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Thank you for joining us for the Boston-area premiere of The Bakelite Masterpiece by Kate Cayley. This fascinating new work explores the idea that if an artist can so perfectly mimic brilliance, does that then also make him brilliant? We’re especially delighted to present this play with two of the area’s finest performers, Benjamin Evett and Laura Latreille. In their capable hands, the intriguing story of master art forger Han van Meegeren has come vividly to life, and we’re glad to share it with you this season. The Bakelite Masterpiece continues a season in which we showcase the remarkable RESILIENCE of the human spirit. We believe theatre has the power to shed light in dark times, to illuminate and stimulate thought, and to provide a forum for us to come together as a community in conversation. It is our hope that these plays will inspire and engage our audiences as New Repertory Theatre continues to be a place where the vital ideas of our time can be discussed freely and openly. Please join us as our season comes to a conclusion with Two Jews Walk into a War... by Seth Rozin. Featuring New Rep favorites Jeremiah Kissel and Joel Colodner, directed by Will LeBow, and with special musical arrangement by Hankus Netzy, Two Jews Walk into a War... is a Vaudeville-inspired production that is not to be missed! Next year, New Repertory Theatre will celebrate 35 seasons of presenting plays that speak powerfully to the vital ideas of our time and continue a tradition of producing theatre that is bold, timely, and essential. We’re excited to share with you our 2018-2019 season which we’ve entitled AWAKENING, featuring seven illuminating and thought-provoking works. We hope you’ll join us for another extraordinary year at New Rep! Thank you again for visiting us today. We look forward to seeing you again soon!
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Jim Petosa Artistic Director
321 arsenal st, watertown
Harriet Sheets Managing Director
presents
The Bakelite Masterpiece by
Kate Cayley
directed by Jim
scenic designer
Cristina Todescoº
Petosa◊
COSTUME designer
molly trainerº
SOUND DESIGNER
dewey dellay
lighting designer
scott pinkneyº
stage manager
brian m. robillard*
cast (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
BEnjamin Evett* Han van Meegeren Laura LAtreille* Geert Piller
setting Amsterdam, 1946
There will be no intermission. Originally produced by Tarragon Theatre, directed by Richard Rose, in Toronto, ON, Canada, October 21 - November 30, 2014. American Premiere co-produced by the Berkshire Theatre Group and WAM Theatre, directed by Kristen van Ginhoven, in Stockbridge, MA, September 29 - October 23, 2016.
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member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 * member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
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The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.
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Additional Production Staff production assistant Props master Katie
Christine Dickinson
Grindeland
assistant lighting designer Sydney technical coordinator Robert master electrician Nathaniel sound engineer Lee
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Dew
Jewett
Schuna
scenery Wooden
Kiwi Productions – Peter Colao and Richard Wood, Partners Special thanks
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TWO JEWS WALK INTO A WAR... by
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Jeremiah kissel and Joel colodner reunite in this vaudeville-style play doing their best in a shtick-y situation.
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note s fro m the direc tor:
Jim Petosa
The Bakelite Masterpiece asks questions about truth read by the light of intention. We live in a world where objective truth is in a tight race with notions of alternative facts. Calling out to us, the voice of Vermeer forger Han van Meegeren can be heard in the dramatic ether of Kate Cayley’s provocative play. The characters’ actions are not in dispute in this test of wills between the artist and his interrogator. Proving their intentions and their belief in those intentions, however, can change the outcome of the play. What drove the artist to his most astonishing success as a forger and what drove his interrogator, the surviving member of a Dutch Jewish family who seeks to set her country on a road to emotional recovery by administering justice born of truth?
