Berkeley Rep: The Hills of California

OCTOBER 2025

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BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE 2025/26 | Issue 2

THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA

BY JEZ BUTTERWORTH DIRECTED BY LORETTA GRECO

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THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE IN THIS ISSUE

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Contents 5 A Welcome from the Artistic and Managing Directors 6 Bring the Magic of Berkeley Rep to Your Classroom 8 Sense of Play: The Dramas of Jez Butterworth 10 Blackpool in Context 12 Show Program: The Hills of California 20 Thanking Our Supporters

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AS I CONTEMPLATE THE SEVEN PLAYS that comprise the 2025/26 season, I am struck by the range of families that will be represented on our stages.

Maybe all great theatrical literature is ultimately about families… The ones into which we are born. The ones we choose. The ones for which we are willing to wage wars.

The ones for which we forsake our own sense of self. Romeo and Juliet. A Doll’s House. Uncle Vanya. August: Osage County.

Topdog/Underdog. Fences. Fool For Love. I’m sure we each have our own list of those that inspired us, horrified us, perhaps motivated us toward a reconciliation. (Or a rupture!)

I first became aware of Jez Butterworth as a writer when his play Mojo had its New York premiere at the Atlantic Theater. It was 1997, and the play, with its all-male cast, spitfire dialogue, and extraordinary performances, took the city by storm. And while the violence of Mojo, especially in the era of Quentin Tarantino et al, created a certain expectation as to the kind of writer Jez Butterworth was, his subsequent plays have allowed us to reckon with the expansive nature of his gifts. From Parlour Song to Jerusalem to The Ferryman, Jez has created some truly titanic characters in recent theatre history. The women at the center of The Hills of California — perhaps especially Veronica and Joan — live alongside the epic mothers and daughters in the canon (Mama Rose, Gertrude, Amanda Wingfield, Ella Tate in Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class) and certainly hold their own against the male heroes and antiheroes of Butterworth’s other plays.

When I saw the Broadway production last year, the richness of the language, complexity of the relationships, and extraordinary craft of the writing made me want to bring The Hills of California to Berkeley. To do so in partnership with my longtime friend and colleague Loretta Greco, and to welcome her to Berkeley Rep for the first time, is an opportunity for which I am deeply grateful.

Thank you for joining us, and being part of our family.

Warmly,

WELCOME TO BERKELEY REP AND Jez Butterworth’s The Hills of California.

Following its acclaimed London run and transfer to Broadway, where I first had the pleasure of seeing this remarkable play, we are honored to be collaborating with The Huntington for The Hills of California’s first American production and to produce its West Coast premiere. Collaborations like this, known as co-productions, where two or more theatre companies share the costs and efforts of creating a theatre piece that moves between their venues, enable us each to share with our respective audiences work with the scale and ambition of The Hills of California.

This production continues Berkeley Rep’s proud tradition of presenting bold, globally significant plays alongside the most exciting new voices in American theatre. Our 2025/26 season is brimming with stories that entertain, challenge, and inspire. After The Hills of California, you can look forward to the world premiere of Mother of Exiles in the Peet’s Theatre — a sweeping, multigenerational triptych. In the new year, we premiere Jacob Ming-Trent’s autobiographical and music-filled tour de force, How Shakespeare Saved My Life, and welcome back to the Berkeley Rep stage Jimmy Smits and Wanda De Jesús in All My Sons.

A subscription is the very best way to experience all of this — and to support the artistic ambition and community impact that define Berkeley Rep. Subscribers enjoy the lowest ticket prices, the best seats, and flexible exchanges, all while ensuring the theatre you love remains a vital cultural home for the Bay Area. Additionally, subscribers get early and discounted access to our special limited engagement events, like Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays’ upcoming virtuosic performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and beloved humorist and bestselling author David Sedaris’ return in January.

W hether this is your first visit or you have sub scribed for years, we are grateful you are here. Thank you for joining us — and I look forward to seeing you throughout this entire season of unforgettable theatre.

Enjoy the show!

Johanna Pfaelzer Artistic Director

Tom Parrish Managing Director

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SENSE OF PLAY

THE DR AMAS OF JEZ BUT TERWORTH

BY KYLE C. FRISINA, DRAMATURG

Playwright Jez Butterworth’s characters are out to convince us why they’re right, what needs to change, how the world ought to be. In Tony Award-winning plays like Jerusalem and The Ferryman, and acclaimed films like Black Mass and Ford v. Ferrari, his characters are always fighting to be heard; and the woman at the center of The Hills of California, the extraordinary Veronica Webb, is perhaps the crowning example of Butterworth’s persuasive art.

Butterworth himself is a convincing character. As an undistinguished secondary school student, he talked his way into Cambridge University and then into being allowed to do little else while enrolled but make theatre.

Across his work, investment in the possibility of persuasion adds up to a stirring endorsement of human agency, even for characters in dire circumstances. For his part, Butterworth finds agency, as well as communion, in the act of making theatre.

“If I get this right, and I try hard enough, and I’m brave about it,” he says, “I’m going to be able to access something which is going to be of importance to the actors first of all, and then to the audience.”

The Hills of California — which draws from the writer’s own experience with the protracted death of a sister — is one of several plays by Butterworth to be inspired by history. His first play, the smash success Mojo (1995), was cued by the overlap between the criminal world and the world of pop music, telling the grisly, testosterone-fueled story of would-be Soho gangsters in the late 1950s who believe they’ve discovered the 8 | THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE

next Elvis Presley. Another pair of plays followed: The Night Heron (2002), set in the Cambridgeshire Fens, a marshy region in eastern England, and The Winterling (2006), which takes place in rural Devon. (The latter was heavily influenced by the play wright’s close friend and mentor Harold Pinter, whose work continues to inform Butterworth’s writing life.) Like The Hills of California, all three plays feature working class characters who are defiantly eloquent and filled with longing.

They also showcase Butterworth’s lifelong interest in what links people to their social surroundings and to the natural world.

Throughout his career, the British playwright has maintained close connections to American theatre with several of his plays, including Parlour Song (2008), receiving world premieres off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater.

As a dramatist, Butterworth remains best known for Jerusalem, his 2009 play featuring the audacious Johnny “Rooster” Byron. A myth-obsessed iconoclast raging against a changing world, Rooster hauls audiences with him as he protests his eviction from a rural wood set to be razed for new housing. Butterworth followed the riotous Jerusalem with a far more intimate work, the lyrical threehander The River (2012), concerned in a different way with the delusions of myth. His final play to reach the stage before The Hills of California was The Ferryman (2017).

The historical germ of that aching family tragedy, set in Northern Ireland, came from Butterworth’s wife, whose uncle was disappeared during the Troubles. Notably, The Ferryman marked an important shift in Butterworth’s writing from plays authored primarily for male

actors to those featuring strong female leads.

W h ile But ter wor th rig htly claims that you couldn’t “walk a character out of one play and stick them in another,” so dissimilar are his dramas, additional commonalities abound in his work. As audiences will encounter in The Hills of California, many of Butterworth’s plays contain alternating moments of horror and grace. The second act of an early play opens with a young man strung upside down by his feet, while several dramas feature characters who literally beg for their lives. Yet the same plays also include moments of care so tender they might break your heart, as when one character tells a friend being harassed for a crime he may not have committed: “You’re a good man... I believe you... Do you believe me? Do you believe me as I believe you?”

Balancing such contradictory tones requires deft pacing, which Butterworth frequently handles by structuring his plays to unfold over just a day or two. The Hills of California is no exception, with the twist that the action of this play takes place in two periods: 1955 and 1976. As a result, we are forced to grapple with a vision of the past that is repeatedly revised by the present. At the same time, we must also revise our understanding of the present in light of new possible truths that emerge from the past.

Butterworth believes audiences are up to the challenge: “The best thing that can happen,” he says, “is that the play plots against you. It hoodwinks you. My plays aren’t intent on making things clear.”

For all its continuit y w ith Butterworth’s earlier work, The Hills of California also marks several departures. In the first place, it

revolves entirely around women’s experiences. Together, Veronica Webb and her four daughters offer audiences a multi-dimensional portrait of the social and economic options available to women in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Importantly, Butterworth gives these characters generous space to demonstrate how their individual sensibilities may chafe at or thrive within these circumstances: indeed, each woman in Hills is more complex than the last.

Perhaps most distinct within Butterworth’s oeuvre is The Hills of California’s focus on how, for all their convincing powers, different characters can remain fundamentally far apart in their understanding of the same events.

