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LETTER FROM THE RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT
DEAR FRIENDS,
The great American playwright August Wilson crafted 10 plays, each richly chronicling the African American experience across each decade of the 20th century. A truthful, vivid, soulful and linguistically symphonic rendering of a people—the descendants of former slaves—claiming, defending, enduring, celebrating, and transcending their first full century of freedom in a land of paradox, the home of the free and the brave, these plays stand as a singular achievement in American theatre.
Syracuse Stage, with our producing partner Indiana Repertory Theater, is proud to present August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. This marks our eighth production from Wilson’s American Century Cycle, and our tenth overall staging of his plays, including multiple productions of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences (1991 & 2010) and The Piano Lesson (1996 & 2014).
Apart from the Chicago-set Ma Rainy’s Black Bottom, produced at Syracuse Stage in 2008, Wilson’s plays are rooted in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, set in the living rooms, backyards, boardinghouses, and businesses of the Hill District, the city’s historic Black neighborhood.
Written in 1988 and set in 1911, Joe Turner is one of Wilson’s “waystation” plays. Seth Holly’s boardinghouse is shelter, refuge, and haven for a group of people, wayfarers seeking temporary harbor—homecooked meals, a clean bed, kinship and affection, even if it’s amongst strangers.
The characters, whose ancestors endured slavery, are part of the Great Migration of the 1910s, leaving the South seeking safety, better jobs, and new lives in the North. Wilson described these migrants as arriving “dazed and stunned,” their hearts beating with a song worth singing as they search for ways to reconnect,
to reassemble, and to give clear meaning to the song that is both a cry of pain and a shout of joy.
In March 2003, I had the privilege of meeting August Wilson, two years before his passing at age 60. I shared with him that Joe Turner’s Come and Gone was my favorite of his plays, and he replied, “Mine too.” Many other playwrights have expressed the same sentiment.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is proof of Wilson’s belief that “all of human life is universal,” and that
theater illuminates this universality, conferring upon it the ability to speak—to sing—for everyone.
So, listen, listen closely, and from the voice of this unique American genius you will hear a song that sings of you.
We’re delighted that you’re here!
Kyle Bass Resident Playwright
KYLE BASS.
PHOTO: BRENNA MERRITT.
COME FROM AWAY
September 16 - October 11, 2026
Book, music, and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein | Directed by James Vásquez
Co-Produced with Indiana Repertory Theatre
An uplifting musical about open doors and open hearts.
LES MISÉRABLES
November 27, 2026 - January 3, 2027
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg | Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer | Original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel | Additional Material by James Fenton | Orchestrations by Stephen Metcalfe, Christopher Jahnke, and Stephen Brooker | Original Orchestrations by John Cameron | Based on the novel by Victor Hugo | Directed by Robert Hupp | Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International and Cameron Mackintosh LTD | Co-produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama
The legendary hit musical like you've never seen it.
THE BOOK CLUB PLAY
January 27 - February 14, 2027
By Karen Zacarías
Directed by Rebecca Martínez
A comedy about books and the people who love them.
JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN
March 3 – 21, 2027
CENTRAL NEW YORK PREMIERE
By Kimberly Belflower | Directed by Melissa Crespo | Co-produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama
A wickedly funny coming of age story.
THE BLACK NATIONALS
April 7 - 25, 2027
WORLD PREMIERE
By Kyle Bass
Directed by Gilbert McCauley
A love letter to Syracuse from the writer of Possessing Harriet.
DUST AND SHADOW: THE
UNRAVELING OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
June 2 - 20, 2027
WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL
Music by Jonathan Reid Gealt | Lyrics by Dustin Sullivan | Book by Kasey Marino | Based on the Sherlock Holmes Pastiche novel by Lyndsay Faye | Co-Directed by Madsie Flynn and Melissa Crespo | Produced in association with Amanda Dubois Productions and HudsonMann
A new edge-of-your-seat musical thriller.
PRESENTS
JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE August Wilson’s
SCENIC DESIGNER
Tony Cisek
WIG DESIGNER
Rueben D. Echoles
DIRECTED BY
Timothy Douglas
COSTUME DESIGNER
Kara Harmon
INTIMACY AND VIOLENCE
Chels Morgan
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Lauren Nicole Jackson*
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Robert Hupp
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Jason Lynch
MOVEMENT AND CULTURAL CONSULTANT
Dane Figueroa Edidi
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Katie Barnes*
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Carly DiFulvio Allen
SOUND DESIGNER
Christopher Darbassie
DRAMATURG
Richard J Roberts
ADDITIONAL CASTING Bass/Valle Casting
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Melissa Crespo
RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT
Kyle Bass
CO-PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE
Benjamin Hanna, Margot Lacy Eccles Artistic Director | Suzanne Sweeney, Managing Director
March 11 – 29, 2026
SHOW SPONSOR
SEASON SPONSORS PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL SPONSOR
COMMUNITY PARTNER
Originally Produced on Broadway By Elliot Martin, Vy Higginsen and Ken Wydro; produced in association with Yale Repertory Theatre (Lloyd Richards, Artistic Director; Benjamin Mordecai, Managing Director); associate producer, Jeffrey Steiner, Kery Davis and Charles Grantham. World Premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre; Second Production at Huntington Theatre Company (Peter Altman, Producing Director; Michael Maso, Managing Director); Originally presented as a staged reading at the 1984 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center.
August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
TAKING PHOTOS IN THE THEATRE
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Martha Pentecost..............................................Lilian A. Oben*
UNDERSTUDIES
Understudies never substitute for the listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of performance.
For Rueben Mercer – Jojo Harper-McNeal
For Zonia Loomis – Arden Winter Williams
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Associate Lighting Designer: Andrew Vance Stage Management Assistant: Erin C Brett Stage Management Intern: Amelia Dayton† Young Actor Supervisor: Annarae Martin
Deck Crew: Christopher Green, Caitlin Radziewski
Electrician/Board Op: Kat Larrabee
Sound Engineer/A1: Garrett Frink
Wardrobe and Wig Supervisor: Dylinn Andrew Dresser: Kris Stewart
SETTING
August, 1911. A boardinghouse in Pittsburgh.
*Member 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. August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone 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.
Legacy
BY DIRECTOR TIMOTHY DOUGLAS
The enduring legacy of the gifted and unparalleled August Wilson was heralded by the arrival in 1982 of his electrifying Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom ( set in the 1920s), followed soon by the transformative Fences (set in the 1950s). But it wasn’t until he brought forth his revelatory Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (set in the 1910s) that the legendary poet/dramatist realized he was in the midst of chronicling the authenticity of Black American Life one play at a time for each decade of the 20th Century. This series of ten plays was later to become officially known as The American Century Cycle.
As an acting student at the Yale School of Drama, I served as an understudy on these first three Cycle offerings during their respective world premieres at Yale Repertory Theatre. As a young artist, such proximity to August’s genius exponentially deepened the devel-
opment of my craft. Thus, for me, the birth of this series was an act of fate. It was an extreme privilege to be among those on the receiving end of Wilson’s audacious announcement of this self-imposed, monumental, and ancestrally inspired task. Looking back, I recall his whole being seemingly ablaze, much like the shiny man described in Joe Turner Since then, after making the transition to director, my career has repeatedly been anchored by multiple productions of all (but one) of Wilson’s plays, culminating with midwifing the world premiere of the final play of the cycle, Radio Golf (set in the 1990s), also at Yale.
It is most definitely not lost on me that Wilson’s vividly complicated and revealing characters, as well as the man himself, reflect the totality of me as a creative being. That identity includes my multihyphened existence as a Black man in America,
my beautiful burden as the son of a Black woman, the embodiment of my melanin-infused use of language and expression, the guiding assurance of diasporic ancestral truths coursing through me, and the alchemical wisdom of generational pain. All of these rivers flow through me to offer healing, insight, and genuine wisdom: first for the actors who channel the work, and then for those audiences will-
ing to receive—a parallel journey to that of the character of Bynum.