Jim Petosa
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the bakelite masterpiece
bY RUTH SPACK
I fully admit I had a passion for collection. And if they were to be confiscated, I wanted my small part. - Hermann Göring, on the witness stand at Nuremberg N a z i Appropriation o f A rt
Throughout human history, conquerors have plundered art not only to enrich themselves but also to rob rival countries of their cultural history and soul. Upon his rise to power in 1933, German chancellor Adolf Hitler took the practice one step further by looting his own country. Twice rejected by Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts, Hitler ordered the destruction or sale of avant-garde art he deemed “degenerate” and claimed ownership of traditional masterpieces that, from his perspective, conferred legitimacy and established cultural dominance. Hitler’s Nazi underlings raided German museums, galleries, and (mostly Jewish) homes to gain possession of prestigious works of art for a planned Führermuseum in Linz, Austria. Throughout World War II, Hitler expanded his reach by plundering one-fifth of Europe’s fine art. The Linz museum never materialized, but thousands of masterworks ended up in Hitler’s private art collection and in the collections of his senior officers, most notably Hermann Göring. R epatriation of Art S t o l en b y th e Naz is, 1945- 1951
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United States military commanders ordered that all stolen art be returned to its rightful owners. Collections that originally belonged to German museums, they insisted, should be housed in those museums, and every effort should be made to return other valuable cultural property to pre-war owners. Under the auspices of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) section of the U.S. War Department, a corps of art experts—345 men and women known as “Monuments Men”— undertook the herculean task of finding lost works of art. Nazis had hidden them across Europe in thousands of locations, including tunnels, salt mines, caves, and castles. By the time they left for home in 1951, the MFAA group had returned five million artworks and other cultural artifacts to the institutions and countries from which they’d been taken. L eg al Pr o vi s i o n s P ro t e ct i n g A rt D ur i n g Wa r
One of the earliest provisions for protecting cultural property appeared in the Lieber Code, President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 instructions concerning proper military conduct during war. The Lieber Code served as the basis for the 1954 international Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, created in response to the massive destruction and dislocation of cultural treasures during World War II. In 1999, an international committee updated the Hague Convention with a protocol that bound states who ratified the treaty to strengthen enforcement by criminalizing violations under domestic law. The goal of safeguarding cultural property against attack has proved difficult to achieve.
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H an van Meegeren , Th e F r aud
In 1920, minor Dutch artist Han van Meegeren (1889-1947) embarked on a twenty-five-year career in forgery. His work reached its pinnacle in 1936 when he fooled the art world into believing his “Supper at Emmaus,” fashioned with Bakelite plastic and baked in a pizza oven, was one of Vermeer’s long-lost paintings. An eminent art authenticator declared Van Meegeren’s counterfeit to be “the masterpiece of Johannes Vermeer of Delft,” and a Dutch museum purchased it for four million dollars (in today’s currency). In 1943, Van Meegeren sold a purported Vermeer, “Christ and the Adulteress,” to banker and art dealer Alois Miedl. Miedl in turn traded it to his business associate, Hermann Göring, in exchange for 150 paintings from Göring’s mostly ill-gotten collection. Thrilled to own a Vermeer, Göring prominently displayed the faux masterpiece in his private residence. H an van Meegeren , Th e Ac c use d
Yesterday, this painting was worth millions of guilders and experts and art lovers would come from all over the world and pay money to see it. Today, it is worth nothing and nobody would cross the street to see it for free. But the picture has not changed. What has? -Han van Meegeren, pointing to “Supper at Emmaus” at his 1947 trial In 1945, during an investigation into Dutch collaboration with the Nazis, Lieutenant Joseph Piller (no relation to the fictional Geert Piller) traced Göring’s “Christ and the Adulteress” back to Han van Meegeren. When Van Meegeren refused to identify the original
Supper at Emmaus by van Meegeren
owner, Piller arrested him for treason. In jail, fearful of capital punishment, Van Meegeren confessed to being the original owner of the painting by virtue of having created it. To prove his guilt, Van Meegeren spent months in the presence of Piller and several reporters painting “Jesus and the Doctors” (also called “Christ in the Temple”) at the Goudstikker Gallery in Amsterdam. H an van M e e g e re n , the H e ro
Despite evidence of Van Meegeren’s Nazi sympathies, his having outsmarted Reichsmarschall Göring elevated him to folk hero status in recently liberated Holland. In the two years between his arrest and his death, Van Meegeren became a media celebrity. Posthumously, his forgeries have been exhibited around the world. They are objects of fascination primarily for their provenance, though many art experts view them as skillful works in their own right. The value of Van Meegeren’s counterfeits plummeted after his arrest and then resurged after his death. But the buyer had better beware! Van Meegeren’s original forgeries have been replicated by other forgers—including Jacques van Meegeren, the artist’s son!
