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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S 7 | Letter From the Resident Playwright 8 | Tribute to Ken Jackson 9 | Title 11 | Credits 12 | A Note From the Diretor 14 | An Interview With the Playwright 22 | Cast & Creative Team Bios 30 | Who We Are Our Mission Our Vision Our Core Values Anti-Racism Pledge Land Acknowledgement 31 | About Syracuse Stage In the Community 42 | Board of Trustees 43 | Emeritus Trustees Education Advocacy Board Young Adult Council 44 | Corporate, Foundation, & Government Sponsors 45 | Sponsor Statements 46 | 50th Anniversary Campaign Gifts 47 | Individual, Corporate, Foundation, & Government Gifts 48 | In Honor of 53 | Planned Giving Matching Gift Program 54 | Syracuse Stage Staff

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The Slutzker Family Foundation is proud to be a Season Sponsor of the Syracuse Stage 24/25 season, full of stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experience.

Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1917, Lillian Slutzker was a survivor. After fleeing Nazi control for England, she met her husband at a USO dance and later returned to his hometown of Rome, New York.

She dedicated her life to bettering her community. The Foundation’s purpose is to carry on her incredible legacy and fulfill her passion for Judaism, education, the arts, and enriching the community.

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LET TER FROM THE RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT

WELCOME TO THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE NATIONAL PASTIME  KYLE BASS, RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT

As Resident Playwright, I’m thrilled to welcome you to Syracuse Stage for the world premiere of Rogelio Martinez’s The National Pastime.

New plays hold a special place in American theatre. They invite us to see the world through fresh eyes, tell stories we haven’t heard before, and delve into the complex tapestry of human experiences.

a director, a team of designers, and a beautiful cast of passionate actors—all coming together to create something unique and wholly new, to achieve its full and intended expression. For us, the audience, to witness this spark of creation brought to life for the first time is to celebrate the boundless possibilities that theatre provides.

Every play was once a new play, and every new play is a leap of faith and an act of courage. That’s why seeing a new play unfold for the first time can be one of the most thrilling experiences in theatre, especially when it sparks meaningful conversations and strikes a chord with all of us.

Commissioned by Syracuse Stage, The National Pastime has been developed over nearly four years, including as part of Stage’s Cold Read Festival of New Plays (now the Julie Lutz New Play Festival). The National Pastime exemplifies the dedication that playwrights bring to their creative process, and reminds us of the relevance, excitement, and necessity of theatre as an art form.

Over the past nine seasons, championing, developing, and producing new works has become central to what we do; it is part of who we are. And Syracuse Stage sincerely thanks Board Trustee George Bain for his unwavering, enthusiastic, and intelligent support that made this commission possible.

And we thank you, our audience, for supporting this exciting new play. Together with you we celebrate the world premiere of The National Pastime.

Rogelio’s play is a gift: it is a work of ideas crafted with insight, intelligence, wit, intrigue, theatricality, and a deep understanding of the human spirit and psychologies. But as vivid as it is on the page, the script itself is only a blueprint; it requires the collaboration of a community of artists—the playwright,

Thank you for being here. Enjoy the show!

– Kyle Bass, Resident Playwright

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TRIBUTE

Ken Jackson May 3, 1957 — April 23, 2025 It is with deep gratitude and a heavy heart that Syracuse Stage honors the extraordinary life and legacy of Ken Jackson, a cherished member of our community.

July 2024, bringing with him a wealth of wisdom, kindness, and an unparalleled passion for community building.

Ken’s connection to Syracuse Stage ran deep—our theater, located in the 15th Ward, stood in the heart of the very neighborhood where Ken was born.

His roots in this community enriched his contributions, and his gentle spirit, warm, flashing smile, and engaging personality endeared him to all who had the privilege of working alongside him.

Ken’s journey with Syracuse Stage was marked by passion, dedication, and an enduring love for the arts. Long before joining our Board of Trustees, Ken was a familiar face at opening nights, steadfastly occupying the same seats, house left, season after season. For decades, his presence was a testament to his unwavering support and belief in the transformative power of live theater.

Above all, Ken was a vocal champion for Syracuse Stage and for the city he loved.

His legacy is forever woven into the history of our theater and our community.

We are profoundly grateful for his presence, his vision, and his belief in the arts as a force for connection and change.

When Syracuse Stage reached out to Ken to invite him to become a Board Trustee, his enthusiasm was immediate and infectious. His excitement to serve and contribute further was palpable—a reflection of his lifelong commitment to uplifting the arts in Syracuse. Ken officially joined the Board in

Ken is deeply missed, but his light and his values will continue to guide and inspire us.

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PRESENTS

A JULIE LUTZ NEW PLAY FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE

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Rogelio Martinez DIRECTED BY

Johanna McKeon SCENIC DESIGNER

COSTUME DESIGNER

LIGHTING DESIGNER

SOUND DESIGNER

Andromache Chalfant

Andrea Lauer

Christopher Brown

Cody Spencer

PROJECTIONS DESIGNER

STAGE MANAGER

CASTING

Stephen Stivo Arnoczy

Miriam Hyfler*

Bass/Valle Casting

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

MANAGING DIRECTOR

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT

Robert Hupp

Carly DiFulvio Allen

Melissa Crespo

Kyle Bass

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CAST (in alphabetical order)

Joe Cassidy*............................................Nat, David, Ballplayer John J. Concado*..............................................................Oscar Cherrye J. Davis*..................................................................Val Jorge Sánchez Díaz*.............................................................Yuri Erick González*.............................................................Oceano Alejandro Hernández*....................................Tim, Sean, Logan Frank Rodríguez*..........................Josemaria, Doctor, Ballplayer

ADDITIONAL VOICEOVERS Joe Cassidy*.................................................Baseball Announcer John J. Concado*, Erick González*...........Voices at the Ballpark

ADDITIONAL CREDITS Associate Scenic Designer: Rebecca Lord-Surratt Associate Costume Designer: Ricky Lurie Associate Projections Designer: Eli Garmon Baseball Consultant: Javier A. Maymí-Pérez Production Assistant: Katie Barnes Script Manager (N.Y.C.): Fiona Church Script Manager (Syracuse): Annie McCurdy Wig and Wardrobe Supervisor: Dylinn Andrew Dressers: Emily King, Alyssa Otoski-Keim Wardrobe Sub: Kris Stewart Deck Crew: Edmund Beese, Erin C Brett, Chris Green, Bayley Leyshon, Caitlin Radziewski, Fatima Yasmin Electrician/Board Op: Kat Larrabee Supertitles Operator: Evan Burmeister

TA K I N G P H O T O S I N T H E T H E AT R E 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 The National Pastime | By Rogelio Martinez | Directed by Johanna McKeon | Scenic Design by Andromache Chalfant | Costume Design by Andrea Lauer | Lighting Design by Christopher Brown | Sound Design by Cody Spencer | Video Design by Stephen Stivo Arnoczy

*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. The National Pastime 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.

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FROM THE DIRECTOR It feels fitting to be making a living history play in these turbulent times. We are inundated with the news of the day, and our contemporary political reality feels all-consuming.

Setting an American history play in 2017 provides a surprising and unusual perspective.

Rogelio Martinez has studied the Cold War from multiple angles throughout his career. When we began working together 14 years ago, he was writing a play about the Stasi and Bruce Springsteen’s 1988 one-off live performance in East Berlin before the Wall came down. We performed that show in the old officer’s canteen of the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin—an unparalleled meta-theatrical experience that offered both of us a highly charged living history perspective. Our artistic partnership has fostered this adventurous climate, and it is a perspective I have come to crave.

