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September 2014

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SEPTEMBER 2014

CENTER THEATRE GROUP BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2014/2015 OFFICERS

honorary chairman Lew R. Wasserman† chairman Martin Massman president William H. Ahmanson vice presidents Ava Fries Kiki Ramos Gindler Susan Grode secretary Amy R. Forbes treasurer Dr. Steven Nagelberg

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board members Dean V. Ambrose Pamela Beck Miles Benickes Norris J. Bishton, Jr. Anne Bruner Diana Buckhantz Dannielle Campos Ramirez Joseph C. Carieri Marcy Carsey Bill Damaschke Nancy de Brier Cástulo de la Rocha Vin Di Bona Dante Di Loreto Frances Flanagan Eric R. Garen Patricia Glaser Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Aliza Karney Guren Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Darell L. Krasnoff Jennifer Altfeld Landau William R. Lindsay Jody Lippman Carol Mancino

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Scott H. Mauro Dale S. Miller Walter Mirisch Jo Muse Edward B. Nahmias Edward L. Rada Michael Ritchie Laura Rosenwald Bruce L. Ross Donna Schweers Dan Sernett Cheryl A. Shepherd Jack Simon Maggy Simon Sue Tsao emeritus Harold Applebaum Ronald J. Arnault Judith Beckmen Gordon Davidson Phyllis Hennigan Richard Kagan Nancy Olson Livingston O. Kit Lokey Diane Morton past presidents Lew R. Wasserman† Marshall Berges† Armand S. Deutsch† Walter Mirisch Henry C. Rogers† Richard E. Sherwood† J. David Haft† Lawrence J. Ramer† Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Phyllis Hennigan Richard Kagan Martin Massman †Deceased

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Center Theatre Group’s Mission: To serve the diverse audiences of Los Angeles by producing and presenting theatre of the highest caliber, by nurturing new artists, by attracting new audiences, and by developing youth outreach and arts education programs. This mission is based on a belief that the art of theatre is a cultural force with the capacity to transform the lives of individuals and society at large.

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Audience Services: 213.628.2772: Ticketing, subscriptions, full customer service including lost ticket replacement, ticket donations, Passport memberships, information about upcoming productions or events, and hotel and restaurant recommendations. Telephone hours: Monday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday noon to 8 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Except major holidays.

Center Theatre Group is a non-profit company that produces worldclass theatre at the Ahmanson Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum at the Music Center of Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.

Walk-Up Box Office Hours: The central box office for Center Theatre Group is located in front of the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center, and open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 8 p.m., Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and closed on Monday. Remote box offices that are located at the Taper and Douglas are open two hours before performances.

Receive Breaking News at CenterTheatreGroup.org Online ticketing plus information about upcoming productions, advance copies of the program and study guides, downtown restaurants, sponsorship programs, special community activities, and much more.

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Curt Hansen in Girlfriend, to be presented in July 2015 at CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre. © actors theatre of louisville 2013. photo by alan simons.

Hot Tix: A comprehensive and convenient discount ticket program called Hot Tix offers a $25 ticket to the general public. Beginning three weeks prior to the first performance of each production, Hot Tix can be purchased by phone or in person at CTG’s central box office. Cash or credit card (no checks; limited to two tickets per household). Hot Tix may also be purchased (subject to availability) on the day of performance at the central box office or two hours before the performance at the Taper or the Douglas.

Young Children and Babies: Children under age six are not admitted, unless the production is advertised for younger audiences. Regardless of age, everyone must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly throughout the performance. Babes in arms are not admitted.

Donations: Center Theatre Group is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre. For further information, call 213.972.7368.

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Special Access: Assisted listening devices for persons with limited hearing are available in the lobby at no charge. Accommodations are available for persons in wheelchairs and their companions for all performances. Specific dates are available for American Sign Language interpretation and Audio Description for deaf, hard of hearing, blind and low-vision patrons. Open Captioning for blind and low-vision patrons is available for specific dates at the Ahmanson Theatre and is provided by a generous anonymous Artistic Director’s Circle gift. Call 213.628.2772 or TDD 213.680.4017 or visit CenterTheatreGroup.org/ProjectDate.

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Center Theatre Group | Young Professionals

Center Theatre Group is Los Angeles’ preeminent non-profit theatre company.

On our three stages — the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre — we present the highest quality and broadest range of theatre: groundbreaking new works, explosive productions of the classics and hit Broadway plays and musicals.

In the most current nine seasons alone, over 174 productions have been selected for presentation, including 38 world premieres.

Seventeen productions have subsequently been produced in New York.

The same high standards that we apply to our stages extend to our education and community outreach programs.

Through special performances, residencies at schools, discount tickets and educational materials, we reach each year over 19,000 students, educators and community members who would not otherwise experience professional theatre.

We are proud to continue our 47-year tradition of contributing to the culture of our city and to the enrichment of the national theatre community, and we are grateful to our subscribers, donors and board whose generous support makes our work possible.

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A History of Excellence

The Fringe Gets Rambunctious Young Professionals Support New Play Production

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n June 15, The Fringe @ Center Theatre Group, a philanthropic group for young professionals, hosted a fundraiser for CTG’s New Play Production programs at DBA in West Hollywood. The event, chaired by Fringe Vice President of Events Doug Roy, included a performance of For the Record: Tarantino, a rock ’n’ roll cabaret show featuring songs and scenes from Quentin Tarantino films. After the show, starring Rumer Willis and Rogelio Douglas Jr., cast members joined guests for specialty cocktails inspired by the director’s films, like “The Mia Wallace.” The evening was a great success with cross-generational support from both The Fringe’s leadership board and CTG’s Board of Directors.

“It was a tremendous night,” said Charles Chatelain, The Fringe’s president.

“We are still reminiscing over how much fun we all had, and how amazed we were by the whole evening. To be able to raise money for new play production in Los Angeles while enjoying a fantastic night out truly exemplifies what The Fringe is all about. The bar has been set very high, and I’m extremely excited about what is to come over the next great season.”

The Fringe @ Center Theatre Group is a group of young professionals in their 20s, 30s and 40s who love theatre and believe in its importance in Los Angeles. They explore theatre with their peers while raising awareness and funds for Center Theatre Group’s new play production initiatives. They are future subscribers, donors and community leaders at CTG. ○

The Fringe would like to thank the following for generously supporting the event: Joni and Miles Benickes

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING FRIDAY NIGHT?

The Fringe @ Center Theatre Group celebrates with the cast of American Idiot and Los Angeles Magazine at Perch in downtown Los Angeles. photo by casey curry.

Find out more about The Fringe @ CTG, a membership group for young professionals who love theatre and believe in its importance in Los Angeles. @ CenterTheatreGroup.org/Fringe Facebook.com/CTGFringe @FringeCTG For more information, or to purchase a Fringe membership for a young professional in your life, contact us at 213.972.7276 or

TheFringe@CenterTheatreGroup.org

TheFRINGE top to bottom: Paul Hughes, Charles Chatelain, cast member Rumer Willis, Vida Ghaffari and Pedram Navab • Event Chair Doug Roy welcomes guests • Fringe member Jason Cencirulo and Doug Roy chat about the show. photos by michael palma photography.

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We stand up for theatre.

Moments like this don’t happen without generous theatre-lovers like you.

When you give to Center Theatre Group, you join our Inner Circle and earn a piece of every standing ovation witnessed in our theatres.

Together, we can create innovative arts education programs for tomorrow’s leaders, encourage the creative development of more up-and-coming artists, and present powerful theatre that will entice a whole new generation of audiences to stand up and cheer.

As always, we say thank you by bringing you closer to the magic onstage through new and improved donor benefits and personalized service, including

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• Backstage tours.

• Opportunities to hear artists discuss their lives in the theatre.

• Excursions to see exciting work around L.A.

Find out more at CenterTheatreGroup.org/Giving, or call Donor Relations at 213.972.7327.

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ON STAGE IN SEPTEMBER

Ahmanson Theatre Sep 17 – Nov 2, 2014

MARJORIE PRIME

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Mark Taper Forum Sep 10 – Oct 19, 2014

Kirk Douglas Theatre Aug 31 – Sep 28, 2014

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CORPORATE SPOTLIGHT MEET THE ARTIST

Center Theatre Group | Donor Events

The Actor’s Philosophy David Suchet in Dialogue With Donors David Suchet in The Last Confession. photo by craig schWartZ.

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avid Suchet was going to be a doctor — until at 16 years old his English teacher cast him as the king in Macbeth. Considered a curse by some, the Scottish play proved a boon to the budding artist. The world of theatre enchanted him, Suchet said at a Patron Dialogue event for donors. He had discovered his calling.

in several countries and cities, and Suchet called the cast “one of the happiest companies I’ve ever been in.”

The humble actor also thanked donors for their selflessness and dedication to the theatre. “What you provide with your generosity is the theatre world … you keep it going by what you do,” he said. ○

But despite the success he achieved early in his career, he eventually grew frustrated with acting.

“The trap of acting,” he said, “is that it’s all about self, It’s me. … What are my reviews like? Am I good?

Do people like me? That’s a terrible way to live.”

Suchet rediscovered his purpose as an actor when he realized the profession was “not one of glory” but one of service, particularly to the playwright.

“Instead of saying to myself, ‘how can I play this?’

I now say, ‘Why was I written?’”

This realization shaped Suchet’s involvement in The Last Confession — he not only acted in the play but helped develop the story as well. After accepting the starring role of Cardinal Giovanni Benelli, he flew from London to New York to work with Roger Crane on the script page by page.

Suchet’s care for the theatrical process also showed in his relationship with his Last Confession colleagues.

The cast traveled together internationally, performing

David Suchet, left, with CTG board member Diana Buckhantz. photo by michael palma photography.

Patron Dialogue events feature Artistic Director Michael Ritchie in conversation with major talents — just one way Center Theatre Group brings its donors closer to the art of creating theatre. For more information, call Maria Paredes at 213.972.7327.

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Curt Hansen in Girlfriend. © actors theatre of louisville 2013. photo by alan simons.

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CORPORATE SPOTLIGHT DONOR PROFILE

Center Theatre Group | Corporate Circle

Creative Partnerships A Q & A with Celeste Alleyne of Microsoft Celeste Alleyne.

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enter Theatre Group is grateful for Microsoft’s generous in-kind support. A Silver-level Corporate Circle member, Microsoft has donated more than $600,000 in software to CTG in the past four years, enabling CTG to use its computing resources more efficiently and to increase staff productivity.

Celeste Alleyne, Microsoft’s citizenship and public affairs director for the West and education programs lead for the U.S., has been a longtime supporter of CTG. In her position, Alleyne manages Microsoft’s strategic software grants, U.S. education programs, community affairs, and retail store and regional citizenship. She works closely with information technology opinion leaders, non-profit leaders, national and local press, and government, community and education officials in two districts and 13 states.

How did Microsoft become involved with the Corporate Circle?

Microsoft became involved with CTG when I joined the company in 2006. I’ve supported CTG in past corporate positions at AT&T and Nike. Through Microsoft’s large strategic software grants, CTG now has a back-office infrastructure that rivals any major business!

What type of theatre do you enjoy the most and why?

I love it all! However, I most enjoy musicals. After doing such important work in the community, it’s nice to escape and be entertained by superb song and dance.

What CTG show has been the most memorable for you?

I must say this year’s Season Celebration performance of Harmony was a big hit for me. And I can never forget all the August Wilson shows I’ve seen — they hold a special place in my heart.

What makes your corporate partnership with Center Theatre Group unique?

I love going to the theatre knowing Microsoft plays a major role in CTG’s success.

What benefits do you see for you and your company in being a Corporate Circle member?

An opportunity to help the community in a very powerful way, to support education and growth of youth as well as adults, and to showcase Microsoft’s prowess as one of the top technology companies in the world.

In what ways does your Corporate Circle membership fulfill Microsoft’s philanthropic goals and mission?

Our goal is to help people, particularly youth via our YouthSpark STEM programs, realize their potential.

Partnering with CTG helps us achieve this goal because they too believe in supporting youth with training, exposure to the arts and career advancement. ○

Center Theatre Group is thankful to Microsoft for its generous support. For more information about Center Theatre Group’s Corporate Circle, contact Liz Lin at 213.972.0764.

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THEATRE TRENDS

Center Theatre Group | New Play Production

No Script, No Director Mellon Foundation Supports Ensemble Work

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ob Squad, a group of seven artists from the United Kingdom and Germany, has created media-enhanced performance art for more than 20 years. Their work examines familiar, mundane events through ultra-theatrical frames, elevating the beauty of everyday life and, ultimately, demanding more from the audience than laughter or applause.

HEADING WEST Western Society, Gob Squad’s newest creation, takes its inspiration from “the least watched YouTube video in history.” Aunts, uncles, cousins and siblings crowd a small living room as one man attempts a karaoke version of “Pretty Woman.” Except for a pair of dancing women in the background, the family is unimpressed with his warbling. They gaze absently at their cell phones and nibble on pieces of cake.

In Gob Squad’s collective imagination, the video illustrates a distinctly Western paradox: our need to come together even as technology lures us from the people we care about most.

