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AN
INTERVIEW WITH
SANDR A TSING LOH
AND LISA PETERSON
BY SARAH ROSE LEONARD
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Sandra Tsing Loh with Caroline Aaron and Shannon Holt
P H OTO BY D EB O R A R O B I N S O N
The radio host, solo performer, writer, and comedian Sandra Tsing Loh published her autobiography about her
midlife crisis, The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging
Hormones, in 2014. Loh details how her established lifestyle
fell to pieces, skewers traditional views of marriage, and
redefines what it means to be menopausal. After writing the
book, she and Berkeley Rep Associate Director Lisa Peterson
adapted Sandra’s material into an original theatre piece; it was
developed at the Sundance Institute Theatre Program and
premiered at South Coast Repertory in January 2016. Here, in
an interview with Berkeley Rep’s Literary Manager, Sarah Rose
Leonard, the collaborators discuss their rehearsal process and
unpack what it means to be a woman of a certain age.
How did you two first meet?
Lisa Peterson: We met at the Mark Taper Forum in Los
Angeles, where I was working at the time. We didn’t work
together, but there was a new work festival where Sandra was
doing one of her solo pieces. For this project we were really
put together by Sundance. They’d invited Sandra to the lab at
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA).
When was it, Sandra? The winter of…
Sandra Tsing Loh: The winter of 2014.
LP: Yeah, two years ago. At the time Sandra had written
the book, but it had not been published yet. You also wanted
to turn it into a theatrical piece. So Sundance put Sandra and
me and a wonderful dramaturg named Janice Paran together
in a gallery space for about a week.
STL: I’d done many solo pieces in my 30s and early 40s.
Then I had a midlife blowup and left theatre for a few years. I
came back to it as a 51 year old, in this midlife moment. I think
about the writer Kate Braverman—she has this anecdote
about being a 26 year old smoking a cigarette and then you
turn around for a match and you’re 34 [laughter]. I was like 36
and doing my thing and then I turned to get another latte, and
then I was 51. You know, what happened?! So I realized at that
point in terms of turning the book into a play, I didn’t know
how to do it in my earlier mode of solo performance. I’d done
like six different solo pieces and I felt I’d just done them every
which way: here’s some linked stories, here you’re going to do
some characters, you’re gonna do a monologue. I had literally
no idea how to transform this book into a theatre piece. So it
was Philip Himberg (artistic director of Sundance Theatre Institute) who took the piece and said, “You need Lisa Peterson!”
Lisa is excellent at creating original work and shaping pieces to
be dramaturgically sound. She sat with the material and sort of
outlined it on a napkin.
LP: I’m pretty sure it was you who’d had the impulse of
having friends with you onstage. You were less interested in
being the only person out there telling your own story; you
thought it might be fun to have a couple of bandmates and
from that came the question of, well okay, what would they
do? And because it was a Sundance lab, there were other projects rehearsing at the same time and so we were able to just
go to wonderful actresses and say, “Hey, can you just stop by
for an hour or so and read this with Sandra?” By the end of the
week, I started realizing, oh, there are these trios of women
in Sandra’s life. She’s got two daughters, she’s got her mother
and her sister, and so I started to realize I could think of those
two women as iconic figures in Sandra’s life. I think of you guys
as a band, and I think of the stories as songs in a set.
I’ve heard the play described as a cross between a traditional play, stand-up, and performance art, all of which
Sandra has done. Do you feel like there’s a genre for
this piece?
STL: I don’t know! I think what Lisa’s saying about music
is right: there’s definitely conscious choices about pacing and
rhythm. I’ve also always really admired going in and out of a
presentational style. My costars Caroline and Shannon might
ask, “Am I looking at you, am I looking up, are we in the
scene, are we dictating the scene?” Lisa has been very precise
in the direction. So there’s all these internal determinations
of when the action is going out to audience and when it’s
going inward, which is fun to perform.
I’m a humor monologist rather than an actor, and instead
of listening and reacting in the moment to another actor, I’ll
just wait for them to stop speaking so I can speak [laughter].
Monologists don’t think about scene partners! The other
characters are the audience; your timing is based on their
reaction. So when monologists go into the acting world they
tend to cut people off. As a humor monologist you always
want the audience to like you, and Lisa is really mindful of
that. She’ll say, “Don’t go to the likable, play it for the laugh,
don’t make it warm; don’t soften it. You’ve gotta be really
tough this moment because otherwise we’re not gonna get
the right feeling.”
LP: That’s also because the content of this piece is very
frank. And it’s not all pretty. So it’s important in this piece,
every once in a while, to not worry about being liked. The
humor comes from the frankness, don’t you think?
STL: Yeah, and I’ve been pushed to go places that I would
never have dreamed would be in a show. I just laugh my way
through, and oh my god, I cry my way through.
“...the content of this piece is very frank.
And it’s not all pretty.”
— L IS A PE T E R SON
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Why do you think talking about menopause in particular
has served as an opening to talk about deeper aspects of
your life?
STL: Almost one in every two American women is menopausal now. That means that almost half of all American
women aren’t making eggs anymore. That’s giant. But it’s not
talked about—people hate that word, menopause. It has so
many negative connotations: being dried up and creepy and
old and brittle and unattractive and you’re done. Even though
many of us are at that place. So I think that was an interesting
conundrum: why isn’t it talked about more?
For women this midlife moment is really a moment of
rebellion and rebirth. The biological cycle of making eggs—
that’s what you do, you make babies—goes away. Then you
get to think of who you really are and what your life is. Because
we live so much longer now; we’re only fertile those middle 25
years, around the middle third of our life. That means for most
of a female’s life, she’s not making eggs or having babies. So
that doesn’t define us. Actually, menopause isn’t the change;
fertility is the change! Menopause is actually the return to who
you were before the egg-making machine kicked in.
LP: When we’re teenagers we’re talked to about what is
happening to our bodies and guided through it. With menopause, nobody does that, so women are like, “What’s happening to you?” There’s an underground for a huge number of
people. And not just menopause biologically, but the midlife
experience for women.
STL: That’s why I really love the fact that there are three
middle-aged actresses on stage. There isn’t the young ingénue,
there isn’t a handsome old guy; there are three middle-aged
women doing their thing, and telling a story from their point of
view. It’s been interesting—many men have responded really
positively and powerfully to the material because often they
remember their own mothers and they go, “Oh my god, that’s
what was going on.” This guy in his 50s, he was in tears: he was
flashing back to his childhood and remembering the change
his mom went through and her depression and never understanding it.
Sandra Tsing Loh, Shannon Holt, and Caroline Aaron
P H OTO BY D EB O R A R O B I N S O N
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For women this
midlife moment is
really a moment
of rebellion
and rebirth. The
biological cycle of
making eggs—that’s
what you do, you
make babies—goes
away. Then you get
to think of who you
really are and what
your life is.
— S A N DR A T SING LOH
Sandra Tsing Loh with Shannon Holt
P H OTO BY D EB O R A R O B I N S O N
Sandra, you explored whether marriage was obsolete in an
essay in the Atlantic in 2009. Which of those ideas are still
compelling to you seven years later?
STL: My mom and her peers did not work. Now, women
work full time, but also spend more hours per day with their
children than a 1950s stay-at-home mom. So we are working
full time; we are über-mothering; we’re supposed to have these
slim, Pilates-based bodies; and we’re also supposed to go to
the farmer’s market and buy organic, locally sourced vegetables, go home, and cook dinner. So when menopause comes
along, it can be midlife biology’s way of saying, “Stop it; you
can’t do all of it, you maybe can’t do any of it, put the brakes
on, stop.” It’s kind of like nature’s compass saying, “Take another look at all these things that you’re doing and what society
expects of you.”
We live so much longer than we used to; in 1900 the
average lifespan of a U.S. citizen was 48, so people were dead
in menopause or their one marriage was enough. Now, people
have long-term marriages that work, but for some people
a marriage will last 20 years and then the next one will be
20 years. The conventional notions of marriage seem a little
outdated to me. I have two girls who are 14 and 16, and I don’t
even know that I’m going to recommend that they get married. Although I really, really wanna attend the wedding as the
mother of the bride [laughter].
How have different generations of women reacted to
the play?
STL: I have found that older people are often the ones
chuckling the most. I always remember, there was one time a
pair of 80-something men were sitting together and laughing
hysterically through the entire piece.
I think sometimes young people are actually the ones that
walk out and go, “Wait a minute, are you saying you didn’t love
your children?”
LP: I think younger women seem really drawn to it, with
both fascination and horror.