This play places us squarely in the same landscape.

The National Pastime is a play about baseball and spies. The spy genre has permeated popular literature and cinema for decades, but it hasn’t made it to the stage nearly as often. It has however proven to be extraordinary theatrical fodder. People move through these landscapes with multiple secrets and identities. Spies perform for one another—all day, every day. They live their performances, and the stakes are monumental. What could be more dramatic than individuals teasing state secrets out of other individuals who pretend to be oblivious to them, and who can lose everything if they are discovered? Baseball is equally theatrical. It’s a long game, full of secrets and tells and strategies, whose players and fans are superstitious and almost religious in their beliefs. It provides a true test of character for the people who play at its highest level.

We can’t prove that the Havana syndrome is real, though the evidence is compelling. It wasn’t proven until 2020 that the

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 DIRECTOR JOHANNA MCKEON.

Spies perform for one another— all day, every day. They live their performances, and the stakes are monumental.

Houston Astros used an illegal sign stealing technique to win the 2017 World Series. Both of these phenomena were so shrouded in mystery that the human stories can only be examined as fiction if we want to understand their significance.

The intertwining themes spun out in this play will surprise you as much as they have me.

– Johanna McKeon

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an interview with playwright rogelio martinez While in rehearsal for The National Pastime, over a cup of Cuban coffee, playwright and Syracuse University alumnus Rogelio Martinez spoke with Syracuse Stage Director of Community Engagement Joann Yarrow about his work. Below are edited excerpts from that conversation.

JOANN YARROW: I saw your play Elián [about Elián González] in Miami.

ROGELIO MARTINEZ: You saw it?!

JY: I did, I did. It was so much fun.

It was crazy. I love that you had Fidel Castro played by a puppet.

RM: For that play we had to have a puppet, partly because for Fidel Castro, when you put that uniform on, it doesn’t seem real, even though it’s accurate, right? So we

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decided to go with a puppet, because I was like, it just won’t work.

JY: It was my favorite part, and I noticed a lot of similarities between Elián and The National Pastime, and your take on what’s happening behind the curtain.

And it’s interesting, because in that play, Fidel was a literal puppet character. Here, Fidel is this kind of ominous shadow past.

RM: I will confess that my mom opened a bottle of champagne when Fidel died. We came in the

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Mariel, it was just me and my mom. So, rightfully so—I think she was allowed that.

JY: For people who don’t know what the Mariel boatlift is, can you tell us a little bit about that journey from Cuba?

RM: Today is what, May 21? So around this time in 1980, Fidel said, “Okay, anybody who wants to leave Cuba can go. If you don’t

have revolutionary fervor in you, you’re welcome to go.” And all the Cubans in the United States started renting boats, and it was a mess, but my aunt bought a bunch of spots on a boat. Eventually the military police showed up to our door. My father wasn’t home, just my mom, and they asked: “Does your husband have a degree from the University of Havana?” And my mother knew that if she said yes, they weren’t

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In today’s world, in America, it is sad to see families broken apart. It is sad to see people being reported on, or people encouraged to report on other people.

That is just not the country I came to.

That is the country I ran from. going to let him go. As it turns out, my father had not picked up the actual degree, so, you know, this is a young woman in her 20s, and she said, “No, he doesn’t have one.” By that afternoon, people were already gathering outside the house throwing eggs, with signs saying “escoria” [scum], so we went to my grandmother’s house that evening, and the police showed up again, and this time they said, “You lied to us. He, in fact, does have a degree from the University of Havana.” And it went back and forth and back and forth, and eventually they said, “Okay, well, you can leave, but he stays.”

We had crossed the line. My grandmother, who was also going to leave, stayed behind with my father. So as we left for Havana, I gave my father a kiss goodbye, and they told me that he would be joining us soon—which was a lie. They had to lie to me, because if I cried, the police would have said: “Look, he doesn’t want to leave.”

I would not see my father for another seven years after that. Looking back at it now, now that I’m a parent, I would be terrified, terrified that I made the

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wrong decision. You don’t realize what that moment is for an adult until you have children. And it took a lifetime, it took having children to understand that point of view.

JY: You touch upon that in the play, with the relationship between the father and the son—the lies, and what you have to give up for your children.

RM: And I don’t think I could have written that until I became a father, and understood what you could tell children. You can hurt children with your words, or you can help them. And the father in the play keeps secrets from his son in order to not hurt him. Eventually, he tells some hard truths that are almost forced out of him. But there is a big storyline in the play about fathers and sons—when do they see eye to eye, where is there conflict, and what’s the responsibility of a parent in that relationship. And as I get older, I am visiting that theme a lot more.

JY: That’s also interesting because the play weaves the personal with the political.

RM: I always say Cuba raised gossip to the level of national security. They would look at when you entered the house, they would look at when you left the house, they would look at the packages you brought in. And this world of informing people is very distressing. In today's world, in America, it is sad to see families broken apart. It is sad to see people being reported on, or people encouraged to report on other people. That is just not the country I came to. That is the country I ran from.

JY: So, how is Havana syndrome both personal and political for you?

RM: You know, there's never really been an explanation for Havana syndrome. There's been multiple attempts, and some of them make sense and some of them make less sense, but there's never been an official explanation. So the first thing I knew was that in this play the syndrome itself, the sonic waves, had to be something that was almost created by the paranoia that exists between two countries.

It had to be this force that existed between two nations. So that put me in an emotional place. I have

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 PRIVATE VESSELS FOXY LADY AND MATILDE FILLED WITH CUBAN REFUGEES FROM MARIEL DOCKED AT PIER “B” IN KEY WEST. AFTER DISEMBARKING, PASSENGERS WALKED FROM THE PIER TO THE MAKESHIFT IMMIGRATION PROCESSING CENTER AT THE KEY WEST LATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1980. PHOTO: DALE MCDONALD

 FINAL READING OF THE NATIONAL PASTIME FROM THE 2024 WORKSHOP IN NEW YORK CITY.

issues with trust, I don’t even like posting on Facebook. And my wife says, “You've been here your whole life.”

But for me, it will always be there.

Trust is something I really wanted to write about, and how mistrust leads to a bad place.

JY: And then you somehow manage to tie that to baseball.

RM: It definitely started with Havana syndrome, but I realized that there was another story here. That’s when I brought in the Houston Astros. At some point a character mentions a defection and I said, “Oh, okay, what’s this about?” And then I realized that character was a baseball player, and then little by little that other storyline came into place. I don’t plot while I write. I just follow the lead, follow the story.

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JY: In the same way, did the characters just speak Spanish, and you said “Ok, let’s do that?”

RM: I have to say, this is the wonderful thing about workshopping a play.

Syracuse Stage has been extremely generous with me, and we spent last summer workshopping the play for a week, and two of the actors said, “You know, something about this scene feels like it would work better in Spanish.” And I said, “Let’s go for it.” And we worked on it in the room. And at the end of the week I realized that, yeah, it does work better in Spanish. That taught me a great deal about the play.

JY: And that sort of mirrors the ways in which characters do, or do not, understand each other, how they speak in codes—which also ties into your obsession with the Cold War. Where did that start?

I have to say, this is the wonderful thing about workshopping a play. Syracuse Stage has been extremely generous with me, and we spent last summer workshopping the play for a week, and two of the actors said, ‘You know something about this scene, it feels like it would work better in Spanish.’

And I said, ‘Let’s go for it.’ And we worked on it in the room.

