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About TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
April 2017
Volume 48, No. 7
Welcome to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and our 47th season of award-winning
theatre. Led by Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Managing Director
Phil Santora, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a wide range of productions
and programming throughout the region.
Paul Heppner
Publisher
Founded in 1970, we continue to celebrate the human spirit and the diversity
of our community, presenting contemporary plays and musicals, revitalizing
great works of the past, championing arts education, and nurturing new works
for the American theatre. TheatreWorks has produced 66 world premieres
and 160 US and regional premieres. In the 2016/17 season, we add the world
premiere of Confederates and four more regional premieres to our résumé.
Susan Peterson
Design & Production Director
Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler,
Shaun Swick, Stevie VanBronkhorst
Production Artists and Graphic Design
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 2015/16 season included the world premiere of
the musical Triangle, as well as regional premieres of The Country House,
Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin, tokyo fish story, Cyrano, and The Velocity of
Autumn. Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin broke all our box office records,
becoming the highest-grossing show in TheatreWorks’ history. In the course of
the year, shows that debuted here were produced at theatres around the world.
Mike Hathaway
Sales Director
Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed, Rob Scott
San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives
Brieanna Bright,
Joey Chapman, Ann Manning
Seattle Area Account Executives
With an annual operating budget of $8 million, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
produces eight mainstage productions at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto
and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Sixteen years ago, we
launched the New Works Initiative, dedicating ourselves to the development of
new plays and musicals. The Initiative has since supported over 150 new works
through retreats, workshops, staged readings, developmental productions,
and the annual New Works Festival, inspiring The Mercury News to call us ”a
premiere breeding ground for new musicals, which has put the company on
the national map.”
Jonathan Shipley
Ad Services Coordinator
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Sales Coordinator
TheatreWorks believes in making theatre accessible to the entire Silicon Valley
community. Our Education Department reaches on average 25,000 students in
70 schools in 7 counties annually. It sponsors outreach programs that include
the Children’s Healing Project at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the Young
Playwrights’ Initiative, specially-priced student matinees, extensive school
tours, post-show discussions, and theatre camps, classes, and conservatories
for youth.
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for the Arts.
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Center for the Performing Arts.
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From the Board Chair
My maternal grandparents were immigrants, as were my paternal
great-grandparents. Along with many other Eastern European
Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they fled religious
persecution for the promise of a better life for themselves and
their families in the United States. Rags could be their story, but I’ll
never know. My brother and I are the elder generation now and,
regrettably, neither of us had the foresight to learn much about
either the struggles or triumphs of our ancestors.
Lately, given the increasingly inhospitable America that immigrants and
refugees are encountering, I’ve been thinking a lot about my heritage. Aside from
some china and faded black-and-white photographs, I don’t have any memories of
these long-gone relatives. Perhaps this is why the sensitive script and beautiful
music of Rags speak to me. Perhaps this is why I’m excited to take my daughter to
see TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s splendid production of this American classic. I’m
hoping she will understand a little more about her great-grandparents and the world
in which they lived.
With 15 actors, a 9-piece orchestra, multiple sets, and many period costumes
to tell its story, Rags is a tremendously ambitious undertaking, and I am grateful
that TheatreWorks is able to mount such a meaningful production. Stories reflecting
the diversity and humanity that built America have always been at the core of
TheatreWorks. Although ticket sales only cover about half of our production costs,
we are fortunate to live in a community where such stories are valued, where the
performing arts matter. Many of you support our art as subscribers and donors, and
some were at our Party of the Decade fundraiser last fall to actively support this very
show. Thank you all!
Which brings me to our upcoming Spring Benefit, BeDazzled, scheduled at
TheatreWorks’ Redwood Shores headquarters. I hope you’ll join us on May 20 when
you’ll be transported to the glitzy Las Vegas Strip—TheatreWorks style! Be dazzled
by the luxury hotel VIP lounges, fabulous food and drink, unique shopping opportunities, and first-rate entertainment. Bring your friends; it promises to be an awesome
evening of mingling and merry-making. Your generous support allows us to continue
telling the compelling stories of our families, friends, and neighbors from around the
world. And isn’t that what theatre is all about?
Barbara Shapiro
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
In this Issue
2
About TheatreWorks
6
2017/18 SEASON
8
Coming to America
10
Director’s Notes
11
The Journey of Rags
13
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
16
Who’s Who
22
Contributors
25
TWSV Staff
26
TWSV General Information
Barbara Shapiro, Chair
Jayne Booker
Cabell Chinnis
Bill Coughran
Ciro Giammona
Anne Hambly
Judy Heyboer
Larry Horton
Charlotte Jacobs
Roy Johnson
Derry Kabcenell
Michael Kahn
Julie Kaufman
Robert Kelley
Phil Santora
Loren Saxe
Nancy Ginsburg Stern
Debra Summers
Lynn Szekely-Goode
Ewart Thomas
Tzipor Ulman
Mark Vershel
Holly Ward
Lisa Webster
Jane Weston
Gayla Lorthridge Wood
BOARD EMERITUS
Nancy Meyer, Founder • William F. Adler • Edward T. Anderson, MD • Doug Barry • Lauren
Berman • Chuck Bernstein • Sharon Anthony Bower • Michael Braun • Polly W. Bredt •
Bruce C. Cozadd • Jeff Crowe • Peggy Dalal • Yogen Dalal • Jenny Dearborn • Susan
Fairbrook • Michael R. Flicker • Peggy Woodford Forbes • Dan Garber • Doug Garland •
Aaron Gershenberg • Marcia Goldman • Emeri Handler • Susan M. Huch • Perry A. Irvine •
Nancy Lee Jalonen • Lisa Jones • Gina Jorasch • Roberta R. Katz • Tom Kelley • Robin
Kennedy • Michael Kwatinetz • Dick Maltzman • Suzanne Martin • Patti McClung • Don
McDougall • Bruce McLeod • Cynthia S. Miller • Leslie Murphy-Chutorian • Eileen Nelson •
Karen Nierenberg • Carrie Perzow • Carey Pickus • Margot Mailliard Rawlins • John Reis •
Eddie Reynolds • Sandi Risser • Lynn Wilson Roberts • Ray A. Rothrock • Adam Samuels •
Denise Stanford • Rosina Lo Sun • James Sweeney • Cathie Thermond • Helaina Titus •
Robert J. Van der Leest, MD • Ronni Watson • Elissa Wellikson
Silicon Valley
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”STELLAR!” ”STUNNING!”
A T I M E LY N E W M U S I C A L
A TIMELESS MUSICAL JOURNEY
The Four Immigrants:
The Prince of Egypt
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Min Kahng
Based on Manga Yonin Shosei by Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama
Translated as The Four Immigrants by Frederik L. Schodt
Directed by Leslie Martinson
WORLD PREMIERE
From a tumultuous earthquake to an exhilarating world’s fair, this
broadly comic new musical chronicles the adventures of four endearing Japanese immigrants in a world of possibility and prejudice:
turn-of-the-twentieth-century San Francisco. Driven by an infectious
vaudeville and ragtime score, the quartet pursues their American
Dream despite limited options in the land of opportunity. Don’t miss
this runaway hit of our 2016 New Works Festival.
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Book by Philip LaZebnik
Directed by Scott Schwartz
WORLD PREMIERE in collaboration with Fredericia Teater, Denmark
Join TheatreWorks as this inspiring world premiere musical begins its
international journey towards a 2018 debut in Denmark. A soaring
celebration of the human spirit, The Prince of Egypt features a
dazzling, multi-ethnic cast in one of the greatest stories ever told:
the saga of Moses and Ramses, his Pharaoh brother, and the
indomitable people who changed them both forever. Inspired by the
beloved DreamWorks Animation film and featuring a score that
includes the Academy Award-winning ”When You Believe” by the
composer and lyricist of Wicked, this breathtaking journey of faith
and family is the must-see event of the season.
An American Musical Manga
Jul 12 – Aug 6, 2017 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto
A CONTEMPORARY ROMANTIC DRAMA
Constellations
By Nick Payne
Directed by Robert Kelley
London Evening Standard Award Best Play 2012
REGIONAL PREMIERE
A time-bending romantic drama spun out of string theory, this
unconventional Broadway and West End sensation explores the
infinite possibilities of ”boy meets girl” with intelligence, heart, and
humor. A charming beekeeper and a Cambridge cosmologist are
nerds in love, for better and for worse, their relationship an everchanging mystery of ”what ifs.” Who knew that honey and higher
physics could be so touching—or so sexy?
Contains mature language.
”Truly stellar. Five stars!” London Evening Standard
Aug 23 – Sept 17, 2017 Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts
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Oct 6 – Nov 5, 2017 Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts
A H I L A R I O U S H O L I D AY A D V E N T U R E
Around the World in 80 Days
Adapted by Mark Brown
From the Novel by Jules Verne
Directed by Robert Kelley
Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Join
fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg and his faithful valet in the original
”Great Race,” circling the globe in an 1870s alive with danger,
romance, and comic surprises at every turn. In the hilariously theatrical style of The 39 Steps, five actors portray dozens of characters in
a thrilling race against time and treachery. Grab your family, and your
passport, for an ingenious, imaginative expedition around the world!
”Action and hilarity to spare!” The Boston Globe
Nov 29 – Dec 23, 2017 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto
ACTORS LEFT TO RIGHT: TINA CHILIP, L. PETER CALLENDER, MICHELLE BECK, PUN BANDHU, HILARY MAIBERGER, & DEREK CARLEY / PHOTOS BY TRACY MARTIN & KEVIN BERNE
NOT TO BE MISSED!
A POWERFUL MUSICAL TRIBUTE
A SOARING MUSICAL ROMANCE
Our Great Tchaikovsky
The Bridges of Madison County
Music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Written and Performed by Hershey Felder
Directed by Trevor Hay
REGIONAL PREMIERE
Brilliant composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky springs to life through
the hands and insight of piano virtuoso Hershey Felder, whose
time-traveling tale of culture and repression explores the mystery
surrounding some of the greatest music ever written. From the
unforgettable ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The
Nutcracker, to the outrageous 1812 Overture and the brilliant
symphonic works, this powerful musical tribute travels to Czarist
times to ponder the inevitable enigma of genius. From the creator
and performer of Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin and Beethoven.
”Stunning! Potent! Brings beautiful life to Tchaikovsky.”
Book by Marsha Norman
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Based on the novel by Robert James Waller
Directed by Robert Kelley
2014 Tony Award Best Score
San Diego Union-Tribune
Jan 10 – Feb 4, 2018
Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts
A BOLD AMERICAN DRAMA
This sweeping musical romance about the roads we travel and the
bridges we dare to cross recalls the unexpected affair of a devoted
Italian-born housewife and a roving National Geographic photographer—four sensual, heart-stirring days that would never be forgotten. Set amidst the cornfields of Iowa in 1965, it is an intimate
remembrance of love both lost and found, brilliantly adapted by a
Pulitzer Prize playwright and Tony Award composer from one of
America’s favorite novels.