P RODUCTION HISTORY
The Bakelite Masterpiece premiered at the Tarragon Theater in Toronto in 2014. Its U.S. premiere was co-produced by Berkshire Theater Group and WAM Theater in 2016. 2 01 7-2 018 se ason
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meet the artists BENJAMIN EVETT* (Han van Meegeren)
returns to New Repertory Theatre after performing in Good, Broken Glass, Assassins, On the Verge, Camelot (2014 IRNE Award, Best Actor in a Musical), Amadeus, Cherry Docs, Opus, Indulgences, A Christmas Carol, Quills, A Girl’s War, and Jerusalem, and directing RENT. He recently won the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Solo Performance 2015 for Albatross with The Poets’ Theatre, where he is also Executive Director. He has appeared in Freud’s Last Session and God of Carnage (co-produced with Arizona Theatre Company and San Jose Rep). He was a member of the ART Resident Acting Company from 1993 to 2003, performing in over 50 productions including Waiting for Godot, The Bacchae, Phedre, and Six Characters in Search of an Author. He has performed at Missouri Rep, Virginia Stage Company, Alley Theatre, Taiwan National Theatre, and Moscow Art Theatre. He is Founding Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, where he played Coriolanus, Hamlet, Petruchio, Edmund, and Caliban.
LAURA LATREILLE* (Geert Piller) returns
to New Repertory Theatre after performing in Regular Singing. Recent regional credits include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SpeakEasy Stage), Ripcord (Huntington Theatre), and The Nest (Denver Center for the Performing Arts). She has also worked with Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lyric Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, Greater Boston Stage Company, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, among others. Off-Broadway credits include Love Song (59E59); and The Elephant Play (Playwrights Collective). She has participated in the development of new
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plays with The Lark, New Dramatists, Theatre Masters, Women’s Project & Productions, Playwrights Collective, Huntington Theatre, and the Denver Center’s New Play Summit. She is the recipient of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress for her work in The Shape of Things with SpeakEasy Stage and Improper Bostonian’s Best Female Performance for Time Stands Still with Lyric Stage Company. Laura is an assistant professor in Suffolk University’s theatre department and holds an MFA from Brandeis University. KATE CAYLEY (Playwright) is a fiction writer, playwright, and poet. Her short story collection, How You Were Born, won the 2015 Trillium Book Award and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and the ReLit Award. Her first collection of poetry, When This World Comes to an End, was shortlisted for the ReLit Award, and her young adult novel, The Hangman in the Mirror, won the Goeffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction. She is the co-founder and artistic director of Stranger Theatre, and has co-created, directed and written eight plays with the company; her work with Stranger Theatre has been seen in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City and Istanbul. She was a playwrightin-residence at Tarragon Theatre from 2009-2017, and has written two plays for Tarragon, After Akhmatova, and The Bakelite Masterpiece, which was subsequently produced in the US by The Berkshire Theatre Group (Stockbridge, MA) in fall 2016. She is a frequent collaborator with immersive theatre company Zuppa Theatre, with two commissions from the company: The Archive of Missing Things and This Is Nowhere. Her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, and in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017. She will be Writer-in-Residence at McMaster n e w re p e r t o r y t h e a t re
University for the 2018-19 academic year, and lives in Toronto with her partner and their three children. JIM PETOSA◊ (Director, Artistic Director)
joined New Repertory Theatre as an awardwinning theatre artist, educator, and leader in 2012. He has served as Director of the School of Theatre, College of Fine Arts, at Boston University since 2002, and Artistic Director of Maryland’s Olney Theatre Center for the Arts and its National Players educational touring company (1994-2012). While at Boston University, he established the Boston Center for American Performance (BCAP), the professional production extension of the Boston University School of Theatre, in 2008. Throughout the Northeast, Mr. Petosa has directed for numerous institutions, including Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Lonely Planet, Ideation (IRNE Nomination), The Gift Horse, Brecht on Brecht, Good, Freud’s Last Session, The Testament of Mary, Broken Glass, Assassins, On the Verge, The Elephant Man (IRNE Nomination), Amadeus, Three Viewings, The Last Five Years, and Opus at New Rep. In Boston, his work was nominated for two IRNE awards for A Question of Mercy (BCAP). He has served as one of three artistic leaders for the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP/NYC) since 1987. In Maryland, his work earned over 25 Helen Hayes Award nominations as well as the award for outstanding direction of a musical for Jacques Brel is Alive and Well… His production of Look! We Have Come Through! was nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for outstanding new play, and he earned the Montgomery County Executive’s Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Award for Outstanding Artist/Scholar. A member of Actors’ Equity Association, Mr. Petosa has served on the executive board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for StageSource. Originally from New Jersey, he was educated at The Catholic University of America and resides in Quincy. CRISTINA TODESCOº (Scenic Designer) returns to New Repertory Theatre after designing Freud’s Last Session, A Number,
