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LIFE OF GALILEO
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VIVIENNE BENESCH
Dear Friends, "My object is not to establish that I was right, but to find out if I am." –Galileo Galilei, Scene 8 Brecht completed The Life of Galileo in 1938, just as Hitler cemented his grip on the German state. Yet the play was never static. Over nearly twenty years, he produced three drafts, each in taught conversation with the socio-political situation he lived in. Two years ago, as President Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, I was struck by a chilling thought: if Brecht were alive today, he'd have good reason to revisit his masterpiece once more. What a great opportunity then, to get to do what theatre artists do best: to resurrect, reexamine, and revitalize this timeless piece for our present day. It is true that the play reverberates with contemporary resonances—from the denial of truth to backroom politics—but it is Galileo's relentless curiosity that has been my lodestar throughout this process. We follow his example in constant pursuit of the truth, letting the spirit of genuine inquiry lead us out of our comfort zones and into new and dangerous territory. I was supremely lucky to assemble a team of crackerjack storytellers to join me—a creative team more interested in what they don't know than what they’ve already figured out. And New York based actor Ron Menzel has led our acting company with the same charge, digging into the role of Galileo with an appetite and curiosity worthy of the complicated icon he portrays.
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It’s an understatement to say that I’ve been humbled and inspired by our entire company, on stage and off, as they’ve leapt into the unknown with enthusiasm and aplomb. And the question I’ve carried into selecting our just-announced 2019/20 season, Legacy | NOW, is how do we bring the same spirit of relentless inquiry into everything we do here at PlayMakers? How can we open ourselves beyond what we already know, or "how things have always been," and remain steadfast bridesmaids to truth and justice? Groundbreaking plays like Native Son, Ragtime, and Julius Caesar will certainly have a lot to say on this subject, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring them to you next season. I can't say I know exactly how it will all turn out, but after this exacting, exciting, and inspiring process working on Life of Galileo, I can tell you this: I tolerate our uncertainty more than ever before as an essential pathway to art and discovery. Thank you for your questioning spirit and for going with us on this journey. Warmly,
Vivienne
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AMY & KEVIN GUSKIEWICZ
Amy and Kevin Guskiewicz have called Chapel Hill home for more than 20 years. Amy, who grew up casually participating in theatre throughout middle and high school in Maryland, is a real estate agent with Fonville Morisey and enjoys sharing with others her love of Chapel Hill. Prior to her career as a realtor, Amy taught elementary school and once had the pleasure of directing her class of 3rd–5th graders in a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Forest Theatre. Kevin is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Exercise and Sports Medicine, Athletic Trainer, and founding director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has served on faculty since 1995. Over the past 25 years, his research has helped sports medicine clinicians to improve diagnosis and management of sport-related concussions. In 2016, Kevin was appointed Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at UNC-CH, and in 2019 was named interim chancellor. Amy and Kevin have four children: Jacob, Nathan, Adam, and Tessa. Amy and Kevin often enjoy a short walk through Battle Park from their Franklin Street home to the Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art for an evening of theatre. They have been actively involved with PlayMakers for the past few years as subscribers and supporters of our annual gala. Amy also serves as a member of the PlayMakers Advisory Council and is a founding member of the PlayMakers women’s leadership council, WPOV (Women’s Point of View). This year, Amy is excited to take on a new leadership role as Vice Chair of the Advisory Council. “We give to PlayMakers because it is a place that our family enjoys gathering to see how theatre brings together students, faculty, staff, and the community in a meaningful way,” says Amy. We are grateful to Amy and Kevin for their enthusiastic support of PlayMakers and its role in the Chapel Hill community!
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PLAYMAKERS PRESENTS
Life of Galileo by
adapted by
Bertolt Brecht
Joseph Discher Director
Vivienne Benesch Choreographer Tracy Bersley
Scenic & Projection Designer Costume Designer Grier Coleman Jim Findlay
Lighting Designer Kate McGee
Dramaturg Sound Designer & Composer Adam Versenyi Justin Ellington
Movement Coach Thiago Felix Assistant Director Tara Elliott
Vocal Coach Tia James
Assistant Director Christopher Combemale
Assistant Stage Manager Stage Manager Charles K. Bayang Elizabeth Ray
FEB 27–MAR 17, 2019 This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Many thanks to our Partner and Opening Night Post-Show Reception Sponsor, Il Palio Restaurant Grier Coleman is the recipient of the Virginia Knight Sanford Distinsuighed Guest Artist Award Justin Ellington is the recipient of the Robert and Margaret Boyer Distinguished Guest Artist Award Jim Findlay is the recipient of the Charles and Shirley Weiss Distinguished Guest Artist Award Sarita Ocón is the recipient of the Louise Lamont Distinguished Guest Artist Award
The Professional Theatre of the Department of Dramatic Art Adam Versényi, Chair Vivienne Benesch, Producing Artistic Director Justin D. Haslett, Managing Director Produced in association with The College of Arts & Sciences The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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THE CAST In alphabetical order Federzoni. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Adamson* Ludovico / Monk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geoffrey Culbertson Senator / Philosopher / Little Monk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rishan Dhamija Curator / Philosopher / Cardinal Inquisitor / Frontier Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ray Dooley* Senator / Mathematician / Monk / Bellarmine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samuel Ray Gates* Andrea / Astronomer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Givens Senator / Prince Cosimo / Fat Prelate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brandon Haynes Guard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashlei Heffernan Sagredo / Mathematician / Monk / Barberini / Clerk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathryn Hunter-Williams* Virginia / Astronomer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Elizabeth Keyes Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anna Longenecker Galileo Galilei. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ron Menzel* Senator / Mathematician / Monk / Father Clavius / Mucius / Ballad Singer's Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Mirzayan* Mrs. Sarti / Very Thin Monk / Official . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarita OcÓn* Ballad Singer / Very Old Cardinal / Vanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tristan Parks Doge / Gaffone / Chamberlain / Old Cardinal's Attendant / Monk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel P. Wilson
Setting: then, now, and later There will be one 15 minute intermission
STAGE MANAGERS
Charles K. Bayang*
Elizabeth Ray*
*Indicates members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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PROGRAM NOTES Bertolt Brecht's Galileo Galilei By Adam Versenyi The lifetime of Galileo Galilei, the subject of Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo, spanned the divide between the major European intellectual traditions of the Renaissance and modern nationalism. Born in Pisa, Italy in 1564, three days before Michelangelo’s death and about two months before Shakespeare’s birth, he died in Arcetri, near Florence, in 1642, somewhat less than a year before Newton was born. If Michelangelo’s artistry can be seen as marking the end of the Italian Renaissance, Shakespeare’s plays and poetry initiating an important period in English culture, and Newton’s work as starting modern scientific and technological innovation, Galileo lived in a turbulent time, not unlike our own, when the moral, religious, and social fabric was in transition and experiencing profound crises. Europeans had recently “discovered” both Asia and the Americas, and the Protestant Reformation had shaken the foundations of European nations themselves. The Catholic Church felt itself losing its authority and prestige, and Europe as a whole lost its feeling of centrality to human affairs. In 1610 Duke Cosimo II de' Medici invited Galileo to join his court in Florence as Philosopher and Mathematician to the young Duke. Florence was a leading center of commerce, learning and the arts from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Under the Medici family it was the prosperous central hub of the Renaissance offering patronage to artists such as Giotto, Masaccio, Donatello, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, and Alberti; where Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio used their writings to turn the Tuscan dialect into an all-Italian language, and where Machiavelli created his notion of the modern nation-state. Other characters central to Brecht’s Life of Galileo, such as the Cardinals Bellarmine and Barberini, are also drawn from this historical period. By 1597 the Professor of
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Theology Cardinal Bellarmine had become the Catholic Church’s foremost authority in the analysis and persecution of heresies, particularly those posed by Protestantism. Bellarmine was intimately involved in the trial that led to the death by immolation of Giordano Bruno ten years before Brecht’s play begins. Cardinal Barberini, a mathematician himself, was invested as Pope Urban VIII in 1623. His sympathy towards Cardinal Richelieu and the French created tensions between Spain and the Church, and Barberini’s desire to extend Church rule throughout the Italian states added to the tensions that existed already between the Barberini family and other Italian ruling families, including the Medici. This led to a war between the Papal States and a league of Italian states including Tuscany between 1642-1644. It was in the midst of all of this that Galileo published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, whose publication led to his trial and condemnation by the Inquisition.
17th Century Celestial Chart by Andreas Cellarius with the Earth as the center (left) and a rendering of the solar system with the Sun as the center by Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543 (right).
Even after Galileo’s conviction, condemnation, and recantation the Catholic Church continued to make use of his scientific theories, and there is a good case to be made that what the Inquisition could not tolerate in the cases of both Bruno and Galileo was not so much their insistence upon the Copernican theory of heliocentric planetary motion, but that Copernicus, Bruno, and Galileo all employed the ancient Greek Pythagoras’ cosmology as a basis for their own scientific theories.
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Pythagoras was born on the Greek island of Samos around 570 BCE, lived in southern Italy, and died around five hundred years before Christ’s birth. While he is known today for the Pythagorean geometric theorem, there is actually no evidence that he created it. Both in ancient times and to the Catholic Church of Galileo’s time, Pythagoras was known as a philosopher and religious leader.
