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Note from the Producing Artistic Director Welcome to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, a play that revolutionized American theatre both in its structure and in its elevation of an ordinary man to the status of hero. But the story itself is the reason the play continues to speak to and move and astonish audiences 75 years after its Broadway premiere. Miller wanted his work to reflect and reveal America in the hope of affecting change, and “that meant grabbing people and shaking them by the back of the neck.” Audiences all over the world continue to be grabbed and shaken.

That’s what we mean by Theatre to Think About. It’s hard to believe that next season marks our twenty-fifth anniversary, that we’ve been providing stimulating and sometimes edgy material to Palm Beach County for a quarter of a century. It seems like only yesterday that we conceived of starting a theatre company that would produce classic, contemporary, and overlooked plays that were provocative, thought-provoking, and moving. We believed that there were local audiences hungry for challenging work, plays that illuminate the human condition and resonate in deeply personal ways. We were naive enough to think, "If you build it, they will come." It turned out that we were correct.

Since PBD opened its doors in 2000 through the end of the 2024-25 season, we will have produced some 120 shows and several concert versions of classic musicals. I think the community truly began to understand what we were trying to achieve when we performed a pair of plays by Edward Albee in our third season, and a piece by Jean-Paul Sartre the following season.

From the beginning, there was an ambitious agenda lurking; we needed to establish the company in order to fulfill our goals. Today we have a robust education department and appealing community engagement programs. The Dramaworkshop and the Perlberg Festival of New Plays nurture and develop new work. And as our reputation has grown, our repertory has evolved. I always believed that regional theatres must encourage new work and new voices, and world premieres are now a significant part of our profile.

Our twenty-fifth anniversary season reflects where we’ve been and where we’re headed. Two plays, Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser and Mark St. Germain’s Camping with Henry and Tom, were performed by PBD early in our history, and this special season provides the perfect opportunity to introduce new audiences to these estimable works. At the same time, we continue our commitment to new plays with the world premiere of Gina Montet’s Dangerous Instruments.

Rounding out the season are two critically acclaimed and much honored works: Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers and Stephen Karam’s Tony Award-winning The Humans.

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Palm Beach Dramaworks presents

William Hayes Producing Artistic Director Sue Ellen Beryl Managing Director

by Arthur Miller

by Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. New York.

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Appearing through an Agreement between this theatre, [Producer], and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Executive Producers Toni and Martin Sosnoff Director J. Barry Lewis^ Stage Manager Kent James Collins* Scenic Design Anne Mundell Video Design Adam J. Thompson Costume Design Brian O’Keefe Lighting Design Kirk Bookman Sound Design Roger Arnold Scenic Artist Kristen Myrick Hill Casting Director Judy Bowman, CSA Original Music Composition Joshua Lubben palmbeachdramaworks.org 11

DID YOU KNOW

Arthur Miller on Death of a Salesman (When no source is cited, the quote is from Miller’s memoir, Timebends.)

“I had begun a play in college about a salesman and his family but had abandoned it. I would only discover the notebook in which I had written . . . long after the first production of Death of a Salesman.”

While working on “preliminary sketches of scenes and ideas” for Death of a Salesman, and trying to convince himself “that I could find a structural arch for the story of the Lomans,” Miller took an afternoon off to revisit a film that fascinated him, Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. In one scene, a frightened detective tries phoning his boss, Inspector Karl Lohmann. “I realized where I had gotten the name that had lodged so deep in me. . . .In later years I found it discouraging to observe the confidence with which some commentators on Death of a Salesman smirked at the heavy-handed symbolism of ‘Low-man.’ What the name really meant to me was a terror-stricken man calling into the void for help that will never come.”

“I was going to call [the play] The Inside of His Head . . . the original set as I saw it would be a gigantic interior of a skull, and the whole thing would be played in there. But it didn’t take long to see that was not really what I should be doing.” 1999 interview with Charlie Rose Miller initially believed that the actor who would play Willy “had to be small,” but discovered that the men he and director Elia Kazan were interested in “seemed to lack the size of the character even if they fit the body.” The script had been sent to Lee J. Cobb, 5’11” and solidly built. Cobb flew in from California, met with Miller in the producer’s office, and said, “‘This is my part. Nobody else can play this part. I know this man.’”

A week before rehearsals were to begin, Miller recalled Cobb saying to him, “‘You know – or do you? – that this play is a watershed. The American theatre will never be the same.’”

Both the play’s form and its leading character were fresh and unexpected. Miller started writing plays while attending the University of Michigan, and estimated that he had written about eight of them prior to Death of a Salesman. He told Charlie Rose, “I had been preparing for [Death of a Salesman] for all those years.

The play, formally speaking, is a kind of invention. The idea was to make everything happen at the same time: that is, the past and the present working together, instead of stopping and going back. There are no flashbacks in the play, and yet the past is always with us, just as it is in life, when you’re talking to somebody and you think of something from 35 years ago. . . . It took a lot of writing over the years, working through straight realism, through poetic theatre, even some verse plays that I was writing, until I came upon that form.”

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Throughout theatre history, tragic heroes had been members of the nobility. But Miller had a novel idea: a common man as tragic hero. A few weeks after the play opened, he wrote an essay in The New York Times explaining why Willy Loman, a 63-year-old traveling salesman who had failed as a husband, a father, and a wage earner, deserved to be recognized in such lofty terms. “I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing – his sense of personal dignity.” He concluded the essay with these words: “It is time, I think, that we who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time – the heart and spirit of the average man.”

Asked by Charlie Rose, in that 1999 interview, what the play is about, he said, “It’s hard to encapsulate that play. It’s about the United States, it’s about a man, it’s about an economic situation, it’s about a family, it’s about a life. To boil it down to a sentence is beyond me. . . .

