September 2011 Broke at the Alliance Theatre

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Inspires a New Play

16 If It Ain’t Broke‌

Award-winning playwright Janece Shaffer on her 4th Alliance production.

the performance 9 Program and Notes

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Sometimes theatre distracts you from the world outside.

And sometimes it gives you a light to shine on that world, to help you see a path. And once in a while — it can do both.

As I sit here writing a program letter for a play called Broke, the economic pundits are shifting their rhetoric from whether this is a double dip recession to how to chart a path through its quite evident presence. As we begin rehearsals for this play, we do so with a smaller staff than we had before that aforementioned recession, and with people all around us with firsthand knowledge of a spouse who has lost his or her job. There’s nothing hypothetical about this play.

Janece Shaffer delights in a good story. She hoovers them out of people who would never think of themselves as forthcoming; I’ve watched her do it time and again.

And lucky for all of us, she takes those riches, puts them in the spin cycle with what is happening in our world, and creates even better stories. These are stories for a kind of theatre that entertains us because it’s about something thick and human.

Theatre that compels us not in spite of its direct collision with the complications of our lives — but because it hits us so squarely head on. It seems purely inevitable that this author has written a play called Broke.

So maybe this one’s about someone you know. Or maybe it’s about you. Either way — hold its hand. It knows the way.

Susan V. Booth Jennings Hertz, Jr. Artistic Director

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“The basic premise [of “the new normal”] is that we are in the midst of a major national and global realignment. The main catalyst was the financial crisis of 2008, but the underlying factors have been there for a while. The question is: What does the world look like post-realignment? The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal.”

— Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and co-chief investment officer of Pimco

A bumpy economy

inspires a new play by celise kalke

“You can’t have everything.

Where would you put it?”

— Steven Wright

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ince Black Monday in 1987, the American economy has exploded and crashed, exploded and crashed: 1990, 2001, 2008 ...

Janece Shaffer’s play, Broke, examines one family’s crash. It begins with the moment when everything changes. The primary bread winner, a corporate executive, loses her job.

This leads to the inevitable downsizing of household expenses, which is where the dramatic tension in Shaffer’s play springs from. What is stressful in real life translates into delicious fun in the theatre. Talking about finances is a tricky proposition. Defining necessity becomes a class issue. And class issues become particularly stressful in a society where

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Broke: Synopsis The Eliasons were living the American dream … granite countertops, Range Rovers and HDTV. And then 52-year-old Liz Eliason, a high-level marketing executive (and the major breadwinner in the household) comes home to her husband Jonathan with the news that she’s been fired.

She is shocked; he is thrilled. With the wealth they have accrued from her career, they can now finally enjoy a life together. But when the company Liz has worked for goes under a few days later and, with it, a great part of their wealth, Liz, Jonathan and their 19-year-old daughter Missie — a student at NYU — are now facing a new reality. In this world of uncertainty, Broke asks: When it seems like everything is falling through your fingers, what (and who) do you hold on to?

discover us. discover you.

Members of our community respond to the work on the stage Our truest selves, the best and worst of us, are revealed in moments of crisis. Our compassion, our selfishness, our fear and our heroism fight it out with no certain winner. We survive. We regroup. We move on.

Janece Shaffer’s Broke resonates with the truth that we are all flawed.

We do our best; we hurt one another; we comfort one another; we need one another and we resent the needing. In Broke we discover that our deepest relationships are more tensile than fragile, stretching and bending to let us grow.

— Penny McPhee, president, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

class status is perceived to be fluid and defined in large part by spending habits.

Disclosing decisions about money breaks social taboos. But as always in the theatre, what is difficult to discuss in “real” life can make a great play.

What interests Janece Shaffer isn’t stock market trends, recessions or GNP. She is interested in her neighbors in Atlanta. She is wonderful at listening and chronicling her hometown. And in the past few years, Atlanta has buzzed with many (often whispered or covert) discussions about money.

Broke portrays a specific family facing change in the wake of the “new normal.”

Shrinking resources to cover expanding

responsibilities define our moment.

This play allows Atlanta to come and experience this new normal together.

Please respond to the play with your stories, comments and reactions at www.alliancetheatre.org/broke. alliancetheatre.org

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ALLIANCE THEATRE presents

Written by Janece ShafferÂ

Scenic Design by

Costume Design by

Lighting Design by

Sound Design by

Jack Magaw

Janice Pytel

Pete Shinn

Kendall Simpson

Production Stage Management by

lark hackshaw & R. Lamar Williams

Dramaturgy by

Casting by

Celise Kalke

Jody Feldman & Harriet Bass

Directed by Jason Loewith Hertz Stage Season Sponsored by:

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cast in alphabetical order

Galen Crawley......................................................................................Missie Eliason *Tess Malis Kincaid..................................................................................... Liz Eliason *James M. Leaming............................................................................ Jonathan Eliason *Elisabeth Omilami................................................................................. Evalyn Rentas

UNDERSTUDIES

Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of performance.

Linda Carnes........................................................................................ Evalyn Rentas Rachel Garner........................................................................................... Liz Eliason Emma Jackson.....................................................................................Missie Eliason Alpha Trivette................................................................................... Jonathan Eliason *lark hackshaw ...........................................Production Stage Manager (through 10/09) *R. Lamar Williams .................................... Production Stage Manager (starting 10/11) Jayson T. Waddell.......................................... Stage Management Production Assistant *Denotes a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented

by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

Special thanks to Scot Mann.

Setting: Today. Right now. Atlanta.

There will be one 15 minute intermission.

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited, is a violation of United States Copyright Law and is an actionable Federal Offense.

Cameras and recording devices are absolutely prohibited in the theatre. Cell phones and pagers are extremely disturbing and should be silenced before the performance begins.

The Alliance Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union.

The Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre, and is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young Audiences (ASSITEJ/USA), The Atlanta Coalition of Theatres, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Midtown Alliance.

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profiles

Galen Crawley

LINDA CARNES

Tess Malis Kincaid

James M. Leaming

Elisabeth Omilami

rachel garner

emma jackson

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GALEN CRAWLEY (Missie Eliason) is thrilled to be making her debut at the Alliance! You may have seen her this year as Erin in Married Alive (ART Station) or as Alexandra in The Little Foxes (Theatre in the Square). Regional credits include Sally in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Festival 56); Hair, Annie and Show Boat (The Little Theatre on the Square); and Hairspray, Annie and Hello, Dolly! (Arrow Rock Lyceum). She has a BFA in musical theatre from the Conservatory at Webster University in St. Louis. Thanks to Mom and Dad for not turning her bedroom into a home gym, Devyn for liking SYTYCD, Dan for Skype hugs and her friends all over the country for their phone calls.

