School Girls at Center Theatre Group, September 2018

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Dear Audience Member, Welcome to Center Theatre Group! And thanks for showing up. As artists, we rely on you—our audience—to make the show happen. So please laugh when you feel like laughing, gasp when you feel like gasping, and clap when you feel like clapping.

I have a feeling you’re going to find it impossible not to react to the three powerful shows onstage this month, from three powerful playwrights—all remarkable women of color, whose works are appearing simultaneously at the Ahmanson, Taper, and Douglas.

This is a notable first for Center Theatre Group and something we are very proud of as we kick off our 52ND Season in Los Angeles.

Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations provides everything you could ask for in a new musical: a great playwright (Dominique Morisseau), an iconic catalogue of music, and two of our leading creative minds (director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo). We are extremely pleased to have L.A. Writers’ Workshop community member Dominique Morisseau making her Center Theatre Group debut on our biggest stage.

Our Taper 2018/19 Season opens with Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat, one of the more significant plays of recent years. Lynn has won practically every honor and award in contemporary playwriting and is currently developing a new work which was co-commissioned by Center Theatre Group and Second Stage in New York.

Critics and audiences in New York loved Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play, and I think everyone at the Douglas will feel exactly the same way about this biting, brilliant comedy from an exciting new voice in American theatre. We’ve been fans of Jocelyn’s for some time, having workshopped a different piece of hers recently— so we’re very pleased to be introducing her to our audiences now.

We’re excited to hear and see what you make of these productions. Enjoy the shows, and please don’t be shy about it.

Sincerely,

Michael Ritchie

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AROUND CENTER THEATRE GROUP EDUCATORS GET IMMERSED IN THE 18/19 AHMANSON SEASON Center Theatre Group’s halls were filled with the songs of Dear Evan Hansen and Come From Away over four days in June as Los Angeles educators and Center Theatre Group Teaching Artists came together for an interactive exploration of the art form of musical theatre. Participants learned choreography and music from the shows as educators and artists—and return to school in the fall with lessons and activities for their classrooms along with the ongoing support and collaboration of a community of colleagues. Special guests included 2018 Sherwood Award Winner Hana Kim with a tutorial on how to incorporate projection in the classroom and a video conference with Come From Away director Christopher Ashley to discuss the origins and development of the show.

Meet our Students in St. Louis A group of intrepid student delegates—recent alumni of Center Theatre Group teen programs—traveled to Missouri to participate in the 2018 Theatre Communications Group National Conference June 14–16, 2018. The students took over our @CTGNextGen Instagram Stories to chronicle the Opening Plenary Session, the humidity, and their trip to the top of the Gateway Arch.

ARTISTS AT PLAY JOINS CENTER THEATRE GROUP IN BOYLE HEIGHTS We loved teaming up with Artists at Play for our July play readings at Boyle Heights libraries! Allos: The Story of Carlos Bulosan brought to life an important American hero the history books don’t mention—and marked our first bilingual English-Tagalog reading.

Learn about these free monthly events and more of our programs around L.A. at CTGLA.org/Community.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Special Thanks to Artistic Director’s Circle Members for Supporting Center Theatre Group The Artistic Director’s Circle, founded by Brindell and Milton Gottlieb, is comprised of individuals supporting specific areas of Michael Ritchie’s artistic vision for Center Theatre Group. Since its founding in 2005, members have aligned their support with over 50 productions on our stages. The following individuals have made commitments of $100,000 and above. (DONORS LISTED AS OF JULY 31, 2018.)

COLLEGE STUDENT MEET-UP AT THE HUMANS Q: Will college students choose to attend a family dinner that is guaranteed to include sibling rivalry, cutting remarks from parents, and the introduction of a new significant other?

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A: Yes, if that dinner takes place onstage at the Ahmanson as part of The Humans. It was great to have a group of young people gather for the June 19 performance to see the show together and hang out beforehand in the lobby.

Straight White Men on Broadway Congratulations to playwright Young Jean Lee (left) on the Broadway premiere of Straight White Men! Center Theatre Group Associate Artistic Director Diane Rodriguez (right) joined Lee on Opening Night on July 23, 2018 at the Helen Hayes Theater. Straight White Men was a Center Theatre Group commission that played the Douglas in 2015. Lee, who became the first Asian American woman playwright produced on Broadway, is currently working on a new play cocommissioned by Center Theatre Group and Second Stage Theater in New York as part of the Edgerton Foundation Playwrights Initiative.

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Artists & Educators Forum ($20,000+) The Artists & Educators Forum, founded by Joni and Miles Benickes, is comprised of individuals dedicated to providing significant funding for Center Theatre Group’s New Play Production and Education and Community Partnerships programs.

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AT A GLANCE

TICKET INFO

Center Theatre Group is a nonprofit theatre company that produces and presents at the Ahmanson Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum at The Music Center of Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. For ticketing, the latest news from our theatres, and more, visit CenterTheatreGroup.org.

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An epic tale of resistance, romance and rivalry

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LOS ANGELES HAS MORE THEATRE COMPANIES PER CAPITA THAN ANY CITY, AND IS A PLACE WRITERS FLOCK TO LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES ACROSS EVERY FORM OF MEDIA. But it can still be hard for playwrights to find one another and find support for their theatrical endeavors.

This is why, since 2005, Center Theatre Group’s L.A. Writers’ Workshop has worked to foster and promote a robust playwriting community in a city full of television writers’ rooms. Each year, seven playwrights—many of whom spend their days writing for the screen—are invited to research and develop new work with their peers and with feedback and support from Center Theatre Group staff.

While creating new work has always been a driving force at Center Theatre Group, the world of L.A. theatre is ever-evolving. In exploring our own role in the ecosystem and how we can best support local playwrights, this year Center Theatre Group produced the first ever L.A. Writers’ Workshop Festival: New Plays Forged in L.A., with the support of the Time Warner Foundation.

Top, left (L–R): Jason Dirden, Jon Chaffin, and Malcolm Barrett in How to Raise a Freeman. Top, right (L–R): Brian Anderson and Tim Guinee in New Life. Bottom (L–R): Sam Anderson, Scott Turner Schofield, Jasika Nicole, and Rodney To in A Kind of Weather.

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The Festival featured readings of three new plays from L.A. playwrights—all past participants in the L.A. Writers’ Workshop— onstage at the Kirk Douglas Theatre on June 23, 2018. They were chosen from over 30 submissions from the Writers’ Workshop community. Each play received dramaturgical support, rehearsal space, a cast of actors, and a director.

First on the docket was A Kind of Weather by Sylvan Oswald (2015/2016 L.A. Writers’ Workshop member). The play—dubbed an “obsessive-compulsive time-jumping tragi-comedy”—follows the story of an unexpected pseudo-family reunion between an estranged father and son. Next came New Life by Dan O’Brien (2010/2011 L.A. Writers’ Workshop member), following the story of a war reporter and an ailing playwright, and representing the third in a trilogy of memoir-for-the-stage works by O’Brien. The final piece, How to Raise a Freeman by Zakiyyah Alexander (2012/2013 L.A. Writers’ Workshop member), is the story of a middle-class American family struggling with the realities of institutional and racial violence.

Center Theatre Group Artistic Program Development Manager Patricia Garza explained that the goal was to spotlight the huge talent emerging from the Writers’ Workshop to the local community here in Los Angeles—including local theatre artistic directors and literary professionals—which meant selecting “a group that really represented the diversity and excellence here.”

“Discovery is exactly what we’re aiming for as we support L.A. playwrights at every stage of development.”

The Festival ended with an evening reception, where audience members, artists—including many Writers’ Workshop community members whose works were not staged—and staff members mingled and enjoyed cocktails. The opportunity to be a part of the artistic development process was an exciting occasion for many, as was the chance to come together as a group of professionals and patrons who are deeply invested in the creation of new work in Los Angeles.

Ephraim Sykes, Jeremy Pope, James Harkness, Jared Joseph, and Derrick Baskin in Ain’t Too Proud— The Life and Times of The Temptations at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Photo by litwin.

“NOT JUST YOUR IMAGINATION: “It’s amazing how much play you can get out of a reading, how much of the play is there, how much you can envision,” said Center Theatre Group Associate Artistic Director Neel Keller, who also directed one of the readings. Keller noted that for playwrights, as well as for audiences, readings provide a chance to see work through an exploratory lens. “Readings can seem much more —San Francisco Chronicle alive than a full play,” Keller said. “Actors are still very actively discovering things; they’re making it up and discovering it as you watch them.”

