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AMERICAN WEE-PIE A WORLD PREMIERE

by Lisa Dillman directed by Megan Carney January 10-February 16, 2013

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American Wee-Pie was commissioned and developed by the Goodman Theatre as part of the 2010-2011 Playwrights Unit. The play was further developed with the support of PlayPenn, Paul Meshejian, Artistic Director.

Rivendell Theatre Ensemble is partially supported by a CityArts Program 1 Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

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Zed..................................................................................................................................................Kurt Brocker Linz.......................................................................................................................................... Jennifer Pompa Pam................................................................................................................................. Jane Baxter Miller*+ Phil / Malcolm /Pete Putterman................................................................................. Keith Kupferer *+ Pableu.........................................................................................................................................Mark Ulrich*+ Phil/Pableu understudy: Eric Slater*+ Pam/Linz understudy: Tasha Anne James set ting Gardensend, a small city in the Midwest.

Present day, late spring through late fall.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

production tea m Director..................................................................................................................................Megan Carney+ Assistant Director................................................................................................................ Scott Verissimo Production Stage Manager................................................................................ Stephanie Hurovitz *+ Scenic Design....................................................................................................................... Regina Garcia+ Costume Design.....................................................................................................................Lauren Lowell Assistant Costume Designer............................................................................................... Olivia Crosby Sound Design...................................................................................................................... Joshua Horvath Lighting Designer.................................................................................................................. Jessica Carson Assistant Lighting Designer/Master Electrician.............................................................. Betsy Smith Property Design.................................................................................................................Joanna Iwanicka Production Manager..............................................................................................................Jen Seleznow Technical Director...................................................................................................................Toni Kendrick Co-Technical Director......................................................................................................Claudia Peterson Assistant Stage Manager.....................................................................................................Hannah Baker Graphic Design.............................................................................................................Melissa Blumenthal Marketing & PR...........................................................................SHOUT Marketing & Media Relations Producing Artistic Director.................................................................................................Tara Mallen*+ Director of Audience Services & Business Manager...............................................Trisha Hooper+ *Denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional stage actors and managers. +Denotes member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble.

special thanks The playwright is grateful to Tanya Palmer, Steve Scott, Michele Volansky, Jackson Gay, Anita Montgomery, Andrea J. Dymond, and a host of terrific actors in several cities, all of whom lent their time and considerable talents to the development of American Wee-Pie. We would also like to offer our heartfelt thanks to Sandy Shinner; Spectrum Creative Solutions; Jan and David Blixt; Susan Ask and Joe Mazza; Meg Thalken; Deb Doetzer; Geri and Tom Foley; and of course, our dear friend Stjepan Misetic.

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N o t e f r o m t h e d i r e c to r I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. That’s my hometown. When I was a kid, Pittsburgh was the steel capital and the mills burned all night long. Today the mills are long gone, either razed or converted into high-end condominiums, but when I go back, my memories of those massive steel-firing plants rise up like ghosts of the past and it can take a while to see the place for what it has become. Those of us who grew up in industrial towns all across the Midwest and beyond understand this in our bones.

The first time I heard Lisa Dillman’s play out loud was next door in the Rivendell rehearsal space. A bunch of company members gathered around to read it and we practically fell out of our chairs laughing. Then, when it came time to discuss the play, the tone of the room shifted and we talked about going home and the tricks of memory.

We talked about family and distance and getting lost along the way. Then we talked about personal reinvention, the delight and the terror of it, and that’s when I jumped in wholeheartedly with this play.

I don’t know what signals the end of an economic recession, but I do hear financial analysts talking about how we’re living in a time when all bets are off and the old rules don’t apply. They tell us that the only way forward is to innovate, to create new pathways, and invent new business models. Well, the characters in American Wee-Pie are boldly setting forth with this advice and the journey that unfolds bubbles over in the most life and love and community-affirming tale I’ve heard in a long while.

Thank you for being here. It has been a joy to mount this world premiere with such a fine company of actors and designers. We really appreciate your support and we couldn’t do this without neighbors like you.

- Megan Carney cast Kurt Brocker (ZED) Once upon a time, Kurt played Horatio in Rivendell’s Hamlet directed by Karen Kessler. He also played Gant in Holy Days, with Tara Mallen playing his sister-in-law. Most recently, Kurt was seen as Donald in Welcome Home Jenny Sutter at Next Theatre. Before that he was in The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later at Redtwist. After American Wee-Pie he will be in the original Chicago Children’s Theatre Co./Redmoon collaboration of The Elephant and the Whale. Other Chicago credits include The Farnsworth Invention with Timeline, Beautiful City with Theatre Mir and Pan and Boone with Running With Scissors for which he received an After Dark Award for his performance.

