Home: A Celebration

A S H L E Y W H E AT E R M B E

Inaugural season at Lyric Opera House

: HOME A CELEBRATION

OCTOBER 13–24

2021

HOME: A CELEBRATION October 13–24, 2021

THE JOFFREY BALLET ASHLEY WHEATER MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director GREG CAMERON President and CEO

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Ashley Wheater MBE 3 Greg Cameron 4 Artistic and Dancer Listing 6 HOME: A Celebration Program 7 Ballet Notes 10 2021–2022 Season Sponsors 12 Artists of the Company 14 Bios 24 Boards 26 Supporters 32 Joffrey Staff

PERFORMS AT: Cover image: Joffrey Company Artist Anais Bueno in Boléro. Photo by Matt de la Peña.

Above: Joffrey Company Artists Fernando Duarte, Stefan Goncalvez and Hyuma Kiyosawa in Swing Low. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

LYRIC OPERA HOUSE 20 N. Wacker Dr. | Chicago, IL

Welcome!

In February of 2020, we staged our last pre-pandemic performances at the Auditorium Theatre, our home for twenty years. Who would have imagined, as that final curtain fell, that our lives would change so significantly during the intervening twenty months?

In reflecting on all that has transpired, I am reminded of a song from my childhood with simple lyrics, “Count your blessings, name them one by one.”

The Joffrey survived the disruption of the pandemic and returns to the stage, in large part because of the support of the people of Chicago. Overnight, our earned revenue disappeared. But our Board and our community of supporters generously contributed to keep our doors open.

We offered classes online; students clearing the furniture from their living rooms so they could move. We gathered in the studios when it was safe, following strict pandemic protocols. I am proud to say, we were able to care for our dancers throughout the pandemic. The Company is intact.

In the absence of live performances, we created new work, some of which you will see today. We celebrate dynamic new creations by Joffrey dancer, Yoshihisa Arai; Joffrey rehearsal director and choreographer, Nicolas Blanc; and Winning Works award recipient, Chanel DaSilva. We return to our beloved Birthday Variations: a ballet by co-founder Gerald Arpino. Significantly, this ballet first premiered in 1986 on the Lyric Opera stage.

Covid allowed us to further develop our partnership with the Lyric Opera. With these performances, we inaugurate our residency. We have a new home.

I invite you to look around this beautiful theater, to appreciate the new seating, to savor the wonderful acoustics, to participate in all the amenities offered by this glorious opera house.

HOME is about gathering as a family who love dance. We are blessed to be together.

Ashley Wheater MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director The Joffrey Ballet

Photos by Cheryl Mann.

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Dear Joffrey Friends, As the curtain rises again, after nearly two long years away, we take stock of what it means to be “home.”

Home is a place of familiarity and comfort, a place enjoyed by family and friends.

Home is a place we make memories and share beautiful stories. Home is also refuge, a place we fall back on during hard times.

In a year that no one saw coming, the Joffrey looked to the people that make this company a home for so many. We relied on the leadership of our Board Chair, Anne Kaplan, who steered us through unprecedented conditions. We put our trust in our Board of Directors and members of the Women’s Board as they dug deep to keep our mission alive and thriving. We leaned on Anthony Freud and our partners at Lyric Opera of Chicago, sharing resources and keeping each other whole. And we depended on our staff, artists, and our audience to marshal the fortitude and financial generosity to persevere.

In March of 2020, as stages around the world went dark, many of us had time to think about the things that make home so special. For the Joffrey, performing in front of a live audience was one of them. We missed it terribly.

This fall, we open our inaugural season at Lyric Opera House with an aptly titled program that inspires hope and honors the people that make the Joffrey unmatched, with works by our very own artists, created at the height of the pandemic and made possible thanks to generous support from the extended Joffrey family.

You made this program a reality and brought us home. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

Through the entirety of the pandemic, we have committed ourselves to health and safety.

Thanks for “vaxxing,” up, masking up, and keeping your hearts open.

And now, it feels so good to say once more: Enjoy the performance.

Greg Cameron President and CEO The Joffrey Ballet

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ASHLEY WHEATER MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director GREG CAMERON President and CEO ROBERT JOFFREY Founder GERALD ARPINO Founder Artists of The Company Derrick Agnoletti Yoshihisa Arai Amanda Assucena Edson Barbosa Brian Bennett Miguel Angel Blanco Evan Boersma Anais Bueno Valeria Chaykina Nicole Ciapponi Lucia Connolly José Pablo Castro Cuevas April Daly Jonathan Dole Derek Drilon Fernando Duarte Olivia Duryea Anna Gerberich Stefan Goncalvez Dylan Gutierrez Dara Holmes Victoria Jaiani

Artistic and Production Staff Hansol Jeong Gayeon Jung Yumi Kanazawa Blake Kessler Yuchan Kim Hyuma Kiyosawa Brooke Linford Graham Maverick Jeraldine Mendoza Xavier Núñez Princess Reid Aaron Renteria Christine Rocas Julia Rust Chloé Sherman Miranda Silveira Temur Suluashvili Miu Tanaka Olivia Tang-Mifsud Alberto Velazquez Valentino Moneglia Zamora

NICOLAS BLANC Rehearsal Director/Principal Coach ADAM BLYDE Rehearsal Director/Principal Coach SUZANNE LOPEZ Rehearsal Director/Principal Coach SCOTT SPECK Music Director MICHAEL MORICZ Assistant Conductor & Company Pianist JORGE IVARS Company Pianist BRADLEY RENNER General Manager CODY CHEN Director of Production BETH GRIFFIN Company Manager ERIN BROWN Artistic & Production Coordinator KATHERINE SELIG Principal Stage Manager AMANDA HEUERMANN Stage Manager CHRIS MARAVICH Lighting Supervisor

Patrons are requested to turn off pagers, cellular phones, and signal watches during performances. The taking of photographs and the use of recording devices are not allowed in this auditorium. Program and artists subject to change.

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SCOTT WOLFSON Technical Supervisor

THE NUTCRACKER

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JOFFREY.ORG | 312.386.8905

PERFORMS AT:

LYRIC OPERA HOUSE

20 N. Wacker Dr. | Chicago, IL

THE NUTCRACKER PRESENTING SPONSOR

THE NUTCRACKER PRODUCTION SPONSORS

WITH GRATITUDE TO THE NUTCRACKER COMMISSIONING SPONSORS

Women’s Board of The Joffrey Ballet

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald V. Waters III

Margot and Josef Lakonishok Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust

Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa And the many “Believers”

2021–2022 SEASON SPONSORS

THE FLORIAN FUND LIVE MUSIC SPONSORS

Sandy and Roger Deromedi The Joffrey Ballet | Photo by Cheryl Mann.

Nancy & Sanfred Koltun 2021–2022 SEASON PARTNERS

Sage Foundation

The Marina and Arnold Tatar Fund for Live Music

HOME: A CELEBRATION

Birthday Variations Choreography by GERALD ARPINO Music by GIUSEPPE VERDI Scenery and Lighting Design by JACK MEHLER Costume Design by STANLEY SIMMONS Original Lighting Design by THOMAS SKELTON World premiere: March 6, 1986, Lyric Opera House, Chicago IL This performance of Birthday Variations is presented with permission of The Gerald Arpino Foundation in compliance with the standards established by the Foundation.

PAUSE

Swing Low Choreography by CHANEL DASILVA Music by ZOË KEATING Costumes Conceived by CHANEL DASILVA Lighting Design by JACK MEHLER Music Arranged by MICHAEL MORICZ Digital world premiere: May 28, 2021, Joffrey Studio Series Stage premiere: September 17, 2021, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL I N TER M I SSI O N

Under the Trees’ Voices Choreography by NICOLAS BLANC Music by EZIO BOSSO Scenery and Lighting Design by JACK MEHLER Costume Design Conceived by NICOLAS BLANC Digital world premiere: April 30, 2021, Joffrey Studio Series Stage premiere: October 13, 2021, Lyric Opera House, Chicago, IL In loving memory of my grandfather Hubert Chassain — Nicolas Blanc I N TER M I SSI O N

Boléro Choreography by YOSHIHISA ARAI Music by MAURICE RAVEL Costume Design by TEMUR SULUASHVILI Lighting Design by JACK MEHLER Digital world premiere: February 26, 2021, Joffrey Studio Series Stage premiere: October 13, 2021, Lyric Opera House, Chicago, IL

Casting details for performances of HOME: A Celebration can be found online at Joffrey.org/HomeCast

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Boléro by Maurice Ravel By arrangement with Boosey and Hawkes, Inc., Sole Agent in the US, Canada and Mexico for Duran S.A. Editions Musicales, A Universal Music Publishing Group company, publisher and copyright owner

Costume Construction by THE JOFFREY BALLET COSTUME SHOP

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BIRTHDAY VARIATIONS

SWING LOW

Birthday Variations, choreographed

by Joffrey co-founder Gerald Arpino with music by Giuseppe Verdi, was commissioned in 1986 by Becky D’Angelo as a birthday present to her husband Dino, who owned Chicago’s Civic Opera House (now the Lyric Opera House) and loved Verdi’s music. This lively and melodic ballet is considered one of Arpino’s most popular creations.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Coming for to carry me home Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Coming for to carry me home I looked over Jordan and what did I see Coming for to carry me home A band of angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home Inspired by the powerful American spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Chanel DaSilva creates a visceral narrative work for five men that investigates the supernatural majesty of angels and the many complexities of what it means to be human. Set to the music of avant-garde cellist Zoë Keating.

