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Working on Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is a
privilege. Tony is a smart, well read, imaginative, passionate, and politically engaged playwright. Millennium
Approaches brought the world and characters of
the play into a crisis; in Perestroika the characters
wrestle with the past, their losses, and pain. Some are
defeated, but others find a sort of grace, as they begin
the painful process of change and become engaged in
rebuilding their lives and their world.
FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
BLANKA ZIZKA
Last year, the staff at the Wilma, like the characters
in Perestroika, had to deal with a great loss. With Jiri
Zizka’s death this January, the Wilma lost a founding
Artistic Director, who had the vision to bring the Wilma
to Broad Street, and whose productions were audaciously ambitious and visually spectacular. Jiri was a
dreamer who strived to make the impossible happen.
He was inventive and imaginative, and he was also
smart and cunning in looking for unorthodox ways to
realize his ideas.
Looking ahead, I want to find new ways for the Wilma
to honor that spirit of imagination and inventiveness. I
want to find ways that allow the Wilma time for artistic
evolution and experimentation. Two new projects mark
a beginning of this search. Over the next two years I
will be working with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Paula Vogel, the Wilma’s dramaturg Walter Bilderback,
vocal teacher Jean-René Toussaint, and a company
of actors, to create a piece about US veterans coming
home from the current US wars. This will be a completely new experiment where content and form will
be developed simultaneously.
In order to build a common vocabulary for actors who
perform at the Wilma, we are investing in the professional development of Philadelphia actors through a
series of workshops with internationally known master
teachers and directors. Actors, who are invited to take
part in the workshops are financially compensated for
their time, as actors of any resident company would
be. It’s my desire to create around the Wilma a fluid
company of actors with a common technique and
understanding of the process that I’m exploring at the
Wilma.
As the Angel announces to Prior Walter at the end of
Millennium Approaches: “The Great Work Begins.” I
hope you will enjoy Perestroika and follow us on this
bold new step into the future.
FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
JAMES HASKINS
I write this having just participated in the first
rehearsal of Perestroika. Actors, returning after a
five-week hiatus following the closing of Millennium
Approaches, comment that it feels like the first day
of school after summer vacation. To me, it feels like a
reunion of a warm and generous community of artists
continuing a shared mission. Everyone in the room –
from actor to administrator – sits in a circle and simply
reads from one line to the next, focused purely on Tony
Kushner’s words. Together, we reveal his powerfully
moving, fantastical, and surprisingly funny story.
Each production builds its own momentary
community, from first rehearsal to opening night to
the closing, when we traditionally bid farewell with a
champagne toast. It’s rare that we have the fortune to
re-assemble a company of artists, and to build a
community that endures beyond the life of one play.
This is the future of the Wilma.
As Blanka describes, we seek to build on the talents
of Philadelphia theater artists through our laboratory
workshops and through our long-term play
development project with Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright Paula Vogel.
We extend our community to include our resident
dance company BalletX and the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, and by taking over management of a shared software and database system that serves a consortium
of 13 performing arts organizations across the region.
And we welcome students throughout the region with
our Wilmagination and Wilma Classroom programs,
reaching inner city high schools as well as urban and
suburban colleges and universities.
Welcome to the Wilma community. We now share the
culmination of our offstage work with you through our
production of Angels in America.
Take a seat and join in the story.
*SEASON SPONSORS
*HONORARY PRODUCER
DANIEL BERGER
*OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS
With additional support from the Charlotte Cushman
Foundation in memory of Jiri Zizka.
The Wilma Theater is grateful for significant support
provided by:
The
Horace Goldsmith
Foundation
Wyncote Foundation
Blanka Zizka
Artistic Director
under the direction of
presents
James Haskins
Managing Director
TONY KUSHNER’S
directed by Blanka Zizka
featuring
Kate Czajkowski, Aubrey Deeker, Maia DeSanti, James Ijames,
Stephen Novelli, Benjamin Pelteson, Mary Elizabeth Scallen, Luigi Sottile
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Matt Saunders
Oana Botez
Lighting Designer
Russell H. Champa
Dramaturg
Walter Bilderback
Sound and Original Music
Christopher Colucci
Casting
David Stradley
Hair and Makeup Designer
Jon Carter
Dialect Coach
Lynne Innerst
Voice Coach
Jean-René Toussaint
Production Manager
Clayton Tejada
Resident Stage Manager
Patreshettarlini Adams
Flying by FOY
The Actors and Stage Manager employed
Produced through special arrangement with Broadway Play
Publishing Inc. The script to this play may be purchased from BPPI at in this production are members of Actors’
Equity Association, the Union of
http://www.BroadwayPlayPubl.com.
Perestroika was first performed as a staged reading in May 1991 by the
Eureka Theatre Company. The play was workshopped at the Mark Taper
Forum in Los Angeles in May, 1992. The World Premiere of Perestroika
was presented by the Mark Taper Forum in November, 1992.
Professional Actors and Stage Managers
in the United States.
This theater operates under an
agreement between the League of
Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity
Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage
Managers in the United States.
CAST
Kate Czajkowski............................................................Harper, Martin Heller, Angel Africanii
Aubrey Deeker..............................................................................Prior Walter, Man in the Park
Maia DeSanti........................ Emily, Sister Ella Chapter, The Woman in the South Bronx,
Angel, Voice of Orrin, Mormon Mother
James Ijames..............................................Belize, Mr. Lies, Voice of Caleb, Angel Oceania
Stephen Novelli...............................................................Roy Cohn, Prior 2, Angel Antarctica
Benjamin Pelteson....................................................................................Louis, Angel Australia
Mary Elizabeth Scallen...................................................................Hannah, Ethel Rosenberg,
Rabbi Chemelwitz, Henry,
Alexii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov, Angel Asiatica
Luigi Sottile................................Joe, Prior 1, The Eskimo, Mormon Father, Angel Europa
Part One: Millennium Approaches Part Two: Perestroika
Act One: Bad News
End of October-Third Week of November,
1985
Act One: Spooj
December, 1985
Intermission
Act Two: The Anti-Migratory Epistle
January, 1986
Act Two: In Vitro
First Three Weeks of December, 1985
Act Three: Borborygmi
January, 1986
Intermission
Intermission
Act Three: Not-Yet-Conscious, Forward
Dawning
3 Days After the End of Act Two
Act Four: John Brown’s Body
2 Days After the End of Act Three
Millennium Approaches was first performed in a workshop
production presented by Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum,
May 1990. The World Premiere of Millennium Approaches was
presented by the Eureka Theatre Company, May 1991.
