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TABLE OF CONTENTS

5 FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 7 FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR 9 NEWS IN BRIEF 10 2014/15 SEASON PREVIEW 14 IN THE COMMUNITY: DRAMA ACADEMY 17 PROGRAM 19 CAST 20 DRAMATURGY 20 CHICAGO, 1928 22 PRIMARY SOURCES FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION 27 WHO’S WHO33 MTC STAFF AND BOARD 35 DONORS 42 PATRON INFORMATION

JUNE 201447th SEASON

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Every so often, a play crosses my desk with language and imagery that so deeply connects with my imagina-tion that the entire world of the play mushrooms into

existence. Those plays are the plays that I fight to put on our stage. (They are also plays that I try to direct!)

Failure: A Love Story is one of those plays. In the middle of my first reading, I knew I wanted to stage the play using actors who could both sing and play multiple instruments. I knew I needed our frequent collaborator Chris Houston to orchestrate arrangements for the songs listed in the play, as well as compose additional music that would nearly turn our production into a musical. So much of what you will experience seemed to create itself. That’s what great playwrights inspire: a blossoming of ideas.

Failure’s playwright Philip Dawkins is enjoying a double Bay Area debut right now. His play The Homosexuals is running at New Conservatory The-atre Company in San Francisco. I hope you will take this rare opportunity to see two new works back-to-back by an extremely talented up-and-coming American dramatist. You will be astounded by how different the two plays are while still embodying the incredible joy that Philip manifests in both his writing and in his life.

We would have never found this play without the extraordinary work done by our director of new play development Margot Melcon. She was serving as a guest reader for another organization’s play prize when she read Failure. Upon finishing her first read, she walked the script into my office and said, “This is the next play you read, put it at the top of the pile.” That’s how true gems sometimes find their way into your life.

This is where I often tell you a little about our wonderfully talented artists, but with this group, I really don’t know how to begin. Everyone associated with this production has gone to entirely new creative places – the actors, the designers, backstage crew and the technical teams who have created the show. In particular, watching these actors work has been awe-inspiring. Every one of them picked up multiple new instruments during the rehearsal process – all are playing instruments on stage that they only just learned by generously teach-ing each other during rehearsals. It has been truly a most joyous experience to create this remarkable play.

Welcome to Failure: A Love Story and thank you for your support this season.

Jasson Minadakis

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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As the leading professional theater in the North Bay, Marin Theatre Company creates high quality theater experiences for all of Marin County and the

greater Bay Area. This begins with the six plays you see in our mainstage subscription series each year, including this perfor-mance of Failure: A Love Story. Behind those six plays are our two national new play prizes (which received over 900 submis-

sions this year) and the myriad scripts, readings and workshops that allow us to find just the right mix of story and artistry every season. We also offer numerous classes, in-school residencies, student matinees and our popular five-play theater series for young audiences, providing theater experiences to more than 8,500 young people each year – many of who are experiencing the performing arts for the first time.

Finally, we have a commitment to serve our community, broadly defined. This means all of Mill Valley, Marin County and the Bay Area. Specifically, we spend a lot of our time and resources working with the underserved communi-ties in Marin City and San Rafael’s Canal District.

I recently spoke with my counterpart at Next Generation Scholars, a fantas-tic afterschool program for 70 promising young men and women in the Ca-nal District. Next Gen Scholars has a track record of 100% success sending its kids to colleges, which include the most elite institutions in the country. My colleague told me the story of a student enrolled in the program who had seen August Wilson’s Fences here at MTC. After the performance, the young man said to her, “That’s how it is for me.” He has an alcoholic father who questions why he bothers with school and tells his son repeatedly that he will never do better than his father. This young man is now writing his col-lege application essay on how the experience of seeing Fences has made him understand why his father treats him this way and has freed him to pursue his own dreams.

I share this story as a single example among thousands of the real impact that MTC has every day. Your attendance, subscription and financial contributions to your community’s theater company means that thousands more will share in these positive experiences.

As ever, feel free to email me at michaelb@marintheatre.org. Enjoy the heart-warming, soulful beauty that is Failure: A Love Story. Thank you for all you do.

Michael Barker

FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

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Cast Party!

Cast Party!, our annual spring fund-raiser, was held on Friday, May 9, at the Outdoor Art Club in downtown Mill Valley. Over 150 guests attend-ed, including actors Arwen Anderson, Aldo Billingslea, L. Peter Callender, Rod Gnapp, Brian Herndon, Pat-rick Kelly Jones, Liz Sklar, Megan Smith and Kathryn Zdan, as well as playwright Lauren Gunderson and composer and sound designer Chris Houston. Thank you to all who do-nated to and attended the event – you raised over $190,000 for MTC!

Three SFBATCC wins for MTC

The Whipping Man won the 2013 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Crit-ics Circle Awards for Entire Produc-tion and Ensemble (L. Peter Cal-lender, Nicholas Pelczar and Tobie Windham). Rod Gnapp also won for Featured Male in The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!

New Play Reading Series: The Year of the Rooster

On Monday, June 30, at 7pm, please join us for a free public reading of The Year of the Rooster by Eric Dufault, winner of our 2013 David Calicchio New American Playwright Prize. Advance reservations are strongly recommended, call 415.388.5208.

Let’s go to OSF!

Travel with artistic director Jasson Mi-nadakis for a one-of-a-kind insider’s perspective on the Oregon Shake-

speare Festival in Ashland, October 29 to November 3. See The Tempest, The Great Society and The Comedy of Errors, among others, and meet OSF artists. Exclusive opportunity for donors of $500 or higher; reservation deadline is July 1. For more informa-tion, call the Development Depart-ment, 415.388.5200 x3317.

Free performances of Once on This Island and Peter Pan

On July 18 and 19, come to MTC to see our Professional Actor Training Program students (grades 9-12) perform the hit musical Once on This Island (just seen at TheatreWorks!) at 7pm. Also those days, support our Summer Performance Camp students (grades 1-10) as they perform Disney’s Peter Pan Jr. at 10:30am, 1pm and 3:30pm on Friday and 11:30am, 2pm and 4:30pm on Saturday.

