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Stay Savvy and Be Art Smart How to avoid online ticket scams.

The lowest-priced tickets *always* come from strazcenter.org. From Caught in the Act, the official blog of the Straz Center

Tickets to the Straz Center’s 2017-2018 season recently went on sale to the public. We feel it’s our duty to remind you to buy straight from our website if you want the lowest ticket prices. The other websites look legit, but they’re tricking you into paying sometimes hundreds of dollars more for a single ticket. It’s a simple scam, and one our audience members fall for every year. We try to combat this fraud, but we can’t succeed without you being aware of what’s happening. Strazcenter.org is the only official online ticket seller to performances in our halls. Anywhere else online will be a scalping scam. The names look real, and theirs are usually the first and foremost to pop up on an internet search for “Book of Mormon tickets”or “tickets Phantom of the Opera”or “tickets to Straight No Chaser.” They are names like tampatickets.com, carolmorsanihall. com, and even strazcentertickets.com. These

companies target unsuspecting buyers who click on whatever websites show up first after an internet search – usually the “sponsored ads” that look almost identical to an organic search result. Right now, these types of sites are deceiving Straz Center patrons about ticket prices, availability and seat locations. Unfortunately, many Straz Center patrons have been fooled by such scalping scams that run rampant on the internet. “The easiest way to see that our tickets are being scalped,” says LeeAnn Douglas, digital marketing director at the Straz Center, “is to search Google for a show’s name plus ‘tickets’ and ‘Tampa’and various ticket brokers’ Google ads will pop up. It’s true especially for the blockbuster shows. Click on any one of these ads and you can see that these brokers are selling tickets at three and four times the actual price,”she says. The ticket broker business of buying performance tickets and reselling them online at four and five times the value tallies millions of lost dollars for patrons and the A screenshot of the results that pop up when you search “rent tickets tampa.” Our official website (outlined in red) shows up after four ads from ticket brokers.

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local economy each year. Because most of these brokers work remotely in other states and sell tickets from as many venues as they can – not just the Straz Center – the fraudulent resell of tickets results in dollars derailed into other states and patrons taking a hard blow to the pocketbook. Arts and entertainment patrons, who are unaware that these “ticket brokers”pose as allies of the venue yet, in reality, are poaching and price-gouging tickets, unwittingly contribute to keeping the scalping rings in business. “I had a friend text me that she wanted to see Il Divo but the tickets were too expensive,”LeeAnn says. “When I asked her to send me the link, I could see right away that she wasn’t on our site. I redirected her to strazcenter.org, and she was very happy because she was able to get orchestra seats for a quarter of the price the ticket broker was asking. In the end, she got great seats with a VIP package from our website for the same price that she would have paid a ticket broker for seats in the gallery.” With the sheer number of brokers nationwide running these companies, it is impossible for the Straz Center to stop them from buying tickets. But it is possible – and simple and easy – for patrons to stop supporting these businesses. “We need to educate the buying public on how to avoid buying from a broker,” says LeeAnn. “Instead of automatically clicking the top search result, which is always a paid advertisement, they need to make sure they take a moment to look at the search results and find the Straz Center’s official site. Or better yet, bookmark one of the Straz Center’s websites [www.strazcenter.org or https://shop. strazcenter.org], and then any time they want to buy a ticket for one of our events, there is no need to perform a search at all.” So, if you purchase tickets online, make sure you, your family and friends use strazcenter.org. Otherwise, you will be overpaying to scalpers without even knowing it.

This is how the Straz Center’s official website, strazcenter.org, appears on a mobile device.

The Straz Center and its arts and entertainment allies continue efforts to fight on behalf of our patrons. A $300 ticket to a Broadway show from a broker could pay for dinner, an overnight hotel stay and a show at the Straz Center price – all money nourishing our local businesses and economy. The Straz Center’s mission is to inspire audiences and artists to dream and discover, to create and celebrate, and part of our commitment is to make sure audiences know the truth about consumer issues in the arts. Please help us spread the word about buying tickets directly from our website as we prepare for another spectacular season of performing arts. This way, we can all stay savvy and be art smart.

strazcenter.org is the ONLY official online ticket seller to Straz Center performances.

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Celluloid Dreams

An in-depth convo with Straz Center Senior Director of Marketing, Summer Bohnenkamp, who directs her fifth production with Jobsite Theater – this season’s opener, The Flick.

This season opens with Annie Baker’s 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Flick, a play that captures quintessential Jobsite at its best: a simple set, a small cast of exquisitely drawn workaday characters, and a tiny little premise that symbolizes the entire degradation of moral authenticity that has become our modern life. It’s a play about people cleaning an old movie house. “The story is about three people who are lost,” says The Flick’s director, Summer Bohnenkamp. “They work in the last indie movie house in Massachusetts that plays real film, not digital. It has a projector you have to load and everything. All the action takes place either before or after a film, and there they are in the theater talking, cleaning the theater, figuring out who they are. In a way, it reminds me of [the movie] Empire Records. It’s the same kind of idea.”

Bohnenkamp herself started similarly, selling tickets in the ticket office at The Straz, then working her way to senior management in marketing. By day, she handles the massive needs of overseeing the marketing of hundreds of performances – everything from networking and buying media to writing institutional marketing plans and providing voiceovers for television ads. Her abiding love of theater keeps her with one foot in the show, one foot in the business as she balances her life between the corporate pressures of arts marketing and the creative outlet of bringing excellent scripts to life as an actor and a director.

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I don’t cook well; I’m not crafty. But, theater is something I can make that is good. It’s lasting.

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Jobsite Theater, almost 19 years ears into its illustrious reputation as one ne of the strongest regional theater companies ompanies in Florida and beginning their 13th as resident theater company of the Strazz Center Center, earned their reputation by putting up challenging, edgy, sometimes cerebral, often hysterical, intermittently campy theater works designed to be politically and socially relevant. The company keeps the definitions of “political” and “social” loose on purpose: Jobsite prides itself on its blue-collar work ethic while keeping a watchful eye on the systems of power and relationships, always ready to mount the kind of winning assessment of both that good theater dramatizes.

“It’s cool to make something,” she says. “When I direct or act, I get to make something, and I don’t really ‘make’

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other tthings. I don’t cook well; I’m not crafty. theater is something I can make that is But, the good. It’s lasting. Hopefully, the audience actors get something out of it, too. and act are elements of trust and family that There a created through the process of making get cre a play that are very rewarding. Theater is a living, breathing thing that is never the same twice. It’s better than any therapy or exercise I can think of.” Bohnenkamp’s other directorial achievements with Jobsite most recently includes their award-winning production of Time Stands Still. Prior to that, she co-directed Annapurna and served as an associate director for reasons to be pretty and All New People. With The Flick, Bohnenkamp returns to her favorite style of script, a stripped-down, dialogue-driven, naturalistic look at people and motivations in situations we can all recognize.. “I like plays that are real people talking. We’ve heard these people, we’ve e eavesdropped on people just like e the characters in this play. We know them. All the shows I’ve done have been en about regular, recognizable people, and d it’s interesting to delve into that level el of realness when, in actuality, you’re creating e crea ating something totally false. The three e characters cha aracter es in The Flick have some very interesting resttin i g quirks,” she says. “The dialogue rev reveals veals alll the major surprises. These people e who seem m

obvious have secrets and important stories. It’s very funny.” From auditions, Bohnenkamp pulled three actors who can capture the subtle depth of the characters and deliver the complexity of the subtext in Baker’s script. “Brian Shea plays ‘Sam,’ the manager, and he killed it right off the page. He does neuroses so well, which is required for Sam. ‘Rose,’ the projectionist, is played by Georgia Mallory Guy, who can do anything. She came into the audition and gave off exactly what I was envisioning for Rose. We have Thomas Morgan playing ‘Avery,’ the young one of the bunch and the central character. Thomas knows who Avery is, and he had a well-defined character even in the auditions. It’s a good room,” she says, referring to a well-known theater term for having a cast that is positive and hard-working. “This is going to be a fantastic show.”

The Flick runs in the Shimberg Playhouse from now until Sept. 24. Get your tickets at strazcenter.org.

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David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts Board of Trustees Allison Adams R. Troy Atlas Yvonne Yolie Capin Calvin Carter Santiago Corrada Theodore J. Couch, Jr. Victor Crist Gina d’Angelo Douglas J. Dieck Jeff Eakins Jonathan Ellen Ignacio A. Ferras, III Michele M. Freedle Ryan Freking Judy L. Genshaft Bill Goede Don E. Jones, Jr. Kasey Shimberg Kelly Jack Kirkland Marty Lanahan Zena Lansky Tom Lee Barry Levine A.D. “Sandy” MacKinnon Gene Marshall Mildred Mathias Campbell McLean, IV Gene McNichols Steven H. Mezer Frank L. Morsani

Vera Muzzillo Rick Nafe Robert Norman Adam Palmer Pallavi K. Patel Royce W. Reed Dennis R. Rogero, Jr. Alfred Rogers, Jr. Ann McKeel Ross Gary Sasso, Chairman David Scher Hinks Shimberg Martin L. Silbiger Lisa Simington Rick Simonetti Sharon Stein Catherine Lowry Straz Cindy Stuart Chuck Sykes Susan Sykes Ronald Vaughn Don Wallace David B. Weinstein Bill West Todd Wickner PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL Helen Kerr Helen Torres

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center Foundation Board of Directors A.D. “Sandy” MacKinnon, Chairman R. Kent Bailey Don DeFosset John Jaeb Helen Kerr Jack Kirkland Judith Lisi Frank L. Morsani Frank J. Rief, III

Gary Sasso Hinks Shimberg Martin L. Silbiger William E. Starkey David A. Straz, Jr. Susan Sykes Don Wallace Bill West Jerry Williams

The David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts is owned by the City of Tampa and operated by the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., a not-for-profit organization. MAYOR Bob Buckhorn TAMPA CITY COUNCIL Yvonne Yolie Capin, Harry Cohen, Guido Maniscalo, Charlie Miranda, Frank Reddick, Mike Suarez, Luis Viera

From the President/CEO and Chairman of the Board Dear Friends,

It’s finally September, and you know what season it is – a season of love. That’s right, the sleeper hit of the 20th century turns 20 years JUDITH LISI old this year, and the RENT President/CEO 20th Anniversary Tour lands in Morsani Hall Sep. 19-24. Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about young New Yorkers laying their lives on the line for love, dreams, hope and each other speaks as loudly and defiantly GARY SASSO now as it did in 1996. Poised Chairman to ensnare a new generation of young fans, RENT still stands as a rock musical about the power to thrive in a world determined to knock you down. Another, quieter yet equally compelling Pulitzer winner is also playing this month courtesy of our resident award-winning theater company, Jobsite Theater. Annie Baker’s hilarious 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Flick, reels out its trio of movie house workers in a naturalistic drama that captures the conundrum of authenticity in a fast-changing, digital world. Funny, surprising and characteristic of Baker’s notable way with dialogue, The Flick is now playing at the Shimberg Playhouse until Sept. 24. To read an interview with Summer Bohnenkamp, director of The Flick, turn to pages 6-7. Finally, mark your calendars for the Straz Center’s Totally ’80s Open House Party on Sunday, Oct. 8, where we will be throwing open our doors to celebrate opening 30 years ago in 1987. We’ll have live bands cranking ’80s hits as well as plenty of family-friendly activities, food and drink specials and more. Please come by with your family and friends and help us celebrate this tremendous occasion. We look forward to seeing you at these shows and at Open House.

@ STRAZ CENTER STRAZ CENTER STAFF Executive Judith Lisi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .President/Chief Executive Officer Patricia Griggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to Judith Lisi Development Julie Britton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vice President of Development Kimberly Bateman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Manager of Donor Relations and Development Systems Marc Brechwald . . . . . . .Director of Corporate Relations and Sponsorships Emily Dey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Individual Giving Maggie DiPietra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grant Writer Emma Dortch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Development Coordinator Donna McBride. . . . . . .Senior Director of Grants & Government Relations Terri Rick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Administrative Assistant Bill Rolon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corporate Relations Manager Nicole Stickeler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manager of Special Events Janice Udogu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Database Coordinator Betsy VanderVoort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Services Coordinator Facilities Tom Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facilities Director Angela Arruda, Joseph Forbes, Ramona Glasgow, Jerry Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Environmental Services Technicians Jamie Gonzalez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maintenance Technician/Electrician John Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Maintenance/Lead HVAC Tech John Huggins, Alberto Vargas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maintenance Technicians Dino Mercado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maintenance/HVAC Tech Finance Mary Beth Rossi . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chief Administrative and Finance Officer Marisol Adkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Administrative Assistant to CFO George Barnard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Financial Analyst Dominick Furlano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Controller Kendra Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Assistant Controller Kate Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff Accountant I Jill Prosser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts Payable Coordinator Debra Shedd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff Accountant I Human Resources April Kinchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .HR Director Jeen Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Administrator Carina Gettys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .HR Coordinator Janet Krawczyk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .HR Specialist Information Technology Jason Combs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Information Technology Jerry Boutot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Database Administration Manager Michael Daley, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Information Support Assistant Samuel Luis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manager of IT Russ (Sidney) McLaurin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IT Support Specialist Peter McQuain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Web Developer Maestro’s Restaurants and Food and Beverage Javier Rasmussen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .General Manager Patricia Bailey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beverage Manager Laura Calvillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restaurant Manager Lainey Dunn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Catering Sales Manager Victor Feliciano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Banquet Manager Ray Haag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Assistant Restaurant Manager Rayma Marquiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Administrative Assistant Vincent Paterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Assistant Beverage Manager Alicia Rivera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Catering Sales Assistant Edward Steinhoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Chef Steve Watkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coffee Shop Manager Christine Webb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Senior Catering Sales Manager Opera Tampa Robin Stamper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Director Operations Lorrin Shepard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chief Operating Officer Dionne Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Operations Administrator CJ Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Director of Operations Patel Conservatory and Education Department Suzanne Livesay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vice President of Education Matthew Belopavlovich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lead Theater Teacher Sarah Berland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theater Department Instructor Garrett Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Technical Director Shameka Conwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Admissions Supervisor Susan Downey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lead Musical Theater Teacher Claire Florio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dance Department Assistant Director Kavanaugh Gillespie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Voice Specialist Samantha Hayford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manager of Conservatory Finance and Administration Austin Helms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Education Administrative Assistant Brittany Horwitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Assistant