Joffrey Company Artists Edson Barbosa, Evan Boersma, Fernando Duarte, Stefan Goncalvez and Hyuma Kiyosawa in Swing Low. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

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UNDER THE TREES’ VOICES

Under the Trees’ Voices features 15 dancers performing to Symphony No. 2

by Italian composer Ezio Bosso.

The performance channels the power of community in the age of social distancing as well as paying tribute to an endangered nature. In four distinct sections, Nicolas Blanc imagines a future of hope and unity.

Joffrey Company Artist Anais Bueno in Boléro. Photo by Matt de la Peña.

BOLÉRO Yoshihisa Arai envisions the lead role in Boléro as a type of muse, evoking a humanistic quality to the overall feeling of the piece, leading their “disciples” through a serene world of light and shadows. The primary inspiration for Boléro is the Spanish-flavored, orchestral work of the same name by Maurice Ravel. The famous one-movement score is known for beginning softly and ending, according to the composer’s instructions, as loudly as possible. “To me, the most fascinating quality of the music is that the rhythm remains the same throughout the piece and yet, as the instruments change from snare drum to flute, trombone to woodwinds, and so on, an array of emotions are unleashed,” says Arai.

“This inspires me most of all.”

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Joffrey Company Artists Jeraldine Mendoza and Dylan Gutierrez in Under the Trees’ Voices. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

2021–2022 SEASON | HOME: A CELEBRATION

THE SEASON IS JUST GETTING STARTED…TWO MORE SHOWS DON QUIXOTE

OF MICE AND MEN

Choreographed by: Yuri Possokhov Music by: Ludwig Minkus

Choreographed by: Cathy Marston Music by: Thomas Newman OF MICE AND MEN Copyright ©1937 by John Steinbeck

February 16–27, 2022

Copyright © renewed 1965 by John Steinbeck

SERENADE

Choreographed by: George Balanchine Music by: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky April 27–May 8, 2022

SPRING DOUBLE-BILL

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2021–2022 SEASON SPONSORS

THE FLORIAN FUND

Nancy & Sanfred Koltun

LYRIC OPERA HOUSE

20 N. Wacker Dr. | Chicago, IL

Don Quixote: Joffrey Company Artists Alberto Velazquez and Amanda Assucena. Of Mice and Men: Joffrey Company Artists Xavier Núñez and Dylan Gutierrez. | Photos by Todd Rosenberg.

2021–2022 SEASON SPONSORS THE FLORIAN FUND

Nancy & Sanfred Koltun

LIVE MUSIC SPONSORS Sandy and Roger Deromedi Sage Foundation The Marina and Arnold Tatar Fund for Live Music

PRODUCTION SPONSORS HOME: A CELEBRATION

THE NUTCRACKER

OF MICE AND MEN

Program Sponsors

Presenting Sponsor

Producing Sponsor

Walter E. Heller Foundation Jeanette Stevens

Women’s Board of The Joffrey Ballet

Denise Littlefield Sobel

Under The Trees’ Voices Commissioning Sponsors

Sponsors

Major Sponsors

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald V. Waters III With gratitude to The Nutcracker Commissioning Sponsors Swing Low Commissioning Sponsors

Joan M. Hall Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill Boléro Additional Support Provided by Diana and Stuart Widman and Deborah Gordon Engle

Margot and Josef Lakonishok Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa And the many “Believers” DON QUIXOTE

Of Mice and Men was created with funds from the Prince Prize for Commissioning Original Work, which was awarded to Cathy Marston and The Joffrey Ballet in 2019.

Sponsors

Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Northrop at The University of Minnesota

Presenting Sponsors

Margot and Josef Lakonishok Mr. and Mrs. Joel V. Williamson Major Sponsors

Lorna Ferguson and Terry Clark

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts Additional support for the commissioned score provided by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation

SERENADE Sponsor Sponsors

Colleen Loughlin and John Sirek

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Patti Selander Eylar

2021–2022 SEASON | HOME: A CELEBRATION

THE JOFFREY BALLET STAR SOCIETY Anonymous (14)

John McAllister

Michael Spencer Albert

Kevin McGirr

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Allen

Prof. Keith and Anne Moffat

Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. Babcock, Sr.

Dr. Elaine Moor

Pamela Jo Block D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal

LEGACY CHALLENGE

TWO MONTHS LEFT TO JOIN THE

RONALD AND ANN WATERS believe in the power of dance to touch and transform lives, and that Chicago is deserving of a worldclass ballet company. Through devoted leadership on the Joffrey Board and Women’s Board that spans 20 years, they have seen incredible growth at the Joffrey — and they believe its brightest days are ahead.

Mr. and Mrs. Waters created a LEGACY CHALLENGE and invite you to join them in securing Joffrey’s brightest future.

For each new friend who joins the Star Society by including Joffrey in their estate plans — now through December 31, 2021 — Mr. and Mrs. Waters will donate $1,000 in your honor to the Joffrey Endowment.

JOIN THE STAR SOCIET Y NOW by including a gift to Joffrey in your estate, or notifying us of your existing estate gift. Learn more about the Star Society and how to create your estate plan online for free at Joffrey.org/PlannedGiving.

Greg Cameron and Greg Thompson

Ms. Jane Ellen Murray† and Mr. Edwin Wentz

Jacqueline Caputo

Cheryl Tama Oblander and Scott Oblander

Charles Capwell

Jonathan F. Orser

Paul Chasnoff and Joe Hopper

Susan Peet

The Cox Trust

Alyssa Quinlan

Helen Elkiss Deborah and Cody Engle

Christine and Daniel Rahill

Patti S. Eylar and Charles R. Gardner

Eric C. Schieber, MD and Anthony Priore

Christine B. Fisher

Douglas M. Schmidt

Michael Goldberger

Terry A. Schwartz

Sue-Gray Goller

Thomas G. Sinkovic

Larry and Michelle Goodman

Craig Sirles

Sandi and Barry Hartstein

Brian Smith

Dale Heiking

Constance Steinhaus

Barbara Henigbaum

Jeanette Stevens

Marci and Ronald Holzer

Marlene A. Van Skike

Jessica Jagielnik

Stephen and Leslie Warner

Darlene J. Johnson Marsha Kamen Anne L. Kaplan Myrna W. Kaplan Arthur Stewart Kerr and Marcia Davis Kerr Paul Kobasa Tracey Konicek

CONTACT Lauren Gardier to learn more about Star Society membership and exclusive benefits: CALL 312.386.8916 EMAIL lgardier@joffrey.org VISIT joffrey.org/plannedgiving

Julie Willis Moore, in memory of Victoria Shiflet Cress

D. Elizabeth Price

Marilyn Slattery

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald V. Waters III Magnus Welsh Diana and Stuart Widman Amanda Williamson and Matthew Johnson

Lynda Sue Lane, MD

Shannon Stone-Winding and Derrick Winding

Henrietta Leary

Andrea and Rich Winship

Linda Levey

Laurie Wood

Marsha Lieberman

Mrs. Anna Mary Zarrelli

Philip Lumpkin Heather and Sean Martin

† Deceased

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SEASON

Derrick Agnoletti San Jose, CA

Yoshihisa Arai Hiroshima, Japan

Amanda Assucena* Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Valeria Chaykina St. Petersburg, Russia

Nicole Ciapponi Vancouver, Canada

Lucia Connolly Los Angeles, CA

José Pablo Castro Cuevas* Queretaro, Mexico

April Daly Rockford, IL

Stefan Goncalvez São Paulo, Brazil

Dylan Gutierrez Los Angeles, CA

Dara Holmes* Wilmington, NC

Victoria Jaiani Tbilisi, Rep. of Georgia

Hansol Jeong Namyangju, South Korea

Brooke Linford* Alpine, UT

Graham Maverick San Francisco, CA

Jeraldine Mendoza San Francisco, CA

Xavier Núñez Caguas, Puerto Rico

Princess Reid Jacksonville, FL

Temur Suluashvili Tbilisi, Rep. of Georgia

Miu Tanaka* Chiba, Japan

Olivia Tang-Mifsud Los Angeles, CA

Alberto Velazquez Havana, Cuba

Valentino Moneglia Zamora* Murcia, Spain

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Edson Barbosa Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Brian Bennett* Lanham, Maryland

