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2 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | 2019 SEASON

Dear Friends,

This production of Molière’s great play brings our 2019 Playhouse season to a close, and what a long way we’ve traveled! It takes place in Spain, an ocean away from the community of In the Heights, where we began our season with an exuberant celebration of musical theater by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quira Alegría Hudes. From there we took you to a Detroit automobile factory on the verge of collapse, and empa-thized with the tender lives of two women and two men deeply affected by the change in Dominique Morisseau’s drama Skeleton Crew. These two works celebrated lives distantly removed from Westport, Connecticut, but con-nected, by the power of theater, to our souls.

After that, Manhattan! And the chic apartment of one Irving Berlin. As embodied by Hershey Felder, the great American songwriter seemed to welcome each of us personally into a celebration of his life and music. Then we trav-eled together to the savannas of Kenya and the workshops of Vietnam and the high rises of Beijing, China in Lynn Nottage’s Mlima’s Tale, the story of an animal’s spirit globally diminished by man.

In 2020 we hope to match the depth and variety you’ve experienced this season by opening with the groundbreaking musical Next to Normal, then featuring a beautiful and moving new comedy called Tiny House. Another musical follows as we reimagine Ain’t Misbehavin’ with a large and dancing cast as it celebrates the music of Fats Waller. Sophocles’ powerful Antigone speaks from the past to the present moment of unrest and resistance. And the season will climax with Pearl Cleage’s beautiful drama about artists in the Harlem Renaissance, Blues for an Alabama Sky.

We hope you’ll join us!

MARK LAMOS Artistic Director

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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SCENIC DESIGN

Marsha GinsbergCOSTUME DESIGN

Katherine RothLIGHTING DESIGN

Matthew Richards

ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN

Fitz PattonFIGHT DIRECTOR/INTIMACY COACH

Michael RossmyASSOCIATE SCENIC DESIGN

Samuel Vawter

PROPS SUPERVISOR

Karin WhitePRODUCTION DRAMATURG

Dana Tanner-KennedyPRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Shane Schnetzler*

PRODUCTION SPONSOR EUNICE AND DAVID BIGELOW FOUNDATION

NOVEMBER 5 – 23, 2019

PRESENTS

CORPORATE PRODUCTION PARTNER

BY Molière A WORLD PREMIERE TRANSLATION + ADAPTATION BY brendan pelsue

DIRECTED BY david kennedy

CASTING

Tara Rubin CastingLaura Schutzel, CSA

Claire Burke, CSA

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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THE CAST

DON CARLOS/ENSEMBLE Jordan Bellow*

MR. GUSMAN/STATUE/ENSEMBLE Paul DeBoy*

PIERROT/DIMANCHE/ENSEMBLE Carson Elrod*

BEGGAR/DON LOUIS/ENSEMBLE Philip Goodwin*

DONA ELVIRA/ENSEMBLE Suzy Jane Hunt*

MATHURINE/THE GHOST/ENSEMBLE Claudia Logan*

SGANARELLE Bhavesh Patel*

DON ALONZO/ENSEMBLE Bobby Roman*

CHARLOTTE/ENSEMBLE Ariana Venturi*

DON JUAN Nick Westrate*

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

DON JUAN WILL BE PERFORMED WITH ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION.

This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

Westport Country Playhouse employs members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 74.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

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from the adaptor

brendan pelsueon don juan

Diving back into the play with those marching orders was a gift. Don Juan is a great, shaggy patchwork of ideas, allusions, spectacle, and jokes. It is built with a looseness and freedom that allows it to contain many truths at once. Don Juan is a scoundrel; Don Juan is a truth teller. He represents the worst excesses of an archaic system of privileges, yet seems to usher in a new morality. He is complicated, liberated, decadent, distractible. In other words, he is much like us. Creating a language for the play that made these contradictions fresh but did not choose between them — or constrict their meaning through overly direct analogies — was a chance to reacquaint myself with the full complexity of Molière’s thought and, hopefully, to then create a document that allows these complexities to echo with our own.

The project was also a rare opportunity. Actors and directors might interpret a

“classic” many times over the course of their careers; writers and translators almost never do. This is too bad. Don Juan is a big play. It easily contains my two versions, not to mention a number of other wonderfully varied translations and adaptations produced even in the last twenty years. The play is “Scooby-Doo” and grand oratory. Its hero is a reprobate and a visionary. We are repulsed and seduced. We do not have to choose one Don Juan — or one Don Juan. We get to embrace multiplicity instead.

One definition of a “classic” is a text that contains multiple readings — that continues to speak to us over time. For me, this production is a very literal test of that proposition: it is the second time I have been given the chance to translate and adapt Molière’s Don Juan.

The first was four years ago, when I was a graduate student. That Don Juan was all about transposition. The many textures in the language of Molière’s original were given contemporary analogues, so that peasant patois became modern day slang, veiled references to events in France in 1665 became veiled references to events in America in 2016, and a scene skewering doctors, Molière’s favorite punching bag, became a scene skewering the judiciary. The result was a kind of doublet -and-hose “Scooby-Doo;” old ideas meet new gags.

When David Kennedy approached me about a new version of the play for Westport, he wanted a different approach — a Don Juan where the language was elevated enough to belong to Versailles, but sharp, light, and immediately funny enough to belong to now.

Don Juan is a great, shaggy patchwork of ideas, allusions, spectacle, and jokes.

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PROGRAM NOTES BY BETHANY GUGLIEMINO, ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE EDITED BY DANA TANNER-KENNEDY, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG

don juanMolière’s Don Juan made its debut in 1665 (as Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre),

scandalizing audiences with its perceived attack on conventional morality and its failure to convincingly punish the titular character. After Molière’s death, a heavily censored version of the play made occasional appearances, but it was not performed in its original form again until 1841. While the open-endedness of the play repelled early audiences, that very ambiguity has opened Don Juan to endless variation and, in the hands of visionary directors, continued relevance to our ever-changing social contexts.

through the ages

Louis Jouvet’s definitive 1947 production was the first to convincingly revive the play. In Jouvet’s reading, Don Juan is a tragic figure, a proud but tortured lapsed Catholic incapable of admitting his mistakes. Surrounded by sincere believers begging him to change his ways, Don Juan is eventually trapped by his own refusal to back down.

In 1954, Jean Vilar took an opposite approach. For Vilar, Don Juan was an avowed and unrepentant atheist whose attitude challenged the accepted guiding forces of society. This asked audiences to consider the limits and responsibilities of their own agency, and Don Juan’s death was not a divine judgment but rather an artificial resolution.


Also in 1954, Bertolt Brecht chose Don Juan as the inaugural production at the Berliner Ensemble’s new theater. With the intent of restoring an accurate historical perspective to the play, Brecht presented Don Juan as both a social parasite and a comic figure. Extensive alterations to the text supported this interpretation. Brecht’s production was also unusual in its emphasis on Don Juan as a seducer, a man with no socially useful role who channels his energies purely into (comically) amorous pursuits.