STL: I can barely remember my 20s, but certainly in my
30s, you really have to keep it a lot more together than women
over the age of 50. You gotta have a career, and decide if you’re
gonna get married or not, have children or not. I remember
when I turned 30 I got the important, professional haircut, and
said, “Now, no more jeans. I gotta wear these A-line skirts.”
When you’re younger you can’t risk or dare to do too much
because you’re trying to get your life together. So I think you’re
right about young women, Lisa; I think the horror and fascination of, “Oh my god, that’s ahead!?” is not only terrifying, but
also liberating. They might think, “Oh great, that’s better than
collecting many cats and knitting!” Not that that’s a bad thing,
but oh my god, there’s so much life and freedom ahead.
Those would be separate events.
STL: Yeah, just put on a wedding dress, have a wedding,
and then don’t live together.
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Sandra Tsing Loh
Actor A Caroline Aaron
direc ted by
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Lisa Peterson
DECEM B ER 13, 2016–JANUARY 15, 2017
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This show runs approximately 90 minutes with
no intermission.
The Madwoman in the Volvo is made possible
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PRODUC TION S TAFF
Scenic Design Rachel Hauck
Costume Design Candice Cain
Lighting Design Geoff Korf
Original Music/Sound Design Lindsay Jones
Dramaturg Jerry Patch
Stage Manager Marcy Victoria Reed
The actors and stage manager are members of Actors’ Equity
Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage
Managers in the United States.
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BE R K E L E Y R E P P R E S E N T S
Sandra Tsing Loh
S A N D R A / P L AY W R I G H T
Sandra Tsing Loh is a
writer/performer whose
solo theatre shows
include Aliens in America
and Bad Sex With Bud
Kemp (both off Broadway at Second Stage
Theatre), Sugar Plum
Fairy (Geffen Playhouse,
Seattle Repertory
Theatre), I Worry (Kennedy Center, Actors
Theatre of Louisville), and The Bitch Is Back
(Broad Stage). Her bestselling New York Times
Notable Book Mother on Fire was inspired by
her hit solo show in 2005, during which Variety
named her one of America’s 50 most influential comedians. Her memoir The Madwoman
in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones was
selected as one of 2014’s New York Times’ 100
Notable Books, and was inspired by her Best
American Essay in the Atlantic Monthly, for
which she is a contributing editor. After development workshops with Sundance Theatre
Lab and the Ojai Playwrights Conference, the
dramatic adaptation of Madwoman received
its world premiere at South Coast Repertory
in January of 2016, and ran subsequently at
the Pasadena Playhouse in June. The book has
since been optioned by Paramount Television.
Sandra has been a regular commentator on
npr’s Morning Edition, and on pri’s This American Life and Marketplace; her weekly segment
The Loh Life is heard on kpcc, and syndicated
radio minute The Loh Down on Science is heard
weekly by 4 million people over 150 public
radio stations. Sandra is an adjunct professor
at UC Irvine in drama and science communication. She is thrilled to be in Berkeley!
Caroline Aaron
AC T O R A
Caroline made her
Broadway debut in
Robert Altman’s Come
Back to the Five and
Dime, Jimmy Dean,
Jimmy Dean and later
appeared in the film.
She then went on to
star on Broadway in The
Iceman Cometh, Social
Security, I Hate Hamlet, and most recently in
Woody Allen’s Honeymoon Hotel. Caroline
worked extensively with the late director Mike
Nichols, first on Broadway and then in film
with Working Girl, Primary Colors, and What
Planet Are You From? Additionally she has
been a staple in other iconic works, including
Woody Allen’s films Crimes and Misdemeanors,
Alice, Bullets over Broadway, Husbands and
Wives, and Deconstructing Harry. She is also
a familiar face in Nora Ephron’s work, having
appeared in her films Sleepless in Seattle, This
Is My Life, Lucky Numbers, and the play Love,
profiles
Loss, and What I Wore. Theatre credits also
include Lincoln Center’s award–winning play
A Kid Like Jake, and the West Coast premiere
of Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig.
Other film credits include starring roles in
Golden Globe–nominated Beyond the Sea,
the cult favorite Edward Scissorhands, Bounce,
Hello My Name Is Doris alongside Sally Fields,
and the blockbuster hits 21 Jump Street and 22
Jump Street, among many others. Most recent
television credits include recurring roles in the
award–winning series Episodes and Transparent, and the cbs series Life in Pieces. Among
her numerous honors are Helen Hayes and
Drama–Logue awards (The Sisters Rosensweig)
and a Blockbuster Award for Best Supporting
Actress (Bounce). She has also starred in The
Madwoman in the Volvo productions at South
Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA and at
the Pasadena Playhouse. Caroline is also a
published author, and her original play Such a
Pretty Face is due to be produced this fall.
Shannon Holt
AC T O R B
Shannon is thrilled to
be making her Berkeley
Rep debut. She recently
performed in LA Theaterworks national tour
of Judgment in Nuremberg. Her regional
credits include South
Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Center
Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, Trinity Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Laguna Playhouse,
the Public Theater, and Actors Theatre of
Louisville. In Los Angeles, she has worked on
many stages including Evidence Room, Rogue
Machine Theatre, The Theatre @ Boston
Court, the Actors’ Gang, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, the Matrix Theatre Company, Los Angeles Theatre Center, East-West Players, and
the Antaeus Theater Company, where she is a
company member. She has received nominations and awards from LA Weekly, Stage Raw,
LA Stage Alliance Ovations, and Backstage
West. Her film and television credits include
The Marc Pease Experience, Elsewhere, The Suite
Life on Deck, Seinfeld, That ’70s Show, and ER,
among others.
Lisa Peterson
D I R E C T O R /A S S O C I AT E D I R E C T O R
Lisa is a two-time Obie Award–winning writer
and director who is currently the associate
director at Berkeley Rep. Previous projects
at the Theatre include It Can’t Happen Here
(2016); An Iliad (2012), which Lisa cowrote with
Denis O’Hare, and which won Obie and Lortel
Awards for Best Solo Performance; Mother
Courage (2006); The Fall (2001); and Antony &
Cleopatra (1999). For California Shakespeare
Theater, Lisa directed You Never Can Tell, King
Lear, The Winter’s Tale, All’s Well That Ends Well,
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and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Other recent West
Coast productions include Hamlet, Henry IV Pt
2, and Othello (Oregon Shakespeare Festival);
and Chavez Ravine (Ovation Award for Best
Production), Palestine New Mexico, Electricidad, Water & Power, The House of Bernarda
Alba, Body of Bourne, and Mules (Mark Taper
Forum). She has directed world premieres by
many major American writers, including Tony
Kushner, Beth Henley, Donald Margulies,
Jose Rivera, Ellen McLaughlin, Mac Wellman,
Marlane Meyer, Polly Pen, Naomi Wallace,
and many others. She regularly works at the
Guthrie Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville,
Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre,
Hartford Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre,
Arena Stage, O’Neill Playwrights Conference,
Ojai Playwrights Conference, and Sundance
Theatre Lab. Lisa and Denis are working on a
new play about faith and the Bible called The
Good Book, and a commission for the McCarter Theatre titled The Song of Rome. Lisa is also
writing a new music-theatre piece with Todd
Almond called The Idea of Order, co-commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep,
and Seattle Rep.
Rachel Hauck
SCENIC DESIGNER
Rachel’s Berkeley Rep credits include It Can’t
Happen Here, An Iliad, Mother Courage, Antony
& Cleopatra, and Valley Song. Her recent New
York credits include Hadestown (New York
Theatre Workshop); Tiny Beautiful Things and
Dry Powder (the Public Theater); All the Ways
to Say I Love You (mcc Theater); Antlia Pneumatica, Grand Concourse, Patron Saint of Sea
Monsters, The Call, and Go Back to Where You
Are (Playwrights Horizons); Night Is a Room,
Our Lady of Kibeho, and And I And Silence
(Signature Theatre); Bright Half Life (Women’s
Project Theater); To the Bone (Cherry Lane
Theatre); Hamlet in Bed and Stay (Rattlestick
Playwrights Theater); An Iliad (nytw, McCarter Theatre, tour); Slowgirl (lct3); Harper Regan and Bluebird (Atlantic Theater Company);
This Wide Night (Naked Angels); and Orange,
Hat & Grace (Soho Rep). Her recent regional
work includes Poster Boy and And No More
Shall We Part (Williamstown Theatre Festival);
Animal (Studio Theater in DC); The Good Book
(Court Theatre); Roe, Into the Woods, The Music
Man, and Othello (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Annenberg); and Clybourne Park and Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof (the Guthrie Theater), as well
as work at the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference
from 2005 to 2014. Rachel received the Princess Grace Award, Lilly Awards, and an Obie
Award for Sustained Excellence.
