The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Chair Jeanne Donovan Fisher

President Leon Botstein

Director Tambra Dillon

Presents

Saint JoanBy George Bernard Shaw

An AandBC Production

Commissioned by the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Directed by Gregory Thompson

Set and Costume Design Ellen Cairns

Lighting Design Judith Greenwood

T H E AT E R T W O

July 12–14 and 19–21 at 8 pmJuly 15 and 22 at 3 pm BA

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Saint JoanA Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an EpilogueBy George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

Cast (in order of speech)

Charles VII (The Dauphin) Rhys MeredithBrother Martin Ladvenu Finn den HertogJoan Louise CollinsPeter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais Robert Langdon LloydDunois, Bastard of Orleans Phil CheadleAn English Soldier Peter KennyJohn de Stogumber (Warwick’s chaplain) Bernard GallagherThe Executioner Michael SheldonRichard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick Richard HeapThe Gentleman Martin WareThe Archbishop of Rheims Tom McGovernThe Inquisitor David FielderRobert de Baudricourt Richard HeapStewards and Pages Martin WareBertrand de Poulengy Michael SheldonGeorges, Duc de la Trémouille David FielderGilles de Rais (Bluebeard) Finn den HartogCaptain La Hire Peter KennyJean d’Estivet, Canon of Bayeux Rhys MeredithThomas de Courcelles, Canon of Paris Phil Cheadle

Artistic Director, AandBC Gregory ThompsonStage Manager Rosanna StoneCostume Supervisor Hilary LewisDesign Assistant Alison CartledgeCostumes Angels The CostumiersLights PRG

The use of recording equipment or the taking of photographs during the performance is strictly prohibited.

Director’s Note

Hearing Voices: Some Thoughts on a Production of Saint Joan in the Summer of 2007

There are three timescales in this production of Saint Joan. There is the historical setting of1429–56, when Joan heard the voices of angels and acted upon them to rid her country offoreign invaders, and when the dauphin was crowned king of France and heretics wereburnt at the stake. There is the time when the play was written and premiered: 1923, a fewyears after Saint Joan was canonised (in 1920), when George Bernard Shaw was the mas-ter of the theatrical conventions of the early 20th century. And there is 2007. Now. Whenthe play is being produced. Now, when we have postmodern cultural conventions andexpectations for immediate information available over the Internet. Now. When all overthe world there are young men and women who hear voices from God telling them to ridtheir countries of foreign invaders. And when some of them act upon what they hear.

No one in the play has any doubts that Joan heard voices. She heard them. The questionis whether the voices were voices sent from God or conjured by the devil.

The hearing of voices and acting under the guidance of God is of course not only thepreserve of the young. On 10 May 2007, Tony Blair decided that it was time for the U.K.to have a change of prime minister, and he announced a date for his resignation. Hemade a speech that was startling for its candid reference to his own inner moral andspiritual compass:

In government you have to give the answer. Not an answer, the answer. And, intime, you realise putting the country first doesn’t mean doing the right thingaccording to conventional wisdom or the prevailing consensus or the latest snap-shot of opinion: it means doing what you genuinely believe to be right. Your dutyis to act according to your conviction. All of that can get contorted so that peoplethink you act according to some messianic zeal. Doubt, hesitation, reflection, consideration, and reconsideration: these are all the good companions of properdecision-making. But the ultimate obligation is to decide.

Sometimes the decisions are accepted quite quickly. Bank of England independencewas one, which gave us our economic stability. Sometimes, like tuition fees or tryingto break up old monolithic public services, they are deeply controversial, hellish hardto do, but you can see you are moving with the grain of change round the word.

Sometimes, like with Europe, where I believe Britain should keep its positionstrong, you know you are fighting opinion but you are content with doing so.Sometimes, as with the completely unexpected, you are alone with your owninstinct. In Sierra Leone and to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, I took the decision

to make our country one that intervened, that did not pass by, or keep out of thethick of it.

