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Michael Wilson says Ether Dome takes on the question of the ethics of innovation. At the time the play is set, medicine was free. The events in the play show us how that changed, and the beginning of the commercialization of medical practice. In the age of Obamacare, Mark Zuckerberg, and internet moguls, the question of the ethics of innovation is more pertinent than ever. Who profits from each new discovery? Who should profit? And what should be free?

Ether Dome was a Hartford Stage commission from Farmington native Liz Egloff, whose own father was a doctor. She and our fourth artistic director, Michael Wilson, have been working on it for a number of years, and after premiering it at the Alley Theatre, are now bringing the play back home in a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse and Huntington Theatre Company.

We spent our 50th Anniversary Season looking back and celebrating the company’s past. I’m thrilled to open our 51st Season with this timely new play which is rooted in Hartford’s history but still extremely relevant today.

We open our 51st season with both joy and sadness. First, I am so pleased to welcome Michael Wilson back to Hartford Stage with his staging of Elizabeth Egloff’s epically scaled play, Ether Dome. After a long period of development, we are finally able to bring this play—which was commissioned by Michael as part of our Hartford Heritage Project—to Hartford where it will have great resonance with our audiences given its subject, Horace Wells.

I am also delighted to welcome our audiences back to a newly renovated theatre! Continuing the work that Michael and I began in 2010, Hartford Stage is dedicated to providing a venue that is accessible and comfortable for all of our patrons, and is an inspiring place for our staff and visiting artists to work. There is still one more phase of renovation to be completed in 2015, but for now I hope you enjoy the experience of our new audience chamber and upper lobby.

Finally, the greater Hartford community suffered a huge loss with the passing Nafe Katter on August 20. As so eloquently remembered by Michael Wilson on the next page, Nafe’s memory will continue to live on within the walls of Hartford Stage, and at his namesake theatre on Storrs campus of UConn. Nafe was a kind and generous man who had a great passion for the work we did at Hartford Stage. He will truly be missed by all of us who had the privilege to work with him.

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Nafe Katter 1926-2014

Nafe was a loving member of the Hartford Stage family for over thirty years. He was a marvelous, incredibly distinguished, fiercely intelligent, and deeply loving character actor, who launched my first season in 1998 (A Streetcar Named Desire) and capped Mark Lamos’ first season in 1981 (Cymbeline). Over his three decades in the spotlight at Hartford Stage, he performed alongside Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Bakkensen, Alyssa Bresnahan, Betty Buckley, James Colby, Hallie Foote, Annalee Jefferies, Bill Kux, Matthew Modine, Johanna Morrison, Amanda Plummer, Bill Raymond and Rip Torn among so many others. Yet his best remembered role is likely the Second Solicitor, who year after year came knocking at Scrooge’s counting house in the company’s annual staging of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Nafe mentored the younger actors in the company just as he did his beloved students at UConn Storrs where he was director of the acting program for many years.

Nafe was one of the most kind and gentlest human beings I have ever known. And he not only left behind an indelible legacy of performance, but through many generous gifts to the Stage, has enabled innovative new work—including this production of Elizabeth Egloff’s Ether Dome—to be created for generations to come at Hartford Stage. Our hearts go out to all of Nafe’s family, especially his dear sister Elnora and his niece Jennifer, whom he adored so much.

—Michael Wilson Ether Dome is dedicated in loving memory to Nafe Katter.

Photo by T. Charles Erickson

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MICHAEL STOTTS

Artistic Director

Managing Director

P R E S E N TS

A CO-PRODUCTION WITH ALLEY THEATRE, HUNTINGTON THEATRE, AND LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE

By

ELIZABETH EGLOFF

Scenic & Projection Design

Costume Design

JAMES YOUMANS

DAVID C. WOOLARD

Sound Design

JOHN GROMADA & ALEX NEUMANN Wig & Hair Design

Lighting Design

DAVID LANDER

Original Music

JOHN GROMADA

CHARLES G. LAPOINTE

Fight Director

Casting

Production Stage Manager

ALAINE ALLDAFFER, CSA

LORI LUNDQUIST*

Associate Director

CRAIG HANDEL RACHEL ALDERMAN Assistant Stage Manager

ALEX H. HAJJAR*

Dramaturg

Production Manager Associate Artistic Director

SHIRLEY FISHMAN

BRYAN T. HOLCOMBE MAXWELL WILLIAMS

Directed by

MICHAEL WILSON

Ether Dome was originally commissioned by Hartford Stage.

Alley Theatre produced the world premiere of Ether Dome in 2011.

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Ether Dome is funded in part by The Ensemble Studio Theatre/ Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project

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In Hartford, Conn.: Dr. Horace Wells, dentist......................................................... Michael Bakkensen * Elizabeth Wells, his wife................................................................... Amelia Pedlow * William Morton, his partner & former student......................................Tom Patterson * Mrs. Wadsworth, a patient......................................................... Johanna Morrison * Dr. Colton, a pharmacist............................................................................ Lee Sellars * Girl in Union Hall.......................................................................Danielle Bonanno “Lizzie” Whitman Morton, William’s wife.......................................... Liba Vaynberg * In Boston, Mass.: Dr. John Collins Warren,.............................................................Richmond Hoxie * Founder & Head of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Professor of Anatomy & Surgery

Dr. Charles Jackson, a chemist & Warren’s former student............. William Youmans * Dr. Henry Bigelow, surgeon...................................................................... Greg Balla * Dr. Augustus Gould, former surgeon, now a conchologist.................. Ken Cheeseman * Dr. George Hayward, House surgeon.............................................................. Bill Kux * Inman, a medical student............................................................Erik C. Bloomquist George Livingston, a medical student..................................................Andrew Bryce Tenney, a reporter......................................................................Erik C. Bloomquist Gilbert Abbot, a patient............................................................................. Lee Sellars * Alice Mohan, a patient.................................................................Danielle Bonanno R.H. Eddy, Esq., a lawyer...........................................................Erik C. Bloomquist Phineas Cook, a merchant......................................................................... Lee Sellars * Nurse...........................................................................................Danielle Bonanno In Paris, France: Paul, a dentist............................................................................................ Lee Sellars * Gustav, nephew to the Emperor of France..............................................Andrew Bryce In New York City: Prostitute....................................................................................Danielle Bonanno Prostitute’s Maid...................................................................... Johanna Morrison * Medical Students, Citizens of Hartford and Boston: Salvatore Mitsou, Jacob Grannan and the Company THERE WILL BE TWO, 12-MINUTE INTERMISSIONS.

Script Supervisor................................................................................Megan Sprowls Assistant Scenic Designer................................................................. Lily Bartenstein Assistant Lighting Designer.................................................................Greg Soloman Assistant Sound Designer..............................................................................Matt Otto Production Assistant.................................................................................Amy Lamm

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ETHER DOME Dr. H. J. Bigelow, Dr. A. A. Gould, Dr. J. C. Warren, Dr. W. T. G. Morton, Dr. Samuel Parkman, Dr. George Hayward, Dr. J. Mason Warren and Dr. S. D. Townsend.

The First Public Demonstration of Anesthesia Boston, October 16, 1846

Shirley Fishman: What inspired you to write a play about the circumstances of the discovery of anesthesia?

Elizabeth Egloff: I got a phone call from Michael Wilson in the summer of 2005. He was the Artistic Director of Hartford Stage at the time, and the theatre received a grant from the state of Connecticut to commission a play inspired by local historical events. One day while he was walking in Hartford’s Bushnell Park he came upon a statue of Horace Wells. He asked a friend who he was. That’s when the idea for the play started.

He talked to me about writing a play about Horace Wells, a dentist in Hartford who had something to do with the discovery of ether — that he was robbed

Playwright Elizabeth Egloff talks about two journeys: the search for a cure for pain and her own discovery of a fascinating medical history that reverberates for our own time.

of the credit by his student and that nobody knows what really happened. He thought that the story might be a great idea for a play.

SF: Why did Michael think you would be the right person to write this story?

EE: He knew that I had grown up in Farmington, CT, where Morton’s wife lived before they married. I went to school in West Hartford and college in Hartford.

And I was steeped in the Hartford view of the world and of itself.

I was thrilled to take it on — I love plays about history and politics.

As I researched, I became hypnotized by the story of the four men who were at the center of the ether controversy: Horace Wells, William Morton, Dr. Charles T. Jackson and Dr. John C. Warren who were esteemed surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital, one of a handful of respected medical schools in the country.

Wells had been investigating ways to alleviate his patients’ suffering during dental surgery. He witnessed a man who injured himself after inhaling laughing gas. When he saw that the man felt no pain, he wondered if the gas could be used on his patients. He successfully experimented with the gas, and Morton suggested he demonstrate the procedure in Mass General’s operating theatre.

The stakes for Wells’ demonstration in the hospital’s dome were very high.

When it failed, it launched a medical competition that would change history and the destinies of those four men.

