Still at Risk Program

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2017-2018 Season

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NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER In Association with TOM KIRDAHY PRODUCTIONS NORMAN ABRAMSON & DAVID BEERY / Season Producers LOWELL KIMBLE / Season Producer JIM TAUL & DAVE HOPMANN / Executive Producers DR. ALLAN GOLD & MR. ALAN FERRARA / Producers

By Tim Pinckney Directed by Dennis Lickteig

CAST KEVIN BYRON MARCUS SUSAN CHRISTOPHER

Scott Cox J. Conrad Frank William Giammona Desiree Rogers Matt Weimer

CREATIVE TEAM CASTING COSTUME DESIGN SOUND DESIGN SET DESIGN AND

Stephanie Desnoyers Jorge R. Hernandez Theodore JH Hulsker Devin Kasper

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR STAGE MANAGEMENT PROP DESIGN

Maxx Kurzunski Emilio Racinez Daniel Yelen

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Photo by Lois Tema

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W E LCO ME from the Founder & Artistic Director

Several decades have passed since the height of the AIDS pandemic. Like countless others, my heart still aches from the heavy toll. There is no forgetting that we were in the fight of our lives – a battle many did not survive.

Still at Risk, a world premiere by Tim Pinckney, is a play about friendship and the power of standing strong together even when the odds are stacked against you. You rely on instinct learning quickly that wit, activism, dexterity, and love of one another are your most durable weapons. If you can hold on to these you might find light at the end of the longest, darkest tunnel you have ever traveled.

Thankfully, we live in a different time. While rooted in history, the characters in Still at Risk live and breathe in our contemporary world. The poignant and often humorous story reminds us that we hold the responsibility to take good care of each other, advance mindfully, speak our truths and that we must always rise against injustice.

I am grateful to producer Tom Kirdahy and his husband Terrence McNally for nurturing this important play forward. Their confidence in NCTC’s ability to bring this world premiere to the stage in San Francisco continues to affirm our commitment to new work. Additionally, having the pleasure of working with Tim Pinckney again, whose play Message to Michael was staged here in our 1999-2000 Season, has been a joyous homecoming.

As we find ourselves with a President who abolishes his HIV Advisory Council, establishes word-bans, and continues to roll-back protections against the LGBT community, the startling reality is that we are indeed Still at Risk.

Founder & Artistic Director

ONSTAGE INSIGHTS January 24th, 25th, 26th at 8pm STILL AT RISK playwright, cast and director discuss the play with the audience post-show February 5th at 2pm STILL AT RISK cast and director take the stage after the show to discuss the play with the audience 2017-2018 SEASON NCTC 5

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Cast of STILL AT RISK Photo by Lois Tema

AIDS Activism: Then and Now

By Ari Rice Still at Risk, by Tim Pinckney, opens up a discussion about how the work of AIDS organizations has shifted, and whether that may be a shift which fails to acknowledge the painful history

BY K A T E J O N ES B U T LE R of the disease and its activist voices.

When the AIDS epidemic began, activism had to be ferocious. President Reagan’s, and President Bush Sr.’s, responses were meager at best and to be diagnosed was almost certainly a death sentence.

The stigma of AIDS cloaked prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in secrecy and shame, and that stigma continues to persist today. We are “still at risk”, but as the play explores, the world of AIDS activism has shifted.

Nov 15, 1985: Demonstrators protest in NYC

In a fitting nod to NCTC’s origin as an educational theatre Cast from the About Face program, our Conservatory performed at the top of the event production of LE SWITCH photo by Michael Brosilow

The contemporary landscape of AIDS activism, while markedly different from that of the 1980s and 1990s, still demands attention and support. The continued stigma of AIDS as the “gay disease”, which roots in the disease’s initial misnomer as GRIDS (Gay-Related Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome), and the discrimination that the LGBTQ community still faces, contributes to the need for AIDS activism. Some public health officials in the South, the contemporary epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, suggest that the dangers and prevalence of HIV/ AIDS seems to be lost among younger generations, thus contributing to a lack of dedicated prevention and testing.

Additionally, with the wavering future of the Affordable Care Act, the numbers of uninsured (and thus untreated) patients with AIDS could swiftly increase, especially amongst the already harder hit communities struggling with poverty and access to care. The activist fight seems to continually be one of education, of awareness, and the pressing need for free and widely available testing and treatment.

