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12 Next to Normal The harmony of life's darkness and light. Program note by Vessela Warner.

14 How Next to Normal Came of Age

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Musicals are sneaky.

Once upon a time I had a terrible attitude toward musicals. As a lover of political plays — the denser and more provocative the better — I’d relegated the musical form to the corner of my brain otherwise occupied by romance novels, action films and Cheetos. Good, fluffy stuff with negligible nutritional value. I had trouble willingly suspending my disbelief as lovers broke into song.

Then I sat in the back of the house, performance after performance, and watched The Color Purple transfix an audience as diverse as Atlanta. And something clicked. Here was a deeply subversive way to talk about the most complicated and thorny topics while adopting an entrancing stylistic language that kept people at the table. Brilliant. Brilliant like Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, who had the sheer audacity to take on the effects of mental illness in a family in this subversive, sneaky form — and to come out the other end of that journey with not only a few Tonys, but a rarely-given-to-musicals Pulitzer Prize for Drama for their breathtaking effort.

Talk about sneaky. Talk about brilliant. And, I think, in about two hours time, you’re going to be talking about Next to Normal.

Susan V. BoothJennings Hertz Artistic Director

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Startlingly honest and chillingly beautiful, the story of Next to Normal swoops from the satirical triviality of a family’s daily routine to

the personal chasms of yearnings and despair. Suburban mother Diana draws her surroundings into the highs of emotional frenzies and lows of weakening sadness. Beyond the clinical examination of a modern family dealing with a crisis, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s musical adopts perspectives “next to” the realistic in order to explore the paradox of an almost impossible normalcy in a physically and psychologically polluted world.

The harmony of life’s darkness and light program note by Vessela Warner

Next to Normal looks critically at a society incapacitated by fast-paced living, high-reaching goals, simulated social contacts, compartmentalized identities, and stimulant-enhanced feelings.

Social environment affects Diana, the modern archetype of a grieving mother who has been denied the opportunity

to grieve. Her troubled memories of the past and delicate psyche are medically treated, clinically classified, feared by her pensive husband, and ostracized by her attention-seeking daughter.

The precarious situation of Diana’s family places all characters in the margins of existence: “next to the

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normal” and struggling to step into the light of self-understanding, acceptance of one another, and happiness.

The subject matter of Next to Normal resounds with the dramas of Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. It voices the themes of soul-seeking and dream-chasing between the real and the metaphysical, where true emotional existence falls. It shares the somber storytelling and dark symbolism of two other recent musicals, Spring Awakening (2006) and Sleeping Beauty Wakes (2007), which also tackle the questions of humans' subjectivity and psychological inadaptability against societal barriers.

Next to Normal opened on Broadway in 2009 to much acclaim, following a five-year period of workshops and readings and two early professional productions.

Shying from the eye-pleasing choreographic and dramatic numbers typical of musicals, Next to Normal implicates a rock concert or modern opera, in which intricately orchestrated songs elevate the plot and convey octaves of stirring emotions. Critics have raved at the “grace and power” of this “feel-everything musical” (The New York

Times) that rocks and rolls “like thunder” (Rolling Stone) to [strike] a "blow for the American musical’s future" (The Washington Post).

After a successful two-year run on Broadway, extensive touring, and numerous local and international productions, Next to Normal brings to the Alliance stage the harmony of life’s darkness and light.

Vessela Warner is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History at The University of Alabama at Birmingham.


Next to Normal’s creators were in the Booth Theater one night while their

new musical was in previews on Broadway. A teenaged boy approached them.

“Are you Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt?” he asked.

They told him they were.The boy had been diagnosed with

bipolar disorder three months earlier, he told them, adding: “Now I have something to point to, to explain what I’ve been going through. I wanted to say thank you.”

Those kinds of moments are what make Next to Normal composer Tom Kitt, now 38 and the father of three, want to write musicals.

“At the end of the day, I want people to leave the theater with new feelings or a new understanding in some way,” he says. He doesn’t care so much if the change is trivial or profound, whether he provokes a laugh, or inspires and comforts, as long as audience members are moved.

That moment in the Booth Theatre came some 11 years after Yorkey and Kitt first poked at the idea of a musical about mental illness.

They’d been accepted to the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, a New York testing ground for lyricists, composers and new shows. At the end of the first year, all participants were tasked with writing a 10-minute musical.

Yorkey, the lyricist, had seen a TV news report about electroconvulsive therapy and suggested they do a piece about a woman who struggled with depression and had to turn to ECT for help. Kitt agreed.

The piece was called Feeling Electric.It was, Kitt says, a bit campy and satirical.

But the general plot and story arc were in place as were several songs — including the heartbreaking waltz “I Dreamed a Dance” and the angry “Aftershocks.”

Reaction was mixed. Some who’d seen it were moved. Others questioned whether a musical could really come from that subject matter.

“If you’re getting a reaction like that,” Kitt says, “you’re really onto something.”

The team spent the next nine years researching, writing and rewriting. They

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talked to doctors, including Yorkey’s father-in-law, a psychiatrist. They read Andrew Solomon’s The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression and Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman. They worked to find the right tone.

“We got away from the camp and the satire,” Kitt recalls, “and to a truthful story of a family dealing with [mental health] issues.”

Then came readings, a concert version and another reading.

Kitt and Yorkey wanted to keep writing but also wondered if they could pull it off. Practical issues, like families and bills, tugged at them. Then, as luck would have it, a couple of producers stepped in. David Stone and Carole Rothman, Artistic Director of New York’s Second Stage Theatre, took the show and its creators “under their wing,” Kitt says.

The show, newly retitled Next to Normal, was done at New York’s Second Stage in 2008. A run at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., followed and then, finally, Broadway, where it opened on April 15, 2009, at the Booth Theatre on 45th Street. Although Next to Normal lost the best musical Tony Award to Billy Elliot, Yorkey and Kitt won Tonys for their score — and the show collected the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, only the eighth musical so honored in the award’s 95 years.

It’s now being done in places like Israel, Norway, Australia and South Korea.

Next to Normal has been described as a rock musical, or a rock opera. Kitt, who grew up as a classically trained pianist, uses neither. He calls it “theatrical music,” with elements of jazz, classical, a number of waltzes and some driving rock.

“I tried to write songs that support the dramatic purpose of the moment,” he says.

Kitt and Yorkey are working on a new original musical, i.e., not from a movie, with the Normal team. It may or may not involve Wicked’s Idina Menzel. And that’s all Kitt will say about it.

Maybe that show, too, will reach Broadway and, like Next to Normal, play around the world. Kitt would like that.

“Hearing your songs sung in different languages and seeing audiences around the world respond to your show, there’s no feeling like it.”


“At the end of the day, I want people to leave the theater with new feelings or a new understanding in some way." — Tom Kitt

Brian Yorkey, from left, and Tom Kitt.

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New York Premiere Produced by Second Stage Theatre, New York. February 2008.Carole Rothman, Artistic Director Ellen Richard, Executive Director

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*Liz Campbell ..............................................................Assistant Stage ManagerJayson t. Waddell ......................................................Apprentice Stage Manager

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MUSICIAnSBoko Suzuki .....................................................................Conductor/KeyboardsDan Baraszu ............................................................................................GuitarScott Douglas ...................................................................... Drums/PercussionAngele Lawless ....................................................................................... Violinelizabeth Murphy ...................................................................................... Cello Joel Powell ............................................................................................... Bass Andrew Fazackerley ................................................................Rehearsal Pianist

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profilesJORDAN CRAIG (Henry) has been living and acting in Atlanta for a little over a year now and is excited beyond belief to be cast in Next to Normal! A recent graduate of Sewanee: The University of the South, Jordan was hired by Georgia Shakespeare (The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, The Jungle Book) and has been working here ever since. You may have seen him recently in Spring Awakening (Melchior) or Xanadu (Sonny) at Actor’s Express; The Wizard of Oz (Tin Man) at the Alliance Theatre; or in Legally Blonde (Kyle/Dewey/Grandmaster Chad) at the Atlanta Lyric Theatre. Special thanks to Mom, Dad, Amanda, Taylor, Keaton, Jenny, Greg, and Mary for all the love, support and friendship. Jordan would like to dedicate his performance in Next to Normal to his Uncle Steve. The example you have set for me will serve as a guiding star giving me purpose and direction. Thank you for being a source of light in my life.