Jackson claimed he had given Morton a vial of sulphuric ether so that he could painlessly extract his wife’s tooth. Morton took both Wells’ and Jackson’s ideas and climbed his way into Mass General’s dome and into the medical history books. Wells, a sensitive idealist, was irreparably wounded by Morton’s betrayal and descended into depression and addiction. Some believed Wells was the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

At a certain point, I realized that there were inconsistencies; the story was different depending on whose version I read. But the brutal fact remained that Morton deserved the credit — he was the one who picked up the ball when no one else did and took it all the way into the end zone. Harvard Medical School and Mass General’s library accounts have always credited Morton, but no mention is made about his scandalous past. Jackson receives some credit for helping Morton with research. Their accounts don’t mention Wells. After the 2001 publication of Julie M. Fenster’s book, Ether Day, Harvard began to include small references to Wells, so he’s no longer invisible.

SF: It’s an epic story and incredibly dramatic. How did you create a play from this factual story?

EE: In order to put it on stage, I needed to decide whose story it was. After many drafts, it finally came to me that it’s Horace’s story; his struggle and downfall frames the play. There were so many people involved, I had to compress a number of Mass General doctors into Drs. Haywood, Bigelow and Gould. These three men, along with Jackson, became the chorus of the play.

The factual events occurred between 1845–1870, but I collapsed the story, into one year. The arc of the story hasn’t changed since my first draft.

SF: Hartford Stage commissioned the play, but the first production was at the Alley Theatre in Houston. How did that come about?

EE: I didn’t actually have a first draft of the play until 2008. We did a reading in New York in December 2010. Gregory Boyd, Artistic Director of The Alley in Houston, Texas, came to see it. After the reading, he stopped me in the hallway and said he wanted to produce the play. It opened at the Alley the following September.

SF: Were you hoping for a production at another theatre after the play closed at the Alley?

EE: The economic reality of the American theatre is that Ether Dome, with 15 actors and a production of size, is a huge investment for a theatre. When Christopher Ashley decided he wanted to produce the play, he reached out to Hartford Stage and Boston’s Huntington Theatre, and they decided to co-produce the play. It’s great — so much of that story happened in Hartford and Boston — it’s a natural fit.

SF: What resonance does the play have for contemporary audiences?

EE: It’s not just a story about who discovered ether. It’s about the values of American society in the 1840s and their attitudes toward medicine, science,

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religion and human suffering. Until ether was discovered, doctors used herbs, tinctures and ointments they bought from liquor stores. Doctors prescribed remedies like alcohol or laudanum, but couldn’t find the right level of sedation or consistency to insure pain relief. By the 1800s, speed was the only relief from pain. Doctors were going through surgery as fast as they could; a leg could be amputated in 2.5 minutes. The problem was that patients could go into shock, and more than half the time they died. Surgery was so abhorrent, patients would rather commit suicide than submit to a medical or dental procedure. If ether had not been discovered, and Morton hadn’t found a way to administer it, who knows how long it would have taken for us to develop painless surgery.

When Morton found a way to administer ether, he wanted to charge money for it. At the time, to ask a patient to pay for pain relief went against everything that medical establishment stood for. Today, the idea of providing medicine for free is unheard of. The issue of doctors, drug medicine and the treatment of patients continues to be controversial, and the battle for credit among researchers, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies is still going on.

Ether Dome is also the story of men with tremendous hubris. Despite their pursuit of recognition for their contributions to the discovery of anesthesia, Warren, Wells, Jackson and Morton were all brought down by the historic events of October 16, 1846. But they all played their part to bring medicine into the modern age.

AGONYto ANESTHESIA From

The Cure for Pain: A Brief Chronology 1275

Sweet vitriol, the first organic molecule of ether, is created in Spain by Dr. Raymond Lullus by pouring sulfuric acid on alcohol, which is then re-distilled.

1564

Local anesthesia is produced by compression of nerves in Italy and France.

1646

Frozen mixtures of snow and ice are used for surgical anesthesia in Italy.

1730

“Sweet vitriol” renamed “ether” (Greek for “heavenly.”)

550 B.C.E.

Sasruta, father of Indian surgery, uses herbs for pain relief.

79 A.D.

Pliny the Elder gives wine to surgery patients “before the cutting, cauterizing, pricking or lancing of any member, to take away the sense and feeling of such extreame cures.”

1200

The soporific sponge (also known as the “sleeping sponge”), first used in Italy and Bavaria, induces sleep prior to surgery when steeped in a mixture of opium, mulberry juice, lettuce, hemlock, wine ivy. When dry, it emits a vapor inhaled by surgical patients.

1766

Viennese physician Franz Anton Mesmer develops “mesmerism,” later called hypnosis.

1771

Chemist Joseph Priestly discovers oxygen and nitrous oxide in England.

1798

Sir Humphry Davy discovers analgesic effects of nitrous oxide. It made him laugh when he inhaled it.

1799

Thomas Beddoes’ Pneumatic Institute established for the study of inhalation gases.

Davy introduces nitrous oxide into the Institute’s medical practice.

“My Dear Sir, Everybody wants to have a hand in the great discovery. All I will do is give you a hint or two as to names, or the name, to be applied to the state produced, and to the agent. The state should, I think, be called anæsthesia. This signifies insensibility, more particularly (as used by Linnaus and Cullen) to objects of touch. The adjective will be anæsthetic. Thus we might say, the “state of anæsthesia,” or the ‘anæsthetic state.’”

“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.” Genesis II:21.

1806

Morphine extracted from opium in Prussia.

1815

Painless operations via somnambulism conducted in Germany.

Letter from Oliver Wendell

Holmes to William T. G. Morton. Boston, November 21, 1846

1831

Discovery of chloroform in U.S.

1842

Crawford Williamson Long administers ether to a patient. Painlessly removes small tumors from his neck.

1843

Injection of morphine solution in area of pain affords relief.

1844

Gardner Quincy Colton administers nitrous oxide to Horace Wells.

1845

Horace Wells unsuccessfully demonstrates use of nitrous oxide in tooth extraction pain relief for Dr. John C. Warren’s class at Massachusetts General Hospital.

1846

Dr. Charles T. Jackson suggests use of pure ether to William T. G. Morton as anesthetic for his wife’s tooth pain.

October 16, 1846

William T. G. Morton successfully demonstrates ether anesthesia in operation performed by Dr. John C. Warren at dome at Massachusetts General Hospital.

1853

Chloroform administered to Queen Victoria during childbirth.

Invention of metallic hollow needle leads to development of the hypodermic syringe.

1860

Cocaine extracted from coca leaves.

1905

Development of novocaine.

TO BE KNOWN The Quest for Recognition for the Discovery of Anesthesia “Friend Wells: Dear Sir: I write to inform you that I have discovered a preparation by inhaling which a person is thrown into a sound sleep. …While in this state the severest surgical or dental operations may be performed, the patient not experiencing the slightest pain. I have patented it, and am now about sending out agents to dispose of the right to use it.”

A letter from William T. G. Morton to Horace Wells. October 19, 1846

“I request permission to communicate through your medium to the Academy of Sciences a discovery which I have made, and which I believe important for the relief of suffering humanity, as well as of great value to the surgical profession. Five or six years ago I noticed the peculiar state of insensibility into which the nervous system is thrown by the inhalation of the vapor of pure sulphuric ether…. I have latterly made a useful application of this fact by persuading a dentist of this city to administer the vapor of ether to his patients, when about to undergo the operation of extraction of teeth. It was observed that persons suffered no pain in the operation.”

A letter from Charles T. Jackson to M. Elie de Beaumont in Paris. November 13, 1846

“On making the discovery, I was so much elated respecting it, that I expended my money freely, and devoted my whole time for several weeks, in order to present it to those who were best qualified to investigate and upon decide its merits, not asking or expecting anything for my services, well assured that it was a valuable discovery. I was desirous that it should be as free as the air we breathe; but judge of my surprise, after the lapse of many months, when I was informed that two individuals (Drs. Jackson and Morton) had claimed the discovery and had made application for a patent in their own names.

After making the above statement, and submitting the following testimonials and affidavits, I leave it for the public to decide to whom belongs the credit of this discovery.

Respectfully, Horace Wells” A letter from Horace Wells to the Hartford Courant. December 7, 1846

“Sir, ….The only inheritance which Horace Wells has left is the reputation he has earned as a benefactor of mankind and my highest ambition is to leave this unquestioned before the world.”

Excerpted from a letter from Elizabeth Wells to an unknown correspondent.

Hartford April 1860

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ELIZABETH EGLOFF PLAYWRIGHT Ms. Egloff grew up in Farmington, attended Oxford School, and graduated from Trinity College. She has worked with Michael Wilson on several projects, the latest of which is Ether Dome. Other plays include: The Swan (performed extensively nationally and abroad); The Devils (directed by Garland Wright at New York Theatre Workshop, and directed by Michael Wilson at the Kennedy Center); Wolf-Man (Manhattan Theater Club); The Lover (Baltimore Center Stage) and Phaedra (NYC premiere at the Vineyard Theater, and adapted as an opera by London’s PACE). In Television, her controversial screenplay for The Reagans (Judy Davis and James Brolin) was nominated for an Emmy. Future project: Sand, the story of the 1922 partitioning of Iraq (producer Nelle Nugent, director Michael Wilson). Awards include the Weissberger Prize, Helen Merrill Award, Lila Wallace Foundation Writer’s Award, Oppenheimer Award, and Kesselring Prize.