It’s a love story between a father and a son. In fact, it just occurred to me a couple of weeks ago . . . that everyone in this play loves Willy. Everybody. Except Willy. I think basically its appeal is probably that it is that kind of a story: it’s about the loss of love and the finding of love again.”

The play previewed in Philadelphia, and in his memoir, Miller recalled what happened after the curtain came down on the first performance. “Some people stood to put their coats on and then sat again, some, especially men, were bent forward covering their faces, and others were openly weeping. . . . It seemed forever before someone remembered to applaud, and then there was no end to it.” That reception would continue during the show’s Broadway run.

On his Pulitzer Prize “They announced the award in the paper, but I never received anything. Somebody must have realized that they’d forgotten so they sent me a telegram a month later, signed Dwight Eisenhower, President of Columbia.” [Eisenhower was then president of Columbia University.] About five years later, someone asked Miller what he had done with his $500 prize and where he kept his citation. “What $500? And I never got a citation. It took about 25 years for me to get the $500 and the citation.” Interview with Mike Wallace for the Kennedy Center On Playwriting “All the plays that I was trying to write, all the plays that playwrights like [Eugene] O’Neill were trying to write, that Tennessee [Williams] was writing, these were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.” New York Times interview, February 9, 1986 Miller wrote in Timebends that when he was young, he "imagined that with the possible exception of a doctor saving a life, writing a worthy play was the most important thing a human being could do." palmbeachdramaworks.org 13

Palm Beach Dramaworks presents

by

Arthur Miller CAST

(In Order of Appearance)

Willy Loman.......................................................... Rob Donohoe* Linda........................................................................Helena Ruoti* Biff................................................................... Michael Shenefelt* Happy......................................................................... Ty Fanning* Bernard................................................................ Harrison Bryan* The Woman....................................................Gracie Winchester* Charley................................................................... William Hayes Uncle Ben.....................................................................Tom Wahl* Howard Wagner........................................ Matthew W. Korinko* Jenny/Letta ..................................................... Nathalie Andrade Stanley.......................................................... John Campagnuolo Ms. Forsythe.........................................................Hannah Hayley Production Crew Stage Manager............................................................................................................. Kent James Collins* Assistant Stage Manager..........................................................................................Caroline Castleman* Wardrobe Supervisor.............................................................................................................John Santillan Audio Engineer/Technical Assistant...................................................................................Keshin Martin Head Electrician.........................................................................................................................Dylan Carter Wig Designer/Wardrobe Supervisor........................................................................................ Jane Lynch Stage Crew Lead........................................................................................................................... Julia Howe Stitcher....................................................................................................................................... Allyson Daley The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio/visual recordings of this production and distributing recordings or streams in any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the authors(‘s) rights and actionable under United States copyright law. For more information visit https://www.concordtheatricals.com/resources/protectingartists.

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ROB DONOHOE (Willy Loman) This show marks Rob’s twelfth production at PBD since 2012. He has received Carbonell Award nominations for his performance in Buried Child at PBD and Glengarry Glen Ross at Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Broadway credits include 1776 and A Christmas Carol. National tours (all of which played South Florida): My Fair Lady (Alfred P. Doolittle), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Melvin P. Thorpe) starring AnnMargret, Titanic: The Musical (John Jacob Astor), and Gigi starring Louis Jourdan.

A resident of Brooklyn Heights, Rob has performed in regional theatres across the United States, as well as in Canada, Germany, and San Croix. He received a Drama-Logue Award in Los Angeles for his performance in Spoon River, and was nominated for a Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of Otto Kringelein in Grand Hotel.

TV and film include Third Watch, As the World Turns, General Hospital, and the mini-series Masada.

HELENA RUOTI (Linda) is making her PBD debut. Regional productions include Steel Magnolias (Ouiser), Murder on the Orient Express (Princess Dragomiroff), Twelfth Night (Maria), The Royal Family (Julie), The Little Foxes (Regina), Hedda Gabler (Hedda), The Night of the Iguana (Hannah), Noises Off (Dotty), Other Desert Cities (Polly), The Comedy of Errors, The Three Sisters (Masha), and The Lady With All the Answers with Pittsburgh Public Theater; Master Class (Maria Callas) with City Theatre Company; Rock ’n’ Roll, The Seagull (Arkadina), Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Heartbreak House (Hesione), A Woman of No Importance, and House and

Garden with Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre; The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure at Three Rivers Shakespeare; The Dance of Death at Kinetic Theatre Company; Chatterton and Madagascar at Quantum Theatre; Getting Out at Philadelphia Theatre Company. Film/TV: Passed Away, Lorenzo’s Oil, Wanted Dead and Alive, and Silent Witness.

MICHAEL SHENEFELT (Biff) is delighted to make his PDB debut alongside his wife (and PBD veteran) Gracie Winchester.

Select regional credits include Thomas in The Girl on the Train, Stephen Foster in The Stephen Foster Story, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Ethan in Sex with Strangers, Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard, Gussy Fink-Nottle in By Jeeves! and Guiderius in Cymbeline. Michael is most frequently seen on Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias as Ryan Wingate, and has guest-starred on HBO’s Doom Patrol, Paramount’s The Game, Showtime’s The First Lady, and AMC’s The Walking Dead. Films include Disney’s LifeSize 2 and its live-action remake of Lady and the Tramp. If you are craving some low budget laughs, please check out Michael’s award-winning film Postal wherever you stream your movies. Thanks to his parents for encouraging an artistic life.

TY FANNING (Happy) is delighted to make his PBD debut. OffBroadway: Spain at Second Stage and Boswell at 59E59.

