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One
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Based on The Servant of Two Masters
by Carlo Goldoni
With songs by Grant Olding
directed by
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BE R K E L E Y R E P P R E S E N T S ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS · 27
M E E T T H E C A ST & C R E W · 28
P ROL O G U E
CON T R I BU T OR S
A letter from the artistic director · 5
Donors to the Create Campaign · 38
A letter from the managing director · 7
Foundation, corporate, and in-kind sponsors · 40
Individual donors to the Annual Fund · 41
R E P ORT
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Two locations, one talented family · 8
A standing ovation for Berkeley Rep…
une soirée magnifique! · 10
Student voices take center stage · 12
From costumes to cocktails:
Berkeley Rep’s bar continues to grow · 15
Discover our 2015–16 season · 16
12
Michael Leibert Society · 43
F E AT U R E S
A BOU T BE R K E L E Y R E P
Staff, board of trustees,
and sustaining advisors · 45
FYI
Everything you need to know about our
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Under the boardwalk · 18
Skifflemania · 20
Leather masks and cartoon anvils: Commedia’s
stock characters and comedy today · 22
David Ivers on comedy, classics, and cooking · 23
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P ROL OG U E
from the Artistic Director
There are many theories of comedy, all of
them fantastically un-funny. There’s the Relief Theory, the
Superiority Theory, and the Incongruity Theory. There are theories based on sexual selection, mistaken reasoning, misattribution, and benign violation. You can probably figure those out
just from the titles. But then there’s the Computational-Neural
Theory, which I recommend as a sleep aid, and my personal
favorite, the Ontic-Epistemic Theory, which sounds like a medical procedure related to colon cancer. One thing is clear: many
people have tried to explain why we laugh.
It’s a tough one to figure out, precisely because we laugh a lot, for different
reasons, about lots of stuff. When you watch a group of people at a comedy, for example, it’s fascinating to see their reactions. What one person finds hilarious, another
finds dull. One person is giddy, another insulted. One delirious, another miserable.
Comedies are controversial because laughter provides an index of our values; it reveals a deep part of who we are as individuals, families, communities, and countries.
And as often as we share a laugh, laughter can also divide us.
So it is a rare thing indeed when a comedy comes close to universal acclaim.
Such is the case with The Servant of Two Masters, written in 1743 by Carlo Goldoni.
Using a staple of comic characters inherited from commedia dell’arte, the play uses
relief, incongruity, superiority, mistaken reasoning, sexual selection, misattribution,
and not-so-benign violation to provide Big Relief and even bigger laughs. It’s been
translated countless times, adapted for film, and transposed to many different historical periods, most recently by Richard Bean for the National Theatre of England.
Hence, One Man, Two Guvnors, set in 1963 in Brighton, a declining seaside town filled
with a raucous array of con-men, servants, nitwits, and lovers. They’re all thrown
together in a chaotic comic dance, set to the music of a skiffle band with decidedly
rock-and-roll tendencies.
Of course, you need the right creative team to unlock the joy of the play. It gives
me the greatest pleasure to introduce director David Ivers to you, a gifted maestro
whose brains are big and whose pockets are lined with lazzi. Along with his longtime friend and collaborator, the astonishing Dan Donohue, and a large ensemble of
co-conspirators, we bring you the grand chaos of Goldoni’s masterpiece, re-imagined
for our time. I don’t know if it will validate the Ontic-Epistemic Theory of Humor, but I
have a hunch that it will be greatly entertaining.
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P ROL OG U E
from the Managing Director
Is there anything better than a good endor-
phin-inducing belly laugh? It is right up there at the top of my
“must have” list. One of the great pleasures of being human
has got to be that absolutely satisfying experience of laughing
so hard that all your muscles get a workout! And we think
that is just what David Ivers and his team have concocted for
you tonight.
This has been a season that has taken you from the
bittersweet melancholy of An Audience with Meow Meow,
through the activism of Party People, the wry wit of Molly
Ivins, the urgency of X’s and O’s (A Football Love Story), the profound cynicism of
Tartuffe, and then the deep tragedy of Head of Passes. And now we just want you to
exhale and enjoy the unrelenting inventiveness of this classic turned upside-down. It
is our end-of-season gift to you.
Although it is, technically, the end of the season, we do have one more treat in
store for you. Anna Deavere Smith, a woman who always seems to have her finger on
the pulse of America, is coming back this July for just a three-week run. Anna’s new
piece, Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, will premiere here at the Roda
Theatre. (This is a special presentation and not part of the 2014–15 subscription season, so call the box office to reserve your seats.) Anna has been exploring the pipeline
from school to prison for a few years now. She’s been interviewing educators, judges,
people from corrections, and all the myriad players who have something to say about
the systems we’ve created that have contributed to our astronomically high rates of
incarceration. She has explored the lost generation of men and boys (and girls, too)
who have ended up in our prisons rather than in our schools, and she has brought her
considerable powers of insight and observation together for this new piece.
We don’t want you to miss her new work. Anna has given us some of the most
memorable evenings in our theatre: the aftermath of the Crown Heights riots in Fires
in the Mirror; ruminations on race relations in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; her meditation on health and mortality in Let Me Down Easy. With Notes from the Field: Doing
Time in Education she brings her fierce curiosity and virtuosic skills back here for this
very special event.
I’m looking forward to seeing you one more time this summer.
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R E P ORT
Two locations, one talented family
BY KAREN MCKEVITT
Berkeley Rep’s theatres on Addison Street and production shops at our Harrison Street campus
are always crackling with synergy—but things went into overdrive in March and April! Tartuffe was in performances, Head of Passes was in rehearsals; the sets, props, and costumes for Head of Passes and One Man, Two
Guvnors were all being built (and the scene shop crew was already prepping for Amélie); construction started on
our new box office; and that just scratches the surface. Here’s a glimpse of Berkeley Rep’s artisans in action.
At our Harrison Street campus…
Charge Scenic Artist Lisa Lázár
and her crew put the finishing
touches on the Union Jack for
One Man, Two Guvnors.
Associate Props Supervisor Gretta
Grazier fabricates some fishheads
for One Man, Two Guvnors.
Hair and Makeup Supervisor
Amy Bobeda fits a wig on
the Amélie artwork model in
preparation for a photo shoot.
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Meanwhile, on Addison Street…
Our scene shop crew loads
in the complex set for Head
of Passes, the last show on
the Thrust Stage before its
renovation as part of our
Create Campaign.
Construction is well underway on our
new box office—another phase in our
Create Campaign.
Several lucky donors get a behind-the-scenes peek
and a chance to meet the makers at Berkeley Rep!
There’s lots to see during our backstage tours—
especially in the costume warehouse.
Help contribute to the synergy at Berkeley
Rep by supporting the Create Campaign.
Turn the Thrust Stage into a theatre for
the 21st century and Berkeley Rep into
one of the foremost centers for new play
development in the country.
Visit berkeleyrep.org/create
or call 510 647-2906.
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P H OTO BY C H E S H I R E I S A AC S
P H OTO BY C H E S H I R E I S A AC S
P H OTO BY C H E S H I R E I S A AC S
P H OTO BY N O R A M ER EC I C K Y
Clockwise from top left Peggy Cramer, Lily Hughes, David Allen-Hughes, and Berkeley Rep Trustee Felicia Woytak; A contortionist from Sweet Can Productions performs for the guests;
Jack and Amanda Chee; David Laudon and Randy Laroche
A standing ovation for Berkeley Rep…
une soirée magnifique!
BY HALEY BIERMAN
On April 18, the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton in San
Francisco underwent a stunning transformation, thanks to
Berkeley Rep’s dedicated staff and supporters. On this magical
evening, guests at Berkeley Rep’s annual gala found themselves transported to Carnaval in Paris. They enjoyed exquisite
French-themed cuisine, wines, décor, and entertainment, while
celebrating and supporting Berkeley Rep’s mission and art.
The event was filled with delightful surprises from the very
start. Guests were greeted at the cocktail reception by circus
performers— contortionists, accordion players, mimes, and
more—before entering the ballroom for the glamorous evening ahead, with entertainment by Sweet Can Productions and
choreography by Heath Hunter. Broadway actor Kevin Spirtas
served as the event’s emcee, infusing the night with vivaciousness from start to finish.
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Attendees showed their incredible generosity and belief
in the Theatre’s work all night long. The live and silent auctions
were led by the spectacular auctioneer DawnMarie Kotsonis,
a Berkeley Rep favorite who took part in OVATION for the
third year in a row. DawnMarie also brought the evening to a
wonderful close when she asked guests to raise their paddles
in support of Berkeley Rep. The event concluded with a total of
$675,000 raised, all of which will help us continue to bring our
adventurous artistic programming and accessible education
programs to our Bay Area audience.
We extend a heartfelt thank you to all of our guests and
supporters who helped us make OVATION the event of the
season! Merci beaucoup!
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Cast and crew from the 2015 Teen One-Acts Festival celebrate
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Student voices take center stage
BY KASHARA ROBINSON
Generation Z. Don’t let their age fool you. They’re an
opinionated bunch with ideas, perceptions, and curiosities that
will amaze you. We see it every day at the Berkeley Rep School
of Theatre. Housing various programs that cater to teens and
tweens, the building is filled with youthful voices. But it’s more
than just the chatter of who said what, who likes who, and a
repetition of omgs. These voices are often engaging in conversations that are complex and universal.
In a world of Tumblr and Instagram, young people today
have many outlets to express themselves. Thankfully, theatre
isn’t far down the list of options. When finding ways to dissect
issues that are relevant to them, some students are using
theatre as a vehicle of exploration. Throughout the year, the
School of Theatre provides several channels to foster this kind
of activity, giving students a microscope and a microphone to
tell stories as both originators and writers.
Fists clenched, held high—a symbol of resistance. That’s
the sight you would have walked in on during a workshop last
November. In the wake of Party People, teaching artist Dave
Maier led students from Berkeley Youth Alternatives through
the themes of the play using improv, movement, and playwriting. This is the kind of thing that happens during Performance
Lab, a theatre-based workshop in which students create a
piece inspired by a particular topic, text, or classroom subject
matter. The School offers Performance Labs as a part of its K-12
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programming. Putting student voices first is the main ingredient of the curriculum. Though the work is not always based on
their lives, “There is a personal element,” says Dave. “There’s a
level of ownership because they have a lot of say in what the
meat of the piece is, and they’re contributing their interests
and talents.”
Another avenue for creation happens in Summer Theatre
Intensive, now in its 13th season. Middle and high schoolers
have the opportunity to collaborate and create an original play
with the help of professional playwrights, directors, and teaching artists. Over the course of four weeks, students go through
the play-creation process, participating in writing assignments
and movement exercises that bring their thoughts about
specific themes to light. Their words and talents are then fused
to craft a modern, unified piece to be performed onstage. Last
summer, students explored topics such as gentrification and
the idea of sacrificing for someone else.
“Their commentary is refreshing,” exclaims MaryBeth
Cavanaugh, associate director of the School. She oversees
the program and considers it to be one of the School’s best
examples of inclusivity in terms of ethnicity, socioeconomics,
range of experience, and geography. “That’s what makes it so
special. When the kids are together in the room, I see empathy, maturity, and self-knowledge, which is astonishing for their
age. Their different perspectives make them stronger as an
“When the kids are
together in the room, I
see empathy, maturity,
and self-knowledge,
which is astonishing
for their age. Their
different perspectives
make them stronger as
an ensemble, and they
recognize it.”
R E P ORT
— M A RY BE T H C AVA NAUG H,
A S S O C I AT E DI R E C T OR OF
T H E B E R K E L E Y R E P S C HO OL
OF T H E AT R E
ensemble, and they recognize it.” The
space to produce original work is one
thing, but the impact of going through
the process is another. “It’s unclear if
these students will grow up to pursue the arts as artists, but the deeper
reward is helping them be enlightened,
fully rounded people.”
Those who do come looking for
deeper theatre training find a place to
create and grow as well. “I think the
most unique thing about the Teen OneActs Festival is how well the balance is
struck between freedom and guidance,”
states Berkeley High senior David Kaus.
David recently premiered his play, A
Little Bit Less Than Infinity, in this year’s
Teen One-Acts Festival—a play directed, designed, produced, and performed
by his peers. The balance David mentions is integrated into the experience as
teens build the entire festival under the
mentorship of Berkeley Rep professionals. The teens are at the core every step
of the way, even when it comes to selecting the two plays that will premiere
each year. It’s a representation of what
stories they want to tell, giving them
ownership and creative permission. As
this year’s winning playwright, David is
one of 28 young Bay Area writers to add
his say to an ongoing conversation by
and for young audiences. “The School’s
support lets our voices be heard.”
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From costumes to cocktails:
Berkeley Rep’s bar continues to grow
B Y B I L LY M C E N T E E
It’s perhaps all too appropriate for bars to
have hazy histories, but few of them were once performance
venues, rehearsal spaces, or even costume shops in their
previous lives.
Berkeley Rep’s bar has a history as rich as its craft cocktails. When the Thrust Stage opened in 1980, the now-bar was
used for traveling children’s shows or rehearsals, depending on
the day. “Then, of course, we needed to expand,” says Patron
Services Manager Katrena Jackson. “When I came on in 2007,
it was a costume shop.”
At that time, alcoholic beverages and snacks were only
sold in the Thrust Stage and Roda Theatre lobbies. Once
Berkeley Rep’s offices, rehearsal halls, and production shops
moved to the Harrison Street campus in 2010, the cozy space
nestled at the back of the courtyard found its current niche.
“We wanted to offer a more comfortable place for our patrons
to feel at home, so [Managing Director] Susie Medak had the
idea to create a full-service bar,” says Katrena.
Katrena reached out to East Bay Spice Company, whom
she was familiar with because of its presence at Last Call, a
post-show event where patrons can sample local vendors’
products for free. East Bay Spice Company then created the
six signature drinks, from an autumnal Moscow Mule to the refreshing Hibiscus Paloma, seen in the bar today. Nearly 4,000
cocktails have been served since the partnership began.
Even in the short time since its 2012 unveiling, the bar has
had its own evolution. In 2013 it was refurnished and redecorated to create a casual but theatrical vibe. Photographs of
Berkeley Rep’s scene shop, costumes, and dressing rooms
border its walls. An eclectic mix of sofas, lamps, and coffee
tables were purchased from yard sales and donated from the
props shop —“keeping it Berkeley,” Katrena affirms.
The bar’s new look has attracted more than Berkeley Rep
patrons. By day it may host events for Berkeley High School’s
Teacher Appreciation Week, after-parties for firefighters’
graduation ceremonies, or lunches for tech innovators. By
night, patrons preorder drinks to enjoy at intermission and
even lounge in the bar before the show. “It’s a big change
from having nowhere to go to having somewhere where you
can sit and relax,” smiles Katrena. “You feel like you’re at
home; you have time to enjoy the environment before the
show begins.”
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Amélie
SEASON
Book by Craig Lucas · Music by Daniel Messé
Lyrics by Nathan Tysen & Daniel Messé
Musical direction by Kimberly Grigsby
Choreographed by Sam Pinkleton
Directed by Pam MacKinnon
Limited Season · Roda Theatre
Aug 2015 · World premiere
The Hypocrites’
Pirates of Penzance
Book by W. S. Gilbert · Music by Arthur Sullivan
Directed and adapted by Sean Graney
Co-adapted by Kevin O’Donnell
Co-directed by Thrisa Hodits
Music direction by Andra Velis Simon
Limited Season · Osher Studio · Oct 2015
Join the party in our new Osher Studio on Center
Street with a delightfully immersive, lovingly loopy,
and fantastically eccentric 80-minute take—think
banjos, beach balls, and guitars— on Gilbert and
Sullivan’s preposterous, topsy-turvy world. Frederic
was mistakenly apprenticed as a young boy to a band
of sentimental pirates. Now 21, he falls head-over-heels
for the Major-General’s daughter and forswears the
buccaneer’s life forever, or so he thinks. This buoyant,
award-winning Pirates of Penzance by Chicago theatre
rebels The Hypocrites is “spirited, affectionate, and
nearly irresistible,” says the Boston Globe.
Matt Kahler as the Major-General in The Hypocrites’ Pirates of Penzance
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Amélie captured our hearts in the five-time Academy Award–nominated
film. Now she comes to the stage in an inventive and captivating new
musical directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon (Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf?) and penned by Craig Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss), with a
stirring score by Daniel Messé (of the acclaimed band Hem) and lyrics by
Nathan Tysen (The Burnt Part Boys) and Messé. Embark on a mesmerizing
journey with inquisitive and charmingly shy Amélie as she turns the
streets of Montmartre into a world of her own imagining, while secretly
orchestrating moments of joy for those around her. After discovering a
mysterious photo album and meeting a handsome stranger, she realizes
that helping others is easier than concocting a romantic story of her own.