”A breathtaking sweep of feelings.” The NY Times
Apr 4 – 29, 2018 Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts
A P L AY F O R T H E N A N D N O W
Skeleton Crew
FINKS
By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
A Coproduction with Marin Theatre Company
REGIONAL PREMIERE
By Joe Gilford
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
Drama Desk Award Best Play Nominee
CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
A makeshift family of autoworkers navigates the recession in this
funny, tough, and tender American drama. Will their Detroit plant
survive? Ambitious dreams and corporate deception interweave,
pushing friendships to the limit. When the line between blue collar
and white begins to blur, how far over the lines is each of them willing
to step? Don’t miss this riveting new drama from one of America’s
hottest young writers.
Contains mature language.
With the 1950s Red Scare in full swing, the House Un-American
Activities Committee attacks ”subversion” in the arts. When a
romance blossoms between a rising comic and a firebrand actress,
they face being blacklisted along with their friends and fellow artists.
Will they lose their careers or betray each other and be branded
forever as ”finks”? Based on the true story of comedian/actor Jack
Gilford, this stunning comic drama is written by his son.
Contains mature language.
”Warm-blooded, astute. A deeply American play!” The NY Times
”A testament to an indomitable spirit.” The Huffington Post
Mar 7– Apr 1, 2018 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto
Jun 6 – Jul 1, 2018 Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts
A D D - O N E X T R A F O R T H E H O L I D AY S
The Santaland Diaries
By David Sedaris
Adapted by Joe Mantello
Directed by Jeffrey Lo
When an unemployed slacker signs on as a Yuletide elf at Macy’s,
a village of candy-caned kids and cynical Santas springs to hilarious,
if humiliating, life. This rollicking one-man cure for an overdose of
holiday hype will have you ho-ho-hoing till the red-nosed reindeer
comes home!
FOR MATURE AUDIENCES
”A sardonic, merrily subversive tale worth more than a
photo album full of Santas!” Newsday
Dec 5–23, 2017 Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills
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Coming to
America
In the late 1800s, immigrants
flooded into the United
States. Before Ellis Island
opened in 1892, more than
eight million immigrants
arriving in New York City were
processed by New York State officials just across
the bay, in Lower Manhattan. In 1890, the federal
government assumed control of immigration, and
Congress approved $75,000 to build America’s very
first federal immigration station at Ellis Island, after
they enlarged the original island to over six acres.
The first station opened on January 1, 1892, and
processed three ships full of people—700 immigrants
—in its first day. Almost 450,000 immigrants were
processed over the next year, and 1.5 million during
the first five years. The very first person to pass
through Ellis Island was Annie Moore, a 17-year-old
from Cork, Ireland, who was meeting her parents
who had moved to New York two years earlier. The
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IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING AT ELLIS ISLAND, 1902
PHOTO COURTESY OF UNITED STATES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS’S PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
officials gave her a special ceremonial greeting, and a
There’s a popular myth that officials routinely changed
ever owned.
there is no historical record to support this. Inspectors
$10 gold coin—the largest sum of money she had
immigrants’ names on entry to the United States, but
used the ships’ passenger lists to process each
In June of 1897, the station suffered a fire of unknown
person, so any changes at point of entry would have
immigration records dating back to 1855 were
likely would have been errors. Many families did
cause, and although no loss of life was reported,
destroyed. The station was reconstructed, this time
composed of several different buildings, including a
hospital, kitchen, laundry, and the main processing
building. This station opened in December of 1900,
and was subsequently expanded again with landfill to
come from the steamship companies, and most
eventually ”Americanize” their names as part of their
assimilation into the country, and some names were
altered slightly to adjust for disparities between
English and other alphabets or pronunciations.
accommodate the number of people coming through.
Between 1892 and 1954 more than 12 million
Generally immigrants who were approved to enter
and most famous gateway into the United States.
processing. They were faced with a series of 29
stands today, now a prominent museum and tourist
the country spent between two and five hours in
questions, including their names, occupations, and
how much money they possessed. The government
wanted immigrants to be able to take care of themselves, and wanted each person to have $18–25 on
immigrants passed through Ellis Island, the busiest
Ellis Island closed on November 12, 1954. It still
attraction. The last immigrant to pass through its
gates was Arne Peterssen, a Norwegian merchant
seaman. –Syche Phillips
arrival (about $600 today). Immigrants also needed
to be healthy and, preferably, to have a skill.
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Director’s Notes by Robert Kelley
A Time for RAGS
It’s such a feeling, reeling,
Like we’ve been hurled
A million miles and landed
Right at the heart…
We may be lost and stranded
But we’re a part
Of a brand new world! – from Rags
Years ago I followed the development of a new musical
called Rags, excited about the turbulent, exuberant era
it portrayed and the prospect of collaboration by three
of my favorite theatre artists, lyricist Stephen Schwartz,
bookwriter Joseph Stein, and composer Charles
Strouse. It came into New York as a star vehicle for
opera diva Teresa Stratas, with its producers envisioning
a ”Grand Opera” style production with massive sets, a
large cast, and huge orchestra—it would be one of the
most expensive musicals ever mounted. But in the face
of tremendous weekly expenses and modest reviews,
the producers folded their tents, many believe prematurely. When the cast saw the closing notice they led
the audience on an inspired, Pied Piper-like march of
protest throughout the theatre district demanding to
keep the show open.
That’s when I really got interested in Rags. The score
was phenomenal, inspired, and elegantly conceived,
the story both engaging and familiar, one many would
recognize as their family’s own. Joseph Stein, whose
unforgettable Fiddler on the Roof was already a
classic, had painted a vast canvas of Eastern European,
Irish, and Italian immigration that reached America in
the decades surrounding the turn of the century. His
vision of these eager ”greenhorns” was vivid and
honest. Teeming tenements on New York’s Lower East
Side, including the Hester/Suffolk Street Jewish
ghettos, were the ominous reality of a land where there
were no streets of gold after all. Scene after scene told
it like it was: an intimidating arrival at Ellis Island; a
raucous Yiddish Theatre which actually did present a
serio-comic version of Hamlet set in Jerusalem; sweatshops packed with workers of every age, scraping out
a living in desperate conditions made tragic by the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; rowdies and radicals,
union busting, Tammany Hall politics—all these conflicts
and cultures blending into an American melting pot of
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ethnic traditions and individual enterprise. And through
it all wafted Stephen Schwartz’ passionate, stirring lyrics
and the glorious music of Charles Strouse, a magical
blend of Russian and klezmer sounds with ragtime, Tin
Pan Alley, blues, and jazz. Here was an America yearning to breathe free, virtues, vices, and all—an America
to celebrate. Featuring a rewritten script, our Rags
debuted in 1989 and became one of TheatreWorks’
greatest hits of the era. It remains one of my favorite
shows and I’ve longed to reprise it ever since.
Scroll forward to January, 2016. We’re about to pick
our TheatreWorks season in the midst of already chaotic
political times. There are calls for a registry of citizens
based on their religion, for a ban on immigration, for a
wall to seal our border. On the nightly news I watch
fellow Americans cheering these ideas, and I can only
think of one thing: Rags. In my mind’s eye I’m seeing
the Statue of Liberty, I’m hearing her invitation to ”your
tired, your poor, your huddled masses.” I know what
an economic challenge this lovely show would be, in the
now fully-professional environment of TheatreWorks.
And yet it is clear that we must do Rags again, must
celebrate the hope and promise America once symbolized, even as we recognize the immense challenges
that newcomers of different religious, ethnic, and racial
backgrounds have encountered in this ”brand new
world.” Rags doesn’t whitewash America of a century
ago; it portrays openly the poverty, exploitation, and
discrimination that immigrants faced on newfound
shores. But what emerges most strongly on this
inspiring journey is the ongoing dream of America, the
spirit that has made us a beacon for oppressed people
everywhere—a torch, perhaps, held high in 1911 above
a harbor open to all the children of the wind.
But that was then, and that’s why now is the time for Rags.
The Journey of RAGS
Rags has an origin story based in Broadway legend.
Bookwriter Joseph Stein (Fiddler on the Roof) explains
it thus:
It started with my idea to do a musical about the
immigrant experience. After Fiddler on the Roof
I was besieged by requests to do a followup, a
Fiddler II. I didn't want to use those characters,
I felt I used them sufficiently. I didn't want to do
Tevye in America. The fact that I was asked to
do that kind of thing, got me to thinking about
the immigrants who came [to America] roughly
at the same time as the Tevye period. Since my
father came from the Old Country and told me
some stories, that intrigued me. In a sense, it's
a followup to Fiddler, but not a sequel.
But the Broadway run of the show, lasting for just
18 previews and 4 performances in 1986, was a different
story, what the New York Times called a ”painful but
revealing object lesson in what can happen when things
go wrong in the high-stakes world of the Broadway
musical.” The overall marketing of the show as an
American opera surely affected ticket sales and the show’s
reception. The producers poured more and more money
into a grandiose physical production, while heavily relying on word of mouth to help sell it. By the time the show
opened in Boston for its pre-Broadway run, they had lost
a director, their star (opera diva Teresa Stratas, ill with
bronchitis), a choreographer, and a lighting designer.
After the New York opening on August 21, 1986,
the producers determined that there was no viable way
to save the show financially. Upon hearing this, the cast
organized a demonstration of support, from deferring
their paychecks until word of mouth and ticket sales
picked up, to marching through Times Square, past the
half-price ticket booth. Before long the cast had passersby marching with them, chanting, ”Keep Rags open!
Keep Rags open!”
Their enthusiasm resulted in nation-wide press…
which is how TheatreWorks Artistic Director Robert
Kelley heard about the show and decided to bring it to
Silicon Valley. It found a place as the penultimate show
of the 1988/89 Season.
In 1988, following our announcement that Rags
would be part of our next season, one regional critic
wrote that “TheatreWorks has established itself as a
group that loves a challenge and doesn’t shy away
from—indeed, seems perversely attracted to—musicals
that flopped the first time around. I cheer the aim
behind TheatreWorks, and its courage…[but] Rags was
roundly, and rudely dismissed on Broadway.”
