The 4th Witch
Sat, Nov 15
McCullough Theatre
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Sat, Nov 15
Hogg Memorial Auditorium
Beyond the Performance
The Heller Awards for Young Artists are moving to TPA in 2026!
18 Manual Cinema The 4th Witch 26 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
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Thank you for joining us! We’re thrilled you’re here to experience our 2025/26 Texas Performing Arts Season. Curated with a focus on artistic excellence and boundary-defying creativity, this season showcases international superstars, Austin icons, and trailblazing creators for a lineup unlike any other.
In addition to welcoming back celebrated artists and companies, we’re excited to support several original new works this season that will be developed in residence at TPA. These adventurous productions include Robin Frohardt’s Shopping Center Parking Lot, a follow-up to her acclaimed 2022 immersive installation
The Plastic Bag Store. Chicago’s Manual Cinema bring their unique approach to Macbeth with The 4th Witch, blending shadow puppetry and original music into a live cinematic event. And Austin’s Rude Mechs will revisit their mesmerizing Not Every Mountain as part of the Fusebox Festival. And that’s just the beginning—explore the full season at texasperformingarts.org.
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Company members of the Broadway smash hit Moulin Rouge The Musical! led a dance class for UT students and the community during its two-week run.
TPA held its first-ever free school day performance of a Broadway musical, Peter Pan, welcoming 3,000 students from across the Austin area to Bass Concert Hall for an unforgettable experience. Photo by Robert Silver.
TPA and Impact Arts Austin teamed up to host a workshop for local musical theatre students, featuring a mock audition and dance call led by Hamilton cast member Jorge Guerra.
Following the performance of the critically acclaimed Broadway play Come From Away, audience members stayed for a post-show Q&A and discussion with the cast.
Students from Austin’s Evenground Dance Studio came together for a hip-hop foundations workshop, where they learned moves from the Versa-Style Street Dance Company.
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Discover works from Landmarks’ collection at Bass Concert Hall
The Look of Love: An Evening of Dance to the Music of Burt Bacharach
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Commissioning & Support
The 4th Witch received lead commissioning support from Spoleto Festival USA with co-commissioning support from ArtsEmerson (Boston, MA) and Cal Performances, University of California (Berkeley, CA).
Support for The 4th Witch is provided by the College of Fine Arts O’Donnell Visiting Artist Endowment.
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Manual Cinema’s The 4th Witch is a fantastic new tale, inspired by elements of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which a girl escapes war and flees into a dark forest. Told through shadow puppetry, actors in silhouette and live music (without dialogue or narration), The 4th Witch begins on the eve of an invasion of a small town by the local warlord, Macbeth. The girl flees the invading army and escapes into the nearby forest. Orphaned and exiled, she is rescued by a witch, who adopts her as an apprentice. As she becomes more skilled in witchcraft, her grief and rage draw her into a nightmarish quest for vengeance against the warlord who killed her parents: Macbeth.
The 4th Witch, an inversion of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, explores themes of grief, war, generational conflict, and cycles of violence through the collateral damage left behind on the battleground.
Concept and Direction by Drew Dir
Devised by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace and Julia Miller
Original Score and Sound Design by Ben Kauffman and Kyle Vegter
Storyboards and Puppet Design by Drew Dir
Lighting Design by David Goodman-Edberg
Costume and Wig Design by Sully Ratke
Silhouette Masks by Julia Miller
Costume Assistant Griffin DiStasi
Puppet Build Assistant Caitlin McLeod
Sound Engineer Mike Usrey
Stage Manager and Board Operator Kyle Vegter
Creative Producer Laura Colby
Cast Puppeteers:
Lizi Breit (Witch)
Leah Casey (Witch)
Sarah Fornace (Girl)
Julia Miller (Lead Witch)
Jeffrey Paschal (Macbeth)
Musicians:
Erica Kremer - Cello, Vocals
Lucy Little - Violin, Vocals
Alicia Walter - Keys, Guitar, Vocals
Manual Cinema is an Emmy Award winning performance collective, design studio, and film/video production company founded in 2010 by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter. Manual Cinema combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive stories for stage and screen.
Using vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live feed cameras, multi-channel sound design, and live music, Manual Cinema transforms the experience of attending the cinema and imbues it with liveness, ingenuity, and theatricality. The company was awarded an Emmy in 2017 for “The Forger,” a video created for The New York Times and named Chicago Artists of the Year in 2018 by the Chicago Tribune. Their shadow puppet animations are featured in the film remake of Candyman, directed by Nia DaCosta and produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions. Recent productions include Leonardo! A Wonderful Show about a Terrible Monster, based on books by Mo Willems, an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and a revamped production of The Magic City, based on Edith Nesbit’s 1910 novel. In 2023, Manual Cinema completed production on their first self-produced short
film, Future Feeling, and toured with folk rock band Iron & Wine the following year. Manual Cinema’s newest production, The 4th Witch, is an inversion of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and premiered at the Spoleto festival in June, 2025.
Manual Cinema has toured throughout North America and to four continents. Highlights include: Under The Radar/The Public Theater (NYC), Adelaide Festival (AUS), Santiago a mil (Chile), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Singapore International Festival of the Arts, and the Tehran International Puppet Festival (Iran). The company has received commissioning for new performance works from Cal Performances (Berkeley), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), The Kennedy Center, ArtsEmerson (Boston), Spoleto Festival (USA), The Poetry Foundation, and La Monnaie de Munt (Belgium). They have received grant support from the National Theater Project, US Artists International, and ArtsCONNECT.