(L–R) Playwrights Sylvan Oswald and Zakiyyah Alexander. Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

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Stitching Together

CRAFT, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY in Boyle Heights

On a Saturday morning in June, a multigenerational group of friends and family gathered around sewing machines and bolts of colorful fabrics at Center Theatre Group’s The Shop.

At one table stood a mother and daughter helping each other lay out fabrics to cut. Two sisters mingled around the room, translating English to Spanish and vice versa.

The Shop serves as the Boyle Heights headquarters of our costume and props departments and also as a hub for community programming. Since 2013, we’ve held free workshops and events— from backyard barbeques to puppet-making classes—for the local community.

In June 2018, we invited community members who have become regulars at our Shop events to participate in a special four-part series focused solely on fundamental sewing skills and techniques.

The workshops involved the same group of seven participants throughout the month and was taught in both English and Spanish.

During the introductory session in the series, Center Theatre Group staff demonstrated to community members how to properly and safely cut fabrics from patterns and operate industrial sewing machines. Participants then practiced on the machines by working on decorative pillows. From there, participants crafted bib aprons with border finishes, tote bags, and finally, quilted table runners.

“WE WANTED TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WITH A BUILDABLE SKILL THAT THEY COULD CONTINUE TO REFINE THROUGH MULTIPLE DIFFERENT PROJECTS,” said Center Theatre Group Costume Shop Manager Brent M. Bruin, who helped design and teach the series. “My hope is that they come out of this experience with the confidence to sit down on a sewing machine and do this at home.”

Boyle Heights resident and artist Dula Camargo has been attending workshops at The Shop since the program’s inception and was especially excited to challenge her sewing skills. Camargo found all the projects in the series enjoyable to work on but considered the tote bag the most rewarding because it taught her how costumes and props in theatre are reinforced for durability onstage. “I think we appreciate things more when we make them by hand,” she said.

Another frequent workshop participant, Margarita Martinez, had spent some time sewing when she was younger and relished the opportunity to improve her skills as an adult. Martinez plans to take all that she has learned back home with her and craft projects for her loved ones. “My son already gave me his order for burlap bags to make,” she joked. “I want to keep learning and practicing.”

Those who had more advanced sewing experience served as teaching assistants. Yannel Capilla—a former fashion student— guided her younger sister through the projects and learned a thing or two about the art of teaching. “I realized that when I’m helping someone else in sewing, I always have to be prepared” for questions and clarifications, Capilla said. “It’s exciting to be able to pass down all that I know about fashion to others.”

Like the Capillas, whose parents also participated in the workshop, most of the community members were families—all eager to share a few Saturday mornings together collaborating on a common interest. As the sewing series came to an end, the group left with their custom-made creations as well as a richer understanding of their abilities as artists, educators, and creators.

“This is theatre for your everyday life,” said Community Liaison Estela Garcia, who helped with Spanish translations with her sister Adela. “Through these workshops, we’re bridging the Boyle Heights community with theatre and also with Center Theatre Group. We all really do feel like family here.”

Learn more about our community programs at CTGLA.org/Community.

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BRINGING SOMETHING NEW TO THE TEMPTATIONS AN INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT AND DETROIT NATIVE DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU

“The story of these young African American men navigating their identities, their music, and their role as artists at a time when the nation was in great civic and social unrest—I just think that speaks for now,” said Dominique Morisseau.

(L–R) Ephraim Sykes, Jeremy Pope, James Harkness, Jared Joseph, and Derrick Baskin in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of Ain’t Too Proud. Photo by litwin.

Morisseau—the acclaimed, award-winning playwright best known for her three-play cycle The Detroit Project and hot off a stint writing for the Showtime series Shameless—was explaining how she approached the writing of the book for Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, onstage at the Ahmanson Theatre Aug 21 – Sep 30, 2018.

As a Detroit native growing up in the long shadow of the Baby Boomers, her parents’ generation, exposure to The Temptations was inevitable and inescapable. “There’s not a Detroiter of my generation that did not grow up in some capacity on Motown,” said Morisseau. “Being able to tell this story from a generation removed allows me to see it from my parents’ lens, the Generation X lens, and through the Millennial lens. I feel like I’m merging those three generational points of view into the story.”

“Because I didn’t live through it the first time, I get to have a wide view of it,” she added of the history the show encompasses. “Looking back on it I get to see it in a different way. That makes the music mean 20 more things than even the people that lived through it probably even imagined.”

Societal sea changes also lent fresh contexts to the deceptively multi-leveled music. “These lyrics that are love lyrics really sound like they’re talking about more than a traditional relationship between men and women,” she said.

“It sounds like this could be a relationship between anyone: a man and a man, a woman and a woman, this could be a

relationship between men and their nation. And I just started operating on all these levels, and that’s how the songs revealed themselves to us, as opposed to anything we did brilliantly. The music itself just moves through time brilliantly on its own.”

The creative team’s instincts about the music received some particularly trenchant validation during its recent Kennedy Center run, she revealed. “Representative John Lewis came to our show a couple of nights ago,” she recalled. “And this is John Lewis who did the Freedom Rides and the civil rights movement, and started the March on Washington with Dr. King.” During a meet-and-greet after the show, Lewis shared a key bit of insight about just how deeply the music mattered to the movement. “He said, ‘If not for the music, the civil rights movement would have been a bird with no wings.’ And I just thought, ‘God—you can’t write that better.’ It was one of the most profound things anyone’s ever said to us about the show.”

But the full effect isn’t only a lesson in the historical significance of pop songs, particularly when so many of the messages in the music also ring true in today’s increasingly divisive and racially charged cultural and political climate. “You know The Temptations’ music, but you’re getting a different delivery of it with this show,” she said. “I’m very excited about how we use the element of theatre to really deepen and transcend the meanings in some of the songs. We’re finding new meaning in their music that I think speaks to a very contemporary context.”

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SCHOOL GIRLS

Or, the African Mean Girls Play

By Jocelyn Bioh Directed by Rebecca Taichman Sep 2–30, 2018 SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION

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GIFTS OF $5,000,000 AND ABOVE Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Kirk & Anne Douglas Ahmanson Foundation GIFTS OF $1,000,000 AND ABOVE Anonymous (2) Edgerton Foundation Kiki & David Gindler Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation Renee & Meyer Luskin Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren Sue Tsao The Annenberg Foundation Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. The Louis and Harold Price Foundation GIFTS OF $500,000 AND ABOVE Deena & Edward Nahmias Donna Schweers & Tom Geiser Elliott Sernel Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Jerry & Terri Kohl Louise Moriarty Michael Ritchie & Kate Burton GIFTS OF $250,000 AND ABOVE Joni & Miles Benickes Diana Buckhantz & the Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation

Anonymous Cindy & Gary Frischling Center Theatre Group Affiliates Nancy & Eric Garen Glenn & Andrea Sonnenberg The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Jody & David Lippman Thomas Beers Vicki King Thomas Safran Judie Stein & J R Stein Family Foundation Matt & Dana Walden GIFTS OF $100,000 AND ABOVE The Campagna Family Deidra Norman Schumann Donna & John Sussman Yvonne & Derek Bell Mara & Joseph Carieri Friars Charitable Foundation Manuela & James Goren Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs Cheryl A. Shepherd GIFTS OF $50,000 AND ABOVE Anonymous Anne Bruner & Jim Bremner Patrick Owen & Norman Dixon Carol & Stephen Rountree Sunshine Stone Peter & Iona Tompkins Hope Landis Warner

Center Theatre Group would also like to thank the following donors for making commitments to the 50TH Anniversary Campaign through legacy gifts to our Endowment:

Legacy Gifts $1,000,000 AND ABOVE Judith & Thomas Beckmen Martin Massman Diane & Leon Morton Peter & Susan Van Haften $500,000 AND ABOVE Richard & Norma Camp Susan A. Grode Linda S. Peterson $250,000 AND ABOVE Pamela & Dennis Beck Shirley & Irving Ashkenas Bill Cohn & Dan Miller Maggy Simon I.H. Sutnick

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE Managing Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director

Presents the MCC Theater production of

By

Jocelyn Bioh With

MaameYaa Boafo Joanna A. Jones Myra Lucretia Taylor

Latoya Edwards Abena Mensah-Bonsu Zenzi Williams

Paige Gilbert Mirirai Sithole

Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Sound Design

Arnulfo Maldonado

Dede Ayite

Jen Schriever

Palmer Hefferan

Hair and Wig Design

Dialect Coach

Casting

Cookie Jordan

Deborah Hecht

Associate Artistic Director

Production Stage Manager

Telsey + Company Adam Caldwell, CSA William Cantler, CSA Karyn Casl, CSA

Kelley Kirkpatrick

Rachel Gross

Directed by

Rebecca Taichman SEPTEMBER 2–30, 2018 KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE World Premiere at MCC Theater, October 16, 2017 (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey & William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) Originally developed as part of The New Black Fest at The Lark, 2016 Additional development as part of MCC Theater PlayLabs series, 2016 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3

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CAST (In Alphabetical Order) Paulina Sarpong.........................MaameYaa Boafo Ama............................................ Latoya Edwards Gifty................................................. Paige Gilbert Ericka Boafo................................Joanna A. Jones Nana..................................Abena Mensah-Bonsu Mercy............................................ Mirirai Sithole Headmistress Francis............Myra Lucretia Taylor Eloise Amponsah...........................Zenzi Williams Intermission School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play is performed without an intermission.

