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PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS

YOU FOR ME FOR YOU

By Mia Chung

FEBRUARY 3–FEBRUARY 28 CAST Susan Hyon*

Minhee

Khanh Doan*

Junhee

Nikki Weaver*

Liz

Stephen Hu* La’ Tevin Alexander

Smuggler, Yongsup, et al Wade

Ken Yoshikawa

Doctor, Neighbor, et al

Elizabeth Bartz

Ensemble

Collette Campbell

Ensemble

Quinlan Fitzgerald

Ensemble

Andrea Whittle

Ensemble

Alex Ramirez

Ensemble

CREATIVE TEAM Gretchen Corbett Jessica Wallenfels Matt Wiens Curt Enderle Megan Wilkerson

Director Choreographer Sound Designer/Performer Scenic Designer Associate Scenic Designer

Solomon Weisbard

Lighting Designer

Alanna Hylton

Costume Designer

Alli Green

Assistant Costume Designer

Rachel Peterson Schmerge Jamie Lynne Simons* David Levine

Properties Designer

OUR SEASON IS MADE POSSIBLE BY (PRODUCER LEVEL)

Harold Goldstein & Carol Streeter Ronni Lacroute Phillip Terranova (BELL TOWER LEVEL) American Theatre Wing Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Lagunitas Brewing Company James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation Meyer Memorial Trust Newman’s Own Oregon Arts Commission Raymond Family Foundation Wrather Family Foundation (PLAYWRIGHT LEVEL) Ellyn Bye; Barry Bloom Jeff & Esther Clark Steve & Elsie Weaver

THIS PRODUCTION IS MADE POSSIBLE BY Jon Betlinski The Boeing Company Jess Dishman Kathy Immerman & Tony Melaragno Marge & Stephen Kafoury National Endowment for the Arts Sandy Polishuk SPECIAL THANKS: Gretchen Icenogle and Peter Stevens

Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

The photographic, video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is prohibited. *Appears Courtesy Actors’ Equity Association Actors equity association, founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. www.actorsequity.org

Portland Playhouse receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Mia Chung is the author of You For Me For You, This Exquisite Corpse, Catch As Catch Can, and Skin In The Game. You For Me For You had its UK premiere at The Royal Court Theatre in London (December 2015). Upcoming productions of the play in 2016 include Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN). You For Me For You premiered at Woolly Mammoth (Washington DC, in association with Ma-Yi, supported by the NEA) and Company One (Boston). Mia’s work has been supported by awards, fellowships, and workshops from the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Civilians’ R&D Group, Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, Icicle Creek Theatre Festival, Inkwell, LAByrinth, Playwrights Realm, RISCA, Southern Rep, the Stella Adler Studio, and TCG. She is a member of New Dramatists, a Huntington Playwright Fellow, and an emeritus member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab.

CAST SUSAN HYON (Minhee) produced Cloud

of Fool’s The Whistling Mortician (NYC/ IATI and Baltimore Theater Project).

She directed Three Gifts for Lenny Bruce

by Jim Knable, as part of Target Margin’s 2014 Labs. Acting credits: The (*) Inn and Uncle Vanya (Target Margin), I Came to Look for You on Tuesday (La MaMa), Happy Hour (Atlantic Theater Company), Crane Story (Playwrights Realm), Romeo & Juliet (NYSF/The Public), Henry VI (Shakespeare & Co.), Opus (Florida Studio Theatre), Smoke and Mirrors (The Flea), Toshtuk and Janyl (Yara Arts). Co-founder, Cloud of Fools Theater Company. BA Economics, Smith College. MFA Acting Columbia University.

KHANH DOAN (Junhee) is grateful to be

AUTHOR’S NOTE BY MIA CHUNG We know little about life in North Korea—especially how ordinary citizens live in the countryside—because the North Korean government has so effectively controlled the flow of information within and across its borders.

Communication with the outside world has been effectively silenced since 1953, aside from government-sanctioned visits primarily by political leaders, journalists and the occasional tourist group. The North Korean State has, by and large, curated the imagery that the world has of this country. As a result, there is so much that we, in the outside world, do not know. There is so much that we have no choice but to imagine.

