What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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JANE JONES & MYRA PLATT, FOUNDING CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

What we talk about when we talk about love

by Raymond Carver

Adapted and directed by Jane Jones

cast Andrew DeRycke* Tracy Hyland* Kevin McKeon Carol Roscoe* Sarah E. Dion* Anthea Carns

Nick, Mike, Him Laura, Nan, Her Mel, Writer, Robert Terri, Wife Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Artistic Team Burton K. Yuen Tristan Roberson Chelsea Cook Nathan Wade

Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer

Setting: dusk to night, night to morning, morning through night.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Albuquerque, N.M., sometime early 21st Century The Student’s Wife, A college town off I-5, 1990 Intimacy, A neighborhood in the Midwest, 1980 Cathedral, A New England township, 1970

* Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States The Director is a Member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers

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Lee Osorio, Sylvie Davidson, Frank Lawler, and Jane Jones; photographer Alan Alabastro

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love was among the first stories I acted in and collaborated on the adaptation with our company. The year must have been 1990, perhaps ’91. I was in my mid-30s and, much like the characters we encounter in this collection, I had already been mightily moved and profoundly injured by love.

It has been a bit of a catharsis to revisit these masterpieces several decades later, now having experienced so much more about the ways of the world and the conditions of the human heart. I don’t know that I am necessarily any smarter, but the impact the stories have today are more visceral and alive than they were 25 years ago; more tender and heartbreaking too.

The order of the stories basically takes us through a single day-from dusk to dark, midnight to dawn, dawn to morning and afternoon to evening. Carver reflects upon the “light” in all of the stories. That has been a key focus of our reflections in the rehearsal room, the elements of darkness and light, of blindness and sight.

Enjoy the show, Jane

Actors Tony Pasqualini and Sarah Brooke (pictured) appeared in the 1998-99 world premiere production of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

photo by Marion Ettlinger

Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where I’m Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing a collection of poems entitled A New Path to the Waterfall.

Poetry Collections

Short Story Collections

Misc.

Near Klamath Winter Insomnia At Night the Salmon Move Where Water Comes Together with Other Water Ultramarine A New Path to the Waterfall

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Furious Seasons and Other Stories What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Cathedral Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories Elephant

Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings Beginners

Where I’m Calling From dramaturgy by Ian Stewart

In the preface to his Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth set himself a revolutionary, yet suitably pastoral goal: “I have proposed to myself to imitate, and as far as possible, to adopt, the very language of men.” But where Wordsworth’s highly wrought Romantic poetry may not have lived up to its author’s declaration, many critics have claimed that Raymond Carver succeeded—albeit in quite a different style.

Raymond Carver was born in the small mill town of Clatskanie, Oregon in 1938. His early life was marked by money troubles, moving houses, and his father’s drinking. In later interviews he called himself “a paid-infull member of the working poor.” He was somewhat of an awkward child, known as “Ray” by his family and the few friends he had. He developed a love for reading and writing early on while devouring pulp magazines, and boldly decided that he would become a writer. He married his high school sweetheart Maryann Burk in 1957. He was nineteen; she was sixteen.

Carver’s father was injured at work shortly after Ray moved away, pushing his family further into poverty. The young couple would struggle with money throughout their time together, but Maryann worked a number of jobs to keep her family—and her husband’s dreams of being a writer—from sinking.

Carver’s experiences profoundly influenced his stories, which often depict down-and-out people on the brink of collapse, whom he treats with the fullest empathy and dignity. Over the decades his marriage became strained, eliciting many stories concerned with love, and the way that marriage can abruptly spin from the calm of normalcy to unreason and menace.

Carver’s writing has been classified in turns as minimalism, new realism, and even “dirty realism.” Though the label seems rude, dirty realism refers to a writer’s spare, forthright language. It’s a minimalism that shies from complex extended metaphors and flowery language, embracing instead the material lives of its characters. Things, one might say, are what they seem.

Carver kept one of Ezra Pound’s dictums on his desk, which seems to have guided his signature style: “Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.”

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole

morality of writing.

His poetry adheres to the same values, and often draws more directly from his life. He writes in a colloquial free verse, flouting traditional conventions of rhyme and meter. Some poems probe intimate details in his tumultuous life: an uphill battle for his livelihood, an eruptive marriage headed for divorce, and a long, nearly fatal struggle with alcohol.

Carver claims his recovery from alcohol was his proudest achievement.

He remained sober for the final decade of his life while living with his new companion, the poet Tess Gallagher. Although his life was cut short by lung cancer in 1988, he wrote that he felt fully satisfied, and that his final, sober years had been the “gravy” of his life.