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Dance Administrative Coordinator Nichole Pockrus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Production Coordinator Alice Santana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Community Programs Manager Karen Senior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Admissions Administrator Audrey Siegler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theater Department Managing Director Joshua Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Technical Supervisor Guest Services Bonniejean Paulish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Guest Services Deborah Ferree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manager of Guest Services Cynthia Montayre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Guest Services Coordinator Production Gerard Siegler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Production Services Scott Belowsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager Leslie Bindeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician Scott Cline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Master Carpenter Shannon Darby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager Jesse Perkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician David Reynolds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Flyman/Rigger Joseph Willinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audio Engineer Programming and Marketing Programming Georgiana Young . . . . . . . . . Chief Programming and Marketing Officer Patrick Leahy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Programming Joel Lisi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Programming Administration Manager Jeanne Piazza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Programming Rentals Manager Jason Seguin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Programming Administration Manager Communications Paul Bilyeu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Director of Communications Carol Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications Manager Marlowe Fairbanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Senior Writer Alex Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Media Relations Manager Community Engagement Jennifer Gonzalez-Bohnert . . . . . . . Director of Community Engagement and Audience Development Alessandra McGrath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Group Sales Coordinator Spencer Meyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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THE FLICK by Annie Baker

Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summer Bohnenkamp Set Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Smallheer Lighting Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan Finzelber Costume Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katrina Stevenson Sound Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David M. Jenkins

Featuring

Georgia Mallory Guy*, Thomas Morgan, Brian Shea PLEASE make sure to silence and stow all electronic devices before the performance starts. The taking of photographs and/or use of other recording equipment is strictly prohibited during the performance, but you are welcome to snap shots when the house lights are still up. Tag us on Instagram, etc, @JobsiteTheater and/or use #JobsiteRocks #JSTheFlick. Jobsite is a proud member of Theatre Communications Group, the league for professional American theater and Theatre Tampa Bay, the area’s alliance of professional theaters. Thank you for supporting your local professional artists! If you’d like to see more credits of the people involved in tonight’s production, please visit local-stages.com *Designates the Actors or Stage Managers employed in this production are

members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors or Stage Managers of the United States.

The Cast

Avery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Morgan Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georgia Mallory Guy Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Shea

A Note on the Play

The Flick takes place in 2012 inside a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts. Learn more about this play, why we chose it, and much more at JobsiteTheater.org.

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Who’s Who GEORGIA MALLORY GUY (Rose) always loves returning to Jobsite, this time for a third season, and is ecstatic to be part of the opening show for this 2017-2018 season! She was last seen on the Jobsite stage this past May as Lexi in Gloucester Blue, and the season before as Solange in The Maids. Regional: Milwaukee Rep., Pittsburgh Irish and Classical, Monomoy, Festival 56. Florida: Orlando Shakespeare, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Florida Rep., American Stage, freeFall, StageWorks, Jobsite, Studio 620, Tampa Rep., Banyan, A Simple Theatre, The Show Palace. Georgia is the Artistic Director at South Tampa Center for the Arts, and an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida. MFA – Ohio University 2010. Love you, Traveis. Luke 12:27-28, Georgiamalloryguy.com THOMAS MORGAN (Avery) is extremely happy to be working with Jobsite again; the first time, he was an acting apprentice/swing for last season’s As You Like It. Thomas is a recent graduate of the University of South Florida, where he majored in Theater Performance. He was also part of the American Theatre Wing’s 2016 Springboard program in NYC where he was given the opportunity to work with leading industry professionals such as Peter Francis James, Liel Tommy, Nelson Eusebio. Thomas’s previous credit includes Studio 620 production of Voodoo Macbeth 12

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as Banquo, American Stage’s School Tour as George in George’s Marvelous Medicine as well as Sam in Hat Trick Theatre’s production of Wait Until Dark. Thomas wants to thank God, his family and friends for their continued support as well as Jobsite for allowing him to be part of this year’s wonderful ensemble. BRIAN SHEA (Sam) An actor and filmmaker, Brian previously performed in Jobsite’s A Skull In Connemara. Other Jobsite productions include: Time Stands Still, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Lonesome West, The 39 Steps, Mindgame, and Dracula. A recipient of Creative Loafing’s Best Of The Bay award, Brian has performed with most of the professional theaters throughout the Tampa Bay area. Some of his other credits include: Deathtrap, Lend Me A Tenor (Hat Trick Theatre), Waiting For Godot (Stageworks), The Santaland Diaries, God Of Carnage, Art, Around the World In 80 Days, August: Osage County (American Stage), Harvey, The Buffalo Kings (freeFall Theater), Twelfth Night (Eckerd Theater). Brian is also the co-producer and lead actor of the awardwinning independent feature film Waiting on Mary, which received the Gasparilla International Film Festival’s Audience Selection Best Florida Film Production 2016 Award and the Intendence Film Festival Best Comedy Film 2017. Follow his film’s journey on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or at waitingonmary.com.

SUMMER BOHNENKAMP (Director) has worked with Jobsite Theater in various capacities since 1999 – as a director (Time Stands Still), co-director (Annapurna), an actress (Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, The Odd Couple, Dog Sees God, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, boom!, Gorey Stories, The March of the Kitefliers, subUrbia and others), assistant director (reasons to be pretty, All New People), costume designer (Gloucester Blue, American Buffalo, True West, The Taming of the Shrew) and more. By day, she is the senior director of marketing for the Straz Center. She lives in Tampa Heights with her husband and a squad of rescue critters. RYAN E. FINZELBER (Lighting Designer) is a local freelance lighting designer who also serves as Resident Lighting Designer for Urbanite Theatre in Sarasota. Recent lighting credits include Gloucester Blue, A Skull in Connemara (Jobsite Theatre), Pilgrims, Bo-Nita, My Barking Dog, Breadcrumbs, The Drowning Girls (Urbanite Theatre), Broadway in Black (West Coast Black Theatre Troupe), Red Velvet, Peter and the Starcatcher, Assassins (freeFall Theatre), Grounded, Stalking the Bogeyman (Florida Studio Theatre), Big Fish (Sarasota Players), The Bridges of Madison County (Manatee Players). Visit finzelberdesign.com for more information and production photos! KRISTEN KOCHANIK GARZA (Technical Director) is beginning her first full season as Tech Director with Jobsite Theater. Kristen is currently the Technical Theater Director at the Manatee School for the Arts. She previously was in Connecticut for the last year and a half working at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and Chestnut Street Playhouse. Kristen has been involved with theaters all over Tampa Bay for years, as a scenic designer, tech director and scenic artist, including Hat Trick Theatre Company (Three Musketeers, Laughing Stock, Deathtrap), Patel Conservatory (Beauty and the Beast, Lion King Jr., Schoolhouse Rock, Jr,), and

Blake High School of the Arts (Dining Room, Lord of the Flies, Tempest). She is a graduate of the University of South Florida (BA; Theatre Design 09). She would like to thank her parents for their support, her husband, for always pushing her, and her son: the best little helper around. DAVID M. JENKINS (Sound Designer) is the Producing Artistic Director and a co-founder of Jobsite. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication (Performance Studies) from the University of South Florida, an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Florida, and a B.A. in Theater Performance, also from USF. He has additionally studied with Moscow State University, the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. In addition to his full-time work for Jobsite, David teaches in the Honors College at USF as an adjunct instructor. He has recently directed and sound-designed productions of Gloucester Blue, As You Like It, LIZZIE, The Maids, SILENCE! The Musical, Annapurna (with Summer Bohnenkamp), and Twelfth Night for Jobsite as well as Annie Baker’s The Aliens for Stageworks Theatre. He was directed by Israel Horovitz in Sins of the Mother (Frankie/Philly Verga), and has been recently seen in Cloud Nine, A Skull in Connemara (Tom Hanlon), Time Stands Still (James), The Hound of the Baskervilles (Dr. Watson) and The Lonesome West (Coleman). The latter earned him a Theatre Tampa Bay nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor, recognition as a Top 9 performance of 2013 by Creative Loafing’s Mark Leib, and the Best Actor Award in CL’s Best of the Bay Reader’s Poll. He was the 2014 recipient of the Best Director Award from CL’s Reader’s Poll and Best Director of a Musical in the BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Awards; he also won the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Award for Best Actor (Times Stands Still). Creative Loafing has twice honored him as both Best Artistic Director and Best Actor. David has published articles in the scholarly journals Text & Performance Quarterly, Liminalities, and Departures in Critical TICKETS: 813.229.STAR (7827) • STRAZCENTER.ORG

Qualitative Research. He lives in Tampa Heights in a neat old house with his rad wife and a mess of critters. VIVIAN E. RODRIGUEZ (Stage Manager) is a USF Alumni with a B.A. in Theater Arts. She has stage-managed several productions throughout the bay area including Gloucester Blue and Time Stands Still with Jobsite and The Apocrypha of Theodore Roosevelt at Tampa Repertory Theater. She is a recipient of a Theater Tampa Bay Spark Award (2015) for her work on Bones with the Silver Meteor Gallery and had the privilege of representing USF at the international level at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She wants to thank Jobsite for letting her in on all the fun and her family for their constant support and love. BRIAN M. SMALLHEER (Set Designer) received his education from Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Polk Community College (Visual Arts), and University of South Florida (Theatre Design). Brian has been an artistic associate and designer for Jobsite since 1999. When not freelancing as a designer, Brian is the Technical Theatre Instructor and Technical Director for Tampa Preparatory School. As a designer for Jobsite, his work has received two Best of the Bay awards: Best Lighting Design for Einstein’s Dreams (2011) and Best Local Set Designer (2014). He also received BroadwayWorld’s Best Set Design for Time Stands Still and Return to the Forbidden Planet. Other select design credits include A Skull in Connemara, Lizzie: The Musical, Lebensraum, Annapurna, Orlando, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Mindgame, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, boom!, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The March of the Kitefliers, Gorey Stories, subUrbia and Dracula. In what little spare time he has, Brian pursues his passion for visual arts by doing photography and painting. More info at bms-designs.com.

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KATRINA STEVENSON (Costume Designer) Katrina’s costumes have been seen recently onstage with Jobsite in Cloud 9, The Maids, The Underpants, Orlando, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Macbeth, and Much Ado About Nothing. Her designs have earned her Best of the Bay awards from Creative Loafing, Outstanding Costume Design awards from Theatre Tampa Bay, and BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Awards. Katrina holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Florida and a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Northern Colorado. When not at the theatre, Katrina loves running half marathons and running after her dogs Tink and Sherlock. ANNIE BAKER (Playwright) Baker’s full-length plays include The Flick (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Playwriting, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, OBIE Award for Best New American Play), Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright), and an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, for which she also designed the costumes (Soho Rep). Baker’s plays have been performed at over 100 theaters across the U.S.A. and in England, Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Latvia, Sweden and Russia. She is a Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and a member of New Dramatists, MCC’s Playwrights Coalition and EST. Recent honors include a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, a Lilly Award, a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, a MacDowell fellowship and a Master Artist Residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts. A published anthology of her work, The Vermont Plays, is available from TCG books: Annie_Baker.

Special Thanks

Judy Lisi, Lorrin Shepard, Georgiana Young, Jeanne Piazza, CJ Marshall and everyone at Straz Center for their belief in our vision and their unyielding support. Jobsite’s board of directors and our mighty ensemble – for keeping this ship afloat. All of our fantastic season sponsors who are helping us realize our dreams. Most importantly, thanks to YOU for joining us here tonight.

Production Staff

Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristen Kochanik Garza Poster Artist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg Newcomb Promotional Photographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dave Pritchard, Pritchard Photography Online Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shawn Paonessa Jobsite Producing Artistic Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David M. Jenkins

Jobsite Theater Board of Directors Elissa O. Getto Brad Casey, Treasurer Stephanie Gocklin Gregg Perkins, Chair

Desiree Fantal Scott Waltz Staci Sabarsky David M. Jenkins

Brendan McLaughlin, Vice-chair Brenda Lovell, Secretary

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THE THREEPENNY OPERA

THE TEMPEST

MAN IN SNOW

1984

THE THREEPENNY OPERA

1984

MUSIC BY KURT WEILL; BOOK BY BERTOLT BRECHT OCT 18 – NOV 12, 2017

ADAPTED BY MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN FROM THE NOVEL BY GEORGE ORWELL APR 25 – MAY 20, 2018

THE TEMPEST

DANCING AT LUGHNASA

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE JAN 17 – FEB 18, 2018

BY BRIAN FRIEL JUN 13 – JUL 8, 2018

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A Note About the Plot

enny is Mark and Roger’s former roommate. With the help of his wealthy father-in-law, Benny has bought the building in which Mark and Roger live, and the lot next door that is inhabited by a group of homeless people. Benny wants to build a high-tech cyber-arts studio on the property. Toward this end, he plans to clear the homeless from the lot and evict all the tenants from the building, including Mark and Roger.

Mark’s former lover, Maureen, schedules a performance protest of Benny’s scheme for midnight on Christmas Eve. Benny offers a deal to Mark and Roger: If they convince Maureen to stop her protest, they can stay in the building rent-free. At the end of Act I, Maureen stages her performance. A riot erupts in the lot, which Mark videotapes. Then Benny padlocks the building, locking out all the tenants. Act II begins on New Year’s Eve as Mark, Roger and friends attempt to break back into the building. The rest of the act follows the events of the year.

