Everyman Theatre "Everything is Wonderful" Program

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EVERYMAN THEATRE

Vincent M. Lancisi, Founder, Artistic Director

presents

EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL Playwright CHELSEA MARCANTEL Director NOAH HIMMELSTEIN

Esther.............................................................................................. DEBORAH HAZLETT* Ruth.........................................................................................................HANNAH KELLY Eric..................................................................................................................TONY NAM* Jacob.................................................................................BRUCE RANDOLPH NELSON* Abram........................................................................................................ STEVE POLITES Miri............................................................................................................... ALEX SPIETH* Set Design

DANIEL ETTINGER Sound Design and Original Music Composition

PORNCHANOK KANCHANABANCA Dramaturgy

ROBYN QUICK

Lighting Design

Costume Design

CORY PATTAK

BEN ARGENTA KRESS

Dialect

Fight/Intimacy Choreography

STEVE SATTA Vocal Music Direction

MAUREEN CODELKA

LEWIS SHAW Props Master

JILLIAN MATHEWS

Stage Manager

CAT WALLIS* Special Thanks: Robin Wray

Setting: The Present...and the Past This production will be performed in two acts with one intermission.

SPONSORS SANDY & MARK LAKEN

PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES. NO TEXTING. NO EATING IN THE THEATRE. Everything is Wonderful is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, INC. Originally produced at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in July 2017, under the leadership of Ed Herendeen, Producing Director, and Peggy McKowen, Associate Producing Director.

The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. For more information, please visit: www.samuelfrench. com/whitepaper *M ember of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

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A NOTE FROM A NOTE FROM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, VINCENT M. LANCISI LANCISI FOUNDER,VINCENT ARTISTICM. DIRECTOR

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elcome. The plays you see on stage are only part of what makes Everyman Theatre so special. What really makes Everyman unique are the people onstage and off. There are lots of behind the scenes activities that go into the performances and play selection process that you can be a part of. Our entire company of actors, directors, designers, stage managers, administrators come together in a special salon series to showcase new plays that we want audience members to know about. These plays represent some of the brightest new voices influencing the future of The American Theatre Canon.

Playwrights like Chelsea Marcantel, who wrote Everything is Wonderful! The plays are curated by the women of the resident company and are all written by women. It’s a theme that allows us to showcase some of the great writers found in this golden age of women authors gracing American and world stages.

The Salons are social events. Come early and have a drink at the cash bar alongside patrons, artists, and Everyman staff members. After an hour or so, hear a great new play read by Everyman favorites in an informal setting. Experience the actors channel these great writers with only an afternoon of rehearsals. It’s a staged reading, yet it’s so much more. You get to EVERYMAN THEATRE | 2

hear the pure, unadulterated voice of the author as if she were in the room with you.

The themes and styles of the play become great fodder for conversations.

Afterwards, the actors come out to the bar area and have a drink and talk to our patrons, our Everyman family about the experience. It’s informal. It’s fun. It’s so rewarding. I’ve never seen such a deep bond occur between audience members at these Salons and the artists. Come see for yourself. Salons occur on Monday nights from January 21 through May 20, 2019.

The plays are: Be Here Now by Deborah Zoe Laufer, directed by Beth Hylton January 21, 2019 After an unexpected and unexplainable turn of events, deeply cynical Bari finds herself on an enlightening new path. When she meets Mike, a man who makes art out of garbage, it’s Bari’s turn to pull another out of the darkness. Acclaimed playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer’s Be Here Now is a comedic look at what we’re willing to do for love and happiness and to create meaning in our lives. “ Be Here Now is clever, soul-searching and filled with laughter.” —Cincinatti Enquirer

What’s Next? : New Works in Progress

by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, directed by Paige Hernandez March 18, 2019 Be the first to hear excerpts from new plays from Caleen Sinnette Jennings, including a selection from Everyman’s upcoming commission of the third installment: Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains, featuring the women of the resident company. The evening will feature a conversation with the playwright moderated by director and frequent collaborator Paige Hernandez. A rare, in-depth experience celebrating the creative process from a beloved DC-based playwright.

“Jennings’ writing is the perfect blend of poetry and prose…Words are strung together like velvet and take shape around our ears, creating images that place us inside the story, seeing and feeling as the characters, no longer merely observers.” —DC Metro Theatre Arts Jump by Charly Evon Simpson, directed by Dawn Ursula April 1, 2019 This funny, heartbreaking and tender play finds sisters Fay and Judy caught in a spiritual exploration of their past as they help their father pack up their childhood home. Emerging writer, Charly Evon Simpson takes us on a journey where lights flicker, things fall from the sky, and lost souls find solace on a bridge.

Jump was developed at the Kennedy Center as part of the National New Play Network’s 2017 MFA Playwright’s Workshop and Chataqua Theatre Company.

Man of God by Anna Moench, directed by Deborah Hazlett April 29, 2019 For four Korean girls, betrayal from a trusted religious caregiver takes them on a journey of a deeper kind. As they face the earnest truth of their situation the women confront bigger truths about themselves, their pasts, and each other in this funny feminist thriller. Through a

Megan Anderson and Eunice Bae performing in the Salon Series.

realistic and fantastical journey, Baltimore native Anna Moench asks in the face of the unanswerable: what does it look like to be courageous and empowered?

Anna Moench is the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Paul Stephen Lim Playwrighting Award and was named one of Hollywood’s top 100 new writers on the Young and Hungry List.

She is currently a third year MFA playwright at UCSD. Going to a Place Where You Already Are

by Bekah Brunstetter, directed by Megan Anderson May 20, 2019 From Bekah Brunstetter (2017-2018 Salon Series' The Cake, “This is Us” and “American Gods”), Going to a Place...dances with one of the biggest questions that taunts humankind: Is there really life after death?

With humor, wit, fantasy and an intimate familial journey, Brunstetter looks at beginnings, endings—and an enigmatic angel.

“Belief, mortality and the possibility of heaven.

Brunstetter manages to treat these subjects seriously, drawing out their emotional resonance, while making them entertaining. A terrific new play.” —LA Times We’re grateful to the UMBrella Group and Galanthus Foundation for sponsoring this series. I look forward to seeing you there.

Enjoy the Show!

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FORGIVENESS

By Robyn Quick

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n Everything is Wonderful, tragedy draws including sisters-in-law Maria and Ursula an outsider into unusually intimate van Beckum who echoed the words of contact with an Amish family. The Amish Jesus on the cross, “Father forgive them; for are Christians who live in hundreds of they know not what they do.” 1 Amish find settlements across North America. Most of multiple directives to practice forgiveness in their social, spiritual, and vocational daily the teachings of Jesus described in the New interactions are carried out within tightlyTestament, particularly the Sermon on the knit communities that make up each local Mount, which is considered among the most church district, typically comprised of twelve important of the scriptures. As one Amish to eighteen households in close geographic minister put it: “Forgiveness is all about proximity to one another. Non-Amish people Matthew 5 and the Sermon on the Mount (referred to as “the English” by the Amish) and loving our enemies.” 2 may recognize the The Amish practice Amish through of forgiveness has “FORGIVENESS IS THE SPINE OF LIFE” outward features received public —EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL of horse and buggy attention in recent transportation, years following plain dress, and a tragic events in their dialect of German. These cultural practices communities. In 2006, a gunman entered stem from core values such as community a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines and tradition. But above all, the Amish seek Pennsylvania, killing five children and to put their faith into practice by following wounding five others before taking his own the teachings of Jesus in daily life, a central life. The Amish church district which the component of which is forgiveness. slain and injured children lived reached The Amish find the roots of forgiveness out to the family of the gunman to offer in their history and in scriptural sources. their emotional and financial support. They They are inspired by stories from the attended the man’s funeral to comfort the origins of the faith during the Protestant bereaved and helped raise money for his Reformation in sixteenth-century Europe. widow and children. As one member of Their forefathers and foremothers, referred the community put it, “We have to forgive to as Anabaptist for the practice of adult him in order for God to forgive us.” 3 The baptism, demonstrated forgiveness in Werner Herzog documentary, From One response to religious persecution. Martyrs Second to the Next includes the story of a Mirror, a seventeenth century account of man whose car struck an Amish buggy while Anabaptist followers who died for their he was texting and driving, and killed three beliefs, provides multiple examples of children. As with the Amish at Nickel Mines, expressions of forgiveness by these martyrs, the parents of the children put their value EVERYMAN THEATRE | 4

1 Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt, David Weaver-Zercher, Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, (San Francisco: Wiley, 2007), 107.

