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No sooner have we closed Hamlet, and put its “perturbèd spirit” to rest for the last time, than three more are upon us: the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Last season we celebrated fifty years of Hartford Stage’s past, and Michael Wilson’s annual production of A Christmas Carol ensures that we’ll continue to enjoy the legacy of our past for many years to come.

The present has been very kind to us this year. Many of you have joined us on the journey of taking A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder from Hartford Stage, to Broadway, to the Tony awards last June. You’ve spent the fall with us, with Elizabeth Egloff’s 19th Century historical thriller Ether Dome and our Elizabethan Hamlet.

We’re also very excited for the future—in addition to our upcoming new productions of Private Lives and Kiss Me, Kate, we’ll be bringing you some extraordinary new work, from the world premiere of Matthew Lopez’ Reverberation in February, to a number of new plays and musicals we’re developing for the next few seasons.

Stay tuned! And enjoy our newly refurbished A Christmas Carol.

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Managing Director

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CHARLES DICKENS Adapted and Originally Directed by MICHAEL WILSON The classic story by

Choreographer

HOPE CLARKE

Scenic Design

Costume Design

TONY STRAIGES

Lighting Design Original Music & Sound Design

ALEJO VIETTI Original Costume Design

ROBERT WIERZEL

JOHN GROMADA

Wig Designer

Flying Effects

Music Director

BRITTANY HARTMAN

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Production Stage Manager

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Assistant Stage Manager

Youth Director

KELLY HARDY* KRISTY CHAMBRELLI

Dramaturg

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Directed by

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Production Manager

BRYAN T. HOLCOMBE

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For your eating and drinking pleasure, snacks, soda, wine, beer, and mixed drinks are available at our concessions bar on both levels.

You are welcome to bring drinks with you to your seat, but please NO DRINKS WITH ICE. The servers at concessions will be happy to remove ice from your drinks if you do not finish before it is time to go into the theatre.

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Accessible with seating for patrons with mobility requirements available in the front row of sections B & F. Parking vouchers are for sale at the box office for $6.50 prior to the show. Choose the MAT Garage, adjacent to Hartford Stage or the Church Street garage, located below the Hilton Hotel. Vouchers are valid on performance days only.

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IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Ebenezer Scrooge............................................................................Bill Raymond * ............................................................................................................ Buzz Roddy *† Mrs. Dilber, his housekeeper...................................................Noble Shropshire * Lamplighter...................................................................................... Dylan Young Bob Cratchit, his clerk..................................................... Robert Hannon Davis * Fred, his nephew........................................................................... Curtis Billings * Fred’s Wife..................................................................................Gillian Williams * First Solicitor................................................................................. Charlie Tirrell * Second Solicitor.................................................................................. Buzz Roddy * Mr. Toby....................................................................................Conor M. Hamill Bettye Pidgeon, a doll vendor...............................................Johanna Morrison * Rich Lady..........................................................................................Ashley Croce Bert, a fruit and cider vendor................................................................Alan Rust * Mr. Marvel, a watchworks vendor............................................Michael Preston * Undertaker..................................................................................... Charlie Tirrell * Jacob Marley............................................................................Noble Shropshire * Spirit of Christmas Past.........................................................Johanna Morrison * Scrooge at 14..................................................................................Joe Boccia, Jr. Scrooge at 30................................................................................. Curtis Billings * Mr. Fezziwig................................................................................... Charlie Tirrell * Mrs. Fezziwig................................................................................ Rebecka Jones * Nichola, Fezziwig’s daughter......................................................... Allyson Webb Wendy, Fezziwig’s daughter........................................................Sarah Killough * Fiddler...................................................................................Adám Montgomery Dick Wilkins................................................................................ Adam Connolly Fezziwig’s Party Guests................................ Joe Boccia, Jr., Connor Prickett Belle, affianced to Scrooge.........................................................Gillian Williams * Spirit of Christmas Present....................................................................Alan Rust * Mrs. Cratchit................................................................................. Rebecka Jones * Martha Cratchit..............................................................Miranda Morgan Scott Mr. Topper..................................................................................Connor Prickett Fred’s Sister-In-Law.....................................................................Sarah Killough * Guests at Fred’s Party...................................... Adam Connolly, Ashley Croce, ......................................................... Hanna Rosenberg, Dylan Young Spirit of Christmas Future......................................................................... Himself Old Josie................................................................................Johanna Morrison * Ghostly Apparitions & Citizens of London............................................................... ......................................Sarah Killough*, Joe Boccia, Jr., Adam Connolly, ............ Hyten Davidson, Lizzy Jutila, Connor Prickett, Allyson Webb Male Swing........................................................................... Adám Montgomery Female Swing.......................................................................... Hanna Rosenberg † Will perform the role on December 2 (10:30 am), 3 (10:30am), 4 (10:30 am), 5 (10:30 am), 9 (10:30 am), 10 (10:30 am), 11 (10:30 am), 12 (10:30 am), 16 (10:30 am), 17 (10:30 am)

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

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THE CHILDREN OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL: Tim Cratchit................................Alexander Dante Butler or Silvan Friedman Spoiled Child/Fred’s Party........................Tyra R. N. Harris or Teagan Krieger Schoolboys........................................................... Ankit Roy or Sammy Wetstein .....................................................Lily Kathryn Girard or Tilden Wilder ................................................. Padraigh Fitzgerald or Aidan McMillan Boy Scrooge/Fred’s Party......................... Ethan Pancoast or Fred Thornley IV Fan, Scrooge’s sister ................................................... Lily Bucko or Meg Conner Claire, Fezziwig’s daughter......................Sophie Alter or Ella Rain Bernarduci Belinda Cratchit..........................................Tiana N. Bailey or Grace Rundhaug Peter Cratchit....................................... Alexander Bilodeau or Aleksei Sandals Ignorance, Cider Child............Luciana Giada Calcagno or Addison Pancoast Want, Fruit Child.................................. Jaime Han or Audrey Claire Lindquist Turkey Boy.......................................... Dermot McMillan or John Henry Wenz THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION.

Assistant Director......................................................................... Sarah Hartmann Assistant to the Director................................................................... Jeremy Sickles Assistant Set Designer..........................................................................Blair Mielnik Assistant Costume Designer.............................................................Dana Burkhart Assistant Lighting Designer.............................................................. Jimmy Lawlor Assistant to the Choreographer...........................................................Derric Harris Dance Captain.................................................................................. Sarah Killough * Assistant Youth Director......................................................................Abby Weston Production Assistants................................. Chandalae Nyswonger, Amy Lamm Understudies never substitute for listed actors unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Mrs. Dilber, Jacob Marley: Robert Hannon Davis; for Bert, Spirit of Christmas Present: Charlie Tirrell; for Scrooge: Curtis Billings; for Bob Cratchit: Michael Preston; for Bettye Pidgeon, Spirit of Christmas Past, Old Josie: Rebecka Jones; for Scrooge at 14, Fiddler, Mr. Topper, Mr. Toby: Dylan Young; for Fred, Scrooge at 30: Adam Connolly; for Fred’s Wife, Belle: Ashley Croce; for Lamplighter; Guest at Fred’s Party: Joe Boccia, Jr.; for Mr. Fezziwig, First Solicitor, Undertaker: Connor Prickett; for Second Solicitor, Dick Wilkins, Fezziwig Party Guest: Adám Montgomery; for Rich Lady, Mrs. Fezziwig: Hanna Rosenberg; for Mr. Marvel: Conor M. Hamill; for Nichola, Mrs. Cratchit: Lizzy Jutila; for Fred’s Sister-in-Law, Martha Cratchit: Hyten Davidson; for Guest at Fred’s Party: Allyson Webb.

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CHARLES DICKENS Dickens (1812-1870) is widely considered the greatest English novelist of the Victorian era. His many novels include A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. Dickens was more popular during his lifetime than any previous novelist had been. His work functioned on many levels, and had a wide appeal; he was both a great comic writer and a serious and thoughtful critic of the society he lived in. The novels that were most successful in his time are not as a rule the same ones that we read most today –but A Christmas Carol has always been among the best-loved of his novels. He also wrote a couple of plays, and while neither of them were hits, many of the novels have been successfully dramatized and are regularly produced today.

A Christmas Carol was the first of Dickens’ Christmas novels – a genre he created. He conceived of and wrote it in a few weeks, in the midst of his work on the much longer Martin Chuzzlewit. It’s the one great Christmas myth of modern literature, and quickly entered the general consciousness. When he died, a London costermonger’s girl is said to have exclaimed “Dickens dead? Then will Father Christmas die too?” Thackeray called A Christmas Carol “a national benefit, and to every man and woman who reads it a personal kindness.” Dickens wrote a further Christmas book almost every year for the next two decades, but while they did well, none had such a wide effect on the general culture.

In 1858, Dickens started giving public paid readings of his work. A novelist who had once considered being an actor, he had always written work that lent itself well to reading aloud. The most popular of his readings were of A Christmas Carol and of the trial scene from The Pickwick Papers. He gave readings both in London and on tour over the next decade, culminating in a tour of the United States. A natural performer, he brought out the nuances in his work while also making good use of the dramatic effects. Each reading was about two hours in total, and these performances brought in a great deal of his income in the last decade of his life. No other major novelist (until Mark Twain began his tours) had taken on such a series of readings, and they were very successful, but they took their toll.

The American tour in 1867-68 was the last he made, and contributed to the decline in his health. In 1869 he gave a series of farewell readings in London, and famously ended them with the lines “From these garish lights I vanish now forever…”, lines which were repeated only three months later on the card for his funeral. He died suddenly in 1870 at only 58, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Charles Dickens in his Study, 1859 by William Powell Frith, Victoria and Albert Museum.

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CURTIS BILLINGS FRED | SCROOGE AT 30 Hartford Stage: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (co-production with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra), The Crucible, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Summer and Smoke, 8 by Tenn, The Night of The Iguana, Macbeth, Camino Real, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, Williams Marathon 1, 2 & 3 (readings): The Mutilated, Vieux Carre, Masks Outrageous, The Purification, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Strangest Kind of Romance, The Long Goodbye.

Broadway: The Trip to Bountiful, The Best Man. Off-Broadway: The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, The Play About the Baby. Off-Off Broadway: The Drunk! Regional: Theaterworks: The Exonerated; Paper Mill Playhouse: Summer and Smoke; The Cleveland Playhouse: Enchanted April; The Alley Theatre: The Zoo Story (directed by Edward Albee), Misalliance, Gross Indecency:The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, A Christmas Carol, A Streetcar Named Desire; Houston Shakespeare Festival: The Tempest, King Lear, Two Gentlemen of Verona; CAC of New Orleans: Fragments (directed by Edward Albee).

ROBERT HANNON DAVIS BOB CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: Our Town, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, 365 Days 365 Plays; Brand:NEW: Welcome to Jesus, American Hero, Horton Foote’s The Shape of the River, Stuff Happens; Peter & Jerry: A Play by Edward Albee (u/s). Regional: Goodspeed Musicals: Show Boat; TheaterWorks: The Exonerated (Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Best Ensemble); Shakespeare & Company, Tulane Shakespeare Festival, Swine Palace Productions, Monomoy Theatre, Playhouse on Park. Voice & Dialect Coach: Hartford Stage (Abundance, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, To Kill A Mockingbird), Yale Repertory Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Teaching: Professor of Acting, Voice and Speech at the Hartt School Theatre Division, Shakespeare & Company Training Programs, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Theater Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities’ Rose Playhouse Institute, Designated Linklater Voice Teacher. Television: Sesame Street.

