in this issue - Arizona Theatre Company

FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
IN THIS ISSUE
JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2016
Fences
Title Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Cast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
About the Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Creative Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sex with Strangers
Title Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Cast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The Cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
The Creative Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
ATC Board of Trustees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
ATC Artistic Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Corporate and Foundation Donors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Individual Donors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ATC Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Theatre Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Fences playwright August Wilson.
Heather Lee Harper and Tyler Eglen in ATC’s Sex with Strangers. Photo
by John Groseclose.
Cover art by: ESSER DESIGN
1
David Ira Goldstein
Artistic Director
Presents a Co-Production with Indiana Repertory Theatre
Janet Allen Executive Artistic Director and CEO; Suzanne Sweeney Managing Director and COO
AND
Milwaukee Repertory Theater
Mark Clements Artistic Director; Chad Bauman Managing Director
AUGUST WILSON’S
FENCES
Lou Bellamy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director
Vicki Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scenic Designer
Mathew J. LeFebvre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Designer
Don Darnutzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lighting Designer
Brian Jerome Peterson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sound Designer
Timothy Toothman*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stage Manager
Brenda K. Walker* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Stage Manager
Glenn Bruner*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Stage Manager
On this original Arizona Theatre Company production, the ATC Production Staff is responsible for scenic construction,
costume construction, lighting, projections, sound, props, furniture, wigs, scene painting and special effects.
Fences is produced by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
Originally produced by Yale Repertory Theatre, Lloyd Richards, Artistic Director.
2015/2016 SEASON SPONSORS: I. MICHAEL AND BETH KASSER
PRODUCTION SPONSOR: 2
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
CAST
(IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
David Alan Andersen*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Troy Maxson
Marcus Naylor*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Bono
Kim Staunton*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rose
James T. Alfred* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lyons
Terry Bellamy* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gabriel
Edgar Sanchez* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cory
Simeeyah Grace Baker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raynell
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
TIME: 1957; later, 1965.
PLACE: The Maxson family home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
THERE WILL BE ONE FIFTEEN-MINUTE INTERMISSION.
UNDERSTUDIES
Sterling Boyns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cory / Lyons
Nadya Crawford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raynell
ADDITIONAL STAFF
Emma DeVore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant to the Stage Manager
Additional casting by ATC Artistic Staff and Claire Simon Casting.
Arizona Theatre Company operates under agreements between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT)
and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United
States; Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union; and United Scenic
Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
To learn more about Fences please visit the Education page on our website at arizonatheatre.org
for a comprehensive free Play Guide. The Play Guide contains historical information, cultural
context, and more. Play Guides are also available in The Temple Lounge for a nominal charge
to cover printing.
Cell phones and other devices that make a noise can greatly disturb your fellow audience members
and the performers. PLEASE TURN THEM OFF before the performance and again after intermission.
3
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
A B O U T T H E P L AY
August Wilson (Playwright, April 27, 1945-October 2,
2005) authored Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and
Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven
Guitars, Fences, Two Trains Running, Jitney, King Hedley II,
and Radio Golf. These works explore the heritage and
experience of the descendants of Africans in North America,
decade-by-decade, over the course of the twentieth century.
His plays have been produced at regional theaters across the
country and all over the world, as well as on Broadway. In
2003, Mr. Wilson made his professional stage debut in his
one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned. Mr. Wilson’s
Playwright August Wilson.
works garnered many awards including Pulitzer Prizes for
Fences (1987) and for The Piano Lesson (1990); a Tony Award for Fences; Great Britain’s Olivier
Award for Jitney; as well as seven New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Ma Rainey’s Black
Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, Two Trains Running, Seven
Guitars, and Jitney. Additionally, the cast recording of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom received a 1985
Grammy Award, and Mr. Wilson received a 1995 Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay
adaptation of The Piano Lesson. Mr. Wilson’s early works included the one-act plays The Janitor,
Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Malcolm X, The Homecoming, and the musical satire Black
Bart and the Sacred Hills. Mr. Wilson received many fellowships and awards, including the
Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwriting, the Whiting Writers Award, 2003
Heinz Award, was awarded a 1999 National Humanities Medal by the President of the United
States, and received numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities, as well as the
only high school diploma ever issued by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He was an alumnus
of New Dramatists, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 1995 inductee
into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and on October 16, 2005, Broadway renamed
the theater located at 245 West 52nd Street - The August Wilson Theatre. Additionally, Mr.
Wilson was posthumously inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. Mr. Wilson was born
and raised in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lived in Seattle, Washington at
the time of his death. He is immediately survived by his two daughters, Sakina Ansari and Azula
Carmen Wilson, and his wife, costume designer Constanza Romero.
4
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
A B O U T T H E P L AY
THE AMERICAN CENTURY CYCLE
August Wilson’s American Century Cycle is a collection of ten plays that chronicle a collective
century of the Black American experience, with each of the ten plays set in a different decade
spanning the 20th century. Nine of the ten plays are set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, one of
many connection points woven through the multiple narratives. Though the American Century
Cycle is not connected into a single linear story, several characters or their descendents appear
more than once throughout the ten scripts; the character with the most appearances is Aunt
Ester, a “washer of souls,” who appears in various stages of life and reference in Gem of the
Ocean, Two Trains Running, King Hedley II, and Radio Golf.
As a playwright, August Wilson was dedicated to cultivating social consciousness through the
power of theatre, and the use of a medium through which a community could truly connect to
invite an audience to bear witness to the state of the world around them, and their own place in
the historical and contemporary social fabric.
In an interview with The Paris Review, Wilson stated that “my plays offer (white Americans)
a different way to look at black Americans. For instance, in Fences they see a garbageman,
a person they don’t really look at, although they see a garbageman every day. By looking at Troy’s
life, white people find out that the content of this black garbageman’s life is affected by the same
things – love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. Recognizing that these things are as much part of
his life as theirs can affect how they think about and deal with black people in their lives.”
Gem of the Ocean, set in the 1900s, premiered in 2003 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago before
transferring to Broadway the following year. The play depicts 285-year-old Aunt Ester, a healer
and a keeper of tradition, as she cleanses the souls of those who pass through her kitchen. She
leads one new arrival, Citizen Barlow, aboard the legendary slave ship known as the Gem of the
Ocean, to embark on a journey of spiritual redemption to the mythical City of Bones.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, set in the 1910s, premiered in 1986 at Yale Repertory Theatre before
opening at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1988. The play depicts the lives of boardinghouse owner Seth Holly and his wife Bertha, as they meet and share living space with freed
former slaves who have moved north after the Civil War, illuminating the ongoing racism and
discrimination in the post-war United States.
5
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
A B O U T T H E P L AY
Jevetta Steele in ATC’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, 2010.
David Downing in ATC’s Seven Guitars, 1997.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, set in the 1920s, premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre in 1984 before
opening on Broadway later that year. The only play of the American Century Cycle set in Chicago,
it describes the rising tension between members of blues singer Ma Rainey’s band, and the
desperation entwined in limited and thwarted opportunities.
The Piano Lesson, set in the 1930s in the aftermath of the Great Depression, premiered at Yale
Repertory Theatre in 1987, and later opened on Broadway in 1990. Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer
Prize for Drama, The Piano Lesson was inspired by a painting of the same name by Romare
Bearden. The play depicts the lives of Doaker Charles and his household, interwoven with their
various perspectives on the meaning and fate of the family heirloom piano.
Seven Guitars, set in the 1940s, premiered at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in 1995 before moving
on to Broadway in 1996. Seven Guitars details the journey of blues singer Floyd “Schoolboy”
Barton as he seeks to define his own humanity, self-acceptance, and self-understanding and
to right past wrongs after signing a record deal. The play begins with a funeral, describing the
previous events in a series of flashbacks; the stories of some characters in Seven Guitars are
later revisited in King Hedley II, set in the 1980s.
Fences, set in the 1950s, premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985 before opening at
Broadway’s 46th Street Theatre in 1987. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony
Award for Best Play, Fences focuses on 53-year-old Troy as he struggles to provide for his family
as a garbage collector, years after being forced to abandon his dreams of becoming a professional
baseball player due to the persisting color barrier in Major League Baseball.
6
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
A B O U T T H E P L AY
Two Trains Running, set in the 1960s, premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre in 1990, and
transferred to Broadway in 1992. The play examines the social and psychological manifestations
of urban blacks as their attitudes toward race evolve in mid-20th century America.
Jitney, set in the 1970s, premiered in 1982 at the Allegheny Repertory Theatre in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. The play details the lives of the unofficial, unlicensed taxi drivers known as
jitneys, as they hustle to make a living providing transportation to the Pittsburgh Hill District,
where regular cabs will not venture. Violence threatens the community when the boss’s son,
Becker, returns from prison.
Bus Howard, Chuck Patterson, and Adolphus Ward in ATC’s Jitney, 2006.
King Hedley II¸set in the 1980s, premiered at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre in 1991 and opened on
Broadway in 2001. The play tells the story of ex-con King Hedley as he attempts to rebuild his life
in Pittsburgh by starting a family and selling refrigerators, with aspirations to eventually buy a
video store. Stories of several characters from Wilson’s earlier play, Seven Guitars, also weave
throughout the narrative.
Radio Golf, set in the 1990s, is the final play in The American Century Cycle in both narrative
chronology and authorship, which premiered in 2005 at Yale Repertory Theatre; August Wilson
passed away between the play’s premiere and its opening at Broadway’s Court Theatre in 2007.
The play details the story of Ivy League graduate Harmond Wilkes as he seeks to redevelop
Pittsburgh’s Hill District after inheriting his father’s real estate agency, whose aspirations are
interrupted by continuing forces of racism and privilege.
7
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
THE CAST
James T. Alfred (Lyons) is happy to return to ATC with this production
of Fences, along with some of his favorite comrades. Other ATC credits
include Jitney, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, To Kill a Mockingbird, and
most recently, The Mountaintop. Other theater credits include Penumbra
Theatre Company, Congo Square Theatre Company, Steppenwolf
Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Denver Center, NY Public Theater,
Court Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Second City, Round House
Theatre, Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory
Theater, A.R.T and Indiana Repertory Theatre. Mr. Alfred recurs as
Tyree on the FOX hit drama series Empire. Other television credits
include the award-winning Starz Original Series Boss, Prison Break,
and Chicago P.D. He has appeared in a dozen independent films including
the critically-acclaimed One Week. Mr. Alfred is a graduate of the
Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and
holds an M.F.A in acting from the Moscow Art Theatre School
in Russia.
