Palm Beach Dramaworks August: Osage County

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by Suzan-Lori Parks In this Pulitzer prize-winning play, two brothers alternately support and disparage each other as they look back at their troubled past and look ahead to an uncertain future. A darkly comic trash-talking tale of simmering sibling rivalry.

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Welcome to August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’ powerful, disturbing, and hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning play that elevates family dysfunction to an art. We think you’ll be pleased to spend the next three hours with the Westons. We know you’ll be grateful that they are not your family.

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William Hayes Producing Artistic Director Sue Ellen Beryl Managing Director

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by Tracy Letts

by Tracy Letts Director William Hayes

Original Music by David Singer August: Osage County is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York August: Osage County premiered in June 2007 at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, IL, Marthas Lavey, Artistic Director; David Hawkanson, Executive Director.

Steppenwolf’s production of August: Osage County opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on December 4, 2007.

It was produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Ostar Productions, Jennifer Manocherian, The Weinstein Company, Debra Black/Daryl Roth, Ronald & Marc Frankel/Barbara Freitag, and Rick Steiner/Staton Bell Group.

“Lay Down Sally” (Eric Clapton, Marcy Levy and George E. Terry) ©(Renewed) Throat Music Ltd. And Eric Patrick Clapton administered

by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights on behalf of Throat Music Ltd administered by WB Music Corp.

All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Executive Producers Toni and Martin Sosnoff Stage Manager Kent James Collins* Scenic Design Michael Amico Costume Design Brian O’Keefe Lighting Design Kirk Bookman Sound Design Roger Arnold Fight Choreographer David A. Hyland

United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE is the union representing scenic, costume, lighting, sound and projection designers in Live Performance.

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Playwright Tracy Letts on August: Osage County

by Sheryl Flatow Dinner at the home of Violet Weston is not for the faint-hearted. It is, however, a raucously good time for audiences of August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play. The centerpiece of this dysfunctional family drama, the dinner scene—like the play itself—is harrowing, hilarious, and ultimately devastating, as barbs and taunts and stings are hurled in a manner both over the top and all too real. Ever since the early days of previews at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre in 2007, what happens around the family table at the end of the second act has engendered an audience response rarely encountered in contemporary theatre.

“In the beginning, the actors would come offstage buzzing with the audience,” says Letts. “They’d say, ‘It’s like a hockey match out there. It’s incredible.’ One of the things the actors were responding to was the breadth of experience out in the audience. Some people were holding their sides laughing. Other people were in tears, really upset by what they were seeing. And there was a lot of cross talk – people in the audience talking to one another during that scene, talking about the play to people that they didn’t even know. And not in an off-putting way, so that you wished they would just shut up. They were so caught up in what they were watching that they had to check in with their fellow audience members.”

August: Osage County is a big, bold tragicomedy that grabs the audience with its opening line – “Life is very long” – and holds on for a remarkably fast three-plus hours. Set in a large country home outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma, the play is about the pain family members inflict on each other and pass along from generation to generation. Causing most of the damage is the damaged Violet, a drug-addled monster of a mother. Her depleted husband, Beverly, who prefers drinks to drugs, walks out the door one morning and disappears. The Weston daughters and other family members gather around Violet, and the rancor and rage that spill forth have audiences laughing and cringing – often simultaneously – in horrified recognition.

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very closely to my grandmother’s attitude and manner,” he says. “My grandmother was a piece of work. When I gave the play to my mother to read for the first time, I was very nervous about what her reaction would be. And her first response after reading it was, ‘I think you’ve been very kind to my mother.’”

Letts says that the act of writing the play gave him “a new love and respect” for his grandmother. “I think that the generation of people that Violet represents, especially that generation of women, suffered an awful lot of damage. And some of them, as in the case of Violet, found a way to take it out on succeeding generations. At one point my mother gave me a gift of my grandmother’s diary from when she was about 13 years old. There’s nothing particularly remarkable about the diary. It’s the matter-of-fact, day-to-day experiences of a 13-year old girl living in poverty in Oklahoma. And its matter-of-factness makes it remarkable to me. She was just a little kid, with little kid ideas and dreams. And then I think about what she became as a result of her experiences, as a result of a lot of things that she went through.”

From the start, Letts envisioned August: Osage County as a huge, sweeping play.

“I was telling a story based on experiences of my family and a lot of other families: Midwestern, Southern, Plains, Middle of America families,” says Letts, who is also a Tony Award-winning actor for his performance as George in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? “And as I was working out my story, I figured the best container for that story was the sprawling American drama, one that would take place over three acts and play out over a luxurious bit of time. So often when we get in the theatre we are told, ‘You’ve got to make it quick, you’ve got to get in and out.’ As an actor I’d done a lot of those pieces, and there was a part of me that started to rebel. Sometimes I really like that feeling of settling in to a long, good story, which makes for a rich, more luxurious theatre experience.”

August: Osage County is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed plays of the twenty-first century and has been produced all over the world. (There is also a well-received 2013 film adaptation with a screenplay by Letts and an all-star cast headed by Meryl Streep.) For all the accolades and awards, Letts says that the communal response of the audience means as much to him as anything. “That’s what I get most jazzed by,” he says. “It’s that shared experience. It’s the idea that we’re all in that room together, feeling these things, seeing things we recognize, or maybe being reminded of things we thought we’d gotten rid of. I hope audiences come away with that sense of community, not only with the people onstage, but the people sitting around them in the theatre.”

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Palm Beach Dramaworks presents

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Tracy Letts CAST

(In Order of Appearance) Beverly Weston..................................................Dennis Creaghan* Johnna Monevata....................................................Ryffin Phoenix Violet Weston............................................................Sara Morsey* Ivy Weston..............................................................Margery Lowe* Mattie Fae Aiken....................................................Laura Turnbull* Charlie Aiken....................................................Stephen Trovillion* Barbara Fordham.............................................Kathy McCafferty* Bill Fordham..............................................................Bruce Linser* Jean Fordham.............................................................Allie Beltran Sheriff Deon Gilbeau............................................David A. Hyland Karen Weston.................................................................Niki Fridh* Steve Heidebrecht........................................Christopher Daftsios* Little Charles Aiken.................................................Iain Batchelor*

SETTING

August 2007.

A large country home outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma, sixty miles northwest of Tulsa.

