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Clyde's | January 31 - February 18, 2024

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LETTER FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

DEAR FRIENDS,

Welcome to our production of Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s . We’re glad you’re here. We’re pleased to present Clyde’s in partnership with our colleagues from Portland Center Stage in Oregon. You’ll recall we most recently partnered with PCS for our production of Native Gardens in 2019. Partnering with other non profit theatres allows Syracuse Stage to share costs and resources, which is vitally important in this post pandemic climate.

You’ll also note that this production is sponsored, in part, by the Syracuse Stage Board of Trustees. Our trustees–43 members strong, representing our Central New York community and Syracuse University–are the theatre’s core volunteer leadership group. They are Stage’s biggest fans and among its most generous supporters. Many have served on the Stage board for decades. We look to our board for guidance and insight; their oversight of Stage’s fiscal health is central to the vitality of the organization.

Over the course of this 50th anniver sary season, we’ve celebrated various individuals and groups who’ve made Stage what it is today. No group is more deserving of our applause than the hundreds of individuals who have served as Stage trustees over the course

of the past five decades. Our hats are off to each one for their commitment to the promise of professional, non profit theatre in Central New York.

Thank you for joining us for this production of Clyde’s. We hope you enjoy it, and we look forward to seeing you again soon here at Syracuse Stage!

With warmest regards,

Robert Hupp Artistic Director

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PHOTO: BRENNA MERRITT.

50th ANNIVERSARY

SEIZE PLAY THE

2023/2024 SEASON

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME

By Heidi Schreck

Directed by Melissa Crespo

SEPT 13 - OCT 1, 2023

A Wholly Impactful and Timely Theatre Experience

Boundary-breaking show traces the relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Hilarious, hopeful, and honest!

“Every American should see this play!” – The Seattle Times

LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL

By Lanie Robertson

Musical Arrangements by Danny Holgate

Directed by Jade King Carroll

OCT 18 - NOV 5, 2023

Experience the Soulful Music of Billie Holiday

An intimate look at Billie Holiday’s life story told through the songs that made her famous.

“The richest jazz singing in town.” – The New York Times

CLYDE’S

By Lynn Nottage | Directed by Chip Miller | Co-produced with Portland Center Stage

JAN 31 - FEB 18, 2024

Feel Good Comic-Drama Takes a Shot at Redemption

This masterful and delicious new ‘dramedy’ has it all – wit, heart, snappy dialogue, big surprises, and the search for the perfect sandwich – deeply felt, quirky, and urgent.

"An absolutely thrilling experience. Laugh-out-loud funny!" – The Hollywood Reporter

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

By Charles Dickens | Adapted by Richard Hellesen and David de Berry with music

orchestration by Gregg Coffin

Directed by Melissa Rain Anderson | Circus and Phantom Staging by 2 Ring Circus | CoProduced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama

NOV 24 – DEC 31, 2023

The Greatest Ghost Story Ever Told!

Shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of Mr. Scrooge and his journey to redemption. Share the season with the people you love!

“A beautiful, timeless message of generosity’s triumph over greed.” – Chicago Tribune

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

By Agatha Christie

Adapted by Ken Ludwig

Directed by Robert Hupp

MAR 13 - 31, 2024

From the Undisputed Queen of Crime

Wherever famed detective Poirot goes, murder is never far behind! An avalanche stops the famed Orient Express, and Poirot must solve the on-board murder before the killer strikes again!

“Glamourous and enthralling from

ONCE

Book by Enda Walsh | Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová | Based on the motion picture written and directed by John Carney

Directed by Melissa Crespo

MAY 1 - 19, 2024

Award-Winning Emotionally Captivating Musical

The exuberant spirit of a lively pub session meets an out-of-theordinary love story in this irresistible musical based on the beloved indie film. Winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

“Hearts soar and music shimmers

SCENIC

Lynn Nottage

DIRECTED BY Chip Miller

Dominique Fawn Hill

HAIR

Robert Hupp Artistic Director

DRAMATURG

Kamilah Bush

Jill A. Anderson Managing Director

Clyde's

January 31 - February 18, 2024

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CAST

(in alphabetical order)

Pascal Arquimedes............................................................Rafael

Orion Bradshaw.................................................................Jason

Lauren Steele....................................................................Letitia

Andrea Vernae...................................................................Clyde

Setareki Wainiqolo...................................................Montrellous

STANDBYS

Standbys never substitute for the listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of performance.

For Clyde, Leticia – Ahmanee Simmons; For Montrellous, Rafael – Donovan Stanfield; For Jason – Tanner Efinger

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Knife Consultant: Elias Kushner

Student Assistant Directors: Micaiah John†, Jakobi Oliver†

1st Production Assistant: Em Piraino

2nd Production Assistant: Erin C Brett

Wig and Wardrobe Supervisor: Dylinn Andrew

Wardrobe: Caitlin Radziewski, Emelina White

Electrician/Board Op: Alex Malli

Sound Assistant: Garrett Frink

TAKING PHOTOS IN THE THEATRE

Audience members may take photos in the theatre before and after the performance and during intermission. If you post photos on social media or elsewhere, you must credit the production's director and designers by including the names below. Please note: Photos are strictly prohibited during the performance. Photos of the stage are not permitted if an actor is present. Video and audio recording is not permitted at any time in the theatre. Photo credit: The Syracuse Stage production of Clyde's | By Lynn Nottage | Directed by Chip Miller | Co-Produced with Portland Center Stage | Scenic Design by Britton Mauk | Costume Design by Dominique Fawn Hill | Lighting Design by Marika Kent | Sound Design by Phil Johnson | Hair and Wig Design by Dylinn Andrew

The Actors and Stage Manager in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union. Clyde's is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. †Student, Syracuse University Department of Drama.

50 CELEBRATING

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

This production of Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s is sponsored by the Syracuse Stage Board of Trustees. Each season the Board, currently 43 members, selects one play to specifically support. The selection represents a kind of endorsement of artistic choice and is but one of many ways the Board supports Syracuse Stage. If the technical and administrative staffs are the strength behind the scenes of Syracuse Stage, the Board is the support behind the staff.

As with most not-for-profit arts organizations, the Syracuse Stage Board of Trustees provides organizational oversight and plays a significant role in fundraising. With Syracuse Stage generating only about 40% of its operating costs through Box Office revenue, fundraising is indispensable to maintaining financial stability. The Board is vital to those efforts (as are the many patrons who generously contribute to Syracuse Stage).

A distinguishing characteristic of the Stage Board is its function in the theatre’s partnership with Syracuse University. Seven members of the Board are University employees, including the dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and a senior University administrator, who serves as Board president. Five others are appointed by the

Eventually, a total of $1,230,000 was raised, with the largest single contribution, $450,000, coming from John Dana Archbold, for whom the theatre is named. Groundbreaking for the new theatre took place on March 3, 1980.

 EXTERIOR RENOVATION PHOTO DOCUMENTING THE CONVERSION OF THE OLD REGENT MOVIE HOUSE INTO THE JOHN D. ARCHBOLD THEATRE, WHICH OPENED IN TIME FOR THE 1980 – 1981 SEASON.

University. Their presence on the Board certifies the value of the partnership and ensures that the relationship continues to enhance both institutions. Certainly, the resources and advice available to Stage leadership through University and community trustees assisted greatly in theatre’s ability to continue operation and produce plays during the pandemic.

The history of the Syracuse Stage Board as an entity actually pre-dates the founding of Syracuse Stage. In 1961, then Department of Drama chair Gerald F. Reidenbaugh formed a community-oriented summer theatre called The New Playhouse, which performed in the old Re-

gent Theatre, acquired by the University in 1958. It was Reidenbaugh’s plan to use professional actors in the new company. This created a need for an administrative apparatus to manage relations with Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. On January 25, 1962, the New York State Education Department approved a provisional charter for the S.U. Theatre Corporation, which is still the official legal name of Syracuse Stage. The charter established a five-member board of trustees: Clark D. Ahlberg, president; Francis A. Wingate, vice president; Alexander N. Charters, secretary; Victor J. Conway, treasurer; and Clifford L. Winters. The

1980

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Arthur Storch paid tribute to Sutton in a program note during the Archbold’s inaugural season, writing in part: ‘Dan’s life-energy which I felt in his presence was palpable. It was an energy that made me more aware

of the excitement, the commitment, the passion of what it is to be fully alive in this world.’

charter stated: “The purposes for which such corporation is formed are to promote and further the education of the general public by producing, sponsoring, and fostering literary, musical, and dramatic productions of high artistic and cultural value and to develop in the public an enhanced appreciation of art, drama, and music.”

When founding artistic director Arthur Storch presented his first season in 1974, the Board was still made up of only University appointees and remained so until the fourth season, 1976/77, when Charles Schoeneck and Sandy Dietz became the first community members, thereby rede-

fining the Board’s role and opening access to new resources and talent to work on Stage’s behalf. The significance of this change became apparent in 1978 when one of the new community Board members, Daniel C. Sutton, agreed to chair a capital campaign to raise funds to transform the old Regent movie house into what is now the Archbold Theatre.

Sutton worked with then chancellor Melvin A. Eggers to develop a plan whereby the Syracuse Stage board would raise half of the projected $800,000 cost and the University would provide the rest. Eventually, a total of $1,230,000 was raised, with the largest single contribution, $450,000, coming

 INTERIOR RENOVATION PHOTO DOCUMENTING THE CONVERSION OF THE OLD REGENT MOVIE HOUSE INTO THE JOHN D. ARCHBOLD THEATRE, WHICH OPENED IN TIME FOR THE 1980 – 1981 SEASON.

 KATE ABBRUZZESE AND EMMA RAMOS IN ESPEJOS: CLEAN, THE FIRST DUAL LANGUAGE (SPANISH / ENGLISH) PLAY PRODUCED AT SYRACUSE STAGE. ESPEJOS: CLEAN WAS SUPPORTED BY THE BOARD IN THE 2022 – 2023 SEASON. BY | ESCRITA POR CHRISTINE QUINTANA. SPANISH TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION BY | TRADUCCIÓN Y ADAPTACIÓN AL ESPAÑOL POR PAULA ZELAYA CERVANTES. DIRECTED BY | DIRIGIDA POR MELISSA CRESPO. IN ASSOCIATION WITH | EN COLABORACIÓN CON HARTFORD STAGE PHOTO BY | FOTO POR T. CHARLES ERICKSON.

