DIGITAL PROGRAM FACTS AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE PLAY, PLAYWRIGHT, AND PRODUCTION
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NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE
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THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
A RT I S T I C D I R E C T O R
SADE LYTHCOTT
ARIN ARBUS
E X E C U T I V E A RT I S T I C D I R E C T O R
BOARD CHAIR
JONATHAN MCCRORY
ROBERT E. BUCKHOLZ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
DOROTHY RYAN F O U N D I N G A RT I S T I C D I R E C T O R A N D PRESIDENT EMERITUS
JEFFREY HOROWITZ
In Association with Foment Productions, Cinereach & Jayson Jackson Present
AMERICA, WHO HURT YOU? WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY
SARAH JONES DIRECTED BY
ERIC TING O N T H E S A M U E L H . S C R I P P S M A I N S TA G E SCENIC & LIGHTING DESIGNER
JIYOUN CHANG
COSTUME DESIGNER
SOUND DESIGNER
VIDEO DESIGNER
P R O P E RT I E S S U P E RV I S O R
TONI-LESLIE JAMES PALMER HEFFERAN STEFANIA BULBARELLA
THOMAS JENKELEIT
P R E S S R E P R E S E N TAT I V E S
P R O D U C T I O N S TA G E M A N A G E R
BLAKE ZIDELL & ASSOCIATES, THE CHAMBERS GROUP, AND THOMAS J ONORATO
ZACHRY J. BAILEY
T H E AT R E F O R A N E W A U D I E N C E D I R E C T O R O F G E N E R A L M A N A G E M E N T & O P E R AT I O N S
CHLOE KNIGHT First preview September 10, 2026 | Opening night September 17, 2026 Originally co-commisioned and produced by The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities at Oxford University and Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre for its debut at Oxford in May 2026. Special support for Theatre for a New Audience’s participation in this Co-Production is provided by Robert E. Buckholz and Lizanne Fontaine, Janel Callon, The Distracted Globe Foundation, and Carol and Bill Lewis.
Deloitte is Theatre for a New Audience’s 2026-2027 Season Sponsor. Principal support for Theatre for a New Audience’s season and programs is provided by Alan Beller and Stephanie Neville, Robert E. Buckholz and Lizanne Fontaine, The Charina Endowment Fund, Constance Christensen, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Fund at the New York Community Trust, The Estate of Robert MacNeil, The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and The Thompson Family Foundation. Major season support is provided by Sally Brody, The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Hearst Corporation, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Starry Night Fund, Stockel Family Foundation, Anne and William Tatlock, Kathleen Walsh and Gene Bernstein, The White Cedar Fund, and The Whiting Foundation Theatre for a New Audience’s season and programs are also made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Open captioning is provided, in part, by a grant from NYSCA/TDF TAP Plus.
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CAST Performer............................................................................................................SARAH JONES Production Stage Manager............................................................................ZACHRY J. BAILEY Assistant Stage Manager.............................................................................GRACIE CARLETON
America, Who Hurt You? is presented without an intermission. This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.
Sarah Jones. Photo by HanJie Chow.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
Bios: Cast and Creative Team
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About National Black Theatre
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About Theatre for a New Audience
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National Black Theatre’s 26-27 Season
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Theatre for a New Audience’s 26-27 Season
Notes Front Cover: Design by Pentagram. Photo of Sarah Jones by Ryan Pfluger. Photos of Bella, Rashid, and Lorraine by Zachary Maxwell Stertz. This Viewfinder will be periodically updated with additional information. Last updated September 23, 2026.
Credits America, Who Hurt You? Production Guide | Edited by Zoe Donovan Resident Dramaturg: Jonathan Kalb | Council of Scholars Chair: Tanya Pollard | Designed by: Milton Glaser, Inc. Publisher: Theatre for a New Audience, Arin Arbus, Artistic Director America, Who Hurt You? Production Guide Copyright 2026 by Theatre for a New Audience. All rights reserved. With the exception of classroom use by teachers and individual personal use, no part of this Viewfinder may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Some materials herein are written especially for our guide. Others are reprinted with permission of their authors or publishers.
Sarah Jones. Photo by HanJie Chow.
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SARAH JONES (Performer, Playwright, Producer) is a Tony and Obie Award-winning writer and performer returning to the stage with America, Who Hurt You? Hailed by The New York Times as “a master of the genre,” Jones is renowned for her chameleon-like solo performances, blending humor and empathy to channel a wide range of authentic voices. A four-time TED main-stage speaker, Jones is the founder of Foment Productions, an entertainment company focused on cultivating a culture of belonging. She first rose to national prominence with her Broadway hit Bridge & Tunnel (which was originally produced off-Broadway by Meryl Streep) and later created the award-winning play and film Sell/Buy/Date. Her screen work also includes co-starring in Netflix’s “On the Verge.”
Her latest project, America, Who Hurt You?, started as an acclaimed podcast (featuring guests like Jane Fonda, Bryan Stevenson, and Laverne Cox) and is now a play commissioned by Oxford University for a historic premiere at their first-ever performing arts center, produced by Foment Productions and The National Black Theatre. America, Who Hurt You? will be touring the US in connection with its 250th Anniversary and beyond. Learn more at www.sarahjonesonline.com. ERIC TING (Director) is a two-time Obie Award-winning director whose work spanning theater, opera, and dance has been seen across the US and around the world. Theater credits include the world premieres of Anne Gridley’s Watch Me Walk (Soho Rep); Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre); The 1491s’ Between Two Knees (PAC NYC, Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Lloyd Suh’s The Far Country (Atlantic Theater Co); Toshi and Bernice Johnson Reagon’s Parable of the Sower: The Opera (NYU Abu Dhabi, Lincoln Center); Alina Troyano and Jacobs-Jenkins’ Give Me Carmelita Tropicana and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We are Proud to Present a Presentation… (Soho Rep.); Nora Chipaumire’s Miriam (BAM Next Wave); and Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s The World of Extreme Happiness (Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodman). Ting is one of three Directors of Soho Repertory Theater in New York City and a proud member of SDC. JIYOUN CHANG (Scenic & Lighting Designer). Jiyoun Chang is a lighting designer working across theatre and opera.
