What to Send Up When It Goes Down - Playwrights Horizons - Digital Program 2021

What to Send Up When It Goes Down

Redux Series

Who we are Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater dedicated to the development of contemporary American playwrights, and to the production of innovative new work. In a city rich with cultural offerings, Playwrights Horizons’ 50-year-old mission is unique; we have distinguished ourselves by a steadfast commitment to centering and advancing the voice of the playwright. It’s a mission that is always timely, and one that’s necessary in the ongoing evolution of theater in this country.

We believe that playwrights are the great storytellers of our time, offering essential contributions to civic discourse and illuminating life’s greatest paradoxes. And we believe in the singularity of a writer’s voice, valuing the broad, eclectic spectrum and diversity of American writers. Here, writers are supported in every stage of their growth through our New Works Lab, PoP Master Class series, Soundstage audio program; the Lighthouse Project; and Almanac, our digital magazine.

We present a season of productions annually on our two stages, each of which is a World, American or New York premiere. Much like our work, our audience is risk-taking and adventurous; and we’re committed to strengthening their engagement and feeding their curiosity through all of our programming, onsite and online.

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We are also an undergraduate theater program that offers an innovative four-year multidisciplinary training program that is consistently ranked as one of the best undergraduate training studios in the country.

Recognizing the diverse needs and ambitions of the 21st century theater artist, Playwrights Horizons Theater School is the only undergraduate studio training actors, directors, designers, choreographers, playwrights, and creators of devised work in a single setting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Our collaborative program is dedicated to the principle that each student is a whole artist to be nurtured, challenged and celebrated.

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Playwrights Horizons commits to anti-racism in building a more just future for everyone — particularly those from historically oppressed communities, including the Lenape nation, whose land is home to our work. We acknowledge that the US theater is born of a country founded on white supremacy and anti-Blackness, and we are dedicated to uprooting these and all systems of oppression. This work is ongoing and benefits our programming, staff, audiences, faculty, students, board, donors, and partners. We invite you to engage in this with us. As we expand the US theater canon, we aim to make Playwrights Horizons a theater that is an anti-racist center of ideas, dialogue, curiosity, and a liberated imagination.

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We are a home for the American writer. It is expressed in our very name: we are Playwrights.

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From the Artistic Director For 18 months, live theater was unthinkable. An art form reliant on the shared experience of a crowd, theater was specifically ill-advised. But it was clear — at least, to me — that what made our work unsafe is precisely what makes it all the more mystifying and awesome: people gathered, breathing the same air. So after a long period of screens and isolation, let my first act as Playwrights Horizons’ new Artistic Director be to say, at long last, Welcome.

Seriously, welcome.

Share this space with me, and with each other.

For these 18 months we also wondered what live theater might look like when it returns. What do we want theater to be?

What do we need it to be? What is theater here to do? Each time I wrestled with this question, my thoughts returned to Aleshea Harris’s play, which in her words

is “a ritual to celebrate the inherent value of Black people, affirm those navigating anti-blackness and honor those who have lost their lives.” Created with staggering skill and a dagger-sharp pencil, it makes full use of what live theater, our medium of choice, can offer: ceremony, poetry, community, rage, song, laughter, paradox, transformation. I’m honored to re-open Playwrights with Aleshea’s writing, and with this extraordinary cast and creative team, and by the chance to say, again, Welcome.

Thanks for bringing theater back to New York.

Adam Greenfield Artistic Director

Selling Kabul Written by

Sylvia Khoury Directed by

Tyne Rafaeli New York premiere Produced in association with Williamstown Theater Festival Starts Nov 17 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater “Sylvia Khoury pulls nifty narrative and stylistic jumps out of her hat, and it works.”

The New York Times

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Up Next: A new play tracking the human cost of U.S. immigration policy and the legacy of our longest war

Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater Artistic Director

Managing Director

Adam Greenfield

Leslie Marcus

General Manager

Carol Fishman

Playwrights Horizons and BAM in association with The Movement Theatre Company present

What to Send Up When It Goes Down Written by

Aleshea Harris Featuring

Rachel Christopher Ugo Chukwu Kambi Gathesha Denise Manning Scenic Design

Yu-Hsuan Chen

Cyndii Johnson Javon Q. Minter Adrianna Mitchell Beau Thom

Costume Design

Qween Jean

Lighting Design

Cha See

Press Representative

Casting

Associate Managing Director

Associate Artistic Director

Blake Zidell & Associates Kyle Sircus

Alaine Alldaffer, CSA

Sound Design

Sinan Refik Zafar

Original Songs

Aleshea Harris

Production Stage Manager

Genevieve Ortiz

Natasha Sinha

Directed by

Whitney White This production of What to Send Up When It Goes Down was originally produced by The Movement Theatre Company at the A.R.T./New York Theatres in the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre in New York City in 2018 and supported and remounted

by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University and the Public Theater in 2019/2020.

What to Send Up When It Goes Down is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.

Cast One / Made Two Three Four Five / Man / Driver Six / Miss Seven Eight / Song Leader

RACHEL CHRISTOPHER KAMBI GATHESHA ADRIANNA MITCHELL CYNDII JOHNSON BEAU THOM UGO CHUKWU JAVON Q. MINTER DENISE MANNING

Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

GENEVIEVE ORTIZ CAROLINA ARBOLEDA

About the Artists RACHEL CHRISTOPHER (One/Made).