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LIZI BREIT (Witch, Puppeteer) is a Chicago-based artist. She has
been performing and designing with Manual Cinema since 2011.
LEAH CASEY (Witch, Puppeteer) is a Chicago-based actress, dancer, and writer. When not on stage, she can be found lending her voice to all manner of audiobooks, or with the cast of Project STELLAR, a science fiction podcast about a group of crazy kids who have close encounters of the awesome kind. Chicago credits: Murder on the Orient Express, Grease, Cinderella (Drury Lane), A Christmas Carol (Writers Theatre/Manual Cinema), Leonardo and Sam (Chicago Children’s Theatre/Manual Cinema), Frankenstein (Court Theatre/Manual Cinema), For Colored Girls… (Court Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Teatro Vista), STORM (Walkabout/ Moonfool). Leah is represented by the dedicated team at Shirley Hamilton.
SARAH FORNACE (Girl, Puppeteer, Co-Deviser, CoArtistic Director) is a director, puppeteer, choreographer, and narrative designer based in Chicago. She is a co-Artistic Director of Manual Cinema. Outside of Manual Cinema, Sarah has worked as a performer or choreographer with Redmoon Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Garage, and Blair Thomas and Co. Most recently, Sarah wrote the story mode for
the video game Rivals of Aether. In 2017, she directed and edited the first episode of the web series, The Doula is IN. In 2016, she directed and devised an “animotion” production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Rokoko Studios for HamletScenen at Kromborg Castle in Elsinore, Denmark.
JULIA MILLER (Lead Witch, Puppeteer, Co-Deviser, Silhouette Masks, Co-Artistic Director) is a director, puppeteer, and designer. With Manual Cinema she has directed Mementos Mori and The End of TV as well as created original roles in Frankenstein (The Creature/Elizabeth), Ada/ Ava (Ada), Lula del Ray (Lula’s Mother), The Magic City (Helen), Hansel und Gretel (Hansel), and Leonardo! (Sam). In Chicago, she has worked as a performer and puppeteer with Redmoon Theatre and Blair Thomas and Co. She spent several years training in devised theatre, clown and mask with Double Edge Theatre, Carlos García Estevez and at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy.
JEFFREY PASCHAL (Macbeth, Puppeteer) is originally from a town called Corning in Upstate New York. In 2012 Jeff moved to Chicago to go to school at Northwestern University where he majored in Theatre. At Northwestern Jeff was involved with several theatre productions
including Fabulation directed by Jerrell Henderson and Anna in the Tropics directed by Henry Godinez as well as directing and producing several short films through the school’s RTVF program. Jeff graduated from Northwestern with a B.S. in Theatre in 2016. He currently lives in Chicago and is represented by Gray Talent Group.
ERICA KREMER (Cello, Vocals) is a cellist, pianist, and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. Having recently received her Master’s degree under cellist Edward Arron, she is building a music career tailored to her interests of democratizing classical music, blurring genre and cultural lines, and making music on her own terms. Refusing to be put in a box, she has performed and toured as a former member of the Carriola String Quartet, holding a residency with Sinfonia Gulf Coast; as a rock and roll cellist, across the country, in the Black Jacket Symphony; and as a folk musician featured in the Ocrafolk Festival, as a part of Saltare Sounds.
LUCY LITTLE (Violin, Vocals) is a musician, improvisor, composer, and audio producer currently based in NYC, but with deep and loving roots in Chicago, where she lived for 10 years. As a composer, Lucy has written
and recorded scores for theatrical productions and podcasts, including for the Audible Original plays Daddies (2022) and Marrow (2023). As a performer, Lucy plays violin with the Chicago-based indie rock and folk project Half Gringa, has an electroacoustic solo project, and has performed with musicians from around the world, including with singer/songwriters Aisha Burns, Dani Larkin, MICHA Música, Afarin Nazarijou, and more. Lucy holds a Master’s degree from the New England Conservatory, a Bachelor’s from the University of Chicago, is an U.S. Fulbright alum and a 2022 OneBeat Fellow.
ALICIA WALTER (Keys, Guitar, Vocals) is a singer-songwriter, composer, and pianist from Chicago. Known for her “nearcosmic voice” (WIRED) and “stratosphere of songwriting all her own” (Consequence of Sound), Walter has released two celebrated albums under her own name: Right Noise (BIG EGO Records 2023) and I Am Alicia (Sooper Records 2021). In 2024, she performed in venues across the US and Europe, most recently alongside artists Veronica Swift and Danielle Ponder. Her music has been featured in nationally syndicated TV shows, including NBC hit drama, “This Is Us,” and “All Rise.” Walter rose to acclaim as bandleader of beloved Chicagobased art rock group, Oshwa.