Miguel Angel Blanco Havana, Cuba

Evan Boersma* Chicago, IL

Anais Bueno Córdoba, Mexico

Jonathan Dole* Sacramento, California

Derek Drilon* Vancouver, WA

Fernando Duarte* Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Olivia Duryea* Haslett, MI

Anna Gerberich Dillsburg, PA

Gayeon Jung Seoul, Korea

Yumi Kanazawa Los Angeles, CA

Blake Kessler Jacksonville, Florida

Yuchan Kim* Seoul, South Korea

Hyuma Kiyosawa Nagano, Japan

Aaron Renteria Corona, CA

Christine Rocas Manila, Philippines

Julia Rust Noblesville, IN

Chloé Sherman New York, NY

Miranda Silveira São Goncalo, Brazil

2021–2022 ARTISTS OF THE COMPANY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE DANCERS, VISIT: JOFFREY.ORG/ARTISTS

■ NEW JOFFREY ARTISTS

| *JOFFREY ACADEMY OF DANCE ALUMNI

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BIOS ASHLEY WHEATER MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director Ashley Wheater has dedicated his life to dance. He was born in Scotland and trained at The Royal Ballet School in England. He worked with Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, and Michael Somes in numerous ballets at Covent Garden, including Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Manon, Anastacia, and The Dream. Wheater danced with Rudolf Nureyev in Nureyev and Friends at the London Coliseum.

On Nureyev’s advice, Wheater joined the London Festival Ballet and danced in his Romeo and Juliet and Sleeping Beauty. He danced in Glen Tetley’s Sphinx and Greening and in Festival Ballet’s large repertoire of classics and new creations. Under the artistic direction of John Field, he was promoted to Principal Dancer at the age of 20.

In 1982, he joined the Australian Ballet where he continued dancing principal roles in both classical and contemporary work, especially in the John Cranko full-length ballets.

In 1985, at the invitation of Gerald Arpino, Wheater joined The Joffrey Ballet. For the next four years, he performed various works by American choreographers including William Forsythe, Gerald Arpino, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, and Laura Dean, as well as repertoire

by Ashton and Cranko.

Joining the San Francisco Ballet in 1989, he continued his creative career working under Helgi Tomasson, and with choreographers James Kudelka, David Bintley, and many more.

In 1997, he retired from dancing and was appointed Ballet Master and, later, Assistant to the Artistic Director at the San Francisco Ballet.

Since his appointment in 2007 as artistic director of The Joffrey Ballet, his passion and commitment to the Joffrey have been evident in the quality that he has brought to the dancing and to the repertoire. He has invited world-renowned choreographers, as well as fresh young talent, to create new work for the company. Wheater has added new fulllength works to the Joffrey’s repertoire, including Lar Lubovitch’s groundbreaking Othello, Ronald Hynd’s The Merry Widow, and Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote.

In 2008, Wheater was the recipient of the Boeing Game-Changer Award in recognition of his commitment to community engagement in Chicago and to the celebration of diversity through dance. He sits on the Advisory Board for Dance Magazine, serves as the Artistic Advisor for ChiArts, and is the Advisor to the Arts for the Lincoln Academy of Illinois.

In 2010, Wheater, representing The Joffrey Ballet, was named Lincoln Academy Laureate, the highest honor presented by the State of Illinois, and in 2013 the Chicago Tribune named him “Chicagoan of the Year.” In 2015, Wheater received the University of Chicago Rosenberger Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative and Performing Arts.

In December 2019, he was appointed to be a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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SCOTT SPECK Music Director and Conductor Scott Speck has inspired international acclaim as a conductor of passion, intelligence, and winning personality. In addition to his position as Music Director for the Joffrey, he is the Artistic Director of the Chicago Philharmonic and Music Director of the Mobile (AL) and West Michigan Symphony Orchestras. He has led major orchestras at London’s Royal Opera House, the Paris Opera, Washington’s Kennedy Center, San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, and the Los Angeles Music Center. He has been Conductor of the San Francisco Ballet; Music Advisor/Conductor of the Honolulu Symphony; and Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Opera. He was named Principal Guest Conductor of the China Film Philharmonic in Beijing. Speck is the co-author of three of the world’s best-selling books on classical music and dance: Classical Music for Dummies, Opera for Dummies, and Ballet for Dummies. These books have been translated into twenty languages and are available around the world. A Fulbright scholar and summa cum laude graduate of Yale; Speck is a regular commentator on NPR, the BBC, ABC Australia, and Voice of Russia. He has been featured in TED talks and at the Aspen Ideas Festival. His writing appears in numerous magazines and journals.

MICHAEL MORICZ Conductor — Swing Low Michael’s long career as a pianist, composer, and conductor for ballet has included significant associations with American Ballet Theatre, Houston Ballet, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Carolina Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and the Juilliard Dance Division.

He particularly treasures his conducting relationship with Texas Ballet Theater and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra during the past decade. His commissioned orchestral ballet scores include The Mighty Casey, The Ugly Duckling, and The Great Gatsby.

He’s composed incidental music and songs for theatre, original scores for the Showtime, Discovery, Fox, PBS, and Disney networks and created special arrangements for such renowned artists as Tommy Tune, Chita Rivera, Marvin Hamlisch, and Renee Fleming.

Michael is best known as the arranger and music director of Broadway’s annual Jimmy Awards and as one of the music directors for the acclaimed Mister Rogers Neighborhood on PBS. He joined the Joffrey in 2017.

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BIOS GERALD ARPINO Choreographer — Birthday Variations Gerald Arpino (1923–2008) was the Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of The Joffrey Ballet, the company he co-founded with Robert Joffrey in 1956. Born on Staten Island, New York, he met Robert Joffrey while stationed in Seattle with the Coast Guard.

He studied with Mary Ann Wells, at the School of American Ballet, danced with Graham dancers May O’Donnell and Gertrude Schurr, and was a principal dancer with the original Joffrey company.

As resident choreographer, Arpino created over one third of the commissioned repertory for The Joffrey Ballet, including Sea Shadow, Viva Vivaldi, Olympics, The Clowns, Trinity, Kettentanz, Suite Saint-Saens, and Light Rain. He also had wide experience in Broadway musicals, on television, in opera, and staged musicals for the country’s leading festivals.

Arpino’s ballets have been performed at the White House on several occasions, as well as around the world, to critical acclaim as well as controversial appraisal. So varied was his output, that one critic commented, “He’s not a single artist. He must be an alliance.”

As one of the recipients of the 1974 Dance Magazine Award, his citation read: “To Gerald Arpino — more than any other choreographer, he has recognized the spirit of the times.

His work speaks clearly of the anguish and the joy of being young in America today.”

Upon Robert Joffrey’s passing, Arpino directed The Joffrey Ballet from 1988 until 2008, continuing Joffrey’s vision for the company by restaging important historical dance works, such as Léonide Massine’s symphonic ballet Les Presages (1933), and Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella (1948), as well as taking risks with new commissions such as the rock ballet Billboards (1993) to music by Prince. In 1995, Arpino moved The Joffrey Ballet to Chicago, where he established the Joffrey as a world-class company in the heart of the American Midwest, which continues to thrive today.

CHANEL DASILVA Choreographer — Swing Low A native of Brooklyn, NY, Chanel DaSilva is a multifaceted artist and entrepreneur. She is a graduate of both LaGuardia Arts High School and The Juilliard School and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and is a Princess Grace Awardee. Chanel has performed professionally with the Trey McIntyre Project and Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and has created works for The Joffrey Ballet, Parsons Dance Company, Gibney Company, American Repertory Theater, and Harvard Dance Project. She has taught workshops and served as a faculty member for institutions such as The Juilliard School, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, NYU, and LaGuardia Arts High School. In 2015, alongside Nigel Campbell, DaSilva co-founded MOVE|NYC|, a multi-pillared arts and social justice organization with the mission of creating greater equity and diversity in the dance field and beyond.

Recently, DaSilva and Campbell were featured on the cover of Dance Teacher Magazine’s April 2020 issue Changing The Face of Dance. www.movenyc.nyc

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NICOLAS BLANC Choreographer — Under the Trees’ Voices Nicolas Blanc started his dance training in Montauban, France, continuing at the Academie de Danse Classique Princess Grace in Monte-Carlo. After winning a scholarship in the 1994 Prix de Lausanne, he completed his education at the Paris Opera Ballet School.

