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THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY | 2015 SEASON
THE ROYAL FAMILY by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber May 27–June 21
THE GUARDSMAN
by Ferenc Molnár new adaptation by Bonnie J. Monte translation by Gábor Lukin July 8–July 26
MISALLIANCE
by George Bernard Shaw August 5–August 30
EQUIVOCATION
by Bill Cain September 16–October 4
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett adapted by Wendy Kesselman October 14–November 21
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
by William Shakespeare December 2–December 27
On the Outdoor Stage
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST by William Shakespeare June 17–July 26
THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY
Board of Trustees
The Honorable Thomas H. Kean, Honorary Chairman David Bradford, President Jeanne Barrett Patricia A. Connell Frank DiPrima Suzanne Engel Sarah Fargo Richard Fuchs James Gillen T. Randolph Harris Thomas W. Keffer
James B. Kobak Jr. Gregory McCarthy Joe McDonald Richard B. McGlynn Bonnie J. Monte Edward Ng James Pohlman Philip Rosenbach Rick Sordelet Claire Zweig
MaryAnn Baenninger, President of Drew University* Bob Conley, Mayor of Madison* TRUSTEES EMERITUS
S. Dillard Kirby Heath McLendon Karl Meister *Honorary Trustee
Founded in 1963 by Paul Barry and Philip Dorian, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is the State’s largest professional theatre company dedicated to Shakespeare’s canon and other world classics. Now in its 53rd season, the Theatre is one of the leading Shakespeare theatres in the nation, and the longest-running on the East Coast. Designated a Major Arts Institution by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the company is a member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, the statewide association of professional theatres; and a member of ArtPRIDE New Jersey, the Shakespeare Theatre Association, and the Madison Arts and Culture Alliance. The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is committed to creating an environment that is accessible to everyone. Our Main Stage venue, the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, is fully accessible to persons with disabilities.
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THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY BONNIE J. MONTE is now in her 25th season as the company’s Artistic Director. Under her leadership, the Theatre has evolved into one of the largest and most respected classical theatres in the nation. Ms. Monte has garnered national recognition for her highly successful revitalization of the institution, and for her outstanding commitment to arts education and professional training. The Theatre has become one of the nation’s leading training grounds for emerging classic theatre artists. During her more than two decades at the helm, the institution successfully completed a major capital campaign resulting in the complete renovation and expansion of the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre in 1998. She is currently working on The Legacy Project, the Theatre’s new campaign to perfect and protect the institution’s future. In 2002, the Theatre’s 40th anniversary year, she initiated a new partnership with the College of Saint Elizabeth, attaining a second summer performance venue for the organization: the Outdoor Stage, a unique and stunning Greek amphitheatre on St. Elizabeth’s campus. That same year, The Star-Ledger named the company “Regional Theatre of the Year,” and The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation awarded The Shakespeare Theatre a prestigious Strategic Partnership Grant in the amount of $1 million. In its January 2003 issue, New Jersey Monthly named Ms. Monte one of “40 New Jerseyans We Love.” She has received numerous awards and honors including a Women of Achievement Award, sponsored by the New Jersey General Assembly; an Alumni Achievement Award from Bethany College in West Virginia; and a Person of the Year Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, for her longtime efforts to nurture young artists. She has also been named Professional Artist of the Year by the Arts Council of the Morris Area, and one of the 25 Most Influential People in the Arts in New Jersey by The Star-Ledger. Prior to arriving in New Jersey, Ms. Monte was a casting director at the prestigious Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City. From 1981 to 1989, she was Associate Artistic Director at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, working closely with renowned Artistic Director Nikos Psacharopoulos. While there, Ms. Monte initiated many new programs, including a second stage and an outdoor free theatre. In 1982, she was part of a writing team, which
included Psacharopoulos and Tennessee Williams, collaborating on Tennessee Williams: A Celebration, a major retrospective tribute to Mr. Williams’ entire literary canon. During her tenure at Williamstown, Ms. Monte also cast and helped produce joint ventures with other major theatres, including Sweet Bird of Youth at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway at Circle-in-the-Square, The Glass Menagerie at The Long Wharf Theatre, and Arms and the Man at The Pasadena Playhouse. Since 1990, she has directed over 50 productions for The Shakespeare Theatre, including stagings of numerous Shakespeare plays, as well as work from the Russian classic canon with a focus on Chekhov and Ostrovsky. Her special affinity for Tennessee Williams has resulted in highly acclaimed productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real and Sweet Bird of Youth. She also directed shows for the Theatre’s Shakespeare LIVE! touring company including The Myths of Ancient Greece: Old Echoes, New Ears, which she also authored. She has created a number of original translations/ adaptations for the company’s Main and Outdoor stages, including Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love, Pirandello’s Enrico IV, Ostrovsky’s Artists and Admirers, Maeterlinck’s The Blue Bird, Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, which was published by Playscripts, Inc, The Alchemist, and this season's The Guardsman. Ms. Monte has been actively involved in the training of new talent for the American stage through numerous training programs for over 30 years, and has also engaged in residencies at the University of South Carolina, where she directed The Trojan Women, and the University of Notre Dame, where she directed The Bacchae. She has been on the faculty of Drew University and The New School in Manhattan. Ms. Monte obtained a conservatory degree in directing from The Hartman Conservatory and a B.A. in theatre from Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia. She has Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Drew University and the College of Saint Elizabeth. She is originally from Stamford, Connecticut.
THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
OF NEW JERSEY | 2015 SEASON Bonnie J. Monte, Artistic Director Jeanne Barrett, Managing Director
THE ROYAL FAMILY
by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber directed by
BONNIE J. MONTE scenic designer
CHARLES MURDOCK LUCAS lighting designer
ANTHONY GALASKA
costume designer
MAGGIE DICK
sound designer
KARIN GRAYBASH
production stage manager
DENISE CARDARELLI*
fight director
RICK SORDELET
* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers
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The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s programs are made possible, in part, by funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional major support is received from The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, F.M. Kirby Foundation, The Edward T. Cone Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, CTW Foundation, and Drew University, as well as contributions from numerous corporations, foundations, government agencies and individuals.