In fact, their particular gifts and burdens may not just enable but require this. The play asks what, for many of us, are destabilizing questions: is it possible to come to a common interpretation across generations and bet ween sib lings? And, even more radically, is common interpretation truly necessary to the work of living on together in a family? Without a shared understanding of the past, of course, we might fairly wonder what is left to us. As this utterly glorious play reveals, what’s left is the ongoing (and, in Butterworth’s hands, the high ly theatrica l) attempt to engage with and make space for one another anyway. If we come to realize, along with Veronica’s daughters, that this is the only available future, can we convince ourselves to make that future our own?

Far left: playwright Jez Butterworth.

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IN C O N T E X T

BY SID JEPSEN LITERARY ASSOCIATE, THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE

Blackpool, England is a seaside town 30 miles north of Liverpool, and is known as a once glamorous holiday and entertainment hub — a place where tourists flocked and filled its theatres, amusement parks, circuses, even zoos! Located on England’s northwest shore, Blackpool blossomed into a popular UK tourist destination following the opening of the town’s first railway station in 1846. By the late 1800s, hundreds of thousands of tourists were squeezing themselves into row upon row of loungers to take in the sea breeze and cramming into the many boarding houses that dotted the city streets — like Veronica Webb’s Seaview in Butterworth’s The Hills of California. At night, visitors walked the promenade; in 1879 it became the first city street to have electric lights. The end of the 19th century also featured Blackpool’s most notable skyline change — The Blackpool Tower. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower, and featuring a 360-degree observation deck, The Blackpool Tower genuinely offered a refreshed perspective on the seaside town.

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Blackpool’s reputation as a destination for fun

living room. Even from a practical standpoint -

and escape only grew in the 20th century, and

Blackpool’s infrastructure, once meant to host

inspired would-be entertainers from around

those on summer holiday and which was later

the world — including Walt Disney, who sent a

subjected to year-round, constant use - fell into

research team to Blackpool in advance of open-

ever-increasing disrepair. With new technologi-

ing his first theme park in California . While

cal advances the globe became more accessible.

maintaining its reputation as an entertainment

When the English went on holiday in the 1960s

hub, early 1900s Blackpool saw an increase in

and 70s, they began to set their sights abroad,

gaudy commercialism. Similar to the heyday of

and little by little, Blackpool faded into an echo

American seaside escapes like New York’s Coney

of what used to be. Theatres shuttered, and the

Island, the commodifying of Blackpool included

quaint boarding houses followed soon behind.

site-specific souvenirs and seasonally popular

Still home to a beautiful beach, Blackpool is now

funfair attractions. Blackpool’s popularity unin-

more known for its history than its present state.

tentionally rose during World War II. Due to the town’s location, Blackpool was not under threat of bombing during the war, and as a result it became a solace for those displaced. The seasonal flurry of Blackpool’s earlier decades was replaced with year-round visitation — boosting the area’s economy during a difficult time for the country at large. Blackpool’s popularity continued to grow following the war. Travel and traffic records were broken consistently, even bad weather and the train strikes of 1955 could not deter eager holiday-goers. With the growing abundance of cars in England, Blackpool’s entertainment scene grew louder and flashier

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than ever before, with stars like Connie Francis and Harry Belafonte touring to local theatres; the town even hosted a Royal Variety Show attended by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

The thrill of live entertainment could only flourish for so long after the advent of television.

Public appetites changed in a way that transformed Blackpool; fewer people were interested in traveling to see entertainment when the best singers were performing on screens in their own

Right: 1950s pop star lineup of opera house performers in Blackpool Winter Gardens theatre.

Below left: Rock ‘n’ roll session on the pier at Blackpool, Lancashire, July 1957.

Below right: As international stars, the Minneapolis-born Andrews Sisters performed at the Blackpool Opera House on August 26, 1951.

Background: Midcentury shot of Blackpool Tower and lights at night.

SHOW PROGRAM: THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA

BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE JOHANNA PFAELZER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | TOM PARRISH, MANAGING DIRECTOR IN A CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE HUNTINGTON PRESENTS

THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA WRITTEN BY

JEZ BUTTERWORTH DIRECTED BY

LORETTA GRECO SCENIC DESIGN

COSTUME DESIGN

ANDREW BOYCE AND SE HYUN OH

LIGHTING DESIGN

JENNIFER VON MAYRHAUSER

HAIR, WIGS, & MAKEUP DESIGN

SOUND DESIGN

RUSSELL H. CHAMPA

DAVID VAN TIEGHEM

DRAMATURG

J. JARED JANAS

CHOREOGRAPHER

KYLE C. FRISINA

MUSIC DIRECTION

VOICE & DIALECT COACH

DANIEL RODRIGUEZ

ASHLEIGH READE

STAGE MANAGER (THROUGH NOV 5)

MISHA SHIELDS

FIGHT & INTIMACY COORDINATOR

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER (THROUGH NOV 5) STAGE MANAGER (AS OF NOV 6)

KEVIN SCHLAGLE *

CASTING

JESSE HINSON

JANET FOSTER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

SOFIE MILLER *

ASHLEY PITCHFORD *

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND AUDIENCE SERVICES

VOLEINE AMILCAR

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER — NEW WORK

DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF THEATRE

AUDREY HOO

ANTHONY JACKSON

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR OF IN DIALOGUE

DAVID MENDIZÁBAL

GENERAL MANAGER

VICTOR CERVANTES JR.

SARA DANIELSEN

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

SAM LINDEN

DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND DIVERSITY

MODESTA TAMAYO

ARI LIPSKY

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

AMANDA WILLIAMS O’STEEN

THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA had its world premiere at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, on January 27, 2024, and its Broadway premiere at the Broadhurst Theatre, New York, on September 29, 2024, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions with Neal Street Productions.

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The Hearst Foundations Kelli & Steffan Tomlinson

in order of appearance KAREN KILLEEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jillian *

PATRICE JEAN-BAPTISTE * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Penny/Biddy LEWIS D. WHEELER * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mr . Potts/Luther St . John AIMEE DOHERTY * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ruby/Mrs . Smith CHLOÉ KOLBENHEYER * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patty/Young Ruby JACK GREENBERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tony/Mr . Halliwell/Mr . Smith AMANDA KRISTIN NICHOLS * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gloria MIKE MASTERS * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill/Joe Fogg/Dr . Rose KYLE CAMERON * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dennis/Jack Larkin ALLISON JEAN WHITE * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Veronica MEGHAN CAREY * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Young Gloria NICOLE MULREADY * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Young Jillian KATE FITZGERALD * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Young Joan ALLISON JEAN WHITE * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan * AIMEE DOHERTY DOHERTY* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dance Captain

UNDERSTUDIES in alphabetical order

ANNIKA BOLTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Young Gloria, Young Joan LILA GRACE ENGLISH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patty/Young Ruby, Young Jillian KATE JACK FITZGERALD GREENBERG* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe . . . . Jillian Fogg BRIDGETTE JACK GREENBERG HAYES * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloria, . . . . . . . . Veronica/Joan . . . . . . Joe Fogg ZACH BRIDGETTE KAUTTER HAYES . . . . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloria, . . . . . . . . Ruby/Mrs . . . . . . Tony/Mr .

Smith, Halliwell/Mr .

Veronica/Joan Smith YEWANDE ODETOYINBO ZACH KAUTTER . . . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tony/Mr . . . . . . . . . . . Halliwell/Mr . . . . . . . Penny/Biddy Smith * YEWANDEPOIGNAND ODETOYINBO MICHAEL . . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mr . . . . .Potts/Luther . . . . . . . . . . Penny/Biddy St . John, . . . . . . . . . . . POIGNAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . .* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dennis/Jack Larkin, Bill/Dr .

Rose . . . . . . Mr . Potts/Luther St . John, MICHAEL

. . . . . . . SULLIVAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dennis/Jack Larkin, Bill/Dr .Smith Rose RUTH . . . . . . . . . Jillian, Ruby/Mrs .

Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement or notice is made at the time of appearance. *Members of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

This theatre operates under agreements with the League of Resident Theatres, Actors’ Equity Association (the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States), the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and United Scenic Artists.

Please turn off your cell phones, beeping watches, and electronic devices, and refrain from unwrapping cellophane wrappers during the performance.

The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production and distributing recordings or streams in any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author(s)’s rights, and actionable under United States copyright law.

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OPENING NIGHT: NOVEMBER 5, 2025 RODA THEATRE THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA WILL BE PERFORMED WITH ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION BETWEEN ACTS 1 AND 2.