David Alan Andersen (Troy Maxson) previously appeared at ATC in
A Raisin in the Sun in the role of Walter Lee. Recent regional credits
include Gem of the Ocean and The Mountaintop (Jeff Nomination, Lead
Actor) at the Court Theatre, Chicago; What I Learned in Paris, The
Giver, The Mountaintop, Radio Golf, The Whipping Man, Julius Caesar
and Romeo and Juliet at Indiana Repertory Theatre; Othello and King
Lear at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; The Tempest at Actors
Theatre of Louisville. Other credits include Lake Tahoe and Idaho
Shakespeare Festivals, Guthrie Theater, Baltimore Center Stage,
Cleveland Play House, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Kansas
City Repertory Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Great Lakes
Theater, and others. Mr. Andersen is a Penumbra Theatre Company
member and was awarded a Lunt Fontanne Fellowship.
8
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
THE CAST
Terry Bellamy (Gabriel) is a founding member of Penumbra Theatre
Company and the recipient of two Twin Cities Drama Critics Circle
Awards (MN). He has performed at the Goodman Theatre, Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, Center Stage Baltimore, Indiana Repertory
Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Guthrie Theater, Guthrie II, Hudson
Guild (Off-Broadway), Park Square Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre,
Illusion Theater, and Ten Thousand Things Theater.
Marcus Naylor ( Bono) last appeared at Arizona Theatre Company as
Floyd Barton in Seven Guitars. Off-Broadway credits include: Black Stars
of the Great White Way at Carnegie Hall , Breaking Phillip Glass with
The Collective, Cool Blues at New Federal Theatre, Love Letters on Ripped
Paper at The Joyce Theatre, Watin 2 End Hell at The New Federal Theatre,
The Cave Dwellers with The Pearl Theatre Company, No Dogs at Primary
Stages, RATS at The Lee Strasberg Theatre, True West at Lincoln Centers
Clark Studio, Cast Me Down at Theatre Four. Regional credits include:
Denver Center, Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Cleveland Play House,
Karamu House, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Crossroads Theatre,
Shakespeare on the Sound. Film and television credits include: In Our
Youth, Hudson Sunset in the After-while, The Reunion: A Jazz Fantasy,
King Lear, Slings and Arrows, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order, Law &
Order: SVU, Without a Trace, The Meeting, and Only in America.
Edgar Sanchez (Cory) is making his ATC debut. Chicago credits:
Water by the Spoonful and Native Son (Court Theatre); The Wheel
(Steppenwolf), Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare
Theatre); This Is Our Youth (Sankofa Theatre Company); The Ghost Is
Here (Vitalist); Fever Chart (Eclipse); Brothers of the Dust (Congo Square);
Sinbad: The Untold Story (Adventure Stage); 1001 (Collaboraction);
Red Noses Remount (Strawdog); Welcome to Arroyo’s (American Theatre
Company); Wilson Wants it All (The House). Regional Credits: Water
by the Spoonful (Theatre Squared); the title role in Hamlet (The Gable
Stage); Twelfth Night, Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, and The Admirable
Crichton (American Players Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Othello, and The Comedy of Errors (The Oregon Shakespeare Festival).
Major television credits: Sense 8.
9
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
THE CAST
Kim Staunton (Rose) appeared in Touch the Names at ATC. She has
been a guest company member at the Denver Center Theatre Company
(DCTC) for the past 14 seasons. She represented DCTC as an inaugural
Lunt-Fontanne Fellow at Ten Chimneys Foundation. Regional credits
include Portland Stage Company, Ebony Repertory Theatre, South
Coast Repertory, Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre, Lake
Dillon Theatre Company, Lone Tree Arts Center, Seattle Repertory
Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage
Company, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare Festival,
Folger Theatre, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage and the O’Neill Theatre
Center. She has performed in numerous productions on and OffBroadway. Film credits include First Sunday, Changing Lanes, Heat,
Dragonfly, Bark, Holy Man, Deceived, and Amos & Andrew. Television
appearances have included guest starring roles on Eleventh Hour, Army
Wives, The Nine, Bones, Strong Medicine, Judging Amy, Law and Order,
City of Angels, New York Undercover, and TNT’s original movie, Glory
and Honor. Ms. Staunton is a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate
of The Juilliard School.
Simeeyah Grace Baker (Raynell) is excited to be making her Arizona
Theater Company debut. Her time on stage includes performances in
The Nutcracker ballet production with Dancing in the Streets Arizona,
where she danced in the corp and most recently as Clara. Ms. Baker has
danced in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Queen Tatiana’s Attendant
with Dancing in the Streets Arizona and in the corp of Requiem with
the same company. She is a fifth grade student and native Texan but
currently resides in Tucson, AZ. She began her ballet training at the age
of six with Joey Rodgers and Soleste Lupuat, Dancing in the Streets
Arizona. Off stage, Simeeyah enjoys playing football, designing and
sewing clothes for her dolls, and playing video games.
10
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
T H E C R E AT I V E T E A M
August Wilson (Playwright) Please see Mr. Wilson’s biography on page 4.
Lou Bellamy (Director) is the founder and Artistic Director of Penumbra Theatre Company.
During his thirty-seven year tenure, Penumbra has evolved into one of America’s premier theaters
dedicated to dramatic exploration of the African American experience. Under his leadership,
Penumbra has grown to be the largest theater of its kind in America and has produced 35 world
premieres, including August Wilson’s first professional production. Penumbra is proud to have
produced more of Mr. Wilson’s plays than any other theater in the world. Mr. Bellamy is an OBIE
Award-winning director, an accomplished actor, and for 38 years was appointed as an Associate
Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.
Mr. Bellamy most recently directed Two Trains Running at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Selected
directing credits include plays at Arizona Theatre Company, Denver Center for the Performing
Arts, Penumbra Theatre, Signature Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Guthrie Theater,
The Kennedy Center, and Hartford Stage Company.
Vicki Smith (Scenic Designer) returns to ATC, where she previously designed Wait until Dark;
The Mountaintop; Woody Guthrie’s American Song; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Kite Runner;
Touch the Names; Love, Janis; Hank Williams: Lost Highway; Dirty Blonde, Master Class, Last
Night at Ballyhoo, and many others. Regional credits include Denver Center Theatre Company,
Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Geva Theatre Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Indiana
Repertory Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie Theatre,
Penumbra Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Repertory
Theatre of St. Louis, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theatre
Center, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Alley Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Comedy Theatre
of Budapest and National Theatre of Miskolc (Hungary), Anchorage Opera, Minnesota Opera,
ACT (Seattle), and San Jose Repertory Theatre. Awards include Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle
Awards, Kite Runner and Execution of Justice; Drama-Logue Award, Cyrano; Colorado Theatre
Guild and Denver Ovation Awards, Mariela in the Desert, Doubt, Plainsong, I’m Not Rappaport,
and Pierre; 2007 Prague Quadrennial Design Exposition, Pierre.
Mathew J. LeFebvre (Costume Designer) returns to ATC where he designed costumes for
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Suicide Club, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, A Raisin in
the Sun, and Jitney. His Off-Broadway credits include Two Trains Running at Signature Theatre
(Lucille Lortel Award winner/Best Revival of a Play, AUDELCO Award nominee/Costume
Design) and Bach at Leipzig for New York Theatre Workshop. Mr. LeFebvre has designed costumes
for over twenty productions at Guthrie Theater, including A Christmas Carol, A Streetcar
11
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
T H E C R E AT I V E T E A M
Named Desire, 1776, She Loves Me, Pride and Prejudice, Wintertime, Merrily We Roll Along, and
School for Scandal. He has designed costumes for several Penumbra Theatre Company productions
including Fences, Redshirts, Get Ready, Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers, On the Open Road,
Black Eagles, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Jitney, and both scenery and costumes for Gem
of the Ocean. Other regional credits include The Old Globe, The Acting Company, Milwaukee
Repertory Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, Cleveland Play House, Theatre de la Jeune
Lune, Geffen Playhouse, The Jungle Theater and American Players Theatre.
Don Darnutzer (Lighting Designer) has designed 60 shows for ATC since 1981. His most recent
designs include Wait Until Dark; The Mountaintop; Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The
Suicide Club; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Touch the Names; Love, Janis; and I Am My Own Wife.
He designed the lighting for Broadway’s production of It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues and OffBroadway’s Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Almost Heaven and The Immigrant. He has worked
for American Conservatory Theater, Guthrie Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House, New Orleans Opera, Denver Center
Theatre Company, Portland Opera, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Seattle
Repertory Theatre, BB King’s Blues Club in NYC, Palm Beach Opera, Shakespeare Theatre
Company, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Penumbra Theatre
and Geva Theatre Center.
Brian Jerome Peterson (Sound Designer) celebrates his 30th season at ATC, where he has
designed 82 productions, including A Christmas Carol, Santaland Diares, Disgraced, Five
Presidents, Wait Until Dark, Around the World in 80 Days, The Importance of Being Earnest,
The Sunshine Boys, Jane Austen’s Emma, The Great Gatsby, God of Carnage, Ma Rainey’s Black
Bottom, Lost in Yonkers, Ain’t Misbehavin’, George is Dead, Somebody/Nobody, Enchanted April,
Touch the Names, I Am My Own Wife, Twelfth Night, Tuesdays with Morrie, Crowns, Macbeth,
The Pirates of Penzance, The Immigrant, A Streetcar Named Desire, Oh Coward!, Copenhagen,
Fully Committed and The Mystery of Irma Vep (for which he won an ariZoni Award) and the
world premieres of Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Suicide Club, Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Inventing van Gogh, Rocket Man, Minor Demons
and The Holy Terror. His designs have been heard in many theatres including GEVA, Berkeley
Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Northlight Theatre,
Portland Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville and San Jose Repertory Theatre Milwaukee
Repertory Theatre, and the Bay Street Repertory Theatre.