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Where once AIDS was a death sentence, shrouded in fear and without viable treatment options, there is now the ability to live with the disease being virtually undetectable. While an outright vaccine has yet to be developed, PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis) can virtually eliminate the risk of infection, but access to the drug is limited depending on the country. Antiretroviral drugs, taken after diagnosis, can bring the level of the virus in an infected person low enough to be improbable for them to pass the disease on to someone else. Many of the millions of people living with AIDS, however, are not on any form of therapy. Some of those with the disease do not even know they have it. While cases worldwide have decreased, in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and certain populations within the US, they’re increasing.

The characters in Still at Risk are all interacting with AIDS/ HIV activism, whether peripherally or directly, and the conflict between Kevin and Byron is representative of the initial and current activist action around AIDS. In a wealthy liberal city with socialized health care, AIDS ceases to be a fear, and the stigma of homosexuality is hardly a concern. To those who lived through the tragedy and travesty of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, this freedom and lack of concern for the disease’s deadly past can appear flippant. But AIDS education is still minimal, even in privileged communities, and almost non-existent in poorer ones. There is continued criminalization of the HIV positive community both worldwide and in the US. HIV positive status can result in the loss of child custody, the loss of

housing, and inflated criminal charges. US House Representative Barbara Lee has proposed the Repeal HIV Discrimination Act, which would ban federal and state laws that would discriminate against someone solely as a result of their HIV status. There is a necessary and vital element to contemporary AIDS activism, and it builds on the activism of all those from the 80s onward.

Awareness, education - the uniting factors of activism “then and now” - stand at the heart of NCTC’s program, YouthAware, which was the first program in the US that toured schools to educate students on AIDS. While widespread access to healthcare and testing are new contemporary fronts in the fight against AIDS, it is education that will always be the light that shines through. The past may not always stay in the past, but the future is brightest when we absorb the lessons available to us and carry them through to the next generation of activists.

Ed Decker walks with SF AIDS Foundation at San Francisco’s Pride Parade 1985

A NOTE

from the Playwright

I was working as an actor (and a waiter)

when I found out that my best friend, David, had become HIV positive. This was when there was no hope and very few treatment options. I stopped auditioning because I didn’t want to go out of town and leave my friend; we did not have a lot of time left.

After David died, I lost 8 more friends within 2 weeks.

It was everywhere. Like so many others, I was furious, scared and heartbroken. I stopped acting and went to work with new clients at Gay Men’s Health Crisis. The agency, at that time, was primarily made up of people like me. We had quit our regular jobs and joined the fight. We became activists and caretakers. We became soldiers in this war. As Paul Monette said, “Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”

Still at Risk is a story of one person who went to war, survived, but lost his way. There are thousands upon thousands of survival stories from this plague; this is just one. It is an incredibly personal story although it is not my story. There are certainly some parallels with my own experience (as well as more than one embarrassing moment that for some reason I have decided to put into a play for all to enjoy…), but Kevin’s journey is very different from mine.

This hateful plague swept in and changed our lives in unimaginable ways. It was horrifying to see your circle of friends, lovers and colleagues get smaller on a sometimes-daily basis. But as we fought, we banded together, using our voices and our anger to bring about change.

We cried and laughed together and we created strong, compassionate families. Those relationships kept us going. They are the ones that continue to keep me going. The families we created are the true heart of Still at Risk.

Tim Pinckney January 10, 2018

The playwright would like to thank Ed Decker and everyone at NCTC – it’s great to be back. Also, Dennis Lickteig and this dream of a cast, Tom Kirdahy, Tom Viola, Sharr White, Carl Andress, Michael Berresse, Amy Hohn and all the amazing actors who have participated in the development of this play, and Eddie Pisapia.

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A Reflection From Encore Society and NCTC Board Member David Beery

I don’t remember the source of my commitment to giving money to cultural organizations. It certainly was not from my parents. There was no family tradition of giving. Nor was there particular interest in the arts.

I was provided piano lessons, for which I had no particular talent. Even so, I deluded myself at one point that I should apply to Oberlin. There were infrequent tickets to classical concerts at the local college. I once took my childhood best

friend to a concert by the opera star, Helen Traubel. I was enthralled. My friend was bored, perhaps aghast. He went to cowboy movies. I sought movies with greater substance. In high school, I surreptitiously acquired tickets to performances I thought beyond the appreciation of my parents: Gilbert and Sullivan, opera, ballet, even the ice follies.

I was creating my own individuality, my own value structure.

In return, the art world rewarded me, as it has my husband, Norm Abramson.

For that gift to both of us, we have chosen to give back.

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GIVING CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE I have specific reasons for giving:

CHOICE I have chosen NCTC as a primary beneficiary because its work merges with my belief in the significance of theater, and with my wish to celebrate the unique viewpoint gay artists contribute to our larger culture.