(sources page A-8)

The Student’s Wife (1964)

Cathedral (1981)

In his early career, Carver developed a lifelong love for Russian authors: Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and, above all, Chekhov. Chekhov had written a story in 1886 called “The Chemist’s Wife,” which describes a lively young woman who feels trapped by her marriage to a dull husband. This story captured Carver’s imagination, likely because it paralleled his own marriage to Maryann, who had borne the burden of taking care of the family and working to pay the bills while Carver transferred from college to college to finish his education.

The plot of this story was inspired by an anecdote from Tess Gallagher, who had worked under her friend Jerry Carriveau in the Seattle Police Department. They had created a new fingerprint filing system, and in order to assist Jerry, who had been blind since birth, Tess guided his hand over a raised image of the fingerprint. Much later, Carriveau came to visit Ray and Tess. Carver later admitted that he had expected the blind man to be hunched over and weak, but was surprised to learn that Jerry had been not only capable, but full of vigor.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) Carver’s most recognizable title may have been inspired by his late evening conversations with a wealthy group of writing students in El Paso. Although there are few direct links between life and fiction in this alcoholdrenched story (written after Carver’s recovery from alcoholism), as Ray finished writing it, one of his El Paso friends—a cardiologist—gave up drinking. He later wrote to Ray, thanking him for encouraging him to quit.

Intimacy (1986) Carver wrote “Intimacy” years after the long dissolution of his first marriage. The story takes the form of a monologue delivered by a “betrayed” woman to her ex-husband, who has paid her an unexpected visit. This story may have been Ray’s attempt to empathize with, understand, or simply process his ex-wife’s feelings through writing. Despite the proximity between the story and Carver’s marriage, the events of the story are fictional—although Ray and Maryann did have a tense meeting after their divorce, during which Ray speechlessly took her fabric belt and put it in his pocket.

GRAVY No other word will do. For that’s what it was.

Gravy.

Gravy, these past ten years.

Alive, sober, working, loving, and being loved by a good woman. Eleven years ago he was told he had six months to live at the rate he was going. And he was going nowhere but down. So he changed his ways somehow. He quit drinking! And the rest?

After that it was all gravy, every minute of it, up to and including when he was told about, well, some things that were breaking down and building up inside his head. “Don’t weep for me,” he said to his friends. “I’m a lucky man.

I’ve had ten years longer than I or anyone expected. Pure Gravy. And don’t forget it.”

Tess Gallagher and Raymond Carver, 1984 photo by Marion Ettlinger

Carver wrote this poem in 1988 after learning that his lung cancer had led to tumors in his brain. He was inspired to write the poem after a conversation with Tess Gallagher, when they discussed his looming mortality. Tess commented that, because of his past alcoholism, he could have died before they had ever met. After a few moments of cool, reflective silence, Carver said, “It’s all been gravy. Pure gravy.”

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Sources: Carver, Raymond. A New Path to the Waterfall. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. Print.

Gallagher, Tess. Introduction. A New Path to the Waterfall. By Raymond Carver. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. xvii-xxxi. Print.

Gallagher, Tess. Introduction. Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver. Ed. Bob Adelman. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990. Print.

Nesset, Kirk. The Stories of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995. Print.

Sklenicka, Carol. Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life. New York: Scribner, 2009. Print

meet the

meet the

Cast

Andrew DeRycke*

Nick, Mike, Him Andrew last appeared with Book-It Repertory Theatre as Karenin in Anna Karenina. Other notable roles with Book-It include Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (2000, ’04), Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities, and Wayne Rousseau in Border Songs. In the Pacific NW, Andrew has appeared in numerous productions at Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Portland Centre Stage, Village Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, as well as the nowdefunct Seattle Group Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, Oregon Repertory Theatre, and Willamette Repertory. Nationally his acting has appeared at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, American Player’s Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Harold Clurman Theatre, and Cortland Repertory Theatre. Andrew is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Tracy Hyland*

Laura, Nan, Her Tracy is pleased to return to Book-It Repertory Theatre, where she has appeared in Anna Karenina and Rhoda: A Life in Stories. Other credits include ACT Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, upstart crow collective, New Century Theatre Company, 14/48 Projects, Seattle Public Theater, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Montana Shakespeare in the Parks.

Favorite roles include Shakespeare’s Ophelia and Lady Macbeth (Wooden O); Desdemona (Island Stage Left); Mary in It’s a Wonderful Life (Theatre Anonymous); and the original Tippi Hedren in David Cerda’s highly acclaimed adaptation of The Birds (Hell in a Handbag Productions, Chicago). Additionally, she is featured in the films Switchmas, Dark Dungeons, and Danger Diva. Tracy is married to fellow actor/director Tim Hyland, and mother to their dear Gus. www.tracyhyland.com * Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Artistic

staff

Kevin McKeon

Mel, Writer, Robert Kevin has performed with Book-It Repertory Theatre in Truth Like the Sun, Jesus’ Son, A Confederacy of Dunces, Plainsong, Ethan Frome, Persuasion, The Awakening, and Cowboys Are My Weakness.

