It's Only a Play Program

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Wanda J. Blanchett, PhD Lucy Hughes Philip L. Kirstein* Adele T. Macula, Ed.D.

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From the Artistic Director For our final offering of virtual theatre created with COVID safety protocols this season, we are proud to offer Terrence McNally’s hilarious hit comedy It’s Only A Play.

David Saint Artistic Director

Terrence was an old friend whose work we have produced over the years. Sadly, we lost him this past year.

As a tribute to him we are thrilled to produce his comic valentine to the theatre and that wonderful ritual of an Opening Night!

Master of comedy Kevin Cahoon directs this extraordinary cast of well-known Broadway farceurs who bring their delightful skills to this cavalcade of laughs.

Together with a superb design team, they will offer you a thoroughly enjoyable entertainment until we are all able to gather together again in the fall and celebrate in-person.

Enjoy!

Sincerely,

David Saint, Artistic Director

SE E YOU SOON! It’s Only a Play was filmed onstage at the New Brunswick Performing Ar ts Center, and we’re making big plans for our return to in-person theatre there later this year!

Stay tuned for more information about what’s ahead. We cannot wait to welcome you back.

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

It’s Only a Play

by Terrence McNally Directed by Kevin Cahoon Cinematography and Editing by Michael Boylan Scenic Design by David L. Arsenault Costume Design by Alejo Vietti Lighting Design by Alan C. Edwards Sound Design, Music and Sound Editing by Ryan Rumery Hair and Wig Design by Charles G. LaPointe Makeup Design by Dorothy Petersen Production Stage Manager Samantha Flint* Production Manager: Christopher J. Bailey Casting: McCorkle Casting, Ltd.

June 15 -July 4, 2021 It’s Only a Play is sponsored by Sharon Karmazin & The Karma Foundation GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE THANKS THE JON BEN SNOW MEMORIAL TRUST FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF OUR STREAMING PLATFORM.

IT’S ONLY A PLAY is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York

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 Gus P. Head.......................................................................Doug Harris* James Wicker....................................................................Zach Shaffer* Virginia Noyes.................................................................Julie Halston* Frank Finger.......................................................................Greg Cuellar* Julia Budder.......................................................Christine Toy Johnson* Ira Drew.......................................................................Triney Sandoval* Peter Austin.........................................................Andy Grotelueschen* *- denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association

Setting: The time of the play is now.

The place of the play is Julia Budder’s townhouse.

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.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

COMPANY bios.

JULIE HALSTON

Greg Cuellar (Frank Finger) is an LA-based actor, grateful to be making his George Street debut with this incredible team. Select NYC credits: Comedy of Errors (Classic Stage); Play On! Shakespeare Festival (CSC/OSF); Jeremy O. Harris’ the feels...KMS (American AF Festival); development workshops for Apple TV, Playwrights Realm, The Lark, Trans Theatre Lab, The Civilians, and more; former residency at The International WOW Company. Upcoming: I Wanna F*ck Like Romeo and Juliet (New Light Theatre Project). Education: Columbia University. This one’s for Barb. Mní Wičóni. gregcuellaractor.com Andy Grotelueschen (Peter Austin) Broadway: Tootsie (Tony Nomination), Cyrano de Bergerac.

Fiasco Theater’s Into the Woods, Cymbeline, Imaginary Invalid, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, and Twelfth Night. NY/Regional: Public/ Delacorte, TFANA, Clubbed Thumb, 13P, Ars Nova, The Glass Contraption, New Vic, McCarter, Guthrie, Old Globe, Trinity Rep, Yale Rep, the Acting Company. Film: Here Today, Coin Heist, Ordinary World, Still on the Road, Tumorhead. TV: Lincoln Rhyme, Elementary, The Good Wife, The Good Cop, The Knick. MFA Brown/ Trinity, Fiasco Theater core company.

Julie Halston (Virginia Noyes) was last seen on Broadway in her acclaimed performance as Rita Marshall in Tootsie. Other Broadway performances include You Can’t Take it With You (Richard Seff Award), Hairspray, The Twentieth Century (Outer Critics Nom) and Gypsy. She is a founding member of Charles Busch’s legendary theatre company and has co-starred with Mr. Busch in numerous productions inc The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset and The Divine Sister. Miss Halston has received 4 Drama Desk Nominations, 2 Outer Critics Nominations , 2 Drama League Nominations and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Off Broadway Alliance.