Intermission
Act Five: Heaven, I’m in Heaven
January, 1986
Epilogue: Bethesda
January, 1990
The Wilma Theater is a member of the following organizations: Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance,
League of Resident Theatres, Rittenhouse Row, and Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
Please note
Photography or sound recording inside the theater, without the written permission of the management,
is prohibited by law. Violators may be asked to leave the theater and may be liable for financial charges.
Children Policy
Some subject matter may be deemed objectionable for children; therefore, children under 12 will not be
permitted in the theater.
Distracting Noise and Light
The noise of cellular phones and candy wrappers, and the light from electronic devices are distracting
to both audiences and actors. Please turn off all cellular phones and electronic devices. Also, please be
sure that your watch alarm does not sound during the performance.
Smoking, eating, and drinking are prohibited inside the theater.
*THE ARTISTS
TONY KUSHNER
(PLAYWRIGHT) plays include A Bright Room Called
Day; Angels in America,
Parts One and Two; Slavs!;
Homebody/Kabul; Caroline,
or Change, a musical with
composer Jeanine Tesori;
and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A
Key To The Scriptures. He wrote the libretto for the opera
A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, also with Ms. Tesori. He
has adapted and translated Pierre Corneille’s The Illusion,
S.Y. Ansky’s The Dybbuk, Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person
of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children, and the
English-language libretto for the opera Brundibár by Hans
Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’ film of
Angels in America and Steven Spielberg’s Munich. His books
include Brundibár, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak; The
Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present; and Wrestling
With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the
Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, co-edited with Alisa Solomon.
Kushner is the recipient of a Pultizer Prize, two Tony Awards,
three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier
Award, an Emmy Award and an Oscar nomination, among
other honors. In 2008, he was the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. He lives in Manhattan
with his husband, Mark Harris.
BLANKA ZIZKA
(DIRECTOR) has been
Founding Artistic Director
of The Wilma Theater
since 1981. Last fall
Blanka received the Zelda
Fichandler Award from
the Stage Directors and
Choreographers Foundation, which recognizes
an outstanding director
or choreographer transforming the regional arts landscape.
Most recently, Blanka directed Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s
Our Class, Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, which received
eight Barrymore awards, and Macbeth, which included an
original score by Czech composer and percussionist Pavel
Fajt. Blanka has directed over 60 plays and musicals at the
Wilma. Her recent favorite productions are Wajdi Mouawad’s
Scorched, Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll, Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice (which featured an original score by composer Toby
Twining, now available from Cantaloupe Records), Brecht’s
The Life of Galileo, Athol Fugard’s Coming Home and My
Children! My Africa!, and Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9. She collaborated closely with Dael Orlandersmith on her plays Raw
Boys and Yellowman, which was co-produced by McCarter
Theatre and the Wilma and also performed at ACT Seattle,
Long Wharf, and Manhattan Theatre Club. Blanka was also
privileged to direct Rosemary Harris and John Cullum in
Ariel Dorfman’s The Other Side at MTC. For the Academy
of Vocal Arts, she directed the opera Kát’a Kabanová by
Leoš Janácek. She has collaborated with many playwrights
including Yussef El Guindi, Doug Wright, Sarah Ruhl, Tom
Stoppard, Linda Griffiths, Polly Pen, Dael Orlandersmith,
Laurence Klavan, Lillian Groag, Jason Sherman, Amy Freed,
Robert Sherwood, and Chay Yew. Her favorite productions
are, even after all these years, Tom Stoppard’s The Invention
of Love and Jim Cartwright’s Road.
KATE CZAJKOWSKI
(HARPER) previously
appeared on the Wilma’s
stage as Rachelka/Marianna in Our Class and In
The Next Room, or the
vibrator play as Sabrina
Daldry, a role that earned
her a Barrymore nomination for ‘Best Supporting
Actress’. Regional credits
include: Sissy Hankshaw in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
(world premiere) at Book-It Rep, Marina in Pericles at Seattle
Shakespeare Co., Annamae Dickie in Louis Slotin Sonata
(world premiere) at Empty Space, and Annie Sullivan in The
Miracle Worker (national tour) for the Montana Rep. A recent
graduate of the MFA Acting program at Temple University,
Kate played several roles in Temple Rep’s two summer
seasons: Masha in Three Sisters, Elmire in Tartuffe, and
Marianna in Measure for Measure. She is thrilled to be playing Harper—one of her favorite characters of all time. Thank
you Blanka for the opportunity, and immense gratitude to
Mom and Dad for the endless support. Love to M.
AUBREY DEEKER
(PRIOR) International:
Royal Shakespeare
Company: Love’s Labour’s
Lost. Regional: 13 productions as an affiliated
artist at the Tony Award
winning Shakespeare
Theatre Company in
Washington, DC, including Mercutio in Romeo
and Juliet, Stacey Keach’s King Lear directed by Bob Falls,
and the world premiere of The Liar by David Ives. Other
favorite credits include Ken Ludwig’s A Fox on the Fairway
(world premiere) at Signature Theatre, Raskolnikov in Crime
and Punishment at Round House Theatre, Boom at Woolly
Mammoth (Helen Hayes Nomination), The Walworth Farce
at Studio Theatre (Helen Hayes Nomination), and productions at The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Folger Theatre,
Ford’s Theatre, Olney Theatre, and Theater Alliance, among
others. Television: HBO’s True Blood and The Wire, CBS’s
NCIS. Film: Leave No Marine Behind, The Seer (short).
