Pride and Prejudice

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FROM THE ARTISTIC & MANAGING DIRECTORS Dear Friends of Hartford Stage: Welcome to the opening of our 60th anniversary season, and Kate Hamill’s Pride and Prejudice. Her playful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel adds so much theatricality and wit to this classic work — and director TatyanaMarie Carlo’s vision, and this extraordinary cast, add even further fun to the interpretation.

One of the great joys of theater is revisiting stories we know or remember, and seeing them in a new light. We hope this production will give you a joyous evening and a reminder of how a classic work can be seen afresh.

Austen’s writing about hypocrisy, true love, and the pressure to conform to societal norms all speak loudly to our moment. In this production, the contemporary style unlocks new pleasures, allowing us to discover and rediscover these characters, plots, and romantic hijinks.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged…” that finding love can be a challenge, that romance appeals to us all, and that witnessing the struggles of others in their matchmaking is a well-known pleasure. In this whirlwind production, we’ll meet a few variations on this theme — and rejoice in the celebration of a great work newly told.

Enjoy the show, and be sure to join us for the rest of our 60th anniversary season. This theater is here thanks to all of you, and as we celebrate this milestone, we honor your dedication to this art form, and to Hartford Stage.

Enjoy the show,

Melia Bensussen Artistic Director

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CYNTHIA RIDER

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PRESENTS

By Kate Hamill

Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen Directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo

Choreographer Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Original Music & Sound Design Wig Design Vocal & Dialect Coach Fight Director Casting Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Associate Artistic Director Director of Production General Manager

Shura Baryshnikov Sara Brown Haydee Zelideth Aja M. Jackson Daniel Baker & Co. Earon Nealey Jennifer Scapetis-Tycer Teniece Divya Johnson Alaine Alldaffer Anaïs Bustos Theresa Stark Zoë Golub-Sass Bryan T. Holcombe Emily Van Scoy

OCTOBER 12 – NOVEMBER 5, 2023 Pride and Prejudice is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

World premiere production co-produced by Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and Primary Stages: June 24, 2017, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Dave McCallum, Artistic Director; Kate Liberman, Managing Director) November 19, 2017, Primary Stages (Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Shane D. Hudson, Executive Director) Pride and Prejudice received a presentation as part of The Other Season at Seattle Repertory Theatre, 2016-2017.

SEASON SPONSOR

PRODUCTION SPONSOR

The Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation

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THE CAST & DIRECTOR

Sergio Mauritz Ang

Madeleine Barker

Renata Eastlick

María Gabriela González

Zoë Kim

Carman Lacivita

Anne Scurria

Lana Young

Tatyana-Marie Carlo

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THE CHARACTERS Mr. Bingley / Wickham / Mr. Collins.................................Sergio Mauritz Ang Mary / Miss Bingley.....................................................................Madeleine Barker Lizzy....................................................................................................... Renata Eastlick Jane / Miss de Bourgh................................................María Gabriela González Lydia / Lady Catherine................................................................................. Zoë Kim Mr. Darcy............................................................................................. Carman Lacivita Charlotte Lucas / Mr. Bennet............................................................Anne Scurria Mrs. Bennet.................................................................................................Lana Young THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION. Assistant Director..............................................................................Rachel Ropella Associate Costume Designer...................................................... Cindy Zacarías Assistant Lighting Designer......................................................Hannah Wolland Assistant Sound Designers.......................... Ryan Brion and Marisa Conroy Associate Wig Designer.................................................................... Mattie Milano Intimacy Coordinator......................................................Teniece Divya Johnson Fight Captain.................................................................................... Carman Lacivita Dance Captain...............................................................................Madeleine Barker Production Assistant.............................................................. Austin Washington

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

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Our romance WITH THE imperishable romance

BY CAITLIN HOWLE

J

ane Austen has been a staple of great literature for two centuries, but she has also expanded into the realm of pop culture. Her books have spawned countless movies, TV shows, and even an action figure or two. There are devout adaptations

that interpret her work word for word and looser adaptations that throw in everything from time-travel to zombies. There’s so much Jane Austen all around us, you might not even realize it.

First, the basics. Jane Austen was an English novelist who lived from 1775 to 1817. Her father, George Austen, was a rector at an Anglican parish and her mother, Cassandra Leigh, was from a prominent family. Austen had three siblings — Henry, Cassandra, and Francis. Her parents encouraged the family to be well-educated and to explore creative interests. The girls were sent to school but later had to return home when their family was unable to afford it. The rumor is that Jane and Cassandra were still tutored at home by their father and that they may have even joined their brothers for lessons.

Austen showed a love for and promise in writing from an early age. In what is known as her “juvenalia” stage, she wrote many poems, notebooks, and a short novel that was meant to entertain her family and friends.

As Austen neared adulthood, her family moved to Bath, England in 1801. Austen was adamant about how much she hated the move, as it took her away from the home that she loved in Steventon. She wrote much less than she had and scholars attribute this to an intense depression that overcame the author. She was in Bath for a short time, moving to Southampton in 1806 and finally to Hampshire in 1809.

Austen took ill at the beginning of 1816 and deteriorated rapidly. Though there is no certainty of what she died of, it is rumored to have been Addison’s Disease, as popularized by the 1964 retrospective diagnosis by Dr. Vincent Cope. Despite her illness, Austen continued to write, working on novels that she unfortunately never finished.

Austen only published four novels during her lifetime, all anonymously, as women were not allowed to sign contracts at the time. Those novels are: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816). After her death in 1817, at the age of 41, Austen’s brother Henry and her sister Cassandra had her remaining novels Persuasion and Northanger Abbey published as a set in 1817.

Portrait of Jane Austen.

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Austen was never credited as the author of her novels while she was alive, with her first credit as an author coming in 1821, though her brother Henry identified her as the author when the posthumous publication of Persuasion came out in 1818.