He has worked with Redmoon, European Repertory Company, Court Theatre, Famous Door Theatre Co., Prop Thtr., A Red Orchid 4

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Theatre and Thunder Road Ensemble. Kurt is very happy to be with working with Rivendell again.

Jennifer Pompa (Linz) Jennifer Pompa is very excited to be working with Rivendell for the first time. Jennifer is a Factory Theater company member and native Chicagoan.

She was most recently seen in Stage Left Theater’s production of Impenetrable, written by Mia McCullough. She also got to revisit some old characters last year in the Factory Theater’s 20th Anniversary remounts of Ren Faire! A Fistful of Ducats and also White Trash Wedding And A Funeral. She has been fortunate to work around town at various theaters including: Eclipse, Visions & Voices, Steppenwolf, and Famous Door Theatre, where she won a Jeff Award for Best Supporting Actress in The Cider House

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Rules, Parts I & II. Television and film credits include: “dot,” “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment” and “Eden Court.” She would like to thank Lisa, Megan & Tara for the opportunity & her family for the love.

Jane Baxter Miller (Pam) An ensemble member with RTE, Jane recently appeared in Falling: A Wake the inaugural production in RTE’s new theatre space.

Other RTE credits include Self-Defense, or the death of some salesmen; Silence; Faulkner’s Bicycle; The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾; and WRENS. Additional Chicago credits include Dandelion Wine with Chicago Children’s Theatre; The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer with Next Theatre; Mr. Kolpert with A Red Orchid Theatre; The Irish and How They Got That Way at the Mercury Theatre, Cowgirls with Northlight Theatre, Pump Boys and Dinettes at Theatre at the Centre as well as many shows with Lifeline Theatre. Jane is a singer and songwriter appearing on many recordings through Bloodshot Records. She co-composed the children’s musical Dirty Cowboy for Lifeline Theatre. Look for her critically acclaimed solo CD Harm Among the Willows available through Bloodshot Records and iTunes.

Keith Kupferer (Phil / Malcolm/Pete Putterman) Keith is a founding member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble and was seen in their productions of 26 Miles; Expecting Isabel; Indulgences in the Louisville Harem; Be Aggressive, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Age 13 & 3/4 ; Mommapalooza!, My Simple City; Hamlet; and Twenty Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. Theater credits include Good People, Middletown, South of Settling, Of Mice & Men, Carter’s Way, Men of Tor-

tuga; Things Being What They Are; Jesus Hopped The A Train and Tavern Story at Steppenwolf Theatre; God of Carnage, High Holidays, Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play and The Old Neighborhood at the Goodman Theatre; Execution of Justice with About Face Theatre; Cat Feet and The Old Neighborhood at Northlight; Desire Under The Elms, a co-production between Philadelphia’s Freedom Theatre and Chicago’s Court Theatre; and the long running hit, Shear Madness. Other Chicago credits include The Unseen, The Meek, Canus Lunis Balloonis, (nominated for a 1998 Joseph Jefferson award for Best Ensemble), and The Physicists for A Red Orchid Theatre; and Trust and Hillbilly Antigone for Lookingglass Theatre. Film credits include the latest Ron Howard project, The Dilemma; Dark Knight; Public Enemies; The Express; Meet the Browns; Stranger Than Fiction; Road to Perdition directed by Sam Mendes; Bad City; Fred Klaus; Let’s Go to Prison; The Last Rights of Joe May and The Merry Gentleman directed by Michael Keaton. TV credits include ABC’s Detroit 187; A&E’s The Beast, the Fox series Prison Break; The Jamie Kennedy Experiment on WB and the CBS series Early Edition.

Mark Ulrich (Pableu) Mark is happy to be back at Rivendell, his theatrical home, where he was last seen opposite Ms. Baxter Miller last winter in Falling: A Wake. Mark also appeared in Ms. Dillman’s play, The Walls, performed at the Steppenwolf Garage space. Most recently, he was seen as Hans, in The Book Thief, at Steppenwolf and in February, will be in the Steppenwolf SYA production of How Long Will I Cry. A Rivendell ensemble member for about five years, his other credits here include Silence; These Shining Lives; and as director of Mary’s Wedding. Mark is also an Associate Artist of Chicago Dramatists.

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production tea m Megan Carney (Director) Megan Carney is a company member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. With Rivendell, she is a lead artist on the Women and War project and directed The Walls

by Lisa Dillman (Steppenwolf Garage).