REBECKA JONES MRS. FEZZIWIG | MRS. CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, The Crucible, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Brand:NEW. New York: The Drunk!, Salvage. Regional: Long Wharf Theatre: Sixteen Wounded; Shakespeare & Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King John; Elm Shakespeare Company: Macbeth, The Tempest. Other: Private Eyes, Acting Out: an evening of original short plays, Anton in Show Business, Gathering Shells, The Comedy of Errors, A Streetcar Named Desire, Angels in America, The Normal Heart, Brighton Beach Memoirs. Education: MFA, Ohio University. Rebecka is a CoArtistic Director and founding member of Theatre 4, a New Haven, Conn.-based theatre company.

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SARAH KILLOUGH WENDY | FRED’S SISTER-IN-LAW GHOSTLY APPARITION | DANCE CAPTAIN Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Shape of the River (reading). New York: A Time For Singing (York Theatre: Musicals in Mufti). Regional: Les Misérables (Pioneer Theatre and Duluth Playhouse); The Man Who Came to Dinner, Born Yesterday, Once Upon a Mattress, Three Men on a Horse, Lion in Winter, Trip to Bountiful, Honk! (Monomoy Theatre). Education: The Hartt School, Interlochen Arts Academy.

JOHANNA MORRISON BETTYE PIDGEON | SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PAST | OLD JOSIE Hartford Stage: Ether Dome, Noises Off, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, Summer and Smoke (also Papermill Playhouse), Brand:NEW Festival: Stuff Happens; Williams Marathon. Regional: TheaterWorks: The Credeaux Canvas, Talking Heads; The Monomoy Theatre: Betrayal, The Corn Is Green, The Father, Noises Off!, The Dresser, The Matchmaker.

Cleveland Playhouse: The Guardsman, The Importance of Being Earnest, Steve Martin’s The Underpants; Indiana Rep: Noises Off!; North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (core member 9 years, 18 roles); Milwaukee Repertory Theatre: Shirley Valentine, Lettice and Lovage; Virginia Museum Theatre; Walnut Street Theatre; PlayMakers Rep; Theatre By The Sea; Denver Center Theatre; Northern Stage Company; London Stage Productions; Peninsula Players; Stage West.

Roles range from Regan in King Lear to Dollie Levi in The Matchmaker. Films: Critical Condition, Double Exposure. Television: Perry Mason, Matlock, Diagnosis Murder, One Life To Live, PBS: Infamous Love (George Sand/Fredric Chopin) Other Credits: Currently: Voice and Speech Coach at The Hartt School, University of Hartford Theatre and Vocal Division; Dialect Coach for Universal Pictures, Great Britain; appearances with symphony orchestras as St. Joan in Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake, King David and Festival Triptych by Robert Ward. Connecticut Concert Opera: Lakme, Daughter Of The Regiment. Recent: Eleanor, Lion in Winter (Monomoy Theater); Journey Of The Soul, New Haven Choral & Hartt Choral (U of H); Berthe, Pippin (Lincoln Theater, U of H). In loving memory of my mentor, my best friend, my inspiration… the Love of My Life—Malcolm Morrison.

MICHAEL PRESTON MR. MARVEL Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, Fräulein Maria, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (co-production with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra). Theatre: Member of the Shaliko Company in New York City, founded by Leonardo Shapiro. He also worked with such artists as John Sayles, David Cale, Wynn Handman and Theodora Skipitares. From 1991 until 2000 he toured the world as one of the Flying Karamazov Brothers, which included three different runs on Broadway. With them he collaborated on and performed 9 different shows, ranging from the post-modern tragedy Le Petomane, to an update of Room Service (winner of an L.A. critic’s award in 1998). They were nominated for an Olivier award in London for Best Comedy in 1994. More recently, he directed their show, Life: A Guide for the Perplexed. He co-directed Peter and the Wolf, with Barbara Karger, which was choreographed by Doug Elkins, in Amsterdam in 2001. Fräulien Maria (choreographed by Doug Elkins and co-directed with Barbara Karger) has just finished touring the country after four years. He is an Associate Professor of Theater and Dance at Trinity College, Hartford.

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BILL RAYMOND SCROOGE Hartford Stage: A Moon for the Misbegotten, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas; Brand:NEW: The Measure of My Days.

International: Bavarian State Opera Festival (Munich, Germany): Moses und Aron. Broadway: Gypsy (with Patti Lapone). Off-Broadway: City Center, Gypsy; Public Theater, Wooster Group: Hamlet; MTC: End Game, Blur, Wonder of The World; Mabou Mines (member from 1974-1990; performed throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia): Cold Harbor (Obie for performance), Prelude to Death in Venice (Obie for performance), B. Beaver Animation, The Shaggy Dog Animation (Obie for production), Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, Dressed Like An Egg (Obie for production).

Regional: Long Wharf: A Moon the the Misbegotten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; New Jersey Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet; American Conservatory Theatre: Scapin (Drama-Logue Award); La Jolla Playhouse: What The Butler Saw (Drama-Logue Award), Visions of Simone Marchard; Goodman Theatre: Speed of Darkness; also productions at the Cleveland Play House and Wilma Theater. Film: Lincoln, Foreclosure, Michael Clayton, What Alice Found, A Hole In One, Dogville, Spring Forward, Summer of Sam, Twelve Monkeys, The Ref, Disappearances, Stranger In The Kingdom, Where The Rivers Flow North, My New Gun, True Identity, City of Hope, Quick Change, How I Got Into College, Eight Men Out, Baby It’s You. Television: Damages, The Wire (HBO), Ed, Third Watch, Death In The Family, I’ll Fly Away, Law & Order, Stephen King’s Golden Years, The Murder of Mary Phagan, Miami Vice. Mr. Raymond is deeply grateful to Hartford Stage, Michael Wilson and Max Williams, and the entire casts and crews of A Christmas Carol for fifteen wonderful, nuturing years.

BUZZ RODDY SCROOGE | SECOND SOLICITOR Hartford Stage: Debut. Off-Broadway: The Cmplt Wks of Wm Shkspr (Abdg’d), Dorian Gray - The Musical, Scandalous People, Perfect Crime. Regional: Red (New Century); 33 Variations (Majestic); Last Of The Red Hot Lovers (multiple productions/theatres); Barefoot In The Park (Ivoryton Playhouse); Dracula (Delaware Theatre Company); God Of Carnage (New Century); The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (Capital Rep). International: A Christmas Carol (25 years/18 countries/hundreds of theatres). Film & TV: 30 Rock, Flight Of The Conchords, all the Law & Order franchises, The Music Never Stopped, Quick Change, The Cowboy Way. Education: School of Hard Knocks. www.buzzroddy.com

ALAN RUST BERT | SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol­—A Ghost Story of Christmas, The Trip to Bountiful, Brand:NEW Festival of New Work, Is He Dead? (Reading). Off Broadway: Broadway, The Three Musketeers. Regional: Playhouse on Park: Equus; Goodspeed Musicals: 1776; Northern Stage: A Lesson From Aloes, Harvey, The Price, Substance of Fire; The Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: School For Scandal, A Few Good Men; North Carolina Shakespeare Company: The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, A Christmas Carol, Just a Song at Twilight; The Monomoy Theatre: The Dresser, My Fair Lady, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; The Actor’s Ensemble: K2, Old Times; directed extensively in the United

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States as well as Sydney, Australia, Goteborg, Sweden, Birmingham, England and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Professional: Has been a member of the International Theatre Institute and a panelist at conferences in Istanbul, Turkey and in the former Soviet Union. Served as president of the National Theatre Conference for two terms and has been a member of numerous committees in national and international theatre programs. Founding member of the World Theatre Training Institute establish in Vienna Austria. Held positions at The University of Washington, The State University of New York at Purchase, The University of Detroit, The North Carolina School of the Arts, where he served as Dean, The University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Mr. Rust has been the Artistic Director of Monomoy Theatre on Cape Cod for the past 35 years, and is also the Director of the Theatre Division of The Hartt School at the University of Hartford.

NOBLE SHROPSHIRE MRS. DILBER | JACOB MARLEY Hartford Stage: Macbeth, La Dispute, The Tempest, The 39 Steps, Noises Off!, Macbeth (2000), Our Town, A Christmas Carol–A Ghost Story of Christmas, Brand:NEW Play Festival. Broadway: Underling in The Drowsy Chaperone; Royal National Theatre’s premiere of Tennessee Williams’s Not About Nightingales with Trevor Nunn; Candida (Roundbout). OffBroadway: The Killer (Theatre for a New Audience); Parris in The Crucible (Roundabout); CSC (9 seasons): title roles in Hamlet, Peer Gynt, Tartuffe, Leonce & Lena, as well as the Fool in King Lear, Mephisto in Faust, Hummel in Ghost Sonata, Robespierre in Danton’s Death, Gayev in The Cherry Orchard; La Mama. Regional: Actors Theatre Louisville, Alley Theatre, ART, Arena Stage, Asolo, Cincinnati Playhouse, City Theatre, Denver Center, Great Lakes, PlayMakers, Phoenix Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Co., Pittsburgh Public, Rep Theater St. Louis, Stage West, Westport Country Playhouse. Television: Roger Stifdik in Strangers with Candy, Loving, Guiding Light.

Film: The Asylum Seekers, The Uninvited. Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.

CHARLIE TIRRELL FIRST SOLICITOR | UNDERTAKER | MR. FEZZIWIG Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol–A Ghost Story of Christmas.

Regional: Hamlet (Yale Rep); Uncle Vanya, The Front Page (Long Wharf); 1776 (Goodspeed); Berkshire Playwrights Lab (6 Seasons); Much Ado About Nothing, Robin Hood (Elm Shakespeare Co.); The Price (Chester Theatre Company); Johnny Guitar, Anything Goes (Seven Angels); An Impossible Life (Shakespeare & Co./reading). Education: Paul Smiths College. Professional Positions: Member - Society of American Foresters, Professional Forester (CT/MA).

GILLIAN WILLIAMS FRED’S WIFE | BELLE Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol–A Ghost Story of Christmas. OffBroadway: Assistant Director, Fiasco Theater’s Cymbeline (Theatre for a New Audience). Regional: Venus in Fur (Seattle Rep; Arizona Theatre Co.); Belleville (Studio Theatre); Cabaret (Trinity Rep); Submerged (American Theatre Company); Hamlet, Boom (Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre); Perceval (NYC Fringe Festival). Film: Self Storage, A Dream of Flying.

Television: The Good Wife. Education: Brown University/Trinity Rep (M.F.A.), Sarah Lawrence College (B.A.). Awards: American recipient of the 2011 International Actor’s Fellowship from Shakespeare’s Globe (UK).

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JOE BOCCIA, JR. SCROOGE AT 14 | FEZZIWIG’S PARTY GUEST | GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Debut. Education: BFA Actor Training Candidate, The Hartt School, University of Hartford. Productions: Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shelley Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross. Regional: Hugo in Bye Bye Birdie, Eugene Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Luther Billis in South Pacific.

ADAM CONNOLLY DICK WILKINS | GUEST AT FRED’S PARTY | GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Hamlet. Regional: Kiss Me Kate, An Enemy of the People, South Pacific, Twelfth Night, The Man Who Came to Dinner (dir. Terry Layman). Education: Senior in the BFA Actor Training program at The Hartt School, University of Hartford. Performances: Glengarry Glen Ross; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Cider House Rules, Part One; The King Stag.