BOB GAYNOR (Dan) A Southern California native, Bob has lived in New York for the last 13 years. Most recently seen in last season’s Leap of Faith and Catch Me If You Can. Other Broadway credits include Sweet Charity, Boy George’s Taboo (Leigh Bowery/Perf), and Elton John’s Aida (Radames). NY City Center: Bye Bye Birdie (Conrad), Applause and Stairway to Paradise. Regionally: First Wives Club, Smokey Joe’s Café (Michael), A Chorus Line (Zach). TV and film credits: “Blue Bloods,” “Law and Order,” “One Life to Live,” “As the World Turns,” Across the Universe, The Mask. Love to Dwayne and the pups!

CATHERINE PORTER (Diana) is thrilled to be making her Alliance Theatre debut. Credits include Next to Normal on Broadway (stood by/performed the role of Diana), Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard (London’s West End and opposite Hugh Jackman in original Australian production), John and Jen,

and Cougar the Musical (off-Broadway) to name a few. She sang opposite Michael Crawford in the International tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and was a featured singer in the Brian May Band, supporting Guns-N-Roses on their world tour. Catherine is a singer-songwriter with two albums; Something Good and Gems for Ruby (available at the Symphony Store and iTunes). catherineporter.com

LYNDSAY RICKETSON (Natalie) is delighted to be back with the Alliance family. She understudied three roles in the Alliance’s Wizard of Oz this past spring. Other Atlanta credits include: Sweeney Todd (Johanna Barker) and Titanic: The Musical (Kate Murphey). Film: Sunday Morning Rapture (Supp.), Next of Kin (Supp. Lead), Diamonds Aren’t Forever (Lead), Der Greis (Lead). Education: B.A. Musical Theater, Berry College. Special thanks to my family for their ceaseless support and my friends for putting up with my outlandish schedule! Discover your noblest dreams within the cathedral of your heart.

CARY TEDDER (Gabe) is overjoyed to be making his Alliance debut in Next to Normal. Cary, a Marietta native, graduated from Pebblebrook High School in 2005, then continued on to acquire a B.F.A. in musical theatre from the University of Michigan (2009). Broadway: The Times They Are A-Changin’, Memphis. National tour: West Side Story (Tony). Regional: North Shore Music Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, Music Theatre of Wichita and the St. Louis MUNY. Many thanks and much love to Mom, Dad, Erin, Mary, and all the teachers who helped me along the road to success. Go Blue!

GOOGIE UTERHARDT (Dr. Fine & Dr. Madden) Atlanta credits: Clyde ‘n Bonnie: A Folktale (Aurora Theatre); Love Jerry (Actor’s Express/Suzi Award winner, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical); Glimpses


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of the Moon and Suzi-nominated Forbidden Broadway (Georgia Ensemble Theatre); Rent, Little Shop of Horrors (Atlanta Lyric Theatre); Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone, Burrs in The Wild Party (OnStage Atlanta); Bat Boy: the Musical (Dad’s Garage); Tuesdays With Morrie (ART Station); Tent Meeting (Theatrical Outfit). Googie also develops new works with Out of Hand Theater (Hominid, The Break Up, The Show!, One Day Play, Meds). Favorite color: purple.

CAROLINE FREEDLUND (US Natalie) is thrilled to join the cast of Next to Normal in her Alliance Theatre debut! Favorite Atlanta credits include Sweet Charity, A Chorus Line (Aurora Theatre), A Diva’s Christmas (Serenbe Playhouse) and Gypsy (Atlanta Lyric Theatre). Caroline is pursuing her B.A. in Dance at Kennesaw State University. Many thanks to Jody, Scott and the entire cast and crew! Love to Mom, Dad, Vicky and Valerie. Next up: The Gifts of the Magi at Theatrical Outfit. carolinefreedlund.com

CHRISTOPHER LEWIS (US Gabe/Henry) is thrilled to make his Alliance debut with this amazing production! A native of Carrollton, Ga., Christopher has been seen around Atlanta, most recently: And Then They Came for Me (Young Ed) at Georgia Ensemble Theatre; Annie (Fred/Dog Catcher/Ensemble) with Theater of the Stars; High Society (George Kittredge) at Stage Door Players; Gypsy (Yonkers), Legally Blonde (Aaron Schultz), Thoroughly Modern Millie at Atlanta Lyric Theatre; Titanic (Fleet) at Fabrefaction Theatre; Dames at Sea (Dick) and The 39 Steps (Clown 2) at The Prizery Theatre. Much love to Dan, Penny and the rest of the wonderful family and friends. christopherdaniellewis.com

DUSTIN LEWIS (US Doctor Fine/ Madden) Atlanta credits: Thief/Priest in See What I Wanna See (Actor’s Express/Suzi Bass

winner); Jason in Ordinary Days (Serenbe Playhouse); Lord Evelyn Oakleigh in Anything Goes, Bert Barry in 42nd Second Street (Atlanta Lyric Theatre); Miss Great Plains in Pageant: The Musical Comedy Beauty Contest (14th Street Playhouse); Bobby in Company (Stage Door Players); Caleb in Spitfire Grill; Sparky in Forever Plaid/Plaid Tidings; John in John and Jen (Legacy Theatre); Joab in Kind David Oratorio. Other credits: Siegfried in Das Barbecu, Swing in Miss Saigon (Germany), Swing in Joseph…Dreamcoat (original German cast). Next: Bob Wallace in White Christmas (Atlanta Lyric).

MARY NYE BENNETT (US Diana) is excited to be working with the Alliance Theatre. Mary has had a fun 2012 reprising the role of Kate Monster in Avenue Q at Horizon Theatre (2011 Suzi Bass nomination for Lead Actress in a Musical), Erato in Xanadu at Actor’s Express, and Paulette in Legally Blonde: The Musical with Atlanta Lyric Theatre. Other all-time favorite roles include Martha in The Secret Garden, Patsy in Always, Patsy Cline and Aldonza in Man of La Mancha. Thanks to Luke and Murphy!

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. In the 2012-13 season, the Alliance Theatre congratulates Actors’ Equity Association for its 100 years of service to the theatre community.

TOM KITT (Composer) received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for Next to Normal. His music for Next to Normal also received the 2009 Frederick Loewe Award for dramatic

profilescomposition and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Score. Tom is also responsible for the music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations for Green Day’s American Idiot on Broadway, and provided additional arrangements for their Grammy Award-winning album 21st Century Breakdown and their upcoming trilogy, ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! Tom is also the composer of High Fidelity (Broadway); The Winter’s Tale and All’s Well That Ends Well (The Public's NYSF); From Up Here (MTC); and The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons.) As a musical director, conductor, arranger and orchestrator, his credits include Pitch Perfect (Feature Film), 13, Debbie Does Dallas, Everyday Rapture, Hair, Laugh Whore, Pippin (Deaf West), and Urban Cowboy.

BRIAN YORKEY (Librettist/Lyricist) received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the 2009 Tony Award for Best Score, for Next to Normal. Brian was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Next to Normal, and his work on the show earned him the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Score. Brian is currently at work on a new musical with Next to Normal composer Tom Kitt, director Michael Greif, and producer David Stone, slated for Broadway in the 2013-14 season, as well as a musical adaptation of The Visitor. Other theatre credits include Making Tracks, which has played off-Broadway and regionally; the musical adaptation of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet; and the country musical Play It By Heart. Film projects in active development include Score! for Team Downey and Warner Bros., Time After Time for Summit/Lionsgate, Love Undercover for Pandemonium Films, and Chase for Anonymous Content and Rosenzweig Films. Brian has directed off-Broadway and regionally and for seven years was associate artistic director at Village Theatre in Washington state, one of the nation’s

leading producers of new musicals. He’s a graduate of Columbia University, where he was artistic director of the Varsity Show, an alum of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the WGA.

SCOTT SCHWARTZ (Director) Broadway: Golda’s Balcony, Jane Eyre (co-directed with John Caird). Off-Broadway: Bat Boy: The Musical, Tick, Tick…Boom!, Rooms: A Rock Romance, The Foreigner starring Matthew Broderick, Franz Kafka’s The Castle, Miss Julie, No Way to Treat a Lady. Golda’s Balcony also in London, on tour, in Los Angeles at the Wadsworth Theater, and in San Francisco at A.C.T. Recent credits include Séance on a Wet Afternoon at New York City Opera, A Room With a View at the Old Globe, the rolling world premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against at the Alley Theatre, and Arsenic and Old Lace starring Tovah Feldshuh and Betty Buckley at Dallas Theater Center. Regional theaters include: Arizona Theatre Company, Asolo Rep, Berkshire Theater Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Pasadena Playhouse, PCPA, Prince Theater, Rubicon, Signature Theater, TheatreWorks, Virginia Stage Company, Westport Country Playhouse. Associate Artist at the Alley, member of SDC, and a graduate of Harvard University.

