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The opening of this extraordinary building â€” the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center â€” represents a milestone in our 45-year history and a dream fulfilled. Named by generous benefactors of George Street Playhouse, the Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater and the Arthur Laurents Theater offer patrons and artists beautiful spaces in which to create live theater and entertain generations of audiences. George Street Playhouse is honored to be a Founding Resident Company of the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, and we graciously thank all our patrons for their generous ongoing support. We look forward to meeting you at the theater!

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Board of Trustees Chairman: James N. Heston* President: Penelope Lattimer, Ph.D.* Vice President: Mark McMahon* Treasurer: Ronald Bleich* Secretary: Sharon Karmazin* Paul G. Alexander, MD, MPH David Fasanella Kenneth M. Fisher Lucy Hughes Adele T. Macula, Ed.D. Norman Politziner Kelly Ryman*

David Saint* W. Burton Salisbury III Jocelyn Schwartzman Nonny Stahlin Janice Stolar Lora Tremayne Alan W. Voorhees

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Honorary Memoriam Maurice Aaron∆ Dr. Edward Bloustein∆ Robert L. Bramson∆∆ Dora Center∆∆ Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.∆ Milton Goldman∆ John Hila

Arthur Laurents∆ Richard Sellars∆ Barbara Voorhees∆∆ Edward K. Zuckerman∆ Adelaide M. Zagoren ∆∆ – Denotes Trustee Emeritus ∆ – Denotes Honorary Trustee

The Arthur Laurents Theater The intimate Arthur Laurents Theater, featuring 252 seats and all the amenities for producing riveting new dramas and hilarious new comedies, is named for longtime friend of George Street Playhouse, awardwinning playwright and author Arthur Laurents. “Arthur always said George Street Playhouse was his favorite theater,” our Artistic Director David Saint remarked. “It is fitting that this brilliant artist, who contributed profoundly to the theater and film canons, will be honored in this way. “ “Arthur was a true friend, and it means so much to this community that his name will be etched into this extraordinary performing arts center that George Street Playhouse calls home.” Arthur Laurents is well-known as the acclaimed writer of the books for musicals such as Gypsy and West Side Story, and the screenplays The Way We Were and The Turning Point. He premiered nine of his plays at George Street Playhouse. The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, named for Arthur Laurents and his partner Tom Hatcher, gifted $2.75 million, which will support George Street’s ongoing commitment to the development and production of new plays and musicals, the cornerstones of George Street Playhouse’s national reputation.

From the Artistic Director When our old friend and colleague Tony winning playwright Joe DiPietro sent me his his latest work, Conscience, I was amazed that a period piece about the remarkable Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith could be so uncannily relevant. In a time when our country becomes seemingly more partisan daily, it is enlightening to focus on a woman who was unafraid to speak up about the importance of protecting the principles upon which this country was founded, despite resistance from her own party.

David Saint Artistic Director

The dynamic rivalry of Senator Joseph McCarthy and Senator Margaret Chase Smith proves to be rich with dramatic possibilities in this world premiere political drama. We are truly blessed to have Tony-winning actress Harriet Harris and George Street favorite Lee Sellars bring these characters to life so brilliantly. Together with the talented Mark Junek, Cathryn Wake, and a superb group of designers, we give you a dynamic and compelling new work for the American theatre certain to prompt thoughtful conversation about our national legacy and its resonance with regard to our collective future. We hope you enjoy.

David Saint Artistic Director

Productions sponsored by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation (from top-left clockwise): Sutton Foster and the cast of the New Group production of Sweet Charity; the cast of Holiday Inn the Irving Berlin musical at Roundabout Theatre Company; Primary Stages production of Bronx Bombers; and Lauren Ambrose and the cast of Lincoln Center Theaterâ€™s produciton of My Fair Lady.

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GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE David Saint, Artistic Director Kelly Ryman, Managing Director Presents

Conscience by Joe DiPietro Directed by David Saint Set Design by James Youmans Costume Design by Brian Hemesath Lighting Design by Joe Saint Original Music and Sound Design by Scott Killian Hair and Wig Design by Charles G. Lapointe Production Manager Christopher J. Bailey Production Stage Manager Samantha Flint* Casting by McCorkle Casting, Ltd.

March 3 – 29, 2020

Conscience is sponsored by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation and Philip Kirstein & Melinda Raso Kirstein This production is partially funded by the Arthur Laurents Fund for New Work. In accordance with Actors’ Equity Association regulations, we remind you that all electronic devices, including pagers, cellular phones and watches must be turned off during the performance.

Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund. Made possible by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, A Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. George Street Playhouse is a constituent of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and a member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance. The theatre operates under an agreement between LORT and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States, and is a member of the New Brunswick Cultural Center.

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CAST in order of appearance Senator Margaret Chase Smith................................... Harriet Harris* Senator Joseph McCarthy........................................... Lee Sellars* William Lewis, Jr................................................................ Mark Junek* Jean Kerr....................................................................... Cathryn Wake*

Setting: Early 1950’s Washington, D.C. Conscience is performed with one 15 –minute intermission

*- denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association

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.

The director is a member of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union.

The stage technicians of George Street Playhouse are proud members of IATSE Local 21.

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COMPANY bios. Harriet Harris (Senator Margaret Chase Smith) Broadway: It Shoulda Been You, Cinderella, Cry-Baby, Present Laughter, Old Acquaintance, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Tony and Drama Desk Awards), The Man Who Came to Dinner. Off-Broadway: Judgment Day (Park Ave Armory), Me and My Girl, Little Me (City Center Encores), The Low Road, The Roads to Home, Standing On Ceremony, Yeast Nation, Jeffrey (Drama Desk nomination), Bella, Belle of Byelorussia (Drama Desk nomination). Film: Baby (upcoming), Phantom Thread, Love is Strange, Memento, Nurse Betty, Addams Family Values. TV: Atlantic Crossing (upcoming), Ratched (upcoming), American Horror Story, Felicia Tillman on Desperate Housewives, Bebe Glazer on Frasier. Instagram and Twitter @ msharrietharris Mark Junek (William Lewis, Jr.) George Street Playhouse debut came as Officer Paul Larkin in 2017’s American Son. Other credits include Gary and The Performers on Broadway, Final Follies at the Cherry Lane, The Hairy Ape at the Park Avenue Armory, Frankenstein at the Denver Center, The Forgotten Woman at Bay Street Theatre, After All The

Terrible Things I Do at Milwaukee Rep, The Vibrator Play at Syracuse Stage, Family Play at The New Ohio, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Television credits include The Outs, Blindspot, Forever, Smash and Law & Order: SVU. Mark is a graduate of Columbia University and The Juilliard School Drama Division. Lee Sellars (Senator Joseph McCarthy) Broadway: A Time to Kill, West Side Story (Officer Krupke), Talk Radio. Other NY credits: iOW@, Gun Shy (Playwrights Horizons), A Small Melodramatic Story (LAByrinth Theatre), The Alchemist (Classic Stage). George Street Playhouse: Midwives, Our Town, Twelve Angry Men, The Subject Was Roses, The Pillowman. Regional: The Great Leap (Guthrie Theatre), Hollywood (LaJolla Playhouse), A Few Good Men (Alley Theatre), On Clover Road (CATF). TV: Happy (recurring), Billions, Law & Order: SVU, Deception, Elementary, House of Cards (recurring), Mindhunter, Power, Luke Cage (recurring), Shades of Blue, Chappelle’s Show, The Sopranos, Law & Order (recurring) Film: Naked Singularity (upcoming), James White, The Savages, Tenderness, The Crimson Mask, Groundhog Day.

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COMPANY bios. Cathryn Wake (Jean Kerr) Broadway: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. Off-Broadway: The Other Josh Cohen, The Fantasticks, The Hello Girls (World Premiere). Regional: The Glass Menagerie (Pittsburgh Public), Well-Intentioned White People (Barrington Stage, World Premiere), Ebenezer Scrooge’s... Christmas Show (The Old Globe), The Second Girl (CATF), Loch Ness (The Rev), The Other Josh Cohen (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Seedbed (NJ Rep, World Premiere), …Percival von Schmootz (Adirondack Theatre Fest), Agent 355 (Chautauqua Theatre Fest, World Premiere). TV: Madam Secretary, Glee, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Featured Vocalist), America’s Got Talent, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The 71st Annual Tony Awards. BFA Pace University, LAMDA alum. @CathrynWake Joe DiPietro (Playwright) has won two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award and three Outer Critics Circle Awards. Conscience marks Joe’s seventh production at George Street Playhouse following The Toxic Avenger; Creating Claire; Ernest Shackleton Loves Me; The Second Mrs. Wilson; Clever Little Lies and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. His other musicals and plays include Memphis (2010 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book); Nice Work If You Can Get It (which starred Matthew Broderick