Then came the utterly unanticipated and dramatic. September 11th, 2001, and the death of 3,000 or more on the streets of New York. I decided we should standshoulder to shoulder with our oldest ally. I did so out of belief. So Afghanistan andthen Iraq—the latter, bitterly controversial. Removing Saddam and his sons frompower, as with removing the Taliban, was over with relative ease. But the blow-back since, from global terrorism and those elements that support it, has beenfierce and unrelenting and costly. For many, it simply isn’t and can’t be worth it.For me, I think we must see it through. They, the terrorists, who threaten us hereand round the world, will never give up if we give up. It is a test of will and ofbelief, and we can’t fail it. . . . I ask you to accept one thing: hand on heart, I didwhat I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That’s your call. But believe onething if nothing else: I did what I thought was right for our country.

No one would accuse Blair of doing what he thought was wrong. He has an inner moralcompass. He hears voices.

There is a danger if sincerity is the guiding light. Sincerity isn’t a principle, and sinceritycan be used to excuse anything, even when that thing is simply a matter of politicalexpediency. And Shaw shows how Joan was sacrificed for political expediency.

Hearing voices . . .

In Athens on Wednesday 24 May 2007, AC Milan won the final of the Champions Leaguecourtesy of a lucky goal just before half time and a second just before the end, whenLiverpool were chasing the game. What happened next was a surprising moment of theatre: Kaka, AC Milan’s star player from Brazil, reacted to the final whistle by headingfor the centre circle, where he went down on his knees and raised his arms to heaven.Having stripped off his shirt to reveal a t-shirt bearing the message “I BELONG TO JESUS,”he remained in that posture for a good two minutes while his teammates enjoyed moreconventional and collective forms of celebration. While we can acknowledge and admirethe way Kaka appears to conduct himself as a player and as a man, one can only wonderwhat the reaction would have been if the shirt had said “ALLAH IS GREAT.”

The beauty of Joan is that she prayed for the soul of all. Even the English. We have thechoice to put the human before the fundamental, to see the sacred in each person wemeet, to hear the voices of angels.

Gregory Thompson

Who’s Who

AandBC Theatre CompanySince its inception in 1989, AandBC Theatre Company’s goal has been to create worksthat nourish and celebrate the human spirit, while making profound texts accessible,vibrant, and enriching. Founded by theater director Gregory Thompson, AandBC com-bines improvised staging, vivid physical imagery, direct contact with the audience,and original live music in touring productions of classical and new drama. Havingperformed throughout Europe and Asia, AandBC has achieved international criticalacclaim as one of England’s most innovative companies. AandBC has performed atthe Edinburgh Festival, the Cultural Centre in Hong Kong, and the Bath ShakespeareFestival, among other festivals and venues. Founding director Gregory Thompson hasdirected works for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including the 2003 production ofAs You Like It, which toured to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

AandBC was a part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival inthe summer of 2006 when Gregory Thompson staged Henry VIII in Stratford’s HolyTrinity Church. The company’s acclaimed production of The Tempest will tour theUnited States in the fall of 2007.

Gregory Thompson Artistic DirectorGregory Thompson earned a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematicsand philosophy from the London School of Economics and trained at Sheffield YouthTheatre, the National Theatre Studio, and Theatre de Complicite before becomingartistic director of AandBC Theatre Company. He founded the company in 1989 tocreate touring productions of classical and new drama. These include many produc-tions for Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Somerset House in London, including Pericles, TwelfthNight, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, andAs You Like It. Other productions include The Mahabharata, The Winter’s Tale, The Rapeof Lucrece, and The Tale that Wags the Dog, a storytelling show about the relation-ships between men and women.

Thompson’s production of Max Frisch’s Andorra opened at the Young Vic Theatre in2001. In 2002 his production of The Tempest premiered in London at Somerset Houseprior to embarking on a major international tour to Romania, Russia, Czech Republic,Hong Kong, and Trinidad. Thompson directed As You Like It for the Royal ShakespeareCompany; that production subsequently toured to the Kennedy Center inWashington, D.C. His production of Molly Sweeney for the Citizens’ Theatre inGlasgow was honored with the 2006 Scotland Theatre Critics Award for Best

Direction. He recently directed Henry VIII for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s complete works cycle.