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On the Verge, Amadeus, Three Viewings, The Last Five Years, Opus, afterlife: a ghost story, Picasso at Lapin Agile, The Clean House, House with No Walls, Silence, and The Santaland Diaries. Theater companies include Actor’s Shakespeare Project, Company One, ART Institute, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, the Culture Project, Gloucester Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Olney Theater Center, Orfeo Group, Poets’ Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Harbor Stage, Summer Play Festival, Trinity Rep, Wheelock Family Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival among many more. She has designed for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall in Boston and at Tanglewood. For Outstanding Design, she is the recipient of four Elliot Norton Awards and an IRNE Award. She earned a BFA in painting from Boston University’s School of Visual Arts and an MFA in scenic design from BU’s School of Theatre, where she currently teaches. Originally from Milton, she currently resides in Dorchester. MOLLY TRAINERº (Costume Designer)
returns to New Repertory Theatre after designing Freud’s Last Session, Broken Glass, Scenes from an Adultery, The Whipping Man, The Elephant Man, Holiday Memories, Three Viewings, Indulgences, The Santaland Diaries, Mister Roberts, A House With No Walls, Orson’s Shadow, The Ice Breaker, Ragtime, True West, and No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs. Other area credits include Master Harold… and the Boys, Trying, and An Ideal Husband (Gloucester Stage Company); Deported, A Dream Play (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Twelfth Night (Elliot Norton Award, Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The Golden Age (Emerson Stage); and The Real Inspector Hound and Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Publick Theatre). Ms. Trainer earned her BS at Northeastern University, studied photography at the University of the South and studied design at both The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and The School of Fashion Design in Boston. Ms. Trainer teaches at Boston 9
College, Emerson College, and Salem State University. A Massachusetts native, she resides in Malden. SCOTT PINKNEYº (Lighting Designer) returns to New Repertory Theatre after designing Freud’s Last Session, Broken Glass, The Whipping Man, Race, Opus, and The Last Five Years. Mr. Pinkney was represented on Broadway by Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award-winning Torch Song Trilogy. OffBroadway credits include Becoming Dr. Ruth, The Majestic Kid, Divine Fire, Nymph Errant, and The World is Made of Glass. Regional credits include Mala (Guthrie Theater and Huntington Theatre Company); Don Juan (Denver Critic’s Circle Award, Denver Center); My Fair Lady (Phoebe Award, Theatre Virginia); Secret Garden (Olney Theatre Center); and Texas Flyer (Theatre Under the Stars). He has designed the last fourteen seasons for Barrington Stage, where he serves as an Associate Artist, including productions of The Best of Enemies, The Crucible, A Streetcar Named Desire, Carousel, Uncle Vanya, Follies, West Side Story, and Ring Round the Moon. He designed more than 30 productions for Bristol Riverside Theatre, including The Balkan Women (Barrymore Award Nomination), Evita, Chicago, Alive and Well, and Dear World. Other credits include ‘ART’ and Kiss of the Spider Woman (Singapore Rep); Concerts (The Club Mohamed Ali, Cairo); Ulysses on Bottles (Israeli Stage); The Comedy of Errors (Elliot Norton Award, Commonwealth Shakespeare); Don Giovanni (NEC Opera); The Merchant of Venice (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The Glass Menagerie and Adrift in Macao (Lyric Stage Company); Absurd Person Singular, The Sea Horse, and Van Gogh in Japan (Nora Theatre Company); and Grease, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Into the Woods (The Majestic Theatre). Mr. Pinkney is a Professor at Emerson College. slpinkney.com
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DEWEY DELLAY (Composer/Sound
Designer) returns to New Repertory Theatre after composing and designing for Ideation, The Gift Horse, Thurgood, The Testament of Mary, The Whipping Man, Rancho Mirage, and Long Day’s Journey into Night. Other credits include Duet (Greenwich Street Theatre, Off Broadway); and The Countess (Criterion, London’s West End). Other regional credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Lyric Stage Company); Photograph 51 (IRNE nomination Best Sound Design, Nora Theatre Company); and When January Feels Like Summer (Underground Railway Theater). He has received an Elliot Norton award for Outstanding Design and an IRNE for Best Sound Design. Television credits include original music for Emmy nominated National Geographic’s China’s Mystery Mummies, Discovery Channel’s Miami Jail, and five seasons of the show Our America with Lisa Ling for the OWN Channel. He presently is contributing music to This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN.