REPAYMENT OF PLEASURE I donate to the arts in general and to NCTC specifically, because of the years of pleasure, rewards, and learning that the arts have provided me. Giving conveys the appreciation I have for the talent that has measurably enriched my life. . VALUES I believe that my sexuality nourished a value system that I would not have had otherwise.

Growing up gay creates a unique sensibility.

Having lived through restrictions on my own life, I am sensitive to injustices inflicted on others. Being a member of a minority, I value diversity. Seeing division around me, I aspire to a society of inclusion. But also a society that still recognizes and admires differences. These values are inherent in the arts. NCTC encompasses them season after season.

PERPETUITY Charity reaches beyond our selves. Culture continues beyond our lives. I feel an obligation to contribute to the continuation of the culture to which I have committed myself.

Granted, what I give will not make a great difference in the larger scheme of things. But it will do its bit. The NCTC Encore Society provides a doorway to the future.

These are my perspectives.

Norm shares the same goals. Our mutual decisions for donations, our personal involvement, and our frequent attendance at performances enrich our relationship. And we both want to leave something after we are gone.

I have no children to leave an inheritance. Norm does have children.

After the consideration of his family, our estate goes primarily to cultural organizations. This is our recognition of something greater than the individual, greater than ourselves, greater than today.

Neither Norm nor I (nor any of my readers) are Andrew Carnegie or Bill Gates. In today’s dollars, Andrew Carnegie would have a wealth equivalent to 372 billion dollars. Bill Gates? A piddling 79 billion dollars. Both of them have promoted giving one’s wealth to benefit the public good. Most known for his donation for the construction of libraries, Carnegie gave virtually all his wealth outside his family. Bill Gates, along with Warren Buffett, encourage the super wealthy of today to give away at least half of their wealth while they live.

But the super wealthy do not make up the fabric of society. Nor will they be supporting small arts organizations. They will not be giving to NCTC. What Norm and I give to the future is every bit as important to us as their gifts are to Bill Gates or to Warren Buffet. And we can support what they will not.

I value NCTC. I am happy my husband and I can promote its future.

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PROF I L E S SCOTT COX (Kevin) has been a regular in the Bay Area theatre scene for almost two decades. Last seen portraying Brother Boy in NCTC’s Sordid Lives, Scott has also performed with San Francisco Playhouse, Berkeley Rep and Center Rep to name a few.

Scott’s most recent film credits include A Wake, Youth, Doggie B and The Stranger in Us. In his spare time he’s worked in voice-over for audio books, a commercial for French TV, modeled for Williams-Sonoma cookbooks, coached engineers on how to better communicate and discover their emotional intelligence. Scott is especially thankful for the opportunity he’s had to partner with the Drama dept of Lincoln High School in the design and construction some amazing sets. Those kids continually surprise and deliver.

J. CONRAD FRANK (Byron) is delighted to be returning for another exciting season at NCTC! A San Mateo native, Conrad received a degree in vocal performance from the University of Oregon.

Best known for his work as The Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy, Conrad has performed his one “Woman” shows at many of the nations finer Bars and Cabaret establishments. Other credits include: Alex More (Buyer & Cellar, NCTC), Angela Arden (Die Mommy Die, NCTC), Sister Walburga (The Divine Sister, NCTC) Beadle Bamford (Sweeney Todd, ROLT), Rudi Gernreich (The Tempermentals, NCTC), Mrs. Peacock (CLUE, Boxcar Theatre) & Sylvia Fowler (Jungle Red, Artful Circle). Conrad appeared as Joan Crawford in the 2008 Billy Clift film Baby Jane and its sequel Hush Up Sweet Charlotte. Special thanks to My Show Widow Mikey! Twitter: @KatyaSmirnoff, instagram @ katyasmirnoffskyy WILLIAM GIAMMONA (Marcus) is a veteran of musicals and plays around the Bay Area, having performed leading roles in over 60 productions in the last 15 years. This show marks Will’s 13th show here at NCTC, having previously performed as Luke Harris in Everything

That’s Beautiful, Mark Bruckner in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Tom Zeller in American Dream, Thomas Weaver in The Story of My Life, Luc in Waiting for Giovanni, Brandt in The Busy World Is Hushed, Hank Hartley in The Sugar Witch, Richard Loeb in Thrill Me, and as Princeton & Rod in Avenue Q the past four seasons. Other favorite roles include: Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along (for which he won the 2014 Theatre Bay Area Award), Leo Frank in Parade, Carl-Magnus in A Little Night Music, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Lt. Joe Cable in South Pacific, and Tommy Albright in Brigadoon. For more information on his work, visit williamgiammona.com.