and Kelli O’Hara, and received 10 Tony nominations); and the much-produced comedies, Over the River and Through the Woods and The Last Romance. He is a proud member of the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni. Many thanks to his frequent collaborator, David Saint. David Saint (Director/Artistic Director) is in his 23rd season as Artistic Director of George Street Playhouse. He has directed 40 mainstage productions at GSP, having most recently helmed this season’s Midwives in addition to The Trial of Donna Caine, American Hero; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and An Act of God starring the legendary Kathleen Turner in the 2017-18 season. His time here has been marked by collaborations with such artists as Keith Carradine, Tyne Daly, Rachel Dratch, Sandy Duncan, Boyd Gaines, A.R. Gurney, Uta Hagen, Jack Klugman, Dan Lauria, Kathleen Marshall, Elaine May, Anne Meara, David Hyde Pierce, Chita Rivera, Paul Rudd, Stephen Sondheim, Marlo Thomas, Eli Wallach and many others, including a remarkable partnership with Arthur Laurents. In addition, many new award-winning works have begun their life here during his tenure, such as The Toxic Avenger, Proof, The Spitfire Grill, Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies and It Shoulda Been You. He has directed Final Follies at Primary Stages, Clever Little Lies at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, and off-Broadway at Westside Theatre, as well as the National Tour of West Side Story. In July 2016, he directed a two-night concert

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COMPANY bios. performance of West Side Story at the legendary Hollywood Bowl. In Summer 2019, he directed a revolutionary new production of West Side Story for IHI Stage Around in Tokyo and currently serves as a Associate Producer for a new film version of West Side Story directed by Steven Spielberg. He also has directed on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, McCarter, Williamstown, Seattle Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public, Long Wharf and many others on premieres by writers such as Aaron Sorkin, Wendy Wasserstein, Peter Parnell, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Joe DiPietro and Jonathan Larson. He is the recipient of the Alan Schneider Award, Helen Hayes Award, L.A. Drama Critics Award, several DramaLogue Awards and is the President of The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation. James Youmans (Set Design) GSP: The Trial Of Donna Caine; I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change; One of Your Biggest Fans; Good People; God Of Carnage and many others. Broadway: West Side Story, Patti LuPone’s Gypsy, Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly, Swinging on a Star. Off-Broadway: Final Follies at The Cherry Lane Theatre, Hedwig and The Angry Inch (original production) as well as productions at Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout Theater, NY Shakespeare Festival, and others. Regional Theatres: Alley Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, the Huntington

Theatre, Godspeed Opera House and many others Television: CNN Heroes- (Emmy Award Nomination with Clickspring Design), The Weather Channel, Various local News Affiliates sets in Houston, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco. In the live event world, he has designed projects for Disney Live, Disney On Ice and The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He has also designed projects for Universal Studios Hollywood, and Six Flags Theme Parks throughout the US. Awards: Independent Reviewers of New England award-Best Set Design for Ether Dome at The Huntington Theater, Drama Logue Award; two Telly Awards and an Emmy Award Nomination for several broadcast design projects, and two Outer Critics Circle nominations. www.jamesyoumans.com and www.youmansdesigns.com Joe Saint (Lighting Designer) Favorite GSP designs include: Outside Mullingar, The Nutcracker and I, Creating Claire (by Joe DiPietro), New Year’s Eve, The Seafarer, Attacks on the Heart, Agnes of God, Talley’s Folley, Wit, After-Play and many others. Off-Broadway: Lake Hollywood, Cotton Patch Gospel, Pledge of Allegiance and Dates and Nuts. Regional credits include plays at Seattle Rep, Virginia Stage Co, Worcester Foothills Theatre and North Shore Music Theatre, and operas at Nashville Opera, the Brevard Music Center, the Boston Center for the Arts and Boston Musica Viva. Joe is the founder and President of IMCD Lighting, Inc.,

COMPANY bios. a lighting design company providing lighting design and production services to the private and corporate event markets. Since incorporating in 2006, IMCD has provided the lighting for over 500 events for such clients as Google, Marc Jacobs, Adidas, Bulgari, Peloton, Cartier, MasterCard, the American Kennel Club, and many more. Scott Killian (Composer/Sound Designer) Conscience marks Mr. Killian’s 24th production at GSP, for which he is enormously grateful. Off-B’way: Manhattan Theatre Club: Sarah, Sarah; Five by Tenn; A Picasso (Lortel nom.); The Other Side; Red Bull Theatre: Volpone, The Duchess of Malfi; Women Beware Women, Edward the Second; Primary Stages: Final Follies; West Side Arts: Clever Little Lies; Rattlestick Theatre: Steve and Idi; Miss Julie; MCC: Side Effects. Many regional theatres, including: Berkshire Theatre Festival (Resident Composer–over 40 productions), Alley Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Original music for dance: Zvi Gotheiner (Resident Composer), Shapiro and Smith Dance (Resident Composer), Cherylyn Lavagnino, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Nikolais-Louis Dance, The Jose Limon Company. Brian C Hemesath (Costume Designer) Costume designer for PBS’s Sesame Street (8 Emmy nominations, 2 wins),