After seeing the world through the magical and enchanted eyes of Amélie,
you’ll never look at life the same way again.
The world premiere of Amélie,
Mary Zimmerman’s Treasure
Island, the Pulitzer Prize–winning
Disgraced, a thrilling Macbeth, a
fantastical Pirates of Penzance, and
more—your adventure awaits!
PLUS ONE MORE PLAY TO BE ANNOUNCED!
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Disgraced
Aubergine
By Julia Cho
Directed by Liesl Tommy
Main Season · Thrust Stage
Feb 2016 · World premiere
An estranged son, a father
who’s ill, a visiting uncle
carrying their memories in
tow, a woman without an
appetite, and a refugee from
a forgotten country—they all
prove potent ingredients in this
bittersweet and moving meditation
on family, forgiveness, and the things that
nourish us. When language fails, when the past fades, the
perfect meal transcends time and culture and says more
than words ever can. Julia Cho’s plays have garnered critical
praise from New York to Los Angeles. Now she pairs with
Obie Award–winning director Liesl Tommy (Ruined and
Party People) on the elegant, poignant, and lyrical Aubergine.
By Ayad Akhtar
Directed by Kimberly Senior
Main Season · Roda Theatre
Nov 2015 · West Coast premiere
Aubergine was originally commissioned by Berkeley Rep and developed in
The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development
of New Work.
Amir Kapoor is living the American
Dream—an upper East Side
apartment, Italian suits, and the
promise of becoming partner at
Ayad Akhtar
the law firm. But when he and his
wife Emily, an artist influenced by
Islamic imagery, host a dinner party for
their friends and colleagues, lies and deception threaten
to shatter Amir’s carefully constructed life of cultural
assimilation. Playwright Ayad Akhtar won the 2013 Pulitzer
Prize for this engrossing and combustible drama that probes
the complexity of identity, the place of faith in today’s
world, and the hidden prejudices still alive in liberal society.
Director Kimberly Senior comes to Berkeley Rep to stage
the provocative play that she shepherded from Chicago to
London to its triumphant run on Broadway.
Treasure Island
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Julia Cho
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Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapted and directed by Mary Zimmerman
Main Season · Thrust Stage
Apr 2016
Mary Zimmerman has mesmerized audiences with her exquisite
adaptations of classic tales from the spellbinding Arabian Nights
to the hypnotic White Snake. This spring the Tony Award–winning
director takes us aboard the Hispaniola for a heart-pounding
voyage filled with tales of swashbuckling gentlemen o’ fortune, a
malicious mutiny led by infamous Long John Silver, and a deadly
quest for fabled buried booty. Caught in the middle is cabin boy
Jim Hawkins, who must find uncommon courage as he faces a
murderous plot and navigates the ambiguous tides of morality.
Sail to Treasure Island with Mary Zimmerman for another visually
tantalizing and exhilarating adventure.
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
Main Season · Roda Theatre
Feb 2016
Tony and Obie Award–winning director Daniel Sullivan—
dubbed the go-to guy for Shakespeare—helms a thrilling new
production of the bard’s murderous play about the lust for
power and the fickleness of fate. Driven by an evil prophesy
and his scheming wife, Macbeth kills the king and claims his
crown, thus beginning a moral descent into a reign of terror.
The New York Times has called Daniel Sullivan’s Shakespeare in
the Park productions “absolutely splendid” and rendered with
“passion, expertise and uncommon intelligence.” We can’t wait
to reveal who will play the notorious couple—stay tuned!
Amy Kim Waschke and
Christopher Livingston in
Mary Zimmerman’s
The White Snake
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A photochrom depicting a view of the pier from the east, circa 1890s (image courtesy of the Library of Congress Photochrom Print Collection)
The Brighton railway station in 1962 (image courtesy of Ben Brooksbank via a Flickr Creative Commons License)
The Brighton seashore in 2012 (image courtesy of Garry Knight via a Flickr Creative Commons License)
The current sign for the Brighton Pier (image courtesy of grassrootsgroundswell via a Flickr Creative Commons License)
Aerial view of the pier in 2011 (image courtesy of Ian Stannard via a Flickr Creative Commons License)
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UndeR the
bOardwalk
BY JULIE MCCORMICK
Carlo Goldoni’s comedic masterpiece
The Servant of Two Masters has delighted audiences with its
twists and turns, cases of mistaken identity, and no-holdsbarred slapstick since its first performance in 1743. Richard
Bean’s One Man, Two Guvnors updates and reimagines the
main events of this story from Goldoni’s 18th-century Venice to 1963 Brighton, England. It’s a surprisingly appropriate
move—there’s more in common between 18th-century Venice
and 1960s Brighton than one might think.
The island city of Venice, “The Queen of the Adriatic,”
perches atop the waves just off of mainland Italy. By the
second half of the 1700s, Venice’s glory days as a thousandyear-old republic and international trading hub were coming to
an end, but it was already the bustling tourist destination we
know it to be today. The romance of crumbling palazzos, glittering gambling salons, winding canals, and Carnival drew in
travelers from far and wide looking to escape from the tightly
regulated social hierarchies of daily life.
For much of its history, the seaside town of Brighton has
also been an escape from the grind of reality. Since the early
days this erstwhile fishing village has been a point of embarkation between Britain and the Continent for both business
and pleasure. In the 18th-century, popular wisdom espoused
the salutary powers of sea air, and tourists flocked from
around the country to take in the briny breezes and soak in
newly opened spas. When the railway between London and
Brighton opened in the 1840s, day-trippers from the big city
poured into the seaside town on sunny days, and the regular
population boomed.
Just as the idea of Venice is inextricably linked with the
masks of Carnival, nothing captures the spirit of Brighton in
all of its sandy, cotton-candy glory more than the glittering Palace Pier. Spindly pylons race down the sand and skip through
the surf, jutting out 1760 feet into the waters of the English
Channel. The pier sits on top like a magnificent birthday cake:
its soaring confectionary Victorian architecture gleams a bright
white against the waves and sky.
The first pier at Brighton Beach was built in 1823 and used
primarily for off-loading passenger ships from France. The
owners encouraged stalls featuring snacks, souvenirs, and portrait artists to set up along the boardwalk and began charging
admission. A series of bad storms eventually damaged the pier
beyond repair, and in 1889, the Brighton Marine Palace & Pier
Company bought out the old pier and began construction on
a new one. The company spared no expense for the grandest
entertainment and most cutting-edge technology. A concert
hall, theatre, bandstand, and pavilions for eating and smoking
sat along the boardwalk and were lit at night with 3,000 lightbulbs, a newly available invention. Some of these constructions, like the bandstand and the elegant iron and steel arches
at the entrance of the pier, remain standing today.
By the 1960s, however, some of the shine on the Palace
Pier had faded. Sections that were shut down during World
War II for fear of invasion had fallen into disrepair. Many of the
same games that had been up since the turn of the century
were still there—these weren’t replaced with more modern
arcade games until the 1970s. Major structural and aesthetic
renovations were still decades off, so by 1963, the pier had
become a bit dilapidated and slightly seedy.
The piers at Brighton Beach have always been a place
where all sorts would meet, play, relax, and sometimes clash:
tourists and townies, old and young, rich and poor, English and
foreign. In 1964, the year after One Man, Two Guvnors is set,
this came to a head in the battle between the mods and rockers, two youth gangs out of London. The mods rode mopeds,
wore skinny designer suits, and listened to skiffle. The rockers
revved their motorcycles straight out of a James Dean movie,
leather jackets and all. Thousands of teenagers brawled on
the waterfront, upsetting sand castles and picnic baskets until
police hauled them away. In some ways, their summer battles
were symbolic of greater cultural changes yet to come.
So many of our greatest stories and biggest laughs arise
out of the moment where one unexpected thing runs into
another. Alien meets earthling, high meets low, pie meets face.
In Goldoni’s Venice and Richard Bean’s Brighton, where the
land meets the sea, one era meets another, and the corny and
magnificent collide, a sense of holiday abandon rules the day.
Anyone might be there, and anything is possible.
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Before Beatlemania swept the land, there was skiffle. A type of music that blends elements of
folk, blues, country, and jazz, skiffle is largely played on homemade or improvised instruments
and inspires the score for this show. Skiffle rose from the same rich, musical soup that exhaled
blues, jazz, gospel, and the precursors to swing, rock, and funk, and was first played by informal
jug bands in the early 20th-century American South. These “country blues” ensembles blew
into and slapped glass or stoneware jugs to create bass lines and rubbed washboards to keep
time. Guitars, banjos, and fiddles harmonized with spoons, kazoos made out of a comb and a
piece of paper, and whatever else musicians could find in their kitchens and junk drawers.
The origin of the name is a bit of a mystery, although it’s
certainly onomatopoeic. Both “skiffle” and “boogie” were slang
for rent parties in the 1920s, where musicians passed the hat
at house parties to help “make the rent.” The first recordings of
skiffle were made in Chicago in 1925, with Jimmy O’Bryant and
his Chicago Skifflers. After a brief waltz in the public eye, this
“poor man’s jazz” faded from popularity after 1940.
In the 1950s, skiffle made its way to England in the fingers
of Lonnie Donegan, a jazz musician who cut his teeth on swing,
country, and blues. Inspired by the likes of Woody Guthrie and
Lead Belly, Donegan picked up the banjo and started playing
“skiffle breaks” in between sets with some of his fellow band
mates in Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen. His recording of Lead Belly’s
“Rock Island Line” shot to the top of British and American music charts in 1956, and soon Donegan was releasing full albums
of skiffle and playing on The Perry Como Show.
The popularity of this musical form cannot be overstated:
it is estimated that there were 30,000–50,000 skiffle groups
in Britain during the late ’50s. Why this sudden interest?
Certainly, there was an appetite for musical styles originating
in the African-American South which was whetted by access
to American radio during World War II and musical-variety
television shows of the ’50s. Some suggest it had something to
do with skiffle’s playful informality: the lyrics are often simple,
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BY JULIE MCCORMICK
the music has room for improvisation, and the instruments
aren’t expensive or hard to come by. In a Britain still recovering
economically from a devastating war, it was appealing to use
simple instruments like kazoos, washboards, or harmonicas,
and to construct “tea box basses” and “cigar box fiddles” with
cheap materials close at hand. Skiffle exploded the idea of
what music is and who could make it at a moment in history
when people were ready for change.
Though the mania for the form ended with the ’60s,
many of the 20th century’s most popular musicians got their
starts in a skiffle band. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, The Spinners, Alex Harvey, and Mick Jagger all began
in skiffle, as well as a little group called The Quarrymen. In
1956, a teenaged John Lennon learned how to play the banjo
from his mother, and started practicing skiffle songs with a
few other boys from “Quarry High School” in his backyard
air-raid shelter. After moderate success at a few neighborhood
gigs, Lennon convinced budding guitarist Paul McCartney to
join the band, and brought in a 15-year-old George Harrison in
1958. By 1960s, The Beatles were born and the British Invasion was in full force. You can still find skiffle in its pure form
today in living rooms, back porches, and street corners, but
its playful, creative spirit lives on in the dna of modern pop,
rock, and jazz.
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LEATHER MASKS AND CARTOON ANVILS:
COMMEDIA’S STOCK CHARACTERS AND COMEDY TODAY
BY LEXI DIAMOND
1615: On a busy street in Italy, Arlecchino finishes
an enormous meal and—somehow still famished—begins to
devour himself, starting from the feet and working his way up.
2015: On a television screen in an American living room,
ever-hungry Homer Simpson awakes from a nap to find a hotdog bun placed on his hand, and instinctively begins chomping
away at his own fleshy limb.
This kind of comedy brings us a visceral satisfaction. We
long to see the hungry fool messily dive headfirst into a plate
of food, or the blustering blowhard humiliate himself in front
of those he’d most like to impress. Conventions like these
spring up time and again in contemporary popular culture because they have been deeply engrained in our collective sense
of humor for centuries. Many of today’s most familiar comedic
tropes can be traced back to the 1600s, where they were born
from commedia dell’arte. Though commedia as it was once
practiced has largely fallen into obscurity, the broad comedic
archetypes it established continue to make us laugh every day
in sitcoms and cartoons.
The basis for One Man, Two Guvnors lies in Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, arguably the most famous
play from the tradition of commedia dell’arte. This late–Renaissance Italian theatrical form relied on an arsenal of stock
characters whose stories changed from play to play, but whose
personalities and behaviors stayed the same. Each character
was performed with a signature costume, mask, and physical
vocabulary, making the role instantly identifiable to onlookers
who came to the public squares where commedia troupes performed their shows. For the most part, the plays themselves
were loosely plotted stories, strung together by improvisation,
audience interaction, songs, and lazzi, or comedic bits that
served to demonstrate each character’s archetypal personality.
The stock characters belonged to one of two classes:
masters or servants, and status factored heavily into each
character’s persona. The stories themselves usually took place
in the house of a wealthy family and involved a marriage plot
gone wrong. The Masters, or Vecchi (Italian for “old men”),
were usually the lovers’ respective fathers. Their stories usually
involved them getting in the way of the young people’s happiness in favor of their own gain. There was Pantalone, a miserly,
lecherous old coot who cared more for money than people,
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dled by his own academic pretense. Il Capitano, a swaggering,
macho show-off, also belonged to the upper class, as did the
lovers. The Lovers, or innamorati, went by many names, but
were always unmasked and wholly ridiculous. They existed
to be in love: in love with the other innamorato, in love with
themselves, and in love with love.
There were many stock characters of the servant class,
called Zanni, the most famous of whom was Arlecchino.
Arlecchino was a silly, mischievous servant who was forever in
search of his next meal. He constantly created chaos, his talent
for acrobatics and physical comedy coming out as he tried
to dodge the mix-ups he himself often stirred up. His female
counterpart, Smeraldina, was a clever, saucy maid who often
figured things out several steps ahead of the others and had
to set them all straight. Brighella, a slightly higher-class Zanni,
was a crude, low-level merchant or tavern owner who willingly
bent the rules to make a profit. Brighella and the Masters often
employed a number of additional, unnamed Zanni, each one
more foolish and scrambled than the next.
Because these recognizable characters were ruled so
heavily by their foibles, audiences could anticipate that the
humor would come from seeing them thwarted by their signature imperfection, be it greed, lust, or plain old stupidity.
This created a sense of suspense for the crowd of onlookers,
a balance between familiarity and surprise: they knew what
would bring a character’s downfall, but eagerly awaited the
fresh how. Think Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner
around a bend—we know that an anvil meant for his foe
has been laid on the cliff above, and we know that obsessed
Wile E. Coyote isn’t nearly as clever a planner as he fancies
himself. The comedy, then, comes from waiting to see his
plans foiled once again as the object of his fanatical hunt
outsmarts him.
The archetypes put into motion over 400 years ago on the
street corners of Italy are still essential to our comedy vocabulary today. When sweet, dimwitted Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island
gets underfoot and causes a ruckus, we see shades of Arlecchino. When Owl from Winnie-the-Pooh delivers a pretentious
lecture to the others but confuses the facts amidst his self-importance, Il Dottore rears up. From Charlie Chaplin to SpongeBob SquarePants, and from The Cosby Show to Monty Python,
these clowns are all around us.
david ivers on
cOmedy,
David Ivers
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classics,
and
cooking
BY THE BERKELEY REP
L I T E R A R Y S TA F F
Director David Ivers is a man of many talents. He originally
cut his teeth as an actor, eventually transitioning into a career as a director
and artistic director of the Utah Shakespeare Festival. His work was recently seen at Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where his production of
the Marx Brothers’ musical The Cocoanuts brought down the house with
spot-on slapstick and unrepentant improv. From his home in the Utah
mountains, David Ivers took a few minutes to speak with the Berkeley Rep
literary staff about One Man, Two Guvnors and his approach to comedy.
Berkeley Rep: Richard Bean used Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte
classic The Servant of Two Masters as a springboard for One Man, Two
Guvnors. Can you say a little bit about why you think he might have set
his version on the boardwalks of 1960’s Brighton?
David Ivers: There has to be a cloak of anonymity to The Servant of Two
Masters. It’s essential to the theme. My theory is that boardwalks—which
are prevalent in Brighton—provide a kind of anonymity. They become
these sort of microcosms of classless societies because they often attract
tourists and visitors, and it therefore becomes very hard to tell where
stratification lies.
So I think one of the reasons the play is set in Brighton, in England,
under the cloak of this boardwalk is that anyone can just arrive there, you
know? It’s like going to an amusement park. You’re just waiting for the
nighttime. You just get to be anonymous. It gives you a kind of courage.