LAURA COLBY (Creative Producer) Recipient of NAPAMA’s 2016 Liz Silverstein Award, Colby secures funds to create new work via Elsie Management (which she founded in 1995). In 2020, Colby served as Creative Producer in the creation and delivery of Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol—a show that was livestreamed for 24 performances in December 2020, during the height of the pandemic closures. She served as Managing Producer for LaTasha Barnes’ The Jazz Continuum and Monique Martin’s Minty Fresh Circus. Colby’s podcast, The Middle Woman, a roadmap to managing the performing arts, is available on all podcast platforms. www.elsieman.org
DREW DIR (Concept, Director, Storyboards and Puppet Design, Co-Deviser, Co-Artistic Director) is a writer, director, and puppet designer. Previously, he served as the Resident Dramaturg of Court Theatre and a lecturer in theater and performance studies at the University of Chicago. He holds a master’s degree in Text and Performance Studies from King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
GRIFFIN DISTASI (Costume Assistant) (they/he) is an illustrator, maker, voice actor, and circus artist who has
been spending the years since graduating University of Illinois with a degree in mechanical engineering working to marry engineering and art any way they can. Their work spans from poster design and comic illustration to rigging and puppet design, and they are thrilled to be working with Manual Cinema for the first time.
GOODMAN-EDBERG (Lighting Designer) is a Chicago based lighting designer working in the realms of dance, theatrical, and architectural design. He has designed and toured with such companies as Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, Eisenhower Dance Detroit, Visceral Dance Chicago, and Water Street Dance Milwaukee, and lit works set on companies such as Chicago Repertory Ballet, Chicago Tap Theater, Joel Hall Dancers, and Thodos Dance Chicago. Theatrically, he has designed with puppet & object oriented companies such as Rough House and Cabinet of Curiosity as well as with such companies as Adventure Stage, Akvavit Theatre, Factory Theater, The Gift Theater, Organic Theater, Red Tape Theater, The Syndicate, and Trap Door Theatre. Architecturally, he has lit pieces at the art space 6018|North and worked as an assistant/associate designer for projects at various Universal Studios theme parks (in Beijing, Hollywood, Orlando,
BEN KAUFFMAN (Original Score and Sound Design, Co-Artistic Director) is a composer, director, interactive media artist and co-Artistic Director of Manual Cinema. His film and interactive work has been shown at The Jay Pritzker Pavilion (Chicago), The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (Chicago), and CUNY’s Baruch College (NYC). He has lectured and given workshops at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York University and Parsons the New School of Design. His past Composer/ Sound Designer credits with Manual Cinema include Ada/ Ava, The End of TV, and the New York Times documentary The Forger. He holds a Master’s degree from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).
CAITLIN MCLEOD (Puppet Build Assistant) is a Chicago based costume, scenic, and puppet designer. Recent design credits include: Romeo and Zooliet (St. Louis Shakespeare); Fat Ham (Virginia Stage Co); The Little Mermaid (Drury Lane); Lavender Men (About Face); Blues for an Alabama Sky (Virginia Stage Co);The Dream King (Teatro Vista); Trouble in Mind (Timeline); The Seagull (Steppenwolf); Exquisite Corpse (Rough House). Craftwork credits include The
Goodman, The Kennedy Center, Lookingglass, and Northlight. Caitlin is a co-curator of NBS: Chicago’s Puppet Slam, company member of Rough House, and project manager of the Chicago Puppet Studio. Instagram @CaitlinMcLeodDesign
SULLY RATKE (Costume and Wig Design) is a multi-disciplinary visual story-telling artist with an appetite for compelling language, mystery, whimsy, and spiritual philosophy.
MIKE USREY (Audio Engineer) “That may be the most important thing to understand about humans. It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge. And that is why I am here: not to conquer you with weapons or ideas, but to coexist and learn.” – Benjamin Lafayette Sisko KYLE VEGTER (Stage Manager and Board Operator, Original Score and Sound Design, CoArtistic Director) is a composer, producer, sound designer, and Managing Artistic Director of Manual Cinema. As a composer of concert music he’s been commissioned by such groups as The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW series, The Pacific Northwest Ballet, and and Osaka), Disney Shanghai, and several Margaritaville restaurants. dglxdesign.com
TIGUE. His music and sound design for theater and film has been performed worldwide and commissioned by the New York Times, NPR’s Invisibilia, Topic (First Look Media), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, StoryCorps, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Poetry Foundation, Hubbard Street Dance, the O, Miami Poetry Festival, and others. His past Composer/ Sound Designer credits with Manual Cinema include Lula Del Ray, Ada/ Ava, FJORDS, Mementos Mori, The End of TV and various other performance and video projects. He has been an artist in residence at High Concept Laboratories, and co-founded Chicago’s only contemporary classical music cassette label Parlour Tapes+.
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Support for Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis is provided by Suzanne and Bill Childs.
Media Sponsors:
WYNTON MARSALIS, Music Director, Trumpet
RYAN KISOR, Trumpet
KENNY RAMPTON, Trumpet
MARCUS PRINTUP, Trumpet
VINCENT GARDNER, Trombone
CHRIS CRENSHAW, Trombone
ELLIOT MASON, Trombone
SHERMAN IRBY, Alto and Soprano
Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
ALEXA TARANTINO, Alto and Soprano
Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
CHRIS LEWIS, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
ABDIAS ARMENTEROS, Tenor and Soprano
Saxophones, Clarinet, The Zou Family Chair in Saxophone
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Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
DAN NIMMER, Piano, The Zou Family Chair in Piano
CARLOS HENRIQUEZ, Bass, The Mandel
Family Chair in honor of Kathleen B. Mandel
OBED CALVAIRE, Drums
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With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and guest artists spanning genres and generations, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces thousands of performances, education, and broadcast events each season in its home in New York City (Frederick P. Rose Hall, “The House of Swing”) and around the world, for people of all ages. Jazz at Lincoln Center is led by Chairman Clarence Otis, Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, and Executive Director Greg Scholl.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988 and spends over a third of the year on tour across the world. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs and leads educational events in New York, across the U.S. and around the globe; in concert halls; dance venues; jazz clubs; public parks; and with symphony orchestras; ballet troupes; local students; and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Centercommissioned works, including
compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and current and former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Ted Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris Crenshaw, and Carlos Henriquez.
