Topdog/Underdog Program

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Tony Estrella

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jason Cabral

TOPDOG|UNDERDOG

by SUZAN-LORI PARKS

directed by CLIFF ODLE+

SEPTEMBER 7 - OCTOBER 1, 2023

SET DESIGN

Michael McGarty

SOUND DESIGN

Hunter Spoede

COSTUME DESIGN

Liza Alexis

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION

Jessica Hill Kidd

LIGHTING DESIGN

Jeff Adelberg∆

STAGE MANAGEMENT

James Kane*

Produced on Broadway by Carole Shorenstein Hays, Waxman/Williams Entertainment, Bob Boyett, Freddy De Mann, Susan Dietz, Ina Meibach, Scott Nederlander, Ira Pittelman, Hits Magazine, Kelpie Arts, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.

Original New York production by The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, George C. Wolfe, Producer.

+Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

∆Member of IATSE, the union representing Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Sound and Projection designers in Live Performance.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

FUNDING PROVIDED IN PART BY A GRANT FROM THE RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, THROUGH AN APPROPRIATION BY THE RHODE ISLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AND PRIVATE FUNDERS.

SEASON 39

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TOPDOG |UNDERDOG

This play is performed with an intermission. Please silence or turn off all electronic devices so you don’t interrupt the performance! Video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

SETTING

Yesterday & Today

THE COMPANY

Lincoln Anthony T. Goss*

Booth Marc Pierre*

CREATIVE TEAM

Weapons Coordinator Normand Beauregard Cards Consultant Hal Meyers

Assistant to the Director of Production Nola Fox

Technical Director Max Ramirez

Assistant Technical Director Alex Eizenberg

Production Assistant Emma Lemire

Lighting Supervisor Alex Foley

Electricians Haley Ahlborg, Alex Macbeth

Carpenters/Painters D.C. Odle-Perkins, Clifford Odle-Perkins

The Gamm wishes to thank the following for their in-kind support of this production:

Amanda Downing Carney, Michael Getz, Peter Hurowitz, Michael McGarty of Trinity Rep, Gregory Picard of Granoff Center, Moses Brown Performing Arts Department, James Horban of URI, Also, a special thanks to our many volunteers. We couldn’t do it without you!

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Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has commi ed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production.

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*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

FROM OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Welcome Back!

Yes, summer is winding down but that also means theater is back. And we’ve got a terrific Season 39 lined up for you starting with Suzan-Lori Parks’ astonishing Topdog/Underdog. Just a generation old and already a bona fide classic, Topdog/Underdog placed Parks among the giants of the American theater. Her collective work stands alongside that of Wilson, Shepard, Albee and Nottage, weaving together our country’s past and present, and blurring the boundary where myth and history meet.

I’m personally very excited to have Cliff Odle back in Rhode Island from his home in North Carolina, making his Gamm directing debut. Cliff is a powerful and virtuosic man of the theater. He does it all: director, playwright and, of course, actor. Cliff goes way back with The Gamm having given varied and commanding performances in many shows including King Elizabeth, Don Carlos and most recently lending his powerful voice to the 2020 radio broadcast of It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, among others.

Cliff has put together a fantastic two-hander cast and creative team to kick the door open on what is sure to be an incredible season including two more American classics, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Doubt: A Parable Hangmen, the latest stage play by the inimitable Martin McDonagh, follows on the heels of Topdog; and Shakespeare’s great comedy Twelfth Night will light up the spring.

I also hope you’ll join me, the Gamm board, and our entire staff in welcoming our new executive director, Jason Cabral. We are thrilled to bring Jason on board as we navigate the challenges of our post-COVID world and reignite the theatergoing experience. We will undoubtedly benefit from his intelligence, passion, and leadership. It has been a challenging few years in our field, but I have great hope for a vibrant and beautiful future.

Once again, welcome back and thanks. As always, we can’t do it without you.

Tony Estrellla, Artistic Director

Q&A WITH DIRECTOR CLIFF ODLE

by Associate Artistic Director Rachel Walshe

Topdog/Underdog is over 20 years old and just closed a highly successful Broadway revival. Why do you think this play is newly relevant, more than a generation after it premiered?

