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Discover the A.R.T.’s award-winning Education and Community Programs

The A.R.T. and other local youth programs have teamed up to create theatrical audio experiences

inspired by the legend of Robin Hood. Written by middle-schoolers and recorded by A.R.T. Institute actors, these “Podcast Plays” connect the

concept of folk heroes to real issues in our community.

Listen to the Robin Hood Podcast Plays americanrepertorytheater.org/community

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Welcome to The Heart of Robin Hood! This thrilling and kinetic interpretation of the famous English legend is the perfect antidote to the winter doldrums.

Many of us recall Robin Hood from the legend’s countless retellings and adaptations. The Heart of Robin Hood distinguishes itself with its bold interpretation of Marion. Far from the damsel in distress, Marion is a powerful and ingenious heroine struggling to thrive in a world of not-so-Merry Men. As you will soon see, Marion and Robin’s fates intertwine in exciting and surprising ways.

I am delighted to welcome Icelandic director Gisli Örn Gardarsson to the A.R.T., who, with his design team and energetic cast, has crafted a completely transportive theater experience. New England meets “olde” England through the ingenious live accompaniment of Connecticut-based folk band Poor Old Shine.

Like Greek myths, folk legends survive because of their continued relevance to our society. In the hands of great contemporary artists, we are reminded of the vitality of even the oldest tales.

Thank you for joining us to experience The Heart of Robin Hood. Enjoy the show!

DIANE PAULUS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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Discover the A.R.T.’s award-winning Education and Community Programs

The A.R.T. and other local youth programs have teamed up to create theatrical audio experiences

inspired by the legend of Robin Hood. Written by middle-schoolers and recorded by A.R.T. Institute actors, these “Podcast Plays” connect the

concept of folk heroes to real issues in our community.

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SET DESIGN BÖRKUR

JÓNSSON

COSTUME DESIGN

EMMA RYOTT

LIGHTING DESIGN BJÖRN

HELGASON

SOUNDDESIGN

JONATHAN DEANS

MUSIC DIRECTOR KRIS KUKUL

FIGHT DIRECTOR JOE BOSTICK

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR/AERIAL CONSULTANT

SELMA BJÖRNSDÓTTIR

PRODUCTIONSTAGE MANAGER MAHLON KRUSE*

DIRECTORGISLI ÖRN GARDARSSON

First performance at the Loeb Drama Center on December 11, 2013

The Heart of Robin Hood was originally produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company.The RSC in America is presented in collaboration with The Ohio State University.

The A.R.T. is dedicating the 2013/14 season to the memory of Jeremy Geidt, beloved actor, revered teacher, and cherished friend, who was a founding member of the A.R.T.

and truly embodied its spirit through his generosity, wit, and devotion to the theater.

SEASON SUPPORT

BYDAVID FARR

MUSIC BYPOOR OLD SHINE

LYRICS BYPOOR OLD SHINE AND DAVID FARR

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AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATERPRESENTS

MAUREEN AND MIKE SHEEHANPRODUCTION SUPPORT

CASTING TELSEY + COMPANY

WILLIAM CANTLER, CSA

POOR OLD SHINEMandolin/Banjo/Vocals Antonio AlcornVocals/Banjo/Guitar/Saw Chris FreemanBass/Vocals/Glockenspiel Harrison GoodaleDrums/Percussion/Vocals Erik HischmannGuitar/Pump Organ/Vocals Max Shakun

ADDITIONAL STAFFAssistant Stage Manager Taylor Adamik*Voice and Dialects Nancy HoufekAssistant Voice and Dialects Jeremy SortoreFight Captain Jeremy CrawfordA.R.T. Production Dramaturg Alexandra JucknoProduction Assistant Zach TuckerProduction Interns Joey Longstreet, Susanna WolkMusic Intern Josh Bean

SPECIAL THANKSBarry and Fran Weissler, David Mirvish, Alecia Parker, Brian Sewell,

David Mucci, B.J. Holt, Daniel Posener, Nadia DiGiallonardo, Sam Kassirer,Digico, d&b audiotechnik, Meyer Sound, Sound Associates,

and Hilary Missan and Boston Casting

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CAST (in alphabetical order)

Gisborne’s Henchman/Soldier/Prison Guard MOE ALAFRANGYSarah Summers CLAIRE CANDELA*Jethro Summers ANDREW CEKALA*Little John JEREMY CRAWFORDRobin Hood JORDAN DEAN*Will Scathlock ZACHARY EISENSTATGuy of Gisborne/George LeBrun/ Duke of York/Bishop DAVID MICHAEL GARRY*Much Miller ANDY GROTELUESCHEN*Marion CHRISTINA BENNETT LIND*Plug the Dog/Townswoman/Soldier/ Rebecca Summers LAURA SHEEHY*Pierre CHRISTOPHER SIEBER*Makepeace/Friar/Robert Summers/French Lord/ Confessor/Wild Boar/Lord Falconbury LOUIS TUCCI*Alice/Lady LeBrun/French Lady/ Lady Falconbury/Soldier KATRINA YAUKEY*

Prince John DAMIAN YOUNG*

(*) Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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This play had two inspirations. One was personal. I have two daughters, who were constantly complaining to me that women in films and plays rarely do anything but kiss the hero, swoon, cook pretty pastries, and sew. Write something different! was the command. I said I would do my best.

The other inspiration was an interest in the journey of Robin Hood through history. We all know the “noble outlaw” of Errol Flynn legend, the fallen aristocrat who chooses to rob the rich in order to aid the poor. But this, I discovered, was a relatively recent invention, primarily that of the English

nineteenth-century writer Sir Walter Scott.Hood’s history begins much earlier, somewhere in the twelfth century. And at this time he was

anything but the lordly philanthropist. He was dangerous, shadowy, brutal, and anarchic.

He was the figure of the forest, possibly legendary, possibly real. He was someone you did not want to meet—a thug, violent, and unpredictable.

By Shakespeare’s time his status had risen slightly to that of a yeoman—a kind of smallholding owner if you like. But it would take another 200 years before the Robin of Locksley legend turned him into the fallen aristocrat we now know so well.

It occurred to me that over the years history has “civilized” Robin Hood. And how much fun it might be to return the English anti-hero to his roots in the rough soil of the forest.

Then I watched As You Like It one evening (it is one of only two Shakespeare plays where Robin Hood is mentioned). In this wonderful forest play, the heroine Rosalind is forced to assume the identity

of a man as she flees into the forest of Arden. Watching the actress leap

from a woman to a man’s identity in her scenes

with Orlando, an idea came to me. What if Marion were the real inventor of the noble outlaw legend? What if it was she who was the true brigand of the forest?

Playwright’s Note

David Farr

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Forests have always been places of transformation—social, political, and sexual. Whether in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or Grimm’s Fairy Tales, or The Blair Witch Project, forests are places where what we thought we knew is turned on its head, where the subconscious becomes conscious, where dream becomes reality. They are places where the highwayman rules over the king. Where children turn into adults. Where men become donkeys. And

where spirits live in the trees.

The English forest was the home of an old paganism that predates the Christianity that tried to tame it. There’s not much left of the great legends of The Green Man and Robin Goodfellow, these earth spirits that could play havoc with your life but were also there to protect you on behalf of

mother nature. Robin Hood is part of that vanished world where woodland was not owned by landowners but was wild and unruly.

Then the hunting parks came in, gamekeepers were employed, and the Normans named the land. The old England, anti-establishment, dangerous, and free, faded into the mists of folklore and legend.

But Robin Hood survives…The play was written in 2010. It

played at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2011 and I am thrilled we are able to bring it to Cambridge and to the A.R.T. this holiday season.

—David Farr

“It occurred to me that over the years history has ‘civilized’ Robin Hood. And how much fun it might be to return the English anti-hero to his roots in the rough soil of the forest.”