Other upcoming events

• 6/12-6/13, 3-5:30pm: Auditions for Youth and Teen Companies

• 6/13: Subscription renewal deadline for 2014-15 Mainstage Season

• 6/30-7/19: Summer Performance Camp and Professional Actor Train-ing Program

• 8/14-9/7: Fetch Clay, Make ManFirst production of our 2014-15 Mainstage Season

• 8/30-9/7: Five Little MonkeysTheater Series for Young Audiences

Visit marintheatre.org for more infor-mation about our shows, events and programs. n

NEWS IN BRIEF

Each year, we spend months searching for the right combina-tion of six plays for the coming

season. There are invariably more exceptional plays to chose from than we can fit on our stage in a year, but we strive to find an exciting, balanced, challenging and thrilling selection you will have to be here to see. Below are our reasons for choosing the six plays that make up the 2014-15 season.

– Jasson, Margot, Daunielle, Doug, Meg, Mariel,

Rachel, Edgar MTC Artistic Staff

Fetch Clay, Make Man

Origins: Written by San Francisco native Will Power, who is best known for his lyrical, hip hop-infused re-imaginings of classic plays.

The Story: A knockout look at racial identity through the friendship of two of the 20th century’s most polarizing black icons: the early film actor Stepin Fetchit, who was one of the highest paid but most controver-sial performers of his time, and heavy-weight champion Muhammed Ali, who denied the box the world tried to put him in and became a legend of his own making.

The Hook: Set in 1965 just before Ali’s legendary second bout with Sonny Liston, Power captures the Civil Rights era in America, as well as an individual’s struggle to shape their own identity while also representing

something larger than themselves.

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The Whale

Origins: Winner of MTC’s 2011 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, playwright Samuel D. Hunter con-tinues his exploration of lost souls in small town America.

The Story: Mourning the death of his lover, sensitive and intelligent Charlie has become a desperately obese shut-in. When a near heart attack brings him to his senses, he reaches out to his estranged teenage daughter to try to make a connection before it’s too late.

The Hook: A beautiful, heartbreak-ing story of a man trying to reconcile mistakes he made early in life and to find a way to reunite with loved ones from his past, despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles. A deeply emotional journey of love.

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The Complete History of Comedy (Abridged)

Origins: The Reduced Shakespeare Company exercises their particular skill of distilling down moments from history into hilarious highlight reels.

The Story: Every joke, every pratfall, every spit take and every inappropri-ate moment that caused humanity to laugh out loud and roll in the aisles is told in this lightning quick summation of the history of comedy.

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The Hook: This trio of versatile and acrobatic performers will provide a much-needed moment of levity amidst the season’s schmaltzy sentimentality – the perfect antidote to the holidays.

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The Convert

Origins: Zimbabwean-American playwright and actress Danai Gurira writes about the confluence of cul-tures and colonial influences. The Convert is one play in a cycle about Zimbabwe’s shifting identity.

The Story: In 1896 in the African region that would become Zimbabwe, a girl is forced to choose between family and tribal traditions and the Christian faith and Western values she has embraced.

The Hook: On the surface the story is about choice – between tribal tradition and Christian religion, between family and faith, between living with what you know and mov-ing forward regardless of what is left behind – but it is also about power, about using belief to redraw lines on maps and about erasing culture in the name of progress.

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The Way West

Origins: Winner of MTC’s 2013 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, playwright Mona Mansour explores her mother’s side of her family and the spirit of the American Dream.

The Story: In a fading central California town, Mom is holding

down the fort despite facing bank-ruptcy and failing health. When her two adult daughters return home to help get things in order, Mom seizes the opportunity to teach them what it means to always be searching the horizon for a better day.

The Hook: Having recently weath-ered a rough economy, when job loss and foreclosure were around every bend, this highly theatrical play with music brings to life the way unchecked American optimism can lead us all down a very dangerous trail.

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Choir Boy

Origins: From playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney – whose Brother/Sister Trilogy took the Bay Area by storm in 2010 – comes a powerful and glorious coming-of-age story filled with a capella gospel harmonies that will lift the ceiling off the theater.

The Story: A renowned Southern prep school for boys is dedicated to nurturing strong, ethical black men. A young singer wants nothing more than to take his place as leader of the school’s legendary choir but conflicts arise when the person he is overwhelms his voice, and shifting al-liances between the boys threaten the choir’s future.

The Hook: A soaring contemporary look at what it means to be a young black man coming up in the world when every difference is amplified and the individual voice has to fight to be heard. n

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Another season is coming to an end, and we are turn-ing our attention to what

is coming around the corner. I am very proud of how Marin Theatre Company’s education programs have grown over the last two years and look forward to even more growth in the coming year.

As an artist and arts administrator, I love symmetry and cohesion. It is important to me that we create mul-tiple points of entry for learners of all ages, so whether you are 4, 40 or 75 we provide an opportunity for you

to engage with your creativity and a trajectory for continued participation over time.

In order to achieve this goal in 2014-15, we are moving all of our class offerings into one program called Drama Academy. Within Drama Academy we will offer classes for the following age groups: Pre-K-3rd Grade, Youth Conservatory for 4th-8th Grade, Teen Company for high school students and Adult.

Pre-K-3rd Grade

Our Pre-K-3rd Grade classes will take

Lifelong learning starts here | Drama Academy offers theater classes for all ages

Daunielle Rasmussen teaching Kelly Koenig, Jack Garrett and Zoran Kollock with intern Coo-per Harrington-Fei (seated in chair) at MTC’s 2013 Summer Camp. | photos by Jay Yamada

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place at school sites or community centers and will feature a theme of “Adventure” over the course of the season. Each session (Fall, Winter, Spring 1, Spring 2) will focus on building a different performance skill from acting to movement to improv. The year will culminate in a perfor-mance workshop geared towards preparing students for participation in a full-length play at our summer performance camp.