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FOR THIS PRODUCTION Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Elena Sanchez (Peter F. Sloss Artistic Fellow) Fight Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lewis D. Wheeler Costume Design Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kelly Baker Hair, Wigs, & Makeup Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Lauro Assistant Lighting Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Claire Chesne (Electrics Fellow), Hope Debelius (Huntington Theatre Lighting Design Assistant) Assistant Sound Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riley Oberting (Harry Weininger Sound Fellow) Wardrobe Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Arriola, Caz Hiro, Dieyla Diop, Kamaile Alnas-Benson, Mika Rubinfield, Jessa Dunlap (Sub), Linda Wu (Sub) Hair Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vanessa Root-Fitzgerald, Erin Taylor Lighting Programmer/Board Op . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kenneth Coté

BOARD OF TRUSTEES William T . Espey PRESIDENT

Jill Fugaro VICE PRESIDENT

Sudha Pennathur VICE PRESIDENT

Sherry A . Smith VICE PRESIDENT

Leonard X Rosenberg TREASURER

Steven C . Wolan SECRETARY

Alfredo Silva CHAIR OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE

Sound Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angela Don (A1), Camille Rassweiler (A2)

Sandra Eggers

Deck Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Boomer, Isaac Jacobs, Chris Russell (Automation), Emma Walz

Henning Mathew

CHAIR OF THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR OF THE INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

Scenic Fabrication by The Huntington Scenic & Paint Shops Additional Scenery Fabricators . . . . . . . . . . . . .Berkeley Repertory Theatre Scenic & Paint Shops, Carl Martin, Cameron Edwards, Troy McClendon, Cassidy Carlson, Drea Ronquillo, Isaac Jacobs, Isla Hofmann (Scenic Construction Fellow) Additional Scenic Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Courtney Sutherland (Scenic Art Fellow) Props Fabrication by The Huntington Properties Shop Additional Prop Artisans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berkeley Repertory Theatre Prop Shop, Hanbyul Joo, Sofie Miller, Amelia Reyes-Gomez (Properties Fellow) Costumes Built by The Huntington Costume Shop Additional Costume Technicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Berkeley Repertory Theatre Costume Shop, Chris Weiland, Malia Sittler, James Calhoun (Costumes Fellow) Special Thanks to Helen Uffner Vintage Clothing LLC. Lighting Services provided by Berkeley Repertory Theatre Lighting Department Additional Lighting Technicians . . . . . . . . . .Emma Buechner, Brittany Cobb, Jack Grable, A. Chris Hartzell, Jacob Hill, Hannah Linaweaver, Margaret Linn, Charlie Mejia, Nora-Hayden Quist, Taylor Rivers, Matther Sykes, C. Swan-Streepy, Trinity Wickland Additional Lighting Services provided by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Desiree Alcocer, Sarina Renteria Sound Services provided by Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sound and Video Department Additional Sound Technicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Courtney Jean, Elliott Orr Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kali Grau Assistant Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Hamm (Production Management Fellow) Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ryan Duncan-Ayala Assistant Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katelin Shum (Company Management Fellow) Company Management Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bella Campos Hintzman Medical Consultation for Berkeley Rep provided by Mari Bell MPT (UCSF), Ed Blumenstock MD, Charissa Chaban DPT, Cindy J . Chang MD (UCSF), Christina Corey MD, Neil Claveria PT, Patricia I . Commer DPT, Kathy Fang MD PhD, Steven Fugaro MD, Anjali Gupta MD (Kaiser), Olivia Lang MD (Berkeley Pediatrics), Allen Ling PT, Liz Nguyen DPT, Desiree A . Unsworth DPT, Christina S . Wilmer OD, Eric Yabu DDS, and Katherine C . Yung MD

Juan Oldham

CHAIR OF THE FACILITIES COMMITTEE

Emily Shanks

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Anna Bellomo Aimee Brown Jeffrey Church Christina Crowley Christopher Doane Chuck Fanning Steven Goldin Jonathan C . Logan Sandra R . McCandless Kristin Pace Tom Parrish Johanna Pfaelzer William Rogers Becky Saeger Allan Smith Ted Storey Barbara Tomber Carlos Vadillo Gail Wagner, MD Brian Watt TRUSTEES

Rena Bransten Diana Cohen Robin Edwards William Falik Kerry Francis Paul T . Friedman Karen Galatz Bruce Golden Scott Haber David Hoffman Richard F . Hoskins Dugan Lamoise Melanie Maier Helen Meyer Peter Pervere Marjorie Randolph Patricia Sakai Jack Schafer William Schaff Richard M . Shapiro Michael Steinberg Roger A . Strauch Jean Z . Strunsky Felicia Woytak SUSTAINING ADVISORS

Helen C . Barber A . George Battle Carole B . Berg Robert W . Burt Shih-Tso Chen Narsai M . David Thalia Dorwick, PhD Nicholas M . Graves Richard F . Hoskins Jean Knox Robert M . Oliver Stewart Owen Marjorie Randolph Harlan M . Richter Richard A . Rubin Emily Shanks Edwin C . Shiver Roger A . Strauch Gail Wagner Martin Zankel PAST PRESIDENTS

FOUNDING DIRECTOR

Michael W . Leibert

PRODUCING DIRECTOR, 1968–83

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ADMINISTRATION

Johanna Pfaelzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artistic Director David Mendizábal . . . . Associate Artistic Director/Director of In Dialogue victor cervantes jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Associate Producer – New Work Karina Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . .Resident Casting Director & Artistic Associate Todd Almond, Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs, Dipika Guha, Nico Muhly, Lisa Peterson, Brian Quijada, Nygel D. Robinson, Sarah Ruhl, Jack Thorne, Sanaz Toossi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artists Under Commission

Tom Parrish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Director

GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND COMPANY MANAGEMENT

Sara Danielsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Manager Ryan Duncan-Ayala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company Manager Emily Betts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Management Associate

Sam Linden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Finance Katie Riemann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director of Finance Jennifer Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Administrator Alanna McFall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bookkeeper Modesta Tamayo . . . . . . . . Director of Human Resources and Diversity Faith Elder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Human Resources & Diversity Coordinator Annie Stonebarger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Executive Assistant DEVELOPMENT

Ari Lipsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Development Laura Fichtenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director of Development

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

Kelsey Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director of Institutional Giving

Audrey Hoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Director of Production Kali Grau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager

Harper Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annual Fund Manager

COSTUMES

Joleen Addleman Loyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Director Kiara Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Resident Design Associate Star Rabinowitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Draper Barbara Blair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wardrobe Supervisor Caz Hiro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Wardrobe Supervisor Erin Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wigs/Hair, Makeup Technician ELECTRICS

Frederick C. Geffken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lighting Supervisor Kenneth Coté . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Production Electrician Des Alcocer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Electrician PROPERTIES

Jillian A. Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Properties Supervisor Amelia Burke-Holt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Properties Supervisor Brittany Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Properties Artisan SCENE SHOP

Matt Rohner, Jim Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Co-Technical Directors Read Tuddenham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Technical Director — Shop Grant Vocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Technical Director — Engineering August Lewallen, Zach Wziontka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scenic Carpenters SCENIC ART

Lisa Lázár . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charge Scenic Artist STAGE OPERATIONS

Julia Englehorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stage Supervisor Gabriel Holman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Associate Stage Supervisor James McGregor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Stage Supervisor Siobhán Slater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stage Technician SOUND/ VIDEO

Lane Elms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sound and Video Supervisor Rebecca Satzberg . . . . . . . . . . . . .Associate Sound and Video Supervisor Angela Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Sound Engineer BERKELEY REP SCHOOL OF THEATRE

Anthony Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of the School of Theatre MaryBeth Cavanaugh . . . Director of Classes and Summer Programming Ashley Lim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing and Registrations Manager AeJay Antonis Marquis Mitchell . . . . . . Education Programs Associate Euan Ashley . . . . . . . . . In-School Residency and Curriculum Supervisor Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, Bobby August Jr., April Ballesteros, Diana Brown, Erica Blue, Elizabeth Carter, Rebecca Castelli, Jiwon Chung, Deborah Eubanks, Nancy Gold, Gary Graves, Marvin Greene, Susan Jane Harrison, George Higgins, Gendell Hing-Hernandez, Mondara Ixchel, Paul Jennings, Erolina Kamburova, Kenneth Kelleher, Jennifer LeBlanc, Dave Maier, Carolyn McCandlish, Amanda Nguyen, Annie Obermeyer, Joel Ochoa, Joe Orrach, Robert Parsons, Pamela Rickard, Adrian Ruvalcaba, Teresa Salas, Hayley Sherwood, Joyful Simpson, Brennan Pickman-Thoon, Samuel Tomfohr . . . . . . . . . . Teaching Artists Matty Bloom, Joy Lancaster, Selma Meyerowitz . . . . . . . Docent Chairs Ted Bagaman, Beth Cohen, Michelle Cordero, Miles Drawdy, Charles Evans, Tyrone Fleurizard, Sergio Garcia, Randi Helly, Diana Insolio, Sue Kaplan, Jim Krampf, Mark Liss, Virginia McCarthy, Judith O’Rourke, Jeanette Pettibone, Gigi Singer, Bridget Soto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Docents

