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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GIL CATES, JR.

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THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR CHASING MEM’RIES: A Different Kind of Musical. This enchanting, bittersweet exploration of coping with loss, the memories of those we’ve loved that take on a life of their own and the herculean effort of writing a new chapter, is something to which so many of us can relate. What a rich and heartfelt way to welcome back longtime Geffen family members Josh Ravetch (who co-created and directed Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking in 2006) and Tyne Daly (featured in Love, Loss, and What I Wore in 2010). We are thrilled to have legendary lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman and actors Robert Forster and Scott Kradolfer at the Geffen for the first time.

I’m also pleased to welcome Howard Tenenbaum as the new Board Chair. For the past nine years, Howard has been a passionate advocate as a member of the Geffen board and I can think of no better choice to shepherd our institution into the future.

We continue our ever-growing multimedia ventures including Geffen Playhouse Unscripted, our weekly podcast hosted by John Horn (KPCC’s The Frame), and our partnership with BroadwayHD, who will soon release a filmed version of the Geffen’s production of Thom Pain

by Will Eno and starring Rainn Wilson.

Finally, a warm welcome to Artistic Director Matt Shakman. We look forward to his leadership and vision guiding us into an exciting and innovative new phase.

Thank you for joining us today. Happy holidays from our family to yours, and enjoy the show!

Gil Cates, Jr. Executive Director

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“GRITTY... GENUINELY MOVING.” — The Hollywood Reporter

“Quietly gripping... with its bone-dry humor and vivid characters.”

— The New York Times

Written by MARTYNA MAJOK Directed by TYNE RAFAELI At once humorous and heartrending, Ironbound spans 22 years to tell the story of Darja, a Polish immigrant getting by on a cleaning job, aggressive pragmatism and sheer will. In this wry drama, award-winning playwright Martyna Majok points out that sometimes survival is the only measure of success.

ON STAGE JANUARY 30 – MARCH 4 GIL CATES THEATER AT THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

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BOARD CHAIR HOWARD TENENBAUM Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography

WELCOME TO CHASING MEM’RIES: A Different Kind of Musical in the Gil Cates Theater.

Thank you to the Edgerton Foundation for providing tremendous support of this world premiere, allowing for additional rehearsal time and making significant enhancements to the overall production. This kind of leadership makes it possible for robust play development programs season after season.

We are excited to introduce Artistic Director Matt Shakman and his ambitious artistic vision. His belief in the energy and power of new plays and his ability to cultivate relationships with talented artists is inspiring.

We can’t wait for you to meet him and we look forward to working with Matt in the years ahead.

The Geffen Playhouse is a treasure, and it is with sincere love and passion for everything that this theater offers to the Los Angeles community that I am honored to be its next Chair. I look forward to working closely with the leaders of the Geffen Playhouse, our patrons and our loyal subscribers, who provide incredible support each season and are key to its success. Again, thank you for your continued patronage.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

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IN MEMORIAM Gilbert Cates FOUNDER

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Kirsten Combs

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“Writer-performer Sarah Jones is amazing!”

Written & Peformed by SARAH JONES Directed by CAROLYN CANTOR In her new solo show, Tony Award-winning writer/performer and true chameleon comedian Sarah Jones brings to life an entire cast of characters, all of whom have something to say about gender, sex work and the time in which we are living.

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LYRICISTS MARILYN & ALAN BERGMAN

A LIFETIME OF MAKING MEM’RIES

By Amy Levinson, Chasing Mem’ries Dramaturg

ALAN AND MARILYN BERGMAN SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS on a lifelong

partnership, both personal and professional, the inspirations from which they’ve drawn and what it means to create new work.

What inspired you to develop Chasing Mem’ries and how did it evolve?

Alan Bergman: The idea of another stage project had been in the back of our minds, but we had two experiences on Broadway that were not particularly nourishing, so we weren’t in a hurry.

Marilyn Bergman: Though we were always open to the idea. If the right ingredients came together, we’d be interested. We had seen several plays that Josh Ravetch [Chasing Mem’ries playwright and director] wrote and were intrigued by his ideas and the easy elegance of his writing.

AB: …and his humor.

MB: Yes, definitely that! And he really understands 6 PLAYBILL

this art form. So we met with him and felt an instant chemistry. At our first meeting we discussed the possibility of a slightly different take on the classic American musical.

AB: The question was whether or not songs could exist in a play in a different way—songs that might live within the circumstances of the play itself. It’s hard to describe exactly.

MB: Alan and I sometimes sing songs because we hear something on the radio or a conversation evokes a certain song from our past, so we find ourselves singing and enjoying songs we love—but we never “stop and sing,” we usually continue washing the dishes. It’s just a part of our “dialogue.”

AB: In the end, this collaboration produced a play where the musical components are really extensions of the dialogue and the circumstances of the play.

How did you choose which songs to use that already existed versus new songs?

MB: The text of the play really dictated that from the beginning.

AB: We gave Josh all of our songs, which I’m told he listened to in his car for about a month.

MB: Who drives that much?

AB: It’s Los Angeles, darling. Josh came back to us with an intriguing idea that came from something in his own life, but also rang true in our lives and our friends’ lives, and even our daughter’s life. It involved— MB: Don’t give too much away.

AB: Okay, but that idea required the judicious use of some of our existing songs with mostly new songs.

The songs had to serve the play and not the other way around.

MB: Of course that delighted us. The idea of writing new songs for a new musical while including a few of our existing songs seemed to be a perfect approach to this project.

AB: So with that in mind, from the beginning, we knew it would be crucial to cast actors who sing, rather than singers who act. Chasing Mem’ries is really a stage play at its core and not the book for a musical in the classic way a musical has a book. It’s very much a play.

MB: That’s exactly right.

AB: The idea that there are songs that we had written that had become part of popular culture allowed us to justify that characters in this play could know some of our songs and that those songs could be part of their own personal history.

MB: We wrote a song called “It Might Be You” that was the theme song from the movie Tootsie.

AB: Dave Grusin composed the music.

MB: Brilliant composer. And people tell us all the time that they used that song as the first dance at their wedding.

AB: I always think to myself privately, “The song is called ‘It MIGHT Be You.’ By the time you get married, shouldn’t you already know?”

MB: That’s Alan’s little joke. But it’s an example of how a song can percolate into people’s own personal history.

You’ve been such an inspiration to so many singers and songwriters and composers, but who are some of your inspirations? And some of your favorite plays and/or musicals?

AB: Certainly Steven Sondheim.

MB: All of Steven Sondheim.

AB: And Johnny Mercer was my mentor.

MB: And Frank Loesser’s Guys and Dolls was significant, and West Side Story and Gypsy.

AB: But when you’re lucky enough to write songs for people like Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand— that’s inspiration.

Many people aren’t familiar with the process of creating a world premiere. Can you speak a bit about the process?

MB: That’s not an easy question to answer. A play must work on so many levels and the marriage of songs to a play and a collaboration with a playwright become even more complex.

AB: And there’s no source material to go back to for any guidance. You can’t see what someone else did with the material and decide what your interpretation will be. You are building something from the ground up.

MB: It’s like cooking without a cookbook. Which is, of course, the best way to cook!