2 Kraybill, Amish Grace, 88.

3 Kraybill, Amish Grace, 45.

4 Werner Herzog, From One Second to the Next, https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=_BqFkRwdFZ0&t=856s 5 Crystal Schelle, “Everything is Wonderful: A Lesson in Forgiveness.” Herald Mail Media. https://www. heraldmailmedia.com/life/everything-is-wonderful-a-

Photo: Zachary Roberts

Photo: Robert Weingarten

of forgiveness into practice. They wrote the driver a heartfelt letter with the following conclusion: “Wishing you the best with your little one and the unknown future. I think of you often. Keep looking up. God is always there.” 4 It was this episode in the Herzog documentary, along with other stories of Amish forgiveness, that inspired playwright Chelsea Marcantel to explore this culture which she found to have “a lot of forgiveness for people outside, but very little tolerance for deviation within.” 5 Indeed, baptized members of the Amish faith are expected to live in strict adherence to Biblical teachings and the cultural practices of the district to which they belong. Those who transgress in either area are called to confess at meetings specifically designated for this purpose. These individuals may face discipline, but once pardoned by a vote of all church members, the transgression is never to be mentioned again. Offenders who do not express remorse and who do not submit to the authority of the church may be excommunicated and shunned.

Within the Amish community, the rituals of shunning are viewed as fulfilling a number of important functions, including maintaining the integrity of community

Boys of the Nickel Mines Pennsylavania Amish community, photographed by the brother of the 2006 gunman.

beliefs and practices, and motivating the excommunicated members to reform and return to the church. But, as Sociologist Donald Kraybill and colleagues have noted, “It is precisely this practice that so many outsiders find judgmental and unforgiving.” 6 Marcantel spent a year researching the Amish and considered many ways to tell the story of what intrigued her about the culture. She came back around to the tragedy of “this car accident, because it’s such an insular world it would have to be this big rupture for the community to let the outsider to come in.” 7 That rupture also provides an opening for forgiveness. As Mercantel notes, forgiveness is central to the action of the play, ”not in an abstract sense but very muscular.” 8 Each character in Everything is Wonderful engages in the hard work of forgiveness in his or her own way, from Jacob’s deep investment in forgiveness to deal with the deaths of his children to Miri’s struggles to navigate the community’s practice of forgiveness in relationship to her own pain. Ultimately, for Marcantel, forgiveness is worth the effort, not only as a gift to the person who has committed the wrong, but also as “a gift you give yourself.

It’s a way you allow yourself to move through the world and heal.” 9 lesson-in-forgiveness/article_81e646e9-4460-54f2-8bcbc12d2bba00fc.html Kraybill, Amish Grace, 148.

7 Crystal Schelle, “Everything is Wonderful: A Lesson in Forgiveness.”

8 Crystal Schelle, “Everything is Wonderful: A Lesson in Forgiveness.”

9 Sharon J. Anderson, “CATF Interview with Playwright Chelsea Marcantel,” Contemporary American Theatre Festival, https://catf.org/everything-wonderful-chelsea-marcantel/ 6

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By Robyn Quick

RUMSPRINGA

GELASSENHEIT

Rumspringa or “running around,” refers to a period of adolescence after the completion of formal education in the eighth grade and before baptism and marriage, at which time the Amish are considered adults. During Rumspringa, Die Youngie (young folks), have greater freedom to socialize with their generational peers instead of their families.

Courtship also begins during this period, generally between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. Rumspringa gained a sensational reputation in the outside world, following an arrest on drug charges of young Amish men in the late 1990s and subsequent documentaries and reality shows outlining extreme examples of rebellious behavior.

Indeed, the most colorful possibilities for potential activities hold a fascination for adolescent characters in Everything is Wonderful, as they imagine their own upcoming Rumspringa. However, scholars of the culture note that most teens continue to live at home, and that those widelyreported stories do not represent the typical experience. Regardless of how much or little Rumspringa behavior may stray from the dictates of the church, these young folks do not face community discipline because they are not baptized as members of the church.

As Stephen Nolt has observed, “Parents hope and pray that their children will make that choice. But until teens request baptism, they are not bound by the regulations of the church any more than their English neighbors are.” 1

“Bad things happen. They happen quite a lot. And surrender is not te only way to move on. But it is te way we know best.”

—Everything is Wonderful

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Jacob’s advice to his daughter Miri reinforces a central principle of Amish faith: gelassenheit, translated as “yieldedness” or “submission.” As historian Steven Nolt explains, “Amish spirituality stresses selfsurrender. Yielding to God, to the church, and to others is part and parcel of being Amish. ‘Thy will be done,’ a line from the Lord’s Prayer—a prayer that is frequently on Amish lips—epitomizes their confidence in divine providence and a spirit of humble acceptance.” 2 Gelassenheit has numerous implications for how the Amish are to live their lives. It means that individual desires must be surrendered in order to live in accordance with the collective wisdom of the community. Yielding to God has also led the Amish to oppose government regulations, such as military service, that conflict with their beliefs. The Amish see the faith of the early martyrs of their church in a similar vein, as these ancestors gave up their lives to God. Submission also serves as a foundation of forgiveness. As Jacob tells Miri, “I must surrender my right to revenge.

I must surrender my right to anger and resentment and self-pity.” For Jacob, as for his fellow Amish, the gentle and humble spirit of Gelassenheit makes forgiveness possible.

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THE WORLD OF THE AMISH

Photo: Daniel Rodriguez

Photo: Juliette Angotti Amish child’s clothing.

Amish women in clothing representative of the Ordnung of their community.

BAPTISM

ORDNUNG

The Amish trace their roots to a group that emerged during the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Europe, who “insisted on a new concept of the church as a voluntary gathering of those committed to obeying Jesus’ teachings. They symbolized their commitment with adult baptism.” 3 Since they had already been baptized in the Catholic or Protestant church as infants, they were mocked with the disparaging nickname Anabaptists, or “rebaptizers,” and were persecuted as heretics. Adult baptism remains a distinguishing feature of the Amish faith, and the rite of passage into full membership in the church. Children in Amish families are raised with the hope that they will choose to be baptized. Indeed, 85 percent of Amish children will do so.

But the decision is not made until late adolescence or early adulthood. Baptism is the most important ritual in the church and serves as the largest determining factor in the life of a young person. Those who are baptized commit to following the spiritual teachings of the faith and the rules of the specific church district to which they belong. Baptism is a necessary prerequisite for marriage in the church, and the typical age for marriage follows soon after that of baptism. It is considered a life-long commitment.

Throughout the action of Everything is Wonderful, the Amish characters consider their own and each others’ actions as they relate to the Ordnung. The German word for order, Ordnung in the context of the Amish community refers to a series of principles developed by each church district about how life is to be lived. Consistent with the Amish focus on putting their faith into practice, the Ordnung applies Biblical teachings to everyday life. Guidelines cover such practical issues as dress, transportation, and technology, as well as the procedures by which community interactions are conducted. Typically an oral tradition, the Ordnung reflects the received wisdom of the community, but it may change over time upon recommendation of church leaders and the approval of the membership.

