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From the Artistic Director Welcome.

Welcome back to George Street Playhouse!

Welcome back to the Arthur Laurents Theater in our beautiful new home at NBPAC! Welcome back, most especially to live inDavid Saint person theatre! We all value more than ever Artistic Director the transformative power of this communal ritual we celebrate called Theatre.

We are so pleased to open our season with a new play, Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise. This is a charming, funny, lifeaffirming love story which you are sure to enjoy!

In addition, Jack and Louise’s story of forced separation echoes so resonantly in our own collective experience for the past break of almost two years.

And it also reflects the joy of finally gathering together with our loved ones in a celebration of life.

The extremely talented Bill Army and Amelia Pedlow guide us through this WWII American love story ably abetted by a first rate design team of GSP alums!

We are so grateful to be back, taking every precaution on behalf of your safety.

We are grateful for your support and thrilled to be joining you again in person to celebrate love, life, and our community!

Welcome home again.

Gratefully,

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 Theater’s production of My Fair Lady.

THE BLANCHE & IRVING LAURIE F O U N D AT I O N

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

Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise

by Ken Ludwig Directed by David Saint Set & Projection Design by James Youmans Costume Design by Lisa Zinni 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 Kristin Pfeifer* Casting by McCorkle Casting, Ltd.

October 26 - November 21, 2021 Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise is sponsored by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation and Philip Kirstein & Melinda Raso Kirstein “Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com “Dear Jack, Dear Louise” premiered at Arena Stage (Washington, DC) Molly Smith, Artistic Director and Edgar Dobie, Executive Producer November 21-December 29, 2019 In accordance with Actors’ Equity Association regulations, we remind you that all electronic devices, including cellular phones, watches, and anything else that lights up or makes noise must be turned off during the performance.

Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners 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 Jack Ludwig. . ............................................................... Bill Army* Louise Rabiner............................................ . ................. Amelia Pedlow*

The time is 1942.

Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise 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.

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COMPANY bios.

Bill Army (Jack Ludwig) Broadway: Original company of The Band’s Visit (Tony Award for Best Musical, Grammy Award, Daytime Emmy for “Answer Me” on The Today Show), Act One (Lincoln Center Theater), Relatively Speaking. Off-Broadway: The Band’s Visit, (Atlantic Theater Company), The Changeling, (Red Bull Theater), Old Jews Telling Jokes, All’s Well that Ends Well (Delacorte), Measure for Measure (Delacorte). Company member of the Potomac Theatre Project since 2008. Film/TV: Deadbeat (Hulu), COHAB (YouTube). MFA: NYU. BA: Middlebury College. Bill thanks his wife Jessica, an emergency medicine physician, whose courage throughout this pandemic has given hope and support to so many…but to him most of all.

Amelia Pedlow (Louise Rabiner) OFF-BROADWAY: Intelligence (NYTW Next Door Series); The Metromaniacs, Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Red Bull Theatre Company); Pride & Prejudice (Primary Stages; world premiere by Kate Hamill); The Liar, The Heir Apparent (Classic Stage Company); You Never Can Tell (Pearl TheatreCompany).

REGIONAL: Dear Jack, Dear Louise

(world premier, Arena Stage); Doubt (Studio Theatre); Love’s Labours Lost (The Folger); Playing with Fire (The Guthrie); Fortune (The Hanger); Pride & Prejudice, The General from America (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); Red Velvet (The Old Globe); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Metromaniacs (world premier), Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC); Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, and The Huntington); The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet, The Liar (The Denver Center); Legacy of Light (Cleveland Playhouse); Diary of Anne Frank (Virginia Stage Company). TV: The Good Wife; Blue Bloods; Shades of Blue; The Blacklist. TRAINING: B.F.A. Juilliard.

Ken Ludwig (Playwright) has had six shows on Broadway, seven in London’s West End, and many of his works have become a standard part of the American repertoire. His 28 plays and musicals have been performed in over 30 countries in more than 20 languages and are produced throughout the United States every night of the year. Lend Me a Tenor won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century by The Washington Post.

Crazy For You was on Broadway for five years and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical. In addition, he has won the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes

COMPANY bios.