Associate designer for NBC’s SNL (2002-2015. credits include 100 “digital shorts” for the Lonely Island) Broadway: Honeymoon in Vegas. Off Broadway: Disaster!, Unbroken Circle, Curvy Widow. Selected regional shows include The Trial of Donna Caine, Curvy Widow at George Street Playhouse. Honeymoon in Vegas, Boeing-Boeing and Smokey Joe’s Café at Papermill Playhouse. Guys and Dolls at Asolo Rep and Old Globe. Evita at Asolo Rep. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (MFA 1997) and St Ambrose University (BA 1994). Irene Shariff Young Master award 2015. Brian lives in New York with his husband Drew Krake. brianhemesath.com Charles G. LaPointe (Hair and Wig Designer) Numerous Broadway; Touring; Regional; West End and International productions including: Hamilton; Ain’t Too Proud; Beetlejuice; The Cher Show (Drama Desk Award); The Band’s Visit; Beautiful; Anastasia; The Lifespan of a Fact; SpongeBob SquarePants (Drama Desk Award); The Donna Summer Musical; Jersey Boys; Motown; Memphis; On Your Feet; A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder; The Color Purple; The Elephant Man; Newsies; In the Heights. Television: The Wiz Live! (Emmy Award Nomination); Jesus Christ Superstar Live! (Emmy Award Nomination and Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award); Bluebloods; American Crime; Maddoff; Hairspray. Susan Finch (Dialect Coach) Girl from the North Country, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Broadway, Murder

Staff Spotlight

by Cassidy Nogueira

Samantha Flint makes stage management look easy. Beginning a week before rehearsals start through the final performance, she is the mastermind behind the logistics that facilitate the show’s evolution from a script to a fully-realized performance. Actors’ Equity Association is commemorating 2020 as the ‘Year of the Stage Manager,’ and this edition of George Street’s Staff Spotlight highlights the important work stage managers like Samantha do on a daily basis to make it possible for the show to go on: Samantha Flint How long have you been stage managing? Production Stage Manager I grew up as a performer, a dancer, and I first tried my hand at stage managing when I was 15. I loved it so much, I went on to earn my BFA in Stage Management from The Theatre School at DePaul University. I haven’t looked back!

How did you first hear about George Street Playhouse? I’ve always heard about George Street and the quality shows they produced, and I knew good people work there. I first worked with David Saint [Artistic Director] when he directed Final Follies at Primary Stages. He then brought me on board as the stage manager for The Immigrant here at George Street. Conscience marks my third show with George Street, and my third time working with David. What’s your favorite part of being a stage manager? In theatre, each performance is unique because that exact group of people (onstage, backstage, and in the audience) will never be in the same place again at the same time. The experience is ephemeral and therefore, I think, more meaningful. And I, as the stage manager, have the privilege of facilitating the emotional journey for everyone in the room. What do you do in your free time? I live in Jersey City with my husband, and I enjoy taking Pure Barre classes and working on my health and wellness business. I also love to host parties – I make an exceptional cheese plate! Favorite New Brunswick restaurant: Fatto Americano Zodiac sign: Aries Favorite animal: Gatsby [David Saint’s dog] Something on your bucket list: Visit Paris Last book you read: Atomic Habits by James Clear