My first instinct when asked to direct The Heart of Robin Hood was “no thanks.” Mainly because I have seen many Robin Hoods in the past, and to me they all strike a similar tone in which the story is not hugely exciting.

But then I read the script by David Farr, who is a longtime collaborator. And I couldn’t have been more happily surprised. His fantastic take on the story, in which not only Robin Hood and his merry men are different from what we are used to, but also our main hero is really Marion. Being a father of a daughter, this was something I wanted to do. 

Turning the story on its head means everything is possible. So we abandoned the men in tights. And, being from Iceland, I wanted nature, with its mountains and waters to always be very present.

Furthermore, the story of the outlaw is echoed through the old Sagas of Iceland, where to this day we still believe that the Elves have their own castles inside our mountains. So creating a huge slope for the production, that reminds us of a mountain where the “castle” can magically appear, has been inspired by our own upbringing.

The outlaws are rough, ruthless, and experts in blending in with nature. They hide in the waters, travel on ropes, and run over mountains. They are at one with nature. This is where Marion wants to be: free and surrounded by nature. It sounds, in a way, like being Icelandic. 

The Heart of Robin Hood is the first family-oriented production I have participated in. Being a father of two, I have been inspired by this experience to do many more in the future. In the creative surroundings of the A.R.T., with the core Vesturport team by my side, and an ensemble of actors who play instruments and can also drop down on ropes from 24 feet, plus having the wonderful band Poor Old Shine creating a very powerful musical landscape, it is a great pleasure to invite you to the colorful world of The Heart of Robin Hood.

And one more thing... look out for the Shark!

—Gisli Örn Gardarsson

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Director’s Note

Gisli Örn Gardarsson

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Who was Robin Hood? Robin Hood was a legendary English outlaw. It is unknown exactly when the character originated, but the earliest references to outlaws using the alias Robin Hood occur in the twelfth century. Chroniclers refer to him throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and written tales of Robin Hood start appearing around 1450. In these stories, Robin is a forest outlaw who steals for pleasure and profit. He is a skilled archer and leader of a band of men that includes Little John, Much the Miller’s Son, and Will Scarlet. Over the centuries, the legend evolved into the story of an aristocratic but inherently good man called Robert, Earl of Huntington, who was outlawed via the machinations of his enemies in the court. Robert fled to the forest, renamed himself Robin Hood, and became a champion of the oppressed, robbing from the rich to give to the poor. Robin Hood has gone through many incarnations over the centuries but has always remained popular as a symbol of goodness and

justice, whose “criminal” activities are always undertaken to help those in need who cannot fight for themselves.

So was Robin Hood a real person?This question is up for debate. There are well-documented attempts to find the person upon whom Robin Hood is based, but most of the evidence is speculative. Records exist of real people named Robin Hoode or Robert Hode, and one surnamed Robynhode, but nothing indicates that these men were lawbreakers. In equal number are references to outlaws who did use those aliases and are described as behaving like “Robin Hoods,” so we know that by the fifteenth century, the name was used to describe disruptive people. Some chroniclers refer to Robin as a real person whose exploits have been fictionalized for their popular appeal, but none of these writers name any individual as the father of the legend. So, while Robin Hood may have indeed been a real person, it is currently impossible to trace the origins of the legendary outlaw to one specific individual.

And Robin Hood didn’t always steal from the rich to give to the poor? In the earliest tales, he robbed from anyone and kept the spoils for himself. One chronicler mentions Robin’s targets as rich aristocrats and clergymen, and an early ballad ends with the coda that he “did poor men much good,” but the idea that Robin targeted the wealthy for the express purpose of redistributing the spoils among the poor is a late sixteenth-century invention. This version of the generous outlaw was so popular that it was reused in broadside ballads: the seventeenth-

By Alexandra Juckno

The Top 5 QuestionsAbout Robin Hood

Fifteenth-century representation of

Robin Hood.

Engraving of a Yorkshire castle, typical of those in the Robin Hood legends.

century equivalent of dime-store paperbacks, these single sheets of paper sold for a penny had a story of Robin Hood on one page, and the tune the ballad was sung to on the back. Broadside Robin Hood ballads remained popular well into the 1800s, and, by then, novelists had also gotten in on the Robin Hood action. Robin Hood has remained a generous outlaw ever since, and his story is often appropriated as an example of economic heroism.

The Merry Men have always been a part of Robin’s band. What about Maid Marion? The earliest Robin Hood tales from the 1400s to the mid-1500s include the usual suspects like Little John and the Sheriff of Nottingham, but Maid Marion didn’t enter the tales until the later 1500s. She likely comes from the summer May Games held in English towns. May Marion and her boyfriend, a lusty friar, were characters in the popular Morris dances that often followed performances of short plays. Robin Hood appeared in the figure of a prominent man of the town; dressed in forest green, this man was elected “Robin Hood” for the length of the carnival, where he collected charity money and led sporting and team-building activities among the young men of the community. Because the May Games were occurring at the same time the early Robin Hood stories began appearing in print, it is sometimes difficult to

pinpoint exactly which genre influenced the other. After 1600, Marion starts showing up in the written stories, too, and is promoted to an aristocratic lady and girlfriend of Robin Hood.

How did Robin Hood become associated with King Richard and Prince John?In early tales, Robin Hood lived in the days of a generic King Edward and was generally indifferent to royal authority. The idea of a popular outlaw who actively opposed local government and

openly lived a life of rebellion made the late Tudor monarchs nervous. Though Tudor King Henry VIII enjoyed Robin Hood stories and pageants, his daughter, Elizabeth I, was not so willing to embrace the outlaw. She was aging and without an heir, which was not good for the power dynamics of the crown. Therefore, putting Robin Hood firmly in the past and re-writing him as a nobly-born man forced into outlawry sent a message about obeying your monarch. The reigns of King Richard I and his brother Prince John were a safe choice for Robin’s relocation—a chronicler’s account had already placed Robin Hood in the twelfth century, and John had a ready-made reputation as a bad ruler. Nineteenth-century writers shored up this relocation in their push to establish Robin Hood as a thoroughly national, thoroughly English hero. Especially helpful in this regard was Sir Walter Scott’s enormously popular Ivanhoe, which presented Robin as a good Saxon freedom-fighter rebelling against John and the “Norman yoke.” Despite the ahistoricity of the original Robin Hood stories, it has since become traditional to place the time of Robin Hood in the twelfth century under Richard’s reign.

Early wood cutting of Robin Hood.

Errol Flynn as Robin Hood in 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Alexandra Juckno

is a second-year dramaturgy student at the A.R.T./Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

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MOE ALAFRANGYGisborne’s Henchman/ Soldier/Prison GuardA.R.T.: Debut. Theater: How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular (Teen Viking).

Film/Television: Step Up 2 (featured); The 40th day (supporting); “Glee” (guest star); “The ALMA awards” (dancer). Moe is also a 4th degree black belt, stuntman, and professional tricker.

CLAIRE CANDELASarah SummersA.R.T.: Once (Ivonka). Off-Broadway: Once (Ivonka), New York Theatre Workshop. Film/Television:

East of Acadia, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, “The Folklorist.” 

ANDREW CEKALAJethro SummersA.R.T.: Pippin (Theo), Marie Antoinette (Dauphin, I.R.N.E. Award). Broadway: Pippin

(Theo). Regional: All My Sons (Bert), Huntington Theatre Company; The Life of Galileo (Andrea Sarti), Underground Railway Theatre; A Christmas Story (Ralphie, I.R.N.E. Nomination), New Repertory Theatre; Ragtime (Edgar), Berklee College of Music; The Full Monty (Nathan), Turtle Lane Playhouse; Oliver (Oliver), Wellesley Players. He also has performed in numerous Watertown Children’s Theatre productions and with Revels.

