The Civilians 20th Anniversary Gala

P RO U D LY P R E S E N T O U R

20 ANNIVERSARY

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C E L E B R AT I N G T W O D EC A D E S O F C R E AT I V E I N V E ST I GAT I O N INTO THE RICHNESS AND COMPLEXITY OF LIFE

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MIA K AT I G B A K

LES WAT E R S

Actor-Manager and Co-Founder, NAATCO

Director and Arts Leader

ELIZABETH ANGELL MIMI BROWN PETER FRIEDLAND

MARSHA STEPHANIE BLAKE KATHLEEN CHALFANT ANNE KAUFFMAN KYLE JARROW

JENNIFER R. MORRIS DAEL ORLANDERSMITH DAPHNE RUBIN-VEGA DUNCAN SHEIK

VA AVEC LES OYES/FLYING DOWN TO….

BY MICHAEL FRIEDMAN FROM CANARD, CANARD, GOOSE? COLLEEN WERTHMANN, BRAD HEBERLEE, STEPHEN PLUNKETT, MAYA SHARPE

DAOUD HEIDAMI SUPERSECRET PLACES

BY MICHAEL FRIEDMAN FROM I AM NOBODY’S LUNCH ALYSE ALAN LOUIS AND HEATH SAUNDERS

STEVE ROSEN NEVER

BY KIRSTEN CHILDS FROM THE WAY THEY LIVE (MET MUSEUM RESIDENCY) MARINDA ANDERSON

BOARD OF DIRECTORS JEANHEE KIM AND MICHAEL FRAZIER

ANOTHER EMAIL FROM TED

BY MICHAEL FRIEDMAN FROM THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY BRAD HEBERLEE

GIBSON FRAZIER MIA SONG

BY FABIAN OBISPO JAMES SEOL

JACOB PADRÓN PRESENTER, CIVILIAN OF THE YEAR AWARD

MIA KATIGBAK HONOREE

APPLESAUCE

BY MICHAEL FRIEDMAN FROM PRETTY FILTHY STEVE ROSEN AND MARIA-CHRISTINA OLIVERAS

STEVE COSSON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE CIVILIANS

A WORD OF ADVICE

BY MICHAEL FRIEDMAN FROM IN THE FOOTPRINT COLLEEN WERTHMANN

SYDNEY H.

BY MICHAEL FRIEDMAN FROM SEX VARIANTS BRIAN CHARLES ROONEY

MATTHEW MAHER LES SONG WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY MARTHA REDBONE AND AARON WHITBY

DEIRDRE O’CONNELL PRESENTER, CIVILIAN OF THE YEAR AWARD

LES WATERS HONOREE

THE LAND WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY REBECCA HART FROM HOLY MATRIMONY (CABARET SERIES)

LOST HORIZON

BY MICHAEL FRIEDMAN FROM GONE MISSING TREY LYFORD

STEVE ROSEN BACK AGAIN

UNDER

BY LADY RIZO, ORIGINATED IN LET ME ASCERTAIN YOU: FUCKING AND DYING LADY RIZO AND YAIR EVNINE

MIA KATIGBAK Mia Katigbak is the co-founder and actor-manager of the award-winning, New York City based NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company). She is a USA Fellow (2021) and TCG’s 2017 Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellow for Distinguished Achievement. Other awards include a Special Drama Desk Award (2019), the Actors Equity Foundation’s St. Clair Bayfield for Best Supporting Role in a Shakespeare Play; Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theater; NYIT for Artistic Achievement; the Lily Award for Trailblazing; an Obie for performance (in NAATCO’s Awake and Sing!); the Lucille Lortel and the Lee Reynolds Awards (League of Professional Theatre Women); the Actors Equity’s Rosetta LeNoire Award; New Dramatists’ Charles Bowden Actor Award; and a Distinguished Award for Artistic Excellence from Ma-Yi Theater.

She was selected by nytheatre.com as one of their People of the Year in 2007.

She is a founding director of CAATA (Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists) and served as the president of its first board. She was one of the organizers of the 1st and 2nd National Asian American Theater Festivals in 2007 and 2009 in New York City. She was the curator of NYU’s Festival of Voices (2018).