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Galileo’s discoveries by means of his telescope that the moon has mountains and valleys, that Jupiter has four moons, the Milky Way is made of innumerable stars, and that Venus has phases, all sounded to the Inquisition as if they confirmed Pythagoras’ heretical pagan contentions that there are other worlds, and that human beings on Earth are not God’s unique creation. When Galileo further argued that the Bible is not literally true, and claimed that philosophers and mathematicians, as experts on nature, should have the right to determine the true meaning of scriptures that are not necessary for salvation, his pleas that God did not mean for us to abandon rationality were seen as a direct challenge to papal infallibility, and to the Church’s rightful position as the interpreter of Christian faith. This, then, is the historical and cultural background Brecht draws upon for Life of Galileo. What does he do with it? Many have pointed out that Brecht alters aspects of Galileo’s biography and gets the history of science wrong. As George Lukács has written, where playwrights and novelists depart from the facts of history, they present the larger forces of history. Historical plays are inherently ahistorical since their life is dependent upon their relevance to the playwright’s own time and, hopefully, all future times. Brecht’s interest in the historical Galileo arises when he is already in exile from Germany, having fled the Nazis, and finds himself preoccupied with those who somehow manage to remain in Germany and work to subvert Hitler’s regime. Brecht writes three versions of Life of Galileo. The first version, with its central line “Take care when you travel through Germany with the truth under your coat!” is propaganda for thinking regardless of the context you live in. The second version, co-written with the actor Charles Laughton in Hollywood, and performed briefly both in Los Angeles and New York, portrays a Galileo of insatiable appetite for both knowledge and
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sensual satisfaction. The third version, written after the explosion of the atom bomb in the 1940s, and upon which PlayMakers production is based, draws a direct line between Galileo’s physics and the atom bomb, and dissents from the idea of “pure” scientific research to demand that scientists themselves work with a sense of social responsibility and avoid becoming subject to the machinations of those power by working to ease human existence.
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One of Brecht’s favorite pieces of reading was an essay by Mao on contradiction. And, like so many of his plays, Life of Galileo challenges us to confront the play’s issues by creating a series of contradictions in the play’s action revolving around oppositions such as passivity vs. activity, cowardice vs. courage, and slyness vs. boldness. Brecht’s Galileo’s two main sins against the Church are to publish in vernacular Italian rather than Latin, thus giving the populace access to knowledge, and to deny the validity or primacy of heroes or the authority of religious icons, thereby thrusting the responsibility for progress and change into the hands of the masses. Brecht rewrote and remounted his major plays several times, constantly making changes designed to stress the plays’ relevance to the time in which they were 20 produced. PlayMakers’ production of Life of Galileo asks what Brecht would do
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with his play were he alive today? Set in a seed bank where Galileo’s story is one of many that have been stored for the benefit of future generations, workers stumble upon the Galileo file and bring it to life as a means by which to comprehend the world we live in now. Like Galileo in his time, we in Chapel Hill live in a period of turmoil, locally, nationally, and internationally. The breakdown of hierarchical and patriarchal social structures, a more complicated understanding of gender and identity, and the economic rise of nations once seen as backwaters, have all led to the coming to power of a series of autocratic regimes from Hungary to Brazil to the United States, among others, that rightly see the centrality of certain worldviews threatened and, like the Inquisition did with religious heresies, seek to stamp out secular heresies and return us to a mythical golden age. In surveying our contemporary world Brecht might focus on the way our age proliferates information but frequently denigrates knowledge, on how scientific investigation confirms global warming while we continue blithely burning fossil fuels, and how multinational corporations profit off of the destruction of the human beings that generate those profits. Yet, while using his theatre to focus upon and expose these contradictions, Brecht, as he does in Life of Galileo, would also stress our humanity and the human being’s capacity for hope and ability to build a better future. Working on a new production of Life of Galileo with the members of the Berliner Ensemble just before his death in 1956 Brecht said, “In spite of all, Galileo is a hero. In spite of all, he becomes a criminal.” Now, in true Brechtian fashion, join us in determining whether or not that is so.
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OUR CO-PRODUCER Raised in the land of espresso bars and local roasters, Larry grew up with love for coffee and an appreciation for the nuances that make one cup more interesting than another. He moved to the Southeast for graduate school but soon got sidetracked by his own obsession with coffee, working as a roaster in Raleigh’s first coffeehouse, then starting his own coffeehouse and roastery. From the start he was all about taking time with his roast and treating blends like his own drinkable art form. He wasn’t just about good coffee; he was about unique coffee. Larry also took part in a delegation to visit fair trade farmers in Chiapas, Mexico, where the quiet courage and deep dignity of the farmers made a life-changing impression on him. He came away with the realization that fair trade was “more than a way to get amazing coffee, it was about creating a new business model, where everyone gets what they want and no one is exploited along the way.” So he led Larry’s Coffee to become a founding member of Cooperative Coffees, the first (and still the only U.S.) cooperative of Independent roasters exporting fair trade beans directly from farmers.
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AUTHOR BIO Bertolt Brecht Playwright
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was born in Augsberg, Germany. In 1918 while studying medicine at Munich University he was called up for military service as a medical orderly. His early poems and his first play Baal (1918) reflect his experience with the horrors of war. After the war Brecht became part of the burgeoning artistic milieu in Munich and Berlin as a critic and a playwright, producing his plays Drums in the Night (1922), and Edward II (1924), and working as dramaturg for the directors Max Reinhardt and Erwin Piscator. In 1928 Brecht joined forces with the composer Kurt Weill to write The Threepenny Opera (1928) and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagony (1930). With the rise of the Nazis in the early 1930s Brecht went into exile in 1933, first in Scandinavia, then in the United States where he worked mainly in Hollywood. In 1947 he was subpoenaed to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities where he gave testimony with a plane ticket to Zurich for the next day in his pocket. He returned to what had now become East Germany, founding the Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin in 1949. While in exile he co-wrote the second version of Life of Galileo with Charles Laughton (1945-1946), and his other major plays Mother Courage and Her Children (1941), The Good Person of Szechuan (1943), and began writing The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948) and Herr Puntila and His Man Matti (1948). Brecht died in 1956 while directing a new production of Life of Galileo for the Berliner Ensemble. Over the course of his career he wrote numerous theoretical essays about the nature of the theatre becoming, along with Konstantin Stanislavski and Antonin Artaud, one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century theatre practice.
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CAST BIOS David Adamson Federzoni
PlayMakers: Company member for over 40 years. Recent shows and highlights include Bewilderness, She Loves Me, Leaving Eden, Twelfth Night, Three Sisters, An Enemy of the People, Trouble in Mind, Into the Woods, Imaginary Invalid, Henry IV & V, Big River, As You Like It, Nicholas Nickleby, The Illusion, Hobson’s Choice, The Tempest, Cymbeline, The Seagull, Arcadia, Charley’s Aunt, Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Curse of the Starving Class, Sherman the Peacemaker. Off-Broadway: The Strike, The Ambassador, Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, Happy Birthday, Wanda June. Tours: Tracers, Drumwright, Appalachia Sounding. Regional: Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Love’s Labours Lost, Hamlet, Henry IV, A Christmas Carol (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Henry V, All’s Well That Ends Well (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Deathtrap (Old Creamery Theatre); Henry IV, Hamlet (Indiana Repertory Theatre). International: Telemacco, Bridge of Sighs (Fest in Hellbrunn, Salzburg, Austria). Other: Academic Advisor, UNC-Chapel Hill; Vietnam veteran.
Geoffrey Culbertson Ludovico, Monk
PlayMakers: Company member in third year of UNC’s Professional Actor Training Program. Bewilderness, Leaving Eden, Sense and Sensibility, Twelfth Night, The Crucible; PlayMakers Mobile Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure. University: The Glass Menagerie, The Seagull (University of Virginia); Measure for Measure, He Who Gets Slapped, Tartuffe, Metamorphoses (Live Arts Theater).
Rishan Dhamija
Senator, Philosopher, Little Monk
PlayMakers: Company member in third year of UNC’s Professional Actor Training Program. Bewilderness, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Leaving Eden, Tartuffe, Dot, Sense and Sensibility, My Fair Lady, The May Queen; PlayMakers Ground Floor Beast on the Moon. International: Wasted (Turntable Productions, New Delhi); Arsenic and Old Lace: A Goremet Affair, Stop Look Bang, All’s Well that Ends (At Rise Productions, New Delhi); Shiva Calling (Idea Worx Productions, New Delhi); Black Comedy (Old Cheese Productions, New Delhi). University: Inheritance of the Jhunjhunwalas, The Mousetrap, That Darn Plot, The Solitary Creeper (University of Delhi). Education: BA Honors Economics, Sri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi; Screenwriting Certificate, NYU-Tisch; Filmmaking Intensive, USC.
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Ray Dooley
Curator, Philosopher, Cardinal Inquisitor, Frontier Guard
PlayMakers: Company member since 1989. Most recently: Bewilderness, She Loves Me, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Gabriel/Doc Lanford in Leaving Eden, Orgon in Tartuffe, Storyteller in A Christmas Carol, Mrs. Jennings in Sense and Sensibility, Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady. Broadway: Macbeth (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway: Three seasons with Classic Stage Company (OBIE Award for Distinguished Performance, Peer Gynt). International: European premiere of Doubt (Vienna’s English Theatre); Amadeus, The Lark (Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Canada). Regional: Folger Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Shakespeare Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre Company, among many others. Film/TV: Changeover, The Trial of Standing Bear, Stonebrook, One Life to Live, Guiding Light. Education/Other: MFA, American Conservatory Theater; BA, Hamilton College (Phi Beta Kappa). Professor, UNCChapel Hill Department of Dramatic Art. C. Knox Massey Award for Unusual, Distinguished and Meritorious Service to the University. Member Actors’ Equity Association, Canadian Actors’ Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA.