Her Broadway credits include Stereophonic, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, The Cottage, KPOP, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, and Slave Play. Her work has been recognized with the Suzi Bass and Obie Awards, along with multiple Tony, Drama Desk, and Lucille Lortel Award nominations. In opera, her credits include Lucia di Lammermoor at Tiroler Festspiele Erl in Austria, Primero Sueño at The Met Cloisters, Il Trovatore at Houston Grand Opera, and Factotum at Lyric Opera of Chicago. TONI-LESLIE JAMES (Costume Designer) has designed costumes nationally and internationally for theater, film, opera, dance, and television. She has designed over 31 Broadway productions and has been nominated for 4 TONY Awards. Broadway productions: Take a Banana for a Ride, Redwood, Gypsy (Drama Desk nomination), A Wonderful World, Mother Play, Paradise Square (TONY nomination); The Piano Lesson, Bernhardt/Hamlet (Drama Desk Award, TONY nomination); Come From Away (Drama Desk nomination); August Wilson’s Jitney (TONY and Drama Desk Nomination), Flying Over Sunset (Hewes Design nomination), and Jelly’s Last Jam (TONY nomination) among others. Ms. James is currently a Professor of the Practice and Head of Costume Design at the David Geffen School of Drama. PALMER HEFFERAN (Sound Designer) is a Tony Award® nominated sound designer for live performance. She has designed over 100 productions on stages across the US and is the recipient of a 2019 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design. Recent highlights include Broadway: Liberation (Jones Theatre); John Proctor Is The Villain (Booth Theatre); Celebrity Autobiography (Shubert); Alex Edelman: Just For Us (Hudson Theater); The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center). Off-Broadway: Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo (PAC-NYC); Waiting For Godot, Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Liberation, Something Clean, Bobby Clearly (Roundabout); Teeth (Playwrights Horizons, New World Stages); The Welkin (Atlantic Theater); Twelfth Night, Merry Wives, shadow/land (The Public Theater); The Comeuppance, The Death of the Last Black Man… (Signature Theatre); Blood Quilt, Flex, Becky Nurse Salem, Marys Seacole (Lincoln Center). More at www.palmerhefferan.com
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STEFANIA BULBARELLA (Video Designer) is a Tony Nominee, Argentinian projection designer based in New York. Broadway : Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride (Nederlander), Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (MTC). Off-Broadway: The Potluck (Soho Rep), Nothing can Take You from the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons), Space Dogs (MCC), Travels (Ars Nova), A Bright New Boise and The Watering Hole (Signature), Semblance (NYTW), Vamonos (INTAR) and more. www.stefaniabulbarella.com THOMAS JENKELEIT (Properties Supervisor) is a prop & scenic designer from Queens, New York devoted to creating new, reimagined, and thought provoking work. Recent: SUMO, Jesa, HENRY VI (The Public); The Potluck, The Fires, Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!, Watch Me Walk (Soho Rep.); Geoff Sobelle’s CLOWN SHOW (Edinburgh International Festival, PS21); Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes (Lucille Lortel); Liza! at 80 (Carnegie Hall); Derangements, The Family Dog (Clubbed Thumb); LAOWANG (Primary Stages, 59E59), The Wind & The Rain (Vineyard Theater, En Garde); Sex Variants of 1941 (The Civilians); Franklinland, Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother?, Bodega Princess (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Camping (Colt Coeur); The Pass (La Mama); Galas (Little Island). Recent Scenic Design: Touch (East Village Basement); Bull (JACK), QUINCE (Domino Park); R Is For Writer (IRT), Drive The Speed Limit (HEREarts). jenkeleit.com. ZACHRY J. BAILEY (Production Stage Manager, he/him) is honored to support this story and make his TFANA debut.
Broadway: Chess, Floyd Collins. Tours: Hadestown (1st Nat’I). Select Off-Broadway & Regional: Cats: The Jellicle Ball (PAC NYC); Kyoto (Lincoln Center Theater); Othello, Memnon (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Macbeth in Stride, A Raisin in the Sun, The Plot and Twelfth Night at Yale Repertory Theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar (Connecticut Repertory Theatre). Film: Broadway for Biden, CRAM (Radical Rhinoceros Pictures), Overlook (Two + Eight Productions), The Promotion (C1 Media). Love to Isuri & the Bailey Fam. Sarah Jones. Photo by Daniel J Vasquez.
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GRACIE CARLETON (Assistant Stage Manager) is so excited to join the teams at TFANA and NBT for this incredible production! Broadway: English. Off-Broadway: The Comedy Series, Five Models In Ruins (Lincoln Center Theater); Ginger Twinsies (Baseline Theatrical); Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theatre); The Beastiary (Ars Nova); English (Atlantic Theatre Company); Which Way to the Stage (MCC); The Cotillion (New Georges / The Movement Theatre Company). Regional: Native Gardens (Hartford Stage); Can’t Drink Salt Water (Montana Repertory Theatre); ¡VOS!, Hair, Living & Breathing (Two River Theater); Assassins, Curse of the House of Atreus, The Tempest (Bread Loaf, VT). Grateful to be doing what she loves and for James’ support.