He went on to dance for Nice Opera Ballet, Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf, Zurich Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet, where he was made Principal Dancer in 2004.

Blanc was awarded a special prize in performing arts by the city of Dusseldorf in 1998, and a special award of recognition by his hometown in 2004 and 2013. He was named one of the “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. In 2010, he was nominated with Tina LeBlanc for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award (Best Ensemble in Wheeldon’s Within The Golden Hour).

He joined Scottish Ballet as Ballet Master in 2009 and is a Rehearsal Director and Principal Coach for The Joffrey Ballet since 2011.

Blanc has created several works for The Joffrey Ballet, most notably Evenfall, Purple, Encounter, and Beyond The Shore commissioned and supported by the New York Choreographic Institute and Cal Performances in Berkeley, CA. In July 2014, Blanc received the choreographic award at the IBC in Jackson, Mississippi, for his duet Rendez-Vous.

Blanc was selected to participate in the 2015 National Choreographers Initiative (NCI) where he created Orphee. He was also chosen to participate in New York City Ballet’s New York Choreographic Institute where he created Mothership, which premiered in New York City Ballet’s 2016 gala. Blanc created Tableaux Vivants and Desert Transport for Barak Ballet, CA in 2016 and 2019.

He created Under the Tree’s Voices for the digital Joffrey Studio Series this past season.

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BIOS YOSHIHISA ARAI Choreographer — Boléro Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Yoshihisa Arai began his ballet training when he was 10 years old with the International Ballet Academy under Mika Tamaru. In 2005, he joined The Royal Ballet School in London where he appeared before Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall at Buckingham Palace, performing an original work as part of an ensemble.

Arai graduated with honors and received The Royal Ballet School Achievement Award.

In 2008, Arai joined Northern Ballet under the direction of David Nixon. During his time there he danced in many acclaimed roles. He collaborated with Dame Gillian Lynne in 2010, developing an original role for the 45th anniversary gala for Northern Ballet.

In 2012 he joined The Joffrey Ballet. At the Joffrey, Arai has performed a principal role in Sylvia by John Neumeier, landed a leading role in The Nutcracker choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon OBE, appeared in the role of Prince in Cinderella by Sir Frederick Ashton, and performed in pieces by George Balanchine, Jir̆í Kylián, Wayne McGregor, and Justin Peck, among other world-renowned choreographers. In 2016, he created an original role for The Miraculous Mandarin by Yuri Posskohv and in 2018, he choreographed Afternoon Watch and a Rachmaninoff Pas de Deux for The Joffrey Ballet and Firebird Suite for The Joffrey Ballet Studio Company.

In addition to having Boléro featured as part of the Joffrey’s 2021–2022 Season opening production, Arai is creating original choreography complemented by Copland’s Appalachian Spring. The piece will have its world premiere as part of Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra’s season-opening production on October 16 at Ozinga Chapel on the campus of Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights. The piece will be danced by the Joffrey Studio Company from the Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet.

Arai is also creating a work collaborating with NHK broadcast in Japan and an electronic guitarist for a world premiere in Tokyo Japan, premiering on October 15.

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EZIO BOSSO Composer Ezio Bosso was the Resident Conductor and Artistic Director of the Stradivari Festival Chamber Orchestra, currently Europe Philharmonic, a Sony Classical International Artist from 2016, and a Steinway Artist in February 2018.

Bosso was born in Turin in 1971 into a working-family but, right from his early performances, he expressed the desire to go beyond all boundaries which has characterized his entire, lengthy career. At the age of 16, he made his debut in France as a soloist, then he completed his studies in composition and conducting at the Vienna Music Academy (Wiener Hochschule) and he collaborated with several European orchestras, among which the following are worthy of mention: the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Festival Strings Lüzern, Deutsche Kammer-Virtuosen.

He performed as a composer, performer, conductor and member of chamber music ensembles including: Royal Festival Hall in London, Sydney Opera House, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Carnegie Hall in New York City, Teatro Regio in Turin, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Perelada Festival, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Lac Lugano, Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome, Lietuvos Fhilarmonija, and St Martin-in-the-Fields.

He achieved many important acknowledgements, such as the Green Room Award in Australia (to date, he is the only non-Australian to ever win this prize) and the Syracuse New York Award in the USA; his music has been commissioned or used by the most important world-class opera institutions such as Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, New York City Ballet, Théâtre du Châtelet, San Francisco Ballet, and Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to name just a few, but also by prestigious choreographers and famous directors.

He was the Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of London Strings.

The many Orchestras he conducted include: London Symphony Orchestra, Czech National Symphony, Orquesta de Cámara de Madrid, Orchestra del Teatro Regio, Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin, Orchestra dell’Accademia della Scala in Milan, Lazio Regional Orchestra, Turin Chamber Orchestra, Wien Residenz Orchester, Bonn Kammer Orchester, Orchestra dell’Accademia Mozart, Orchestra Verdi in Milan, and Sydney Youth Orchestra.

Bosso was a worldwide performer for Sony Classical International, that released his latest works, among them The 12th Room that won the Gold Record Award with over 50,000 copies sold. Overall, his most recent chamber music and symphonic titles have sold more than 30,000 copies, breaking yet another record on the Italian classical music market.

Bosso died in his home in Bologna on May 14, 2020 at the age of 48 after a long struggle with his neurodegenerative illness.

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BIOS ZOË KEATING Composer Composer and performer Zoë Keating has spent the last 20 years exploring the landscape of sounds a string instrument can make. She coaxes sounds out of the very edges of her cello, adeptly layering them into “swoon inducing” (San Francisco Weekly) music that is unclassifiable yet “a distinctive mix of old and new” (National Public Radio). She is known for her use of technology — which she uses to record and sample her cello onstage and in the studio — and for her DIY approach — composing, recording, and producing her works on her own terms, without the help of a record label.

Born in Canada to British and American parents, Keating started playing the cello when she was eight and went on to pursue electronic music and contemporary composition as part of her Liberal Arts studies at Sarah Lawrence College. After graduation she moved to San Francisco and built a career as an information architect and data analyst while moonlighting as a cellist in rock bands. Keating eventually combined her love of music and technology, using a computer to live-layer her cello and performing for late-night parties in the San Francisco warehouse in which she lived.

Keating’s recorded works have achieved a surprising degree of popular ubiquity for a DIY artist. Her self-produced albums have several times reached #1 on the iTunes classical charts and spent many months on the Billboard classical charts. Her recordings are used as bumper music for NPR’s Morning Edition, as the theme music to On Being, as the thinking- music of the Sherlock Holmes character on CBS Elementary, in countless documentaries and in tens of thousands of online videos of everything from professional and amateur dance performances to rock climbing and gaming videos.

Keating also composes for TV, theater, film, and dance. She co-composed, along with Jeff Russo, the score for the HBO movie Oslo, which earned them an Emmy Nomination in 2021 for Outstanding Music for a Television Movie. In addition to her recordings, Keating performs to rapt audiences around the world. Each performance is unique as she spontaneously improvises around her works, demonstrates how she makes them, and tells the stories behind each piece. A vocal advocate for the rights of artists and creators, Keating writes and speaks often about copyright and the mechanics of the music industry economy. She was elected a governor of the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy, named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and served as a boardmember of CASH Music, a nonprofit organization that built open source digital tools for musicians and labels.

As a cellist Keating has played with a wide range of artists, including Imogen Heap, Amanda Palmer, Guy Sigsworth, Tears for Fears, DJ Shadow, Dan Hicks, Thomas Dolby, Sean Ono Lennon, John Vanderslice, Rasputina, Pomplamoose, and Paolo Nutini.

In 2014, Keating’s husband Jeffrey Rusch, who founded the arts warehouse where they lived and where she started her music career, was diagnosed with stage IV cancer. While she halted her music career to care for him and their then four-year old son, their struggles with health care and insurance became a new subject of her blog. Following Rusch’s death in 2015, Keating continued to advocate for patients, data portability and the simplification of medical insurance, culminating in a meeting with President Barack Obama in October of 2016. Keating lives in Burlington, VT and is working on a new album.

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MAURICE RAVEL Composer There can be little doubt that Maurice Ravel, born in 1875, was more deeply marked by Chabrier, Satie and the music of the young Russians than by his own studies at the Paris Conservatory, with the exception of the composition classes with Gabriel Fauré and the counterpoint and orchestration classes with André Gédalge. In addition, his piano writing owes more to Schumann than to the dazzling digital dexterity dispensed in the piano classes.