Samuel Ray Gates
Senator, Monk, Bellarmine
PlayMakers: Company member in his second season. Skeleton Crew, Leaving Eden, Dot. Regional: All the Way (Theatre Squared), Between Riverside and Crazy (American Conservatory Theater), Alabama Story (Pinoeer Theatre Company), Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse), The Muscles in our Toes (Labyrinth Theater Company), Clybourne Park (Cincinnati Playhouse), Trinity River Plays (Dallas Theater Center, Goodman Theatre), In the Red and Brown Water (McCarter Theatre Center), Electra (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Film/Television: November Criminals, Wolves, Person of Interest, Veep, Mozart in the Jungle, Two Night Stand, The Blacklist, House of Cards, Queen City, Boadwalk Empire, Unforgettable, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Kings, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Rescue Me. Education: MFA, American Conservatory Theater.
Alex Givens
Andrea, Astronomer
PlayMakers: Company member in third year of UNC’s Professional Actor Training Program. Skeleton Crew, Leaving Eden, Tartuffe, The Christians, Sense and Sensibility, My Fair Lady, The Crucible; PlayMakers Mobile Measure for Measure. Regional: All’s Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare In Love, Much Ado About Nothing, King John (Great River Shakespeare Festival). University: Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Endgame, Argonautika (University of Missouri-Columbia).
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Brandon Haynes
Senator, Prince Cosimo, Fat Prelate
PlayMakers: Company member in second year of UNC’s Professional Actor Training Program. Bewilderness, Tartuffe; PlayMakers Mobile Macbeth; PlayMakers Ground Floor Beast on the Moon, Topdog/ Underdog. Education: BFA from Valdosta State University.
Ashlei Heffernan Guard
PlayMakers: Debut. University: The Language Archive (Kenan Theatre Company); Almost, Maine (LAB! Theatre Company). Education/Awards/Other: Dramatic Art and CommunicationsPerformance Studies Major (UNC-Chapel Hill), Certificate of International Study in Acting (The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin, Ireland), Wallace Ray Peppers Award in Performance of African-American Literature (UNC-Chapel Hill, 2017)
Kathryn Hunter-Williams
Sagredo, Mathematician, Monk, Barberini, Clerk
PlayMakers: Company member for 19 seasons. Recent and highlights include Bewilderness, Skeleton Crew, Leaving Eden, Tartuffe, Count (as Director), Dot, Intimate Apparel, The Crucible, Trouble in Mind, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Into the Woods, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Metamorphoses, The Tempest, Love Alone, A Raisin in the Sun, Imaginary Invalid, Henry IV & V, The Parchman Hour, Angels in America, Fences, Doubt, Romeo and Juliet, Yellowman, String of Pearls, among others. New York/Regional: Living Stage, The Negro Ensemble Company, Manhattan Class Company, New Dramatists, Archipelago Theater. Education/Other: BFA, UNC School of the Arts; MFA, UNC-Chapel Hill. Kathryn is on the faculty of the Department of Dramatic Art, UNC-Chapel Hill, and is Associate Director of HiddenVoices, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing life changing stories into a public forum.
Sarah Elizabeth Keyes
Virginia, Astronomer
PlayMakers: Company member in second year of UNC’s Professional Actor Training Program. She Loves Me, Leaving Eden, Sense and Sensibility; PlayMakers Mobile Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. New York: The Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA); The Mysteries (The Flea); Solutions Grassroots Tour (International Wow Company) Regional: Measure for Measure, Macbeth (Scranton Shakespeare Festival); Dracula, Floyd Collins, and The Humana Festival of New American Plays (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Film/Television: On the Way North (OTWN); Boy Code (Cannes Film Festival Selection) Education: BA in Acting Fordham University Lincoln Center; Theatre major at Interlochen Arts Academy High School.
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A survivor's guide to the rules of the road
Julia Gibson
Jeffrey Blair Cornell
APR 3–21
At once compassionate, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly funny, this Pulitzer Prize-winning play chronicles one woman’s journey to break the cycle—and silence— surrounding her sexual abuse at the hands of a beloved family member. A story of boundaries, personal agency, and how hindsight is not always 20/20, How I Learned to Drive has earned its place in the contemporary American theatre canon and achieves a powerful new resonance in the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp. “The play is a potent and convincing comment on a taboo subject, and its impact sneaks up on its audience.” –Variety
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Anna Longenecker Guard
PlayMakers: Debut. University: Val in A Chorus Line; Sally Bowles in Cabaret; Hunyak in Chicago (UNC Pauper Players). Education/Other: BA in Global Studies and Dramatic Art, UNC-Chapel Hill Class of 2019. Anna is a General Management Assistant at PlayMakers.
Ron Menzel Galileo Galilei
PlayMakers: Debut. Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereueses (Booth Theatre), Parisian Woman (Hudson Theatre). Regional: Guthrie Theatre: 10 productions, including Pericles/Pericles and Vito Marcantonio/The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (World Premiere), Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, South Coast Rep, Geva Theatre, City Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Mixed Blood Theatre, Ten Thousand Things, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Huldufolk Theatre. Film/TV: Imprisoned, Cryptos, Anonymous Content, Vernie, Fall into Me, Elementary, Blindspot, Numb3rs.
Christine Mirzayan
Senator, Mathematician, Monk, Father Clavius, Mucius, Ballad Singer's Wife
PlayMakers: Company member in third year of UNC’s Professional Actor Training Program. Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Christians, The Cake, My Fair Lady, The Crucible; PlayMakers Mobile Measure for Measure; PlayMakers Ground Floor Beast on the Moon. Regional: Harvey (Heritage Theatre Festival); Antony and Cleopatra (Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park). University: The Trojan Women, Stepping Out, Othello, Rhinoceros, Coram Boy, SubUrbia (University of Oklahoma). Education/Other: BFA in Dramatic Art, University of Oklahoma. Awards: 2016 American College Theatre Festival Region IV Lee Hicks Award, Irene Ryan Best Partner Finals.
Sarita Ocon
Mrs. Sarti, Very Thin Monk, Official
PlayMakers: Leaving Eden, The Crucible New York: PLACAS (Puerto Rican Traveling Theater). Regional: Men on Boats (American Conservatory Theater); Quixote Nuevo, Everybody, The War Of The Roses, Twelfth Night (California Shakespeare Theater); A Streetcar Named Desire, To The Bone, Othello, Waiting For Lefty (Ubuntu Theater Project); The River Bride (Arizona Theater Company); PLACAS (South Coast Repertory, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Gala Hispanic Theatre, San Francisco International Arts Festival); Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad 32 Zoo (San Francisco Playhouse); Ghost Light (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Night
Over Erzinga (Golden Thread Productions); Ghosts of the River (ShadowLight Productions); The House on Mango Street, School of the Americas (Teatro Visión). Awards: TCG Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship in partnership with PlayMakers, RHE Charitable Foundation Artistic Fellowship, California Arts Council Local Impact Award, Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Award.Education/Other: BA, Stanford University. Sarita is a company member of HERO Theatre and Ubuntu Theater Project.
Tristan Parks
Ballad Singer, Very Old Cardinal, Vanni
PlayMakers: Company member in his third year in the Professional Actor Training Program in the Department of Dramatic Art, UNC-Chapel Hill. She Loves Me, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Leaving Eden, My Fair Lady, Twelfth Night, The Crucible; PlayMakers Mobile A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Measure for Measure. University: The Odyssey, Oklahoma!, Blues for Alabama Sky, Macbeth, The Little Prince, Chamber Music, Fabulation, or the ReEducation of Undine, The Normal Heart (University of Memphis).Education: BFA in Theatre with a concentration in Performance, University of Memphis.