She has acted extensively with NAATCO, most recently in the world premiere of Out of Time, US premiere of Caryl Churchill’s What If If Only, a remote live production, and Henry VI, Shakespeare’s Trilogy in Two Parts. Selected productions include Russian Troll Farm, an on-line, live-edited play coproduced by TheaterWorks (CT), TheatreSquared (AR), and The Civilians (NY); The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Transport Group); Recent Alien Abductions (PlayCo); Dear Elizabeth (WP); Ivo van Hove’s Scenes From a Marriage (NYTW); Good Person of Szechwan (Foundry/Public Theater).

Other NYC: LCT3, Soho Rep, WP, New Georges, New Group, Ma-Yi, Target Margin, Clubbed Thumb, Bushwick Starr, Intar, Pan Asian Rep. Regional work: Yale Rep and Long Wharf (CT), the Humana Festival at the Actors Theater in Louisville (KY), Two River Theater (NJ), Berkeley Rep (CA), Swine Palace (LA), and the Guthrie (MN). International: Manila, Philippines and Abu Dhabi, UAE. Television credits include “How to Get Away With Murder” (ABC), “The Sinner” (USA), “Chicago PD” (NBC), “Mysteries of Laura” (NBC), and “Conviction” (NBC). Her film credits include I Smile Back, Clutter, and Slow Jam King.

She has served in panels for the theatre programs of the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Nancy Quinn Fund for Emerging Theaters and the Fund for Small Theaters (both administered by ART/NY), and the Asian American Arts Alliance. She has been a guest speaker for forums sponsored by the New York Times, the Humana Festival, and Theater Communications Group. She holds a BA from Barnard College and an MA from Columbia University.

LES WATERS Les Waters is an Obie Award winning director, whose productions have been seen on Broadway (Dana H., In The Next Room, Or The Vibrator Play) off-Broadway, and regionally. Recent collaborations with Lucas Hnath include THE THIN PLACE (Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville) and Dana H. (Vineyard Theatre CTG/Goodman Theatre), for which he won an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Direction. Les’ work includes productions at NAATCO, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre Company, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Connelly Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, and regionally at theatres such as Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, and American Repertory Theater. Les was Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville from 2012–2018, where he directed Evocation Of Visible Appearance, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Recent Alien Abductions, Macbeth, For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday, The Glory Of The World, Luna Gale, At The Vanishing Point, The Christians, Our Town, Gnit, Girlfriend, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Big Love (Obie Award Special Citation, 2002). From 2003–2011, he served as Associate Artistic Director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

He led the MFA directing program at University of California, San Diego from 1995–2003. He is both the subject and co-author of The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather, edited by Scott T. Cummings, to be published by Routledge, in April 2022.

DIAMOND SPONSORS MIMI BROWN AND ALP ERCIL PETER FRIEDLAND AND ERIN POND

GOLD SPONSORS HESU COUE-WILSON AND EDWARD WILSON ALISHA DAVIS AND MICHAEL ROBERTS MARIA LUISA GAMBALE AND ZACHARY TAYLOR ARMEN NERCESSIAN THE TIGER BARON FOUNDATION

SILVER SPONSORS KATHLEEN AND HENRY CHALFANT SUANY CHOUGH AND ECKART GRAEVE ALEXANDER DODGE SUSAN AND HENRY DONAHUE ELIZETE AND ALAIN GROENENDAAL JESSICA AND MATT HARRIS JOHN WOOD AND ZAHID CHAUDHARY

ANONYMOUS (3) JEANNE BERGMAN AND ANNA KRAMARSKY CHUCK COSSON DAVID COSSON LUE DOUTHIT CAROLYN AND JOHN FRIEDMAN NINA HELLMAN AND JEREMY SHAMOS JULIA AND JEFF LAZARUS ELIZABETH LYNCH AND BRYON KONITZ SARAH MacARTHUR JESSICA MITRANI DAVID AND EILEEN MOODY SARA PURSLEY ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON JANE SOUZON LAURIE STEMPLER AARON STONE BRIAN STANSIFER YORK