What we do know is that the situation in North Korea is dire, especially for its most vulnerable, overlooked people living in the country. We know this from testimony of those few that have managed to flee the country. From their stories, we know of the sophistication and effectiveness of the State’s social control. Each refugee story is a miracle of the stubborn human will to survive.

We also know that the NK State feeds its citizens with magical tales about its leaders, elevating its first leader, Kim Il Sung, to the status of a god and his progeny and successors to demi-god status. The country is prolific with surreal fictions and fairytales about how and why its people work and live, as well as about the world outside.

So it goes without saying that North Korea is ripe for the imagination.

When I sat down to write about my growing fascination with this nation, I made a deliberate choice to employ magic realism as a narrative strategy—rather than attempt to depict the country realistically. North Korea itself When I sat down to employs magic realism in the weaving write about my growing of its national narrative. Moreover, I fascination with this nation, believe a selective use of fantasy and I made a deliberate choice miracle indirectly underscores the actual impossibility that North Koreans face if to employ magic realism as they wish to live differently from their a narrative strategy... country’s program. That an ailing North Korean woman could (and would) cross her country’s border safely and alone, and start a new life elsewhere is a highly unrealistic proposition. It happens, but it doesn’t happen often, and never without random, crucial luck or help: something akin to magic.

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a part of this beautiful production of an exciting new play by Mia Chung. Her last performance in Portland was in Redwood Curtain at Profile Theatre. As a Seattle resident, she has performed at various theatres such as A Contemporary Theatre (Ramayana, A Christmas Carol), Village Theatre (Jesus Christ Superstar), Seattle Children’s Theatre (Sleeping Beauty, High School Musical, Peter Pan), Seattle Repertory Theatre (BasketCases), 5th Avenue Theatre (Miss Saigon), and Wooden 0 (Macbeth, Julius Caesar). You can also catch her online in the comedy web series, Chop Socky Boom. Khanh holds a degree in Sociology from Stanford University.

NIKKI WEAVER (Liz, Dance Captain)

You For Me For You, for me, is about processing our place in the world. I thought I’d share something you might not know about me. My own sense of place has been disrupted many times.

At ten my mom died suddenly and I left the US ten days later to live in Australia with my father. After finishing college I moved back to the US to work at Shakespeare & Company, where I found my home for the next three years. I now call Portland home and I’m happy to be part of this team, this company, and this moving story of finding home. BFA from The Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts. MFA from George Washington University: Classical Theatre. Up next: A Doll’s House with Shaking the Tree, and Our New Girl with Corrib.

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM STEPHEN HU (Smuggler et al) was last

seen in NYC’s Puzzle the Will (Davenport Theatre). He recently appeared in The Old Globe/USD MFA Program’s Antigone, Much Ado About Nothing, Tartuffe, and Measure for Measure and in the 2014 Shakespeare Festival production of Othello and the 2013 Festival productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. His Los Angeles credits include Macbeth and Richard III (The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum) and the title role in Ching Chong Chinaman (Artists at Play). Select Bay Area credits include Over the Asian Airwaves (Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company), Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and Beijing, CA (Asian American Theater Company). MFA, The Old Globe/USD.

KEN YOSHIKAWA (Doctor, Neighbor, et al) is thrilled to debut with the

Portland Playhouse! His recent credits include: Prince in Goldilocks and the Three Bears (JANE, a Theatre Company), Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Adventure Theatre), and the Fool in King Lear (Reed College Shoestring Theatre). He graduated from Reed College in ‘12. He would like to thank his friends, family and coconspirators in You for Me for You. Ken loves to write and perform poetry, eat good food and spend time with those he loves.

LA’ TEVIN ALEXANDER (Wade) first

gives thanks to God for this opportunity and to his family for their unconditional love and support. La’ Tevin Alexander hails from the small yet grandiose city of Perry, FL. La’ Tevin is an alumnus of the illustrious Florida A&M University.

He is a staff member here at Portland Playhouse and excited to make his return to the Playhouse’s versatile stage.