FOMENT PRODUCTIONS (Associate Producer) is a mission-driven production company telling stories about the tapestry of America through the lens of humor and insight, uniting us in our shared humanity. Our past, current and future multimedia projects include: the critically-acclaimed play Sell/Buy/Date; the film of the same title, Executive Produced by Meryl Streep; the America, Who Hurt You? podcast and live shows, the critically acclaimed new play of the same title; as well as an additional slate of live events, TV and film projects. CINEREACH (Associate Producer) catalyzes projects across media designed to transform culture through story. With a 20 year history of identifying award-winning films and the next generation of star artists to champion, Cinereach has established a collaborative creative space that empowers bold artists’ visions with the tools, insights, and infrastructure that poises their work to have greater cultural impact. Through a portfolio of original productions and investments in stories and the ecosystems that empower them, backed by rigorous narrative change frameworks, the team serves as creative and strategic partners from the moment inspiration strikes all the way through distribution. JAYSON JACKSON (Associate Producer) is a producer of Tony Award®-winning theater, Emmy Award winning film and Grammy Award Winning music. In music he guided and managed the multi-talented singer, songwriter and producer Lauryn Hill thru her landmark debut album “The Mis-Education of Lauryn Hill” which was nominated for record breaking 10 Grammy’s and won 5 including the coveted Album of The Year category. A music business veteran, Jayson worked at labels Def Jam, Badboy, Elektra, Virgin and Columbia Records & managed artist/activists Mos Def, Santigold & dance-electro artist Spankrock. He previously produced Sarah Jones 2004 one-woman show, Bridge & Tunnel, which received an Obie Award and Drama Desk Award off Broadway and a Tony Award for “Best Special Theatrical Event” in 2006. In film Jayson produced one of the first NETFLIX original documentaries What Happened, Miss Simone? Receiving an Oscar® nomination in the category of “Best Documentary Feature” and winning an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Documentary or Non-Fiction Special” in 2016 as well as Peabody Award. In 2018 Jayson served as an Executive Producer on the Emmy award winning documentary about the legendary Apollo Theater. Jayson is currently working on a feature documentary about poet/activist Gil Scott Heron. THE CHAMBERS GROUP (Press Representative) Established in 2006 by veteran PR executive Chris Chambers, The Chamber
Group is a boutique public relations, brand marketing, and special events company. Based in New York City, we utilize over twenty years of expertise in culture — music, art, fashion, sports — to help our clients engage the lifestyle space.
BLAKE ZIDELL & ASSOCIATES (Press Representative) is a Brooklyn-based public relations firm representing arts organizations
and cultural institutions. Clients include St. Ann’s Warehouse, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, Soho Rep, NYU Skirball, the Under the Radar Festival, Powerhouse: International, Yale Repertory Theatre and the David Geffen School of Drama, PEN America, StoryCorps, Symphony Space, the Fisher Center at Bard, Irish Arts Center, Building for the Arts, Bedlam, Ballet Tech, the Onassis Foundation, The Playwrights Realm, PlayCo, the Common Senses Festival, Catapult Opera, Noche Flamenca, and more.
ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than
50,000 actors and stage managers. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages and working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks AMERICA, WHO HURT YOU? 7
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Sarah Jones. Photo by HanJie Chow.
STAFF FOR AMERICA, WHO HURT YOU?
Assistant Director................................................................................................................................................Keren Lugo Associate Scenic Designer................................................................................................................................Yua Watanabe Associate Lighting Designer.......................................................................................................................Amina Alexander Associate Sound Designer..........................................................................................................................Belle Alatorre Associate Projections Designer.........................................................................................................................Doaa Ouf Assistant Costume Designer....................................................................................................................Joshua Neufeld Carpenters.........................................................................Cory Asinofsky, Nick Brester, Killian Coffinet, Jules Conlon Grace Loeb, Jack Lynch Lighting Programmer.....................................................................................................................................Roya Abab Video Programmer.......................................................................................................................................Eli Garmon Video and Teleprompter Operator..................................................................................................DeVaughn Shepherd Light Board Programmer and Operator.....................................................................................................Paul Kennedy A1.............................................................................................................................................................Belle Alatorre A2 and Deck Technician................................................................................................................................Nitu Singh Wardrobe Supervisor.......................................................................................................................Nicole Montgomery America, Who Hurt You? was rehearsed at 651 Arts.
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NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE Staff Chief Executive Officer Executive Artistic Director Chief Operating Officer
STAFF, BOARD, MISSION Board of Directors
Sade Lythcott Jonathan McCrory Barrie Koegel
Development Coordinator Niyafa Boucher Graphic Designer Valerie Caesar Operations Coordinator Alea Curry Director of Finance Abisola Pat Faison Operations Manager Denzel Faison Director of Entrepreneurial Arts Program Nabii Faison Director of Development Breanna Foister Development Coordinator Kiley Golberg Soul Series L.A.B & Special Projects Program Manager Belynda M’Baye Executive Assistant to the CEO & Executive Artistic Director Brittany Davis Artistic Production Associate Ava Novak Marketing Projects Coordinator Alex-Terrell Palmer Production Manager Rebecca Schafer Alternative Learning & Social Impact Coordinator Mandesia Sibiya Alternative Learning & Social Impact Coordinator Megan Ruoro Assistant Production Manager Ollie Ward
Board Chair Treasurer Secretary
Michael F. Lythcott Linara Davidson Velma Banks
De’Ara Balenger Denise Bradley-Tyson Darlene Bruce Anthony Roth Costanzo David Alan Grier Alia Jones-Harvey Zoë Kravitz Leslie Odom, Jr. Jonathan Wiggins Michelle Wilson