RM: The Cold War had such an effect on my life. It changed my entire life. And so I’ve always been interested in John le Carré novels. I’ve always been interested in espionage. I find the Stasi fascinating.

I find East Berlin an interesting place.

I will say that espionage in the United States is driven by money, but for the Cubans and the Soviets, it’s driven by ideology. And guess what: Ideology gets you further than money, every time.

One of my earlier plays is about Bruce Springsteen, and a concert he gave in East Berlin. Music can be dangerous, because music is something that you can feel. You don’t have to speak the language. You don’t have to understand the lyrics. This is why the Cuban government really cracked down on punk— the beat makes you feel something, and that is scary for totalitarian states.

JY: So, in The National Pastime, when you’re dealing with two different ide-

ologies, and two different cultures, you have to wonder: Can we really ever know how other people think? What do we really know about each other?

RM: You know, as you get further and further away, you need to empathize with the people who stood outside your house and threw eggs at you, because what choices did they have? And then you realize you have privileges.

My favorite line, the one that taught me the most about writing, is the line at the beginning of The Great Gatsby: “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’” And I think that, to me, is the key to playwriting.

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havana Syndrome In The National Pastime, an American diplomat stationed in Cuba suffers from what became known as “Havana syndrome”—dizziness and nausea after experiencing a pervasive yet unidentifiable noise in the embassy.

These cases were first reported in 2016, and have been heavily scrutinized since.

While no definitive explanation has ever been presented, the American government has offered various assurances that Havana syndrome and the ensuing ailments were not the result of a foreign power using high tech covert weapons, even as officers were later  AMERICAN EMBASSY IN HAVANA, CUBA. PHOTO: TERRY FEUERBORN.

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compensated for their injuries under the Havana Act of 2022.

A 2019 F.B.I. report—excerpted on the following page—also documents cases from China in 2018. Released publicly in 2024, this heavily redacted summary refers to the affected agents as “victims” (quotation marks pointedly added by the bureau) and concludes that the symptoms suffered were likely an “episode of social contagion.”

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In approximately May 2017, the F.B.I. began investigating several reports by U.S. Embassy personnel in Havana, Cuba, of what appeared to be acoustic 'attacks' with some kind of device that emitted directional ultrasonic or higher frequency sound beams or energy, such as radio frequency microwaves. Some personnel appear to have suffered severe vestibular, auditory, and cognitive symptoms, in addition to other ailments. While these events appear to have begun in Havana in late 2016, similar events have periodically been reported around the world. In approximately May 2018, the F.B.I. also began investigating similar reported events with similar symptoms in China. This case revolves around the issue of whether an unknown offender(s) used an unknown device that may emit frequencies or waves to injure these individuals. In approximately August 2018, the F.B.I. requested that the F.B.I.'s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC), Behavioral Analysis Unit-2 (BAU-2), Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center (CBAC), conduct a behavioral analysis of these reported experiences. In this assessment, we applied frameworks of and other behavioral research. We conducted qualitative data analysis on the interview statements. Based on information available at the time this report was prepared, our analysis indicates several of the 'victims' in this case may have experienced an episode of social contagion and

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CAST Joe Cassidy (Nat, David, Ballplayer) Syracuse Stage debut!

TV/Film: Law & Order: SVU, A Murder At The End of The World, 12 Days of Christmas Eve, A Very Nutty Christmas, Evil, The Code, Blue Bloods, Elementary, Law & Order, Madame Secretary, and The Good Fight. Broadway/N.Y.C.: An Enemy Of The People, Waitress, If/Then, Catch Me If You Can, Next To Normal, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1776, Show Boat, Les Miserables, and Working (Drama Desk Award). Joe’s voice can be heard in animated series, national commercials, video games, podcasts, and audiobooks. Joe sends deep love and gratitude to his wife Ashley and his family. www.joecassidy.net John J. Concado (Oscar) a.k.a. Juanjo, is a native New Yorker & bilingual Argentinian-American. He recently closed his first solo show in N.Y.C., Men in Shorts, where he played the writer, David Foster Wallace, and is thrilled to be making his Syracuse Stage debut. He proudly dedicates these performances to his late father Juan Roberto and to Rodney Rodriguez. Mamá y Emi, las quiero mucho. Recent Theatre: War Words (N.Y. Rep off-Bway and The Library of Congress); Romeo y Julieta starring Lupita Nyong’o (The Public Theater); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (W.H.A.T); Anna in the Tropics (Barrington Stage). Film: Paris is in Harlem; The Rainbow Experiment; 42 Seconds of Happiness; Argentinian Intervention. TV: FBI: Most Wanted; The Deuce. Video games: Red Dead Redemption 2 and Dead Space 3. Proud SAG-AFTRA and AEA union member. @concado & JohnConcado.com Cherrye J. Davis (Val) N.Y. Theater: The Cotillion (ARTNY), Metra (Flux Theater Ensemble), The Bad in Each Other (The Tank), Sweet Chariot (Under the Radar), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (NYCT), Best Life (Jack), Spoiled (LaMaMa), How to Mourn an American (Little Island, 2019), The Loophole (The Public Theater), And She Would Stand Like This (TMTC). Film: Covered (2020), Spoiled (The Hess Collective), Extra Room (2019), For Flow (2011 HBO Black Film Fest, Finalist), Scribbles (NYC Indie Film Fest). Music: Tony and the Kiki (vocals). Coming up: Cherrye joins the directorial team of Heaux Church, premiering at Ars Nova in Fall 2025. Follow her moves at www.CherryeJDavis.com.

Jorge Sánchez Díaz (Yuri) (he/him) is an actor from Puerto Rico, based in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Syracuse Stage debut. Select theatre: Derecho (La Jolla Playhouse), Lío (Teatro Círculo - ATI Award, HOLA award nominee), Los empeños de una casa (Repertorio Español), The Skin of our Teeth (Theatre for a New Audience), The Three Musketeers (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Tongue Depressor (The Public Theater), Junk 22

CAST (Theatre Raleigh), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). TV: Law & Order: SVU, FBI. Education: M.F.A. Brooklyn College. jorgesanchezdiaz.com. Gracias totales.

Erick González (Oceano) Previously at Syracuse Stage: Native Gardens. Regional: Hamlet, Twelfth Night (DCPA); Native Gardens (Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre); Farragut North (Premiere Stages). N.Y.C.: La Caída de Trujillo (Teatro Círculo); Valor Agravio y Mujer, El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, Aire Frío, El Loco por Fuerza (Repertorio Español); Noche Tan Linda (Pregones/PRTT); Marfa Lights (INTAR); Pericles, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar (Hip to Hip); Macbeth (Frog and Peach). TV/Film: Evil, Madam Secretary, StarUp, A Nice Girl Like You. www.erickgonzalezactor.com Alejandro Hernández (Tim, Sean, Logan) is a Puerto Rican Actor currently based in N.Y.C., originally from Trenton, N.J., and is grateful to be making his Syracuse Stage debut. Off-Broadway: The Beautiful Land I seek (Pregones/ PRTT). Regional: Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Yale Rep), Between Riverside and Crazy (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Peter and the Starcatcher (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Wondrous Strange (Humana Festival), The First Immigrant and Orpheus (Williamstown Theater Festival). TV credits: The Horror of Dolores Roach, New Amsterdam, Partner Track, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, Madam Secretary, Sneaky Pete, Instinct, Chicago PD, Elementary, and Gotham. Film: American Dreamer with Jim Gaffigan, Set It Up, Monster. Training: B.F.A. in Theater Performance from Montclair State University, professional training company at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and member of The Actors Center in N.Y.C. Frank Rodríguez (Josemaría, Doctor, Ballplayer) is a New York based actor making his debut at Syracuse Stage. Some of his most recent theatre credits include: Compagnia de’ Colombari More Or Less I Am, adapted from Walt Whitman’s “Song Of Myself,” and The Merchant Of Venice. Some other credits include Pig (29th Street Rep), A Dream Of Wealth (Urban Stages), Stomp & Shout (The Babel Theatre Project), and A Bicycle Country (Theater For The New City). He has also worked extensively with N.Y.’s Spanish Repertory Theatre and ID Studio. Film credits: Ayer Otra Vez, Sugar Plum Twist, First Reformed, Fugly!, Baby Mama, Where God Left His Shoes.

