"Corsicana" Performance Program

Corsicana

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From the Playwright: Will Arbery There’s a part of me that really wanted this program note to say: “Corsicana is a small city in Texas. This play is about four people who live there. Thanks for coming.” The end.

But I suppose this would be the space to tell you — and I should probably tell you — that I wrote this play because I have an older sister named Julia who has Down syndrome.

And that I’ve always wanted to create a play about what it’s like to be her brother. So I started writing this play which I’ve been writing all my life. For some reason, I made them live in Corsicana instead of Dallas. I made them Protestant instead of Catholic, and half-siblings, and just the two of them, instead of giving them six more siblings like we had. Then I added two characters, who I didn’t know much about, and who started talking to me in all sorts of baffling ways. A simple idea got more complicated.

Which was always the point. Julia often gets pigeonholed — either as angelic or pitiable, limited or blessed. People tend to not consider her depression, desire, manipulation, ambivalence, sexuality. And anyway, I told myself to avoid soapboxes, so I’ll just say she’s one of my favorite people, and an extremely important part of the world that I was given.

It’s weird to name a play after a place, and I can’t stop doing it. I spent a month in Corsicana once, in an old empty building on Main Street, where I was doing a writer’s residency. It was June and really hot. The building was beautiful, but I was afraid of it because it used to be the gathering place for secret societies. While I was there, I mostly thought about ghosts. I had a lot of nightmares. I didn’t write at all. I just stayed on my bed, watching YouTube videos and ordering too much Dominos. The air felt really thick. Later, back home, I realized that Corsicana was haunting me, and that I’d like to meet some characters in that thick air.

Now, as I write this, in the weeks leading up to the first rehearsal — the jittery unknown — I’ve been thinking about access. Granting and then denying access, which is an impulse I often feel. I share so much and then I want to slam the gate shut. I’ve been

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thinking about the way Julia sings “O Holy Night,” making everyone shut up and listen and watch her, and then getting too nervous to start. So we all have to sing it together, trudging through the notes until we reach the time-to-shine part — “fall on your knees, oh hear the angels’ voices” — and that’s when her voice rises unmistakably above all of ours, and she finishes the song, and suddenly there’s a new thing in the air above our heads and we all get quiet.

But writing this play, I was thinking more of the singing she does behind closed doors.

The cool dances she makes up. The stories she whispers to herself. The stuff that’s hers and hers alone. I don’t have access to most of it. She doesn’t have access to my drafts and weird brainstorms either. And I think about half-written books that go unpublished. And I think about artists who obsessively create work, year after year, in near obscurity, and then their work gets discovered and fetishized and sold and recontextualized. This play pivots around that moment when something made in private becomes public. Does sharing a made thing take it away from the one who made it? Does articulating a feeling change the feeling? Is a person still the person they were, once they’re gone? What happens to my stories — which were never really mine, which I stole, and then doubled, and then doubted, and then doubled down — when they start to rattle around in your skull?

Wouldn’t it be cool to be discovered as a fossil? Doesn’t finding a fossil feel like finding the person? Or are the bones just our projection of a person? Generic or specific, a or the — all gone into the thick unknowable.

Anyway, this simple idea got a bit complicated. I’m gonna say this more for myself than for you: Corsicana is a small city in Texas. This play is about four people who live there. Thanks for coming.

Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater Artistic Director

Managing Director

Adam Greenfield

Leslie Marcus

General Manager

Carol Fishman

presents the world premiere of

Corsicana Written by

Will Arbery Catch As Catch Can Written by Mia Chung Directed by Daniel Aukin

Steppenwolf Theatre Company and The National Theatre’s production of

Regretfully, So the Birds Are Written by Julia Izumi Directed by Jenny Koons Co-produced with WP Theater

Downstate

Wet Brain

The Trees

Co-produced with MCC Theater

Written by Bruce Norris Directed by Pam MacKinnon

Written by John J. Caswell, Jr. Directed by Dustin Wills

Written by Agnes Borinsky Directed by Tina Satter

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Jamie Brewer Will Dagger Deirdre O’Connell Harold Surratt

Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Composer

Music Director

Vocal and Text Coach

Production Stage Manager

Press Representative

Associate Managing Director

Associate Artistic Director

Laura Jellinek Cate McCrea Joanna Sternberg

Co-produced with Page 73 Productions

“The up-to-date culture vulture should see everything at Playwrights Horizons.”

Featuring

Amanda Spooner

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Kyle Sircus

Qween Jean

Ilene Reid

Isabella Byrd

Sound Design

Justin Ellington

Gigi Buffington

Blake Zidell & Associates

Casting

Alaine Alldaffer, CSA

Natasha Sinha

Directed by

Sam Gold Corsicana was developed at the 2021 Ojai Playwrights Conference: Robert Egan, Artistic Director/Producer Corsicana is produced by special arrangement with Seaview

Cast Ginny Christopher Justice Lot

JAMIE BREWER WILL DAGGER DEIRDRE O’CONNELL HAROLD SURRATT

Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

AMANDA SPOONER ANDIE BURNS

Setting Corsicana, Texas. Now.

About the Artists JAMIE BREWER (Ginny). Playwrights debut. Jamie Brewer, known for her role in “American Horror Story,” has been acting all her adult life and has mastered the stage, as well as her TV and film career.

Jamie was the first woman with Down syndrome to walk in NYFW. She won the 2018 Theater World Award and the Drama Desk Award for her performance in the OffBroadway production Amy and The Orphans.

Jamie can be seen in the upcoming film Bromates, co-produced by Snoop Dogg.