About National Black Theatre National Black Theatre (NBT) is a Tony Award and Emmy Award-nominated institution founded in 1968 by the late visionary artist Dr. Barbara Ann Teer. The nation’s first revenue-generating Black arts complex, NBT is the longest-running Black theatre in New York City, is one of the oldest theatres founded and consistently operated by a woman of color in the nation, and has been included in the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. NBT’s core mission is to produce transformational theatre that helps to shift the inaccuracies around African Americans’ cultural identity by telling authentic stories of Black lives. As an alternative learning environment, NBT uses theatre arts as a means to educate, enrich, entertain, empower, and inform the national conscience around current social issues impacting our communities. Under the leadership of Sade Lythcott, Chief Executive Officer, and Jonathan McCrory, Executive Artistic Director, NBT helps re-shape a more inclusive American theatre field by providing an artistically rigorous and culturally sensitive space for artists of color to experiment, develop, and present new work. nationalblacktheatre.org
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NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE DONORS NBT FOUNDING MEMBER CIRCLE Keith Josef Adkins Marc Anello ChiChi Anyanwu Regina Bain James Blue Sharon Bowen Isolde Brielmaier Emilya Cachapero Tina Callender Judith Chambers Khayriyyah Chandler Jan Clarke Beverly Collier Erica Corbin Tara Coy Karen Ann Daniels Jeanine Downie & Michael Heningburg Judith Faison Katherine Farley Toni Fay Yolanda Ferrell-Brown Deirdre Fisher-Kemp Gwen Gilliam Nicole Granston Christina Greer
Tiffany Griffin Tamron Hall & Moses Greener Anne Herrmann Rodney Hicks Christopher Hill Jermaine Hill Joanne Hill Kristen Hill Sonya M. Houston Productions Chenelle Idehen Gina Jackson Dinah Jean Garlia C. Jones Madeline Jones Star Jones & Ricardo Lugo Noel Kirnon Halili Knox Marvin Krislov Lawryn LaCroix Loida Lewis Simi Linton Michael Lythcott Malikha Mallette Brian Meegan Molly Meloy Jo Beth Mertens
Michelle Miller Gary Mobley Ngozi Okezie David Owolabi Toni Peterson Karen C. Phillips Kathleen Phillips Liz Player Yoruba Richen Rebecca Robertson Joe Rogers Verna Shamblee Marilyn Skony Stamm Yhane Smith Alexa Smith Nelle Somerville Charlee Stallings Brenda Stubblefield Kathleen Tait Elizabeth VanDyke Gregory-Michael Washington Lynne Whitman Ella Williams MV Williams David Wright Pat & Al Zollar
NBT’s programs are made possible by our brilliant funders:
Generous production support for America, Who Hurt You? provided by The Hearthland Foundation
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Pop Culture Collaborative
NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE DONORS NBT is grateful for the support of the following individuals: Gwen Adolph Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Anonymous Alyse Archer-Coité Axe-Houghton Foundation De’Ara Balenger Andrea Bernstein Bloomberg Philanthropies James Blue Booth Ferris Foundation Sharon Bowen & Larry Morse Denise Bradley-Tyson Desiree Bredemus Isolde Brielmaier EBuchsbaum Renee Cassell Judith Chambers Kathryn & Kenneth Chenault Civis Foundation Mrs. Robyn & Dr. Tony Coles Cowles Charitable Trust Beverly A. Collier David Geffen Foundation DCLA André De Shields Lear deBessonet David Dishy The Distracted Globe Foundation Beatrice Dixon
Doris Duke Foundation Andrew Dunlap & Carrie Tatum Chris & Violet Eagan The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation Katherine Farley & Jerry Speyer Wendell C. Farrell Yolanda Ferrell-Brown Ford Foundation Keli Goff Thelma Golden The Granville Foundation Christina Greer David Alan Grier Amy & John Griffin Rachel Grossman Alicia Hall Moran & Jason Moran Sandra Hayes Hearst Foundation The Hearthland Foundation Tobin Heminway Michael Heningburg & Jeanine Downie Anne D. Herrmann Tamron Hall & Moses Greener Jermaine Hill Joanne Hill Yvette Hollingsworth Clark The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Sonya M. Houston Productions Howard Gilman Foundation Mara Isaacs Jerome Foundation Alexis Johnson & Jorge Pardo Star Jones & Ricardo Lugo Vickee Jordan Adams Ari Katz Noel Kirnon & Michael Paley Kodama Foundation Zoë Kravitz LaChanze Lawryn LaCroix Karen S. Lavine Irina Lazar Loida Lewis Lily Auchincloss Foundation Llewellyn Family Foundation The Lucille Lortel Foundation Michael J. Lythcott Ngina Lythcott & Byllye Avery D Mac P Inc. Malikha M. Mallette Nandini Mani The March Forth Foundation Mariposa Foundation Stetson Marshall
Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Rhonda Medina Michelle Miller Juliet Moser & Benjamin Darnell Samira Nasr New York Community Trust New York Foundation for the Arts (Mosaic) Melissa C. Ngan Dasha Niarchos Lynn Nottage New York State Council on the Arts Leslie Odom, Jr. & Nicolette Robinson Ngozi Okezie Lida Orzeck Gwyneth Paltrow & Bradley Falchuk The Parallel Foundation Arielle Patrick Karen C. & Charles Phillips Pop Culture Collaborative LaTanya Richardson Jackson & Samuel Jackson Richenthal Foundation Rebecca Robertson & Byron Knief Anthony Roth Costanzo Pierre Rougier The Scherman Foundation
Tom Schumacher The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation Amy Sherald Sherman Fairchild Foundation SHS Foundation Shubert Foundation Jessica Sibley Marilyn Skony Stamm Marva Smalls Jenny Sobelman Nelle Somerville Charlee Stallings Stavros Niarchos Foundation Stephanie Stebich & Anne-Imelda Radice Surdna Foundation Carol Sutton Lewis & William Lewis Kathleen Tait Theatre Development Fund (TDF) Tiger Baron Foundation The Tow Foundation Samantha Tweedy Reginald Van Lee Elizabeth VanDyke Sonja Warfield Pauletta Washington Ella Williams Pat & Al Zollar
National Black Theatre programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. As of April 1, 2026. To support the future of Black storytelling, please email Breanna@nationalblacktheatre.org 11
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LEADERSHIP
ARIN ARBUS (Artistic Director). Arbus served as Associate Artistic Director at TFANA for a decade, during
which time she directed: Othello, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, A Doll’s House, The Father, The Skin of Our Teeth (Obie). Upon leaving this post, Arbus served as TFANA’s Resident Director, directing Des Moines, Waiting for Godot, and The Merchant of Venice, starring John Douglas Thompson as Shylock, also playing at Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC and Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. Outside TFANA: Deep Blue Sound by Abe Koogler for Clubbed Thumb; The Lehman Trilogy, at Shakespeare Theatre Company and the Guthrie; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, (Tony Nom for best revival) starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon; and Verdi’s La Traviata for Canadian Opera Company (8 Dora nominations), Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Houston Grand Opera. DOROTHY RYAN (Executive Director) joined Theatre for a New Audience in 2003 after a ten-year
fundraising career with the 92nd Street Y and Brooklyn Museum. Ryan began her career in classical music artist management and also served as company manager and managing leader for several regional opera companies. She is a Brooklyn Women of Distinction honoree and was a founding member of the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance. CHLOE KNIGHT (Director of General Management and Operations) is a graduate of the David Geffen
School of Drama at Yale’s Theater Management program, and recipient of Yale’s 2024 Morris J. Kaplan Prize in Theater Management. Knight has served as Associate Managing Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, assistant to the president of LORT, Co-Managing Director of the Yale Summer Cabaret, Company Manager at Yale Rep, and Management Fellow at Lincoln Center Theater. Before earning her MFA, she held myriad fundraising positions at Page 73, consulting firm Advance NYC, and The Lark.