He was previously seen at Portland Playhouse in: How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes (Ensemble), A Christmas Carol (Fezziwig, Peter Crachit, and StoryTeller), The Piano Lesson (Boy Willie, U/S). He is excited and humbled to be able to tell this magically powerful story.

A special thanks to “Mama” Gretchen, Mia Chung, the cast, crew, staff, and the apprentices, whom he loves dearly.

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ELIZABETH BARTZ (Ensemble) is a

member of the Portland Playhouse Apprentice Company for the 2015– 2016 Season. She is a Michigander and earned her BA in Theatre and English Literature from Ohio Wesleyan University in 2013. Past credits include Guys & Dolls, Spamalot, and Annie, and she is excited to join the ensemble here.

Ellie would like to thank her mom for all her support, Nikki Weaver and everyone else at The Playhouse for this amazing opportunity. She also thanks her dad for always encouraging her to embrace hope.

COLLETTE CAMPBELL (Ensemble) was

last seen on The Playhouse stage in A Christmas Carol. Collette hails from New York, and is an Acting Apprentice this season with Portland Playhouse.

Recent stage credits include Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie), The Winter’s Tale (Antigonus), Still Life With Iris (Mom/ Miss Overlook), Seussical! (Bird Girl/ Mrs. Mayor), and Jack and the Beanstalk (Giant’s Mother). She received a BA in Theater from Muhlenberg College and studied physical theatre at Accademia dell’ Arte in Arezzo, Italy. Many thanks to Brian, Nikki, Gretchen, and the rest of the Playhouse community for this awesome experience!

QUINLAN FITZGERALD (Ensemble) is

a member of the Portland Playhouse Acting Apprentice company for the 2015–2016 season. Originally from LA, She recently obtained her BFA in Acting and BA in Communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Past credits include A Christmas Carol (Portland Playhouse) Bloody Poetry (UCSB), The Importance of Being Earnest (UCSB), Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (UCSB) and Spring Awakening: A New Musical (Out of the Box). Offstage, music and song-writing dominate her free time. She hopes to get herself and her guitar to a few open-mic nights while in Portland! Thanks to her parents, the other ¾ of her quadruplet, Mia, Gretchen and the cast and crew.

ANDREA WHITTLE (Ensemble) is from

the Magic City of Miami, Florida and a recent graduate from Florida A&M University where she received her B.A. in Theatre Performance. Her favorite productions include: The Color Purple (ensemble), Since ‘76 (Sage) and Home

(Woman). So grateful to be a part of Portland Playhouse. Everything that I am is because of my university and my family and for them both I am so very thankful.

ALEX RAMIREZ (Ensemble) is a Portland

area actor, deviser, theatre-maker, and a past Playhouse Apprentice from 2011– 2012. Favorite credits include: Passion Play (Shaking The Tree & Profile Theatre) Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, (Portland Playhouse); and Dance For a Dollar (Miracle Theatre). She is dedicated to creating original devised theatre and is a member of String House, an independent producing title, new works laboratory, and nominated for two Drammy Awards for “Best Devised Production.” When not onstage Alex is proud to work as a coach/actor with Playwrite Inc. and with Portland Center Stage’s touring education program, All is Fair in Love and Shakespeare.

GRETCHEN CORBETT (Director) I started

directing plays in Los Angeles after I had been an actor there and in NYC for twenty years or so. My first outing was Born Yesterday in a little theatre in Santa Paula, California and I was so scared I wouldn’t get it right that I staged the whole show exactly like the Broadway production. It was a great success for the theatre. Imitation, as they say, is a great teacher. I went on to direct at the Odyssey and the Back Alley Theatres in LA and ultimately become the Resident Director for the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre for several years, a theatre dedicated to nurturing new plays and playwrights. When I moved to Portland, Oregon, I founded, and for ten years ran, The Haven Project which paired underserved children with professional actors and writers to create original theatre. The productions I have directed in Portland include Bo-Nita for Portland Center Stage, Body Awareness and Reasons to Be Pretty for CoHo Theatre, The Alice Event at the Winningstad, Taming of the Shrew for Tygres Heart, The Further Adventures of Anse and Bhule in No Man’s Land for Sowelu Theatre and The Lower Rooms for Stark Raving Theatre. Several of the plays I directed received prizes—for the actors, for the designers, for the production, and a couple for me. It has been a privilege to work on this new version of Mia Chung’s extraordinary play.