And just as this play’s central figure, Herald Loomis, discovers, our stolen humanity—to the degree that we are willing to bear witness to the spiritual undertow of Wilson’s great opus—will be restored and manifested through the song we sing, compelling us to “shine like new money.”
DIRECTED BY TIMOTHY DOUGLAS: Gem Of The Ocean (6 Productions); Joe Turner’s Come And Gone (2); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (0); The Piano Lesson (1); Seven Guitars (2); Fences (6); Two Trains Running (2); Jitney (4); King Hedley II (2); Radio Golf (2)
DIRECTOR TIMOTHY DOUGLAS
August Wilson
August Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel in 1945 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which would later be the setting for most of his plays. His father was a white German immigrant; his mother was black. Wilson later stated that the “nurturing, the learning” of his life were “all black ideas about the world that I learned from my mother. My mother’s a very strong woman. My female characters come in large part from my mother.”
In the late 1950s, August’s family moved to Hazelwood, a predominantly white suburb of Pittsburgh. Wilson attended Gladstone High School until 1961, when he dropped out at age fifteen. Unlike many dropouts, Wilson did not leave school because he couldn’t read. “I was bored,” he later said. “I was confused, I was disappointed in myself, and I didn’t do any work until my history teacher assigned us to write a paper on a historical personage.” Wilson chose Napoleon because he had always been
fascinated with the “self-made emperor.” It was a twenty-page paper, and Wilson’s sister typed it up on a rented typewriter.
Since Wilson had previously done no work in class, his instructor found it hard to believe that it was his own work. He wrote both an A+ and then an F on the paper. If Wilson couldn’t prove that the paper was his own, he would receive the failing grade. “Unless you call everybody in here and have all the people prove they wrote them, even the ones that went and copied out of the encyclopedia word for word, I don’t feel I should have to prove anything,” replied Wilson. He took the failing grade, tore up the paper, threw it in his teacher’s wastebasket, and walked out of school.
“The next morning, I got up and played basketball right underneath the principal’s window. As I look back on it, I see I wanted him to come and say, ‘Why aren’t you in school?’ so I could tell
“He began to see himself as a messenger, a link in the chain of African American culture, and he assumed the responsibility of passing stories and ideas from the past to the future.”
someone. And he never came out.” Rather than tell his mother he had dropped out, Wilson spent every school day at the public library, reading some 300 books over the next four years. His reading eventually led him to pursue a career as a writer.
Wilson spent years “hanging out on street corners, following old men around, working odd jobs.” Then he discovered a place called Pat’s Cigar Store in Pittsburgh. “It was the same place that Claude McKay mentioned in his book Home to Harlem. When I found out about that, I said, ‘This is part of history,’ and I ran down there to where all the old men in the community would congregate.”
Wilson channeled his early literary efforts into poetry, saving his nickels for a $20 used typewriter when he was nineteen. Around that same time, he bought a recording of blues singer Bessie Smith, and hearing this music for the first time changed his life. Later he wrote that hearing Smith’s
LIZAN MITCHELL, RACHEL
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voice led to an “awakening.” He began to see himself as a messenger, a link in the chain of African American culture, and he assumed the responsibility of passing stories and ideas from the past to the future. The idea of the blues as a vessel for the African American experience is one that appears frequently in Wilson’s work, along with a given character searching for his song—his own personal legacy and his path in life.
In 1968, Wilson co-founded Pittsburgh’s Black Horizon Theatre Company. He began writing one-act plays during the height of the Black Power Movement as a way “to politicize the community and raise consciousness.” He always maintained that the “one thing that has best served me as a playwright is my background in poetry.” His move to Minnesota in the early 1970s served as a catalyst, permitting both the colloquial voices of his youth and his burgeoning skills as a dramatist to flourish at a remove from their geographical source.
AND CEDRIC TURNER IN GEM OF THE OCEAN. DIRECTED BY TIMOTHY DOUGLAS. PHOTO: MICHAEL DAVIS,
2007.
“Wilson conceived of a truly grandscale project: He would write ten plays, one for each decade of the twentieth century, each focusing on a particular issue that challenged the African American community at that time.”
Wilson did not think of himself as a playwright, however, until he received his first writing grant in the late 1970s. “I walked in,” he remembered of his first encounter at the Playwright’s Center, “and there were sixteen playwrights. It was the first time I had dinner with other playwrights. It was the first time I began to think of myself as one.”
It was this grant that allowed Wilson to rework a one-act about a blues recording session into what became the full-length Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The play caught the attention of Lloyd Richards, artistic director of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and dean of the Yale School of Drama. Richards directed Ma Rainey and many of Wilson’s subsequent dramas. When Ma Rainey ran on Broadway for ten months in 1984, it was the first profitable Broadway play by a black writer since Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun in 1959. Wilson’s successful career opened doors for many other talented writers.
Around this time, Wilson conceived of a truly grand-scale project: He would write ten plays, one for each decade of the twentieth century, each focusing on a particular issue that challenged the African American community at that time. Over the next twenty years, Wilson faced this challenge at the standup desk in his basement, where he wrote and rewrote each play in longhand on legal pads. Along the way he won two Pulitzer Prizes, for Fences and The Piano Lesson. Wilson finished his cycle with two plays focused on the beginning of the century—Gem of the Ocean—and the end of the century—Radio Golf.
Wilson died of liver cancer in 2005. Two weeks after his death, Broadway’s Virginia Theatre in New York City was renamed the August Wilson Theatre, becoming the first Broadway theatre to be named for an African American.
This article originally appeared in the Indiana Repertory Theatre program for August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
CHARLES PARNELL AND CHARLES WELDON IN JITNEY. DIRECTED BY TIMOTHY DOUGLAS. PHOTO: ALEX OTTAVIANO, 2002.
CAST
Stephanie Berry (Bertha Holly) was seen in The Gospel at Colonus at Little Island. She appeared in Gem of the Ocean at Two River Theatre, Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizon, and as Olivia in Classical Theatre of Harlem’s production of Malvolio. She is the 2023 recipient of an Obie Award for Performance for her role in On Sugarland at the New York Theatre Workshop, and an Obie Award for her solo show, The Shaneequa Chronicles: The Making of a Black Woman. Selected film and TV credits include Fantasy Island, O.G., The Last O.G., Bull, Blue Bloods, Blacklist, and Law and Order
Peter Bisgaier (Rutherford Selig) Off-Broadway: Reservoir Dogs, Roberto Zucco (Empire Theatre Co.); Patience (Boomerang). Regional: McCarter Theater, Arden Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Bristol Riverside, InterACT, Act2 Playhouse, Quintessence, Montgomery Theater, Delaware Theatre Co., Pegasus Theatre Co., The Fulton, Passage Theater, Horse Cave Theater, Phoenix Theater, Stella Adler Theatre, and Lincoln Amphitheatre. Film: Sparkle: A Unicorn Tale. Peter is Co-Artistic Director of Pegasus Theatre Company in New Jersey and a member of the improv team Peter & Matt. “Thank you to Corinna, Milo, Monica, and Mom.”
Kaitlyn Boyer (she/her) ( Mattie Campbell ) is thrilled to join the cast of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and make her Syracuse Stage debut! Some favorites include Dracula! A Comedy of Terrors (Off-Broadway); Nine Night (Round House Theater); School Girls; or, The African American Mean Girls Play (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Cyrano de Bergerac (Guthrie Theater); A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Elsbeth (CBS). Kaitlyn received her B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program. www.kaitlynboyer.com
Dane Figueroa Edidi (she/her) ( Molly Cunningham, Movement & Cultural Consultant) Lady Dane is an awardwinning playwright, choreographer, filmmaker, writer, and actor. Some of her roles include Ruby in Seven Guitars (Arena Stage), Ruby/Rebecca in Ghost/Writer (Rep Stage), Priestess/Klytmnestra in Klytmnestra: An Epic Slam Poem (Theatre Alliance), and Faith in Wig Out! (Studio Theatre), as well as Patra in the web series King Ester, Woman in the short film Home, and Dr. Grace Grace in the web series I Need Space. A producer and director, her short film A New Creation Story is making the festival rounds. She is an Artistic Ensemble member of Long Wharf Theatre.
