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Each November, The Public Theater reflects back on the year past. We ask ourselves large, looming questions about our mission, our art, and the role we play in our city. Our 2016-17 season took place at a time of intense national foment – a time when our entire country was grappling with these same existential questions about who we are, how our democracy works, and how we exist in relationship with one another. Consensus feels impossibly elusive, and yet we still pause now to ask: what role does art play in our civic dialogue?

Our answers start on our stages. Last season saw an incredible slate of intrepid artists reaching backwards into our histories to help us better understand ourselves. At a time when we are in urgent conversation about justice for black and brown bodies, UNIVERSES gave us an unflinching, emotional exploration of The Black Panther Party and Young Lords’ struggle for justice in PARTY PEOPLE. At a time when our nation wrestled with questions about who we memorialize, the inimitable John Leguizamo offered us both the bite and respite of his humor as he excavated the untold stories of Latinx people and built monuments to their omnipresent contributions to society. We offered the first major revival of David Hare’s PLENTY, a story of the clawing, corrosive effect of marginalization on women’s psyches, exactly at a time when women were struggling to understand the leashes that still work to bind their agency and power. We presented JOAN OF ARC: INTO THE FIRE, David Byrne’s throbbing new musical that reminded us how much fear has always been engendered by women’s ferocity.

Last season also reminded us how time has diminished none of the power of Shakespeare’s works.

From Sam Gold’s beautifully expressionistic navigation of HAMLET, to Lear deBessonet’s warmly expansive production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, to our offering of JULIUS CAESAR as a two thousand-year-old political fable that still feels urgently contemporary – Shakespeare’s insights into society and humanity have never felt more alive.

Our season did not just make sense of the past, it also navigated our immediate present. Richard Nelson’s new trilogy THE GABRIELS: ELECTION YEAR IN THE LIFE OF ONE FAMILY, literally served the political tumult of the 2016 election for dinner, weaving through the year of ferment and change as most of us do – sharing meals with our families. Ethan Lipton’s THE OUTER SPACE offered us a glimpse into an ever-gentrifying city and the continued stratification of wealth through the deeply personal lens of his marriage. And perhaps most stunningly, Lynn Nottage gave us her Pulitzer Prize-winning play SWEAT, the most honest conversation about the intersection of race, class, and power in our deindustrializing country that we have ever seen.

And yet, even as we waded through stories of conflict and pain, past and present, our season also offered us answers to how we move forward. Martin Sherman’s GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM gave us an opportunity to explore, explain and honor the giants of the gay rights movement that came before us, while gently laying to rest the ghosts of that struggle that still haunt us. Nia Vardalos’ adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS offered us object lessons in radical empathy, and showed us a way of healing by making ourselves profoundly vulnerable to others.

And when more than 200 New Yorkers took the stage at the Delacorte to share our Public Works production of TWELFTH NIGHT with our city, we were once again powerfully reminded that a group of people gathered together to tell a story is as radically celebratory an act as it ever was.

Fifty years ago, The Public inaugurated our Astor Place home with HAIR, a musical that directly engaged our cultural tensions at a time of deep division. Then, as now, The Public offered its stages as places to celebrate our differences and give voice to our citizenry. As we look to the next 50 years, we know we will continue to grapple with big questions about who we are and how we work. But we also know that we will discover paths forward by doing what we have always done – offering the broadest spectrum of human experiences, created by the most diverse and dynamic artists of our time, to the largest swathe of audiences we can reach. Then, as now, as ever, we will be your Public Theater.

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EMERGING WRITERS GROUP DESSERT

BY Phillip Howze DIRECTED BY Margot Bordelon

ELSEWHERE: A PLAY FOR AN AUDIENCE OF ONE

BY Stav Palti-Negev DIRECTED BY Tea Alagic´

ENDLINGS

BY Celine Song DIRECTED BY Knud Adams

RECKONING: FURIES FROM A NEW QUEER NATION

BY Geraldine Inoa DIRECTED BY Billy Porter

ROCKET PARK

BY Liza Birkenmeier DIRECTED BY Katherine Brook

TORERA

BY Monet Hurst-Mendoza DIRECTED BY Elena Araoz

THE UNBEARABLE WHITENESS OF BEING

BY Jeremy J. Kamps DIRECTED BY Saheem Ali

WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS AS THE INSTITUTION CONTINUES TO GROW AND CHANGE? This year we restructured our literary department to create the department of New Work Development, which aims to strengthen our relationship with artists and our ability to foster new work. We want to advance the canon of American theater by establishing a home for important young writers and theater makers and demystifying the dramaturgical process and what goes into creating the work you see on our stages, from conception to opening night.

– JEANIE O’HARE, Director of New Work Development Emerging Writers Group. Photo by Tammy Shell.

NARWHALS: UNICORNS OF THE SEA

BY MJ Kaufman DIRECTED BY Will Davis

UNTITLED PLAY

BY Hammaad Chaudry DIRECTED BY Jo Bonney

Time Warner is the Founding Sponsor of the Emerging Writers Group, and provides continued program support through the Time Warner Foundation.

PUBLIC STUDIO ON THE GROUNDS OF BELONGING

WRITTEN BY Ricardo Pérez González DIRECTED BY David Mendizábal MARCH 23 – APRIL 1 FEATURING Craig Bockhorn, Ta’Rea Campbell, Chris Myers, Mike Hodge, Christopher Livingston, & Bobby Steggert SCENIC DESIGN BY Wilson Chin COSTUME DESIGN BY Ntokozo Fuzunina Kunene LIGHTING DESIGN BY Brian Tovar SOUND DESIGN BY Joanna Lynne Staub

WILD GOOSE DREAMS

WRITTEN BY Hansol Jung DIRECTED BY Leigh Silverman APRIL 7 – APRIL 15 FEATURING Raul Aranas, Cindy Cheung, Dan Domingues, Stephanie Hsu, Sandra Oh, Stacey Sargeant, Jessie Shelton, Britton Smith, Marrick Smith, & James Yaegashi SCENIC DESIGN BY Wilson Chin COSTUME DESIGN BY Ntokozo Fuzunina Kunene LIGHTING DESIGN BY Brian Tovar SOUND DESIGN BY Joanna Lynne Staub MUSIC COMPOSITION BY Paul Castles KOREAN SONGS BY Jongbin Jung PUBLIC STUDIO was founded with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Time Warner Foundation.

Continued support for Public Studio is provided by The Time Warner Foundation. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Development Fund at The Public Theater supports the creation and development of new plays.

WORLD PREMIERE THREE-PLAY CYCLE WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? was second in a cycle of three plays that followed a year in the life of the Gabriel family. Richard Nelson was commissioned to develop the play cycle at The Public, writing each one in real time. The first part premiered in the spring of 2016.