I wouldn’t say it’s “newly” relevant so much as it’s been relevant from the jump. The issues of poverty, Black trauma, Black manhood, and the quest for respect and understanding have not gone away, at least not for African Americans. I think for White and non-African American audiences, a spotlight is periodically shined on these issues and then it fades. Right now the murder of George Floyd and attempts at hijacking the Black historical narrative by states like Florida have put these issues back in the spotlight. But it was shined during reconstruction, during the race riots of the 60s, after the assassination of Martin Luther King, and during the riots that followed the Rodney King trial, only to fade in every case. It doesn’t mean there has been no progress. There’s a tendency, however, for the country to see some progress and declare victory without maintaining the energy of that progress. Until issues of race are seen not just as a Black problem but an American problem, we’ll be stuck in this loop and this play will be needed.

Parks’ play is full of heightened symbolism. What do these symbols mean to you and what do you hope they might mean to audiences?

Despite all the symbolism, this is not a play about symbols. It’s a play about family. It’s a play about two Black brothers who love each other. Yet that love is not enough to guide them through the conflicts they face, the toughest being each other. The symbols stem from this conflict and are illusions in one way or another. From the absurdity of Lincoln’s job as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator to Booth’s claims of sexual prowess, they speak to an American dream that was never actually meant to include them. It’s all a con. The only real thing is the con itself and the consequences.

Parks’ 1993 work The America Play follows an African American gravedigger who also works as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator. Why do you think Lincoln is an essential inspiration for her?

The abolitionist Frederick Douglass once said of Lincoln that he was “impressed with his entire freedom from popular prejudice against the colored race.” However, he also told African Americans that “Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense of the word, either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man…. He was preeminently the white man’s president, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men.” The contradictory relationship that African Americans have with the country of their birth is something Parks explores in this work and in The America Play. We are a country that loves our myths, and many are backed up by facts. Lincoln did sign the Emancipation Proclamation at a critical time in our history, and he did declare that “slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature — opposition to it is his love of justice.” But that speech masks lesser known facts, such as Lincoln’s willingness to discuss the exportation of all African Americans out of the country, his offer to preserve slavery until 1900 in exchange for the South’s surrender, and the bawdy jokes he often told that included prodigious use of the N-word. Still I don’t think we, like Parks, should label him either a saint or unrepentant racist. He is part of the painful but necessary evolution this country must undergo if the words of the constitution are to be something other than hollow. He is the measuring stick of our own progress.

Switching gears, what is your relationship with Rhode Island theater in general and The Gamm specifically?

Although I did theater before I came to Rhode Island, my professional career as a theater artist got its critical boost here and I have the Gamm to thank for that. Performing in Don Carlos, The Scarlet Letter, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales at The Gamm helped give me the courage to draw a line in the sand. I quit my lucrative health insurance job, returned to grad school, and give the artistic life a try despite the fact that I found out my wife was pregnant the day I handed in my resignation letter. Now I’m a director, actor, playwright, and college theater professor, as well as the father of two teenagers, DC and Clifford, both born in Rhode Island. I’m not sure I would have made that leap without the encouragement and support of my late wife and the folks at The Gamm. Rhode Island is such a wonderful, weird, quirky state or, as I like to call it, “the smallest state with the biggest attitude.” I miss it dearly.

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Anthony T. Goss*, Lincoln

Previous Gamm Roles: Debut Other Theaters: Seven Guitars at Actors Shakespeare Project (Elliot Norton Award winner, best male lead), Gong Lum’s Legacy at Woody King Jr’s New Federal Theatre, Cowboy (Off Broadway), Wookies in the Wilderness at The Fire This Time Festival/Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival, Mirrors a world premiere at Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop TV/Film: Blue Bloods, Law & Order SVU, FBI, Netflix’s African American and Amazon’s The Nomad Other: Anthony played basketball at Bridgewater State College and studied at Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. He is a native of Boston.

Marc Pierre*, Booth

Previous Gamm Roles: Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, BJJ/George/M’Closky in An Octoroon, Miles/Shawn/Rashaad in Gloria Other Theaters: Recent credits include The Play That Goes Wrong (Lyric Stage Company), Gone Nowhere (Boston Playwrights Theatre), Leftovers (Company One Theatre), Brawler (Kitchen Theatre Company), Airness (Actors Theatre of Louisville), When January Feels Like Summer (Central Square Theatre), Peter and the Starcatcher (Lyric Stage), Milk Like Sugar (Huntington Theatre Company), The Flick (Gloucester Stage) TV/Film: Castle Rock, Twelve (Dir. Joel Schumacher) Other: Marc has a B.F.A. from Emerson College. He is a recipient of the Isabel Sanford Scholarship and Emerson College’s Acting Area Award.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM

Suzan-Lori Parks, Playwright

Named among Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most acclaimed playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, and in 2015 was awarded the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence in the Arts. She is also the recipient of numerous other grants and awards such as those from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is an alum of New Dramatists and of Mount Holyoke College.