DESIREE ROGERS (Susan) loves to entertain and educate and got that opportunity playing Deborah Lacks in Lauren Gunderson & Greetha Reedy’s Hela at TheatreFIRST, Alberta Hunter in Leaving The Blues and three characters in Waiting For Giovanni by Jewelle Gomez at NCTC, Siara in Patricia Milton’s Enemies Foreign & Domestic at CentralWorks, understudying three roles in Naomi Wallace’s The Liquid Plain at OSF Ashland, and playing six characters in Ed Decker & Robert Leone’s Rights Of Passage at NCTC. MATT WEIMER (Christopher) This is Matt’s eighth show with NCTC, following such personal favorites as The Lisbon Traviata and The Homosexuals (TBA Award Finalist, featured actor). He has also performed with companies including Theatre Rhinoceros, Custom Made, Left Coast, Indra’s Net, Porchlight, Pacific Alliance, Eastenders, and Impact. He has toured with children’s theater, performed improv and sketch comedy, appeared in independent films and video games, and has written for the stage.

TIM PINCKNEY (Playwright) started writing plays after ten years as a working actor. His first play, Message to Michael, was produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. His play Ever So Humble premiered at The Hangar Theatre starring Andréa Burns, directed by Peter Flynn.

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P RO F I L E S CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Stir Until Smooth was just presented by Stable Cable in New York City, directed by Carl Andress. Other plays include A Prehistoric Ritual, A Perfect Blendship and First Refusal. Tim wrote the stage adaptation for the world premiere of Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol starring Douglas Sills, Joshua Henry and Betsy Wolfe. He has also adapted four classic musicals - Hair, On the Twentieth Century, Chess, and Funny Girl - for The Actors Fund’s concert series. Tim has traveled all over the map as a contributing writer to Passport Magazine. Originally from Auburn, New York, Tim is a member of The Dramatists Guild and is represented by Charles Kopelman at Abrams Artists. For more information, visit timpinckney.com DENNIS M. LICKTEIG (Director) happily returns to NCTC to direct the world premiere of this incredible play. Other recent projects include: Diary of Anne Frank, Parade and The Heiress for Palo Alto Players, Sordid Lives, Avenue Q (4 times), The Nance, American Dream, The Lisbon Traviata, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Story of My Life, The Busy World is Hushed, Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins, The Sugar Witch, Act A Lady, Thrill Me, Farm Boys, Theatre District and Harvey Milk –The Musical all for NCTC, The Story of My Life (Contra Costa Civic), Thoroughly Modern Millie and The King and I (Broadway By the Bay), Forum, Sunday in the Park with George, Anything Goes (CCMT), A Little Night Music, Closer Than Ever, Crimes of the Heart (Hillbarn Theater), Hello, Dolly! and The King and I (Diablo Theatre Company), Anyone Can Whistle, All My Sons and Do I Hear a Waltz? (Masquers Playhouse), Carousel (Lamplighters) and The Boys from Syracuse and Redhead (42nd Street Moon). Dennis currently serves as Artistic Director for the Lamplighters Music Theater.

JORGE R. HERNANDEZ (Costume Designer) has worked as assistant costumer with The Lamplighters in Bitter Sweet and My Fair Lady. At NCTC, he has designed costumes for Sons of the Prophet, Dames at Sea, The Stops, The Temperamentals, Maurice, Marvelous Wonderettes, The Divine Sister, Die Mommie Die!, The Nance, and many others.

He also makes costumes for ballroom teams and practices the art of Traditional Japanese Massage. Make an appointment with him today!

THEODORE JH HULSKER (Sound Designer) is a Bay Area based theater artist, composer, theater sound/video designer, and curator. His recent theater sound design credits include Baltimore Waltz at the Magic Theater, August Osage County at Marin Theater Company, Seared with San Francisco Playhouse, and Leni at Aurora Theater Company. For more information, videos and sounds visit: theodorehulsker.squarespace.com DEVIN KASPER (Technical Director and Set Designer) is excited to be working on this world premiere! Previously for NCTC he has designed This Bitter Earth, warplay, Everything that’s Beautiful, Sons of the Prophet, For the Love of Comrades, The Paris Letter, and Cock. He was nominated for best set design by TBA for The Pillowman for Breadbox Theater. He has also worked with foolsFury, Ghostroad Theatre, CustomMade Theatre, and Rabbit Hole Theater.

Currently he is baking lots of brownies.

MAXX KURZUNSKI (Lighting Designer) SFBATCC awards include: Lighting design for Ice Cream Sandwich Incident at FaultLine and for Next to Normal at CMTC. Recent credits include Lighting Design for Sam & Dede (World Premiere) CMTC and 59E59 NYC, Avenue Q at NCTC, #Bros at FaultLine, Mother Night at CMTC, Fiddler on the Roof, Jr. for CMTSJ, Anything Goes at 42nd St. Moon. Maxx is the Managing Director for FaultLine and Director of Production at Custom Made.