THE GABRIELS: ELECTION YEAR IN THE LIFE OF ONE FAMILY PLAY TWO: WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Richard Nelson SEPTEMBER 10 – OCTOBER 9 FEATURING Meg Gibson, Lynn Hawley, Roberta Maxwell, Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, & Amy Warren SCENIC DESIGNERS Susan Hilferty & Jason Ardizzone-West COSTUME DESIGNER Susan Hilferty LIGHTING DESIGNER Jennifer Tipton SOUND DESIGNERS Scott Lehrer & Will Pickens The Gabriel Plays were supported by a Theatre Commissioning and Production Initiative grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

WORLD PREMIERE THREE-PLAY CYCLE WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE takes place on the same day the production itself opened, election night 2016. The third and final play in Richard Nelson’s play cycle, ends with the Gabriels contemplating the potential results of the contentious presidential election.

THE GABRIELS: ELECTION YEAR IN THE LIFE OF ONE FAMILY PLAY THREE: WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Richard Nelson NOVEMBER 4 – DECEMBER 4 FEATURING Meg Gibson, Lynn Hawley, Roberta Maxwell, Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, & Amy Warren SCENIC DESIGNERS Susan Hilferty & Jason Ardizzone-West COSTUME DESIGNER Susan Hilferty LIGHTING DESIGNER Jennifer Tipton SOUND DESIGNERS Scott Lehrer & Will Pickens The Gabriel Plays were supported by a Theatre Commissioning and Production Initiative grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE was made possible with the generous support of The Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.

Michelle Wilson in SWEAT. Photo by Joan Marcus.

PLENTY made its American premiere at The Public in October of 1982 before transferring to Broadway. Almost 30 years later, we welcomed playwright David Hare back to The Public with a revival of this moving play, directed by David Leveaux and featuring Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz.

PLENTY

WRITTEN BY David Hare DIRECTED BY David Leveaux FIRST MAJOR NEW YORK REVIVAL OCTOBER 4 – DECEMBER 1 FEATURING Liesel Allen Yeager, Pun Bandhu, Ken Barnett, Emily Bergl, Dani de Waal, Mike Iveson, Byron Jennings, LeRoy McClain, Tim Nicolai, Paul Niebanck, Ann Sanders, Julian Sands, Corey Stoll, Benjamin Thys, & Rachel Weisz SCENIC DESIGN BY Mike Britton COSTUME DESIGN BY Jess Goldstein LIGHTING DESIGN BY David Weiner ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN BY David Van Tieghem HAIR AND WIG DESIGN BY Leah J. Loukas

After performing as part of the Under the Radar Festival, UNIVERSES returned to The Public with their production of PARTY PEOPLE, which focuses on the legacy of the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Org/Party.

SWEAT

Lynn Nottage spent over a year interviewing unemployed steel workers in Reading, Pennsylvania, an experience that served as inspiration for SWEAT. Following a successful run at The Public, SWEAT transferred to Broadway in March of 2017, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in April 2017.

WRITTEN BY Lynn Nottage DIRECTED BY Kate Whoriskey NEW YORK PREMIERE OCTOBER 18 – DECEMBER 18 FEATURING Carlo Albán, James Colby, Khris Davis, Johanna Day, John Earl Jelks, Will Pullen, Miriam Shor, Lance Coadie Williams, & Michelle Wilson SCENIC DESIGN BY John Lee Beatty COSTUME DESIGN BY Jennifer Moeller LIGHTING DESIGN BY Peter Kaczorowski ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN BY Rob Milburn & Michael Bodeen PROJECTION DESIGN BY Jeff Sugg Additional programing around SWEAT was made possible through the support of a grant from The Pluribus Project Narrative Collaboratory.

PARTY PEOPLE

BY UNIVERSES: Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, & William Ruiz aka Ninja COMPOSED BY UNIVERSES with Broken Chord CHOREOGRAPHY BY Millicent Johnnie DEVELOPED AND DIRECTED BY Liesl Tommy NEW YORK PREMIERE NOVEMBER 1 – DECEMBER 11 FEATURING Oberon K.A. Adjepong, Michael Elich, Gizel Jiménez, Ramona Keller, Christopher Livingston, Jesse J. Perez, Sophia Ramos, Robynn Rodriguez, Horace V. Rogers, William Ruiz a.k.a.

Ninja, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, & Steven Sapp SCENIC & LIGHTING DESIGN BY Marcus Doshi COSTUME DESIGN BY Meg Neville SOUND DESIGN & VOCAL DIRECTION BY Broken Chord PROJECTION DESIGN BY Sven Ortel WIG DESIGN BY Cookie Jordan

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS HAMILTON director Thomas Kail returned to The Public with a Nia Vardalos-penned adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s book, TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, which pulls together excerpts from Strayed’s popular advice column “Dear Sugar.” Due to popular demand, The Public brought TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS back for an encore engagement in the Fall of 2017.

BASED ON THE BOOK BY Cheryl Strayed ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY Nia Vardalos CO-CONCEIVED BY Marshall Heyman, Thomas Kail, & Nia Vardalos DIRECTED BY Thomas Kail WORLD PREMIERE PLAY NOVEMBER 15 – DECEMBER 31 FEATURING Phillip James Brannon, Alfredo Narciso, Miriam Silverman, Nia Vardalos, & Natalie Woolams-Torres SCENIC DESIGN BY Rachel Hauck COSTUME DESIGN BY Jennifer Moeller LIGHTING DESIGN BY Jeff Croiter SOUND DESIGN BY Jill BC Du Boff TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS was made possible with the generous support of The Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and The Ted & Mary Jo Shen Charitable Gift Fund.

LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS was the first of John Leguizamo’s legendary solo works to be performed at The Public Theater. This exploration of Latinx identity and the central roles that Latinx figures have played in the creation of the United States moved to Broadway in the fall of 2017 after a successful run at The Public.

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY John Leguizamo DIRECTED BY Tony Taccone IN A CO-PRODUCTION WITH Berkeley Repertory Theatre NEW YORK PREMIERE FEBRUARY 24– APRIL 28 SCENIC DESIGN BY Rachel Hauck LIGHTING DESIGN BY Alexander V. Nichols ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN BY Bray Poor

Ethan Lipton became a member of The Public Theater family in 2008 when he joined the inaugural class of the Emerging Writers Group.

Since then, his work has continued to be produced and supported by The Public and Joe’s Pub. THE OUTER SPACE serves as a companion piece to Lipton’s NO PLACE TO GO, also produced at Joe’s Pub.

After the success of HERE LIES LOVE, David Byrne and Alex Timbers reunited to develop JOAN OF ARC: INTO THE FIRE at The Public Theater.