MICHAEL JENKINSON (Choreographer) is an actor, director, choreographer and teacher at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts Theaterfest. For PCPA he has choreographed and acted in more than 40 productions, including Les Misérables, Ragtime, The Hot Mikado, and the American premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s musical My Fairytale directed by Scott Schwartz. As a director for PCPA, Mr. Jenkinson has staged The Music Man, West Side Story, Hairspray


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profilesand most recently, Legally Blonde. This past spring Mr. Jenkinson collaborated once again with Scott Schwartz on the world premiere of A Room With a View at the Old Globe in San Diego. Other theatre companies include: A Contemporary Theatre, Balagan Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Delaware Theatre Company, North Shore Music Theatre, Gateway Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Sierra Repertory Theatre and Sacramento Theatre Company. He has also been a part of the national touring companies of Fame, Grease, the Macau, China International Arts Festival tour of Grease and the Korean tour of Fame (choreographer and dance supervisor). Mr. Jenkinson is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SDC.

KEVIN RIGDON (Set Designer) returns to the Alliance Theatre Company where he designed A Question of Mercy. Other productions include The Grapes of Wrath, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Buried Child, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu, Our Town, Ghetto, The Caretaker, Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross (Broadway); Waiting for Godot, You Never Can Tell, Orphans (West End); Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Man and Superman, Miss Julie, The Importance of Being Earnest (Peter Hall Company). Other theatres include: Lincoln Center Theater, Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Warehouse, Cameri Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Goodman Theatre, Playhouse in the Park, Alliance Theatre. Mr. Rigdon is the Associate Director of Design for Houston’s Alley Theatre and the Moores Professor of Theatre at University of Houston.

SYDNEY ROBERTS (Costume Designer) Alliance Theatre: I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Spoon Lake Blues, Hertz

Stage; The Wizard of Oz, Honk!, and many other TYF shows with Rosemary Newcott. Atlanta: Associate Artist at Georgia Shakespeare, Grey Gardens at Actor’s Express, Cotton Patch Gospel at Theatrical Outfit, The Colored Museum with True Colors Theatre Company, Women + War with Synchronicity Theatre, among others. Regional: Swallowtale Dance Company, Chattanooga; Portland Center Stage, Ore.; Hairspray, the Musical at Red Mountain Theatre in Birmingham. Film: Ruthie. Sydney will design The Cherry Orchard next spring with Theatre Emory. Member USA 829.

MIke BALDASSARI (Lighting Designer) Tony- and Emmy-nominated designer whose work has been seen in 25+ countries. Theatrical lighting for movie musicals: Rock of Ages, Nine. Films: Joyful Noise, (shot in Atlanta), Sex and the City 2, Going the Distance. Co-designed Broadway hit revival of Cabaret, Tony and Drama Desk award nominations, received the Entertainment Design Award. Emmy nomination: Lighting Direction of “Garth Brooks In Central Park.” Collaborated on concert lighting for the film Neil Young Trunk Show. Family entertainment: Super Why!, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Madagascar. Through Europe: Beauty and the Beast. U.S. national tours: Spam-a-Lot, Ring of Fire, …La Mancha, Will Rogers…, Fame, Spider-Man, Grease. Production designer for Alice in Chains, co-designed Neil Young’s “Chrome Dreams.” Lighting director for Neil’s “Harvest Moon” tour. Television designs: many digital shorts for “Saturday Night Live.” mike-o-matic.com

CLAY BENNING (Sound Designer) has been the resident sound designer at the Alliance Theatre for 13 years and has designed more than 75 productions. Recent works include Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Into the Woods, God of Carnage and The Fairytale Lives


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of Russian Girls. Associate artist at Georgia Shakespeare with more than 20 productions. Other designs include Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Theatrical Outfit, Synchronicity Theatre. Awards: 2006, 2007 and 2009 Suzi Bass awards for Outstanding Sound Design. He is a graduate of Presbyterian College (B.A.), North Carolina School of the Arts (M.F.A.) and a member of IATSE/USA829.

BOKO SUZUKI (Music Director/Keyboards) Boko has served as music director for both the 1st and 2nd national tours of the hit musical Wicked as well as the San Francisco production. He recently music directed the world premieres of A Room With a View at the Old Globe, And the Curtain Rises at the Signature Theatre and the new off-Broadway musical The Kid. Boko spent three years music directing Rent on Broadway after having music directed both national tours, as well as supervising the Australian production. Other credits include Swing!, Mamma Mia!, Cats, Les Miserables, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, The Who’s Tommy and Sunset Boulevard.

CELISE KALKE (Director of New Projects) joined the staff of the Alliance in 2005, where she works on the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition and oversees or performs dramaturgical activity for the theatre. Musical revivals include Jelly’s Last Jam, Sophisticated Ladies, Into the Woods, Sammy and Me, Two Gents (Public Theatre) and My Fair Lady (Court Theatre), while her work on new musicals includes Women of Brewster Place and Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. Before moving to the Alliance she was the Director of the Literary Department at the Public Theater in New York. She was also the Resident Dramaturg for Court Theatre in Chicago.

VESSELA WARNER (Co-Dramaturg) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also serves as dramaturg of the experimental Overground Physical Theatre Company in NYC. Vessela has contributed articles and reviews to many academic publications. She is currently editing an anthology of foreign drama and a book on the alternative theatre in Eastern Europe.

JULIE A. RICHARDSON (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to be returning to the creative world of the Alliance Theatre. She has worked as as the Artistic Director for Horn in the West in lovely Boone, N.C. for five seasons; production stage manager for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Seaside Music Theater, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, American Stage, The Lost Colony, Blue Jacket, Horn in the West and others; and has served as staff stage manager at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Alliance Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Flat Rock Playhouse, Theatre on the Square, Theater Emory and Dallas Theater Center. New plays/premieres include: Stand By Your Man, the Tammy Wynette Story (including the Ryman Auditorium and Bass Performance Hall), Tin Pan Alley Rag (2 Carbonells), Mrs. Klein, One Flea Spare, Moby Dick! The Musical, The Christmas Bus, Brave New Works and many more while she was working with the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville. Julie is a proud member Actors’ Equity Association.

LIZ CAMPBELL (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be working at the Alliance again this year. Alliance credits include A Christmas Carol, Into the Woods, Wizard of Oz, Honk!, Disney’s Mulan, Middle School the Musical, Class of 3000, Live! and Goodnight Moon. Local credits include Three Sistahs, True Love Lies, Charm School, The Bluest Eye and The Syringa Tree (Horizon Theatre), It’s a Wonderful Life, Confederacy of Dunces and Big River (Theatrical Outfit). She holds

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a BFA in theatre from Niagara University. Love to APM and MEM. Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

SUSAN V. BOOTH (Jennings Hertz Artistic Director) joined the Alliance Theatre in 2001, and has initiated the Collision Project for teens, the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting

Competition, created local producing partnerships and has overseen regional collaborative productions as well as commercial partnerships on projects including Ghost Brothers of Darkland County; The Color Purple; Bring It On: The Musical; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Sister Act: The Musical; Bring in da’ Noise, Bring in da’ Funk; and Jesus Christ Superstar GOSPEL. As a director, she has worked nationally at theatres including the Goodman, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Stage and Film, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Northlight Theatre, Victory Gardens, Court Theatre and many others. She holds degrees from Denison and Northwestern universities and was a fellow of the National Critics Institute and the Kemper Foundation. She has held teaching positions at Northwestern and DePaul universities, and serves as adjunct faculty with Emory University. She is the past president of the board of directors for Theatre Communications Group (the national service organization for the field), is on the artistic board of the Steinberg Charitable Trust in New York, and is a trustee of Denison University. Susan is married to Max Leventhal and is the proud mother of Moira Rose Leventhal. [email protected]

JODY FELDMAN (Associate Producer) has been the head of casting for the Alliance Theatre since 1991. She has cast more than 200 LORT B, D and TYA productions for the Alliance including a wide range of classical, contemporary and world premiere dramas and musicals. She has worked with such directors as Susan V. Booth, Kenny Leon, David H. Bell, Kent Gash, Doug Hughes, Gary Griffin, Molly Smith and Andy Blankenbuehler. Since the Alliance is a center for new play development and productions, Jody has been privileged to cast a large number of new plays including The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry, Flyin’ West and Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage, In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney, and world premiere musicals such as Aida, The Color Purple, Sister Act: The Musical and Bring It On: The Musical. Jody also serves as casting director for Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company and worked as Atlanta casting director for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Tribute in Washington, D.C., and the feature film Charming the Hearts of Men. Jody began her theatre career as an actress and then as assistant general manager at the Academy Theatre with Frank Wittow. More than anything, Jody would like to thank you for being here to share the joy of live theatre with her Alliance Theatre family.