12
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
T H E C R E AT I V E T E A M
Timothy Toothman (Stage Manager) is the Artistic Associate at ATC. He most recently stage
managed ATC’s productions of A Christmas Carol, The Santaland Diaries, A Weekend with
Pablo Picasso, Five Presidents, Wait Until Dark, Around the World in 80 Days, The Importance
of Being Earnest, Freud’s Last Session, Lombardi, Daddy Long Legs and God of Carnage,
among others. Mr. Toothman spent five seasons as the Production Stage Manager for the Geva
Theatre Center in Rochester, NY and was then Company Manager for five years for Sunshine
Too, a national touring ensemble of deaf and hearing actors. He has also managed producing and
presenting theatres in Indiana and Maryland. Prior to moving to Arizona, Mr. Toothman spent
eleven years as a program and grants director for the Maryland State Arts Council and the
Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Mr. Toothman stage managed the National Heritage
Awards Program for the National Endowment for the Arts for ten years and was the Production
Stage Manager for six seasons at the Vineyard Playhouse on Martha’s Vineyard.
Brenda K. Walker (Assistant Stage Manager) returns to ATC, where she stage managed Snapshots
and Xanadu. Past credits include No Way to Treat a Lady, In the Heights, Funny Girl, Fiddler
on the Roof, It Shoulda Been Youi (SM), Jesus Christ Superstar, 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis,
and The Full Monty (ASM) for Village Theatre; and Measure for Measure (ASM) for Seattle
Shakespeare Company.
Glenn Bruner (Assistant Stage Manager) is in his 19th season as Production Stage Manager
at ATC where he has stage managed over 60 productions, including Romeo and Juliet, Five
Presidents, Other Desert Cities, The Mountaintop, The Importance of Being Earnest, Clybourne
Park, The Sunshine Boys, Next to Normal, The Great Gatsby, The Mystery of Irma Vep, [title of
show], The Kite Runner, Hair, Enchanted April, and the world premieres of Jeffrey Hatcher’s
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club and Ten Chimneys, and Steven Dietz’s
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh, and Over the Moon.
Mr. Bruner has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center,
Pasadena Playhouse, Centerstage, Studio Arena Theatre, and Maine’s Portland Stage Company.
Mr. Bruner was the 2012 recipient of the Lucy Jordan Recognition Award, presented annually
by the Western Region of Actors’ Equity Association. He has been a member of AEA since 1981.
The Actors and Stage Managers
employed in these productions are
members of Actors’ Equity Association,
the Union of Professional Actors and
Stage Managers in the United States.
The Director is a member of the
Stage Directors and Choreographers
Society, an independent national
labor union.
13
The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and
Sound Designers in LORT Theatres
are represented by Union Scenic
Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
FROM THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF HBO’S REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER.
“FUNNY AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING...HILARIOUSLY THEATRICAL!”
– LOS A NGELES TIMES
BY
SCOTT
CARTER
PERFORMING AT THE
TEMPLE OF MUSIC AND ART
04/09/16–04/30/16
ARIZONATHEATRE.ORG
BOX OFFICE: 5 2 0 - 6 2 2 - 2 8 2 3
SEASON SPONSOR: I. MICHAEL & BETH KASSER
DAVID IRA GOLDSTEIN
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PRESENTS
A STRAY CAT THEATRE PRODUCTION
SEX WITH STRANGERS
BY LAURA EASON
Ron May. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director
Eric Beeck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scenic Designer
Danny Chihuahua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Designer
Paul Black. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lighting Designer
Pete Bish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sound Designer
B Reeves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Designer
Ruth Farber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Stage Manager
New York Premiere produced by Second Stage Theatre, New York, 2014
Carole Rothman, Artistic Director
Sex with Strangers was developed through Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s New Play Initiative,
was presented as part of its First Look Festival of New Works, and the world premiere was
produced by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL; Martha Lavey, Artistic Director
and David Hawkanson, Executive Director.
Sex with Strangers is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
COVER ART BY: Esser Design
ATC 2015/2016 SEASON SPONSORS: I.
MICHAEL AND BETH KASSER
15
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
CAST
(IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
Heather Lee Harper* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia
Tyler Eglen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ethan
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
TIME:
The present.
PLACE:
ACT I: A bed and breakfast in rural Michigan.
ACT II: Olivia’s apartment in Chicago.
Sex with Strangers is performed with one fifteen-minute intermission.
S T R AY C AT S T A F F
Ron May. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artistic Director
Louis Farber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director
Michael Peck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager
Brooke Unverferth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office
Cameo Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic/Program/ Web Design
John Groseclose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Photography
Cell phones and other devices that make a noise can greatly disturb your fellow audience members
and the performers. PLEASE TURN THEM OFF before the performance and again after intermission.
16
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
THE CAST
Heather Lee Harper (Olivia) has previously appeared at ATC in Romeo
and Juliet. Selected Off-Broadway/New York Credits include The Violet
Hour (Active Theater); King Stag (Long Wharf Development Series);
AliceAnon (New Georges Theater); Courtney & Kathleen: A Riot Act
(La Mama); Manson: The Musical (The Krane Theater); Undeniable
Desire, Tom’s Children, and Infusions: Tennesse William’s 100th
Birthday Celebration (Blue Roses Theatre Company). Local credits
include Hotel Athena, R&J Void (HOWL Theatre Project); Thomas
and the Library Lady (Geva Theatre Center/Childsplay); E2 (Nearly
Naked Theatre); A Clockwork Orange (Stray Cat Theatre); The Tempest
(Southwest Shakespeare Company); Wait Until Dark (Tempe Little
Theater, ariZoni winner for Best Leading Actress). Ms. Harper trained
at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in L.A., Pàn Theatre in
Paris, and holds a B.A. in theater from ASU. She is a company member
of Blue Roses Theater (NYC), founding member of the Active Theatre
(NYC) and Howl Theatre Project (PHX). Ms. Harper is a proud member
of the Actors Equity Association.
Tyler Eglen (Ethan) appeared in Wolves and The Last Days of Judas
Iscariot, both with Stray Cat Theatre under the direction of Ron May.
He appeared in Paul Gordon’s musical version of Jane Austen’s Emma at
ATC. Other recent Valley credits include The Boy Who Loved Monsters
and the Girl Who Loved Peas (Evan) and Junie B. Jones: Jingle Bells,
Batman Smells (Herb) with Childsplay, and The Book Club Play (Will)
and The Cottage (Clark) with Actors Theatre. Tyler has worked as an
actor, fight choreographer, education artist, and designer for numerous
companies outside of the valley including The Shakespeare Theatre of
New Jersey, Playwrights Theatre, Garfield Shakespeare Co., Actor’s
Shakespeare Company, and many more. A Phoenix-based actor and
full-time science educator, he received his M.F.A. in theatre performance
from Arizona State University.
17
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
T H E C R E AT I V E T E A M
Laura Eason (Playwright) is a story editor on season three of the Emmy award-winning Netflix
show House of Cards. She was a staff writer on season two (WGA nomination for outstanding
achievement in a drama series.) Her new musical, Days Like Today, with music and lyrics by Alan
Schmuckler, was produced in a critically acclaimed, sold out run at Writers’ Theatre in Chicago.
Her play Sex with Strangers (Sydney Theatre Company, Australia; Steppenwolf Theatre Company,
Chicago) recently played at Second Stage Theatre in New York. It was directed by her longtime
collaborator, David Schwimmer and starred Anna Gunn and Billy Magnussen. Her adaptation of
Around the World in 80 Days (Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago; Baltimore Center Stage; Kansas
City Repertory Theatre) was produced in a hugely successful production in the U.K. at The New
Vic Theatre and the Royal Exchange in 2014. She has received Chicago’s Jeff Award for New
Work and Adaptation. In New York, she is a member of Rising Phoenix Rep, an Affiliated Artist
of New Georges and an alumna of the Women’s Project Playwright’s Lab. She is an active
ensemble member and former Artistic Director of Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago,
recipient of the 2011 Regional Theatre Tony Award. Ms. Eason is a graduate of the Performance
Studies Department of Northwestern University. Originally from Chicago, she lives in
Brooklyn, NY.
Ron May (Director/Stray Cat Artistic Director) is the Founding Artistic Director for Stray Cat
Theatre where his credits include Pulp, columbinus, Speech and Debate, Learn to Be Latina, and
Wolves (all winners of Zoni Award for Best Overall Production – Non-Contracted Play/Musical)
as well as [sic], The Normal Heart, A Clockwork Orange, The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed
Love/Suicide, Trainspotting, Fat Pig, 4.48 Psychosis, A Number, Everything Will Be Different, An
Impending Rupture of the Belly, Blackbird, Octopus, The Sparrow, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,
Heddatron, Sons of the Prophet, Chicks with Dicks, The Flick, The Whale, The Brothers Size, and
Pluto. In 2010, he directed the Arizona staged reading of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later,
an Epilogue as part of a national project. As an actor, he has appeared as the “One Man” in Phoenix
Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors; in Stray Cat’s Year of the Rooster; and The Agony and the Ecstasy
of Steve Jobs for Actors Theatre. For Phoenix Theatre, he directed Buyer & Cellar and Bloody
Bloody Andrew Jackson (Zoni for Best Overall Production – Contracted Musical). For Actors
Theatre, he has directed Seminar, Hunter Gatherers, This, Boom, Augusta, The Pursuit of Happiness
and A View of the Harbor. During the summer of 2001, he spent time in New York as a fellow in
The Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Lab.
Eric Beeck (Scenic Designer) is in his fourth season with the amazing and talented members of
Stray Cat Theatre. He gained his B.A. in technical theatre from Arizona State University and his
M.A. in Scenography from Ohio University. Mr. Beeck has been working in technical theatre
for the last 16 years. His work has been shown during the Prague Quadrennial as a winner of the
Tobin Theater Arts Fund Award for his work in Ohio University’s production of Marat/Sade.
18
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
T H E C R E AT I V E T E A M
He worked for two seasons as Resident Scenic Designer for Midland Community Theatre where
he designed productions of Les Miserables, Assassins, The Producers, and RENT (AACT Festival
Award for Design Excellence). Mr. Beeck would like to thank all his friends and family for their
love and support.
Danny Chihuahua (Costume Designer) is the go-to costume design guru for Stray Cat Theatre.
Mr. Chihuahua is in his fourth season with Stray Cat and is beyond excited about the lineup –
it’s purr-fect! Other recent design credits include New Voices and A/I Tens at Actors Theatre of
Louisville, where he served as the Costume Design Journeyman and Paul Owen Fellow. Selected
Assistant Costume Design credits include In The Next Room, How We Got On, and Eat Your
Heart Out from the 2012 Humana Festival of New American Plays. He holds a B.A. from
Arizona State University in theatre design and production.
