IRT Program: "The House That Jack Built"

2020-2021 SEASON

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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT

by James Still

Original artwork by Kyle Ragsdale

STREAMING MAY 27 – JUNE 20, 2021 IRTLIVE.COM | 317.635.5252

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OUR MISSION & VISION MISSION

Live theatre connects us to meaningful issues in our lives and has the power to shape the human experience. The mission of the Indiana Repertory Theatre is to produce top-quality, professional theatre and related activities, providing experiences that will engage, surprise, challenge, and entertain people throughout their lifetimes, helping us build a vital and vibrant community.

VISION

The Indiana Repertory Theatre will be a life-long destination of choice for an ever-expanding audience of all ages and backgrounds seeking enjoyable and meaningful experiences. Using theatre as a springboard for both personal reflection and community discussion, our productions and programs will inspire our neighbors to learn about themselves and others. As an arts leader in the state of Indiana, the IRT's goal is to make Indiana a dynamic home of cultural expression, economic vitality, and a diverse, informed, and engaged citizenry.

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SUSTAINING A PROFESSIONAL, CREATIVE ATMOSPHERE

• The professional production of plays that provide insight and celebrate human relationships through the unique vision of the playwright • Professional artists of the highest quality working on our stages in an environment that allows them to grow and thrive • Our leadership role in fostering a creative environment where arts, education, corporate, civic, and cultural organizations collaborate to benefit our community PRUDENT STEWARDSHIP OF OUR RESOURCES

• Our public-benefit status, where the focus is on artistic integrity, affordable ticket prices that allow all segments of our community to attend, and community service • Fiscal responsibility and financial security based on achieving a balanced budget • Growing our endowment fund as a resource for future development and to ensure institutional longevity.

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• The production of plays from a broad range of dramatic literature addressing diverse communities • The involvement of all segments of our community in our activities • Using theatre arts as a primary tool to bring meaning into the lives of our youth, making creativity a component of their education • The employment of artists and staff that celebrates the diversity of the United States

CONTENTS 3.........................Mission & Values 5 ����������������������������������������Profile 6..................................Leadership 10 �����������������������������������������Staff 12...................... Board of Directors 18................................. The House That Jack Built 26........................... Company Bios 32................................. Interview: Jan Lucas 34............................ Donor Listing

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HERITAGE AND TRADITION

• Our role as Indiana’s premiere theatre for more than 40 years, recognized by the 107th Indiana General Assembly in 1991 as “Indiana’s Theatre Laureate” • The historic Indiana Theatre as our home, as a cultural landmark, and as a significant contributor to a vital downtown • Our national, state, and local reputation for 40+ years of quality creative work and educational programming • Our board, staff, volunteers, artists, audiences, and donors as essential partners in fulfilling our mission.

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INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE PROFILE HISTORY Since the Indiana Repertory Theatre was founded in 1971, it has grown into one of the leading regional theatres in the country, as well as one of the top-flight cultural institutions in the city and state. In 1991 Indiana’s General Assembly designated the IRT as “Theatre Laureate” of the state of Indiana. The IRT’s national reputation has been confirmed by prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Fund, the Theatre Communications Group–Pew Charitable Trusts, the Shubert Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation; and by a Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation.

The IRT remains the largest fully professional resident not-for-profit theatre in the state. Last season, with a shorter production calendar due to the pandemic, we provided more than 85,000 live professional theatre experiences for audiences. These experiences included 34,000 students and teachers from 51 of Indiana’s 92 counties, making the IRT one of the most youth oriented professional theatres in the country. This season, as we find new methods to offer theatre

within safety guidelines, a staff of 40 seasonal and year-round employees creates six productions for streaming audiences in Indiana and beyond. Actors, directors, and designers are members of professional stage unions.

The IRT’s history has been enacted in two historic downtown theatres. The Athenaeum Turners Building housed the company’s first eight seasons. Since 1980 the IRT has occupied the 1927 Indiana Theatre, which was renovated to contain three performance spaces (OneAmerica Mainstage, Upperstage, and Cabaret) and work spaces, reviving this historic downtown entertainment site.

To keep ticket prices and services affordable for the entire community, the IRT operates as a not-for-profit organization, deriving more than 50% of its operating income from contributions. The Theatre is generously supported by foundations, corporations, and individuals, an investment which recognizes the IRT’s mission-based commitment to serving central Indiana with top-quality theatrical fare.

PROGRAMS This year the OneAmerica Season includes six productions from classical to contemporary, including the INclusion Series, which has lead support from the Margot L. Eccles Arts & Culture Fund.

Young Playwrights in Process The IRT offers Young Playwrights in Process (YPiP), a playwriting contest and workshop for Indiana middle and high school students.

Educational Programs The IRT has a long-time commitment to student audiences. This season, we are sharing our six productions with students virtually. If you are interested in bringing IRT to your students through streaming productions, or hosting a virtual workshop with an artist, please email education@irtlive.com. Auxiliary services include study guides.

Meet the Artists Virtual pre-show chats offer audiences unique insights into each production.

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IN HONOR OF FORMER IRT BOARD MEMBER AND COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPIST MARGOT LACY ECCLES, IRT’S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR POSITION HAS BEEN NAMED THE MARGOT LACY ECCLES ARTISTIC DIRECTOR. ESTABLISHED BY M. E. AND KATIE ECCLES, THIS GENEROUS GIFT NAMES AND ENDOWS THE IRT ARTISTIC DIRECTOR POSITION IN PERPETUITY. THIS GIFT WAS MADE TO HONOR BOTH THE LEGACY OF MARGOT ECCLES AND JANET ALLEN’S SIGNIFICANT TENURE AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AS WELL AS THEIR LONGTIME FRIENDSHIP.

LEADERSHIP: JANET ALLEN

Margot Lacy Eccles Artistic Director

Creating world-class professional theatre for central Indiana audiences of all ages has remained a career-long passion for Janet Allen. She began at the IRT in 1980 as the Theatre’s first literary manager—dramaturg. After four years in New York City, she returned to serve ten years as associate artistic director. Named the IRT’s fourth artistic director in 1996, she is now in her 25th season in that role.

In January 2020, she was named the Margot Lacy Eccles Artistic Director.

During Janet’s tenure, the IRT has significantly diversified its services to both adults and children, expanded its new play development programs, and solidified its reputation as a top-flight regional theatre dedicated to diverse programming and production quality. Janet’s passion for nurturing playwrights has led to a fruitful relationship with James Still, the IRT’s playwrightin-residence for 23 years, and the creation and production of 16 new works—the Indiana Series— that examine Hoosier and Midwestern sensibilities (seven of them by James Still). Her collaboration with playwrights has brought the Theatre prestigious grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Joyce Foundation, and the Doris Duke Foundation, as well as numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Among the memorable productions she has directed on the IRT’s stages are The Glass Menagerie (1999), Ah! Wilderness (2002), The Drawer Boy (2004), James Still’s The House That Jack Built (2012), To Kill a Mockingbird (2016), Looking Over the President’s Shoulder (2008 & 2017), The Diary of Anne Frank (2011 & 2018), Morning After Grace (2020), and Cyrano (2021).

Janet’s leadership skills and community service have been recognized by the Network of Women in Business–IBJ’s “Influential Women in Business” Award, a Distinguished Hoosier Award conferred by Governor Frank O’Bannon, Girls Inc.’s Touchstone Award for Arts Leadership, and the Indiana Commission on Women’s “Keeper of the Light” Torchbearer Award. She is a proud alum of the Stanley K. Lacy Leadership program (Class XIX) and was a 2013-14 Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Arts Fellow.

She is a member of two honorary gatherings in the America Theatre: the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the John F. Kennedy Center, and the National Theatre Conference. In 2017 she was named an Indiana Living Legend by the Indiana Historical Society.

Janet is a member of the Indianapolis Woman’s Club, the Gathering, and Congregation Beth-El Zedeck. She serves on the board of Summit Performance, a small professional theatre company that produces work by and about women. She lives in an historic house built in 1855 in the Chatham Arch neighborhood with her husband, Joel Grynheim, and a lovely canine mutt. They enjoy following the adventures of their three adult children, who are thriving on various continents.