Time/Place Aburi Girls Boarding School—located in the Aburi Mountains in central Ghana. The year is 1986.

Stage Managers Brooke Baldwin (L.A.) Sydney Coons (N.Y.)

Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones and watch alarms. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

WHO’S WHO MAAMEYAA BOAFO (Paulina Sarpong). Born in Pakistan, raised in a couple European and East African countries, and hails from Ghana. Theatre: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play (MCC, Drama League nomination, Lucille Lortel Outstanding Lead Actress nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination, and Drama Desk Ensemble Award winner); Lift (Crossroads, 59E59); Hamlet (American Globe Theatre); Comedy of Errors (The Shakespeare Project); Untamed (National Black Theatre). TV: Chicago Med, Blacklist, Mysteries of Laura, Madam Secretary, American Odyssey, Iron Fist. Film: The Family Fang; Where is Kyra?; Olive; New York, I Love You; When It All Falls Down.

Currently: An African City (two-time Golden Movie Awards Best Actress nominee). Training: MFA in acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts-Rutgers. To Mama, Dada, Kofi, Kwaku and Timothy, Meda Mo, Ase Pii. Special thanks to Jeremiah. maameyaaboafo.com. SDG.

LATOYA EDWARDS (Ama) was recently seen as Pearl in Miss You Like Hell at The Public Theater.

Her other credits include Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical at Atlantic Theater Company, Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat at Adirondack Theatre Festival, and Carefully Taught at Astoria Performing Arts Center. Her TV/film credits include The Get Down, Law & Order: SVU, and the short film Want a Cookie? latoyaedwards.nyc PAIGE GILBERT (Gifty) hails from Detroit, MI. She is honored to continue sharing the story of School Girls at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. OffBroadway: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble). TV: The Deuce and High Maintenance. Film: Late Night and Adam.

Education: BFA SUNY Purchase.

JOANNA A. JONES (Ericka Boafo). California native Joanna A. Jones received her bachelor’s degree in theatre from UCLA. Broadway: Hamilton (Richard Rodgers). West End: Thriller Live (The Lyric Theatre). Regional: Gotta Dance (Bank of America Theatre), Baz: Star Crossed Love (Palazzo Theater), Kiss Me Kate (Pasadena Playhouse), Hair (Hollywood Bowl), Showboat (Sacramento Music Circus), Parade (3-D Theatricals), Caroline, or Change (PCPA), For The Record Live: Baz Luhrmann, John Hughes, Tarantino. TV: NBC’s Hairspray Live!

ABENA MENSAH-BONSU (Nana). Off-Broadway: School Girls (MCC World premiere, Drama Desk Award). Additional NYC credits: Ragtime (Ellis Island) and How The Light Gets In—Water is Life (NYMF). Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Oregon Cabaret); Avenue Q (Playhouse on Park); Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Zach Theatre). Cruise ship: Rafiki Vocalist (Disney Cruise Line). TV: Orange Is the New Black; Daredevil; The Other Two. Abena has provided vocals for Te’La & Da Sol and Bryan Hansen Band. In 2017 she conceived, co-produced, and performed Wade: Reflections in the Water to benefit the ongoing Flint, Michigan water crisis. Thanks to Center Theatre Group, MCC, Jocelyn, Rebecca, the “school gehls,” mom, dad, and more. Isaiah 40:31. For LaRece. AbenaCMB.com MIRIRAI SITHOLE (Mercy). New York theatre credits: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (MCC; Lortel Award, Drama Desk Ensemble Award), The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company), Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man... (Signature Theatre Company), Mother Courage and Her Children (CSC; Rosemarie Tichler Award), Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), and Autumn’s Harvest (Lincoln Center Education).

Regional: Skeleton Crew (Dorset Theatre Festival), Our Town, and Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville). On TV she has appeared in Bull, The Affair, Master of None, Broad City, and soon to be released Russian Doll on Netflix. She played the title role in Ace—a short film

by Morgan Kahn Nichols—which won the Best New York Short Jury Award at NewFest 2017, and she recently participated in the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Marrakesh, Morocco. Mirirai received her BFA in theatre from Adelphi University and was a member of the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville. miriraisithole.com

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MYRA LUCRETIA TAYLOR (Headmistress Francis).

Broadway: Nine (Tony Award for Best Revival), Macbeth, Electra, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Mule Bone, A Streetcar Named Desire. OffBroadway: The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova; Lortel nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical), School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play (MCC; Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble), Familiar (Playwrights Horizons; Lortel and OCC nominations for Best Featured Actress in a Play).

Regional: Where Storms Are Born (Williamstown Theatre Festival, World premiere), Our Town (Long Wharf), Mary (Goodman), The Old Settler (McCarter and Long Wharf, World premieres). National tour: Wicked (first African American Madame Morrible). International: The Winter’s Tale and Pericles (member of Royal Shakespeare Company).

TV: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), Atlanta (FX), Girls (HBO), Madam Secretary, Elementary, Instinct (CBS). Film: The Big Sick, Catfight, Bushwick, Madeline’s Madeline. Web: Best Thing You’ll Ever Do (Indie Web nomination for Best Supporting Actress).

Ms. Taylor is a Fox Fellow.

ZENZI WILLIAMS (Eloise Amponsah) was last seen in the title role of The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit of Henry V, directed by Robert O’Hara. Other theatre credits include The Crucible (Broadway), The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company), Imogen Says Nothing (Yale Repertory Theatre), Mother Courage and Her Children (Classic Stage Company). Television credits include The Good Fight, The Defenders. Upcoming: Daredevil. Film: Black Panther, The Mess He Made. Williams studied at the British American Dramatic Academy and has a BA from Temple University and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

JOCELYN BIOH (Playwright) is a GhanaianAmerican writer and performer. NYC acting credits include In the Blood (Signature Theatre, Drama Desk nomination); Everybody (Signature Theatre, Lortel nomination); Men On Boats (Playwrights Horizons); An Octoroon (Soho Rep); Neighbors (The Public); and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2015 Tony Award for Best Play). Her plays include 2015 Kilroys’ List selection Nollywood Dreams (part of 2017 The Cherry Lane Mentor Project), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (2017/18 MCC Theater, Lortel Award, OCC John Gassner Award, Hull-Warriner Award, Drama Desk nomination, Drama League nomination, OffBroadway Alliance nomination, Kilroys’ List 2016), African Americans (2011 Ruby Prize Finalist), Goddess (book writer), and The Ladykiller’s Love Story, of which she conceived the story and wrote the libretto with music/lyrics by Cee Lo Green. She is a commissioned playwright with Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Second Stage Theater. She is a resident playwright at Lincoln Center and is a 2017-18 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence with MCC Theater. BA in English and theatre from Ohio State University and MFA in playwriting.

REBECCA TAICHMAN (Director). 2017 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play, Obie, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Indecent written by Paula Vogel (Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre, Broadway at The Cort Theatre). Rebecca has directed on and Off-Broadway, new plays and classics, musicals and opera. She has worked with writers Jocelyn Bioh, Sarah Ruhl, Danai Gurira, Enda Walsh, Brian Selznick, Kirsten Greenidge, Nico Muhly, David Adjmi,

and Stephen Karam, among others. She has worked at theatres such as The Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Old Globe Theatre, ART, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter, Woolly Mammoth, etc. Rebecca is a resident director at The Roundabout Theatre in NYC, a Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute, and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. rebeccataichman.com ARNULFO MALDONADO (Scenic Designer) is a New York City-based set and costume designer.