Cover illustration by Scott McKowen
"The Royal Family" is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
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On the Main Stage: the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre May 27–June 21, 2015
THE CAST (in order of appearance)
Della..................................................................................................... Emma O'Donnell* Jo.....................................................................................................................Patrick Toon* Hall-Boy........................................................................................................ Jordan Buhat McDermott/Chauffeur........................................................................ Ryan McCarthy Herbert Dean............................................................................................. Matt Sullivan* Kitty LeMoyne Dean............................................................................ Allison Mackie* Gwen Cavendish.......................................................................Samantha Bruce* Perry Stewart.........................................................................................................Tug Rice Fanny Cavendish............................................................................ Elizabeth Shepherd* Oscar Wolfe........................................................................................... Edmond Genest* Julie Cavendish....................................................................................... Roxanna Hope* Tony Cavendish................................................................................. Benjamin Sterling* Gil Marshall...................................................................................................Patrick Boll* Miss Peake.....................................................................................................Louise Heller
THE SETTING
The duplex apartment of the Cavendish family, in the East Fifties, New York, 1927–1928 Act I: A Friday in November. Early afternoon. 15 minute intermission Act II: Saturday, the next day. Between matinée and night. 10 minute intermission Act III: A year later in November. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers
For Our Audience! The Shakespeare Theatre provides a wonderful online Audience Guide for each and every one of our shows. These guides are very helpful for those who like to read up on a play before attending, or for those who are eager to peruse a synopsis of the plot. In the spirit of spoiler alerts, the guides remain online for those who wish to investigate a play more after viewing the production! And a P.S. from the actors and your fellow audience members: Remember, texting is just as bad as talking during a performance!
THE EQUITY COMPANY
PATRICK BOLL
SAMANTHA BRUCE
EDMOND GENEST
ROXANNA HOPE
EMMA O'DONNELL
ELIZABETH SHEPHERD
BENJAMIN STERLING
MATT SULLIVAN
ALLISON MACKIE
PATRICK TOON
PATRICK BOLL (Gil Marshall) is in his third season with the Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: Man of LaMancha and Richard II. Broadway credits: Mamma Mia, Faith Healer, Twentieth Century, Hedda Gabler, Death of a Salesman and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Off-Broadway credits: Revolution in the Elbow…, Bill W. & Dr. Bob, All The Way Home and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Transport Group), The Underpants (CSC), Two Rooms, and Henry & Mudge. Regional credits: Williamstown, O’Neill, Goodspeed, Paper Mill Playhouse, PittsburgCLO, McCarter, and many others. TV and Film: The Good Wife, VEEP, all Law & Order(s), Spin City, Royal Pains, Gossip Girl, Burn After Reading. Upcoming film: How To Be Single. Originally from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Patrick is a graduate of NYU and a professional acting teacher in NYC. www.patrickboll.com SAMANTHA BRUCE (Gwen Cavendish) is in her first season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Off-Broadway credit: Luisa in The Fantasticks. Favorite regional credits: Joan Fletcher in Strike Up the Band, Gretchen in Boeing-Boeing, Julie in Carousel and Louise in Gypsy. www.samanthabruce.net EDMOND GENEST (Oscar Wolfe) is in his twentieth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: The Devil's Disciple, The Playboy of the Western World, Trelawny of the Wells, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, No Man’s Land, Noises Off, Around the World in Eighty Days, King Lear, The Time of Your Life, Pride and Prejudice, The Cherry Orchard, and many more. Broadway credits: The Elephant Man (with Billy Crudup), A Few Good Men, The Real Thing, two productions of Whose Life is It Anyway?, Onward Victoria and Dirty Linen and New-Found Land. Off-Broadway credits: the original production of The Real Inspector Hound and Later Life (Playwrights Horizons), Escape from Happiness (Naked Angels), Pantomime (Hudson Guild), and The Browning Version (Roundabout Theatre Company). Regional credits: Seafarer (Theaterworks), To the Lighthouse (Berkeley Rep.), and other work with Portland Stage Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Company, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival (five seasons), The Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre of Pittsburgh, Alliance Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Alley Theatre and Cincinnati Playhouse.