“A respected Ordnung,” according to one minister, “generates peace, love, contentment, equality, and unity.” 4 When young people elect to be baptized into the faith, they commit to these community values over what might be their individual and they vow obedience to the Ordnung.

Those who are unable or unwilling to fulfill this commitment may face discipline before they return to good standing in the church or excommunication.

Stephen N. Nolt, The Amish: A Concise Introduction, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), 55.

Stephen N. Nolt, The Amish: A Concise Introduction, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), 30.

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Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt, David Weaver-Zercher, Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, (San Francisco: Wiley, 2007), 69.

4 Stephen N. Nolt, The Amish: A Concise Introduction, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), 35.

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CAST BIOGRAPHIES DEBORAH HAZLETT (Esther) Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Sweat, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, M. Butterfly, Noises Off, The Roommate, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, An Inspector Calls, Ghosts, Deathtrap, Tribes, The Dresser, The Glass Menagerie, God of Carnage, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take It With You, Private Lives, Shooting Star, All My Sons, Two Rooms, Rabbit Hole, The Cherry Orchard, Much Ado About Nothing, Sight Unseen, Betrayal, Candida (Best Actress 2006, City Paper), Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler, Proof (Best Actress 2004, City Paper), Sideman, The Pavilion, A Delicate Balance, Watch on the Rhine, The Crucible, The Road to Mecca, Voir Dire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Regional: Arena Stage: A Time to Kill; Playmaker’s Repertory Theatre: Frozen; Syracuse Stage: BUG; Florida Stage: The Count, Mezzulah 1946; Signature Theater: CRAVE, Blue Room; Woolly Mammoth Theater Company: Appropriate, BUG (U.S. Premiere); Folger Theatre: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Shakespeare Theatre Company: eight productions including Henry IV Parts I and II, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night; Theater J: Something You Did; Roundhouse Theatre: NSFW, Crown of Shadows; Olney Theatre Center: Rabbit Hole (Helen Hayes Outstanding Ensemble Nomination), Over the Tavern, Death of a Salesman; Totem Pole Playhouse: Sylvia, Crimes of the Heart, Proof; Rep Stage: Arcadia.

TV/Film: Law and Order, Homicide, Young Americans. Education: M.F.A. Acting, University of South Carolina.

HANNAH KELLY (Ruth) Everyman Theatre: Book of Joseph (Genka/Boy Arnold); U. Maryland, Baltimore County: The Mail Order Bride (Tina), The Amish Project (Carol), Rhinoceros (Jeanne), Agnes of God (Dr. Martha Livingston), Leah’s Dybbuk (Orphanage Official, The Game of EVERYMAN THEATRE | 8

Love and Chance (Sylvia); Education: University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

BRUCE RANDOLPH NELSON (Jacob) Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): The Importance of Being Earnest, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Book of Joseph, M. Butterfly, Noises Off, Great Expectations, Wait Until Dark, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blithe Spirit, Ghosts, Ruined, Deathtrap, The Dresser, Red (Mark Rothko, Baltimore Magazine’s Best Actor), The Beaux’ Stratagem, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take it With You, Private Lives, Shipwrecked! (Louis/Best Actor City Paper), I Am My Own Wife, The Pavilion (Narrator/Best Actor City Paper), Irma Vep. Regional: Center Stage: Amadeus (Antonio Salieri), Animal Crackers (Groucho), The Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allen Poe (Poe), Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike (Vanya); Rep Stage: The Goat (Martin), Hysteria (Dali), The Violet Hour (Gidger/Helen Hayes Award), The Dazzle (Langley/Helen Hayes Award), Irma Vep (Enid/Helen Hayes Nomination), Faith Healer (Teddy/Helen Hayes Nomination); Folger Theatre: The Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of Ephesus), She Stoops to Conquer (Tony); Olney Theatre Center: Farragut North (Paul), The Underpants (Cohen); Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Company Member): Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Dwight/Originated Role), Fuddy Meers (Limping Man/Helen Hayes Nomination); The Shakespeare Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio); Signature Theatre: Never the Sinner (White); Tour: National Players; Teaching: Howard Community College, Everyman Theatre, Stevenson University, University of Baltimore. Education: Towson University.

TONY NAM (Eric) Everyman Theatre: Aubergine. Regional: Arena Stage: Akeelah and the Bee (World Premiere); The Folger Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure; Ford’s Theatre: Our Town; Kennedy Center TYA: Where Words Once Were, A Cricket in Time Square, Unleashed; Olney Theatre Center: Our Town; Round House Theatre: Treasure

Island; Seattle Children’s Theatre: The Red Badge of Courage; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Othello, Pericles; TheatreWorks: Pacific Overtures; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis.

Education: St. Mary’s College of MD - BA, University of Washington - MFA. STEVE POLITES (Abram) Everyman Theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa, (Understudy: Gerry), Intimate Apparel, (Understudy: Mr. Marks, performed), Regional: Annapolis Shakespeare Company: Richard III (King Edward IV, Richmond, Archbishop of York), The Tempest (Sebastian); LA Opera: A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley’s friend); LA Redcat Theatre: Dog Days (Soldier); Baltimore Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth (Ross). Film/television: My Crazy Ex (Lifetime Movie Network), Evil Stepmothers (Investigation Discovery), Dementia 13 (Universal Pictures), The Murder Game (Warner Bros.), GhostWatcher 2 (Lions Gate), the lead in China’s unreleased 3D fantasy adventure film, Empires of the Deep. Can be seen next in the film, A Savage Nature ALEX SPIETH (Miri) Everyman Theatre: Debut.

Off-Broadway: Shake and Bake: Love’s Labour’s Lost; Irondale Ensemble: 1599 Project, Dead End; Regional: Quantum Theatre: The Hard Problem; College/ University Tour: Jane Doe; New Ohio Theatre: The Bitter Tears; University Settlement: Tragedy in Spades; Under the Radar Festival: The Power of Emotion; TITAN Theatre: Othello; Carnegie Mellon: The Rivals, Romeo and Juliet; Interlochen Arts Camp: Midsummer Night’s Dream; Nashville Shakespeare Festival: Two Gentlemen of Verona; Film/New Media: Blank My Life (Writer and Creator of Series; Honored at NYC Webfest, Brooklyn Webfest, BRIC TV Awards); Education: BFA Acting, Carnegie Mellon University

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DIRECTOR AND DESIGNER BIOGRAPHIES DANIEL ETTINGER (Set Design) Everyman Theatre (Resident Set Designer): highlights include The Importance of Being Earnest, Sweat, The Book of Joseph, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Revolutionists, Noises Off, Los Otros, Death of A Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Outside Mullingar, Blithe Spirit, Ghosts, The Understudy, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, Red, The Glass Menagerie, The Beaux’ Stratagem, August: Osage County, Time Stands Still, You Can’t Take It With You, The Brothers Size, Private Lives, Pygmalion, All My Sons, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told By Himself), I Am My Own Wife, Filthy Rich, Gem of the Ocean, School for Scandal, Proof, Nude With Violin, A Number. OffBroadway: The Blue Angel Theatre: Pageant; Roundabout Theatre Company: A Man For All Seasons, Room Service; The York Theatre Company: Talley’s Folly, Luv. Regional: Woolly Mammoth: You for Me for You, Eclipsed, Vigils, Recent Tragic Events, Kiki and Herb, Starving, The Mineola Twins; Olney Theatre Company: Annie, Mary Poppins, The Piano Lesson, Bakersfield Mist; Rep Stage: All She Must Posses, Dorian’s Closet, H2O, Venus in Fur, Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Barter Theatre: Thoroughly Modern Millie, She Loves Me, and over 100 other productions. Teaching: Towson University Design Program NOAH HIMMELSTEIN (Director/Associate Artistic Director) Everyman Theatre: The Book of Joseph; Los Otros; An Inspector Calls. Additional directing: The Costume (Inner Voices, off-Broadway); The Harlem Renaissance (New York Philharmonic, Young People’s Concerts at Geffen Hall); I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk (Strathmore and Lincoln Center with Kristin Chenoweth and Andrew Lippa; also Lincoln Center, San Francisco, LA and Denver. NY Magazine, Washington Post and Playbill “Best of the Year.”); The Forgotten Woman (Bay Street Theater, Sag Harbor); Surfer Girl (Animus, Foley Gallery); Bleeding Love EVERYMAN THEATRE | 10