AB: It’s challenging. Josh talks about how every moment in a play has to engage and transport the audience and ultimately be about ideas. Not dissimilar to how a successful song must work. So from the beginning, we knew we had much in common.

MB: And in creating a new work, it was important to figure out where the songs would exist and not replicate the ideas already living within the play.

AB: The songs had to “fly at a different altitude.”

So we met every week or so, and slowly the play emerged.

MB: During each session, something new would evolve and propel us forward to the next.

AB: One weekend we felt we were at the point where we needed an audience to hear the play, so we produced a simple workshop-reading with the same incredible cast that is opening the play here at the Geffen.

MB: When a play really works, it’s lightning-in-abottle and we knew that we had the right ingredients that afternoon and did everything possible to keep that cast together.

AB: Which we did! That rarely happens.

What do you hope the audience takes away from Chasing Mem’ries?

MB: I’ll answer that. We would like audiences to know that we’re all in this thing called life together.

Profound love and extreme loss and crippling pain and unbridled joy are all part of the experience and no matter how alone you may feel at some point, there is no alone. We’re all facing the same realities and struggles and often we face them privately.

Sorry, Alan, I didn’t mean to jump in. What would you say?

AB: I think that’s exactly right.

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THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE PRODUCTION OF

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY

Josh Ravetch LYRICS BY

Alan & Marilyn Bergman MUSIC BY

Bill Cantos & Mari Falcone, Dave Grusin, Marvin Hamlisch, Michel Legrand and Johnny Mandel SCENIC DESIGNER

Tony Fanning LIGHTING DESIGNER

Daniel Ionazzi MUSIC DIRECTOR/ORCHESTRATOR

COSTUME DESIGNER

Kate Bergh SOUND DESIGNER

Jonathan A. Burke DRAMATURG

Thomas Griep

Amy Levinson

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Jill Gold

Cate Cundiff

OPENING NIGHT WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2017 Recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award Major support for this world premiere production provided by the Edgerton Foundation New Play Production Fund EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS CIRCLE MEMBERS

Laurie & Bill Benenson • Martha Henderson • Pamela Robinson Hollander & Robert Hollander Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman • Jason & Yvonne Lee • B. Scott Minerd Linda Bernstein Rubin & Tony Rubin • Kimberly Steward & Josh Godfrey • Miranda & Brett Tollman 8 PLAYBILL

CAST Victoria .................................................................................................. Tyne Daly* Franklin ....................................................................................... Robert Forster* Mason ......................................................................................... Scott Kradolfer* *Indicates member of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

MUSICIANS Conductor / Piano ................................................................... Thomas Griep Cello ................................................................................................... Stefanie Fife Flute / Clarinet ............................................................................. Geoff Nudell TIME/SETTING The Present. Autumn in Connecticut.

RUNNING TIME Approximately 90 minutes. There will be no intermission.

PLEASE NOTE There is no photography or filming of any kind allowed in the theater.

Please turn off all electronic devices, including cell phones. Thank you!

2017/2018 SEASON SPONSOR OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 9

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES and for doing the heavy lifting. He thanks Scott Kradolfer for the many times they have shared a stage. And it comes as quite a surprise this late in the game that Robert will have his musical debut.

TYNE DALY (Victoria) Ms. Daly is the mother of three adult children: Alisabeth, Kathryne and Alyxandra, and grandmother of four: Hana, Fynn, Poppy and Posy, with another “on the way.” She has been a professional actress for more than 50 years. She has appeared in Los Angeles at Mark Taper Forum, Actor’s Theatre Los Angeles, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Matrix Theatre and Geffen Playhouse, and has been honored with the Ovation Award. Her extensive television work earned 17 nominations and six Emmy Awards (Cagney & Lacey, Christie, Judging Amy). She most recently completed The Ballad of Buster Scruggs for the Coen Brothers on Netflix.

Theatrical films include Zoot Suit, The Enforcer, Hello, My Name is Doris, Spider-Man: Homecoming and the soon to be released Basmati Blues and A Bread Factory I and II. Broadway: It Shoulda Been You (Tony Award nomination), Mothers and Sons, Master Class, Rabbit Hole (Tony Award nomination) and Gypsy (Tony Award). Hi-diddly-dee, the actor’s life for me.

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ROBERT FORSTER (Franklin) Robert’s roots in the theater date back to his Broadway debut in the 1965 twohander, Mrs. Dally Has a Lover with Arlene Francis. He has worked on and off Broadway and on tour in classics such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, The Glass Menagerie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, as well as in the Pasadena Playhouse production of In the Moonlight Eddie. (None of them musicals.) Forster has appeared in more than 100 films including Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Medium Cool (‘68), The Stalking Moon, Alligator, The Descendants, Mulholland Drive and his Academy Award-nominated role of Max Cherry in Jackie Brown. (None of them musicals.) Television series include Banyon, Twin Peaks, Last Man Standing, Heroes, Karen Sisco and Breaking Bad. (Same – no musicals.) He claims to have subjected numerous directors and producers to singing auditions—“one more disastrous than the last!”

He therefore thanks Josh Ravetch for reminding him that Rex Harrison spoke-sang his songs. He thanks Tyne Daly for her encouragement

SCOTT KRADOLFER (Mason) Scott Kradolfer is honored to be making his Geffen Playhouse debut in Chasing Mem’ries. Notable stage credits include Firefly Theater’s Unscreened series, Tom Stoppard’s On the Razzle, Amadeus, Light Sensitive, The Real Inspector Hound, One November Yankee and The Astronomer with Shirley Jones. His screen credits include House and General Hospital and the films Boost, Long Night’s Reprieve and 10:49. Often found gesticulating wildly while recording voice-overs, his best roles to date have been husband to his beautiful wife Amy and resident bedtime storyteller to their children Ella and Dutch. scottkradolfer.com.

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Conservatory in Manhattan, took over Ms. Adler’s signature script-interpretation classes which he taught before assuming the post as artistic director.

JOSH RAVETCH (Playwright/Director) Josh Ravetch is returning to the Geffen Playhouse where he co-created and directed Carrie Fisher’s one-woman show Wishful Drinking, which went on to enjoy a successful Broadway run. Ravetch also wrote and directed The Astronomer with Shirley Jones (Pasadena Playhouse); One November Yankee with Loretta Swit and Harry Hamlin; Onward: The Diana Nyad Story chronicling Nyad’s Cuba-to-Florida swim; Beacon with Robert Forster and Brooke Shields; Go Figure!, starring Olympic champion Randy Gardner with Tai Babilonia and Dorothy Hamill and a workshop production of Writer’s Cramp with Holland Taylor and Douglas Sills (Geffen Playhouse). His other plays include Periscope Up directed by Jonathan Frakes; Girders (Coast Playhouse); The Lightbulb (NoHo Arts Center) and One From the Hart, Stefanie Powers’ one-woman show (Segerstrom Center for the Arts). Ravetch directed productions of The Seagull, The Big Knife, A Prayer for my Daughter and Deathtrap.

His television credits include Joan of Arcadia, Titan for TNT, Horseshoe Bay for Warner Bros. and Yesterday for Laura Ziskin Productions. Ravetch, a graduate of the Stella Adler

ALAN & MARILYN BERGMAN (Lyricists) Legendary lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman have won three Academy Awards, four Emmy Awards and two Grammy Awards. Their songs include “The Way We Were,” “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “Papa, Can You Hear Me?,” “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?,” “Nice ‘n’ Easy,” “That Face,” “It Might Be You,” “The Summer Knows,” “Where Do You Start?” and “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?”