BRIAN M. ROBILLARD* (Stage Manager) returns to New Repertory Theatre after previously working on Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, Lonely Planet, Ideation, The Gift Horse, Brecht on Brecht, Fiddler on the Roof, Baltimore, Scenes from an Adultery, Albatross, On the Verge, and Pattern of Life. Recent area credits include A Christmas Carol (Central Square Theater); A Little Night Music (Huntington Theatre Company); Romeo & Juliet and King Lear (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Don Giovanni and Siren Song (BU Opera Institute); Song Cycle (Peabody Essex Museum); and Hairspray and The Fantasticks (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre). Brian received his BFA in Stage Management from Boston University. A native of Massachusetts, Brian currently resides in Chelmsford. Upcoming projects include Calendar Girls (Greater Boston Stage Company).
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Harriet Sheets (Managing Director) joined
New Repertory Theatre in 2000. During her tenure, Ms. Sheets has successfully managed the theatre’s increasing operational budget, and moved the company from Newton Highlands to the Arsenal Center for the Arts, now Mosesian Center for the Arts. Ms. Sheets is treasurer of the Producers’ Association of New England Area Theatres (NEAT). Prior to working at New Rep, she was the General Manager at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, where she worked for nine years. Ms. Sheets began her career as an Actors’ Equity Association Stage Manager, working at North Shore Music Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Opera Company of Boston, and others. Originally from Arizona, she holds a BFA from Arizona State University and resides in Methuen.
* member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States ◊ member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society ˚ member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, AEA represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. actorsequity.org
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A.W. (Chip) Phinney III treasurer Jon Harris clerk Wendy Liebow
Andrew Brilliant, Gregory E. Bulger, Judi Cantor, Marcy Crary, Diane DiCarlo, Richard Dix, Jane Feigenson, C. Nancy Fisher, Carol S. Fischman, Christopher Flynn, Ralph Fuccillo, Virginia Inglis, B.J. Krintzman, Ted Kurland, Paul Levine, Michael McCay, Fred Miller, Peter Nessen, Daniel S. Newton, Carlos Ridruejo, Mary Rivet, Dan Salera, Phyllis Strimling, Richard Walker, Curtis Whitney
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individual donors Thank you to all of our individual contributors! Space does not permit us to list gifts under $50, but we are grateful to all of our generous supporters. The following list represents contributions and cash gifts made between 11/1/2016 - 3/5/18. Legacy Producing Partners $100,000+ Anonymous (3) Producing Partners $25,000-$99,999 Marcy Crary & Tim Hall Miriam Gillitt Platinum Production Partners $10,000-$24,999 Lillian Sober Ain Joy & A.W. (Chip) Phinney William & Helen Pounds Production Partners $5,000-$7,499 Anonymous (1) Holly Crary Donald Fulton Nan & Bill Harris Wendy Liebow & Scott Burson Chris Meyer & Mary Rivet Jim Petosa Vincent Piccirilli & Anita Meiklejohn Founders’ Society $2,500-$4,999 Stephen & Lisa Breit Ruth Budd & John Ehrenfeld Gregory Bulger & Richard