TV credits: Blue Bloods, The Equalizer, FBI: Most Wanted, Manifest, Madam Secretary, Seven Seconds, God Friended Me, Law & Order: CI and SVU, Feed The Beast, Mozart In The Jungle, and others. He also has a long trajectory in the commercial industry, with many on-camera, voiceover and audiobook credits.

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C R E AT I V E T E A M Andromache Chalfant (Scenic Designer) is a New York City based designer.

She most recently designed sets for the Greek National Opera in Athens, Greece. Off-Broadway credits include productions at The Public Theater, The Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater, BAM Fisher, The Atlantic, and Second Stage Theater among others.

Her ongoing generative projects fuse text, set design, performance, and film with an emphasis on multi-disciplinary collaboration. She is co-founder of Coffey Street Studio, an artistic laboratory in Red Hook, Brooklyn for artists of all disciplines to experiment in new performance and new play development.

Andrea Lauer (Costume Designer) Selected Design works include Broadway’s American Idiot and Bring It On, the Musical. Off Broadway: The Boy Danced on Air, School for Scandal. Regional: The Old Globe, Alliance, The Alley Theatre, Asolo Rep. International: The London Philharmonic, Shakespeare’s Globe. M.F.A. - N.Y.U., 2017 M.I.T. Media Lab Director’s Fellow.

Christopher Brown (Lighting Designer) is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer working in theater and dance. He has worked with Clubbed Thumb, Elevator Repair Service, HERE Arts Center, The Bang Group, En Garde Arts, Noor Theatre, and Danspace Project, among others. Chris Brown was awarded the 2006-07 Princess Grace Award for his work with the Mud/Bone Collective, and in 2018 he was a Visiting Artist at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He received his M.F.A. in Theatre Design from New York University and has taught at Stony Brook University and the University of Rochester. He is currently Lighting Supervisor of the Kravis Performance Studio at the Museum of Modern Art. Cody Spencer (Sound Designer) Broadway: The Last Five Years, Romeo and Juliet, Job, The Outsiders (Tony Award). Co-Design Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical!, Here Lies Love, The Pee-wee Herman Show. Off-Broadway: Energy Music Curfew Hour, Broadway Bounty Hunter and Joan of Arc: Into the Fire.

Off-Broadway Co-Design: Trevor, Here Lies Love (Lortel Award). Regional: David Byrne’s Theater of the Mind, May We All. Stephen Stivo Arnoczy (Projections Designer) is a video designer from Queens & Otsego County, N.Y. Select work includes: Real Women Have Curves (Broadway, as Animator), 3 Summers of Lincoln (La Jolla Playhouse, as Associate), Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Broadway, as Associate), Tick Tick Boom (The Cape Playhouse), Discoshow (The Linq Hotel, Las Vegas, as Assoc.), Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail (NYBG, as programmer), Cowboy Bob (The Alley Theatre), Bhangra Nation (Birmingham Rep, UK, as Assoc.), The Rose Tattoo (Broadway, as Assoc.), Be More Chill (Broadway, as Asst.), The Band’s Visit (International Tour, as Assoc.). N.Y.U. Tisch. http://stivo.video

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C R E AT I V E T E A M Miriam Hyfler (Stage Manager) Select credits: Sense and Sensibility, King James (Syracuse Stage); Sump’n like Wings, Partnership, Becomes a Woman, The Rat Trap, Chains (Mint Theater); White Christmas, In the Heights, Rock of Ages, Beautiful (the Gateway Playhouse); hang, Time Stands Still (Shakespeare & Company); Shanghai Sonatas (Master Players Concert Series); On Blueberry Hill, Maz and Bricks (Origin Theatre/Fishamble); Three Small Irish Masterpieces, It’s a Wonderful Life, Woman and Scarecrow (Irish Rep); author Directing author (La Mama); Richard III, Henry V (New York Classical Theatre); Cymbeline, Capsule 33 (Barrow Street Theater); and several seasons with The Play Company, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Pan Asian Rep, and New Century Theatre. Love to @orangefreddyg.

Rebecca Lord-Surratt (Associate Scenic Designer) is a Brooklyn based set designer working in theater, film, and television. Recent film projects include A Complete Unknown and Deliver Me From Nowhere (Searchlight Pictures).

Her work for theater has been seen at 59e59, Northern Stage, Soho Playhouse, Theater Row, SOPAC, Ensemble Studio Theater, and as an Associate at Lincoln Center Theater, BAM, Chicago Shakespeare, Greek National Opera, The Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Two River Theater, Second Stage, Rattlestick, and New York Theater Workshop among others. Art Direction for television includes Billions (Showtime), City on Fire (Apple TV), and TRL (MTV). B.F.A., Syracuse University, and M.F.A., N.Y.U. Member of USA 829 and the collective Coördinated Artists.

Ricky Lurie (Associate Costume Designer): Broadway: Harmony (co-design), Associate Designer: SUNSET BLVD, Oh, Mary!, Anastasia, Is This a Room, Dana H, Ain’t No Mo, A Doll’s House. Theme parks, regional theaters and dance companies including: Sea World, Sesame Place, American Dance Machine 21, City Center Encores!, A.R.T., Papermill, George Street Playhouse, The Old Globe, Cortland Rep, Geva Theater, The Hartford Stage Company, The Court, The Alliance, Kansas City Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, American Ballet Theatre. www.RickyLurieDesigns.com Bass/Valle Casting (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

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C R E AT I V E T E A M 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 Johanna McKeon is delighted to make her Syracuse Stage debut with this vital new American play. Broadway Associate credits include Swept Away, Funny Girl, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Idiot, War Paint, Grey Gardens, and King Kong. Broadway National and International tours: Funny Girl, Hedwig, American Idiot, Rent. Directing credits include First Down (59E59); Henry V, Noura, Unseen, and Anonymous Biography (Old Globe); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Olney), Anne Washburn’s I Have Loved Strangers (premiere, Clubbed Thumb); The Comedy of Errors, Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown); Tokio Confidential (Atlantic); Mona Mansour’s We Swim We Talk We Go to War, Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew, The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse); Sidewalk Echoes by Rogelio Martinez (En Garde Arts); Born in East Berlin by Rogelio Martinez (Stasi Museum, Berlin); A Hatful of Rain (ITS Festival Warsaw); Semi- Permanent (New York International Fringe Festival Outstanding Solo Show); The Importance of Being Earnest (Bard); Functional Drunk, Fiesta Cabana, The Tanks Break (Ontological-Hysteric Theater).

Her independent feature My Address is Still Walton Have You Forgotten It? screened at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and her debut feature Auld Lang Syne received the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Indie Street Film Festival.