Andrew Maguire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philanthropy Officer Elaina Guyett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corporate Partnerships Manager Rodrick Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Coordinator Cassidy Milano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Operations Coordinator OPERATIONS

Amanda Williams O’Steen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Director of Operations Peter Orkiszewski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director of Operations Adam Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facilities Manager Thomas Tran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Building Engineer Jesus Rodriguez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Building Technician Theresa Drumgoole, Wendi Lau, Sophie Li, Darrel De La Rosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facilities Assistants Destiny Askin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CRM Project Manager Christina Cone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Web and Database Specialist Nicole Peña . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Medak and Rentals Manager MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Voleine Amilcar . . . . . . . . Director of Marketing and Audience Services Heather Orth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Associate Director of Marketing DC Scarpelli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creative Director Kevin Kopjak – Prismatic Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Public Relations Consultant Kristi Deprin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Digital Content Manager Calvin Ngu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Video and Multimedia Content Creator Quinn Barringer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Designer Klaus Andrieu . . . . . . . . . . .Marketing and Communications Coordinator AUDIENCE SERVICES

Emily Byrne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director of Audience Services Saoirse Keogh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office Supervisor pan ellington, Matthew Hayden, Kathlyn Ibazeta, Olga Khitarishvili, Jack Melcher, Lauren Payne, Sesar Sanchez, Celeste Wong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office Agents Kelly Kelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Front of House Director Maddi Gjovik, Armando Herrera, Caitlyn Lee, Megan Rossoni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Managers dean dawkins, Latasha Hayes, Camille Kobelin, Courtney Marchi, Nicolas Puorro, Tuesday Ray, Kira Street, Kailani Zabala, Angela Phung, Julian Balcziunas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patron Experience Representatives 2025/26 BERKELEY REP FELLOWSHIPS

James Calhoun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costumes Fellow Claire Chesne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Electrics Fellow Katie Genzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bret C. Harte Artistic Fellow Alex Hamm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Management Fellow Isla Hofmann. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scenic Construction Fellow Khia Jefferson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing and Development Fellow Karina Lipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Education Fellow Riley Oberting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harry Weininger Sound Fellow Amelia Reyes-Gomez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Properties Fellow Elena Sanchez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter F. Sloss Artistic Fellow Katelin Shum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company Management Fellow Olivia Spreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stage Management Fellow Courtney Sutherland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scenic Art Fellow

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Kyle Cameron *

Dennis/Jack Larkin Kyle, a performer based in Brooklyn, is thrilled to be returning to the Bay Area having performed twice at SF Playhouse (Significant Other, TBA & SFCC Award-nominee; Trouble Cometh). New York credits include The Public Theater (Glass.

Kill. What If If Only. Imp.), Manhattan Theatre Club (By the Water), and over 10 years with the 52nd Street Project. Regional credits include Denver Center (Henry Award-nominee), Studio Theatre, City Theatre, Capital Rep, and three international tours with Vancouver’s Green Thumb Theatre (Dora Mavor Moore Award).

Screen appearances include Vampire (Sundance), FBI: Most Wanted, SVU, Blacklist, and Orange is the New Black.

He is a proud alum of the NYU graduate acting program.

PRONOUNS: HE/HIM

Meghan Carey *

Young Gloria Meghan’s regional credits include Pinocchio (Commonwealth Lyric Theater) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Prague Shakespeare Company). Additional credits include the film Graduation Day (Five Hundred West Film) and Boston Conservatory’s Something Rotten. She is represented by DGRW. @meghancareyy PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Aimee Doherty *

Ruby/Mrs. Smith, Dance Captain Aimee has appeared in The Huntington Theatre's Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, and A Little Night Music. Her additional regional theatre credits include Lyric Stage's productions of Hello Dolly!, Into the Woods (Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress),

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and On the Town (Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress), A Man of No Importance (SpeakEasy Stage), and Hairspray (Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress, Wheelock Family Theatre). aimeedoherty.net PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Kate Fitzgerald *

Young Joan, u/s Jillian Kate is so excited to be making her Berkeley Rep debut! Regional credits include The Light in the Piazza (Huntington), The Crucible (Bay Street Theater), Peter Pan (North Shore Music Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Coachella Valley Repertory), Double Helix (Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals, Bay Street Theater), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Lyric Stage), Pride and Prejudice (Barnstormers Theatre), The Children’s Hour (Gamm Theatre), and Josh Groban’s Harmony and Bridges Tour regional chorus. Kate earned a BFA in musical theatre from Boston Conservatory and is represented by ATB Talent. @katefiitz PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Jack Greenberg

Tony/Mr. Halliwell/ Mr. Smith, u/s Joe Fogg Jack’s regional credits include John Proctor is the Villian (Huntington), Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company CSC2), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Newsies (Reagle Music Theatre), and The Soldier’s Tale (Brandeis University).

Jack is a recent graduate of Boston University and trained at BADA's Oxford Program. jackgreenbergactor.com PRONOUNS: HE/HIM

Patrice Jean-Baptiste *

Penny/Biddy Patrice is a HaitianAmerican teacher, writer, and actor whose work includes two productions of Mfoniso Udofia's Ufot Family Cycle: The Grove (Huntington and Central Square), Her Portmanteau (Central Square), Trouble in Mind, Broke-ology (Lyric Stage), King Hedley II, The Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus, Hamlet (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), and Henry V (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). She is a graduate of Boston University's Bachelor of Arts program and Trinity Repertory's Theatre Arts Conservatory (MA).

She is a pianist and an avid salsero.

PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Karen Killeen *

Jillian Karen is an actor, singer, and director from Dublin, Ireland. She recently made her off-Broadway debut in The Dead, 1904 at Irish Repertory Theatre. A graduate of the MFA in acting program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, her stage work includes Pride and Prejudice (Chautauqua Theater Company), Uncle Vanya, The Misanthrope, The Cherry Orchard, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (DGSD). On screen, she has appeared in Kin (AMC) and Taken Down (RTÉ). She is especially grateful to be part of this company and dedicates this work to her Mam and Malik James, RIP. PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Chloé Kolbenheyer *

Patty/Young Ruby Chloé is a New Yorkbased actress and singer. Onstage credits include Night Fever: The Music of the Bee Gees (54 Below) and Lucy in Who’d Love Lucy? (The Tank). Her film/TV

work includes Fireplace Ridge (Gemelli Films) and a cameo in What Would You Do? Season 14. She recently graduated Boston University with a BFA in acting. She is signed with Stewart Talent NY and Blue Ridge Entertainment. chloekolben.com.

PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Mike Masters *

Bill/Joe Fogg/Dr. Rose Mike most recently was seen off-Broadway in Sump’n Like Wings at the Mint Theater. In NYC he’s also worked at Madison Square Garden, The Algonquin, and City Center among others, as well as across the country with the Alliance, The REV, Flat Rock Playhouse, and more. National tours include The 101 Dalmatians Musical, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, and I Say Tomato, You Say Shut Up! Mike has also been seen on-screen in The Resident, The Blacklist, Maniac, Madam Secretary, Blindspot, The Good Fight, Blue Bloods, House of Cards, Elementary, Mama Flora’s Family, and, of course, Law & Order.

Nicole Mulready *

Young Jillian Nicole is an actor and playwright from Medfield, MA. Her regional credits include Frank & Bean: The Musical! (The WBUR Festival Kidstage) and Troilus and Cressida (Prague Shakespeare Company).

University credits include I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire, Escape from Happiness, and The Convent. Original works include U Had 2 B There and Home for the Weekend. She holds a BFA in musical theatre with an emphasis on absurdist acting from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. @nicolemulready PRONOUNS: SHE/HER/HERS

Amanda Kristin Nichols *

Gloria Amanda has appeared off-Broadway in Three Sisters (The Sheen Center). Her regional credits include Advice, Bad Books (Florida Studio Theatre, NNPN Rolling World Premiere), Noises Off! (Bucks County Playhouse), Let There Be Love, The Steel Man (Penguin Rep), The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and The Great Gatsby (Bay Street Theater).

Lewis D. Wheeler *

Mr. Potts/Luther St. John Lewis is an actor, director, and co-founder of Harbor Stage Company on Cape Cod. Credits include The Huntington Theatre (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone), American Repertory Theater (No Man’s Land), SpeakEasy Stage (Cost of Living), New Repertory Theatre (Long Day’s Journey into Night), and Lyric Stage (A Number). He has appeared in over 70 productions at regional theatres including American Stage, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Central Square Theater, Gloucester Stage, Cape Rep, and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. Film/TV credits include Don’t Look Up, Manchester by the Sea, Black Mass, The Company Men, City on a Hill, and Brotherhood.