Their television work includes the musical Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, which was later adapted for the Broadway stage, and the theme songs for Maude, Good Times, Alice, Brooklyn Bridge and In the Heat of the Night. The Bergmans are the recipients of numerous academic honors and lifetime achievement awards, including induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and its Johnny Mercer Award, the Clooney Foundation Singers Salute to the Songwriter Award, the Songwriters Guild Aggie Award, the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award and the first Johnny Mercer Award by the Johnny Mercer Foundation. Marilyn served 15 years as President and Chairman of the Board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Alan serves on the boards of the Johnny Mercer Foundation and the Jazz Bakery and on the Executive Committee of the Music Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

TONY FANNING (Scenic Designer) Geffen Playhouse: Harriet’s Return, Switzerland, Outside Mullingar, Icebergs. Broadway: August Wilson’s Two Trains Running. National Tour: The Who’s Tommy. Regional: Guthrie Theater, South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Ahmanson Theatre and San Diego Opera.

As an Art Director for film, Tony has had the privilege of working with Steven Spielberg (Lincoln, Munich, War of the Worlds, Amistad), Robert Zemeckis (The Polar Express, What Lies Beneath), Sam Raimi (Spider-Man), Steven Soderberg (Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen), Nancy Meyers (What Women Want), Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) and Joel and Ethan Coen (Intolerable Cruelty). Film and television production design credits include: Jim Sheridan’s Brothers; Rod Lurie’s remake of Strawdogs; Jim Field Smith’s Butter; Ryan Murphy’s The New Normal; Chris Carter’s The After; Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s Better Call Saul; Andrew Fleming’s Nancy Drew, Hamlet 2 and Ideal Home; and Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here and Alex, Inc. Tony won an Emmy for his Art Direction on the pilot episode of Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing.

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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES KATE BERGH (Costume Designer) Kate is happy to be working at the Geffen Playhouse again. She designed costumes for the Geffen’s productions of Next Fall and Yes, Prime Minister. Recent credits: Hopscotch, the Mobile Opera (The Industry with Ann Closs-Farley); Daytona, Super Variety Match Bonus Round, Cock (Rogue Machine Theatre); Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Theater Planners); Twelve Angry Men, The Roger Miller Story, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (Laguna Playhouse); Tribes (Chance Theatre); Broadway Bound (Odyssey Theatre); For Piano and Harpo (Falcon Theatre); Gigi, Cabaret (Reprise Theatre—Backstage Garland Award); Prisoner of Second Avenue (El Portal Theatre); Side Show, Shrek, the Musical (3D Theatricals— Ovation Nomination); The House in Scarsdale, Creation (Theatre @ Boston Court); Amahl and the Night Visitors, Art, Sleepless in Seattle, Casa Valentina (Pasadena Playhouse—Ovation Nomination, LADCC Award). Kate works in all mediums telling stories with costumes—theater, opera, dance, film, television and commercials.

DANIEL IONAZZI (Lighting Designer) Recent designs for the Geffen Playhouse include Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy; Icebergs; Thom Pain (based on nothing); Outside Mullingar; The Night Alive; Reasons to Be Pretty; Ruth Draper’s 12 PLAYBILL

Monologues; Slowgirl; Build; Yes, Prime Minister; American Buffalo; The Jacksonian; Radiance; Red Hot Patriot and Superior Donuts. His work has also been seen at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory and Denver Center Theatre Company. His design for the New York production of The Jacksonian garnered a Lucille Lortel nomination. He designed the lighting installation for Teatro alla Moda for the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Trajectoire and Catapult for the dance company Diavolo.

His design work can also be seen in the 4-D cinematic experience Beyond all Boundaries at the National World War II Museum. Daniel is Production Manager for the Geffen Playhouse, a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Director of Production for the Department of Theater. He is the author of The Stage Management Handbook and The Stagecraft Handbook.

JONATHAN A. BURKE (Sound Designer) Jonathan is thrilled to be back at the Geffen Playhouse. Production highlights include Off Broadway: Lonesome Traveler, The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman (59E59 Theaters).

Regional: Our Town (Pasadena Playhouse); Outside Mullingar, Yes, Prime Minister, The Seafarer, You Can’t Take It With You, Cookin’ at the

Cookery, The Weir (Geffen Playhouse); Avenue X, Beast on the Moon, If We are Women, Jack and Jill and Molly Sweeney (Pittsburgh’s City Theatre Company); Return to the Forbidden Planet, My Fair Lady, Last Five Years, Hello!

My Baby, Daddy Long Legs (Rubicon Theatre Company). Sound engineer: Noah’s Flood, The Festival Play of Daniel, Jonah and the Whale (LA Opera). Resident Sound Designer at Cabrillo Music Theatre (now 5 Star Theatricals) since 2003. Academic Coordinator at UCLA’s School of Theater Film and Television and owner of JABWORKS, a theatrical sound rental, design and consulting company. jonathanburkesounddesign.com.

THOMAS GRIEP (Music Director/Orchestrator) Thomas Griep has worked in most of the major venues in Southern California, including Mamma Mia (Shubert Theatre), Big River (Mark Taper Forum), Wicked (Pantages Theatre), The Dead (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion), Wizard of Oz (Southbay), Annie Get Your Gun (Orange County Performing Arts Center) and Camelot (Hollywood Bowl). His arrangements of Henry Mancini Christmas music were performed at Walt Disney Hall. He is in demand as a pianist and has had the pleasure of playing for Amanda Seyfried, Carol Channing, Mary Tyler Moore, Joel Grey, Tommy Tune, Nathan Lane, Maureen McGovern, Rita Moreno and Olivia Newton-John. Thomas is a

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES graduate of USC and spent several years as Co-Director of its Film Scoring Program.

He has worked on several movies, including Prince of Egypt, Pocahontas and Shrek.

Visit pianotrax.com for information on his popular site for singers.

AMY LEVINSON (Dramaturg) Amy is the Artistic Associate and Literary Director at the Geffen Playhouse. Dramaturgy credits include the commissions and world premieres of Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still and Coney Island Christmas, Jane Anderson’s The Quality of Life and The Escort and Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of Wait Until Dark. Other credits include Actually, The Weir, Extraordinary Chambers, Build, Equivocation and Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress. At the Geffen, she has helped to build programs for the purpose of fostering new work including the commissioning and development of plays. She holds an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

JILL GOLD (Production Stage Manager) Jill Gold has nothing but fond memories of the Geffen Playhouse, where her career spans from Quills to last season’s The Legend of Georgia McBride and numerous Backstage at the Geffen galas. She has spent the past 33 years stage managing at such venues as the Pasadena

Playhouse, Reprise Theatre Company, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Los Angeles Theatre Center and Mark Taper Forum. Gold toured the U.S. with Les Misérables, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, City of Angels, Wicked and Not The Messiah, and Germany and Austria with Sisterella.

She teaches stage management at UCLA and Occidental College and makes memories at home with Phil, Hailey, Colleen and Kringle.