Pete Bish (Sound Designer) marks his fifth time working with Stray Cat Theatre after serving
as Sound Engineer for The Brothers Size and Sound Designer for Year of the Rooster, Pluto, and
The TomKat Project. He would like to thank everyone at Stray Cat for this opportunity.
Paul Black (Lighting Designer) is excited to be designing his first show at Stray Cat Theatre
and returning to one of his favorite venues. Paul is a resident of Phoenix and has been designing in
the Phoenix area for 27 years for companies including Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Arizona Theatre
Company, Arizona Jewish Theatre, the Phoenix Opera Co., Phoenix Theatre and Arizona
Broadway Theater. Lately however, Mr. Black has found himself on the road designing for
The Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, Maltz Jupiter Theater, Theater Aspen, Music Theater
of Santa Barbara, American stage in Florida, Carousel Dinner Theater in Akron, Fulton Opera
house in Pennsylvania, Music Theatre of Santa Barbara, Main State Music Theater, Palm Beach
Drama Works. Mr. Black spent 14 summer seasons with Music Theatre of Wichita where he was
both a designer and the Production Manager. Working as a guest artist, Mr. Black has lectured
at Arizona State University, University of Arizona, Cornel College, and Viterbo University.
B Reeves (Prop Designer) is excited to be back at Stray Cat Theatre for another show, and to
be working for Arizona Theatre Company for the first time. Ms. Reeves graduated from Ole Miss
in 2012 with a B.F.A. in Costume Design and immediately moved out to the Valley. Ms. Reeves is
coming up on her third season as the Resident Wardrobe Supervisor at Phoenix Theatre, but she
is always delighted when she can get away to play with other theatres. Her only past production
for Stray Cat Theatre is The Whale, where she designed and constructed the fat suit. Ms. Reeves
would like to thank her mom, dad, and her family of choice here for all of their love and support.
19
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
T H E C R E AT I V E T E A M
Ruth Farber (Production Stage Manager) is pleased as pie to be back with Stray Cat Theatre. She
can usually be found backstage with Arizona Opera or working with some of Arizona’s most
amazing children through her day job with Free Arts of Arizona. She would like to thank those
involved for their time, energy, brilliance, and creativity! Show love, get love, share your love.
Louis Farber (Associate Artistic Director) is very excited to be a part of bringing Sex with
Strangers to the stage and to be included in this collaboration between Arizona Theatre Company
and Stray Cat. You may have seen him perform in Stray Cat’s production of The Flick, or maybe
you caught his directorial effort last season of The TomKat Project. Mr. Farber is grateful to
be a part of Stray Cat Theatre’s fourteenth season, which promises to continue our mission of
bringing audiences engaging, exciting, and entertaining theatre. Special thanks to the entire cast
and crew for all of their hard work, and of course to his lovely wife Ruth for stage managing and
for letting him out to play. LOVE!
Michael Peck (Production Manager) begins his third season as Production Manager for Stay Cat
Theatre, having stepped into the role after directing punkplay in 2012, later directing Year of
the Rooster in 2014. He’s made numerous appearances onstage in Stray Cat productions such as
Fat Pig, An Impending Rupture of the Belly, All New People, and Pluto. Prior to his work as
Production Manager for Stray Cat, he was one-fourth of the founding team of Chyro Arts Venue
in Scottsdale where he was also technical director and later managing director. Mr. Peck would
like to thank Ron, Louis, Ruth, Amanda, Brooke, the cast and crew, and of course our board of
directors for their commitment, dedication and love for the company.
ADDITIONAL STAFF
Dani Bratcher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant to the Stage Manager
20
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
2015/2016 BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Chairperson
Cameron C. Artigue
Chair-Elect
Lynne Wood Dusenberry
Vice Chair/Tucson
I. Michael Kasser
Vice Chair/Phoenix
Susan Plimpton Segal
Secretary
Joanie Flatt
Treasurer
Jeffrey Gold
Immediate Past Chair Robert Glaser
Gammage & Burnham
Retired UA Attorney & Community Volunteer
Holualoa Companies
Gust Rosenfeld PLC
Flatt & Associates, Ltd.
Community Volunteer
Cushman & Wakefield / PICOR
Commercial Real Estate Services
Udall Law Firm LLP
Community Volunteer
Holualoa Capital Management
Community Volunteer
Artistic Director, Arizona Theatre Company
DeVos Institute of Arts Management
Tucson Foundations
Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Community Volunteer
OnMedia
MJS Enterprises
Salt River Project
Arizona State University
Peter Akmajian
Char Augenstein
Kevin Gebert
Jay Glaser
David Ira Goldstein
Daniel J. Hagerty
Jennifer Lohse
Priscilla Marquez
Sandra C. Maxfield
Linda “Mac” Perlich
Michael Seiden
Robert Taylor
Steven Tepper
EMERITUS TRUSTEES
Paul Baker, Darryl Dobras, Katie Dusenberry, Shirley Estes, Donald Nickerson*, Marilyn Papp, George
Rosenberg*, Dr. John P. Schaefer, F. William Sheppard, Carol Duvall Whiteman
HONORARY BOARD TRUSTEES
Bob Begam*, Betsy Bolding, Joan Kaye Cauthorn, Jack Davis, Slivy Edmonds, Norma Feldman,
Catherine “Rusty” Foley, Joe Gootter, Carole Kraemer, Jessica Lazarus, Sally Lehmann, Gerry Murphy,
Emily Rosenberg Pollock, Nina Trasoff, Arlene Webster, Ruth A. Zales
*Deceased
A special note of thanks to the partners and staff at Lewis Roca Rothgerber
for hosting ATC’s Board of Trustees’ meetings.
Jessica L. Andrews, Managing Director Emeritus
21
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
David Ira Goldstein this season celebrates his 24th season as Artistic
Director of Arizona Theatre Company. In that time, he has produced
and/or directed over 200 mainstage plays, workshops, readings, and
presentations including acclaimed appearances by the Royal National
Theatre of Great Britain and the Theatre Royal Bath. He received the
2010 Leader of the Year Award in Arts and Humanities from the Capitol
Times and the 2003 Governor’s Arts Award as Individual Artist for his
contributions to the arts in Arizona.
This season he will direct Disgraced and The Santaland Diaries for ATC. He has directed over
40 mainstage productions for ATC ranging from classics to new plays to musicals, including
Next to Normal, The Sunshine Boys, Hair, Much Ado about Nothing, My Fair Lady, Valley Song,
The Illusion, The Pajama Game, Side Man, [title of show], How I Learned to Drive, Wait Until
Dark, Xanadu, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Scapin, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Boys Next
Door, Shadowlands, Fully Committed, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, Willi, Dreams
from a Summer House, Other People’s Money, The Heidi Chronicles, Noises Off and A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, as well as many world premieres including The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini;
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of
America); Inventing van Gogh, Rocket Man, Private Eyes, Over the Moon and Dracula by Steven
Dietz; and Ten Chimneys, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Edgar Award nominee) and Sherlock Holmes
and the Adventure of The Suicide Club (Edgar Award nominee) by Jeffrey Hatcher.
Mr. Goldstein has been a guest director at theatres all across the country including Arizona Opera,
Pasadena Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Florida Stage, Center
Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Northlight Theatre, San Jose Repertory
Theatre, Village Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Laguna Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis,
Mixed Blood Theatre, The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Alaska Repertory Theatre,
and Illusion Theatre. His musical A Marvelous Party: The Noël Coward Celebration, which
originated at ATC, has played extensively across the U.S., winning many awards including four
Jeff Awards in Chicago (including Best Director), the Elliot Norton Award in Boston, several Bay
Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Production.
Before coming to Arizona, Mr. Goldstein was Associate Artistic Director of ACT Theatre in Seattle.
His many productions there included Glengarry Glen Ross, Hapgood, Breaking the Silence, Lloyd’s
Prayer, the world premieres of God’s Country by Steven Dietz and Willi by John Pielmeier, as well
as a joint Soviet-American production of The Falcon. He was Associate Artistic Director at Actors
Theatre of St. Paul from 1983-86. Mr. Goldstein holds an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota.
He has been a visiting instructor and director at ASU, University of Washington, University of
Minnesota, and University of Northern Iowa. He has served as a panelist for the National Endowment
for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, Arts Midwest, and the Arizona, Minnesota, Oregon
and Washington State Arts Commissions. Mr. Goldstein is a proud Union member of the Stage
Directors and Choreographers Society and Actors’ Equity Association. He is married to KJZZ radio
announcer Michele Robins. They share their home with their dogs and cats: Rio, Rocky, Cary,
Reggie, Dexter, and Benny.
22
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
C O R P O R AT E A N D F O U N D AT I O N D O N O R S
ATC is proud to acknowledge the following donors who made contributions to the ATC
Annual Fund from July 1, 2014 to December 1, 2015:
ANGELS
$25,000 AND UP
APS
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Caid Industries
City of Phoenix
The David C. and Lura M. Lovell Foundation
Diamond Family Donor Advised Fund
at the Jewish Community Foundation
Holualoa Capital Management, LLC
H.S. Lopez Family Foundation
Jim Click Automotive Team
Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP
Margaret E. Mooney Foundation
Norville Foundation
Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture
SRP
Stonewall Foundation
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
Zazu Pannee Park Regent
PLAYWRIGHT’S GUILD
$10,000 - $24,999
Arizona Community Foundation
BeachFleischman PC
City of Tempe Cultural Services
Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails
Fiesta Bowl Charities
Gammage & Burnham
Holsclaw Advisory Endowment Fund
Horizon Moving Systems
Jewish Community Foundation of
Southern Arizona
National Endowment for the Arts
PICOR Commercial Real Estate Services
SynCardia Systems, Inc
Tucson Foundations
PRODUCER’S CIRCLE
$5,500 - $9,999
AGM Container Controls, Inc
The Bill and Donna Dehn Charitable Fund
City of Glendale – Public Arts Program
Cox Communications
Desert Diamond Casino
Esser Design
Fabulous Foods
The Maurice and Meta Gross Foundation
Phoenix Suns Charities
Scottsdale Cultural Council
Tucson Electric Company
DESIGNER’S CIRCLE
$3,500 - $5,499
Alliance Bank of Arizona
Arizona Community Foundation
of Flagstaff
BMO Harris Bank N.A.