In March of 1989, Rags premiered in the Bay Area in
a soaring but intimate production that both chronicled
and celebrated the immigrant experience. TheatreWorks
audiences loved it, and it met with great acclaim from
critics as well. Since then, the show has been under
construction. The creators presented a dramatically
rewritten version in 1991 at the American Jewish Theatre
in New York City, featuring only nine actors, and making
the boy David the storyteller of the piece. Another
reworked version premiered at Florida’s Coconut Grove
Playhouse, and then the Paper Mill Playhouse in New
Jersey, in 1999. The original Broadway cast of 30 was
now 15, and focused on David’s mother, Rebecca.
Today’s script incorporates parts of these previous
productions in a new version created by Charles Strouse
and Joseph Stein shortly before he died in 2010, with
assistance from Wayne Blood of R&H Theatrics. It
debuted in 2006 at The Lyric Stage in Irving, Texas.
According to composer Charles Strouse, the Broadway
production ”tried to do too much. People got lost in it.
Now it’s tightened, more focused.”
Strouse, composer of Bye Bye Birdie and Annie, is
grateful that Rags has had the chance to evolve. ”The
commercial theatre of Broadway flattens everything out
into a kind of ’yes’ and ’no,’” Strouse says. ”I had more
or less given up on this show, except for the fact that
I got a lot of mail on it. I think God has given me
another shot at making it a well-known show.” He has
also said that the regional theatre life of the show can
be attributed to the availability of a cast album,
produced months after the show’s closing, spreading
awareness and appreciation of the music and the show.
Lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Godspell)
has worked frequently with TheatreWorks, including My
Ántonia at the 2002 New Works Festival and its World
Premiere production in 2004, and Snapshots in 2008.
He said of Rags in 1999 that he hoped it would join his
shows Working and Children of Eden as arduous journeys
that had happy endings—and it’s safe to say now, 18
years later, that it has. He is currently collaborating on
a new adaptation of Rags with David Thompson (The
Scottsboro Boys), which will open at Connecticut’s
Goodspeed Opera House in October.
Rags is a landmark in TheatreWorks’ history—a lamp
lifted, if you will. A show can fall short of its potential in
its first production, but with a change of focus and a
fresh eye, become a critical and financial hit. Our 1989
production of Rags is an indelible and memorable part
of TheatreWorks history, and we are thrilled to be bringing this version of the show to the Mountain View
– Syche Phillips
Center in 2017. – Syche Phillips
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COMING NEXT at TWSV
An Extraordinary Musical Play
HERSHEY FELDER
BEETHOVEN
Hershey Felder
Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
By
Directed by Joel Zwick
June 5–July 2
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TheatreWorks
S I L I C O N V A L L E Y
presents
Book by
RAGS
Joseph Stein
Music by
Charles Strouse
Lyrics by
Stephen Schwartz
Directed by Robert Kelley
Musical Director William Liberatore
Choreographer
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Dialect Coach
Casting Director
New York Casting Director
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Dottie Lester White
Joe Ragey
Fumiko Bielefeldt
Pamila Z. Gray
Jeff Mockus
Kimberly Mohne Hill
Leslie Martinson
Alan Filderman
Randall K. Lum*
Emily Anderson Wolf*
RAGS is presented through special arrangement with R & H Theatricals: www.rnh.com
VISIONARY PRODUCERS
Anne & Larry Hambly
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler • Cindi Sears • Lynn Szekely-Goode & Richard Goode
PRODUCERS
Lois & Dr. Edward Anderson • Mike & Martha Kahn • Dick & Cathy Lampman • Dorothy Lazier
Mark & Debra Leslie • The Marmor Foundation/Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor
Dorothy Saxe • Loren & Shelley Saxe • Harriet & Frank Weiss
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia • Bill & Janet Nicholls
SHOW SPONSOR
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation
SEASON SPONSORS
Garden Court Hotel • J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines • The Mercury News • Sobrato Philanthropies
RAGS plays April 5–30, 2017
THE VIDEOTAPING OR OTHER VIDEO OR AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS PRODUCTION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
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THE CAST
(In order of appearance)
Homesick Immigrant / Klezmer / Irish Tenor / Sam
Immigration Officer / News Editor /
Guildenstern / Nathan Hershkowitz
Immigration Guard / Saul
American soloist / Mike / Big Tim Sullivan
American soloist / Bronstein
Landlady / Rachel Halpern
Cigar Recruiter / Jack / Rosencrantz
Rebecca Hershkowitz
David Hershkowitz
David Hershkowitz (selected performances)
Bella Cohen
Avram Cohen
Ben / Hamlet
Anna / Gertrude
Social Worker / Customer / Ophelia
Rosa / American
Benjamin Pither*
Noel Anthony*
Danny Rothman*
David Bryant*
Brian Herndon*
Darlene Popovic*
Christopher Reber*
Kyra Miller*
Jonah Broscow
Nic Roy Garcia
Julie Benko*
Donald Corren*
Travis Leland*
Teressa Foss*
Michelle Drexler
Caitlin O’Leary
The Company also play immigrants, Cossacks, wealthy Americans,
neighbors, party guests, and strikers.
Understudy for David Hershkowitz Jake A. Miller
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
PLACE & TIME
The Lower East Side in Manhattan, 1910–11
THE ORCHESTRA
Conductor
Reed 1
Reed 2
Violin
Cello
Bass
Percussion
Trumpet
Trombone
Keyboard
Orchestra Personnel Manager
William Liberatore
Michael Corner
Steve Parker
Carol Kutsch
Kris Yenney
David Schoenbrun
Artie Storch
Jose Rodriguez
Michael Cushing
Sean Kana
Diane Ryan
All musicians are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.
SPECIAL THANKS
Alyssa Oania, Opera San Jose • Jeff Hamby, Palo Alto Children’s Theatre
Roxanne Femling, UC Davis Theatre & Dance
Charlene DeRouin, Peninsula Youth Theatre • Edwin Lo
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Who’s Who
Musical Numbers
ACT I
Overture / ”I Remember”................................................Immigrant Man
”Greenhorns”.......................................... Two Americans and Company
”Open Your Eyes”/”Greenhorns”.......................... Avram, Rebecca, and
Two Americans
”Brand New World”................................................. Rebecca and David
”Children of the Wind”..............................................................Rebecca
”Penny a Tune”............ Klezmers, Rachel, Rebecca, Rosa, Bella, David,
and Company
”Easy for You”................................................ Saul, Rebecca, and David
”Hard To Be a Prince”................................. Hamlet, Actors, and Crowd
”Blame It on the Summer Night”.............................................. Rebecca
”For My Mary”......................................................... Irish Tenor and Ben
”Rags”.......................................................... Avram, Bella, and Rebecca
”On the Fourth Day of July”.................................................. Americans
”Nothing Will Hurt You Again”............................. Rebecca and Nathan
ACT II
Entr’acte
”On the Fourth Day of July” (Reprise)..................... Crowd and Nathan
”Yankee Boy”................................Nathan, David, Rebecca, and Crowd
”Uptown”...............................................................Nathan and Rebecca
”Three Sunny Rooms”................................................Rachel and Avram
”Wanting”................................................................... Rebecca and Saul
”Rags” (Reprise)...............................................................................Bella
”Democratic Club Dance”
”What’s Wrong with That?”................... Big Tim, Nathan, and Rebecca
”Bread and Freedom”.......... Rosa, Rebecca, Sam, Esther, and Strikers
Finale.................... David, Rebecca, Two Americans, Avram, Rachel,
and Company
A ROUND OF APPLAUSE
April is National Volunteer Appreciation Month. Our TheatreWorkers
work hard year-round to facilitate every aspect of TheatreWorks
—ushering and hosting concessions at the shows, providing
countless hours of administrative assistance, helping the artistic
team run auditions, and much more. We couldn’t create the art of
TheatreWorks without the help of our valued volunteers.
THANK YOU to our incredible TheatreWorkers!
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NOEL ANTHONY
(Nathan) is appearing
for the sixth time with
TheatreWorks, having
previously appeared
as Pirelli in Sweeney
Todd, Neville Craven
in The Secret Garden,
Richard Mason in Jane
Eyre, A Little Princess, and Merrily We
Roll Along. Mr. Anthony has starred and
been featured in over 60 musicals in a
career spanning over 20 years in the Bay
Area. Some favorites include Valjean in
Les Misérables, Chris in Miss Saigon,
Jerry in The Full Monty, Burrs in The Wild
Party, Harold Hill in The Music Man, Joe
in The Most Happy Fella, and Chad in All
Shook Up. noelanthonyescobar.com
JULIE BENKO (Bella)
has appeared on
Broadway and in
national touring
productions of Fiddler
on the Roof, Les
Misérables (Cosette),
and Spring Awakening.
Her regional credits
include The Golem of Havana (Rebeca
Frankel) at Barrington Stage Company,
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee (Olive) and The Wizard of Oz
(Dorothy) at The Downtown Cabaret, and
Les Misérables (Cosette) at North
Carolina Theater and Amarillo Opera. In
February 2017, Ms. Benko won both the
Gold Medal and the Johnny Mercer
Awards in the prestigious American
Traditions Vocal Competition. She holds a
BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of
the Arts, and her debut album is due to
be released this fall. To learn more, follow
her on Twitter/Instagram @JewJewJewlie
or visit JulieBenko.com.
JONAH BROSCOW
(David) performed with
TheatreWorks in The
Man in the Ceiling
(Jimmy) as part of the
2015 New Works
Festival and will be
reprising his role in the
premiere of the fully
staged version in New York this June. In
the past year he has appeared in the
international tour of Pippin (Theo) in
Amsterdam and in The Speakeasy
(Johnnie) for the Boxcar Theatre in San
Francisco. Other regional credits in
include Max Understood (Max) at the
Cowell Theater, Do I Hear a Waltz
(Mauro) with 42nd Street Moon, and
multiple productions at the Berkeley
Who’s Who
Playhouse. Jonah is in the 7th grade at
Hillcrest Middle School in Oakland, CA.
Thanks Mom, Dad, and Ellie!
DAVID BRYANT
(Bronstein/Big Tim)
played Shakespeare’s
Romeo and El Gallo
(Fantasticks) under
Robert Kelley’s direction at TheatreWorks
over 30 years ago!
Mr. Bryant (a Stanford/
Juilliard grad) went on to perform in six
Broadway shows (including national
tours): Les Misérables (original Broadway
cast/recording, Marius), Sunday in the
Park with George (working with Stephen
Sondheim), Hal Prince’s Showboat,
Amadeus (with Sir Ian McKellan), My Fair
Lady (with Richard Chamberlain), and
Brigadoon. Films: Miramax’s Cypher, CBS’s
I, Leonardo with Frank Langella. TV: Law
& Order, Law & Order SVU. Numerous
national commercials include GE, Scope,
Aquafresh; voiceover work for the History
Channel, FOX, X-Men, and NBC Wildcats.