Parks’ project 365 Days/365 Plays (where she wrote a play a day for an entire year) was produced in over 700 theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history. Her other plays include: Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize winner); The Book of Grace; Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Musical; In the Blood (2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Venus (1996 OBIE Award); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World; Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (1990 OBIE Award, Best New American Play); The America Play and Fucking A. Her adaptation of The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess won the 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical. Her newest play, Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) — set during the Civil War — was awarded the Horton Foote Prize and the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama as well as being a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Jeff Adelberg∆, Lighting Designer

At The Gamm, Jeff designed lighting for Describe The Night, A Midsummer Nights Dream, A Lie Agreed Upon, A Doll’s House Part Two, True West, Gloria, The Night of the Iguana, As You Like It, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Children’s Hour, and Arcadia. Other recent work: Il Matrimonio Secreto (Florida Grand Opera), Heroes of the Fourth Turning and People Places and Things (Speakeasy); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Central Square Theatre, Cambridge & Greater Boston Stage Co.); The Seagull, The Stone (Arlekin Theatre); Beckett Women: Ceremonies of Departure (Cambridge, MA and Belfast, NI); Boston’s Christmas Revels since 2010. Jeff attended the University of Connecticut and is a member of the faculty at Harvard University and Boston College. Member USA-829. www.JeffAdelberg.com / instagram: @jdadelberg

Liza Alexis, Costume Designer

Liza is a costume designer and craftsperson based out of New York City, where she recently finished up a year contract as a costume design assistant on Hamilton. Her other design credits include The Inheritance at Trinity Rep, An Octoroon and Sweat at The Gamm Theatre, Measure for Measure and (Hera)kles at Rutgers Theater Company, and Bride of the Gulf at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Her millinery work and costume crafts were featured in Sense and Sensibility and Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play at the Rutgers Theater Company. She has a B.F.A. in costume design from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and studied at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater and The School of Historical Dress in London.

Normand Beauregard, Weapons Consultant

Norm has worked as a fight master and stunt coordinator for over 40 years and has multiple producer, artistic director, director and technical director credits. He has staged over 1,000 fight scenes for theater and film. His most recent Gamm credit was Sweat. As a teacher, trainer, guest artist and professor, Norm has been offering stage combat master classes, residencies and full courses of study at colleges, universities and conservatory theater programs for over 40 years. Information at NormandBeauregard.net

James Kane*, Stage Manager

James stage managed Faith Healer, Sweat and A Doll’s House, Part 2 at The Gamm and An Iliad at Trinity Rep. Assistant stage management credits include A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, black odyssey and Little Shop of Horrors (Trinity Rep), and Singin’ in the Rain (Theatre By The Sea). Production assistant credits include Trinity Rep’s Pride and Prejudice; Ragtime; Othello; Death of a Salesman; Like Sheep to Water, or Fuente Ovejuna; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage; A Christmas Carol (2016, 2017). Other: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus: 126th edition (clown), 128th edition (production assistant). James attended Rhode Island College.

∆Member of IATSE, the union representing Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Sound and Projection designers in Live Performance.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Jessica Hill Kidd, Director of Production

This is Jessica’s 15th season at The Gamm, where she was scenic designer for The Children, Sweat, Ironbound, Escaped Alone & Come and Go, Gloria, As You Like It, Incognito, Arcadia, A Streetcar Named Desire, and others. She was co-scenic designer for Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.’s Cymbeline. Jessica is also The Gamm’s prop designer and scenic painter. She has a B.I.A. and a B.F.A. in interior architecture from RISD and has worked as a senior project manager for several award-winning architectural firms. She is owner of Studio Hill, specializing in interior and set designs.

Michael McGarty, Set Designer

Mr. McGarty’s most recent Gamm designs were Describe the Night, An Octoroon, It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Assassins, JQA, True West, The Night Watch, and others. His first production at The Gamm (formerly Alias Stage) was Request Concert at the Riverside Mills in Olneyville in 1985. He has designed extensively at regional theaters and opera companies around the country, in addition to Broadway, Off-Broadway and London’s West End. He is a resident designer at Trinity Rep and faculty at Rhode Island School of Design.