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APRIL 27TH - MAY 29TH

By Rick Elice | Based on the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Music by Wayne Barker

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Directed by Brian Weaver

A swashbuckling grownup prequel to Peter Pan that takes the audience from the brig on a pirate ship to mermaids’ coves as we discover exactly who is the little boy who never grew up. A dozen actors play more than 100 characters in this musical adventure that is in turn hilarious and touching.

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CAST & CREATIVE TEAM JAMIE LYNNE SIMONS* (Stage Manager)

After having lived on the high seas for years working with Carnival Cruise Lines, traveling as far as Tasmania and St. Petersburg, Russia, Jamie has recently returned to the Northwest. She is grateful to have already been brought into the fold, returning to the Playhouse after filling in on Mr. Burns. Other local credits: The Miracle Worker (Artists Rep) and Or, (Third Rail Rep). She is also an Artistic Associate with Action/ Adventure. Jamie previously lived and worked in Philadelphia for many years.

BFA Applied Theater Arts–University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association.

MATT WIENS (Sound Designer/Performer) is delighted to be working on his second show with Portland Playhouse. Last spring he designed sound for Sharr White’s The Other Place. Matt would like to thank too many people.

JESSICA WALLENFELS (Choreographer) was director/choreographer/producer of The Snowstorm at CoHo Productions, Fertile Ground 2015. Pacific Northwest credits include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Portland Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, and Artists Repertory Theatre; she has also worked and produced in New York and Los Angeles. Jessica is artistic director of Many Hats Collaboration, winner of the Drammy Award for Best Production of a Play for The Snowstorm. Wallenfels is the winner of three Drammy Awards for Outstanding Choreography as well as a PAMTA award. She is a Masters of Fine Arts candidate at University of Portland.

CURT ENDERLE (Scenic Designer)

is lame. He started designing this fascinating play and then in October took a job in London for the next two years art directing a stop-motion animated film. That’s his “bill paying job”; like on The Boxtrolls for Laika in 2014 and adverts for Häagen Dazs, Coca-Cola, Diet Dr. Pepper, and others.

More likely you’ve seen his recent set designs at Portland Opera, Oregon Children’s Theatre and Third Rail.

Luckily, Megan was able to pick up the ideas and see them through.

MEGAN WILKERSON (Associate Scenic Designer) makes her home here in

Portland with a pair of dogs and a Wine Shaman. She is a Resident Artist at Artists Repertory Theatre, the Resident Scenic Designer for the nationally acclaimed Bag&Baggage Productions in Hillsboro, and a member of the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Chicago’s only women’s theatre company. Her design work has been recognized by The Chicago Tribune, The Oregonian, The Austin Critics Circle, and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Regionally Megan has worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The New Conservatory, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Broadway Rose, Teatro Milagro, deFunkt Theatre, Theatre Vertigo, Northwest Classical Theatre, Next Act Theatre, Skylight Opera, First Stage Children’s Theatre, Michigan Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Public, Portland Center Stage and the Portland Opera. She is a member of United Scenic Artists and holds an MFA in design from The University of Texas at Austin.

SOLOMON WEISBARD (Lighting Designer) is Brooklyn-based and Portland-born.

At Portland Playhouse: Jitney and three previous versions of A Christmas Carol (Drammy Nomination). Other theaters: Equivocation, Macbeth (Arden); This Golden State (Magic); Rite of Spring (Martha Graham); Soldier’s Tale (with Michael Cerveris–Yale/Carnegie Hall); Stones in his Pockets (Yale Rep); Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb); The Homecoming, Cedars, Lion in Winter, A Class Act (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Christina Anderson’s Hollow Roots (Public/Under the Radar); The Pavilion (Barrow Group); The Film Society (Keen /Theatre Row). Numerous sound, light, and movement works with rising and established composers, choreographers and theater-makers.

