Actors Theatre| November-December 2019 | The Santaland Diaries

NOVEMBER 2019

THE SANTALAND DIARIES

by David Sedaris

adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello

directed by Meredith McDonough

Nov. 24 – Dec. 23, 2019

NOVEMBER 2019

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Welcome to our production of The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello.

Delightfully irreverent and packed with David Sedaris’s signature wit, The Santaland Diaries is a holiday classic for those of us who prefer our eggnog spiked. We’re sure you’ll enjoy Bear Brummel in his return to the role of Crumpet, a disgruntled elf taking us through a holiday tour of Macy’s Santaland.

We hope you’ll join us in the new year for more exhilarating theatre. Kicking off 2020, The Wolves puts you up close to the action as an undefeated girls’ indoor soccer team prepares for battle. Packed with high-energy storytelling as the team runs through warmups and passing drills, this Pulitzer Prize-winning play dives into the complexity of American teens’ lives—on and off the field. Following The Wolves, we embark on a Caribbean-infused musical fairy tale. Filled with enchanting music and dance, Once on This Island tells of the extraordinary power love has to tear down walls and defy ageold prejudice. I am delighted that my inaugural production in Louisville will be a true celebration of human resilience.

With so much coming up on the horizon, we thank you for including Actors Theatre in your holiday celebrations. Theatre is a terrific way to spend time with friends and family and to meet other people who enjoy the experience of a live performance. We hope you’ll keep Actors Theatre in your heart this holiday season. If you have not already done so, we encourage you to consider contributing to our Annual Fund or to treat your friends and family to an Actors Theatre Gift Certificate. Your gifts as ticket buyers and donors help us to bring world-class artistic programming to this community. With your support, we can continue to uplift and inspire thousands of audience members. We are incredibly thankful for your dedication to our work, and we are honored that you have chosen to make Actors Theatre part of your holiday tradition.

From our family to yours, we wish you the best for this holiday season and many happy returns for the New Year!

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The Santaland Diaries

by David Sedaris adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello directed by Meredith McDonough November 24 – December 23, 2019

FEATURING Bear Brummel *

Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Stage Manager

William Boles † Mike Floyd Paul Toben † Paul Doyle Jessica Kay Potter *

Originally produced in New York by David Stone and Amy Nederlander-Case on November 7, 1996.

The Santaland Diaries is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers of the United States. † Designers that are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA – 829 of the IATSE.

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PRODUCTION CREDITS THE CAST OF CHARACTERS

Crumpet, The Elf

Bear Brummel *

SETTING New York City, the Christmas season.

INTERMISSION There will be no intermission.

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The Little Elf That Could: How David Sedaris Became David Sedaris

by Hannah Rae Montgomery

BEFORE HE BECAME A BESTSELLING author, David Sedaris survived by working odd jobs. He picked apples in Oregon.

He reinforced the edges of window screens with a stapler (to keep squirrels from invading attics) in Chicago. He cleaned apartments in New York City.

And, broke and jobless after first moving to the Big Apple, he got a gig playing an elf at Macy’s “SantaLand,” which would inspire his beloved and hilariously biting personal essay, “Santaland Diaries.”

(He’s known for his ability to highlight the weirdness of everyday life, zeroing in on personal quirks or strange encounters that are often relatable, but that we might never think to document in such comic detail.) As with many of his other early writings, the pithy observations in “Santaland Diaries” originally came from these journal entries. According to Sedaris, “‘Santaland’ was just stuff in my diary. All I did was take things from my diary and arrange them.”

Sedaris is now a literary celebrity.

He’s one of the few writers who can fill Carnegie Hall with his adoring fans and who’s been considered funny enough to appear regularly on The Late Show with David Letterman. During his days as Crumpet the Elf, however, he never thought he’d see his dream of being a published author come true. “I’m wearing a green velvet costume; it doesn’t get any worse than this,” Sedaris-as-Crumpet quips darkly. But his career would profit immensely from this time spent faking holiday cheer and herding frazzled families for their photo with Santa. It was “Santaland Diaries” that first introduced Sedaris’s signature deadpan humor to a national audience, catapulting him to fame in the early 1990s.

One night, he was reading excerpts from his diary onstage at a small New York club. He later recounted in an NPR interview:

Since 1977, Sedaris had kept a diary, carrying a notebook with him to record experiences both bizarre and mundane.

“[Radio host] Ira Glass was in the audience. He introduced himself….

Later, he called, asking if I had anything Christmassy for a show that he was doing at the time called The Wild Room, which was sort of a primitive version of This American Life. So I recorded the Santa story for that, and then he put it on [the daily NPR program] Morning Edition.”

Sedaris could never have predicted the rush of popularity that followed. “My life just changed completely,” he has said, “like someone waved a magic wand.”

In conversation with NPR, he elaborated: “‘Santaland’ was the first thing I ever had on the radio. I’d read out loud before and had things published in small magazines, but no one had ever heard of them. When

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PLAY NOTES I did a reading out loud, there might have been eighteen people in the audience.

To go from that to the Morning Edition audience is a pretty substantial leap.

“After ‘Santaland,’ the phone just started ringing. One time, a telephone operator even called me. She called to say that she had heard [the piece]. I didn’t know operators were allowed to make calls.

I was thinking, ‘Don’t you need to be at your switchboard? Maybe somebody needs to go to the hospital.’ ...I was very, very surprised.

“Again, it was just from that one story. It was one thing for someone you went to high school with to call, but then people called wanting me to do commercials or

write a movie. It was heady to go from having no opportunities to so many.”

The rest is history. Thanks to the wild success of “Santaland Diaries,” Sedaris, in his words, “went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.” Soon after, he landed the book contract that led to his first published collection of essays and short fiction, the critically acclaimed Barrel Fever (in which “Santaland Diaries” also appears). In 1996, the theatrical adaptation of “Santaland Diaries” premiered in New York, starring Timothy Olyphant as Crumpet, and the show has enjoyed countless subsequent productions, delighting audiences across the country. Today, there are more than

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Thanks to the wild success of “Santaland Diaries,” Sedaris, in his words, “went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.”

10 million copies of Sedaris’s books in print, and his work has been translated into 25 languages. Meanwhile, his recording of “Santaland Diaries” has aired on Morning Edition during the Christmas season every year since 2004, and is one of the show’s most requested features.