Awards, and the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theater. His plays have starred, among others, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Tony Shaloub, Joan Collins and Hal Holbrook. His stage version of Murder on the Orient Express was written expressly at the request of the Agatha Christie Estate, and his latest play, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, won the 2020 Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play of the Year and is optioned for Broadway. His book How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare, published

by Penguin Random House, won the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of the Year, and his essays are published in the Yale Review. He is a graduate of Harvard and Cambridge and is a frequent guest speaker for groups as varied as The OxfordCambridge Society, The Jane Austen Society of North America, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and The Baker Street Irregulars. For more information, see his website at www.kenludwig. com.

David Saint (Director/Artistic Director) is in his 24th season as Artistic Director of George Street Playhouse. He has directed 42 mainstage productions at GSP, having most recently helmed Fully Committed and Tiny Beautiful Things for the GSP virtual season. Additional productions include Midwives and Conscience in addition to The Trial of Donna Caine, American Hero, American Son, 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, Ratchel Dratch, Sandy Duncan, Boyd Gaines, A.R. Gurney, Uta Hagen, Jack Klugman, Dan Lauria, Kathleen Marshal, 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 West Side Theatre, as well as the National tour of West Side Story. In July 2016, he directed a twonight concert 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 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, Pittsburg Public, Long Wharf and many others by such writers as Aaron Sorkin, Wendy Wasserstein, Peter

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COMPANY bios.

Parnel, Johathan 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 Laurent/Hatcher Foundation.

James Youmans (Set and Projections Design) GSP: Conscience,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, Goodspeed Opera House and many others. Television: The Weather Channel, CNN Heroes (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 among others. He has also designed projects for Universal Studios Hollywood, and Six Flags Theme Parks throughout the US. In the Corporate event world, his clients have included Glamour Magazine Staples, IBM, Deloitte, Novartis, and many others. Awards: Emmy Award Nomination with Clickspring Design

for CNN Heroes, The 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. youmansdesigns.com Joe Saint (Lighting Designer) Favorite GSP designs include: Conscience, Outside Mullingar, The Nutcracker and I, 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 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, a New York based lighting design company servicing the event industry.

Scott Killian (Composer/Sound Designer) Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise 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, Duchess of Malfi, Women Beware Women, Edward the Second; Rattlestick Theatre: Steve

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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.

Lisa Zinni (Costume Designer) Bad Dates, Tiny Beautiful Things and Midwives (GSP) Freestyle Love Supreme (Broadway & Off-Broadway), West Side Story (IHI Stage Around 360 Tokyo, Japan), Remember Our Song and Breaking Bricks (Tulsa Ballet) Broadway Associate Designer of SIX, School Of Rock; CATS; An American In Paris; The Play That Goes Wrong; The Glass Menagerie, HAIR, and RENT— including National & International Tours and RENT Live on Fox. Off Broadway/ Regional Credits: Ars Nova, Roundabout underground, 59E59, Pennsylvania Shakespeare, Bristol Riverside, Orlando Shakes, Walnut Street, TUTS, Riverside Vero, The Arden, Two River. Web series Submissions Only, 3D curator for upcoming Museum of Broadway.

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Charles G. LaPointe (Hair and Wig Designer) is an award winning Wig and Hair Designer who maintains a highly successful career on stages throughout the United States and abroad. Highlights: Numerous Broadway; Touring; American Regional Theatre; West End and International productions including: Hamilton (Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award); Ain’t Too Proud; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Beetlejuice; The Cher Show (Drama Desk Award); The Band’s Visit; Anastasia; The Lifespan of a Fact; SpongeBob SquarePants (Drama Desk Award); Jersey Boys; A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder; The Color Purple; 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).

Kristin Pfeifer (Production Stage Manager) NYC Credits: Hedwig and The Angry Inch Nat’l Tour (Production Asst.) Opera: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Assistant Stage Manager, Yale Opera) Regional: With George St. Playhouse as Production Stage Manager: The Nerd, A Doll’s House Pt. 2, The Fabulous Lipitones. With the NJ Repertory Company as Production Stage Manager: Multiple Family Dwelling, & Juliet, Halftime w/Don, F-Theory, Mutual Philanthropy, The Calling, Wild Horses, Mercy, Apple Season, The Source, Surfing My DNA, Voyager One, Lily, Bone on Bone,

COMPANY bios.

The Promotion. Kristin is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.