Mark and Roger are best friends and roommates

ROGER

MIMI

Benny used to date Mimi

Mark and Roger are friends with ex-roommate Collins

ANGEL

COLLINS

WHO’S WHO

Benny is married to Alison Grey of Westport (whom we never see)

BENNY Benny used to live with Mark and Roger

MARK

Mark used to ddate Maureen

MAUREEN JOANNE

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Angela Wendt

Jonathan Spencer

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Original Concept & Additional Lyrics

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Billy Aronson

Lynn M. Thompson

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Matthew DeMaria

Matthew E. Maraffi

Katy Herman

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CAST

(in order of appearance) Roger Davis ......................................................................................................KALEB WELLS Mark Cohen .................................................................................................. SAMMY FERBER Tom Collins ........................................................................................AARON HARRINGTON Benjamin Coffin III .......................................................................................... MARCUS JOHN Joanne Jefferson .......................................................................................... JASMINE EASLER Angel Schunard.......................................................................................... AARON ALCARAZ Mimi Marquez ................................................................................................SKYLER VOLPE Maureen Johnson ................................................................................................ LYNDIE MOE Mark’s Mom and others ........................................................................................YAEL REICH Christmas Caroler, Mr. Jefferson, Pastor and others ...............................CAMERON MULLIN Mrs. Jefferson, Woman with Bags and others ........................................... ALANA CAUTHEN Gordon, The Man, Mr. Grey and others ................................................ JORDAN DUNN-PILZ Steve, Man with Squeegee, a Waiter and others .............................................. JORDAN LONG Paul and others ..................................................................................................DEVIN J. HALL Alexi Darling, Roger’s Mom and others...................................................... CHRISSY NARUO UNDERSTUDIES Swings and understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance. For Roger—LOGAN FARINE, JORDAN LONG for Mark—JORDAN DUNN-PILZ, JORDAN LONG for Tom Collins—DEVINRÉ ADAMS, CAMERON MULLIN for Benny—DEVINRÉ ADAMS, CAMERON MULLIN for Joanne—ALANA CAUTHEN, ASHLEY DE LA ROSA for Angel—DEVIN J. HALL, FELIX MARCHANY for Mimi—ASHLEY DE LA ROSA, PAOLA HERNANDEZ, YAEL REICH for Maureen—PAOLA HERNANDEZ, YAEL REICH SWINGS DEVINRÉ ADAMS, ASHLEY DE LA ROSA, LOGAN FARINE, PAOLA HERNANDEZ, FELIX MARCHANY ORCHESTRA Conductor/Keyboards—MATTHEW DEMARIA Assistant Conductor/Keyboards/Guitar—PAUL O’KEEFE Guitar—DAVID MALACHOWSKI Bass—THOMAS BRINKLEY Drums—JEFF SNIDER

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CAST

DEVINRÉ ADAMS

AARON ALCARAZ

ALANA CAUTHEN

ASHLEY DE LA ROSA

JORDAN DUNN-PILZ

JASMINE EASLER

LOGAN FARINE

SAMMY FERBER

DEVIN J. HALL

AARON HARRINGTON

PAOLA HERNANDEZ

MARCUS JOHN

JORDAN LONG

FELIX MARCHANY

LYNDIE MOE

CAMERON MULLIN

CHRISSY NARUO

YAEL REICH

SKYLER VOLPE

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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE “Tune Up/Voice Mail #1” .........................................Mark, Roger, Mrs. Cohen, Collins, Benny “Rent” ................................................................................................................... The Company “You Okay Honey?” .............................................................................................Angel, Collins “One Song Glory” .............................................................................................................. Roger “Light My Candle” ..................................................................................................Roger, Mimi “Voice Mail #2” ...................................................................................... Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson “Today 4 U” ....................................................................................................................... Angel “You’ll See” ....................................................................... Benny, Mark, Collins, Roger, Angel “Tango: Maureen” ................................................................................................. Mark, Joanne “Life Support”................................................................................ Paul, Gordon, The Company “Out Tonight” ..................................................................................................................... Mimi “Another Day” ................................................................................Roger, Mimi, The Company “Will I?” ................................................................................................................ The Company “On the Street” ...................................................................................................... The Company “Santa Fe” .......................................................................................... Collins and The Company “I’ll Cover You” ...................................................................................................Angel, Collins “We’re Okay” ................................................................................................................... Joanne “Christmas Bells”.................................................................................................. The Company “Over the Moon”............................................................................................................ Maureen “La Vie Bohème/I Should Tell You”.................................................................... The Company ACT TWO “Seasons of Love”................................................................................................. The Company “Happy New Year/Voice Mail #3” .................................Mimi, Roger, Mark, Maureen, Joanne, Collins, Angel, Mrs. Cohen, Alexi Darling, Benny “Take Me or Leave Me” ...................................................................................Maureen, Joanne “Without You” .........................................................................................................Roger, Mimi “Voice Mail #4” ..................................................................................................... Alexi Darling “Contact”............................................................................................................... The Company “I’ll Cover You” (Reprise).......................................................................Collins, The Company “Halloween” .........................................................................................................................Mark “Goodbye, Love” ...................................Mark, Mimi, Roger, Maureen, Joanne, Collins, Benny “What You Own” ...............................................................Pastor, Mark, Collins, Benny, Roger “Voice Mail #5” ..................................Roger’s mom, Mimi’s mom, Mr. Jefferson, Mrs. Cohen “Your Eyes/Finale” ....................................................................................Roger, The Company Film by Tony Gerber “White Christmas” used by arrangement with the Irving Berlin Music Company; “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, used by permission of Casa David and New Hidden Valley Music. “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells, used by permission of Edwin H. Morris & Company, a division of MPL Communications Inc. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” written by Johnny Marks, used by permission of St. Nicholas Music Inc.

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST DEVINRÉ ADAMS (Swing, u/s Benny, Collins) is a theater, dance and musical artist from the D.C./Maryland area. Alma maters include Duke Ellington School of the Arts and The University of the Arts, B.F.A. ’17. He is happy to start his first touring experience with the 20th anniversary Rent tour! AARON ALCARAZ (Angel) is so thankful to be spreading love with this show! Favorite credits include Aladdin in Disney Dreams (Disney Cruise Line) and Paul in A Chorus Line (Ithaca College). B.F.A. in musical theater, Ithaca College. “Thank you to my family, friends, Hudson Artists Agency, Joy Dewing Casting and the Rent team.” ALANA CAUTHEN (Ensemble/Seasons of Love Soloist, Mrs. Jefferson, u/s Joanne) is thrilled to be joining the 20th anniversary tour of Rent! Recent credits include Smokey Joe’s Cafe (BJ), Beehive at Theatre By The Sea; Big River (Alice) at The Old Castle Theatre. Alana would like to thank her brilliant cast, family and friends for their continued support! Jude 1:2. ASHLEY DE LA ROSA (Swing, u/s Mimi, Joanne, SoL) is a swing for the tour. Born in New York, but raised in Florida, she recently graduated from AMDA New York. This is her first professional theater experience. Recent credits include Top 12 contestant on NBC’s “The Voice,” where she was mentored by Christina Aguilera. JORDAN DUNN-PILZ (Ensemble, Gordon, Mr. Grey, The Man, u/s Mark). National tour debut! Recent credits include Spring Awakening and I Carry Your Heart (Hangar Theatre). Love to all the people. Ithaca College B.F.A. 2017. JASMINE EASLER (Joanne Jefferson). Favorite credits include Rose in Fences (WSU) and Velma in Crowns (Human Race Theater). With a B.F.A. in musical theater from Wright State University, she’s thrilled to travel with this incredible show. She thanks her family for love, friends for support and Joy Dewing Casting for this opportunity. @JasmineEasler LOGAN FARINE (Swing, u/s Roger) is thrilled to be joining the cast of Rent! Logan was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pa., where 24

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his dream of performing changed from a hobby to a passion by 10th grade. He attended Montclair State University for a short time before leaving to try to begin his career. “^..^meow?” SAMMY FERBER (Mark Cohen) is thrilled to be back on the tour after playing Gordon last year. Previous credits include The 25th Annual... Spelling Bee (Leaf), Assassins (Byck) and Company (Robert, nominated for an Illinois High School Musical Theatre Award). B.F.A. in progress at NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing. sammy-ferber.com. DEVIN J. HALL (Paul, u/s Angel). National tour debut! Training: The American Musical Dramatic Academy (AMDA). Regional: Hair (Hud), Hairspray (Seaweed), Sister Act (TJ), Rent (Angel), Dreamgirls (C.C. White). “To God be the glory! No Day but Today. Matthew 6:33.” Instagram: @devin_hall. AARON HARRINGTON (Tom Collins) is a native of Durham, N.C., and a Shaw University graduate. This is Aaron’s second year touring with Rent and he’d like to dedicate each performance to his late father Gary Harrington. You can find Aaron on all social media platforms under the username Doubbleayye. PAOLA HERNANDEZ (Swing, u/s Maureen, Mimi, SoL). Born and raised in Puerto Rico. Proud Circle in the Square Theater School alumna. Recent: Rent 20th anniversary tour (Swing), Twelfth Night (Viola), Rent (Joanne), Spring Awakening (Martha), Legally Blonde (Vivienne), Hairspray (Dynamite), Godspell, Hair. “Gracias to everyone who helped in the process. To those starting, keep fighting.” Follow: @phtanon. MARCUS JOHN (Benny Coffin III). B.F.A.: University of the Arts. Nat’l tour: Mamma Mia! farewell tour. Favorite regional: iLLA (NYMF), Kill Move Paradise (Interact Theatre Co.), The Jungle Book (Arden Theatre Co., Mowgli u/s). “I love you today. Pray often, worry not!” MarcusJohn.weebly.com. JORDAN LONG (Ensemble, Steve, The Waiter, Squeegee Man, u/s Mark and Roger). “Happily returning to Rent because

WHO’S WHO in the CAST this show is far too important to me to only do it once!” Proud Belmont University graduate. Favorite roles: current role in this show, West Side Story (Big Deal), Joseph… nat’l tour (Swing, Joseph u/s), All Shook Up (Chad), Oklahoma! (Will Parker). IG: jordantimothylong.

FELIX MARCHANY (Swing, u/s Angel, Dance Captain) is thrilled to join the Rent family on the road. Select regional credits: Spanish language premiere of In the Heights (Piragua Guy), WSS (Pepe), Priscilla... Desert (Farrah) and more! Proud graduate of the University of California, Irvine: B.F.A. in musical theater and B.A. in dance performance. IG: @felix_the_fierce. LYNDIE MOE (Maureen Johnson) is over the moon to be making her national tour debut with the 20th anniversary production of Rent! She just completed her freshman year at Rider University pursuing a B.F.A. in musical theater. Huge thanks to her parents, family and friends for the endless amount of support they provide. CAMERON MULLIN (Swing, u/s Collins, Benny). National tour debut! New York credits: Young Charles Dickens (NYCCT). Regional: Sister Act (Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts), American Idiot (Phoenix Theatre), Seussical (IFT). “Many thanks to JDC, my professors, family and friends for their continued support.” Indiana University grad! MT ’16 love! cameronmullin.net. CHRISSY NARUO (Ensemble, Alexi Darling, Mrs. Davis) is very excited to be part of the Rent national tour! Her most recent credits are production cast principal at Norwegian Cruise Lines and an equity stage performer at Walt Disney World. She would like to thank God and her family for their love and support! YAEL REICH (Ensemble/Mrs. Cohen, u/s Maureen and Mimi) is honored to share this art! B.F.A.: University of Florida. National tours: Mamma Mia! ’15–’16 and farewell. Regional: West Side Story (Anita), Man of La Mancha (Aldonza), Annie (Lily St. Regis). Endless gratitude to ATB, JD Casting and the most incredible support system! “Spread love and light.” yaelreich.com.

SKYLER VOLPE (Mimi Marquez) is honored to be returning to Rent. She has performed at La Mama etc., The Signature Theater, The Mint Theater and others. Recent credits include Passing Strange, Devil and the Deep, Cherchez la Femme. Connecticut College Graduate. skylervolpe.com. Instagram: @svulpes. As always, for Uncle Alan. KALEB WELLS (Roger Davis) is honored to be keeping the spirit of Rent alive. Originally from New Hampshire, Kaleb has since performed in various projects around the U.S. and internationally. Recent credits: Rock of Ages, Burn the Floor, Jesus Christ Superstar. B.F.A. acting, Pace University. Kaleb-wells.com. Insta: @kalebwells. “Thank you, Jonathan Larson.” JONATHAN LARSON (Book, Music, Lyrics) received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Rent. Rent received four 1996 Tony Awards® (including Best Musical and two to Mr. Larson – Best Book of a Musical and Best Score of a Musical); six Drama Desk Awards (including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Music and Best Lyrics); Best Musical Awards from the New York Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle (Off-Broadway); and three Obie Awards (including Outstanding Book, Music and Lyrics). Previously, he received the Richard Rodgers Award, the Richard Rodgers Development Grant, the Stephen Sondheim Award and The Gilman & Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation’s Commendation Award. Earlier work includes Superbia; tick, tick... BOOM!; the score of J.P. Morgan Saves the Nation; and selections of Sitting on the Edge of the Future. He also wrote music for “Sesame Street,” and the children’s bookcassettes An American Tail and Land Before Time, as well as for Rolling Stone magazine publisher Jann Wenner. He conceived, directed and wrote four original songs for Away We Go!, a children’s video. Rent had its world premiere on February 13, 1996, at New York Theatre Workshop and opened at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996. Larson died unexpectedly of an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm, believed to be caused by Marfan Syndrome, on January 25, 1996. It was 10 days before his 36th birthday. His semi-autobiographical musical tick, tick… TICKETS: 813.229.STAR (7827) • STRAZCENTER.ORG

WHO’S WHO in the CAST BOOM! (which he wrote previous to Rent) had a successful run off-Broadway at the Jane Street Theatre.