SynopsisWe meet the goodman family on a regular day — Dan, an architect, heads off to work; Natalie, the daughter, and gabe, the son, head off to high school. Diana starts making sandwiches for lunch. A lot of sandwiches. A room full of sandwiches. Something is not quite normal, or even next to normal, at the goodman house. As Diana struggles with her inner demons, seeking various forms of help, we learn of the goodman’s heartbreaking past. And Natalie finds in henry, her first boyfriend, the first steps away from her family. After several attempts to seek medical help, Diana submits to electroconvulsive therapy causing short-term amnesia. in the end, Diana decides that her disease and her soul might have separate needs, and Dan realizes that Diana might not be the only family member desperately in need of help.

discover us. discover you. members of our community respond to the work on the Alliance Stage

When i moved to Atlanta from los Angeles, i was delighted to discover the richness of culture that Atlanta has to offer. The Alliance Theatre and its productions are a wonderful example of this. As a practicing psychiatrist, i see on a daily basis the impact of mental illness on our patients and their families. What draws me into Next to Normal is the humanity of the main character as she and her family struggle through life in a flawed but authentic and real way. Next to Normal is creative and thought provoking, leaving you inspired by

the courage and resilience of its characters. — Mark Hyman Rapaport, M.D.,

Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory www.psychiatry.emory.edu

Do you appreciate live theatre, enjoy meeting new people and trying new things? if so, then get involved with one of the largest volunteer forces in the arts. The Alliance Theatre volunteer STArS program offers a wide range of opportunities, which includes advocating for live theatre, ushering for Alliance productions, participating in and staffing fundraising & hospitality events, and assisting Alliance staff members with daily office tasks. STArS is composed

of four separate organizations working together on fund-saving and fund-raising projects to benefit the theatre. The four volunteer groups are the Alliance children’s Theatre guild, Alliance Theatre guild, the Direct Volunteers and the Usher corps.

For more information on becoming a volunteer, please contact Shana orr at [email protected] or call 404.733.4761.

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about the alliance theatreFounded in 1968, the Alliance Theatre remains closely tied to the cultural identity of Atlanta, growing as the city has grown. The theatre has gained national recognition and prominence as Atlanta has become a leading international city. in 1977, the Alliance merged with the Atlanta children’s Theatre (founded in 1929) in order to include Atlanta’s youngest audiences in fully produced theatrical experiences. in 1979, the Alliance created the Theatre School (now the Acting Program and Education Department) in order to strengthen the relationship with our community. in 2007, under the leadership of Susan Booth, the Jennings hertz Artistic Director, the Alliance received the regional Theatre Tony Award®, in recognition of sustained excellence in programming, education and community engagement.

realizing that our audience and the national field supports plays developed in Atlanta, the Alliance has created a large body of new work. The Alliance produces world premiere American musicals with a strong track record of Broadway, touring and subsequent regional productions. The theatre creates and nurtures the plays and careers of early-career playwrights through the Alliance/Kendeda National graduate Playwriting competition, providing a premiere for the winner as part of our regular season and national networking opportunities for four finalists. locally based artists create work on a nationally watched stage, launching and sustaining Atlanta’s artistic community. Finally we create and produce original plays for young audiences at every age level: from the collision Project, which creates opportunities for high school artists to collide with classic texts, to the groundbreaking Theatre for the Very Young, creating interactive work for infants and toddlers.

The Alliance takes great pride in our multigenerational educational programming. Believing that the same excellence found on our stage must be found in our education programs, the Alliance created the institute for Educators and Teaching Artists. A collaborative partnership between the Alliance and partner schools, the institute programs equip teachers with theatrical techniques that link directly to school curriculum, align with the georgia Performance Standards and increase student learning. These innovative programs include gA Wolf Trap, a nationally recognized professional learning program that focuses on literacy skills for children in pre-K – 2nd grade; Dramaturgy K-12, a unique program that empowers student scholars to create research material that both informs Alliance productions and prepares their peer audiences; and collision Plus, which takes the creativity and collaboration of the collision Project into our high school classrooms. The Alliance also offers community education, including classes for all ages and abilities of theatre interest; and adult student productions of unproduced plays in development (working with local writers and playwrights from the National graduate Playwriting competition). Twice recognized by the Federal Department of Education as leaders in the field of arts education, these programs reflect the Alliance’s commitment to citywide arts access.

The Alliance Theatre strives to set the highest artistic standards and create the powerful experience of shared theatre for a diverse audience. Above all else, we value excellence, pursued with integrity and creativity, and achieved through collaboration.

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Have you ever left a show and wanted more? Have you

needed to know about the history that the play is steeped in, the politics of

the time, how the designers arrived at their final concepts or maybe just a

behind-the-scenes viewpoint of the actors’ rehearsal process?

The Alliance Theatre has just the ticket for you—and it’s free and open to the public. One hour before most Tuesday

evening performances and immediately following most Saturday matinees,

the Alliance presents an opportunity for our savvy audience members to

get just a little more with our Before Play and After Words Series for Alliance Stage shows.

Our Before Plays are moderated discussions led by Alliance Theatre

staff and tend to delve deeper into one aspect of the play, whereas the

After Words discussions are usually with select members of the cast

and focus on the experience of performing and rehearsing the show.

For the Alliance’s production of Next to Normal, we are adding additional

opportunities for our audiences to engage with our partners from Emory

Healthcare’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences to explore

the topic of mental illness and its effects on families. In addition to our Tuesday Before Plays and Saturday After Words, Emory Healthcare Faculty will also join us after the show on select Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons for an illuminating Q&A.

By Alicia Quirk, Alliance Program Publication Editor

The Alliance Theatre posed a few questions to Faculty Members of Emory Healthcare’s Department of Psychiatry to learn about Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) which Diana, the central character in Next to Normal, is grappling with as a treatment option.

A: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) works by electrically stimulating

the brain to improve the release of neurochemicals that aid in the treatment of

certain types of mental illnesses.

A: Modern use of ECT is highly effective for people with persistent mood disorders or manias, particularly those who have been non-responsive to

traditional medications. It is also used as a treatment for people who are severely depressed and need to have quick

and immediate treatment versus medications that may take weeks to take effect.

Q: What is ECT?

Q: Why is ECT used?

A: Yes, ECT is quite safe, and modern-day ECT is done with at least two doctors (an

anesthesiologist and a psychiatrist) in the room monitoring the patient. ECT is performed under anesthesia and is painless. This was

not always the case even up to thirty years ago, but around 1980 several advances in the ECT equipment and the treatments themselves made the

procedure much safer. About the same time, the National Institute of Mental Health funded a series of landmark large, multicenter trials that provided the basis for the evidenced based procedures that serve as the protocols

Emory doctors use in performing ECT. These protocols improved both the safety and efficacy of the acute treatment as well as

addressing concerns for long-term side effects (such as memory problems).

Q: Is ECT safe? How has ECT changed over

the years?


board of directorsBoard Chair

Immediate Past ChairTreasurer

Victoria PalefskyDan ReardonPatrick J. Gunning

Kristin R. AdamsJames L. AndersonKenny BlankMark C. CallawaySteven W. ChaddickLinda DavidsonBernice DixonPhilippa V. EllisDaryl EvansReade FahsHoward L. Feinsand

Andrew GoldeVirginia HepnerLila HertzJocelyn J. HunterTwyla JacksonRosthema Viener KastinJohn KellerJim KilbergJeff LevyCynthia MaloyAlan McKeon

Hala ModdelmogPhilip H. MoïseMaureen MorrisonRichard S. MyrickScarlet Pressley-BrownHelen Smith PriceMaurice RosenbaumWilliam B. RowlandSteve SeligKaren ShepherdFrank Ski

William D. SleeperSpiegelBronson SmithKaren SpiegelJohn StromCharles E. TaylorRosemarie ThurstonPeter D. WeitznerP.J. Younglove HoveyTodd Zeldin

Rita M. AndersonKenneth L. BernhardtFrank S. ChewAnn W. Cramer

George GoodwinLaura HardmanJohn Hays MershonHelen M. Regenstein

Robert E. Reiser, Jr.Debbie SheltonJane E. ShiversSally G. Tomlinson

Benjamin T. White

Madelyn AdamsTracie ArnoldConnie AustinTerri BagenCandace BellMark BellBarry BerlinVeronica BigginsNancy BistritzMelanie BoltaxSarah Robinson BordersErin BrownStephen BrownDonna BurchfieldCatharine BurkettSusan CallawayW. Imara CanadyJames Cox ChambersRon ClarkTony ConwayRichard CraveyJackie CushmanSallie DanielDebbie DermerJohn DeushanePatricia L. Dickey