Mr. Bryant produces theatre in NYC (four
Broadway shows, three off-Bway shows
including Daddy Long Legs). He also
teaches ([email protected]) acting,
singing, monologues, voice, and speech
—perhaps his greatest love of all!
DONALD CORREN
(Avram) originated the
role of Cosmé McMoon
opposite Judy Kaye in
the original Broadway
production of Souvenir,
and replaced Harvey
Fierstein in the original
Broadway production
of Torch Song Trilogy, a role he reprised
in San Francisco and Los Angeles (Drama
Critics Circle Awards in both cities). OffBroadway appearances include The
Fantasticks, Old Jews Telling Jokes, The
Soap Myth, The Last Sunday in June,
Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night, and
the original NY production of Tomfoolery.
Mr. Corren has played leading roles at
regional theatres across the country
including Arena Stage, American
Conservatory Theater, The Shakespeare
Theatre, Old Globe, and most recently
Syracuse Stage, where he played Captain
Hook in Peter Pan. TV appearances
include nine seasons as Forensic
Technician Medill on Law & Order, and
two as Dr. Kurian on the Syfy hit Z Nation.
MICHELLE DREXLER
(Ensemble) is thrilled to
be returning to
TheatreWorks where
she was last seen as
Mrs. Elton in Jane
Austen’s EMMA. She
has worked regionally
with Cutting Ball
Theater, San Francisco Playhouse,
Shotgun Players, Berkeley Playhouse, San
Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Kingsmen
Shakespeare Company, Great River
Shakespeare Festival, and American
Repertory Theatre. She has also played
sold-out houses at Feinstein’s in SF and
the Laurie Beechman in NYC with her
identical twin sister, Lily, in A Very
Drexler Cabaret. Be on the lookout for a
Drexler twin web series coming soon!
Ms. Drexler is a proud native of San
Francisco. Emerson College: BFA Acting.
MichelleDrexler.com. Much love, gratitude
and appreciation to my great-grandparents
for their courage in coming to America.
I am honored to tell your story.
TERESSA FOSS (Anna)
is making her
TheatreWorks debut.
Ms. Foss has been a
guest artist at Opera
San Jose for two
seasons, appearing in
Il barbiere di Siviglia
(Berta), Le nozze di
Figaro (Marcellina), A Streetcar Named
Desire (Nurse/Ghost/u/s Eunice), and the
ensembles of Carmen, Tosca, and Die
Zauberflöte. Her Bay Area appearances
include Berkeley Repertory Theatre
(Master Class/Sharon, opposite Rita
Moreno as ”Maria Callas”), Indra’s Net
Theatre (Delicate Particle Logic/Lise
Meitner), 42nd Street Moon (leads in Oh,
Kay!, Zorba, and Little Me) and West Bay
Opera (Cosi fan tutte/Fiordiligi).
Numerous regional credits include GeVa
Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Lamb’s Players
Theatre, PCPA Theaterfest, Ensemble
Theatre Santa Barbara, Reprise, Laguna
Playhouse, Fullerton Civic Light Opera
and the Hollywood Bowl. Ms. Foss earned
her BA from UCLA and is a member of
AEA, AGMA, and SAG/AFTRA.
NIC ROY GARCIA
(David, selected
performances) is
thrilled to be making
his TheatreWorks
debut. He is a young
actor and singer who
has previously
appeared in numerous
musicals/plays in the Bay Area including
42nd Street Moon’s TBA award-winning
Scrooge in Love, Children’s Musical
Theater San Jose’s Marquee production
of The Little Mermaid (Flounder), the
world premiere of Josephine and the
Sheep of Dreams at SF’s Children’s
Creativity Museum, San Jose Repertory
Theatre’s regional premiere of The Big
Meal, Palo Alto Players’ West Coast premiere of Big Fish, Marquee Productions’
Les Misérables (Gavroche), Peninsula
Youth Theatre’s The Sound of Music (Kurt
Von Trapp), and Broadway By the Bay’s
Oliver! Outside theatre, he enjoys school,
skiing, drawing, rollerblading, and
singing non-stop.
BRIAN HERNDON
(American) welcomes
the chance to play on
the TheatreWorks
stage! Last seen in
Jane Austen’s EMMA,
where he reprised the
role of Mr. Elton which
he created for the
world premiere, Mr. Herndon has also
appeared at TheatreWorks in Being
Earnest, A Little Princess, The Elephant
Man, and many New Works Festivals,
among others. Locally he has worked all
over the Bay Area, at Marin Theatre
Company, Center REP, San Jose Stage,
TheatreFirst, Central Works, Livermore
Shakespeare Festival, and SF Playhouse,
most recently. He received his MFA in
Acting from the Alabama Shakespeare
Festival and is a proud alumnus of
Dell’Arte and Cornell University. Much
love to Jocelyn and Gwen.
TRAVIS LELAND
(Ben) was last seen at
TheatreWorks as Frank
Churchill in Jane
Austen’s EMMA and
in the New Works
Festival readings of
Norman Rockwell’s
America, The Giver,
and as an understudy for Fly By Night.
Past regional and other credits include:
Merrily We Roll Along (Wallis Annenberg,
dir. Michael Arden), Forever Plaid
(International City Theatre), Joe Hardy in
Damn Yankees (Cabrillo Music Theatre),
Les Misérables (Musical Theatre West),
Nightmare Alley (Geffen Playhouse),
Adding Machine: A Musical (Odyssey
Theatre), and See What I Wanna See
(UCLA). Mr. Leland lives in Los Angeles
and is a cast member of Frozen–Live at
the Hyperion at Disney’s California
Adventure. He is pursuing film and TV
work, as well as making films with Bay
Area company Leland Productions.
Graduate of AMDA and UCLA.
Instagram: @tleland20
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Seussical (Horton), The Little Mermaid Jr.
(Flounder), and The Lion King Jr. (Simba).
JAKE MILLER (David
understudy) is excited
to be making his debut
performance with
TheatreWorks. He has
performed with San
Jose Children’s Musical
Theater in Willy Wonka
(Augustus Gloop), A
Christmas Carol (Scrooge age 12), and
Crazy for You (Jimmy). He has also performed at Alta Vista Elementary School in
KYRA MILLER
(Rebecca) is thrilled to
be making her
TheatreWorks debut.
Born and raised in New
York, she is the granddaughter of Jewish
refugees from Eastern
Europe. Credits
include: The Time of Your Life (Seattle
Rep and ACT), The Light in the Piazza
CAITLIN O’LEARY
(Rosa) is thrilled to be
back at TheatreWorks,
this time in a featured
role. She was last seen
on the TheatreWorks
stage in the ensemble
of Sweeney Todd.
Regional credits include
Sweet Charity (Helene) with Hillbarn,
Ragtime (Emma Goldman) and 9 to 5:
The Musical (Violet) with Children’s
Musical Theatre Marquee Productions,
Merrily We Roll Along (Gussie) with Pinole
Community Playhouse, and Anyone Can
Whistle (Cora Hoover Hooper) with
Masquers Playhouse. Ms. O’Leary
graduated with a BA in Theatre, emphasis
in Musical Theatre, from Cal State East
Bay, and is a proud recipient of the Carol
Channing Friends of the Arts Scholarship,
as well as an inaugural member of
TheatreWorks’ Artistic Engagement
Apprenticeship Program. She would like
to thank her greatest support system,
MDBKA.
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Live:
(Philadelphia Theater Company), A
Chorus Line (5th Avenue Theatre),
Biography (Pearl Theater), The Man of La
Mancha (New Orleans, Big Easy Award),
and The Immigrant (Westport Country
Playhouse), among others. Kyra made her
Joe’s Pub debut with her piece Chosen in
2014, with Matt Ray on piano. Her newest
piece of writing, Bridge & Tunnel
Troubadour (about Bruce Springsteen and
Billy Joel) debuted at Pangea in NYC,
November 2016, directed by Barb Jungr.
She is the narrator of several audiobooks.
MFA: Acting, University of Washington.
Proud member AEA.
BENJAMIN PITHER
(Homesick Immigrant)
makes his TheatreWorks
mainstage debut.
Regional: 1776 at
American Conservatory
Theater (Joseph
Hewes); All Shook Up
(Dennis) and Lucky Stiff
(Vinnie) at Center REPertory Company;
The Meshuga Nutcracker! (Rabbi Motke) at
the American Jewish University through
Guggenheim Entertainment, to be broadcast in theatres nationwide next December.
Local credits include: 1776 (John Adams)
and The Music Man (Marcellus, Shellie
Award) at Contra Costa Musical Theatre;
The Who’s Tommy (Captain Walker) at
OMG, I Love That Show!; and The Wiz
(Lion) and Seussical (Horton) at Berkeley
Playhouse. Additional appearances with
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California
Shakespeare Theater, 42nd Street Moon,
foolsFURY Theater, and Pacific Coast
Repertory Theatre. Numerous film credits,
Who’s Who
including a current ad running for Visit
California. Theatre Bay Area’s 2010 TITAN
Award winner, BA in Theatre Arts from
Brandeis University with Highest Honors.
DARLENE POPOVIC
(Rachel) has previously
appeared in
TheatreWorks’ No Way
To Treat a Lady, Into
the Woods, and
Another Midsummer’s
Night. Numerous
42nd Street Moon
productions include Minnie’s Boys; Out
of This World; Little Me; Carmelina; It’s a
Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman; and Sail
Away. She has presented her one-woman
shows in San Francisco; Los Angeles;
New York; Royal Albert Hall in the UK;
Lyceum Theatre in San Diego; Anchorage,
Alaska; and places in between. At New
Conservatory Theatre, Ms. Popovic
presented her Kander & Ebb one-person
show, How Lucky Can You Get. She
appeared recently at Feinstein’s at the
Nikko in Weapons of Mass Distraction.
She has studied theatre and voice at
Indiana University, American Conservatory
Theater, and the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music.
CHRISTOPHER REBER
(Jack) appeared in
TheatreWorks’ Cyrano
(Ragueneau) and Peter
and the Starcatcher
(Alf). New York credits
include Betty & the
Belrays (Joe) at Theater
for a New City and The
Time of Mendel’s Trouble (Murray) at the
Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row. Other
Bay Area appearances include Company
(Harry, BATC Nominee) and Jerusalem
(Wesley) at San Francisco Playhouse; A
Christmas Carol 2.0 at San Jose Repertory
Theatre and Next to Normal (Dan), Guys
and Dolls (Nathan Detroit), Pump Boys
and Dinettes (Jim), Arcadia (Chater), and
Gunmetal Blues (Sam) with Jewel Theatre
Company. His film and TV appearances
include The Tiger Woods Story and 18
Wheels of Justice. Mr. Reber earned his
MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School
and is a proud member of Actors Equity.