Thompson has just been appointed artistic director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow,Scotland.

Ellen Cairns Set and Costume DesignerEllen Cairns trained at the Glasgow School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art inLondon. She received the Arts Council Bursary grant in 1981 and subsequentlybecame resident designer at Liverpool Playhouse during the artistic directorship ofAlan Bleasdale, Chris Bond, Bill Morrison, and Willy Russell. She became a freelance designer in 1989. She has designed over 50 productions, notably Moon on a RainbowShawl (Almeida), Fences (Garrick Theatre), Amen Corner (Bristol Old Vic), BloodBrothers (Tel Aviv), Carmen (Sweden), Dragon Can’t Dance (Stratford East), ElviraMadigan (Sweden), Gods Are Not To Blame (Riverside Studios), Into The Woods(Sweden), Jubilee (Stockholm), King Lear and Resurrections (Cochrane Theatre), Poppyand Moll Flanders (Half Moon), Nicholas Nickleby and Angels in America (Estoria),Othello (Drill Hall), Porgy and Bess (Venice), Sweeney Todd (Theatre Clwyd), TraffordTanzi (Mermaid Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof, Nicholas Nickleby (Stockholm), and ALittle Shop of Horrors (Estonia). She designed several productions for the award-winning Talawa Theatre Company; her designs for the company’s 1994 production ofKing Lear have been displayed at the Theatre Museum in London. Cairns is a visitingtutor in theater design at Central Saint Martins College.

Judith Greenwood Lighting DesignerJudith Greenwood is an associate director of the London theater company Cheek byJowl. After she received an M.A. degree in drama and theatre arts at the University ofLeeds in 1982, she worked as a lighting technician for Opera North, Impact TheatreCo-operative, the ICA in London, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1990 shejoined Cheek by Jowl and has since toured the world with the company, lighting allbut one of their productions. Her other work includes Le Cid (Avignon Festival); BorisGodunov, Twelfth Night, and Three Sisters (Russian Theatre Confederation); Falstaff(Salzburg Festival); Homebody/Kabul (Cheek by Jowl and Young Vic); King Lear (RSCAcademy); As You Like It, Great Expectations, and Henry VIII (RSC Stratford); Romeo andJuliet (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow); and The Tempest (Tron Theatre, Glasgow).

Greenwood also works frequently in Beirut, lighting for the singer Feyrouz, the director Nidal Ashkar, and the playwright Ziad Rahbani, and she has contributed toseveral books on African theater.

Phil Cheadle Dunois, Bastard of Orleans / De CourcellesPhil Cheadle trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2004. Hisprofessional theater credits include The Changeling (Cheek by Jowl); Macbeth (WestYorkshire Playhouse); As You Like It (Exeter Northcott); Tartuffe (Arcola Theatre);Strawberry Fields (Pentabus); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Creation Theatre). Histelevision credits include the role of Inspector Lynley on Coronation Street.

Louise Collins JoanLouise Collins’s recent stage credits include the roles of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet andMiranda in The Tempest, both directed by Ellie Jones at the New Wolsey Theatre;Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mercury Theatre); Meg in Amazed andSurprised (Royal Court); Bethan in The Pull of Negative Gravity, directed by GregoryThompson, a production that won a Fringe First prize at the Edinburgh FringeFestival; Kitty in Anna Karenina (Royal Lyceum); Abigail in The Crucible (Clwyd TheatreCymru); and Cinderella in Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes Concert (Barbican). Collinshas also had several television roles on BBC Wales and Pembrokeshire Television, andshe has performed in radio productions for Big Fish Productions, BBC Radio, and BBCRadio 4.