Sally DorseyEnid DraluckCydnee DubrofDiane DurginBob EckardtJo Roberson EdwardsKathryn FarleyEllen FeinsandValerie FergusonDonna FitzmauriceBarry FlinkJay FreerMargie GoheenLisa GreenbergPatrice GreerJennifer HaleValerie Hartman Stephanie HuskRita IzaguirrePam JenkinsStacii Jae JohnsonAndrea JonesLauren KieferDavid KunianskyConstance LewisKristie Madara

Rosemary MageeKent MatlockPhilip McAdooReese McCranieS. Alan McKnight, Jr.Penny McPheeDori MillerDedi MohrMary MooreStarr MooreCynthia MorelandElena MullicanLinda NewpotBill NigutTravis ReedKathryn RichardCandace RodriguezBobby RosenbloumJack SawyerChristine SchneiderAlan SchreihoferSonny SealsThe Honorable

Leah Ward SearsLinda SeligJanece Shaffer

Jonathan ShaperoAnne SheehanBrian SheplerCindy SheplerLinda SilbermanChandra Stephens-

AlbrightCharlita Stephens-

WalkerVeda StoreyTodd TautfestSusan TuckerWayne VasonLynda WalkerBob WalkerAaron WatsonA. Penniman Wells, Jr.Rick WesternMary WilliamsSuzy WilnerJoni Winston Paul Root Wolpe

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This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.This program is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the

appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA also receives support from its partner agency — the National Endowment for the Arts.Major funding for this organization is

provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council.Major support is provided by the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs.

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Alliance Sponsors are businesses, corporations and institutions that have supported the work of the Alliance Theatre. We thank them for their generosity and support.

★★★★★★★ $250,000+The Coca-Cola Company Kendeda Fund Wells Fargo Foundation

★★★★★★ $100,000+Delta Air Lines, Inc John H. & Wilhelmina Harland

Charitable FoundationThe Shubert Foundation

★★★★★ $50,000+Edgerton Foundation

New American Plays AwardFulton County Arts & Culture

The Home DepotNational Endowment for the ArtsNorth Highland Company

Turner Broadcasting System, IncU.S. Department of EducationThe Zeist Foundation

★★★★ $25,000+AT&TCity of Atlanta Office of Cultural AffairsPublix Super Market Charities, Inc.

The Rich FoundationThe Harold & Mimi Steinberg

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TargetDavid, Helen & Marian

Woodward Fund

★★★ $10,000+American Intercontinental

UniversityArby’s FoundationAtlanta FoundationAtlanta Homes & Lifestyles

Bryan CaveCartoon NetworkDuke RealtyEmory HealthcareImpact Creativity/NCTFGeorgia Council for the Arts

Georgia-Pacific FoundationGeorgia PowerThe Imlay FoundationJones DayPremiere Global Services, Inc

★★ $5,000+The Arthur M. Blank Family

FoundationThe John & Mary Franklin FoundationGreenberg Traurig, LLPPlum Creek

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annual fund

$50,000+Victoria & howard Palefsky

$35,000+Barbara & Steve chaddick James Starr moore memorial

FoundationSally g. Tomlinson

$25,000+mr. & mrs. howard Feinsand Dan & garnet reardon Joni Winston

$10,000+The Balloun FamilySusan V. Booth & max leventhalAnsley & mark callawayAnn & Jeff cramerlinda & gene Davidsonmr. & mrs. reade FahsDoris & matthew gellerDr. & mrs. Andrew goldeDavid & carolyn gouldmr. Patrick J. gunningDoug & lila hertzAndrea & Boland Jones

John & Angie KellerJames & lori Kilbergmrs. J. hicks lanierJeffrey c. levymr. & mrs. Steven J. moddelmogPhil & caroline moïsemr. & mrs. Angus morrisonrichard S. & Winifred B. myrickStephen & marjorie osheroffPatty & Doug reidBob & margaret reisermr. & mrs. h. Bronson Smith

John & Karen Spiegelchandra Stephens-Albright

& Warren Albrightcharlita Stephens-Walker,

charles & Delores Stephenschuck & lisa cannon-Taylormr. & mrs. David l. Thurstonmr. & mrs. ramon Tomerick & Terri Westernramona & Ben WhiteSuzy WilnerAmy & Todd Zeldin

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CR The chairman’s roundtable is comprised of individuals who have contributed a minimum of $20,000 to the Alliance Theatre.

Barbara & Steve chaddickmr. & mrs. howard Feinsand

James Starr moore memorial Foundation

Victoria & howard Palefsky

Dan & garnet reardonSally g. TomlinsonJoni Winston

d i r e C t o r ’ s C i r C l eThe Director's circle is comprised of individuals who have contributed

a minimum of $10,000 to the Alliance Theatre's Annual Fund.

The Balloun FamilySusan V. Booth & max leventhalAnn & Jeff cramermr. & mrs. reade FahsDoris & matthew gellerDr. & mrs. Andrew goldeDavid & carolyn gouldmr. Patrick J. gunningAndrea & Boland Jonesmrs. J. hicks lanier

Jeffrey c. levymr. & mrs. Steven J. moddelmogPhil & carolie moïserichard S. & Winifred B. myrickStephen & marjorie osheroffPatty & Doug reidBob & margaret reiserlinda & Steve Seligmr. & mrs. h. Bronson Smithchandra Stephens-Albright

& Warren Albright

charlita Stephens-Walker, charles & Delores Stephens

chuck & lisa cannon-Taylormr. & mrs. David l. Thurstonmr. & mrs. ramon Tomerick & Terri Westernramona & Ben WhiteSuzy WilnerAmy & Todd Zeldin

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For information on how to join either the chairman’s roundtable or the Director’s circle, please contact maya robinson at 404.733.4710 or [email protected].


annual fundAlliance donors provide over $1.8 million to the Annual Fund and Annual Fundraising events so that we can continue to present exceptional theatre and educational programs to our community. We are deeply grateful for their support. (Gifts processed as of September 1, 2012)

$7,500-$9,999Jocelyn J. hunterhelen Smith Price

Patricia & maurice rosenbaumP.J. Younglove hovey

$5,000-$7,499Judy m. AndersonJames Andersonmr. & mrs. Jeff AustinBill & Peg Balzerlisa & Joe BankoffKathy & Ken Bernhardt

marcia & John DonnellEve & Bob EckardtErin & John heymanPaul & rosthema Kastinmr. & mrs. James c. KennedyPhilip i. Kent Foundation

cynthia & Alan maloymelanie & S. Alan mcKnight, Jr.mr. & mrs. John hays mershonDedi & Julian mohrmr. and ms. hugh S. rippsDr. & mrs. Dennis lee Spangler

$2,500-$4,999gene g. Abel, m.D. & Nora harlowDr. & mrs. raymond AllenSouthern States llcms. Susan Beallor-Snyder

& mr. Stuart Snydercandace & Jeff Bellms. Beryl Bergquistms. raluca Bighiuron & lisa Brill charitable TrustSara & Alex BrownDr. Thomas h. callawayFrank & mary Anne chewAlan & chi colbergmr. & mrs. Edward S. croft iiirussell & Sandra DawsonDouglas & camille DuerrDiane DurginPhilippa & Burrell EllisJohn & cindy EthridgeDiane & Daryl EvansKathryn T. Farley, PhDDr. cynthia J. Fordyce

& Sharon hulette

mr. & mrs. John D. Fullermr. & mrs. David l. gellermr. & mrs. Barry goheengreenberg Traurig,llPDr. & mrs. Edmond i. griffinmrs. carrie g. hallJohn & Simone hansonDr. & mrs. John B. hardmanmrs. Virginia A. hepner

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& mr. Wendell BrownBill & rhonda rowlandmr. & ms. michael SalyardsAlan & cindy SchreihoferSonny & Jeanne SealsKevin Seawaymrs. Anne Sheehanmr. & mrs. charles B. Shelton iii charlotte & Tom Shieldsmr. Brian Shively & mr. Jim JinhongWilliam & margarita Sleeperhenry N. & margaret P. StaatsKaren & Alex Stickneymr. & mrs. John r. Strommr. Todd Tautfest & mr. Kevin EschBalfour Beatty constructionDrs. Eldred & Ava Taylormr. James Thomasmichael & June TompkinsSusan & Tom Wardellmr. & mrs. Edus h. Warren, Jr.John & Kathy Zamer

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& Wanda AdamsElaine & miles AlexanderDiane & Kent AlexanderTheodore & Andrea Altholzrita & Ted Andersonms. & mr. Jody l. AndradeElizabeth & John Bacon

mark & Pam Bellmr. & mrs. george h. Boulineaumr. & mrs. ronald Breakstoneronnie & Barbara Bridges,

