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Portland Presents Advertiser Listing...........Page 9 Portland Stage Information...................Page 16-21

Merrill Auditorium Information........... Page 25-26

Portland Ovations Information...........Page 39-44

IN THE PROGRAM Madeleines

Join Us This Season!.................................... Page 66 Board of Trustees & Staff...................... Page 67-68

Introduction from Anita Stewart.........Page 83-84 Production Cast & Title Page......................Page 87

Playwright & Director Biographies.....page 88-89 Cast Biographies...................................Page 89-90

Centerspread Topics............................ Page 93-94 Land & Slavery Acknowledgement......... Page 105 Artistic & Production Biographies...Page 106-107

Portland Stage Sponsors............................Page 110 Annual Fund Supporters..................... Page 111- 116 Portland Presents • Return to Index

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Portland presents...

A cooperative effort by Portland Ovations, Portland Stage, Portland Symphony Orchestra and Merrill Auditorium Concert Events.

Located at: 120 Exchange Street Portland, ME 04101

great performances since 1931 Aimée M. Petrin, Executive Director

Administrative Office: (207) 773-3150

e-mail: info@portlandovations.org Order online at: www.PortlandOvations.org Located at: 25A Forest Avenue Portland, ME 04101

Administrative Office: (207) 774-1043 Fax: (207) 774-0576

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For Tickets: 25A Forest Avenue Portland, ME 04101 (207) 774-0465

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A cooperative effort by Portland Ovations, Portland Stage, Portland Symphony Orchestra and Merrill Auditorium Concert Events.

great performances since 1931

Welcome to Portland Presents.

The program book for Northern New England’s premier arts and entertainment organizations.

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Upper Left: Photo from the 2023 production of Saint Dad by Monica Wood Emily Upton, Liam Craig*, Moira Driscoll*, Pilar Witherspoon*, & Jenny Woodward (* Member of AEA) Right: Actor, Tony nominee and playwright John Cariani Bottom Left: A student acting in Shakespeare Teen Company’s performance of Hamlet. Photos by James A. Hadley

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ON STAGE • APRIL 2 - MAY 4, 2025 CREATING THE CLASSICS OF THE FUTURE

NEW WORK Portland Stage is committed to cultivating our region’s playwrights while introducing our audience to the creative process.

We inspire, nurture, and launch plays that will delight audiences for decades to come by incubating new work.

Since its debut in 1990, the Little Festival of the Unexpected (LFU) has established a tradition of nurturing artists, invigorating audiences, and exploring new voices, visions, and forms of theater. Past LFU scripts include Almost, Maine (LFU 2003) and Papermaker (LFU 2014).

Actor, Tony nominee and playwright, John Cariani, whose Almost, Maine is one of the most produced plays by high schools and colleges, will return to Portland Stage this season with a new Made in Maine production, Not Quite Almost.

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INSPIRING LITERACY, CULTURAL AWARENESS, COLLABORATION, & CREATIVITY

EDUCATION Education is central to Portland Stage’s mission.

Vital education programs are offered in schools for students from pre-K through high school, and to children ages 4-18 through classes in our Susie Konkel Theater for Kids storefront space.

Top Feature: Students participating in Portland Stage Design Camp, 2024 summer camp.

Above: A student acting in Shakespeare Teen Company’s performance of Hamlet.

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HANDCRAFTED THEATER MADE IN MAINE

MAINSTAGE With a season of six Mainstage shows, Portland Stage brings a wide range of performances to Maine. Every Mainstage show is handcrafted in our historic building in the Portland Arts District.

Throughout one season, Portland Stage creates over 200 live performances and serves 50,000 people from around the state and beyond.

Photos from the 2023 production of Saint Dad by Monica Wood Top Feature: Emily Upton, Liam Craig*, Moira Driscoll*, Pilar Witherspoon*, & Jenny Woodward Above: Moira Driscoll* & Jenny Woodward Side: Patrick O’Brien* (* Member of AEA). Photos by James A. Hadley

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Welcome to Merrill Auditorium, Portland’s Premier Performing Arts Venue Home to Prime Tenants - Portland Symphony Orchestra, Portland Ovations and The Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ.

Each year we host a variety of concerts, dance performances, children’s programming, comedy shows, corporate meetings and non-profit events with over 150,000 patrons in attendance annually!

Thank you for being a guest at our theater, please enjoy the show!

Merrill Auditorium is managed by the City of Portland Public Assembly Facilities Division Andrew J Downs, Director

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- UPCOMING EVENTS Wednesday September 18th @ 7:30 pm Elite Entertainment & Parachute Concerts presents THE PIANO GUYS Thursday September 26th @ 7:30 pm - REG Presents KILLER QUEEN Thursday October 3rd @ 7:00 pm - WHEEL OF FORTUNE LIVE Tuesday October 22nd @ 8:00 pm - STEPHEN SANCHEZ Friday October 25th @ 7:00 pm The Kotzschmar Organ presents THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Saturday October 26th @ 10:00 am The Kotzschmar Organ presents SPOOKTACULAR SONGS & STORYTIME Saturday October 26th @ 6:30 pm The Kotzschmar Organ presents AN EVENING WITH OLIVIER LATRY Sunday November 17th @ 2:30 pm The Kotzschmar Organ presents GRAND OPERA MEETS THE MIGHTY KOTZSCHMAR November 29th thru December 8th Maine State Ballet’s NUTCRACKER Tuesday December 17th @ 7:00 pm Portland Ballet presents VICTORIAN NUTCRACKER Monday December 23rd @ 7:00 pm The Kotzschmar Organ presents CHRISTMAS WITH KENNERLEY Saturday March 1 @ 7:00 pm Outback presents SAL VULCANO EVERYTHING’S FINE TOUR Wednesday March 19 @ 7:30 pm Outback presents NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - ASTRONOMY BIZARRE Saturday March 22nd @ 7:00 pm The Kotzschmar Organ presents BACH BIRTHDAY BASH

For more information about these and all our performances or to purchase tickets please visit PortTix.com or Call 207-842-0800 PortTix is the Official Box Office for Merrill Auditorium.