JEFFREY HOROWITZ (Founding Artistic Director and President Emeritus) began his career in theatre as an
actor and appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in regional theatre. In 1979, he founded Theatre for a New Audience. Horowitz has served on the panel of the New York State Council on the Arts, on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group, the advisory board of the Shakespeare Society and the artistic directorate of London’s Globe Theatre. Awards: 2003 John Houseman Award from The Acting Company, 2004 Gaudium Award from Breukelein Institute, 2019 Obie Lifetime Achievement and TFANA’s 2020 Samuel H. Scripps.
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STAFF, MISSION, BOARD
BOARD OF DIRECTORS About Theatre for a New Audience Board Chair Founded in 1979 by Jeffrey Horowitz and now led by Arin Arbus as Robert E. Buckholz Artistic Director and Dorothy Ryan as Executive Director, Theatre for a Vice Chair New Audience (TFANA) is a New York home for Shakespeare and other Kathleen C. Walsh contemporary playwrights. It nurtures artists, culture, and community. With Shakespeare as its guide, TFANA explores the ever-changing forms Executive Committee of world theatre. TFANA has produced thirty-five of Shakespeare’s thirty- Alan Beller eight play canon and builds a dialogue spanning centuries between the Robert E. Buckholz language and ideas of Shakespeare and diverse authors, past and present. Constance Christensen S TA F F TFANA is committed to building long-term associations with artists from Seymour H. Lesser Artistic Director Arin Arbus around the world and supporting the development of plays, translations, Larry M. Loeb Executive Director Dorothy Ryan and productions through residences, workshops, and commissions through Philip R. Rotner Founding Artistic Director the Merle Debuskey Studio Program. TFANA performs for an audience Kathleen C. Walsh Jeffrey Horowitz of all ages and backgrounds; and promotes a vibrant exchange of ideas Josh Weisberg Director of General Management and through its humanities and education programs. Operations Chloe Knight Director of Institutional Advancement TFANA’s productions have been played nationally, internationally, and on Members James J. Lynes Broadway. In 2001, it became the first American theatre company invited Arin Arbus Finance Director Mary Sormeley to bring a production of Shakespeare to the Royal Shakespeare Company. John Berendt* Education Director Lindsay Tanner TFANA has just partnered with Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre for The Bianca Vivion Brooks* Director of Marketing & Communications Shakespeare Exchange in a transatlantic partnership: In spring of 2024, Ben Campbell Eddie Carlson TFANA presented the Lyceum’s Macbeth (An Undoing). In January 2025, Robert Caro* Facilities Director Rashawn Caldwell the Lyceum presented TFANA’s The Merchant of Venice, featuring John Jonathan R. Donnellan Director of Production Jeff Harris Sharon Dunn* Douglas Thompson as Shylock and directed by Arin Arbus. Technical Director Ellie Engstrom Associate Director of Development TFANA honors the Lenape and Canarsie people, on whose ancestral Matthew E. Fishbein Riccardo Hernandez* Sara Billeaux homeland Polonsky Shakespeare Center is built. Kathryn Hunter* Artistic Associate Peter Cook Theatre for a New Audience Education Programs Tom Kirdahy* Associate Producer Allison Benko Company Manager Molly Burdick Theatre for a New Audience’s education programs introduce students John Lahr* Theatre Manager Lawrence Dial to Shakespeare and other classics with the same artistic integrity that we Harry J. Lennix* Box Office Manager Allison Byrum apply to our productions. Through our unique and exciting methodology, Catherine Maciariello* Marketing Manager Angela Adamo students engage in hands-on learning that involves all aspects of literacy Marie Maignan* Education Manager Emma Griffone set in the context of theatre education. Our residencies are structured to Lindsay H. Mantell* Coordinator, Administration & address City and State Learning Standards both in English Language Arts Audrey Heffernan Meyer* Humanities Programs and the Arts, the New York City DOE’s Curriculum Blueprint for Teaching Alan Polonsky Zoe Donovan J.T. Rogers* New Deal Program Coordinator Zhe Pan and Learning in Theater, and the New York State Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts. Begun in 1984, our programs have Dorothy Ryan Institutional Giving Associate Mia Brice served more than 140,000 students, ages 9 through 18, in New York City Eric Sloan Finance Associate Anja Tuominen Doug Steiner Public Schools city-wide. Development Associate Suzanne Lenz Michael Stranahan Development Associate Gavin McKenzie A Home in Brooklyn: Polonsky Shakespeare Center John Douglas Thompson* Facilities Associate Tim Tyson Theatre for a New Audience’s home, Polonsky Shakespeare Center, is a John Turturro* TFANA Teaching Artists centerpiece of the Brooklyn Cultural District. Jen Curfman, Matthew Dunivan, Melanie Goodreaux, Albert Designed by celebrated architect Hugh Hardy, Polonsky Shakespeare *Artistic Council Iturregui-Elias, Margaret Ivey, Center is the first New York City theatre conceived and built for classic Elizabeth London, Erin McCready, drama since Lincoln Center’s 1965 Vivian Beaumont. The 27,500-square- Emeritus Conor Mullen, Melissa Salguero, foot facility is a uniquely flexible performance space. The 299-seat Samuel Francine Ballan Marissa Stewart, Kea Trevett H. Scripps Mainstage, inspired by the Cottesloe at London’s National Sally Brody House Managers Theatre, combines an Elizabethan courtyard theatre with modern theatre William H. Burgess III Denise Ivanoff, Jasmine Louis, Dana Ivey* Regina Pearsall, Nancy Gill Sanchez technology. It allows the stage and seating to be reconfigured for each Caroline Niemczyk production. The facility also includes the Theodore C. Rogers Studio (a 50Press Representative seat rehearsal/performance studio), and theatrical support spaces. The City Janet C. Olshansky Blake Zidell & Associates Resident Dramaturg Jonathan Kalb of New York-developed Arts Plaza, designed by landscape architect Ken Theodore C. Rogers Resident Voice and Text Director Smith, creates a natural gathering place around the building. In addition, Mark Rylance* Andrew Wade Polonsky Shakespeare Center is also one of the few sustainable (green) Joseph Samulski* TFANA Council of Scholars theatres in the country, with LEED-NC Silver rating from the United Daryl D. Smith Tanya Pollard, Chair States Green Building Council. Now with a home of its own, Theatre for a Susan Stockel Jonathan Kalb, Alisa Solomon, New Audience is contributing to the continued renaissance of Downtown Monica G.S. Wambold Ayanna Thompson Brooklyn. In addition to its season of plays, the Theatre has expanded its Jane Wells Concessions Sweet Hospitality Group Humanities offerings to include lectures, seminars, workshops, and other Legal Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton activities for artists, scholars, and the general public. When not in use by Accounting: Sax LLP the Theatre, its new facility is available for rental, bringing much needed affordable performing and rehearsal space to the community.