He has directed Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons, David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars, and Dickens’ Great Expectations for the company. His Book-It adaptation of Snow Falling on Cedars has been produced at theaters across the country including Portland Center Stage, CenterStage Baltimore, Hartford Stage, Theatreworks in Palo Alto, and most recently at Bainbridge Performing Arts across the water. Kevin has also adapted Anna Karenina for Portland Center Stage. He is ecstatic to be working again with such an incredible group of artists.

Jane Jones

Director and Adapter Jane is the founder of Book-It and founding co-artistic director of Book-It Repertory Theatre, with Myra Platt. In her 27 years of staging literature, she has performed, adapted, and directed works by such literary giants as Charles Dickens, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, Frank O’Connor, Jim Lynch, Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Amy Bloom, John Irving, John Steinbeck, Daphne du Maurier, and Jane Austen. A veteran actress of 35 years, she has played leading roles in many of America’s most prominent regional theatres. Most recently, she played the role of Miss Havisham in Book-It’s Great Expectations. Film and TV credits include The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Singles, Homeward Bound, “Twin Peaks,” and Rose Red. She co-directed with Tom Hulce at Seattle Rep, Peter Parnell’s adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II, which enjoyed successful runs here in Seattle, at the Mark Carol Roscoe* Taper Forum in Los Angeles (Ovation Terri, Wife Award, best director) and in New York Carol is delighted (Drama Desk Nomination, best director). to return to Book-It Jane directed Pride and Prejudice, Cyrano Repertory Theatre and Twelfth Night at Portland Center Stage where she was last seen which won the 2008 Drammy award as Mary in Persuasion. for Best Direction and Production. For Selected Seattle credits Book-It, she has directed The Dog of the include: Dirty Story, Romeo & Juliet, All South, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: My Sons, The Diary of Anne Frank, Native Uncensored, Truth Like the Sun, The House Son, Intiman; Pilgrims Musa and Sheri of Mirth, The Highest Tide, Travels with in the New World, (ACT Theatre: TPS Charley, Pride and Prejudice, Howard’s Gregory Award Winner); Twelfth Night, End, In a Shallow Grave, The Awakening, Hamlet, Seattle Shakespeare Company; Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, A Tale Getting Near to Baby, Shape of a Girl, of Two Cities, and The Cider House Rules, The Magic City (among many others at Parts I and II, winner of the 2010 and SCT); and 14/48. She has performed in 2011 Gregory Awards for Outstanding Chicago, Tucson, Phoenix, Washington, Production. In 2008 she, Myra Platt, and D.C., and New York. Carol holds an MFA Book-It were honored to be named by in classical acting from the Shakespeare the Seattle Times among seven Unsung Theatre at GWU, is an Artist Trust GAP Heroes and Uncommon Genius for their recipient, and a 2013 International Acting 20-year contribution to life in the Puget Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in Sound region. She is a recipient of the London. She teaches at Cornish College of 2009 Women’s University Club of Seattle the Arts.

Brava Award, a 2010 Women of Influence award from Puget Sound Business Journal, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Founders Grant, and was a finalist for the American Union for Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award.

meet the

Artistic

staff

Burton K. Yuen

Scenic Designer Burton currently works at Weber Thompson Architects in the Landscape Architecture group. He is excited to have the opportunity to work at BookIt. Burton has worked professionally in theater and film in various technical and design positions. Selected scenic design credits include: King Lear, Pack of Lies, Charlotte’s Web, Searching for Normal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Gulag Mouse, Tell Me on a Sunday, reasons to be pretty, Distracted, Getting Out, Trojan Women, Night Watch, Next Fall, The Joy Luck Club, Gypsy, Picnic, The Taming, Third, HAIR, TEA, The Mountaintop, 4000 Miles, Carnival, and Jesus Moonwalks The Mississippi.

Tristan Roberson

Lighting Designer Tristan is delighted to be working with Book-It Repertory Theatre! He has designed with many companies in Seattle including Seattle Shakespeare Company, Teatro ZinZanni, ArtsWest, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Sandbox Artists Collective, and Seattle Public Theatre.

He also has assisted several shows at the 5th Avenue Theatre and at ACT Theatre.

Recent designs include Tall Girls with Washington Ensemble Theatre, Dirty, a co-production between ACT Theatre and Washington Ensemble, and Dream On, a family show at Teatro Zinzanni.