COMPANY bios. on The Orient Express - REP Theater of Delaware, Our Lady of 121st Street Signature Theater, The Christmas Carol, Anthony and Cleopatra - McCarter Theatre, The Public Theater, MTC, Red Bull, The Woman’s Project, Shakespeare on the Sound. She coleads a communication course called Speak Up! with Ariel Kane in NYC. She is on the faculty of The Atlantic Theater School (NYU) and Actors Connection. Recipient of The Drama League Award, and The Edith Skinner Prize. Alumna of John Houseman’s The Acting Company. Training: Juilliard, where she regularly coaches. Susanefinch.com Samantha Flint (Production Stage Manager) Previously at George Street Playhouse: Midwives, The Immigrant. Broadway: Venus in Fur (MTC). Off Broadway: Final Follies, HIM (Primary Stages); Measure for Measure, In the Wake, The Winter’s Tale, The Brother/ Sister Plays (The Public). Selected Regional: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare on the Sound); Murder on the Orient Express, Disgraced, The Winter’s Tale, The Brother/Sister Plays, Herringbone (McCarter Theatre Center), Murder on the Orient Express, Somewhere (Hartford Stage), Camelot (Two River Theater), June Moon, The Visit (Williamstown), Barefoot in the Park, …Spelling Bee (Bucks County Playhouse), And A Nightingale Sang (Westport Country Playhouse). Education: The Theatre School at DePaul University.

Pat McCorkle (C.S.A.), McCorkle Casting LTD (Casting) Broadway: Over 50 productions including; On The Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, A Few Good Men. etc. Off-Broadway Over 60 productions: Highlights; Our Town (Barrow Street), Freud’s Last Session, Toxic Avenger, Almost Maine, Driving Miss Daisy. Regional Theatre: Guthrie, Barrington Stage, St. Louis Rep, George Street Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public, Connecticut Rep, and multiple hundreds of individual productions. Feature films: Senior Moment, Year by the Sea, Premium Rush, GhostTown, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television: Twisted, Humans for Sesame Street, Hack (CBS), Californication (Emmy Nomination), Max Bickford (CBS), Chappelle’s Show, Strangers with Candy, etc. www.mccorklecasting.com. The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation (Production Sponsor) was established in 1983 by New Brunswick philanthropist Irving Laurie. The Foundation supports a variety of projects across broad issue areas. The 2019/2020 program of cultural support currently includes the 2019/2020 Drew Forum – New Jersey’s most prestigious ongoing speakers series which this year includes appearances by Senator Jeff Flake, General John F. Kelly, and the NPR Politics podcast; the Roundabout Theatre revival of A Soldier’s Play; the public television series American Masters; NJPAC’s 2019/2020 American Song series and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 57th Annual New York

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COMPANY bios. Film Festival. The Foundation was gratified to have been selected as the Outstanding Foundation of 2016 by the New Jersey Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. It is proud to report that the Foundation has provided approximately $90,000,000 in grants to philanthropic endeavors, addressing the Foundation’s interest in the arts, education, health care and social services. Christopher J. Bailey (GSP Production Manager) This season marks Mr. Bailey’s 22nd at George Street Playhouse and 15th as its Production Manager, having previously served the Playhouse as Technical Coordinator and Sound and Lighting Manager. Recently for GSP, he was Lighting Designer for last season’s production of The Immigrant. He was also Lighting Designer for GSP’s production of Clever Little Lies, which moved to the Guild Hall Theatre in East Hampton and then off-Broadway to the Westside Theatre. His other designs for GSP includes 6 scenic designs and 9 sound designs for GSP’s Educational Touring productions, 28 lighting designs and 40 sound designs for GSP’s mainstage productions. Also, has designed for: Pearl Theatre, Barrington Stage, Premiere Stages, Bickford Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Strand Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Two River Theater, Ashlawn Highland Opera, LKB Dance, Randy James Dance, Rand Theater, The Irish Repertory Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Long Wharf, Delaware Theatre Company, Jacob’s Pillow, and more.

Kelly Ryman (Managing Director) is celebrating her 20th season with George Street Playhouse, having recently led the company through a transformative chapter in its history – overseeing the planning, construction and operations of the move to its interim home on Rutgers Cook Campus in 2017 as well as the move back downtown as a Founding Resident Company of New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. From 2000 to 2013, as the company’s Director of Marketing and Public Relations, she spearheaded promotional efforts that resulted in the top ten-highest grossing productions in the Playhouse’s history, including the hit musical It Shoulda Been You which moved to Broadway in 2015. Off-Broadway, Kelly was a member of the marketing team for The Toxic Avenger, which premiered at George Street Playhouse and went on to win the 2009 Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Musical. Active in the non-profit arts community throughout New Jersey, she was the Central NJ Chair of Jersey Arts Marketers for over a decade. She serves on the Board of Directors of New Brunswick City Center and is an adjunct professor of Arts and Entertainment Business at Mercer County College. Prior to her tenure at George Street Playhouse, Ms. Ryman worked at McCarter Theatre and The Wilma Theater. Kelly was recognized in 2012 by ArtPride NJ with their Leadership Award.

