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Dear Friends, A very dear person gifted me with a wonderful picture book called Glass Slipper, Golden Sandal by Paul Fleischman. Within its beautifully illustrated pages, the Cinderella story is retold in a unique way. Its story points are borrowed from Cinderella stories in 17 cultures.

Cinderella dresses in a kimono red as sunset in Japan, for instance, and wears sandals of gold in Iraq. This book epitomizes the inspiration behind this play choice. The fact that Cinderella appears in so many cultures and has been retold for so many generations is one reason I wanted to explore its merits and share it with our audiences.

I spent many hours with playwright Janece Shaffer and composer S. Renee Clark discussing the Cinderella story. We wanted to honor tradition but connect to the lives of the people sitting in our theater. So our Cinderella is an outdoor gal with a great love of the natural world, and our prince, Fella, is an electric guitar-playing recluse. Like many young people, neither is particularly aware of the real gifts they possess.

This brings me to another reason to live inside this story. Cinderella has a quality that is present in every telling: She is kind. Kindness is a trait that is sometimes overlooked as more bombastic qualities take focus. Now is the perfect time to feature a young protagonist who is kind despite all odds, and also has the good sense to open herself to forces in the world that will help her grow.

I hope you enjoy this 2017 version of Cinderella, and may all your cohorts be kind.

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Rosemary Newcott Sally G. Tomlinson Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth and Families

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here’s no place in the world like Kashoogie.

So you’ll learn as Cinderella and Fella unfolds on the Alliance Theatre stage.

Kashoogie is a modern-day place. A Southern place. A much-like-Georgia place with its kudzu, magnolias, azaleas, wisteria, lightning bugs and mud.

Kashoogie, where this world premiere musical is set, was conjured by this tale’s creators — playwright Janece Shaffer, composer S. Renee Clark and director Rosemary Newcott, who began brainstorming about it over coffee some 15 months ago.

Shaffer (Geller Girls, Broke) is having quite a year. Troubadour, her first world premiere musical at the Alliance, ran in January and February. Newcott’s been having quite a year for many years. In her 20-plus Alliance seasons she’s directed a clutch of Christmas Carols and pretty much everything the company does for families, tweens and the very young.

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first time composing for an Alliance project, but she’s a friendly and familiar face in Atlanta theater circles and well beyond as a performer, music director, arranger and composer. She’s also in her eighth season as assistant choral director at Tri-Cities High School in East Point, and a two-time Suzi Bass Award winner, for Avenue Q at Horizon Theatre (2011) and Big River at Theatrical Outfit (2009).

Clark’s fans are many and far-flung, a group that includes pretty much anyone who has ever worked with her: • “ Working with Renee is like going home after school with your best friend and making something together, and then having so much fun and being so excited and creative you can’t stop,” says Theatrical Outfit Artistic Director Tom Key. • “Renee is one of the most gifted musicians that I have ever known,” says Atlanta-based director and actor Heidi Cline McKerley, a frequent collaborator. “There are three things that influence how she swings a

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Playwright Janece Shaffer (left) and composer/lyricist S. Renee Clark on the first day of Cinderella and Fella rehearsals. Shaffer and director Rosemary Newcott call Clark, who also music-directs, “inventive” and “fun.”

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musical theater score: She is the daughter of a preacher, so she has an enormous background in inspirational/church music; she is gifted in the jazz genre; and she is classically trained. Renee always takes what is on the page and makes it better.”

• “She is a consummate professional and perfectionist with exacting attention to detail that makes her music soar,” says Lisa Adler, co-artistic director at Horizon Theatre, where Clark has worked off and on since 2000. At Horizon, Clark usually plays keyboard and leads the band as well as music-directing. This is “a joy,” says Adler, “because she keeps the level of musical performance very high. There is no slacking off when Renee is leading the charge!”

This version of the Cinderella fable has been in the works for two summers, two falls, one spring and three winters. Clark, Newcott and Shaffer would meet at San Francisco

Roasting Co. on North Highland Avenue and talk. About life. About girls. About the various versions of Cinderella around the world, how they felt about Disney’s Cinderella and how they felt about being girls.

“The first four or five months we would just talk to each other,” Clark says, “and share our really personal stories of growing up. As we talked, the characters started developing.”

Then came the first of several workshops, with performers joining the discussion. First the actresses came in and talked about what it was like to be a little girl. Then the actors came in and talked about what it was like to be a little boy.

“Janece and I would smile at each other across the room,” Clark says.

“From the start, what was interesting to me was to write a Cinderella where the women weren’t all mean,” Shaffer says. “I wanted a Cinderella where the magic is accessible.

Moonflowers, moss, ladybugs and imagination are all right in your backyard.”

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This is also a Cinderella that champions friendship, not romance. And friendship is what made creating it so joyful.

It stems from Rosemary, Shaffer says, “because she is the most generous collaborator and is still delighted by the process and the discoveries and trusts everyone to bring in their best.”

“Renee is fantastic at what she does,” Shaffer says. “She understands where we need music to lift the story and tell it in a different way. She’s incredibly inventive. Her instincts are great.”

“Renee is so inventive and so much fun,” says Newcott. “She really pays attention to both the character’s journey and the particular gifts of each performer.

“I am also extremely impressed by her ability to vocal coach. She has a great ear and great patience. Her composition is also eclectic in ways that perfectly fit the tone of the play.”

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Clark, known as “an expert practitioner of tough love” (McKerley), scored Cinderella and Fella for two violins, guitar, piano and percussion. She’ll be on the piano during performances and plays Cinderella’s mother.

“It’s just a couple of lines,” she says. “But you know I love to have my acting moments.”

With this Alliance premiere, Cinderella and Fella joins the thousands of stories — dating to A.D. 860 in China — about an unfortunate young woman whose kindnesses lead to remarkable fortune.

“I am so giddy, excited about the possibilities of what this could become,” Clark says.

“We spend so much time in front of screens with our heads down,” Shaffer says.

“At the end of this I want people to go into their backyard or to the park and see all the wonders waiting there for them.”

Another takeaway, she says: “Kindness really matters.” A

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CAST * TERRY BURRELL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Step Mom/Musician S. RENEE CLARK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mother Tree/Musician * COURTENAY COLLINS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Queen Shelayley/Squirrel/Musician * MOLLY COYNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vamnesia/Porcupine/Musician/ASM * SCOTT E. DePOY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BoBo/Turtle/Musician * JEREMIAH PARKER HOBBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prince Maurice/Musician INDIA S. TYREE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cinderella/Musician BRIAN WALKER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lavoris/Musician

UNDERSTUDIES SHANNA MARIE BURRIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Step Mom/Queen Shelayley/Squirrel DANIEL HILTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Musician ALEXANDRA KARR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vamnesia/Porcupine CORY KOSEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prince Maurice/Lavoris/Musician ALYSSA MICHELE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cinderella MARCIE MILLARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Queen Shelayley/Squirrel/Musician (April 6-9) MARK SCHROEDER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BoBo/Turtle/Musician .

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song list No Place Like Kashoogie (Company)

Maurice (Queen Shelayley)

I Got This (Cinderella)

The Awesome Sword Song (Prince Maurice)

I Must Love You Very Much (Step Mom)

How Cool It Must Be (Prince Maurice, Cinderella)

Open the Window (Prince Maurice, Company)

Get Yours (Step Mom, Vamnesia, Lavorus)

Ask (Turtle, Porcupine, Squirrel, Frog, Cinderella)

Kashoogie Boogie (Company)

profiles TERRY BURRELL (Step Mom/ Musician) is beyond thrilled to return to the Alliance Theatre after premiering her one-woman show Ethel on the Hertz Stage last spring.

Other Alliance credits: A Christmas Carol, Jar the Floor, Women of Brewster Place, Sophisticated Ladies. Other Atlanta credits: ’Da Kink in my Hair (Horizon Theatre), Brownie Points (Theatrical Outfit), For Colored Girls (14th Street Playhouse). Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Threepenny Opera, Swinging on a Star, Into the Woods, Dreamgirls, Honky Tonk Nights, Eubie, Show Boat (original London company).

Off-Broadway: Lady Day, Almost Heaven, Taking a Chance on Love, And the World Goes Round.

Selected regional credits: Oklahoma!, Copacabana, Smokey Joe’s Café, Crowns, Cinderella, Thunder Knocking on the Door, Up From Paradise, Man of La Mancha and Queenie Pie as well as several jazz concerts, voiceovers and commercials. Dedicated to James and Sybil Burrell and Janet Moses. www.terryburrell.com S. RENEE CLARK (Mother Tree/Musician, Composer/Music Director) is back for her fourth engagement at the Alliance. Other Alliance credits: associate music director for Jesus Christ Superstar GOSPEL and Jaques Brel Is Alive and Well ...; Avenue X (assistant to the music director).