BA from Cornell University and MFA from American Film Institute. lewisdwheeler.com PRONOUNS: HE/HIM

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Allison Jean White *

Veronica/Joan Allison is thrilled to return to Berkeley Rep where she was last seen in Heartbreak House. Based in

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New York, she was seen on Broadway in Man and Boy (Roundabout), off-Broadway in Party Face (City Center), The Shaughraun (Irish Rep), and Santa Doesn’t Come to the Holiday Inn (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and was in the national tour of The 39 Steps. Regional credits include Denver Center, ACT, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Seattle Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, Northern Stage, SF Playhouse, Magic Theatre, and WHAT. Screen credits include The Blacklist, The Slap, High Maintenance, and The Family Fang. Allison is a graduate of Brown University and the ACT MFA program.

Annika Bolton

u/s Young Gloria, Young Joan Annika’s regional credits include Llorona or the Weeping Woman (Boston Center for the Arts), Soft Star (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), and How to Kill a Goat (Moonbox Productions, Boston New Works Festival). Boston University theatre credits include Richard III, Fucking A, and El Nogalar.

She has appeared in the film Swipe Right for Danger (Verdi Films).

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Lila Grace English

u/s Patty/Young Ruby, Young Jillian Lila is honored to be an understudy with the company of The Hills of California at The Huntington Theatre Company and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. University credits include The Skriker, Sense & Sensibility, and King Lear. She holds a BFA in acting from Boston University. lilagraceenglish.com PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

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Bridgette Hayes *

u/s Gloria, Ruby/ Mrs. Smith, Veronica/Joan Bridgette is a Bostonbased actor, educator, and designer.

She appeared off-Broadway in The Contrast (Mirror Repertory). Her Regional credits include Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Lyric Stage), Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets (Gloucester Stage), Everyday Life (Sleeping Weazel, Arts Emerson), Men on Boats (SpeakEasy Stage), Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol (Greater Boston Stage), Dog Paddle, Julius Caesar (Bridge Repertory Theater), An Octoroon (Company One, Arts Emerson), and Demon Dreams (Williamstown Theatre Festival).

She holds a BFA in acting from Boston University, an MLA in dramatic arts from Harvard University, and a certificate of classical acting from LAMDA. She serves as the Assistant Chair of Theater for the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Zach Kautter

u/s Tony/Mr. Halliwell/Mr. Smith Zach’s regional credits include Constellations (BCA Plaza Theatre). He received a BFA in acting from Boston University. He is the founder of PK Productions Inc., a non-profit dedicated to emerging artists. zachkautter.com PRONOUNS: HE/HIM

Yewande Odetoyinbo *

u/s Penny/Biddy Yewande has appeared in regional productions such as Fat Ham (Huntington), Waitress (Majestic Theater), FELA! (Olney Theatre Center, Round House Theatre), The Colored Museum (American Stage Company), Sister Act, The Light, Breath Imagination (Lyric Stage, IRNE Award-winner), The Wiz, Little Shop of Horrors (Lyric Stage,

Front Porch Arts Collective), Fairview, Once on This Island, The View Upstairs (SpeakEasy Stage), Macbeth in Stride (ART), Passing Strange, Caroline or Change (Elliot Norton-nominee), Parade (Moonbox Productions), Hair (New Rep), Show Boat (Fiddlehead Theatre), The Sound of Music, Show Boat (Reagle Music Theatre), Finish Line, The Gay Agenda (Boston Theater Company), In the Heights, Seussical, Ragtime (Wheelock Family Theatre), and Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It! (Merrimack Repertory Theatre).

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Michael Poignand *

u/s Mr. Potts/ Luther St. John, Dennis/Jack Larkin, Bill/Dr. Rose Michael is a Boston-based actor and visual creative returning to the stage after many years on the art side of advertising & marketing.

Off-Broadway credits include Speaking in Tongues (Theatre 54), Taming of the Shrew (Secret Theatre) Navy Pier (Theatre Row), Orange Flower Water (InProximity Theatre), Rush's Dream (HERE Arts Center), The Wind in the Willows (New Victory Theater).

Regional credits include My Way (Fulton Opera House), South Pacific (Hangar Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Dragonslayers (Syracuse Stage). Boston area credits include The Christians (Apollinaire), Or (Maiden Phoenix), The Merry Way, and Comedy of Errors (Anthem Theatre). Michael attended Syracuse University’s musical theatre program. He recently completed his first 70.3 Ironman in Augusta, ME.

Jez Butterworth

Playwright Jez was born in London in 1969 and studied English at St. John’s College, Cambridge. His first play, Mojo, won seven major awards, including the Olivier Award for Best Comedy. His other plays include The Night Heron,

Loretta Greco

Director Loretta Greco is the Artistic Director of the Huntington and is thrilled to be in the Bay where she led Magic Theatre for twelve seasons. Her directing credits include New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, and ACT and productions such as Fool for Love, Oedipus El Rey (Magic), and Prayer for the French Republic (Huntington). Producing credits include multiple premieres by Luis Alfaro, Lloyd Suh, John Kolvenbach, and Taylor Mac. Among her cross-organizational collaborations are A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, The Brother/Sister Plays, and Sheparding America. Notable works developed under her leadership at Huntington include John Proctor is the Villain, first American productions of Leopoldstadt, The Lehman Trilogy, and Mfoniso Udofia’s Ufot Family Cycle, a nine-play epic produced over two years across Boston by 36 organizations in partnership.

Andrew Boyce

Co-Scenic Design Andrew is thrilled to return to his home theatre, Berkeley Rep. Past productions include POTUS, A Doll’s House, Part 2, and Dana H. Andrew is a Chicago-based designer working in theatre, opera, dance, live events, and TV/film. He has credits on Broadway, off-Broadway, in London, and with most major regional theatres across the US. Selected opera credits include Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and Opera Omaha, among others. He received his MFA at the Yale School of Drama and is the Associate Professor of

Design at Northwestern University. andrewboycedesign.com PRONOUNS: HE/HIM

Se Hyun Oh

Co-Scenic Design Se is a South Korean set designer based in NYC. His off-Broadway credits include Once Upon A Korean Time (Ma-Yi Theater, La MaMa Theatre) and The Unbelieving (The Civilians, 59E59 Theatres).

PRONOUNS: HE/HIM

Jennifer von Mayrhauser

Costume Design Jennifer has designed over 30 Broadway shows including Disgraced, Wit, Rabbit Hole, The Heidi Chronicles, Execution of Justice, Baby, Hay Fever, and Talley’s Folly. She has designed many off-Broadway shows including work at Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, and Circle Repertory Company. Most recently she designed The Night of the Iguana at Signature Theatre. She received an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design. She has also designed for film and television, including Law & Order (Emmy-nominee), The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Captain Ron, Lean on Me, and Mystic Pizza.

Russell H. Champa

Lighting Design Russell's previous projects at Berkeley Rep include Wintertime, Becky Nurse, Dear Elizabeth, The Pillowman, and Eurydice. Upcoming projects include All My Sons at Berkeley Rep, Girls Chance Music at ACT, and Pictures From Home at Marin Theatre.

His work on Broadway includes China Doll (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre); In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Lyceum Theatre/Lincoln Center Theater); Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theatre). New York credits include Playwrights Horizons, Theatre for a New Audience, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and New

York Stage and Film. Regional credits include Old Globe, Steppenwolf, The Wilma, Trinity Rep, and Mark Taper Forum. His work for opera and dance includes The Dallas Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Odyssey Opera, and Pilobolus. Thanks J+J! PEACE. russellchampa.com

David Van Tieghem

Sound Design David’s Broadway credits include Burn This, How I Learned to Drive, Doubt, Heisenberg, The Gin Game, The Big Knife, Reckless, Arcadia, The Normal Heart, The Crucible, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, and Inherit the Wind.

PRONOUNS: HE/HIM

J. Jared Janas

Hair, Wigs, & Makeup Design Jared has over 30 years in the wig, hair, and makeup industry. His previous Huntington credits include The Light in the Piazza, The Art of Burning, Common Ground Revisited, The Bluest Eye, Indecent, and Man in the Ring.

His Broadway credits include Dead Outlaw, John Proctor is the Villain, Glengarry Glen Ross, Buena Vista Social Club, Our Town, Once Upon a Mattress, Mary Jane, Prayer for the French Republic, Purlie Victorious, Good Night, Oscar, Sweeney Todd, Ohio State Murders, & Juliet, Kimberly Akimbo, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, The Visit, The Real Thing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Motown, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Porgy and Bess.