JEREMY CRAWFORDLittle JohnA.R.T.: Debut. Regional: The Fantastics (Mortimer); Happy Days: A New Musical (Jumpy Malachi);

Disney’s Aladdin (Iago); Godspell (Herb). Other theater: King Lear (Lear), Glasgow’s Shakespeare in the City; Doctor Faustus (Good Angel), Blood, Love and Rhetoric; Fever Dream: Southside (Joe), One Academy Production; Desire (Oscar), 2Landa. M.A. in Acting from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

JORDAN DEANRobin HoodA.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mamma Mia!, Cymbeline. Off-Broadway: Classic

Stage Company, Lincoln Center, New York Shakespeare Festival, Ubu Repertory. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville. Recently: Macbeth, Manchester International Festival. Television/Film: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” Law & Order: CI,” “Guiding Light,” Thanks for Sharing, Not Fade Away, Other People, Burning Blue, Virgin Alexander, Jersey Girl. Training: Carnegie Mellon University.

ZACHARY EISENSTATWill ScathlockA.R.T.: The Donkey Show. Regional: On The Town, The Chosen, Lyric Stage Company; Coriolanus,

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; The Play About the Baby, Exquisite Corp. Other theater: Matchmaker, Matchmaker I’m Willing To Settle, 2011 NY Musical Festival; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, staged reading with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. Mechanical Engineering S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

DAVID MICHAEL GARRYGuy of Gisborne/ George LeBrun/ Duke of York/Bishop A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway/National Tour: The

Phantom of the Opera (Don Attilio), Sweeney Todd (Sweeney), Company. Off-Broadway: Road Show; The Rink (Dino); Up in Central Park; Mirette; Miss Liberty; Beowulf (Hrothgar), Irish Repertory. Regional: Sweeney Todd, A.C.T. and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Ragtime (J.P. Morgan), Kennedy Center; Merrily We Roll Along, Cincinnati Playhouse; Carnival!, Paper Mill Playhouse; South Pacific, Camelot, My Fair Lady, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Film/Television: Carry Me Home; “Mission Dawn.”

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ANDY GROTELUESCHENMuch MillerA.R.T.: Mrs. Smith Presents..., Emerging America Festival. Broadway: Cyrano de

Bergerac, Roundabout. Off-Broadway: Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio), Theatre for a New Audience; Cymbeline, Fiasco Theater/Theatre For a New Audience/Barrow Street; Henry V, The Acting Company. Other New York: Twelfth Night, Fiasco Theater; Balm in Gilead (with Michael Shannon). Regional: Into the Woods, Fiasco Theater/McCarter Theatre; Servant of Two Masters, Yale Rep/Shakespeare Theatre; TV: “Elementary,” “Still On The Road.” Fiasco Theater company member. M.F.A. Brown/Trinity.  

CHRISTINA BENNETT LIND Marion A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Dutchman, Lascivious Something,

Cherry Lane; Pool (no water), One Year Lease Theater Company; The Runner Stumbles, TACT; The Desert, HERE. Regional: Ride the Tiger, Long Wharf; Wait Until Dark, The Odd Couple, John W. Engeman Theatre; Mary’s Wedding, Hudson Stage Company; Metamorphoses, Capital Repertory Theatre. Film/Television: The Talk Man; Fireworkers (co-wrote and co-produced); “All My Children.”

LAURA SHEEHY Plug the Dog/Townswoman/Soldier/Rebecca SummersA.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Cabaret, Studio 54. Off-

Broadway: Joe Fearless, Atlantic Theater Company. Regional: Mental Head Circus, King King; guest artist with Cirque du Soleil. Film/Television: The Shadower in 3D; What’s Left Behind; Glow Ropes; Shooting Livien; “The Miraculous Year” (pilot); “American Idol” (aerialist); “Country Music Awards” (aerialist); “Saturday Night Live”; “As the World Turns.”

CHRISTOPHER SIEBERPierreA.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Pippin, Shrek (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League

nominations), Spamalot (New York and West End, Tony nomination), La Cage Aux Folles, Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Into the Woods, Beauty and the Beast, Triumph of Love, A Christmas Carol. NYC Opera: Cinderella, Eric Idle’s Not the Messiah, a comic oratorio (Toronto Symphony). Off-Broadway: The Kid, Avow, The Boys in the Band. Regional: Hairspray, Company, The Boys from Syracuse (Reprise!). Television/Film: “The Good Wife,” “Elementary,” Morning Glory, “Pushing Daisies,” “Johnny and the Sprites,” See You in September, “It’s All Relative,” “Two of a Kind,” “Sex and the City,” “Ed,” “Guiding Light,” “All My Children,” “Another World.” Mr. Sieber has not appeared on “Law & Order.”

LOUIS TUCCIMakepeace/Friar/ Robert Summers/ French Lord/Confessor/ Wild Boar/ Lord Falconbury

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The Buddy Holly Story. Off-Broadway: The Cider House Rules, The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite, Atlantic; The Fourth Sister, Vineyard Theatre; Woyzeck, Public Theatre; Return to the Forbidden Planet, Variety Arts. Regional: The Arabian Nights, Arena Stage/Berkeley Rep/Lookingglass. Workshops: The Jungle Book, The End, Still Getting My Act Together. Film: Scream (wrote “Artificial World” for soundtrack). Love to my wife Nancy and our twin girls, Luna and Francesca.  

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KATRINA YAUKEY Alice/Lady LeBrun/French Lady/Lady Falconbury/SoldierA.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: War Horse, Billy Elliot,

Company, Cabaret. Tours: Billy Elliot, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, Victor/Victoria. Off-Broadway: Road Show, The Public Theater. Regional: A.C.T., Cape Playhouse, Totem Pole Playhouse, Westchester Broadway Theatre. Studied Musical Theater and Oboe Performance at Penn State University. Current student at Berklee College of Music, Masters of Music Production and Technology. Plays in the all female all accordion band, The Main Squeeze Orchestra.

DAMIAN YOUNGPrince JohnA.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Sacrilege, All My Sons (directed by Simon McBurney). Recent other

theater: The Miser (adapted and directed by Welker White); The Imaginary Invalid, Bard SummerScape. Film: Delivery Man, Edge of Darkness, Hello I Must Be Going, Hope Springs, Everybody’s Fine. Television: “The War Next Door” (series lead), USA; “The Comeback” (series regular), HBO; “Californication” (recurring role); “Damages” (recurring role); “The Adventures of Pete and Pete” (recurring roles), Nickelodeon; “CSI Miami” (recurring role).

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DAVID FARR WriterA.R.T.: Debut. David Farr is a writer and director of theater and film. Recent: Metamorphosis (co-adapted and directed with Gisli Örn Gardarsson), London, Lyric Hammersmith, ArtsEmerson, world tour. Other plays as writer: Night of the Soul, RSC; The UN Inspector, National Theatre; The Nativity, Young Vic; Elton John’s Glasses, West End; The Danny Crowe Show, Bush Theatre. Directing credits: Hamlet, King Lear, Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Homecoming, Silence with Filter, RSC Coriolanus, RSC/ Old Vic; Julius Caesar, RSC/Lyric Theatre Hammersmith; The Odyssey (adapted and directed), The Birthday Party, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, London 1993-97; Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic 2002-05; Artistic Director and co-chief executive of Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 2005-09; Associate Director of RSC 2009-13. Film/television writing credits: “Spooks” (BBC-TV series); Hanna (co-writer), Focus Features. David is currently writing screenplays for BBC Film, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, and Origin Films.

