The 2013-2014 Otto M. Budig Family Foundation Season
D. Lynn Meyers, Producing Artistic Director
Design Sponsor:
Show Partner:
the mountaintop
by Katori Hall
Directed by D. Lynn Meyers† March 19-April 6, 2014
Set & Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Costume Designer
Properties Master & Design Assistant
Properties Master
Production Coordinator & Master Electrician
Production Stage Manager
Technical Operations Director
Dialect Coach
Brian c. Mehring
Matthew Tibbs
Chad Phillips
Shannon Rae Lutz
Michael Lenaghan
Matthew Hollstegge
Brandon T. Holmes*
Aaron Clements
Rocco Dal Vera
THE MOUNTAINTOP is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Original Broadway production produced by Jean Doumanian, Sonia Friedman Productions, Ambassador Theatre Group, Raise the Roof 7, Ted Snowden, Alhadeff Productions/Lauren Doll, B Square + 4 Productions/Broadway Across America, Jacki Barlia Florin/Cooper Federman, Ronnie Planap/Moellenberg Taylor and Marla Rubin Productions/Blumenthal Performing Arts, in association with Scott Delman.
THE MOUNTAINTOP was developed at the Lark Play Development Center, New York City, and was first produced by Theatre 503 in June 2009 and further produced at Trafalgar Studio One in July 2009 by Sonia Friedman Productions and Jean Doumanian, Tali Pelman for Ambassador Theatre Group, Bob Bartner, Freddy DeMann, Jerry Frankel, Ted Snowden and Marla Rubin Productions Ltd.
THE MOUNTAINTOP was developmed at the 2008 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a program of the Playwrights Foundation (Amy L. Mueller, Artistic Director).
The photographing, video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.
This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
*Cast/production member belongs to Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. This theatre operates under an agreement between Actors’ Equity Association, Professional Actors, and Stage Managers in the United States. Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.
2013-2014 season presenting sponsor:
season sponsors:
Dr. & Mrs. Charles O. Carothers
The Mitchell S. & Jacqueline P. Meyers Foundation
Ruth D. & John Sawyer
Fairy godmother program sponsors:
Judith Postler
season ticket sponsor:
education outreach programs sponsor:
additional support:
season media partners:
educational outreach supporters
William P. Anderson Foundation
The Charles H. Dater Foundation
The Andrew Jergens Foundation P&G Fund
The William O. Purdy, Jr. Foundation
The John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee
The Ladislas & Vilma Segoe Family Foundation
Jack J. Smith, Jr. Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, N.A. and Karen B. Wachs, Co-Trustees
Target Toyota
The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation
next stage supporters
Anonymous (2)
The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation
City of Cincinnati
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
The Mitchell S. & Jacqueline P. Meyers Foundation
Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission P&G Fund
Ruth D. & John Sawyer
season accommodations sponsor
Garfield Suites Hotel
in-kind contributors
Chet Cavaliere
China Gourmet
Cincinnati CityBeat
Cincinnati Magazine
Cincinnati State Technical & Community College, Interpreter Training Program
College Hill Coffee Co. & Casual Gourmet
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cast (in alphabetical order)
cast & crew
heading
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Gavin Lawrence*
Camae ............................................................................................ Torie Wiggins*
running crew
Assistant Director, Light Board Operator ............................................ Ben Raanan
1st Assistant Stage Manager.................................................................. Zach Wells
2nd Assistant Stage Manager ............................................................ Jeremy Parker
Sound Board Operator ...................................................................... Linnea Bond
Running Crew ................................ Becca Howell, Jared Hudson, Hannah Sawicki
Wardrobe .............................................................. Sola Thompson, Zak Schneider
Dramaturg Sola Thompson
understudies
Camae .......................................................................................... Sola Thompson
setting
April 3, 1968.
Room 306, Lorraine Motel; Memphis, Tennessee.
The Mountaintop is performed without an intermission. Approximate total running time is 90 minutes.
special acknowledgments
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati Opera
City Theatre Pittsburgh
Theaterworks Hartford
Glenn Plott
ensemble theatre
preFerred restaurants
A true fascination of mine has been the stories behind the facts of those who make history and change the course of all of our lives. So, when a play about Martin Luther King, Jr. came to my attention, my interest was immediately piqued. His words have echoed across our country, been quoted in classrooms and courtrooms, on the floor of the senate and from church pulpits. His words made us listen, his sacrifice made us weep.