Dix Lee & Amy Ellsworth Carol & Mitchell Fischman C. Nancy Fisher Delia Flynn Joan Gallos & Lee Bolman Jonathan Harris Chris & David Kluchman BJ Krintzman Shari Malyn & Jon Abbott Laurie Nash Harriet Sheets Pamela Taylor Leadership Society $1,500-$2,499 Anonymous (2) David & Sandy Bakalar Diane DiCarlo & Jeanne Leszczynski Don & Pamela Giller John & Sheila Hicinbothem Paul & Elizabeth Kastner Michael McCay & Dan Salera Neal & Lynne Miller Duncan Spelman & Elizabeth Grady Angels’ Society $1,000-$1,499 Anonymous (1)
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Cindy Aber Mark & Carolyn Ain Betsy Ansin Michael Broad & Grace Massey Ann Buxbaum Jane Capaldi Iris Feldman Jonathan & Lauren Garlick Garth & Lindsay Greimann John B. Hawes & Emily Barclay Jonathan Hecht & Lora Sabin Brian & Robin Hicks Larry Manchester & Kathleen O’Connor Chris McKown & Abigail Johnson Jim Miller & Annette Furst Jerry & Myrna Olderman Nancy Raphael Glenn Rosen & Ann Dannenberg Donald & Abby Rosenfeld Ann Ross Maria Saiz & Athelia Tilson Edward & Nancy Stavis Daniel Wagner Richard C. Walker III Barbara Wands Phillip & Tamar Warburg Arlene Weintraub Benefactors’ Society $500-$999 Anonymous (2) John & Mary Antes Henry & Sue Bass John and Kathleen Bradley Bill & Maria Brisk Mary Jo Campbell Laura & Mike Dreese Jane Feigenson Ralph Fuccillo & Paul Newman Erika Geetter & David Siegel Scott Gortikov & Ross Ozer Richard & Ilene Jacobs James Kamitses George Kinder & Kathy Lubar Edgar Knudson & Louis Mula Ted & Ann Kurland Susie & Chuck Longfield Robert Mashal & Shawna Giggey Walt & R. Eldridge Meissner Timothy & Deborah Moore Daniel Newton & Christopher Flynn Lowell Partridge Robert & Jackie Pascucci Jeff Poulos & Brad Peloquin Suzanne Priebatsch R. Lynn Rardin & Lynne A. O’Connell Nancy A. Risser Chuck Schwager & Jan Durgin
Stephen & Peg Senturia Joseph Shrand Peter Smith & Donna J. Coletti Scott L. Utzinger Christoph Wald & Ute Gfrerer Arlene Weintraub Nancy Richmond Winsten Directors $250-$499 Anonymous (2) Deb Antonelli Barbara Apstein Fred & Judith Becker Kathleen Beckman & Theodore Postol Richard Berger & Ellen Glanz Donald & Ellen Bloch Kathleen & John Bradley Francine Brasseur Ronald & Elizabeth Campbell Judi Taylor Cantor Chester & Carol Cekala Judith Chasin Cary Coen Priscilla Cogan & CW Duncan Steven & Arlene Cohen Lloyd David Graham Davies & Jean Walsh Michael & Beth Davis Donald Dearborn Owen Doyle Myriel Eykamp Harold & Susan Farkas Glenda & Robert Fishman Ernestine Gianelly John C. Goodman & Virginia Jordan Barbara & Steven Grossman Kimberly Gurlitz & Eliot Morra Rona Hamada Michael & Sharon Haselkorn Susan Hepler Carole Hirsch Douglas Huber & Sallie Craig Jeanne & Allen Krieger Anton Kris Tom Lewis Julianne Lindsay Will & Anastasia Lyman Lindsay McNair Eileen McNeely & Jeff Nadherny Richard S. Milsten, Esq. Lee Nadler Leslie Nelken Linda & Barry Nelson David & Donna Podolsky Barbara Poplack Peter & Ulrike Rettig Sharon Rich & Nancy Reed Peter & Sandra Roby Serge & Tanya Savard