Suzanne serves as a member of the board of directors of the League of Resident Theatres, a nationwide association of regional theatres, and she is the associate treasurer of the organization. In 2016, she was honored to serve as a panelist for Shakespeare in American Communities in cooperation with Arts Midwest.

LEADERSHIP: SUZANNE SWEENEY Managing Director

Suzanne is a 22-year veteran of the IRT and is proud to work alongside her mentor and friend, Janet Allen, as co-CEO of the Theatre. Suzanne oversees all of the administrative functions of the organization, including marketing, fundraising, ticket office, house management, finance, human resources, information technology, and building operations.

During her tenure, the Theatre has secured a long-term lease for the building with the City of Indianapolis and renovated the Upperstage Lobby and restrooms. In June 2020 the Theatre surpassed its $18.5 million goal for its Front and Center campaign, raising $20 million.

Suzanne is active in the community, having been the treasurer of Irish Fest for nine years, a member of the board of directors and treasurer of the Day Nursery Association (now Early Learning Indiana) for three years, and a past treasurer of IndyFringe.

Suzanne is a graduate of the College of William & Mary (undergraduate) and Indiana University (M.B.A.).

She started her career as a CPA; prior to coming to Indianapolis, she worked in finance for more than 10 years, living in such varied locales as Washington, DC; Dallas, Texas; Frankfurt, Germany; Honolulu, Hawaii; and even working for three months in Auckland, New Zealand (where, yes, she went bungee jumping).

She is a proud alum of the Stanley K. Lacy Leadership Program (Class XXXI). Suzanne lives in Fall Creek Place with her 17-year-old son, Jackson, and their foxhound rescue dog, Gertie, and spends some of her downtime in Palatine, Illinois, with her partner, Todd Wiencek.

Top: DeLanna Studi in the IRT’s 2019 production of And So We Walked: An Artist’s Journey Along the Trail of Tears.

Bottom: The cast of the IRT’s 2020 production of Murder on the Orient Express. Photos by Zach Rosing.

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AS PART OF THE FRONT AND CENTER CAMPAIGN, SARAH & JOHN LECHLEITER GAVE A GIFT TO THE IRT IN HONOR OF JAMES STILL’S LONG-TIME RELATIONSHIP WITH THE IRT, CREATING THE JAMES STILL PLAYWRIGHT-IN-RESIDENCE FUND, WHICH WILL PROVIDE FUTURE SUPPORT FOR THE PLAYWRIGHT-IN-RESIDENCE AS WELL AS THE CREATION OF NEW WORK FOR THE IRT.

LEADERSHIP: JAMES STILL Playwright-in-Residence

During his 23 years as Playwright-in-Residence, IRT audiences have seen all three plays in James’s “The Jack Plays” trilogy (The House That Jack Built, Appoggiatura, and Miranda), as well as Looking Over the President’s Shoulder; And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank; Amber Waves; The Little Choo-Choo That Thinks She Can; April 4, 1968: Before We Forgot How to Dream; I Love to Eat: Cooking with James Beard; The Velveteen Rabbit; The Heavens Are Hung in Black; Interpreting William; Iron Kisses; The Gentleman from Indiana; Searching for Eden; He Held Me Grand, and The Secret History of the Future. James has directed many productions at the IRT, including Twelve Angry Men, A Doll’s House Part 2, The Originalist, Dial “M” for Murder, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Red, Other Desert Cities, God of Carnage, Becky’s New Car, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, The Immigrant, and Dinner with Friends.

James is a board member of the National Theatre Conference in New York, and a Kennedy Center inductee of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. Other honors include the Todd McNerney New Play Prize from the Spoleto Festival, William Inge Festival’s Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, and the Orlin Corey Medallion from the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America. His plays 8

have been nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize, and have been developed at Robert Redford’s Sundance, the New Harmony Project, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Colorado New Play Summit, the Lark, Launch Pad at UC–Santa Barbara, Telluride Playwright’s Festival, New Visions/New Voices, and Fresh Ink. Three of his plays have received the Distinguished Play Award from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education, and his work has been produced throughout the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

“The Jack Plays” is the 2020 winner for drama of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award.

Also in 2020 James wrote the short film A City of Stories commissioned by the New Harmony Project.

Current projects include his new plays The Cratchits (in America) commissioned by the IRT, Joy Waves to You From a Distance, (A) New World, Dinosaur(s), and new play commissions with Prison Performing Arts (St. Louis) and American Blues (Chicago). He has recently written dozens of short new plays that are being performed on digital platforms across the country.

James also works in television and film and has been nominated for five Emmys and a Television Critics Association Award; he has twice been a finalist for the Humanitas Prize. He was a producer and head writer for the TLC series PAZ, the head writer for Maurice Sendak’s Little Bear, and writer for the Bill Cosby series Little Bill. He wrote The Little Bear Movie and The Miffy Movie as well as the feature film The Velocity of Gary.

James grew up in Kansas and lives in Los Angeles.

Theatre Company in Minneapolis, the nation’s largest theatre for young audiences. During his tenure at CTC, Ben directed in-house productions and took shows across the globe, as far afield as South Africa; he played a key role in fundraising, management, education, and strategic planning processes; and he helped guide the organization in addressing historical inequities and ensuring that the company’s work reflected the diversity of the local community. Prior to his role at CTC, Ben spent five years in California’s Bay Area, dividing his time between Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Bay Area Children’s Theatre.

LEADERSHIP: BENJAMIN HANNA Associate Artistic Director

Ben is a director, educator, and community engagement specialist whose passion for multigenerational theatre has influenced his work across the country. In all of his myriad roles, Ben is guided by the belief that access to highquality theatre helps build creative, empathetic people and healthy communities.

Ben is thrilled to be in his fourth season at Indiana Repertory Theatre, where he has directed Tuesdays with Morrie, This Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol (twice), The Little Choo-Choo That Thinks She Can, Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!,” and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. As associate artistic director, Ben manages casting both locally and nationally, helps guide education and community programming, and connects IRT to new artists and ideas. Dedicated to actively breaking down historical barriers of access to the theatre, he is excited about IRT’s work to create thoughtful, sustainable Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives.

In his native Minnesota, Ben was honored to serve on the education staff of Penumbra Theatre Company, the nation’s leading African American theatre, where he helped to expand their education and outreach offerings.

His proudest accomplishments during his four years with the company include growing the nationally recognized Summer Institute for Activist Artists into a three-year multidisciplinary social justice theatre training program, developing a multigenerational quilting circle, and helping to create and facilitate a racial equity training program through the company’s RACE workshop series.

Ben holds a degree in theatre arts from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He grew up on a small rural farm and fell in love with theatre at the age of eleven. He continues to create for his new favorite audience: his five nieces and nephews.

Ben joined the IRT leadership team following the completion of a prestigious 18-month Theatre Communications Group Leadership University Award.

This highly competitive grant, administered by TCG and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supported his artistic associate position at the Children’s Frankie Bolda and audience members in the IRT’s 2019-2020 production of The Little Choo-Choo That Thinks She Can. Photo by Zach Rosing.

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INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE STAFF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Margot Lacy Eccles Artistic Director​ Janet Allen Managing Director Suzanne Sweeney ARTISTIC & EDUCATION

Production Manager Malia Argüello Associate Artistic Director Benjamin Hanna Company Manager Hillary Martin Resident Dramaturg Richard J Roberts General Manager Jane Robison Playwright-in-Residence James Still COSTUME SHOP

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Tessitura Administrator Molly Wible Sweets Assistant Ticket Office Manager Eric Wilburn PROPERTIES SHOP

Properties Manager Geoffrey Ehrendreich Properties Carpenter Madelaine Foster SCENE SHOP

Carpenters Nick Chamberlain Lee Edmundson Technical Director Chris Fretts Master Carpenter David Sherrill Automation Carpenter Hal Wenk SOUND & VIDEO

Draper Erica Anderson Costume Shop Manager Guy Clark Wardrobe Supervisor Bailey Lewis

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Audio Engineer Brittany Hayth Resident Sound Designer Todd Mack Reischman

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Development Systems Brady Clark Institutional Giving Manager Eric J. Olson Individual Giving Manager Kay Swank-Herzog Director of Development Jennifer Turner

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It is incredibly gratifying to serve as chair of our Indiana Repertory Theatre.