Youth Conservatory

Youth Conservatory classes will take place onsite at MTC and are offered much like dance studio courses, once per week over the course of the full school year. Students enroll in the class day and time that best fits their availability. Classes are for youth who are very interested in training more deeply as an actor. The cur-riculum incorporates acting, move-ment and vocal techniques with scene study. There will be a showcase at the

end of each term. Students enrolled in the Drama Technique class will be eligible to participate in our Youth Company, which performs at public events and in a library tour during the school year.

Teen Company

The Teen Company will be selected based on audition and will perform at public events, teen programming in our Theater Series for Young Audi-ences and in a library tour with the Youth Company.

Adult

Our adult classes have become very popular this inaugural season and we are proud to offer a wide selec-tion of classes in the 2014-15 Season, including Playwriting, Improv, Acting Shakespeare and Contemporary American Playwrights. n

– Daunielle Rasmussen Director of Education

Pre-K-3rd Grade ClassesSchedules and locations vary, please visit marintheatre.org to learn more.

Youth ConservatoryDrama Technique Class (Fall Term: Sept 3-Dec 18 | Showcase: Dec 19-20)

– Level I, 4-5th Grade: Mondays 4:45-5:45pm, Wednesdays 3:00-4:00pm – Level I, 6-8th Grade: Mondays 3:30-4:30pm, Wednesdays 4:15-5:15pm– Level II, 6-8th Grade: Mondays 6:00-7:00pm

Youth Company* Rehearsals: Wednesdays 5:30-7:00pm

Teen Company*Rehearsals: Wednesdays 5:30-7:00pm

Adult ClassesMondays 7:15-8:45pm

*Auditions for Youth and Teen Companies are June 12-13, 3:00-5:30pm.

2014-15 Drama Academy Course Schedule

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FAILURE: A LOVE STORY World premiere produced by Victory Gardens Theater; Chicago, Illinois

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Original music ©2014 Chris Houston Music ASCAP

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by Philip Dawkins

directed by Jasson Minadakis+

Composer, Music Director & Sound Designer Chris Houston Choreographer Kathryn Zdan* Scenic Designer Nina Ball** Lighting Designer York Kennedy** Costume Designer Jacqueline Firkins** Stage Manager Elisa Guthertz* Properties Artisan Seren Helday Casting Director Meg Pearson Additional Casting Jessica Heidt Dramaturg Margot Melcon Assistant Director Julianna Reese

FEATURING

Brian Herndon,* Patrick Kelly Jones,* Liz Sklar,* Megan Pearl Smith* and Kathryn Zdan*

Peter J. Owens fund

this production ofFailure: a love Story

is generously underwritten by the following:

MTC PARTNERS

Anonymous | The Bellebyron Foundation | N.J. “Sky” Cooper

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | Marin Community Foundation

Gage Schubert | Christopher B. & Jeannie Meg Smith

SEASON PARTNERS

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VIP PRODUCERS

Mrs. Gale K. Gottlieb in honor of Dr. Kenneth I. Gottlieb

The Haughton Family Charitable Fund | Susan & Russell Holdstein

Lori Lerner & Terry Berkemeier | Shirley Loubé | Melanie & Peter Maier

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EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

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Bernard Osher Foundation | Clay Foundation – West | The Kimball Foundation

Kurland Family Foundation | Nordstrom, Inc.

PRODUCERS

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Buffy Clay Miller & George Miller | Tom L. Davis & Marden N. Plant

Jim & Barbara Kautz | Chuck & Barbara Lavaroni

Fred Levin & Nancy Livingston In Memory of Ben and A. Jess Shenson

Ivan & Lochiel Poutiatine | Gary & Dana Shapiro | Beverly Tanner & Jerry Herman

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Cast of Charactersin order of last breath

Nelly Fail (The youngest) . . . . . . . Kathryn Zdan*

Jenny June Fail (The middlest) . . . . . . . . Liz Sklar*

Gertrude Fail (The eldest) . . . . .Megan Pearl Smith*

John N. Fail (The brother) . . . . Patrick Kelly Jones*

Mortimer Mortimer (The lover) . . . . Brian Herndon*

All other roles played by members of the company.

Please remember to turn off all cell phones or any other devices that could make a noise and be distracting to people around you.

Photographs and recordings of any kind are strictly prohibited.

Time1928

(and many years before and many more after)

PlaceChicago

Please join us for After Words, a question and answer session led by a member of our artistic staff,

immediately following this performance (except on Saturdays and Opening and Closing Nights).

DRAMATURGY

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Chicago, 1928 | The End of the Era of Wonderful Nonsense

“The busiest intersection in the world” – Looking north up Chicago’s State Street from Madison Street, c. 1925.

The Jazz Age. The Lawless Decade. The Roaring Twen-ties. No matter the moniker,

the decade between the First World War and the beginning of the Great Depression was not only a period of immense cultural change – it was a rollicking good time. It was a time of “permanent prosperity” and unprec-edented affluence as the wealth of the nation doubled between 1920 and 1929, when skirts rose above the knee as victorious suffragettes marched to the ballot box and flappers filled the jazz clubs, when Ford Model T cars carrying unmarried young couples and families alike trundled down the streets of America’s cities, when

speakeasies flourished in response to Prohibition and bathtub gin flowed. It was the boom time. The specter of the war (1914-1918) and the subsequent worldwide influenza epidemic (1918) had lifted, and Americans were in the mood to indulge.

The country’s response to Prohibition captures well the devil-may-care spirit of the decade. Intended to ban the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol in the United States and lasting from 1920 to 1933, Prohibi-tion was a fantasy. It was the law that impacted the most Americans, and the one to which they paid the least attention. The nation not only

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disregarded this law, moral codes of days gone by were discarded alto-gether – and old ideas about thrifti-ness went with them. Americans kicked up their heels and danced the Charleston all the way to Wall Street, where investors flocked to the rising stock market.