MFA: Yale School of Drama. Member: USA 829. www.solweisbard.com

ALANNA HYLTON (Costume Designer) is

based out of her hometown, Portland, Oregon. Ms. Hylton is more than pleased to be working with Portland Playhouse.

Alanna has most recently designed costumes for The Dissenter’s Handbook

at Shaking The Tree Theatre, daVinci Middle School’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and she was Assistant Costumer for Waiting For Godot at the Shoebox Theater. Her portfolio also includes Shaking The Tree’s Suddenly Last Summer and Masque Of The Red Death.

She has designed and assisted on many productions for theaters throughout Portland such as ART, Profile, PAC and PSU Opera. Alanna would like to thank all of the wonderful, talented people she’s worked with on this production.

ALLI GREEN (Assistant Costume

Designer) graduated from Skidmore College with a BA in Art History and has a shared background in visual arts and costuming. Brought up as a stitcher and wardrobe specialist by Saint Michael’s Playhouse in Colchester Vermont, she is pleased to join Portland Playhouse as this season’s costume design apprentice.

She approaches this project with gratitude toward many mentors both back east and here in Portland.

RACHEL PETERSON SCHMERGE

(Properties Designer) is excited to join Portland Playhouse again as Props Designer. Other Playhouse credits include A Christmas Carol, Mr. Burns, The Other Place, How to End Poverty, A Light in the Piazza, Jitney, Detroit, and The Left Hand of Darkness. You can regularly see her work at Portland Center Stage where she’s the Lead Props Artisan, along with recent productions at Portland Opera. She received her degree in sculpture from Reed College, and continues to embark on various art and fabrication projects around town. www.PSrachel.com

DAVID LEVINE (Assistant Stage Manager) is a lifelong Portlander who has worn many career hats, most recently and happily as a middle school teacher at Oregon Episcopal School. He comes from a long line of teachers-turnedactors, dating back to 1950’s summer camp in the Catskills. His own, similar small-stage performances include Seven Menus, The Real Inspector Hound, and The Music Man. Most recently he was the assistant stage manager for A Christmas Carol at Portland Playhouse.

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THANK YOU

Portland Playhouse gratefully acknowledges our supporters. Their generosity allows us to activate surprise, delight and challenge in our lives. We envision a world awakened by the wonder of theatre.

This list represents contributions and pledges received from August 1, 2014 through July 31, 2015. We make every attempt to acknowledge your name accurately.

If you find a mistake, want to make a change, or think your name should be listed and want to inquire further, please don’t hesitate to call us at 971-533-8743.

We are more than happy to make changes for the next playbill.

CORPORTATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT BELL TOWER $25,000+

James F. And Marion L. Miller Foundation Meyer Memorial Trust Playhouse on Prescott LLC

The Looker Foundation Lincoln Restaurant Multnomah County Cultural Coalition NW Natural Sharon M. Fekety Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Oregon Community Foundation

$10,000–$24,999

UNDER $1,000

Juan Young Trust National Endowment For The Arts Newman's Own Foundation Oregon Cultural Trust PGE Foundation Raymond Family Foundation The Boeing Company The Collins Foundation Willamette Week Give Guide Wrather Family Foundation

ROOF RAISER $7,500–$9,999

Herbert A. Templeton Foundation

SEAT RISER $5,000–$7,499

Regional Arts & Culture Council AT&T Foundation The Kinsman Foundation

SUPPORTING BEAM $2,500–$4,999

Autzen Foundation GRANTMAKERS of Oregon and Southwest Washington Multnomah County OCF Joseph E Weston Foundation Oregon Arts Commission RBC Wealth Management The Standard

STEPPING STONE $1,000–$2,499

Equity Foundation The Jackson Foundation

Adidas America, Inc. Black United Fund Of Oregon Cupcake Jones Fifty Licks LLC Hewlett Packard Fred Meyer Lincoln High School Stash Tea Urban Pacific Real Estate LLC

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT PRODUCERS $50,000+

Harold Goldstein & Carol Streeter

$25,000–$49,999 Ronni Lacroute Phillip Terranova

PLAYWRIGHTS $10,000–$24,999

Barry Bloom & Joanna Doris Bloom Ellyn Bye Jeff & Esther Clark Steve & Elsie Weaver