His work in Chicago includes the world premiere of Lindiwe at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Chicago premiere of Teenage Dick at Theater Wit, and multiple productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Last year, he performed regionally in Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) at palmbeachdramaworks.org 15

the Utah Shakespeare Festival and in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Victor Frankenstein) at Indiana Repertory Theatre. He spent five seasons at American Players Theatre where some of his credits include An Iliad (The Poet), She Stoops to Conquer (Hastings), and Sense and Sensibility (Willoughby). Television includes Chicago Med, Search Party, and Hot Mess Holiday. Ty has a BFA from Oklahoma City University. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA. HARRISON BRYAN (Bernard) is a Brooklyn-born actor, playwright, and puppeteer, previously seen in PBD’s Skylight.

A recipient of the NY Innovative Theatre Award, Harrison is a Helen Hayes Award-nominated actor, and an honoree of the American Playwrighting Foundation. Off-Broadway: A Patron of the Arts (Cherry Lane Theatre), Chekhov’s Three Sisters (Sheen Center), Rescue Rue (Daryl Roth Theatre), Brecht on Brecht (Atlantic Stage 2), Spring Awakening (Gallery Players). Select regional: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Round House Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company), Hand to God (Florida Studio Theatre), Ragtime (Bay Street Theatre), Peter Pan and Wendy (KCRep), Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q (Farmers Alley Theatre).

As a playwright, Harrison has several new plays and musicals currently in development, including A Hanukkah Carol, or GELT TRIP! The Musical, premiering this November in Washington D.C. BFA: Boston University.

HarrisonBryan.com / @hahaharrisonbryan GRACIE WINCHESTER (The Woman) is grateful to return to PBD and share the stage with her incredible husband, Michael, after portraying 1969 in the rolling world premiere of The Messenger and Mrs. Van Buren in Intimate Apparel. Broadway: 16 palmbeachdramaworks.org

Annie Get Your Gun (Swing). National tour: Annie Get Your Gun (Nellie Oakley). OffBroadway: Hamlet (Ophelia), Macbeth (Third Witch). Recent theatre credits include the regional premiere of The Girl on the Train (Flat Rock Playhouse); Nicola in Kinky Boots (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre); Daisy in The Lodger (Northern Stage); Sally in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Out of the Box Theatrics); Celia in As You Like It (Gateway Playhouse); Shelby in Steel Magnolias and June in Into the Breeches (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Marina in Pericles and Miranda in The Tempest (Orlando Shakespeare). When not in a play, you can catch Gracie singing as Dory in Finding Nemo: The Big Blue... and Beyond!. AEA member since age six. BFA in musical theatre from UCF. Love for JAGS. Michael Shenefelt, I adore you.

WILLIAM HAYES (Charley) 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 Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund).

He began his career as an actor, and returned to the stage last season in PBD’s acclaimed production of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry

Men. He is delighted to be back onstage again and working with these wonderful actors.

TOM WAHL (Uncle Ben) is thrilled to be back at PBD after appearing here in Twelve Angry Men, The People Downstairs, Ordinary Americans, and Billy and Me. Tom has performed at the Kennedy Center, Geva Theatre Center, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Flat Rock Playhouse and Blowing Rock Stage Company. In Florida he has appeared at Zoetic Stage, Actors’ Playhouse, GableStage, City Theatre, Miami New Drama, The Foundry, The Vanguard, Red Barn Theatre, Waterfront Playhouse, Caldwell Theatre Company, Florida Stage, and Mosaic Theatre. Film and TV credits include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, New in Town with Renee Zellweger, Ace Ventura, Plato’s Run, Big City Blues, and a recurring guest star as Hunt Pelham on ABC’s Moon over Miami.

Tom is a recipient of Carbonell, Silver Palm and Curtain Up Awards, and is a proud union member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. MATTHEW W. KORINKO (Howard Wagner) was most recently seen at PBD in Twelve Angry Men and The People Downstairs, and Slow Burn Theatre Company in Sister Act (Monsignor O’Hara), Into the Woods (Narrator/Mysterious Man), and Mary Poppins (Mr. Banks).

Other credits include Newsies (Joseph Pulitzer), A Christmas Story: The Musical (Jean Shepherd), Man of La Mancha (The Duke) at MNM Theatre, Jekyll & Hyde (John Utterson), Legally Blonde (Callahan), Rock of Ages (Hertz), Memphis (Mr. Simmons), The Secret Garden (Dr. Craven), Titanic (Andrews), The Hunchback of Notre

Dame (Frollo), Romance, Romance (Alfred/ Sam), Big Fish (Amos), Parade (Hugh Dorsey), Sweeney Todd (Sweeney), and Side Show (Terry). He holds a BFA in performance from UW–Stevens Point and is the co-founder of Slow Burn Theatre Company. matthewkorinko.com NATHALIE ANDRADE (Jenny/Letta) is making her PBD debut on this stage. Previously, she provided the offstage voice of Lily in 4000 Miles, and performed in the One Humanity Tour’s Live to Tell.

She also appeared in Refuge (Girl) at FAU Theatre Lab, and Money Heist: The Experience (Simone/Chicago). BA from Tufts University.

JOHN CAMPAGNUOLO (Stanley) is thrilled to be back on the Dramaworks stage, where he was last seen as Lem in The People Downstairs. Other PBD credits include A Streetcar Named Desire and Ordinary Americans. He is a Wellington native, and was most recently seen in Plaza Suite at Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival: Romeo (Romeo & Juliet), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Palm Beach State College: Giles Ralston (The Mousetrap).

HANNAH HAYLEY (Ms. Forsythe) is a South Florida-based actress who is excited to make her PBD debut. She is currently studying at Lynn University and will be graduating with a BFA in theatre this spring. She has a passion for film, television, and the stage. Her most notable credits include Sandy (Grease), Dorothy Brock (42nd Street), Cosette (Les Misérables), Charlotte palmbeachdramaworks.org 17

Hay (Moon Over Buffalo), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), and Liane d’Exelmans (Gigi), and she has also been working as a professional character and princess performer with The Happy Princess Club.