Not too shabby for a man who’d often joked that he was only qualified for “jobs that needed no skills.”

Hungry for more of David Sedaris’s irreverent wit? Check out some of his other popular works: • • • • • • • • • •

Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays (1994) Holidays on Ice (1997) Naked (1997) Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000) Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004) When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (2010) Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls (2013) Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) (2017) Calypso (2018)

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BIOGRAPHIES THE ACTING COMPANY Bear Brummel (Crumpet, the Elf) lives in New York City. At Actors Theatre: The Santaland Diaries, Little Bunny Foo Foo, You Across from Me, Angels in America (u/s). New York Credits: World premiere of Lily Houghton’s Of the woman... with Normal Ave. Regional Theatre: The Royal Family (directed by Rachel Chavkin), A Christmas Carol and Blue Stockings at the Guthrie Theater; world premiere of Emily Feldman’s Go. Please. Go. at Montana Repertory Theatre.

Other Theatre: 2019 Pride Plays, curated

by Michael Urie; The Winter’s Tale at The Globe Theatre, London; Midwest tour of Nature with TigerLion Arts; world premiere of C., and two NEXT Festivals at Theater Latté Da; A Lie of the Mind at Theatre Pro Rata; Measure for Measure with BARd; Black Label Movement; Open Eye Figure Theatre. Additional Credits: Brummel is the co-founder of Significant Heads Improv Troupe, was an acting apprentice at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and has a B.F.A. in acting from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater. For more information, visit bearbrummel.com.

DIRECTOR Meredith McDonough is the former associate artistic director at Actors Theatre, where she directed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Angels in America, Maginal Loss, Airness, Circle Mirror Transformation, Peter and the Starcatcher, Dot, The Last Five Years, Noises Off, The Whipping Man, brownsville song (b-side for tray) and The Delling Shore. Previously, McDonough was the director of new works at TheatreWorks

in Palo Alto, Calif., where she directed the world-premiere musical Triangle, as well as Upright Grand, Auctioning the Ainsleys, Silent Sky, Now Circa Then, [title of show] and Opus (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards: Best Director and Best Production). Other San Francisco credits include the premiere of Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley at Marin Theatre Company and The Lily’s Revenge with Taylor Mac at The Magic Theatre.

Regionally, favorites include the premiere of Jason O’Connell and Brenda Withers’ CYRANO at Hudson Valley Shakespeare and Two River Theatre, the U.S. premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s NSFW, Fair Use (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Eurydice (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Noises Off (Guthrie) and the D.C. premiere of the musical Summer of ’42. Upcoming: premiere of Emma (Guthrie), Big Love (Roundhouse, DC) and The Legend of Georgia McBride (Milwaukee Rep and Arizona Theatre Co). She was the associate artistic director of The Orchard Project, was the new works director for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and currently serves on the board of Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. McDonough received her B.S. from Northwestern University and her M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego.

DESIGNERS William Boles (Scenic Designer) At Actors Theatre: The Santaland Diaries, Angels in America, Seven Guitars, Peter and the Starcatcher, The 39 Steps, Cardboard Piano, I Promised Myself to Live Faster, Cry it Out, I Now Pronounce and we, the invisibles. New York Credits: If Only at Cherry Lane Theatre. Regional Theatre Credits: Kirk Douglas, Huntington Theatre

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BIOGRAPHIES Company, Children’s Theatre Company, Wolf Trap Opera, Minnesota Opera, Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Pig Iron Theatre Company. International Credits: Stockholm Vocal Academy and Opera Siam in Bangkok. Chicago Credits: Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Second City, Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, The Hypocrites, American Theater Company, Timeline, A Red Orchid Theatre, About Face Theatre (Associate Artist), Chicago Children’s Theatre, Sideshow Theatre Company (Associate Artist), Steep Theatre Company, First Floor Theater, among others. Additional Credits: Boles received his M.F.A. at Northwestern University. See more of Boles’ work at wbdesigns.carbonmade.com.

Paul Doyle (Sound Designer) is the Sound Supervisor at Actors Theatre.

For the 2007 Humana Festival, he made his Actors Theatre design debut with 365 Days/365 Plays. He designed Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s the break/s in 2008 and Oh, Gastronomy! In 2012. He has been the Associate Sound Designer for Fifth Third Bank’s A Christmas Carol since 2015. Doyle holds an M.F.A. in theatre technology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mike Floyd (Costume Designer) works as the Costume Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Regional Theatre: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Portland Center Stage; All’s Well That Ends Well at Yale Repertory Theatre; Lady at Northlight Theatre. Broadway: Newsies!

(Associate Costume Designer); Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Assistant Costume Designer); Fela! (Assistant Costume Designer); Come Fly Away (Assistant Costume Designer). Off-Broadway:

Designs or Assistant Designs at The Public Theater, The Acting Company, Primary Stages, New York Theatre Workshop and New York Classical Theatre. Other Theatre: Designs for Peninsula Players, Peterborough Players, the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium and Rutgers University.

Additional Credits: Floyd received his M.F.A. in design from the Yale School of Drama and his B.A. from Kenyon College.

Paul Toben (Lighting Designer) At Actors Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Evocation to Visible Appearance, Marginal Loss, Angels in America (Parts One and Two: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika), Airness, Circle Mirror Transformation, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, This Random World, Residence, Wondrous Strange, Peter and the Starcatcher, 4000 Miles, The Roommate, I Will Be Gone, That High Lonesome Sound, The Last Five Years, The Grown-Up, Partners and Noises Off. Regional Theatre: Electra at Court Theatre; The Book of Will at Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Silent Sky, Upright Grand, Auctioning the Ainsleys and others for TheatreWorks; Medea, School for Wives, The Book Club Play, Fly by Night at Dallas Theater Center; Caravan Man and Demon Dreams for Williamstown Theatre Festival; Daddy Long Legs at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Play House, Arizona Theatre Company and more; designs for Magic Theatre, Walker Arts Center and Flat Rock Playhouse, among others.

Broadway: The Story of My Life.

Off- Broadway: Side Street at Theaterlab; Saturn Nights at Incubator Arts Project; Electra in a One-Piece and The Realm at the wild project; Romeo and Juliet at Columbia Stages; Futurity at HERE;

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BIOGRAPHIES When in Disgrace at Examined Man; and The Redheaded Man at Fringe Encores.

