DETROIT ’67
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Welcome to Signature
Welcome to Detroit ’67, the final show of our Signature Features filmed season. It is hard to believe we have come to the conclusion of this journey that no one could have imagined 18 months ago. We are so proud of all the artists and everyone who made this filmed season a reality. Our final project, Detroit ’67, features a cast and creative team who are all making their Signature debuts and we are thrilled to introduce them to our audiences in this riveting play. We are also excited to look to the future and to welcome back audiences into our MAX and ARK Theatres this fall for our 2021/22 season. Consisting of six shows—four musicals and two plays—it is everything you expect of Signature: imaginative interpretations of musicals, exciting world premieres and captivating plays. We will open on November 2nd with the iconic musical RENT, a musical that while written in the 1990s still remains resonant today. Then we will reopen the ARK Theatre with a dynamic production of Daphne’s Dive, a vivid and vibrant play about found family by In the Heights book writer Quiara Alegría Hudes. In the spring, we will present She Loves Me, the delightful and clever musical by the creators of Fiddler on the Roof. Afterwards, we have two world premieres by female creators: The Upstairs Department by Chelsea Marcantel,
a play about an unlikely psychic, and We Won’t Sleep, a new musical by America’s most produced playwright Lauren M. Gunderson and singer/composer/activist Ari Afsar about the first congresswoman in the United States and how her story connects to the voting struggles of the present. Finally, we conclude our reopening season with the musical The Color Purple, the breathtaking story of Southern Black women, adapted from the novel by Alice Walker and the motion picture film. It’s a thrilling return to live theater and we hope you will be able to join us for it. You can learn more about the season, our subscription options and our safety plans at SigTheatre.org. Single tickets to individual productions will go on sale in late-September. Finally, we are so grateful to our donors, subscribers, audiences, artists and staff who have come together during this challenging time to continue to produce, enjoy and support the arts and Signature during the Signature Features season. Thank you, and enjoy Detroit ’67.
Maggie Boland
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Matthew Gardiner
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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Detroit July 1967
In the sweltering summer in 1967 Detroit, one of the worst crises in United States history occurred. By the end of the five days, there were 43 people dead, hundreds injured, 5,000 homeless and over 7,000 arrested. The property damage was estimated to be $50 million. Called many things, including The Uprising of 1967, The Detroit Rebellion of 1967, and the 12th Street Riot, this massive upheaval was the explosion of tensions that had been simmering for decades. For much of the twentieth century, Detroit was a booming manufacturing center. The available jobs attracted Black workers from the South, who were escaping a farming bust and the Jim Crow South, in what is known as The Great Migration. The influx of Black residents led to racial strife from white residents, who went to lengths to avoid integrating their neighborhoods and schools throughout the 1940s and ‘50s. At the same time, a newly built freeway system that was created by demolishing the Black neighborhoods of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley made it easier for businesses to expand outwards where there was more space and amenities. This deindustrialization moved many jobs from city limits into the outer communities where the beginnings of automation were beginning to necessitate fewer workers. They took with them over 70,000 jobs and 20% of the population – mostly middle and upper-class whites who fled the integrated cities for the newer houses of the suburbs – taking with them their tax revenue in a movement called “White Flight.” By 1967 the vitality of the city had been badly hurt by the exodus of residents and businesses. They left behind vacant storefronts, a budget crisis caused by the shortfall in tax revenue, and widespread unemployment. This phenomenon was not unique to Detroit; cities throughout the nation were undergoing this transformation and the results were devasting to the urban centers and their educated and middle-class Black residents. This, combined with a growing economic insecurity, a brutal and discriminatory white law enforcement and government, and the ongoing civil rights movement calling for change led to raised tensions among city residents. The predominantly Black neighborhood of Virginia Park held 60,000 residents in only 460 acres and its 12th Street had become the new epicenter for Black retail. It also hosted a lively unlicensed (and therefore illegal) nightlife scene that was subject to raids by an aggressive police force. These clubs were called “blind pigs.” On Sunday, July 23, police attempted to clear one of these clubs on 12th
Street and Clairmont at 3:35 in the morning. The club operated out of United Community for Civic Action’s office, a civil rights organization, and had been hosting a party for several veterans. A crowd that had been outside escaping the stifling heat of their buildings gathered as the police cleared the 85 patrons from the club. At some point near the ending of the clearance either some bottles or a brick was thrown at the police vehicles. The police fled, and within an hour, thousands of people had spilled out onto the street from nearby clubs. Looting began and by 6:30am, the first fire had broken out. Soon, much of the street was ablaze and law enforcement was overwhelmed. Despite the Michigan State Police and the National Guard deployments, the riots spread throughout the city and took five days to control with the assistance of federal troops dispatched by President Lyndon Johnson. Time Magazine called the event “the bloodiest uprising in half a century and the costliest in terms of property damage in U.S. history.” In the aftermath, while the streets initially did not rebuild and white flight doubled, over time there was the creation of a coalition to promote racial justice, new policies were established to push the police department to be more integrated, and the city elected its first Black mayor, Coleman Young, in 1974. There has been debate over the nomenclature of the event: is it a riot, a rebellion, or an uprising? At the time of the upheaval, the predominantly white media called the event a riot which suggests an out of control mob bent on destruction. However, many historians now agree that riot does not fully describe the crisis because it does not take into account the forces behind the tensions. They use either “rebellion” or “uprising” as a more apt description to acknowledge the pushback against unfair forces and discrimination. In 2017, when the city chose to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the event with an historic marker, the words they used were simply: Detroit July 1967.