The Mountaintop is fiction based on fact. It is Katori Hall's vision of what could have happened the night before Dr. King's assassination. It's written out of respect and admiration and with a true desire for us to know the man, perhaps in a way to understand that this human being was just that: human. There is no proof of what happens to us when we leave this planet, but perhaps Ms. Hall was trying to give Dr. King a passage from this planet that is what she would have liked to have been able to do for him herself.
This is a play about accepting our destiny and considering our legacy. The last night of our lives is something we will all live, this play just shows us how one such night for one such man, could have gone. We truly will never know what happens as our lives cease and our eternity begins, but the wondering, the curiosity about it, is endless. It's the great mystery.
Casting this play was critical, casting any play is critical but this one called for actors with great capacity. Gavin Lawrence graced our stage as Thurgood Marshall a few years ago and proved to be a remarkable performer who knew how to give words wings, he was my only choice for this role. I felt so strongly about putting the words and the heart of Dr. King into the capable hands of someone I trust completely. Gavin is that person.
So how do you play a character that is not real? That was the dilemma in casting Camae. Let me just say, she is not your typical motel maid on a mission to deliver coffee. It takes a presence, perhaps a presence slightly bigger than life to capture this character and Torie Wiggins has proven on this stage that she has that capacity. In Black Pearl Sings! last season she transformed before our eyes from inmate to inspiration. In this production she will guide Dr. King in a uniquely written character towards a destination we can not conceive.
My hope is that The Mountaintop will be cause for discussion and that it will be a gentle reminder of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose life on this earth led generations to believe in The Promised Land.
-D. Lynn Meyers
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the civil rights movement
U.S. Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
Federal government uses military to uphold African Americans' civil rights as soldiers escort 9 black students to desegregate Little Rock High School
At the Greensboro Sit-In, 4 black college students refuse to move from the lunch counter of a Greensboro, NC restaurant where black patrons are not served, launching sit-ins across the South.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" Speech to hundreds of thousands of supporters during the March on Washington, the largest Civil Rights march in history.
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, giving the federal government powers to prosecute discrimination based on race in employment, voting, and education.
A year after splitting with the Nation of Islam, Malcom X is assassinated in New York City. Thurgood Marshall becomes the 1st African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated, sparking riots across the country.
Rosa Parks refuses to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, AL, as required by city ordinance; the Montgomery Bus Boycott follows, and the bus segregation ordinance is eventually declared unconstitutional.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. helps found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to work for full equality for African Americans.
Malcolm X becomes National Minister of Nation of Islam. He rejects the non-violent Civil Rights Movement and preaches African-American separatism and securing equal rights through "any means necessary."
Arrested for a protest in Birmingham, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. writes the "Letter From a Birmingham Jail," a manifesto for the Civil Rights Movement.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. organizes a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL. Police beat and tear gas protesters; the images are shown on television across the country.
The Voting Rights Act is passed, outlawing the practices used to disenfranchise African-American voters.
Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seales found the Black Panther Party, a radical black power group.
Poor People's March on Washington, a march against poverty planned by King before his death, goes on.
Black garbage collectors in Memphis often rode this way to stay out of the rain. On February 1, 1968, two workers were killed when their truck malfunctioned and crushed them. Their deaths helped spark a strike by black sanitation workers in Memphis.
Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to a packed crowd at Mason Temple in Memphis on March 18, 1968. He encouraged the city's striking sanitation workers to "escalate" their protest with a general work stoppage.
Martin Luther King, Jr. confers with SCLC staff worker Jesse Jackson at Mason Temple before delivering the last speech of his life, April 3, 1968. (Photo by Ken Ross)
Two days after the march King led turned violent, people continue to protest in Memphis. National Guardsmen block the entrance to Beale Street.
“ I have been to the mountaintop, and I have seen the Promised Land.” —Martin Luther King Jr., April 3, 1968
Images courtesy of University of Memphis, Mississippi Valley Collection, Press Scimitar Morgue File. Memphis, TN. Images reprinted with permission.
the cast
GAVI n LAWRE n CE (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) was last seen on Ensemble Theatre's stage in the regional premiere of Thurgood. His recent credits include the Steppenwolf production of The Gospel of Franklin in the title role, the role of Langston Hughes in Are You Now… at the Guthrie, and in both roles of Theseus and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Ten Thousand Things Theatre. His regional credits include The Goodman, Arena Stage, Centerstage, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mixed Blood, Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, First Stage, Milwaukee Rep., Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Kansas City Rep., and City Theatre, to name a few. He appeared off- Broadway in Pure Confidence, and was recently named Best Actor by the Minneapolis City Pages Best of the Twin Cities 2013. His award -winning play, Cut Flowers was recently presented at Karamu House in Cleveland to rave reviews. Other plays produced include Salt Fish And Bakes (Best New Script Minneapolis Star Tribune), Bye, Bye Margarita, Lilies In The Valley, The Sound Of The Rain, B Is For Bully, Once Upon a Summertime, and N 2 The Mirror. He is the recipient of the Lorraine Hansberry Award for Best Writing Of A Play and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Howard University.