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EXPERIENCE BROADWAY WITH PORTLAND OVATIONS HADESTOWN FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 & 19, 2024 • 8 PM, 1 PM & 7 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

DEAR EVAN HANSEN WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 & 21, 2024 • 7 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

THE CHER SHOW WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 & 13, 2025 • 7 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

CHAMPIONS OF MAGIC WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, MARCH 12 & 13, 2025 • 7 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

THE ADDAMS FAMILY WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, MARCH 26 & 27, 2025 • 7 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

AIN’T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 & 28, 2025 • 7 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

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DIVE INTO THE WORLD OF THEATRE & DANCE

KAYLA FARRISH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2024 • 7 PM WESTBROOK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

LIFE BE LIFIN’ STARRING MONÉT X CHANGE SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025 • 8 PM STATE THEATRE, PORTLAND

CONTRA-TIEMPO: joyUS justUS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2025 • 7 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2025 • 7 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

COAST TO COAST: AN EVENING OF HIP-HOP ARABIC POETRY & MAQAM MUSIC WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 16 & 17, 2025 • 7 PM ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE, PORTLAND

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EMBARK ON A MUSICAL JOURNEY

ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2024 • 7 PM STATE THEATRE, PORTLAND

MARYNA KRUT, BANDURA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2025 • 7 PM FIRST PARISH CHURCH, PORTLAND

NATHALIE JOACHIM THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2025 • 7 PM AURA, PORTLAND

THE LEGENDARY COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025 • 7 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

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CELEBRATE 94 YEARS OF CHAMBER MUSIC

THE NIGHTINGALE’S SONATA SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2024 • 2 PM MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM, PORTLAND

ESPRESSIVO! PIANO QUARTET SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025 • 2 PM HANNAFORD HALL, USM CAMPUS, PORTLAND

CONRAD TAO PIANO SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2025 • 2 PM HANNAFORD HALL, USM CAMPUS, PORTLAND

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BRING THE WHOLE FAMILY TOGETHER CIRQUE KALABANTÉ: AFRIQUE EN CIRQUE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2024 • 7 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

SUGAR SKULL! A DÍA DE MUERTOS MUSICAL ADVENTURE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2024 • 10 AM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

BEAUTIFUL BLACKBIRD LIVE!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2024 • 11 AM WESTBROOK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2025 • 3 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

FRAGGLE ROCK: BACK TO THE ROCK LIVE! SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2025 • 1 & 4:30 PM MERRILL AUDITORIUM, PORTLAND

Membership gives you greater access to live performance and exclusive Member benefits including disounts and early ticket access.

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CONNECT AUDIENCES TO ARTISTS

Ovations Offstage connects audiences with artists by bringing experiences directly to the community. Programming includes pre-performance lectures before each chamber music concert, masterclasses and public workshops with visiting artists, community conversations, post-performance Q&A’s, film screenings, the popular Drag Storytime series and more.

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We use a team approach – a small group of highly specialized attorneys focused on helping your business see what’s ahead before you take that next step.

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Vice Presidents

Vicki J. Gordan Peter Haynes Michael Johnson Breda White

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Rick Abbondanza Sally Bancroft Lucas Desmond

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Kyo Bannai Omar Hasan Gretchen Johnson Nancy Merwin Liz Murley Holly Sargent Lendall Smith Nate Stevens

Olivier te Boekhorst Wendy Suehrstedt John Tanzer William Thornton Seth Webber Brent West April Ylvisaker Tardiff

P r e s i d e n t ’s C o u n c i l Jonathan W. Ayers Ken Blaschke Stephanie Bowe Carole Case Harper Lee Collins Dan Crewe Susan Dench Austin H. Farrar Karen Foster

Vincent E. Furey, Jr. Gordon Gayer Jan Gerry Phyllis Givertz Deborah Galarneau Ed Gardner Jerome F. Goldberg Linda L. Graffam Jeffrey D. Kane

Gregory Link Senator George Mitchell Robert Nanovic Mary Neal Kenny Nelson Leonard M. Nelson Mary P. Nelson Merle Nelson Elisabeth (Ellie) Osborn

Herbert Paris John I. Riddle Jen Segal Sally Ann Serunian Ann E. Spaulding Patricia Spock Kay Whitmore

D i s t i n g u i s h e d S e r v i c e Tr u s tees Peter S. Plumb

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McKenzie Blanchard, Director of Learning & Community Impact Liz Kane, Director of Artistic Operations

Lucas Goodman, Music Librarian Erin Marc-Aurele, Executive Assistant & Office Manager Sarah A. McCullough, Graphic Designer

Allison Page, Director of Marketing & Communications

Sara Hallie Richardson, Annual Fund Manager

Leah Robertson, Director of Development Jennie Ryan, Director of Finance

Liz Shapiro, Production Manager

Katie Schraeder, Grant Writer Alyson Spencer-Reed, Finance Coordinator Martin Webster, Orchestra Personnel Manager Michelle Zichella, Major Gifts Officer

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World-Class Performances & Exceptional Musical Experiences

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SUNDAY, SEPETEMBER 22, 2024 | 2:30 PM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2024 | 7:00 PM

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A Tribute to the Beatles SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2025 | 7:00 PM SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2025 | 2:30 PM

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Rhapsody in Blue SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2024 | 7:00 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2024 | 2:30 PM with the Portland Symphony Orchestra THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2024 | 7:00 PM

CLASSICAL MYSTERY TOUR:

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McCullough mixes McCullough a gold metallic ink mixes a gold metallic ink with additives to additives to create awith specific viscosity.create a specific viscosity.