Crest Insurance Group
CyraCom International Inc.
Mission Management & Trust Co.
Rodel Foundation of Arizona
Sarah B. Smallhouse Advised Fund
held at the Community Foundation
for Southern Arizona
Shapiro Family Philanthropic Foundation
The Stocker Foundation
Watermill Financial Group
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
$1,750 - $3,499
Arizona Community Foundation of Sedona
Bill and Kathy Kinney Philanthropic Fund
Break-Away Tours
Carstens Family Funds
The Evo and Ora DeConcini and
Thu Family Foundation
Fischman Memorial Endowment
The Gadsden Company
The Gordon Foundation
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
The John and Helen Murphey Foundation
Joseph and May Winston Foundation
Kinder Morgan Foundation
LASSO Corp.
Long Realty Cares Foundation
Humberto and Czarina Lopez
Jacqueline Ann Morris Memorial Foundation
Jill and Kevin Madden
Merrill Lynch
Scottsdale League for the Arts
Snell & Wilmer
Tancer Law Firm, P.L.C.
Target Corporation
Torosian Foundation
University of Arizona Medical Center
Vance Foundation
23
BACKERS
$1,000 - $1,749
American Express
Bank of America
Boeing Co.
The Charro Foundation
Eller College of Management
University of Arizona
Hughes Federal Credit Union
Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona
Maizlish Family Foundation
Margaret Mellon Hitchcock Foundation
Nextrio, LLC
ON Media
PICOR Charitable Foundation
Resolution Copper
The Schneider Group
Sharmen Roos State Farm Agency
Theater League Inc.
Tucson Medical Center
PATRON
$500 - $999
Actor’s Equity Foundation, Inc.
Becky and Doug Pruitt Family Fund
Donald Pitt Family Foundation
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
The Harold and Jean Grossman Family
Foundation
Jennings, Strauss & Salmon
The Molly and Joseph Herman Foundation
Phoebe R. and John D. Lewis Foundation
Protravel International
The Roth Family Foundation/Joan Roth
Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty
Russ and Carolyn Russo Foundation
Tucson Jewish Community Center
University of Arizona Center for
Integrative Medicine
FRIENDS
$250 - $499
ExxonMobil Foundation Matching
Gift Program
IBM Matching Grants Program
Foothills Properties
Schwab Charitable Fund
Tucson Museum of Art
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
ATC is proud to acknowledge the following donors who made contributions to the ATC
Annual Fund from July 1, 2014 to December 1, 2015:
ANGELS
$25,000 and Up
Anonymous
Alice and Paul Baker
Christine and Daryl Burton
Shirley Estes
I. Michael and Beth Kasser
Czarina and Humberto Lopez
Anne Lovell and Tom Warne
Dolly and Jim Moran
Mac and Russ Perlich
Enid and Mel Zuckerman
PLAYWRIGHT’S GUILD
$10,000 - $24,999
Anonymous
Paul and Mary Bancroft
Darryl and Mary Ann Dobras
Bruce and Katie Dusenberry
Joanie Flatt
Jay and Babs Glaser
David Ira Goldstein and
Michele Robins Goldstein
Sharon Harper
Scott Kendall Haun
Sandy and Bob Maxfield
Liz and Fletcher McCusker
Mary Mochary
Marilyn Papp
Jennifer A. Roberts
PRODUCER’S CIRCLE
$5,500 - $9,999
Anonymous
Mary and Cameron Artigue
Alan and Char Augenstein
Don and Jonae DeLong
Bruce and Edythe Gissing
Rob and Laurie Glaser
Judith Hardes
Tandy and Gary Kippur
Richard and Sally Lehmann
Bill Lewis and Rick Underwood
Lori Mackstaller
Elyce and Mark Metzner
Jack and Becky Moseley
Jeffrey and Susan Rein
Drs. John and Helen Schaefer
Enid and Michael Seiden
Judy Seinfeld
F. William Sheppard and Range P. Shaw
Nancy Swanson and Kathleen Zywicki
Jack Wahl and Mary Lou Forier
Michael Willoughby
DESIGNER’S CIRCLE
$3,500 - $5,499
Mary and Todd Anderson
Jessica L. Andrews and
Timothy W. Toothman
Barbara and Franklin Bennett
Betsy Bolding
Connie and Rodney Boorse
Carol Mae Butler Estate
Susan Call
Jacklyn Connoy and William Maguire
Len and Doris Coris
Martha Durkin
Bruce L. and Lynne Wood Dusenberry
Raoul Encinas
Deanna Evenchik
Ellis F. Friedman and Irene Stern Friedman
Gail and Patric Giclas
Davie Glaser in loving memory
of David H. Glaser
Ellyn and Jeff Gold
Ellen and David Goldstein
Laurie and Chuck Goldstein
Paulette and Joseph Gootter
Dr. Robert Gore
Daniel Hagerty and Michael Cook
Anne and David Hameroff
Donald Henke
Bob and JoAnne Hungate
Mrs. Kathryn Chandler Juhan
Randy Kendrick
Drs. Steven and Marta Ketchel
Drs. Paul and Mary Koss
Debra Larson
Marilyn and Robert Metzger
Deborah Moss and Stephen Collins
Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Otto
Mary and Matthew Palenica
Mary Beth and Gerald Radke
Jill and Herschel Rosenzweig
Ken and Judy Ryan
Gary Wolff and Sandy Gibson
Linda Wurzelbacher
24
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
$1,750 - $3,499
Kelly and Ken Abrahams
Darla and Loren Acker
Roberta Aidem
Affinity Eye Care/Dr. Robert Mulgrew
Peter Akmajian and Colleen Cacy
Mara and Keith Aspinall
John and Christine Augustine
Mr. A. Frederick Banfield and
Ms. Eileen M. Fitzmaurice
Mary Ellen and Emery Bartle
Denice Blake and John Blackwell
Dr. Jose and Frances Burruel
Aroon Chinai
Ginny Clements
Ed and Arlene Cohen
Shelly Cohn and Mollie Trivers
Jan Copeland
Vanne and Robert Cowie
Mark and Julie Deatherage
Geraldine and Michael DeMuro
Marjorie and Gerald Dixon
Andrew Dowd
Norma and Stanley G. Feldman
Catherine “Rusty” Foley
Robert Fortuno
Fractured Earth Tile and Stone/
Ms. Elizabeth Miller
Leslie Freed
Ted and Barb Frohling
Harry and Lois Garrett
Harry George and Cita Scott
Dr. Mary Jo Ghory
Leslie and Richard Glaze
Debbie Goodman-Butler
and Patrick Butler
Jeff Guldner
Leslie Hall and Ted Jarvi
Terri Hall
Hazel Hare
Elliott and Sandra Heiman
Jacqueline Hufford-Jensen
Dan Kammrath
George Kellner
Robyn Kessler and Jeff Timan
Drs. George and Maria Knecht
Ronald and Ruth Kolker
Linda Lambert
Eileen and John Lamse
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
CONTINUED
$1,750 - $3,499
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Landay
Toby and Matt Lehrman
Leroy Littleton
Elaine Litvack
Susan and Stacy Litvak
Phil and Nora Mazur
Pat and Wayne Needham
Don and Peg Nickerson
Richard and Shana Oseran
Heather Reeves
Dr. and Mrs. Sanford H. Roth
Toby and Michael Rozen
Carol and Lex Sears
Susan P. Segal
Steve and Shelly Silverman
Daniel and Evelyn Simon
Susan S. Small
Harvey and Rica Spivack
Phyllis E. and Richard D. Stern
Richard and Marie Stewart
Col. Mary Pat Sullivan
Robert and Shoshana Tancer
Diane Thorn
David and Dawn Veldhuizen
Barbara Vogen
Count Ferdinand and
Countess Anita von Galen
Dr. Richard and Madeleine Wachter
Thomas Warne
Julia Waterfall-Kanter
Brett Weaver and Linda Smith
Russell and Kay Weed
Richard and Nancy Weiss
Nancy and Jeff Werner
Mark and Taryn Westergaard
James Wezelman and Denise Grusin
Allan and Diana Winston
BACKERS
$1,000 - $1,749
Anonymous (2)
Judy and Rory Albert
Susan and Larry Allen
Corbett and Pat Alley
Gregory Anderson and Linda Holmes
Barbara and Mathis Becker
Susan Berg
Barbara and William Bickel
Susan and Brian Boylan
Shirley Chann
Amy Charles and Steve McMillan
Mary Kathleen Collins
Mr. and Mrs. William Cullen
Barbara and John Cummings
A. Ennis Dale
Dr. and Mrs. William H. Dantzler
Russell Dickey
Joe Donor
Russell and Sharon Ewers
Fred Farsjo and Patti Payne
Ronna Fickbohm
Carol Fink
Richard and Judith Flynn
Pamela Frame
Mr. and Mrs. John Francesconi
James Glasser
Pamela Grissom
Jerome and Anita Gutkin
J. Harries
Sarajean Harwood
Theresa and William Hawgood
Stephen and Amanda Heitz
Pat and John Hemann
Ed and Sandy Holland
Dr. Ralph A. and Anna L. Jackson
William and Judy Jenney
Dr. and Mrs. Valerian Kaplan
Sandy and Richard Kauffman
Susan King
Alvin and Janice Kivel
Don Klomp
Robert Knopf
Patricia Langlin
Marianne and Bill Leedy
Jenni and Rob Leinbach
Marc and Donna Levison
Helaine Levy and Steve Alley
Sharon Lewis and Mayor Shanken
Samuel and Judy Linhart
Ms. Edith Luty
Anne and Ed Lyman
Marilyn and Tom Merryweather
Rosanna Miller
Peggy and Gerry Murphy
Dr. James E. Nation
Jordan and Jean Nerenberg
Robert Present
Jeff Rich
Charles Roehrick
Tom and Eileen Rotkis
Bernadette and Joaquin Ruiz
Mike Saavdeva
Drs. Adib and Vivi Sabbagh
Michael and Enriqueta Salvo
Harold Samloff
25
Mary and Heliodoro Sanchez
Deborah and Marc Sandroff
Claire and Henry Sargent
Bart and Marcella Schannep
Carol and Randy Schilling
Andy and Trisa Schorr
Suzanne and Lewis Schorr
Ron and Patricia Schwabe