Television audiences know her as Bitsy Von Muffling on Sex and The City and Tina Carmello from The Class. Other TV credits: Divorce, Almost Family, Difficult People and Law and Order: SVU. She and Charles Busch star in the soon to be released film, The Sixth Reel. Miss Halston has also received numerous awards for her SRO comedy performances at BIRDLAND and hosts a popular YouTube show , VIRTUAL HALSTON going into its third season .

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COMPANY bios.

Doug Harris (Gus P. Head) is an actor and playwright based out of NYC. He is thrilled to join the team at George Street Playhouse for this wonderful production. Select NYC Credits: Disco Pigs (Drama League), The Rape of The Sabine Women by Grace B. Matthias (Playwrights Realm), The Glass Menagerie (Masterworks Theater Company), Unity: 1918 (Project: Theater). Regional Theater: A Few Good Men (Pittsburgh Public Theater), We’re Gonna Be Okay (B Street Theater), 10x10: ’20 and ’21 (Barrington Stage Co.), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Oh, Gastronomy! (Humana Festival).

Doug has developed new works with Playwrights Realm, NYTW, The Lark, Less Than Rent, Ensemble Studio Theater, CTG, Pipeline, and more. He is a founding member of We Are Animals.

Films: Day One, December 1, 1969, The Wait, Viking Funeral. Upcoming: Spooky Action. www.dougharrisactor.com.

Christine Toy Johnson (Julia Budder) is an award-winning actor, writer, director and advocate for inclusion.

As an actor, Christine has appeared on Broadway and National tours (The Music Man, Grease!, Chu Chem, Cats, Flower Drum Song, Bombay Dreams, Come From Away), OffBroadway (Merrily We Roll Along, Pacific

Overtures, Crane Story, Falsettoland, Balancing Act and more), in regional theaters across the country (including the Guthrie, Williamstown and the Huntington) and nearly 100 television and film appearances (most notably recurring roles on Marvel’s Iron Fist, The Americans, You, Law and Order: SVU, Bull and more). She’s written tons of plays and musicals and serves as Treasurer of the Dramatists Guild and is host of the Guild’s podcast Talkback on Broadway Podcast Network. Co-founder of AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition), founder of The Asian American Musical Theater Writers Project. Rosetta LeNoire, JACL, Asian American Arts Alliance, Obie awards for advocacy in diversity and inclusion.

For details, please visit www.christinetoyjohnson.com Twitter/Insta: @CToyJ Triney Sandoval (Ira Drew) BROADWAY: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Marvin’s Room, Macbeth, A Free Man of Color, A Man for All Seasons, Frost/Nixon. OTHER NEW YORK THEATRE: 72 Miles to Go... (Drama Desk nomination),The Thin Place, Timon of Athens, The Idiot, As You Like It. REGIONAL: La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, American Players Theatre, The Wilma Theatre, Round House Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Alliance Theatre, Virginia Stage, Center Stage, Yale Rep., Milwaukee Rep., Alabama Shakespeare, Idaho Shakespeare, California

COMPANY bios.

Shakespeare, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, among others and six seasons with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. TV: Prodigal Son, The Black List, Elementary, The Sopranos, recurring roles on Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU. Zach Shaffer (James Wicker) Broadway: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A View From The Bridge, The Man Who Came to Dinner. NY credits include Taking Care of Baby (MTC), The Wii Plays, Playlist (Ars Nova) Mine, Brown, Love is Deaf (EST), Down the Drain, Til the Rapture Comes.

Regional Theater includes shows at Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, George Street Playhouse, etc. Film & TV: Smash, Chicago Justice (NBC) Salt (Columbia Pictures), Black Box, Strangers With Candy, The Black Donnellys, Six Feet Under, XX/XY, Law & Order, Gayby.

Zach also co-directed and produced the documentary Squeezebox!, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival before going on to tour film festivals around the world.

Terrence McNally (Playwright) was awarded the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. He is the winner of Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and his books for the musicals Ragtime and Kiss of the Spiderwoman.

