Waiting for Godot Playbill

2017|2018 SEASON

ISSUE 5

WAITING FOR GODOT

TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

Cast

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About Druid

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Much Ado About Nothing

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Change and Continuity: Garry Hynes on Druid

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About the Playwright

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Coming and Going: Samuel Beckett, Ireland and Waiting for Godot

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Cast Biographies

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Artistic Biographies

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For Shakespeare Theatre Company

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About Shakespeare Theatre Company

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Waiting for Godot Events and Activities

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Support

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Audience Services

ASIDES Production Program and Publication of the SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY Managing Editor Laura Henry Buda Contributing Editors Susannah Clark Drew Lichtenberg Hannah Hessel Ratner

Advisors Samantha Wyer Bello Alan Paul Graphic Designer Amanda Hamati Publisher Neal Racioppo

THE VIDEOTAPING OR MAKING OF ELECTRONIC OR OTHER AUDIO AND/OR VISUAL RECORDINGS OF THIS PRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTING RECORDINGS ON ANY MEDIUM, INCLUDING THE INTERNET, IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED, A VIOLATION OF THE AUTHOR’S RIGHTS AND ACTIONABLE UNDER UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT LAW. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT: WWW.SAMUELFRENCH.COM/WHITEPAPER Cover illustration by Francis O’Connor.

Artistic Director Michael Kahn Executive Director Chris Jennings

Shakespeare Theatre Company presents DRUID’s production of

WAITING FOR GODOT

BY SAMUEL BECKETT Performances begin April 17, 2018 Opening Night April 24, 2018 Lansburgh Theatre

Director Garry Hynes Scenic and Costume Designer Francis O’Connor Lighting Designer James F. Ingalls Sound Designer Greg Clarke Movement Director Nick Winston

Additional support for Waiting for Godot is provided by Dr. Paul and Mrs. Rose Carter.

Restaurant Partner: Jaleo U.S. Tour produced by David Eden Productions, Ltd. Waiting for Godot is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

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CAST

Lucky.……………………………………..…………………………....Garrett Lombard Estragon…………………………………................................Aaron Monaghan Pozzo………………………………………................................Rory Nolan Vladimir…………………………………...............................…Marty Rea Boy…………………………………………………….…………………..Malcolm Fuller Harrison Wright (alternate in role)

DRUID PRODUCTION TEAM Deputy Stage Manager: Jean Hally Costume Supervisor: Doreen McKenna Wigs & Makeup: Val Sherlock Master Carpenters: Gus Dewar, Pete Nelson Chief Electrician: Shannon Light Scenic Artist: Rachel Towey Production Photography: Matthew Thompson, Valerie O’Sullivan Publicity Image: Francis O’Connor

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION STAFF Child Casting: Carter C. Wooddell Young Performer Supervisor: Allison Poms Overhire Run Crew: Niki Sears, Jess Lucey Overhire Wardrobe: Jaime Bagley

There will be a 15-minute intermission.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, and employs members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and United Scenic Artists. The Company is also a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for not-for-profit professional theatre, and is a member of the Performing Arts Alliance, the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), American Alliance for Theatre and Education and D.C. Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative.

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ABOUT DRUID

Druid began as a bold idea: to create Ireland’s first professional theatre company outside of Dublin. There were few resources with which to build a theatre company in the west of Ireland in 1975, but, through sheer dedication, and with the support of the Galway community, founders Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen and Mick Lally made this bold idea a reality. That reality has become an international success story of extraordinary dimensions. The company has won international acclaim and countless awards, including four Tony Awards for Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane on Broadway.

Druid is a company that continues to pursue bold ideas, from presenting the entire canon of Synge plays in one day (DruidSynge), to professionally debuting new work such as The Beauty

Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh and The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh, to adapting and staging four Shakespeare plays in one production (DruidShakespeare) and taking them across Ireland and the Atlantic, to New York and beyond.

Druid passionately believes that audiences have a right to see first class professional theatre in their own communities. Since 1975, the company has performed in over 100 Irish communities, often returning to locations dozens of times, developing enduring connections with audiences.

We have presented work at international arts festivals, in municipal theatres, community halls, yards, bars and Iron Age forts, always looking for new ways to present our work and connect with our audience.

DRUID STAFF Office Administrator: Niamh Bent Warehouse Manager*: Frank Commins Financial Controller*: Brian Duffy Production Associate: Craig Flaherty Head of Operations and Development: Feargal Hynes Artistic Director: Garry Hynes Development and Marketing: John McEvoy Venue Manager*: Síomha Nee Financial Administrator*: Lisa Nolan Production Manager: Barry O’Brien Company Manager: Richie O’Sullivan Program Development and Communications: Róisín Stack

* Part Time Position

Druid gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arts Council of Ireland and Culture Ireland.

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Dear friend, I can remember when the plays of Samuel Beckett came to America.

Waiting for Godot premiered in Paris in 1954, but the first production in America wasn’t until a few years later, and that was on Broadway—where no one understood it. The true impact came in the late 1950s and early ’60s downtown, when the Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village premiered the early plays of Beckett, Pinter, Albee and many others. I was just starting my career at the time, working with playwrights like Adrienne Kennedy and Jean-Claude van Itallie, and it’s impossible to overstate Beckett’s influence. He showed an entire generation of writers how to make every word count, every pause, every repetition, every bit of physical business.

I think of him as no less a dramatic poet than Shakespeare, though one who wrote in a very different form.

Just as Shakespeare drew from sonnets and romantic verse narratives, Beckett brilliantly repurposed outside cultural influences for the theatre. In his work, we see the silent cinema of Chaplin and Keaton, the French vaudeville and the English music hall, the Parisian avant-garde and the Irish modernism of James Joyce. Just as Shakespeare’s work produced a number of copycats, Beckett almost singlehandedly transformed 20th -century playwriting. To name just one example, Godot provides the title image, a “skull in Connemara,” for one of the earliest plays by Martin McDonagh, now an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose work testifies to the lasting nature of Beckett’s influence.

One of the joys of each season is the opportunity to invite companies from around the world that share our commitment to reinventing the classics.

Founded in 1975, Druid has gained an international reputation under the leadership of Garry Hynes, the first woman to win a Tony Award for Best Director for McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane. The company has produced a series of landmarks in Irish theatre such as 2005’s DruidSynge, an unforgettable single-day performance of all six plays by John Millington Synge, and 2015’s DruidShakespeare, a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henriad tetralogy which played the Lincoln Center Festival. Now, Druid and Beckett, two of Ireland’s finest, have come together. I could not be more pleased to share their work with you, or to see it myself, all these years later.

See you at the theatre.

Warm Regards,

Michael Kahn Artistic Director Shakespeare Theatre Company

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by drew lichtenberg , literary manager

There has perhaps never been a play so resistant to symbolic interpretations, or more inviting of them, than Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The American director Alan Schneider once asked Beckett, “Who or what does Godot mean?” referring to the mysteriously unnamed character at the center of the play. The infamously reticent playwright demurred: “If I knew, I would have said so in the play.” Speaking to the London critic Harold Hobson, Beckett was similarly cryptic:

I take no sides. I am interested in the shape of ideas. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine: “Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved.

Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.”

That sentence has a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

The reference is to the parable of the two thieves crucified alongside Christ, but Beckett seems to tease the association only to disavow it.

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The play has proven similarly mystifying to performers. Peter Bull, who played Pozzo in the English premiere of 1955, described rehearsals as “gloomy affairs.”

Beckett didn’t show up until late in the process and was of no use to the actors whatsoever. Moreover, his text was filled with so many repetitions and identical cues that it proved extremely difficult to memorize. On opening night, the cast made the mistake of skipping four pages in the script—and then the even greater mistake of going back and starting the scene over again. To add indignity to insult, Beckett burdened Pozzo with bulky props and ticky-tack costume elements: an enormous overcoat, a giant watch, a pipe that must be stuffed and smoked, opera glasses and most importantly, a gigantic rope that rubbed his hands raw.

Worst was a skintight rubber wig (“one of my major miseries”) that Bull was forced to wear beneath his bowler hat, even though his bald baby-like head was seen for just a few seconds. There seemed to be a method to this madness, but it was one the playwright could not—or would not—explain.

Photo of Marty Rea and Aaron Monaghan by Matthew Thompson.

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Beckett attended the London production with Alan Schneider, who was readying the American tryout. His observations are worth quoting. According to Schneider, Beckett found it “scenically over-cluttered.” The director of the original premiere in Paris, Roger Blin, recalled that Beckett insisted that the space for Godot be absolutely empty, uncluttered by extraneous details.

Again and again, instead of explaining what his work “meant,” Beckett focused instead on specifying its concrete theatrical means, such as Pozzo’s pipe and rope. Rather than spell out his ideas, he sought instead to define their shape.

And it is the shape of Waiting for Godot that constitutes its most startling and long-lasting innovation. The play has been called a summing up of all dramatic art; it is also a revolution in dramatic form.

Beckett arrived at this breakthrough by way of his deceptive minimalism. At the play’s beginning, two tramps stand on a “country road.” Save for a lone tree and a paper moon that sets toward the end of each act, the stage is bare. And yet, after noticing the tree, the two tramps (named Vladimir and Estragon, but addressing each other as Didi and Gogo, like clowns in a circus) can’t seem to agree on whether it is a tree at all, or just a bush.

Maybe a shrub.

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Something about the landscape of Godot, bare as it is, seems to be strangely dualistic, halfway in between reality and

fiction. The closer you look at it, the more distorted it seems. In Act 1, Didi (the rational one, always in search of clues for meaning), looks “wildly about him, as though the date was inscribed in the landscape.” In Act 2, Didi asks Gogo whether he recognizes the place.

“Recognize!” Gogo replies, thinking only of his hunger and misery, “What is there to recognize! All my lousy life I’ve crawled about in the mud! And you talk to me about scenery!”

Once you look for it, this doubleness, this theatrical irony, riddles the text, transforming places into non-places, things into scenery, characters into clowns. Halfway through each act, the bizarre Pozzo and Lucky enter to perform a kind of play-within-the-play that mirrors the love-hate predicament of our two main tramps. Cued by Pozzo (“Think!”), Lucky delivers a showstopping monologue, a Joycean stream of consciousness that seems to offer a skeleton key to the play’s meaning.

Pozzo, meanwhile, delivers the play’s only lyric passage (a florid apostrophe of the mysterious landscape, of course), stopping to ask Didi and Gogo for a review: “How did you find me? Good?

Fair? Middling? Poor? Positively bad?”

The mode of performance seems to be that of the popular theatre: Pozzo wears Chaplin’s bowler hat. Gogo, whether wrestling with his boots or

attempting to hang himself on a tree, continuously falls into the lazzi of the commedia dell’arte, and his who’s-on-first arguments with Didi recall the tag-team duets of vaudeville and the music hall.

Beckett would write 1965’s Film for the slapstick master Buster Keaton after he turned down the role of Lucky, and the original American Gogo was Bert Lahr, known to millions as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. Robin Williams and Steve Martin have played Didi and Gogo, and Bill Irwin’s Lucky made clear the figure’s connection to centuries of clown and mime.

If Beckett turns again and again to lowbrow delights, however, it is mainly in order to escape from highbrow despair, the nauseous waiting that constitutes the main action. The play is titled Waiting for Godot, and that is precisely, literally, what Didi and Gogo do. Killing the time with their seemingly endless supply of theatrical games and bits, the two tramps provide a sublime chronicle of boredom, their language streaked with ominous silences, pauses and those maddening, impossible to memorize repetitions of non-instrumental snatches of dialogue.

As each microcosmic play subsides, a sense of the yawning macrocosm, a universe of existential dread, creeps into the frame.

had constituted a play, Beckett shifted the gaze away from such stand-bys as plot, character and thought, and onto new aesthetic virtues: the empty space, the present tense, scenery and props, bodies in performance. Excising the drama, Beckett replaced it with theatre.

Ironically, Beckett relies on these same dramatic elements for much of Godot’s immensely powerful effect: we wait eagerly with the tramps for the reversal of situation and scene of recognition we suspect will never come.

All that is left, classically speaking, is the scene of suffering.