MICHAEL GREIF (Original Broadway Director) most recently directed Dear Evan Hansen at the Music Box and War Paint at the Nederlander. Additional Broadway credits: Rent, Grey Gardens, Next to Normal (Tony® noms.); Never Gonna Dance; If/Then. Recent work includes A Parallelogram (Second Stage); Our Lady of Kibeho and Angels in America (NY’s Signature Theatre); The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… (Public); and The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale and Romeo and Juliet at The Public’s Delacorte Theater. Off-Broadway, he’s received Obie Awards for Machinal, Dogeaters (Public) and Rent (NYTW), and has directed new plays and musicals at Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, MTC, MCC, New York Theatre Workshop and at Second Stage, where he directed Next to Normal and Dear Evan Hansen. Regional work includes premieres and revivals at Williamstown Theatre Festival (10 seasons), La Jolla Playhouse (AD, five seasons), Arena Stage, Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Dallas Theater Center, Trinity Repertory Company. Greif holds a B.S. from Northwestern University and an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego. EVAN ENSIGN (Director). As Director: Rent (U.S. 20th anniversary tour, Montreal and Far East), Richard Thomas’ Wrong Songs for Christmas (National Theatre – London), Avenue Q (two U.K. tours), Wrong Songs for Summer (London), Womyn In Three, Out of the Reach of Children and Simone at Town in NYC. Associate: Avenue Q (Broadway, Vegas, London and U.S. tours), Rent (Broadway and U.S. tours), Les Misérables (U.S. tour), Elf (London), Shrek (Broadway and U.S. tour). As resident: The Phantom of the Opera (London and U.K. tour), White Christmas, Strangers on a Train (London). Other: Chicago, Exit the King, Annie Get Your Gun, Barbara Cook – Mostly Sondheim, Julie Andrew’s The Gift of Music – London, workshops of The Book of Mormon. Film/TV: “The Late Show staring Joan Rivers” and Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.

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MARLIES YEARBY (Choreography) is the Tony®-nominated and Drama League Awardwinning choreographer of Rent. Her work was licensed for the film adaptation. She is a recipient of the New York Dance Performance Bessie Award and nominations for the Helen Hayes Award and Joe A. Callaway Award. Theater commissions include the American Music Theatre Festival and Penumbra Theatre. Yearby is the founder/artistic director of the Movin’ Spirits Dance Theater and has toured with her company both nationally and internationally. Company commissions include Lincoln Center, American Dance Festival, Harlem Stages, Kansas Lied Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow and American Festival of Theatre and Dance in France. TIM WEIL (Music Supervision and Additional Arrangements). As musical director: Broadway: Jonathan Larson’s Rent, Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers, Jeanine Tesori’s Shrek The Musical; Off-Broadway: Patti Griffin’s Ten Million Miles, Stephen Schwartz’s The Baker’s Wife; Regional: South Pacific (Guthrie Theater, dir. Joe Haj). As composer: Broadway: Sally Marr and Her Escorts staring Joan Rivers; OffBroadway: Susan Lori Parks’ F***ing A. As arranger/orchestrator: Broadway: Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill starring Audra MacDonald (also for HBO), Rent, Shrek The Musical. Film: Todd Graff’s Camp, Chris Columbus’ Rent, The Mark Pease Experience starring Ben Stiller and Anna Kendrick. Also, Weil has served on the board of the Jonathan Larson Foundation, which provides grants for upcoming composers and lyricists. PAUL CLAY (Set Design) is an awardwinning artist and designer. Projects include scenic design for Rent (Broadway, NYTW, tour). Recent projects include In Water I’m Weightless (National Theatre Wales, the Southbank Centre, London), Commedia (Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam), Forgetful Snow (The Kitchen, NYC). Clay has also worked with Mabou Mines, La MaMa, David Dorfman (at BAM) and many more in the N.Y. theater and dance community. He has received the MAN Theatre Awards “Best Design,” Municipal Arts Society Times Square Spectacular Award, Drama-Logue

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MATTHEW MARAFFI (Touring Set Adaptation) is proud to return to Rent for the 20th anniversary. As a member of IATSE Local 829 and Local 74, he has worked on projects large and small around the world. Some projects include Ring of Fire, La Bohème, Buried Child, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Side Man. In the film industry, he is noted for his production design for π (Pi), (1998 Sundance Directors Award). He has been the director of operations at Global Scenic Services since fall 2007, while continuing his passion for live entertainment as the production manager for the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra. Outside work, he enjoys fishing with his three sons, Luke, Will and Mark, and serves on the board of both his town youth soccer program and the SWD Connecticut Junior Soccer Association. ANGELA WENDT (Costume Design) received the American Theatre Wing Design Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Costume Design for Rent. Her theater credits include the Off-Broadway and studio productions of Rent (NYTW); All My Sons by Arthur Miller (50th anniversary production at the Roundabout Theatre); the American premiere of Play with Repeats by Martin Grimp; Lysistrata by Barry Edelstein; Twelfth Night (Tennessee Rep.); The Great Pretenders (Juilliard); Marisol by Jose Rivera (Public Theatre). Feature film: Childhood’s End directed by Jeff Lipsky. Dance: Tilliiboyo and Regions by Molissa Fenley; Savanna by Peggy Baker. She has also designed numerous music videos in the United States and Europe. JONATHAN SPENCER (Lighting Design) designed the lighting for the first national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. OffBroadway productions include Middle of the Night by the Keen Theater Company, The Ohmies at DRT and Playwrights Horizons, Who Is Floyd Stearn? and Squeeze Box. John Moran’s Book of the Dead Second Avenue at NYSF Public Theater. Re-Lights for Legally Blonde at the Star Theater in Sydney, Wicked at Universal Studios Japan and Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses at St. Louis

Rep, Missouri Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse and Hartford Stage. Associate/Assistant Broadway credits include Cabaret, Pippin, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sister Act, Finian’s Rainbow, Wicked, Legally Blonde, White Christmas and Metamorphoses. Jonathan teaches a summer Master’s program in lighting design at Southern Oregon University, lives in New York City and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Visit JSpencerDesign.com. KEITH CAGGIANO (Sound Design) Select credits: Holiday Inn - The New Irving Berlin Musical, The Radio City Spring Spectacular, Himself and Nora, Disenchanted, Bare; Tours: Cabaret, Rent, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Anything Goes; Regional: The Most Beautiful Room in NY, Austen’s Pride, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Little Shop of Horrors, Guys and Dolls. Keith also designs and engineers live events and consults on sound system installations. He is a graduate of Duquesne University. STEVE SKINNER (Arrangements) worked with Jonathan Larson as arranger and recording producer for 12 years. He received the 1996 Drama Desk Award for Best Arrangements for Rent. Broadway: Doonesbury (keyboards and assistant conductor). Recording/arranging for Bette Midler, Taylor Dayne, Billy Mann, Chaka Khan, Bebe & Cece Winans and Michael Crawford. BILLY ARONSON (Original Concept and Additional Lyrics). His plays have been honored with publication in Best American Short Plays ’92–’93 and are frequently performed at Ensemble Studio Theatre. His lyric writing includes the libretto for an opera being developed by American Opera Projects, and first draft lyrics for “Santa Fe” and “I Should Tell You.” His new play, The Art Room, will premiere at Washington, D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre this spring. His true love is Lisa Vogel. LYNN M. THOMSON (Dramaturg) is a dramaturg, director and teacher. She brought nearly 20 years of new play dramaturgical experience to her months of work with Jonathan Larson on the script of Rent. She was associate artistic director for the Philadelphia TICKETS: 813.229.STAR (7827) • STRAZCENTER.ORG

WHO’S WHO in the CAST Theatre Company where she created and administered a new play festival. She was dramaturg at Circle Repertory Company. She has directed more than 100 productions of both new plays and revivals at regional and New York theatres, and many more workshops and readings of new plays. She is currently head of the M.F.A. program in dramaturgy at Brooklyn College.

ALEXANDER PIERCE (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be exploring the country with Rent! National tours: Mamma Mia!. Regional: Diner The Musical (Delaware Theatre Company); Mary Poppins, Memphis, 9 to 5 The Musical, Private Lives (Walnut Street Theatre); Disgraced (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Billy Elliot, Grease (Ogunquit Playhouse). Becoming Cuba (Huntington Theatre Company). Graduate of Emerson College. JON SATROM (Company Manager) is thrilled to be joining the Rent touring family! He comes directly from serving as asst. company manager of the Mamma Mia! tour, also with Work Light Productions. Onstage credits include national tours of A Year with Frog and Toad and The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley. NYU grad. KATY HERMAN (Production Stage Manager). Tours: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Cinderella, Saturday Night Fever, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast international and Man of La Mancha. Corporate: Sea Lion High at SWO; Deck the Halls and Night Beats at BGW. Regional: Cleveland Play House and Two River Theater Company. B.F.A.: stage management from CCM. MATTHEW DEMARIA (Conductor/ Keyboard 1) is ecstatic to be a part of the Rent family. Most recently, he assisted the music department on the Broadway production of Come from Away. Thanks to Tim Weil for this opportunity, to his family for their endless support and to Kate for being his sanity. mcdemaria.com. ALLIED LIVE (Tour Marketing and Press) is a full-service marketing/advertising agency representing national tours, performing arts institutions and experiential entertainment entities throughout North America. Current 28

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touring clients: Hamilton, The Book of Mormon, An American in Paris, Something Rotten!, Rent 20th anniversary tour, Kinky Boots, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Bright Star, Motown The Musical, Elf and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Upcoming tours include School of Rock and The Humans. JOY DEWING CASTING (Casting Director) is thrilled to join the Rent family! Casting credits include Broadway, OffBroadway, regional theater, dance companies and about 525,600 tours. Recent tours: 42nd Street, Annie, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (starring Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young), Mamma Mia!, The Wizard of Oz and the upcoming Cheers Live on Stage. Past tours: In the Heights, Cats, Legally Blonde, Jesus Christ Superstar (starring Ted Neeley), Movin’ Out, West Side Story, Catch Me If You Can, Bring It On. WOJCIK|SEAY CASTING (Additional Casting) Tours: Kinky Boots, Motown, Vocalosity, Flashdance, Dreamgirls, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Jekyll & Hyde, Joseph … Dreamcoat and A Chorus Line. Off Broadway: Othello: The Remix, Church & State, The Portal, Tennessee Williams’ The Two Character Play, Handle With Care, Triassic Parq and more! Regional: Multiple seasons/ shows for Riverside Theatre-FL, The Engeman Theatre - NY, Theatre Raleigh-NC, Stages St Louis-MO, Theatre Aspen-CO, Gretna Theatre-PA, The Arvada Center-CO and Tuacahn PAC-UT. www.wscasting.com WORK LIGHT PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Dedicated to creating and producing live entertainment. In addition to Rent, productions include Motown, Something Rotten!, Cinderella, Mamma Mia!, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas and Crazy for You. Created the new a cappella group Vocalosity with Deke Sharon and is developing a new stage play based on the Paramount movie Clue. Produced Julie Andrews—The Gift of Music with performances at The Hollywood Bowl and London’s O2 Arena. Other recent touring productions include the Tony Award® winners American Idiot, In the Heights and Avenue Q. WLP is led by founding partner and President Stephen Gabriel and Vice President Nancy Gabriel. worklightproductions.com.

STAFF FOR RENT ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGN BY BLAKE BURBA GENERAL MANAGEMENT WORK LIGHT PRODUCTIONS Stephen Gabriel Nancy Gabriel Scott Seay Anièle Fortin Kevin Greene Courtney King Emily Miller Carolyn Smith TECHNICAL SUPERVISION PORT CITY TECHNICAL Rhys Williams Mike East Mackenzie Foster Rossella Human Tom Klonowski Susie Prueter PRODUCTION TEAM Film Designer .................................Tony Gerber Projection Consultant................... Bruno Ingram Associate Costume Designer ........Sarafina Bush Costume Assistant .................. Maddie Peterson Wardrobe Consultant .........................Molly Walz Associate Lighting Designer ......... Mike Megliola, Aaron Tacy Lighting Programmer ....................Dustin Adams Hair & Make-Up Design Associate ........ Lily Volle Production Electrician ..................... James Lees Production Assistant ......................Abigail Matey CASTING JOY DEWING CASTING Joy Dewing, CSA Kevin Metzger-Timson ADDITIONAL CASTING WOJCIK | SEAY CASTING Scott Wojcik Gayle Seay Holly Buczek Kevin Metzger-Timson TOUR MARKETING DIRECTION ALLIED LIVE Andrew Damer Marya Peters Meghan Kastenholz Anne Dailey Meyer Doug Blemker Mary Alyce Blum Sarah Dahlberg Jen Gallagher Jacqueline Smith Scott Praefke Anne Waisanen

Company Manager ..........................Jon Satrom Production Stage Manager ............. Katy Herman Assistant Stage Manager ......... Alexander Pierce Dance Captain ........................... Felix Marchany Head Carpenter..........................Shelby Damron Assistant Carpenter ............................ Chee Lee Head Electrician ............................. James Lees Assistant Electrician ............. Chrissi McCullough Head Audio ..................................Chris Ransom Second Audio.......................Ashley Ottensmeier Head Props..................................... Noah Smith Head Wardrobe ...............................Cat Lovejoy Head Hair and Makeup ......................... Lily Volle Production Photography................ Carol Rosegg General Management Consultant ..... John Corker Legal Counsel ............. Levine Plotkin Menin, LLP Loren Plotkin, Hailey Ferber Accounting ........................WithumSmith+Brown Robert Fried, CPA, Karen Kowigos, CPA, Anthony Moore, CPA Controller ..................................Galbraith & Co Kenny Noth & Jill Johnson Merchandising..............Broadway Merchandising Merchandise Supervisor................ Christa Arzon Insurance.................... Maury, Donnelly and Parr Bob Middleton Banking .....................................Signature Bank Tomas Kasulka, Margaret Monigan Payroll ...............................PEOPLE/Kim Merhar Travel Agent ................................... Road Rebel Trucking & Hauling .......................Janco Limited TOUR BOOKING AGENCY THE BOOKING GROUP Meredith Blair, Mollie Mann Brian Books and Rich Rundle thebookinggroup.com CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sound Equipment by Masque Sound ® Lighting Equipment by Christie Lites INGLOT is the Official Make-Up Provider of the RENT 20th Anniversary Tour Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