Candice Cain
COSTUME DESIGNER
Candice returns to Berkeley Rep after designing The Beauty Queen of Leenane. She designed
The Madwoman in the Volvo for South Coast
Repertory and Pasadena Playhouse. She has
been the costume director for Center Theatre
Group for 23 years and has designed the
following shows for the Mark Taper and Kirk
Douglas Theatre: different words for the same
thing, Nightingale with Lynn Redgrave, Stuff
Happens, Living Out, Stones in His Pockets,
The Body of Bourne, Blade to the Heat, Mules,
Neat, Dealer’s Choice, Tongue of a Bird (Intiman
Theatre and the Public Theater), Enigma
Variations with Donald Sutherland (Toronto
and London), and The Affliction of Glory (a
coproduction with the J. Paul Getty Museum),
among others. For South Coast Repertory,
Candice designed The Injured Party, Shipwrecked, A Feminine Ending, The Violet Hour,
Everett Beekin, Dinner with Friends, Collected
Stories, and Three Days of Rain (and Manhattan
Theatre Club). Other regional credits include
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Virginia Stage Company,
La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Stage Company,
Empty Space Theatre, and Evidence Room,
and she also designed Orphans with Al Pacino
at Greenway Court.
Geoff Korf
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Geoff is a member of the ensemble of
Cornerstone Theater Company, where he
has designed nearly 40 productions over the
past 24 years. He also designed lighting for
the South Coast Repertory productions of
Sight Unseen, Taking Steps, Bach at Leipzig, The
Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Lovers and
Executioners, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The
Dazzle, Making It, Hold Please, Art, Entertaining
Mr. Sloane, Amy’s View, Two Sisters and a Piano,
The Summer Moon, and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot. His designs also have
appeared in productions at La Jolla Playhouse,
the Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory
Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Intiman
Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Long
Beach Opera, San Francisco Opera, Goodman
Theatre, Trinity Repertory, Yale Repertory
Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Actors
Theatre of Louisville, Guthrie Theater, and on
Broadway. Geoff is a graduate of California
State University, Chico, and the Yale School of
Drama. He also serves as the head of design at
the University of Washington in Seattle.
Lindsay Jones
ORIGINAL MUSIC AND
SOUND DESIGNER
Lindsay’s Broadway credits include A Time to
Kill and Bronx Bombers. His off-Broadway credits include Privacy, Dry Powder, and Barbecue
(the Public Theater), Bootycandy (Playwrights
Horizons), Mr. Joy (lct3), Top Secret (New
York Theatre Workshop), Rx (Primary Stages),
and many others. His regional credits include
the Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Alliance
Theatre, Goodman Theatre, the Old Globe,
American Conservatory Theater, Chicago
Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre
Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, and
many others. His international credits include
work as Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada), Royal Shakespeare Company (England),
as well as productions in Ireland, Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Scotland. Lindsay received seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and 24
nominations, two Ovation Awards and three
nominations, an L.A. Drama Critics Circle
Award, three Drama Desk Award nominations,
two Helen Hayes nominations, two Barrymore
nominations, as well as many others. Film
scoring credits include Magnolia Pictures’ The
Brass Teapot and hbo Films’ A Note of Triumph
(2006 Academy Award, Best Documentary).
Visit lindsayjones.com.
Jerry Patch
D R A M AT U R G
Jerry was affiliated with South Coast Repertory from 1967–2005 and returned in 2014 as
literary consultant. He served as dramaturg
on nearly 150 new plays developed and seen
at scr including the world premieres of Abundance, Freedomland, Golden Child, Intimate
Apparel, Search and Destroy, Three Days of
Rain, and Wit. His dramatic writing has been
produced at South Coast Repertory and other
theatres, and on television. He was project
director of scr’s Pacific Playwrights Festival
from its inception in 1998 through 2005 and,
for seven years, served as artistic director of
the theatre program of Sundance Institute. As
a professor of theatre and film, he taught at
Long Beach City College, UC Irvine, UC San
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Diego, csu Long Beach, and other institutions.
He was consulting dramaturg for New York’s
Roundabout Theatre Company for nearly a
decade and left scr to become resident artistic director for the Old Globe in San Diego.
He is now artistic development consultant
following seven seasons as director of artistic
development for Manhattan Theatre Club in
New York.
Marcy Victoria Reed
S TAG E M A N AG E R
Marcy, a stage and events manager, is delighted to join Berkeley Rep for the first time.
Credits include TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
(Sweeney Todd, the Gala presentations of
Emma and Maria), San Jose Repertory Theatre
(Crime and Punishment, Big Meal), the Old
Globe (Fiasco’s adaptation of Into the Woods),
La Jolla Playhouse (Sleeping Beauty Wakes,
An Iliad), McCarter Theatre Center (Into the
Woods, Are You There McPhee?, The Convert,
Sleeping Beauty Wakes, A Christmas Carol,
The How and the Why, An Iliad), New York
Theatre Workshop (An Iliad, Belleville), Milwaukee Repertory Theater (The Whipping Man),
Transcendence Theatre Company (Broadway
Under the Stars 2013/2014), and 24 Hour Musicals on Broadway 2010–2013. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater,
holds a bfa in Stage Management, and is a
proud former McCarter Theater Stage
Management Intern.
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Frier McCollister
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Four floors
of fabulous fabrics
since 1952.
s.l.f.m. inc. is a management and production company based in Los Angeles, CA. Frier
McCollister is a principal managing partner of
s.l.f.m. inc. and is an independent theatrical producer and general manager based in
Los Angeles. He produced the West Coast
premieres of Sandra Tsing Loh’s first two solo
shows, Aliens in America and Bad Sex with
Bud Kemp, both at the Tiffany Theatre, and
the world premieres of her subsequent four
shows: I Worry, Sugar Plum Fairy (in association with Seattle Repertory Theatre), Mother
on Fire, and The Bitch Is Back (in association
with the Broad Stage.) He is also currently the
managing director of ldos media lab, inc.
the nonprofit production company that produces and distributes The Loh Down on Science.
Tony Taccone
MICHAEL LEIBERT
ARTISTIC DIREC TOR
During Tony’s tenure as artistic director of
Berkeley Rep, the Tony Award–winning nonprofit has earned a reputation as an international leader in innovative theatre. In those
19 years, Berkeley Rep has presented more
than 70 world, American, and West Coast
premieres and sent 23 shows to New York, two
to London, and one to Hong Kong. Tony has
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staged more than 40 plays in Berkeley, including new work from Julia Cho, John Leguizamo,
Culture Clash, Rinde Eckert, David Edgar,
Danny Hoch, Geoff Hoyle, Itamar Moses,
and Lemony Snicket. He directed the shows
that transferred to London, Continental Divide
and Tiny Kushner, and two that landed on
Broadway as well: Bridge & Tunnel and Wishful
Drinking. Prior to working at Berkeley Rep,
Tony served as artistic director of Eureka Theatre, which produced the American premieres
of plays by Dario Fo, Caryl Churchill, and David
Edgar before focusing on a new generation of
American writers. While at the Eureka, Tony
commissioned Tony Kushner’s legendary
Angels in America and co-directed its world
premiere. He has collaborated with Kushner
on eight plays at Berkeley Rep, including The
Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism
and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. Tony’s
regional credits include Actors Theatre of
Louisville, Arena Stage, Center Theatre Group,
the Eureka Theatre, the Guthrie Theater,
the Huntington Theatre Company, Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, the Public Theater, and
Seattle Repertory Theatre. As a playwright, he
debuted Ghost Light, Rita Moreno: Life Without
Makeup, and Game On, written with Dan
Hoyle. In 2012, Tony received the Margo Jones
Award for “demonstrating a significant impact,
understanding, and affirmation of playwriting,
with a commitment to the living theatre.”