(Fredericia Teater, Denmark); Loving Leo (Weston Playhouse); Things I Left On Long Island (FringeNYC, Time Out NY Critic’s Pick); Positions 1956 (Urban Arias, Arlington); The Songs of Scott Frankel and Michael Korie with Kelli O’Hara and Brandon Victor Dixon for Lincoln Center American Songbook; DGF Gala: Great Writers Thank Their Lucky Stars with Bernadette Peters and Stephen Sondheim. Workshops of new work with Goodspeed Musicals, New Dramatists, Westport Playhouse. Asst Director: Golden Boy (Lincoln Center Theater, Broadway).

Graduate of Emerson College and Carver Center for Arts and Technology. noahhimmelstein.com PORNCHANOK KANCHANABANCA (Sound Designer and Original Music Composer) Everyman Theatre: Debut**. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage: Animal Farm*; Milwaukee Rep: Miss Bennet’s Christmas at Pemberley; Steppenwolf Theatre: The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime**; Montana Shakespeare in the Park: Othello**, Love’s Labours Lost; Playwrights Horizons: For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday*; The Kitchen Theatre: Matt&Ben; Signature Theatre: Nature Room; Rattlestick: The Enclave**; TFANA: Servant of Two Masters*; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Be Here Now**; Geva Theatre: Heartland; TheatreSquared: The Human; Columbia University: Richard III**, Waiting**, King David, White Pearl; Julliard: Father Comes Home From the Wars; Vancouver Fringe Festival: Just Not That Woman; Grace Farm: Practicing Silence**; Brown/Trinity: Mud, Map of Virtue; UCONN: Eurydice**; The Bushwick Starr: The Bushwick, Princeton University: Mad Forest; ART-New York Theatre: Alligator; The Bushwick Starr: Frontieres sans Fronteries; Lincoln Center: I Want a Country; Fringe NYC: Canada Geese, Ain’t She Brave; 13 shows at Yale University (School of Drama, Cabaret, Rep); ANT Fest: Ain’t Gonna Make It; UndergroundzeroFestival: Oxygen**; Invisible Dog Art Center: Taste of Curry**. International: 38 shows in Thailand; 5 shows, BankokTheatre Festival; Tokyo Metropolitan (Japan). Education:

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MFA, Design with Concentration in Sound Design, Yale School of Drama; ATCL Piano Recital Diploma, Trinity College London; BA, Performing Arts, Chulalongkorn University. *Associate Sound Designer **Original Composition

BEN ARGENTA KRESS (Costume Designer) Everyman Theatre: Wait Until Dark, Outside Mullingar. Regional: Stillpointe Theatre: Spring Awakening; Baltimore Center Stage (Associate Costumer): Twelfth Night, Endgame; Rep Stage: Lady Day at the Emerson, H2O, Technicolor Life; Iron Crowe Theatre: The Zero Hour, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them; Fells Point Corner Theatre: Elephant Man; Loyola University of Maryland: Macbeth, Bus Stop; Gilman School: Curtains; Edinburgh Fringe Festival: A Fool’s Paradise; Bay View Music Festival: Ragtime, La Boheme; Notre Dame of Maryland University: Peter Pan; Kenyon College: Macbeth, Venus in Fur, Lobby Hero, Miss Julie, Oleanna. Education: BA, Psychology, Drama, Kenyon College.

VINCENT M. LANCISI (Founder, Artistic Director) founded Everyman Theatre in October of 1990 and has directed over 35 productions including Sweat, Aubergine, M. Butterfly, Noises Off, Dot, Death of A Salesman, Under the Skin, Blithe Spirit, Deathtrap, Tribes, The Glass Menagerie, The Beaux’ Stratagem, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take It With You, Stick Fly, All My Sons, Two Rooms, Rabbit Hole, The Cherry Orchard, Doubt, Much Ado About Nothing, The Cone Sister, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, A Number, Amadeus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Buried Child, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, Hedda Gabler, Proof, Uncle Vanya and The Last Five Years. As a freelance director, last season he directed True West for Rep Stage in Columbia, MD. In addition to his work at Everyman, he has taught acting and directing at Towson University, University of Maryland, Catholic University, Howard Community College, and at Everyman Theatre. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Vincent sits on the boards for the Bromo Tower Arts & Entertainment District and the Market Center Merchants Association. In the past,

he has sat on the boards of the Baltimore Theatre Alliance and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance as well as panels for the Maryland State Arts Council. Vincent holds his undergraduate degree in Theatre from Boston College and his master’s degree in Directing from The Catholic University of America.

CHELSEA MARCANTEL (Playwright) Reared

by Cajuns in southwest Louisiana, Chelsea has lived and made theatre among the tribes of the Midwest, Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic, and now the West Coast. In 2016, she completed a Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Fellowship at The Juilliard School.

Her plays, which have been produced across the US and Canada, include Airness, Everything is Wonderful, Tiny Houses, Ladyish, and Devour. She is currently a member of the inaugural Writers’ Room playwrights’ unit at Geffen Playhouse. As a writer, Chelsea is extremely interested in humans as smallgroup primates, and what happens when the rules and value systems of our chosen groups cease to serve us. She reads a lot of books, watches a lot of documentaries, and listens to a lot of podcasts. Chelsea is an avid self-producer, an enthusiastic member of The Writers Guild of America and The Dramatists Guild, and runs with a kick-ass group of activists called The Kilroys.

She has three world-premiere productions slated for 2019. www.ChelseaMarcantel.com CORY PATTAK (Lighting Design) Everyman Theatre: The Book of Joseph. NYC: Final Follies (Primary Stages), Stalking the Bogeyman (New World Stages), Revolution in the Elbow...

(Minetta Lane), Happy We’ll Be (Roseland), Handle with Care (Westside Downstairs), Skippyjon Jones (Theatreworks USA), Freddie Falls in Love (Pershing Square), This Side of Paradise (St. Clements), Unlocked, Nymph Errant, With Glee, The Blue Flower (Prospect Theatre.) Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (HERE).

DC Area: Little Shop of Horrors, In The Heights, The Music Man (Kennedy Center), In The Heights (Olney Theatre). Regional: Weston Playhouse, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Bucks County Playhouse, Old Globe, Tuacahn Amphitheater, Portland Stage, Goodspeed,

Kansas City Rep, Northern Stage, Maltz Jupiter, Cap Rep, Syracuse Stage, Hangar Theatre, Actor’s Playhouse, Indianapolis Opera, and the National Tour of Flashdance.

International: Singin’ in the Rain (São Paulo, Brazil), Letters to Santa Clause (MISI Producciones, Bogatá Colombia) Associate/ Assistant: Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, A Time to Kill, An Evening with Patti Lupone & Mandy Patinkin, The Story of My Life, Irena’s Vow (Broadway), Heathers, Rapture Blister Burn, Essential Self-Defense (Off-Bway), Daddy Long Legs (Off Bway/London/Regionally) Paint Your Wagon, Where’s Charlie, Lost in the Stars (Encores). Helen Hayes nominee for In The Heights. Host and creator of in 1: the podcast, featuring interviews with theatrical designers. www.corypattak.com.