ROXANNA HOPE (Julie Cavendish) is in her fourth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: Pericles, Richard III, Julius Caesar, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Broadway credits: Frost/Nixon (Broadway and National Tour), Boeing Boeing (u/s), After the Fall, and The Women. New York credits: Ode To Joy, Horsedreams, Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven, 1001, Arabian Night, Little Willy, and Princess Turandot. Regional: Hedda Gabler (Hartford Stage), Hecuba (Williamstown Theater Festival), Tartuffe and Indian Ink (American Conservatory Theater), The Blue Demon (The Huntington Theater), and productions with Westport Country Playhouse, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and others. Film and television credits: Puncture, No Reservations, Elementary, Blue Bloods, Unforgettable, The Good Wife, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, All My Children, and others. ALLISON MACKIE (Kitty LeMoyne Dean) is in her third season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: Fallen Angels and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Broadway credits: Roxane in Cyrano De Bergerac starring Frank Langella (Roundabout) and Candida (Circle in the Square). Regional credits: The Big Knife and La Ronde (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Dear Brutus, The Constant Wife, and David Copperfield (Westport), Peccadillo (written & directed by Garson Kanin), Romeo & Juliet, The Velvet Elvis, All The Way Home, Hay Fever, and When Last We Flew (the Lucille Lortel) Film credits: currently appearing in Those People at SIFF, Toronto, LA, New York and Provincetown Festivals this summer. Other film credits: Liv, Lucky, Almost Perfect and Our Very Own (with Allison Janney), Pretty Ugly People, The Gymnast, and Original Sin and Gia (both with Angelina Jolie), Friends & Family, Rear Window, The Souler Opposite, Sliver, and Amos & Andrew. Television credits: The Big “C”, Law & Order, Without A Trace, Law & Order: SVU, Frasier, and E.R. EMMA O'DONNELL (Della) is in her second season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credit: The Playboy of the Western World. Off-Broadway credits: Juno and the Paycock, The Shaughraun, Prisoner of the Crown, The Hairy Ape, and Yeats Festival Readings (Irish Repertory Theater), Court Martial at Fort Devins (New Federal/Castillo Theater Production, Audelco Award: Best Ensemble), and Freed (59 E. 59th St., Audelco Nominee). Regional credits: The Luna Stage (Marisol), The Guthrie (The Firebugs), Mountain Playhouse (The Winslow Boy), Act II Playhouse (Scotland Road, A Body of Water), The Public Theater (Collected Stories), Walnut Street Theater (Forrest: A Riot of Dreams), Ivoryton Playhouse (Seven Year Itch), Polka Dot Playhouse (Noises Off ), Florida Studio Theater, Off-World Theater Co., The Village Theater, and a full season with the Children's Theater Co. in Minneapolis, (premiere, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Tina Howe's East of the Sun West of the Moon). National Tour: originated the role of Beezus in Ramona Quimby (Theatre Works). Training: Circle in the Square (NYC), British American Drama Academy (London). BFA: Carleton College. Emma is a member of the Actor's Center Workshop Company. ELIZABETH SHEPHERD (Fanny Cavendish) is in her sixth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: Trelawney of the Wells, Pygmalion, Les Liasons Dangereuses, Pride and Prejudice, and Measure for Measure. Her distinguished theatre career has encompassed London’s West End; Theatre Royal, Bristol; Broadway On and Off; Regional credits: Arena Stage, The Old Globe, Cleveland Playhouse, the Stratford and Shaw Festivals in Ontario, Walnut Street Theatre Philadelphia, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Arizona Theatre Company. Recent credits: Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy, Fonsia Dorsey in The Gin Game, Flora Humble in Humble Boy, Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, Gloria Temple in Sherman Yellen’s December Fools, Honor in Honour, Nanny in George is Dead. Particularly favorite roles include Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Queen Katherine in Henry
VIII, Elsa Tabori in My Mother’s Courage, Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret. Television credits: Hermione in The Winter’s Tale (PBS, Emmy nomination), BBC Masterpiece Theatre, All My Children, Law & Order: SVU, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher in Shades of Black. Selected film: The Tomb of Ligeia, Damien: Omen 2, Criminal Law, Desire, Amelia. BENJAMIN STERLING (Tony Cavendish) is in his sixth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: As You Like It, Measure for Measure, and To Kill A Mockingbird on the Main Stage; the title role in Julius Caesar and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Shakespeare LIVE! 2011; Macduff in Macbeth with Shakespeare LIVE! 2012; The Rover in The Rover and Oliver in As You Like It with The Next Stage Ensemble. Regional credits: Lieutenant Kelly in Butler at New Jersey Repertory Theatre. MATT SULLIVAN (Herbert Dean) is in his eighth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: Henry VIII, The Devil’s Disciple, Tovarich, The Playboy of the Western World, Trelawny of the Wells, The Comedy of Errors, I Capture the Castle, Othello, The Misanthrope, Noises Off, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. Recent credits: Man #3 in the Off-Broadway production of Standing on Ceremony (The Minetta Lane) and Hay Fever (the Guthrie Theater). Baltimore Center Stage: Tuzenbach in the Three Sisters. The New York Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, and Coriolanus. The National Actor’s Theater. The Acting Company: Macbeth, Richard III, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night at The Shakespeare Theater in D. C.; Studio Arena, the St. Louis Rep, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center. Arms and the Man at the Dallas Theatre Center. The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis. He attended The Juilliard School. PATRICK TOON (Jo) is in his ninth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: The Tempest, The Playboy of the Western World, Henry IV, Part One, Othello, Merry Wives of Windsor, Galileo, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Amadeus. Favorite roles include Frank Sweeney in Molly Sweeney, Jim in The Weir, and both Silvius and Corin in As You Like It (2005 and 2013) at The Shakespeare Theatre.
THE NON-EQUITY COMPANY
JORDAN BUHAT
LOUISE HELLER
RYAN MCCARTHY
TUG RICE
JORDAN BUHAT (Hall-boy) is in his second season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credit: The Learned Ladies on the Outdoor Stage. He is currently in his second year at the University of Alberta, BFA Acting program. University of Alberta credits: Mihai in Mad Forest, Mr. Lies in Angels In America, and E.K. Hornbeck in Inherit The Wind. Alumni of the Young Acting Company at The Robbins Academy in Edmonton, Alberta (Gerry in Cloud 9). Alumni of the Summer Professional Training Program, 2014 at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (Florizel in The Winter's Tale).