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Each season the Board, currently 43 members, selects one play to specifically support. The selection represents a kind of endorsement of artistic choice and is but one of many ways the Board supports Syracuse Stage.

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The purposes for which such corporation is formed are to promote and further the education of the general public by producing, sponsoring, and fostering literary, musical, and dramatic productions of high artistic and cultural value and to develop in the public an enhanced appreciation of art, drama, and music.

- 1962 CHARTER FOR THE S.U. THEATRE CORPORATION

from John Dana Archbold, for whom the theatre is named. Groundbreaking for the new theatre took place on March 3, 1980. Sadly, Sutton passed away before the project was completed. The atrium lobby that connects the Archbold with the Storch Theatre bears his name, the Sutton Pavilion. Arthur Storch paid tribute to Sutton in a program note during the Archbold’s inaugural season, writing in part: “Dan’s life-energy which I felt in his presence was palpable. It was an energy that made me more aware of the excitement, the commitment, the passion of what it is to be fully alive in this world.”

The commitment that Storch notes, from Sutton and his fellow board members, has certainly had long last-

ing impact on Syracuse Stage, a once in the lifetime of an organization achievement. But whatever the goal, the underlying idea of commitment to Stage, to its success and its mission in the community, has defined the very best of the board and its members through 50 years. Many board members have given generously of their time, their money, their expertise, and their good will. Mostly, what they receive is a heartfelt thank you offered far from center stage: that and perhaps (although they may not know it) when the audience rises to their feet to bestow an ovation on a company of actors, some of the applause goes to them.

–Joseph Whelan

LYNN NOTTAGE: ON PLAYWRITING

“I think that the first piece of storytelling that inspired me was my grandmother who was one of the great raconteurs. She was a master storyteller, and from the time I was really young we all sat rapt at her knees.”

“I grew up in Brooklyn, in a multicultural community, and so I was in dialogue with lots of people the moment I stepped outside of my door. We were economically diverse, and we were racially diverse. I think of my audience as those folks who still live on my block.”

I can say what I think the American theatre should strive to be, which I think is a reflection of the beauty and diversity of this culture. I think that we fail to live up to it, but I think that’s what American theatre should be: a real reflection of what’s happening today.

“I think of myself as a playwright who is socially engaged. It’s important. I get very frustrated when I go to the theatre and it feels like we’re in some sort of bubble that has no relation to what’s going on in the world. I don’t understand it. I don’t understand how young playwrights choose not to be actively in conversation with the culture. I don’t understand how theatergoers can go to the theatre and not want to have more active and rigorous conversations with what they’re seeing on the stage.”

“In all my plays, I’m trying to figure out how someone who feels marginalized, invisible, can at the same time be powerful and self-possessed. My characters are fighting to be seen in a world that fundamentally doesn’t want to recognize their power.”

“I recently had a revelation about this because I was just like, ‘Why am I so interested, why do I constantly want to tell stories about working people?’ Number one, I’m a working person. I don’t think that folks often think of artists as working people. We’re folks who’ve experienced a lot of economic hardship and we work very hard for very little reward. There’s a real connection between what we do as artists, craftspeople, and folks who are working in factories and working for minimum wage. We understand that. That’s just the bottom line. I recall when I was growing up, we had some hardship in my life and our circumstances changed very, very quickly.

“I watched my mother who was this incredible woman having to work 24/7. She’d get up at six in the morning, she’d be out the door and she didn’t finish working until 9 and 10 o’clock at night. That as a child really makes an imprint. I think I wanted to tell her story and the story of my grandparents and the people who I encountered who were working people. I thought: I don’t see those stories that often. I don’t see the people like my family drawn in ways that are threedimensional and compassionate.”

LYNN NOTTAGE: ON CLYDE'S

“[Clyde’s] really came about from the work and interviews that I was doing while I was researching my plays Sweat and Ruined in Pennsylvania. I came across so many people who were open and generous and who also happened to be formerly incarcerated. I began listening to their stories and many of them were incredibly heartbreaking. I want to figure out how can I tell this story about folks who are in limbo, in a liminal space who really feel stuck and trapped because of their circumstances.

“Many of the folks that I interviewed had been out of prisons from anywhere from a week to a year and they had one thing in common; they kept hitting up against the wall when they were looking for opportunity, whether it’d be housing or whether it’d be jobs or whether it was reintegrating with their families. They hit that box that you have to check when you’re going for employment that says you were incarcerated, and it became this door that slammed in their faces. I was really interested in how do people resurrect their lives? How do they get out?”

“One of the things that I love about humor is that it is disarming, it's one of those things that you just said, but laughter also is this fantastic conduit which you can filter through truths. I think that an audience when they're laughing, in some ways, they're more open, the mouth is open, the body is open and relaxed. I think that they're more ready and willing to engage with complicated ideas.”

Oh, it’s lovely. When you just think about savory and sweet and dissonant and harmonious, and the sandwich really can be all of those things. You can have a grilled cheese sandwich and you can put some chutney on it, and a slice of bacon, and suddenly you have like a small piece of heaven.

“I was trying to find the perfect metaphor for creativity, for how people reconstitute their lives, and the sandwich—I don’t know why or how it came to me—but it’s something that I love. And food is the one thing that we can all unite around regardless of where we are. I began thinking of the sandwich really as a way in which people can reinvent themselves and the great thing about the sandwich, and I think it’s something that is said in the play, is that it’s one of the few things in which you can combine relatively ordinary ingredients and have this extraordinary culinary outcome.

Sources: The Paris Review (Fall 2023 interview by Christina Anderson), The Interval (October 2015 interviewed by Victoria Myers), The United States of Anxiety, WNYC Studio (January 2022, interviewed by Kai Wright).

WRITING NEW FUTURES

PROJECT MEND, CLYDE’S, AND “THE CONTEXTUAL NOW”

In 2017, 113 million American adults had an immediate family member impacted by the criminal justice system (FWD.us, 2018). While the crisis that is mass incarceration is undeniable, we tend to pay less attention to formerly incarcerated people, as they are dispersed within various disenfranchised communities across the country after they are released.

Census Bureau data shows three decades of “persistent poverty” in 23 census tracts in Onondaga County (Tampone, 2023). A quarter of the residents in state prison from Syracuse hail from four of the poorest neighborhoods in the city with the highest number of Black residents, and there are 864 people in state prison per 100,000 city residents (Wildra and Encalada-Malinowski, 2022). In one of the poorest and most racially segregated cities in the United States, this population represents a community formed through social and economic hardship.

In some respects, it is a community, as we see in Clyde’s, formed through struggle, in which basics such as a job and a home can be hard to come by.

Project Mend supports formerly incarcerated people and their families in Syracuse, New York, as they struggle to rebuild their lives despite seemingly insurmountable hurdles. The initiative consists of two parts: Mend Syracuse, a publishing apprenticeship for justiceimpacted people, and Mend, a journal featuring the works of people impacted by mass incarceration. Both components emphasize the power of writing to bring about change, exploring how individuals learn to write themselves into new identities and new lives.

When formerly incarcerated writers and their families compose against the stigma of mass incarceration, we see efforts to write new futures and disrupt

Project Mend supports formerly incarcerated people and their families in Syracuse, New York, as they struggle to rebuild their lives despite seemingly insurmountable hurdles.

the totalizing rhetoric of the prisonindustrial complex. In Clyde’s, we see a different type of composition, a sandwich rather than a piece of writing. Yet, in both, we are drawn toward being interested in the processes of making and remaking lives in ways both big and small.

Too often, programs for the incarcerated or the formerly incarcerated focus narrowly on recidivism, reducing education-

 ABOVE: MEND TEAM PATRICK W. BERRY, FÂTIMA BINGS MARTINÉZ,

BRIAN T. SHAW, AND TROY WHITE

al programming to a sole focus on upward mobility. This trend is not confined to prisons, as institutions of higher learning often emphasize the utility of what is learned over the human experience of learning and building community. Despite the restoration of Pell Grants that once again makes college possible for incarcerated people, the challenges facing this community and their families persist, as resources for education and the humanities after prison are limited (Kenner, 2023). Even with a record-low unemployment rate in the United States, more than 60 percent of those leaving prison are unemployed one year later (Wang and Bertram, 2022). For decades, researchers have noted that incarcerated people tend to lack sufficient literacy skills, often connecting this to poverty (Haigler et al., 1994). This crisis has prompted the offering of remedies that fall back on basic-skills initiatives in prison such as GED training, which, while important, are not enough. Project Mend recognizes how the humanities—through the use of reading and writing as ways of understanding the world—can help.

It was in prison where social critic and author Earl Shorris (2013) found inspiration for the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a 1995 program that offered to the poor humanities courses in five humanistic disciplines wherein students explore the great works of literature, art history, moral philosophy, and American history. “Why do you think people are poor?” he recalled asking one woman who was incarcerated at Bedford Hills. Rather than speaking of “jobs and money,” she spoke of the

“moral life of downtown,” which she explained could be built by providing children with access to the cultural capital—the “plays, museums, concerts, lectures”—that they were often denied. Shorris (2013) rightly underscores how engagement with the humanities is a social justice issue.

In my book, Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison, I offer “the contextual now,” a term that urges a focus on learning in the present moment as a way to understand community-building and assess initiatives like Project Mend. Such efforts are essential, as are the humanities more broadly, in combating dehumanizing rhetoric that impacts this population. To that end, Project Mend incorporates programming on interpretative writing, philosophy, literature, and history.

My work with the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated is also personal, informed by my own experience reconnecting in 2021 with my then 57-yearold cousin Peter, who, like my father and my uncles, had spent most of his adult life struggling with addiction and incarceration. Released from prison to a hotel in New York City, Peter found himself in a space where, as he explained, he did not even have to go out the door to get drugs. Within days of his release, Peter relapsed and suffered a stroke, and he is now in a nursing facility in the Bronx, struggling to find the words to tell his story. During a series of meetings with him, I began to see the value of documentary film as a storytelling medium, and I have worked with Peter to create short documentaries about his life.

This attention to reflection and aspects of being human, I think, is at the heart of Clyde’s, as seen in the exchanges between the characters and how they illustrate the power of everyday experiences as they begin to really see one other, to recognize their shared humanity, to reflect on their mistakes and realize the possibilities for writing themselves into new futures.