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Cynthia Sickler Ellen Simons Ruth Spack Barbara Spivak & Peter Loewinthal Martha Stearns Judith A. Thomson Evelyn & Joel Umlas Denise Wernikoff Curtis Whitney Players $150-$249 Anonymous (2) Edward Boesel James & Jean Bourdon Melissa & Lisa Caten Eric & Pam Diamond Glenn Edelson Lee & Inge Thorn Engler Richard & Katherine Floyd Richard & Nancy Fryberger Mark & Janet Gottesman Malcolm & Susan Green Eva Guinan Christina & Chip Hall Scotty Hart Peter E. Haydu Edward & Pamela Hoffer Jeffrey Hughes & Nancy Stauffer Virginia Inglis Martin & Phyllis J. Kornguth Patti Marcus & Paul Koch Alisa Marshall & David J. Kovacs Thomas & Deborah Melone Paras Patel Joan Perera Patricia Robinson & Henry Finch Stanley & Rhoda Sakowitz Harvey & Rita Simon Martha Stearns Herman & Joan Suit Paula Thier Evelyn & Joel Umlas Peter & Florence Vanderwarker Friends $50-$149 Anonymous (2) Robin Abrahams Phllis Adams Jane Adolph & Bill Poznik Colin Anderson Michael Aylward Fred & Mary Baker David Baxter Judith Becker Jeannette Belcher-Schepis Nancy Belsky Eva Benda Richard Berger & Ellen Glanz Robert Berk Lois Landau Berman Freya Bernstein Stuart Bernstein Susan Bernstein Elizabeth Bjorkman Lorraine Bossi Linda Braun Linda Brodt & Paul Katz
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Tamar Brown Michelle Brownlee Judi Burten & Kevin Soll Victor Calcaterra & Mary Scanlon Tayler Capaldi John Carlow Deboah Carr Judith Chaffee Maureen Coffin Donna Cohen Jacqueline Colby Dorothy & Richard Cole R. John & Joan Collier Roxann Cooke Donald Coppack James W. & Linda Crawford Bruce Creditor Bonnie Creinin Mara Crounse Harold Crowley Milagros Cruz Mary Cummings Susan DeMarco Karen Digiovanni Arthur & Nicky Dimattia J. Patrick & Susanne Dowdall Charles Duncan Virginia Dushame Marilyn Eichner Kathleen Engel & Jim Rebitzer Phyllis Ettinger Glenda & Robert Fishman Deborah Flannery Jean Flatley McGuire Carol A. Flynn John Foote & Kristin Rupert Harold & Carol Forbes David & Gita Foster Nancy H. & Richard Fryberger Frank V. Gages Ashit Ganguly Jesse Garlick Harold Garrett-Goodyear Sharon Gates Barbara Gawlick Charles & Richard Gazarian Lucretia Giese Walter Gilbert Herbert Gish & Alfreda Piecuch Nyla Gislason Georgia Glick Leon & Phyllis Goldman Donald Goldstein Joseph Goodman Harriet Gould Daniel B. Green & Susan Skelley Kiki & Jim Gross Marvin & Joanne Grossman Audrey Haas Todd Michael Hall Marilyn Hamburger Bobbi Hamill Sylvia Hammerman Jay Hanflig Marie Hannon Ilana Hardesty & John Emery Brenda Harley
David Harris Susan Haule Peter Haydu Lauren Heier Ann R. & Philip B. Heymann Marie Hobart Andrew Holden John Hope Philip Horwitz Elisabeth Howe Mary A. Hubbard Jean & Paula Humez Judith Hurwitz Henry & Martha Jacoby Carol J. Jenson & Steven P. Willner Fred Johnson David Jones Ellen L. & Robert S. Kaplan Fern Kaplan Eva Karger Stuart & Ellen Kazin William & Rheta C. Keylor E. Patricia Killory Phebe Kiryk Louise Kittredge Richard & Ronnie Klein Irving & Ann Kofsky Stephen Kraffmiller Naomi Krasner Laura & Steven Krich Susan G. Krinsky Maureen Kruskal Joan Lancourt Ksenia Lanin Virginia Leavy Robert & Helen Lebowitz Suzette Levenson David & Audrey Levington Frederick & Doris Lewis Ilene Lieberman Reuel & Malvina Liebert Sigrid Lindo Cheryl Lindsay Brooke & Paul Lipsitt Natasha Lisman Leonta Longman Lucy Lovrien Laura & Ery Magasanik Gami Maislin Richard & Candace Mandel Margaret & George Mansfield Deena Marlette Grace Marzynski William & Jo McConaghy Katherine McGuinness Jerome Medalie Rachel Mele & Jeffrey Scherz Karole Mendelsohn Karen Miller Lois Miller Debra Minard John Miner Katalin Mitchell Kati Mitchell Rick & Lynne Montross Viola Morse Eileen Murray
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