Marc and Tracy Schwimmer
Arlene and Morton Scult
Gulshan and Neelam Sethi
Chris Sheafe
Cathy Shell
Dr. William and Joanne Sibley
Ralph and Ingeborg Silberschlag
Robert and Linnet Spangler
Helen and Darryl Stern
Rebecca and Jerry Sundt
Pamela Sutherland
Joan Sweeney
Gail and Daniel Tenn and Sheri Sender
Susan and Glyn Thickett
Gerald and Linda Tumarkin
Mrs. D. Rae Turley
Patricia and Don Underwood
Arthur Wadlund
Richard Walker
Marion Weber
Maggie White
Ruth Zales and Kenneth Greenfield
PATRONS
$500 - $999
Anonymous (3)
Audrey and Daniel Abrams
Joseph Acker
Joanne and Howie Adams
Amy and Bob Adams
David Allen
Susan and Larry Allen
Rob Aronoff
Bob and Judy Atwell
Lani and Josh Baker
Colleen and Brock Bakewell
Jessica Barrancco
Tim Bender
Tony and Maria Beram
Paula and Edwin Biggers
Phylis and Gary Bolno
Kay Bouma
Martha Brightwell
Mary Brophy
Laura and Arch Brown
Joan Kaye Cauthorn
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
PATRONS CONTINUED
$500 - $999
Paul and Susan Charlton
Kris and Earl Cohen
Sara Cohen
Monique Connor
Judie Cosentino
Mr. and Mrs. Duane K. Cote
Andreas Coumides
Gayla and Harlan Crossman
Alicia and Jon Crumpton
Shawne Cryderman
Marjorie and George Cunningham
Leslie Dashew
Patti Dennis
Marnie and Harvey Dietrich
Jan and Leo Dressel
Sally and Ralph Dunchin
Gail E. Dunlap
Joel Estes
William Estes
John Ezell
Tammy Caillet-Falbaum and
Vance Falbaum
Dr. Nelson Faux
Dr. and Mrs. John H. Finley
Lazard Flot
Denise and Robert Ford
Wendy Gamble and Carl Kuehn
Elizabeth and Dietmar Gann
Drs. Margot W. and J.D. Garcia
Becky and Dave Gaspar
Cathleen and Thomas Godfrey
Muriel and Marc Goldfeder
Donita Gross
Jennifer Gross and Jerry LeFevre
Sara and Andrew Gyorke
Rita Hagel
Glen and Pam Hait
Ben Hall
Athia Hardt
Pamela and Stanley Hart
Kathy and James Haun
Michael and Phyllis Hawkins
John Hay and Ruth Murphy
Suzie Hazan and Michael Burns
Susan Hetherington
Tom and Sandy Hicks
Marsha and Sid Hirsh
Sharon and Jesse Hise
Darrell and Frances Hutchinson
Deborah and Jeffrey Jacob
Frank Jacobson
Leonard and Marcelle Joffe
Richard Kalenka
Julie and Stephen Kambeitz
Andra Karnofsky and Charles Gannon
Julianna Kasper
Pat Kaufman
Jamie and Bill Kelley
Raymond Kemp
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kendhammer
Teresa Kim and Mark Quale
Kristin King
Judy Kish
Gabrielle Klein
Jo and Bob Koeper
Loren Krebs
Kathryn Lamm
Sherrie and Robert Lane
Anne Leary and Bill Hemelt
James K. LeValley and Nancy Philippi
Dr. Alan Levenson and Rachel Goldwyn
John Lewis
Herb and Nancy Lienenbrugger
Jennifer Lohse and Jason DePizzo
Lawrence Lucero
Suzan and Peter Makaus
Nancy and Vance Marshall
Rudy and Maria Mathews
Dorothy and Roy Mayeske
Peggy and Dennis McCarver
J. Stuart McIntyre
Elsa McTavish
Gregory and Emma Melikian
Claudine and Andrew Messing
Joyanne and Fred Mills
Jacques Montrose
Donnasu and Jim Moody
Patricia Morgan and Peter Salomon
Shirley G. Muney
Brian and Nina Munson
Trudi and Robert Murch
Essie and George Nadler
Nahom Family Trust/ Ann and Dan Nahom
David Nelson
Caren and Thomas Newman
Parviz Nikravesh and Agnes Stahlschmidt
Leslie Nixon and Barry Kirschner
Randi and James Nulty
Peggy Odendahl
Micheal and Patricia Ore
Ann Patterson-Barton
Kathie and Bill Peterson
William Rapp and Kathy Kolbe
Paul Rathjen
Charles and Linda Redman
Michael Reuwsaat and Priscilla Storm
Sandra Rausch
26
Jeffrey Rich
Ron Robinette and Sharon Roediger
George and Bobbe Rosenberg
Anne and Lowell Rothschild
Jonathan Rothschild
Sue Samuels
Annette and Bob Sandler
Kathleen Schiemann
Robert Schoeneman
Ellie and S.L. Schorr
Robyn and Edward Schwager
Nancy Schwalm
Deborah and William Scott
Joe and Polly Seeger
Mrs. Eugene W. Seklecki
Barbara and George Seperich
Stan Shafer
Drs. David Siegel and Linda Riordan
Raj Sivananthan
Richard Snodgrass and Merrie Brucks
Joel Steinfeld
Joan Strand
Morton and Nina Susman
Ms. Susan M. Swick
Mr. and Mrs. Hans J. Thiele
Hugh and Allyn Thompson
Cheryl and Howard Toff
Carrie Toth
Bonnie and John Trowbridge
David and Nancy Ulmer
Bob and Emily Vincent
Ruth and Charles Waldron
Barbara and John Walker
Mary Way
Steven and Linda Wegener
Libby and Bernard Weiner
Ellen Wheeler and David Nix
Jana Wilke
Deborah and Wayne Willis
Steven Wool
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Woosley
FRIENDS
$250 - $499
Anonymous (5)
Robert Affholder
Jerry Alpert and Vicki Myerson-Alpert
Dr. Joseph Alpert
Ovadan Amanova-Olsen and Irina Kirilova
Jos Anshell
Julia and Neal Armstrong
Gregory Ash and Susan Johnson-Ash
Clara and Lee Ashton
Karen Austen
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
FRIENDS CONTINUED
$250 - $499
Pamela and Frank Bangs
Emery and Jackie Barker
Robert and Jeannette Barnes
Mary and Bret Batchelor
Char and Gerry Bates
Kathryn Bates
John Bechman
Dr. Cash and Susanne Beechler
Damon Bolling and David Horowitz
Richard Bookspan
Sharley Bryce
Ted and Karen Bore Charles
and Carla Borkan
Kim and Don Bourn
John and Susan Bowers
Sharon and Barry Briskman
Diane and Donald Bristow
Richard Broderick
Corrine Brooks
Eugene and Jeanne Bryan
Sylvia and Herb Burton
Shirley and Roland Calhoun
Ruth Callahan and
Dimitri Voulgaropoulos
Joanne and John Carhart
Neal Cash and Sally Grant
Mr. and Mrs. D. Chavez
Margaret Chrisman
Joyce Cohen and Leon Smith
Sidney and Elaine Cohen
Lois and Tom Colberg
Margaret and James Coyle
Joan Coyne
Ronald and Vic Crowe
Paula and Michael Culbert
Sandra and Anthony Dalessandro
Barbara Davis
Merrily and George Davis
Claire and Wayne Decker
Pennie DeHoff and Larry Wurst
Adrain Patel Delaloye
Dr. and Mrs. Philip E. Dew
Stephen and Ruth Dickstein
Mr. Tom Dinwiddie
Randi Dorman and Rob Paulus
Jan and Mickey Dowling
Janet and Harold Eastin
Tom and Jackie Edwards
Carole Eitingon
Michael R. Elert and Dr. Honora A. Norton
Lee and Spencer Elliott
Dennis Emond
Elaine and Mario Espericueta
Nancy and Richard Fintzy
Mary Jo Fitzgerald
Gregory Flaks
Sherman and Sarilyn Fogel
Cindy and Jerry Foley
Brian Folkes
M. and R. Fowler
Michael and Mary Fox
David and Cathy Freedman
Randall Friese
Michael Garcia
Kevin Gebert and Whitney Sheets
Gary and Gini Gethmann
M. Joyce Geyser
Paul Giancola
Harold and Patricia Gilbert
Angela Glosser
Elaine and John Goetz
Ann and Arthur Goldberg
Barbara and Gerald Goldberg
Midge and Gerald Golner
Kathryn and Edwin Goss
Jane and Robert Gray
Tom and Nancy Green
Roxanne Griego
Barbara Gurwitz and William Hall
Jerry Haack
Diana and Lawrence Haas
Mary Haddad
Michael Hamant and Lynnell Gardner
Michael Hammond
Kenneth and Marian Handy
Jill Hansen
John and Robin Harris
Seth Harris
Monica and Jim Hart
Ryan Hartman
James and Victoria Haskins
Elizabeth and Jerrold Hatcher
Lester and Suzanne Hayt
Alma Haywood
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Herbst
Kerry and Bob Herbster
Richard Hertz and Doris Meyer
William and Bethany Hicks
Marcia and Gregory Hillard
Marta and Robert C. Holl
Sidney Hollande
Linda Hollars
Michael and Marian Holloway
Gerri and Barry Holt
Glenn Howell
Cynthia Hubiak
27
John Irby and Norizan Osman
Lisa and Gary Israel
Nancy and Brian Jackson
Frank and Caroline Jank
Jill and Stan Jankowski
Dr. Leo Jaques
Helen and Robert Jennette
Thomas Jenney
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
David Johnson
Richard and Shirley Johnson
Susan and Bob Johnstone
Gary Jones
Robert and Beverly Jones
Nathan Joseph
Lee and Gary Kains
Eric Kaldahl
Sheila and Richard Kanter
Fran Katz
S.B. Katz, MD, JD and D. Stephenson
Lendre and King Kearns
Lisa and David Keene
Alan Kempner
Allan and Carol Kern
Mel Kessler and Gail Fisher
Sue and Darrell Kidd
Bruce Kilbride and Lynn Krabbe
David and Patricia King
Susan and Carlton King
Kish Finnegan
Don and Susan Kjerland
Marsha and Donald Klein
Guy Knoller
Bill and Linda Knox
Renata Koliakinene
Anthony Krainik
Lynne Lagarde and Bob Stankus
Arvie and Karen Lake
Sally Lanyon
Jim and Gloria Lawrence
Joan Le Fevre
Philip and Ellen Leavitt
Sue and Robert Lebby
Kwan S. Lee
Lola and Lew Lehrman
Barbara and Martin Levy
Roy Loewenstein and Alana Stubbs
Mary and Paul Lynch
Janet and Charles Lynn
Matthew and Jo Ann Madonna
Andrea Malis
Mr. and Mrs. Thom Mansur
Joan and Kit Marrs
Judi and Alan Max
Judy McDonald
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
FRIENDS CONTINUED
$250 - $499
Constance McMillin