CO N TIN U E D O N N E X T PAG E
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give me warm, generOus, and
funny over everything.
i dOn’t care what yOu
look like if yOu’re warm
as a person, and yOu’re
generous as a person,
and yOu have a good
sense of humor, yOu can
accomplish anything.
David Ivers, Rob Salas, and Lexi
Diamond laughing in rehearsal
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Are you using the music from the original National Theatre production, or are you bringing someone in to do your
own compositions?
We can’t compose new music for it. We’ll have sound cues
like the doorbell; that’ll be original. But we’re not composing
anything. As a matter of fact, the score is so amazing in that it
provides options in certain sections. Like, if you need an extra
30 seconds to change the set behind that curtain, play this!
And the show is built like a machine: this downbeat drops
here into rock and roll for two minutes and 32 seconds, on
two minutes and 30 seconds your stage manager is calling the
cue out on that drop, lights are bumping up, we’re hoping for
applause that will cover that last bit of travel, and then we’re
into the scene.
Nothing moves in the play scenically, nothing technical
happens without a live band covering it. It’s such a present show. It’s so immediate. The band sits within touching
distance of the first row. That means there’s also a fairly loud
band that close to the first row, and it means that the energy of the play has to embrace that. There has to be a really
wonderful synergy moving in several directions between the
music in the show and the audience, the story and the audience, the actor and the audience, the actor and the band, the
band and the audience….
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How do you go about finding collaborators for this kind of
a project?
Give me warm, generous, and funny over everything. I
don’t care what you look like—if you’re warm as a person,
and you’re generous as a person, and you have a good sense
of humor, you can accomplish anything. I believe that in my
leadership position, I believe it in my approach to these plays.
I’ve got a bunch of nimrods that I get to work with over
and over again—we’re like 8-year-olds! We work more and
more together, and we go, “Wow, they’re giving us money to
do this again?”
For example, I’ve worked with [costume designer] Meg
Neville several times. I loved her from the first time we met,
because she showed me a bunch of her drawings that had
her lipstick on them. She’s got a million things going on and
she always retains this wonderful sense of humor and does
everything with a great sense of style. And I really love her
sense of whimsy.
I’ve known Gregg Coffin, our music director, since college.
We’ve worked together on a ton of stuff. We bonded over
Bugs Bunny and an insane appreciation for the math of that
kind of work.
Do you find yourself generally attracted to larger scale,
multi-piece projects like this?
I find that other people are generally attracted to me
doing that for them—I would really love to do a four-person
play set in a black box with a couch!
Danny Scheie, Dan Donohue, Ron Campbell,
and William Connell in rehearsal
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But seriously, I’m a total classicist at heart. I was reared
on Shakespeare, Shaw, Ibsen, Molière, Goldoni…. And with
anything that’s rooted in classicism, we have to decide for ourselves what it’s about, and then proceed with ultimate clarity.
So I think what that’s come to mean is that I understand
structure. Structure reveals itself in a lot of ways, and in
classical plays, it tends to reveal itself with a lot of people and
a lot of moving parts. So I’m drawn to the challenge of that.
It inevitably makes me incredibly nervous. And incredibly
humbled. Because it’s like sitting down at the piano to a new
Shostakovich composition and going, how are my fingers going
to figure this out?
This play is very British—are you approaching it any differently as a piece for an American audience?
If there’s one thing I know about America, it’s that we’re
obsessed with British culture. We’re completely enamored by
not only the rhythms of the dialect, but also the rhythms of
the way in which people there conduct their lives. So for me, I
think it adds to the aural composition of the play.
Also, I grew up with a British mother, so that helps in
terms of understanding the humor. And a lot of it is cued in
visually, and that’s pretty universal. Someone falling down the
stairs is someone falling down the stairs. You either have a
proclivity towards enjoying that stuff or you think it’s childish.
Me, I love it.
I think it’s going to be a really visceral, energetic, stupid-inthe-best-way, frolicking mess. With rock and roll supporting this
absolutely insane, wonderful, chaotic world. I don’t think we
want to approach it differently for American audiences. American audiences were reared on The Three Stooges, Tom & Jerry,
and Looney Tunes. So I think we’ll have some intersections.
this kind of wOrk
is like cooking.
It’s really betteR
when yOu dO it
generously and
fOr the benefit
of other people.
Can you talk a little bit about some of your personal comedic influences?
Well, The Three Stooges, Tom & Jerry, and Looney Tunes.
My father is French-Canadian, and my mother’s British. My
father used to bring my brother and me into the living room on
the weekends while my mother would cook breakfast. And the
reason she’d love to be in the other room was so that she could
hear us laughing, because my dad would sit us down and start
the weekend watching The Three Stooges.
The world of farce and physical comedy really speaks to
me because it marries precision with being a child, with childishness—innocence and purity and total youthful exuberance
with a kind of virtuosity. I think it’s one of the only art forms
that has the ability to do that.
This kind of work is like cooking. It’s really better when
you do it generously and for the benefit of other people. And
that’s what will keep heart in this production, and will make
it transcend just a bunch of idiots running around having a
good time.
Can you remember the time you’ve laughed hardest?
It might have been last night, when my son Elliot—well, I
laugh at my kids all the time. They’re young, so I pull up small
vignettes of, like, Peter Sellers doing the parallel bar routine
and falling down the staircase. And I don’t laugh anymore at
the actual video as much as I laugh my ass off watching my
kids respond to the same stuff. I tend to get great joy out of
creating the work and then feeling other people respond to it.
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N E X T AT B E R K E L E Y R E P · J U LY
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH RETURNS!
She astounded us with her 2011 hit Let Me Down Easy—now she’s back
with her newest incisive theatrical investigation.
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by Marcus Shelby
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One Man, Two Guvnors
BY
Richard Bean
Based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
With songs by Grant Olding
D IREC TE D BY
David Ivers
M AY 8–JU N E 21, 2015
RO DA TH E ATRE · M AIN S E A SO N
CAST
Alfie Ron Campbell*
Stanley William Connell*
Alan Brad Culver*
Francis Henshall Dan Donohue*
Harry Dangle John-David Keller*
Lloyd Boateng Gerry McIntyre*
Pauline Sarah Moser*
Rachel Helen Sadler*
One Man, Two Guvnors is made possible thanks to
the generous support of
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Edie Barschi
Lynne Carmichael
Daniel Cohn & Lynn Brinton
Jill & Steve Fugaro
Steven & Patrece Mills
Peter Pervere & Georgia Cassel
Emily Shanks
Gareth Danny Scheie*
Charlie Clench Robert Sicular*
Dolly Claire Warden*
Ensemble Becca Lustgarten, Todd Pivetti,
Daniel Redmond, Steven Shear
Band—The Craze Casey Hurt— Lead Vocals & Guitar
Mike McGraw— Lead Guitar
Marcus Högsta— Bass
Andrew Niven— Percussion & Drums
PRODUC TION S TAFF
Music Director
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sound Design
Musical Staging/
Dance Captain
Casting
Gregg Coffin
Hugh Landwehr
Meg Neville
Alexander V. Nichols
Lindsay Jones
Gerry McIntyre
Amy Potozkin, csa
Joanne DeNaut, csa
Production Stage Manager Michael Suenkel*
Assistant Stage Manager Karen Szpaller*
Partial support of open captioning is provided by
Theatre Development Fund.
Affiliations
The director is a member of the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an
independent national labor union. The Scenic,
Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in
lort Theatres are represented by United
Scenic Artists Local usa-829, iatse.
One Man, Two Guvnors was first performed at Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre on 17th May 2011 in
a National Theatre production. It then transferred to the Adelphi Theatre and then to Theatre Royal
Haymarket in a National Theatre production.
One Man, Two Guvnors was first performed at Music Box Theatre, New York on 6th April 2012. The original
Broadway Production was produced by Bob Boyett, National Theatre of Great Britain under the direction
of Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, National Angels, Chris Harper, Tim Levy, Scott Rudin, Roger Berlind,
Harriet Leve, Stephanie P. McClelland, Broadway Across America, Daryl Roth, Jam Theatricals, Sonia
Friedman, Harris Karma, Deborah Taylor, Richard Willis.
One Man, Two Guvnors is presented by special arrangement with
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
*Indicates a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors
and Stage Managers in the United States.
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Ron Campbell
ALFIE
In a career that has
spanned four decades
and four continents,
Ron has performed
everywhere from the
streets of Paris and
Rome to the Royal
Albert Hall in London,
the Fuji Dome in Japan,
the Ancient Theatre
of Epidaurus in Greece, the Habima in Israel,
American Conservatory Theater, the Mark
Taper Forum, the Mercury Theater (Chicago),
the Huntington Theatre Company, Seattle
Repertory Theatre, the Actors’ Gang, and
various local stages. A recipient of the Fox
Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement,
Ron was lead clown in Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza.
His one-man shows include R. Buckminster
Fuller, The Thousandth Night, Shylock, The Dybbuk, The Boneman of Benares, and Beckett’s
Eh Joe. Ron has received Theatre Critics Circle
Awards in Los Angeles and the Bay Area and
nominations for Jeff and Helen Hayes Awards.
An associate artist at California Shakespeare
Theater, Ron can be contacted through
soarfeat.org.
William Connell
S TA N L E Y
William’s New York City
and regional credits
include A View from the
Bridge (2010 Broadway
revival); The Coast of
Utopia (Lincoln Center);
Alphabetical Order and
The Maddening Truth
(Keen Company); Hamlet (Aspen Music Festival); One Man, Two Guvnors (Pioneer Theatre
Company); The Hour of Feeling (Humana Festival); The Winslow Boy and The Mousetrap (the
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); The 39 Steps
(Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); Bell, Book
and Candle (SF Playhouse); The Importance of
Being Earnest (Gulfshore Playhouse); The Voice
of the Turtle (Merrimack Repertory Theatre);
Pride and Prejudice (Geva Theatre Center); The
Glass Menagerie (Two River Theater Company);
Murder On The Nile (Dorset Theatre Festival);
As You Like It (Weston Playhouse Theatre
Company); Babette’s Feast (Threads Theater
Company); Sherlock Holmes, The Early Years
(New York Musical Theatre Festival); All’s Well
That Ends Well (Theatre for a New Audience);
The Dinner Party (Lincoln Center Institute);
Mary Stuart (New York Classical Theatre); The
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (Theatreworks
USA); and The Tempest and The Picture of
Dorian Gray (Sonnet Repertory Theatre).
His TV and film credits include Manhattan
Love Story, MA, Smash, Not Fade Away, Gossip
Girl, Law & Order, and Guiding Light. William
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received his bfa from University of North
Carolina School of the Arts.
Brad Culver
ALAN
Brad is excited to be
working at Berkeley Rep
for the first time. His
recent theatre credits
include Edward in The
Miraculous Journey
of Edward Tulane and
Templeton in Charlotte’s
Web (South Coast
Repertory), Dionysus
in Satyr Atlas (the Getty Villa), The Black Glass
(Ballhaus Ost in Berlin), Present Tense (The
Big Show Co./Oberlin Dance Collective), and
The Internationalists (Istrian National Theatre
in Croatia & Belgrade International Theatre
Festival in Serbia). In film and television, some
of Brad’s credits include Extracted (Official
Selection: South by Southwest Film Festival),
Cartoon Network’s Regular Show, Animal Planet’s Lost Tapes, Dead in the Room (produced by
Slamdance Film Festival), and A Lonely Place
for Dying (featuring James Cromwell). Brad is a
founding member of LA–based theatre collective Poor Dog Group. He received his bfa in
Theatre from California Institute of the Arts.
Dan Donohue
FR ANCIS HENSHALL
Dan has been a fixture
at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival since
1994, performing in
more than 30 productions in such roles as
Hamlet, Mercutio,
Caliban, Iago, Henry V,
Dvornichek (in Rough
Crossing), and, most recently, Richard III. On Broadway, Dan was Scar
in The Lion King. Other credits include Truffaldino in Servant of Two Masters (Intiman Theatre), The Night Alive (the Geffen Playhouse),
The Triumph of Love (Long Wharf Theatre), The
Game of Love and Chance (Seattle Repertory
Theatre), Vincent in Inventing Van Gogh (Arizona Theatre Company), and roles at Portland
Center Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre,
Asolo Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespeare
Festival, and elsewhere. Dan was an inaugural
recipient of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship and
a 2012 Grammy Award nominee (Best Spoken
Word for Hamlet). His television and film credits include Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mentalist,
Shameless, Return to Zero, Water & Power, and
The Closer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
John-David Keller
H A R RY DA N G L E
This is John-David’s
first production with
Berkeley Rep. He has
spent the last 42 years
as an actor and director
with South Coast Repertory. Prior to coming
to South Coast Rep
he performed in New
York in productions
of Misalliance; Rainbow Jones, a musical; and
The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard on
Broadway and in the national tour. John-David
was brought up and educated in San Francisco. He made his first stage appearance at the
age of 8 singing with the San Francisco Boy’s
Opera Chorus. He was one of the first 20 boys
in San Francisco to have this opportunity. In
college he did his apprentice work with the
San Francisco Actor’s Workshop under the
direction of Jules Irving and Herbert Blau. He
has been away from San Francisco for a long
time and feels this wonderful production is
like a coming-home present.
Becca Lustgarten
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Becca last appeared
at Berkeley Rep in
Molière’s Tartuffe. Her
recent credits include
Tartuffe and Death of a
Salesman (South Coast
Repertory). Her other
favorite credits include
Three Sisters at Williamstown Theatre Festival,
directed by Michael Greif; Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Hangar
Theatre, directed by Kevin Moriarty; and a
number of new plays developed and produced by the Actors Studio (nyc) and Primary
Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts. She
received her bfa in Theatre Arts from Boston
University and studied at the Accademia
dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. In addition to her
theatrical work, Becca is a writer and musician.
Gerry McIntyre
L LOY D B OAT E N G/M U S I C A L S TAG I N G/
DA N C E C A P TA I N
Gerry’s Broadway
credits include Uptown
It’s Hot, Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, Once on This
Island (original company), Anything Goes, and
Chicago. His off-Broadway credits include
Enter Laughing (Drama
Desk nomination), The Audience (Drama Desk
nomination), and Forbidden Broadway (naacp
and Ovation Awards). Gerry has been seen on
TV in Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order, Whoopi,
Jamie Foxx, nypd Blue, Caroline in the City,
The Nanny, The Pretender, and Murphy Brown.
His film credits include The Kiss, Broadway
Damage, The Next Step, Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat, and After the Storm.
Gerry is the winner of a Theatre Bay Area
Award and a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre
Critics Circle Award for his choreography.
Please visit gerrymcintyre.net.
Sarah Moser
PAU L I N E
Sarah is thrilled to
return to Berkeley Rep
where she was last
seen in You, Nero. Her
recent credits include
The Great Pretender
and Time Stands Still
(TheatreWorks), The
Lily’s Revenge (Magic
Theatre), The Coast of
Utopia and Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of
Loneliness (Shotgun Players), A Maze and In
From the Cold (Just Theater), Eurydice (Palo
Alto Players), StoryWorks (Tides Theatre), In
the Next Room (or the vibrator play) and Hamlet
(City Lights Theatre Company), and Almost,
Maine (California Conservatory Theatre).
Sarah holds a BA from Stanford University and
has trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic
Art. She is a proud recipient of the 2014–15
Theatre Bay Area Titan Award for Acting and
is a company member at Just Theater.
Todd Pivetti
Daniel Redmond
Todd last appeared at
Berkeley Rep in Molière’s
Tartuffe. He has recently
appeared in The Balcony
with Collected Works
at the Mint in San
Francisco, Cock at the
New Conservatory
Theatre Center, The
Speakeasy with Boxcar
Theatre, Threepenny Opera with San Jose Stage
Company, Julius Caesar (tour) with the San
Francisco Shakespeare Festival, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream and The Imaginary Invalid with
Pacific Repertory Theatre, Twelfth Night and
The Mandrake at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and
he played Peer Gynt in Peer Gynt at UC Santa
Cruz as his master’s thesis. Todd has also done
numerous readings and workshops with Playwrights Foundation, Crowded Fire Theater,
and the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco.
Daniel was an understudy in Troublemaker,
or the Freakin’ Kick-A
Adventures of Bradley
Boatright at Berkeley Rep. His other
credits include The
Homosexuals and My
Beautiful Laundrette
(New Conservatory
Theatre Center), Buffalo’ed (San Jose Stage
Company), A Taste of Honey (Virago Theatre,
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle
nominee), The Embassy (Central Works), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Associates), Harper Regan
(SF Playhouse), Owners (AlterTheater), Aladdin
(the Old Vic), Mother Clap’s Molly House (the
Royal National Theatre), The People Next Door
(Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Broadway and
European tours), Jack And The Beanstalk (Oxford Playhouse), La Cava (Victoria Palace/Piccadilly Theatre), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
(Battersea Arts Centre), and Brighton Beach
Scumbags (Brockley Jack Theatre). He has been
seen in Red Tails (Lucas Films). Daniel holds a
master’s in Theatre.