CATE CUNDIFF (Assistant Stage Manager) Cate is thrilled to be back at the Geffen! Select Los Angeles stage management credits include Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Barbecue, Stage Kiss, Murder for Two, Switzerland, Death of the Author, The Break of Noon (Geffen Playhouse); This, Venice (Center Theatre Group); Memphis (Cabrillo Music Theatre); When You’re in Love the Whole World is Jewish (Greenway Court Theatre); When You Wish (Pat Boone/Dean McClure/ Freud Theatre); ModRock (El Portal); Dissonance (Falcon/ Garry Marshall Theatre).

Cate is the Production Stage Manager for Ojai Playwrights Conference, and has worked as a stage manager, company manager and producer for various plays, workshops, festivals, award shows and events in Los Angeles and New York. A New Orleans native, Cate attended the University of Louisiana. Proud Equity member. Love to Max, family and friends.

MATT SHAKMAN (Artistic Director) Matt Shakman was named Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse in September 2017, having previously directed three highly acclaimed productions for the theater: the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of Wait Until Dark and Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews. His theatrical work has also been seen at Primary Stages in New York and South Coast Repertory. Matt founded and was the artistic director of the Black Dahlia Theatre in Los Angeles, which was named “one of a dozen young American companies you need to know” by American Theatre magazine and “Best Small Theatre” by Los Angeles magazine. Under his leadership, the Black Dahlia garnered numerous Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and LA Stage Alliance nominations and awards. In 2011, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awarded him the Milton Katselas Award for Career Achievement in Direction. Matt is also well-regarded for his achievements in television and film. He is a director and producer for GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 13

PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES FX’s long-running show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and has directed episodes of Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Fargo and The Good Wife. His feature film debut, Cut Bank, starring John Malkovich, Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Dern, premiered at the Toronto International and Los Angeles Film Festivals and was released by A24. Shakman is a graduate of Yale University and holds a B.A. in History of Art and Theater.

GIL CATES, JR. (Executive Director) As Executive Director, Gil Cates, Jr. leads the Geffen Playhouse in its mission to inform, entertain and inspire diverse audiences with live theater of the highest caliber — both within and beyond the non-profit theater’s walls. He has proudly served on the Geffen Playhouse Board since 2012.

Gil’s theater credits include the award-winning Names (Matrix Theatre Company) starring Dixie Carter and Greg Mullavey and Three Sisters and David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre (both at Syracuse Stage). Gil’s film credits include The Surface (starring Sean Astin and Geffen Playhouse alumnus 14 PLAYBILL

Chris Mulkey), Jobs (starring Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, as well as Geffen Playhouse alumni Matthew Modine and Ron Eldard) and the 2011 feature film Lucky (starring Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor).

In addition, Gil produced and directed the critically acclaimed Life After Tomorrow, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, which premiered on Showtime. His other films include Deal (starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning), and The Mesmerist (starring Geffen Playhouse alumnus Neil Patrick Harris). Gil’s television directorial debut was an episode of the NBC comedy Joey, starring Emmy winner Matt LeBlanc. He studied at the National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, and holds a B.F.A. in Drama from Syracuse University.

REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer) Regina Miller has advised non-profit institutions, foundations and corporations on strategy, analysis and fundraising. She has consulted for the National Center for Missing and Exploited

Children, Eastern Congo Initiative, Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project and Kershaw’s Challenge, among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina worked for the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance, where she produced an innovative human rights exhibition that traveled to 14 international destinations around Europe, Asia and the U.S. She also served as the Director of Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, where she led strategic planning and development while executing policies that advanced the organization’s visibility and growth. Additionally, Regina has a strong passion for teaching. After graduating from University of North Carolina School of the Arts, she taught in preschools and kindergartens in New York. From the age of 13, Regina worked as a professional dancer on Broadway as well as with a number of prominent modern dance ensembles. Fusing two of her interests, she created a highly successful program that incorporated dance therapy and creative movement into an early childhood curriculum as well as writing and producing a television show based on this concept. In addition to being a published author and photographer with Tallfellow Press and Prometheus Books, Regina has taught and lectured at numerous schools in New York, Los Angeles and abroad.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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PRODUCTION STAFF FOR CHASING MEM’RIES Dance Consultant Kiril Kulish Assistant Scenic Designer Yuki Izumihara Audio Technician Ilana Elroi Properties Artisan Cami Viand Properties Artisan Hazel Kuang Production Assistant Lizzie Thompson Production Consultant Kathryne Dora Brown Stage Crew Alex Norkus

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Set provided by F&D Scene Changes Ltd. Lighting Equipment provided by 4Wall Entertainment Lighting Sound Equipment provided by Jon Sound Inc. Production Photographer Chris Whitaker Media Filming Ramon Garcia Key Art Fraver SPECIAL THANKS UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Scene, Prop, Sound and Costume Shops; London Cleaners; Cassandra Barbour; Julie Bergman; Laura Danly; Barbara Duran; Marsha Ivins; Pat Nanarello; Adam Simmons; Tierney Sutton

UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION Geffen Playhouse is affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles, specifically the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Geffen Playhouse values its role as an important educational resource by providing students with master classes, workshops and internships. Students are also able to work and learn from distinguished visiting Geffen artists such as Alan Ayckbourn, Jon Robin Baitz, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, David Ives, Neil LaBute, David Mamet, Donald Margulies, Terrence McNally, John Rando and Kathleen Turner in areas of directing, playwriting, acting, design, dramaturgy, management and production. Geffen Playhouse also draws upon the distinguished experts in the university to enhance the theater’s programs and research.

This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States This theater operates under agreement between the League of Resident Theaters and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

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The cast of the 2016/2017 season production of The Legend of Georgia McBride. Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography.

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ARTISTIC CIRCLE $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous (2) Aegon Transamerica Foundation Robert C. Baral Laurie & Bill Benenson Valarie De La Garza & Michael Centeno City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Classic Party Rentals Dwight Stuart Youth Fund The Edward A. & Ai O. Shay Family Foundation Carol & Paul Frimmer Mellody Hobson & George Lucas The Lear Family Foundation Los Angeles County Arts Commission Los Angeles magazine George Lucas Family Foundation Marcia Israel Foundation, Inc. Sandra E. Milken Napa Valley Grille Popland Studios Holly Rice & Vince Gilligan Daryl & Steven Roth Samsung Electronics America Judith & Bruce Stern STK Los Angeles Shel & Cynthia Stone

PRODUCER $10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (2) Ariel Investments Beth Behrs & Michael Gladis The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Charles A. Black, Jr. Board of Supervisors County of Los Angeles Eileen & Harold Brown Roma Downey & Mark Burnett California Arts Council The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Marcy Carsey Stephanie & Jonathan Carson Janice & Billy Crystal Carole Bayer Sager & Robert A. Daly Edward Avedis Dr. & Mrs. Paul Eisenberg Eric Flamholtz & Yvonne Randle Susan & Mark Fleischer Susan Fleishman The Friedman Group Gagosian Gallery, Inc Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Inc. 18 PLAYBILL