Acro Waste managementStephen Brownmr. & mrs. W. Kent canipemr. & mrs. James l. curryms. Sallie Adams Danielmr. & mrs. James c. Edenfield

ralph & ree EdwardsDr. & mrs. Norman Elliottms. Elizabeth r. Etollmichael & Jody FeldmanAndy Fishermr. & mrs. Paul r. Freemanmr. Andrew l. ghertnermr. & mrs. Ernest greerms. Kristin hathaway hansen

& mr. Norman hansen

$1,500-$2,499

annual fund

Ellen Arnovitzms. Karen Beardsleemr. george Boydmrs. Barbara Bradyginny & charles BrewerWilliam & Norah ByrnesBrad & Sally curreymr. & mrs. David E. Dermermrs. Elaine l. hentschel

ms. Diane hockstadermr. David Stockert

& ms. cameron ivesKay h. & Burke c. Jonesgordon l. Joyner, Esq.mr. & mrs. Peter g. Kessenichmr. & mrs. richard Krugerliz levine in honor of Billy levineron grapevine & rosemary magee

William mcDanielAnn Starr & Kent Nelsonmr. & mrs. markham D. oswaldmrs. c. Preston StephensBob Sullivanlynne Winshipholly & marty Yorklynne T. Zappone

$1,000-$1,499


Kristin r. AdamsJames l. Andersonmr. & mrs. matthew Arduinocheryl & ron BaerDr. Deborah Baumgartencarolyn & Al Byrdms. Patricia l. Dickeycydnee Dubrof & rob mcDonough

Evern & Elze EppsPatrice & Ernest greerms. Kathryn harrisonBruce & Elizabeth hermanms. catherine hiltonSivan & Jeff hinesmr. & mrs. gert KampferDavid Kuniansky

mr. Elmer langham & mr. Donald Bonar

monica & John Pearsonms. Elise T. Philipsms. Karen Porch Pasta da Pulcinellamr. & mrs. gary SayersAlan & cyndy Schreihofer

Jane E. Shiversmr. Allen B. Simpson & mrs.

melody E. mann-Simpsonms. martha B. Stephens

& ms. linda B. Augustmr. george m. TaylorWilliam & Nancy Yang

$750-$999

michael & Dawn AdamsonPeter & Sheila AndersonAnonymous (4)David Anthonymr. & mrs. robert Arogetimr. robert Averymr. & mrs. Wayne S. BaileyBassmarra FamilyDr. geoffrey Berlinin memory of Sol BlaineDr. & mrs. Ted BrandKatherine Brokaw & Steve russ

leroy & Polly Brownleems. Shari BrunsonAubrey & carol Bushms. monetha cobbmitch & Jacky collinsmr. David collinsB.J. Erb & Bruce i. crabtree iiilisa cremin & Bruce harlanrichard & linda Daviscarol comstock & Jim Davismr. Philip DelantyAlexandra & charlotte Dretler

Drs. Bryan & Norma Edwardsmr. & mrs. Barry r. ElsonDr. & mrs. Arnoldo Fiedotinms. Pat FiorelloPat & Jerry gardnermr. Joe gfallerDr. lisa A. gillespielouise Staton gunnmr. & ms. Willie l. hall, Jr.mr. John harbermr. george & ms. Penny hartmr. & ms. chester l. hicks

ms. Terry A. hildebrandmr. & mrs. Thomas D. hillsmr. & mrs. Thomas B. hyman, Jr.Jason & laurie Jeffaymr. & mrs. Frank JeffersonEric & carol Johnsoncathy & Jeffrey Korotkinms. Sandra lanphearJ. Bancroft lesesneEric & marcia ludgoodcaroline maysonmichael & heather miars

$500 - $749

mr. & mrs. David hardegree, Jr.Pearlann & Jerry horowitzmr. & mrs. J. michael hostinskylinda & richard hubertmr. & mrs. James E hugh, iiirichard & marcia Jacobsonmr. robert A. Jetmundsenin honor of carol Jones

& the Alliance Theatre Education Department

mr. & mrs. David E. Kieferlucy KinnairdSteven & Sheri labovitzms. carolyn lawsonconchita heyn & robert lichtefeldlubo FundJim & Jo mcleanSally & Tom mcNultymr. & mrs. Nathan metzgerNancy & mike millett

mr. & mrs. charles moseleyJoyce & michael Natbonymr. & mrs. lynn NewportJohn & helen Parkermr. Solon P. PattersonBill & carey Peardms. Kathleen PendergraftPeg PetersenSam & Barbara PettwayDon & rosalinda ratajczakms. rebecca J. reevesmr. John richardDr. Susan rifkin & mr. David rifkinPeter & Alice rogersDr. & mrs. charles rosenbergScott c. SatterwhiteDavid & Sharon Schachterms. christine SchneiderThe honorable leah W. Sears

& mr. haskell Ward

mr. Scott Shicklermr. & mrs. mark Silbermanmartin & Patricia SilbigerDr. o. Kirsten Spragginsmr. & mrs. Steven J. SteindelDante's Down the hatch, BuckheadSusan & Alan Stiefelmaria-ruth StortsJim & Janie StratigosDr. & mrs. Kenneth g. TaylorJ. Thomas Taylor, m.D.Dr. William TorresKimberly S. Tribble & mark S. langemrs. lynda WalkerBruce WestbrookJoan N. WhitcombJ.m. Wilkerson construction

companymr. & mrs. D. Brent Wypermr. & mrs. Erwin Zaban

$1,500-$2,499 (cont.)


annual fund

$250-$499mr. & mrs. Alfred g. Adams, Jr.mr. & mrs. randall Adamsmrs. Belinda Allenmrs. Elena Allmerothmarion AndersonAnonymous (2)Ansley Animal clinicNorma & Don Appelms. lauren AppelWarren Armisteadmr. & mrs. James Baileygeorge T. Baker Foundation, inc.Dr. michael & mary Baronms. leslie Bassett & Familymr. & mrs. roland BatesPatty Beemms. mavourneem Bellmr. michael c. Berndtms. Donna Berrygeoff Bieger & John Altizergary & Nancy Bivinsmr. Bill BlackSuzanne & rob Boasms. Brenda K. Boydms. & mr. lisa BrannenSharon BrewerDr. harold J. Brodymerv & Schan Brownms. Deb Brudorobin canadyms. mary c. cannongwen carmackmr. William carrollFranklin & Dorothy chandlerms. Diane l. chauffemr. & mrs. charles cohnKenneth collinslt. col. & mrs. ralph W. connellmr. Bob copelandmr. Tim couchmr. michael J. crandallmr. Terry culpmr. clayton Davisms. carol Dcruz

Dr. Paul l. Douglass, m.D.mr. & mrs. Philip A. Dregerms. leanne Dunganmr. & mrs. Brian Dunsonmr. & mrs. robert g. Edgegary & Elaine Elderilene Engel & Bob Arotskyms. Erin E. EvansEliza & Bobby Ezormark & martha Fairmrs. Veronica S. FinkJohn & Eleanor Finleymr. & mrs. Patrick Fitzmauricemike Flueckigerms. Debbie Frankms. Shan FranklinDr. & mrs. Edward gainermr. Andrew gainesgeorge galloway, Jr.Drs. Stephen & marianne garberms. christina garciamr. Alexander gdalevichleah gibsonDr. & mrs. Donald m. gilnermarsha & richard goerssDan & Susan gravelinemrs. Janice gravesrichard & Debbie griffithsmrs. c.J. grimesmrs. Bea h. grossmanDivida gudemr. James E. guessmr. Sidney l. gullion

& ms. christine macKaySherry & ike habiflindsey E. hardegreemr. & mrs. Joseph B. haynesms. Bonnie K. hebbmrs. cathy hedrichmr. Paul hemrickms. Dawn herethmr. mario hernandez, Jr.mr. Edward hewettcarole W. hinton

mr. mark A. hobsonmr. & mrs. l. lynn hogueJeremy hsiehms. helen E. huyler

& ms. Janice huylerideal care Technologiesintellectual capital

consulting, inc.mary Ann Jacksonmr. ron Jacksonmr. charles JohnsonBirgitta Johnsonmr. Jeff Joneslee & Alyse Jonesmr. Jared Jonesmr. & mrs. Jeffrey Julianoms. Janice Karkulamrs. Kenneth J. Kearneymadkin KellyThe Kelly Familygary & Joella KerberDr. William Kisermrs. Jo Kochmr. John W. Krausenmr. & mrs. Don Kupermancarol & Paul Kurtzms. mary E. langrandi & Sid levymr. Benjamin lewisrichard lodise & Valerie Jagiellams. gloria loganms. Sarah lyon

& mr. matthew hannaSallee macknikmr. Eugene martinJoey mccraw, Backstreet BoutiqueJ. mcDonaldms. Susan mcFallWayne mcgee/The mcgee groupmr. & mrs. michael T. mcNamaraDoug & Norma mcNeillBirgit & David mcQueenms. louise A. merlyn

& mr. Edward K. Addley

Jim & Deb milletteDr. & mrs. James h. milsapThe mimms Familymr. michael mitchellTraron mooreVicki & Steve morrisWilliam & Judy mullenDennis & Debra murphyPatricia c. Nevius, m.D.