THE OUTER SPACE

BOOK AND LYRICS BY Ethan Lipton MUSIC COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, & Ian Riggs DIRECTED BY Leigh Silverman WORLD PREMIERE AT JOE’S PUB AT THE PUBLIC FEBRUARY 23 – APRIL 9 SCENIC AND COSTUME DESIGN BY David Zinn LIGHTING DESIGN BY Ben Stanton SOUND DESIGN BY Nicholas Pope

JOAN OF ARC: INTO THE FIRE

BOOK, MUSIC, AND LYRICS BY David Byrne CHOREOGRAPHY BY Steven Hoggett DIRECTED BY Alex Timbers WORLD PREMIERE FEBRUARY 14 – APRIL 30 FEATURING Terence Archie, James Brown III, Jonathan Burke, Rodrick Covington, Jody Gelb, Sean Allan Krill, Jo Lampert, Mike McGowan, Dimitri Joseph Moïse, Mary Kate Morrissey, Adam Perry, John Schiappa, Kyle Selig, Michael James Shaw, David St. Louis, & Mare Winningham SCENIC DESIGN BY Christopher Barreca COSTUME DESIGN BY Clint Ramos LIGHTING DESIGN BY Justin Townsend SOUND DESIGN BY Cody Spencer PROJECTION DESIGN BY Darrel Maloney SPECIAL EFFECTS DESIGN BY Jeremy Chernick WIGS, HAIR & MAKE-UP DESIGN BY

Dave Bova & J. Jared Janas CASTING BY Carrie Gardner, CSA ORCHESTRATIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS BY David Byrne ADDITIONAL ORCHESTRATIONS & ARRANGEMENTS BY Kris Kukul ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES: Catie Davis & Katie Spelman MUSIC COORDINATOR: Michael Aarons MUSIC DIRECTOR: Kris Kukul

Martin Sherman’s intimate GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM touches on some of the most important moments in the history of the gay rights movement.

Many of the events recalled in the play took place right outside our door, in the neighborhood surrounding The Public’s downtown home at Astor Place.

GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM

WRITTEN BY Martin Sherman DIRECTED BY Sean Mathias WORLD PREMIERE MARCH 15 – MAY 21 FEATURING Gabriel Ebert, Harvey Fierstein, & Christopher Sears SCENIC DESIGN BY Derek McLane COSTUME DESIGN BY Michael Krass LIGHTING DESIGN BY Peter Kaczorowski ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN BY Rob Milburn & Michael Bodeen GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM was made possible with the generous support of The Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and the Laurents / Hatcher Foundation.

HAMLET While Sam Gold and Oscar Isaac are both familiar faces at The Public, they have never worked on our stages with each other.

They have both, however, been studying HAMLET since they were in school together at Juilliard. Part of Sam Gold’s inspiration for this production of HAMLET came from his research into the practice of at-home funerals.

WRITTEN BY William Shakespeare DIRECTED BY Sam Gold JUNE 20 – SEPTEMBER 3 FEATURING Roberta Colindrez, Ritchie Coster, Peter Friedman, Oscar Isaac, Keegan-Michael Key, Gayle Rankin, Matthew Saldívar, Charlayne Woodard, & Anatol Yusef SCENIC DESIGN BY David Zinn COSTUME DESIGN BY Kaye Voyce LIGHTING DESIGN BY Mark Barton SOUND DESIGN BY Bray Poor MUSICAL DIRECTION, COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE BY Ernst Reijseger HAMLET was made possible by the generous support of Luigi Caiola & Sean McGill and Susan & David Edelstein. This production was also supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

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WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS AS THE INSTITUTION CONTINUES TO GROW AND CHANGE? To deliver fully on our mission to support artists, we communicate regularly with developing artists that have limited or no artistic representation to figure out how we can enrich the baseline of support and community around them.

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WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE NEXT YEAR? We hope to reach bigger and better heights with our existing programs and one new program – The Vanguard Residency & Award. With the addition of this new program, we get closer to completing an institutional goal of supporting artists at every level of career. In addition, we look forward to expanding our national reach with more programming partnerships.

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“Joe’s Pub, the glimmering nightclub at The Public Theater, bursts with laughter and cheers.” – THE NEW YORK TIMES

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2017 FESTIVAL

“I am most proud of our commission last year of 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s THE FEVER, a risky performance that asked the audience to fully participate in the making of the ‘show.’ THE FEVER was supported with residencies at the Shiva Theater in the summer and then expanded in several residences at universities around the country.

It was UTR’s most ambitious and fully supported world premiere. The show was sold out, well received critically, and ended up touring extensively through the summer and into this fall with many engagements to come.”

–MARK RUSSELL, Director of Under the Radar Festival

This past year’s UTR was very memorable and special. As a festival it became a gathering place for a community quite stunned by the recent election. The performances struck a chord collectively as a festival and individually with audiences. UTR became a place for audiences, artists, and arts professionals from around the world to take a moment to evaluate their place in this new world, celebrate that and look towards the future.

THE FEVER

UTR + JOE’S PUB IN CONCERT IN THE CHAMPAGNE ROOM Champagne Jerry Featuring Neal Medlyn

BLACK LIGHT Jomama Jones

ERIN MARKEY: BONER KILLER

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CLUB DIAMOND

PWR BTTM INCOMING! INCOMING! LIFE DOES NOT LIVE

Nikki Appino & Saori Tsukada

TIME OF WOMEN Belarus Free Theatre

HUNDRED DAYS

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INCOMING! MINOR CHARACTER New Saloon

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Philippe Quesne Presented by The Kitchen

TOP SECRET INTERNATIONAL

Rimini Protokoll Presented in association with The GoetheInstitute and The Brooklyn Museum

THE BITTER GAME Keith A. Wallace & Deborah Stein

BLUEPRINT SPECIALS

Waterwell Presented in association with The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

The Under the Radar Festival was made possible with the generous support of the FORD FOUNDATION. Additional support provided by W TRUST and SELECT EQUITY GROUP, INC.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE NEXT YEAR? UTR is now fully integrated into the producing process of The Public and we will become even more embedded in the organization as the years go on. We are making a transition from a purely presenting festival to a producing festival with events that will see their first light on our stages.

WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS AS THE INSTITUTION CONTINUES TO GROW AND CHANGE? Our goals are to expand the reach of UTR and The Public Theater to even more diverse audiences interested in innovation, and to collaborate with the New Works Department and Joe’s Pub to support new artists ready to find a home at The Public.

– MARK RUSSELL, Director of Under the Radar Festival

THE FEVER. Photo by Maddie McGarvey.

Public Forum has always been about exploring the ideas and issues presented on our stages, from our live Public Forum events to Digiturgy, Audience Conversations, the Speaker Series, and post-show talkbacks.

This year in our programming, we pushed outward to include not only the ideas on our stages but the issues facing our society. As the nation was catapulted into a new era of social and political upheaval, Public Forum brought together conversations that explored the events happening in the world around us, which is how a season that started with 8 events quickly expanded to 21. Along with our responsive programming came new partnerships such as our collaboration with WNYC Greene Space on “Letters from Detention” and our mini-series, “A Well-Ordered Nation” with The New Yorker.