Tristan is the resident lighting designer at Washington Ensemble Theatre and is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts.

Chelsea Cook

Costume Designer Chelsea is a Seattle-based freelance costume designer, shop manager, and small business owner. Her work has been seen at Book-It Repertory Theatre, Village Theatre, George Street Playhouse, ACT Theatre, Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, STAGEright, Seattle Public Theater, Intiman Studio, Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society, and iDiom Theatre.

Favorite designs include Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Balagan Theatre, George Street Playhouse); Spring Awakening (Balagan Theatre); The Addams Family (Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre); Trails, Lizzie Borden (Village Theatre/Festival); and She’s Come Undone (Gregory Award Nomination) and The Dog of the South for Book-It. Upcoming productions include Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Arts Emerson), The Brothers K (Book-It), The Other Place and Amadeus (Seattle Public Theater). Chelsea graduated from Cornish College of the Arts.

Nathan Wade

Sound Designer Nathan is a long-time Book-It Repertory Theatre veteran whose musical and audio handiwork has been featured in stage adaptations of The Dog of the South, Truth Like The Sun, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Border Songs, Moby-Dick, or The Whale, and Don Quixote. His sound/ music design for Jesus’ Son was nominated for a 2014 Gregory Award. www.nathanwademusic.com

Sarah E. Dion *

Stage Manager Sarah is a recent transplant to the Seattle area and is delighted to be working with Book-It Repertory Theatre! Regional credits: The Amish Project (Chester Theatre Company), Chasing the Song (La Jolla Playhouse), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice (The Old Globe), Same Time Next Year and The Lion in Winter (Berkshire Theatre Group).

Sarah also works with Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera during the summer months. She holds an MFA in stage management from the University of California, San Diego.

Anthea Carns

Assistant Stage Manager Anthea Carns is a theatre artist raised in Alaska, trained at Carnegie Mellon University, and transplanted to Seattle.

She is delighted to be working with BookIt again. Most recently her work has been seen on Seattle stages in Intiman’s 2015 Emerging Artists Showcase and with Book-It Repertory Theatre’s Little Bee. She has worked as a dramaturg, director, teacher, and writer in Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Anchorage. www.antheacarns.com

Joy Marzec

Assistant Director Joy was introduced to the Book-It style when she was 19 and Jane Jones was adapting and directing a story at North Seattle Community College. In 2003, she began an internship that culminated in her adapting and directing Peter Pan. She has since moved to Philadelphia and continues to tell stories through the medium of film. She is currently in preproduction for her second feature film, I AM THAT. She is grateful to the cast of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love for allowing her to be in the room and, to Jane, who has taught her that sometimes it is simply a director’s tenacity that allows her to discover the hidden truth within a story.

JANE JONES

Founder, Founding Co-Artistic Director (see bio on page A-9)

MYRA PLATT

Founding Co-Artistic Director As co-founder, Myra has helped Book-It produce over 100 world premiere mainstage productions and over 30 education touring productions. Most recently she directed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the 2014 Gregory Award for Outstanding Production and received a Seattle Times 2014 Footlight Award. She directed Persuasion, Plainsong, Cry, the Beloved Country, and Sweet Thursday, and she adapted and directed The Financial Lives of the Poets, The River Why, Night Flight, Red Ranger Came Calling, The House of the Spirits, Giant, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Cowboys Are My Weakness, and Roman Fever. She adapted The Art of Racing in the Rain, co-adapted Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant with Jane Jones, and composed music for Prairie Nocturne, Night Flight (with Joshua Kohl), Red Ranger Came Calling (with Edd Key), The Awakening, Ethan Frome, Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant. Her acting credits include Prairie Nocturne, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, The Awakening (West Los Angeles Garland Award), Howards End, and The Cider House Rules, Parts I and II (original production). Myra is the recipient, with Jane Jones, of a Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Anniversary grant, the 2010 Women of Influence from Puget Sound Business Journal, and was named by Seattle Times an Unsung Hero and Uncommon Genius for their 20year contribution to life in the Puget Sound region.

special thanks to Justine Halsey-Martin at Stitch All Northwest Joyce Degenfelder Judd Parkin

production

staff JOY MARZEC Assistant Director

BRYAN BURCH Production Manager

IAN STEWART Dramaturg/Literary Intern

ZANE EXACTLY Properties Master

ANDERS BOLANG Scene Shop Manager / Master Carpenter

DAN SCHUY Technical Manager

CARMEN RODRIGUEZ Scenic Charge Artist

TREVOR CUSHMAN Master Electrician / Light Board Operator

JESSICA JONES Sound Engineer / Sound Board Operator

ANNA CURTISS Wardrobe Supervisor

AIDAN POTEET Stage Crew

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Pamela & Nate Searle Charyl Kay & Earl Sedlik Jo & Michael Shapiro Martha Sidlo Marcia & Peter Sill Margaret Silver Cassandra Tate & Glenn Drosendahl Susan Tate Jennifer Lee Taylor Shari & Kerry Thompson Janet Vail Leora & Robert Wheeler Jean & David White Paula & Bill Whitham Blake Wilson Merrily Wyman

