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ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES BY TONY KUSHNER DIRECTED BY JÁNOS SZÁSZ 2022/23 SEASON
SEASON 2023/24
BIGGER, BOLDER, ANGELS IN AMERICA,
& BETTER THAN EVER PART ONE: MILLENNIUM
CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND APPROACHES
BY LAUREN YEE
FEATURING SONGS BY DENGUE FEVER
DIRECTED BY CHAY YEW
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTISTICALLY SPEAKING
ARENA STAGE MISSION
Arena Stage is the voice of In the world of theater, a show is
American theater resident in never truly finished. Especially a
our nation’s capital. Focused on masterwork like Angels in America.
American artists, our productions
are innovative and representative In the world of theater, a show is never truly finished.
of stories from across the country. Especially a masterwork like Angels in America.
We nurture new plays and
reimagine classics. We celebrate As a show ages, new productions and companies take on
our democracy and diversity the story and characters, causing the art itself to evolve.
through a multitude of voices in Angels in America is over 30 years old and has seen many
our productions and community evolutions over the years. The America that the show was written about is different
engagement programs to inspire than the one we live in now, but the rhymes of that era’s history can still be felt
people to action. We produce today. We have traded the AIDS epidemic for the coronavirus pandemic, and a
all that is passionate, exuberant, crisis with ozone for a crisis with nature itself. We live in a world where marriage is
profound, entertaining, deep, and
legal for all, and yet, the LGBTQ+ community still faces discrimination every single
dangerous in the American spirit.
day. With this production of Angels in America, we will feel the emotions of today
and 30 years ago riding together side by side in one play.
The director for this production, János Szász, is the perfect Director to take on
such a monumental task.
I first met him over 23 years ago while on a trip to Budapest when Philip Arnoult
and the Center for International Theatre Development took a group of intrepid
artistic directors to create relationships with great Hungarian directors. I found
János Szász, a brilliant theatermaker and filmmaker. When we first met, the world
still looked remarkably similar to the one depicted in the play. As the world has
evolved in the decades since, the way we create art has evolved with it. Szász’s
approach to Angels in America is unusual and clarifying. Although you may think
you know this play, he investigates it through his very different perspective.
I always love it when artists from other countries interpret our American classics.
They see our stories through a different point of view and that’s good for all of us.
Enjoy this new vision of Angels in America,
Molly Smith
Artistic Director
Arena Stage offers this production in memory of Marva Hicks and Eugene Lee,
wonderful artists who have graced our stages and are now angels.
Arena Stage is built on the land of the Piscataway people of the
Algonquin-speaking tribes, as well as the lands of the Native American
people of the greater Anacostia, Potomac, and Tidewater regions.
2022/23 SEASON 5
Arena Stage
Washington, DC FROM THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Tutto è Possiblile.
“Anything is possible.”
This wisdom is engraved on a cherished pewter box gifted to my
family from Brooke and Eugene Lee at a time when not everything
seemed possible in our family’s life. We find resilience in our
friendships. Eugene died on February 6, 2023.
ur leadership office manager, Alison Irvin, ever sensitive to the
O
emotional atmosphere around us (a superpower she possesses)
sensed my heavy heart and repeated to me my own advice to keep
our dear friends’ memories — in Eugene’s case, a blessing — alive.
One way we remember artists is through their work. So many of you reading this will likely have
enjoyed the worlds on our stages that Eugene imagined and, with his collaborators, made real.
Eugene and I worked together on two Broadway productions, Show Boat and The Pirate
Queen. So I was happy to introduce Molly to Eugene, as my guess was they’d hit it off,
especially on a wonderful assignment like Molly’s reinvented Oklahoma! — not unlike the re-
examined Angels in America you’re seeing today, directed by the brilliant János Szász.
As fellow Canadian Lorne Michaels observed (and I paraphrase) of Eugene’s design over
decades of SNL, as an artist Eugene created worlds where artists were free to play.
A funny moment with Eugene during that call to see if he was interested and available to do
Oklahoma!: he said, “Are you sure about this? There was an ‘issue’ at Arena when I designed
a production of Mother Courage years ago.” I heard that word “issue” fondly in many
subsequent conversations over dinner with Brooke and our family at our favorite Providence
eatery. He went on to recount that he wanted to use a Model T chassis he found as the cart
Mother Courage pulls throughout the war. Well, it wouldn’t fit through the door (too wide and
too tall). Eugene went back to the shop to get a sledgehammer to make the door bigger.
Instead, he was strongly encouraged to find a cart that would fit. But I love that story as
Eugene’s vision and default move was always to try to make the proverbial door bigger.
One of those ideas was to build the schoolhouse referenced in Oklahoma! in the East seating
area (in the theater where you are now seated) so the band could be in the same room as
the audience and actors. Both the technical director and marketing director rushed into my
office to kill the idea. They’d just reinstalled the reupholstered seats and the removal of 60
seats would make our ambitious sales goals even tougher to achieve than they already were.
If you saw the show, you will know Molly and I let that “door” be made wider. Having the band
in the room gave the production a signature sound and feel. As for the seats, we sold 96,939!
Eugene went on to collaborate equally joyfully with Molly on The Music Man and The Velocity
of Autumn.
I will say that I see in János, as he developed with his collaborators his vision for the
production you are about to encounter, the same iconoclast and builder that I knew my
friend Eugene to be.
Tutto è Possiblile.
Edgar Dobie
Proudly Shaping
Executive Producer
President of the Corporation
the Local Landscape 2022/23 SEASON 7
CAMP ARENA STAGE MEMORIES WITH MOLLY
LOOKING FOR A FUN ALL-DAY SUMMER CAMP?
At Camp Arena Stage, campers ages 8 to 15 spend
A POEM FOR MOLLY AT 25
By Tazewell Thompson
the full day learning by doing. Guided by our teaching
25 I uncork champagne
corps of professional artists and educators, they Cannon blasts booms skyward. 25
explore, discover, and create to their heart’s content! Fireworks kaleidoscopic sprays years
astounds astonishes waiting to toast
Registration is now open for all three sessions. Spirals in a formation You
shape of number: Dear Molly.