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Helen Sadler
Steven Shear
Claire Warden
Helen makes her debut
performance at Berkeley Rep. Regional credits
include The Night Alive
and Tribes (Steppenwolf
Theatre Company); The
Whale (South Coast
Repertory); Cymbeline
(A Noise Within); Sense
and Sensibility (Actors
Theatre of Louisville and Northlight Theatre);
The Maids (Writers Theatre); Blasted (A Red
Orchid Theatre); Buried Child, A Taste of Honey,
and Hyde in Hollywood (Shattered Globe
Theatre); War (Seanachai Theatre Company);
Feydeau-Si-Deau (Theater Wit); and Radiance
(the Geffen Playhouse). TV credits include
Revenge and True Blood. Film credits include
Thrill Ride, Too Late, Contagion, All the Marbles,
Cass, Heavy, The Coldest Winter, Wednesday’s
Child, Credits, Keen, and Hush Your Mouth.
Voice credits include Game of Thrones, Call of
Duty: Advanced Warfare, Star Wars: The Old
Republic, and The Elder Scrolls. Helen received
her BA from University of Bristol and trained
at the Poor School, London.
Steven is thrilled to
return to Berkeley Rep,
having previously understudied for Pericles,
Prince of Tyre, directed
by Mark Wing-Davey.
Bay Area credits include
the title role of Mr.
Irresistible at the Alcazar
Theatre; Hedwig and the
Angry Inch at Boxcar Theatre; Promises, Promises at San Francisco Playhouse; Avenue Q at
Summer Repertory Theatre; and Legally Blonde
at Spreckels Performing Arts Center. He has
toured with two Bay Area Children’s Theatre
world premiere musicals: The Gold Rush Play
and Tales of Olympus, and received a Bay Area
Theatre Critics Circle nomination for Best
Choreography for his work on San Francisco
Playhouse’s production of Camelot. Regionally,
he has performed with Jenny Wiley Theatre
and Texas Family Musicals. Steven’s film
and television credits include the upcoming
feature America Is Still the Place and Discovery
Channel’s I (Almost) Got Away with It. Steven
hold a bfa from nyu Tisch School of the Arts
cap21 and studied at the International Theatre
Workshop in Amsterdam, NL. For more about
Steven, please visit steven-shear.com.
Claire makes her
debut performance
at Berkeley Rep. Her
off-Broadway credits
include Charlotte
Payne-Townsend in Engaging Shaw (Abingdon
Theatre Company) and
Molly Luscombe/Mrs.
Will in The Libertine
(Kirk Theatre). Other New York and regional
credits include Brooke in Other Desert Cities,
Josie in A Moon for the Misbegotten, Mary in
Mary Stuart, Bella in Lost in Yonkers, Titania/
Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet. Her UK
credits include Hecuba in The Trojan Women,
Narrator in Women of the Sidhe, and Helena
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Claire has
starred in the films Freedom Fighter, The Factory, and Departure and in the TV documentary
Jack the Ripper—An Ongoing Mystery for the
Discovery Channel. You can also hear her
as the voice of the Open Technology Fund
Website. She has a BA Honours degree in
Drama and Theatre Arts from the University
of Birmingham, UK. Claire is the Director
of Education for the Shakespeare Forum in
New York City and co-runs the ambassador
program for the Shakespeare Society. Please
visit clairewarden.com.
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Danny Scheie
GARETH
Danny previously appeared at Berkeley Rep
in the world premiere
of Charles Mee’s Fêtes
de la Nuit directed by
Les Waters; as Nero in
Amy Freed’s You, Nero,
for which he won the
San Francisco Bay Area
Critics Circle Award for
leading actor (he also played it at South Coast
Repertory and Arena Stage); in Cloud Nine
directed by Tony Taccone (also at Trinity Repertory Company); and as Sturgis Drang in Troublemaker, or the Freakin’ Kick-A Adventures of
Bradley Boatright. He performed for 13 seasons
with both Shakespeare Santa Cruz (including
as artistic director) and California Shakespeare
Theater (for which he most recently received
the Theatre Bay Area Award for leading
actor as Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of
Syracuse), and has also acted at the Old Globe
in San Diego, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the
Folger Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, the
Pasadena Playhouse, A Noise Within, Two River Theater Company, Yale Repertory Theatre,
Los Angeles Theatre Center, Aurora Theatre
Company, TheatreWorks, Magic Theatre, the
Marsh, Marin Theatre Company, San Jose
Repertory Theatre, and Theatre Rhinoceros.
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Robert Sicular
CHARLIE CLENCH
Robert is delighted to
be returning to Berkeley
Rep, having appeared in
many shows here over
the years, including a
season at the Theatre’s
original home on
College Avenue. He
has also performed
locally with American
Conservatory Theater, San Jose Repertory
Theatre, TheatreWorks, Center Rep, San
Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and California
Shakespeare Theater. Other theatres include
the Denver Center Theatre Company; South
Coast Repertory; Seattle Repertory Theatre;
the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Actors
Theatre of Louisville; Sacramento Theatre
Company; the Colorado, Lake Tahoe, and Santa Fe Shakespeare Festivals; the Shakespeare
Theatre Company in Washington, DC; and for
eight seasons, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Screen credits include General
Hospital and The Young and the Restless, the
sci-fi comedy thriller Never Die Twice, the
Bollywood potboiler Dil Pardesi Ho Gayaa, and
the role of Dad in Josh Kornbluth’s upcoming
Love and Taxes. He also stars in the podcast
series Dr. Dark Presents (drdarkpresents.com).
Robert attended the University of California
at Berkeley and the London Academy of Music
and Dramatic Art.
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Casey Hurt
L E A D VO C A L S & G U I TA R
Casey has spent most of
his life as a performer.
At an early age he was
singing and playing
guitar in bars and coffee
shops. Since then he has
toured North America
and Europe playing his
original music. In addition to being a performer, Casey is also a playwright and composer.
His most recent musical The Unfortunates had
its world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival and will move to American Conservatory Theater in the spring of 2016. As a recording artist, Casey’s music has been featured on
television shows such as Criminal Minds, Pretty
Little Liars, One Tree Hill, and many others. To
find out more, visit caseyhurt.com.
Mike McGraw
L E A D G U I TA R
Mike hails from the LA
rock scene and is very
excited to be a part of
One Man, Two Guvnors.
Born and raised in the
Southern California
suburbs, Mike began
playing guitar for a local
band that got him gigging on the Sunset Strip
at a young age. He has found a home with the
Brian Buckley Band, with which he has had
the opportunity to work with producer Mark
Howard (Bob Dylan, U2) and is very excited
for where they are headed. In addition to his
band life, he continues to work as a session
and touring guitarist with TV credits including
abc’s Reaper and cbs’ Criminal Minds. He is
endorsed by Vemuram Custom Pedals, xts,
Wilson Effects, and Xotic Effects. Mike and his
wife, Jessie, who’s a professional dancer, enjoy
a busy and rich artistic life that they love.
Marcus Högsta
BASS
With bass guitar as his
primary instrument,
Marcus writes, performs,
and records music of
varying styles with a
number of Los Angeles–based bands. He frequently performs at Los
Angeles and San Diego
venues, including the
Troubadour, the Roxy, the Satellite, House of
Blues, and Bootleg Theater. Marcus is a recent
graduate of usc’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Andrew Niven
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Born and raised in Palo
Alto, Andrew began
his musical endeavors
studying piano at age
7. After experimenting
with guitar and bass
he became infatuated
with the drum set after
listening to his father’s
old jazz records. Andrew
studied marimba and orchestral percussion
music with renowned percussionist and
composer Dr. Eugene Novotney at Humboldt
State University. He transferred to California
Institute of the Arts, where he studied with
jazz greats Joe LaBarbera, Charlie Haden,
Alphonso Johnson, and David Roitstein, and
studied Latin percussion with Aaron Serfaty.
He also became involved in the institute’s
Balinese gamelan program and played drums
with the master guitarist Miroslav Tadić,
exploring the traditional music of Bulgaria and
Macedonia. After graduation Andrew worked
as a drummer for six years in LA, touring with
the classic psychedelic rock group the Magic
Band and working with Casey Hurt, Persian
singer Sepideh, Balkan-fusion outfit Zaub Nasty, Ghostlight Orchestra, and many others. In
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been recording and performing with the Miles
Schon Group, Tony Saunders, and Vela Eyes,
among others. This is his first performance
with Berkeley Rep.
Richard Bean
P L AY W R I G H T
Richard was born in East Hull in 1956. After
school, he worked in a bread plant before
leaving to study psychology at Loughborough
University. Richard has worked as a psychologist and a stand-up comedian. He was
awarded the 2011 Evening Standard Award for
Best Play for The Heretic and One Man, Two
Guvnors, and the 2011 Critics’ Circle Award for
Best Play and 2012 Whatsonstage.com Award
for Best New Comedy, both for One Man, Two
Guvnors. He received Pearson Play of the Year
for Honeymoon Suite and the George Devine
Award for Under the Whaleback. His England
People Very Nice (National Theatre) was an
Olivier Award nominee for Best New Play, and
his Up on Roof (Hull Truck Theatre) was nominated for tma Play of the Year. His other work
includes a stage version of David Mamet’s The
House of Games (Almeida Theatre), The Big Fellah (produced by Out of Joint), Pub Quiz Is Life
(Hull Truck), The English Game (produced by
Headlong), In The Club (Hampstead Theatre), a
version of Molière’s The Hypochondriac (Almeida); Toast (the Royal Court); The God Botherers
(Bush Theatre), Smack Family Robinson (Newcastle Live!), The Mentalists (Lyttelton Loft,
National Theatre), and Mr England (Sheffield
Crucible Theatre). His radio plays include “Of
Rats and Men,” “Yesterday,” “Unsinkable,” and
“Robin Hood’s Revenge.”
Grant Olding
SONGWRITER
Grant trained as an actor at the Central
School of Speech and Drama before turning
to music when the Bridewell Theatre created
the post of composer in residence for him in
2003. He was nominated for a Tony Award in
2012 for Best Original Score for the Broadway
production of One Man, Two Guvnors and
won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding
Score for the same production. His other
play scores include Timon of Athens, Travelling
Light, England People Very Nice, The Man of
Mode, The Alchemist, and Southwark Fair (all
at the National Theatre, directed by Nicholas
Hytner); James and The Giant Peach (Birmingham Old Rep Theatre and UK tour); Broken
Glass (Tricycle Theatre and the Vaudeville
Theatre); Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Theatre Royal
Haymarket); and many others. Grant’s musical
theatre scores include Robin Hood (The
Castle, Wellingborough), Simply Cinderella
(Curve Theatre, Leicester), Tracy Beaker Gets
Real (Nottingham Playhouse and UK tour),
Yeti: An Abominamusical (Edinburgh Fringe),
Spittin’ Distance (Stephen Joseph Theatre and
National Theatre Studio), and others. His TV
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and film scores include The Bleak Old Shop of
Stuff (bbc 2), Theatreland (Sky Arts, six-part
documentary series), and Losing the Plot
(Bongo Reef Pictures, short film), as well as a
viral musical video for Lastminute.com which
won the Cannes Lions Award for best viral. His
songs have featured on the albums of Gemma
Atkins, Annalene Beechey, Caroline Sheen and
Stuart Matthew Price, and the One Man, Two
Guvnors original cast album (on which Grant
performs nine of the 12 songs) has been released by the National Theatre in the UK and
by drg Records in the usa. Grant is a board
member for Mercury Musicals Development.
David Ivers
DIREC TOR
David is in his fifth season as artistic director
of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, where he
has been creating productions as director/
actor since 1992. In recent seasons, he has
directed Twelfth Night, Twelve Angry Men,
Romeo and Juliet, Cyrano De Bergerac, and
others. Additionally, he spent 10 years as a
resident artist with the Denver Center Theatre
Company, collaborating on over 40 productions as director/actor. Also, David helmed The
Taming of the Shrew and a premiere adaptation
of The Cocoanuts for the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival. Other regional work includes productions at Pioneer Theatre Company, Nevada
Conservatory Theatre, the Alabama and Idaho
Shakespeare Festivals, Portland Center Stage,
Portland Rep, Artists Repertory Theatre,
and Tacoma Actors Guild. David’s upcoming
projects include productions at the Utah
Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory,
and the Guthrie Theater. He is thrilled to be
making his Berkeley Rep debut with One Man,
Two Guvnors.
Gregg Coffin
MUSIC DIREC TOR
Gregg has composed, directed, arranged, or
orchestrated the music for productions in
theatres throughout the U.S., Canada, China,
and South Korea, including the Minetta
Lane Theatre, the Duke on 42nd Street, the
John Houseman Theatre (off Broadway),
the Chungmu Art Hall (Seoul), the Stratford
Festival in Canada, the National Arts Centre
in Canada, Canadian Stage, Tarragon Theatre
(Canada), Denver Center for the Performing
Arts, the Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Pioneer
Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre,
Unicorn Theatre, the Human Race Theatre
Company, and the Oregon, Utah, Santa Cruz,
Alabama, California, Santa Fe, Georgia, Great
River, and St. Louis Shakespeare Festivals.
He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of
America, Inc.; the Game Audio Network Guild;
the American Federation of Musicians Local
12; and Actors’ Equity Association.
Hugh Landwehr
SCENIC DESIGNER
One Man, Two Guvnors is Hugh’s first collaboration with Berkeley Rep. His work on
Broadway has included productions of Frozen,
Bus Stop, All My Sons, and A View from the
Bridge. Off Broadway, he has designed Last
Easter, Scattergood, Filumena, and The Baby
Dance, among others. He has designed at
many regional theatres, including the Alley
Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and the Utah
Shakespeare Festival. During the summer, he
has designed at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He is
presently a member of the faculty of nyu’s
Tisch School of the Arts, and has taught at
the North Carolina School of the Arts and
Williams College. He is proud to have twice
been an nea Associate Artist, to have won
the Murphy Award in Design (administered
by Long Wharf), and to be the 2003 winner of
the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Set
Design. He was educated at Yale College.
Meg Neville
COSTUME DESIGNER
Meg’s recent Berkeley Rep credits include
Party People, Tribes, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a
Key to the Scriptures, and X’s and O’s (A Football
Love Story). She also worked on Pericles, Prince
of Tyre; Ghost Light; In the Wake; Yellowjackets; Eurydice; tragedy: a tragedy; Suddenly
Last Summer; Dinner with Friends; Closer; and
The Life of Galileo. Her recent and upcoming
productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
include Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2015),
The Cocoanuts (2014), Taming of the Shrew
(2013), and Ghost Light (2011). Meg is an associate artist with California Shakespeare Theater,
where she has designed numerous productions including Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal
Husband, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and lots of
Shakespeare. Other Bay Area theatre credits
include Marin Theatre Company, the Cutting
Ball Theater, American Conservatory Theater,
San Jose Repertory Theatre, Joe Goode
Performance Group, and Magic Theatre. She
has also worked at Second Stage Theatre, Yale
Repertory Theatre, Center Stage in Baltimore,
South Coast Repertory, Atlantic Theater Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Chicago
Opera Theater, NY Stage and Film, Hartford
Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Portland Stage
Company, and Dallas Theater Center. Meg is
a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and
Brown University and resides in San Francisco
with her husband and three children.
Alexander V. Nichols
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Alex is returning to Berkeley Rep for his 31st
production. His Broadway credits include
Wishful Drinking, Hugh Jackman— Back On
Broadway, and Nice Work If You Can Get It.
His off-Broadway productions include In
Masks Outrageous and Austere, Los Big Names,
Horizon, Bridge & Tunnel, Taking Over, Through
the Night, and In the Wake. Alex has worked at
regional theatres throughout the country, including American Conservatory Theater, Mark
Taper Forum, National Theatre of Taiwan,
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and La Jolla
Playhouse, among others. His dance credits
include resident designer for Pennsylvania
Ballet, Hartford Ballet, and American Repertory Ballet; lighting supervisor for American
Ballet Theatre; and resident visual designer
for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
since 1989. His designs are in the permanent
repertory of San Francisco Ballet, Boston
Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater,
Hubbard Street Dance, Hong Kong Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, odc/sf, and the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet. Alex’s recent projects include
the museum installation Circle of Memory, a
collaboration with Eleanor Coppola, recently
presented in Stockholm, Sweden, and the video and visual design for Life: A Journey Through
Time, a collaboration with Frans Lanting and
Philip Glass, recently presented at the
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.