Daniel P. Wilson
Doge, Gaffone, Chamberlain, Old Cardinal's Attendant, Monk
PlayMakers: Reading of Illegal Helpers. International: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Stockholms Stadsteater). Regional: The Herd (Honest Pint), Burn This (Sonorous Road), Blood Done Sign My Name (Raleigh Little Theatre), Assassins (Theatre in the Park), Man of La Mancha, The Wizard of Oz, Urinetown, On Golden Pond (Los Altos Stage), Oliver (Cabrillo Stage), Joseph & the Amazing…, Man of La Mancha, South Pacific, Cyrano, and Cinderella (Pacific Conservatory Theatre). Television: Wives with Knives (Tommy Shackelford). Film: Changing Boundaries: The History of San Jose (Narrator). Dan is also a director, producer, and arts management professional. He is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts (PCPA) in Santa Maria, CA and holds a BFA in Directing from Roosevelt University. https://www.danielpaulwilson.com/
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CREATIVE TEAM Vivienne Benesch Life of Galileo Director PlayMakers Producting Artistic Director
Vivienne is in her third season as a company member and PlayMakers’ Producing Artistic Director. For 12 seasons, she served as Artistic Director of the renowned Chautauqua Theater Company and Conservatory, presiding over the company’s transformation into one of the best summer theatres and most competitive summer training programs in the country. She directed over fifteen productions at CTC including an acclaimed re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet featuring the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Theatre, Opera and Dance companies. She brought CTC’s production of Amadeus, performed with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic, to the Virginia Arts Festival featuring PlayMakers company member Ray Dooley. She has helmed productions of Leaving Eden, Mr. Joy, The May Queen, Three Sisters, Love Alone, RED and In The Next Room for PlayMakers, the world premiere of Noah Haidel’s Birthday Candles for Detroit Public Theatre, directed extensively for The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and directed The Heidi Chronicles for Trinity Repertory Company. As an actress, Vivienne has worked on and offBroadway, in film and television, and at many of the country’s most celebrated theatres. She has appeared with Gene Wilder, Al Pacino and Blythe Danner, performed with Maggie Smith in the London revival of Edward Albee’s The Lady from Dubuque, and received an OBIE Award for her performance in Lee Blessing’s Going to St. Ives. Vivienne is a graduate of Brown University and NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. As an educator, she has directed for and served on the faculty of some of the nation’s foremost actor training programs, including The Juilliard School, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Professional Actor Training Program, Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Program and at her alma mater, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. Vivienne also holds a BA from Brown University. She is the 2017 recipient of the Zelda Finchandler Award given by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.
Tracy Bersley Choreographer
PlayMakers: Movement coach and resident choreographer in her third season. As director/choreographer, Tracy Bersley has worked at such institutions as Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), The Lortel Theatre, Primary Stages, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival and many award winning Off-Broadway companies, such as The Civilians and Red Bull Theatre. She has served as professor or guest artist at Yale School of Drama, Princeton University, New York University, Purchase College, Columbia University/Barnard College and The Juilliard School. Tracy received her MFA in Directing from Syracuse University and is currently the head of movement for the Professional Actor Training Program in the
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Jim Findlay Scenic and Projection Designer
PlayMakers: De Profundis with Brian Mertes in 2017 and, even more distantly, shop foreman from 1989-1992. Recent credits: Direction and design of the whisper opera by Pulitzer winning composer David Lang in Brussels, Belgium; direction and design of Electric Lucifer at the Kitchen (NYC); direction and design of The Oper& at Duke Performances; set design of Measure for Measure at the Public Theater; video design of director Daniel Fish’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise at Theater Freiburg; and set design of The Loser (David Lang) at BAM. He has received Obie and Bessie Awards and is a Creative Capital artist and MacDowell Colony Fellow. He is a founder of the Collapsable Hole, an artist run performance space in New York City. He is currently developing a Walt Whitman project which will premiere in 2020.
Grier Coleman Costume Designer
PlayMakers: Dot, The Crucible, Disgraced. Broadway: Assistant Costume Designer: The Sound of Music US National Tour. Off-Broadway/New York: The Naturalists (Pond Theater Company) You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (York Theater Company) and Missed Connections: The Craigslist Musical (The New Ohio). Twelve Seasons with The Juilliard School working with Drama, Dance, and Opera Divisions. Regional: Arcadia (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Real Inspector Hound (Theater at Monmouth); All My Sons; A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Weston Playhouse); Macbeth, Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare on the Sound); The Parchman Hour (Virginia Stage Company). Television: Stylist for Live! with Regis and Kelly Education/Awards/Other: BFA: UNC, MFA: Yale School of Drama, Member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. www.griercoleman.com
Kate McGee Lighting Designer
PlayMakers: Debut. Off-Broadway/New York: 50/50 Old School Animation (Under the Radar the Public), Masculinity Max (The Public), Early Plays (New York City Players/Wooster Group), My Lingerie Play (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Pay No Attention to the Girl (Target Margin Theater), A Hunger Artist (Sinking Ship Productions), Sound House (New Georges), Infinite Love Party (Bushwick Starr), Marie and Bruce ( Jack). International: Emily’s D+ Evolution World Tour (Esperanza Spalding). Regional: An Illiad (Longwharf ). Awards/Education: Henry Hewes Award Nomination for Early Plays. BA Oberlin College, MFA NYU Tisch.
Justin Ellington Sound Designer and Composer
PlayMakers: Detroit ‘67, Sense and Sensibility. Broadway: Other Desert Cities.OffBroadway/New York: Other Desert Cities, Pass Over, Pipeline (Lincoln Center
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Theater), Fireflies (Atlantic Theater Company); The House That Will Not Stand, Fetch Clay Make Man (New York Theatre Workshop), He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, The Winter’s Tale (Theatre for a New Audience, New York); The Pride, Break Of Noon (MCC) West End/International: The American Clock Regional: Kill, Move, Paradise (Wilma Theater, Philadelphia), Father Comes Home, How To Catch Creation (Goodman Theater, Chicago), Familiar (Steppenwolf ), The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Ink (Kennedy Center, Washington) Film: What Was Lost, Here You Go, As You Like It. Education/ Awards/Other: Obie Award, ASACP, Grammy
Adam Versenyi Dramaturg
PlayMakers: Company member since 1988, Senior Dramaturg. 7 Stages; NEA Playwrighting Fellows Program; Theatre Previews at Duke; Critics Panel, IV Hispanic Theatre Festival (Teatro Avante); Florida Studio Theatre; Yale Repertory Theatre; La MaMa E.T.C.; Festival Latino (New York Shakespeare Festival). Directing: The Nutcracker (PlayMakers Repertory Company); The Agony of Ecstasy; El Dia Que Me Quieras; The Black American Dream; Hughie; The Indians Were Angry; Bitter Blood; The Lesson; No Exit. Publications: Dictionary of Literary Biography: Latin American Dramatists, Ed.; The Theater of Sabina Berman: The Agony of Ecstasy and Other Plays; El Teatro en America Latina; Theatre in Latin America: Religion, Politics, and Culture from Cortes to the 1980s; Ramón Griffero: Your Desires in Fragments and Other Plays. Other: Fulbright Senior Lecturer in
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Colombia, South America. Member, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Faculty: UNC-Chapel Hill; Deep Springs College; Escuela de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia; Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramatico, Bogota, Colombia. Education: DFA, Yale School of Drama.
Thiago Felix Movement Coach
PlayMakers: Movement coach and visiting Assistant Professor / choreographer. Jump. Off-Broadway: Fragmented Frida. New York: Lizards, The Fifth of July, Six Degrees of Separation, Scape From Happiness, Hurlyburly, Top Girls, Suddenly Last Summer, Clybourne Park, Choir Boy, A Bright Room Called a Day, The Crucible, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice. Education/Other: Movement coach/choreographer at Yale School of Drama, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Eugene Lang College at The New School University, Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City, The Studio/NewYork and Marymount Manhattan College. Teaches the Lucid Body Process extensively at the Lucid Body House in New York City, as well as in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Lisbon and Barcelona. Nomination for Outstanding Choreography/Movement at the New York Innovative Theatre Awards and at the Brazilian Press Awards
Tia James Vocal Coach
PlayMakers: Company member in her first season as head of Voice and Speech for the Professional Actor Training Program. Director of PlayMakers Mobile‘s Macbeth (2018). Broadway: The Merchant of Venice. Off Broadway/New York: The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare in the Park, The Public Theater) Regional: The Review (Women’s Project) Loving and Loving (Stella Adler) Civilization: All You Can Eat (Woolly Mammoth). Directing: NYU Grad: Hamlet, The Mystery Cycles, Othello, Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford CT: Richard III, Two Gentlemen from Verona, Atlantic: A Bright New Boise. TV: Nurse Jackie, Treme. Teaching/Coaching: NYU Graduate Acting, NYU Dance, Atlantic Acting School, Montclair Univ. Education/Awards: MFA NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program, BFA Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Teacher Training under Scott Miller from NYU Grad Acting and John Patrick from UNC Chapel Hill. Recipient of the 2014 NYU Graduate Acting Diversity Mentorship Scholarship, 2003 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship winner for Best Actor.
Charles K. Bayang Stage Manager
Charles is in his eleventh season with PlayMakers. Work at other regional theatres includes productions at Studio Arena Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center and Dallas Children’s Theatre. Charles holds an MFA from the University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. 39
Elizabeth Ray Assistant Stage Manager
PlayMakers: Company member in her second full season. Jump, Skeleton Crew, Temples of Lung and Air, A-Train, Tartuffe, Dot, The Cake, Into the Woods, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Private Lives. New York: Shows for Days (Lincoln Center Theater), In the Secret Sea (Theatre Row), Wallenberg, Requiem for Mr. B, Presto Change-O (Frankel Green Production Company), and Welcome to Shoofly (Playwrights Horizons). Work at other regional theatres includes productions at North Carolina Theatre, Theatre Raleigh, Palm Beach Dramaworks, and Cape Fear Regional Theatre. Elizabeth is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Justin Haslett Managing Director
Justin Haslett is in his third season as a company member at the helm of PlayMakers’ administrative operations. He has more than 15 years in not-forprofit theatre management experience. From 2007-2016, Justin served as Associate General Manager to Boston’s largest not-for-profit theatre, the Huntington Theatre Company, recipient of the 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award. During his time at the Huntington, he oversaw production budgets, negotiated contracts with agencies and unions, managed Company Management, and worked with award-winning regional and national talent. Prior to his time at the Huntington, Justin served as Director of Development for Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, MA where he strengthened its foundation of engaged and generous community support. He also held multiple positions in development, marketing and management/administration for the Yale School of Drama, Yale Repertory Theatre and the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. Justin holds an MFA in Theatre Management from the Yale School of Drama and a BA in Theatre and Anthropology from Bowdoin College. He currently serves as the Chair of the Chapel Hill Cultural Arts Commission, serves on the Carborro Arts Committee and the Orange Country Arts Commission, and teaches classes in theatre management at UNC-CH.