Jane Austen’s work has continued to thrive, with adaptations upon adaptations coming out based on, or inspired by her novels. From the traditional to the bizarre, here are a few of the ways Pride and Prejudice, perhaps her best-known work, have transcended time and resonated with audiences through the decades.

Pride and Prejudice in Film and Television The first television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice came out in 1938 in the United Kingdom and starred Curigwen Lewis as Elizabeth and Andrew Osborn as Mr. Darcy. It was broadcast on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and played just before World War II began. Two years later, in 1940, the much better known and first film adaptation appeared, starring Greer Garson as Lizzy and Laurence Olivier as that handsome Mr. Darcy. While very well-received, it did poorly at the box office. That didn’t stop film and television adaptations from coming, however. There was another television miniseries in the 1950s, as well as ones in the 1960s and 1980s. None are as well known, though, as the 1995 television miniseries that featured Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth and Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. This adaptation won several awards, including a BAFTA for Jennifer Ehle for “Best Actress” and an Emmy for costume design.

Adaptations of Austen’s work waned for nearly a decade until 2004 when a Bollywood film named Bride & Prejudice that was loosely adapted from the original novel was produced. The most recent adaptation was the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen as Elizabeth and Darcy. It received four nominations at the 78th Academy Awards, though it did not take home any awards.

Pride and Prejudice in Professional Theater When it comes to professional theater, there have been plenty of Pride and Prejudice adaptations, with the first documented one being in 1901. An adaptation by Helen Jerome was produced on Broadway in 1935 and was the basis for the 1940 film previously mentioned. Broadway also saw First Impressions in 1959 — a musical version of Austen’s novel with book by Abe

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Costume sketches from Hartford Stage’s Pride and Prejudice. Designs by Haydee Zelideth

Burrows and music and lyrics by George Weiss, Bo Goldman, and Glenn Paxton. The show played 84 performances. There was another play by Jon Jory and a Pride and Prejudice musical again in 1995 by Bernard J. Taylor.

The latest adaptation of Austen’s work is Kate Hamill’s adaptation — the show we have now. It premiered at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare festival in 2017, where Hamill played the leading role of Lizzy. Hamill’s adaptation went on to be performed by Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York, where it caught the attention of regional theaters, many of whom recognized its value for their own seasons.

Looser Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice has inspired many different versions and some casual allusions to the plot. There are a few adaptations of the work that are looser, but still follow Austen’s classic story or characters. For example, there was a four-part fantasy series from 2008 called Lost in Austen where a Jane Austen

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The title page of the first volume in the first edition of Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen was not listed as the author. Rather, the book was attributed to “the author of Sense and Sensibility.”

fan is sucked into the novel of Pride and Prejudice.

Austen is no stranger to sci-fi, being mentioned in the 2014 “The Caretaker” episode of the time-bending and space-traveling television show Doctor Who. Pride and Prejudice is also a book that the character of Fry jumps into in the Matt Groening (The Simpsons) animated series Futurama, where he and another character wreak havoc on the ball where Lizzy meets Darcy. The novel was also the inspiration for Death Comes to Pemberley, the 2013 miniseries set six years after Darcy and Elizabeth are married — two of the characters quarrel and a murder is committed with the Bennet crew left to solve the mystery.

In another look at what happens years after the conclusion of the Pride

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and Prejudice story, the play Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon premiered in 2016 at Merrimack Repertory Theater.

The first Emmy ever to be awarded in the category for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media — Original Interactive Program went to another Austen-inspired creation. In 2012, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was a YouTube webseries in which Elizabeth Bennet is a graduate student who starts a video blog for her thesis and chronicles her dating adventures with the Bennet sisters through this digital format.

You also may have heard of the 2009 parody novel called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which was later turned into a 2016 film. The story features the Bennet sisters as martial arts masters and weapon-wielding women in a world where they must fight off the zombie plague and find a suitable husband to marry. The film was a commercial flop, making a mere $16 million compared to the $28 million it took to make it.

Zombies aside, Darcy has been widely imagined as an extremely handsome suitor. Once though, he was a furry, four-legged bachelor in an adorable dog-sized suit. In 1995 the popular PBS children’s television show Wishbone featured Austen’s story, calling it, “Furst Impressions.” The main character, Wishbone, a Jack Russell terrier, was the adorable Mr. Darcy.

Also, in a fun turn of events, there was an Austen-inspired movie that came to life following the 1995 miniseries starring Colin Firth as Darcy. The miniseries has been widely attributed to be the inspiration for the 2001 film Bridget Jones’s Diary, where Firth played “Mark Darcy,” the main character’s love interest. Andrew Davies co-wrote the Bridget Jones screenplay — and wrote the Pride and Prejudice adaptation that Firth starred in.

Of course, Pride and Prejudice is only one of Austen’s works and there are plenty of other adaptations of her novels (for example, the 1990s movie Clueless is a loose adaptation of Emma). There are tons of fun Austeninspired products, including a five-inch-tall Jane Austen action figure from Accoutrements, Inc. and an Austen-inspired recipe in a cookbook called Kafka’s Soup. In 2003 Pride and Prejudice came in second in a BBC poll for the United Kingdom’s “best-loved book,” trailing only The Lord of the Rings.

Two centuries after Austen passed away, her work is still leaving its mark on the world and inspiring those who read and become involved with it. The next time you find yourself in the middle of a love story, you might just want to check who inspired it. In all likelihood, it was Austen herself. After all, it’s a small Jane Austen world that we live in.

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HISTORICAL CONTEXT:

Regency Period The era of Jane Austen was within the Regency Period, which fell under a shift in rule in Great Britain. The Regency Period had officially begun in 1811 when the Prince of Wales, later King George IV, assumed leadership as Prince Regent when his father, King George III was seen as unfit to rule due to extreme illness. King George III is best known for ruling while the American colonies revolted against the British. Though King George III didn’t create the taxation against the colonies that caused them to seek independence, British Parliament did, he eventually became unpopular once the colonies were lost.