Melinda Teeny • Jennifer Teunon & Adam Smith • Charlotte Tiencken & Bill West • Ruth Valine & Ed McNerney • Pat Walker • Roxanne Walmsley • Suzanne Weaver • Kristi & Tom Weir • Jennifer Weis • Eddie & Marty Westerman • Gregory Wetzel • Hope & Ken Wiljanen • Rob Williamson • Bo Willsey • Christina Wright & Luther Black

Lehr & William Severson • Sylvia Levy • Lois Levy • Sandy Lew-Hailer • Larry Lewin • Erika Lim • Nancy Lomneth & Mark Boyd • Craig Lorch • Heather MacMaster • Scott Maddock • Kathleen Maki • Anthony Martello • Dan Mayer • Patricia H. McCreary • Jim McDermott • Anna & Paul McKee • Jill & Joe McKinstry • Meg McLynn • Jeanne Metzger • Elaine Mew • Tami Micheletti • Iryna & Irwin Michelman • Gary Miller • Shyla Miller • Donna Miller-Parker • Patricia Mines • Marion & George Mohler • Elizabeth Morrison & Geoff Crooks • Margaret Morrow • Phill Mroz • Milly & Ralph Mullarky • Kerry Mulvaney • Betty Ngan & Tom Mailhot • Scott & Pam Nolte • Lisa O’Donnell • Laura O’Hara • Chris Ohlweiler • Rosemarie Oliver • Linda & Kevin O’Morrison • Michael Patten • Donna Peha • John Pehrson • Brad Peterson • Robert Pillitteri • Anne Pipkin • John Platt • Felicia Porter • Joan & William Potter • Steve Price • Gordon Prouty • Andrea Ptak • Pamela Queen & Richard Murphy • Laurie Radheshwar • Roberta & Brian Reed • Carolyn Rees • Marcia Repaci • Janey L. Repensek • Karen & Eric Richter • Roberta Roberts • Amy Robertson • Beth Rollinger • Robert Romeo • Kate Roosevelt • Fernne & Roger Rosenblatt • Ellen Roth • Debra Rourke • Marie Ruby • Jennifer Russell • Betty Sanders • Donna, Carol, & Robert Saunders • Kinza & Philip Schuyler • Greg Scully • Lavonne & Josh Searle • Audrey & John Sheffield • David Shellenbarger • Tom Sherrard • Marilyn Sherron • Mark Siano • Eileen Simmons & Roger Berger • Catharine Simon • Marilyn Sloan • Diane Snell • John Spady • Diane Stark • L.K. Stephenson • Jane Stevens • Janice & Pat Strand • Sheila Striegl • Amy Sweigert • Sarah Thomas & Tom Sykes • Cappy Thompson • Molly Thompson & Joe Casalini • Marcellus Turner • Grace Urdal • John Urdal • Eugene Usui • Marcia Utela • Karen Van Genderen • Roxann Van Wyk • Pieter Vandermeulen • Verizon Foundation • George Von Fuchs • Colin Wagoner • Bennet Wang • Todd Warren • Susan Warwick • Jerry Watt • Laurie Wenzel • Terry Westerkamp • Dan Whalen • Jennifer Whitaker • Sara White • Chelene Whiteaker • Jane Wiegenstein • Melinda Williams • Carol & Bryan Willison • John Wilson • Mary Wilson & Barry Boone • Elana Winsberg • Nicole Winters • Michael Winters • Jodie Wohl & Richard Hert • Irene Yamamoto • Kim R. York • Sherri & Daniel Youmans • Mark McDermott & Diane Zahn • Julie Ziegler • Lucy Zuccotti