Throughout the last decade, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has performed with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic; Cleveland Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; Czech Philharmonic; Berlin Philharmonic; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic and many others. Marsalis’ three major works for full symphony orchestra and jazz orchestra, All Rise - Symphony No. 1 (1999), Swing Symphony – Symphony No. 3 (2010), and The Jungle –Symphony No. 4 (2016), continue to be the focal point of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s symphonic collaborations.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has also been featured in several education and performance residencies in the last few years, including those in
Melbourne, Australia; Sydney, Australia; Chautauqua, New York; Prague, Czech Republic; Vienna, Austria; London, England; São Paulo, Brazil; and many others.
Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s mission; its educational activities are coordinated with concert and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra tour programming. These programs, many of which feature Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members, include the celebrated Jazz for Young People™ family concert series; the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival; the Jazz for Young People™ Curriculum; Let Freedom Swing, educational residencies; workshops; and concerts for students and adults worldwide. Jazz at Lincoln Center educational programs reach over 110,000 students, teachers and general audience members.
Jazz at Lincoln Center, NPR Music and WBGO have partnered to create the next generation of jazz programming in public radio: Jazz Night in America. The series showcases today’s vital jazz scene while also underscoring the genre’s storied history. Hosted by bassist Christian McBride, the program features hand-picked performances from across the country, woven with the colorful stories of the artists behind them.
In 2015, Jazz at Lincoln Center
launched Blue Engine Records (www. jazz.org/blueengine), a new platform to make its vast archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere. The label is dedicated to releasing new studio and live recordings as well as archival recordings from past Jazz at Lincoln Center performances, and its first record— Live in Cuba, recorded on a historic 2010 trip to Havana by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis—was released in October 2015. Big Band Holidays was released in December 2015, The Abyssinian Mass came out in March 2016, The Music of John Lewis was released in March 2017, and the JLCO’s Handful of Keys came out in September 2017. Blue Engine’s United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas features the Wynton Marsalis Septet and an array of special guests, with all proceeds going toward Jazz at Lincoln Center’s education initiatives. Blue Engine’s most recent album releases include 2020’s A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration and 2021’s The Democracy Suite featuring the JLCO Septet with Wynton Marsalis.
Wynton Marsalis (Music Director, Trumpet) is the Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961
to a musical family, Mr. Marsalis was gifted his first trumpet at age 6 by Al Hirt. By 8, he began playing in the famed Fairview Baptist Church Band led by Danny Barker. Yet it was not until he turned 12 that Marsalis began his formal training on the trumpet. Subsequently, Wynton began performing in bands all over the city, from the New Orleans Philharmonic and New Orleans Youth Orchestra to a funk band called the Creators. His passion for music rapidly escalated. As a young teenager fresh out of high school, Wynton moved to New York City in 1979 to attend The Juilliard School to study classical music. Once there, however, he found that jazz was calling him. His career quickly launched when he traded Juilliard for Art Blakey’s band, The Jazz Messengers. By 19, Wynton hit the road with his own band and has been touring the world ever since. From 1981 to date, Wynton has performed 4,777 concerts in 849 distinct cities and 64 countries around the world. Mr. Marsalis made his recording debut as a leader in 1982 and has since recorded 110 jazz and classical albums, four alternative records, and released five DVDs. In total, he has recorded 1,539 songs at the time of this writing. Marsalis is the winner of 9 GRAMMY Awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He’s the only
musician to win a GRAMMY Award in two categories, jazz and classical, during the same year (1983, 1984).
Mr. Marsalis has solidified himself as an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, educator and advocate of American culture. As a composer, his body of work includes over 600 original songs, 11 ballets, four symphonies, eight suites, two chamber pieces, one string quartet, two masses, one violin concerto, and in 2021, a tuba concerto. Included in this rich body of compositions is Sweet Release; Jazz: Six Syncopated Movements; Jump Start and Jazz; Citi Movement/ Griot New York; At the Octoroon Balls; In This House, On This Morning; and Big Train. As part of his work at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton has produced and performed countless new collaborative compositions, including the ballet Them Twos, for a 1999 collaboration with the New York City Ballet. That same year, he premiered the monumental work All Rise, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic along with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Morgan State University Choir. All Rise was performed with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra as part of the remembrance of the centennial anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre in June 2021. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wynton
and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra have released 7 fulllength albums and 4 singles on Blue Engine Records.
Mr. Marsalis is also a globally respected teacher and spokesman for music education. For Jazz, Wynton led the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home–Frederick P. Rose Hall–the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in October 2004. He conducts educational programs for students of all ages and hosts the popular Jazz for Young People™ concerts produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In addition to his work at JALC, Wynton is also the Founding Director of Jazz Studies at the Juilliard School. Mr. Marsalis has written and is the host of the video series “Marsalis on Music,” the radio series “Making the Music,” and a weekly conversation series titled “Skain’s Domain.” He has written and co-written nine books, including two children’s books, Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! and Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits, both illustrated by Paul Rogers. Wynton has received such accolades as having been appointed Messenger of Peace by United Nations SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan (2001), The National Medal of Arts (2005), The National Medal of Humanities (2016). In December 2021, Marsalis and Jazz at
Lincoln Center were awarded the Key to New York City by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Marsalis has received honorary doctorates from 39 universities and colleges throughout the U.S, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Tulane University in New Orleans. Wynton Marsalis’ core beliefs and foundation for living are based on the principles of jazz. He promotes individual creativity (improvisation), collective cooperation (swing), gratitude and good manners (sophistication), and faces adversity with persistent optimism (the blues).