DIRECTORS $5,000–$9,999

Marge & Stephen Kafoury

DESIGNERS $2,500–$4,999

Ann Brayfield & Joe Emerson Elizabeth Carr & Kip Acheson Jess Dishman Erin & Kirk Hanawalt Katherine Immerman & Anthony Melaragno Karen & Dave Johnson Michelle Mark Sandy Polishuk

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Wendy & Richard Rahm Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

ACTORS $1,000–$2,499

Kay & Roy Abramowitz Dale Bajema & Diana Coleman Barbara Bannister Mary & Don Blair Naomi Dagen Bloom & Ronald Bloom Brooks & Dorothy Cofield Michael Cowan In memory of Sandra Zickefoose Sharon M. Fekety Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Judith Kafoury Susan Knight & Glenn Lamb Roberta Lampert & James Piper Bonnie & Pete Reagan Mary & Richard Rosenberg Charitable Foundation Bing & Carolyn Sheldon Linda & Chet Skibinski Winston Weaver Greg & Valerie Weaver

STAR $500–$999

Kirby & Amy Allen Jonathan Betlinski Linda & Karl Boekelheide Ellen Brodersen Joseph Callahan Nathan Cogan Family Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation Robert Conklin Diane Freaney Wendy Ware & Dan Gleason Kathleen Gleeson & Dave Young David Goldman & Merilee Karr Luke & Vicki Groser Paul Hart & Jan Jacobsen Tina & James Hein

Diane Herrmann Kimberly Howard Ramona Kearns Jeff Kilmer Mikki & Steve Lipsey Thomas & Nancy Lisicki Janet MacDonnell & Neil Falk Elaine Martin & Jay Hoover Craig Olson Brad & Trina Robertson Stephen & Kate Robinson Melissa Rockefeller & Minh Pham Stephen & Carol Scalpone Jane Schiffhauer Isabel Sheridan David Stout Mary & Ernie Swartz Jill & Michael Weier Carolyn & Dan Wieden Veronica Williams

CAMEO $250–$499

Sue Armitage & Bob Greene Elizabeth & George Barton Edward & Polley Bowen Alice Boyd Evelyn Brzezinski Duncan & Cindy Campbell of The Campbell Foundation MaryAnne Cassin & Ken Meyer Nancy Catlin Mary Devlin Ellen Donaldson Alison Ebbott & Bill Hasan Lori & Scott Eberly Norman Eder Ronnie-Gail Emden & Andy Wilson Leslye Epstein & Herman Taylor Angela Freeman & Matthew Moule Lynn Goldstein Corbett Gordon In Honor of Shandi Walnofer Muff Frederick & Cheryl Grossman Joan Hartzell

Maurice Horn & George Soule Bruce Murray & Valerie Ilsley Walter Jaffe & Paul King Phillip Margolin Patricia Perkins in memory of Russ S. Perkins Charlotte Rubin Pat Scheans Elizabeth Scully Richard Smith & Patricia Frobes Les & Elizabeth Stoessl David & Rosemarie Sweet Kim Thomas & John Morrison Julie & Ted Vigeland Laura & Andrew Watson Brian & Nikki Weaver Abel Weinrib & Carmen WeinribEgido Joyce White Mark Williams Lynn Youngbar

FRIEND $100–$249

Bonnie & Steven Altshuld Mary Andrews Jonathan & Deanne Ater Kimberly Bakken Thomas Balmer & Mary Louise McClintock Janet Bardossi Lisa Batey Kathleen Bauska John & Mary Bicknell Sarah & J Bills Dick & Renee Binns Gabe Bloom Rebecca Boenke Ron & Linda Borkan Patricia Bradley Dana Breashears Dania Caron Denise Carty & Roger Brown Tex Clark & Anna Campbell Kirsten Collins & Cody Hoesly Karol Collymore Liana Colombo

