Board of Directors Andrew Teufel (Board President) William Adler Susan Atherton Wilkes Bashford Brittny Bottorff Andre Glenn Chenoweth Susi Damilano
Bill English Robert Hulteng Geoffrey Jue John Kalin Helen E. Land Steven Mayer William O’Keeffe
Louis Parnell Sandra Robbins Dana Shapiro Christian Chadd Taylor Ama Torrance Rowland Weinstein
Our Mission
To share stories that uplift our spirits, deepen self-awareness and nurture compassionate community.
BY NICKY SILVER DIRECTED BY BARBARA DAMASHEK
BAY AREA PREMIERE
STARTS JANUARY 30 “...black-comedy perfection.”
- The Hollywood Reporter 2081 ADDISON STREET 1/2 BLOCK FROM DOWNTOWN BERKELEY BART
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BILL ENGLISH Artistic Director
SUSI DAMILANO
Producing Director
BY JULIE
HEBERT DIRECTED BY JON TRACY PRODUCERS: Clay Foundation – West ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Bruce and Ellen Hall FEATURING (In Order of Appearance)
MRS JESSALYN PRICE
Cathleen Riddley*
LEO PRICE
Carl Lumbly*
DIDI MARCANTEL
Susi Damilano*
JJ PRICE
Tristan Cunningham* understudies
MRS JESSALYN PRICE
Marjorie Crump-Shears
LEO PRICE
Berwick Haynes*
DIDI MARCANTEL
Jennifer Gregory
JJ PRICE
Regina Fields creative team
SET DESIGN
Nina Ball+
LIGHTING DESIGN
Michael Oesch+
SOUND DESIGN
Theodore J. H. Hulsker
COSTUME DESIGN
Abra Berman
PROPS ARTISAN
Jacquelyn Scott
STAGE MANAGER
Tatjana Genser*
CASTING DIRECTOR
Lauren English
This production is made possible by the Schubert Foundation, the Bernard Osher Foundation, SF Grants for the Arts, the Taproot Foundation, and all of our generous volunteers, donors and supporters.
We are grateful. * Members of Actors’ Equity Association. This theatre operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. + Represented
by United Scenic Artists – Local USA 829.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Welcome to the
WALTER CASPER TEUFEL JR AUDITORIUM Our new auditorium is dedicated and named after Walter Casper Teufel Jr. (1932-2012). This fulfilled his wish to bequeath a portion of his estate to an arts organization where his impact would be significant. And indeed it is. His gift gave us the confidence to move into a much needed larger space and continue our mission to share stories that deepen self-awareness, nurture compassionate community and inspire.
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Maggie Koch
TECHNICAL THEATRE MANAGER
Zach Sigman
MASTER ELECTRICIAN
Molly Stewart Cohn
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Issere Christopher
CARPENTERS
Latisha Leung, Charles McKeithan, Avery McKeithan, Adrianne Gradey, Michael Palladino, John McMillin, Danielle Pena
SCENIC PAINTERS
Ewa Muszynska, Evandro Conceicao
ELECTRICIANS
Jackson Wijtman, Corey Schaeffer, Eric Witzke, Kourtney McCrary, Lauren Wright, Thomas Weaver, Del Medoff, Andrea Schwartz, Will Poulin
SOUND TECHNICIAN
Anton Hedman
PRODUCTION INTERN
Elizabeth Hall
STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Bill English
PRODUCING DIRECTOR
Susi Damilano
STAGE & PRODUCTION MANAGERS
Tatjana Genser, Maggie Koch
ASSOC. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jordan Puckett
CASTING DIRECTOR
Lauren English
EDUCATION DIRECTOR
Indiia Wilmott
MARKETING DIRECTOR
Donny Gilliland
MARKETING ASSOCIATE
Fei Cai
THE NANCY BLAIR INNER CIRCLE LOUNGE
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER
Charlotte Brockman
ACCOUNTING MANAGER
Camille Chenoweth
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Hans Cardenas
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Daniel Kessler
Our Inner Circle Lounge (to the left of the bar) is dedicated to Nancy Blair (1943-2012), a board member, producer, angel and friend.