Ravel was completely untouched by metaphysics, as was Debussy, his elder by thirteen years (and between whom it is pointless to seek any antagonism, so different were they). Ravel’s unique quality was to seek the Other in his personal sensitivity and in his relationship with human society; this anxious ethical vigilance being ever tempered by his standing modestly aloof. In this regard it is impossible to overestimate the effect on his output of World War I: a civilization destroyed, countless deaths and the death of his mother (L’Enfant et les sortilèges is a formidable homage to her) brought in their wake a gradual slowing down of his creativity.

Ravel pursued his quest through a study of European musical memory: the wellestablished genres (sonata, trio, quartet, opera) but also Renaissance songs (Deux Épigrammes de Clément Marot and Trois Chansons for mixed chorus), baroque musical art (Le Tombeau de Couperin), song (his output in this domain is wide-ranging) and dance (with the waltz as a metaphor of a world that has collapsed in a deadly whirlwind). This was a path that was confirmed by his poetic choices: Aloysius Bertrand, Tristan Klingsor, Clément Marot, Stéphane Mallarmé, some of the ‘Panassiens,’ ÉvaristeDésiré Parny and Verlaine, not forgetting a number of anonymous ‘ethnic’ folk poets.

An awesome man behind his wry elegance, Ravel was a visionary creative artiste, as essential as the most ambitious of his colleagues, those who, in a shattered twentieth century (in fact Ravel died in 1937, when the Nazi cataclysm was still a long way from producing its worst effects), called into question a culture of humanism that failed to prevent the rise of repeated peril.

GIUSEPPE VERDI Composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in Italy in 1813, prior to Italian unification. Verdi produced many successful operas, including La Traviata, Falstaff, and Aida, and became known for his skill in creating melody and his profound use of theatrical effect. Additionally, his rejection of the traditional Italian opera for integrated scenes and unified acts earned him fame.

Verdi first developed musical talents at a young age, after moving with his family from Le Roncole to the neighboring town of Busseto. There, he began studying musical composition. In 1832, Verdi applied for admission at the Milan Conservatory, but was rejected due to his age. Subsequently, he began studying under Vincenzo Lavigna, a famous composer from Milan.

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BIOS GIUSEPPE VERDI (continued) In 1838, at age 25, Verdi returned to Milan, where he completed his first opera, Oberto, in 1839, with the help of fellow musician Giulio Ricordi; the opera’s debut production was held at La Scala, an opera house in Milan. Verdi followed Oberto with the comic opera Un giorno di regno, which premiered in Milan in September 1840, at Teatro alla Scala.

For the rest of the 1840s, and through the 1850s, ‘60s and ‘70s, Verdi continued to garner success and fame. Comprising a popular operatic series throughout the decades were Rigoletto (1851), Il Trovatore (1853), La Traviata (1853), Don Carlos (1867) and Aida, which premiered at the Cairo Opera House in 1871. Four years later, in 1874, Verdi completed Messa da Requiem (best known simply as Requiem), which was meant to be his final composition. He retired shortly thereafter.

Despite his retirement plans, in the mid-1880s, through a connection initiated by longtime friend Giulio Ricordi, Verdi collaborated with composer and novelist Arrigo Boito (also known as Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito) to complete Otello. Completed in 1886, the four-act opera was performed for the first time at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala on February 5, 1887. Initially meeting with incredible acclaim throughout Europe, the opera — based on William Shakespeare’s play Othello — continues to be regarded as one of the greatest operas of all time.

Never one to rest on his laurels, even in his old age, Verdi followed Otello’s success with Falstaff, another collaboration with Boito. Completed in 1890, when Verdi was in his late 70s, Falstaff — a comedic adaptation of the Shakespearean plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, and consisting of three acts — debuted at Milan’s La Scala on February 9, 1893. Like Otello, early reactions to Falstaff were, by and large, tremendously positive, and the opera continues to earn great renown today.

Verdi died on January 27, 1901, in Milan, Italy. Composing more than 25 operas throughout his career, Verdi continues to be regarded today as one of the greatest composers in history. Furthermore, his works have reportedly been performed more than any other performer’s worldwide.

JACK MEHLER Lighting and Scenery Designer Based in New York, Chicago native Jack Mehler designs a wide variety of dance, theatre, and related projects. He received the 2013 Korean Musical Theatre Award (Korean Tony) for Rebecca and the 2012 award for Elisabeth. He has received IRNE (Boston) and Gypsy (Seattle) nominations and BroadwayWorld Connecticut awards.

Previous designs for the Joffrey include Bells, Don Quixote, Evenfall, Home, Motown Suite, To Know Her, Othello, Reflections, Sea Shadow, Son of Chamber Symphony, Woven Dreams, Yonder Blue, and from 2007–15, Robert Joffrey’s Nutcracker. Other Dance includes Alvin Ailey, Ballet Austin, Ballet Memphis, BalletMet, Donald Byrd/Spectrum Dance, Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street, José Limón, Lar Lubovitch, and San Francisco Ballet. Theatre designs include Cleveland Play House, Manhattan Theatre Club, North Shore Music Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Riverside Theatre, Seattle Rep, Walnut Street Playhouse, and The Working Theatre. He is a founding board member of ACT of Connecticut and provides owner’s representation for organizations building and renovating performance and rehearsal venues.

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TEMUR SULUASHVILI Costume Designer Temur Suluashvili joined The Joffrey Ballet in 2003 after studying on a full scholarship with The Joffrey Ballet School in New York.

Suluashvili was born in Russia and raised in the Republic of Georgia. At age 15, he began his ballet training at the V. Chabukiani Academy. During his years at the Academy, he was a finalist in the Republic’s first dance competition and received a Certificate of Achievement. At a young age, he was invited to perform in the company’s productions of The Nutcracker, Giselle, Don Quixote, and Sleeping Beauty (Blue Bird).

Since joining the Joffrey, he has danced leading roles in many ballets including La Bayadère (Solar), Giselle (Albrecht), Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella (Prince), Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote (Basilio and Espada), Lar Lubovich’s Othello (Iago), John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio), Robert Joffrey’s The Nutcracker (Nutcracker Prince), Christopher Wheeldon’s Swan Lake (Rothbart), and Krzysztof Pastor’s Romeo & Juliet (Tybalt). Suluashvili originated the leading pas de deux in Yuri Possokhov’s Bells and Adagio, as well as the 3rd movement in Stanton Welch’s Son of Chamber Symphony.

Other significant performances include Christopher Wheeldon’s Continuum, After the Rain, and Carousel (A Dance); Edwaard Liang’s Age of Innocence and Woven Dreams; James Kudelka’s Pretty BALLET; Val Caniparoli’s Incantations; Jir̆í Kylián’s Forgotten Land and Return to a Strange Land; Kurt Jooss’ The Green Table; Gerald Arpino’s Reflections, Sea Shadow, Kettentanz, Light Rain, Round of Angels, Viva Vivaldi and Postcards; Antony Tudor’s Dark Elegies, Offenbach in the Underworld and Lilac Garden; George Balanchine’s Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Prodigal Son and Square Dance; Jerome Robbins’ In the Night and The Concert; Les Presage; Jessica Lang’s Crossed; Helgi Tomasson’s Valses Poeticos, Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs; Alexander Ekman’s Tulle; among many others.

Sulashvili has designed the costumes for The Joffrey Ballet’s Boléro, the Joffrey Academy of Dance’s ¡Viva! by Pablo Sanchez, Yuri Possokhov’s Toi Moi for the Benois De La Danse, and costumes for New Jersey Ballet Company.