Finn den Hertog Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard) / Brother Martin LadvenuFinn den Hertog recently finished his studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Musicand Drama; this is his first professional theater role. As a student he performed in theacademy’s productions of Talking to Terrorists, Jack and the Beanstalk, Mr. Puntila andHis Man Matti, The Tempest, Plasticine, Here Comes a Chopper, and The Philistines. Hewas also featured in the film The Press and in the radio play An Ember in the Straw.His recent work includes Peer Gynt, in collaboration with the Royal Scottish NationalOrchestra; Freakshow, with Poorboy, at Glasgow Arches Scratch Night, where he alsoperformed in Inferno; and Pushing Up Poppies at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He hasbeen filming for the Scottish Media Group television program Rebus: The Naming ofthe Dead. He will return to the United States later this year with AandBC to performin the company’s production of The Tempest.

David Fielder Duc de la Trémouille / The InquisitorLondon-based actor David Fielder’s recent stage credits include the roles of Jacques inAs You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Prospero in The Tempest (AandBCTheatre), both directed by Gregory Thompson; Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman(Manchester Library Theatre); Crepin in The Fall Guy (Royal Exchange Theatre); thePriest in Mother Courage and Her Children (Shared Experience); Touchstone in As YouLike It (Shakespeare Globe Theatre); and the title role in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui(Manchester Library Theatre).

Bernard Gallagher Chaplain de StogumberBernard Gallagher entered the acting profession in 1956. After working in repertorytheaters all over Britain, he joined the English Stage Company in London in 1966,where he appeared in many plays, including the first productions of Joe Orton’sRuffian on the Stair (as Mike) and The Erpingham Camp (as Erpingham). In 1969 hejoined the National Theatre, with a role in Peter Brook’s Oedipus, and visited theUnited States in 1970 with Laurence Olivier’s production of Three Sisters at theAhmanson Theatre, Los Angeles. He returned to the United States in Caryl Churchill’sBlue Heart (1999) and with the Almeida Theatre in Richard II and Coriolanus (2000) atBrooklyn Academy of Music. His recent performances include Caligula in 2004, atLondon’s Donmar Warehouse, and, in 2005, Elder Walsh’s The Small Things at theMenier Theatre, which also played at the Berlin and Galway Festivals. He has alsotoured Europe, India, and Japan, and he has performed at the Maly, Moscow. He hasperformed extensively in the West End. Gallagher’s television performances includeroles in most of the familiar British drama and comedy series.

Richard Heap Richard de Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwick / Robert de BaudricourtThis is Richard Heap’s fourth production with AandBC. He played Krishna in TheMahabharata at London’s Bridge Lane Theatre, Polixenes in The Winter’s Tale at theBath Shakespeare Festival, and Caliban in The Tempest in Trinidad. His other theaterwork includes To Kill a Mockingbird (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Birmingham Rep);Broken Glass (Bolton Octagon and York Theatre Royal); A Christmas Carol, TheAccrington Pals, and Under Milk Wood (Dukes Lancaster); Robbers (Tristan Bates);Angels in America, Parts I and II (Liverpool Unity); The Winter’s Tale (SalisburyPlayhouse); A Doll’s House, Skylight, and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (ManchesterLibrary); Macbeth (Riverside Studios); The Innocents (Sheffield Crucible); and The MapleTree Game (West Yorkshire Playhouse). His film work includes Outlanders, Starfly, TheGospel of John, and There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble. His television work includes TheInnocence Project, My Parents are Aliens, Murphy’s Law, A Good Thief, Heartbeat, ColdFeet, and Hillsborough. He has also appeared in many radio plays for the BBC.

Peter Kenny Captain La Hire / An English SoldierPeter Kenny’s recent roles include Ferdy in A Patriot for Me with the Royal ShakespeareCompany, and Feste in productions of Twelfth Night for Border Crossings and forAandBC, with whom he has also performed in Much Ado About Nothing, Measure forMeasure, The Tempest, If I Were Lifted Up From Earth, Henry VIII, and The Play of theWeather. As a member of the BBC Radio Drama Co. he has recorded many plays. Hisrecent television roles include Sir Charles Mordaunt in Scandalous Women (BBC). He is amember of the early music group Passamezzo, with whom he has recorded two CDs.