Tess Malis Kincaid (Liz Eliason) appeared last season at the Alliance as Barbara in August: Osage County. She has also appeared here in Moonlight and Magnolias, The Miracle Worker and Amadeus. Tess is an associate artist at Georgia Shakespeare, where she has performed in Antony and Cleopatra, Noises Off, Titus Andronicus, The Odyssey, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Last year she traveled to San Francisco to perform in The Seagull at Marin Theatre Company. Tess has also worked at Actor’s Express, Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Theatre in the Square, Horizon Theatre, People’s Light & Theatre (Philadelphia) and NC Shakespeare Festival (eight seasons). Film/TV: I Can Do

Bad All By Myself and “House of Payne.” She received the 2010 Suzi Bass Award for best actress in a play for Good Boys and True. She is married to actor Mark Kincaid, and they have a beautiful daughter, Barbara Rose.

JAMES M. LEAMING (Jonathan Eliason) Alliance Theatre debut. A Few Good Men, Peninsula Players; Tobacco Road, American Blues Theater, Chicago; This Wonderful Life at Cleveland Playhouse (2010), Syracuse Stage (2009) and Asolo Repertory in Florida (2008); Devil’s Disciple, Winter’s Tale and Inventing Van Gogh.

This season his one-person This Wonderful Life will play at Laguna Playhouse, Calif. In Chicago he has worked for Steppenwolf, Northlight, Victory Gardens, Goodman, Next and at Canamac Productions in Botanic Garden with his wife, Carmen Roman, directed by Olympia Dukakis. He is a founding member of American Blues Theater (1985). Training: American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco), Second City (Chicago). Awards: After Dark best actor for The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon; Sarasota Magazine best actor and best show for This Wonderful Life; and a Joseph Jefferson Award for the set design of Tobacco Road. He is proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

ELISABETH OMILAMI (Evalyn Rentas) is excited to return to the Alliance Theater stage after being away many years focusing on her non-profit, Hosea Feed the Hungry alliancetheatre.org

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profiles and Homeless, and developing her television and film career. She still remembers the wonderful roles she’s played at the Alliance Theatre including Mrs. Fezziwig in David Bell’s A Christmas Carol (ummm Christmas!). Other Alliance performances include The Amen Corner and The Old Settler. With over 30 years experience on the professional theater stage Elisabeth can be seen most recently in the lifetime TV movie Marry Me and in the theatrical film The Blind Side. She thanks the Alliance for choosing her. Her husband, actor Afemo Omilami, was recently seen in Brokeology, so they have a running joke at home, which you can imagine. Her filmography and stage credits can be seen at Omilami.com Linda Carnes (US Evalyn Rentas) is an alumna of the Alliance Theatre Acting Program and was last seen as Blanche Dubois in Desire, Desire, Desire; Grace Dunbar in scenes from The Nacirema Society…; and Flo in Picnic, all produced by the Acting Program. She performed Eve in the monologue, Past Eve, and the role of Carol in Watching Love in the 2010 Artist’s Showcase Atlanta at Seven Stages Theater. She appeared last as Clairee Belcher in a community theater production of Steel Magnolias and is featured in the role of Julia Brown in the AlphaFem Productions’ film, Chameleons. When not on stage Linda travels, cooks, engages in B.A.B.E.S., her charity and collects primitive art. She is an alumna of Drew University, Syracuse University and holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California. Linda is especially the proud mother of Chloë, a college student preparing to be an entrepreneur or marine biologist. She is represented by Houghton Talent. rachel garner (US Liz Eliason) Rachel is delighted to be working at the Alliance for the first time. An Atlanta native, she graduated from Emory University with a degree in Theater Studies. Previous Atlanta credits include Sy in Fair Use at Actor’s Express, Susan Smith in 1:23 at Synchronicity Theatre, and Pace in The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek at Theater Emory.

EMMA JACKSON (US Missie Eliason) Nationally: The Ugly Duckling (Serenbe Playhouse, Atlanta), Meeting at the Elders’ Circle (JPEK Creative Works, St. Louis), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Outlaw Style Thrance Company, Los Angeles).

Internationally, Emma wrote, produced and

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directed a bilingual adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk in Shamakhy, Azerbaijan. Onscreen credits include The Spiderwick Chronicles and the short film Yellow. Emma holds a BFA from Webster University’s Conservatory of Theater Arts.

ALPHA TRIVETTE (US Jonathan Eliason) is honored to be making his Alliance Theatre acting debut. His early credits include the CBS-TV film A Time to Triumph and Fox’s “America’s Most Wanted.” After a career as a headlining stand-up comic and 25 years as a morning-radio personality, Alpha returned to acting with classes in the Alliance Theatre’s Education Department. He starred in a number of black-box presentations, including Once in a Lifetime, Our Town, Election Day, Splinters and showcase roles in Circle Mirror Transformation, August: Osage County and Man From Nebraska. Alpha stars in the longrunning hit Peachtree Battle at the Ansley Park Playhouse. In the past year, Alpha has had featured film roles in Tiger Lily, Slice, The Ivy League, Encuntrate and upcoming roles in Slice II and Pimp. He is grateful to the Alliance Theatre for the confidence in offering this role and to his family for their love and support.

JANECE SHAFFER (Playwright) is an Atlanta native and nationally produced award-winning playwright. Her play Managing Maxine (Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, Gene-Gabriel Moore Best New Play Award) was commissioned by the Alliance and premiered here under the direction of Susan V. Booth in 2009 and then went on to the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota. Shaffer’s Brownie Points (2010 Gene-Gabriel Moore Best New Play Award) debuted at Theatrical Outfit and was produced in May 2011 at Seattle’s Taproot Theater. Other Alliance credits include Bluish (also produced at Teatron Theatre, Toronto; the New Jewish Theatre, St. Louis; and Arizona Jewish Theatre Company, Phoenix), and her very first play, He Looks Great in a Hat. Shaffer’s newest work, With Love From the Pyramids of Atlanta was presented in a staged reading under the direction of Kenny Leon at True Colors Theatre Company in April 2011.

Shaffer has also developed work at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Theatre J, Sacramento Theatre Company, Horizon Theatre, San

profiles Diego Repertory Theatre and with New Rivers Dramatists. Shaffer dedicates this show to her wonderful family.

Jason Loewith (Director) won Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Jeff awards for Best New Musical for Adding Machine: A Musical, which he co-wrote with composer Joshua Schmidt (off-Broadway, 2008). Recent regional work as a director includes Crime and Punishment and Working It Out (Baltimore CENTERSTAGE), Adding Machine: A Musical (Studio Theatre, DC), and a dozen plays for Chicago’s Next Theatre Company, where he served as artistic director from 2002-08.