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Arts Education Scholarships Franci Golman Rudolph Scholarship Fund Bailey Family Foundation Scholarship Fund Dr. Barry Levine & Ms. Gina d’Angelo Patricia H. Linton Scholarship Fund Lesley Rudolph Philipson & Jon Philipson The MacKinnon Family Foundation Richard A. Rudolph Scholarship Fund Straz Center Restricted Funds at Monsignor Joseph F. X. McCahon Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Scholarship Fund Arts Education Fund for Children in Ed and Linda Oelschlaegar Need at CFTB Scholarship Fund David A. & Mary Irene Falk Franci Golman Rudolph Scholarship Fund Memorial Fund James H. & Amy G. Shimberg Foundation Beverly Lauring Fund for the Patel Scholarship Fund Conservatory Youth Orchestra Rachel Lisi Ticket Subsidy Fund Leave A Legacy Fund Broadway Booking Office, Ltd. Herbert G. McKay Emerging Artist Fund Economic Club of Tampa Carol & Frank Morsani TBPAC Fund Dr. Barry Levine & Ms. Gina d’Angelo Raymond E. & Nancy Murray Fund for the Ms. Sarah Richardson Patel Conservatory Youth Orchestra Karen & Gary Sasso Charles & Faith Simmons

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The Straz Center Ovation Society recognizes individuals who have chosen to support the endowment by including the Center in their wills or other estate gifts that will beneﬁt us later. For conﬁdential gift planning information, please call Julie Britton, vice president of development, at 813.222.1035. Barry & Judith Alpert Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey O. Baucom Monroe & Suzette Berkman Robert H. Berlin Mr.& Mrs. Bruce S. Bialor Joseph Brancucci & William Carley Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brantner Dr. & Mrs. Ray Brooker Armand P. Brunet Gloria Bruns Joann Buchanan Joy McCann Culverhouse George & Doris Dalack Lea Lavoie Davis Richard & Mary Duveneck Lt. Col. H. Spencer Faircloth Ms. Cynthia C. Finnk

Margaret Word Burnside & Aaron Fodiman Mabel W. Galbreath Elizabeth Gedge Dr. & Mrs. Roger J. Geronimo Charlene & Mardy Gordon Pat Grubb Jim Haws Geraldine Hynes Don E. Jones, Jr. & David M. Alfano William & Carol Jones Joyce Hartmann Karpay Mr. & Mrs. William A. Krusen Dr. Barry Levine & Ms. Gina d’Angelo Lynn L. Long & William G. Long, Jr. Mrs. Mary B. Lysaught

Frank L. & Carol Morsani Dr. Lawrence R. & Carol S. Muroff Ray & Nancy Murray Leslie L. Neumeister Mr. & Mrs. Adam H. Palmer Mrs. Marian Palmer Helene A. Pepper & Martin F. Lebouitz Ed & Nora Lea Reefe Karen R. Roberts Mr. Bill Rogers Dr. Jack F. Ross Jack & Patricia Rudy Dr. & Mrs. Allen L. Sheer Roger Carlton Sherman & Roger Alan Kenny Hinks & Elaine Shimberg

Luther Lewren & Sharon Dunbar Sibert Dr. Martin & Ruth Silbiger Charles A. Simmons Faith S. Simmons Burton Slotnick Norman & Mirella Smith Shirley Solomon Bonnie Sonnenfeld Cinday Spahn William & Barbara Starkey Helen Torres Foundation Ann & Jim Urbanski Michael & Karen Urette David A. & Loriann Wheeler Jane & Jerry Williams Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Youngerman Anonymous (4)

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Annual Donors

The Straz Center thanks the following individuals, corporations, foundations and public partners whose philanthropic gifts over the last 12 months provide essential on-going support for the Straz Center’s performances, programs and general operations. Annual donors receive beneﬁts designed to enhance their theater experience. For information on how you can participate, please call the development department at 813.222.1036. *StarBright: Recognizes donors who have increased their annual gift by 10% or more.

P U B L I C PA R T N E R S

Board of County Commissioners/Hillsborough County State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs

City of Tampa Tourist Development Council/Hillsborough County

C O R P O R AT E A N D F O U N D AT I O N G I F T S DIAMOND PLUS

$50,000+ Tampa Bay Times TECO Energy

Anonymous The Barrymore Hotel Tampa Riverwalk

*The Saunders Foundation

GOLD CIRCLE & DIAMOND Anonymous Florida Health Care News/ Dr. Barry Levine & Ms. Gina d’Angelo Greenberg Traurig, P.A.

$25,000 - $49,999

Lightning Foundation Community Heroes Gene & Patsy McNichols & McNichols Company MetLife Foundation

P L AT I N U M Cherry Bekaert LLP

$15,000 - $24,999 Bloomin’ Brands, Inc.

Publix Super Markets Charities

CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL & GOLD Amscot Financial Bank of America Carlton Fields Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Barbara & Franklin Carson Family Foundation Couch Family Foundation

Deaver Phoenix Foundation The David & Mary Irene Falk Memorial Fund Gin Joint Gonzmart Family Foundation Homes By WestBay The Joy McCann Foundation Helen & Richard Minck

Ferman Motor Car Company Florida Blue Hold On America, Inc. La Palma Natural Cattle Company The Herbert G. McKay Emerging Artist Fund Neiman Marcus

BCI Communications Coca-Cola Beverages Florida *Ernst & Young *Exeter International FCS Incorporated Harbourside Animal Hospital Dr. Timothy Hodge & Mr. Edwin Martinz *Health Aid Company

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$10,000 - $14,999 Hinks & Elaine Shimberg Foundation, Inc. L.V. Thompson Family Foundation The USAA Foundation Wells Fargo The Walter Foundation Yerrid Foundation

$5,500 - $9,999 Nitro Solutions PNC Bank Proforma Regenerative Orthopedic Institute Regions Bank Reitzel Cook Foundation RockWall Advisors, Inc. Hinks & Elaine Shimberg Family

P AT R O N S C I R C L E & B R O N Z E *A-1 Contract Staffing/ Mel Klinghoffer A-AAmerican Container Leasing *Air Animal, Inc. *Alltrust Insurance Aloft Tampa Downtown Hotel Austin, Roe & Basquilll, P.A. Barker/Cook Bay Harbor Hotel

Savills Studley

Memorial Fund Raymond E. & Nancy C. Murray Fund for the Tampa Bay Youth Orchestra within the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay The New York Yankees Foundation, Inc.

V I P C I R C L E & S I LV E R The Bank of Tampa BNY Mellon Wealth Management Caspers Company McDonald’s Restaurants Charles Schwab & Co., Inc Tampa Bay ConceptBait Courtyard by Marriott Tampa Downtown

Tampa Bay Magazine *Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Townson Foundation Triad Foundation

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick Time Customer Service, Inc. Transamerica - St. Pete *T. Rowe Price Foundation JS Turner Family Foundation

$2,500 - $5,499 *Hill Ward & Henderson, P.A. Hillsborough River Realty Corp. Le Meridien Tampa *Lucy C. Love, M.D. *Martial Arts Advantage Mr. Anthony Kuntz Lawrence E. & Sheila Rowan McHale Foundation Fund within The Cleveland Foundation

*MDCI Florida, Inc. The Mitchell & Rushing Foundation *Monroe & Giordano Mortgage Bankers NELCO Realty Holdings, Inc. Nichols Foundation Pediatric Dentisty of New Tampa

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Annual Donors P AT R O N S C I R C L E & B R O N Z E Rinaldi Printing Company *Ryan Companies US, Inc./ Doug Dieck

$2,500 - $5,499 *Ronald & Renee Vaughn, The University of Tampa Vology

Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk Tampa Bay Times Fund, Inc.

I N N E R C I R C L E & C R Y S TA L *David Altman Foundation *Gail Baird Foundation Black Swan Productions Brighton Foundation Trust Bill Currie Ford Calton Nutrition Clearwater Cardiovascular & Interventional Consultants

$1,500 - $2,499 John & Lana Lum List Developers Bob & Jean Markley Omni Services Palm Pavilion *Deborah & Roger Rodriguez Jack & Ann Sahlman/ Sahlman Seafoods, Inc.

Construction Services / Fred & Laura Lay FACTS Engineering Flagship Building LLC Ms. Laida E. Garcia Just Add Power Lane Family Foundation

D I R E C TO R & A M B A S S A D O R DeBartolo Family Foundation Fitlife Foods

Silver Queen Sol Design Studio LLC Stolberg & Townsend, P.A. Talbots West Central Florida Pathology Associates, P.A. Yob Family Foundation

$800 - $1,599

Kinder Morgan Foundation Mad Theatre of Tampa

National Building Maintenance Power Design, Inc.

H E A D L I N E R & S U S TA I N E R

$400 - $799

*Gents’ Barber of Oldsmar *Allegra Design Print Mail *Italiano Insurance Bott-Anderson Partners, Inc. LTL Construction, Inc. *Creative Yacht Solutions Inc. *James W. & Jeraldine Crews, Jr.

McGuinness & Company, Inc. Perez & Company, CPA’s, P.A. *Skipper & Skipper, P.A.

A S S O C I AT E & P R O M O T E R I Diaz Construction Inc.

Stan Weaver & Company Whitney Charitable Foundation

Spalitto Company The Noble Society of Celts, Inc. Urban E Recycling

$200 - $399

Mintel Technical Services

INDIVIDUAL DONORS GOLD CIRCLE & DIAMOND *Mrs. Ellie Fishman

$25,000 - $49,999

*Diane & Rob Klingel Sandy & Sandy MacKinnon

CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE & GOLD Suzette & Monroe Berkman Thomas A. & Mary S. James Gary & Karen Sasso

*Dr. & Mrs. James E. Alver Denise Alveranga & Eugene Ward Anonymous (3)

Rita & Todd Wickner *Gregory C. & K. Anne Yadley

$5,500 - $9,999 Doris L. Killian Tony & Heidi Land Mr. & Mrs. Geoff Lecain The LeFloch Family Patricia Hall Linton Mr. Mark Mahaffey *Kimberly & Paul Malcolm *Mr. Tim Manka-Clemons Arun & Kavita Marballi Eleanor & Buck McInnis *Tracy & Kathy McMurray *Karen & Steven H. Mezer Ms. Lynn C. Moscinski Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence R. Muroff Dr. Robert & Carol Norman *Thomas & Sally Petcoff Ms. Jacqueline Preis

Dr. Johnathan Ellen & Ms. Margaret de Lisser Rose V. Ferlita Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Franke *Bob & Abby Gatenby *Gary & Phyllis Gould Dr. Jeffrey Grove Glenn & Carole Hooper Drs. Christopher & Akshata Hopkins Patricia & Howard Jenkins Karen & Matthew Johnston Joseph & Teresa Kadow The Kessler Family: Lawrence & Elizabeth Kessler, Susan Kessler, Jeffrey Berger & Robert & Robyn Kessler

P AT R O N S C I R C L E & B R O N Z E Cynthia C. Alessi *Bill & Lisa Alexander *Mr. & Mrs. Barry M. Alpert & Family

$10,000 - $24,999

Chuck & Becky Sykes Susan & John Sykes *Michael & Karen Urette

Harvey & Cherie Schonbrun *J. Micheal & Jacki Smith Chris & Sandi Sullivan

V I P C I R C L E & S I LV E R Allison & Robby Adams Todd Alley & Cynthia Holloway Dr. & Mrs. Ignacio Armas Anonymous (2) Cathy J. Beveridge Joseph Brancucci & William Carley *Frank & Lorraine Brantner *Ms. Dorothy A. Brink *Ms. Beryl Byles Thomas Carlisle & Darren Sharp Calvin & Pat Carter Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Cooper, III Mr. Edward Dreyer Mr. & Mrs. Richard Duveneck

Ambassador & Mrs. David A. Straz, Jr.

*Nadine & Robert Pressner Mr. & Mrs. Tom L. Rankin Dr. Barbara Cook Reitzel Bill Rogers Dr. Jay & Ann McKeel Ross *Walter Sanders Mr. & Mrs. Martin Schaffel David & Sara Scher *Todd & Carol Schweitzer Dr. & Mrs. Martin Silbiger Cathy & Bob Smith *Norman & Mirella Smith *William & Barbara Starkey Roger & Amy Swinford *Melanie & John Toppe Paul & Gail Whiting Dr. & Mrs. Todd Yonteck

$2,500 - $5,499

Charles & Holly Baab *Jennifer & Roger Bates *Scott Besley

*Dave Best & Dean Holland-Best *Mr. & Mrs. Bruce S. Bialor Michael & Robin Blinder

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Annual Donors P AT R O N S C I R C L E & B R O N Z E Mr. & Mrs. George C. Bluze *Tonnie & Bryan Bognar Bentley & Beau Boh *Michael & Dawn Booth Kerry & Jose Borrego Roger & Angela Borthwick *Dr. & Mrs. Victor Bowers Rosemary & Les Brewer *Julie & Charlie Britton Helen Brown Tracy & Nick Brown Rachel Burke *Aida & Bob Calafell *Dustin Cann & Tim Owen Pete & Tina Carlino Phil & Betty Casey *Janis Guzzle Chapman *Dr. & Mrs. RIchard Clapp David & Carol Cox Paulette DiGiannantonio *Esther Dillenbeck Dr. Nancy Dinwoodie & Dr. William R. Dinwoodie *Dinsmore Family *Richard & Francine Dobkin *Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Dowdle Dr. & Mrs. Richard Eatroff Carol Eldredge *James & Eileen Enyart Mr. & Mrs. J. Rex Farrior, III *Mr. Ira and Dr. Denise Federer *Steven & Kelly Feinerman Marvin & Linda Feldman *Kim & Ray Ferrara *Ms. Cynthia C. Finnk Florida Executive Realty, Douglas & Camellia Loyd M. Elizabeth Fowler Mr. & Mrs. Skip Francies P. Douglas & Michelle Freedle *Rob & Sheri Freedman *Cris & Lisa Fucci Charles & Carol Funk *Sid & Stacy Funk *Lisa Gamell M.D. & Rory Weiner, Esq. *The Gannon Family *Joseph & Molly Gaylord