Robert Langdon Lloyd Peter Cauchon, the Bishop of BeauvaisRobert Langdon Lloyd was a founding member of Peter Brook’s Paris theater company and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His best-known rolesinclude Puck in the world tour of Brook’s production of A Midsummer Night’sDream; the Fool in Aribert Reimann’s production of King Lear at San FranciscoOpera, directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; Vyasa in The Mahabharata at BrooklynAcademy of Music, directed by Peter Brook; and Donald Rumsfeld in Guantanamofor the Culture Project, directed by Nicolas Kent.

Tom McGovern The Archbishop of RheimsTom McGovern graduated from the Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, wherehe won the James Bridie Gold Medal and the Award for Best Performance in aShakespeare Play. His theater work includes the title roles in Hamlet and Macbeth,Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Alfieri in A ViewFrom the Bridge, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, and Richard Roma in GlengarryGlen Ross at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. He also appeared in Joe Orton’s Loot andNoel Coward’s Private Lives at the Byre Theatre, St. Andrews; in Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde and Great Expectations at the Perth Theatre; and, most recently, as FriarLawrence in a production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Gregory Thompson atthe Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow. His television work includes episodes of Taggart(Scottish Media Group), Holby City (BBC), and 2000 Acres of Sky (Zenith North).

Rhys Meredith Charles VII (The Dauphin) / D’EstivetRhys Meredith studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He has been in pro-ductions of Hamlet (English Touring Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (The Globe andShakespeare Globe’s U.S. tour); The Golden Ass and Twelfth Night (ShakespeareGlobe); and Mister Paul (Old Red Lion). His television work includes Doctors, RobinHood, Charles II, State of Play, and NCS: Manhunt.

Michael Sheldon Bertrand de Poulengy / The ExecutionerMichael Sheldon was most recently seen in a national tour of Top Dogs. His othertheater work includes The Seagull, Three Sisters, and Democracy at the NationalTheatre; Othello at the Theatre Royal, York; Men on Fire at the King’s Head, London;Bedevilled at the Sheffield Crucible; For Services Rendered at the Old Vic; All MySons, The Winter’s Tale, and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray at the Playhouse, Salisbury;Noises Off at the Taunton Brewhouse; Rebecca at the Duke’s Playhouse, Lancaster;Richard III at the Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow; Journey’s End at the Nuffield Theatre

Southampton and Whitehall Theatre, London; and Scream Blue Murder at the Gate,Notting Hill. His television and film work includes Waiting at the Gate, Search,Requiem, Dream Team IV, Licht des Feuers, Jack of Diamonds, Little White Lies, FamilyAffairs, The Bill, Timepiece and Mystery, and The Inevitability of Colour.

Martin Ware The Gentleman / Pages and StewardsMartin Ware recently earned a B.A. in acting from the Royal Scottish Academy ofMusic and Drama. His professional theater credits include a production of the 1532

John Heygood play The Play of the Weather, directed by Gregory Thompson, andWhere the Shoe Pinches, at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as produc-tions of Charlotte’s Web, Beowulf, The Voices, and Iphigenia. He has also performedin radio plays and as a voiceover narrator.

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Elizabeth and Henry BakerAntonia Bakker-SalvatoAlec and Margaret BancroftPhebe and George BantaCarole and Gary BellerPhilip and Mimi CarrollFrederick and Jan CohenJames and Lea G. CornellDr. Jasmine and

Mr. Kenneth CowinDaniel DietrichDorothy and Seth DubinShepard and Jane EllenbergDianne EnglekeDeborah and Thomas FlexnerJohn and Patricia A. ForelleSamantha FreeDonald C. FresneDiana Hirsch Friedman ’68

Helena and Christopher GibbsJohn and Ann GiffordJohn and Sarah GlaisterPeter H. GleasonVictoria and Max GoodwinJanine M. GordonSamuel L. Gordon Jr.Fayal Greene and David J. SharpeSeth GrosshandlerSusan Heath and Rodney PatersonSusan Hoehn and Allan BahrsThe Grunebaum Foundation Inc.Brian and Isis HoffmanPamela HowardJohn R. and Joyce HupperDr. and Mrs. Gerald ImberAlexandra and Paul KasminRobert E. KausEdith and Hamilton F. KeanKaren Kidder and Martin HolubCharles and Katharine KingCatherine E. KinseyEdna and Gary LachmundLowell H. and Sandra A. LambE. Deane and Judith S. LeonardMr. and Mrs. Michael LevinAmala and Eric LevineRobert S. LevineFrederick Lee Liebolt Jr. and