Those include the Chicago-area premieres of Dying City, Defiance, The Long Christmas Ride Home and Fabulation. While at Next, he conceived and directed the world premiere of The American Dream Songbook, wrote and directed the world premiere of War With the Newts and produced Chicago premieres

by Caryl Churchill, Suzan-Lori Parks, Carson Kreitzer, Sam Shepard, Dael Orlandersmith and many more. He is a three-time NEA artistic excellence grantee, recipient of support from the Rockefeller MAP Fund and MacArthur’s International Connections Fund and a TCG New Generations Future Leaders grant.

Jason lives in Washington, D.C., where he is the executive director of the National New Play Network.

JACK MAGAW (Scenic Designer) makes his Alliance Theatre debut with this production of Broke. Recent Chicago and regional theatre design credits include Gee’s Bend (Cincinnati Playhouse), Samuel J & K (Steppenwolf Theatre), Eclipsed and A Life (Northlight Theatre), Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and Home (Court Theatre), Funny Girl (Drury Lane Oakbrook), Mauritius (TheatreSquared), She Loves Me, The Old Settler and Picnic (Writers’ Theatre), All My Sons (TimeLine Theatre), Radio Golf (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Cabaret, A Flea in Her Ear and Winesburg, Ohio (Kansas City Repertory) and Bug (Redtwist Theatre), which he co-directed and designed with Kimberly Senior. He received Joseph Jefferson Award nominations for Picnic and Bus Stop (Writers’ Theatre), Fences (Court Theatre) and Seven Guitars (Congo Square).

Upcoming projects include Superior Donuts (Geva Theatre) and The Caretaker (Writers’

Theatre). Mr. Magaw lives in Chicago with director Kimberly Senior and teaches design classes at both the Theatre School, DePaul University, and the Department of Theatre, Northwestern University. jackmagaw.com Janice Pytel (Costume Designer) Broadway: 33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife. Regional: Middletown, The Seafarer, Sonia Flew, The Last of the Boys, The Pain and the Itch and The Drawer Boy (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); A Streetcar Named Desire (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Crime and Punishment (Centerstage); The Long Red Road (Goodman Theatre); Winesburg Ohio, The Glass Menagerie, and The Drawer Boy (Kansas City Rep); The Detective’s Wife, A Streetcar Named Desire, Picnic and The Savannah Disputation (Writers’ Theatre); as well as productions with Center Theatre Group and Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Madison Rep, Indiana Rep, Court Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Company and numerous small theatres in Chicago. Janice is a member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago and is acting as its literary manager.

Pete Shinn (Lighting Designer) is the master electrician for the Alliance Theatre. His most recent designs have been HONK!, Disney’s Mulan, Class of 3000 LIVE, Seussical: The Musical, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and Glengarry Glen Ross at the Alliance; Blood Knot, Keeping Watch and A Christmas Memory for Theatrical Outfit. His previous designs have been with the Alliance Theatre (Alliance Stage and Hertz Stage), Actor’s Express, Horizon Theatre, Theatre in the Square, Georgia Ensemble Theatre, George Street Playhouse and Delaware Repertory Theatre.

Kendall Simpson (Sound Designer & Composer) has designed and composed original scores for several Atlanta theaters including Georgia Shakespeare, Alliance Theatre, Theatre in the Square, Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Horizon Theatre, Theatrical Outfit and Theater Emory. Working in film, Simpson recently scored The Promotion (2011). Other independent films include the The Etiquette Man, which has received top honors at several film festivals.

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profiles recent work for dance is a video, “disrepair,“ which was premiered at the 2009 American Dance Festival. Other work includes Papillon, which was premiered by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Lee Harper and Dancers.

Simpson is also honored to have won two Suzi Bass awards. lark hackshaw (Production Stage Manager) Favorites include off-Broadway: Langston in Harlem; Hoopz (Disney); Mama, I Want to Sing.

Alliance Theatre: Bring It On: The Musical, Twist, Avenue X, August Wilson Full Circle: Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf; Eurydice; Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies; Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; Jelly’s Last Jam; Five Guys Named Moe; Topdog/Underdog; King Hedley II; Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk; Wit; and How I Learned to Drive. National tours: Ain’t Misbehavin’; Noise/Funk starring Savion Glover; Dreamgirls starring Jennifer Holliday. Regional theatre: Rejoice!, True Colors Theatre Company; Soldier’s Play, Black Spectrum Theatre; Blues in the Night, Arena Stage; My Castle’s Rockin’, N. Carolina Black Repertory; Grease, Muny Theatre; Dance: Urban Nutcracker; The Leopard Tale, Ballethnic Dance Company. Other credits: An Evening With Carol Burnett; line producer/ executive assistant to producing artistic director, North Carolina National Black Theatre Festival 1997–present.

Celise Kalke (Director of New Projects) is proud to work on her third world premiere with Janece Shaffer (Bluish, Managing Maxine and now Broke). Celise joined the staff of the Alliance in 2005. She has grown the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition to include New York readings, a festival in Atlanta, new play workshops across the country and was dramaturg for world premieres at the Alliance (Carapace, Tennis in Nablus, Smart Cookie, In the Red and Brown Water and False Creeds).

She was the director of the literary department at the Public Theater in New York, working with writers such as John Guare, Diana Son, Tracey Scott Wilson and Stephen Adly Guirgis, and the production dramaturg for Shakespeare in Central Park productions. At the Public she worked with such well-known actors such as Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, Ben Stiller, Jimmy Smits, Peter Dinklage and Rosie Perez. She was an Artistic Associate at Next Theatre in

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Chicago, working with Jason Loewith on War With the Newts and was featured in American Theatre as one of 25 American theatre leaders of the future.

Jody Feldman (Associate Producer) has been the head of casting for the Alliance Theatre since 1991. She has cast more than 200 LORT B, D and TYA productions for the Alliance including a wide range of classical, contemporary and world premiere dramas and musicals. She has worked with such directors as Susan V. Booth, Kenny Leon, David H. Bell, Kent Gash, Doug Hughes, Gary Griffin, Molly Smith and Andy Blankenbuehler. Since the Alliance is a center for new play development and productions, Jody has been privileged to cast a large number of new plays including The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry, Flyin’ West and Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage, In the Red and Brown Water

by Tarell McCraney, and world premiere musicals such as Aida, The Color Purple, Sister Act: The Musical, and Bring It On: The Musical. Jody also serves as the casting director for Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company and is working as Atlanta casting director for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Tribute in Washington, D.C., and the feature film Charming the Hearts of Men. Jody began her theatre career as an actress and then as assistant general manager of the Academy Theatre with Frank Wittow. More than anything, Jody would like to thank you for being here to share the joy of live theatre with her Alliance Theatre family.