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE
Hillary Bray
BOX OFFICE MANAGER
Tiiu Eva Rebane
BOX OFFICE ASSOCIATE
Noelle Harrison
CONCESSIONS MANAGER
Natalia Hermosilla
LEAD HOUSE MANAGER
Kathleen Lee
FRONT OF HOUSE TEAM
Anthony Aranda, Jessica Charles, Alex Fine, Angela Knutson, Jonathan Ramos, Sarah Selig
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Caitlin Quiat ARTISTIC ASSISTANT
Eliana Meyerowitz
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT
De’Ron McDaniel
GRAPHICS
Chad Vaughan, Tatjana Genser
PUBLICIST
Anne Abrams
VIDEOGRAPHY
Shawn Lafrance
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jessica Palopoli, Lauren English
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A Note from the Artistic Director... The script for TREE came to me from an agent in New York. He called to cancel an appointment with me, saying he was flying out to see one of his client’s plays. “No worries,” I said, “why don’t you send me a copy?” When I opened it, I was surprised and excited to see that the playwright was Julie Hébert, who I had worked with years ago at the Magic Theatre back in the John Lion era, when she was Associate Artistic Director and began her playwriting career. When I was less than a third of the way through it, I was certain we would perform the play. Her voice was so unique, the twists on subject matter so continually surprising, and the structure such a bracing blend of kitchen sink realism with the poetry of the unconscious. That combined with the music of the bayou cried out to me for a production. At that time, however, we were still in our old digs on Sutter Street, which lacked the height and depth to fully realize the scope of Julie’s play. So, we put it on hold. Now, of course, with our wonderful new theatre, we can accommodate the second story, the working kitchen, the front porch and the boat in the swamp of letters. So, now is the perfect time to bring you TREE. I’ve talked a lot this season about the “moment of truth.” We all can remember these moments, times when our lives could have gone one or another way. When we took the road less travelled. When we threw ourselves into the unknown. Such a moment in TREE is the knock on Leo’s door. Always good formulas for drama, these moments throw our characters into the fire, forcing them to make choices that will change the course of their lives. But most surprising and gratifying about TREE is that what seems to be a play about race, ends up being about something even deeper and more elemental. Just when we think we know our family, that we have their “number,” we are surprised to find there is so much more there for us. To support us, to understand us, to be our reflection and our refuge.
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From the Author
TREE was born out of a lifetime of attempting honest conversations about race... and running into minefields of confusion, hurt feelings and unintended consequences. When I grew up in south Louisiana the Jim Crow laws were still in place and I have vivid memories of a so-called “separate but equal” culture and its humiliations. At the same time, our white family lived down the block from several black families and there were many friendships and intimacies that transcended the boundaries of color. Despite the interweaving of our lives, I learned early on that to discuss race openly was explosive and dangerous; consequently, I was drawn to the subject. I have a friend, Rosalind Bell, an African-American writer who grew up near me in south Louisiana, and is my age. We have so much in common - geography, language, religion, music, humor, recipes - and yet her experience as a black child was so different from mine. Originally, I started TREE as a story about two sisters, one white, one black, but it never quite took off. When I had the idea to make one sibling a brother, the play ignited. The other major inspiration for the play is a trove of about two hundred letters my father wrote to my mother during his years as a Marine in the Korean Conflict. When I read these, written by a young man of 19, 20, 21, I was taken by his youth, his dreams, his sense of humor and the love and tenderness he clearly had for his girl. I was so moved by their relationship and their hopes for a life together, and simultaneously struck by the known facts of my mother and father’s life which had very little to do with the plans they had as a young couple. The letters gave me insight into my parents, especially my Dad, and I felt there was something to be mined in terms of exploring what we actually know - and don’t know - about individuals in our families. I started to write about race and ended writing about family, and how we keep each other honest. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes painful, but being known over time, recognizing yourself in others, continuing relationships after betrayal and suffering - gives us a chance to learn the big lessons. And with family, if you don’t learn it the first time, they just keep coming at you. I’m trying to understand my life through writing, and my family and closest relationships are the teachers and inspirations. Julie Hébert
The Cast TRISTAN CUNNINGHAM* (JJ Price) started her performing days when she was only ten with Vermont’s own country circus, Circus Smirkus. After touring for eight years, she decided to change her focus to acting and recently graduated with a B.F.A from S.U.N.Y Purchase Acting Conservatory. Her Bay Area credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream with The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, A Winter’s Tale,The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with California Shakespeare Theater, and The Arsonists with The Aurora Theater. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and she is honored to be work with San Francisco Playhouse for the first time.