Suluashvili enjoys photographing dancers on stage and in the studio. Selections of his photos have been published in The New York Times. He is married to Victoria Jaiani, who is also a dancer with The Joffrey Ballet.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

DIRECTORS

Anne L. Kaplan Board Chair

Patty Perkins Andringa Mary Jo Basler Luann Blowers Roger Deromedi Pamella Roland DeVos Adam DeWitt Patti S. Eylar Shelley MacArthur Farley Brendan Fernandes Jamie-Clare Flaherty Emily Follas Patrick M. Gallagher, Jr. Jill Garling Dana Hokin Garvey Mark Giragosian Larry Goodman Sabrina Gracias Linda Chaplik Harris Jerrilyn M. Hoffmann Richard S. Holson III Greg Jenkins Farissa Knox Donna M. LaPietra Michael Larsen Zachary D. Lazar, Jr. Barry Litwin James McDonough Coco Meers Jess Merten Susan G. Oleari Diane Patience Steve Reiss Dana Rice Jeffrey C. Rubenstein Elva Rubio Bruce Sagan

Lorna Ferguson Sonia Florian Daniel L. (DL) Morriss Vice Chairs Guy Lakonishok Treasurer Ronald J. Allen Secretary Ashley Wheater MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director Greg Cameron President and CEO Shari Massey Assistant Treasurer

Eric C. Schieber, MD Liz Sharp Courtney Shea Ildefonso Alvim de Abreu e Silva Chuck Smith Maureen Dwyer Smith Rita Spitz Lauren F. Streicher, MD Ben Strobel MarrGwen Townsend Jason J. Tyler Noren Ungaretti Ronald V. Waters III Amanda Williamson Joel V. Williamson LIFE DIRECTORS

Grace Barry Fred Eychaner Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Patricia H. Gerber† Pamela B. Strobel Joseph H. Wender PAST CHAIRPERSONS

William M. Daley Fred Eychaner Gary E. Holdren Dr. David A. Kipper† Zachary D. Lazar, Jr. C. Steve McMillian Bruce Sagan Maureen Dwyer Smith Pamela B. Strobel Jason J. Tyler Ronald V. Waters III

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WOMEN’S BOARD OF THE JOFFREY BALLET 2021–2022 Sandi Hartstein President Jamie-Clare Flaherty 1st Vice President Ellie Forman Farissa Knox 2nd Vice Presidents Merritt DeWitt Secretary Annie Atzeff Treasurer Jenelle M. Chalmers Heather Martin Members-at-Large

Elisabeth Adams Julie O’Donnell Allen Dr. Emily L. Arch Anna Assenmacher Annie Atzeff Melissa M. Babcock* Grace Barry* Nancy Gottlieb Bauer Sophie Bross Inger E. Burnett-Zeigler, PhD Mary Kay Mudd Bushonville Rachel M. Cannon Lynn Cohen Joan Colmar Sandra Deromedi Danielle Deutsch Merritt DeWitt Ellen Distelheim Dr. Jill S. Dodds Beth Engel Patti S. Eylar Jennifer Rubin Fabian Shelley MacArthur Farley Johanna Ferguson Ellie Forman Dana Hokin Garvey Darcy Goldfarb, MD Shana Bear Guthman Diana E. Harris Elisa D. Harris Julie Harron Stacie R. Hartman Martha Higgins Arica Hilton Jerrilyn M. Hoffmann Sherry Lea Holson Brooke Hubbuch Jessica Jecmen Anne L. Kaplan Elizabeth Ann Kasten Kathleen Klaeser Laura Kofoid Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel* Kelly Rosen Lagrange Melinda Lagrange Lynda Sue Lane, MD Wende Fox Lawson

Anne Lazar Dania Leemputte Kathryn Meneely Leister Laurie Mahler Joan Malliband Elizabeth Marcus, MD Monica McGurk Helen Hall Melchior* Amanda Merten Patricia Miller Lucy Minor Linda Curtis O’Bannon, MD Mrs. John R. Pacholick Mary Ellen Pavone, MD Molly Piech Cindy Pinsky Ibby Pinsky Victoria Poindexter D. Elizabeth Price Christine Rahill* Hallie Blanchard Rehwaldt Emily Rubenstein Camille Kearns Rudy Kathleen (Henson) Sarpy Maggie Scheyer Sarah Schrup Liz Sharp Courtney Shea Veronica Siegel Amelia Silva Marilyn Slattery Maureen Dwyer Smith* Maria Smithburg Rita Spitz Liz Stiffel Stacy Straub Nancy Sussman Cheryl Tama Oblander Lauren D.W. Tatar Marina D.W. Tatar Jennifer Tscherney Yolanda Tyler Noren Ungaretti Andria van der Merwe Laura Larsen Venkus Annabelle Volgman Chrissie Walker

Hilary Weinstein Magnes Welsh Susan L. Welsh Diana Weiss Widman Elizabeth Wippman Marcie L. Wright Leslie Zentner Julie Zuckerman SUPPORTING AND NON-RESIDENT

Dora Aalbregtse Melissa Anton Mary Jo Basler Jetta Boschen Marisa Bryce Mrs. John E. Burke Kelly Dettmann Pamella Roland DeVos Deborah Gordon Engle Lydia Fisher Astra Gamsjaeger Sue-Gray Goller Stephanie M. Grinage Marjorie E. Habermann Courtney A. Hoffmann Sharon King Hoge Marci Holzer Candace Collins Jordan Donna M. LaPietra Leslie Logsdon Astrid A. McKinnon Lori Mertz Anne Simon Moffat Shauna Montgomery Brooks Morgan Mrs. Jay L. Owen, Jr. Judith Pierpont Anne Shea Carol J. Stone Kathleen A. Swien Victoria Verity Carol A. Walter Ann Waters Mrs. Thomas E. Wells IV Pam Phillips Weston Joyce M. Wippman

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DONOR LISTING The Joffrey Ballet would like to extend thanks to those who provide us with funding that ensures quality and engaging experiences for a variety of audiences. The following is a list of those who made contributions in the amount of $1000 or more between September 27, 2020 and September 27, 2021. Although space does not permit us to list all of our friends, we are grateful for the support from each and every one of our loyal donors. $500,000+ Abbott Fund Margot and Josef Lakonishok US Small Business Administration

$100,000–$499,999 The Allstate Insurance Company Alphawood Foundation Chicago Chicago Athletic Clubs Sandy and Roger Deromedi Daniel and Pamella DeVos Foundation Fred Eychaner Estate of Georgia Lee Funsten The Florian Fund The Julius N. Frankel Foundation Paul Galvin Memorial Foundation Trust Sherry Lea and Richard Holson III ITW Anne L. Kaplan Nancy and Sanfred Koltun The Lane Trust: Lynda Sue Lane, MD, Adele Lane and Ben Lane-Korn Sage Foundation The Satter Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Tatar Mr. and Mrs. Joel V. Williamson Wilson Garling Foundation $50,000–$99,999 AARP Illinois Athletico Physical Therapy Mary Jo and Doug Basler BMO Harris Bank Lorna Ferguson and Terry Clark Sabrina Gracias The Walter E. Heller Foundation JW Marriott

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The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Susan and Nicholas Noyes in Memory of Clara Rideout Noyes and her love of ballet Mr. and Mrs. John Patience Polk Bros Foundation Prince Charitable Trusts The Shubert Foundation Rita Spitz and David Blears Jeanette Stevens Pamela and Russ Strobel Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Ronald V. Waters III $25,000–$49,999 Anonymous (2) Shaun Block and Andrew Block The Brinson Foundation CD Peacock Fine Jewelers Paul Chasnoff and Joe Hopper Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Crown Family Mr. and Mrs. Adam DeWitt Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation Evercore Evercore with Bill Anderson, Zaheed Kajani, and Naveen Nataraj Exelon Patti S. Eylar and Charles R. Gardner Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Michelle Goodman and Larry J. Goodman, MD GrubHub, Inc. Joan M. Hall Illinois Arts Council Agency Myrna W. Kaplan Julie and Guy Lakonishok Colleen Loughlin and John Sirek Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd. Coco B. Meers and Ethan Meers The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Negaunee Foundation Gerald T. Nowak, PC, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP Penny Pritzker and Bryan Traubert Jeffrey C. Rubenstein Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill Eric C. Schieber, MD Shea Family Foundation Ms. Courtney C. Shea

Chuck Smith Bill and Orli Staley Dr. Lauren Streicher and Mr. Jason Brett Mr. Miles D. White Women’s Board of The Joffrey Ballet $10,000–$24,999 Anonymous Luann and David Blowers Torrence Boone and Ted Chapin Mr. and Mrs. Dean L. Buntrock Greg Cameron and Greg Thompson Suzanne Cameron and Stephen Cameron Capital Group Private Client Services Jane Chapman and John Chapman Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Lawrence Corry Elliott Crigger Pamela Crutchfield Mr. and Mrs. William Farley Marilyn Fields and Larry Fields Mr. and Mrs. F. Conrad Fischer Jennifer Gallagher and Patrick Gallagher Gary and Denise Gardner Family Foundation Kathleen Giannuzzi and John Giannuzzi Karen Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel, Jr. Sherry and Michael Guthrie Harris Family Foundation Sandi and Barry Hartstein John R. Halligan Charitable Fund George L. Jewell Geralyn Kendall and David Kendall Kryolan Professional Make-Up Michael and Jennifer Larsen Mr. and Mrs. Zachary D. Lazar, Jr. Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Jay Byron Leibovitz in loving memory of Eric B. Eatherly Susan Lichtenstein and John Rokacz Macy’s Katherine Malkin and Judd Malkin Elizabeth Marcus, MD and Ira Belcove Richard & Martha Melman Foundation Miriam Hoover Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Neiman Marcus Michigan Avenue