*Dennis & Gayle Geagan Dr. John Gelin & Granada Gelin *Mr. & Mrs. L. Thomas Giblin Shanna & Bryan Glazer Bill & Lori Goede Drs. Sandy Goodman & Howard Heidenberg *Mr. & Mrs. J.P. Greene Pat Grubb Glen & Katherine Gullo Lee & Tracy Gunn *Ed Halleran & Stephen Sika Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Harris *James & Deborah Harris Kevin & Angela Hawkins *Harlan & Kathy Heshelow *Kathy J. Hockemeyer *Leslie & Michael Hudock Mr. Michael Hunter *Terry & Janet Lea Hutchinson *Mr & Mrs. Joseph Incorvia Mr. Stephen J. & Donna M. Inguanta *Mr. James H. Irwin & Tracy D. Huffman *William & Carol Jones John & Diane Juve Greg C. Kaiser, M.D. *Barry & Jackie Kanner *John & Pat Kavula J. R. & Jan Kennedy *Ed Kelly *Mrs. Helen Kerr Mr. & Mrs. Jack W. Kirkland *Kenise & Randy Knight *Josephine & Susan Konczal *Michael & Kimberley Kraft Dr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Krist *Kenneth & Jeanne Lally Ms. Marty Lanahan *Mr. & Mrs. Norman Lancaster, Jr. Dr. Alcide & Beth LaNoue Larry & Claudette Lansrud Denise Lasher LCDR John R. Lehmann (Ret.) & Mrs. Chyrl A. Lehmann Drs. Michael & Tania Lozano Holly & Thomas Malouf

I N N E R C I R C L E & C R Y S TA L Frank Agliano Marion C. Albanese Ms. Stephanie Alpaugh Dorothy Ammerman Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Angel Laura & Sandra Baldwin *Steve & Schezy Barbas Mr. Philip Beauchamp *Tomica Beauchene Ms. Maya Beck Mr. James Belmont *Dr. & Mrs. William K. Belton, Jr. *Michael & Adriana Benito Charles “Joey” Bennett, MD Mr. & Mrs. Todd Berger Leah Bergoffen Mr. Joseph Besnard Bob & Linda Blanchard Andrew Bratspis Jason & Stathie Broussard Dr. & Mrs. Irwin Browarsky

Sharon Brown Emerson & Lynn Brumback Tony & Paula Buffa Joe & Turtle Burton Ms. Elvia Cacciatore Don Cayo, Jr. *Mrs. Carole Cherry Deborah M. Clanton Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Clarke, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cleary Mr. & Mrs. Doug Cohn Myra & Dug Cooley Joyce Courtright Dr. & Mrs. Michael Cromer *Andrew & Christine Curtis Mary Louise Cutolo Margaret E. Davis Ms. SaJo Davis, Jr. Jen Dawson Jeannie DeAngelis James & Tonya Delegro

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$2,500 - $5,499 *Marc & Debra Mandt Ms. Marsha Martin *Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Mastorides *Keith & Judith Maurer *Dr. & Mrs. David E. Mayhew *Ike & Sally McCloskey *Mary Ann McCoy *Anne L. R. McDaniel Edmund J. McKenna *Tony & Peggy McKenna Mary & Clayton McNeel *Michael & Elaine Moorman *Theresa Mulroney & Joyce Richardson Brad & Melissa Murray *Anonymous *Georgeann Nikolich Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Nissen Art & Miriam Nordlinger Adam & Elizabeth Palmer Joseph & Robin Pastore *Tom & Carol Patterson Thomas & Cheryl Pawlowski Tannia Peeples Dr. & Mrs. J. Andrew Peterson George & Linda Pinkerton/ Leah Wooten *Debbie & John Porreca *Dr. Dini Rada *Susie & Mitchell Rice *Dr. Gerald & Colette Robbins Ms. Karen Roberts *Frank & Eileen Romps Mr. Jack Ross *Warren & Amy Ross Rotella Legal Group, P.A. Mr. Richard Rudolph *Mrs. John F. Rudy, II Richard & Angela Salezze Andrew & Beatrice Schultz *Dr. & Mrs. Steven Schwartz Dr. & Mrs. Michael Shahnasarian Sharon & Lew Sibert Caroline & Jeff Sikorske *Bruce & VIctoria Silverman & Golda Brunhild

*Rick & Sherri Simonetti John W. Snead, M.D. Dr. Earl & Mrs. Jan Smith *Jaime S. Solana, M.D. *Cindy Spahn *Mr. & Mrs. Ralph M. Stair, Jr. *Anton J. Stankowski, Jr. *David & Carol Stefany *Don & Ellen Stichter John & Will Stokes Mike Sugar & Pegia Van Calcar-Sugar Roy & Cathy Sweatman Dr. Walter Szydlowski & Michelle Perez *David Tapley & John Baker *Catherine & John Teti Rick & Sandy Thomas *Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Thompson Alan H. Towne & Stephen R. Belejack *Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Truex *Sandy & Dick Turkel *Bill Wagner & Nese Metin *Michael & Candace Valdes Jeff & Susan Warren Alison H. Watkins Regina & Richard H. Webb, Jr. *Sally & Brad Welch Bill & Tish West Douglas & Cindy White *Carl & Karen Wikoff *Mr. & Mrs. J. Hulon Williams, III Dr. & Mrs. J.K. Williams *Maria & Steven Wilson Bernard & Lynn Winkler Christopher Wittmann & Eduardo Rios *Kenneth & Pamela Wolf *Larry & Denise Wooten *Marina & Maurice Youakim *Diana Young *Stanley Zielinski *Jim & Lynnette Zink Cynthia & Peter Zinober *Laura & Jeff Zupan

$1,500 - $2,499 Dr. Susan Dellinger Jerry & Alice Dingle Phil & Kim Dingle *Brett & Pam Divers Joe & Theresa DiVito Mr. Mike Donahue Robert & Lynn Donaldson Mr. & Mrs. Roger Dow Drew & Tara Eckhoff *Drs. Kevin & Stephanie Elder Barbara & Jeff Emil Amy & Bruce Epstein Barbara A. Epstein James & Helen Erb Denise & Jesus Esparza Dr. & Mrs. W. Hunter Eubanks Ray Ann Favata Adrienne Federico *Mary E. Felitti Darlene & Norman Ferenz Gary & Sandy Feuerstein

Carolyn Fink Sandy & Mike Freedman Michael & Michelle Froning Mr. Michael Furr *Thomas & Carol Gaputis Dr. & Mrs. S. Jeffrey Garfield Bonnie Gariglio & Ian Grant Allen L. & Carol E. Garrett James Garrett Dr. Judy Genshaft & Mr. Steven Greenbaum Jim & Ann Giles Marvin D. & Melissa U. Gill Family Foundation, Inc. *David Gonzalez & Adam Orban Drew & Betsy Graham Mr. Timothy Grimes Gronemeyer Family Geoffrey & Elaine Gross Dr. Lee & Shelley Grossbard Michael & Audrey Haynes

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Annual Donors I N N E R C I R C L E & C R Y S TA L Susan Heyman & Michael White Steve & Linda Hicks Sue Hindman, in memory of Sylvia Richardson, MD Janet & Hannah Hockman *Dr. Carol Hodges & Dr. Edward Homan Michael A. Holmes Mr. Timothy Hurlstone Barbara & Scott Hurst Kelly Huss Susan & Henry Hyatt Mr. Chandler Irvin The Jacobson/Thompson Family *Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Jankowski Charles P. & Susan E. Johnson *Mr. H. Herman Jensen & Sara Good Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Johnson Jane Johnson Dr. Vipul Joshi & Nina Joshi *Bob & Lillan Joyce Howard & Kristy Kahen Karen & Craig Kampel Mike Kasberg Mr. & Mrs. Vincent L Kegel Robert & Kasey Shimberg Kelly *Mr. John E. Kern Joseph King Scott Kistler Dr. & Mrs. William C. Klein Mr. Mark Krauth Diane Krouse Michael & Mary Lawless

Sam & Nilla Leto Rick Levin Ms. Linda Lindgren David & Nancy Linksy Mark A. Linsky *LJM & Associates, Inc. *Deborah & James Llewellyn Dr. Loretta Loftus Katherine Loh Orlando Lopez-Isa Joey & Ellen Lynn *Pat & Ray Martinez *Dr. Robert J. & Kay S. McDermott Omar& Becky Medina Mr. & Mrs. Don Meister Mr. Thomas Mercier *Inge Michaels *Cynthia Reges Miller Elizabeth Molloy *Victoria & Robert Monroe Drs. Vince & Natalie Monticciolo D.R. & Carolyn Musselman Dr. David & Renee Nicker Alan & Kay Nissalke Dan & Deborah Nockels Bob & Donna Orf *Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Osypka Stephen & Janice Overton Bonnie Peavy Carmen & David Pelletz Joseph & Marci Perlman Ray & Lynn Pike Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Potter Mr. Robert Powell Dr. & Mrs. Antonio Prado

D I R E C TO R & A M B A S S A D O R *Aguila Family Gus & Agnes Alfieri Michael & Linda Anthony *Mrs. Beverly Austin *Christopher C. Combie, PhD. Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Curtis Ms. Lisa DeBartolo & Mr. Don Miggs *Ed & Marsha Droste *Dr. Peter & Faith Dunne Dr. & Mrs. Richard Dutton Susan & David Erbaugh *Capt. Richard Erwin Arthur & Jennifer Faggion Steven & Lori Frazier *Mrs. Christine Gagnon

*Kathie J. Geartz Martin Hanratty *Ms. Kristine Herrera Mr. & Mrs. Lewis H. Hill, III Tim Hill, Hill Nissan, Inc. Lolita & Jeff Hoffman Mrs. Marie Hyman Kimberly Jirsa & John Salvatore Ms. Karen E. Johnson Heather & Clark Jordan-Holmes *Peter & Gloria Kares *Hagar Kopesky Daniel & Roslyn Kulik *Tom & Inez Leto *Daniel & Sara Letsch *Isabel Loring

H E A D L I N E R & S U S TA I N E R Mr. Chad Adams Mr. Jeffrey Abeles Jeanie & David Abelson Anonymous Connie Armstrong Rosemary Armstrong & Sandy Weinberg Stephen Armstrong Mr. Barry Bahr *Lynn Barnhardt Bay Area Infectious Disease Associates Mr. & Mrs. Burton Bernstein David & Sheila Beyer Diane M. Biddinger

*Dr. & Mrs. Peter Blumencranz *Ken & Laurie Borick Mr. & Mrs. Steven (Rodi) Bowen *Sally Bromfield *Mr. Randy Browning Don & Renee Buck Richard & Charlotte Burton Dimity & Mark Carlson Mr. & Mrs. Ken Carson *Patricia & William Chastain Kang Chao Mary Chebuhar *Mr. & Mrs. Alberto Chiappori Douglas Clery Ms. Barbara Commesso

$1,500 - $2,499 Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Price Dr. Lori Ransohoff & Judge V. Covington Angela Reece & AJ Sarria Calvin & Neva Reed Laurie & Royce Reed Mo & Jennifer Rendahl Alex & Pam Rodriguez *Dr. & Mrs. Allen W. Root Tina & Marc Rosenow Janet Rosenquist *Erin & Perry Ross Mike & Leann Rowe *Karlyn & Marc Sachs Mrs. Sharlene Sakol Richard & Pamela Scheffer Jerome A. Schine Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Schonwetter Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Schwartz Phil & Kay Schwartz Roger & Carol Schwenke *Ed & Betty Shamas *The Shaw Family Lorrin & Leslie Shepard Betsy Shimberg & Scott Zipse Jeannie Shorts Bob & Marcy Shuck *Daniel & Holly Singer Al & Elsa Sinicrope Ron & Lina Sjoblom *Dr. Michael D. & Sandy Slomka Lori Smart *Dr. & Mrs. Alan R. Smith Dr. Earl & Mrs. Jan Smith

J. Harrison Smith & Elisabeth Smith Robert & Karen Smith Walter & Melissa Smith Travis & Megan Spears Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Ted J. Sugarman Mr. Ken & Dr. Vera Swade Clark Swalm Jennifer S. Swindal Karen & Todd Tanberg David & Sandy Tapper Dr. & Mrs. Donald F. Temple Christine & Robert Thomas Charles Thompson Anita Kendall Trosky *Chad & Tyler Victoria Vail Charlotte Waller Jerry Warner David & Lorraine Watson E. Watts & Jill J. Stevens Dr. Mark S. Weissman & Michele Ancora *Dr. Karen Wells & Dr. Michael Albrink *Ms. Marie S. Wertz Mr. & Mrs. David Wheeler *Ms. Susan Wilcox Chris & Elizabeth Wilhelm Beth Wilson *Tane Wilson Ms. Carrie Wirgau Verna L. Worthington Robert & Alyson Zamore Fredric & Carolyn Zinober

$800 - $1,599 Dr. & Mrs. Robert Maddalon Gene & Aldyth Marshall Pat & Ray Martinez *Diane & Steve Martinez Joe & Jenny Matasic Margaret M. McCormick Mr. David Montalvo Shawn Morgan Maryann Nelson & Keith Petitt Vivian A. Olivia Mrs. Fagl Oxman *Dana & Jeff Parker *Anthony & Kelly Prieto *Gwendolyn Prill Priolo Associates, LLC *Mr. & Mrs. John Rains

*Lamar & Cindy Roberts *Drs. Eli & Janet Marley Rose *The Rothschild Family Mr. Brad Settle Paul & Elise Sierra *Deena & Larry Silver *Sue & Tony Teti Ms. Cynthia Tetrick *Robert & Barbara Thacker Jane & Jerry Williams *Anne & Glenn Winograd *Mr. & Mrs. Mark Wolfson Drs. Carl & Paula Zielonka *Kira Zwygart & Samuel Saporta

$400 - $799 James & Sally Cooksey Louis & Anita Crawford *Mr. George Cressman Dr. Sharon Dabrow *Susan J. Davis *Nicole DeBartolo & Chad Chronister *Susan Depass *Cindy Donovan & Lynn Wilson *Mr. & Mrs. Dennis J. Doyle, Jr. Dee Dubendorff *Mr. & Mrs. Rick Edens *Johanna Edwards James Enyart *Charles Evans

Lt. Colonel & Mrs. Fred Fallman Mr. Doug Fisher *John J. Fisher Betty Floro Robert & Kimberly Floyd Dr. & Mrs. H. James Free Mr. & Mrs. Steve Gardner *Christopher & Naomi Gargano Dr. Derald R. Gingerich Col. (ret) & Mrs. Dave Glogowski Dr. Richard & Denise Goldberger *Mrs. Diane Goldfeder *Dr. & Mrs. Warren Goldstein Mr. Luis Gonzalez