Lindsay Jones
SOUND DESIGNER
Lindsay designed and composed for the
Broadway productions of Bronx Bombers and
A Time to Kill. His off-Broadway credits include
Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Mr. Joy
(lct3), Wild with Happy (the Public Theater),
Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop),
Rx (Primary Stages), and many others. His
regional credits include the Guthrie Theater,
Hartford Stage, the Alliance Theatre, the
Goodman Theatre, American Conservatory
Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse,
Arena Stage, and many others. His international work includes Stratford Shakespeare
Festival in Canada and Royal Shakespeare
Company in England. He has received seven
Joseph Jefferson Awards and 21 nominations,
two Ovation Awards and three nominations,
a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, as
well as three Drama Desk Award nominations,
two Helen Hayes Award nominations, and
many others. His film scoring credits include
Magnolia Pictures’ The Brass Teapot and hbo
Films’ A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of
Norman Corwin (2006 Academy Award for
Best Documentary, Short Subject). Please visit
lindsayjones.com.
Amy Potozkin, csa
CASTING DIREC TOR/
A R T I S T I C A S S O C I AT E
This is Amy’s 25th season at Berkeley Rep,
and she was recently nominated for an Artios
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Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Through
the years she has also had the pleasure of
casting plays for act (Seattle), Arizona Theatre
Company, Aurora Theatre Company, B Street
Theatre, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Dallas
Theater Center, Marin Theatre Company, the
Marsh, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Social
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Michael Suenkel
P R O D U C T I O N S TAG E M A N AG E R
Michael began his association with Berkeley
Rep as the stage management intern for the
1984–85 season and is now in his 21st year
as production stage manager. Some of his
favorite shows include 36 Views, Endgame,
Eurydice, Hydriotaphia, and Mad Forest. He has
also worked with the Barbican in London, the
Huntington Theatre Company, the Juste Pour
Rire Festival in Montreal, La Jolla Playhouse,
Pittsburgh Public Theater, the Public Theater
and Second Stage Theater in New York, and
Yale Repertory Theatre. For the Magic Theatre, he stage managed Albert Takazauckas’
Breaking the Code and Sam Shepard’s The Late
Henry Moss.
Karen Szpaller
A S S I S TA N T S TAG E M A N AG E R
Karen is thrilled to be back for her 12th season
at Berkeley Rep. Her favorite past Berkeley
Rep productions include Tribes, The Wild Bride,
The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Eurydice, Fêtes
de la Nuit, Comedy on the Bridge/Brundibar,
Compulsion, and Concerning Strange Devices
from the Distant West. Her favorites elsewhere
include The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at California Shakespeare
Theater; Anne Patterson’s art and theatrical
installation Seeing the Voice: State of Grace
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and Anna Deavere Smith’s On Grace, both at
Grace Cathedral; the national tour of Spamalot
in San Francisco; A Christmas Carol (2006-14),
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, 1776, Stuck
Elevator, Blackbird, Curse of the Starving Class,
and The Tosca Project at American Conservatory Theater; Wild With Happy, Striking 12, and
Wheelhouse at TheatreWorks; Ragtime and She
Loves Me at Foothill Music Theatre; The 25th
Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at San Jose
Repertory Theatre; Salomé at Aurora Theatre
Company; and Urinetown: The Musical at San
Jose Stage Company. Karen is the production
coordinator at TheatreWorks.
Tony Taccone
D I R E C T O R /M I C H A E L L E I B E R T
ARTISTIC DIREC TOR
During Tony’s tenure as artistic director
of Berkeley Rep, the Tony Award–winning
nonprofit has earned a reputation as an
international leader in innovative theatre. In
those 18 years, Berkeley Rep has presented
more than 70 world, American, and West
Coast premieres and sent 23 shows to New
York, two to London, and one to Hong
Kong. Tony has staged more than 35 plays in
Berkeley, including new work from Culture
Clash, Rinde Eckert, David Edgar, Danny Hoch,
Geoff Hoyle, Quincy Long, Itamar Moses, and
Lemony Snicket. He directed shows that transferred to London, Continental Divide and Tiny
Kushner, and two that landed on Broadway
as well: Bridge & Tunnel and Wishful Drinking. Prior to working at Berkeley Rep, Tony
served as artistic director of Eureka Theatre,
which produced the American premieres of
plays by Dario Fo, Caryl Churchill, and David
Edgar before focusing on a new generation of
American writers. While at the Eureka, Tony
commissioned Tony Kushner’s legendary
Angels in America and co-directed its world
premiere. He has collaborated with Kushner
on eight plays at Berkeley Rep, including last
season’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide
to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the
Scriptures. Tony’s regional credits include
Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage,
Center Theatre Group, the Eureka Theatre,
the Guthrie Theater, the Huntington Theatre
Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the
Public Theater, and Seattle Repertory Theatre.
As a playwright, he debuted Ghost Light, Rita
Moreno: Life Without Makeup, and Game On,
written with Dan Hoyle. In 2012, Tony received
the Margo Jones Award for “demonstrating a
significant impact, understanding, and affirmation of playwriting, with a commitment to the
living theatre.”
Susan Medak
M A N AG I N G D I R E C T O R
Susan has served as Berkeley Rep’s managing
director since 1990, leading the administration and operations of the Theatre. She has
served as president of the League of Resident
profiles
Theatres (lort) and treasurer of Theatre
Communications Group, organizations that
represent the interests of nonprofit theatres
across the nation. Susan chaired two panels
for the Massachusetts Arts Council and has
also served on program panels for Arts Midwest, the Joyce Foundation, and the National
Endowment for the Arts. Closer to home,
Susan chairs the Downtown Berkeley Association (dba). She is the founding chair of the
Berkeley Arts in Education Steering Committee for Berkeley Unified School District and
the Berkeley Cultural Trust. She was awarded
the 2012 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal by the
Berkeley Community Fund. Susan serves on
the faculty of Yale School of Drama and is
a proud member of the Mont Blanc Ladies’
Literary Guild and Trekking Society. She lives
in Berkeley with her husband.
Karen Racanelli
G E N E R A L M A N AG E R
Karen joined Berkeley Rep in 1993 as education director. Under her supervision, Berkeley
Rep’s programs for education provided live
theatre for more than 20,000 students annually. In 1995, she became general manager, and
since then has overseen the day-to-day operations of the Theatre. She has represented the
League of Resident Theatres during negotiations with both Actors’ Equity Association
and the union of stage directors and choreographers. Prior to her tenure at Berkeley Rep,
Karen worked for Theatre Bay Area as director
of theatre services and as an independent
producer at several Bay Area theatre companies. She has served on the boards of Climate
Theater, Overtone Theatre Company, Park Day
School, and the Julia Morgan Center. Karen is
married to arts attorney MJ Bogatin.
Liesl Tommy
A S S O C I AT E D I R E C T O R
Liesl is Berkeley Rep’s associate director and
helmed the acclaimed productions of Party
People and Ruined. She directed the premieres
of Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
(Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company,
Signature Theatre Company), Party People by
universes (Oregon Shakespeare Festival),
The White Man—A Complex Declaration of
Love by Joan Rang (DanskDansk Theatre,
Denmark), Peggy Picket Sees the Face of God by
Roland Schimmelpfennig (Luminato Festival/
Canadian Stage Toronto), Eclipsed by Danai
Gurira (Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth), The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson
(the Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center), A
History of Light by Eisa Davis (Contemporary
American Theatre Festival), Angela’s Mixtape
by Eisa Davis (Synchronicity Performance
Group, New Georges), and Bus and Family
Ties (Play Company for the Romania Kiss Me!
Festival). Other credits include American
Buffalo, Les Misérables, Hamlet, A Raisin in the
Sun, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, as well
as a four-city tour of Ruined. She has also
worked at California Shakespeare Theater, the
Huntington Theatre Company, Center Stage
in Baltimore, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La
Jolla Playhouse, and Sundance East Africa on
Manda Island in Kenya, among others. Liesl
serves as a program associate at Sundance
Institute Theatre Program and as an artist
trustee with the Sundance Institute’s board
of trustees, and she facilitated the inaugural
Sundance East Africa Theatre Director’s Lab
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Liesl has earned an
Obie Award, a Lillian Hellman Award, and the
Alan Schneider Award for directing, the inaugural Susan Stroman Directing Award from
the Vineyard Theatre, the nea/tcg Directors
Grant, and the New York Theatre Workshop
Casting/Directing Fellowship. She has taught
or guest directed at Yale Repertory Theatre,
Juilliard, nyu, and Brown University. Liesl is an
alum of Trinity Rep Conservatory and a native
of Cape Town, South Africa.
Madeleine Oldham
R E S I D E N T D R A M AT U R G/
D I R E C T O R , T H E G R O U N D F LO O R
Madeleine is the director of The Ground
Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation
and Development of New Work and the
Theatre’s resident dramaturg. She oversees
commissioning and new play development,
and dramaturged the world premiere productions of The House that will not Stand, Passing
Strange, and In the Next Room (or the vibrator
play), among others. As literary manager and
associate dramaturg at Center Stage in Baltimore, she produced the First Look reading
series and headed up its young audience
initiative. Before moving to Baltimore, she
was the literary manager at Seattle Children’s
Theatre, where she oversaw an extensive
commissioning program. She also acted as
assistant and interim literary manager at
Intiman Theatre in Seattle. Madeleine served
for four years on the executive committee
of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the
Americas and has also worked with act (Seattle), Austin Scriptworks, Crowded Fire, the
Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the Kennedy
Center, New Dramatists, Playwrights Center,
and Portland Center Stage.
Jack & Betty Schafer
SEASON SPONSORS
Betty and Jack are proud to support Berkeley
Rep. Jack, one of the Theatre’s trustees, also
sits on the boards of San Francisco Opera and
the Straus Historical Society. He is vice-chair
of the Oxbow School in Napa and an emeritus
trustee of the San Francisco Art Institute,
where he served as board chair. Betty, a retired life coach, has resumed her earlier career
as a nonfiction writer and poet. She serves on
the boards of Brandeis Hillel Day School, Coro
Foundation, Earthjustice, and Sponsors for
Educational Opportunity (seo).
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The Strauch Kulhanjian Family
SEASON SPONSORS
Roger Strauch is a former president of
Berkeley Rep’s board of trustees and is
currently chair of the trustees committee. He
is chairman of the Roda Group (rodagroup.
com), a venture-development company based
in Berkeley focused on cleantech investments,
best known for launching Ask.com and for
being the largest investor in Solazyme, a
renewable oil and bio-products company
(Nasdaq: szym, solazyme.com). Roger is chairman of the board of CoolSystems, a medical
technology company, and a member of the UC
Berkeley Engineering Dean’s college advisory
board. He is chairman of the board of trustees
for the Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute; a member of the board of Northside
Center, a mental-health services agency based
in Harlem, New York City; and a co-founder
of the William Saroyan Program in Armenian
Studies at Cal. His wife, Julie A. Kulhanjian, is
an attending physician at Oakland Children’s
Hospital. They have three children.
Martha Ehmann Conte
LEAD SPONSOR
Martha is thrilled to once again support a
season of groundbreaking regional theatre at
Berkeley Rep. A season ticket holder for many
years, Martha is now also on Berkeley Rep’s
board of trustees and is really enjoying the
behind-the-scenes view it affords her. Martha
divides her time between caring for her four
incredible children, ages 6 to 17, and civic engagement, including board and advisory work
with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Point Blue Conservation Science, and
the National Partnership for Women & Families, as well as political advocacy. In her free
time, Martha enjoys running, hiking, rowing,
and traveling. Martha’s professional background includes brand-strategy consulting and
consumer advertising. She is a graduate and
active alumna of Princeton University.
Bill Falik & Diana Cohen
EXECUTIVE SPONSORS
Bill and Diana have been subscribers and supporters of Berkeley Rep since its earliest days
on College Avenue. Diana joined the board
of trustees in 1991 and served the Theatre for
10 years; she currently serves on the board
of trustees of Cal Performances. As a family
therapist, she worked in private practice for 25
years before retiring to focus on her painting.
Bill has been a real-estate and land-use lawyer
practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area for
the past 40 years. He currently is the managing partner of Westpark Associates, which
creates master-planned communities in the
greater Sacramento region. For the past eight
years, Bill has been an adjunct professor at
UC Berkeley Law School and a member of the
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Bill has served on Berkeley Rep’s board since
2006. Bill and Diana are actively involved in
philanthropic activities throughout Northern
California. They have three grown children, all
of whom live in the Bay Area.
Scott and Sherry Haber
SPONSORS
Scott and Sherry are thrilled to sponsor One
Man, Two Guvnors. Scott and Sherry have
been interested in the arts as long as they can
remember, including choral and instrumental
music, dance, and live theatre. Scott, who is a
corporate law partner at Latham and Watkins
llp, served on Berkeley Rep’s board of trustees from 2005 through 2014 and is currently a
sustaining advisor to the board. Sherry serves
on the board of the Hillsborough Schools
Foundation and volunteers with the Crocker
Middle School and Burlingame High School
parent groups. It is with great pleasure that
the Habers are able to support Berkeley Rep
and exceptional regional theatre.
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As the top corporate giver to San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits (according to the
SF Business Times), Wells Fargo recognizes
Berkeley Rep for its leadership in supporting
the performing arts and its programs. As the
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Additional staff
Assistant director
Rob Salas
Assistant to the scenic designer
Anshuman Bhatia
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Robin Sutherland
PRINCIPAL PIANIST, SF SYMPHONY
Audio technician
Annemarie Scerra
Deck crew
Alex Doyle
Sofie Miller
Thomas Weaver
Dialect coach
Lynne Soffer
Electrics
Melina Cohen-Bramwell
Kelly Kunaniec
Alex Marshall
William Poulin
Andrea J. Schwartz
Caitlin Steinmann
Molly Stewart-Cohn
Micah J. Stieglitz
Thomas Weaver
Lauren Wright
Fight director
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Followspot operator
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Alex Marshall
Ben Sandberg
Colin Suemnicht
Read Tuddenham
Wardrobe
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Richard Bean generously rewrote some
of the dialogue in this play specifically for
Berkeley Rep’s production
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We are extraordinarily grateful to the following patrons who have lent their generous support
to the Create Campaign. With their help, we will turn the Thrust Stage into a theatre for
the 21st century and transform Berkeley Rep into one of the foremost centers for new play
development in the country.
INNOVATORS
Anonymous (2)
ArtPlace
Marjorie Randolph
Jack & Betty Schafer
CREATORS
Anonymous (2)
The James Irvine Foundation
The Strauch Kulhanjian Family
Jean & Michael Strunsky
INVESTORS
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Stephen & Susan Chamberlin
Thalia Dorwick/Eirik Børve
Bill Falik & Diana Cohen
Kerry Francis & John Jimerson
Pam & Mitch Nichter
Stewart & Rachelle Owen
Gail & Arne Wagner
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Anonymous (69) · Fred & Joanne Abrams ·
Jennifer Adcock & John D. Boggs · Joy
Addison · Mark Addleman & Andrea Clark ·
Miriam & Matthew Agrell · Shirley & Lew
Albright · Ruth Alexander, in memory of
Dorothy Jansizian · Gertrude E. Allen, in
memory of Robert E. Allen, Jr. · Roy & Judith
Alper · Sara Alspaugh · Mark Amaro · Susan E.
Amrose · Charles & Joyce Anderson · Elisabeth
Andreason and Melissa Allen · Ann Armour ·
Sharon A. Ascencio · James Ashburn III ·
Naomi Auerbach & Ted Landau · David &
Vivian Auslander · Carmen Aydelott · Anna
Badger · Philip Baer · Patt Bagdon · J. Karren
Baker · Linda & Mike Baker · Rachel Bakker ·
Elizabeth Balderston · Dr. Beverly Ballard ·
Mary Jane Barclay · Kent & Carolyn Barnes ·
Michael & Della Barnett · Azucena Barocio ·
Sherry D. Bass · Barbara Baum · Ann Bauman ·
Francine Beall · Brian & Mary Bechtel · Steven
Beckendorf & Cynthia Hill · Marie Bendy, in
honor of C. Joseph Bendy · Charles Benedict ·
Mary Ann & Len Benson · Audrey M. Berger ·
Jonathan Berk & Rebecca Schwartz · Brenda
L. Berlin · Richard & Kathy Berman · Jeffry &
Diane Bernstein · Thomas G. Bertken ·
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Bigelow · Elaine Binger · Catherine M. Bishop
& Ken Donnelly · Odette Blachman · Diana
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Flaniken & Mark Randolph · Patrick Flannery ·
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Laurie Kahn · Roy Kaplan, in memory of
Barbara Kaplan · Lisa & David Kaplan · Mr. &
Mrs. M. Kaplan · Muriel Kaplan · Tobey Kaplan
& Nan Busse · Karl & Alice Ruppenthal
Foundation for the Arts · Beth & Fred Karren ·
Virginia & Larry Katz · Dennis Kaump · Vivian
Keh & Jonathan Hue · Susan & Stephen
Kellerman · Pat Kelly & Jennifer Doebler · Pat
& Chris Kenber · Kimberly J. Kenley-Salarpi ·
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Kiely · Rosalind & Sung-Hou Kim · Mary S.