LOUISE HELLER (Miss Peake) is in her first season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Recent credits: Myra Bruhl in Deathtrap (Antrim Playhouse), Katherine Gross in The Mount (the Mount, Lenox, MA), Sex, Relationships, and Sometimes Love (Producer’s Club New York, Fearless Productions), and An Evening with Edgar Allen Poe (InterAct Productions). Louise is currently studying acting with Seth Barrish and Lee Brock in their conservatory acting program at The Barrow Group in New York City. Additional training from the New Jersey School for Dramatic Arts. RYAN MCCARTHY (McDermott/Chauffeur) is in his second season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credit: Henry IV, Part One. Off-Broadway credit: King Lear (Theatre for a New Audience). Regional credits: 9-Ball (Cape Repertory Theatre) and As You Like It (THEATREWORKS). BFA from Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. TUG RICE (Perry Stewart) is in his first season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Recent credits: What Every Woman Knows, After the Dance, and Star Quality. Associate Artist at Noel and Company in New York City. Two seasons at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (King Lear, Othello). TV/Film credits: Goody Goody, The Sisters Plotz, As the World Turns. Upcoming: Spider’s Web at The Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre. Proud graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
THE ARTISTIC STAFF DENISE CARDARELLI (Production Stage Manager) is in her twelfth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: Rehearsal Stage Manager for The Learned Ladies; Production Stage Manager for Much Ado About Nothing, Wittenberg, Man of La Mancha, A Christmas Carol, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Twelfth Night on the Main Stage; As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Servant of Two Masters, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) on the Outdoor Stage; Shakespeare LIVE! Tour Manager (2007) and three and a half seasons as the Assistant Production Manager. OffBroadway: ReEntry (Urban Stages) and Dov and Ali (The Playwright’s Realm). Other New York credits: Autumn’s Harvest (Lincoln Center Education), Much Ado About Nothing (Boomerang Theatre Company), Dutch Masters (LAByrinth Theatre Company), Flip Side and Imminence (The Talking Band). Regional credits: Two River Theater Company, THEATREWORKS (Colorado), The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, CenterStage (Baltimore), Roundhouse Theatre, and Stages Repertory Theatre. MAGGIE DICK (Costume Designer) is in her seventh season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Amadeus, Cymbeline, The Cherry Orchard, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. NYC designs: All the Bad Things (LAByrinth Theater Company), Selective Memory, (Re)Develop (Death Valley), Two Husbands, The Gun Play and The Female Terrorist Project (the Chocolate Factory), Murdering Marlowe (Access Theatre), and Pale Idiot (NY Fringe Festival). Regional: Up (Syracuse Stage), Theory of Mind (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams Street Rep), and L’Etoile (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music). She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. ANTHONY GALASKA (Lighting Designer) is in his tenth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company design credits: The Tempest, A Most Dangerous Woman, Fallen Angels,
Trelawny of the Wells, The Misanthrope, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Twelfth Night on the Main Stage; and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and The Triumph of Love on the Outdoor Stage. New York design credits: The Cherry Orchard (New Perspectives Theatre Company); Year One of the Empire, The Devil and Tom Walker (Metropolitan Playhouse); Man of La Mancha (Gallery Players); Questa, Dutch Courage (Wings Theatre Company). Regional design credits: The Ashes Under Gait City, Dead and Breathing (Contemporary American Theatre Festival); five seasons with The Texas Shakespeare Festival; Living Out, The Winter’s Tale, The Importance of Being Earnest, Buried Child, and Marisol (Purdue University); Tartuffe (Viterbo University). Tony is an associate professor of lighting design at Florida International University. KARIN GRAYBASH (Sound Designer) is in her twelfth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: The Tempest, Pericles, Tovarich, The Liar, Timon of Athens, Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, No Man’s Land, and Julius Caesar, among others. Regional credits: Arena Stage, McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Alliance Theatre, Folger Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage, and Two River Theater Company. Karin is also the Sound Supervisor for the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. CHARLES MURDOCK LUCAS (Scenic Designer) is in his first season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Recent credits: La Voix Humaine, The Old Maid and the Thief (Eastman Opera Theatre), American Idiot, Mary Poppins (Children's Musical Theater San Jose), Oliver! (Cabrillo Stage), Honky Tonk Angels (Virginia Stage Company), and The Winter's Tale (Texas Shakespeare Festival). He received his Master of Fine Arts in Scenic Design from University of North Carolina School of the Arts where he was the A. J. Fletcher Opera Fellow in Scene Design. He was a recipient of the 2012 USITT Scene Design Award Sponsored by Rose Brand. His team's production concept for The Cradle Will Rock was selected for the Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase of OPERA America and presented at the Opera Conference 2015 in Washington, D.C. Over the next two years, the work will be featured as part of a rotating sixmonth exhibition at the National Opera Center. He is a proud member of USA 829. Visit him at www.charlesmurdocklucas.com or on twitter @CMLSceneDesign BONNIE J. MONTE (Director) Please see Artistic Director bio. RICK SORDELET (Fight Director) is in his eighteenth season with The Shakespeare Theatre. Company credits: Pericles, Tovarich, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, Hamlet, Around the World in Eighty Days, Private Lives, King Lear, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Macbeth, among many others. Broadway credits: 61 Broadway shows including Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Tarzan, and the national tours of Beauty and the Beast and Les Misérables. International credits: 53 first-class productions worldwide including Tarzan, Aida, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Ben Hur Live in Rome and the European tour. Opera credits: Cyrano (starring Placido Domingo) at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House and La Scalla, in Milan. Don Carlo directed by Nicholas Hytner at the Met and Heart of a Soldier at the San Francisco Opera. Film credits: The Game Plan, Dan in Real Life, and Hamlet. TV: Chief Stunt Coordinator for Guiding Light for 12 years. Instructor: Yale School of Drama. Awards: Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence from the Lucille Lortel Foundation, The Jeff Award for Outstanding Fight Direction for Romeo and Juliet at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Author credits: the play Buried Treasure.
