Palm Beach Dramaworks presents Topdog/Underdog

by Suzan-Lori Parks

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Note from the Producing Artistic Director and the Managing Director Welcome to Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, our final production of the 2022-23 season. We want to thank everyone – actors, directors, staff, designers, stage managers, tech crew, volunteers, and our wonderful patrons – for making the season such a great success.

Now, we want you to meet the newest member of our William Hayes Sue Ellen Beryl staff and our first chief financial & operating officer, Producing Artistic Director Managing Director Rudina Toro. We have known the immensely talented Rudina for years, and we’re confident that her business acumen will be a game-changer for PBD. Rudina, the floor is yours. ____________________________________________________________________________ Working at PBD is such a special opportunity. I grew up in theatre; my mom was a producing artistic director in Albania, where I was born, and my favorite uncle was an actor and director with the national theatre. He also read plays on the radio and acted in movies. Both were exceedingly caring, nurturing, and generous, and always happy to take me to work. I took them up on every offer, which means I was at the theatre more than anywhere else during my entire childhood. So, theatre is really in my blood.

When I was a young teenager, my family moved to South Florida and considered our plans for the future. In his infinite wisdom, my dad steered me toward a business Rudina Toro career. He knew I was good with numbers and believed an accounting degree would Chief Financial & Operating Officer perpetually provide opportunities and security. As always, he was right. Even now, I know that if I can access an organization’s financials, I can understand most everything about the operation; numbers always tell the real story.

Prior to joining the PBD team, I was CFO at two nonprofits. But I spent the first 14 years of my career with a CPA firm and met Sue Ellen while working there. We collaborated on the very first PBD audit when the nonprofit was newly established, and we connected instantly. I started coming to shows at the Banyan theatre and never left.

As an accounting professional, I feel I must be entirely invested in an organization’s mission so I can help support it and contribute to its success. And PBD is such a good fit: I respect and admire Bill and Sue Ellen and the incredible work they do. I cannot think of another local company that creates such enriching and impactful work, and I am beyond grateful for the opportunity and the trust they place in me daily.

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

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic.

When those guys get out of a spaceship – the idea that black people are from outer space, there’s a poetic truth to that.

We are this vast people. ― Suzan-Lori Parks

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Palm Beach Dramaworks presents William Hayes Producing Artistic Director Sue Ellen Beryl Managing Director

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by Suzan-Lori Parks Topdog/Underdog is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

Produced on Broadway by Carole Shorenstein Hays, Waxman/Williams Entertainment, Bob Boyett, Freddy De Mann, Susan Dietz, Ina Meibach, Scott Nederlander, Ira Pittelman Hits Magazine, Kelpine Arts, Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson, The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.

Original New York production by The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, George C. Wolfe, Producer.

by Suzan-Lori Parks Director Belinda "Be" Boyd Executive Producer Penny Bank Stage Manager Suzanne Clement Jones* Scenic Design Seth Howard 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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Topdog/Underdog: A Conversation with Director Belinda “Be” Boyd

by Sheryl Flatow In Suzan-Lori Parks’ funny and tragic Pulitzer Prize winning Topdog/Underdog, African American brothers Lincoln (Link) and Booth are ensnared in an endless loop of poverty, hustling, and violence. They’ve been fending for themselves since their parents abandoned them when they were teenagers, and live together in Booth’s seedy boarding house room.

Lincoln, a master of the con game three-card monte, threw in his cards for a “legitimate” job as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator in whiteface and stovepipe hat, making $314 a week at an arcade where customers pretend to shoot the president. Booth, who has an aversion to work and desires only to learn how to become the best three-card monte hustler on the street, wants his brother to teach him the art of the con. Meanwhile, he spends his time shoplifting. The brothers alternately support and disparage each other – often quite hilariously – as they look back at their troubled past and look ahead to an uncertain future.

Topdog/Underdog is a play about sibling rivalry, about a modern-day Cain and Abel, about one more dysfunctional family. But it is about so much more: Parks didn’t name her characters Lincoln and Booth for nothing. “The play is about the failure of the American Dream,” says director Belinda “Be” Boyd, “and specifically how the failure of the American Dream affects this African American family. The parents gave their sons $500 apiece when they left, which indicates to me that they weren’t poverty stricken. So, I think that at one time the parents were building something and bought into the American Dream. And then whatever they were building fell through, and the family fractured. Imagine that abandonment. What do you do with your pain? How do you navigate what life has to offer you?”