ARTIST CO-CHAIRS MARSHA STEPHANIE BLAKE KATHLEEN CHALFANT ANNE KAUFFMAN KYLE JARROW

JENNIFER R. MORRIS DAEL ORLANDERSMITH DAPHNE RUBIN-VEGA DUNCAN SHEIK

COMMITTEE MEMBERS EMILY ACKERMAN SARAH BEERS QUINCY TYLER BERNSTINE CINDY CHEUNG MICHARNE CLOUGHLEY JOHN ELLISON CONLEE WILEY DEWEESE DAN DOMINGUES HARRIETT D. FOY GIBSON FRAZIER REBECCA HART BRAD HEBERLEE NINA HELLMAN DANIEL JENKINS TERRI K. KOHLER ALIX LAMBERT JO LAMPERT JIM LEWIS JAIME LOZANO

TREY LYFORD MATT MAHER GRACE McLEAN JESSICA MITRANI SAM PINKLETON JOSÉ RIVERA STEVE ROSEN KJ SANCHEZ JENNY SCHWARTZ JEREMY SHAMOS NEDRA MARIE TAYLOR MARY TESTA KEN URBAN LES WATERS ALISON WELLER BESS WOHL SAM WRIGHT ZACK ZADEK

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The Board of Directors of the National Asian American Theatre Company congratulates Mia Katigbak, our esteemed Artistic Director, and Les Waters for his outstanding directorial contributions to the company.

MUSIC DIRECTOR / PIANO AND KEYBOARD

WILEY DEWEESE DRUMS

JEFF FERNANDES GUITAR

JAKOB REINHARDT BASS

YUKA TADANO PRODUCER

MELISSA HARDY STAGE MANAGER

TERRI KOHLER

ASSTANT STAGE MANAGER

ANNE McPHERSON VIDEO DESIGNER

ATTILIO RIGOTTI PRESS REPRESENTATION

JOHN WYSZNIEWSKI, EVERYMAN AGENCY GRAPHIC DESIGN

ALAN BUTTAR, MUSE GRAPHIC DESIGN

MARSHA STEPHANIE BLAKE, CINDY CHEUNG, KIRSTEN CHILDS, JACK CUMMINGS III, JACQUELINE EISENMAN, JESSICA HAGEDORN, BRAD HEBERLEE, DANIEL JENKINS, KATE KATIGBAK, PETER KIM, ALIX LAMBERT, TODD LONDON, TREY LYFORD, MATT MAHER, SAM PINKLETON, EMILY PIUGGI, SARAH RUHL, KJ SANCHEZ, MATTHEW SCHWALM, ANNE WASHBURN, ALISON WELLER, KEN URBAN, AND THE CIVILIANS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, ASSOCIATE ARTISTS, AND EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO TONIGHT’S PRODUCTION AND OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY ARTIST AUCTION.

The Civilians strives to be a vibrant company of artists whose work reflects our celebration and investigation of diverse human experiences.

Read about our commitment to anti-racism and ongoing efforts to address systemic oppression in our community.

LE ARN MORE

THE CIVILIANS IS A COMPANY THAT CREATES NEW THEATER FROM CREATIVE INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MOST VITAL QUESTIONS OF THE PRESENT.

STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR............................................... STEVE

COSSON

MANAGING DIRECTOR....................................... MARGARET

MOLL

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR........................................... DAN

BALKIN

NEW WORK PROGRAM MANAGER.......................... MELISSA

HARDY

RESIDENT DRAMATURG........................................

PHOEBE CORDE

DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS FELLOW...... KHOA ARTISTIC INTERN........................ MALAIKA

NGUYEN

PEDZAYI-FERGUSON

BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIR............................................................. SUANY

CHOUGH SECRETARY............................................. ALAIN GROENENDAAL TREASURER........................................................... JOHN WOOD ARTISTIC DIRECTOR.............................................. STEVE COSSON REBECCA AGBE-DAVIES MICHAEL ABRAHAMS CAROLINE BLAYNEY HENRY DONAHUE MICHAEL FRAZIER

JEANHEE KIM JULIA LAZURUS JENNIFER M. MORRIS ARMEN NERCESSIAN LAURIE STEMPLER

EMERITUS

ELIZABETH ANGELL RICK DEAN JODY FALCO PETER FRIEDLAND JESSICA HARRIS DANIEL P. KIM DAVID SINGER IN MEMORIAM

MICHAEL FRIEDMAN