McCullough and BrownMcCullough discuss and the designBrown while discuss settingtheupdesign the while setting up the printing station. printing station.

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ON SALE NOW. Posters may be purchased ON SALE NOW. Posters may be purchased online or at PSO performances. All proceeds online or at PSO performances. All proceeds benefit PSO education and artistic programs. For benefit PSO education and artistic programs. For more information about how to own a piece of PSO more information about how to own a piece of PSO history visit: history visit: `P O R T L A N D S Y M P H O N Y.O RG `P O R T L A N D S Y M P H O N Y.O RG

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Last year we asked local artists to help create a design Last year we asked local artists to help create a design expressing the celebratory for the PSO’s 100 th season for the PSO’s 100 th season expressing the celebratory spirit of the Symphony. The final design came from spirit of the Symphony. The final design came from emerging artist Lydia Jane Brown, a native Mainer who emerging artist Lydia Jane Brown, a native Mainer who has lived in the Portland area since 2008 when she has lived in the Portland area since 2008 when she moved from Aroostook County to study art at USM. moved from Aroostook County to study art at USM.

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It’s It’s meant to to center. meant feelfeel celebratory, likelike a a celebratory, fireworks display.” fireworks display.”

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Printmaker and PSO Graphic Designer Sarah McCullough Printmaker and PSO Graphic Designer Sarah McCullough collaborated with Brown to create a four-color screenprint collaborated with Brown to create a four-color screenprint commemorating the PSO’s 100th Anniversary season. commemorating the PSO’s 100th Anniversary season.

This limited-edition silkscreen poster will be signed by the printmaker, artist, Music Director, and possibly a special guest.

This limited-edition silkscreen poster will be signed by the printmaker, artist, Music Director, and possibly a special guest.

It is printed with water-based inks on 100% cotton, archival Stonehenge paper.

It is printed with water-based inks on 100% cotton, archival Stonehenge paper.

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“Join us at Portland Stage!”

We want to share our 51st season with YOU! With new Made in Maine productions, classics revisited, sharpwitted dramas, charming comedies, and murder mysteries, this season holds a range of shows we hope will delight and inspire you.

Each play in this season is about uncovering unexpected truths and finding the strength to face problems head on. From a senator standing up for what’s right, to discovering secrets in a recipe box or on the golf course. From confronting an angel or your wife, to sharing your deepest thoughts as shooting stars fill the night sky, each play this season brings a mystery and a different approach to finding a better solution.

Join us at Portland Stage!

Anita Stewart, Artistic Director CELEBRATING 51 YEARS OF CREATING THEATER

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Portland Stage Mission

Portland Stage is committed to creating great art, passionate about using the theater to educate, and dedicated to enriching our community. WE: • Engage, connect, inform: Through intimate, personal exchanges that can only happen in a live theater, we foster a shared empathy and sense of belonging.

• Build community: We create productions from the ground up, combining local talent with artists from away: Enriching both through lasting relationships and deeper understanding of each other and the world.

• Evolve to stay relevant: We innovate, cultivate, and incubate new ideas on our stages, in our classrooms, and with community partners.

Board of Trustees Todd Nicholson, President Ellen Alderman Tony San Antonio Samantha Bowen Sarah Campbell Susan Carter

Peter H. Clough Scott Cowger Margaret Groban Amanda Hannan Edith Iyer-Hernandez John F. Leonard IV

Theresa McCarthy Alisa Conroy Morton Sara A. Murphy Todd Nicholson Carole Ann Palmer Cathy Stankard Robin Talbot Courtney Thorpe Nelson A. Toner Daniel Tucker Anne Wade Wendy Winer Meg Villarreal

Pictured: Dustin Tucker* & Grace Bauer* from the 2023-24 Portland Stage production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (*Member AEA).

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Portland Stage Team

LEADERSHIP Artistic Director ............................................................................... Anita Stewart Managing Director........................................................................... Martin Lodish ARTISTIC • PRODUCTION Associate Production Manager • Sound Supervisor ............... Seth Asa Sengel Associate Technical Director ........................................................ Jacob Coombs Company Manager.................................................................... Jennifer London Costume Shop Manager................................................................. Susan Thomas Literary Manager ..................................................................... Todd Brian Backus Production Manager • Lighting Supervisor ............................... Mary Lana Rice Props Coordinator ................................................................................... Elliot Nye Stage Managers....................................................... Myles C. Hatch & Meg Lydon Technical Director ................................................................................Ted Gallant ADMINISTRATION Apprentice Coordinators................................ Jennifer London & Julianne Shea Audience Services Manager............................................................ Donald Smith Box Office Assistant Manager .................................................... Renee Myhaver Business Manager.......................................................................... Paul Ainsworth Development Associate............................................................... Lindsey Higgins Development Director ..................................................................... Covey Crolius Education Administrator................................................................ Julianne Shea Education Assistant........................................................ Stacey Salotto-Cristobol Education Director................................................................ Michael Dix Thomas Front of House Associates .................................. Beka Bryer & Cassie Edincott Grant Coordinator ................................................................................. Allison Fry Graphic Designer • Marketing Associate................................ Aressa Goodrich Group Sales Coordinator ............................................................... Myles C. Hatch House Manager .......................................................................... Adam Thibodeau Marketing Assistant....................................................................... Savannah Irish Marketing & Communications Director ...................................... Erin Elizabeth APPRENTICES Company Management ..................................................................... Casey Pitts Costumes........................................................... Renata Cortes, Jessica Podemski Directing & Dramaturgy............................ Kimmarie McCrann, Larsen Nichols, ............................................................................................. Micki Demby Kleinman Education ............................................................ Charlie Bowen, Sadie Goldstein Electrics .................................................................................................. Sierra Riley Props ............................................................................................ Grainne Sheehan Stage Management .................................. Kevin Commander, Charlotte Teplitz

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Subscribers are the Backbone of Our Organization Providing ongoing support for the theater both within our community as well as financially.