For 10 days in spring 2013, the group explored this paradox at Venice Beach, where they asked surfers, street performers and tourists to share their opinions of the Western world. Audiences can see the results of this research September 17–20 at REDCAT. A GENEROUS COLLABORATOR Western Society typifies the sort of work that earned CTG a second $1-million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in spring 2013. The gift supports the commissioning, development and production of collaboratively created contemporary work.

Increasingly part of the regional theatre scene, collective contemporary work thwarts many traditional conventions.

Instead of a script, improvisation and experimentation play a dominant role in developing the work. Collaborators, rather than a single director, shape the work’s artistic vision.

And audiences move in front of the “fourth wall,” often co-creating the performance with the artists.

“Western Society and work like it represent a movement in this country,” says Diane Rodriguez, CTG’s director of New Play Production. “The generous Mellon grant enables CTG to nurture these innovative theatre makers who take artistic risks, create collectively and engage audiences in bold, new ways.” ○

Center Theatre Group is grateful to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its generosity. This month, thanks in part to the Mellon grant, The Behavior of Broadus, produced

by Burglars of Hamm in association with Center Theatre Group, will have its world premiere at the Sacred Fools Theater Company. The upcoming DouglasPlus production of How to Be a Rock Critic by Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank is also supported by this initiative.

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CORPORATE SPOTLIGHT ARTS AND EXPRESSION

Center Theatre Group | Education & Community Partnerships

Facing Our Truth at the Douglas Young People Reflect on Race, Privilege and Violence Through Art

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hange begins when you start the conversation,” said a young man at a post-show discussion at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

The following day, the teen facilitators guided general audiences through another conversation and responded sensitively to challenging questions.

On July 12, over 50 Los Angeles-area teens gathered to discuss race, privilege and violence in response to a staged reading of Facing Our Truth: Ten-Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege.

The Travyon Martin tragedy is relevant, painful and emblematic of unresolved issues in contemporary America; yet, as one student commented after the summit, the more conversations, the better. ○

The youth summit took place a day before Center Theatre Group presented the reading to general audiences, marking the one-year anniversary of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the case of Travyon Martin, an African-American Florida teenager whom Zimmerman fatally shot on February 26, 2012.

Before the summit, adult facilitators trained youth to lead conversations about challenging issues, empowering their peers to seize a rare opportunity for open discussion about race, privilege and violence. Moved by the reading, they said: I PLAN to educate and advocate for awareness at my school.

IT’S IMPORTANT to make a difference.

I can identify how I’m part of the problem.

DISCUSSING RACE and youth violence isn’t easy, but today was perfect practice.

The six plays comprising Facing Our Truth were commissioned by New Black Fest, a New York-based theatre festival dedicated to “stretching, interrogating and uplifting the Black aesthetic.” Center Theatre Group is one of several theatres nationwide joining to present Facing Our Truth. Others include Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

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MARK TAPER FORUM

Center Theatre Group | Donor Events

The Wit in the Cellar Playwright Finds Comedy Gold in Streisand’s Basement

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here’s this woman named Barbra Streisand,” began playwright Jonathan Tolins.

Needless to say, the gathering of Center Theatre Group’s most generous donors was familiar with the diva, but that was beside the point. The night’s star was Buyer & Cellar, Tolins’ delicious tribute to celebrity and its eccentricities. The play would open at the Mark Taper Forum in less than 90 minutes, and Tolins was speaking with donors about the creation of his play at a pre-performance dinner and celebration.

CTG board chairperson Martin Massman, left, and Darren Bagert, two of the producers on Buyer & Cellar. photo by center theatre group.

“Urie is not only a genius actor, he also knows how to do my stuff as well if not better than any actor I’ve ever worked with,” Tolins said. “It just sounds natural in his voice, like it’s coming out of his head. So many people ask me, ‘How much is the script and how much is Michael improvising?’

It’s really irritating.” … TO A NATIONAL TOUR So “irritating” that Urie and Buyer & Cellar enjoyed a recordbreaking run at off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre, and now they are touring the U.S. with stops in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, among other cities — not a bad trajectory for a play Tolins never expected to get produced.

FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS …

In 2010, Tolins read every word of My Passion for “I gave it to lawyers, and they said Streisand has a history of Design, Streisand’s coffee table book about her lavish being litigious, and no one will ever take a chance on it,” he Malibu compound. Page 190 in particular captured said. “I wrote this play thinking it was never going to get the playwright’s imagination. It described a “street done, which is actually the best way to write a play, because of shops” in her basement, where Streisand keeps I really wrote it to delight myself and my best friends.” antique dolls, showbiz memorabilia and a frozen yogurt machine.

For six weeks this summer, Tolins’ play delighted nearly 700 CTG patrons every night at the Mark Taper Forum. ○ Tolins wondered what it would be like to “work down there.” Thus Alex More, Buyer & Cellar’s witty protagonist, was born — first, as the subject of a potential article for The New Yorker and eventually as a one-man vehicle for Jesse Tyler Ferguson. When scheduling conflicts prevented Ferguson from taking on the project, Tolins asked Michael Urie to consider Contributions from theatre-lovers like you enable the part.

Center Theatre Group to delight, educate and inspire diverse audiences through the power of theatre. In appreciation of their support, CTG brings its donors closer to the magic onstage through events like this. To learn more, contact Donor Relations at 213.972.7327.

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Mark Taper Forum

47th Season 2014

FIRST SEASON PRODUCTION

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

by Christopher Durang Directed by David Hyde Pierce Based on the Broadway Direction of Nicholas Martin.

January 29 – March 16, 2014 SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION

The Tallest Tree in the Forest

A Play with Music Written and Performed by Daniel Beaty Directed by Moisés Kaufman World Premiere Production.

April 12 – May 25, 2014 THIRD SEASON PRODUCTION

David Suchet in

The Last Confession

by Roger Crane Directed by Jonathan Church United States Premiere Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre.

June 7 – July 6, 2014 FOURTH SEASON PRODUCTION

Buyer & Cellar

Featuring Michael Urie Written by Jonathan Tolins Directed by Stephen Brackett West Coast Premiere.

July 9 – August 17, 2014 FIFTH SEASON PRODUCTION

Marjorie Prime

by Jordan Harrison Directed by Les Waters World Premiere.

September 10 – October 19, 2014 SIXTH SEASON PRODUCTION

What the Butler Saw

by Joe Orton Directed by John Tillinger.

November 12 – December 21, 2014

SEASON BONUS OPTIONS

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty

A Gothic Romance Music composed by Tchaikovsky A New Adventures Production Co-Presented with Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre.

November 21 – December 1, 2013 Christopher Plummer in

A Word or Two

Written and Arranged by Christopher Plummer Directed by Des McAnuff Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre.

January 19 – February 9, 2014

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Inspiring Our Future Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Most Generous Annual Patrons Center Theatre Group wishes to thank the following donors for their significant annual gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre. $1 Million and above

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb $500,000 and above

The Ahmanson Foundation $250,000 and above

Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas The James Irvine Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $150,000 and above

Anonymous Bank of America The Blue Ribbon Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation Jeanette Shammas† The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Eva & Marc Stern Wells Fargo Foundation $100,000 and above

Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Los Angeles County Arts Commission JPMorgan Chase & Co. Deidra Norman Schumann $75,000 and above

Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust William Randolph Hearst Foundation The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler — Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation †Deceased

This list includes gifts made to Center Theatre Group between May 30, 2013, and July 30, 2014.

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Michael Ritchie, artistic director Edward L. Rada, managing director Douglas C. Baker producing director Gordon Davidson, founding artistic director

Presents the World Premiere of

by Jordan Harrison with Lisa Emery Lois Smith Jeff Ward Frank Wood set designer Mimi Lien costume designer Ilona Somogyi lighting designer Lap Chi Chu sound designer Adam Phalen casting by Mark B. Simon, csa dramaturg Joy Meads associate artistic director Kelley Kirkpatrick production stage manager David S. Franklin directed by Les Waters Marjorie Prime will be performed without an intermission.

Marjorie Prime was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons in association with Theater Masters and its Visionary Playwright Award, and with additional funds provided by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Commissioning Program.

The play was written with the support of the Clubbed Thumb Writers’ Group.

It was workshopped and developed in the 2013 Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory.

It was further developed with the support of the Roe Green Award at Cleveland Play House.

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photo by craig schwartz.

(l-r): Cast members Jeff Ward, Lois Smith, Lisa Emery and Frank Wood.

CAST (in order of appearance)

Marjorie......................................................................................... Lois Smith Walter................................................................................................Jeff Ward Tess................................................................................................Lisa Emery Jon................................................................................................ Frank Wood UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Walter – Matthew Bohrer For Marjorie – Amanda Carlin For Jon – Matt Gottlieb for Tess – Caryn West STAGE MANAGER Michelle Blair

Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, beepers and watch alarms. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

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Lois Smith’s Fortunate Career

By Lynell George Lois Smith’s name might not at first ring a bell but that deadeye gaze and authoritative presence are nothing short of resonant. While she may tend to attribute her five-decade long career to a mix of “luck,” and rightplace-right-time proximity, history tells a different story. While many actors have had to play catch-as-catch-can, Smith has worked continuously since she began her professional career on a Broadway stage in Time Out for Ginger in 1952. She is more than a survivor, she’s an artist who not only finds her way deep into the contours of a role, she helps to quietly define the entire production’s landscape. She’s more than survived seismic shifts in the business – from the golden age of live T.V. to streaming online series – she has been part of its transformation.

Lynell George: What pulled you into acting – into theatre in particular?

Lois Smith: When I was a very small girl, my father – who worked for the telephone company and who had no theatre training and almost never went to the movies – had for some reason taken some night classes in acting and directing. I am the youngest of six children and this was before I was born so it’s extremely mysterious to me. His interest and passion I was told was because he was a very stalwart member of his protestant congregation. Back then, we lived in Kansas and he wanted to put on plays in the church. And his entire wish for all of this was to do plays that were either biblical or, at any rate, moral. So from the time I was very small I went with him to rehearsals and I would memorize lines and be in the plays when I could be. So that was certainly clearly the beginning, but it was far from the world of professional theatre.

Q: Were there roles you slipped into that stand out?

LS: Not really. But I do remember seeing a snapshot of myself in what was probably some sort of biblical garb. But later when I living in Seattle, Washington, my high school happened to have a drama department, rather than it just being part of the English department, so I really had a lot more experience than one would ordinarily get if one was doing a yearly school play. I was very active and that’s how this all started.

Q: Your first Broadway play was Time Out for Ginger, what was it like being in that world for the first time?

LS: Getting that first job was really interesting. While I was waiting for the audition, I remember sitting next to another girl and looking at her and thinking: ‘You know, we

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Lois Smith with Gary Sinise in The Grapes of Wrath. photo courtesy of steppenwolf theatre company.

look alike.’ She was auditioning for the older sister and I for the middle sister. So I went in. And there was a room full of people – Melvyn Douglas, who played the father, and the director and producer were there sitting in a little horseshoe – and I read. I knew that I had read it well. Afterwards one of them asked me, ‘Well, what have you done?’ And I said: ‘Nothing! That’s what’s wrong with me!’ But, I got the part. That was my first play.

I was 20. And Mary Hartig, the girl I had been sitting next to also got the part of the older sister. It was a very sweet way of getting my first job.

Q: Was there a particular moment or project that made you know that this was your career, this is now your life path?

LS: Well, I made a very particular decision to go and begin it. Also, I was very fortunate right away. Within the first couple of years that I was in New York I had my first job which was a Broadway play that ran all season.

That was an auspicious beginning. One lovely thing is that once I began working as an actor, I have worked as an actor exclusively. I never waited tables or anything – though I did all sorts of things before that. Also, at that time in New York there was a lot of television, some of it live because they hadn’t yet put all the dramas on tape, so right away I was able to start working in television – in the early and mid-50s. So I was really making a living.

Q: That must have been an exciting time to be in New York, sinking into so much textured work both on stage and on television?

(l-r): Sam Trammell, Anna Paquin and Lois Smith in HBO’s True Blood. credit: john p. johnson/hbo

LS: Yes. It really was. Some of the televised shows were plays that had been in the theatre, but otherwise they were dramas. There were some series too – but mostly lots of drama.

Q: And they were all live?

LS: At the beginning they were live. I did do some TV shows without a net.

Q: How different was it from the stage?

LS: You rehearsed for a couple of weeks and then you moved into the studio just for a few days. It was all increasing in pressure and speed as you went along.

The time had to work out. It was very exciting. And equipment was so different all those years ago. You would usually be working in front of four cameras and every camera was trailed by huge cables, which couldn’t cross each other. They were moved across the studio floor and the actors were dashing from one set to another, while the cameras had to be choreographed.

It was challenging for the crews and directors. Everyone was learning this new thing at the same time.

Q: So you were balancing all that with your stage work?

LS: Oh, that was easy. I mean you had time. Later on, much later on, I did some work in soap operas. There you really push it. It’s every day and you’re doing a script that is a half hour, sometimes an hour. That was a challenge. This was much later and I had a child, and at that point was a single parent. So I was really grateful to have it. There are very few [acting] jobs where you’re

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working Monday through Friday daylight hours and it helps when you’re trying to raise a school-age child.