Playwrights debut. Rachel is a NYCbased actor and teaching artist. Recent theater: Bad News! (NYU Skirball w/ Joanne Akalaitis), King Phillip... (Clubbed Thumb), What to Send Up When It Goes Down (BAM, Wooly Mammoth, The Movement Theatre Company), Minor Character (Under the Radar at The Public), Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise (The Play Company). Regional: An Iliad (Long Wharf Theatre); Intimate Apparel (Shakespeare and Company); The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare Festival St. Louis); Detroit ’67 (PlayMakers Repertory Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Festival St. Louis); Disgraced (Rep. Theatre St. Louis); All’s Well That Ends Well (Bread Loaf); Yellowman (Trinity Rep.); Zero Cost House (Pig Iron); House of Home, Western Country (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: Girl on the Train, Blindspot.

TV: “The Upside,” “Billions,” “Madame Secretary,” “Instinct,” “Elementary.”

Rachel has an MFA from Brown University/ Trinity Rep and is a current member of the Brown/Trinity teaching faculty. Instagram: @rachel_e_christopher. rachel-christopher.com.

UGO CHUKWU (Six/Miss). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Lunch Bunch (Clubbed Thumb), Do You Feel Anger (The Vineyard), House Plant (NYTW Next Door), [Porto] (WP Theater/Bushwick Starr), Today is My Birthday (P73), and What to Send Up

When It Goes Down (The Movement Theatre Company/ Under the Radar at The Public).

Regional: Ripcord (Huntington). TV: “The Path,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Inventing Anna.” He has also appeared in a couple Spectrum commercials. Ugo is also a teaching artist with New Victory Theater and Opening Act, teaching theater to students in NYC. Instagram: @ugolessinsta. www.ugochukwuactor.com.

KAMBI GATHESHA (Two). Playwrights debut. Born in Nairobi, Kenya and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Rockville, Maryland, Kambi’s work focuses on African and Diaspora history and culture in his art. Off-Broadway: What to Send Up When It Goes Down (NY Premiere, ARTNY, Under the Radar at The Public), Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Classical Theater of Harlem).

Regional: Big Love (Williamstown Theatre Festival); What to Send up When It Goes Down (Woolly Mammoth, ART). TV: “Big Dogs.” Kambi is the 2019 recipient of the Jerome Robbins Foundation’s Project Springboard fellowship for his original musical A Nation Grooves: A People’s History of Hip Hop. He studied Acting at Juilliard and African History at Columbia University.

His thanks to HCKR and love to his family and Julia. Finally, he dedicates this run to the memory of his father Captain Patrick Gathesha.

CYNDII JOHNSON (Four). Playwrights debut. Cyndii is a Black queer actor and writer. Recent theater: BLKS (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), How We Got On (The Cleveland Playhouse), Peter And The Starcatcher (The Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Remix 38 and Our Town (Actors Theatre of Louisville), 48 Hours in Harlem (The National Black Theatre). She was a part of the sketch comedy show Who Made the Potato Salad?. Her first short film, Ash Land, was a 2021 selection at both The Pan African Film Festival and the Brooklyn Film Festival. Training: BFA in Acting, Wright State University; Professional Training Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville.

DENISE MANNING (Eight/Song Leader).

Playwrights debut. Denise, aka “The Lizzo of the American Theater,” is a New-York City-based actor-vist, comic, and musician. Recent theater: God is A Comedian, a written and self-produced comedic short film (2021), 2021 Drama League-nominated G.O.A.T, world premiere and tour of What to Send Up When It Goes Down, Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Two River), Rosie (EST’s 2019 Marathon of One-Act Plays), the world premiere of “Daddy” (The New Group), The Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente (Soho Rep.), White Girl in Danger (Vineyard workshop), and Whitney White’s Three Sisters, plus 60+ readings/ workshops of developmental work across the tri-state area. She’d like to thank all the Black folx, especially Black women, past and present who single-handedly save America, the world, and the arts with little to no thanks. Instagram: @halfpintlegend. #Blackwomenmatter #Blacktranslivesmatter #AllBlacklivesmatter JAVON Q. MINTER (Seven) (she/he/ they). Playwrights debut. Javon is a Black genderqueer actor, director, and educator from pre-gentrified Bedstuy, Brooklyn.

In the midst of a global sickness, Black people still are not safe; Black trans folks even more so. So this is for us. To be seen, full and beautiful, outside of coffins,

legislation, porn searches, and other shadows. In full bloom and power. For the Black queer folks, here and ascended, I send it up for you. Fave credits: Julio Down By the Schoolyard (INTAR & The Lark); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (The Movement Theatre Company); Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Tempest (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Much Ado About Nothing, This Is Our Youth (Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts); Untitled Julio Rivera Project, Little Shop of Horrors (LaGuardia Performing Arts Center). Directing: Afraid of the Dark (NYU Grad Acting), Waiting For...

(HOMEBASE Theatre Collective), Mother of Pearl (LPAC). Instagram: @Javonqminter ADRIANNA MITCHELL (Three).