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Benefits Comparison Choose the best plan for you!

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Pictured: Emily Upton, Patrick O’Brien*, Moira Driscoll*, Jenny Woodward, & Liam Craig* from the 2023-24 Portland Stage Production of Saint Dad by Monica Wood. (*Member AEA) Photo by James A. Hadley.

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Rush35 provides an affordable and inclusive gateway into live theater for audiences age 35 and under by offering low-cost rush tickets to ANY Portland Stage Mainstage production.

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Your Support Matters

Because each contribution is an investment in the arts.

Tax-deductible contributions keep Portland Stage a living, breathing, thriving theater, and ultimately ensure the fulfillment of our mission and the enrichment of our community. The generosity of individual donors, corporations, and foundations enables us to surround the work on our Mainstage with Education Programs, New Work Development Initiatives, and Community Engagement Events that deepen and broaden the impact of the shows themselves.

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Educational Camps & Classes

The classes and camps at Portland Stage produce a safe environment for young people to find a higher sense of play, stretch their imaginations, and gain valuable social skills.

Serving children pre-K to grade 12 year round in our theater, the community, and schools.

Theater for Kids is made possible by the support & vision of Susie Konkel.

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UNITING THE WORLD THROUGH ART

2024-2025 Season at Lincoln Theater

Roux & Cyr

International Fine Art Gallery

The Met Live in HD returns!

Don’t miss eight incredible performances transmitted live from the Met stage to Damariscotta’s historic Lincoln Theater.

Local and international fine art.

Art classes, workshops and events.

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Les Contes D’Hoffmann (Offenbach) - Sat Oct 5 (with Pre-Opera Talk)

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Fidelio (Beethoven) - Mar 15 Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) - Apr 26 Salome (R. Strauss) - May 17 Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Rossini) - May 31

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DRAMATIC READING & ACTING WORKSHOPS SATURDAYS AT 10:30AM OCT. 19 - NOV. 23 • AGES 4 - 10

New picture books & activities each week!

Theater for Kids is made possible by the support & vision of Susie Konkel.

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Discussion Series Page to Stage

Join us for a book club discussion of the plays in our 50th season at the Portland Public Library. Portland Stage Literary Manager Todd Brian Backus will lead discussions alongside assistant directors, dramaturgs, and special guests. Scripts are available at the Main Branch Reference Desk at the Portland Public Library and take place in the Rines Auditorium at the following dates and times.

Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika .... Saturday, October 12th • 1:30 - 2:30pm Murder on the Links .................................... Saturday, January 18th • 1:30 - 2:30pm Madelines .................................................. Saturday, February 22nd • 1:30 - 2:30pm Not Quite Almost ...........................................Saturday, March 22nd • 1:30 - 2:30pm Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ...........................Saturday, May 3rd • 1:30 - 2:30pm

The Artistic Perspective

Join us after the fith Sunday Matinee of each production for a discussion with Artistic Director Anita Stewart, as well as artists and scholars related to the production. These discussions are always free and open to the public, and attendees can join even if they didn’t attend the matinee itself. Check in with the Box Office for runtimes and try to arrive at Portland Stage about five minutes before curtain to join the audience after bows.

Curtain Call

Join us after the second Sunday Matinee of each production for a discussion with the cast of each show, moderated by Literary Manager Todd Brian Backus. These discussions are always free and open to the public, and attendees can join even if they didn’t attend the matinee itself. Check in with the Box Office for runtimes and try to arrive at Portland Stage about five minutes before curtain to join the audience after bows.

Pictured: Lizz Mangan, Hannah Cordes, Sam Rosentrater*, John Cariani*, Kathy McCafferty*, & Raymond McAnally* During Almost, Maine discussion (2020) (* Member AEA).

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Discover More!

Created by the Portland Stage Literary Department, these extensive guides present a broad spectrum of information and perspectives on each play in our Mainstage season.

Read more on our website Portlandstage.org

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Christmas with Renaissance Voices

30th Anniversary Gala Spring Concert

Cathedral Church of St. Luke, 143 State St, Portland, ME

Cathedral Church of St. Luke, 143 State St, Portland, ME

Saturday, December 14, 7:30 pm Sunday, December 15, 2:00 pm

Sunday, May 18, 2:00 pm

Music by Thomas Weelkes, Juan Esquivel, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sally Herman, & more

di rector’s cut – Music Director Harold Stover picks favorites from 30 years of Renaissance Voices concerts

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Your Safety Matters

To address safety concerns, WH Demmons updated our HVAC system to utilize bipolar ionization technology to deactivate harmful substances like bacteria, mold, allergens, and viruses.

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MAR. 5 - MAR. 23

“Here’s to remembering the past and listening for the truth today.”

What are the stories we tell about ourselves and our families? What are the values and narratives we pass down through generations? And what role do we play in the company of those who should love us the most?

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These are some of the questions I ask myself as I watch Madeleines, a new play that has been crafted over the past ten years by Maine playwright Bess Welden. In this play, two sisters, Jen and Deb, uncover a mystery in an Ohio kitchen that leads them into an unknown chapter in their family’s past. As they learn details about the past, they simultaneously discover secrets of their present. Unpacking their personal truths, the sisters grapple with their own place in the family history and what it means to see that shared history from a different perspective.

Madeleines reminds us that while learning about our history may start in our own backyard (or kitchen), it ultimately brings us closer to the world and deepens our connections with others. History is made not individually, but together, and we must collectively work to keep the ideas and narratives of our ancestors and communities alive.

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Madeleines

By Bess Welden

ON STAGE • MARCH 5 - MARCH 23 SETTING

Debra’s childhood home in Ohio.

This theater operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. *Members of the Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. **The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. ***The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society is the theatrical union that unites, empowers, & protects professional Stage Directors and Choreographers throughout the United States.