Patrick W. Berry is an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University and faculty advisor for Project Mend. He is the author of Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison (2018, Southern Illinois University Press). He completed his doctoral work in the Center for Writing Studies and Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Project Mend is made possible through collaboration with the Center for Community Alternatives (CCA) and through an HNY Post-Incarceration Humanities Partnership, which is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation. Additionally, the project has been supported at Syracuse University by the Engaged Humanities Network; the Humanities Center; the SOURCE; the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition; and a CUSE research grant. Since 2022, Project Mend has partnered with CCA to build a network of formerly incarcerated individuals and their family members committed to writing, storytelling, and the humanities. CCA is a private notfor-profit agency whose mission is to promote reintegrative justice and reduced reliance on incarceration through advocacy, services, and public policy development in pursuit of civil and human rights across New York.

Berry, Patrick W. 2018. Doing Time, Writing Lives: Refiguring Literacy and Higher Education in Prison. Southern Illinois University Press.

FWD.us. 2018. “Every Second: The Impact of the Incarceration Crisis on America’s Families.” https://everysecond.fwd.us/#chapter1-6.

Haigler, Karl, Caroline Wolf Harlow, Patricia E. O’Connor, and Anne Campbell. 1994. Literacy Behind Prison Walls: Profiles of the Prison Population from the National Adult Literacy Survey Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. https://nces.ed.gov/pubs94/94102.pdf.

Kenner, Max. 2023, Nov. 17. “Something Wonderful Is Happening in American Prisons. Really.” New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/opinion/college-prisons.html

Shorris, Earl. 2013. The Art of Freedom: Teaching the Humanities to the Poor. New York: Norton. Tampone, Kevin. 2023. “See the 23 Places in Onondaga County Plagued by ‘Persistent Poverty’ for Decades.” Syracuse.com. https://www.syracuse.com/data/2023/05 /see-the-23-places-in-onondaga-county-plagued-by-persistent-poverty-for-decades.html.

Wang, Leah, and Wanda Bertram. 2022. “New Data on Formerly Incarcerated People’s Employment Reveal Labor Market Injustices.” Prison Policy Initiative. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2022/02/08/employment.

Wildra, Emily, and Nick Encalada-Malinowski. 2022. “Where People in Prison Come From: The Geography of Mass Incarceration in New York.” Prison Policy Initiative.

Pascal Arquimedes (Rafael). Syracuse Stage Debut! Broadway: Clyde’s (u/s, Second Stage), Regional: Party People (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville), I and You (Portland Stage Company), others. Television: Blue Bloods, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, Lioness. IG: @pascal_arquimedes

Orion Bradshaw (Jason) is a Storyteller, Licensed Teacher, Equity Facilitator and Social Justice Advocate; he is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity, National Education, and Oregon Education Associations. He holds a BFA in Theatre Arts and a Minor in Shakespeare Studies from Southern Oregon University (SOU). Orion spent six seasons as an Actor and Teacher for the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival, relocating to his beloved Portland in 2011 to co-found Post5 Theatre, a modern Classics company. He then earned his Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree from his alma mater SOU in 2019, while also training with the Racial Equity Coalition, among others. Orion has been a professional Performer and Teacher for over 16 years, and currently serves as a licensed Substitute Teacher for Portland Oregon area schools, as well as an EDI Facilitator with Matthew Reynolds Consulting, LLC. He humbly hopes that this powerful Story sparks deep emotion, thought and dialogue within you and your community. May our Learning never cease! www.mrrconsulting.org/ www.facebook.com/thebardparty

Lauren Steele (Letitia) is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon with a BFA in Theatre from Southern Methodist University. Some of her favorite roles to date include: Susan in Tick…Tick…Boom! and Jeannie in Hair at Portland Center Stage, #13 in The Wolves at Dallas Theatre Center and Ann in What I Learned in Paris with Penumbra Theatre and Portland Playhouse. Also an accomplished vocalist and songwriter, Lauren recently released her first full-length album Happy Girl under her musical stage name Lo Steele. Named one of Willamette Week’s “Best New Bands” of 2022, Lauren recently had the privilege of opening for Tank and the Bangas at Revolution Hall, and looks forward to opening for the great Dianne Reeves as a part of the PDX Jazz festival in February. Check out Lo’s music, available on all platforms. Lauren is so grateful to be joining Syracuse Stage for the first time, and would like to thank the team at Portland Center Stage for helping to create such an amazing opportunity! @Losteele

CAST

Andrea Vernae (Clyde) is so excited to make her Syracuse Stage debut! She feels incredibly honored and grateful to be telling this story with this amazing cast and creative team. Some of her favorite credits include August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Redwood, The Wolves, and Pen/Man/ Ship. She would like to thank her family for their love and support. You can see her next in Passing Strange at Portland Playhouse and Clyde’s at Portland Center Stage!

Setareki Wainiqolo (Montrellous) Thank you to Syracuse Stage for welcoming me with an open heart into their beautiful and vibrant theater and community. Thank you to Chip Miller and Kamilah Bush for their wisdom, generosity and support throughout this immense process. Thank you to the beautiful cast for their joy and brilliance.Thank you deeply to all the folks who still come to watch and support live theater. Your presence is an integral part of the power of theater as we endeavor to experience, for a brief time together, our shared humanity through storytelling. I'd love to dedicate my offering of “Montrellous” to the formerly and currently incarcerated members of our families and communities, as well as the Essential Workers across America, especially those in the service and restaurant industry who work tirelessly for our nourishment. Thank you. Yale Drama M.F.A.

ARTISTIC TEAM

Britton Mauk (Scenic Designer) has scenic designed for regional theatres Portland Center Stage (Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Rent); Long Wharf Theatre (I am My Own Wife); Gulfshore Playhouse (Steel Magnolias and 26 Miles) in Naples, Florida; Resident Ensemble Players (In the Heat of the Night) in Newark, DE; Constellation Stage (Matilda and Fun Home) in Bloomington, IN; and Mixed Blood (Mermaid Hour Remixed) in Minneapolis, MN. Closer to home in Pittsburgh, Britton has designed three world premieres: Untitled and The Burdens at City Theatre and Old Man and the Sea at Pittsburgh Playhouse. His other designs from these venues include American Fast and The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey at City Theatre; Good Grief, Uncle Vanya, Urinetown, and Wig Out! at Pittsburgh Playhouse. He has also designed for Pittsburgh Public Theatre (The Chief), Front Porch Theatricals, CLO Cabaret, Prime Stage, Pittsburgh Musical Theatre, and Quantum Theatre. He is a member of the USITT IDEAS Committee, co-coordinator for the USITT Gateway Program, and assistant teaching professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

ARTISTIC TEAM

Dominique Fawn Hill (Costume Designer) is a Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning costume designer for Broadway and film. Dominique’s designs include world premieres of plays and musicals produced at major venues such as The Public Theatre, Playwright’s Horizons, Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC, The Geffen Playhouse, and the Chautauqua Theatre Company. Her theatre credits include the Broadway production of Fat Ham (Tony Award and Lucille Lortel nominations) and off-Broadway productions of Tambo & Bones (Lucille Lortel nomination), Fat Ham (Obie Award), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Dark Girl Chronicles (The Shed), and 125th & FREEdom (National Black Theatre). Her regional theatre credits range from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Choir Boy, and Rent for Portland Center Stage; School Girls for Kansas City Repertory; and Little Foxes for South Coast Repertory Theatre. Her design for Suzan-Lori Parks' play, Venus, was awarded Best Costume Design at the international Prague Quadrennial Exhibit in 2019. Dominique is currently designing across the nation while teaching at The University of California, Berkeley. Dominique earned her M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego. You can find her work at DominiqueFHill.com

Marika Kent (Lighting Designer) (she/her) is a Brooklyn based lighting designer. Recent/upcoming: Fences (Trinity Rep), POTUS (Arena Stage), Ulysses; Seagull (Elevator Repair Service), Amani (National Black Theater), Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group / NBT), Catch as Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons), Choir Boy; Gem of the Ocean; School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play (Portland Center Stage), Measure for Measure (Shakespeare & Company), Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me (The Wooster Group), Generation Rise; Generation NYZ (Ping Chong + Co). Marika teaches design at NYU’s Playwrights Horizons Theater School and is a proud member of USA Local 829. www.marikakent.com

Phil Johnson (Sound Designer) is a visual and theatrical artist based in the Pacific Northwest. He currently serves as the Program Director of Coho Productions in Portland OR. Some of his favorite recent productions include Gem of the Ocean, Redwood, School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play (Portland Center Stage), Pipeline (Confrontation Theater) Cop Out, Hands Up (Red Door Project), American Fast, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Everybody, The Humans and An Octoroon (Artist Repertory Theater). Phil is a multidisciplinary artist who likes to express himself in as many art forms as possible. As a technologist, Phil likes to find ways to use technology and sound to create, whether it is creating using virtual reality, binaural recordings, or new programming software that enhances the theatrical experience. As a theatrical artist, Phil is curious about the performer-spectator relationship and enjoys finding ways to deconstruct theater norms. Phil has a BFA and MA from Ohio University. If you would like to learn more, comment using @philjohnsonlive or visit philjohnsondesignstheworld.com for more content.

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Dylinn Andrew (Hair and Wig Designer) is the resident Wig and Wardrobe Supervisor for Syracuse Stage as well as an adjunct professor for Syracuse University. Drawing on years of experience as a licensed cosmetologist and makeup artist, she has designed shows like Guys and Dolls (Syracuse University Department of Drama) and 9 to 5 (Jamesville-Dewitt High School). Styling work includes Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, and A Christmas Carol (Syracuse Stage). As a jack of all trades type, she has worked alongside many community, regional, and touring theater companies in a variety of skill areas, including costume design/stitching, directing, choreography, music directing, education and Stars of Tomorrow adjudication. Her experience also extends on the stage through professional opera, acting, and as a multi-instrumentalist.

Alec Barbour (Fight Choreographer) is a Rochester, NY based actor, fight choreographer, and playwright. He has been studying stage combat since 2005 and is a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors. He received his M.F.A. in acting at the Hilberry Repertory Theatre at Wayne State University in Detroit, where his roles included Iago in Othello, Carson in Gross Indecency, and Charles Lomax in Major Barbara. Regional acting credits include Sir Castor (and fight captain) in Camelot at Drury Lane Theatre and Horner in The Country Wife at Franklin Stage. Intimacy Direction: (for Syracuse Stage) Amadeus; (for Syracuse University Department of Drama) Romeo and Juliet, Everybody, Wild Party; (for Wallbyrd Theatre Co.) Bard Bending: Fight Club Edition, Two Gentlemen of Verona; (for Utica College) Dracula. Fight Direction: (for Syracuse Stage) Amadeus, Suzette Who Set to Sea, Deathtrap, Disgraced; (for Syracuse University Department of Drama) Wild Party, Kiss Me, Kate; (for University of Rochester) Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (with J. David Brimmer); (for Nazareth College) Spring Awakening, Hayfever, Vinegar Tom; (for Le Moyne College) She Kills Monsters, Macbeth in Concert, Romeo and Juliet in Concert, The Liar; (for Hilberry Repertory Theatre) The Cripple of Inishmaan, Macbeth, The Mousetrap, Moon Over Buffalo; (for Wayne State University) Arabian Nights, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, SubUrbia; (for Wallbyrd Theatre Co) Two Gentlemen of Verona, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Dracula. Alec teaches stage combat courses at Le Moyne College, Nazareth College, and Utica College. He is an apprentice with Intimacy Directors International, and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA.