Hannah is very grateful to her friends and family for their endless love and support as she pursues her dreams.

ARTHUR MILLER (Playwright) was one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century. Born in New York City (1915), he worked several jobs after high school to earn enough money to attend college. He studied at the University of Michigan, where he began writing plays.

Miller made it to Broadway in 1944 with The Man Who Had All the Luck – which closed after four performances. But he returned in 1947 with All My Sons, which launched his career and earned him a Tony Award. Death of a Salesman followed in 1949, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. The Crucible (1953), his response to McCarthyism, also received the Tony Award for Best Play. Other plays include A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall (a thinly veiled account of his marriage to Marilyn Monroe), Incident at Vichy, The Price, The American Clock, Broken Glass, The Last Yankee, and The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. His films include Let’s Make Love and The Misfits, both of which starred Monroe. Other work includes Focus, a novel; the memoir Timebends; and, with his wife, photographer Inge Morath, the books In the Country, In Russia, Chinese Encounters, and Salesman in Beijing. Miller was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979 and was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor in 1984. He died in Roxbury, Connecticut in 2005.

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J. BARRY LEWIS (Director) For PBD: Lobby Hero, Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Duration, Almost, Maine, A Streetcar Named Desire, The House of Blue Leaves, Indecent, Equus, The Little Foxes, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Arcadia, Outside Mullingar, The History Boys, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Buried Child, Our Town, Tryst, Old Times, Of Mice and Men, Dancing at Lughnasa, Talley’s Folly, The Fantasticks, The Pitmen Painters, All My Sons, Dinner With Friends, Candida, The Gin Game, Three Tall Women, Copenhagen, Private Lives, The Weir, The Chairs, Souvenir, Benefactors, The Fourth Wall, Side by Side by Sondheim, Betrayal, The Smell of the Kill, That Championship Season, Berlin to Broadway, The Boys Next Door, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and No Exit. He is honored to be a recipient of the Richard Fallow Award for Excellence in Professional Theatre presented annually by the Florida Professional Theatres Association. He is also the recipient of five Carbonell Best Director awards. J. Barry was honored by PBD in 2018 with the Shelly Award, given “In recognition of exceptional commitment, support and advocacy on behalf of the Theatre.”

KENT JAMES COLLINS (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be in his third season at PBD. For PBD: The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, The Messenger, August: Osage County, 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, Rudina, Lara, Roger, Pierre, and the entire PBD team. kentjamescollins.com ANNE MUNDELL (Scenic Design) Appointed resident scenic designer at PBD prior to the start of the season, Anne has previously designed The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, The Messenger, A Streetcar Named Desire (Carbonell Award), Equus, and Arcadia for the company. Her design work includes scenery, projection, costume, and lighting design. Genres include theatre, museum exhibitions, parade floats, industrial design, opera, symphony, and dance. She has worked for such organizations as Pittsburgh Public Theater, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Utah Musical Theatre, Carnegie Museum of Art, Quantum Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, St. Michael’s Playhouse, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Black Hills Playhouse, and Players Theatre Columbus.

Anne recently retired from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, where she was a professor of scenic design for 33 years.

She is the recipient of the Robert M. Frankel Award for Contribution to the Arts, the Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching, The Hornbostel Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Fine Arts, and was named one of Pittsburgh’s best professors by Pittsburgh Magazine. Anne is director and founder of Growing Theater, an outreach program, and one of the founders of the internationally recognized Roboceptionist Project, a social robotics collaboration between the CMU Robotics Institute and the School of Drama. mundellacademic.com ADAM J. THOMPSON (Video Design) was named PBD’s resident projection designer last month. He is the recipient of the 2023 USITT and Live Design Rising Star Award, recognizing early career excellence, innovation, and artistic achievement in the field of design. Adam is a creative director, creative producer, and multimedia designer working in theatre, opera, cinema, television,

installation, events, and digital narratives, and is the founding artistic director of The Deconstructive Theatre Project, a nonprofit multimedia storytelling and arts education studio, which he created and led from 2006 - 2016. He made his PBD debut with The Messenger, and followed that with The Cancellation of Lauren Fein. Adam has worked Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and across the US. His work has been recognized with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Adam holds a BA in directing and dramaturgy from Emerson College and an MFA in video & media design from Carnegie Mellon University. adamjacobthompson.com BRIAN O’KEEFE (Costume Design) began designing for PBD in 2009, became costume shop manager and resident designer in 2015, and has designed over 65 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 UNCChapel 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 Cancellation of Lauren Fein, The Messenger, Lobby Hero, Topdog/Underdog, August: Osage County, The Science of Leaving Omaha, Twelve Angry Men, palmbeachdramaworks.org 19

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) was named PBD’s production manager prior to the start of the season. He 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

Cancellation of Lauren Fein, The Messenger, Lobby Hero, Topdog/Underdog, August: Osage County, 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. Other sound design credits include Empire Stage’s production of Tru. BA in music and sound recording, University of New Haven. MA in music technology, University of Newcastle.

CAROLINE CASTLEMAN (Assistant Stage Manager) is in her third season at PBD. Credits here include The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, the Perlberg Festival of New Plays (2024), theAcademy@pbd’s Songs for a New World (2023), the Young Playwrights 10-Minute (2024 and 2023) and 1-Minute Play Contests (2023), and the One Humanity Tour (2022). For Creede Repertory Theatre: Ripcord, Pride and Prejudice, and Hazardous Materials. BFA in stage management from the University of Cincinnati (CollegeConservatory of Music).

JUDY BOWMAN (Casting Director) Theatre: Casting collaborations with Woolly Mammoth, McCarter Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, Cleveland Play House, the Kitchen Theatre Company, Children’s Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Humana Festival/Actors Theatre of Louisville, Luna Stage, Adirondack Theatre Festival, and numerous productions in New York.