Q: East of Eden was your first film role – was that your first time in Hollywood as well?

LS: I had been in Los Angeles and at one point I had a brother who lived there, but this was my first time there to work.

Q: How did you come to their attention?

LS: They were auditioning and I was set up to meet [the director Elia] Kazan and audition for the part Julie Harris played, but I think he already knew. He was seeing a lot of other people and he offered me the littler part, the barmaid.

Q: Of course, I have to ask, did you have much interaction with James Dean?

LS: Believe me I have been asked that question over these many, many years. People want to know. He was excellent in the film. He was moody. I used to feel he was a combination of a sort of holding-off, suspicious person and also sort of a farm boy sitting on his Midwest porch. He was both complex and interesting and that’s what made his tragically short career so compelling, I think.

Q: What did that immersion into the film world – Hollywood – feel like compared to being in New York?

LS: Again, I felt very, very fortunate. Some years later, when I was working on Five Easy Pieces – that had to be about 13, 15 years apart – the experience of that movie was very fun and very valuable, but I just always went back home again, to New York. I never thought of moving to L.A. And I was really fortunate that I didn’t have to.

Q: You’ve been ‘discovered’ by a whole new generation of viewers, many through True Blood in particular. What has that experience been like? And what are you looking for in roles of late?

LS. That’s indeed the truth. I suddenly had this young audience from True Blood and then there are other things like the film Minority Report. It’s not as if there is an array of film and television roles [coming my way] and I say: ‘Hmmm, I’ll take this one.’ They come up when they come up. With True Blood I was also lucky: Alan Ball had been to see me in The Trip to Bountiful at the Signature Theatre in New York so when this came up, I think, he just offered it to me. I didn’t know anything about it.

But I knew before I started it that she came to an early and terrible end.

and he had been working on it and I think he wanted to hear it. I really loved it. But the theatre who had commissioned decided to pass. That was more than a year ago. But we kept hoping. A year ago, I was at the Obies and Frances Sternhagen and I were jointly being given a lifetime achievement award. The preamble to these awards was being held in an amazingly noisy and crowded bar. I just hate that kind of thing. So I went looking for a quiet place and there was Jordan’s agent, Mark Subias, on his way in. He turns to me and says, ‘The Taper wants to do it!’ That’s how I found out.

Q: Without giving anything away, the play is a meditation on love and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are – or hope to be. But it’s also about how those stories contrast with the ones others tell about us – what we remember or trim away from our story. What about this territory resonated with you most?

LS: Well, the things you just said about it. It’s delicate and wonderful. I have been working on it now, thoroughly studying it – and it greatly rewards. It just gets better. The way he deals with memory and with family and in a way, eternity. There is a certain delicacy about it. [The characters] are, like a piece of music or a book, in terms of human endeavors, they are human inventions, trying to encapsulate meaning. Just the delicacy with which he tackles something. I’d never seen that before.

Q: Yes, the delicacy and simplicity of the writing.

And for your character in particular – you have the chance to keep the characters and the audience just off balance, guessing?

LS: Yes. It’s a great gift. But something that’s really distressing to me is that often when plays are talked or written about, the discoveries are already told to you.

There is something so wonderful about the innocent audience. And in this play I am constantly aware of this, so I am already grieving. My hope is that instead, people will keep the secret, and new audiences will be able to discover the layers of the story as it unfolds – that’s part of the joy and magic of this and of Jordan’s writing.

Lynell George is a Los Angeles based journalist who writes about art, culture and social issues.

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First Day of Rehearsal

photos by craig schwartz.

(l-r): Cast members Lois Smith, Lisa Emery and Frank Wood.

(l-r): Playwright Jordan Harrison and

Director Les Waters.

Lois Smith and Jeff Ward.

Frank Wood and Lisa Emery.

Jeff Ward and Frank Wood.

Lois Smith and CTG Associate Artistic Director Kelley Kirkpatrick.

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Who’s Who

LISA EMERY (Tess). Broadway: Casa Valentina, Relatively Speaking (George Is Dead), The Smell Of The Kill, Present Laughter, The Women, Jackie, Burn This and Rumors.

Off-Broadway: The Unavoidable Disappearance Of Tom Durnin and Distracted (Lucille Lortel nomination) at the Roundabout, A Kind Of Alaska (Drama Desk nomination) and Gabriel at Atlantic Theater Co., Mouth To Mouth, What The Butler Saw, Abigail’s Party (Lortel and Drama Desk nominations) and Curtains (Ensemble Obie Award) at The New Group, Iron (Obie) at Manhattan Theatre Club, Dinner With Friends at Variety Arts, Marvin’s Room at Playwrights Horizons (Drama Desk nomination), Far East at Lincoln Center Theater. Other Theatre: A Long Day’s Journey Into Night at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Director Les Waters), Hamlet at Yale Rep, A Delicate Balance at Berkshire Theatre Fest. Film: Admissions, The Night Listener, Unfaithful, Roger Dodger, People I Know, A Map Of The World.

Television: Louie, Those Who Kill, Law & Order(s), Sex and the City, Fringe and Damages, and The Women and Far East (both for PBS’ Stage On Screen series).

LOIS SMITH (Marjorie).

Lois’s first role in professional theatre was as Melvyn Douglas’ teenage daughter in Time Out for Ginger on Broadway, followed by The Young and the Beautiful, Blues for Mr. Charlie, and the role of Carol Cutrere in the original production of Orpheus Descending. Recently she appeared in After the Revolution by Amy Herzog (Playwrights Horizons), and Tony Kushner’s The Illusion, Sam Shepard’s Heartless and Horton Foote’s The Old Friends (Signature Theatre, NYC). In 2005–2006, Smith played Carrie Watts in Horton Foote’s The Trip to the Bountiful (Director Harris Yulin, Signature Theatre, Obie, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards; also Goodman Theatre, Jeff Award). Other favorite productions include Uncle Vanya (Director Harold Clurman, Mark Taper Forum), The Seagull (Guthrie Theater) The Cherry Orchard and George Walker’s Escape from Happiness (Baltimore Center Stage), The Front Page (Long Wharf), The Stick Wife (Hartford Stage) and Defying Gravity (off-Broadway). With Steppenwolf Theatre, where she is a member of the ensemble, she appeared in The Grapes of Wrath

(Director Frank Galati, also London and Broadway, Tony nomination), Buried Child (Director Gary Sinise, Broadway, Tony nomination), The Mesmerist, Mother Courage, The Royal Family and The Tempest. A long-time member of The Actors Studio and Ensemble Studio Theatre, she has appeared there in plays by Romulus Linney and in Horton Foote’s The Man Who Climbed the Pecan Trees. Early television credits include the live performances of Miss Julie and The Master Builder on Public Television’s Play of the Week. More recently she has appeared on Frasier, Just Shoot Me, Law & Order, Cold Case, ER and Grey’s Anatomy, etc., as well as in HBO’s True Blood, Truman, The Laramie Project and Iron Jawed Angels. Her first film role was the barmaid in East Of Eden with James Dean. Other films include Five Easy Pieces (National Society of Film Critics Award), The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Diminished Capacity, Roadie, Please Give, Hollywoodland, Next Stop Greenwich Village, Four Friends, Black Widow, Falling Down, Fried Green Tomatoes, Twister, Larger Than Life, How to Make an American Quilt, Dead Man Walking and Minority Report. In 2013, along with Frances Sternhagen, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award.

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JEFF WARD (Walter) recently made his Broadway debut understudying Ben Foster in Daniel Sullivan’s production of Orphans starring Alec Baldwin. New York Theatre: The Chimes (The Public/SPF), That Face (Manhattan Theatre Club), Moments (Director Moisés Kaufman), Sex Good; Money Bad (with Michael Weller), Richard III (CSV), Galileo (Skirball Center), The Pillowman and Loves Labors Lost; he also wrote and performed his one man show, this is ourselves, which he was lucky enough to workshop with Sam Shepard. TV/Film: Beautiful People (Director Stephen Hopkins), The Beauty Inside (Director Drake Doremus), Heavenly (Director Mimi Leder), Law & Order, Body of Proof, Holly’s Holiday, Vamperifica, Next Time on Lonny. He also produced and starred in the short film The Girlfriend Game. Training: Stella Adler, ETW and ITW Amsterdam via New York University.

FRANK WOOD (Jon). Theatre: Clybourne Park (Taper and Broadway), The Babylon Line (New York Stage and Film), Sideman (Tony and Drama League Awards), Angels in America (as Roy Cohn in the Signature Theatre Company revival), August: Osage County, Born Yesterday, Hollywood Arms, Spring Awakening, The God of

Hell. Film: Changeling, Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Dan in Real Life, Thirteen Days, Pollock, People I Know, In America, Down to You, The Royal Tennenbaums, Greetings from Tim Buckley, The Missing Person. Television: Flight of the Conchords (recurring), The Knick, The Sopranos, The Divide, Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family, Law & Order, Criminal Intent. Regional: The Goodman Theatre, ACT San Francisco, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arena Stage. Education: B.A., Wesleyan University; MFA, New York University Graduate Acting Program.

MATTHEW BOHRER (Understudy for Walter). Matthew is thrilled to return to CTG after appearing at the Ahmanson last season in The Sunshine Boys opposite Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch.

Theatre: the one-man show Step Into the Night and Jason and Claire (Playwrights Project with The Old Globe), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Feste in Twelfth Night (La Cañada Shakespeare Fest), The Magic City and Shafted (Edinburgh Fringe), Falsettos (Diversionary). Film: Cybernatural, Elie in Elie’s Overcoat. Television: Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, Workshop (Hulu). Training: B.A. from Harvard, where he sang with the Krokodiloes and performed with the Hasty Pudding

Theatricals. Thanks to my family, Mark, Steven and CA, Mandy and TW and the entire creative team. www.matthewbohrer.net.

AMANDA CARLIN (Understudy for Marjorie).

Amanda Carlin’s career began with featured roles off- and on Broadway in revivals of Major Barbara, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Front Page and the original production of The Heidi Chronicles. After her West Coast move, her regional theatre credits include a season at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and multiple plays at the Pasadena Playhouse and South Coast Rep. She took on many artistic challenges as a founding member of Interact Theatre Co. and reveled in playing Mrs. Lovett in Pacific Opera Project’s Sweeney Todd.

Television: guest-star appearances include Mixology, Law & Order – L.A., Lost, The West Wing, Bones, Friends (recurring role of Rachel’s Ob/Gyn), etc.

Select Feature Films: Like Crazy, Seven Pounds, The Superhero Movie! and Passion Fish.

Participation in this play is dedicated to her dear mother, actress Frances Sternhagen.

MATT GOTTLIEB (Understudy for Jon). This Past Year: Mark Rothko in Red (Ensemble Theatre, Santa

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Barbara), Ben Weeks in The Normal Heart (Fountain Theatre) and Rev. Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath (A Noise Within).

Previously: ACT (S.F.), Berkeley Rep, The Intiman (Seattle), Shakespeare Santa Cruz, San Jose Rep, Marin Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse; The Colony Theatre, Pacific Resident Theatre, The Odyssey and the Mark Taper Forum. In New York: NYSF (Delacorte), Circle Repertory, Soho Rep, the Long Wharf, the Longacre (Broadway). Appears on TV and in movies. Several Ovation, L.A. Weekly and LADCC Award nominations, for both acting and directing. Dedicated to remembering.

CARYN WEST (Understudy for Tess). Broadway: Crimes of the Heart and The Nerd. National Tours: Dancing at Lughnasa and Crimes of the Heart.

Regional Theater (partial list): Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Hartford Stage; Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Featured Actress), The Clean House (International City Theatre), Good People (Geffen Playhouse, Margie standby), Toys In The Attic (L.A. Ovation Award), The Unexpected Man (Geffen Playhouse, Martha standby), Fool For Love (Cleveland Play House), A Moon for the Misbegotten, Three Sisters and Gardenia (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Road To Mecca (Arizona Theatre Co.), Red River (Goodman Theatre), Othello (Virginia Stage),

Twelfth Night (Cincinnati Playhouse) Recent Film: The Jokesters and I Do. Recent TV: Three Rivers (recurring); guest roles on Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, Eli Stone, Bones, Numbers, Criminal Minds, Cold Case.

Education: B.A. Stanford, MFA Temple. Caryn is also a well known acting coach in her WeHo studio and NYC. www.carynwest. com JORDAN HARRISON (Playwright).

Harrison’s plays include Maple and Vine, The Grown-Up, Futura, Doris to Darlene, Amazons and their Men, Act a Lady, Finn in the Underworld, Kid-Simple, The Museum Play, and a musical, Suprema. His work has been produced at American Conservatory Theater, American Theater Company, the Arden Theatre, Berkeley Rep, City Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Minetta Lane Theatre, Next Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Portland Center Stage, SPF and Theatre@ Boston Court, among others.

Five of his plays have premiered in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Kesselring Prize, the Roe Green Award from Cleveland Play House, the Heideman Award, the Barrymore Award for Best Musical, an NYSCA grant and an NEA/TCG Playwright-in Residence Grant. He is an Associate Artist with The

Civilians, Clubbed Thumb and The Playwrights’ Center. A graduate of Stanford and the Brown MFA program, Harrison is an alumnus of New Dramatists.