Lincoln and Booth had no safety net and fell through the cracks. Lacking adult guidance when they were coming of age, they never had the opportunity to nurture the continued on next page

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skills they needed to make something of themselves. Lincoln is smart, and under different circumstances might very well have led the successful life he craves. But he can’t get there. Booth has an outsized personality but is insecure, impulsive, aggressive, and angry, and has no tools to help him get out of his own way.

“At the very beginning of the play, Parks tells us who Link and Booth are,” Boyd says.

“She doesn’t apologize for their challenges and flaws, the things that keep them from functioning in the world in a way that is healthy. We think we know them right off the bat, but we find out so much more about them as she continues to peel back the layers.

What she does so beautifully is she lets us see their hearts, what they think, how they feel, and what could be. They have this familial relationship that is both incredibly tight and incredibly fragile, and she makes us love them and bond with them, while making us angry and frustrated and at times disgusted with them. She takes us on this incredible journey with these two young men, and we see them and treat them as human beings.”

Boyd directed Topdog/Underdog once before, in 2010, and her view of the play has shifted over time. “When I first directed it, I thought we were on the cusp of understanding the plight of the young, urban African American man,” she says. “I thought this play was educational, and would help enlighten audiences. Today, I still think of it is an educational piece, but I also think of it as historical. I thought things would be very different by now for African American men. And in many ways, they are. But then again, in many ways they aren’t. One example: the Black teenager in Kansas City who went to pick up his brother, went to the wrong house, rang the doorbell, and was shot by a White man. Too many people still don’t get it. I think that the people who come to see this play really want to educate themselves and try to have more insight into how to navigate humanity.”

Boyd is delighted to be back at PBD following her debut last season with Intimate Apparel. “That was such a beautiful experience,” she says. “I was blessed with an incredible cast. I laughed a lot and enjoyed crafting the piece. I loved the energy of the theatre and the people and the audience – I was so impressed by the audience. They’re so engaged, so hungry, and so appreciative. I feel like I’ve found kindred spirits here, a theatrical family.”

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Palm Beach Dramaworks presents

by

Suzan-Lori Parks

CAST Lincoln...........................George Anthony Richardson* Booth......................................................Jovon Jacobs* SETTING Here

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Production Crew

Stage Manager ..................................................................... Suzanne Clement Jones* Assistant Stage Manager.................................................................... Tyler B. Osgood Head Stagehand........................................................................... Caroline Castleman Wardrobe Supervisor .............................................................................John Santillan Head Electrician ...................................................................................... Addie Pawlick 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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GEORGE ANTHONY RICHARDSON (Lincoln) is an artist based in NYC. A 2021 graduate of Juilliard, his recent acting credits include Tanya Barfield’s Blue Door and Hansol Jung’s Cardboard Piano.

He made his Broadway debut earlier this season in the acclaimed revival of Topdog/Underdog, and is honored to revisit this enthralling story of two brothers working desperately to transcend the tragic phenomenon of domination. He sends a huge Thank You to God, his family, his team (Dan, Colin, John), and the entire cast and crew of Topdog/Underdog at PBD. JOVON JACOBS (Booth) is elated to be returning to PBD, where he was most recently seen in last season’s production of Intimate Apparel. He is a Silver Palm Award recipient (2019) for his performances in Fences (PBD), A Raisin in the Sun (New City Players), and Skeleton Crew (GableStage). Other regional credits include Last Night in Inwood and The Glass Piano (Theatre Lab), The Royale and It’s A Wonderful Life (Barter Theatre), Sweat and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (CCT Theatre), Summer Shorts (City Theatre/Adrienne Arsht Center, 2019 and 2022), Boesman and Lena (Mad Cow Theatre), All The Way (Actors’ Playhouse), Informed Consent (GableStage), One Night In Miami (Miami New Drama), and Five Guys Named Moe (M Ensemble Company). Film credits include No Vacancy (Prime Video), Love on the Reef, and Rap Sh!t (HBO). Jovon holds a BFA in acting and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. @singaboi_jj.

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BELINDA "BE" BOYD (Director) is excited to return to PBD after directing Intimate Apparel last season.