Pat McCorkle (C.S.A.), McCorkle Casting LTD (Casting) has accumulated a prolific list of film, television, and theatre credits. Pat is passionate about finding new talent and actively involved with inclusion and diversity in the arts. Feature films currently in production: Cold Million, After Party, Best Death Ever, Eternal Buzz, Incubation. Recently released Films: Winter House, Potato Dreams, The Mistress, Year by the Sea, Premium Rush. Films: Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television (Over 60 projects): Twisted, Humans for Sesame Street, Hack (CBS), Californication (Emmy Nomination), Max Bickford (CBS), Chappelle’s Show, Strangers with Candy, etc. Broadway: Over 50 productions including; On The Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, A Few Good Men, etc. OffBroadway: 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. 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 2021/2022 program of cultural support currently includes the Roundabout Theatre presentation of Birthday Candles; the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Golden Shield ; the public television series American Masters; NJPAC’s 2021/2022 American Song series and the 59th Annual New York 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 $93,000,000 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 23rd at George Street Playhouse and 17th 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 past season’s production of The Immigrant. Was also Lighting Designer for GSP’s production of Clever Little Lies, which moved to the Guild Hall Theatre in East Hampton and then offBroadway 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

COMPANY bios. 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. Mr. Bailey also teaches Stagecraft at Middlesex County College.

Kelly Ryman (Managing Director) is celebrating her 21st 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 is a member of the board of the New Jersey Theater Alliance and 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.

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LETTER-WRITING IN AMERICA— NOW AND THEN When was the last time you wrote a letter? Not an email, not a text message, not a postcard or a bulk Christmas card with a quickly scrawled wet signature “to show a personal touch,” but an actual, physical, personal letter? If you’re like most Americans, it’s been a while. According to the U.S. Post Office, the average American household sends about four personal letters per year.

Can you blame us? In the time it takes to find paper and a pen and an envelope, I can pull out my phone, send a text message and get a reply.

And I have to buy a stamp? And find a mailbox? Then there’s delivery time, of course — in the two days it takes a letter to make its way across the country, the average American will receive about 50 emails. The ubiquity of the home telephone after World War II, followed by the rise of the Internet and digital communications, made the handwritten personal letter seem archaic and inconvenient. And yet, despite all of that, there’s no denying the very real impact of receiving a hand-written personal letter — to know that a loved one cared enough to take that time, to hold the same piece of paper that they held...Is it any wonder that throughout our history, our soldiers have been desperate for letters from home?

During World War II, there were so many letters between soldiers and their families that the military introduced “V-mail,” which involved transferring letters onto microfilm and reproducing them on paper at their final destination.

Even today, our military continues to write and receive far more personal letters than the average American; soldiers who don’t receive regular mail can even sign up for services that match them with civilian correspondents to create that sense of connection.

During World War II, letters were how soldiers kept up with the gossip and goings-on back home, and how they reminded themselves what they fought for. Letters were how parents and significant others knew their boys were safe, and how they learned what conditions were like on the front (within the restrictions of the military censors).

Today, those very same letters are tremendously important to modern readers, they provide insight to the personal experience of historic battles and events, they help researchers understand wartime conditions and — like this play — they remind us all that the men and women we send to war are human beings.

To any veterans or current military service members reading this: thank you for your service. And enjoy the show.

DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE TAKES PLACE FROM JUNE 1, 1942 TO MAY 8, 1945.

HERE ARE SOME DETAILS OF AMERICAN LIFE IN THE EARLY 1940S. 1. FDR was elected to his third term as president in 1940, winning 54.7% of the popular vote and taking the electoral college 449-82 2. The US population was 132,164,569 — less than half of what it is today 3. The average annual salary was $1,900 y Before the draft lowered these numbers even further, about 25% of adults graduated high school; 10% of men and 5% of women had a four-year college degree 4. The first McDonald’s opened in San Bernardino, CA, on May 15, 1940 5. Before the Selective Training & Service Act was signed in 1940, about 70% of Americans were in favor of compulsory military service; by the end of the war, 49 million men had registered with their draft boards and 16 million Americans served in the military (over 10% of the total population) 6. Worldwide casualties for the war are estimated at up to 85 million people; of the 80,000 military service members reported missing in action during the war, over 72,000 are still unaccounted for today 7. Most professional sports continued throughout the war, despite the loss of many players to the draft; that loss was so severe that in the 1943 NFL season, the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers played as a combined team, referred to by fans as the “Steagles” 8. Rationing was a daily part of life on the homefront, affecting everything from toothpaste to bacon — for instance, starting in January 1942, most civilians were barred from purchasing new tires, and could only have them repaired 9. The most popular baby names in 1942 were James and Mary 10. The average price of gasoline in 1940 was $0.18/gallon; milk was almost twice as expensive at $0.34/gallon 11. In 1942, automotive manufacturers had to redesign their cars to do without nickel, aluminum or zinc (which were reserved for military use); after 1942, they stopped producing civilian cars entirely

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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.

GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE gratefully acknowledges the following for their support of our 2021 VIRTUAL GALA BENEFIT: SPONSORS Joan and Robert Campbell

Ruth and Steve Hendel James N. Heston Sharon Karmazin Lucy Hughes & Sean Devlin

Parker Health Group David Saint Jean Cheever - “Team Toxie” WithumSmith+Brown

Bloomberg Paula and Jack Gentempo Thomas F. Kelso and Leslie Kelso Philip Kirstein and Melinda Raso Kirstein Suzanne and Eric Krebs Penelope E. Lattimer, Ph.D.

Adele T. Macula, Ed.D. Mark McMahon and Roberto Moreira New Brunswick Performing Arts Center Northfield Bank

Sharon and Jonathan Parker RWJBarnabas Health Jocelyn Schwartzman Somerset Health Foundation Nonny and Paul Stahlin Lewis and Janice Stolar Lora Tremayne

Nan and Joe Benincasa Wanda J. Blanchett, Ph.D. Lois and Ronald Bleich Eisner Amper LLC The Erdmann Group

Ken and JoAnn Fisher Fox Rothschild LLP Betsy Garlatti LCK Wealth Management Nancy and Duncan MacMillan

The Merrill G. and Emita E. Hastings Foundation John Hoffman and Nancy Brannegan Norm and Dorothy Politziner Eric Ryan

Flemington Car and Truck Country Family of Brands

SUPPORTERS Beverly & Marty Greenberg Anne Hayden

Cecelia Joyce Johnson The Honorable Thomas H. Kean

Lorraine Knapp Audrey Wilf

Carol Auerbach & Al Berger Lewis Black Bob Cohen

Margaret & Thomas Gorrie Judith & James Hancock Tom Heston

Amy & Michael Moorby Carole & Stephen Schneider George & Michele Wolansky

Peggy Barbella Jacqueline Brendel Jennifer Cayenne Ted & Ellen Cohen Randy & Lori Csik Lillian Donnelly Kally Duling Karen Eisner Rick Engler Katherine Fehon Margaret Fourounjian Stephen & Ann Garvey Dean & Nancy Georgiades M. Wilma Harris Betsy Heston Grant Heston Newton Heston

Tim Heston Bruce & Candy Hoffman Kathleen Hull Marcia and Robert Kerchner Scott Killian Sharon Kornstein Meri Krassner Stephen Landau Penelope Lattimer Bobye List Anthony & Maureen Marchetta Michael Mastro & Richard Hester Felicia McGinty Ellen McLaughlin Roberto Moreira & Mark McMahon Patricia Melancon Seth Mellman

Lisa Moro & Alan Voorhees Elimar Pereira Alex Wright & Erik Piecuch Betty Reba Mary & Gary Reece Sonja & Greg Rowe Kelly Ryman Nadine Salemi Elimar Sanchez Pereira Donna Silbert Beth Sparling Marianne Stegeland Ed & Judy Stier Kyle van Arsdale Richard & Gail Wolfert

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For Your Information GSP is located at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 GeorgeStreetPlayhouse.org • Patron Services: 732-246-7717

AUDIO-DESCRIBED PERFORMANCES

We offer audio-described performances for patrons with visual impairment.

Please call the Patron Services, 732-246-7717, for further information. Large print and Braille programs are available upon request. Audiodescribed performances are made possible by support from Fund for the New Jersey Blind, Inc.

CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES

We offer captioned performances for patrons with hearing impairment.

FIRE NOTICE

The exit indicated by the red light and sign nearest to the seat you occupy is the shortest route to the street. In the event of a fire or other emergency, please do not run, WALK TO THE EXIT.

INCLEMENT WEATHER

George Street Playhouse maintains a policy of not cancelling performances due to inclement weather. Please call Patron Services, 732246-7717, if you have any questions.