FORUM SEASON A CONVERSATION ABOUT PRIVACY

The Public Theater & The New Yorker present

AUGUST 1, 2016 Newman Theater

AN EVENING WITH CORIOLANUS AND THE MODERN CAMPAIGN IN ASSOCIATION WITH The Shakespeare Society SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 Joe’s Pub

The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC IN ASSOCIATION WITH The Public Theater PRESENTS

LETTERS FROM DETENTION

JANUARY 26, 2017

A READING OF for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is NOVEMBER 15, 2016 Anspacher Theater enuf BY NTOZAKE AN ELECTION NIGHT SHANGE HOOTENANNY FEBRUARY 27, 2017 Newman Theater WITH Michael Friedman WE’RE HERE: A NOVEMBER 8, 2016 Joe’s Pub CONVERSATION A TOWN HALL THE LEGACY OF MEETING ON WHAT ON RADICAL QUEER COMES NEXT PROTEST DECEMBER 5, 2016 A CONVERSATION ON THE LEGACY OF RADICAL PROTEST

A CONVERSATION WITH CHERYL STRAYED DECEMBER 5, 2016 Shiva Theater

A READING OF THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER BY THORNTON WILDER

Hosted by Michael Friedman DECEMBER 11, 2016 Joe’s Pub

APRIL 3, 2017 Martinson Hall

WOMEN’S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS: A CONVERSATION ON THE LEGACY OF RADICAL FEMALE PROTEST MAY 1, 2017 Anspacher Theater

A FESTIVAL OF SONGWRITING

Hosted by Michael Friedman MAY 17 AT 7:00PM Meredith Monk & Dave Malloy MAY 17 AT 9:30PM Duncan Sheik & Heather Christian MAY 18 AT 7:00PM Jeanine Tesori & Somi MAY 19 AT 7:00PM Mitski & Tom Kitt MAY 20 AT 7:00PM Benj Pasek & Justin Paul & K’naan Joe’s Pub

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PUBLIC FORUM: A WELL-ORDERED NATION:

Over four evenings, across as many months, artists, thinkers, journalists, performers, and politicians came together at The Public to consider what it means to be responsible citizens and how culture can respond to politics in the age of Donald Trump.

PUBLIC FORUM: THE STUFF OF FICTION FEBRUARY 20, 2017 Newman Theater

PUBLIC FORUM: TRUTH TO POWER

MARCH 20, 2017 Newman Theater

PUBLIC FORUM: 100 DAYS APRIL 24, 2017 Newman Theater

PUBLIC FORUM: THE WAY FORWARD

MAY 15, 2017 Martinson Theater

Special funding for Public Forum: A Well-Ordered Nation was made possible by the OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE NEXT YEAR? Moving forward, we will continue to connect Forum programming to both current events as well as the ideas on our stages. The appetite for this range of conversations was evident throughout the season – and we hope to engage our audiences and our artists even more in the months to come. – STEPHANIE YBARRA, Director of Special Artistic Projects

“Every production in the Mobile Unit brings its own set of new memories and highlights. I still get chills thinking about watching Chuk Iwuji kneeling inches away from an audience member during our HAMLET tour last fall, delivering “to be or not to be” directly to her. And this spring, it was the unbridled joy of a TWELFTH NIGHT that made me laugh every. single. time.” – STEPHANIE YBARRA, Director of Special Artistic Projects Mobile Unit presents

HAMLET

BY William Shakespeare DIRECTED BY Patricia McGregor TOUR AUGUST 26 – SEPTEMBER 17 SIT DOWN SEPTEMBER 19 – OCTOBER 9 FEATURING Orlagh Cassidy, Christian DeMarais, Christopher Ryan Grant, Chukwudi Iwuji, Kristolyn Lloyd, Jeffrey Omura, Daniel Pearce, Timothy Stickney, & Natalie Woolams-Torres SCENIC DESIGN: Katherine Akiko Day COSTUME DESIGN: Montana Levi Blanco COMPOSER: Imani Uzuri MOVEMENT DIRECTION BY Paloma McGregor FIGHT DIRECTION BY Lisa Kopitsky Mobile Unit presents

TWELFTH NIGHT

BY William Shakespeare DIRECTED BY Saheem Ali TOUR MARCH 30 – APRIL 22 SIT DOWN APRIL 24 – MAY 14 FEATURING Sebastian Chacon, Michael Bradley Cohen, Danaya Esperanza, Ceci Fernandez, Christopher Ryan Grant, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, David Ryan Smith, Aneesh Sheth, & Michael Thurber SCENIC DESIGN BY Arnulfo Maldonado COSTUME DESIGN BY Dede Ayite COMPOSER Michael Thurber FIGHT DIRECTION BY Lisa Kopitsky MOVEMENT DIRECTION BY Tanya Birl “I’m proud of our growing roster of collaborations, be it our ongoing relationship with our friends in Joe’s Pub or new exciting partnerships like the one we began this summer with SummerStage.” – STEPHANIE YBARRA, Director of Special Artistic Projects Mobile Unit & Joe’s Pub present

IMANI UZURI IN TRANSIT: LOVE STORY - SONGS OF LAUGHTER, LOSS, AND RESILIENCE TOUR: FEBRUARY 6 – 10 JOE’S PUB: FEBRUARY 18 FEATURING Imani Uzuri

Mobile Unit’s HAMLET. Photo by Erik Pearson.

Mobile Unit, Joe’s Pub, & SummerStage

STAR-CROSSED (LOS DESDICHADOS); EXCERPTS FROM PABLO NERUDA’S ROMEO Y JULIETA JULY 26 at St Mary’s Park CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY Jerry Ruiz WITH Irene Sofia Lucio, Sebastian Chacon, Annie Henk, & Gerardo Rodriguez MUSIC: Sofia Rei, JC Maillard, & Franco Pinna (drums & percussion)

2016-2017 TOUR STOPS

Al Oerter Rec Center (Queens) Bedford Hills Correctional Facilty (Westchester) Brownsville Rec Center (Brooklyn) Casita Maria Center for the Arts (Bronx) DreamYard Arts Center (Bronx) Faber Park Field House (Staten Island) Lenox Hill Women’s Shelter (Manhattan) The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (Manhattan) Metropolitan Correctional Center (Manhattan) Metropolitan Detention Center (Brooklyn) New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (Manhattan) Pelham Fritz Rec. Center (Manhattan) Queensboro Correctional Facility (Queens) Rikers Island Correctional Facility (Bronx) Roy Wilkins Rec. Center (Queens) St. Paul’s Chapel (Manhattan) Taconic Correctional Facility (Westchester) Williamsbridge Oval Rec. Center (Bronx) THE MOBILE UNIT is made possible with the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The Tow Foundation, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Additional support provided By Estée Lauder Companies Inc., New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE NEXT YEAR? The Mobile Unit feels more vital than ever, not only to The Public’s mission and to the cultural fabric of our city, but to our country and the national artistic community. I’m looking forward to developing more community relationships and expanding the kinds of programming that we offer, as well as pushing outward beyond the borders of the five boroughs.

– STEPHANIE YBARRA, Director of Special Artistic Projects

This summer’s Free Shakespeare in the Park celebrated debate, dissent, and freedom of expression both on and off stage.