She spent a year working as Regie Praktikant at the Schaubuehne and Maxim Gorki Theaters in Berlin and she has worked extensively with Toho Theatrical in Tokyo, Japan. Johanna is the recipient of Drama League, Boris Sagal, and Fulbright Fellowships. M.F.A. – U.T. Austin.

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P L AY W R I G H T Rogelio Martinez (he/his) is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been workshopped and produced in theaters across the country and abroad. His play, Born In East Berlin, was first performed at the Stasi Museum, Berlin, in both English and German and then premiered at San Francisco Playhouse in February 2020. More recently, Martinez worked on The Seven Deadly Sins project for Miami New Drama. It was the largest theatrical production allowed by Equity during the pandemic. It won the Drama League Award - Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater. In 2021, Martinez worked on a new television project for Tom Fontana, based on the book Year of Dangerous Days. His play Blind Date was produced at the Goodman Theatre under the direction of Tony-nominee Robert Falls, with Tony Award-winning actress Deanna Dunagan playing the role of Nancy Reagan, and was awarded an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Martinez is a recipient of a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, Princess Grace Award, and a Mid-Career Fellowship at the Lark Theater Company. His work has been workshopped and commissioned by various theaters across the country including the Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Atlantic Theater Company, Arden Theater, Asolo Repertory, and Ojai Theater Company, and many more. Martinez’s plays include Illuminating Veronica, Arrivals and Departures, All Eyes and Ears, Blind Date, Born in East Berlin, and I Regret She’s Made of Sugar (Princess Grace Winner). He is an alumnus of New Dramatist and teaches undergraduate playwriting at N.Y.U. and graduate playwriting at Columbia University. Martinez is a co-producer on Billion Dollar Whale, created by David Henry Hwang and Anchuli Felicia King, based on the book by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope. His plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing. Martinez was born in Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba, and came to this country on the Mariel boatlift.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert Hupp is in his ninth season as artistic director of Syracuse Stage. He recently directed 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 27

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 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 Carly DiFulvio Allen is thrilled to be joining Syracuse Stage this season. 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 (upcoming 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 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 co-chair 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 5-year-old Arthur and 2-year-old Eloise.

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A S S O C I AT E A R T I S T I C D I R E C T O R Melissa Crespo (she/her) has made a career of developing new plays, musicals, and opera around the country and abroad. Most recently she directed the world premiere of Reggie Hoops by Kristoffer Diaz at Profile Theatre and the musical El Otro Oz by Tommy Newman, Mando Alvarez, and Jaime Lozano at Atlantic Theatre Company which was a NYTimes Critic's Pick. Next spring, she will direct the world premiere of Christin Eve Cato’s O.K.! off-Broadway at INTAR Theatre. 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. 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 R E S I D E N T P L AY W R I G H T Kyle Bass, Resident Playwright at Syracuse Stage and curator of Poetry & Play, is the author of 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, 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 featurelength film. With Ping Chong, he 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.

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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.

O U R C O R E VA L U E S 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.

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.

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

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A B O U T S Y R A C U S E S TA G E 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 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, AccessCNY, ACR Health, ARC of Onondaga, ARISE, BOCES, CNY Reads, Ed 21, FOCL, Food Bank of Central New York, 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, and Syracuse International Film Festival.

Additionally, the educational department collaborates with many CNY schools.

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Cast members in the Syracuse Stage production of Sense and Sensibility.

By Kate Hamill. Based on the novel by Jane Austen. Directed by Jason O’Connell. Choreographed by Steph Paul. Scenic design by Brittany Vasta. Costume design by Raven Ong. Lighting design by Dawn Chiang.

Sound design by Jacqueline R. Herter. Photo by Brenna Merritt.

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S Y R A C U S E S TA G E B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S CHAIR

Richard Driscoll Senior Vice President Commercial Banking Division NBT Bank PRESIDENT

Herman R. Frazier* Senior Deputy Athletics Director Syracuse University PAST CHAIR/VICE CHAIR

Rocco Mangano Partner Mangano Law Office, PLLC TREASURER

Brett Padgett* Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Syracuse University SECRETARY

Maria Lesinski Attorney Newman and Lickstein AT-LARGE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER

Phil Turner Pastor Bethany Baptist Church 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

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 Retired - EVP and CFO Saab, Inc. Robert Hupp** Artistic Director Syracuse Stage Eric Jackson Co-Founder and CEO Black Cub Productions Ken Jackson Publisher and Editor Urban CNY (The Constitution) (July 2024 - April 2025) Cydney Johnson Deputy County Executive for Physical Services Onondaga County 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 Commercial Loan Officer AmeriCU Credit Union

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. YiWei Qi Co-Founder and CEO AccuGPS LLC Dr. Henry Roane Executive Director and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry Upstate Golisano Center for Special Needs Molly Ryan Partner, Goldberg Segalla LLP Robert Sarason Retired - Lawyer, Organizer, Fundraiser 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 Operations and Development Coordinator Make A Wish Foundation of Central New York Maryam Wasmund Chief Financial Officer Filtertech Inc.

Rob Lentz EVP of Enterprise Operations Zeta Global

Ralph Zito** Chair Syracuse University Department of Drama

Anthony Malavenda Retired - Duke’s Root Control

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S Y R A C U S E S TA G E E M E R I T U S T R U S T E E S 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 Sharon Sullivan Jack Webb Michael Zoanetti

SYRACUSE STAGE EDUCATION ADVOCACY BOARD Sara Bambino Cicero-North Syracuse High School

Jordan Berger Jamesville-DeWitt High School

Todd Benware Christian Brothers Academy

Rhiannon Berry Liverpool High School

David Fisselbrand Auburn High School

Linda Ponza Solvay High School

Melissa Morgan Baker High School

Jennifer Sabatino Cato-Meridian Middle School

Matthew Phillips Jamesville-DeWitt High School

Elizabeth Defurio Nottingham High School

Y O U N G A D U LT C O U N C I L Kayden Blair Cazenovia High School Silas Crawford Notthingham High School Ella Culligan Liverpool High School Joclyn Dallas Cicero-North Syracuse High School

Hayden Frisbie Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Madison Macomber East Syracuse Minoa Central High School

Caleb Smith Manlius Pebble Hill School

Anqi Geng Manlius Pebble Hill School

Zoie Markowski Solvay High School

Abbie Sundet Paul V. Moore High School

Ethan Meives Cicero-North Syracuse High School

Brooklynn Gilbert North Syracuse Junior High School

Leo True-Frost Jamesville-DeWitt High School

Zinira Izmir Manlius Pebble Hill School

Octavia Miller Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Beatrix Karn Cazenovia High School

Jacelyn Peña Corcoran High School

Rebecca Wheeler Homeschooled

Kate Fennessy Auburn High School

Rei Korthas Homeschooled

Jackson Finn Christian Brothers Academy

Molly Linzer Manlius Pebble Hill School

Briar Raymond North Syracuse Junior High School

Mika Zolberg-Steiger Manlius Pebble Hill School

Claire Foran East Syracuse Minoa Central High School

Cecilia Lombardi Christian Brothers Academy

Josie Feck Fayetteville-Manlius High School

Taeyang Reid Manlius Pebble Hill School Harper Shute Fayetteville-Manlius High School

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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

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CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SPONSORS

Contributions listed above are current as of May 22, 2025, 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 The National Pastime.

The National Pastime 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.