Patrice Chéreau took yet another approach in 1969, telling a story of individuals caught up in a societal crisis beyond their understanding and control. In this interpretation, Don Juan poses an anarchic threat to a social order struggling to establish itself. Inspired by the spectacular Baroque stage machinery of Molière’s original production, Chéreau presented a literal “machine play,” with exposed stage mechanics and scenery, in this case designed to eliminate social threats like Don Juan. In 1989, in former Czechoslovakia, Jan Grossman

also used the play to launch a societal critique, this time aimed at the destructive impact of totalitarianism. Grossman’s Don Juan is the sole hero aware of the absurdity and lack of any moral order in his surroundings, thereby exposing the hollow inauthenticity of the characters around him.

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WHO’S WHO

Jordan Bellow*Don Carols/EnsembleWestport Country Playhouse debut. NYC: Interior (59E59 Theaters); The Russian and the Jew (The Tank); The Feels...KMS (New Ohio Theatre); Macbeth, Alkestis (The Connelly Theater). Regional: Sweat (Denver Center);

A Raisin in the Sun (Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage); All The Way, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol (South Coast Repertory); Fly (Florida Studio Theatre). TV: “Gotham,” “Orange Is the New Black.”

Paul DeBoy*Mr. Gusman/Statue/EnsembleWestport Country Playhouse debut. Paul is very pleased to make his debut at the historic WCP. As a professional actor for over forty years, Paul appeared as Harry Bright in Broadway’s Mamma Mia!

and has worked regionally at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, GEVA, Syracuse Stage, Portland Center Stage, The Wilma Theater, Denver Center, Baltimore Center Stage, The Pioneer Theatre Company, Maltz Jupiter Theatre and many more. On TV Paul will be seen in Jordan Peele’s “Leviathan,” and has been seen on all four “Law & Order”’s as well as “The Blacklist: Redemption,” “The Following” and “Royal Pains.” www.pauldeboy.com

Carson Elrod*Pierrot/Dimanche/EnsembleWestport Country Playhouse: Bedroom Farce, How the Other Half Loves, Time of My Life, The Drawer Boy. Broadway: Reckless, Noises Off, Peter and the Starcatcher. Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow. Off Broadway: All in the Timing,

Lives of the Saints (Primary Stages); All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, The Tempest (NY Shakespeare Festival); The Liar, The Heir Apparent (Classic Stage Company); Important Hats of the 20th Century, Explorer’s Club, House/Garden, Comic Potential (MTC); Oliver Twist (TFANA); Cavedweller (NYTW). Regional: Williamstown,

A.R.T., Shakespeare Theatre DC, Barrington Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Denver Center, Center Theatre Group, Berkley Rep, Yale Rep. Film: Wedding Crashers, Kissing Jessica Stein. TV: “30 Rock,” “High Maintenance,” “Elementary,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” NYTW Usual Suspect. AEA since 2000. BA: KU. MFA: NYU Grad Acting. carsonelrod.com #FairWageOnStage

Philip Goodwin*Beggar/Don Louis/EnsembleWestport Country Playhouse debut. Philip has been seen on Broadway in Tartuffe, The School for Scandal, and The Diary of Anne Frank. He is an Artistic Associate of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC,

receiving Helen Hayes Awards in Timon of Athens, Twelfth Night, and An Enemy of the People. Also in DC, he recently premiered Richard Nelson’s one-person play, Tynan at the Studio Theatre. He has made many Off-Broadway appearances, notably as Fool in King Lear with Kevin Kline, and he was nominated for a Drama Desk award for the title character in Henry VI at Theatre for a New Audience. Select Regional: Peer Gynt, Tony Kushner’s The Illusion (Hartford Stage); Constance Congden’s adaptation of The Gilded Age (The Acting Company) all directed by Mark Lamos. TV: “Gotham,” “Law and Order.” Film: Inspector Renard in two Pink Panther movies with Steve Martin.

Suzy Jane Hunt*Dona ElviraWestport Country Playhouse debut. Suzy is thrilled to be working with director David Kennedy again at the beautiful Westport Country Playhouse. Favorite TV credits: Pastor Tim’s wife Alice on Emmy award-

winning “The Americans,” Agent Schiffman on “Person of Interest,” “Blindspot,” “Blacklist,” “The Good Wife,” “Believe,” “Elementary.” Favorite Theatre: Dear Evan Hansen and Dead Accounts on Broadway, Viola in Twelfth Night at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, The Real Thing at The Wilma, rogerandtom at HERE Arts Center, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at New Victory. Suzy is


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an adjunct professor at NYU’s department of Educational Theatre, and a collaborator with the Verbatim Performance Lab there, where she recently played Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a theatrical investigation into gender perception.

Claudia Logan*Mathurine/The Ghost/EnsembleWestport Country Playhouse debut. Claudia Logan is a native from the “city of hustle”, Detroit, MI and a recent graduate of SUNY Purchase. A resident of Brooklyn, NY, she thanks God

for her gifts, talents, and drive. She is very excited about her debut at the prominent Westport Country Playhouse! Credits Include: HBO’s “Random Acts of Flyness” & “The Deuce,” Netflix’s “Tales of the City,” Penny Candy at the Dallas Theater Center. Spread Love. GIVE NO QUARTER.

Bhavesh Patel*SganarelleWestport Country Playhouse debut. Most recently seen on Broadway as Mo in The Nap at MTC and Roland Maule in Present Laughter opposite Kevin Klein. Lincoln Center Theater: War Horse, Hayden’s Seven Last Words.

New York Theater: The Public, Second Stage, Roundabout, Continuum Company, CSC, New York Shakespeare Society, Red Bull, NYTW. Regional: Shakespeare Company, The Guthrie, St. Louis Rep, The Alliance, Pittsburgh Public, Merrimack Rep, Chautauqua Theater Company, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Company, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, The OʼNeill Theater Institute. TV: “New Amsterdam,” “Little America,” “Bull,” “The Blacklist,” “Instinct,” “The Code,” “Jon Glazer Loves Gear,” “Madame Secretary,” “Mysteries of Laura,” “The Good Wife,” “Elementary,” “Hostages,” “Blue Bloods,” “Person of Interest.” Film: The Sound of Silence, Gold, Wilding, Two Days in NY, James White, Maiden Heist, The Weekend, You Should Have the Body. Education: Shakespeare Certificate from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art — London, and MFA from NYUʼs Graduate Acting Program.