The video and/or audio recording of this live production by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.

CAST

Debra Moritz.............................Danielle Levin* Jennifer Moritz...............Carine Montbertrand* Rose Moritz/Lilia Kaminsky.....Carmen Roman*

ARTISTIC/PRODUCTION

Director..........................................Annette Jolles*** Scenic Designer............................Kimberly Powers** Costume Designer.......................... Michelle Handley Lighting Designer.......................Weston Wilkerson** Sound Designer................................. Seth Asa Sengel Stage Manager..................................Myles C. Hatch* Casting Director................................... Jenn Haltman Asst. Director & Dramaturg...........Kimmarie McCrann Production Assistant.....................Kevin Commander Lighting and Sound Operator...................Sierra Riley Wardrobe....................................... Jessica Podemski Production Assistant Swing.............Gráinne Sheehan Wardrobe Swing..................................Renata Cortés

Madeleines was developed in a professional workshop reading by the Jewish Plays Project as part of the Festival of New Jewish Plays and was developed by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley as part of their New Works Festival.

Special Thanks: Cara Spencer, Adam Thibodeau

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PLAYWRIGHT

Bess Welden

is a theater maker living and creating in Maine.

She spent 2022 as a National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow for her work at the intersection of art-making and social change. She served as the 2024 Playwright-InResidence for the Maine Playwrights Festival and recently created a commission for the Lives Eliminated, Dreams Illuminated project, an interdisciplinary visual art, music, and theater exhibition honoring girls and young women who died in the Holocaust.

Madeleines won the 2022 National Jewish Playwriting Contest. The script was developed in New York City with Jewish Plays Project, in Palo Alto with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, in Indiana with the Jewish Theatre of Bloomington, in West Hartford, CT, with Playhouse on Park, and with Portland Stage as part of the Little Festival of the Unexpected.

Bess’ play with songs, Death Wings, won the 2020 Maine State Prize of the Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights and was produced in Maine by Dramatic Repertory Company, The Theater Project, and Meetinghouse Arts with major support from the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission. Death Wings was also a 2020 semi-finalist for the prestigious O’Neill New Play Conference and was workshopped with Fresh Ink Theatre at Boston Center for the Arts.

Refuge Malja, a finalist in the 2020 National Jewish Playwriting Contest, premiered on Portland Stage’s Mainstage. Monologues from Death Wings and Madeleines are featured in the 2021 and 2024 Best Women’s Stage Monologues published by Smith & Kraus.

Her plays Celebrity Exit and All I Ever Wanted Was to Play were produced at Colby College. Mergirl Saves the Waves, a feminist, environmentalist adaptation of The Little Mermaid, was developed with Portland Stage Theater for Kids and A Company of Girls. Her solo comedies The Passion of the Hausfrau and Big Mouth Thunder Thighs premiered in Portland Stage’s Studio Theater, and her collaborative theater performance project with live music and illustration, Legbala is a River, premiered at Mayo Street Arts.

Bess has been teaching and directing in Colby College’s department for Performance, Theater, and Dance since 2010. www.besswelden.com and www.deathwingsproject.org

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Annette Jolles***

has created a diverse body of work as a director and producer for theater and television and is the recipient of 22 Emmy Awards. TV directing for Live From Lincoln Center includes symphonic concerts for the NY Philharmonic and Mostly Mozart, three Richard Tucker Galas, and solo programs featuring Cynthia Erivo; Sutton Foster; Leslie Odom, Jr.; Norm Lewis; and Patina Miller. She also produced PBS’ Stars on Stage from Westport Country Playhouse, directing episodes starring Shoshana Bean and Brandon Victor Dixon. Stage direction includes Così fan tutte (Alice Tully Hall), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Geffen Hall), Peter and the Wolf (BAM), The Soldier’s Tale featuring Danny Burstein (La Jolla Music Society), and the Off-Broadway/world premieres of That Time of the Year and Little by Little (York Theatre Company). At NYC’s Symphony Space, she has produced and directed over fifty programs, notably Wall to Wall Bernstein, Wall to Wall Sondheim, Project Broadway, and gala concerts of Pippin, A Little Night Music, and Cabaret. She is thrilled to reunite with playwright Bess Welden, with whom prior collaborations include The Passion of the Hausfrau and Keeping the Word. She teaches musical theater performance at Yale. Upcoming: Director of PBS’ Great Performances broadcast of Yellow Face starring Daniel Dae Kim.

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CAST BIOGRAPHIES

Levin

Danielle Levin* (Debra Moritz) grew up in New England and now lives and works in the SF Bay Area. She had the pleasure of working with Bess Welden at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley on Madeleines as part of their New Works Festival in 2023, and is delighted to join the team at Portland Stage for the world-premiere production! In addition to TheatreWorks, Danielle has appeared on stages around the Bay Area such as Marin Theatre Company, SF Playhouse, Aurora Theatre Company, Center REPertory Company, Shotgun Players, and Crowded Fire. Danielle is also a dialect coach, playwright, and editor. She is a member of Playground SF (www.playground-sf.org) and a contributor to the Actors’ Reading Collective (www.arcstream.org). Danielle received her MFA from UC Davis.

Carine Montbertrand* (Jennifer Jennifer Moritz) Recent: Tales from the Guttenberg Bible by and starring Steve Guttenberg, George Street/Bay Street theatres; Henry IV, NYClassical; Comedy of Tenors, Florida Rep. Off-Broadway: Soho Rep, Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Acting Company. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, ATL, The Alley Theatre (Fool, world premiere

by Theresa Rebeck), Rep Theatre and Shakespeare Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse (Acclaim Award, Othello-Emila), Denver Center, Pioneer Theatre, Utah Shakespeare, and more. Over 80 audiobooks - Recorded Books, Penguin Random House, Audible (AudioFile’s “Earphones Award”, American Library Assoc. “Notable Recording”).