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DIRECTOR $5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Page & Lou Adler Jehan F. Agrama & Dwora Fried Karla & Bill Ahmanson, Ahmanson Foundation Paul G. Allen Amgen Foundation Hilary & Jack Angelo Cathy & Shel Bachrach Hilaria & Alec Baldwin Pamela & Dennis Beck Leslie & Roger Birnbaum Bliss Spa Annette Blum Mara & Jonathan Blum Heather Thomas & Skip Brittenham The Eli & Edythe L. Broad Foundation Brotman Foundation of California Amanda Brown & Justin Chang Glenn & Lynn Cardoso Dr. Fanya Carter, PhD Beate & Christopher Chee Comcast | NBC Universal Ellyce R. Cooper & Barry Cohen Creative Artists Agency

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Constellations cast members Ginnifer Goodwin and Allen Leech at Opening Night Photo by Jordan Strauss

ANNUAL DONORS Wendy Kurtzman Susan & Yair Landau Drs. Gerald & Barbara Levey Lucques Catering Sherry Martin Jill Mazursky Merle & Jerry Measer Hillary & Lance Milken Kate Moran & Mikki Rosenberg Rio & Frank Morse Newmeyer & Dillion LLP Benedicta & Geoffry Oblath Liza & Conan O’Brien Michelle & Guy Oseary Carol & Bill Ouchi Shana & Don Passman Pottash/Ferguson Family Foundation Nina & Mitchell Quaranta Kay & Bob Rehme Joyce Rey The Richenthal Foundation Mayor Richard Riordan Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer Ronen Levy Events Nadine & Fred Rosen Rikki Rosen Thomas L. Safran Dr. Bernard & Gloria Salick Dawn & Joel Scherer Jody & Arthur Schmid The Michael Schwab Family Steve & Paula Mae Schwartz Tina & David Segel Jane & Terry Semel Michael & Glenda Shaw Sidley Austin LLP The Simon-Strauss Foundation Singer Family Foundation Gussie Sitkin Claudia Falkenburg & Andrew Solt Lorraine Spurge & Patrick Mitchell Arnold Stiefel Rose Tarlow Lauren & Benedikt Taschen Thomas Safran & Associates Karen & William Timberlake Theatre Communications Group Karen Zoller, MD & David Tillman, MD The Travel Corporation The Tuck Room & Tavern Alice & Norman Tulchin Denise & Peter Walsh Warner Bros. Entertainment Aurora & Marc Weinstock 20 PLAYBILL

West LA Poker Lynn & Mark Williams Samantha & John Williams Rita Wilson & Tom Hanks Karen & Rick Wolfen Jennifer Young & Katrina Nason In Loving Memory of Herman Ziegler Ruth & Stan Zicklin Ziffren Brittenham LLP Tami & Marc Zussman

SPONSOR $3,000 – $4,999 Janis Adams & John Lyons Aversa Foundation Belmond La Samanna Annette Bening & Warren Beatty Madelyn Bennett & Eric Gibson Paula & Bruce Bennett Shelly & Libby Bergen Susan J. Booth & Christopher Wadden VJ Boyd Robert Brook & Jacqueline Kosecoff Scott, Susan & Joshua Corwin Shelley Wike Cranley Gayle & Dan Devin Sonia & Robert Freedman and Family The Galin Family Marion Goldenfeld Madeline Gussman Stephen Sass & Steven Hochstadt Dora & Neil Kadisha Barbara & Ronnie Kahn Deborah & Ivan Kallick Lenny & David Kelton Thea & Neal Koss La Valencia Renee & Meyer Luskin Vicki Magasinn & Robert Somer Stewart Mayeda Sheila & Joel Mendelsohn Liza & Conan O’Brien Cheryl Petersen & Roger Lustberg Craig E. Rogers Sue Rosenwasser Lori & David Rousso Paula & Allan Rudnick Judy & Mike Sapir Carol ‘Jackie’ & Charles Schwartz Leigh Silverton Allen Blue & Kira Snyder Jennifer von Schneidau

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PARTNER $1,500 - $2,999 Anonymous (4) Pat & Sandy Adams Miriam Aguiar Olga S. Alderson Debbie Allen AMC Nancy & Peter Antoniou Bonnie & Bill Apfelbaum Irene Baron Robert E. & Maria H. Barron Richard Bautzer & David McDowell Patricia & Mark Benjamin Dr. Wallace P. Brithinee Marla Campagna Chancellor Albert Carnesale & Mrs. Robin Carnesale William & Patricia Chin Darcy Christal Laurel & Aaron Clark Linda & John Coleman David Conney, M.D. Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Ted Cordes Janine Cristiano Pam Dawber Dana Delany Danny DeVito & Rhea Perlman Janie Docter Susan & Jonathan Dolgen Anne Dougherty Victoria Dummer Natalie Eshaya Carol & J.B. Esterkin Judy & Mike Fantasia Lisa Field, Field Family Foundation Carrie Frazier G2 Graphic Service, Inc. Helen & Arthur Geoffrion Tina & Michael Gittelson Helene Gordon Sunny & Alvin Grossblatt Michael Grunwald The Guerin Foundation Vera & Paul Guerin Melissa Harman Bucky Hazan, Teles Properties Alan & Michelle Heilpern Faith & Mel Henkin Dr. John D. Hofbauer & Dr. Laura E. Fox In Honor of Development Roger & Linda Howard Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob Brian Irving & Dayna Cussler Nancy & Len Jacoby

ANNUAL DONORS Carrie Johnson Willette & Manny Klausner Kent Klavens & Judy Vourlas Katherine Kleindienst Tatiana & Howard Lipson Mary & John Lithgow Lotte New York Palace Eduardo Martinez Janis B. McEldowney Sue McHugh & Herb Seese Philip & Joan Miller Patrice & James Mitchell Patricia Mitchell The New York Palace Michael Nicklin Debbie & Norman Nixon Suzanne & Richard Norton Deborah & Stacey Olliff Michael R. Oppenheim Carol & Alan Ostroff Soundis & Danny Passman Tara & Robert Pietri Herbert & Marilyn Piken Ruth Popkin Lee Ramer Joyce & Harvey Reichard In Memory of Frances Richman Lindy Robbins Sonny & Cynthia Rodriguez Rose Brand Nancy Stephens & Rick Rosenthal and The Rosenthal Family Foundation Wil Rosser Hon. Nicole A. Avant & Ted Sarandos Susan Schwarz Berton Dean Teri Schwartz Sempra Engergy Foundation Peggy & Robert Shapiro Dominique Shelton Robert Siew & William Mark Hafeman Snyder Family Foundation Bruce & Patti Springsteen Susan & Donald Starr Mitch & Sherry Stein Meghan Strange Tanino Ristorante Audri & Stan Tendler Paul Tetreault Daniel Tongbai Sue Tsao Jane & Theodore Valentine Deborah Walsh Gelena & Seth Weissman Connie & John Weston Cherie Wrigley Elena & Drew Zager Barbara & Stanley Zax Marcie & Howard Zelikow Leslie & Robert Zemeckis Ellen & Arnold Zetcher