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DONOR LISTING $10,000–$24,999 (continued) Virginia Owens and James Owens D. Elizabeth Price and Lou Yecies Stephen Reiss and Rena Hozore Reiss Elva Rubio, Rubiostudio Susan Ruder Shirley Ryan and Patrick Ryan Cari and Michael J. Sacks Pamela Scholl Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Sharp The Siragusa Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Smith, Jr. Penelope Steiner Liz Stiffel Carole Stone and Arthur Susman Nathan Tannenbaum Foundation Inc. The Trachtenberg Family Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Jason J. Tyler U.S. Bank Foundation Richard and Diane Weinberg Hilary and Barry Weinstein Magnes Welsh William Blair Amanda Williamson and Matthew Johnson $5,000–$9,999 Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Mr. and Mrs Ronald J. Allen Emily Strobel Amiet and Michael Amiet Halie Braden and Russell Braden Jean Cameron and Carlyle Cameron Juliana Chyu and David Whitney Leah Missbach Day Amina Dickerson and Julian Roberts Dr. Jill S. Dodds and Dr. Guriqbal Nandra Elizabeth Duquette and Arthur Duquette Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Johanna Ferguson Fifth Third Bank Emily Follas and Timothy Jacob Sue-Gray Goller Richard and Mary L. Gray Foundation Joan Gross and Charles Gross The Irving Harris Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Alan G. Harris Mr. and Mrs. David H. Hoffmann

Kathleen Ihrig and Glenn Ihrig Elaine Jaharis and Steven Jaharis Jessica Jecmen Zaheed Kajani Marilyn Katz and Scott Chambers Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Kovler Family Foundation Sarah Ladgenski and Derek Ladgenski Dania Leemputte and Patrick Leemputte Mia Levy and Paul Levy Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellowship by Myrna W. Kaplan Mazza Foundation Dr. Elaine Moor Barbara and Jonathan Moss Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Susan G. Oleari Michael Payette Cindy Pinsky Carol Pollock Carol Prins and John Hart Dana Rice John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Judy A. Saslow Gallery Mr. and Mrs. David Sensibar Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Brian Smith and Geyer Morford Maria Smithburg and William D. Smithburg Carol Sonnenschein Mr. and Mrs. Neele E. Stearns, Jr. Richard and Noren Ungaretti Marilyn F. and David Vitale Mr. and Mrs. John R. Walter Diana and Stuart Widman Elizabeth Wippman and Tom Wippman Marcie Wright $2,500–$4,999 Accenture Anonymous (4) Dora Aalbregtse and R. John Aalbregtse William Anderson Janet Anixter and Steven Anixter Dr. Emily and Mr. Justin Arch Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Susan Baird and Stephen Baird Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beidler III

Meta S. and Ronald Berger Family Foundation Jennifer Birmingham Ms. Carolyn A. Blessing Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. L. Bogan, Jr. John Brazzale Anthony Bruck Leslie Buchbinder Carolyn Bucksbaum Marion Cameron-Gray Rachel Cannon and James Meixner Jenelle Chalmers and Stephen Chalmers Patricia O’Neill Cox Dr. John Dainauskas Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly Wendy Eager Jamie-Clare Flaherty Nancy Follis Arthur Frank Greg and Christine Gallagher Larry Glowczewski Bruce A. Gober, MD Ethel and William Gofen Barbara Greis and Howard Gottlieb Deborah Graham Shana Guthman and David Guthman Diana Harris The Heestand Foundation Courtney and Sebastian Hoffmann Julie Holland Lauren Huefner Mary Kamraczewski and Kevin Kamraczewski Sherry Kaplan and Barry Kaplan Klaff Family Foundation Farissa Knox and Lerry Knox Laura Kofoid and David Ricci Dr. Jennifer Kurth and Mr. Brian Van Klompenberg Kelly Rosen Lagrange Robin and Jack Lavin Wende and Jim Lawson Susan Lucas and Stuart Lucas Jessie and Douglas MacDonald Laurie Mahler Joan Malliband and David Malliband John R. Menninger Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc. Pamela G. Meyer

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DONOR LISTING $2,500–$4,999 (continued) Mrs. Julianne Migely Estate of Peggy Morrow Naveen Nataraj Robert Parris and Bradley Renner Victoria Poindexter and Joseph P. Gaynor III Hallie Blanchard Rehwaldt and Thomas Rehwaldt Hans Reiser and Alan Taylor RLM Media Barbara Atkins Ruhman The Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Foundation Molly Schirf and Brian Schirf Sarah Schrup Illeane Schwartz and Sheldon Schwartz Stephanie Sick and William Sick Marcey Siegel and Kenneth Siegel Marilyn Slattery Kathryn Stallcup and Thomas Mustoe Edwin Stebbins and Richard Stebbins Mary Summers and William Summers Nancy and Ira Sussman Jill Svoboda and John Svoboda Peggy Swartchild and James Swartchild Cheryl Tama Oblander and Scott Oblander Irene Tang Dr. Edward S. Traisman and Mrs. Adrienne S. Traisman Andria van der Merwe Robert and Etti Van Etten Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz Leslie J. Warner and Stephen B. Warner Sherrie Weiss and Albert Weiss Julie Zuckerman and Daniel Zuckerman $1,500–$2,499 Anonymous (3) Kathleen and Jeff Abbott Greg Albiero and Mark Zampardo Evelyn Alter Patty Perkins Andringa Annie Atzeff and Kristopher Atzeff Carey August and Brett August Christine Bakalar and John Bakalar Barbara Baran and John Baran Sandra Bass D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Virginia Bobins

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Leticia Marsico Heather Martin and Sean Martin Laura Martinez and Andrew Martinez Shari Massey and Bill Massey Sharon McGee Lynne McNown Helen Hall Melchior Lori Mertz Ms. Karen K. Migaldi and Mr. Scott F. Migaldi Patricia Miller and Christopher Miller Robert and Lois Moeller Jazelle Morriss and Daniel L. (DL) Morriss Alice Moss Bethany Mudd Maggie and Michael Murzanski Ken Norgan Janis Notz and John Notz Linda Curtis O’Bannon, MD Lee and Sharon Oberlander Mary Jane O’Connor Thomas O’Keefe Sharon Olson and Fred Fleischbein Martha Patterson Mary Ellen Pavone, MD and Christopher Novak Mr. Jean Perkins and Mr. Leland Hutchinson Meghan Premo-Hopkins Bonnie Price Janice Rodgers Jennifer Ross Richard Ryan Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Mary Ann Savard and Bob Savard Judith and Michael Sawyier Household Patricia Schmalzl and William Schmalzl Lewis and Barbara Schneider Jim Sears Victoria Severson Anne and Michelle Shonk Veronica Siegel Diana and Robert Simon Craig Sirles Beth Smetana and Gerard Smetana Ms. Kathy Kalesperis Smith† and Mr. Dion Grimes Smith Patricia Smith Dawn Stanislaw Marjorie Staples Patricia Sternberg

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DONOR LISTING $1,500–$2,499 (continued) Holly Stevens and Randy Stevens Stacy Straub and Scott Straub Dana Shepard Treister and Dr. Michael Roy Treister Susan and Bob Underwood David Varnerin Robert Veasey Todd and Cari Vieregg Debbie Wang and David Hoyt Victoria Weisfeld and Neil Weisfeld Olga Weiss and George Honig Susan L. Welsh Joyce M. Wippman Russ Zajtchuk and Joan Zajtchuk Ms. Helen L. Dunbeck and Dr. John Zimmermann $1,000–$1,499 Anonymous (3) Sara Albrecht Mr. and Mrs. James M. Amend Amsted Industries Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. Babcock, Sr. Nancy Gottlieb Bauer Charles Berglund Judy Block Brad Blumenthal Mary Brown Burke-Brunger Fund of Horizons Foundation Debbie Burns Pamela Capecci Carrie Carlson and David Carlson The Carmi Family Charitable Fund Catherine Carter and John Palfrey Rowland Chang Mrs. Joyce Chelberg Tom and Bette Cogan Earle Cromer Janet Dauparas and Tomas Palubinskas Alexa Dickinson and Jim Dickinson Monica Dillon-Nelson and Steven Nelson Emily Doskow Andrea Dudek Marci Eisenstein and John Treece Dorothy Ellesin-Janus and Christopher Janus Deborah and Cody Engle Michael Faron Dr. and Mrs. William E. Fishman