TV/Film: Neuman, The Red Shoe, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel www.carinemontbertrand.com

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Carmen Roman* (Rose Moritz/Lilia Kaminsky) Recent: Condomonium (New Theatre, Kansas City), King John (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville), The Garden of Anuncia (Old Globe, San Diego), The Children (Seattle Rep), Angels in America (Berkeley Rep), Native Son (Yale Rep, American Blues Theater, The Court Theatre), My Fair Lady (The Lyric Opera). National Tour: Angels in America. Off-Broadway: The Iphigenia Cycle (TFNA, NY), The Mysteries (Classic Stage Company). Regional: Sotto Voce (Portland Stage); W;t, Black Snow, Brutality of Fact (Goodman Theatre, Chicago); Side Man (Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago), The Price (Syracuse Stage and Geva), Sonia Flew (The Huntington Theatre), Electra (Hartford Stage). Television: Proven Innocent, Chicago PD, Betrayal, Boss, All My Children, Early Edition, Law & Order, The Equalizer, SVU, Criminal Intent. Film: An Acceptable Loss, Savages, The Falcon, Liberty, Penetentia.

Fox Fellow, Sarah Siddons Award, Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago.

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PLAYNOTES PERSPECTIVES AN INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT BESS WELDEN AND DIRECTOR ANNETTE JOLLES*** Edited for length and clarity by Kimmarie McCrann Kimmarie McCrann (KM): What inspired you to start writing this play in 2015?

Bess Welden (BW): I was part of a playwriting group with Snowlion Repertory

Company, which is still active here in Maine, and the artistic director of the company gave us a prompt to write a short play about food. It was just a wide-open prompt, and then they were going to produce whatever we wrote as sort of a collection of short plays about food. So this idea of a character, a woman who is a professional cookie baker and someone who would have sort of cataloged her life through recipes, came to me. And then when I sat down to write, it was these characters that emerged. And then I realized that I wanted to really connect it to Jewish culture and how food and recipes and stories are all sort of wrapped up together.

KM: So, why madeleines cookies specifically?

BW: I think the answer is, it was intuitive. It was just something that came from the collective unconscious, imaginative swamp that gets sort of channeled down when you’re in a space of creating a story. So it wasn’t because I had a personal, deep relationship with madeleines, but I’ve developed a real love of baking as an adult.

KM: When did Annette come into the picture?

BW: I had submitted the play to the Jewish Plays Project, the National Jewish Playwriting

Contest, and it had been a semi-finalist one year, and it became a finalist for the 2022 year. And that’s when I thought, “Oh, I really need to collaborate with a Jewish woman, director, dramaturg on this piece. And I know who that is.” It was early fall of 2021, leading up to 2022, where I understood that there was going to be some future development of this play, and I really wanted to have a director that I trusted and that I knew would understand the story, and Annette was the perfect person.

Annette Jolles (AJ): She didn’t have to do much convincing because number one,

I would work with Bess anytime, anywhere. And also, coming out of COVID, I was really struggling to figure out what I wanted to say or do in theater. When I read Madeleines I felt like I knew these women, and immediately related to what the play was saying about family, illness, sisters, secrets and faith, and to the wonderful mystical elements that are woven in. For the first time since the pandemic I thought, “Oh, I can do this. I think this truly feels relevant, and I think it’s important.”

KM: Annette, can you describe more specifically some of the things that you are thinking about while staging this piece?

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dimensional. But I think in this particular play, there’s a challenge, there’s a lot of physical activity that is written into the fabric of what it is. You are cooking on stage. You are writing on stage. You are making things on stage. You have a character who is there who is no longer alive. So how does that physically manifest in the staging? So some of it is practical. You’re thinking both practical and you’re thinking theatrical, right? And how do those things meet to basically bring the story to life, which starts with the [set] design. I don’t stage until I really understand what the design is. I think, for me, staging is informed by, “What does that physical world look like, and how do you move through it?”

KM: How do you think the characters’ Judaism and family history inform the world of the play?

BW: I think for a lot of American Jews, myself included, [we] find so much connection to

our Jewishness through cultural elements, such as music, food, art, as much as through the religious aspects which I choose to observe. I would also say, being able to write in a very culturally specific way ultimately ends up being the most universal way to tell a story. What I’ve heard over and over again is that there are so many things about these moments [in the play], these years in this family’s life, that just tracks. There are so many points of entry for people of any different background, ethnicity, or religion. This is a family drama, this is just human struggle, and people find themselves connecting with and resonating with the story.

AJ: It’s also an immigrant story. It’s a story about family secrets, it’s a story about aging

parents. It’s a story about food, sibling rivalry, a story about—

AJ & BW: Food— BW: —cooking, and the stories that go with those things, because those are just basic things we’re drawn to as humans. Somebody recently asked me, “How do you feel about the fact this play is being produced now, when there’s been this real rise over the last several years in antisemitism?” I think that actually it matters even more that we’re telling this story now. If you watch this play, hopefully you might think, “Oh, well, if that’s what Jews are like, then I’m just like them, right?”

Carine Montbertrand*, Carmen Roman*, Bess Welden, Annette Jolles***, Danielle Levin*, and Kimmarie McCrann (*member of AEA, *** member of SDC.) Photo by Aressa Goodrich.

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FOOD AND JEWISH TRADITION

By Micki Demby Kleinman

Every tragedy, victory, and survival the Jewish people encounter is a chance to celebrate and eat food. Beyond their love of eating, feeding loved ones, and food-centered rituals, the Jewish people are known for their delicious cuisine. When thinking of Jewish food, bagels, kugel, or latkes (fried potato pancakes) may initially come to mind. However, there is more cultural variety, and historical significance to these foods than most Americans may know.