DANNY ROTHMAN
(Saul) is making his
TheatreWorks debut.
He has performed in
New York and around
the country in roles at
Tony Award-winning
venues such as The
Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse,
Goodspeed Musicals, Signature Theatre,
The Denver Center, St. Louis Repertory
Theatre, York Theatre Company, North
Shore Music Theatre, Fulton Theatre,
Stages St. Louis, Stamford Center for the
Arts, The MUNY, K.C. Starlight, Pittsburgh
CLO, and Hangar Theatre, among others.
He has been featured in multiple concerts
at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.
He received a Drammy Award for his
performance in Portland Center Stage’s
production of Ragtime. Debut album
”Next Stop” available on iTunes. BFA
Carnegie Mellon University. Love to SRE,
family and friends. dannyrothman.com
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (Lyrics) wrote the
music and lyrics for Broadway’s Wicked,
and also contributed music and/or lyrics
to Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show,
Working (which he also adapted/directed),
Rags, and Children of Eden. TheatreWorks
has produced seven of his shows, most
recently Snapshots in 2008. In film, he
worked on Enchanted, Pocahontas, and
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (which
later became a stage musical), and he
wrote the songs for the DreamWorks
animated feature The Prince of Egypt
(premiering in TW’s 2017/18 season). A
book about his career, Defying Gravity,
has been released by Applause Books.
Mr. Schwartz has been inducted into the
Theatre Hall of Fame and the Songwriters
Hall of Fame, and has been given a star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Awards
include three Academy Awards, and four
Grammy Awards.
JOSEPH STEIN (Book) was born in New
York and worked as a social worker before
becoming a playwright. He was part of the
writing team for television’s Your Show of
Shows, along with Woody Allen, Mel
Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Neil Simon. His
first musical was Plain and Fancy, a show
about the Amish community in Lancaster
County, PA. In 1964, he wrote the book for
Fiddler on the Roof, for which he won multiple awards, including two Tonys. He later
adapted it for film. Other Broadway credits include The Baker’s Wife (with Stephen
Schwartz), Enter Laughing, Rags (Tony
nom for Best Book of a Musical), and
Zorba (Tony nom for Best Musical), among
others. He was inducted into the Theatre
Hall of Fame in 2008. He passed away in
2010, at the age of 98.
CHARLES STROUSE (Music) is an
American composer and lyricist, whose
first Broadway musical was Bye Bye Birdie,
for which he won a Tony Award in 1960.
Other Broadway credits include All
American (book by Mel Brooks), featuring
the song ”Once Upon a Time,” recorded
by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and
others; Applause (starring Lauren Bacall,
Tony Award); Golden Boy; and It’s a Bird,
It’s a Plane, It’s Superman. In 1977, he
wrote the musical Annie, which won him
his third Tony Award and two Grammy
Awards. He crafted the film scores for
Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Night They
Raided Minsky’s (1968), and All Dogs
Go to Heaven (1989), among others.
He was nominated for a Tony Award for
Best Original Score for Rags. He also
writes chamber music, piano concertos,
and opera.
ROBERT KELLEY (Director) Please refer
to bio on page 21.
FUMIKO BIELEFELDT (Costume
Designer) has designed over 60 productions for TheatreWorks, including Daddy
Long Legs, Cyrano, Jane Austen’s EMMA,
Fallen Angels, Sweeney Todd, Silent Sky,
Little Women, Being Earnest, 33
Variations, Sense and Sensibility, Snow
Falling on Cedars, The Light in the Piazza,
Twentieth Century, and Emma, which
traveled to Cincinnati Playhouse in the
Park and the Repertory Theatre of St.
Louis. Her designs have appeared in the
Bay Area at American Conservatory
Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, Cal
Shakes, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre
Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre,
and The Eureka Theatre, among others.
She graduated from Waseda University
(Tokyo) and studied costume design at
Stanford. Ms. Bielefeldt has received
many design awards, including the 2004
Barbara Bladen Porter Special Award,
Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards,
Dean Goodman Choice Awards, and
Back Stage West Garland Award.
PAMILA Z. GRAY (Lighting Designer)
designed TheatreWorks’ Confederates,
Cyrano, Once on This Island, Sense and
Sensibility, The Light in the Piazza,
Tinyard Hill, Baby Taj, My Ántonia, Kept,
and A Civil War Christmas. Her work on
Bingo! The Musical was seen in Chicago,
Ft. Lauderdale, and the Bay Area’s Center
REPertory Company. Her designs have
also been seen in Los Angeles, Portland,
Sacramento, Houston, Dallas, and
Washington, DC. She has won 7 Bay Area
Theatre Critics Circle Awards including
her TheatreWorks designs for Grey
Gardens, Floyd Collins, Cabaret, and
Almost September, which also garnered a
Bay Area Drama-Logue Award. She has
won four Dean Goodman Awards, including both Ragtime and The Cripple of
Inishmaan, at TheatreWorks. Ms. Gray is a
graduate of Northwestern University.
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DOTTIE LESTER-WHITE (Choreographer)
choreographed TheatreWorks’ Peter and
the Starcatcher and contributed to Marry
Me a Little. She performed on Broadway
in Katharine Hepburn’s Coco, Ruby
Keeler’s No No Nanette, and New York
City Center’s production of Carnival.
National Tours include Hello Dolly;
Cabaret; and No, No, Nanette. Ms.
Lester-White’s has also choreographed
productions for American Musical Theatre
of San Jose (Singin’ in the Rain, The
Sound of Music, The Phantom of the
Opera, Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof,
Children of Eden, and the American premiere of The Three Musketeers); San Jose
Stage Company (Ug The Musical,
Urinetown, Beehive, Altar Boyz, and The
Great American Trailer Park Musical); and
Prather Entertainment Group (South
Pacific, Showboat, Will Rogers Follies,
Funny Girl, Hello Dolly, Miss Saigon, My
Fair Lady, Oliver, Christmas Carol, and
Guys & Dolls).
UTAH
FEST
WILLIAM LIBERATORE (Musical Director)
is TheatreWorks’ Resident Musical
Director and has conducted over 35
shows, including The Life of the Party,
Jane Austen’s EMMA, Sweeney Todd,
Once on This Island (2014 TBA Award),
Little Women, Big River, The Secret
Garden, A Christmas Memory, Crowns,
Jane Eyre, Ragtime, and Pacific
Overtures. He was Musical Director at
American Musical Theatre of San Jose,
conducting over 30 shows including
Flower Drum Song, Gypsy, A Chorus Line,
42nd Street, Follies, and Children of
Eden. He has won Bay Area Theatre
Critics Circle Awards for A Little Night
Music, South Pacific, and Damn Yankees
(AMTSJ), and Bat Boy: The Musical; Into
the Woods; Emma; Caroline, or Change;
and The Light in the Piazza (TheatreWorks).
He is also the director of the awardwinning Gunn High School Choirs.
RANDALL K. LUM (Stage Manager) has
stage managed TheatreWorks’ Outside
Mullingar, Confederates, The Velocity of
Autumn, Jane Austen’s EMMA, The
Country House, Fallen Angels, The Lake
Effect, Peter and the Starcatcher, Water
by the Spoonful, Marry Me a Little, Once
on This Island, Little Women, Time Stands
Still, and Other Desert Cities. Other credits
include five years at Oregon Shakespeare
Festival (Equivocation; American Night:
The Ballad of San Juan Jose; Dead Man’s
Cell Phone; Ruined; The Unfortunates),
Denver Center Theatre Company, La Jolla
Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The
Old Globe, American Conservatory
Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre,
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California Shakespeare Theatre, Seattle
Repertory Theatre, Laguna Playhouse,
Pasadena Playhouse, and 18 seasons and
over 90 productions as Resident Stage
Manager at South Coast Repertory (Wit,
Intimate Apparel, Three Days of Rain, Blue
Door, The Further Adventures of Hedda
Gabler, Kimberly Akimbo).
LESLIE MARTINSON (Casting Director) is
TheatreWorks’ Associate Artistic Director
and Casting Director. Her many
TheatreWorks directing credits include
Calligraphy, Proof, the regional premiere
of Water by the Spoonful, and the West
Coast premieres of The Pitmen Painters
and Superior Donuts. A graduate of
Occidental College, she has been a
Watson Fellow in political theatre, a
member of Lincoln Center Director’s Lab,
a member of the La MaMa International
Directing Symposium, and has served on
Theatre Bay Area’s Theatre Services
Committee since 2002. Silicon Valley
Creates named her an Arts Laureate for
artistic achievement and community
impact. She is a Performance Coach in
leadership communication training with
Stand and Deliver Group.
JEFF MOCKUS (Sound Designer)
designed TheatreWorks’ Crimes of the
Heart, Daddy Long Legs, tokyo fish story,
Jane Austen’s EMMA, Sweeney Todd,
Once on This Island, Silent Sky, Little
Women, Being Earnest, Big River, Of
Mice and Men, The Secret Garden, Fly
By Night, Superior Donuts, and [title of
show]. His recent work includes Center
REPertory Company’s Women In Jeopardy;
The Western Stage’s Carrie: The Musical;
and Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s As You
Like It and The Merry Wives Of Windsor.
Mr. Mockus served as Resident Sound
Designer for San Jose Repertory Theatre
on over 70 productions. He has credits
with ACT, Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes,
Marin Theatre Company, Asian American
Theater Company, Sledgehammer
Theatre, San Diego Rep, PCPA Theaterfest,
A Contemporary Theatre, Huntington
Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, and
Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
KIMBERLY MOHNE HILL (Dialect Coach)
has served as Dialect Coach on over 25
shows for TheatreWorks, including
Outside Mullingar, Triangle, Sweeney
Todd, Water by the Spoonful, 33
Variations, The Pitmen Painters, Snow
Falling on Cedars, The North Pool,
Doubt, Theophilus North, Arcadia, Jane
Eyre, Baby Taj, and Anna in the Tropics.
An Associate Professor in Acting at Santa
Clara University, she continues to teach,
direct, and coach throughout the Bay
Area. Recent directing credits include
When the Rain Stops Falling at Dragon
JOE RAGEY (Scenic Designer) has
designed over 60 shows for
TheatreWorks over the last 30 years.
Some of his favorite TheatreWorks
designs include Little Women, Big River,
Sense and Sensibility, The 39 Steps, A
Christmas Memory, Merrily We Roll
Along, Baby Taj, My Ántonia, Jane Eyre,
Peter Pan, Triumph of Love, You Can’t
Take it With You, Equus, Conversations
With My Father, Nagasaki Dust, Honor
Song for Crazy Horse, La Bete, and
Pacific Overtures. He has received over
a dozen Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle
Awards, LA Drama-Logue Awards and
Dean Goodman Choice Awards for
shows he designed for TheatreWorks.