Suzanne Lloyd LieboltWalter LippincottPhilip and Tracey MactaggartCharles S. MaierLois Mander and Max PineMilton Meshel

Ann Lawrance MorseIstar H. and George A. MudgeNancy H. NesleMr. and Mrs. Thomas NewberryMr. and Mrs. William T. NolanMarta E. NottebohmFrederick H. OkolowitzElizabeth J. and Sevgin OktayJames and Purcell PalmerDavid B. and Jane L. ParshallFrancine PascalEllen and Eric PetersenEncarnita and Robert QuinlanClaire and John ReidDiane Lunt Rosenfeld and

Eric RosenfeldAlfred J. and Deirdre RossDr. Paul H. Schwartz and

Lisa Barnes-SchwartzDagni and Martin SenzelJames and Sarah SheldonSara Nesbitt SheldonJ. Kevin SmithDavid and Sarah StackDavid C. ThieringerCynthia M. Tripp ’01

UBS Foundation Matching Gift Program

Arete and William WarrenCharles P. WernerJack and Jill WertheimJoanna G. and Jonathan M.

WhitcupNoel WhiteJulia and Nigel WiddowsonMr. Doug WingoPeter and Maria WirthDesi and Ben Zalman

FriendBarbara Joyce AgrenRev. Albert R. AhlstromBryson Ainsley Jr.Lindsay BaldwinPatricia D. BeardMarge and Edward BlaineHelen W. BlodgettTimothy BontecouTeresa BrennanDiane ChapmanMr. Joseph CrowleyEmily M. Darrow and

Brendon P. McCraneNancy A. DemattoJackie DrexelPeter Edelman

Dr. Bernhard Fabricius and Sylvia Owen

Arthur L. FenaroliClark Ferguson and Suzy WolbergDavid and Tracy FinnMartha J. FleischmanLuisa E. FlynnJohn P. ForemanAllan FreedmanEmily FullerSusan Howe GillespieAnne GillisGilberte Vansintejan Glaser and

William A. GlaserMims and Burton GoldThurston GreeneDorothy and Leo HellermanNancy H. HenzeDavid O. HermanJuliet HeyerElizabeth D. and Robert HottensenNeil IsabelleJack and Mary JohnsonRev. Canon Clinton R. Jones ’38*John KanderRichard P. KeliskyDonna KermeenDavid and Janet E. KettlerDiana Niles KingThea KlirosBeth LedyM Group, LLCHermes Mallea and

Carey MaloneyAnnette S. and Paul N. MarcusHarvey MarekElizabeth MavroleonEllen McGrath, Ph.D.The McGraw-Hill Companies

Matching Gift ProgramJohn McNallyMargaret M. and

Raymond E. Meagher Jr.Sumner MilenderDeborah D. MontgomeryArvia MorrisPolly Murphy and Tim PiersonHarold J. and Helen C. NoahMarilyn and Peter OswaldGary S. PatrikLillian Pyne-CorbinDr. Alice R. PisciottoMiles PriceRobert B. RecknagelGeorge Reeke and Gail Hunt ReekeBarbara Reis

Linda M. RoyaltyTed Ruthizer and Jane DenkensohnSheila SandersJay Marc SchwammFrederick W. Schwerin Jr.Anne SelingerReginald W. SmithJoel Stein

S. B. Sternlieb, MDNadine Bertin StearnsJessica and Peter TcherepnineRobert G. ThomasJaneth L. ThoronCarole Tindall Dorsey WaxterMuriel Casper Weithorn and

Stanley Weithorn

Amy K. WhiteAnne WhiteheadJohn H. Whitworth Jr.Betsy Zimring

* DeceasedCurrent as of April 4, 2007

Administration for The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Advisory Board for The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Chair