GISLI ÖRN GARDARSSONDirectorA.R.T.: Debut. Gisli co-founded the Icelandic film and theatre company Vesturport (www.vesturport.com) in 2001. Vesturport received the European Theatre Award in 2011. Theater includes: The Housewife (Writer and Director), Reykjavik City Theatre; Love the Musical (Writer and Director), Reykjavik City Theatre, The Lyric Hammersmith and commercially in Seoul, S-Korea; Metamorphosis (Adaptor and Director), Lyric Hammersmith, BAM, Arts Emerson, World Tour; Faust (Writer and Director), The Young Vic, BAM, World Tour; Woyzeck, Barbican/BAM/World Tour; Together (Writer and Director; based on the Swedish film with same title), Reykjavik City Theatre and performed commercially in Mexico; The Tempest (director), Residenzteater Munich; Romeo and Juliet, Vesturport, Reykjavik City Theatre, Young Vic, West End/World Tour; Bastard (by Richard LaGravenese), Vesturport, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland. Gisli has worked at the Reykjavik City Theatre, The National Theatre in Norway, Iceland and London, the Malmö City Theatre in Sweden, the Residenzteater

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in Munich, The Sidney Theatre, LG Arts Centre in Seoul, S-Korea, At the State National Ballet and Circus in Belarus and more. Gisli has produced five feature films, four of which he co-wrote.

POOR OLD SHINEMusic and LyricsA.R.T.: Debut. Poor Old Shine is a roots band with a grassroots ethos. The Connecticut band prizes the human element that underpins their music, from songwriting to recording to album design. Members include: singer and banjo player Chris Freeman, mandolin and banjo player Antonio Alcorn, Max Shakun on guitar and pump organ, Harrison Goodale on bass, and Erik Hischmann on drums. Poor Old Shine has played live shows in renowned venues, including: the Kennedy Center for the Arts, Washington D.C.; Music City Roots, Nashville; Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, CT; Club Passim, Cambridge; Mercury Lounge, NYC; World Café Live, Philadelphia. Poor Old Shine has just released its self-titled debut studio LP on Signature Sounds.

BÖRKUR JÓNSSONSet DesignA.R.T.: Debut. Theater design credits include: Der Sturm, Residenzteater; The Heart of Robin Hood, RSC; Return of Ulysses, ENO/Young Vic; King Lear, The Three Penny Opera, Celebration, Chicks, Ohapp, Macbeth, National Theatre of Iceland; Electric Hotel, Fuel; Woyzeck, Vesturport/Reykjavík City Theatre/Barbican; Romeo and Juliet, Love, Vesturport/Reykjavík City Theatre/Young Vic; Bastard a Family Saga, Vesturport/Reykjavik City Theatre/Malmo City Theatre/Theater Faar302; Enron, August: Ostage County, Blasted, Together, Terrorism, Canin Canin, Bloodwedding, Reykjavik City Theatre. Awards: Reumert, Danish Theater awards 2013 for Bastard; Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Design for Metamorphosis; Icelandic Theatre Awards for Stage Design 2006, 2008, and 2010. Nominated for the Evening Standard theatre awards in 2006 for Metamorphosis.

EMMA RYOTTCostume DesignA.R.T.: Debut. West End/Braodway: Rock ’n’ Roll. Other theater: Sunset Boulevard, Goteborg; The Heart of Robin Hood, RSC. Opera: Manon Lescaut, ENO, London; Aida, WNO, Cardiff; Falstaff, Wiesbaden; Otello, Salzburg; Orphee et Eurudice, Stuttgart; Mathis der Maler, Theater am der Wien, Vienna; La Damnation de Faust, DO Berlin. Ballet: Woyzeck, Romeo and Juliet, Leonce and Lena, Zurich; Der Sandmann, Lulu; Fraulein Von S., Stuttgart; The Return of Ulysses, Antwerp. Film: Arhat taming the Dragon, Death of Pentheus, Poppea/Poppea, Arte 3D.

BJÖRN HELGASONLighting DesignA.R.T.: Debut. One of the founders of Vesturport Theater and lighting designer for Vesturport productions including: Romeo and Juliet, Metamorphosis, Together. Other lighting design: The Heart of Robin Hood, RSC; The Tempest, Residanz Theater, Munich. Has worked as a technical director for the independent theater “Loftkastalinn” in Reykjavik for five years. Film/television credits as cinematographer, cameraman, and gaffer: “Heimsendir,” Kings Road, Woyzeck (theater for DVD), Heima (Sigurrós documentary), Mezzoforte (concert for DVD), Country Wedding (feature film).

JONATHAN DEANSSound DesignA.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Pippin, Carrie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Spiderman, La Cage aux Folles, Young Frankenstein, Pirate Queen, Lestat, Taboo, Follies, Seussical, Music Man, Fosse, Parade, Candide. Ragtime. His work with Cirque du Soleil include: ONE, LOVE, KA, Believe, Zumanity, O, Mystère, La Nouba, OVO, Corteo. Nominated for Tony Awards for Pippin and La Cage aux Folles and has been presented with a USITT award for Distinguished Career in Sound Design.

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SELMA BJÖRNSDÓTTIRAssociate Director/Aerial ConsultantA.R.T.: Debut. Director: Les Miserable, Oliver, The Town of Cardamom, National Theatre of Iceland; The Heart of Robin Hood (Associate Director/Choreographer), RSC, Den Nationale Scene in Bergen, Norwary; Grease, Loftkastalinn Theatre; Pinocchio, Reykjavik City Theatre. Actress: Metamorphosis, The Housewife, Vesturport; Ástin er diskó lífið er pönk, National Theatre of Iceland; Footloose, Reykjavik City Theatre. Chorographer/Assistant Director: Little Shop of Horrors, Rocky Horror, Hair. Solo album 1999 – I Am, Platinum selling album, most sold CD in Iceland 1999. Performer of the year at the Icelandic Music Awards 2000.

KRIS KUKULMusic DirectorA.R.T.: Debut. Recent arrangement/music direction work: The Last Goodbye, Old Globe; Animal Crackers, Williamstown Theatre Festival; LaMama Cantata, Spoleto, Belgrade, Zagreb; From The Fire, Edinburgh; In The Footprint, Civilians; The Daughters, CAP 21; It’s Judy’s Show, DR2/Theatre J; Revolting Rhymes, Lortel; Kaspar Hauser, The Flea. Resident MD for the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Elizabeth Swados’s Arranger/MD. Composed music for: Wing It!, Camp Monster, Williamstown; Beauty Queen, 3 Graces; Dash Dexter, MTC; Midsummer Night’s Dream, National Theatre of Greece; Oliver Twist, Shakespeare Theatre Of New Jersey. International work; Heracles (dir. Andre Serban); Bokan, Bogota; The Bacchae, Warsaw; The Frogs, Epidauros Festival. Adjunct faculty NYU/Tisch.

JOE BOSTICKFight DirectorA.R.T.: Debut. Fight Director Credits include: Broadway: Ragtime, LiveEnt. Upcoming Broadway: Les Miserables, Cameron Mackintosh. For Mirvish Productions-Toronto: Les Miserables, Lord of the Rings (Assoc.), Dirty Dancing, Beauty and the Beast Canada (Assoc.). Regional: Phantom of the Opera, US National Tour, NETworks & Cameron Macintosh; Ragtime, Toronto & 1st US National Tour; Trainspotting, Canadian Stage; Peter Pan, Crazy for You, Drayton Entertainment; I Hate Hamlet, Stage West. Thanks to Stephanie, Devon, Jesse, Bruce, and David for your support and inspiration.