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The Winterling, Parlour Song, Jerusalem, The River, and The Ferryman (nominated for nine Tony Awards and winning four, including Best Play 2019). His latest play, The Hills of California, was highly acclaimed on Broadway and in the West End.

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Kyle C. Frisina

Dramaturg Kyle is an Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. As Director of Play Development at Second Stage Theater, her producing and dramaturgy credits included How I Learned to Drive, Water by the Spoonful, Little Miss Sunshine, The Happiest Song Plays Last, The Substance of Fire, American Hero, The Tutors, and Mala Hierba. As Associate Producer and Dramaturg at New York Stage and Film, credits include work

by Jocelyn Bioh, Michael Friedman, David Lindsay-Abaire, Beth Henley, Duncan Sheik, Regina Taylor, Gabriel Kahane, and Stephen Karam.

PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Misha Shields

Choreographer Misha Shields is a choreographer working in the NY and Boston areas.

She is a Chita Rivera Award-nominee for Best Choreography for her work in the off-Broadway production of Baghdaddy (St. Luke’s Theatre), and has won both an Elliot Norton Award for Best Choreography (K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Huntington) and a BroadwayWorld Central New York Award for Best Choreography for a Professional Production (Loch Ness, The REV). Credit highlights include Private Jones (Signature Theatre DC, Goodspeed), The Lehman Trilogy, Witch, I Was Most Alive With You, Yerma, Ripcord, A Doll’s House, Milk Like Sugar (Huntington), The Winter's Tale (Hartford Stage), Once (Bucks County Playhouse), and Wonderland (Atlantic Theater Company). mishashields.com PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Daniel Rodriguez

Music Direction Daniel’s past work with The Huntington includes The Band’s Visit, Sunday in the Park with George, and A Little Night Music. Regional credits include Hello, Dolly!, Urinetown, Assassins, Preludes (Lyric Stage), Evita, An American in Paris, Oklahoma

(Reagle Music Theater), A Christmas Carol (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Kinky Boots, Little Shop of Horrors (North Shore Music Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Greater Boston Stage Company), Caroline or Change, Cabaret, The Wild Party (Moonbox Productions), Mr. Popper’s Penguins, In the Heights (Wheelock Family Theatre), The Lily’s Revenge, The Blue Flower (ART), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Front Porch Arts Collective), Jerry Springer: The Opera, and Drood (SpeakEasy Stage).

PRONOUNS: HE/HIM

Ashleigh Reade

Dialect & Vocal Coach Ashleigh is thrilled to be joining Berkeley Rep! A Boston native, Ashleigh is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Speech at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, where she teaches speech, accents, and vocal extremes. Ashleigh's presentation and public speaking clients include MIT, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Berklee College of Music, and WCBV. Recent coaching credits include The Light in the Pizza, The Hills of California, and Fun Home at The Huntington, Emma at Actors’ Shakespeare Project, The Anonymous Lover at Boston Lyric Opera, and Driving in Circles (Elliot Norton Award-winner for Best Solo Performance) at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Jesse Hinson

Fight & Intimacy Coordinator Jesse is a Boston-based violence designer, intimacy choreographer, actor, and educator. His Huntington credits include The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, The Grove, Leopoldstadt, and Fat Ham. Additional regional credits include Pru Payne, Cost of Living, Casa Valentina (SpeakEasy Stage), Rx Machina (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), The Minutes (Umbrella Arts), Anna Christie, The Little Foxes (Lyric Stage Company), and Bud, Not Buddy (Wheelock Family Theatre).

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Janet Foster, CSA

Casting Janet has been casting for over 35 years. At The Huntington, she recently worked on The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, The Grove, Sojourners, Leopoldstadt, Toni Stone, and The Band’s Visit. Eight years at American Conservatory Theater included working with directors Carey Perloff, Mark Lamos, Mark Rucker, Annie Kaufmann, Loretta Greco, and many more.

Kevin Schlagle *

Stage Manager Kevin has worked on many productions in 16 seasons with The Huntington including The Light in the Piazza, Prayer for the French Republic, and Sunday in the Park with George. Other credits include American Repertory Theater, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Boston Lyric Opera.

Ashley Pitchford *

Assistant Stage Manager Ashley’s work with The Huntington includes stage management for The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, Leopoldstadt, John Proctor is the Villain, The Heart Sellers, Fat Ham, Joy and Pandemic, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Our Daughters, Like Pillars, Teenage Dick, Witch, We All Fall Down, and Man in the Ring.

PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Sofie Miller *

Assistant Stage Manager Sofie is delighted to return for another season with Berkeley Rep. Recent productions include the aves, The Matchbox Magic Flute, and Out of Character. Favorite productions include Angels in America, Kiss My Aztec, Imaginary Comforts, Latin History for Morons, Roe, Party People, and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Sofie has also worked

PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Johanna Pfaelzer

Artistic Director Johanna joined Berkeley Rep in 2019 as its fourth artistic director following 12 years as the artistic director of New York Stage and Film (NYSAF), a New York City-based organization dedicated to the development of new works for theatre, film, and television. Notable works developed under Johanna’s leadership at NYSAF include Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Humans by Stephen Karam, Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell, The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music by Taylor Mac, The Homecoming Queen

by Ngozi Anyanwu, The Great Leap

by Lauren Yee, John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, The Fortress of Solitude

by Michael Friedman and Itamar Moses, The Jacksonian by Beth Henley, and Green Day’s American Idiot. In addition, Johanna has developed the work of many notable artists including Jocelyn Bioh, Zach Helm, Halley Feiffer, Billy Porter, Lucy Thurber, Duncan Sheik, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Steven Sater, Jaclyn Backhaus, Patricia Wettig, and Marcus Gardley. Since arriving at Berkeley Rep, Johanna has produced multiple world premieres as well as projects that have gone on to notable future productions including Swept Away, Galileo, Mexodus, and Cult of Love. She was formerly a producing director of Zena Group and served for five years as the associate artistic director of American Conservatory Theater.

Johanna is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Actors Theatre of Louisville apprentice program and has taught in the MFA theatre program at Columbia University School of the Arts. She lives in Berkeley with her husband Russell Champa and their son Jasper.

Tom Parrish

Managing Director Tom has served as a theatre leader and arts administrator for over 20 years, with experience in organizations ranging from multivenue performing arts centers to major Tony Award-winning theatre companies. Prior to Berkeley Rep, he served as executive director of Trinity Repertory Company, Geva Theatre Center, and Merrimack Repertory Theatre and as associate managing director/general manager of San Diego Repertory Theatre. His work has been recognized with a NAACP Theatre Award for Best Producer and “Forty Under 40” recognition in Providence, Rochester, the Merrimack Valley, and San Diego. He received his MBA/MA in arts administration from Southern Methodist University; BA in theater arts and economics from Case Western Reserve University; attended the Commercial Theater Institute, National Theater Institute, and Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; and is certified in leading diversity, equity, and inclusion by Northwestern University. He and his husband live in Berkeley.

Huntington is committed to welcoming diverse audiences, provides life-changing opportunities for students through robust education and community programs, is a national leader in playwright and new play development, and serves the local arts community by operating The Huntington Calderwood/BCA. The Huntington reopened the historic Huntington Theatre in fall of 2022 after its transformational renovation and is currently in phase two of the project; the transformation of this storied venue will allow us to deepen our services to audiences, artists, and the community for generations to come. huntingtontheatre.org

Huntington Theatre Celebrating over 40 years of outstanding theatre, The Huntington is Boston, MA’s leading professional theatre company. On our stages and throughout our city, we share enduring and untold stories that spark the imagination of audiences and artists and amplify the voices in our community. Led by Artistic Director Loretta Greco and Executive Director Christopher Mannelli, The

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regionally with Aurora Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater, Magic Theatre, Presidio Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and California Shakespeare Theater, and has stage managed concerts in NYC at Joe’s Pub and Urban Stages.

Sofie holds a BA in theatre arts and post-graduate certificate in theater management from University of California, Santa Cruz.

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SONG CREDITS “Gimme Shelter” Written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards Performed by the Rolling Stones Published by ABKCO Music, Inc Courtesy of ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. www.abkco.com

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME Words by Gus Kahn Music by Wilbur Schwandt and Fabian Andre TRO — © Copyright 1930 (Renewed) 1931 (Renewed) Essex Music, Inc., Words and Music Inc., New York, NY Don Swan Publications, Inc., Miami, FL and Gilbert Keyes Music, Hollywood, CA International Copyright Secured Made in the USA All Rights Reserved including Public Performance for Profit Used by Permission

“It Never Entered My Mind” Music and words by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart This selection is used by special arrangement with Rodgers & Hammerstein Holdings LLC, www.concord.com. All Rights Reserved.