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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. 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 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 Rocco & Roberta Mangano Wade Manning

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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 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 The Estate of George Wallerstein & Julie Lutz $50,000 - $99,999 Advance Media NY George S. Bain Tom Kirdahy The Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation The Shubert Foundation Slutzker Family Foundation Barry & Fran Weissler $20,000 - $49,999 New York State Council on the Arts Richard Mather Fund National Endowment for the Arts $10,000 - $19,999 Richard Bunce Nancy & William Byrne Cathedral Candle Company Jacki & Michael Goldberg Nancy Green & Tony Marschall Elizabeth Hartnett M&T Bank National Grid The Estate of Deborah O'Shea

The John Ben Snow Foundation & Memorial Trust Sharon Sullivan & Paul Phillips Douglas Sutherland & Nancy Kramer Urban CNY WAER $5,000 - $9,999 Ryan & Leigh Ann Benz Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation Bousquet Holstein PLLC Pete & Mary Beth Carmen Dr. Ruth Chen & Chancellor Kent Syverud Jessica Cain & Kevin Kopko JP Morgan Chase Cumulus Radio Peggy & Dana Dudarchik The Estate of Mary Louise Dunn Maggie & Jake Feldmeier Colleen Gaetano Neil & Helene Gold Larry & Ann Harris The Hayner Hoyt Corporation Robert & Clea Hupp Kathy Kelly & Len Weiner Larry & Mary Leatherman Skip Lentz & Anne Russ Rocco & Roberta Mangano Mangano Law Office, PLLC

Kevin & Suzanne McAuliffe J.M. McDonald Foundation Sally Lou & Fran Nichols Eric & Judy Mower National Grid Joel Potash & Sandra Hurd Theatre Development Fund Joshua & Andrea Waldman Maryam Wasmund Wegmans WRVO $3,500 - $4,999 Janet Audunson & David Youlen Kathleen Bice Dick & Therese Driscoll John & Kimberly Huhtala Maria Lesinski & Benjamin Hicks Claire Myers Selma Radin Molly Ryan & Tim Byrnes Bond, Schoeneck & King Attorneys Raymond & Linda Straub $1,800 - $3,499 James & Nancy Asher Bank of America Barbara Beckos & Arthur McDonald Francine Boutet Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation

The gifts listed in this program include those received or pledged between May 22, 2024 and May 22, 2025. It does not include gifts to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

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Constance Bull Craig & Kathy Byrum Cazenovia Jewelry The Estate of William Clark Jr. James Clark & Sharon Gordon Robin Curtis Barbara Sheklin Davis Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Edward & Susan Downing Melvin & Mildred Eggers Family Charitable Foundation Ernst & Young, LLP Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Michael & Barbara Flintrop Herman Frazier & Caroline Beal Dorothy & Lawrence Gordon Edward S. Green & Associates Thomas Greenwood Dennis & Judi Hebert Heritage Masonry Restoration, Inc. David & Sally Hootnick Steven & Elaine Jacobs Cydney Johnson & Jeff Comanici Randy & Elizabeth Kalish Leslie Kohman LeChase Construction Tony Malavenda & Martine Burat 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 Gracia Sears Sentry Life Insurance Co of New York Richard & Margaret Shirtz Sharye Skinner Sam & Carolyn Spalding Michael & Cathy Tick Dr. Amy Tucker Jack & Linda Webb $1,200 - $1,799 Anchor QEA Inc. Debbie & Candido Bermudez

Donald Blair & Nancy Dock Marlene Blumin Jim & Cathy Breuer Andrew Corbin Ana Díaz-Diez & Javier Maymi-Perez Paul & Carolyn Frymoyer Deborah & Samuel Haines Richard G. Jaeger Rebecca Karpoff Julia & Lee Martin David Rankert David Redding Frank and Frances Revoir Foundation Henry Roane & Heather Kadey Jon Selzer Nancy & Walter Shepard James Shults John Steigerwald IV Rob & Christine Stoltz Larry & Glenda Wetzel $600 - $1,199 Charles Amos Chris Arnold Edward & Angela Bernat Brenda & Wendy Bousfield & David Marcus Susan Brett Amy & Tom Clark Mark Cywilko & Marianne Moosbrugger Denise Dyce Mark & Marci Erlebacher Allen & Anita Frank Bea Gonzalez & Michael Leonard Muffy & H. Baird Hansen Daniel & Julia Harris David Heisig & Donna Mahar Joyce Day Homan Richard & Margaret Ingraham John & Maren King Bob & Pat Lebel James MacKillop Susan Martineau John & Jill Melvin John & Joan Nicholson Doren Norfleet Sally O'Herin David & Janice Panasci Mona & John Paradis Paolo & Nicole Pastore Edward & Lois Schroeder Geraldine & John Sheehan Brenda Silverman Cynthia Sutton

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.

Charles Amos, thank you to Tracey White and Group Sales.

George S. Bain, in memory of Ginny Parker.

Ronnie & Melinda Bell, in memory of Barbara Toman, SSITP's costume designer for nineteen seasons.

Debbie Bermudez, with pride for Candice’s work at Stage.

Brenda Bousfield, in memory of Mary Walsh.

Susan Brett, in memory of Thomas Brett.

Carol Bryant, in memory of Ginny Parker.

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 DíazMolina.

Farfaglia Family, in memory of Edward J Farfaglia.

The Hennessy Family, in loving memory of Cat Hennessy.

Jane Hopeman, in loving memory of Virginia Barnes Parker and her love of life, friendships, and theatre.

Robert Humphrey, in memory of Mary Anne Wilson.

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Joseph & Carole Valesky David & Daryll Wheeler John & Mitzi Wolf Gabriella Yonkers $300 - $599 Robert & Jeanne Anderson Marjory Baruch Christina El Bayadi Jackie Bays & Joseph McCaffrey Mary Brady Dennis & Mary Anne Brady Brine Wells, LLC Angel Broadnax Marlene Brown Gary & Kathleen Bruno Ralph Zito & Rob Bundy Lou & Rosa Clark Joe & Nancy Clayton Paul & Linda Cohen Jerilyn Costich Anita Cottrell Demetrius & Erin Cunia George W. Curry Jennifer Davidson Christian & Ann Marie Day Stephen & Emily DiMarco Linda & Alan Dolmatch Judith & William Dowling Kim & Charles Driscoll Clay & Dora Elliott Richard Ernst Linda Fabian & Dennis Goodrich Carole Farfaglia Carol Fedrizzi Kenneth & Kathleen Freer Gasparini Sales, Inc. Douglas Goldschmidt & David Jacobs Michael & Whitney Hadley Judith Hand David & Ellen Hardy Harvey's Garden Karl & Mary Herba Joseph & Paula Himmelsbach Jeffrey Hollman Emily Johnson & Vijay Ramachandran Laura & Ed Jordan Noel Keith Peter & Brenda Keithslack Charles Martin & Johanna Keller John & Gloria Kennedy Tim & Susan Kennedy Alan & Deborah Kinney Trudy & Earl Kletsky Lorraine LaDuke Andrea Latchem

Tod Leggat & Shannon Magari-Leggat Daniel & Ann Lent George & Roseann Lorefice Eugene & Christine Lozner Donald & Patricia MacLaughlin John & Candace Marsellus Holly Mathis Laura McCord James & Elizabeth Megna Lauren Melnikow David & Mary Morgan Susan Moskal James & Kathleen Muldoon Newman & Lickstein, LLP Kevin & Peggy O'Connor Marjorie Ostrander Cathy Palm Robert & Teresa Parke Mickey & Pat Piscitelli Eileen Ponto Howard & Ann Port Mariangela Risucci Jennifer Roberts Linda & Bob Ryan George & Sharon Schmit William Schuyler Robert & Cheryl Shallish Beth & Tobias Sienel Dr Craig A Simmons Joseph & Carolyn Smith H. Paul Steiner Sharon Sutter Cora Thomas Victor & Diane Tice Hon. Karen M. Uplinger Susan Wadley Ellen Golden & Brian Walton Mary Ward Howard Weinstein Lynda Wheat Derick White Jay Yonta & Jennine Lombardi $150 - $299 Jerrold & Harriet Abraham James Aiello Eric Allyn & Meg O'Connell Beatrice Angus Mary Roberts Bailey Holmes & Sarah M Bailey Rosemary Baker & Stuart Spiegel Nancy Barnum Jean Beers Candice Bermudez & Joseph Guido Janine Bernard

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Donna Inglima, in honor of Arthur Storch.