He currently writes for the Netflix original series Orange Is The New Black.

LES WATERS (Director). Obie Award-winner Les Waters recently directed Lucas Hnath’s The Christians, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Will Eno’s Gnit, Todd Almond’s Girlfriend and Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he is Artistic Director.

Waters also previously directed Big Love by Charles L. Mee at the Humana Festival in 2000, and the site-specific production of Naomi Iizuka’s At the Vanishing Point at the 2004 Humana Festival.

From 2003 to 2011, he served as Associate Artistic Director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

In the last 10 years, his shows have ranked among the year’s best in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time Out New York, Time Magazine and USA Today.

His productions have been seen in New York at The Public Theater, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Connelly Theater and Clubbed Thumb, and regionally at theatres such as Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse and American Repertory Theater. In 2009, he

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made his Broadway debut with In the Next Room or the vibrator play.

He led the MFA directing program at University of California, San Diego from 1995 to 2003 and is an Associate Artist of The Civilians.

MIMI LIEN (Set Designer) is a designer of sets and environments for theatre, dance and opera. Having arrived at set design from a background in architecture, her work often focuses on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer. She is an Artistic Associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company and The Civilians, and co-founder of JACK, a new art/performance space in Brooklyn, NY Recent work includes An Octoroon and A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney (Soho Rep), Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (Lucille Lortel Award, American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award), Our Town (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Stop Hitting Yourself (Rude Mechs @ Lincoln Center).

Her work has been seen around the country at Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, A.R.T., Wilma Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Alliance Theatre and Portland Center Stage, among others.

Her design work was presented at the Prague Quadrennial, and her sculptures have been exhibited at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Lien is a recipient of a Barrymore Award, Drama Desk nomination, Bay Area Critics Circle nomination, and was a MacDowell Colony

fellow. In 2012, she received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Design.

ILONA SOMOGYI (Costume Designer). CTG: Clybourne Park and Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet. Other L.A.: Hamlet, Life is a Dream and Caucasian Chalk Circle (South Coast Rep), Wit (Geffen Playhouse). Broadway: Clybourne Park (Associate), Spamalot, The Crucible, Closer, Art. Off-Broadway: Satchmo at the Waldorf, Dinner With Friends, My Name is Asher Lev, A Small Fire, Home, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Almost an Evening, Celebration, The Room and Wit, among others.

Regional: Richard III (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Julius Caesar (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Smokey Joe’s Café, etc.

(Arena Stage), Three Sisters (Berkeley Rep), Passion Play and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Yale Rep), The Crucible and more (Hartford Stage), The Catch (Denver Center Theatre), Tartuffe and Suddenly Last Summer, etc.

(Westport Country Playhouse), The Autumn Garden, etc.

(Williamstown Theatre Festival).

Tours: Disney on Ice: Princess Wishes, Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus (Associate). Europe: Dutch production of Saturday Night Fever, Norwegian National Ballet.

Faculty: Yale School of Drama.

LAP CHI CHU (Lighting Designer).

Regional designs include Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The

Goodman Theatre, The Shakespeare Theater, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage and Evidence Room. New York design credits include The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage Theatre, Performance Space 122 and Kitchen Theatre Company. He is the lighting/video designer for ChameckiLerner Dance Company (Costumes by God, Visible Content, Hidden Forms, I Mutantes Seras, Por Favor and Não Me Deixe), which has performed in the United States and Brazil. Awards include the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design, multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, a “Drammy” for best lighting, as well as a Lucille Lortel nomination for The Good Negro at The Public Theater. Mr. Chu is on the lighting design faculty at California Institute of the Arts.

ADAM PHALEN (Sound Designer). Recent shows include 9 Circles (Bootleg Theater), Other Desert Cities (Mark Taper Forum), The New Electric Ballroom and The Word Begins (Rogue Machine Theatre), and St. Jude and Titus Redux at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Adam is the Resident Sound Designer/Technical Director for the Ojai Playwrights Conference and the Head of Audio at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Other CTG: The Paris Letter, Flight, ¡Gaytino!, Taking Flight, Of Equal Measure, Taking Over, Eclipsed and Bones.

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MARK B. SIMON (Casting) is Casting Director of Center Theatre Group. Current projects include Race, Marjorie Prime, The Trip To Bountiful and What The Butler Saw. Prior to joining CTG, he was a New York-based independent casting director for clients including Hal Prince, Jason Robert Brown, Graciela Daniele, Susan Stroman, Patricia Birch, Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch, Nick Hytner, Alfred Uhry, Carol Burnett, Jeremy Sams, Chris Durang, New York City Opera and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Projects have included 13, Parade, The Last Five Years, Show Boat, Candide, 3hree, Hollywood Arms, Bounce, Lovemusik, Paradise Found, Sweeney Todd, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Sweet Smell of Success and Ragtime. Treasurer of the Board, Casting Society of America.

JOY MEADS (Dramaturg) is the Literary Manager of CTG, where her credits include Forever

by Dael Orlandersmith, The Steward of Christendom by Sebastian Barry, A Parallelogram by Bruce Norris, The Royale by Marco Ramirez, Radiate by Daniel Alexander Jones and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Previous to CTG, Joy was Literary Manager at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Associate Artistic Director at California

Shakespeare Theater, where she ran the theatre’s New Works/New Communities program. Joy has also worked with NYTW, the O’Neill, Portland Center Stage, South Coast Rep, Chicago Dramatists, The Playwrights’ Center, Native Voices at the Autry and Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts. She is a proud member and co-founder of The Kilroys (www.thekilroys.org). Joy has loved Jordan Harrison’s writing since she first encountered it 10 years ago.

DAVID S. FRANKLIN (Production Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group Highlights: An Enemy of the People, Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème, Art, Romance, The Cherry Orchard, Curtains, Nightingale, The History Boys, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Parade, The Subject Was Roses, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels, God of Carnage, Vigil, Waiting for Godot, Los Otros, Red, Seminar, Tribes, A Parallelogram, Humor Abuse, The Steward of Christendom, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Other Los Angeles: Los Angeles Theatre Center in its heyday from 19851990, Pasadena Playhouse and Geffen Playhouse. Regional: Seattle Rep, Intiman Theatre.

New York: Public Theater. Tours: Europe - Quotations from a Ruined City and Law of Remains (with

Reza Abdoh’s Dar a Luz company).

MICHELLE BLAIR (Stage Manager). For CTG: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Steward of Christendom, The Sunshine Boys, A Parallelogram, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Backbeat, Krapp’s Last Tape, Red, Los Otros, Clybourne Park, Vigil, Poor Behavior, Burn This, Leap of Faith, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Parade, Lydia, The School of Night, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Distracted, Nightingale, Without Walls, Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates, all wear bowlers (also at the Barbican Theatre, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse and Studio Theatre), Flight, Nothing But The Truth, Stones in His Pockets, Topdog/ Underdog and “QED” at Lincoln Center Theater. Other favorites include The Pee-Wee Herman Show at Club Nokia, A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters with Cornerstone Theater Company and Amnesia Curiosa with Rainpan 43. Mom to six-year-old Liam and two-year-old Imogen.

MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his ninth season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 174 productions to the Ahmanson, Taper and Douglas stages since his arrival in 2005.

From 1996 to 2004 Michael was

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the Producer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival and prior to that he was a Production Stage Manager in NYC. At CTG, he premiered six musicals that moved to Broadway — The Drowsy Chaperone (which won 13 Tony Award nominations), Curtains (eight Tony nominations) 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Leap of Faith. He has produced 39 world premieres including the musicals Minsky’s, Venice and Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and the plays Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize finalist that also moved to Broadway), Water & Power and Yellow Face, and he presented a broad range of plays and musicals ranging from Dead End to The Black Rider to Edward Scissorhands to blockbusters such as God of Carnage, Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys and August: Osage County. In addition, Michael inaugurated CTG’s New Play Production Program, designed to foster the development and production of new work.

EDWARD L. RADA (Managing Director) returned to Center Theatre Group in 2011 after previously serving as CTG’s Chief Financial Officer for 12 years (1996–2008).

Rada spent three years (2008– 2011) as President of the Music Center Foundation, a non-profit corporation that holds and invests the endowment and reserve funds for the Music Center and its resident companies (including CTG).

Prior to his years at CTG, he was the Director of Finance at The Old Globe in San Diego and principal of Rada & Associates, an accounting firm that specialized in entertainmentrelated non-profit organizations and theatrical productions. He is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles with numerous post-graduate coursework and credentials. He currently serves on the board of directors for Entertainment Industry Foundation, Theatre @ Boston Court, and United Support of Artists for Africa/USA for Africa, among other affiliations. He also serves on the board of trustees for the pension, health and welfare and 401(k) plans of I.A.T.S.E. Local 33 Stagehands Union.

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 24th season at CTG. Previously, he managed Broadway and touring productions including Tru, Born Yesterday, The Gospel at Colonus, Annie, A Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz, and Legends!, which premiered at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1986 and starred Mary Martin and Carol Channing. Doug is a member of the Achievement Hall of Fame of Chagrin Falls Schools in Ohio and a graduate of Albion College. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. In

May 2013 Doug received The Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

KELLEY KIRKPATRICK (Associate Artistic Director). Since arriving at CTG in 2005, Kelley has produced over 50 productions at the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre, many of which have gone on to future lives on Broadway, offBroadway and beyond. In addition to producing shows across CTG’s three stages, he has had the privilege of collaborating with numerous local and national artists to commission and develop new works.

NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre) has worked professionally supporting artists in theatres of all shapes, sizes and locales including many seasons at Center Theatre Group as General Manager and, previously, as Audience Development Director. She oversees main stage productions at the Taper and Douglas, as well as new play commissions and developmental productions through CTG’s New Play Development. Nausica has taught at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, and advises and works with local not-for-profits including Daukayev

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Ballet Theatre and Hollywood Orchard. MFA, Yale School of Drama, and Outward Bound trekker.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre — including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989 Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

Additional staff for Marjorie Prime

Assistant Director .......................................Beth Lopez Assistant Set Designer ...............................Nina Caussa Prop Shopper .........................................Jamie Masters Prop Artisan ................................................ Zach Istrin Assistant Costume Designer ............ Kathryn Poppen Resident Assistant Lighting Designer.....Heather Graff Production Assistant ..............................Rebekah York CREDITS Scenery constructed by F&D Scene Changes, Ltd.; Automation provided by Creative Conners, Inc.; Costumes provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop and additional staff: First Hand – Ashley Rigg, Stitchers – Agnes Ingram, Leonardo Lopez, Costume Shop Assistant – Bich Vu; Rehearsal and production photography

by Craig Schwartz.

The following employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC: Stage Crew Local 33; Local Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 857; Wardrobe Crew Local 768; Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706.

The Press Agents, Company and House Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers.

The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

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The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States. This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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C E N T E R T H E A T R E G R O U P L.A.’s Theatre Company

MICHAEL RITCHIE, Artistic Director EDWARD L. RADA, Managing Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER, Producing Director ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director DIANE RODRIGUEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director PIER CARLO TALENTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Dramaturgy and New Play Development LINDSAY ALLBAUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Producer PATRICIA GARZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Play Production Manager JOY MEADS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary Manager MARK B. SIMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Director MEG FISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Associate DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JESSICA BLANK, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), TIM CROUCH, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, GINA GIONFRIDDO, GOB SQUAD, MATT GOULD, DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, JOE HORTUA, ERIK JENSEN, RAJIV JOSEPH, GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, DAN O’BRIEN, EVANGELINE ORDAZ, DAEL ORLANDERSMITH, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, MATT SAX, THE DEBATE SOCIETY, YOUNG JEAN LEE THEATER COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commissioned Artists JOSH ALLEN, EVELINA FERNANDEZ, DOROTHY FORTENBERRY, JC LEE, ALEX LEWIN, KIM ROSENSTOCK, KEN ROHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CTG Writers’ Workshop Members EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LESLIE K. JOHNSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Education and Community Partnerships KATHRYN MACKENZIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Department Operations TRACI CHO KWON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Arts Education Initiatives CAMILLE SCHENKKAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Manager, Next Generation Initiatives JESUS REYES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Manager, Community Partnerships KATRINA FRYE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Associate MELISSA HERNANDEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Associate ROSEMARY MARSTON-HIGDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Associate KELLY MUCHNICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications Coordinator SHANNON WINSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Department Coordinator DEBRA PIVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resident Teaching Artist MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION NAUSICA STERGIOU . . . . . . . . . General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) JEFFREY UPAH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant General Manager (Mark Taper Forum) KATIE BRUNER SOFF . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPP) ALANA BEIDELMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director TIFFANY MOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Management Associate ERIC SIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Theatre Operations (Kirk Douglas Theatre) TOM BURMESTER . . Audience Experience Design/Front of House Mgr (Kirk Douglas Theatre) LAUREN BAXA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MAX OKEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facility Assistant (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SONDRA MAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PRODUCTION DAWN HOLISKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Department Operations Director JONATHAN BARLOW LEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) EMMET KAISER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) ROBERT RUBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) WILLIAM MORNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) DENNIS SEETOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) RICK GEYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LINDA WALKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) JOE HAMLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical Director/Ahmanson Production Manager CHAD SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Technical Director SAM CRAVEN-GRIFFITHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Technical Director ANDREW THIELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Manager MERRIANNE NEDREBERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Prop Manager SARAH KRAININ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Associate CANDICE CAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Director BRENT M. BRUIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Workroom Supervisor MADDIE KELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shop Assistant SWANTJE TUOHINO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tailor ELIZABETH LEONARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Operations Manager JULIO A. CUELLAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Driver/Custodian EUGENE A. MONTEIRO II, BRIAN SLATEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drivers JENNIFER ACHTERBERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Administrator SHAWN ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) ANDREW W. ARNOLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) STAN STEELMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JIM BERGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) PATRICE MIRANDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTY WEIKEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) KATE COLTUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) RICHARD PETERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) AARON STAUBACH . . . . . . . . . . . . Light Board Programmer/Operator (Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM PHALEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) VICTOR COBOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAMBRIA CHICHI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wardrobe Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES MICHAEL F. THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chief Financial Officer MELODY MATTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Controller JANIS BOWBEER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Controller XOCHITL RAMIREZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts Payable Coordinator FELICISIMA LAPID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts Payable Specialist DANNY LAMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Staff Accountant ALEGRIA SENA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff Accountant YUEN KI “ANNIE” LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Manager AMEETA SHARMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Specialist DAVE ALTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chief Information Officer STAN GRUSHESKY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Information Systems SEAN PINTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Database and Web Manager MANDY RATLIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DBA, Tessitura Administrator JARED WATANABE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Information Systems Analyst