As a show director for the Walt Disney Company, she directed theme park shows as well as productions for Disney Event Group and the Disney Institute. Additional professional directing includes productions in New York, Texas, Toronto, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Vermont, and Florida. A member of Actors’ Equity, Be has performed for several Shakespeare companies. Her voice-over and commercial credits include KFC, Wycliffe, Disney, Thrifty Car Rental, Belk, Zora’s Roots (Zora Neale Hurston documentary), Food Lion, and The Gallery series. A member of the Dramatists Guild, she was commissioned

by Orlando Repertory Theatre to create a script about the Ocoee massacre. She will also be seen in the title role in an upcoming documentary about Mary McLeod Bethune.

Be has been a consultant for corporations/ companies including Tourism for South Africa, FARO (3D technology, engineering, and computer simulation), and Mursion (virtual training). performingarts.cah.ucf.edu/faculty-staff/ profile/334

SUZAN-LORI PARKS (Playwright) is the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Other awards include a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and the prestigious Gish Prize. Theatre includes Topdog/Underdog (Pulitzer), adaptation of Porgy and Bess (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical), 365 Days/365 Plays, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 1, 2 and 3), The Book of Grace, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Venus, Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Musical, The America Play,

Watch Me Work, In the Blood, White Noise, Sally & Tom, Plays for the Plague Years, and The Harder They Come. Film: Girl 6, The United States vs. Billie Holiday. TV: Genius: Aretha (creator/writer/showrunner). Novel: Getting Mother’s Body. Parks writes songs and fronts her band Sula & The Noise. She credits James Baldwin, her writing teacher and mentor, for starting her on the path of playwriting.

SUZANNE CLEMENT JONES (Stage Manager) has been stage managing at PBD since All My Sons in 2011, the company’s first production at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre.

Recent shows for PBD include 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The People Downstairs, Ordinary Americans, The House of Blue Leaves, and House on Fire. At Maltz Jupiter Theatre: Oliver!, Sweet Charity, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, An Inspector Calls, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and I Hate Hamlet. As a lighting designer, productions include The Subject was Roses, The Price, and That Championship Season at PBD; Cane and The Cha-Cha of a Camel Spider at Florida Stage; Death and the Maiden and The Birds at Mosaic Theatre; and Ring of Fire at Arts Garage. She earned a Carbonell Award for her lighting design of Dark Rapture in 1995. Suzanne has an MFA in design from Northwestern University, is proud to be a member of Actors’ Equity Association, and is presently leading the South Florida Equity Community.

SETH HOWARD (Scenic Designer) is a freelance scenic designer based out of Orlando. He has designed many regional productions and themed experiences across the country, and is excited to be joining PBD for this production of Topdog/Underdog.

Some of his recent design credits include The Mountaintop and Deathtrap (Constellation Stage & Screen), Jersey Boys (Theatre Aspen), Once on This Island (Charleston Stage), and Princess & Frog and The Wiz Jr. (The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati). He received his BFA in stage design, props, and scenic art from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). @sethhowarddesign / sethhowarddesigns.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 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 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, 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.

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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 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. BA in music and sound recording, University of New Haven. MA in music technology, University of Newcastle.

DAVID A. HYLAND (Fight Choreographer) is the Chair of the Theatre Department at Palm Beach State College. He was previously seen at PBD as Sheriff Deon Gilbeau in August: Osage County (he was also the fight choreographer), 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, David 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.

TYLER B. OSGOOD (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be spending his second season with PBD. Regional credits include the Young Playwrights 10-Minute and 1-Minute Play Contests (2023), the One Humanity Tour (2022), August: Osage County, 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.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT Topdog/Underdog is a story of urban, African American brotherhood/manhood and the perpetual game of survival, shaped by family, loss, love, myth, mystery, and violence.

Belinda “Be” Boyd

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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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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Thank You

to our volunteers "The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

—Oscar Wilde

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Cheers to Palm Beach Dramaworks in 2023!