Playwrights debut. Adrianna is a New York-based actor, director and writer from Atlanta, GA and her life-long mission is the affirmation and encouragement of Black people, Black women especially. Adrianna directed and co-devised Jerrie Johnson’s one-woman show The Crooked Room at San Francisco Bay Area Theater Company (BATCO) in partnership with the African American Arts and Culture Complex (AAACC) and the National Queer Arts Festival. Off-Broadway: runboyrun (New York Theater Workshop). Regional: Romeo and Juliet, Taming of Shrew (Chautauqua Theater Company), Noises Off (Two River Theater), Hamlet, A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater), Measure for Measure (Actor’s Shakespeare Project).

Adrianna can be seen heavily recurring as Tanosse in John Singleton’s “Snowfall.”

Other Television: “Blacklist”, “Bull”, “The Good Fight”, “Lincoln Rhyme”, “Little America.” Education: Spelman College (BA), British American Drama Academy (London Theater Program), American Conservatory Theater (MFA). Instagram: @adriannamitchell_ BEAU THOM (Five/Man/Driver).

Playwrights debut. An American Griot.

Most recent acting credits: What To Send Up... (BAM, The Public Under the Radar Festival, A.R.T., Woolly Mammoth, and ARTNY). Playwright credits: Black Orpheus (A.C.T. MFA 2016 Season), Peonage (Corkscrew Theater Festival Reading Series). beauthom.com

ALESHEA HARRIS (Playwright/Original Music). Playwrights debut. Aleshea’s play Is God Is (directed by Taibi Magar at Soho Rep.) won the 2016 Relentless Award, an OBIE Award for playwriting in 2017, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award in 2019, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. It is currently running at the Royal Court Theatre in London (directed by Ola Ince).

What to Send Up When It Goes Down, a play-pageant-ritual response to antiBlackness, had its critically-acclaimed New York City premiere in 2018 (directed

by Whitney White and produced by The Movement Theatre Company), was featured in the April 2019 issue of American Theatre Magazine, and received a rare special commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. The play was subsequently re-mounted at Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T., and BAM. Her newest play, On Sugarland (directed by Whitney White) will premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in the spring of 2022. Awards: Windham-Campbell Literary Prize, Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Award, Hermitage Greenfield Prize, Horton Foote Playwriting Award. Harris is a two-time MacDowell Fellow and has enjoyed residencies at the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Hedgebrook, and Djerassi.

WHITNEY WHITE (Director) is an Obie and Lilly award-winning director and musician based in New York. She is also currently a staff writer on Boots Riley’s I’m a Virgo (Amazon, Media Res). Recent: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Scheer, WP Theater/Second Stage; for all the women who thought they were Mad by Zawe Ashton, Soho Rep.; A Human Being, of a Sort by Jonathan Payne (starring Andre Braugher and Frank Wood), Williamstown Theatre Festival; What to Send Up When It Goes Down (New York Times Critic’s Pick), The Movement, A.R.T., Woolly Mammoth, The Public’s Under the Radar; Jump, PlayMakers Rep, NNPN Rolling World Premiere; Canyon (LA Times Critics’ Choice), IAMA; An Iliad, Long Wharf; Rita También Rita, Juilliard; Othello, Trinity Rep; Br’er Cotton, Endstation. Her original five part series that looks at Shakespeare’s women and music is under commission with American Repertory. Whitney is an

Associate Director at Shakespeare DC, an Associate Artist at Roundabout, and current member of the Rolex Mentorship and Protegé Arts Initiative. She is also a recipient of the Susan Stroman Directing Award. Past fellowships: 2050 NYTW Fellow, Ars Nova, Drama League, the Inaugural Roundabout Directing Fellowship, and Colt Coeur. Education/ Training: BA, Northwestern; MFA Brown University/Trinity Rep. YU-HSUAN CHEN (Scenic Designer).

Playwrights debut. Yu-Hsuan is a set and production designer born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. Recent theater: The Last of the Love Letters (Atlantic); Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater/Second Stage); Measure For Measure (The Public Mobile Unit); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (ART/ NY, Under the Radar at The Public Theater, Woolly Mammoth, National tour); The Homecoming Queen, Nomad Motel (Atlantic Theater Company, NYC); Pumpgirl (Irish Repertory Theatre); Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theatre), Dancing at Lughnasa, M. Butterfly, Great Expectations (Everyman Theatre, MD); Dying In Boulder (La MaMa); SKiNfolK (Ars Nova), and many more.

She is the associate set designer on SIX, and assistant set designer on Broadway shows including The Nap, Tootsie, and Kiss Me Kate. Awards: 2020 Obie Award for Outstanding Set Design, 2020 Lucille Lortel Award nominee for Outstanding Set Design. yuhsuanchendesign.com.

QWEEN JEAN (Costume Designer).

Playwrights debut. Recent theater: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Siblings Play, Amen Corner, Rags Parkland, Good Grief, Othello, Wig Out! Marie Antoinette, and Little Shop of Horrors. Qween has committed her voice to advocating for marginalized communities, specifically Black trans people. Her passion is creating access for unsung heroes and people who are often overlooked. She feels their stories are valuable and deserve recognition. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

CHA SEE (Lighting Designer). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway credits: one in two (Signature); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (ART/NY, NE Region Tour: Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T.). Other shows

include The Maturation of an Inconvenient Negro (Cherry Lane); Mondo Tragic (National Black Theatre); Cute Activist (Bushwick Starr); The Triumphant (Target Margin Theatre); Nora (The Juilliard School); SKINNAMARINK, House Plant, In The Penal Colony (NYTW Next Door); Then They Forgot About The Rest (Intar).