London: Daddy Long Legs at St. James Theatre. Additional Credits: For more information, see paultoben.com.

PRODUCTION Jessica Kay Potter (Stage Manager) At Actors Theatre: The Santaland Diaries, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Evocation to Visible Appearance, Angels in America Parts One and Two, We’re Gonna Be Okay, Circle Mirror Transformation, Macbeth, The 39 Steps, For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, Peter and the Starcatcher, Seven Guitars, Luna Gale, The Glory of the World, At the Vanishing Point, The Last Five Years, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Christians, Noises Off, Appropriate, The Whipping Man, True West, Romeo and Juliet, The Veri**on Play, ReEntry, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The End, Fissures (lost and found), Heist!, A Christmas Carol, Dracula and Absalom.

Other Theatre: Uncharted Realms at the Louisville Ballet; Much Ado About Nothing at Kentucky Shakespeare. Additional Credits: Potter holds a B.S. in theatre arts from the University of Louisville, where she graduated cum laude.

CASTING Emily Tarquin is the Artistic Producer at Actors Theatre. Their casting credits here also include The Wolves, Hype Man: a break beat play, Pipeline, God Said This, Dracula and A Christmas Carol. Prior to Actors, Tarquin was the Artistic Producer at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where they co-developed, produced and curated the non-traditional programming arm, OffCenter; was the in-house casting director; and produced the Colorado New Play

Summit. They have also held the titles of Director of Theatre and New Works Festival Producer for the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp. Tarquin is currently serving on a theatre panel for the National Endowment for the Arts, was part of the Innovation Lab and Continuing Innovation funding platforms from Doris Duke and co-produced the 16,000-sq ft. immersive experience Sweet & Lucky by Third Rail Projects as part of The Wallace Foundation’s Build Audiences for Sustainability Grant.

AUTHORS Joe Mantello (Adaptor) Directing credits include Assassins (Tony Award); Wicked; Take Me Out (Tony Award); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; A Man of No Importance; Design for Living; Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera; The Vagina Monologues; Bash; Another American: Asking and Telling; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Proposals; The Mineola Twins; Corpus Christi; Mizlansky/ Zilinsky or Schmucks; Blue Window; God’s Heart; The Santaland Diaries; Lillian; Snakebit; Three Hotels; Imagining Brad; and Fat Men in Skirts. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour!

Compassion! As an actor, he appeared in Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz. He is the recipient of the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at Roundabout Theatre Company.

David Sedaris (Author) made his comic debut recounting his strange-but-true experiences of being a Macy’s elf clad

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BIOGRAPHIES in green tights, reading his “Santaland Diaries” on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Sedaris’s sardonic humor and incisive social critiques have since made him one of NPR’s most popular and humorous commentators and a bestselling author in the United States and abroad. The great skill with which Sedaris slices through euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire. Everywhere he goes, Sedaris delights his audience with his irreverent style and great humor.

In addition to his commentaries on NPR, David Sedaris is the author of the bestsellers Barrel Fever and Naked. His collection of Christmas-related stories is entitled Holidays on Ice. His book

of essays, Me Talk Pretty One Day, was published in June 2000 and became an immediate bestseller. Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name The Talent Family and have written several plays which have been produced at La MaMa and at Lincoln Center in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host; Stitches; One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award; Incident at Cobbler’s Knob; and The Book of Liz. Sedaris is a regular contributor to Esquire magazine and his essays have also appeared in The New Yorker, Allure and Travel and Leisure.

His original radio pieces can often be heard on public radio’s This American Life. He currently resides in Paris.

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert Barry Fleming Fleming served as Associate Artistic Director at Cleveland Play House from 20162019. Prior to Cleveland Play House, he served as the Director of Artistic Programming at Arena Stage; world premieres he commissioned, developed and championed during this tenure include the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award winner Dear Evan Hansen, Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Sovereignty, John Strand’s The Originalist, Katori Hall’s Blood Quilt, Karen Zacarías’ Destiny of Desire, and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, Sweat, by Lynn Nottage. Fleming was an Associate Producer for the OffBroadway premiere of The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams, starring Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif. He was also an Associate Professor (tenured) and Chair of the University of San Diego Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department.

His most recent directing and choreography credits include Next To Normal (Tantrum Theater), The Royale (Cleveland Play House), Destiny of

Desire (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Caroline, or Change (Tantrum Theater) and Between Riverside and Crazy (Cleveland Play House). As part of the 2018 Cleveland Play House New Ground Theatre Festival, Fleming directed a reading of the new musical Minton’s Place by acclaimed contemporary music composer Nolan Williams, Jr., with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Nikkole Salter.

His professional acting credits include stints on Broadway (Ragtime directed by Frank Galati, Stand-Up Tragedy directed by the late Ron Link), Off-Broadway (the leading role in Insurrection: Holding History by Robert O’Hara at The Public Theater), joining Actors’ Equity Association with the national tour of Cats (Original Bus and Truck), playing major regional theatres (The Old Globe, the Guthrie Theater, A Contemporary Theater, The Mark Taper Forum with the world premiere of George C. Wolfe’s Jelly’s Last Jam as Young Jelly) and appearing on television (Emmy-winning Disney Channel series Adventures In Wonderland, Family Matters, The George Carlin Show) and in films (Academy Award-winning L.A. Confidential and Twilight Of The Golds).

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Board Members Linda Cauble Terry Conway Wanda Cundiff Lew Ketcham Melanie Knight Tom Morton Lue Peabody Val Slayton, M.D. Sue Terdan

‡ Denotes Sustaining Director † Denotes Ex-Officio * Denotes Executive Committee Member

ADVISORY COUNCIL Carolee Allen James B. Appleberry Lynn Ashton Irving W. Bailey Stanley Bayersdorfer Karen Bearden Winfrey Blackburn, Jr. Neville Blakemore, Jr. Cornelia W. Bonnie

ACTORS ASSOCIATES BOARD President Linda Gaines

Secretary Barbara Ketcham

Immediate Past President Caroline Martinson

Vice President for Communication Rita Bell

Financial Secretary Bill Bolte

Vice President for Fundraising Barbara Nichols

Treasurer Doris Elder

Vice President for Hospitality Patti Slagle

Cast of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2018. Photo by Jonathan Roberts.