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CONTRIBUTORS TO THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE’S ANNUAL FUND June 1, 2025 – August 25, 2026 Even with capacity audiences, ticket sales account for a small portion of our operating costs. Theatre for a New Audience thanks the following donors for their generous support toward our Annual Campaign. For a list of donors $250 and above, go to www.tfana.org/annualdonors. PRINCIPAL BENEFACTORS
($100,000 and up) Anonymous (1) City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs Constance Christensen The Howard Gilman Foundation, Inc. Jerome L. Greene Foundation Fund at The New York Community Trust The Estate of Robert MacNeil National Endowment for the Humanities The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. The Thompson Family Foundation, Inc. LEADING BENEFACTORS
($50,000 and up) Alan Beller Bloomberg Philanthropies Robert E. Buckholz and Lizanne Fontaine The Charina Endowment Fund Deloitte & Touche LLP The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund Neil Mazzella Wendy Scripps Stairway Fund Kathleen Walsh and Gene Bernstein The Whiting Foundation MAJOR BENEFACTORS
($20,000 and up) Arete Foundation Natalie and Matthew Bernstein Sally Brody Janel Callon Ben Campbell and Yiba Ng The Estate of Joel Conarroe The Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation Dominique Bravo and Eric Sloan The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation Matt Fishbein and Gail Stone The George Link Jr. Foundation Monica Gerard-Sharp / The Gerard-Sharp Wambold Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust The Hearst Corporation Penny Brandt Jackson and Thomas Campbell Jackson Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Seymour H. Lesser K. Ann McDonald Audrey Heffernan Meyer and Danny Meyer 14
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National Endowment for the Arts / Arts Midwest Caroline Niemczyk Fiona and Erin Rudin The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation Kerri Scharlin and Peter Klosowicz The Starry Night Fund The Stockel Family Foundation Michael Tuch Foundation, Inc. Barbara and John Vogelstein The White Cedar Fund Josh and Jackie Weisberg Maureen White and Steven Rattner
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($5,000 and up) Anonymous (2) Americans For the Arts Axe-Houghton Foundation Jackie and Jacob Baskin Hilary Brown and Charles Read The Bulova Stetson Fund Walter Cain and Paulo Ribeiro Lisa and Richard Cashin Charney Companies Kathryn and Kenneth Chenault Stephano and Monica Corsi Mary Beth Coudal Christine Cumming Jodie and Jonathan Donnellan SUSTAINING BENEFACTORS Aileen Dresner and Frank R. Drury ($10,000 and up) Sharon Dunn and Harvey Zirofsky Anonymous (2) Jennifer and Steven Eisenstadt Cece and Lee Black Therese Esperdy and Robert Neborak Elaine and Norman Brodsky Wendy Ettinger Deenie and Frank Brosens Patricia and Alex Farman-Farmaian The Claire Friedlander Family Jenny and Jeff Fleishhacker Foundation Cynthia Crossen and James Gleick Michele and Martin Cohen Linda Genereux and Timur Galen Dechert LLP Debra Goldsmith Robb Distracted Globe Foundation Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation Holly Kelly and Andrew Lipsky Nora Wren Kerr and John J. Kerr M. Salome Galib and Andrea Knutson Duane McLaughlin Cathy and Christopher Lawrence Ashley Garrett and Alan Jones Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation McDermott Will & Emery Anna and Peter Levin Michael Graff Bethany and Bob Millard The Howard Bayne Fund New York City Council The J.M. Kaplan Fund New York City Tourism Foundation King & Spalding LLP Janet C. Olshansky Larry and Maria-Luisa Loeb Elizabeth Peek Kristin and William Loomis Ponce Bank Leon Levy Foundation Philip and Janet Rotner Katherine and Raymond Mendez Richenthal Foundation Ronay and Richard Menschel New York State Council on the Arts Joseph Samulski and Cynthia Hammond Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Susan Schultz and Thomas Faust Michael Shannon Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Daryl and Joy Smith Garrison LLP Theatre Development Fund Jeffrey Peek The Venable Foundation Anne Prost and Olivier Robert Sigourney Weaver and Jim Simpson The Roy Cockrum Foundation Anna L. Weissberger Foundation Robert and Cynthia Schaffner Sarah I. Schieffelin Residuary Trust Select Equity Group, Inc PRODUCERS CIRCLE—EXECUTIVE Sidley Austin LLP ($2,500 and up) The Speyer Family Foundation Anonymous (3) Welland Scripps Elizabeth Beller-Dee and Douglas C. Steiner Michael Dee Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP Gail Berney Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal Kerry Berry and Nate Ackerman Sue Wagnor and Neal Leonard Nancy Blachman and David desJardins PRODUCERS CIRCLE—
Margaret and Pedro Castillo Jane Cooney Dennis M. Corrado / The Breukelein Institute Carla Craig and Stuart Freedman The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust Katharine and Peter Darrow DeLaCour Family Foundation Suzan and Fred Ehrman Foley Hoag LLP Lisa Wood and Matt Miller Roberta Garza Lauren Glant and Michael Gillespie Alex Gonzalez Russ Heldman Vanderbilt University OLLI Instructor Thomas Healy and Fred P. Hochberg Sarah Hill and Steve Cohen Sophia Hughes Flora and Christoph Kimmich Kirkland & Ellis Foundation Sandra and Eric Krasnoff Diane and William F. Lloyd Lucille Lortel Foundation Rebecca and Stephen Madsen Marta Heflin Foundation Kathleen Maurer Ginny and David Mayhew Nancy Meyer and Marc N. Weiss Barbara Forster Moore and Richard Wraxall Moore Catherine Nyarady and Gabriel Riopel Annie Paulsen and Albert Garner Sharon Patrick Ellen Petrino Elizabeth and Clifford Press Sam Remirez Susan and Peter Restler Riva and Stephen Rosenfield Dorothy Ryan and John Leitch Sandra and Steven Schoenbart Jeremy T. Smith Barbara Stimmel Mary Tanner Barbara Tober Caroline and Auke Van Scheltinga PRODUCERS CIRCLE—ASSOCIATE