Production Crew

Stage Manager ............................................................................. Kent James Collins* Assistant Stage Manager.................................................................... Tyler B. Osgood Head Stagehand........................................................................... Caroline Castleman Wardrobe Supervisor .............................................................................John Santillan Head Electrician ...................................................................................... Addie Pawlick *

Member of Actors’ Equity Association the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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DENNIS CREAGHAN (Beverly Weston) has been a member of the PBD family for more than ten years, and was recently seen as Juror 9 in Twelve Angry Men. He has done over a dozen plays here, including the world premiere of The People Downstairs (Mr. Koophuis), Freud’s Last Session (Sigmund Freud), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (James Tyrone), and Of Mice and Men (Candy). Among his other favorites are A Delicate Balance, The Pitmen Painters, American Buffalo, and The Weir. He has worked extensively in all media across the country and in Europe, appearing with the legendary Elizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes in London's West End. He was seen on Broadway in the original productions of The Elephant Man and Neil Simon's 45 Seconds from Broadway. He has done more bad television than he cares to admit, but there were some good ones along the way, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, and several appearances on Law & Order.

RYFFIN PHOENIX (Johnna) is a Navajo and Omaha writer and performer. She was born and raised on the beautiful lands of the Navajo Reservation. Her passion for storytelling led her to train in the craft of acting at the Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio in Los Angeles.

Ryffin has performed in several productions for Native Voices at the Autry Museum and the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program. Her most recent performance was in George R.R. Martin’s Dark Winds as Wanda McGinnis. She spends her free time writing short stories and screenplays.

SARA MORSEY (Violet Weston) is honored to make her PBD debut.

Thirty-plus years in regional theatre include these most recent credits: rolling world premiere of Alabaster (Bib), Driving Miss Daisy (Daisy Werthan), And Then There Were None (Emily

Brent), Ripcord (Abby Binder), all at Florida Repertory Theatre where she is a member of the acting ensemble; The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion) at GableStage. Other theatre affiliations include Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Hippodrome Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, and the Indiana and Kentucky Shakespeare Festivals. International credits include An Enchanted Land (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sex Female and I Like You, I Love You, Now Agree with Me with Black C Art Gallery at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. MFA in acting from the University of Louisville.

MARGERY LOWE (Ivy Weston) was most recently seen at GableStage in Heisenberg. She last appeared at PBD in the filmed and live productions of The Belle of Amherst; the film was included in The Wall Street Journal's year-end list of “The Best Theatre of 2021.” An award-winning actress, Margery has performed in New York and across the country in various national tours, as well as at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, The Muny, Canadian Stage, the Fox Atlanta, Theatre Off Park, Sanford Meisner Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of Maine, Kansas City Starlight, Stages St. Louis, Maine State Theatre, Stage West, and many others. Florida credits include Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Zoetic Stage, Caldwell Theatre Company, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Actors' Playhouse, Naked Stage, American Stage, Florida Shakespeare, Royal Poinciana Playhouse, Parker Playhouse, and Stage Door Theatre. As a company member of the famed Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Margery received a Tyrone Guthrie Award. She is a Carbonell Award winner, a Silver Palm winner, and was named New Times Best Actress and Broadway World Best Actress. Margery also works in film, television, and as a voice-over artist. margerylowe.com

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LAURA TURNBULL (Mattie Fae Aiken) has appeared at PBD in Indecent, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Zorba!, A Delicate Balance, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-theMoon Marigolds (with her daughter, Arielle Hoffman), and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (with her husband, Avi Hoffman). She was most recently seen in the world premiere of Michael McKeever’s American Rhapsody at Zoetic Stage, and Milk and Honey at The Wick Theatre. Laura has worked at nearly every professional theatre in South Florida (including Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Actors’ Playhouse, and GableStage), as well as on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in national tours, regional theatres, and on television and film. She is a proud, long-standing member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. STEPHEN TROVILLION (Charlie Aiken) is making his PBD debut. Broadway: Ted Cleveland, Jr. in The Young Man From Atlanta. Chicago: Drew in Eastern Standard (Joseph Jefferson Best Actor nomination), Ned Weeks in The Normal Heart at The Next Theatre, and Lucio in Measure for Measure at Chicago Shakespeare. Florida: Lord Sturman in The Clearing at Florida Stage, 16 seasons of City Theatre's Summer Shorts (two Carbonell nominations), Man in Now and Then at Actors’ Playhouse, and Papa Frank/Terrence Ray in American Rhapsody at Zoetic Stage. Oncamera work includes episodic television and commercials. Stephen has an MFA in acting from DePaul University, taught at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, and is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. KATHY McCAFFERTY (Barbara Fordham) Previously at PBD: Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Regina in The Little Foxes, and Rosemary in Outside Mullingar. She is thrilled to be back! Kathy recently starred in the 16 palmbeachdramaworks.org

premiere of Ronán Noone’s Thirst, directed

by Theresa Rebeck, at Dorset Theatre Festival and at the Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival.

Broadway/National tour: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater, 59E59. Regional theatre includes Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, the Ahmanson Theatre, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Portland Stage, Premiere Stages, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Bay Street Theater, Shadowland Stages, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Boise Contemporary Theater, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, and many others. TV/ Film: The Gilded Age, Little America, House of Cards, 30 Rock, Law & Order: CI, Law & Order: SVU, Dates Like This, The Onion News.

BRUCE LINSER (Bill Fordham) was most recently seen at PBD as Juror 12 in Twelve Angry Men, Henk in the world premiere of The People Downstairs, and Artie in The House of Blue Leaves. This past summer, he played Jane/Lord Edgar in The Mystery of Irma Vep at Island City Stage. Other favorite roles include Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone (The Wick Theatre), Cliff in Cabaret (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Renoir in The Impressionists (Caldwell Theatre Company), and numerous roles at FAU’s Festival Repertory Theatre including Che in Evita, Bobby in Company, and Malvolio in Twelfth Night. As a director, favorite productions include Man of La Mancha and Avenue Q (MNM Theatre Company), and The Science of Leaving Omaha, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, and The Spitfire Grill (PBD). Bruce is also the manager of PBD’s The Dramaworkshop, dedicated to the development of new plays. brucelinser.com ALLIE BELTRAN (Jean Fordham) is delighted to make her return to the PBD stage. She will be graduating from the University of Florida in the spring with BAs in theatre and economics (with a financial focus), and a minor in dance.

Favorite credits include Eurydice (Eurydice), Cabaret (Fritzie, Sally understudy, Fight Captain), Fireflies (Narrator), A Christmas Carol (Ghost of

Christmas Past, Solicitor, Martha, Fred’s Wife), I Miss All My Entrances (Jess), Antigone (Eurydike, Antigone understudy), Michael Feinstein and the Palm Beach Pops (featured dancer), and, of course, Our Town (Rebecca Gibbs), her PBD debut. Special thanks to all the beautiful people that support her. Love you, Betty. Hi, Donna!

Instagram: @allie.beltran DAVID A. HYLAND (Sheriff Deon Gilbeau, Fight Choreographer) is the Chair of the Theatre Department at Palm Beach State College.