Ms. Egloff is a graduate of Yale Drama School, a member of New Dramatists, and the Dramatists Guild. She is married to Ether Dome’s Set Designer James Youmans, and they have 2 wonderful sons.

MICHAEL BAKKENSEN

DR. HORACE WELLS Hartford Stage: Noises Off and A Christmas Carol. Broadway: Noises Off, Festen and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Off-Broadway: Rx (Primary Stages); Out of Iceland (Culture Project); The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath (Kirk); The Paris Letter (Roundabout); Tales of Doomed Love (West End); Waxing West (Lark); Alarms (Here). Regional: Jamie in Long Day’s Journey into Night (ATL); Venus in Fur at the Alley, also the Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Theater Company, Arena, La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, ACT, Alliance, Alabama & NJ Shakespeare, Hangar. Film: Victoriana and Memoria Mortalis. Television: Unforgettable, Elementary, Deception, The Good Wife, Royal Pains, Law & Order, Law & Order: CI, Stage on Screen and Mental Issues. Album: Lionize on iTunes.

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GREG BALLA DR. HENRY BIGELOW Hartford Stage: Debut. Off-Broadway: Blue Man Group (New York, Boston, Chicago and internationally aboard Norwegian Epic). Regional: Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse). Other credits include: Into the Woods, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lyric Stage Co. of Boston); Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Bad Habit Productions) and Ragtime (Fiddlehead Theatre Co.). Mr. Balla holds a B.A. in Theatre Performance from Fordham University.

ERIK C. BLOOMQUIST INMAN | TENNEY | R.H. EDDY, ESQ. Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas.

Regional: La Cage Aux Folles (Ivoryton Playhouse); Blind Date, The Actor, The Solid Gold Cadillac (The Gary-The Olivia); The Andrews Brothers, All Shook Up (Connecticut Cabaret Theatre); Tonight, Tonight! A Shakespeare Cabaret (Legacy Theatre). Educational: Angels in America, Archangels Don’t Play Pinball, Parade (Trinity College). Television: The Mystery of Matter, Secrets of the Arsenal. Directing: Rent; Into the Woods; Zanna, Don’t!; Founders Day (feature film–in development). Education: Trinity College and London Dramatic Academy.

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DANIELLE BONANNO GIRL IN UNION HALL | ALICE MOHAN | NURSE | PROSTITUTE Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas.

Regional: Oklahoma; Same Time, Next Year (Berkshire Theater Group).

Educational: Threads of a Spiderweb (Long Wharf Theater); Cabaret, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Real Inspector Hound, Lysistrata, The Shape of Things (Loyola University Maryland); Urinetown, Big Love (Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts). Education: BA in Art History from Loyola University Maryland. For Nonno, my good luck charm.

ANDREW BRYCE GEORGE LIVINGSTON | PAUL Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Spamalot, Chicago (Cider Mill Playhouse). Education: BA, Binghamton University, 2014, where performances included: Anne Boleyn, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Hairspray!, The Crucible and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A special thanks to all my loved ones.

KEN CHEESEMAN DR. AUGUSTUS GOULD Hartford Stage: Debut. Off-Broadway: The Master Builder (BAM); NYSF: Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; La MaMa E.T.C.: King Lear; Classic Stage Company: Amphitryon, Scapin and The Cherry Orchard. Regional: The Misanthrope (Long Wharf); Scapin (Yale Rep); Travels with My Aunt, The Cherry Orchard (Baltimore Center Stage); Prelude to a Kiss, All My Sons, Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre).

Feature film roles include Shutter Island, Mystic River, Leaves of Grass, Malice and Next Stop Wonderland. TV guest appearances on Monk, Law & Order and the upcoming HBO miniseries, Olive Kitteridge. Mr. Cheeseman is a Senior Artist in Residence at Emerson College.

JACOB GRANNAN MEDICAL STUDENT | CITIZEN OF HARTFORD AND BOSTON Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas.

Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Symphony Orchestra with Hartford Stage); The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night (Capital Classics Shakespeare Festival). Education: The Hartt School, BFA in Actor Training.

RICHMOND HOXIE DR. JOHN COLLINS WARREN Hartford Stage: The Crucible. Broadway: I’m Not Rappaport. National Tour: Butley and I’m Not Rappaport. Off-Broadway: The Film Society, Lenin’s Embalmers, The Dining Room, Vienna Lusthaus: Revisited, Landscape with Waitress, Justice, Louis Slotin Sonata, Waiting for Godot and Angel Street. Regional: Amadeus, Twelve Angry Men, Secret Order (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Travels with My Aunt (Seattle Rep);

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Inspecting Carol (Bay Street Theater); Loot, Council of Thirty (George Street Playhouse); You Never Can Tell (Yale Rep). Film: J.F.K., Still of the Night, For Love or Money and My Own Love Song. TV: Boardwalk Empire, China Beach, Law & Order (SVU and CI), Christine Cromwell, L.A. Law, Cosby, etc.

BILL KUX DR. GEORGE HAYWARD Hartford Stage: Noises Off, Our Town, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Summer and Smoke, Learned Ladies of Park Avenue, A Christmas Carol. Broadway: Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, The Trip to Bountiful and Ain’t Broadway Grand. Off-Broadway: Endpapers, Loose Ends, Baby with the Bathwater, and Summer of ’42. National Tour: Death of a Salesman (with Hal Holbrook). Regional: Travels with My Aunt (Seattle Rep); Dimly Perceived Threats to the System (Arena Stage); The Film Society (Baltimore Center Stage); The Dresser, Sherlock Holmes (Monomoy). Graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

SALVATORE MITSOU MEDICAL STUDENT | CITIZEN OF HARTFORD AND BOSTON Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. N.Y.C. Independent Theater Credits: In Vino Veritas, The Northern Boulevard Boys. Other Notable Productions: The Importance of Being Earnest, Translations, Twelfth Night, Angels in America: Perestroika, It’s Only a Play. Education: B.F.A. The Hartt School. Many thanks to family, friends, coaches, and teachers for their love and support.

JOHANNA MORRISON MRS. WADSWORTH | PROSTITUTE’S MAID Hartford Stage: 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: The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue by David Grimm, 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; A.C.E.; 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, Narrator, King David and Narrator, 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).

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TOM PATTERSON WILLIAM MORTON Hartford Stage: Debut. New York: Sick (by Greg Ayers, Coyote Rep); Streamers (440 Studios). Regional: Ether Dome, Sideways (La Jolla Playhouse); Schooled (New Helvetia); Bedroom Farce, Murder on the Nile (Barnstormers); Shotgun (Florida Studio Theatre); Arms and the Man (Electric Theatre Company); Of Mice and Men (Northern Stage).

National Tour: The Color of Justice (Theatreworks/USA). AEA. Training: UC San Diego (MFA). He is originally from South Bend, Indiana.

AMELIA PEDLOW ELIZABETH WELLS Hartford Stage: Debut. Off-Broadway: The Heir Apparent (Classic Stage Company); You Never Can Tell (Pearl Theatre Company). Regional: Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse); Hamlet and The Liar (Denver Center); A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice (The Shakespeare Theatre); Legacy of Light (Cleveland Playhouse); The Diary of Anne Frank and The Tempest (Virginia Stage Company); The Glass Menagerie, Death of a Salesman and Sick (Chautauqua Theatre Company). TV: The Good Wife and Blue Bloods. Education: B.F.A. The Juilliard School.

LEE SELLARS DR. COLTON | GILBERT ABBOT | PHINEAS COOK | GUSTAV Hartford Stage: Debut. Broadway: A Time to Kill, West Side Story, Talk Radio. New York Theatre: A Small Melodramatic Story (LaByrinth); The Alchemist (Classic Stage). Regional: Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse); Tales From Hollywood (Guthrie); A Few Good Men, The Hollow ( The Alley); I Am A Man, Black Starline, All’s Well That Ends Well (Goodman); The Pavilion, Private Eyes, Gun-Shy (Actors Theatre Louisville); The Eelwax Jesus 3D Pop Music Show, Flag Day, God of Hell, Rounding Third (CATF); Twelve Angry Men, The Pillowman, The Subject Was Roses (George Street Playhouse); Inventing Van Gogh ( Pittsburgh City Theatre).

LIBA VAYNBERG “LIZZIE” WHITMAN MORTON Hartford Stage: Debut. New York: Golem of Havana (La MaMa E.T.C.); Black Milk and Macbeth (CSC); Novaya Zemlya (HERE); Uncle Vanya (Columbia Stages). Regional: Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse); Camp Monster (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Company and Cradle Will Rock (Yale). Education: Columbia & Yale.