ASHLEY CROCE RICH LADY | GUEST AT FRED’S PARTY Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Coriolanus (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.); Just So Stories (Berkshire Theatre Festival). Education: Senior in the BFA Actor Training program at The Hartt School, University of Hartford. Productions include Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman (World Premiere, dir. Maxwell Williams); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Top Girls; The Cider House Rules, Part One; Caucasian Chalk Circle, The King Stag, Mere Mortals, Antigone.

HYTEN DAVIDSON GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Debut. Education: BFA Actor Training Candidate at The Hartt School, University of Hartford. Performances: Cassandra in Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman (World Premiere, dir. Maxwell Williams); Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Patient Griselda/ Kit/Shona in Top Girls; Mrs. Eames’ Daughter, Eclampsia Patient in The Cider House Rules, Part One.

CONOR M. HAMILL MR. TOBY Hartford Stage: Hamlet. Regional: Cabaret (Playhouse on Park) and La Cage Aux Folles (Ivoryton Playhouse). Indie Film: The Undercast, and Removed. Education: Senior in the BFA Actor Training program at The Hartt School. Performances: Glengarry Glen Ross; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The King Stag; The Cider House Rules, Part One; Caucasian Chalk Circle; Some Girl(s); I Love You Because.

LIZZY JUTILA GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Perdita in The Winter’s Tale (Capital Classics).

Education: Interlochen Arts Academy; Senior in the BFA Actor Training Program at The Hartt School, University of Hartford.

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ADÁM MONTGOMERY FIDDLER | MALE SWING Hartford Stage: Hamlet. Regional: Peter Pan (directed by Mark Lamos) (Resident Ensemble Players); All’s Well That Ends Well (Capital Classics Shakespeare Festival); Beethoven in Dog Sees God (benefit for the Trevor Project). Film: Wrestling (w/ Jeff Conaway), Suffer the Little Children (w/ Angela Pietropinto), Of Darkness. Education: BFA Actor Training, The Hartt School.

Productions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Glengarry Glen Ross; The Cider House Rules, Part One; The King Stag; Antigone; Mere Mortals; Caucasian Chalk Circle.

CONNOR PRICKETT FEZZIWIG’S PARTY GUEST | MR. TOPPER | GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Hamlet. Regional: 1776, The Crucible, Cabaret, Henry IV (Monomoy); All’s Well that Ends Well (Capital Classics). Education: BFA Actor Training Candidate, The Hartt School. Productions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom); The Cider House Rules (Dr. Larch); Glengarry Glen Ross (Lingk); Antigone (Chorus); The King Stag (Durandarte/Puppeteer).

HANNA ROSENBERG GUEST AT FRED’S PARTY | FEMALE SWING Hartford Stage: Debut. Training: Senior in the BFA Actor Training Program at The Hartt School, University of Hartford; Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Productions include: Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman (World Premiere, dir. Maxwell Williams); A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Top Girls; The Cider House Rules, Part One; Antigone; Mere Mortals; The King Stag; Caucasian Chalk Circle.

MIRANDA MORGAN SCOTT MARTHA CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: Debut. Education: Senior in the BFA Actor Training Program at The Hartt School, University of Hartford; Productions include: Antigone (dir. Malcolm Morrison), Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman (World Premiere, dir. Max Williams), Top Girls, The Cider House Rules, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A View From the Bridge (dir. Kevin Gray). Film: When the Axles Jam (Student Film). Web-Series: Grown A** Boys, The Sneaker Princess Vlogs.

ALLYSON WEBB NICHOLA | GHOSTLY APPARITION Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: La Cage Aux Folles (Anne Dindon, Ivoryton Playhouse); Cabaret, George Washington Slept Here, Henry IV Part I, The Crucible (Monomoy Theatre).

Education: Senior in the BFA Actor Training Program at The Hartt School, University of Hartford; Tragic Ways of Killing A Woman (World Premiere, dir. Maxwell Williams); Top Girls; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Cider House Rules, Part 1; The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mere Mortals.

DYLAN YOUNG LAMPLIGHTER | GUEST AT FRED’S PARTY Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Rabbit Hole (Actor’s Theater of New Orleans); All’s Well That Ends Well (Capital Classics). Film: Click (post-production); A Christmas Carol: The Whole Story. Education: Senior in the BFA Actor Training Program at The Hartt School, University of Hartford; Productions include Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman (World Premiere, dir. Maxwell Williams), Glengarry Glen Ross, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cider House Rules.

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THE CHILDREN OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL

SOPHIE ALTER CLAIRE Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Beauty and the Beast (Bristol Theatre Arts); Sheila/Jennie in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; Cricket Kaufman/lead role in Class Clown (Hartford Children’s Theater “On The Road”); Ensemble Orphan in Annie, Alfie in Willy Wonka (Hartford Children’s Theater Main Stage). Film: Black Saturday. Television: CNN’s The Hunt with John Walsh (Preaching Lies Episode); Welcome To Grandpaville (Web Series Season 1 and 2). Education/Training: A Class Act, New York; Diane Hardin’s The Joy of Acting Weekend Workshop, New York; ballet and hip hop (beginner), intermediate cello.

TIANA N. BAILEY BELINDA CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: A Christmas Carol; I Need an Angel; Tappin’ to His Love; Sincerely, My Sister. Education/Training: Hartford Children’s Theatre (Musical Cabaret); Hartford Stage (Musical Theatre). Other: American Girl Fashion Show, Vocal Choir, Dance Team, Cheerleading.

ELLA RAIN BERNARDUCI CLAIRE Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz, Miss Hannigan in Annie, Baghera in Jungle Book, Genie in Alladin (Avon Youth Summer Theatre); Dionysus/Narrator in Greek Mythology (Hartford Stage Youth Studio). Education/Training: Hartford Stage Youth Studio, The Mark Twain Players, Private Acting Coaching with Emely Larson.

ALEXANDER BILODEAU PETER CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol; Macbeth (u/s). Theatre: Peter Pan (Warner Theater); Godspell, Jr. (Lamb Studios, Performing Arts Center Summer Project); Law & Order, Fairy Tale Unit (East Windsor Middle School); Oliver (Good Company Theatre); Seussical the Musical (East Windsor High School); Other Christmas plays and school drama skits. Other: Plays Trumpet and Saxophone; Prior acting training from Performing Arts Center after-school program; flying training with Flying By Foy Awards: Recipient of 2013 Sylvester McKinney Scholarship from East Windsor Public Schools to attend Performing Arts Summer Program.

LILY BUCKO FAN Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: Seussical the Musical, Jr. (Middletown Children’s Theatre); Shrek the Musical, Seussical the Musical, The Wizard of Oz (Artful Living); Captain Louie, Jr., 101 Dalmatians Kids (Haddam-Killingworth Theatre). Education/Training: Haddam-Killingworth Middle School (7th Grade); Musical Theater Cabaret Troupe, Mark Twain Players, Fosse Master Class with Carolyn Kirsch (Hartford Stage); Voice with Rebecca Degnan; Stage Left Dance Studios.

Awards: Connecticut Association of Schools Outstanding Arts Award, Excellence in Performing Arts.

ALEXANDER DANTE BUTLER TINY TIM Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: Dual roles as Tommy and Harry in Miracle on 34th Street (7 Angels Theater). Training: Graduate of John Casablanca’s Kids Acting Program. Awards:

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District wide grade 3 art award in his hometown of Farmington (Cubism portrait of the Comic Villain “The Penguin”). Other: Cub Scouts; Suzuki training (violin and cello); pre-team gymnast for New England Gymnastics Express boy’s team; baseball; Interests: Legos and Minecraft.

LUCIANA GIADA CALCAGNO IGNORANCE | CIDER CHILD Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Education: Reggio Magnet School of the Arts in Avon (First Grade). Other: Overture Chorus at the Connecticut Children’s Choir at The Hartt School; Ballet and Tap at DANCE by Kristen. Luciana sings and speaks fluent German.

MEG CONNOR FAN Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Little Mermaid Jr., Annie Jr., Cinderella, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Willy Wonka Jr., Narnia. Education/ Training: Jazz piano with Greg Babel, Hartt Community Division; Irish step dancing, tap, jazz, ballet. Other: CT Northern Regionals Jazz Band, Bristow Big Band, Voices of Bristow, Bristow Middle School Concert Band, West Hartford Inter-Elementary orchestra.

PADRAIGH FITZGERALD SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: The Mitten (Hartford Children’s Theatre).

Education/Training: University of Hartford Tap and Ballet; Dance Express Tap and Jazz; Irish Step Dancing with Courtney Jay. Other: “Small Town, Big Talent” community talent show.

SILVAN FRIEDMAN TINY TIM Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Gianni Schicchi Opera, Street Scenes Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Film: Embers, Caihong City, An Evening with Oliver, The Dawn, Fifty Cent Smile. Web: Mother Goose Playhouse, Felix Unafraid. Television/Commercials: Care.com, Hasbro. Education/Training: Connecticut Children’s Theatre, Hartford Stage, Artists Youth Collective at The Bushnell, Hartt School (Voice, Piano), Terpsichore Dance & Theatre LLC (Jazz, Ballet, Tap). Other: Taekwondo Black Belt, Bilingual English/German, Homeschooled, Vegetarian. www.silvanfriedman.com

LILY KATHRYN GIRARD SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: Les Misérables, Oliver, Wizard of Oz (Exit 7 Players); Les Misérables (Broadbrook Operahouse); South Pacific (Westfield Theater Group). Education/ Training: Artistic Dance Conservatory, East Longmeadow, Mass.; The Drama Studio, Springfield, Mass.; Piano and Voice student of George Garber, Jr. Other: Center School Orchestra, Cello.

JAIME HAN WANT | FRUIT CHILD Hartford Stage: Debut. Education/Training: 1st Grade, Academy of Aerospace & Engineering Elementary School; Summer Studio 2014, Hartford Stage. Other: Suzuki Violin 2014, The Hartt School Community Division; University of Hartford Girls‘ Recreation Team 2013-2014; Glastonbury Hartwell Soccer Club.

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TYRA R. N. HARRIS SPOILED CHILD | FRED’S PARTY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Television: ESPN “Both Sides of the Ball” episode “What’s in a Name?” Education/Training: RJ Kinsella Magnet School of Performing Arts; Hartford Stage (Musical Theatre Workshop). Other: Tyra has performed in several school productions at Kinsella including Aladdin and the Cultural Heritage Celebration with a solo in a scene from Mulan. Interests: golf, soccer, piano, violin, singing and dancing. Tyra is currently learning saxophone and cello.

TEAGAN KRIEGER SPOILED CHILD | FRED’S PARTY Hartford Stage: Debut. Theater: Sound of Music (2014); Damn Yankees (2014); Les Misérables (3 times; 2013-14); Kidz with Flare Comedy (2013); Guys and Dollls (2012).

Training: Connecticut Children’s Choir (The Hartt School); tap, ballet and jazz (Greater Hartford Dance Academy); advanced monolog training, advanced cold reading, advanced scene study, advanced improvisation, on camera work (all with acting coach Adrian R’mante); Performing Arts Youth Collective (The Bushnell).