Bobby Roman*Don Alonzo/EnsembleWestport Country Playhouse debut. Bobby is excited to be making his Westport Country Playhouse debut. Recent productions include: An Enemy of the People, The Winter’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, Titus

Andronicus, North of Providence, Blood Wedding, Our Lady of 121st Street, Cloud Tectonics. Graduate of The William Esper Studio, Heidi Marshall Studio, and Developing Artists Alumni. MFA: Yale School of Drama. TV: “Mr. Robot” (USA). www.bobbyromanactor.com

Ariana Venturi*Charlotte/EnsembleWestport Country Playhouse debut. This summer Ari returned for her 5th season at Berkshire Theatre Festival to play Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth for director David Auburn. Favorite past credits include: Tracy Lettsʼ critically

acclaimed Mary Page Marlowe at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago; These Paper Bullets! (Atlantic Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre); Robert Woodruffʼs In a Year with 13 Moons (Yale Repertory Theatre); Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb); Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival). She plays Alya Feinburg in the second season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and co-hosts the podcast Having A Night. BA, Vassar College. MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Nick Westrate*Don JuanWestport Country Playhouse debut. Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Casa Valentina, A Moon for the Misbegotten. Off-Broadway: Tribes, A Delicate Ship, Galileo, Love's Labor's Lost, Unnatural Acts, The Little Foxes, The Boys

in the Band (Drama Desk nomination, featured actor). Regionally he has appeared at Yale Rep, McCarter, calShakes, The O’Neill, Huntington, and Barrington Stage. On TV he was Robert

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Townsend on AMC’s “Turn: Washington’s Spies” (series regular, 3 seasons), and also has appeared in HBO’s “Mildred Pierce,” “The Tick”, “Blindspot”, “Quantico”, “Person of Interest”, “New Amsterdam”, and “Blue Bloods”; Upcoming: HBO’s miniseries “The American Guest.” On film, Ricki & the Flash, directed by Jonathan Demme and the upcoming feature, The Volunteers. Nick is the recipient of the 2012 special Drama Desk Award for his work in 3 plays that season, he is an NYTW Usual Suspect, a Juilliard School graduate, a founding member of the Fair Wage OnStage movement, and a proud union member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Molière (1622 – 1673)PlaywrightMolière was the leading French comic actor, stage director, and dramatic theoretician of the seventeenth century. He was born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. Although he was awarded a law degree, he incorporated an acting troupe, The Illustrious Theatre, in collaboration with the Béjart family, probably because he had fallen in love with their oldest daughter, Madeleine Béjart, who became his mistress. It was at roughly the same time that he acquired the pseudonym Molière. In 1658 the troupe played before Louis XIV in Paris. The kingʼs brother became Molièreʼs patron; later Molière and his colleagues were appointed official providers of entertainment to the Sun King himself. Molière advanced from being a gifted adapter of Italian-derived sketches and a showman who put on extravaganzas to a writer whose best plays had the lasting impact of tragedies. Unwittingly, he made many enemies. The clergy mistakenly believed that certain of his plays were attacks on the church. Other playwrights resented his continual experiments with comic forms. In 1662 he married Armande Béjart, a nineteen-year-old actress who was either Madeleine’s sister or, as some of the playwright’s rivals claimed, her daughter by Molière. They had one child, Esprit-Madeleine. In the late 1660s, Molière developed a lung ailment from which he never recovered, although he continued to write, act, direct, and manage his troupe as energetically as before. Molièreʼs works include The School for Husbands

(1661), The School for Wives (1662), Tartuffe (1664), Don Juan (1665), The Misanthrope (1666), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1666), Amphitryon (1668), The Miser (1668), Scapin (1671), The Learned Ladies (1672), and The Imaginary Invalid (1673).

Brendan PelsueTranslator and AdaptorBrendan Pelsue is a playwright, librettist, and translator whose work has been produced in New York and regionally, including Wellesley Girl at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Hagoromo at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Read to Me at Portland Stage Company, and a new translation of Molière’s Don Juan at Westport Country Playhouse. He also produces the podcast We Are Not These People with journalist Natasha Haverty. Originally from Newburyport, MA, he received his MFA from Yale School of Drama and his BA from Brown University, where he received the Weston Prize in playwriting.

David KennedyDirectorWestport Country Playhouse: The Understudy, Appropriate, The Invisible Hand (Connecticut Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Director), And a Nightingale Sang, Nora, Loot, Tartuffe, Suddenly Last Summer, Beyond Therapy, Dinner with Friends. Kennedy joined the Playhouse in March 2009 as associate artistic director. He previously served as associate artistic director at Dallas Theater Center from 2004 to 2007 and as acting artistic director for their 2007-08 season. He has also staged productions at the Wilma Theater, Hartford TheaterWorks, Clarence Brown Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Prospect Theater Company, and Kitchen Dog Theater, among others. He was a founding artistic director of The Lunar Society in Toronto and Milkman Theatre Group in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Kennedy teaches in the graduate directing program at the University of Alberta, and is a former Phil Killian Fellow at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and a graduate of Yale School of Drama.


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Marsha GinsbergScenic Design

Katherine RothCostume DesignKatherine Roth designed costumes for Come Fly Away on Broadway, the Alliance Theatre’s production of Come Fly with Me, and Sinatra Dance with Me for Encore Theatre at Wynn Las Vegas, all for director/choreographer Twyla Tharp. New York: Signature Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Vineyard Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience, Cherry Lane Theatre, Women’s Project Theater, Primary Stages, INTAR Theatre, Bat Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Regional: American Conservatory Theater, Alliance Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, The Old Globe (2003 San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design), the Mark Taper Forum, Huntington Theatre Company, California Shakespeare Theater (2004 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award), the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center (1996 Leon Rabin Award for Outstanding Costume Design), La Jolla Playhouse, Center Stage Theater, South Coast Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Magic Theatre. She won two Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards for Best Costume Design as the associate designer from 1998 to 2007 on ABC’s All My Children.

Matthew RichardsLighting DesignWestport Country Playhouse: The Understudy, The Invisble Hand, Romeo and Juliet, Red/Art, And a Nightingale Sang, The Liar, Nora, Loot, Tartuffe, Suddenly Last Summer, Dinner with Friends. Broadway: Ann starring Holland Taylor. Opera: Macbeth at LA Opera. Off-Broadway: Is God Is at Soho Rep; Absolute Brightness…, and The Curvy Widow at Westside Arts; The Killer, Tamburlaine, and Measure For Measure at Theatre For a New Audience; The Atlantic; B.A.M.; MCC; Playwrights Horizons; Play Co.; Primary Stages; Rattlestick; Second Stage. Regional: Actor’s Theater of Louisville; Arena Stage; Baltimore’s Center Stage; Cincinnati Playhouse; Cleveland Playhouse; Dallas Theater Center; Ford’s Theatre; The Goodman; Hartford Stage; The Hangar; The Huntington; La Jolla Playhouse; Long

Wharf; New York Stage and Film; The Old Globe; Shakespeare Theatre; Westport Playhouse; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Yale Repertory Theatre. matthewrichardsdesign.com.

Fitz PattonOriginal Music and Sound DesignWestport Country Playhouse: The Understudy, A Flea In Her Ear, Appropriate, The Invisible Hand, And a Nightingale Sang, Intimate Apparel, Nora, and more. Winner of the 2019 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Choir Boy. Current Broadway: The Rose Tattoo. Upcoming Broadway: Take Me Out. Upcoming Off Broadway: Greater Clements (Lincoln Center), The Perplexed (MTC - City Center). Previous Broadway: Choir Boy, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans, Blackbird, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, It’s Only a Play, An Act of God, Airline Highway, The Other Place, I’ll Eat You Last, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina, The House of Blue Leaves, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound. Additional Drama Desk awards for When the Rain Stops Falling and The Humans. He is a founding editor of Chance Magazine.