EDUCATION ADVOCATE $1,000 - $1,499 Anonymous (2) AnonyMoose Foundation Eva Aaronson Harry & Gay Abrams/Abrams Artists Agency Dr. Richard Ackerman & Miriam Shakter Laura & Harvey Alpert Charitable Foundation Patti & Harlan Amstutz Bonnie R. Arnold Margaret Campbell Arvey AudioQuest Russ, August & Kabat Richard & Shelley Bayer Jerry Beckman Sigrid & Alan Belinkoff Karen Bell & Robb Cox The Belles Family Susan & Eric M. Bender Joanna & Miles Benickes Wendy & John Bergquist Diane & Jim Berliner John Bjorge & Mary McKelvey Joe Blackstone & Jamie Mohn The Bordy & Leibovic Families Brenda & Alan Borstein Helen Breitwieser & James Jacks Wendy & David Brotman Linda & Jerry Bruckheimer Peg Casey David, Christine & Leah Cates Jane Cates Elena & Jonathan Cates & Family Melissa Cates, Roger Claman & Family Steven Cerasale & Mary Katherine Cocharo Martha Chase Sachiko T. Cochran M.D. & Joseph T. Araki In Recognition of Carl & Barbara Cohen Ruth Daugherty Phil Davis Suzanne Deal Booth & David Booth Deluscious Cookies Carolyn Dirks/Brett Dougherty Steven Doren Jan & Thea Drayer Ed & Barbara Dreyfus Dr. & Mrs. William M Duxler In Honor of Education & Community Engagement Colleen M. Ellis Terri & David Elston Carl & Courtenay Enright Lynne & Michael Feldman Susanna Felleman & Erik Feig Sydney M. Finegold, M.D.

HIGH SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM Bring the transformative power of live theater to youth across Los Angeles and open their eyes to a whole new world of artistic experiences, diverse perspectives and possibilities in life beyond their own communities.

Students participate in a Talk Back with the cast of The Legend of Georgia McBride Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography

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ANNUAL DONORS Joan & Charles Fox Sterling Franklin Steve Freedman Ben & Susan Friedman Jeanne & Arnold Geffner Diane & Bruce Gewertz The Gibbs Family Cherna & Dr. Gary Gitnick Charlotte Gold Dr. Irene Goldenberg Louis & Linda Goldsman Roz & Abner Goldstine Ellie Goodman Adrienne Grant & Paul Jennings Jack Grossbart & Marc Schwartz Deidre Hall Kay Harrington Salli Harris Michael Parks & Judith Hayward Murray & Gail Heltzer Zvia Hempling Lynda & Neal Hersh Hella Hershon Rand Hoffman & Charlotte Robinson Tamara Horwich & Gerry Lipshutz Toni Hoyt Victoria Jackson Linda Janger Judith & Steaven Jones Joseph B. Gould Foundation Linda & David Kagel Joyce & Don Kaiserman Trudy & Albert Kallis Jo Ann & Charles Kaplan Marcy Kaplan & Eric Gold Karney Guren Family Foundation In Honor of Judi Kaufman Ellie Kitta & Ron Goldie Barbara & Stuart Klabin Leslie & Norman Koplof Jeffrey Kramer Carol Krause Lena & Mark Labowe Deborah Lacusta & Daniel Castellaneta Helene Laub Joyce Lederer Steven & Nancy Lippman Elisabeth & Jeffrey Lipsman Judith Locke Karen & Peter Locke Karen & Frederick Lorig The Jennifer and Greg Malins Foundation Eric G.C. Mark The Miles Family Barbara & Fred Miller Cookie Miller Andrew & Laura Mintzer Joanne & Joel Mogy 22 PLAYBILL

In Loving Memory of Harvey S. Morse Lon Morse & Toni Hollander Morse Carol & Jerry Muchin Joan & Fred Nicholas Albert & Barbara Nichols Olympus Theatricals Ornest Family Foundation Gia Paladino & Michael Wise Philip & Leslie Paton Amanda Crick & Glenn Pfeffer Alex Phillips Craig Piligian Jane Rascoff Richard Rasiej & Joan Herman Rabbi Steven & Didi Carr Reuben Sandra C Ribble Donald B. & Susan F. Rice Esther & Howard Richmond Judi & Tim Ritchie Beth Roberts & Warren Smith Dolores Rogers Brad & Nancy Rosenberg David A. & Karen Richards Sachs Mark San Filippo Nancy & Ted Sanborn Jay Sandrich Gerald Sauer Toni & John Schulman David Schwartz Foundation, John S. Schwartz Dan & Cynthia Schwartz John Schwartz Carole Server & Oliver Frankel John & Lori Shaw Phyllis & Martin Shephard Doris & Michael Sherman Holly & Larry Shulman Rita & Jose Sigal Robin & Robert Sills Ron Silverman & Soraya Ross Joan & Jerry Snyder Drs. Matthew & Marion Solomon The Somaini Family Jordan Strauss Photography Barbra Streisand & James Brolin David & Katherine Stritzinger Eric Strom & Eileen Goodis Aaron Stroud Sugarfina The Tatasciore Family Anne C. Taubman & David Boyle John Teeples & Nicolas Martinez, Jr. Nancy Thomas Marjorie Thomson Triada Palm Springs Dr. Gerald D. Turbow John Turmes Catherine & Leonard Unger Leon & Stephanie Vahn

Daniel & Shauna Valenzuela Susan & Peter Van Haften Kathryn & Alan Van Vliet Alison Whalen & Steve Marenberg Julie & Peter Weil Marcia Williams & Gene Lucero Judith & Philip Winik Anna & Stephen Yallourakis Patricia Youngman Bobbi & Walter Zifkin Zoetic Travel

ARTISTIC ADVOCATE $500 - $999 Anonymous (2) Ross & Lindsey Avner Jeanne Bailey Linda Barnett Irene Baron Teddi Berger & Lionel Sanders Yvette Bergeron & Dean Bailey Diane & Richard Birnholz Black Market Gelato Larry & Julie Blivas In Honor of Phyllis Blivas Pamela & Bill Bohnert Michael J. Bordy Paula Brand Janet & Mark Brown Laura D. Campbell Andrew Carlberg Scott Carter & Bebe Johnson Lee & Shelby Chaden Cindy Clark Ginger Conrad Phil Johnston & Jill Cordes Norman & Nancy Cravens Culver Hotel In Loving Memory of Ed Cypert Daryl & Paul F. Doucette Roni & Ethan Eller David & Joyce Evans Elizabeth A. Evans Marjorie & Arthur Fine The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Fund Myrna Forest Judith R. Forman & Richard N. Weiner Gwen & Jacob Friend Lois & Jerry Gallop Sharlene & Sol Galper The Gewecke Family Benita & Bert Ginsberg Linda & Louis Goldsman Marcy Goldstein Lori & Robert Goodman Gabi & Rob Greenberg Marcy & Edgar Gross Carolyn & Bernie Hamilton Sheila & Chester Hasday Dr. Jacqueline Heller