In 2010 the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presented Terrence

McNally’s Nights at the Opera, a threeplay festival of his work. His other plays include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Corpus Christi; A Perfect Ganesh; The Ritz; It’s Only a Play; Some Men; Golden Age; Deuce; The Lisbon Traviata; Bad Habits; The Stendhal Syndrome; Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams; Next; Unusual Acts of Devotion; Sweet Eros; Witness; Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? and his first play... And Things That Go Bump in the Night. He has written the books for the musicals The Fully Monty, A Man of No Importance, The Visit and The Rink. He won an Emmy Award for Best Drama with his teleplay Andre’s Mother. He wrote the screenplays for Frankie and Johnny, Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Ritz. He wrote the libretto for the opera Dead Man Walking with music by Jake Heggie. Among his many awards are a Citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, four Drama Desk Awards, three Hull-Warriner Best Play Awards from the Dramatists Guild, two Obies, two Lortel Awards and two Guggenheim Fellowships. Mr. McNally has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1965 and served as its VicePresident from 1985 to 2001. He lives in Manhattan with his spouse, Tom Kirdahy.

Kevin Cahoon (Director) directed the critically acclaimed production of The Nerd for George Street Playhouse. As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway, in regional theatre, as

COMPANY bios. well as on television and film. Theatre highlights include roles in the original Broadway companies of The Lion King, The Wedding Singer, the revival of The Rocky Horror Show, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and he made his Broadway debut in The Who’s Tommy. The original off-Broadway company of Hedwig and The Angry Inch, The Foreigner at The Roundabout (Lortel Nomination); and at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, MTC, The Old Globe, and The Guthrie, among others. TV and film highlights include Bobby Barnes on GLOW, Hugo on A Series of Unfortunate Events, Rueben on Nurse Jackie, Modern Family, Elementary, and Mars Needs Moms. He has directed developmental productions at NYC’s Ars Nova, for the comedy duo Tastiskank, -and four consecutive record breaking galas for New York Theatre Workshop.

Michael Boylan (Cinematography & Editing) grew up loving film. The first movie he saw was Star Wars, then it was E.T. and his life changed forever.

He started making movies when he was 11 and never stopped. He went to film school in Pittsburgh, PA. After he finished film school, he worked on Jack Hannah’s Animal Adventures and got to travel around the world. When he came home he took what he learned and applied it to producing creative video content for companies that he loved and cared for. He continues to do this every day for companies like The George Street Playhouse,Two River Theater, Manasquan Bank, McCormick Spices and many more. He has won

several awards including best short film at Filmone Festival in NJ. He lives in historic Atlantic Highlands, NJ with his wife Kathleen and twins Madison and Mikey and their dogs, Rosie and Marty McFly. David L. Arsenault (Scenic Design) GSP: The Nerd. As as designer and associate, David’s work has been seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. Recent designs in NYC include: A Letter to Harvey Milk (Acorn Theatre), Peer Gynt (CSC, directed by John Doyle) and Education (59e59). Regional design credits include productions at The Kennedy Center, Bay Street Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company, Geva Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Northern Stage, Merry Go Round Playhouse, and Gulfshore Playhouse, among others.

Internationally, he has worked at English Theatre Berlin in Germany. Broadway (Associate) work includes: The Color Purple (Tony-winning revival, also London and National Tour), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and King Charles III. www.

DavidArsenaultDesign.com.

Alejo Vietti (Costume Design) New York: Broadway’s Allegiance, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical - (also West End - Olivier Nomination, National Tour, Australia and Japan) and Holiday Inn, as well as designs for the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, NY City Center Encores, Atlantic Theatre Company, Primary Stages, MCC, New York City Opera,

COMPANY bios.

Irish Rep, The New Group, Cherry Lane, Rattlestick, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Soho Rep among others.

Other credits include Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Japan and Germany, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Opera, Donesk Opera (Ukraine), Colorado Ballet, and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Regionally, Vietti has designed shows for The Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Goodspeed Opera, the Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Old Globe, Wolf Trap Opera and Minnesota Opera among others. He is the recipient of the 2010 TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award.