TELSEY + COMPANYCasting A.R.T.: All the Way, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Broadway/Tours: If/Then, The Bridges of Madison County, All the Way, The Snow Geese, First Date, Motown, Kinky Boots, Annie, Newsies, Spider-Man, Rock of Ages, Wicked, Evita, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Sister Act, Million Dollar Quartet. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Regional: La Jolla, Paper Mill. Film: Into the Woods, The Last Five Years, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Friends with Kids, Margin Call, Sex and the City 1 & 2, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Across the Universe. TV: “Masters of Sex,” “Smash,” “The Big C,” commercials. www.telseyandco.com

MAHLON KRUSEProduction Stage ManagerA.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Chicago, Pippin, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Man of La Mancha, Oklahoma!, The Lion King, Barbara Cook’s Broadway, Mamma Mia, Avenue Q, Barbara Cook’s Mostly Sondheim, A Thousand Clowns, Aida, Miss Saigon. National Tours: Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera. As Production Supervisor: Original companies of Spamalot 1st US National Tour, London, Las Vegas as well as international companies of Miss Saigon in Stuttgart, Manila, and 2001 Asia Tour. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse.

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TELSEY + COMPANY:Bernie Telsey CSA, Will Cantler CSA, David Vaccari CSA,

Bethany Knox CSA, Craig Burns CSA,Tiffany Little Canfield CSA, Rachel Hoffman CSA,

Justin Huff CSA, Patrick Goodwin CSA, Abbie Brady-Dalton CSA,David Morris, Cesar A. Rocha CSA, Andrew Femenella CSA,

Karyn Casl CSA, Kristina Bramhall, Conrad Woolfe, Rachel Nadler,Rachel Minow, Sean Gannon

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

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

The American Repertory Theater is a proud partner of PoNY 2.0, providing an artistic home for PoNY Playwrights of New York. The American Repertory Theater is a member of ArtsBoston,

Stagesource, and Theater Communications Group.

TAYLOR ADAMIKAssistant Stage ManagerA.R.T.: Stage Manager: The Donkey Show. Assistant Stage Manager: All the Way, The Glass Menagerie, The Lily’s Revenge, Once. Production Associate: Prometheus Bound, The Blue Flower, Cabaret. Production Coordinator: Hansel and Gretel, Nutcracker Turbo: And Other Love Stories, Bob: A Life in Five Acts, As You Like It, The Snow Queen. Graduate of Boston University, Summa Cum Laude, College of Fine Arts.

NANCY HOUFEKVoice and DialectsA.R.T.: Resident vocal coach since 1997; 70 productions, including dialect design for Once, Pippin, The Glass Menagerie. Regional coaching: A.C.T., Guthrie. Worked with directors Diane Paulus, John Tiffany, Sarah Benson, Bill T. Jones, Andrei Serban, David Mamet, Robert Woodruff, among others. Institute faculty (voice, dialects, Shakespeare); heads M.F.A. program in voice pedagogy. Presents workshops nationally on public speaking and storytelling. Performance credits: A.C.T., California Shakespeare, Denver Center, San Jose Rep, Alaska Rep & Joyce Theater. B.A. Stanford, M.F.A. American Conservatory Theater, Master Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework.

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A.R.T./MXAT Institutefor Advanced Theater Trainingat Harvard University

FacultyRemo Airaldi Jodi Leigh AllenDonna Ames Ilia Bocarnicovs Robert Brustein Thomas Derrah Natalia Fedorova Jane Guyer Fujita Tatyana Gassel David A. Hammond Adrienne Hawkins Arthur Holmberg Nancy Houfek Will LeBowRyan McKittrick

Current Students Dralla AierkenNatalie BattistoneMartha BolesJulia BumkeBilly CalderErin CallahanBenjamin CrockettLauren DoucetteRobert Du�eyMarvin DuverneEduardo Fernandez -BaumannMarissa FriedmanLeslie GehringLexa GluckMorgan GoldsteinDanny GoodmanMario HaynesSamara KellySteph JackLize JohnstonAlexandra JucknoLaura KruegelFiona Kyle

Sean Yves LessardAhmad MaksoudJason Marko�Alexander MolinaAshley MonetBrenna NicelyPed NaseriGustavo Pace Justin PackardJamie PerkinsAshleigh ReadeChristian RonaldBen Sidell Kay SmithJeremy SortoreMarissa StewartRebecca StrimaitisCorey SullivanDereks ThomasKevin Michael WadeIngrid WernerKristin WetheringtonAlec Wilson

Robert NajarianDiane PaulusElaine Smith PurcellMarin Orlosky Randow Brendan Shea Anatoly Smeliansky Julia Smeliansky Marcus SternTommy ThompsonMarina Van WinkleRobert Walsh Sam WeismanScott ZiglerIgor ZolotovitskyActing • Voice • Dramaturgy

Certificate and MFA Program

A Two-year professional training program based in Cambridge, MA with residency at the Moscow Art Theater School in Moscow, Russia

Fully integrated with the work of the American Repertory Theater

For information and application visit: harvardtheatertraining.org

The A.R.T. at Harvard University is a leading force in the American theater, producing groundbreaking work in Cambridge and beyond. The A.R.T. was founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein, who served as Artistic Director until 2002, when he was succeeded by Robert Woodruff. Diane Paulus began her tenure in 2008, and has since advanced the A.R.T.’s core mission to expand the boundaries of theater by programming events that immerse audiences in transformative theatrical experiences.

Throughout its history, the A.R.T. has been honored with many distinguished awards, including consecutive Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical for Pippin (2013) and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (2012), both of which Paulus directed, a Pulitzer Prize, a Jujamcyn Prize for outstanding contribution to the development of creative talent, the Tony Award for Best Regional Theater, and numerous Elliot Norton and I.R.N.E. Awards.

The A.R.T. engages with artists around the country and world to investigate new ways in which to develop and create work. It is currently developing a number of multi-year projects, including the Civil War Project, an initiative that will culminate in the staging of three new works in the 2014/15 season. Under Paulus’s leadership, the A.R.T.’s club theater, OBERON, has become an incubator for local and emerging artists and has attracted national attention for its innovative programming and business models.

As the professional theater on the campus of Harvard University, the A.R.T. catalyzes discourse, interdisciplinary collaboration, and creative exchange among a wide range of academic departments and institutions, students and faculty, acting as a conduit between its community of artists and the university. A.R.T. artists also teach courses in directing, dramatic literature, acting, voice, design, and dramaturgy. The A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training, which is run in partnership with the Moscow Art Theater School, offers graduate-level training in acting, dramaturgy, and voice.

Dedicated to making great theater accessible, the A.R.T. actively engages more than 5,000 community members and local students annually in project-based partnerships, workshops, conversations with artists, and other enrichment activities both at the theater and across the Greater Boston area.

Through all of these initiatives, the A.R.T. is dedicated to producing world-class performances in which the audience is central to the theatrical experience.

A.R.T. BOARDS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Steve Johnson, ChairLaurie Burt

Paul ButtenwieserKevin Cole Costin

Mike DreeseZita Ezpeleta

Michael FeinsteinProvost Alan M. Garber

Lori GrossAnn Gund

Sarah Hancock Jonathan Hulbert

Alan JonesFumi Matsumoto

Thomas B. McGrathRebecca Milikowsky

Ward Mooney Robert Murchison

Andrew OryDiane Paulus

William RussoMike Sheehan

Diana SorensenLisbeth Tarlow

Donald Ware

BOARD OF ADVISORSRachael Goldfarb, Co-Chair

Ann Gund, Co-ChairFrances Shtull Adams

Yuriko Jane AntonJoseph Auerbach*

Robert Bowie, Jr.Philip Burling*

Greg CarrAntonia Handler Chayes*

Bernard ChiuLizabeth Cohen

Kathleen Connor Rohit Deshpande

Susan Edgman-LevitanJill Fopiano

Erin GilliganCandy Kosow Gold

Barbara Wallace GrossmanHorace H. Irvine II

Ethan W. LasserDan Mathieu

Travis McCreadyEllen Gordon Reeves

Linda U. SangerMaggie Seelig

Dina SelkoeJohn A. Shane

Michael ShinagelSarasina Tuchen

Alfred WojciechowskiStephen H. Zinner, M.D.