Is this why Beckett cited Augustine’s parable of the two thieves? Did he mean Didi and Gogo, enacting a latter-day Passion of the Christ? Perhaps, but asking such questions is beside the point. After Godot, one could still write plays in the style of Sophocles or Shakespeare. But Beckett created an entirely new kind of play that unfolds in circular time and unfixed space, in which the creation of the world takes place every time it is performed, in which character is really a series of characters and life a succession of behaviors, a play that brings the vast range of human performance into view. It is the shape that matters.

And herein lies the sweeping, simple insight of Beckett’s genius. By radically paring away most of the elements that 9

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CHANGE AND CONTINUITY: GARRY HYNES ON DRUID

By Hannah Hessel Ratner, Audience Enrichment Manager

When four members of the Druid ensemble proposed a production of Beckett’s classic to Artistic Director Garry Hynes, her reaction was less than enthusiastic. “I don’t know if the world needs another production of Waiting for Godot,” she remembers thinking, reflecting on a famous production by Ireland’s Gate Theatre that ran in their repertoire for 25 years. With many companies the idea might have ended there—but Druid works differently.

Druid’s acting ensemble is a unique component of the historic company.

The group is comprised of six actors, deeply imbedded in artistic planning and decision-making. Though the permanent ensemble is more recent, the creativity and collaboration of actors have always been at the center of Druid’s work.

“Having that continuing relationship, continuing discussion with actors is a crucial part of Druid,” says Hynes. “I think the ensemble is one of the big things that we’ve lost in the American and European theatre.” So when Marty Rea, Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan and Garrett Lombard continued to advocate for Godot, Hynes listened. “Gradually, I could see what sense it made in terms of those actors. We eventually produced it and it’s become one of our biggest hits.”

The ensemble of actors features one of the original company members Marie Mullin, who, along with Hynes and actor Mick Lally, founded Druid in 1975. At that time, professional theatre in Ireland was focused entirely in Dublin, but the group wanted to stay in Galway, where they attended university. “We wanted to make theatre in the West of Ireland.

And to make it about our lives there and then,” says Hynes. “So for that reason we decided—as one can do when you’re 21 or 22—to found a professional theatre in Galway.” So they formed Druid, the first professional company beyond the capital city.

Galway has changed in the years since the company’s founding, she explains.

“Galway was a western regional city, reasonably quiet,” but now, “Galway really is, I don’t think anybody would disagree, regarded as the capital of culture in Ireland at the moment.” In fact, the city has been named the 2020 European Capital of Culture.

As the city changed, the company needed to change also. The artistic leader for all but three of its 43 years, Hynes has

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always felt that arts organizations must constantly evolve or risk becoming irrelevant. “There’s an institutional inertia that organizations can fall into very quickly, unless you change it up.

When we started off we were there to provide theatre for the people of Galway, but Galway now has a civic theatre with performances 340 days of the year. It has no shortage of entertainment. So we needed to consider: how do we provide something that nobody else is providing?”

Hynes believes that theatre companies— brand new or long established—should be constantly questioning, looking for opportunities to grow and change.

When students ask her about starting a new company, she pushes them: “Why? Not only do you have to have an answer before you do it but you have to answer the question every single day of your life.”

In the early 1980s Druid started touring internationally, as well as traveling to small communities all over Ireland.

Then, in the late 1990s, Druid brought the work of Martin McDonagh (now known beyond the theatre for his films, including the Oscar-winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) to America for the first time. Druid’s production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane earned Marie Mullen a Tony Award for her performance, and Hynes made history as the first woman to win a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.

As ever, the future of the company is on Hynes’ mind. As the theatre evolves every decade or so she knows that there is another big change ahead— perhaps this time without its founding artistic director. “I don’t know what the company will be like in ten years’ time, but I do know that it probably won’t be with me. I’m not sure you can plan for what the future is. You just have to restate your ‘why,’ ask yourself what counts and make sure the organization is responding to that.”

Photo of Rory Nolan, Garrett Lombard, Mary Rea and Aaron Monaghan by Matthew Thompson.

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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906 in Dublin, Ireland. His father worked in construction and his mother was a nurse. In his youth, Beckett studied music and excelled in cricket, but suffered from periods of intense depression. He studied English, French and Italian at Trinity College, before beginning a brief stint as a teacher in Paris. While abroad, he published his first pieces of literary criticism and befriended James Joyce, who became a profound influence. Beckett even contributed research for what would become Finnegan’s Wake.

Beckett’s first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, was rejected by publishers across the board. Throughout his twenties he published critical essays and reviews, taking a special interest in modernist Irish poetry. He quietly published a book of poetry and a novel, Murphy, and decided to settle permanently in Paris after falling out with his mother. He became integrated into the Left Bank art scene, maintaining a strong relationship with Joyce and befriending other French and Italian writers. In 1938, Beckett was stabbed in the chest and nearly killed when he refused the solicitations of a pimp.

While recovering in the hospital, he met Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, a French woman who became his lifelong companion and eventual wife.

When World War II broke out and the Nazis occupied France in 1940, Beckett

and Dechevaux-Dumesnil joined the French resistance. After his unit was betrayed and they were nearly caught by the Gestapo, the two fled to a village in the south of France, where they continued to aid the resistance from afar.

After the war, Beckett was awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery.

Beckett’s major literary success came after the war. In quick succession, he wrote and published several works in French, including the novels Molloy, Malone meurt and L’Innommable. Then came Waiting for Godot, originally written in French as En attendant Godot. In Paris, London and later New York, the play premiered to controversy and confusion that quickly turned into a sensation.

Godot brought Beckett fame and renown, and it was followed by the publication of several more plays and novels, most of which he wrote in French and translated into English himself.

Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. An intensely private man, he did not accept the award in person, and he gave all of the prize money away. He died on December 22, 1989.

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WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Gogo: Amazing selection of comfy boots here, I just can’t decide which pair to choose.

I should ask Didi. Now where did he wander off to...

20 minutes ago

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Didi: Could have sworn I saw Godot come in here...hey, this cafe is great! I must tell Gogo about this place.

Just now

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Cafe

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Coming and Going: Samuel Beckett, Ireland and Waiting for Godot

BY FEARGAL WHELAN

VLADIMIR: Ah no, Gogo, the truth is there are things that escape you that don’t escape me, you must feel it yourself.

(Waiting for Godot, Act 2) Samuel Beckett’s life was punctuated by a series of escapes: he left his home in Ireland for Paris in order to write; he fled Paris during the war to avoid arrest by the Gestapo; on return to Paris he set up a small house in the rural village of Ussy so that he might write. Yet each of these escapes never seemed to banish what he wanted to avoid. In Ussy he frequently wanted to be in Paris, the “freedom” of Vichy France resulted in a miserable and punishing existence, and physically leaving Ireland never erased the profound effect of its culture. One might escape but, as Vladimir knows, things might not escape you.

Although entitled to hold a British passport by dint of having been born before Irish independence in 1922, Beckett carried the equivalent Irish travel documents throughout his life.

Any attempt to appropriate him as purely and fundamentally “an Irish author” merely because of this fact is dangerous, however, as it avoids the complex relationship he had with the country of his birth both in his creative and his personal writings. The simplistic

establishment of his nationality by birth, avoiding the fact that he lived most his life in Paris where he wrote both in French and English, also feeds the frequently expressed belief by many within Beckett studies that Ireland is an unimportant footnote in the oeuvre.

The fact is that place of birth and the possession of a green passport bearing a gold harp are the least important details when it comes to understanding the central presence of Ireland in his works, from his earliest prose to his very latest short pieces. A reader with an understanding eye and a sensitive ear—such as is demonstrated in Druid’s current production of Waiting for Godot—can’t avoid the resonance of Irish landscape, the rehearsal of Irish social concerns and especially the sound of the Irish-inflected voice. Despite this fact, Beckett’s relationship with the country remained conflicted throughout his life.

His abhorrence of the society and culture that he saw developing in the 1930s, which was to his mind proscriptive of cultural freedom through taking its lead from an all-pervasive, censorious and dogmatic Roman Catholic hierarchy, led to his emigration “for good” in 1937.

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, he happened to be in Dublin visiting his mother but immediately returned to Paris, preferring wartime in France to neutral, and safer, Ireland.

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On the face of it, Waiting for Godot should not immediately evoke a sense of Ireland.

It was written in French as En attendant Godot and premiered in the small Parisian Théâtre de Babylone in 1953. Its opening stage directions, “A country road. A tree.

Evening,” determinedly evoke a place shorn of specific identification, and even those places that are specifically mentioned—the Eiffel Tower, the Macon country, Lake Como, the Ardennes— relate to places in or near France. The themes of survival, meaninglessness, oppression and impotence are universal and would have resonated with the direct experiences of an audience coping with the devastation of the war that ravaged their country and had finished less than a decade before. Yet, following his translation into English, the conversation of the protagonists adopts Irish idiosyncrasies and phraseology thus inflecting the play, intentionally or not, with an evocation of the devastated history of Ireland over the previous 150 years. A production in tune with the Irishness of the speech—and Druid’s is certainly attentive in this regard—evokes a sense of the psychological space of an Ireland emerging from its trauma, without the need for identification of place and without the dilution of the universal themes for a universal audience that might follow.

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Take an example of the universal theme and the remarkably local context. In Act 1, the grotesque bully and master Pozzo can’t find his tobacco pipe, providing tramp-like Gogo with a chance to laugh at him: “He’s a scream. He’s lost his dudeen.” Pozzo, infuriated at his loss and at appearing the butt of

the joke exclaims: “I’ve lost my Kapp and Peterson!” “Dudeen” is a singularly Irish word for a pipe, from the Irish counterpart dúidín, which refers usually to the clay pipe used by the poorest in society up until the mid-20 th century.

“Kapp and Peterson” was a tobacconist’s shop opposite Trinity College Dublin, which supplied tobacco and handmade pipes to Irish smokers of means and standing. Understanding this, the audience is invited to put a specific gloss on an otherwise unlocated scene.

Originally, a generic, wealthy man has lost his pipe and is laughed at by a poor man at the side of the road. Now, a poor Irish countryman, whose English spoken language bears the ghostly marks of the Irish which has been lost, laughs at a wealthy man who shops in Dublin’s most opulent tobacconists and whose difference is also marked by the form of the English he uses. This original and long-standing trope of the poor trickster puncturing the pompous aristocrat remains intact but its significance is deepened and performed in an instant by Beckett’s understanding and use of the political nuances of Hiberno-English.

Samuel Beckett’s relationship with Ireland was a conflicted one yet not unique. He was born in 1906 into a Dublin family that was prosperous, members of the Church of Ireland and bourgeois at a time when the majority of the country outside of his community was agitating to become independent of the United Kingdom. Independence came formally in 1922 while he was

attending school in Enniskillen, which remained British following the partition of the country, and the formation of a new society was taking place while he attended Trinity College, an institution almost exclusively Protestant and antagonistic to the new Free State in principle. Yet he loved the landscape, which he walked endlessly with his father as a boy, and he found his origins inescapable when abroad. Having spent nearly two years in London in the early 1930s, he discovered that despite his class, refinement and education, he was subjected to the “patronising English habit of addressing him in the pubs and shops as ‘Pat’ or ‘Paddy,’” as he recalled to his biographer, James Knowlson. His Irish accent never disappeared despite the years in Paris and that accent is present in the singular voice in his prose and in the mouths of his theatrical creations. The landscape persists in the recurring unnamed lonely roads in barren countryside with the odd view of a city by the bay that evoke the roads in the Dublin Mountains near his home.

Most significant and frequently overlooked is his debt to three other Irish playwrights: J.M. Synge, Sean O’Casey and W.B. Yeats. He cited all three in a letter declining an invitation to laud George Bernard Shaw in 1956, claiming that he would rather have “a sup of the Hawk’s Well, or the Saints’, or a whiff of Juno, to go no further.” Echoes of pieces by all three are frequently, though obscurely, referenced throughout his works. An avid audience member in the Abbey Theatre while living in Dublin, Beckett attended the first night of O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars in 1926

and was there soon after on the night of the infamous riot. He was also present on the opening night of Yeats’ Purgatory in 1938, whose opening directions may have been recalled less than twenty years later: “Scene. – A ruined house and a bare tree in the background.”