AUDREY CLAIRE LINDQUIST WANT | FRUIT CHILD Hartford Stage: Debut. Education/Training: Kindergarten at Cherry Brook Primary School, Canton; Piano Instruction, Miller Music, Farmington (2014); Hartford Stage Summer Camp 2014; “Broadway Bound” Ballet performance with Dance by Kristen, Collinsville (2013).

AIDAN MCMILLAN SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Athol Fugard’s Shadow of a Hummingbird (Long Wharf Theater), Our Town (Long Wharf Theater), Shakespeare Everywhere (Artfarm); Loves of Cass McGuire (Vintage Players). Film: Wally Lamb’s Wishin’ and Hopin’ (Synthetic Cinema), Saturdays (student film, Ananya Menon). Television/Commercials: Helado Negro’s Invisible Heartbeat (music video), PBS SteveSongs Recess Rocks. Education/ Training: Oddfellows Children Theater, Traditional Fiddle with Craig Edwards, Hartford Stage Cabaret, guitar at Middletown Music Academy, Keigwin Band saxophone.

DERMOT MCMILLAN TURKEY BOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Athol Fugard’s Shadow of a Hummingbird (Long Wharf Theater), Our Town (Long Wharf Theater), Shakespeare Everywhere (Artfarm); Loves of Cass McGuire (Vintage Players). Film: Wally Lamb’s Wishin’ and Hopin’ (Synthetic Cinema), Saturdays (student film, Ananya Menon). Television/Commercials: Helado Negro’s Invisible Heartbeat (music video), PBS SteveSongs Recess Rocks. Education/ Training: Oddfellows Children Theater, Traditional Fiddle with Craig Edwards, Hartford Stage Cabaret, guitar at Middletown Music Academy, Keigwin Band clarinet.

ADDISON PANCOAST IGNORANCE | CIDER CHILD Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre/Dance: Ensemble/Bon Bon in The Nutcracker (Albano Ballet Company). Education: Kindergarten at West Hill School, Rocky Hill. Other: Addison loves singing, dancing and performing. She is so excited to be given this opportunity.

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ETHAN PANCOAST BOY SCROOGE | FRED’S PARTY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Ensemble/Snow Child in Carousel (Goodspeed Opera House). Television: Christmas promo with Mike Ditka for ESPN. Music: Performed violin at Carnegie Hall with the “School For Strings” May 2011. Education: Fifth Grade at West Hill School, Rocky Hill. Other: Ethan’s favorite sport is baseball and dreams of playing professionally one day.

ANKIT ROY SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Hartford Stage and Hartford Symphony Orchestra at The Bushnell); Once on This Island (CAST Children’s Theatre). Awards: National Finalist of Scotties Trees Rock Video Contest. Winner of Rock Cats/American Lung Association’s Anti-Smoking Poster Contest. Education: Windermere Elementary School, Ellington (Fourth Grade).

GRACE RUNDHAUG BELINDA CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: Debut. Theatre: Marta Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (Westchester Broadway Theatre); Hedrika in Miracle on 34th Street (Seven Angels Theatre); Molly in Annie (The Warner Theatre). Television: Marta Von Trapp in The Sound of Music Live! (NBC Live Broadcast with Carrie Underwood). Education/Training: Acting (Christopher Smalley); Voice (Marissa Famiglietti); Jazz, Tap, Acro (Fineline Theatre Arts); Ballet, Hip Hop, Street Dance (Studio D). Other: Grace would like to thank the cast, crew and production team for making her time in this spirited production so merry!

ALEKSEI SANDALS PETER CRATCHIT Hartford Stage: Macbeth, A Christmas Carol. Regional: Joe Crowell in Our Town (Little Theatre of Manchester). Education: Eighth grade at R.J. Kinsella Magnet School of Performing Arts. Training: C.A.S.T Children’s Theater 2008-2012, Fencing (Farmington Valley Fencing Academy), Hartford Children’s Theatre Musical Cabaret Troupe, Hartford’s SEA TEA Improv Teen Performance Troupe, Stagedoor Manor Acting Camp (Yes, Virginia, The Musical, Annie, Children of Eden). Dance: Tap (since age 4), Hip Hop and Ballet; Fritz in The Nutcracker (Dance Incorporated, Plainville). Awards: Outstanding Achievement in a Musical (Annie and Children of Eden). Commercial: Companions and Homemakers.

FRED THORNLEY IV BOY SCROOGE | FRED’S PARTY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Our Town (Long Wharf); Carousel (Goodspeed Musicals). Education/Training: Noah Webster Micro Magnet Society School (Fourth Grade); UHARTT Community Division Pre Professional Jazz and Tap Program (2010 to Present); Master Tap Class UHARTT 2014; Master Acting Class Hartford Stage 2014. Awards: Employee of the Year (2012-2013 & 2013-2014) at Noah Webster Micro Magnet Society School.

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JOHN HENRY “JACK” WENZ TURKEY BOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: West Hartford Hauntings (Noah Webster House); Fisherman and His Wife (Will Children’s Stage Adventures); Some Treasure Island, Seussification of Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage Summer Studio). Education/Training: Hartford Stage Comedy Improv, Playhouse on Park Other: Member of Holy Family Passionists’ Retreat Center Children’s Choir; Florence E. Smith Elementary School Choir; Ice Hockey; Baseball; Sailing; Reading; Interesting Dialects.

SAMMY WETSTEIN SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: Curly in Peter Pan (Warner Theater); Gavroche in Les Misérables (Landmark Community Theatre); Winthrop in Music Man (Theatre Guild of Simsbury); Fagin’s Boy in Oliver! (Good Company Theater). Education/Training: GHAAMS (6th Grade). Other: Enjoys climbing, legos, minecraft, cello, and piano.

TILDEN WILDER SCHOOLBOY Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol. Theatre: The Nutcracker (Albany Berkshire Ballet, 2013 & 2014). Education: Third grader at Noah Webster Micro Society Magnet School, Hartford.

Training: New England Dance Center Company Dancer (Tap, Jazz, Ballet & Lyrical), Sam’s Academy (Gymnastics).

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MICHAEL WILSON ADAPTOR | ORIGINAL DIRECTOR Michael Wilson’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas is enjoying its 17th holiday season at Hartford Stage, where he was Artistic Director from 1998 to 2011. His script premiered in 1990 at Houston’s Alley Theatre where it’s currently playing its 19th season; it is also in its 11th season at Washington D.C’s Ford’s Theatre. Dramatists Play Service published his adaptation in 2009. In 2010, Wilson received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for his direction of Horton Foote’s three-part epic The Orphans’ Home Cycle. On Broadway, he directed the Tony Award winning revival of The Trip to Bountiful. Other Broadway productions include the Tony nominated Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Dividing the Estate, Enchanted April, and Roundabout’ Theatre Company’s revival of John Van Druten’s Old Acquaintance. His Off-Broadway credits include Christopher Shinn’s Picked and What Didn’t Happen; Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore; and Lanford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly, among many others. Wilson directed the Emmy nominated Lifetime/Ostar Productions television movie version of The Trip to Bountiful starring Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams and Blair Underwood. He is currently shooting the indie feature Showing Roots starring Uzo Aduba, Maggie Grace, and Justin Long.

MAXWELL WILLIAMS DIRECTOR | ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Currently in his third season as Associate Artistic Director, Maxwell Williams has directed the Hartford Stage productions of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Boeing-Boeing, The 39 Steps and Dying City, numerous readings and workshops, and remounts the theater’s annual production of A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Mr. Williams’ directing credits include world premieres and revivals at theaters across the country, including 59E59 Theatres, the Bank St. Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Hartford Theaterworks, Capital Repertory Theatre, Majestic Theater, Chance Theater, Workshop Theater Company, and Monomoy Theater, as well as work for the Pasadena Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Primary Stages, and the Alley Theatre, Houston. He served as associate director for the Broadway production of Horton Foote’s Dividing the Estate, as well as Foote’s 9-play epic The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Hartford Stage and Signature Theatre), and has assistant directed on Broadway, for Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Center Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company and the American Repertory Theatre. A member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and Directors Lab West, he has been adjunct faculty or visiting artist at NYU, Trinity College, Mt. Holyoke College and the Hartt School, University of Hartford, from which he graduated with honors in the inaugural class of the Theatre Division.

HOPE CLARKE CHOREOGRAPHER Hartford Stage: Resurrection, The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue, Rough Crossing, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, ...Love, Langston, The Colored Museum, Spunk. Broadway: A Free Man of Color (Lincoln Center); Caroline, or Change, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Tempest (also done in Central Park), West Side Story, Grind, Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope, Purlie, Hallelujah, Baby!. Off-Broadway: The Reckoning, House of Flowers, One Last Look, Othello, A Raisin in The Sun, Dark of The Moon. International: National Theatre: Caroline, or Change.

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director: Duke Theater Showcase: In Gathering; The Multi Series at York Theatre: Hallelujah, Baby!

Dance: soloist: Katherine Dunham Company, Talley Beatty, Louis Johnson; Principal dancer: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Television: New York Undercover, Law & Order. Honors: Tony nomination, best choreography for Jelly’s Last Jam; Drama-Logue Award, Joseph Calloway Award and NAACP Image award for the same piece; first black director and choreographer to do a major tour of Porgy & Bess and the Dance Jazz version for Dallas Black Theatre. Recent: For the past 2 years, a play about the Tuskegee airmen called Fly; directed Cosi fan tutte for Opera Ebony.

TONY STRAIGES SCENIC DESIGN Hartford Stage: designs include The Great Magoo, Summer and Smoke, Noises Off!. Broadway: designs include Timbuktu!, A History of the American Film, John Curry’s Ice Dancing, Richard III, Sunday in the Park with George, Rumors, Into the Woods, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, I Hate Hamlet, Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual, Artist Descending a Staircase, Golden Child, Enchanted April. Off-Broadway: designs include Messiah, Diamonds, Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein, Tea at Five, From Door to Door, Meet Me in St. Louis, Chasing Manet, Treasure Island, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Regional: includes Arena Stage, Williamstown Theater Festival, Center Stage, Alley Theater, Old Globe, American Repertory Theater, Yale Rep, Guthrie, Cleveland Playhouse, People’s Light and Theater. Ballet: Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Royal Ballet of Sweden. Recent Designs: Light; Fen (Columbia University/Classic Stage); The Cherry Orchard (People’s Light and Theater). Awards: Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Maharam Foundation, Friends of New York Theater, Drama Critics Circle, California, Robby, Drama-Logue, Dallas Critics Circle, Connecticut Critics Circle, Virginia Phoebe.

ALEJO VIETTI COSTUME DESIGN Hartford Stage: The Mystery of Irma Vep, Our Town, Frankie and Johnny, Bad Dates, Dying City and Mistakes Were Made. New York: Beautiful (Broadway). Works at New York City Opera, Manhattan Theatre Club, Radio City Rockettes, Primary Stages, MCC, Atlantic Theatre Company, Irish Rep and The New Group, among others. Select Regional: Alley Theatre, Longwharf, Old Globe, Guthrie, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodspeed, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Saint Louis Repertory Theatre, Paper Mill, Pittsburgh Public, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Colorado Ballet, Wolf Trap Opera and Minnesota Opera. Other: Ringling Brothers, Edinburgh Fringe, Donetsk Opera (Ukraine). TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award Recipient.