ToRIE WIGGIn S (Camae), who recently appeared in Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati's production of Around The World in 80 Days as Princess Aouda, is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music with a B.F.A. in Dramatic Performance. She created three one-woman shows: Everywhere You Look, Everywhere Else You Look, and Torie on Ice. She co-adapted and performed another one-woman show, Your Negro Tour Guide, at various venues in Cincinnati and across the country. She has appeared on All My Children, the feature film Love Me Through It and her voice can be heard on numerous national television and radio commercials for H&M, Home Depot, and Burger King. She recently appeared in Know Theatre of Cincinnati's production of Pluto and was a Seasonal Resident Artist with the Know Theatre of Cincinnati, appearing in Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party, Collapse, Afghan Women Writer's Project, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. She also appeared in To Kill a Mockingbird and The Crucible at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and performed the title role in Black Pearl Sings! at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. She feels blessed and honored to be able to return to ETC for a second season!
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about the director
D. Lynn ME y ERS is in her sixteenth season as the Producing Artistic Director of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati where she has directed over fifty world and regional premieres, including Other Desert Cities, Rapture, Blister, Burn, Next to Normal, and The Whipping Man. She directed The Pavilion at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Pride and Prejudice for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. She directed OffBroadway at the York Theatre with Marsha Norman’s Traveler in the Dark and James McClure’s Max and Maxie. Her several Canadian national tours included Mass Appeal with the late great Gale Gordon. As a producer for Dove Audio, she produced and directed dozens of audio books. She served as the Associate Artistic Director at Cincinnati Playhouse for several seasons where she cast over a hundred productions as well as directed. In addition to directing, she is a member of the Casting Society of America and has cast for Hallmark, PBS, CBS, BBC, HBO, Paramount, and MGM. Her favorite feature credit is serving as Location Casting Director for the Academy Award-winning Shawshank Redemption She was named one of four finalists for the Zelda Fichandler National Award in 2011, honoring directors whose work is making an impact on the art form and their community. She was honored as a YWCA Woman of Achievement and given the Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Continued Excellence. She is a proud graduate of Thomas More College and serves on the college’s Board of Trustees.
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about the playwright
KAT o RI HALL (Playwright) is a playwright and performer hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. Her award-winning play Hoodoo Love premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2007. It was developed under Lynn Nottage as part of the theatre’s 2006 Mentor Project. Hoodoo Love received three AUDELCO nominations (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, August Wilson Playwright Award). Her other plays include: Remembrance, Hurt Village, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, The Mountaintop, On The Chitlin’ Circuit, and Freedom Train (KCACTF ten-minute play national finalist). Her work has been developed and presented at the following venues: the American Repertory Theatre, Kennedy Center, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Schomburg Center, BRICLab, Women’s Project, World Financial Center, Lark Play Development Center, New Professional Theatre, The O’Neill, the Juilliard School, Stanford University, and Columbia University. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lecompte du Nouy Prize, North Manhattan Arts Alliance Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts Commission Grant, New Professional Theatre’s Writers’ Festival award, Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and Screenwriting, Royal Court Theatre Residency, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award. She has also been a Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow. As an actor, her credits include Law & Order: SVU, The President’s Puppets (The Public), Growing Up A Slave (American Place Theatre), Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl (American Place Theatre), the world premiere of Amerika (Theatre de la Jeune Lune/American Repertory Theatre), Spring Awakening (Moscow Art Theatre School), Ain’t Supposed to Die A Natural Death (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Schooled (WOW Café Theatre), and Black Girl (Sande Shurin Theatre). As a journalist, her work has been published in The Boston Globe, Essence, Newsweek, and The Commercial Appeal. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a major in African-American Studies and Creative Writing. She was awarded top departmental honors from the university’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS). In 2005, she graduated from the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Acting. She is now a student in the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. She is a proud member of the Women’s Project Playwrights’ Lab, the Lark Playwrights’ Workshop, and the Dramatists Guild.