Regional: EVERYBODY (Play Makers Rep), Marisol (Trinity Rep), On The Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf Theatre), America V2.1 (Barrington Stage), Yasmina’s Necklace (Premiere Stages), Legacy Land (Kansas City Rep). Upcoming: The Fever (Audible Theatre), Soft (MCC Theatre), Change Agent (Arena Stage), Exception To The Rule (Roundabout), The Antelope Party (Wild Project), The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage), The Alchemist (Red Bull Theatre). Training: MFA NYU Tisch. seelightingdesign.com / seelightingfoundation.com. @seethruuu SINAN REFIK ZAFAR (Sound Designer).

Playwrights debut. Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me. National Tour: What the Constitution Means to Me. Off-Broadway: MCC, NYTW, The Public, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Movement Theatre Company.

Regional: Kennedy Center, The Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and more. sinanzafar.com.

GENEVIEVE ORTIZ (Production Stage Manager). Playwrights debut. OffBroadway: What to Send Up When It Goes Down (BAM, Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T, Under the Radar at The Public Theater, The Movement Theatre Company); Hercules, Pretty Hunger (The Public); Lockdown (Rattlestick Theater); Recent Alien Abductions (The Play Company); The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (The Playwrights Realm); Is God Is (Soho Rep.); Seven Spots on the Sun (Rattlestick/ Sol Project); Alligator (New Georges/ Sol Project); The Block (The Working Theater); The Sun Shines East (The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater); The Golden Year (The Workshop Theater Company); Oleanna starring Austin Pendleton (The Players Club); Ghost Dancer (Mint Theater).

Regional: The Christians (Baltimore Center Stage), A Nation Grooves Artist Residency

(Mass MoCA), The Winter’s Tale (Actors Shakespeare Company at NJCU).

CAROLINA ARBOLEDA (Assistant Stage Manager). Off-Broadway: What to Send Up When It Goes Down (BAM, Under the Radar at The Public, The Movement Theatre Company), Novenas for a Lost Hospital (Rattlestick), She Calls Me Firefly (Parity Productions/New Perspectives Theatre Company). Virtual: American Dreams (The Working Theater). International: Festival de Teatro Alternativo, Festival de Mujeres En Escena Por la Paz. She is delighted to be collaborating once again with her WTSU family.

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 50th anniversary 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 19962020. 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.

BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC’S (BAM’S) mission is to be a home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas. America’s oldest performing arts institution, it is recognized internationally for innovative dance, music, and theater programming—including its renowned Next Wave Festival. BAM also features an acclaimed repertory film program, literary and visual art events, and extensive educational and humanities programs.

THE MOVEMENT THEATRE COMPANY creates an artistic social movement by developing and producing new works by artists of color. Under the leadership of David Mendizábal, Deadria Harrington, Eric Lockley, Ryan Dobrin, and Taylor Reynolds, their work engages a multicultural audience in a rich theatrical

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dialogue, enlightens communities to the important issues affecting our world, and empowers artists to celebrate the many sides of their unique voice. Founded in 2007, The Movement has established itself as an artistic staple in the New York theatre community and was awarded a 2019 OBIE Award grant. They are passionate about using their platform to shift the status quo of American Theatre both on-stage and behind the scenes. As an organization run by producers of color, they are committed to highlighting artists of color that are exploding traditional theatrical forms.

Their 2018 production of Aleshea Harris’s What to Send Up When It Goes Down, directed by Whitney White, received critical praise and recognition (including

a New York Times Critics Pick and a 2019 Drama Desk Award nomination), increased the visibility of Black people affected by racially motivated violence, and challenged the limitations of a theatrical experience. What to Send Up went on tour in 2019 and was presented at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in DC and American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, and went on to be part of The Public’s Under the Radar Festival in January 2020. Additional past production successes include And She Would Stand Like This and Look Upon Our Lowliness, both by Harrison David Rivers; and their breakout New York Times-lauded production of Bintou by Koffi Kwahulé, translated by Chantal Bilodeau. Past programming successes include their 1MOVE: DES19NED BY initiative (2021

Drama League Award nomination), the Ladder Series touring production of Hope Speaks, created by Jonathan McCrory; Last Laugh, by Eric Lockley; Think Before You Holla, created and devised by Taylor Reynolds; the workshop production of Black Boy & The War,

by Antoinette Nwandu; as well as numerous Harlem Nights events. For more information visit: themovementtheatrecompany.org.