National Book Award Circle $250+ Anonymous (4) • Douglas Adams • Lynne & Shawn Aebi • Sheena Aebig & Eric Taylor • Christina Amante • Kim Anderson • Susan Bennett • Kathleen Best • Betty Bostrom • Jonathan Buchter • Linda & Peter Capell • Kate Carruthers • Rachel DeBusk • Carol & Kelly Dole • Beth Dubey • Lauren Dudley • Gaylee & Jim Duncan • Lori Eickelberg & Arni Litt • Laura Einstein • Lynne Ellis • Jane Faulkner • Jamie & Steve Froebe • Claire Gebben • Elizabeth Gilchrist • Jean Gorecki • Carla Granat & Stephen Smith • Janet & Corina Hardin • Lloyd Herman & Richard Wilson • Barbara & Randy Hieronymus • Chris Higashi • Lisa & William Holderman • Carolyn Holtzen • Elizabeth Hubbard • Kristina Huus Campbell • Joyce & John Jackson • Nancy Juhos • Janine King • Karen Koon • Alan Kristal • Kristen Laine & Jim Collins • Richard LeBlanc • Lennon Keegan Family • Cynthia Livak & Peter Davenport • Todd London • Sheila Lukehart • Lynn Manley & Alexander Lindsey • Elizabeth Mathewson • Elaine Mathies • Ruth McCormick • Ann McCurdy & Frank Lawler • Marion McGowan • Marcie & John McHale • Jennifer Mcintyre • Susan Mecklenburg • Bonnie Miller • Christine Mosere • Hillary Namba • Lauren Packman • Judd Parkin • Meta Pasternak • Cecilia Paul & Harry Reinert • Corliss Perdaems • Sherry Perrault • Gloria Pfeif • Judy Pigott • Olivia Pi-Sunyer • Sharon Prosser • Barbara & Daniel Radin • Michelle Rebert • Nancy Reichley • Sarah Ryan & Douglas Larson • Kim & Kenneth Schiewetz • Cindi Schoettler • Schwab Charitable Fund • Colleen & Barry Scovel • Jenness & John Starks • Christine Stepherson • Maria Strickland • Paul Stucki • Liann Sundquist • Cassandra & Eric Taylor

Pen/Faulkner Award Circle $100+ Anonymous (10) • Heather Allison • Kimberly Allison • Gail Anderson • Virginia Anderson • Joel Aslanian • Diane Barbour & Jim Rulfs • Jo Ann Bardeen • Rebecca Barnett & Roger Tucker • Julia Bent • Maribeth Berberich • Deb Bigelow • Lindsay & Tony Blackner • Bob Blazek • Mary Anne Braund & Steve Pellegrin • Rebecca Brewer • Vibeke Brinck • Becky Brooks & Jeff Youngstrom • Don Brown • Rachel & David Bukey • Alice Burgess • Carol Butterfield • Kathleen Caldwell • Zimmie Caner • Casey Family Programs • Mary Casey-Goldstein • Kristine & Gerry Champagne • Joyce Chase • David & Marilyn Chelimer • Carl Chew • Lisa Clark • Catherine Clemens • Harriett Cody & Harvey Sadis • Debra Covert-Bowlds • Shelly Crocker • Janice Cummings O’Mahony • Kate Curtis • Claudette Davison • Chas DeBolt • Ronald DeChene & Robert Hovden • Sandra & Paul Dehmer • Richard Detrano • Lynn Dissinger • Marcia Donovan • Marcia Douglas • Lorna Dykes • Jeremy Eknoian • Judith Endejan • Judith Erickson • Constance Euerle • Janice & Chandler Felt • Deborah Ferguson • Judi & Steve Finney • Sarah Fleming • Carolyn Fletcher • Gregory Flood • Jennifer Fontaine • K Denise & James Fortier • Toni Freeman • Susan Fuchs • Lori Fujimoto & Jim Simon • Kai Fujita • Carol Furry & Ronald Kessler • R. Brooks Gekler • Mitzi & Calvin Gligorea • Ann Glusker • Vicki & Gerrie Goddard • Patricia Graves & David Nash • Laurie Greig • Laurie Griffith • Geneva, Kirk, & Carla Griswold • Scott Guettinger • Cassa Hanon • Rachel Hansen • W. Benson Harer • Jill Hashimoto • Elizabeth Hatch • Elizabeth Heath • Anne Helmholz • Rita Hibbard & Roger Neale • Diana Hice • Mary Hinderliter • Beth Hogg • Kate Hokanson • Cynthia Huffman • IBM Matching Grants Program • Jill & James Jago • Liz Ann Jones • Edwin Jones • Susan Jones • Robert Jones • Kris Jorgensen • Gil Joynt • Gay Jungemann • Joan Kalhorn • Malia & Chang Kawaguchi • Shannon Kelly • Pam Kendrick • William Kennedy • Katherine King • Arleen Klasky • Jean & Harris Klein • Deborah Knetzger • Nancie Kosnoff • Noelle Kowalick • Sandy Kubishta • Erika Larson • Molly Lawless • Eleni Ledesma & Eric Rose • Judd Lees • Meredith

O. Henry Award Circle $50+ Anonymous (9) • Rebecca Adler • Judith Alexander • Gail Allen • Marilee Amendola

O. Henry Award Circle, cont.

O. Henry Award Circle, cont.

in-kind donors, CONT.