ROBYN QUICK (Dramaturgy) Everyman Theatre: The Revolutionists. Robyn Quick is a professor and chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at Towson University, where she teaches theatre history and dramaturgy.

She has presented at numerous national and international conferences, and has been published in American Theatre, The New England Journal of Theatre, and the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, among others.

Her work as a dramaturg has been recognized by the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas with the Elliot Hayes Award for Excellence in Dramaturgy and by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival with the Gold Medallion. While serving as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Russia, she taught at the Russian State University for the Humanities and directed at the Playwright and Director Center in Moscow. Robyn Quick holds a Ph.D. in theatre from the University of Michigan.

STEVE SATTA (Dialects) Everyman Theatre: Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Revolutionists, M. Butterfly, Under the Skin, You Can’t Take It With You, Someone to Watch Over Me, Going to St. Ives, Irma Vep, and Uncle Vanya. Recent credits in the DC area include work at Maryland Ensemble Theater, Olney Theatre, Center Stage, Single Carrot Theatre, Iron Crow Theatre, and Baltimore

Playwright’s Festival. He is a full faculty member at Towson University’s Department of Theatre Arts where he helped design and implement the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting. He holds a BFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA in Acting from York University in Toronto, Canada.

LEWIS SHAW (Fight/Intimacy Choreography) Everyman Theatre (Resident Fight Choreographer): The Importance of Being Earnest, Sweat, The Revolutionists, M. Butterfly, Noises Off, Wait Until Dark, Death of A Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blithe Spirit, Ruined, Deathtrap, The Dresser, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Topdog/Underdog, God of Carnage, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take It With You, Fifty Words, Private Lives, A Raisin in the Sun, Stick Fly, All My Sons, Blackbird, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Cherry Orchard, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Red Herring, The Lion in Winter, Much Ado About Nothing. Regional: The Shakespeare Theatre, Baltimore Opera, Rep Stage, Studio Theatre; Performed at The Shakespeare Project, The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. Broadway: Weapons Creator for Addams Family, Shrek, A Life In The Theatre, Aida, Into the Woods, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Pirate Queen. International: The Globe Theatre, London. TV/Film: America’s Most Wanted. Other: Vulcan’s Forge Fine Dueling Supplies (Owner).

CAT WALLIS (Stage Manager) Everyman Theatre (Resident Stage Manager): The Importance of Being Earnest, Dancing at Lughnasa, Aubergine, The Revolutionists, M. Butterfly, Noises Off, Great Expectations, The Roommate, Under The Skin, Fences, Ghosts, Grounded, (Stage Manager); Death of A Salesman, A Streecar Named Desire, Ruined (Assistant Stage Manager); Regional: Contemporary American Theatre Festival: Uncanny Valley, Heartless, A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World, Gidion’s Knot, From Prague; Northern Stage: Grounded; Delaware REP (selected): Night of the Iguana, The Threepenny Opera, Hamlet, The Skin of Our Teeth, Our Country’s Good, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Noises Off!, I Am My Own Wife, The Glass Menagerie, Fever (world premiere); EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL | 13

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WHAT IS THE BROMO DISTRICT? Imagine an arts district that connects the Stadiums and Downtown with a major corridor of Theatres, Galleries, and other public displays of art.

Heading north, up the main arteries of Eutaw and Howard Streets, encounter Theatres, a public marketplace, and incubators spawning pop up galleries and emerging artists to be discovered. Continue on to find arts organizations celebrating the history and heritage of Baltimore and cultural institutions leading visitors up to the northern reaches of the district at Read and Howard Streets.

In the next decade the Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District will become a premiere district for performances and arts exhibitions sought out by citizens of Baltimore and visitors alike.

The district will offer opportunities for artists of all disciplines to live, work, and create here. The district encourages the collaboration among its stakeholders and will attract new ones offering resources towards the creation and display of the arts.

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Dallas Children’s Theatre: The Boxer; Seattle Children’s Theatre: The Borrowers, Lyle the Crocodile; Nebraska Repertory Theatre: The Little Prince, Jakes Women, Dinner with Friends, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown; Snowy Range Summer Theatre: Headset (premiere), Kosher Lutherans (premiere); The Missouri Theatre: Babes in Arms. Education: BFA – University of Nebraska, MFA – PTTP University of Delaware.

HEY !

PARENTS

CHILDCARE

MATINEES

Take in a Matinee confident that your children are well looked after and supported by Everyman Theatre Education and Community Engagement staff. Perfect for ages 4-12. Registration: $30

Actors’ Equity Association was founded in 1913 to protect Actors from severe mistreatment that permeated the industry at the time. The 40,000 member association consists of distinguished stars and other professional actors and stage managers who work nationwide, from New York’s Broadway to Los Angeles, from Minneapolis to Miami Beach, in regional, stock and dinner theatre, and in theatre for young audiences which build audiences for tomorrow. The actors and stage managers are committed to working in the theatre as a profession, not an avocation, and bring to you the finest professional training and experience. By presenting Equity productions, this theatre offers to you, our audience, the best entertainment presented by the finest quality actors and stage managers that your admission dollars can buy.

The Director is represented

by Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

The Set and Lighting Designers are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of IATSE. The Dramaturg is represented

by Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

DATES: Everything is Wonderful – Feb. 17 Dinner with Friends – Mar. 31 Queens Girl in the World– Jun. 9 Queens Girl in Africa – Jun. 2 Learn more at: everymantheatre.org/childcare

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2018–19 SEASON “THIS WAS SUBLIME MUSIC-MAKING.” —The Baltimore Sun

JOIN US AS WE RETURN TO SHRIVER HALL AFTER ITS 18-MONTH RENOVATION! JOHANNES MOSER, CELLO TILL FELLNER, PIANO Works by Stravinsky, Webern, Beethoven, Debussy

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Works by Bach, Beethoven Sun, Apr 7 | 5:30pm

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HAGEN QUARTET JÖRG WIDMANN, CLARINET Works by Dvořák, Jörg Widmann, Mozart Sun, Mar 24 | 5:30pm

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A HISTORY OF EVERYMAN

E

veryman Theatre was founded by Vincent Lancisi in 1990. From the beginning, Everyman strove to provide top-notch theatre that is affordable and accessible to everyone. With a Resident Company of local, professional artists, Everyman has staged critically-acclaimed productions ranging from classics to contemporary works to world premieres over the past 27 years.

Everyman’s first production—The Runner Stumbles—was produced in the winter of 1990 at Saint John’s Church. For the next four years, Everyman could only afford to produce one production per year at various locations in Baltimore, including Vagabond’s Theatre, the Theatre Project and even a classroom at MICA.

subscriptions numbers grew and a string of popular and acclaimed productions, including Amadeus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lion in Winter, The Glass Menagerie, The Crucible, and the wildly successful Proof, proved that Everyman was a mainstay in the Baltimore theatre scene.

Through a generous donation from Bank of America and the Harold A. Dawson Trust, Everyman was given its new home on Fayette Street. Over the span of six years, Everyman completed a successful $18 million capital campaign co-chaired by Gina and Dan Hirschhorn.

In January 2013, Everyman celebrated the Grand Opening of its new permanent home on Fayette Street with the record-breaking production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, August: Osage County.

The 1994/95 Season marked a series for firsts for Everyman. It was the first year at Everyman celebrated its 25th anniversary 1727 North Charles Street, which would during the 2015/16 Season by producing be Everyman's home for 18 years. It also "The Great American Rep," a feat featuring marked the first multi-production line-up— American classics Death of a Salesman and A starting with Sam Shepard's Buried Child— Streetcar Named Desire performed with the and also offered subscriptions to patrons for same cast in rotating repertory. the first time.