The IRT is perhaps even more important to our community and its citizens when we cannot physically be together. I have been deeply moved by the hard work and dedication of our staff, bringing theatre to our audience in these extraordinary times. We are blessed with amazing leadership and talent.

I want to give a special thank you to all of our patrons and partners who supported our successful Front and Center capital campaign, raising $20 million. How critical that will be for the future of our IRT, for generations to come!

On behalf of the Board of Directors, I thank you for joining us this season— one which will inspire and entertain.

–Nadine Givens, IRT Board Chair

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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT

by James Still

STREAMING MAY 27 – JUNE 20, 2021 ONEAMERICA MAINSTAGE

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THE COMPANY Jules__________________________________________ JENNIFER JOHANSEN Lulu____________________________________________ CONSTANCE MACY Ridge_______________________________________________ DAVID SHIH Eli________________________________________________AARON KIRBY Helen________________________________________________JAN LUCAS

SETTING A funky house in Vermont.

Thanksgiving 2012.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The House That Jack Built is produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company, Inc., of Woodstock, Illinois.

The House That Jack Built was originally produced by the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis, Janet Allen, Artistic Director; Steven Stolen, Managing Director.

The House That Jack Built was developed in part at a retreat at the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Weston, Vermont.

The House That Jack Built was further developed as part of the New Harmony Project conference.

The House That Jack Built was the winner of the Todd McNerney Playwriting Prize and given readings at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Special Thanks to Philip Salmon for hair styling.

Filmed by arrangement with SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement.

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HOME

BY JANET ALLEN, MARGOT LACY ECCLES ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

As the trees leaf out and the flowers bloom after an endless COVID year, we are all looking for things to be joyful about, and among those for me is the opportunity again to work on The House That Jack Built, James Still’s painful, beautiful, messy, hopeful play about a family surviving tragedy. It’s a different tragedy than we are surviving today, but its emotional terrain is very familiar to us now: families grieve and grow differently, needs for holding still or moving forward clash, time collapses, intergenerational conflict flares, the world doesn’t wait for us to catch up. Human fragility is evident in every moment.

While the play is set in 2012, it resonates today with a fervor that poignantly reminds us of missed holidays, the desire to hug family members (even those with whom we disagree), the comfort of shared meals, the need to draw close to survive.

Over the 23 years of James Still’s residency at the IRT, he has written many plays on commission for us, and many others that were commissions from other theatres or simply acts of spontaneous artistic expression. Jack is one from the last category. Often, with these “secret” projects, we are not involved in the generative layers of the development of the play but, rather, experience it when it’s largely finished.

There’s a feeling of having a gift plopped in your lap in those times. We produced the world premiere of The House That Jack Built in 2012 on the Upperstage, and it remains a favorite for me. Its longing, its heartbreak, and its humor are so seamlessly blended that it feels utterly human and organic. It is a gift for actors and audiences because the characters are so multilayered and complex, and the holiday family setting so familiar, that we feel like we are observing life as it happens, disrupted by some special treats only possible in the theatre.

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James followed this play by writing two more about this extended family: Appoggiatura and Miranda.

We remain the only theatre in the country to have produced all three (although I hope that other theatres experience this joy in the future). This experience gives our audiences a unique advantage now to revisit the first play in the trilogy, while remembering the twists and turns of the other two.

Here’s a brief reminder: Appoggiatura, (produced at the IRT on the Mainstage in 2018), set in Venice, takes place the summer after The House That Jack Built, and focuses on Helen, Sylvie, and Aunt Chuck on vacation following yet another family tragedy.

Miranda (produced on the Upperstage in 2017) is set in Yemen in 2014, and explores the professional and personal life of Helen’s youngest child, Miranda (AKA “Teeny”), who faces her own challenges emanating from the death of her brother, Jack. Another welcome gift in the time of COVID: the trilogy, published in 2018, won the Indiana Authors Award for Drama last August, making James the first playwright to win this award, and placing this masterwork back into the public eye.

All three of these plays ask the same question: how does our deep yearning for home impact our lives?

What does it mean to create a home, to leave one’s home of origin, to run away from home, to miss one’s home, to return home from exile? In this COVID year, we have deeply engaged in explorations of what home means: a refuge, a prison, a hideaway, a container for grief, a place of comfort, a safe space, a threatened space? It’s been 14 months since audiences (and our administrative staff) who consider the IRT a kind of home have been allowed to enter. One hopes that we are turning a page toward return. Meanwhile, welcome to Jules’s and Jack’s home. Here you will learn about this unique family, and you will most likely learn more about your own.

Original artwork by Kyle Ragsdale

HOW TO BUILD A PLAY

It shouldn’t surprise me that I finally wrote a play set on Thanksgiving—that American holiday fraught with historical myths and family conflicts. At its best, it’s a day simply about giving thanks. But it’s never really that simple. The part of giving thanks that’s tricky—how, for what, with who—is what The House That Jack Built is about: it gives thanks in its own theatrical and mysterious ways. From its earliest scribbles, The House That Jack Built was always set in Vermont at Thanksgiving—one of those days in the life of a family who years from now will say, “Do you remember that one Thanksgiving when ... ?” Of course, everyone will have a different version of what happened, what they ate, maybe even who was there.

But they’ll remember the things said that can never

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be unsaid, the admissions and omissions of love, and the secrets spilled and secrets kept. Looking at the play now, I’m also struck by the ways the play makes space for feelings and flaws, the ways people talk in the privacy of their homes, and how the presence of a stranger can shift the dynamics of a family into corners that are otherwise avoided.

The House That Jack Built is made up of a lot of fingerprints and tattoos that people and experiences have left on me. While I was writing Jack, if someone asked me what I was working on I’d simply say, “I’m writing my Chekhov play.” That can mean both nothing and everything depending on how you feel about the plays of Anton Chekhov. For me it means that The House That Jack Built can seem to be

Jenny McKnight, Christopher Allen, Joseph Foronda, and Deirdre Lovejoy in the IRT’s 2012 production of The House That Jack Built. Photo by Zach Rosing.

BY JAMES STILL, PLAYWRIGHT

about nothing until suddenly you realize it’s about everything. It’s about life and death, new love and old love, faith and mystery, politics and fatalism, grief and optimism, time, time, time.... It’s about lives lived and being lived, and about the wonderful and awful ways that relationships evolve and change.

And of course Jack is the first play in what became my award-winning trilogy called The Jack Plays, which also includes Appoggiatura and Miranda—all three plays produced by the IRT over the past ten years.

Coming back to Jack now—set in 2012 and the first play in the trilogy—I know more about some of the secrets hinted at, lied about, or covered up in Jack’s family. The three plays together are like a novel in the ways that the stories spread wider and deeper at the same time. But it all starts with this play, which forever makes it especially notable for me as a writer.

Photos courtesy of Indiana Humanities.

The characters that make up this family have taken up residence in my writer’s heart for a bunch of years now—and it won’t surprise me if one day (soon?)

I revisit them again, dropping into their lives and uncovering another piece of their family history.

Twenty-three years of being the IRT’s playwrightin-residence has rewarded me with time to work on my craft, with reasons not to give up on my career, with colleagues who are forever demanding my best work, and an ongoing conversation between the IRT audience and the plays of mine we produce. In other words, I didn’t know it, but I couldn’t have written The House That Jack Built without you—the IRT audience. That’s one of the many things I’m thankful for whether it’s Thanksgiving or not.

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REUNION BETSY COOPRIDER-BERNSTEIN | LIGHTING DESIGNER Stage lighting is vital to good storytelling. Since the eye is naturally drawn to the brightest object, stage lighting selectively directs your attention in a large theatre. Lighting supports the narrative of the play by creating a sense of time of day and season. The way a scene is lit supports the emotional content and thereby enhances the way you understand the play. In our current pandemic situation, it’s important to ask the question: “How is this going to look on video?” Lighting for video can be quite different from live theatre, mainly because it’s about creating a 3-D

feel on a 2-D screen. The biggest difference is that the camera is more sensitive to light levels and less adaptive to change than your own eyes. If you’ve ever tried to improve the setup for your Zoom meetings, you understand how adjusting the lights is crucial to revealing your face “in its best light.” As I approach the lighting for The House That Jack Built, my biggest challenge is making the video experience as dynamic as the live experience, giving the viewer the closest experience to actually sitting in the theatre.