LATE SEATING POLICY

George Street Playhouse’s accessible programming is made possible in part by Fund for the New Jersey Blind, Inc.

The theatre is open to the public one halfhour prior to the performance. In consideration of all patrons, latecomers will be seated at the discretion of House Management.

ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEM

RECORDING EQUIPMENT

For patrons who have a hearing impairment, light-weight, comfortable receivers are available from the NBPAC Concierge desk. If any individual requires special assistance or assistive technology, please contact the Patron Services Manager at 732-246-7717 as far in advance of the program as possible.

COVID-19 SAFETY

All patrons are required to wear masks at all times while inside the venue. This includes children who have not been vaccinated.

Due to copyright and union regulations and restrictions, still cameras, video cameras or any type of recording equipment is not permitted at any time in the theatre and will be confiscated.

SMOKING

The NBPAC is a smoke-free environment.

There is no smoking or vaping in the building.

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STAFF David Saint, Artistic Director • Kelly Ryman, Managing Director

ARTISTIC General Manager Artistic Associate

Painters

Scott Goldman Laiona Michelle

Jeanette Mieses, Laorina Gonzalez, Lauren Pitcher, Heather Cahill Ball

PROPERTIES

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

Properties Master

Megan Cherry Karen Price Data and Special Projects Manager Shakera Blakney Business Assistant Lynne Holton

COSTUMES

Chief of Staff/Company Manager Director of Finance

DEVELOPMENT Director of Development

Jacqueline Brendel

Karen Alvarado

Resident Teaching Artist / Project Coordinator

Shannon White Elizabeth Soglin

Costume Shop Manager

Joleen Addleman Loyd Assistant Costume Shop Manager Becky Ertlitz Wardrobe Supervisor Rachel Pollard

FOR THIS PRODUCTION

EDUCATION Interim Education Associate

Assistant Properties Master

Annie Rutherford Lutz

Teaching Artists Dave Seamon, Dusty Ballard, Emily Goggin, Rachel Matusewicz, René Mayo, Francesca Fernandez McKenzie. Louis Sallan, Ashley Nicole Baptiste, Doriane Swain, Ashley Hart Adams, Allie Marotta, Tracey Conyer Lee, Sadé Murray, Karen Alvarado, Shayla Burge, Jo’Siah Shan

Assistant to the Director Assistant Set Designer

Samkit Siyal Rodrigo Escalante

Assistant Projection Designer/Programmer Assistant Lighting Designer Assistant Sound Designer Assistant Wig Designer Assistant Stage Manager Production Assistant Master Electrician Hair & Wig Supervisor

Andrew Gusciora Austin Boyle Ted Crimy Rachael Geier Qixuan Sun Anna Mondragon Cheri Snook ElleryJane Ring

MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS Director of Marketing & Public Relations

Rick Engler

Director of Digital Strategy & Communications Production Key Art Design

Matthew Holowienka Ran Xia

Sales and Patron Services Manager Molly Sullivan

Susan Blumert Gary Frangione

Christopher J. Bailey

Carpenters

Scenic Charge

NBPAC Box Office Manager Sound and Video Supervisor Deck Supervisor Assistant Lighting Supervisor

Mohamed Haddara Chris DuBois Peter Funk Jim Hancocks

Merissa Buczny Mark Sharp Victoria Muscio Thomas Williamson Joshua Maywood Andre Penn Brian Lenahan

Assistant Sound and Lighting Console Operator Deck/Automation Deck Hands

SETS Technical Director

Director of Operations

Video Supervisor

PRODUCTION Production Manager

Executive Director

Lighting Supervisor

PATRON SERVICES Patron Services Associates

NEW BRUNSWICK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

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Joe Parisi Harrison Seefelt Chris Nielson Marlon Lockhart Henry Leger Jorge Baez

Celebrating the arts and the joy they bring to life every day.

Thank you, George Street Playhouse, for sharing your talents with everyone in the community.

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work within our organizations. We will follow the most current medical advice, meeting or exceeding all local and national safety guidelines, such as: Deep cleaning/ disinfecting before all performances

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Sanitation stations for all patrons and staff

Clearly communicated mask policy

Contactless transactions available

Flexible ticket policie Health screening feeling for anyone before entry ill or at risk Flexible ticket policies for anyone feeling ill or at risk

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