Daniel & Janet Jones, dedicated to Uncle John White for instilling a lifelong love of live theater.

Eileen Ponto, in memory of my daughter, Emily Ponto.

Marvin & Jo Ann Reed, we enjoyed Cinderella so much we want to give a little more to support your continued success.

Lillian Shine, we love what you do and bring to the stage!

H. Paul Steiner, in memory of Ginny and Fritz Parker.

Rob & Christine Stoltz, in recognition of Bob Hupp, Melissa Crespo, and the entire Syracuse Stage team's efforts to bring arts to the community.

Sharon Sullivan & Paul Phillips, in memory of Alma Elaine Shende.

Elizabeth Thorley, remembering Virginia "Ginny" Parker on this first anniversary of her passing.

Francis & Elaine Walter, in memory of Dr. Louis Fisher and Edith Fisher.

Gabriella Yonkers, in honor of my sister, Katelyn Yonkers, whose incredible talent and dedication as a seamstress bring every performance to life. Her artistry and hard work ensure that every actor looks truly amazing, enhancing the magic of the theater for us all.

The gifts listed in this program include those received or pledged between May 22, 2024 and May 22, 2025. It does not include gifts to the special 50th Anniversary Campaign.

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Dr. Sylvia Betcher & Martin Korn Diana Biro & Eric Rogers Nicolina Bisson Susan Boettger Jon & Patricia Booth Eric & Carol Boyer Paul Brown & Susan Loevenguth Alice Butunoi Mallika & Gildas Cadin Larry & Fran Campbell Ronald Capone Lexi Carlson & Sebastian Karcher Joseph Cerroni & Linda Tassa Steven & Seanne Chase Karen Clarke Allison Clifford Rubin Cohen Martha Cole John & Deloris Coleman Donna Coloton Elizabeth Cowan Karl Crossman & John Steinburg Raymond W. Cummings, Jr. James & Suzanne Cusack CVS Carol Decker Diane Dimond Audrey Dolata James & Leona Dowd Beth Drew & Joe Marusa Elizabeth & Evan Dreyfuss Philip Dunham James & Susan Edmonds Penelope Pooler Eisenbies Richard Ellison & Margaret Ksander David & Karen Fitch Ben Franklin Jeffrey & Teresa Freedman Stacy French Allen & Nirelle Galson Mary Beth Gannon Claudia & Adam Gasiorowski Margaret Gelfuso Neil Gold Karen Goldman Bernice Gottschalk Roger & Vicki Greenberg Jerome & Debbie Grigonos Tom & Cynthia Helmer Mary Hershberger Donna & Joseph Hipius Harry Hood Jane Hopeman Judy Huckle Ziad Hussein

Marie & James Jewson Daniel & Rhea Jezer Marjorie Julian Philip & Judith Kaplan James & Jan Kaplan Norma Kelley Amy Kemp Cynthia Killian Diane King Russell & Joan King Barry & Kathy Kogut Dean Kolts Sheldon & Karen Kruth Robert & Lauren Lalley Dorothy Lennon Bonnie Levy & Steven Faigen Edward & Carol Lipson Mary Lombardo John & Marian Loosmann Janet Mallan Robert & Nancy Mandry Anthony & Christi Mangano Elizabeth Mascia Margot McCormick Kathleen McLeod David Michel & Peggy Liuzzi Daniel & Terry Miller Michael Miller & Katharine O'Connell Pat & Jan Moore Alan & Rosalind Napier Richard & Barbara Natoli Louis & Jane Neuburger Cathryn Newton Richard & Kimberly O'Brien Vickie Olcott Omega, Inc. Judy Oplinger Joan & Lawrence Page Jane Pickett Kevin & Rachael Porter Duane & Karleen Preske John Przepiora Steve Reiter & Annegret Schubert Patrick & Kuni Riccardi Terry & Monica Richmond Michael Riecke & Anthony McEachern Judith Robertson Haley Rogacki Amanda Root Elaine Rubenstein Susan Ryan Elizabeth Sanders Roberta Savage Cathryn Sellers Richard & Elizabeth Severance

Roger & Nancy Sharp Steven & Robin Sisskind William & Marianne Smith Ryan & Carol Smith Judith Smith Jeffrey Sneider & Gwen Kay George & Helene Starr Greg & Maura Stefl Susan Stred & Harold Husovsky Bonnie Stroup Kathleen & Mark Sunheimer David & Eileen Thompson James & Deborah Tifft John & Jean Tromans Phil & Janice Turner Peter Vanable & Anne Jamison Anthony & Martha Viglietta TJ & Meghan Vitale Robert & Anita Wagner Judith Waite Marc & Marcy Waldauer Donald & Martha Washburn Sarah Whitehouse Fred & Karen Whitney Robert & Pauline Williamson Tina Winter Tom & Carol Wolff Joyce Zadzilka Steven & Judith Zdep Loretta Zolkowski $100 - $149 George & Beverley Adams Sarah Alden Jason Allers John Andrake Al & Jane Arras Robert Attridge Margaret Banazek Rosanne Barbaglia Steven Barbash Mary & Peter Bearkland Carrie Berse & Chris Skeval Carol Biesemeyer Leslee Boissy Thomas & Carol Boll Lisa Braddock Bernard & Ona Cohn Bregman Dawn Broderick Robert & Helene Brophy Bob & Kathy Brown Joseph Browne Patricia Bush Ron & Amy Butchart Andrea Calarco

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Joseph & Patricia Cambareri John & Cynthia Cambareri Phoebe Cannon Delores Carney Janet & Bruce Chandler Douglas & Diane Chilson Anthony & Carolyn Cimino Gregory Cohen Patricia & Sandy Colabufo Nicholas & Louanne Colaneri Cheryl Cole Al Coles David & Peg Compton Joseph Constantino Anthony & Mary Anne Corasaniti Tracy Cromp Stephanie Cross Paul & Cynthia Curtin Timothy & Christine Curtis Angela & Gregory Cwikla Alec Del Gigante Rebecca Downing Laura Downs Ron Ehrenreich & Sondra Roth Margaret Elliot Pamela Ellis Stanley & Penny Emerick Festa Italiana Robert & Terry Flower Tim Fox Karin Franklin-King John Friedman & Polly Ann Heavenrich Dan Gaffney William & Jean Gamble Caroline Garner Rosamond Gifford Foundation Susan Gilbert Peggy Gillard Kathryn Glynn William Gray Stephen Graziano Paula & Louis Green Linda & James Green Mark & Cynthia Greene Seth & Lisa Greenky Joseph & Fran Greenman Chip & Kate Grosso Carol Guido Charlotte Haas & Gary Quirk Patricia Haggerty James Hahn Mark & Carole Hansen Ann & Richard Harris Elizabeth Hayes Barbara Heitzman