The influx of the nouveau riche com-bined with new technologies created a consumer culture, and by the end of the decade, more than twelve million homes had a radio and one in every five Americans owned a car. New technologies like washing machines and vacuums abounded and, perhaps in response to life being made easier in many ways, deeds of derring-do and tests of endurance became the entertainment du jour. Dance marathons, flagpole-sitting and cross-Atlantic flights embodied the reckless, unsinkable character of the time.

And Chicago shimmered at the center of it all. Founded in the 1830s, the city was established as a water transit hub. The Chicago River opened the channel between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River and the early addition of railroads exponentially improved the city’s ability to trans-port and process the area’s raw ma-terials. Chicago became an industrial metropolis with iron and steel mills as its foundation. The opportunities available there attracted huge pre-World War I migrations, especially from Eastern and Southern Europe, and the social upheavals after the war brought swells of African-American migrants. Though often fraught with

racial tension, this diversity proved fruitful, creating a vibrant community that led to commercial success and cultural creativity such as the birth of Chicago’s versions of blues and jazz.

By the beginning of the twenties, Chicago had 2.7 million residents, with more on their way. Much of the city’s commerce was centralized near the business district known as “the Loop” – a half-mile-square section of downtown – and this tiny area saw the arrival of 750,000 people every day on public transit, including streetcars and “L” trains.

As America’s second-largest city, Chicago was an epicenter of activ-ity on the rise. The forces at odds in the country were magnified there, with the most active proponents of Prohibition (the Women’s Christian Temperance Union) based just out-side Chicago as Al Capone’s bootleg-gers and gangsters ran the city from within. The city was a bustling party, seemingly headed toward a bright and buoyant future.

By 1929, Chicago (and the country at large) was forced to face the dark side of an irresponsible and law-less economy as gang wars surged uncontrollably and the stock market crashed. But the twenties remain the city’s golden age, when everything seemed possible with a Louis Arm-strong record on the gramophone and a jar of moonshine in hand. n

– Rachel Wiegardt-Egel Literary Intern

The Chorus can take any number of shapes. Multiple people, one person, puppets … Feel free to reassign some or all of the Chorus’ lines to other characters. You want to have the Fails talking about themselves in third person? Awesome. You want the two dead parents to comprise the chorus (Oh, they’re dead. Spoiler alert?)? Go for it. You want a trio of hear-no/see-no/speak-no evil monkeys narrating the story? Rock on. The chorus is there to be tailored to your specific production. Make it as simple or complex as you see fit.

Also, you’ll notice a bunch of other characters such as “Henry Fail,” “Grand-father Clock,” “Gramophone,” “Dog,” “Grantland Rice.” These roles can be played by members of the chorus, by other characters, pre-recorded, etc. Again, feel free to use your creativity and pull from the strengths and shape of your production.

It is possible, though not required, for the same actress to play all three Fail sisters. If you want the Fail sisters to be played by three different actresses (or even seven different actresses), by all means, sally forth.

All this to say, this play is meant to be tailored to fit the needs and size of your production. It is possible to tell this story with as few as four actors or as many as fifty. So, have fun. n

– Philip Dawkins, Failure: A Love Story

Primary sources | A Note on Production, from the Playwright

DRAMATURGY

For further consideration

• How was music used in the play? What songs make up the soundtrack to your life?

• Have you loved and lost? Was it better than never having loved at all?

• How are different kinds of love expressed by the different relationships in your life?

• Why do you think the play is titled Failure: A Love Story? n

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Philip Dawkins (playwright) makes his MTC debut with the West Coast premiere of Failure: A Love Story. His work includes the recent Joseph Jefferson Award nominated world premiere of Miss Marx: or the Involuntary Effect of Living at Strawdog Theatre in Chicago, as well as recent critically-acclaimed plays The Homosexuals and Failure, which also

received “Jeff Award” nominations for New Work after their world premieres with About Face Theatre in 2011 and Victory Gardens Theater in 2012. Dawkins is making his Bay Area debut this May with the local premiere of The Homosexuals at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco. His plays for young folks are published through Playscripts, Inc. A graduate of Loyola University, Chicago, he is an Artistic Associate of About Face Theatre, an Ensemble Playwright at Victory Gardens and a founding member of Chicago Opera Vanguard. Dawkins teaches playwriting at Northwestern University, his alma mater Loyola University Chicago and through the Victory Gardens ACCESS Program for writers with disabilities. He also teaches Kung Fu to little Chicago kids through Rising Phoenix Kung Fu.

Jasson Minadakis (director) is in his eighth season as artistic director of MTC, where he has directed the world premiere of Lasso of Truth, The Whipping Man (San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Awards for best production and best acting ensemble), Waiting for Godot, Othello, the Moor of Venice, The Glass Menagerie, Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice, the world

premiere of Seagull, Happy Now?, Equivocation (SFBATCC Award for best director), the world premiere of Sunlight, Lydia, The Seafarer, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Streetcar Named Desire, said Saïd, Love Song and The Subject Tonight is Love. As artistic director of Actor’s Express The-atre Company, he directed The Pillowman, Bug, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Echoes of Another Man, Killer Joe, Burn This, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Blue/Orange and Bel Canto. As producing artistic director of Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, he directed Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Chagrin Falls (2002 Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best Production) and numerous others, including 19 productions of Shakespeare. Regional credits include The Whipping Man at Virginia Stage Company, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Hamlet at Georgia Shakespeare, Copenhagen at Playhouse on the Square (2003 Ostrander Theatre Award for Best Dramatic Production) and Bedroom Farce at Wayside Theatre.