SUSI DAMILANO* (Didi Marcantel) is the co-founder and Producing Director of San Francisco Playhouse. She is a five-time recipient of the SF Bay Area Theatre Critic Circle award for Best Female Performance in Abigail’s Party, Harper Regan, Bug, Six Degrees of Separation, and Reckless. Last fall she made her off-Broadway debut in the Playhouse transfer of Bauer. Other plays she has held leading roles at the Playhouse include Coraline, Slasher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, First Person Shooter, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Kimberly Akimbo and The Smell of the Kill. Directing credits include A Behanding in Spokane, Den of Thieves, Into the Woods, Wirehead, west coast premieres of Honey Brown Eyes, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Coronado, The Mystery Plays, Roulette and world premieres of Rhett Rossi’s From Red to Black and Daniel Heath’s Seven Days.
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CARL LUMBLY* (Leo Price), last seen at San Francisco Playhouse as Chester Kimmich in John Patrick Shanley’s Storefront Church, Carl Lumbly has been busy. Recently, Carl played the lead role, Mr. Ames, in the world premiere of Regina Taylor’s OffBroadway play, Stop. Reset at the Signature Theatre in NYC. Bay Area audiences last saw Carl as Troy in August Wilson’s Fences at Marin Theatre Company, directed by Derrick Sanders.
CATHLEEN RIDDLEY* (Mrs. Jessalyn Price) is so proud to be back at San Francisco Playhouse. She was previously seen here as Aldonza in Man of La Mancha and Ghost in Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge. Favorite roles include Nurse in Medea at African American Shakespeare Company, Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance at Berkeley Playhouse, and Calpurnia in To Kill A Mockingbird at TheatreWorks. She has been seen in many Bay Area theaters including Marin Theatre Company, Central Works, ACT, Lorraine Hansberry Theater and Magic Theatre. Cathleen is a proud member of AEA and TBA, an Associate Artist at Alter Theater, and is a PlayGround company member. She is an alumna of The Juilliard School Drama Division, a certified ASL Interpreter and has an MA from UPenn. A current project close to her heart is working with incarcerated men in San Quentin in their violence prevention program called No More Tears/Healing Circle. This one’s for my daddy.
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Creative Team
NINA BALL+ (Set Design) is an award-winning scenic and costume designer whose designs have been seen at San Francisco Playhouse (Camelot, My Fair Lady, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Period of Adjustment, Reborning, The Fantasticks), American Conservatory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, Aurora Theatre Company, Center Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Z Space, Marin Shakes, among many others. She is also a proud company member at Shotgun Players. Upcoming shows include Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Cal Shakes and Twelfth Night and Our Town at Shotgun Players. ninaball.com ABRA BERMAN (Costume Designer) has been designing costumes for over twenty five years. Collaborations include San Francisco Playhouse, Berkeley Playhouse, West Bay Opera, Marin Shakespeare Company, Company C Contemporary Ballet, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Berkeley Opera, Brava Theatre, Pocket Opera, Lamplighters Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Alameda Civic Light Opera, Palo Alto Players, The De Young Museum, The Museum of Performance and Design, Hillbarn Theatre, Arclight Theatre, Contra Costa Musical Theatre, Ballet Califia, Cinnabar Theatre, and Sonoma County Repertory Theatre, among others. Abra has an MFA from UCLA in theatrical costume design. ISSERE CHRISTOPHER (Production Assistant) is thrilled to be working at the Playhouse and loves the world of theatre. BILL ENGLISH (Artistic Director) spent his life producing works of art. Bill is an accomplished singer, pianist and composer. He has acted in films, television and professional theatre and is a member of all the performing unions. Bill’s work has been recognized with numerous awards for acting, directing, sound and set design. Under Bill’s leadership The San Francisco Playhouse, has earned multiple nominations and awards making it the fastest growing and most awarded theatre company in San Francisco. TATJANA GENSER* (Production/Stage Manager) is classically trained in philology and an autodidact in everything that’s practical theatre. She’s proud to be an AEA stage manager, production manager, props mistress and costume designer. She’s also a mean monkey on a ladder and a wizard of tape. Thanks to you for supporting independent theatre and to B. for the late night dinners and love. THEODORE J.H. HULSKER (Sound Design) is pleased to return to San Francisco Playhouse after designing for Jerusalem and Storefront Church. Theodore’s recent work includes Mugwumpin’s The Great Big Also, San