Cecilia Memjivar
Lynda Menis
Kathryn and Richard Merkel
Walter and Gloria Merkel
Valla Merriman
Francie Merryman
Darrel and Ann Merwin
Debra and Jeffrey Messing
James Miller
Mr. and Mrs. George Mink
Gary Molenda
Jessica and Jeff Monash
Frances Moore
George and Nancy Moore
Melvin E. Mounts
Christine Muldoon
Kay Musser
Barbara Myers
Richard and Dana Naimark
Carl and Carolyn Nau
Jan Olav and Lucille Flaaten
Paula and Carl Olson
John Parente
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Peck
Julia Pernet
Rachele and Joe Peterson
Laurie and Tom Pew
Steven Phillips
Violet and Darius Pirzadeh
Thomas Potter
Sheila Press
Ann H. Redding
Elaine and Eugene Rice
Joan Roberts
Janet and Roger Robinson
Tom Rogers
Lynda and Edward Rogoff
Susan Rollins
Tiana and Jeff Ronstadt
Steve and Rebecca Rosenberg
Barbara and Kent Rossman
Katie Rubin
Arnold and Carol Rudoff
Sharon and Richard Rundle
David and Sonja Saar
Maria Saldivar
Ellen and Stephen Saltonstall
Kathi and Doug Sanders
Betty Ann Sarver
Dina Scalone-Romero
and Fernando Romero
Alexis and Steve Schallenberger
Tom and Chris Schatzman
Steven Schellhaas
Patricia and Harry Schlosser
Rita and Steven Schlosser
Paul and Jacqueline Schulz
Susan and Ford Schumann
Dr. Howard and Trudy Schwartz
Olivia and Dev Sethi
Robert Sheely
Carole and Charles Shnier
Marvin Siegel and Eileen Bloom
Dr. Caren Siehl
Ken and Diane Skotak
Steve and Anita Slaughter
John and Phyllis Smiley
Anita Smith
Lois and Lowell Sorenson
Martha and Brad Sowers
Reed Spangler
Dr. Richard and Judy Spiegel
Gloria and Mark Spies
Monica Spivey
Linda Staubitz
B. Stea
Claire Steigerwald
Randy Sterna
Dan and Jill Stevenson
Doug and Jean Stuart
Dan Suhr and Shelly Bunn
Teri and Don Sullivan
Jay Sykes
John Szafranski
Jean Thomas
Stephen and Susan Thompson
Neil and Marjorie Thornton
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tofel
Bruce and Catherine Uhl
James A. Ullman
David and Kathryn Unger
Nancy Utech
Sergio Valladolid
Joan and Gerald Vandevoort
Ellen and David Vellanga
Tony and Rita Vickers
Carol Vivona
John and Connie Nygaard Wareing
Wendy Warne
Gregory and Leigh Waterfall
Sandra Webb and Bob Meyer
Caryll and Gerald Webner
Ronald and Mary Weinstein
Sami Weir and Jean Demonico
Virginia Weise
Willard W. White
28
Linda and Richard Whitney
Preston and Katherine Whitt
Thomas and Kay Williams
Pamela and Dennis Winsten
Krystyna Wolski and Ronald Bernstein
Marilyn and Peter Woods
Mo Xiao
James and Carolyn Yeater
Flora Yee and Phil Derkum
Barbara Zippel and Thomas Pickrell
Howard and Mary Zipser
GIFTS IN MEMORY OF
Georgia Acker by Joseph Acker
Charles Artigue by Gammage & Burnham,
Richard B. Burnham, F. William
Shepard and Range P. Shaw, Curtis
and Paula Ullman, Susan Watchman
and Terry Corbett
Larry Ash by Slobodan Popovic and
Janie Shapiro
Robert Begam by Jessica L. Andrews and
Timothy W. Toothman, Begam Marks
and Traulsen, David Ira Goldstein and
Michele Robins Goldstein, Ellen and
Mark Harrison
Ms. Beryl Beville by Matthew and
Jo Ann Madonna
Dr. Richard Call by Mrs. Susan M. Call
Bob Cauthorn by John and Laura Almquist,
Jessica L. Andrews and Timothy W.
Toothman, Barbara Atwood, Alice and
Paul Baker, Patricia Ballard,
Deanna and Robert Bates, Jill Bishop,
Betsy Bolding, Neal and Sally Cash,
Shirley J. Chann, Len and Doris
Coris, Edward Gentile and Deborah
Rosenwald, Rob and Laurie Glaser,
David Ira Goldstein and Michele Robins
Goldstein, Pamela Grissom, Naomi and
Gene Karp, Shirley and Jim Kiser, Trudy
Kohl, Clyde W. Kunz and Brian L. Arthur
George Loesch and Friends at Intersate
General Media, Jennifer Lohse, David
Mackstaller and Lyn Papanikolas,
Robert Marshall, Sandy and Robert
Maxfield, Brent Pichler, Judith Rich,
Jill and Herschel Rosenzweig, Robert
Strauss, Lisa Ungar, Patricia H.
Waterfall, Jan Wezelman and David
Bartlett, Ruth Zales and Ken
Greenfield, Enid and Mel Zuckerman
Rudy Cosentino by Judie Cosentino
Dan Davis by F. William Sheppard and
Range P. Shaw
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
GIFTS IN MEMORY OF
CONTINUED
Josephine Duveneck by Weegee and
Scott Whiteford
Jack Frakes by Cathy Whitlock Rowlette
Adele Furman by Ina and Ian Shivack
Allan Glaser by Jessica L. Andrews and
Timothy W. Toothman, Alice and Paul
Baker, I. Michael and Beth Kasser, Ron
Kessler and Jeff Timan, Lynn and
Mark Thomas
Pat Goldstein by Holualoa Arizona, Inc
Rose Gottlieb by James Erikson, Joanne
Adams, Jean and Marvin Glassberg,
Shigeko and Ke Hsieh, Lisa Humenik,
Rebecca Hurd, Linda and James
Kastella, Phyllis and Theodore Katz,
Hani and Nora Murad, Kenneth and
Phyllis Myslik, Wanda and Angelo
Petropolis, Sonja Reinhardt, Nancy and
Lu Rudolph, Robert and Susan Shrager,
Dave Solomon
Chris and Joel Hatfield by Norma and
Stanley G. Feldman
Karl Haytcher by Jessica L. Andrews and
Timothy W. Toothman, Claudia Vazquez
Bob Hegyi by Raymond Kemp and
Rick Douglas
Dr. Arnold I. Hollander by Carol Hollander
Mollie Hughes by Diane Tweedy
Anna Jolivet by Jessica L. Andrews and
Timothy W. Toothman
Walter Kaye by David Bartlett and Janice
Wezelman, Kent and Nancy Barrabee,
Leonard Dinnerstein, and Robert and
Olga Strauss
Renay F. Lehman by Carol Hollander
Elayne Miller by Jan Wezelman and
David Bartlett
Donald Nickerson by Jessica L. Andrews
and Timothy W. Toothman, Betsy
Bolding, Lathrop and Gage, LLP,
David Ira Goldstein and Michele
Robins Goldstein
Alfena “Alfie” Norville by Jessica L.
Andrews and Timothy W. Toothman
Mary Katherine Robinson by Jessica L.
Andrews and Timothy W. Toothman
George Rosenberg by Jessica L. Andrews
and Timothy W. Toothman, Betsy
Bolding, Nancy Cook, Winston H. Dines,
Winston Dines, Holliday Dines, David
Ira Goldstein and Michele Robins
Goldstein, Dr. and Mrs. Martin Levy,
Lyn Papanikolas, David Mackstaller,
Jane Sharples, and Elizabeth and
William Woodin
Michael Schroeder by Raymond Kemp and
Rick Douglas
Richard Segal by Jessica L. Andrews and
Timothy W. Toothman, Betsey Bayless,
Laura and Terry Bercovitz, Gina and Rick
DeGraw, Norma and Stanley G. Feldman,
Babs and Jay Glaser, David Ira Goldstein
and Michele Robins Goldstein, Ellen and
Mark Harrison, Luana and Doug Manning,
Patricia Martin and Timothy Berg,
Charles J. Muchmore and Karen Nyrop,
Nancy and Bruce Oyen, Michael Parrish
and Susan Davis, Vicki and Scott Ruby,
Michelle and Stan Sparrow, F. William
Sheppard and Range P. Shaw Sheryl and
Dale Wanek
Trudy Shapiro by Jessica L. Andrews and
Timothy W. Toothman, Rob and Laurie
Glaser, Slobodan Popovic and Janie
Shapiro
Larry Smith by Frank Davis, F. William
Sheppard and Range P. Shaw
Nemesio Trevino by Jessica L. Andrews
and Timothy W. Toothman, David Ira
Goldstein and Michele Robins Goldstein
Alan Wall by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Vegodsky
Roger Babson Webber by Marlene M. Graf
Sara J. Wich by Anonymous
GIFTS IN HONOR OF
Jessica Andrews by Paulette and
Joe Gootter
Betsy Bolding by Becky and Dave Gaspar
Joan Kaye Cauthorn by Ruth Zales and
Kenneth Greenfield
Darryl and Mary Ann Dobras by Jane
and Benjamin Norton, Reese and
Nancy Woodling
Danielle Faitelson by Karen and
Lionel Faitelson
Stanley Feldman by David Mackstaller
and Lyn Papanikolas
Jay Glaser by Linda Goldburgh
29
David Ira Goldstein by Karen and Lionel
Faitelson, Paulette and Joe Gootter
Paulette and Joe Gootter by Len and
Doris Coris, Marcelle and Leonard Joffe,
Joan Sweeney, Lois and Tom Colberg,
Robert Present, Dr. and Mrs. Martin Levy,
Carol and Lex Sears, Marjorie and Gerald
Dixon, Joan Kaye Cauthorn, and Ralph
Thomas Eiff
David Hawkanson by Betsy Bolding
Beth and Mike Kasser by Ruth and Henry
Jacobson, Jill and Herschel Rosenzweig,
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Woosley, Paul Kraft,
Leslie Glaze, Shelly Silverman,
Jody Gross, Scott Maizlish, and Joan
Kaye Cauthorn
Robyn Kessler by David Mackstaller and
Lyn Papanikolas
Randy Kincaid by F. William Sheppard
and Range P. Shaw
Anne Kleindienst by F. William
Sheppard and Range P. Shaw
Matt Lerhman by Paulette and Joe Gootter
Helaine Levy by Len and Doris Coris,
Deanna Evenchik, Norma and Stanley
G. Feldman, Babs and Jay Glaser, Judi
Kessler, Richard and Sally Lehmann,
Francie Merryman, Anne and Lowell
Rothschild, Anne and Tim Schaffner,
Cristie and Bill Street, David and
Kathryn Unger
Bill Lewis and Rick Underwood by F.