Once the Prince Regent came to power, he was discouraged heavily from making decisions closely related to war or any official governing business. He instead focused his efforts on spending mass amounts of money, more than the Treasury could cover, indulging his idealistic vision of British life. He had many building projects, parties, and was extravagant in fashion and food. On the positive side, he was a huge supporter of the arts and literature, and created Regent Park in London for many to enjoy.

The Prince Regent officially took rule in 1820, when King George III died, making him King George IV. He only ruled 10 years more, dying in 1830.

Though his rule was brief, his cultural presence was impactful because it was so indulgent, extreme, and reflected among his subjects.

THE ARTICLES OUR ROMANCE WITH THE IMPERISHABLE ROMANCE AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT: REGENCY PERIOD WERE ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR THE TRINITY REPERTORY THEATER’S PRODUCTION OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Portrait of Prince Regent of England, later King George IV. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS SERGIO MAURITZ ANG Mr. Bingley / Wickham / Mr. Collins Hartford Stage: Debut. New York: Learning How to Read by Moonlight (Leviathan Lab); Coleman Domingo’s The Brother[s] (Out of the box Theatrics); Anna in the Tropics (Gallery Players); Summertime (Between Two Boroughs). Regional: Song of Me (Stages Houston); Yoga Play, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Wrinkle in Time, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Ragtime (PlayMakers Rep); Flowers of Hawaii (Chautauqua Theatre Company); Bruise & Thorn (PlayPenn); Peter and the Starcatcher (Kitchen Theatre Company); Mañanas de Abril y Mayo (Connecticut Free Shakespeare). Film: Relay.

Television: The Other Two. Education: MFA Acting: UNC Chapel Hill. BFA Acting: Brooklyn College. LaGuardia Arts High School. Thank you BWA and CLA Fam! www.sergiomauritzang.com MADELEINE BARKER Mary / Miss Bingley / Dance Captain Hartford Stage: Debut. Off-Broadway: Soldiergirls (Rattlestick Theatre); Gregorian (The WAT Project at Soho Rep The WalkerSpace). Regional: The Inferior Sex, A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (The Wilbury Theatre); Grease (Ogunquit Playhouse, John W Engeman Theater); South Pacific (Riverside Theatre, Moonlight Amphitheater Productions); Jane Eyre (World premier adaptation with Counter Balance Theatre); Merchant of Venice (The New Swan). Film: Goodnight Death, Still Light, Start Breaking My Heart. Education: MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep; productions include Everybody, Macbeth, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Much love to Mom and Dad who raised me on Jane Austen. Thank you, Tatyana and Hartford Stage, for bringing me on this journey!

RENATA EASTLICK Lizzy Hartford Stage: Debut. Off-Broadway: for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (The Public); The Democracy Project (Federal Hall). Regional: Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Yale Repertory Theatre); Dream Hou$e (Long Wharf Theatre and Baltimore Center Stage); Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too, August Wilson) (Orlando Shakes); Seven Deadly Sins (Miami New Drama / 2021 Drama League Award Winner); Pipeline (Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe); In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play (GableStage); Good People (American Stage); The Royale (Hippodrome Theatre); In the Heights (Actors’ Playhouse); The Rocky Horror Show (Slow

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Burn Theatre Company), among others. Film: God’s Waiting Room (Tribeca Film Festival 2021 Official Selection). Television: Burn Notice, Mad Dogs, Magic City. Video Games: Rainbow Six: Siege. Awards and Nominations: Silver Palm Award and two-time Carbonell Award Nominee. Education: BFA New World School of the Arts. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA and the Actors’ Equity Association. @renataeastlick MARÍA GABRIELA GONZÁLEZ Jane / Miss de Bourgh Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Venus in Fur, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, One Man, Two Guvnors (Chautauqua Theatre Company); Native Gardens, Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company). Film: Mea Culpa (Netflix, upcoming); Harmony in Paradise (UPtv). Television: Fantasy Island (FOX/ Hulu). Education: BS in Chemistry, Minor in Theater, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras; MFA in Acting, Brown University/Trinity Rep. Other productions: Twelfth Night, The Crucible, Rabbit Hole, Good Person of Szechwan. Dialect Coach: West Side Story (2021), The Lesser Dead (2023). She sends her love to her homeland, Puerto Rico, her loved ones and all those who have supported her journey. This is all because of you. Por y para ustedes, siempre.

ZOË KIM Lydia / Lady Catherine Hartford Stage: Debut. Off-Broadway: Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?) (59e59 Theater). Regional: Eureka Day (Asolo Rep Theater). International: Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?) (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare’s Globe in London). Film: Phone Call, Meet Me at a Funeral, No Returns, Say, Do You Wanna Be White?. Education: Acting MFA Rutgers University; productions include: Motherf**ker with the Hat, The Winter’s Tale. www.thezoekim.com CARMAN LACIVITA Mr. Darcy / Fight Captain Hartford Stage: The Winter’s Tale. Broadway: Marvin’s Room (Original Broadway Cast), Cyrano de Bergerac (with Kevin Kline). Off-Broadway: To My Girls (World Premiere-Second Stage); Sense & Sensibility (Bedlam); Rose Rage; Henry the 6th Pts. 1, 2, 3 (Duke); The Witch of Edmonton (Red Bull); The Public, The Atlantic, TFANA and The Pearl. Regional: Private Lives (The Repertory Theater of St Louis); Emma (World Premiere / The Guthrie); Pride and Prejudice (Syracuse Stage, Dorset Theatre Festival); Twelfth Night (Two

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS River Theatre); George is Dead written and directed by Elaine May, with Marlo Thomas (George St. Playhouse/Arizona Theater Company); Romeo and Juliet, Rose Rage (Chicago Shakespeare); Long Wharf; Dallas; Fort Worth; Kentucky Shakespeare Festivals, among others. Television/Film: Blue Bloods, Golden Boy, Royal Pains, The Chica Show, Cyrano de Bergerac.

Education: MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University; BFA Texas Christian University. Artistic Associate at Amphibian Stage Productions.