Alan C. Edwards (Lighting Designer) Off-Broadway work includes: the world premier of Harry Clarke (The Vineyard), for which he received a Lucille Lortel Award, the world premier of Kill Move Paradise at the National Black Theatre [Drama Desk nomination], and Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror at the Signature Theatre [Lucille Lortel nomination]. Regional work includes: Pipeline, Skeleton Crew (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and Detroit ’67 (Chautauqua Theatre Co.), Twisted Melodies (Baltimore Centerstage), and the new musical Lights Out: Nat King Cole at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Additional credits include The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall (Signature Theatre NYC), American Moor (Red Bull), Native Son (The Acting Company), productions of Dutchman, Antigone

and Macbeth for the Classical Theatre of Harlem, and a special collaboration between CTH and The Apollo Theatre in New York, the new musical The First Noel by Lelund Durond Thompson and Jason Michael Webb. On Broadway he was the associate to Jennifer Tipton on The Testament of Mary. He received his B.F.A. from Ithaca College, and M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama where he is also on the lighting faculty. www.alancedwards.com.

Ryan Rumery (Sound Design, Music & Sound Editing) Broadway: The Lightning Thief, Be More Chill, Fool for Love, Thurgood. National Tours: The Lightning Thief (Theatreworks). Off Broadway: Over 50 productions. Regional: Over 250 productions. Film: Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (Tribeca and IFC 2020), When We Walk (AFI, Hot Docs), Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock (Tribeca 2017), How to Let Go of the World (Sundance 2017), City of Gold (Sundance 2015). Selected composer for the Sundance Institute of Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound (2017), and Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design and Composition.

Charles G. LaPointe (Hair & Wig Design) Numerous Broadway; Touring; Regional; West End and International productions including: Hamilton; Beetlejuice; The Cher Show (Drama Desk Award); The Band’s Visit; Beautiful; Ain’t Too Proud; Anastasia; The Lifespan of a Fact; SpongeBob SquarePants (Drama Desk Award); The Donna Summer

COMPANY bios.

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 MakeUp Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award); Bluebloods; American Crime; Maddoff; Hairspray. Film: Respect (Jennifer Hudson).

Dorothy Petersen (Makeup Designer) BROADWAY & NYC: Hello, Dolly!, The Rose Tattoo, A Strange Loop, Unknown Soldier, Hercules, Pagliacci. FILM/TV: Inventing Anna, Salacia (on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art), Samaria, Lost Cat Corona, Treasures Under The Rocks, Happy Birthday, Marsha!, Call Out, Jabberwocky (Best Makeup Design London’s Music Video Awards) OPERA: Washington National Opera (La Bohème, Fidelio), Opera Ithaca (Cinderella, Hamlet, Masquerade, Pagliacci) Metropolis Opera Project (Il Sogno, Bully Pulpit) PRINT/FASHION/ COMMERCIAL/RED CARPET: Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Sephora, Power Starz, The Tony Awards, TriBeCa Film Festival, Broadway Roulette.

Proud member IATSE. Follow along on Instagram @ DottyDoesMakeup eup Samantha Flint (Production Stage Manager) Previously at George Street Playhouse: Bad Dates, Conscience, 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.

COMPANY bios.

The Karma Foundation (Production Sponsor) For twenty-five years the Karma Foundation has been an active arts funder in New Brunswick and central New Jersey. In addition to George Street Playhouse, the Foundation has provided support to the State Theatre, Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Dance Power program in the New Brunswick public schools, McCarter Theatre, Grounds for Sculpture, and the New Jersey Theatre Alliance. Through its grant making initiatives, the Karma Foundation has helped make the arts more accessible to people with special needs, especially autism. The Foundation has been the lead sponsor of the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival since its inception in 2000.

The Karma Foundation is a member of ArtPride NJ. Christopher J. Bailey (GSP Production Manager) This season marks Mr. Bailey’s 23rd at George Street Playhouse and 16th 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. 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 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 and serves as the Production Coordinator for the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

David Saint (Artistic Director) is in his 24th season as Artistic Director of George Street Playhouse. He has directed 41 mainstage productions at GSP, having most recently helmed this season’s Virtual Production of Tiny Beautiful Things in addition to Fully Committed, Conscience, Midwives, 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

COMPANY bios. 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 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 Drama-Logue Awards and is the President of The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation.