BRA n D on T. H o LM e S (Production Stage Manager) is currently in his second season with Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. Previous productions include Alice in Wonderland, Freud’s Last Session, and Black Pearl Sings!. He holds a BFA from Wichita State University in Technical Theatre and Design. This past summer, he served as Production Stage Manager for LOOK Musical Theatre in Tulsa, OK. There, he stage managed productions of Hello, Dolly, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Side By Side By Sondheim. He has also worked with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Music Theatre of Wichita, Theatre in the Park, Kansas City Starlight, and Wichita Center for the Arts. Favorite productions include Thunder Knocking on the Door, Merrily We Roll Along (directed by John Doyle), Disney’s The Little Mermaid, The Producers, Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard. Thank you to the cast and design staff for making this a fantastic experience. Love to MDRJMAT. Proud Actors' Equity Association member!
BRIA n c. M e HRI n G (Resident Set & Lighting Designer) has designed over seventy productions at ETC. His favorite productions include: Thom Pain (based on nothing), James and Annie, Copenhagen, Blue/Orange, and I Am My Own Wife. Mr. Mehring’s regional favorites for set design include: The Last 5 Years and The Laramie Project, Playhouse in the Park; Henry IV, Part 1, The Georgia Shakespeare Festival; and I Am My Own Wife, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Peterborough Players, and Florida Studio Theatre; and for video design, Hiding Behind Comets (Playhouse in the Park). Mr. Mehring has also served as Charge Scenic Painter for the Cincinnati Opera. Mr. Mehring spent a season assisting mentor Paul Shortt at Teatro de Lucca and three seasons assisting Broadway Designer Robert T. Williams at Artpark in New York.
SHA nnon RA e LUTZ (Properties Master/Design Assistant) earned her Master’s degree in 1996 and became Prop Master at ETC and since then she has “mastered” dozens of productions. Ms. Lutz would like to thank the Cincinnati theatre community and patrons for their generous, supportive and tenacious spirit. Trained as a performer, she first appeared on ETC’s stage during the 1989 New Works Festival. In 1991, she was granted an ETC Internship. Now the Director of Intern Programming, she is honored to guide ETC’s essential ensemble: the Intern Company. ETC performance credits include: Fiction, Alice in Wonderland (1998, 2003, 2008, 2012), Poor Super Man, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Chronicles of Plague, A School for Scandal, Cinderella, Zorro, The Frog Princess, and Sleeping Beauty (2009, 2000). She would like to thank her family for their persistent love and support, Ruth for lessons in art, life, and integrity, and Lynn for her dedication to our dreams.
production team cont.
MICHA e L L en AGHA n (Properties Master) has been the Production Manager at TheaterWorks Hartford since 2005; prior to that he served as the Technical Director from 2003-2005. Previously, he was the Head Carpenter, Westport Country Playhouse; and Technical Director, Downtown Cabaret Theatre and York Theatre. His Broadway Carpentry credits include: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Into the Woods, Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home, Our Town, and Fortune’s Fool. His other carpentry and stagehand credits include: Goodspeed Musicals, The Juilliard School Drama Department, Joyce Theatre, Palace Theatre, and Rich Forum. His set design credits include: Santaland Diaries, TheaterWorks; Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) Pledge Set; and Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Fandango 13 & 14.
AAR on CLEME n TS (Technical Operations Director) is now in his fourth year at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. He is a native of Charlotte, NC and received his B.F.A. in Theater with a design/technical emphasis at Greensboro College. Mr. Clements worked four seasons at Seaside Music Theater as a carpenter, master carpenter, metal shop foreman, and as the assistant technical director for a winter season. He received his M.F.A. in Technical Direction from UC’s College-Conservatory of Music. He has also worked as a carpenter for ETC’s productions of Grey Gardens and Alice in Wonderland.
MATTH ew TIBBS (Sound Designer) is a sound designer working in advertising, film, and live performance, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Ball State University. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music and his B.A. from George Fox University. His recent work includes composition for Impulsion at Motion Dance Theatre in Asheville, North Carolina, sound design of Laughing Stock at Peterborough Players in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and sound design of King Henry the Fifth and Twelfth Night at Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota. Mr. Tibbs was previously the Resident Sound Designer for Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, where he designed world premiere productions of Bess Wohl’s In and Wendy MacLeod’s Find and Sign in addition to numerous productions including Next to Normal, Clybourne Park, Les Misérables, and Of Mice and Men. His work in film has been has been seen at film festivals nationally and internationally including NewFilmmakers New York, Austin Film Festival, Toronto ReelHeArt Film Festival, Pennsylvania ArtsFest Film Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
heading production team cont.