Cliff Odle+, Director

Cliff Odle is a professor, playwright, actor, and director. He is excited to make his return to one of his favorite theater companies, The Gamm! A native of New Jersey, he has been involved with theater around the country in places like Boston, New York, San Diego and here in the Ocean State. Cliff has taught acting, playwriting, screenwriting, and dramatic literature courses at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Emerson College, Wheelock College, Boston University, and Bates College. He is currently an assistant professor of drama

at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He has worked with esteemed theater artists such as August Wilson, Kirsten Greenidge, Lydia Diamond, Tony Todd, and Charles Brown among others. Some of his directing work includes: The Cook (Eduardo Machado), Yellowface (David Henry Hwang), Luck of The Irish (Kirsten Greenidge), The Chairs (Eugene Ionesco), and The Colored Museum (George C Wolf). He has acted at The Gamm, where highlight include; Lord Burley (King Elizabeth), Uncle Jim/Mr Prothero (A Child’s Christmas in Wales), Master Brackett (The Scarlet Letter) and Duke Feria (Don Carlos). Other roles include: Narrator in Passing Strange (Boston area debut production), Henry Brown in Race, Troy Maxon in Fences, and Old Mister/Minister in The Color Purple. His plays include: Lost Tempo, Our Girl in Trenton, Running the Bulls, The Petition, and Slammin’ The Bones. He is also the proud father of two teenage troublemakers, DC and Clifford.

Hunter Spoede, Sound Designer

Hunter’s sound design credits include Sweat at The Gamm Theatre; New Haven Play Project, Spinning, Mack is Back, Laura Benanti in Concert, Two for the Road, and Midwinter Night’s Dream Cabaret at Long Wharf Theatre; The Gospel of Barabbas, Cessna, Hot Dam! It’s the Loveland Frog, and Quake: A Love Story at Cincinnati Fringe Festival; I’ll Eat You Last at TheaterWorks; Arms on Fire at Chester Theatre Company; Don’t Cross the Streams at Monmouth Theatre; Pippin and Big River: The Musical at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center. He holds an M.F.A. from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a B.F.A. from Sam Houston State University.

+Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

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WHO’S WHO AT THE GAMM THEATRE

LEADERSHIP

Artistic Director .......................... Tony Estrella

Executive Director ....................... Jason Cabral

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President Daniel Marwil

Vice President ................... Miriam Weizenbaum

Treasurer ............................. David Kellogg

Secretary ................................. Bill Stone

At Large ............................ Danielle Kemsley

At Large .............................. Joyce L. Stevos

Directors ........................ Samuel F. Babbitt**

Scott Avedisian

Leon C. Boghossian III

Jason Cabral*

Tony Estrella*

Paige Magratten

Charles J. Mahoney

Tara McCreery

Thomas Moakley

Jordan Rossi

Danielle Salisbury

Manuel R. Silva

Susan Stone

Don Wineberg

*ex officio **emeritus

ADMINISTRATION

Director of Business & Operations .... Shannon Carroll

Bookkeeper ............................... Rose Hogan

Accountant ....... Patricia M. Cerilli, Mullen Scorpio Cerilli

BOX OFFICE

Box Office Front of House Manager ....... Drew Wright

Box Office Sales Manager ............ Brittany Costello

House Managers .. Ryan Alexander, Jessica Castigliego, Autumn Jefferson, Lila Hawryluk, Magenta Kowakowski, Grace Madeya, Jennifer Wilson

DESIGN & MEDIA

Manager of Design & Media .............. Jon Del Sesto

EDUCATION

Director of Education .................. Sarah Ploskina

Education Manager ................... Jess Corsentino

Education Associate & Fellowship Advisor ................ Autumn Jefferson

Teaching Artists ....................... Emily Finnigan, Emily Fleet, Danielle Jahnke, Sophia Kahn, Rachel Maddox, Jared Nobrega, Dave Rabinow

FELLOWS

Tess Cruz, Mireya Celline Hoffens, Jared Nobrega

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Director of Marketing & Communications ....................... Gail Hulbert