Susan Medak
M A N AG I N G D I R E C T O R
Susan has served as Berkeley Rep’s managing
director since 1990, leading the administration
and operations of the Theatre. She has served
as president of the League of Resident Theatres (lort) and treasurer of Theatre Communications Group, organizations that represent
the interests of nonprofit theatres across the
nation. Susan chaired panels for the Massachusetts Arts Council and has also served on
program panels for Arts Midwest, the Joyce
Foundation, and the National Endowment for
the Arts. Closer to home, Susan serves on the
board of the Downtown Berkeley Association (dba). She is the founding chair of the
Berkeley Arts in Education Steering Committee for Berkeley Unified School District and
the Berkeley Cultural Trust. She was awarded
the 2012 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal by the
Berkeley Community Fund. Susan serves on
the faculty of Yale School of Drama and is a
proud member of the Mont Blanc Ladies’
Literary Guild and Trekking Society. During her
time in Berkeley, Susan has been instrumental
in the construction of the Roda Theatre, the
Nevo Education Center, the renovation of
the Peet’s Theatre, and in the acquisition of
both the Osher Studio and the Harrison
Street campus.
Theresa Von Klug
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G E N E R A L M A N AG E R
Before joining Berkeley Rep, Theresa had
over 20 years of experience in the New York
not-for-profit performing arts sector where
she has planned and executed events for
dance, theatre, music, television, and film. Her
previous positions include the interim general manager for the Public Theater; general
manager/line producer for Theatre for a New
Audience, where she opened its new state-ofthe-art theatre in Brooklyn and filmed a major
motion picture of the inaugural production
of Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
released June 2015; production manager at
the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and
New York City Center, including the famous
Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert;
and field representative/lead negotiator for
the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and
Managers. She holds a MS in Labor Relations
and Human Resources Management from
Baruch College.
Peter Dean
P R O D U C T I O N M A N AG E R
Peter began his Berkeley Rep career in 2014,
and since then some his favorite productions
include Party People, X’s and O’s (A Football
Love Story), and Aubergine. Previously, he
served as production manager at the Public
Theater, where favorite works include Here
Lies Love, Father Comes Home from the War
Parts 1–3, Mobile Shakespeare, and The Tempest
as well as musical collaborations with Sting,
the Roots, and the Eagles. Peter also helped
Alex Timbers develop Rocky the Musical, The
Last Goodbye, and the cult classic Dance Dance
Revolution the Musical. Other favorites include
working with Edward Albee to remount The
Sandbox and The American Dream at their
original home at the Cherry Lane Theatre,
working on Little Flower of East Orange
directed by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman,
and being a part of the development team
for The Ride, an interactive four-mile traveling
performance in the heart of Times Square.
Regionally Peter has worked with the Huntington Theatre Company, American Repertory
Theater, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Trinity
Rep, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Colorado
Ballet, Central City Opera, and the Denver
Center Theatre Company. Peter is a graduate
of Otterbein University.
Madeleine Oldham
R E S I D E N T D R A M AT U R G/
D I R E C T O R , T H E G R O U N D F LO O R
Madeleine is the director of The Ground Floor:
Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and
Development of New Work and the Theatre’s
resident dramaturg. She oversees commissioning and new play development, and dramaturged the world premiere productions of
Aubergine, The House that will not Stand, Passing Strange, and In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), among others. As literary manager
and associate dramaturg at Center Stage in
Baltimore, she produced the First Look reading series and headed up its young audience
initiative. Before moving to Baltimore, she
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was the literary manager at Seattle Children’s
Theatre, where she oversaw an extensive
commissioning program. She also acted as assistant and interim literary manager at Intiman
Theatre in Seattle. Madeleine served for four
years on the executive committee of Literary
Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
and has also worked with act (Seattle), Austin
Scriptworks, Crowded Fire, the Eugene O’Neill
Theatre Center, the Kennedy Center, New
Dramatists, Playwrights Center, and Portland
Center Stage.
Amy Potozkin, csa
D I R E C T O R O F C A S T I N G/
A R T I S T I C A S S O C I AT E
This is Amy’s 27th season at Berkeley Rep.
Through the years she has also had the pleasure of casting plays for act (Seattle), Arizona
Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, B
Street Theatre, Bay Area Playwrights Festival,
Dallas Theater Center, Marin Theatre Company, the Marsh, San Jose Repertory Theatre,
Social Impact Productions Inc., and Traveling
Jewish Theatre. Amy cast roles for various
independent films, including Conceiving Ada,
starring Tilda Swinton; Haiku Tunnel and Love
& Taxes, both by Josh Kornbluth; and Beyond
Redemption by Britta Sjogren. Amy received
her mfa from Brandeis University, where she
was also an artist in residence. She has been
an audition coach to hundreds of actors and a
presentation/communication coach to many
businesspeople. Amy taught acting at Mills
College and audition technique at Berkeley
Rep’s School of Theatre, and has led workshops at numerous other venues in the Bay
Area. Prior to working at Berkeley Rep, she
was an intern at Playwrights Horizons in New
York. Amy is a member of csa, the Casting
Society of America, and was nominated for
Artios Awards for Excellence in Casting for The
Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism
and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures and
One Man, Two Guvnors.
Michael Suenkel
P R O D U C T I O N S TAG E M A N AG E R
Michael began his association with Berkeley
Rep as the stage management intern for the
1984–85 season and is now in his 23rd year
as production stage manager. Some of his
favorite shows include 36 Views, Endgame,
Eurydice, Hydriotaphia, and Mad Forest. He has
also worked with the Barbican in London, the
Huntington Theatre Company, the Juste Pour
Rire Festival in Montreal, La Jolla Playhouse,
Pittsburgh Public Theater, the Public Theater
and Second Stage Theater in New York, and
Yale Repertory Theatre. For the Magic Theatre, he stage managed Albert Takazauckas’
Breaking the Code and Sam Shepard’s The Late
Henry Moss.
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Jack & Betty Schafer
SEASON SPONSORS
Betty and Jack are proud to support Berkeley
Rep. Jack just rotated off the Theatre’s board
and is now on the boards of San Francisco
Opera and the Straus Historical Society. He is
an emeritus trustee of the San Francisco Art
Institute and the Oxbow School. Betty is on
the board of EarthJustice, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, and Sponsors of
Educational Opportunity. In San Francisco, she
is engaged in the launch of “Wise Aging,” a
program for adults addressing the challenges
of growing older. They have three daughters
and eight grandchildren. Michael & Sue Steinberg
SEASON SPONSORS
Michael and Sue have been interested in the
arts since they met and enjoy music, ballet,
and live theatre. Michael, who recently retired
as chairman and chief executive officer of
Macy’s West, served on Berkeley Rep’s board
of trustees from 1999 to 2006 and currently
serves on the board of directors of the Jewish
Museum. Sue serves on the board of the
World of Children. The Steinbergs have always
enjoyed regional theatre and are delighted to
sponsor Berkeley Rep this season.
The Strauch Kulhanjian Family
SEASON SPONSORS
Roger Strauch is a former president of
Berkeley Rep’s board of trustees and is
currently vice president of the board. He is
chairman of the Roda Group (rodagroup.com),
a venture-development company based in
Berkeley, focused on cleantech investments,
best known for launching Ask.com and for
being an early investor in TerraVia (nasdaq:
tvia, terravia.com), a next-generation food,
nutrition, and specialty ingredients company
that harnesses the power of algae. Roger
is chairman of the board of CoolSystems, a
medical technology company, and chairman
of the board of trustees for the Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute. He is a member
of the UC Berkeley Engineering Dean’s college
advisory board; a member of the board of
Northside Center, a mental-health services
agency based in Harlem, New York City; and
a co-founder of the William Saroyan Program
in Armenian Studies at Cal. Roger also leads
the Mosse Art Restitution Project, which
searches for family art illegally confiscated
during Germany’s Third Reich. His wife, Julie
A. Kulhanjian, is an attending physician at
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We thank the many individuals in our community who help Berkeley Rep produce
adventurous, thought-provoking, and thrilling theatre and bring arts education to thousands
of young people every year. We gratefully recognize these donors to Berkeley Rep’s Annual
Fund, who made their gifts between August 2015 and October 2016.
To make your gift and join this distinguished group, visit berkeleyrep.org/give or call 510 647-2906.