Megan has written and directed many plays based on interviews that explore community, identity, and a sense of place including Open Systems: Hurricane Katrina (Chicago’s Goodman Theatre), Let Them Eat Cake (with Holly Hughes and Moe Angelos at Dixon Place, NYC), Pittsburgh Project Remix (Pump House, Homestead Steel Mill). Megan was the founding director of About Face Youth Theatre where she produced 8 years of original plays (at Victory Gardens, the Goodman, and national tour). Her work has been recognized with multiple After Dark Awards, a TCG Observership Grant, the GLSEN Pathfinder Award, an APA Presidential Citation, induction in Chicago’s Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, a Rockefeller Foundation MAP Grant, and a GLAAD Media Award nomination.

Megan is the Director of the Gender and Sexuality Center and adjunct faculty in the Department of Theatre and Music at UIC. She has an MFA in Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech with a focus on Directing and Public Dialogue.

Regina Garcia (Scenic Design) Regina is an Illinois-based Scenic Designer and has been designing for drama, ensemble and devised work for fifteen years. She has collaborated with directors Giovanna Sardelli, Daniella Topol, Tara Mallen, Thomas Kail, Victor Maog, Jorge Ali Triana, Michael J. Garces, and Bartlett Sher, amongst others; and designed for renowned Latino theaters including Teatro Vista, Repertorio Español, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, INTAR, and was the Resident Scenic Designer 6

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at Pregones Theater for more than ten years. Recently completed projects include: The Homosexuals by Philip Dawkins for About Face Theatre; Ruined

by Lynn Nottage for the St. Louis Black Rep (Kevin Kline nomination); and Crooked

by Catherine Trieschmann for Rivendell.

Regina is a Fellow of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers, and recipient of several Princess Grace Awards (2002 & 2011), and a Latino ACE Award for her scenic design. Regina is a company member with Teatro Vista and Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. A graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she is a Faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign.

Joanna Iwanicka (Assistant Scenic & Props Designer) Joanna is returning to Rivendell Theater Ensemble, where she has previously designed set and props for WRENS, and properties for Fighting Words, Eliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and Falling: A Wake.

She is a Chicago-based scenic, props and puppets designer as well as a resident scenic artist for Northlight Theatre in Skokie. Her local design credits include Chicago Children’s Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, The Division, Vintage Theatre Collective, the Library Theatre, Chopin Theatre and Metropolis Performing Arts Centre. She has also realized shows at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the State Theatrs Department of Puppetry Arts, The Białystok Puppet Theatre, Teatr K3 and Teatr Lalek Arlekin in her native Poland.

For more information on her previous and current projects you can visit her website joannaiwanicka.com.

Jessica M. Carson (Lighting Designer) Jessica is the Production Manager and Resident Lighting Designer with Two Pence Theatre Company. Two Pence credits include lighting design for As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II. Recent works include Pink Milk with Chicago Fringe; Finding Peace

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in this House with Erasing the Distance; Macbeth, The Factory and Two Huts with Gravity Project; Annie, The Big, Bad Musical, Mileep and the Attack of the Jellybean People and The Music Man with the Mayer Kaplan JCC in Skokie; Let Them Eat Cake with About Face Theatre; and The Improv Show and Pluto is Listening with InFusion Theatre. When not designing she freelances as an electrician and stagehand in and around the city. When not doing theatre at all she can be found working and generally being a nerd at the Museum of Science and Industry. Jessica holds an MFA from Virginia Tech and a BA from UNC Asheville.

Josh Horvath (Sound Designer) Rivendell: Eliot a Soldier’s Fugue and Psalms of a Questionable Nature. Off Broadway: Lincoln Center. Regional: Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Center Theatre Group, Centerstage, Kennedy Center, The Alliance, Kansas City Rep, Milwaukee Rep, and California Shakespeare. Chicago: Court, Goodman, Lookingglass, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight, Next, The House, Timeline, Lifeline, and Congo Square.

Josh teaches sound design for theatre and film at Northwestern University, is an artistic associate of Lookingglass, and a collaborative partner of the Goodman.

Josh is the recipient of an LA Ovation Award, and four Joseph Jefferson awards.

Upcoming shows: Sweet Charity (Writers Theatre), Jungle Book (Goodman), The Misanthrope and Tartuffe (Court).