CAST
Jojo Harper-McNeal (u/s: Rueben Mercer) is thrilled to be part of this production! He last appeared at Syracuse Stage as Schwartz in A Christmas Story. He made his stage debut as Ralphie Parker in A Christmas Story, The Musical at The Redhouse Theater. Since then, he has appeared as a child soloist in Evita and played Les in Newsies at The Rev Theatre, Young Lola in Kinky Boots with the Baldwinsville Theatre Guild, Boy Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at Syracuse Stage, and Kurt Von Trapp in The Sound of Music at The Redhouse Theater. In his spare time, Jojo loves seeing as many musicals as possible. One of his dream roles is King George in Hamilton.
Kerah Lily Jackson (Zonia Loomis) has attended IRT Summer Camp for the past three summers. She has worked with REACT theatre as the Narrator in their adaptation of The Wizard of Oz and with Summer Stock Stage where she performed in a musical production of Disney’s Descendants. She has been training in the dance styles of Jazz, Hip Hop, and Ballet since the age of four. She currently attends Mahogany Contemporary dance academy. Kerah loves reading, writing stories, and painting, and spending time with her family and friends. Kerah looks forward to her continuing growth and opportunities in her developing career as a performer.
Jacques Jean-Mary (Jeremy Furlow) is thrilled to join Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at Syracuse Stage! A Brooklyn native and N.Y.C.-based actor, Jacques earned his B.F.A. in Acting from Howard University and continued honing his craft at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. His most recent credits include The Hot Wing King at Denver Center and Exception to the Rule at Studio Theatre. “I strive to explore the beauty and complexity of the human experience, drawing inspiration from life, history, and my roots. I give special thanks to God, IRT, and Timothy Douglas for this incredible opportunity!”
Christian Makai Lucas (Reuben Mercer) is proud to make his debut at Syracuse Stage in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone He is 12 years old and has previously appeared on stages at the Goodman Theatre (A Christmas Carol), Metropolis Performing Arts Centre (A Christmas Carol), and the Lyric Opera of Chicago (Factotum, Cavalleria Rusticana). Christian has trained at Second City Chicago and Interlochen Arts Camp. When he is not performing, he enjoys cooking, crochet, choir, and dance.
CAST
DeShawn Harold Mitchell (he/him) ( Bynum Walker ) Broadway: George in All My Sons (Roundabout Theatre Company). Regional Theatre: Kenneth in Primary Trust, Flip in Stick Fly (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Robert in Nicole Clark Is Having a Baby (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice (New Swan Shakespeare Festival). Film: Double Dope in Highest 2 Lowest (A Spike Lee Joint), The Preppie Connection, Air Jordan. Television: Godfather of Harlem, Mike, WeCrashed, FBI: Most Wanted, Orange Is the New Black, Run the World, That Damn Michael Che, Blindspot. IMDb: DeShawn Harold Mitchell. Instagram: @Soulfisticatedfunk
Lilian A. Oben (Martha Pentecost) Primary Trust (McCarter Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse); Mud Row (Gulfshore Playhouse); Nine Night (Round House Theatre); Murder on the Orient Express (Everyman Theatre); Intimate Apparel (Orlando Shakes); The Crucible (Olney Theatre); The Second Shepherds’ Play (Folger Theatre). Film: The Noel Diaries. Writing: NYT Modern Love; Now Casting, Aether (Keegan Theatre, Festival); Olympus (Semi-Finalist, Red Bull Theater). M.S., Boston University; B.A., Middlesex University (UK); Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory; The Barrow School. Awards: 2023 HH Award Nominee-Outstanding Lead Performer. www.lilianoben.com
Keith Randolph Smith (Seth Holly) Syracuse Stage: Holiday Heart. IRT: Les Trois Dumas. Broadway: Jitney; The Piano Lesson; King Hedley II; Fences; Come Back Little Sheba; Salomé; American Psycho. Off-Broadway: Paradise Blue (Signature); …what the end will be (Roundabout); Tamburlaine (TFANA); Lockdown (Rattlestick); Holiday Heart (MTC). Regional: Old Globe; Mark Taper Forum; Goodman; Alliance; Seattle Rep; Yale Rep. TV/Film: The Good Fight; Law & Order; NY Undercover; Malcolm X; Girl Six. Alumnus of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Actors Center NY, and Quick Silver Theater Company; recipient of the Fox Fellowship and the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship for Acting.
Shane Taylor (he/him) (Herald Loomis) IRT: Jitney. OffBroadway: Knives in Hens (The Shop Theater/59E59), 50th Anniversary Production of In White America (New Federal), Romeo and Juliet (Lincoln Center Institute). Regional: The Billie Holiday Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Round House Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkeley Rep, and McCarter Theater. FILM/TV: God’s Forgotten House, Sarbane’s Oxley, King of the Bingo Game. Education: M.F.A. from Rutgers University.
CAST
Arden Winter Williams (u/s: Zonia Loomis) is thrilled to be performing in this production. She made her stage debut as Clara in The Nutcracker with the Syracuse City Ballet. Her recent credits include understudy for Helen in A Christmas Story at Syracuse Stage, the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz at Redhouse Theater Camp, and performances in Shrek and Seussical at Redhouse Theater Camp. Arden has trained in ballet, hip hop, jazz, and contemporary since the age of three and is currently en pointe. When she’s not on stage, she enjoys reading, drawing, anime, and musicals. She is grateful for the love and support of her family and teachers.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Tony Cisek (Scenic Designer) has collaborated with Timothy Douglas on over 50 productions including A Raisin in the Sun, Gem of the Ocean, Intimate Apparel, and Jitney at IRT; Blue with New Orleans Opera; The Hot Wing King and The Color Purple at Denver Center Theatre Company; Primary Trust for Cincinnati Playhouse and McCarter Theatre; and productions at Alliance Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, Milwaukee Rep, South Coast Rep, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, and Folger Theatre, among others. www.tonycisek.com
Kara Harmon (Costume Designer) Select Off-Broadway: The Other Americans, The Public Theatre; The Great Privation, Soho Rep; Watch Night, Perelman PAC. Select Regional credits include: I&You the Musical, McCarter Theatre; We Are Gathered, Arena Stage; The Penelopiad, Goodman Theatre; The Three Musketeers, OSF; 42nd Street, Goodspeed Musicals (CT Critics Circle Outstanding Costume Design Award); Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Children’s Theatre Company; Shutter Sisters, Old Globe; Guys and Dolls, Guthrie Theater; The Wiz, Ford’s Theatre (Helen Hayes Award); Barbecue, Geffen Playhouse (NAACP Award). KaraHarmonDesign.com
Jason Lynch (he/him) (Lighting Designer) is a Chicago-based lighting designer and returns to IRT where he has designed Marie and Rosetta, The Play That Goes Wrong, and Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Regional: Alley Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Geva Theatre Center, Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, among others. Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design (International Black Theatre Festival), one Joseph Jefferson, two Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Aware\ds, Michael Maggio Emerging Designer. Jason is represented by the Gersh Agency. www.jasondlynch.com, @jasonlynch.design on Instagram.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Chris Darbassie (Sound Designer) Off-Boadway (select): The Antiquities, Amusements (Playwrights Horizons); The Counter (Roundabout); Caroline, Table 17 (MCC); Six Characters (LCT3); Grangeville, A Bright New Boise, A Case for the Existence Of God (Signature NYC); The Apiary, Camp Siegfried, Patience (2ST); I’m Almost There (Audible @ Minetta Lane/Francesca Moody Productions @ Edinburgh Fringe); This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane); Heaux Church (Ars Nova); and work at Petzel Gallery, the Goodman Theater, the Alliance Theater, Playmakers Rep, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum, and more.