Audience Development & Advertising Sales Associate ........ Lauryn E. Sasso

PRODUCTION

Director of Production ............... Jessica Hill Kidd

Associate Artistic Director ............. Rachel Walshe

Technical Director ....................... Max Ramirez

Lighting Supervisor ......................... Alex Foley

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GAMM LEADERSHIP

Tony Estrella, Artistic Director

Tony Estrella has been artistic director at The Gamm for 20 seasons. Since his first show with the company (Antony & Cleopatra), he has appeared in or directed more than 70 productions. His favorite roles include Frank in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shannon in The Night of the Iguana, Hamlet in Hamlet, Moe Axelrod in Awake and Sing!, Valere in La Bete, Katurian in The Pillowman, Teach in American Buffalo, and Vanya in Uncle Vanya. Directorial highlights include Bad Jews, Describe the Night, Assassins, JQA, True West, Festen, Sara Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis, A Streetcar Named Desire, Red, and the U.S. premieres of Howard Brenton’s Paul and Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch. Tony has written several works for The Gamm stage including A Lie Agreed Upon (2021), and adaptations of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler, and Barry Unsworth’s acclaimed novel Morality Play. In addition to The Gamm, he has appeared on numerous regional stages. He is currently appearing in Joshua Harmon’s A Prayer for the French Republic at The Huntington in Boston. His film credits include appearances in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, and The Good House. He is a recipient of the Claiborne Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts and is a longtime member of the theater faculty at his alma mater, University of Rhode Island.

Jason Cabral, Executive Director

Jason Cabral became The Gamm’s executive director in August 2023. A mission-driven leader, Jason has notable experience driving fundraising campaigns and operations at non-profits nationwide, including prominent performing arts organizations in New York City and Los Angeles. At The Public Theater and Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, he held senior management roles and contributed to the development of donorfirst giving programs that collectively raised over $24 million annually. As director of advancement operations and analytics for Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles he played a pivotal role in safeguarding the theater’s short-term financial security at the onset of the pandemic. A native New Englander, Jason returned to the region in 2021 and has since helped spearhead strategic initiatives and multimillion-dollar campaigns with large non-profit organizations including the ASPCA, and both the NAACP and Habitat for Humanity International as a senior consultant for CCS Fundraising. Jason has an M.F.A. in acting from Wayne State University and a B.A. in theater performance from Rhode Island College. Prior to working as an administrator, he was an actor and teaching artist. With a first-hand understanding of the value and impact of local arts access and education, Jason is committed to enhancing The Gamm’s mission-focused investment in Rhode Island’s youth.

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GAMM THEATRE DONORS

THANK YOU! We gratefully recognize the following list of annual donors whose contributions help bring the highest quality of theatre to our stages and support the impact we strive to make in our community. You are the backbone of The Gamm Theatre, and we are deeply appreciative of your generous support.

Contributions listed are cumulative Annual Fund and sponsorship gifts from July 1, 2022 - August 1, 2023.

Covington Society levels: * 3-4 years, † 5-9 years, ‡ 10+ years. Gamm Guardian, monthly donor: ∞

Champions

Fain Family Foundation‡

The Oliver Fund†

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The Rhode Island Foundation ‡ Rhode Island State Council on the Arts‡

Shakespeare in American Communities

The Weisberg Family Foundation*‡

$25,000+

Miriam Weizenbaum & David Heckman ∞†

Sustainers $10,000-$24,999

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Charitable Foundation

The Carter Fund at the Rhode Island Foundation

Sam Coale†

Tony Estrella & Jennifer Madden ∞

Greenwood Credit Union†

Katie The Dog‡

Barbara J. Dreyer ∞‡

Daniel & Ivy Marwil ∞‡

Navigant Credit Union

Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc.

Papitto Opportunity Connection

Rhode Island Energy & The PPL Foundation

City of Warwick

Mabel T. Woolley Trust*

The Otto H. York Foundation*

Philanthropists $5,000-$9,999

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Leon & Karen Boghossian†

Eliza Greene Chace Collins∞‡

Easy Entertaining*

Equity Action Fund at Rhode Island Foundation

Katherine A. Kirby*

Sarah & Joel Lamstein

June Rockwell Levy Foundation‡

The Millsom Family, in honor & recognition of Steve Kidd Nordson Corporation Foundation†

Chuck & Doris Reifler ‡

Paula & Bill Rooks‡

Alicia B. Shea†

TACO/The White Family Foundation*

Alan & Marie Weiss†

Carol Hudson Young Fund‡

Benefactors $2,500-$4,999

Mary-Beth Fafard, Ph.D.†

Arnold B. Chace Jr †

Daniel C. Isenberg Family Fund

David & Q. Kellogg ∞

W. Lynn McKinney & Ronald Margolin‡

Allison McMaster, in memory of Steve McMaster ‡

Maureen & Tom Moakley‡

Ocean State Charities Trust

Manuel R. & Suzanne Silva ∞

Pearle W. & Martin M. Silverstein Foundation*

Tom & Barbara Slaight

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Producers $1,250-$2,499

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Samuel F. Babbitt∞‡

Suzanne Barksdale†

Barbara & Gordon Beeton*

Eric & Nancy Behr∞‡

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Stephen & Celia Gamm∞‡

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Charles J. Mahoney & Nancy Evans Lloyd∞‡