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Managing Director Cadence Retirement Group 4600 Military Trail, Unit 217 Jupiter, FL 33458 Office: (561) 714-5646 virginia@cadenceretirementgroup.com www.cadenceretirementgroup.com

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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

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

Penny Bank Margaret and Robert Blume Tina and Jeff Bolton Stephen Brown and Jamie Stern Impact 100 Bob Spiegel and Jackie Grimm Diane and Mark Perlberg Shubert Foundation Toni and Martin Sosnoff Oblio and Barry Wish Donations received April 9, 2022 through April 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 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 Diane and John Dalsimer Susan Ellerin and Charles Lieppe Ann and Robert Fromer Joan and David Genser Beverly and Stuart Halpert Mary Keymer Priscilla Leslie Mary Lupo and Edward M. Ricci

Anonymous Michael McCafferty and Joseph Horton Beverly Myers Robert Nederlander Bernard Perry Arlene and Aarne Reid Marty and Bob Sachs Louise and Barry Snyder

$5,000 - $9,999 Patti Silver and Leonard Ackerman Roy Bartolomei and Peter Wronsky Diane and Andy Berk Daft Family Foundation Esther and Sid Dinerstein Roberta Golub Priscilla Heublein

Stephen Jacobs Cynthia Nalley Charles Orozco Barbara Prine Donna Reynolds Peter Rezzonico Elaine and Larry Rothenberg

Donations received April 9, 2022 through April 9, 2023

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BECOME A CORPORATE SPONSOR As a corporate partner of PBD, you will enjoy exclusive benefits and recognition including opportunities to entertain clients and employees, networking events with diverse groups of theatre supporters, and co-branding opportunities with one of the most highly regarded professional theatres in South Florida.

Benefits may include:

• Complimentary tickets to a sponsored performance/event with opportunity to purchase additional tickets • Logo inclusion in the playbill • Stage mention at sponsored performance/event • Invitation as a sponsor to exclusive events, programs, and performances • Recognition as a sponsor on PBD’s website, in the playbill, and on signage at sponsored event • Opportunity to host a pre-show reception at the theatre on night of your choice (expenses to be paid by corporate partner)

• An ad in all season playbills

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Thank You for Supporting Our Annual Fund Your generosity keeps the curtain rising! $1,000 - $4,999 Beth Alcalde, Akerman LLP Madeline and Stephen Anbinder Edwige and John Bade Michael Bakst and Tim Harris Judy and Sam Barker Sherry and Tom Barrat Jameson Baxter Karen and Alfred Bearman Linda and Keith Beaty Penny and Mitchell Beers Janet Bent Barbara Blanck Bill Bone Roy Cacciaguida Susan and John Connor Lucy W. Cook Gail and John Cooney Karol and Paul Costa Melissa Ann Coyne Stuart and Lynn Edinoff Mary Jo and Vince Elhilow Arlene and Glenn Englander Diane Exter Susan and William Fink James Fuld Maggie and John Gagliardi Richard and Connie Galley Sandra and George Garfunkel Joan Gelch and Morris Weintraub Virginia Gibson Toby Gluckstern Mary Cirillo-Goldberg and Jay Goldberg Sandra and Paul Goldner Roe Green Rachel Grody Byron Gross and Ricky Tovim Peter Grossman and Lawrence Timmins Allison and Stuart Haft Marcia Halpern William Harris Joann and Forrest Hayes Carla and David Herwitz Phyllis Hopman Jean Hutchison Sherry and Michael Hyman Patricia and William Jordan Jeanne Kanders 33 palmbeachdramaworks.org

Daniel Kaufman and Timothy Beaver Judy and Jerry Kaufman Allan and Margaret Keene Susan and Charles Kiernan David Kwiat Marsha and Henry Laufer Monica and Scott Laurans Arlene Lazarus Patricia Lebow Sidney Lesowitz and Peter Rogers Wendi Levine and Hall Sisson 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 Thomas Meier Joan and Carlton Moody Jeri and Charles Muoio Elsie and Dick Myers Elinor and Harold Oertell Lenore Orlowska-Warren and Donald Warren Palm Beach County Human Rights Council Martha and Ward C. Parker Mary Ellen and Michael Peyton Norman Resnick Elizabeth and Gerald Rorer Carrie and Stan Rosenbaum Linda and Jay Rosenkranz Jeff Rosenkranz Linda and Harold Rosenson Carol and Joseph Rosetti Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr. Fran and Leon Sachs Elizabeth and John Santoro Donna Marie Schooley Hazel and Michael Schultz Susan Schwartz Lindalee and Robert Scrivener Anita and Bob Seidemann Caroline and Bill Shepherd Phyllis and Herbert Siegel Linda and Don Silpe palmbeachdramaworks.org 33 31

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

Culver Smith and Donna Marks Smith, Ball and Maez Injury Lawyers Karin and John Strasswimmer Connie Tamburo Elissa Terry Gunster D'Vera Topol