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Playwrights Horizons Staff OPENING NIGHT: SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR........ ADAM GREENFIELD MANAGING DIRECTOR......... LESLIE MARCUS GENERAL MANAGER............ CAROL FISHMAN Associate General Manager.................. Jenna Ready Company Manager...............................Maggie Swahl Assistant Company Manager and House Manager........................Terrelle Jones

RESIDENT THEATER COMPANIES Clubbed Thumb, Musical Theatre Factory, SPACE on Ryder Farm

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR....................... NATASHA SINHA Literary Director.......................................Lizzie Stern Artistic Programs Producer...........Karl Baker Olson Literary and Community Engagement Assistant................May Treuhaft-Ali

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT.......... BENJAMIN WEISMAN Associate Director, Institutional Giving and Campaign............................... Susan Ferziger Development Assistant....................Maddie Milligan Institutional Giving Associate...........Chani Sebazco

CASTING DIRECTOR........ALAINE ALLDAFFER Associate Casting Director.................. Lisa Donadio 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, khat knotahaiku 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

PRODUCTION MANAGER.............JAY JANICKI Technical Director.....................................Ed Massari Production Coordinator.....................Carol Almonte Building Manager............................Gustavo Naranjo

MANAGER OF HUMAN RESOURCES..... LIBBY ZAMBRANO CONTROLLER................................ HOJAE LEE Accounting Manager............................Mallory Aubry Data Analytics Manager.......... Bonita Carol Thomas ASSOCIATE MANAGING DIRECTOR............................KYLE SIRCUS Senior Marketing Manager......................Erica Pierre Communications Associate................ Billy McEntee Graphics and Digital Content Associate............................................ Jordan Best Director of Ticket Services................... Craig Melzer Audience Services Manager........... Katasha Nelson Box Office Associates...........................Aaron J. Klein Sodongo Sodsuren DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL CONTENT............................ ALISON KOCH GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE................

BLAKE ZIDELL & ASSOCIATES

PLAYWRIGHTS DOWNTOWN ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR.......... EVA ROSA 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, Kiara Johnson, Rebecca Kane, Aaron Keller, Kevin Kong, Regina Robbins

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.

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.

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

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

STAFF FOR WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN COMPANY MANAGER................MAGGIE SWAHL Production Stage Manager............. Genevieve Ortiz Associate Director............................... Tyler Thomas Assistant Stage Manager............. Carolina Arboleda Assistant Company Manager and House Manager...............................Terrelle Jones Fight Director........................................ Dave Anzuelo Assistant Scenic Designer.................Chen-Wei Liao Assistant Costume Designer.............Amelia Camilo Wardrobe Supervisor and Costume Shop Manager........ Gylanni Carrington Assistant Lighting Designer..............................Charlotte McPherson Lighting Supervisor................... Desi McCoy-Fischer Light Board Operator..............................Mac Whiting Lighting Programmer........................... Taylor Jenson Assistant Sound Designer..................... Brian Hickey Audio Supervisor......................................Matt Hubbs Sound Tech........................................... Isaiah Howell COVID Safety Officer........................Narissa Agustin AUTHOR’S THANKS

Thanks to AUTOMATA, Thymele Arts, the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice and the original California casts/ crews for your generosity and hard work.

Thanks to Black folx for your joy, intelligence and belief.

Y’all are the medicine. I am grateful.

CREDITS

Program cover: The Movement Theatre Company’s production of What to Send Up... photo by Ahron R. Foster

SPECIAL FUNDING

Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporing new plays and musicals at Playwrights Horizons.

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

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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

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Larissa FastHorse The Thanksgiving Play Craig Lucas I Was Most Alive with You Clare Barron Dance Nation 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Max Posner The Treasurer Dan LeFranc Rancho Viejo, The Big Meal

Adam Bock A Life, A Small Fire Lucas Hnath The Thin Place, The Christians 2015 Kesselring Prize 2016 Obie Award Robert O’Hara Bootycandy 2015 Obie Award Jordan Harrison Log Cabin, Marjorie Prime 2015 Pulitzer finalist, Maple and Vine Taylor Mac Hir Heidi Schreck Grand Concourse Anne Washburn Mr. Burns, a post-electric play

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 Lisa D’Amour Detroit 2011 Pulitzer finalist 2013 Obie Award Kirsten Greenidge Milk Like Sugar 2012 Obie Award Annie Baker Circle Mirror Transformation 2010 Obie Award Melissa James Gibson This Doug Wright, Scott Frankel, & Michael Korie Grey Gardens 2006 OCC Award Lynn Nottage Fabulation 2005 Obie Award David Greenspan Go Back to Where You Are, She Stoops to Comedy 2003 Obie Award Richard Nelson & Shaun Davey James Joyce’s The Dead 2000 Tony Award, Lortel Award, and Drama Critics’ Circle Award Richard Nelson Goodnight Children Everywhere Kenneth Lonergan Lobby Hero

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

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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 career-long 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 Judith O. Rubin Chairman Arts Patron

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

Mark Birkhead Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase

Robert W. Jones Co-Founder, Antares Technologies

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

Bash Doran Writer

Katrina E. McCann Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP

Bryce L. Friedman Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Juliet Moser Literary and Theatrical Enthusiast

Erin Laber Treasurer Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Jill Crovitz Secretary Principal, Crovitz Consulting

Nick Russo Group Executive Director, Marketing, Meredith Tim Sanford Former Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons Marisa Sechrest Producer/Theatrical Consultant, Altair Entertainment Dana M. Seshens Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Rachel Wilder Freelance Writer

Ethan Geto Principal, Geto & de Milly, Inc.