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Annual Donors H E A D L I N E R & S U S TA I N E R *Luis & Teresa Gonzalez Ken & Shirley Gould Andrea Graham & Geoff Simon *Bill & Judy Graham Shannon Greany *Sy & Ninette Hader Thomas Hall Mr. Richard A. Harrison Susan Heath Katherine Healey *Mary Jo Heger *Mr. Gorge Henges Mr. Joseph L. Himes Gail R. Hirsch Fred & Debbie Hoffman Nancy Horton, DMD Robert M. Host David & Fran Huey Chris Hugues Kurt & Amy Hull Annette Hutcherson *Daniela Izaguirre Thomas W. Jacobson *Jill Johnson *Mr. & Mrs. T. Michael Kaney Cristin & Michael Keane Barbara Keithly

$400 - $799 Dr. & Mrs. H. Juergen Nord Dennis Olden Rose Paskay & Family Bill & Vicki Paul *Richard Pearson *Ms. Derrie Perez *Wilma & James Price Dr. Miguel Pro *Donna & Richard Puleo Mr. Richard Rappaport *Ed & Nora Lea Reefe Drs. Chris Reiner & Kathleen Kilbride Mr. Craig Repchick Clark & Pat Ricke Dr. & Mrs. James A. Roberts *Bob & Jacqui Rogers Ann & Ronald Rudolph *Nancy J. Sackett *Robert & Bernice Saxon Alfred & Rose Schiff Stacey Schott *Mr. & Mrs. Dale Sells Mr. & Mrs. Frank Sharpe Ann & John Sheppard *The Shimmel Family *David & Ellie Sikes

*Jim & Judy Stefan Al & Sandee Steinberg *Carolyn & Leo Sterger Gena Steward Sarah & Scott Stichter David & Veronica Stidham *Randy Strutz & Heather Smith StillPoint Capital *Jack & Nancy Suarez Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Szabo *Saul & Phoebe Tave *Gary & Lisa Teblum Dr. Denisse Thompson *Martha H. Thorn *Col. & Mrs. Roland Tiso Brenda Trayner *Margaret E. Tribble *Jon & Naomi Vichich *Mrs. Ferdinando Vizzi *Dr. Alan Walker *Mr. & Mrs. James L. Webb *Kent & Kathy Whittemore Elizabeth Williams Elizabeth C. Williams *Kay A. Wilson *Tony & Jenny Wilson

Louise Lykes Ferguson Heather Barrow Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth S. Beall, Jr. John & Lynda Boyet Mr. Robert Clark Elizabeth L. Colton Andy & Betty Corty Margaret E. Davis The Gordon & Llura Gund Foundation Mr. & Mrs. George Hutchens Carla Dee Kelly, Ph.D. Jessie & Andy Krusen Judy P. Lawson Lykes Insurance Sandy & Sandy MacKinnon

Mr. & Mrs. James S. McDonnell, III Janet Goldberg McEnery Mrs. Julianne McKeel Eric & Lyris Newman Ohara South East Chapter Jeanne & Olivia Piazza Mr. Frank J. Rief, III Bruce & Adajean Samson Ms. Alex Sink Mr. & Mrs. William E. Starkey Susan & John Sykes Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Taub Jane & Jerry Williams Gregory C. & K. Anne Yadley

Lorena Jaeb Dr. Barry Levine & Ms. Gina d’Angelo

Zena Lansky Birthday Mr. Frank J. Rief, III

Steven & Karen Mezer Barbara & Gordon Moses Kerry & Linda Kay O’Reilly A. Mason Rascher Mr. Frank J. Rief, III Karen Roberts Dr. & Mrs. Richard Rotella Matthew & Suzanne Ruley Alfred & Rose Schiff Dennis & Joanne Schoch of the Humane Society of the Nature Coast Elizabeth Schweitzer Charles A. & Faith S. Simmons Dr. & Mrs. Sam Stieglitz Ms. Cathy Unruh & Mr. Tom Sansone Don & Rachael Worthington

Steve & Karen Mezer Mr. Dominick Scannavino

*Bill & Kathy Klettke *The Klos Family Patricia & Joseph Krzanowski Alan Levitz George Levy & Rosemary Graf Mr & Mrs. J. F. Lima *Jerry & Julie Little *Bill & Michele Mann Mr. & Mrs. Timothy M. Mann *Michael K. Markus *Rob & Cynthia Martin Drs. Mary & Dushan Martinasek Mr. Michael Mattingly Mr. & Mrs. Larry Mayo *Thomas & Kathryn Meachum *Joseph & Sadye Melchiorre Maureen & Bob Metz *Ed & Aline Miezejewski Mr. & Mrs. Jan Miller Mike & Janet Miller *Debra A. Mitchell Mark & Jo-Ellen Mooney Gail & Thomas Morrow *Mr. & Mrs. Martin Moskowitz Mr. & Mrs. RIchard S. Myers *Mrs. Carol D. Nichols Mary & Bill Nipper

MEMORIAL GIFTS All Veterans Eugene Maul Judy Applebaum Anastasia Cobb Fred T. Arnold Mandi Arnold Helen Campbell David N. Campbell Louise Reynolds Cantrell Rita Cantrell James Carroll Ann & Troy Atlas

Jim & Carol Lankton Steve & LeeAnn Lankton Richard Roberson John Terril Clayta Ross Judith McLeod Barbara Williams Joan Jarrett

HONOR GIFTS Artists Hospitality for Opera Tampa Opera Tampa League Board Carlton Fields Savillis Studley John Franklin Debra Perricone In Honor of Mardy & Charlene Gordon 15th Wedding Anniversary Alfred & Rose Schiff Sarah Haun Aunt Linda & Uncle Howie

Dr. Zena Lansky & Warren Rodgers Mrs. Marcia Coxhead Ms. Karen Crown Ray & Kay Dillinger Fred & Aleta Fisher Dolores Gooding Bonny Heet & Martin Martel Dr. Earl A. Kendall Dr. Barry Levine & Ms. Gina d’Angelo Sue Levitt Ms. Martha Margolis Claudia S. McCorkle Leonard & Barbara McCue

Ruth Silbiger Birthday Dr. Barry Levine & Ms. Gina d’Angelo Robert & Diane Smeed Metta Dwyer Betsy VanderVoort Barry & Judith Alpert Tatiana Weston Vivian Benci Ron Wilder Mr. John Terril

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Opera Tampa League

The Straz Center acknowledges the following donors whose designated gifts to Opera Tampa over the last 12 months provide vital funding to sustain Opera Tampa’s artistic standards and education programs. Opera Tampa League donors receive annual beneﬁts and special opera-related opportunities in recognition for their support. For information on how you can participate, please call the development department at 813.222.1036. GOLD CIRCLE & DIAMOND Dr. Zena Lansky & Mr. Warren Rodgers

$25,000 - $49,999

*Dr. Yi-Hwa Sung Outerbridge, M.D. & Felix Cannella, Jr.

The Helen Torres Foundation

GRAND IMPRESARIO CIRCLE & GOLD Anonymous *Dr. & Mrs. Ignacio A. Ferras III Aaron Fodiman & Margaret Word Burnside Florida Health Care News/ Dr. Barry Levine & Ms. Gina d’Angelo

*Charlene & Mardy Gordon Greenberg Traurig, P.A. Ms. Judith McLeod Brad & Mary Ann Morse

$10,000 - $24,999 Regenerative Orthopedic Institute/ Dr. Erick Grana & Katherine Grana Knoll *Charles A. & Faith S. Simmons Ambassador & Mrs. David A. Straz, Jr.

I M P R E S A R I O C I R C L E & S I LV E R Capt. Guy R. Campbell, III & Ms. Janet Marlow

*Nadine & Robert Pressner Dennis & Christel Ryan

$5,500 - $9,999 *Michael & Karen Urette *Rita & Tod Rickner

MAESTRO CIRCLE & BRONZE *Irene & Del Acosta Anne & Troy Atlas Lodovico & Claudia Balducci ConceptBait Mrs. Lea Lavoie Davis Charlotte & Jim Edmiston

*Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Greenfield Bonny F. Heet & Martin Martel *Mr. William Hein Fraser Himes * David & Min Jodice *Don E. Jones, Jr.

$2,500 - $5,499

V I R T U O S O C I R C L E & C R Y S TA L Black Swan Productions Mr. Ronald Davies & Mrs. Annette McMurray Maureen Fromm

Allison Preston Goodheart Fund Joan & Jim Jennewein Mrs. Thomas Lysaught Keith & Judith Maurer

*Sgt. Maj. Rafael & Mrs. Laura Candelario, USMC (Ret) *Dr. & Mrs. Mario Canedo

*Dr. & Mrs. R. G. Geerken Alicia Slater-Haase & Barry Haase Mary Lou Harden Carole & Glenn Hooper Ms. Kathryn Judy Sylvia & Alyssa Katz

Ian S. Giovinco *Ms. Geraldine Hynes Dr. & Mrs. Ismail Kazem Mrs. Helen Kerr Len Kizner & Jeff Tucker *Anne W. Laffan *Jonathan Lowe & Michelle Stencel Mr. Michael Mattingly John, Rose & Daisey Marek Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Meyers

$800 - $1,599 Mr. Roger Henry LaGreca Mr. & Mrs. Michael LeVine Calvin & Neya Reed

$400 - $799 *Jeff, Melissa, Mark & Howard Kornbluth *Dr. & Mrs. Julio Lautersztain Dr. & Mrs. James McIlwain Karen & Steven H. Mezer *Candy Olson

S U P P O R T E R & P R O M OT E R *Ms. Dolores Barton Mr. Stephen Bechdolt *Richard Campbell Michael & Margaret Clarke Mr. William Draeger, Jr. John & Jan Draheim *Dr. Bahaa Elhadidy *Barbara A. Epstein Ms. Mary Fadoul *Dr. & Mrs. Alvin Felman Patrick J. Foley

Dr. Robert Simon Norman & Mirella Smith Theresa D’Aiuto Sokol & Gerald Sokol Mr. Anthony Varas

Emily & Greg Dey Dr. & Mrs. Americo A. Gonzalvo *Drs. Felipe & Lilia Ladia

P A R T N E R & S U S TA I N E R Scott Armstrong & Adrian Pritchard Tomica Beauchene Andre Callen Dr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Freeman *Mr. Merritt Gardner

$1,500 - $2,499

*Mr. James Piot Ms. Karen Roberts Ralph & Kathleen Rydell *Walter Sanders

ENTHUSIAST & AMBASSADOR Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. John Calfee

Alfred & Rose Schiff *Kathleen Casey-Shannon & David J. Shannon *Gregory C. & K. Anne Yadley Kenneth F. Winter

Cesar Lara, M.D. Scott & Holly Lilly Judy & Ernie Lisi *Catherine G. Novack Bill Rogers

*Ryan Companies US, Inc./ Doug Dieck Mr. Dominick Schannavino *Norm & Penny Sippel Ms. Karen Solomon Carolyn K. Warren

$200 - $399 Mr. & Mrs. Gene H. Milas Ms. Janet Muscarella Cathy Ordiway *Mrs. Paulette Peters Frances & Cheri Raimondi Francis Ramirez Clayta Ross Elizabeth Shalett *Ms. Marcy Shepherd Paul & Cindy Sper

Melanie & John Toppe *Ann & Jim Urbanski Jean & Tom Valenti Dr. Joan M. Watkins Dr. Karen Wells & Dr. Michael Albrink Paul and Gail Whiting Ms. Elizabeth C. Williams Robert Williams

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Sponsors & Designated Funders

The Straz Center is deeply grateful to the generous contributors who have sponsored or underwritten, in whole or in part, our current performances and programs. The Straz Center offers sponsors and underwriters beneﬁts tailored to their needs. For information on how you can participate, please call the development department at 813.222.1036. I N S T I T U T I O N A L A N D P E R F O R M A N C E SPONSORS Official Media Sponsor Tampa Bay Times Beverage Sponsor Coca-Cola Beverages Florida Marquee Tampa Bay Times

Boca Kitchen Bar & Market BurgerFi - SoHo Maestro’s Restaurant & Café Si-am Thaimerican Restaurant Timpano Italian Chophouse WaterWorks Bar & Grill

Wi-Fi Portal Tech Data

Institutional Automobile Sponsor Reeves Maserati Tampa

Official Hotel Sponsor Courtyard by Marriott Tampa Downtown

Best of Broadway Tampa Bay Series Bank of America

Hotel Partners Aloft Tampa Downtown The Barrymore Hotel Tampa Riverwalk Bay Harbor Hotel Tampa Le Méridien Tampa Sheraton Tampa Riverwalk

Broadway Opening Night Parties CDW

Restaurant Partners 717 South Anise Global Gastrobar Ava Restaurant Bavaro’s Pizza Napoletana and Pastaria

Family Fun Series GTE Financial Kids’ Night on Broadway Chick-fil-A Music With a Twist Series Publix Super Markets Charities

BiRDMAN LiVE with Antonio Sanchez National Endowment for the Arts Capitol Steps Politifact An Evening with Carl Hiaasen Tampa Bay Times Finding Neverland Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital it gets better National Performance Network USAA Joshua Bell Tampa Bay Times Next Generation Ballet’s Nutcracker Chick-fil-A

One Woman Sex and the City tbt* Pablo Sáinz Villegas Centro “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band Tampa Bay Times United Way - Suncoast USAA Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Shanghai Nights: Shanghai Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China GTE Financial Sound System Renovation State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners Straz LIVE! in the Park Publix Super Markets Charities Straz LIVE! on the River Secret Walls Tampa Downtown Partnership

Aaron Tveit AT&T

SPECIAL EVENTS Best of Tampa Bay 2017 Raymond James The Barrymore Hotel Tampa Riverwalk Bush Ross Ceridian FirstService Residential The Glenlivet Jackson Lewis, P.C. JPMorgan Chase Melitta Coffee Tampa Bay Times That’s the Spirit Dinner 2017 Northern Trust Broadway Ball 2016 The MacKinnon Family Foundation