Notable New York credits include Bull in a China Shop (Lincoln Center Theater); School Girls..., Charm (MCC Theater); Sugar in Our Wounds (Manhattan Theatre Club); Caught (The Play Company); Dance Nation, Men On Boats, IOWA (Playwrights Horizons); Twelfth Night (The Public Theater); Bobbie Clearly, Kingdom Come (Roundabout Theatre Company); Duat, generations (Soho Rep). Regional: Berkeley Rep, Center Stage, Central City Opera, Guthrie Theater, Humana Festival, The Old Globe, Olney Theatre Center, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Two River Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Tour: The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir; Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Mr. Maldonado is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist, a recipient of a Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Award and a multiple Henry Hewes Design nominee. MFA: NYU Tisch. arnulfomaldonado.com DEDE AYITE (Costume Designer). Broadway: Children of a Lesser God. Select Off-Broadway: Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC); School Girls (MCC); Mankind, Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons); JHAT (Signature); The Royale (Lincoln Center); Tell Hector I Miss Him, Marie and Rosetta (Atlantic); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); brownsville song (b-side for tray) (LCT3). Regional: Denver Center; California Shakespeare; La Jolla Playhouse; Berkeley Repertory; Baltimore Center Stage; Arena Stage; Steppenwolf; Cleveland Playhouse; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Signature Theatre; McCarter Theatre.

Television: Comedy Central; FOX Shortcoms; COPPER Project.

Awards: Recipient of Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, and Jeff Awards; two Drama Desk nominations. Education: MFA Yale School of Drama.

JEN SCHRIEVER (Lighting Designer). Broadway: Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. Recent Off-Broadway: Dan Cody’s Yacht, In the Body of the World (Manhattan Theatre Club); Bobbie Clearly, On The Exhale (Roundabout); The Amateurs (Vineyard); Collective Rage, School Girls…

(MCC); Strange Interlude (Transport Group); The Moors (Playwrights Realm); Eclipsed, ToasT, and A Second Chance (The Public); Night Is a Room (Signature). Current regional: The Waves (NY Stage and Film); Support Group for Men (Goodman); What the Constitution Means to Me, Angels in America (Parts One and Two) (Berkeley Rep).

Also: ART, OSF, Goodspeed, Studio Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, South Coast Repertory, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Opera: Die Fledermaus, Pearl Fishers (Metropolitan); Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Traviata (Mariinsky, Russia); and The Pearl Fishers (English National Opera). Adjunct Professor: Purchase College. jenschriever.com PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5

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PALMER HEFFERAN (Sound Designer). Select credits include Broadway: The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54). Off-Broadway: Sugar in Our Wounds and Important Hats… (Manhattan Theatre Club); Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Theatre); Collective Rage, School Girls, and Charm (MCC Theater); Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages); Orange Julius (Henry Hewes nomination, Rattlestick, Page 73); Death of the Last Black Man… (Signature Theatre); Friend Art (Second Stage); Samara and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Henry Hewes nomination, Soho Rep); Today Is My Birthday (Drama Desk nomination, Page 73).

Regional: Henry V and Henry IV, Part 1 (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Tartuffe, The Christians (PlayMakers Repertory); peerless (TBA Award, Marin Theatre); Guards at the Taj (Helen Hayes nomination); Baby Screams Miracle (Helen Hayes Award, Woolly Mammoth). MFA: Yale School of Drama.

COOKIE JORDAN (Hair and Wig Designer). Broadway: Once On This Island; Sunday in the Park with George; In Transit; Eclipsed; Side Show; After Midnight; Fela!; A View From the Bridge; South Pacific.

Off-Broadway: In the Blood, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Park). Tours: Fela! (European and national tours), Dirty Dancing, Flash Dance (national tour). Television: Emmy nominated for makeup design for NBC’s The Wiz Live!

RACHEL GROSS (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: The Parisian Woman. Off-Broadway: The Amateurs (The Vineyard Theatre); Everybody (Signature Theatre); WAR (LCT3); Measure for Measure, Isolde, An Octoroon (TFANA); Samara, Duat, 10 Out of 12, An Octoroon, Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep); Once Upon a Mattress (Transport Group); While I Yet Live, Harbor, and All in the Timing (Primary Stages). Regional: Cloudlands, A Christmas Carol, The Borrowers, and Jane of the Jungle (South Coast Repertory). Other credits include: Isolde, The Evening (New York City Players), Shiner, Do Like the Kids Do (IAMA), Sundance Theatre Lab in Morocco, and many workshops, readings, galas, and events. Rachel is thrilled to be returning home to Southern California for this limited run of School Girls at Center Theatre Group.

BROOKE BALDWIN (Stage Manager, L.A.). Center Theatre Group: Bloodletting, Spamilton, Big Night, Good Grief, Vicuña, Disgraced, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Kansas City Choir Boy, Girlfriend, Chavez Ravine, Luna Gale, Race, different words for the same thing, The Nether, The Convert, Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens. Rio Hotel in Las Vegas: Duck Commander Musical. Universal Studios Hollywood: Special Effects Show, Grinchmas. Other venues: Moonlight Amphitheatre (San Diego), Geffen Playhouse, Cabrillo Music Theatre.

SYDNEY COONS (Stage Manager, N.Y.). Off-Broadway credits include: The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre) and Little Rock (The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture).

TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Broadway/tours: Pretty Woman, Straight White Men, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Mean Girls, Frozen, SpongeBob SquarePants, Once On This Island, Hello, Dolly!, Come From Away, Waitress, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, Wicked, The Color Purple, On Your Feet! Off-Broadway: Be More Chill, Atlantic Theater Company, MCC Theater, Park Avenue Armory, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Second Stage Theater. Film: Mary Poppins Returns, The Greatest Showman, Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married. TV: Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, This Is Us, House of Cards, Divorce, NCIS: New Orleans, One Day at a Time, “Atypical” commercials. telseyandco.com

MCC THEATER was founded in 1986 and is driven by a mission to provoke conversations that have never happened and otherwise never would. Programming encompasses annual productions; development of new work; and renowned education and outreach programs that help more than 1,200 NYC public high school students each year to find and use their own unique voice, increase literacy, improve grades, and develop important life skills through the creation and performance of their own original work. MCC Theater empowers artists and students to take risks to create bold, daring work that explores contemporary moral issues and inspires active engagement of audiences. MCC Theater’s celebrated productions include Robert Askins’ Hand to God (Broadway transfer with five 2015 Tony Award nominations including Best Play and London transfer 2016); Penelope Skinner’s The Village Bike; John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair; Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Really Really; Sharr White’s The Other Place (Broadway transfer); a fully reimagined version of the musical Carrie; Jeff Talbott’s The Submission (Laurents/Hatcher Award); Michael Weller’s Fifty Words; Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride; Bryony Lavery’s Frozen (Broadway transfer; four 2004 Tony Award nominations including Best Play, Tony Award winner for Best Featured Actor); Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone; Rebecca Gilman’s The Glory of Living (2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Margaret Edson’s Wit (1999 Pulitzer Prize); and nine plays by Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute, including The Money Shot, Reasons to Be Happy, reasons to be pretty (Broadway transfer, three 2009 Tony Award nominations, including Best Play), Some Girl(s), Fat Pig, and The Mercy Seat.

Many plays developed and produced by MCC Theater have gone on to productions throughout the country and around the world. mcctheater.org

CENTER THEATRE GROUP MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 14TH season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 200 productions to the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre stages, including the premieres of six musicals that moved to Broadway—The Drowsy Chaperone, Curtains, 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Leap of Faith—and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE (Managing Director) joined Center Theatre Group in 2014 as Managing Director. He was previously the President and CEO of The Music Center (2002–2014) and concurrently the CEO of the Los Angeles Opera (2008–2012). He served the J. Paul Getty Trust for 22 years, starting in 1980 as Deputy Director of the Getty Museum, then Director of the Getty Center Building Program, and in 1998, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Getty Trust. He currently serves as a trustee of Occidental College, The Ahmanson Foundation, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and Polytechnic School.

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 29TH season at Center Theatre Group. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network, and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers.

In May 2013, Doug received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

KELLEY KIRKPATRICK (Associate Artistic Director). Since arriving at Center Theatre Group in 2005, Kelley has produced over 60 productions at the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre, many of which have gone on to future lives on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and beyond. In addition to producing

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shows across Center Theatre Group’s three stages, he has had the privilege of collaborating with numerous local and national artists to commission and develop new works.

NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre) has worked professionally supporting artists in theatres of all shapes, sizes, and locales including many seasons at Center Theatre Group as General Manager and, previously, as Audience Development Director. She oversees mainstage productions at the Taper and Douglas, as well as new play commissions and developmental productions through Center Theatre Group’s New Play Development. Nausica has taught at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, and advises and works with local nonprofits including Hollywood Orchard.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre— including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989, Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR SCHOOL GIRLS Associate Director (N.Y.)...............................................................................................Daniella Caggiano Assistant Director.................................................................................................................Katie Lindsay Assistant Costume Designer (N.Y.)......................................................................................Sonia Alvarez Assistant Costume Designer (L.A.)..................................................................................... Kat Patterson Assistant Lighting Designer................................................................................................ Meghan Hong Additional Dialect Coach...................................................................................................Charlotte Fleck Prop Designer.........................................................................................................................Noah Mease Prop Lead..................................................................................................................Kitty Murphy-Youngs Prop Artisans.......................................................................................................... Eric Babb, Erin Walley Prop Carpenter..................................................................................................................... Ryan Howard Head Scenic Charge..................................................................................................... JessieAnna Wilton Carpentry Crew...............................................Bo Foxworth, Ryan Fischer, Melissa Hartman, Curt Gavin, ..........................................................................Harold Kast, Liz Kocimski, Joe Hallam, Michelle Black Assistant Sound Designer..................................................................................................Z. Worthington Associate Scenic Designer..........................................................................................Lawrence Moten III Associate Lighting Designer.................................................................................................Adam Honore Assistant Scenic Designer....................................................................................................Abby J. Smith Wigs and Hair Supervisor................................................................................................ Chloe-Nil Acerol Musical Director......................................................................................Michael Thurber, Rona Siddiqui Electrics Crew.......................................Lunch Box, Maggie Darago, Lucas Garrity, Taylor Shaw, Jenisse ...................................................................Castillo, Chris Kramer, Evan Drane, Liz Kocimski, Ed Rehr Tailor/Draper.................................................................................................................... Swantje Tuohino First Hand.................................................................................................................... Stephanie Molstad Light Board Programmer....................................................................................................... Eric Mitchell Master Electrician................................................................................................................... Sean Meyer CREDITS Sets provided by the Center Theatre Group Shop. Props provided by Noah Mease. Costumes provided by MCC Theater. School uniforms built by Bethany Joy. Additional costumes provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop.

MUSIC CREDIT “The Greatest Love of All” Written by Linda Creed and Michael Masser Courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Used by permission.

SPECIAL THANKS Nabiyah Be, Jessica Chase, Beth Dembrow, Nicholas Galbraith, Ayisha Hunt, Zainab Jah, Niké Kadri, Megan Ringeling, Steve Rosenberg, Laura Wilson, and the staff of MCC Theater.

This production was rehearsed at The Atlantic Theater Company.

76 9TH Avenue, Suite 537, New York, NY 10011 atlantictheatre.org

FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEADS Trevor Algatt, AJ Meijer, Tarah Pollock FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEAD SWINGS Chase Anderson-Shaw, Bradford Barnes, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Stephen Lydic, Adrienne Marquand CONCIERGES Olivia Choate, Brandon Cutts, Megan DeHart, Eric Eberle, Amber Espinosa-Jones, Angela Garcia, Tara Griffo, Joan Kubicek, Sarah Lindsley, Rachel McVay, Janice Motuapuaka, Nicole Naito, Brenda Phillips, Daniel Rashid, Denise Reynoso, Leve Ross, Michayla Van Treeck DISCUSSION LEADERS Chase Anderson-Shaw, Candice Clasby, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Stephen Lydic, Adrienne Marquand, Isabella Petrini, Jor-el Vaasborg CONCESSIONS Brandon Cutts, Megan DeHart, Abilene Gonzalez, Monica Greene, Mike Lanahan, Rachel McVay STAGE DOOR ATTENDANTS Ian Ray, Cory Aycock

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE Managing Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director

ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER...............................................................Associate Artistic Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK................................................. Associate Artistic Director DIANE RODRIGUEZ..................................................... Associate Artistic Director LINDSAY ALLBAUGH.............................................................. Associate Producer PATRICIA GARZA ...................................Artistic Development Program Manager ANDREW LYNFORD ...................................................................Casting Associate IAN-JULIAN WILLIAMS ....................................Program Coordinator, Block Party MATTHEW BOURNE, DANAI GURIRA, ANNA D. SHAPIRO ......................................................................Associate Artists DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), LUIS ALFARO, JON ROBIN BAITZ, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), STEVE CUIFFO, LISA D’AMOUR, WILL ENO (FADIMAN), DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, ALESHEA HARRIS, LARS JAN, NANCY KEYSTONE, LISA KRON, KIMBER LEE, YOUNG JEAN LEE, TREY LYFORD, RICHARD MONTOYA, JANINE NABERS (FADIMAN), QUI NGUYEN, LYNN NOTTAGE, MARCO RAMIREZ, AL SMITH, ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH, GEOFF SOBELLE, MARIKE SPLINT, GOB SQUAD, LUIS VALDEZ, PAULA VOGEL, TRACEY SCOTT WILSON (FADIMAN), KAREN ZACARÍAS (FADIMAN)............................................Commissioned Artists JEFF AUGUSTIN, MARCUS GARDLEY, ALESHEA HARRIS, LAURA JACQMIN, MOLLY SMITH METZLER, MATTHEW PAUL OLMOS, JIEHAE PARK ............L.A. Writers’ Workshop Members HANA S. KIM......................................................Sherwood Award Recipient, 2018 EDUCATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LESLIE K. JOHNSON............. Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact KATHRYN MACKENZIE ................................................ Director of Administration TYRONE DAVIS.....................................................Audience Engagement Director TRACI KWON.................................................. Arts Education Initiatives Director JESUS REYES...................................................Community Partnerships Director CAMILLE SCHENKKAN..................................Next Generation Initiatives Director JAQUELYN JOHNSON...........................................Audience Engagement Manager SONDRA MAYER............................Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM NICOLAI.................................................Arts Education Program Manager FELIPE M. SANCHEZ............................................................Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals Program Manager JENNIFER HARRELL.......................................................Administration Assistant DEBRA PIVER................................................................. Resident Teaching Artist MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION NAUSICA STERGIOU................................................................... General Manager JEFFREY UPAH ...........................................................................General Manager KATIE SOFF.................................................................Associate General Manager ERIC SIMS..................................................................Associate General Manager CASEY MCDERMOTT..................................................Associate General Manager MEGAN ALVORD....................................................................... Company Manager ALANA BEIDELMAN.......................... Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director EVELYN STAFFORD....................... Executive Assistant to the Managing Director PRODUCTION JOE HAMLIN........................................................................ Director of Production KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO.......................................................... Production Manager CHRISTOPHER REARDON......................................................Production Manager KATIE CHEN...........................................................Assistant Production Manager ERICA LARSON..................................................................Production Coordinator SHAWN ANDERSON.................................... Head Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) STAN STEELMON....................................... Head Properties (Ahmanson Theatre) JAMES WRIGHT.......................................... Head Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH.................................................Head Sound (Ahmanson Theatre) SHANE ANDERSON............................................Head Flyrail (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER.......................... Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) MARY WARDE......................................................... Hair and Make-up Supervisor .............................................................................................. (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX.......................................House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) EMMET KAISER............................................Head Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) MARY ROMERO........................................... Head Properties (Mark Taper Forum) AARON STAUBACH......................................Head Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE................................................ Head Sound (Mark Taper Forum) DENNIS SEETOO.................................. Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) RICK GEYER.............................. Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LINDA WALKER ........................................... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) ADAM PHALEN .............................................. Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre)