Training: North Carolina School of the Arts.
MAIA DESANTI (ANGEL)
is a recent transplant
to Philadelphia and is
thrilled to be making her
Wilma debut in Angels.
Most recently, she appeared as Chavez in
MicroCrisis with InterAct
and as Anne in All My
Sons with Delaware
Theatre Company.
Other regional credits include Arena Stage, Folger Theatre,
Kennedy Center, NY State Theatre Institute, Olney Theatre
Center, Round House Theatre, Shakespeare Theater Co., and
Woolly Mammoth, among others. She has been a creative
collaborator with Happenstance Theatre and Word Dance
Theatre, performing original works in the NY Clown Theatre
Festival, the Capital Fringe Festival, Intersections Festival
and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. She is a graduate of the
National Shakespeare Conservatory.
JAMES IJAMES
(BELIZE) is thrilled to be
making his Wilma Theater
debut in this exciting
production with this
amazing cast! Some of his
credits include: One Flew
Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,
Gossamer, Shipwrecked
(PLTC), An Empty Plate in
the Cafe du Grand Boeuf,
Romeo and Juliet, Superior Donuts, and The Whipping Man
(Arden Theatre), Grey Gardens, Ruined (PTC), The Threshing Floor (Mauckingbird Theatre Company), and Ponies
(Gloucester Stage Company). James received a Barrymore
Award for Supporting Actor in a Play for Superior Donuts
with the Arden Theatre Company. He is the 2011 recipient
of the F. Otto Haas Emerging Artist Award. Many thanks to
Blanka and the entire Wilma Family.
STEPHEN NOVELLI
(ROY) last appeared on
the Wilma stage as the
Father in Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice directed by Blanka
Zizka. Recent roles:
Halvard Solness in The
Masterbuilder at People’s
Light & Theatre, Mick
Dowd in A Skull in Connemara at The Lantern Theatre and
Gloucester in King Lear at People’s Light. A member of the
Resident Ensemble of Artists at People’s Light since 1974,
he’s played roles ranging from the title role in Hamlet to
Jimmy, the Boston beekeeper, in the recent world premiere
production of Kenneth Lin’s Fallow. He also directed a variety of plays including Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
and David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. Stephen is honored
to be reunited with Blanka and to be working with a terrific
ensemble on this important play.
BENJAMIN PELTESON
(LOUIS) is thrilled to
be making his Wilma
and Philadelphia debut.
Theater: Photograph 51,
Asking for Trouble (EST);
The Mines of Sulphur (City
Opera/Lincoln Center);
The Wikipedia Plays (Ars
Nova); Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare Theatre
Company); Murder of Isaac (Baltimore Centerstage); Lady
Windermere’s Fan dir. Moisés Kaufman (Williamstown); The
Tempest (McCarter - tour); Laramie Project (Pittsburgh
Public); The Man Who Came to Dinner, Laughter on the 23rd
Floor (Northern Stage); Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare
on the Sound); Love’s Labors Lost (Vineyard Playhouse).
Readings and Workshops: Public/NYSF, EST, Primary Stages,
Lark, Epic, Rattlestick, others. TV: Homeland, Law & Order,
Unforgettable, and the ESPN 30 for 30 film Silly Little Game.
Training: B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon; Moscow Art Theater.
www.benjaminpelteson.com.
MARY ELIZABETH
SCALLEN (HANNAH) has
worked in Philadelphia
theatre since 1987. A
grad of Temple University’s MFA in Acting
program, she has been
a company member at
People’s Light in Malvern,
PA for 21 years. Recent
appearances there include Elizabeth in Fallow, Sam the
boss in Hatchetman, and Olivia in Legacy of Light. She’s
also worked with Act II Playhouse, Lantern, InterAct, Arden,
Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, and PlayPenn, as well
as The NC Shakespeare Festival, Mill Mountain Theatre (VA)
and Weston Playhouse (VT). She teaches acting at Penn,
and consults on communication skills for FAIMER, an international medical education foundation. Love to TShot.
LUIGI SOTTILE (JOE) Recently: Angels in America:
Part I (Joe) at the Wilma.
Previously at the Wilma:
(w/ BalletX) Proliferation of the Imagination
(Husband), In the Next
Room, or the vibrator play
(Leo)-Barrymore Nomination, Macbeth (Malcolm),
Leaving (Victor); Arden: Cyrano (Christian); People’s Light:
The Return of Don Quixote (Sampson), Kidnapped (Alan
Breck), King Lear (France), Snow White Panto (Smith),
Nathan the Wise (Templar); Act II: The Mystery of Irma Vep
(Lord Edgar, Jane, etc.); Azuka: Whiskey Neat (Handsome);
Shakespeare in Clark Park: Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of
Syracuse); Lantern: The Government Inspector (Khlestakov),
The Hothouse (Lush), Othello (Cassio), The School for Wives
(Horace), The Lonesome West (Father Welsh). Up next:
An Ideal Husband (Lord Goring) at Walnut Street Theatre.
Thanks to Blanka and the cast. Much love to my parents
and Victoria.
MATT SAUNDERS (SET DESIGNER) is a Barrymore Award
winning performer, scenic designer, and a creator of new
performance work proudly based in Philadelphia. Matt
is a founding member, and Associate Artistic Director of
the OBIE Award winning experimental theatre company
New Paradise Laboratories. He has been involved in the
creation of all of NPL’s work through both scenic design and
performance. This work has included The Fab 4 Reach the
Pearly Gates, performed at P.S. 122 in NYC as well as the
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Prom, a co-production
with the Tony Award-Winning Children’s Theatre Company
in Minneapolis, and BATCH, at the 2007 Humana Festival for
New American Plays at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Most
recently for NPL, Matt co-created and designed Fatebook,
which was selected for the United States’ professional pavilion at the Prague Quadrennial 2011. Outside of NPL, Matt
has designed over seventy shows for such companies as
Walnut St. Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, 1812 Productions, Headlong
Dance Theatre, Pig Iron Theatre Company, People’s Light
and Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory
Theatre, and here at The Wilma Theater. Mr Saunders is the
Assistant Professor of Design in the Department of Theater
at Swarthmore College. www.mattsaunders.net
OANA BOTEZ (COSTUME DESIGNER) a native of Romania,
has designed for major theater, opera, and dance companies,
including The National Theater of Bucharest and was involved in different international theater festivals such as the
Quadrennial Scenography Show in Prague. Oana is part of
the first Romanian theater design catalogue, Scenografica.