Michael RossmyFight Director/Intimacy CoachWestport Country Playhouse: Mlima’s Tale, Skeleton Crew, Man of La Mancha, The Understudy, A Flea In Her Ear, Flyin’ West, Romeo and Juliet, Appropriate, Lettice and Lovage, Camelot, The Invisible Hand, Art/Red, Broken Glass, The Liar, Nora, Room Service, Harbor, Loot, A Raisin in the Sun, Tartuffe, Into the Woods. Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities. Regional: The Acting Company, The Public Theater, Asolo Rep, Yale Repertory Theatre, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, The Old Globe, Geffen Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Primary Stages, Delaware REP, SoHo Repertory Theatre, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Rattlestick Theater, Pace University, Cherry Lane Theatre, and others. He was nominated for a 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Fight Direction. Michael is a faculty member at the Yale School of Drama where he teaches Stage Combat, and the Stage Combat and Intimacy Supervisor for all undergraduate productions at Yale College.

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Karin WhiteProps SupervisorWestport Country Playhouse: Thousand Pines, Sex With Strangers, Grounded, Lettice and Lovage, Camelot, What the Butler Saw, The Invisible Hand, Broken Glass, Bedroom Farce, And a Nightingale Sang, The Liar, Intimate Apparel, Things We Do for Love, Nora, Sing for Your Shakespeare, Room Service, The Show-Off. Off-Broadway: Macbeth, The White Devil, The School for Scandal, ‘Tis Pity She's a Whore, The Mystery of Irma Vep (Red Bull Theater); Rimbaud in New York (Brooklyn Academy of Music/The Civilians); Petrol Station (New York University); Posterity (Atlantic Theater Company); Indian Ink (Roundabout Theatre); Punk Rock, Village Bike, Small Engine Repair, Reasons to Be Happy, Don’t Go Gentle, Carrie, Wild Animals You Should Know, The Submission (MCC Theater); Brooklynite (Vineyard Theatre); The Chocolate Show, Craving for Travel, I Call My Brothers. Opera: Der Zigeunerbaron, La Clemenza di Tito, L’Enfant et les Sortileges and Persee et Andromede (Manhattan School of Music); La Perichole, Moses in Egypt, The Turn of the Screw, Powder Her Face, Orpheus, Cosi Fan Tutti, A Quiet Place, Don Giovanni, Margaret Garner, Semele, Cappriccio, Daphne, Alcina, Il Trittico, Lilith, The Flying Dutchman, Rinaldo, Roberto Deveraux (New York City Opera).

Dana Tanner-KennedyProduction DramaturgWestport Country Playhouse: Appropriate, Nora, Loot, and Suddenly Last Summer; NYC: The Soldier’s Tale (Carnegie Hall); Regional: Hamlet (Yale Repertory Theatre); Psychos Never Dream (Kitchen Dog Theater). Dana holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta and teaches in both the Department of Drama there as well as in the Summer Conservatory for Actors at Yale University. She is a former Literary Associate for Yale Rep, a former Managing Editor of Theater magazine, and served as the Associate Director of Education at Dallas Theater Center. Dana is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where she earned her MFA and Doctor of Fine Arts in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. Her work on Don Juan is supported in part by the University of Alberta Department of Drama and the President’s Fund for the Creative and Performing Arts.

Samuel VawterAssociate Scenic DesignSamuel is Brooklyn-based set designer. Design credits include Fireflies, A Nantucket Christmas Carol, Daddy Long Legs (White Heron Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Atlantic Acting School); Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Macbeth (The Browning School); The Snow Queen (The New Ohio Theatre). Associate design credits include Days of Rage (Second Stage), In The Blood (Signature), Hippolyte et Aricie (The Juilliard School), Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Wolf (Elevator Repair Service). He has been assisting on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and at regional theaters for 4 years. samvawter.com

Tara Rubin CastingCastingSeventh season at Westport Country Playhouse. Selected Broadway and National Tours: Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, A Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Bullets Over Broadway, Les Misérables, Big Fish, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Café, Here Lies Love, Love, Loss, and What I Wore Selected Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Asolo Rep.www.tararubincasting.com

Tara Rubin CastingTara Rubin CSA, Merri Sugarman CSA, Laura Schutzel CSA, Kaitlin Shaw CSA, Claire Burke CSA, Peter Van Dam CSA, Felicia Rudolph CSA, Xavier Rubiano CSA, Louis DiPaolo, Kevin Metzger-Timson, Juliet Auwaerter

Shane Schnetzler*Production Stage Manager Westport Country Playhouse: A Flea in Her Ear, Flyin’ West, The Invisible Hand, Bedroom Farce. Off-Broadway: Fairview, Why?, Heart/Box, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Tamburlaine (TFANA); Noura, This Flat Earth, The Profane, Rancho Viejo,


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Familiar (Playwrights Horizons); Napoli, Brooklyn, Look Back in Anger (Roundabout); The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors (NYSF); Detroit ’67 (Public); Night is a Room, The Liquid Plain, The Old Friends (Signature); Cymbeline (Fiasco), Red Dog Howls (NYTW); Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep).

Michelle Lauren Tuite*Assistant Stage ManagerWestport Country Playhouse: Man of La Mancha, The Understudy, Grounded. Off-Broadway/NYC: #DateMe: An OkCupid Experiment, Marjana and the Forty Thieves, A Letter to Harvey Milk, CAUGHT, Charlotte’s Web, Too Heavy for Your Pocket. Regional: Beautiful Star, Fireflies, Disgraced, Our Town, Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical, Calendar Girls, South Pacific, Memphis and more.

Mark LamosArtistic DirectorWestport Country Playhouse: Artistic Director since 2009. Broadway: Our Country’s Good (Tony nomination); The Rivals, Cymbeline, Seascape (Tony nomination, best revival) for Lincoln Center Theater; The Deep Blue Sea; The Gershwins’ Fascinating Rhythm. Off-Broadway: Tiny Alice, Measure for Measure (Lortel Awards for both); productions at Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre, The Public Theater, Shakespeare in the Park (As You Like It). He was Artistic Director of Hartford Stage for 16 seasons (1989 Tony Award). Other theater: Kennedy Center, Canada’s Stratford Festival, Guthrie Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre (Associate Artist), A.C.T., The Old Globe, Delaware Rep, Ford’s Theatre, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and others. He was the first American to direct a company in the former Soviet Union (Desire Under the Elms at Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre), and the first to act as dramaturge in the creation of a ballet, Alexei Ratmansky’s The Tempest for American Ballet Theatre. His work in opera is extensive. For the Metropolitan Opera: New productions of I Lombardi with Luciano Pavarotti, and Wozzeck (both televised for “Great Performances”), as well as the world premiere of Harbison’s The Great Gatsby, and Adriana Lecouvreur with Placido Domingo. He created many productions for NYC Opera, including televised productions

of Paul Bunyan, Tosca, Central Park, and Madama Butterfly (Emmy Award). Other opera: Glimmerglass, Bergen National, Gothenberg, Munich Biennale, London’s Barbican, L’Opera du Montreal, Chicago Lyric, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Dallas, San Francisco, and others. Lamos began his career in the theater as an actor on and Off-Broadway and in regional theater and made his film debut in Longtime Companion. He was awarded the Connecticut Medal for the Arts as well as honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Trinity College, and the University of Hartford. In October 2016, he was the recipient of the John Houseman Award.