Coordinator, Gift Shop Operations Pennie Miller Service Coordinator Mary Korfage

TOGETHER, WE CAN CREATE THEATRE THAT ENRICHES LIVES.

Make your tax-deductable donation by calling 502.584.1265 or visiting ActorsTheatre.org.

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Theatre Forward advances the American theatre and its communities by providing funding and other resources to the country’s leading nonprofit theatres. Theatre Forward and our theatres are most grateful to the following funders:

THEATRE EXECUTIVES ($50,000-$99,000) Bank of America* The Schloss Family Foundation♦ Wells Fargo*♦ BENEFACTORS ($25,000-$49,999) Buford Alexander and Pamela Farr*♦ BNY Mellon Steven & Joy Bunson*♦ Citi DeWitt Stern* Goldman, Sachs & Co. MetLife Morgan Stanley James S. & Lynne Turley*♦ Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP* PACESETTERS ($15,000‑$24,999) American Express* Bloomberg Cisco Systems, Inc.* The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. EY* Alan & Jennifer Freedman*♦ Frank & Bonnie Orlowski*♦ Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.

National Endowment for the Arts♦ Pfizer, Inc. Southwest Airlines♦† Theatermania/Gretchen Shugart*♦ George S. Smith, Jr.*♦ UBS DONORS ($10,000‑$14,999) Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Epiq Systems* Karen A. & Kevin W. Kennedy Foundation Lisa Orberg♦ Presidio* Thomas C. Quick* RBC Wealth Management♦ Daniel A. Simkowitz*♦ S&P Global TD Charitable Foundation♦ SUPPORTERS ($2,500‑$9,999) Mitchell J. Auslander*♦ Disney/ABC Television Group* Paula A. Dominick*♦ Dorfman and Kaish Family Foundation, Inc. ♦ Dramatists Play Service, Inc.* Kevin & Anne Driscoll

John R. Dutt* ♦ Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing*♦ Jessica Farr* Mason & Kim Granger* ♦ Brian J. Harkins* ♦ Gregory S. Hurst* ♦ Howard and Janet Kagan ♦ Joseph F. Kirk* ♦ John R. Mathena *♦ Ogilvy & Mather† Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart*♦ Dina Merril & Ted Hartley* Newmark Holdings* Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. * John Thomopoulos*♦ Evelyn Mack Truitt* Leslie C. & Regina Quick Charitable Trust Isabelle Winkles*♦ As of November 2019 * Theatre Forward/DeWitt Stern Fund for New American Theatre † Includes In-kind support ♦ Educating through Theatre Support

Theatre Forward supporters are former supporters of National Corporate Theatre Fund and Impact Creativity.

For a complete list of funders visit theatreforward.org.

IN-KIND DONATIONS Alltrade Service Solutions Actors Associates Actors Education Bearno’s Pizza Bourbon Barrel Foods Boxcar PR Brown-Forman Cellar Door Chocolates Churchill Downs Clearwater Fine Foods Derby City Litho Elements Massage Westport Village Elite Packaging, LLC Farm to Fork Catering

Heine Brothers’ Coffee Hilliard Lyons Hyland Glass Katie and Fred Ryser-Cycle The Kentucky Center for the Arts J.B. Speed Art Museum Chris and Julie Kay Kentucky Shakespeare Kentucky Space LLC Louisville Ballet Louisville Marriott Downtown Mike’s Kentucky Kitchen Ted and Mary Nixon

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Parking Authority of River City (PARC) The Paw Zone, LLC Pawsitively Dogs Grooming Rabbit Hole Distillery Republic Bank Ms. Elizabeth Rounsavall SCOUT Wendy and Kris Sirchio Taxi 7 Mac and Jessica Thompson VIA Studio Virginia Gray Henry White Clay Consulting ZFX Flying Effects 25

CORPORATE SUPPORT PRESIDENT CIRCLE Brown-Forman Corporation DIRECTOR CIRCLE Fifth Third Bank Yum! Family Series BENEFACTOR CIRCLE BB&T D.D. Williamson & Co., Inc. GE Appliances Hilliard Lyons LG&E and KU Energy Old Forester Theatre Forward

GUARANTOR Derby City Litho Hardscuffle, Inc. Republic National Distributing Company The Voice-Tribune White Clay Consulting

PARTNER Bearno’s Pizza Falls City Brewing Company Heine Brothers’ Coffee Mike’s Kentucky Kitchen National Arts Club

SUPPORTER AT&T Kentucky Cellar Door Chocolates Churchill Downs, Inc. Highland Cleaners McCarthy Strategic Solutions, LLC

LEGACY CIRCLE The Legacy Circle recognizes individuals who have made arrangements to support Actors Theatre in their estate plans.

Anonymous Michael and Rachel Adkins Bryan R. Armstrong, Esq.

Nancy L. Doctor Todd P. Lowe and Frances C. Ratterman

Robert T. and Eleanor N. Maddox Miriam Spectre Marcus and Jerome H. Kauper

Rose Mary Rommel Toebbe

TEACHER ADVISORY COMMITTEE Jenni Aberli, JCPS Literacy Specialist; Faith Anderson, Ballard High; Katie Blackerby Weible, YPAS; Brent Braun, Pleasure Ridge Park High; Judy Chandler, retired Bullitt County; Terrilyn Flemming, The Brown School; Kevin Gose, Valley High School; Jennifer Girardin, Oldham County High; Amy Miller, New Albany High; Kipp McDaniel, Seneca High School; Tom Hayes, Bardstown High; Kyrstin Price, KY School for the Blind; Kim Joiner, Noe Middle; Georgette Kleier, YPAS; Alison Lambert, Oldham County High; Tiffany LaVoie, Western Visual and Performing Arts Middle School; Amanda McFarland-Smith, Southern High; Patti Miller, Jeffersonville High; Kate Nitzken, Louisville Archdiocese; Steven Rahe, Western Visual and Performing Arts Middle School; Hannegan Roseberry, Community Montessori; Amanda Simmons, Mercy Academy; Patti Slagle, Louisville Writing Project; Tiffany Smith, Eastern High; Shelby Steege, Atherton High School; Robbie Steiner, Floyd Central High; Frank Ward, Trinity High; Amy Zuccaro, Trinity High.