SEAN MEYER .......................................... Light Board Programmer and Operator ...........................................................................................(Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAMBRIA CHICHI............................Wardrobe Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) BEN GRAY..............................................Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHAD SMITH............................................................ Associate Technical Director LEE O’REILLY........................................................... Associate Technical Director SEAN KLOC...................................................................................... Shop Foreman MERRIANNE NEDREBERG................................................... Interim Prop Director CANDICE CAIN........................................................................... Costume Director BRENT M. BRUIN..............................................................Costume Shop Manager MADDIE KELLER..................................................................... Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER..........................Resident Assistant Costume Desginer SWANTJE TUOHINO........................................................................................Tailor OPERATIONS DAWN HOLISKI............................................ Director of Operations and Facilities PETER WYLIE................................................................. Office Services Manager ELIZABETH LEONARD................................................... Senior Facilities Manager MAX OKEN................................................................................ Facilities Manager DONAVAN MARTINELLI........................................................... Facilities Assistant JULIO A. CUELLAR.......................................................................Driver/Custodian JOSEPH HALLAM, CURTIS GAVIN...............................................................Drivers FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, AND HUMAN RESOURCES CHERYL SHEPHERD...........................................................Chief Financial Officer SARAH STURDIVANT.................................... Director of Finance and Technology SUZANNE BROWN...................................................................................Controller DANNY LAMPSON OPSTAD...................................................Accounting Manager NAKISA ASCHTIANI......................................................... Senior Staff Accountant ALEGRIA SENA........................................................................... Staff Accountant XOCHITL RAMIREZ.................................................. Accounts Payable Supervisor KERRY LARICK.....................................................................Accounting Assistant JESSICA HERNANDEZ................................................................. Payroll Manager JUAN MARTINEZ......................................................................... Payroll Specialist STAN GRUSHESKY............................................ Director of Information Systems ASH LEWIS......................................................................Help Desk Administrator JODY HORWITZ........................................................Director of Human Resources PJ. PHILLIPS.................................................Senior Human Resources Generalist MELISSA MCCAFFREY...........................................Human Resources Generalist MOSS ADAMS............................................................................................. Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF..................................... Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER......................................................... Legal Counsel INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL..........................Director of Institutional Advancement TYLER ENNIS ............................... Deputy Director of Institutional Advancement JASON CABRAL ...................... Director of Advancement Operations & Analytics LOUIE ANCHONDO .............................. Director of Events & Corporate Relations ASHLEY TIERNEY ......................................................Director of the Annual Fund MANDI OR.................................................... Associate Director of Special Events KATY HILTON........... Associate Director of Foundation and Government Support DANIELLE LESNER............................... Associate Director of Donor Engagement TERRA GOULDEN.................................................................... Major Gifts Officer LAURA HITE.......................................................................Manager of Major Gifts ERIC SEPPALA..............................................................Executive Assistant to the ..................................................................Director of Institutional Advancement DANIELLA DOUGLAS........................................................................ Board Liaison ERIN SCHLABACH........................................Manager of Major Gifts Stewardship MATTHEW SUTPHIN................................................... Special Events Coordinator MIKE RATTERMAN........................................................ Donor Advisor Supervisor EDUARDO MOLLINEDO-PIÑÓN.............................Donor Membership Coordinator KIM OKAMURA ............................................................................ Grants Manager DONALD JOLLY.......................................................Donor Experience Coordinator SOHINI RISAM............................................ Institutional Advancement Assistant AL BERMAN, KATE CAMPBELL, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, JESSICA KATZ, BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, NICOLE SCIPIONE, PAUL VITAGLIANO, BILL WALTON ................. Donor Advisors KARLA GALVEZ, JUSTINE PEREZ................................ Donor Services Associates WAUKENA CUYJET, MURRAY E. HELTZER......................Development Volunteers

Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication, and extraordinary efforts.

MARKETING DEBORAH WARREN..............................................................Director of Marketing KYLE HALL...................................................................................Creative Director GARRETT COLLINS.......................... Senior Marketing Manager, Strategy & CRM ARIE LEVINE..........................................Senior Marketing Manager, Ahmanson & .................................................................................................. Mark Taper Forum KIYOMI EMI.........................................Marketing Manager, Promotions & Events EMYLI GUDMUNDSON.........................Marketing Manager, Kirk Douglas Theatre LAUREN VAN VLEET............................................. Sales & Marketing Coordinator CAROLINE THOMPSON/IMPACT 123............................................ Media Planning DEANNA McCLURE...............................................................................Art Director IRENE T. KANESHIRO....................................................... Senior Design Manager SANDI SILBERT............................................................................ Senior Designer TARA NITZ.................................................................................. Graphic Designer JAVIER VASQUEZ........................................................................ Graphic Designer COMMUNICATIONS JAMES SIMS..............................................................Director of Communications JASON MARTIN........................................................................... Head of Publicity KRISTI AVILA............................................................................................ Publicist KAREN BACELLAR.........................................................................Junior Publicist SARAH ROTHBARD.................... Senior Manager, Communications and Editorial RUTH GUERRA........................................................Communications Coordinator REZA VOJDANI......................................................Communications Coordinator SAMMY LOPEZ...............................................................Social Media Coordinator HAL BANFIELD......................................................................Multimedia Producer TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON............................................................ Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS............................................ Senior Manager, Ticket Operations NICOLE MEDINA.....................................................Ticket Operations Coordinator MICHAEL ZOLDESSY............................................Senior Manager, Account Sales SANDY CZUBIAK........................................................... Audience and Subscriber ....................................................................................................Services Director JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE.......................................... Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN................................................. Audience Services Asst. Supervisor GARY HOLLAND............................................ Audience Services Sales Associate SAM AARON, JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, KIMBERLY ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., ALEJANDRA DE PAZ, KAITLYN GALVEZ, MICHAEL ESPINOZA, ANASTASHIA GARCIA, CHRISTINE PEDROZA, EILEEN PEREZ...............................................Audience Services Representatives DANUTA SIEMAK................................................ Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ........................... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor IRENE CHUANG, LIGIA PISTE, PETER STALOCH....................................................................Subscriber Services ..........................................................................................Senior Representatives SARAH K. GONTA .................................................................. Box Office Treasurer ANGELICA CARBAJAL, KISHISA ROSS................................. Assistant Treasurers MICHAEL KEMPISTY, KEVIN LAUVER, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, CRIS SPACCA........................................... Box Office Staff KERRY KORF.................................................................. Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER..................................... Priority Services Operations Manager CANDICE WALTERS............................................ Priority Services Sales Manager PAUL CUEN.................................................................. Priority Services Manager KRISTEN SCHRASS...................................Priority Services Assistant Supervisor ................................................................................................................................

BEALENE AHERN, CLAY BUNKER, RITA CANNON, MAGGIE DODD, NATALIE DRESSEL, SOFIJA DUTCHER, MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN, FRANK ENSENBERGER, LOU GEORGE, BRAD GRIFFITH, SHEP KOSTER, JORDAN KRSNAK, JULIANNA OJEDA, IAN PRICE, MICHAEL SMITH, DIANE WARD, CHANTEL WHITTLE, DELLA WOOD.....................Priority Service Representatives ANGELICA CASTANEDA, LILY COMEAU, JEFFREY FRIEDMAN, IDO GAL, LT GOURZONG, CHEUKWA JONES, MICHELLE LEVITT, SARAH LINTON, NAIMA OROZCO-VALDIVIA, SAM SHERRY, EDUARDO VILLEGAS, TRENYCE WILLIAMS................................................Interns