Leon Botstein+Carolyn Marks BlackwoodStefano FerrariHarvey Lichtenstein

Peter J. Linden, M.D.Robert Martin+James H. Ottaway Jr.Dimitri B. Papadimitriou+David E. Schwab II ’52

Martin T. Sosnoff

Toni SosnoffFelicitas S. Thorne

+ex officio

Tambra Dillon, DirectorNancy Cook, General ManagerSusana Meyer, Associate DirectorDebra Pemstein, Vice President

for Development and Alumni/ae Affairs

Mark Primoff, Director ofCommunications

Stephen Millikin, Development Manager

Kimberly Keeley-Henschel, Budget Director

John Pruitt, Film Festival CuratorJeannie Schneider,

Administrative Assistant

ProductionRobert Airhart, Production ManagerStephen Dean,

Stage Operations SupervisorBonnie Anthony,

Production Manager AssistantRick Reiser, Associate Production

Manager—Theater TwoKatja Khellblau,

Associate Production Manager—Spiegeltent

Alex Eaton, Production Assistant—Spiegeltent

Lacy Post, ProductionAssistant—Spiegeltent

Alexandra Paull, Shopper

CarpentersKent Cyr, Technical Director Larry I. Hall, Scene Shop ManagerRajiv Shah, Master Carpenter—

Theater TwoJoan Newhouse, Scenic ChargeAllison Jung, Scenic PainterJeremiah BrownEmil ByrneAmber CallaghanChristian CrumJamie Del PinoDan GibbonsJake Goldwasser ’08

Josh HanerJohn IbsenSean Maloney ’07

Joseph Puglisi Todd RenadetteVincent Roca Arnold Willis ’07

J. Michael Zally

PropsScott Brodsky, Property DirectorRick Berger, Property Master—

Sosnoff TheaterJoe Osheroff, Property Master—

Theater TwoPatricia DynesAngela FayerweatherChristian Panaite

ElectricsAaron Sporer, Lighting DirectorJeremy Wahlers, Master

Electrician—Sosnoff TheaterJustin McClintock, Master

Electrician—Theater TwoBrandon Koenig, Assistant Master

Electrician—Sosnoff TheaterAnup Aurora, Assistant Master

Electrician—Theater TwoBrenda Lijewski, Light Board

Programmer—Sosnoff TheaterAndrew Hill, Light Board

Programmer—Theater TwoJodi ClementeJillian WalcherJoe WallsNathan Winner

Sound and VideoPaul LaBarbera,

Sound and Video EngineerPete Tomaso, Sound and Video

Engineer AssistantRichard Pearson, Sound and Video

Supervisor—Sosnoff TheaterKelly Duncan, Sound and Video

Supervisor—Sosnoff TheaterSara Even, Sound and Video

Supervisor—Theater TwoTony Van Note, Sound and Video

Supervisor—Spiegeltent

Board and Administration of the Bard Music Festival

Board of DirectorsRobert C. Edmonds ’68, ChairLeon Botstein+

Schuyler ChapinJohn A. DierdorffJeanne Donovan FisherChristopher H. Gibbs+

Jonathan K. GreenburgPaula K. HawkinsLinda HirshmanAnne E. ImpellizzeriPeter Kenner ’66

Mimi LevittThomas O. MaggsRobert Martin+

Joanna M. MigdalLucy Miller MurrayKenneth L. MironChristina A. MohrJames H. Ottaway Jr.David E. Schwab II ’52

H. Peter SternTucker TaylorFelicitas S. ThorneAnthony ViscusiSiri von ReisRosalind C. WhiteheadE. Lisk Wyckoff

Artistic DirectorsLeon BotsteinChristopher H. GibbsRobert Martin

Executive DirectorIrene Zedlacher

Associate DirectorRaissa St. Pierre ’87

Scholar in Residence 2007

Byron Adams

Program Committee 2007

Byron AdamsLeon BotsteinChristopher H. GibbsRobert MartinRichard WilsonIrene Zedlacher