Michael & Elizabeth Hennessy Kathleen Hinchman Jennifer Hobler Barbara & Ronald Hoffman Howard & Linda Hollander Kathleen Howard Barbara Hudson Roberta Jones Daniel & Janet Jones Gwenn & John Judge Jon & Wanda Jukam Randy Karcher Jean Kimber Donna & Kenneth Kirsch Annette & Michael Krisak Steven Kulick Briana Kuneman Neil & Marie LaBrake Sandra Ledda Amanda Lee Kathleen Lemos Dennis Lerner Susan Lotierzo Lynn Luteran Minney Nancy Machles Rothschild Jon Maloff Douglas & Randi Matousek Roberta Matthews Donyce & Kenneth McCluskey John & Mary McCulley Philip & Martha McDowell Linda McKeown Andreas & Margaret Meier Marcia & Dave Mele Merck Thomas Miller & Mary MacBlane Dr. Merrill L. Miller Joseph Moorman & Catherine Gerard Janet Munro Marty & Millie Newshan Leslie Noble & Bill Morris Margaret O'Brien Jane Ondich Patricia Orr John & Elizabeth O'Sullivan Ricky & Whitney Pak Nolan & Phyllis Palsma John & Linda Parsons Dorothy & Harvey Pearl Michael & Susan Petrosillo Anita Pisano John Poirier William & Merriette Pollard Roni Ponto Jeff & Wendy Purdy Steve & Kate Pynn Paul Raulli

Marvin & Jo Ann Reed Scott Reinhart Todd Relyea Sultan Reshamwala Boyd & Julie Rimel Mary Rose Ranieri Ann Rothschild Richard & Maria Russell Margaret Ryniker John & Judy Sabene Richard & Jill Sargent Jennifer Scalione Susan Scharoun & Susan Hynds Jeffrey & Abby Scheer Susan Scheuerman Edwina Schleider Julia Scialla Ruth Seaman Scott & Nancy Sellers Sally Senecal Katherine Sgarlata Paul Silverstein James & David Sonneborn Dirk & Carol Sonneborn Paul & Jean Soper Patricia & Michael St. Leger Michael Stanton Mark & Beth Steigerwald Milton & Mary Stevenson Martha Sutter & David Ross Tom & Lauren Sweeney Kristin & Steve Swift Brady Systems Edward & MaryJane Szczesniak Miles Taylor Thomas & Carole Taylor Marian Thompson Elizabeth Thorley Theresa Thoryk James Traver & Marguerite Conan Shveta & Girish Trikha Bob & Claudia Visalli Kevin Wade Francis & Elaine Walter Peter & Cheryl Ward Ardyth Watson Virginia Watson Leah Weinberg & Paul Barron Christopher & Renee Wiles Deborah Wood Samuel & Robin Young Mary Yurco

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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!

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S Y R A C U S E S TA G E S TA F F Artistic Director.............................................................................................................Robert Hupp Managing Director.............................................................................................Carly DiFulvio Allen Associate Artistic Director............................................................................................Melissa Crespo Resident Playwright..............................................................................................................Kyle Bass

P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F

Director of Production Operations...........................................................................Don Buschmann Associate Director of Production Operations.......................................................Stuart Plymesser Production Management Intern.............................................................................Kit Verweij† 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 Employee..............................................................................................Emma Thoms† Scenic Charge Artist...................................................................................................Emily Holm Lead Scenic Artist................................................................................................Laurel Arnold Scenic Painter....................................................................................................Jessica Culligan Props Supervisor............................................................................................................Mara Rich Associate Props Supervisor...................................................................................Andrew Babb Craftpersons....................................................................................Alexis Frizzell, Nora Galley Student Employees................................................................Maddy Clark†, Natalie Steinberg† Costume Shop Manager..........................................................................Gretchen Darrow-Crotty Assistant Costume Shop Manager.....................................................................Amanda Moore Cutter-Drapers..............................................................................Emily King, Kathryn Rauch First Hand.......................................................................................................Katelyn Yonkers Stitchers.................................................................................Sidney Barmoha, Sophie Shahan Craftsperson/Shopper.........................................................................................Sandra Knapp Wardrobe Supervisor.........................................................................................Dylinn Andrew Electrics and Projection Supervisor...............................................................................Jed Daniels Associate Electrics and Projection Supervisor......................................................Andy LiDestri Electricians/Board Operators..............................................................Kat Larrabee, Alex Malli Resident Sound Designer/Audio Engineer.....................................................Jacqueline R. Herter Audio Engineer...............................................................................................Kevin O’Connor Stage Management Production Assistants.............................................Katie Barnes, Erin C Brett

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A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S TA F F

General Manager....................................................................................................Michael McCurdy Comptroller..............................................................................................Mary Kennett Morreale Associate General Manager...................................................................................Jacob G. Ellison Director of Information Management & Technology...................................Garrett Diaz-Wheeler Director of Development.............................................................................................Ana Díaz-Diez Development Associate.....................................................................................Candice Bermudez Development Assistant/Executive Assistant..................................................................Julia Rakus Development Interns......................................................................Yushan Deng†, Polly Gilmore† Director of Community Engagement..................................................................Joann Maria Yarrow Director of Education.......................................................................................................Kate Laissle Community Engagement and Education Coordinator.....................................................Zizi Majid Director of Marketing and Communications..............................................................Joanna Penalva Audience Development Manager..............................................................................Tracey White Creative Director, Marketing..................................................................................Brenna Merritt Marketing Content and Publications Manager.....................................................Matthew Nerber Graphic Designer.................................................................................................Jonathan Hudak Marketing Associate...............................................................................Talia Gabriel-Shenandoah Marketing Intern....................................................................................................Amelia Brown† Box Office Manager.....................................................................................Courtney Richardson Box Office Show Supervisor.................................................................................Trevor Miller Box Office Assistants.................Clari Atherlay, Nathan Ayotte†, Molly Evert†, Gracie Whaley† Interim Audience Services Manager......................................................................Jacob G. Ellison House Managers.................Pat Condello, Gabrielle Moran, Alyssa Otoski-Keim, Adam Secor Front of House Associate.........................Khayman Clancy, Bianca Stevenson, Donna Stuccio Assistant House Manager.......................................................................................Kevin Sene† Bartenders...............................Rueban Benedict, Michelle Cannizzo, Meg Pusey, Dani Tanner Audience Services Interns.....................................................................Ginger Bai†, Youran Li†

Front of House Work Study Staff...........................Hope Allen†, Emilee Asa†, GB Bellamy†, Lilly Colter Berget†, Carolyn Burch†, Olivia Busche†, Josie Diodato†, Sami English†, Skye Faison†, Violet Lanciloti†, Nathaly Juarez Meza†, Annabelle Mistretta†, Lily Nelson†, Reyna Sanchez†, Esme Schaus†, Isbella Tokarz†, Gracie Whaley†, Logan Wilbanks-Davidson†, Maya Zepeda†

Sign Language Interpreters.....................................................................Brenda Brown, Sue Freeman Open Captioning........................................................................Jacob G. Ellison, Michael McCurdy Audio Description........................................Kate Laissle, Talia Gabriel-Shenandoah, Joseph Whelan Artistic Intern........................................................................................................Amanda Podhurst† Community Services Officers...........................................................Stacey Emmons, Martha Farmer Custodians........................................................................Tony Rogers, Ron Taylor, Candace Velario Student, Syracuse University Department of Drama.

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