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Thank you
to the sponsors of Detroit ’67 Sponsored by the Jenna and Paul Segal Foundation through the Heidi Thomas Initiative in support of work created and staged by women in the American theater. Lighting is sponsored by an anonymous donor.
Photo of Valeka Jessica and Stori Ayers by Christopher Mueller.
Maggie Boland Managing Director
Matthew Gardiner Artistic Director
PRESENTS
Detroit ’67 BY DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU WITH
STORI AYERS JABEN EARLY VALEKA JESSICA EMILY KESTER GREG ALVEREZ REID COSTUME DESIGN MOYENDA KULEMEKA
SCENIC DESIGN MILAGROS PONCE DE LEÓN
LIGHTING DESIGN JOHN D. ALEXANDER
SOUND DESIGN KENDRIC MAXEY
WIG DESIGN ANNE NESMITH
DIALECT COACH KIM BEY
DRAMATURG MARTINE KEI GREEN-ROGERS
INTIMACY CHOREOGRAPHER CHELSEA PACE
CASTING KELLY CRANDALL D’AMBOISE
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR KERRY EPSTEIN
FILMED BY CHIET PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTION MANAGER JIM GROSS DIRECTOR OF MARKETING JENNIFER BUZZELL
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JUSTIN CHIET
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/EDITOR JAMES GARDINER
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION DAVID ZOBELL
DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT AND PLANNING CHRISTINE STANLEY
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION VALERIE BUNNS
IT CONSULTANT ROBERT COHN
DIRECTED BY CANDIS C. JONES Sponsored by the Jenna and Paul Segal Foundation through the Heidi Thomas Initiative, in support of work created and staged by women in the American theater Lighting sponsored by an anonymous donor
Detroit ’67 is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com Detroit ’67 was developed with the assistance of the Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director and Patrick Willingham, Executive Director and received its World Premiere there on March 12, 2013 The World Premiere was co-produced by The Classical Theater of Harlem, Ty Jones, Producing Artistic Director Developed at The Lark Play Development Center, New York City
Characters Chelle Lank Bunny Sly Caroline
Stori Ayers JaBen Early Valeka Jessica Greg Alverez Reid Emily Kester
Detroit ’67 runs approximately two hours
Cast Stori Ayers (Chelle) NYC: Ensemble Studio Theatre: Travisville; National Black Theatre: Blood at the Root; Lincoln Center: Pipeline. DC AREA: Round House: Gem of the Ocean, Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2 and 3; Anacostia Playhouse: Yellowman. REGIONAL: Indiana Repertory Theatre & Syracuse Stage: A Raisin in the Sun; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Jitney; Chautauqua Theatre Company: The Christians, Detroit ‘67; Pennsylvania Centre Stage: Doubt; Barbecue; Love’s Labours Lost; In the Red and Brown Water; Premiere Stages: Foster Mom; Horizon Theatre: An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein; Voodoo, Sex, & Magic. TV: TBS: The Last OG; RARE Lotus Productions: The Next Right Thing.
JaBen Early (Lank) BROADWAY: Lincoln Theater: The Great Society. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: The Piano Lesson; Folger Theatre: Julius Caesar; Woolly Mammoth: The Convert, Civilization; Studio Theatre: Fucking A; Round House Theatre: Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2 and 3; Arena Stage: All The Way, Ruined, The Great Society. REGIONAL: Guthrie: We Are Proud, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; Marin Theatre Company: The Convert; Interact Theatre: We Are Proud. EDUCATION: Morehouse College.
Valeka Jessica (Bunny) SIGNATURE: At The Full Yum. NEW YORK: National Black Theatre: Loretta. INTERNATIONAL: The Barbican Center (London): I’m a Motherf*****g Superstar: So Where Are My Babies?. DC AREA: Arena Stage: A Raisin in the Sun; Round House Theatre: Father Comes Home from the Wars; Rep Stage: Sunset Baby. REGIONAL: Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play; Synchronicity Theatre: I’m a Motherf*****g Superstar: So Where Are My Babies?; NNPN: The Promotion; The Unexpected Festival: Branches Etched Across the Sky. FILM: The Runaways (Bronzelens Festival Oscar contending category), Unordinary Love. OTHER: The V Network: Film: Petty Anniversary; Theatre: I’m a Motherf*****g Superstar: So Where Are My Babies?; Talk Show: Blossoming After Divorce. IG: @valekajessica www.valekajessica.com
Cast Emily Kester (Caroline) DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Silent Sky; Olney Theatre Center: Labour of Love; Everyman Theatre: The Revolutionists, Noises Off; Studio Theatre: The Hard Problem, Edgar and Annabel; Theater J: The Last Schwartz; Constellation Theatre: Equus; Rorschach Theatre: She Kills Monsters; NextStop Theatre: Eurydice; Imagination Stage: Anatole: Mouse Magnifique!, Davy Copperfield, The Little Mermaid, The BFG, 101 Dalmatians, Double Trouble. EDUCATION: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Greg Alverez Reid (Sly) OFF BROADWAY: New Federal Theatre/Castillo Theatre: The Fabulous Miss Marie. DC AREA: Theater Alliance: Broke-ology; The Kennedy Center: Locomotion; Studio Theatre: Seven Guitars; African Contiuum Theatre Company: A Lesson Before Dying. REGIONAL: People’s Light Theatre: All My Sons; McCarter Theatre Center/Long Wharf Theatre: Fences (directed by Phylicia Rashad); Hanger Theatre: Gem of The Ocean. TV/FILM: HBO/HBO MAX: Between The World And Me, The Apollo. EDUCATION: Howard University BFA; the British American Dramatic Academy at Oxford. gregalverezreid.com Instagram/Twitter: @gregariousreid
Photo of Stori Ayers & Greg Alverez Reid by Christopher Mueller