Duke Ellington: My Heart Sings
Jan 31, 2026 | Bates Recital Hall
The most provocative thinker in current jazz. — Rolling Stone
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Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Concert Hall Endowment
William & Anita Cochran Endowment for Performing Arts Access & Education
Phillip Auth Endowed Dance Fund for Texas Performing Arts
PAC Fund for the Creation of New American Art
Performing Arts Center Endowment for Performing Excellence
Robert L. Tocker Endowed Excellence Fund for Student Volunteerism
Topfer Endowment for Performing Arts Production
Z. T. Scott Family Endowment for the Performing Arts
Gifts pledged or received as of Aug 10, 2025
Texas Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the financial support of our members. Each year, members help fund robust education and engagement initiatives, affordable student tickets, and critical student employment opportunities that make Texas Performing Arts so much more than what you see on our stages.
Donations made as of Aug 10, 2025
We regret that limited space does not allow us to list every member. For information on ways to give, please visit texasperformingarts.org/membership, call the membership office at 512.232.8567, or email us at support@texasperformingarts.org.
Benefactor’s Circle
$10,000+
Virginia and Gilbert Burciaga
Lee Carnes
Colleen Clark
Kim and Greig Coates
Curtiss Cobb
Elizabeth Curtis
Chris Arboleda and Jared Ellis
Mindy Ellmer
Luke and Shari Ledbetter
James Popp and Cynthia Fraser
Richard J. Ruckman, MD
Producer’s Circle
$5,000–9,999
Anonymous (2)
Anne Beroza
Grizelda and Tim Black
Tahra and Michael Boatright
Renee’ Butler and Kay Stowell
Sam Caire
Kelli and John Carlton
Sue and Kevin Cloud
Cindy Cook
Ronda and John Cullen
Niccolo and Natasha De Masi
Kathleen Dignan
Jim Ferguson and Art Sansone
Jane and James Flieller
Frost Bank
Jorge Garcia and Linda Nguyen
Joanne Guariglia
Radena and Brian Hampton
Jeremy Harrell
Gladys Heavilin
Stacy Hock
Mellie and Tom Hogan
Sean and Jeanine Hudson
Rob Ignatowski and Daniel Pacheco
Frank N Ikard Jr
Lynn Katz and Scott Hinz
William Kellogg
Gretchen and Lance Kroesch
Cheryl Lachowicz
Sarah Levithan Daniels and Michael Daniels
Ed and Aneka Lilya
Casey Blass and Lee Manford
Wayne Orchid
Debbie and Jim Ramsey
Gina and Don Reese
Annie Zucker and Michael Regester
Sanchez Law
Jaime Silver
Colby Simpson
Laura and David Starks
Carole Tower and Matthew St. Louis
Lorri Stevenson
Robert Stiles
Louann and Larry Temple
Jill and Stephen Wilkinson
Director’s Circle
$2,500–4,999
Anonymous (7)
Sara Alexander
Mandy and Heather Andress
Bonnie L. Bain
Carolyn R. Bartlett
Cynthia and Jim Bast
Becky Beaver
Jennifer Bierman
Carolyn and Andrew Birge
Nawaf Bitar
Christopher and Adrienne Bosh
Nancy and David Bourell
Tom Bowen
Michelle and Brian Brocklesby
Donald Brode
Kim and Thomas Reed Brown
Peggy and Gary Brown
Jim Caballero and Josie Galindo Caballero
Kenneth and Mandy Cardenas
Chih-Hao Chang and Peggy Wang
Suzanne and Bill Childs
Christopher and Claudia Christensen
Anita and William Cochran
Joseph Collins
Beth and Walter Compton
Bill and Karen Cox
Tracy Dahl-Burg and George Burg
Monica De Leon
Brenda and John DeHart
Joan Dentler
Mechele Dickerson
Susan and David Donaldson
Kimberley Eakin
Nancy and Jim Edsel
Barbara Ellis and Alex McAlmon
Josef Ermis
Kevin Espenlaub and John Hampton
Laura L. Estes and Joyce A. Lauck
Jessica and Marc Evans
Kim and Ken Fess
Carol and Clint Fletcher
Pamela and David Frager
Clay Francis
K Friese & Associates
Kristen Furhman
Susan Gaddis
Moneesha and John Garcia
Robert and Shannon Gardner
Nancy Gary and Ruth Cude
Eva Garza-nyer
Patricia Gilbert
Susan and Barry Goodman
Karen and Rowland Greenwade
Sven and Robin Griffin
Cheri Gross
Dr. Jeremy Guiberteau and Dan Jackson
Drs. Lynn Azuma and Brian Hall
Jennifer and Randall Harris
Hannah Heerlein
Mary Ann and Andrew Heller
Chuck Ross and Brian Hencey
Drs. Sherronda and Thaddeus Henderson
Anne Hilbert
Jody and Stephanie Hooten
Michael and Meredith Hostick
Amy and Jeffrey Hubert
Kathleen Hull
Shannon Hutcheson
Jo and Jon Ivester
Michael and Mary Johnson
Maxx Judd and Donn Gauger
Jennifer Kaufman
Carolyn Kavanagh
Finn Kennedy and Catherine Osborne
Betsy and Matt Kirksey
Margaret Denena and Cliff Knowles
Jan Houston Knox
Sheila Kothmann
Loree and Burney LaChance
Courtney Lane
Matthew Lara
Carl Lauryssen
Donna, Calvin and Callie Lee
Rick Leyh
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Littlejohn
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Loftus
Peggy Manning Blanks
Charles and Leslie Martinez
Jose Martinez
Alyse Mason
Meredith and Richard McCathron
Katie McClarty
Linda McCollum
Katharine McCormick
Molly McDonald
Christine Messina
John and Brenda Mosher
Michael Murray
Thanhhao and Scott Neuendorf
Jeff Neumann
Mr. and Mrs. Jon Newton
Jacqui Nissen
Jacqueline and Shawn O’Farrell
Leora Orent and Art Markman
OroSolutions
Vicki Osherow
Terri and Chris Pascoe
Connie and Samuel Pate
Robert, Faith, and Scout Perez
Michelle and Ben Peterson
Shari and John Pflueger
Machelle Pharr
Samantha Porter
Wanda Potts
Javier Prado and Family
Roger and Katarzyna Priebe
Erin Vander Leest and Tom Pyle
Alec Rhodes
The Richards
Richie & Gueringer P.C.