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WILLIAM YOUMANS DR. CHARLES JACKSON Hartford Stage: Debut. Broadway: Wicked, Farnsworth Invention, Big River, Titanic, Pirate Queen, Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme, The Little Foxes (with Elizabeth Taylor), Finian’s Rainbow (revival), Billy Elliot.

Off Broadway: Brundibar (Tony Kushner), Road Show (Sondheim), Widow Claire (Horton Foote), Henry V (Delacourte); others. Film/TV: Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, Birdman, Nadine, Mrs. Soffel, Compromising Positions, Fresh Horses, League Of Their Own, Separate But Equal, Private History Of A Campaign That Failed (Peabody Award), a thousand cop shows. He is mostly known for being the brother of Ether Dome set designer Jim Youmans.

MICHAEL WILSON DIRECTOR

Michael Wilson returns to Hartford Stage, where he was artistic director (the company’s fourth) from 1998 to 2011. During his tenure, he directed thirty productions, including Horton Foote’s commissioned three part world premiere epic The Orphans’ Home Cycle, which received the 2010 New York Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, and Lortel Awards for Best Play, as well as Drama Desk and Connecticut Critics Circle Awards for Theatrical Event of the Season; and nine productions starring the late great Nafe Katter, from A Streetcar Named Desire in 1998 through To Kill a Mockingbird in 2010. Under his leadership, Hartford Stage focused on the development of new work, with over 20 commissioned plays, including Elizabeth Egloff’s Ether Dome and Quiara Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize winning Water by the Spoonful; the expansion of its education and community outreach programs; and the 2010 artistic transformation of the company’s 1977 John W. Huntington Theater, enabling its 489 seat thrust stage to be fully convertible into a 556 seat proscenium. His other directing includes Broadway: the Tony Award winning revival of The Trip to Bountiful (as well as the 2014 Lifetime Emmy nominated movie); the Tony nominated Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Dividing the Estate, Enchanted April; and Old Acquaintance. Off-Broadway: Christopher Shinn’s What Didn’t Happen (Playwrights Horizons) and Picked (Vineyard Theater), among many others. International: Angels in America Parts I & II, 1995 Venice Biennale. Awards: CT Governor’s Award, National Governors Award, and Honorary Doctorate from the University of Hartford for Excellence in Culture.

JAMES YOUMANS SCENIC & PROJECTION DESIGN Hartford Stage: Philadelphia Story, Baptiste, Digging 11. La Jolla Playhouse: Randy Newman’s Faust. Broadway: West Side Story, Come Fly Away (Twyla Tharp), Patti LuPone’s Gypsy!, Swinging On a Star. Off-Broadway: Gypsy! (City Center Encores), Hedwig and The Angry Inch (original production scenery and projections), Almost, Maine, Elizabeth Egloff’s The Swan, Summer of ’42, Zombie Prom, Jeffrey and The Country Club. Regional: The Guthrie Theater, South Coast Rep, The Old Globe, George Street Playhouse, Seattle Rep, McCarter Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House and Long Wharf Theatre. Mr. Youmans also works with Clickspring Design, which creates award winning designs for broadcast television.

Among their many clients are CNN, Fox Sports, MSNBC, The Weather Channel and others.

Awards: Drama Desk Award nomination, Drama-Logue Award, Independent Reviewers of New England Award, Connecticut Critics Circle Award nomination, and two Telly Awards for Broadcast Design. He is also married to the Ether Dome creator Elizabeth Egloff. Among their other collaborations are their 2 children William and Timur.

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DAVID C. WOOLARD COSTUME DESIGN Hartford Stage: Divine Rivalry, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Chick, The Great Osram, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 8 by Tenn, The Trip to Bountiful, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Camino Real, Suddenly Last Summer. Broadway credits include Bronx Bombers, A Time to Kill, First Date, Lysistrata Jones, West Side Story, Jane Fonda’s clothing for 33 Variations, Dividing the Estate, The Farnsworth Invention, Old Acquaintances, Ring of Fire, All Shook Up, 700 Sundays, The Rocky Horror Show (2001 Tony Award nomination), Voices in the Dark, The Who’s Tommy (1993 Tony and Olivier Award nominations), Bells Are Ringing, Marlene, Wait Until Dark, Horton Foote’s The Young Man from Atlanta, Damn Yankees and A Few Good Men. Other credits include Piece of My Heart at Signature Theatre in NYC; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Encores); The Old Friends and The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre; Drama Desk, Hewes Award); Heir Apparent (CSC); Toxic Avenger (Off- Broadway and Alley Theatre); The Donkey Show (A.R.T.); Death and the Powers (Opera De Monte Carlo); Oscar (Santa Fe Opera) and many shows at La Jolla Playhouse. He is currently designing Cold Mountain for Santa Fe Opera.

DAVID LANDER LIGHTING DESIGN Hartford Stage: Rose a Concert Reading with Olympia Dukakis. Broadway: The Winslow Boy with Roger Rees, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain and Dan Stevens, The Lyons with Linda Lavin, Master Class with Tyne Daly, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams (Drama Desk Award; Tony and Outer Critics Nominations for Best Lighting Design), 33 Variations with Jane Fonda (Tony and Outer Critics noms.), I Am My Own Wife (Drama Desk and Outer Critics noms.), A Man for All Seasons, Dirty Blond (Drama Desk nomination), Golden Child. Off-Broadway: The Library directed by Steven Soderbergh with Chloe Moretz, Too Much Sun with Linda Lavin, Fran’s Bed with Mia Farrow, King Lear with Kevin Kline, Macbeth with Liev Schreiber and Jennifer Ehle, Modern Orthodox with Molly Ringwald and Jason Biggs, among others. Regional: Ahmanson Theatre, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, the Old Globe among others.

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 productions including 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 A Few Good Men, and the upcoming Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper. 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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ALEX NEUMANN SOUND DESIGN Hartford Stage: A Christmas Carol—A Ghost Story of Christmas (associate). Broadway (assistant/associate): A Raisin in the Sun, Machinal, Betrayal, The Trip to Bountiful, The Columnist, The Best Man, Seminar, Driving Miss Daisy, Next Fall. Regional: Bus Stop, The Atheist (Huntington Theatre Company); Ether Dome (Alley Theatre & La Jolla Playhouse); 39 Steps (Olney Theatre Center); The Atheist, It’s Judy’s Show, The Torchbearers, Knickerbocker, Hapgood (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Tour: Nollaig, An Irish Christmas. Off-Broadway/ Off-Off Broadway: Daddy, The Atheist, Act Without Words, Kiki Baby. Benefits: A Rockin’ Midsummer Night’s Dream (12.14 Foundation). Educational: Ragtime (SUNY Potsdam); O Beautiful (PTTP). Education: B.A. in Music from SUNY Potsdam, M.F.A. in Theatrical Sound Design from Boston University.

CHARLES LAPOINTE HAIR & WIG DESIGN Hartford Stage: The Underpants, Breath & Imagination, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Gem of the Ocean, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Gee’s Bend, Noises Off!, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Broadway: Finding Neverland, Side Show, Elephant Man, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Beautiful, After Midnight, Motown, Jeckyl and Hyde, Clybourne Park, Newsies, The Columnist, Magic/Bird, Bonnie and Clyde, The Mountaintop, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Merchant of Venice, Memphis, Henry IV, The Rivals, Cymbeline, Lombardi, Fences, Looped, Miracle Worker, Superior Donuts, 33 Variations, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Good Vibrations, The Apple Tree, A Raisin in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lieutenant of Inishmoor, Radio Golf, Sight Unseen, High Fidelity, Xanadu, and Bring it On.

CRAIG HANDEL FIGHT DIRECTOR

Hartford Stage: Twelfth Night, Breath & Imagination, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, The Tempest, The Whipping Man, The Crucible, Gem of the Ocean, The 39 Steps. Craig Handel is an actor, director, playwright and stage combat choreographer who has been working professionally since 1978. Faculty: Currently holds faculty positions at Dean College, University of Rhode Island and The Brown Trinity Consortium. Theatre: He has choreographed fights for Trinity Rep since 1999 (Productions include Richard III, Hamlet, The Fantasticks, The Henriad, West Side Story, Peter Pan and Othello); Other theatre’s include Commonwealth Shakespeare, Long Wharf Theatre, Arena Stage and The Cumberland Company. Recently, Mr. Handel received special recognition for excellence in fight choreography from the Kennedy Center, for his work on Salve Regina University’s production of Hamlet.

Film and Television: He was Kathleen Turner’s fight coach for the feature film The Jewel of the Nile and was fight captain for MTV music videos featuring heavy metal superstars Kiss and Krokus.

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ALAINE ALLDAFFER, CSA CASTING As Casting Director for Playwrights Horizons, credits include: Clybourne Park (also Broadway), Grey Gardens (also Broadway), Circle Mirror Transformation (Artios Award). Present Laughter (Artios Award) with Victor Garber (Huntington Theatre and Roundabout NYC).

TV credits include: Knights of Prosperity aka Let’s Rob Mick Jagger for ABC. Assoc. credits include ED (NBC) and Monk (USA). Theatres include La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep and A.C.T. in San Francisco, The Arena in D.C. and The Alley Theatre in Houston. Festivals include Williamstown and Humana. Lisa Donadio is the Associate Casting Director.