Two-time Suzi Bass Award winner: outstanding musical direction for Big River (Theatrical Outfit, 2009) and Avenue Q (Horizon Theatre, 2011). Other musical theater favorites: Big Fish (Theatrical Outfit), Toxic Avenger (Horizon Theatre), Dreamgirls (Atlanta Lyric), Mahalia (the Outfit and Metro Stage in Alexandria, Va.), Brer Rabbit (Center for Puppetry Arts), Da Kink in My Hair (Horizon and Theatre Calgary, Canada’s National Arts Center), Irma Vep (Shakespeare Tavern). Thanks to my family, my Atlanta family and God. COURTENAY COLLINS (Queen Shelayley/Squirrel/Musician) is happily premiering in her first Theatre for Young Audiences production. Other Alliance shows: Courtenay’s Cabaret: Home for the Holidays, The Prom, The Geller Girls, Jacques Brel ..., Into the Woods, Smart Cookie, Managing Maxine, Love Jerry. Georgia Ensemble Theatre: Calendar Girls; Hello, Dolly!. Atlanta Lyric Theatre: Catch Me If You Can, Evita. New York and touring: The Phantom of the Opera (Ken Hill), Beauty and the Beast, Eating Raoul. Recordings: Nightingale, One for My Baby, A Merry Little Christmas. Juilliard. Courtenay is a private vocal coach, has a jewelry business (Vintage Spirit Designs) and is the queen mother of two young princes in her castle.

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profiles MOLLY COYNE (Vamnesia/ Porcupine/Musician/ASM) is so excited to bring this new Cinderella story to life! Previous Alliance credits: Pancakes, Pancakes!; James and the Giant Peach; A Christmas Carol; The Tall Girls (U/S); Vera Stark (U/S). Molly grew up in Atlanta (Trinity School, The Westminster Schools) just like you! If you want to sing, sing!

If you want to dance, dance! Just follow your heart and be a good friend. Always. Thanks to this incredible cast and team, my parents, Denice and Shawn, Nunu and my amazing fiancé, Brian. Proud member of AEA. SCOTT E. DePOY (BoBo/Turtle/ Musician) is delighted to work with such an amazing group of people.

He has composed and performed music for the Alliance Theatre, Theatre in the Square, Kaiser Permanente and many others. Theater: Almost Heaven, Ring of Fire, Swell Party (Georgia Ensemble Theatre); Edward Foote, A Child’s Garden of Verses (Alliance); the Smoke on the Mountain trilogy (Theatre in the Square, Atlanta Lyric); Cotton Patch Gospel (Theatrical Outfit, GET).

Television: “Bloodlands” and “Sleepy Hollow.”

Scott sang on the soundtrack for the movie Cold Mountain and at the Academy Awards with Elvis Costello and Alison Krauss.

JEREMIAH PARKER HOBBS (Prince Maurice/Musician) is ecstatic to be back at the Alliance!

Previous Alliance credits: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical (Dad), Tell Me My Dream (Jeremy), A Christmas Carol (Peter). Other Atlanta credits: Rent (Roger), Hair (Woof), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), Rocky Horror (Riff Raff) and Grease, which is playing at Serenbe Playhouse (Kenickie). He co-wrote The Last Time We Were Here, which premiered at NYMF and was workshopped at Synchronicity Theatre in 2016. This show is dedicated to everyone who can already see the magic in the world around them. For Julissa, always.

INDIA S. TYREE (Cinderella/ Musician) makes her Alliance debut as Cinderella. She has been seen in Serenbe Playhouse’s Charlotte’s Web (Charlotte); Sweep (Eve), Grace for President (Grace), Into the Woods (Florinda) and Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike (Nina) at 18 ENCOREATLANTA.COM

Aurora Theatre; and in the Aurora/Theatrical Outfit co-productions of In the Heights (Carla) and Memphis the Musical (Ensemble, Felicia U/S). India also enjoys eating, songwriting and teaching theater. She thanks her loving family and her Aurora Theatre apprenticeship for helping her achieve her performance goals.

Follow her journey: Instagram- @indiatyree BRIAN WALKER (Lavoris/ Musician) graduated from Young Harris College with a B.A. in music and was part of the 2014-15 Aurora Theatre Apprentice Company. At Aurora, he played Neleus in Mary Poppins, was a lead cast member in Christmas Canteen 2014 & 2015, Cha in The Three Little Pigs, Prouvaire in Les Misérables, ensemble in Memphis and Jack in Into the Woods. Brian is super excited to make his Alliance Theatre debut with such an amazing cast. None of this would be possible without God and his family.

SHANNA MARIE BURRIS (U/S Step Mom/Queen Shelayley/ Squirrel) is a proud Louisiana native and a performer, writer and thrilled newcomer at the Alliance Theatre. Her theatrical credits include Lady in Red (Independent Artists Playhouse), The Color Purple (New Venture Theatre), Hairspray (Theatre Baton Rouge) and Little Shop of Horrors (New Venture). Her TV/film credits include “Roots” (A&E), “Night of the Wild” (SyFy Channel) and Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal Pictures), for which she sang on the American Music Award-winning soundtrack. She’s indebted to her loved ones for their love and support!

DANIEL HILTON (U/S Musician) is very happy to join this world premiere. Music director credits include Lyle the Crocodile (Synchronicity), Pickup Truck Revue (Earl Smith Strand), Once Upon a Mattress (Dunwoody Stage Door) and Aurora Theatre’s apprentice showcase. He also heads the junior musical theater program at West Side Elementary in Marietta. Composer credits: Twelfth Night, The Good Person of Szechuan, Marcus or the Secret of Sweet (KSU); Late: A Cowboy Song (Weird Sisters); and scores for the indie films 13th Night and The Sitter.

profiles ALEXANDRA KARR (U/S Vamnesia/Porcupine) is thrilled to be back at the Alliance Theatre!

You may have last seen her as an understudy in Christmas Canteen at Aurora Theatre. Recent credits: Kelly and Liz in Love/Sick (Aurora AppCo Alum Series), Belle/ Alice understudy in A Christmas Carol (Alliance) and Helena understudy in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Stage Door Players).

With the 2015 Aurora Apprentice Company: dancer in Mary Poppins and Britt in StinkyKids the Musical. Alexandra thanks Jody and Rosemary for the opportunity, as well as her friends and family for their constant love and support.

CORY KOSEL (U/S Prince Maurice/Lavoris/Musician) is thrilled to spend the spring at the Alliance Theatre! New York: In a Word (Hangar Theatre), The Eden Project (Theater for the New City), The History Boys (Gallery Players), Cowboy Mouth (Paul Robeson Theatre). Dallas: A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and A Civil War Christmas (Theatre Three). He is a member of the NYC-based ensemble Stable Cable Lab Company, where his credits include Lindsay Joy’s In the Event of My Death (IRT Theater) and a workshop production of Ken Urban’s Nibbler (Theatre 54). Thanks Em, Jody, Mom and Pop. ALYSSA MICHELE (U/S Cinderella) is beyond excited to work at the Alliance Theatre for the first time. Previous credits include Dream Girls (Atlanta Lyric Theatre), Cindy (Porter Sanford Theatre), A New Brain (UA Theatre & Dance) and Jukebox Giants: Motown (Earl Smith Strand Theatre).

She most recently performed at Dollywood as a Mistletone for the holiday season. She earned her B.A. in musical theater from the University of Alabama, and acts in film as well as theater.

She is forever thankful to God, along with her family and friends, for their continuous support.

MARCIE MILLARD (Queen Shelayley/Squirrel/Musician, April 6-9) has been a professional actress in Atlanta for 16 years. She was last seen on the Alliance stage as the Wicked Witch/Gingy in Shrek the Musical. At

Atlanta Lyric Theatre: The Full Monty (Vicki), Annie (Miss Hannigan (Suzi Bass Award for best featured actress), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Mrs. Meers, Suzi award nomination). At Aurora Theatre: Les Misérables (Madame Thenardier, Suzi award nomination), Camelot (Guinevere). At Horizon Theatre: Third Country (Sasha, Suzi award nomination), The Santaland Diaries (Female). By day, Marcie is the manager of entertainment at Stone Mountain Park.

MARK SCHROEDER (U/S BoBo/Turtle/Musician) is happy to be back at the Alliance. Previous credits here: Goodnight Moon (U/S) and Falsettos (U/S). Mark has been performing around Atlanta since 1991, and has worked at most of the professional theaters in town, including Actor’s Express (Hedwig and the Angry Inch); Georgia Ensemble (Pump Boys and Dinettes, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Ring of Fire); Theatrical Outfit (Big River); and the Shakespeare Tavern (A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Of Mice and Men, As You Like It and so many more). Thanks to Jody and everyone involved.