Francisco Playhouses’s Sandbox production of Grounded, NCTC’s American Dream, Shotgun Player’s Strangers, Babies and Cutting Ball’s The Chairs. He was the 2012 recipient of the Eric Landismen Fellowship for an emerging designer. Go Gators. MAGGIE KOCH* (Production Manager) A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Maggie graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Technical Theatre. In 2005 she began as an intern with San Francisco Playhouse and has been with the company ever since—now taking on the role as a Resident Stage Manager. Some of her favorite productions include: Art, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Coronado, Cabaret, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Den of Thieves, Slasher, Wirehead, Tigers Be Still, Period of Adjustment, The Aliens & A Behanding In Spokane, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and reasons to be pretty. She would like to thank: her fiance, Ed—for always making her laugh, her family—for believing, the SFPH company—for being her second family and her friends—for providing constant support. Go Steelers! MIKE “MIGUEL” MARTINEZ (Fight Choreography) is a thirty-five year veteran of the stunt industry, who began his stage combat career in the Wild West Stunt Shows before going on to work in film, television, and commercials. Some of his film credits include, Stunt Double for Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Angels in the Outfield, The Matrix: Reloaded – more recent works are Transformers: Age of Extinction, San Andreas, Looking, and the upcoming Wachowski Siblings series Sense8. He first worked with San Francisco Playhouse as Fight Choreographer for Camelot, winning the Theater Critics Circle Award for Fight Choreography. His work with San Francisco Playhouse includes Camelot, Ideation, Jerusalem, Promises, Promises, and the Sandbox Series From Red to Black, and 77%. “I grew up going to musicals and cabaret shows with my mother, and became a fan of musicals and theater.” MICHAEL OESCH+ (Lighting Design) is a lighting designer for dance, theatre, opera, musicals, installation, and film. Since first working with San Francisco Playhouse in 2007, he has designed lights for Man of La Mancha, The Scene, Cabaret, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Animals Out of Paper, The Fantasticks, Coraline, Tigers Be Still, Period of Adjustment, Becky Shaw, My Fair Lady, Reasons To Be Pretty, and Camelot. He has also designed lighting for numerous companies in the bay area including Smuin Ballet, The Magic Theatre, Trinity Lyric Opera, Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre, 13th Floor Dance, West Wave Dance Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, El Teatro Campesino, Theatre Artaud, Solano College Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, New Conservatory Theatre Center, as well as other companies in the bay area. He was recently nominated for a BATCC award for best lighting design of a musical.
JACQUELYN SCOTT (Props Artisan) works as production designer and propsmaster for theaters and film companies throughout the Bay Area. Previous credits include Into The Woods, Bauer, Jerusalem, Abigail’s Party, A Behanding in Spokane, Reborning (San Francisco Playhouse), Bad Jews, Buried Child, The Happy Ones, Annapurna, The Lily’s Revenge, The Brothers Size, Oedipus El Rey, Goldfish, Octopus (Magic Theatre), Assassins, God’s Plot (Shotgun Players), Companion Piece (Z Space), American Hwangap (The Play Company, New York) and all around art department for Lucky Dragon Productions, Terri Timely, Park Pictures and Heist. LYNNE SOFFER (Dialect Coach) has served as dialect/text coach on over 235 productions at A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Magic Theatre, Cal Shakes, Marin Shakes, the Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, Arizona Theatre Co., Arena Stage, Seattle Rep and Denver Center among others including six productions for San Francisco Playhouse. Her film and television credits include Fruitvale (the Oscar Grant story - 2013), Metro, Duets, The Land of Milk and Honey and America’s Most Wanted. Ms Soffer is also a professional actor, director and teacher of actors and is the recipient of the 2011 Actors’ Equity Lucy Jordan Humanitarian Award. JON TRACY (Director) returns to San Francisco Playhouse after directing the opening show for their new theater at 450 Post with Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson. Additional shows with the Playhouse include Track-in-a-Box, Slasher, Bug, Man of La Mancha and First Person Shooter. He is a Director, Playwright, Designer, Educator and Associate with many Bay Area theaters including: Shotgun Players (Company Member), Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theatre, Darkroom Productions (Founder, Former Artistic Director), Willows, TheatreFIRST, Berkeley Playhouse and Playground (Company Member and Resident Director). A graduate of Solano College Theatre’s Actor Training Program, he is also the recipient of the Kennedy Center Meritorious Achievement Award, fifteen North Bay Arty Awards, a Sacramento Elly Award, Bay Area Critics Circle Award and is a grant recipient from Theatre Bay Area and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a proud member of Theatre Bay Area’s Gender Parity Commission and of SDC, the union for stage directors and choreographers.