EMILIO RACINEZ (Stage Manager) has stage managed numerous shows over the past several years at NCTC. Previous credits include Deal with the Dragon, Avenue Q, Master Class, Rights of Passage, Waiting for Giovanni, and The Lisbon Traviata.

DANIEL YELEN (Props Designer) has been lurking onstage, backstage, in costume shops and scene shops, in prop storerooms and on shopping websites for over three decades. He has sung and designed for Lamplighters Music Theatre since 1987. He has built and chewed scenery for SF Free Civic Theater and the 16th Street Players. He perennially props Pocket Opera and sews for the Mountain Play. Upon his eighth New Conservatory Theatre production, he thanks all of his enablers.

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PR OF ILE S CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE TOM KIRDAHY (Tom Kirdahy Productions) is currently producing the smash hit Anastasia on Broadway. In 2017, he also produced Bandstand on Broadway and the revival of Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? on London’s West End. He was the lead producer of the 2015 Broadway hit It’s Only a Play starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick and the five-time Tony-Nominated Broadway premiere of The Visit starring Chita Rivera. He was also the producer of the Off-Broadway NYTimes Critic’s pick, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, which has become a global sensation. Tom has previously been nominated for Tony Awards for Mothers and Sons, After Midnight, as well as his revivals of Ragtime and Master Class. He is a founding director of Berwin Lee London New York Playwrights, Inc. Kirdahy studied politics and dramatic literature at New York University and is a graduate of NYU School of Law. As an attorney, Kirdahy spent nearly two decades providing free legal services full time to people living with HIV/AIDS and served for many years on the Executive Committee of the NYC LGBT Center. He currently serves as Chair of the Broadway League Government Relations Committee. Upcoming projects include Hadestown, Head Over Heels and The White Chip.

NORMAN ABRAMSON & DAVID BEERY (Season Producers) In a diverse society, it is important that subcultures record their own history, as well as enriching the larger culture. In its support of LGBTQ playwrights, New Conservatory Theatre is an active participant in sharing those voices with all. This singular view is one that makes NCTC important for the two of us. As it reaches a wider and younger audience, these artistic visions do become part of our history and enrich the arts. It is an invaluable contribution.

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LOWELL KIMBLE (Season Producer) Even though I left the Bay Area, I still look forward to supporting NCTC’s mission. Over a decade ago Mason and I began our support because of the offerings

by NCTC: training for youth, outreach to schools with YouthAware, opportunities offered local artists and the presentation of new plays by upcoming playwrights. It’s with pleasure, I continue my support of NCTC. JIM TAUL & DAVE HOPMANN (Executive Producers) Jim has been involved with NCTC since its inception, having served on the Board in the mid-1980s, and most recently from 2008-2014. Dave is a retired attorney who has served on boards of nonprofits that include public radio, land conservation, legal aid to persons with AIDS, and HIV day care.

They both value the great work done by NCTC, especially the YouthAware and Satellite Drama Education Programs.

DR. ALLAN GOLD & ALAN FERRARA (Producers) are very pleased and honored to be Producers for Still at Risk, their first NCTC sponsorship. Allan has been a practicing school psychologist in the Reed Union School District in Tiburon for 42 years. Alan is a retired ob-gyn nurse and a former owner of a needlepoint store. They have been together since 1995, were first married at their synagogue, Sha’ar Zahav, in 1999 and again at City Hall in 2008.

Allan paints and collects stamps as a hobby and Alan loves to bake and garden. They both enjoy reading, travel, symphony, theater, and animals.

Their dog, Maggie, and cat, Chelsea, bring them much joy. They have attended NCTC for over 20 years and greatly value the fine drama that it provides for the LGBT Community and the wider Bay Area.