Robert Moss Founder, Playwrights Horizons

Bruce Nathan Wilpon Partner, Sterling Equities

Fell Gray Head of Brand and Creative, Arizent

Robert O’Hara Writer/Director

Jide Zeitlin

Adam Greenfield Artistic Director, Playwrights Horizons

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

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

Alan Poul Executive Producer/Director, Boku Films

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+ Booth Ferris Foundation Citi Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Edgerton Foundation The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. Ford Foundation GFP Real Estate Howard Gilman Foundation Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC J.L. Greene Arts Access Fund in The New York Community Trust The Marc Haas Foundation Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation No Guarantees The Scherman Foundation Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation Seth Sprague Educational & Charitable Foundation Stavros Niarchos Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Tiger Baron Foundation Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation The Tow Foundation WarnerMedia

The Ralph & Ricky Lauren Family Foundation, Inc. The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation The Lawrence E. Madison Charitable Lead Unitrust The Richenthal Foundation S&P Global Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, Inc. The Spingold Foundation The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, Inc. The Geraldine Stutz Trust Taconic Capital Advisors, L.P. The Travelers Companies, Inc. The Wilke Family Foundation

$10,000–$24,999 21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust Bloomberg Philanthropies Con Edison Frederic R. Coudert Foundation Ernst & Young LLP Horizon Media John and Robyn Horn Foundation, Inc. The Hyde and Watson Foundation The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Carl Jacobs Foundation Jerome Foundation The JKW Foundation

$2,500–$4,999 The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation First Republic Bank Malcolm Gibbs Foundation Green Curtain Productions The DuBose & Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Innovation and Exploration Fund Ropes & Gray LLP TDF

$5,000–$9,999 The Theodore H. Barth Foundation, Inc. The Carter Fund Charina Foundation, Inc. Joseph & Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts Marta Heflin Foundation Bertha & Isaac Liberman Foundation The Liman Foundation Lucille Lortel Foundation Morgan Stanley The New York Community Trust PricewaterhouseCoopers The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund

$500–$2,499 Actors’ Equity Foundation Alliance of Resident Theaters/ New York

Amazon Smile Atairos The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation, Inc. Casillero del Diablo Chez Josephine The Betsy and Alan Cohn Foundation, Inc. DeWitt Stern Group, Inc. MFW Wine Co. Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation Pritzker Traubert Foundation West Bank Cafe Yotel 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

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

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 Bruce Horten & Aaron Lieber

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

Mr. & Mrs. George Spelvin 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 (4) Svante Bergström David Caplan & Karen Wagner J. Kerry Clayton & Paige Royer Angela M. Crossman & Bryce L. Friedman Jill & Chuck Crovitz Krystyna Doerfler Eric & Nancy Gural Christopher R. Lawrence Vinnie & Loretta O’Toole Michael & Juliet Patsalos-Fox David Richenthal Judith O. & Robert E. Rubin Beth & Mikael Salovaara Dana Seshens & Robert Kresberg Bruce Nathan Wilpon

$10,000–$24,999 Anonymous Claire & Larry Aidem Roger Altman & Jurate Kazickas Mark & Lillian Banchik Mark Birkhead Ann L. & Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Joan B. Cohen Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman Friedman Family Foundation Mr. Mark T. Gallogly & Ms. Elizabeth B. Strickler James Gleick & Cynthia Crossen Sam Gonzalez Fell & Charles Gray David Handler & Doug Pawliuk Evan Hoffman & Eugene Paceleo Bruce Horten & Aaron Lieber

Robert W. Jones Judith H. Krupp Erin Laber Alex Halpern Levy Jarrett & Maritess Lilien Rosalee A. & Bruce Lovett Reuben & Arlene Mark Stephen & Carolyn McCandless Richard & Ronay Menschel Rosemary Newman Dorinda J. Oliver Barbara Raho Don & Carol Randel Dan Safin Mr. & Mrs. George Spelvin Nancy & Roger L. Strong, Jr. Seymour & Kathleen Weingarten Francis H. Williams Doug Wright

$5,000–$9,999 Anonymous Birna Anna Bjornsdottir & Peter Niculescu Rob Cordell Sandra Davis Cheryl & Blair Effron Kathy Elsesser Scott & Diane Emery Katherine Farley & Jerry I. Speyer Laurie Goldberger & Leslie Kogod Cathy Grape Tara & Clifford Harris Hutchins Family Foundation Rory & David Jones Helen Kim-Bordes Kaori Kitao Lili Lynton & Michael Ryan Jill H. Matichak Amy B. McIntosh & Jeffrey Toobin Robert B. Menschel Terry Miller Pauline & Nicolas Oudin Carole M. Pesner Dr. Robert A. Press Shelley Roisen Fiona Howe Rudin Christine & Stephen Schwarzman Joanne & Daniel C. Smith Scott Slobodnyak & Owen Sweeney David & Deborah Trainer Cathy & Stephen Weinroth The Wilder Family Dorinda & Mark Winkelman $3,000–$4,999 Anonymous Martine Beamon & Eddie Joyce Elaine S. Bernstein André Bishop John & Jill G. Bishop Allison M. Blinken Ruth & Robi Blumenstein Christopher Byrne & Ellen Hardy Patrick Callinan & Daniel Rosales Loyd F. Crawley Carol & Tom Creel Robert W. Davenport Christopher & Michelle DeLong Glenn & Eva Dubin Suzan & Fred Ehrman Hazel & Russel Fershleiser Renee & Sy Flug Dr. Gail Furman Leslie Hendrix & Joseph Adam Smith Maxine Isaacs Caytha & Michael Jentis Roberta A. Jones Lewis & Ellen Kaden