Creative Team Dominique Morisseau (Playwright) is the author of The Detroit Project (A 3-Play Cycle), which includes the following plays: Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT). Additional plays include: Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theatre), Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theatre); Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre) and Follow Me To Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is also the Tony-nominated book writer on the new Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations (Imperial Theatre). Dominique is an alumna of The Public Theater Emerging Writer’s Group, Women’s Project Lab and Lark Playwrights Workshop, and has developed work at Sundance Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. She most recently served as Co-Producer on the Showtime series Shameless (3 seasons). Additional awards include: Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, Obie Award (2), Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017-18, and a recent MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow. Candis C. Jones (Director) NEW YORK: The Public Theater: shadow/land, cullud wattah; NYU Tisch: Everybody; Joe’s Pub: Trapt; Fault Line Theater/New Group: shadow/land; American Academy: The Wolves; New Black Fest: Brother Rabbit; The Drama League: New Shoes; Primary Stages: Morning in America. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Name Calling. REGIONAL: Alliance Theater: 53% OF; Bay Area Playwrights Festival: House of the Negro Insane; Detroit Public Theater: Pipeline; A.C.T. New Strands Festival: Nike. INTERNATIONAL: Zanzibar International Film Fest: TEMBO!. AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS: 2016 Lilly Award, WP Theater’s 2018-2020 Lab, Drama League Alumni. UPCOMING: Page 73: Bitch; Williamstown Theatre Festival: Solo Plays by Black Playwrights; Cincinnati Playhouse: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. www.candiscjones.com Milagros Ponce de León (Scenic Design) DC AREA: Ford’s: Artistic Associate: Silent Sky, Into the Woods, Jefferson’s Garden, Ragtime; Olney Theatre: Miss You Like Hell, Matilda, In the Heights, Sweeney Todd, Carousel, Once on this Island; Gala Hispanic Theatre: Life is a Dream, Elliot a Soldier’s Fugue, The Sins of Sor Juana; Imagination Stage: The Little Mermaid, Heidi, 101 Dalmatians, Rapunzel; Kennedy Center Family Theatre, Rep Stage, Round House Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Studio Theatre 2nd Stage. REGIONAL: Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Everyman Theatre, Penn State Centre Stage. AWARDS: 5 Helen Hayes nominations. TEACHING: Head of BFA Theatre Design & Technology at Penn State, member of USA-829. EDUCATION: University of Maryland: MFA Scenic Design, MFA Studio Arts; Pontifical Catholic University of Peru: BFA Drawing & Painting. Moyenda Kulemeka (Costume Design) DC AREA: 1st Stage: The Brothers Size; Trying; GALA Hispanic Theatre: La tía Julia y el escribidor; Exquisita Agonia; La vida es sueño; Como agua para chocolate; En el tiempo de las mariposas; La foto; Mosaic Theater: Fabulation; The Till Trilogy (in-production), Adventure Theatre: Tinker Bell; NextStop Theatre: East of Eden; Singin’ in the Rain; Fallen Angels. The Welders: Switch; The In Series: From U Street to the Cotton Club; We Happy Few: Macbeth; The Dog in the Manger; Pericles; Young Playwright’s Theatre: Three Cheers to Grace. REGIONAL: Caine Lyric Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun.
Creative Team John D. Alexander (Lighting Design) OFF-BROADWAY: Migration- Reflections on Jacob Lawrence (National Tour). DC AREA: This Bitter Earth, Topdog/Underdog (Helen Hayes nomination), Fabulation or the Re-Education of Undine, Marie and Rosetta, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Airness, Darius and Twig, Black Nativity, Disgraced, HERstory, Black Berry Winter, The Gospel at Colonus, Happiness (and Other Reasons to Die), King Lear, Brokeology, American Moor, Anne and Emmett (National and European Tour). REGIONAL: Paradise Blue, Skeleton Crew, Royale, The Snowy Day and Other Stories. TV: PBS: No Child. OTHER: Step Afrika! (National and European Tour), Green is the New Black (National Tour). UPCOMING: Sheepdog, House of the Negro Insane, Haint Blu.
Kendric Maxey (Sound Design) DC AREA: Hallam Players: A Christmas Carol, Our Lady of 121st Street, Animal Farm, Circle Mirror Transformation.
Anne Nesmith (Wig Design) SIGNATURE: Grand Hotel, Passion, A Little Night Music, La Cage aux Folles, Road Show, West Side Story, Girlstar, Cabaret, Kid Victory, Elmer Gantry, The Threepenny Opera, Miss Saigon, Hairspray, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, Ace. DC AREA: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Washington Ballet, Washington National Opera. REGIONAL: Opera Philadelphia, Opera Boston, Wolf Trap Opera, Castleton Festival, Delaware Theatre Company, Annapolis Opera, Opera Delaware, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Baltimore Opera Company (Resident Wig/ Makeup Designer). INTERNATIONAL: Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Nishinomiya, Japan; Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Matsumoto, Japan. TV: MD Public Television: Francis Scott Key and the Song that Built America; Military Channel: Great Planes; Investigation Discovery: Ice Cold Killers. OTHER: The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Cultures in Motion Programs; US Army’s tour Spirit of America. Kim Bey (Dialect Coach) SIGNATURE: The Scottsboro Boys. DC AREA: The Shakespeare Theatre: The Amen Corner; Round House: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Once on This Island; Mosaic Theatre: Queens Girl in Africa, Queens Girl in the World, Fabulation, Blood Knot, A Human Being Died That Night; Arena Stage: Turn Me Loose, Ruined, Cuttin’ Up, The Piano Lesson, Born Yesterday; Everyman: Queens Girl Series, Brothers Size, A Raisin in the Sun; Woolly Mammoth: The Convert; Studio Theatre: Passing Strange, In the Red and Brown Water; Theater J: In Darfur, The Call. TEACHING: Professor/ Acting, Howard University; Certified Associate Teacher Fitzmaurice Voicework; National Alliance of Acting Teachers.