O U R TH ANKS ANNUAL F UN D D O NO R S On behalf of our artists, students and staff, NCTC’s Board of Directors wishes to extend its heartfelt appreciation for your generosity. The following includes all contributions of $100 or more processed June 27, 2016 – December 27, 2017. * Indicates member of the Repertory Circle, NCTC’s monthly giving program ENCORE SOCIETY NCTC’S PLANNED GIVING PROGRAM Anonymous Norman Abramson & David Beery Robert Beadle James L. Coran Ed Decker & Robert Leone Richard Galbraith Dr. Allan P. Gold Lowell Kimble & Mason Cartmell Victoria Kirby Ron & Alison Limoges Gary L. Lomax Dave Madsen & Richard Norris Jeff Malloy Gerard McCauley David Meders Deb Mosk Andrew Nance Kenneth Noyes & Alan Pardini William Oman & Larry Crummer Tom Pajak Joe Ries Victor Rodriguez Thaddeus Trela Matt Vandeberg Chris Yaros CHAMPION ($50,000+) Norman Abramson & David Beery Alvin Baum & Robert Holgate James L. Coran Estate of Jerome Geller & Kenneth Sullivan Lowell Kimble & Mason Cartmell Ted Tucker SEASON PRODUCER ($20,000-$49,999) Estate of Gerald B. Rosenstein IMPRESARIO ($10,000-$19,999) Anonymous Carlstrom Productions Jeff Malloy & Dean Shibuya Andrew Nance & Jim Maloney Bob A. Ross Foundation EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ($5,000-$9,999) Robert Burkes & Son Nguyen Michael Golden & Michael Levy Bill Gregory Jorge R. Hernández & Ron Jenkins

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NCTC Board Member Eric Valko & Brad Sullivan 2017-2018 SEASON NCTC 19 with Friends at NCTC’s Gala All Decked Out!

OU R T H A N KS Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee Erwin Kelly Maurice Kelly Lawrence C. Klein Stewart Kramer & Jonathan Domash Eli Lazarus - in honor of Andrea Partridge James Lombardi* Alan Louie Alan Mattacola - in memory of Emile Reyes E. Mireault Enrique & Jason Monagas Drew Monaghan & David Dibley Dr. RJ Moriconi & Mr. Tony Alonzo - in honor of Ed Decker Kenneth Noyes & Alan Pardini Ken Odom Randall A. Shields & Harrison Yeoh Stephanie L. Walker Ronald Wolberg Kenneth Wright DIRECTOR ($500-$999) Anonymous - in memory of Scott Hearron Ross Armstrong Tamera Avery & Douglas Tom Chuck Bailey - in honor of Ed Decker Peter Benson & Thomas Savignano Roy Bergstrom & Allan Chinen Bordewich Family Charitable Fund Tim J. Collins Steven F. Correll & James R. Shay Gennaro “Gerry” Devito Gary Dickinson Mark Dietrich Earl Diskin Paul Feasby The Forester Fun Fund of Horizons Foundation Martha & Leon Goldin Ray Hanssen Dennis Hopkins & Jordan Smith John Hudson & Peter Weiser Alex Ingersoll - in honor of Robert Holgate Susan Karp & Paul Haahr Amy Lawson & Scott Fittje Krista Lee Li Chow Family Fund - in honor of Arturo Catricala Eve & Niall Lynch Patricia Milton - in memory of Michael Jeffrey Nebenzahl & Hoa Tran Kate O’Hanlan, MD & Leonie Walker - in honor of Debra Mosk & Debra Shapiro Grant F. Peterson The Eddie Reynolds Family Fund Russell Rice & Dr. Helene Spivak Jack & Betty Schafer Bev Scott & Courtney - in honor of Al Baum & Robert Holgate Dennis J. Setlock AJ Shepard & Anthony Chiu, MD - Chiu-Shepard Family Fund Stephen Shorette & Steven Chickering* Patrick Smith James Sokol Lyle Swallow & Jack Becker Matthew Westendorf* Frank Yellin & Mark Showalter ACTOR ($250-$499) Anonymous (2) Walt Anthony* - in memory of Paul Lueken Daniel Ray Bacon Roderick G. Baldwin Robert Beadle Dik Behm Leo Berry-Lawhorn Alex Borders Charlotte Burchard & Bahman Sheikh-Ol-Eslami - in honor of Ed Decker Tom Burke & Axel Brunger Beverly Butler

Philip Charney John Claypole Brett Conner Scott Cox & Ian Enriquez Christopher Damon Philip Dawkins James Denman & Robert Espinoza Dino Di Donato & Martin Taras David Differding Arnold Dito Brett Egan Brian & Stephanie Eule - in honor of Jeff Malloy William B. R. Fahrner Farouk & ShuSheng Family Fund of Horizons Foundation - in honor of Robert Holgate Andrew Ferguson & Kay Wu Fred Girodat Joseph & Laura Gold William Goldstein & Christopher Archuleta Kevin J. Harty - in honor of Richard L. Meiss & Peter W. Rudy Eric Hoberg Institute for the Future - in memory of Edwin Brent Jones Peter Jacobs & Oni Tibay - in memory of Ed Jones Neema & Sarah Jalali Bennett Janken & Paul Hein Clark Johnson & Ismael Basco* Jackie Jordan Gregory Jurin & Jim McCrea - in memory Rev. Jim Sandmire John Kelley Robin & David Lee Gary L. Lomax Gary Luce & Larry Hoover Christine Macomber Peter Nye & Jamie Marks Brian Olkowski & Jess Hutchins* Anthony & Kathryn Poppiti Laura Poppiti Aaron Rainey Kent L. Sack, MD Andy Reid & Ann Schaefer-Reid Matt Stevens Steve Susoyev Justo Talamantez Lois Tema G. Tiphane Karen & Leon Traister Matt Vandeberg Bill Weihl & Lisa Mihaly Brett Wesner & Roger Myrick Robert Weston Leonard Whitney Eric Jansen & Jim Maloney with NCTC Board Members Andrew Nance & Larry Vales