The tension arising from the paradox of being unable to escape the imprint of Ireland while at the same time feeling unable to be a part of that country is expressed frequently throughout his correspondence. On returning to Paris following his last visit to Ireland, to attend his aunt’s funeral in 1968, Beckett wrote to a friend summing up the contradictory push-pull effect that the country seemed to exert on him: “The sea and mountains were marvellous. I was glad to get back here, out of their clutches.” The same frustrated impulse of wanting to escape but being unable to do so by some unknown force overhangs Waiting for Godot at every turn, and is summed up in the vocalized last line of the play and in its silent, ultimate stage direction: VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we go?

ESTRAGON: Yes. Let’s go.

[They do not move.]

CURTAIN Dr. Feargal Whelan is an associate researcher at UCD Humanities Institute in Dublin, Ireland, and has published and presented widely on the works of Samuel Beckett and on Irish Theatre of the mid-20th century. He currently edits The Beckett Circle, the magazine of the international Samuel Beckett Society, and his monograph Samuel Beckett and the Irish Protestant Imagination is due for publication by ibidem-Verlag Publishing Co. in 2018.

Excerpted from the full essay in Guide to the Season 2017–2018, available for purchase on Kindle or Nook. Subscribers receive a complimentary print copy of the Guide each season.

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ACADEMY FOR CLASSICAL ACTING The Academy for Classical Acting is delighted to announce the 2018 Repertory season: Pericles, Prince of Tyre, directed by Alec Wild and Jef Awada, and Julius Caesar, directed

by Cameron Knight. Shakespeare’s Pericles, like his other late plays, speaks to the themes of family, redemption and forgiveness. It’s also a lively and buoyant adventure story that touches on experiences both soaring and sordid—love, sex, incest, loyalty, betrayal—as Pericles, Prince of Tyre, finds his fate inexorably intertwined with the Mediterranean Sea. Julius Caesar likewise explores timeless ideas amidst political upheaval. And it’s also a thrilling, cerebral play of intrigue, investigating where personal ambition and the ideals of Rome diverge, as Brutus and Marc Antony make their stands.

Visit ACA.ShakespeareTheatre.org for details.

Photo of the 2017 Repertory by Teresa Castracane Photography.

“A RARE AND RICH TREAT…

A PRODUCTION TO BE

TREASURED” – THE NEW YORK TIMES

BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW DIRECTED BY ERIC TUCKER

202.544.7077 folger.edu/theatre NOW EXTENDED! MAY 12 – JUNE 10, 2018

Photo by C. King Photography

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CAST BIOGRAPHIES

GARRETT LOMBARD Lucky REGIONAL: McCarter Theatre Center: Stones in His Pockets.

INTERNATIONAL: Druid: DruidShakespeare, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The Walworth Farce, The Year of the Hiker; Abbey Theatre: Ulysses, Cavalcaders, The Recruiting Officer; Gate Theatre: The Dumb Waiter, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bedroom Farce, An Ideal Husband, The Caretaker, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie; Red Iron Productions: Dusk; Pan Pan: The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane; Lane Productions: Alone It Stands; The Ark: Playing from the Heart; Scott-Rellis Productions: The Field (national tour); Corcadorca: The Winter’s Tale. FILM: Looks Like Rain, Alexander, The Front Line, Stella Days.

TELEVISION: Quirke, Fair City, Pure Mule, Rough Diamond, Love Is the Drug.

AWARDS: Nominated for Irish Film and Television Award (Scobie Donoghue in Pure Mule, 2005).

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AARON MONAGHAN Estragon REGIONAL: McCarter Theatre Center: Stones in His Pockets.

INTERNATIONAL: Druid: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, DruidShakespeare, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, Penelope, The Playboy of the Western World, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Empress of India, The Year of the Hiker, The Walworth Farce, DruidSynge; Landmark: The Second Violinist; Abbey Theatre: King Lear, Translations, 16 Possible Glimpses,

Arrah Na Pogue, Christ Deliver Us, Romeo and Juliet, Drama at Inish, The Shaughraun, She Stoops to Conquer, The Burial at Thebes, I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Fell, The Wolf of Winter, Finders Keepers. FILM: Maze, The Foreigner, Assassin’s Creed, Pan, Inspector Jury, The Other Side of Sleep, Little Foxes, Ella Enchanted, LSD ‘73!.

TELEVISION: The Tudors, Vikings, Clean Break, Sacrifice, Single-Handed, Jack Taylor, Love/Hate. AWARDS: OBIE, Lucille Lortel, Manchester Evening News Awards: Best Actor (Cripple Billy in The Cripple of Inishmaan); Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actor (Liam in Conversations on a Homecoming DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy).

RORY NOLAN Pozzo INTERNATIONAL: Druid: DruidShakespeare, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy; Rough Magic Theatre Co.: Northern Star, The Critic, Peer Gynt, The Importance of Being Earnest, Don Carlos, The Taming of the Shrew, Improbable Frequency, Is This About Sex?; Dead Centre: Chekhov’s First Play; Landmark: Postcards from the Ledge, Breaking Dad, Between Foxrock and a Hard Place, The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, Sleeping Beauty; Gate Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest, Bedroom Farce, A Christmas Carol, Death of a Salesman; Abbey Theatre: She Stoops to Conquer, Aristocrats, The Government Inspector, Translations, Arrah Na Pogue, Macbeth, The Rivals, Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant, The Comedy of Errors, Heavenly Bodies, Big Love; Livin’ Dred / Nomad: Observe the

Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Corn Exchange: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Mangiare Theatre: The Evils of Tobacco. FILM: WILD, The Delinquent Season, A Thousand Times Goodnight.

TELEVISION: Acceptable Risk, Charlie, Fair City, The Baker Street Irregulars, Trouble in Paradise, Nothing Personal.

AWARDS: Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actor (Pozzo in Waiting for Godot, 2016); Nominated for Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Best Supporting Actor (Falstaff in DruidShakespeare, 2015; Commissioner in The Government Inspector, 2011); Nominated for Best Male Performer, Dublin Fringe Festival (The Evils of Tobacco, 2006).

MARTY REA Vladimir NEW YORK: 59E59: Improbable Frequency.

INTERNATIONAL: Druid: King of the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, DruidShakespeare, Brigit, Be Infants in Evil, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy; Gate Theatre: The Great Gatsby, Juno and the Paycock, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Caretaker, An Ideal Husband, My Cousin Rachel, Little Women, Hay Fever, Arcadia, Salomé, The Glass Menagerie; Abbey Theatre: Othello, She Stoops to Conquer, The Hanging Gardens, Major Barbara, John Gabriel Borkman, The Rivals, Only an Apple, An Ideal Husband, The Big House, Saved, The Importance of Being Earnest; The Lyric Theatre / Rough Magic Theatre Co.: Pentecost, Spokesong; Second Age Theatre Co.: Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Hamlet; Livin’ Dred / Nomad: Observe the Sons

of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; ART NI: Philadelphia, Here I Come!. FILM: The Devil’s Pool, The Man Inside. TELEVISION: Citizen Lane, Barbarians Rising!. AWARDS: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Best Actor (Hamlet in Hamlet, 2010; Richard II in DruidShakespeare, 2015); Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Best Supporting Actor (Jemmy Maguire in King of the Castle; Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, 2017).

MALCOLM FULLER Boy REGIONAL: Ford’s Theater: A Christmas Carol. OTHER: Solo performer: The Washington Nationals: National Anthem.

TRAINING: SAGWA Music Institute, Drama Kids Camp.

HARRISON WRIGHT Boy NATIONAL TOUR: Kinky Boots. REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Port Tobacco Players: The Who’s Tommy. TELEVISION: Master of None, Inside Amy Schumer.

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201 8 -2019 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED BY ALAN PAUL SEPTEMBER 25–OCTOBER 28, 2018

Photo by Violetta Markelou.

Leave logic behind and delight in the confusion of Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, where servants misplace their masters, wives overlook their husbands, and sons forget their fathers. With a cast of beloved STC performers, Associate Artistic Director Alan Paul (Kiss Me, Kate) brings this madcap world to life in all its antic, anarchic glory.

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AN INSPECTOR CALLS

BY J.B. PRIESTLEY DIRECTED BY STEPHEN DALDRY PRODUCED BY THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN NOVEMBER 20–DECEMBER 23, 2018

A festive evening with a well-heeled British family is suddenly punctured by a mysterious visitor: a grim inspector investigating the death of a young woman, whose revelations shatter the foundations of their comfortable lives. With “great directorial daring, breathtaking visual invention and passionate moral urgency” (Daily Telegraph), Stephen Daldry’s (Billy Elliot, The Crown) reinterpretation of J.B. Priestley’s expressionistic thriller has been hailed as one of “the defining productions” of modern British theatre.

The Grand Finale Season of

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THE PANTIES, THE PARTNER AND THE PROFIT SCENES FROM THE HEROIC LIFE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS

BY DAVID IVES INSPIRED BY THE WORK OF CARL STERNHEIM DIRECTED BY MICHAEL KAHN DECEMBER 4, 2018–JANUARY 6, 2019

David Ives (The Liar) gives his “translaptation” treatment to Carl Sternheim’s epic trilogy— transforming three full-length plays into a single brisk evening filled with panties falling, lovers juggling, dueling pistols shooting and other signs of near-apocalypse. Returning for one final collaboration with Artistic Director Michael Kahn (The School for Lies), Ives sharpens his celebrated wit to largerthan-life social commentary.

Sponsored by The Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation.

Commissioned through a grant from The Beech Street Foundation.

RICHARD III

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED BY DAVID MUSE FERBRUARY 5–MARCH 10, 2019

What Richard of Gloucester lacks in looks he makes up for in bottomless ambition, ruthless cunning and rapacious zeal: the crown, at all costs. As he climbs ever higher, Richard bends the world to his will until even his mother can’t bear to own him. Shakespeare’s mesmerizing chronicle of the megalomaniac’s rampage to the throne remains an irresistible study of villainy.

VANITY FAIR

BY KATE HAMILL ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEL BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY DIRECTED BY JESSICA STONE FEBRUARY 26–MARCH 31, 2019

Becky Sharp never blushes. As the wily Becky and her gentle friend Amelia scale social ladders and hurdle the whims of fate, only one question matters: how do you get what you want in life? A bright dance hall pageant poking fun at all our pretenses, this new adaptation by Kate Hamill (Sense and Sensibility, The Wall Street Journal’s Playwright of the Year 2017) harnesses the frivolity of Thackeray’s novel while recasting its (anti) heroines as complex, vibrant women, delivering “a gift to actors and a goody bag for its audience” (New York Times).

THE ORESTEIA

BY ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN ADAPTED FROM AESCHYLUS DIRECTED BY MICHAEL KAHN APRIL 30–JUNE 2, 2019

The sole surviving trilogy in Greek tragedy, The Oresteia chronicles a deluge of violence that can only be stopped when society peers into its own soul and sees the depths of its complicity.

Playwright Ellen McLaughlin (The Persians) has written a new version of the classic, weaving together the works of Aeschylus with stunning poetry and emotional heft. An epic world premiere, The Oresteia makes a fitting end to Michael Kahn’s tenure as Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company.

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ARTISTIC BIOGRAPHIES

GARRY HYNES Director NEW YORK: Second Stage; Signature Theater; Manhattan Theater Club.

REGIONAL: Center Theatre Group; Kennedy Center; Mark Taper Forum; Spoleto Festival. INTERNATIONAL: Co-founded Druid Theatre Company in 1975 and has worked as its Artistic Director from 1975 to 1991, and from 1995 to date. From 1991 to 1994 she was Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Directing: The Abbey and Gate Theatres (Ireland); Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court (U.K.).

AWARDS: Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1998), The Joe A. Callaway Award for Outstanding Directing for The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (2009), many others including The Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards for Best Director for DruidShakespeare, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot and a Special Tribute Award for her contribution to Irish Theatre (2005).

Honorary Doctorates from University College Dublin, the University of Dublin, the National University of Ireland and the National Council for Education Awards.

Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. Member of the Honorary Council of the Royal Hibernian Academy (HRHA). TEACHING: Adjunct Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway.