JODY HORWITZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Human Resources MADRIO FLEEKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Human Resources Generalist SINGER LEWAK, LLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legal Counsel DEVELOPMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Development PATRICK OWEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deputy Director of Development NATALIE BERGESON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Donor Contributions JEAN KLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Institutional Support LIZ LIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Corporate Relations and Communications CHARITY WU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Individual Giving BECKY BIRDSONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Gifts Officer RYAN HONEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director of Special Initiatives ERIC BROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications Manager KATY HILTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grants Manager MANDI OR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Events Manager JENNIFER CHAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Events Associate JUSTIN FOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Contributions Associate SARAH HARBURG-PETRICH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Assistant DONALD JOLLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Relations Associate for the Inner Circle JESSICA NASH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Contributions Supervisor KIM OKAMURA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Institutional Giving Associate MARIA PAREDES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Relations Associate ALLAIN ROCHEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Assistant ERIC SEPPALA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to the Development Director ERIN SCHLABACH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Gifts Coordinator AL BERMAN, ERIN BUTLER, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, TONY LEWELLEN, HOLLY RAMOS, NICOLE SCIPIONE, LENA THOMAS, PAUL VITAGLIANO, BILL WALTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Advisors ADAM BURCH, KARLA GALVEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Services Associates ANNE BRUNER, MURRAY E. HELTZER, MARCI MILLER, JULIE NADAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Volunteers MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS KORY P. KELLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Marketing and Communications NANCY HEREFORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Director PHYLLIS MOBERLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Associate JASON MARTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Associate CHELSEY ROSETTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Coordinator NISHITA DOSHI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art Director IRENE KANESHIRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Design Manager HARUKA HAYAKAWA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Designer JAVIER VASQUEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Designer LOYDA GUADAMUZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Temporary Graphic Designer CODY LASSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Director ANDREW DARCEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertising Manager KAREN VOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Manager JEWEL MOORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Coordinator JAMES SIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Content Strategy Director ROSE POIRIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Webmaster CRAIG SCHWARTZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Photographer LARRY DEAN HARRIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copywriter CINEVATIVE/MARK CIGLAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Video ALLIED LIVE: LAURA MATALON, SHANNON WILLETT, KELLY ESTRELLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertising Agency TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ticket Operations Coordinator SANDY CZUBIAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience and Subscriber Services Manager JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE . . Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Asst. Supervisor SAM AARON, DEBORAH REED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Sales Associates JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., PETER COLBURN, DONALD CRANDALL, MICHAEL ESPINOZA, GARY HOLLAND, EILEEN PEREZ, JUSTINE PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, DANNY SCHMITZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Representatives DANUTA SIEMAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor LIGIA PISTE, CELIA RIVAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Senior Representatives IRENE CHUANG, PETER STALOCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Representatives SARAH K. GONTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office Treasurer KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Treasurers ANGELICA CARBAJAL, MICHAEL KEMPISTY, LEROY PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, CRIS SPACCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office Staff MICHAEL ZOLDESSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Account Sales Manager EILEEN ROBERTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Account Sales Associate KERRY KORF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Operations Manager JAY BURNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Sales Manager PAUL CUEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Manager CANDICE WALTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Assistant Supervisor CAROLE BAXTER, CELI BOWLING, RACHEL BRINK, ZOE CANNER,MAGGIE DODD, NIC DRESSEL, SOFIJA DUTCHER, MARC “BRYON” DROTMAN, SAMANTHA ELSE, LOU GEORGE, PATRICK HANNA, LISA KESSLER, SHEP KOSTER ,ALI LAFFER, MATT PELFREY, DONALD RIZZO, KEN SALLEY, KRISTEN SCHRASS, BOBBI LYNNE SCOTT, ANDREW SEVERYN, MICHAEL SMITH, QUINN SULLIVAN, BINOY THOMAS, DIANE WARD, JIM WATERMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Representatives INTERNS NICOLE ARCA, JIM BLACKETT, KASSANDRA CELIS, HILARY FITZSIMMONS, MONIKA GOEBEL, JOHN JOHNSON, KATE JOPSON, EMILY MISCHEL, ERIC MITCHELL, NICHOLAS NAVARRO, CODY PHAPOL, PAIGE PHELAN, MATTHEW QUINLAN, JUAN SILVERIO, KAT WEPLER, DANIELE WIEDER

Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication and extraordinary efforts.

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OUR SUPPORTERS

Center Theatre Group | Donor Recognition

Special Thanks to Artistic Director’s Circle Members for Supporting Center Theatre Group The Artistic Director’s Circle, founded by Brindell and Milton Gottlieb, is comprised of individuals supporting specific areas of Michael Ritchie’s artistic vision for Center Theatre Group. The following individuals have made commitments of $100,000 and above. (Donors listed as of July 18, 2014.)

Emerald Circle ($1 million+) Kirk & Anne Douglas Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation Eva & Marc Stern Ruby Circle ($500,000+) Anonymous Jeanette Shammas Sapphire Circle ($250,000+) Debra & Norris Bishton Louise & Brad Edgerton June & Gareth Hughes Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Diamond Circle ($100,000+) Judith & Thomas Beckmen Eileen & Ken Kaplan The Eugene La Pietra Foundation Margaret M. Bloomfield Renee & Meyer Luskin Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Dale S. & Shideh Miller Joseph & Mara Carieri Olivia & Anthony Neece Ruth Flinkman-Marandy & Ben Deidra Norman Schumann Marandy Maggy & Jack Simon Eric & Nancy Garen Judie Stein and Stein Family Foundation Kiki & David Gindler Sue Tsao Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Sheila & Wally Weisman Misty Widelitz In Memory of Morris A. Hazan Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Artists & Educators Forum ($20,000+) The Artists & Educators Forum, founded by Joni and Miles Benickes, is comprised of individuals dedicated to providing significant funding for CTG’s New Play Production and Education and Community Partnerships programs. For more information about leadership gifts, please call Erin Schlabach at 213.972.3069.

(Donors listed as of July 18, 2014.)

Melissa & Bob Alvarado Joni & Miles Benickes Rob & Joan Blackman Annette Blum Linda Brown Marla S. Campagna Bill Cohn & Dan Miller Erica & Vin Di Bona Dorskind Family Frances & Terry Flanagan Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Aliza & Marc Guren Heather & Paul Haaga In Support of New Theatre Artists Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Kehle Kelton Fund/Lenny & David Kelton

Vicki King Harry & Arlette Lumer Donna McKenna Linda S. Peterson Joyce & David Rabinov Bill Resnick Chester James Semel, M.D. Elliott R. Sernel Bui & Herb Simon Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer Sunshine Stone Mr. & Mrs. Ian D. Teague Karen & William Timberlake Robin & Gary Ungar Suzanne V. Wilson

Donors who have made additional gifts to Center Theatre Group’s Endowment or Planned Gifts programs.

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Center Theatre Group | Donor Recognition

Center Theatre Group Affiliates CTG-A has supported CTG since 1971. Through volunteering and fundraising, members introduce young people to the magic of live theatre. Its biennial gala, Angels’ Night, raises significant funds for CTG’s Education and Community Partnerships programs.

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Center Theatre Group Inner Circle Frances Flanagan, Inner Circle Chair

The Inner Circle is an organization of community leaders who provide outstanding support to Center Theatre Group. CTG also wishes to acknowledge its generous supporters in the Entertainment Circle, who are leaders in the entertainment industry (denoted below with *). In appreciation, members enjoy a host of special benefits, including meet-the-artist receptions, backstage tours, premium theatre seating, and much more. For information, call Donald Jolly at 213.972.3149. (Donors listed as of July 4, 2014.)

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Patron Circle (continued) Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Cohen Lou Colen Hon. Candace Cooper Corbell Family Donald & Zoe Cosgrove Reverend Daniel J. Coyle Nancy Cypert Eunice David Lee & Janet Dicker Kenneth Donaldson Julia Donoghue Anne M. Dougherty & David B. Dobrikin Bob & Gabrielle Ducsay Ms. Anita H. Dymant & Mr. Richard Drooyan Joanna Exacoustos Lynda & Al Fadel Pat Fleming Judith R. Forman & Richard N. Weiner James W. Franke Cindy & Gary Frischling Mr. & Mrs. Homer Garten Debra Gastler & Andrew Malloy Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Geller Rocky & Deborah Gentner Dr. Ellen Smith Graff Beverly & Felix Grossman Lisa Guerin Lorrie & Richard Gurewitz Roberta L. Haft Michael Hanel* The Harshberger Family Chet & Sheila Hasday Tanna Handley Havlick Dr. & Mrs. Randy W. Hawkins Betty & Irwin Helford Zvia Hempling Winifred C. Hervey* Phil Hettema The Jim Hicks Family Foundation Alicia Hirsch & Jesse Russo* Walmilly Foundation Sam Ho, M.D. Elizabeth Hoage Dorothy Hoffman Gail & Stanley Hollander Joan H. Hotchkis Harold Igdaloff Jennifer L. Jackman & John P. Hott Roslyn & Warren Jacobson Ms. Judy K. Jeanson James Jennings & Deidre Steine Carol & Bruce Johnston Mary Quon Jung & Michael Galindo Gary & Denise Kading Alan & Sharon Kane Cari & Marty Kavinoky Gary W. Kearney Mille & Bob Kern Janice A. Kido In Memory of Lynn Kinikin Annette & Dr. Charles Kleeman Bob & Karen Ulman Knapp Harvey & Ellen Knell Foundation J. Koenig Vicki & Seth Kogan Norman & Leslie Koplof

Deborah & Jacob Kotzubei The Paul Kowal Charitable Foundation Sheila Krasnoff Mr. & Mrs. Stan Krasnoff Carol Krause Sharon Lapid/LFCF Infiniti of Thousand Oaks Dr. & Mrs. Martin S. Lasky Craig Lawson & Terry Peters Bob Leibowitz, M.D. Gordon Lemke & Brian Rogers Ronald Levenson & Marcia Gold Levenson Mrs. Gayle Leventhal Michael Levin & Michael Wiener Edward Lewis Barbara K. Lilly Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D. Judy & Alan Ludwig Crystal & Elwood Lui Mr. & Mrs. Matt Lyons Sandra & Kenneth Malamed Jeff Mandel Barbara & Garry Marshall* Theodore K. Martinez* Melanie McDaniel Dreux & Lynn McNairy Barbara & Fred Miller Lee & Ron Miller Marshall & Gretchen Milligan Joanne & Joel Mogy Mildred M. & Earl Moon Mary Lou Mooney Diane Morton Patricia W. Mullenbach & Mary Mullenbach Hooper Sheila Muller Ron Myrick Kari L. Nakama Robert & Sally Neely Patty & John Nickoll Margrit & Norman Oberstein Michael R. Oppenheim Gail & Gerald Oppenheimer Janie & Allan Orenstein Diane & David Paul Carol Phillips & Bob Shapiro Dr. & Mrs. Irv Posalski Dr. Sheila Philips & Michael Powell Drs. Laurence J. & Isabell B. Purdy Dean Madeline Puzo* Gail & Gary Rachelefsky Mr. Richard J. Ramirez, Jr.* Paula F. Reach Mr. & Mrs. Boyd C. Reeves Barbara & Bill Roberts Elaine Binder Robinson William & Sue Roen Ellen & Mike Rosenberg Jaclyn B. Rosenberg Leonard J. & JoAnn Roth Maggie Russell Dana Saladen & Linda Walters