Translation of AUX NATCHITOCHES (In Natchitoches) In Natchitoches there’s a brunette For her I want to make everything fine I only have Sundays to see her One misty morning I found her lying on her bed Sleep, darling, dream, I only think of you and our love. I can neither sleep nor doze I can’t sleep all night. My dear love, I only think of you. My dear love, will we marry? I’ll build a secluded hut My food will be grass And my drink tears. For two lovers living only in longing. And if you have to get a dress, Get it the color of ashes, For that’s the saddest color For two lovers living only in longing. From the CD “Folksongs of the Louisiana Acadians” Recorded by Dr. Harry Oster, on Arhoolie Records. Recording Number 359, Song 14. Vocals by Bee Deshotel.
Special Thanks to our Supporters!
The donors listed made gifts to the playhouse between the dates of 12/19/2013 and 12/19/2014. If you have a question or would like to make a gift, please call the Development Department at 415.361.4767 or email hans@sfplayhouse.org.
Foundations and Corporations $25,000 +
Aroha Philanthropies Barbara & Gerson Bakar Foundation The Bernard Osher Foundation Google, Inc. Grants for the Arts Jewish Community Federation Kanbar Charitable Trust Khachaturian Foundation Max & Anna Levinson Foundation Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation The San Francisco Foundation Taproot Foundation Ululani Foundation The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
$10,000-24,999
Alafi Family Foundation Clay Foundation - West Kimball Foundation
The Mill Foundation SF Arts Commission The Shubert Foundation The Weinstein Gallery Wildcard Productions
$5,000-9,999
Fleishhacker Foundation National New Play Network
$1,000-4,999
The Benevity Community Impact Fund Creative Capacity Fund Dramatists Guild Fund The Hand Foundation Lerner, Veit & Stanaland LLP Silicon Valley Community Foundation Society For Community Work The Tournesol Project Vendini, Inc.
W & F Hewlett Foundation Zellerbach Family Foundation
UP TO $1,000
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MATCHING GIFTS
Aon Foundation Apple, Inc. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Chevron Humankind Farella Braun + Martel LLP Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Google Inc. John Wiley & Son Inc. Johnson & Johnson Levi Strauss Foundation Macy’s Foundation Mechanics Bank MSCI, Inc. Qualcomm Visa, Inc.
450 Post Street Donors $25,000 +
Walter Casper Teufel Jr. Diane & Stephen Heiman Barbara & Gerson Bakar Toni Rembe & Arthur Rock Maurice Kanbar Charitable Trust William O’Keeffe The Bernard Osher Foundation
$10,000-24,999
The Fleishhacker Foundation Andrew Teufel Rowland Weinstein Helen E. Land Ginger & Moshe Alafi Cristina Banks Jackie & Richard Mayer Gary & Dana Shapiro Ama Torrance & C.J. David Davies
$5,000-9,999
K.M. Gahagan
Beth & Fred Karren Marilyn & Bob Kriegel Astrid Lacitis Helen E. Land SEAT OWNERS ($1,500) Colleen & Erin Lurie Cynnie Anderson Janet & Bill McAllister Ursula Schorn & Richard Andersen Bill & Ursula Moffett Christina, Gina & Raymond Banks Karin & Gregory McClune Katharine Beckwith Jerry Rampelberg Joseph Belanoff & Katherine Eddie Reynolds & Ed Jones Blenko Deborah Robbins & Henry Navas David & Michele Benjamin Lois & Arthur Roth Dr. Paula Campbell Joan Rost (in memory of Clayton Isabelle Dokouzian Rost) Mary & Tom Foote Gary & Dana Shapiro K.M. Gahagan Margaret Skornia (in memory of Karen Grassle Nancy Blair) Betty Hoener Lorna & Cris Strotz Linda Romley Irvine & Perry Irvine Dr. Daniel Tanita Flora Lynn Isaacson Marcy Taylor Pattinson Colleen & David Leof Marcia & David Vastine John & Cathatine Kalin Robert & Jan Ginsberg Jeff Rodman & Adrienne Hirt George Sarlo Foundation