Awards: St Clair Bayfield Award, Jeff Awards, Drama League Nomination. IG: @lacivitacarman www.carmanlacivita.com ANNE SCURRIA Charlotte Lucas / Mr. Bennet Hartford Stage: Debut. Off-Broadway: The Hope Zone (with Olympia Dukakis) (Circle Rep); The Ruby Sunrise (Public Theatre). Regional: The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (Wiliamstown Theatre Festival); Anna Christie (Arena Stage); Singing Forest, Skin of Our Teeth (Intimate Theatre); The Ruby Sunrise (Humana Theatre Festival); The Boys Next Door (A.R.T.); 3 Tall Women (Lyric Stage); Vieux Carre’ (Huntington Theatre); The Long Xmas Ride Home (Long Wharf Theatre); Sueño, The Glass Menagerie, The Grapes of Wrath, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Angels in America, Pts. 1 & 2, Homebody/Kabul, 43 seasons as Resident Company Member (Trinity Repertory Theatre). Film: The Witches of Eastwick. Television: Olive Kitterage with Francis McDormand; The Brotherhood; House of Mirth with Geraldine Chaplin. Education: BA from Trinity College; Trinity Repertory Conservatory graduate. Teaching: 1992-2002 - Acting, Trinity Rep Conservatory; 2002-Present - Acting, Brown/Trinity MFA Program.

LANA YOUNG Mrs. Bennet Hartford Stage: The Winter’s Tale. Regional: The Graduate (New Vic Theatre); The Scottish Play (The Tabard Theatre). Film: A Jazzman’s Blues, The Girl on the Train, Southpaw, Beginners, Monsters and Men, Your Monster. Television: Law & Order, Bull, The Blacklist, Greenleaf, The Resident, WandaVision, Lisey’s Story, Law & Order: SVU, Dynasty, Tell Me a Story, The Act, Ambitions, NCIS New Orleans, Kevin Can Wait, Blindspot, Jessica Jones, The Inspectors, Nashville, The Vampire Diaries, Devious Maids, Zoey 101. Education/Training: Arts Educational School, London - MA Acting. Cicely Berry - The Royal Shakespeare Company. Awards: NAACP Image Award nomination. Drama School Productions: Pillars of the Community and The Philanderer. Other: Thank you to my fun and fabulous castmates, to Tatyana for her energy and vision and to my mother for her never-ending support. IG: @actorlanayoung

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS KATE HAMILL Playwright Kate is an actor/playwright, named Wall Street Journal’s Playwright of the Year, 2017. Her work includes her play Sense and Sensibility (in which she originated the role of Marianne; Winner, Off-Broadway Alliance Award 2016; Nominee, Drama League Award; 265+ performances off-Broadway); Vanity Fair at the Pearl Theatre (in which she originated the role of Becky Sharp; Nominee, Off-Broadway Alliance Award 2017); and Pride and Prejudice at Primary Stages and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (originated the role of Lizzy Bennet; Nominee, OffBroadway Alliance Award). Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at A.R.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Dallas Theater Center, PlayMaker’s Rep, Folger Theatre (8 Helen Hayes Award nominations; Winner, best production—S&S), Arvada Center and others; upcoming productions at Shakespeare Theatre of DC, A.C.T., Trinity Rep, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Kansas City Rep, Dorset Theatre Festival and more.

Upcoming world premieres: Little Women at the Jungle Theater and Primary Stages; Mansfield Park at Northlight Theatre. She is currently working on new adaptations of “The Odyssey” and “The Scarlet Letter,” as well as several new original plays (Prostitute Play, In The Mines, Love Poem). Kate was one of the top 20 most-produced playwrights in the country this season. www.kate-hamill.com TATYANA-MARIE CARLO Director Tatyana-Marie Carlo (ella/she) is a proud Puerto Rican director from Miami who received her MFA in Directing from Brown University and her BFA in Acting from New World School of the Arts. She has directed a diverse body of works including: Sueño and Marisol by José Rivera; Behold, a Negress by Jacqueline E. Lawton; Fedra, Queen of Haiti by J. Nicole Brooks; Fade by Tanya Saracho; Subliminal by Ren Dara Santiago; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis; She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen; Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez; Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes; The Motherf**ker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis; Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca; References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot by Jose Rivera; Paris by Eboni Booth; The Inferior Sex by Jacqueline E. Lawton; Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris; Carmela Full of Wishes by Alvaro Saar Rios; Vámonos by Julissa Contreras; A Little Less Lonely at Dallas Theater Center; and several bilingual adaptations of Shakespeare with La Bulla Collective. Most recently she directed La Gringa by Carmen Rivera at American Stage. Coming Soon: La Broa by Orlando Hernandez at Trinity Rep. 2019 Matt Harris Directing Fellow at Williamstown Theater Festival; 2021 Drama League Public Works Fellow; 2023 Broadway Women to Watch.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS SHURA BARYSHNIKOV Choreographer Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: The Inferior Sex, Fuente Ovejuna, A Christmas Carol, A Flea in Her Ear, Middletown, Veronica Meadows, Social Creatures, Oklahoma!, The Completely Fictional – Utterly True – Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe (Trinity Repertory Company); As You Like It (The Gamm Theatre); Dark Room, Salomé, Julius Caesar, The Forgetting Curve (Bridge Repertory Theatre); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Cabaret (The Wilbury Theatre Group); The Telling (FirstWorks); This Love Unbound (Emmanuel Music); Norma, The Handmaid’s Tale (Boston Lyric Opera); Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (Odyssey Opera). Film: Svadba (Boston Lyric Opera). Professional Positions: Head of Physical Theater for Brown/ Trinity Rep MFA Programs; Assistant Professor of the Practice Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. Affiliations: member Actors’ Equity Association and the American Guild of Musical Artists. www. shurabaryshnikov.com SARA BROWN Scenic Design Hartford Stage: Debut. Off-Broadway: Hagoromo, A House in Bali (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Off-Off Broadway: World of Wires (the Kitchen); Der Freischütz (Heartbeat Opera); The Mother of Us All (MetLiveArts).