He was previously seen at PBD as The Visitor in The Spitfire Grill, Herr Fahrenkopf in The Night of the Iguana, Sam Craig in Our Town, Karl Lindner in A Raisin in the Sun, and Frank in All My Sons. Additionally, Dave was recently the fight choreographer for Twelve Angry Men and Almost, Maine, understudying the male roles in the latter. He has also been seen in South Florida at Theatre Lab, playing Roger in Tar Beach. Other notable credits include Edward in Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Eddie in Fool for Love, and Benedick and Dogberry in a six-actor version of Much Ado About Nothing.

David also performs regularly with an improv theatre group called Mod 27 and holds an MFA in acting from The Ohio State University.

NIKI FRIDH (Karen Weston) is delighted to be returning to PBD, where she was previously seen in last season’s production of Almost, Maine. Niki has received two Carbonell Awards (and six nominations), and is a four-time recipient of the Silver Palm Award. Some of her memorable appearances include To Fall in Love, Most Wanted, and The Revolutionists at Theatre Lab; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Trust at Zoetic Stage; Grounded and Vita & Virginia at Thinking Cap Theatre; White Rabbit Red Rabbit at Urbanite Theatre; The Book Club Play at Actors’ Playhouse; Summer Shorts 2014 at City Theatre; and Shorts Gone Wild 1, 2, and 3 at Island City Stage/City Theatre. Up next, she will be playing the title role at Island City Stage’s production of Tracy Jones. Niki is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

CHRISTOPHER DAFTSIOS (Steve Heidebrecht) is delighted to make his PBD debut. OffBroadway includes Urban Stages, Theatre Row, John Houseman Theatre, Anne L. Bernstein Theater, Mint Theater, and Town Hall. Regional: TheatreWorks (Palo Alto), John Drew Theatre (Guild Hall), Chicago Dramatists, Shadowland Theatre, Forestburgh Playhouse, Luna Stage, New Century Theatre, The Gilbert. Film/TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, The Equalizer, Royal Pains, Conviction, A Haunting, Ball and Vase (opposite Austin Pendleton). Playwright: Lily, produced by NJ Rep, select monologues published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books in The Best Men's Monologues from New Plays 2020; and Circus Dreams, produced by NJ Rep, published by Smith and Kraus in the 2018 Theatre Brut Anthology. Christopher recently finished shooting a co-starring role on FBI (CBS), and the lead in the feature film Get Real, which will be released on Amazon Prime later this year. He is a proud member of SAGAFTRA, Actors’ Equity, the Dramatists Guild, and The Actors Studio.

IAIN BATCHELOR (Little Charles Aiken) is delighted to be making his mainstage debut at PBD in such a monumental play.

Most recently, Iain appeared in the New Year/New Plays Festival as Robert T. Lincoln in Bill Cain’s Crossing Ebenezer Creek. Notable theatre credits include Murder on the Orient Express (Actors’ Playhouse); The White Card (GableStage); The Rivals (Arcola Theatre, UK); Edward II (National Theatre, UK); Billy Budd (Southwark Playhouse, UK); Richard III, King John (Royal Shakespeare Company, UK); and King Lear (Leeds Playhouse, UK). Iain is known for his role as Thomas Seymour in the Emmy-nominated BBC series Wolf Hall (2015), as well as for his work on Doctors (BBC), The Coroner (BBC), and The White Princess (STARZ).

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WILLIAM HAYES (Director) is the producing artistic director and a founding member of PBD. He has directed some 50 productions for the company: his credits run the gamut of playwrights from A (Edward Albee) to Z (Paul Zindel), and include William Inge, Eugène Ionesco, David Mamet, Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson. Bill is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Florida Professional Theatre Association’s Richard G. Fallon Award for Excellence in Professional Theatre (2017), a Silver Palm Award presented by the South Florida Theatre League “for his outstanding work as Producing Artistic Director” of PBD (2014), and, with Sue Ellen Beryl, the REMY Pioneer Award presented by the South Florida Theatre League (2015). Bill served two terms as president of the Florida Professional Theatres Association, and is a national ambassador for The Actors Fund.

He began his career as an actor, and returned to the stage earlier this season in PBD’s acclaimed production of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men. TRACY LETTS (Playwright) received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for August: Osage County.

Other plays include The Minutes (Pulitzer finalist), Linda Vista, Mary Page Marlowe, The Scavenger’s Daughter, Superior Donuts, Man From Nebraska (Pulitzer finalist), Bug, and Killer Joe. Several of his plays premiered at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where he has been a member since 2002. Also an acclaimed actor, Letts won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance in a revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He’s also appeared on Broadway in his play The Minutes, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, and Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses. A short list of his Steppenwolf credits includes David Mamet’s American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, and Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. Letts has also written screenplays (including The Woman in the Window and the film adaptation of August: Osage County), and appeared on the big screen (Ford v Ferrari, Little Women, The Post, and Lady Bird) and small screen (Divorce).

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KENT JAMES COLLINS (Stage Manager) is grateful to be back for his second season at PBD, where he previously stage managed The Science of Leaving Omaha, Twelve Angry Men, The Duration, and Almost, Maine. Other credits include Norwegian Cruise Line, Universal Orlando Resort, The REV Theatre Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Delaware Theatre Company, Sacramento Theatre Company, and Florida Repertory Theatre. BFA in musical theatre, University of Central Florida. Creator of Half Hour Call on YouTube. Proud member of Actors’ Equity. Thanks to Bill, Sue Ellen, Lara, Tyler, and the entire PBD team. kentjamescollins.com MICHAEL AMICO (Scenic Design) most recently designed the sets for The Science of Leaving Omaha, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel (Carbonell nomination), The Duration, Almost, Maine, The People Downstairs, Ordinary Americans, Fences, Indecent, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Edgar & Emily, The Little Foxes, Sweeney Todd, and The Night of the Iguana (Carbonell nomination) for PBD. Previous seasons here include 1776, Picnic (Carbonell nomination), The Lion in Winter, Of Mice and Men, Talley's Folly (Carbonell Award), The Pitmen Painters, All My Sons (Carbonell nomination), The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Gin Game, American Buffalo, Copenhagen, Private Lives, The Weir, The Chairs (Carbonell nomination), A Moon for the Misbegotten (Carbonell nomination), and Seascape. He has designed scenery for theatres throughout Florida, including Aida at Actors’ Playhouse, Dial M for Murder, and Deathtrap at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Fully Committed at the Broward Center, As Thousands Cheer at the Kravis Center, Benedict Arnold at Florida Stage, Ten Unknowns at Florida Studio Theatre, and Beguiled Again at Riverside Theater.