JULIUS CAESAR JULIUS CAESAR provoked a wide-ranging national discussion about the value of civil discourse and democratic ideals.

The controversial production prompted media outlets and private individuals alike to engage the show—a highly contemporary adaptation of a 400-year-old play about the precariousness of democracy—in the service of a larger conversation touching on the relationship between art and politics, speech and action, civil liberty and free expression.

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM conjured up a colorful world of wild affection and uninhibited community. Directed by Public Works Founder and Resident Director Lear deBessonet, the production envisioned a fantasy world where wisdom and absurdity live side by side and love turns nonsense into perfect sense.

BY William Shakespeare DIRECTED BY Oskar Eustis MAY 23 – JUNE 18 FEATURING Tina Benko, Teagle F. Bougere, Yusef Bulos, Eisa Davis, Robert Gilbert, Gregg Henry, Edward James Hyland, Nikki M. James, Christopher Livingston, Elizabeth Marvel, Chris Myers, Marjan Neshat, Corey Stoll, John Douglas Thompson, Natalie Woolams-Torres, Isabel Arraiza, Erick Betancourt, Mayaa Boateng, Motell Foster, Dash King, Tyler La Marr, Gideon McCarty, Nick Selting, Alexander Shaw, Michael Thatcher, & Justin Walker White SCENIC DESIGN BY David Rockwell COSTUME DESIGN BY Paul Tazewell LIGHTING DESIGN BY Kenneth Posner SOUND DESIGN BY Jessica Paz ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUNDSCAPES BY Bray Poor HAIR, WIG & MAKEUP DESIGN BY Leah J. Loukas

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

BY William Shakespeare CHOREOGRAPHY BY Chase Brock DIRECTED BY Lear deBessonet JULY 11 – AUGUST 13 FEATURING Annaleigh Ashford, De’Adre Aziza, Kyle Beltran, Vinie Burrows, Danny Burstein, Justin Cunningham, Marcelle Davies-Lashley, Austin Durant, Shalita Grant, Keith Hart, Alex Hernandez, Jeff Hiller, Robert Joy, Patricia Lewis, David Manis, Pamela McPhersonCornelius, Patrena Murray, Kristine Nielsen, Bhavesh Patel, Richard Poe, Phylicia Rashad, Joe Tapper, Judith Wagner, Warren Wyss, Benjamin Ye, & Rosanny Zayas SCENIC DESIGN BY David Rockwell COSTUME DESIGN BY Clint Ramos LIGHTING DESIGN BY Tyler Micoleau SOUND DESIGN BY Jessica Paz HAIR, WIG & MAKEUP DESIGN BY Cookie Jordan ORIGINAL MUSIC BY Justin Levine Free Shakespeare in the Park is supported by Bank of America, The Jerome L. Greene Foundation, and The New York Community Trust- Fund for Performances at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

The Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Photo by Steve Brown.

Ultimately, this Oskar Eustis-directed JULIUS CAESAR reminded us that theater offers a rare space where competing points of view can coexist simultaneously, and reaffirmed our public mission:

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Audience members at JULIUS CAESAR. Photo by Simon Luethi.

Public Works at the Delacorte Theater A MUSICAL ADAPTATION OF William Shakespeare’s

TWELFTH NIGHT

CONCEIVED BY Kwame Kwei-Armah & Shaina Taub DIRECTED BY Kwame Kwei-Armah MUSIC & LYRICS BY Shaina Taub CHOREOGRAPHY BY Lorin Latarro SEPTEMBER 2 – 5 WITH Nikki M. James, Andrew Kober, Jose Llana, Jacob Ming-Trent, & Shaina Taub COMMUNITY PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS: Brownsville Recreation Center, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, DreamYard Project, Fortune Society, Military Resilience Project, Children’s Aid Society, & Domestic Workers United CAMEO GROUPS: COBU, Jambalaya Brass Band, The Love Show, New York Deaf Theatre, Ziranmen Kungfu Wushu Training Center, & United States Postal Carriers SCENIC DESIGN BY David Zinn COSTUME DESIGN BY Andrea Hood LIGHTING DESIGN BY Amith Chandrashaker SOUND DESIGN BY Mark Menard HAIR AND WIG DESIGN BY Dave Bova & J. Jared Janas ORCHESTRATIONS BY Mike Brun & Shaina Taub MUSIC CONTRACTOR: Dean Sharenow MUSIC DIRECTOR: Shaina Taub BANDLEADER: Mike Brun Lead support for Public Works is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The Tow Foundation, Ford Foundation, and The Hearst Foundations.

Additional support is provided by the New York Community Trust, New York State Council on the Arts, The One World Fund, The SHS Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., David Rockefeller Fund, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation.

PUBLIC WORKS NATIONAL

This year saw our first performances from our Public Works National partners, Seattle Repertory Theater and Dallas Theater Center.

DTC performed an epic, 200-person production of THE TEMPEST in March 2017, with featured moments from Mitotiliztli Yaoyollohtli Aztec Dancers and Mayor of Dallas Mike Rawlings.

And Seattle Repertory Theater’s vibrant production of THE ODYSSEY included performances by a Seattle flamenco troupe and the Seattle Seahawks drumline, Blue Thunder.

Both theaters are busy planning their next pageants for 2018. The National Theatre has signed on as our next partner as they work on a new adaptation of PERICLES. We are also working on completing our Public Works Playbook, a how-to-guide on our methodology that we plan to share with the field. Finally, we are looking to hold a national convening that will bring together theaters in order to increase visibility and access to this work.

Support for Public Works National provided by Theatre Communications Group.

Public Works Community Ensemble in TWELFTH NIGHT. Photo by Joan Marcus.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE NEXT YEAR? Looking ahead, Public Works will continue producing our joy-filled community pageants as well as exploring expanding the form to see where we can continue to grow and deepen artistic rigor.

Because of our explosive growth, we are restructuring our commissioning cycle to engage artists now for our next three pageants. This will allow Public Works writers deeper long-term engagement with our community partners and cameo groups. As part of this process, we will be reimagining ACTivate with a plan to mount a new production next season. We will be looking to add new partner organizations and expand our relationships with Alumni Community Partners. We successfully piloted a new program called Community Choir that invites cross-borough participants to gather on a weekly basis and communally sing. Over the coming months and years, Public Works plans to add additional programming so our alumni partners continue to stay engaged with the wider Public Works community.

WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS AS THE INSTITUTION CONTINUES TO GROW AND CHANGE? To accommodate the rapid expansion of Public Works and Public Works National, additional staff positions have been added to our team: Emily Knapp as Associate Director and Brisa Areli Muñoz as Manager of Community Partnerships. As we continue to broker relationships with our community partners and the larger Public Theater, more and more departments are interfacing directly with our Public Works community organizations. We are collectively discussing best practices in order to make these relationships and moments of intersection richer. In addition, we are building our capacity for language inclusivity by developing organizational infrastructure to support bilingual audiences and community groups. Over the coming year, we will create a Community Advisory Committee so that all the programs that intersect with community partners can collaborate and learn from one another.