RUSSELL METHENY | SCENIC DESIGNER I love that this is a play about women, emotionally intelligent women, about the inner action of women within one great room where everything happens. It’s an eclectic environment: Jack and Jules have created an urban New York City loft space in a country barn.

When you live in a loft you do everything in one

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room: you eat there, you talk there, you write there, you invent there. I’ve tried to design something that inspires, a beautiful space actors can invent in and remember in, a poetic metaphor that gives the actors space to breathe and to fly up into the sky.

Front elevation by scenic designer Russell Metheny.

YAO CHEN | COSTUME DESIGNER For me, The House That Jack Built is a story of healing and mending. Each family has its untouchable secret that carries heavy weight, involving disagreement, splitting apart, misunderstanding, and dark history—themes that echo the current climate in the United States. But the beauty of this play is that

everyone begins to build a deeper understanding and appreciation of each other during this Thanksgiving.

My goal as a costume designer here is to bring these characters closer to the audience, creating a sense of familiarity so you sense these characters can be your neighbors, colleagues, and even your own family.

Preliminary sketches for Lulu, Helen, Ridge, Jules, and Eli by costume designer Yao Chen.

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THE COMPANY JENNIFER JOHANSEN | JULES

Jen is grateful to return to the IRT where her appearances include A Christmas Carol, Holmes and Watson, The Mousetrap, The Game’s Afoot, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Syringa Tree, Julius Caesar, The Ladies Man, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night. Phoenix Theatre favorites include The Pill, The Christians, Hir, On Clover Road, Mr. Burns, a postelectric play, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Jen was last onstage at the Human Race Theatre Company nearing the end of her run as Gloria Steinem in Gloria: A Life when the pandemic shut the world down in March of 2020. Other HRTC favorites include God of Carnage, Sex with Strangers, and Romeo and Juliet. Proud member of Indianapolis Shakespeare Company and proud board member of both American Lives Theatre and Summer Stock Stage. “Dedicated to all the first responders. For my family, for Rob and for my tribe, and for all who are navigating grief in this moment.”

AARON KIRBY | ELI

Aaron is elated to return to his home away from home IRT, where he has appeared in Murder on the Orient Express, A Christmas Carol (x2), You Can’t Take It with You, Romeo and Juliet, and Finding Home. Other recent theatre credits include The Miss Firecracker Contest at Tipping Point; Birds of a Feather at the Greenhouse; Red and Geezers (both Jeff Nominations for Actor in a Leading Role) as well as Good People, The Drawer Boy, The American Clock, and The Beautiful Dark at Redtwist Theatre; Dark Play or Stories for Boys (Jeff Award for Actor in a Supporting Role) at Collaboraction; and productions at Drury Lane Oakbrook, Route 66, the Goodman, the House, Edinburgh Fringe, and Trinity Shakespeare. TV appearances include Chicago Fire, Shameless, and Chicago Med. Aaron earned his M.F.A. at Wayne State University.

“Much love to my family, friends, Stewart Talent, and my radiant wife, Emma!”

JAN LUCAS | HELEN

Jan has previously been seen on the IRT stage in You Can’t Take It With You, Finding Home, The Mousetrap, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, The Gentleman from Indiana, Inherit the Wind, He Held Me Grand, Sister Carrie, Dinner with Friends, and Amber Waves (2000). She has been seen at the Phoenix Theatre in the one-woman show Apples in Winter, as well as in Winston’s Big Day, The Pill, and Pure Prine, and in Mary Jane for Summit Performance. Other regional credits include the Goodman, Steppenwolf, and Remy Bumpo in Chicago. Every year Jan and her husband, Tim Grimm, lead music-focused tours to Ireland, Scotland, and the Netherlands. Jan is the author of the book My Beautiful Leukemia.

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CONSTANCE MACY | LULU

Constance Macy began her professional career at the IRT more than 30 years ago. Her IRT credits include The Diary of Anne Frank (twice), Pipeline, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, On Golden Pond, Good People, The Game’s Afoot, God of Carnage, Lost—A Memoir, Becky’s New Car, and James Still’s Iron Kisses. She was a co-founder and performer with ShadowApe Theatre Company for a dozen years, and is currently part of the acting company at Indy Shakes. She works in regional theatres throughout the country, but loves her Indianapolis home. Constance was named an Indy Theatre MVP by the Indianapolis Foundation, and is a two-time Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellow, as well as a Lunt-Fontanne National Fellow.

DAVID SHIH | RIDGE

Dave is delighted to return to IRT after last year’s canceled production of The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin. Other theatre credits include The Great Wave (Berkeley Rep); Henry VI: Shakespeare’s Trilogy in Two Parts, Awake and Sing!, and [veil widow conspiracy] (NAATCO); KPOP (Ars Nova); Somebody’s Daughter (Second Stage); Tiger Style! (La Jolla Playhouse); Bike America (Ma-Yi Theatre); and Crane Story (Playwrights Realm). Television credits include Hunters, Billions, City on a Hill, Iron Fist, The Path, Blindspot, Elementary, Madam Secretary, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Mozart in the Jungle, and Law & Order: SVU. Film credits include Alberto and the Concrete Jungle, Mr. Sushi, All the Little Things We Kill, Eighth Grade, Fan Girl, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Saving Face. Dave is a critically acclaimed audiobook narrator. He is the voice of Eddie Toh in the hit video game Grand Theft Auto V. He also works with Only Make Believe performing for children in hospitals and care facilities.

JAMES STILL | PLAYWRIGHT

This is James’s 23rd season as the IRT’s playwright-in-residence. IRT audiences have seen his plays The Little Choo-Choo That Thinks She Can; Appoggiatura; Looking Over the President’s Shoulder; Miranda; April 4, 1968: Before We Forgot How to Dream; The Velveteen Rabbit; The House That Jack Built (2012); I Love to Eat; The Heavens Are Hung in Black; Interpreting William; Iron Kisses; The Gentleman from Indiana; Searching for Eden; He Held Me Grand; Amber Waves; And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank; and The Secret History of the Future. (see full bio on page 8)

JANET ALLEN | DIRECTOR

Janet has been the IRT’s artistic leader for 25 seasons. Among the 25 IRT productions she has directed are Cyrano, Morning After Grace, The Diary of Anne Frank, Looking Over the President’s Shoulder, A Christmas Carol, To Kill a Mockingbird, On Golden Pond, Who Am I This Time?, The House That Jack Built (2012), The Drawer Boy, Ah, Wilderness!, and The Glass Menagerie. (see full bio on page 6)

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THE COMPANY RUSSELL METHENY | SCENIC DESIGNER

Russell has designed more than 50 IRT productions, including Cyrano; A Christmas Carol; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; April 4, 1968; The Game’s Afoot; Who Am I This Time?; A Little Night Music; The House That Jack Built (2012); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; God of Carnage; The Heavens Are Hung in Black; Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure; Iron Kisses; The Unexpected Guest; The Gentleman from Indiana; Old Wicked Songs; Searching for Eden; Plaza Suite; Arcadia; The Immigrant; Ah, Wilderness!; and Looking Over the President’s Shoulder (2001). He has also designed for the Studio Theatre, the Great Lakes and Idaho Shakespeare festivals, Asolo Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center, the Old Globe Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Missouri Rep, Actors Theatre of Kansas City, the Goodman Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Buffalo Studio Arena, Portland Stage, and Goodspeed Musicals.

YAO CHEN | COSTUME DESIGNER

Yao Chen is thrilled to be back to IRT after designing The Diary of Anne Frank. She is a costume designer and Illustrator with international design credits. Her designs can be seen in the United States, China, the Caribbean, and Costa Rica. She has been an active collaborator with Seattle Children’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Berkshire Theatre Group, Trinity Repertory Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Orlando Repertory Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Don Gong Theatre in Beijing, China; Teatro Espressivo in San Jose, Costa Rica; Cayman Culture Foundation, Cayman Island.