$500 - $999 Robin and Richard Abedon Michele and James Banker 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 Louise Dougher Harriett Eckstein Elaine and Thomas Ermolovich Beth and Rich Fentin Lynne and Perry Feyk Willie and Jerod Field Marsha Fishbane Pam and Don Ford

Anonymous Eric Geller and Susan Metzler Kirkman Brenda Kulick and Jay Gettinger Valerie and Robert Goldfein Elaine and Joel Goldstein Cathy Gropper Michael Hoagland and Joseph Kolb Judith Hochroth and Allan Green Enid Hoffman Gayle Brody Jacobs David Kamp Sheryl and Leonard Kessler Nancy and Paul Knapp Marjorie and Sheldon Konigsberg Phyllis and Larry Kushins Ellen Livingston and Edward Levitt

Barbara and Myron Levy Miriam Lieff and Albert Goldberg Nancy and Paul McKenna Kari Floren and Michael McKenzie Country Club at Mirasol Wilma and Charles Mooney Luann and Bill Parmelee Mary Jane Range Brenda and Larry Robinson Carolyn Rowe Jill and Neil Senzer Barbara Sommers Lois Steinberg Jayne Suskin Donna and Malcolm Wattman Kimberly and Roger Yaseen Eleanor and Joel Yura

$100 - $499 Anonymous Ira Adler Linda Agnolucci Deanna and Bernard Albert Doris and Harry Albirt Diane and Peter Arnet Beth Baker Joan Balfour Charles Balkcom Donald and Norita Bandel Helene Barnett and Howard Rubin Catherine and Steven Barre Catherine and Steven Barre Susan Bauchner Nadine Bederson Nancy and Mark Bender

Barry Benjamin Nancy Beren Ellen Bernstein Bob and Cherrie Bierley Nona Redding Bilionis Lori Black Margaret and Matthew Blake Susan and Jerome Block Jane Bloom Bill Blumberg Susan and Paul Brenner 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 Sandra and Lowell Cook Dennis Creaghan and Deborah Esposito Janet and David Desmon Genevieve Dole Margaret Donnelley Lawrence Dougher Linda and Philip Dunmire Cheryl Dunn Bychek Dana Egert Shelly and Neal Ehrenberg Karen and Jay Eliezer Harriet Ellis Janet L. Ellis

Marie and Geoffery Etherington Matthew Farley Ronnie Fassberg Donna and Steven Feldman Charles Feller Ann and Lee Fensterstock Nona Fine Karen Fischer 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

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Thank You for Supporting Our Annual Fund Your generosity keeps the curtain rising! $100 - $499 continued Judy and Barry Friedfeld Ann and Ira Friedman Marilyn and Carlo Funes Diana and Elliot Garfinkel Sandy and Frank Geller Ilene Gerber Rana Gerson Carol Getson Diane and Robert Ghormley Doris Gilman Vivian and Harvey Glassman Suzanne Gold Sue Goldfinger and Timothy Bell Rona Goldstein Joan Goldstein Sharon and Bruce Goodman Michael Goodman Dianne and Martin Gorbaty Lydia and Stuart Gordon Conrad Goulet and Orlando Chiang Gail and Ed Greenberg Zee Jay and Jerry Greenspan Joseph Guidetti Lenora Hall Carol and Albert Hallac Jackie and Arthur Harris Susan Hemmer and Floyd Sovacool Auta and Robert Hendler Anne and Robert Hite Wendy Honig Nancy and Barry Horowitz Alesia and John Hoy Jennifer Jackson Isa and Ken Joseph Ellen and Jerry Kahan Elaine and Harmon Katz Paula Katz and Bob Davison Judy and John Keller Debra Kelly-Ennis and Joe Nestic Marshall Kern Barbara Messick and Emil Kessler Gail and Michael Kirsch Lois and Larry Kleinberg Arlene Fine Klepper Edward Klotz and Linda Allen Helen and Al Kniberg Shirley Koo