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME GUS KAHN, FABIAN ANDRE AND WILBUR SCHWANDT © 1930 Unknown Publisher (NS) and Gilbert Keyes Music Company (ASCAP) All rights on behalf of Gilbert Keyes Music Company administered

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IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND LORENZ HART AND RICHARD ROGERS © 1940 Unknown Publisher (NS) and Chappell & Co. Inc. (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved

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I’M POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN SAMMY LERNER Samuel M. Lerner Publications, Sony/ATV Harmony (ASCAP)

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STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT NAT KING COLE, IRVING MILLS EMI MILLS MUSIC INC. (ASCAP)

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THANKING OUR SUPPORTERS

FRIENDS OF BERKELEY REP CHAMPION Anonymous (6) • Philip Arca & Sherry Smith • Linda & Mike Baker • Monya Baker • Celia Bakke • Jeff & Karen Banks • Michael Barnett and Judith Bloomberg • Marc Blakeman • James Blume & Kathryn Frank • Jane V. Buerger • Fran Burgess • Robert & Margaret Cant • Dr. Jon Carr • Terri Clark and Marty Lay • June & Michael Cohen • Bart Connally • Constance Crawford • Karen & David Crommie • Ed Cullen & Ann O’Connor • Joshua Dapice • Drs. Kevin & Susan Denny • John & Janet Dodge • Martin & Barbara Fishman • Donald & Dava Freed • Linda Schacht Gage & John Gage • Clara Gerdes & Ken Greenberg • Marjorie Ginsburg & Howard Slyter • Mary W Graves • Mary Grogan • Henry L. Hecht • Thomas & Elizabeth Henry • Susan L. Hill • Marilyn & Michael Jensen-Akula • May Johnston • Jeanne Killian • Tim Kochis • Janet Kornegay & Dan Sykes • Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz • Ann Lincoln • Jennifer S. Lindsay • Tom Lockard & Alix Marduel • Nancy Lumer • Paul Mariano & Suzanne Chapot • Susanna & Brad Marshland • Rebecca Martinez • Stephanie Mendel • Geri Monheimer • Daryoush Mortazavi & Caroline Razavi • Jane Neilson • Thomas Nelson & Jessica Wickens • Judy Ogle • Patti Oji Haas • Judy O’Young, MD & Gregg Hauser • Kathleen Quenneville & Diane Allen • Todd & Susan Ringoen • John & Jody Roberts • Jane Rokita • Rhoda Rossman • Chris & Mike Rupp, Descendant Cellars • Lisa A. Salomon • Barbara & Jerry Schauffler • Eric & Lauren Schlezinger • Deborah Sedberry & Jeff Klingman • Robert Sheppard • Shirlen Fund • Steve & Susan Shortell • Amrita Singhal & Michael Tubach • Arlene & Matthew Sirott • Suzanne Slyman • Allan & Maria Smith • Betsy Smith • Cherida Collins Smith • George & Camilla Smith • Gary & Jana Stein • David Surrenda & Lisa Rafel • Jane & Jay Taber • Fred & Kathleen Taylor • Sam Test • Larry Vales • Gerald & Lynda Vurek-Martyn • Susan Whitman & Mark Gergen • Irene Yen

ADVOCATE Anonymous (10) • David Baer • Alisa Baker • Tracy Ballard • Karen Baratta • Steven Beckendorf • Richard & Kathi Berman • Veronica Bettencourt • Patti Bittenbender • Thomas Bosserman • Rena Bransten • Eric Brink & Gayle Vassar • Cathy Bristow • Aimee Brown • Robert P. Camm & Susan Pearson • Christina Campbell & Tim DeWolf • Laura Chenel • Barbara & Rodgin Cohen • Joan & Edward Conger • Pam & Mike Crane • malcom davis • Harry & Susan Dennis • David desJardins • David Deutscher • Kathryn Doi • Tammerlin Drummond • Daralyn Durie • Dr. Norma Fiedotin • Daniel Friedland & Azlynda Alim • Herb & Marianne Friedman • Carol & Tony Friscia • Lisa and Jack Fuchs • Brett Gardner & Joe Stampleman • Paul & Marilyn Gardner • Rachel Garlin • Ellen Geringer & Chris Tarp • Steven Goldberg & Sandee Blechman • Paul Goldstein & Dena Mossar • Pamela & Tim Gray • Judy & Sheldon Greene • Karen Greig & Mike Frank • Don & Becky Grether • George P. Haley • Geoffrey Haynes • Tamra C. Hege • Jim Helman & Linda Fried Helman • Donald Hershman • Al Hoffman & David Shepherd • Rachel & John Horsch • Hilary & Tom Hoynes • Pam & Ted Johann • Thomas Johann • Stephen Kerr • Juanita Kizor • Ralph & Tonya Koenker • Lynn Eve Komaromi, in honor of the Berkeley Rep Staff • Diana & Jim Krampf • Andrea & Kenneth Krueger • Jennifer Kuenster & George Miers • Lucy Kuntz and Ned Fielden • Kevin & Claudine Lally • Wayne Lamprey & Dena Watson-Lamprey • Shirley Langlois • Tami Lau • Susan Carol Ledford • Dennis Lenehan • Deborah Lewis & Martin H. Myers • Steve & Judy Lipson • Margo & Josh Lowensohn • Peter Luk • Ingrid Madsen & Victor Rauch • Mark Marin • M. Mathews & K. Soriano • Ash McNeely & Elisa Odabashian • Ellen Meltzer and George Porter • Zoe Mercer-Golden, in honor of Bruce Golden • Susan Morris • Patti Mulqueeney • Toby Nady • Ron Nakayama • Sandra Nichols • Michael O’Donnell • Barbara & Philip O’Hay • Mitchell Ost • DiAnn Perko • Charles & Linda Phillips • Malcolm & Ann Plant • Robert & Marcia Popper • Roxann R. Preston • Daniel & Barbara Radin • Elizabeth Raffin • Maxine Risley, in memory of James Risley • Kathy Rogers • William Rogers • Bruce Rohde • Deborah Dashow Ruth, in memory of Leo P. Ruth • Emily D. Sexton • The Sippel/ Farb Family • Linda Snyder • Robert & Naomi Stamper • Carol Sundell • Margo & Drew Tammen • Ragesh Tangri & Daralyn Durie • John & Christine Telischak • Pate & Judy Thomson • Dana Tom & Nancy Kawakita • Glenn Urban • Jill Van Dalen • Willian van Dyk & Margi Sullivan • Leon Van Steen • Marcia & David Vastine • Brian Watt & Daisy Nguyen • Jonathan & Kiyo Weiss • Dick & Beany Wezelman • H. Leabah Winter • Wilma Wool • Moe & Becky Wright • Laura Blair & Mitchell Zeemont

THE MICHAEL LEIBERT Berkeley Rep gratefully acknowledges the following individuals who have generously provided for the organization in their estate plans: LEGACY SOCIETY Anonymous (9) Norman Abramson & David Beery* Sam Ambler Carl W. Arnoult & Aurora Pan Ken & Joni Avery Nancy Axelrod Edie Barschi Neil & Gene Barth Susan & Barry Baskin Linda Brandenburger Broitman-Basri Family Bruce Carlton & Richard G. McCall* Stephen K. Cassidy Paula Champagne & David Watson Terin Christensen Sofia Close Ed Cullen & Ann O’Connor Andrew Daly & Jody Taylor Narsai* & Venus David Darren & Sunshine Deffner M. Laina Dicker Christopher Doane & Neal Shorstein, MD Thalia Dorwick Robin & Rich Edwards Thomas W. Edwards & Rebecca Parlette-Edwards Bill & Susan Epstein William Espey & Margaret Hart Edwards Merle & Michael Fajans Bill Falik & Diana Cohen Dr. Stephen E. Follansbee & Dr. Richard A. Wolitz Catherine Fox Kerry Francis

Dr. Harvey & Deana Freedman Joseph & Antonia Friedman Paul T. Friedman Marianne Friedman David Gaskin & Phillip McPherson* Marjorie Ginsburg & Howard Slyter Mary & Nicholas* Graves Elizabeth Greene Sheldon & Judy Greene Don & Becky Grether Barry* & Micheline Handon Julie & Paul Harkness Linda & Bob Harris Fred Hartwick Ruth Hennigar Daria Hepps Douglas J. Hill* Peter Hobe & Christina Crowley Hoskins/Frame Family Trust Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley Robin C. Johnson Janice Kelly & Carlos Kaslow Bonnie McPherson Killip Lynn Eve Komaromi Michael H. Kossman Woof Kurtzman Joy Lancaster & Martin Freedman Scott & Kathy Law Marcia C. Linn Dot Lofstrom Ingrid Madsen & Victor Rauch Andrew Maguire Helen M. Marcus Dale* & Don Marshall Rebecca Martinez Sarah McArthur LeValley