In 70 CE the Romans conquered Israel, destroyed the Beit Hamikdash, and expelled the Jews from their homeland. This diaspora led to culinary innovations and shaped the Jewish food world as it is seen today.

One of the most recognizably Jewish foods are bagels, which are shaped by Jewish immigration and history. Jewish Poles were inspired by obwarzanek, a ring-shaped Polish bread, and from there created the smaller, single-serving bread now recognized as the bagel. After being inspired by Polish bread, Jewish immigrants brought the bread with them to the United States and shared that food with their new community.

So, what is Jewish food? Perhaps Jewish food is food with a story attached, a sentimental significance, and one that pays homage to the local environment. Jewish people are adaptable and resilient, with strong roots in their history and tradition, a firm grip on the present, and an eye toward innovation and the future. Perhaps that is what makes Jewish people and Jewish food what they are.

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THE JEWISH AMERICAN DIASPORA

By Larsen Nichols

It’s May of 1945. The last of the concentration camps has been liberated, and the German surrender to the Allied powers is official. World War II in Europe has come to a close. Approximately 700,000 people have survived the concentration camps by the end of the Holocaust, like Jennifer and Debra’s Zayde (grandfather) in Madeleines. An overwhelming 11 million people have been displaced from their homes across Europe. But in the wake of such an atrocity, with few survivors of the camps able or willing to return home, where do all the survivors go?

After the Holocaust, the United States became one of the largest immigration spots for displaced persons, admitting approximately 400,000 people by 1952, approximately 96,000 of which were Jewish survivors. This mass immigration to America laid the foundation for the US to host the largest population of Jews outside of Israel.

Madeleines shows us the legacy of one of these such survivors, and the impact his move to America had on his descendants decades after the Holocaust.

Once the war was over, the question for foreign governments became how to address and relocate the approximately 70,000 Jewish survivors of the concentration camps and 250,000 total displaced Jews. Many of these survivors were relocated to urban centers in Germany, Italy, and Austria, or displaced persons (DP) camps. Conditions in these camps were horrific, with displaced persons being kept in crowded and unsanitary conditions and under armed guard. Most of the DP camps across Europe closed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, with the last being closed in 1959.

Polish Holocaust survivor Aron Derman recounts his journey to the United States: “It was real, real hard. Small boat they gave us and a boat with no facilities. With bunks. And it was all stormy, and all of us were sick.” When passengers like Derman arrived in the United States, they were faced with the challenge of completely starting over a new life. Few welfare programs like those we have today were available to these refugees. Organizations such as the New York Association for New Americans did provide support and aid for Holocaust survivors in New York, promoting work and self-support as paths to successful integration. These recent arrivals worked hard in the garment industry, as well as industries like cigar manufacturing, banking, construction, and food production. Though the journey for a better life was fraught and complicated for many Jewish refugees, the United States became a place of safety and opportunity.

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LAND & SLAVERY ACKNOWLEDGMENT We are creating theater on land that has been cared for by the Wabanaki. We honor their community and invite you to go to the Wabanaki Reach website to learn more about the Wabanaki culture, as well as about restorative justice and truth-telling that is necessary for healing.

We encourage you to learn more about the peoples who cared for the land that you now reside on whether you’re from here in Portland or are visiting from away. For more information about the Wabanaki Confederacy, visit mainewabanakireach.org, and to find out whose land you are on, visit native-land.ca.

We also want to acknowledge that the history of Maine is deeply connected to the institution of slavery in the United States, and that residents of Maine participated in both slavery and the transatlantic slave trade even after slavery was outlawed in the District of Maine. While it may be easy to think of Maine and more specifically Portland as a very White place, we recognize that this is simply not the case and we are working to dismantle these harmful ideas. We encourage our audiences to visit the Abyssinian Meeting House (learn more at abyssinianmeetinghouse.org) or the Eastern Cemetery here in Portland, and to explore scholarship on the subject, like Lives of Consequence by Patricia Q. Wall, to learn more about this oft-neglected part of Maine’s history.

We recognize that the American Theater has also exploited, misrepresented, and excluded communities of Latine, Asian, Indigenous, and Middle Eastern descent for centuries.

Portland Stage is recommitting to telling authentic stories from diverse backgrounds that all of our audiences can experience and enjoy.

ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION BIOS Kimberly Powers** (Scenic Designer) is delighted and grateful to be making her Portland Stage debut working with both her old friend, Bess Welden, and husband, Weston Wilkerson. She is an Arkansas-based set designer and artist whose work has been seen at venues across the country, including Syracuse Stage, Opera Theatre St. Louis, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, TheatreSquared, Virginia Stage Company, Charleston Stage, Stages, Casa Mañana, and Northern Stage. She was the Resident Set Designer for Ocean State Theatre Company’s inaugural season and for five years at Ohio Light Opera, as well as the first Design Assistant at the Denver Center Theatre Company. Kim has also been a freelance artist since 2000, and has also worked professionally as a muralist, props master, event designer and coordinator, graphic designer, and exhibit designer. She is part of a team that was awarded the 2022 Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize from OPERA America for their conception of Sweeney Todd. She has taught in the theater departments of Coastal Carolina University, the University of Tulsa, Colby College, and the University of Arkansas, and remains a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.

Michelle Handley (Costume Designer) is so glad and grateful to be part of the Madeleines team with the lovely folks of Portland Stage!

She also designs with Theater at Monmouth, University of Maine Orono School of Performing Arts, Good Theater, and Penobscot Theatre, and has coordinated wardrobe for documentary shoots for Smithsonian Channel and Hulu. Michelle is the blessed mum of Lydia and Ethan, and calls Winthrop, Maine, home.