Teniece Divya Johnson (Intimacy Consultant) (they/them) is an Intimacy Director, Fight Director, Stunt Performer, and Movement Storyteller working across television, film and stage. The first Black and first non-binary intimacy director on Broadway with Slave Play and first Black intimacy coordinator working on TV/Film, Teniece serves as a resolute advocate for a decolonized

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collaborative approach to art, Black intimacy, Kink and Queer representation. They are also the founder of www.BlackIntimacyConsentCollective.org, a community based educational organization around Black intimacy, consent and wellness. Off stage they share consent-based advocacy with colleges, universities, corporations and other organizations to promote healthy community practices. Additional credits: Succession, Pose, Ramy, Reacher, She Hulk, Picard, BlacKkKlansman, West Side Story, The Underground Railroad, MJ the Musical, Harry Potter, Richard III and RAQI on Power Book II Ghost.

Kamilah Bush (Dramaturg) is a playwright, dramaturg, and educator originally from North Carolina. She holds a BFA in theater education from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was an NC Teaching Fellow. She currently holds the position of Literary Manager at Portland Center Stage in Portland, OR. Kamilah has spent several seasons at celebrated regional theaters across the country, including Triad Stage in Greensboro, NC, Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota, FL, and Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Her play Nick & The Prizefighter was a semifinalist for the 2022 L. Arnold Weissberger Award, the 2021 Bay Area Playwright’s Festival and won the 2021 Urbanite Theater Modern Works Festival.

Bianca Mercado-Boller (Stage Manager) (she/her) is thrilled to return to Syracuse Stage. She has previously worked on New Kid (Children’s Tour) and A Christmas Carol (2023). Other select credits include This Day Forward (Vineyard Theatre), Where Did We Sit on the Bus? (Ensemble Studio Theatre), EST Marathon 2019 and Doubt (Franklin Stage Company) and Williamstown Fridays at 3 series (Wipeout, Chapters of a Floating Life, Plunder and Lighting and Nick & the Prize Fighter). She has also spent time working as a Covid Safety Officer for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Aladdin, The Lion King and KPOP. Education: Juilliard apprenticeship, Syracuse University.

Bass/Valle Casting (Casting) formerly Harriet Bass Casting, is a leading NYC boutique casting office. To know more about their upcoming projects and casting philosophy please visit www.bassvallecasting.com. Harriet Bass has cast for ABC/TV, Fox Television Studios, The Public Theatre: NEW WORK NOW, The Minetta Lane Theatre, The Women’s Project, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Women in Film and Television, and The Jewish Repertory Theatre. She has cast the last three of the late August Wilson’s ten part play series: the original Radio Golf, Broadway Gem of the Ocean, and off-Broadway Jitney. Harriet is also a leading educator in audition technique, side and monologue coaching, and the business of acting. She has taught at the nation’s top universities and professional training programs. Gama Valle is a director, playwright, screenwriter, children’s book author, and casting director. His casting credits include: The American Tradition, The Great Novel, Split Second, I Wanna Fuck

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Like Romeo and Juliet, among others. He is a proud member of New Light Theatre Ensemble and the recipient of the Van Lier Directing Fellowship at Repertorio Español. Gama received the First Prize in playwriting from Puerto Rico’s Institute of Culture for his play Queishd&Dilit. Their regional casting credits include: Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, Trinity Rep, San Jose Rep, Geva, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Merrimack Rep, Longwharf Theatre, Alliance Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Kansas City Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, Dallas Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Portland Center Stage, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Feature films credits include: Pushing Hands directed by Ang Lee, Underheat, starring Lee Grant, First We Take Manhattan, produced by Golden Harvest Inc., and Graves End, directed by Sal Stabile.

DIRECTOR

Chip Miller is a director and producer, currently in the role of Associate Artistic Director at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. They were previously the Artistic Associate/ Resident Director at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Directing: Choir Boy, It’s a Wonderful Life, Rent, August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the world premiere of Redwood (Portland Center Stage at the Armory), Larry Owens’ Sondhemia (Carnegie Hall), Journeys to Justice (Portland Opera), the world premiere of American Fast (Artists Repertory Theater), School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play, Welcome to Fear City, Sex with Strangers, A Raisin in the Sun (KCRep); the world premiere of Becoming Martin by Kevin Willmott (The Coterie); dwb (driving while black) (Lawrence Arts Center, Des Moines Metro Opera, Greensboro Opera); 4:48 Psychosis (The Buffalo Room). Chip has developed work with playwrights including Kevin Wilmott, Kara Lee Corthron, Brittany K. Allen, Catherine Trieschmann, Darren Canady, Andrew Rosendorf, Susan Kander & Roberta Gumbel, Michelle T. Johnson, and Michael Finke. They have developed work at The William Inge Theatre Festival, NYU’s New Plays for Young Audiences, La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA Series, Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, The Midwest Dramatists Center, KCRep’s OriginKC New Works Festival, The Living Room Theatre, and Musical Theatre Heritage.

PLAYWRIGHT

Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter, and the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Recent work includes the book for MJ the Musical (Broadway), the libretto for the Intimate Apparel opera (LCT), and Clyde’s (Broadway, 2ST, Goodman Theatre), and co-curating the performance installation The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre). Past work includes Sweat, Ruined, the book for The Secret Life of Bees; Mlima’s Tale; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Intimate Apparel; Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por’knockers; and POOF!. She has also developed This is Reading, a performance installation in Reading, Pennsylvania. Ms. Nottage is a member of the Theater Hall of Fame, and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (among other awards). She is also an Associate Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Robert Hupp is in his eighth season as artistic director of Syracuse Stage. He recently directed Our Town, The Play That Goes Wrong, Eureka Day, Annapurna, Talley’s Folly, Amadeus, Noises Off, Next to Normal, and The Three Musketeers for Stage. Prior to coming to Central New York, Robert spent seventeen seasons as the producing artistic director of Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock. He directed over 30 productions for Arkansas Rep ranging from Hamlet to Les Miserables to The Grapes of Wrath. In New York City, Robert directed the American premieres of Glyn Maxwell’s The Lifeblood and Wolfpit for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble. He also served for nine seasons as the artistic director of the Obie Award-winning Jean Cocteau Repertory. At the Cocteau, Robert’s directing credits include works by Buchner, Wilder, Cocteau, Shaw, Wedekind and the premieres of the Bentley/Milhaud version of Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, and Eduardo de Filippo’s Napoli Millionaria. He has held faculty positions at Pennsylvania’s Dickinson College and, in Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Hendrix College. Robert served as vice president of the Board of Directors of the Theatre Communications Group and has served on funding panels for the New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, the Theatre Communications Group, the New Jersey State Council of the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. While in Arkansas, Robert was named both Non-Profit Executive of the Year by the Arkansas Business Publishing Group, and Individual Artist of the Year by the Arkansas Arts Council. He and his wife Clea ride herd over a blended family of five children, one dog, and two cats.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Jill A. Anderson has served as managing director of Syracuse Stage since 2016. Jill is responsible for Stage’s more than $8 million operating budget and has oversight of fundraising, marketing, and operational matters within the organization. Prior to joining Stage, Jill spent a decade as general manager at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. During her tenure, the O’Neill completed a $7 million capital campaign and campus expansion, doubled its operating budget, and was honored with the National Medal of Arts and a Regional Theatre Tony Award. Under the O’Neill’s aegis, Jill also developed the Baltic Playwrights Conference, an annual international new play development retreat held in Hiiumaa, Estonia. Previously, Jill spent five years in the production office at Washington, D.C.’s Arena Stage, after working as a stage manager in Minnesota, New Mexico, and Massachusetts. In addition to her work at Stage, Jill is an instructor in the theater management program of the Syracuse University Department of Drama, building on her work with high school and college students elsewhere, including at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Jill has been recognized as part of the Central NY Business Journal’s “40 Under Forty” and serves on numerous municipal and non-profit boards. Jill is delighted to call Central New York home, but will always be a proud cheesehead, originally hailing from Marshfield, Wisconsin.

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Melissa Crespo (she/her) has made a career of developing new plays, musicals, and opera around the country and abroad. She recently directed the world premiere of Bees and Honey by Guadalís Del Carmen off-Broadway at MCC Theater. Other favorite past credits include, Espejos: Clean by Christine Quintana (Hartford Stage & Syracuse Stage), form of a girl unknown by Charly Evon Simpson (Salt Lake Acting Company), and ¡Figaro! (90210) (The Duke on 42nd Street). As a playwright, her play Egress, co-written with Sarah Saltwick, had a world premiere at Amphibian Stage and won the Roe Green Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting at Cleveland Play House. As a producer, she is one of the Founding Editors of 3Views on Theater, an online publication conceived by The Lillys. Fellowships and residencies include: Time Warner Fellow (WP Theatre), Usual Suspect (NYTW), The Director’s Project (Drama League), Van Lier Directing Fellow (Second Stage Theatre), and the Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow (Arena Stage). Melissa received her M.F.A. in directing from The New School for Drama. https://www.melissacrespo.com

RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT

Kyle Bass is the author of Tender Rain, which premiered at Syracuse Stage last season, and Possessing Harriet, which premiered at Syracuse Stage and has been produced at Franklin Stage Company, East Lynne Theater Company, HartBeat Ensemble and is published by Standing Stone Books. Salt City Blues was produced at Syracuse Stage in the 21/22 season, and Citizen James, or The Young Man Without a Country, about a young James Baldwin, was commissioned by Syracuse Stage, has streamed nationally, was recently presented at Brown University and is under option for an international feature film. Toliver & Wakeman was commissioned by and premiered at Franklin Stage Company. His libretto for Libba Cotten: Here This Day, an opera based on the life of American folk music legend Libba Cotten, was commissioned by The Society for New Music. With Ping Chong, Kyle is the co-author of Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo, which premiered at Syracuse Stage and was produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York. His other full-length plays include Baldwin vs. Buckley: The Faith of Our Fathers, which has been presented at Cornell University, Colgate University, the University of Delaware, and Syracuse University, and Separated, a documentary theatre piece about student military veterans at Syracuse University, which was presented at Syracuse Stage and the Paley Center in New York, and Leeboe & Sons. Kyle is the co-author of the original screenplay for the film Day of Days (Broad Green Pictures, 2017) and is a three-time recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. He is currently developing a television series with co-writer Jaffe Cohen. As dramaturg, Kyle has collaborated with acclaimed visual artist Carrie Mae Weems, and was the script consultant on Thoughts of a Colored Man, which premiered at Syracuse Stage in 2019 and opened on Broadway in 2021. Kyle is Assistant Professor of Theater at Colgate University, where he previously served as Burke Chair for Regional Studies. He has also taught in the M.F.A. creative writing program at Goddard College, at Syracuse University, and at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. Kyle was the Susan P. Stroman Visiting Playwright at the University of Delaware and the Flournoy Visiting Playwright at Washington & Lee University. He holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from Goddard College, is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and is represented by the Barbara Hogenson Agency. A descendant of African people enslaved in New England and the American South, Kyle resides and writes in Upstate New York where his family has lived free and owned land for nearly 225 years.