Her design for Ti Jean and His Brother in Taipei, Taiwan, was a finalist in the World Stage Design Exhibition 2017. Upcoming designs include Stupid Fucking Bird at New Repertory Theatre, Macbeth at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and Ushiua Blue and Babel at CATF. yao-chen.com

BETSY COOPRIDER-BERNSTEIN | LIGHTING DESIGNER

This is Betsy’s 42nd production at the IRT, including Morning After Grace, The Originalist, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Mystery of Irma Vep, On Golden Pond, The Giver, And Then They Came for Me, An Iliad, Jackie and Me, Julius Caesar, Mary’s Wedding, Love Letters, Macbeth, The Power of One, and 10 seasons as associate lighting designer for A Christmas Carol. Recently she designed Little Shop of Horrors and Little Women for IU Summer Theatre in Bloomington. Betsy and her husband, Chef Alan Bernstein, just retired from catering (Alan’s Catered Events) after a 26-year run. Betsy has recently started a fresh “mission” to rescue and upcycle vintage jewelry & other objects in the creation of new treasures. You might catch her next summer at local arts and crafts fairs or visit her shop ReVivable Goods on Etsy.

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FABIAN OBISPO | ORIGINAL MUSIC

Fabian returns to the IRT where his credits include The Crucible, The House That Jack Built (2012), The Miracle Worker, Holes, King Lear, Les Trois Dumas, and Ma Rose.

Other credits include Caucasian Chalk Circle and Yerma (Arena Stage), Black No More (Guthrie), Nothing Forever (New York Theatre Workshop), The Romance of Magno Rubio (Victory Gardens Theater), Mother Courage (MaYi Theatre), The House of Bernarda Alba (NAATCO), and The Frogs (Juilliard), among others. His musical Felix Starro recently received its world premiere off-Broadway and is the first musical created by Filipino-Americans. His other musicals are Long Season (Perseverance Theatre), Dear (Syracuse Stage), and Yellowmoon Rising (NYU). He has been a twotime resident of the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy and an artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College, Ohio State University, New Harmony Project in Indiana, and Sundance Theatre Lab. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Barrymore and the Berkshire Theatre Critics Award.

TODD MACK REISCHMAN | SOUND DESIGNER

Todd has designed sound for nearly 100 IRT productions in his 19 seasons as resident sound designer. His work has also been heard at a handful of regional theatres around the country. During the off season Todd works as composer/designer/musician for the Indianapolis Shakespeare Company. He is constantly writing, recording, and producing music. In 2018 Todd was awarded an Emmy for his sound design on the WFYI broadcast version of IRT’s Finding Home—Indiana at 200.

RICHARD J ROBERTS | DRAMATURG

This is Richard’s 31st season with the IRT, and his 23rd as resident dramaturg. He has also been a dramaturg for the New Harmony Project, Write Now, and the Hotchner Playwriting Festival. He has directed IRT productions of A Christmas Carol (four times), Bridge & Tunnel, The Night Watcher, Neat, Pretty Fire, The Cay, The Giver, The Power of One, and Twelfth Night. Other directing credits include Actors Theatre of Indiana, the Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Edyvean Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis Civic Theatre, Carmel Symphony Orchestra, Butler University, University of Indianapolis, and Anderson University. Richard studied music at DePauw University and theatre at Indiana University and has been awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

NATHAN GARRISON | PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

This is Nathan’s 25th season at the IRT. He has also worked with Center Stage in Baltimore, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Brown County Playhouse; and he is a company member with the Indianapolis Shakespeare Company.

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ARTIST SPONSORS

Thank you to the following IRT Donors who use their generous gift to recognize and celebrate the artists that bring our stories to life.

SARAH & JOHN LECHLEITER

SEASON SPONSORS OF JAMES STILL

BOB & TONI BADER

SEASON SPONSORS OF JANET ALLEN

MICHAEL DINIUS & JEANNIE REGAN-DINIUS SEASON SPONSORS OF NATHAN GARRISON

MIKE & JUDY HARRINGTON

SPONSORS OF THE DESIGN TEAM

SCOTT & LORRAINE DAVISON SPONSORS OF DAVID SHIH

ROLLIE & CHERI DICK

SPONSORS OF JAN LUCAS

PRODUCTION SPONSORS:

LEO BIANCHI & JILL PANETTA MARY FINDLING & JOHN HURT BILL & NANCY HUNT PHIL & COLLEEN KENNEY DAVID KLEIMAN & SUSAN JACOBS STEVE & BEV KOEPPER JERRY & ROSIE SEMLER AMBASSADOR RANDALL & DEBORAH TOBIAS 30

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Katie Bradley, Andrew May and Gavin Lawrence in the IRT’s 2020 production of Murder on the Orient Express. Photo by Zach Rosing.

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JAN LUCAS ACTOR

JAN LUCAS HAS PERFORMED IN MORE THAN A DOZEN PLAYS AT THE IRT. SHE IS ALSO A SINGER, A MUSICIAN, A SONGWRITER, A PAINTER, AND AN AUTHOR. SHE PLAYS HELEN IN THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. HOW DID YOU FIRST GET INTERESTED IN THEATRE? My parents took me to the theatre in Detroit where I grew up, and I loved it. But I was actually very shy as a young person. I went to a private girls school in high school. They had a really great theatre department, and I would be in the shadows, watching, wishing that I could be like them. I was an English major in college, and studied great writers, and took Shakespeare classes. I loved speaking the words, but I never went into theatre.

Fast forward to living in Chicago after college: I ran a restaurant with my first husband, and there were all these actors working there. They kept saying to me, you should take an acting class. I would be in the kitchen all day working, and then I would have to do a presentation of the day’s specials to the wait staff, and I had a very theatrical approach to it. I gained so much confidence in Chicago, living on my own before my marriage, and again after it fell apart. The city was really an education for me. So I started taking acting classes, and I loved it.

I got a screen test and they flew me out to California. I was cast, but the series was never produced. Still, back in Chicago, that was a feather in my cap. The non-Equity theatre scene was huge then, and I did a lot of work. I 32

would work in the kitchen by day and then go rehearse at night. I was a single mom, and my oldest son, Lucas, came to the theatre with me so much—I think that might be why he never wanted to be an actor. He saw it all! It was actually a great life. I loved it.

Tim [Grimm] and I met in Chicago, shooting a commercial together. We were good friends for a long time before we were romantically involved. Then he got a series and we got married and moved to LA. That was pretty great. There’s a lot of sunshine, and it just makes you happy! Lucas was with us, and Jackson and Conner were born there. Tim and I were both doing series. Mine was very short lived, his went for a number of seasons. I did some movies of the week, he did a bunch of movies.

We were working a lot.

WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO THE IRT? At some point we decided we wanted to raise the boys in the Midwest. We moved to Columbus, Indiana, which is Tim’s hometown, and we bought an 80-acre farm. I remember thinking at the time, I can do theatre, I can go to LA, and up to Chicago. No way I could do that! So

there was a lull for a couple of years where I didn’t work at all. And then, as the fable goes, Janet Allen contacted us in the summer of 1999. We met James Still, and he came out to our farm, and we walked around, and he asked Tim to write the music for Amber Waves. The next day, we got a call from Janet saying, do you guys want to be in this play? And that was heaven! For my re-entry to the theatre world, to do that play that I loved so much, and with Tim’s music. That was the beginning of a great relationship here, and it opened up a lot of doors. I did some more work with theatres up in Chicago, and around town here. It was the beginning of a whole great chapter that seems to be continuing.

I know this sounds trite, but IRT really does feel like family. There is such generosity of spirit here. The work culture is very supportive, and there’s a lot of love here.

Love for the art, love for the work. And I have to say, in non-COVID times, the food. It’s all about the food. So many great opportunities to share food. And I really like the other theatres popping up in town. I feel like the culture of theatre is really burgeoning, and I think that IRT has been generous about that. Janet has a good relationship with a lot of people here in town. There’s a lot of cross-referencing of people. There’s a lot of sharing of resources, and sharing of people. Which is how it should be. And I think Janet and the whole IRT have responded to the times and the need to be more open in every way. Snobbery doesn’t have a place in our theatre world right now. It’s not useful to us.

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, YOU BATTLED LEUKEMIA. HOW HAS THAT CHANGED YOU? Being faced with your mortality really shakes you up.