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DIRECTOR’S NOTES
he simple three word phrase that inspired my selection of plays for 2015 has seemed more and more apt and meaningful each day of this special season for me – my 25th here at The Shakespeare Theatre. Kith and Kin. Those little words carry such vast significance and weight in the life of each and every human being, and for professions like mine, they seem to carry even greater significance, for no theatre artist can exist without the second family that forms around us by virtue of the nature of our work. So, there seemed to me no better play than The Royal Family to launch this anniversary year. Kaufman and Ferber’s grand, exuberant ode to the American theatre, and the wonderful tribe that “struts and frets” upon our stages, is a play that not only celebrates life in the theatre, but deals lovingly and frankly, with both the upside and downside of that existence. And, like all great classics, the issues and themes contained within its pages transcend the particular circumstances of its colorful characters and speak to us all – both through its wild humor and through its more serious dilemmas. What a great play about family this is – our blood families and those we gather round us over the course of our life and work – and how bubbling over it is with all the noise, distress, affection, competition, annoyance, jealousies, sadness, fun, and love that is part and parcel of each family unit on earth. I’m sure you will see glimpses of your own family as you witness these three days in the life of the Cavendish clan as they “shout and murmer” together. Cavendish and Barrymore Though Kaufman and Ferber denied that the Cavendish family of the play was based on the very real and very famous Barrymore acting dynasty – one that ruled the American stage (and film) scene for decades – the similarities are too copious and no one was fooled. The Barrymore’s long and distinguished theatrical heritage had earned them the title “Royal Family of the American Show World” and that alone seemed to provide obvious evidence for the parallel. The Barrymore legacy began way back in the late 1700’s, though Louisa Lane (1820 – 1897) is credited with being the indomitable founder of the clan. The Royal Family takes place in 1927, a time when three of the four most famous Barrymore’s were at the height of their careers – John, Ethel and Lionel. John is depicted in The Royal Family by the character of Tony; and Ethel, by the character of Julie. An exact equivalent for Lionel does not exist in the play, though aspects of him appear in other characters. The characters of Gwen, Oscar, Herbert and Kitty also have real-life Barrymore equivalents. In actuality however, the history of the Barrymore’s is far more outrageous and scandal-laden than that of the Cavendish family, and scores of books have been written on the family and its individual members. The Audience Guide on our website provides a list of books that one can seek out to discover more about the fascinating lives of this wild dynasty and their often tortured existence. Suffice to say for these brief notes, that the Barrymore family was the first that provided the then emerging tabloids with ample fodder! Kaufman and Ferber Between 1921 and 1957, George S. Kaufman (1889–1961) collaborated on 41 plays with 14 different writers, earning himself the title “The Great Collaborator.” Many of those plays were Broadway hits and he had unrivaled status on Broadway during the period between the two World Wars. The drama critic Alexander Wolcott (who, along with Kaufman, was a founding member of the famous Algonquin Round Table) described Kaufman as “the first wit of his time.” He collaborated with the Gershwin brothers on Of Thee I Sing and it won
the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded for a musical. He received another Pulitzer in 1937 for You Can’t Take It With You, written in partnership with Moss Hart, with whom he also collaborated on The Man Who Came To Dinner. Ferber and Kaufman initially met at the Algonquin Round Table. When they decided to work together on The Royal Family, Ferber was concurrently working on a stage adaptation of her novel of Show Boat, which ended up opening on Broadway the night before The Royal Family opened on December 27, 1927. Both Ferber and Kaufman began their writing careers on newspapers, but ultimately, both found their way to the stage. Ferber also co-authored Stage Door and Dinner at Eight with Kaufman, and went on to write the novel Giant, from which the famous film was adapted, and in which James Dean played his last role. Production History The play’s journey to Broadway was not an easy one. There were numerous setbacks along the way, the most notable being the casting challenges. The production was originally offered to John and Ethel Barrymore, but both refused (they were not happy about the play) and many other leading actresses turned the roles down in deference to Ethel. Despite the troubles, the first Broadway production was a hit, running for 345 performances. It was later adapted for the screen with Ina Claire. The play opened in London in 1934 at the Lyric Theatre under the title of Theatre Royal, with Laurence Olivier as Tony, and was a huge hit in London as well. An interesting tidbit for our New Jersey audiences is that in 1940, the Maplewood Theatre in Maplewood, NJ, commenced a one-week run of The Royal Family with Edna Ferber in the role of Fanny Cavendish. Finally realizing her life-long desire to act, she ironically found the life of an actress far less exciting than she did when she first imagined their existence. She later stated that she was “bored by the routine of coming down to the theatre nightly and twice on matinee days; making up, putting on and taking off those clothes; going on stage to say those same lines, night after night. [She said] of actors who play two years, three years in the long run of a successful play…pertrification must set in.” At the end of the Maplewood run, Ferber never returned to the stage. Topical References There are many references in The Royal Family to people, products, conventions and places of the late 1920’s. For example, The Lamb’s Club was a private club on West 44th Street, founded in 1874 as a refuge for actors and other members of the theatre world. The Graphic refers to the New York Graphic, a well-known tabloid newspaper of the time. “Pink lights” refers to the practice of using pink gel in the footlights, which helped make an actor appear younger. For a complete list of topical references, check out our Audience Guide on our website at www.shakespearenj.org.