Rueben D. Echoles (he/him) (Wig Designer) is an accomplished costume and wig designer, author, director, choreographer and illustrator, who served as Associate Artistic Director of Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago for 17 years. Wig and hair designs include She Who Dared (Chicago Opera Theatre); Fat Ham (Cleveland Play House); Metamorphoses (Folger Theatre); The Lion in Winter, Antigone, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Stokely (Court); Hello, Dolly!, Fela (Olney); In the Heights, Rent (Muny); Dreamgirls (Paramount); Pump Boys and Dinettes (Porchlight); Women of Soul, Sister Act (Mercury); and Day of Absence (Congo Square).
Chels Morgan (they/them) (Intimacy and Violence) is an intimacy, violence, and movement director, theatre educator, an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, adjunct professor at DePaul University, and the Director of Accessibility and Inclusion at the Intimacy Professionals Education Collective (IPEC). Off-Broadway: How to Defend Yourself (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Centre Theater Group, the Old Globe Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Shakespeare Theater Company, Bucks County Playhouse, among others. Television: Lace (AllBlk Network). Education: M.F.A. in Directing, Loyola Marymount University.
Richard J Roberts (Dramaturg) This is Richard’s 36th season with the IRT, and his 28th as resident dramaturg. He has also been a dramaturg for the New Harmony Project, Write Now, and the Hotchner Playwriting Festival. He has directed IRT productions of A Christmas Carol, Bridge & Tunnel, The Night Watcher, Neat, Pretty Fire, The Cay, The Giver, The Power of One, and Twelfth Night. He has also directed for Actors Theatre of Indiana, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and others. Richard studied music at DePauw University and theatre at Indiana University and was awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis.
Lauren Nicole Jackson (Production Stage Manager) is a New York-based AEA Stage Manager and is excited to be back at Syracuse Stage! Production Stage Manager credits include: Franklinland and Smart (Ensemble Studio
ARTISTIC TEAM
Theatre), Southern Harmony: A Murder Ballad and Summer of 1976 (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare on the Sound), Peace and Love in Brooklyn (Origin Theater). Assistant Stage Manager: Sense & Sensibility (Syracuse Stage), The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics (INTAR Theater), Only Gold (MCC Theater). B.F.A. in Stage Management from Syracuse University. laurennicolejackson.com
Katie Barnes (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be at Syracuse Stage as the ASM for Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. She has spent the past two seasons at Syracuse Stage, working on productions including Relentless, The Hello Girls, and The National Pastime. Additional credits include Don Giovanni and Der Rosenkavalier (Santa Fe Opera); Saint Dad, The Play that Goes Wrong, Angels in America, Part 1 (Portland Stage); Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); The Music Man (Asolo Rep); and Last Days of Summer (KC Rep). Katie is endlessly grateful to her family, whose constant support makes this work possible.
Bass/Valle Casting (Additional Casting) formerly Harriet Bass Casting, is a leading N.Y.C. 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 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
Timothy Douglas The Crucible, A Lesson Before Dying, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Jitney, Gem of the Ocean, A Raisin in the Sun (Syracuse Stage); Jitney, Intimate Apparel (IRT); Frankenstein (CSC); Primary Trust (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); She Who Dared (Chicago Opera Theater); The Color Purple (Denver Center); Blue (New Orleans Opera); Father Comes Home From the Wars, (Roundhouse); Champion (Boston Lyric Opera); King Hedley II (Arena Stage), and the world premiere of Radio Golf (Yale Rep). Also Guthrie, Signature, Great Theatre of China, Juilliard School, Kennedy Center, Steppenwolf, Folger Shakespeare, Mark Taper Forum, and many others.
PLAYWRIGHT
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) authored Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Fences, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II, and Radio Golf. These works explore the heritage and experience of African-Americans, decade-by-decade, over the course of the twentieth century. His plays have been produced at regional theaters across the country and all over the world, as well as on Broadway. In 2003, Mr. Wilson made his professional stage debut in his one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned. Mr. Wilson’s works garnered many awards including Pulitzer Prizes for Fences (1987); and for The Piano Lesson (1990); a Tony Award for Fences; Great Britain’s Olivier Award for Jitney; as well as eight New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars, Jitney, and Radio Golf. Additionally, the cast recording of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom received a 1985 Grammy Award, and Mr. Wilson received a 1995 Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay adaptation of The Piano Lesson. Mr. Wilson’s early works included the one-act plays The Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Malcolm X, The Homecoming, and the musical satire Black Bart and the Sacred Hills. Mr. Wilson received many fellowships and awards, including Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwrighting, the Whiting Writers Award, 2003 Heinz Award, was awarded a 1999 National Humanities Medal by the President of the United States, and received numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities, as well as the only high school diploma ever issued by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He was an alumnus of New Dramatists, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 1995 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and on October 16, 2005, Broadway renamed the theater located at 245 West 52nd Street - The August Wilson Theatre. Additionally, Mr. Wilson was posthumously inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. Mr. Wilson was born and raised in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lived in Seattle, Washington at the time of his death. He is immediately survived by his two daughters, Sakina Ansari and Azula Carmen Wilson, and his wife, costume designer Constanza Romero.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Robert Hupp is in his tenth season as artistic director of Syracuse Stage. He recently directed A Christmas Story, Dial M for Murder, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, 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, their spouses, one granddaughter, one dog and two cats.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Carly DiFulvio Allen is thrilled to have joined the team at Syracuse Stage. Originally from Rochester, N.Y., she is returning to the region after a twenty-year career on Broadway. Most recently at Disney Theatrical Group, she was the Associate General Manager for the worldwide productions of Aladdin (Broadway, First and Second North American Tours, West End, U.K. Tour, Australia, Germany, Japan, Mexico City, the Netherlands, and South Korea) and Beauty and the Beast (North American Tour, U.K. Tour, Australia, Japan, and China at the Shanghai Disney Resort). Prior to her time at Disney, she was the Company Manager for Roundabout Theatre Company at the Todd Haimes Theatre (formerly the American Airlines Theatre) for twenty-five Broadway productions. Favorites include Violet with Sutton Foster, On the Twentieth Century with Kristin Chenoweth and Peter
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Gallagher, Noises Off with Andrea Martin, and the original Broadway production of The 39 Steps. She has a Theatre Arts Management and Integrated Marketing Communications degree from Ithaca College and has taught theatre management at Pace University. While at Disney, she served on the advisory committee for ENSEMBLE, an employee-led network with the goal of fostering and celebrating an inclusive culture, and was the founding member and cochair for a parents and caregivers sub-committee. She is forever grateful for the support of her parents, Jeff and Triscilla, and her husband Mike Allen. Carly’s most important role is mom to 6-year-old Arthur and 2.5-year-old Eloise.
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Melissa Crespo (she/her/hers) is a multi-hyphenate theatermaker who has made a career of developing new plays and musicals at theaters such as: Playwright’s Realm, Cape Cod Theatre Project, The O’Neill Theater Center, New Dramatists, and more. Past world premiere credits include: O.K.! by Christin Eve Cato (INTAR), Reggie Hoops by Kristoffer Diaz (Profile Theater), and Bees and Honey by Guadalís del Carmen (MCC Theater). This season, she will direct two world premieres: Relentless by Rae Binstock (Syracuse Stage) and The Woman Question by Suli Holum (People’s Light). As a playwright, her play Egress cowritten with Sarah Saltwick, had a world premiere at Amphibian Stage and won the Roe Green Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting at Cleveland Playhouse. Melissa has served on faculty at The New School for Drama and Syracuse University. Last year, she was selected to participate in the first National Theatre Convening by the President’s Council of the Arts and Humanities, NEA, and IMLS. Past fellowships and residencies include: Time Warner Fellow (WP Theatre), 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, Resident Playwright and curator of Poetry & Play and Wednesday@1, is the author of The Floydians, which premiered Off-Broadway earlier this year, Toliver & Wakeman, which premiered at Franklin Stage Company, Tender Rain, which premiered at Syracuse Stage, Salt City Blues, which received its first production at Syracuse Stage,
RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT
and Possessing Harriet, published and licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide, which premiered at Syracuse Stage, and has been produced at Franklin Stage Company, East Lynne Theater Company, and HartBeat Ensemble. Citizen James, or The Young Man Without a Country, about a young James Baldwin, streamed nationally and has been optioned for a feature-length film. Under commission from the Washington National Opera, Kyle is the librettist for a new version of Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha, which will premiere in March 2026, and he is the screenwriter and executive producer of the forthcoming live action short film Northeast. 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. A descendant of African people enslaved in colonial New England and in the American South, Kyle lives and writes in central upstate New York where his family has lived free and owned land for 226 years. Kyle is Associate Professor of Theater at Colgate University. www.kylebassplaywright.com
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.