ZACK BROWN ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Broadway: Tony Awardwinning revival of On Your Toes (Scenery & Costumes). Regional: Arena Stage: The Importance of Being Earnest, Candide, Of Thee I Sing, Animal Crackers, Tales From The Vienna Woods, On The Town, Twelfth Night, Arcadia; Kennedy Center: Don Quixote; Circle In The Square: 14 productions including Suddenly Last Summer, Salome (American Theatre Wing nom., set), Tartuffe (filmed for PBS, Drama Desk nom.), The Importance of Being Earnest (Tony nom.), St. Joan (Drama Desk nom., costumes), The Night of the Iguana, Devil’s Disciple, Loose Ends. Opera Company credits: Washington Opera: Principal Designer (42 productions from 1979 to 1994, scenery and costumes); Santa Fe; San Francisco: La Gioconda (two Emmy Awards); Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto; New York City Opera; Houston Grand Opera. Ballet credits: American Ballet Theatre; Milwaukee Ballet; Atlanta Ballet; Hamburg Ballet; Hamburg Staatsoper: On The Town (Scenery & Costumes). Education: University of Notre Dame, Yale School of Drama.

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ROBERT WIERZEL LIGHTING DESIGN Hartford Stage: The Underpants, Divine Rivalry, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Scene, Edgardo Mine, Constant Star, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, Happy Days, Loot, Romeo & Juliet, Arms and The Man, Morocco, The Stick Wife, Pericles, On The Verge, The Mystery Plays. Broadway: Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill starring Audra McDonald; FELA! a musical; David Copperfield’s Dreams and Nightmares. Off-Broadway: Indian Ink (Roundabout Theatre Company); NYSF; MCC Theatre; Signature Theatre Company. Other credits: Mostly Mozart Festival; BAM. Regional: A.C.T. (San Francisco); Goodman Theatre; Arena Stage; Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Shakespeare Theatre Company DC; Westport Country Playhouse; Long Wharf; The Guthrie; Mark Taper Forum and the Berkley Rep, among others. Opera: Productions with the opera companies of Paris (Garnier); Tokyo; Bergen (Norway); Toronto; Boston; San Diego; San Francisco; Houston; Washington; Seattle; Minnesota; Chicago; Glimmerglass and New York City Opera among others. Dance: numerous collaborations with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (28 years); Liz Gerring Dance Company. Future: In development for LUNA GALE, at Center Theatre Group, LA. Education: MFA/ Yale School of Drama. Adjunct faculty/ NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

JOHN GROMADA ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN Hartford Stage: Original Music and sound for many productions. Highlights include: The Crucible, A Christmas Carol, Divine Rivalry, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore,Camino Real, Enchanted April, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Macbeth, others. Broadway: Original scores for more than thirty five productions including The Elephant Man (current) starring Bradley Cooper, The Trip to Bountiful, The Best Man, Seminar, Clybourne Park, The Columnist, Man and Boy, Next Fall, Dividing the Estate, Proof, Prelude to a Kiss, A Bronx Tale, Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men, Sight Unseen, and A Few Good Men. Other NY: Domesticated, The Old Friends, Old Hats, My Name is Asher Lev, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Shipwrecked!, The Singing Forest, Streamers, The Screwtape Letters, Pig Farm, Small Tragedy, many others; Public Theater: Measure for Measure, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe—all at the Delacorte; and The Skriker, Machinal, and The Swan, others. Regional: More than 300 productions at leading theatres here and abroad. Television: Original score for The Trip to Bountiful movie on Lifetime, The Interrogators. Awards: Tony nomination, 3 Drama Desk awards, Henry Hewes, Lucille Lortel, Obie, Eddy, Drama-Logue, NEA Opera Music Theatre Fellowship, Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, ASCAP awards. Other: More info and music available at www.johngromada.com.

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KEN CLARK MUSIC DIRECTOR Hartford Stage: The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Our Town, A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Regional: Connecticut Repertory Theatre: over 100 productions since 1979. Recent: Shrek, Drood. Upcoming: Spelling Bee, Cinderella, Always Patsy Cline. Other credits: University of Connecticut, lecturer in Class Piano.

BRITTANY HARTMAN WIG DESIGN Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, Macbeth, La Dispute. Broadway: Assistant Designer: Violet, Of Mice and Men (2014 Revival), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Regional: Theatreworks Hartford (Christmas on the Rocks), Barrington Stage Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Ohio Light Opera, The Cleveland Playhouse. Education: BA Theatre, Ashland University.

KRISTY CHAMBRELLI YOUTH DIRECTOR Hartford Stage: Debut. International: Resident Stage Director (Asolo Art Song & Aria Festival, Italy). College/University: The Secret Garden (New England Conservatory); Brigadoon (Clark University); Les Misérables, Jekyll & Hyde, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, The Threepenny Opera (WPI); Susannah: 50th Anniversary with Carlisle Floyd; Little Red’s Most Unusual Day (Florida State University). Television: Clash of the Choirs. Awards: 2014 Moss Hart Award in College/University Division. Education: The Boston Conservatory, Director’s Lab North Alum. SDC Associate.

DERRIC HARRIS ASSISTANT TO THE CHOREOGRAPHER Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Broadway: A Free Man Of Color, Dance Of The Vampires, Kiss Me, Kate. 1st National Tours: Fosse, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Off-Broadway: Purlie, Tenderloin, House of Flowers and On A Clear Day.....( all at City Center Encores!); Paul Robeson: All American, Much Ado About Nothing, The Little Rock 9. Regional: Jimmy in Dreamgirls, Man 1 in The Colored Museum, Spunk, Master Harold and the Boys, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, God Is So Good, Boogie, ich habe dich sehr lieb...a work in progress, Elergies, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom. Film and Television: One Life To Live, All My Children, As the World Turns, Rodney, Thieves and Liars.

ROBERT W. HENDERSON, JR. ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Recent: credits include Fleur d’ Orange’s Identity as part of Center StageSM; Stellar Whisper, Seoul, South Korea; Khmer Arts Ensemble’s Bend in the River, MN, NY; Royal Ballet of Cambodia’s The Legend of Apsara Mera, NY; Compagnie de Danse Jean-Rene Delsoin on their Center StageSM tour; Race (Theaterworks, Hartford); Khmeropedies I & II, CT, NY, Amsterdam, Spoleto USA; Mary’s Wedding and Tazewell Thompson’s A Christmas Carol (Westport Country Playhouse); Les Misérables, Proof, Dracula, Doubt, Rent, The Laramie Project, I Am My Own Wife, among others (Theatre Three, NY); Barneys NY, Cole Haan and select Tiffany & Co. flagship store display windows; Brooklyn Historical Society’s exhibitions The Emancipation Proclamation and Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom;

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Associate Designer for the Permanent Exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America, NY. Worked on the international premiere of the new opera Where Elephants Weep presented in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Education: MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Design.

MARTIN LECHNER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas. Regional: Worked at various regional theatres including: Weston Playhouse, American Repertory Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, DC; The Shakespeare Theatre Of New Jersey, Alley Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Guthrie. Education: University Of California, San Diego. Other: Extensive touring, including national tours of Mamma Mia, Jolson: The Musical, Cinderella, Blast 2: Shockwave, classical touring theatre with The Acting Company and American Repertory Theatre, musical review shows, dance pieces, and cultural shows from China and Japan, including Kodo.

KELLY HARDY ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Hartford Stage: The Underpants. Broadway: The Real Thing. New York: Theatre for a New Audience, Working Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, The Actors Company Theatre. Regional: Long Wharf Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Bucks County Playhouse, Repertory East Playhouse. International: Royal College of Music, London; Shakespeare’s Globe, London. Education: UC San Diego.

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DARKO TRESNJAK ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF HARTFORD STAGE In 2011, Darko Tresnjak became only the fifth artistic director to lead Hartford Stage. Since then the theatre has presented the world premieres of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder on Broadway, winner of four 2014 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical by Darko; Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Breath & Imagination by Daniel Beaty; and Big Dance Theatre’s Man in a Case with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Darko Tresnjak was the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Shakespeare Festival in San Diego from 2004 to 2009. His directing credits at the Old Globe include Cyrano de Bergerac, Coriolanus, The Women, The Pleasure of His Company, All’s Well That Ends Well, Bell, Book and Candle, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, A Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Pericles. He received four awards from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle: for outstanding direction of Cyrano de Bergerac, The Winter’s Tale, and Pericles and for Excellence in Artistic Direction. Tresnjak’s directing career began at the Williamstown Theatre Festival where over eight seasons he directed The Skin of Our Teeth, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Love of Three Oranges, Princess Turandot, The Blue Demon, The Winter’s Tale, Moving Picture, and Under Milk Wood. He has also directed at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, Theatre for a New Audience, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Vineyard Theatre Company, and Blue Light Theater Company. From 2002-2004 he was Director in Residence at Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company where his productions included What the Butler Saw, Heartbreak House, and Amphitryon. Tresnjak grew up in Yugoslavia, the United States and Poland. He was educated at Swarthmore College and Columbia University and became an American citizen shortly after graduation. Between college and graduate school, he studied at the Martha Graham School, performed with numerous Philadelphia dance and theatre companies, and toured across the United States and Japan with Mum Puppettheatre. He is the recipient of grants from Theatre Communications Group, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Alan Schneider Award for Directing Excellence.

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MICHAEL STOTTS MANAGING DIRECTOR Michael Stotts is in his 9th year as Managing Director of Hartford Stage.

Recent accomplishments include an $11 Million Capital and Endowment Campaign, and the expansion and on-going renovations of the Stage’s theatre facility. Recent artistic accomplishments include A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder, winner of the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical; Man in a Case starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, which recently completed a national tour; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes. In 2010, in partnership with Michael Wilson, he produced Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle which won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, among others. During his three-year tenure as Managing Director at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Mr. Stotts produced a significant number of new plays including works by Paula Vogel, Craig Lucas, James Lapine and Julia Cho, among others. Sixteen Wounded by Eliam Kraiem moved to Broadway in 2004, and Cho’s BFE and Lapine’s Fran’s Bed with Mia Farrow subsequently transferred to OffBroadway’s Playwrights Horizons. Prior to Long Wharf he served as Managing Director at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and for nine years he served in the same capacity at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison, New Jersey, where he successfully initiated and managed a $7.5 million capital campaign to build the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, which opened in 1998. Mr. Stotts began his professional career at the Manhattan Theatre Club where he served in a number of management capacities from 1986–1990. Mr. Stotts currently serves on the boards of Hartford Performs, and Billings Forge Community Works. He was a co-founder and President of the Connecticut Arts Alliance, a statewide arts advocacy organization; he continues to serve on that board. In 2005, Mr. Stotts was honored with a Distinguished Advocate Award from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, and in 2011 he received the Commission’s Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Arts Administration Fellowship. He is originally from Calgary, Alberta.

CLASSICAL MAGNET SCHOOL prepares students for acceptance into competi­tive colleges and universities. Students participate in a rigorous liberal arts curriculum rooted in the Western tradition, while embracing the common elements of the Paideia philosophy of education.

Paideia is based on the belief that human beings are primarily defined by their capacity and desire for learning.

With students from more than 30 towns, our student body represents all of the region’s demographics, allowing Classical students to have authentic opportunities to interact with people who are different from themselves. At Classical, students join a very special community; a community where they are learning not just for school, but for life. These are skills that will carry our students through a changing world more seamlessly than training for any particular career, and can be used to explore any career interest later in life.