Now in its 28th Season, Everyman invites you Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, to be a part of its next chapter.

FOUNDING BOARD MEMBERS These extraordinary board members were seminal in the founding and nurturing of Everyman Theatre in its formative years.

Gordon Becker Nathan Chernoff+ Patricia Egan James R. Eyler Susan Sachs Fleishman + Deceased

Maurice Furchgott Niki Harris Gina B. Hirschhorn Bridget M. Horner Jeannie Howe

Vincent M. Lancisi Jonathan Melnick R. Rex Rehfeld E. Lee Robbins, M.D. Zelig Robinson

Vic Romita Frank Rosenberg Leonard Sachs+ Elspeth Udvarhelyi+ Martha Weiman

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DONOR SPOTLIGHT: SANDY & MARK LAKEN

S

andy and Mark Laken have attended Everyman Theatre since the early days on Charles Street. After reading a few rave reviews about the shows, they decided to check it out for themselves and have been attending and supporting the organization ever since.

Over the years, the Lakens have become an integral part of the Everyman family and have gotten to know members of the organization, including Artistic Director Vincent Lancisi, the staff, and the Resident Company along the way. This year, Sandy joined the Board of Directors.

“We fell completely in love with the entire company when hearing Vinny describe Everyman’s history and its heart and soul during the Grand Opening for our new location,” describes Sandy. “We have had the opportunity to get up close and personal with folks from every single Everyman department—and have experienced the magic that is Everyman.”

The feeling of camaraderie and family is something that the Lakens think is especially unique at Everyman. “We love talking to and getting to know cast members and other theater professionals in the lobby after plays, in workshops, in cast conversations and in other behind-the-scenes activities; interacting with them teaches us much about the craft and the material that is unknowable in any other way and, thus, greatly enhances our theater experience.”

“We have yet to meet anyone associated with Everyman who is anything other than warm, welcoming, kind, intelligent, stimulating, intriguing and, in general, an allaround incredible person!” Sandy said.

Also important to the Lakens is Everyman’s dedication to education. They are drawn to the High School Matinee program and its goal to make theatre education available in public schools that often do not have any other arts curriculum. They both believe that programs such as this contribute much to the Greater Baltimore cultural and educational scene.

Sponsoring Everything Is Wonderful is especially poignant for the Lakens. Years ago, their son was tragically killed in a car accident—reminiscent of the events in the play. The themes hit home in a very personal way, and have actually inspired Mark and Sandy to want to connect with the driver who changed their lives forever and offer forgiveness to him.

“This is a unique power of the arts,” said Sandy.“ This play has sparked something inside of us that we may have ignored otherwise. The story rang so true that it made us want to reach out and forgive this man who had such an impact on our lives.

We can only hope that not only this play, but all of Everyman’s plays, might have this sort of impact—whether recognized or not—on audience members.”

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ANNUAL FUND DONORS Thank you to all our generous annual fund donors.

Your support is essential and allows us to present the very best in live professional theatre. Gifts listed here were received from donors between July 1, 2017 and January 7, 2018.

GOVERNMENT, FOUNDATIONS, FUNDS AND CORPORATIONS VISIONARY $50,000+ Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Maryland State Arts Council The Shubert Foundation SEASON PRODUCER $25,000 - $49,999 William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Awards, www.bakerartistawards.org Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc. RESIDENT COMPANY SPONSOR $10,000 - $24,999 Abell Foundation, Inc. Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences BGE Bunting Family Foundation Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Exelon Foundation Galanthus Foundation Goldsmith Family Foundation Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds LifeBridge Health Lord Baltimore Hotel PNC Bank The Shelter Foundation T. Rowe Price Foundation Talcott-Gran Charitable Trust Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Lockhart Vaughan Foundation University of Maryland, Baltimore EXECUTIVE PRODUCER $5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous Mayor Catherine E. Pugh and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Bank of America Foundation Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Helen S. And Merrill L. Bank Foundation J.S. Plank & D.M. Dicarlo Family Foundation Forno Restaurant & Wine Bar Phyllis and Joe Johnson Foundation David and Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Legg Mason Charitable Foundation

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John J. Leidy Foundation Lord Baltimore Capital Corporation Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation Earle and Annette Shawe Family Foundation SunTrust Venable Foundation Veolia Energy PRODUCER $2,500 - $4,999 American Trading and Production Corporation Foundation for a Better Tomorrow IBM Corporation Lois and Philip Macht Family Philanthropic Fund McCormick & Co. Howard C. Muller & Marguerite E. Muller Charitable Foundation, Inc. Nora Roberts Foundation Whole Foods Market ASSOCIATE PRODUCER $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous Herbert Bearman Foundation Biddle Street Catering and Events Breakthru Beverages Campbell Foundation Carefirst, Bluecross Blueshield Hecht-Levi Foundation Harvey M. Meyerhoff Fund Inc. International Monetary Fund M. Sigmund and Barbara K. Shapiro Philanthropic Fund Open Society Institute Sinsky-Kresser-Racusin Memorial Foundation Susan Sachs Fleishman Jack Wilen Foundation The Wolman Family Foundation DIRECTOR $500 - $999 Actors’ Equity Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bank Family Fund Jaye and Dr. Ted Bayless Fund A. Stanley and Dorah Brager Household Doctrow Family Fund The Helmand Helen M. Hughes Trust Joyce and Robert Knodell Family Charitable Fund Herschel and Judith Langenthal Philanthropic Fund Taylor Foundation Inc. Young Audiences of Maryland, Inc. PLAYWRIGHT $250 - $499 Cantler Fulwiler Family Fund Jencks Family Fund Leap Day Media Margaret O. Cromwell Family Fund Norfolk Southern Ransome-Wilcox Family Fund

INDIVIDUALS VISIONARY $50,000+ Gina and Dan Hirschhorn John and Susan Nehra George Roche SEASON PRODUCER $25,000 - $49,999 Susan W. Flanigan Beth Goldsmith Vic and Nancy Romita RESIDENT COMPANY SPONSOR $10,000 - $24,999 Shirley T. Hollander Bridget and John Horner, Jr. Mark and Sandy Laken Stan and Laurie Miller David and Betsy Nelson E. Lee and Bea Robbins Lawrence Yumkas and Miriam Fisher EXECUTIVE PRODUCER $5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous Brenda K. Ashworth and Donald F. Welch.

Pat and David Bernstein William and Pat Bettridge Jean Waller Brune Mary Catherine Bunting Jane W. Daniels Richard Friedler Shirley T. Hollander Phyllis and Joe Johnson Mark and Kelley Keener Ronnie Kleiman Mark Paul Lehman and Kurt Davis David and Nancy Paige Dorothy H. Powe in memory of Ethel J. Holliday PRODUCER $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous Winnie and Neal Borden Shaun Carrick and Ronald Griffin Paul and Kathleen Casey Anonymous Dr. Larry and Nancy Fishel Kaylie Kassap George and Adam George Marci Gordon and Andrew Barnstein Sandra and Thomas Hess Paul Konka and Susan DuganKonka Francine and Allan Krumholz James MacNicholl and Sara Lombardo Elizabeth K. Moser