EMILY ANDERSON WOLF (Assistant
Stage Manager) has been the Assistant
Stage Manager for TheatreWorks’
Cyrano, Jane Austen’s EMMA, Triangle,
Fire on the Mountain, Peter and the
Starcatcher, Sweeney Todd, The Hound
of the Baskervilles, Little Women, Other
Desert Cities, and Wild with Happy. She
was also the Assistant Stage Manager
for threesixty Entertainment’s First
National Tour of Peter Pan; Journey to
the West at the New York Musical
Theatre Festival; and Flower Drum Song,
Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls,
The King and I, and Gypsy with American
Musical Theatre of San Jose. Ms. Wolf
also works as a stagehand throughout the
San Francisco Bay Area and is a proud
member of the International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees. She holds a
BA in Theatre, Cum Laude from Mount
Holyoke College.
PHIL SANTORA (Managing Director)
joined TheatreWorks in 2007. He has
served as Managing Director of Northlight
Theatre (Chicago) and Georgia Shakespeare
Festival (Atlanta), as well as Development
Director for Great Lakes Theatre Festival
(Cleveland) and George Street Playhouse
(New Brunswick). He holds an MFA in
Theatre Administration from the Yale
School of Drama and a BA in Drama from
Duke University. He is Vice President of
the National Alliance for Musical Theatre
Board. Prior board service includes the
League of Chicago Theatres, Atlanta
Coalition of Theatres, and the executive
committee of the League of Resident
Theatres (LORT). He was named 2000’s
Best Arts Administrator by Atlanta
Magazine and received the Atlanta Arts
and Business Council’s 1998 ABBY Award
for Arts Administrator.
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premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns.
She has published three books with Smith
& Kraus: Great Scenes in Dialect for
Young Actors and Monologues in Dialect
for Young Actors, Volumes I and II.
Midsummer Night; Sunday in the Park
with George; Jane Eyre; and Caroline, or
Change; and Back Stage West Garland
Awards for his direction of Side Show
and Sunday in the Park with George.
He recently directed Daddy Long Legs,
Outside Mullingar, Cyrano, Jane Austen’s
EMMA, The Country House, Fallen Angels,
Peter and the Starcatcher, Sweeney Todd,
Marry Me a Little, and Once on This Island.
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ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) is a
Bay Area native and Stanford University
graduate. He founded TheatreWorks in
1970 and has directed over 175
TheatreWorks productions, including
many world and regional premieres. He
has received the Silicon Valley Arts
Council’s Legacy Laureate Award; the Bay
Area Theatre Critics Circle Paine
Knickerbocker Award and Jerry Friedman
Award for Lifetime Achievement; BATCC
Awards for Outstanding Direction for his
productions of The Hound of the
Baskervilles; Into the Woods; Pacific
Overtures; Rags; Sweeney Todd; Another
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TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Contributors
THE PRODUCER CIRCLE
TheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may select
a production to follow from ”page to stage” by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits.
Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected] for more information
Visionary Producers
Ann S. Bowers
Dr. & Mrs. W. M. Coughran, Jr.
Anne & Larry Hambly
The Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell
Foundation
Ray & Meredith Rothrock
TheatreWorks Board Emeritus
Cynthia Sears
Rick Stern &
Nancy Ginsburg Stern
Lynn Szekely-Goode &
Dr. Richard Goode
Mark & Teri Vershel
Lisa Webster & Ted Semple
Gayla Lorthridge Wood &
Walt Wood
Executive Producers
Producers
($25,000 to $49,999)
($10,000 to $24,999)
Bruce Cozadd
Yogen & Peggy Dalal
Frances Escherich
The John & Marcia Goldman
Foundation
William Green
Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally
Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler
Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz
Mendelsohn Family Fund
Morgan Family Foundation
Anonymous
Marsha & Bill Adler
Lois & Dr. Edward Anderson
Paul Asente & Ron Jenks
Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer
Lucy Berlin & Glenn Trewitt
Bredt Family Fund at Truckee
Tahoe Community Foundation
Steve & Gayle Brugler
Jayne Booker
Steven & Karin Chase
($50,000 and above)
45 for 45Circle
TheatreWorks 45 for 45 Circle members have made a multi-year
pledge of $45,000 or more to honor Robert Kelley and
TW’s 45th Anniversary. Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or
[email protected] for more information.
Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer
Ann S. Bowers
Suzanne Martin &
John Doyle
Gayle & Steve Brugler
Mendelsohn Family Fund
Bruce Cozadd
Rebecca & James Morgan
Gordon & Carolyn Davidson
Cynthia Sears
Sylvia & Ron Gerst
Barbara Shapiro &
Anne & Larry Hambly
Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally
Julie Kaufman
Mark Lewis
Rick Stern &
Nancy Ginsburg Stern
Tom & Sharon Kelley
Mark & Teri Vershel
Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler
Lisa Webster
Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz
Watkins Family Charitable
Dorothy Lazier
Trust
Mark & Debra Leslie
Carol Watts
Carole & Michael Marks
Janne & Bill Wissel
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George & Susan Crow
Gordon & Carolyn Davidson
Ranae DeSantis
John & Susan Diekman
Susan Fairbrook
Dan & Catharine Garber
Sylvia & Ron Gerst
Emeri & Brad Handler
William J. Higgs
Larry Horton & George Wilson
Charlotte Jacobs &
Roderick Young
Leigh & Roy Johnson
Mike & Martha Kahn
Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein
Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro
Tom & Sharon Kelley
Robin & Don Kennedy
Dick & Cathy Lampman
Dorothy Lazier
Debra Leslie
Mark Lewis & Barbara Shapiro
Marks Family Foundation
THE INNER CIRCLE
The Marmor Foundation/
Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor
Gillian & Tom Moran
Leslie & Douglas Murphy-Chutorian
Yvonne & Mike Nevens
Richard Partridge
Adam Samuels
Philip Santora & Cristian Asher
Dorothy Saxe
Loren & Shelley Saxe
Martha Seaver & Scott Walecka
Leonard Shustek & Donna Dubinsky
Larry & Barbara Sonsini
Janet Strauss & Jeff Hawkins
Debra Summers & John Baker
Holly Ward & Scott Spector
Watkins Family Charitable Fund
Carol Watts
Harriet & Frank Weiss
Bart & Nancy Westcott
Jane Weston & J. Horn
Bill & Janne Wissel
Jayne Booker, Chair
Members of The Inner Circle contribute a minimum of $1,500 each season and enjoy
a variety of benefits including priority subscription seating, VIP ticket purchases and
exchanges, access to house seats on Broadway, and invitations to Meet-the-Artists
events. Contact Hans Cardenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more
information.
Associate Producers
($6,000 to $9,999)
Anonymous (2)
Katherine Bazak & John Dohner
David & Ann Crockett
John & Wynne Dobyns
David E. Gold &
Irene Blumenkranz
Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke
Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia
Lisa & Marc Jones
Sue & Dick Levy
Rob & Ann Marangell
Richard Niblock
Bill & Janet Nicholls
Ron & Lila Schmidt
Directors
($3,000 to $5,999)
Carol Bacchetti
Paul & Debbie Baker
Joel & Wendy Bartlett
Jim Bassett & Lily Hurlimann
The BelleJAR Foundation
Steven & Michele Boal
Marah & Gene Brehaut
Bruce & Gail Chizen
Dean & Wilma Chu
Nancy Mahoney Cohen
Diane & Howard Crittenden
Randy Curry & Kay Simon
Richard & Josephine Ferrie
Gayle Flanagan
Lynda & Steve Fox
Peter & Rose Friedland
Terry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of
Robert Kelley
Jerre & Nancy Hitz
D & J Hodgson Family Foundation
Barbara Jones
Jack Jorgenson
Louise Karr
Hal & Iris Korol
John & Catharine Kristian
Bill & Terry Krivan
Arlene & Jack Leslie
Janet Littlefield & William Coggshall
Malcolm MacNaughton
Suzanne Martin & John Doyle
The Merrimac Fund
Buff & Cindy Miller
Myrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD
Eileen Nelson & Hugh Franks
Margo & Roy Ogus
Joe, Nancy, Sam & Sara Ragey
Orli & Zack Rinat
Tom Rindfleisch & Carli Scott
Paul & Sheri Robbins
Edward & Jane Seaman
Bart Sears
Ron & Ellen Shulman
Joyce Reynolds Sinclair &
Dr. Gerald M. Sinclair
Ellen & Ed Smith
Sheri Sobrato
Lisa & Matthew Sonsini
Susanne Stevens & Monte Mansir
Catherine & Jeff Thermond
Odette & Ewart Thomas
Brent & Michèle Townshend
Tzipor Ulman & Dan Rubinstein
Griff & Lynne Weber
Mark & Sheila Wolfson
Players
($1,500 to $2,999)
Anonymous (6)
Marc & Sophia Abramson
Douglas & Loretta Allred
Mary Ann Anthony & Ken Fowkes
Peter Bacchetti in memory of
Ray Bacchetti
Lisa Backus & Anthony Montefusco
Shirley Bailey
Doug & Marie Barry
Pat Bashaw & Gene Segre
Jane Baxter & Steve Beck
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Beach
Betsy & George Bechtel
Don & Deborah Bennett
Dr. Barbara L. Bessey in memory
of Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin
Caroline Beverstock
Charlotte & David Biegelsen
Wendell & Celeste Birkhofer
Robert Block
Neil & Karen Bonke
Bob & Martha Bowden