Brian Herndon (Mortimer Mortimer) has appeared at MTC in The Good German and As Thousands Cheer. His recent work includes Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness with Shotgun Players and The Taming of the Shrew with Livermore Shakes. Herndon originated the role of Philip Elton in

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Jane Austen’s Emma at TheatreWorks and has reprised it in all the play’s regional productions, including Arizona Theatre Company, the Old Globe and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. He spent five seasons with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival as an actor and two with Marin Shakespeare Company as a fight choreographer. Herndon attended the Dell’Arte Inter-

national School of Physical Theatre and received his MFA from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

Patrick Kelly Jones (John N. Fail) has appeared at MTC in It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, the world premiere of Bellwether, two School Tour productions by Steve Yockey – TALL Tales and Animal vs. Animal: an Aesop’s Fables Mashup – and public readings of Bill Cain’s play-in-development 33. His Bay Area appearances include The Coast of Utopia Trilogy

at Shotgun Players, Buried Child at Magic Theater, Abigail’s Party at SF Play-house, The Death of the Novel at San Jose Rep, The Pitmen Painters at The-atreWorks, Metamorphosis at Aurora Theatre Company and Exit, Pursued by a Bear with Crowded Fire Theater. Nationally, his credits include Cymbeline and Misalliance at New York Classical Theatre; Step One: Plays with Instruc-tions at the 52nd Street Project in New York City; You Can’t Take It with You at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts; The Lieutenant of Inishmore and In the Belly of the Beast at Florida Studio Theatre; Vincent in Brixton at Cleveland Play House; and Arms and the Man at Great Lakes Theater. Jones holds an MFA in acting from Case Western Reserve University.

Liz Sklar (Jenny June Fail) has appeared at MTC in the world premieres of Lasso of Truth, Bellwether and Seagull, as well as Othello, the Moor of Venice and public readings of Bill Cain’s play-in-development 33. She has also been an MTC teacher in residence at Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy in Marin City. Sklar recently participated in A.C.T.’s staged reading of The

Desk Set. Other Bay Area credits include Becky Shaw at SF Playhouse, Care of Trees at Shotgun Players, A Christmas Carol at A.C.T., King John at Marin Shakespeare Company and The Tempest at Cal Shakes. Sklar also performed in Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Mortal Folly Theatre in New York City and co-starred with Stacy Keach in the film Imbued. She holds a BA in theater arts from Brown University, an MFA in acting from A.C.T. and has trained with the SITI Company in New York.

Megan Pearl Smith (Gertrude Fail) has appeared at MTC in Woody Guth-rie’s American Song, which she has also performed over a hundred times around the country, including locally at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. Local

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credits include Cal Shakes, TheatreWorks, SF Playhouse, Capi-tal Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Center REP and Playground. Regional credits include Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Willamette Repertory Theatre. Smith performs original music with the Folk/Americana duo Misner & Smith. The pair re-

cently released their fourth full-length album Seven Hour Storm and, in 2007, their song “Madeline (Paradise Cracked)” won the West Coast Songwriters Association’s Song of the Year. Smith will be featured on the forthcoming official cast recording of Woody Guthrie’s American Song, which features the entire cast of MTC’s 2010 production.

Kathryn Zdan (Nelly Fail and choreographer) has appeared at MTC in the world premiere of Bellwether. As an actor, creator, singer, mover, teacher and director, she has worked extensively around the Bay Area with TheatreWorks, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire, Center REP, Magic Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Cal Shakes, Livermore Shakes,

Central Works and Berkeley Playhouse, among others. A Mill Valley native, Zdan received a BFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA in ensemble based physical theatre from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. After graduate school, she performed and toured Europe with the internationally acclaimed, Amsterdam-based street theater and performance art group Warner & Consorten. Zdan is a guest artist at the Tam High drama department, of which she is an alumna. kathrynzdan.com

Elisa Guthertz (stage manager) makes her MTC debut with Failure: A Love Story. She has worked as a stage manager in the Bay Area for over twenty years, most recently on Major Barbara at A.C.T. and Theatre Calgary in Canada. Her other productions with A.C.T. include Underneath the Lintel, Arcadia, The Normal Heart, The Scottsboro Boys, Endgame and Play, Once in a Lifetime, Clybourne Park, Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Rich and Famous, The Rainmaker, A Number and Eve Ensler’s The Good Body, among others. She has also stage managed The Mystery of Irma Vep, Suddenly, Last Summer, Rhinoceros, Big Love, Civil Sex, Collected Stories and Cloud Tectonics at Berkeley Rep; The Vagina Monologues at the Alcazar Theatre; The Good Body at the Booth Theatre on Broadway and Big Love at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Nina Ball (scenic designer) has previously designed the sets for MTC’s pro-ductions of Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, Good People, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and God of Carnage. Her designs have been seen at A.C.T., San Jose Rep, Aurora Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, SF Playhouse, Center

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REP, Z Space, Napa Valley Conservatory, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Word for Word, TheatreFIRST, Berkeley Playhouse, the Jewish Theatre San Fran-cisco, Musical Theatre Works, Town Hall Theatre, Solano College, Willows Theatre Company, St. Mary’s College and San Francisco State University. She has been nominated for numerous San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Shelley and Arty Awards. Recent awards include SFBATCC Awards for My Fair Lady at SF Playhouse and Metamorphosis at Aurora Theatre, a BroadwayWorld San Francisco Award for Care of Trees at Shotgun Play-ers and an Arty Award for her design of Eurydice at Solano College Theatre. Ball is a company member of Shotgun Players and has a MFA in scenic design from San Francisco State University. Her upcoming shows include A Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Cal Shakes, Twelfth Night at Shotgun Players and Into the Woods at SF Playhouse. ninaball.com

York Kennedy (lighting designer) has designed lighting for MTC’s produc-tions of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, the world premiere of Bellwether, In the Red & Brown Water (scenic and lighting designer), My Name is Asher Lev, The Last Schwartz and Communicating Doors. His de-signs have been seen in theaters across America and in Europe including Arena Stage, The Old Globe, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Repertory, A.C.T., Sacramento Opera, the Alley Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Yale Rep, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Goodspeed Musicals and the Denver Center. Awards for theatrical lighting include the Drama-Logue, San Diego Drama Critics Circle, Back Stage West Garland, Arizoni Theatre and the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Crit-ics Circle Awards. In the dance world, Kennedy has designed for Malashock Dance, Brian Webb and Tracey Rhodes. As an architectural lighting designer, he has designed both nationally and internationally numerous themed environ-ments, theme park, residential, retail, restaurant and museum projects includ-ing the Sony Metreon Sendak Playspace in San Francisco, Warner Bros. Movie World in Madrid, Le Centre de Loisirs in Morocco and the LEGO Racers 4D attraction in Germany, Denmark, England and the U.S.A. He is a graduate of the California Institute for the Arts and the Yale School of Drama.