Susan V. Booth (Jennings Hertz, Jr. Artistic Director) Susan joined the Alliance Theatre in 2001. She initiated the Collision Project, the National Graduate Playwriting Competition, created local producing partnerships and overseen regional and commercial partnerships including The Color Purple; Bring It On: The Musical; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; SISTER ACT the Musical; Bring in Da’ Noise, Bring in Da’ Funk; and Jesus Christ Superstar GOSPEL, which she also directed.

She has directed nationally at theatres including Goodman, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Stage and Film, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens and many

about the alliance theatre others. She holds degrees from Denison and Northwestern Universities and was a fellow of the National Critics Institute. She has held teaching positions at Northwestern and DePaul Universities, and currently with Emory University. She is immediate past president of the board for Theatre Communications Group (national service organization for the field), is an advisor for the Steinberg Charitable Trust, and serves on the board of the Metro Atlanta Arts and Culture Coalition. Susan is married to Max Leventhal and is the proud mother of Moira Rose Leventhal. susan.booth@woodruffcenter.org ROSEMARY NEWCOTT (The Sally G. Tomlinson Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth and Families) has been working and playing at the Alliance Theatre since 1988. Some favorite Alliance directing credits

include Honk!, Middle School the Musical (world premiere); Disney’s Mulan; Class of 3000, LIVE (world premiere); Goodnight, Moon; Go, Dog Go!; Seussical the Musical; Degas’ Little Dancer; Disney’s Aladdin; A Christmas Carol; Einstein Is a Dummy (world premiere); The Miracle Worker; Ferdinand the Bull; Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse; Androcles and the Lion; The Hobbit; and the acclaimed high school Collision Project. Newcott has directed at Horizon Theatre, Theatrical Outfit, Center for Puppetry Arts, Academy Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, Virginia Stage Company, Seaside Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, the Kennedy Center and all over Atlanta. She was named PBA Lexus Leader of the Arts and best director by the Atlanta Journal Constitution for the 20012002 season. In 2005, she received the GTC Distinguished Career Award. Newcott is also the recipient of a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship and the 2010 Suzi Bass Spirit Award. She is on the board of TYA/USA.

Founded in 1968, the Alliance Theatre remains closely tied to the cultural identity of Atlanta, growing as the city has grown. In 1977, the Alliance merged with the Atlanta Children’s Theatre (1929) to include Atlanta’s youngest audiences in fully produced theatrical experiences. In 1979, the Alliance created the Theatre School (now the Acting Program and Education Department) in order to strengthen the relationship with our community.

In 2007, under the leadership of Susan Booth, Artistic Director, the Alliance received the Regional Theatre Tony Award®.

The Alliance has created a large body of new work: world premiere musicals with a strong track record of Broadway, touring and subsequent regional productions; the plays of early career playwrights through the Kendeda/Alliance National Graduate Playwright Competition; work on a nationally watched stage, launching and sustaining Atlanta’s artistic community; and original plays for young audiences at every age level.

The Alliance takes great pride in our educational programming through the Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists, community education including classes for all ages and abilities of theatre interest; and adult student productions of unproduced plays in development. Twice recognized by the Federal Department of Education as leaders in the field of arts education, these programs reflect the Alliance’s commitment to arts access.

The Alliance Theatre strives to set the highest artistic standards and create the powerful experience of shared theatre for a diverse audience. Above all else, we value excellence, pursued with integrity and creativity, and achieved through collaboration.

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If it ain’t broke...

Award-winning playwright Janece Shaffer on her fourth Alliance production by bret love

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o hear Janece Shaffer tell it, you might think the Atlanta playwright fell into her career. When she went to grad school at Georgia State, she pursued a film degree; her first script, He Looks Great in a Hat, was a screenplay for her master’s thesis. Fortunately, good friend, and former Alliance Artistic Director, Kenny Leon recognized the screeplay’s potential for theatrical adaptation and offered to do the show at the Alliance.

Now, 15 years later, the award-winning scribe has had her plays produced at Horizon Theatre, Theatrical Outfit and Jewish Theatre of the South, among others in Atlanta and around the country.

Her latest play, Broke, marks her fourth Alliance Theatre production.

You’ve been writing for the stage for 15 years now. What are the biggest lessons you’ve learned?

I really work hard to make those people onstage feel as real as possible. I feel my best when there is that kind of identification where people say, “I’ve said that,” or, “I’m just like that!” I am also very much about telling Atlanta stories and sending those out into the world. I’ve learned the art of really listening to people around me and that, for me, the longer the scene is the stronger it is because you don’t have that constant reminder that you’re watching

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a play. I love it when it just feels live in the moment.

What is your writing process like?

I work and rewrite until opening night, literally. Even as we’re talking about Broke, it’s still unfolding. I will rewrite all through rehearsals. Once we have an audience, I will surely be doing rewrites like crazy. It’s really important to me when I cast that I get people who are team players, because there’s going to be chunks of new pages every day. I want to try everything that I can on people, and then tailor to the voices in the room as I continue to refine the story.

What was the inspiration behind Broke?

I was having a discussion with my husband about bills, and then I went to open a bottle of wine and thought, “Why do we have a $90 corkscrew?” We are very modest people, but we have a $90 corkscrew called “The Rabbit!” Then I had a number of friends who lost their jobs and were having really tough discussions, like “What is it that matters most to us?” So it’s about losing your job, but it’s also about losing what defines you. Without the staff, the title, the schedule, what is it that makes me, me? What is the priority in our lives?

Some of the choices we make are crazy.

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Scarlet Pressley-Brown Helen Smith Price Maurice M. Rosenbaum William B. Rowland Stephen Selig Debbie Shelton William D. Sleeper H. Bronson Smith Karen Spiegel Charles E. Taylor Robert Walker Peter D. Weitzner P.J. Younglove Hovey

Life Directors Sally G. Tomlinson Benjamin T. White

Advisory Board Madelyn Adams Judy Anderson Tracie Arnold Neil Barclay Candace Bell Mark Bell Barry Berlin Veronica Biggins Sarah Robinson Borders Erin Brown Stephen Brown Donna Burchfield Susan Callaway James Cox Chambers Ron Clark Tony Conway Richard Cravey Jackie Cushman Sallie Daniel Debbie Dermer John Deushane

Advisory Board Chair: Ann W. Cramer David Kuniansky Patricia L. Dickey Constance Lewis Sally Dorsey Kristie Madara Enid Draluck Kent Matlock Cyndee Dubrof Philip McAdoo Diane Durgin Penny McPhee Charles Edwards Dedi Mohr Jo Roberson Edwards Cynthia Moreland Randi Emerman Elena Mullican Kathryn Farley Linda Newport Ellen Feinsand Bill Nigut Valerie Ferguson William Pate Barry Flink Monica Pearson Jay Freer Travis Reed Margie Goheen Harrison Rohr Lisa Greenberg Bobby Rosenbloum Jennifer Hale Jack Sawyer Valerie Hartman Levy Christine Schneider Virginia Hepner Alan Schreihofer Stephanie Husk Sonny Seals Pam Jenkins Linda Selig Andrea Jones Janece Shaffer John Keller

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Anne Joyner Sheehan Brian Shepler Cindy Shepler Linda Silberman Chandra StephensAlbright Charlita StephensWalker Veda Storey Todd Tautfest Susan Tucker Wayne Vason Lynda Walker A. Penniman Wells, Jr. Rick Western Mary Williams Suzy Wilner Joni Winston Paul Wolpe

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sponsors Alliance Sponsors are businesses, corporations and institutions that have supported the work of the Alliance Theatre. We thank them for their generosity and support.