BRIAN O’KEEFE (Costume Design) began designing for PBD in 2009, became costume shop manager and resident designer in 2015, and has designed over 60 shows here. He has received 11 Carbonell Award nominations, winning for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Lion in Winter, and A Doll's House, and was a Silver Palm Award recipient in 2022. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, he spent his earlier career as a patternmaker for the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC and major costume houses in New York, including Barbara Matera, Ltd.,

Parsons-Meares, Michael-Jon Costumes, and Eaves-Brooks. He was later resident designer, principal patternmaker, and shop manager for Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach, spending 16 years designing over 75 productions and supervising 90 more. Other regional design credits: Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Orlando Repertory Theatre, Winter Park Playhouse, St. Augustine's Limelight Theatre, University of Central Florida. Other regional patterning credits: Alabama and Utah Shakespeare festivals, and Stages St. Louis.

KIRK BOOKMAN (Lighting Design) For PBD, he has designed The Science of Leaving Omaha, Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The Duration, Almost, Maine, The People Downstairs, A Streetcar Named Desire, The House of Blue Leaves, Equus, Satchmo at the Waldorf, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, and Buried Child. Maltz Jupiter Theatre: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Glengarry Glen Ross. NYC: American Dance Machine at the Joyce Theater; Closer Than Ever at The York Theatre Company; Company with the New York Philharmonic starring Neil Patrick Harris and Patti LuPone (subsequently broadcast in movie theatres nationwide); Charles Busch’s The Divine Sister, Shanghai Moon, and The Tribute Artist. Broadway: The Sunshine Boys (with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall), The Gin Game (with Julie Harris and Charles Durning), and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. San Francisco Symphony and PBS: The Thomashefskys with Michael Tilson Thomas.

Many productions for Pittsburgh Public Theater and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

ROGER ARNOLD (Sound Design) has been a freelance sound engineer and designer for over 35 years. He is a voting member of both NARAS (the Grammys) and the Audio Engineering Society (AES.org). Roger became an educator of music technology in 2006 and was the senior

music technology professor at the University of New Haven. During his tenure there, he designed and provided sound for The Rocky Horror Show, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Spring Awakening. In 2018, he relocated to South Florida, and in 2019 he became sound engineer and resident sound designer for PBD, where his credits include The Science of Leaving Omaha, Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The Duration, Almost, Maine, The People Downstairs, and Skylight. BA in music and sound recording, University of New Haven. MA in music technology, University of Newcastle.

TYLER B. OSGOOD (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be spending his second season with PBD. Regional credits include the One Humanity Tour (2022), The Science of Leaving Omaha, Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The Duration, Almost, Maine, and The People Downstairs at PBD; The Sound of Music, Songs Under the Stars, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Holiday Heroes 2019, A Christmas Carol 2019, and Sunday in the Park with George at ZACH Theatre; A Wrinkle in Time, A Christmas Carol 2018, Detroit ’67, and The Age of Innocence at McCarter Theatre. Tyler is a proud graduate of Texas State University, where he earned his BFA in theatre technology and production.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards.

Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members.

Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and state managers employed in this production.

AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t got anything to say to the child. All he wants is to have that child sit in a chair for a couple of hours and then go off to bed under the same roof. It’s not love. I am not saying that there is not such a thing as love. I am merely pointing to something which is different from love but which sometimes goes by the name of love. It may well be that without this thing which I am talking about there would not be any love. But this thing in itself is not love. It is just something in the blood. It is a kind of blood greed, and it is the fate of a man. It is the thing which man has which distinguishes him from the happy brute creation. When you got born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a hame trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can’t get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can. And the good old family reunion, with picnic dinner under the maples, is very much like diving into the octopus tank at the aquarium.”

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Palm Beach Dramaworks Staff Executive Producing Artistic Director

William Hayes

Managing Director Sue Ellen Beryl Chief Financial & Operating Officer

Rudina Toro

Administrative Business & HR Director

Lara Garcia

Development Manager

Linda Berman

Director of Education & Community Engagement

Gary Cadwallader

Marketing Coordinator Kenzie Frysztak Company & House Manager

Pierre Tannous

The Dramaworkshop Manager

Bruce Linser

Box Office & Group Sales Manager

Mark Sullivan

Assistant Box Office & House Manager

Darius Rivera

Box Office Assoiciate

Desmond Lewis

Box Office Assoiciate Joseph Montagnino

Production Production Manager Michael Amico Associate Production Manager/Audio Engineer

Roger Arnold

Costume Shop Manager/Resident Costume Designer

Brian O'Keefe

Resident Director J. Barry Lewis Resident Lighting Designer

Kirk Bookman

Head Electrician Addie Pawlick Head of Properties Doug Wilkinson Charge Scenic Artist/Carpenter

Rebecca Pancoast

Wardrobe Supervisor

John Santillan

Assistant Stage Manager

Tyler B. Osgood

Head Stagehand Caroline Castleman

Associates Writer/Editor Sheryl Flatow Marketing Consultant Jennifer Sardone-Shiner Bookkeeper

Themis Quiros

Poster Artwork

Paul Gaschler

Graphic Designer Brad Brett

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Bill Bone & Chris Larmoyeux help injured people get their lives back together.

Thank God we can’t tell the future, we’d never get out of bed. ― Tracy Letts, August: Osage County

C The law firm of Larmoyeux & Bone exclusively represents victims of automobile negligence, medical malpractice, product liability and other claims involving serious injury or death.

Chris Larmoyeux and Bill Bone are specialists in civil trial law as certified by the Florida Bar. The firm is located downtown at CityPlace, 550 South Quadrille Boulevard, Suite 200, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Tel: {561} 832-9400 www.LB-LAW.com palmbeachdramaworks.org 21

Our goal is to introduce the joy of writing for the live theatre to young people, and to give teens a creative voice in expressing their thoughts and ideas. Our program encourages students to write about subjects that are meaningful to them, and to give educators tools to incorporate playwriting into your theatre or language arts classrooms.