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Lynn & Craig Swanson†

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Sponsors $750-$1,249

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The Erik Nelson Family Fund*

The Sand Foundation, in honor of Daniel Marwil

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Martha Parks*

Dr. Herbert Rakatansky & Barbara Sokoloff†

Peter & Laura Ramsden

Nancy Safer ‡

Austin & Susan Smith Fund at The Boston Foundation‡

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The Test Fund at the Rhode Island Foundation*

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Michael M Woody & Joanne Speroni-Woody ‡

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Donors $500-$749

Anonymous (4)

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Rosemary & Ted Burns∞†

Shannon & Justin Carroll∞‡

Cheryl & Charles Cavalconte ‡

Allen Clawson & Elaine Fontaine*

Tim & Sandy Crowe †

Kristin DeKuiper ‡

Betsey S. Delaney‡

Ronald & Dolores DeLellis*

Dr.’s Allen & Jane Dennison

Gerald Deschepper & Wendy Holms‡

DiSanton Priest Charitable Foundation

Nora Eschenheimer & Jesse Dufault

FM Global

David & Suzanne Francis†

Michael Goldenberg‡

Amy & Bruce Goldstein‡

David B Green & Myrth York*

Donnla Hughes

David & Elizabeth Kaplan‡

Marilyn & Stephen Kaplan †

Cindy & Adam Klipfel

Barbara Harris & Seth Kurn*

Linda & Harold Kushner ‡

Charles P. Lee Memorial Fund at the Rhode Island Foundation

Laura LeGant†

Francis & Anna Maria Mancini‡

Dale Patricia Merrill

Frank Mills*

Gary Palmer*

Jerome & Jane Perez*

Maria Caliri & Jeff Potter ‡

Bruce & Jane Rollins*†

Barbara Scheiner, In honor of Sam Babbitt

Ateesh Chanda & Shideh Shafie

Josephine Shepard, in honor of Sam Babbitt*

Jim Baird & Gretchen Dow Simpson‡

Joyce Smith∞‡

Susan Stone

Taylor Strong Charitable Fund‡

Shanna Trufan & Leon Fortin, in memory of Sandra Gamm & Laurie Fortin∞‡

Teresa M. Wade* In honor of Ellen Wolferseder

Naida D. Weisberg*

Ellen Wolferseder

Simon & Tara Wood

Patrons $250-$499

Anonymous (5)