Lauren Lowell (Costume Designer) Lauren M. Lowell is a member of the Design faculty in the Illinois State University School of Theatre. Head of Costume Design, Lauren is part of programs in the field at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Recent design credits include War (Seanachai Theatre Co., Chicago); Every Christmas Story Ever Told and Underneath the Lintel (Noble Fool Theatricals, Chicago); Stalk

(LaCosta/New Rock Theatre, Chicago); 3 Wills and a Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Complete Works of William Shakespeare; Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); Before the Fire (University of Georgia, Shorter College, and the New York Fringe Festival); Les Liasons Dangereuses, The Rover, The Who’s TOMMY, Ring Round the Moon, The Crucible, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Amadeus, (Illinois State University); Measure for Measure and The Living Newspaper: 1935 (University of Georgia).

Lauren received her BA from Central Michigan University and an MFA in Design (Costumes) from University of Georgia.

Recipient of the 2008 ISU College of Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award, Lauren also received the W. Joseph Stell Design Expo Award in 2001, and the USITT-SE Design Award in 2000.

Stephanie Hurovitz (Stage Manager) Stephanie Hurovitz has been stage managing in Chicago since 2003 and she is very happy to have a home with Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. She has stage managed Rivendell’s productions of WRENS; Crooked; Falling: A Wake; Precious Little; Mary’s Wedding; The Walls; These Shining Lives (all four incarnations); and assistant stage managed Rivendell’s coproduction of Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue with Teatro Vista at the Steppenwolf garage. She most recently stage managed Teatro Vista’s world premiere of i put the fear of mexico in ‘em. Other Chicago credits include: SuzBo Productions; Route 66 Theatre Company; Pegasus Players; Lifeline Theatre; Bailiwick Reparatory; Theatre Building Chicago, where she worked with Hancock Productions; WalkAbout Theatre Company, in conjunction with Lookingglass; Collaboraction Theatre Company; Brown Couch Theater Company; and Pyewacket Theater.

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l i s a d i l l m a n ( p l a y w r i g h t) Ms. Dillman’s produced plays include Detail of a Larger Work (Steppenwolf Theatre); Ground (Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Walls (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble/Steppenwolf Visiting Company Initiative); Half of Plenty (American Theatre Company; Summer Play Festival-SPF; Rogue Machine); and Flung (American Theatre Company). Rock Shore was presented in the 2003 O’Neill Playwrights Conference. American Wee-Pie was developed in the Goodman Theatre’s inaugural Playwrights Unit, and workshopped in the 2011 PlayPenn Conference and at the William Inge Center. Dillman has developed her plays at theatres across the U.S., including ACT Theatre, Victory Gardens, Huntington Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Women’s Project, and many others. She has received commissions from the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, and Dramatic Publishing Company. She has received two Illinois Arts Council fellowships, the Sprenger-Lang New History Play Prize, the Morton R. Sarett National Playwriting Award, and a Julie Harris–Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Playwright Award. Her plays are published by Samuel French and Dramatic Publishing and anthologized in collections from Smith & Kraus, Heinemann, Playscripts Inc., and New Issues Press. In addition to being a company member and playwright in residence at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, she is an artistic associate with Route 66 Theatre Company. She was recently selected for the Women Playwrights Festival and granted a Hedgebrook fellowship. She is currently working on Fobbit, a new play about women veterans commissioned by Rivendell. r i v e n d e l l t h e at r e e n s e m b l e : i t ’ s wo m e n ’ s wo r k The world premiere production of American Wee-Pie marks the second production of our 2012-13 “Season of Reinvention” – Rivendell’s first full season in our beautiful new Edgewater home.

This past September, we kicked off the season with a revival of our ground-breaking 1996 production of Anne McGravie’s semi-autobiographical play WRENS. The Jeff Recommended production once again had the critics raving: “Wrens soars”...”Highly Recommended!”...“Lovely” ... “Masterful.” In May, we will close out our season with the Chicago premiere of The Electric Baby by Stefanie Zadravec, which I am delighted to be at the helm directing.

Three plays written by three women directed by three women, all exploring a common theme of the power of reinvention.

It is an irrefutable truth that women theatre artists simply do not have the same opportunities available as their male counterparts. Without a chance to actually work, how do women artists grow, hone their skills, and remain competitive? As Chicago’s ONLY professional theatre company dedicated to women’s voices—and women’s lives—our work is truly vital. I am so proud to be part of an organization that provides an ally, an advocate and now, an actual brick and mortar artistic home for women theater artists.

With seventeen groundbreaking seasons behind us—and countless more in our future—Rivendell has proven itself to be Chicago’s premiere women’s theatre company and an essential part of the city’s arts and culture community. Thank you for being part of our journey.