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Charlotte & Adolph Martinelli
Rebecca Martinez
Erin McCune
Kirk McKusick & Eric Allman
Dan Miller
Andy & June Monach
Scott Montgomery & Marc Rand
Jerry Mosher
Marvin & Neva Moskowitz
Daniel Murphy
Judith & Richard Oken
Sheldeen Osborne
Judy O’Young, MD & Gregg Hauser
Gerane Wharton Park
Bob & MaryJane Pauley
Tom & Kathy Pendleton
David & Bobbie Pratt
Linda Protiva
Andrew Raskopf &
David Gunderman
Bill Reuter & Ruth Major
Matt Pagel & Corey Revilla
John & Jody Roberts
Leigh Robinson
Deborah Romer & William Tucker
Boyard & Anne Rowe
Lisa Salomon & Scott Forrest
Monica Salusky &
John K. Sutherland
Jeane & Roger Samuelsen
Stephen C. Schaefer
Jackie & Paul Schaeffer
Dan Scharlin & Sara Katz
Joyce & Jim Schnobrich
Neal Shorstein, MD &
Christopher Doane, in honor of
Gail Wagner, MD
Edie Silber & Steve Bomse
Dave & Lori Simpson
Margaret Skornia
Cherida Collins Smith
Sherry & David Smith
Alice & Scott So
Valerie Sopher
David G. Steele
Gary & Jana Stein
Stephen Stublarec &
Debra S. Belaga
Duncan Susskind K
Alison Teeman &
Michael Yovino-Young
Susan Terris
Samuel Test
Michael Tubach & Amrita Singhal
William van Dyk & Margi Sullivan
Jonathan & Kiyo Weiss
Wendy Willrich
Charles & Nancy Wolfram
Sam & Joyce Zanze
Mark Zitter & Jessica Nutik Zitter
Jane & Mark Zuercher
LEGEND
K in-kind gift
M matching gift
We are pleased to recognize
first-time donors to
Berkeley Rep, whose names
appear in italics.
CH A M PIO N S
$ 1,0 0 0 –1, 49 9
Anonymous (5) · Tracy Achorn · Abbey Alkon
& Jonathan Leonard · Gertrude E. Allen, in
memory of Robert Allen · Roy & Judith Alper ·
Elisabeth Andreason & Melissa Allen · Marcia
& George Argyris · Ross E. Armstrong · Patti
Bittenbender · Eric Brink & Gayle Vassar M ·
Davis Carniglia & Mary-Claire Baker · Paula
Carrell · Stan & Stephanie Casper · Leslie
Chatham & Kathie Weston · Ed & Lisa Chilton ·
Patty & Geoff Chin · Roberta Christianson, in
memory of Bea · John & Izzie Crane M · Mike &
Pam Crane · Abby & Ross Davisson · Harry &
Susan Dennis · Robert Deutsch · Paul
Feigenbaum & Judy Kemeny · Dean Francis ·
Judith & Alex Glass · Glennis Lees & Michael
Glazeski · Kim Golden & Jean Suda in honor of
Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer · Tim & Mary
Haifley · Ann Harriman, in memory of
Malcolm White · Dan & Shawna Hartman
Brotsky M · Mr. & Mrs. Harold M. Isbell ·
Randall Johnson · Barbara E. Jones, in memory
of William E. Jones · Corrina Jones · Dennis
Kaump · Marilyn Kecso · Christopher Killian &
Carole Ungvarsky · Janet Kornegay & Dan
Sykes · Susilpa Lakireddy · Ms. Sidne S. Long ·
John E. Matthews · Susan & J. Patterson
McBaine · Brian & Britt-Marie Morris · Margo
Murray · Claire Noonan & Peter Landsberger ·
Lynette Pang & Michael Man · Regina Phelps ·
Gary F. Pokorny · Kent Rasmussen & Celia
Ramsay · Charles Rice · Gregg Richardson &
Lee Mingwei K · Helen Richardson · Maxine
We gratefully recognize
the following members
of the Annual Fund whose
contributions were
received from September
to October 2016:
Risley, in memory of James Risley · Horacio &
Angela Rodriguez · Rosov Consulting ·
Deborah Dashow Ruth, in memory of Leo P.
Ruth · Teddy & Bruce Schwab · Seiger Family
Foundation · Brenda Buckhold Shank, M.D.,
Ph.D. · John St. Dennis & Roy Anati · Monroe
W. Strickberger · Pate & Judy Thomson · Prof.
Jeremy Thorner & Dr. Carol Mimura · Alistair
& Nellie Thornton · Sallie Weissinger
A DVO C AT E S
$500–999
Anonymous (18) · Anonymous, in honor of
Ruth & George Staten · Fred & Kathleen
Allen · Robert & Evelyn Apte · Steven &
Barbara Aumer-Vail · Todd & Diane Baker ·
Celia Bakke · Steven Beckendorf & Cynthia
Hill · Richard & Kathy Berman · Robert
Berman & Jane Ginsburg · Steve Bischoff · The
Blackman Family · Gun Bolin · Ellen Brackman
& Deborah Randolph · Diane Brett · Craig
Broscow M · Dr. Paula Campbell · Robert &
Margaret Cant · Bruce Carlton · John Carr ·
Kim & Dawn Chase · Laura Chenel · Karen
Clayton & Stephen Clayton · Chris & Martie
Conner · Michael & Denise Coyne · Sharon &
Ed Cushman · Jill & Evan Custer · Robert &
Loni Dantzler · Pat & Steve Davis · Jacqueline
Desoer · Amar Doshi · Anita C. Eblé · Roger &
Jane Emanuel · Joseph & Judith Epstein · Gini
Erck & David Petta · Michael Evanhoe · James
Finefrock & Harriet Hamlin · Brigitte & Louis
Fisher · Martin & Barbara Fishman · Midge
Fox K · Harvey & Deana Freedman · David
S U PP O R T E R S
$ 2 5 0 –49 9
Barbara Benware · Geri & Martin Brownstein ·
Dorothy & Michael Herman · Cynthia Sears
CO N T RIB U TO R S
$ 15 0 –2 49
Anonymous (2) · Elizabeth Balderston · Natalie
Forrest & Douglas Sprague · Virginia M.
Menezes · Kenneth & Joyce Scheidig
FRIE N D S
$ 75 –149
Anonymous (2) · Monique Adam · Jeffrey &
Karen Banks · Maria Boisvert · Karen Broido ·
Sustaining members
as of October 2016:
Anonymous (6)
Norman Abramson &
David Beery
Sam Ambler
Carl W. Arnoult &
Aurora Pan
Ken & Joni Avery
Nancy Axelrod
Edith Barschi
Neil & Gene Barth
Susan & Barry Baskin
Carole B. Berg
Linda Brandenburger
Broitman-Basri Family
Bruce Carlton &
Richard G. McCall
Stephen K. Cassidy
Paula Champagne &
David Watson
Andrew Daly & Jody Taylor
M. Laina Dicker
Thalia Dorwick
Rich & Robin Edwards
Thomas W. Edwards &
Rebecca Parlette-Edwards
Bill & Susan Epstein
William Espey & Margaret
Hart Edwards
Carol & John Field
Dr. Stephen E. Follansbee &
Dr. Richard A. Wolitz
Kerry Francis
Dr. Harvey & Deana Freedman
Joseph & Antonia Friedman
Paul T. Friedman
Dr. John Frykman
Laura K. Fujii
David Gaskin &
Phillip McPherson
Marjorie Ginsburg &
Howard Slyter
Mary & Nicholas Graves
Elizabeth Greene
Jon & Becky Grether
Gaskin & Phillip McPherson · Tim
Geoghegan · Barry & Erica Goode · Jane
Gottesman & Geoffrey Biddle · Gene
Gottfried · Priscilla Green, in honor of Maya
& Rico Green · Don & Becky Grether · Ken &
Karen Harley · Janet Harris · Geoffrey &
Marin-Shawn Haynes · Irene & Robert Hepps ·
Dixie Hersh · Fran Hildebrand · Alex Ingersoll
& Martin Tannenbaum · Pam & Ted Johann M ·
Charles & Laurie Kahn · Patricia Kaplan · Pat
Kelly & Jennifer Doebler · Kimberly J.
Kenley-Salarpi · Beth & Tim Kientzle M · Sue
Fisher King · Jack & Birthe Kirsch · Susan Klee
& David Stoloff · Jeff Klingman & Deborah
Sedberry · Judith Knoll · Joan & David
Komaromi · Natalie Lagorio · Jane & Michael
Larkin · David & Mari Lee · Henry Lerner ·
Renee M. Linde · Mark & Roberta Linsky ·
Dottie Lofstrom · Bruce Maigatter & Pamela
Partlow · Joan & Roger Mann · Sue & Phil
Marineau · Caroline McCall & Eric Martin ·
Daniel & Beverlee McFadden · Brian McRee ·
Ruth Medak · Jamie Miller, in memory of
Helene Sabin · Marlene & Stephen Miller · Jeff
Miner · Geri Monheimer · James & Katherine
Moule · James Musbach · Ron Nakayama ·
Greg Neukirchner · Jeanne E. Newman · Pier &
Barbara Oddone, in memory of Michael
Leibert · Judy Ogle · Peggy O’Neill · Carol J.