Actors’ Equity Foundation

Connie Anderson∞†

Scott Avedisian*

Dr. Robert L. Bahr & Susan Bahr*

Carol Beatrice

Christina Bevilacqua ∞‡

Jenny & Doug Boone*

Lawrence & Sharleen Bowen*

Winifred Brownell in honor of Tony Estrella‡

Bernard Buonanno, in honor of Eliza Collins*

Lisa & Rupert Burtan

Marybeth & Paul Campellone ∞‡

Dan & Jean Capitumini

Joseph Carberry & Marisa Kambour

Karen Carpenter*

Nancy Cassidy & Jeffrey Schreck†

Jessica & Tom Chace ∞†

D. Chase & W. Penhallurick

Jeff Church & Ali Russo

Georgianna Collins & Neil Murray†

Mary-Ann & Dan Connor

Stephen & Melanie Coon

Martha Cussler‡

Henry J. Dane

Kirsten & Josh Davis ∞ †

Vandy & Jeff Densmore

Charlotte Diffendale

Frank J. Faltus MD

Lloyd Feinberg & Elizabeth Marcotte

Staci Fischer & Scott MacKay

Susan & Robin Gershkoff

Zach Gibb∞

Gail A. Ginnetty

Bella-Marie Goes, in memory of Mary V. Goes ‡

David & Suzanne Goldenberg ‡

Doree Goodman & Michael Gerhardt*

Theo Greenblatt ‡

Paul Grellong∞‡

Diane M. Harmon∞*

John Hill

Thomas Hoagland & Deborah Kopech∞*

James A. Hopkins ‡

Sandra L. Jacobi

Michael Jones*

Julia & Stephen Kiechel

Bill Davis & Nancy Kleniewski

Thomas Lane

Brian & Janice Larkin

Helen W. MacDonald ‡

The Lloyd/ Miller Family

The Malloy Family

Lynne M. Malone

Rae Mancini

Bonnie Mark

Mary Lou & Eugene

Peter McClure & Phoebe Blake*

Cristina Mitchell & Roger Blumberg

Frank & Elaine Mooney*

Ruth D. Otto∞‡

Pearlman Charitable Fund at the Rhode Island Foundation*

John & Jessica Pinkos*

Tullio David Pitassi PhD.*

Tracy Reilly ∞‡

Peter & Abby Ribbans*

Maxine Richman*

Thelma Rocha

Deborah Ring & Michael Simoncelli

Dale Shea

Kevin Sheahan/Sheahan Printing

Ellie Siegel & William H. Warren∞†

Raymond Sleve

Ann & Daryl Stahl†

Linda Stanich & Douglas Stephens†

Diane Strommer∞‡

Judith Swift‡

Judy & Will Taft*

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Theodore D. Wachs & Carol Czaja

Michelle L. Walker ∞

Dolores M Wilson

Margaret Wool & Vincent Mor∞†

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Worrell †

Carol J. Young

Rebecca Brenner & Dan Zussman

Contributors $100-$249

Anonymous (35)

Michael Achey & Susan Thomas

Melody Allen & Jeffrey Vale †

Janet Alling, in honor of Leon Boghossian III

Wayne Allison in memory of Jennifer Allison & Linda Barlow

Joyce T. Amato ∞‡

Roger & Inga-Lill Ashley

Robb Barnard & Douglas Still

David Beauchesne

Neil A. Berenson

Stephen Berenson & Brian McEleney

George Bertholet & Katherine Long

Rebecca Bertrand ∞‡

Danielle Bessette

Christina Bevilacqua ∞‡

Douglass Bjorn*

Lisa Roth Blackman & Charles Blackman

Debbie Block & Bill Harley*

Sophia Blum

Victor & Iona Bonneville*

Rebecca E. Book & Melissa C. Book

Bonnie Bosworth

William & Judy Braden

Jennifer Bramley

Christina & Mark Braun

Robert A. Brooks in memory of Bert Anderson

Candice Brown

Diana Buirski ‡

Sarah Bullard ∞‡

Adrianne Cady, in memory of Gloria DelPapa*

Nancy H. Cali & Brian T Lord

Lee Ann Cameron

Karen Camuso & Clark Greene

Matthew Carr

Vincent Castaldi

David Catanzaro

Tom & Jessica Chace ∞†

Betty Challgren

Kenneth Clauser

Allen Clawson & Elaine Fontaine*

Marnee Colburn, in honor of Daniel Marwil

Carole Collins

Lynette Colwell, in memory of Veronica Maher*

Linda Conlon*

Pamela S. Connell*

Megan McKinney Cooper & Doug Cooper

Katherine Coumes ∞

Diane M. Brown-Couture & Michael Couture ∞‡

Marcie Cummings & Clarkson Collins

Martha Cussler ‡

Linda Dailey

Andrea & Herb Daroff

Kirsten & Josh Davis ∞†

Vandy & Jeff Densmore

Elisa DePina

Linda T. Dewing

Charlotte Diffendale

Gail S. Di Gioia, in honor of John A. DiGioa Sr.

Beata & Joseph DiZoglio

Tyler Dobrowsky

Terry & Carole Duffy

John & Maureen Duhamel ‡

Norine Duncan

Thomas Edwards & Brittany Costello ∞

James R. Estey

Paula Faber & Vince Petronio

Elaine & Barry Fain

Falcon & Howard

Eric & Dana Falk

Carl & Grace Farmer

Barbara Feibelman & Ken Orenstein

Molly & James Ferguson

Tony & Rosemary Ferreira ∞‡

Lisa & Scott Fertik

Dwight Fisher∞*

John E. Fitzgerald

Ken & Betsy Flanagan

Dr. Suzanne Fournier †

Carol Fox, in memory of Jeremy Gravell*

David & Anneke Frazer †

Zach Gibb ∞

Richard Gibbs & Randy Harelson in memory of Coline Covington

Donald & Louise Gabor

Contributors (Continued)

Bill & Peggy Gale

Steven Hamburg & Sarah Barker

Katherine C. Haspel & Paul Silver

Arnold Herman & Sandra Gandsman

Mimi & Bob Grant

Alan Gravell, in memory of Jeremy Gravell

Bianca Gray

Marie Hennedy, in memory of John Hennedy ∞

Chris & Tonya Hoard †

Steven Horowitz

Robert & Laura Howe

Janet Innis †

Alfred Jeffries III †

Mark & Margaret Johnson

Tricia Kammerer & Erich Stephens

David Karoff

Betty Ann Kearney

Daniel Kertzner

Jim & Nancy Kidd‡

Melissa & Dave Kranowitz

Jennifer Laurelli*

Charlotte Lee

Christopher & Sarah Lee

Bob Lev

Carol Levitt

Lilly Endowment, Inc.