The Bank of Tampa BNY Mellon Wealth Management Carlton Fields Coca-Cola Beverages Florida Jan and Don DeFosset Florida Blue Florida Health Care News/ Dr. Barry Levine & Gina d’Angelo Michele & Douglas Freedle Greenberg Traurig, P.A. JPMorgan Chase The Lightning Foundation Patsy & Gene McNichols and The McNichols Co. Karen & Steven Mezer Drs. Kiran & Pallavi Patel Proforma Raymond James

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Hinks & Elaine Shimberg Family Sharon & Bernie Stein Ambassador & Mrs. David A. Straz, Jr. Sykes Enterprises, Incorporated Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tampa Bay Rays TomCat Wells Fargo Rita & Todd Wickner Opera Gala 2017 Dr. Yi-Hwa Outerbridge, M.D. & Mr. Felix Cannella, Jr. Anonymous Bank of America Capt. Guy R. Campbell, III & Ms. Janet Marlow

Dr. & Mrs. Ignacio A. Ferras, III Florida Health Care News/ Dr. Barry Levine & Gina d’Angelo Francis Ford Coppola Winery The Himes Family Judith McLeod Kenneth P. Pages, M.D. & Ryne Gallien Raymond James The Tampa By Trust Company President’s Luncheon 2017 Thomas Financial Group

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Sponsors & Designated Funders E D U C AT I O N P R O G R A M S Arts Education Programs Bloomin’ Brands Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Florida Health Care News/ Dr. Barry Levine & Gina d’Angelo The Saunders Foundation Arts Education Outreach Partnerships Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Community Foundation of Tampa Bay South Shore Council Couch Family Foundation MetLife Foundation T. Rowe Price Foundation Cy and Joanne Spurlino The Spurlino Foundation Suncoast Credit Union Foundation Tampa Bay Times Fund Triad Foundation Next Generation Ballet Joseph & Teresa Kadow

Patel Conservatory Music Program Beverly Lauring Fund within the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Raymond E. and Nancy C. Murray Fund for the Tampa Bay Youth Orchestra within the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay

Academy Prep Partnership Triad Foundation

Patel Conservatory Summer Camps & Classes The DeBartolo Family Foundation

Metropolitan Ministries Partnership Tampa Bay Times Fund

Patel Conservatory Youth Performances USAmeriBank Triad Foundation Patel Conservatory Youth Theater Program Kinder Morgan Foundation School Field Trip Series LV Thompson Family Foundation

End of Year Celebration Florida Health Care News/ Dr. Barry Levine & Gina d’Angelo The Exploring Neverland Outreach Project Broadway League

Metropolitan Ministries End of Year Showcase Calhoun International St. Peter Claver School Partnership JS Turner Family Foundation Workshops, Outreaches and Master Classes South Arts Operation Tickets New York Yankees Foundation

Scholarships American Dance Institute Bailey Family Foundation Scholarship Fund Broadway Ball Stars Deaver Phoenix Foundation DeBartolo Family Foundation Ellie Fishman and the Fishman Family Foundation Patricia H. Linton Scholarship Fund MacKinnon Family Foundation Scholarship Fund Monsignor Joseph F.X. McCahon Scholarship Fund Herbert G. McKay Emerging Artists Fund Ed and Linda Oelschlaeger Scholarship Fund Tim Redovian Memorial Fund Franci Golman Rudolph Scholarship Fund Hinks & Elaine Shimberg Charitable Lead Unitrust James H. & Amy G. Shimberg Foundation Scholarship Fund

O P E R A TA M PA 2016-2017 Opera Tampa Season Helen Torres Foundation Florida Health Care News/ Dr. Barry Levine & Gina d’Angelo Greenberg Traurig, P.A. Neiman Marcus

Romeo and Juliet Mary Ann & Brad Morse Regenerative Orthopedic Institute/Dr. Erick Grana & Ms. Katherine Grana Knoll La Cenerentola Charlene & Mardy Gordon Judith McLeod

Tosca Dr. Zena Lansky & Mr. Warren Rodgers

Opera Tampa Singers Greenberg Traurig, P.A. Charles A. & Faith S. Simmons

Centennial Celebration Opera Tampa Singers Coppola Conducts: Outreach Program 100 Years Young Anonymous Dr. Yi-Hwa Outerbridge, M.D. & Official Magazine of Mr. Felix Cannella, Jr. Opera Tampa Anton Coppola Award Tampa Bay Magazine Charles A. & Faith S. Simmons

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SPONSORSHIP AND OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AT THE STRAZ CENTER, VISIT STRAZCENTER.ORG/ SUPPORTUS OR CALL THE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AT 813.222.1036.

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Campaign For The Center

The Straz Center gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following donors who, through their special philanthropic investment, have provided funding for our capital project initiatives. Projects include the construction of the Patel Conservatory and on-going efforts to sustain the Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state-of-the-art facility. For more information on how you can participate, please call Julie Britton, vice president of development, at 813.222.1035. P R I N C I PA L B E N E FA C T O R S

$1,000,000 or more

State of Florida TECO Energy Foundation, Inc.

Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners

City of Tampa

M A J O R B E N E FA C T O R S The Joy McCann Foundation

$500,000 - $999,999

Don and Erika Wallace

B E N E FA C T O R S Bank of America

$250,000 - $499,999 The Saunders Foundation

John H. Sykes Foundation, Inc.

P R I N C I PA L C O N T R I B U T O R S

$100,000 - $249,999

AmSouth Bank Monroe and Suzette Berkman and Family Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Corbett

Anonymous Patricia C. Sullivan Michael and Karen Urette Josephine A. Vitale

Ted and Marty Couch Fowler White Boggs P.A. J.O. DeLotto & Sons, Inc. George and Bobbe Karpay

M A J O R C O N T R I B U TO R S

$50,000 - $99,999

Dr. and Mrs. Glenn S. Hooper Gene and Patsy McNichols

David and Sara Scher and Roberta M. Golding

Helen Torres Foundation Wachovia Insurance Services

Estate of C. Robert and Myrtle Ilsley Passantino Susie and Mitchell Rice The James and Amy Shimberg Charitable Trusts

Sharon and Bernie Stein 2012 Tampa Bay Host Committee J. Thomas and Lavinia Witt Touchton The Wachovia Foundation

C O N T R I B U TO R S Tino and Pat Antinori in memory of Michael P. Antinori Florida Health Care News Barry P. Levine, PhD

$25,000 - $49,999

Founders

The Straz Center honors the following donors whose leadership gifts of $50,000 or more to the Founding Campaign from 1982 to 1986 helped build the facility and establish its endowment. We are proud to recognize their extraordinary vision and generosity. Arthur Andersen Arthur Young & Company B & R Foods, Inc. Beverly A. & Alfred S. Austin Barnett of Tampa, N.A. Judy & Bob Blanchard, Kathleen Rozier, Jeanne & Jack Winter Burdines Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A. The Chase Manhattan Bank of Florida, N.A. Citicorp/Citibank Conn Memorial Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Corbett Ted Couch Critikon, Inc. Glen E. & Sandy Cross Crown Industries, Inc./A Florida Progress Company Mr. & Mrs. H.L. Culbreath Mr. & Mrs. Hugh F. Culverhouse & the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Davis Mary & Edwin A. Dunn, Jr. & Family Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence L. Falk Chester & Louise Ferguson & Family The Ferman Family First Florida Bank, N.A. First Union National Bank of Florida The W. S. Farish Fund Julia M. Flom State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs Fowler White Boggs Banker Robert & Jo Franzblau GTE Mr. & Mrs. Ghioto, Jr./Century Buick/Izusu The Marvin D. Gill Family Great Southwest Corporation Mr. John H. Hater Heidt & Associates, Inc. Hillsborough County Mr. Harold Holder Holland & Knight Dr. & Mrs. Glenn S. Hooper

In Honor of Alonzo Charles & Amelia Munro Clewis & George Blaine & Mary Trice Clewis Howell David & Marie Hyman IBM Corporation Robert & Lorena Jaeb George W. Jenkins The Junior League of Tampa, Inc. George & Bobbe Karpay Diane G. & John W. Kercher, III Walter H. & Leonore R. Kessler The Kidder Peabody Foundation Girlie & Peter O. Knight, Jr. Louise & Arnold C. Kotler Elmer J. Krauss Mr. & Mrs. William A. Krusen The Lacerte & McKenna Family The Landmarks Group Lincoln Property Company of Florida, Inc. Lykes Bros., Inc. Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh MacFarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly

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Mr. & Mrs. William C. MacInnes Samuel J. Mack, by the Mack Family & Phillip & Aida Dressler Peter & Carol Mathews Van & Diane McNeel Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Mendez, Jr. & Mrs. Charles E. Mendez Metropolitan Life Foundation Metropolitan Life Insurance Company & Paragon Group Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Morsani & Precision Enterprises, Inc. NCNB National Bank Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur K. Neuman John & Leslie Osterweil Mr. & Mrs. J. Ross Parker Peat Marwick Peoples Gas System, Inc. Price Waterhouse

Publix Super Markets Charities Raybro Electric Supplies, Inc. Reeves Southeastern Corporation Joe D. & Lillian Rosenthal Jack & Ann Sahlman & Sahlman Seafoods, Inc. St. Petersburg Times The Saunders Foundation Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans - Attorneys at Law Casey & L. David Shear Jim & Amy Shimberg Mandell “Hinks” & Elaine Shimberg J. Robert & Mary Sierra Southeast Banking Corporation Foundation Mr. & Mrs. George Steinbrenner & The American Ship Building Company Sun Bank City of Tampa Tampa Cable Television Trust

Tampa Palms Development Corp. & Mr. Kenneth M. Good Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Taub TECO Energy, Inc. J. Thomas & Lavinia Witt Touchton The Trammell Crow Company Trenam, Kemker, Scharf, Barkin, Frye, O’Neill & Mullis The Tribune Company The James Arthur Turner Family Vantage Companies Bill & Ruth Wagner The Walter Foundation/Walter Industries, Inc. Waste Management, Inc. Francis M. & Marie K. Williams Mr. & Mrs. J.H. Williams, Jr. & Family The Wilson Company Roslyn K. & Richard K. Wittcoff Anonymous

2016-17 Straz Recommends Preferred Restaurant Partners

The following restaurants support the Straz and extend a variety of offers to our Annual Donors and Best of Broadway season ticket holders throughout the 2016-17 season. Simply show your current donor or season ticket holder card for great savings. Valid Oct. 1, 2016 to Sept. 30, 2017. 717 South 717 S. Howard Ave. – S. Tampa Anise Global Gastrobar 777 N. Ashley Dr. Unit D1 – Tampa Ava Restaurant 718 S. Howard Ave. – S. Tampa Bavaro’s Pizza Napoletana & Pastaria 514 N. Franklin St. #101 – Tampa

Boca Kitchen Bar & Market 901 W. Platt St. – Hyde Park BurgerFi – SoHo 714 S. Howard Ave. – S. Tampa Maestro’s Restaurant and Café 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Pl. – Tampa Petit Piquant 1704 N. Howard Ave. – Tampa

Si-am Thaimerican Restaurant 713 N. Franklin St. – Tampa Timpano Italian Chophouse 1610 W. Swann Ave. – Hyde Park WaterWorks Bar & Grill 111 W. Fortune St. – Tampa

Support Groups THE PRODUCERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dustin Applebaum Michelle Dy Jillian Feltham Ryan Freking, Chair Holly Gershow Justin Gray Ashley Johnson Karen Johnson

OPERA TAMPA LEAGUE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sarah Kieny Tiffany Love McElheran Jenny Matasic Steve Mezer Michael Muroff Cameron O’Neill Debbie Viveiros

Gina d’Angelo, Chair Delphin Acosta Troy Atlas Guy R. Campbell, III Kathleen Casey-Shannon Lea Lavoie Davis Dr. Ignacio A. Ferras, III Bonny Heet Fraser Himes Joan Jennewein Don E. Jones, Jr.

Katherine Grana Knoll Dr. Zena Lansky Scott Lilly Mary Lysaught Judith McLeod Catherine G. Novack Nadine Pressner Faith Simmons Helen Torres Anthony Varas

Volunteer Recognition

The Straz Center would like to recognize and thank all the volunteers who provide support through their service both in front and in back of house. Without the countless hours put in by our ushers, lounge hosts, retail volunteers, office volunteers and Patel Conservatory volunteers, we could not provide the world class service our patrons have come to expect. As we celebrate our 2016-17 season, the Straz Center would like to extend an extra special thank you to those volunteers who have been with us since the ﬁrst season in 1987-88. Judy Bales Judy Beauchamp Marion Brodarick Norma Caltagirone Gladys Castillo Donald Clark

Hal Demers Jodi Fagan Madeline Foust Margaret Goodson Leeann Hunt

Robert Jacobson Elena Kornatz Roger Martz Dottie Marvel Leslie Moore

Carmen Morales Eleanor Nesbit Paul O’Byrne Marcia Prather Elaine Richard

Karen Schmidt Marianne Turman Ray Turman Donna Van Name Diana Weinel

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AN ANNUAL DONOR

Through her work using improv games, theater instructor Sarah Berland helps special-needs adults learn to adapt to change so they can hold a job. With a dependable job, they get a shot at an independent life. Because of annual donors, Sarah gets to realize her dream: to be the best teacher for all her students. She can, because you did. Annual donations supply teachers the resources they need, whether they’re in our classrooms or in our community, to provide unparalleled instruction and change lives.

WANT TO BE AN ANNUAL DONOR? Make your gift at strazcenter.org/supportus or call 813.222.1036.

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TOTALLY ’80s

OPEN HOUSE PARTY! SUN • OCT 8 1-4PM

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Feather your hair, grab your legwarmers and get to the Straz Center for our 30th anniversaryee themed Totally ’80s Open House Party full of free activities for the kids, performances, food and drink specials, tours and hands-on fun for the whole family. Featuring beers from Rock frrom mR oc o ck Brothers Brewing and two live bands cranking e ba b and ndss c cr ran nki k ng ng oing oi n tto ng o be eo ne great ’80s hits, this party is going one for the history books.

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THE THREEPENNY OPERA BOOKS AND LYRICS BY BERTOLT BRECHT, MUSIC BY KURT WEILL, ENGLISH ADAPTATION BY MARC BLITZSTEIN • DIRECTED BY DAVID M. JENKINS

OCT 18 – NOV 12, 2017

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