Michael Rolleri Production Manager
Michael is in his 32nd season with PlayMakers Repertory Company. He has been Technical Director, Project Manager, Exhibition Technician and Lighting Designer for industrial shows in the Southeast region, as well as lead carpenter for films, the U.S. Olympic Festival and scenic studios. He has also been a rigger in the Southeast region and has served on the executive board and as President of IATSE Local 417. Michael is a 30 year Gold Pin member of IATSE. An active member of USITT, he is a three-time winner at Tech Expo for the United States Institute For Theatre Technology. He is Associate Professor/Head of the Technical Production Program at UNC-Chapel Hill and was an instructor at High Point University and Tufts University. Education: MFA in Design and Technical Production, UNC-Greensboro.
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GENERAL INFO
JOAN H. GILLINGS CENTER FOR DRAMATIC ART CB# 3235, UNC-CHAPEL HILL CHAPEL HILL, NC 27599-3235 BOX OFFICE: 919.962.7529 WEBSITE: WWW.PLAYMAKERSREP.ORG facebook.com/playmakersrep @playmakersrep instagram.com/playmakersrep playmakersrep.org/blog
Box Office Hours Monday-Friday 12:00 noon-5:00pm and 90 minutes prior to each performance. Use of Cell Phones and Other Electronics Texting and using cell phones, laptops, smart watches, and other devices that make sounds or emit light are strictly prohibited during the performance. It disturbs other patrons and the actors. Please turn all electronic devices to silent or off during the show. Cameras or Recording Devices Taking photographs or videotaping inside the auditorium is strictly prohibited during performances. However, before the show, during intermission, and after the show, you are invited to take and share your photos of the stage and scenery.
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PLAYMAKERS Parking Come early to have a complete PlayMakers experience! Plan to arrive 30 minutes before the show so that you have time to park, find your seat, and enjoy the playbill with a drink or a light snack. Please note that campus parking is maintained by UNC’s Department of Public Safety, and while free and open to the public after 5:00pm and on weekends, parking is frequently used by the larger UNC population and the Chapel Hill community. Therefore, please allow yourself time to find parking. More information is on PlayMakers’ website: www.playmakersrep.org/visitor-info. Policy on Young Children As a courtesy to our patrons, it is the policy of PlayMakers not to admit children under the age of 5. All of our shows have age recommendations based on the content of each production. If you are considering bringing your child, please refer to our age recommendations, or contact our Box Office for further information. All patrons, regardless of age, must have a ticket. Headsets for Hearing Impaired Patrons Our theatres are equipped with sounds systems that amplify the sound from the stage. Patrons who wish to use the system may obtain headsets on a first-come, first-served basis from the coat check. Headsets must be returned immediately after the performance. Late Seating and Leaving Your Seat During the Performance In order to minimize disturbance to other patrons and the actors, late seating will be provided at the discretion of the house manager at an appropriate break in the action on stage. Patrons who need to be seated late must be escorted by house staff to seats at the rear entrance of the auditorium. Patrons can take their regular seat at intermission. We discourage patrons from leaving their seats during the performance. Be advised that you most likely will not be able to return to your regular seat; patrons will be reseated by house staff at the rear of the auditorium.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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PLAYMAKERS Administration Vivienne Benesch, Producing Artistic Director Justin D. Haslett, Managing Director
ARTISTIC OFFICE
DEVELOPMENT
Kathryn Hunter-Williams, Company Artistic Associate Alejandro Rodriguez, Producing Associate Jeri Lynn Schulke, Engagement Associate Tracy Bersley, Movement Coach Tia James, Vocal Coach Gregory Kable, Dramaturg Jacqueline E. Lawton, Dramaturg Mark Perry, Dramaturg Adam Versényi, Dramaturg
Lenore Field, Corporate Relations & Events Manager Shea Fitzgerald, Assistant Director of Development Martha Shannon, Grant Manager Students: Taylor Brunson, Mahika Kawale, Ashley Legoas, Madison Walters
MARKETING & AUDIENCE SERVICES
Diana Pineda, Director of Sales & Marketing Thomas Porter, Box Office Manager Rosalie Preston, Associate Director of Marketing Alex James, Audience Services Associate Julie Lucier, Audience Services Manager Brittany Petruzzi, Marketing & Comm. Associate
Students: Gabriella Cila, Zaire Cullins, Allyx Miles, Jada Poteat, Nijah Poteat, Gage Tarlton, Joshua Wahab, Sophie Wise
ADMINISTRATION
Joe Emeis, General Manager Frank Bermel, Accountant Abbey Toot, Company Manager/Executive Assistant Lauren Vandemark, Business Operations Coordinator Anna Longenecker, Management Assistant DRAM 193: Marika O’Hara, Emily Pirozzolo, Briana Small, Sam Yancey
Box Office Students: Logan Anderson, Liam Becker, Briana Colbert, Ashley Curry, Ben Finsel, Ursula Gamache, Matthew Gregoire, Lauryn Hyatt, Chloe Jones, Gillian Montgomery, Giuliana Palasciano, Sydnni Poole Front of House Students: Aubree Dixon, Imani Edwards, Philip Guadagno, Grey Howard, Priya Naik, Agustin Noguera, Geomae Peterson, Alex Schmidt, Nya Spinks, Jenna Zottoli Marketing Students: Brooklynn Cooper, Cai Davis, Jamya Graham, Elizabeth Holmes, Rob Piscitelli, Salihah Siddiqui
Department of Dramatic Art Adam Versényi, Professor and Chair
FACULTY
Jeffrey Blair Cornell, Associate Chair, Teaching Prof. Dominic Abbenante, Teaching Assistant Professor David Adamson, Lecturer Judy Adamson, Professor of the Practice Milly S. Barranger, Alumni Distinguished Prof. Emerita Vivienne Benesch, Professor of the Practice Tracy Bersley, Assistant Professor Jan Chambers, Professor McKay Coble, Professor Howard Craft, Professor of the Practice Ray Dooley, Professor Samuel Ray Gates, Assistant Professor Julia Gibson, Assistant Professor Jennifer Guadagno, Teaching Assistant Professor David A. Hammond, Professor Emeritus Justin Haslett, Teaching Assistant Professor
Kathryn Hunter-Williams, Teaching Assoc.Professor Tia James, Teaching Assistant Professor Gregory Kable, Teaching Professor Jacqueline E. Lawton, Assistant Professor Adam Maxfield, Teaching Associate Professor Triffin Morris, Professor of the Practice David Navalinsky, Associate Professor Bobbi Owen, Distinguished Professor Kathy A. Perkins, Professor Emerita Mark Perry, Teaching Assistant Professor Rachel E. Pollock, Teaching Assistant Professor Bonnie Raphael, Professor Emerita Michael Rolleri, Associate Professor Aubrey Snowden, Teaching Assistant Professor Craig Turner, Professor Emeritus
Frank Bermel, Accountant Betty Futrell, Student Services Specialist
Jamie Strickland, Business Officer Lauren Vandermark, Business Operations Coordinator
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STAFF
OUR 2018/19 SEASON Production Michael Rolleri, Production Manager Charles K. Bayang, Stage Manager Elizabeth Ray, Stage Manager DRAM 193: Marisa Antuna, Kayla Bailey, Chad Birkenstock, Jordan Blazek-Guinan, Garrett Blom, Kathryn Brown, Callie Carswell, Briseydi Castro Perulero, Catherine Demos, Alyssa Geary, Joseph Hattan, Livian Kennedy, Zack Lindsey, Jackson McKenzie, Cammie McMahan, Gustavo Mendez Rodriguez, Michelle Munoz, Luis Paula, Annabelle Rahal, Saifullah Raja, Lyndsey Reed, Jordan Riggs, Alexander Rinaldi, Amanda Roberts, Diego Sanchez-Brugal, Sonny Simonetti, Emily Smith, Shea Stanley, La'Reyce Troyano, Josh Wahab, Zack Watkins
COSTUMES
Triffin Morris, Costume Director Jennifer Guadagno, Assistant Costume Director Kelly Anne Johns, Wig & Wardrobe Supervisor Rachel Pollock, Costume Craftsperson Alex Ruba, Costume Collection Coordinator Costume Production Graduate Students: Ellen Cornette, Cami Huebert, Samantha Reckford, Jane Reichard, Erin Rodgers, Danielle Soldat, Lauren Woods Undergraduate Assistant: Isabella St. Onge