WHO WE ARE

Syracuse Stage is the non-profit professional theatre company in residence at Syracuse University. We are nationally recognized for creating stimulating theatrical work that engages Central New York, and for our significant contribution to the artistic life of Syracuse University, where we are a vital partner in achieving the educational mission of the University’s Department of Drama.

OUR MISSION

Syracuse Stage tells stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experience.

OUR VISION

Reimagining what's possible for regional theatre–through active inclusion, innovative outreach, and bold productions–Syracuse Stage shapes the culture and social vitality of Central New York, enriches the Syracuse University student experience, and fosters change in ourselves, our communities, and our world.

OUR CORE VALUES

People - Actively including diverse individuals, communities, ideas, and perspectives. Passion - Commitment to integrity, excellence, and enthusiasm in our work. Curiosity - Fostering an innovative and adaptive environment that elicits wonder.

IN THE COMMUNITY

Stage has collaborated with a myriad of institutions in the Syracuse area. Community partners include 100 Black Men of Syracuse, AccessCNY, ARC of Onondaga, ARISE, ArtRage, CNY Reads, Interfaith Works of Central New York, La Casita, McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center, Onondaga Historical Association, Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park, SUNY Upstate Medical University, the VA Medical Center, and Vera House. Additionally, the educational department collaborates with many CNY schools.

ANTI-RACISM PLEDGE

Syracuse Stage stands firmly against racism and discrimination. We pledge to stand with under-represented and oppressed communities and to advance antiracism in all aspects of our work, including the outward facing, public dimension of our creative endeavors and the less visible internal practices of the organization.

Paik at Syracuse Stage

on view in the mezzanine through May 19, 2024

From the series Adios 20th Century published by Point of Contact in The Americas Baroque (1993)

Photograph/Mixed Media, 10 x 7”

Point of Contact Art Collection

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Syracuse Stage respectfully acknowledges the Onondaga Nation, Firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee, the Indigenous people on whose ancestral lands we now stand.

ABOUT SYRACUSE STAGE

Originally constructed as the Regent Movie House in 1914, the physical space of Syracuse Stage has seen many films, musicians, actors, and artists pass through its doors over the course of the past century. The Syracuse Stage that exists today is a non-for-profit professional theatre company founded in 1974, and a longstanding League of Resident Theatres (LORT) member. Since its inception, Stage has produced over 350 shows, both plays and musicals, within its walls. Now, Stage produces six to seven shows per season, while also offering educational programs to students, various pre- and post-show events, and fundraising events each year. Stage is Central New York’s only LORT theatre and one of the largest performing arts organizations in the area. Stage has a strong commitment to giving the community access to a range of high-quality productions; it is equally committed to bringing in actors, designers, and directors who are among the leading theatre professionals, both locally and across the nation.

CHAIR

SYRACUSE STAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Rocco Mangano Partner

Mangano Law Office, PLLC

PRESIDENT

Herman R. Frazier*

Senior Deputy Athletics Director Syracuse University

CHAIR-ELECT/VICE CHAIR

Richard Driscoll

Sr. Commercial Banking Relationship Manager Commercial Banking Division NBT Bank

TREASURER

Brett Padgett*

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Syracuse University

SECRETARY

Sharon Sullivan Community Volunteer

AT-LARGE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER

Phil Turner

Pastor

Bethany Baptist Church

Jill A. Anderson** Managing Director

Syracuse Stage

Janet Audunson Assistant General Counsel National Grid

George S. Bain Freelance Editor and Writer

Barbara Beckos

Retired - Syracuse Stage

Nancy Byrne Community Volunteer

Dr. Ruth Chen*

Professor of Practice

Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science

Robin Curtis

NYS Lic. RE Asso. Broker Hunt Real Estate ERA

Denise Dyce

Associate Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations Syracuse University

Colleen A. Gaetano

Retired- Vice President Global Education & Artistry Estée Lauder Companies, NYC

Helene Gold

Private Voice & Piano Instructor

Jacki Goldberg Community Volunteer

Nancy Green

Managing Member

Edward S. Green & Associates

Larry Harris

EVP and CFO Saab, Inc.

Robert Hupp** Artistic Director Syracuse Stage

Cydney Johnson*

Vice President for Community Engagement and Government Relations

Syracuse University

Rebecca Karpoff*

Professor of Practice, Musical Theater/Coordinator of Vocal Instruction, Musical Theater

Syracuse University Department of Drama

Kathy Kelly

Retired - Health Educator, PNP

Larry Leatherman

Retired - Bristol-Myers Squibb, MOST

Dan Lent Vice President Citizens Bank

Rob Lentz

EVP of Enterprise Operations

Zeta Global

Maria Lesinski

Attorney Newman and Lickstein

Anthony Malavenda

Retired - Duke’s Root Control

Julia Martin Partner

Bousquet Holstein

Suzanne McAuliffe

Retired - Educator

Rod McDonald Bond, Schoeneck & King

Molly Mulvihill

Sr. Relationship Manager Global Commercial Banking Bank of America

Fran Nichols Retired - Mower, Inc.

Mona Paradis Stadium International Trucks

Virginia Parker Retired - Educator (1996 - 2023)

Molly Ryan Partner, Goldberg Segalla LLP

Robert Sarason

Retired - Lawyer, Organizer, Fundraiser

Melvin T. Stith

Dean Emeritus, Whitman School of Management Syracuse University

Cora Thomas Radio Host and Office Manager, WAER

Michael S. Tick*

Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts Syracuse University

Dr. Amy Tucker Chief Medical Officer SUNY Upstate Medical University

Andrea Waldman Community Volunteer

Maryam Al-Hindi Wasmund Chief Financial Officer Filtertech Inc.

Ralph Zito** Chair

Syracuse University Department of Drama

*University Trustee

**Ex-Officio

SYRACUSE STAGE EMERITUS TRUSTEES

We are grateful to the following individuals who have served as Members of the Stage Board of Trustees and continue to provide significant support to Syracuse Stage.

Jim Breuer

Sandra Brown

Mary Beth Carmen

Bea González

Joan Green

Elizabeth Hartnett

John Huhtala

Margaret Martin

Kevin McAuliffe Eric Mower

Judy Mower

Michael Shende

Richard Shirtz

Jack Webb

Michael Zoanetti

SYRACUSE STAGE EDUCATION ADVOCACY BOARD

Sara Bambino

CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL

Todd Benware CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

Jordan Berger

JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL

Rhiannon Berry LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL

Elizabeth Defurio

NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL

David Fisselbrand AUBURN HIGH SCHOOL

Melissa Morgan BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

Matthew Phillips JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL

Linda Ponza SOLVAY HIGH SCHOOL

Jennifer Sabatino CATO-MERIDIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL

YOUNG ADULT COUNCIL

Paige Blair CAZENOVIA HIGH SCHOOL

Sadie Broderick

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Finnegan Coons

G. RAY BODLEY HIGH SCHOOL

Ella Culligan LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL

Joliette Doyle

TULLY JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Kate Fennessy AUBURN HIGH SCHOOL

Claire Foran

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Kennedy Hilton

FAYETTEVILLE-MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

Mira Jensen CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOL

Beatrix Karn CAZENOVIA HIGH SCHOOL

Sophia Kelly

CATO MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Stephanie Kelly

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY

Margot Klein

CHARLES W. BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

Tessa Komar

FAYETTEVILLE-MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

Rei Korthas HOMESCHOOLED

Madison Macomber

EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Zoie Markowski

SOLVAY HIGH SCHOOL

Minerva Miller

FAYETTEVILLE-MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

Octavia Miller

FAYETTEVILLE-MANLIUS HIGH SCHOOL

David Warne Peters

CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOL

Francesca Smith

BISHOP GRIMES JR./SR. HIGH SCHOOL

Caleb Smith

MANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL

Abbie Sundet

PAUL V. MOORE HIGH SCHOOL

Zariah Taylor

JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL

Rebecca Wheeler HOMESCHOOLED

Sophia Zogby

CATO MERIDIAN JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

SYRACUSE STAGE ANNUAL FUND GIFTS

Syracuse Stage depends on the generosity of contributions from individuals, corporations, businesses, foundations, and government agencies. It is with much gratitude that we recognize the following donors to our annual campaign. For information regarding levels of contribution and benefits of each please contact the Development office at 315-443-3931 or visit syracusestage.org.

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SPONSORS

Richard Mather Fund

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SPONSORS

Contributions listed above are current as of January 11th, 2024 and reflect operating support of $5,000+ and in-kind donations of $10,000+.

SPONSOR STATEMENTS

The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation is proud to be a sponsor of the arts in Central New York. We recognize the deep importance live theatre plays in shaping the cultural and social vitality of our community. In these challenging times, theatre brings us together to be inspired and celebrate the richness of the human experience. We are delighted to continue to support Syracuse Stage and this very special production of Clyde's

The Syracuse Stage Board of Trustees is proud to sponsor Clyde's by Lynn Nottage. Congratulations to the cast and creative team.