Creative Team Martine Kei Green-Rogers (Dramaturg) DC AREA: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Long Way Down; Round House Theatre: She Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, Ohio State Murders. REGIONAL: Marin Theatre Company: The Catastrophist; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Hairspray, The Book of Will, Shakespeare in Love, Comedy of Errors, To Kill A Mockingbird, Fences, African Company Presents Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Court Theatre: King Hedley II, Radio Golf, Five Guys Named Moe, Blues for An Alabama Sky, Gem of the Ocean, Waiting for Godot, Seven Guitars, The Mountaintop, Home; The Goodman: Sweat.
Chelsea Pace (Intimacy Choreographer) SIGNATURE: Resident Intimacy Consultant 2021/22. OFF-BROADWAY: Bundle of Sticks. REGIONAL: The Champion, Measure for Measure, Spring Awakening, Here We Are. OTHER: Amazon: The Tender Bar, Harlem. AWARDS: Kennedy Center Gold Medallion.
Kerry Epstein (Production Coordinator) SIGNATURE: Resident Stage Manager: Fifteen seasons and over 65 productions. Selected credits include Simply Sondheim, Gun & Powder, A Chorus Line, Assassins, Blackbeard, Grand Hotel, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Billy Elliot, Passion, The Scottsboro Boys, John, Light Years, Crazy for You, A Little Night Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, Titanic, Freaky Friday, Jelly’s Last Jam, West Side Story, Cabaret, Sunday in the Park with George, Miss Saigon, Company, Shakespeare’s R&J, Dreamgirls, Hairspray, Sunset Boulevard, First You Dream, Les Miserables, The Visit, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Studio, The Witches of Eastwick, Into the Woods, Nevermore. Stage Management mentor for Signature in the Schools. INTERNATIONAL: Dublin Theater Festival. DC AREA: The Kennedy Center New Visions/New Voices, Arena Stage/Georgetown University. REGIONAL: Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, EDUCATION: Dickinson College. Justin Chiet (Director of Photography) SIGNATURE: After Midnight, Midnight at The Never Get, Daniel J. Watts’ The Jam: Only Child, Simply Sondheim, Signature Vinyl, over 7 years of Signature marketing content. DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: One Destiny; Olney Theatre Center: A Christmas Carol, Singin’ in the Rain; Arena Stage; TheaterWashington; Synetic Theatre Company; Woolly Mammoth Theater Company; Folger Shakespeare Theatre Library. TV: PBS: Live At 9:30. FILM: The glowmedia project: King of the World, other short films in the Mental Health Educational Series. OTHER: Several outdoor music festivals for iHeartRadio, feature length American adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Creative Team James Gardiner (Associate Producer/Editor) SIGNATURE: After Midnight, Midnight at The Never Get, Daniel J. Watts’ The Jam: Only Child, Simply Sondheim, Signature Vinyl and over 500 marketing, education, and development videos. DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: One Destiny; Olney Theatre Center; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Folger Theatre; Synetic Theatre Company; TheatreWashington.
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DETROIT ’67 Film Crew Director of Photography/Camera Operator Justin Chiet Associate Producer/Editor/Camera Operator James Gardiner Technical Coordinator/1st Assistant Camera Jeremy Jacoby 2nd Assistant Camera/Camera Operator Stephen Hererra Camera Operator Eric Koraganie Camera Operator Adam Morrell Camera Operator Christopher Mueller Chiet Productions Coordinator Anne Marie Huntington Camera Production Assistant Perry Beckwith Production Assistant Jason Obando Camera Production Assistant Taylor Witt Assistant Editor/Digital Imaging Technician Natalie Ridgley Colorist Borna Jafari
DETROIT ’67 Production Staff Production Assistant/Deck Chief Tess Wagner Scenic Artist Johnny Weissgerber First Hand Jennifer Bae Additional Draping Ré Teague Wardrobe Supervisor Courtney Leigh Wood Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor Dominique Travers Electricians Angela Armstrong, Matthew Brehm, Jeff Campbell, Daniel Cioffi, Stefanie DeHart, Minjoo Kim, Jared Loeb, Elliot Peterson, Elizabeth Roth, Kristen Roth, Chris Stull Light Board Operator Tim Strickland Lighting Assistant Jonathan Maag Lead Sound Engineer Kendric Maxey Deck Sound Engineer Connor Sherrill Props Runner Kaitlyn De Litta Marketing Consultant Natalie Graves Tucker Health Safety Manager Kerry Epstein Medical Services provided by Event Medic Inc. Signature’s 2020/21 season is partially supported by the Virginia Commision for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts
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Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner Resident Casting Director/Artistic Associate Kelly Crandall d’Amboise Casting Director/Manager of Artistic Programs Jorge Acevedo Resident Intimacy Consultant Chelsea Pace Director of Signature Cabarets Mark G. Meadows Production Manager Jim Gross Assistant Production Manager Kimberly J. Scott Company Manager Laura Matey Resident Stage Manager Kerry Epstein Technical Director T. Sampson Assistant Technical Director Tim Jarmon Master Carpenter Holly Milch Staff Carpenters Jack Coughlin, Kyla Duff Scenic Charge Artist Katherine Fox Deck Chief Tess Wagner Costume Director Frederick Deeben Associate Costume Director Natalie Kurczewski Wardrobe Supervisor Courtney Leigh Wood Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor Dominique Travers Master Electrician Dan Kimble Assistant Master Electricians Jonathan Maag, Tim Strickland Properties Master Kasey Hendricks Associate Properties Master Pamela Weiner Props Runner Kaitlyn De Litta Resident Sound Designer Ryan Hickey Lead Sound Engineer Kendric Maxey Deck Sound Engineer Connor Sherrill