WILL DAGGER (Christopher). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Among the Dead (Ma-Yi, New York Times Critic’s Pick), The Convent of Pleasure (Cherry Lane), Napoleon in Exile (59E59), The Antelope Party (Dutch Kills, New York Times Critic’s Pick). TV: “Law & Order: SVU,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Deception,” “New Timers.” willdagger.com DEIRDRE O’CONNELL (Justice).

Playwrights: Circle Mirror Transformation, Manic Flight Reaction, Moe‘s Lucky Seven, Spatter Pattern. Broadway: Dana H (Tony Award nomination, Obie, Lucille Lortel, and Outer Critics Circle awards), Magic/ Bird. Off-Broadway: The Way West, Thinner Than Water (Labyrinth); By the Water, Fulfillment Center (MTC); Judy (Page73); In the Wake (The Public), Scarcity (Rattlestick); Terminus (NYTW). Regional: Before the Meeting (Williamstown). Film: Diane, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. TV: “The Affair,” “The Path,” “Outer Range.” Awards:

Obie Award for Sustained Excellent in Performance, New York Drama Critics Circle Special Citation, Lily Award, Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award.

HAROLD SURRATT (Lot). Playwrights: Familiar. Broadway: Impressionism, Serious Money. Other theater credits: A.R.T., The McCarter, The Goodman, The Kirk Douglas, La Mama, Premiere Stages, Keen Company, Urban Stages, Triad Stage, The Denver Center, and A.C.T. Films: Bite Me, The Pelican Brief, Blood In Blood Out, Sudden Death. TV: Recurring roles on “The Blacklist,” “Grand Army,” “For Life,” “Orange Is the New Black,” and “The Temptations.” Training: A.C.T.’s professional training program.

WILL ARBERY (Playwright). Playwrights: Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Will is a playwright from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters. Heroes of the Fourth Turning was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of the best plays of 2019 by The New York Times, Vulture, Time Out, and more. He’s the recipient of an Obie Award, Lortel Award, New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and Whiting Award. Other plays include Plano (Clubbed Thumb), Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (New Neighborhood), Wheelchair (3 Hole Press). He’s a member of New Dramatists, and an alum of The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, P73’s Interstate 73, Colt Coeur, Youngblood, and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group. He’s the former Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Playwrights

Horizons. He’s developing film/TV projects with A24, BBC Films, Endeavor, and Hulu.

Most recently, he served as a writer on Season 4 of “Succession” (HBO). An excerpt from Corsicana was published in the Spring 2022 issue of The Paris Review.

This play is dedicated to Julia.

SAM GOLD (Director). Sam is a Tony Award-winning director based in Brooklyn, New York. His Broadway credits include Macbeth; King Lear; A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Tony Award nomination); The Glass Menagerie; Fun Home (Tony Award); The Real Thing; The Realistic Joneses; Picnic; Seminar.

Playwrights Horizons: The Flick (also Barrow Street Theatre, National Theatre London; Lortel Award nomination); Kin; The Big Meal (Lortel Award); Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination).

Other productions include: The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic); Hamlet (The Public); Othello (New York Theatre Workshop); The Glass Menagerie (Toneelgroep Amsterdam); John (Signature; Obie Award, Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominations); The Village Bike (MCC); Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep.; Drama Desk nomination); The Realistic Joneses (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Cradle Will Rock (Encores! Off-Center); Look Back in Anger (Roundabout; Lortel nomination); and The Aliens (Rattlestick; Obie Award).

Training: The Juilliard School.

LAURA JELLINEK (Scenic Designer).

Playwrights: Heroes of the Fourth Turning, The Treasurer, Marjorie Prime, A Life.

Broadway: Oklahoma!; Sea Wall / A Life; Marvin’s Room. Off-Broadway: The Antipodes, Everybody (Signature); Buzzer (The Public); Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage); Mary Jane (NYTW); Rags Parkland…, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova); The Wolves, Queens (LCT); The Debate Society, The Mad Ones. Opera: OTSL, Boston Lyric, Opera Philadelphia, Atlanta Opera. Obie for Sustained Excellence in Design. MFA: NYU. CATE McCREA (Scenic Designer) Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: A Woman of the World (The Acting Company), The Collision/The Martyrdom (59E59). Other credits at Danspace Project, Ars Nova, New Ohio Theatre, the Tank; and with Little Opera Theatre of New York, Columbia University Ancient Drama, and the Drama

League. Associate design at the Public, New York Theatre Workshop, the Guthrie, and others.

QWEEN JEAN (Costume Designer).

Playwrights: What to Send Up When It Goes Down. Recent theatre: Wedding Band, On Sugarland, Black No More, I Need Space, Macbeth In Stride, Semblance, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Siblings Play, Amen Corner, Rags Parkland, Good Grief, Othello, and the acclaimed What to Send Up When It Goes Down. MFA from NYU Tisch. Black Trans Lives Matter!

ISABELLA BYRD (Lighting Designer).

Brooklyn-based and Texas-raised.

Playwrights: Heroes of the Fourth Turning, The Thanksgiving Play. Sanctuary City and The Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (NYTW), Epiphany (LCT), ‘Daddy’: A Melodrama (Vineyard/New Group, and London’s Almeida), Continuity (MTC), Plano (Clubbed Thumb). International: Cabaret (West End, Olivier nomination), Endgame (Gate Theatre, Dublin). Regional: ACT San Francisco, Actors Theatre Louisville, Alley Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, Old Globe, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Westport, Portland Center Stage. Isabella is a proud USA829 member, Lortel, Obie, and Henry Hewes award winner. www.isabellabyrd.design.