Sarah Alden

50 TH ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN GIFTS

Robert & Jeanne Anderson

Frank Badagnani

George S. Bain

Rosemary Baker & Stuart

Spiegel

Keith Batman & Barbara Post

Helen Beale

Jean Beers

Carrie Berse & Chris Skeval

Michael & Jennifer Blowers

Leslee Boissy

Thomas & Carol Boll

Jon & Patricia Booth

Mary Brady

Dennis & Mary Anne Brady

Marion Brillati

Angel Broadnax

Paul Brown & Susan Loevenguth

Marlene Brown

Pamela Brown-Benjamin

Gary & Kathleen Bruno

Lia & Dean Burrows

Kathleen Burt

Patricia Bush

Nancy & William Byrne

Lori Campitello

Rich & Mary Cappelli

Patricia & Sandy Colabufo

Nicholas & Louanne Colaneri

Elaine Coppola

Raymond W. Cummings, Jr.

Kevin & Kristin Curtis

Therese & Walter Dancks

Anthony & Deborah D'Angelo

Bill & Terry Delavan

Roger & Naomi DeMuth

Robert Desimone

Mary DiSanto

James & Leona Dowd

Ron Ehrenreich & Sondra Roth

Richard Ellison & Margaret Ksander

Linda Fabian & Dennis Goodrich

Carole Farfaglia

Carol Fedrizzi

David & Karen Fitch

Molly Carole Fitzpatrick

Robert & Terry Flower

Peter Frantzis

Nancy Freeborough

George & Halina Gagne

Jim & Carol Galvin

Barbara Genton

Jacki & Michael Goldberg

William Goodwin

Muffy & Baird Hansen

Tom & Cynthia Helmer

Kenneth Hendel

Steven Herwood

Michele Hickman

Judy Huckle

Robert & Clea Hupp

Norma Huxter

Linda Imboden

Emily Johnson & Vijay

Ramachandran

Deborah Joiner

Laura & Ed Jordan

Gwenn & John Judge

Brian Kane & Phyllis Perrotti

Michael & Audrey Kane

James & Jan Kaplan

Dana Keefer

John & Gloria Kennedy

Stewart Koenig & Judy Schmid

Dean Kolts

Jill Ladd

Lorraine LaDuke

Andrea Latchem

Stephen Lessie

Linda Loomis

Rocco & Roberta Mangano

Wade Manning

Nicholas Martin

Alan Fischler & Karen McDonold

Andreas & Margaret Meier

Carl Mellor

Michael & Claudia Miceli

Gail Mitchell

Bruce Moseley & Leigh Yardley

Janet Munro

Claire Myers

Richard & Barbara Natoli

As of January 11th, 2024.

Marty & Millie Newshan

Becky Nicandri

Leslie Noble & Bill Morris

Sally O'Herin

Marjorie Ostrander

Cindy Paikin

Ricky & Whitney Pak

David & Susan Palen

Cathy Palm

Nolan & Phyllis Palsma

Peter & Constance Palumb

Robert & Teresa Parke

Susan Perriello

Debra Petzold

Jane Pickett

Duane & Karleen Preske

Nancy Radoff

David Rankert

Jean Reilly

Todd Relyea

Ross & Melanie Relyea

Patrick & Kuni Riccardi

Terry & Monica Richmond

James & Tricia Sadowski

Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead

Mike & Marilyn Sees

Theresa Slosek & Ronald Wilson

Joseph & Carolyn Smith

John & Jamie Sutphen

Amy Sweeney

Delia & Sandy Temes

Angi Tipton

John Toomey

Hon. Karen M. Uplinger

Joseph & Carole Valesky

Nancy Wadopian

Marc & Marcy Waldauer

Estate of George Wallerstein & Julie Lutz

Mark Watkins & Brenda Silverman

Liz & David Wei

Lynda Wheat

Dr. Kelvin White

Tom & Desiree Wight

Evelyn B Williams

Diana Wolpert

Leslie & Jerry Zaborsky

Joyce Zadzilka

Syracuse Stage's 50th Anniversary Season is presented by Slutzker Family Foundation

INDIVIDUAL, CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS

New and increased gifts this season will be matched by The Richard Mather Fund.

It is our goal to provide a complete list of all donors $100+. Nevertheless, if your gift is not listed or is listed incorrectly, please accept our apologies, and contact the Development Office at 315-443-9848.

$100,000+

CNY Arts, Inc.

Onondaga County

Syracuse University

$50,000 - $99,999

Advance Media New York

New York State Council on the Arts

The Dorothy & Marshall M. Reisman Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

$20,000 - $49,999

George S. Bain

iHeart Radio

Richard Mather Fund

National Endowment for the Arts

$10,000 - $19,999

Bank of America

Nancy & William Byrne

Cathedral Candle Company

Central New York Community Foundation

JP Morgan Chase

Cumulus Radio

Elizabeth Hartnett

M&T Bank

News Channel 9

The John Ben Snow Foundation & Memorial Trust

Sharon Sullivan & Paul Phillips

Urban CNY

WAER

WRVO

$5,000 - $9,999

Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation

Bousquet Holstein

Dr. Ruth Chen & Chancellor Kent Syverud

CNY Business Journal

CNY Latino

Roger & Naomi DeMuth

Dramatists Guild Foundation

Peggy & Dana Dudarchik

The Estate of Mary Louise

Dunn

Colleen Gaetano

Neil & Helene Gold

Jacki & Michael Goldberg

Nancy Green & Tony Marschall

Larry & Ann Harris

Hayner Hoyt Corporation

Larry & Mary Leatherman

Rocco & Roberta Mangano

Kevin & Suzanne McAuliffe

Eric & Judy Mower

Claire Myers

NBT Bancorp Inc

Sally Lou & Fran Nichols

Joel Potash & Sandra Hurd

Sam & Carolyn Spalding

Melvin & Patricia Stith

Wegmans

Kathy Kelly & Len Weiner

Kristen Weslowski

$3,500 - $4,999

Janet Audunson & David Youlen

The Benz Family

Brine Wells, LLC & Marriott Downtown

Syracuse

Pete & Mary Beth Carmen

Ernst & Young, LLP

Maggie & Jake Feldmeier

Inner Harbor Radio

Cydney Johnson & Jeff Comanici

Ashley McGraw Architects

Selma Radin

Sharye Skinner

Syracuse University Humanities Center

Maryam Wasmund

$1,800 - $3,499

Barbara Beckos & Arthur McDonald

Kathleen Bice

Francine Boutet

Constance Bull

Craig & Kathy Byrum

James Clark & Sharon Gordon

The Estate of William Clark Jr.

Robin Curtis

Barbara Sheklin Davis

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Edward & Susan Downing

Dick & Therese Driscoll

Melvin & Mildred Eggers Family Charitable Foundation

Michael & Barbara Flintrop

Herman Frazier & Caroline Beal

Deborah & Samuel Haines

Dennis & Judi Hebert

David & Sally Hootnick

John & Kimberly Huhtala

Robert & Clea Hupp

Randy & Elizabeth Kalish

Leslie Kohman & Jeffrey Smith

Daniel & Ann Lent

Robert Lentz & Anne Russ

Maria Lesinski & Benjamin Hicks

Lockheed Martin

Employees' Federated Fund

Tony Malavenda & Martine Burat

Julia & Lee Martin

As of January 11th, 2024. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months and does not include gifts made to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

Rod & Jana McDonald

Walter & Elizabeth Merriam

Anne Morford

Molly & Kevin Mulvihill

Brett & Jeannie Padgett

Mona & John Paradis

Amy Parker

Michael & Rissa Ratner

Molly Ryan & Tim Byrnes

Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation

Raymond & Linda Straub

Douglas Sutherland & Nancy Kramer

Michael & Cathy Tick

Dr. Amy Tucker

Joshua & Andrea Waldman

$1,200 - $1,799

James & Nancy Asher

Debbie & Candido Bermudez

Donald Blair & Nancy Dock

Jim & Cathy Breuer

Ana Díaz-Diez & Javier

Maymi-Perez

Fox 68

Paul & Carolyn Frymoyer

Dorothy & Lawrence Gordon

Heritage Masonry Restoration, Inc.

Rebecca Karpoff

Kevin & Jessica Kopko

David Rankert

Frank and Frances Revoir Foundation

Richard & Margaret Shirtz

James Shults

John Steigerwald IV

Jack & Linda Webb

Michael & Laurie Zoanetti

$600 - $1,199

Chris Arnold

Guthrie & Louise Birkhead

Marlene Blumin

BMI Supply

Brenda Bousfield & David

Marcus

Thomas & Susan Brett

Angel Broadnax

Citizens Charitable Foundation

Amy & Tom Clark

Jerilyn Costich

Mark Cywilko & Marianne

Moosbrugger

Allen & Anita Frank

Bea Gonzalez & Michael

Leonard

Joyce Day Homan

Richard & Margaret

Ingraham

Steven & Elaine Jacobs

Charles Martin & Johanna Keller

John & Maren King

Bob & Pat Lebel

Brian & Susan Lison

James MacKillop

Susan Martineau

John & Elizabeth McKinnell

John & Joan Nicholson

Sally O'Herin

David & Susan Palen

David & Janice Panasci

Paolo & Nicole Pastore

Kathy & Dan Rabuzzi

Edward & Lois Schroeder

Gracia Sears

Robert & Anita Wagner

Angela Winfield & Lance

Lyons

John & Mitzi Wolf

$300 - $599

Susan & Allison Ambrosie

Charles Amos

Timothy Atseff & Margaret

Ogden

Andrew & Margot Baxter

Edward & Angela Bernat

Eric & Carol Boyer

Marlene Brown

Gary & Kathleen Bruno

Paul & Linda Cohen

Anita Cottrell

Susan Crossett

James & Suzanne Cusack

Frederick Dever

William & Elizabeth Elkins

Richard Ernst

Elizabeth Etoll

Linda Fabian & Dennis Goodrich

Thomas & Melissa Ferrara

Gasparini Sales, Inc.

Roger & Vicki Greenberg

Muffy & Baird Hansen

David & Ellen Hardy

Daniel & Julia Harris

Joseph & Paula Himmelsbach

In Honor of

Contributions have been made to Syracuse Stage to honor someone, celebrate a special occasion, or offer an expression of sympathy in memory of a loved one.

Warren Abrahams in memory of Ruth Smulyan. Dr. Mark & Kathy Adelson in memory of Laura Edell.

James Aiello in memory of Pamela Johnson. Bethany Anthony to my big sister, Rebekah Tadros, the biggest star I know.

Thomas Antonini in memory of Ginny Parker.