JANECE SHAFFER (Playwright) is an award-winning and nationally produced playwright who has written more than a dozen works, including seven Alliance Theatre world premieres. Her credits include Troubadour (Alliance, Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award); The Geller Girls (Alliance, Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award); Broke (Alliance Theatre, Gene-Gabriel Moore Best New Play Award); Managing Maxine (commissioned by the Alliance, Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, later produced by Asolo Repertory in Sarasota, Fla., and Human Race Theatre in Dayton, Ohio); Brownie Points (Theatrical Outfit, Gene-Gabriel Moore Best New Play Award, later produced at Seattle’s Taproot Theater and Lamb’s Players Theatre in San Diego); Bluish; and He Looks Great in a Hat. Janece offers special thanks to the Cinderella and Fella team including the glorious Rosemary Newcott and smarty-pants S. Renee Clark for sharing her endless love of lightning bugs, mud and tiny houses!

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profiles ROSEMARY NEWCOTT (Director) is the Sally G. Tomlinson Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth and Families and has directed dozens of Alliance productions, including A Christmas Carol; Slur (premiere); The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Pearl Cleage’s Tell Me My Dream (premiere); Courage! (premiere); The Wizard of Oz; Seussical; Class of 3000 Live! (premiere); Go Dog Go!; Einstein Is a Dummy (premiere); The Book of Ruth; The Hobbit; and many more. She directed the Alliance Palefsky Collision Project for its first 10 years and pioneered the Alliance’s innovative Kathy and Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young.

Favorite directing experiences also include Jason Invisible and Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical for the Kennedy Center and Frida Libre for La Jolla Playhouse. Rosemary was named an Atlanta Lexus Leader of the Arts in December 2001 and received the prestigious Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship. The Atlanta JournalConstitution named her best director of the year in 2002 and, in 2005, she won the GTC Distinguished Career Award. She is a 2009 recipient of the Princess Grace Special Projects award and several Suzi awards, including the 2010 Spirit of Suzi Bass Award. She has served on the boards of TYA/USA and Kennesaw State University’s theater department. Rosemary has degrees from Northwestern University and New Jersey City University. Thanks to all the powerful ladies and amazing fellas in my life, especially Tom. KAT CONLEY (Set Designer) returns to the Alliance after designing Courtenay’s Cabaret earlier this season. Previous Alliance credits: Pancakes, Pancakes!; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Knuffle Bunny; James and the Giant Peach; Shrek; Charlotte’s Web; Holidays With the Chalks; The Wizard of Oz; Honk!; Disney’s Mulan; 26 Miles; Class of 3000 LIVE; Goodnight Moon; Eurydice; Seussical; Degas’ Little Dancer; Disney’s Aladdin; Go, Dog, Go!; The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales; Shear Madness; The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer; Ferdinand the Bull and Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse. Kat has designed scenery for Arena Stage, Orlando Shakespeare, the Kennedy Center, Georgia Shakespeare, Marin Theatre Company, Atlanta Ballet, the Center for Puppetry Arts, 7 Stages, Theatrical Outfit, Theatre in the Square, the Springer Opera House and Aurora Theatre. She is an associate artist at Actor’s Express and the charge scenic 20 ENCOREATLANTA.COM

artist at the Alliance Theatre. Whether dramatically challenging, visionary or escapist, all theater and art is important. Thank you for supporting it in our community.

SYDNEY ROBERTS (Costume Designer) has been designing the Theatre for Young Audiences shows at the Alliance for many years and always enjoys the fun and adventure that ensues. An Atlanta-based designer, she has worked with most of the theater companies in town doing musicals, children’s shows and Shakespeare. She has taught costume design at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Emory University and Oglethorpe University and is a member of USA 829. In the fall, her costumes for The Bee Opera will be seen at international music festivals in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Skopje, Macedonia.

JAKE DeGROOT (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Oh, Hello. Off-Broadway: The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout); SeaWife (Naked Angles, Drama Desk nomination); Fly (New Victory); Two Class Acts (The Flea); Oh, Hello (Cherry Lane); Here’s Hoover (Les Freres Corbusier); Forum (Two River); Company and National Pastime (Bucks County Playhouse); SPAM (Jack). Plus Ars Nova, Griffin Theatre Company, The Linney, New Ohio Theatre, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Beckett Theatre, The Lion, 3-Legged Dog, Huntington Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pasadena Playhouse, New York Stage and Film, Williamstown, Adirondack Theatre Festival, The Cape Playhouse, W.H.A.T., ReVision, Yale Drama. International: Theatre de la Ville, Paris; the National Theatre, London; National Theatre of Norway; TheatreWorks Singapore; Norwegian Cruise Line (Dir. Patricia Wilcox, John Carrafa); Holland America Line; Regent Seven Seas; Shanghai Centre Theatre. Associate design: Broadway: Skylight; The Performers; Born Yesterday; Time Stands Still; Mary Stuart; Old Acquaintance. Co-lighting supervisor: Williamstown Theatre Festival 08-09. B.F.A. Carnegie Mellon. www.jakedegroot.com CLAY BENNING (Sound Designer) has been the resident sound designer at the Alliance Theatre for 16 years, designing more than 90 productions including 26 world premieres, 30 musicals and 23 Kathy and Ken Bernhardt Theatre for Young Audiences productions.

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profiles Cabaret; Disgraced; Pancakes, Pancakes!; Edward Foote; and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He has also designed at Georgia Shakespeare, Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Theatrical Outfit, Geva Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre and the Georgia Aquarium. Awards: Six Suzi Bass awards for outstanding sound design with 14 nominations. He is a graduate of Presbyterian College (B.A.), North Carolina School of the Arts (M.F.A.) and a member of IATSE/USA829 and TSDCA. LIZ CAMPBELL (Stage Manager) Recent Alliance credits include A Christmas Carol; Ugly Lies the Bone; Pancakes, Pancakes!; Tiger Style!; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical; James and the Giant Peach; Shrek; Charlotte’s Web; and The Wizard of Oz. Local credits include Million Dollar Quartet, Dreamgirls, Peter Pan, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Ragtime and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Atlanta Lyric Theatre); Dividing the Estate, It’s a Wonderful Life, Confederacy of Dunces and Big River (Theatrical Outfit). She holds a B.F.A. in theater from Niagara University. Member of Actors’ Equity Association. Love to Ali and Maggie.

JODY FELDMAN (Producer and Casting Director) began her theater career as an actress in Atlanta before moving into administration as the assistant general manager at Frank Wittow’s Academy Theatre. Jody is the producer and casting director at the Alliance, where she started in 1991 as casting director. While at the Alliance, she has cast and produced more than 200 LORT B, D and TYA productions encompassing a wide range of world premieres including The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry, What I Learned in Paris by Pearl Cleage, Broke by Janece Shaffer, In the Red and Brown

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Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney and more than 10 years of Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition-winning plays, plus such world and regional premiere musicals as Tuck Everlasting, Aida, The Color Purple, Sister Act: The Musical, Bring It On: The Musical, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County and Harmony, A New Musical. Jody is most proud of the thriving Alliance engagement activities and partnerships that recognize theatrical work as a catalyst for community conversation and connection.

SUSAN V. BOOTH (Jennings Hertz Artistic Director) joined the Alliance Theatre in 2001 and has initiated the Palefsky Collision Project for teens, the Alliance/ Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab, local producing partnerships and regional collaborations as well as commercial partnerships such as Tuck Everlasting; The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County; The Color Purple; Bring It On: The Musical; Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away With Me; Sister Act: The Musical; Bring in ’ da Noise, Bring in ’ da Funk and Jesus Christ Superstar GOSPEL. As a director, she has worked at such theaters as the Goodman, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Stage and Film, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens, Court Theatre and many others. She holds degrees from Denison and Northwestern universities and was a fellow of the National Critics Institute and the Kemper Foundation. She has held teaching positions at Northwestern, DePaul, and Emory universities.

She is a past president of the board of directors for the Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for the field, and is a trustee of Denison University. Susan is married to Max Leventhal and is the proud mother of Moira Rose Leventhal.

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SPECIAL THANKS Kim Bowers-Rheay Baran & the dramaturgy students at Clairemont Elementary & The Museum School of Avondale Estates Barry Stewart Mann & the dramaturgy students of the Friends School of Atlanta Alliance Theatre Education Department and Drama Camps The Discovery Program at The Children’s School

The Dramaturgy by Students program is a “real world” project offered by the Alliance Arts for Learning Institute in which an Alliance Institute teaching artist collaborates with a classroom teacher and students who serve as Jr. Dramaturgs for an Alliance stage production. The Jr. Dramaturgs’ research process includes reading the play, researching the author of the source material, characters, settings, historical and science content and other subjects that may provide information for the audience, director, actors and designers of the play.