Managing Director Maggie Boland Director of Advancement and Planning Christine Stanley Deputy Director of Development, Institutional Giving Erin Harms Deputy Director of Development, Individual Giving Dori L. Sophia Associate Director, Capital Campaign & Special Projects Morgan Tucker Institutional Giving Manager Caroline M. Schreiber Donor Services Manager Ashley Richardson Development Coordinator Colleen Bankert Director of Marketing Jennifer Buzzell Deputy Director of Marketing/Publications Director Katherine Tucker Graphic Designer Jessica Aimone Deputy Director of Creative Content and Publicity James Gardiner Deputy Director, Digital Media Krystle Kline Marketing Assistant Natalie Ridgley Information Technology Consultant Robert Cohn IT Application Support Manager Sara Hoffman Director of Finance and Administration Valerie Bunns Deputy Director of Finance and HR Eric Mathew Colton Assistant Business Manager Corinne Kibler Education Director David Zobell Education Program Manager Matthew Taylor Strote Box Office Manager & Tessitura Specialist Erin Murillas Group Sales & Grassroots Marketing Manager Emily Adler Box Office Associates Connor Scully, Julia Souza, Jack Williams Front of House Operations Manager Jon White Senior House Manager Rafael Bueno House Managers Megan Bunn, Mackenzie Girard, Julie Neuber, John Porter, Geoffrey Rhone Food and Beverage Manager Micaela Lell Chef Lilian Gomez Facilities Manager LaFonte T. Jackson Facilities Maintenance José Benitez, Maria Benitez Advertising Services Allied Global Marketing
American Musical Voices Project The American Musical Voices Project, Funded by The Shen Family Foundation, is the largest musical theater commissioning program in the United States. Musical Theater Composer Grant Recipients Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, Jeanine Tesori, Joseph Thalken Musical Theater Leadership Award Recipients Bruce Coughlin, Adam Guettel, Audra McDonald, Ted Sperling American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation Composer Grant Recipients Matt Conner, Peter Foley, Adam Gwon, Gabriel Kahane, Marisa Michelson, Chris Miller, Scott Davenport Richards, Joshua Rosenblum, Josh Schmidt
Leadership
Maggie Boland (Managing Director) joined the Signature Theatre staff in May 2008. Prior to joining Signature, Maggie spent nearly 10 years at Arena Stage in increasingly senior positions, beginning as Marketing Director, responsible for Arena’s earned income, and assuming oversight of the $3 million+ Annual Fund and $125 million Next Stage Campaign in subsequent seasons as the Director of External Affairs. Prior to joining Arena Stage, Maggie worked on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company for nearly six years, most recently as the Director of Annual Giving, responsible for raising more than $3.5 million annually. Maggie also participated extensively in Roundabout’s capital campaign to fund the restoration and renovation of the American Airlines Theatre. She was named a recipient of 2016 Women Who Mean Business award from the Washington Business Journal. Maggie graduated magna cum laude from Boston College’s Honors Program with a BA in English; she is a member of the Board of Directors of TheatreWashington and serves as Vice President of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). Matthew Gardiner (Artistic Director) has directed and/or choreographed more than 25 productions at Signature Theatre, including A Chorus Line, West Side Story, La Cage aux Folles, Jelly’s Last Jam, and The Threepenny Opera, as well as several world premieres including Really Really, Soon, and Midwestern Gothic. With Signature’s special commitment to producing the work of Stephen Sondheim, Matthew has directed and/or choreographed many Sondheim musicals including Passion, Sunday in the Park with George, Company, Sweeney Todd and the world premiere of Simply Sondheim. As Signature’s Associate Artistic Director for over a decade, Matthew helped to build several groundbreaking seasons, cultivated relationships with prominent and emerging artists, and oversaw several of Signature’s new work development initiatives, including the American Musical Voices Project, SigWorks: Monday Night Play Reading Series (highlighting the work of DC area playwrights) and the Signature/Yale Composer Partnership, which seeks to give opportunity to early career composers. Outside of Signature, Matthew has directed and/or choreographed at the Washington, DC theaters Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Studio Theatre. Matthew has also worked abroad, choreographing Titanic and directing and choreographing Doctor Zhivago for OD Musical Company in Seoul, Korea. Matthew is the recipient of three Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Director of a Musical and has been honored with more than a dozen nominations.