*Emeriti

FOUNDING DIRECTORRobert Brustein

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The American Repertory Theater is deeply grateful for the generous support of individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies, whose contributions make its work possible. The following gifts were received between July 1, 2012 and November 15, 2013

AnonymousBarr FoundationSarah Hancock*The President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeRosemarie and Steve Johnson*

Janet and Howard Kagan*Blanche and Irving Laurie FoundationRN Family FoundationThe Shubert Foundation

VISIONARY $100,000 and above

BENEFACTOR $50,000-$99,999

LEADER $25,000-$49,999

Katie and Paul Buttenwieser*The Dana FoundationLaura and Michael Dreese*Edgerton FoundationE.H.A. FoundationThe Hershey Family Foundation

HILT - Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching

Massachusetts Cultural CouncilThe Andrew W. Mellon FoundationAlison and Bob Murchison* National Endowment for the Arts

Newbury Comics Inc.The Harold and Mimi Steinberg

Charitable TrustLisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay*Donald and Susan Ware*

The Gregory C. Carr FoundationZita Ezpeleta and Kewsong Lee*Ann and Graham Gund*Hunt Alternatives Fund

Alan Jones and Ashley Garrett*KarmaloopLucy and Ward Mooney*Dr. Josephine Murray†

National Corporate Theatre FundMaureen and Mike Sheehan*

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PRODUCER $10,000-$24,999

PARTNER $5,000-$9,999

AnonymousHilary and Philip BurlingLaurie BurtJulia Pershan Cohen and Jonathan CohenKevin Cole CostinTed and Joan† CutlerSandi and Andrew Farkas

Bernadette FeeneyMichael Feinstein and Denise WaldronErin Gilligan and Hoil KimMarcia HeadHorace IrvineJudith and Douglas KruppLizbeth and George Krupp

Kako and Fumi MatsumotoTom McGrath and Sandy MedallisStacey and Eric MindichDiane Paulus and Randy WeinerJanet and Irv PlotkinValerie Beth Schwartz FoundationDina and Greg Selkoe*

AnonymousFrances Shtull AdamsLisa and Joel AlvordYuriko Jane Anton and Philip AntonBDRobert Bowie jr.Amy and Ed BrakemanJoy and Steven BunsonBernard ChiuKathy ConnorRoAnn CostinFoley Hoag LLPGerald Flaxer Charitable Foundation

Andrea and Marc G. GershwinKatia and Garry GinzburgCandy Gold and Martin WatersRachael GoldfarbPeggy Hanratty and Geoffrey PetersThe Office of the Provost at

Harvard UniversityCatherine Hayden and David ThurstonThe DuBose and Dorothy Heyward

Memorial FundJessica and Ethan LasserLori LesserGregory Maguire

Melinda MilbergKaren and Gary MuellerCokie and Lee PerryPatricia Romeo-Gilbert and Paul GilbertMaggie and Jonathan SeeligThe Shane FoundationSarasina and Mike TuchenLynn and George VosMary and Ted Wendell,

in memory of Jeremy GeidtAlfred Wojciechowski and

Tammerah Martin

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PATRON $1,000-$2,499AnonymousNancy Adams and Scott SchoenAlexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., CPAsSheldon AppelDiana and Richard BeattieCarol BeggyLinda Cabot BlackTerrie and Bradley BloomSissela and Derek BokDiane BorgerMelinda BrownDorothea and Sheldon Buckler, M.D.The Edmund and Betsy Cabot

Charitable FoundationRonald and Ronni CastyDiane CataldoFrank CelesteHemmie and Ralph ChangCharles CheringtonChic to ChicSusan and Mark ClarkBetsy and Ed CohenFrances CohenLizabeth Cohen and

Herrick Eaton ChapmanNick CorleyRohit Deshpande

Barbara and Michael EisensonJill Fopiano and Paul BrickmanRobin FreemanMs. Laura Green and Dr. David GolanRenee GreeneMarjorie and Nicholas GrevilleJoseph HammerPhyllis HammerMel and Brendan HanniganPamela Haran and David S. GodkinRuth and William HsiaoPriscilla and Richard HuntKaren Johansen and Gardner HendrieKay KaneSheridan and Jerome KassirerTheresa Kavanaugh and John LienhardNancy P. KingLawrence KotinLars FoundationStacey Schneer LeeMarjorie Liner and

Christopher ConnollyJohn D.C. LittleJennifer and Nick LittlefieldCeline and Alastair MctaggartChris MastrangeloAlan Muraoka

Jean and David NathanMercedes Nugent-Head and

James C. MarlasJeryl and Stephen OristaglioPatricia and Finley PerryGerald PierLia and William PoorvuLarry PrattJames RadoJanice Saragoni and Ben BradleeAdina SchecterNoraLee and Jon SedmakDr. and Mrs. Dennis J. SelkoeMichael Shinagel and Marjorie NorthDeborah Sinay and Charles J. KravetzSomerled Charitable FoundationDeborah SweetJanet Tiampo and David ParkerThe Joseph W. and Faith K. Tiberio

Charitable FoundationBrad Voigt and William BurtonMindee WassermanJoanne and Daniel WeilRuth and Bill WeinsteinThe Winter, Wyman CompaniesFancy and Jeff Zilberfarb

SPONSOR $2,500-$4,999Anonymous (2)Leslie and Howard ApplebyLynne and John ChuangEthel D. and Clarke CoggeshallSusan Edgman-Levitan and

Richard LevitanJuliet Cozzi and Ronald GumbazCatherine GellertRuth and Mark GolubJoan and Charles GrossLori E. Gross and

Robert Douglas Campbell

Barbara Wallace Grossman and Steve Grossman

Nikola and David HennesHeather and James HigginsThe Roy A. Hunt FoundationMelissa Kaish and Jonathan DorfmanBarbara H. Landreth, M.D.Jenifer Wells Megalli and

Mark MegalliHee-Jung and John MoonMarean and Thomas PompidouEllen Gordon Reeves

Natasha and Umar RiazLisa Sotto and Bruce SaberDr. Linda U. Sanger*Nichole Bookwalter Savenor and

Alan SavenorS. Wade Taylor, Ph.D. and

Stephen Zinner, M.D.Gillien Todd and Kingsley TaftJohn TravisFrancis H. WilliamsAnn Wozencraft and Craig Willey

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CONTRIBUTOR $500-$999

SUPPORTER $250-$499

Anonymous (3)Evelyn BarnesWilliam M. BazzyJane and Leonard BernsteinFrancis Biondi and Jamie NichollsHelen and Joe BouscarenRonnie BretholtzElaine and Eric BucherRichard CacciagraniBrian CareyAntonia H. ChayesJim ChervenakTracy ElsteinBarbara FiaccoNewell FlatherDr. Alan Garber and Dr. Anne YahandaVerna C. Gibbs, M.D. Leigh Gilmore and Thomas PoundsProfessors Mary Jo and Byron GoodBarbara Lemperly Grant and

Frederic D. Grant

Dena and Felda HardymonMegan and David HinckleyJen Horton and Dave ReganJudy KanwalRita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family

Foundation, Inc., Ms. Susan B. Kaplan & Nancy and Mark Belsky

Jane Katims and Dan PerlmanMadeleine and Steven KesslerDr. and Mrs. Gilbert Kliman Denise and Ari KornLaurie LabaKatherine N. LappLiberty Mutual, Give with Liberty ProgramAnita Meiklejohn and Vincent PiccirilliMs. Patricia Cleary MillerMary MiltonJonathan MosesEmily MoskowitzBrigette and Suok NohNSTAR Foundation