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cinderella around the world Cinderella is a story of true love, but it is mostly about her perseverance through difficulty. Cinderella teaches the reader to be kind and loving no matter what. No one knows exactly how many versions of Cinderella exist, but it could be anywhere from 340 to 3,000! The Chinese and Egyptian versions are the first accounts of the story. Both were written in the first century B.C. The Chinese version is called Yeh Shen. The Egyptian Cinderella was recorded by Roman historians and is thought to be the oldest telling of the story.

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Hardship

The stepmother and stepsister give Yeh-Shen the hardest jobs.

Her only friend is a fish, which the stepmother kills.

Helper

Magic fish bones

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Sister of the Invisible Man

Dress

An azure blue gown and a cloak of kingfisher feathers

A jeweled gold & silver dress

A dress made of birch bark

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He gives her new clothes and they get married

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jr. dramaturgs Director Rosemary Newcott asked the third-grade Jr. Dramaturg students at The Museum School of Avondale Estates to consider these questions as they read the script and researched themes and topics for Cinderella and Fella. Here are their answers. What are yours?

One of the main ideas in Cinderella and Fella is friendship. What qualities does a best friend need?

“Best friends need to know your feeling[s] and care about your feeling[s].”

— Tommy M., Age 9 “You are always going to need help in your life so your best friend should be there to help you.”

— Lela M., Age 8 “A best friend has to be understanding so you can agree on things and work together.”

— Mattie K., Age 9 “A best friend is willing to try new things with you.”

“A best friend needs to have kindness because no one wants a friend who isn’t nice.”

— Henry H., Age 9 “To be respectful.”

— Patrick B., Age 8

“Best friends are happy for each other, not jealous.”

— Tommy M. and Harding W., Age 9 Nature also plays an important role in this play.

What part does the natural world have in the telling of this story?

“This story shows us that nature can provide things that we need and want. It gave Cinderella a dress and it gave Maurice happiness and freedom.

Nature also taught Maurice to have a new outlook on things. Nature also provides some important characters in the show. Mother Tree and Frog are critical to the story. The other animals use their nature to be humorous, such as porcupine with his “sticky” jokes. Nature is very important to this play.”

— Tommy, Patrick, Mattie, Lela, Henry, and Harding

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Cinderella and Fella provides a fresh and surprising take on the classic fairy tale. In the fictional kingdom of Kashoogie, the pampered prince Maurice prepares for the Royal Boy-Be-Gonna, where he’ll search for a royal “cohort” instead of a princess. The traditional narrative of a pining young woman scrambling to be chosen as the prince’s bride has been remixed. This time, Cinderella’s stepbrother and stepsister are both equally eligible, and the grand prize is the opportunity to take a grand adventure around the country with the prince. The overworked and underappreciated Cinderella doesn’t need a fairy godmother, either. She has the strength, determination and the help of her animal friends to get her to that infamous Royal Boy-Be-Gonna.

The play does a nice job of incorporating hip hop cultural elements into the classic tale, while removing the traditional “damsel in distress” narrative. We learn that this timeless tale can be infused with a contemporary sensibility and made relatable, to be enjoyed by future generations to come.

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synopsis: A magical retelling of the Cinderella story that’s more high-tops than glass slipper and is fueled by the magic of lightning bugs, singing cicadas and oozing mud. Our young prince, who was raised by an overbearing parent, searches the kingdom for a best friend ready for adventure. Our Cinderella, who has spent countless days pulling her ungrateful stepmother around in her tiny house, fits the bill.

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about the alliance theatre The Alliance Theatre is Atlanta’s national theater, expanding hearts and minds on stage and off. Founded in 1968, the Alliance Theatre is the leading producing theater in the Southeast, reaching more than 165,000 patrons annually. The Alliance delivers powerful programming that challenges adult and youth audiences to think critically and care deeply. Under the leadership of Susan V. Booth, Jennings Hertz Artistic Director, the Alliance Theatre received the Regional Theatre Tony Award® in recognition of sustained excellence in programming, education, and community engagement.

Known for its high artistic standards and national role in creating significant theatrical works, the Alliance has premiered more than 100 original productions including Tony Award® winners The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice, and Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo.

The Alliance has developed and premiered important American musicals with a strong track record of Broadway, touring, and subsequent productions, including the world premieres of Sister Act: The Musical, Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away, Bring It On: The Musical, Stephen King and John Mellencamp’s Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, the world premiere of the new musical Tuck Everlasting, and most recently, Born for This: the BeBe Winans Story. The Alliance also creates and nurtures the careers of artists through the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, producing the world premiere for the competition winner as part of the regular season, and the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab, providing developmental support and production resources for three performing arts projects each year.

The Alliance’s dedication to providing access to the arts is reflected in its commitment to creating new work for all ages, and to bringing that work into classrooms and communities across Atlanta and throughout the region. More than 50,000 students each year experience age-specific professional performances and participate in acting classes, drama camps, and in-school initiatives through the Alliance Theatre Acting Program and Education Department. The Alliance’s groundbreaking Kathy and Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young performances offer professionally-produced, fully interactive theater for infants and toddlers; the Palefsky Collision Project invites high school artists to create and perform new civic-minded theater based on a classic text; and community acting classes and skill-building workshops engage professional artists, young actors, business leaders, and curious learners of all ages. Twice recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for leadership in arts education, the Alliance Arts for Learning Institute equips classroom teachers with theatrical techniques that link directly to school curriculum and have been empirically proven to improve student learning. These programs include Georgia Wolf Trap Early Learning Through the Arts and Dramaturgy by Students, in which students create research material that informs Alliance productions and prepares peer audiences.

The work produced by the Alliance allows locally based artists the chance to create on a nationally watched stage, building and sustaining Atlanta’s artistic community. The vision of the Alliance Theatre is to be a beacon of leadership for the national field, while remaining deeply rooted in and reflective of our local Atlanta community.

MISSION Atlanta’s national theater, expanding hearts and minds on stage and off.

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

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation

★★★★★★ $100,000+ The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation AT&T Delta Air Lines, Inc. The Edgerton Foundation The Home Depot

The Kendeda Fund The Shubert Foundation Spray Foundation, Inc. Turner

★★★★★ $50,000+ Carter’s Fulton County Board of Commissioners MAP Fund North Highland

PNC R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation Wal-Mart Foundation The Zeist Foundation

★★★★ $25,000+ Atlanta Foundation Camp-Younts Foundation City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs Georgia Power

Oscar G. & Elsa S. Mayer Family Foundation Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. The Rich Foundation The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

★★★ $10,000+ The Abraham J & Phyllis Katz Foundation The Allstate Foundation Alston & Bird Anonymous Cartoon Network

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GCA also receives support from its partner agency the National Endowment for the Arts.

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annual fund Individual donors contribute more than $2 million to the Alliance Theatre so that we are able to present exceptional theater and educational programming to our community. We are deeply grateful for their support. To find out more about the benefits of giving or to make your gift, visit us at alliancetheatre.org/donate or call 404-733-4710.

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Kathy & Ken Bernhardt Mr. & Mrs. Peter Carter Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Cashdan Mr. & Mrs. William Dukes Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Evans Mr. Patrick J. Gunning Virginia Hepner & Malcolm Barnes Andrea & Boland Jones Mrs. Leslie Joyce James & Lori Kilberg Anna & Hays Mershon L. Paul Pendergrass Mr. & Mrs. Sean Reardon Travis Reed & Michael Kriethe of Harry Norman Realtors Patricia & Maurice Rosenbaum Bobby & Debra Rosenbloum Dr. & Mrs. R. K. Sehgal Pam Sessions & Don Donnelly Mr. & Mrs. Chris Sizemore William & Margarita Sleeper Dr. & Mrs. Dennis Lee Spangler Karen & John Spiegel Carol & Ramon TomĂŠ Family Fund Benny & Roxanne Varzi Suzy Wilner Joni Winston

$50,000+ Barbara & Steve Chaddick Katie & Reade Fahs Starr Moore & the James Starr Moore Memorial Foundation Victoria & Howard Palefsky Sally G. Tomlinson $25,000+ Ms. Kristin Adams Stephanie Blank Ann & Jeff Cramer Mr. Fredric M. Ehlers & Mr. David Lile Ellen & Howard Feinsand David & Carolyn Gould Jocelyn J. Hunter John C. Keller Mr. & Mrs. David E. Kiefer Jane & Hicks Lanier Hala & Steve Moddelmog Stephen & Marjorie Osheroff Dan & Garnet Reardon Patty & Doug Reid Linda & Steve Selig; Kathy & Steve Kuranoff Mr. & Mrs. Bradford L. Watkins Ramona & Ben White Paul Wrights $15,000-$24,999 The Balloun Family The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Susan Booth & Max Leventhal Laura Brightwell LeighAnn & Chad Costley Linda & Gene Davidson Doris & Matthew Geller Marsha & Richard Goerss Doug & Lila Hertz Anne & Mark Kaiser David & Mary Jane Kirkpatrick Malinda Krantz Mr. Alan B. McKeon & Ms. Evelyn Ashley Phil & Caroline MoĂŻse Mr. & Mrs. Angus Morrison Bob & Margaret Reiser Waffle House Mark & Linda Silberman Dr. & Mrs. Robert Simmermon Mr. & Mrs. E. Kendrick Smith Chandra Stephens-Albright & Warren Albright Charlita Stephens-Walker, Charles* & Delores Stephens Tim & Maria Tassopoulous Rosemarie & David Thurston Mark & Rebekah Wasserman Mr. & Mrs. Monte Wilson Amy & Todd Zeldin