Since 1999, when she moved to New York, her collaborators
in theater, opera, film and dance include Robert Woodruff,
Richard Foreman, Maya Beiser, Richard Schechner, Andrei
Serban, Blanka Zizka, Brian Kulick, Zelda Fichlander, AnnieB Parson & Paul Lazar, Razvan Dinca, Karin Coonrod, Jay
Scheib, Kristin Marting, Evan Ziporyn, Eduardo Machado, Gus
Solomon Jr. & Paradigm, Carmen De Lavallade, Jackson
Gay, Dusan Tynek, Rania Ajami, Gisela Cardenas, Tony Speciale, Pavol Liska & Kelly Copper, Matthew Neenan, Molissa
Fenley, Zishan Ugurlu, Michael Sexton, Michael Barakiva, Pig
Iron Company, Play Company, Charles Moulton, Ripe Time,
among others. MFA in Design from NYU/Tisch School of the
Arts. Princess Grace Recipient, NEA/TCG Career Development Program. Barrymore Award.
RUSSELL H. CHAMPA (LIGHTING DESIGNER) Previous
projects at the Wilma include: Language Rooms, Age Of
Arousal, I Am My Own Wife, Raw Boys, Embarrassments,
Yellowman, Red, and Quills. Recent and current projects:
Scorched and Maple + Vine (American Conservatory
Theater), Ah Wilderness (Arena Stage), Completeness (Playwright’s Horizons), Timon of Athens (The Public Theater),
The Grand Mariner (Lincoln Center Theater), On Broadway,
Mr. Champa has designed In The Next Room, or the vibrator
play at the Lyceum Theater and Julia Sweeney’s God Said
“HA!” also at the Lyceum. Other New York credits include
Manhattan Theater Club, 2nd Stage, The Vineyard Theater,
Classic Stage Company, New York Stage & Film, and La
MaMa E.T.C. Regionally, Mr. Champa has designed for The
Mark Taper Forum, CenterStage, Berkeley Rep, Hartford
Stage Company, Seattle Rep, Trinity Rep, Calshakes,
McCarter Theater, Campo Santo, Williamstown Theatre
Festival, the Actors’ Gang, and the Kennedy Center. Thanks
J + J. PEACE.
CHRISTOPHER COLUCCI (SOUND DESIGN AND ORIGINAL
MUSIC) makes sound and music as a theater artist, composer and guitarist. During the 2011-2012 season he worked on
over a dozen productions including: The Whipping Man and
Charlotte’s Web (Arden), Of Mice and Men and Mr. Hart and
Mr. Brown (People’s Light & Theater), How I Learned to Drive
(Theatre Horizon), The Mousetrap (Walnut), Knives in Hens
(Theater Exile), Private Lives (Lantern), The Morini Strad
(Portland Center Stage) as well as both Angels in America
and Curse of the Starving Class here at the Wilma. Since
2008, he has received 11 Barrymore Award nominations for
Outstanding Original Music and Sound Design. Christopher
would like to thank the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative for
professional development opportunities pivotal to his work
on Angels. Thank you, Blanka. Thank you Clayton, Ashley,
Pat. Go Team Wilma! For more sounds please visit
http://soundcloud.com/cmsound.
DAVID STRADLEY (CASTING) is the Artistic Director of
Delaware Shakespeare Festival. As a casting director, he has
worked for Philadelphia Young Playwrights and Delaware
Theatre Company. As a director, David has directed for
Delaware Theatre Company (8 productions), Walnut Street
Theatre, Delaware Shakespeare Festival, and Philadelphia
Shakespeare Theatre. As an educator, David has worked for
all of the above companies as well as for the Wilma, Folger
Shakespeare Library, and People’s Light and Theatre Company. BFA Theatre Performance, University of Evansville;
MFA Acting, Asolo Conservatory/Florida State University.
Many thanks to Blanka and Jamie for the opportunity.
Much love to Michelle. For more information, please see
davidstradley.com.
JON CARTER (HAIR AND MAKEUP DESIGN) is delighted
to return to the Wilma for his eleventh show. BROADWAY:
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, makeup designs for In the
Next Room, or the vibrator play, A Tale of Two Cities and
Xanadu. OFF BROADWAY: 3C (Rattlestick), Blood & Gifts
(Lincoln Center), Orange, Hat & Grace (Soho Rep), When The
Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center), The Heart Is a Lonely
Hunter (New York Theater Workshop), So Help Me God (Mint
Theater), The Good Negro (Public Theater), Chair (Theater
for a New Audience), Endgame (BAM). REGIONAL: Arena
Stage, Kennedy Center, Centerstage, Dallas Theatre Center,
Kansas City Rep, The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Theatre
Co., Walnut Street Theatre, Prince Music Theater, Delaware
Theatre Co., Arden Theatre Co. OPERA: Opera Boston,
Gotham Chamber Opera, Curtis Institute.
LYNNE INNERST (DIALECT COACH) joined the theater faculty at Temple University in 2006 and has been working in
the lively and exciting professional Philadelphia community
since she arrived. Recent credits include Arden, Theater Exile, Lantern, People’s Light, Act II and the Wilma. Lynne has
served on the faculties of Carnegie Mellon University, The
University of New Mexico, California State University at Long
Beach, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is
a master teacher and founding member of the Fitzmaurice
voice group. She has worked as an actress and coach in film,
television, regional, repertory, theater, and voice-overs. She
holds an MFA from The University of Southern California.