DRAM 192: Pareen Bhagat, Alexis Bigelow, Dalia Blevins, Aeris Carter, Aneia Chanthaboury, LJ Enloe, Danny Ferguson, Michele Metzger, Lawson Park, Miriam Sanchez, Isabella St. Onge, Grace Sword Work Study Students: Hannah Berg, Karmen Black, Riley Brozovsky, Carla Diaz, Indigo Laibida, Amelia Locklear
Volunteers: Naomi Eckhaus
LIGHTING
Dominic Abbenante, Lighting/Video Director Students: Kwaji Bullock, Yejin Cho, Jahel Gomes, Madison Haines, Rebecca Henry, Nathan Jenkins, Angela Lanm, Lara Madrid, Carrington Newland, Alessandra Quattrocchi, Autumn Skerlec, Brook Smaltz, Nathan Urguhart, Hawthorne Weeks Production Office Student: Hannah Drury
PROPS
Andrea Bullock, Properties Master Adrienne Call, Props Artisan Kevin Pendergast, Props Artisan
Students: Kayla Bailey, Anna Ballard, Meghan Chandless, Kenly Cox, Hannah Fatool,Macy Jones, Nhi Nguyen, Gabby Reenstra, Bryant Thai
SCENIC
Adam Maxfield, Technical Director Laura Pates, Assistant Technical Director Donald Quilinquin, Master Carpenter Jessica Secrest, Scenic Artist Technical Production Graduate Students: TJ Hansen, Rocky Love, Nate Pohl, Kyle Spens Undergraduate Assistant: Laika Maganga
DRAM 191: Kathryn Brown, Emily Buckner, Elizabeth Durham, Zach Eanes, Sydnie Kavanaugh, Frankie Lipscomb-Cobbs, Anna Longenecker, Connor Nielsen, Anish Pinnamaraju, Shea Stanley Work Study Students: Afua Abonuhi, Faith Benton, Abigail Carter, James Faucette, Carlexa Fevry, Susan Huynh, Cole Kordus, Julia Kwierzynski, Cheyenne Lowery, Lindsay Pendleton, Nathaniel Phelan, Sarah Pollack, Lesly Portillo Ramirez, Nina Quevedo, Kennedy Routh, Kari Spenser
SOUND Derek Graham, Audio Designer/Engineer Student: Marisa Clemente, Aeron Scales
PlayMakers’ Resident Acting Company David Adamson Jeffrey Blair Cornell
Ray Dooley Julia Gibson Samuel Ray Gates Kathryn Hunter-Williams Professional Actor Training Program: Emily Bosco, Geoffrey Culbertson, April Mae Davis, Rishan Dhamija, Alex Givens, Brandon Haynes, Sarah Elizabeth Keyes, Jenny Latimer, Shanelle Nicole Leonard, Christine Mirzayan, Tristan Parks, Adam Poole, Dan Toot
For this Production of Galileo TJ Hansen, Shop Foreman Aspen Jackson, Production Assistant Caroline Robinson, Asst to Sound Designer Daniel P. Wilson, Understudy (Galileo)
Jane Reichard, Asst to the Costume Designer Drapers, Judy Adamson, Ellen Cornette, Cami Huebert, Triffin Morris, Sam Reckford, Danielle Soldat, Lauren Woods Erin Rodgers, Asst to the Crafts Artisan
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PlayMakers Repertory Company is a program of the Department of Dramatic Art, The College of Arts and Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, recognizes PlayMakers as a professional theatre organization and provides grant assistance to this organization from funds appropriated by the North Carolina General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts. PlayMakers is a beneficiary of the Elizabeth Price Kenan Endowment and the Lillian Hughes Prince Endowment. PlayMakers Repertory Company is a Member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre. This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League Of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.
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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING WORLD CLASS INSTRUCTION
HIGH SCHOOL
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Honored by the North Carolina Theatre Conference with its Youth Theatre Award, the Conservatory has been recognized as a “model program for youth theatre in North Carolina.” THEATRE QUEST
JUNE 17 - AUGUST 2 For middle school students, Theatre Quest is an exciting program that offers young actors with the opportunity to study a variety of disciplines and train with professional theatre artists in a professional setting—come and train with us for one week or all seven! All classes meet at the Center for Dramatic Art on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill from 10:00am– 5:00pm with early drop-off available at 9:00am for an additional fee (free for UNC employees).
THEATRE INTENSIVE
THEATRETECH
The Triangle’s premier actor training program for rising 9th graders through recent high school grads, Theatre Intensive offers young people the opportunity to train, rehearse and perform under the guidance of professional artists. AUDITION REQUIRED.
This unique program provides high school students and recent high school grads, with the chance to apprentice with PlayMakers’ professional staff in Costumes, Scenic Design/ Stage Craft, Lighting and Stage Management. INTERVIEW REQUIRED.
JUNE 17 - JULY 28
JUNE 17 - JULY 31
Performances: July 17–28 *Financial Aid is available
FOR MORE INFORMATION
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HOW YOU CAN HELP We’ve already raised $350,000 towards our Annual Fund goal. With your help, we can reach 100% of our campaign goals.
$350,000 raised $6,000,000 raised
Annual Fund $500,000 Endowment $10,000,000
We’re well on our way, but your support is imperative!
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Shea Fitzgerald Asst Director of Development shea.fitzgerald@unc.edu 919.962.2481
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SUPPORT PlayMakers is grateful to the members of the Friends of PlayMakers for their generous support. For more information about how to join this dynamic group of supporters, call the PlayMakers Development Office at 919.962.2481 or visit us at playmakersrep.org.
Director’s Circle ($10,000+)
Investor ($2,500–4,999)
The Educational Foundation of America Joan H. Gillings * + The Charles Goren and Hazen Family Foundation, Trustees Tom and Lisa Hazen Matt and Bobbi Hapgood * Brian Hargrove and David Hyde Pierce The Lewis R. Holding Fund of the North Carolina Community Foundation Mrs. Frank H. Kenan * + Charles W. Millard III Trust National Endowment for the Arts North Carolina Arts Council The Prentice Foundation * Robertson Foundation Shubert Foundation
Richard and Deirdre Arnold ^ Andrew and Katherine Asaro ^ * Ed and Eleanor Burke Tom and Holly Carr Dustin and Susan Gillings Gross * Stuart and Duncan Lascelles * Michael and Erika Lipkin Robert Lontz * Mark and Julie Morris + Nick and Amy Penwarden Robert and Marilyn Pinschmidt David Sontag Alan H. Weinhouse
CELEBRATE
Angel ($5,000–9,999) Dr. Charlie Atkins * Betsy Blackwell and John Watson * Chapel Hill-Carrboro Youth Forward Munroe and Becky Cobey College of Arts and Sciences * Cheray Duchin + F.M. Kirby Foundation Joanne and Peter Garrett Hartfield Foundation Tom and Lisa Hazen + Mr. Thomas S. Kenan, III * Kenan-Flagler Business School * Dr. and Mrs. Kimball King * D.G. and Harriet Martin * + National New Play Network Mr. and Mrs. William O. McCoy Jim and Florence Peacock * + Edwin and Harriet Poston * Lauren Rivers and Janelle Hoskins * Coleman and Carol Ross SunTrust Bank * UNC School of Dentistry * UNC School of Education * Jim and Bonnie Yankaskas
Page to Stage ($1,500–2,499) Anonymous David and Judy Adamson * Chris Bavolack and Martha Huelsbeck Vivienne Benesch * + Steve Benezra ^ Jan and Jim Dean Peter and Kim Fox * Kevin and Amy Guskiewicz * + David Howell Joanna Karwowska and Hugon Karwowski ^ Kim and Kevin Kwok Myron B. and Anne C. Liptzin Paul and Linda Naylor ^ Jean and Joseph Ritok Dr. and Mrs. Edward Smithwick SunTrust Foundation Ford and Allison Worthy *
Partner ($1,000–1,499) Bruce and Mary Barron Reginald Barton John and Patti Becherer Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Breaks Molly and Bob Broad Rosalie M. Cassidy June Clendenin
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CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS FEBRUARY 15
MARCH 1
MEMORIAL HALL
MEMORIAL HALL
CHRISTIAN SCOTT ATUNDE ADJUAH
SAMMY MILLER AND THE CONGREGATION
PA R T O F T H E 2019 CAROLINA J A Z Z F E S T I VA L
MARCH 21 & 22
APRIL 2
MEMORIAL HALL
MEMORIAL HALL
KIDD PIVOT REVISOR
BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY V E N E Z U E L A
APRIL 10
APRIL 13
MEMORIAL HALL
MEMORIAL HALL
CARRIE MAE WEEMS
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nt e d u t S s Ticket TO ALL PERFORMANCES
15% UNC FACULTY & STAFF DISCOUNT For tickets and details on the full 18/19 season, visit: carolinaperformingarts. o r g