Jacqueline Firkins (costume designer) has designed costumes for MTC’s productions of The Whipping Man and The Glass Menagerie. Firkins’s re-gional design work includes the Goodman Theatre, Writer’s Theater, Court Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Northlight Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Timeline Theatre, House Theatre of Chicago, Hartford Stage Com-pany, Longwharf Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Portland Stage Company, Portland Center Stage, Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare and Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Brave New Repertory, About-Face Theatre Company, Dorset Theatre Festival, the Yale School of Drama

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and Virginia Stage Company. She is a recipient of a 2001 Princess Grace Award and is a faculty member at University of British Columbia, where she recently completed a project called, “Fashioning Cancer: The Correlation between Destruction and Beauty.”

Chris Houston (composer, sound designer and music director) is a pianist, composer and sound designer. He has composed music and/or designed sound for 26 of MTC’s productions, including August Wilson’s Fences, Jacob Mar-ley’s Christmas Carol, The Whipping Man (co-production with Virginia Stage Company), Waiting for Godot, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Top-dog/Underdog, Othello, the Moor of Venice, The Glass Menagerie, the world premiere of Bellwether, Seven Guitars, In the Red and Brown Water, Equivo-cation and more. Locally, his designs and compositions have been featured at A.C.T., Aurora Theatre Company, SF Playhouse, Center REP, Magic Theatre and the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.

Seren Helday (properties artisan) is resident props artisan for MTC. She has provided props for all productions since 2008. She has also provided props for A.C.T., Center REP, Cal Shakes and SF Playhouse. She spent one year as Mas-ter Carpenter at New Conservatory Theatre Center, building some 30 shows for their season. Helday was also technical director of the Live Theatre Work-shop in Tucson in addition to working as a designer, performer and manager.

Michael Barker (managing director) joined MTC in February 2013. He was previously the general manager of Laguna Playhouse in Southern California, the managing director for the Los Angeles classical theater ensemble The Antaeus Company, associate managing director at Yale Repertory Theatre and managing director of Yale Summer Cabaret. He was Seattle Repertory The-atre’s 2008 Managing Director Fellow, apprenticed to Benjamin Moore, who has managed SRT for nearly 30 years. Prior to graduate school, Michael was associate director of marketing for Court Theatre in Chicago and also worked with Goodman Theatre, American Theater Company, Sansculottes Theater Company and the Playground Theater. He holds an MFA in theater manage-ment from Yale School of Drama and an MBA from Yale School of Manage-ment. At Yale, he was the recipient of the Daniel and Helene Sheehan Scholar-ship for theater management. He serves on the Mill Valley Arts Commission and the board of the Yale School of Management Alumni Association.

Margot Melcon (dramaturg and director of new play development) joined Marin Theatre Company as literary manager and dramaturg in 2008 and has served as dramaturg for all productions in the past five seasons in addition to managing new play development for the company. She has worked on new plays with the Kennedy Center, the New Harmony Project, The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Shotgun Players, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and

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Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and was a fellow at the National Critics Insti-tute at the O’Neill Playwrights Festival. She is a graduate of California State University, Chico.

Meg Pearson (casting director and company manager) has directed casting for all MTC main stage productions since 2008. In addition, she directs cast-ing for MTC’s School Tour and MTC’s New Play Reading Series. Outside of MTC, Pearson served as casting director on the feature film Seducing Charlie Barker, directed by Amy Glazer, and is a former Board member of the Bay Area Children’s Theatre. Before coming to MTC, she served as casting as-sistant on television shows Las Vegas, King of Queens and Grounded for Life, as well as feature films Eurotrip, Dude, Where’s My Car? and Straight Jacket. Pearson is a graduate of the Theatre Arts program at Boston College.

Marin Theatre Company is the Bay Area’s premier mid-sized theater and the leading professional theater in the North Bay. We produce a six-show season of

provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in our 231-seat main stage theater, as well as a five-show Theater Series for Young Audiences (in partnership with the Bay Area Children’s Theatre) in our 99-seat studio theater. We are committed to the development and production of new plays by American playwrights, with a comprehensive New Play Pro-gram that includes productions of world premieres, two nationally recognized annual playwriting awards and readings and workshops by the nation’s best emerging playwrights. Our numerous education programs serve more than 6,000 students from over 40 Bay Area schools each year. MTC was founded in 1966 and is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

MTC is a proud member of the National New Play Net-work, the country’s alliance of nonprofit professional the-

aters that champions the development, production and continued life of new plays for the American theater.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Gale GottliebPresident

Terry Berkemeier Treasurer

John ChesleySecretary

Fred TaylorVice President

Robin RiceAsst. Treasurer

Kipp Delbyck Asst. Secretary

Carl BerryDave ChapmanMolly DickMichael DyettBrian HaughtonSusan HoldsteinLori HorneTina McArthur

Iris MetzKiki PescatelloIvan PoutiatineStacy ScottChristopher B. SmithMartha SmolenBeverly TannerBeth Wintersteen

MTC STAFF & BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jasson MinadakisArtistic Director

Michael BarkerManaging Director

ARTISTIC

Margot Melcon | Director of New Play Development & DramaturgMeg Pearson | Casting Dir. & Company Mgr.Mariel Rossman | Company ManagerThomas Bradshaw | Playwright Under Commission

DEVELOPMENT

Noralee Monestere McKersie | Development Dir.Margot McGrath | Development Associate

MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS

Julie P. Knight | Marketing DirectorSasha Hnatkovich | Communications Dir.Jeff Berlin | Graphic Designer