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. OffBroadway, 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.

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Adrienne and Andrew Ross Nonny and Paul Stahlin Janice and Lewis Stolar Bob Virgadamo

ANGELS $1,000 – $2,499

Deborah Alexander Mary and Patrick Callan Josi Irene Callan-Cole MaryLou and Al D’Augusta D’Maris and Joseph Dempsey Barbara and Paul Eggerman Gerald and Barbara Essig Susan Forman Alison Fraser and Steven Plavakis Ellen Frede and Steven Barnett Julie and Robert Goldstein Marc Gonzer Margaret and Thomas Gorrie Christine Grant and Michael Halpern David M. Greene Margaret Grove Sharon and Mark Gruber Jean and Claude Heller Lorraine and Robert Henry Joyce and William Jonat Ellen Kennedy and David Feigley Kathleen Campbell Jackson Nancy L. and Arthur E. Lee Irene and Steven Lieberman Laura and Dean Livingston Sara Logan Pamela and Andrew Lovasz Adele T. Macula, Ed.D. Barbara and Robert Martalus Amy and Michael Moorby C. Sharon and Jonathan Parker Richard A. Patt Ann and Robert Rafano Kristen Rich and Anthony Camioni, II Carole and Stephen Schneider Kathy and Ken Schurzky Jocelyn Schwartzman in memory of William Tremayne Lynn and Barry Sherman Michele Shields-Buono Noreen and Patrick Sinko Renée Troiano Margaret Velden Nancy and Edward Winant Rebecca and Philip Witt Michele and George Wolansky

THANK YOU for your annual support BACKERS $500 – $999

Beatrice and Larry Abrams Jeanne and James Barrett Shirley and Stuart Bauer Karen Beverly Chris Bohjalian Jennifer and Richard Bullock Linda Choplick Carol Ciorciari Brenda and Jerome Deener Dina and Peter Engler Rick Engler Marie Foucher and Daniel Hyman Willard Geller L. Goldstein and I. Novak Robert Grant Laura Graumann Clara and John Grosso Nancy and Richard Hines Ellen and George Horowitz Ellen Horowitz Laurie Kamhi Lena Kaminsky Lynda and John Kazmark Gregory King Joan and Richard Barry McCormick Daphne and Steven Mishkin Randi Neuman Robert Nolan Dennis O’Dea Mary and Theodore Petti Mona and Barry Portnoy Bethany and Jonathan Rabinowitz Julie and Robert Rafano Kathy Raymiel Marie and Marshall Rosen Karen and Henry Ross Barbara and Howard Sorkin James Teal Blanquita Valenti Jeff Venezia Carolyn and Dan Vickery Vicki and Neil Weisfeld

PARTNERS $250 – $499

Juhi and Kamal Agrawal in honor of Mrs. Maureen McVeigh-Berzok Eric Allender Mona Ascher Barbara Baier Peggy Barbarella Susan and Alan Blanchette Karen and David Blivaiss Nancy Brannegan Barbara Broggi Andrea and James Carroll Judy Cohen Rose Condello Mark Corso Elizabeth V. Counselman Norman J. Diamond Jennifer and John Dowd David Drinkwater Lyn and David Fasanella Barbara Fisk Barbara and Sheldon Freidenreich Stacey and David Garfield Diana and Pat Gatti Rita Gordon Stacie and Rick Grant Denise and Irwin Hametz Evelyn Hartmann Robert Hartmann Ellen and Joel Henkin Paula Henry Angela Horan Donald Humphrey Dr. and Mrs. Frank Jones Lynn and Ed Josell Nancy and Lee Kevin Scott Killian Elisabeth King Florence Klancer Pat and Roger Klein Sharon and Joseph Kosmo

