Muse Rebecca Ende Lichtenberg

trustees

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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The Artistic Director’s Circle is a dynamic group of individuals who support the artistic vision of Studio Theatre. Members understand the value of producing powerful contemporary work in intimate spaces and invest in Studio’s innovative projects and initiatives while receiving unparalleled access to the art. Members of the Artistic Director’s Circle receive exclusive opportunities to experience our work unlike any other of our giving circles.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Susan and Dixon Butler Trudy H. Clark Sheryl and Rick Donaldson Dr. Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber Hope and Mark Foster The Galena-Yorktown Foundation Jinny and Michael Goldstein Susan L. Gordon David and Jean Heilman Grier John and Meg Hauge Sari Hornstein Rick Kasten Arlene and Robert Kogod Katy Kunzer Rosenzweig and Paul Rosenzweig Judge Albert Lauber and Prof. Craig Hoffman Joan and David Maxwell Teresa and Dan Schwartz Daniel and Irene Simpkins Steve and Linda Skalet Bobbi and Ralph Terkowitz Mark Tushnet and Elizabeth Alexander Amy Weinberg and Norbert Hornstein

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Teagle F. Bougere in Invisible Man. Photo credit: Astrid Riecken.

Without the generosity of our dedicated supporters, Studio Theatre could not continue to bring the best of contemporary theatre to our nation’s capital.

This list represents contributions of $500 or more.

OVATION CIRCLE Marc Albert and Stephen Tschida Dr. Stewart Aledort and Dr. Sheila Rogovin Jeremias Alvarez Alan Asay and Mary Sturtevant Rob Batarla Jeffrey Bauman and Linda Fienberg Nan Beckley Cory and Rachel Capps John Chester and Betty Shepard Rick and Gary Copeland Karen Doyne George M. Ferris Gerard Fiala Wendy and William Garner George Wasserman Family Foundation Gari Lister and Matt Gobush John G. Guffey Frona Hall Donald E. Hesse and Jerrilyn Andrews Linda Lurie Hirsch John Horman Lynne and Joseph Horning Paula and Edward Hughes Hal Jones and Anne-Lise Auclair-Jones John Keator and Virginia Sullivan Helen and David Kenney Arlene and Martin Klepper Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation The Kristina And William Catto Foundation Barry Kropf Vinca and David LaFleur Stephen A. Saltzburg and Susan Lee The Lewis and Butler Foundation B. Thomas Mansbach Ed Starr and Marilyn Marcosson Stanley and Rosemary Marcuss

Mark and Carol Hyman Fund Renee R. Matalon and Stephen H. Marcus Dan and Karen Mayers The Morningstar Foundation Morrissette Family Foundation Ken and Margaret Muse Larry and Joan Naake The Nussdorf Family Foundation Nike Opadiran Jamie Pate Pat Lark and Lutz Prager Lola C. Reinsch Emily Rosen and Michael Gibbs Irene Roth and Vicken Poochikian Dr. April Rubin and Mr. Bruce Ray Amit Sevak and Luz Blancas Sevak Linda and Stanley Sher Aimee Smart and Shefa Gordon Andy and Ed Smith Spoor Family Fund Joshua Stiefel Terry Theologides and Deb Rodriguez Robert Tracy and Martha Gross Carolyn L. Wheeler Alan and Irene Wurtzel Judy and Leo Zickler

OPEN CIRCLE Dean Amel and Terry Savela Marcia and Larry Arem R. Joseph Barton Jason and Nichole Bassingthwaite Scott Douglas Bellard Dottie Bennett Jessica Berman Robin Berrington Joe and Sue Bredekamp Jeffrey Rothstein and Lynn Bristol Yolanda and Francis Bruno Family Fund Susan Buffone Michael Burke and Carl Smith Jessica Case Vincent Castellano Dr. Morris J. Chalick Nancy Chasen and Don Spero Will and Carol Cooke David Cooper and Stephen Nash Michael Crosswell Johanna Cummings Jonathan Cuneo Carol and Joseph Danks

Laurie Davis and Joseph Sellers John Driscoll Ruth A. Dupree Leon and Miriam Ellsworth Anne and Marc Feinberg James A. Feldman and Natalie Wexler The G.A. Files Foundation Leo S. Fisher and Susan J. Duncan Gift Fund Trudy Fleisher Charles Floto Chris Gattuso Amy C. Gilbert and Steven Newpol Paula Seigle Goldman Sally W. and Stephen W. Gresham Gail Gulliksen Jack Hairston Jr. Sherry Marts and Larry Haller Bonnie Hammerschlag James Heegeman Margaret Freeston Hennessey Jonathan Hurz and Steven Hill Richard and Pamela Hinds John and Gail Howell Katherine Howell Jason Johnston Thomas Joseph Cary Kadlecek Joanne Klesten and Jim Weinberg Christine and Gene Kilby Robert L. Kimmins Leslie Kogod Arlene and Bob Kogod Stuart Kogod and Denise Garone Patricia and John Koskinen Dr. and Mrs. William Kramer The Lafer Family Foundation Chad Lash and Caryn Wagner Marion Ein Lewin Janet Lewis Theodore C.M. Li and Courtney Pastorfield Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lieberman Ed Liebow and Erin Younger Lifland-Radmer Fund Krista Linn Dr. Richard F. Little Brian and Judy Madden Shawn C. Helm and J. Thomas Marchitto Dan and Susan Mareck Martha Washington Straus-Harry H. Straus Foundation Paul Martin