$7,500-$9,999 James Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Adam Fuller Mr. Christopher M. Jones & Mr. Roger J. Smith Mr. & Mrs. John S. Markwalter, Jr. $5,000-$7,499 Gene G. Abel, M.D. & Nora Harlow Ellen Arnovitz John & Lynn Ayers Ron & Lisa Brill Charitable Trust Frank Buonanotte Mr. & Mrs. W. Kent Canipe Franklin & Dorothy Chandler Ezra Cohen Charitable Trust Ann & Jim Curry Eve & Bob Eckardt Dr. & Mrs. Norman Elliott John & Cindy Ethridge Diane & Daryl Evans Karen & Andrew Ghertner Dr. Marvin Goldstein Erin & John Heyman Mrs. Erika James Paul & Rosthema Kastin David L. Kuniansky Walter Mitchell & Marci Schmerler Richard S. & Winifred B. Myrick Mr. & Mrs. Solon P. Patterson Scott, Dallas, & Mia Pioli Sharon & David Schachter Alan & Cyndy* Schreihofer Mr. & Mrs.* Charles B. Shelton III Mr. & Mrs. Sandeep Soni Henry N. & Margaret P. Staats

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Lynne & Steve Steindel Chuck & Lisa Cannon-Taylor Susan & Tom Wardell $2,500-$4,999 Elaine & Miles Alexander Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Allen Arcus Capital Partners Deborah Bannworth & Joy Lynn Fields Karen Beardslee & Susie McGinnis Ariana L. Hargrave Sara & Alex Brown Frank & Mary Anne Chew Mark & Ruth Coan Susan & Ed Croft Brad & Sally Currey Olivia Delacruz Foundation Mr. & Mrs. C. Edward Dobbs Marcia & John Donnell Bo & Eileen DuBose Diane Durgin Eierman Foundation Ms. Elizabeth R. Etoll Kathryn T. Farley, PhD Michael & Jody Feldman Dr. Cynthia J. Fordyce & Sharon Hulette Viki & Paul Freeman Mr. & Mrs. John D. Fuller Heidi & David Geller John Vaught & Karen Gentry Tuvy Guss in Memory of Pete Shinn Mrs. Carrie G. Hall Burch & Mark Hanson Dr. & Mrs. John B. Hardman Henry & EttaRae Hirsch Foundation Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Hostinsky Linda & Richard Hubert Mr. Wayne S. Hyatt Jason & Laurie Jeffay Samuel B Kellett, Sr. Foundation Leslie D. Leigh M.D. Kristie L. Madara Daniel Marks & Keri Powell Dedi & Julian Mohr June M. Morrison Mr. Thomas Pinckney Susan & David Peterson Sam & Barbara Pettway Helen M. Regenstein Nancy & Charlie Rigby Peter & Alice Rogers Sonny & Jeanne Seals Charlotte & Tom Shields Brian Shively & Jim Jinhong Nancy & Gerald Silverboard Linda & Mason Stephenson Karen & Alex Stickney Susan & Alan Stiefel Russell B. Still in honor of Carol Jones Maria-Ruth Storts Michael & June Tompkins Cynthia Widner Wall & James A. Wall J.M. Wilkerson Construction Company Sue S. Williams Lynne Winship

The Zaban Foundation John & Kathy Zamer $1,500 - $2,499 Judge Gregory A. Adams & Wanda C. Adams Diane & Kent Alexander Theodore & Andrea Altholz Mr. & Mrs. Brian Anderson Mary Allen Arnold Elizabeth & John Bacon Mr. & Mrs. Roland L. Bates Candace & Jeff Bell Mark & Pam Bell Mr. & Mrs. John Benator Jeff Bergstrom Shirley Blaine Mrs. Lucinda W. Bunnen Aubrey & Carol Bush Susan & Tom Callaway Candace Carson Melodie H. Clayton Rita & Ralph Connell Bill Damaschke Richard & Linda Davis Phil Delanty Mr. & Mrs. David E. Dermer Ralph & Ree Edwards The Robert S. Elster Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Tim Eyerly Andrew & Wendie Fisher Linda M. Garrett Mr. & Mrs. Taylor Glover Lynne & Jack Halpern Valerie Hartman John Haupert & Bryan Brooks Richard & Dorothy Hines Stephen & Taylor Horne Dr. Joyce F. Houser Adrienne Hudson Kay H. & Burke C. Jones Mark Keiser Dr. William A. Kiser Carrie & Brian Kurlander Steven & Sheri Labovitz Conchita Heyn & Robert Lichtefeld Linda L. Lively & James E. Hugh, III Jeffrey & Cynthia McCreary Raymond & Penelope McPhee Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Metzger Janice & Tom Munsterman Debbie & Lon Neese Bill & Carey Peard Peg Petersen Karen Porch Erin Quinn Don & Rosalinda Ratajczak Dr. Denise Raynor Rebecca & John Reeves Dr. Susan Rifkin & Mr. David Rifkin Dr. & Mrs. Fredric Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Mark Rosenberg Michael & Debbie Salyards Sam Schwartz & Lynn Goldowski Dr. and Mrs. Robert Simmermon Smith, LLC Mr. Scott Sorrels

annual fund $1,500 - $2,499 (cont’d) Ms. Martha B. Stephens & Ms. Linda B. August Jim & Janie Stratigos Dr. & Mrs. Alan Sunshine Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth G. Taylor Kathy & Ron Tomajko Ms. Natasha Trethewey Ted & Felicite Verren Penn & Sally Wells Mr. & Mrs. D. K. Wheeler Barbara A. White Sue S. Williams $1,000 - $1,499 Dr. & Mrs. Marshall Abes Sharon Adams Michael & Andrea Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Billy Bauman Mr. & Mrs. Francis S. Blake Thomas Brown Family Charity Dean & Tarsha W. Calloway David Cofrin & Christine Tryba-Cofrin Julian Dejuan Christopher & Sonnett Edmonds Dr. Kathryn Farley Bryan & Barbara Fields Mr. & Mrs. William C. Fowler Debbie Frank Mr. & Mrs. John J. Gillin Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Goodman Mr. Kevin Greiner & Mrs. Robyn S. Roberts James & Vicki Griffiths Warren M. Gump Mr. Lucas Hathaway Mr. Walter Henderson Mrs. Elaine L. Hentschel Bruce & Elizabeth Herman Benjamin & Allison Hill in Memory of Pete Shinn Mark Hobson The International Council of Fine Arts Deans Suzanne & Thad King Lucy Kinnaird Elizabeth Levine in honor of Billy Levine Richard Long & Sheri Easton-Long Lubo Fund William McKay Jim & Jo McLean Carol & Dart Meadows Susan L. Nardelli

Ann Starr & Kent Nelson Joan Netzel & John Gronwall Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ollinger Dr. Jerry & Mrs. Linda Richman Roger & Lynn Ritvo in honor of Ken McNeil Dr. & Mrs. Charles Rosenberg Ronald Russell & Don Sweat Neil & Susan Sandler Chris Schneider Elizabeth Wallace & Christopher Scislowicz Rochelle Barker Shinn in Memory of Pete Shinn Jane E. Shivers Philip Slaughter Mark & Judith Taylor Lorre Trytten Tee Mr. Richard Thomas Laura Thruston in Memory of Pete Shinn Mrs. & Mr. Velma C. Tilley Ms. Avril Vignos Vogel Family Foundation Mr. Kevin Warren Adrienne Whitehead John Williamson Melody Wilder Wilson & David Wilson Ms. Amy Winokur Lynne Winship William & Nancy Yang P.J. Younglove Hovey $750 - $999 Lisa & Joe Bankoff Ms. Donna C. Bowman Ronald L. Budde Mr. & Mrs. Gary Elder Shan Franklin Dr. Arthur Griffiths & Dr. Deborah Griffiths Louise S. Gunn Carsten Hilker Kurle Law, LLC S. Jarvin Levison Ms. Theresa McCabe Geoffrey & Betsy Meacham Dori & Jack Miller Mr. & Mrs. Isador Mitzner Peter Ohanlon Ratonyi Family Philanthropic Fund Judith Reece The Shockley Family Tate & Paige Smith Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Vivona