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Faith Annette Sand & Albert Gleaves Cohen In Memory of Honey Sanders Eloise Schlesinger & Peggy J. Schlesinger From Darlene in Memory of Harry Schultz Peter & Susan Schwab Joan & Arnold Seidel Ruth & Mitchell Shapiro Nina Shaw & Wallace Little* Gloria Sherwood

Loretta H. Shine Louis & Mary Silver Foundation Shani Smolens & In Memory of Dr. Bernard Smolens Drs. Debra & Philip Sobol Sue & Steve Soldoff Judith & Stan Solomon Clumeck Stern Schenkelberg & Getzoff Judy Stone

Tracy A. Stone Terence Tchen & Emily Breckenridge Peter & Mary Tennyson Peter & Iona Tompkins Sandra Tufts Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin Louis & Harold Price Foundation Julia Voce Tebby & Kathryn Wafer Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Wallace

Susan & William Weintraub Doug & Ellen Weitman Barbara & Edmund Wilkinson David Williamson Jenene J. Wilson & Kristiana A. Wilson Jennifer Crittenden & William Wrubel* Virginia & Greg Young Arnold H. & Tricia L. Zane Martin & Rosalind Zane

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Anonymous (19), Gay & Harry Abrams/Abrams Artists Agency, Amy & Bob Abramson, Matthew Adler & Greg Weinberg, Florence C. Agcawili*, Geraldine & Harold Alden, Ignacio Alfaro, Helen Allan, Merryl & David A. Alpert, Carol L. Archie & Edward L. Keenan, Deanna & Richard Ashby, Suzanne & Bill Attig, Linda A. Ayers, Cheryl & Elliott Balbert, Linda Barnett, Eric & Jasna Baron, Yvonne & Derek Bell, Barbara Bauer & Lawrence Cox, Dr. Martine Bauwens, Harriet A. Beck, Elissa & Sheldon Becker, Bernie Beiser, Beth Bennett & Larry McAdams, Fran R. Berger, Elliot & Roberta Berkowitz, Drs. Jack & Barbara Berman, Jo Bernard & B. K. Phillips, Bob Besser, Ellen Bienenfeld*, Susan Booth & Christopher Wadden, Alice Desobry Bowens, Lynne Braiman, Paul & Carol Bressan, Sandra Brewer*, Robert Brook & Jackie Kosecoff, Dr. Leon & Rochelle Brooks, Stu Brower, Neil H. & Karen Hochman Brown, Regina & Todd Brown, Anne Bruner & James Bremner, Rick Buche & Vin Reilly*, Todd Michael Buchner, Norman Buckley & Davyd Whaley*, Dr. Lisa Bukaty & Mr. Raymond M. Bukaty, Mr. & Mrs. James Burrows*, John J. Byers, Allen B. Cagle, M.D., Judy Carmel, Erica Hiller Carpenter & Kevin E. Carpenter*, Rosemary & Peter Casey*, The Castaldo Family, Betty Jane’s Creations, Mike Cavalluzzi at Cavalluzzi & Cavalluzzi, Mr. Peter Chapa, Maria & Brenton Chinn, The Honorable Judith C. Chirlin, Nicholas Chrisos, Nadege & Jay Conger, Lloyd Eric Cotsen, Leah M. Coulter, Christine & Kevin Crombie, Robert Cushnir & Perry Lewis, Paula F. Cwikly*, Louise & Jeffrey Davis, Bill & Ellie D’Elia*, Mrs. George DeRoy & Cathy DeRoy, Mike & Jamie DiFiori, Milton L. Dranow & Betty J. Dranow Family Foundation, Nick Dudzak*, Robin C. Dumas, Greg H. Dunn, James A. Durant, Dr. & Mrs. William Duxler, Leslie J. Edmonds, Earl & Karen Enzer, David & Joyce Evans, Alan & Barbara Faiola, Carmen & Bob Farmer, Mr. & Mrs. William Fimpler, Chris Cookson & Lauren Firestone, Darcy Fleck*, Laura E. Fox, M.D. & John D. Hofbauer, M.D., Sylvia Fredricks, Lora Fremont, Sharon & Elliott T. Friedman, Rosalie Friis-Ross, Ellen Fujikawa, Tomas Fuller & William Kelly, Suzanne & Howard Furst, Robin & Leonard R. Garner, Jr.*, Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Garrett, Lesley & Kenneth Geiger, Herbert Gelfand, Freddi & Marvin Gelfand, Cristina Gerla, Adam Gershwin, Jeri & Keith Gertzman, Gessner - Nelson Family*, Lori Glickman, Dr. Irene Goldenberg, Mr. & Mrs. Efrain Gonzalez, Edith Gould, Elaine & Michael Gray, Lenore S. & Bernard A. Greenberg Fund, Ronald & MaryAnn Greenberg, David & Diane Griffith, Pam Grissom, Gary Gross & Keith VanDerlaan, Marcy & Edgar Gross*, Tom & Claudia Grzywacz, Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Guerin, Shirley Guy, Dave & Sally Hackel*, Mr. Jeffrey L. Hall & Mr. Kevin A. Yoder, Dr. Barry A. Halote, Cynthia & Dr. Solomon Hamburg, Carolyn & Bernard Hamilton, Paul & Audrey Hanneman, William D. Hardie, Sam Harris, Johnny Ruth Harrison, M.D., Steve & Toya Harrison, Al & Sandy Haveson, Gene Hawkins, Hays & Clark Family, Barbara & Bud Hellman, Gail & Murray Heltzer, Dr. Stephen D. Henry & Rudy Oclaray, Don Herman, Donna L. Herman*, Karen & Stephen Hillenburg, Lois Petzold-Hindin, Rand Hoffman & Charlotte Robinson, Marcia & Gary Hollander, Danise Holloway & Rob Kautz, Toni Hoyt, Doris & Mel Hughes, Mr. & Mrs. William H. Hurt, Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Itami, Mitchell Jacobs, Lawrence J. Jaffe, M.D., Jonathan & Melissa Jaivin, Sean Johnson & Alex Ocampo*, Mark A. Kadzielski, Deborah & Ivan Kallick, Kathleen L. Kane, Judith & Russell Kantor, Dr. Karen Kartun & Dr. Ronald Shiell, Elyse & Stanley Katz, Idea Asylum Productions & Dr. Allegra & Mr. Sheppard Kaufman*, Michael Keir, Judith G. Kelly, Jackie A. Kern, Dr. Alex Kim, M.D., Carol Kindler, Michael & Deborah Klein, Genni Klein, Sharon L. Kline, Jale Kutay, The Kwon Family Foundation, Nita Whitaker LaFontaine, Katherine L’Amour, Mr. & Mrs. Jack D. Lantz, Joan & Chris Larkin, Dr. & Mrs. David Lask, Allen J. Law, Mattie & Michael Lawson, Michael & Sandy Leahy, Eleanor & Nathan Leanse, Ron & Pat Lebel, Barbara & Andrew Leigh, Charlotte P. Levine, Pam, Amanda, Lianna & Eddie, Marla E. Levine*, Lydia & Chuck Levy, Michael D. Lewis, Mae & Hugh Lichtig, Lisa Hinchliffe & Dave Link, Marilyn & Tom Lippiatt, Dennis & Holli Lipton, Philip LoGiudice, M.D., Dr. Dianne Long, Mr. & Mrs. Mark S. Louchheim, Michael S. Lurey & Laurie Hasencamp, Anita & Steve Layton, E&B Natural Resources, Daniel & Jeremy Burton, Ginny Mancini, Janice E. Mangerino, Dorrie & Paul Markovits, M. Michele Martin, Susan D. Martynec, Laura & Jim Maslon, Amy & Harold Masor, David & Elizabeth McFadzean*, Jerry & Tami McHarg, Lora McPhail & Mark Deischter, Gordon & Dale McWilliams, Robert L. Mendow, Marcy Milan, Neal S. Millard, Carolyn Miller, Philip & Joan Miller, Lawrence A. Mirisch*, Steven Modglin, Joan I. Moe, Sue & Monty Mohrman, Toni Hollander-Morse & Lon Morse, Loula Moschonas & James Edgerton, Wendy A. Moss, Richard Newcome, Marianne & Michael Newman, Marc I. Nishino, D.D.S., Bob & Renee Nunn, Judy Nussenblatt, Valerie Oishi, Edward & Mary Rose Ortega, Tye Ouzounian & Karyn Wong, Jennifer N. Owens & Jay T. Ornellas, John Paley, Kirk Pasich, Mr. Peter T. Paterno, Thomas Patrick, Dr. Renee Boblette & Dr. Robert G. Patterson, Thomas Payne, Helen Pekny, Ken Perry, Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Pescetti, Cynthia Ann Petty, P. Joseph Piazza, Polinger-Cohen Foundation, Sheila Poncher, Patty & Mike Post*, Ruth & Allen Potts, Shelley Powsner & Stephen Skrovan*, Cheryl & Joel Prell, Gamward C. Quan, Don Foster & Erin Quigley*, Dr. Gary Ramelli, Lee Ramer, Rollin A. Ransom & Chris Lacroix, Dudley Rauch, Michael Reisz, James & Melanie Renfroe*, Dr. Marguerite Renner, Rona Cele Resnick, Mrs. Mark A. Resnik, Susan & Walter Reutimann, The Reynolds Family, Brian Reznick & Alison Prior, Melissa L. Rhone, Mrs. Judy Richman, Ms. Carlene Ringer, Belinda Robins, Ms. Woodie R. Rogers, Jaye Rogovin, Murphy & Ed Romano*, Lois Rosen, Jennifer & Matthew Rowland, Phyllis Rubel, Joel, Kai & Piper Saken, Rosa M. Salazar, June & Samuel Sale, John Salter, Olga Samuel-Alderson, Nancy & Ted Sanborn, Francine E. Sanders, Gail Sandford & Beatrice Castillo, Stephen J. Sass & Steven Hochstadt, June Sanders Sattler, Wes Schaefer & Cathy King-Schaefer, Marlene & Roger Schaffner, Martin Salvin & Barbara Schneider, Jackie & Charles H. Schwartz, Robert & Cathy Sevell, Scott Shagrin, James & Alexis Sheehy, The Sheldon Family, Linda M. Sherman, Howard & Stephanie Sherwood, Mary Louise Shnier, Steven E. Shulem, Jan & Carl Siechert, Mike & Charlene Sievers, Dr. & Mrs. Vahe H. Simonian, Kurt & Keli Skarin, Stephen & Judith Slagle, Deborah E. Small, M.D., Ellen Donaldson, David Snow, Mr. & Mrs. Randy Snyder, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sobelle, Christine Helppie-Soldate, Melvin Spears, Bruce & Debra Spector, Betty & Al Spivak, Jacque & Herb Spivak, Lynne Coakley-Steele, Allen & Arleen Steiner, Mrs. Barbara Stern, Susan R. Stockel, Ellen & Steve Sugerman, Sullivan & Hargreaves Court Reporters,

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Every “Once Upon A Time” began with her...

Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell Sussman, Robin & David Swartz, Dr. Allan & Roslyn Holt Swartz, Elayne & Thomas Techentin, Karl S. Thurmond, Ricardo Torres & Nat Damon, Roberta Turkat, Michael Robertson & Scott Turner*, Ms. Andrea Valcourt, Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Volk, Hope Landis Warner, Wendie Warwick & Ken Pierce, John & Charlene Wasilczyk, Seymour Waterman & Family, Dean E. Weichel*, Norman & Barbara Weiler, Bonnie Weis*, Winifred P. & William Weisinger, Pat West, Carol S. Wharmby, Leilani Whitney, Willett Financial Services, Lori Williams & Stephen Schulte, Valerie & Nathaniel E. Williams, Alan Wilson & Ina Coleman, Denise & Andrew Winner, The Winnick Family Foundation, Richard Witter*, Ralph M. & Molly Wolveck, Marcie & Howard Zelikow