Frederick & Seen Landman Gina Maria Leonetti Chien Cho Liu Allan & Anita Lubarsky Jonathan Minkoff Niclas Nagler & David Alberto Alvarez Asha & DV Nayak Kathleen O’Grady John Orberg Nancy Roistacher & Wayne P. Merkelson Gretchen & Jamie Rubin Patricia Brown Specter Susan & Charles Tribbitt David F. Wertheimer & Alice Fricke Anna & Tony Wild $1,800–$2,999 Anonymous (2) Vincent Alfieri & Kerstin Larsen Nancy Ashen Andrew D. Austin & Michael R. Sonberg John W. Bernstein & Diana Davenport Paul & Barbara Bernstein Peter & Sarah Beshar Susan M. Borozan Joseph Buckley & Nancy Oyer Maggie & Don Buchwald Helaine & Paul Cantor Lisa & Dick Cashin Jonathan L. Cohen Kim & Stan Corfman Scott M. Delman David desJardins The Cory & Bob Donnalley Charitable FDN Nancy & Bob Downey Jane M. & Howard D. Epstein John R. Ettinger & Linda A. Simpson Richard Feiner & Annette Stover Eleanor Fink, Esq. Betsy & Andrew Fippinger Sandra Fischer Natalie Fishman Kit Flanagan Tony & Jane Ford-Hutchinson Leonard R. Freifelder & Anne E. Easterling-Freifelder Robert A. Gender The Malcolm Gibbs Foundation, Inc. James W. & Virginia M. Giddens Terina Golfinos & Robert Lisi Stephen & Halley Green Melissa Greener Dr. Rob & Audrey Greenfield Guerrerio Family Foundation Christina Hargrove & Scott Crum

Jane Hartley & Ralph Schlosstein Cari Hauck Cathleen Healy Tom Healy & Fred P. Hochberg Kris & Kathy Heinzelman Ellen & Larry Herold Judith Hershaft Adler Jon Michael Hill Barry Hoffman & Jane Weiss Donald Holder Bruce Horten & Aaron Lieber Stephen & Sherry Jacobs Stephen H. Jaffe & Jane Gilbert Philip M. Jelley, Jr. Roselle & Brian Kaltner David I. Karabell & Paula A. Moss Amy L. Katz & Irving Scher Liz & George Krupp John Kuehn & Elaine Crowley Robb Lady Lee Ann Laimbeer Vicki Gold Levi James & Emily Levin Beth W. Liou The Honorable & Mrs. Earle Mack Martin Maleksa Marlene Marko & Loren Skeist Nina B. Matis Leni & Peter May Scott McDonald Anne Parker Mills & James Hanbury Erica Moffett Evangeline Morphos Robert & Guna Mundheim New OZ Productions Alfred T. & Jan Ogden Lisa Orberg Jamie & Daniel Ordower Ellen Ozur & Stuart Brown Benji Pasek Susan & Richard Pasternak Frank H. & Patti S. Penski Perakis Family Richard & Lisa Perry Leslie & Eileen Quick Bruno & Mary Ann Quinson Christine & Stephen Rhodes Mrs. Mark Rosso & Ms. Larissa Kruesi Robert E. Rubin Carolyn Ruby & William Maiese Nicholas P. Russo Karen & Charles Schader Stephanie C. Scott Marisa Sechrest Robert L. Seigel Naomi O. Seligman & Ernest Von Simpson Nadine Shaoul & Mark Schonberger Stephanie & Alfred J. Shuman Eileen Silvers & Richard Bronstein

Marlene Marko & Loren Skeist Janet & Mike Slosberg Barbara & Cheryl Small Emerson & Erica Spry Stagedoor Manor Alec Stais & Elissa Burke Trevor & Margaret Stewart Aleksandra Szczepanowska & Gordon Shearer Antoinette Tomai David & Deborah Trainer Lisa Van Curen Lee & Cynthia Vance Carol & Robert Walport Edward & Barbara Weikert Harris Allan Weinstein Gloria Zeche Burton Zwick $1,000–$1,799 Anonymous Ellen Abrams Gretchen Adkins Sari Anthony Susanna R. Bergtold David S. Berlin Ann & Steven Berzin Leslie Bhutani Kimberly S. Blanchard Stuart J. Chanen Chez Josephine Amanda & Warren Chiu Ellie & Edgar M. Cullman, Jr. Gregory Dimit John A. Dobler Bathsheba Doran Darren Dotson Anthony Edwards Mariana Elder Theresa Esperdy and Robert G. Neborak David Freedlander Dennis Furbush Roy L. Furman Ethan Geto Carson Gleberman The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation?