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ADMINISTRATIVE & PRODUCTION STAFF ADMINISTRATION Artistic Director....................................................................................................................Bonnie J. Monte Managing Director..................................................................................................................Jeanne Barrett Artistic Associate & Casting Director..................................................................... Stephen Brown-Fried Assistant to the Artistic Director.............................................................................................Kristen Saran Finance Director/Controller................................................................................................ Duane P. Dietz Information Systems Manager.............................................................................................. 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Lauren Biscaldi Director of Development.....................................................................................................Heidi Speckhart Associate Director of Development.................................................................................Anneke Demarest Development Associate.......................................................................................................Sarah Braverman Development Assistant....................................................................................................... Elizabeth Codey Sales & Patron Services Manager.................................................................................... Antonio Romero Assistant Patron Services Managers & House Managers........... Briana Klingaman & Kevin Phelps Patron Services Associates................................................................Chelsea Binkert, Sarah Braverman, Catherine Garcia, Lauren Kardos, Michal Kortsarts, Abby Rothman, & Randi Traiman PRODUCTION & FACILITIES Director of Production & Facilities...................................................................................Steven L. Beckel Production & Facilities Assistant...................................................................................Benjamin Kramer Technical Director............................................................................................................ Latiana Gourzong Assistant Technical Director.....................................................................................................Chance Rush Scenic Charge Artist...................................................................................................................Heidi Larson Master Electrician & Sound Engineer.................................................................... Hamilton E.S. Smith Sound Technician.......................................................................................................Nicholas Gackenbach Lighting Technician...........................................................................................................Samantha Brewer Costume Shop Manager......................................................................................... Joleen Addleman Loyd Draper........................................................................................................................................... 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THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY ANNUAL FUND Ticket sales generate approximately 58% of the funds necessary to produce The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s artistic and educational work. The Theatre must raise the remaining funds through annual gifts from donors who recognize the impact that The Shakespeare Theatre has on the quality of life in New Jersey. We extend our deepest gratitude to the following individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies, whose gifts make it possible for The Shakespeare Theatre to present the finest in classic theatre on our Main Stage and our Outdoor Stage, and allow us to work with thousands of young people with our outreach education programs throughout New Jersey, the tri-state region, and the nation. For more information on how you can make a contribution to support the ongoing activities of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, please contact the Development Department at (973) 845-6730. The list below reflects gifts received in support of the Theatre’s general operating needs between February 1, 2014 and May 1, 2015. Deus Ex Machina $25,000 and ABOVE Bank of America Mr. & Mrs. David N. Bradford The Edward T. Cone Foundation CTW Foundation The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Helen & Frank DiPrima Ms. Suzanne Engel Mr. & Mrs. James R. Gillen The Honorable & Mrs. Thomas H. Kean Tom & Lynn Keffer The F.M. Kirby Foundation Mr. & Mrs. S. Dillard Kirby Jim & Carol Kobak The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Richard B. McGlynn Mr. & Mrs. Heath B. McLendon Mrs. Marjorie Monte & the Monte Family in Memory of Gene Monte The National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Midwest New Jersey State Council on the Arts Mr. & Mrs. James Pohlman The Prudential Foundation John & Lynne Rathgeber The Shubert Foundation Claire & Gil Zweig LEADING PLAYERS $10,000–$24,999 Anonymous The Thomas & Agnes Carvel Foundation Ms. Patricia A. Connell & Mr. Martin A. Schwarz Mr. James M. Deaver Rich & Jean Fuchs Peter R. & Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation Joseph & Kelly McDonald Mr. & Mrs. Karl H. Meister Mr. Edward Ng & Ms. Marla Jackson
The Provident Bank Foundation Susan C. Reidenbach Mr. & Mrs. Philip Rosenbach Turrell Fund TOUCHSTONES $5,000–$9,999 Anonymous The Anela Kolohe Foundation Arch Reinsurance Company Henry Baker Mr. Joseph Baker & Ms. Judy Armstrong Peter Baker & Jack Baker C.R. Bard Foundation Mrs. Buena H. Chilstrom Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Cohen Colbert Family Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Ms. Sarah Fargo The Graymer Foundation Ms. Ellen W. Harris Mr. T. Randolph Harris & Ms. Barbara A. Sloan Cynthia Hogan Foundation, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Mr. Nikolaos Monoyios & Ms. Valerie Brackett Ms. Bonnie J. Monte Andy and Becky Moody Mr. Wayne Paglieri & Ms. Jess Chang Steven Rosen & Susan Gochenour Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Schaenen, Jr. William E. Simon Foundation HEROES $2,500–$4,999 Jeanne & Jim Barrett The John Bickford Foundation Clifford Chance US, LLP Mr. Roy Cockrum Lawrence & Dawne Drake Ms. Jan Draper Tom Fontana & Sagan Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Jim Foster