Cesar and Susan Rodriguez
Ali Saidi
Joel Sanchez
Nancy Scanlan
Susan Schaffer
Steve Schaffer
Melissa Schmalbach
Dr. Eugene and Dianne Schoch
Nina and Frank Seely
Kristen Simpson
Vijay Sitaram
Barry and Laura Smith
Cynthia and Logan Spence
Richard Stanford
Bryce Steeg
Shari and Eric Stein
Laura and Andy Steinbach
Michelle Stott
Bruce Stuckman
Elisa and Joel Sumner
Peter and Joan Swartz
William and Larry Tabbit-Humphrey
Caroline Tang
Caroline, Olivia, and John Taylor
Heather and Jeffrey Tramonte
Gregory Tran and Monica Wu Tran
Rebecca Vandenberg
Daniel and Sara-Jane Watson
Angie Watson
Leslie and Bryan Weston
Mark Wheeler
Dr. Lucas Wong and Dr. Lisa Go
Center Stage
$1,000–2,499
Anonymous (16)
Margaret Abbott
Cynthia Abel
Amy Adame
Mark Aitala
Sujata Ajmera
Linda and Jake Aleman
Emily Allen and Ron Altizer
Page and Neal Amador
Windy Andre
Joe Annis
Aparicio Family
Danielle Armstrong
Cecelia Arvallo
Patricia Asbra
Evan Atkinson
Dr. Tony and Paula Aventa
Donna and Manuel Ayala
Cathy and Rich Bachik
Matt Baker
Addison, Sydney, Kori, and
David Baker
The Ballon Family
Billy and Amanda Bamzier
Jana and Barry Bandera
Richard Banks
Armando Basualdo
Debra Bawcom
Anne Bawden
Joshua Becker
Dr. Steven A. Beebe
April Berman
Bala Bharadwaj
Ashley Bias
Carolyn and Jon Bible
Robert and Kimberly Birdwell
Kevin Black and William Basinger
Chris Blackburn
Denis Blake
Stephanie and Michael Blanck
Michael Boggan
Robert Bracewell
Marvin Brittman
Janice and Charlie Brown
Christy and William K. Browning
Carolyn Bryant
Danielle Bundy and John Atkinson
Esther Ray Burns
Kelly Canavan
Martin Cano
Ms. Susie Capozza
Adam Case
Spenser Chen
Jason and Betty Chen
Mary and Michelle Cheng
Alison Clare
Black Sheep Unique Rugs LLC
Amy Clemmons and Mark Clarke
Cleveland Family
Sharon Cohan
Eric Cohan
Jen and Jeff Cohen
Sarah Compton
Cathy and Rick Coneway
Patrick Conolly
Shea Cordial
Jeanette Cortinas
Shelby Crownover
Elaine Daigle
Gail and Mark Dankis
Wilma Dankovich
Celeste Dannelly
Chip Dart
Lorraine and John Davis
David Deaton and Wes Hansen
Lisa and Paul Delacruz
Joanna Detchon
The DiLeo Family
Lucy Ditmore
Jennifer Dixon
Kristin Doles
Beth Domel
Lyzz Donelson
Bethany Dudley
Maria Dwyer
Jeffrey Dwyer
Brian Dziuk
Susan and David Eckelkamp
Jennifer Emerson
Angella Emmett
Fernando Espinosa
Julia Evans
Rebecca D. Ewing
Laura Farrell
Flowers Family
Michael Floyd
Jane W. Fountain
Chris and Julie Frampton
Tom and Ann Francese
Michael Garza
Jon and Joanna Geld
Keri Gerber
James and Breanna Giannoules
Sharon and Richard Gibbons
Sean and Wendi Gibbons
Glenn Gilkey
Laura and John Gill
Don Gladden
Steven M. Gorman
Chris Graf
Becky and Craig Griffin
Kate Grimaldo
Jana and John Grimes
Dr. Suchitra Gururaj and Joe Carey
Maria Gutierrez and Peter Nutson
Mike Hall and Jack Landers
Jane Hall
Sara Hamill
Caroline Hamilton
Shirley Hammond
Cindy and John Hanly
Amy and Peter Hannan
Jane Hatter
Trey and Christie Hebert
John Hernandez
James Hester
Kristy Hetzel
Kevin Hight
Michael and Rhonda Hissey
Travis and George Baxter-Holder
Jodi Holland
Jay Howard
Bethany Howell
Carol Isbell
John C. Jackson
Dr. Jannett Jackson
Frank and Lisa Jalufka
Kathleen and Jim Jardine
Kristin Jarrett
Alexandre Jasserme
Christina Johnsen
Anita and Ralph Jones
The Joshua Family
Katie Kauachi
Rita Kemner Salyer
Susanna and Michael Khazhinsky
Ashley and John Klebs
Kathryn J Kotrla MD
Aileen Krassner
Carrie Kroll
Harvey Kronberg
John Kump
Amy Lambert
Law Office of David Gross
Joanie Lawler
Camilia Lellis
Chuck and Kristin Lemons
Monica LeRoy
Sue and Larry Lewellyn
Kristen and Robert Lewis
Jenny and Luis Lidsky
Suzanne Lima
Jennifer and Christian Loew