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Legacy Circle GIFTS RECEIVED
The Estate of Nancy Blair The Estate of Walter Casper Teufel Jr The Estate of Delphine Zeuli
GIFTS DESIGNATED
Anonymous (2) Susan Atherton Ludmila Eggleton Brittny Bottorf & Asim Bhansali Eddie Reynolds & Ed Jones Nancy Thompson & Andy Kerr
Producer Circle
Donors at this level enjoy recognition around a production of their choice and are invited to readings and working rehearsals, and they receive many other great benefits for their generous gifts.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER $25,000 + Susan Atherton Barbara & Gerson Bakar Nancy Blair (in memoriam) Paul Graham Mr. Robert Hulteng Helen E. Land Don & Sherie Morrison Arthur Rock & Toni Rembe Andrew S. Teufel Rowland & Savannah Weinstein
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Stephen & Diane Heiman Geoffrey Jue Maurice Kanbar Jon Kaufman Buffy & George Miller Sophie-Charlotte Moatti William O’Keeffe Jeffrey Pfeffer & Kathleen Fowler Dana & Gary Shapiro Christian Chadd Taylor Ama Torrance & C.J. David Davies Paul Underwood in loving memory of Dr. Ronald Hugh Gorman * Arne & Gail Wagner Scott Walecka & Martha Seaver
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Bill English & Susi Damilano * Ruth & Les Finkelstein Mary & Tom Foote * William J. Gregory * Ellen & Bruce Hall Betty Hoener Eleanor & Richard Johns Fred & Beth Karren * The Kurland Family Foundation Colleen & David Leof Steven Mayer Dr. & Mrs. William McAllister * Peggy & Edwin Mihm Dugan Moore Marcy Taylor Pattinson Harry & Kay Rabin Phyllis & Jerry Rosenberg Spencer & Jeanne Wang
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Anonymous (x4) Robert F. Adams David Alcocer & Steven Thompson * Bruno Algan Mattie Alperton * Sue Anawalt Paul Asente Deborah Van Atta * Aj Baker * Loretta & Hendrik Bakker Kirk Baldwin Millie & John Barrett Eve Barringer * Allan Basbaum * Nanci Beatty Richard Behrendt * Suzanne Beim Joe & Joanne Bellan Ruth Berggren Karen & Haskell Bernson Barbara Bernstein Stuart & Helen Bessler Sandra & Bruce Beyaert * Sandra Blair Sheila Bost * Michael & Renette Brady * Nelson Bragg * Julian & Beth Brandes *
Carole Breen Patricia Brill * Dustin Brown * Howard Brownstein * Wayne Bryan Susan Byde Thomas Calderola Christine Carbonel Hans Cardenas * Summer & Adolfo Castells* Daniel Caul * Hella & Mel Cheitlin * Len Christensen Arlene Waksberg & Charles M Clark Gail Clark Kenneth Clark * Paula Clark Angela Cohen * Douglas & Rosemary Corbin Jay M. Corey * Rafael Costas David & Ann Crockett Mike Crosby * Suzanne Cross Mary & Guy Cummins Gerry & Kathleen Damon Lynda Beigel & Ellen Davis * Debbie Degutis * Andrea Delman * David Desler * Gerry Devito * Charles Dorris * Robert Eakin & Alvis Hendley Conor Egan * Carol Emory Michael Ennis Lexi Feinberg * Elizabeth Ferrari Alexander Fetter Susan K. Fisher Laura B. Fleming * Susan Fogarty * Catz & Jean Forsman * Carolyn Foss Stephen Francis Jeanne Franken * Enrique Garcia Miriam Gauss Sarah Gill * Mitch Gitin * Glennis Lees Glazeski & Michael Glazeski * Alberto Gobbi Paul Goetz Burton Goldfine * Judy & Mike Goldman Keith Goldstein * Laura Kipnis & Sidney Goldstein Stephen Goldstine & Emily Keeler Michele Goller Ronald Goodman & Richard Leadbetter Derek Gordon