Congratulations to the 2023 winners: Emily Singer Aditya Jasti Bianca Borchers Sally Brown Abigail McMullen Daniela Guarino Abigail Trachtenberg Oliver Shane Kassidy Eaton Sophia Madden

Dreyfoos School of the Arts The Benjamin School Park Vista High School Somerset Academy Canyons American Heritage School American Heritage School American Heritage School William T. Dwyer High School Royal Palm Beach High School Royal Palm Beach High School

Sponsored by:

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Step Into the Future Join the

SUSTAINER SOCIETY $50,000

Bitasta (Vitti) Chaturvedi and Family Cathy and Tom Farmer Leah and Ed Frankel Foundation Pamela and Robert Goergen $25,000

Penny Bank Roy Bartolomei and Peter Wronsky Susan and Joe Biernat Rebecca and Randell Doane Monica and Scott Laurans Diann and Tom Mann Stephanie and John Pew Wayne Shepard Dan Sherbo and Tom Nixon Stanley Waldshan, in Honor of Carole Waldshan $15,000

Karen and Alfred Blum Ann and Bob Hagelstein

Robin and Reuben Jeffery Elaine and Larry Rothenberg palmbeachdramaworks.org 23 23 palmbeachdramaworks.org

Step Into the Future Join the

SUSTAINER SOCIETY $10,000

Gail and Paul Altieri Penny and Mitchell Beers Atesh Chandra Paul Bernabeo and David Cohen Mary Jo and Vince Elhilow Zee Jay and Jerry Greenspan Rochelle and David Hirsch Michael Hoagland and Joseph Kolb Rand Hoch Emma Horn Judy Lewent and Mark Shapiro

Zelda Mason Sandra and Bernie Meyer Thomas Moran Linda and Jay Rosenkranz Shari Santell Madeline and Arnold Schuster Arlene and Richard Siudek Louise and Barry Snyder Diana and John Weir Ron Wetzel and Nathan Hench Joseph and Susan Winter Zacherman $5,000

Phyllis Cohen Michael Collins and Jim Harshbarger Esther Flaster Eric Geller and Susan Metzler-Kirkman Gayle Brody Jacobs Emily and Naj Pervez

Robyn and Dale Rands Barbara Rosenberg Esther and Ivan Schaeffer Jody Sklar and Dana Fishkin Judith and Howard Weiner Adrienne Yorinks

Become a member with a minimum pledge of $5,000 over five years. For $1,000 a year, you’ll be recognized as a $5,000 donor in our playbill and on our website for the next five years. If you pledge $10,000, or $2,000 every year for five years, you’ll receive additional acknowledgement on our lobby wall. Gifts can be made from your IRA required minimum distribution (RMD) to receive a qualified charitable deduction (QCD).

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PBD Box Office Dedication in Loving Memory of

Patricia Popolow By her husband, Robert Popolow February 24, 2023

To learn more about PBD Naming Opportunities, call Linda Berman (561) 514-4042 ext 106 or email lberman@palmbeachdramaworks.org palmbeachdramaworks.org 25 25 palmbeachdramaworks.org

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Cheers to Palm Beach Dramaworks in 2023!

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Investments products and services are offered through Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC (WFAFN), Member SIPC. Any other entity is separate from WFAFN. CAR-0123-00106 palmbeachdramaworks.org 27

Ticket sales cover less than half of our annual expenses.

Your help is critical to our success.

Become a

and receive these additional benefits Patrons Circle Friend $5-$99 n Donor gift available at box office

Advocate $100-$499 Friend benefit plus: n Listing on website and in our playbill

Artists Circle Actor $500-$999 Advocate benefits, plus: n Handling fees waived

Director $1,000 -$2,499 Actor benefits, plus: n Exclusive ticket concierge service to reserve and/or exchange tickets

Playwright $2,500 -$4,999 Director benefits, plus: n Invitations to meet the artistic team at exclusive vipbd events n Two complimentary tickets to one Dramawise Act 1 and Act 2 per season

Producers Circle Associate Producer $10,000 Playwright benefits, plus: n Invitation for two to one Opening Night exclusive reception with the Producing Artistic Director. n Parking validation for one car in the Banyan Garage for all mainstage productions

Producer, Costume, or Set Sponsor for one mainstage production $15,000 Associate Producer benefits, plus: n Half-page playbill recognition with photo n Invitation for two to meet costume and set designers n Additional curated benefits such as: - Invitation for two to the cast meet and greet - Invitation for two to first read-through

Executive Producer of one mainstage production $25,000 Producer benefits, plus: n Full-page playbill recognition as sole Executive Producer with photo n Additional curated benefits such as: - Invitation for two to the technical rehearsal - Invitation to lunch with the play’s Director or Producing Artistic Director

Corporate Sponsorships Available For more information and details on benefits, contact Linda Berman at 561-514-4042 ext. 106, or email lberman@palmbeachdramaworks.org

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I / We would like to make a tax-deductible contribution to Palm Beach Dramaworks!

Giving Levels Gifts of $100 or more will be recognized in our playbill for one year from the gift date.

A QCD is a tax efficient way to support a charity and satisfy your annual required minimum distribution (RMD).

Once you reach RMD age, the money you send from your traditional IRA to a qualified charity counts towards your RMD but isn’t subject to federal income tax.

Please return this form to the Box Office, or via mail to: Palm Beach Dramaworks 201 Clematis Street West Palm Beach, Florida 33401

Your donation is greatly appreciated!

Palm Beach Dramaworks is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation and gifts are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. Federal tax ID #65-1040048. A copy of the official registration and financial information may be obtained from the Division of Consumer Services (800-435-7352 within FL). Registration does not imply endorsement by the state.

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Please contact me/us about all giving opportunities.

Please let us know if you plan to: Make a bequest through your estate Add PBD as a beneficiary for a life insurance policy Other I/ We have already included Palm Beach Dramaworks in our estate plan.

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Palm Beach Dramaworks 2022 - 2023 Officers

Carlton Moody Chair

Hon. Ann Brown Vice Chair

Stephen Brown Vice Chair

Larry Goldfein Vice Chair

Lew Kramer Treasurer

Penny Bank Secretary

Palm Beach Dramaworks 2022 - 2023 Board of Directors

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Sue Ellen Beryl Founding Member

Tina Bolton

Palm Beach Dramaworks 2022 - 2023 Board of Directors

Hermine Drezner

Susan Ellerin

Edith Hall Friedheim

William Hayes Founding Member

Lisa Koza

Cynthia Nalley

Mark Perlberg

Bernard Perry

Ike Powell III

Stephen M. Rabb

Ed Ricci

Marlene Silver

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Thank You for Supporting Our Annual Fund Your generosity keeps the curtain rising! $100,000 and Above

Nancy and Gene Beard Susan and Joe Biernat Robert Popolow State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs The Cultural Council of Palm Beach County $50,000 - $99,999

Penny Bank Susan Ellerin and Charles Lieppe Bob Spiegel and Jackie Grimm Gilbert Maurer Anonymous Sally Nathanson Marsha and Stephen Rabb $25,000 - $49,999

Margaret and Robert Blume Tina and Jeff Bolton Stephen Brown and Jamie Stern Impact 100 Diane and Mark Perlberg Shubert Foundation Toni and Martin Sosnoff Oblio and Barry Wish Donations received March 9. 2022 through March 9. 2023