$500 - $749 Mr. Thomas G. Abrams & Mr. Britt Wood Joe Arnold Dr. Evelyn R. Babey Andrew & Margaret Bailey Dr. Gordon Baker Barbizon in Memory of Pete Shinn Michael & Mary Baron Ms. Mary Bergh Thomas & Wendy Betenia Betty Blondeau-Russell Judge JoAnn Bowens Bonny Breuer Helen Brown Thomas Brown Mr. James Clements Richard & Ellen Colby Mr. & Mrs. Charles Conover Ms. Celestine Cookson Darryl Cooper Rosalie & Max Cooper B.J. Erb, M.D. & Bruce I. Crabtree III Lisa Cremin & Bruce Harlan Celeste Davis WMLB, AM 1690 Dr. Julia Emmons Leonard Epley Ms. Gail H. Evans Angeline Fife Pat & Jerry Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Edward T.M. Garland Matty L. Garrett Ed Gentle George T. Baker Foundation, Inc. Martin & Doris Goldstein Dan & Susan Graveline Julie Hadden Nancy & J. Michael Halwig MD Tyson Harper Dawn & Jack Hereth Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Hermann Mr. Edward Hewett James A. Hill Mr. & Mrs. David E. Homrich Darlene & Lonnie Jenkins William Kendall Christopher Kettrey in Memory of Pete Shinn Carol & Paul Kurtz Liz Lee & Liz Brock in Memory of Pete Shinn Dr. & Mrs. Mitchell Lippman Michael Lipsitt

William L. Lundy, Jr. Guidian Healthcare Consulting Doug & Norma McNeill Stacia Minton Mr. & Mrs. Charles Moseley Dennis & Debra Murphy Margaret H. Murphy Ellen & George Nemhauser Mr. & Mrs. Peter O’Hanlon Mark A. Pallansch Anna & Richard Pare John & Helen Parker Jana Stein-Payan Mike Peck LP Pendergrass Physical Therapy Pros LLC Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Pollock Deborah Chasin & Dennis Renyi Douglas & Reginia Riffey Carol Riggs Gloria Rodgers Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Rothberg Dr. Susan E. Shapiro David & Virginia Sjoquist Brenda J. Smith Elizabeth Stephens Chantel Taylor Herman & Jasmine Taylor Lanie Taylor & Evan Pontz Johnie L. Teague Mr. & Mrs. Norman Thomas Wanda & Robert Truesdale Leanne Van Dyk Dan & Jennifer Van Horn Mr. & Mrs. Ted Verren Mr. Bradlee C. Ward Mark & Dara Wassersug Amanda Watkins Caitlin Way Greg & Teresa Wellborn The Westminster Schools Mr. & Ms. Jonathan Wilfong Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Williamson Joyce Smith Wilson Ms. Kristen Wood Burke & Mr. Adam Burke Sherry & Donn Wright * Deceased

Alliance Theatre Staff Giving We would like to thank the following Alliance Theatre & Woodruff Arts Center staff members who have contributed to the Alliance Theatre Annual Fund and Transformation Campaign.

Emika Abe Brooke Beall Jessica Boatright Susan V. Booth Scott Bowne Kristen Buckley Jamie Clements Kat Conley Patrick Conley Megan DeWitt Christina Dresser Jody Feldman Collins Goss

Kristin Hathaway Hansen Danielle Hicks Jim Hubbert Rachel Jones Megan Kier Max Leventhal Kyle Longwell Liz Lyons Michael Lyons Leora Morris Suzanne Morris Victor Mouledoux Christopher Moses

Margo Moskowitz Janine Musholt Patrick Myers Rosemary Newcott J. Noble Courtney O’Neill Elisia’ Parker Willie Parks Thomas Pinckney Rebecca Pogue Mike Schleifer Amy Schwartz Brian Shively

Vincent Simons Paige Smith Matthew Tanner Bret Torbeck Laura Thruston Caitlin Way Cindy Lou Who Jackalyn Williams Jennifer Williford Michael Winn

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annual fund 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 in their estate plans. For more information about making a planned gift to benefit the Alliance Theatre, please contact Caitlin Way, Associate Dir. of Development, Board/Major Gifts at 404-733-4757 or caitlin.way@ alliancetheatre.org.

Rita M. Anderson Anonymous Betty Blondeau-Russell Jim & Anne Breedlove Ezra Cohen Ann & Jeff Cramer Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Croft, III Sallie Adams Daniel Linda & Gene Davidson Howard & Ellen Feinsand Laura & John Hardman Glen E. & Nancy Hesler

P.J. Younglove Hovey William C. Hyde Lauren & David Kiefer Virginia Vann* & Ken Large Anna & Hays Mershon Mr. & Mrs. John McColskey Phil & Caroline Moise Richard S. & Winifred B. Myrick Victoria & Howard Palefsky Jan Pomerantz Helen M. Regenstein Margaret & Bob Reiser

Neal & Tricia Schachtel Mr. & Mrs.* Charles B. Shelton, III Jane E. Shivers Roger J. Smith & Christopher M. Jones Wayne & Lee Harper Vason Rick & Terri Western Ramona & Ben White

* deceased

matching gift companies We would like to thank the following companies who have matched contributions to the Alliance Theatre Annual Fund. Please visit alliancetheatre.org/match to find out if your employer will match your contribution.

American Express AIG Corporation Aon Risk Solutions AT&T Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Bryan Cave-Powell Goldstein Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. Chubb Corporation The Coca-Cola Company Deloitte Equifax, Inc.

GE Energy Georgia Power Home Depot Foundation Honda Motor Co. IBM Corporation JPMorgan Chase Kimberly-Clark Foundation Macy’s Foundation McDonald’s Corporation Microsoft Corporation Neiman Marcus

Norfolk Southern Corporation Plum Creek Prudential Financial Publix Super Markets Sprint SunTrust Foundation Time Warner, Inc. Verizon Corporation Yahoo!

Wells Fargo

Do you appreciate live theatre, enjoy meeting new people and trying new things? If so, then get involved with one of the largest volunteer forces in the arts. The Alliance Theatre volunteer STARS program offers a wide range of opportunities, which includes advocating for live theatre, ushering for Alliance productions, participating in and staffing fundraising & hospitality events, and assisting Alliance staff members with daily office tasks. STARS is composed of three committees working together on fundsaving and fund-raising projects to benefit the theatre. The three committees are the Theatre Advocates, the Theatre Educators, and the Theatre Ushers.

For more information on becoming a volunteer, please contact Michael Winn at Michael.Winn@ alliancetheatre.org.

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THE WOODRUFF CIRCLE Woodruff Circle members each contribute more than $250,000 annually to support the arts and education work of the Woodruff Arts Center, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and High Museum of Art. We are deeply grateful to these 38 partners who lead our efforts to ensure the arts thrive in our community.

$1 MILLION+

$500,000+ A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (2) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Bank of America Chick-fil-A Foundation / Rhonda and Dan Cathy Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. The Home Depot Foundation The Marcus Foundation, Inc.

Spray Foundation, Inc. SunTrust Foundation SunTrust Bank Teammates and The SunTrust Trusteed Foundations: Florence C. and Harry L. English Memorial Fund Thomas Guy Woolford Charitable Trust

Terra Foundation for American Art Wells Fargo

$400,000+ Abraham J. & Phyllis Katz Foundation The Douglas J. Hertz Family PwC, Partners & Employees

Patty and Doug Reid The Rich Foundation The Sara Giles Moore Foundation

$300,000+ Mr. and Mrs. C. Merrell Calhoun The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. Deloitte, its Partners & Employees Forward Arts Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Keough King & Spalding, Partners & Employees UPS Mr. and Mrs. Edus H. Warren, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wood

$250,000+ EY, Partners & Employees Invesco Ltd. KPMG LLP, Partners & Employees

Turner wish Foundation

Woodruff Circle & Patron Circle donations made: June 1, 2015 – May 31, 2016 Beauchamp C. Carr Challenge Fund Donors

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THE PATRON CIRCLE $200,000+

A Friend of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra AT&T Georgia-Pacific Corporation Estate of Jeannie Hearn Beth and Tommy Holder Jane and Clayton Jackson Jones Day Foundation & Employees Sarah and Jim Kennedy Lucy R. and Gary Lee, Jr. Estate of Amy Norman Louise S. Sams and Jerome Grilhot Margaret and Terry Stent Tull Charitable Foundation

$150,000+

1180 Peachtree A Friend of the Woodruff Arts Center Alston & Bird LLP The Antinori Foundation / Ron and Susan Antinori BB&T Joe and Alexis Best III The David, Helen & Marian Woodward Fund-Atlanta Equifax, Inc. Fulton County Arts Council The Howell Fund, Inc. Victoria and Howard Palefsky PNC Estate of Shirley Rivers The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation The Shubert Foundation Mrs. Sue Williams

$100,000+

A Friend of the Alliance Theatre HerbertAllen / Allen & Company AmericasMart Atlanta The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation Atlanta Foundation Sandra and Dan Baldwin Lucinda W. Bunnen Barbara and Steve Chaddick City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Ann and Jeff Cramer Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation / Dan W. Boone III First Data Corporation Sally and Carl Gable Carol and Paul Garcia Helen C. Griffith Kaiser Permanente Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Emily and Carl Knobloch Morgens West Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Northern Trust Company The Pittulloch Foundation Margaret and Bob Reiser The Richman Family Foundation Southern Company Gas

Carol and Ramon Tomé Family Fund WestRock Company Woodruff Arts Center Employees

$75,000+

Alexander Babbage, Inc. Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Kathy and Ken Bernhardt Frances B. Bunzl Cisco Edgerton Foundation New American Plays The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. Starr Moore and the James Starr Moore Memorial Foundation North Highland Publix Super Market Charities Mrs. Ruth Magness Rollins Triad Foundation, Inc.