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Robert V. Lally*

Vice President

OFFICERS Jill Adams* President Sue Ann Collins* David R. Jimenez* Treasurer Secretary

GOVERNING DIRECTORS

R. Kelley Bonn Patti Broad Michele B. Bush

Kimberley L. Byrd* Marla J. Byrnes Susan J. Copeland

Richard G. Costello* Sonya D. Dockett Devon C. Francis

Renata Hayes* Carrie Hammond Barbara Hennessy

William P. Herdegen, III Jeffrey S. Hoffman* Katherine Lambert

Roger Loeb John B. Lynch, Jr. Sibongile Magubane

Margaret Marchak Barri Marks Otis Maynard

Judith C. Meyers Paul Mitchell Lynda B. Moecker

Marjorie E. Morrissey Wilfred R. Noel Eric D. Ort

Charlie Ortiz Robert A. Penney Esther A. Pryor

Christopher J. Rixon Barbara Rubin John L. Sennott, Jr.

Robin L. Smith Ileen Swerdloff Peter L. Tedone

Judith E. Thompson Nadine Francis West* Patty Willis

C. Robert Zelinger

Maxwell M. Belding

Beverly P. Greenberg

Christina B. Ripple

LIFE DIRECTORS George L. Estes III Arnold C. Greenberg Janet M. Larsen Belle K. Ribicoff Anne H. Rudder Linda Fisher Silpe

HONORARY DIRECTORS

John Alves Margaret B. Amstutz David Carson

Sara Marcy Cole Susan G. Fisher Andrew M. Fleischmann

Michael Grunberg George A. Ingram* Michael D. Nicastro

Tom Richards Bruce Simons* Elsa Daspin Suisman

Allan B. Taylor Brooke Whittemore Linda Cheverton Wick

Sherwood S. Willard

Joel B. Alvord

Ellsworth Davis+

John W. Huntington+

Edward Lane-Reticker+

Scott McAlister+

Deanna Sue Sucsy

PAST PRESIDENTS Paul L. Bourdeau* David W. Clark, Jr. Elliot F. Gerson Thomas J. Groark, Jr. Walter Harrison David M. Klein Janet M. Larsen Thomas D. Lips Tuck Miller Christina B. Ripple* Jennifer Smith Turner Peter R. Wilde+

EX OFFICIO DIRECTORS

Darko Tresnjak Michael Stotts

Artistic Director Managing Director

John B. Larson Dannel P. Malloy Pedro E. Segarra

Congressional Representative 1st District of Connecticut

Governor, State of Connecticut

*Members of the Executive Commitee

+

Mayor, City of Hartford

deceased

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Darko Tresnjak Artistic Director*

Michael Stotts Managing Director

(*position permanently endowed by Janet S. Suisman)

ARTISTIC Maxwell Williams,

Associate Artistic Director

Elizabeth Williamson, Senior

Dramaturg/Director of New Play Development

Kimber Lee, Aetna New Voices Fellow Bruce Turk, Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellow Writers Currently Under Commission:

Luis Alfaro, Marcus Gardley, Kimber Lee, Matthew Lopez, Janine Nabers, Will Power, Craig Wright.

GENERAL MANAGEMENT Emily Van Scoy, General Manager Stacie J. Snyder, Assistant General Manager

Scott Bartelson,

Management Associate

PRODUCTION Bryan T. Holcombe, Production Manager Andy Palmer,

MARKETING, SALES & COMMUNICATIONS David Henderson, Director of

Samantha Donnelly,

Todd M. Brandt, Associate Director of

Amy Lamm, Chandalae Nyswonger,

Taylor G. Benedum,

Associate Production Manager Company Manager

Production Assistants

Set Construction & Scenic Art Aaron D. Bleck, Technical Director Mike Beschta, Assistant Technical Director Samantha Beschta, Master Carpenter Christopher Nelson, Tina LaPonte, Ian Sweeney, Carpenters Curt Tomczyk, Charge Scenic Artist Carrie Peters, Stage Carpenter

DEVELOPMENT John Bourdeaux, Director of Development Jennifer Crookes Carpenter,

Costumes & Wardrobe Blair Gulledge, Costume Shop Manager Britt Watts, Costume Shop Assistant B.W. Sellers, Draper Pat Van Horn, First Hand SB Parks, Costume Crafts Kalyn Lummis, Wardrobe Supervisor Emma Tremmel, Wig/Wardrobe

Casey Grambo, Development Assistant Kera Jewett, Individual Giving Manager Jim Morgan, Institutional Giving Manager

Properties Todd R. Kulik, Properties Manager Erin Keller, Properties Artisan

EDUCATION Jennifer Roberts, Director of Education Nina Pinchin,

Lighting Aaron Hochheiser, Master Electrician Scott Tusing, Assistant Master Electrician

FINANCE Michael P. Sandner, Director of Finance Cheryl Winter, Bookkeeper

Events Manager

Associate Director of Education

Robert Reader,

Education Programs Manager

Aurelia Clunie,

Education Associate for Student Audiences

Ayla Kapiloff,

Education Associate for School Programs

Emely Larson, Studio Manager Erin Frederick, Education Enrollment and Marketing Coordinator

Ashley S. Baker, Resident Teaching Artist 2014–2015 Apprentices Sarah Hartmann, Artistic Apprentice Jennifer Diamond, Arts Administration Apprentice

Damian Dominguez, Costume Apprentice

Stephanie Wilson, Development Apprentice

Krista DeVellis,

Morningstar Education Apprentice

Natalie Pertz,

Morningstar Education Apprentice

Kimberly Shepherd, Marketing Apprentice

Amanda Tozzi,

Production/Company Management Apprentice

Sarah Morgan, Props Apprentice Martina Rodriguez, Scenic Arts Apprentice

Sound Marshall Simmons, Audio/Video Supervisor Darren Alley, Audio/Video Engineer FOR THIS PRODUCTION: Stephanie Taff, Draper Marianne Krostyne, Draper John Cowles, Draper Ed Dawson, Tailor Ashley Tyler, Stitchers Allie McConnell, Stitcher Damian Dominguez, Wardrobe Joelle Braun, Wardrobe J-Medrie James, Costume Intern Jamie Steffen, Deck Crew Athena Ellis, Deck Crew Katy Persutti, Deck Crew Kevin Dechello, Fly Crew Sara Morand, Fly Crew Ryan Szakal, Fly Crew Alex Zinovenko, Spot Op Brianne Bolante, Spot Op Kevin DeChello, Props Overhire

Marketing, Sales & Communications Marketing, Sales & Communications Graphic Designer & Brand Manager

Tim Kendrick, Data Services Manager Charles MacNaughton, Digital Media Manager

Theresa M. MacNaughton, Community Engagement Associate

T. Charles Erickson, Company Photographer

Sales Center Joe Frederick, Director of Sales Darlene Herrick,

Administrative Assistant / Sales Representative Sales Center Representatives:

Mike Davirro, Todd Merrell, Linda Young Patron Services Darryl VanOudenhove, Box Office Manager

Peter Carey, Subscriptions Manager Anthony Bell, Alexandra Fischbein, Box Office Supervisors Customer Service Representatives:

Julia Innocenza DePinto, Lisa Rizzo, Sierra Vazquez House Management Lew Michaels,

Associate Director of Theatre Operations

Jeff Lagasse, Lisa Rizzo, House Managers House Operations Staff:

Brittany Boncek, Bruce Catania, Sam Chiasson, Sheznarda Flores, Antonio Giovannucci, Connor Green, Lindsey Hoffman, Elizabeth Malvo, Andrew Mentus, Cady Michaels, Joan Ouellette, Tanya Rivera Volunteer Advisory Board Ann Cooke, President Doug Cooke, Jill Dugas, Carol Durant-Holtzclaw, Pat Tyson, Gayle Barrett, Michael Brezel, Martha Schwartz, Bobbie Werner 2010 RENOVATION ARCHITECT Mitchell Kurtz Architect PC 2014 RENOVATION ARCHITECT JCJ Architecture CONSTRUCTION MANAGER Bartlett, Brainard and Eacott

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Bill Raymond and Michael Preston in A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas (2013).

Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

Now in our 51st year, Hartford Stage is one of the nation’s leading resident theatres, known for producing innovative revivals of classics and provocative new plays and musicals, including more than 70 world and American premieres, as well as offering a distinguished education program, which reaches more than 20,000 students annually.

In 2011, Darko Tresnjak became only the fifth artistic director to lead Hartford Stage. Since then, the theatre has presented the world premieres of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder on Broadway, winner of four 2014 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical by Darko; Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Breath & Imagination by Daniel Beaty; and Big Dance Theatre’s Man in a Case with Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Hartford Stage, under the leadership of Managing Director Michael Stotts, has earned many of the nation’s most prestigious awards, including its first Tony Award in 1989 for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Other national honors include Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, OBIE, and New York Critics Circle awards. Hartford Stage has produced nationally renowned titles, including the New York transfers of Enchanted April, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Resurrection (later retitled Through the Night), The Carpetbagger’s Children, and Tea at Five. The leading provider of theatre education programs in Connecticut, Hartford Stage’s offerings include student matinees, in-school theatre residencies, teen performance opportunities, theatre classes for students (ages 3-18) and adults, afterschool programs and professional development courses.

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Short Takes: News from Hartford Stage Sensory Sensitivities

Thanks to several generous funders, including United Technologies and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Hartford Stage offered one of Connecticut’s very first sensory-friendly performances during A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas.

These performances are designed to create a performing arts experience that is welcoming to families of children with autism or other disabilities which create sensory sensitivities.

For the full story, visit StageNotes from the home page at www.hartfordstage.org.

Acting Out

Help your children beat the winter blues with Youth Classes at Hartford Stage! Classes include playwriting, comedy, improv, monologue building and more. Visit hartfordstage.org/education.

The Big Ticket

Hartford Stage honored longtime friend Belle Ribicoff with the inaugural Cornerstone Award for her outstanding contributions to Hartford Stage on November 10 at the theatre. The artistic program in the theatre featured selections from some of Belle’s favorite theatre pieces along with remarks from: Darko Tresnjak, Artistic Director; Michael Stotts, Managing Director; Christina B. Ripple, Past President of the Board of Directors; Jill Adams, President of the Board of Directors; and Walter Harrison, President of the University of Hartford. Performers included Hartt School faculty members (thank you especially to Robert Hannon Davis, Johanna Morrison and Alan Rust) and students, along with Broadway performers Kate Baldwin, Kate Forbes and Hallie Foote. For the full story and more photos, visit Stage Notes from the home page at www.hartfordstage.org.

Clockwise From Top: Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak, Belle Ribicoff, Board President Jill Adams, Managing Driector Michael Stotts • Kate Baldwin • Ezra Ripple and Belle Ribicoff • Governor Dannel P. Malloy, Belle Ribicoff and Cathy Malloy.

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Aetna New Voices Fellow: Kimber Lee A season-long engagement, the Aetna New Voices Fellowship provides an artistic home for important playwrights of diversity and color to develop work and become involved in the ongoing life of Greater Hartford. The residency includes the commissioning of a new work and a series of readings and workshops throughout the year, working with Hartford Stage’s education department, and advancing community development. The 2014-15 Fellow is playwright Kimber Lee.