C HAD P HILLIPS (Costume Designer) is very excited to be back for his fourth show with Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. Martin Luther King, Jr. has always been one of his idols/heroes. His other credits for Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati include: Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean, and The Whipping Man. He is employed with the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park as the Costume Design Assistant. He resides in Covington, Kentucky.
R o CC o DAL VERA (Dialect Coach) is a Professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Mr. Dal Vera is an internationally recognized specialist on voice and emotion and he co-authored Voice: Onstage and Off and Acting in Musical Theatre: A Comprehensive Course with Robert Barton. He is an editor for Standard Speech, The Voice in Violence and Film, and Television and e-Media Coaching. He is a certified Alba Emoting trainer with an interest in voice and emotional extremes, a faculty member at Xavier University’s Leadership Center, and assisted with the Clay Street Project. Mr. Dal Vera has served as a voice, dialect, and text coach for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Human Race Theatre, Indiana Rep., and St. Louis Rep. He has also coached shows on Brozadway and worked on over 500 films and television shows including L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues, THIRTYsomething, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Gods Must Be Crazy.
the premiere society
The Premiere Society recognizes individuals who have made gifts totaling $1,000 or more within the past year. The exceptional generosity of these donors enables ETC to present world class new works and works new to the region by having the resources to achieve the highest level of artistic quality possible. The following list was updated February 19, 2014 and includes the names of donors whose gifts total $1,000 + since November 15, 2012. For questions or corrections, please contact Ashley Johnson at (513) 421-3555, ext. 17.
wo RLD CIRCL e ($10,000+):
Anonymous (3)
William P. Anderson Foundation
ArtsWave
The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation
Lucille K. & Charles O. Carothers
The Charles H. Dater Foundation, Inc.
William A. Friedlander Fund*
John & Gloria Goering Family Gift Fund
The Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation
LPK
The H.B., E.W., & F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation, Fifth Third Bank & Narley L. Haley, Co-Trustees
Macy's
Messer Construction Co.
Mitchell S. Meyers & Jacqueline P. Meyers Foundation
Ohio Arts Council
P&G Fund*
PNC Foundation
Richard Postler & Manuel Hernandez
John & Ruth Sawyer Fund*
The John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee
Ladislas & Vilma Segoe Family Foundation
The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
The Estate of Andrew D. Smith
The Jack J. Smith, Jr. Charitable Trust, PNC Bank and Karen Wachs, Co-Trustees
The Dudley S. Taft Charitable Foundation
Marilyn & Martin Wade
n ATI on AL CIRCL e ($5,000-$9,999):
The Erma A. Bantz Foundation
Clement & Ann Buenger Foundation CitiGroup
Mr. & Mrs. A.B. Closson, Jr.
Crosset Family Fund*
Harry & Linda Fath
Dennis & Rita Geiger
Lynne Miller & Steve King Kroger
Edward & Anita Marks
David & Judith Morgan Fund*
Judith Postler
Jack & Moe Rouse Fund*
Thompson Hine LLP
Ed Trach
Western & Southern Financial Fund
The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation
R e GI on AL CIRCL e ($2,500-$4,999):
Anonymous (2)
Anatole Alper
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Mary & William Bonansinga Charitable Family Fund*
Mrs. Charlene Breidster
Kenneth & Joan Campbell
Thomas R. Dietz
Gallagher SKS
GBBN Architects
Chip Gerhardt
William & Mary Jane James
Marcene & Jim Kinney
Kroger Community Rewards Program
MCF Advisors, LCC
Paula Steiner
Pete & Ginger Strange Family Fund*
Judith B. Titchener
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CI n CI nn ATI CIRCL e ($1,000-$2,499):
Anonymous (4)
Americana Arts Foundation
Nicholas Apanius
Malcolm A. & Glenda Bernstein
Michael Berry & Melanie Garner
David & Elaine Billmire
Bob & Elaine Blatt
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Gene H. Bowling
Kathy DeLaura & Ron Steinhoff
Dee & David Dillon Fund*
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Linda & Gary Greenberg
Bob & Mary Hamilton
Michael Haney & Amy Warner
Suzanne & Dr. Bob Hasl
Bob & Judy Heaton
Daniel Hurley
Lorrence T. & Barbara W. Kellar Fund*
Cecilia & Tom Kloecker
Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Nancy Lutz
Judith B. Green & Thomas M. McDonough
Mr. Ihor & Dr. Lisa Jo Melnyk
Sharon & Graham Mitchell
Diane & Dave Moccia
Michael Nordlund & Lisa Lee
Dr. Patricia O'Connor
Kit & Jack Overbeck
Pepper Family Fund*
Joseph A. & Susan E. Pichler Fund*
Sue & Jerry Ransohoff Fund*
Hera Reines
James & Sue Riley
Marvin & Betsy Schwartz Fund*
our supporters
ETC gratefully acknowledges the extraordinary individuals, families, and organizations whose generous support makes it possible for us to present exceptional theatre and unique educational outreach programs for our community. The following list was updated February 19, 2014 and includes the names of donors whose gifts total $125 + since November 15, 2012. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. For questions or corrections, please contact Ashley Johnson at (513) 421-3555, ext. 17.