Diane and Pete Nachtwey Brian and Eileen O’Rourke John and Sarah S. Robinson Robert Russell in memory of Lelia Russell Carol Sandler Wil Love and Carl Schurr Fred and Joan Steffens Karen and Jim Trennepohl ASSOCIATE PRODUCER $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (3) George and Frances Alderson Robert and Dorothy Bair Gayle Barney and Jean Savina Bruce and Polly Behrens Bunny Bernstein David and Liz Block Bruce Blum Michael Borowitz and Barbara Crain Robert Brookland Dr. and Mrs. Donald Brown Stan and Edie Brown Ms. Gina Campbell Diane E. Cho and David W. Benn Suzanne F. Cohen Betty and Stephen Cooper Harlan and Jean Cramer Walter B. Doggett III and Joanne Doggett Ross and Michele Donehower Gwen DuBois and Terry Fitzgerald Ms. Susan Sachs Fleishman Robert and Elborg Forster Jason and Laurie Frank Debra and Maurice Furchgott Barbara Glynn Herbert and Harriet Goldman Catherine Hammond June and George Higgins Dr. and Mrs. Iredell W. Iglehart III Lois and Joseph Johnson, Jr. Lisa Harris Jones and Sean Malone Shirley A. Kaufman Martha and J.R. Kirkland Ernest and Donna Kovacs Barry Kropf Diane Leonard and Alan Williams Bernard and Steffi Liberman Kenneth C. and Elizabeth M. Lundeen Linda Matheson John Messmore Joseph and Jane Meyer Lee and Claire Miller in honor Stan and Laurie Miller Charlie and Marcia Moylan

Tim Nehl and Joy Mandel Ruth Nolan Mike Plaisted and Maggie Webbert Reid Reininger Harriet Roberts Zelig and Linda Robinson Grant and Elissa Roch Rona and Arthur Rosenbaum Jamie and Sarah Ryan Sue Shaner and John Roberts Burdette and Judi Short Ronnie and Rachelle Silverstein Bob and Jackie Smelkinson Susan and John Spencer Joaneath A. Spicer Robert E. and Susan I. Spieth Ruth and Chuck Spivak Steve and Sue Sternheimer Louis B. Thalheimer and Juliet A. Eurich Barry Mersky and Elizabeth Trexler Meadow Lark Washington Laurence and Angela Wilson Joanie Young Dr. Laurie S. Zabin DIRECTOR $500 - $999 Anonymous (2) Ronald and Baiba Abrams James and Ellen Adajian David and Suzanne Alexander Brad and Lindsay Alger Joel Balsham Bruce and Amy Barnett Emile A. Bendit and Diane Abeloff Dr. and Mrs. Mordecai Blaustein Patty Bond Mr. and Mrs. A. Stanley Brager, Jr. Jason and Mindy Brandt Lewis and Victoria Bringman Livio and Diane Broccolino David Brown Randy Brown Arnold D and Joyce Ann Bruckner Jeffrey Budnitz in honor of Mark Paul Lehman Evelyn Cannon and James Casey Jan Caughlan Susan L. Chomicz Joseph and Barbara Cirelli Chuck Cohen and Ann Amernick Samuel Cohen and Joan Piven Peter Cohen and Ann Watson in honor of Laurie and Stan Miller Barbara Coleman White Janice Collins and James Storey Judy Shub-Condliffe and Jack EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL | 23

Condliffe in memory of Vivienne Shub Joseph Coons and Victoria Bradley Fund Ken Davies Natalie Davis in memory of Jack Davis Dr. Albert F. DeLoskey and Lawrie Deering Paul and Martha Dougherty Rosemary Eck Dr. Frank Eisenberg and Ms. Catherine Blake Lon and Jennifer Engel Carol and Tim Evans Susie and Bob Fetter John and Fran Flanigan Donna Flynn Kenneth Roy Furchgott Sandra Levi Gerstung Susan Gillette Martha and Tad Glenn Hannah and Thorne Gould Jon Greenberg and Connie Rosemont Donald M. and Dorothy W. Gundlach Robert and Cheryl Guth Fritzi K. and Robert J. Hallock James F. Hart Barbara L. Hecht Charles Henck and Karen Malloy Samuel and Barbara Himmelrich Greg Huff and Pamela Pasqualini Dave and Katherine Hurst Ruth B Hurwitz Ann H. Kahan Joan G. Klein Nina Knoche Ann and David Koch Rudy Koffler Larry Koppelman and Liz Ritter Harriet and Jay Kramer Vincent Lancisi and Robin Vanscoy Judy and Hersch Langenthal Greg Lehne Judith Letcher Peter Levy and Diane Krejsa Kathleen Liparini Sam and Suzie Macfarlane Richard Manichello and Margo Halle/Ram Films Inc William Marshall and Camille Wheeler Colleen Martin-Lauer Dennis G. McGough Phyllis McIntosh James and Martha Millford Linda Nevaldine

Andrew and Sharon Nickol Drs. Mary O’Connor and Charles King Steve and Sherri O’Donnell Ed and Jo Orser Franchella Pailen-Watkins Margaret Palmer Linda Hambleton Pantiz Justine and Ken Parezo Fred and Grazina Pearson Faye E. Pines Dale and Dorothy Piper Gary and Leslie Plotnick Caroline Queale Scott and Gwyneth Radloff Domingo and Karen Rodriguez Jim and Laura Rossman Arnold and Monica Sagner Mark and Lorraine Schapiro Norman A. and Leonora D. Sensinger Betsy and Carlton Sexton Shale D. Stiller and Ellen M. Heller Damie and Diane Stillman Lynne Stuart Doris Styche Sweet JoAnn Tracey Elizabeth Trimble Kathleen Vanderhorst Lorraine and Steve Walker Mrs. Karen W. Wallace Dr. Peter and Rosemary Warschawski Maria Wawer Stan and Martha Weiman Peggy Widman Peter Wimbrow Carol and Chris Yoder Marvin Zelkowitz PLAYWRIGHT $250 - $499 Anonymous (3) Edward Adkins Eleanor Allen Dr. Sania Amr William and Dale Balfour in memory of Elspeth Udvarheyli Taunya L. Banks Bruce and Toni Berger Family Fund Lisa Blue Alan Deanehan and Margaret Boeckmann Jody Brown Susan and Michael Brown Rebecca and Mitchel Brown Hank Bullwinkel and Teri Majewski Dr. Elizabeth Burin and Dr. Avishai Ben-David

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MS. Linda Canestraro Dr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Cohen Will and Carol Cooke Greg and Martha Cukor Gwen Davidson Alan Deanahan and Margaret Boeckmann Anne Efron Bill Eggbeer Neil and Deborah Eisenberg Barry and Susan Eisenberg Dr. Mary Anne Facciolo and Dr. Michael Repka Tony and Jaymee Farinacci John and Dorothy Foellmer Joseph and Teresa Freed Rhona and Sonny Freiman Cantler Fulwiler Family Fund Claire Galed Mark and Patti Gillen Sonny and Laurie Glassner Elliot Zulver and Sally Gold Judith A. Gottlieb Grace Blood LLC Bob Greenfield Louise A. Hager John and Susan Hailman Thomas and Rebecca Hamer Gary C. Harn Heidi and Bill Henson Patrick and Elizabeth Hervy Ken and Ellen Himmelstein in honor of The Book of Joseph Creative Team Michael Hirschhorn and Jimena Martinez Terry Hogan Francis and Harriet Iglehart Judith R. Iliff in memory of Jacques Fein Jencks Family Fund Elizabeth Kahn Townsend and Bob Kent Joan G. Klein Lee Kolakowski Ron and Marianne Kreitner Charles Kuning Robert and Barbara Landau Linda F. and Julian L. Lapides Jonna and Fred Lazarus Kenneth B. and Bonny M. Lewis Curt Lind and Linda Ettinger Joan Locke Margaret Long Joanne Mandato Michael & Lois Mannes in honor of Susan Flanigan Charles and Nancy Mannion Richard Marriott Jeanne E. Marsh

EVERYMAN’S 2018/19 SEASON IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE SUPPORT OF OUR GENEROUS DONORS Sponsors listed as of January 7, 2018