Margaret Chase Smith

A Reflection on “Conscience” Excerpted from Declaration of Conscience by Margaret Chase Smith, 1972 Editor’s Preface by William C. Lewis, Jr.

There has long been, with some reason, considerable cynicism about speeches –their degree of sincerity, their motivation, their purpose, their value and their impact. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that this cynicism is about speakers rather than speeches– especially if the speakers are politicians. Rarely is there a speech of lasting impact. In American history, Washington’s Farewell Address, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Wilson’s “Save the World for Democracy,” and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself” are remembered, in part perpetuated in the classrooms through required reading of the history books. But these are the exceptions.

And in an age marked by a desperate need for communication among peoples –to talk instead of fight, in Vietnam or in the ghettos or on the campuses—it is strange that there are so few significant speeches, or books which tell what led up to them and what resulted from them. For in the great emphasis placed upon the need for communication, there is greater need to recognize the fundamental truth that the greatest means of communication is in speech. We talk and write much about the importance of articulation. Yet we rarely take a real close look at what causes that articulation and what results from it. More often, people are more impressed with the style of a speaker than with the content of what he says—how rather than what he says. And even less, in why. Seldom at all do we interest ourselves in what resulted from what was said. Most of us soon forget a speech we have heard or read. But the political speaker has to live with every word of that speech for the rest of his or her life. Any public official is fair game on “Meet the Press” or “Face the Nation”...for the panelist’s needle: “Well, Senator, how do you justify this statement you made ten years ago in light of today’s developments?” Most everyone can recall hearing the wise counsel of such adages as “You never have to be sorry for, or explain, or apologize for the unspoken word” or “Don’t speak unless to do so improves upon silence.” But anyone who unbrokenly follows such caution also studiously avoids involvement. Such a person is lacking in leadership. Margaret Chase Smith, is currently the only woman member of the United States Senate and the only woman to have been elected to, and served in, both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. To call her a Quiet Woman is accurate because she rarely speaks in the Senate. Yet to call her quiet can be seriously misleading, for she does not shun or avoid involvement. She has been at the center of conflict and controversy. Quiet? Yes, but she is the one Senator who spoke out most forcefully year after year against the McCarthyism that gripped our nation in the early and mid-fifties. If historians attach any significance to the McCarthy era, then surely Margaret Chase Smith’s Declaration of Conscience of June 1, 1950 will be to that conflict what Lincoln’s Address at Gettysburg was to the Civil War.

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BACKERS $500 - $999

Investors Foundation PNC Foundation Princeton Area Community Foundation, The Robert Wood Johnson III Fund The Provident Bank Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation

CONTRIBUTING PARTNER $5,000 - $9,999 The Amboy Foundation The Merrill G. and Emita E. Hastings Foundation New Jersey Council for the Humanities PSEG Foundation Schumann Fund for New Jersey

PATRONS $1,000 - $2,499 The Morey Family Foundation

Actors Equity Foundation, Inc. Franklin Mutual Insurance

GIFTS-IN-KIND Brunswick Catering Delta’s Restaurant The Frog and the Peach Grounds for Sculpture The Heldrich Hotel Nassau Communications Panico’s Tavern on George

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Current Matching Gift Companies Supporting GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE ATT Bristol-Myers Squibb GE Corporation Goldman Sachs The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey IBM Corporation Johnson & Johnson

Merck Company Merrill Lynch & Co Pfizer Prudential Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation S&P Global Foundation UBS

INDIVIDUALS PRODUCER’S CIRCLE VISIONARIES 25,000+ $

JoAnn and Ken Fisher James N. Heston Peter Jewell and Fred Eisinger Sharon Karmazin The Honorable Thomas H. Kean Elizabeth and Arthur Roswell Marlene and Anthony Volpe

SUSTAINERS $10,000– $24,999 Joan and Robert Campbell Lucy Hughes and Sean Devlin Betty Wold Johnson Mindy Raso Kirstein and Phil Kirstein

AMBASSADORS $7,500 – $9,999 Mary and Edward Hartnett Leonard Littman

ADVOCATES $5,000 – $7,499 Laura and Norm Baron Al Berger Dina Elkins Lorraine J. Knapp Nancy and Duncan MacMillan Elizabeth Otterbein Ellen Ozur and Stuart Brown Lora and William Tremayne