★★★★★★★ $250,000+ The Coca-Cola Company

Kendeda Fund

U.S. Department of Education

Fulton County Arts Council The Shubert Foundation

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

North Highland Company Target

Zeist Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Georgia Council for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts Publix Super Markets Charities Rich Foundation

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) Wilmington Trust David, Helen & Marian Woodward Foundation

Georgia Power John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Foundation Premiere Global Services, Inc.

Price Gilbert Jr. Charitable Trust Frances Wood Wilson Foundation

Harry Norman Realtors Jones Day mediaedge: cia Plum Creek Sharp Electronics

SunTrust Wells Fargo Foundation WXIA-TV

★★★★★★ $100,000+ Delta Air Lines, Inc.

★★★★★ $50,000+ Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles The Home Depot

★★★★ $25,000+ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution AT&T Callaway Foundation, Inc. City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

★★★ $10,000+ American Intercontinental University Atlanta Foundation Cartoon Network Georgia Pacific Foundation

★★ $5,000+ AON Bryan Cave Duke Realty Corporation GV Financial Advisors John and Mary Franklin Foundation

★ $2,500+ Digital Arts Studio

The Suzuki School

By attending our theatre, you have made a powerful statement about how important the arts are to you. With the 2011-12 Season, the Alliance Theatre turns 43. Help us celebrate the power of great theatre for 43 years by making another statement of support louder than any standing ovation.

Visit our website at alliancetheatre.org and click on Donate.

Alliance Theatre is a participant in the New Generations Program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for American theatre.

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sponsors turner broadcasting system, inc. is committed to meaningful corporate citizenship in the communities in which the company operates and its employees work and live. The arts is one focus area of Turner’s local philanthropy, in particular organizations and programs that enhance the quality of life for all residents of its Atlanta hometown.

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Official Hotel

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Research Partner

Digital Marketing Partner

Official Staffing Consultant

Foxgloves & Ivy

Official Pizzeria

Marketing Partner

Restaurant Partners

Midtown and Candler Park Atlantic Station

government

Major funding for this organization is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council.

This program is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through the appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly.

GCA is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Major support is provided by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.

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★★★★ $35,000+ Barbara & Steve Chaddick

Victoria & Howard Palefsky

Sally G. Tomlinson

★★★ $25,000-$34,999 Mr. & Mrs. Howard Feinsand

James Starr Moore Memorial Foundation

Dan & Garnet Reardon

★★ $15,000-$24,999 James & Lori Kilberg Stephen & Marjorie Osheroff

Patty & Doug Reid Joni Winston

The Balloun Family Lisa & Joe Bankoff Susan V. Booth & Max Leventhal Mark & Ansley Callaway Alan & Chi Colberg Ann & Jeff Cramer Mr. Tony L. Conway Linda & Gene Davidson Marcia & John Donnell Mr. & Mrs. A. D. Frazier, Jr. Matthew & Doris Geller David & Carolyn Gould Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Gunning Valerie Hartman Levy

Doug & Lila Hertz Jocelyn J. Hunter Andrea & Boland Jones John & Angie Keller Mr. & Mrs. James C. Kennedy Mrs. J. Hicks Lanier Jeff Levy Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Moddelmog Maureen & Angus Morrison Richard S. & Winifred B. Myrick Bob & Margaret Reiser Patricia & Maurice Rosenbaum Linda & Stephen Selig Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Shelton III

★ $10,000-$14,999 Mr. & Mrs. H. Bronson Smith John & Karen Spiegel Chandra Stephens-Albright & Warren Albright Charlita Stephens-Walker, Charles & Delores Stephens Chuck & Lisa Cannon-Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Ramon Tomé Mr. & Mrs. Edus H. Warren, Jr. Rick & Terri Western Ramona & Ben White Suzy Wilner

top billing Executive Producers ★★ $7,500-$9,999 James Anderson The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Paul & Rosthema Kastin Melanie & S. Alan McKnight, Jr.

P.J. Younglove Hovey

Executive Producers ★ $5,000-$7,499 Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hardman Kathy Harris Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hostinsky Philip I. Kent Foundation Cynthia & Alan Maloy Mr. & Mrs. John Hays Mershon Mr. Walter W. Mitchell

Peg & Bill Balzer Candace & Jeff Bell Sarah & Jim Borders Frank & Mary Anne Chew Eve & Bob Eckardt Dr. & Mrs. Edmond I. Griffin Jay & Debbie Goldman

Phil & Caroline Moïse Mr. & Mrs. Kenyon Murphy Helen Smith Price Mr. & Ms. Hugh S. Ripps Dr. & Mrs. Dennis Lee Spangler

Producers ★★ $3,500-$4,999 Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Mr. Stephen Brown & Dr. Bayley Royer Mr. & Mrs. W. Kent Canipe

Mr. Dick Dickson & Ms. Yin Lo Charles & Carol Edwards Philippa & Burrell Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Rick Fuess

Lubo Fund Mrs. Helen M. Regenstein William & Margarita Sleeper

Producers ★ $2,500-$3,499 Southern States LLC Mrs. Susan Beallor-Snyder & Mr. Stuart Snyder

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Ms. Beryl Bergquist Ron & Lisa Brill Charitable Trust Dr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Callaway

John & Lucy Cook Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Croft III Richard & Linda Diedrich

annual fund Alliance donors provide over $1.2 million to the Annual Fund and Annual Fundraising events so that we can continue to present exceptional theatre and educational programs to our community. We are deeply grateful for their support. *Gifts processed as of August 1, 2011

Producers ★ $2,500-$3,499 (cont.)