25. More than
2023 DATES: June 26 — July 7 // July 10 — July 21 // July 24 — August 4 I tip my hat. A
I raise my glass. Pre-eminent producer par excellence
I wave a flag. Or Arena artistic representative
I salute you More than
25 A devoted emissary of artists.
times. A
I paste the Fearless unafraid
25 Matchless multifarious magician.
thousand Over and
Flower petals on the chariot-float Over
That drags you triumphantly 25
through the streets Remembered years journeys
Of achievements accomplishments Recalling reclaiming reinvesting
Drawn by renovating reinvigorating
25 American musicals.
Thoroughbreds You
25 Molly
Race hounds. A
Over my shoulder Forever steady confidante
25 Friend.
Leanings. A
Not intrusive Soul sister.
Incisive insightful invaluable A
immeasurable. Seeker of beauty and truth.
I swing on the rope An
From the bell-tower Empathetic roommate
Clanging your name on the Occupying
25th A unique deep chamber
minute of each hour. In my heart.
Praise!
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2022/23 SEASON 9
DRAMATURGY NOTE
TIME OF PLAY / TIME IN PLAY
October 15, 1985 White House press Pt. 2. Set (Time in Play).
briefing, Press Secretary Larry Speakes Ashes and Ashes.
made repeated jokes about AIDS.
I imagine what it would be like
By Otis Ramsey-Zöe, Dramaturg Responding to a reporter’s questions
about the CDC’s recent designation of
if each time a lover, friend or
stranger died of this disease, their
AIDS as an epidemic, Speakes retorted,
friends, lovers or neighbors would
Tony Kushner’s two-part epic Angels a rare and aggressive cluster of cancer “What’s AIDS?” and “I don’t have it. Do
take the dead body and drive
in America deals with and is defined called Kaposi’s Sarcoma, or KS. Within you?” followed by “I don’t know anything
with it in a car a hundred miles an
by time. Everything about how we days, the Associated Press and other about it?” Transcripts indicate that
hour to Washington DC and blast
experience the plays, the circumstances media outlets ran reports of similar cases there was laughter throughout the press
through the gates of the White
of their creation, and the existential around the nation. conference as Speakes continued to play
House and come to a screeching
quandaries of the characters are all off reporters’ questions for laughs.
On September 24, 1982, the CDC halt before the entrance and
highly charged by time. In important
introduced the term “AIDS” (Acquired While Speakes and others laughed, HIV dump their lifeless form on the
ways, plays routinely operate within dual,
Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Prior to and AIDS were decimating communities. front steps. It would be comforting
or more, timeframes. The time and place
that, the illness was variously described In late October 1985, New York State to see those friends, neighbors,
of viewing characterizes one timeframe.
as “Gay Men’s Pneumonia,” “gay cancer,” authorized local health officials to lovers and strangers mark time
Another is marked by when and where
“mysterious fever,” and “GRID” (Gay- close gay bathhouses, bars, clubs, and and place and history in such a
plays are set. Additionally, time and
Related Immune Deficiency). While the other places where “high-risk sexual public way.
circumstances around the creation of
first commercially available blood tests activity takes place.” The closure of
works offers yet another timeframe — David Wojnarowicz, Close to the
to detect HIV (Human Immunodeficiency these establishments energized late
within which works function. Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
Virus, a retrovirus which causes AIDS) night Central Park as a cruising ground
Angels in America premiered at San were rolled out in 1985, there was no for gay men to meet, as shown in We began by discussing time and
Francisco’s Eureka Theatre Company cure nor workplace antidiscrimination Millennium Approaches. its counterpart mortality. Time
in 1991 and the Mark Taper Forum in protections for individuals living is such a constant throughout
Figures from 1985 showed an 89%
Los Angeles in 1992. For a rewarding with HIV/AIDS. Most initial labels and the piece. You are almost always
increase in new AIDS cases compared
analysis of the creation and subsequent early media reports emphasized that aware of a clock ticking constantly
with 1984, and public health experts
productions of the play, I enthusiastically outbreaks were happening exclusively in the background. We used a
predicted twice as many new AIDS cases
recommend the book The World Only within gay male communities, which physical manifestation of the
in 1986. Between June 1, 1981, and January
Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan facilitated indifference and silence in the clock, inspiration from ACT UP
13, 1986, the CDC recorded 16,458 AIDS
Kois, which presents a keenly curated wider public. scattering ashes into the White
patients (16,227 adults and 231 children),
oral history. In these two pages, let’s House Rose Garden, and the art of
The Reagan Administration was who, on average, died about 15 months
look briefly at the world in which the play David Wojnarowicz, who created
alarmingly silent on the AIDS epidemic. after diagnosis. By fall and winter of 1985,
is set and how ideas of time are manifest images where he'd bury himself
In July 1985, Hollywood leading man documented AIDS cases stretched
in our production’s set design. alive in anticipation of own demise
Rock Hudson became the first major outside gay male communities to include
Pt. 1. Setting (Time of Play). U.S. public figure to announce that he hemophiliacs, women, and children, as due to AIDS.
October – December 1985. had AIDS. In the six months following experts confirmed that spread could — Maruti Evans, Set Designer
his acknowledgment, AIDS stories in occur by sexual transmission and carried
Part One: Millennium Approaches takes
major print media more than tripled. via blood, including passing from birth In 1992 and 1996, members of ACT UP
place in October-December 1985. This
President Reagan and Hudson were parent to newborn. Earlier in the year, organized political funerals and protests
setting is just four years after the
known to be close friends; yet Reagan an Indiana teenager who contracted in which they called for people to bring
earliest official reports of what would
did not publicly utter the word AIDS HIV during treatment for his hemophilia cremated remains of loved ones lost to
later become known as AIDS began
until asked about it in a September 17, was refused entry to his middle school. AIDS for a funeral procession culminating
circulating. On June 5, 1981, the CDC (U.S.