Operations ManagerRobert Whalen

DevelopmentDebra PemsteinAndrea GuidoStephen Millikin

Public RelationsMark Primoff

+ ex officio

Ted Hudson, Assistant—SosnoffPhillip Meir Sibli-Landsman,

Assistant—SosnoffCharles Coes,

Assistant—Theater TwoJeff Human, Assistant—Spiegeltent

CostumesMary Grusak,

Costume Shop ManagerChristopher Schramm, DraperMolly Farley, First HandCharles Peden, Wardrobe

Supervisor—Sosnoff Theater Jill Sunderland, Wardrobe

Supervisor—Theater TwoReita Braich, WardrobeDale Gibbons, WardrobeAlice Broughton, StitcherSusan Cox, Stitcher

Hair and MakeupJennifer Donovan, Hair and

Makeup DirectorHeather BickhamMaia Kern

Company ManagementKate Pfeffer, Company ManagerJack Bylerly ’09, Assistant Company

ManagerGrace Converse ’08, Assistant

Company ManagerKaty Kelleher ’08, Assistant

Company ManagerJake Nabel ’07,

Assistant Company ManagerMarkus Paminger ’07,

Assistant Company Manager

Box OfficeElena Batt,

Assistant Box Office ManagerGrace Leavitt ’07,

Assistant Box Office ManagerCharlotte Allen ’10,

Box Office AssistantTom Corrado, Box Office AssistantJessica Dee, Box Office AssistantRachel Gordon ’10,

Box Office AssistantEmma Ann Hill ’07,

Box Office AssistantCarl Kranz ’08, Box Office Assistant

Kate Motzenbacker ’09, Box Office Assistant

Benjamin Richter ’08, Box Office Assistant

Front of HouseAustin Miller ’06, House Manager

and Assistant General ManagerShelley Green,

Assistant House ManagerJoshua Groffman,

Assistant House ManagerChristina Reitemeyer ’08, Assistant

House ManagerJoshua Tyler ’06,

Assistant House Manager

FacilitiesMark Crittenden, Facilities ManagerRay Stegner, Assistant to the

General ManagerDoug Pitcher, Building Operations

CoordinatorJody Cerasano, HousekeepingValerie Bishop, HousekeepingJohn Malden, Housekeeping

Current as of May 24, 2007

Support The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Since its opening in 2003, the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts has transformed cultural life in theHudson Valley with world-class programming. Our continued success relies heavily on individuals such as you.Become a Friend of the Fisher Center today.

Individual GivingFriends of the Fisher Center membership is designed to give individual donors the opportunity to support theirfavorite programs through the Fisher Center Council or Bard Music Festival Council. As a Friend of the FisherCenter, you will enjoy a behind-the-scenes-look at Fisher Center presentations and exclusive special events andservices throughout the year.

Corporate GivingNumerous opportunities exist for corporate sponsorship and patronage of the Fisher Center and its programs. Byjoining The Corporate Council, your company and its employees not only show their support for the Hudson Valleycultural community, but also receive a wide range of marketing opportunities and membership benefits. TheFisher Center will work closely with Corporate Council members to create the benefits package best suited totheir needs.

As a Friend of the Fisher Center or Corporate Council member, you will gain access to a number of exclusive special events and services created for supporters. Membership levels vary, and based on your gift amount,benefits may include:

• Advance notice of programming• Free tours of the Fisher Center• Invitations for you and a guest to a season preview event• Invitations for you and a guest to attend a select dress rehearsal• Invitations for you and a guest to a backstage technical demonstration• A copy of the Bard Music Festival book• Access to an exclusive telephone line for Patron Priority handling of ticket orders• Invitations for you and a guest to a reception with the artists

For more information on how you can become a Friend of the Fisher Center, please contact Stephen Millikin at 845-758-7926 or millikin@bard.edu. You can also make a gift or schedule monthly gifts to be transferred automaticallyto the Fisher Center from your checking account or credit card by visiting www.fishercenter.bard.edu/support.

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York