CI n CI nn ATI CIRCL e Con T.:
Jane Bogart Sellers
Shelly Shor Gerson
Mary Stagaman
Paul & Jill Staubitz
The Corky & Rick Steiner Family Foundation
Glenda Suttman
Carol Talbot & John Battistone
Target Stores
U.S. Bank
Larry Weber
The Dennis B. & Patricia L. Worthen Fund
Mike & Liz Zimmer
Nora Zorich & Thomas Filardo Family Fund*
A CTo RS Co LUM n ($500-$999):
Anonymous (4)
Actors' Equity Foundation, Inc.
Norita Aplin & Stanley Ragle
Joan & Oliver Baily
Neil E. Billman, In Memory of Taffy Billman
dabby Blatt
Rosemary H. & Frank Bloom Special Fund*
Carter & Jo Ann Bobbitt, in Memory of Ruth D. Sawyer
Clay & Emily Bond
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Matching Gift Program
Daniel Brown & Mark Haggard
Gary & Jackie Bryson
Brenda Carter
Denise & Martin Chambers
William & Catherine Cody
Meredythe G. & Clayton C. Daley, Jr. Family Fund*
Judith de Luce
Kelly M. Dehan
Darin Dugan
Robert & Elizabeth Ehrsam
Mary Pat England
Terrell & Susan Finney
Kenneth J. Furrier
GE Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Helen & John Habbert
Marilyn P. & Joseph W. Hirschhorn Fund*
Betty Huck
John Isador & Sandy Kaltman
Keith & Patti James
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Matching Gifts Program
Arleene Keller
Mark D. Manley & Annette Januzzi Wick
Norah & joe Mock
John & Deborah Moffatt
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Marilyn Z. Ott
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Jennifer Verkamp
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Joseph Wessling
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Anonymous (4)
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Larry & Janet Clements
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Ann E. Hicks
Florette Hoffheimer
Cindy & Bill Hopping
Erin Houlihan & John Bostick
James & Robin Huizenga
STAG e MA n AG e RS Co LUM n C on T.:
Charles D. King
Jean Kinmoth
Kirkwood's Sweeper Shop, Inc.
Carmen & Rich Kovarsky
Dorothy K. Larsson
Nada Latto, in Memory of Ruth D. Sawyer
Star Le
Warren Leight
Alfonso & Mary Lopez
Jacqueline M. Mack & Dr. Edward B. Silberstein
Len & Sherie Marek
Dr. & Mrs. John E. McCall
William M. & Karen P. McKim
DeDe & Kevin McNeal
Ryan Messer & James Musuraca
Dr. Ralph Meyer
Ronald & Nancy Mielech
Drs. Steven & Jacqueline Miller Family Foundation
William & Sibyl Miller
Anu & Shekhar Mitra
William & Sara Morgan, in Memory of Ruth D. Sawyer
Hon. Norbert & Linnea Nadel
Roy Newman
Morris & Patricia Passer Family Fund*
Alice & Burton Perlman
Barry L. Prince
Tim & Mary Riordan
George & Caroll Roden
Richard Russell
Catharine B. Saelinger
Jude Samuel
Carol Schaber
Elizabeth & Blake Selnick
Eleanor Shott
Eli E. Shupe, Jr. & Toby Ruben
Ed & Anne Stern
Elizabeth A. Stone
Dennis & Helen Sullivan
The Tarshis Family Fund at Schwab Charitable Fund
J. Michael & Patricia Thierauf
Lynn & Dan Ticotsky
Sarah S. Timmons, in Memory of Ruth D. Sawyer
Dixie & Bill Utter
Rosalie P. van Nuis
Buzz Ward
Steve F. Warkany Fund*
Stuart Wheaton & Lenore Horner
Kate & Jay Wilford
Joseph D. Williams
The Rev. Anne Wrider
Zaring Family Foundation, in Memory of Ruth D. Sawyer
CR ew Co LUM n ($125-$249):
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Karen & Fred Abel
Jean L. Abrahamson
Christine O. Adams
our supporters cont.