– LAURIE WOOLERY & the Public Works team

VOTER REGISTRATION In the 2012 presidential election, only 57.5% of eligible citizens registered to vote. For the 2016 presidential election, The Public aimed to help change that by joining the #PlayOurPart campaign. This nonpartisan initiative was started by Playwrights Horizons as a way to encourage voter registration by offering the opportunity for on-the-spot voter registration in theater lobbies across the country. Twenty-two theaters in 13 cities took part in the project. The Public alone helped register over 60 people.

“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”

– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

GHOSTLIGHT PROJECT

AT THE PUBLIC

On January 19th, 2017, at 5:30pm, theaters across the country gathered together to launch The Ghostlight Project. The Public Theater, along with hundreds of theater professionals and artists, participated in a collective, simultaneous action of creating “light” in these divided times.

Artists and communities made—or renewed—a pledge to stand for and protect the values of inclusion, participation, and compassion for everyone regardless of race, class, religion, country of origin, immigration status, (dis)ability, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

To show our solidarity with The Ghostlight Project, we are keeping a permanent ghostlight in our Downtown Public Theater lobby. This light will remain illuminated—always—for as long as we need it.

WOMEN’S MARCH On January 21, 2017, members of The Public Theater staff filled three buses and traveled down to our nation’s capital to take part in the Women’s March. For those who could not make it to Washington, DC, The Public also participated in the local march that took place in New York City. Under the banner “Love Wins,” The Public stood by its values of democracy and inclusion as we joined millions of people throughout the world in expressing our voices.

The Ghostlight Project. Photo by Hemmendy Nelson.

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN One of The Public’s core values is the creation of theater that frames dialogue on important issues of our day. On May 11 at Town Hall, in response to current events in American politics, The Public and London’s National Theatre presented ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN? SCENES FROM THE SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CABINET. This staged reading was comprised of verbatim testimony from the contentious Senate hearings over the key cabinet members who would lead Trump’s administrative policy. Director Nicholas Kent had to edit around 22 hours of material into less than three hours of text. The remaining language included interrogations on everything from Russia to climate change. We invited all members of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and President Trump’s administration to attend this one-night-only event.

“Sometimes the most powerful theater is reality, distilled…. The theater is not always a rapid-response medium—but when it can be, it’s electrifying. This is a real-time portrait of the American government, and it is as riveting as the headlines and far, far more revelatory. It’s like reading the news lit by lightning.” – OSKAR EUSTIS, Artistic Director of The Public Theater

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PUBLIC THEATER BOARD & STAFF BOARD CHAIR Arielle Tepper Madover VICE CHAIR Pat Fili-Krushel TREASURER Anne Clarke Wolff SECRETARY Zach Buchwald TRUSTEES Patty Baker Renée Beaumont Andrea E. Bernstein Gordon J. Davis, Esq. David Droga Eric Ellenbogen Oskar Eustis Hilary C. Feshbach Candia Fisher Faith E. Gay Anne Hathaway Debby Landesman Ashley Leeds Kenny Leon Barbara Manocherian Luis Miranda, Jr. Gail Merrifield Papp Julia Pershan Julio Peterson Lisa Garcia Quiroz Charlotte Relyea Wendi Rose Lizanne Rosenstein Mark Rosenthal Liev Schreiber Alexandra Shiva Jim Steinberg Steven C. Taub Teresa Tsai Grace Lyu Volckhausen Sam Waterston Audrey Wilf Timothy Wilkins Frances Wilkinson Patrick Willingham FOUNDER Joseph Papp† HONORARY COUNCIL Laurie Beckelman Colin Callender Joan K. Davidson Kevin Kline Morgan Freeman Ruth W. Houghton Warren J. Spector Gil Shiva Robin Wagner George C. Wolfe

EX-OFFICIO Honorable Bill de Blasio Mayor of the City of New York Honorable Cynthia Nixon Mayor’s Representative Honorable Melissa Mark-Viverito Speaker of the New York City Council

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC THEATER PRODUCTIONS: MANDY HACKETT Associate Director, Public Theater Productions: Leah Cloney-Matthes

Honorable Ede Fox Speaker’s Representative

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCING AND ARTISTIC PLANNING: MARIA MANUELA GOYANES

Honorable Tom Finkelpearl Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs

Line Producers: Marie Cisco, Kelly Kerwin, Nidia Medina, Yuvika Tolani

Honorable Mitchell Silver Commissioner, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

DIRECTOR OF NEW WORK DEVELOPMENT: JEANIE O’HARE

CHAIRMEN EMERITI Kenneth B. Lerer Warren J. Spector STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: OSKAR EUSTIS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: PATRICK WILLINGHAM Administrative Chief of Staff: Rosalind Barbour Director of Strategic Research and Planning: Ciara Murphy Artistic Content Curator, Mission Advancement: Alex Tonetta Director of Capital Projects & Construction: Laura O’Connell Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director: Yinka Rickford-Anguin Assistant to the Executive Director: Carla Bianco-Biagini Executive Office Assistant: Jessica Slaght Master Writer Chair: Suzan Lori-Parks

Assistant to the Director of New Work Development: Schuyler Girion Director of the Devised Theater Initiative and Associate Dramaturg, Devised Theater: Andrew Kircher Company Dramaturg: Jesse Cameron Alick Associate Dramaturg, New Writing: Jack Phillips Moore New Work Development Intern: Gemma de León

Marketing Manager: Sacha Wynne Production Manager: Jon Shriver Head Lighting Designer: Ania Parks Communications Assistant: Callie Baker Performance Coordinators: Jessie Moore, Halle Morse, Jessica Charles House Photographer: Kevin Yatarola

Director of Special Events: Kristina Hoge

Associate Director of Public Works: Emily Sophia Knapp

Major Gifts Officer: Becca Niemeyer

Public Works Community Impact Coordinator: Shariffa Ali

Major Gifts Officer: Gretchen H. Page

Manager of Community Partnerships, Public Works: Brisa Areli Munoz Public Works Assistant: Hannah Schenk Public Works Interns: Rebecca Hsieh, Daniel Krane

Director Of Voice And Speech: Andrew Wade

DIRECTOR OF JOE’S PUB: SHANTA THAKE Associate Director of Joe’s Pub: Alex Knowlton Press Manager: Yuri Kwon Artist Relations Manager: Ben Easton

Public Shakespeare Initiative Associate: Jackie Tralies

Director of Public Works: Laurie Woolery

Associate Casting Director: Kate Murray

Under the Radar Intern: Rose Johnson-Brown

Education Manager, Public Shakespeare Initiative: Rhys McClelland

Director of Institutional Partnerships: Kristen Gongora

CASTING: JORDAN THALER, HEIDI GRIFFITHS

DIRECTOR OF THE UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL: MARK RUSSELL