BENEFACTORS $2,500 – $4,999 Edward S. Atwater, IV W. John Bauer and Nancy Boucher Isa and Michael Beck Lois and Ronald Bleich MaryLou and Al D’Augusta Suzanne Engel William Engel William Hagaman Judy and James Hancock Tillie and Bob Kahle Penelope E. Lattimer, Ph.D. Mark McMahon and Roberto Moreira Lisa Moro and Alan Voorhees Rita Paszamant Dorothy and Norman Politziner Christine Renz and Noah Levy David Saint Jocelyn Schwartzman Lexine and Cuyler Tremayne Gabriella and Stephen Vajtay

ANGELS $1,000 – $2,499

Paul Alexander Regina Belowsky Walter Bradhering Joan and Robert Bramson Mary and Patrick Callan Josi Irene Callan-Cole Elaine and Robert Ciatto Carol Condon D’Maris and Joseph Dempsey Barbara and Paul Eggerman Richard Engle Lyn and David Fasanella Ellen Kennedy and David Feigley Jennie and John Fischer Susan Forman Ellen Frede and Steven Barnett Bobbi and Barry Freedman Susan Garruto Midge Golin Marc Gonzer Margaret and Thomas Gorrie Christine Grant and Michael Halpern David M. Greene Jeanine and Michael Greenleaf Clara and John Grosso Margaret Grove Sharon and Mark Gruber Jean and Claude Heller Susan Henoch and Jay Coggeshall in Honor of Dee Henoch Lorraine and Robert Henry Chip Hoever and Dan Mackey Kathleen Campbell Jackson Karen and Ronald Joho Lynda and John Kazmark Suzanne and Eric Krebs Nancy L. and Arthur E. Lee Laura and Joel Leizer Laura and Dean Livingston Adele T. Macula, Ed.D. Richard A. Patt Ann and Robert Rafano Kristen Rich and Anthony Camioni, II

Adrienne and Andrew Ross Kathy and Ken Schurzky Lynn and Barry Sherman Noreen and Patrick Sinko Marilyn Steiner in Honor of Sharon Karmazin Janice and Lewis Stolar Renée Troiano Margaret Velden Bob Virgadamo Alan Weller Rebecca and Philip Witt Nancy and Edward Winant

THANK YOU for your annual support Rebecca and Philip Witt Michele and George Wolansky Wendy and Warren Zimmerman

BACKERS $500 – $999

Deborah Alexander Charles Berry Joan and Robert Bramson Laura and James Cahill Carol Ciorciari Marco Cucchi Marie Foucher and Daniel Hyman Willard Geller Julie and Robert Goldstein L. Goldstein and I. Novak Marlene and Joel Gordon Robert Grant Nancy and Richard Hines John Hoffman Ellen and George Horowitz Jeffrey Hyman Joyce and William Jonat Leslie and Tom Kelso Scott Killian Gregory King Susanne and Alex Kucsma Tom Livaccari Pamela and Andrew Lovasz Barbara and Robert Martalus Michael Mastro and Richard Hester Joan and Richard Barry McCormick Anne McHugh Joy and Thomas McPartland Daphne and Steven Mishkin Robert Nolan Mary and Theodore Petti Marcus Porcelli Mona and Barry Portnoy Karen and Robert Predale Bethany and Jonathan Rabinowitz Julie and Robert Rafano

Christine Robbins Simona Romanoschi Marie and Marshall Rosen Carole and Stephen Schneider Randy Schwartzman Lynn and John Semmlow Ken Shapiro Barbara and Howard Sorkin David Wagner Vicki and Neil Weisfeld Anonymous

PARTNERS $250 – $499

Esta Aranoff Patricia and Joshua Ardise Linda Bachman Barbara Baier in memory of Barbara and Ralph Voorhees Jeanne and James F. Barrett, II Diane Beni Susan and Alan Blanchette Gilbert Blitz Jacqueline Brendel Adelaide M. Brenner Jennifer and Richard Bullock Andrea and James Carroll Thomas Carroll Theodore Choplick Anthony Cicatiello Judy Cohen Melissa and Charles Daniel Dina and Peter Engler Stacy and David Greenblatt Irwin Hametz Evelyn Hartmann Robert Hartmann Ellen and Joel Henkin Jim Jack Kevin Janis and George Kupczak Pat and Roger Klein