Ormond · Nancy Park · Brian D. Parsons ·
James Pawlak · Kyle Peacock · P. David
Pearson · Bob & Toni Peckham, in honor of
Robert M. Peckham, Jr. · Paul & Suzanne
Peterson · Anne Petrowsky · James F. Pine M ·
F. Anthony Placzek · Malcolm & Ann Plant ·
Charles Pollack & Joanna Cooper · Susie & Eric
Poncelet · Timothy & Marilyn Potter · Roxann
R. Preston · Rich Price · Laurel & Gerald
Przybylski · Lois & Dan Purkett · Kathleen
Quenneville · David & Mary Ramos · Sheldon
& Catherine Ramsay · Paul & Margaret
Robbins · Rick & Stephanie Rogers · Dorothy
R. Saxe · Joyce & Kenneth Scheidig · Bob &
Gloria Schiller · Mark Schoenrock & Claudia
Fenelon · Dr. David Schulz M · Cynthia Sears ·
Steve & Susan Shortell · Ruth Simon · William
& Martha Slavin · Carra Sleight · Suzanne
Slyman · Jerry & Dick Smallwood · Sigrid
Snider · Louis & Bonnie Spiesberger · Robert
& Naomi Stamper · Herbert Steierman · Annie
Stenzel · Lynn M. & A. Justin Sterling · Dr. &
Mrs. Joseph Terdiman · Tracy Thompson ·
Karen Tiedemann & Geoff Piller · Mike & Ellen
Turbow · Dean Ujihara · Sharon Ulrich &
Marlowe Ng · Mark Valentine & Stacy
Leier-Valentine · Gerald & Ruth Vurek · Adrian
Walker · Louise & Larry Walker · Buddy & Jodi
Warner · Dena & Wayne Watson-Lamprey ·
Mike Weinberger & Julianne Lindemann ·
Harvey & Rhona Weinstein · William R. Weir ·
Robert & Sheila Weisblatt · Dr. Ben & Mrs.
Carolyn Werner · Elizabeth Werter & Henry
Trevor · Robert T. Weston · Sharon & Kenneth
Wilson · Fred Winslow & Barbara Baratta ·
Laura & Ernest Winslow · Margaret Wu &
Ciara Cox · Lee Yearley & Sally Gressens ·
Sandra Yuen & Lawrence Shore
Marilyn Berg Cooper · John Crowe · Janet
Goldberg · Holly Hagens · John & Linda
McClain · Karen McLennan · Aliza and Peter
Metzner · Julia Mickenberg, in honor of Seth
Mickenberg and Fredo Silva · Gail & Gerald
Pogoriler · Anya Raredon, in honor of Seth
Mickenberg and Alfredo Silva · Margaret
Shelleda · Norman Zilber
Joanne Connelly · Robert Currier · Lori DeLappeGrondin · Joy Elkinton-Walker · Bernice Ellison ·
Caryll Farrer · William Greenberg · William
Jackson · Carole Johnson · Keisha Jones · Joseph
King · Elizabeth J. Knowles · Marc Larby ·
Stephen Levine · Judith Linsenberg, in memory of
Myrna Linsenberg · James Lockwood-Stewart ·
Karol Luque · Mr. William Martinelli · Kathleen
McNamara · Catinca Negru · Frankie Nielsen ·
Patricia A. Pfeiffer · Janet Podell · Jocelyn Poulin ·
Bill Powers · Kelsey Quaranto · Robert Remiker ·
Laura Robinson · Elisabeth Rothenberger ·
Peter Samis · Carol Savio · Anne Scott · Anand
Swaminathan · Lynn Watson & Debra Klinck ·
Paul Weir · Shawna Werle
PAT RO N S
$ 1 –74
Anonymous (2) · Andrew M. Ach · Charles
Anderson · Roberta Archibald · Betty
Bell-Amarant · Lara Blair · Victoria Carlin ·
Paula Chaffee · Stephen A. Coffin · Linda Cole ·
Richard & Lois Halliday
Julie & Paul Harkness
Linda & Bob Harris
Fred Hartwick
Ruth Hennigar
Douglas J. Hill
Hoskins/Frame Family Trust
Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley
Robin C. Johnson
Lynn Eve Komaromi
Bonnie McPherson Killip
Scott & Kathy Law
Zandra Faye LeDuff
Ines R. Lewandowitz
Dot Lofstrom
Dale & Don Marshall
Sumner & Hermine Marshall
Rebecca Martinez
Suzanne & Charles
McCulloch
John G. McGehee
Miles & Mary Ellen McKey
Margaret D. & Winton McKibben
Susan Medak &
Greg Murphy
Stephanie Mendel
Toni Mester
Shirley & Joe Nedham
Pam & Mitch Nichter
Sheldeen G. Osborne
Sharon Ott
Amy Pearl Parodi
Barbara L. Peterson
Regina Phelps
Margaret Phillips
Marjorie Randolph
Bonnie Ring Living Trust
Tom Roberts
David Rovno
Tracie E. Rowson
Deborah Dashow Ruth
Patricia Sakai &
Richard Shapiro
Betty & Jack Schafer
Brenda Buckhold Shank,
M.D., Ph.D.
Kevin Shoemaker
Valerie Sopher
Michael & Sue Steinberg
Dr. Douglas & Anne Stewart
Jean Strunsky
Henry Timnick
Guy Tiphane
Phillip & Melody Trapp
Janis Kate Turner
Dorothy Walker
Weil Family Trust—
Weil Family
Karen & Henry Work
Martin & Margaret Zankel
Gifts received by
Berkeley Rep:
Anonymous
Estate of Suzanne Adams
Estate of Helen Barber
Estate of Fritzi Benesch
Estate of Nelly Berteaux
Estate of Jill Bryans
Estate of Nancy Croley
Estate of John E. &
Helen A. Manning
Estate of Richard Markell
Estate of Gladys
Perez-Mendez
Estate of Margaret Purvine
Estate of Leigh & Ivy Robinson
Estate of Stephen C. Schaefer
Estate of Peter Sloss
Estate of Harry Weininger
Estate of Grace Williams
Members of this Society, which is named in honor of Founding Director Michael W. Leibert, have designated Berkeley Rep in their estate plans. Unless the donor specifies otherwise,
planned gifts become a part of Berkeley Rep’s endowment, where they will provide the financial stability that enables Berkeley Rep to maintain the highest standards of artistic
excellence, support new work, and serve the community with innovative education and outreach programs, year after year, in perpetuity.
For more information on becoming a member, visit our website at berkeleyrep.org/mls or contact Daria Hepps at 510 647-2904 or [email protected].
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We thank the many institutional partners who enrich our community by
championing Berkeley Rep’s artistic and community outreach programs.
We gratefully recognize these donors to Berkeley Rep’s Annual Fund, who
made their gifts between August 2015 and October 2016.
G IF T S O F $ 10 0,0 0 0 A N D A B OV E
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
G IF T S O F $50,0 0 0 –9 9,9 9 9
Edgerton Foundation
The Reva and David Logan Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
The Bernard Osher Foundation
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
BE R K E L E Y R E P T H A N K S
G IF T S O F $2 5,0 0 0 –49,9 9 9
Anonymous
BayTree Fund
The Frank H. & Eva B. Buck Foundation
The Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Philanthropic Fund
Wallis Foundation
Woodlawn Foundation
Institutional Partners
G IF T S O F $5,0 0 0 –9,9 9 9
Anonymous
Berkeley Civic Arts Program
Distracted Globe Foundation
Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
Ramsay Family Foundation
Karl & Alice Ruppenthal Foundation for the Arts
G IF T S O F $ 1,0 0 0 –4,9 9 9
Joyce & William Brantman Foundation
Civic Foundation
jec Foundation
twanda Foundation
COR P OR AT E S P ON S OR S
SEASON SPONSORS
G I F T S O F $ 10 0,0 0 0 A N D A B OV E
SPONSORS
G I F T S O F $ 3,0 0 0 – 5,9 9 9
Mechanics Bank Wealth Management
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Bayer
Gallagher Risk Management Services
Macy’s
CO R P O R AT E PA R T N E R S
G I F T S O F $ 6,0 0 0 –11,9 9 9
E XECU TIV E S P O N S O R S
G I F T S O F $ 2 5,0 0 0 –49,9 9 9
PE R FO R M A N CE S P O N S O R S
G I F T S O F $ 12 ,0 0 0 –2 4 ,9 9 9
Armanino llp
City National Bank
Deloitte
Panoramic Interests
Schoenberg Family Law Group
American Express
B U S IN E S S M E M B E R S
G I F T S O F $ 1, 5 0 0 –2 ,9 9 9
Aspiriant Wealth Management
BluesCruise.com
McCutcheon Construction
Oliver & Company
Perforce Foundation
Is your company a corporate sponsor? Berkeley Rep’s Corporate Partnership program offers excellent
opportunities to network, entertain clients, reward employees, increase visibility, and support the arts
and arts education in the community.