Advocate Circle ($2,000+) Anonymous (4), Davis Alexander, Lynne & Donald Alschuler, Liz & Lou Altman, Ms. Audrey Bahr, Mr. David Bailey & Mr. Ronald Shalowitz, Deborah G. Baine, Jill Banks Barad, Melanie & Gregory Barbee, John & Carol Barcal, Elizabeth Bawden, Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Bergjans, Jamie & Joel Berman, Mr. & Mrs. John Bettfreund, Rochelle Wilson Blank & William Hellman, Marjorie Blatt, Mrs. Lois Bock, Harriet Rossetto & Rabbi Mark Borovitz, James & Lauren Briggs, Willie & Charlene Brownlee, The Burleigh Family, Linda Stafford Burrows, Dr. & Mrs. George Byrne, Christine Cahill, Laura Calderone, Thomas J. Carmichael, Jean & Ray Cassetta, Mrs. Joseph Cerrell, Mr. Harry B. Chandler, Tim Cherry, Eric Chien, Patricia T. Colby, Lois Cox, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Crook Jr., Don & Claudine DeFazio, Dr. Allison Diamant, Gerald & Sandra Dorfman, Jessie J. Duffy, Regina L. Echols, Emily & Fred Edelman, Jill & Bob Eisfelder, Louise & Charles Escoffery, Ellen Eubanks, Ronald & Sandra Fein, Elizabeth Gans, Dr. Robert Gasway & Mrs. Kristen Wong, Dr. & Mrs. Arthur F. Gelb, The Gelfand Family, Jeanne K. Gerson, Bruce & Madelyn Glickfeld, The Gold Family, Linda & Gary Goldfein, Neal Goldman & Kate Harrington, Myles & Barbara Goodson, Howard & Cambria Gordon, Rhonda & Stanley Green, Agnes Grohs, Arlyn Gundersen, Philip & Kyoko Handler, Sara & John Harms, Janet Harootun, Arlene S. Harris, Diane & J.P. Harris, Dr. Patricia Harrison, Steve & Leta Helfrich, Dr. Karen Hill Scott, Jody L. Isenberg, Dr. Adel F. Jabour, Hal & Agnes Jackson, Adrienne Grant & Paul Jennings, Ms. Stella M. Jeong, Roz & Jerry J. Joseph, Regina & Richard G. Kaplan, Albert & Marjorie Kelly, Danné Montague-King, Paul & Sharon Kleiter, Terry Koepke, Sharon & Joel Krischer, Bob & Karen Kushell, Lena, Mark, Jodi & Emily Labowe, Howard & Lara L. Ladd, Holly R. Lake, Anne & Michael Landsburg, Marlee & Katharine Lauffer, Julie Lawrence, Ms. Grace Leonard, Richard & Vivian Levy, Julia & Anthony Lewinter, Linden Optometry, Herbert Linville, Loris & Kory Lunsford, Doris Luster, Richard & Myra Mannheimer Family, Suzanne J. Marks, Mr. & Mrs. Dennis G. Martin, Ms. Jeanne Hoffa, Sharon Matsumoto & Ron Rose, Daniel M. Mayeda & Susan I. Rosales, Colleen T. McCarthy, Kathleen McCarthy Kosttan, James A. Zapp & Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Bill Meyenberg & Doug Loewy, Lorraine & Craig Meyer, Julien Minard, Helene G. Mochedlover, Dr. Theodore & Mrs. Mary J. Mock, Rob & Leslie Nagby, Dr. Diane C. Narhi, M.D., Jack Needleman, Dr. Anthony Nesburn, Isabel Friend Newman, Ms. Jane Nobbs, Linda Nussbaum & Lawrence Ross, Mr. & Mrs. Mark M. Panatier, Ms. Sandra J. Paskus, Sharon Pember, Mary Phillips, Frank & Arlene Pirolo, Paulene Popek, Eleanor Pott, Erwin “Sonny” & Jean Raffle, Tracy L. Ramont, Charles Reinhart, Tim Reynolds, M.D., Laurie & Stuart Rice, Tom & Gerry Rische, Lauren Ross, Rabbi & Mrs. Moshe Rothblum, Anna J. Rundle, In Honor of Robert Edward Sabol, Lee Anne & David Sanderson, Suzie & Michael Scott, Susan & Michael Shore, Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Shulman, Nancy Signer, Ruth Silveira, Bruce & Nancy Silverman, Harlean & Joseph Silverman, Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Simon, Nancy Horii, Ruth & Harvey Solomon, Diane & James Staes, Tom & Kerstin Stempel, Robert Stephenson, Mr. James C. Stewart, Maria Straith, Deborah K. Streiber, Jayashree & Jeff Sung, Ellen Tam, Ronald & Shelly Tamkin, Michael N. Taylor, Stephen Taylor, Sheila & Lawrence Teplin, Michelle Tesoro, William & Susan Tinkley, Ms. Patricia R. Torres, Paulette Toumazos & Michael Lorenz, Jean Trutanich, J. R. Vincent, Ms. Diane Levine & Mr. Robert Wass, Carol Webster & Chris Enterline, Karen & Bill Wolett, Jill Wondries, Dr. Merilynn Yamada, Dr. & Mrs. Gary Yontef, Kenneth & Soyoung Yoon, Myrna & Stanley Zimmerman

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Anonymous (22), Josefina Aaronson, M.D., Michael & Susan Abeles, Cynthia Abrams, Dr. Gladi Adams, Robert W. Adams, M.D., Bertha Aguilar, Dawn Brewer, Andrew Aichlmayr, Joseph Aldama, James & Marsha Alexander, George Cyrus Allen, Lynn K. Altman, Mrs. Nora Amrani & Mr. Israel Amrani, Paula & Douglas Anderson, Milt & Anne Andres, Dr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Anthony, Amy Aquino & Drew McCoy*, Paula & Don Arii, James Armitage, Rich & Annette Atwood, Albert E. Aubin, John & Mike August*, Maggie Austin Moir*, W. Lee Bailey, M.D., David Baird, Carol Ann & D.C. Bakeman*, Barry M. Baker, Shelly Baker, Corinne Baldassano*, Marcia E. Baldeschwieler, Dr. Stewart & Eileen Balikov, Chane & Sandi Balog, David Baltimore & Alice Huang, Pat Barkley, Patricia Barry, Mrs. Jericho Poppler & Dr. Greg Bartlow, Stacey Batzer, Ginger G. Bauer, Chris & Rose Bauss, Marjorie Beale, Judy & Chuck Beck, David Bender, Bob & Terry Bennett, Robert Berens*, Delores & Roger Berg, Susan & Adam Berger, Jeffrey & Susan Berman, Ed Bernstein, June & Paul Bilgore, Peter & Helen Bing, Leah M. Bishop & Gary M. Yale, In Memory of Sy & Maxine Gomberg, Michael & Patty Blakely, Louise Blanchard, Lily Bland, Cheryl Bledin, Bill & Jeanne Bliss, Rosanna Bogart, Richard & Patricia Bongeorno, Richard Bradbury, Dr. Grace Emery Brandt, Kim Brant-Lucich & Tony Lucich, Marti Breier, Judy & David Breitstein, Devra Breslow, Wallace P. Brithinee, Dr. & Mrs. Alan Brooks, Henry Brown, L.D. Brucker, D.D.S. & Shirley White, Elliott Brunner & Nourit Korzennik, Ph.D., Max Bruno, Ward & Mari Bukofsky, Carola & Allen Bundy, Constance Burg, Lore & Thomas Burger, Jan Burnett, Robert & Angie Butler, Ms. Valerie Butler, Mike & Sandy Buttitta, Lynne Campbell, Vickie Camper, Cathy Paul, Kelly Cantley & Kevin Kashima*, Cindy Carlin & Jeffrey Rousso, Carol & Ken Carlson, Melinda Carmichael, Joseph A. Carter, Sandra L. Carter, Veronica Cartwright*, Toni Casala & Children in Film*, Joan L. Cashia, Marc Castagnola, Don & Ellen Castleman, James Castranova, Kathryn Cencirulo, Ling Chan, Rita Chenoweth, Mrs. James L. Chew, Edwina Travis Chin & Robert Miller*, Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Chin, Linda & Doug Clarke, Becky & Mike Clements*, Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clemmer, Timothy Cline Insurance, Dr. Melvin S. Cohen, Father Vince Connor, Gail Conway, James M. Cooke, Kim & Anthony Cookson, Mary P. Coquillard, Ted Cordes & Bill Derby, Rosalie Corona, Earl & Christina Cory, Mark Coulombe, Seth Cover, Susan Cowan, Michele Crahan, Elsie Cripe, Kathryn Crown, In Honor of Gloria Cuepo, In Memory of Ada Gory, Mary & Don Curtin, Joan Danto, Steve & Linda Darling, Maurie Davidson, Ron de Salvo, Linda Vanwinkle Deacon & Erika Deacon, Kurt Delsack & Linda J. Levenson Delsack, Suzie Demer, Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Descombes, Melisa DesJardien, M. Dessecker, Adam Devejian, Sall G. Dewitt., Norma & Al Diaz, Dr. & Mrs. Donald E. Dickerson, Barbara Dischler, Laurie Dix-Blumin & Moe Blumin, Kathleen & Sarah Doramus, Rabbi Elliot & Marlynn Dorff, Bob Doucette & Tom Slotten*, Susan B. Downey, Mr. & Mrs. Gene B. Duncan, Mr. Richard Nupoll, Mr. Fred M. Edwards Jr., Mrs. Marilee Eils, Donald & Diane Eisenberg, Sandi Love & Hilly Elkins*, Rick & Becky Thyne, Ken & Kathi Ellis, Dr. Naomi & Mr. Jim Ellison, Stanley & Ferne Emas, Suzanne & Dr. Kenneth Epstein, Victoria I. Evers, Rena & Peter Falk, Jim Bright & Lucy Farber, Mr. Amnon & Dr. Myra Feffer,

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Associate Circle (continued) In Loving Memory of James A. Feiga, Deb & Irwin Feinberg, Justice & Mrs. Robert Feinerman, Stanley Feinstein, Johanna & Gene Felder, Mr. & Mrs. Ed Feo, Conchata Ferrell, Roland & Joy Feuer, Barbara Fish, M.D., Larry S. Fish, In Memory of Robert A. Fisher, Mr. & Mrs. Manny Flekman, Ruth Fleming-Stephens, Martha Flores & Kate Roberts, Lynne & Michael Flynn, Judy & Radon Fortenberry, The Foster Family, Victoria Fouce Otter, Mr. & Mrs. Stan Fox, Ramona Franco & Suzanne Golbricht, Matthew Frank, Richard Frank, Patricia L. Frazier, Ms. Joanie Freckmann, Fran Fredella & Scott Rubin, Joanne Freed & Richard C. Mendelson, Marilyn Wallace & Sami Freedman, Seth Freeman & Julie Waxman*, Mr. & Mrs. Louis Friedman, Sharon & Mark E. Friedman, Ronald & Sandy Friedman, Susan R. Friedman, Robin Fujimoto, Mr. John Fukuoka, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Fusco, Diane Futterman, Dr. & Mrs. Humberto A. Galleno, Donna Garber, Karen & Lindsay Gardner, Carrie Garrett, Frederick & Leslie Gaylord, Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Gershon, Fariba Ghaffari, Bob & Esme Gibson, Laura Gibson*, Karen & Michael Gilbert, Stephen & Linda Gill, Drs. Asha & Pratap Saraf, Liz & Mike Giordano, Dr. Gary & Mrs. Cherna Gitnick, Kelly Lynn Gitter, Traute & Gene Gleeson, Howard Gleicher, The Gluck Family, Bob Gold & Associates*, Donna & Lee B. Gold, M.D., Michael Gold & Danny Robles, Josh & Cathy Goldsmith, Barbara Gollin, Ms. Dorothy Gonzalez, Nan & Allan Goodman, The J.B. Berland Foundation, Tanya Goodman, Goodstein Wealth Management, LLC., Bill & Sue Gordon, David Goren*, Marsha Grant, James & Margaret Gray, Dr. Stuart & Adrienne Green, Lory Greenbaum, Roberta Gregg, Patricia Griggs, Dr. & Mrs. Leonard P. Haber, Dennis & Michelle Hackbarth, Michelle Haines, Scott Hall & Rhonda Church, Carol Halperin, Kamala Hamilton, Mary & Jim Hamlin, Daniel Hammond & Linda Bentley, Debra Harbort, Margaret Harrington, Harris Family Foundation, Dawna R. Harrison, Christine Shaner, David Heckel*, Alan Heilpern, Eric & Carol Helm, Scott & Flora Herman, Mara Hitner, Elaine Hoffman, Bunny Hogan, Steven Holguin, Joanne Holmes, Deborah & Robert Holmes, Dena & Michael Horowitz, Mary N. Howey, Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Hrab, Dr. Harold G. Hubbard, Jane Hufnagel, Dorothy K. Hull, Marilyn Hykes, Marie Mazzone & David Israeli, Susan & Larry Ivanjack, Barry & Joanne Jacobs, Karen & Jake Jacobs, Tom Jacobson & Ramone Munoz*, Sarah James, Ms. Lee Ann Janek, Marion Jenks, In Memory of Wayne Jervis, Jr., Ann C. Johnson, Barbara Schnell & Gordon Johnson, Starr & Ralph Johnson, Robert & Marilyn Johnson, Mr. V. Douglas Johnson, David & Carol Jones, Marcia S. Jones, Charline Jones, Robert Joy*, Sandy & Stanley Kahan, Aris Kakkis, Richard Kaltenbrun, Mark Kaplan*, Marilyn & Jeffrey Katzenberg, Laurence & Linda Kaufman, Cynthia & Jerry Kay, Saul & Rima Kay, Diane & Stephen Kay, Claudia E. Kazachinsky & Richard A. Sherer, Ms. Andalusia Kear*, Mary & Paul Kearney, Patricia A. Keating, John & Karen Keller, Neel Keller & Molly Callender, Beverlee Bickmore & Jim Kelly, Louanne Kennedy, Sharon Kerson, Morris & Debra Kessler, Linda & Rudy Kessman, Lisa & James Keston, Lynne Rosenberg, Sarah E. Kiefer*, Jules Kievits & Lorraine Bagdasarian, Irene & Marvin H. Kleinberg, Stacy Kling, William Kobin & Frances Goodman, Jean D. Koehler, Jean Korf, Jenny & Michael Kostroff*, Bernelle Krause & Jao Robert Santos, Dr. Paul Krause & Nicola Dill, Pickerell & Krinel, Fred & Sheri Kuppers, Owen & Sari Kustner, Rosalind La Briola, Mrs. Frumeh Labow, Kelliann Ladd & John Gatti, Julianne LaMarche & Lonnie Burstein*, Earle & Sharon Lambert, Patricia & Bob Lambson, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert A. Lampert, Leah Landry*, Kim Maria Lattimore, Richard & Ruth Lavine Family Foundation, Dr. & Mrs. John F. Lawrence, Larry Layne & Sheelagh Boyd, Barbara & Tom Leanse, Christine Lee, Janeen & David Lee, Betty Fu & Don Lee, James & Karen Lefever, Lester G. Lennon, Constance Leonard, Ali & Adrienne LeRoi, Dinny & David Lesser, Chip Letzgus & Michael McDonald, Todd Levin*, Allyn & Jeffrey Levine, Patricia Levinson, Carrie & Mark Levinson & Emily, Lauren & Max, Donna & Jebb Levy, Richard Lewis, Paula & Barrett Litt, Mr. & Mrs. LoCasale, Deanna J. Lohse, Mrs. Jan Loomis,