David L. Kuniansky Leslie Leigh M.D. Kristie L. Madara Dedi & Julian Mohr Jodi & Henry Niden Dr. Kathleen Nixon & Dr. Gregory Berkey John & Helen Parker Monica K. Pearson Susan & David Peterson Ms. Lynne Ragan Mr. Travis Reed Bill & Rhonda Rowland Alan & Cyndy Schreihofer

Douglas & Camille Duerr Diane Durgin Eierman Foundation Diane & Daryl Evans Alan & Willa Fabian Mr. & Mrs. Reade Fahs Ms. Beryl Farris Mr. & Mrs. Barry Goheen Dr. & Mrs. Edmond I. Griffin Mr. & Mrs. Lance E. Hall Joan & David Herskovits Mr. & Mrs. James E. Hugh, III Mr. Clay Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Jungers

Sonny & Jeanne Seals Michele & Glenn Shear Charlotte & Tom Shields Jane E. Shivers Henry N. & Margaret P. Staats Procore Solutions Karen & Alex Stickney TAYLAR Development & Associates Balfour Beatty Construction Michael & June Tompkins Troutman Sanders LLP Susan & Tom Wardell Penn & Sally Wells John & Kathy Zamer

Associate Producers $1,500-$2,499 JoAnne & Charles S. Ackerman Madelyn R. Adams Judge Gregory A. Adams & Wanda Adams Diane & Kent Alexander Elaine & Miles Alexander Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Allen Theodore & Andrea Altholz Rita & Ted Anderson Judy M. Anderson, Georgia Power Co. Herbert & Myrtice Arnold Elizabeth & John Bacon Mrs. Susan Beallor-Snyder & Mr. Stuart Snyder Mark & Pam Bell Mr. & Mrs. Ted R. Benning Ms. Ann B. Bishop Ms. Pamela L. Blackburn Mr. Ron L. Clark, Jr. Akbar Cojoe Mr. & Mrs. James L. Curry Ms. Sallie Adams Daniel Ms. Diana DePinto Ms. Patricia L. Dickey Ms. Cydnee Dubrof & Mr. Robert McDonough Charles & Carol Edwards Ralph & Ree Edwards Dr. & Mrs. Norman Elliott Ms. Elizabeth R. Etoll Ms. Gail H. Evans Kathryn T. Farley, PhD Michael & Jody Feldman

Ms. Valerie Ferguson Dr. & Mrs. Arnoldo Fiedotin Melanie & Richard Fine Andy Fisher Dr. Cynthia J. Fordyce & Sharon Hulette Mr. Craig Garrett Mr. Joe Gfaller Mr. & Mrs. John J. Gillin Dale R.F. Goodman Mr. & Mrs. Seth Greenberg Louise Staton Gunn Rachel & Mike Hammer John & Simone Hanson Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hardman Ms. Kristin Hathaway Hansen & Mr. Norman Hansen Etta Raye Hirsch Pearlann & Jerry Horowitz Tycho & Marie Howle Foundation Jocelyn J. Hunter Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hurley Mr. & Mrs. Harold Itkin Richard & Marcia Jacobson Ms. Caroline John Veronique & Baxter Jones Mr. & Mrs. Richard Kruger Ms. Carolyn Lawson Conchita Heyn & Robert Lichtefeld Lubo Fund Dick Lyon M.C. Jackson, Sr. Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Metzger

Mr. & Ms. Michael J. Millett Mr. Patrick Millett June M. Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Charles Moseley Joyce & Michael Natbony Mr. Joseph Northington Mrs. & Mrs. Solon Patterson Bill & Carey Peard Peg Petersen Sam & Barbara Pettway Don & Rosalinda Ratajczak Mr. & Mrs. John Richard Peter & Alice Rogers Dr. & Mrs. Charles Rosenberg David & Sharon Schachter Ms. Christine Schneider Mr. Kevin D. Seaway Mr. & Mrs. Timothy E. Sheehan Mr. Brian Shively & Mr. Jim Jinhong Mr. & Mrs. Mark Silberman Martin & Patricia Silbiger Paul V. Spiegl, Sr. MD Dante’s Down the Hatch, Buckhead In honor of Carol Jones & the Alliance Theatre Education Department Jim & Janie Stratigos Mrs. & Mr. Otha Sydnor Ms. Victoria Sylvain Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Taylor Lanier-Goodman Foundation Chad Thornhill Lynda & Richard Walker

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annual fund Alliance donors provide over $1.2 million to the Annual Fund and Annual Fundraising events so that we can continue to present exceptional theatre and educational programs to our community. We are deeply grateful for their support. *Gifts processed as of August 1, 2011

Associate Producers $1,500-$2,499 (cont.)

Mr. Alex & Mr. Marc D. Weinberg J.M. Wilkerson Construction Company

Mr. & Mrs. John A. Williams Mr. & Mrs. D. Brent Wyper

Mr. & Mrs. Erwin Zaban

Benefactors $1,000-$1,499 (cont.)

Gene G. Abel, M.D. & Nora Harlow Mr. & Mrs. Howell Adams, Jr. Ms. & Mr. Jody L. Andrade Mr. & Mrs. Robert Arogeti Ms. Karen Beardslee Mr. & Mrs. George Boyd Ms. Barbara Brady Ms. Erin A. Brown & Ms. Regine Clement Mr. Michael J. Coles Alice J. Cunningham Mr. & Mrs. David E. Dermer Ms. Jo R. Edwards Ms. Diane Hockstader Linda & Richard Hubert Mr. Robert A. Jetmundsen

Gordon L. Joyner, Esq. Mr. & Mrs. Peter G. Kessenich Mr. & Mrs. David E. Kiefer Mark & Brenda Lichtenstein Printpack Inc. & The Gay & Erskine Love Fdn. Mr. Alan B. McKeon & Ms. Evelyn Ashley Jim & Jo McLean Sally & Tom McNulty Avery & Valerie Munnings Ann Starr & Kent Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Newport Dr. & Mrs. Stephen I. Oppenheimer Mr. & Mrs. Markham D. Oswald Dr. Susan Rifkin & Mr. David Rifkin Mr. John A. Sabine

Kevin Sangston Mr. & Mrs. Ross W. Schiavo Simon Schwob Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Brian Shepler Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Silverboard Dr. Odessa K. Spraggins Mrs. C. Preston Stephens Maria-Ruth Storts Mr. Todd A. Tautfest & Mr. Kevin Esch The Elster Foundation Dr. William Torres Ms. Kimberly Tribble & Mr. Mark S. Lange Dr. & Mrs. Bruce Y. Tyler Lynne Winship Ms. Amy Zeldin

Legacy Society The following are members of the Legacy Society who are ensuring the future strength of the Alliance Theatre through planned gifts to benefit the Theatre. The Legacy Society is the special recognition group for those who have included the Theatre or any component of the Woodruff Arts Center in their estate plans. For more information about making a planned gift to benefit the Alliance Theatre, please contact Kristin Hathaway Hansen, Director of Development, at 404.733.4611.