Victor and Tricia Lopez
Robert Lowrey and Allyson Murphy
Johny Ly
Gayle and Scott Madole
Richard Maier
Marquette Maresh Reddam
Joyce Martin
Ryan Martinez and Thomas Gilbert
Drs. Victor Martinez and Christopher Rose
Eugene Martir
Stephanie Mayes
Robert Mccabe
John McCaffrey
Nan and Bruce McCann
Sara McClelland
Chris McClung
Denise McCullough
McDonald Family
Ford McTee
Mario, Laura and Marcus Mendoza
Frances Ellen and Paul Metzger
Lynn Meyer and Rick Clemens
Pauline and Alfred Meyerson
Lauren Mikol
Lori and Rob Miller
Lauren Miller
Veronica Mindieta
Janet Mitchell
Bri Thatcher and Andy Modrovich
James W. Moritz
Sarah Morris
Motal Family
Robert Mundell
Shannon Murdoch
Bill and Emilia Murphy
Scott Murphy and Brandon
Wollerson
Rachel Naugle
Brian Neidig
Diane and John Newberry
Milam Newby
Margaret and Brian Nilson
Caleb North
Lori Nunan Shaw
Debbie Olander
Eric and Allison Olson
Dan and Deborah O’Neil
Jim Oney
Cottom and Dickerson Families
Augustine Park and Eun Eoh
The Pate Family
Cindy and Kelly Payne
Keitha Peacock
Ellen Pelletier
Robert Pender
Sally Pendergras
Karen and Wes Peoples
Adele and Brian Peterman
Katherine Petersen
Heather Petkovsek
Nancy and Frank Petrone
Tami Pharr
Suzanne Pickens and Douglas Hoitenga
Carla and Steve Portnoy
John Potthoff
Kate and Scott Powers
Liza, Ed and Hannah Prendergast
Ryan Putman
Eric Rabbanian
Meghan Railey
Randy Ramirez
Dawn and Thomas Rich
Lynda Rife
Sandra and James Robinson
Laura Robinson
Tracy Romano
Patricia Rotunda
Jerry Roudebush
Summer Rydel
Susan E. Salch
Keely Schaefer
Julie and Richard Schechter
Christopher Schmitt
Amy and Rob Rose
Austin Seal Co.
Ella Segura
Christine and Anthony Sementelli
Linda Simonson
Steven Smith
Mariah Smith
Chuck Smith
Kimberly and David Solomon
Toni and Ted Spalding
Randy Sparks
Lisa and Rick Stipe
Stephanie and Paul Stone
Carolyn Stone Productions, LLC
Pamela Stryker
Studer Family
Matthew and Katherine Sturich
Geeta and David Suggs
Anna and Suresh Sundarababu
Kathy and Tom Sweet
Molly and Jeremy Sylestine
Dona and Ali Tabrizi
Daniel Tarrillion
Dwight Tejano
Donna Thomas
Mackenzie and Burwell Thompson
Michelle Thornburg
Letty Tomlinson
Stacy and Michael Toomey
Alice Toungate
Claudia and Luis Trejo
Dale Truitt
Kaylie Tully
Kevin Vanderlaan
Saradee and Melvin Waxler
Chrissie Welty
Marie and Phil Wendell
Leslie and Dana West
Michael White
Kathleen White
Marc Whitten
Nancy Whitworth Spong
Michael and KeriLyn Wick
Michael Wilen
Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Williams
Dyanne and Stan Williams
Ann and Eric Wilson
Mike Wilson
Thomas Wilson
Kevin Wood
Mark Wood
Catherine and Scott Worley
Jeff Yedlin
Lena Yoo and Gerry Cardinal III
Jeannette and Mitch Young
Timothy Young
Nicholas Young
Micka and Richard Ziehr
Jose Zubia
Bob Bursey, Executive & Artistic Director
Bianca Hooi, Executive & Artistic Project Manager
Priscilla Perales, Assistant to the Executive & Artistic Director
PROGRAMMING
Bobby Asher, Director of Programming
Brendan Burke, Programming Manager
OPERATIONS
Sean Thorne, Managing Director
Cameron Weed, Human Resources Manager
Nathan Harper, Facilities Manager
Kristi Lampi, Director of Business Operations
Leigh Remeny, Business Operations Manager
Basil Montemayor, Business Operations Associate
Kat Carson, Senior Event Manager
Talia Graves, Event Manager
Alexander Reindl, Event Manager
Mia Spidel, Emerging Arts Professional, Programming & Events
MARKETING
Dane Munson, Director of Marketing & Sales
Romina Jara, Associate Director, Marketing
Brady Dyer, Associate Director, Communications
Lizzie Choffel Cantu, Design Manager
Erica De Leon, Digital Marketing Manager
Lindsey Sageser, Marketing Associate