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Thank You for Supporting Our Annual Fund Your generosity keeps the curtain rising! $15,000 - $24,999

Ruth Baum Hermine Drezner Susan and Larry Goldfein Goodes Family Foundation Eric Friedheim Foundation Judy and Lew Kramer Michael McCafferty and Joseph Horton Sandra and Bernie Meyer Lawrence Sanders Foundation Marlene and Marty Silver Mimi and Frank Walsh $10,000 - $14,999 Joanna and Ben Boynton Honorable Ann Brown Ann and Robert Fromer Beverly and Stuart Halpert Priscilla Leslie Mary Lupo and Edward M. Ricci

Anonymous Beverly Myers Robert Nederlander Bernard Perry Arlene and Aarne Reid Louise and Barry Snyder

$5,000 - $9,999 Patti Silver and Leonard Ackerman Diane and Andy Berk Daft Family Foundation Esther and Sid Dinerstein Joan and David Genser Priscilla Heublein Sherry and Stephen Jacobs

Marilyn Meyerhoff and Samuel M. Feldman Cynthia Nalley Charles Orozco Barbara Prine Donna Reynolds Peter Rezzonico Martie and Bob Sachs

Donations received March 9. 2022 through March 9. 2023

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PARKING WITHOUT THE

DRAMA

CONVENIENT PARKING OPTIONS Rates vary by location

Banyan Garage:

4TH ST.

200 Banyan Blvd. between Olive Ave. and Narcissus Ave.

GOV CENTER PARKING LOT 3

= 3 minutes

Datura Garage:

3RD ST.

205 Datura St. between Narcissus Ave. and Olive Ave.

GOV CENTER PARKING GARAGE 2

= 3 minutes

City Center Garage:

199 N. Dixie Hwy. on Southwest corner of Dixie and Banyan Blvd. = 5 minutes

Governmental Centre Garage:

BANYAN BLVD. BANYAN GARAGE

CITY CENTER GARAGE

WATERFRONT CLEMATIS GARAGE

PARKING LOT

215 N. Olive Ave. between Dixie Hwy. and Olive Ave.

CLEMATIS ST.

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Governmental Center 4th Street Parking Lot:

315 3rd St. between Dixie Hwy. and Olive Ave. = 6 minutes

DATURA GARAGE

PARKING LOT

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Evernia Garage:

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PARKING LOCATIONS AND PRICING: downtownwpb.com/parking

333 Evernia St. between Olive Ave. and Dixie Hwy.

Waterfront Clematis Garage: 101 Clematis St. with entrance on Southeast corner of Banyan Blvd. and Narcissus Ave. = 3 minutes

FREE TROLLEY: downtownwpb.com/trolley-2 FREE RIDE CIRCUIT: ridecircuit.com/palmbeach

Palm Beach Dramaworks does not own or run any of the parking lots, garages, or valets in the area. All parking is privately or city operated and monitored. Rates posted may change without notice. Parking anywhere downtown without payment will result in cars being booted or towed at the owner’s expense.

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Thank You for Supporting Our Annual Fund Your generosity keeps the curtain rising! $1,000 - $4,999 Beth Alcalde Madeline and Stephen Anbinder Edwige and John Bade Michael Bakst and Tim Harris Judy and Sam Barker Sherry and Tom Barrat Roy Bartolomei and Peter Wronsky Jameson Baxter Karen and Alfred Bearman Linda and Keith Beaty Janet Bent Barbara Blanck Bill Bone Brooks Family Foundation Anonymous Roy Cacciaguida Loretta and Bob Comfort Susan and John Connor Lucy W. Cook Gail and John Cooney Karol and Paul Costa Melissa Ann Coyne Mary Jo and Vince Elhilow Arlene and Glenn Englander Susan and William Fink Renate Franco James Fuld Maggie and John Gagliardi Sandra and George Garfunkel Joan Gelch and Morris Weintraub Toby Gluckstern Anonymous Mary Cirillo-Goldberg and Jay Goldberg Sandra and Paul Goldner Rona Goldstein Roe Green Rachel Grody Byron Gross and Ricky Tovim Alice Gross Allison and Stuart Haft William Harris Joann and Forrest Hayes Carla and David Herwitz Phyllis Hopman Jean Hutchison Jeanne Kanders 38 palmbeachdramaworks.org

Daniel Kaufman and Timothy Beaver Vicki and Chris Kellogg Susan and Charles Kiernan David Kimmel Foundation Lisa Koza Wesley Lauer Marsha and Henry Laufer Monica and Scott Laurans Arlene Lazarus Patricia Lebow Sidney Lesowitz and Peter Rogers Ellen Levy Judy Lewent and Mark Shapiro Terry and David Liddell Ibby Lucas Virginia Lynn Macy's Inc. Stephen and Emily Magowan Barbara and Eric Malkin Pamela and Brian McIver McNulty Charitable Foundation Jeri and Charles Muoio Elsie and Dick Myers Sally and Bob Neumann Elinor and Harold Oertell Lenore Orlowska-Warren and Donald Warren Palm Beach County Human Rights Council Mary Ellen and Michael Peyton Norman Resnick Elizabeth and Gerald Rorer Carrie and Stan Rosenbaum Barbara Rosenberger Linda and Jay Rosenkranz Jeff Rosenkranz Linda and Harold Rosenson Carol and Joseph Rosetti Fran and Leon Sachs Donna Marie Schooley Susan and Charles Schwartz Lindalee and Robert Scrivener Caroline and Bill Shepherd Julia and Wayne Shovelin Phyllis and Herbert Siegel Linda and Don Silpe Culver Smith and Donna Marks Smith, Ball and Baez Injury Lawyers

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Thank You for Supporting Our Annual Fund Your generosity keeps the curtain rising! $1,000 - $4,999 continued Ron Wetzel and Nathan Hench Louise Ross and Bruce Wolf Lee Wolf and Jordan Cohen Diane and John Wren Marcy and Jack Zeltzer

Lois Steinberg Karin and John Strasswimmer Gunster D'Vera Topol

Frances and Robert Weisman Lois and Barry Weiss

$500 - $999 Robin and Richard Abedon Sherry Norris and John Bauman Nancy and Peter Berkley Penny and Harold Blumenstein Nancy and Peter Brown Paul Bernabeo and David Cohen Laura Cole Martha and Milt Dalitzky William Deskin Mikella Di'Siena Harriett Eckstein Stuart and Lynn Edinoff Elaine and Thomas Ermolovich Beth and Rich Fentin Willie and Jerod Field Pam and Don Ford Anonymous Eric Geller and Susan Metzler Kirkman