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FRANCIS O’CONNOR Scenic and Costume Designer O’Connor is a regular collaborator with Garry Hynes and Druid. His designs for plays, musicals and opera have been seen in Ireland, the U.K., throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and his work with the Gate Theatre (Ireland)

has frequently been seen at Spoleto Festival. INTERNATIONAL: Druid: Sive, King of the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Big Maggie, DruidShakespeare, Brigit, Bailegangaire, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The Gigli Concert, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Leaves, Empress of India, The Year of the Hiker, DruidSynge, The Well of the Saints, The Tinker’s Wedding, Sharon’s Grave, Sive, The Good Father, My Brilliant Divorce, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lonesome West, A Skull in Connemara, The Leenane Trilogy, The Country Boy, The Way You Look Tonight, Shadow and Substance, Wild Harvest. AWARDS: Three Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, two for Best Design, one for Best Costume Design (with Doreen McKenna); Boston Critics Circle; Dora Mavor Moore Award; and, most recently, a nomination for the Faust Prize, Germany.

JAMES F. INGALLS Lighting Designer NATIONAL TOURS: Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary Tour; Carmen de Lavallade’s As I Remember It. REGIONAL: American Conservatory Theatre: Hamlet; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Manahatta, Julius Caesar. INTERNATIONAL: Druid: Sive, King of the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, DruidShakespeare (all dir. Garry Hynes). OPERA: World premieres of John Adams’ Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, El Niño, The Gospel According to the Other Mary; world premieres of Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin, Adriana Mater, La Passion de Simone, Only the Sound Remains (all dir. Peter Sellars); Spoleto Festival/USA: Il Farnace, Kat’a Kabanova (both dir. Garry Hynes).

DANCE: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance: Concertiana, The Beauty of Gray, Half Life; Mark Morris Dance Group: Layla and Majnun, Mozart Dances, The Hard Nut, L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; Pacific Northwest Ballet / San Francisco Ballet / Miami City Ballet: The Nutcracker; Miami City Ballet: A Fairy’s Kiss (chor. Alexi Ratmansky); Teatro alla Scala Ballet / American Ballet Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty (chor. Alexi Ratmansky); National Ballet of Canada / San Francisco Ballet / American Ballet Theatre: John Cranko’s Onegin; frequent collaborations with the Wooden Floor dancers (Santa Ana, California). TRAINING: Yale School of Drama; University of Connecticut.

GREG CLARKE Sound Designer INTERNATIONAL: Druid: Sive, King of the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, DruidShakespeare, Brigit, Bailegangaire, Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom, The Hackney Office; Royal Court Theatre (London): The Twits, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas; Galway Arts Festival and Landmark Productions: Misterman; National Theatre (London): Medea, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Twelfth Night, No Man’s Land, Tristan and Yseult, The Emperor Jones, Earthquakes in London; Almeida Theatre (London): The Merchant of Venice, Cloud Nine; Royal Shakespeare Company: All’s Well That Ends Well, The Heart of Robin Hood, Great Expectations, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tantalus, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; London West End: My Night With Reg, Goodnight Mr. Tom, The Vortex, A Voyage Around My Father, And Then There Were None, Some Girls,

Waiting for Godot, What the Butler Saw, Journey’s End, Equus. AWARDS: Tony Award Best Sound Design for Equus (2009), Drama Desk Award for Journey’s End (2007).

NICK WINSTON Movement Director INTERNATIONAL: Extensive theatre, opera and television credits include: Choreographer: Royal Albert Hall / BBC Proms: Sondheim at 80; BBC: Shakespeare Live from the RSC (BAFTA nomination: Live Entertainment); Piccadilly Theatre: Annie; Théâtre du Châtelet: Kiss Me, Kate; The Royal Exchange: Sweeney Todd; Garrick Theatre: Loserville (Olivier nomination: Best New Musical); Trafalgar Studios: Horrid Henry. Director and Choreographer: London Palladium / ITV: The Royal Variety Performance 2017; An American in Paris (German premiere, Linz); 30th Anniversary Tour: Fame (prod. Selladoor); Kilworth House: Guys and Dolls; Curve Theatre (Leicester): A Midsummer Night’s Dream (also adaptation), Bugsy Malone (BroadwayWorld Award nomination: Best Director); U.K. Tours: Rock of Ages (prod. Dan Looney), The Wedding Singer (prod. Dan Looney); Sadler’s Wells: Flashmob. OPERA: Opera North / Minnesota Opera: The Adventures of Pinocchio.

DAVID EDEN PRODUCTIONS, LTD. U.S. Tour Producer David Eden Productions, Ltd. has been one of the leading American organizations devoted to producing international work in the U.S. for over 30 years. Most recently, DEP has produced tours for Druid, Bouffes du Nord, Maly Drama Theatre, Théâtre de

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la Ville, Ensemble Basiani from Republic of Georgia, Gate Theatre Dublin and Batsheva Dance Company.

DEP has produced tours for The Public Theater, Martha Clarke, Declan Donnellan, Propeller, Rezo Gabriadze, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, London’s Royal Court Theatre, Russian Patriarchate Choir of Moscow, State Ballet of Georgia,

plus Bolshoi and worked on special projects with John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, Lincoln Center, American Dance Festival and Jacob’s Pillow.

Producer: David Eden General Manager: Pat Kirby Associate Producer: Tim Smith Visa Coordinator: Elise-Ann Konstantin

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FOR SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY

MICHAEL KAHN Artistic Director STC: Hamlet (2018); The Lover and The Collection; The School for Lies, The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound; The Metromaniacs; Henry IV, Part 1 and 2; Wallenstein; The Government Inspector; Strange Interlude; The Heir Apparent; Old Times; All’s Well That Ends Well; The Liar; Richard II; The Alchemist; Design for Living; The Way of the World; Antony and Cleopatra (2008); Tamburlaine; Hamlet (2007); Richard III (2007); The Beaux’ Stratagem; Love’s Labor’s Lost; Othello; Lorenzaccio; Macbeth (2004); Cyrano; Five by Tenn (at the Kennedy Center); The Silent Woman; The Winter’s Tale (2002); The Duchess of Malfi; The Oedipus Plays; Hedda Gabler; Don Carlos; Timon of Athens; Camino Real; Coriolanus; King Lear (1999); The Merchant of Venice; King John; A Woman of No Importance; Sweet Bird of Youth; Peer Gynt; Mourning Becomes Electra; Henry VI; Volpone; Henry V; Henry IV; The Doctor’s Dilemma; Richard II; Much Ado about Nothing (also at McCarter Theatre Center); Mother Courage and Her Children; Hamlet; Measure for Measure; King Lear (1991); Richard III (1990); The Merry Wives of Windsor; Twelfth Night; As You Like It; Antony and Cleopatra (1988); Macbeth (1988); All’s Well That Ends Well; The Winter’s Tale (1987); Romeo and Juliet. NEW YORK: Broadway: Show Boat (Tony nomination), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Whodunnit, Night of the Tribades, Death of Bessie Smith, Here’s Where I Belong, Othello, Henry V; Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company: The Liar; Manhattan Theatre Club: Five by Tenn, Sleep Deprivation Chamber, Funnyhouse of a Negro, The Rimers of Eldritch, Three by

Thornton Wilder, A Month in the Country, Hedda Gabler, The Señorita from Tacna, Ten by Tennessee; New York Shakespeare Festival: Measure for Measure (Saturday Review Award). The Acting Company: Artistic Director, 1978–1988. TEACHING: Richard Rodgers Director of Juilliard Drama Division July 1992–May 2006, faculty member 1967–; Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University. Previously: New York University; Circle in the Square Theatre School; Princeton University; British American Drama Academy; founder of Chautauqua Theatre Conservatory.

REGIONAL: Arena Stage: A Touch of the Poet; Signature Theatre: Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill, Otabenga; Studio Theatre: Cloud 9, Torch Song Trilogy. Guthrie Theater: The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound, The Duchess of Malfi; American Repertory Theatre: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore; The Old Globe: The Metromaniacs; American Shakespeare Theatre: Artistic Director for 10 years, more than 20 productions; McCarter Theatre Center: Artistic Director for five seasons, including Beyond the Horizon, filmed for PBS; Chautauqua Theatre: Artistic Director, including The Glass Menagerie with Tom Hulce; Goodman Theatre: Old Times (MacArthur Award), The Tooth of Crime (Jefferson nomination); Ford’s Theatre: Eleanor. OPERA: Roméo et Juliette for Dallas Opera; Vanessa for the New York City Opera (2007); Lysistrata or The Nude Goddess for Houston Grand Opera and New York City Opera; Vanessa for Washington Opera and Dallas Opera; Show Boat for Houston Grand Opera; Carmen for Houston and Washington Operas; Carousel for Miami Opera; Julius Caesar for San Francisco Spring Opera.

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INTERNATIONAL: Love’s Labor’s Lost at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival; The Oedipus Plays at the Athens Festival; Five by Tenn for The Acting Company’s tour of Eastern Europe; Show Boat for the National Cultural Center Opera House in Cairo; The White Devil for the Adelaide Festival. BOARD MEMBERSHIPS: Theatre Communications Group; New York State Council on the Arts; D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; Opera America’s 80s and Beyond. AWARDS: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.); Theater Hall of Fame; seven Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Director; 2016 Theatre Communications Group Theatre Practitioner Award; 2011 CAGLCC Excellence in Business Award; 2010 WAPAVA Richard Bauer Award; 2007 Mayor’s Arts Award Special Recognition for Shakespeare in Washington; 2007 Stephen and Christine Schwarzman Award for Excellence in Theatre; 2007 Sir John Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts; 2005 Person of the Year from the National Theatre Conference; 2004 Shakespeare Society Medal; 2002 William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre; 2002 Distinguished Washingtonian Award from The University Club; 2002 GLAAD Capitol Award; 1997 Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline; 1996 Opera Music Theater International’s Bravo Award; 1990 First Annual Shakespeare’s Globe Award; 1989 Washingtonian Magazine Washingtonian of the Year; 1989 Washington Post Award for Distinguished Community Service; 1988 John Houseman Award.

HONORARY DOCTORATES: University of South Carolina; Kean College; The Juilliard School; The American University.

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CHRIS JENNINGS Executive Director STC: Joined the Company in 2004.

ADMINISTRATION: General Manager: Trinity Repertory Company (1999–2004), Theatre for a New Audience (1997–1999); Associate Managing Director: Yale Repertory Theatre; Assistant to the Executive Producer: Manhattan Theater Club; Founder/Producing Director: Texas Young Playwrights Festival; Manager: Dougherty Arts Center. MEMBERSHIPS: Currently serves on the Board of the D.C. Downtown BID, THE ARC, D.C. Arts Education Collaborative, the Penn Quarter Neighborhood Association, Theatre Washington, and is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (served on AEA and SSDC Negotiating Committees); has served as a panelist for the NEA, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and Pew Theatre Initiative.

AWARDS: Arts Administration Fellowship: National Endowment for the Arts. TRAINING: University of Miami: BFA in Theatre/Music; Yale School of Drama: MFA in Theatre Management.

ALAN PAUL Associate Artistic Director STC: Romeo & Juliet; Kiss Me, Kate; Man of La Mancha (Helen Hayes nominee, Best Director); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Helen Hayes Award, Best Director); The Boys from Syracuse; The Winter’s Tale (Free For All); Twelfth Night (Free For All); As You Like It (Associate Director); Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (Associate Director); numerous galas, readings, and special events; Assistant Director: 13 shows.

THEATRE DIRECTING: Arena Stage: The Pajama Game; Signature Theatre: I Am My Own Wife; Studio Theatre 2ndStage: Silence! The Musical (Helen Hayes nominee, Best Director), The Rocky Horror Show; MetroStage: Fully Committed; University of Maryland: The Matchmaker; Apex Theatre Company:

Richard II. OPERA DIRECTING: Palm Beach Opera: The Pirates of Penzance (with Stephanie Blythe); Portland Opera: Man of La Mancha; Washington National Opera: Penny (premiere); numerous works for Urban Arias, The In Series, Strathmore Concert Hall, and the National Symphony Orchestra. Finalist for the 2013 European Opera Directing Prize (Vienna, Austria). Upcoming: 5th Avenue Theatre: Kiss Me, Kate; STC: Camelot. WEB: AlanPaulDirector.com.