I was pretty positive that I would never work again, or travel again. It has definitely made me more of a grateful person. It is the gift that keeps on giving, because there are health concerns and issues that all come directly from that, and from the meds. Of course, this community, this theatre, rallied around me in a way that buoyed me up and buoyed up our whole family. The idea of turning the experience into a book [My Beautiful Leukemia] was so healing. I didn’t know

that would happen. That was an amazing thing. A lot of people contact me, and ask me to talk to someone going through it. I love talking to them. That’s a gift that I can give. And now I’m older, and very often the oldest person in the cast. And I love it! I embrace it. I feel proud that I’ve made it this far.

WHAT DOES THIS PLAY MEAN TO YOU AT THIS TIME IN YOUR LIFE? I was on a roll. I was doing lots of shows, and I had two more lined up, and I was talking to some other theatres around the area. And then the pandemic hit, and everything stopped. And I went through a period of questioning. How can the arts be effective in this time when there is so much unrest, and injustice, and so many difficult situations—globally! But now I’m excited, I’m so turned on by the work we’re doing in this play. Every day, Tim asks, how’s rehearsal? Each day is better than the last. It’s so stimulating. Getting into the layers of a play, and getting into the layers of a character, is so gratifying. I’m learning so much about myself, and the world, and people. I love it. I feel a flicker, a spark about the work, about the value of this work that we do.

And the streaming is kind of cool. Tim and I tour in Europe so much, and none of those people have ever seen me in a play. And they’ll get to see this. And we have friends all over the country from our music. And even my family—they don’t come to Indiana to see my plays. And now they’re all going to see me in a play! I think it’s a great bridge at this time when we can’t have a live audience.

I think that acting gives me great empathy. I was thinking about that this morning. There was some jerk driving like a bat out of hell on the highway. And I thought, you know, I have no idea what that guy is going through. Maybe he’s got to get to his dying father, or his wife who’s having a baby—you just don’t know. Being able to get inside of stories, and embody other people, and dig beyond my own experience is so gratifying.

How do I say this without sounding sappy? It gives me love for people.

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WHAT IF YOU SAW ONLY HALF THE PLAY? Ticket revenue covers just half of what it costs to produce world-class professional theatre at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. The IRT gratefully acknowledges the remarkable support we receive from our generous and committed donors whose contributions ensure that the show does go on!

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Carol Weiss Emily A. West Alan & Elizabeth Whaley Cliff Williams Heather Wilson John & Margaret Wilson James B. Winner Frederick & Jacquelyn Winters William Witchger, II & Kimberly Witchger John & Linda Zimmermann

DONOR GUILDS ANNUAL CAMPAIGN GIFTS $300 – $1,499 | JULY 1, 2020 – APRIL 25, 2021 DRAMA GUILD $750 – $1,499 David & Mary Allen Pat & Bob Anker Anonymous (4) John & Mary Bartley Jesse L. & Carolynne Bobbitt Charlie & Cary Boswell Thomas & Victoria Broadie Sherry A. Butler Paul & Renee Cacchillo Dr. & Mrs. John J. Coleman III Edward & Elizabeth Frazier Elizabeth Hansen Don & Carolyn Hardman Crystal L. Jones M.D. Aldy & Natinne Keene Betsy & Ted Kleinmaier Vally Allen and Charley Koehler Mary & Rick Kortokrax James LaMonde* James & Sara Lootens James M. McMechan David H. Moore, M.D. & M. Kristine Beckwith, M.D. John & Carolyn Mutz Rob & Sara Norris Ann Marie L. Ogden Deb & Greg Perkins Roger & Anna Radue Thomas & Jill Ristine Sallie Rowland Richard & Christine Scales *Denotes sustaining members

Thomas & Teresa Sharp Lee Shevitz Rosemarie Springer Ed & Jane Stephenson The Ruth E. Stilwell Endowment Fund, a fund of CICF John & Deborah Thornburgh Dan Wheeler & Susan Wakefield Philip & Shandon Whistler Carlos Wright* THEATRE GUILD $300 – $749 Allison & Jeff Ackerman John & Eileen Ahrens* Todd Allen Andritsch Anonymous (3) Constance C. Beardsley* Gerald & Moira Berg Dan & Barb Bickel Mr. & Mrs. J. Burton Black Barbara & Christopher Bodem* Karry K. Book & John P. Hansberry Paul Boykas Charles W. Brown & Louise Tetrick Vince & Robyn Caponi Robert Cedoz John Champley & Julie Keck Steve & Kim Chatham John Chlapik

Jeff & Jeni Christoffersen Brady Clark Richard Clark Robert & Jennifer Cochrane William & Judy Coleman Jerry & Carol Collins Michael & Jennifer Courtney Norma & Carl Crabiel Karen Dace* Fr. Clem Davis* Jeffrey & Barbara Dean Paul & Carol DeCoursey* Mary & Steve DeVoe Eric Diters Lori Ecker & Ronnie Katz Bob & Patricia Edwards Dr. & Mrs. John & Sheryn Ellis Sherry Faris Drs. Eric Farmer & Tate Trujillo & Christopher Scott* Margie Ferguson* Kerry Foster Eric & Hayley Frandsen Roger & Susan Frick The David T. & E. Jean Fronek Charitable Fund, a fund of Hamilton County Community Foundation Peter Furno & Pamela Steed Phyllis & Ed Gabovitch Mary Lee Gambone & Doug Brooks Gamma Nu Chapter of Psi Iota Xi

Priscilla Gerde Phylis & Paul Gesellchen Todd & Jan Gillespie Thecla Gossett Howard & Linnea Green John & Mary Ann Grogan Diane Hall Mr. & Mrs. David J. Hamernik Amy Hamilton Emily F. (Cramer) Hancock* Christine M. Hansen Don & Elizabeth Harmon David & Tish Haskett Tim & Jennifer Holihen Greg & Patricia Jacoby Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Jahnke Sunah C Kim Dorantes* Linda L. Kirby Jay & Carole Kirkpatrick Rachel Barrett Knight & Jacob Knight* Steven & Mary Koch* Michelle Korin* Dr. Loretta Kroin Andra Liepa Charitable Fund, a Donor Advised Fund of the U.S. Charitable Gift Trust Jane Lommel Carlos & Eleanor Lopez Linda Lough* Mark Magee* Lyle & Deborah Mannweiler

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DONOR GUILDS CONTINUED ANNUAL CAMPAIGN GIFTS $300 – $1,499 | JULY 1, 2020 – APRIL 25, 2021 THEATRE GUILD CONTINUED $300 – $749 Dr. & Mrs. Peter Marcus* Seth & Marsha McCorkle Donald & P.J. McCullough William McNiece R. Keith & Marion Michael Rev. Mary Ann Moman* Jim & Shantel Morris Jim & Judi Mowry John & Beth Murphy Sharon & Dan Murphy* Susan & Jim Naus Dr. LeeAnne M. Nazer

Niels & Kathy Ostergaard Merrell & Barbara Owen Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. & Kelli DeMott Park Beverly Petsel Dixie Platt and Michael Burke The David and Arden Pletzer Endowment Fund, a fund of Hamilton County Community Foundation Davie & Dorian Poole Richard & Diane Rhodes Richard & Ann Riegner Robert & Cynthia Robinson Scott & Dottie Rouse

Elizabeth Russell Alice Schloss Donor Advised Fund, a fund of Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis John Shearin* Dr. Jill Shedd* Lillian Smith* Luke Stark* David & Lori Starr Nela Swinehart* Steve & Barb Tegarden* Garrett & Elaine Thiel Mary Ann Thiel Dr. James & Linda Trippi

Robert & Barbetta True* Barbara S. Tully* Ron Walker Bill & Ann Walters Dorothy Webb Judge Martha Wentworth Rob Whitacre A. Donald & Jeanette Wiles Prof. Gail F. Williamson Reba Boyd Wooden* Brant & Lorene Wright Ms. Robina Zink & Family Charitable Trust Zionsville Physical Therapy*

TRIBUTE GIFTS IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAREST HUSBAND RICHARD W. JUDY Jane Lommel

OVATION SOCIETY The Ovation Society is an exclusive program that recognizes donors that have made a legacy gift to the IRT. The IRT truly appreciates those individuals whose gift will ensure that the Theatre can continue to provide meaningful and inspirational experiences for future generations of Hoosiers.