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FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORT PRESIDENT CIRCLE Fund for the Arts Humana Foundation PRODUCER CIRCLE The Roy Cockrum Foundation The Shubert Foundation DIRECTOR CIRCLE Kentucky Arts Council National Endowment for the Arts The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

BENEFACTOR CIRCLE Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Gheens Foundation Jennifer Lawrence Arts Fund at the Fund for the Arts Shakespeare in American Communities

Louisville Metro Government The Robert W. Rounsavall, Jr. Family Foundation, Inc.

GUARANTOR Edgerton Foundation Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County

PARTNER The William E. Barth Foundation Parking Authority of River City (PARC)

SUPPORTER The Elizabeth George Foundation Norton Foundation, Inc.

THE HAROLD AND MIMI STEINBERG CHARITABLE TRUST

THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION

JENNIFER LAWRENCE ARTS FUND AT THE FUND FOR THE ARTS

DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports Actors Theatre of Louisville with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting Actors Theatre of Louisville.

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INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT VISIONARY CIRCLE Christina Lee Brown Crawford Charitable Fund Mrs. Harry S. Frazier, Jr. Caroline Martinson Ms. Elizabeth Rounsavall John E. Selent Anonymous (2) PRODUCER CIRCLE Sandra Frazier Mary and Ted Nixon Mr. and Mrs. Mac Thompson DIRECTOR CIRCLE John and Natalie Bajandas Brooke and Matthew Barzun Turney P. Berry and Kendra Foster Mrs. Edith S. Bingham Lena and Matthew Hamel Augusta and Gill Holland, Jr Mary Gwen Wheeler and David A. Jones, Jr. Todd P. Lowe and Fran C. Ratterman Bruce Merrick and Karen McCoy Thomas and Mary Jo Mueller J. A. Paradis III Jacqueline R. and Theodore S. Rosky Marsha and David Roth Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Rounsavall III Alfred Shands The Wunderlin Company DESIGNER CIRCLE Mr. and Mrs. David Daulton Sarah and Peter Fuller Jim and Marianne Welch PLAYWRIGHT CIRCLE Alejandro and Carol Alvarez Ms. Patricia W. Ballard Mr. and Mrs. William C. Ballard Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Bonnie Bruce Broussard Meredith Wilson Brown Dr. Joseph J. Buchino Victoria and Paul J. Diaz Bill and Joyce Holmes Barbara and Bill Juckett Michael and Elizabeth Keyes Nana Lampton Fairleigh and Abby Lussky Kevin E. Moore and Mike Porto Dr. Catherine Newton and Dr. Gordon Strauss Al and Jamie Paradis Carol and Charlie Pye Linda and Chris Valentine Anonymous 28

DRAMATURG CIRCLE Jesse and Kim Adams Keith Auerbach, M.D. Adam Beam Madelyn Buzzard Mees Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Callen Heather McHold and Stephen P. Campbell Mark B. Carter Ken and Carolle Jones Clay Michael and Gina Del Negro Nancy L. Doctor Mr. and Ms. Donald Finney Ken and Judy Handmaker Michelle and Michael Hanington Dan and Lisa Jones Jennifer Fortner Letcher Holland and Sherry McTyeire Susan S. and Robert H. Means Rick and Becky Reed Jonathan and Julie Roberts Kris and Wendy Sirchio Habdank Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robbie Tindall Selden Y. Trimble V David and Melissa Weedman Jane Welch Will and Becky West L. David Wilson Phoebe A. Wood Anonymous (2) STAGE MANAGER CIRCLE Michael Alt Phillip Anderton Mr. James B. Appleberry Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Arnold Rita Jane Bell Sharon and Stephen Berger Neville Blakemore, Jr. and Gray Henry Mr. and Mrs. Neville Blakemore III Christen and Mike Boone Maggie Brandt and Bert Lyons Norma B. Braver Tom and Sylvia Brite Dr. and Mrs. John J. Buchino William Burbank John Burger Dr. Phil Cochran and Ms. Marie B. Hertzman-Cochran Larry Combs Kevin and Mera Cossey Corlett Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Costel Brad Asher and Susan Coventry Sherri and Chuck Crosby A U D I E N C E

Irwin and Carol Cutler Jeffrey Eckmann Dr. Richard Edelson and Donna Smith Fr. John G. Eifler Daniel and Kirsten Ford Jan M. Grayson Mr. John R. Gregory Scott and JoAnn Haner Arvida and Edward Harris Mrs. James C. Hennessy Dennis Hillen Anna Hitron and Thomas Johnston Jonathan and Janet Hodes Georg and Benita Hofstetter Koman Steve Knight Mary Korfhage David and Carol Krebs Mr. Robert E. Kulp, Jr. Rabbi Laura Metzger and Cantor David Lipp Jonathan Lowe Ms. Stewart Lussky and Mr. Bob Jones Susan McNeese and Phil Lynch Robert T. and Eleanor Maddox Mr. and Mrs. John Mann Jr. Sally and Charlie Moyer Duane and Anne Murner Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Murphy John Poole Chris Price George W. Rapp Jr. and Lynne Meena Walter and Susan Sales Scott Schaftlein and Andrew Newton Dr. Marilyn Schorin Venkat Sharma Darrell and Nancy Shelton Kennedy and Sara Simpson Patti Slagle and Steve Zimmerman Larry Fleischer and Les Stanfield Mr. Sam Stewart Charlotte and John Clay Stites Mrs. James W. Stites, Jr. John L. Tate and Phyllis McMurry-Tate Kelly Terlau Rose Mary Rommel Toebbe Porter Watkins and George Bailey Dr. Melissa L. Weaver Theresa and Ben Reno-Weber John Weeter, MD and Linda Weeter Sarina and Robert Weiss Thomas and Susan Wobbe Stephen and Coretta Wolford Anonymous (2)

INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT PRINCIPAL ARTIST Teresa Bridgewaters Beth Welch SUPPORTING ROLE Maureen Awbrey and Diane Kyle Mr. and Mrs. W. Robinson Beard Stephen and Jeannie Bodney Stanley Bond Charles and Robyn Kane Linda W. Cauble Helen Cohen Mr. Curtis R. Conlin and Mr. Chris Welsh Gayle and Earl Dorsey Susan E. Ellison Philip and Mary Eschels Ron and Hulyn Farr Robert Gable Vincenzo and Pat Gabriele Bill Goetz and Karen Williams Deborah Greenwald Sonya and Ara Hacet Cindy and Dwayne Jarboe Carol Jones Robert Knapp Henry and Marty Kuehn Charles and Donna Lavelle Matt Linville and Kelly Will Mr. Joseph and Dr. Janine Malone Grodon McLeod Guy E. and Elizabeth S. Montgomery Mary J Oberst Patrick Owen and Norman P. Dixon Lue and John Peabody Laura Petry William A. Pierce Erik Prentice Russell and Betty Prough Janet and Richard Rink Arthur Shechet and Marilyn Robie Ed Kruger and Jeff Rodgers Bonnie and John Roth Ron Rubin, in honor of Jeff Rodgers and Actors Theatre leadership Kevin and Cheryl Sandefur Beth Sarkar Mr. Robert S. Saunders

Peggy and Phillip Shake Ellen and Max Shapira Dr. and Mrs. Roger J. Shott Mrs. Yandell R. Smith Ilam E. Smith Dr. John Roberts and Dr. Janet L. Smith Vertner Smith and Barbara West Bob Sokoler Sarah and Wright Steenrod Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Stewart Jay Trumbo Brittany Vencill Melany Wessels CRAFT ARTISAN Imram Aslam Rebecca Begley and Robert Weekly Daniel Briscoe Rebecca S Brown Erin Burke and Chris Klein Ashley Novak Butler Tiffany Ramos Cardwell Tich Changamire Richard and Elizabeth Clay Melanie and Rowan Claypool Vicki Coombs Jane Cornett Thomas and Paige Cox Colin Crawford William Curley and Linda Huss Conrad Daniels Matt and Emilie Delahanty Leonidas Deters and Penelope Shaw Dr. and Mrs. Walter Feibes Bill and Kathy Fensterer Gregg and Leslie Fowler Layla K. George and Mike Clark Salem and LuAnn George Jr. James and Grace Giesel Mary Jane and Peter Glauber Jeffrey Goldberg Dr. and Mrs. Richard Goldwin Tyson and Suzanne Gorman Tara and Mike Guenthner Carrie Hagovsky Barbara B. Hardy Kathy and Shaun Herbig Louis Hettinger

Hollie Hopkins Rhonda and Steve Houghland Nick and Mica Jochim Donna Y. Kays Todd and Kim Kennedy Rob King Kevin Klein Melanie Knight Warner and Willie Ann Lansing John Littig Karen Long Joe Lyons John Maltby Alex Marti Stephen and Virginia Mattingly Mr. Neil E. Mellen and Dr. Mavin H. Martin Claire Alagia & Creighton Mershon, Sr. Mike and Lauren Minor Susan Moremen Joanna and Robert Myers Patrick and Natalie Oster Mr. G Paul Owen Jr. Dustin Page and Bryan Miller Patrice E. Paton Lisa Petry David Gerald Polston Dr. Trudi Rash Mr. C. Glenn Reid Taylor Rich Benjamin K Richmond Alex Roma Seema Sheth and Andreas Wokutch Ted and Rae Shlechter Mary Ann Smania Matthew and Amy Smith Dr. J. C. States and Ms. G. R. Russo Paul Stropkay and Katherine Firth Dr. Wayne Villanueva and Janet C. Witzleben Craig and Kelley Welch Mitzie and Jim Wittliff Ms. Ruth Wukasch Carol and Bill Young David and Bonnie Zepka Kelly Zullo

STAFF DONORS Norman P. Dixon Justin Hagovsky

Steve Knight Erin Meiman

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THEATRE STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, Robert Barry Fleming ARTISTIC

PRODUCTION

Artistic Producer ....................................................Emily Tarquin Artistic Manager ......................................Zachary Meicher-Buzzi Company Manager .........................................................Dot King

Production Manager ................................................ Paul Werner Assistant Production Manager ................................. Bryn Weiler Production Stage Manager ................................Stephen Horton Resident Stage Managers ................................Jessica Kay Potter, Katherine Thesing Resident Production Assistants ...... Andie Burns, Margaret Rial

LITERARY Literary Director .................................................... Amy Wegener Literary Manager ..............................................Jenni Page-White Resident Dramaturg ......................... Hannah Rae Montgomery Literary Associate .....................................................Jessica Reese

LEARNING & CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT Learning & Creative Engagement Associates........Janelle Renee Dunn, Abigail Miskowiec Teaching Artists ................................. Liz Fentress, Claire Hagan, Alyssa Rae Hendricks, Keith McGill, Talleri McRae, Morgan Younge

ADMINISTRATION General Manager ............................................. Jeffrey S. Rodgers Human Resources Manager ........................................Marie Tull Systems Manager .......................................................... Dot Krebs Executive Assistant ............................................... Norman Dixon

AUDIENCE SERVICES & SALES Ticket Sales Director ............................................Kim McKercher Season Tickets Manager ......................................... Julie Gallegos Patron Services Managers ............ Steve Clark, Kristy Kannapell Patron Services Associates..... LaShana Avery, Sophia Bierman, Leah Boroff-Bodoin, Kristine Farley, Marty Huelsmann

VOLUNTEER & AUDIENCE RELATIONS Director of Volunteer & Audience Relations.. Allison Hammons Lobby Manager....................................................Greylyn Gregory House Managers .............................Jesse Barfield, Tiffany Bush, Ellen Greetham, Jan Hubert, Hilary Jones, Steve Renner, Abigail Rogers

SCENIC Technical Director .............................................. Justin Hagovsky Associate Technical Director ...............................Braden Blauser Scene Shop Manager ...................................Javan Roy-Bachman Master Carpenter ......................................................... Alexia Hall Scenic Carpenters .................. Hannah Allgeier, Pierre Vendette Deck Carpenters ................. Gracie Lawson, Brooke McPherson Scenic Charge Artist ..................................................Colleen Doty