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Ronald Mason Winton E. Matthews Lou Mazawey Virginia A. McArthur and E.C. Michael Higgins Wallis McClain Eddie Adkins and Jeff Mendell Jane Molloy The Mufson Family Foundation Carl and Undine Nash Susan Nash Martha Newman Nancy S. Olson Linda and Peter Parshall Stan Peabody Ane Powers Roger Reeves and Ruth Lammert-Reeves Julie Rios Steven M. Rosenberg and Stewart C. Low III Steve and Ilene Rosenthal Lynn Rothberg Alan F. Rothschild Jr. Carole and Barry Rubin Dee and Ron Sagall Frank Sammartino and Ellen Starbird Christina Samson Bernard Myers Fund for the Performing Arts Linda B. Schakel Sandra and Albert Schlachtmeyer The Honorable Carol Schwartz Tucker Scully and Lee Kimball Lauren Kogod and David Smiley Cecile Srodes Jeanne Stovroff Thomas Strikwerda and Donna Stienstra Candy and Lawrence Sullivan Grant P. and Sharon R. Thompson Timbrel Fund Randy and Steven Toll Henry and Jessica Townsend James Turner Kazuko Uchimura Eric R. and Laura M. Wagner Henry Otto and Judy Whalley Elizabeth B. White Jack and Sue Whitelaw Sandy and Jon Willen Natalie Winston

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Robert I. Wise Ann Yahner Eleanore Zartman

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Calrk-Winchcole Foundation Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Dimick Foundation The Embassy of Australia Fannie Mae’s Gift Matching Program The Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation Logan Circle Community Association Martha Washington Straus-Harry H. Straus Foundation The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program and the US Commission of Fine Arts National Endowment for the Arts The Nora Roberts Foundation Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Share Fund The Shubert Foundation Weissberg Foundation

BENEFIT SUPPORT Theo Adamstein - TTR Sotheby’s International Realty Marc Albert and Stephen Tschida Jeremias Alvarez Cindy and Mark Aron Susan and Dixon Butler Trudy H. Clark Liz and Tim Cullen Dr. Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber Navroz and Perinaaz Gandhi Jinny and Michael Goldstein Susan L. Gordon

Gail and John Harmon Hal Jones and Anne-Lise Auclair-Jones Kay Kendall and Jack Davies Arlene and Martin Klepper Kathleen Kunzer Rosenzweig and Paul Rosenzweig Renee R. Matalon and Stephen H. Marcus Larry and Joan Naake Carl and Undine Nash Gregory and Belinda Nixon Craig Pascal Jamie Pate Bob and Nina Randolph Lola Reinsch Saks Fifth Avenue Checy Chase Teresa and Dan Schwartz Amit Sevak and Luz Blancas Sevak Steve and Linda Skalet Bobbi and Ralph Terkowitz Terry Theologides and Deb Rodriguez Robert Tracy and Martha Gross Mark Tushnet and Elizabeth Alexander Amy Weinberg and Norbert Hornstein *In Memoriam This list represents contributions made to special events, special initiatives, and the annual fund received August 30, 2022. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this listing. For more information, please contact the Development Office at 202.919.3712.

Cast in Admissions. Photo credit: Astrid Riecken.

INTRODUCING STUDIO INFINITUM Did you know that Studio Theatre accepts gifts through bequests and IRAs? If you have included Studio Theatre in your estate or long-term financial planning, please let us know. Studio Infinitum recognizes patrons and friends who have designated Studio Theatre as the beneficiary of a planned gift.

Including Studio Theatre in your long-range gift planning is one way of making a generous contribution to Studio and the initiatives that matter most to you.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PLANNED GIFTS, CONTACT BIANCA BECKHAM

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

bbeckham@studiotheatre.org 202.919.3717 www.studiotheatre.org/support/ planned-giving

With your lifetime gift of assets or charitable bequest, you will support our artistic mission while providing tax and financial benefits to you and your loved ones.

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ABOUT STUDIO Studio Theatre is a longstanding Washington cultural institution dedicated to the production of contemporary theatre. We are a community of artists and audience members who believe in the power of theatre to help us understand the world, engage with some of the most important ideas and issues of the day, and affirm our common humanity.

Over 42 years and more than 350 productions, Studio has grown from a company that produced in a single rented theatre to one that owns a multi-venue complex stretching half a city block, but we have stayed committed to our core distinguishing characteristics: deliberately intimate spaces; excellence in acting and design; and seasons that feature many of the most significant playwrights of our time. Each season, we present a diverse roster of thought-provoking contemporary plays, featuring local, national, and international artists. We also invest in the incubation

and development of new work and nurture the next generation of arts leaders. Studio is a values-focused organization that pursues artistry and inclusion, and brings characteristic thoughtfulness and daring to our efforts, onstage and off. We are committed to anti-racism and make a concerted effort to proactively dismantle barriers that have excluded people from joyful participation in our art form.

Rooted in our mission to foster a more thoughtful, empathetic, and connected community, Studio strives to welcome a wide and diverse audience. Our community engagement efforts include access and affordability initiatives, a growing community partner program, free student matinees, and a commitment to opening up our building as a hub for our neighborhood and city. In all that we do, Studio endeavors to make an essential contribution to the vitality of our nation’s capital.

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