Join the ensemble with an Annual Fund donation to help us make a difference through live theatre.
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Jeorge Bennett Watson, David Harrison Pralgo, Sean Patrick Reilly, Stephen Michael Spencer, and Rebecca S'manga Frank in the world premiere production of Relentless by Rae Binstock. Directed by Melissa Crespo. Co-produced by Sing Out, Louise! Productions. Scenic design by Ann Beyersdorfer. Costume design by Lux Haac. Lighting design by Jess Creager. Sound design by UptownWorks. Fight choreography by Teniece Divya Johnson.
ANTI-RACISM PLEDGE
Syracuse Stage stands firmly against discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law to the extent prohibited by law. We seek to foster an environment where our community has access to the resources, support, and experiences needed to thrive. We value gathering people of all backgrounds, lived experiences and perspectives. We strive to create an environment, both internal and external, where all individuals feel welcomed, respected, supported and valued.
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 nonfor-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 offerings, 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.
IN THE COMMUNITY
Stage has collaborated with a myriad of institutions in the Syracuse area. Community partners include 100 Black Men of Syracuse, YWCA, AccessCNY, ACR Health, ARC of Onondaga, ARISE, BOCES, CNY Reads, ED21, FOCL, Hiscock Legal Aid, Northside Learning Center, Center for Community Alternatives, Food Bank of Central New York, InterFaith Works, La Casita Cultural Center, Community Folk Art Center, Black Citizen's Brigade, Syracuse International Film Festival, Clear Path for Veterans, Honor Flight, National Veterans Resource Center, Onondaga Historical Association, Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Rematriation, The Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, Syracuse Peace Council, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Make-a-Wish Foundation, The Kara Fund, and Golisano Children's Hospital. Additionally, the educational department collaborates with many CNY schools.
CHAIR
SYRACUSE STAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Richard Driscoll
Senior Vice President Commercial Banking Division NBT Bank
PRESIDENT Brett Padgett*
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Syracuse University
VICE CHAIR
Colleen A. Gaetano
Retired- Vice President Global Education & Artistry Estée Lauder Companies, NYC
TREASURER
Denise Dyce*
Associate Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations Syracuse University
SECRETARY
Maria Lesinski
Attorney Newman and Lickstein
AT-LARGE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER
Cydney Johnson
Deputy County Executive for Physical Services Onondaga County
Carly DiFulvio Allen** 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
Jessica Cain Reporter WRVO
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
Elisa Dekaney*
Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives Academic Affairs Syracuse University
Helene Gold Private Voice & Piano Instructor
Jacki Goldberg Community Volunteer
Nancy Green
Managing Member
Edward S. Green & Associates
Larry Harris Retired - EVP and CFO Saab, Inc.
Eleanor J. Holdridge** Chair
Syracuse University Department of Drama
Robert Hupp** Artistic Director Syracuse Stage
Eric Jackson Co-Founder and CEO Black Cub Productions
Kathy Kelly Retired - Health Educator, PNP
Larry Leatherman Retired - Bristol-Myers Squibb, MOST
Dan Lent Commercial Loan Officer AmeriCU Credit Union
Rob Lentz Retired - EVP of Enterprise Operations Zeta Global
Rocco Mangano Partner Mangano Law Office, PLLC
Anthony Malavenda Retired - Duke’s Root Control
Julia Martin Partner Bousquet Holstein
Suzanne McAuliffe Retired - Educator
Juli McCann New York Chief Compliance Officer National Grid
Rod McDonald Bond, Schoeneck & King
Molly Mulvihill
Sr. Relationship Manager Global Commercial Banking Bank of America
Claire Myers Group Billing Coordinator Brown & Brown Insurance Services
Fran Nichols Retired - Mower, Inc.
YiWei Qi Co-Founder and CEO AccuGPS LLC
Kira Reed*
Associate Professor
Syracuse University Whitman School of Management
Dr. Henry Roane
Executive Director and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry Upstate Golisano Center for Special Needs
Jeff Rubin*
Senior VP for Digital Transformation & Chief Digital Officer Syracuse University
Molly Ryan Partner, Goldberg Segalla LLP
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
Ahmeed Turner Vice President of Scholarships & Student Success; Executive Director of Say Yes Syracuse Central New York Community Foundation
Andrea Waldman Operations and Development Coordinator
Make A Wish Foundation of Central New York
Maryam Wasmund
Chief Financial Officer Filtertech Inc.
*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
Alexys Blansett Liverpool High School
Lydia Brechler Nottingham High School
Siri Brubaker Nottingham High School
Silas Crawford Nottingham High School
Joclyn Dallas Cicero-North Syracuse High School
Raymond Feldstein Jamesville-DeWitt High School
Kate Fennessy Auburn High School
Jackson Finn Christian Brothers Academy
Claire Foran East Syracuse Minoa Central High School
Joan Green
Elizabeth Hartnett
John Huhtala
Margaret Martin
Kevin McAuliffe
Eric Mower
Judy Mower
Michael Shende
YOUNG ADULT COUNCIL
Anqi Geng Fayetteville-Manlius High School
Brooklynn Gilbert North Syracuse Junior High School
Will Hougland Jamesville-DeWitt High School
Zinira Izmir Manlius Pebble Hill School
William Kallahan Shafer Manlius Pebble Hill School
Beatrix Karn Cazenovia High School
Molly Linzer Manlius Pebble Hill School
Cecilia Lombardi Christian Brothers Academy
Zoie Markowski Solvay High School
Octavia Miller
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
Mimi Myers Baldwinsville Central School District
Jacelyn Peña Corcoran High School
Spencer Perrigo Christian Brothers Academy
Caspian Pierce Nottingham High School
Briar Raymond North Syracuse Junior High School
Taeyang Reid Manlius Pebble Hill School
Destynee Rogala STEAM High School
Richard Shirtz
Sharon Sullivan
Jack Webb
Michael Zoanetti
Quinn Rost
Charles W. Baker High School
Morgan S. Johnson Jamesville-DeWitt High School
Hikaru Simmons
Tully Junior-Senior High School
Anne Sowaya Fanfan Henninger High School
Maria Timmons
Charles W. Baker High School
Leo True-Frost Jamesville-DeWitt High School
Thomas Warne Nottingham High School
Rebecca Wheeler Homeschooled
Mika Zolberg-Steiger Homeschooled
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 February 23, 2026, and reflect operating support of $5,000+ and in-kind donations of $10,000+.
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 August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone. is made possible with funds from the General Operating Support program a regrant program of the County of Onondaga with the support of County Executive, J. Ryan McMahon II, and the Onondaga County Legislature, administered by CNY Arts.
50 TH ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN GIFTS
Syracuse Stage's 50th Anniversary Season is presented by Slutzker Family Foundation
Sarah Alden
Jackie Anderson
Robert & Jeanne Anderson
Frank Badagnani
George S. Bain
Rosemary Baker & Stuart Spiegel
Bank of America
Keith Batman & Barbara Post
Helen Beale
Barbara Beckos & Arthur McDonald
Jean Beers
Carrie Berse & Chris Skeval
Michael & Jennifer Blowers
Leslee Boissy
Thomas & Carol Boll
Jon & Patricia Booth
Patricia Borer
Dennis & Mary Anne Brady
Mary Brady
Marion Brillati
Angel Broadnax
Marlene Brown
Pamela Brown-Benjamin
Paul Brown & Susan Loevenguth
Gary & Kathleen Bruno
Lia & Dean Burrows
Kathleen Burt
Patricia Bush
Nancy & William Byrne
Mark & Lori Campitello
Rich & Mary Cappelli
Cazenovia Jewelry
Charity Cars Inc.