JUSTIN ELLINGTON (Sound Designer).

Playwrights: Tambo & Bones, Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Broadway: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Was Enuff, Clyde’s, Pass Over, Other Desert Cities. Other Off-Broadway: The Rolling Stone, Pass Over, Pipeline (Lincoln Center); Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (ArsNova); The House That Will Not Stand, Fetch Clay Make Man (NYTW); Merchant Of Venice, He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, The Winter’s Tale (TFANA).

JOANNA STERNBERG (Composer) is a singer, songwriter, musician, and visual artist born and based in New York City.

Fat Possum Records released Sternberg’s debut full-length album, Then I Try Some More, in 2019. Joanna finished their double bass performance degree at The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music, where they got a full scholarship. When

Joanna was 23, they began writing songs and learning how to sing. At the age of 24 Joanna started singing in public while accompanying themself on different instruments. Today, Joanna continues to write songs, sing, create visual art and play instruments (double bass, electric bass, guitar, piano, violin, drums, banjo and mandolin).

ILENE REID (Music Director). Playwrights: Mankind. Ilene is one of the Grammynominated songwriters of “Throw That Girl Around,” from the Broadway musical Swing!. Her musical Bingo (The Winning Musical), written with Michael Heitzman and David Holcenberg, had a successful Off-Broadway run and continues to be produced nationally and internationally. Current projects include Genius (an adaptation of the Patrick Dennis novel), the original musical Solana (both co-written with Mr. Heitzman), and Godsplaining with Manja Lyssy. She is a private vocal coach and an adjunct professor at Indiana University. heitzmanreid.com GIGI BUFFINGTON (Vocal and Text Coach).

Playwrights: The Thin Place, Heroes of the Fourth Turning. Broadway: The Minutes, Clyde’s, Slave Play (Remount), Pass Over, Linda Vista, Straight White Men, King Kong.

Selected Off-Broadway: On Sugarland, Prayer For The French Republic, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord. Buffington has coached five seasons for Steppenwolf Theater Company and one season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. She was the text consultant for Spike Lee and Ron Wimberly’s screenplay Prince Of Cats and is an Arts Professor at Tisch Drama, NYU. AMANDA SPOONER (Production Stage Manager). Playwrights: For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, Log Cabin. Amanda Spooner is a stage manager and educator, based in New York. She has worked on Broadway and throughout the country.

She is the founder of the grassroots campaign Year of the Stage Manager, the Director of Education for the Stage Managers’ Association, an ambassador for the Parent Artist Advocacy League, and is on council at Actors’ Equity Association.

Amanda received her MFA from the Yale

School of Drama and serves on faculty at Ithaca College. Amanda is a member of the Playwrights Artistic Advisory Council. She loves stage-managing a lot but she loves her son, Jack, more.

ANDIE BURNS (Assistant Stage Manager).

Playwrights debut. Broadway: A Strange Loop Broadway (PA, Sub ASM). Regional: Teenage Dick, A Strange Loop (Woolly Mammoth); FLEX, Dracula, Corpse Washer, The Santaland Diaries, Pipeline, Curious Incident… (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Grounded, The 39 Steps (Southern Colorado Rep) as well as Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and Spoleto Festival. Love to family and friends. BFA Stage Management: Millikin University. @andieleighburns PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS is dedicated to cultivating the most important American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, as well as developing and producing their bold new plays and musicals. Adam Greenfield became Artistic Director in 2020; Leslie Marcus has served as Managing Director since 1993. As it enters its 51st season, Playwrights builds upon its diverse and renowned body of work, counting 400 writers among its artistic roster. In addition to its onstage work each season, Playwrights’ singular commitment to nurturing American theater artists guides all of the institution’s multifaceted initiatives: our acclaimed New Works Lab, a robust commissioning program, an innovative curriculum at its Theater School, and more. Robert Moss founded Playwrights in 1971 and cemented the mission that continues to guide the institution today. André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981–1992. Don Scardino succeeded him and served until 1996. Tim Sanford, the organization’s longest-serving Artistic Director, held the position from 1996-2020. Over its 50-year history, Playwrights has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including seven Pulitzer Prizes, 13 Tony Awards, and 47 Obie Awards.

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“This foundational question, ‘Is your reality my reality?,’ simmers gently beneath the surface of Corsicana.

In their unique way, and to various degrees, each character in this quartet lives outside the ‘norm,’ reaching across the divide to forge a kinship.”

Artistic Director Adam Greenfield

“The pandemic has taught us many things, and perhaps chief among them is how irrevocably interdependent we all are. Contrary to one of the tenets of capitalist America, there is no such thing as true self-sufficiency; structurally and socially, we rely on one another to keep us safe and to keep us going.”

Artistic Fellow Aydan Shahd

“Does sharing a made thing take it away from the one who made it? Does articulating a feeling change the feeling? Is a person still the person they were, once they’re gone?”

Playwright Will Arbery

Playwrights Horizons Staff

PLAYWRIGHTS DOWNTOWN ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR.........................