Badger State Civic Fund in memory of Hal & Ruth Smulyan. George S. Bain in memory of Ginny Parker.

Candice Bermudez & Joe Guido in memory of Ginny Parker. The Bermudez & Guido Families in honor of the marriage of Candice Bermudez & Joseph Guido. Carrie Berse & Chris Skeval in memory of Ginny Parker.

Gus & Susan Birkhead in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Louise Birkhead in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Kathy Brodsky in memory of Ginny Parker.

Carol Bryant in honor of Virginia Parker.

Craig & Kathy Byrum

As of January 11th, 2024. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months and does not include gifts made to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

Trudy & Earl Kletsky

James LeGro

George & Roseann Lorefice

Donald & Patricia

MacLaughlin

John & Candace Marsellus

Albert Marshall

Donyce & Kenneth

McCluskey

Mary Ellen McDonald

James & Elizabeth Megna

David & Beth Mitchell

Susan Moskal

Marty & Millie Newshan

Doren Norfleet

Judy Oplinger

Robert & Teresa Parke

Patricia A Parker

Jane Pickett

Mickey & Pat Piscitelli

Susan Plemons

Jennifer Roberts

William Schuyler

Lowell Seifter & Sharon

McAuliffe

Robert & Cheryl Shallish

Beth & Tobias Sienel

Dr Craig A Simmons

Joseph & Carolyn Smith

Dirk & Carol Sonneborn

Michael Stanton

George & Helene Starr

H. Paul Steiner

Carter & Nan Strickland

Cora Thomas

Victor & Diane Tice

James & Deborah Tifft

Joseph & Carole Valesky

Lynda Wheat

John & Judy Winslow

Deborah & Michael Zahn

$150 - $299

Mark & Kathy Adelson

James Aiello

Kristi Andersen

Robert & Jeanne Anderson

Beatrice Angus

Dianne Apter

Frank Badagnani

Holmes & Sarah M Bailey

Rosemary Baker & Stuart

Spiegel

Jean Beers

Dr. Sylvia Betcher & Martin

Korn

Carl & Alice Borning

Mary Brady

Dennis & Mary Anne Brady

Carmelita Britton & Richard Probert

Michael Byrne

Andrea Calarco

Ronald Capone

Lexi Carlson & Sebastian

Karcher

Joseph Cerroni & Linda

Tassa

Douglas & Diane Chilson

Joe & Nancy Clayton

Sam & Carolyn Clemence

Donna Coloton

Raymond Colton

Robert & Joan Conine

Terri Cook

Anthony & Mary Anne

Corasaniti

Molly & Travis Corley

Elizabeth Cowan

Richard Cross & Kathryn Davis

Linda Czerkies

Judith Dannible

Carol Decker

Bill & Terry Delavan

Rossybell Diaz

Stephen & Emily DiMarco

Diane Dimond

Elizabeth Drew & Joe

Marusa

Nathaniel & Karen Dunn

Mary Dunn

Denise Dyce

Lorraine Erlenback

Cynthia Ferguson

Michael & Mrs Fish

Molly Carole Fitzpatrick

Gerard Flynn

Kim Fontana

Lois & Jill Fowler

Jeffrey & Teresa Freedman

Elinor Freeman

Barbara Friedman

Thomas & Karen Fruehan

Allen & Nirelle Galson

Claudia Gasiorowski

Robert Geiger

Margaret Gelfuso

Ernest & Lynne Giraud

Karen Goldman

Bernice Gottschalk

Andrea Graham

Gregory & Elaine Hallett

Judith Hand

Nancy Hanna

Mark & Carole Hansen

Georgina Hegney

Karl & Mary Herba

In Honor of

in memory of Ginny Parker.

Molly & Travis Corley in honor of Fran Nichols for his birthday.

Ana Díaz-Diez & Javier Maymi-Perez dedicated to the memory of Pedro Díaz-Molina.

John Eng-Wong & Priscilla Angelo in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

The Farfaglia Family in memory of Edward J Farfaglia.

Zachary Ferris in memory of Virginia Parker.

Leila Ann Finkelstein in memory of Ruth Smulyan beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and friend.

Kim Fontana in memory of Ginny Parker. Brant & Ellen Rosborough Ford in memory of Ginny Parker.

Nancy Freeborough in memory of Virginia Parker.

Margaret Gelfuso in memory of Peter Scheibe.

Jacki & Michael Goldberg in memory of our dear Ginny Parker. May her memory be a blessing!

Winnie Greenberg in memory of Ginny Parker.

Briann Greenfield in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Gail S. Hauss in memory of Ruth Smulyan

As of January 11th, 2024. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months and does not include gifts made to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

Kathleen Hinchman

Donna & Joseph Hipius

Barbara & Ronald Hoffman

Howard & Linda Hollander

Michael Hungerford & Margaret Ryniker

Daniel & Rhea Jezer

Philip & Judith Kaplan

Robert & Christina Keim

Norma Kelley

Amy Kemp

Shelly Kempton

Tim & Susan Kennedy

John & Gloria Kennedy

Diane King

Russell & Joan King

Barry & Kathy Kogut

Richard & Roxanne Kopecky

Janice Kophen

Lorraine LaDuke

W & Nancy Lambright

Andrea Latchem

Victor & Linda Lebedovych

Mark & Jeannette

Levinsohn

Bonnie Levy

Edward & Carol Lipson

John & Marian Loosmann

Vito Lovecchio

Gerald Mager

Robert & Nancy Mandry

Frederick & Virginia Marty

Elizabeth Mascia

Janice Mayne

Margot McCormick

Wallace & Gayonne

McDonald

Kathleen McLeod

Sam & Margaret McNaughton

Andreas & Margaret Meier

Clifford & Marjorie Mellor

Diana Ingraham Milkovic

Daniel & Terry Miller

Donna Miller

Leslie & Barney Molldrem

Janet Moore

Elizabeth Mosher

James & Kathleen Muldoon

Janet Munro

Alan & Rosalind Napier

Richard & Barbara Natoli

Katharine O'Connell

Marjorie Ostrander

John & Elizabeth O'Sullivan

Joan & Lawrence Page

Cathy Palm

John & Robert Parsons

Michael & Susan Petrosillo

Susan Pieczonka

William & Merriette Pollard

YiWei Qi & Julie Yu

Scott Reinhart

Steve Reiter & Annegret

Schubert

Todd Relyea

Terry & Monica Richmond

Cathy Robinson

Nancy Machles Rothschild

Elaine Rubenstein

George & Sharon Schmit

Mike & Marilyn Sees

Denise Seltzer

Roger & Nancy Sharp

Nancy Sharpe

Geraldine Sheehan

Judith Smith

Jeffrey Sneider & Gwen Kay

Jonathan Solomon

James Sonneborn

Paul & Jean Soper

Patricia & Michael St. Leger

Karl Crossman & John Steinburg

Bethany Stewart

Kathleen & Mark Sunheimer

Andrew & Kathleen

Tompkins

Charles Tremper

John & Jean Tromans

Joseph Tucker

Hon. Karen M. Uplinger

Peter Vanable & Anne

Jamison

William & Linda Veit

Susan Wadley

Marc & Marcy Waldauer

David & Mary Walsh

Donald & Martha Washburn

Connie Webster

Howard Weinstein

David & Daryll Wheeler

David Whitman

Fred & Karen Whitney

George & Mrs Whitton

Tom & Desiree Wight

Christopher & Renee Wiles

Roger & Carolyn Williams

Tom & Carol Wolff

Mary Yurco

$100 - $149

Jerrold & Harriet Abraham

John Andrake

In Honor of

Guy & Patricia Howard in memory of Viriginia Parker.

Joan Kesselring in memory of Ginny Parker.

Leslie Kohman & Jeffrey Smith in memory of Ginny Parker.

Suzanne Lourie in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Thomas & Mary

Lou Mees in loving memory of Ginny Parker.

The Moore Family in memory of Ginny Parker.

Susan Moore-Palumbo & Frank Palumbo in memory of Ginny Parker.

Elizabeth Mosher in memory of Ginny Parker.

Claire Myers in memory of Drs. Lawrence & Betty Jane Myers, for granting me my love of theatre.

Wendy Neikirk Rhodes & Adrian Rhodes in honor of Ginny Parker.

Sally Lou & Fran Nichols in memory of Ginny Parker.

Sally Lou & Fran Nichols in honor of Tracey White. Anonymous in memory of Ruth Smulyan.

Judy Oplinger in memory of Tim Rice.

Peter & Connie Palumb in memory of Ginny Parker.

Amy Parker in honor of my mother, Virginia B. Parker.

Patricia A Parker in

As of January 11th, 2024. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months and does not include gifts made to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

Michelle Arora

Mary Roberts Bailey

Rosanne Barbaglia

Nancy Barnum

Marjory Baruch

Janine Bernard

Carrie Berse & Chris Skeval

David Blair

Barbara Blaszak

Jon & Patricia Booth

Bernard & Ona Cohn

Bregman

Robert & Helene Brophy

Bob & Kathy Brown

Patricia Bush

William & Mary Butler

Thomas Carlin

Delores Carney

Marjorie Carter

Christina Casella

Nancy Christy

Martha Cole

Cheryl Cole

John & Deloris Coleman

James Traver & Marguerite

Conan

Stephanie Cross

Paul & Cynthia Curtin

CVS

Lynette & Ethan Davis

Oran Day

Peter Deblois

Paula Dendis

Kate DiDonato

Audrey Dolata

James & Mike Doleski

Patricia Arcana & Thomas Dorr

Eric Drath

Wynn Egginton

Richard Ellison & Margaret Ksander

Stanley & Penny Emerick

Mark & Marci Erlebacher

Carole Farfaglia

Casey Holmes Fee

Mary Gallagher

William & Jean Gamble

Mary Beth Gannon

Rosamond Gifford

Foundation

Kathryn Glynn

Michael & Wendy Gordon

William Gray

Mark & Cynthia Dowd Greene

Briann Greenfield

Seth & Lisa Greenky

William & Ann Griffith

Charlotte Haas & Gary

Quirk

Marcia Haines

Ann & Richard Harris

Gail Hauss

David & Elizabeth Hayes

Gordon Hayes

John Friedman & Polly Ann

Heavenrich

Pamela & James Helmer

Michael & Elizabeth Hennessy

Richard & Janice Hezel

William & Phyllis Highland

Rachel Hopkins

Judy Huckle

Sofia Hvozda

Wanda Irish

Alexander Joseph

Michael & Audrey Kane

Randy Karcher

Marlene Kelly

Jean Kimber

Sheldon & Karen Kruth

Kathleen LaGrow

Robert & Lauren Lalley

Amanda Lee

Dennis Lerner

Michael & Jean Loftus

Michelle Lonergan

Susan & Gerald Lotierzo

Julia Mahaney

Jon Maloff

Mimi Mark

Karin Martinez

John Mathiason

Douglas & Randi Matousek

John & Mary McCulley

Philip & Martha McDowell

Linda McKeown

Timothy McLaughlin & Diane Cass

Gail Meagher

Thomas & Mary Lou Mees

Eckart & Mary Meisterfeld

Marcia & Dave Mele

Syracuse Mets

David Michel & Peggy Liuzzi

Thomas Miller & Mary MacBlane

Dr. Merrill L. Miller

Don Moore

Susan Moore-Palumbo & Frank Palumbo

Joseph Moorman & Catherine Gerard

Tina Nabinger

Wendy Neikirk Rhodes & Adrian Rhodes

In Honor of

memory of my dear sister-in-law, Virginia Parker.