1985, news conference during which he By year’s end, a Los Angeles Times poll in depositing ashes on the White House
Centers for Disease Control) published
embellished his administration’s support showed that most Americans favored lawn. Both Ashes Actions were timed for
an account of a rare pneumonia in five
and the scale of government programs’ quarantining people with AIDS. October when the AIDS Memorial Quilt
young, previously healthy gay men in Los
commitment to AIDS research. Hudson was on display on the National Mall and
Angeles and received a separate report
died of AIDS-related illness less than weeks before presidential elections.
from a New York dermatologist detailing
three months later. Days later, in an
10 2022/23 SEASON 2022/23 SEASON 11
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THE GREAT WORK BEGINS. Molly Smith, Artistic Director | Edgar Dobie, Executive Producer
PRESENTS
Before the performance, please scan
the QR code below with your mobile ANGELS IN AMERICA,
device to watch a short video. PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY JÁNOS SZÁSZ
Video edited by János Szász.
SET DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER ORIGINAL MUSIC
Content from Now This News and ACT UP. MARUTI EVANS OANA BOTEZ CHRISTOPHER AND SOUND DESIGNER
AKERLIND FABIAN OBISPO
WIG AND MAKEUP DESIGNER DRAMATURG DRAMATURG
THE WIG ASSOCIATES OTIS RAMSEY-ZÖE ZOË ELIZABETH LILLIS
SOCIALLY SPEAKING
CASTING DIRECTOR NEW YORK CASTING
JOSEPH PINZON JZ CASTING/GEOFF JOSSELSON, C.S.A.
AND KATJA ZAROLINSKI, C.S.A.
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/arenastage @arenastage MILLENNIUM APPROACHES was first performed in a workshop production
presented by Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, May 1990
TALK ABOUT US: The world premiere was presented by The Eureka Theatre Company, May 1991
Opened in London at the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, January 1992
Opened in New York at the Walter Kerr Theatre in April 1993
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2022/23 SEASON 13
SETTING / CAST / FOR THIS PRODUCTION
SETTING
New York City, between October 1985 and January 1986.
CAST (in alphabetical order)
Joe Pitt / Prior I / Eskimo...............................................................................................JOHN AUSTIN
u/s Roy Cohn / Belize............................................................................................... FRANK BRITTON
Louis Ironson...........................................................................................MICHAEL KEVIN DARNALL
u/s Hannah Pitt / Harper Pitt / The Angel............................................ VERONICA del CERRO
Roy Cohn / Prior II........................................................................................................EDWARD GERO
u/s Joe Pitt / Louis Ironson / Prior Walter........................................ BRANDON HAAGENSON
The Angel / Emily / Sister Ella / Homeless Woman..................................... BILLIE KRISHAWN
Hannah Pitt / Rabbi / Henry / Ethel Rosenberg....................................................SUSAN ROME
Belize / Mr. Lies.............................................................................................................. JUSTIN WEAKS
Prior Walter / Man in Park...................................................................................... NICK WESTRATE
Harper Pitt / Martin Heller............................................................................DEBORAH ANN WOLL
FOR THIS PRODUCTION
Movement Coach.....................................................................................................JOSEPH PINZON
Voice and Dialect Coach........................................................................................ ZACH CAMPION
Assistant Costume Designer.....................................................................................CALAB KRIEG
COVID-19 Compliance Officer.......................................................................... TREVOR COMEAU
Stage Carpenters...................................................... HANNAH MARTIN, SARAH SCHLEHLEIN
Props.........................................................................................ERIKA FEIDELSEIT, ALEKX SHINES
Light Board Operator........................................................................................KELSEY SWANSON
Lighting Assistant................................................................................ HAYLEY GARCIA PARNELL
Audio Engineer.......................................................................................................LEX ALLENBAUGH
Wardrobe Supervisor............................................................................................. ALICE HAWFIELD
Wardrobe.......................................................................................GRACE FITZPATRICK, ELI KERN,
wardrobe................................................. LILLIAN KOMAROW, SINCLAIR ALEXICION SHINES
Wigs, Hair, and Makeup Supervisor......................................................................JAIME BAGLEY
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Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches cast from left to right — Back Row: Edward Gero, Susan Rome, Billie Krishawn,
Nick Westrate, Justin Weaks; Front Row: Deborah Ann Woll, John Austin, Michael Kevin Darnall. Photo by Tony Powell.
2022/23 SEASON 15
WHO’S WHO
CLOSED CAPTIONING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS CAST MICHAEL KEVIN DARNALL
Enjoy the performance from the comfort of any seat. JOHN AUSTIN (Joe Pitt /
(Louis Ironson) is making
his Arena Stage debut.
Prior I / Eskimo) appeared at Local credits include Much
Arena earlier this season as Ado About Nothing at
Shakespeare Theatre
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Company; Animal, Wig Out!,
Previous Arena credits are
GalaPro app today! Derril Lark in Right to Be and The Hot Wing King at
Forgotten and Valentin in Studio Theatre; Jefferson’s Garden and A
(Android and iOS) Kleptocracy. Other D.C. area Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre; Father
credits include Oslo (Round House), Easy Comes Home From the Wars at Round
Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes House Theatre; Ulysses on Bottles at
(Signature), and Melancholy Play Mosaic Theater Company; and Yentl at
AVAILABLE STARTING MARCH 31 (Constellation, Helen Award, Outstanding
Production). John toured the U.S. with Me,
Theater J. Michael has performed at
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park,
Arena Stage can also provide devices for use during the performance at Visitor Services. Myself, & Shirley starring the late Cindy Chautauqua Theater Company, and
Williams of the hit television show Laverne RhinoLeap Productions. He frequently
Arena Stage’s Arts Accessibility initiatives are sponsored by & Shirley. In his hometown of Austin, Texas, collaborates with MetroStage and
John won a B. Iden Payne Award for his Constellation Theatre Company, and is a
portrayal of Young Zeus in Zeus in Therapy. company member at The Hub Theatre, and
He holds a BFA from Boston University Spooky Action Theater. On television, he
(summa cum laude, Dean’s Award, Bette recurred in HBO’s The Wire. Michael is a
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT ARENASTAGE.ORG/ACCESSIBILITY Davis Prize) as well as a Certificate in seven-time Helen Hayes Award nominee
and received his BFA in Acting at SUNY
OR CALL THE SALES OFFICE AT 202-488-3300. Classical Acting from LAMDA. Thank you
for everything you have given to American Purchase Conservatory of Theatre Arts.
theater, Molly Smith! johnaustinactor.com
VERONICA CERRO
DEL (u/s
FRANK BRITTON (u/s Roy Hannah Pitt / Harper Pitt /
The Angel) D.C. Theater:
SEE YOU IN THE LOBBY!