Amgen Foundation • Susan & John Anderson • Diana Armstrong • E H Baker • Kendall & Sonia Baker • Anne Banks • Brook Becker • Brenda Bennett • Chris Bennion • Lisa Bergstrom • Beth & Benjamin Berman • Carolyn & Daniel Bernhard • Colleen Bernier • Michael Betts & Klint Keys • Ellen Bezona & Shawn Baz • John Bigelow • Cleo Bloomquist • Cheryl Bohn • John Bortnem • Crai Bower • Eloise Boyle • Erin Branigan & Jim Horrigan • Becky Brauer • Bridge Partners LLC • Carolyn Burger • Cory Carlson • Jessica Case • Phyllis Caswell • Charity Partners Foundation • Greta Climer • Richard O. Coar • Frank Cohee • Susan Connors & Eric Helland • Teresa Cooper • Mary & Robert Cooper • Kevin Corrigan • Susan Corzatte • Jeanne Coulson • Sharon Cox • Maureen Crawford • Caroline Cumming • Terence DeHart • Hady DeJong • Nancy Dirksen • Yasue Drabble • Carol & Greg Druse • Andi Duncan • Susan Dyer • Betty Eberharter • Roger Edmonson • Bernice Ege-Zavala • Jonathan Eisler • Nancy Ellingham • Brent Enarson • Virginia Enstad • Fidelity Charitible Gift Fund • Mary Ellen Flanagan • Susan Ford • Kristen Forecki • Dawn Frankwick & Sam Zeiler • Barbara Joan Freeman • Mike Garner • Jessica Gartner • David Gassner • Nina Gerbic • John Gibaut • Siobhan Ginnane • Roberta Goodnow • Jake Greenberg • Christian Hansson • Lynn Hartung • Shuko Hashimoto • Trining Hawkins • Linda Heinen • Catherine & Tim Hennings • Karyn Henry • Rebecca Herzfeld & Gordon Crawford • Heather Hodsdon • Jemae & Ray Hoffman • Meg Horrigan & Terry Foster • Carol Horton • Glenn Horton • Julie Howe & Dennis Shaw • Susan Howell • Mary Howland & Michael Shope • Rebecca Hsia • Harriet Huber • Beatrice Hull • Robert Hunter • Heather Hutchinson • Avis Jobrack • Elizabeth Jones • Patricia Karsky • Trina Kauf-Jones • Anne Kiemle & Kael Sherrard • John Kloeck • James Knapp • Larry Knopp • Art Kobayashi • Mary Catherine Kolb • David Krakora • Barb & Art Lachman • Stewart Landefeld • Danielle Lavilla & Michael Huber • Sandia Lell • Shawn LeValley • Bonnie Lewman • Madalene Lickey • Patricia Lynch • Kiran Mascarenhas • Cecilia Matta • Eile McClellan • Susan McCloskey • Morna McEachern • Marcia McGovern • Eileen McLanahan • Joan Merrill • Catrina Millikan • Ellen Mills • Betsy Minden • Kathleen Moore • Mark Morgan • Laura Morrison • William Mowat • Susan Mozer • Deborah & Michael Murphy • Donna Murphy • Judy Niver • Martha Noerr & Jeff Keane • Ellen Nottingham • Darla O’Brian • Pat O’Connor • Nancy & Stephen Olsen • Amy Olsson • Clare & Austin O’Regan • Timothy O’Sullivan • Susan Palmer • Frank Pariso • Julia

Paulsen • Annie Pearson • Kathryn Pearson • Harold Pelton • Louise Perlman • Suzanne Perry • Barbara Peterson • Susan Petitpas • Carolita Phillips • Jean Picha-Parker • Michelle Plants • Wilson Platt • Candace Plog • Paula Podemski • Kim Port • Jessica Prince • Marion Reed • Esther Reese • Jeremy Reinholt • Caroline Rhoads • Maren Richter • Carla Rickerson • Virginia & Thomas Riedinger • Michele Ruess • David Rush • Joshua Ryder • Rebecca Sadinsky • Marie Sauter • Jamie Scatena • Tami Schendel • Julie Schoenfeld • Frank Schumann • Mark Seklemian • Carol Shafer • Julie Smith • B. Richal Smith • Lynn Sorensen • Dale Stammen • Dana Standish & Noah Seixas • Constance Swank • Catherine Thayer • Sally & Greg Thomas • Tracy Thompson • Annette Thompson • Deborah Torgerson • Amber Walker • Jonna Ward • Doug Weese • Alberta Weinberg • Kayla Weiner • Elizabeth Weir • Julie Weisbach • Dorothy Wendler • Cristina Wenzl • Christine Wick • Sheldon Widlan • Christopher Wiggins • Kim Winward • Kairu Yao