Noreen & Doug Herzog Carol Ann & Rick Hess Jim Hliboki & Hildi Snodgrass Dorothy Hoffman Kelley M. Hogan Brett Johnson Robert Jones Avi Kamienny Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Kamine Christine Kaplan Dean Kauffman & Carlos Andres Mosquera-Tangarife Patricia Keating Beverlee Bickmore & James Kelly Leana Kleinman & Jerald Johnson Marlene & Donald Kottler Tam & David Lachoff Joan & Christopher Larkin Marla E. Levine Betsy Levy Brenda & Warren Lincoln Neil L. & Ora D. Macfarlane Marcus Mancini George Manet Mr. & Mrs. Phillips H. Marshall David Israeli & Dr. Marie Mazzone Kathy & Jim McCaffery Patrick McDivitt Julia McIlvaine Sue & Monty Mohrman Paula Moseley, EdD Robert & Anita Nitta Shelby Notkin Justin Okin Carol Parry & John Fox Barbara & Gary Pasquinelli Barbara & Peter Patman Pier South Drs. Laurence & Isabell Purdy Gary & Gail Rachelefsky David Rambo & Ted Heyck Sandra Rapke Mildred Reid Carl Reiner Simon Renshaw Carrie & Ken Richman Linda & Manny Rider Eden & Steven Romick Ronda & Fred Rose Kathleen & Dale Rosenbloom Allison Rosenthal Joyce & Dean Ross Blanche & Bruce Joel Rubin Anne Sacks Ajay Sahgal Janet Salter, In Memory of Hon. Maxwell Salter Tawny & Jerry Sanders Nancy & Steven Schneider Jane & Bill Schopf Susan & Peter Schwab

ANNUAL DONORS Melinda & Yossi Sidikaro Carol & Arthur Silbergeld Manish Singh Martin & Leah Sklar Dr. Jerry & Marci Smith Trudy Sokol Arthur Stern Mr. & Mrs. David Tann Meg Thomas W Hotel West Beverly Hills Ira & Laurie Waldman Bill & Kate Walsh Marcia & Dr. Charles Wasserman Jay Weinstein & Lori Woldar David Weiss Pat West Paul Whitman Bruce Whizin Bruce & Marci Wiseman Wright Maritime Group Karen & Frank Wurtzel The Yarkins Kimberly & Andrew Zakanych Crystal Zehetner & Julia Ramadan Anthony P. Zinge

ASSOCIATE $250 - $499 Anonymous (12) Nancy & Emanuel Abrams Norman & Toshka Abrams Terry & Richard Abrams Barbara Adams Elaine & Michael Agran Geraldine & Harold Alden Charles & Annick Allen Sylvia Almstadt Merryl & David A. Alpert Jan & David Altemus Robert C. Anderson Philip Angerhofer & Stephen A. Jones Eloise & Mark Appel Jc & Jack Appelbaum Barbara & Ethan Aronoff Marc & Elizabeth Axelrod Lynne Babbitt Cecilia Ball Elizabeth & Barry Bar-El Janet & Irwin Barnet Randy Bayard Judith & Thomas Beckmen Dawn & Marshall Bein Dr. Timothy Belavich & Bernie Knobbe Patricia Belcher JoAnn Bernard Karen Berko-Gibson Barbara Berkowitz Marsha C. Berkowitz Edward Blume Virginia Bohrer Toby Bornstein

Nina & Hon. Anthony Borwick Carol J. Bradshaw Mona Brandler Armida Brashears Arlene Braun Leah Lynn Broidy Lionel Brown Mitchell Brown Diana Buckhantz David & Kathy Burke Marcia Burnam Marlene & David Capell Anthony Carbone Phil Carlin Miss Irene Castaldo Ling Chan Richard Pezner & Sandra Chan Barry Charles Diane Chernansky Becky & Mike Clements Anselm Clinard Lionel Conway Gail Cottingham Susan Georgine Craig Valerie & Donald Cravitz Shawn Cunningham Ingrid Curtiss, MD Beverly D’Angelo Col. Tony, Donna & Taylor Daniell Hedva & Dr. Dudley Danoff Jeffrey S. Davidson Elizabeth De Oliveira & Moacyr Da Silva Hal & Roberta Delevie Brian Demsey Robert Ditullio Carol Jean Doehring Sandy & Gerry Dorfman Linda Dozier The Milton L. & Betty J. Dranow Family Foundation Jacki & Murray Drechsler Chris Easley Michael East & Tanisha Gonzalez Susan & John Ebey Barry & Mona Shafer-Edwards Ronald Eng Lidia & Mauricio Epelbaum Jim Esserman Rena Falk The Farwell Family Lisa Feintech, M.D. Abby & Malcolm Field Donnovan Field Lisa & William Finkelstein Donna Finley William & Elisabeth Fleischman Lynne & Michael Flynn Myrna ‘Pepper’ Forest Deveen Fox Dolores Franco Fran Fredella & Scott Rubin Sandy & Donald French Elaine Friedman

VETERANS WRITING AND PERFORMANCE PROJECT Give veterans the opportunity to write and perform their own work on the Gil Cates Theater stage, creating a vibrant, one-of-a-kind performance of resilience, empowerment and live storytelling.

Veterans take a final bow after performing their original monologues Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography

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ANNUAL DONORS Kenneth J. Friedman & Marilynn J. Friedman Family Foundation Lynn & Barry Friesen Catherine Froloff Laurelle Frome & Brady Frome Gina Furth Wendy Furth Lee Gardenswartz Russell Gersten Linda & Tom Givvin Jill Glasband Dr. Diane & Michael Glazer Richard & Lori Glucksman Hannah Godwin Michael Golamco Carol & Neil Goldberg Lorain Goldberg Mark & Molly Goldberg Francine Golden & Marvin Schlossman Dr. Peter Goldman Liz Gottainer & David Sadkin Gigi & Don Grant Russell Grant Debbie & Glenn Gray Madelyne Green Paul & Louise Greenberg David Greenwalt Penny Grosz-Salomon & Eugene Korney Eve Haberfield & David N. Johnson Roberta L. Haft Hanif Haji Mary & Alan Halkett Jane Hall Roberta Hamilton Tess Harper Judy L. Hartley Hanna Heiting Michael & Candie Herman Hernand Family Winifred C. Hervey Penny Hildebrand In Memory of Ross Hunter & Jacque Mapes Robert & Gail Israel Brenda Izzi Frederic A. & Nancy Jacobus Janice Jerde Martha Jones & Paul Zerella Robert Jones & Julie Anne Robinson Jerry Joseph Adriana Kahane Joanne & Larry Kahn Jessica Kaltman Linda Kaplan Eran & Raquel Karoly Susie Kater & Tom Chappell Donald Kates Harris Katleman Family Owen Kato Dana Katz Morgan Kay Michael Keir 24 PLAYBILL

William & Renee Kendall Louanne Kennedy Cathy Kirkpatrick Irwin Kishner Donna & Jeffrey Klein Dr. Phyllis Klein Laurie & Milton Klorman Dolph Kornblum & Florence Robins Charles Kristenson Kimberly & John Kruse Jill & Michael Lasky Ana Launes Susan Lava Sharon & Lawrence Lavenberg Rhonda Lawrence Learning Encounters Ginger Leibovitz Ann Leland Adam Lesh Maxine & Gary Levine Anita & Burton Levinson Dr. & Mrs. Isaac Levy Lawrin & Linda Lewin Angela Light Victor & Madeline Lindenheim Joanne Lindsay Bonnie Lisle Leslie & Adam Lobel Alex Loewenthal Lori & Tom Low Anne L. Lynch Dr. Linda Maeder Marcus Mancini Carol & Doug Mancino Pauline Marks Annette Marmalefsky Goran Marnfeldt Phyllis & Bert Massing Douglas Mcavoy, Jr. Jeanne McDonald-Powers & Travis Powers Cynthia Melville Sumitra Menon R.G. Mercer Eileen & Paul Meshekow Erik & Melanie Messerschmidt Cathleen Meyers Lori Meyers & James Marano Sara Michrowski Judith & Jeff Milman Teddie J. Milner Barrett Moore Christy & Leon Moore Marvin & Jean Moore Shelagh Moriarty John Moschitta Jonathan Murray Charlotte C. Myers Jason Neidleman Robert M. Nelson Sherri & Arnie Nelson Tom Nevermann Charna & Allen Nissenson Doreen & Donald Nortman Lawrence Ross & Linda Nussbaum