Cindy and Thomas Cook Joy and Chet Douglass Dr. and Mrs. John P. Evans Carolyn and John Falletta Carol Folt and David Peart * Laura Gasaway + Robert and Dana Greenwood Drs. Sid and Suzanne Gulledge * Pam and Jim Heavner * Hill Family Fund 2 of the Triangle Community Foundation Drs. Carol C. Hogue and Gordon DeFriese Bitty and Bill Holton Hannelore and Konrad Jarausch Shirley and Tom Kunkel Dr. Lauren Leve * Scott Levitan * Panter Foundation Bettina Patterson ^ Josephine Ward Patton + Rich and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer Ram Omni, LLC * Dr. Uday Reebye * Alec Rhodes James and Janet Robles John E. Spence * Jackie Tanner + Michael and Barbara Walsh Jesse L. White, Jr. Clarence Whitefield
Backer ($500–999) Charles M. Abbey Howard and Penny Aldrich Pete and Hannah Andrews ^ Katherine Asaro ^ + David Ball and Susan Pochapsky Evelyn Barrow Diane Beckman + Stephen S. Birdsall Dr. Stanley Warren Black, III Linda and Cliff Butler * Lisa Capetanos + Susan Cassidy Bill Cobb and Gail Perry * Jeff Cornell * Dede Corvinus + Fred and Jane Dalldorf Jan Dean + M’Liss and Anson Dorrance * Kathleen DuVal and Marty Smith
Bob and Connie Eby Cauveh Erami * Jaroslav and Linda Folda John and Diane Formy-Duval ^ Kim and Stephen Fraser Deborah and Michael Gerhardt + Carolyn and Jim Harris Justin D. Haslett and Gia Podobinski * Martha Hauptman + C. Hawkins ^ Carol Hazard and Winston Liao David and Leslie Henson Joel and Christine Huber Steve and Lisa Jones * Lisa Kang + Jeanette Kimmel Brenda W. Kirby Lois Knauff and Mike Maness Dr. Catherine Kuhn and Glenn Tortorici Joseph J. Kusa Kathryn and Robert Kyle Anand and Sandhya Lagoo Douglas and Nelda Lay Stephen and Karen Lyons Douglas MacLean and Susan Wolf John and Alice May * Sandy and Ned McClurg ^ Holly and Ross McKinney Mary McMorris and Leonard Santoro Graig and Jennifer Meyer * James and Susan Moeser Mary N. Morrow John and Deborah Mullins * + Linda W. Norris Robert and Joyce Anne Porter Jane Preyer and Lark Hayes * David and Lisa Price Vikram Rao and Susan Henning Linda and Alan Rimer Terry Rhodes * Dr. Scott De Rossi * Kyle and Jenn Smith Terrence and Marguerite Sullivan Roy and Donna Swaringen Jim and Judy Taft James Taup Joe and Claudia Templeton Stacey Wallen + Roger and Marlene Werner Sandy and Jennifer Williams Ashley and John Wilson
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Rick and Jennifer Woods * David and Heather Yeowell
Supporter ($250–499) Anonymous Virginia Aldige Tony and Susan Barrella Adam Beck ^ John W. Becton and Nancy B. Tannenbaum Shula and Steve Bernard Jim and Martha Bick Frank and Sally Binkowski Julie Blatt and Arthur Greenberg Julia Borbely-Brown ^ David Brehmer and Megan Matchinske Ken and Margie Broun Joyce Carver Bumann Lucille Burkett-Hoffman ^ Keith Burridge and Patricia Saling Glenn and Patricia Camp Philip and Linda Carl Sarah Casey * Beverly Long Chapin Norm and Portia Christensen Dennis Clements and Martha Ann Keels
Marshall and Phyllis Clements Joseph and Elizabeth Cook Patricia Lockwood Davis Nancy and Mark Dewhirst Dr. Carrie Donley Steven and Sandra Dykes Jo Anne and Shelley Earp Claire Ebbitt ^ Jeff and Kamie Edwards Jerry and Adelia Evans Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Ewing Barbara and Chris Exton James Faber and Mary Musacchia Paul and Anita Farel Pat Fischer ^ Beth Furr John and Ann Gabor Ruth and Art Gerber Ugo Goetzl Linda Grimm Albert and Mary Guckes Carol and Nortin Hadler Toby and Cheryl Harrell David and Lina Heartinger Marianna Matthews Henry Don and Kay Hobart Terrence Holt and Laurie Langbauer Mr. and Mrs. David G. Hubby William W. Hurd Gerda G. Hurow Lynne and Walter Jacobs ^ Charles and Ellen Johnson Mary Kerrigan Brian and Moyra Kileff Lynn K. Knauff Richard and Lynne Kohn Dr. Leonard and Ruth Kreisman ^ Marie E. Kulchinski Joseph Labenson Carol and Alexander Lawrence Judi Lilley Dayna Lucas Mort and Cheryl Malkin Raleigh and Betsy Mann Lee and Elaine Marcus Shelley Masters Sharon and Alan McConnell Ellen McDaniel Ross and Margaret McKinney Sr. Larry McManus Herbert and Jeanne Miller
Roy and Bev Milton Susan Minnix and Ronald Manka Cecelia D. Moore ^ Rick Muise Betty Nies Pat and Mary Norris Oglesby Lois Oliver Lee and Barbara Pedersen Beth and Larry Peerce Mark and Eugenea Pollock Jodi and Glenn Preminger George and Carol Retsch-Bogart Sandra and Stephen Rich Drs. Sharon and Chris Ringwalt Margaret Anne Rook Dr. Michael Salemi Jan F. and Anne P. Sassaman Stephanie Schmitt John and Lucia Sehon Martha and Michael Shannon William Sharpe Barry Slobin and Carol Land Dr. and Mrs. Sidney C. Smith John and Carol Stamm Margaret Griswold Teasley Barney and Vivian Varner Glenn Veit and Judy Kane Patrick Wallace and Laurie McNeil Katherine White Ann and Frank Wilson Meribeth Withrow
Patron ($100–249)
Anonymous (6) Fouad Abd-El-Khalick and Lama Boufajreldin * Mary Altpeter Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Archie Tony and Bonnie Armer Dr. Elaine Arrington Katie Baer Phil and Ellen Baer Clifford and Robin Bailin Guy and Ingrid Baird Frank and Anna Baldiga Kim Ball Dan and Susan Barco Samuel and Laura Baron Judith Barton Barry Bayus and Anna Chao Larry and Sheila Benninger Kitty Bergel
Robert and Christine Berndt Patricia C. Beyle Dorothy and Justin Biddle Dolores Bilangi Sara and Richard Bird Mr. and Mrs. David Birnbaum Jill and Dick Blackburn Mr. Joseph Blair and Sandra Peyser Carolina Arbors Theater Club Peter Bleckner Scott and Victoria Bouldin Donald A. Boulton Thomas W. Boyer Carol Brainard and Nancy Hardin Mitchell Breit William Brettmann ^ Maurice and Mary Hughes Brookhart Mr. and Mrs. William Browder Charles and Renee Brown Greg and Lisa Brown * Lyndon E. Brown, PhD Renee A. Brown Patricia Bryan and Tom Wolf Dean and Catherine Burnette * David Burr and Rustine Unger Maurice and Joan Bursey Douglas Call and Susan Warwick Dr. Leigh Fleming Callahan Paul and Amelia Carew Hodding Carter Clara Cazzulino Dr. Margaret Champion Richard Chase and Terry Parsons Dr. and Mrs. Jason K.S. Ching Steve Clark and Becky Luce-Clark Ellen Clevenger-Firley Betty and Gilles Cloutier Anne Coenen Margaret Cohen Jonathan and Anita Cohn Robert F. Coleman, III In memory of Susan Hurst Rappaport Geneva Collins and Theodore Fischer ^ Jeffrey Collins and Rose Mills Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf J. Colloredo-Mansfeld Mrs. Michael Colvin Marcella Congdon Elizabeth Cook Jeanette and Matthew Cook Jay and Barbara Cooper Greg Copenhaver
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Josephine Corro Dr. Mary Covington and Mike Patil Adrienne and John Cox Ellen and James Cox Lawrence S. Craige Linda G. Craney Karen Dacons-Brock Jacobi and Jerry Daley Julie Daniels Barbara and Allen Dearry Hampton and Jolynn Dellinger * Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bigelow DeMaine Aravinda Desilva and Amy Weil Leslie Deslis Todd Dickinson and Helen Kalevas Judith Dimon Artie Dixon Alec and Georgia Donaldson Caroline Donaldson and Ephraim Firdyiwek Ray Dooley and Rebecca Bailey * Kerry and Julia Draeger Dr. and Mrs. Claude Wallace Drake Ginny and David Dropkin Terry Byrd Eason and Jonathan D. Whitney Connie Eble Bobette Eckland and Richard Kamens E.M. Eddy and D.A. O’Brien Jan Elliott Jonathan Engel and Meryl Kanfer Donald and Audrey Esposito George Evans Melinda Evans Carrie Faber * Fearrington Friends of the Arts Laurice Ferris ^ Bronwyn and John de Figueiredo Karen Fink Jon and Susan Fish Karen Fisher and Robert Warren Brian K. Flatley Christina and Richard Folger Dorathea Foote ^ JoAnn and Stan Fox Stanley and Rabbi Suri Friedman W. Patrick Gale ^ Bennett Galef Maggi Gallagher and Don Castro Harolyn J.L. Gardner Betty Garland Sarah Geer Mat Gerard *