& lewis StognerDr. Brent Nixonms. Janis orlinsms. Scotty c. Pannellms. Dana Personsms. Sophia Brothers Petermanmr. & ms. Timothy A. PollockPrefered machine Worksms. Kathy Prietomr. & mrs. henry m. Quillian iiiDale & marnae rantaron reemsnyderms. heather reesms. Arina reid-martinmr. Ed rheinhayward & Janice richardsonms. reginia J. riffeyTed J. rikardmiss lillie m. robbinsmr. lou robinson

& mr. Bill Deloachin honor of ms. maya robinsonmaya robinsonms. mary W. rogersms. Ann r. rollins

& mr. James JosieDr. Jacqueline J. roysterms. & ms. Theresa m. SchniderAmy Jeanne rosenberg Schwartzms. Yveta SeiseKathleen Sheehanmr. mark o. Shriver, iVmr. & mrs. charles Sidesmr. mashaun SimonFred B. Smith

Alliance donors provide over $1.8 million to the Annual Fund and Annual Fundraising events so that we can continue to present exceptional theatre and educational programs to our community. We are deeply grateful for their support. (Gifts processed as of September 1, 2012)

$500 - $749 (cont.)roger & Sue morganJanice & Tom munstermanmr. Daniel P. murphyNorfolk & Southern corporationmr. Stephen J. odom

& mrs. Ellen m. coggeshallmr. & ms. Peter o'hanlonmr. mark A. Pallanschleonard PallatsDr. monica Parkermr. & mrs. John Payan

chris & mary Kay Paynemr. & mrs. Asif ramjigreg & Kathy reilleyharry & Anna rinkerJames h. rollinsKevin ruhlJohn A. SabineBrian & cynthia Sheplermindy & David ShoulbergDr. Jay Singh & Dr. gillian

Sherbourne

Brenda J. Smithmr. & mrs. Jay SmithJohn & Sharlene SmithAlec & Donna SmytheJoe Sniezekmr. Peter J. StellingJudith & mark Taylorms. mona Templescelia TillKatherine TollidayDr. & mrs. Bruce Y. Tyler

The von gal Familyms. Elizabeth Wallace

& mr. chris ScislowiczBert & Stacey WeissDr. & mrs. J. michael Westms. Penelope WoodsAlbert & Barbra WrightJeannie WynnDawn m. ZachariahDr. & mrs. howard Zaleznak

annual fund


ms. Shawn o. Smithmr. lloyd Solomonmr. & mrs. Barry l. Spurlockmarilyn & mickey Steinbergmichael StevensAndrea Strickland

& N. Jerold cohenms. Susan SwannerThomas Sweat & ron russellDr. & mrs. michael SzikmanTaproot corporationms. leslie m. Taylor

& mr. David Pratt

Johnie l. Teaguemr. richard Thomasmr. Kevin Toddms. Wanda Truesdalemr. robert Tynanmr. Wayne r. Vason

& ms. lee harpermr. Vern Vincentmr. & mrs. Joseph B. Vivonamr. & mrs. J. michael Voynichmr. & mrs. Steven Wakefieldgilbert & genette WaldmanJohn T. & Patricia Walsh

charles Warren & chris hesterJaye WeilandDr. Paul B. Weinbergms. Ann WestbrookDr. & mrs. Anon E.

Westmorelandmr. Peter Whitemrs. charlotte Wilenmr. & mrs. David m. Wilkinsonmr. Jason Williamsmr. & mrs. richard Williamsmialeeka Williams

with No other council

Dr. & ms. Wayman Duane Williams

Willis clinicDr. Jane Wilkor

& mr. Bruce Winstonmr. Jorn WinterSherry & Donn Wrightmr. David A. Yelichmr. charles l. Youngharold & Jane YudelsonPaul Zurawski & rick hengel

$250-$499 (cont.)

Alliance donors provide over $1.8 million to the Annual Fund and Annual Fundraising events so that we can continue to present exceptional theatre and educational programs to our community. We are deeply grateful for their support. (Gifts processed as of September 1, 2012)

Matching Gift CompaniesWe would like to thank the following companies who have donated matching gifts to the Alliance Theatre’s Annual Fund. Please check to see if your employer will match your contribution.

American Express companyAmerican honda motor co., inc.Aon corporationAT&TBank of AmericaBryan cave-Powell goldsteincharles Schwab and co., inc.chubb & Son, inc.

cigNA corporationcitigroup FoundationThe coca-cola companyEquifax inc.Federated Department Stores, inc.gE Energyhome Depot FoundationiBm corporation

JPmorgan Private BankKimberly-clark Foundationmacy’s FoundationmcDonald’s corporationmerrill lynch & co., incNDchealthNorfolk Southern corporationPrudential Financial

SprintSunTrust FoundationTime Warner, inc.UPSVerizon corporationYahoo!

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Patron Circle of StarsBy investing $15,000 or more in The Woodruff Arts Center and its divisions — the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, High Museum of Art and Young Audiences — these outstanding Annual Corporate Campaign donors helped us raise more than $9 million last year. Thank you!

CHAirMAn’S COunCil

★★★★★★★★★★★★$500,000+The Coca-Cola Company Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. UPS

★★★★★★★★★★$300,000+Cox Interests Atlanta Journal-Constitution James M. Cox Foundation, Cox Radio Group Atlanta, WSB-TV

The Hon. Anne Cox ChambersDeloitte LLP,

its Partners & Employees Ernst & Young,

Partners & Employees

★★★★★★★★★$200,000+AT&T The Community Foundation

for Greater Atlanta, Inc. Equifax Inc. & EmployeesThe Home Depot Foundation PwC, Partners & Employees SunTrust Bank Employees &

Trusteed Foundations Florence C. & Harry L. English

Memorial Fund Greene-Sawtell Foundation SunTrust Foundation

★★★★★★★★$150,000+Jones Day Foundation

& Employees KPMG LLP,

Partners & Employees The Sara Giles Moore

FoundationThe Rich Foundation, Inc. The David, Helen &

Marian Woodward Fund

★★★★★★★$100,000+Alston & Bird LLP Bank of AmericaDelta Air Lines, Inc. Kaiser Permanente King & Spalding

Partners & Employees The Klaus Family FoundationThe Marcus Foundation, Inc. Novelis Inc.Southwest Airlines Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.Wells Fargo

★★★★★★$75,000+Goodwin GroupKilpatrick TownsendNorfolk SouthernThe Sartain Lanier Family

Foundation, Inc.Mabel Dorn Reeder FoundationRegions Financial Corporation RockTenn Siemens Industry, Inc.

★★★★★$50,000+AGL Resources Inc. Balch & BinghamLisa & Joe BankoffCrawford & Company GE Energy Frank Jackson Sandy Springs Toyota and Scion

IntercontinentalExchange PNC PrimericaTroutman Sanders LLP

★★★★$35,000+Accenture & Accenture EmployeesAtlanta Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence L.

Gellerstedt IIIInvesco PLC Philip I. Kent Foundation The Ray M. & Mary Elizabeth

Lee Foundation, Inc.Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

Company Hellen Ingram Plummer

Foundation, Inc.Printpack Inc./The Gay &

Erskine Love Foundation Patty & Doug Reid Family

FoundationAlex and Betty Smith Donor-

Advised Fund at the Catholic Foundation of North Georgia

Harris A. Smith Devyne StephensSutherland Asbill & Brennan LLPUnited Distributors, Inc.Frances Wood Wilson

Foundation, Inc.

★★★$25,000+Julie & Jim Balloun BB&T CorporationCousins Properties FoundationMr. & Mrs. Bradley Currey, Jr. DLA Piper Mike DonnellyDoosan Infracore InternationalGeorgia-Pacific Price Gilbert, Jr. Charitable

FundGMT Capital CorporationGrant Thornton LLPHarland Clarke


Beth & Tommy HolderThe Imlay Foundation, Inc. Infor Global Solutions Sarah & Jim KennedyMacy’s Foundation Mueller Water Products, Inc.Mr. & Mrs. David M. Ratcliffe SCANA Energy Selig Enterprises, Inc./The Selig

FoundationSouthwire CompanyTowers WatsonWaffle House, Inc. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Gertrude & William C.