Gary Addison Janet Allen & Joel Grynheim Pat & Bob Anker Frank & Katrina Basile Charlie & Cary Boswell Ron & Julia Carpenter John R. Carr (in memoriam) John & Mary Challman Sergej R. Cotton Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Dapp Nancy Davis & Robert Robinson Rollie & Cheri Dick Nancy & Berkley Duck

Dale & Karen Duncan Jim & Julie Freeman Meg Gammage-Tucker David A. & Dee Garrett (in memoriam) Michael Gradison (in memoriam) Emily F. (Cramer) Hancock Bruce Hetrick & Cheri O’Neill Tom & Nora Hiatt Bill & Nancy Hunt David Kleiman & Susan Jacobs Frank & Jacqueline La Vista

Andra Liepa Charitable Fund, a Donor Advised Fund of the U.S. Charitable Gift Trust Barbara MacDougall Donald & Ruth Ann MacPherson Stuart L. Main (in memoriam) Michael R. & Sue Maine Megan McKinney Sharon R. Merriman David & Leslie Morgan Michael D. Moriarty Richard & Lila Morris Mutter Marines—Jim & Carol

Deena J. Nystrom Marcia O’Brien (in memoriam) George & Olive Rhodes (in memoriam) Jane W. Schlegel Michael Skehan Michael Suit (in memoriam) Gene & Mary Tempel Jeff & Benita Thomasson Christopher J. Tolzmann Alan & Elizabeth Whaley John & Margaret Wilson

THE ALAN AND LINDA COHEN EDUCATION FUND Eli Lilly and Company

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*Denotes sustaining members

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT ANNUAL CAMPAIGN GIFTS $300+ | JULY 1, 2020 – APRIL 25, 2021 CORPORATE AARP Indiana Barnes & Thornburg LLP Corteva Agriscience Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath KPMG LLP Navient Community Fund OneAmerica Financial Partners Oxford Financial Group, Ltd. PNC Printing Partners

FOUNDATION The Ackerman Foundation Elba L. & Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation, Inc. The Jerry L. and Barbara J. Burris Foundation Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Christel DeHaan Family Foundation The Margot L. Eccles Arts & Culture Fund, a fund of CICF

The Glick Family Foundation Lilly Endowment, Inc. Nicholas H. Noyes Jr. Memorial Foundation The Penrod Society The Shubert Foundation United Way of Central Indiana’s Nonprofit Restart Program

GOVERNMENT Arts Council of Indianapolis Indiana Arts Commission Indiana Arts Commission, with special thanks to the Arts, Cultural & Destination Marketing Organization Grant Program and the Indiana Arts Emergency Relief Fund National Endowment for the Arts

IN-KIND/TRADE ANNUAL CAMPAIGN GIFTS $300+ | JULY 1, 2020 – APRIL 25, 2021 The Basement

2021 CELEBRITY RADIO SHOW Thank you to the following individuals and organizations who helped make the 2021 Celebrity Radio Show a huge success. The Celebrity Radio Show, the IRT’s annual fundraising event, was on Friday, March 12, 2021.

Janet Allen & Joel Grynheim Robert & Kristin L. Altice Anonymous Tammara D. Porter Avant & Jesse Avant Connor & Kathy Avery Amy Baker Ball And Biscuit Ball State University Jeri Ballantine Chris & Kristin Ballard Bar Bosco Allison Barkel Judy Barmann Kerry Barmann Frank & Katrina Basile Bedel Financial Consulting, Inc. Jason Beehler Leo Bianchi & Jill Panetta Jim & Alison Birge Alan Blaskowski Travis Blessing Michael Bluem Barbara & Christopher Bodem

Julia T. Bonnett Monica Bopp James Bork & Cathy Ferree Kimberly Bostic Charlie & Cary Boswell Bottleworks Hotel Indy Abdel & Kristine Bouaichi Dan Bradburn & Jane Robison Michael & Barbara Branic Barbara Bridges Jan & Roger Brinkman Patricia Ann Brown Amy Burke Bob & Julie Burns Darcy K. Burthay Charitable Fund, a Donor-Advised Fund of the U.S. Charitable Gift Trust Don Caddy Shannon Carroll-Frey Central Indiana Community Foundation Central Indiana Land Trust Cliff Chapman

Cheese Desert Adam L. Clevenger & Jessica L. Trimble Carolyn Coleman Sue Collier Russell & Mary Cox Don & Dolly Craft Crew Carwash Daniel & Catherine Cunningham Bruce Curry & Myra Selby Kathleen A. Custer Claire Dana & Chris Fretts Susan & Edmund Dana Thomas I. Davis Kathleen DeLaney Gary Denney & Louise Bakker Ann Dettwiler Rollie & Cheri Dick Michael Dinius & Jeannie Regan-Dinius Laurie Dippold Danielle M. Dove Michele P. Dow

James Due Nancy Dynes Anthony & Jennifer Dzwonar Kathleen & ME Eccles Bob & Patricia Edwards Ellis Mechanical, Inc. Dan & Ginny Emerson Emily Emerson Ferris Deborah Engelke Rebecca Engle Tim & Reba Ericksen Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath Troy D. Farmer Drs. Richard & Rebecca Feldman Margie Ferguson Sarah Fisher Franklin College Shelley Fraser & Reynold Berry Jim & Julie Freeman Dick & Brenda Freije Tom & Jenny Froehle Gallery Pastry Shop Robert & Christy Gauss

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2021 CELEBRITY RADIO SHOW Thank you to the following individuals and organizations who helped make the 2021 Celebrity Radio Show a huge success. The Celebrity Radio Show, the IRT’s annual fundraising event, was on Friday, March 12, 2021.

Mr. Jim Gawne Dorothea & Philip Genetos Gina Giacone Ron & Kathy Gifford Nadine & Alvin Givens Marianne Glick & Mike Woods Bruce Glor Robert Goldstein Julie Goodman Marisol Gouveia & Desiree Brandon-Gouveia Jane Graham Christopher & Sheila Gramling John & Elizabeth Gresehover Cheryl Guieb Ricardo & Beatriz Guimarães JD Haines Mollette Hall Elizabeth Hamilton Kristen Marie Hanley Hard Truth Distillery Julian E. Harrell Mike & Judy Harrington Steve Hazelbaker Michael N. Heaton Donald & Teri Hecht Holt Hedrick Mark Helmus Dawn Higgins Mark Hindal Douglas Hodge Glenn E. Hoge Carolyne V. Holcomb Brenda S. Horn Abby Howe David Hudson Bill & Nancy Hunt Susan J. Hutchens Rebecca Hutton Ice Miller LLP Indianapolis Art Center Indianapolis Colts The Indianapolis Fellows Fund, a fund of The Indianapolis Foundation Indianapolis Motor Speedway/ Penske Entertainment Kathy Isbon & Steven Pockrass Greg Islan Barbara Janiak Suzanne & William Jannetta Kathy Jenkins

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Daniel T. Jensen & Steven Follis Jet Linx Aviation Andy Johnson Polly Jones JPMorgan Chase Bank Bob & Rhonda Kaspar Katz, Sapper & Miller, LLP Dana & Marc Katz Reed & Elisha Kemp Linda L. Kirby Joy Kleinmaier John & Susan Kline Sherrie & John Knighton Gwen Kopecky Jessica Kotzan KPMG LLP Molly & Michael Kraus, MD Kevin Krulewitch & Rosanne Ammirati Glen Kwok Lacy Foundation Jill & Peter Lacy Sarah & John Lechleiter Kevin Likes & Kay Bejong Joe & Deborah Loughrey Barbara MacDougall Warren & Lesley Mackellar Jinee Majors Karen Martin Brent Marty Massage Heights Ironworks Clint Meeks Don & Kimberly Meyer Andrew & Amy Michie Douglas & Detra Mills David & Robin Miner David & Leslie Morgan Michael D. Moriarty Chris & Marie Gabrielle Morrison James Napolitan Carl Nelson & Loui Lord Nelson Larry & LaTheda Noonan Tom Noonan & Marian Mather Hannah Northup Jackie Nytes & Patrick O’Brien Joel & Mary O’Brien OneAmerica Financial Partners Oxford Financial Group, Ltd. Ellen Pactor Brian & Gail Payne Penchant 4