Mr. & Mrs. John Gallagher Merrill G. & Emita E. Hastings Foundation Mrs. Sue A. Idleman Investors Bank Foundation Jacobs Levy Equity Management Mr. & Mrs. Ellwood R. Kerkeslager Ms. Donna Krebsbach & Mr. William Yacker Manley-Winser Foundation Sandra & James McTernan Ms. Deborah Mori Michael & Virginia Ranger Craig Silliman & Kate Ransom-Silliman Pamela Smith & Michael Matthews The Verizon Foundation Ms. Ruth Zowader & Mr. Philip Anderson KNIGHTS $1,000–$2,499 Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Steven Adler Ken & Jeannie Allen The MCJ Amelior Foundation Mr. Edward S. Atwater, IV Mr. & Mrs. John Barr, III Dr. John Bauer Ronald & Nancy Bendelius Bollinger Insurance Anne E. Bosch George T. & Francele Boyer Fund Marjorie C. Brandriss & David Kristol Dr. Vivian A. Bull Mr. John Campbell & Ms. Jean Walker The S. Leigh Pierson & Douglas R. Conant Family Cookie Jar Foundation, Inc. Ms. Blythe Danner Mr. John P. De Neufville Mike & Mary Ann Denton Sean Devlin & Lucy Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Diffley
Beth & Jack Dorer Ms. Carolyn Dorfman & Dr. Gregory S. Gallick Mr. & Mrs. John P. Duffy Ms. Kristin Elliott William V. Engel Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Engelstein Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Evans Mr. S. Joseph Fortunato Mr. Richard Frankel & Ms. Kathleen Clark Mr. & Mrs. David J. Friedland Mr. & Mrs. James Galt Wilma & Arthur Gelfand Mr. & Mrs. James W. Giddens Goldman Sachs Gives The Jane & Lawrence Gould Charitable Fund Mr. Dale S. Hagstrom & Ms. Eileen M. Leonard Mr. James C. Harris & Mrs. Kathleen Jones Harris Barbara K. Hart Patricia Haverland & Mark McBride Mr. & Mrs. Gates Helms Hawn Mr. & Mrs. Brian Hegarty Leo & Helen Hollein Mr. Samuel G. Huber & Ms. Catherine Weiss The Honorable John Inglesino Mr. & Mrs. George Johnson Nancy & Laird Johnson Ellen & Peter Kendall Mr. & Mrs. Jefferson W. Kirby Frederick K. Kleen, III & Virginia De Lalla Phyllis & Phil Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. John F. Lynch Ms. Susan G. Macy Doreen & John Manfredi Rebecca & Jed Marcus Mr. Paul Marshall Jennifer L. McClear & Kathleen McClear John McEwen & Robert Moutrie Professor & Mrs. Ronald J. Meyers Mr. & Mrs. Richard Miller Mr. John D. Mullins Brad & Margaret Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. O'Connor, III Mr. Timothy J. Olson Mark Packer & Laura Aden Packer Mr. & Mrs. Henry G. Parker, III Martin & Clare Prentice PriceWaterhouseCooper Ms. Nancy Priest & Mr. David Rogers Ms. Pratibha Reddy Rickert Family Fund Mr. & Mrs. Edmund P. Rogers Ms. Joanne Serraino
Marg & Glen Skar Dee & Randy Snook Donald & Mary Kaye Sparaco Bob & Gaba Steele Harold & Seema Tepper Anne & John Thomas Ms. Leslie Unger Dr. & Mrs. Lennard Wharton Dansby & Tracey White Martha Bannister Wien Ms. Nancy Wynant CHAMPIONS $500–$999 Anonymous Kerri Allen Dailey Ms. Janet Amento Thomas S. Moore, Kim Anderson-Moore, & Felicity Anderson-Moore Beau & Gretchen Atwater Bruce & Jennifer Auerbach Dr. & Mrs. Edward F. Babbott Mr. & Mrs. Grosvenor Blair Michele & William Blanchard Ms. Paige Blansfield Deborah C. Block & Howard S. Dubin Mr. Frank Boffa & Ms. Gail Mattia Mary E. Brennan & Lance Cassak Thomas R. & Jane R. Brooks David Bumke & Beth Mauro Mr. Bryan Burrough The Buscemi Family Mr. Laurence G. Capo Lynn & Clark Carmichael Ms. Christine Carmody Arey Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton Carson Ms. Debra A. Chudnow & Mr. David M. Wise Kate Clark & Richard Frankel, in Memory of Everett R. Clark & Eugene Monte Jim & Rozella Clyde David Conrad Kevin & Joy Cox Gay & Russ Culin Ms. Rachel Dare Ms. Barbara T. Demarest Mr. & Mrs. Thomas DePaola Ms. Margaret L. Domber & Mr. Emil Baur William G. Donnelly The Honorable William & Mrs. Sandra Dreier Ms. Susan Earley Jay Eisenberg & Gail Safian Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Eisenbud Peter & Diana Engler Mr. & Mrs. Alanson T. Enos, IV Jack & Lisa Fraebel
Lynn M.K. Franklin A Friend of the Theatre Laura H. Fuhro Ralph & Beth Fylstra Mr. Philip W. Gaffney Colin Gallo Edmond Genest & Pat Curtin Ms. Harriet Grose Jerry Grossman & Connie Mitchko Guy Gsell & Suzanne Longley Rick & Linda Haan Harry & Denise Hamill Clare Hart & Greg Baer Frank Hershkowitz & Missy Staples Mr. Haywood Huntley, Jr. & Ms. Beirne Donaldson Mr. & Mrs. John P. Hyland Drs. Neill & Julia Johnson Paul & Susan Jones Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kaminski Mr. Fred Kann Margo Kay William & Valerie Keefauver Robert A. & Caral G. Klein Carole & Steve Knee Drs. David Kopp & Ronnie Thompson Stout-Kopp Mr. Roderick Lapid Mr. & Mrs. Mark L. Lichtenfeld James M. Lukenda & Maura C. Lockhart and Family Dr. & Mrs. Robert MacFarlane, Jr. Ken & Henrietta Mahon Marissa & Robin Marks Charlie Maros Ms. Anisa Mehdi & Mr. Peter Zimmermann Jane & Peter Mercer Julia & David Miller Lisa R. Monte & Willian Mendez, in Memory of Eugene Monte The Moody's Foundation Barbara & Richard Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Newton Mr. Julian Ochrymowych Mr. Dennis M. O'Dea Mr. Arnold Olshan Kathleen Owens & Morse J. Wilkenfeld Parette Somjen Architects Ms. Pilar Maria Paxton Ms. Nancy Perricone Mr. & Mrs. John Poole Mr. Stephen Quick Bruce & Karen Rand Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Richardson Rotary Club of Madison Ms. Angelina Schiavone Hank & Jackie Schram Paul Sedlacek
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Mr. & Mrs. Harrison Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Robert Garman Andrea, David, Jacob & Ben Gelber Mr. & Mrs. Milton Gottlieb Ms. Diane Grohn Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Grohol Mr. Mitchell Grossman Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hauge Mrs. George Hayes The Hidden Pond Foundation John & Suzanne Higgins Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hirsch Fred & Roberta Horowitz Gayle Chamberlin Hoyt Ms. Kathleen Hutchins Rita & Dennis K. Johnson The Kane Family John & Kathleen Keane I. Keim Margaret Kelly Charles & Virginia King Mr. Harold Kenneth King Mr. & Mrs. Stanlee G. Kissel Polly & Ron Lacey Mr. David Laska & Ms. Christel Aussicker Drs. Peter & Susan Lederman Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Lewinsohn Mr. & Mrs. Paige B. L'Hommedieu Stela Lupushor Allison Mackie Main Street Wine Cellar Peter Maloff & Mary Grace Denton Dennis Mancl & Susan Aurin Marilyn & Monroe Markovitz Carol & Tom Martin Ms. Judith Anne Martorelli Ms. Marie N. Mastorakis Tania Mather Richard McAdams William & Ellen McCahill Joan & Bob McIlwain Dr. & Mrs. Russell McIntyre Doug & Pat McKenzie Mr. & Mrs. Sameer Merchant Ms. Anne Miano Mrs. Christa Miller Mr. Donald Mills George Mittl Stanley & Paula Mont Dr. Rita G. & Mr. W. Leonard Newman J.W. Northrop Ellen O'Connell Dr. Robert Peirano John & Beth Pfaff Mr. Marcus Porcelli Rob & Rowena Pullan Mr. & Mrs. Peter James Quirk Ms. Beverly Raffman Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Ralph