Regional: Bluebeard’s Castle | Four Songs (Boston Lyric Opera); The Lehman Trilogy, Common Ground: Revisited (Huntington Theater Company); The Lily’s Revenge, Burn All Night, The Shape She Makes (American Repertory Theater); Fellow Travelers, La Rondine (Minnesota Opera); Prince of Providence, Little Shop of Horrors, Death of a Salesman, Skeleton Crew Appropriate, A Christmas Carol, The Inferior Sex (Trinity Repertory Company). Dance: The Day (Jacob’s Pillow); Always Now: The Other Shore (On The Boards). Virtual/Online: The Other Shore (Zoe|Juniper); Fat Ham (Wilma). Education: MFA University of Virginia. Professional Positions: Associate Professor, MIT Music and Theater Arts.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS HAYDEE ZELIDETH Costume Design Hartford Stage: Debut. Professional: Haydee is a Chicana artist and costume designer. Clothes carry on public conversations with others and share stories about who we are, who we are not, and who we wish to be. They are a means of exploring how image can open up perceptions of race, class, socioeconomic status, and more - all of which is what most interests her. She grew up on both sides of the Mexican border and these experiences inform her point of view and how she approaches her work, giving depth, dimension and color to the specificities of someone’s life. www.haydeezelideth.com AJA M. JACKSON Lighting Design Hartford Stage: Lost In Yonkers, The Art of Burning, coming soon: Simona’s Seach. Off-Broadway: A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, Rock and Roll Man. Regional: (selected) Hear Word (American Repertory Theatre / The Public Theater Under the Radar Festival); The Art of Burning (Huntington Theatre Company); A Doll’s House, Harvey, World Goes Round, Behold, A Negress (Everyman Theatre); Fences (Shakespeare and Company); World Goes Round (Olney Theatre); Pimpinone and Ino (Boston Early Music Festival).

Associate: Goddess (Berkeley Rep). Broadway: Fat Ham. Dance: Hot Water over Raised Fists (Modern Connections); What Keeps You Going?, Why Believe?, What Does it Feel Like to Grow Up?, What Does it Feel Like to Fall in Love? (HoldTight). Other: The Consul, Glory Denied, Can’t Keep Quiet (Boston Conservatory Theatre); We Are Proud To Present, The Tempest, Spring Awakening (Brandeis University). Awards: OEAA Outstanding Lighting Design (2022). Teaching: Boston University, National Theatre Institute. Proud member of USA 829. IG: @ajamjackson www.ajajacksonlighting.com DANIEL BAKER & CO Original Music and Sound Design Hartford Stage: The Mouse Trap, Lost in Yonkers, Make Believe, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Whipping Man, Gem of the Ocean. Broadway: The Parisian Woman and Eclipsed. Off-Broadway: Toni Stone (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Lying Lesson, The Great Leap, The Jammer, and These Paper Bullets! (the Atlantic); The Four of Us and When We Were Young and Unafraid (MTC); Bull in a China Shop (LCT3); The Good Negro, Eclipsed and Party People (The Public); A Winter’s Tale (TFANA). Regional: Daniel has designed sound for over 20 regional theaters across the country. Daniel Baker & Co. associates for this production are Ryan Brion, Lucas Clopton and Marisa Conroy.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS EARON CHEW NEALEY Wig Designer Hartford Stage: Debut. Theater: Earon is an Obie Award-winning, Drama Desk-nominated, “scene-stealing” Hair, Wig, and Makeup Designer.

Broadway: Fat Ham (assistant designer), Macbeth, Chicken & Biscuits, Sweat.

The Public: shadow/land, The Harder They Come, Baldwin & Buckley…, Fat Ham, cullud wattah, Mojada. Other design: Dames at Sea, Kinky Boots, The Last Supper, Twelfth Night, On Killing, Little Girl Blue, …Meet Vera Stark, Matilda, On Sugarland, Nina Simone: Four Women, Little Women, Cadillac Crew. IG: @earonnealey JENNIFER SCAPETIS-TYCER Vocal & Dialect Coach Hartford Stage: Debut. Regional: Billy Elliot, Passing Through, Hi My Name is Ben, Cabaret, Christmas in Connecticut, Private Jones (Goodspeed); Photograph 51, On Cedar Street, Dracula, Once, Shirley Valentine, The Importance of Being Earnest, Holiday Memories, What the Jews Believe, Outside Mullingar, Church & State, A Christmas Carol (Berkshire Theatre Group); Indecent, Miss Benett: Christmas at Pemberley, All is Calm, A Shayna Maidel, The Scottsboro Boys, My Name is Asher Lev, Intimate Apparel, Last Train to Nibroc, A Moon for the Misbegotten, I Hate Hamlet (Playhouse on Park); Cabaret (Nutmeg Summer Season, Connecticut Repertory Theatre); Tribes (Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati); A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). Education/Training: MFA Voice Studies, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Professional Positions: Assistant Professor, Voice Speech and Dialects, University of Connecticut.

TENIECE DIVYA JOHNSON Fight Director / Intimacy Coordinator Hartford Stage: Debut. Teniece (they/them) is an Intimacy Director, Fight Director, Stunt Performer, and Movement Storyteller working across television, film and stage. The first Black and first non-binary intimacy director on Broadway with Slave Play and first Black intimacy coordinator working on TV/Film, Teniece serves as a resolute advocate for a decolonized collaborative approach to art, Black intimacy, Kink and Queer representation.