COSTUMES Costume Director .........................................................Mike Floyd Crafts Master .......................................................... Shari Cochran Draper/Tailor ..............................................................Jeffery Park First Hands ....................................Faith Brown, Allison McCann Stitchers .................................. Celeste Collado, Maureen Strobel Costume Design Assistant ................... Isabel Martin, Tiffany Yu Wig Supervisor .............................................................Katie Ward Wig & Makeup Assistant .................................... Rebecca Traylor Wardrobe Manager ....................................................Anna Jenny Wardrobe Assistant....Camila Benencia Courreges, Chloe Hixson

LIGHTING Lighting Supervisor ...............................................Jason E. Weber Associate Lighting Supervisor ..................................Dani Clifford Lead Lighting Technician ..............Wylder Cooper, Tyler Warner Lighting Technician ..........................Blake Anderson, Will Blair, Andy Glischinski, Troy Johnson, Lindsay Krupski, Steven York

SOUND

Manager of Community Partnerships............. Mary Bainbridge

Sound Supervisor ........................................................Paul Doyle Assistant Sound Supervisor ............................... Lindsay Burdsall Sound Technician ................... Marion Ayers, Victoria Campbell

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Finance Director .......................................................Peggy Shake Accounting Manager ................................................. Jason Acree Accounting Assistant .......................................Christine England

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Marketing & Communications Director .................Steve Knight Associate Director of Marketing ............................Melissa Hines Festival & Events Manager .....................................Erin Meiman Public Relations & Communications Manager...............Elizabeth Greenfield Marketing & Communications Coordinator....Charlotte Stephens Graphic Designer ............................................ Mary Kate Grimes Assistant Graphic Designer ...........................Sheyenne Santiago Group Sales Manager ...............................................Sarah Peters Outbound Customer Service Representative ... David Meredith

OPERATIONS Operations Director ............................................... Carlo Stallings Operations Manager ...............................................Ricky Baldon Building Services ..........................Deonta Burns, Glen Gardner, Michael Sweatmon, Cedrick Yelder 30

Properties Director .................................................Mark Walston Associate Properties Master ............................... Heather Lindert Assistant Properties Master ............................... Katelin Ashcraft Carpenter Artisan ....................................................Ryan Bennett Soft Goods Artisan ................................................Jessie Combest

VIDEO Media Technologist ............................................... Philip Allgeier

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COMPANY Director ....................................................Christine Albright-Tufts Artistic Coordinator ............................................... Jonathan Ruiz Acting................Michael Allyn, Kaitlyn Boyer, Aizhaneya Carter, Zoë DePreta, Christopher Garofalo, Jen Jarnagin, Noah Keyishian, Teresa Langford, Germainne LeBron, Alex Lin, Gabriela Llarena, Alex Might, Mollie Murk, Kat Peña, Andrew G. Rodriguez, Patrick Steadman Taylor, Ashtonn Thompson, Isaiah J. Williams Communications.....................................................Austin French Company & Artistic Management.......................Ellen Greetham Costumes...................................................................... Emily Brod Directing...................................................... Cara Hinh, Julia Rufo

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THEATRE STAFF Dramaturgy & Literary Management..........Kathryn de la Rosa, Liam E. Gibbs Festival & Events Management............................... Abby Tauber Learning & Creative Engagement.................. Michaela Barczak, Matthew Dryburgh Lighting..........................................................................Siena Wise Marketing............................................................ Sarah Jae Leiber Producing & Casting..................................................Sujotta Pace Production Management.......................................Carol Almonte Properties........................................................... Peter deGuzman Scenic.................................................................... Patrice J. Nelms Sound....................................................................... Joshua Brown Stage Management......................... Sophie Antovel, Julia Bregy, Connor Feagin, Maggie Hoffecker

USHER CAPTAINS Dolly Adams, Shirley Adkins, Marie Allen, Terryl Allen, Katherine Austin, Libba & Chuck Bonifer, Tanya Briley, Judy Buckler, Brenda Cease, Maleva Chamberlain, Donna Conlon, Terry Conway, Ella Cullen, Laurie Eiden, Doris Elder, Joyce French, Carol Halbleib, LuAnn & Tom Hayes, Candace Jaworski, Holly Kissel, Natalie Koch, Yvonne Mead, Barbara Nichols, Teresa Nusz, Beth Phipps, Nancy Rankin, Tim Unruh, Peyton Weihe, Lily Wobbe.

ACTORS THEATRE’S COMPANY DOCTOR Dr. Andrew Mickler, F.A.C.S.

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Actors Theatre of Louisville was founded in 1964 by Richard Block in association with Ewel Cornett. Jon Jory was Producing Director from 1969 to 2000. Alexander Speer was Executive Director from 1965 to 2006.

ARTISTS UNDER COMMISSION In addition to reading script submissions from around the country, Actors Theatre of Louisville builds relationships with playwrights and encourages the creation of new work by commissioning plays from artists whom we admire. A new play commission engages a writer to pen a piece specifically for Actors Theatre of Louisville and allows us to support the work’s development from the earliest stages of inspiration onward.

Some notable past full-length plays commissioned by Actors Theatre and produced in the Humana Festival of New American Plays include The Christians and The Thin Place by Lucas Hnath, Cry it Out by Molly Smith Metzler, For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday by Sarah Ruhl, Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo, Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison (co-commission with Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Big Love and The Glory of the World by Charles Mee, and Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies (winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama).

COMMISSIONED WRITERS CURRENTLY INCLUDE: Jeff Augustin, Vivian Barnes, Lisa Sanaye Dring, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Sarah Gubbins, Jane B. Jones, Rajiv Joseph & Bill Sherman, Jonathan Norton, Gab Reisman, and Alexis Scheer A U D I E N C E

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SERVICES & AMENITIES TICKET INFORMATION Box Office Hours (During Performances) Subject to change.

Monday: Tuesday-Thursday: Friday-Saturday: Sunday:

10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

12 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

12 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

12 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Order by phone: (502) 584-1205 • 1-800-4ATL-TIX Phone orders are subject to a $3 per ticket processing fee. All orders subject to a $2 per ticket Historic Landmark Fee. Online fees vary, based on ticket cost.

Order Online: ActorsTheatre.org Address: 316 West Main Street Louisville, KY 40202-4218 USA SPECIAL OFFERS Season Ticket Packages A range of ticket packages are available, including incredible benefits. Call our Box Office for options or visit ActorsTheatre.org/SeasonTickets.