Michael BarkerManaging DirectorMichael Barker joined Westport Country Playhouse in 2016 from Mill Valley, CA, where he was the managing director of Marin Theatre Company. Previously, Barker was general manager of Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach, CA, and managing director for the Los Angeles classical theater ensemble The Antaeus Company. Before moving to California, Barker was associate managing director at Yale Repertory Theatre and managing director of Yale Summer Cabaret, and produced the first annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays. He was Seattle Repertory Theatre’s 2008 Managing Director Fellow. Barker holds an MFA in theater management from Yale School of Drama and an MBA from Yale School of Management. At Yale, he was the recipient of the Daniel and Helene Sheehan Scholarship for theater management and a Kosciusko Scholarship for outstanding students of Polish descent. He served on the Yale School of Management Alumni Advisory Board, and is a current Association of Yale Alumni delegate. He is a member of the inaugural class of artEquity diversity, equity and inclusion facilitators. He is a member of the vestry at St. Timothy’s on the Hill Episcopal Church in Fairfield. Prior to graduate school, he was associate director of marketing for Court Theatre in Chicago, and also worked with Goodman Theatre, American Theater Company, Sansculottes Theater Company, and The Playground Theater.

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WHO’S WHO

Westport Country Playhouse The mission of Westport Country Playhouse is to enrich, enlighten, and engage the community through the power of professionally produced theater worth talking about and the welcoming experience of the Playhouse campus. The not-for-profit Playhouse provides this experience in multiple ways by offering live theater experiences of the highest quality, under the artistic direction of Mark Lamos; educational and community engagement events to further explore the work on stage; the New Works Initiative, a program dedicated to the discovery, development, and production of new live theatrical works; special performances and programs for students and teachers with extensive curriculum support material; Script in Hand play readings to deepen relationships with audiences and artists; the renowned Woodward Internship Program during the summer months for aspiring theater professionals; Family Festivities presentations to delight young and old alike and to promote reading through live theater; youth performance training through Broadway Method Academy, Westport Country Playhouse’s resident conservatory program; and the beautiful and historic Playhouse campus open for enjoyment and community events year-round.

*Denotes Member of Actors’ Equity Association

For This ProductionHead Shop Carpenter: Jason ThompsonAssistant Costume Design: Emily WhiteAssistant Lighting Design: Nicholas Palatella Production Assistants: Sara Kadish and

Lauren L. LambertDresser: Jessica CamareroProps Assistant: Sean Sanford

The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited.


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PRODUCER ($100,000 AND ABOVE)Howard J. Aibel*Eunice & David Bigelow FoundationAnna Czekaj-FarberNewman’s Own FoundationBarbara SamuelsonMaureen & Edwin SchlossRoz & Bud SiegelWayne L. Whitehill*

AMBASSADOR ($50,000–$99,999)Howard & Stacy Bass (in memory of Jessica Waldman)Adam ClemensMichele & Marc FlasterBurry Fredrik FoundationJudy & Scott PharesThe Shubert Foundation, Inc.Barbara & John StreickerSandra WagenfeldDavid & Yvette Waldman (in memory of Jessica Waldman)Marietta Battaglia White

SPONSOR ($25,000–$49,999) Bank of AmericaStephen CormanCT Department of Economic & Community Development, Office of the ArtsThe David & Geri Epstein Private FoundationFidelity InvestmentsFiona Garland & Andrew BentleyJoyce HergenhanLucille Lortel FoundationLindsay Schine & Michael KlingherPitney Bowes, Inc.Janet & Fred Plotkin / Adolph & Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation

PARTNER ($15,000–$24,999) Athena & Daniel AdamsonHoward & Katherine Aibel FoundationBNY MellonBankwellCohen & Wolf, P.C.Paige & Jodi CoutureCT HumanitiesAngela & Mark Graham / The Graham Foundation of ConnecticutBeryl & Roger LeiferNational Endowment for the ArtsEllen PetrinoThe Winston Foundation

BENEFACTOR ($10,000–$14,999)Jonathan Aibel & Julie RohweinMolly Alger & Jay DirnbergerAmy & Richard CornGary D. Cosgrave

Kate & Bob Devlin, The Devlin FoundationRobert & Susan DoranJessie A. GilbertCarole HochmanKerry & Maggie Lehnerd-ReillyJerome Levy FoundationDarlene Krenz*Mary Ellen & Jim MarpeThomas & Paula McInerneyTeresa NardozziJoan & Joel SmilowNancy & David TillsonJohnna G. Torsone & John McKeon

PATRON ($5,000–$9,999)AnonymousRobert & Jan AnestisAquarion Water CompanyAtria Senior LivingThe Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Memorial Foundation, Inc.Jodi & Bill FeltonBettina & David FioreEdith Hall FriedheimPhilip & Lisa GreenJacobson/Moskovitz FamilyJANA FoundationLaura & Dale KutnickRichard & Terry LubmanLux Bond & GreenThe Neil & Sandra DeFeo Family FoundationNorthwestern MutualThe Richenthal FoundationRachel & Jake RobardsNancy & Roger Sachs

SUSTAINER ($3,000–$4,999)Jennifer PortCarol & Peter SeldinWestport Young Woman’s League

CONTRIBUTOR ($1,500–$2,999)AnonymousJim ArataBruce & Susan BarnetBMW of DarienBarbara & Fred Colin (in honor of Steve Corman)Elwood & Catherine DavisKatia FriendGeorge A. and Grace L. Long Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Co-TrusteeBarbara & Greg JosephLucinda E. KnuthSteven & Yvette KohnMarta Jo LawrenceMitzi Lyman & David GeronemusEmil & Toby Meshberg

John & Sharon MillerMarjorie Neville & Michael JacobyJoan & John (Sam) NevinAnne & Chuck NiemethAllen & Lorraine NoveckAlan & Frances OffenbergPrager Metis CPAs, LLCKaren & Steven RakittSteve & Frances RowlandSusan & Gene ShanksTom & Helen SheehyPatti & Rick SlavinStarly FoundationDr. Peter & Lyla SteenbergenMr. Arthur C. Tauck, Jr.Esme UsdanLee & Susan VincentFrances S. White & Harry B. EvansJane & Richard B. Wolf