For PBD: The Cancellation of Lauren Fein, The Messenger, Lobby Hero. Artios Award nominee for Best Web Series Casting, PT Barnum Award recipient. Her film and television credits include Big Dogs (Amazon), Hurricane Bianca, Separation, and Redemption in Cherry Springs (Hallmark).

Judy is a member of the Casting Society of America. judybowmancasting.com

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.

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Palm Beach Dramaworks Staff Executive Producing Artistic Director Managing Director Chief Financial & Operating Officer

William Hayes Sue Ellen Beryl Rudina Toro

Administrative Business & HR Director Director of Education & Community Engagement Marketing Coordinator Company & House Manager Box Office & Concessions Manager Assistant Box Office Manager Box Office Associates

Lara Garcia Gary Cadwallader Alessandra Lasanta Pierre Tannous Mark Sullivan Lauren Bell Alexa Rosenberger Desmond Lewis

Production Production Manager/Resident Sound Designer Technical Director Assistant Technical Director/Lead Carpenter Head of Properties/Shop Assistant Audio Engineer/Technical Assistant Costume Shop Manager/Resident Costume Designer Wardrobe Supervisor Assistant Stage Manager Head Electrician Stage Crew Lead

Roger Arnold Doug Wilkinson Kira Barnes Saylor Novonglosky Keshin Martin Brian O’Keefe John Santillan Caroline Castleman Dylan Carter Julia Howe

Artists in Residence Resident Director Resident Scenic Designer Resident Lighting Designer Resident Projection Designer Resident Playwright/Literary Manager

J. Barry Lewis Anne Mundell Kirk Bookman Adam J. Thompson Jenny Connell Davis

Associates Writer/Editor Marketing Consultant Poster Artwork Graphic Designers

Sheryl Flatow Jennifer Sardone-Shiner Paul Gaschler Jackie D’Onofrio Brittani Millington palmbeachdramaworks.org 21

Step Into the Future 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 Diana and John Weir Karen and Alfred Blum Ann and Bob Hagelstein 22 palmbeachdramaworks.org

$15,000

Robin and Reuben Jeffery Elaine and Larry Rothenberg

Step Into the Future The

SUSTAINER SOCIETY $10,000

Gail and Paul Altieri Louise Austin Penny and Mitchell Beers Atesh Chandra Paul Bernabeo and David Cohen Laura Cole Margaret Donnelley Mary Jo and Vince Elhilow Arlene and Glenn Englander Jeanne and David Goldner Zee Jay and Jerry Greenspan Rochelle and David Hirsch Michael Hoagland and Joseph Kolb Rand Hoch Emma Horn Deborha Campbell Phyllis Cohen Michael Collins and Jim Harshbarger Loretta and Bob Comfort Lucy W. Cook Karol and Paul Costa Esther Flaster Eric Geller and Susan Metzler-Kirkman Susan and Stuart Goodman Suzanne Holmes Gayle Brody Jacobs Anonymous

Judy Lewent and Mark Shapiro Zelda Mason Sandra and Bernie Meyer Thomas Moran Elinor and Harold Oertell Katherine Pizzella and Barbara Pizzella Linda and Jay Rosenkranz Shari Santell Madeline and Arnold Schuster Susan Schwartz Arlene and Richard Siudek Louise and Barry Snyder Ron Wetzel and Nathan Hench Nancy Yanofsky and Ed Brown Joseph and Susan Winter Zacherman $5,000

Ellen Levy Terry and David Liddell Emily and Naj Pervez Robyn and Dale Rands Peter Rezzonico Barbara Rosenberger Carol and Joseph Rosetti Esther and Ivan Schaeffer Julia and Wayne Shovelin Jody Sklar and Dana Fishkin Judith and Howard Weiner Adrienne Yorinks

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2023/24 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

Free sweet single with purchase of a regular meal 218 Clematis St | (561) 229-1654 | valid for one guest use

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THE HUMANS

By Stephen Karam

February 14-March 2, 2025

2024/25 SEASON 561.514.4042 palmbeachdramaworks.org

LOST IN YONKERS

By Neil Simon

November 1-17, 2024 When their widowed father heads south to try and earn a living, two teenage boys, Jay and Arty, are left in the care of their autocratic Grandma Kurnitz, whose four adult children have been damaged by her cruelty.

Set during World War II, this funny and heartbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning memory play is both an exploration of the wounds inflicted by family, and a testament to the power of familial love and resiliency.

There’s a sense of disquiet in the air when the loving, if dysfunctional, Blake clan gathers for Thanksgiving dinner in daughter Brigid’s dingy Chinatown apartment.

“A family play that is sort of infected by my love of the thriller genre,” is how the playwright once described this Tony Award-winning comedy drama, in which the foibles, fears, and fragilities of an American family play out with great insight, humor, and compassion.

CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM

By Mark St. Germain April 11-April 27, 2025

Warren G. Harding, eager to get away from the press, prying eyes, and the presidency, accepts an invitation to join Henry Ford and Thomas Edison on their annual camping trip. Stranded in the woods, they converse about politics, ambition, family, and fame, revealing three starkly different personalities and world views. A work of fiction inspired by an actual 1921 excursion, the play deals with issues and ideas that remain as relevant today as they were 100 years ago.

WORLD PREMIERE

THE DRESSER

By Ronald Harwood

December 20-January 5, 2025 It’s 1942, bombs are dropping over England, and a renowned but fading actor is bringing Shakespeare to the provinces with a ragtag troupe. Sir, scheduled to give his 227th performance of King Lear, is in no condition to go on, but his devoted, self-sacrificing dresser, Norman, is determined to get him onstage. Sir and Norman’s co-dependent – if unequal – relationship is the heartbeat of this warts-and-all, tragicomic valentine to the transcendent magic of theatre.