Brenda Kulick and Jay Gettinger Virginia Gibson Howard A. Grossman Marcia Halpern Michael Hoagland and Joseph Kolb Judith Hochroth and Allan Green Enid Hoffman Sherry and Michael Hyman Gayle Brody Jacobs Barbara and David Jenkins Patricia and William Jordan Debra Kelly-Ennis and Joe Nestic Nancy and Paul Knapp Marjorie and Sheldon Konigsberg Phyllis and Larry Kushins Wendi Levine and Hall Sisson Judy Linser Nancy and Paul McKenna

Kari Floren and Michael McKenzie Thomas Meier Joan and Carlton Moody Carolyne New Martha and Ward C. Parker Luann and Bill Parmelee Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Elizabeth and John Santoro Anita and Bob Seidemann Francine and Art Siegel Barbara Sommers Jayne Suskin Connie and Vincent Tamburo Elissa Terry Donna and Charles Ward Donna and Malcolm Wattman Kimberly and Roger Yaseen

$100 - $499 Anonymous Linda Agnolucci Deanna and Bernard Albert Joan and Jay Albert Doris and Harry Albirt Diane and Peter Arnet Beth Baker Joan Balfour Michele and James Banker Helene Barnett and Howard Rubin Catherine and Steven Barre Susan Bauchner Nadine Bederson Nancy and Mark Bender Barry Benjamin

Nancy Beren Maryellen Bereson Ellen Bernstein Bob and Cherrie Bierley Nona Redding Bilionis Lori Black Margaret and Matthew Blake Jane Bloom Bill Blumberg Fran and Stanley Bogarty Susan and Paul Brenner Gail and Marc Bressler Roslyn and Alan Brilliant Audrey Brody Helene and Ken Brower Bonnie and Bob Buchanan

Philip Buttaravoli Dennis Butz and Susan Gould Brenda and Gary Caplan Iris Capobianco Carol L. Carnevale Rebecca Cavanaugh Eileen and David Chernoff Phyllis Cohodes Barbara Considine Sandra and Lowell Cook Dennis Creaghan and Deborah Esposito Silvana Darlington Janet and David Desmon Genevieve Dole Margaret Donnelley

Donations received March 9. 2022 through March 9. 2023

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Lawrence Dougher Louise Dougher Sally Drob Linda and Philip Dunmire Cheryl Dunn Bychek Dana Egert Shelly and Neal Ehrenberg Karen and Jay Eliezer Janet L. Ellis Susan and Royce Emley Marie and Geoffery Etherington Matthew Farley Ronnie Fassberg Donna and Steven Feldman Charles Feller Ann and Lee Fensterstock

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Thank You for Supporting Our Annual Fund Your generosity keeps the curtain rising! $100 - $499 continued Lynne and Perry Feyk Nona Fine Karen Fischer Marsha Fishbane Claire Barenholtz and Alan Fishman Melanie and Mort Fishman Margaret Flah Leona and Marvin Fleischman Regina Foon and Albert Seidner Karen Sue Fox Helen Franke Deena and Seymour Freeman Dianne and Richard Freeman Judy and Barry Friedfeld Ann and Ira Friedman Bea and Chris Fries Diana and Elliot Garfinkel Paul and Irene Garfinkle Sandy and Frank Geller Rana Gerson Carol Getson Diane and Robert Ghormley Doris Gilman Vivian and Harvey Glassman Suzanne Gold Sue Goldfinger and Timothy Bell Joan Goldstein Sharon and Bruce Goodman Michael Goodman Dianne and Martin Gorbaty Lydia and Stuart Gordon Conrad Goulet and Orlando Chiang Helen "Cookie" Govrin Gail and Ed Greenberg Zee Jay and Jerry Greenspan Joseph Guidetti Lenora Hall Jackie and Arthur Harris Anonymous Auta and Robert Hendler Anne and Robert Hite Nancy and Barry Horowitz Alesia and John Hoy Jennifer Jackson Isa and Ken Joseph Ellen and Jerry Kahan Gloria and Armand Katz

Judy and John Keller Sheryl and Leonard Kessler Barbara Messick and Emil Kessler Gail and Michael Kirsch Lois and Larry Kleinberg Arlene Fine Klepper Helen and Al Kniberg Shirley Koo Linda and Gene Kopf Matthew Korinko Brenda Korn Ellen and Irving Kramer Ellen and Jerry Kranzler Gail and Sid Kreppel Ethel and Marvin Krotenberg Sally Lapides and Arthur Solomon Iris and Steven Lapidus Marilyn and Alan LeRoy Albert Leizman and Ann Harte Wynne Leon Stephanie and Sam Levine Shelley Levine Meron Levitats Ellen Livingston and Edward Levitt Barbara and Myron Levy Marilyn and Charles Levy Miriam Lieff and Albert Goldberg Marilyn and Richard Litner Rachel and Per Lorentzen Arlene and David Lurie Ellen and Andrew Lynette Anonymous Harriette and Edgar Mandeville Mary Ann Martin Millie and David McCoy Jim and Gail McKay Etta and Froman Mehl Elaine and David Mendelow Daisy and John Merey Sharon and Keith Meyer Deborah and Ernest Mhoon Madeline and Arthur Millman Peg Minges Daniel and Harriet Mironov Harriet Molk Eileen and Anthony Montalbano Barbara Morgenstern

Beverly and Marvin Morse Alice and Allan Mostoff Hank Narrow Samuel Neulinger Sheila and Stuart Novins Alison and Thomas O'Brien Laura and William Orlove Abby and Steve Perelman Muriel and Bill Perlberg Dennis Perry Zakia and Stan Phillips James Sabin and Yolanda Phinney Charlotte and Norman Plotsky Robin and Joseph Pollack Marsha and Jerry Pollak Jill and Lee Pollock Joan Putterman Diane Quinn Rochelle and George Ram Mary Jane Range Geri and Irv Ratner Sue Regan Susan and Erick Reickert Giselle Reischer and Harvey Rubinson Alison and David Rice Marilyn Rice Barbara Richman Beverly Ringel Patti and John Riter Helenan and Stanley Robin Stephen Roos and Terry Sobrane Paige M. Rose Pearl and Stanley Rosenberg Susan and Jerome Rosenzweig Barbara and Chip Ross Carolyn Rowe Pamela Saba Fran Sadoff-LeBow Billie and Steven Sandler Henrietta and Bergino Santo Peter Schneider and Dena Seigel Barbara Schulman Sanford Schuman Amy and Richard Schwed Merri Scott Carole Sebbane Rita Seidner