Linda and Gene Kopf Matthew Korinko Ellen and Irving Kramer Ellen and Jerry Kranzler Gail and Sid Kreppel Ethel and Marvin Krotenberg Iris and Steven Lapidus Marilyn and Alan LeRoy Ann and Stephen Leber Albert Leizman and Ann Harte Wynne Leon Ann and David Levin Stephanie and Sam Levine Shelley Levine Dr. Jerold and Renee Kramer Meron Levitats Cheryl and Al Liebowitz Marilyn and Richard Litner Rachel and Per Lorentzen Jeffrey Luft Arlene and David Lurie Anonymous Stephen and Emily Magowan Mary Ann Martin Millie and David McCoy Nicki McDonald 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 Joan Milowe Peg Minges Daniel and Harriet Mironov Harriet Molk Eileen and Anthony Montalbano Barbara Morgenstern Beverly and Marvin Morse Alice and Allan Mostoff Samuel Neulinger Carolyne New 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 Joyce and Norman Primost Joan Putterman Diane Quinn Rochelle and George Ram Geri and Irv Ratner Sue Regan Susan and Erick Reickert Giselle Reischer and Harvey Rubinson Beverly Reuter and Arthur Hurwitz Alison and David Rice Marilyn Rice Beverly Ringel Joel Risch and Richard Smith Patti and John Riter Marilyn Ritter Helenan and Stanley Robin Stephen Roos and Terri Sobrane Paige M. Rose Pearl and Stanley Rosenberg Susan and Jerome Rosenzweig Barbara and Chip Ross Marie Louise and Randolph Roy Pamela Saba Fran Sadoff-LeBow Billie and Steven Sandler Henrietta and Bergino Santo Seawinds Singer Island Marty and David Schindler Peter Schneider and Dena Seigel Barbara Schulman Amy and Richard Schwed Merri Scott Carole Sebbane Rita Seidner Christine and Mark Shalloway Steve Shapiro Linda Sherby 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 Felice and Marty Solomon Linda Sorenson June and Jerome Spunberg Molly and Nick St. Cavish Mark and Phyllis Stein Jerry and Myra Stemerman Barbara and Fred Stern Shirley Stone Cohlan Goldie and Alan Stopek Marc Strassler Cari and Lenny Sukienik Judith Suslow Terrie Temkin Joan and Irwin Tepper 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 Carol Weltz Nancy and David Wolf Robin Woodard Allison Worthington Desi and Ben Zalman Esther and Richard Zaretsky

Donations received April 9, 2022 through April 9, 2023

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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

If you’d like to contribute to the campaign, visit our new website, www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/donate.

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Palm Beach Dramaworks

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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2023-2024 Compass LGBTQ+ Community Center

Events & Programs Our mission is to engage, empower and enrich the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people and those impacted by HIV and AIDS.

Opportunities Available For Internships Sponsorships Volunteering & Service Work Business Alliance Membership Diversity and Inclusion Training

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Puertas Abiertas - Oct. 14, 2023 SMART Ride - Nov. 17 to 18, 2023 World AIDS Day - Dec. 1, 2023 Cocktails for Compass - Dec. 11, 2023 AIDS Memorial Quilt - Dec. 1 to 31, 2023 Miss. Palm Beach Pride - Feb. 2024 Palm Beach Pride - Mar. 23 to 24, 2024 Stonewall Ball - Jun. 29, 2024

Center Programs

HIV Testing & Education Health Services Social & Support Groups Mental Health Services Business Alliance Youth & Family Services

For More information

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Become a volunteer usher for the 2023/24 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.

Please consider volunteering today.

Contact House Manager Pierre Tannous at ptannous@palmbeachdramaworks.org

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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.

Palm Beach Dramaworks is a proud member of...

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Theatre To Think About

2023/24 SEASON LOBBY HERO

By Kenneth Lonergan

October 13 - 29, 2023 Four New Yorkers involved in a murder investigation – a slacker security guard in a Manhattan apartment building, his by-the-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.

THE MESSENGER

WORLD PREMIERE

December 8 - 24, 2023

Mrs. Roberta Golub

By Jenny Connell Davis

Executive Producer

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.

THE CANCELLATION OF LAUREN FEIN

By Christopher Demos-Brown

February 2 - 18, 2024

WORLD PREMIERE Executive Producers

Marsha & Stephen Rabb

Lauren Fein and her wife, Paola Munoz, are professors at a prestigious American university. They live with Dylan, their 16-year-old 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 SALEMAN

Toni & Martin Sosnoff

March 29 - April 14, 2024

Nancy Goodes Ruth Baum

By Arthur Miller

Executive Producers Producers

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.”

TRYING

Joanna McClelland Glass

May 24 - June 9, 2024

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Executive Producers

Stephen Brown & Jamie Stern

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.