EVA ROSA-FERRERA

OPENING NIGHT: JUNE 22, 2022

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR........ ADAM GREENFIELD MANAGING DIRECTOR...........LESLIE MARCUS GENERAL MANAGER............ CAROL FISHMAN Associate General Manager...................Seth Shepsle Company Manager............................... Maggie Swahl Assistant Company Manager and Head House Manager................ Ashley Villanueva Executive Assistant and Board Liaison...................................Kiara Johnson ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR........................ NATASHA SINHA Literary Director........................................ Lizzie Stern Artistic Programs Producer............ Karl Baker Olson Literary and Community Engagement Assistant................May Treuhaft-Ali Artistic Fellow........................................ Aydan Shahd Script Reader..............................................Noah Ezell CASTING DIRECTOR......... ALAINE ALLDAFFER Associate Casting Director....................Lisa Donadio Casting Fellow.......................Annika Perez-Krikorian COMMISSIONED ARTISTS Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Commissions David Adjmi, Clare Barron, Dave Harris, Amy Herzog, Lucas Hnath, Ike Holter, Julia Jordan, Greg Keller Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Commissions Kate Attwell, Christopher Chen, Heather Christian, Mia Chung, Samuel D. Hunter, Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, Taylor Mac, Bruce Norris, Tori Sampson Kate and Seymour Weingarten Commissions Cesar Alvarez, Kate Cortesi, Sarah DeLappe, Bathsheba Doran, Emily Feldman, Marco Ramirez, Ianne Fields Stewart Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Commission Lisa Kron Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Program for Commissioning Women in the Performing Arts Danai Gurira, Aleshea Harris, Sarah B. Mantell Amal Commission Mona Mansour Jody Falco and Jeffrey Steinman Commissions for Emerging Playwrights T. Adamson, Brittany K. Allen, Will Arbery, Bleu Beckford-Burrell, Agnes Borinsky, John J. Caswell, Jr., Milo Cramer, Julia Izumi, Hansol Jung, Jiehae Park, Korde Tuttle Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Musicals in Partnership Initiative Commissions Todd Almond and Lear deBessonet M.E.W. Commissions David Adjmi, Ricky Ian Gordon, Michael Korie, Anne Washburn Stacey Mindich Productions Commission Jenny Giering, Adam Gwon, Karen Hartman

ARTISTIC ADVISORY COUNCIL Daniel Aukin, Ashley Chang, Catherine Coray, Jorge Cortiñas, Ty Defoe, Madeleine George, Francis Jue, David Mendizábal, Amanda Spooner, Awoye Timpo, Jason Veasey RESIDENT THEATER COMPANIES Clubbed Thumb, Musical Theatre Factory, SPACE on Ryder Farm PRODUCTION MANAGER.............JAY JANICKI Technical Director..................................... Ed Massari Assistant Technical Director...........Justus Herrera Costume Shop Supervisor................Michael Graller Lighting Supervisor...............................Maxx Serpica Production Coordinator...................... Carol Almonte Building Manager............................. Gustavo Naranjo Robert Moss Directing Fellow...............Adam Coy, Ryan Dobrin Stage Management Fellows......................Zach Brecheen, Kayla Owen DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT...........BENJAMIN WEISMAN Associate Director, Institutional Giving and Campaign.................................Susan Ferziger Major Gifts Officer.................................Meghan Gaur Annual Funds Associate...................Maddie Milligan Institutional Giving Associate........... Chani Sebazco Development Assistant............................Pam Muñoz INTERIM HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER.......

SUZEN BRIA CONTROLLER................................ HOJAE LEE Data Analytics Manager...........Bonita Carol Thomas Accounting Assistant.....................Angelica Gallardo Administrative and Office Coordinator........................ Derresha Webb ASSOCIATE MANAGING DIRECTOR.............................KYLE SIRCUS Senior Marketing Manager...................... Erica Pierre Communications Associate.................Billy McEntee Graphics and Digital Content Associate..............................................Jordan Best Audience Services Manager.............Katasha Nelson Box Office Manager......................... Brittany Kressler Assistant Box Office Manager...........Allyson Broyles Marketing Fellow............................... Charlie Chauca Box Office Associate...................Sodongo Sodsuren

PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS THEATER SCHOOL DIRECTOR............................ TOMI TSUNODA Producing Manager................................... Kyle Gates Manager of Student Affairs................ Libby Peterson Production Manager............................Ryan Courtney LEAD FACULTY Jaclyn Backhaus nicHi douglas Jedadiah Schultz Andrew Scoville Nicole Wee PLAYWRIGHTS REHEARSAL STUDIOS Client Services Manager....................James Wyrwicz Studio Associates.........................................................

Susan Bowyer, Adrienne Gomez, Amani Huell, Karolina Judd, Rebecca Kane, Aaron Keller, Kevin Kong, Annika Perez-Krikorian, Choice Plasencia, Becca Samuelson, Ry Szelong SPECIAL SERVICES Legal Counsel...................................Farber Law, LLC; Andrew Farber, Esq Accountants.......................Lutz & Carr/Shari Ferrara Insurance............................ Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. of New York, Inc./AliceFay Prine Architect.........................Mitchell Kurtz Architect, PC Telephone Services............ RingCentral, Transbeam Computer Systems................... Lansend/Ashwin Pai Website Design.........................................Blenderbox CRM Software................................Tessitura Network Closed Captioning.......................................... GalaPro Digital Advertising................Allied Global Marketing Telemarketing..................................................SMART, Strategic Marketing for the Arts Custodial Services............ Impressive Cleaning Inc.

AUTHOR’S THANKS

Tom Park, David Skinner, Greg Nobile, John MacGregor, Olivier Sultan, Eva Dickerman, Lewis Hyde, Kyle Hobratschk, David Searcy, Nancy Rebal, Wayne Hall, 100W Corsicana, Sam Barickman, Di Glazer, Yiyi Huang, Jacob Robinson, Abigail Friedman, Loddie Allison, Lauren Potter, Brian D. Coats, Ansa Akyea, K. Todd Freeman, Robert Egan, Mark Seldis, Jose Delgado, Adam O’Byrne, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Interstate 73, Gavin Morrison, Lucia Simek, Joan Arbery, Glenn and Virginia Arbery, and most especially the unstoppable Julia Joofbox Arbery, to whom this play is dedicated.