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artistic ensemble Tara Mallen, Producing Artistic Director Trisha Hooper, Business Manager Megan Carney Mary Cross Deb Doetzer Victoria DeIorio Lisa Dillman

Diane D. Fairchild Patrick Fries Regina Garcia Meighan Gerachis Rae Gray Stephanie Hurovitz Kathy Logelin Jane Baxter Miller Keith Kupferer

Elvia Moreno Ashley Neal Janice Pytel Eric Slater Jaymi Lee Smith Shera Street Rebecca Spence Mark Ulrich Rachel Walshe

Cindy Geskin, Treasurer Tim Bresnahan, Secretary Jodi Brewer

Dawn Gray Tara Mallen, Artistic Director Jennifer Masi

b oa r d o f d i r e c to r s Don Wiener, President Mark Becker, Vice President Cathy Dixon, Vice President

c o r p o r at e , f o u n dat i o n & g ov e r n m e n t s u p p o r t Rivendell Theatre Ensemble proudly acknowledges its civic partners, whose annual contributions provide major programming support.

Reflects contributions received between February 1, 2011, and December 15, 2012. $ 25,000 + The Chicago Community Trust The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation PAV Fund $10,000 - $24, 999 The Alphawood Foundation The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation

$2,500 - $9,999 BMO Harris Bank Call One The Ronald A. Greene Memorial Fund, a Donor Advised Grant from the Chicago Community Trust Illinois Arts Council, a State Agency

Up to $2,499 3Arts Cheevers and Company The Chicago Foundation for Women CityArts Program 1 Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs

i n d i v i d ua l c o n t r i b u to r s Rivendell Theatre Ensemble sincerely appreciates the following individuals for their efforts to advance our work and would like to express a special thank you to 48th Ward Alderman Harry Osterman, State Representative Kelly Cassidy, and their staffs for their support and generosity in welcoming us to our new home.

Reflects contributions received between February 1, 2011, and December 15, 2012. $5,000 + Sharon Furiya Cindy Geskin Scott and Jody Mallen Don Wiener $2,500-$4,999 Toni and John Burt Cathleen and David Dixon Dawn and Rick Gray Anonymous 10

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$1,000-$2,499 Mark Becker and Doug Widener Jodi and Doug Brewer Cynthia Barnard and Leonard Grossman Tim Bresnahan Eric Fisher Beth Kies Anonymous

$500-$999 Julieanne Ehre Brenda Grusecki Jeanine Jesberg Shirley Litt Tara Mallen Jennifer Masi Tom McGuire and Tom Hackett Lorna and Webber Neal Terri Pline Daniel Robinson Karen Schneider

i n d i v i d ua l c o n t r i b u to r s Denise Schneider Roche Schulfer Emily Siefken Shelley Ziacik $250-$499 Jeffrey Bakker Andrea Biel-Cohen Carol Ann Black Susan Bowen Barbara Calabrese Clare Coss Charles Denison Dr. Katherine Dillon Bill and Gloria Gray Ann Gifford Linda Kimbrough Jeanne Lamar Michael Litt Anna and Jaime Moreno Rachael Patterson Rebecca Spence Guy Van Swearingen Scott M. Verissimo $100-$249 Christina Adachi Judith Adams Donna Adler Anonymous Aleen Bayard Linda Belan Amy Blumenthal David Bourne Patrick Bova and James Darby Joan Callahan

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Rebecca Callcott Megan Carney Michal Eskayo Frank Cella and Trev Minnaert Alexander Chang Mark Clymer and Mark Mullendore Ross Collard Edda Coscioni Pat Curtis Daniel and Carol Cyganowski Silvino da Silva Nedda DeIorio Lisa Dillman Deanna Dunagan Katie Dunn Maureen Eisenberg Diane D. Fairchild Stephanie French Kulmeet Galhotra Sarah Geskin Cynthia Giacchetti Cindy Gold Mark Hamende Mick Hans and Ellen Damlich Cynthia Ho Sheila Hooper Shari Hurovitz Steve Issleib and Nancy Vincent Judy Faulkner Krause Lily Laures Sam and Marcia Leiter Anne McGravie Brad McLaughlin Marcella Mencotti Maureen Miller

Emily Moreno Elvia Moreno Nick Patricca Jeffrey Pavlik Douglas Pawlowski Kathy Pollock and Lesley Spencer Jerry Proffit Elaine Rivkin John Rohsenow Larry Saint Germain Daniel Schlemmer Sandy Shinner Jayma Smith Patrick Smith Shera Street Cathy Taylor Meg Thalken Bob Thompson Terry and Patrice Tuohy Rick Ulirch Jim Venskus Kimbra Walter Joyce Wellman Charlotte Ziporyn Rivendell Theatre Ensemble would also like to thank the generous individual donors who have contributed up to $99. You provide our foundation but are simply too many in number to list here.

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