Lauren & Darrell Boyle
Michael & Leslie Braun
Kathy Bridgman
Ellen & Marc Brown
Marda Buchholz & Marcie Brown
Eric Butler MD &
Suzanne Rocca-Butler
Jeff & Deborah Byron
Calvin & Jennifer Carr
Ron & Sally Carter
Josephine Chien &
Stephen Johnson
Lee & Amy Christel
Larry & Sara Condit
Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny in
memory of Milt, Michael, & Jack
Jeff & Amy Crowe
Redwood Serenity Fund
Richard & Anita Davis
Scott & Edie DeVine
Douglas Dexter
Dennis & Cindy Dillon
Carl & Meredith Ditmore
Monica Donovan
Pamela Dougherty
Jack & Marcia Edelstein
Mr. & Mrs. Robert English
Sue & Jeff Epstein
Patrick Farris
Sheldon Finkelstein &
Beatriz V. Infante
Kathleen Fitts
Peggy Woodford Forbes &
Harry Bremond
Diane & Bob Frankle
Barbara Franklin & Bernie Loth
Francis Franklin
Jay & Joyce Friedrichs
Markus Fromherz & Heike Schmitz
Marilee Gardner
Nancy & Charles Geschke
Ciro & Eileen Giammona
Kenneth & Susan Greathouse
Renee & Mark Greenstein
Mary Ann & John Grilli
Nancy & Bill Grove
Barbara Gunther
Peter & Laura Haas
Jim & Linda Hagan
Kovin Hagan
Elaine & Eric Hahn
Russell & Debbie Hall
Jane Hamlin & Steven Schow
Helen Helson
David & Noreen Henig
Craig & Deborah Hoffman
Anne & Emma Grace Holmes
Susan M. Huch
Perry A. Irvine &
Linda Romley-Irvine
Sudhanshu & Lori Jain
Nancy Lee Jalonen
Laurie T Jarrett
Mary Louise Johnson
Claiborne S. Jones
Hilary Jones*
Craig & Gina Jorasch Family Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Abdo Kadifa
Thomas Kailath & Anu Maitra
Ruth Ann & David Keefer
Cynthia & Bert Keely
Arthur Keller
Chris Kenrick
Liz & Rick Kniss
Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz
Jim & Marilyn Lattin
Marcia & Henry Lawson
Elizabeth Leep
Linda Lester
Donald & Rachel Levy
Stephen & Nancy Levy
Robert J. Lipshutz &
Nancy Wong, MD
Drs. John & Penny Loeb
Tom & Sally Logothetti
Nancy Madison & Michael Price
Richard & Charlene Maltzman in
memory of Carol Adler
Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan
Kevin McCoy
Dave & Carolyn McLoughlin
Rani Menon & Keith Amidon
Shauna Mika & Rick Callison
Sondra Murphy & Jeremy Platt
Melinda Nasif & Michael Scruggs
James Niemasik
Lynn & Susan Orr
Ellice & Jim Papp
David Pasta in memory of Gloria
J.A. Guth
Beth & Charlie Perrell
Carrie Perzow & Von Leirer
John & Valerie Poggi
Diane Posnak
Susan Rabin & David Buchanan
In memory of Pearl Reimer
Karen & John Reis
Eddie Reynolds & Ed Jones
Edward & Verne Rice
Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz
Alicia Rojas & Howard Lyons
Betsy Boardman Ross
Robert & Suzanne Rubenstein
Alan Russell & Fred Thiemann
Ellen & Jerry Saliman
Joseph & Sandy Santandrea
Charles G. Schulz & Claire E. Taylor
Carolyn Schutz*
Pamela & Rick Shames
Jack & Dorothy Shannahan
Sarah Shema & Neyssa Marina
Marge & Jim Shively
Carolyn & Rick Silberman
Gerry Sipes
Pamela Smith
Todd Smith
Jim Stephens & Abraham Brown
Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy
The Sher-Right Fund
Jerry Strom & Marilyn Austin
Jan Thomson & Roy Levin
Helaina Titus
Ted & Betty Ullman
Les & Judy Vadasz
Robert J. Van der Leest, MD
Mimi & Jim Van Horne
Thomas Vogelsang
Margaret & Curt Weil
Paul & Barbara Weiss
Elissa Wellikson & Tim Shroyer
Arlene & Bruce S. White
Karen Carlson White
Ken & Ruth Wilcox
Bruce & Elinor Wilner
Lynn Wilson & Howard Roberts
Neil & Ann Wolff
Judith & Peter Wolken
Bill & Sue Worthington
Linda and Joel Zizmor
Benefactors
($750 to $1,499)
Anonymous • Sally Abel • Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Benjamin • Fumiko & Carl Bielefeldt • Sharon & John Brauman • James B. Brennock • Marni Brown & Gabe Garcia • H.
Hans Cardenas • Robert A. Cook • Ron & Marion Dickel • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Wesley & Dianne Gardiner • Joseph & Sondra Glider • Jack & Joan Gorham • Sue
& Bill Gould • James Heeger & Daryl Messinger • Susan Heller • Mitzi Henderson • Dean & Patricia Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee • David & Joyce Kim • Brian
Kleis & Jim Lock • Michael & Ina Korek • Allan & Linda Kramer • George & Ann Limbach • Alexander & Anne Long • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Katherine Mason •
Anne B. McCarthy • Nancy & Patrick McGaraghan • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Annie Nunan* • Susan Rinne
• Mary Rodgers in memory of David Rodgers • In memory of Bridget Ross • Tom & Nan Ryan • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Jill Sagner & Steve Lipman • Emil & Barbara
Sarpa • David & Harriet Schnur • Perry Segal • Denise & Jim Stanford • Polly Taylor in memory of Ted Taylor • The Fred Terman & Nan Borreson Fund • Marilyn Tinderholt
• Gary & Cathy Walz
Contributions listed were received between 02/22/2016 and 02/22/2017. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons.
For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Sarah Benjamin at 650.463.7132 or [email protected].
* Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.
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VISIONARY SPONSORS
CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS
Foundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12
students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits.
Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected] for more information.
Visionary Sponsors
Sponsors
Friends
($50,000 and above)
($10,000 to $14,999)
($1,000 to $2,499)
The Garden Court Hotel*
The William & Flora Hewlett
Foundation
J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines*
The Mercury News*
Microsoft Corporation
The David & Lucile Packard
Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Sobrato Philanthropies*
Adams Wine Group*
The Leonard C. & Mildred F.
Ferguson Foundation
Harrell Remodeling
Heising-Simons Foundation
Hengehold Motor Company*
Anonymous
Applied Materials Excellence in the
Arts Grants, a program of
Silicon Valley Creates
ChaseVP*
The Dramatists Guild Fund
International ProInsurance Services LLC
Nikon Precision, Inc.
Regarding Arts
Presenting Sponsor
($25,000 to $49,999)
Avant! Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Sand Hill Foundation
Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry*
Supporting Sponsors
($15,000 to $24,999)
PRESENTING SPONSORS
Applied Materials
Carla Befera Public Relations*
Fenwick & West LLP
The Kimball Foundation
The Harold & Mimi Steinberg
Charitable Trust
Benefactors
($5,000 to $9,999)
Dodge & Cox Investment
Managers
Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable
Trusts
Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &
Rosati Foundation
Supporters
($2,500 to $4,999)
Matching Gifts
Many companies will double or triple their
employees’ contributions to nonprofits.
It’s a great way to make your gift to
TheatreWorks go further at no extra cost.
Call 650.463.7155 for more information.
* Indicates donors whose gifts include
in-kind goods or services.
Avidbank
Cooley LLP*
Los Altos Community
Foundation
S. H. Cowell Foundation
The Morrison & Foerster
Foundation
Palo Alto Weekly*
Perkins Coie LLP
ENDOWMENT FUND
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley thanks the following lead donors for their extraordinarily generous Endowment gifts.
SUPPORTING SPONSORS
Marsha & Bill Adler • William C. Anderson • Ann S. Bowers • Polly & Tom Bredt • Bruce Cozadd & Sharon
Hoffman • Peter & Melanie Cross • Yogen & Peggy Dalal • Carl H. Feldman • Kathryn Green • The John &
Marcia Goldman Foundation • Emeri & Brad Handler • Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts • Charles & Roberta
Katz Family Foundation • Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan • The Rathmann Family Foundation • Eddie
Reynolds • John & Diane Savage • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Lynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard Goode
FUTUREWORKS
FutureWorks members have made an estate gift from a will or living trust, a beneficiary designation in an IRA, a gift of life
insurance, a gift that returns lifetime income, or another planned gift. Contact [email protected] for more information.
SPONSORS
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Anonymous (6) • Marc Abramson • The Estate of William C. Anderson • Ray & Carol Bacchetti • Elaine Baskin &
Ken Krechmer • Pauline Berkow & Ronald Kauffman • David & Lauren Berman • Jayne Booker • James & Diane
Bordoni • Ann S. Bowers • Steve & Gayle Brugler • Carol Buchser • The estate of Cathryn Z. Cannon • Eleanor
W. Caughlan • Steven & Karin Chase • Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny • Bruce Cozadd • G eorge & Susan Crow •
John & Wynne Dobyns • John & Linda Elman • Frances Escherich • Susan Fairbrook • Harriett Ferziger • Gayle
Flanagan • Carole & David Florian • Peter & Rose Friedland • Terry & Carolyn Gannon • Ed Glazier • Marcia &
John Goldman • Kathryn Green • Lorie Griswold • Maureen Hoberg • Sharon Hoffman • Anne & Emma Grace
Holmes • Kenny Hom • Sam & Elaine Housten • Susan M. Huch • Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia • John W. &
Nancy Lee Jalonen • Barry Lee Johnson • Stanley Earl Johnson • Claiborne S. Jones • Mike & Martha Kahn • Dr.