Public Shakespeare Initiative Director: Michael Sexton

Founder and Resident Director of Public Works: Lear deBessonet

Resident Artists: Tarell Alvin McCraney, Daniel Sullivan

Casting Assistant: Rebecca Feldman

Director of Public Forum & Artist in Residence: Michael Friedman

Development Associate, Institutional Giving: Isabel Quinzanos Alonso Development Manager, Special Events: Brooke Benedetto Board Liaison: Randy Brett Development Manager, Research and Prospect Management: Caroline de Boos-Black Temporary Development Assistant, Individual Giving: Jessica Fillare

Partners Program Manager: Kelsey Moriarty Development Manager, Database Systems and Reporting: Emily Nash Development Assistant, Patron Services & Stewardship: Nadine Rousseau Donor Communications Coordinator: Rhiannon Tasker Development Resident: Viviana Vargas Executive Assistant to the Chief Advancement Officer: Maya Ward CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: PATRICIA HUIE Director of Finance: Danny Williams Director of Human Resources: Liz Sharp Director of IT: Arthur Pinori Controller: Sara Harris Payroll and HR Systems Manager: Natalie Wirshbo Accounts Payable Administrator: Samantha Davis

Marketing Manager: Justin Dewey Associate Digital Marketing Manager: Emily DaSilva Marketing Assistant: Zachary Cohn Marketing Resident: Jayna Katz Marketing Interns: Jenny Greener, Kat Giordano Graphic Designer & Photographer: Tammy Shell Graphic Designers: Kameron Neal, Gina Roi Graphics Assistant: Katie Hodge

Senior Press Manager: Julie Danni

Human Resources Assistant: McKegg Collins

Press Manager: Laura Rigby

Web Developer: Peter Appleby

DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL ARTISTIC PROJECTS: STEPHANIE YBARRA

Major Gifts Assistant: Maddy Hoepf

Systems Administrator: Joe Reecher

Development Associate, Institutional Partnerships: Elizabeth Kipp-Giusti

Tessitura Manager: Sheela Sur

Special Artistic Projects Interns: Amara Brady, Dorothy Rojas

Marketing Manager: Amanda Wah

Human Resources Manager: Kraig Kehrer

Major Gifts Consultant: Jan Gura

Mobile Unit Program Manager: Roxanna Barrios

Marketing and Graphics Project Manager: David Shum

Finance Assistant: Spencer Lutvak

Shakespeare Scholar In Residence: James Shapiro

Development Operations Associate: Taylor Logan

Manager of Corporate Sponsors and Partnerships: Benjamin Orona

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS: CANDI ADAMS

Development Associate, Special Events: Frank Gambino

Special Artistic Projects Associate: Andrew Broussard

Associate Director of Marketing and Membership: Reynaldi Lindner Lolong

Network Administrator: Ian Malinowski

Junior Web Developer: Christyn Budzyna

Development Assistant, Special Events: Tess McHugh

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF MARKETING: TOM McCANN

Research Associate: Joe Hayes Meese

Director of Marketing: Jared Fine

Press Associate: Danielle Ruff Director of Ticket Services: Jimmy Godsey Box Office Manager: Zac Ford Associate Box Office Manager: Anthony Conty

Fustos, Michelle Maccarone, Daniella Martinez, Ali Miller, Travis Morse, Marvin Rodriguez, Josh Rozett, Sarah Underwood, Melana Lloyd, Brian Wagner Theater Manager: Richard C. Denney III Associate Theater Manager: Chris Capozzi Assistant Theater Manager: Monica Keaton House Managers: Robert Ackerman, Sarah Czwartacky, Stefanie Febus, Jennifer Gaspard, Kat Glaudini, Peter Kendall, Michelle Resto, Sarah Taylor Emergency Assistants: Kelsey Andridge, Rita Beck, Eric Bello, Megan Benjamin, Bonnie Davis, Rose Desena, Sherese Hoover, Tracy King, Jacob Lebowitz, Elizabeth Regan, Morris Rhodes, Carlos Vega, Manuel Vega GENERAL MANAGER: JEREMY ADAMS Associate General Manager: Angela Delaney Kircher Senior Company Manager: Rebecca Sherman General Management Planning and Programs Manager: Emily Hammond Cook

Under the Radar General Management Associate: Alyssa Simmons General Management Administrative Assistant: Chantal Thomson General Management Intern: Kevin Gallagher PRODUCTION EXECUTIVE: RUTH E. STERNBERG Director of Theater Projects and Safety: Jim Szekely

Costume Shop Foreman: Megan McAfee

Front Desk Administrator: Jasmine Ford

Audio Supervisor: Corrine Livingston

Front Desk Attendants: Fabian Harvey, Jose Paulissen-Dougan, Hannah McCue

Assistant Audio Supervisors: Matt Bell, Malachy Kronberg, Rachel O’Connor Video Supervisor: Bryan Maier Audio/Video Office Administrator: Carrie Miller Freeman

Operations Assistant/Front Desk Attendant: Eric Glover Operations Assistants: Darnell Brown, Rafael Tinoco- Jimenez

Associate Director of Production: Jonathan Pellow

Music Manager/Audio Shop Foreman: Sean Kraft

Production Managers: Jonathan Grenay, Jeff Harris, Caity Joy Smith, Kelsey Martinez

Properties Master: R. Jay Duckworth

Handyman: Adonis Garcia

Prop Shop Manager: Sara Swanberg

Delacorte Operations Associate: Jesse Nunez

Associate Production Manager: Julie Ann Arbiter

Prop Shop Foreman: Rebecca David

Assistant Production Managers: Peggy Carey, Hillary Luong, Barry Stagg

Lighting Supervisor: Zach Murphy

Delacorte Operations Assistants: Harry Colon, Sam Delgado, Guillermo Mota, Jonnette Munoz, Andy Strachan

Production Administrator: Kelly Moore Production Logistics Coordinator: Kyle Schuller Assistant to the Production Executive: Gabriel Lozada Production Associate: Rachel London Scenery Supervisor: Nick Moodey Associate Scenery Supervisors: Mary Beth Griffin, Jason Paradine

Assistant Lighting Supervisors: Kate DeWall, Sal Nicosia Lighting Office Administrator: Michael Rivera Director of Facilities and Operations Management: Ishmael (Izee) Figueroa Operations Manager: Helen Bennett Operations Associate: Mariana Ortiz

Contracts Manager: Avita Delerme

Assistant Scenery Supervisor: Bradley Shaw

Building Engineers: Winslow Harrington, Joel Chiriboga

General Management Assistant: Amy Lau Croyle

Scenery Office Administrator: Laura Krassowski

Assistant Building Engineer: Jefferson David Aguilar

Charge Painter: Hugh Morris-Stan

Housekeeping Supervisor: Rob Resto

Scene Shop Foreman: Aaron Treat

Assistant Housekeeping Supervisor: Amparo Lopez de Nova

Programming Budgets Manager: Josiah Grimm

Operations Assistant/Front Desk Administrator: Eric Delgado

Call Center Manager: Kate Longosky

Company Managers: Liza Witmer, Patrick Bell, Genee Coreno, Heather Fichthorn

Assistant Call Center Manager: Kaleda Davis

Assistant Company Managers: Rosie Kolbo

Costume Master: Luke McDonough

Ticket Services Staff: David Armstrong, Cliff Billings, Jessica Cauttero, Ryan Downey, Joseph Ford, Bethany