Rita M. Anderson Anonymous Betty Blondeau-Russell Jim & Anne Breedlove Ann & Jeff Cramer Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Croft, III Sallie Adams Daniel Linda & Gene Davidson Laura & John Hardman

Glen E. & Nancy Hesler P.J. Younglove Hovey William C. Hyde Virginia Vann & Ken Large Mr. & Mrs. John Hays Mershon Mr. & Mrs. John McColskey Phil & Caroline Moïse Jan Pomerantz Helen M. Regenstein

Bob & Margaret Reiser Neal & Tricia Schachtel Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Shelton, III Jane E. Shivers Wayne & Lee Harper Vason Rick & Terri Western Ramona & Ben White Lynne Winship

Matching Gift Companies We would like to thank the following companies who have donated matching gifts to the Alliance Theatre’s Annual Fund.

Please check to see if your employer will match your contribution.

American Express Company American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Aon Corporation AT&T Bank of America Bryan Cave-Powell Goldstein Charles Schwab and Co., Inc. Chubb & Son, Inc. CIGNA Corporation Citigroup Foundation

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The Coca-Cola Company Equifax Inc. Federated Department Stores, Inc. GE Energy Home Depot Foundation IBM Corporation JPMorgan Private Bank Kimberly-Clark Foundation Macy’s Foundation McDonald’s Corporation

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc NDCHealth Norfolk Southern Corporation Prudential Financial Sprint SunTrust Foundation Time Warner, Inc. UPS Verizon Corporation

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Patron Circle of Stars By investing $15,000 or more in The Woodruff Arts Center and its divisions — the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, High Museum of Art and Young Audiences — these outstanding Annual Corporate Campaign donors helped us raise more than $8.8 million last year. Thank you!

Chairman’s Council ★★★★★★★★★★★★ $500,000+ The Coca-Cola Company Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. UPS ★★★★★★★★★★ $450,000+ Cox Interests Atlanta Journal-Constitution, WSB-TV, Cox Radio Group Atlanta, James M. Cox Foundation The Honorable Anne Cox Chambers ★★★★★★★★★ $200,000+ AT&T The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. Deloitte LLP, its Partners & Employees Ernst & Young, Partners & Employees The Home Depot Foundation Jones Day Foundation & Employees The Klaus Family Foundation PricewaterhouseCoopers Partners & Employees Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. ★★★★★★★★ $150,000+ Alston & Bird LLP Equifax Inc. & Employees The Rich Foundation, Inc. SunTrust Bank Employees & Trusteed Foundations Harriet McDaniel Marshall Trust Walter H. & Marjory M. Rich Memorial Fund Thomas Guy Woolford Charitable Trust

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Greene-Sawtell Foundation Wells Fargo

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP The Zeist Foundation, Inc.

★★★★★★★ $100,000+ AirTran Airways Bank of America Delta Air Lines, Inc. Kaiser Permanente King & Spalding LLP KPMG LLP, Partners & Employees The Marcus Foundation, Inc. The Sara Giles Moore Foundation Novelis, Inc. Regions Financial Corporation Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The David, Helen & Marian Woodward Fund

★★★★ $35,000+ Accenture & Accenture Employees Katharine & Russell Bellman Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Currey, Jr. GE Energy The Imlay Foundation, Inc. Invesco PLC Norfolk Southern, Employees & Foundation SCANA Energy Siemens Industry, Inc. Harris A. Smith Troutman Sanders LLP Frances Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc.

★★★★★★ $75,000+ Holder Construction Company The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc. Patty & Doug Reid Family Foundation ★★★★★ $50,000+ AGL Resources Inc. Lisa & Joe Bankoff Cisco Coca-Cola Enterprises Ann & Jay Davis Doosan Infracore International Frank Jackson Sandy Springs Toyota and Scion GMT Capital Corporation Beth & Tommy Holder ING Mr. & Mrs. M. Douglas Ivester Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Newell Rubbermaid Primerica Darrick Stephens

★★★ $25,000+ Air Serv Corporation Assurant Atlanta Companies Assurant Solutions Assurant Specialty Property Atlanta Foundation Julie & Jim Balloun BB&T Corporation BDO USA, LLP Laura & Stan Blackburn Brysan Utility Contractors, Inc. Chartis CIGNA Foundation Cousins Properties Incorporated Crawford & Company Drummond Company, Inc. Eisner Family Foundation First Data Corporation Ford & Harrison LLP Genuine Parts Company Georgia-Pacific Jack & Anne Glenn Foundation, Inc. IBM Corporation Infor Global Solutions

Sarah & Jim Kennedy Philip I. Kent Foundation The Ray M. & Mary Elizabeth Lee Foundation, Inc. LexisNexis Risk Solutions The Blanche Lipscomb Foundation Livingston Foundation, Inc. Macy’s Foundation McKinsey & Company, Inc. Katherine John Murphy Foundation Piedmont Charitable Foundation, Inc. J. Marshall & Lucile G. Powell Charitable Trust Mary & Craig Ramsey Rock-Tenn Company Richard D. Shirk Southwire Company Spectrum Brands Towers Watson Waffle House, Inc. Gertrude & William C. Wardlaw Fund Waste Management Charitable Foundation Yancey Bros. Co. ★★ $15,000+ 22squared, inc.

A. E. M. Family Foundation ACE Charitable Foundation Acuity Brands, Inc. AGCO Corporation Alix Partners Alvarez & Marsal Arnall Golden Gregory LLP The Partners & Employees of Atlanta Equity Investors Atlanta Marriott Marquis Beaulieu Group, LLC Susan R. Bell & Patrick M. Morris The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation The Boston Consulting Group

Catherine S. & J. Bradford Branch George M. Brown Trust Fund of Atlanta, Georgia Bryan Cave LLP Buck Consultants The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Talela & Beauchamp Carr Roxanne & Jeffrey Cashdan CB Richard Ellis Center Family Foundation Mr. Charles Center Mr. & Mrs. Fred Halperin Ms. Charlene Berman The Chatham Valley Foundation, Inc. Chick-fil-A, Inc. CornerCap Investment Counsel Ann & Jeff Cramer DLA Piper Duke Realty Corporation Egon Zehnder International Exide Technologies Feinberg Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Fernandez Fifth Third Bank Robert Fornaro John & Mary Franklin Foundation, Inc. Gas South, LLC Georgia Natural Gas Dolores & Javier C. Goizueta Grant Thornton LLP Harland Clarke HD Supply The Howell Fund, Inc. ICS Contract Services, LLC Jamestown Jenny & Phil Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Tom O. Jewell Weldon H. Johnson Family Foundation Ingrid Saunders Jones David & Jennifer Kahn Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Muhtar Kent Kurt Kuehn & Cheryl Davis Lanier Parking Solutions The Latham Foundation Barbara W. & Bertram L. Levy Fund Karole & John Lloyd Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Marsh-Mercer McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Mohawk Industries, Inc. Mueller Water Products, Inc. Noonan Family Foundation Gail & Bob O’Leary Vicki R. Palmer The Sally & Peter Parsonson Foundation, Inc. Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Printpack Inc./The Gay & Erskine Love Foundation David M. Ratcliffe J. Mack Robinson Interests Frances & Jesse A. Sasser, Jr. Emily Winship Scott Foundation Selig Enterprises, Inc./ The Selig Foundation Skanska USA Building Inc. Spencer Stuart Karen & John Spiegel Superior Essex Inc. Sysco Atlanta TriMont Real Estate Advisors, Inc. United Distributors, Inc. WATL/WXIA/Gannett Foundation John F. Wieland Mr. & Mrs. James B. Williams Sue & Neil Williams Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Carla & Leonard Wood The Xerox Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Yellowlees *As of May 31, 2011