ADMINISTRATION

Mira Greene | General ManagerSafi Manzoor | Business ManagerRené Mejorado, Apollo Gorospe | I.T. ManagersPerotti And Carrade | Auditors

EDUCATION

Daunielle Rasmussen | Director of EducationMariel Rossman | Education CoordinatorDavid Abrams | Resident Teaching Artist

ARTS LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM

Edgar Gonzalez, Erin Lafferty, Jasmeet Saini, Rachel Wiegardt-Egel

FRONT OF HOUSE

Judith Peck | Director of Ticketing & Audience ServicesMargot Manburg | Acting Box Office Mgr. Deborah Warren | Box Office AssociateRachel Wiegardt-Egel | Front of House Assoc.Maureen Biggart, Sissel Grove, Donna Platt, Jessica Polli, Sue Urquhart, Elfi Weideli | Café

PRODUCTION

Douglas Frazer | Production ManagerLizabeth Stanley | Asst. Production Mgr.Joe Mizzi | Technical DirectorJeff Klein | Asst. Technical DirectorAlex Marshall | Master ElectricianMia Baxter | Costume Shop ManagerAlicia Coombes | Costume Shop AssistantBetsy Norton | Production AssistantCassondra Malloy | Wardrobe CrewSophia Fong, Chris Jee, Shannon Walsh | Scenic ArtistsPaul Collins | CarpenterWilliam Campbell, Jeff Dolan, Kyle Herbert, Caitlin Steinmann, Seth Tuthall ElectriciansCaitlin Steinmann | Board OpTed Boyce-Smith | Lighting Design Asst.

ADVISORY BOARD

Ellen ArensonMichael AxelrodLinden BerryJoseph BodovitzJerry CahillAnn CameronDavid CataniaBobbie Chapman

Peter T. EstyDouglas P. FergusonNancy GoldbergGerry GoldsholleBrian GolsonGail HarrisJerry HermanPeter Jacobi

Kimberly JessupDirk LangeveldShirley LoubéMelanie MaierPeter MaierAndrew PoutiatineRussell PrattChristopher Raker

Laura ScottDana ShapiroGary ShapiroTara J. SullivanHugh VincentJennifer Yang WeednPhil Woodward

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INDIVIDUALS

DONORS

PARTNER CIRCLE

MTC Partner$50,000 & aboveAnonymousTerry Berkemeier &

Lori L. LernerEstate of Jack BissingerN. J. “Sky” CooperGage SchubertChristopher B. & Jeannie

Meg Smith

Season Partner$25,000 to $49,999Mrs. Gale K. Gottlieb in

honor of Dr. Kenneth I. Gottlieb

Tracy & Brian HaughtonShirley LoubéJames & Beth Wintersteen

PRODUCER CIRCLE

VIP Producer$15,000 to $24,999Susan & Russell HoldsteinCarol & Duff KurlandMelanie & Peter MaierKiki Pescatello

Executive Producer$10,000 to $14,999Carl & Linden BerryGerald Cahill &

Kathleen KingDave and Bobbie ChapmanJohn & Shelley ChesleyMolly & Brett DickTina McArthur &

Richard RubensteinBuffy Clay-Miller &

George MillerRobin & Rick Rice

Fred & Kathleen TaylorStacy Scott &

Chuck CiaccioDr. Hugh Vincent &

Joan Watson

Producer$5,000 to $9,999Kipp & Roy DelbyckMichael Dyett &

Heidi RichardsonGerry Goldsholle &

Myra LevensonJim & Barbara KautzFred Levin &

Nancy Livingston in memory of Ben and A. Jess Shenson

Ivan & Lochiel PoutiatineBeverly Tanner &

Jerry HermanToni K. Weingarten

Associate Producer$3,000 to $4,999AnonymousDavid Catania &

Diana Gay-CataniaSusan & Dennis GilardiKenneth & Joan GoslinerKip & Sara HowardCharles & Barbara LavaroniIris & Henry MetzGary & Dana ShapiroMartha & Jonathan SmolenVickie Soulier

Premiere Producer$1,000 to $2,999Anonymous Dennis & Tracy AlbersEllen & Ron Arenson

Richard Bergmann & Denise Filakosky

Joseph E. Bodovitz & Margaret Kaufman

John Boneparth & Gail Harris

Cheryl & Rick BrandonKen & Jackie BroadLynne CarmichaelSheldon Donig &

Steven De HartWilliam S. Farmer &

Leida SchoggenJay Framson & Joseph LaneAmy & Mort FriedkinElisabeth & Howard JaffeBob Kaliski & Linda NelsonCharles & Barbara LavaroniDiane & Laurence MartinWilliam & Janet McAllisterKen & Vera MeislinVivienne MillerMary & Steve MizrochMark & Maureen Jane

Perry in honor of Carl & Linden Berry

Robert & Donys PowellIngrid PurcellLeigh & Ivy RobinsonLarry & Diane RosenbergerJill & Tom SampsonEric SchwartzRichard & Diana ShoreKathleen SkeelsWilliam Strawbridge &

Meg WallhagenWill & Leslie ThompsonWendy Wyse

CREATIVE CIRCLEDirector | $500 to $999Anonymous (2)

Marin Theatre Company acknowledges the generous support of the following corporations, foundations and individuals whose contributions make great theater possible. For information about

making a donation or corporate sponsorship opportunities, please contact MTC’s Development Department at 415.388.5200 x3317. The following gifts were received between May 1, 2013, and May 1, 2014.