Company Management Assistant: Cody Johnson

Costume Shop Manager: Vanessa Watters

House Seats Coordinator: Carlos Serrano

Assistant Costume Shop Manager: Melinda Basaca

Staff Carpenter: Luis Torres

Housekeepers: Frank Fried, Efrain Martinez, Alba Mendez, Aracelis Mendez-Leon, Luisa Vargas, Giordani Collado Lendof, Jose Paulino

Painter: Javier Morales

Delacorte Housekeepers: Ligia Altagracia Estrella de Domingue, Clara Mendez, Clarito Dominguez, Oscar Reynoso, Rafael Paulino Delacorte Overnight Attendants: Kissima Fofana, Tallibe Fofana, Rogelio Foster Delacorte Gate Attendants: Christian Cajigas, Joseph Fusco, Enrique Jimenez, Elisabeth Kimbulu, Darrell Rosales, Joe Verstraete, Dennis Wees Script Readers: Ben Beckley, Brendan Leonard, David Loewy, Jessica Owens, Suzanne Willett, Kylie Brown, Thomas Park, Dylan Pager, Bonnie Davis, Ana Verde 2017 Emerging Writers Group: Liza Birkenmeier, Hammaad Chaudry, Phillip Howze, Monet Hurst-Mendoza, Geraldine Inoa, Jeremy Kamps, MJ Kaufman, Stav Palti-Negev, Celine Song

SPECIAL SERVICES Organizational Development Consultant: Susan Adam Managing Partner of Joe’s Pub LLC: Kevin Abbott Associate Managers: K.B. Berton, Jersey Katz, Jen Sherman, Michelle Clay Chef of The Public: John Ramirez Institutional Design: Pentagram/Paula Scher Photographers: George E. Joseph, Joan Marcus, Carol Rosegg, Martha Swope, Simon Luethi Attorneys: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP/Graham Coleman; Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP/Gerald T. Hathaway; Proskauer Rose LLP/Allan Bloom; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP/ Andrew Lance; Venable LLP /Susan E. Golden, Sharon M. Connelly Capital Projects Consultant: Denham Wolf House Physician: Dr. Bruce Yaffe Accountants: Lutz & Carr LLP Architectural Consultant: Ennead Architects Insurance: Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services/AliceFay Prine

PUBLIC THEATER DONORS

SPONSORS Herman Goldman Foundation

The George T. Delacorte Fund for Maintenance

One World Fund

The Grand Street Fund

Scott M. Delman

Lisa Garcia Quiroz

National Endowment for the Arts

Institute for International Education

The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Judith B. Resnick

The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

William & Eileen Kornreich

IAC

The Ian Madover & Arielle Tepper Madover Family Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation

Judi & Douglas Krupp Debby & Rocco Landesman

Marcia Dunn & Jonathan Sobel

The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation

Alexandra Shiva & Jonathan Marc Sherman

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

$500,000+

The Hearst Foundations

The Blavatnik Family Foundation

The Herbert McLaughlin Children’s CLUT

Jerome L. Greene Foundation

$100,000$499,999 Allen & Overy LLP American Express Company

The Ted & Mary Jo Shen Charitable Gift Fund

The Bernard & Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Theatre Communications Group Time Warner Foundation

Patty & Jay Baker

TodayTix

Bank of America

The Tow Foundation

Timothy and Michele Barakett

Teresa Tsai

Barbara Broccoli and the Dana & Albert R. Broccoli Charitable Foundation

Ted & Anne Clarke Wolff

Audrey and Zygi Wilf Anonymous

Laurents / Hatcher Foundation Ashley Leeds and Christopher M. Harland Barbara Manocherian William & Aimee Maroney Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Penguin Random House Matt Pincus & Sarah Min Mark Rosenthal & Lisa Roumell Showtime Networks Inc. Denise R. Sobel Tiger Baron Foundation Frances & Frank Wilkinson Anonymous (2)

Carnegie Corporation of New York Julia Pershan and Jonathan Cohen The New York Community Trust - The George T. Delacorte Fund for Performance at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park

$50,000$99,999 Amy and David Abrams American Council of Learned Societies

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

The Lenore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts as a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, funded by the Annenberg Foundation

Susan & David Edelstein

The Lehoczky Escobar Family

Lisa Schultz

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

The SHS Foundation

Candia Fisher Barbara H. Freitag Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Gail Furman Faith Gay The Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Philanthropic Fund

The Starr Foundation Sullivan & Cromwell LLP The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation

The J. M. Kaplan Fund

Kenneth and Anna Zankel

Sharon Karmazin

Wayne Zink & Christopher Schout

Renée Beaumont Andi & Tom Bernstein Zach Buchwald & Buddy Hammonds

Gary K. Lippman Frederick Loewe Foundation The Leon Lowenstein Foundation

Sally Klingenstein Martell

Edgerton Foundation

David Droga

Diane & Adam Max

Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation

The Ruth Easton Fund of the Edelstein Family Foundation

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Hilary & Joe Feshbach

One57 and Extell Development Company

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

MetLife Foundation

D.E. Shaw Group Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

McKinsey & Company, Inc. Luis Miranda Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation The Jerome A. & Estelle R. Newman Assistance Fund

FAMILY FOUNDATION

THE HAROLD & MIMI STEINBERG NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT FUND At The Public Theater Supports the Creation & Development of New Plays

THE PHILIP & JANICE LEVIN FOUNDATION Lead Supporter of The Public’s Access & Engagement Programming

Susan and David Viniar

The Boston Consulting Group

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

BLAVATNIK

Turner Network Television, Inc.

Timothy A. Wilkins

The Alec Baldwin Foundation

Lead Foundation Sponsor of Free Shakespeare in the Park

Robert Pohly & Julie Turaj

JKW Foundation

Jody and John Arnhold

Proud Season Sponsor

T. Christian Stracke

The Marc Haas Foundation

Jim Chervenak

Rebecca Gold

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

$25,000$49,999

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

White & Case LLP

Ryan J. Marshall & Mary G. Herms

The Howard Gilman Foundation

Anne & Adam Shulman

The Walt Disney Company

Shawn and Brook Byers

Ford Foundation

Ironstone Partners Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

Better Days Development/ Peter Fine

Provides Leadership Support for the Public Theater’s Year-Round Activities

Celia Rumsey

Eric Ellenbogen

Pat Fili-Krushel & Kenneth Krushel

THE LUESTHER T. MERTZ CHARITABLE TRUST

Wendi Rose

Roslyn Goldstein

Bloomberg Philanthropies Luigi Caiola & Sean McGill

The Paiko Foundation

Anonymous (8)

Founding Sponsor of The Emerging Writers Group

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Jomama Jones. Photo by J.D. Urban.