Steve Kelem • Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro • Jane Kos • Bill & Terry Krivan • Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler • Woof
Kurtzman • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mangelsdorf • Steve Mannshardt • Monte Mansir • Suzanne Martin & John Doyle
• Leigh Metzler & Jim McVey • Cynthia S. Miller • Tami & Craney Ogata • Doris Gottsegen-Reiner • Karen & John
Reis • Eddie Reynolds • Betsy Boardman Ross • Adam Samuels • Philip Santora & Cristian Asher • Dorothy Saxe
• Loren & Shelley Saxe • Edward & Jane Seaman • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair •
Gerry Sipes • Carol Snell & Mindy Rauch • Esther Sobel • Jim & Mary Southam • Cherrill M. Spencer • Rick Stern
& Nancy Ginsburg Stern • Susanne Stevens • Mark Stevenson • Laurie Waldman • Carol Watts • Karen Carlson
White • Renee & Herman Winick
TheatreWorks SV Staff
Artistic Director Robert Kelley Managing Director Phil Santora
ARTISTIC
SCENERY
DEVELOPMENT
MARKETING
Associate Artistic Director
Leslie Martinson
Technical Director
Frank Sarmiento
Director of Development
Ronnie Plasters
Director of Marketing
Lorraine VanDeGraaf-Rodriguez
Director of New Works
Giovanna Sardelli
Lead Scenic Artist / Craftsman
Tom Langguth
Art Director
Ev Shiro
Company Manager/
Casting Associate
Jeffrey Lo
Master Carpenter
Bill Roberts
Associate Director of
Individual Giving
H. Hans Cárdenas
FutureWorks Fellow
Akemi Okamura
Resident Musical Director
William Liberatore
New Works Reading Committee
Bill Adler, Cristian Asher,
Elaine Baskin, Doug Brook,
Sue Krumbein, Shareen Merriam,
Patty Reinhart, Cindi Sears,
Scott Walecka
Artistic Intern
Grace Hoffman
PRODUCTION,
LIGHTING, & SOUND
Production Manager
David A. Milligan
Assistant Production Manager
Elizar Ivanov
Operations Manager/
Master Electrician
Steven B. Mannshardt
Resident Lighting Designer
Steven B. Mannshardt
Production Coordinator
Karen Szpaller
Electricians
Kat Arguello, Steven Fetter,
Carolyn Guggemos, A.C. Hay,
Cosmo Hom, Dan Kaminski,
Sean Kramer, Nick Kumamoto,
Harris Meyers, Gary Nelson,
Jeff Spackman, Jarku Virtanen,
Jackson Wijtman
Load-in / Strike Volunteers
Rick Amerson, Ed Hunter
Lighting, Sound, &
Properties Intern
Noah Listgarten
Carpenters
Esteban Calvillo, Andrew Clark,
Rodrigo Frausto, Henry Ing,
Patrick McKenna
PROPERTIES
Properties Master
Christopher Fitzer
Properties Stock Manager
Alfred Rudolph
Properties Artisan
Justine Law
COSTUMES
Costume Director
Jill Bowers
Assistant Costumer
Noah Marin
Lead Cutter/Draper
Yen La Wong
Costume Rentals Manager
Conni Edwards
Wardrobe Manager
Sarah Hatton
Assistant Cutter/First Hand
Michelle Earney
Stitchers
Nhan Thi Luu, Son Pham
Resident Wigmaster
Sharon Ridge
Hair Stylist
Jeanne Naritomi
Events Manager
Jodi Corwin
Development Operations Manager
Sarah Benjamin
EDUCATION
Director of Education
Amy Cole-Farrell
Associate Education Director
Katie Bartholomew
Education Associate /
Master Teaching Artist
Meghan C. Hakes
Master Teaching Artist
Piper LaGrelius
Teaching Artists
Jake Arky
Lauren Berman
Brittany Caine
Maggie Cole
Jennifer Debevec
Caitlin Evenson
Mary Kalita
Fredrika Keefer
Josh Marx
Lauren Mayer
Jennifer Mitchell
Michileen Oberst
Kelly Rinehart
Martin Rojas Dietrich
Cassie Rosenbrock
Elissa Stebbins
Kristina Sutherland
Amanda Wallace
Maryssa Wanlass
Associate Director of Marketing
Syche Phillips
Box Office Manager
Alix Josefski
Marketing & Communications
Manager
Heather Orth
Digital Media Manager
Jennifer Gosk
Tessitura Specialist
Andrew Skelton
Ticket Services Supervisor
Michelle Skinner
Patron Services Coordinator
Tracy Hayden
Ticket Services Representatives
Andrée Beals, Laura Henricksen,
Margaret Purdy
Graphics Assistant
Katie Dai
Public Relations & Advertising
Carla Befera & Co.
Carla Befera, Courtney Heimbuck
Company Photographers
Kevin Berne
Alessandra Mello
ADMINISTRATIVE
General Manager
Scott DeVine
Database Administrator
Ken Maitz
Bookkeeper
Jason Hyde
Staff Accountant
Barbara Sloss
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Front Desk Volunteers
Joan Doherty, Cindi Sears
Resident Stage Manager
Randall K. Lum
And thanks to our fabulous
TheatreWorkers!
RAGS ADDITIONAL STAFF
Assistant Director Carolyn Murray
Fight Choreographer Kit Wilder
Studio Teacher Dave Price,
On Location Education
Light Board Operator Justin Buchs
Follow Spot Operators
Shae Burnette, Samantha Schroeter
Sound Engineer Quinn Pierron
Backstage Audio Noah Listgarten
Show Carpenter Megan Hall
Properties Runner Jessie Cagliero
Dressers Anna Chalmers,
Andy Sandoval, Miranda Steinberg
Child Wranglers Emily Liberatore,
Marissa Mendoza, Lia Metz,
Jennifer Vaillancourt
Open Captioning Michelle Skinner
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CONTACT US
GROUP SAVINGS
LOST AND FOUND
Mailing Address:
PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458
Phone: 650.463.1950 Fax: 650.463.1963
Email: [email protected]
Savings are available for groups of 8 or more.
For more information, call Michelle Skinner at
650.463.7115 or email [email protected].
For Mountain View Center for the Performing
Arts lost and found, please call 650.903.6568.
For Lucie Stern Theatre lost and found, please
call 650.463.1960.
TICKET SERVICES
Tickets to all TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
performances are sold through the TheatreWorks
Silicon Valley Box Office
Hours: Monday–Friday, 11am–6pm;
Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm
Phone: 650.463.1960
Tickets may also be obtained through the
Mountain View Center Ticket Office
Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, noon–6pm
Phone: 650.903.6000
WALK-UP TICKET SERVICES
The walk-up ticket office will open one hour
prior to each performance.
PERFORMANCE TIMES
Wed, Thur, Fri Previews 8pm
Tuesday & Wednesday Eve 7:30pm
Thursday–Saturday Eve 8:00pm
Sunday Eve 7:00pm
Wednesday, Saturday, & Sunday Matinee 2:00pm
INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES
Starting at $32 (balcony).
Discounts available for Seniors, Educators, and
Patrons 35 & Under. For pricing, call
650.463.1960 or visit theatreworks.org.
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WHEELCHAIR SEATING
Seating is available for wheelchair patrons. Please
telephone the Ticket Office in advance so that
special arrangements may be made.
LISTENING SYSTEMS
Both theatres are equipped with listening
systems for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Please see the house manager for details.
AUDIO-CAPTIONING
Audio captioning for the visually impaired is
available at certain performances. Please call
650.463.1960 for details.
OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES
Open-captioned performances for
Rags: 4/23 at 2pm & 7pm, 4/26 at 2pm
Hershey Felder, BEETHOVEN: 6/25 at 2pm & 7pm,
6/28 at 2pm
For more information about open captioning,
please contact the box office at 650.463.1960
or [email protected].
LATE ARRIVALS
Latecomers will not be seated until appropriate
intervals, and may not be seated in their exact seat
locations until intermission.
PLEASE REMEMBER
There is no smoking in the theatres or lobbies.
Cameras and recording devices of any kind
are strictly prohibited. Neither food nor drink
is permitted in the theatres. Please ensure that
all electronic devices are set to the ”off”
position while you are in the theatre.
Children 5 and under are not permitted in
the theatre. Persons 14 and under must be
accompanied by an adult. Every person,
regardless of age, must have a ticket.
Schedules, shows, casts, and ticket prices are
subject to change.
Single ticket purchases are non-refundable, but
are exchangeable for $15 per ticket.
Some restrictions apply.
Visit theatreworks.org
for detailed information or to purchase tickets.
M
OUNTAIN VIEW CENTER
FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
MAILING ADDRESS
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
City of Mountain View
Post Office Box 7540, Mountain View, CA 94039-7540
TICKETS & INFORMATION
650.903.6000 (24 hours)
mvcpa.com
[email protected]
Ticket Office Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, noon to
6 pm, and one hour prior to event curtain time. Ticket
Services also features a telephone information hotline.
Ticket orders may be placed 24 hours a day.
Phone: 650-903-6000
Fax: 650-965-1727
GENERAL INFORMATION
500 Castro Street, Mountain View
Administrative Office
Phone: 650-903-6565
Fax: 650-962-9900
FIND OUT WHAT’S HAPPENING
To receive Preview Magazine by mail, call 650-903-6000.
Visit mvcpa.com for the latest information on events
at the Center and to sign up for eSpotlight to get the
special offers and event updates by email.
MainStage
REFUNDS
AND EXCHANGES
There are no refunds unless a performance is canceled
or rescheduled. Exchange policies vary and are set by the
presenter of each event. For more information, please call
Ticket Services at 650-903-6000.
LATE ARRIVALS
Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the producing
organization. We recommend that patrons arrive at the
Center a minimum of 20 minutes prior to curtain time.
If you are purchasing or picking up tickets, please allow
additional time. Our ticket office closes one half hour
after curtain time.
EMERGENCY NUMBER
Our House Manager has a cell phone (650-740-0093)
to receive emergency calls during performances.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
SecondStage
The Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts is fully
accessible. Patrons who require wheelchair seating or
other assistance may make arrangements with Ticket
Services at the time of ticket purchase 650-903-6000.
Notifying the Center in advance will make it possible to
better serve your needs. Assistive listening system
headsets are available in the lobby for performances.
You may also bring your own headphones or earbuds to
plug into a receiver to utillize the system. Audio described
services for patrons who are visually impaired are
available at some performances. Patrons who are hearing
impaired may request translation services (for information
call 650-903-6000). Assistive ambulatory devices will
be checked at the back of the theater unless the device
fits completely beneath the seats.
VOLUNTEER
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The Center owes a great deal of its success to its
dedicated volunteer staff who serve as Ushers, Art Docents
and Office Volunteers. Join us, support the arts and be a
part of the Center! For moreinformation, please call
650-903-6568.
BOOKING INFORMATION
The Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts’ three
theaters and support spaces may be booked for performing arts events, meetings, conferences and other events.
For booking information, please call 650-903-6556.
HOME COMPANIES
The Center is proud to serve as host to two Home
Companies: TheatreWorks and Peninsula Youth
Theatre. These arts organizations perform a significant
portion of their seasons in our theaters and contribute
to the overall success of the Center.
PLEASE NOTE
• All patrons, regardless of age, must have a ticket.
• Due to contract restrictions and the dangers posed
to performers, cameras and recording devices are
prohibited in the theaters during most events.
Unauthorized cameras and recording devices
will be removed and held by the Center until
the close of the performance.
• Please do not bring food or drink (except bottled
water) into the theaters.
• To avoid disruption of the performance, please set
pagers to vibrate and disengage alarmed watches
and cellular phones before entering the theater.
• Please become familiar with the exits. In an
emergency, listen for instructions from Center staff.
If instructed to do so, walk—do not run—to the exit.
In the case of an earthquake, remain seated, or
crouch below seats, then listen for instructions
from Center staff.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW CITY COUNCIL
Pat Showalter, Mayor • Ken Rosenberg, Vice Mayor
Christopher Clark • John Inks • Michael Kasperzak
John McAlister • Lenny Siegel
Dan Rich, City Manager
PERFORMING ARTS COMMITTEE
Raymond Chan • Carol Donahue
Ellen Murray • Daniel Palay
CENTER STAFF
The Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts is a
division of the City of Mountain View’s Community Services
Department, J.P. de la Montaigne, Director.
Executive Director W. Scott Whisler
Marketing & Public Relations Manager Shonda Ranson
Business Manager Cindy Miksa
Booking Coordinator Jenn Poret
Audience Services Manager Bernadette Fife
Technical Services Manager Steven Crandell
Ticket Services Director Liz Nelson
Senior Ticket Representatives
Morry Goldstein • Carolyn Marie Len
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