For details visit berkeleyrep.org/support or call Daria Hepps at 510 647-2904.
I N-K I N D S P ON S OR S
act Catering
Almare Gelato Italiano
Angeline’s Louisiana Kitchen
Aurora Catering
Autumn Press
B&B Kitchen & Bar
Bare Snacks
Bistro Liaison
Bogatin, Corman & Gold
brk
Cancun
Comal
Domaine Carneros by Taittinger
Donkey & Goat Winery
Drake’s Brewing Company
East Bay Spice Company
Eureka!
five
Folie à Deux
Gecko Gecko
Hafner Vineyard
Hugh Groman Catering &
Greenleaf Platters
Jazzcaffè
La Mediterranee
La Note
Latham & Watkins llp
Match Vineyards
Mayer Brown llp
Pathos Organic Greek Kitchen
Phil’s Sliders
Picante
PiQ
Platano Salvadoran Cuisine
Quady Winery
Revival Bar + Kitchen
Robert Meyer’s Mangia
Nosh Catering
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St. George Spirits
Suya African Carribbean Grill
Sweet Adeline
Tigerlily
Venus Restaurant
Whole Foods Market
Hotel Shattuck Plaza is the
official hotel of Berkeley Rep.
Pro-bono legal services are
generously provided by
Latham & Watkins llp and
Mayer Brown llp
M AT C H I NG G I F T S
The following companies have matched their
employees’ contributions to Berkeley Rep. Please
contact your company’s HR office to find out if your
company matches gifts.
Adobe Systems Inc. · Advent Software · American
Express · Apple · Applied Materials · Argo Group ·
at&t · Bank of America · BlackRock · Bristol Myers
Squibb · Charles Schwab & Co, Inc · Chevron
Corporation · Clorox · Constellation Energy · Dolby ·
Gap · Genentech · Google · ibm Corporation · John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. · kla Tencor · Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory · Macy’s Inc. · Matson
Navigation Company · Microsoft · Morrison &
Foerster · norcal Mutual Insurance Company ·
Nvidia · Oracle Corporation · Salesforce.com · Shell
Oil · Sidley Austin llp, San Francisco · Synopsys · The
Walt Disney Company · Union Bank, The Private
Bank · visa u.s.a., Inc.
BOA R D OF
T RU ST E E S
BE R K E L E Y R E P STA F F
Michael Leibert Artistic Director
Tony Taccone
Managing Director
Susan Medak
General Manager Theresa Von Klug
ARTISTIC
Director of Casting &
Artistic Associate
Amy Potozkin
Director, The Ground Floor/
Resident Dramaturg
Madeleine Oldham
Literary Manager
Sarah Rose Leonard
Artistic Associate
Katie Craddock
Associate Director
Lisa Peterson
Associate Artist
Liesl Tommy
TCG Artist-in-Residence
Reggie D. White
Artists under Commission
Todd Almond · Christina Anderson ·
Jackie Sibblies Drury · Dave Malloy ·
Lisa Peterson · Sarah Ruhl · Tori
Sampson · Joe Waechter
Draper
Alex Zeek
Tailor
Kathy Kellner Griffith
First Hand
Janet Conery
Wardrobe Supervisor
Barbara Blair
P R ODUC T ION
Production Manager
Peter Dean
Associate Production Manager
Amanda Williams O’Steen
Company Manager
Jean-Paul Gressieux
Production Driver
Johnny Van Chang
A DM I N I S T R AT ION
Controller
Suzanne Pettigrew
Associate General Manager/
Human Resources Manager
David Lorenc
Associate Managing Director/
Manager, The Ground Floor
Sarah Williams
Executive Assistant
Kate Gorman
Bookkeeper
Kristine Taylor
Human Resources Administrator
Rhonda Scott
Associate Controller
Eric Ipsen
Director of Technology
Gustav Davila
Tessitura User Interaction
Administrator
Destiny Askin
Desktop Support Specialist
Dianne Brenner
S TAG E M A NAG E M E N T
Production Stage Manager
Michael Suenkel
Stage Managers
Leslie M. Radin · Karen Szpaller ·
Julie Haber · Kimberly Mark Webb
Production Assistants
Amanda Mason · Sofie Miller ·
Betsy Norton
S TA G E OP E R AT ION S
Stage Supervisor
Julia Englehorn
P R OP E R T I E S
Properties Supervisor
Jillian A. Green
Associate Properties Supervisor
Gretta Grazier
Properties Artisan
Viqui Peralta
S C E N E S HOP
Technical Director
Jim Smith
Associate Technical Director
Matt Rohner
Shop Foreman
Sam McKnight
Master Carpenter
Jamaica Montgomery-Glenn
Carpenters
Patrick Keene · Read Tuddenham
SCENIC ART
Charge Scenic Artist
Lisa Lázár
COSTUMES
Costume Director
Maggi Yule
Associate Costume Director/
Hair and Makeup Supervisor
Amy Bobeda
ELECTRICS
Master Electrician
Frederick C. Geffken
Production Electricians
Christine Cochrane · Kenneth Coté
S OU N D A N D V I DE O
Sound Supervisor
James Ballen
Sound Engineers
Angela Don · Annemarie Scerra
Video Supervisor
Alex Marshall
DE V E L OPM E N T
Director of Development
Lynn Eve Komaromi
Associate Director of Development
Daria Hepps
Director of Individual Giving
Laura Fichtenberg
Director of Special Events
Julie Cervetto
Individual Giving Manager
Joanna Taber
Institutional Giving Manager
Cindy Cesca Yoshiyama
Special Events Coordinator
Lauren Shorofsky
Development Database
Coordinator
Jane Voytek
Development Associate
Kelsey Scott
Executive Assistant
Jennie Goldfarb
B OX OF F I C E
Ticket Services Director
Geo Haynes
Subscription Manager
Laurie Barnes
Box Office Supervisor
Julie Gotsch
Box Office Agents
Carmen Darling · Faith Darling · Jordan
Don · Katherine Gunn · Eliza Oakley ·
Anna Slotterback
M A R K E T I NG &
C OM M U N I C AT ION S
Director of Marketing,
Communications, and
Patron Engagement
Polly Winograd Ikonen
Director of Public Relations
Tim Etheridge
Marketing Director
Peter Yonka
Art Director
Nora Merecicky
Communications & Digital
Content Director
Karen McKevitt
Audience Development Manager
Samanta Cubias
Webmaster
Christina Cone
Video & Multimedia Producer
Joel Dockendorf
Program Advertising
Pamela Webster
Front of House Director
Kelly Kelley
Senior House Manager
Debra Selman
House Managers
Steven Coambs · Juliet Czoka · Aleta
George · Mary Cait Hogan · Ayanna
Makalani · Sarah Mosby · Angie
Nicolas · Tuesday Ray · David Rogers
Lead Concessionaires
Steven Coambs · Angelica Foster ·
Nina Gorham · Sarah Mosby
Concessionaires
Jessica Bates · Trevor Cheitlin · Alisha
Erlich · Lorenz Gonzales · Katie
Holmes · Daron Jennings · Benjamin
Ortiz · K. Michelle Sellers · Chenoa
Small · Sandy Valois · Sergio Verduzco
OP E R AT ION S
Facilities Director
Mark Morrisette
Facilities Coordinator
Andrew Susskind
Building Engineer
Thomas Tran
Maintenance Technician
Johnny Van Chang
Facilities Assistants
Theresa Drumgoolie · Sophie Li ·
Alex Maciel · Carlos Mendoza · Jesus
Rodriguez · Diego Ruiz · LeRoy Thomas
BERKELEY REP
S C HO OL OF T H E AT R E
Director of the School of Theatre
Rachel Hull
Associate Director
MaryBeth Cavanaugh
Program Manager, Training and
Community Programs
Anthony Jackson
Registrar
Katie Riemann
Community Programs Administrator
Modesta Tamayo
Faculty
Bobby August Jr. · Erica Blue · Jon
Burnett · Rebecca Castelli · Eugenie
Chan · Iu-Hui Chua · Jiwon Chung ·
Sally Clawson · Laura Derry · Alexandra
Diamond · Deborah Eubanks · Susan
Garner · Christine Germain · Nancy
Gold · Gary Graves · Marvin Greene ·
Susan-Jane Harrison · Gendell HingHernández · Andrew Hurteau · Krista
Knight · Julian López-Morillas · Dave
Maier · JanLee Marshall · Reid McCann
Patricia Miller · Alex Moggridge ·
Edward Morgan · Jack Nicolaus · Slater
Penney · Greg Pierotti · Lisa Anne
Porter · Diane Rachel · Rolf Saxon ·
Elyse Shafarman · Arje Shaw · Joyful
Simpson · Cleavon Smith · M. Graham
Smith · Daniel Talbott · Elizabeth Vega ·
James Wagner
Jan and Howard Oringer
Teaching Artists