She is delighted to be back at the Wilma once again.
MICHAEL COSENZA (FIGHT COORDINATOR) has been
working as a fight director in and around Philadelphia for the
last 6 years, and is thrilled to be back at The Wilma Theater.
In addition to having choreographed more than a dozen productions here, his work has been featured on the stages of
Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Luna Theater Company,
The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Red Heel Theater
Company, Simpatico Theatre Company, Arcadia University,
Temple University, Swarthmore College, Lehigh University,
and LaSalle. This fall, he will return to both Flashpoint Theatre Company and The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre to
put together some very violent moments. He would like to
thank his production team, his actors for all their hard work,
his family for their support, and as always, love to Natalie.
JEAN-RENÉ TOUSSAINT (VOICE COACH) is a Frenchborn director, actor, and voice teacher. He is the creator of
a distinct school of vocal training for performing artists and
therapists - a technique he has dubbed Stemwerk in Dutch and is the founder and head of a training center in Rotterdam
in the Netherlands and in Avanos-Cappadocie in Turkey. He
has been professionally active in theater since 1973, and
has worked with major theatrical companies and artists
such as the Living Theatre, the Roy Hart Theatre, Robert
Wilson, and the Polish Laboratory Theatre. His vocal theory
and technique are inspired by the work of Antonin Artaud,
Jerzy Grotowski, and Roy Hart, which are all defining figures
in contemporary theater and, in the cases of Grotowski and
Hart, of voice technique. Toussaint has traveled through
parts of Asia and India, studying diverse ancient vocal practices, from Afghan Sufi to Mongolian, Tibetan, and Japanese
vocal traditions.
PATRESHETTARLINI ADAMS (RESIDENT STAGE MANAGER/AEA) has been the production stage manager at The
Wilma Theater since the theater made its new home on the
Avenue of the Arts in 1996. She has captained all but three
productions in her tenure here and is very happy to be a part
of the Philadelphia theater community. “Pat” is celebrating season #17 at the fabulous Wilma! Prior to her coming
home to Philly, Pat was stage manager at the Tony Award
winning Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ. In past
years, Pat has worked the National Black Arts Festival
in Atlanta, GA and the National Black Theater Festival in
Winston-Salem, NC. When not at the Wilma, she has found
herself traveling the world with critically-acclaimed dance
company Noche Flamenca! Most recently, she is using all
her free time to spoil her grandsons, Isaiah and Elijah. God
Is Good!
WALTER BILDERBACK (DRAMATURG) is beginning his
ninth season with The Wilma Theater, and is delighted to
start the season working on Perestroika. Walter reviewed
Approaching the Millennium, a volume of critical essays on
Angels in America, and Tony Kushner in Conversation, for
American Theatre magazine, and interviewed Mr. Kushner in
the Wilma lobby two years ago. He recently began work with
Blanka Zizka and Paula Vogel on a major project for the Wilma’s 2013-14 season. Some personal angels to remember:
Charles Ludlam, John Hirsch, Dennis Scott, James Carroll,
Adam Muzzy, Stephen Petty, and Stella (John) Mifsud.
CLAYTON TEJADA (PRODUCTION MANAGER) is in his
second year as Production Manager after serving the Wilma
as Technical Director for the previous seven years. Clayton
started his professional career as an Apprentice at Arden
Theatre, and then worked there for several years as Stage
Supervisor. Before coming to the Wilma, he worked as a
freelance Technical Director or Production Manager for 1812
Productions, Mum Puppettheatre, Lantern Theater, and
Azuka Theatre. Clayton is a graduate of the Theater Arts
program at The University of Puget Sound. He is proud to
make Philadelphia his professional and artistic home. Many
thanks to his sweet Kate and Alex the rascal.
JAMES HASKINS
(MANAGING
DIRECTOR) joined the
staff of The Wilma
Theater as Managing
Director in June 2006.
He began his work in
theater administration
as Box Office Manager
of Circle Repertory
Company and went on
to work with a number
of New York theaters, including National Shakespeare Company, Symphony Space, Provincetown Playhouse, Actor’s
Playhouse, Triplex Performing Arts Center and Astor Place
Theatre. In Seattle, he served as Business Manager of Seattle Group Theatre and worked for Ticket/Ticket, Seattle’s
half-price ticket booth. In 1999, James moved to Philadelphia and worked as Managing Director of InterAct Theatre
Company, while also serving for three years on the Board of
the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia as Chair of the
Barrymore Awards Oversight Committee. He later moved
into the Executive Director position of the Theatre Alliance.
Also an actor and director, James holds an MFA from the
University of Washington and a BA from the College of
Wooster (Ohio), where he currently serves as President of
his alumni class. James is honored to serve on Philadelphia
Mayor Michael Nutter’s Cultural Advisory Council.
*PRODUCTION CREW *STAFF
Fight Coordinator............................Michael Cosenza
Assistant Director.........................Allison Heishman
Assistant Stage Manager..........Leonard J. Luvera
Assistant Set Designer.....................Colin McIlvaine
Assistant Costume Designer..............Karen Boyer
Assistant Lighting Designer...............Oona Curley
Dani Clifford
Properties Master...................Kimitha Anne Cashin
Light Board Programmer
& Operator ........................................... Ashley W. Mills
Assistant Master
Electrician............................Georgia Schlessman
Sound and Video Operator...........Ashley D. Turner
Wardrobe Supervisor............................Regina Rizzo
Dresser...........................................................Alyssa Cole
Running Crew: Benjamin Henry, George R. Spencer, Phil Haberek, Elliot Greer
Carpenters: Lance Kniskern, Elliot Greer, Stuart
Bartlett, Alison Levy, Alyssa Cole, Nelson Barre,
Georgia Schlessman, Ryan Ehrlichman, Benjamin
Henry, Phil Haberek
Electricians: Catherine Lee, Jacks Katz, Sarah
Middledorf, Melanie Leeds, Nicole Rolo, Lucas
Nguyen, Debby Lau, Dom Chacon, Chris Richards,
Ani Leonhart, Jana Gillenwater, Georgia Schlessman
Costume Construction: Douglas Earl, Glenda
Beck, Ashley Gardner, Becca Austin, Thomas
Sirkot
Scenery Construction: American Repertory
Theater Scene Shop, Upstage Right Productions
Angel Wings Constructed: John Kristiansen
New York Inc.