FRIENDS CIRCLE CHAMPION ($1,000–$1,499)Anonymous (2)Tony & Allison AllottSandra BendfeldtJean H. BennettAileen & Jeffrey BrillThe Harry Donenfeld FoundationPamela Farr & Buford AlexanderMary & Frode Foss-SkiftesvikMalcolm Gordon & Nan MillerThe Stewart & Constance Greenfield FoundationMichael & Judith GuthmanScott & Beth HenselHughes Hubbard & Reed LLPIATSE Local 74Linda JacobSarah & Anthony MenchacaMr. & Mrs. Charles PortenVivian RosenbergCleo & Jon SonnebornIsaac & Ellen SonsinoThe Stringer Family FundJoan WarichaAlicia & Bob Wyckoff

LEADER ($750–$999)Helen Martin BlockKevin & Pamela Collins (in memory of Darlene Krenz)Givenik.comTom LombardiJosie Merck

PREMIERE CIRCLE

THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS

* Deceased

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SUPPORTER ($350–$749)Anonymous (3)Actors’ Equity Foundation, Inc.Kim & David AdlerJonathan Aibel & Julie RohweinDr. & Mrs. Todd E. ArnoldMr. & Mrs. Kerrin BehrendRebecca & Michael BelloraJan C. BerlageBill Borrelle & John HearnPrill & Mike BoyleDrs. Bobbi & Barry CollerScott & Toni DonahueDavid DreyfoosMrs. Joan EigenSusan S. EllisJoyce N. FensterstockFull Spectrum LLCGE FoundationLaurie & David GendellHilary & Will GibsonJack & Amy GillisMonique & Dan GoldwasserEllen Graff & Martin FoxWilliam Gratz & James BrunoDorothy & Fred HaasRoni & Howard HarmetzMelody HuntDan & Wilma KailCraig & Caroline LazzaraMs. Leona R. LepofskyMichael E. LoebTerry & Lance LundbergJane MalakoffPeter & Wendy McCabeWilliam & Irene McCutchenLeigh & Edward McDermottBeryl Meiner & Richard CarletonVirginia & Timothy MillhiserThe Navon FamilyWilliam NolanCarole NovickDebbie O’MalleyPenny PalmerKaren & Michael ParrellaJeff PetersonRina & Howard PiankoAnn & Peter PollackDon & Kelly QuatrellaJosephine A. RaimondiMr. & Mrs. Charles RamseyHoward RatechBarbara & Robert RebackEva & Paul Rosenblatt (in memory of A.R. Gurney)Joseph & Carol Rosetti

Maria SalgarSusie SalomonKassandra SaviciMark SchiffGeorge & Madeline ShepherdAllen & Leslie SilbermanRussell SmithJudith UdellConnie & Vinnie Von ZwehlWestport Woman’s ClubMyrtis & Roger WhiteBarbara Wojtusik (in honor of Michael Barker & Mark Lamos)Merle & Nina YoderRichard & Beth Zucker

FRIEND ($150–$349)Anonymous (8)Martha & Lawrence AasenBrett AdlerDurelle AlexanderAmerican Endowment FoundationMarlene Marcus BacherHarold & Bernicestine BaileyGwen & David BakerFran BallMr. & Mrs. Henry BanachMichael Barker & Heidi HansonLivia DeFilippis BarndollarJerry & Peggy BartonDebra & David BauerMr. & Mrs. BaxtDebbie L. BennerThomas C. BlochWanda BoberDavid & Laurie BoczarRebecca Bowman & Rob BowmanGeralyn & Scott BreigJames & Melinda BrockwellArvin BrownChristina Tippit BrownMr. & Mrs. Matthew R. BudJames BurchMichael BurnetteMary Cahalane & David WeilJ Kenneth CampbellMaureen & Rick CampbellJoseph CarlucciRoz & Joe CarpentieriLeslie CenciMrs. Eleanor CiloDavid Clarke & Mary MaskaraDolores ConlonKerry & Jim CooperSean & Lauren CostelloDana Creanga

Terrie CuddyDavid Adam Realty, Inc.Patricia & Raymond DayanCharlotte & Peter De NicolaJosephine DeignanPatricia DelanoAnnaMaria DesalvaJo-Ann DierksJoe & Emily DiMiceliGina & Peter DodgeMalcolm A. DuffyDeborah DyerArlene EttingerLee Ann FalletWendy & Steve FeingoldJanet FillingCarl FisherMichelle FitzpatrickHeidi & Robert FlickerThe Fonteyne FamilyHoward FormanMarguerite Bunny FrancoJudy FreyMark & Alexandra FriedmanDonna & Ed FuhrmanBetty & Joshua GoldbergEmily GordonJen & Matt GorinMarlene Green & Henry HubbeJill Greenberg & Mitchell LesterJoyce & Howard GreeneMs. Shirley GuraSteven & Rosemary HalsteadMr. & Mrs. Donald S. HammalianJohn & Ingrid HessJoyce & Robert HobbieJulia HoodHeather HopkinsElissa & James HymanBob & Bev IannucciRichard & Francoise JaffeHonorable Edward & Renie KarazinJanet & Leo Karl IIIKathryn & Bruce KasanoffPatricia KasdaglyPam & Dallas KerseyStefanie KiesLynda KinneyJo KirschBetsy & Robert KnappMichael KrysiukPhyllis & Adam KurzerMr. & Mrs. Federico LaffanEllen LautenbergMarc & Janie LeveyDana & Paul Levin

FRIENDS CIRCLE



Marc Lewis & Leadership Capital GroupRita & Stephen LewisTimothy Lewis & Alisyn CamerotaJudith LiebeskindKathy & Wayne LocurtoMarti LoMonaco & Karl RulingArline & Marvin LubinJo & John LuscombeKenneth & Mary MakowkaEdward P. MallyCheryl ManleyRichard & Cora MartinMr. & Mrs. David S. MatlowCraig McPhersonSuzanne & George MegrueShirley MellorRuth Ann MeyerMiggs B DesignJennifer MitchellMontner Tech PRRobert E. Morris Jr.Margaret MuddKathleen MufsonJohn & Sandra MurdockSandy & Peter NathanMichael NayorHelen & Melvin NeislossMr. & Mrs. Mark NicksonRobert NixonNM Morris Family FoundationSuzanne Novik

Barbara PaoliniSteve & Diane ParrishDr. & Mrs. Michael ParryVicki & Bob PattonJoyce PaukerStephen & Kim PenwellValerie & Kenneth PerlmanJohn & Elizabeth PetoZelie & Andy PforzheimerDr. & Mrs. Warren R. PisteyThe Plumitallo FamilyDavid & Mindy PritchardGina PuliceDonald Putrimas & Diane EliasCarol Quinn & David MayoDebbie & Larry RehrPaul Reiferson & Julie SpivackBetty & Dan RobertsJudy & Bob RosenkranzJeffrey R. RosenthalMichael Ross (in honor of Eunice & David Bigelow)Becky RuthvenBarbara H. SchmerzlerJean R. SchroederRobert Scrofani & Wesley YorkMariannne G. C. SeggermanJean T. SellsHal & Sheila ShupackClaudine & Allen SiegelEdith D. Sillman