Kimber Lee’s brownsville song (b-side for tray), which premiered at the 2014 Humana Festival, will receive productions this year at Lincoln Center, Long Wharf Theatre, and Philadelphia Theatre Company. This May Center Theatre Kimber Lee Group presented the world premiere of Lee’s latest play, different words for the same thing. Her works, including fight and tokyo fish story, also have been presented by Lark Play Development Center, Page 73, Hedgebrook, Seven Devils, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and Dramatists Guild Fellows Program. She is a Lark Playwrights Workshop Fellow (2013-2014); member of Ma-Yi Writers Lab; and recipient of both the 2014 Ruby Prize and the 2013-14 PoNY Fellowship. Lee, who holds a MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, is currently under commission at Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3, South Coast Rep, Denver Center Theatre Company, and Hartford Stage, and is presently developing work with the Lark at Vassar and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco.

Quiara Alegría Hudes

Daniel Beaty

Past Aetna New Voices Fellows Past Fellows include Matthew Lopez (201213) whose play Reverberation will make its world premiere at Hartford Stage in February; Quiara Alegría Hudes (2008-09) who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Water by the Spoonful, produced at Hartford Stage; and Daniel Beaty (2007-08) author of Breath & Imagination which premiered at Hartford Stage two seasons ago.

Matthew Lopez

Marking its tenth year as the sole funder of this essential program, Aetna, Inc., builds healthy communities by promoting volunteerism, forming partnerships, and funding initiatives to improve the quality of life for its employees and customers.

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The Hartt School/Hartford Stage Partnership in Training Now in its ninth year, The Hartt School/Hartford Stage Partnership in Training offers a unique alliance of an undergraduate acting conservatory program and a respected professional theatre—one of only two such collaborations in the country. This partnership helps ensure that acting students at the Hartt School receive rigorous training and bring their skills, imagination and intellect to the demands of a professional theatre setting. Hartford Stage staff and guest artists lead classes and workshops and faculty and students appear in Hartford Stage productions.

Hartt students have been seen in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off!, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Brand:NEW Festival of New Work, Antony & Cleopatra, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Crucible, The Tempest and Twelfth Night.

The University of Massachusetts Graduate Internships at Hartford Stage Linking one of the most respected graduate programs in theatre with the Tony Award-winning Hartford Stage, the University of Massachusetts Graduate Internships give Master of Fine Arts students in design, directing and dramaturgy the opportunity to work alongside the country’s most exciting artists. The Graduate Internships provide a valuable professional testing ground for students and are a natural complement to the practical, hands-on approach of UMass’ graduate program. In turn, Hartford Stage is enriched by the participation of the next generation of theatre artists. UMass students have worked on Boeing-Boeing, Zerline’s Tale, Gee’s Bend, Motherhood Out Loud, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Snow Falling on Cedars, The 39 Steps, the Brand:NEW Festival of New Work and Hedda Gabler.

From Top: Hartt School student Ben Cole in The Tempest. • Nafe Katter and Hartt School student Douglas Lyons in To Kill a Mockingbird. • Hartt Students Kendra Underwood and Michael Gregory in Antony & Cleopatra.

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2014/2015 SEASON PRODUCTION SPONSORS ETHER DOME PRODUCTION SPONSORS

The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation Ether Dome is funded in part by The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project SPOTLIGHT SPONSORS

Connecticut State Dental Association Connecticut State Society of Anesthesiologists Hartford Medical Society Integrated Anesthesia Associates ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION SUPPORT PROVIDED BY

EXCLUSIVE PRESENTING SPONSOR

AETNA NEW VOICES FELLOWSHIP

United Technologies Corporation

Aetna

PRIVATE LIVES

NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT

ASSISTING PRODUCTION SPONSOR

The John and Kelly Hartman Foundation The Lucille Lortel Foundation National Corporate Theatre Fund The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Hartford Stage is a participant in the Global Connections--ON the ROAD program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for the professional not-for-profit American theatre.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Hinckley Allen

THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE PRODUCTION SPONSOR

Robinson & Cole LLP ASSISTING PRODUCTION SPONSOR

Federman, Lally, & Remis LLC ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION SUPPORT PROVIDED BY

iQuilt Partnership, Inc.

Anonymous No. 38 Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

HAMLET

KISS ME, KATE

PRINCIPAL SPONSOR

Travelers PRODUCTION SPONSOR

Hamlet is part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, a national program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest ASSISTING PRODUCTION SPONSOR

Federman, Lally, & Remis LLC

PRODUCTION SPONSOR

The Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation ASSISTING PRODUCTION SPONSOR

The Saunders Foundation

SEASON RESTAURANT PARTNER DISH Bar and Grill

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY OUTREACH The Barnes Foundation, Inc. The Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, as recommended by Linda & David Glickstein Berkshire Bank The J. Walton Bissell Foundation Eugene G. & Margaret M. Blackford Memorial Fund CT Humanities Ensworth Charitable Foundation Fisher Foundation, Inc. The Foulds Family Foundation

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Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, as recommended by the Anonymous No. 46 Fund LEGO Children’s Fund Lincoln Financial Group The George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation The Anzie O. Glover Memorial Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial Charitable Trust Greater Hartford Arts Council Hartford Foundation for Public Giving McDonald Family Trust McPhee Foundation The Morningstar Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving National Corporate Theatre Fund NewAlliance Foundation, Inc. Esther A. Pryor RBC Wealth Management The Right Track Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Charles Nelson Robinson Fund SBM Charitable Foundation, Inc. Simbury Bank The Hartford Travelers United Healthcare Watkinson School Wells Fargo Michael S. Wilder

OPERATING AND CAPITAL SUPPORT Acorn Alcinda Foundation The William H. and Rosanna T. Andrulat Charitable Foundation City of Hartford Connecticut Department of Economic & Community Development Burry Fredrik Foundation The Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Greater Hartford Arts Council The Hartford Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Hartford Stage Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation, Inc. The Hugh M. Joseloff and Helen H. Joseloff Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Katharine K. McLane & Henry R. McLane Charitable Trust Morgan Stanley Edith W. & John Davis Murphy Fund at The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Shubert Foundation Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Travelers United Technologies Corporation

Steven Levy Anthony Macro Norman Mann Minuteman Press Betty Morcom Newman’s Own, Inc. Ola! Granola Donna Palmes Michael Perl Kathleen J. Peterson Belle K. Ribicoff Superseedz Temple Street Townhouses Judy Thompson Paul Trotta Whole Foods Market

MATCHING GIFTS Major corporations or their affiliated foundations encourage support of Hartford Stage by matching their employee’s contributions or making gifts in recognition of their employees’ volunteer activities with Hartford Stage. We applaud them for their philanthropic policies that have benefited the theatre.

Aetna Adobe America’s Charities Amica Companies Foundation AT&T Foundation Matching Gift Program Bank of America CIGNA Corporation Crum & Forster Dominion Foundation General Mills Foundation Hewlett-Packard IBM Corporation Larson Lighting Design Services LLC Lincoln Financial Group Prudential Reid and Riege, P.C. Stanley Black & Decker Travelers The UBS Foundation United Technologies Corporation Voya Foundation Walt Disney Company Foundation XL Global Services

MEDIA SPONSORS

PREFERRED CARRIER

PREFERRED HOTEL

IN-KIND SUPPORT Mr. Philip Chapman Joyce Cohen Barbara F. Donahue James Friedman Deborah Germon Nancy Guyette Hilton Hartford Robert Katz Janice & David Klein Hans J. Kuss Margaret A. Lareau

CONTRIBUTORS APRIL 2013 - JULY 2014

Impact Creativity is an urgent call to action to save theatre education programs in 19 of our largest cities. Impact Creativity brings together theatres, arts education experts and individuals to help over 500,000 children and youth, most of them disadvantaged, succeed through the arts by sustaining the theatre arts education programs threatened by today’s fiscal climate. For more information on how “theatre education changes lives,” please visit: www.impactcreativity.org ($100,000 OR MORE) CMT/ABC w The Hearst Foundations ($50,000 OR MORE) AOL w Schloss Family Foundation ($25,000 OR MORE) Wells Fargo ($10,000 OR MORE) Steven and Joy Bunson Lisa Orberg Southwest Airlines w ($5,000 OR MORE) Frank and Bonnie Orlowski Edison Peres* ($2,500 OR MORE) Buford Alexander and Pamela Farr Jennifer Bielstein* Cathy Dantchik* Paula A. Dominick* Howard and Janet Kagan* Michael Lawrence and Glen Gillen* Seth Newell* Laurie Podolsky* RBC Wealth Management George S. Smith, Jr.* Isabelle Winkles* ($1,000 OR MORE) Pamela Curry* Jon Dorfman and Melissa Kaish* Bruce Ewing* Donna Fontana* Alan and Jennifer Freedman

GENERAL COUNSEL Day Pitney LLP Jackson Lewis LLP MacDermid, Reynolds & Glissman, P.C. Robinson & Cole LLP

*Silent Auction Support w In-kind support

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Hartford Stage depends on the generosity of thousands of individuals and families each year. It is with immense gratitude that we recognize the following donors to our annual and capital campaigns.

PRODUCER ($25,000+)

PATRON SOCIETY ($3,500+)

Jill Adams & Bill Knight The Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Sue A. Collins Jeffrey & Nancy Hoffman The Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, as recommended by Beatrice Koopman Belle K. Ribicoff George T. Richards William & Judith Thompson

Peg & Arnold Amstutz Maxwell & Sally Belding Kelley & Walter Bonn John F. & Nan K. Breglio Joel Brehm & Rodney Dugas Patti & Richard Broad Kimberley & Christopher Byrd Coleman H. & Jo Champlin Casey Anna+ & David Clark Roy Dion & Catherine Daly Susan & Robert Fisher Thomas M. & Devon Francis Molly Garrett Gary & Alice Gold Bob & Frankie Goldfarb Floyd W. Green III Thomas & Eunice Groark Grunberg Family Foundation Doris & Ray Guenter Walter & Dianne Harrison F. L. Haviland & Shirley Mae Neu Bill & Peggy Herdegen Barbara N. Hennessy George & Helen Ingram David & Beth Jimenez Nafe E. Katter+ The Doris & Simon Konover Family Foundation Katherine J. Lambert Tom & Margah Lips John & Beth Lynch Sibongile Magubane Neal & Amy Mandell Barri Marks Kate & Hugh McLean Judith Meyers & Dick Hersh Tuck & Ki Miller Paul & Grace Mitchell Wilfred R. Noel Duff Ashmead & Eric Ort Anthony & Theodora Pace Robert A. & Joan C. Penney Esther A. Pryor Christopher Rixon Dr. & Mrs. Russell Robertson David M. Roth Michael & Susan Sames Scott Schooley & Giuliana Musilli John & Donna Sennott Don C. Sikes Robin L. Smith Mark & Ileen Swerdloff Allan & Sally Taylor Richard & Jane Tedder Peter Tedone Linda Cheverton Wick & Walter Wick Mark & Patty Willis C. Robert Zelinger

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER ($15,000+) Cynthia Kellogg Barrington + George & Laura Estes Janice & David Klein Christopher & Janet M. Larsen Jane & Roger Loeb Mrs. Millard H. Pryor, Jr. Ezra & Chrissie Ripple Brooke & Ted Whittemore The Zachs Family

OVATION SOCIETY ($10,000+) Paul & Joanne Bourdeau Sara & David Carson Rick & Susan Copeland Rick & Jane Costello Beverly & Arnold C. Greenberg Renata & Gregory Hayes Marjorie E. Morrissey Barbara Rubin Donald & Linda F. Silpe Elisabeth & Bruce Simons Mr. & Mrs. Nelson A. Sly Sally Speer Nadine Francis West & Arnold B. West Maggie & Sherwood Willard