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ADVOCATE CIRCLE (CONTINUED) Michele Paley & Len Blonder, Yvonne Bogdanovich & Family, Richard & Pat Bongeorno, Claudette G. Bowie, Nancy Brandel, Sandra & Robert Braun, Marti Breier, Judy & David Breitstein, Dr. Wallace P. Brithinee, Janice R. Brittain, Dr. Lisa Bukaty & Mr. Raymond M. Bukaty, Constance Burg, Beth Burnam, Vera A. Campbell, Melinda Carmichael, Torino Carr, Sandra L. Carter, Mrs. James L. Chew, Ms. Jean F. Cohen, Joanne R. Cohen, Carrie Cooper, Ted Cordes, Judy Tishkoff & Keith Crasnick, Kathryn Crown, Steve & Linda Darling, Maurie Davidson, Ron de Salvo, Mrs. George DeRoy & Cathy DeRoy, Norma & Al Diaz, Ms. Laurie Dubchansky, Mr. & Mrs. Gene B. Duncan, Mr. Richard Nupoll, James & Marie Earl, Kenneth Erlich & Louise Halevy, Ellen Eubanks, Victoria I. Evers, Jim Bright & Lucy Farber, Johanna & Gene Felder, Edward & MaryAnn Feo, Robert Finkel & Adelle Gross, Joan & Marty Flax, Ruth Fleming-Stephens, Marilynn S. Fong, Matthew & Sherry Frank, Rosalie Friis-Ross, Howard J. Fulfrost, Robert Gasway & Kristen Wong, Lesley & Dr. Kenneth H. Geiger, The Gelfand Family, Jeanne K. Gerson, Sandy Ginsburg, Traute & Gene Gleeson, Howard Gleicher, Gary Jackson & Linda Globerman, M.D., Barbara Gollin, Tanya & David Goodman, Myles & Barbara Goodson, Jackie & Stan Gottlieb, Dr. Sudha & Dr. Gopal Govindarajan, Peggy A. Grant, Mrs. Arlyn Gundersen, Abbas & Lynda Hadjian, Kate A. Halkett, Ms. Rose Ann Hall, Scott Hall & Rhonda Church, Carol Halperin, Audrey & Paul Hanneman, Karen Hansen, Jack & Janet Harootun, Phyllis & J. Michael Hennigan, Scott & Flora Herman, Karen Hirshan/Hirshan Family Foundation, Dorothy Hoffman, Dorothy K. Hull, Joan R. Isaacs, Dr. & Mrs. Robert Itami, Karen & Jake Jacobs, Lynda & Mitchell Jacobs, In Memory of Wayne Jervis, Jr., Starr C. Johnson, Janet & Steve Kahane, Sally Karbelnig, Cynthia & Jerry Kay, Albert Kelly & Marjorie Stevens Kelly, Joel Kelly & Hedda Jayson, Judith G. Kelly, Sharon Kerson, Carol Kindler, Irene & Marvin H. Kleinberg, Bill Kobin & Frances Goodman, Fred & Sheri Kuppers, Lena, Mark, Jodi & Emily Labowe, Earle & Sharon Lambert, Katherine L’Amour, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert A. Lampert, Jo Ann Lee, Ned Leiba, Richard & Vivian Levy, Mae & Hugh Lichtig, Patty Loch, Allan & Helen Gordon Lowy, Marge & Bill MacLaughlin, Denise M. Mamishian, Ginny Mancini, Janice E. Mangerino, Mrs. Clifford Marshall, Mr. & Mrs. Dennis G. Martin, Margaret L. Mathews, Ms. Jacqueline H. Matlock, Daniel Mayeda & Susan Rosales, Dr. Rosie M. Mayfield, Michael & Marian Kleinman, Theresa L. McConville, Eric Winston & Jacqueline McIntyre-Winston, Arthur Melville, Ph.D. & Marsha Utain, M.S., Robert L. Mendow, Lorraine & Craig Meyer, Don & Lorena Meza, Lary & Mary Anne Mielke, Carolyn Miller, Nicole L. Miner & Celia Ruskin, Arleen Miya, Francoise Schmutz & Antonio Morawski, Mr. Jacques Nack Ngue, Bruce Newhall, Isabel Friend Newman, Russell Noel, Dale & Ayako Okuno, Ms. Patricia M. O’Toole, Mr. & Mrs. Mark M. Panatier, Thomas Payne, Carole Pelton, Carol Phillips & Bob Shapiro, Barry & Jane McCullough, Dr. Stephen C. Rabin, Ms. Carlene Ringer, Belinda Robins, Ernesto & Richard Rocco-Davies, Bingo Roncelli, Rabbi & Mrs. Moshe Rothblum, Mr. & Mrs. John Schulte, Nicole Scipione, Drs. T.V. Scott & Karen Hill Scott, Ruth & Mitchell Shapiro, Lynn Sharp, In Memory of Ruth & Leon Sirkin, Karen & Gordon Silverstein, Mrs. & Dr. Robert Simon, David & Irene Smith, Dedicated to Bug, Mr. Ricardo Sosapavon, Diane & James Staes, Marilyn & Errol Stambler, Carol Stein Sterling & James Sterling, Ms. Gail Goldberg Stoter, Dr. Arthur H. Streeter, Deborah K. Streiber, Stephen & Karen Sweeney, Ronald & Shelly Tamkin, Sheila & Lawrence Teplin, Susan & William Tinkley, Rob & Dinah Titcher, Elizabeth Topkis, Philip & Eileen Tremonti, Ms. Andrea Valcourt, Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin, Claire Vincent, M. June Walden, Denise & Peter Walsh, Kathryn & Thomas Weber, Winifred P. & William Weisinger, Lauri Weiss, Kathy Weisshaar, Dr. Clyde Wesp, Pat West, Leilani Jones Wilmore, Dr. Libby F. Wilson, Karen & Gary Winnick, Michele A. Kerr Wolfe, Jill Wondries, Bonnie L. Wong, Madelon Yamamoto, Myrna & Stanley Zimmerman

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In this highly theatrical exploration into the soul of an American icon, Tony and Olivier Award-nominee Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor imagine Nat “King” Cole as he faces the final Christmastime broadcast of his groundbreaking variety show and weighs the advice of his friend Sammy Davis Jr. to “go out with a bang.” Songs such as “Nature Boy,” “It’s a Good Day” and “Unforgettable” underscore this innovative look at one of America’s greatest talents. Starring Emmy Award-nominee Dulé Hill (West Wing; Stick Fly; Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk) as Nat “King” Cole and Daniel J. Watts (Hamilton, Memphis) as Sammy Davis Jr.

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Endowment Gifts These cash gifts ensure a stable source of support for new work and initiatives to make theatre accessible to underserved audiences. $500,000+ Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Renee & Meyer Luskin, John S. Surabian, Jr. and in memory of Faith and Sharon Ann Surabian | $250,000+ The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation | $100,000+ Betsy & Harold Applebaum, Judith & Thomas Beckmen, The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, Maynard & Linda Brittan—Traub-Brittan Family Trust, Center Theatre Group Affiliates, Kenneth Corday, Regina Fadiman, Barbara & Peter Fodor, Ava & Charles Fries, Brindell & Milton Gottlieb, The Hearst Foundation, Inc., Vicki King, Gloria Lothrop, Richard G. & Virginia L. Martin, Louise Taper | $50,000+ Ellen & Michael S. Korney, Dorothy & Richard Sherwood $25,000+ Abbott Brown, Linda Brown, Greve Foundation, Dr. Tom Hickey, Diane & Leon Morton | $10,000+ A and J Davidson Skipper Award Fund, Levine Foundation, Carolyn & Kit Lokey, Betty & Sanford Sigoloff

Entertainment Circle Thank you to our generous supporters who are leaders in the entertainment industry, including our multi-year donors, whose gifts ensure a secure base for our future. (DONORS LISTED AS OF JULY 1, 2018.)

MULTI-YEAR DONORS: Florence C. Agcawili, G.W. Bailey, Greg Basser & Kiera O’Neill, Paula Brand, Norman Buckley In Memory of Davyd Whaley, Nick Dudzak, Greg H. Dunn, Donna L. Herman, Phil Hettema, Dozar Office Furnishings, James & Melanie Renfroe, Eileen T’Kaye & David Bischoff, Mr. Charles W. Weeks, Marc Zachary | ANNUAL DONORS: Anonymous (2), Amy Aquino & Drew McCoy, Corinne Baldassano, John Bowab, Diane & Dorothy Brooks Foundation, William H. Brown II, Kevin Kashima & Kelly Cantley-Kashima, Marcy Carsey, Veronica Cartwright, Children in Film, Becky & Mike Clements, Seth Cover & Mycotoo, Bill & Ellie D’Elia, Bob Doucette & Tom Slotten, Bob Ducsay, It’s A Wrap MPCER, Chris Cookson & Lauren Firestone, Darcy Fleck, Jacque & Bobby Florsheim, Seth Freeman & Julie Waxman, Catherine Gessner, Laura Gibson, Molly Gray & Sande Stewart, Marcy & Edgar Gross, Michael Hanel & Steven Linder, Karen Hermelin & Mark Borman, Winifred C. Hervey, Karen & Stephen Hillenburg, Alicia Hirsch & Jesse Russo, Sean Johnson & Alex Ocampo, Idea Asylum Productions & Dr. Allegra & Mr. Sheppard Kaufman, Sarah E. Kiefer, Dr. Peter A. Krikes, Nita Whitaker LaFontaine, Marla E. Levine, Joette Marks, Mr. Theodore K. Martinez, Maria D. Mercado, Carla Meyer & Charles Arnold, Tina J. Miller, Lawrence A. Mirisch, Chinsook Kim Moore, Jonathan B. Murray, Suzy & Daniel O’Connell, Justin Okin, Debra Pelton & Jon Johannesssen, Patty & Mike Post, Shelley Powsner & Stephen Skrovan, Shirley & Brian Pundt, Mr. Stephen H. Purvis, Don Foster & Erin Quigley, Michael Reisz & Jeff Rago, Jay & Linda Sandrich, Jill Sattinger, Greg Scott, Serendipity Productions, Daniel Shattuck, Mr. Donald Spradlin, David A. Steinberg, Jessica Stone, Stephen J. Strauss & Harriet M. Rolnick, Jack & Marlene Susser, Brad & George Takei, Ms. Allison Thomas, Russell Todd Agency, Barry Trachtenberg, Cliff Warner, Bonnie Weis, Ms. Lynn E. Weisman, Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Wright, Jennifer Crittenden & William Wrubel