Groups Discounts ranging from 5% to 20% are available to groups of ten or more. Call (502) 585-1210 for details.

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Ages 60+, military, students (full-time with valid ID), and patrons with disabilities receive 10% off single tickets.

Day of Performance: Patrons with disabilities and students $24.

Gift Certificates Perfect for all occasions, gift certificates are available in any amount and can be purchased at the Box Office or online at actorstheatre.org.

Ticket Exchange Ticket holders may exchange their tickets either by phone or in person. As soon as possible after exchange needs are known, please call or visit our Box Office to make arrangements. Ticket exchanges may be made until 5 p.m. the day of the date on the tickets or one hour in advance of a matinee— only for another performance of the same play.

Upgrade fees may apply.

PLEASE NOTE Ticket discounts are subject to availability, cannot be combined with other discounts, and are not valid on previously purchased tickets. Historic Landmark and phone fees apply. Not valid during blackout performances or special programming.

Seating restrictions may apply. Visit ActorsTheatre. org/TicketOptions for more information.

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GALLERY HOURS (During Performances) Tuesday - Friday: 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Saturday - Sunday: 1 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Closed Mondays and non-performance days

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SERVICES & AMENITIES FOOD & BEVERAGE

NO SMOKING

Food is not permitted in the theatre.

No smoking of any kind is permitted within the facility.

Beverage Service Beverage service is available at the lobby bar TuesdaySunday, one hour before all shows and at intermission.

Post-performance beverage service is available at MilkWood. Beverages can be pre-purchased for intermission at the bar before all performances.

ACCESSIBILITY

MilkWood Open Tuesday-Sunday at 5:30 p.m.

MilkWood, a restaurant operated by Chef Edward Lee, is located on the lower level of Actors Theatre.

Food is available at the bar in the restaurant without reservations; however, reservations are recommended for table service. For reservations, please call (502) 584-MILK (6455) or visit MilkwoodRestaurant.com.

LATE ARRIVAL POLICY Once the performance has started, seating in the Pamela Brown Auditorium or the Bingham Theatre is at the discretion of the House Manager, who can be located in the lobbies upon your arrival.

PARKING Accessible parking is available on the Mezzanine Level of the Actors parking garage and on the Ground Floor Level for vans. There are additional marked spaces next to the Main Street elevators on Levels 3 through 6. The Actors parking garage elevators, located along Main Street, provide direct access to theatre lobbies.

For information on discount parking for theatre events or traffic updates and alerts, please visit our website at ActorsTheatre.org or contact our Box Office at 502.584.1205.

EMERGENCY PROCEDURE In the event of a fire, a severe storm or an earthquake, you will be instructed by an announcement from the stage indicating the best method of exit. Please notice the multiple red exit signs in the theatre. For your safety, please exit in a calm and orderly manner.

ELECTRONIC DEVICES Please silence your phone or watch alarm so it will not disrupt the performance. Use of cellular phones, pagers, cameras, recording devices or any device that will light up the rows behind you are strictly prohibited in the auditorium. If you feel you may need to be contacted in case of an emergency, check your phone or pager with the house manager. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

NO FIREARMS Firearms are strictly prohibited on these premises.

CHILDREN Children under age four are not permitted unless the production specifically appeals to very young children.

All children attending an event, regardless of age, must have a ticket. Because it can be distracting to others in the theatre, if your child is disruptive or excessively restless, you may be asked to step outside.

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Accessible ramps, elevators, parking, restrooms, water fountains and wheelchair seating are available for patrons with disabilities. Booster seats are available for check-out at the Box Office with a refundable deposit. Parking is located on levels M and 3–6 of the garage. Accessible restrooms are located on the first floor and Mezzanine Level.

Sound Enhancement All theatres are equipped with an FM wireless system for hearing enhancement. Lightweight receivers with earphones or magnetic induction loops are available free of charge, with a refundable deposit, from the House Manager or an usher.

Audio-Described Performances Selected performances, generally during a weekend matinee, are audio described for patrons who are blind or have low vision.

Describers provide a live, objective, and descriptive delivery of the visual elements of the performance in between the dialogue. A schedule is available at the Box Office. Provided by The Kentucky Center.

Caption Theatre Caption Theatre is provided for selected performances for patrons who have hearing loss and may not benefit from hearing amplification. The audible elements are shown on an LED sign, in real time, as each line is spoken or sung. Reservations for this service should be made at the time of ticket purchase to ensure the best seating for this service. Provided by The Kentucky Center.

Sensory Friendly Sensory-friendly items such as noise-reducing headphones, fidgets and stress balls are available for check-out, with a refundable deposit, from the House Manager or an usher.

A schedule of sensory-friendly and relaxed performances is available at the Box Office.

Large-Print Programs Large-print programs are available at the entrance to all theatres on both levels.

VOLUNTEERS Volunteer opportunities are available as a member of Actors Associates or the Usher Corps. Call (502) 584-1265 ext. 3072 or visit actorstheatre.org/volunteer.

RENTALS Looking for a unique space to hold an event?

Actors Theatre boasts a variety of different spaces for events ranging from meetings to conferences.

Call (502) 584-1265 for details.

BACKSTAGE TOURS Backstage Tours arranged by advance request.

Call (502) 584-1265 ext. 3072.

All programs, activities and services are provided equally without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

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Exhibition season support provided by Dav Fam Art Fund Cary Brown and Steven E. Epstein Paul and Deborah Chellgren Debra and Ronald Murphy Eleanor Bingham Miller

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Securities are offered through the Funds’ Transfer agent, Dupree & Company, Inc., a FINRA member.

All investments involve risk, including possible loss of principal. Consult the Funds’ prospectus for a more complete discussion of the Funds’ risks.

“No load” mutual funds are offered by open-end investment companies that impose no sales charge (load) to purchase or redeem shares. Investors can buy and sell shares directly from the fund company rather than through a broker. Other fees and expenses that apply to a continued investment in Dupree Mutual Funds are described in the prospectus. Dupree Mutual Funds’ single state bond funds offer dividend income that is “tax free” from federal and state income taxes (and AMT) in the state corresponding to each fund. Residents of states other than the state “named” in the title of the fund may be taxed at the state level. A redemption or exchange of fund shares and any capital gains distribution by Dupree Mutual Funds may be taxable.