Larry & Debby Adams
Anne Aiken
Gail Barker, M.D.
Henrietta Barlag
John Batchelor
Jane Bennett
Bill & Janet Berger
Hal & Sandi Bernstein
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Bloch
Neil Bortz
John T. Bruggen
Warren & Gail Cato
Chester Cavaliere
Angela Chong
James Cissell
heading
* Denotes a Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Susan Cohen & Robert Schmuelling
Dr. & Mrs. Alan Cordell
Roger Cranos
Lee Crooks
Sonia Daoud
Charlene Davis
Mary & Clyde Dial
Amy Diamond & Edward Wolf
Emilie W. & David W. Dressler Family Fund*
Jane & Igor Dumbadze
Richard & Deirdre Dyson
Peggy Eberhard
Charles & Harriet Edwards
our supporters cont.
CREW Con T.
Jerome & Jean Eichert
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick A. Fink
Deborah Friedman
Joanne Glaser
Eugenie & Edward Goggin
Janice & Sidney Goldstein
Diane & Stanley Goodman
Mrs. Madeleine H. Gordon
Cyndi Grammel, In Honor of Skylar Cherry
Sean Gray
Michael Gumbleton & Teddy Gumbleton
JoAnn & Gary Hagopian
Irving Harris
Jacquelyn Hirt
Dale Hodges & David Logan
Emily M. Hodges Fund
David & Karen Hoguet
Marilyn Hurrell
Kenneth Jordan
James Jorden
Iris Kelsen
Tana Kirkbride & Amit Gupta
Margaret W. Kite
Tim & Mary Alice Koch
Pinky & Sam Kocoshis
Marvin & Gerry Kraus
Susan Kruezmann
Mr. & Mrs. Polk Laffoon, IV
Patrick C. Larkin & Mary C. Henkel
Lowell Latto, in Memory of Ruth D. Sawyer
John Lin
Dick & Barbara Males
Jan & Marilyn Methlie
John F. Metz
Dr. Stephen F. Mielech
Mary Sue Morrow
Regine Moulton
Nora Moushey
Eunice H. Murphy
William & Catherine Cody
Patrick Cusick
Norah & joe Mock
Robert Streicher
Paul & Mary Ann Odegard
Fred & Leila Oliver
Melissa & John Panzeca
Sara H. Pritchard
Irene & Daniel Randolph Family
Barbara & Dave Reaman
Margaret M. Reid
Joyce Rich
Barbara Robb, in Honor of Sara Mackie
Dr. Raymond H. Rolwing
Marianne & Snowden Rowe, in Memory of Ruth D. Sawyer
Rich and Barb Ruddy
Patti & Mitchell Sacks
Robert & Christine Scheadler
Jeanie Schmidt
Elizabeth Sherwood
Elaine Shinkle
Paul Shortt
John & Linda Silvati
Mrs. Barbara B. Simon
Mary Lee & Louie Sirkin
Myfanwy & Robert Smith
Jacqueline & Richard Snyder
Keven Speece
Jean Springer
Howard & Nancy Starnbach
Fred & Anne Straus Charitable Fund
Tom Tepe
Lynda A. Thomas, in Memory of Ruth D. Sawyer
Tom Umfrid & Phil Tworek
Carter Waide
Dr. & Mrs. George Waissbluth
Priscilla S. Walford
Jane A. Walker
Pann & Terry Webb
Mike Wedig
Jackie Weist
Mark & Irene Zigoris
e xe CUTIV e B o ARD
John Sawyer Stephen M. King
Chair President
Marcene Kinney Mitchell Meyers
Vice President Treasurer
Jane Sellers
Secretary
A DMI n ISTRATIV e STAFF
D. Lynn Meyers
The Ruth Dennis Sawyer/ Mary Taft Mahler
Producing Artistic Director
Richard J. Diehl
Managing Director
Jocelyn Meyer
Director of Marketing & Communications
Jared D. Doren
Director of Patron Services & Development Associate
Ashley Johnson
Producing Associate
F I n A n CIAL A DVIS o R
Chet Cavaliere
Box o FFIC e STAFF
John Diehl
Seth Longland
Sarah Nix
Becca Schall
Ho US e MA n AG e R
Amy Janowiecki
H e AD o F S e CURIT y Officer Nick Ligon
A DMI n ISTRATIVE In TER n S
Dori Branch, Producing
Melissa Foster, Marketing
B o ARD o F T RUST ee S
Nick Apanius
Mary Bonansinga
Otto M. Budig
Dr. Charles O. Carothers
Brenda A. Carter
Kathy DeLaura
Tom Dietz
Dennis Geiger
PR o DUCTI on STAFF
Brian c. Mehring
Chip Gerhardt
Skip Hickenlooper
Dan Hurley
Edward G. Marks
Richard L. Postler
Simón Sotelo
Mary Stagaman
Mike Zimmer
Resident Set & Lighting Designer
Matthew Hollstegge
Production Coordinator & Master Electrician
Shannon Rae Lutz
Property Master, Design Assistant & Director of Intern Programming
Aaron Clements
Technical Operations Director
Jack Murphy