Art Museum • Seattle Arts & Lectures • Seattle Children’s Museum • Seattle Children’s Theatre • Seattle International Film Festival • Seattle Repertory Theatre • Seattle Shakespeare Company • Seattle7Writers • Jenny Shortridge • Preston Singletary • The Sitting Room • Richard Sloniker • Something Silver • Sound Brewery • Storiarts • Studio A Photography • Deborah Swets • Taproot Theatre • Taylor Shellfish Farms • Terry Tazioli • TVW • Ten Mercer • Tori Tissell • Tom Douglas Restaurants • Toulouse Petit Kitchen and Lounge • Town Hall • The Triple Door • University Book Store • Unstill LIfe • UW World Series • Village Theatre • Kristine Villiott • Vittles • Volterra • West of Lenin • Blake Wilson • Woodhouse Wine Estates • Woodland Park Zoo

in-kind donors 4 Rudders, LLC • 5th Avenue Theatre • ACT Theatre • Banya 5 Urban Spa • Beneath the Streets • Bookwalter Winery • Karen Brandvick-Baker and Ross Baker • Brimmer & Heeltap • Lorie Britton • Patricia Britton • Sally Brunette • Joann Byrd • Schilling Cider • Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley • El Gaucho • EMP Museum • Ethan Stowell Restaurants • Mary Fields and John Aylward • Firesteed Cellars • Flying House Productions • Jocelyne Fowler • Stuart Frank and Marty Hoiness • Fundamental Nutrition • Gage Academy of Art • Christian Hansson • The Heathman Hotel • Hilliard’s Beer • Tom Hoffmann • Homewood Suites Seattle Downtown • Hotel 1000 • Icicle Creek Center for the Arts • Irish Reels Film Festival • Pamela Johnson • Jane Jones and Kevin McKeon • Margaret Kineke • Kimberly King • Emily Krebill • Jo Anne Laz • Eleni Ledesma and Eric Rose • The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens • Lloyd Martin • Steve Loeb • LT Nails • Dan Mayer • Christine & Sandy McDade • Mediterranean Inn • Mary Metastasio • MOHAI • Cheryl and Tom Oliver • On The Boards • OOLA Distillery • Pacific Northwest Ballet • Pacific Science Center • Palisade • Deborah Parsons • Michael Patten • Christiane Pein and Steven Bull • Perennial Tea Room • John Platt • Myra Platt and Dave Ellis • Poquito’s • Steve Price • Puget Sound Business Journal • Queen Anne Book Company • David Quicksall • Ray’s Boathouse, Cafe & Catering • Anne Repass • Lynne Reynolds • Rhein Haus • Shirley Roberson • Stephen Robinson • The Royal Room • Steve Schwartzman • Seattle

Gifts in Honor & memory Cindy & John Angiulo in honor of Patricia Britton Anonymous in memory of Willis Strange Susan Bennett, Sonja Coffman, and Kathleen Maki in honor of Sara Elward and Joadey eStar’s wedding The Book-It Babes in memory of Ivan Doig D.A. Davidson & Co. on behalf of Margaret Kineke John Hirschel in honor of Tom Oliver’s birthday Lisa Holderman in honor of Margaret Kineke Kathy Holloway in memory of Nancy Cushwa Deborah Knetzger in memory of Robert Dean Peterson Iryna and Irwin Michelman in memory of their daughter Elizabeth Ann Michelman Meta Pasternak in honor of Joann Byrd John Pehrson in memory of his wife Beverly Welti Polly Schlitz, Blake Wilson, and Patricia Wilson in honor of Myra Platt’s birthday Deborah Swets in memory of Jack Slater The donor list reflects gifts received July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015 Book-It makes every attempt to be accurate with our acknowledgements. Please email Development Associate Leslie Witkamp at lesliew@book-it.org with any changes.

OUR MISSION IS TO TRANSFORM GREAT LITERATURE INTO GREAT THEATRE THROUGH SIMPLE AND SENSITIVE PRODUCTION AND TO INSPIRE OUR AUDIENCES TO READ.

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2010 Mayor’s Arts Award-winner, recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Arts Award and the 2014 Inaugural Sherry Prowda Literary Champion Award, Book-It Repertory Theatre began 27 years ago as an artists’ collective, adapting short stories for performance and touring them throughout the Northwest. The company incorporated as a non-profit in 1990. Today, with over 100 world-premiere adaptations of literature to its credit—many of which have garnered rave reviews and gone on to subsequent productions all over the country—Book-It is widely respected for the consistent artistic excellence of its work.

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