Wardlaw FundWomble Carlyle Sandridge &

Rice, PLLCCarla & Leonard Wood Yancey Bros. Co.

★★$15,000+ACE Charitable FoundationAcuityAlvarez & MarsalArnall Golden Gregory LLPAssurantThe Partners & Employees of

Atlanta Equity InvestorsAtlanta Marriott Marquis Susan R. Bell & Patrick M. MorrisBessemer TrustLaura & Stan BlackburnThe Arthur M. Blank Family

FoundationThe Boston Consulting GroupCatherine S. & J. Bradford

BranchThe Brand Banking CompanyGeorge M. Brown Trust Fund

of Atlanta Bryan Cave LLP

Mary Cahill & Rory MurphyCamp-Younts Foundation Center Family Foundation Mr. Charles Center Mr. & Mrs. Fred Halperin Ms. Charlene BermanThe Chatham Valley

Foundation, Inc.Cornerstone Investment

PartnersDewberry FoundationDuke Realty CorporationThe Deborah Elkins FoundationFifth Third BankFirst Data CorporationFord & Harrison LLPRobert L. Fornaro Gas South, LLC Genuine Parts Company Georgia Natural Gas Virginia Hepner &

Malcolm BarnesThe Howell Fund, Inc. ICS Contract Services, LLCMr. & Mrs. M. Douglas IvesterJamestownMr. & Mrs. Tom O. Jewell Weldon H. Johnson Family

FoundationIngrid Saunders JonesJWTThe Abraham J. and Phyllis

Katz FoundationKurt P. Kuehn & Cheryl DavisThomas H. Lanier Family

FoundationLanier Parking SolutionsThe Blanche Lipscomb

Foundation Livingston Foundation, Inc.Karole & John LloydMohawk Industries, Inc. &

Frank H. Boykin

Katherine John Murphy Foundation

Newell RubbermaidGail & Bob O’LearyVicki & John PalmerThe Sally & Peter Parsonson

Foundation, Inc.Piedmont Charitable

Foundation, Inc.Post Properties, Inc.Mary & Craig RamseySmith Gambrell and Russell, LLPSpencer Stuart Karen & John Spiegel Sprint Foundation State Bank & Trust CompanyStaples Foundation Superior Essex Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Gregory ThompsonVerizonSue & John WielandMr. & Mrs. James B. Williams Sue & Neil Williams The Xerox Foundation

*Annual Campaign Donors from June 1, 2011–May 31, 2012


alliance theatre staffARTIsTICJennings hertz Artistic Director ..................................... Susan V. BoothSally g. Tomlinson Artistic Director of Theatre for Youth ......................................... Rosemary NewcottAssociate Producer ........................................................ Jody FeldmanDirector of New Projects ....................................................Celise KalkeArtist in Dialogue .............................................................. Pearl Cleagecommunity Engagement & casting Associate .............DayRon J. MilesArtistic Assistant .......................................................Margo MoskowitzVisiting Scholar .................................................................. Jay RaphaelArtistic intern ..................................................................Kathryn Davidliterary interns ....... Margot Manburg, Natasha Smith, Malcom TariqKenny leon Fellow ............................................................ Jiréh Holder

EduCATIoNDirector of Educational Programs .......................... Christopher MosesDirector of the Acting Program.......................................... Al HamacherDirector, institute for Educators and Teaching Artists ......................................... Michele MummertEducation Development manager ..................................Sharon BrewerEducation coordinator & Producer of Drama camps Christina DresserEducation Assistant .........................................................Rachel JonesTheatre for the Very Young coordinator ..............................Olivia Astonresident Artist in Education .......................................Patrick McColeryresident Teaching Artists ........ Kim Bowers-Rheay, Valetta AndersonTeen Programs Assistant ................................................... Sarah WallisTeaching Artists .............................Ricardo Aponte, Paul Armbruster,

Denise Arribas, Olivia Aston, Corey Bradberry, Sharon Brewer, Daniel Brown, Jaehn Clare, Steve Coulter,

Jessica De Maria, John Doyle, Marissa Druzbanski, Sharon Foote, Polly Garcia, Allison Gardner, Kimberly Geter,

Holly Godwin, Neely Gossett, Erin Greer, Amy Handler, Angie Harrell, Betty Hart, Michael Haverty, Lesley Howe,

BJ Hughes, John Jaramillio, Bernard D. Jones, Rachel Jones, LeeAnna Lambert, Amy Lucas, Barry Stewart Mann,

Michele McCullough Hazard, Bryan Mercer, Marcie Millard, Tracy V. Moore, Kati Grace Morton, Jessica Muhammad,

Sarah Lancaster Cave, Claire Ritzler, Manny Rivers, Kirk Seaman, Linda Sherbert, Sheri Mann Stewart, Clint Thornton,

Shirnest Tolbert, Ebony Tucker, Davia Weatherill, Jeanene Williams

AdmINIsTRATIoNgeneral manager ........................................................... Max Leventhalcompany manager .......................................................Laura Thrustonmanagement Assistant ........................................................Alicia Quirkmanager of information resources .................................... Jim Hubbert

FINANCEDirector of Finance & Administration .................................Brian ShivelyAccounting coordinator ...........................................................Julie HallAccounting coordinator ...............................................Ashley Bradford

dEvELopmENTDirector of Development .............................Kristin Hathaway Hansencorporate relations officer ............................................... Paige Smithmajor contributions manager...................................... Maya RobinsonSpecial Events & Board manager ...........................Lindsey HardegreeSpecial Events & Board Assistant .................................... Bryan Saxon grants manager...................................................Rebecca LevenbergDevelopment coordinator ..................................... Janet AbercrombieDevelopment Volunteer ............................................. Elaine Hentschel

mARkETINgDirector of marketing ......................................................... Gary SayersBrand manager............................................................ Caroline TannerPublic relations manager ..................................... Kathleen CovingtonDigital Brand manager .........................................................John Maleycreative manager ..........................................................Talia Bromstadmarketing Volunteer ................................................................Don Vanngroup Service coordinators ............... Celeste Mercer, Kate McNeelyBrand coordinator ............................................................Emily BrysonPatron Services manager. ......................................................Shana OrrPatron Services coordinator ................................................Alicia Quirkhouse managers ......................... Olivia Aston, Dana Hylton Calabro,

Christina Dresser, Lindsey Hardegree, Ken McNeil, Alicia Quirk, Lynn Vatter

Assistant manager Season Tickets .................................Danielle HicksSenior Ticket Agents ................................... Chad Martin, Ken McNeil

pRoduCTIoNProduction ManagementDirector of Production ................................................... Victor W. Smith

Stage ManagementAlliance Stage managers ................................................... Pat A. Flora,

lark hackshaw, Julie A. RichardsonAssistant Stage managers ............... Liz Campbell, R. Lamar WilliamsTYF Stage manager ....................................................Amy RadebaughTYF Stage management Production Assistant ................Barbara Gantthertz Stage management Production Assistant ........Jayson T. WaddellStage management Apprentices ...............Erin Sanchez, Haylee Scott

Stage OperationsStage operations manager ............................................... Scott Bownecrew chief........................................................................Deb Maberry Flyman................................................................................ Willie ParksProperties Stagehand ................................................. Courtney O'NeillStagehand ........................................................................ Paul Arebalo

ElectricsElectrics manager .................................................................Pete ShinnStaff Electricians ..................Steve Jordan, Steven Love, Jenn Trippe

Soundresident Sound Designer .................................................Clay BenningSound Engineers/Board ops ..............Holly Blakely, Hidenori Nakajo,

Brian Smith

SceneryAssistant Technical Director .................................................Megan KierShop Foreman ............................................................... Patrick Conleycarpenters ..............................................Manny Abreo, Erin Canfield,

Jonathan Fries, Michael Lyonscharge Scenic Artist .............................................................Kat ConleyScenic Artist ................................................................ Christa Seekatz

PropertiesProperties manager ..........................................................Robert ElliottProps lead Artisan .......................................................Suzanne MorrisProperties Buyer Artisan .........................................Heather SchroederProperties Artisan ......................................................Bruce Butkovitch

Costumescostume Shop manager..............................................Carol HammondDesign Assistant .................................English Benning, Emily KramerDraper .................................................Julie Kennedy, Cindy Lou Whocraftsmaster ...............................................................Diana L. ThomasStitchers/First hands ....................................................... Laury Conley,

Lyudmila Fesenko, Maegan RobinsonWig master ................................................................... Robert NavarreWardrobe .......................................................John Hardy, Niki Traxler

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