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Associate Circle (continued) Judith Toscano, Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Tremonti, Scott & Lauri Ujita, In Memory of Stephen J. Uman, M.D., John Van Deusen, Mary F. Van Orsdol, George Vissio, Margaret A. Wagner CPA, M. June Walden, Laurie & Ira Waldman, Andrew Kevin Walker & Julie Durk, Bunny Wallach, Denise & Peter Walsh, Robert Ward, Tina & Michael Gittelson, Maurice & Tamika Watkins, Elisa Wayne, Thomas & Kathryn Weber, Rose & Ben Weinstein, Victoria Weisbart*, John & Alaine Weiss, Lauri Weiss, Kathy Weisshaar, Dr. & Mrs. Steve Kahane, Robert Wemischner & Leslie Raffel, John & Martha Wengert, Richard Wenk, Suzanne & Clyde Wesp, Martin, Sara & Samantha Widzer, Susan & Joshua Wieder, Carol Woodbury*, Dr. Libby F. Wilson, Patty & Richard Wilson, Carolee Winstein & Kip Thorne, Exodus Recovery, Catherine Witherspoon & James MacArthur, Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Wolf, Michele A. Kerr Wolfe, Mr. Titus D. Wong, Stephen E. Wright, Frank & Karen Wurtzel, Virginia Yeager, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Yoder-Edney, Wally T. Zajac, Liz & Len Zander, George Ziegler, The Zolkover Family, Anne & Alan Zuckerman, Abram & Dayle Zukor

Government Support Center Theatre Group appreciates the support of the following agencies.

British Council The City of Culver City City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles County Arts Commission National Endowment for the Arts U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Center Theatre Group wishes to acknowledge the California Arts Council’s many years of generous support.

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Foundation Support These institutions support Center Theatre Group’s operations, arts education programs, new play production initiatives or specific projects. For more information, call our grants information line at 213.972.3090.

2014-2015

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THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION CENTER THEATRE GROUP AFFILIATES EDGERTON FOUNDATION ELISABETH KATTE HARRIS TRUST THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST FOUNDATION THE JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION THE RALPH M. PARSONS FOUNDATION LLOYD E. RIGLER-LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION LAURA & JAMES ROSENWALD & ORINOCO FOUNDATION THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION, INC. STEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION THE DREAM FUND AT UCLA DONOR ADVISED FUND THE WELLS FARGO FOUNDATION

FEATURED IN OCTOBER & NOVEMBER: Andrew Sullivan London Philharmonic Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Todd Ellison: Broadway’s Greatest Hits Czech Philharmonic Orchestra , chief conductor and music director The Second City’s 55th Anniversary Tour

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For more information, call Jessica Thorson at 213.972.3189. (Donors listed as of July 16, 2014.)

Sheri Biller, Founding Chair Corporate Circle Cabinet Jennifer Altfeld Landau, Chair Jonathan Axel Dannielle Campos Ramirez Nick Donovan

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Center Theatre Group | Donor Recognition

Planned Gifts Center Theatre Group is grateful to these donors, whose irrecovable deferred estate gifts to CTG’s endowment ensure the organization’s financial wellbeing for generations to come. $1,000,000+ Richard & Julie Kagan Martin Massman Betty McMicken in honor of Jeanette Shammas Diane & Leon Morton Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin $500,000+ Mary Levin Cutler Virginia Hayes Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Merle & Peter Mullin Magda & Frederick R. Waingrow $250,000+ Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Edward L. Rada Susan & William Weintraub

$100,000+ W. Lee Bailey, M.D. Angela Bardowell Allan & Joan Burns Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Deborah M. Hyde Sarah & Andy Kane Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh The Paul Kowal Charitable Foundation Darell L. Krasnoff Joyce & Kent Kresa Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D. $50,000+ Pamela & Dennis Beck The Moira Byrne Foster Foundation Mr. Kim L. Hunter Sally & Frank Raab $25,000+ Charles Dillingham & Susan D. Clines

Endowment Gifts These gifts ensure a stable source of support for new work and Center Theatre Group’s many initiatives to make theatre accessible to underserved audiences. $500,000+ Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Renee & Meyer Luskin John S. Surabian, Jr. and in memory of Faith and Sharon Ann Surabian $250,000+ The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation $100,000+ Betsy & Harold Applebaum Judith & Thomas Beckmen The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Kenneth Corday Center Theatre Group Affiliates Regina Fadiman Barbara & Peter Fodor Ava & Charles Fries Brindell & Milton Gottlieb

The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Vicki King Richard G. & Virginia L. Martin Louise Taper $50,000+ Maynard & Linda Brittan Ellen & Michael S. Korney Dorothy & Richard Sherwood $25,000+ Abbott Brown Linda Brown Greve Foundation Dr. Tom Hickey Diane & Leon Morton $10,000+ A and J Davidson Skipper Award Fund Levine Foundation Carolyn & Kit Lokey Betty & Sanford Sigoloff

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Connect. Explore. Engage.

In theatre terms, a grid is where everything comes together; it’s a network of steel that supports the scenery and lights.

Center Theatre Group’s new interactive blog, The GRID, is where theatre-lovers like you come together to read behind-the-scenes stories, discuss the work on CTG’s stages and catch up on the latest theatre news.

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Center Theatre Group | Donor Recognition

National Corporate Theatre Fund National Corporate Theatre Fund is a not-for‑profit created to increase and strengthen support from the business community for this country’s most distinguished professional theatres, including Center Theatre Group. The following donors support these theatres through their contributions to NCTF: Chairman’s Circle ($250,000+) Edgerton Foundation* Ford Foundation* The James S. and Lynne P. Turley Ernst & Young Fund for Impact Creativity** Leadership Circle ($100,000+) CMT/ABC**† The Hearst Foundations**

THE BACKSTABBING BEGINS SEPTEMBER 12TH - NOVEMBER 9TH! NOHO ARTS CENTER 11136 MAGNOLIA BLVD., NORTH HOLLYWOOD CA 91601

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Theatre Executives ($50,000-$99,000) Bank of America Wells Fargo** Benefactors ($25,000-$49,999) Buford Alexander and Pamela Farr* BNY Mellon Steven Bunson** Cisco Systems, Inc.* Citi Ernst & Young Priscilla and Keith Geeslin* Goldman, Sachs & Co. LG&E and KU Energy* MetLife Morgan Stanley Pfizer, Inc. Roe Green Foundation* Douglas and Janet True* Pacesetters ($15,000‑$24,999) American Express* Bloomberg Southwest Airlines**† Theatermania.com/ Gretchen Shugart George S. Smith, Jr.** James S. Turley* UBS White & Case LLP* Donors ($10,000‑$14,999) Christopher Campbell/ Palace Production Center† Paula Dominick** Epiq Systems* Alan & Jennifer Freedman** Ruth E. Gitlin* Marsh & McLennan Companies

Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart** McGraw Hill Financial Lisa Orberg** RBC Wealth Management** The Schloss Family Foundation** Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom* Stoddard Family Foundation* Pamela J. Wagner* Willkie Farr & Gallagher Supporters ($2,500‑$9,999) Helen Ashley* Mitchell J. Auslander** Dantchik Family Elwood B. Davis* Dorfman and Kaish Family Foundation, Inc. Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Dramatists Play Service, Inc.* John R. Dutt** Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing** Jessica Farr* Richard Fitzburgh Mason and Kim Granger* Colleen Hempleman* Gregory S. Hurst Howard and Janet Kagan* Joseph F. Kirk** Adrian Liddard* Michael Lawrence and Dr. Glen Gillen* The Maurer Family Foundation** John R. Mathena John G. Miller Ogilvy & Mather† Theodore Nixon* Frank Orlowski* Edison Peres Thomas C. Quick Seyfarth Shaw LLP* Sills Cummis & Gross * Ann Steck* Karen and Stewart Tanz* John Thomopoulos** Evelyn Mack Truitt Michael A. Wall Isabelle Winkles** *NCTF/Ford Foundation Fund for New Work †Includes in-kind support

**Impact Creativity is an urgent call to action to save theatre education programs in 19 of our largest cities.

Impact Creativity brings together theatres, arts education experts and individuals to help over 500,000 children and youth, most of them disadvantaged, succeed through the arts by sustaining the theatre arts education programs threatened by today’s fiscal climate. For more information on how “theatre education changes lives,” please visit ImpactCreativity.org.

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Wallis Annenberg Colleen Bell Louise Henry Bryson Fung Der Craig A. Ellis David Gindler Brindell Gottlieb Joyce Hameetman Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Richard B. Jones Carolbeth Korn Nigel Lythgoe Martin Massman Patrick S. McCabe Bowen “Buzz” H. McCoy Elizabeth Michelson Neal S. Millard Darrell D. Miller Cindy Miscikowski Shelby Notkin Diane Paul Kurt C. Peterson Max Ramberg

BOARD CHAIR

Robert J. Abernethy Michael J. Pagano VICE CHAIRS

Stephen D. Rountree PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Karen Kay Platt SECRETARY

Thomas R. Weinberger TREASURER

Lisa Whitney ASSISTANT TREASURER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

DIRECTORS EMERITI Joseph Rice Richard K. Roeder Carla Sands Joni J. Smith Catharine Soros Marc I. Stern Cynthia A. Telles Franklin E. Ulf Walter F. Ulloa Catalina Joos Vergara Timothy S. Wahl Susan M. Wegleitner Alyce Williamson Rosalind W. Wyman Stephen G. Contopulos GENERAL COUNSEL

Peter K. Barker Judith Beckmen Eli Broad Ronald W. Burkle Lloyd E. Cotsen John B. Emerson* Lois Erburu Richard M. Ferry Bernard A. Greenberg Joanne D. Hale Amb. Glen A. Holden Stuart M. Ketchum Amb. Lester B. Korn Kent Kresa Robert F. Maguire, III Ginny Mancini Edward J. McAniff Walter M. Mirisch Fredric M. Roberts Claire L. Rothman James A. Thomas Andrea L. Van de Kamp* Paul M. Watson

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The Music Center Annual Fund supports world-class dance programming, nationally recognized arts education programs and participatory arts programs that inspire people of all ages and create opportunities for expression.

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La Traviata. Photo by Robert Millard.

Drum Downtown.

Dudamel Conducts Opening Night Concert

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

A Night at the Opera: A Library of Congress Exhibition 10:00 AM The Music Center / Walt Disney Concert Hall Runs through Sept 14

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

Dance Downtown: Disco 6:30 PM The Music Center / The Music Center Plaza

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

Drum Downtown: West African Beats 10:00 AM The Music Center / Grand Park

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

Gob Squad: Super Night Shot 8:30 PM REDCAT / Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater Runs through Sept 14

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 La Traviata 6:00 PM

LA Opera / Dorothy Chandler Pavillion Runs through Sept 28

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

The Trip to Bountiful 8:00 PM Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre Runs through Nov 2

Gob Squad: Western Civilization 8:30 PM REDCAT / Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater Runs through Sept 20

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Dance Downtown: Salsa 6:30 PM The Music Center / The Music Center Plaza

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

Opening Night Concert & Gala: A John Williams Celebration 7:00 PM LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall

Marjorie Prime 8:00 PM Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum Runs through Oct 19

For more information, visit musiccenter.org or call (213) 972-7211.

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We

are walkers. And talkers.

We do both quite well – and often at the same time. Our individual paths brought us all here together and now we blaze new trails most every weekend. It’s what keeps us happy.

Front Porch retirement And it’s what keeps us together.

LIVING

DO YOU HAVE A PASSION you’d love to share? Come to Front Porch and discover a sense of connectedness, meet like-minded enthusiasts, and enjoy the freedom to live life your way. Each community is one-of-a-kind, just like you. Explore one today.

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S HARE YOU R PA SSIONS W I T H U S AT

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We’re an equal opportunity housing provider.

All communities are licensed by the State of California.

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Estates Jade’s extraordinary career has spanned over 20 years, culminating in 2012 as the #1 Agent in the World.

Jade has based her career on love, compassion, integrity, and doing the right thing.

“If you base your life and business on these principles you can never be a failure.”

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