Anonymous in memory of Lorne Runge. Gail Ruterman in honor of Ruth Smulyan

Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead in memory of Ginny Parker. Edward & Lois Schroeder in memory of Ruth Smulyan. Edward & Lois Schroeder in memory of Virginia Parker. Maura Harling Stefl in memory of Ginny Parker.

H. Paul Steiner in memory of Fritz & Ginny Parker.

Nan & Carter Strickland in memory of Virginia Parker.

Diane R. Swords in memory of my dear friend Ginny Parker, supporter of theater and of peace and social justice.

Anonymous in memory of Virginia Parker. Anonymous in memory of Genn and Ted Thuma.

Kristen Weslowski in memory of Richard Brandt.

Lynda Wheat in memory of my friend Linda Drimer. Lynda Wheat in memory of Virginia Parker

Anonymous in honor of Tracey White. Laura & Connor Williams in memory of Ginny Parker.

As of January 11th, 2024. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months and does not include gifts made to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

Michael Newman

Jane Ondich

Bryan O'Quinn

Marianna Pernia

James Perry

Anita Pisano

Howard & Ann Port

Kevin & Rachel Porter

Duane & Karleen Preske

Colleen Prossner

Steve & Kate Pynn

Mary Rose Ranieri

Jim Read

John & Dorothy Reiffenstein

Lynn Richer

Michael Riecke & Anthony McEachern

Marybeth Riscica

William & Gretchen Roberts

Stacy Roberts

Brant & Ellen Rosborough Ford

Bob Rose

John & Judy Sabene

Steven & Carla Salisbury

Richard & Jill Sargent

Roberta Savage

Jennifer Scalione

Jeffrey & Abby Scheer

Madeline Slate

Alan & Jean Smith

William Smith

Mark & Beth Steigerwald

Milton & Mary Stevenson

Susan Stred & Harold Husovsky

Jennifer, Bridget & Audrey Stromer-Galley

Calixto & Joyce Suarez

Sharon Sutter

Martha Sutter & David Ross

Kristin & Steve Swift

Brady Systems

Thomas & Carole Taylor

Ron Thiele & Lynne Pascale

Phil & Janice Turner

Earl & Karen Turner

Anthony & Martha Viglietta

Bob & Claudia Visalli

Timothy & Nancy Volk

Francis & Elaine Walter

Mark Watkins & Brenda Silverman

Ardyth Watson

Deborah Wood

Christopher Wratney

Samuel & Robin Young

Leslie & Jerry Zaborsky

Joyce Zadzilka

Stephen & Patricia Zalewski

Steven & Judith Zdep

Loretta Zolkowski

As of January 11th, 2024. Donor list reflects gifts made over the past 12 months and does not include gifts made to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

PLANNED GIVING

A planned gift is a way to make a significant and lasting gift to Syracuse Stage. By making a bequest to the theatre, you are assuring that Syracuse Stage will continue to inspire, stimulate, and entertain Central New York audiences for generations to come, as well as maintain its high artistic standards that are recognized locally, and nationally. For more information about planned gifts contact: Ana Díaz-Diez, Director of Development 315-443-3931 or ajdiazdi@syr.edu

Mary Louise Dunn Fund

Dr. William J. Clark, Jr. Fund

The Estate of Rosemary Curtis

In Honor and Memory of Sheldon P. Peterfreund and Josephine A Peterfreund

The J. Zimmeister-Yarwood Estate

MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM

Many companies will match gifts of their employees, retirees, and spouses with a gift of their own to Syracuse Stage. Ask your personnel office for a matching gift form, send the completed form with your gift – and we’ll do the rest!

Thankyoutooursponsors!

PRESENTING

JP Morgan Chase

PLATINUM

Jacki & Michael Goldberg

Mangano Law Office PLLC

Cathedral Candle Company

Nancy Green & Tony Marschall

Syracuse University

Hayner Hoyt Corporation

Dorothy and Marshall M.

Reisman Foundation (Attending: David’s Refuge)

National Grid

Bousquet Holstein, PLLC

Sharon Sullivan & Paul

Phillips

GOLD

Ernst & Young LLC

Marriott Syracuse Downtown/ Brines Wells, LLC

Mower Agency

Ashley McGraw Architects, DPC

SILVER

Bond, Schoeneck, & King PLLC

Peterson Guadagnolo Consulting Engineers, PC

LeChase

BRONZE

George S. Bain

NBT Bank

Bank of America

SYRACUSE STAGE STAFF

Artistic Director.............................................................................................................Robert Hupp

Managing Director.....................................................................................................Jill A. Anderson

Associate Artistic Director............................................................................................Melissa Crespo

Resident Playwright..............................................................................................................Kyle Bass

PRODUCTION STAFF

Director of Production Operations...........................................................................Don Buschmann

Associate Director of Production Operations..........................................................Dianna Angell

Company Manager and Production Management Associate......................................Brian Crotty

Assistant Company Manager.....................................................................................Sarai Ford

Technical Director..................................................................................................Randall Steffen

Assistant Technical Director............................................................................Rebecca Schuetz

Scene Shop Foreman...........................................................................................Michael King

Technical Assistant...................................................................................................Liz Daurio

Carpenters...............................................................................John Gamble, Brian McBurney

Student Employees................................................................Emma Thoms, Gray Westbrook†

Scenic Charge Artist...................................................................................................Emily Holm

Lead Scenic Artist................................................................................................Laurel Arnold

Scenic Painter....................................................................................................Jessica Culligan

Props Supervisor............................................................................................................Mara Rich

Assistant Prop Supervisor............................................................................Christine Goldman

Craftpersons....................................................................................Alexis Frizzell, Nora Galley

Costume Shop Manager..........................................................................Gretchen Darrow-Crotty

Assistant Costume Shop Manager.....................................................................Amanda Moore

Cutter-Draper...................................................................................................Kathryn Rauch

First Hand.........................................................................................................Victoria Lillich

Stitchers.......................................................................................Emily King, Katelyn Yonkers

Craftsperson/Shopper.........................................................................................Sandra Knapp

Wardrobe Supervisor.........................................................................................Dylinn Andrew

Student Employee...................................................................................................Sofia Pizer†

Lighting and Projection Supervisor...............................................................................Jed Daniels

Electricians/Board Operators.................................................................Travis Burt, Alex Malli

Resident Sound Designer/Audio Engineer.....................................................Jacqueline R. Herter

Audio Engineer...............................................................................................Kevin O’Connor

Sound Engineer/A1..............................................................................................Garrett Frink

Production Stage Manager....................................................................................Stuart Plymesser

Stage Managers................................................................Kyra Button, Bianca Mercado-Boller

Production Assistants.........................................................................Erin C Brett, Em Piraino

SYRACUSE STAGE STAFF

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

General Manager....................................................................................................Michael McCurdy

Comptroller..............................................................................................Mary Kennett Morreale

Associate General Manager...................................................................................Jacob G. Ellison

Director of Information Management & Technology...................................Garrett Diaz-Wheeler

Audience Services Manager.......................................................................................Korrie Taylor

House Managers.........................................Pat Condello, Ella Lafontant, Alyssa Otoski-Keim, Adam Secor, Donna Stuccio

Bartenders.................................................................................Michelle Cannizzo, Meg Pusey

Audience Services Interns...........................................................Yushan Deng†, Lubeini Yang†

Front of House Student Staff...............Nathan Ayotte†, Carolyn Burch†, Christian Elwood†, Sami English†, Henry Herbert†, Henry Jackson†, Sally Jewell†, Violet Lanciloti†, Arieza Mari† Martin Magalang†, James O’Leary†, Lucia Santoro-Velez†, Kevin Sene†, Julia Snoonan†, Eva Spaid†, Gracie Whaley†, Jakobi Deshun Oliver†, Hazel Kinnersley†, Delaney Teague†

Director of Development.............................................................................................Ana Díaz-Diez

Development Associate................................................................................Candice Bermudez

Development Intern..............................................................................Jakobi Deshun Oliver†

Director of Community Engagement............................................................................Joann Yarrow

Community Engagement Intern.....................................................................Paige Kenneally†

Director of Education.......................................................................................................Kate Laissle

Community Engagement and Education Coordinator........................................Theorri London

Education Interns.......................................Alethea Cicely Shirilan-Howlett†, Cricket Withall†

Director of Marketing and Communications..............................................................Joanna Penalva

Audience Development Manager.........................................................................Tracey White

Creative Director, Marketing.............................................................................Brenna Merritt

Marketing Content and Publications Manager................................................Matthew Nerber

Box Office Manager.................................................................................Courtney Richardson

Assistant Box Office Manager.....................................................................Ahmanee Simmons

Box Office Show Supervisor.................................................................................Trevor Miller

Graphic Designer............................................................................................Jonathan Hudak

Marketing Associate..........................................................................Talia Gabriel-Shenandoah

Box Office Intern....................................................................................................Ginger Bai†

Executive Assistant............................................................................................................Julia Rakus

Sign Language Interpreters.....................................................................Brenda Brown, Sue Freeman

Open Captioning........................................................................Jacob G. Ellison, Michael McCurdy

Audio Description........Kate Laissle, Talia Gabriel-Shenandoah, Ahmanee Simmons, Joseph Whelan

Community Services Officers.......................................................Stacey Emmons, Joseph O'Connor

Custodians...........................................................................................Tony Rogers, Candace Velario

†Student, Syracuse University Department of Drama.

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