*SPECIAL THANKS
Arden Theatre Company
Dr. Peter Katsufrakis, M.D.
Dr. Gene Bischaq
The Ira Brand School of Theater Arts,
University of the Arts
*HOW TO REACH US
The Wilma Theater
265 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Box Office: 215.546.7824
Admin: 215.893.9456
Fax: 215.893.0895
wilmatheater.org
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Blanka Zizka
MANAGING DIRECTOR: James Haskins
ARTISTIC
Dramaturg/Literary Manager - Walter Bilderback
Literary/Artistic Assistant - William Steinberger
Literary Interns - Emma Boettcher, Kevin Dorff,
Charlotte Dow, Nicole McGarry, Alison Ruth
EDUCATION
Education Director - Anne K. Holmes
Teaching Artists- Ashley Alter, Mike Dees, Katharine Clark Gray, Elizabeth Greene, John Jarboe,
Kathryn MacMillan, Emily Peters, Ed Swidey,
Davon Williams
MARKETING
Marketing Director - Aaron Immediato
Public Relations Manager - Johnny Van Heest
Marketing and Group Sales Coordinator Jennifer R. Burrini
Public Relations Intern - Jacquelin Grillo
DEVELOPMENT
Development Director - Iain Campbell
Grants Manager - Justin Bauer
Development Assistant - Debby Lau
Development Interns - Kaylyn Syvret, Brianna
Rooney
BUSINESS
General Manager - Maggie Arbogast
Office Manager - Andrea Sotzing
PRODUCTION
Production Manager - Clayton Tejada
Technical Director - Matthew Zumbo
Resident Stage Manager - Patreshettarlini Adams
Facilities Manager - Kenneth Deprez
Master Electrician - Ashley W. Mills
Sound Engineer - Ashley Turner
Wardrobe Supervisor - Regina Rizzo
Production Fellow - George R. Spencer
Stage Management Fellow - Leonard J. Luvera
Production Interns - Ryan Ehrlichman, Jill Klecha
FRONT OF HOUSE
Box Office Manager - James Specht
Assistant Box Office Manager - Crystal Whybark
Box Office Staff - Amanda Grove, Rich Rubin,
Samantha Tower, Hillary Asare
House Manager - Javier Mojica
SERVICES
Photographer - Alexander Iziliaev
Catering - Chef’s Market, J. Cabot Catering Co.
Technology Services - NPower PA
Auditors - Horty & Horty, P.A.
Cleaning Service - 1010 Cleaning, Squeaky Clean
and Green
Insurance Brokers - Gallagher Benefits Services,
SKCG Group, Inc.
NBERGER
BY WALTER BILDERBACK
ADDITIONAL TEXT BY WILLIAM
STEI
OPEN STAGES
“BECAUSE THE SOUL IS PROGRESSIVE, IT NEVER
QUITE REPEATS ITSELF, BUT IN EVERY ACT ATTEMPTS
THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW AND FAIRER WHOLE.”
Tony Kushner uses this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
as the epigraph for Perestroika. The title of the second half
of Kushner’s “Gay Fantasia on National Themes” refers to
Mikhail Gorbachev’s “restructuring” (the meaning of
“perestroika”) of the now-defunct Soviet Union. We get
glimpses of the Soviet Union in its dotage in Perestroika, but
the relationships of all the characters undergo restructuring
as well. As Tony Kushner writes about the two halves:
“Millennium Approaches is a play about security and
certainty being blown apart, while Perestroika is about
danger and possibility following the explosion. The events in
Perestroika proceed from the wreckage made by the Angel’s
traumatic entry at the end of Millennium. A membrane has
broken.”
The idea of “membrane” is important. Skin, and the body
(both individual and politic), echo through Millennium
Approaches as emblems of identity, along with the related
themes of movement and stasis. Here they come to the fore.
How do people and societies change? Especially in the midst
of the “mad swirling planetary disorganization” that has
seemed to characterize our world for the past
quarter-century?
The culmination of Angels in America takes each of its
characters’ soul to places never imagined, asking them (and
us, the audience) to imagine “a new and fairer whole” - which
the Emersonian epigraph reminds us has been perhaps the
most important moral project of the United States since its
founding.
THE STORY UP TO NOW ...
A SYNOPSIS OF MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
Prior Walter, a gay man living in New
York City, has been diagnosed with
AIDS. Unable to deal with the
challenge, his lover Louis Ironson has
left him, and is beginning a
tentative relationship with the
closeted Mormon Republican lawyer
Joe Pitt.
Joe’s wife Harper, who suffers from a
mild valium addiction, has
encountered Prior in a hallucinatory
scene she refers to as “threshold
of revelation.” Traumatized by the
discovery of Joe’s lies, Harper has fled
their apartment after a fight, and is in
a dream Antarctica with the imaginary
travel agent Mr. Lies. Joe’s mother,
Hannah, has sold her house in Salt
Lake City and come to New York after
Joe tells her he’s gay.
Meanwhile, Joe’s mentor, the
rightwing fixer and shady lawyer Roy
Cohn, has also been diagnosed with
AIDS and is facing disbarment. After a
series of severe abdominal spasms, he
has been visited by the ghost of Ethel
Rosenberg, whom he helped execute
in the 1950s. Ethel has called an
ambulance for him.
Meanwhile, Prior has been seeking
help from his friend Belize, a male
nurse, because of Louis and because
he’s having visions and hearing strange
voices that make him fear he’s
losing his mind. Millennium
Approaches ends with an Angel
bursting through the ceiling of Prior’s
apartment and announcing:
“GREETINGS, PROPHET!