They are also the founder of www.BlackIntimacyConsentCollective.org, a community based educational organization around Black intimacy, consent and wellness. Additional credits: “Succession,” “Pose,” “Ramy,” “Hunters,” “The Underground Railroad,” West Side Story, MJ the Musical, Harry Potter, Richard III and RAQI on Ghost Power Book II.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS ALAINE ALLDAFFER Casting Hartford Stage: Trouble in Mind, The Art of Burning, The Mousetrap; It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Ah, Wilderness!; Quixote Nuevo; Ether Dome. Theatre: Credits include Grey Gardens (for Playwrights Horizons and Broadway); Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons and Broadway); Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama Desk and Obie Awards for Best Ensemble and an Artios Award for casting); and The Flick (Playwrights Horizons and The Barrow Street Theater). Regional: Theaters include The Huntington Theatre in Boston, Studio Theater in DC, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Seattle Rep, ACT, Berkeley Rep, People’s Theatre in Philly among others. Television: Credits include The Knights of Prosperity (aka Let’s Rob Mick Jagger) for ABC. Associate credits include Ed for NBC and Monk for USA. ANAÏS BUSTOS Production Stage Manager Hartford Stage: Trouble in Mind (Assistant Stage Manager). Regional: Trinity Rep: The Inferior Sex (Stage Manager), A Christmas Carol ’22 (Assistant Stage Manager), Sueño (Stage Manager), A Christmas Carol ’21 (Assistant Stage Manager), A Christmas Carol ’19 (Production Assistant), A Tale of Two Cities (Production Assistant), Sweat (Production Assistant); Public Theater: As You Like It (Stage Manager); The Gamm Theatre: An Octoroon (Assistant Stage Manager); Barrington Stage Company: Andy Warhol in Iran (Stage Manager); Cleveland Play House: Sweat, A Christmas Story, Native Gardens (Stage Management Apprentice), Hay Fever (Assistant Stage Manager).

THERESA STARK Assistant Stage Manager Hartford Stage: The Winter’s Tale, Trouble in Mind, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Dishwasher Dreams, An Opening in Time, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer’s Night Dream (with HSO); Workshops: The Last Survivor, Queens for a Year, Oakdale, Somewhere, Seder and George Dandin. Youth Director: A Christmas Carol (2013). Broadway: The Scarlet Pimpernel. New York: 2nd Stage, Primary Stages/Iowa Boy Productions, 78th Street Theatre Lab, New Georges. Regional: Westchester Broadway Theatre, Theater Works Hartford, Long Wharf Theatre, The Ivoryton Playhouse, The Eugene O’Neill, HartBeat Ensemble, Westport Country Playhouse, Goodspeed, Stamford Theatre Works, Summer Theatre of New Canaan, Elm Shakespeare, Barrington Stage, Hangar Theatre and Yale Opera. Theresa also works as a dog handler for William Berloni Theatrical Animals, Inc. and is a member of the Milford Road Runners.

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ABOUT HARTFORD STAGE

Hartford Stage has been led by Artistic Director Melia Bensussen and Managing Director Cynthia Rider since the summer of 2019. The theater’s mission is to enlighten, entertain, and educate by creating programming of the highest caliber that has a transformative impact on audiences, the community, and its field. Under Bensussen’s artistic vision, the theater has reimagined classics including Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! which reopened the theater to great acclaim following the pandemic and brought more work celebrating the Latine heritages in the region, including Quixote Nuevo, the virtual American Voices New Play Festival, Kiss My Aztec!, and Espejos: Clean. Hartford Stage has presented various world premieres including the Broadway successes Anastasia and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (winner of four 2014 Tony Awards), and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful (winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). Hartford Stage’s vast Education programs engage students of all ages from across the state through student matinee performances, in-school programs, theatre classes, and youth productions. HartfordStage.org Celebrating 60 Years: Top Row: Alison Howard and Clayton Corbin in Othello (1964). Karina Michaels in Diosa (2003)1. Phylicia Rashad in Blues for an Alabama Sky (1996)2. Derek Klena and Christy Altomare in Anastasia (2016)3. Helmar Augustus Cooper in A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (2003)1. Middle Row: Wendell Wright and Wandachristine in Fences (2007)1.

Richard Thomas in Hamlet (1994)1. Sigourney Weaver in A Flea in Her Ear (1978)4. Pat Bowie, Henry Hodges, and Matthew Modine in To Kill a Mockingbird (2009)1. Ed O’Neill and Jeffrey Alan Chandler in Of Mice and Men (1984)4. Bottom Row: Seret Scott and Barbara Montgomery in My Sister, My Sister (1973)6. Angela Lansbury and William Prince in Edward Albee’s Counting the Ways (1977)5. Hervé Villechaize in Ubu Roi (1974)6. Jamie Ann Romero and Nathan Darrow in The Winter’s Tale (2023)1.

Emilio Delgado in Quixote Nuevo (2019)1. Photos by 1 T. Charles Erickson, 2 Jennifer W. Lester, 3 Joan Marcus, 4 Lanny Nagler, 5 Gerry Goodstein, 6 David Robbins.

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ABOUT HARTFORD STAGE MELIA BENSUSSEN Artistic Director Melia is the sixth artistic director, and the first woman, to lead Hartford Stage. She began her tenure in Hartford in July of 2019, after serving as Chair of Performing Arts at Emerson College in Boston. An Obie-award-winning director and artistic leader, she has directed extensively at leading theatres throughout the country, including productions at the Huntington Theatre Company, Sleeping Weazel, Shakespeare & Company, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Class Company, Primary Stages, Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre Company, Bay Street Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons, among others. Raised in Mexico City, Melia is fluent in Spanish and has translated and adapted a variety of texts, including her edition of the Langston Hughes translation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding published by TCG. A graduate of Brown University, she is the recipient of a Drama League Directing Fellowship, and a Princess Grace Directing Fellowship, as well as their top honor, the Statue Award. Melia is the Chair of the Arts Advisory Council for the Princess Grace Foundation and serves as Secretary on the Executive Board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

CYNTHIA RIDER Managing Director Rider has been the Managing Director of Hartford Stage since 2019. Previously, she was the Executive Director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and prior to joining OSF, Cynthia Rider spent nine years at Kansas City Repertory Theatre as Managing Director and the Associate Director for Advancement & Administration. Her experience also includes six years as Executive Director of the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey.