Weston Wilkerson** (Lighting Designer) is thrilled to be back at Portland Stage where he previously designed Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure and The Play That Goes Wrong. Additional regional credits include lighting for Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Florida Repertory Theatre, Tulsa Opera, Theatre By the Sea, Stages, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, TheatreSquared, City Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, and Cumberland County Playhouse. Commercial work includes productions for Indy Racing League, NASCAR, ESPN/ (**Member of USA)

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ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION BIOS ABC, Shell Oil, College GameDay, Trackside Live, and HBO Boxing.

Weston now lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with his wife Kim Powers (Set Designer for Madeleines!) and their son Haakon, where he is a teacher at the University of Arkansas.

Seth Asa Sengel (Sound Designer) has spent decades making theater with creative souls all over our United States. He is glad to be home in Maine, and at Portland Stage, where he has collaborated on dozens of wonderful productions. A few favorites include Manning, Saint Dad, Sweet Goats and Blueberry Señoritas, The HalfLight, Sex and Other Disturbances, and The Haunting Hour. Please be kind to others, and to yourself, and tell people you love them. Much Love to Mary Lana.

Myles C. Hatch* (Stage Manager) most recently stage managed The Snow Queen here at Portland Stage. Myles has worked with such diverse theaters as the Hangar Theatre, Theatre By The Sea, The Freeport Shakespeare Festival, Maine State Music Theatre, The Theater at Monmouth, Arden Theatre Company, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Everyman Theatre, Rep Stage, Horse Cave Theatre, New Stage Theatre, Round House Theatre, Source Theatre Company, Washington Stage Guild, Washington Jewish Theatre, Asolo Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse, and the YALE Summer Cabaret. Myles would like to thank the cast, creative team, run crew, production staff, and the theatre administration for all their wonderful work to bring this world premiere play to the stage.

Myles is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS: PLATINUM SHOW SPONSOR Portland Stage is grateful to have been awarded Grants for Arts Projects funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to help support the creation of Madeleines.

This award was approved by Congress and announced by our congressional delegation in January, and while the funding is not yet in hand, we would like to thank our congressional delegation and the NEA for understanding the importance of the arts in building community.

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Madeleines by Bess Welden is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous support also provided by Maine Theater Fund/Maine Community Foundation, the Libra Foundation, the Fisher Charitable Foundation, and the Shubert Foundation.

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Bonnie Nelson Schwartz

Jennifer Caven

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2023-24 ANNUAL FUND SUPPORTERS Susan & James Cook

Tom & Laurie Hyndman

Ann K. Corbey & Stephen H.

Mary Iyer

Painter

Edith Iyer-Hernandez

Dick & Margaret Curran

Jack & Kenneth Jackowitz

Richard & Judy Curtis

William Jenks

Rob & Christine Dalzell

Sandra Jensen & Samuel Broaddus

Jerry & Gretchen Davis

Anita B. Jones

Brenda Delahanty

Patrick & Valerie Kelly

Tom DeMarco

Judith & Daniel Kennedy

Linda J. Docherty

Lily King

Mary Doherty

David Kling & Kathryn Sanders

Bruce Donath

Paul M. Knight

Richard Doucette

Ken & Jean Kriedberg

Pamela Doughty

Neil & Cathy Lamb

Moira Driscoll & David Pence

Denise LaRue & Bob Furman

Mary Lou Dyer

Calien Lewis & Martha Mickles

Katherine Dyhrberg

Andres Llorente

John Edwards

Benjamin Lund

David Ellenstein

John & Jane Lunt

Barbara & Mark Engel

David & Jeanne Mason

Dr. & Mrs. David Flavin

Jackie Mathews

David H. Fluharty & Linda

Mary Beth Mathews

R. Hjortland

Anne McBride

Jean Foy

Heidi McDonald

John Funk & Deborah Chase

Sheila McGarr

Susan Garfield & Lynda Mullen

Mary Anne McLean

George & Martha Gilmore

Sarah Meacham

Linda & Schuyler Grant

Marianna & Pete Mickelson

Elizabeth Guffey

Bruce Moore & Jan Chapman

Ann Havener & Richard Estabrook

Kenneth & Mary Nelson

Stephen & Debra Honey

Victoria Nolan & Clark Crolius

Woody Howard & Gib Twitchell

David & Caro Nutty

Elizabeth & Christopher Hunt

Jackie Oliveri

Al & Pauline Huntley

David & Jacqueline Orsmond

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Elizabeth Owens & Douglass Flaherty

David Terrio Adam Thibodeau

John & Denise Palmer

Marielynn Towers

James & Diane Paterson

Mary Turner

Heather Payson

Benjamin & Christine Twining

The Poole Group of Companies

Patricia Vantuyl

Hope Putnam

Peter & Elizabeth Ventre

Ted Rand & Sarah Campbell

Deena Weinstein

Lenore Rapkin

Susan & Fancis Whitten

Francis Robbins & Nirupama

Heidi Wierman

Aggarwal

David Wilcock

Jacqueline Robinov

David & Elise Wilson

Michael & Naida Rodman

James & Jennifer Wolak

Larry & Robin Rubinstein

Rick & Janet Wolf

Donald J. & Sue Rudalevige

Laura Young

Helen Ryder

Bill & Patty Zimmerman

Gwen & James Sartoris Elena Schmidt

In Memory of ($250+)

Mike & Pam Schwotzer

Steven Samuels in memory of

Robert Scribner & Claire Julian

Alan Samuels and Louis Berlin

Peggy Shapiro Linda Shary & Jeffrey Logan

In Honor of ($250+)

Nancy Shaw & John Gilmour

Bonnie Nelson Schwartz in honor

Robert Slater Mary Snell & Irwin Novak Alan & Jonell Solander Peter & Lynn Soucy Alice Spencer

of Martin Lodish Ann Shenassa in honor of Monica Wood Kathleen Silvia in honor of Bud & Cheryl Higgins

Patricia Stevens Bud & Susan Stiker Jacqueline Stowell The Frank C. & Carrie C. Strasburger Fund Kristin G. Sweeney

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