Doron Ofir Sandy & Alan Olick Adrienne & Arthur Omansky Dr. Ronald & Iris Onkin Janie Orenstein Sylvia & Robert Paris Edward Parker Paul Pepperman Naidu & Jane Permaul Susan Petelik Fran & Bruce Peters Berta & Lou Pitt Jack & Jane Pollock Zazi Pope Susan Poulson Lance Powell Philip Pritchett Neil & Lisa Greer Quateman Fred & Rebecca Raskin Michael & Gloria Rausch Andy Relis Marianne Reynolds Linda & Erin Rice Elaine Richards Mara Richards In Memory of Robert J. Richards William & Polly Ridgeway Alan Robinson Barbara & David Rognlien Janis & Avi Rojany Robert Rosania Barry Rosen & Neil Bokal Mary Ann Rosenfeld & Sheldon Kadish Priscilla Rosenfeld Adrienne B. Rosenthal Beverly & Melvin Rosenthal Dr. Martin & Lorraine Ross Virginia Ross Michael, Michon & Jackson Roth Terry Ryan Leslie & Daniel Sackheim Lori Sanchez Nan Sarno Susan & Kenneth Sarno Janet Sasson Maxine Savitz Linda & Cliff Schaffer Joel & Sonia Schneider Gary & Karen Schneider Stanley Schneider Christine Schultz Janet & Michael Schwartz Lester Schwartz John H. Scott Marc Seltzer Scott Shagrin Elise Shanfeld Barbara Vickery & Martin Shapiro Leonard & Annette Shapiro

Judy & Tom Sharp Melanie Sharp & Kevin Miller Shelly & Greg Sherwin Netta & Uri Shohet Lisa Siegel Seymour & Dorothy Siegel Linda & Ronald Slates Diane Good & Frank Smith Barbara & Hal Smith Marcia L. & Mark J. Smith Jean Smith-Moore Karen Smits Christine Sorgi Dr. Robert & Margo Sorrentino Stephanie Sourapas Bruce Spector Debra Spector M Leslie Stearns Christy Stevens Frances & Sy Strasberg Penny Strowger Alec Sulkin Mr. Kayser Sume & Dr. Renee Sabshin Miriam & Gene Summ Ann Sunderland Lance & Maureen Tan Phyllis & Franklin Tell Cathy Thomas Cathy & Asher Thompson Courtney & Jay Tobin Judy & Art Tompkins Joyce & Josh Trabulus Miriam Trogdon Brigitta Troy Richard Turner Dr. Harold Urman Deborah Valdez Lorraine & Erich Van Lowe Anthony Vasek Bobette Vikan Carole Wagner-Vallianos & Peter Vallianos Ann W. Wang Marvin Wasserman Elisa Wayne Myrna & Art Weiner Sherry Weinman & Michael Umansky Ben & Rose Weinstein Marsha & Steven Weiss Jacqueline Weitz Rae Jeane Williams Karen & Gary Winnick Susan Wolford Jan & Edward Woods Joseph Wu Arnold & Tricia Zane Harriet Zaretsky Lynn & Meir Ziv Sandy Zwirn

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ARTISTIC Amy Levinson Artistic Associate / Literary Director Phyllis Schuringa Artistic Associate / Casting Director Young Ji Artistic Coordinator / Company Manager Rachel Wiegardt-Egel Literary Associate

PRODUCTION Daniel Ionazzi Production Manager Jill Barnes Associate Production Manager / Company Manager Sam Craven-Griffiths Technical Director Evan Friedman Associate Technical Director Rich Gilles Properties Master James Grabowski House Sound Supervisor Darren Rezowalli Lighting & Video Supervisor Ramine Ameli Assistant Lighting Supervisor Liz Rose Wardrobe Supervisor

ADMINISTRATION Behnaz Ataee Chief Financial Officer Peter Banachowski Staff Accountant Kisha Wilson Payroll Specialist & Staff Accountant Clay Dzygun Office Coordinator Marguerite Harris Receptionist

DEVELOPMENT Regina Miller Chief Development Officer Ellen Catania Senior Vice President of Development Jessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations Jamie Mikelich Director of Individual Giving & Spotlight Manager

Mark San Filippo Associate Director of Planned Giving & Donor Relations Scott Kriloff Development Concierge & Database Manager Taylor Cerny Development Associate Jessie Sherman Development Assistant Taylor Dearden Development Assistant Annika Patton Development Intern

EDUCATION Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community Engagement Carolyn Marie Wright Manager of Education & Community Engagement Brandon Drea Education Assistant Brian Allman, Darien Battle, Ramy El-Etreby, David Guerra, McKenna Kerrigan, Robert Paterno, Carissa Pinckney, Celia Rivera, Tecoyia Scott Littleton Teaching Artists

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Jessica Buzzard Director of Marketing & Communications Karen Gutierrez Director of Advertising & Audience Development Brian Dunning Director of Content & Creative Ashley Bodul Director of Public Relations Zack Hamra Associate Director of Audience Services & Ticketing Kevin O’Brien Marketing Manager Quinn Francis Outreach Coordinator Ramon Garcia Video Producer Kristina Leach Social Media Associate Janice Bernal Box Office Manager

Bryan Martin Box Office Manager Alyssa Tyson Assistant Box Office Manager Clifton Adams, Vaneh Assadourian, Britney Campbell, Mia Karr, Lexy McAvinchey, Sam Peurach, Cameron Reck, Celia Rivera Box Office Staff Sue Fleishman Communications Consultant

FRONT OF HOUSE Jeni Pearsons Director of Special Events David Gerhardt Supervising House Manager Amy Farkas Lead Concierge Isaac Jay, Sarah Lyddan, Nathaniel Meek, James Porter, Dennis Woullard House Managers Claudia Baffo, Kailey Bray, Jensen Chambers, Vianney Cossyleon, Evan Davis, Kelsey Gold, Danie Hakimi, Fiona Leahy, Hunter Lowden, Olivia Lowe, Austin Merrill, Aaron Newman, JoJo Nwoko, Alec Shamas, Madison Shamoun, Charmee Taylor, Adam Turney, Isaac Vaughn, Jenna Wilcox, Cody Williams Ushers Rob Mersola Bar Manager & Mixologist Manuel Mayorga Weekend Bar Manager Skylar Adams, Adam Carr, Brenda Davidson, Sarah Drescher, Ryan Turner Bartenders/Event Staff

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Karim Bouzzit System Administrator

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Miguel del Castillo Facility Manager Mario Santillan-Perez Custodial Juan Carlos UmaĂąa Cleaning Custodial Camerina Martinez Cleaning Custodial

Geffen Playhouse is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

This project was also funded in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.

Geffen Playhouse, a not-for-profit theater company, is proudly affiliated with the University of California at Los Angeles.

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