Adam and Jennifer Gerdts Tom and Victoria Gerig Mike and Bonnie Gilliom goingbarefoot.inc Scott Goldsmith Nathalie Goodrich Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grabowski John and Lucy Grant Dorothy Gration Christina Graybard and Nicholas Mirra Terry Greenlund Elizabeth Grey Gail and Steve Grossman Shontel and Whitney Grumhaus Kay Gruninger Priscilla Guild Pickett Guthrie Owen Gwyn Gayla Halbrecht Nancy Haltom Bruce Hamilton and Jennifer Weiss Christopher Harris Janet Hartman Mr. & Mrs. James C. Hayes Thomas and Gail Heath Charlotte Henshaw William Hicks and William Sadler Shayna A. Hill Ann Hillenbrand Ann Holloman Elizabeth and Donald Holt Jewel Hoogstoel Mary Howes, In Memory of Jonathan B. Howes John and Joyce Hren Brad and Debra Ives * Abby Jablin Charles and Betty James Justin Johnson Robert and Cecelia Jolls Christy Jones Ann Moss Joyner Rynita and Eric Julien David Jung Bobby and Claudia Kadis Daniel and Linda Kaferle Richard and Sally Kahler Drs. John F. and Joy S. Kasson Naomi Kaufman Tom Keeler and Dr. Keturah Faurot Paul and Edith Keene Charles R. Keith and Muki W. Fairchild
Marie-Beatrice and Robert Keller Vance and Marilyn Kelley Michael E. Kelly Jack and Carol Kepler Kristi Kerins Moise Khayrallah * Carole and Gary Kibler Ted and Marilyn Koenig Frank Konhaus and Ellen Cassilly ^ Elizabeth K. Koonce David and Vivian Kraines Lloyd Kramer and Gwynne Pomeroy Timothy A. Kuhn Shrawan Kumar Randi and Brian Kurtzer Ted and Debbie LaMay Randy and Cathy Lambe Betty-Ann Landman Benjamin Landman and Jen Feldman In honor of Ms. Betty-Ann Landman Robert Lauterborn In memory of Sylvia Lauterborn William Leary John and Ruth Leopold Rick and Kathleen Lessard Arnold and Annette Levine Dr. Philip and Anne Lewis ^ Betty and John Leydon Roy Lindahl and Marian Stephenson Erika Lindemann David Linquist * Joan Lipsitz and Paul Stiller Clarissa Liu James and Mary Lou LoFrese Dr. and Mrs. Miles Lovelace Carol Lucas Taylor and Thomas Ludlam * John Ludlow and Kathy Davies Samuel Magill and Eunice Brock William Mahony and Joyce Boucheron H.R. and Betsy Malpass Rosalie Marcus Chris and Caroline Martens Bill and Susan Mattern Karen McCall Ann and Webb McCracken Patrick Joseph McLane ^ Lee McLean Pat and Bob McQueen Cathleen Melton and Larry Greenblatt Carol and Eric Meyers
Amey Miller and David Kiel Dori Mitzi Dana Mochel Kristen Monahan Gustavo and Joan Montana Laura Moore and Brad Murray Merry-K Moos Joseph and Barbara Moran Kristy Merrell Morley Suzanne Morrah and Robert Jenkins Charles Mosher and Pamela St. John Margaret B. Mullinix Kate Murphy Judy Murray Lee and Ava Nackman Ursula Nebiker Nancy Oates Edward and Shirley O’Keefe Glenn E. O’Neal Marilyn and Peter Ornstein Barry and Lois Ostrow Jean Owen Heather and Russ Owen Norman and Roberta Yule Owen ^ Patsy Owens * Elizabeth Paley and Stefan Zauscher William Palmer and JoAnn Hotta Michael Patrick Julie and Ronald Paxton Dr. Cort Pedersen Robert Peet Arnold Pender Diane Pettifor Nancy Smith Pfeiffer In memory of Betty Smith Bepi Pinner John and Sally Pinnix Gordon and Jo Ann Pitz Stephen and Lyn Pizer Chris Plaks Dr. Martin and Barbara Poleski Theodore and Margaret Pratt Steven E. Quasny Maureen Quinn-Rubin Elizabeth Raft Dr. Donald J. Raleigh Jean Rhyne Geraldine and Gary Richards Kay Richardson Richard and Sue Richardson Sandra Roberts *
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Mrs. Paul Rohrdanz Louise Romanow and Bill Swallow Frances Ross Judith L. Ruderman Mary Ann Ruegg Laura and Reid Russell Florence and Paul Safran Dale Sandler Allie and Ian Scales ^ Carol Schachner ^ Tanya L. Schreiber Jim and Cindi Schrum Bill Schwab Dr. Caryl Jane Schwartzbach Georganne Sebastian Joan Seiffert Pat Shane Andrew Shapanka Carl and Eve Shy Ilene Siegler and Charles Edelman Caroline Sikorsky Howard Simon Karen Sindelar and Douglas Schiff Ron and Mary Sinzdak Sim Sitkin and Vivian Olkin Dr. Robert Sealock and Cecile Skrzynia Mike and Kim Slomianyj Mariechen W. Smith Peter and Rosalyn Smith Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Solomon ^ Chuck and Marlene Spritzer Kimberly W. Spurr Susan F. Stedman Cathy and Sefton Stevens Andy Stewart and Peggy Kinney ^ Lee and Barbara Strange Dr. Lishan Su ^ James and Sarah Swenberg Dr. Mary Lou Szymkowski and Dr. Lindsey Puryear Beverly Taylor Daniel and Linda Textoris
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Charles Thomas and Suzanne Maupin Patti and Holden Thorp Bruce and Carol Tomason Ara Tourian Jeff and Nancy Tudor Nancy Tunnessen Nancy Tusa and Andy Brawn Robert W. Upchurch John and Donna van Arnold ^ Carol and Jim Vorhaus Lynn H. Voss Deborah and Jonathan Wahl Sandy and Bill Wall David and Marsha Warren Phil Washburn and Mary Jenne Anna Washington The Rev. Wendy R. and Mr. W. Riley Waugh Tovah Wax and Lucjan Mordzak Nan Weiss Marlene and Ken Whitt Coleman Whittier Jane Williams Blanche S. Williamson Calvin and Carrie Williamson * William and Katherine Wilson Maureen A. Windle and Douglas Cary ^ Jane Pettis Wiseman Peter Witt Jerry Worsley Janice and Richard Woychik Edward and Phyllis Wright David and Dee Yoder Kristen Smith Young and Dylan Young Elizabeth Youngs and Richard Haynes * Justin Yung ^
^ Sustainers Club Member * PlayMakers Gala Supporter + Women’s Point of View (WPOV) Leadership Council Member
This list is current as of February 3, 2019. If your name is listed incorrectly or not at all, please contact PlayMakers Development Office at 919.962.2481. We will ensure you are recognized for your thoughtful support.
OUR PARTNERS PlayMakers gratefully acknowledges the generous support of our corporate and foundation partners for the 2018/19 Season. Coffee Provided by Larry’s Coffee PlayMakers Gala Wine Sponsor Glasshalfull PlayMakers Gala Spirits Sponsor TOPO PlayMakers Opening Night Post Show Receptions provided by Il Palio Restaurant, Jujube, The Catering Company of Chapel Hill PlayMakers Bartending Service provided by On The Rocks
CORPORATE CO-PRODUCERS
PLAYMAKERS’ 2018/19 SEASON IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY GRANTS FROM: Congratulations and thank you to the North Carolina Arts Council for 50 years of leadership and support.
FOUNDATION SUPPORT The Shubert Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, North Carolina Arts Council, The Educational Foundation of America, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Youth Forward, Hartfield Foundation, F.M. Kirby Foundation, Fund for the Triangle–Support for the Arts of Triangle Community Foundation, SunTrust Foundation ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR GUEST ARTISTS IS PROVIDED BY Robert Boyer and Margaret Boyer Fund, Louise Lamont Fund, Emeriti Professors Charles and Shirley Weiss Fund PRODUCING COUNCIL American Party Rentals, Glasshalfull, Jujube Restaurant, Linda’s Bar and Grill, Mebane Lumber, Residence Inn Chapel Hill, Hyatt Place Durham/ Southpoint, The Siena Hotel/Il Palio Restaurant CORPORATE COUNCIL Aloft, Cambria Suites, DeMaison Selections, Inc., University Florist ASSOCIATES House of Frames, Carolina Brewery
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THEATRE
THAT
SHIFTING GROUND
MOVES
Experience entertaining, soul-stirring stories of discovery, reflection, and shifting power dynamics. Be a part of #TheatreThatMoves
MAINSTAGE SEASON: SEP 12–30
OCT 10–28
REGIONAL PREMIERE
KEN LUDWIG’S
NOV 14–DEC 9
SKELET
S H E RWO O D :
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CREW
THE ADVENTURES OF
ME
ROBIN HOOD
BY DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU
BOOK BY JOE MASTEROFF MUSIC BY JERRY BOCK LYRICS BY SHELDON HARNICK
Merry men, Maid Marian, and much merriment
Where do you go when the line stops moving?
A holiday musical that goes straight to the heart
JAN 23–FEB 10
FEB 27–MAR 17
WORLD PREMIERE
APR 3–21
LIFE GALI OF LE 0
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
HOW I LEARNED TO
BY CHARLY EVON SIMPSON
BY BERTOLT BRECHT ADAPTED BY JOSEPH DISCHER
BY PAULA VOGEL
An unexpected bridge between sorrow and hope
How long can a truth be denied?
A survivor's guide to the rules of the road
PRC 2 SEASON:
BY KANE SMEGO A hip-hop odyssey through race and identity
BEWILDERNESS BY ZACHARY FINE A comedic look at Thoreau’s epic failure on the way to success
APR 24–28
JAN 9–13
AUG 22–26
TEMPLES OF LUNG AND AIR
ALL TITLES AND DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
YOUR HEALING IS KILLING ME BY VIRGINIA GRISE A performance manifesto
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Our Kenan Stage features works by new voices, sure to provoke conversation and push the boundaries of what we understand theatre to be.