Cohn / Belize) last appeared
at Arena Stage nineteen Ford’s Theatre: Trip to
years ago as a performing Bounitful (u/s); Shakespeare
understudy in Orpheus Theatre: Othello;
Descending, directed by Constellation Theatre:
Molly Smith. Most recent Arabian Nights; GALA
credits include Our Town Theatre: El Paso Blue, Ana en el Trópico;
(Baltimore Center Stage), Major Barbara Everyman Theatre: August: Osage County;
SPECIALTY COCKTAILS (Washington Stage Guild), and P.Nokio: A
Hip-Hop Musical (Imagination Stage). Other
Kennedy Center: Adventures of Homer;
MetroStage: Savage in Limbo; Theater J:
Try one of our Arena-themed D.C. area appearances include productions Andy and the Shadows, The Seagull on 16th
cocktails or family-friendly drinks. at Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Street; Studio Theatre: My Children! My
Avant Bard Theatre, Adventure Theatre, 1st Africa!, Rock ‘n’ Roll; Round House Theatre:
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents.
PRE-ORDER REFRESHMENTS Stage, Theater Alliance, among many
others. Regionally, Mr. Britton has appeared Veronica has been working internationally
with groups such as Café de las Artes,
Avoid the intermission concessions with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park,
Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and La Movimiento en Red (Spain), Proyecto
line and order your drinks before the
MaMa ETC. In 2018, he earned the Helen Bicéfalo, Teatro del Mundo (Mexico).
performance. Your order will be Training: BS from Virginia Tech (Psychology
Hayes Award (Robert Prosky Award for
waiting for you in the lobby Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play — Helen). and Theatre Arts), Graduate of Studio
at intermission. www.frankbrittonactor.com Theatre Conservatory, MA in Theatre from
IG: @frankbrittonactor the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in
London. Upcoming Film: See You on Venus
(SUR FILMS) (2023) IG: @mia.moca
2022/23 SEASON 17
WHO’S WHO
EDWARD GERO (Roy Cohn / BILLIE KRISHAWN (The
Prior II)’s Arena Stage Angel / Emily /Sister Ella /
credits include Thomas Homeless Woman) makes her
Everson, Jr. in Junk, Antonin Arena Stage debut. Her most
Scalia in The Originalist, recent D.C. credits include
Benjamin Hubbard in The JUMP at Everyman Theatre,
Little Foxes, and Mark The Till Trilogy at Mosaic
Rothko in Red. He is a four- Theater Company (Helen
time Helen Hayes Award winner and 16-time Hayes Award nomination for Best Supporting
nominee. New York credits include The Performer), Joy That Carries You at Olney
Originalist (59E59). Regional credits include Theatre Center, Until the Flood at Studio
The Originalist (Asolo Repertory, Pasadena Theatre, HERstory at The Kennedy Center,
Playhouse, and Court Theatre, Joseph Blood at the Root at Theater Alliance (Helen
Jefferson Award nomination); Red and Hayes Award recipient for Outstanding Lead
Gloucester in King Lear (Goodman); Nixon’s Performer, Outstanding Ensemble, and
Nixon and Night Alive (Round House); Outstanding Production), Melancholy Play at
Sweeney Todd (Signature Theatre); Scrooge Constellation Theatre Company (Helen Hayes
in A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre); and Award nomination for Best Lead Actress,
American Buffalo, Shining City, and Skylight Helen Hayes Award recipient for Outstanding
(Studio Theatre). In 39 seasons with Production), Airness at 1st Stage and Keegan
Shakespeare Theatre Company, his over 80 Theatre. Major film credits include Amazon
roles include Helen Hayes turns in Henry IV, Prime's Water in a Broken Glass. Education:
Richard II, and Macbeth. Film/TV credits Drew University and Duke Ellington School of
include House of Cards, TURN: Washington’s the Arts. www.billiekrishawn.com
Spies, Die Hard 2, Striking Distance, and IG: @absolutereality
narrations for Discovery Channel and PBS.
He is a Ten Chimneys 2015 Lunt-Fontanne SUSAN ROME (Hannah Pitt /
Fellow and Professor of theater at George Rabbi / Henry / Ethel
Mason University. Rosenberg)'s Arena Stage
credits include Indecent
BRANDON HAAGENSON (u/s (Helen Hayes ensemble
Joe Pitt / Louis Ironson / Prior nomination), The Great
Walter) is ecstatic to be Society, and All the Way.
making his Arena Stage Baltimore/Washington:
debut! Last season, he Baltimore Center Stage: Our Town, Folks at
appeared in Shakespeare Home, Indecent, After the Revolution, Vanya
Theatre Company’s Our Town and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Mud Blue
and The Merchant of Venice. Sky, An Enemy of the People; Signature: Easy
He has performed off-Broadway in Afterglow Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes; Folger:
(original cast) and My Big Gay Italian Love’s Labor’s Lost; Studio Theatre: If I Forget
Wedding. National tours include Beauty and (Helen Hayes nominations), Hand to God
the Beast (Lumière) and A Christmas Carol. (Helen Hayes ensemble nomination); Olney
Regional credits include Chicago Theatre Center: The Diary of Anne Frank, The
Shakespeare Theater, Stages St. Louis, Joy We Carry (Helen Hayes ensemble
Riverside Theatre, North Carolina Theatre, nomination); Theater J: Edward Albee’s
and North Shore Music Theatre. Television Occupant, Roz and Ray, The Last Night of
appearances include The Other Two (HBO Ballyhoo, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Helen
Max) and The Food That Built America (History Hayes Award), After the Revolution (Helen
Channel). He earned his MFA in Classical Hayes nomination), and many other plays.