DREW LICHTENBERG Dramaturg STC: Noura; Hamlet; Twelfth Night; The Lover and The Collection; The School for Lies; Macbeth; King Charles III; The Secret Garden; Romeo & Juliet; The Taming of the Shrew; Othello; The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound; Kiss Me, Kate; Salomé; Tartuffe; Man of La Mancha; The Metromaniacs; The Tempest; As You Like It; Private Lives; Henry IV, Part 1 and 2; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Measure for Measure; Coriolanus; Wallenstein; Hughie; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Government Inspector; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Servant of Two Masters; Strange Interlude; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Much Ado About Nothing; The Heir Apparent. NEW YORK: Broadway: Roundabout: Time and the Conways (dir. Rebecca Taichman). REGIONAL: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Arsonists (German translation/ Text Consultant); STC/McCarter Theatre Center: The Winter’s Tale; Center Stage: Caroline or Change, Cyrano, Around the World in 80 Days; Yale Repertory Theatre: Lulu (dir. Mark Lamos); Williamstown Theatre Festival: The Front Page, The Physicists, The Corn Is Green; New York Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth (dir. Moisés Kaufman). INTERNATIONAL: National Theatre: Salomé, Les Blancs (dir. Yaël Farber). OTHER: Yale School of Drama: Tarell McCraney’s In the Red and Brown Water (U.S. premiere);

TEACHING: Catholic University of America; Eugene Lang College at the New School. TRAINING: Yale School of Drama: MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism.

LISA BELEY Head of Voice and Text STC: Noura, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Lover and The Collection, Othello (2017 Free For All), The School for Lies, Macbeth, King Charles III; ACA: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Coriolanus.

INTERNATIONAL: Vancouver, Canada: Rumble Theatre: Indian Arm; Vancouver Playhouse: The Music Man; Dorothy Somerset Studio: The Glass Menagerie, The Cherry Orchard; SFU Theatre: Laurier; Tooba Theatre: Twelfth Night; UBC Theatre: The House of Atreus, Arcadia; York University: Our Country’s Good. FILM: Dialect, voice or text: Warcraft, Horns, Firewall, Monster Trucks, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Suckerpunch, The Watchman, Hidden, Apollo 18, The Uninvited, Hot Rod, Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Elektra.

TELEVISION: Dialect: Tin Star, Bates Motel, The Wilding, The 100, Alcatraz, Rogue, Red Widow, The Secret Circle, Heavenly, The River, Human Target, The Good Wife, Inseparable, Cooking Lessons, Just Cause. OTHER: Acting: theatre, film and voice-overs; Directing: The Bay at Nice, Agamemnon.

TEACHING: STC’s Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University: Voice, Speech and Text Instructor; Canada’s National Voice Intensive: Voice, Speech and Text Instructor. TRAINING: York University: MFA in Acting, Voice Teacher’s Diploma; University of British Columbia: BFA in Acting.

CARTER C. WOODDELL Casting Director STC: Noura; Hamlet; Twelfth Night; The Lover and The Collection; Othello (2017 Free For All); The School for Lies; Macbeth; King Charles III; The Secret Garden; Romeo & Juliet; The Tempest

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(2016 Free For All); The Taming of the Shrew; 1984 (children); Othello; The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound; Kiss Me, Kate; Salomé; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015 Free For All); Tartuffe; Dunsinane (supernumerary); Man of La Mancha; The Metromaniacs (STC and Old Globe); The Tempest; As You Like It; The Winter’s Tale (2014 Free For All); The Merry Wives of Windsor; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Much Ado About Nothing; The Merchant of Venice; ReDiscovery Reading Series. Other Casting Experience (McCorkle Casting, Ltd.): NEW YORK: Broadway: End of the Rainbow, High; Off-Broadway (partial): Tribes, Our Town, The Acting Company, Freud’s Last Session, A Perfect Future,

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The Irish Curse, An Error of the Moon; NYC Other: Lincoln Center Institute: Hamlet, Fly, Sheila’s Day. NATIONAL TOURS: The Acting Company, Riverdance. REGIONAL: Alley Theatre, Center Stage, Barrington Stage Company, The Broad Stage, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Crossroads Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, TheaterWorks Hartford. RADIO: BBC Radio: The Piano Lesson. TELEVISION: Sesame Workshop: The Electric Company, Pilot: 27 East. FILM: Premium Rush (Columbia Pictures), Junction (Choice Films). TEACHING: Guest Lecturer at Rutgers University, BFA and MFA acting students.

ABOUT STC

OUR MISSION The Shakespeare Theatre Company creates, preserves and promotes classic theatre—ambitious, enduring plays with universal themes—for all audiences.

international relevancy—those with profound themes, complex characters and heightened language—through a contemporary 21st-century lens.

OUR VISION We create theatre to ignite a dialogue that connects the universality of classic works to our shared human experience in the modern world.

We expand the classic theatre repertoire in America by reviving and commissioning adaptations and translations of important forgotten works.

OUR VALUES AND FOCUS Shakespeare Theatre Company produces and presents the highest-quality classic theatre productions across genres, bringing them to vibrant life in a provocative, imaginative and accessible style.

We create impactful and responsive arts education and community engagement programs to connect audiences to the significance of classic works and themes.

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With Shakespeare at our core, we explore plays of national and

We provide a home for leading classical artists and a training ground for the next generation of theatre artists and arts administrators.

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Happenings Happy Hour: Arcturus Theater Company April 19, 6 p.m. FREE The Forum in Sidney Harman Hall Uncover Samuel Beckett’s writing with a staged reading.

Page and Stage April 22, 5 p.m. FREE Lansburgh Lobby Learn about the production with a local scholar and STC’s Literary Manager Drew Lichtenberg.

AUDIO DESCRIPTION

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BOOKENDS

C

OPEN CAPTIONING

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HAPPENINGS HAPPY HOUR

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OPENING NIGHT

P

PAGE AND STAGE

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REFLECTIONS

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YOUNG PROSE NIGHT

Book Club: Murphy May 2, 6 p.m. FREE The Forum in Sidney Harman Hall Dive deep into the absurdist mind of Samuel Beckett by reading his first published novel.

Happenings Happy Hour: Solas Nua May 10, 6 p.m. FREE The Forum in Sidney Harman Hall See contemporary Irish theatre presented by Solas Nua.

Bookends

Reflections

April 25, 5:30 p.m. and post-show FREE Lansburgh Lobby A pre-show discussion with STC staff, followed by a post-show Q&A with the cast.

May 12, 5 p.m. FREE Lansburgh Lobby Play along with STC Education staff at this interactive workshop designed for all ages and experience levels.

Unsex Me Here: Women’s Voices Offstage

Brush Up

May 1, 6 p.m. FREE The Forum in Sidney Harman Hall Hear female leaders in their fields consider women’s “offstage” leadership.

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May 15, 6:45 p.m. FREE Lansburgh Theatre Prepare for the performance with an accessible pre-show talk.

Backstage Tours Various dates, $10 Lansburgh Theatre Travel the path of the actor from dressing room to the set.

STC BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Michael R. Klein, Chair Robert E. Falb, Vice Chair John Hill, Treasurer Pauline A. Schneider, Secretary Michael Kahn, Artistic Director TRUSTEES Nicholas W. Allard Stephen E. Allis Anita M. Antenucci Michael Bahar Jeffrey D. Bauman Michael Beriss Landon Butler Dr. Paul Carter Lady Darroch Gloria Dittus Debbie Driesman Dr. Mark Epstein Stefanie Erkiletian Dr. Natwar Gandhi Barbara Harman Stephen A. Hopkins Lawrence A. Hough W. Mike House Jerry J. Jasinowski Norman D. Jemal Scott Kaufmann Sudhakar Kesavan Emily Lenzner Abbe David Lowell Timothy R. Lowery Gail MacKinnon Bernard F. McKay Melissa A. Moss Michael Paese

Irene Pollin Stephen M. Ryan Jonathan Sherman George Stamas Rob Wilder Michele Williams Tom Wotecki Suzanne S. Youngkin Lolita Zinke EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEE Chris Jennings, Executive Director EMERITUS TRUSTEES R. Robert Linowes*, Founding Chairman James B. Adler Heidi L. Berry* David A. Brody* Melvin S. Cohen* Ralph P. Davidson* James F. Fitzpatrick Dr. Sidney Harman* Lady Manning Kathleen Matthews William F. McSweeny V. Sue Molina Walter Pincus Eden Rafshoon Emily Malino Scheuer* Lady Sheinwald Mrs. Louis Sullivan Daniel W. Toohey* Sarah Valente Lady Westmacott Lady Wright current as of january 2018

*Deceased

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SUPPORT We gratefully acknowledge the following donors that currently support the work of the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 Seasons.

This list is current as of March 11, 2018.

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$100,000 and above

Beech Street Foundation T The Roy Cockrum Foundation D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts The Harman Family Foundation T The Honorable Jane Harman

Michael R. Klein and Joan I. Fabry T BA The Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation Share Fund Robert H. Smith Family Foundation

$50,000 to $99,999

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Landon Butler T The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Dr. Paul and Mrs. Rose Carter T The E.H. Corrigan Foundation* Dr. Mark Epstein and Amoretta Hoeber T The Erkiletian Family Foundation T Mr. and Ms. Sudhakar Kesavan T

Mr. Abbe Lowell and Ms. Molly Meegan T BA Jacqueline B. Mars National Capital Arts & Cultural Affairs Program/US Comm. of Fine Arts Alan and Marsha Paller Mrs. Irene Pollin T The Shubert Foundation Tom and Cathie Woteki T AMB Suzanne and Glenn Youngkin T

$25,000 to $49,999

Anonymous Anne and Ronald Abramson Nick and Marla Allard T BA Stephen E. Allis T Anita M. Antenucci T Debbie Driesman and Frank F. Islam T BA Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Hopkins Helen Kenney AMB Ms. Emily A. Lenzner T Michael & Maureen McMurphy & the Patrick Michael McMurphy Memorial Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts Steve and Diane Rudis Stephen and Lisa Ryan T BA Vicki and Roger Sant 1616 Henry J. Schalizki* 1616 Shakespeare for a New Generation Fredda Sparks and Kent Montavon Carolyn L. Wheeler BA Lynn and Jonathan Yarowsky

$15,000 to $24,999 Aflac Altria Group The Theodore H. Barth Foundation Brown-Forman Corporation Capital One Clark Construction Group, LLC The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts Diamond & Schmitt Architects Inc. Douglas Development Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Robert Falb T James A. Feldman and Natalie Wexler Helen Clay Frick Foundation Sue and Les Goldman Green Dot Corporation Catherine Held Hogan Lovells US LLP Houlihan Lokey

Humana Inc. JM Zell Partners, LTD Ms. Elaine Economides Joost K&L Gates LLP The Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation The Morningstar Foundation Seyfarth Shaw LLP Michele Williams T WilmerHale Zelda D. Fichandler Trust

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$10,000 to $14,999 Anonymous (4) Esthy and Jim Adler Sheila and Kenneth Berman BA Peter A. Bieger CBRE Group, Inc. CityCenterDC CJM Foundation Christopher Clarke CLS Strategies Computer and Communications Industry Association

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Cozen O’Connor Kay Kendall and Jack Davies Tom and Krista Di Iaconi BA The Dow Chemical Company The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation E. and B. Family Trust Julie M. Feinsilver 1616 ACA Arthur and Shirley Fergenson ACA George and Carla Frampton Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust Goldman Sachs & Co. Gould Property Group Ms. Elizabeth Graham Grossberg, Yochelson, Fox & Beyda, LLP Lynne and Joseph Horning The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Jerry and Isabel Jasinowski T JBG Smith Irene and Lou Katz Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Kolevar

James J. Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Marino Mars Foundation Hazel C. Moore Rita T. Mullin Nissan North America, Inc. Theodore B. Olson and Lady Booth Olson BA Craig Pascal and Victor Shargai Quicken Loans Pauline A. Schneider T BA Judi Seiden AMB The Honorable Robert E. Sharkey and Dr. Phoebe Sharkey Doug and Gabriela Smith Clarice Smith Sovereign Strategy Limited Velasquez Group, LLC Visa Inc. Patricia and David Vos Foundation Vulcan Materials Company Foundation $5,000 to $9,999 Anonymous (2) Adler Family Foundation, Inc. Kevin and Amanda Allexon BA Alston & Bird LLP Bill & Sunny Alsup Keith and Celia Arnaud Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Barclay Jr. Kyle and Alan Bell Barbara Bennett Bloomberg Philanthropies The Bozzuto Group British Council Robert Crawford Carlson Teresa Phelps Carr and Edward Carr Audrey Chang and Michael Vernick The Honorable Joan Churchill BA Richard H. Cleva and Madonna K. Starr BA Jeffrey P. Cunard ACA BA Louis Delair, Jr. C. Maury Devine Beverly and Richard Dietz The Dimick Foundation Duke Energy Corporation Nina Laserson Dunn and Eric C. Rose BA Ernst & Young LLP Patricia and Miguel Estrada Marietta Ethier BA Denise Ferguson Anne and Burton Fishman BA Paige Franklin and David Pancost Friedman-French Foundation Tim and Susan Gibson ACA AMB Global Tapas LLC Marilyn and Michael Glosserman Lee Goodwin and Linda Schwartzstein Graham Holdings David and Jean Grier H&R Block John and Meg Hauge Kevin T. Hennessy AMB BA John W. Hill T Mr. Ken Hitz Mike and Gina House T BA