Kimball · Deborah Kimsey · Nina C. Kindblad ·
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& Franco Faraguna · Steve K. Kispersky · Andy
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Barbara & Gerson Bakar
Rena Bransten
Martha Ehmann Conte
David & Vicki Cox
Stephanie & John Dains
Robin & Rich Edwards
David & Vicki Fleishhacker
Paul Friedman & Diane Manley
Mary & Nicholas Graves
Paul Haahr & Susan Karp
Scott & Sherry Haber
Dixon Long
Dale & Don Marshall
Sandra & Ross McCandless
Steven & Patrece Mills
Dugan Moore
Joan Sarnat & David Hoffman
Patricia & Merrill Shanks
Steve Silberstein
G. Tiphane
Marcy Wong | Donn Logan Architects
Felicia Woytak & Steve Rasmussen
Koris · Neil & Peggy Kostick · John Kouns &
Anne Baele Kouns · Susan Kraft & Patrick
Scott · Joel H. Kreisberg · Elroy & Dee Kursh,
in honor of Thalia Dorwick · Regina Lackner,
in memory of Ruth Eis · Lanny J. Lampl &
Sharon Hunter · Elizabeth Langlois · Shirley
Langlois · Marit Lash · Louise Laufersweiler &
Warren Sharp · Joan & Gary Lawrence · Sandy
Lawrie · Beatrice Laws · Patricia Lawton ·
Marilyn Leavitt · Nancy & George Leitmann,
in memory of Helen Barber · Monika Leitz ·
Trudy & Rolf Lesem · Carole Levenson · Susan
E. Levin · Ellen & Barry Levine · Dr. & Mrs. Art
Levit · Sandy Levitan · Jean Rowe Lieber ·
Vivian Lily · Alice Lin · Elizabeth S.
Lindgren-Young & Robert Young · Annette C.
Lipkin, in memory of Paul Lipkin · Fred
Lipschultz · Kris Loberg and Tom Summers ·
Fred and Amy Loebl · Hannah Love · Jay &
Eileen Love · Rianne Lovett · Elise Lusk &
Stephen Godfrey · Steve & Linda Lustig ·
Gerry & Kathy MacClelland · Gerry Mack ·
Linda Mackinson · Mike & Linda Madden · In
memory of Flori Magilen · Joe & Joanne
Magruder · Siesel Maibach · Linda Maio · Lila
Makrynassios · Bonnie Malicki · Carolyn &
Robert Maples · Helen Marcus & David
Williamson · Mary S. Martinson · Igor
Maslennikov · Shawn & Jane Mason · M.
Mathews & K. Soriano · Roy Matthes · Bruce
Matzner · Sara McAulay & Elsa Garcia
Pandavenes · Caroline McCall & Eric Martin ·
Phyra McCandless & Angelos Kottas · Mr. &
Mrs. Edward McClatchie · Ray and Mary
McDevitt · Miles & Mary Ellen McKey · Jeanne
McKinney · Janet McManus · Joanne Medak,
in honor of Susan Medak · Michael & Rebecca
Meehan · Gadi & Donna Meir · Amelie Mel de
Fontenay & John Stenzel · Edith Mendez ·
Phyllis Menefee · Karen L. Metz & Leon
Farley · Harriett Michael · Janet Miller · David
Miller, in memory of Jennifer Miller · Jennifer
Miller & Jamie Isbester · Marlene & Stephen
Miller · Jeff Miner · Fran & David Mog · Joseph
Mollick · Sandra Monasch · Geri Monheimer ·
Thomas C. Moore · Cynthia Morris · Mike &
Sharon Morris · Susan Morris · Susan Moss ·
Margaret Moster · Patricia Motzkin
Architecture · Barbara Mowry · Donal Murphy
& Julie Orr · Peggy Myers · Michael and
G ROUN DB REAKE R S
Anonymous (3)
Shelley & Jonathan Bagg
Bank of America
Lynne Carmichael
Jennifer Chaiken & Sam Hamilton
Nancy & Jerry Falk
Linda Jo Fitz
Jill & Steve Fugaro
Jack Klingelhofer
Zandra Faye LeDuff
Susan Medak & Greg Murphy
National Endowment for the Arts
Eddie & Amy Orton
Robert and Audrey Sockolov Foundation
Leonard & Arlene Rosenberg
Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro
Karen Stevenson & Bill McClave
The Tournesol Project
Marjorie Nacht · Ron Nakayama · Shirley
Negrin · Jane & Bill Neilson · Mr. & Mrs. James
Nelson · Deborah Nelson · Marilyn K. Nelson ·
Theresa Nelson & Bernard Smits · Lucinda &
Steve Newcomb · Jet Harper · Gilbert H.
Newman · Sora Lei Newman · Sharon Ulrich &
Marlowe Ng · Claire Noonan & Peter
Landsberger · Judith Norberg · Carol and
Mark Norberg · Mary & Charles Norcross ·
Jennifer Normoyle · Lisa Norris · Saralynn
Nusbaum · Bruce & Risa Nye · Robert & Carol
Nykodym · Susan Obayashi · Pier & Barbara
Oddone, in memory of Michael Leibert ·
Steven J. O’Donnell · Dr. Patrick O’Halloran ·
Shanna O’Hare & John Davis · John & Barbara
Ohlmann · Gerald and Ellen Oicles · Judith &
Richard Oken · Robin Olivier · Kristin and
David Olnes · Crystal Olson · David & Mary
O’Neill · Peggy O’Neill · Phyllis M. Orlando ·
Peggy Orlin & Paul Davis · Sheldeen
Osborne · Thomas Owen · Richard Page &
Susan Audep-Page · Lynette Pang & Michael
Man · Sandi & Dick Pantages · Herman D.
Papa · Gerane Wharton Park · Nancy Park ·
Anne Parris · David Pasta, in memory of
Gloria J.A. Guth · Ellie D. Patterson · P. David
Pearson · Robert & Audrey Pedrin · Gladys
Perez-Mendez · Michael & Laura Perucchi ·
Barbara Peterson · Wendy Peterson · Mary
Ann Petro · Regina Phelps · Kathleen S.
Pierce · Ken Pinhero · Therese M. Pipe · Carole
Plum · Marcia & Robert Popper · Stephen
Popper & Elizabeth Joyce · Fred & Judy Porta ·
Dr. Barry Posner & Dr. Jackie Schmidt-Posner ·
Steven Potter · Timothy & Marilyn Potter ·
Riess & Tara Potterveld · Fred & Susan
Pownall · Meghan Pressman · Rich Price · Tony
Prince · Hank & Sarah Pruden · Laurel
Przybylski · Michael & Davida Rabbino ·
Nancy Rader & Dick Norgaard · Leslie M.
Radin · Cynthia Rahav · Carolyn Ramsey ·
Florence & Paul Raskin · Rose Ray & Robert
Kroll · Patricia Reed · Arthur Reingold & Gail
Bolan · Ian Reinhard · Sue Reinhold &
Deborah Newbrun · Phyllis & Steve Reinstein,
in honor of Laurie Barnes · Kala Renz · top
dog, in honor of Freedom · Bryna Rifkind,
PhD · Donald Riley & Carolyn Serrao ·
Margaret Riley & Kevin Depew · The Rev. Dr.
Bonnie Ring · Todd & Susan Ringoen · Jeffrey
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Anonymous (3)
Edward D. Baker
Anne Brown
Robert Council and Ann Parks-Council
William Espey & Margaret Hart Edwards
John & Carol Field
Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Panoramic Interests/Patrick Kennedy & Julie
Matlof Kennedy
Peter Pervere & Georgia Cassel
Barbara L. Peterson
Sheli & Burton Rosenberg
Beth & David Sawi
Robbins & Mary Spletter · Lisa Romano ·
Maria & Ron Romano · Marc Rosaaen · Galen
Rosenberg & Denise Barnett · David S. H.
Rosenthal & Vicky Reich · Frances Roth ·
Boyard & Anne Rowe · I. Maxine Rowe · Tracie
E. Rowson · Fred & Dolores Rudow · Wondie
Russell & Edward Steinman · Deborah
Dashow Ruth, in memory of Leo P. Ruth ·
Mark & Judi Sachs · Emily Saidel · Monica
Salusky & John K. Sutherland · Suzanne
Samberg · Jeane & Roger Samuelsen · The San
Francisco Foundation · Fredric Sandsmark ·
Shelley J. Sandusky · Heather Schlaff · Sonja
Schmid · Otto Schnepp · Joyce & Jim
Schnobrich · Stephen Schoen & Margot
Fraser · Betty Schrohe · Dana & Peggy Shultz ·
Garth Schultz · Linda & Nathan Schultz · Peter
and Cindy Tsai Schultz · William & Janet
Schumann · Teddy & Bruce Schwab · Joan
Schwalbe · David Schwartz & Donna Liu ·
Miriam Schwartz · Peter M. Schwartz & Laura
Scott · Pat & Gregg Schwinn · Ana & Stanley
Scott · Andrew Sczesnak · Roberta Sears ·
Barbara & Steve Segal · Jennifer Seid · John E.
Sellen · Brenda Buckhold Shank, M.D., Ph.D. ·
Emily Shanks · Amey Shaw · Neal Shorstein,
MD & Christopher Doane, in honor of Gail
Wagner, MD · Steve & Susan Shortell · Marian
Shostrom · Alexander Shtulman · Anne
Shuford · Michael Sibitz · Jean Siciliano ·
Bonnie Siegel · Hugh & Aletha Silcox · Kim
Silva · Lisette Silva & Hadrian Rivera · Luis A.
Silva · Lorinda & Harry Silverstein · Renee
Simi · Rochelle Sklansky · Carra Sleight ·
Suzanne Slyman · Jerry & Dick Smallwood ·
Betsy Smith · Bridget Smith · Cherida Collins
Smith · Ed & Ellen Smith · Pam Smith · Patricia
Smith · Richard & Darlene Smith · Ms. Valerie
Sopher · Douglas Sovern & Sara Newmann ·
Janet Sovin, in memory of Flora Roberts · LIz
Spander · Sandra Spangler · Rhonda Spencer ·
Nancy Spero & Norm Brand · Thomas
Sponsler · Hildie Spritzer · Robert & Naomi
Stamper · Barbara Stanley · Karen Starko · In
honor of Ruth & George Staten · Abigail
Stavros · Lynn M. & A. Justin Sterling · Joel &
Ellen Stettner · Beverly Stevens · Mary Alice &
Walt Stevenson · Anne & Douglas Stewart ·
Corinne Stewart · Kathy Morgan Stewart ·
Cynthia Stone & David Schnee · Margaret T.
Stromberg · Sara Stutz · Jane Swinerton · Ian
Swinson · Jane Taber · Kay H. Taber · Elizabeth
Tan · Sandy & Selma Tandowsky · Carol
Tanenbaum & John Adams · Susan Taylor &
Paul Utrecht · Kathy Tennant · Dr. & Mrs.
Joseph Terdiman · Adira Rose Tharan, in
honor of Rebecca Castelli · Jeff & Catherine
Thermond · Dan & Mila Thomas · Edward &
Carrie Thomas · Gudrun Thomspon · Prof
Jeremy Thorner & Dr. Carol Mimura · Ceil
Tilney · Jules Tippett · Fred Tollini SJ · Ed &
Barbara Tonningsen · M. Christine
Torrington · Cynthia Townsend · Thomas &
Laurel Trent, in honor of George Allen & Clara
Smith · Lynn Tsumoto · Marci & Eugene
Tucker · Matt and Stephaney Tunney · Marc
Davis and Nancy Turak · Mike & Ellen Turbow ·
Janis Turner · Eileen Wenger Tutt · Maritza
Jackson-Sandoval · William van Dyk & Margi
Sullivan · Barbara & William Vaughan ·
Maureen Vavra · Lola Vollen · Dorothy
Walker · Bonnie Wall · Kathleen Wallace ·
Patricia Walsh · Marlene & Jerry Walters ·
Susan D. Ward · Virginia Warnes · Ellen
Widess · Jan O. Washburn · Louis Weckstein &
Karen Denevi · Sharon Weinberg · Mike
Weinberger & Julianne Lindemann · Harvey &
Rhona Weinstein · Dr. Ben & Mrs. Carolyn
Werner · Elizabeth Werter & Henry Trevor ·
Joanne Westendorf & Sandy Wilbourn ·
Robert T. Weston · Ted Westphal · Dick &
Beany Wezelman · Bonnie Willdorf · Andrew
T. & Linda V. Williams · Ms. H. Leabah Winter,
in memory of Barry Dorfman, MD · Susan &
Harvey Wittenberg · William Wolverton ·
Patricia Wood · Monty Worth · Maurice
Wren · Moe & Becky Wright · Larry & Mary
Yabroff · In memory of Jerrie Meadows ·
Marjorie Yasueda & Dale Knutsen · Bob & Judi
Yeager · Irene Yen & Andrew Stern · Sandra
Yuen & Lawrence Shore · Samuel Zabor &
Kimberly Rowe · Sam & Joyce Zanze · Carolyn
& Larry Zaroff · Marti & Shelly Zedeck · Linda
Zittel · Mark and Jessica Nutik Zitter · In
memory of Irene Zook
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Institutional Partners
We thank the many institutional partners who enrich our community by
championing Berkeley Rep’s artistic and community outreach programs.
We gratefully recognize these donors to Berkeley Rep’s Annual Fund, who
made their gifts between February 2014 and March 2015.
G IF T S O F $ 10 0,0 0 0 A N D A B OV E
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
G IF T S O F $2 5,0 0 0 –49,9 9 9
Anonymous
The Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund
Wallis Foundation
Woodlawn Foundation
G IF T S O F $50,0 0 0 –9 9,9 9 9
Akonadi Foundation
The Bernard Osher Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
G IF T S O F $ 10,0 0 0 –24,9 9 9
Koret Foundation
Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Sierra Health Foundation
COR P OR AT E S P ON S OR S
SEASON SPONSORS
G I F T S O F $ 10 0,0 0 0 A N D A B OV E
SPONSORS
LE A D S P O N S O R
American Express
E XECU TIV E S P O N S O R S
G I F T S O F $ 2 5,0 0 0 –49,9 9 9
G IF T S O F $750 –4,9 9 9
Alameda County Arts Commission/artsfund
Joyce & William Brantman Foundation
Civic Foundation
The Entrekin Foundation
jec Foundation
The Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation
PE R FO R M A N CE S P O N S O R S
G I F T S O F $ 12 ,0 0 0 –2 4 ,9 9 9
G I F T S O F $ 3,0 0 0 – 5,9 9 9
hsbc Private Bank
Mechanics Bank Wealth Management
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Union Bank
4U Sports
Bayer
Gallagher Risk Management Services
Macy’s
CO R P O R AT E PA R T N E R S
G I F T S O F $ 5 0,0 0 0 – 9 9,9 9 9
G IF T S O F $5,0 0 0 –9,9 9 9
Anonymous
Berkeley Civic Arts Program
Distracted Globe Foundation
East Bay Community Foundation
Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
Ramsay Family Foundation
B U S IN E S S M E M B E R S
G I F T S O F $ 6,0 0 0 –11,9 9 9
G I F T S O F $ 1, 5 0 0 –2 ,9 9 9
Armanino llp
City National Bank
Deloitte
LG Wealth Management llc
Meyer Sound
Oliver & Company
Pacific Office Automation
Panoramic Interests
Peet’s Coffee & Tea
Schoenberg Family Law Group
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U.S. Bank
Bank of the West
BluesCruise.com
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Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union
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Phil’s Sliders
Picante
PiQ
Pyramid Alehouse
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Revival Bar + Kitchen
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Group, Inc. · at&t · Bank of America · Bechtel
Corporation · BlackRock · Bristol Myers Squibb ·
Charles Schwab & Co, Inc · Chevron Corporation ·
Clorox · Constellation Energy · Dolby Laboratories ·
Franklin Templeton · Gap · Google · Hewlett Packard ·
ibm Corporation · JD Fine and Company · John Wiley
& Sons, Inc. · Johnson & Johnson · kla Tencor ·
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ·
Lexis-Nexis · Macy’s Inc.· Matson Navigation
Company · Microsoft · Morrison & Foerster ·
Motorola Mobility · mrw & Associates llc · norcal
Mutual Insurance Company · Oracle Corporation ·
Perforce · Ruppenthal Foundation for the Arts ·
Salesforce.com · The Doctors Company · The Walt
Disney Company · visa u.s.a., Inc. · Willis Lease
Finance Corporation
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THANKS
We thank the many individuals in our community who help Berkeley Rep produce
adventurous, thought-provoking, and thrilling theatre and bring arts education to thousands
of young people every year. We gratefully recognize these donors to Berkeley Rep’s Annual
Fund, who made their gifts between February 2014 and March 2015.