Eileen R. SimonsonJoan Ross SorkinSandra SouleJenny SozziPeary & Patti SpaghtBenson & Betty SrereKen StaffeyGloria & Michael StashowerDavid & Gayle StebbinsHoward & Jo SteckerJean M. SteinschneiderRicki & Stanley SternLouise T. StewartChristopher and Sharie Stanathan (in memory of Hope Whittier)Tim SullivanAndrew & Jenny TaubmanNechama TecThomas TesoroWes & Juliann TylerUBS Matching Gift ProgramJoseph ValerioChris VatisMs. Olga VladimirskyAllan & Carol WahlerWilliam WalkerKathleen Walsh & Gene BernsteinMelody WaterhouseMary & Charles WelchBrian WelkerMichael Wilens & Carolyn LongacreRonni & Fred Zinn

FRIENDS CIRCLEFRIEND ($150–$349) CONT’D


All gifts as of August 26, 2019 * Deceased

WOODWARD INTERNSHIP PROGRAMSPONSORSHoward J. Aibel*Eunice & David Bigelow FoundationStephen CormanRobert & Susan DoranJodi & Bill FeltonMichele & Marc FlasterFiona Garland & Andrew BentleyThe Goss FamilyAngela & Mark Graham / The Graham Foundation of ConnecticutJudy & Scott PharesCarol & Peter SeldinRoz & Bud SiegelBarbara & John StreickerMarietta Battaglia WhiteAnn Sheffer & Bill Scheffler

FRIENDSMolly Alger & Jay DirnbergerPatti & Rick Slavin

IN-KIND DONATIONSBetterITSPatricia BlaufussCastle Wines & SpiritsHilton Garden InnMoffly MediaNewman’s Own FoundationParks Driving ServiceCarol & Peter SeldinSincerely, Brigitte CheesesTwo Roads BrewingWestport Inn

NEW WORKS CIRCLEMichele Flaster, Chair

FOUNDING MEMBERSHoward J. Aibel*Stephen CormanCzekaj Artistic ProductionsSandra & Neil DeFeoKate & Bob DevlinMichele & Marc FlasterSusan Jacobson & David MoskovitzJudy & Scott PharesBarbara & John SamuelsonBarbara & John StreickerJohnna G. Torsone & John McKeon

ANNUAL MEMBERSDarlene KrenzTeresa Nardozzi Roz & Bud SiegelMarietta Battaglia White

SPECIAL GIFTS

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PATRONSMolly Alger & Jay Dirnberger

BankwellSandra Benee

Nancy A. BrownAdam Clemens

Cohen & Wolf, P.C.Amy C. Corn

James & Eileen FrancisJeanne Pflaum Gnuse

Jacobson/Moskovitz FamilyLindsay Schine & Michael Klingher

Lillian & Gerald LutermanLux Bond & Green

Jessie Gilbert Teresa Nardozzi & Dr. Pietro Marghella

Jeffrey Peterson Doug & Dana Robinson

Neal RubinsteinLaurie Stefanowicz

BENEFACTOR TABLESKate & Bob Devlin,

The Devlin FoundationJudy & Scott Phares

Barbara & John Samuelson Barbara & John Streicker

BENEFACTORSStephen Corman

Michele & Marc FlasterAngela & Mark GrahamMary Ellen & Jim Marpe

Janet & Fred Plotkin Roz & Bud Siegel

Marietta Battaglia White

PATRON TABLESAthena & Daniel Adamson

Eunice & David BigelowBNY Mellon Wealth Management

Jessica Caldwell & John HubblePaige & Jodi CoutureAnia Czekaj-Farber

Kerry & Maggie Lehnerd-ReillyEllen Petrino

Pitney Bowes, Inc.Nancy & David Tillson

SUPPORTERSAnonymous (3)

Peter & Katharine BahnemannJim & Nancy Barton

Deborah Harper BonoBrian & Roselle CrombieRaymond & Trish Dayan

Peter A. FernandezJohn Goodrich

William Gratz & James BrunoJulietta Guarino & Lewis Bellardo

Joseph InfantinoKevin & Kris Jandora

Marci LinkeElla & Bill Lyons

Beryl Meiner & Richard Carleton Charles & Betty MillerAlexander Quintner

Drs. David & Annette RothLyla Steenbergen

Lori & David SocholLee & Susan Vincent

Nancy Wilson

DONORSAnonymous

William H. BatesMichele Brown & Bernard Shapiro

Leslie Byelas & Ellen B. Lubell Malcolm A. Duffy

Matthew & Sarah FairPam Farr & Buford Alexander

Rob & Claudia Hahn (R. Hahn Foundation) in honor of Annie Keefe

Joyce HergenhanTheron & Andrea Hoffman

Glenn & Jill MarchakWilliam & Irene McCutchen

Steve & Marianne MillsSteve & Diane ParrishAnn & Peter Pollack

Wendy SamuelKathleen Walsh & Gene Bernstein

Ruth Winnick

All gifts as of August 12, 2019

THANKS TO ALL WHO JOINED US ON SEPTEMBER 14 TO BENEFIT

OUR BELOVED PLAYHOUSE!

2019 SUPPORT

2019 CORPORATE CLUB

Moffly Media — publisher of Greenwich, Westport, New Canaan-Darien, Stamford, and athome magazines — celebrates community with excellence in design and editorial as well as online content, custom events, and philanthropic partnerships.

WSHU is a non-profit, listener-supported group of public radio stations whose mission is to be a unique and independent voice in our community. Every day, we engage listeners through a range of thoughtful programming that includes NPR News, award-winning local news, entertainment and classical music. www.wshu.org.

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AQUARION WATER COMPANY Aquarion Water Company applauds the Westport Country Playhouse for its starring role as one of our area’s most important artistic institutions. We also congratulate the public for its commitment to sustaining not just local cultural resources but the natural ones as well. With demands on our water supplies growing across our service area, we’ve seen a tremendous response to our requests for increased conservation. We especially thank all those community members who are now limiting outdoor sprinkler irrigation to two times per week or less. For many more ideas on conserving water, just visit aquarionwater.com. And, remember, any time you’re looking for an alternative to the fine beverages you may be enjoying tonight, Aquarion reminds you that there’s always water.

BANK OF AMERICA Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving approximately 66 million consumer and small business clients with approximately 4,300 retail financial centers, including approximately 1,800 lending centers, 2,200 Merrill Edge investment centers and 1,500 business centers; approximately 16,300 ATMs; and award-winning digital banking with more than 36 million active users, including over 26 million mobile users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and more than 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.www.bankofamerica.com

BNY MELLON WEALTH MANAGEMENT For more than two centuries, BNY Mellon Wealth Management has provided services to financially successful individuals and families, their family offices and business enterprises, planned giving programs, and endowments and foundations. In 2018, it was ranked the 11th largest U.S. Wealth Manager by Barron’s. It has $239 billion in total client assets as of December 31, 2018, and an extensive network of offices in the U.S. and internationally. BNY Mellon Wealth Management, which delivers leading wealth advice across investments, banking, custody and wealth and estate planning, conducts business through various operating subsidiaries of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. For more information, go to bnymellonwealth.com or follow us on Twitter @BNYMellonWealth.