SEASON MEDIA SPONSORS

EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL SPONSORS

SANDY & MARK LAKEN GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FROM

Dr. Wendy Matt Judy and David Mauriello J. A. McAlpine John and Shanae McLean Stephanie F. Miller Tracy Miller and Paul Arnest Stephanie Moore and Dr. Lindsay Johnson Rima Namek Barry Narlines in honor of Dr. Ronald Pototsky Ted Niederman and Ricka Neuman Lewis and Dee Noonberg Jeffrey Nover and Ally Amerson Alex and Janet Ober Jerry and Gail Oppel Robert and Patricia Orr Patricia Palmer The Patz Family Lucie Pelgrim in memory of Jim Robert and Judith Pierce Dr. and Mrs. Paul Rao Robert and Ellen Rosen Wendy S. Rosen

Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Rosenstein Leslie and Jay Rosenthal W.J. Lederer and Jennie Rothschild Richard and Kayleen Saucier Gloria Savadow Sam and Thea Schnydman Dr. Alan Schwartz and Dr. Carla Rosenthal Thomas M. Scott III in honor of Vinny Lancisi Robert Sears Temmie B Shade Stephen and Gail Shawe Joan and Edward Sills Lisa Simonson Dr. and Mrs. Harvey and Deborah Singer Edward Sledge and Patricia Thompson Susan Smith

Scott Sokol and Judy Harris William and Ellen Stifler James Stofan and William Law Harriet Stulman Carol Summerfield William and Adrienne Taylor Ann Teaff and Donald P. McPherson III in honor of Susan Flanigan John and Mary Lou Walker Joanne and Ed Wallach Sylvia Wehr Robert and Shifra Weinberg Laurie A. Whisman Mark I. Whitman Margaret Williams Donald and Jerriann Wilson Beverly Winter Patricia Yevics-Eisenberg and Stewart Eisenberg Miriam and Robert Zadek

Please bring any errors or omissions to our attention by contacting Katie Garber: kgarber@everymantheatre.org, 443.615.7055 x7122.

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RESIDENT COMPANY MEMBERS

RESIDENT ARTISTS Daniel Ettinger, Scenic Designer David Burdick, Costume Designer Gary Logan, Dialects Coach Lewis Shaw, Fight Choreographer Amanda M. Hall, Stage Manager Cat Wallis, Stage Manager

Megan Anderson

Eric Berryman

Danny Gavigan

Tim Getman

Deborah Hazlett

Paige Hernandez

Bruce Randolph Nelson

Carl Schurr

Dawn Ursula

Beth Hylton

Wil Love

Stan Weiman

Yaegel T. Welch

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Vic Romita, President Dr. Stanley Miller, Vice President Mark Paul Lehman, Vice President Marci I. Gordon, Secretary Eileen M. O’Rourke, Treasurer

Edie Brown Jean Waller Brune Diane Cho Chris DiPietro Susan W. Flanigan Kaylie Kassap George Gina Hirschhorn Bridget M. Horner Lisa Harris Jones

Mark P. Keener Martha M. Kirkland Sandy Laken Vincent M. Lancisi Colleen Martin-Lauer John McLean Neil Meltzer Betsy Nelson W. Bryan Rakes

CONTACT INFORMATION Box Office 410.752.2208 Administration 443.615.7055 Email boxoffice@everymantheatre.org Address 315 W. Fayette St. Baltimore, MD 21201

E. Lee Robbins, M.D. Frank Rosenberg Nina Rosenzwog James Ryan Kelly Keenan Trumpbour Dawn Ursula Meadow Lark Washington Angela G. Wilson Lawrence J. Yumkas Everyman Theatre is a member of the Theatre Communications Group.

Everyman Theatre is a member of the Bromo Arts and Entertainment District.

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STAFF

Vincent M. Lancisi, Founder, Artistic Director

ADMINISTRATION

Deirdra McBride, Director of Finance & Operations Mike Watson, Operations Manager Laura Weiss, Special Asst. to Artistic Director Shammah Moore, Porter Pat Brent, Bookkeeper

Tomhave, Box Office Associates Kate Appiah-Kubi, Candice Christmas, Karim Darwish, James Fulwiler, Juliannah Harrison, Jonathan Jacobs, Jamil Johnson, Derrell Owens, Emily Padden, Nickole Scroggins, House Managers Kate Appiah-Kubi Volunteer Coordinator

ARTISTIC

MARKETING

Noah Himmelstein, Associate Artistic Director

DEVELOPMENT

Stephanie Moore, Director of Development Elliott Kashner, Institutional Giving Manager Katie Garber, Individual Giving Manager Laura Weiss, Development Operations Manager

Jonathan K. Waller, Director of Brand & Marketing Jenny Kessler Klump, Marketing & Media Relations Manager Chris Giese, Digital Content Manager Alex Tolle, Group Sales Associate Mel Prather, Graphic Designer Jeff Rogers, 2018/19 Season Show Art Design

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PRODUCTION ENGAGEMENT Brianna McCoy, Director of Education & Community Engagement Genna Styles, Education Program Manager Brenna Horner, Lead Teaching Artist Jesse Miller, Community Engagement Assistant Karim Darwish, Education Apprentice Laurie Ascoli Sandra Atkinson, Wychkam Avery, Abigail Cady, Zach Campion, Tara Cariaso, Reenie Codelka, Amanda Forstrom, Liz Galuardi, Kelsey Hall, Deborah Hazlett, Emma Hebert, Tyler Herman, Donald Hicken, Beth Hylton, Rachel Hynes, Rob Jansen, Caleen Jennings, John Johnson, Jenny Male, Joe Mallon, Brandon McCoy, Bruce Randolph Nelson, Jack Novak, Steve Polites, Fatima Quander, Dawn Thomas Reidy, Joseph W. Ritsch, Sim Rivers, KenYatta Rogers, Steven Satta, Scun, Shirley Serotsky, Lewis Shaw, Quae Simpson, Andy Stoffel, Rick Westerkamp, Teaching Artists

FRONT OF HOUSE

Nadine Klatt, Box Office Manager Corey Frier, Audience Services Manager Candice Christmas, Sharea Harris, Veronese Harris, Juliannah Harrison, Jonathan Jacobs, Ally Kocerhan, Elizabeth Malvo Faith Savill, Matthew Schleigh, Bartenders Karim Darwish, James Fulwiler, Veronese Harris, Jonathan Jacobs, Jamil Johnson, Thom Purdy, Matthew Schleigh, Rachel Miranda Swan, Benairen SwansonEVERYMAN THEATRE | 28

Kyle Prue, Director of Production Amanda M. Hall, Associate Director of Production Bill Jamieson, Technical Director Rick Gerriets, Asst. Technical Director Andrew Gaylin, Audio Engineer Juan Juarez, Master Electrician Jillian Mathews, Properties Master Trevor Wilhelms, Scene Shop Foreman Evan McDougall, Resident Carpenter Ren Brault, Joseph Martin, Michael Rasinski, House Carpenters Amy Kellett, Scenic Charge Amanda M. Hall, Cat Wallis, Stage Managers Erica Feidelseit, Kayla Whisman, Assistant Stage Managers Matthew Smith, Wardrobe Supervisor Dante Fields, Juan Juarez, Light Board Operators James LaDow, Sound Board Operator Kelsey Schneider, Captioning Operator Linda Cavell, Wig Master Sarah Blocher, Josh Cookson, Grant D’Agrosa, Jr., Antwan Hawkins, Sierra Ho, James LaDow, Rhianne Lowe, Aidan Welch, Carpenters Steven Burrall, Parker Damm, Jesse Herche, Brandon Ingle, James LaDow, Jeremy McCord, Alex Roberts, Alexis Sheeks, Electricians Wil Crowther, Ellouise Davis, Susan McCorkle, Ginny McKeever, Matthew Smith, Costume Construction Tyler Herman, Assistant to the Director Audio Description provided by VIA Services

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