Dr. Ruth Chen & Chancellor Kent Syverud
Anthony & Carolyn Cimino
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
Dick & Therese Driscoll
Ron Ehrenreich & Sondra
Roth
Richard Ellison & Margaret
Ksander
Linda Fabian & Dennis Goodrich
Carole Farfaglia
Carol Fedrizzi
Alan Fischler & Karen
McDonold
David & Karen Fitch
Robert & Terry Flower
Peter Frantzis
Nancy Freeborough
Colleen Gaetano
George & Halina Gagne
Jim & Carol Galvin
Barbara Genton
Neil & Helene Gold
Jacki & Michael Goldberg
Douglas Goldschmidt & David Jacobs
William Goodwin
Nancy Green & Tony
Marschall
Muffy & H. 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
Kathy Kelly & Len Weiner
John & Gloria Kennedy
Stewart Koenig & Judy Schmid
Dean Kolts
Jill Ladd
Lorraine LaDuke
Andrea Latchem
Skip Lentz & Anne Russ
Stephen Lessie
Linda Loomis
Tony Malavenda & Martine
Burat
As of February 23, 2026
Rocco & Roberta Mangano
Wade Manning
Nicholas Martin
Kevin & Suzanne McAuliffe
Donyce & Kenneth McCluskey
Rod & Jana McDonald
Andreas & Margaret Meier
Carl Mellor
Michael & Claudia Miceli
Gail Mitchell
Molly Carole Fitzpatrick
Bruce Moseley & Leigh
Yardley
Molly & Kevin Mulvihill
Janet Munro
Claire Myers
Richard & Barbara Natoli
NBT Bancorp Inc
Marty & Millie Newshan
Becky Nicandri
Sally Lou & Fran Nichols
Leslie Noble & Bill Morris
Sally O'Herin
Marjorie Ostrander
Brett & Jeannie Padgett
Cindy Spiezio 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
The Dorothy and Marshall
M. Reisman Foundation
Ross & Melanie Relyea
Todd Relyea
Patrick & Kuni Riccardi
Richard Mather Fund
Terry & Monica Richmond
James & Tricia Sadowski
Robert Sarason & Jane
Burkhead
Mike & Marilyn Sees
Barry & Jenny Shulman
Brenda Silverman
Theresa Slosek & Ronald
Wilson
Slutzker Family Foundation
50 TH ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN GIFTS
Joseph & Carolyn Smith
Vinodhini Subramanian
Sharon Sullivan & Paul Phillips
John & Jamie Sutphen
Amy Sweeney
Delia & Sandy Temes
Angi Tipton
John Toomey
Hon. Karen M. Uplinger
Joseph & Carole Valesky
Nancy Wadopian
Marc & Marcy Waldauer
The Estate of George Wallerstein & Julie Lutz
Maryam Wasmund
Liz & David Wei
Lynda Wheat
Joseph Whelan & Margaret
Harding
Dr. Kelvin White
Tom & Desiree Wight
Evelyn B Williams
Diana Wolpert
Leslie & Jerry Zaborsky
Joyce Zadzilka
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 NY
George S. Bain
The Shubert Foundation
Slutzker Family Foundation
$20,000 - $49,999
Central New York Community Foundation
Dramatists Guild Foundation
iHeartMedia
M&T Bank
Richard Mather Fund
New York State Council on the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The Dorothy & Marshall M. Reisman Foundation
$10,000 - $19,999
Nancy & William Byrne
Cumulus Media
Jacki & Michael Goldberg
Howard L. Green Foundation, Inc.
Elizabeth Hartnett
News Channel 9
The John Ben Snow Foundation & Memorial Trust
Douglas Sutherland & Nancy Kramer
WAER
WRVO
$5,000 - $9,999
Janet Audunson & David Youlen
Elaine Bellin
Ryan & Leigh Ann Benz
Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation
Bousquet Holstein PLLC
Jessica Cain & Kevin Kopko
Pete & Mary Beth Carmen
Cathedral Candle Company
Dr. Ruth Chen & Chancellor Kent Syverud
Peggy & Dana Dudarchik
Ernst & Young, LLP
Maggie & Jake Feldmeier
Helene & Neil Gold
Nancy Green & Tony Marschall
Larry & Ann Harris
The Hayner Hoyt Corporation
Robert & Clea Hupp
Kathy Kelly & Len Weiner
Larry & Mary Leatherman
Skip Lentz & Anne Russ
Mangano Law Office, PLLC
Rocco & Roberta Mangano
Kevin & Suzanne McAuliffe
Eric & Judy Mower
Claire Myers
National Grid
NBT Bank
Sally Lou & Fran Nichols
Joel Potash & Sandra Hurd
Sharon Sullivan & Paul Phillips
Syracuse Mets - Diamond Baseball Holdings Inc.
Theatre Development Fund
Andrea & Joshua Waldman
Wegmans
$3,500 - $4,999
Kathleen Bice
Bond, Schoeneck & King Attorneys
Robin Curtis
Barbara Sheklin Davis
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Dick & Therese Driscoll
Maria Lesinski & Benjamin
Hicks
Selma Radin
Molly Ryan & Tim Byrnes
Maryam Wasmund
The gifts listed in this program include those received or pledged between February 23, 2025 and February 23, 2026. It does not include gifts to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.
$1,800 - $3,499
James & Nancy Asher
Bank of America
Barbara Beckos & Arthur McDonald
Donald Blair & Nancy
Dock
Francine Boutet
Craig & Kathy Byrum
James Clark & Sharon Gordon
Edward & Susan Downing
Melvin & Mildred Eggers
Family Charitable Foundation
Dorothy & Lawrence Gordon
Edward S. Green & Associates
Dennis & Judi Hebert
Joyce Day Homan
David & Sally Hootnick
Richard & Margaret Ingraham
Steven & Elaine Jacobs
Randy & Elizabeth Kalish
Leslie Kohman
LeChase Construction
Rod & Jana McDonald
Walter & Elizabeth Merriam
Anne Morford
Molly & Kevin Mulvihill
Brett & Jeannie Padgett
YiWei Qi & Julie Yu
Michael & Rissa Ratner
Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead
Sharye Skinner
Raymond & Linda Straub
Dr. Amy Tucker
Jack & Linda Webb
$1,200 - $1,799
Anchor QEA Inc.
Debbie & Candido Bermudez
Black Cub Productions, LLC
Marlene Blumin
Jim & Cathy Breuer
Andrew Corbin
Ana Díaz-Diez & Javier
Maymi-Perez
Kenneth & Kathleen Freer
Paul & Carolyn Frymoyer
Thomas Greenwood
Richard G. Jaeger
Frank and Frances Revoir Foundation
Nancy & Walter Shepard
Richard & Margaret Shirtz
James Shults
Sam & Carolyn Spalding
Elinor Spring-Mills
Larry & Glenda Wetzel
$600 - $1,199
Charles Amos
Chris Arnold
Edward & Angela Bernat
Susan Brett
Joseph Browne
Cazenovia Jewelry
Richard & Cynthia
Cherny
Amy & Tom Clark
Demetrius & Erin Cunia
Mark Cywilko & Marianne Moosbrugger
Elisa & Joshua Dekaney
Triscilla & Jeff DiFulvio
Audrey Dolata
Judith & William Dowling
Mark & Marci Erlebacher
Linda Fabian & Dennis Goodrich
Allen & Anita Frank
Joyce Freeman
Colleen Gaetano
Deborah & Samuel Haines
Muffy & H. Baird Hansen
Mary Hershberger
John & Kimberly Huhtala
Cydney Johnson & Jeff Comanici
John & Maren King
Bob & Pat Lebel
James MacKillop
Donald & Patricia MacLaughlin
Susan Martineau
John & Joan Nicholson
Doren Norfleet
Sally O'Herin
David & Janice Panasci
Mickey & Pat Piscitelli
David Rankert
Ellen Runge
Lois Schroeder
Jon Selzer
Geraldine & John Sheehan
Steven & Robin Sisskind
Dirk & Carol Sonneborn
Deirdre Stam
David & Eileen Thompson
Hon. Karen M. Uplinger
Peter Vanable & Anne Jamison
Leah Weinberg & Paul Barron
Lynda Wheat
David & Daryll Wheeler
John & Mitzi Wolf
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.