$50,000+

Akris ALPLA Susan and Richard Anderson Assurant Atlanta Braves Birch Communications Kenny and Nancy Blank Bloomberg The Carter’s Charitable Foundation Carolynn Cooper and Pratap Mukharji Crawford & Company Katie and Reade Fahs Ellen and Howard Feinsand The Frances and Beverly DuBose Foundation, Inc. Paul and Kate Gaffney Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Gellerstedt III General Electric Company Genuine Parts Company The Graves Foundation The Hellen Ingram Plummer Charitable Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton H. Howell, Jr. Karen and Jeb Hughes Isdell Family Foundation Mr. Michael Kaufmann John C. Keller The Mark & Evelyn Trammell Foundation Massey Charitable Trust NCR Foundation Norfolk Southern Corporation One Museum Place Primerica, Inc. R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation Razorfish Regions Bank Mr. and Mrs. Fred Richman Mr. Ferdinand C. Seefried Chip and Sharon Shirley The Shops Buckhead Atlanta

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The Patron Circle includes donors who generously made contributions to our FY16 annual funds and/or long-term special projects and endowment funds.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Bronson Smith Sara and Paul Steinfeld Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP Target Stores United Distributors, Inc. voestalpine Waffle House Susan and Tom Wardell Elizabeth and Chris Willett Joni Winston

$25,000+

A Friend of the High Museum of Art Kristie and Charles Abney Accenture LLP Ms. Kristin Adams Madeline and Howell Adams, Jr. Allstate Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Arby’s Foundation, Inc. Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Spring and Tom Asher Atlanta Marriott Marquis AVYVE Axiall Corporation The Balloun Family Juanita and Gregory Baranco Anna and Ed Bastian Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Blackney BNY Mellon Wealth Management Mr. Charles Brady John and Mary Brock John and Rosemary Brown Camp-Younts Foundation The Charles Loridans Foundation, Inc. Bert and Cathy Clark Cobb EMC Community Foundation Cousins Properties Inc. Sherri and Jesse Crawford Creative Industries Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Currey, Jr. Elaine and Erroll Davis Marcia and John Donnell Catherine Warren Dukehart Lynn Eden Brooke and Rod Edmond Emory University Peggy Foreman Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta Charlotte R. Garson Georgia Natural Gas Gertrude and William C. Wardlaw Fund GMT Capital Corporation David and Carolyn Gould Grant Thornton LLP Nancy and Holcombe Green Joy and Tony Greene Judah S. Gudelsky Robert Hall Gunn, Jr. James B. Hannan The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Heineken USA Virginia Hepner and Malcolm Barnes

Allison and Ben Hill Holder Construction Infor Global Solutions Jim Cox, Jr. Fund JLL Katie and West Johnson Lori and Bill Johnson Andrea and Boland Jones Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Keough The Klaus Family Foundation Malinda and David Krantz Lisa & Ron Brill Charitable Trust Karole and John Lloyd Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Mr. and Mrs. Forrest McClain Sally and Allen McDaniel Mr. Harris N. Miller and Ms. Deborah A. Kahn Mueller Water Products, Inc. Terence L. and Jeanne P. Neal Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Newell Brands Novelis, Inc. Barbara and Sanford Orkin Oscar G. and Elsa S. Mayer Family Foundation Oxford Industries, Inc. John R. Paddock, PhD and Karen M. Schwartz, PhD Vicki and John Palmer Beth and David Park Sally and Pete Parsonson Mrs. Martha Pentecost Mr. and Mrs. Michael Plant Porsche Cars North America Inc. Price Gilbert, Jr. Charitable Fund Printpack PulteGroup, Inc. Quikrete Mr. and Mrs. Peter Quinones Mr. and Mrs. David M. Ratcliffe The Ray M. and Mary Elizabeth Lee Foundation, Inc. Dan and Garnet Reardon Richard Gray Gallery, LLC Rocket Camp Phyllis and Sidney Rodbell Alyson and Greg Rogers Ryder Truck Rental, Inc. Phil Sadler Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. SCANA Energy Bill and Rachel Schultz Mrs. William A. Schwartz Joyce and Henry Schwob The Selig Foundation: Linda & Steve Selig and Cathy & Steve Kuranoff ServiceNow Siemens Smith & Howard, P.C. Mrs. Lessie Smithgall Southwest Airlines Southwire Company

$25,000+ Continued

Karen and John Spiegel Jeffrey Sprecher and Kelly Loeffler State Bank & Trust Company Mr. David Stockert and Ms. Cameron Ives Swarovski Greer and Alex Taylor Sally G. Tomlinson Total Wine & More Transwestern TriMont Real Estate Advisors Troutman Sanders LLP The Vasser Woolley Foundation, Inc. Vontobel Swiss Wealth Advisors AG Walter Clay Hill and Family Foundation Rebekah and Mark Wasserman Rod Westmoreland Joan N. Whitcomb Ann Marie and John B. White, Jr. Susan and John Wieland Loraine P. Williams Wilmington Trust Frances Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc. Diane Wisebram and Edward D. Jewell Estate of Dorothy M. Yates Ellen and John Yates Amy and Todd Zeldin

$15,000+

A Friend of the Alliance Theatre A Friend of the High Museum of Art (3) A Friend of the Woodruff Arts Center ABM Acuity Brands, Inc. Keith Adams and Kerry Heyward Alice S. Powers Irrevocable Trust Alvarez & Marsal Amec Foster Wheeler Yum and Ross Arnold Neal K. Aronson Atlantic American Corporation/Delta Life Insurance Company/ Gray Television Atlantic Capital Bank Atlantic Trust Company Barbara and Ron Balser Bank of North Georgia/ Synovus Financial Corp Lisa and Joe Bankoff Susan R. Bell and Patrick M. Morris Kelly O. and Neil H. Berman Nancy and Phil Binkow Stan and Laura Blackburn The Blanche Lipscomb Foundation Stephanie Blank BlueCross BlueShield of Georgia Missy and Roland Boney Susan V. Booth and Max Leventhal

The Boston Consulting Group Jim and Lisa Boswell Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Boykin Breman Foundation, Inc. Brown & Brown Insurance, Inc. Janine Brown and Alex J. Simmons, Jr. Bryan Cave Burr & Forman LLP Ms. Mary Cahill and Mr. Rory Murphy The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation The Casey-Slade Group, Merrill Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Jefrrey S. Cashdan Wright and Alison Caughman CBH International, Inc. Center Family Foundation The Chatham Valley Foundation, Inc. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Chubb Susan and Carl Cofer Brian and Melinda Corbett Barbara and Lee Coulter Ann and Tom Cousins W. Scott Creasman Marjorie and Carter Crittenden Michelle and David Crosland Charlene Crusoe-Ingram and Earnest Ingram Russell Currey and Amy Durrell Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. Harry and Wendy Cynkus Mr. and Mrs. James C. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Jay M. Davis Cari Katrice Dawson and John Martin Sparrow Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Denny, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William W. Dixon Margaret and Scott Dozier Mr. W. Daniel Ebersole and Mrs. Sarah A. Eby-Ebersole L. Franklyn Elliott, M.D. Nick Franz The Fred and Sue McGehee Family Charitable Fund Betty Sands Fuller Gas South, LLC Doris and Matthew Geller Georgia Council for the Arts Georgia Crown Distributing Company Greg and Lillian Giornelli Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Goerss Mr. and Mrs. Richard Goodsell Sara Goza Graphic Packaging International, Inc. Jason and Carey Guggenheim/Boston Consulting Group Mr. Patrick J. Gunning Mr. Kenneth Haines