THE GREAT WORK BEGINS:
THE MESSENGER HAS ARRIVED.”
In a 1994 interview with The New York
Times, Kushner explains that “The aleph
(pictured above) is the first letter of the
Hebrew alphabet, the seed word, the
God letter. This is why, in the play, God
is referred to by the Angel as ‘the Aleph
Glyph.’ The real name of God is, of course,
unutterable.”
At left are Senator Joseph McCarthy and
Roy Cohn, his chief counsel, at the ArmyMcCarthy hearings on April 26, 1956. This
photo comes four days after the hearings,
which led to McCarthy’s downfall, were
first broadcast publicly. Cohn was 29
years old.
*ONSTAGE CONVERSATIONS
09/20 - Stay after the
performance to discuss the
play with a member of the
Wilma’s artistic staff.
09/27 - Stay after the
performance to discuss the
play with the cast.
10/10 - Stay after the
matinee performance to
discuss the play with a
member of the Wilma’s artistic staff in the lobby with
complimentary coffee.
FOLLOW US
TIMELINE
Sept 22, 1823 - The angel Moroni appears to seventeen-year-old Joseph Smith in a
series of visions which lead him, on the same date in 1827, to a set of golden plates
buried at the Hill Cumorah in upstate New York. These tablets will become The Book of
Mormon, the foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
July 20, 1847 - Brigham Young establishes Salt Lake City on the shores of the Great
Salt Lake as a haven for the Mormon faith after a three-month, one thousand mile
exodus from Iowa.
1859 - Abolitionist John Brown, intending to spark a slave revolt, leads an integrated
raiding party that briefly captures the U.S. Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. U.S.
troops under Robert E. Lee defeat Brown’s force, and he is hanged for treason.
1951 - As a young Assistant U.S. Attorney, Roy Cohn helps in the prosecution of Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg, a married couple accused of participating in a spy ring responsible
for transmitting details of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union during World War II.
June 19, 1953 - The Rosenbergs are electrocuted at Sing Sing Prison, New York. Ethel is
only the second woman executed by the U.S. government in history. Shortly before her
death, Ethel writes to her attorney: “Know then, you warped, gross eaters of dust, your
abominations upon this beauteous earth…The savage reprisal you visited upon me shall
pursue you to the edge of your graves and beyond, and your names shall be anathema
wherever love is the First Commandment!”
July 27, 1969 - Gay patrons at the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village decide
to fight back in response to police and public harassment. The incident sparks three
days of rioting and the emergence of Gay Liberation in the United States.
1980 - A mysterious constellation of diseases in forty-one different patients is discovered. The patients are all gay men living in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta publishes a report on the outbreaks of
Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) and pneumocystic carinii pneumonia (PCP).
Jan 1981 - Ronald Wilson Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United
States.
July 27, 1982 - The CDC in Atlanta officially designates the epidemic “AIDS” (Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome). 634 cases of AIDS have been diagnosed, with 260
deaths reported. $1 million has been spent on research, compared to $9 million spent
within a month of the 1976 outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease, which killed 29 people.
March 3, 1983 - Larry Kramer’s article on the AIDS epidemic, “1,112 and Counting” is
published by the New York Native. It lambastes political leaders, government agencies,
mainstream media, and the gay community for lack of action against AIDS. 485 deaths
have been reported.
June 1983 - Researchers at France’s Pasteur Institute
discover a retrovirus – the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus
(HIV) – they believe to be the cause of AIDS. 1,641 cases,
and 644 deaths, have been reported.
Sept 1983 - President Reagan’s budget proposes a
$300,000 cut in AIDS funding for the coming year. 3,515
cases, and 1,506 deaths, reported.
Nov 1984 - Ronald Reagan is re-elected President in a landslide. More than 7,000 cases of AIDS have been reported.
Mar 11, 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev takes power in the Soviet
Union following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. Gorbachev begins his policies on Glasnost [“new openness”]
and Perestroika [“restructuring”]. AIDS has now been
reported on every populated continent of the earth. U.S.
cases surpass 9,000, with 4,300 deaths.
Sept 1985 - Four years after the outbreak of the epidemic,
Ronald Reagan publicly utters the word “AIDS” for the first
time, although he does not make a statement on the issue
itself. More than 12,000 cases have been reported in the
U.S., with nearly 6,000 deaths.
Oct 1985 - An Antarctic research team confirms a thirty
percent depletion in the ozone layer over an area the size of
the United States.
Early 1986 - The pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome and the NIH begin testing of the drug AZT to test its
efficacy against AIDS. 282 gay men are chosen for the test.
August 1986 - The existence of a secret White House project selling arms to the Islamist government of Iran in order
to fund operations against the Communist government
of Nicaragua is discovered. It becomes the Iran-Contra
Scandal.
Oct 1986 - Surgeon General C. Everett Koop encourages
AIDS education in public schools. There are 27,000 diagnosed cases of AIDS.
Mar 1987 - ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) is
founded. In the following months, the group stages a series
of confrontative demonstrations at Wall Street and other
locations to shock the public into awareness of AIDS.
May 31, 1987 - President Ronald Reagan makes his first
speech on AIDS. There are now 36,058 diagnosed cases
and 20,849 deaths.
Oct 1987 - A fifty percent depletion in the ozone layer over
Antarctica is recorded.
1989-90 - The activist group Queer Nation is founded to aggressively call attention to a huge rise in anti-gay violence.
A LONGER TIMELINE AND MORE CAN BE
FOUND AT WILMATHEATER.ORG/BLOG
At left is an iconic image of the Stonewall riots, where
gay patrons of the Stonewall Inn fought back against
the NYPD’s harassment.
Above is prominent contemporary Mormon artist Liz
Lemon’s portrayal of a young Joseph Smith, age 14 or
15, at his first vision in upstate New York.