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Christine and Mark Shalloway Steve Shapiro Tina Parsons and Randy Sherman Judy and Mark Shernicoff Phoebe and Sam Shochat Elizabeth and Alan Shulman Tracy Siani Bernice Rieders Sickle Paul Siegel Sybil and Marshall Sigel Debra A. Silver Miriam and Ron Silverman Nellie Lou Slagle Tema Smeyne and Edward Gerstein Joyce and Robert Smith Linda Sorenson June and Jerome Spunberg Molly and Nick St. Cavish Mark and Phyllis Stein Barbara and Fred Stern Shirley Stone Cohlan Goldie and Alan Stopek Cari and Lenny Sukienik Judith Suslow Terrie Temkin Shirley and Jack Thompson Susan and Martin Trefler Elaine C. Tucker Beth and Jim Walton Bruce Warshal James B. Watson Betty Weber Arlin Weingold and Natalie Pincus Howard Weinstein and Suzanne LeVine Commissioner Gregg K. and Rebecca Weiss Barbara and Stephen Weiss Diane and Stephen Weiss Naomi and Fred Weissenberg Carol Weltz Nancy and David Wolf Robin Woodard Eleanor and Joel Yura Desi and Ben Zalman Esther and Richard Zaretsky

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2022-2023 Restaurant Club

The PBD Restaurant Club provides our patrons with special offers and discounts throughout the season at these restaurants that support our theatre.

Complimentary scoop of gelato with the purchase of an entrée 185 Banyan Blvd (561) 342-6699

Complimentary order of fries with the purchase of a burger 213 Clematis St (561) 651-1075

3-Course Prix Fixe Dinner ($34.99) 120 S Dixie Hwy (561) 659-7373

10% off (excludes tax, gratuity, and happy hour items) 207 Clematis St (561) 899-3117

3-Course Prix Fixe Dinner ($52-offer valid show days only)) 101 N Clematis St (561) 833-5090

Complimentary order of guacamole w/ purchase of (2) entrees 224 Clematis St (561) 650-1001

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A great big thanks to all of you who contributed to our Take a Deep Breath Campaign, helping us to achieve our stringent safety protocols and breathe easy in our beautiful theatre. $100,000 Honorable Ann Brown Louise and Barry Snyder Toni and Martin Sosnoff $50,000 Nancy and Gene Beard $25,000

Sue Ellen Beryl and William Hayes Penny Bank Ruth and Ted Baum

$15,000

Stephen Brown and Jamie Stern Phyllis and Herbert J. Siegel

$10,000 Tina and Jeff Bolton Leah and Ed Frankel Foundation Joan G. Smith and William Karatz Nancy Goodes Sally Nathanson

Aarne and Arlene Reid Mimi and Frank Walsh

$5,000 The Chastain Foundation Edwige and John Bade Roy Bartolomei and Peter Wronsky Lucy W. Cook Anonymous Cathy and Tom Farmer Arlene F. and Donald Fleischman Renate Franco

Christina Dennis

$1,000 - $2,500 Pam and Bob Goergen Alice Gross Byron Gross and Ricky Tovim Ann and Bob Hagelstein Anonymous Priscilla Heublein

Susan and Larry Goldfein Patricia and William Jordan Terry Liddell Zelda Mason Arlene and Richard Siudek Nicki van Vonno Diana and John Weir Lois and Barry Weiss

$500 - $999 Linda L. and Keith Beaty Karen and Alfred Blum Joan and Lyle Brundage Paula Kaminsky Davis Dinah Fulton Rochelle and David A. Hirsch Michael Hoagland and Joseph Kolb

Sherry and Stephen Jacobs Marjorie and Sheldon Konigsberg Judy and Lew Kramer Laura Brooks Randi and Norman Pecan Stephanie and John Pew Joanne Polozker Barbara N. Prine

Ann Marie and Peter Rezzonico Naomi Rosenberg Carol and Joseph Rosetti Francine and Art Siegel Lois Steinberg Zee Jay and Jerry Greenspan Marcy and Jack Zeltzer

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OUR MISSION Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit theatre company that engages and entertains audiences with provocative and timeless productions that personally impact each individual.

OUR VISION To enhance the quality of life through the transformative power of live theatre.

HONORARY DIRECTORS Ruth Baum Nancy Beard Ravi Chaturvedi Esther Dinerstein Roe Green Daryn M. Kirchfeld Sidney Lesowitz J. Barry Lewis Sherron Long Pamela McIver

Marilyn Meyerhoff Charles Muoio Sally Nathanson Robert Nederlander Shari Santell William N. Shepherd Louise Snyder Mimi Draper Walsh Beth Walton Lee Wolf

Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, the Board of County Commissioners, the Tourist Development Council, and the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County.

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S U B S C R I P T I O N S O N S A L E N OW!

LOBBY HERO

By Kenneth Lonergan October 13-29, 2023

2023/24 SEASON

Four New Yorkers involved in a murder investigation – a slacker security guard in a Manhattan apartment building, his bythe-book boss, a rookie cop and her macho partner – face moral and ethical dilemmas in this comic drama by the Academy Awardwinning screenwriter of Manchester by the Sea. The play explores issues of racism and sexism, and whether it’s ever honorable to do the wrong thing for the right reason.

CANCELLATION THE MESSENGER THE OF LAUREN FEIN

By Jenny Connell Davis December 8-24, 2023

By Christopher Demos-Brown February 2-18, 2024

A meditation on the connections between past, present, and future, and on the choice between speaking up and speaking out regardless of the consequences or remaining silent for the sake of self-preservation.

Inspired by the life of Hungarian Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor, the play interweaves her story with that of a young American woman facing racial discrimination in this country in 2020.

Lauren Fein and her wife, Paola Munoz, are professors at a prestigious American university. They live with Dylan, their 16-yearold African American foster son whom they’ve cared for since he was a baby. When Professor Fein’s actions run afoul of the university’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies, her groundbreaking research, her career, and her family are all put in jeopardy.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

CRUMBS FROM THETABLEOFJOY

This Pulitzer Prize-winning, groundbreaking play changed American theatre in the person of its everyman tragic hero, Willy Loman, a dime a dozen, disappointed, disillusioned, and delusional traveling salesman with a skewed vision of the American Dream. All he wanted, the playwright wrote in his memoir, was “to count.” Or as Willy’s wife, Linda, implores, “Attention must be paid.”

Following the death of his wife, a disconsolate Godfrey Crump moves with his daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, from Pensacola, FL to Brooklyn in 1950. Seventeen-year-old Ernestine is our guide in this warm memory play, a coming-of-age tale in which the sisters confront a cultural and racial divide and are exposed to new ideas, as they seek to break free from their father’s restrictive rules.

By Arthur Miller March 29-April 14, 2024

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By Lynn Nottage May 24-June 9, 2024

Dates and titles subject to change.