SHIRLEY FISHMAN DRAMATURG Now in her 12th season at La Jolla Playhouse, Ms. Fishman most recently served as Dramaturg on Chasing the Song, Side Show, Sideways, Glengarry Glen Ross, An Iliad, Hands on a Hardbody, American Night and other projects in development. Other shows include Ruined, Surf Report, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bonnie & Clyde, Creditors, Herringbone, Unusual Acts of Devotion, the Playhouse’s production of Xanadu and UC San Diego’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, directed by Christopher Ashley. At the Joseph Papp Public Theater she dramaturged such projects as Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters, Two Sisters and a Piano by Nilo Cruz, Tina Landau’s Space, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan by Athur Miller, among others, and was co-curator of the New Work Now! annual new play festival. She serves as a Playwright’s Dramaturg for UC San Diego’s Wagner New Play Festival and has been a Dramaturg at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Magic Theatre, Native Voices at the Autry and Playwrights Project, among others. She is an M.F.A. graduate of Columbia University’s Theatre Theory/Criticism/Dramaturgy program.

LORI LUNDQUIST PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Hartford Stage: Somewhere, To Kill a Mockingbird. Broadway: Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Fosse and Holiday. National Tours: Fosse, Spelling Bee, Will Roger’s Follies. Off-Broadway: Theater for a New Audience, Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as productions at Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater/ NYSF in Central Park, Second Stage/The Minetta Lane. Over 30 productions at other regional theaters including: La Jolla Playhouse, The Ordway, Long Wharf Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, The Alley Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre and American Repertory Theater.

Opera: New York City Opera, Minnesota Opera, Indianapolis Opera. Education: Bemidji State University. Ms. Lundquist is proud to be a member of AEA.

ALEX H. HAJJAR ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Hartford Stage: Debut. Broadway: The Realistic Joneses, After Midnight. Off-Broadway: This American Life: The Radio Drama Episode (BAM); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA); Belleville (NYTW); We Are Proud to Present a Presentation… (SoHo Rep); Melancholy Play (13P). Regional: Ride the Tiger, February House, My Name is Asher Lev, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Train Driver, Agnes Under the Big Top (Long Wharf Theater); Oh, Coward!, Little Shop of Horrors, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands (Peterborough Players).

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ALLEY THEATRE

The Alley Theatre is a nationally recognized theatre company based in Houston and one of the few American companies with a commitment to resident artists. Under the direction of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean R. Gladden, the Alley creates a wide-ranging repertoire and innovative productions of classics, neglected modern plays and new plays. The Alley has brought its productions to Broadway, Off-Broadway, London and major European festivals. As a recipient of the Special Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Alley has premiered plays and created recent collaborations with Edward Albee, Rajiv Joseph, Kenneth Lin, Eve Ensler, Horton Foote and Robert Wilson.

HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY

Recipient of the 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award, the Huntington Theatre Company has developed into Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premiere cultural assets since its founding in 1982. Under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso and in residence at Boston University, the Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form. Bringing together superb local and national talent, the Huntington produces a mix of groundbreaking new works and classics made current to create award-winning productions, supports local writers through its playwright-inresidency and Huntington Playwriting Fellows program, and runs nationally renowned education and community programs that serve 33,000 young people and underserved audiences each year. huntingtontheatre.org.

LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE

The nationally-acclaimed, Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse is known for its tradition of creating some of the most exciting and adventurous new work in regional theatre. Founded in 1947

by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer; reborn in 1983 under the artistic leadership of Des McAnuff; and currently led by Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Michael S. Rosenberg, the Playhouse has received more than 300 awards for theater excellence, including the 1993 Tony Award as America’s Outstanding Regional Theater. Renowned for its innovative productions of classics, new plays and musicals, the Playhouse has sent 25 productions to Broadway, earning 35 Tony Awards, including the currently-running hit Jersey Boys, as well as Big River, The Who’s Tommy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Walk in the Woods, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, the Pulitzer Prize–winning I Am My Own Wife, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Farnsworth Invention, 33 Variations, Memphis, Bonnie & Clyde, Chaplin, Peter and the Starcatcher and Hands on a Hardbody. Located on the UC San Diego campus, La Jolla Playhouse is made up of three primary performance spaces: the Mandell Weiss Theatre, the Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre, and the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for La Jolla Playhouse, a state-of-the-art theatre complex featuring the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.

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H A R T FO R D STAG E

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.

MAXWELL WILLIAMS ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Currently in his second season as Associate Artistic Director, Maxwell Williams has directed the Hartford Stage productions of 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, Capital Repertory Theatre, 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.

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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 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

FINANCE Michael P. Sandner, Director of Finance Cheryl Winter, Bookkeeper DEVELOPMENT John Bourdeaux, Director of Development Jennifer Crookes Carpenter, Events Manager

Casey Grambo, Development Assistant Kera Jewett, Individual Giving Manager Jim Morgan, Institutional Giving Manager EDUCATION Jennifer Roberts, Director of Education Nina Pinchin, Associate Director of Education

PRODUCTION Bryan T. Holcombe, Production Manager Andy Palmer,

MARKETING, SALES & COMMUNICATIONS David Henderson, Director of

Samantha Donnelly,

Todd M. Brandt, Associate Director of

Company Manager

Marketing, Sales & Communications

Chandalae Nyswonger, Amy Lamm, Production Assistants

Taylor G. Benedum,

Graphic Designer & Brand Manager

Associate Production Manager

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 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 Properties Todd R. Kulik, Properties Manager Erin Keller, Properties Artisan Lighting Aaron Hochheiser, Master Electrician Cazimir Bzdyra,

Robert Reader,

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Aurelia Clunie, Ayla Kapiloff,

Education Associate for School Programs

Sound Michael Miceli, Audio/Video Supervisor Darren Alley, Audio/Video Engineer

Emely Larson, Studio Manager Erin Frederick, Education Enrollment

FOR THIS PRODUCTION:

Education Programs Manager Education Associate for Student Audiences

and Marketing Coordinator

2014–2015 Apprentices Sarah Hartmann, Artistic Apprentice Jennifer Diamond,

Run Crew:

Kevin DeChello Athena Ellis Joelle Braun

Arts Administration Apprentice

Damian Dominguez, Costume Apprentice

Stephanie Wilson,

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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,

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Alicia Catania, House Manager 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

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Maggie Lacey and Bill Heck in The Orphans’ Home Cycle (2009). 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 68 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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ONE PLAY A Hartford Stage and Capital Community College Partnership That is Transforming Lives

by Theresa MacNaughton, Community Engagement Associate

A unique and exciting partnership between Hartford Stage and Capital Community College is helping to enrich the lives of local students. One Play has become an integral part of The Hartford Heritage Project, which incorporates Hartford’s many diverse cultural and artistic institutions, landmarks, and neighborhoods into the learning experience at Capital Community College. Hartford Heritage courses aim to connect course content with Hartford in order to enhance learning and increase awareness for both students and faculty of all that our capital city has to offer.

The Hartford Heritage Project was created when Capital Community College received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the leadership of “I really liked the experience; it opened my eyes to Dr. Jeff Partridge, Humanities Chair. A issues that I have not experienced.” team of 14 Capital Community College “It was amazing because I never in my life have faculty members then embarked on a seen a live play. It was so interesting how energetic it was [compared to] watching a movie.” two-year study program which included 17 full-day seminars, along with readCAPITAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS ON ONE PLAY ings and field trips. One Play was added to the Project shortly after a Hartford Heritage faculty workshop held at Hartford Stage in the spring of 2011. The first production featured was Water By the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes - winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Two Hartford Stage plays are selected each year – one for the fall semester and one for the spring semester. The entire college community comes together around the play - with faculty integrating it into classes, and students and faculty attending special lectures and events connected to the play.

One Play was successful from day one, according to Partridge. The program has become deeply embedded into the college culture and is being used by an increasing number of faculty members to reach more students. Last spring, 371 Capital Community College students and faculty attended Somewhere at Hartford Stage. This fall, students and faculty will be attending Ether Dome.

Partridge worked with the Education Department at Hartford Stage to select which play to feature; and Ether Dome, a play about Hartford’s own Dr. Horace Wells and the discovery of anesthesia, was selected because of its direct focus on Hartford history. The play has already been sparking interest among the facMembers of the Hartford Heritage section of American Literature with playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes at ulty, especially those in allied health and sciHartford Stage for the inaugural season of One Play ence. Partridge notes that one faculty member (Fall 2011) L to R: Students Latisha Abraham and Ruth Pagano, Hudes, student Noel Brito, Humanities Chair Dr. at Capital Community College became so imJeff Partridge, and student Dr. Herbert Silver. Photo by Ruth Pagano (courtesy of Capital Community College)

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mersed in the story of Dr. Wells that he did extensive research and wrote an article which he submitted for publication in a historical periodical.