Acting at STC’s Academy at The George Regional: Kansas City Repertory Theatre:
Washington University, and has a BFA in Indecent; Mark Taper Forum: The Substance
Musical Theater from Millikin University. Love of Fire; many more. Film: Fishbowl, My One
to his family and friends for their unending and Only, A Dirty Shame. Television: The Wire,
support. www.brandonhaagenson.com. We Own This City (HBO); House of Cards
IG: @brandonhaagenson (Netflix). www.susanrome.com
2022/23 SEASON 19WHO’S WHO
JUSTIN WEAKS (Belize / DEBORAH ANN WOLL
Mr. Lies) makes their in- (Harper Pitt / Martin Heller)
person Arena Stage debut will be making her debut at
with Angels in America, Part Arena Stage this season.
One: Millennium Approaches Most recently she appeared
after collaborating virtually as the titular shrew,
with Arena on The 51st State Katherine, in The Taming of
and The Freewheelin’ the Shrew (The Old Globe,
Insurgents during the COVID-19 pandemic. San Diego), and as Amalia Balash in
He is a company member at Woolly Parfumerie (Wallis Annenberg, Los Angeles).
Mammoth Theatre, where he has appeared She is best known for her work on television
in There’s Always the Hudson, BLKS, Gloria, and film as Jessica Hamby on HBO’s True
and Describe the Night. D.C. area credits Blood, Karen Page on Marvel’s Daredevil,
include: Long Way Down (Kennedy Center), and Amanda in Sony’s Escape Room. She is
Fences (Ford’s Theatre), Gem of the Ocean the voice and performance capture for Faye
(Round House Theatre), Pipeline (Studio in PlayStation’s God of War franchise. And
Theatre), Word Becomes Flesh (Theater you can also catch her online, creating and
Alliance). Off-Broadway: i need space (The performing in the TTRPG space, most
New Group). Regional credits include work notably as creator and game master for
with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Relics and Rarities and Children of Éarte.
Shakespeare & Company, and Barter
Theatre. Justin holds two Helen Hayes
Awards and five nominations for his work.
Education: Greensboro College.
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NICK WESTRATE (Prior TONY KUSHNER (Playwright)’s plays include
Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or the Death
Walter / Man in Park) On of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the
Broadway, he originated
play by Pierre Cornelle; Slavs!; A Bright Room
roles in Harvey Fierstein’s
Casa Valentina, and Called Day; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or
Theresa Rebeck’s Change, a musical with composer Jeanine
Bernhardt/Hamlet. Other Tesori; and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide
BOOK YOUR NEXT CELEBRATION favorites include the
National Tour of The King’s Speech as
to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to
the Scriptures. He wrote the screenplays for
AT THE MEAD CENTER Bertie for director Michael Wilson, Tribes
directed by David Cromer, The Little Foxes
Mike Nichols’ film of Angels in America and
for Steven Spielberg’s Munich, Lincoln, West
for Ivo van Hove, Merchant of Venice and Side Story, and The Fabelmans. His books
Tartuffe with Daniel Fish, The Boys in the include The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to
Band for Jack Cummings III, and as the Present; Brundibar, with illustrations by
Berowne in Love’s Labor’s Lost for NYC’s Maurice Sendak; and Wrestling with Zion:
Public Theater. Three seasons as Robert Progressive Jewish-American Responses to
Townsend on AMC’s Turn: Washington’s the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, co-edited with
Spies. On film, he starred in William
Alisa Solomon. Among many honors, Kushner
Sullivan’s American Insurrection, Jonathan
Demme’s Ricki and the Flash, and Todd is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony
Haynes’ Mildred Pierce. Next, playing Edwin Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening
Booth in Apple TV+’s Manhunt. Nick Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy
received the Special Drama Desk Award for Award, four Oscar nominations, and the
his versatility Off-Broadway. He’s a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.
Juilliard graduate. He is a member of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he was awarded
a National Medal of Arts by President Barack
Obama. He lives in Manhattan with his
husband, Mark Harris.
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2022/23 SEASON 21WHO’S WHO
JÁNOS SZÁSZ (Director) is an international Career Development Program recipient,
and Barrymore Award recipient, as well
film and theater director, academic, and
professor. He returns to Arena Stage as a Henry Hewes Design Award nominee
having previously directed A Streetcar and Lucille Lortel Award nominee. New
Named Desire in 2001. Theater work in York: BAM Next Wave, Bard SummerScape/
his native Hungary includes works by Richard B. Fisher Center, Playwrights
We Share Your
Brecht, Chekhov, and Shakespeare, among Horizons, Baryshnikov Arts Center, David
others. János has directed at the Royal H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center, Big Apple
Swedish Theatre (Stockholm), Det Norske Circus/Lincoln Center, Classic Stage
Company. Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin
Dream for the Future
Teatret (Oslo), Moscow Art Theatre, Bard
SummerScape, and numerous productions (Barrington Stage Company); Macbeth
at the American Repertory Theater, (Old Globe); Angels in America (Wilma);
including The Seagull, Desire Under the Man in a Case (Hartford). Opera: Song of
Elms, Uncle Vanya, Marat/Sade, and Mother the Ambassadors (Alice Tully Hall/Lincoln
Courage and Her Children. His many film Center); Carmen (Minneapolis Opera,
credits include Opium (presented at Glimmerglass Festival, Portland Opera); Powering our communities is just the beginning. At
various festivals in Europe and winner In a Grove (Pittsburgh Opera); Persona Exelon, we consider it our responsibility to improve the
of several prizes), Woyzeck (Hungarian (National Sawdust, REDCAT); A House
nominee for the Oscars), The Witman in Bali (BAM). Internationally: Bucharest quality of life for people in the communities where we
Boys (official selection of the Cannes Film National Theatre (Romania), Château de live, work and serve. Participation in good corporate
Festival and winner of several awards), and Versailles, Théâtre National de Chaillot,
Eyes of the Holocaust, a documentary film Les Subsistances, The Old Vic, Budapest citizenship is an integral part of our culture, and we
National Theatre, Cluj Hungarian National
inspire our employees to help everyone succeed.