Madison Tran, Design & Media Associate
Tara Vela, Director of Ticketing
Dianne Whitehair, Ticketing Systems Manager
Alexander Baylor, Ticketing Manager
Elizabeth Requenez, Ticketing Manager
Meredith Delay, Texas Inner Circle Ticket Concierge
Sereniti Patterson, Emerging Arts Professional, Ticketing
Anna Langdell, Director of Development
Jeannette Thomas, Director of Major Gifts
Amy Burgar, Associate Director, Development
Chelsea Casner, Development Specialist, Major Gifts
Miguel Robles, Development Specialist, Operations
Sara Morales, Development Specialist, Membership and Sponsorship
Tim Rogers, Director of Education & Engagement
Eric Vera, Education Program Manager
Aubrey Felty, Education & Engagement Program Coordinator
Insha Iqbal, Emerging Arts Professional, Education & Engagement
Blake Addyson, Director of Production
John Lewis, Production Supervisor
Mika O’Dwyer, Assistant Production Supervisor
Drew Millay, Audio/Video Supervisor
Bryce Riggle, Assistant
Audio/Video Supervisor
John “Hutch” Hutchinson, Assistant Audio/Video Supervisor
Camryn Senioris, Lighting Supervisor
Tracy Abercrombie, Assistant Lighting Supervisor
Brooke Dickerson, Assistant Lighting Supervisor
Travis Perrin, Staging & Rigging Supervisor
Audrey McGovern, Assistant
Staging & Rigging Supervisor
Jessie Mikolaichik, Assistant
Staging & Rigging Supervisor
Blake McDonald, Director of Guest Experience
Amanda Adams, Associate Director, Guest Services
Kourtney Johnson, Guest Services Manager
Jeff Grapko, Director of Fabrication & Academic Production
Karen Maness, Associate Director, Fabrication
David Tolin, Project Manager, Fabrication
Jason Huerta, Operations Manager, Fabrication
Scott Bussey, Senior Technical Director
Earnest Mazique, Academic Production Technology Manager
Ashton Bennett Murphy, Properties Manager
Hank Schwemmer, Lead Fabricator
Eliot Haynes, Assistant
Audio/Video Supervisor, Academic Production
Michael Shanks, Assistant Lighting Supervisor, Academic Production
Leah Austin, Emerging
Arts Professional, Stage Properties
Julia Yelvington, Emerging Arts Professional, Scenic Art
Texas Performing Arts is also proud to acknowledge the hundreds of part-time and volunteer staff who play a critical role in presenting our annual season of world-class performing arts events to the Austin community.
Dina Black
Megan Born
Virginia Bosman
Margaret Byron
Nancy Carrales
Sally Deweber
Sheri Dildy
Janine Dos Remedios
Amy Fuchs
Tony C Garcia
Joshua Hale
Leslie Hawkins
Carlos Hernandez-Heine
Olga Kasma-Carnes
Tamara Klindt
Sharon Kojzarek
Eric Lee
Lara Miller
Adrian Pena
Kimberly Reaves
Juno Adair
Joe Adkins
Daniela Albert
Nahla Beltran
Madhav Bhat
Juliana Brandao
Jose Calvillo
Hayley Carbajal
Jacob Cardenas
Sophia Carter
Eugenio Chapa
Lilly Cheesar
Rebecca Couch
Marie Jolie Day
Ava Deviney
Ally Dolley
Griffin Drake
Amanda Earp
Mariah Espocito
Sarah Jayne Ewing
Carla Garcia Leija
Ravleen Kaur Gill
Erin Glasscock
Dariela Gonzalez
Mia Guerra
Sarah Hartley
Catherine Heeman
Gabriela Hernandez
Alisa Irvin
Madison Jackson
Joe Jaxson
PJ Jetton
Bindi Kaplan
Dylan Lebensfeld
Codie Lightfoot
Jacqueline Mai
Anapaula MartinezBorrell
Regina Mendiola
Joe Morales
Mirabai Munton
Rachel Norris
Jessica Reed
Lee Rodgers
Mary Ruiz
Gracie Sanders
Andrea R Stanfill Castro
Debra Thomas
Leah Waheed
Marty Watson
Tonya Woods
Valeria Nunez Estrada
Michael Okooti
Lily Orozco
Zoya Patel
Valeria Blanco Perez
Blake Persyn
Haley Prince
Breanna Pruitt
Kenneth Qu
Caroline Ramsey
Frederick Richardson
Jose Salcido
Zoe Saldana
Robin Schuler
Ethan Sebree
Erin Simpson
Rain Snyder
Laura Soares
Nguyen Tang
Tara Tran
Jaden West