Miriam Ani · Erica Blue · Khalia Davis ·
Amber Flame · Gendell HingHernández · Dave Maier · Marilet
Martinez · Jack Nicolaus · Carla
Pantoja · Radhika Rao · Salim Razawi ·
Lindsey Schmelzter · Teddy Spencer ·
Simon Trumble · Elena Wright ·
Patricia Wright
Teen Core Council
Neo Barnes · Abram Blitz · Bridey
Caramagno · Carmela Catoc · Uma
Channer · Fiona Deane-Grundman ·
Lucy Curran · Devin Elias · Adin
Gilman-Cohen · Alecia Harger · Kyla
Henderson · Krysia Olszewska · Maya
Simon · Chloe Smith · Isabelle Smith
Docent Co-Chairs
Matty Bloom, Content
Joy Lancaster, Recruitment
Selma Meyerowitz, Off-Sites
and Procedures
2016–17 B E R K E L E Y R E P
FELLOWSHIPS
Bret C. Harte Directing Fellow
Chika Ike
Company Management Fellow
Morgan Steele
Costume Fellow
Kennedy Warner
Development Fellow
Julia Starr
Education Fellow
Michael Curry
Graphic Design Fellow
Cynthia Peñaloza
Harry Weininger Sound Fellow
Mariah Brougher
Lighting/Electrics Fellow
Josh Hemmo
Marketing/Digital
Communications Fellow
Lauren Goldfarb
Peter F. Sloss Literary/
Dramaturgy Fellow
Ankita Raturi
Production Management Fellow
Zoey Russo
Properties Fellow
Noah Kramer
Scenic Art Fellow
Yoshi Asai
Scenic Construction Fellow
Lauren Williams
Stage Management Fellow
Laura Baucom
President
Stewart Owen
Vice Presidents
Carrie Avery
Roger A. Strauch
Jean Z. Strunsky
Treasurer
Emily Shanks
Secretary
Leonard X Rosenberg
Chair, Trustees Committee
Jill Fugaro
Chair, Audit Committee
Kerry L. Francis
Board Members
Edward D. Baker
Bernard Boudreaux
David Cox
Amar Doshi
Robin Edwards
Lisa Finer
Paul T. Friedman
Karen Galatz
Bruce Golden
Scott Haber
David Hoffman
Susan Karp
Jonathan C. Logan
Jane Marvin
Sandra R. McCandless
Susan Medak
Pamela Nichter
Richard M. Shapiro
Tony Taccone
Gail Wagner
Felicia Woytak
Past Presidents
Helen C. Barber
A. George Battle
Carole B. Berg
Robert W. Burt
Shih-Tso Chen
Narsai M. David
Thalia Dorwick, PhD
Nicholas M. Graves
Richard F. Hoskins
Jean Knox
Robert M. Oliver
Marjorie Randolph
Harlan M. Richter
Richard A. Rubin
Edwin C. Shiver
Roger A. Strauch
Martin Zankel
Sustaining Advisors
Carole B. Berg
Rena Bransten
Thalia Dorwick, PhD
William T. Espey
William Falik
John Field
David Fleishhacker
Nicholas M. Graves
Richard F. Hoskins
Carole Krumland
Dale Rogers Marshall
Helen Meyer
Dugan Moore
Mary Ann Peoples
Peter Pervere
Marjorie Randolph
Pat Rougeau
Patricia Sakai
Jack Schafer
William Schaff
Michael Steinberg
Michael Strunsky
Martin Zankel
F OU N DI NG DI R E C T OR
Michael W. Leibert
Producing Director, 1968–83
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FYI
Connect with us online!
Theatre info
Considerations
Visit our website berkeleyrep.org
You can buy tickets and plan your visit,
watch video, sign up for classes, donate to
the Theatre, and explore Berkeley Rep.
Emergency exits
Please note the nearest exit. In an emergency,
walk—do not run —to the nearest exit.
No food or glassware in the house
Beverages in cans or cups with lids
are allowed.
Accessibility
Both theatres offer wheelchair seating and
special services for those with vision or
hearing loss. Assistive listening devices are
available at no charge. Scripts are available in
the box office.
No smoking or vaping
Smoking and the use of e-cigarettes is
prohibited by law on Berkeley Rep’s property.
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We’re mobile!
Download our free iPhone or Google Play
app — or visit our mobile site —to buy
tickets, read the buzz, watch video, and plan
your visit.
Tickets/box office
Box office hours: noon–7pm, Tue–Sun
Call 510 647-2949
Click berkeleyrep.org anytime
Fax: 510 647-2975
Under 30? Half-price advance tickets!
For anyone under the age of 30, based on
availability. Proof of age required. Some
restrictions apply.
Senior/student rush
Full-time students and seniors 65+ save $10
on sections A and B. One ticket per ID, one
hour before showtime. Proof of eligibility
required. Subject to availability.
Group tickets
Bring 10–14 people and save $5 per ticket;
bring 15 or more and save 20%. And we
waive the service charge.
Entourage tickets
If you can bring at least 10 people, we’ll give
you a code for 20% off tickets to up to five
performance dates. Learn more at
berkeleyrep.org/entourage.
Student matinee
Tickets are just $10 each. Learn more at
berkeleyrep.org/studentmatinees.
Sorry, we can’t give refunds or offer
retroactive discounts.
Educators
Bring the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre to
your school or community with free and lowcost workshops for teens and youth.
Bring your class to one of our daytime
matinees reserved for students. Click
berkeleyrep.org/school for more info. Treat
yourself to a subscription with the discount
for pre-K–12 educators.
Ticket exchange
Subscribers may exchange their tickets for
another performance of the same show—
for free (no fees)! Online or by phone.
Nonsubscribers may also exchange their
tickets, but an exchange fee and reasonable
restrictions will apply, by phone or in
person only.
All exchanges can be made until 7pm the day
preceding the scheduled performance. All
exchanges are made on a seat-available basis.
Request information
To request mailings or change your
address, write to Berkeley Rep, 2025
Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704; call
510 647-2949; email [email protected];
or click berkeleyrep.org/joinourlist. If you
use Gmail, Yahoo, or other online email
accounts, please authorize patronreply@
berkeleyrep.org.
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Please keep perfume to a minimum
Many patrons are sensitive to the use of
perfumes and other scents.
Phones / electronics / recordings
Please make sure your cell phone or watch
alarm will not beep. Use of recording
equipment or taking of photographs in the
theatre is strictly prohibited.
Please do not touch the set or props
You are welcome to take a closer look, but
please don’t step onto the stage.
Bringing youth to the Theatre
Many Berkeley Rep productions are
recommended for students high school age
and above. Please inquire before bringing
young children to the theatre. All attendees
must be ticketed: please, no babes in arms.
No re-entry
If you leave during the performance, we may
not be able to reseat you until an appropriate
break. You may watch the remainder of the
act on a lobby or bar screen.
Business, meet
box office.
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To learn what Encore can do for your business,
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save the date
ovation
B ERKELEY REP CELEB R ATES MON SOON WEDDING
a benefit for berkeley rep
with special guest, Mira Nair
Join the wedding party! Enjoy craft cocktails, fine wines,
and a sumptuous feast. Take home treasures from the
Marigold Market and dazzling live auction, and get a
sneak peek at one of most highly anticipated theatrical
events of the year, Monsoon Wedding.
saturday, april 1, 2017
5:30pm
the four seasons hotel san francisco
757 Market Street, San Francisco, CA
PHOTOS BY LORENZ ANGELO
tickets
$750 · VIP $1,250
tables
Diamond $25,000
Pearl $18,000
Ruby $12,500
Emerald $7,500
rsvp
Julie Cervetto at 510 647-2909 or [email protected]
berkeleyrep.org/ovation