Sally Fletcher Geoffrey Flick Janet Fox and David Fox Susan Freehling and Paul Freehling Jane Freeman Jenny Freidheim and Ed Freidheim Declan Frye Linda Fuller Dana Hokin Garvey and Robert Garvey Patricia Gentry Suzanne Gerhold Shapiro Grynsztejn Family Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation Amy Harwood and Evan Harwood Judy Hedges Don and Ky Hilliker Donald Hoffman Douglas Hogarth Rose Houston Sarah and Michael Jacobs Jenner & Block Dr. Maryl R. Johnson Masahiro Kasai and William Myers Gloria Kearney Stephanie Keehn Barbara Kipper Dennis and Kathleen Klaeser Ms. Sue Klein and Mr. William Klein Emily and Christopher Knight Susan Koltun and Thomas Koltun Brandt Kucharski Deej and Hunter Leggitt Janet Leopold and Thomas Leopold Ms. Dana Levinson and Mrs. Barbara Levinson David Lloyd Jessica Lundevall and Torjus Lundevall Catherine Madden Rebecka Manis Jeanne Martinez and John Segreti Mr. and Mrs. John C. McCarter Scott McCausland Monica McGurk Adrienne Meisel and Rand Sparling Sharon Meltzer and Herbert Meltzer Jess and Amanda Merten Gary Metzner and Scott Johnson Mia Miller and Jonathan Miller Suzanne Miller and Lee Miller Patricia Mooney

Anne Moore J. C. Moos Steven Morris M. Kathleen Mueller Victoria Nee Christina Nelson and Leonard Nelson Marjory Oliker Mr. Jonathan F. Orser Leslie Osterberg and Lawrence Osterberg Gail Panger and James Panger Anna Parfentyeva and Christopher Barkidjija Debra Parkhurst Lynn Pearl and Melvin Pearl Catherine Perez and William Perez Rheva Phillips Ibby Pinsky and Milton Pinsky Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker Donald Pochyly Susan Poser and Stephen Di Magno Kathryn Purdy Michael Rhoades Charles Rhodes Hannah Ripkey Drs. Thomas and Cynthia Roberts Elizabeth Rogers Debra Rosenberg and Alan Rosenberg Emily Rubenstein and Angel Rivera Terry Schwartz Lois Scott and David May Linda Sher Timothy C. Sherck Elisa Shlofrock-Zusman Amelia and Alejandro Silva Household Carol and George Sladek Janet Carl Smith and Mel Smith Deb Spira Tamara Stein and David Stein Nancy Stevens Nina Stillman Jill Tanz Anne Taubeneck and G. Taubeneck Melissa Trandel and David Trandel Annabelle Volgman and Keith Volgman Chrissie Walker and Joe Walker Mary Jane Weiskopf Ashley Wheater and Brian Johnson Andrea and Rich Winship Elizabeth Yntema and Mark Ferguson for the Ferguson-Yntema Family Trust

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PREFERRED PARTNERS | 2021–2022 OFFICIAL PROVIDER OF PHYSICAL THERAPY

MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS

Allied Live Chirp Design, Inc. The Silverman Group Alyssa Hartley Jennifer Janowski Brianna Levy Kathleen Warner Kait Worth OFFICIAL HEALTH CLUB

LEGAL COUNSEL

Dentons Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP Kathleen M. Gaber Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd. Marilyn A. Pearson McDermott Will & Emery LLP Robert L. Mink Sidley Austin LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

OFFICIAL PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND ORTHOPEDIC PROVIDER LIGHTING

Theatrical Lighting Connection Dr. Leda Ghannad Dr. Michael Hanak Dr. Simon Lee

PHOTOGRAPHY

Cheryl Mann Photography Todd Rosenberg Photography VIDEOGRAPHY

Big Foot Media COSMETIC

Kryolan Professional Make-Up PROUD MEMBER

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MEMBERS OF THE LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA SCOTT SPECK Conductor

VIOLIN I Heather Wittels Concertmaster

BASS Ian Hallas Principal

TRUMPET William Denton Principal

MICHAEL MORICZ Assistant Conductor

Bing Jing Yu Assistant Concertmaster

Samual Shuhan Peter Hatch

Mike Brozick Dave Inmon

Alexander Belavsky Laura Miller Rika Seko Jennifer Cappelli Lisa Fako Cristina Buciu

FLUTE Marie Tachouet Principal

PICCOLO TRUMPET Dave Inmon

VIOLIN II Yin Shen Principal Second Violin David Volfe Assistant Principal Albert Wang Renée-Paule Gauthier Sheila Hanford Kate Carter Sun-Young Gemma Shin

Dionne Jackson PICCOLO Alyce Johnson OBOE Anne Bach Principal Amy Barwan CLARINET Susan Warner Principal Linda A. Baker

TROMBONE Jeremy Moeller Principal Mark Fisher Mark Fry TUBA Matthew Gaunt Principal TIMPANI Edward Harrison Principal PERCUSSION Douglas Waddell Principal

VIOLA Amy Hess Principal

E-FLAT CLARINET Susan Warner

Aurelien Fort Pederzoli Assistant Principal

SOPRANO SAXOPHONE Thomas Snydacker

Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff Marlea Simpson Bruno Vaz da Silva

TENOR SAXOPHONE Joseph Connor

HARP Lauren Hayes Principal

CELLO Mara McClain Principal

BASSOON Preman Tilson Principal

CELESTA Jorge Ivars

Walter Preucil Kerena Moeller Sara Sitzer

Hanna Sterba

Librarian Danielle Ray

HORN Jonathan Boen Principal Kelsey Williams Robert E. Johnson Renée Vogen

Rich Janicki Joel Cohen Michael Folker

Orchestra Personnel Manager Christine Janicki

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JOFFREY STAFF LISTING EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

ARTISTIC AND MUSIC

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

ASHLEY WHEATER MBE The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director

Nicolas Blanc Rehearsal Director/Coach

Linda Swayze Director of Community Engagement

GREG CAMERON President & Chief Executive Officer

Adam Blyde Rehearsal Director/Coach

Caitlyn Huynh Community Engagement Coordinator

Suzanne Lopez Rehearsal Director/Coach

Julianna Jarik Community Engagement Manager

Scott Speck Music Director

Ari Meixner Community Engagement Business Administrator

ACADEMY Raymond Rodriguez Abbott Academy Director Keesha Beckford Youth Division Liaison Brianna Brandon Academy Logistics Coordinator Raul Casasola Academy Principal Teacher

Michael Moricz Assistant Conductor & Company Pianist Jorge Ivars Company Pianist

Allie Deaver-Petchenik Registrar and Student Life Coordinator

ARTISTIC AND PRODUCTION Bradley Renner General Manager

Karin Ellis-Wentz Head of Conservatory and Pre-Professional Program

Erin Brown Artistic & Production Coordinator

Molly Hillson Academy Associate Tricia Strong Head of Children’s, Adult, and Adaptive Programs ADVANCEMENT Brian Smith Chief Advancement Officer Colene Byrd Director of Sales & Patron Services D.J. Cummings Patron Services Associate Matt de la Peña Director of Communications Julia Doherty Director of Principal Gifts & Grants Chelsea Dvorchak Development Operations & Data Specialist Fernando Fernandez Patron Services Supervisor Sarah Fiala Marketing Director Lauren Gardier Director of Major & Planned Gifts Sarah Geocaris Assistant Director of Annual Giving Annie Lyonswright Director of Annual Giving Edward McCreary Assistant Director of Grants & Partnerships Alicia Petrone Advancement Coordinator Aja Singletary Patron Services Associate Elisabeth Sladek Advancement Coordinator

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Cody Chen Director of Production Beth Griffin Company Manager Chris Maravich Lighting Supervisor Scott Wolfson Technical Supervisor Katherine Selig Principal Stage Manager Amanda Heuermann Stage Manager Ellie Cotey Costume Manager Gregg Benkovich Shoe Manager Jerica Hucke Draper Barbara Luchsinger Lead Stitcher Debra Schoell Stitcher Brittany Crinson Head of Wig and Makeup Adam Todd Master Carpenter Ian Scarlato Property Master Matthew Carney Master Electrician Jeremy Hoen Soundperson Matthew Black Flyperson David Klein Shop Carpenter Steve Lange Master Carpenter Emeritus

Pablo Sánchez Community Engagement Associate Michael Smith Community Engagement Program Coordinator FINANCE AND OPERATIONS Shari Massey Deputy Director & Chief Financial Officer Emily Cohen Senior Staff Accountant Katie Dysard Payroll and A/P Coordinator Vicki Garza Controller Paul Key Director of Technology John Kurtz Director of Facility Operations Lauren Martin Assistant to the President & CEO Jeremy Theel Database & Systems Analyst Sarah Venuti Yates Director of Human Resources Michael Love Security Lead Andy Frain Services Christopher ”Tex“ Thiel Security — Andy Frain Services Ruth Cristobal Custodial Supervisor Performance Clean, LLC Miguel Cano Custodian Performance Clean, LLC Ana Perez Custodian Performance Clean, LLC

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