Shamus Cooke Gretchen Corbett Deborah Correa & Mark Wilson Laurie Cox & Robert Skall Linda S Craig Fran Daggett Marvin & Abby Dawson Louise Demetre William Deresiewicz & Aleeza Nussbaum The William Diebold & Deborah Freedberg Fund Patti Dobrowolski & Julie Boardman Howard Cutler & Pamela Echevero Vida Edera Zachary Edmonson Ken & Annie Edwards Alma Eib Steve & Sara Elgee Pamela Anne Fairchild & Ted Lamb Paul & Pat Ferguson-Steger Daniel & Melissa Fisher Gabrielle Foulkes Robert Gandolfi & Ron Bloodworth Karen Garber & John Desmarais Samuel Gaty William Giles Joshua Gilley Tracy Gratto Robyn Gregory & Tony Bornstein Gretta Grimala Andrew Gustely Delores Hall Paula & Robert Hamm Bruce & Kathleen Harder Georgia Harker James Harter Lynne Hartshorn Jan & Tom Harvey Jane Hatch Elizabeth Hawthorne & Lawrence Mohr Evan Hayashi Marjorie Hirsch Gretchen Holden Laurie Holland Garen Horgen Ruben & Andrea Iniguez

Kevin Irving & Nicolo Fonte Curt Jantz Alan & Dianne Johnson Elizabeth Joseph Maria Katzenbach Ruth Kauffman Frederick Kirchhoff & Ronald Simonis Krystal Klein Bill Kwitman & Monica Moriarty Theodore Labbe & Kelly Rodgers Rebecca Lacy Veronica Lawrence in memory of Penny O’Carroll Sally Leisure Richard Lewis & Margaret Larson Deborah Lockwood Jenny Logan Christine Mackert John & Renee Manson Steven Maser & Donna McElroy Shirley Mason Anne E McLaughlin Samuel Metz Jeannette & Bill Meyer Patricia Mizutani & Richard Rosenhaft Landry & Aino Molimbi Madeline Moore Nancy & Art Moss Adrienne Nelson Susan Newman & Phil Goldsmith Carlton Olson Christopher Ott Hugh Owens & Lauren Turner Jane Pansky Charlotte & Chris Perry Annie Popkin & David Parker Karen Pride Linda Purcell Mark Ramsby & Meg McGill Marj Reeves David Reingold

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PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE STAFF

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BRIAN WEAVER

Harold Goldstein, Chair Angela Freeman, Vice-Chair Michelle Mark, Secretary Curt Janz, Treasurer

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

MICHAEL WEAVER MANAGING DIRECTOR

ELENA HEIN

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

NIKKI WEAVER

EDUCATION DIRECTOR

KARL HANOVER

AUDIENCE SERVICES MANAGER

ANNA MARIE BROWN, LA’ TEVIN ALEXANDER

FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGERS

THYRA HARTSHORN

PRODUCTION MANAGER

OWEN WALZ

Karol Collymore Michael Cowan David Hardy Joan Hartzell Kimberly Howard Marge Kafoury Andy Riccetti-Eberly George ‘Bing’ Sheldon Mary Swartz Brian Weaver Mark Williams

DESIGN & TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE

APPRENTICE COMPANY

MIRIAM COOK, ASHLEY WILLIAMS

Elizabeth Bartz Collette Campbell Quinlan Fitzgerald Alli Green Andrea Whittle

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES

WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE? There are all sorts of ways to join our community: • Volunteer as a beer-tender, usher, or greeter and earn a ticket to see the show!

• Donate to our Playhouse Raffle or Wishlist (we’re especially in need of bus tickets/passes, bicycles for apprentice transportation, meal and housing donations, and gift certificates of all sorts)

• Help out in our office, run an event committee, or lend a hand with fundraising

Your contributions are greatly welcome and we’d love to hear from you!

Contact Anna at volunteer@portlandplayhouse.org for more information or to get involved.

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WE ARE

PORTLAND

PLAYHOUSE The Playhouse is not just the actors on stage or the directors and designers behind the scene. It’s not just the people that work in the office or the volunteers and donors. It’s everyone in our community coming together to support our mission to produce intimate, quality performances that challenge and enliven us, making our community a better place to live.

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Mentored 9 emerging artists in our apprentice program

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Employed 89 artists

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Served 400 students from 6 schools in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare

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United 12,000 audience members through the power of theatre