Sunny Kordower Sharon and Joseph Kosmo Paul Leath Richard McAdams Cheryl and Jeff McBride Denise and William McBride Richard McPartland Susan and Jack Meola Frani and Ferenc Mike-Mayer in Memory of Noah Raines Joan and Rabbi Bennett Miller Karol and Wayne Morrison Dennis O’Dea Brenda Overcash and Thomas West Marion Portnoy Ellen and Steve Ritz Karen and Henry Ross Barbara Roth Rita Seplowitz Saltz Karen Satterthwaite Victoria and Michael Shernicoff Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui and Mark Trautman Sheldon Singer Nonny and Paul Stahlin Gladys Stein and Scott Rosmarin Bonnie and David Sudol Patrice Sullivan Gail and James Szeluga Blanquita Valenti Dan Vickery Caroline Willard Joanne and Allan Williams Anonymous

Includes contributions made through February 14, 2020. If you notice an error here, please do not hesitate to contact us at development@georgestplayhouse.org so that we may correct it for our next printing.

A contribution to the arts is an investment in the quality of life for all citizens. As a not-for-profit theatre, we depend on annual support from individuals, corporations, foundations, and government to produce world class theater in New Jersey, provide highly acclaimed arts education programming to over 30,000 students each year, and make theater accessible to everyone in our community.

Inspirersâ€™ Circle members are individual donors who provide core financial support for George Street Playhouseâ€™s Education Department. Their generous support helps to provide exceptional theater arts education experiences for children and adults throughout New Jersey.

Laura and Norm Baron Al Berger Patrick and Mary Callan Josi Irene Callan-Cole Susan Henoch and Jay Coggeshall in Honor of Dee Henoch Dina Elkins Suzanne Engel William Engel JoAnn and Kenneth Fisher Margaret and Thomas Gorrie Judy and Jim Hancock James N. Heston

Lucy Hughes and Sean Devlin Suzanne and Eric Krebs Penelope E. Lattimer, Ph.D. David Mallow Mark McMahon and Roberto Moreira Maha and John Pulomena Jocelyn Schwartzman Lynn and Barry Sherman Lexine and Cuyler Tremayne Lora and William Tremayne Marlene and Anthony Volpe Alan Weller

GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE gratefully acknowledges the following for their support of our 2019 ANNUAL GALA BENEFIT: SPONSORS The Atlantic Foundation Joan and Robert Campbell Grounds for Sculpture James N. Heston Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Cecelia and Seward Johnson Betty Wold Johnson

Sharon Karmazin Nassau Comunications PSE&G RWJBarnabas Health David Saint TD Bank WithumSmith+Brown

PARTNERS & BACKERS JoAnn and Kenneth Fisher Lucy Hughes and Sean Devlin Penelope E. Lattimer, Ph.D. Nancy and Duncan MacMillan McCarter & English Mark McMahon and Roberto Moreira

Lisa Moro and Alan Voorhees New Brunswick Development Corporation – DEVCO Northfield Bank The Francis E. Parker Memorial Home Lora and William Tremayne Marlene and Anthony Volpe

SUPPORTERS Clary and Anthony Anconza-Barber The Actors Fund Charles Berry Lois and Ronald Bleich Boston Properties Brunswick Sign and Exhibit Laura and James Cahill C.B.R.E. Citi Private Bank Marco Cucci Cushman & Wakefield Fox Rothschild LLC Joe DiPietro EisnerAmper LLP Engel and Devlin, P.C. Roy Epps The Erdmann Group Flemington Car & Truck Country Ellen Frede and Steven Barnett Paula and Jack Gentempo Glenmede Muriel Grimmett-Ray Llura and Gordon Gund

Ilana and Mauricio Gutierrez Janice and Brian Haggerty Ruth Hendel Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst, & Doukas John Hoffman Winnie Holzman and Paul Dooley I.A.T.S.E. Local #21 I.B.E.W. Local 456 The John Gore Organization, Inc. Kelso & Burgess Kilmer Square Langan Engineering and Environmental Services Barbara Lawrence LCK Wealth Advisors Irene Lieberman Michael Loch Emily Lyssikatos Markowitz, Fenelon & Bank LLP Mazars Amy and Michael Moorby Maria and Abel Moreyra New Brunswick Parking Authority

New Brunswick City Center New Jersey Theatre Alliance Michael Nissenblatt NJP Associates Esther Novak Pennrose Properties Barbara and Jim Petrosini Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 9 Mindy Raso Kirstein and Phil Kirstein RBC Wealth Management Simona Romanoschi Carole and Stephen Schneider Jocelyn Schwartzman Lynn and Barry Sherman Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui and Mark Trautman Somerset Health Care Foundation Janice and Lewis Stolar Universal Mailing Service, Inc. Gabriella and Stephen Vajtay Adam White Michele and George Wolansky

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