Mikhail Gorbachev on the cover of Time, March 25,
1985, two weeks after inheriting the position of General
Secretary of the Communist Party from Konstantin
Chernenko, following the latter’s death.
President Ronald Reagan.
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Lewis H. Johnston
John D. Rollins
A.E. (Ted) Wolf
Officers
David U’Prichard, PhD, Board Members
Arjun Bedi
Chair
Kathryn Doyle
David E. Loder,
Janice Giannini
Vice Chair
Esq.
Linda Glickstein
Clare D’Agostino, ,
Robert E. Linck
Secretary
Thomas Mahoney, Sissie Lipton
James F. McGillin
Treasurer
Reginald J. Middleton
Marlene S. Molinoff
Chair’s Council
Esq.
Donald F. Parman
Mark S. Dichter,
Esq.
Allen Sabinson
Herman C. Fala,
Brian Seaman, Esq.
Peggy Greenawalt
Dianne L. Semingson
Jeff Harbison
Ellen B. Solms
Jeffrey M. Sparling
Evelyn G. Spritz
Gillian Wakely
Mark Wennell
Jeanne P. Wrobleski, Esq.
Florence Zeller
Ex-Officio
James Haskins
Blanka Zizka
Emeritus
Harvey Kimmel
Dr. R. J. Wallner
A Special Note to Our Donors
This list acknowledges all donations of $150 or above from 6/1/11-8/1/12.
If your name has been omitted or misprinted, please accept our apologies.
Notify us of any changes by contacting Iain Campbell, Development
Director, at 215.893.9456 x109.
FOUNDATION,
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CORPORATE DONORS
Anonymous
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Foundation
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Trust of the PNC Charitable
Trusts
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Foundation
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Connelly Foundation
Cozen O’Connor
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Foundation
DoubleTree by Hilton,
Philadelphia Center City
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Fund for Children of The
Philadelphia Foundation
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Foundation
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Foundation
Independence Foundation
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Charitable Foundation
Janney Montgomery Scott, Inc.
Virginia and Harvey Kimmel
Arts Education Fund of The
Philadelphia Foundation
KPMG LLP
Lincoln Financial Foundation
Christian R. and Mary F.
Lindback Foundation
Lobro Associates
The National Endowment
for the Arts
Norfolk Southern Foundation
ParenteBeard
PECO
Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts, a state agency
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Pew Center for
Arts & Heritage through
the Philadelphia Cultural
Management Initiative
The Pew Center for Arts &
Heritage through the
Philadelphia Theatre Initiative
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
The Rosenlund Family
Foundation
The Caroline J. Sanders
Trust #2
The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith
Memorial Fund
The Sporting Club at the
Bellevue, the preferred
fitness center of The
Wilma Theater
Tasty Baking Company
The TJX Foundation
United Way of Greater
Philadelphia and Southern
New Jersey
Verizon Reads, Inc.
The Victory Foundation
Virginia Brown Martin Fund
of The Philadelphia
Foundation
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Wallace Foundation
Walter J. Miller Trust
The William Penn Foundation
The Wyncote Foundation
The Zeldin Family Foundation
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Adornamenti
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and Mr. Bruce duBois
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Manhattan Theatre Club
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Opera Company of
Philadelphia
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PBS Kids Sprout
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of Ballet
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Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society
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Company
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of Philadelphia
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and Bar
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Dance Education
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of Companies
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Matching Gift Program
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Matching Gifts
Verizon Foundation
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Stephen and Florence Zeller+
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love of the performing arts
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or more. The benefits of the
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in honor of Jiri Zizka
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Peter Benoliel and
Willo Carey+
Louis Bluver+
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Tom Bunting and
Sallie Greisman
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James Haskins and
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In memory of Jiri Zizka
Josephine Klein+
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$2,500 to $4,999
Anonymous
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James and Eleanor McGillin+
Marlene S. Molinoff
Don and Barbara Parman+
Dianne L. Semingson
and Craig Lewis+
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M.
Sparling
Ms. Evelyn G. Spritz+
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Dr. R. J. Wallner+
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$750 to $999
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Jim and Joan Moore
Sue and Steve Munzer
Virginia Pappas
Milton and Ruth Parnes+
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Paul+
Mr. and Mrs. Guido Pasquel
Marcelle Pick+
Harriet Potashnick
Bill and Mary Jo Potter
Claire Rocco
Barbara and Tony Rooklin+
Mr. and Ms. Leon Rozinsky+
John F. Sanford+
Lee and Linda Jean Schneider
Tom and Elinor Seaman+
Christopher Serata
Mr. Samuel J. Serata, Esq.+
Antoinette Seymour
Paul and Nancy Shallers
Sharon and Irv Shapiro
Parvin and Jean Sharpless
Mary and Tom Short
Robert and Susan Simon
In Memory of Arnold Franklin
Stanton
Barbara and Richard Solly
Richard and Elizabeth Soltan
Ms. Louisa Spottswood+
Peter Stambler
Harold and Emily Starr+
Jonathan and Judith Stein+
Mark Steinberger and
Ann Lebowitz+
Barbara Stoebenau
Kathleen Ross and Daniel Szyld
Ms. Nina Tafel+
Karen Tidmarsh+
Mr. and Mrs. Harold S.
Torrance
Walt Vail
Nadine Weiner
Arnold Weiss+
Barbara and Peter
Westergaard+
Drs. James and
Jenette Wheeler+
Merry and Bob Woodruff
Barrie and Eugene Zenone
Peter Zutter and Tom Murphy+
The Wilma Theater’s
in-school residency
program WILMAGINATION
is made possible with the
support of
Student Sunday
Evenings
This program is
generously underwritten by
the Virginia and Harvey
Kimmel Arts Education Fund
of the Philadelphia
Foundation. This program
provides $10 tickets to
students.
Excellence
We are a proud supporter of
The Wilma Theater and their
production of Angels In America,
Part II: Perestroika.
www.pwc.com
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