COHEN AND WOLF Cohen and Wolf, P.C. is thrilled to support the 2019 Westport Country Playhouse production of Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin. For over 65 years, Cohen and Wolf has been providing personal attention and practical advice to businesses, individuals, and municipalities in a wide range of matters including litigation, business transactions & finance, real estate & land use, bankruptcy, employment, tax, trusts & estates, elder law, securities, and family law. Our team of over 50 attorneys works from offices in Westport, Bridgeport, Danbury, and Orange. For more information, please visit cohenandwolf.com.

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES GENEROUS LEADERSHIP SUPPORT FOR THE 2019 SEASON.

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FIDELITY INVESTMENTS Fidelity Investments is proud to be a 2019 sponsor of Westport Country Playhouse. Fidelity’s mission is to inspire better futures and seek to deliver better outcomes for the clients and businesses we serve. We focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of customers helping more than 30 million people invest their own life savings. Local investors can access Fidelity’s guidance and investment tools via the web, by telephone, or in person, working with investment professionals at their local Investor Center. To learn more about Fidelity Investments, visit one of our three Fairfield County locations — Stamford, Greenwich, or Fairfield — or call 800-544-9797. Please visit fidelity.com. Fidelity Brokerage Services, Member NYSE, SPIC. 831742.2.0

PITNEY BOWES Pitney Bowes is proud to support Westport Country Playhouse as a sponsor for the Family Festivities series. Pitney Bowes is a global technology company, powering billions of physical and digital transactions in the connected and borderless world of commerce. Pitney Bowes and the Pitney Bowes Foundation support literacy, education, and the diverse community interests of Pitney Bowes employees. We focus our energies on advancing learning and enrichment for students in underserved school districts in an effort to address the opportunity gap and prepare the future workforce.

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LEADERSHIPMARK LAMOS Artistic DirectorMICHAEL BARKER Managing Director

ARTISTIC David Kennedy Associate Artistic DirectorAnne Keefe Associate ArtistBethany Gugliemino Artistic AssociateLiam Lonegan Artistic Associate/Assistant DirectorLaura Silence Family Festivities Coordinator

FINANCE + HUMAN RESOURCES SHARON BOILINI Director of Finance Kerry Maloney HR & Finance Manager

GENERAL MANAGEMENT BETH HUISKING General ManagerGeoff Topalian Business Intelligence ManagerKelly Mikolasy House and Events Manager Rich D’Arinzo Facilities Manager Josh Sinclair Box Office Manager Eve Lyons Assistant Box Office Manager Jake Krasniewicz Box Office Supervisor & First-Time Subscriber ConciergeMolly Hamilton Box Office Associate & House ManagerGrace McDavid-Seidner House ManagerJacob Santos Newman’s Own Managing Director Fellow

Barbara K. Streicker, ChairMichele Flaster, Vice ChairJohnna G. Torsone, Vice ChairDavid Tillson, TreasurerAnna Czekaj-Farber, SecretaryRichard Slavin, Asst. Secretary

STAFF

Athena T. AdamsonHarold Bailey, Jr.Adam G. ClemensStephen CormanAmy C. CornPaige S. CoutureJay A. DirnbergerRobert DoranFiona GarlandJessie A. Gilbert

Mark S. GrahamJoyce HergenhanCarole HochmanJames Earl JonesMichael KlingherMaggie Lehnerd-ReillyRoger LeiferMary Ellen MarpeTeresa NardozziEllen H. PetrinoJudy M. PharesJanet PlotkinChristopher PlummerJake RobardsBarbara SamuelsonMarietta Battaglia White

HONORARY TRUSTEESElisabeth Morten, ChairHoward J. Aibel*Walter BergenJames P. BradleySandra DeFeoKate DevlinRobert DevlinRobert H. ForresterEdith Hall Friedheim Helen Lee HendersonCatherine Herman

Dan KailBill MitchellJudith ResnickCarol West SeldinAnn ShefferJoel SmilowSharon SullivanJohn VaccaroSteven WolffJoanne WoodwardBob Wright

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

ARTIST CIRCLEA.R. Gurney *Lynne MeadowJames Naughton

DEVELOPMENT GRETCHEN WRIGHT Director of DevelopmentClare Livingston Special Events & Engagement CoordinatorKaylee Moran Development Assistant Georgia Sayers Grant Writer3wishes Gala Consultant

MARKETING JOHN LANASA Interim Director of Marketing Cynthia Astmann Graphic Design DirectorJennifer Carroll Community and Sales ManagerPatricia Blaufuss Public Relations Manager

PRODUCTIONDAVID DREYFOOS Associate Producer/Director of ProductionRJ Romeo Technical Director/Associate Director of ProductionBruce Miller Company ManagerAlexandra Rappaport Company ManagerJason Thomson Head Shop CarpenterBob McDevitt Head Electrician/Light Board OperatorJon Damast Head Sound/Sound Board OperatorLisa Ficco Wardrobe SupervisorJessie Lizotte ATD FellowDominique Guilford Company Management Fellow

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We hope to make your experience here as enjoyable as possible. If you need assistance, please notify the house manager or a member of the Playhouse staff.

Westport Country Playhouse 25 Powers Court | Westport, CT 06880 BOX OFFICE: (203) 227-4177 westportplayhouse.org

Photo: Robert Benson

BOX OFFICE HOURS 12PM – 6PM Tuesday – Friday Closed Mondays

EXTENDED HOURS DURING SHOWS 12PM – 7PM Tuesday 12PM – 8PM Wednesday – Friday 11AM – 8PM Saturday 11AM – 3PM Sunday

Tickets also available at westportplayhouse.org.

ELECTRONIC DEVICESFor the enjoyment of all patrons, please silence all cell phones, pagers, and electronic devices while in the theater. If you use your phone during intermission, please remember to silence it for the remainder of the performance.

ASSISTED LISTENING DEVICESA limited number of infrared assisted listening devices are available from the box office to aid in your enjoyment of the performance.

PHOTOGRAPHY The use of photographic or recording devices is strictly prohibited.

PLEASE NOTE: The audience may be photographed by Playhouse staff for archival and publicity purposes. If you prefer that your likeness not appear in Playhouse materials, please notify the house manager.

EMERGENCY CONTACTBabysitters or other emergency contacts may call the house manager during the performance at (203) 227-5137 x196. Please have contacts provide the location of your seats.

CONCESSIONSA variety of food and beverages are available for purchase at Playhouse concessions. Both cash and credit cards are accepted.

Beverages with a cap are allowed in the theater, however, all food must be enjoyed in the lobby.

ACCESSIBILITYA number of accessible seats for patrons with mobility requirements are available throughout the theater. If you require an accessible seat, please notify the box office when making your purchase. For assistance at the theater, please contact the house manager.

The Playhouse is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization and can only survive with the generous support of donors like you. Your gift matters. Please consider making a gift today. Contact Clare Livingston [email protected] | (203) 571-1134

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