STAFF FOR CORSICANA Company Manager............................... Maggie Swahl Production Stage Manager............Amanda Spooner Assistant Stage Manager........................ Andie Burns Assistant Company Manager and Head House Manager................ Ashley Villanueva Directing Fellow.......................................Ryan Dobrin Stage Management Fellow................Zach Brecheen Production Assistant..............................Dani Berman Assistant Production Manager............Madison Lane Additional Music Arrangements........Justin Ellington Music Consultant....................................Fred Lassen Properties Supervisor.........................Joshua Yocom Properties Crew...............Jess Smith, Paul Birtwistle Paint Charge..............Jesse Harron, Emily Cartagine Carpenters...... Chase McGough, Sam Spear, Angus Davis, Dulfy Trinidad, Molly Siskin, Eric Sanford, Patrick Fray, Samuel Keran Deck Hand/Automation Operator......Sammy Smith Assistant Costume Designer..............Amelia Camilo Costume Crew.................................... Taylor Marrs Assistant Lighting Designer........Paul Vaillancourt Lighting Programmer.......................... Matt Steinberg Light Board Operator.................................Judy Kagel Lighting Crew.......Kyle Lefeber, Abigail Rinaldi, Judy Kagel, Christopher Campbell Associate Sound Designer............................DJ Potts Audio Coordinator.................................Dylan Carrow Audio Supervisor................................Kevin Novinsky Sound Board Operator......................... Brandon Bulls Audio Crew..............................DJ Potts, Ross Monroe iPad Technician...................................... Robbie Feffer Artwork Design...........................................Jeff Rogers COVID Safety Officer........................Tanya Chattman House Managers.........Nathan Braun, Ashley Burton, Kimberly Chatterjee, Carolyn Emery Vaccination Managers............. Joanna Pisano, Jaime Welcher

WARNING: The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside this theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law.

Violators may be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money damages. FIRE NOTICE: The exit indicated by a red light and sign nearest to the seat you occupy is the shortest route to the street. In the event of fire or other emergency please do not run – WALK TO THAT EXIT. Thoughtless persons annoy patrons and endanger the safety of others by lighting matches or smoking in prohibited areas during the performances and intermissions. This violates a city ordinance and is punishable by law. FIRE COMMISSIONER

CREDITS

The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of actors’ equity association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

SPECIAL FUNDING

The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

The set was built in the Playwrights Horizons Scenery Shop.

DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL CONTENT.............................ALISON KOCH Digital Content Producer......................Chelcie Parry

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE................

BLAKE ZIDELL & ASSOCIATES

Shadowcatcher Entertainment, Signature Theatre

SPECIAL THANKS

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

Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty Once on This Island

Madeleine George The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence 2014 Pulitzer finalist Richard Greenberg, Scott Frankel, & Michael Korie Far From Heaven Amy Herzog The Great God Pan, After the Revolution Samuel D. Hunter The Whale 2013 Lortel Award Drama Desk Special Award Gina Gionfriddo Rapture, Blister, Burn 2013 Pulitzer finalist

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Kirsten Childs Bella: An American Tall Tale 2017 Audelco Award The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin 2000 Obie Award

Clare Barron Dance Nation 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist

Theresa Rebeck The Butterfly Collections Christopher Durang Miss Witherspoon 2006 Pulitzer finalist, Betty’s Summer Vacation 1999 Obie Award, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You 1982 Obie Award A.R. Gurney The Dining Room, Later Life Jon Robin Baitz The Substance of Fire Jeanine Tesori & Brian Crawley Violet 1997 Obie Award, Lortel Award, and Drama Critics’ Circle Award

Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine Sunday in the Park with George 1985 Pulitzer Prize

Adam Guettel & Tina Landau Floyd Collins 1996 Obie Award and Lortel Award Scott McPherson Marvin’s Room 1992 OCC Award Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman Assassins 1991 Drama League Award Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty Once on This Island

Michael R. Jackson A Strange Loop 2020 Pulitzer Prize

William Finn March of the Falsettos 1981 OCC Award, Falsettoland

Photos of Dance Nation and A Strange Loop by Joan Marcus.

Sunday in the Park… by Gerry Goodstein. Once on This Island

by Martha Swope.

Bruce Norris Clybourne Park 2011 Pulitzer Prize 2012 Tony Award

Playwrights Horizons Family of Donors

Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. The theater offers careerlong advocacy and artistic and technical resources to artists. As an audience member, you are an important part of our mission and of our proud 51-year tradition. We would like to thank all of the individuals and institutions in both the public and private sectors whose donations help to sustain our annual programs and productions. For more information about making a donation, visit phnyc.org/give.

Board of Trustees

Sam Gonzalez Vice Chairman Director of Operations, Pfizer Medical Pfizer Inc.

Erin Laber Treasurer Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Judith O. Rubin Chairman Arts Patron

Larissa FastHorse Vice Chairman Writer

Jill Crovitz Secretary Principal, Crovitz Consulting

Mark Birkhead Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase

Robert W. Jones Co-Founder, Antares Technologies

Alan Poul Executive Producer/Director, Boku Films

André Bishop Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater

Alex Halpern Levy President, A.H. Levy & Co.