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Carmen Schaye, President EXECUTIVE BOARD Anne Bruner,* Ilene Eisenberg, Roberta Haft,* Christine Harte, Thea F. Koss, Diane Lesser, Jerri Nagelberg, Diane Neubauer*, Kim White Peterson*, Sheila Poncher,* Sharon Reisz, Marsha Tauber Sallai, June Sanders Sattler,*♦ Joyce Sheingold, Maggy Simon, Carole Solomon, Marilyn Stambler,* Janice Brock Wallace*, Janice Weiner, Rosalind Zane* | MEMBERS Gail Ann Andrews, Arthe P. Anthony, Sandy Avchen,♦ Janet Barnet,*♦ Sue Bass, Judith Beckmen,*♦ Marjorie Bender, Marjorie Ann Beradino, Lanie Bernhard, Deena Blum, Lestrita Boardman,♦ Audrey L. Bornstein, Roanna Araneta Brown, Elnora Guerrero Campos, Marlene Theresa Charbonnet, Barbara Mansfield Cheyne,*♦ Jan Cobert, Victoria Cushey, Mary Levin Cutler,,♦ Judi Davidson, Cariline Davis Dyer, Babe Eagle, Gloria H. Ellwood,* Lynda Wolfson Fadel, Stephanie Fisher-White, Ruth Flinkman-Marandy,,♦ Joey Freed,♦ Carolyn H. Fried, Ava O. Fries,*♦ Myra Gabbay, Carole A. Gillie, Linda Goldfein, Linda Goldman,♦ Dina Goldstein, Debra C. Gordon, Brindell Gottlieb, Carol Halperin, Stephanie J. Hibler, Audrey V. Jessup, Tobé Karns, Diane Kessler,* Barbara Krasnoff, Beau Lavine, Rita Lee, Annie Maria Lehrer, Marilyn Levin,♦ Helen Gordon Lowy, Dr. Elizabeth Lu, Marianne Mandel, Phyllis Massing, Ph.D, Leah Mendelsohn, Jacqueline Nach, Deena Nahmias, Olivia Neece, Phyllis Parvin, Gina Russ Posalski,*♦ Anne Reismann, Irene Ribner, Harriett Chatters Rose,♦ Lois Rosen,♦ Marla Rubin, Gaile Gray Ryan, Bonnie Sachs,♦ Carole Schiffer, Kelly Schiffer,* Zrelda Sealey, Joyce Siegel, Robbie J. Solomon, Marilyn Lee Stark, Carol Stein, Debbie Stein, Judy Stone, Betsy Straszheim, Gloria Stroock-Stern, Donna Sussman,* Rosalyn Holt Swartz, Louise Taper, Phyllis Teller, Katherine L. Todd,* Sue Tsao,♦ Roberta Turkat, Elinor Turner, Carol Le-Veque-Uri, Barbara Van Orden, Donna Marie Venick,* Sue Wittner *Past Presidents | ♦Executive Board Members at Large

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2018/2019 MUSIC CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Follow The Music Center on Facebook, and follow @MusicCenterLA on Instagram and Twitter.

Support The Music Center (213) 972-3333 musiccenter.org/support (213) 972-7211 musiccenter.org

Jay Rasulo

Robert J. Abernethy Cindy Miscikowski Vice Chairs

Lisa See

Rachel S. Moore President and Chief Executive Officer Diane G. Medina Secretary Susan M. Wegleitner Treasurer William Taylor Assistant Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer MEMBERS AT LARGE William H. Ahmanson

Joseph Rice Richard K. Roeder Catharine Soros Marc I. Stern Philip A. Swan Cary H. Thompson Walter F. Ulloa Timothy S. Wahl Alyce Williamson Jay Wintrob Rollin A. Ransom General Counsel DIRECTORS EMERITI Peter K. Barker Judith Beckmen

Wallis Annenberg

Eli Broad

Jill Baldauf

Ronald W. Burkle

Phoebe Beasley

Amb. (ret.) John B. Emerson*

Darrell Brown Kimaada M. Brown Dannielle Campos Greg T. Geyer Lisa Gilford Kiki Ramos Gindler Maria Rosario Jackson Glenn Kaino Cary J. Lefton David Lippman

Lois Erburu Richard M. Ferry Brindell Gottlieb Bernard A. Greenberg Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Amb. (ret.) Glen A. Holden Stuart M. Ketchum Amb. (ret.) Lester B. Korn

Richard Lynn Martinez

Kent Kresa

Bowen “Buzz” H. McCoy Mattie McFaddenLawson

Robert F. Maguire, III Ginny Mancini

Elizabeth Michelson

Walter M. Mirisch

Darrell D. Miller

Fredric M. Roberts

Shelby Notkin

Claire L. Rothman

Michael Pagano

Joni J. Smith

Cynthia M. Patton

Cynthia A. Telles

Karen Kay Platt

James A. Thomas

Rory Pullens

Andrea L. Van de Kamp*

Max Ramberg

Paul M. Watson

Edward J. McAniff

Thomas R. Weinberger Rosalind W. Wyman * Chairman Emeritus

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Los Angeles —the cultural hub of the country—is home to America’s most diverse population and more entertainment options and venues than anywhere else in the U.S. A s one of the nation’s largest performing arts centers, and as a cultural anchor in Los Angeles County, The Music Center convenes artists, communities and ideas with the goal of enriching the lives of every resident.

To help realize its vision, The Music Center is poised to become a multidisciplinary arts center for the 21st century, not only as a home for classical art forms, but also as a driving artistic voice for diversity and inclusion that reflects and responds to the ever-evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Through compelling programs that are relevant to a range of audiences, serving Los Angeles in all its breadth, The Music Center is both the home and the force behind some of the greatest creative expression today.

OFFICERS Lisa Specht Board Chair

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Fusing Science and the Human Form

Company Wayne McGregor Autobiography With bold set design and large-scale projections synced to an electronic score, each performance of Autobiography is as unique as DNA itself.

OCTOBER 5 – 7 TICKETS ON SALE NOW! THE MUSIC CENTER’S AHMANSON THEATRE musiccenter.org/autobiography (213) 972-0711

Company Wayne McGregor, Autobiography, Sadler’s Wells. Photo by Andrej Uspenski.

GROUPS OF 10+: (213) 972-8555 mcgroupsales@musiccenter.org

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Explore the Relationship Between the Human Body and its Architectural Environment

Diavolo Architecture in Motion® OCTOBER 12 – 14 TICKETS ON SALE NOW! THE MUSIC CENTER’S AHMANSON THEATRE musiccenter.org/diavolo (213) 972-0711

Photo by Thomas Ammerpohl

GROUPS OF 10+: (213) 972-8555 mcgroupsales@musiccenter.org

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SEPTEMBER SAT 01 SEP / 2:00 p.m.

Ain’t Too Proud CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Ahmanson Theatre Thru 9/30 SAT 01 SEP / 8:00 p.m.

SWEAT CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Mark Taper Forum Thru 10/7 TUE 04 SEP / 11:00 a.m.

Grand Park’s LUNCH À LA PARK: Food Trucks @ Grand Park Every Tue/Wed/Thu TUE 04 SEP / 5:30 p.m.

Grand Park’s Bootcamp @ Grand Park EVERY TUESDAY Thru 9/18 FRI 07 SEP / 7:00 p.m.

The Music Center’s Dance DTLA 90s Night @ Grand Park Performance Lawn SAT 08 SEP / 9:00 a.m.

Opera for Educators LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion SAT 08 SEP / 5:30 p.m.

Grand Park + Outfest present PROUD Picnic + Movie Night @ Grand Park Performance Lawn

SUN 16 SEP / 2:00 p.m.

Grand Park Sunday Sessions presents Focus DJs (Nonfiction & Josh Billings), David Montoya, Juliet Mendoza, and Lacey IQ @ Grand Park Performance Lawn THU 20 SEP / 8:30 p.m.

Hotel Modern: KAMP REDCAT @ Roy And Edna Disney / Calarts Theater Thru 9/29 SAT 22 SEP / 6:00 p.m.

Don Carlo LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 10/14 SAT 22 SEP / 2:00 p.m.

The Mozart Requiem LA MASTER CHORALE @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 9/23 THU 27 SEP / 7:00 p.m.

California Soul Opening Night Concert & Gala LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall SUN 30 SEP / 9:00 a.m.

Celebrate LA! LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

2018 Visit musiccenter.org for additional information on all upcoming events. facebook.com/MusicCenterLA @MusicCenterLA

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES Support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: JANICE HAHN, Fourth District; KATHRYN BARGER, Fifth District; SHEILA J. KUEHL, Third District, Chair; HILDA L. SOLIS, First District; and MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS, Second District

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