William Sheppard and Range P. Shaw
Sandy Maxfield by Joan Kaye Cauthorn
Kevin E. Moore by David Ira Goldstein
and Michele Robins Goldstein
Jean and Jordan Nerenberg by Elyce
and Mark Metzner
Anne Raymond by Ann Bladwin
Anne Rothschild by Norma and
Stanley G. Feldman
Patricia J. Ryan MSW by Terri Hall
Karen Scates by Betsy Bolding
Bill Sheppard and Range Shaw by
Raymond Kemp and Rick Douglas
Ralph and Ingeborg Silberschlag by
Marilyn Prince
Geri Silvi by Slobodan Popovic and Janie
Shapiro, Angela Glosser
Annie Stein by Ms. Sondra Eastham
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Von Germeten by
Ms. Sondra Eastham
Ruthie Zales by Marsha Cohen,
Judy and Jay Feldstein
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
STAFF
David Ira Goldstein, Artistic Director
ARTISTIC
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE
Timothy Toothman
COMPANY MANAGER
Ashley Simon
LITERARY MANAGER
Katherine Monberg
PLAYWRIGHT-IN-RESIDENCE
Elaine Romero
SPECIAL PROJECTS COORDINATOR
Matthew Wiener
RESIDENT COSTUME DESIGNER
Kish Finnegan
RESIDENT LIGHTING DESIGNER
T. Greg Squires
RESIDENT SOUND DESIGNER
Brian Jerome Peterson
LEARNING & EDUCATION
LEARNING & EDUCATION MANAGER
Luke Young
LEARNING & EDUCATION ASSOCIATE
Bryanna Patrick
TEACHING ARTISTS
Shelby Athouguia, Annie Ballesteros,
Heidi Barker, Brigitte Bechtel, Jason
Campbell, Kay Dawson, Athena Hagen,
Amy LeGore, Lisa A. Leonhardt, Czarina
Leyva, Russell Long, Marisa Lujan,
Sean Maynard, Jenise Melland, Rachel
Miller, Katherine Monberg, Marcus
Myler, Brian Jerome Peterson, Mercer
Pinkston, Andrea Pratt, Sarah Ross,
Madison Thatcher, Jonathan Thompson,
Candice Washburn
PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Jennifer Smith
ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER
Christopher Gerling
STAGE MANAGEMENT
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Glenn Bruner
STAGE MANAGER
Timothy Toothman
ASSISTANT TO THE STAGE MANAGER
Emma DeVore
SCENERY
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Matthew Saxton
ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Phillip Blackwood
STAFF CARPENTERS
Nicholas Fleming, Scott Greenleaf, Sean
Maynard, Arthur Potts
SCENIC CHARGE ARTIST
Brigitte Bechtel
SCENIC ART INTERN
Lydia Lopez
SCENIC ARTISTS
Jesse Augustine, Lisa Lemke, Johanna
Martinez, Katherine Morter, Andie Pratt,
Liz Weibler
STAGE CARPENTER (TUC)
Russell Long
STAGE CARPENTER (PHX)
Christian Miller
PROPERTIES
PROPERTIES MASTER
Paul Lucas
ASSISTANT PROPERTIES MASTER
Katelin Ashcraft
PROPERTIES INTERN
Sarah Broyles
COSTUMES & WARDROBE
COSTUME SHOP MANAGER
Darcy Elora Hofer
COSTUME DESIGN MANAGER
Kish Finnegan
STAFF DRAPER
Phyllis Davies
DRAPER
Liz Weibler
30
STITCHERS
Mariah Bowers, Louise Denetso,
Kyra Jones, Kat Pollack, Marthe Witte
WARDROBE SUPERVISOR
Sandahl Masson
LIGHTING & PROJECTIONS
LIGHTING & PROJECTIONS SUPERVISOR
Kat Seaton
MASTER ELECTRICIAN
Erica Harris
ELECTRICS INTERN
Ross Dennison
LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR (PHX)
Joycelin Jacobs
OVERHIRE ELECTRICIANS
Connor Adams, Colleen Carnahan,
Rick Holya, Dale Nakagawa, Max Sprinkle
SOUND
SOUND SUPERVISOR
Brian Jerome Peterson
PRODUCTION SOUND ENGINEER
Mathew DeVore
SOUND BOARD OPERATOR (PHX)
Billy Lopez
SOUND ASSISTANT
Jason Campbell
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
STAFF
ADMINISTRATION
ASSOCIATE MANAGING DIRECTOR
Robyn Lambert
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Angela Aldrin
FRONT OFFICE VOLUNTEERS
Pat Boysen, Ellen Gurewitz, Barb
Dominick-Price, Linda Vogel, Wendy
Sander, Nancy Kupers
THE TEMPLE LOUNGE
MANAGER
Emily Lucas
ASSISTANT MANAGER
Alison Doran
CUSTOMER SERVICE
REPRESENTATIVE (TUC)
Sara Kavitch
CUSTOMER SERVICE
REPRESENTATIVES (PHX)
Carolyn Levin, Linda Schwartz
CONCESSIONAIRES
Angela Aldrin, Christine Badke, Dani
Gifford, Kim Grygutis, Cynthia Hough,
Mariah McCammond, John McNiece,
Brenna Mirano, April Putney, Dan Uroff
BOX OFFICE AGENTS (TUC)
Jenna Malkin, Toni Berry
MARKETING
CONSULTANTS
PATRON RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
Ron May
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
William Russo
ONLINE ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR
Erin Treat
HUMAN RESOURCES
Dina Scalone
MARKETING COORDINATOR
Colin Buck Columna
AUDITORS
Beach, Fleischman & Co.
FACILITIES – TUCSON
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Crowley Communications
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
Carley Elizabeth Preston
FACILITIES MANAGER
Horace Ashley
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Esser Design
FINANCE
MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS
David Fitch, Dean Morgan
IT SUPPORT
Team Logic IT
ACCESSIBILITY
ACCESSIBILITY COORDINATOR
Eileen Bagnall
DEVELOPMENT
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Leslie Freed
GRANTS MANAGER
Alexis Smith-Schallenberger
ANNUAL FUND MANAGER
Cynthia Wasco
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
& ADMINISTRATION
Carrie Toth
TICKET SALES &
HOUSE MANAGEMENT
SENIOR ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATE
Yvette Miranda
TICKET SERVICES MANAGER
Geri Silvi
ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATE
Debbie Archuleta
BOX OFFICE MANAGER (TUC)
Michi Yamasaki
ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT
Maria G. Moreno
ASSISTANT BOX OFFICE MANAGER (TUC)
Carrie Luker
31
HOUSE MANAGERS (TUC)
Bill Bethel, Sonja Reinhardt
PUBLIC RELATIONS
The Kur Carr Group, Inc.
PATRON SERVICES DEPARTMENT
PATRON SERVICES SUPERVISOR
Phil Bergstein
PATRON SERVICES REPRESENTATIVES
Shannon Harral, Aaron Rice
FEEL THE MOMENT
2015/2016 SEASON
T H E AT R E I N F O R M AT I O N
THE TEMPLE OF MUSIC AND ART
The Temple of Music and Art is a beautifully refurbished 1927 theatre, built in the Spanish
Colonial style that flavors so much of our city. ATC has identified the following services and
policies to ensure your comfort and enhance your experience at the theatre.
THEATRE POLICIES
Latecomers will be seated only at an appropriate and predetermined break in action. In order not
to disturb patrons who are already enjoying the performance, latecomers may be seated in alternate
locations until intermission. As a courtesy to our patrons and the actors, the use of cameras and
recording devices is not permitted within the theatre. Please restrict cellular phone use to the
courtyard only. Children under five are not permitted in the theatre during performances.
Emergency calls may also be made to the House Manager’s direct line: 520-884-4868.
Smoking is not permitted anywhere within the building. Designated smoking areas are located
in the front of the theatre only. In the event of smoking onstage, a sign will be posted in the lobby.
SPECIAL SERVICES
The theatre is equipped with an in-house infrared transmission system for use by patrons with
partial hearing loss or limited range of hearing. Complimentary assisted listening headsets are
available prior to every performance at the Box Office. Please be prepared to leave a driver’s
license or other form of identification while using your headset. Every production is available in
American Sign Language. For information on the dates of our ASL performances, please contact
the Box Office. An in-house FM broadcast system is used to provide a running audio description
of the movement and activities onstage for patrons with limited vision. Pre-show tactile tours of
the backstage area and a pre-show narration about our building, the performers, and interpretive
information about the play itself are available upon request. Contact the Box Office to make your
reservation for the audio described performances. Coordinated with the action onstage, those in
open-captioned seating will be able to read the play’s dialogue displayed in large green letters on
an LED screen. For open-captioned performance dates, contact the Box Office. Large print and
Braille playbills are available for all performances in the House Manager’s office in the lobby of
the theatre. Accessible seating is available via the Box Office for all performances. If you would
like seating assistance at the theatre, please contact the House Manager at 520-884-4868.
32