David L. Caplan Partner and General Counsel, Atairos

Leslie Marcus Managing Director, Playwrights Horizons

Nick Russo Group Executive Director, Marketing, Meredith

Bash Doran Writer

Katrina E. McCann Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP

Bryce L. Friedman Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Juliet Moser Literary and Theatrical Enthusiast

Ethan Geto Principal, Geto & de Milly, Inc.

Robert Moss Founder, Playwrights Horizons

Fell Gray Head of Brand and Creative, Arizent

Mark Musico Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP

Adam Greenfield Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons

Robert O’Hara Writer/Director

Eric M. Gural Co-Chief Executive Officer, GFP Real Estate

Vinnie O’Toole Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Horizon Media

Tim Sanford Former Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons Marisa Sechrest Producer/Theatrical Consultant, Altair Entertainment Dana M. Seshens Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Scott Slobodnyak Vice President, Markets Group BNY Mellon Rachel Wilder Freelance Writer Bruce Nathan Wilpon Partner, Sterling Equities Jide Zeitlin

Institutional Support

Institutional supporters of Playwrights Horizons receive many benefits, such as complimentary tickets, discounts for their employees, and public recognition. For more information about how your company can support Playwrights Horizons, please contact Susan Ferziger, Associate Director of Institutional Giving, at sferziger@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3142.

$25,000+ Citi The Roy Cockrum Foundation Con Edison Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Edgerton Foundation The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. Howard Gilman Foundation Goldman Sachs J.L. Greene Arts Access Fund in The New York Community Trust Marc Haas Foundation Horizon Media The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater The Richenthal Foundation Sir Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation The SHS Foundation Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation The Shubert Foundation Teneo Tiger Baron Foundation Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation WarnerMedia $10,000–$24,999 21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund ABC Signature Bloomberg Philanthropies Frederic R. Coudert Foundation Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc. EY Hulu Originals The Hyde and Watson Foundation Carl Jacobs Foundation

Jerome Foundation The Ralph & Ricky Lauren Family Foundation, Inc. The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation A.H. Levy & Co. The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Proskauer Rose LLP The Rosenthal Family Foundation/Nancy Stephens and Rick Rosenthal S&P Global Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc. The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, Inc. The Spingold Foundation The Geraldine Stutz Trust Taconic Capital Advisors L.P. The Travelers Companies, Inc. The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund The Duane Wilder Foundation, Inc. Wilke Family Foundation $5,000–$9,999 The Theodore H. Barth Foundation, Inc. The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust The Carter Fund The Durst Organization First Republic Bank Green Curtain Productions Marta Heflin Foundation Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation, Inc. The Liman Foundation Lucille Lortel Foundation Morgan Stanley PricewaterhouseCoopers The Jerome Robbins Foundation The Evelyn Sharp Foundation

Government Support National Endowment for the Arts New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York City Council at the request of Speaker Corey Johnson and Council Member Carlina Rivera New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature

$2,500–$4,999 Diamonstein/Spielvogel Foundation Jujamcyn Theaters National Alliance for Musical Theatre - Frank Young Fund for New Musicals The DuBose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund Ropes & Gray LLP Theatre Development Fund $500–$2,499 Actors’ Equity Foundation Alliance of Resident Theaters/ New York Amazon Smile The BWF Foundation, Inc. Crosswicks Foundation LTD Lutz & Carr CPAs, LLP Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation William Morris Endeavor

Playwrights Horizons is a recipient of support from The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Artistic Director’s Circle

The Playwrights Horizons Artistic Director’s Circle includes our most dedicated individual donors who have committed to gifts of $10,000 or more each year for a three-year period. The Artistic Director’s Circle joins with the Playwrights Horizons Board of Trustees in supporting the vision of Artistic Director Adam Greenfield. Members of the Artistic Director’s Circle are considered loyal partners in developing and producing new plays by some of the most adventurous and talented artists working in theater today. For more information about the personalized benefits and access available for the Artistic Director’s Circle, please contact Benjamin Weisman, Development Director, at bweisman@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3145.

Anonymous Mark & Lillian Banchik Svante Bergström J. Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer Evan Hoffman & Eugene Paceleo

Judith H. Krupp Jarrett & Maritess Lilien Stephen & Carolyn McCandless Dorinda J. Oliver Barbara Raho

Nancy & Roger L. Strong, Jr. Seymour & Kathleen Weingarten Cathy & Stephen Weinroth

Individual Support Individual supporters of Playwrights Horizons receive exclusive benefits ranging from complimentary tickets to intimate dinners and cocktail parties with artists, staff, and Board members. For more information about how you can support Playwrights Horizons, please contact Benjamin Weisman, Development Director, at bweisman@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 ×3145. $25,000+ Anonymous (5) James Asci Svante Bergstrom David Caplan & Karen Wagner Jill & Chuck Crovitz Paul Daniels Angela M. Crossman & Bryce L. Friedman Linda Greenberg Eric & Nancy Gural Mark Musico Vinnie & Loretta O’Toole Alan Poul Judith O. & Robert E. Rubin Dana Seshens & Robert Kresberg Nancy & Roger L. Strong, Jr. Bruce Nathan Wilpon $10,000–$24,999 Roger Altman & Jurate Kazickas Mark Birkhead Ann L. & Lawrence B. Buttenwieser J. Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer Joan B. Cohen Krystyna Doerfler Cheryl & Blair Effron Katherine Farley & Jerry I. Speyer Mr. Mark T. Gallogly and Ms. Elizabeth B. Strickler Laurie Goldberger & Leslie Kogod Sam Gonzalez Fell & Charles Gray Tara & Clifford Harris