Robert Kramer Suzanne and Alex Kucsma George Kupczak and Kevin Janis Mary and John Larkin Ruth and Charles Larsson John and Ann Lech Carolyn and Francis Lumia Joanne and Thomas Marino Richard McAdams Mary Ann McLaughlin Richard McAdams Cheryl and Jeff McBride Karol and Wayne Morrison Bruce Moskovitz and John Fellin Judith Musicant and Hugh Clark Henry E. and Debbie Newman Brenda Overcash and Thomas West Jerome Pasichow Christopher Pavon Marcus Porcelli Karen Price Valli Re Steven Rifkin and Merle Soroco Stephen and Ellen Ritz Lisa Robinson Rita Seplowitz Saltz Karen Satterthwaite Rene and Marguerite Schlag Randy Schwartzman Megan Shook Rachel Silverstein Karen Spiler Scott Steinhauer David and Bonnie Sudol Rolfe Swinton Thomas Tomy Linda Tondow Michael Triebe Kim Vernon and Chauncey Phillips Caroline Willard

Includes contributions made through December 31, 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.

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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.

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

ARTISTIC General Manager Artistic Associate Casting

FOR THIS PRODUCTION

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Director of Finance Assistant to the Managing Director Data and Special Projects Manager

Karen Price Cassidy Nogueira Shakera Blakney

PRODUCTION Production Manager

Christopher J. Bailey

DEVELOPMENT Director of Development

Jacqueline Brendel

MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS Director of Marketing & Public Relations Director of Digital Strategy & Communications Group Sales Manager Production Key Art Graphic Design & Art Direction

Public Relations Partners & Community Outreach Founder/CEO Managing Director Lead Publicist Assistant

Rick Engler

Alycia Yerves Creative

REALEMN Productions, LLC Toni Isreael Genetta Robinson Amanda Haynes Cydney Regus

Molly Sullivan

EDUCATION Director of Education and Community Artisitc Programming Assistant Director of Education Tour and Academy Programs Manager Resident Teaching Artist / Project Coordinator Teaching Artists

Location Sound Musical Direction Dialogue Editor and Sound Mix

Scott Kuker Will Shuler M. Florian Staab

Associate Costume Designer Assistant Wig Design Lady Gaga and Lasagna Jackets

Gail Baldoni Momi Kumalae Juliann Kroboth

Technical Director

Mohamed Haddara

Master Carpenter Scenic Charge Painter Painter

Theodore Hoelter Jim Hancocks Jeanette Mieses Larissa Garcia

Props Master Matthew Holowienka Assistant Props Master Megan Cherry

PATRON SERVICES Sales and Patron Services Manager

Audio Description

Keelin Higgins Thea McRae Megan Cherry Dustin Ballard

Assistant Stage Manager Scott Goldman COVID Compliance Officer Laiona Michelle McCorkle Casting, Ltd. Company Manager

Costume Shop Manager Assistant Costume Shop Manager Wardrobe Supervisor Wig Supervisor/Dresser Stitcher Stitcher Stitcher

Joleen Addleman Loyd Rachel Pollard Jaclyn Vela Sadae Hori Sarah Romagnoli, Sue Hawley Cody Lorich

Deck Crew

Jerry Pacheco

A2 Production Assistant Production Assistant

Jorge Baez Tracey Lattimer, Lynne Holton

NEW BRUNSWICK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Lighting Supervisor

Assistant Lighting Supervisor Jim Jack Sound and Video Supervisor Christa Cillaroto Catherine Del Castillo Deck Supervisor

Annie Rutherford Lutz

Angela Peletier; Annie Rutherford Lutz; Brooke Garflinkel; Catherine Del Castillo; Clarissa Vickerie; Dave Seamon; Dusty Ballard; Emily Goggin; Kajoree Bhattacharya; Rachel Matusewicz; René Mayo; Francesca Fernandez McKenzie; Louis Sallan; Jo’Siah Shan; Ashley Nicole Baptiste; Doriane Swain; Ashley Hart Adams; Allie Marotta; Kenny Green; Tracey Conyer Lee; Sadé Murray; Shayla Burge

Helen Tewksbury Shannon White

Thomas Williamson Brian Lenahan Joshua Maywood Andre Penn

SPECIAL THANKS Nickolas DeStefano, Middlesex County Office of Health Services Merissa Buczny, Executive Director, NBPAC Mark Sharp, Director of Operations, NBPAC Sharon Karmazin Meredith Holzman Blake Lee Heldrich Hotel DHS Hospitality and Tavern on George GEM Limousine Worldwide

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