The Mark & Carol Hyman Fund Jody Katz and Jeffrey Gibbs BA Joel and Mary Keiler Richard Kelley David and Anne Kendall BA Thomas and Bridget Kluwin Kovler Fund of the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region Sara and Stephen Kraskin Barry Kropf Marcel C. LaFollette and Jeffrey K. Stine ACA Gail and Jeff MacKinnon T Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Heidi and Bill Maloni Kathleen Matthews Bernard and Mary McKay T Mr. Jim McKenzie Merrill Family Foundation Melissa Moss T Oracle America Corporation Mr. Michael Paese, Esq T Karishma and Jonathan Page Scott Pearson and Diana Farrell BA Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pfeiffer Carter Phillips and Sue Henry BA Porterfield, Fettig and Sears, LLC Property Capital LLC Bill Pugh and Lisa Orange Nicole Putnam-Frenchik and Michael Frenchik Raymond James Financial, Inc. Reset Public Affairs The Nora Roberts Foundation Gerri and Murray Rottenberg 1616 Mr. Albert C. Schneider and Ms. Catherine L. Heron Sheppard Mullin Richter and Hampton LLP BA William Stein and Victoria Griffiths BA Story Partners T Terra Nova Title and Settlement Services, LLC Mr. Derek Thomas and Mr. Ernesto Abrego TPG Capital United Airlines Mr. and Ms. Antoine Van Agtmael Verizon Foundation Karen Walker BA Marvin F. Weissberg Wells Fargo Philanthropy Whirlpool Corporation Rob Wilder T Alan and Irene Wurtzel Chris and Carol Yoder Zickler Family Foundation Judy and Leo Zickler $2,500 to $4,499 Anonymous (5) Dr. Marjorie Deutsch and John Broadbent Ernest and Dianne Abruzzo Miriam and Robert Adelstein Robert N. Alfandre American Express Company American Legislative Exchange Council

Mark and Cindy Anderson Tony Anderson and Kevin Lorei Mr. Decker Anstrom and Ms. Sherron Hiemstra Stephen P. Anthony BA Association of Flight Attendants-CWA AT&T Services, Inc. Stephen Kim Badzik 1616 Drs. Hilda and William O. Bank Carmela and James Bell Brent J. Bennett Bob, Kathy and Lauren BA Bill and Evelyn Braithwaite Mr. and Mrs. Jere Broh-Kahn ACA Adrianne Brooks Howard M. Brown ACA Claudyne Y. Brown BA Mr. and Mrs. I.T. Burden III Capitol Counsel LLC Dawn and James Causey Ellen MacNeille Charles Charter Communications Chicago Title NCS DC Monica Rose Chodur Linda and John Cogdill Mary Cole AMB Jeff and Jacky Copeland Cornerstone Government Affairs LLC Cox Enterprises, Inc. Marshall B. Coyne Foundation Douglas W. Crandall and Carlton W. Gleed Erin Cromer BA The Charles Delmar Foundation Dorchester Towers and Dorchester Apts on Columbia Pike in Arlington Anita Dunn and Bob Bauer BA Helaine G. Elderkin BA John Estes and Veronica Angulo BA ExxonMobil Fierce Government Relations Leo Fisher and Sue Duncan BA Forbes Tate Partners Forest City Washington Franklin Square Group Rhona Wolfe Friedman and Donald J. Friedman BA FTI Consulting Burton Gerber 1616 Alice and John Goodman Donald H. Goodyear, Jr. Gould Family Foundation John E. Graves RIA and Hanh Phan Greenberg Traurig, LLP Nicole Alfandre Halbreiner Frona Hall Jay and Robin Hammer Robert & Margaret Hazen William L. Hopkins 1616 James and Marissa Huttinger Dr. Juel Janis Larry and Georganne John Belinda M. Kane Mr. Richard Kasten Daniel F. Katz BA Joe & Joanne Kelly Mr. Jeffrey D. Kirkwood Mary Hughes Knox

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David A. Lamdin AMB Richard Levi and Susan Perry Marjorie and John Lewis James and Barbara Loots BA Amanda Machen Mary M. McCue ACA AMB The McGwin/Bent Family BA Thomas and Ingrid McPherson Foundation Katy Mead MediaDC Kristine Morris National Association of Realtors NCTA- The Internet and Television Association National Multifamily Housing Council National Credit Union Foundation Navigators Global Madeline Nelson Louisa and William Newlin Melanie and Larry Nussdorf The OB-C Group, LLC OCNC Group Mr. and Mrs. David Osnos Sydney M. Polakoff and Carolyn Goldman Lutz Alexander Prager Bruce and Julie Press Robert and Nan B. Ratner Molly and Joe Reynolds BA The Honorable John T. Rooney Beverly Schacht Richard E. Scott Carl and Elizabeth Seastrum Linda and Stanley Sher Mark and Joan Siegel BA The Smith-Free Group LLC Software and Information Industry Association Southern Company STUDIOS Architecture Peter Threadgill Time Warner Inc. Sylvia Toone and James Baxter Kathy Truex Allen Unsworth Ralph Voltmer and Tracy Davis BA Stephen and Alexandra Wrage BA Margot and Paul Zimmerman

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$1,500 to $2,499 Anonymous (10) Gisela and Thomas Ahern Sanford K. Ain, Esq. BA Dean Amel and Terry Savela Ms. Jerrilyn Andrews and Mr. Donald Hesse ACA Steven Anzalone BA Alan Asay and Mary Sturtevant Vince and Julie Auletta Katharine Austin Barnes Dan and Nancy Balz Galen and Carolyn Barbour Mr. and Mrs. James Barker Linna Barnes and Chris Mixter Brian Bayliss and Athena Caul Danielle L.C. Beach BA Nan Beckley James A. Belson Carol Benedict and Paul Ashin Dr. and Mrs. James E. Bernhardt Sue E. Berryman

Bowen Billups Darwin Bingham Mr. and Mrs. John H. Birdsall Vaughn and Marian Bishop Dr. Donna W. Blake and Mr. Bruce E. Eckstein Cathleen E. Blanton Martha Blaxall and Joe Dickey Richard and Susan Bloch BA James Blum Ms. Gretchen S. Bolton Ronald Bottomly Janet C. Boyd Michael A. Boyd Jill and Jay Brannam Thomas C. Brennan Dr. Chris and James D. Bridgeman Ms. Carol E. Bruce, Esq. BA The Brueggeman Family The Family of Marion and Charles Bryce 1616 AMB Ms. Elizabeth Buchbinder Daniel H. Burd and Anne Reynolds BA Colonel and Mrs. Lance J. Burton Mr. Michael Butterfield and Ms. Hallee Morgan BA Mr. Owen Caine and Mr. Tom Garron Capitol Hill Community Foundation ACA Sarah Cavitt Cheryl and Matthew Chalifoux Mr. Tom Challinor Barbara and John Cochran Marcie Cohen In Honor of Bill Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Anthony C. Collins Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. Greg and Karen Cooke BA Mary Crawford and Brian Downie Julia and Francis Creighton William and Sandra Davis Matthew and Mike Dazé Mr. Mark Sterling Determan BA Dr. Asif Dhar and Mrs. Aisha Imam E.R. Dolly Dieter Jean and Paul Dudek BA Becky and Alan Dye Fynnette Eaton and James E. Miller Emily, Susannah and Michael Eig Franc and James Ellzy-O’Malley Ms. Catherine B. Elwell Diana C. Erbsen BA Raymond S. Eresman and Diana E. Garcia Mr. Joseph R. Faraon Mrs. Joelle Faucher and Mr. David H. Webber Naomi and Gary Felsenfeld Mr. Joseph Z. Fleming BA Donald and Cathy Fogel Robert and Carole Fontenrose BA Julian W. Fore and Beverly A. Sauer Aaron and Susan Fuller Ms. Cary Fuller Charles and Amy Gardner Dr. Laura J. George AMB

Ruth Bader Ginsburg JoAnne Glisson Angela and Dan Goelzer Amnon and Sue Golan Alisa M. Goldstein and Lee Blank Tom Goldstein and Amy Howe BA Mr. and Mrs. David L. Gray Linda Griggs and Bill Swedish Lisa Grosh and Donald Names BA Lucia & Woolf Gross Merle Haberman Kenneth G. Hance Barbara and Thomas Harr Doris Hausser Mr. Mark E. Herlihy and Ms. Ann M. Kappler Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Hersh Richard and Mary Ellen Hibey BA Elizabeth Hilder and Randy Smith Linda Lurie Hirsch F. Lynn Holec 1616 Fran and Bill Holmes David H. Holtzman Steven and Patricia Janssen Birdie Johnson BA John Edward Johnson Eric and Heather Kadel BA Michael Kades and Mary Giovagnoli BA Thomas R. and Laurie S. Kelly Frank Kendall and Beth Halpern BA Dana and Ray Koch Mr. Sanjiv Kumar and Ms. Mansoora Rashid L. L. Lanam Laura Langford Rob Layden and Nancy Chabot Charlotte and Russell Leighton Sharon and Steven Lieberman BA Lori and Ross Lindholm Freddi Lipstein and Scott Berg 1616 ACA AMB BA Jessie K. Liu BA David Lloyd Nancy and Dan Longo Shirley Loo 1616 Lorraine S. Dreyfuss Theatre Education Fund Mr. and Mrs. Eric Luse Janet and Steven Magel James and Tamara Dan and Susan Mareck MAXIMUS Foundation Mr. Dorn McGrath BA John & Connie McGuire BA Dr. Nathan Miller Mr. Steven Miller Nancy and Herbert Milstein Jane and Paul Molloy LTC Dee Dodson Morris, Esq. BA Jeff Morrison BA Mr. Melvin Mosley Jr and Mrs. Maryam Ulomi Elizabeth Murphy Carl and Undine Nash BA Andy Navarrete Philip Nelson and Anne Parten Jo-Ann Neuhaus Beth Nolan and Charles Wright Oliver Ocean BA Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence O’Connor Mr. Daniel Ohlstein BA

Mrs. Jean Oliver Mr. and Mrs. Gerald W. Padwe Rodney and Deborah Page Thomas A. Pauls and Eleanor Pelta BA Ms. Penelope Payne Randolph Perry BA Robert and Lillian Philipson Foundation BA Posner-Wallace Foundation Sheldon Pratt ACA Mrs. Eden Rafshoon Lloyd and Claudia Randolph 1616 BA Wendy and John Daniel Reaves Steven and Anne Reed Peter S. Reichertz Phillip Reiman and Leslie Binns Alberto J. Rivera and Sharla J. Rivera BA Ms. Jaclyn Roeing BA Steve and Diane Rothman AMB Allan Sacks and Barbara Taff Richard & Rochelle Schwab James and Stephanie Scobey Mr. Kannon and Dr. Victoria Shanmugam BA Ed and Andy Smith Richard and Sophia Smith BA John and Eleanor Spoor Lynne M. Stephens and Kenneth Larson Mark Sucher and Jane Lyons Judi and Richard Sugarman Susan and Brian Sullam Mr. and Mrs. David Tate Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Terkowitz Alice W. Thomas 1616 David Tone Drs. Stephen and Susan Ungar Tessa van der Willigen and Jonathan Walters John K. Vestal Mr. and Mrs. John Vogel BA Dr. David L. Ward Clare Donelan and Victoria Wei Mr. Eric A. Wenger BA Sonia and Dale West Rob and Raidza Wick Laura and Paul Weidenfeld BA Ms. Molly Wilkinson Robert P. Wilkinson and Kevin Riley Gowen 1616 Ms. Lauren Willard BA Sandy and Jon Willen BA Mr. Robert Wittie Deborah and David Yaffe BA The Honorable and Mrs. Dov S. Zakheim $1,000 to $1,499 Anonymous (5) Mrs. and Mr. Natanya Allan Ameresco Michele A. Manatt and Wolfram Anders Michael D. Audi and Jackie Shapiro Leonard Bachman Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Ballentine R. Joseph Barton and Tricia Placido Rhoda Baruch Ms. Mary Ellen Bergeron