Board of Directors Honorary Trustees Fred Ebb*, John Kander, Cameron Mackintosh, Stephen Sondheim Chair Dottie Bennett Vice Chair Cathy Bernard Vice Chair Russ Schriefer Secretary Patricia Payne Treasurer/Finance Committee Chair Terrance McGowan Governance Committee Chair Kathleen T. Ross Past Chair Bonnie Feld Board Members J. Max Barger, Jeff Bell, John Benton, Maggie Boland, Jean Cantrell, Sue Cunningham, Ashley Davis, Michael DeSantis, James W. Dyer, Bradley S. Frey, D.D.S., Deborah Gandy, Mary Ann Gilleece, Robert T. Grimm, Jr., Frank Guzzetta, Brian Huseman, Don Irwin, Maxine Isaacs, Louis Mazawey, Peter Michel, Amanda Christine Miller, David Ochsman, Wesley Pickard, Chuck Porvaznik, Rynthia M. Rost, Susan C. Schwab, Debbie Shrager, Merrill Shugoll, Carl Spatz, Peter Tanous, Sarah Valente, Arthur Warren, Maya Weil, Nicole Young The Paul Wojcik Emeritus Board Members David W. Briggs, Mary G. Cadagin, Enrico Cecchi, Patricia Alper Cohn, Michael Danzansky, Marybeth Fraser, Thomas Gage, Tim Keating, Lisa Kountoupes, Tina Martin, Celie Niehaus, Wendy Rahm, Bob Rosen, Steven M. Rosenberg, Kathie Shank, Victor Shargai*, Patti Sowalsky, Chris Wailoo Signature Council Helen Lee Henderson, Arlene and Robert Kogod, Gilbert and Jaylee Mead*, Ted and Mary Jo Shen *In memoriam
About Signature Founded in 1989, Signature Theatre is a Tony Award®-winning regional theater that broadens and brightens the region’s cultural landscape with its bold productions of challenging new and established works and engaging education and outreach programs. Currently under the leadership of Managing Director Maggie Boland, musical theater is Signature’s “signature,” and the Theatre is renowned for its definitive Sondheim productions, inventive adaptations of overlooked or forgotten works, and investment in fresh new projects. Called a “musical theater powerhouse” and “a dream for patrons” by The Washington Post, Signature combines Broadway-caliber productions with intimate playing spaces and aims to be a leading force in U.S. musical theater. Since its inception, the Theatre has produced 59 world premiere works— including 19 new musical commissions—and is home to the single largest musical theater commissioning project in the United States, The American Musical Voices Project. Attracting talent from the DC metropolitan region and New York, Signature has grown to reach more than 100,000 people annually from the Washington, DC region and beyond. Signature has won 134 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in the Washington, DC region’s professional theater and has been honored with 452 nominations.
Thank you Signature Theatre is grateful to the following donors for their philanthropic leadership and generosity.
$50,000 AND ABOVE
Amazon Dottie Bennett and Richard Morton Cathy Bernard/Bernard Family Foundation The Boeing Company The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Bonnie Feld Philip L. Graham Fund Frank Guzzetta and Paul Manville Maxine Isaacs/The Max Productions LLC Arlene and Robert Kogod Michelle S. Lee & Dr. C. Daniel Chou, MD and STG International, Inc. Dan and Gloria Logan Louis Mazawey Celie and Tabitha Niehaus The Jean T. Pelham and Heyward G. Pelham Foundation Share Fund The Shubert Foundation Virginia Commission for the Arts
$25,000 TO $49,999
William S. Abell Foundation, Inc. Barbara M. Angus John F. Benton and David W. Briggs Mike Blank Stephen and Nancy Brown Edgerton Foundation Deborah G. Gandy Nirschl Orthopaedic Center
Micheal J. O’Connor Craig Pascal and Victor Shargai* Wesley Pickard and Jeanette Studley Susan Carroll Schwab Jenna and Paul Segal The Ted & Mary Jo Shen Charitable Gift Fund David S. Shrager Foundation Susan Gage Caterers *In memoriam
$10,000 TO $24,999
Anonymous (3) Theodore H. Barth Foundation J. Max Barger Jean Cantrell Chevy Chase Trust Clark-Winchcole Foundation The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts Sue Cunningham and Howard Moore Jim Davidson and Cheryl Williams Ashley Davis Michael DeSantis and Patrick Baugh Chip DiPaula The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Margia and Jim Dyer Sharon Eddy, State Farm Agent Bradley Frey and the J. Watkins Fund for Arts and Education
Susan and Thomas Gage The Geary-O’Hara Family Foundation Mary Ann Gilleece Lois C. Greisman Dana A. Hearn & Kevin J. McCloskey Don and Angela Irwin Jody Katz and Jeffrey Gibbs Mark T. Lewellyn Limelight Insights by Shugoll The Macfarlan Family, in honor of Winnie Macfarlan Terrance and Sue McGowan Christopher McMackin, M.D. and David Svatos The Meredith Foundation Peter and Mary Jay Michel Amanda Christine Miller and Richard Nash National Endowment for the Arts