Tom Healy & Fred P. Hochberg Robert W. Jones Lisa Kentgen Judith H. Krupp Erin Laber Alex Halpern Levy Bruce Lovett Dorinda J. Oliver Carole Pesner Lili Lynton & Michael Ryan Amy B. McIntosh & Jeffrey Toobin Scott Slobodnyak Sue & Edgar Wachenheim III Seymour & Kathleen Weingarten $5,000–$9,999 Anonymous Paul & Barbara Bernstein André Bishop Matt Bosch Charles Cahn Catherine Carmody Rob Cordell Tony & Jane Ford-Hutchinson Lori and Edward Forstein Friedman Family Foundation James Gleick & Cynthia Crossen Elaine Harris Chien Cho Liu Jill H. Matichak Katrina McCann Richard & Ronay Menschel Rosemary E. Newman Dr. Robert A. Press Shelley Roisen Gretchen Rubin

Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Samson Patricia Brown Specter Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman Arun Subramanian Carol & Robert Walport The Wilder Family $3,000–$4,999 John & Jill G. Bishop Ruth & Robi Blumenstein Loyd Crawley Robert W. Davenport David desJardins Glenn & Eva Dubin Suzan & Fred Ehrman Hazel & Russel Fershleiser Betsy & Andrew Fippinger James W. & Virginia M. Giddens Patricia Hayot & Ricardo A. Mestres, Jr. Roberta A. Jones Katrina E. McCann Niclas Nagler & David Alberto Alvarez Asha & DV Nayak John Orberg Nicholas P. Russo Joanne & Daniel C. Smith Lois Smith Stagedoor Manor David Wertheimer & Alice Fricke $1,800–$2,999 Anonymous (2) Andrew D. Austin & Michael R. Sonberg Kimberly S. Blanchard

Maggie & Don Buchwald Lisa & Dick Cashin Ed Busby & James Curich Jonathan L. Cohen Kim & Stan Corfman Scott M. Delman Scott & Diane Emery John R. Ettinger & Linda A. Simpson Richard Feiner & Annette Stover Paul Finger Robert A. Gender Stephen & Halley Green Cynthia Green Colin Melissa Greener Guerrerio Family Foundation Jane Hartley & Ralph Schlosstein Kris & Kathy Heinzelman Nancy Heller & Holly Gewandter Leslie Hendrix & Joseph Adam Smith Maxine Isaacs Stephen H. Jaffe & Jane Gilbert Philip M. Jelley, Jr. Rory & David Jones David I. Karabell & Paula A. Moss Robert Klein Liz & George Krupp John Kuehn & Elaine Crowley Gina Maria Leonetti Vicki Gold Levi James & Emily Levin Beth W. Liou The Honorable and Mrs. Earle Mack Marlene Marko & Loren Skeist Nina B. Matis Leni & Peter May Stephen & Carolyn McCandless Scott McDonald Tina Nelson and Josh Holmes Ellen Ozur & Stuart Brown Kathleen O’Grady Lisa Orberg Jamie & Daniel Ordower Susan & Richard Pasternak Frank H. & Patti S. Penski Perakis Family Carl & Zelie Pforzheimer Marc Pickard Daniel Safin Beth & Mikael Salovaara Karen & Charles Schader Eileen Silvers & Richard Bronstein Carlo Steinman Jennifer Treglia Brady Walkinshaw Burton Zwick $1,000–$1,799 Anonymous Ann & Steven Berzin

Anirudh Balan Barbara & Stuart Kreisberg Helen Kauder & Barry Nalebuff Susanna R. Bergtold Al Berr Susan M. Borozan Christine & Stephen Rhodes James Curich David W. Mallison Deborah Grant & Serge Tanjga Darren Dotson Edward & Barbara Weikert Mariana Elder Francis H. Williams Patrick Freeman Dennis Furbush Sandra Garner Gloria Gonzalez Christy Gundrum Kristen Hannah Andrew Harris Robert Harrits Amy L. Katz & Irving Scher Gretchen & Jamie Rubin Robert J. Katz Ev & Lee Daniel R. Levites Douglas Liebhafsky Linda & Paul Lee Mary G. Gurney & A.R. Gurney Matt Schneider & Priyanka Garg Eric Mayer Victoria Meakin Janet & Mike Slosberg Lowell & Sandra Mintz Courtney Mitchell Lori and Lee Parks Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Solomon Irene Ramp & Buck Henry Dr. Rob & Audrey Greenfield Susan & Robert Klein Mrs. Mark Rosso and Ms. Larissa Kruesi Tara Sands Marisa Sechrest Tim Shore Barbara & Cheryl Small Tim P. Stanard Elizabeth Stearns Stuart J. Chanen Sandi Wright Jason Wu $500-$999 Aviad Abiri Suzanne Appel Richard Arenaro Nancy Ashen Nancy J. Baker & Daniel Olson Rodman W. Benedict Richard Berg Joel and Judith Berger