Ms. Anita Bizzotto Douglas Boggs Elizabeth Boyle The Honorable Susan G. Braden and Thomas M. Susman Roger and Nancy Brown Candice C. Bryant James M. Carr Nicholas and Mary Jeanne Carrera Thomas and Robin Clarke JoEllen and Michael Collins Elizabeth Crompton John and Valerie Cuddy Ronald & Jessica Dabrowski The Damien Foundation Ms. Carol Danko Davis & Harman LLP Richard and Patricia Draper Donna Z. Eden Paul Ehrenreich Roberta Ellington Garrett Epps Michael Evans Sandra and James Fitzpatrick Claire Frankel Ms. Elizabeth Galvin Mr. Jerry Golden and Mr. Lucas Sanders Grant Thornton LLP Corbin and Pamela Gwaltney Dr. Sara Hale Henry and Mr. Austin Henry Newman T. Halvorson Kari and Max Heerman Hines Interests Limited Partnership Fred Philip Hochberg Mark and Brabble Hoffman Judy Honig and Stephen Robb Nancy Garruba and Chris Hornig Joe and Embry Howell Lois Howlin Susan Immelt and Amelie Immelt Mr. Loring J. Ingraham and Ms. Dale Rubenstein Insured Retirement Institute International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Ian Jobling John and Marcia Price Family Foundation Ashok and Stuti Kaveeshwar Mark Kearney Dr. Paul Kimmel and Dr. Prudence Kline David A. Klaus Kathleen Knepper The Lady Bountiful Fund Karen Leider Chris and Lisa Leinberger Maryellen Trautman and Darrell Lemke Lucinda A. Low and Daniel B. Magrow Timothy Madigan Alice Mandanis Jon and Belinda McKenzie Diane Compagno Miller Iris and Larry Miller Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Mulligan Donald and Lynne Myers Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Nash

Linda S. Neighborgall Marina Ottaway Mr. and Mrs. P. David Pappert Mr. William Pappert Barbara A. Patocka and Everett Mattlin Mark Perry and Adele Mouzon Julie Phillips Polinger Company Colonel Terry C. Quist Margaret Rice and Bill Sette Steven M. Rosenberg and Stewart C. Low III Lynn N. Rothberg Steven and Rachael Schroeder In Memory of Betty F. Shepard John and Roma Sherman Terry and Patricia Murphy Judy and Jerry Shulman Robert and Virginia Stern Elizabeth and George Stevens Lawranne Stewart and Mark Kantor Pedro Taborga Mr. Paul Tagliabue Diana M.L. Tucker James and Cynthia Tuite Jocelyn and David Turkel USO of Metropolitan Washington Carole and John Varela Ms. Natalie von Seelen M.E. Wagner C. Wakefield Martin and Paula S. Thiede Washington Resource Associates Richard and Sally Watts Bill and Ted Wears-Richards Gerry Widdicombe Xcel Energy $500 to $999 Anonymous (22) Mr. and Mrs. George T. Abed Actors’ Equity Foundation, Inc. Donald B. Adams and Ellen Maland Vickie and David Adamson Don and Allison Aitken Rana Al Saadi Eric Amick Nancy P. Anderson Richard and Rosemarie Andreano Edward M. Andrews and John H. McCrary Cherrill Alfou Anson Richard T. Arndt Mrs. Martin Atlas Kevin and Sheila Avruch Whit and Angela Ayres Lucia Backer Dr. Sheryl D. Baldwin Mr. Joel Balsham Jonathan H. Barber Mr. Michael F. Barrett and Ms. Danielle Beauchamp Joan Barron and Paul Lang John and Patricia Barth Dan and Linda Bartlett Rev. John P. Beal Peter Mathers and Bonnie Beavers Kathleen Bergin Elissa and Bob Bernius

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Barbara Berries Bethesda MRI & CT Mary C. Blake Randall J. Boe Thomas Booth Jennifer Boulanger and Bruce Schillo Jacqueline Bowie and Joseph Starnes Dr. Ronald Brady Christopher Brown Dana E. Brown Sharon P. Brown Philip Buchan and June Krell Harold R. Bucholtz Michael L. Burke and Carl W. Smith Samuel Sanders Visner and Antoinette Burnham Susan and Dixon Butler Robert Campbell and Mary Schellinger Ann Cardoni Caroline C. Willis Ann Cataldo and Walt Ennaco Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey E. Christ Ms. Janice L. Clark John Clark and Ana Steele Clark Mr. Timothy Cole and Ms. Kathy Galloway William and Carol Conrad Rachel Conway Mr. and Mrs. William D. Coston Robert W. Cover Stephen T. Cramolini Janice King Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Mark Darnell Paul J. Davis, M.D. Anthony and Nancy DeCrappeo David desJardins Dr. Marjorie Deutsch and John Broadbent Alan and Susan Dranitzke Dutch and Brenda Dunham David Dunn Mark and Laura Duvall Sayre Ellen Dykes Stephen and Magda Eccles Stuart and Joanna Edwards Marjorie and Anthony Elson Ellen Epstein and Will Guthrie Robert and Sue Faron Colonel and Mrs. Charles Feldmayer Mr. and Mrs. Alan M. Fern Dorothy E. Fickenscher Ms. Christine Fisher and Mr. Oscar Goldfarb Barry and Marie Fleishman Rev. and Mrs. Frederick Foltz Thomas & Ilona Fox Jeff Franzen Candida Fraze Moskovitz and Peter Moskovitz David G. Freeman Dr. Helene Freeman Jean Fruci Mr. and Mrs. Davis R. Gamble, Jr. Mr. Stephen Gambril Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gary Dr. Douglas E. Gill and Mrs. Karen S. Vartan Lewrene Glaser

Michael S Gold MD and Ellen Gold David M. Goldberg 1616 Mr. and Ms. Hal Gordon Karen and Hal Gordon Ms. Lynn M. Gowen Melanie Grishman and Herman Flax Judy and Sheldon Grosberg Margaret S. Grotte Tom Gusdorff and Ed Dennison Jack E. Hairston Jr. Paul and Priscilla Hanley CDR Lars Hanson and RADM Rosanne Levitre Laura Hart Terry and Jenny Heiland-Luedtke Peggy O. Heller Shawn C. Helm and J. Thomas Marchitto Margaret Hennessey June and George Higgins Melissa Hodgman and Peter Strzok Stanley and Vicki Hodziewich Laura L. Hoffman and David E. Colin David Hofstad Mr. Henry H. Holcomb Eric and Susan Holdsworth Judge Christopher Holleman Ambassador Richard Holwill Silvia M. Hoop and Alfred Kammer Donald M. and Barbara S. Hoskins Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Howard Antonia B. Ianniello and George M. Chuzi Mr. Kurt Jaeger Elizabeth Janthey Stewart Jeffries Mary Frances Jetton Cynthia and Jason Johnson Samantha Johnson Ms. Susan B. Kamener Maryanne and David Kane Arthur M. Katz and Sima Osdoby 1616 Monsignor Francis G. Kazista Caroline E. Kenney Andrea and Joseph Kerr Sally and Joseph Keyes Robert L. Kimmins Jeffrey and Barbara Kohler Mr. Masami Kojima Karen E. Krueger Dennis and Lori Kruse Margaret Lane Robert L. Larke Eileen Lawrence and Robert Greenfield Nicholas R. Lefevre Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Legum Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Leigh Stephen Leisge Herb and Dianne Lerner Michael and Bianca Levy Marcia Litwack Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Livingston Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lorber Janice Louise Lower and Paul R. Berger Linda L. Lum

Noreen Major David and Claire Maklan David and Pamela Roberts Malmgren Beth Marcus Dr. Devra C Marcus and Michael J. Horowitz Catherine Marich John and Liza Marshall Dr. and Mrs. Robert Martin Winton E. Matthews Michael S. Maurer and Rachel L. Sher Aileen M. May Catherine McClave David and Sarah McMeans In Memory of Patrick Michael McMurphy and Marilyn Shockey Susan C. McNabb and Brent Hillman W. Bruce McPherson Ms. Beverly Melani and Mr. Bruce Walker Starke Meyer Susan and Harry Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Edward Miller Stephen and Nicole Minnick Nicole Monachino Jessine Monaghan Livezey & John More Catherine and David Nielsen Russ and Ellen Notar Mr. John Oliver Judy Olmer Mary Ann Palka In Memory of Michael E. Patten Stan Peabody Robert and Susan Pence Trudy and Gary Peterson Mary Irene Pett Ms. Barbara F. Phillips Victoria Phipps Geraldine Fogel Pilzer Ann and Walter Pincus Joseph D. Piorkowski Jr. Elizabeth Piotrowski Ms. Annette Polan Stephen Powell and Kristine Pumphrey Drs. Dena and Jerome Puskin Robert Ramsey and Betti Brown Alice Rand Julie and Sam Rea The Honorable and Mrs. Joe R. Reeder John and Sue Renaud Barbara and Sheldon Repp Resch Family In Memory of Richard J. Ricard, Jr. Ms. Marie J. Ritzo John Forest Roemer Bella Rosenberg Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Rosenberg Eugene and Shirley Rosenfeld Katy and Paul Rosenzweig Burton Rothleder Marilyn Rubin, Encore!

Bud and Peggy Rubin Ms. Fath Ruffins Robert and Lelia Russell Susan Safer Suzonne Sage

Ron and Sharon Salluzzo Charles B. Saunders, Jr. Chris Savage and Lisa Hemmer Mr. Justin Aaron Savage, Esq Linda B. Schakel Mrs. Jennifer M. Schlener-Thomas Jane Scholz Eugene and Alice Schreiber Philanthropic Fund Kathleen R. Scott in Memory of Matteson M. Scott In Memory of Matteson Scott Don G. Scroggin and Julie L. Williams Sally S. Simms Donald M. Simonds Stephen Sleigh and Ann Greiner Dr. and Mrs. Delbert D. Smith Michael R. Smith and Holly A. Larisch Steve and Diane Sockwell Ms. Julia M. Soler Randall Speck and Samantha Nolan Mr. and Mrs. William Spellbring James and Sue Sprague Cecile and James Srodes Judith E. Stein and James P. Petrila Mr. Edward Steinhouse Janice Sterling Stoiber + Associates, Architects Dorothy and Donald Stone Maureen Sullivan Marsha Swiss and Ron Costell M.D. Alice J. Sziede Harry and Carol Tabak Drs. Sheila and Steven Taube John Taylor Jonathan Taylor and Dianne Shaughnessy Larry and Cathy Thompson Jessica and Henry Townsend Al and Jackie Tucker Dr. Kazuko Uchimura Marilyn and Roderick Uveges Dr. Arina van Breda Joan and Lyman Van Nostrand Stephanie and Fernando van Reigersberg Dwight and Carrie Vaughn Juan and Hardee Vegega-Mahoney Mr. Steve Verna Robert Warren and Jane Grayson Dr. Arthur Weinstein BA Ms. Judith Weintraub Jack and Ruth Ellen Wennersten Dr. Marjorie Williams ACA C. Lawrence Wiser Neville Withington and Kerry Kingham Anita Woehler Anne and Tom Wotring Irving and Carol Yoskowitz Michael Zeigler Mr. Mark Ziomek and Mr. Gary Bowden $250 to $499 Anonymous (28) Anthony A. Aldwell