David Ochsman In Memory of Janice Olmstead* Patricia Payne and Nancy Firestone Beth Pile Charles Porvaznik and Thomas Paese James Pridgen and Arthur Warren H. Mac and Michele-Anne Riley Debra and Dave Rose Doug and Kathie Ross Russ Schriefer and Nina Easton Carl Spatz and Thomas Hesselbrock Peter and Ann Tanous Jeffrey Thurston and Charlie Berardesco Sarah Valente Venable Foundation Washington Forrest Foundation Maya Weil Ellen and Bernard Young Nicole Young
$5,000 TO $9,999
Anonymous (2) Alan and Barbara Anderson Grace and Morton Bender John Bledsoe Maggie Boland and John Hance Penny Bonda Susan L. and Dixon M. Butler Bruce A. Cohen Janice King Crawford Dennis Deloria and Suzanne Thouvenelle Thomas B. DePriest Dimick Foundation Dominion Energy Brian Feit in memory of Phil Melemed Jay and Susan Finkelstein Dave Fowler and Todd Metzler Marybeth and Zack Fraser R. Michael Gadbaw and Sally Chandler GEICO Dianne Geiger
Susan and Tim Gibson Paul R. Gordon and John H. Price* Gene L. Gressley Robert and Laura Grimm Lucia and Woolf Gross Barron Hall John Haskell and John Sotelo Meg and John Hauge Sue Henry and Carter Phillips Hilton Garden Inn Arlington/Shirlington Brian Huseman Andrew A. Isen Juel Janis Jim Johnson and Matt Shepard Herschel Kanter Rick Kasten Richard M. Kellogg Michele* and Ted Leber Myron Lehtman Mars Foundation
The Mather Nancy and Stephen McGuire Jeffrey Menick Larry L. Mitchell National Constitution Center Sylvia and Lloyd* Oliver Ottilie Fund Steven M. Rosenberg and Stewart C. Low III Diane and Peter Schaefer Sally Seiler and Patrick Pellerin Linda Smith Tom and Carol Wheeler Jeffery Wilcox Jeffery and Kathleen Wright Deborah and David Yaffe Judy and Leo Zickler
Doug Holtz-Eakin and Beth Robinson Daniel Kaplan and Kay Richman Andi Kasarsky Peter Kimmel and Stephanie Jackson Henry D. Kahn and Laura Primakoff Elise and Michael Kirby Renee Klish Judith Knee Leslie S. Kogod, Lauren S. Kogod, and Stuart A. Kogod Barry Kropf Steve Kruse Leon Fund at Richmond Community Foundation (Irene and Alan Wurtzel) Rob Liberatore and Debra Kraft David and Diane Litman Nan Lower Julianna Mahley John and Mary Lee Malcolm Tina M. Martin and Mita M. Schaffer Ray and Nancy McKinley Howard Menaker and Patrick Gossett Hilary B. Miller and Dr. Katherine N. Bent Hazel C. Moore Thomas and Barbara Moore Adele Mouzon and Mark Perry James A. Mulligan
Curtis Oja Betty Ann Ottinger Sydney M. Polakoff* and Carolyn Goldman John Robert Porter Michael and Jane Powell Ari and Kelley Redbord Janis Reed Lola C. Reinsch Lynda J. Robb George Andrew Rose Roberta Roumel Thomas A. Sachs and William H. Moses Evelyn Sandground and Bill Perkins The Savada-Stevenson Family David A. Sayles Antonia Browning Smiley Carl W. Smith and Michael L. Burke Patti and Jerry Sowalsky Mark and Lynn Spates Pamela K. Stapleton Mr. and Mrs. George Stevens, Jr. Robert and Amy Stone Mary Sturtevant Richard Underwood Walton Family Foundation Weissberg Foundation Annette and Colin Young
$3,000 TO $4,999 Anonymous (2) Patricia Alper Cohn and David I. Cohn George and Wati Alvarez-Correa John Andelin and Virginia Geoffrey Elfreda Baptist The John Bickford Foundation Blum-Kovler Foundation Robert and Mary Jane Bolle Bonnie and Jere Broh-Kahn Blain and Peg Butner Tim Carlton The Charles Delmar Foundation Ian DeWaal and Caroline Smith DeWaal Bob and Andy Dodds Robert J. Eatinger, Jr., SpyLaw Consulting LLC Glen Fernald and Charles Rhode Donald and Cathy Fogel Jillian Clark Gibson Benjamin A. Gitterman Alan* and Hedda Gnaizda Ellen Goldstein Hacken Charitable Fund Carolyn and Jim Harris Robert E. Hebda Kaye Ann Hellmich Adam R. Henderson and Bruce C. Marshall Don Hesse and Jerrilyn Andrews
$1,200 TO $2,999
Anonymous (9) Catherine Abrahams Abramson Family Foundation James Amaral Angela and Jacob Anderson Tony Anderson and Kevin Lorei Susan Angell Brenda K. Ashworth and Donald Welch Victoria Avera and John Dick Michael Bagwell and Clark Chesser Andy Bailey Jean and Richard Barton Douglas Bates Leslie C. Seeman and David M. Becker Scott Douglas Bellard Karen Berg Deane Bergsrud and Kenneth Hausman Darwin B. Bingham Dorli Bokel Bruce Bonn, M.D. Janet Boyd Helen Brand Arlene Brown and Gene Bialek Marcus Brown Jeanne M. Broyhill and Joe Ventrone Candice C. Bryant Patricia Bryant Beth Buehlmann Harold and Louise Burghart Avery L. Burns Mary G. Cadagin and Lee Wilson Fred Cantor Paul and Kathleen Casey Caterpillar Foundation George Christensen and Steven Kotrch Heidi Christensen & Gene Kendall Diane Clark and Peter Garcia Kenneth T. Cline Bill and Sara Coleman Wesley Combs and Gregory Albright Roy Cooper and Bonnie Carroll John and Valerie Cuddy The Dailey Family James and Dorothy Dake Curt Decker Mary DeOreo and Marc Lackritz Andrew and Mary DePristo Debra N. Diener in memory of Naomi and Sol Diener Patricia Dinndorf Grant Doe Barbara and Kevin Donnellan Sheila G. Dryden Diane and William DuBois Paul E. Dwyer Gaetana Ebbole Leon and Miriam Ellsworth Betsy and Kenyon Erickson Robert W. Fish Denise Flanagan Raymond Foote and Isamu Danura Cary C. Fuller