“Ether Dome is the story of a man who lived and worked in Hartford – and of a major innovation that revolutionized the field of medicine,” Jennifer Roberts, Director of Education at Hartford Stage, explains. “It offers a perfect opportunity for students to take a very human look into the history of our city.”

One Play is comprised of three parts. The first component is the “Critical Eye Workshop” – a professional development program for Capital Community College faculty to explore the production and discover Professor Kevin Lamkins enjoys conversation with his students at Hartford Stage (Fall 2012) creative ways to integrate the themes of the chosen Photo by Julie Bidwell (courtesy of Capital Community College) play into their curriculum. Hartford Stage teaching artists offer theatre techniques to faculty, and a scholar is brought in to discuss the subject of the play. A member of the production team will also speak.

The second component of One Play serves as an introduction to the play for students - usually a pre-show discussion with the playwright or director of the show. The students and faculty are then provided with a range of dates to allow them see the show at a special discounted rate.

Once all students and faculty have had an opportunity to see the play, the final component of One Play is a post-show discussion held on campus which allows for direct interaction and discussion with actors from the production.

One Play is enabling Capital Community faculty to incorporate theatre into their courses in creative ways, with more disciplines using the program to get students excited about learning. This fall, Roberts will be teaching a Hartford Heritage Learning Community course, along with Capital Community College Faculty member Peggy Schuyler, titled Perseverance and Ambition: An Analysis of Three Notable Hartford Figures (Horace Wells, Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe).

The course will offer English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students an alternative to traditional ESL courses by enabling them – through acting – to become more proficient and comfortable with speaking, word pronunciation, poise and body language.

The Hartford Heritage Project continues to open up new worlds for Capital Community College students and increase faculty awareness of the many opportunities and resources in Hartford.

Capital Community College is a federally-designated Hispanic-Serving Institution, with a student body comprised largely of Latinos, African-Americans, and immigrants from Europe, Africa, and Latin American countries. For many Capital students, theatre is not often something that they have been regularly exposed to in their lives; and some report this is their first time seeing a live theatrical performance. Since the Project’s inception, the college has created Institutional Memberships with six local arts and cultural organizations, including Hartford Stage. One Play, in particular, has ignited a renewed interest in theatre classes at the college, and students are now requesting the creation of a theatre club.

“Plays weren’t written to be read like novels in a classroom - they were written to be brought to life on stage,” Partridge explains. “Sometimes people assume we need to read literature closer to students’ experiences, but we should not be afraid to let literature open our minds to new perspectives – to invite us into a world we wouldn’t otherwise be a part of.”

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Short Takes: News from Hartford Stage A Busy Summer in Education!

Nearly 200 students this past summer attended Hartford Stage Education classes in acting, improv, dialects, musical theatre, choreography, Shakespeare, puppetry, voice, dance, Commedia, directing, and technical theatre. And almost 600 audience members attended rousing performances of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jr.; Some Treasure Island!; and Breakdancing Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost. See more education photos at hartfordstage.org/education.

Hartford Celebrates Horace Wells

More than 500 dentists, anesthesiologists and history enthusiasts are hosting multiple events this month to celebrate the life of Hartford’s own Dr. Horace Wells in connection with Ether Dome. Thank you to the following for their support: Connecticut Historical Society; Envisionfest; Dr. William MacDonnell; Connecticut State Society of Anesthesiologists; Connecticut State Dental Association; Hartford Dental Society; Connecticut Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons; Integrated Anesthesiology Associates; Hartford Medical Society; and CT Explored.

Take a Tour of Horace Wells’ Life

From Burger King on Main Street to Trinity College to Cedar Hill Cemetery, take a tour of the monuments that commemorate the Horace Wells legacy via the StageNotes photo essay at hartfordstage.org/stagenotes.

SBM Charitable Foundation Gift

A generous grant from SBM Charitable Foundation to Hartford Stage will bring the theatre’s award-winning education programs to thousands of students in East Hartford, Manchester, and Vernon/Rockville over the next year. The grant will support students through the “Student Performance Series” and “Connections,” two of the Hartford Stage Education Department’s many distinguished programs, which serve more than 20,000 young people statewide annually.

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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 color to develop work and become involved in the ongoing life of Greater Hartford. The residency includes working with Hartford Stage’s education department, advancing community development, and the commissioning of a new work, as well as a series of readings and workshops throughout the year. 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 Somewhere made its East Coast premiere at Hartford Stage last April; 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

EXCLUSIVE PRESENTING SPONSOR

AETNA NEW VOICES FELLOWSHIP

United Technologies Corporation

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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.

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

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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

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Ensworth Charitable Foundation Fisher Foundation, Inc. The Foulds Family Foundation 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 The Morningstar Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving National Corporate Theatre Fund The Right Track Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Charles Nelson Robinson Fund SBM Charitable Foundation, Inc. The Hartford Watkinson School Wells Fargo

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 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 The Shubert Foundation Travelers United Technologies Corporation

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 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. Travelers The UBS Foundation United Technologies Corporation Voya Foundation Walt Disney Company Foundation XL Global Services

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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*

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IN-KIND SUPPORT Mr. Philip Chapman Joyce Cohen Barbara F. Donahue James Friedman Deborah Germon Nancy Guyette Hilton Hartford Robert Katz David M. Klein Hans J. Kuss Margaret A. Lareau Steven Levy Anthony Macro Norman Mann Minuteman Press Betty Morcom Newman’s Own, Inc. Ola! Granola

CONTRIBUTORS APRIL 2013 - JULY 2014

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

($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 *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 George & Helen Ingram David & Beth Jimenez Nafe E. Katter+ The Doris & Simon Konover Family Foundation Katherine J. Lambert Tom & Margah Lips John & Beth Lynch 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 Pace Robert A. & Joan C. Penney Esther A. Pryor Christopher Rixon Dr. & Mrs. Russell Robertson David M. Roth Scott Schooley & Giuliana Musilli John & Donna Sennott 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+) 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

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 J. Schermerhorn Don C. Sikes 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 Wilson & Jeff Cowie Chris & Helen Winsor Ms. Ruth Ann Woodley & Mr. Peter Gourley Paul B. Zolan & Kate D. Steinway

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ADVOCATE ($600+) Lawrence+ & Ruth Alexander Anonymous Janet & Sam Bailey 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 Ted & Chris Fishman Tom Fogarty David B. Foster Peter & Laurie Frenzel Sally Williams & William Fuller 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 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 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 Linda & David Roth Rosalie Roth Sherry & Jonathan Schreiber William Orsini & Walter Smith Kate & Andrew Smith Jennifer Smith Turner & Eric Turner

Linda Bland Sonnenblick Phyllis Spragg Henry “Skip” Steiner Alvin & Lesley Morgan Thompson Michael & Helena Thompson Dudley & Gerri Watkins Dr. Jean Weigert & Mr. Daniel Millstein Susan & Eliot Williams

ASSOCIATES ($100+) Steve & Susan Abdow Douglas R. Adams Jill & Cecil Adams Gerard & Georgia Adelman Paul Aho Liz Aiken Neil Aldin & Mary Lou Lacek Nanette & Daniel Alexander Jeanne & Mark Allard Debbie Alldredge Colleen Allen Elizabeth R. Allen Sheila Amdur & Marcia Neff Martin & Rebecca Anderson Mona & Greg Anderson Bryant & Betsy Andrews Anonymous (31) Sara L. Bernstein & Joseph M. Shortall Tim Bertaccini Rajeev & Jaqueline Bhalla Robert J. & Barbara Birnbaum Dennis & Monica Bisgaard Eleanor W. Blake Daniel T. & Eiko Blow Phillip & Ellen Blumberg Louis Blumenfeld & Jacqueline Isaacson Father Lawrence R. Bock Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Boehner Salvatore & Lisa Bonanno Iona & Vic Bonneville Robert & Catherine Boone Margurite Boslaugh Elaine Bourdeaux Arvett & Reuben Bradford Ken & Susie Bragdon Iris Marjorie Branch Todd & Rebecca Brandt Liz & Martin Brayboy Virginia G. Brechtel Dr. Sybille Brewer Rob & P.J. Brewer Dorothy & Jim Bridgeman Anona Broadman Paula & Craig Brown Nancy A. Brownstein Art & Carol Bruce Janet & Robert Bruner Ron & Margie Buccilli Michael & Ann Buchas