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Sandra & Ross McCandless Suzanne & Charles McCulloch John G. McGehee Miles & Mary Ellen McKey Ruth Medak Susie Medak & Greg Murphy Stephanie Mendel Toni Mester Shirley & Joe Nedham Jane & Bill Neilson Theresa Nelson & Bernard Smits Pam & Mitch Nichter Wallace Oman Sharon Ott Fr. David Pace Amy Pearl Parodi Barbara L. Peterson Regina Phelps Margaret Phillips Mark J. Powers & Albert E. Moreno Marjorie Randolph Gregg Richardson Bonnie Ring Living Trust David Rovno, MD Tracie E. Rowson Deborah Dashow Ruth Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro Brenda Buckhold Shank, MD, PhD Emily Shanks Valerie Sopher Michael & Sue Steinberg Dr. Douglas & Anne Stewart Jean Strunsky Mary, Andrew & Duncan Susskind Jim Tibbs & Philip Anderson Henry Timnick

Guy Tiphane Dana Tom & Nancy Kawakita Phillip & Melody Trapp Janis Kate Turner Gail & Arne Wagner Barry & Holly Walter Weil Family Trust — Weil Family Susan West Steven & Linda Wolan The Woolfson Blumenfeld Living Trust Karen & Henry Work Anders Yang, JD Martin & Margaret Zankel * deceased

GIFTS RECEIVED

BY BERKELEY REP Estate of Suzanne Adams Estate of Pat Angell, in memory of theatre architect Gene Angell Estate of Nina Auerbach Estate of Helen C. Barber Estate of Fritzi Benesch Estate of Carole B. Berg Estate of Nelly Berteaux Estate of Jill Bryans Estate of Paula Carrell Estate of Victoria Carter Estate of Robert Chase Estate of Nancy Croley Estate of John & Carol Field Estate of Ralph Garrow Estate of Richard & Lois Halliday Estate of Ellen Jasnosz

Estate of Nancy Kornfield Estate of Audrey J. Lasson Estate of Zandra Faye LeDuff Estate of Ines R. Lewandowitz Estate of Jim Lillienthal Estate of John E. & Helen A. Manning Estate of Richard Markell Estate of Sumner & Hermine Marshall Estate of Margaret D. & Winton McKibben Estate of Robert S. Newton, in honor of John T. & Jean Knox Estate of Sheldeen G. Osborne Estate of Timothy A. Patterson Estate of Gladys Perez-Mendez Estate of Margaret Purvine Estate of Guy T. Roberts, Jr. Estate of Leigh & Ivy Robinson Estate of Gretchen Saeger Estate of Stephen C. Schaefer, in honor of Jean and Jack Knox Estate of Kevin Shoemaker Estate of Peter Sloss Estate of Harry Weininger Estate of Grace Williams Estate of Sheila Wishek As of September 2025.

Berkeley Rep makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of these listings. If there is an error or you would like to adjust your listing, please contact us at 510 647-2905 or give@berkeleyrep.org.

LEAVE YOUR LEGACY When you join the Michael Leibert Legacy Society, you help secure the future of Berkeley Rep’s treasured tradition of producing adventurous and thought-provoking theatre and impactful educational programming.

HOW TO JOIN? IT’S EASY! Make a bequest: Defer a gift until after your lifetime. Name Berkeley Rep in your will (designate a specific amount, a percentage, or a share of the residue).

Gift of retirement assets: Avoid twofold taxation on your IRA or other retirement plans. Name Berkeley Rep as a full or part beneficiary of the remainder of the assets after your lifetime.

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COMING THIS SEASON TO BERKELEY REP:

SPECIAL PERFORMANCES When extraordinary artists visit Berkeley Rep for limited engagements, subscribers get priority, discounted access.

CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY TOLD BY JEFFERSON MAYS RODA THEATRE DEC 16–21, 2025

A Thrilling Solo Rendition of the Holiday Classic Berkeley Rep will present a limited engagement of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Told by Jefferson Mays, Susan Lyons, and Michael Arden, directed by Barr y Edelstein. The timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge comes to thrilling new life as Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) plays over 50 roles in this virtuosic master class in performance that must be seen to be believed.

Jefferson Mays

AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS RODA THEATRE JAN 3–11, 2026 Beloved humorist and bestselling author David Sedaris returns to Berkeley Rep for a special weeklong engagement featuring brand-new material ahead of the release of his next essay collection, coming Spring 2026. Known for his razor-sharp

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wit and keen observations on everyday absurdities, Sedaris invites audiences into the creative process with a series of intimate readings — each night offering a unique mix of new essays. Come experience a behind-the-scenes look at this master storyteller shaping his next work.

Tickets on sale now at

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MAKING THEATRE

MEE T THE ARTISANS WHO BUILD OUR SHOWS

BY QUINN BARRINGER & DC SCARPELLI

Some plays are inextricably tied to their set. From the domestic pieces of Henrik Ibsen and Arthur Miller to modern classics like Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County and Jez Butterworth’s The Hills of California, this seems especially true of family dramas in which the twostory house as set resonates with audiences as either emblematic of the family structure’s strength or instead of its claustrophobia and dysfunction.

“I think a lot about how space holds feeling — how light, scale, and material can shape a mood or memory without saying a word. I’m drawn to tension, quiet moments, and the kind of beauty that doesn’t need to announce itself.” – SE OH, CO-SCENIC DESIGNER The house central to The Hills of California is a repository for, and a time-defying amplifier of, all the laughter, secrets, and tragedy in a family’s memory — all presented behind the façade of a tatty Blackpool guesthouse. Creating the Webb family’s home is a challenge tantamount to designing the final and most visible character present in the piece.

Find out more about Andrew Boyce and Se Oh’s work on The Hills of California by following the QR code to the right!

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Designing the set for this production of The Hills of California (built in Boston by our co-producers, The Huntington) are Andrew Boyce and Se Oh, two designers who’ve collaborated in the past, and who continue their work together here on our stage.

MOTHER OF EXILES

BY JESSICA HUANG DIRECTED BY JAKI BRADLEY WORLD PREMIERE PEET’S THEATRE

In 1898, on Angel Island, a pregnant Eddie Loi faces deportation amid America’s tightening immigration laws. A century later, her great-grandson Braulio, through his role in the Miami border patrol, inadvertently conjures her spirit — unleashing a witty, opinionated ancestor. By 2063, their descendants, beset by climate catastrophe, embark on a perilous oceanic journey seeking sanctuary. From detention to diaspora, Mother of Exiles follows a single family’s century-and-a-half odyssey — tracing their flight, fight, and the futures they dare imagine. Jessica Huang’s multigenerational triptych blends historical drama with supernatural encounters, weaving moments of surprising humor into a powerful portrait of belonging and resilience.

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2025–26 Season

Ensemble Cherubim Chamber Chorus Carols of Birds, Bells, and Peace from Ukraine: A Holiday Celebration

Featuring Frederica von Stade, mezz-soprano; L. Peter Callender, narrator; and Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir

Soweto Gospel Choir Peace

In this special holiday season concert, the multiGrammy-winning South African cultural ambassadors return to Berkeley singing of love and peace. The program ranges from gospel classics and spirituals to feel-good pop songs by artists like Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, and Leonard Cohen.

San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus

Holiday Spectacular 2025!

L. PETER CALLENDER FREDERICA VON STADE

Lift your spirits this winter with Ensemble Cherubim! Led by choral director Marika Kuzma, the acclaimed choir brings a stirring program performed in Ukrainian and other languages that reflects music traditionally sung in Ukrainian homes, churches, and town squares during the holidays.

A little naughty, but mostly nice, the muchadored chorus returns for its annual Christmas celebration. Revel in the warm sonic embrace of a few hundred talented tenors, baritones, and basses dressed in ugly Christmas sweaters. By popular demand, two performances this year!

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BAY AREA PREMIERE

An Evening with Kelli O’Hara

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Mark Morris Dance Group MOON

Wendall K. Harrington, projections Isaac Mizrahi, costumes In his latest creation, the wildly creative Mark Morris looks upward—at the Moon!—to explore our fascination with our constant celestial companion. MOON celebrates the wonder and poetry of the night sky, through arresting visuals, lively music, and exquisite movement.

A marquee Broadway star, opera diva, and acclaimed television actor, what can’t Kelli O’Hara do? Don’t miss this special chance to hear her radiant voice, where she sings favorite show tunes and classics from the Great American Songbook!

Admired for bringing fresh perspectives to jazz performance, vocalist and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant mixes dramatic storytelling, vivid historical context, and daring original composition in performance with a host of today’s best and brightest collaborators.

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