($1,000 and up) Anonymous (7) Actors’ Equity Foundation Bank of America Violaine and John Bernbach Nadia Bernstein Mary Bockelmann Norris and Floyd Norris George Brokaw
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Julie O’Connor and Arthur O. In honor of Audrey Meyer Claire Brown Dominica Wambold Sulzberger, Jr. Deborah Berke and Joan and Robert Catell Marina Wambold Helena Park Peter McCann Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Dana Weidman Lori and Lee Parks Pamela Givner Stephen Dizard Margaret and Carl Pfeiffer Shauna Holiman and JP Morgan Chase Bank IN HONOR OF Rachel Pivnick Robert Hackney Andrea and Tim Collins In honor of Arin Arbus Rajika Puri Mimi Oka and Jun Makihara Susan Cowie Karen Brooks Hopkins Carol and Michael Reimers Stacy Schiff and Disney Susan and William Rifkin Marc de la Bruyere Marion and Willem de Vogel In honor of Robert E. Buckholz Kathleen and Bill Ritter Laurie Tisch Annie and Michael Falk Steven and Jennifer Eisenstadt Paul Rosenberg Melinda Feinberg Amy Fontaine Joan H. Ross In honor of Caroline Niemczyk Karen Feuer Susan and William Rifkin Eliza and James Rossman The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Ronald Finkelstein Barbara and Richard S. Rothberg Charitable Trust Amy Fontaine Michael Zimmerman Olivia J. Fussell and Francis Finlay Cynthia and Thomas Sculco Stacy Schiff and Marc de la Bruyere In honor of Matt Fishbein In memory of Steven Jackson Grace Freedman Popkin Alba Greco-Garcia and Roger Garcia Nandana Sen and John Makinson Michael Lasky Sarah and Hank Slack Susan Kurz Kathleen and Harvey Guion Susan Sommer and Stephen Grace Harvey In honor of Debbie Gold A. Warnke In honor of Dorothy Ryan Adrienne and Donald Hendler Kathleen Walsh The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Leslie and Andrew Schultz Susan Hilferty Charitable Trust Laura and Robert Hoguet In honor of Monica Gerard-Sharp Lauren and Jay Springer In honor of Gene Bernstein and Jeffrey Horowitz George Brokaw Steven Statsinger Kathleen Walsh Anne and Tom Haubenstricker Deenie and Frank Brosens Wendy and Tom Stephenson Natalie and Matthew Bernstein Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Lisa and Richard Cashin William Severt Elizabeth Humes Andrea and Tim Collins In honor of Kathleen Walsh Miriam Katowitz and Arthur Radin Daisy Soros Amity and Seth Lipsky Danna and Harvey Stone Jill and Jay Bernstein Kirsten Kern Jeffrey Peek Kathleen and Michael Stringer Natalie and Tom Kidera Katherine and Raymond Mendez Brianna Van Kan Matthew Bernstein Fran Kumin Ticktin Bethany and Bob Millard Curt and Cissy Viebranz Michele and Martin Cohen John Kuster Julie O’Connor and Arthur Giulia and Marc Weisman Melinda Feinberg Jessie McClintock Kelly O. Sulzberger, Jr. Fran and Barry Weissler Deborah Gold Susan Kurz Snyder Richard S. Rothberg Tappan Wilder Michelle and Michael Lasky Rafa de la Sierra Debra Winger and Arliss Howard Kevin Harrington Ryan Lee Sarah and Henry Slack Carol Yorke and Anne and Steve Levitan Mary Tanner Thomas Haubenstricker Marion Leydier and Brooks Perlin Gerard Conn Adrienne and Donald Hendler Sophia Luby In memory of Barbara Faye Denise and Al Hurley Margaret Lundin YOUNG PATRONS ASSOCIATION Peavy Howard Lesley and David Koeppel Christopher Mailman Debra Winger and Arliss Howard Katherine Cassirer Wendy and Jeff Maurer Jeffrey and Wendy Maurer Gemma Corsi Leslie and Jorden Mayer Scott C. McDonald and Michael Heyward Ryan Fanek In memory of Ruth Winger Michael Niceberg Marlene Marko and Loren Skeist Katie Kuzin Debra Winger and Arliss Howard Sandra and Steven Schoenbart Carol Murray Christopher Liebling Lisa and Mitch Solomon Janet and David Offensend In memory of Timothy P. McCarthy, Jr. Saeed Malami Eileen Walsh Mimi Oka and Jun Makihara Kathy and Chris McCarthy Sarah Vickery Jennifer Wilent Ruth Olson Daniela Wambold MATCHING GIFTS The following companies have contributed through their Matching Gift Programs: If your employer has a matching gift program, please consider making a contribution to Theatre for a New Audience and making your gift go further by participating in your employer’s matching gift program. Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation The Hearst Corporation Bank of America International Business Machines Disney JP Morgan Chase PUBLIC FUNDS Theatre for a New Audience’s season and programs are also made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities; Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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THE JEFFREY HOROWITZ LEGACY FUND May 1,2024 – August 31, 2026 After 46 years of visionary leadership and singular accomplishments in American Theatre—and especially in American productions of Shakespeare— Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director of Theatre for a New Audience, stepped down on August 31, 2025. The Jeffrey Horowitz Legacy Fund was established to celebrate him as well as well as provide support for Arin Arbus, who took up the mantle as TFANA’s new Artistic Director on September 1, 2025. The resources of Jeffrey Horowitz Legacy Fund will allow Arin to maximize special opportunities and implement her artistic vision. For more information, or to make a gift, please contact James Lynes, Director of Institutional Advancement, at jlynes@tfana.org. Alan Beller Robert E. Buckholz and Lizanne Fontaine Katherine and Gary Bartholomaus The Jerome and Marlène Brody Foundation Sally Brody Marc de la Bruyere Ben Campbell and Yiba Ng Constance Christensen The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund Charles Cunningham Peter and Katharine Darrow Jonathan and Jodie Donnellan Richard Feldman Matt Fishbein and Gail Stone Marion and Daniel Goldberg Norma Green Gail Hochman