In her early non-arts career, she served as Associate Director of the Massachusetts Manufacturing Partnership, which worked to strengthen small and medium-sized manufacturers across the state. Rider’s theatre experience also includes time spent on the stage. After graduating from Boston University, she started her theatre career as a resident company member at the Alley Theatre in Houston.

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EDUCATION @ HARTFORD STAGE Our award-winning education programs provide students of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds with innovative opportunities that challenge and inspire. Using theater techniques, we build community and citizenship, promote a passion for literacy and creative expression, and encourage lifelong learning.

ADULT & YOUTH CLASSES

Throughout the year, we have classes for youth and adults looking to improve their acting skills.

STUDENT MATINEES

Middle and high school students are invited to join us for special performances throughout the year. They’ll get to see the show, plus participate in a talkback with the cast. Add-on workshop with a teaching artist available! Tickets start at $20, with discounts available for Title 1 schools.

CONNECTIONS

Connections is an in-school program that brings teaching artists into classrooms to explore a book through drama, strengthening reading comprehension skills and building excitement about reading.

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Bring a Hartford Stage teaching artist to your afterschool program! Programs range from drama classes to full productions and are designed based on the needs of each individual school.

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ABOUT HARTFORD STAGE

EQUITY & ANTI-RACISM COMMITMENTS We are working toward greater anti-racism, equity, justice, inclusion, and belonging for all at our theatre.

We invite you to join us on this journey.

CREATING A CULTURE OF BELONGING & INCLUSION We strive to create a place where all people feel a sense of belonging across the organization. We strive to create a culture where everyone sees themselves, their styles, their culture, and their humanity reflected and appreciated in all the work we do.

CONTINUED LEARNING & SKILLSET BUILDING We strive to equip our staff, volunteers, and board with opportunities to strengthen their personal and collective understanding of the inequities and injustices within and outside our organization and build skillsets that bring greater consciousness into every aspect of our work.

EQUITABLE & SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS & PRACTICES We strive to build an organization that recognizes the humanity of every member of our staff, board, volunteer, audience, and community and the needs and necessities to live and thrive in the 21st century.

Words matter.

Actions speak louder.

Learn more at HartfordStage.org

A THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE WHO FIRST LIVED ON AND CARED FOR THESE LANDS We recognize that our theatre is built on land that was once and still is peopled by indigenous tribes, specifically territory of the Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Golden Hill Paugussett, and Schaghticoke peoples and their ancestors of these lands: the Wangunk, the Podunk, and the Tunxis.

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ANNUAL CONTRIBUTORS We are grateful for everyone’s generosity and recognize all our donors on our website at HartfordStage.org/recognition.

Thank you to our major donors. We are happy to recognize here those with leadership contributions made June 1 – September 28, 2023.

ANNUAL FUND

INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

DIRECTOR CIRCLE • $50,000+ Anonymous Rick & Beth Costello Karl Krapek Jack & Donna Sennott

$200,000+ Raytheon Technologies The Shubert Foundation Stanley Black & Decker $100,000+ The Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation

PRODUCER CIRCLE • $25,000+ Don & Marilyn Allan Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Sue Ann Collins David & Janice Klein Judith & William Thompson Ruth G. Timme Family Foundation

$75,000+ Burry Fredrik Foundation $50,000+ Connecticut Judicial Branch The John and Kelly Hartman Foundation The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts The Travelers Foundation

OVATION SOCIETY • $10,000+ Sheryl & Doug Adkins The Pryor Family Foundation ENCORE SOCIETY • $5,000+ Andra Asars Devon & Thomas Francis Barri Marks Judith Meyers & Richard Hersh Donald & Linda Silpe Deborah & Jeffrey Steinberg

$25,000+ City of Hartford Connecticut Humanities Ensworth Charitable Foundation Hartford Foundation for Public Giving SBM Charitable Foundation, Inc The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

PATRON SOCIETY • $3,500+ Ruth Fitzgerald & Dave Sageman Doris & Ray Guenter Carrie & Johnathan Hammond Annie Hildreth & Ted Potters Duff Ashmead & Eric Ort Rhonda Tobin & Jeffrey Smith

$15,000+ Lucille Lortel Foundation MorningStar Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

HONORARY & MEMORIAL GIFTS

$5,000+ The BFA Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving The Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation The Charles Nelson Robinson Fund McDonald Family Trust

$10,000+ Greater Hartford Arts Council The J. Walton Bissell Foundation, Inc

IN MEMORY OF JOHN SENNOTT

Audrey Mulholland

IN MEMORY OF PETER BLUM

Donald & Linda Silpe

$2,500+ Connecticut Department of Economic & Community Development Enterprise Rent a Car Foundation The George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation

IN HONOR OF DAVID & KATHLEEN JIMENEZ

Sue Ann Collins Marla & John Byrnes

IN HONOR OF MELIA BENSUSSEN

Tracy King

$1,000+ The Foulds Family Foundation NewAlliance Foundation

IN HONOR OF AMY & NEAL MANDELL

Debi & Peter Miller

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Your charitable contribution will support the artistic, educational and community programming at Hartford Stage. Select benefits that align best with your priorities, and receive prominent recognition all season-long.

All partnerships will be fully customized to meet your needs!