James Aiello, in honor of Pam Johnson.
Christine Allen, in memory of Bjorn Woldbeck, father of Tanya Pelletiere.
Charles Amos, thank you to Tracey White and Group Sales.
George S. Bain, in memory of Ginny Parker.
George S. Bain, in honor of Ginny Parker.
Laura Bigness, in memory of Bjorn Woldbeck.
Robert & Jane Corcoran, in honor of Robert and Ann Lentz. Stephanie Cross, in memory of my mom who introduced me to the experience of live theater from an early age.
Robin Curtis, for Ginny. Aimee deSimone, this is for my former colleagues who I worked with at Syracuse Stage during college, and all of the artists I met along the way.
Ana Díaz-Diez & Javier Maymi-Perez, in loving memory of Pedro DiazMolina.
Carole Farfaglia, in memory of Edward Farfaglia.
Carol Guido & Matt Hermann, in memory of Louis and Ruth Guido.
Robert Humphrey, in memory of Mary Anne
The gifts listed in this program include those received or pledged between February 23, 2025 and February 23, 2026. It does not include gifts to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.
$300 - $599
Timothy Atseff & Margaret Ogden
Jerome Bailey
Rosemary Baker & Stuart
Spiegel
Nancy Barnum
Christina El Bayadi
Brenda & Wendy Bousfield & David Marcus
Dennis & Mary Anne Brady
Brine Wells, LLC
Gary & Kathleen Bruno
Ronald Capone
Joseph Cerroni & Linda Tassa
JP Morgan Chase
Joe & Nancy Clayton
Rubin Cohen
Paul & Linda Cohen
John & Deloris Coleman
Jerilyn Costich
Anita Cottrell
Susan & Devin Crossett
Roger & Naomi DeMuth
Stephen & Emily DiMarco
Linda & Alan Dolmatch
Elizabeth & Evan Dreyfuss
Kim & Charles Driscoll
Joseph Driscoll
Penelope Pooler Eisenbies
Clay & Dora Elliott
Richard Ellison & Margaret Ksander
Richard Ernst
Linda Euto
Carole Farfaglia
Carol Fedrizzi
Herman Frazier & Caroline Beal
Allen & Nirelle Galson
Gasparini Sales, Inc.
David & Mary Geloso
Karen Goldman
Bea Gonzalez & Michael Leonard
Greenblott Recycling LLC
Carol Guido & Matt
Hermann
Bryce & Judith Hand
Jean Hickey
Joseph & Paula Himmelsbach
Kathleen Hinchman
Howard & Linda Hollander
Rachel Hopkins
Sandra Howell
Judy Huckle
Eric Jackson
Emily Johnson & Vijay
Ramachandran
Peter & Brenda Keithslack
Tim & Susan Kennedy
Alan & Deborah Kinney
Trudy & Earl Kletsky
Dean Kolts
Andrea Latchem
Kathleen Lemos
Daniel & Ann Lent
George & Roseann Lorefice
Eugene & Christine Lozner
Caro Macdonald
Tony Malavenda & Martine
Burat
John & Candace Marsellus
Charles Martin & Johanna
Keller
Juli McCann
Margot McCormick
Mary Ellen McDonald
James & Elizabeth Megna
Andreas & Margaret Meier
Walter & Lauren Melnikow
John & Jill Melvin
Donna Miller
David & Mary Morgan
Susan Moskal
Janet Munro
Newman & Lickstein, LLP
Margaret O'Brien
Kevin & Peggy O'Connor
Bryan O'Quinn
Marjorie Ostrander
David & Susan Palen
Cathy Palm
Robert & Teresa Parke
Paolo & Nicole Pastore
Eileen Ponto
Howard & Ann Port
L John Potter
John Przepiora
Kira Reed
Todd Relyea
Jennifer Roberts
Jeffrey & Jennifer Rubin
George & Sharon Schmit
Robert & Cheryl Shallish
Roger & Nancy Sharp
Beth & Tobias Sienel
Dr Craig A Simmons
Joseph & Carolyn Smith
Greg & Maura Stefl
Mark & Beth Steigerwald
H. Paul Steiner
Sharon Sutter
Cora Thomas
Victor & Diane Tice
Michael & Cathy Tick
Richard & Jessie Trudeau
Joseph Valesky
Susan Wadley
Marc & Marcy Waldauer
Fred & Karen Whitney
Tom & Carol Wolff
In Honor of
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Wilson.
Vanessa Kalette & Lynn Morsillo, in memory of Maria Marrero.
Kevin & Suzanne McAuliffe, in honor of Ginny Parker.
Theresa McIntyre, in memory of Bjorn Woldbeck.
Claire Myers, thanks Mom & Dad for introducing me to what is now my love for the theatre.
Eileen Ponto, in memory of my daughter, Emily Ponto.
Jeff & Wendy Purdy, in honor of Enoch Purdy. YiWei Qi & Julie Yu, in memory of Liam.
Eric & Liza Rochelson, in honor of Nancy and Bill's 50th wedding anniversary.
Ellen Runge, in memory of Lorne Runge, MD.
Ellen Somers & Allan Kolsky, in memory of Annette Green.
H. Paul Steiner, in memory of Ginny & Fritz Parker.
Sharon Sullivan & Paul Phillips, in memory of Alma Elaine Shende.
Ralph Torrillo, in memory of Josie Scro Torillo.
George Urist, in honor of Barbara Beckos McDonald.
Joseph Valesky, in memory of Carole Valesky.
Jay Yonta & Jennine Lombardi
$150 - $299
Jerrold & Harriet Abraham James Aiello
The gifts listed in this program include those received or pledged between February 23, 2025 and February 23, 2026. It does not include gifts to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.