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DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTS

By Gina Montet

May 23-June 8, 2025 Laura, a determined single mother, faces the ultimate test of love for her exceptionally bright son, Daniel.

When Daniel’s brilliance spirals into darkness, Laura finds herself thrust into a gripping battle against a broken system. In a race against time, she must confront a parent’s deepest fears and sacrifice everything to rescue her son from the brink of becoming America’s next tragic headline.

Cheers to Palm Beach Dramaworks in 2024!

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Palm Beach Dramaworks 2023/24 Officers

Carlton Moody Chair

Hon. Ann Brown Vice Chair

Stephen Brown Vice Chair

Stephen M. Rabb Vice Chair

Mark Perlberg Treasurer

Penny Bank Secretary

2023/24 Board of Directors

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Sue Ellen Beryl Founding Member

Tina Bolton

2023/24 Board of Directors continued

Hermine Drezner

Susan Ellerin

Edith Hall Friedheim

Jim Fuld

Susan Goldfein

William Hayes Founding Member

Lisa Koza

Cynthia Nalley

Bernard Perry

Ed Ricci

Louise Snyder palmbeachdramaworks.org 31

Education We’re committed to providing strong, vibrant educational opportunities for students in order to nurture creativity, inspire artistic potential, build confidence, and cultivate self-expression.

Sponsored in part by:

theAcademy@pbd Songs for a New World, 2023

theAcademy@pbd: Quality training for aspiring actors and stage managers in grades 9-12, culminating in a production on our stage.

One Humanity Tour: A middle school touring program that uses storytelling with serious social themes to develop informed, thoughtful, and compassionate citizens.

Young Playwrights 10-Minute & 1-Minute Play Contests: Giving teens a creative voice in expressing their thoughts and ideas.

Free Student Matinees: School-day performances of PBD’s productions.

For more information about PBD’s education programs, and to support the education department, please contact Gary Cadwallader: gcadwallader@palmbeachdramaworks.org or 561.514.4042 x123.

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THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY M U S I C A N D LY R I C S BY N E I L BA R T R A M . B O O K BY B R I A N H I L L

LOVE IS A SCIENCE! JUNE 28 AT 2PM JUNE 29 AT 7PM JUNE 30 AT 2PM TICKETS GO ON SALE APRIL 29

Details and Audition Appointments: palmbeachdramaworks.org/education/academy Academy@palmbeachdramaworks.org

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Congratulations to the Winners of the Seventh Annual

STUDENT

GRADE

SCHOOL

Abigail Calix

12

Santaluces High School

Bruneldo Lajeunesse

12

Royal Palm Beach High School

Abigail McMullen*

12

American Heritage School

Hudson Reynolds

10

G-Star School of the Arts

Yair D. Roman

12

G-Star School of the Arts

Ava Schulties

12

The Benjamin School

Oliver Shane*

11

William T. Dwyer High School

Emily Singer*

12

Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts

Abigail Trachtenberg*

12

American Heritage School

Alessandra Roberts

12

St. Andrew’s School

For more information about PBD’s education programs, and to support the education department, please contact Gary Cadwallader: gcadwallader@palmbeachdramaworks.org or 561.514.4042 x123.

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

The Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation Nancy and Gene Beard William Randolph Hearst Foundation Diane and Mark Perlberg State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs The Cultural Council of Palm Beach County $50,000 - $99,999

Anonymous Sally Nathanson Marsha and Stephen Rabb $25,000 - $49,999

Penny Bank Tina and Jeff Bolton Stephen Brown and Jamie Stern Jackie Grimm and Bob Spiegel Sandra and Bernie Meyer The Shubert Foundation Toni and Martin Sosnoff Donations received March 1, 2023-March 1, 2024

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PARKING

WITHOUT THE

DRAMA

CONVENIENT PARKING OPTIONS Rates vary by location

Banyan Garage:

200 Banyan Blvd. between Olive Ave. and Narcissus Ave. = 3 minutes

Datura Garage:

205 Datura St. between Narcissus Ave. and Olive Ave. = 3 minutes

City Center Garage:

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

Governmental Centre Garage:

215 N. Olive Ave. between Dixie Hwy. and Olive Ave. = 5 minutes

Governmental Center 4th Street Parking Lot:

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

Evernia Garage:

333 Evernia St. between Olive Ave. and Dixie Hwy. = 6 minutes

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

PARKING LOCATIONS AND PRICING: wpb.org/government/parkingadministration/parking-locations 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! $15,000 - $24,999

Ruth Baum Lawrence Sanders Foundation Hermine Drezner Eric Friedheim Foundation

Susan and Larry Goldfein Nancy Goodes Judy and Lew Kramer Louise and Barry Snyder

Mimi and Frank Walsh $10,000 - $14,999

Honorable Ann Brown Reuben and Robin Jeffery Heather and Bruce Cohen Mary Keymer Diane and John Dalsimer Patricia Lebow James Fuld Mary Lupo and Edward M. Ricci Roe Green Bernard Perry Brenda and Ed Holt Arlene and Aarne Reid Norman Resnick $5,000 - $9,999 Chastain Charitable Foundation Priscilla Heublein Diane and Andy Berk Joan Lazarus Judy Berkowitz Priscilla Leslie Lisa Koza, Northern Trust Gretchen and Jon Maurer Esther and Sid Dinerstein Beverly Myers Charles Orozco, First Republic Bank Sara and Charles Fabrikant Barbara Prine Samuel M. Feldman Ruben Rodriguez, JP Morgan Chase Joan and David Genser Martie and Bob Sachs Roberta Golub Donna and Charles Ward Vicky and Peter Halmos Janet Yaseen Donations received March 1, 2023-March 1, 2024

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Become a volunteer usher for the 2024/25 Season Volunteer ushers are essential to PBD and to our patrons – and we need more of you. Becoming an usher is a great way to get involved in PBD, meet fellow theatre lovers, and support the company in a unique way. Plus, you’ll be providing an invaluable service.