Adam Greenfield & Jordan Harrison Mary G. Gurney Jane Hait & Justin Beal Patricia Hayot & Ricardo A. Mestres, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Healey Nancy Heller & Holly Gewandter Sue Hessel & Karen Dahle Buck Henry Cristy Hill & Richard Mizer Robert J. Katz Helen Kauder & Barry Nalebuff Ellen & Rick Kelson Michael & Jamie Kessel

Robert Klein Barbara & Stuart Kreisberg Robert Kreisberg Linda & Paul Lee Douglas Liebhafsky Mari Marchbanks PLM Foundation Philip & Cheryl Milstein Lowell & Sandra Mintz Mulé Family Foundation James & Terri Muren F. Richard Pappas Annie Parisse & Paul Sparks Liz & Jeff Peek Carl & Zelie Pforzheimer David Hyde Pierce Irene Ramp David Rievman & Anne Oh Richard C. Norton, Jr. Trevor S. Norwitz Beth A. Rogers & Jeffrey Katz Libby & Jimmy Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Samson Karen Seymour Robert H. Sinclair Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Solomon Lynne Whitman & Dan Solender Tim P. Stanard Deborah & Kenneth Whitmore $500-$999 Anonymous (2) Lynn Ahrens & Neil Costa Foundation Fund Helayne Baron Joshua Beker Mr. Peter Bernstein & Mrs. Amy Bernstein Al Berr Teresa Bledsoe Susan M. Borozan Susan Brown Kathleen Budge Jonathan Benton Cummings & Holly Hegener Jennifer Campos Mary J. Davis William Derby Max Ember Ev & Lee Anton Faron Mary Ferlan Patricia Gannon-Lovier & Lester Lovier Ellen Garber Nanette Gartrell Nancy N. Gibbs Mary Goldberg Daniel Gonzalez Horacio & Gloria K. Gonzalez Pamela Gross & Susan Silverstein Carol Avery Haber

Bob Hall Robert Harrits Wendy Hashmall David N. Herskovits Lynn E. Hopkins Katharine J. Hughes Jo Kurth Jagoda Susan Jeffries Peter H. Judd Joshua Kaufman Brian Kendig Walter Klores Karen & Christopher Kyle Jennifer Leuba Eugene Levy Jayne Lipman & Robert Goodman Kathryn Lipuma Craig Lucas Jane Macan Jennifer Major Robert D. & Jean Markley Michael McCabe Jung J. Moon Herbert A. Morey Robert H. Moss Jim & Terri Muren Lauren Newman Nancy J. Baker & Daniel Olson Edward P. Osborne Michael & Gabrielle Palitz Lori and Lee Parks Ross Pasquale Gregg Passin & Andy Schmidt Melissa Pavlicek Donald Press Angela M. Rodell Susan Ross-Green Andrew W. Siegel Mindy & Gary Sircus Lois Smith Susan Margules Steinhardt & John Steinhardt Lilly Tam Jennifer Thomas Mei-Mei Tuan Beth Vanderslice Alec Walsh Lee Wasserman Hilda Wenig Mordechai Winter Billy Wong

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

Leslie Marcus Enid Nemy Dorinda J. Oliver Linda Rothstein Judith O. Rubin Robert E. Rubin Mikael Salovaara Carole Schwartz

Mal Schwartz George Spelvin Georgina Spelvin The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Benjamin Weisman Rachel Wilder

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

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

Carlo Steinman Aleksandra Szczepanowska Carol Walport Robert Walport Jason Wu

BEST FRIEND ($1,500+) Richard Berg Lauren Ehrhardt Nicole & Franco J. Azzopardi, Jr. Betsy & Andrew Fippinger Deborah Grant & Serge Tanjga Cari Hauck Taena Kim Dillon & Brenda Lorda Katrina E. McCann Melinda McLellan Alex Mitow & James Miille Steve Nowicki Pauline & Nicolas Oudin Elana Propis Nicholas P. Russo Matt Schneider & Priyanka Garg Marisa Sechrest Dana Seshens & Robert Kresberg Scott Slobodnyak & Owen Sweeney Carlo Steinman Aleksandra Szczepanowska & Gordon Shearer Carol & Robert Walport Jason Wu

Attienette G. Azille John Bishop & Diana Sciortino Eugene Brodach Allison Curran & Michael Hilkin Emily Erstling Cynthia R. Flowers Sandra Garner Nelson A. Isava Hernandez Travis James Philip A. Johnson Trevor S. Kokal & Naoki Sasamoto Christina Koza Nick Luckenbaugh Catherine Lynch Michael Melamedoff Catherine Mulligan Anne G. Myers Marc Pickard Lauren Dettloff Rothstein Cochleen & Jonathan Sands Andrea Stefanescu Briel Steinberg Martin Woodard

Jen Hoguet Courtney Mitchell Camille Nivero Cate Nivero Erica Rotstein Erika Stallings Jennifer & Benjamin Whitfield

DEVOTED FRIEND ($600–$1,499) Aude & Thibault Adrien

GOOD FRIEND ($400–$599) Nicole Aiken Jeffrey Ferrera Anna Glick

NEW FRIEND ($200–$399) Pinto Adhola Henri Benaim Talia Corren Brett S. East Jennifer de Fouchier Christopher Fox William Gfeller Justin Hale Phoebe Holtzman & Massimo Young Mike Karp & Ramón Torres Christina Koza Suzy Morais Michael Oliveras Madeline Rhodes Elian Seidel Nathalie Sommer

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.

Adobe, Inc. American International Group, Inc. Assured Guaranty Bank of America The Bank of New York Mellon Carnegie Corporation of New York Charities Aid Foundation of America Deutsche Bank Americas FIG, LLC Fortress Investment Group LLC

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Merck Meredith Corporation Foundation New York Community Trust Pfizer, Inc. Public Service Electric & Gas Company S&P Global Two Sigma Walt Disney Company

Lists complete as of September 17, 2021

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