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by Steven Spielberg for the Shoah Theatre (Romania), Le Quartz (Brest,
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Foundation. János was the Director of the
Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Festival/Maison des arts de Créteil, Tanz
Harvard, and at the Academy of Drama and im August Festival Hebbel am Ufer – HAU1
Film in Budapest for 23 years, as a faculty (Berlin, Germany), Edinburgh International
member and head of the film department. Festival, Singapore Arts Festival. She
He is a member of the European Film teaches at David Geffen School of Drama
Academy and the Hungarian Academy of at Yale in the Design Department.
Science’s Department of Arts.
CHRISTOPHER AKERLIND (Lighting
MARUTI EVANS (Set Designer)’s credits Designer) has designed lighting for over
650 productions at theater, opera, and
include Fat Ham (Public Theater), At the
Wedding (Lincoln Center Theater), In Our dance companies around the world.
Daughter’s Eyes (LA Opera), Kill Move He returns to Arena Stage where he
Paradise (National Black Theater), The designed Imitations for Saxophone and
Ring Cycle (Opera Australia), Angel’s Bone Equivocation. Work with János Szász
(Hong Kong Music Festival, Beijing Music includes productions of The Seagull, Desire
Festival), and Real Enemies (BAM). Drama Under the Elms, and Uncle Vanya at the
Desk Awards: Tiny Dynamite and Pilo Family American Repertory Theater. Recent work
Circus. Drama Desk nominations: Peculiar includes Martha Clarke’s God’s Fool at La
Patriot, Kill Move Paradise, Deliverance, In MaMa ETC, Lynn Nottage’s new play Clyde’s
the Heat of the Night, Slaughterhouse-Five, on Broadway and at the Mark Taper Forum,
and Blindness. and the world premiere of Huang Ro and
David Henry Hwang’s opera M. Butterfly
OANA BOTEZ (Costume Designer) is an at the Santa Fe Opera. Mr. Akerlind is the
recipient of an Obie, two Tonys, and four
international set/costume designer for
film, theater, opera, and dance. She is a Drama Desk Awards, among many others,
Princess Grace Award recipient, NEA/TCG and is on the faculty of the CalArts School
of Theater.
22 2022/23 SEASONBUY TICKETS WHO’S WHO
NOW! FABIAN OBISPO (Original Music and
Sound Designer) returns to Arena Stage
Associate Artistic Director at banished?
productions, Future Classics Program
Coordinator at The Classical Theatre of
where his credits include Seven Guitars,
Agamemnon and His Daughters (Helen Harlem, Literary Manager at Center Stage,
Hayes nomination), and Caucasian Chalk and an Allen Lee Hughes Senior Fellow at
Circle, among others. D.C.-area credits Arena Stage.
include Shakespeare Theatre Company’s
Comedy of Errors, Henry V, Two Gentlemen ZOË ELIZABETH LILLIS (Dramaturg) is
of Verona, and Folger Theatre’s Romeo and a director, producer, playwright, and
Juliet. He has designed extensively for off- dramaturg. While typically based in New
Broadway and regional theaters. Recent York, Zoë is thrilled to have joined Arena
off-Broadway credits include The Chinese Stage’s 2022/23 Season as an Allen Lee
Lady (Lucille Lortel nomination), Out of Hughes Fellow. She had the honor of
Time, Once Upon a Korean Time, and his assistant directing Arena’s world premiere
musical Felix Starro. He is a recipient of the of My Body No Choice. Zoë has worked on
Berkshires Theatre Critics Award and the Broadway with Manhattan Theatre Club
Barrymore Award. His music score for the and Second Stage, Off-Broadway with
movie Vancouver won International Motion The Public Theater, the cell, and Theatre
Picture Award, LA Film Festival’s Indie Row, and regionally with Arena Stage, The
Short Fest Award, and South Film and Arts Huntington Theatre Company, and Hawaii
Academy Festival Award. Performing Arts Festival. She earned her
BA in Directing and Dramatizing History at
THE WIG ASSOCIATES (Wig and Makeup NYU Gallatin, where she focused on the
relationship between narrative and the
Designer) are making their Arena Stage
debut. Opera: Opera Theatre Saint Louis process of production. zoelillis.com
2023 Season. Off-Broadway: At The
Wedding (Lincoln Center); Americano! (New JOSEPH PINZON (Casting Director) is the
World Stages); Mrs. Warren's Profession, founder and creative producer of the
Candida (Gingold Group). Regional: Mojada: contemporary circus company Short Round
A Medea in Los Angeles (Yale Rep); the Productions and its award-winning show
ripple, the wave that carried me home (Yale Filament. With over 25 years of performing
Rep); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Barrington). Krystal experience, he has worked internationally
and Will hold BFAs in Wig and Makeup with renowned companies such as Cirque
Design from Webster Conservatory. See Éloize, Compagnia Finzi Pasca, Cirque
wigassociates.com for more. du Soleil, and The 7 Fingers. He holds an
MS in Arts Leadership from USC, a BA in
OTIS RAMSEY-ZÖE (Dramaturg) is a care Psychology from UCLA, and graduated
from the National Circus School in Montreal
worker, dramaturg, director, theatre arts
March 15 - May 13, 2023 educator, Literary Manager at Arena Stage, with a specialization in aerial techniques.
and Lecturer in Dramaturgy at the David He was the casting and resident director
Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He has for Chamäleon Productions (Berlin) and
developed new works at such institutions Constellation Immersive (CAA’s experiential
www.fords.org | (888) 616-0270 as Sundance Institute, Kennedy Center, affiliate). He is also a member of the
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Creative & Independent Producer Alliance
Center, and National New Play Network. He and a founding board member of the
has held posts in Theatre at Northeastern American Circus Alliance. You can see him
Season Sponsors: University, Dramaturgy at Carnegie Mellon causing chaos on season 6 of Nailed It! on
University, Women’s Studies and Honors Netflix, where (spoiler alert) he is a part of
Lead Sponsor: Humanities at University of Maryland, the series’ first three-way tie.
Performing Arts at American University, and
Sponsors: Theatre Arts at Howard University. He was
Carrie Compere in the 2019 Seattle Repertory Theatre Production of Shout Sister Shout! Photo by Bronwen Houck.