Eric Allyn & Meg O'Connell
Margaret Banazek
Rosanne Barbaglia
Margaret Baule
Jean Beers
Janine Bernard
Brian & Katherine Berry
Paul & Elizabeth Berry
Dr. Sylvia Betcher & Martin Korn
Carol Biesemeyer
Diana Biro & Eric Rogers
Susan Boettger
Leslee Boissy
Jon & Patricia Booth
Eric & Carol Boyer
John & Lynn Branagan
Cindy Brink
Paul Brown & Susan Loevenguth
William Buchanan
Ron Butchart & Amy Rolleri
Alice Butunoi
Joseph & Patricia Cambareri
Delores Carney
Steven & Seanne Chase
Martha Cole
Al Coles
Donna Coloton
Robert & Jane Corcoran
Elizabeth Cowan
Stephanie Cross
Karl Crossman & John Steinburg
James & Suzanne Cusack
CVS
Christine Dascher
Brantley Deaton
Virginia DeBenedictis
Carol Decker
Peggy & Paul Dennis
Kathryn Dickerson
James & Leona Dowd
Rebecca Downing
Beth Drew & Joe Marusa
Ron Ehrenreich & Sondra
Roth
Pamela Ellis
Robert & Valerie Finney
Jeffrey & Teresa Freedman
Sue & Rodney Freeman
Thomas & Karen Fruehan
Mary Beth Gannon
Claudia & Adam Gasiorowski
Kathryn Glynn
Neil Gold
Michael & Wendy Gordon
Bernice Gottschalk
William Gray
Paula & Louis Green
Charlotte Haas & Gary Quirk
Patricia Haggerty
Mike Hall
Nancy & Stephen Hallock
Tom & Cynthia Helmer
Christopher Henke & Carolyn Hsu
Donna & Joseph Hipius
Harry Hood
Marie & James Jewson
Daniel & Rhea Jezer
Daniel & Janet Jones
Laura & Ed Jordan
Philip & Judith Kaplan
Jan Kaplan
Rebecca Karpoff
Dana Keefer
Amy Kemp
John & Gloria Kennedy
Jean Kimber
Diane King
Russell & Joan King
Barry & Kathy Kogut
Steven Kulick
Robert & Lauren Lalley
Shannon & Alfonso
LaPuma
Lori Lazipone
Amanda Lee
Tod Leggat & Shannon
Magari-Leggat
Dorothy Lennon
Bonnie Levy & Steven
Faigen
Edward & Carol Lipson
John & Marian Loosmann
Gerald Mager
Robert & Nancy Mandry
Anthony & Christi
Mangano
George A. Mango
Julia & Lee Martin
Frederick & Virginia Marty
Elizabeth Mascia
Donyce & Kenneth
McCluskey
John & Mary McCulley
Terri McGraw & Michael
Ringwood
Kathleen McLeod
Ben & Julie Merchant
Merck
Thomas Miller & Mary MacBlane
Daniel & Terry Miller
David & Beth Mitchell
Pat & Jan Moore
Alan & Rosalind Napier
Paul & Lesley Newman
Vickie Olcott
Judy Oplinger
Patricia Orr
John & Elizabeth O'Sullivan
William & Ann Phillips
Jane Pickett
Kevin & Rachael Porter
Duane & Karleen Preske
Gordon Prosser
Jeff & Wendy Purdy
Steve Reiter & Annegret
Schubert
Patrick & Kuni Riccardi
Terry & Monica Richmond
Michael Riecke & Anthony
McEachern
William & Gretchen
Roberts
Haley Rogacki
Ann Rothschild
Jody Rozenblit
Elaine Rubenstein
Arnold Rubenstein
Susan Ryan
Margaret Ryniker
Roberta Savage
Susan Scharoun & Susan Hynds
Cathryn Sellers
Sari Signorelli
Cynthia Slavinski
Judith Smith
Jeffrey Sneider & Gwen Kay
James & David Sonneborn
Michael Stanton
Arnie & Chris Steenstra
Susan Stred & Harold Husovsky
Kathleen & Mark Sunheimer
Kristin & Steve Swift
Maria Tesorio
Ron Thiele & Lynne Pascale
James & Deborah Tifft
Ralph Torrillo
John & Jean Tromans
George Urist
Chris Velardi
Anthony & Martha Viglietta
Bob & Claudia Visalli
TJ & Meghan Vitale
Nancy Wadopian
Judith Waite
Donald & Martha
Washburn
Howard Weinstein
Sarah Whitehouse
Robert & Pauline
Williamson
Deborah Wood
Leslie & Jerry Zaborsky
The gifts listed in this program include those received or pledged between February 23, 2025 and February 23, 2026. It does not include gifts to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.
Joyce Zadzilka
Steven & Judith Zdep
Loretta Zolkowski
$100 - $149
George & Beverley Adams
Lucille Adorante
Sarah Alden
Carly & Michael Allen
John Andrake
Dianne Apter & Tom McKay
Mary Roberts Bailey
Marjory Baruch
Jackie Bays & Joseph McCaffrey
Marianne & Emily Bazydlo
Helen Beale
Mary & Peter Bearkland
Kristen Benson
Hunter Berthelot
Thomas & Carol Boll
Angel Broadnax
Robert & Helene Brophy
Bob & Kathy Brown
Andrea Calarco
Phoebe Cannon
Richard & Nina Cantor
Lexi Carlson & Sebastian Karcher
Jonathan & Gia Carter
Janet & Bruce Chandler
Lou & Rosa Clark
Patricia Clark
Patricia & Sandy Colabufo
Cheryl Cole
David & Peg Compton
Anthony & Mary Anne
Corasaniti
Andrew Craig & Casey Kanala
Michelle Cretaro
Paul & Cynthia Curtin
Kristine Delaney
Diane Dimond
Laura Downs
Stanley & Penny Emerick
Lorraine Erlenback
Trena Fisher
Molly Carole Fitzpatrick
Lois & Jill Fowler
John Friedman & Polly Ann Heavenrich
Mark & Melanie Fullerton
Dan Gaffney
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
William & Jean Gamble
Jane & Dan Ganley
Margaret Gelfuso
Theresa Gibbons
Alec Del Gigante
Mark Greene & Cynthia
Dowd Greene
Seth & Lisa Greenky
Chip & Kate Grosso
James Hahn
Mark & Carole Hansen
Beth Hansen
Ann & Richard Harris
Elizabeth Hayes
Steven Herwood
Lisa Hirsch
Barbara & Ronald Hoffman
Linda Imboden
InterFaith Works of CNY
Ralph Jahnige
Jon & Wanda Jukam
Vanessa Kalette & Lyn
Morsillo
Michael & Audrey Kane
Randy Karcher
Noel Keith
David Kelly
Kathy Kennedy
Cynthia Killian
Bronson & Anna Kopp
Sarah Ledwith
Dennis Lerner
Michael & Jean Loftus
Susan Lotierzo
Jon Maloff
Averell Manes
Megan Marzeski
Michael Masingale
Angela McGlaughlin
Timothy McLaughlin &
Diane Cass
Marcia & Dave Mele
Carl Mellor
Charles Merrihew
David Michel & Peggy Liuzzi
Diana Ingraham Milkovic
Dr. Merrill L. Miller
Jennifer Milligan
Lynn Luteran Minney
Julian & Jennifer Modesti
Pam Reisman-Monaco
Joseph Moorman & Catherine Gerard
Andrea Nedoshytko
Kyle Nelson
Marty & Millie Newshan
Leslie Noble & Bill Morris
Douglas North
Jane Ondich
Craig Overbeck & Kathleen
Kent
Nolan & Phyllis Palsma
John & Linda Parsons
Michael & Susan Petrosillo
Mary Rose Ranieri
Linda Raulli
Paul Raulli
Scott Reinhart
Sultan Reshamwala
Boyd & Julie Rimel
Stacy Roberts
Rosamond Gifford
Foundation
Nancy Machles Rothschild
Valerie Roy
John & Judy Sabene
Dominick & Ann Sageer
Richard & Jill Sargent
Jennifer Scalione
Janis & Douglas Scaturo
Jeffrey & Abby Scheer
Scott & Nancy Sellers
Sally Senecal
Nancy Seward
Katherine Sgarlata
William & Marianne Smith
Paul & Jean Soper
Patricia & Michael St. Leger
Ross & Janet Stefano
Mary Studdiford
Vinodhini Subramanian
Martha Sutter & David
Ross
John & Anne Sveen
Tom & Lauren Sweeney
Edward & MaryJane
Szczesniak
Miles Taylor
Delia & Sandy Temes
James Traver & Marguerite
Conan
Dennis & Debbie Trepanier
John Tyo & Kim Predgen
Christopher Vecsey & Carol
Ann Lorenz
Diane & Kathleen Waldon
Peter & Cheryl Ward
Ardyth Watson
George & Mrs Whitton
Christopher & Renee Wiles
Eleanor Williams
Bjorn Woldbeck
Duncan Wormer & Barbara
Benedict
Victoria Xlander
Mary Yurco
Anita Pisano
Bud & Kathy Poliquin
Sharon Putney
Steve & Kate Pynn
The gifts listed in this program include those received or pledged between February 23, 2025 and February 23, 2026. It does not include gifts 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
Dr. William J. Clark, Jr. Fund
The Estate of Rosemary Curtis
Mary Louise Dunn Fund
Deborah O'Shea
In Honor and Memory of Sheldon P. Peterfreund and Josephine A Peterfreund
Michael and Rissa Ratner
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!