Piers J.C. Greenhill * Dennis Gregg * Peter Groubert * Albert Halff Jane Hansen Mary Lou & Sam Hartshorn Will Harvey * Mary Rose & Patrick Hayes * Mark Hernandez Richard Hewetson * Irene Hilgers Al Hoffman Heidi Holland Kyra Hubis * Joan Huff * Andrea Indart Lyn Isbell Ruth James Carolyn Jayne * Rosemary Jenckes * William Jervis & Barushka Sholty * Sheila-Merle Johnson * Karla Jones * Melanie Jones * Jeffrey Judson Robert Kaiser Mike Kaplan * Earl Karn Leslie Karren Jose Katz Beryl Kay Maxine Kenin Richard Mountain in honor of Jane Kennedy Deb Kessler & Lou Michetti * Pat & Steve Klansko George M. Knuepfel * Kevin Koberle * Daniel Kocher Joe & Peggy Koman Doug Konecky Ann Kottler * Roman & Hamila Kownacki * Louis Kravitz Nancy Kuefler Michael Kwiecien * Adrienne Lacau * Gary & Louise Lambdin * Lois Langer * Richard & Ann Lanzerotti Stephen Laruccia Joan Lasselle & Stanley Shell Aon Foundation Jack Leibman Evelyn Levin * Sandra Levitan * Margaret Levitt * Michelle Liapes Rashida Lilani Sharon Litsky & John Sampson * Warren & Susan Lortie * Judy Love John Luca Dave Lucas
Carol Ludwig Theresa Lustig & Stanton Koppel * Michael & Karen Macdonald * Jarrold Maki * Mare & Paul Manangan Hannah Marks Rebecca Martinez * Sue McCone MacMillan * Danuta McCullagh Dianne Mccutcheon * Michele A. McDonald * Bill & Christney McGlashan John McLean Marilyn & Charles Meier * Carl & Judy Mendoza Maeve Metzger Dana Merwin Denise Michael & David Schirle * Anne Michel * Carol Mitchell & Peter Jarit Sheila Moore & John Dalton Amelia Motroni Samuel Muir Judith Myers Dorothy Niccolls * Ruth Nott Jane Nurre Kristina Ober Patricia O’Connor * Robert & Ruth O’Connor Jean O’Donnell Evan Painter Lynne Painter Paula Paley Maureen Paren Anne & John Parker Sylvia Pascal Keiko Okano Pederson * John Pendleton & Natalie Rome Julia Peterson David Pezzi Regina Phelps Joy Porter Lucille & Arthur Poskanzer Michael Powers * Barbara & Mike Purcell * Steve & Wilma Rader * Donald Ramos & Alan Sauer * Nick Ray Tuesday Ray * Elizabeth Raymond Rose Reed * Gordon Reetz Steven & Chris Riess * Suzanne Riley * Judith Rino Alison Rittger Wayne Robins Barbara & Saul Rockman Edward Rodden * Jeff Rodman & Adrienne Hirt Rose Roskilly * Joan Rost in memory of
Clayton Rost * Jason & Beki Rush Gretchen Saeger * Theodore Savetnick Laurel Schaeffer-Trent Roberta Schear Penny Schreiber David Schubeck * Madeline & Arnold Schuster * Janet & Philip Seelinger James Seeman Bill & Holly Shepard Roland Sheppard & Connie Suzuki * Gae Shulman Ron & Ellen Shulman Vladimir Shulman Sol Silver * Tom Simpson Edward Smith Fabienne Smolinski Brenda Sobon Cindy Soloman * Ann & James Spencer * Thomas & Lucy Sponsler Barbara Sprung Michael Steel Bill & Mary Ann Stein Monica Steiner John Steinfirst * John Stern Susanne Stevens & Monte Mansir * Lorna & Chris Strotz Barbara Stuart * Dorian Stull * Joan Sullivan * Virginia Summerer Carolyn Sumrall * Daniel Tanita Ronald Tauber * Marion Taylor Diana Thomas Robert Trask Jim Turner * Kevin Turner Linda Vallee * William van Dyk & Margi Sullivan Alyosha & Moya Verzhbinsky* Gretchen vonDuering Mel Wasserman * Alan Weber Jill & Philip Weinstein Luke Weinstein Elaine & Stan Weiss Richard West Robert Weston Andrea Wheeler Mary Ann Whitten Patty Wilkerson Michael Wisper Karissa Wong Joy Woo Agnes Zarate * Norman Zilber *
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YOU ARE AN ARTIST. You see the true beauty in creative expression. You strive to elevate our culture. You believe the arts make our community and the world a richer place. For your dedication and your passion, we salute you. Union Bank® is proud to sponsor the 2014-15 San Francisco Playhouse Season. Congratulations to all the participants in tonight’s performance! unionbank.com
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