Donors to the Annual Fund
To make your gift and join this distinguished group, visit berkeleyrep.org/give or call 510 647-2906.
S P ON S OR C I RC L E
SEASON SPONSORS
$ 10 0,0 0 0 +
Jack & Betty Schafer
The Strauch Kulhanjian Family
LE A D S P O N S O R S
$ 5 0,0 0 0 – 9 9,9 9 9
Martha Ehmann Conte
Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer
Mary & Nicholas Graves
Wayne Jordan & Quinn Delaney
John & Helen Meyer
Stewart & Rachelle Owen
Mary Ruth Quinn & Scott Shenker
Steve Silberstein
E XECU TIV E S P O N S O R S
$ 2 5,0 0 0 –49,9 9 9
Edward D. Baker
Rena Bransten
John & Stephanie Dains
Bill Falik & Diana Cohen
Kerry Francis & John Jimerson M
Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau
Pam & Mitch Nichter
Marjorie Randolph
Dr. & Mrs. Philip D. Schild
Michael & Sue Steinberg
Jean & Michael Strunsky
Guy Tiphane
Gail & Arne Wagner
Barry Lawson Williams & Lalita Tademy
SPONSORS
$ 12 ,0 0 0 –2 4 ,9 9 9
Anonymous (2)
Barbara & Gerson Bakar
David & Vicki Cox
Thalia Dorwick
Robin & Rich Edwards
David & Vicki Fleishhacker
Paul Friedman & Diane Manley M
Paul Haahr & Susan Karp
Scott & Sherry Haber
Jack Klingelhofer
Susan & Moses Libitzky
Sandra & Ross McCandless
Dugan Moore
Leonard & Arlene Rosenberg
Sheli Rosenberg, in honor of
Leonard X Rosenberg
Joan Sarnat & David Hoffman
Liliane & Ed Schneider
Norah & Norman Stone
Felicia Woytak & Steve Rasmussen
A S S O CIAT E S P O N S O R S
$ 6,0 0 0 – 11,9 9 9
Anonymous (3)
Shelley & Jonathan Bagg
Edith Barschi
Neil & Gene Barth
Valerie Barth & Peter Wiley M
Stephen Belford & Bobby Minkler
Carole B. Berg K
Lynne Carmichael
Susan Chamberlin
Daniel Cohn & Lynn Brinton
Robert Council & Ann Parks-Council
Oz Erickson & Rina Alcalay
William Espey & Margaret Hart Edwards
John & Carol Field, in honor of
Marjorie Randolph
Linda Jo Fitz
Virginia & Timothy Foo
Jill & Steve Fugaro
Carol A. Giles
Doug & Leni Herst, in honor of Susie Medak
Hitz Foundation
Christopher Hudson & Cindy J. Chang, MD
Ms. Wendy E. Jordan
Seymour Kaufman & Kerstin Edgerton
Wanda Kownacki
Ted & Carole Krumland
Zandra Faye LeDuff
Dixon Long
Dale & Don Marshall
Martin & Janis McNair
Steven & Patrece Mills
Mary Ann & Lou Peoples
Peter Pervere & Georgia Cassel
Barbara L. Peterson
Kaye Rosso
Pat Rougeau
Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro
Cynthia & William Schaff
Emily Shanks M
Pat & Merrill Shanks
Karen Stevenson & Bill McClave
Jacqueline & Stephen Swire
Wendy Williams
Sheila Wishek
Steven & Linda Wolan
Martin & Margaret Zankel
A R T I S T IC DI R E C T OR’ S C I RC L E
PA R T N E R S
$ 3,0 0 0 – 5,9 9 9
Anonymous (5)
Linda R. Ach
Cynthia & David Bogolub
Kim Boston K
Jim Butler
Brook & Shawn Byers
C. William Byrne
Jennifer Chaiken & Sam Hamilton
Constance Crawford
Karen & David Crommie
Lois M. De Domenico
Delia Fleishhacker Ehrlich
Nancy & Jerry Falk
Richard & Lois Halliday
Earl & Bonnie Hamlin
Vera & David Hartford
James C. Hormel &
Michael P. Nguyen
Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley
Kathleen & Chris Jackson
Ashok Janah
Duke & Daisy Kiehn
Christopher & Clare Lee
Peter & Melanie Maier
Charlotte & Adolph Martinelli
The McBaine Family
Phyra McCandless &
Angelos Kottas
Miles & Mary Ellen McKey
Michele & John McNellis
Susan Medak & Greg Murphy,
in honor of Marcia Smolens
Eddie & Amy Orton
Janet Ostler
Sandi & Dick Pantages
Pease Family Fund
Kermit & Janet Perlmutter
Ivy & Leigh Robinson
David S. H. Rosenthal &
Vicky Reich
Riva Rubnitz
Beth & David Sawi
Stephen C. Schaefer
Stephen Schoen & Margot Fraser
Linda & Nathan Schultz
Beryl & Ivor Silver
Lisa & Jim Taylor
James & Lisa White
Patricia & Jeffrey Williams
Sally Woolsey
Alan & Judy Zafran
B E N E FAC TO R S
$ 1, 5 0 0 –2 ,9 9 9
Anonymous (9)
Martha & Bruce Atwater
Nina Auerbach
Linda & Mike Baker
Michelle L. Barbour
David Beery & Norman Abramson
BluesCruise.com
Annikka Berridge
Brian Bock and Susan Rosin
Caroline Booth
Linda Brandenburger
Broitman-Basri Family
Don & Carol Anne Brown
Katherine S. Burcham M
Kerry Tepperman Campbell
Ronnie Caplane
Stephen K. Cassidy &
Rebecca L. Powlan
Paula Champagne & David Watson
Andrew Combs
Julie Harkness Cooke
Penny Cooper &
Rena Rosenwasser
Thomas & Suellen Cox
Ed Cullen & Ann O’Connor
James Cuthbertson
Richard & Anita Davis
Ira Dearing
Ilana DeBare & Sam Schuchat
Francine & Beppe Di Palma
Daryl Dichek & Kenneth Smith,
in memory of Shirley D. Schild
Jerome & Thao Dodson
Ben Douglas
Becky Draper
Susan English & Michael Kalkstein
Bill & Susan Epstein, in honor of
Marge Randolph
Merle & Michael Fajans
Cynthia A. Farner
Tracy & Mark Ferron
Lisa & Dave Finer
Patrick Flannery
Thomas & Sharon Francis
Herb & Marianne Friedman
Don & Janie Friend, in honor of
Bill & Candy Falik
James Gala
Karen Galatz & Jon Wellinghoff
Karl & Kathleen Geier
Dennis & Susan Johann Gilardi
Marjorie Ginsburg &
Howard Slyter
Daniel & Hilary B. Goldstine
Bob Goodman
Phyllis & Eugene Gottfried
Mrs. Gale K. Gottlieb
Robert & Judith Greber
William James Gregory
Garrett Gruener & Amy Slater
Ms. Teresa Burns Gunther &
Dr. Andrew Gunther
Migsy & Jim Hamasaki
Bob & Linda Harris
Ann & Shawn Fischer Hecht
Ruth Hennigar
In memory of Vaughn &
Ardis Herdell
Tom & Bonnie Herman
Howard Hertz & Jean Krois
Richard N. Hill & Nancy Lundeen
Sue Hoch K
Bill Hofmann & Robbie Welling M
The Hornthal Family Foundation
Rick Hoskins & Lynne Frame
Paula Hughmanick &
Steven Berger
George & Leslie Hume
Mr. & Mrs. Harold M. Isbell
Beth & Fred Karren
Doug & Cessna Kaye
Rosalind & Sung-Hou Kim
Jean & Jack Knox
Lynn Eve Komaromi, in honor of
the Berkeley Rep Staff
Michael Kossman & Luis Orrico
John Kouns & Anne Baele Kouns
Helen E. Land
Robert Lane & Tom Cantrell
Randy Laroche & David Laudon
Louise Laufersweiler &
Warren Sharp
Sherrill Lavagnino &
Scott McKinney
Andrew Leavitt & Catherine Lewis
Ellen & Barry Levine
Bonnie Levinson & Dr. Donald Kay
Jennifer S. Lindsay
Tom Lockard & Alix Marduel
John Maccabee K
Vonnie Madigan
Elsie Mallonee
Joan & Roger Mann
Naomi & Bruce Mann
Helen Marcus & David Williamson
Lois & Gary Marcus
Michael Margolis
Sumner & Hermine Marshall
Rebecca Martinez
Jill H. Matichak
Erin McCune & Nicholas Virene
Janet & Michael McCutcheon
Steven McGlocklin
Karen & John McGuinn
Kirk McKusick & Eric Allman M
Michele & John McNellis
Toby Mickelson & Donald Brody
Roger & Satomi Miles
Dan Miller
Karen Miller
Andy & June Monach
Scott Montgomery & Marc Rand
Marvin & Neva Moskowitz
Daniel Murphy & Ronald Hayden
Shanna O’Hare & John Davis
Judith & Richard Oken
Steve Olsen
Joshua Owen & Katherine Robards
Judy O’Young, MD & Gregg Hauser
Matt Pagel & Corey Revilla
Bob & MaryJane Pauley
Tom & Kathy Pendleton
Gladys Perez-Mendez
Michael A. Petonic &
Veronica A. Watson
David & Bobbie Pratt
Carol Quimby-Bonan
Andrew Raskopf &
David Gunderman
Elizabeth Ratner
Sue Reinhold & Deborah Newbrun
Bill Reuter & Ruth Major
Maxine Risley, in memory of
James Risley
John & Jody Roberts
Carole Robinson &
Zane O. Gresham
Horacio Rodriguez
Deborah Romer & William Tucker
Marc Roth
Boyard & Anne Rowe
Enid & Alan Rubin, in honor of
Rebecca Martinez
Lisa Salomon & Scott Forrest
Monica Salusky &
John K. Sutherland
Jeane & Roger Samuelsen
Jackie & Paul Schaeffer
Joyce & Jim Schnobrich
Neal Shorstein, MD &
Christopher Doane, in honor of
Gail Wagner, MD
Mark Shusterman, M.D.
Edie Silber & Steve Bomse
Amrita Singhal & Michael Tubach
Kae Skeels
Sherry & David Smith
Stephen & Cindy Snow
Audrey & Bob Sockolov
Jacques Soenens
Vickie Soulier
Jennifer Heyneman Sousae &
William Sousae
David G. Steele
Stephen Stublarec &
Debra S. Belaga
Gayle Tapscott K
Andrew & Jody Taylor
Deborah Taylor
Alison Teeman &
Michael Yovino-Young
Susan & David Terris
Ama Torrance & David Davies
Bernard & Denise Tyson
Pamela Gay Walker/
Ghost Ranch Productions
Buddy & Jodi Warner
Jonathan & Kiyo Weiss
Beth Weissman
Charles & Nancy Wolfram
Ron & Anita Wornick
Sam & Joyce Zanze
Jane & Mark Zuercher
LEGEND
K in-kind gift
M matching gift
We are pleased to recognize
first-time donors to
Berkeley Rep, whose names
appear in italics.
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BE R K E L E Y R E P T H A N K S
Donors to the Annual Fund
CH A M PIO N S
$ 1,0 0 0 –1, 49 9
Anonymous (6) · Peggy & Don Alter · Pat
Angell, in memory of Gene Angell · Naomi
Auerbach & Ted Landau· Don & Gerry Beer M ·
Robert & Wendy Bergman · Patti
Bittenbender · Daniel Boggan Jr · Harry
Bremond & Peggy Forbes · Fred Brown &
Barbara Kong Brown · Barbara & Robert
Budnitz · Dan & Allyn Carl · Dr. S. Davis
Carniglia & Ms. M. Claire Baker· Paula Carrell·
Stan & Stephanie Casper · Naveen Chandra &
James Lengel · Leslie Chatham & Kathie
Weston · Ed & Lisa Chilton · Patty & Geoff
Chin · Terin Christensen · Ralph & Rebecca
Clark · Earl T. Cohen & Heidi M. Shale · Phyllis
Coring K · John & Izzie Crane · Barbara & Tim
Daniels M · Alecia A. DeCoudreaux · Harry &
Susan Dennis · Ivan & Sarah Diamond·
Corinne & Mike Doyle · Debra Engel, in honor
of Barry Williams & Lalita Tademy · Paul
Feigenbaum & Judy Kemeny · Frannie
Fleishhacker · Lisa Franzel & Rod Mickels ·
Donald & Dava Freed · Christopher R.
Frostad M · Judith & Alex Glass · Robert
Goldstein & Anna Mantell · Diana Grand & Jon
Holman · Douglas Hardman & Karla Martin ·
Ann Harriman, in memory of Malcolm White ·
Elaine Hitchcock · Barry & Jackie Hoffner ·
Herrick and Elaine Jackson, The Connemara
Fund · Ken & Judith Johnson · Randall Johnson·
Barbara E. Jones, in memory of William E.
Jones · Barbara Jones & Massey J. Bambara M ·
Thomas Jones · Tom & Mary Anne Jorde, in
honor of Pat Sakai & Dick Shapiro · Steve K.
Kispersky · Suzanne LaFetra · William & Adair
Langston · Linda Laskowski· Joe W. Laymon ·
Nancy & George Leitmann, in memory of
Helen Barber · Erma Lindeman · R. Jay &
Eileen Love · J.E. Luckett · Meg Manske · John
E. Matthews · Laura McCrea & Robert
Ragucci · John G. McGehee· Dennis & Eloise
Middleton · David L. Monroe · Jerry Mosher ·
Timothy Muller · Margo Murray · Paul
Newacheck · Claire Noonan & Peter
Landsberger · Sheldeen Osborne · Richard
Ostreicher & Robert Sleasman · Lynette Pang
We gratefully recognize
the following members
of the Annual Fund whose
contributions were
received in March 2015
S U PP O R T E R S
$ 2 5 0 –49 9
Anonymous (15) · Laurence Anderson · Susan
& Barry Baskin · Richard Bay · Jim & Donna
Beasley · Dorothy & Ervin Behrin · James &
Elizabeth Branson · Marilyn Bray · John H.
Buckman · William Burks · Jacob Butcher &
Naomi Stein M · Carlyn Clause & Lex Brainerd ·
Emily Cohen · Louise Coleman · Catherine
Corison · Jane & Tom Coulter · Philip &
Carolyn Cowan · Chris & Lynn Crook · Dr. &
Mrs. John Damron · Mr. & Mrs. Stefan Dasho ·
Cecilia Delury & Vince Jacobs · David Drubin ·
Kathy & Leonard Duffy · In memory of Sir
Farley of Townsend · Richard & Barbara Fikes ·
Colette Ford · Thomas & Sandra Friedland ·
Mary & Stan Friedman · David Gaskin & Phillip
McPherson · Jennifer & Wayne Getz · Keith
Goldstein & Donna Warrington · Nancy A.
Goolsby · Sue & Eric Gordon · Ms. Paula
Greer · Anne & Peter Griffes · Marcia & Joseph
Grossman · Mr. & Mrs. Ervin Hafter · Dr. &
Mrs. Alan Harley · Dennis & Juanita Harte ·
Mary J. Hawker · Paula Hawthorn & Michael
& Michael Man · Gerane Wharton Park ·
Gregory C. Potts · Kenneth & Frances Reid ·
Charles R. Rice · Edward & Jeanette Roach ·
Richard Rouse M · Rob & Eileen Ruby · Mitzi
Sales & John Argue · John Sanger · Seiger
Family Foundation · Ann Shulman & Stephen
Colwell · Dave & Lori Simpson · Ed & Ellen
Smith · Sigrid Snider · Douglas Sovern & Sara
Newmann · John St. Dennis & Roy Anati · Gary
& Jana Stein· Annie Stenzel · Tim Stevenson &
David Lincoln King · Michael Tilson Thomas &
Joshua Robison · Pate & Judy Thomson · Prof.
Jeremy Thorner & Dr. Carol Mimura · Deborah
& Bob Van Nest · Wendy Willrich · Lee Yearley
& Sally Gressens
A DVO C AT E S
$500–999
Anonymous (22) · Denny Abrams · Daphne
Allen K · Fred & Kathleen Allen · Gertrude &
Robert Allen · Robert & Evelyn Apte · Shellye
L. Archambeau & Clarence Scott · Ross E.
Armstrong · Jerry & Seda Arnold · Gay & Alan
Auerbach · Mary Bailey · Todd & Diane Baker ·
Celia Bakke · David & Christine Balabanian ·
Leslie & Jack Batson · Jonathan Berk &
Rebecca Schwartz · Richard & Kathy Berman ·
Robert Berman & Jane Ginsburg · Caroline
Beverstock · Steve Bischoff · Dan & Shawna
Hartman Brotsky · Jill Bryans · Wendy
Buchen· Rike & Klaus Burmeister · Alex Byron
& Nicole Maguire · Don Campbell and Family ·
Kawika Campbell · Dr. Paula Campbell · Robert
& Margaret Cant · Doug Carlston & Kathy
Williams · Bruce Carlton · Carolle J. Carter &
Jess Kitchens · Kim & Dawn Chase · Carol T.