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Thank You for Supporting Our Annual Fund Your generosity keeps the curtain rising! $1,000 - $4,999 Rachel Grody Jeanne Kanders Byron Gross and Ricky Tovim The Fledgling Fund Theatre Guild At Mirasol Peter Grossman and Lawrence Timmins Laurel Baker William Harris Macy’s Inc. Carla and David Herwitz Beth Alcalde, Akerman LLP Suzanne Holmes Madeline and Stephen Anbinder Jean Hutchison Judy and Sam Barker Gayle Brody Jacobs Sherry and Tom Barrat Daniel Kaufman and Timothy Beaver Jameson Baxter Judy and Jerry Kaufman Karen and Alfred Bearman Allan and Margaret Keene Penny and Mitchell Beers Susan and Charles Kiernan Janet Bent Lisa Koza, Northern Trust Barbara Blanck David Kwiat Paul Bernabeo and David Cohen Sidney Lesowitz and Peter Rogers Susan and John Connor Judy Lewent and Mark Shapiro Gail and John Cooney The Koch Ellis Fund Anonymous Virginia Lynn Mary Jo and Vince Elhilow Stephen and Emily Magowan Elaine and Thomas Ermolovich Barbara and Eric Malkin Diane and Neil Exter Pamela and Brian McIver Lynne and Perry Feyk Nancy and Paul McKenna Susan and William Fink Bel and Peter Miller John Foster Richard Milstein Renate Franco Joan and Carlton Moody Richard and Connie Galley Rodica and Albin Morariu Sandra and George Garfunkel Anonymous Joan Gelch and Morris Weintraub Cynthia Nalley Eric Geller and Susan Metzler Kirkman Martha and Ward C. Parker Sandra and Paul Goldner Stephanie and John Pew Robin and David Gray Mary Ellen and Michael Peyton Donations received March 1, 2023-March 1, 2024

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Thank You for Supporting Our Annual Fund Your generosity keeps the curtain rising! $1,000 - $4,999 continued Elizabeth and Gerald Rorer Carrie and Stan Rosenbaum Lisa and Jeff Rosenkranz Linda and Harold Rosenson Jane Rothchild Dan Sampson, Milestone Mortgage Corp.

Hazel and Michael Schultz Betsy Sell Phyllis and Herbert Siegel Linda and Don Silpe Culver Smith and Donna Marks Barbara Sommers Carole and William Strawbridge

Diane and Nicholas Trentacoste Judith and Howard Weiner Frances and Robert Weisman Lois and Barry Weiss Ron Wetzel and Nathan Hench Louise Ross and Bruce Wolf Lee Wolf and Jordan Cohen Admirals Cove Foundation Caroline von Feilitzsch Robin Woodard Diane and John Wren Nancy Yanofksy and Ed Brown Marcy and Jack Zeltzer

$500 - $999 Anonymous Carlyle Insurance Agency, Inc. Robin and Richard Abedon Sherry Norris and John Bauman Nancy and Peter Brown Laura Cole Martha and Milt Dalitzky William Deskin Stuart and Lynn Edinoff Dana Egert Beth and Rich Fentin Margaret Flah Virginia Gibson Mary Cirillo-Goldberg and Jay Goldberg Valerie and Robert Goldfein Elaine and Joel Goldstein Bob Goren and Roxanne Loewentheil Cathy Gropper Allison and Stuart Haft

Marcia Halpern Ellen Hart Sherry and Michael Hyman Patricia and William Jordan David Kamp and Michael Rubin Sheryl and Leonard Kessler Linda and Hank Klaiman Nancy and Paul Knapp Marjorie and Sheldon Konigsberg Wendi Levine and Hall Sisson Miriam Lieff and Albert Goldberg Ibby Lucas Marjorie Marks Millie and David McCoy Thomas Meier Deborah and Ernest Mhoon Wilma and Charles Mooney Luann and Bill Parmelee Joanne Polozker Donations received March 1, 2023-March 1, 2024

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Thank You for Supporting Our Annual Fund Your generosity keeps the curtain rising! $100 - $499 Ira Adler Joan and Jay Albert Diane and Peter Arnet Beth Baker Joan Balfour Charles Balkcom Donald L. and Norita V. Bandel Michele and James Banker Helene Barnett and Howard Rubin Catherine and Steven Barre Susan Bauchner Nadine Bederson Nancy and Mark Bender Nancy Beren Ellen Bernstein Bob and Cherrie Bierley Nona Redding Bilionis Lori Black Margaret and Matthew Blake Susan and Jerome Block Jane Bloom Karen and Alfred Blum Bill Blumberg Jacqueline and Jean Claude Boutrouille Amy Brand Susan and Paul Brenner Roslyn and Alan Brilliant Audrey Brody Helene and Ken Brower Bonnie and Bob Buchanan Philip Buttaravoli Iris Capobianco Carol L. Carnevale Natasha Consigli Sandra and Lowell Cook Diane and Bob Cornell Karol and Paul Costa Janet and David Desmon Genevieve Dole Louise Dougher Sally Drob Linda and Philip Dunmire Shelly and Neal Ehrenberg Sandra Ekberg Karen and Jay Eliezer Harriet Ellis Janet L. Ellis Ron Ezring John Fariello Matthew Farley Ronnie Fassberg Donna and Steven Feldman Nona Fine Karen Fischer