Benefit options include: Complimentary show tickets Complimentary Gala tickets Recognition Opportunities Unique Private Event Spaces Fully Catered Events Conversations with Artists Invitations to Special Events

DISCUSS YOUR UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT TODAY! Contact Jennifer Levine at jlevine@hartfordstage.org or 860-520-7249.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Jack Sennott, President Elease Wright, Vice President Devon Francis, Treasurer Michael Nicastro, Secretary GOVERNING DIRECTORS Douglas Adkins Don Allan Patti Broad Marla J. Byrnes Shari Cantor Julio Concepción Mark G. Contreras Richard G. Costello Alana Curren Anne D’Alleva John Doran Marilda Lara Gándara Rev. Darrell L. Goodwin Annie Hildreth Nancy P. Hoffman Very Rev. Miguelina Howell Jackie B. Iacovazzi Katherine Lambert Kelly M. Lyman Sibongile Magubane Barri Marks Marge Morrissey Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Andy Pace Esther A. Pryor Tom Richards Rosalie Roth Allan B. Taylor William J. Thompson Rhonda J. Tobin Gerard Vecchio Nicole Vitrano Patty Willis

STAGE ONE Young Professional Board Directors Cordelia Brady Kentavis Brice Brennden D. Colbert Jarrett Eamiello Emily Harrington Brittnee Johnson-Colbert Kaitlyn Keeler Oliver Kochol Kaitlin Librizzi Greidy Miralles TJ Noel-Sullivan Janixia Reyes Kristy Sanandres Claire Stermer Nathan Sykes Alia Walwyn-James LIFE DIRECTORS George L. Estes III Arnold C. Greenberg Walter Harrison Jeffrey S. Hoffman George A. Ingram David M. Klein Roger S. Loeb Belle K. Ribicoff Christina B. Ripple Anne Rudder Linda Fisher Silpe Sherwood Willard HONORARY DIRECTORS David Carson Michael Grunberg Carrie Hammond Barbara Hennessy Amy Leppo Mandell Robert A. Penney Bruce Simons Judith E. Thompson

EMERITUS DIRECTORS Margaret B. Amstutz R. Kelley Bonn Sara Marcy Cole Susan J. Copeland Susan G. Fisher Judith C. Meyers PAST PRESIDENTS Jill Adams Joel B. Alvord Paul L. Bourdeau David W. Clark Jr.+ Sue Ann Collins Ellsworth Davis+ Elliot F. Gerson Thomas J. Groark Jr.+ John W. Huntington+ Walter Harrison David R. Jimenez David M. Klein Edward Lane-Reticker+ Janet Larsen+ Thomas D. Lips Scott McAlister+ Tuck Miller+ Christina B. Ripple Deanna Sue Sucsy Jennifer Smith Turner Peter R. Wilde+ EX OFFICIO DIRECTORS John B. Larson, US Representative, First Congressional District of Connecticut Luke Bronin Mayor City of Hartford Melia Bensussen Artistic Director Hartford Stage Cynthia Rider Managing Director Hartford Stage

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ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF LEADERSHIP Melia Bensussen, Artistic Director Position endowed by Janet S. Suisman

Cynthia Rider, Managing Director ADMINISTRATION Emily Van Scoy, General Manager Sara Walnum, Business Manager Scott Bartelson, Director of Internal Communications & Organizational Strategy ARTISTIC Zoë Golub-Sass, Richard P. Garmany Associate Artistic Director DEVELOPMENT Jennifer Levine, Director of Development Evan Kudish, Individual Giving Manager Sierra Vazquez, Annual Fund Manager Shannon Kennedy, Development Associate EDUCATION Jennifer Roberts, Director of Education Nina Pinchin, Associate Director of Education Emely Larson, Studio Manager 2023/2024 Teaching Artists Marie Altenor, Thomas Beebe, Jha’Neal Blue, Brandon Couloute, Shelby Demke, Erica LuBonta, Greg Ludovici, Jan Mason, Jessica MacLean, Tori Mooney, Justin Pesce MARKETING Andrea Cuevas, Director of Marketing Todd Brandt, Associate Director of Marketing Molly Flanagan, Marketing Associate House Management Scott McEver, Front of House Manager Lindsay Abrams, Events Coordinator/ Assistant House Manager Aarron Schuelke, Assistant House Manager Bartenders: Tanya Bermudez, Sam Chiasson, Karen Kudish, Loren Milledge, Kimberly Quinn, Nefris Quiterio, Erica Santa Lucia, Kerry Yerkes Patron Services Lindsey Hoffman, Box Office Manager Corey Welden, Box Office Supervisor Box Office Representatives: Jha’Neal Blue, Christopher Burgos, Eddie Cruz, Lindsey Taft

PRODUCTION Bryan T. Holcombe, Director of Production Wesley Schroeder, Assistant Production Manager Leland Ensminger, Facilities Manager Austin Washington, Production Assistant Set Construction & Scenic Art Aaron D. Bleck, Technical Director Jared Wolf, Assistant Technical Director Ian Sweeney, Lead Carpenter Audra Giuliano, Scenic Carpenter Nathalie Schlosser, Charge Scenic Artist Costumes & Wardrobe Alex Meadows, Costume Shop Director Melissa Thurn, Assistant Costume Director Joshua Richardson, Wardrobe Supervisor James Weeden, Draper Jack Trainor, First Hand Props Joe Dotts, Props Manager Alex Ferdman, Assistant Props Manager Lighting Jackie Costabile, Lighting Manager Ethan Sepa, ALDM, Programmer Sound Lucas Clopton, Audio/Video Manager Jim Busker, Assistant Audio/Video Manager Company Management Christopher Rowe, Company Manager FOR THIS PRODUCTION Gem Mercado, Light Board Operator Kathleen Kennan, Scenic Artist Matthew Hennessey, Tessa Cannavo, Deck Crew Elena Bachmann, Overhire Props Artisan Austin Pettinger, Milliner Michele L. Sansone, Crafts Artisan/Millinery Stitcher Marissa Menezes, Crafts Assistant, Millinery Assistant Barry Sellers, Alexander Zeek, Drapers Marla Albrecht, Joseph O’Brien, Christine Regina, Stitchers Hanna Zammarieh, Wardrobe Run Crew Mia Thomas, Wig Run Crew Krizzia Cruz, Prompter Special Thanks YMCA Downtown Hartford Residence Inn Downtown Hartford Hilton Hartford The Goodwin Hotel

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Photos from top: Rebecka Jones, John-Andrew Morrison, and Noble Shropshire in A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (2017). Photos by T. Charles Erickson.