Elaine S. Bernstein Allison M. Blinken Sudip Bose Eugene Brodach Susan Brown Vince Bruns and Martha Wilson Jon Buchmeyer Scott Burkhardt Sandra Busell Linda Calandra Jonathan Clark Romy Cohen Ellie & Edgar M. Cullman, Jr. Tom Cunningham Allison Curran & Michael Hilkin Jeff and Nancy Davis Sandra Davis Richard Diamond Charles Diaz Jack DiMassimo Mary Jane Divino W Houston Dougharty David Dukes Hendrik Edelman Emily Erstling Anne Eskridge Barbara Farrant Mary Ferlan Megan Flanigan Daniel Friedman Patricia Gannon-Lovier & Lester Lovier Ethan Geto Mary Goldberg David Goldston Horacio & Gloria K. Gonzalez Adam Greenfield & Jordan Harrison Rob and Audrey Greenfield Pamela Gross & Susan Silverstein Bob Hall Jordan Harrison David Harrison Peter Hedges Marcia Hefter Molly Heines Pamela Helmer Anne D. Herrmann Cristy Hill & Richard Mizer Lynn E. Hopkins Bradley Horner Kelly Houseman Katharine J. Hughes Katherine Humpstone & Jeremy Koch Ellen & Rick Kelson Karen & Christopher Kyle Philip A. Johnson Peter H. Judd Sherman W. Kahn Erica Kellermann

$500–$999 (Cont’d) Michelle Kim Walter Klores & Emily White Elizabeth Knowles Robb Lady Lee Ann Laimbeer Jennifer Leuba Bernard & Ronelle Levin Jay Lincoln Ms. Frances Lippa Peter Lopez Allan & Anita Lubarsky Craig Lucas Jane Macan Martin Maleska Marga Manhardt Robert D. & Jean Markley William Marmer The Milligan Family Nailah Mohammed

Herbert A. Morey James & Terri Muren Anne G. Myers Trevor S. Norwitz Mark Opshinsky Michael & Gabrielle Palitz Annie Parisse & Paul Sparks Ross Pasquale Elizabeth Payne Deborah Perry Sowmya Rao Dr. S. Abraham Ravid Allen G. Reiter & Andrea Hirsch Russell Rennie David Richards Susan F. Salmansohn Evan Schwartz Ann Seligman Beth Senturia Frank Sergi

Andrew W. Siegel Michael Silverman Robert H. Sinclair Mindy & Gary Sircus Jolyon F. Stern Tony Stewart Jennifer Thomas Bethene Trexel Susan & Charles Tribbitt Jaume Tutusaus Hena Vora Matthew Werner Susan Whitlock & Earl Lewis Edward B. Whitney Jacqueline Williams Kristen Wolf Alexandra Wood Martin Woodard Richard Zuckerman

Generation PH

Generation PH is a community of theatergoers ages 45 and under who attend Playwrights Horizons productions; mingle with artists, artistic staff, and our Board of Trustees at exclusive parties and receptions; and see theater in a new way by talking to writers about the development of their plays.

Plus, a portion of each membership is a tax-deductible contribution that directly supports these amazing artists and their new work. For more information about joining Generation PH, contact Development Director, Benjamin Weisman at 212 564 1235 ×3145.

LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE Katrina E. McCann, Co-Chair Nick Russo, Co-Chair

BEST FRIEND ($1,500+) Betsy & Andrew Fippinger Deborah Grant & Serge Tanjga Katrina E. McCann Steve Nowicki Marc Pickard Elana Propis Nicholas P. Russo Scott Slobodnyak Carlo Steinman Aleksandra Szczepanowska & Gordon Shearer Carol & Robert Walport Jason Wu

Betsy Fippinger Deborah Grant Anna Mack Steve Nowicki Elana Propis Scott Slobodnyak

Carlo Steinman Aleksandra Szczepanowska Carol Walport Robert Walport Jason Wu

DEVOTED FRIEND ($600–$1,499) Eugene Brodach Allison Curran & Michael Hilkin Mary Jane Divino Emily Erstling Sandra Garner Trevor S. Kokal & Naoki Sasamoto Courtney Mitchell Matt Schneider & Priyanka Garg Martin Woodard

GOOD FRIEND ($400–$599) Dr. Brett S. East Anne G. Myers Achiro Olwach

Matching Gifts Many companies have matching gift programs that enable our donors to double their donations.

Playwrights Horizons thanks these companies for matching the gifts of their employees and supporting our theater. For more information about matching gifts, please contact Susan Ferziger, Associate Director, Institutional Giving and Campaign, at sferziger@phnyc.org or 212 564 1235 x3142.

AmazonSmile The Bank of New York Mellon Charities Aid Foundation of America Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Johnson & Johnson J.P Morgan Chase & Co. Merck Meredith Corporation Foundation

New York Community Trust Pfizer, Inc. Schwab Charitable State Street Foundation S&P Global Walt Disney Company

Legacy Circle

Playwrights Horizons gratefully acknowledges those who have chosen to become a member of our Legacy Circle by including a Charitable Bequest for Playwrights Horizons in their estate plans through wills, retirement accounts, life insurance ownerships, and real estate. Members of this group receive invitations to exclusive events and insider information on organizational goals and plans. To learn more, or to join, please contact Development Director, Benjamin Weisman at 212 564 1235 ×3145.

Joan B. Cohen Liz Fallon Culp Ann B. Dickinson Howard Epstein Jane Epstein Susan Ferziger Jill Garland Sam Gonzalez

Barbara Kreisberg Stu Kreisberg Leslie Marcus Enid Nemy Dorinda J. Oliver Linda Rothstein Judith O. Rubin Robert E. Rubin

Mikael Salovaara Carole Schwartz Mal Schwartz Georgina Spelvin The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Benjamin Weisman Rachel Wilder Amy Hoi Yan Yuan

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NEW FRIEND ($200–$399) Jolin Mu Justin Hale Henri Benaim Brett S. East Christina Koza David Stuckey Adaeze Udoji

Lists complete as of May 9, 2021

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