Jeffrey Horowitz Steven Horowitz Penny and Thomas Jackson Michael M. Kaiser and John S. Roberts Seymour H. Lesser Larry and Maria-Luisa Loeb Catherine Maciariello Robert and Donna MacNeil Charitable Trust Danielle Mowery Nancy Meyer and Marc N. Weiss Asha and D.V. Nayak Catherine Nyarady and Gabriel Riopel Mary Beth Peil Ellen Petrino The Polonsky Foundation Anne Prost and Olivier Robert Dorothy Ryan
Joseph Samulski and Cynthia Hammond Kerri Scharlin and Peter Klosowicz The SHS Foundation Miriam Schneider Katherine and Bill Schubart Eugene Skowronski Joan and Laurence Sorkin Jennifer Shotwell Stairway Fund Susan Stockel◊ Anne and William Tatlock Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal Margo and Anthony Viscusi Kathleen Walsh and Gene Bernstein Josh and Jackie Weisberg Debra Winger and Arliss Howard
SHAKESPEARE WORKS IN BROOKLYN: CULTURE, COMMUNITY, CAPITAL
Theatre for a New Audience recognizes with gratitude the following donors to Theatre for a New Audience’s Capital Campaign to support ambitious programming, access to affordable tickets and financial resiliency. Named funds within the Capital Campaign include the Henry Christensen III Artistic Opportunity Fund, the Audrey H. Meyer New Deal Fund and the Merle Debuskey Studio Fund. Other opportunities include the Completing Shakespeare’s Canon Fund, Capital Reserves funds and support for the design and construction of New Office and Studio Spaces. To learn more, or to make a gift to the Capital Campaign, please contact James Lynes at jlynes@tfana.org or by calling 646-553-3886. $1,000,000 AND ABOVE
Mr.◊ and Mrs. Henry Christensen III Ford Foundation The Howard Gilman Foundation New York City Department of Cultural Affairs The Thompson Family Foundation
$100,000–$249,999 Alan Jones and Ashley Garrett Carol Sutton Lewis and William M. Lewis, Jr. Seymour H. Lesser The Polonsky Foundation Charlene Magen Weinstein◊ $50,000–$99,999 Bloomberg Philanthropies Aileen and Frank Drury Agnes Gund The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund New York State Council on the Arts Abby Pogrebin and David Shapiro John and Regina Scully Foundation Marcia T. Thompson◊
Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation Cynthia and Robert Schaffner Kerri Scharlin and Peter Klosowicz Daryl and Joy Smith Susan Stockel Anne and William Tatlock Earl D. Weiner
$5,000–$9,999 Alan Beller Katharine and Peter Darrow Bipin and Linda Doshi Marcus Doshi Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Susan Schultz and Thomas Faust Barbara G. Fleischman Jane Garnett and David Booth Penny Brandt Jackson and Thomas Jackson Miriam Katowitz and Arthur Radin Mary and Howard Kelberg Kirsten and Peter Kern Susan Litowitz Ronay and Richard Menschel Ann and Conrad Plimpton Priham Trust/The Green Family Alejandro Santo Domingo Marie and Mark Schwartz Cynthia and Thomas Sculco Nancy Meyer and Marc N. Weiss
$10,000–$19,999 Diana Bergquist $250,000-$999,999 Sally R. Brody Booth Ferris Foundation New York State Energy Research Robert E. Buckholz and and Development Authority Lizanne Fontaine Linda and Jay Lapin MacMillan Family Foundation Janet Wallach and Merle Debuskey◊ Robert Menschel◊ Irving Harris Foundation Alessandra and Alan Mnuchin The Stairway Fund, Audrey Heffernan Anne Prost and Robert Olivier Meyer and Danny Meyer Allison and Neil Rubler The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $20,000–$49,999 Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Peggy and Keith Anderson Kathleen Walsh and Michael Tuch Foundation Elaine and Norman Brodsky Gene Bernstein Jackie and Josh Weisberg Kathy and Steve Guttman ◊deceased THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES A 2011 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) established a Humanities endowment fund at Theatre for a New Audience to support in perpetuity the 360° Series: Viewfinders as well as the TFANA Council of Scholars and the free TFANA Talks series. Leading matching gifts to the NEH grant were provided by Joan and Robert Arnow, Norman and Elaine Brodsky, The Durst Organization, Perry and Marty Granoff, Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia, John J. Kerr & Nora Wren Kerr, Litowitz Foundation, Inc., Robert and Wendy MacDonald, Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder, The Prospect Hill Foundation, Inc., Theodore C. Rogers, and from purchasers in the Theatre’s Seat for Shakespeare Campaign, 2013-2015. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this Viewfinder or the Theatre’s Humanities programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 16
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