Lauren Petersen Petite G Jewelers Greg Petrowich Michael Pettry Craig Pinkus & Margaret Drew Jen Pittman Gail & William Plater Plews Shadley Racher & Braun J. Thomas & Jane Ann Porter Dr. David Posey & Kerrie Posey Printing Partners Scott & Susan Putney Peter Racher & Sarah Binford Cynthia Middle Ragsdale Tommy Reddicks & Kelly Wensing Red’s Classic Barber Shop Co. Paul Reis Peter & Karen Reist Lamar & Margaret Jean Richcreek Sue & Bill Ringo Roberts Camera Megan Robertson Karin Sarratt Mary Anne Schager Janet D. Schantz Heather Ann Scheel Rebecca Scheer Josh Scheumann Dan & Patty Schipp Wayne & Susan Schmidt Nan Schulte & Matt Russell Adam Seale Mark & Gerri Shaffer Shred415 Silver in the City Simmons Family Foundation, a fund of CICF The Michael L. Smith and Susan L. Smith Family Fund, a fund of Hamilton County Community Foundation Ron Smith Shelly M. Smith Jerry & Reah Smolek MaryJane Sorbera Luke Stark Ed & Jane Stephenson Shelley Stewart Jim & Cheryl Strain

Sharon Stroud Sun King Brewery Co. Kay Swank-Herzog & Robert Herzog Suzanne Sweeney & Todd Wiencek Joe & Jill Tanner Angela Stephens Tarter Audrey Taylor Jo Taylor Gene & Mary Tempel Carole Terry Lisa Thielmeyer Julia Thorpe Jennifer Tornatta Total Wine & More Karen C. Turchi Jennifer C. Turner Pamela S. Turner Wayne & Karen Turner Barb Tyner Larry & Nancy VanArendonk Visit Indy Amy Waggoner Cheryl & Ray Waldman Christen Wall & Jeramy Foltz Bill & Ann Walters David Wantz Lisa Warrum Ophelia Wellington Mindy Westrick Brown James & Shelley Wetzel WFYI Alan & Elizabeth Whaley Jess Wheeler David P. Whitman & Donna L. Reynolds Ryan Wilhite Brian & Susan Brock Williams Jerry & Sandy Williams Mark Williams Scott Williams Heather Wilson John & Margaret Wilson Dr. Christian Wolf & Elaine Holden-Wolf Joseph Zielinski & Rev. Bethany Lowery

FRONT and CENTER Front and Center is a campaign to support the long-term sustainability of the IRT. It is with deep appreciation that we thank the individuals and organizations who have committed a gift to keep the IRT Front and Center!

Michael & Jennifer Abbott A.J. Allen & Kathy Maeglin Janet Allen & Joel Grynheim Dr. Patrick & Danette Alles Pat & Bob Anker Anonymous (6) Susan & Carl Arvin Tammara D. Porter Avant & Jesse Avant Bob & Toni Bader Kay Jett Baker Charles Bantz & Sandra Petronio Allison Barkel Frank & Katrina Basile Mark Bear Gerald & Moira Berg Leo Bianchi & Jill Panetta Susie & Joel Blum Karry Book & John Hansberry Sheila Barton Bosron & Bill Bosron Dan Bradburn & Jane Robison Amy Burke Brady Clark Mary Beth Claus Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Alan & Linda Cohen The Cohen Family Foundation, Inc. John & Ulla Connor Sammi Coppedge & Joel Weyrauch Don & Dolly Craft Ethan & Anne Craig Daniel & Catherine Cunningham Mike & Irene Curry Claire Dana & Chris Fretts Brian & Jodie Daugherty Ann & Kenneth Dee Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Gary Denney & Louise Bakker Tom Detmer Mary & Steve DeVoe Rollie & Cheri Dick Michael Dinius & Jeannie Regan-Dinius Jim & Deana Dinsmore Laurie Dippold Danielle M. Dove Nancy & Berkley Duck

Duke Realty Julie Dunigan M.E. & Katie Eccles Geoff Ehrendreich Dan & Ginny Emerson Patricia Fansler Troy Farmer Drs. Richard & Rebecca Feldman Jeff & Chery Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Forde Jim & Julie Freeman David & Ann Frick Drs. Cherryl & Shelly Friedman Tom & Jenny Froehle Jan & Rick Fulmer David A. & Dee Garrett (in memoriam) Kathy & Gene Gentili Ron & Kathy Gifford Nadine & Alvin Givens Bruce Glor Gary Glor & Mark Spina Susan & Charlie Golden Dave & Mary Lou Gotshall Laurie Gutmann Tom Haas Endowment Fund Benjamin Hanna Mike & Judy Harrington Michael N. Heaton Donald & Teri Hecht Holt Hedrick Aaron Henze Ann Hinson William & Patricia Hirsch Lindsey & Tom Horan Brenda S. Horn Jan Hornaday & Brett Brewer Bill & Nancy Hunt Rebecca Hutton The Indianapolis Fellows Fund, a fund of The Indianapolis Foundation The Indianapolis Foundation, a CICF affiliate Johnson Grossnickle & Associates Jim & Nancy Kean Michael Kirkmeyer David Kleiman & Susan Jacobs John & Susan Kline Gary Knott & Colette Irwin-Knott Steve & Bev Koepper

Kurt & Judy Kroenke Jill & Peter Lacy Lacy Foundation Sarah & John Lechleiter Margaret Lehtinen & Dr. Lawrence Mark Elisabeth Lesem Shelby Lewis Hugh & Olga Lilienkamp Lilly Endowment, Inc. Linnea’s Lights, LLC John & Laura Ludwig Bill & Susie Macias Michael R. & Sue Maine Hillary Martin & Rudy Bustamante Vince & Kristy Mathews Lauren McDaniel Andrew & Amy Michie Korea Milledge Amber Mills Lawren Mills & Brad Rateike David & Robin Miner Sidney & Sharon Mishkin David & Leslie Morgan Michael D. Moriarty Vicki Murphy Carl Nelson & Loui Lord Nelson Nicholas H. Noyes, Jr. Memorial Foundation, Inc. Jackie Nytes & Michael O’Brien Eric & Suzanne Olson OneAmerica Financial Partners The Payne Family Foundation, a fund of CICF Randy D. Pease Ben Pecar & Leslie Thompson Patricia Pelizzari Mel & Joan Perelman Deb & Greg Perkins Samantha Pezzute Jeff Pigeon Scott & Susan Putney Peter & Karen Reist Tony Ren George & Olive Rhodes (in memoriam) Richard & Diane Rhodes Sue & Bill Ringo The Robert S. and Margot L. Eccles Charitable Fund, a fund of CICF Richard J Roberts Kathy Sax

Dale & Teresa Schaeffer Dan & Patty Schipp Maggie Barrett Schlake & Joshua Schlake Jane W. Schlegel Wayne & Susan Schmidt Nanette Schulte & Matthew Russell Tim & Karen Seiler Michael & Holly Semler Mark & Gerri Shaffer Jack & Karen Shaw Simmons Family Foundation, a fund of CICF Doug Sims & Amanda Jackson Michael Skehan Joyce & Steve Smidley Kendra & Andrew Smith Sue & Mike Smith Victoria Smith & Scott Wampler Rosemarie Springer Doshia & John Stewart Dan & Diana Sullivan Martin & Lee Summers Richard & Lois Surber Suzanne Sweeney & Todd Wiencek Randy Talley Jay & Barbara Taylor Gene & Mary Tempel Adam Ternet Jeff & Benita Thomasson Gordon & Mary-Anne Thompson Tony & Jane Tietz Steve & Maria Tilmans Miriam Friedman Towles Dr. & Mrs. James Trippi Jennifer C. Turner John & Kathy Vahle Jennifer & Gary Vigran Amy Waggoner Cheryl & Ray Waldman Dr. Rosalind Webb Carol Weiss Alan & Elizabeth Whaley David P. Whitman & Donna L. Reynolds Heather & Andy Wilson John & Margaret Wilson Terry & Nancy Young Joseph Zielinski & Rev. Bethany Lowery

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