Virginia C. Gano Aaron Gibson Robert L. Giron and Ken Schellenberg William Giroux and Robert Lorenson Natalie Goldring and Mark Merriman Ellen Goldstein Michael J. Grabauskas Milton Grossman Scott Hahn Frona Hall Daniel Halpern Alan and Bonnie Hammerschlag Mary Margaret Hammond Hon. Jane Harman Erin Harms and Marc Olano Bert Helfinstein and Margaret Rodenberg Eugene and Mary Heyman James and Marilyn Horwood Ardell Hoveskeland Vicki Howard RC Howes Geraldine W. Inge Kenneth Johnston Alice and David Joseph Bob and Jean* Kapp Sheldon and Audrey Katz Jodie Kelley and Scott Snider M. Eileen Kenna Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Kerwin Peter Kester Robert L. Kimmins Gary and Vicki Kirkbride Caroline Klemp William and Bette Kramer Sandy and Dick* Laeser Ronald N. Lafferty Steve & Maureen Landry Kerry E.M. Liesveld William Giroux and Robert Lorenson Wes MacAdam Ann and Edward Matey Jr Pete and Karen Mattheis Martha Matthews and Arthur Reiger Russell Matthias and Dwight Horkheimer Emmy McArver Betsy McCluskey Robert McDonald and David Insinga Tom Mannion and Douglas Mearns McCain McMurray and Cameron Griffith Joetta Miller Steven Miller Dennis Milliron Phillip Lee Milstead George* and Nancy Miron Melanie and Rene Moreno Barbara Morland Kent and Dale Morrison Marilyn L. Muench Sean Murray Michael Natrella Dr. and Mrs. Stephan P. Nelson William and Louisa Newlin
Ms. Dane Nichols Melanie and Larry Nussdorf Judith and Mary O’Brien Oliver Ocean Frank G. and Stephanie W. Persico Judy Lynn Prince* Abby and Stuart Raphael Brian Reid Alan and Terry Rettig Marta Robillard and Patrick Tribe Vince L. Rodriguez and Ted A. Culler Rosalind Rosenberg Bruce Rosenblum and Lori Laitman Michele K. Ross Elizabeth Rutherford Jo Ella Samp Susan Schuler Richard and Rosemary Schwartzbard Sheldon Seidel Mr. and Mrs. Jacqueline and Richard Sellers Wayne S. Sellman Paul Shapiro and Margaret Blechman Susan Silhol Benjamin Simon and Edith Brashares Jim Sirbaugh and Garry Hartsock Thomas Slater John Smeallie and Dean Baker Ann Smith Ed and Andy Smith Martha and Horace Sneed Ms. Susan P. Snowdon Larry and Arlene Spinelli John Sporing, Jr. Mallary Stouffer Lauren Swartz and Bob Rose Pat and Steve Telkins Peter E. Threadgill John LeBlanc and Haywood Torrence Jr. Annette Totten Transurban Carol Trawick Ken Trotter, TTR Sotheby’s International Realty VentureVest Foundation Fund (Kenneth B. Ullman) Ralph J. Wall Karen Wax John Welch and Giovanni Stella Walter L. Wentz Jack Wilbern Gregory A. Williams Christopher Wolf and James Beller Lance Wolf and Pedro Nunez Walter Wurfel* and Sara Fitzgerald Jane Yanulis
Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. If an error has been made, please accept our apologies and contact 571 527 1828 or development@sigtheatre.org.
Signature recognizes the following members who have included the Theatre in their estate plans: Anonymous (6) Dr. Stewart Aledort and Dr. Sheila Rogovin* Allan Armus Susan Barrett Scott Douglas Bellard Dottie Bennett Monique Boulanger David W. Briggs Bonnie and Jere Broh-Kahn Louise Budelis Jean Cantrell Tim Carlton Estate of Sharon H. Dantzig* Capt. Joan Darrah and Lynne Kennedy Bob and Tracy Dattner Martin A. Davis* and Belle N. Davis Keith Eby Eddie and Rachel Eitches R. Glen Fernald, Charles Rhode William Giroux Ellen L. Goldstein Paul R. Gordon Jeff and Joan Greene Lois C. Greisman Judy Grill
Frank Guzzetta and Paul Manville Carolyn Harris Robert E. Hebda Kristine Heine Kaye Ann Hellmich Barbara Hill and Carol Krueger RC Howes Gerald Hurwitz and Stephanie George Jan Inscore-Boswell Andrew A. Isen James Johnson & Matthew Shepard Pamela Kalinowski Andi Kasarsky Robert L. Kimmins Renee Klish Judith Knee Seth Koch, V.M.D. and Barbara Bellman Steve Kruse Steven Arthur Landry and Maureen Oglivie Landry Michele* and Ted Leber Debra and Michael Linick Julianna Mahley Robert J. McDonald and David J. Insinga April McGuire
Jean R. McKean Janice N. McLean McCain McMurray and Cameron Griffith Howard Menaker and Patrick Gossett Laura Ariane (Laurie) Miller* William Moses and Thomas Sachs Michael Mueller and Kristopher Zgorski Micheal J. O’Connor Wesley Pickard and Jeanette Studley Suzy Platt* Richard and Wendy Rahm Mike Rankin, M.D. Eric Schaeffer Henry J. Schalizki* and Robert D. Davis* Richard and Rochelle Schwab Skip Seward Victor Shargai* Larry Shaw and Richard Freitag Merrill and Mark Shugoll Carl H. Spatz & Thomas D. Hesselbrock Bill Vess Maya Weil Paul Wojcik* Cynthia Young*
*In memoriam
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Photo of Holly Twyford and A Little Night Music ensemble by Paul Tate Depoo III.
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