Brad Burdick & Patricia Manning Liz & Jim Burke Cassandra Burns & Marc Newman Janice Burrill Carlene Bush Sheldon Bustow Mims Butterworth Fred & Edith Byron James S. & Heidi L. Bzdyra Mary Cahalane & David Weil Marie & Bob Calvin Rosamond Campbell Eleanor N. Caplan James & Margaret Carroll Tris & Angelee Carta Joanne Centola Polly U. Champ Frank Chiaramonte Mr. & Mrs. Stephan Christiansen John Cipriano Ian & Carolyn Clark John K. Clark & Judith Stoughton Morris & Patricia Clark A. Digby Clarke Mr. & Mrs. Philip Clement Susan Clemow Margaret & Charles Coe Myron Cohen George Colby George & Joan Cole Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Colombo Anne & Tom Condon Tammy Conley & Roselinde Torres Joseph J. Connolly William & Jeanne Conrad Michael & Karen Conway Ann & Douglas Cooke Alison G. Coolbrith & Barry N. Lastra Gail & Julian Coolidge Elizabeth H. Cooper Paul Cordilico Jack & Linda Cotter Judy Coughlin Sabina Cournoyer & Michael Shelby Cynthia Coutu Ann Cowen Jane Croft & Don Kurth Crosskey Architects Laura Crow Edmund T. Curran Robert & Joyce Dabrowski Sheila & John D’Agostino Jim & Lois Dailey Eric & Patricia Daniels Bob & Priscilla Dannies Sal & Sally D’Aquila Nancy H. Davidson Judy & Joe Davison Susan P. Davison John B. Deans Marjorie W. DeBold Sue A. Deffenbaugh

+ 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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George Delmhorst Howard & Shirley DeLong Philip & Mary-Alice Dennehy Andrew J. Derkach Jr. Ms. Franca L. DeRosa Martin & Dorothy DeSomma Barry & Gail Deutsch Ronald Dewitt Shirley Diamond Colette DiLorenzo Penny & Ronald Dionne Anthony & Alexandra DiPentima Dan Dolan & Mari Muri Sheldon Dolinger Dave & Sandy Dolinsky Elaine & Robert Dombroff Betty K. Domer Barbara F. Donahue Michael & Elizabeth Donnelly Michael Donnelly Peter & Ellen P. Donshik Jonathan Housum & Marianne Downie John & Ann Drake Anthony Drapelick Fred & Bebe Dudley Marie Dudley William C. Dunakin Richard Dunderdale & Susan Kramer Kevin & Teresa Duprey C.Y. Durham Maria Dynia & Gwen Haley John & Janet Egelhofer Peter & Jennifer Eio Dr. Ellen Eisenberg Mr. & Mrs. William Ellis Beth Ellison Roberta Enoch & Steven Canner Ms. Ellyssa Eror & Mr. John Gorman Woody Exley Ron Fahle Robert M. Fechtor & Gilda Brock Charley & Mary Ferrucci Bella & Judd Fink Vaughan Finn & Steve Nightingale Marianne Gilbert Finnegan Robert Firger & Cecilia Calhoun Christine Fisch Linda & John Fiske William & Frances Fitts Anne Fitzgerald Martha & Dan FitzMaurice Kathy & John Fitzpatrick Andrew M. Fleischmann Karl Fleischmann Laurence & Beverly Fleming Ron & Pam Fleming J.D. Fletcher Bernadette & Tom Foley Diane & Joe Foley Jackson W. Foley & Saranne P. Murray Thomas J. Foran Stuart & Amy Forman Elaine A. Fortuna Joseph & Rose Fortuna Katherine Fowler Joan Michalcik Fox

Lawrence S. Fox & Ann Nichols Janis Franklin Anne Frederick Emily & Paul Frederick Erin Frederick Joseph Frederick Robert A. Frederick Volker Frick & Florence Wolff-Nicholas Dr. & Mrs. Frank Friedman Judi Friedman Howard & Sandra Fromson Tim & Roxanne Fromson Rebecca M. Fuller Sue E. Fuller Willie & Betty Fuqua William & Helen Gagron James M. Galligan & Eunice Galligan Dr. & Mrs. Prabhash Ganguli Robert Garrey Richard & Joyce Garrison Alex & Christine Gaudio Donald & Gretchen Gavette Mary E. Gehle Evelyn Genovese George & Cynthia Gentile Stuart & Beverly Gerber Elaine Gerry Adelle Leeder Gersten Barbara & Jack Gillies Robert Gilroy Marilyn Giolas Gary & Susan Giordano Alfred Gladstone & Laura Berlin Dorothea Glatte Nancy Squire & William J. Glick Maryann & Paul Glotzer Paul & Marilyn Glover Sarah & Jim Gobes Kent & Penny Goetjen Louis Golden & Peggy Buchanan Blanche & Steven Goldenberg Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin S. Goldfarb Mrs. Joanne E. Goldfarb David & Corinne Good Pamela K. Goodling Nancy & Randy Goodwin James T. Gould Delores P. Graham Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Graham Francine Grandmaison Mr. & Mrs. L. J. Granell Arnold Grant Betty J. Grant Joseph A. & Janet W. Grasso Mr. & Mrs. William Graver Robert & Lisa Green Ira Greenbaum Robert & Arlene Greenstein Kirsten & Oz Griebel Family Fund Suzanne Grosch Ann Gross Edward Guay Andre & Cyndi Guillotin Welles & Lillian Guilmartin Thomas & Gloria Gworek Albert J. & Nancy C. Hajek

Patricia Hale Marcia S. & Robert S. Hall The Hall Family Deborah Hallowell Florence Hanft Jayme Hannay Christopher & Pamela Hardiman Laura R. Harris Russ+ & Jane A. Harris Daniel & Susan Hart Jane Harvell Karen & Rick Haverly Margaret M. Hayes Lynn & Steve Hazard David Henderson Rita H. Henderson Doe Hentschel Everett+ & Irene Herden Michael & Julie Hermsen A. W. Herrmann Gail & Vic Herson Alfred & Katharine Herzog Gerald Hess Virginia & David Hilyard Samuel & Marcia Hinckley Naomi & Marvin Hoberman Bruce Hockaday & Sarah Karstaedt Dr. & Mrs. James C. Hogan Jr. Bryan & Traci Holcombe Dr. Ellen Eisenberg Ena & Don Holtman Randall R. Horsey & Katherine H. Ballard Bonnie Huang & Mark Preston Gregory Huang Diana & Paul Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Jack Hughes Don & Helen Hughlett Dorothy & Kimball Hunt William & Judith Hyde Ms. Bernice A. Jalbert Eric Janney Sandy Jedziniak & Jeremy Mellitz Carolle W. Jenkins Michael Foster & Jill Jensen Therese Jette Kera Jewett Frederick Johnson Theodore & Nancy Johnson Robert D. Jones Brooks & Carol Lee Joslin Francine Jowdy Randall & Elizabeth Judd Sven Junker Karen & Scott Kaeser Ann Kahn Michael & Joyce Kai David E. Kaplan Dr. & Mrs. Edward H. Karl Daniel & Lori Kase Libby Kasimer Roberta A. Kaufman Claire & Richard Kay Beth A. Keegan & Thomas D. Keegan Elizabeth & William Keister Suzanne & Douglas Kelley Sarah & Eric Kemmler

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Jack & Sally Kennedy Scott Kennedy & Carole Dyal Ann Foxen Kenny Hilda & Arthur Kesten Mary Jean Kilfoil Robert Killian Robin Kipnis & Penn Ritter Otmar & Irmgard Klee Judy Kline Keith & Elaine Knowlton Rose Kochanowsky Mr. & Mrs. Uwe Koehn Glenn Koetzner & Monica Connor Dave & Ilene Kohlun Steve & Nancy Kotchko Lois & Chuck Koteen Nancy A. Kramer Phyllis Krechevsky Hannelore Kreder June & Henry Krisch Ruth & David Krugman Alice Kugelman Todd Kulik Wendy Kellner & Scott Kurtzman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ladieu David LaManna Ellen L. Lang & James E. Watson, MD Robert M. & Shelley T. Langer Shannon & Brian Lapierre Dr. & Mrs. Robert Lapkin Bob & Mary LaPorte Ms. Emely B. Larson Marcia Lattimore Jim & Jeannie Lawrence Dr. & Mrs. Charles Leach William C. & Emily D. Leary Jean-Paul LeBlanc Scott & Becky Lehmann Gerald & Zoe Leibowitz Michael Leo Christina Leone Donato Leone Frank A. Leone Shirley Leong Harvey & Lewis Opticians Judy Lewis & Stuart Sakovich Helen D. Lewtan Peter & Mary F. Libassi Connecticut Anxiety & Depression Treatment Center Mr. & Mrs. Crawford Lincoln Dr. & Mrs. Robert Linden Julia J. & Carl W. Lindquist, M.D. Margaret A. Lines Peter & Rosemary Lombardo Dick & Martha Londergan Carol & James Loomis Susan Loop Laura & Ed Lorenson Irene J. Loretto Linda A. Loretz & Richard A. Loretz Stephen & Helen Lovass Ramona R. Loven