April & Thomas Reeve Barry & Helen Reiter Evangelia Repousis Elven & Diane Riley Mr. & Mrs. James L. Rintoul, III Donald Robbins & Nancy Green Ms. Joan Rogauskas Alice & Donald Roth Mrs. Patricia Sarasohn Kathleen Schaefer, in Memory of Ronald W. Schaefer William & Valeria Schiemann Mr. & Mrs. Mark Schlegel David Seabrook & Sherry Barron-Seabrook, MD Ms. Lois Segman Heidi & John Speckhart Allan & Barbara Staats Barbara & Steven Stern Ms. Katherine Stinson & Mr. Richard Muldoon Michael Stotts & David Mayhew John F. Swift Kathy Tatlow Mr. Carl A. Teschemacher, Jr. Sharon Lee Thompson Mr. Patrick Toon Donald & Frances Trott Charles Tureo Mr. & Mrs. Dirck Uptegrove Mr. Rick Vander Wende Peter & Ellie Ventimiglia Mr. & Mrs. Peter Vernon Susan F. Vice Justin & Arlene Victoria Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Walton Judith Weisfuse & Michael Wax Mr. Scott Wentworth & Ms. Marion Adler Debra Whittemore Jeanne T. Will Janet Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Wolcott Madeleine Rose Yen GOODFELLOWS $100–$249 Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Abbott Reverend Lauren Ackland & Mr. George Hayman Mr. Ames Adamson John Aden Caroline & Conrad Adillon Richard & Ree Adler Ms. Marjorie Ahrens Mr. & Mrs. Frank Allocca Mr. & Mrs. Altorfer Janyce & Nat Anapolle Mr. & Mrs. Graham Argent-Belcher
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Arnold & Roz Mytelka Andras Nagy James Nathenson Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Neidorff Anne & Frank Nicastro John Nicol Martin & Barbara Nielson Northgate Condo Association, Inc. Peter Oliff Eugene F. O'Neill Stephan & Patricia O'Neill Ms. Susan Oxman Linda Palazzolo & Arthur Schackman Robert & Sharon Palmer Dr. Eugene B. & E. Jewell Papowitz Susan Papp Gerard & Ann Paradiso Ms. Cara Parmigiani Dr. Victor & Jane Parsonnet Emmett M. Partain Ms. Erin L. Partin Mr. Bruce Pasquale Mr. Andy Paterson & Ms. Tina Stafford Mr. Richard Peters Catherine Petrello Dr. & Mrs. Murray S. Peyton Mr. Henry Pfeiffer Mr. & Mrs. Richard Pigott Leonard & Ellen Polaner Joan Poole & Randy Haviland Mr. George Quillan, In Memory of Dick Deise Bethany & Jonathan Rabinowitz Mark & Lenore Rattner Jim & Karen Reeds Mr. & Mrs. Franz Reidinger Lisanne Renner & Adam Grace Mr. & Mrs. John Reutershan Jean L. Rich Don & Nancy Richardson Donald & Judith Richards Elna & Murray Robbins Edward & Gloria Robin Laila Robins Lynne Rogerson & James Fleischmann Mr. & Mrs. Edwin E. Roland, Jr. Pat & Ken Rolston Dr. Theresa M. Rosania Dr. Hamish Ross Ms. Ruth Ross Selma & Jack Rossen Adrienne & Morris Rothblatt Barbara Ruane Ms. Mary Pat Ruane Carol C. Sabia Ms. Lillian M. Salazar Ms. Marcia N. Samuel Gary & Irene Sanderson
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Mrs. Barbara Westergaard Jackie Wiegand Larry Wolff Francis A. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Boyd Wright
John & Nancy Yingling Robert Young Brigid & Stephen Zajac Meg Zaleski Alan D. Zucker
Mr. Richard Zucker & Ms. Susan Rivkind Ms. Sue Zwick
IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey wishes to acknowledge the following donors of in-kind gifts received between February 1, 2014 and May 1, 2015. Joleen Addleman Loyd Anthropologie Mr. & Mrs. Richard Armstrong Ms. Linda Bacha Ms. Carolyn Barrett Jeanne & Jim Barrett Steve & Sarah Beckel Mr. Larry Blumenstyk Cabot Creamery Cooperative Ms. Lisa Ciccone Climax Brewing Company Ms. Elizabeth Codey Ms. Patricia A. Connell & Mr. Martin A. Schwarz Ms. Rose Cosentino Mr. Brian B. Crowe & Mr. Walter M. Egbert, III Mr. Eric Curley Ms. Bridget Daley & Mr. Christopher Hart Mr. Marc Daniels John & Jean Davidson Mr. Duane P. Dietz Helen & Frank DiPrima Mr. H. Ward Dorer & Ms. Hilary Thomas Ms. Jan Draper Ms. Nancy Eberhardt Corinne & Rob Farkas Rhonda & Todd Federman Florham Shoe Shop Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Ms. Helen Frank Mr. & Mrs. John Gallagher Colin Gallo
Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill Ms. Penelope Giordano Ms. Helen Goddard Philip Goodwin Ms. Jackie Gunn Joseph Hamel Hanover Printing of New Jersey Mr. Hugh Hanson Ms. Tracy Hart V. Heidenreich Ms. Margaret Horan A. Horytz Ms. Lisa Taylor Huff Mr. Haywood Huntley, Jr. & Ms. Beirne Donaldson Mr. Bob Huryk Il Mondo Vecchio Ristorante Italiano Mr. Allen M. Johannesen JMB Consulting Associates Tom & Lynn Keffer Kate Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Peter D. Kendall Joan Kenny Ruth & Woody Kerkeslager Mr. & Mrs. Stanlee G. Kissel Jim & Carol Kobak Mr. Robert Krakovski Ms. Tiffany Lent Amanda Lenti Mrs. Alice Majkowski Ms. Rosalie Majkowski Dr. & Mrs. Terrence McGarty Rich & Vicky McGlynn Bonnie J. Monte
Lisa Renee Monte Mrs. Marjorie Monte Museum Store Products Ms. Marianne Nickalus Nonna's Italian Restaurant Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. O'Connor, III Erin Partin Ms. Dorianne Perrucci Ms. Anne Peterson Mr. John Pivarnik Jim & Judy Pohlman Ms. Pamela Prior Pro Bono Partnership, Inc. John & Lynne Rathgeber Riker Danzing Ms. Antonia Russomano Ms. Barbara Schaffer Margaret & William Shuler Siegfried's Basement Tom Silver Soho 33 John Solu Rick Sordelet Heidi Speckhart Stop and Shop Ms. Nisi Sturgis & Mr. Jordan Coughtry Trader Joe's Ms. Tamara Tunie Ms. Christine Whalen & Mr. Jeff Bender Ms. Crissa Woodruff Cindy Yin Claire & Gil Zweig
MATCHING GIFTS
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey gratefully acknowledges the corporations that have matched employee gifts received between February 1, 2014 and May 1, 2015. American Express Foundation Ameriprise Financial Arch Reinsurance Company Assurant Foundation AT&T Foundation Bank of America Bank of New York Mellon Boeing Chevrontexaco Chubb & Son, a Division of Federal Insurance Company
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Ericsson, Inc. ExxonMobil Horizon Foundation for New Jersey IBM Corporation Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The McGraw-Hill Foundation
The Merck Company Foundation Microsoft Pfizer Foundation Pitney Bowes Prudential Foundation Verizon VM Ware Foundation
Congrats to Bonnie on her 25th year at STNJ. Rich and Vicky McGlynn 6/24/10 5:47 PM
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Congratulations to dearest Bonnie and the entire Shakespeare Theatre company
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