O U R TH ANKS ENSEMBLE ($100-$249) Anonymous, Anonymous - in honor of David Beery, Anonymous - in honor of Andrew Nance, Anthony Abdulla, Elie Abi-Jaoude, John Atwood & Sofia Ahmad, Susan Austin & Kern King - in honor of Audrey Baker, Angela, Jeff & Lucy Bennett, Bruce Blouin, Adrian Deane Brannen-Jurgenson, Harry Breaux, Lauren Brener & Jeff Demain - in honor of Donald Currie, Laurence Brenner & Angelo Figone, Leonard Brill, Mike Bromberg & Kenneth Repp - in memory of Ed Jones, Wayne Bryan, LesLee Burnett - in honor of Chris Yaros, John G. Capo, Charles H. Cassell, Jr., Lori Cassels, Mario Champagne, Ken Cleaveland, Paul Colfer - in memory of Tom Altieri, Jon Conway & Bill Coppock, Dan Cousins, Fred Cummins, Joseph A. Czuberki, Hanna Decker - in memory of Lucille Phillips, Jacque, Keith & Sydney Duncan, Nancy Durgin - in honor of Barbara Hodgen, Edward Dzialo, Alan E. & Dale W.* - in memory of Dennis Conroy, William Elias, Richard Elliott, Debra Engel - in memory of Edwin Jones, Brad Erickson, Jeff Eugley & Joshua Keller, The James D. Fagler & Lori L. Yamauchi Living Trust, Richard Falls & Ronald Schaer, Krista Farey, Beth Feingold - in honor of Maurice Kelly, Marsha D. Felton, Margot & Richard Fetrow - in memory of Connie Janssens, Clifford Flamer & Molly Glockler, Charles Forester, Robert Foxe, Dave Freeman, L. Scott Garcia, The Gays™, Jason Gieger & David Toise, Carleton Gillenwater, Laura Goldin, Ann Gomes, Michael Gordon & Megan Antoncich - in honor of Chris Yaros, Catherine Hebert, Adrienne Hirt & Jeffrey Rodman, Eric P. Jansen, Michael Job, Lee A. Johnson & Dr. Maurice Solis - in memory of Edwin (Ed) Brent Jones, Bill & Beth Johnston, Victoria Kirby, Karen Klier, James Leventhal and Emil Leventhal, Thomas Kocon, Louis Kravitz & Charles Lagrave, Naren Larson, Christopher Leason III - in memory of Dennis Zaborowski, Kelly Gabriel Lee, Meredith Lee, Lesbian Equity Fund - in honor of Robert Holgate, Sharon Levin, Sue & Shel Lewis - in honor of Jacob Thompson, Leslie Lopato & Skip Getz - in honor of Ed Decker, Kevin Lucas, Richard Lynch & Frank Steil - in memory of Mimi Streleck, Richard Magary, Jeffery & Diedre Mahaney, Allan Mann & Seiji Morikawa, Michael Mansfield, Ed Markey & Ed Esclovon, Kenneth David Martin, Thomas Marzolf, Lloyd Matheson, James Mattacola - in memory of Emile Reyes, Laura McCrea - in honor of Laura Poppiti & Barb Hodgen, Susan McDevitt, Robert McDowell, Stephen McFarland, Edward Melaika, Michael Merrigan, Markham Miller, Serenity Siya Mlay, Margaret Montgomery, Zach Morfín, Milton Mosk & Thomas Foutch, Jeffrey Moss, Stuart Moulder, Scott Murphy & David Spirt - in memory of Ed Jones, Patrick Murray, Jennifer Norris & Doris Flaherty - in honor of Stephanie Temple, Jim Oerther, Andrea Partridge, Michael Perreault & Ric Borjes, Matthew J. Poynter, Jack Rengstorff, Joe Ries, Paul Robinson, Alma & Angelo Roque, Noel Rosales, Tom Rothgiesser & George Lucas - in honor of David