Peter & Deborah Lipman

Steve Maler

Suzanne & Ira Magaziner ‡

Richard & Marie Martin

John Mattson

Inez McLaughlin

Gregory McNab

Joseph M. Meisel & Felice Ramella

Peggy Melozzi & Dana Roszkiewicz ∞ *

Claire Regan Morse*

Paula & Albert Most

Jane S. Nelson*

Dr. Jennie Newkirk †

Gregg Oehler & Susan Pitt

Jane O’Farrell & Richard Sherman

Joan Overcash

Steven Pennell & Frank Toti, Jr. †

Sheila Quinn

Kathie & Stephen Raleigh

Linda Rexford

Eugene & Helen Ripa

Mimo Gordon Riley & David Riley

Steve Rodio

Walter & Pat Rok

Lynne & Carl Romano

Matthew Ryan

James Sallinger†

Kathryn M. Sasso ‡

Joanne & Robert Schacht*

Cynthia L. Shattuck

Margaret H. Scott

Casey Seymour Kim ‡

Ellie Siegel & William H. Warren ∞†

William & Susan Sikov

Bert Silverberg

Mary Chapman Speare

Wendy Spellun

Helen Spink

Martha Stearns*

Debra Stewart

Sally Strachan

Diane Stratton

Diane Strommer ∞‡

$100-$249

Steve Stycos & Christine Herbert †

Brian Sullivan

Judith Swift ‡

David Tapscott & Gail Epstein

King To

Victor Toledo *

Christine Townsend*

Peter & Frances Trafton

Donna & Jack Vanderbeck*

Bruce F. Vild

Barbara & Richard Wahlberg†

Joan Wallack & Doug Nagle

Mary P. Welch

Nancy Winokoor

Tammie & Rafal Witczak ∞*

Stephen & Maureen White

Margaret Wool & Vincent Mor ∞†

Nicholas Yarnold

Sheila Zompa

Donors who give up to $99 are listed on our website. gammtheatre.org/donorlist

If your name is missing or listed incorrectly, please call 401.723.4266 ext. 132

Donate by mail: The Gamm Theatre, 1245 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick, RI 02886 Online: gammtheatre.org/donate

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WITH ALL THIS ECONOMIC AND CREATIVE ENERGY FROM OUR WORLD-CLASS ARTS COMMUNITY, YOUR ARTS COUNCIL WILL NEVER STOP INVESTING IN THE ARTS.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

The Gamm Theatre

1245 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick, RI 02886 gammtheatre.org / info@gammtheatre.org

Box Office (401) 723-4266

Regular hours: 12pm–6pm, Mon–Fri

During show runs: 12pm–curtain, Tue–Sun

Summer and holiday hours vary. You can also order tickets at gammtheatre.org.

Administrative Offices (401) 723-4266

Hours: 10am-5pm, Mon–Fri

In case of an emergency, notify the house manager.

A courtesy phone is located at the box office window.

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VISIT OUR LOBBY GALLERY!

Rush Tickets: Subject to availability, $25 rush tickets may be purchased in person starting one hour prior to curtain at the box office. Limit two tickets per person.

Pay-what-you-wish rush tickets are available for Friday evening performances, subject to the above conditions.

Gift certificates are good for shows, season subsciptions, camps, or classes. Available at the box office or gammtheatre.org.

Groups of 10 or more attending the same performance receive a significant discount. Bring 25 friends and your ticket is free! Call (401) 723-4266, ext. 112 or email brittany@gammtheatre.org.

Ushering is a great way to see the show for free! To sign up, email volunteer@gammtheatre.org.

Snacks, wine, beer, soft drinks, and coffee are available before the show and during intermission in the lobby.

Picture taking during a performance is not permitted. Cigarette smoking is not allowed inside the building.

If you arrive late, you will be seated at the discretion of the management in consideration of our actors and other audience members.

Park at no charge in our private lot. RIPTA bus #14 stops at the theater.

Accessibility: The theater is accessible by ramp and can accommodate wheelchair and companion seating. Please notify us when you purchase tickets if you require any seating accommodations.

Photographic selections from “Sweet Dreams”

Art for sale at the box office. A portion of all sales benefits The Gamm.

Izzy Rodriguez

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