Christ · Karen Clayton & Stephen Clayton ·
Dennis Cohen & Deborah Robison · Leonard &
Roberta Cohn · Ruth Conroy · Robert & Blair
Cooter · Philip Crawford · Meredith Daane ·
Robert & Loni Dantzler · Pat & Steve Davis ·
Abby & Ross Davisson · Noah & Sandra Doyle·
Drs. Nancy Ebbert & Adam Rochmes ·
Jeanene E. Ebert M · Anita C. Eblé · Burton
Peek Edwards & Lynne Dal Poggetto · Roger &
Jane Emanuel · Meredith & Harry Endsley M ·
Gini Erck & David Petta · Michael Evanhoe ·
Ubell · Bill & Judy Hein · Laurin Herr & Trisha
Gorman-Herr · Donald E. Hershman, DPM ·
Carole S. Hickman · Fran Hildebrand · Marie F.
Hogan & Douglas A. Lutgen · Robert & Lois
Jacob · Stephen & Helene Jaffe · Marcia
Kadanoff · Ken & Karen Keller · Jack & Birthe
Kirsch · Jeff Klingman & Deborah Sedberry ·
Regina Lackner, in memory of Ruth Eis · Jane
& Michael Larkin · Ann L. Livingston & Nobby
Akiha · Lynn & Penny Lockhart · Dottie
Lofstrom · Ms. Sidne S. Long · Paul Mariano ·
John G. McGehee · Marlene & Stephen
Miller · Sofie Miller K · Harry Mixon Esq · Mr. &
Mrs. Gary Morrison · Linda L. Murray & Carl
Schemmerling · Don Nix · Donna Norquist ·
Pier & Barbara Oddone, in memory of
Michael Leibert · Bob & Toni Peckham, in
honor of Robert M. Peckham, Jr. · Mr. L.
William Perttula · John & Anja Plowright ·
Laurel Przybylski · Christina Quattro · Sara
Rahimian · Bonnie Raitt · Kent Rasmussen &
Celia Ramsay · Bette Roberts-Collins · Gerald
Rosenstein · Eleanor Rush & Jim Puskar · Jack
& Margaret Schieble · Helen Schulak · Hope
Scurran · Lisette Silva & Hadrian Rivera M ·
Christine Silver · Betsy Smith · Beverly
Stevens · Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Terdiman ·
Dorothy Walker · Kathleen Wallace · Sheridan
& Betsey Warrick · Ms. H. Leabah Winter, in
memory of Barry Dorfman, MD
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Nancy H. Ferguson · James Finefrock &
Harriet Hamlin · Brigitte & Louis Fisher · Jim &
Cathy Fisher · Martin & Barbara Fishman ·
Robert Fleri, in memory of Carole S. Pfeffer ·
Michael & Victoria Flora · Stephen Follansbee
& Richard Wolitz · Jacques Fortier · Dean
Francis · Nancy H. Francis · Stuart & Joyce
Freedman · Kate & Ted Freeland· Daniel
Friedland & Azlynda Alim · Paul & Marilyn
Gardner · Tim Geoghegan · Paul Gill &
Stephanie D’Arnall · Susan & Jon Golovin ·
Jane Gottesman & Geoffrey Biddle · Linda
Graham· Dan Granoff · Don & Becky Grether ·
Dan & Linda Guerra · John G. Guthrie · Janet
Harris · Robert L. Harris & Glenda
Newell-Harris · Dan & Shawna Hartman
Brotsky · Geoffrey & Marin-Shawn Haynes ·
Daria Hepps · Irene & Robert Hepps · Wilbur
& Carolyn Ross Hobbs· Judith Holland · Steven
Horwitz K · Morgan Hough · Olivia & Thacher
Hurd Fund · Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Ives · Marc &
Lisa Jones · Helmut H. Kapczynski & Colleen
Neff · Marjorie & Robert Kaplan, in honor of
Thalia Dorwick · Patricia Kaplan · Dennis
Kaump· Natasha Khoruzhenko & Olegs
Pimenovs · Christopher Killian & Carole
Ungvarsky · Mary S. Kimball · Beverly Phillips
Kivel · Joan & David Komaromi· Janet
Kornegay and Dan Sykes · Yvonne Koshland ·
Jennifer Kuenster & George Miers· Charles
Kuglen · Larry & Ruth Kurmel · Woof
Kurtzman & Liz Hertz · Henry & Natalie
Lagorio · Thomas LaQueur · Mr. & Mrs.
Richard Larsen · Glennis Lees & Michael
Glazeski · John Leys · Ray Lifchez · Renee M.
Linde · Mark & Roberta Linsky · Dottie
Lofstrom · Judy MacDonald Johnston · Bruce
Maigatter & Pamela Partlow · Sue & Phil
Marineau · Sarah McArthur & Michael
LeValley · Betsy McDaniel · Marie S. McEnnis ·
Sean McKenna· Ash McNeely · Brian McRee ·
Ruth Medak · Mary & Gene Metz · Aliza and
Peter Metzner K · Caryl & Peter Mezey · Geri
Monheimer · Rex Morgan & Greg Reniere ·
Brian & Britt-Marie Morris · Ronald Morrison ·
Patricia Motzkin & Richard Feldman · Moule
Family Fund · Lance Nagel · Ron Nakayama ·
Kris Carpenter Negulescu, in memory of
Maxine Carpenter · Jeanne E. Newman ·
Marlowe Ng & Sharon Ulrich · Hung Nguyen ·
Judy Ogle · Carol J. Ormond · Mary Papenfuss
& Roland Cline · Nancy Park · P. David & Mary
Alyce Pearson · Lewis Perry · James F. Pine M ·
F. Anthony Placzek · Malcolm & Ann Plant ·
John & Anja Plowright · Gary F. Pokorny ·
Charles Pollack & Joanna Cooper · Susie & Eric
Poncelet · Roxann R. Preston · Paula Pretlow ·
Dan & Lois Purkett · Kathleen Quenneville ·
Chuck & Kati Quibell · David & Mary Ramos ·
Sheldon & Catherine Ramsay · Ian Reinhard ·
Helen Richardson · Paul & Margaret Robbins ·
Joan Roebuck · Roberta Romberg · Galen
Rosenberg & Denise Barnett · Marie
Rosenblatt · Jirayr & Meline Roubinian ·
Deborah Dashow Ruth, in memory of Leo P.
Ruth · June & Bob Safran · Dorothy R. Sax ·
Laurel Scheinman · Bob & Gloria Schiller ·
Mark Schoenrock & Claudia Fenelon · Teddy
& Bruce Schwab · John & Lucille Serwa ·
Brenda Buckhold Shank, M.D., Ph.D. · Steve &
Susan Shortell · William & Martha Slavin ·
Carra Sleight · Suzanne Slyman · Jerry & Dick
Smallwood · Cherida Collins Smith · Mark
Smith & Pam Callowa · Alice & Scott So ·
Christina Spaulding · Louis & Bonnie
Spiesberger · Robert & Naomi Stamper · Ms.
Joelle Steefel · Herbert Steierman · Lynn M. &
A. Justin Sterling · Monroe W. Strickberger ·
Shayla Su M · Ellen Sussman & Neal Rothman ·
Nancy & Fred Teichert · Jeff & Catherine
Thermond · Karen Tiedemann & Geoff Piller ·
Janet Traub · William van Dyk & Margi
Sullivan· Gerald & Ruth Vurek · Scott Wachter
& Barbara Malina· Jon K. Wactor · Louise &
Larry Walker · Kate Walsh & Dan Serpico ·
Dena & Wayne Watson Lamprey · William R.
Weir · Robert & Sheila Weisblatt · Sallie
Weissinger · Dr. Ben & Mrs. Carolyn Werner ·
Elizabeth Werter & Henry Trevor · Diane &
Scott Wieser · Oliver Williamson · Fred
Winslow & Barbara Baratta K · Laura &
Ernest Winslow · Carol Katigbak Wong ·
Margaret Wu & Ciara Cox · Sandra Yuen &
Lawrence Shore
CO N T RIB U TO R S
Jerry Sabo · Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Salzman ·
Robert & Winnie Sayre · Peter Schmitz ·
Richard J. Schoofs · Darlene Schumacher ·
Barbara & Steve Segal · Daniel Smith K ·
Richard & Darlene Smith · Ms. Valerie
Sopher · Kathleen Sullivan · Gerald & Esme
Tarder · Mary Teichmann · Jeff & Catherine
Thermond · Jason Thomas & Marco Aurelio ·
Julie Waldman & Alan Germain · Dr. & Mrs. R.
Douglas Wayman · Robert & Penny Weiss ·
Karen & Stephen Wiel · Diane & Don
Williams · Evie & Gordon Wozniak · Raymond
A. Young III · Marti & Shelly Zedeck · David &
Leorah Zilberman
$ 15 0 –2 49
Anonymous (17) · Howard Bain · Babette
Barton · Frank & Lee Battat · Lynne Blair · Joel
& Rochelle Blumenfeld · Bonnie Bogue ·
Constance Boulay · Carol Bowen · Edward &
Joan Callaway · W. Bradford Carson · Dr. &
Mrs. Neal F. Cavanaugh · David Chandler ·
June & Michael Cohen · Edith Cornelsen ·
Barbara & John Crary · Gail DeBoer · Dennis T.
De Domenico & Sandra Brod · Pat & Ted Eliot ·
Sue J. Estey · Peter Ewell & Helga Recke ·
Caryll Farrer · Mary & Benedict Feinberg · Dr.
Norma Fiedotin · William & Andrea Foley ·
Deborah Gilman · Gregory Giska · Ian M.
Goldstein · Richard & Susan Gonzales ·
Sheldon & Judy Greene · Joel Hammer · Jane
Headley · John & Jean Hearst · Martha
Hertelendy · Douglas Hill & Jae Scharlin ·
Barbara Hirschler · Richard Ingalls · Marty &
Ellen Jaffe · Janet L. Johns · Kimberley Kahler ·
Nancy W. Kelso K · John Kruse & Gary
Beuschel · Ronald & Shoshana Levy M · John
D. Loder · Nancy Lumer · Cyrus Mancherje &
Zena Potash · Kevin McCarty · Ben McClinton
& Karen Rosenbaum · John W. & Yvonne S.
McCredie · Jeff Miner · George Moore · Albert
Nahman · Alice Neels M · David & Patsy
Newhouse · Ms. Mary Ilene Odenheimer ·
Howard & Charlene Okamoto · Joan & Allen
Perlof · John R. Petrovsky · Anthony & Sarah
Petru · Meshulam Plaves · Danielle
Rebischung · Mr. & Mrs. Joe Richardson ·
Craig F. Robieson · Daniel & Gail Rubinfeld ·
FRIE N D S
$ 75 –149
Anonymous (15) · Jane Allen · Beverly Allphin ·
Diane Anderson · Diane & Allan Armstrong ·
Sharon Babot · Larry & Barbara Babow · June
Barbera · Richard L. Barnes · Gale Bataille · Kris
Beale · Audrey M. Berger · Joanne Bezis · Steve
Bicknese · Dr. Robert J. Binder · Jeff Gutkin &
Helene Blatter · Valerie J. Bobetsky · Juliet
Bonczkowski & Family · Jeffrey Bornstein, in
honor of Kerry Francis · Shawn Borsky · Mr. &
Mrs. Thomas M. Bosserman · Nancy Boswell ·
Sarah Brann · Richard Bugg · Mary Burkhard ·
Charles Byce · Katherine Byrne · Laura Call ·
Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Campbell · Helene &
Norman Cavior · Ronald & Susan Choy · Gail
Louise Clark · Sofia Close · Susie Coliver ·
Susan & Don Couch · Sheila Cress · Lisa
BE R K E L E Y R E P T H A N K S
Donors to the Annual Fund
Croen · Robert Daniels · Robert & Sandra
Davidson · Hardy & Judi Dawainis · Ann &
Dave Del Simone · Char Devich & Alana
Devich · Roy & Pamela Doolan · Michael &
Andrea Dougan · Sally Dudley · Patricia Rose
Duignan · Marvin Edwards · Anne & Hal
Eisenberg · Karen Ellis · David & Denise
English · Tina & Dennis Etcheverry · Marna &
Phil Eyring · Lisa Feldstein & Max Drukman ·
Penny & Bob Fink · Karen Firestein · Carolyn
Foland · Patrice Fusillo · Carol Gadas ·
Lawrence Gering · Elaine Gerstler & Booker
Holton · Barbara Gordon · Steven Gotanda ·
Scott & Shirlee Graff · Bill & Chris Green · Rita
D. Haberlin · Marjorie Hamm & Angela
Bottum · Henry L. Hecht · Joyce Hemmer ·
Henry Sanford Hewitt · Delores Hiskes ·
Elizabeth Hoffmann · Jenny Hollingworth · The
Hoppe Family · Marcia Huberman · Heather
Hyde · Lynn Ireland · Sandra Iwamoto · Andrea
Janetos · Marisita & Tu Jarvis · Diana Jaye · Judy
Kantor · Susan & Stephen Kellerman · Pat &
Chris Kenber · Marlene & Ilan Keret · Eva M.
Kertesz · Maria & David Laforge · Lannon
Leiman & Frederick Seil · Ben Lenail & Laurie
Yoler · Gloria Letelier · Susan E. Levin · Diane
Levy · Harry & Eileen Lewis · Peter & Beverly
Libaire K · Trudy Lionel · Lawrence Litt · R U.
Litteneker · Shirlee Loret · Gerald Lubenow, in
memory of Joan Lubenow · Martha & Arthur
Luehrmann · Linda Lyon · Michael Manga ·
Diane Means · Andrew Meisel · Betsy Mellins
& Paul Mendelman · Patricia & John Mengel ·
Maeve Metzger · Bruce Mock · Mary Jean
Moore · Frank W. Morgan Jr · Mike & Sharon
Morris · Tom & Karen Nagy · Linda Nakell &
Robert Dawson · Lisa Nestore · Lucinda & Steve
Newcomb · Haggai Niv · Lisa Norris · Bruce
Nunley · Robert & Carol Nykodym · Mary
Anne O’Connor · Susan Olney · Nan E. Park ·
Bob Pinder · Wendy Polivka · Dixie Lee Post &
Dave Shaw · Timothy & Marilyn Potter · Lisa
Prach · Sheila & Myron Puckett, in memory of
Jean Murphy · Darlene Quinn · Katherine
Randolph · Ann Rarden · Joan & Mark Reiss ·
Jason J. Richard · Karen & Jeff Richardson ·
Donald Riley & Carolyn Serrao · Susan
Robertson · Brian Rodvien · Alex G. Ross ·
Priscilla Royal · John & Melanie Sandler ·
Jaimie Sanford & Ted Storey · Steve Schmidt ·
Tara S. Schraga · Georgia Schreiber · Miriam
Schwartz M · Lynn Seppala · Geri Shanteau ·
Jordan Shields · Bonnie Siegel · Neil Sitzman ·
Susan Sloka · Judith B. Smith · Patricia Smith ·
Larry & Marian Snyder · Lydia Stack · Robert
Strochak · Dorian Stull · Wilbur Tusler · Grace
Ulp · Lisa Valentine · Sayre Van Young &
Diane Davenport · Paul Veres · Lois
Wachner-Solomon & John Solomon · Arthur &
Susan Walenta · Bing Wang · David Warner M ·
David & Penelope Warren · Doreen Warshal ·
Phyllis Weber · Margo Webster · Susan
Whitman & Mark Gergen · Jennifer Winch ·
Richard & Elizabeth Wolgast · Emily Wood · G.
Geoffrey Wood · Dr. & Mrs. Mark J. Yanover ·
Marjorie Yasueda & Dale Knutsen · Ms. Dale
Yeomans · Al Zemsky
PAT RO N S
$ 1 –74
Anonymous (15) · Barbara Abernathy · William
R. Adams · Elinoar Almagor · Gary & Kay
Anderson · Susan Anderson · Susan
Angstadt · Diane Aranda · Joan Armenia ·
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Rena Bransten
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William T. Espey
John Field
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Carole Krumland
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Dugan Moore
Mary Ann Peoples
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Pat Rougeau
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