Ambassador and Mrs. Frank Almaguer Ruth and Sam Alward Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Judy Areen and Richard Cooper Jean W. Arnold Jane Bachner Beverly Baker Mr. John Ball Margaret and Gordon Bare Mr. Thomas Barlow Michael and Lissa Barry Julianne Beall Marion and Rand Beers Rita Beier Braman Marguerite Benson Dr. Margaret L. Benson-Mccarthy Jane C. Bergner Ms. Dava A. Berkman Maya A. Bernstein Drs. Ernst and Nancy Scher Billig Ms. Bernice Blair Mary Josie and Bruce Blanchard Mr. Robert L. Bleimann and Dr. May Chin John W. Blouch Donald and Carol Bobby Rick and Burma Bochner Kaye and Andrew Boesel Constance Bohon, MD Lisa and Richard Bohrer Vincent and Veronica Boles The Bowie Family Ms. Megan Bowles Susan and Peter Bowman Cindy and Dennis Brack Susan Bradshaw and Gerald Kauvar Andrew and Shellie Bressler Liz and Randy Brouckman Steve Broughman Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Brown Perry Brown Roger M. Brown and Karen J. Doswell Buckley/Palmore/Hind Family Jan Burchard Sarah and Ed Burger Dianna and Mickey Campagna Donna M. Campbell Kim and Glenn Campbell Peggy Canale J and M Canary Margaret Capron Patrick and Katharine Carney Connie Carter Greg and Jane Castanias Wallace Chandler Mr. Edward Chmielowski Tim and Glenda Christenson Kimberlee Christian Ray Clark, Rhonda Starkey and Alex Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Clark William and Louise Cleveland John and Sheila Compton Raymond K. Connolly Carol Cooke Jovana Cooke John F. Copes Andrea and Tim Corcoran Bob and Jamie Craft Edward E. Cragg

Alan T. Crane Katheryn L. Cranford Drs. Frank and Joanne Crantz Ms. Carolyn Crooks Matt Crouch Mr. Gerald P. Dargis Belle and Martin Davis Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Davis Deanna Dawson Donna J. Dean and John L. Meyer Carol S Dickenson Beverly Dickerson Mark R. Disler Yin’ying Djuh Carol Doherty Mr. Jeffrey H. Domber and Ms. Betty Bird Deirdre Donahue and Jamie Dahlberg Thomas and Carol Donlan Don Douglas and Carolyne Weil Stephen Dove Sue and George Driesen Mr. Brian Driscoll and Ms. Helen Disenhaus Dr. and Mrs. John V. Dugan, Jr. Ms. Jacqueline Dunlavey Josef and Vera C. Dvorak Erica and Alan Edelman Betsy Edwards Dr. Stephen Ehrmann Stephen Entin Sarah G. Epstein and Donald A. Collins Mr. William Erdmann David and Marilyn Falksen William Faragher Carissa Faroughi Marc and Anne Feinberg Dr. Julie Fischer Tracy Fisher Isabelle and James Fitzwilliam Ms. Anne P. Fortney Jim Fraser David Furth and Martha Finnemore Carol Galaty and Ken Shuck Dr. Arlyn Garcia-Perez Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Terry M. Gernstein Dennis Gerrity Virginia Giroux Scott Glabman In memory of Angelique Glass 1616 Mr. Carter Glass Anne-Marie Glynn Gigi and Jeff Godwin Greg and Kathleen Gohn Burton Goldberg Charles E. Goldblum Jinny and Michael Goldstein David Goldston Eloise Gore and Allen Hile Alan Goulty and Dr. Lillian Harris Dr. and Mrs. John Grausz Mr. Charles Green Eldon and Emily Greenberg Mr. Bruce Gregory and Ms. Paula Causey Susan and David Gries Jacqueline Lester David Grover Mary C. Guibert

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SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY STAFF Artistic Director: Michael Kahn Executive Director: Chris Jennings Manager of Executive Office and Board Engagement: David Lloyd Olson ARTISTIC Associate Artistic Director: Alan Paul Head of Voice and Text: Lisa Beley Resident Casting Director: Carter C. Wooddell Literary Manager: Drew Lichtenberg Artistic Associate: Craig Baldwin Artistic Fellow: Susannah Clark Affiliated Artists: Keith Baxter, Avery Brooks, Helen Carey, Veanne Cox, Aubrey Deeker, Colleen Delany, Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Cameron Folmar, Adam Green, Edward Gero, Philip Goodwin, Jane Greenwood, Michael Hayden, Simon Higlett, Christopher Innvar, Naomi Jacobson, Stacy Keach, Floyd King, Andrew Long, Ethan McSweeny, Jennifer Moeller, David Muse, Hugh Nees, James Noone, Patrick Page, Robert Perdziola, Nancy Robinette, David Sabin, Miriam Silverman, Derek Smith, Walt Spangler, Tom Story, Rebecca Taichman, Ted van Griethuysen, Andrew Veenstra, Craig Wallace, Adam Wernick, Gregory Wooddell

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ADMINISTRATION Director of Administration: James Roemer Associate Director of Administration: Caroline Reich Human Resources Manager: Lindsey Morris Human Resources Coordinator: Ryn Weil Accounting Manager: Marco Dimuzio Company Manager: Max Schwager Receptionist: Ursula David Company Management Fellow: Anna Torchia General Management Fellow: Margaret Lee Director of Operations: Timothy Fowler Theatre Building Engineer: Dave F. Henderson Theatre Monitors: Milton Garcia, Jeff Whitlow Facilities Custodian: Jorge Ramos Lima Facilities Maintenance Technician: Rashee Archie Harman Custodians: Dennis Fuller, Mirna Guzman, Wilfredo Guzman Lansburgh Custodians: Zulma I. Bonilla, David Guzman, Izilma Membreno Director of Information Technology: Brian McCloskey Systems Administrator: Brian Mureithi Database Administrator: Brian Grundstrom Operations/IT Assistant: Tameka Taylor DEVELOPMENT Senior Director of Development: Laura Willumsen Capital Campaign Director: Clare Klanderman Director of Individual Giving: Emily Wilson Membership Manager: Daniel Ebert Director of Special Events: Amanda Herman Special Events Coordinator: Katharine Lai Director of Corporate Giving: Kathryn Burns-Yocum Corporate Giving Manager: Katie Atkinson Director of Foundation and Government Relations: Meghann Babo-Shroyer Institutional Fundraising Coordinator: Emma Wesslund Development Operations Manager: Allison Fuhrman Development Coordinator: Jobeth Hammer

Development Fellow: Aleksej Aarsaether MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Director of Marketing and Communications: Neal Racioppo Marketing Manager: Gabriel Benghiat Publicist: Amy Killion Marketing and Communications Coordinator: Christine Covino Marketing and Communications Fellow: Madelyn Odegaard Director of Bookings and Partnerships: Shaun Hart Associate Director of Communications: Laura Henry Buda Graphic Designers: Maryam Banyahmad, Ann Lipscombe Graphic Design Fellow: Amanda Hamati Director of Audience Services: Joy Johnson Group Sales and Ticket Services Manager: Brian Jon Moran Ticket Services Manager: Kieran Shaw Sales Associates: Zindzi Ali, Jake Campbell, Meg Edyvean, Scott Gaines, Christopher Hunt, Amber Jones, Jessica Kaplan, Andre McBride, Kristin Nam, Christopher Pearson, Sarah Polaski, Sarah Pultz, Chad Rabago, Carmelitta Riley, Marie Riley, Crystal Stewart, Michael Wharton Theatre Services Manager: Robert Montenegro House Manager: Danny Romeo Lead House Managers: Ric Birch, Marley Kabin, Jamel Levine, Marie Riley Assistant House Managers: Melissa Adler, Andrea Beland, Anfernee Bryant, Doug Gould, Benjamin Gunderson, Christopher Hunt, Chelsea James, Anna-Claire McGrath, Ryan-Patrick McLaughlin, Michael Moya, Molly Nevola, Carmelitta Riley, Bridget Sheaff, Kara Sparling Retail and Concessions Manager: Nicholas Kilburn Retail and Concessions Associates: Amelia Brookins, Julia Capizzi, Quintin Cary, Susannah Clark, Julia Colpitts, Madalaina D’Angelo, Elizabeth Daingerfield, Negar Esfandiari, Adrianne Glover, Amanda Hamati, Grace Kang, Teresa Kennedy, Justin Lane, Margaret Lee, Grace Murtha, Madelyn Odegaard, Christopher Pearson, Elena Robertson, Leslie Rothstein, Emma Vissicchio EDUCATION Director of Education: Samantha Wyer Bello Associate Director of Education: Dat Ngo Audience Enrichment Manager: Hannah Hessel Ratner Community Engagement Manager: Jared Shortmeier School Programs Manager: Vanessa Hope Training Programs Manager: Brent Stansell Resident Teaching Artist: Dan Crane Education Coordinator : Jess Phillips Education Fellow: Emma Vissicchio Affiliated Teaching Artists: Laura Artesi, Wyckham Avery, Craig Baldwin, Tonya Beckman, Renea Brown, Danny Cackley, Guadalupe Campos, Alina Collins Maldona, Liz Daingerfield, Mary C. Davis, Michael Dove, Vince Eisenson, Randall Exton, Briana Gibson, Brit Herring, Paul Hope, Adrian Iglesias, Mark Jaster, Joy Jones, Drew Lichtenberg, Sabrina Mandell, Katelyn Manfre, Chelsea Mayo, Brenna McDonough, Kiernan McGowan, Sarah Kate Patterson, Jess Phillips, Alex Piper, Zack Powell, Victoria Reinsel, Melissa Richardson, Christopher Richardson, Catherine Ritter, Nancy Robinette, Brayden Simpson, Kristala Smart, Stephen Spotswood, Rebecca Swislow, Michael

Thomas, Khaleshia Thorpe-Price, Katie Tkel, Justin Weaks, Eva Wilhelm, Nathan Winkelstein, Gregory Wooddell THE ACADEMY FOR CLASSICAL ACTING The Academy for Classical Acting Director: Alec Wild ACA Program Coordinator: Katherine White Faculty Members: Isabelle Anderson, Lisa Beley, Christopher Cherry, Dody DiSanto, Edward Gero, Robb Hunter, Leslie Jacobson, Lisae Jordan, Michael Kahn, Floyd King, Roberta Stiehm PRODUCTION Director of Production: Tom Haygood Associate Directors of Production: Kimberly Lewis Barna, KayCee Tucker Production Administrator: Sloane A. L. Spencer Resident Production Stage Manager: Joseph Smelser Stage Managers: Christopher Michael Borg, Cynthia Cahill, Kristy Matero, Jess Slocum Assistant Stage Managers: Rebecca Shipman, Teresa Wood Production Assistant: Marko Palumbo Stage Management Fellows: Chevonne Baylor, Yiwen Wu Costume Director: Barbara Hicks Floor Manager: Julie Rose Resident Design Assistant: Jeanette Lee Porter Drapers: Denise Aitchison, Randall Exton, Tonja Petersen First Hands: Sara Cardwell, Jennifer Rankin, Sandra Thomas Stitchers: Lauren Pederson, Michele Ordway, Donna Sachs

Lead Crafts Artisan: Joshua Kelley Costume Crafts Artisan: Kathryn Hansen Wardrobe Supervisors: Stephanie Goad, Monica M. Speaker Wig Master : Dori Beau Seigneur Costume Design Fellow: Grace Kang Costume Production Fellows: Leslie Rothstein, Sarah Steele Technical Director: Kelly Dunnavant Assistant Technical Director: Tyler Grady Scene Shop Foreman: David P. Stock Scene Shop Administrator: Charles Cobb Carpenters: Justin Carnes, Matthew Grisdela, Zack Mancini Charge Scenic Artist: Sally Glass Scenic Artist: Jose Ortiz Scenic Painter: Laura Genson Lowe Properties Director: Chris Young Assistant Properties Director: Kimberley E. Cruce Props Painter/Sculptor: Eric Hammesfahr Props Artisan: Justin Titley Soft Goods Artisan: Rebecca Williams Master Electrician: Sean R. McCarthy Assistant Master Electrician: Lauren Lee Harman Electrician: Brice Hilburn Lansburgh Electrician: Peter Goldschmidt Audio/Video Supervisor: Brian Burchett Assistant Audio/Video Supervisor: Alexis Macchiaroli Live Mix Engineer: William Wacker Lansburgh Sound Board Operator: Matthew Allen Stage Operations Supervisor: Will Gautney Assistant Stage Operations Supervisor: Tim Hache Stage Carpenters: Jess Rich, Rachel Wolf Run Crew: Craig Gatling

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Open-captioned performance of this play: Thursday, May 10 at 8 p.m.

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Camelot

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