Harry Norman Realtors Sara and Jeff Hehir Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Hohlstein Mr. and Mrs. Jack K. Holland Catherine and Rob Hutchinson Ida Alice Ryan Charitable Trust Roya and Bahman Irvani Mrs. Maribeth M. Jameson and Mr. L. Norwood Jameson Liza and Brad Jancik Lou Brown Jewell John & Mary Franklin Foundation, Inc. John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Foundation Mary and Neil Johnson Robert and Sherry Johnson Mr. Baxter P. Jones and Dr. Jiong Yan James F. Kelly Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. David E. Kiefer James and Lori Kilberg Kimberly-Clark Corporation Joel Knox and Joan Marmo Wendy and Scott Kopp Kurt P. Kuehn and Cheryl Davis L & C Wood Family Foundation James H. Landon Donna Lee and Howard Ehni Elaine L. Levin Mr. and Mrs. Bertram L. Levy Livingston Foundation, Inc. Macy’s Meghan and Clarke Magruder Chip Mann and Bill Gilmore Larry and Lisa Mark Mr. and Mrs. John S. Markwalter, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mike McCarthy Margot and Danny McCaul Ken and Carolyn Meltzer Merrill Lynch—Buckhead Anna and Hays Mershon MGM Resorts International Hala and Steve Moddelmog Phil and Caroline Moïse Morgan Stanley-Atlanta Private Wealth Management Northwestern Mutual/ Northwestern Benefit Caroline and Joe O’Donnell Lynn and Galen Oelkers Stephen and Marjorie Osheroff Sunny Park Karen and Richard Parker Mr. and Mrs. Solon P. Patterson Perkins & Will, Inc. Susan and David Peterson Piedmont Charitable Foundation, Inc. Piedmont National Family Foundation Post Properties Inc. PRGX Mr. and Mrs. William C. Rawson

Raymond James Financial, Inc. Travis Reed and Michael Kriethe of Harry Norman Realtors Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reeves Regal Entertainment Group Betsy and Lee Robinson Mr. and Mrs. William H. Rogers, Jr. Rooms To Go Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Arnold B. Rubenstein Jack Sawyer and Dr. Bill Torres Mark and Linda Silberman Skanska USA Inc. The Slumgullion Charitable Fund Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Lee Spangler Elise and Nick Spina Staging Directions Loren and Gail Starr Lynne & Steve Steindel Charlita Stephens-Walker, Charles and Delores Stephens Les Stumpff and Sandy Moon Michelle and Stephen Sullivan Surya Hugh M. Tarbutton, Jr. G. Kimbrough Taylor and Triska Drake Judith and Mark Taylor Lisa Cannon Taylor and Chuck Taylor Thomas H. Lanier Foundation Lizanne Thomas and David Black Alison and Joe Thompson Rosemarie and David Thurston Trapp Family The Trillist Companies, Inc./ YOO on the Park Mr. and Mrs. Rhett L. Turner US Bank John and Ray Uttenhove Veritiv Verizon Wireless Paul E. Viera and Gail O’Neill Patrick and Susie Viguerie Reggie and Kim Walker Kathy N. Waller Leigh and Tim Walsh Weldon H. Johnson Family Foundation Adair and Dick White Mr. and Mrs. Douglas L. Williams James B. and Betty A. Williams Richard Williams and Janet Lavine Willis Towers Watson The Winstead Group Dina Woodruff Mike Wright - Harry Norman, Realtors Yancey Bros. Co Mary and Bob Yellowlees

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alliance theatre staff ARTISTIC Jennings Hertz Artistic Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan V. Booth Sally G. Tomlinson Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth and Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rosemary Newcott Producer & Casting Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jody Feldman Director of New Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Celise Kalke Playwright in Residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pearl Cleage Yale Directing Fellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leora Morris Artistic Support Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Kleypas Kenny Leon Fellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Matthews Spelman Interns . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ciara Jones, Maya Lawrence, Janerica Smith Reiser Lab Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Justin Anderson, David De Vries, Patricia Henritze, Matt Huff, Derreck Kayongo, Hank Kimmel, Vynnie Meli, Mary Lynn Owen, Naima Carter Russell, Kendall Simpson

Scenery Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kyle Longwell Associate Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Megan Kier Shop Foreman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Conley Lead Welder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Lyons Lead Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Victor Mouledoux Jr. Carpenters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manny Abreo, Cassie Garner Charge Scenic Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kat Conley Scenic Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brooke Beall Additional Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sarah Shipp Sound Resident Sound Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clay Benning Production Sound Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Michelle Jarvis Sound Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kris Meyer, Emma Lipsitt, Holly O’Reagan

Production Management Director of Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Victor W. Smith Assistant Production Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margo Moskowitz Stage Management Resident Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bret Torbeck Costumes Alliance Stage Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lark hackshaw, Liz Campbell, Barbara O’Haley, R. Lamar Williams Costume Shop Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jeff Cone Assistant Costume Shop Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April Andrew Assistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jayson T. Waddell Design Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jordan Jaked Carrier Stage Management Production Assistants . . . . Skylar Burks, Britney DeRosa, Shawanna Hall, Kara Procell Drapers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julie Kennedy, Cindy Lou Who Craftsmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Diana L. Thomas Stitchers/1st Hands . . . . . . . . . . Laury Conley, Lyudmila Fesenko, Brett Parker Stage Operations Wig Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lindsay Ewing Stage Operations Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scott Bowne Wardrobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hauzia Conyers, Katy Munroe, Niki Traxler Stage Operations Assistant Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Courtney O’Neill Crew Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vincent Simons Flyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Willie Parks Electrics Lighting and Projections Department Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Steven Love Properties Stagehand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haylee Scott Staff Electricians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gabby Ide, Steve Jordan, Additional Load-in Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ali Hooks, James McBrayer, Jennifer Nakahara James Schlachter, John Underwood Properties Properties Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Liz Lyons Master Artisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne Cooper Morris Props Artisan and Buyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kimberly Townsend Props Artisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bruce Butkovich Additional Props Artisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathryn Muse EDUCATION Dan Reardon Director of Education Teaching Artists (cont’d) . . . . . . . . Robert Hindsman, Jeremiah Parker Hobbs, & Associate Artistic Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher Moses Catherine Dee Holly, BJ Hughes, Rachel Jones, Ameenah Kaplan, Adam King, David Kote, LeeAnna Lambert, Clayton Landey, Bethany Lind, Nicole Livieratos, Administrative Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rachel Jones Cara Mantella, Gloria Martin, Marielle Martinez, Tiffany McGettee, Bryan Mercer, Database & Content Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christina Dresser Karin Mervis, Sarah Newby Halicks, Donal Noonan, Mary Emily O’Bradovich, Family Programs Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia Aston Bosworth Lee Osorio, Tafee Patterson, Tawny Powell, Eric Prather, Julie Puckett, JL Reed, Early Childhood Program Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristen Buckley Rebeca Robles, Julissa Sabino, Viviana Sawyer, Avery Sharpe, Linda Sherbert, Teen & Adult Programs Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Wallis Institute Program Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Pogue David Sterritt, Barry Stewart Mann, Suzanne Stroup, Ebony Tucker, Jeremy Varner, Jose Miguel Vasquez, Rachel Wansker, Andrea Washington, Davia Weatherill, Education Sales & Customer Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicole Kang Corinne Weintraub, Stephanie Willis, Michael Winn, Vallea E. Woodbury, Camp Coordinator & Family Programs Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . Aierelle McGill Melissa Word Communications Specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .J. Noble Education Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Bunch Teen Ensemble Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sherifa Abudulai, Ampith Anderson, Gillian Baker, Caroline Caden, Austin Geter, Kyla Hunter, Jalexis James, Teaching Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abyss, Nikki Adkins, Karen Aguirre, Isake Akanke Slaughter, Ricardo Aponte, Olivia Aston Bosworth, Isabel Jordan, Taylor McKinney, Alexis Mpezo, Jade Nixon, Justice Pate, Kim Bowers Rheay Baran, Kati Grace Brown, Danye Brown, Kyle Brumley, Jordan Powell, Laughton Berry, Adirah Robinson, Rachael Simpson, Lon Bumgarner, Daniel Burns, Amy Cain Lucas, Kirstin Calvert, Kara Cantrell, Marquavious Smith, Ever Taylor, Evita Walch, Amira Williams Taryn Carmona, Katie Causey, Greg Chagnon, Hannah Church, Jaehn Clare, Steve Coulter, Nakeisha Daniel, Benjamin Davis, Theresa Davis, Shelli Delgado, Jorge Donoso, John Doyle, Rachael Endrizzi, Jessica Espinoza, Sharon Foote, Daryl Funn, Allison Gardner, Trevor Goble, Neeley Gossett, Al Hamacher, MANAGEMENT Managing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mike Schleifer Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laura Thruston Off-Campus Season Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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