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alliance theatre staff Artistic Jennings Hertz, Jr. Artistic Director................................Susan V. Booth Sally G. Tomlinson Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth..........................................Rosemary Newcott Associate Producer........................................................ Jody Feldman Director of New Projects.................................................... Celise Kalke Artist In Dialogue...............................................................Pearl Cleage Artistic Associate..............................................................Bari Newport Community Engagement & Casting.............................DayRon J. Miles Artistic Assistant...................................................................William Illg Artistic Intern............................................................Margo Moskowitz Literary Intern.....................................................................Jirèh Holder Kenny Leon Fellow.............................................................Elliott Dixon Education Director of Educational Programs............................... Christopher Moses Director of the Acting Program..............................................Al Hamacher Director, Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists...........Carol T. Jones Assistant Director, Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists..............................Michele Mummert Education Development Manager.......................................Sharon Brewer Education Coordinator & Producer of Drama Camps . . Christina Dresser Institute for Educators & Teaching Artists Assistant..............Padgett Ward Education Assistant..............................................................Rachel Jones Theatre for the Very Young Coordinator................................ Olivia Aston Resident Artist in Education........................................... Patrick McColery Resident Teaching Artists.............Kim Bowers-Rheay, Valetta Anderson Teaching Artists.................................Ricardo Aponte, Paul Armbruster, Denise Arribas, Corey Bradberry, Enisha Brewster, Jaehn Clare, Steve Coulter, John Doyle, Sharon Foote, Allison Gardner, Kimberly Geter, Holly Godwin, Amy Handler, Bart Hansard, Angie Harrell, Michael Haverty, Laura Heckman, Lesley Howe, BJ Hughes, John Jaramillio, Rachel Jones, LeeAnna Lambert, Amy Lucas, Barry Stewart Mann, Morgan McCrary, Michele McCullough Hazard, Bryan Mercer, Tracy V. Moore, Kati Grace Morton, Jessica Muhammad, Sarah Lancaster Cave, Karen Ramps, Claire Ritzler, Manny Rivers, Kirk Seaman, Linda Sherbert, Don Slaton, Sheri Mann Stewart, Ambondem Tazano, Clint Thornton, Shirnest Tolbert, Allison Upshaw, Jeanene Williams

Administration General Manager............................................................... Max Leventhal Company Manager........................................................... Laura Thruston Management Assistant............................................................Alicia Quirk Manager of Information Resources........................................ Jim Hubbert Finance Director of Finance & Administration..................................... Brian Shively Accounting Coordinator............................................................... Julie Hall Accounting Coordinator...................................................Ashley Bradford Development Director of Development..................................Kristin Hathaway Hansen Major Contributions Manager...........................................Maya Robinson Corporate Relations Officer.....................................................Paige Smith Development Coordinator...........................................Janet Abercrombie Special Events & Board Manager...............................Lindsey Hardegree Special Events & Board Assistant..............................................April Case Development Volunteer...................................................Elaine Hentschel Marketing Director of Marketing..............................................................Gary Sayers Brand Manager................................................................ Caroline Tanner Public Relations Manager......................................... Kathleen Covington Digital Brand Manager.............................................................John Maley Graphic Designer................................................................ Nadine Cheng Marketing Intern...............................................................Courtney Epting Marketing Volunteer.................................................................... Don Vann Group Sales Manager....................................................Quidana Bosman Group Sales Coordinator...................................................Laura Peacock Brand Coordinator................................................................ Emily Bryson Patron Services Manager........................................................... Shana Orr House Managers.............................. Olivia Aston, Dana Hylton Calabro, Christina Dresser, Lindsey Hardegree, Ken McNeil, Alicia Quirk, Lynn Vatter Assistant Manager Season Tickets.....................................Danielle Hicks Senior Ticket Agents..........................................Chad Martin, Ken McNeil

Production Production Management Production Manager........................................................ Rixon Hammond Stage Management Alliance Stage Managers................................Pat A. Flora, lark hackshaw, R. Lamar Williams TYF Stage Manager..................................................................Liz Campbell TYF Stage Management Production Assistant.................. Amy Radebaugh Hertz Stage Management Production Assistant............ Jayson T. Waddell Stage Operations Stage Operations Manager...................................................Scott Bowne Crew Chief....................................................................... Vincent Simons TYF Crew Chief.....................................................................Deb Maberry Properties Stagehand.....................................................Courtney O’Neill Flyman....................................................................................Willie Parks Electrics Electrics Manager.......................................................................Pete Shinn Staff Electricians................... Sean Hamilton, Steve Jordan, Jenn Trippe Sound Resident Sound Designer...................................................... Clay Benning Sound Engineers/Board Ops...............Holly Blakely, Hidenori Nakajo, Brian Smith

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Scenery Technical Director................................................................ Victor W. Smith Assistant Technical Director.......................................................Megan Kier Shop Foreman..................................................................... Patrick Conley Carpenters....... Manny Abreo, Jes Cottrell, Kevin Green, Jessica Rohde Charge Scenic Artist...................................................................Kat Conley Scenic Artist.......................................................................Christa Seekatz Properties Properties Manager...............................................................Robert Elliott Props Lead Artisan........................................................... Suzanne Morris Properties Buyer Artisan..............................................Heather Schroeder Properties Artisan.................................................................. Brian Marino Properties Apprentice.............................................. Noelle Jean-Baptiste Costumes Costume Shop Manager................................................. Carol Hammond Design Assistant....................................English Benning, Emily Kramer Draper.....................................................Julie Kennedy, Cindy Lou Who Craftsmaster.................................................................. Diana L. Thomas Stitchers/First Hands.......Laury Conley, Lyudmila Fesenko, Maegan Robinson Wig Master.........................................................................Robert Navarre Wardrobe............................................................. John Hardy, Niki Traxler Additional Labor Wardrobe................................................................................ Jenna Leith Stagehand............................................................................ Paul Prickett

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