Marsha Fishbane Claire Barenholtz and Alan Fishman Melanie and Mort Fishman Regina Foon and Albert Seidner Karen Sue Fox Helen Franke Anonymous Judy and Barry Friedfeld Ann and Ira Friedman Marilyn and Carlo Funes Diana and Elliot Garfinkel Sandy and Frank Geller John Geraci Ilene Gerber Debby Gershon Rana Gerson Carol Getson Diane and Robert Ghormley Doris Gilman Suzanne Gold Rona Goldstein Joan Goldstein Sharon and Bruce Goodman Dianne and Martin Gorbaty Lydia and Stuart Gordon Conrad Goulet and Orlando Chiang Zee Jay and Jerry Greenspan Joseph Guidetti Carol and Albert Hallac Tom Hantzarides and Anastasios Samaras Jackie and Arthur Harris Eva and Irwin Hausman Susan Hemmer and Floyd Sovacool Auta and Robert Hendler Rochelle and David Hirsch Rona and Sam Hollander Wendy Honig Nancy and Barry Horowitz Alesia and John Hoy Isa and Ken Joseph Ellen and Jerry Kahan Elaine and Harmon Katz Paula Katz and Bob Davison Judy and John Keller Marshall Kern Barbara Messick and Emil Kessler Gail and Michael Kirsch Lois and Larry Kleinberg Edward Klotz and Linda Allen Shirley Koo Ellen and Irving Kramer Ellen and Jerry Kranzler Ethel and Marvin Krotenberg

Brenda Kulick Ann and Stephen Leber Wynne Leon Sheila Leventhal Stephanie and Sam Levine Shelley Levine Jerold and Renee Kramer Ellen Livingston and Edward Levitt Barbara and Myron Levy Cheryl and Al Liebowitz Deena and Stuart Lockman Rachel and Per Lorentzen Ellen Lott Jeffrey Luft Arlene and David Lurie Barbara Lurie Anonymous Stephen and Emily Magowan Mary Ann Martin Nicki McDonald Jim and Gail McKay Laura McMullen Etta and Froman Mehl Elaine and David Mendelow Daisy and John Merey Sharon and Keith Meyer Joan Milowe Lynne Minsky Daniel and Harriet Mironov Harriet Molk Eileen and Anthony Montalbano Beverly and Marvin Morse Carolyne New Marjorie O’Neill-Butler Susan and Norman Oblon Abby and Steve Perelman Zakia and Stan Phillips James Sabin and Yolanda Phinney Charlotte and Norman Plotsky Robin and Joseph Pollack Marsha and Jerry Pollak Jill Preston Joyce and Norman Primost Joan Putterman Geri and Irv Ratner Susan and Erick Reickert Joyce Reisman Alison and David Rice Marilyn Rice Beverly Ringel Joel Risch and Richard Smith Patti and John Riter Helenan and Stanley Robin Stephen Roos and Terri Sobrane

Thank you!

Donations received March 1, 2023-March 1, 2024

Paige M. Rose Charles Rose Pearl and Stanley Rosenberg Marion Rosencrans Susan and Jerome Rosenzweig Carolyn Rowe Marie Louise and Randolph Roy Henrietta and Bergino Santo Seawinds Singer Island Marty and David Schindler Linda and Michael Schneider Peter Schneider and Dena Seigel Amy and Richard Schwed Christine and Mark Shalloway Linda Sherby Tina Parsons and Randy Sherman Phoebe and Sam Shochat Elizabeth and Alan Shulman Bernice Rieders Sickle Paul Siegel Sybil and Marshall Sigel Miriam and Ron Silverman Nellie Lou Slagle Tema Smeyne and Edward Gerstein Carol Smith Joyce and Robert Smith Felice and Marty Solomon Linda Sorenson June and Jerome Spunberg Molly and Nick St. Cavish Lois Steinberg Jerry and Myra Stemerman Barbara and Fred Stern Goldie and Alan Stopek Roberta and Phillip Strasburg Marc Strassler Cari and Lenny Sukienik Joan and Irwin Tepper Susan and Martin Trefler Elaine C. Tucker Louis Tyrrell Bruce Warshal Ellen Wedner Arlin Weingold and Natalie Pincus Howard Weinstein and Suzanne LeVine Barbara and Stephen Weiss Michele and Robert Weiss Diane and Stephen Weiss Carol Weltz Shelby and Charles Werner Kay Wight Allison Worthington Eleanor and Joel Yura Bob Zwicky

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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

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OUR MISSION Palm Beach Dramaworks believes in the transformative power of live theatre and is committed to producing classic, contemporary, and world premiere plays that entertain, enlighten, stimulate discussion, and illuminate our shared humanity. We are equally dedicated to creating new works and cultivating new audiences, upholding the original objectives of the regional theatre movement. We recognize and value the power of education, offering inspiring, life-changing programs for students, and thought-provoking initiatives for adults.

OUR VALUES We steadfastly strive to maintain a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive environment for our staff, for our artists, and for our patrons.

OUR VISION To enrich the lives of those in our community, and to be recognized nationally as a vigorous and vital company that produces meaningful theatre and transforms lives.

HONORARY DIRECTORS Ruth Baum Nancy Beard Ravi Chaturvedi Esther Dinerstein Larry Goldfein Roe Green Robert Hagelstein Daryn M. Kirchfeld Lew Kramer Sidney Lesowitz J. Barry Lewis

Sherron Long Pamela McIver Charles Muoio Sally Nathanson Robert Nederlander Shari Santell William N. Shepherd Marlene Silver Mimi Walsh Beth Walton Lee Wolf

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Theatre To Think About

2023/24 SEASON May 24 - June 9, 2024

TRYING

By Joanna McClelland Glass In 1967, feisty Sarah Schorr, a 25-year-old from rural Canada, goes to work as secretary for 81-year-old Francis Biddle, the patrician former US attorney general. The brilliant Biddle is now frail, sometimes befuddled, and always irascible. Inspired by the playwright’s experiences as Biddle’s secretary, the piece is a tender yet unsentimental portrait of two disparate people navigating their vast differences to form a bond of mutual admiration, consideration, and respect.

Executive Producers

Stephen Brown and Jamie Stern