Carolyn PerelmuterRose PolidoroNancy Rappaport and Colin FlavinSally C. Reid and John D. SigelThe Reiss Family FoundationDr. Helen RiessHathaway RussellLori and Steven SaterFrank SegallWendy Shattuck and Sam PlimptonChristine and Rick SheaStephanie and Fred ShumanMark SlovenkaiMason and Jeannie SmithW Boston HotelRyan WestDyann and Peter WirthMs. Kelsey Wirth and Dr. Samuel Myers

Anonymous (2)Barbara Addison and Stephen GillRavin AgrawalAlchemy FoundationJames AspSybilla and Alexandre BalkanskiMaud CabotCris and Paul CarterBetsy Ellis Chung and Peter ChungFrederica CushmanMary and Richard DanielsJane Mendelsohn Davis and

Nick DavisAlma DerricksMark DikerJulie Farkas and Seth GoldmanAnita FeinsAnna C. FitzloffHerbert Fox and Janet ZinnerSusan Fried and Jeffrey RudmanKathleen and Robert GarnerLaurie and Jeffrey Goldbarg, M.D.Drs. Shelly Greenfield and Allan BrandtLindsay and Garth GreimannHomer Hagedorn

Robert HarringtonDeborah L. HicksCaroline and Fred HoppinJonathan Hulbert and Sonia HofkoshSarah Jaffe and Richard EisertCindi JonesJerry JordanBelinda Juran and Evan SchapiroCC King and Tom TarpeyEdgar KnudsonLynn KodamaRena Krasnow and Bob MarxGrace Kyung-Sun Won and

Richard HoldenDon LawMary Beth and Greg LesherLewise LucaireBarbara A. ManzolilloWendy Mariner and Toby NagurneyJames D. MarverDonna Friedman Meir and Gadi MeirAshley MeloneKimberly and Peter MulliganProfessor Suzanne P. Ogden and

Peter Rogers

Caren PasqualeWilliam PeakeDrs. Hilda and Max PerlitshKathryn and Richard PershanAndreé Robert and Thomas M. BurgerLeandrew RobinsonPaul RomanoGabriela and Bob RomanowBonnie RosseSarah and Gregory SandsJames ScopaLisa SternJean and Michael StrunskyKathryn Taylor and Tom SteyerM.K. TerrellDiana Walsh and Kent WalkerKathy Williams and Douglas CarlstonMary WinslowWilliam Zinn

* Donors who provide annual operating support of $25,000 or more are members of the Artistic Director’s Circle.

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A.R.T. NYC is a group of donors based in New York that provides generous annual support to the American Repertory Theater. The following gifts of $250 and above were received between July 1, 2012 and November 15, 2013.

The Urban Grape/T.J. and Hadley Douglas(Wine Sponsor)theurbangrape.com

IN-KIND SUPPORTERS

Boston Beer CompanyCambridge, 1.The Charles HotelKevin Cole CostinCarol DeGiere

Event Illuminations/ Derek Wiles

GoogleGrafton StreetGrendel’s DenAnn and Graham Gund

HarvestHenrietta’s TableThe Kendall HotelMelinda MilbergRialtoSandrine’s Bistro

The SinclairTory RowToscano UpStairs on the SquareDonald and Susan Ware

The A.R.T. thanks the following individual and corporate supporters for their invaluable in-kind donations. As of November 2013.

MAX Ultimate Food/Dan Mathieu and Neal Balkowitsch(Catering Sponsor)maxultimatefood.com

Ilex Designs/Andrew Anderson (Floral Sponsor)ilexflowers.com

NATIONAL CORPORATE THEATRE FUND

Acquis Consulting Group† • American Express • AOL† • Mitchell J. Auslander** • Bank of America • Bloomberg • BNY Mellon • James E. Buckley • Steven Bunson** • Christopher Campbell/Palace Production Center† • Christ Economos** • Cisco Systems, Inc. • Citi • Clear Channel Outdoor**† • CMT/ABC**† • Dantchik Family • Datacert, Inc. • Disney/ABC • Paula Dominick** • Dorfman and Kaish Family Foundation, Inc. • Dorsey & Whitney Foundation • Dramatists Play Service, Inc. • John R. Dutt** • Epiq Systems** • Ernst & Young • Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing** • Pamela Farr • Richard Fitzburgh • Ford Foundation* • Goldman, Sachs & Co. • John Gore for Broadway.com • Jeffrey Gural/Newmark Holdings • Mariska Hargitay** • The Hearst Foundations** • Gregory S. Hurst • Howard and Janet Kagan** • Joseph F. Kirk** • Michael Lawrence and Dr. Glen Gillen • Marsh & McLennan Companies • John R. Mathena • The Maurer Family Foundation** • Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart** • McGraw Hill Financial • MetLife • John G. Miller • Morgan Stanley • New York Life • Theodore Nixon** • Ogilvy & Mather† • Lisa Orberg** • Frank Orlowski** • Edison Peres • Pfizer, Inc. • Thomas Quick** • RBC Wealth Management** • The Schloss Family Foundation** • Sharp Electronics† • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLC • George S. Smith, Jr.** • Southwest Airlines** • TD Bank • Theatermania.com/Gretchen Shugart • John Thomopoulos** • Time Warner • Evelyn Mack Truitt • James S. Turley • The James S. and Lynne P. Turley Ernst & Young Fund for Impact Creativity** • UBS • Michael A. Wall • Wells Fargo** • Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP • Isabelle Winkles**

National Corporate Theatre Fund is a not-for profit corporation created to increase and strengthen support from the business community for this country’s most distinguished professional theatres. The following foundations, individuals and corporations support these theaters through their contributions of $2,500 and above to National Corporate Theatre Fund.

*Fund for New American Theatre **Impact Creativity †Includes In-kind Support As of November 2013

PRODUCER $10,000 and aboveJulia Pershan Cohen and Jonathan Cohen, Kevin Cole Costin, Zita Ezpeleta and Kewsong Lee, Sandi and Andrew Farkas, Alan Jones and Ashley Garrett, Janet and Howard Kagan, Rebecca Gold and Nathan Milikowsky, Stacey and Eric Mindich

PARTNER $5,000-$9,999Joy and Steven Bunson, RoAnn Costin, Andrea and Marc G. Gershwin, Lori Lesser, Melinda Milberg, Lynn and George Vos

SPONSOR $2,500-$4,999 Anonymous, Juliet Cozzi and Ronald Gumbaz, Catherine Gellert, Ruth and Mark Golub, Joan and Charles Gross, Ann and Graham Gund, Nikola and David Hennes, Heather and James Higgins, Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman, Barbara H. Landreth, M.D., Jenifer Wells Megalli and Mark Megalli, Hee-Jung and John Moon, Marean and Thomas Pompidou, Ellen Gordon Reeves, Natasha and Umar Riaz, Lisa Sotto and Bruce Saber, Dr. Linda U. Sanger, Ann Wozencraft and Craig Willey

MEMBER $250-$2,499Anonymous, Diana and Richard Beattie, Francis Biondi and Jamie Nicholls, Mark Diker, Tracy Elstein, Jane Mendelsohn Davis and Nick Davis, The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, Sarah Jaffe and Richard Eisert, Madeleine and Steven Kessler, Rena Krasnow and Bob Marx, Tom McGrath and Sandy Medallis, Ashley Melone, Mary Milton, Jonathan Moses, Brigette and Suok Noh, Mercedes Nugent-Head and James C. Marlas, Caren Pasquale, Rose Polidoro, The Reiss Family Foundation, Adina Schecter, Lisa Stern

A.R.T. NYC DONORS

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DIANE PAULUSMANAGING DIRECTOR WILLIAM RUSSO

ARTISTICProducer Diane BorgerDirector of Artistic Programs/Dramaturg Ryan McKittrickArtistic Coordinator Chris De CamillisDirector of Special Projects Ariane BarbanellArtistic Associates Allegra Libonati, Shira MilikowskyAssistant Producer Mark LunsfordSpecial Assistant to the Artistic Director Julia KrausCompany Manager/