Technical Assistant
Brandon T. Holmes
Production Stage Manager
Starr Fish
Costume Assistant
STAGE MA n AGEME n T In TER n S
Melissa Olberding
Zach Wells
DIRECTI n G In TER n
Ben Raanan
A CTI n G In TER n C o MPA ny
Linnea Bond, Becca Howell, Jared Hudson, Jeremy Parker, Hannah Sawicki, Zak Schneider, Sola Thompson
patron services
e n S e MBL e T H e ATR e C I n CI nn ATI
1127 Vine Street | Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 | www.ensemblecincinnati.org (513) 421-3555
e TC Box oFFIC e Ho URS & A CC e PT e D PAy M en T
Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 2 hours prior to curtain. Weekend hours vary. VISA, MC, Discover, and AmEx are accepted, as well as Downtown Gift Cards.
T ICK e T R e S e RVATI on S & S AL e P o LIC y
Reservations can be made by calling the box office, in person, or online. Ticket reservations are not accepted via email. Single-ticket purchases are a final sale with no refund. Single tickets may, however, be exchanged for another performance during the run of a show for a fee, but may not be exchanged from one production to another. If a patron is a no-show for their reserved performance, ETC is under no obligation to reschedule his or her tickets.
TAX CREDITS
If for any reason you cannot attend your performance and cannot reschedule for another date, tickets released prior to performances by calling the ETC box office are fully deductible as a charitable contribution. No-shows or tickets released after curtain time do not qualify as tax credits.
PARKI n G
Patrons may park at the Gateway Garage (accessible via 12th Street) or at the surface lot, both are conveniently located at the corner of Vine and 12th Streets. Parking is also available at Washington Park Garage, accessible via Elm or Race Street. Charges vary.
C HILDR en
Children under the age of 4 will not be admitted to productions unless otherwise advertised. Parents with disruptive children will be asked to leave the theatre.
L AT eC o M e RS & ADMITTA n C e
Latecomers will be seated at the House Manager’s discretion and may be denied admission depending upon the demands or structure of a particular production. Should you need to leave the theatre during a performance, readmittance is not guaranteed. ETC reserves the right to deny admission and/or remove any disruptive patrons from the theatre at any time.
R ESTR oo MS
Restrooms are located at the front of the lobby. Should you need to use the restroom during a performance, please exit the theatre the same way you came in. Readmittance will be at House Manager's discretion.
ACCESSIBILIT y
Please notify the box office in advance if you require wheelchair-accessible seating or have special seating needs and our staff will be happy to accommodate you. Audio-enhancement and large-print playbills available. Generally, sign-interpreted performances are on the third Wednesday of every production.
C AM e RAS, Ce LL PH one S & STAG e
Actors’ Equity Association strictly prohibits the use of cameras or recording devices (including camera phones) in the theatre. Kindly turn off any cell phones or pagers prior to the show starting. Text messaging during the show disturbs other audience members and actors and will not be tolerated. For safety reasons, audience members are strictly prohibited from standing, sitting or otherwise being or putting anything onstage at any time.
G R o UPS & D ISC o U n TS
Groups of 10 or more can save over single-ticket prices. Student rates, rush discounts, Public Radio Perks Card, AAA, ArtsWave ArtsPass, Enjoy the Arts, and educator and military member discounts available (please consult your appropriate membership(s) for details and exclusions).