Beery, Rick Ruvolo & Hassan Fauzy, Megan Samartzis, Charles Schuler, Kenneth Schultz & Brian Gronlund, Lisa Schur, Tony Sciortino, Travis & Scott Segal - in memory of Ed Jones, Neil Sekhri & Chris Sherrill, Donald Senn, Blaine Shirk, Del Shores, Gae & Mel Shulman, Elizabeth Sinclair - in memory of Ken Hughes, Raymond Souza, Kate Stoia, Rony Maoz & Ella Maoz, Jack Sugrue, Edward Tanovitz, Robert Tat, Stephanie Temple, Mark Allen Terrell, William Thornton - in memory of Edwin Brent Jones, Samuel Thoron, Greg Tong, Nathan Tylutki, Judi & Ralph Van Houten, Julie Van Reyper Miller & Taylor Miller, Kalman Varga, Maggie Vittori, Scott Walton & Scott Williams, Eldon L. Wegner, Heidi Werbel - in honor of Christy Kearney, James Westfall - in honor of Stephanie Temple, Dale & Janet Westfall, Tim Wolfred, Angelo Wong, Russ Wood & Kathryn Carpenter, Bret Wright & Bill Elias, Claus Zielke & Ski Bannowsky INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS $50,000+ Bloomberg Philanthropies William & Flora Hewlett Foundation San Francisco Arts Commission San Francisco Department of Children, Youth & Their Families San Francisco Grants for the Arts $25,000 - $49,999 Walter & Elise Haas Fund Kimball Foundation The Shubert Foundation $15,000 - $24,999 Crescent Porter Hale Foundation Kenneth Rainin Foundation Small Change Foundation $10,000 - $14,999 Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Fleishhacker Foundation Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation Horizons Foundation Sam Mazza Foundation Metta Fund Until There’s A Cure Foundation $2,500 - $9,999 Ameriprise Financial Art4Moore Bernard Osher Foundation Center for Cultural Innovation Charles Schwab Foundation Giants Community Fund James Irvine Foundation Mukti Fund Target Wells Fargo Foundation Zellerbach Family Foundation

WAYS TO GIVE Support NCTC by making a secure donation online at nctcsf.org or mail a check to: NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER 25 Van Ness Avenue, LL, San Francisco, CA 94102 NCTC also accepts bequests, stock transfers and in-kind contributions. For more information about supporting NCTC, please contact Andrea Partridge, Development Manager 415.694.6158 | andreap@nctcsf.org 2017-2018 SEASON NCTC 21

O U R T H A N KS NCTC THANKS THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS FOR MATCHING THEIR EMPLOYEES’ DONATIONS

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STAF F FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FRONT OF HOUSE & BAR MANAGER MARKETING DIRECTOR MASTER CARPENTER PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Ed Decker Barbara Hodgen Walt Anthony Kate Jones Butler Paul Collins Stephanie Desnoyers

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR & PRODUCTION MANAGER

Devin Kasper

CONSERVATORY PROGRAMS MANAGER

Kathleen Lee

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR YOUTHAWARE PROGRAM MANAGER DEVELOPMENT MANAGER BUSINESS MANAGER BOX OFFICE PATRON SERVICES MANAGER PHOTOGRAPHER CONSERVATORY DIRECTOR

Shannon McDonnell Nicole Meñez Andrea Partridge Brad Pence Ari Rice Lois Tema Stephanie Temple

B OARD OF DIRECTORS Ed Decker - Artistic Director Jeff Malloy - Board Chair Larry Vales - Treasurer Dana Zook - Secretary David Beery Jeff Eugley J. Conrad Frank Leah A. Hofkin Robert Holgate

Maurice Kelly Eli Lazarus Serenity Siya Mlay Andrew Nance Andrew Smith Eric Valko Stephanie Walker Chris Yaros

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New Conservatory Theatre Center is a constituent of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the National Organization for ­American Theatre, Associate Member National New Play Network, and a company member of Theatre Bay Area.

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In Association with Season Producers: Norman Abramson &INDavid Beery, WITH Lowell Kimble ASSOCIATION SEASON PRODUCERS: NORMAN & DAVID BEERY, LOWELL KIMBLE Executive Producers: Jorge R. Hernández & ABRAMSON Ron Jenkins, EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: MICHAEL GOLDEN & MICHAEL LEVY, JEFF MALLOY & DEAN SHIBUYA Ted Tucker, Curtis Wilhelm & MichaelDAVID Glover PRODUCERS: MEDERS, KEN PRAG & STEVE COLLINS Producers: Bennet Marks & Kim Harris PRESENTS Present

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