2022/23 SEASON 25WHO’S WHO WHO’S WHO
JZ CASTING/GEOFF JOSSELSON, C.S.A. (STC); The Great Society, Born Yesterday,
The Little Foxes (Asolo Repertory Theatre).
in first, second, and third productions
of new work and has championed
Malcolm and her fledgling Powerhouse
Community Theater after school. By the
AND KATJA ZAROLINSKI, C.S.A. Baldwin Wallace University 2015. projects, including Dear Evan Hansen; time I graduated from high school, we
(New York Casting) are New York-based Next to Normal; Passion Play, a cycle; volunteers had built ourselves a 200-seat,
casting directors, handling productions for
theater, film, and television. Recent work
LEIGH ROBINETTE (Assistant Stage and How I Learned to Drive. She led the fully equipped theater on its own piece
Manager)’s Arena Stage credits include re-invention of Arena Stage, focusing of land in the center of town and found a
includes productions for Arena Stage, Holiday, Change Agent, The Originalist, on the architecture and creation of the sold-out audience for the full season of
Actors Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore Dear Evan Hansen, Fiddler on the Roof, and Mead Center for American Theater and plays we had on offer. That experience
Center Stage, Cape Playhouse, Denver Mother Courage and Her Children. Other positioning Arena Stage as a national taught me so many lessons about the
Center, The Irish Repertory Theatre, D.C. credits include The Second City’s center for American artists through its power of theater to foster collaboration
Merrimack Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Love, Factually at the Kennedy Center, artistic programming. During her time and share meaningful stories, as well as
Festival, Pittsburgh CLO, Pittsburgh Public Love Sick and The Jewish Queen Lear with with the company, Arena Stage has the public values that attach themselves
Theater, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Theater J, and There’s Always the Hudson, workshopped more than 100 productions, to building a safe place where everyone
Round House Theatre, Seattle Repertory Describe the Night, Gloria, Botticelli in produced 39 world premieres, staged is welcome. All those lessons served me
Theatre, Studio Theatre, TheaterWorks the Fire, Familiar, The Arsonists, and An numerous second and third productions, well as a managing leader and producer
Hartford, and Weston Playhouse. Octoroon with Woolly Mammoth Theatre and been an important part of nurturing both sides of the border and both sides
For more information, please visit Company. She has worked Off-Broadway at nine projects that went on to have a life of the commercial and non-profit theater
www.jz-casting.com. Second Stage, with the Huntington Theatre on Broadway. In 2014, Molly made her divide. Arriving here in Southwest with my
Company in Boston, and the Hangar Broadway debut directing The Velocity of good wife Tracy and our daughter Greta
CHRIS DE CAMILLIS (Stage Manager) has Theatre in Ithaca, NY. She is a graduate of Autumn, following its critically acclaimed Lee in 2009 makes me feel like I am well-
been an Equity Stage Manager for over 30 Boston University. run at Arena Stage. She was awarded equipped to do a good job for you all.
years, working on Broadway, Off-Broadway,
honorary doctorates from American I am honored to have been recognized
internationally, and in numerous regional
University and Towson University. In for my service to, and leadership of, the
theaters. He is making his Arena stage
2018, she was honored as Person of the Washington, D.C.-area theatre community
debut with Angels in America. Chris and
János have been making theater together ARENA STAGE LEADERSHIP Year by the National Theatre Conference
and inducted into the Washington DC
as a recipient of Theatre Washington's
inaugural Victor Shargai Leadership Award
since 1999, at the American Repertory
Theater (A.R.T.) with János' groundbreaking
MOLLY SMITH (Artistic Director) has Hall of Fame. In 2020, she was awarded in 2022.
served as artistic director since 1998. the Director of Distinction in Cairo,
production of Mother Courage and Her Her 40 directing credits at Arena Stage This theater operates under an agreement
Egypt, from the Academy of Arts. During
Children. Further collaborations included include large-scale musicals, like Catch between the League of Resident Theatres and
the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, she
Marat/Sade, Desire Under the Elms, Uncle Me If You Can, Anything Goes, Disney’s Actors’ Equity Association.
developed the concept for two online
Vanya, and The Seagull. From 1998-2013, Newsies, Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof, The actors and stage managers
films, May 22, 2020 and The 51st State,
Chris was the Line Producer/Resident Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, The Music are members of Actors’ Equity
overseeing the production direction as
Stage Manager at the A.R.T. where he Man, Cabaret, South Pacific; new plays, Association, the Union of
well as directing pieces within the films.
stage-managed over 30 productions and like Celia and Fidel, Sovereignty, The Professional Actors and Stage
She also spearheaded a variety of other
line produced the world premiere of Sleep Managers in the United States.
Originalist, Camp David, Legacy of Light, new online content, including a weekly
No More, Porgy and Bess, and Pippin. Chris The Women of Brewster Place, How I The scenic, costume, lighting and
talk show Molly’s Salon, during the live
is the PSM for the touring production of Learned to Drive; and classics like Mother sound designers in LORT theaters
performance hiatus.
Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower Courage and Her Children, A Moon for the are represented by United Scenic
with Toshi Reagon. Misbegotten, The Great White Hope, and EDGAR DOBIE (Executive Producer) Born Artists, Local USA-829 of the
IATSE.
All My Sons. Her directorial work has also in Vernon, British Columbia, a village next
DAYNE SUNDMAN (Assistant Stage been seen Off-Broadway at 59E59 in New to the Rocky Mountains (three years after The Director and
Manager) is thrilled to be making his York, Portland Center Stage, Canada’s Choreographer are members
Arena had its first performance in 1950), I
ASM debut at Arena Stage after having Shaw Festival, The Court Theatre, The of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND
am one of five brothers raised by my Dad
served as an Allen Lee Hughes Fellow and Old Globe, Asolo Repertory, Berkeley CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a
Edgar, a mechanic and small businessman,
Production Assistant for several seasons. national theatrical labor union.