Stephen & Gail Lowe Elaine & Barry Lubin Virginia & Frank Luczak Nancy Stolfi Lundy Gay Lustig & Warren Lutz Deborah Lynch Reid & Linda MacCluggage Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Mack The Macke Foundation C. MacMullen John C. & Mary Jane Madigan Randall Madore & Anthony Coschigano Mrs. Audra Mailhot Veronica Makowsky & Jeffrey Gross Kenneth & Cynthia Malm Anita & William Mancoll Karl Markuszka Stephen & Linda Markwald Kathy Marr Carole Masters Mickey & Ernie Mattei Steve & Pamela Maynard John & Debbie Mayo Anne McAloon Jim & Pinet McBride Maria McBride William & Lisa McCooey Gregory W. McCormick Joan C. McCormick E. Merritt McDonough Mimi & David McGill McGrath Family Bill & Mary McIntyre John & Joyce McNabney Marsha & Jim Meehan Rob Mehl & Jen Amenta Peggy & Alan Mendelson Joseph Messina & Christine Melson Harry & Mary Meyer Thomas Michalski, Sr. & Marjorie A. Michalski Wolf & Anita Mielert Claudette Miller Susan & Doug Miller Birch H. & Peter Milliken Sandy+ & Charlie Milliken B. Charles & Toby Milner David & Penny Miner Dr. & Mrs. Benson Monastersky Janice & Tom Montgomery Amalie Montstream Kieran Mooney Larry & Nancy Moran David & Elizabeth Morgan Jim Morgan Jane & John Morosky Ralph O. Moyer, Jr. Ms. Michele Mueller Robert & Marnie Mueller Mary & Tom Mullaney Fred & Eleanor Mullen Roger J. & Elizabeth Mullins

Jim & Terri Muren Nancy & Hugh Murray Linda & Bichop Nawrot Danielle K. Naylor Kenneth Neidhart Judith T. Nellen Willa M. Nemetz Arthur & Marilyn Neumann Joel & Toby Neuwirth John & Alice Neville Paul & Susan Nichols Lucille M. Nickerson & Ralph J. Zegarelli Steve & Cris Noble Emily Noel & Tim Sullivan, Jr. Ms. Sara C. Norris Arlene & Bill O’Brien Helen O’Brien Barbara & Emery Olcott Neal Ossen & Margaret Rick Wade & Anita Overgaard Warren & Florence Packard Debra Padgett Robert Painter & Nancy Macy Dorothy Paleologos Huguet Pameijer Sarah & Samuel Paul David & Laura Pels Judith & Brewster Perkins Carl & Ellen Peterson Dale & Lorna Peterson Solveig Pflueger & Howard Smith Dr. Richard A. Picerno David W. Pickus Jacquelynne & Marvin Pilo Jill & Ken Pilon Chris, Carol, & John Pisinski Ms. Elizabeth Pite Larry Pitts Dina Plapler & Earl McMahon Michael & Susan Pohold David & Rennie Polk Eileen & Elliott Pollack Jim & Dian Pomeranz Frances Porter Anthony Posteraro Susan Potashner Mr. & Mrs. Wallace C. Pringle Mark R. Prisloe Emanuel & Margaret Psarakis Marina & Brock Putnam Ken & Mary Jane Quarti Brian M. & Margaret J. Quigley Katherine Quinn Jeanne Radcliff Henry & Donna Rancourt Emily W. Rankin Maggie & Tom Rathier Edward C. Raymond Hal Reed Jack Reed Michael & Elizabeth Reilly Dr. James & Dr. Luce Reiss

+ 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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Stephen & Linda Revis Catherine C. Reynolds Philip & Catherine Reynolds Henry Rianhard Alan Rice Steven & Kimberly Rich Ency S. Richardson Dale & Sally Richter Ian & Linda Rickard Jack & Sali Riege Patricia & David Rist John Ritter David Rittner Suzy Rivera Jennifer L. Roberts Nancy & Stephen Roberts Matthew Robinson Avery & Monica Rockefeller Betty & Rudy Roggenkamp John & Caroline Rohrbach Deborah Romaniw Gail & John Rose John Rose Dr. & Mrs. Eric Rosenberg Michele Rosenberg Jane Oefinger Rosenfield Michael Ross Mr. Charles Rotenberg Joel & Susan Rottner Arthur B. & Carole M. Roueché Mari Rovang & Howard Mathison James & Debra Ruel Suzanne B. Ruffee Dr. Richard T. Ruffin, Jr. Marshall & Sandra Rulnick Cynthia Bates & Jonathan Russell Dan & Elizabeth Russell Jean Russo & Michael Knisley James J. Ryan Mark & Beth Ryan Iris Salvin Susan & Michael Sames Lawrence Samplansky Renée & Robert Samuels Sharon Sanders Sarael & Tom Sargent Frank & Gloria Sarr David & Judith Satlof George Savva Philomena & Fred Sawyer Patricia Scanlon Bobbi & Nick Schaus Karl & Elizabeth Scheibe Hon. Howard Scheinblum & Susan R. Fierberg Sue & Bing Scherer Suzanne & John Schloss Jeanne & Erling Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. Robert Schmidt Carolyn & Dave Schnatz Mr. & Mrs. Lars G. Schon Elliot & Natalie Schulman Earl & Cindy Schulz Marilyn Schulz Alan & Marilyn Schwedel Carol W. Scoville Ann Seeley

Deborah Seibert Lee Seidman Peter & Barbara Setlow Mr. & Mrs. Ben Sevitch Jonathan & Beverly Seymour Alicia Sharon Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Shaylor Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Shepard Robert M. Shields, Jr. & Susan L. Kelley Maryanne Shinn Marci & Gregg Shipman Sonia & Mark Shipman The Shulansky Foundation, Inc. Carol Sicbaldi Barbara Sicherman Nancy & John Silander Mr. & Mrs. Ellery W. Sinclair Thomas & Nancy Day Sinsteden Geraldine Sklarz Gilbert L. Small & Ruth G. Small Howard & Phyllis Small Clare B. Smith Elma Smith Gloria J. Smith Jeffrey H. Smith Robert H. & Sharon W. Smith Thomas G. Smith Tyler Smith & Lyn Walker Bill & Suzie Snow Barbara L. Snyder Patricia B. Snyder Philip & Barbara Snyder Mary Soucy Theodore M. Space Gretchen E. Spielman Samuel Spilo Debbie Sprague Robert M. Srulowitz & Sharon Straka Leigh A. Newman & Gary S. Starr Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence C. Starr Carolyn R. Staub Scott & Jane Stearns Deborah & Jeffrey Stein Debbie & Jeff Steinberg Mr. Michael J. Stenko Jeannine Steucek Francine & Steven Stier Noubar Stone & Meri Nordström Phyllis Story Mary E. Stoughton Donna & Sam Stout Leslie Poulos & Bill Stover Leonard & Deanna Sue Sucsy Sam & LeNelle Suharto Marcia & Jim Sutton Roberta Swafford & David Hoopes Bland Maloney & Edward B. Swain Aggie & Chick Sweeney Richard & Gretchen Swibold Jean & John Sziklas Jean & John Sziklas Michael & Sylvia Taub Barbara A. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Taylor William & Barbara Taylor Michael A. & Pamela Tedone

Elliot & Carolyn Tertes Adeline P. Theis Mrs. Stephanie Thibeault Ted & Joan Thomas Paul D. Thompson J. Victoria Tilson Ruth & Fred Timme Jahala Ann Tomaselli Humphrey Tonkin & Jane Edwards Karen & Paul Torop Merle & David Trager Dr. Phillip & Fay Trowbridge Margurite & Gregory Tumminio Beatrice Ukraincik Stephen Utz Sjef Van den berg Marjorie Van Leuvan Emily Van Scoy Sharon L. Vasquez Elizabeth & Gerald Vecchio Douglas H. & Priscilla B. Viets E. Carol Vojtila Mark & Dawn von Mayrhauser Stephen & Karen Wagner Mariana Wagoner Phebe D. Wallace Marilyn W. Walsh Alvie Ward, Jr. Rick & Kristi Warters Elinor Watts Judith Wawro Harry Webb Ronnie & Mitchell Weiss Donna Wellins Ms. Abby Wells Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Wenner Michael & Patricia Werle Bob Katz & Bobbie Werner Reeves Westmoreland Robert L. Whalen Margaret & Michael Wheeler Mark & Maria Whelden Christopher V. White Mary Ellen & Bob White Allison Whitehall Nancy C. Wilde Kathy & Peter Wildman Robert Wilkins Karen & Phil Will Charles Williams Maxwell Williams Katherine & Raymond Wilson Cheryl Winter Charles & Sandy Wiseman Joan H. Wister Sally & Stephen Wittenberg Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Wojciak Virginia & Steven Wolf Peggy Anderson & Andrea Wright Ann Vibert Wuelfing Robert & Jane Wyld Mary Wynn Eric & Jessica Zachs Barbara & Al Zakarian Robert & Heather Zavod Ellen & Michael Zenke

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Walter & Diana Zilahy Mr. & Mrs. Edward A. Zito Belle & Alexander Zubkov Nancy & David Zwiener

MEMORIAL & HONORARY IN MEMORY OF JAMILLE T. FARRAH:

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

Mrs. Mary P. Gibbons 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 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

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 Chloe & Wes Horton Herbert Isaacson David & Sharon Jepson Janice & David Klein Joel & Naomi Kleinman Robert & Anne Lally Katherine J. Lambert Andrew & Lauren Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. Crawford Lincoln Tom & Margah Lips Cynthia K. Mackay Margaret Marchak & Mark Schreier Katharine & Hugh McLean 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 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

+ 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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