Hasty Pudding Institute Producing Fellow Ben Nelson

INSTITUTEDirector Scott ZiglerAdministrative Director Julia SmelianskyAssociate Director Marcus SternCo-head of Dramaturgy Anatoly SmelianskyCo-head of Dramaturgy Ryan McKittrickResident Literary Advisor Arthur HolmbergHead of Voice and Speech Nancy HoufekInstitute Associate Josh Glenn-KaydenProduction Management Associate Charles HubbardTechnical Director Skip CurtissStudent Financial Aid Administrator Janie Rangel

OBERONProducing Consultant Randy WeinerAssociate Producer Ariane BarbanellVenue Manager Leo X. CrowleyProgramming Manager James WetzelProduction Manager Skip CurtissHouse Technician Justin PaiceSound Console Operator Alex Giorgetti

EXTERNAL AFFAIRSDEVELOPMENTDirector of Development Megan HinckleyDeputy Director of Development Jessica MorrisonGrants Manager Meghan ColemanDevelopment Information Coordinator Brendyn SchneiderDevelopment Associate Renee RoberMARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONSDirector of Marketing and Communications Anna FitzloffDirector of Press and Public Relations Katalin MitchellAssociate Director of Marketing and Communications Jared FineMarketing and Communications Manager Grace GellerGraphic Designer Joel ZayacEducation and Community Programs Manager Brendan SheaEducation and Community Programs Assistant Georgia YoungDonkey Show VIP Coordinator Christina TuckerMarketing Interns Kendra Norton, Mark Mauriello,

Rachel Stephens Education Interns Jenna Gabriel, Annie Guaghen,

Maria Giarrizzo, Erica Glenn, Shanelle VillegasPATRON SERVICESDirector of Patron Services / System Administrator Derek MuellerTicket Services Manager Alicia CurtisAudience Services Manager Stephen WuycheckTicket Services Representatives Karen Snyder, Cassandra LongWeekend Shift Supervisor Heather ConroeTicket Services Staff Taylor Hughes, Natalie Lurowist,

Amelia Mason, Janet Mwaura, Tani Nakamoto, Emma PutnamDuty House Managers Marissa Friedman, Anna Kelsey,

Megan Nussle, Adam Quinn, Eleanor Regan, Courtney Smith, Matthew Spano

Volunteer Usher Coordinator Barbara Lindstrom

THEATER AND FACILITIESTheater and Facilities Manager Tracy Keene

Receptionists Sarah Leon, Maria Medeiros

FINANCEFinancial Analyst Ann KellegherSenior Financial Analyst Kathryn RosenbergSenior Finance Accountant John JostiFinancial Administrator Stacie HurstFinancial Assistant Nira Tejada

PRODUCTIONProduction Manager Patricia QuinlanAssociate Production Managers Skip Curtiss, Jeremie LozierCOSTUMESCostume Shop Manager Jeannette HawleyDraper Caitlin MenottiCrafts Artisan Jeffrey Scott BurrowsWardrobe Supervisor Stephen DruekeCostume/Props Stock Manager Suzanne KadiffLIGHTSLighting Supervisor Matthew AdelmanAssistant Lighting Designer Porsche McGovernLight Board Operator Matthew HoustlePROPERTIESProps Manager Cynthia Lee-SullivanAssistant Props Master Rebecca HelgesonProps Carpenter Stacey Horne-HarperSCENERYTechnical Director Stephen SetterlunAssociate Technical Director Chris SwetckyAssistant Technical Director Kristin KnutsonShop Supervisor David SchultzScenic Charge Artist Jerry VogtMaster Carpenter Peter DoucetteScenic Carpenters York-Andreas Paris, Kyle Moore,

Garret McEnteeSOUNDSound Supervisor Sam LernerSound Console Operator Brian WaltersTheatrical Audio Technician Katrina SistareSTAGEStage Supervisor Henning MalmAssistant Stage Supervisor Christopher EschenbachProduction Assistants Kevin Klein, Matthew Sebastian

ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR THE HEART OF ROBIN HOODMicrophone Technician Bryan AtterberryASL Coach Mikey KrajnakAudio Description Coach Alice Austin Wig Designer Rachel Padula ShufeltTailors Carmel Dundon, Andrew PoleszakStitchers Juliana Gregori, Alma Reyes, Sally RavitzDressers Emily Damron, Juliana Gregori, Alma ReyesAssistant Costume Shop Manager Ameera AliCrafts Assistant Jen BennettBuyer Ryan AndersonScenic Carpenters Tyler Brown, Sam Cournyn,

Chris Eschenbach, Bill Hawkins, Derek Jay, Tom Kee, Susanna Labowitz, Dan Lincoln, Jimmy Lynch, Marty Lynch, Stephen Maurer, Vinca Merriman, Joe Parello, Sophia Rehm, Andrew Remillard, Seth Shaw, Keven Sheehan, Mike Soldati,

Nick Stein, Nick ToschesScenic Painters Brian Crete, Kerri McGill,

Heather Morris, Richard OulletteAdditional Run Crew Matthew Breton, Lisa Guild,

Michael Soldati, Ryan FitzgeraldRigger Ben Clark

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Up Nextat the A.R.T.The Light PrincessA whimsical new children’s musical based on the short story by George MacDonald of a princess who is cursed to not have any gravity. The king and queen must find the princess’s gravity before her sixteenth birthday, else the kingdom will fall into the hands of the witch that cursed her. This world premiere is written for all ages. Loeb Drama Center. 12/21–1/5.

Witness UgandaWhen Gri�n, a young man from New York City, volunteers for a project in Uganda, he finds himself on a journey that will change his life forever. Inspired by a true story, this rousing new musical staged by Tony-Award-winning director and A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus, exposes the challenges confronted by American aid workers around the world and explores the question: “Is changing the world possible?” Loeb Drama Center. 2/4–3/16.

The Shape She MakesIn this world premiere piece, a precocious eleven-year-old seeks to understand what she’s inherited from her absent father and neglectful mother. This profoundly moving and heartrending production uses a fusion of dance and theater to explore how the echoes of childhood relentlessly shape our lives. OBERON. 4/4–4/27.

The TempestExperience Prospero’s wizardry as never before in this startling production, featuring magic created by Teller (of the legendary duo Penn & Teller). When shipwrecked aristocrats wash up on the shores of Prospero’s strange island, they find themselves immersed in a world of trickery and amazement, where Tom Waits’s Dust Bowl balladry and Teller’s magic animate the spirits and monsters. Loeb Drama Center. 5/10–6/15.

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AcousticaElectronicaTouch Performance Art brings you a mind-blowing event that blends elements of electronic and classical music, dance, circus arts, and immersive theater with the infectious energy of the contemporary nightclub. OBERON. 12/13 & 1/7.

The Big Quiz ThingQuizmaster Noah Tarnow presents the world’s greatest multimedia quiz excitement. Do you have what it takes to take home the $200 cash grand prize? FREE ADMISSION! OBERON. 12/16 & 1/13.

Speakeasy CircusCelebrate the best of the roaring 20s with live jazz, glittering dancers, and jaw-dropping circus spectacle from the Boston Circus Guild. OBERON. 12/20 & 1/3.

Mike the Bubble ManThis interactive 45-minute show about bubbles brings magic and science to the stage! Ages 2+. OBERON. 12/21 & 1/4.

You’re The ExpertThe show that uses comedy to make academic research more accessible and exciting! OBERON. 1/7.

The Donkey ShowThis celebrated smash hit brings you the ultimate disco experience inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream. Come party on the dance floor to all the 70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you. OBERON. Every Saturday Night.

The Shape She MakesThis profoundly moving and heartrending world premiere production uses a fusion of dance and theater to explore how the echoes of childhood relentlessly shape our lives. OBERON. 4/4–4/27.

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