Repertory, Trinity Repertory, Toronto’s and Mom Connie, a telephone operator
Some past shows at Arena include Tarragon Theatre, Montreal’s Centaur Arena Stage is a constituent of the Theatre
and union organizer. I am the only Dobie
American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in His Theatre and Perseverance Theater in Communications Group (TCG), the national
to make a career in theater. Luckily for
Own Words, Catch Me If You Can, Mother Juneau, Alaska, which she founded organization for the American theater.
me, drama was an arts elective I was
Road, Newsies, Junk, The Heiress, and and ran from 1979-1998. Molly has been offered at the tender age of 12 so I
Anything Goes. Other shows include Jane a leader in new play development for hung up my hockey skates and joined
Anger, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci over 40 years. She is a great believer the drama class, led by teacher Paddy
26 2022/23 SEASON 2022/23 SEASON 27BOARD OF TRUSTEES / YOUNG PATRONS BOARD
ARENA STAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2022/23
CHAIR TRUSTEES Shawna Watley LIFE TRUSTEES
S. Decker Anstrom Jan Adams Anita Winsor Lee G. Rubenstein
Andrew R. Ammerman
CHAIR-ELECT Linda A. Baumann
HONORARY TRUSTEES YOUNG PATRONS BOARD
Catherine Jim Abdo TRUSTEE
Marc Blakeman
Guttman-McCabe Ashok Bajaj Whitney Hubbard
Tasha Boone
Joanne Barker
VICE CHAIRS Celandra Deane-Bess EMERITUS TRUSTEES
Steven R. Bralove
Judith N. Batty Joseph P. DiGangi John M. Derrick
Susan Haas Bralove
Michele G. Berman Jeri Epstein Arlene and Robert Kogod
Eric Braverman
Sander Bieber Richard Feinstein David O. Maxwell
John Edelmann
Jeffrey M. Busch Stephenie Foster Joan P. Maxwell
Elliot Feldman
Edgar Dobie Dr. Donald Wallace Jones Judy Lynn Prince,
Nancy M. Folger
Kristen Donoghue Ricki Kanter in memoriam
Natwar Gandhi
Rick Froehlich Elissa Leonard
Patti Herman
Nicholas Goad John Lynham CORPORATE OFFICERS
Judy Lansing Kovler
Sue Henry B. Thomas Mansbach
Mark Levine PRESIDENT
Vicki J. Hicks Ronald A. Paul M.D.
David B. H. Martin Edgar Dobie
Alethia Jackson Robert Pincus
Terry R. Peel
Daniel Korengold Ilene Rosenthal TREASURER
Beverly Perry
Richard A. Newman Gene Samburg Joe Berardelli
Lucia Riddle
Beth Newburger Schwartz Tiffeny Sanchez
Raymond Sczudlo
David E. Shiffrin SECRETARY
David Bruce Smith
Mignon Smith Alison Irvin
Richard W. Snowdon
Molly Smith
Margaret Tomlinson
Sheila Stampfli
Michael S. Steele
Michele P. Toth
YOUNG PATRONS BOARD 2022/23
The Arena Stage Young Patrons Board seeks to Theatre Forward advances the American theatre and its
communities by providing funding and other resources to
strengthen and support the future of American
the country’s leading nonprofit theatres. Arena Stage is a
theater at Arena Stage. The Young Patrons Board
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supports the artistic mission of Arena Stage by being Moving Forward Fund and the Educating Through Theatre
active ambassadors to the community and arranging program. Theatre Forward and its theatres are most
opportunities for people under 40 years old to grateful to the following funders.
engage with the theater.
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MEMBERS
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Whitney Hubbard BNY Mellon
Jonathan Maurer
Ashley Lawrence Pamela Farr &
Pfizer, Inc.
Buford Alexander
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FULL CIRCLE SOCIETY — ARENA STAGE’S PLANNED GIVING PROGRAM OUR INDIVIDUAL DONORS
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OVATION CIRCLE Ann O. Hamilton* B. Thomas Mansbach Richard H. Cleva
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Decker Anstrom and Daniel Korengold and Gene Samburg Foundation
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Anonymous (12) Lauren and Glen Howard REMEMBRANCE Drs. Elliot J. Feldman and The Revada Foundation Mignon and Kebharu Smith John and Linda Derrick
Esthy* and Jim Adler Ann Ingram Estate of Dr. and Mrs. Lily Gardner Feldman of the Logan Family Molly Smith and Kathy and Jody Dreyfuss
David Insinga and Robert McDonald Clement C. Alpert Margot Kelly* David and Martha Martin Suzanne Blue Star Boy John Edelmann and Jeff Love
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Sue Benson Drs. Susan and Perry Klein PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE
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Dr. Robert and Mary Jo Brenner Andrew R. Ammerman Sheila Stampfli Jerrilyn Andrews
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Steven Garron Molly Smith and
Suzanne Blue Star Boy Estate of Toni A. Ritzenberg
Jon K. Gossett and Alex Urdaneta
Bob Gronenberg Dick and Katie Snowdon
Sheila A. Stampfli
Estate of Gruine Robinson
Estate of Eugene Schreiber
YOU MAY PLAN TO LIVE UNTIL YOU’RE 150—AND WE
Catherine and Christopher
Guttman-McCabe Helga Tarver* Barbara R. Walton Endowment Fund
for New Playwrights
HOPE YOU DO—BUT YOU STILL NEED AN ESTATE PLAN!
Chris Harris Terri L. Tedford Everyone needs an estate plan to ensure their assets
Estate of Eric Weinmann
Betty Hawthorne Helene Toiv benefit the people and causes they value the most.
Margaret L. Tomlinson Estate of Frankie and
Dr. JC Hayward Jerry Williamson Please consider leaving a gift in your will or designating
Vicki J. Hicks Maya Weil Arena as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or Donor
Richard and Pamela Hinds Val and John Wheeler Advised Fund to help future generations enjoy theater. If
you have already included Arena, let us know so we can
include you in the Full Circle Society.
For more information, contact Maya Weil, CAP®,
Arena’s Gift Planning Specialist at 202-600-4158
or mweil@arenastage.org
The cast of The Pajama Game. Photo by Margot Schulman.
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