BENEFACTOR ($7,500+) Andra Asars Jay & Eugenia Benet Michele Bush Marla & John Byrnes Ms. Sonya Dockett & Mr. Anthony Nwachukwu Lois & Bill Druckemiller Carrie & Jonathan Hammond Chloe & Wes Horton David & Sharon Jepson Robert & Anne Lally Iain+ & Cynthia Mackay Margaret Marchak Michael & Colleen Nicastro Tom Richards

PARTNER ($1,200+) Victoria & Leonard Albert Linda S. Alexander Lois & Bruce Anderson Anonymous

Brian Ashfield Jane & Sam Bailey Jan Beatty & Michael Park Bonnie S. Bercowetz & Paul Klopp Jim & Joan Betts Martin & Lynn Z. Bloom John & Suzanne Bourdeaux Stephen & Nancy Bright Ellen M. Brown Edward C. Cape Lynne & Austin Carey Sara M. Cole Keir Dullea Susan & Stanley Fellman Ruth Fitzgerald & Dave Sageman Thomas & Cynthia Garten Mrs. Mary P. Gibbons William Gratz & James Bruno David & Gail Hall Steve & Ellen Harris Guy & Diane Hayes Dennis Hersh John W. Huntington Herbert Isaacson Jan & Claire Kennedy Joel M. & Naomi Baline Kleinman Bernard & Gale Kosto Lee G. Kuckro Andrew & Lauren Lieberman E. John McGarvey H.R. McLane Carole & Edward T. McPhee Jr. Arlene & Daniel Neiditz Janice Niehaus Paul & Arlene Norman Russell J. & Margo S. O’Connor Nicholas Ohly & Sara Huntington Ohly Marlene O’Neill Frank & Sally Provenzano Andrew Ricci, Jr., M.D. & Jacqueline A. Muschiano Douglas H. Robins June Rosenblatt Robert S. Rosson, MD Linda & David Roth J. Schermerhorn William Orsini & Walter Smith Marge & Ted Storrs Katherine N. Stott Michael Stotts & David Mayhew Elsa & Michael Suisman Mr. Darko Tresnjak & Mr. Joshua Pearson Marie-Claire & J.P. van Rooy Patricia L. Walker Jacqueline R. Werner Mr. & Mrs. John H. P. Wheat Gary & Diane Whitney Michael S. Wilder Michael Wilson & Jeff Cowie Chris & Helen Winsor Ms. Ruth Ann Woodley & Mr. Peter Gourley Paul B. Zolan & Kate D. Steinway

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ANNUAL CONTRIBUTORS

ADVOCATE ($600+) Lawrence+ & Ruth Alexander John & Angela Arrington Anonymous Ken & Susie Bragdon Shari G. Cantor Mr. & Mrs. T. W. Chabot Sandra & Arnold Chase Blair Childs Candice Chirgotis & Jim Keller Thomasina Clemons Carol & Tim Covello Laura & Timothy Curry Robert & Deborah Cushman Kathy & Scott Demsey Genevieve DeSantis Tom & Tina Dugdale George K. Fenn, Jr. Carol Gabrielson Fine Finn Nightingale Family Fund Ted & Chris Fishman Tom Fogarty David B. Foster Peter & Laurie Frenzel Sally Williams & William Fuller Marilda L. Gandára & Scott O’Keefe Bob & Peg Giles Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Goode David G. & Cynthia Gordon Mr. William Gough & Ms. Mary Jane Cook Cate & John Grady-Benson Rachel K. Grody Joyce P. Hall Irma & Mort Handel Suzanne M. Hertel Marcia & John Hincks Herb & Ilana Hirsch Helen & Donald C. Hughlett Mr. & Mrs. Samuel G. Huntington Marian Kellner & Timothy McLaughlin Mrs. Sidney R. Kennedy Jr. & Ms. Susan Kennedy Barbara & Paul Kiefer Maxine Klein & David Zeleznik Kohn-Joseloff Foundation Adlyn & Ted Loewenthal Joe Marfuggi Leta Marks Luis & Marcy Mejia Tom & Barbara Mitchell Lynda B. Moecker Sue & Bill+ Monks Stephen & Ann Marie Mulready Janet U. Murphy Don & Brad Noel Patricia Pac & Paul L. LeTendre Paul & Linda Pendergast Mrs. Sidney Pinney Laura & John Roche Rosalie Roth Sherry & Jonathan Schreiber Kate & Andrew Smith Jennifer Smith Turner & Eric Turner Linda Bland Sonnenblick Phyllis Spragg

Henry “Skip” Steiner Alvin & Lesley Morgan Thompson Michael & Helena Thompson Theresa & David J. Waltz Dudley & Gerri Watkins Dr. Jean Weigert & Mr. Daniel Millstein Susan & Eliot Williams

HARTFORD STAGE STAFF ANNUAL GIVING The following members of the Hartford Stage staff have generously participated in this year’s annual giving campaign.

Samantha & Michael Beschta John & Suzanne Bourdeaux Todd & Rebecca Brandt Pete Carey Jennifer Crookes Carpenter Casey Grambo Ayla Davidson David Henderson Bryan & Traci Holcombe Kera Jewett Tim Kendrick Todd Kulik Chuck & Theresa MacNaughton Jim Morgan Christopher Nelson Andy Palmer Nina Pinchin & Kevin Scott Robert Reader Jennifer & Nathan A. Roberts Mike Stotts & David Mayhew Emily Van Scoy Ian Sweeney Darryl Lee VanOudenhove

MEMORIAL & HONORARY IN MEMORY OF JAMILLE T. FARRAH:

Virginia G. Brechtel IN MEMORY OF DR. JOHN M. GIBBONS:

Mrs. Mary P. Gibbons IN HONOR OF THE BURTON C. HOFFMAN 2014 GOLF TOURNAMENT:

Ted Kaplan & Roberta Woronow IN MEMORY OF JACK AND PATSY HUNTINGTON:

John W. Huntington IN MEMORY OF RYAN NAGEL:

Marlene O’Neill IN MEMORY OF DONALD NEALES:

Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Auster Mr. & Mrs. George McCabe Lisa Wahle & Peter Auster Phyllis Wang Cheryl, Bill & Billy Winter IN HONOR OF BELLE RIBICOFF:

Douglas R. Adams Patti & Richard Broad Kyung Chung Mrs. Harry J. Gray

Renata & Gregory Hayes The Kohn-Joseloff Foundation Christopher & Janet M. Larsen Tom & Margah Lips Leigh Newman & Gary Starr Eileen & Elliott Pollack James & Debra Ruel Donald & Linda F. Silpe Michael Wilson & Jeff Cowie IN MEMORY OF ANNE MARIE RICHARDS:

Frank Sarr IN MEMORY OF VAL SCOTT:

Michael Ross IN MEMORY OF MARY DANA SHIPMAN:

Brock Putnam IN HONOR OF DARKO TRESNJAK:

Arthur & Marilyn Neumann Cheryl Winter IN HONOR OF THE WEDDING OF TAMMY WASSERMAN & C. ROBERT ZELINGER:

A.J. & Jodi Wasserstein IN HONOR OF HELENA V. WINTER’S 100TH BIRTHDAY:

Cheryl, Bill & Billy Winter IN HONOR OF CHERYL WINTER’S BIRTHDAY:

Lisa Wahle & Peter Auster

SEAT CAMPAIGN This summer, Hartford Stage replaced the seats in the Huntington Theatre.

We are grateful for those individuals and organizations who have supported this important effort.

Jill Adams & Bill Knight Linda S. Alexander Andra A. Asars Jay & Eugenia Benet Bonnie S. Bercowetz & Paul L. Klopp Martin & Lynn Bloom Joel Brehm & Rodney Dugas Stephen & Nancy Bright Ellen Brown Michele B. Bush & Michael Cooper Marla & John Byrnes Edward C. Cape David & Sara Carson Austin & Lynne Carey Anna & David Clark Connecticut Light & Power— A Northeast Utilities Company Catherine Daly & Roy Dion Sonya Dockett & Anthony Nwachukwu William & Lois Druckemiller William Gratz & James Bruno Greater Hartford Arts Council Thomas & Eunice Groark The John & Kelly Hartman Foundation Frank Haviland & Sally Mae Neu Carrie & Jonathan Hammond Greg & Renata Hayes Bill & Peggy Herdegen Jeffrey & Nancy Hoffman

+ Deceased Donors printed in red or blue have shown extraordinary loyalty to Hartford Stage. Those whose names are printed in red have given at least 25 years of continuous, uninterrupted support. Those whose names appear in blue have given 10 years of continuous, uninterrupted support.

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ANNUAL CONTRIBUTORS

Chloe & Wes Horton Herbert Isaacson David & Sharon Jepson Janice & David Klein Joel & Naomi Kleinman Lee Kuckro Robert & Anne Lally Katherine J. Lambert David Lees Andrew & Lauren Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. Crawford Lincoln Tom & Margah Lips Cynthia K. Mackay Margaret Marchak & Mark Schreier Katharine & Hugh McLean Johanna M. Morrison Marjorie E. Morrissey William & Alice Mortensen Foundation Sherman & Janet U. Murphy Arlene & Daniel Neiditz Michael & Colleen Nicastro Marlene O’Neill Sarah & Samuel Paul Judy Pitt & Robert Rosson David & Karen Polk Claire Pryor Tom Richards Ezra & Chrissie Ripple June M. Rosenblatt Barbara Rubin John & Donna Sennott

Don C. Sikes Bruce & Elisabeth Simons Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Sly Sally Speer Edward & Margaret Storrs Katherine N. Stott Mark & Ileen Swerdloff Richard & Jane Tedder William & Judith Thompson Nadine Francis West & Arnold B. West Brooke & Ted Whittemore Maggie & Sherwood Willard Michael Wilson & Jeff Cowie Christopher & Helen Winsor Ms. Ruth Ann Woodley & Mr. Peter Gourley

SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY The Shakespeare Society comprises individuals who have provided for the future of Hartford Stage in their estate plans. Hartford Stage is deeply grateful for their generosity and foresight.

Anonymous (19) Mr. & Mrs. William I. Atwood Maxwell & Sally Belding Mr. & Mrs. Paul Bourdeau Mrs. Joan Brown Kimberley & Christopher Byrd

University of Saint Joseph Center for the Arts and Humanities presents

A Light in the Dark: The Story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan

Marla & John Byrnes Edward C. Cape Mario R. Cavallo Anna & David Clark Sue A. Collins Kathy Frederick & Eugene Leach Dieter & Siegelind Johannes Nafe E. Katter Janice & David Klein Joel M. & Naomi Baline Kleinman Katherine J. Lambert Christopher & Janet M. Larsen Tom & Margah Lips Elaine Title Lowengard Helen Ingram Judith Meyers & Richard Hersh Tuck & Ki Miller Judge Jon O. Newman Belle K. Ribicoff Ann+ & George Richards Ezra & Chrissie Ripple Dr. & Mrs. Russell Robertson Barbara Rubin Robert K. Schrepf Donald & Linda Silpe Jennifer Smith Turner & Eric Turner Mary Stephenson Elsa & Michael Suisman Michael Wilson & Jeff Cowie Michael & Ellen Zenke

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January 31, 2015 7:30 p.m.

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2014-15 Bruyette Athenaeum Performing Arts Series

Tickets: $28 adults / $22 seniors / $16 youth 860.231.5555 or www.usj.edu/arts

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