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Kedar K. AdourTom & Lois AshleyLee AubryHoward & Susan BlairNick & Joan BoodrookasJosh Brier &

Grace AlexanderJohn & Deborah BuehlerDr. Paula CampbellBrian Chadbourne &

Diane MurakamiJames & Linda CleverGeorge & Katherine CouchKarl & Mari DanneckerRuth DellStuart & Emily DvorinAnthony & Martha EasonDennis & Pam FiscoJill & Steven FugaroAlison FullerBrian & Alisa GolsonLaurel & Michael GothelfDavi HarringtonWilliam & Kathryn HarrisonSheryl HausmanPeter & Maggie HaywoodNigel & Jane HeathSandra HessPeter & Bonnie JensenDwight JohnsonDan & Lyra KellyAshley KennedyTom & Harriet KosticDirk & Madeline LangeveldGail & Steve LazarusSamuel & Natale LipsettLinda Kislingbury &

Scott MacLeodTracy MacLeodLaurence & Diane MartinDevan & Elizabeth NielsenJohn S. OsterweisRichard & Janet PearsonRobert PeirceMichael & Hailey PoutiatineToni RembePaula & Bob ReynoldsPaul & Sylvia RoyeFred & Dolores RudowAngelo & Kimberly SalarpiEllen & Donald SchellSusan SeefeldRod & Sandy Seeger

Don & Jane SlackTara J. Sullivan &

James Horan Jr.Beryl Jean SymmesPeter & Irene TabetBob & Valli TandlerMary & Herman WaetjenNathan Wolfe &

Lauren Gunderson

Designer | $250 to $499Anonymous (2)Susan AdamsonRobert AndersonBob Begley & Lynne JonesPhilip BernsteinRichard BottegaUte & Jack BrandonWendy BuchenRussell BurbankAlan & Caren CascioGary CecchiniJanet & Alan ColemanPaul & Valerie Crane DorfmanSuzanne DarleyTom L. Davis &

Marden N. PlantDino Di DonatoRichard & Diane EinsteinSabrina EliasophSamuel & Shari EsterkynLeland H. FaustMargaret FeldsteinErdmuth FolkerLee & Lyn FollettDonna & Michael FranzblauMargot Fraser FundVera GertlerLewis & Helene GibbsJoseph Grasso &

Victoria Pollock-GrassoRobert HallRosalind HamarKaren HaydockJules HeumannGeorgia HughesCary & Elaine JamesEllen K. JasperVirginia & Michael KahnSusan KolbRobert Lea & Melinda BoothCourtney LearyWarren & Barbara Levinson

David MadfesToni MartinSteve & Patricia McMahonPurple Lady - Barbara J.

Meislin FundJane MillerJerry & Judith MillerHerbert MillerDerek & Nancy ParkerGary & Gisela PeasleyLynn PerryStephen PiatekCynthia PillsburyStephanie PlexicoHal V. & Mary PlimptonRobert & Madeleine ProvostAmy RabeBarbara RichHector RichardsDeborah L. Robbins &

Henry NavasAlan & Enid RubinRob & Lise SalmonWilliam S. Farmer &

Leida SchoggenWilliam SchwarzerJane & Michael ScurichTerry SeligmanRolf & Jettie SelvigBarry & Esther ShafranJames & Connie ShapiroDouglas & Carole SheftMichael & Marsha SilbersteinPatricia SilverJoel & Susan SklarCarol & Sanford SvetcovWilliam & Utta TelliniLeRose WeikertHarriet WellerValerie WestenHarvey & Susan WittenbergVictoria WooGlea G. WylieAlan & Monica Zimmerman

Actor | $150 to $249Anonymous (4)Jerome & Susan ApartonDavid & Sarah BeardenSusan C. BeechRobert & Irene BelknapDavid & Marsha BermanDaniel & Betsy Bikle

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Rosalind & David BloomEdward & Amy BloombergElias & Carroll BotvinickDaphne Bransten in honor

of Melanie Maier’s birthday

Dorothy & Richard BreinerLynn Bunim &

Alexander Fetter in honor of Molly Dick

Karen CarmodyGordon ClessBob & Betty CoppleCharles & Eleanor CrawfordArthur DavidsonAnne DavisGinette DavisLinda DeerLivia DewathTom DietrichLoree DraegerTom & Rebecca EdwardsJohn Eichhorst &

Jennifer BlackmanAndrew E. ElkindKit EvertsCynthia FolkmannKent & Rita GershengornJoan GordonMichelle GriffinSteven & Jacqueline GrossmanIrwin & Catherine GubmanKathe HardyPamela HarrisonMary & Doug HerrMark Hoffman

Roger & Jean HumphreyEdward Isaacson &

Gabriella IsaacsonAuban A. JacksonHermia JamesSheila-Merle JohnsonKatelyn JohnsonAlfred JohnsonAlan & Jean KayPatricia KeehnDavid KincaidConstance & Richard KroeckDavid LesniniDavid & Carolyn LongGarrett Loube &

Marcie RodgersSusan & Jay MallElaine MarevichMyrna & Fred MargolinDr. Kurt MenningMario MereFranklin J. Meredith &

Mary Miller-MeredithDon MillerKathleen & Michael MontagueKelli Murray &

Laurence PulgramGary Nelson & Kellie MageeRobert Newcomer &

Susanne LightVirginia NewhallClyde & Merle OngaroHarry OppenheimerJack & Gail OsmanGerald & Nancy ParsonsBarbara Paschke

Susan & Jonathan PeckRobert & Audrey PedrinMr. & Mrs. Henk PeetersDavid PhillipsSle & Milton PickmanStuart PollakJoel & Barbara RenbaumRichard C. RobertBarbara RosenblumMark & Tobi RubinJulianne RumseyRichard & Sandra SchaeferBetty ScottDorothy SlatteryRoger & Kay SmithGlenn Smith & Verlinda RoseTimothy StandingRonald & Jo Ann Joy StehleJean SwardLarry & Judy SweetJoe & Eileen TennRobert TowlerJames & Gayle TunnellJames TustinConnie VandamentRachel WeinsteinTravis WrightSusan York

If your name has been misspelled or omitted, please call MTC’s Development Department, 415.388.5200 x3317.

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CORPORATIONS / FOUNDATIONS / GOVERNMENT

PARTNER CIRCLE

MTC Partner$50,000 & AboveThe Bellebyron FoundationThe William & Flora

Hewlett Foundation

Season Partner$25,000 to $49,999Google, Inc.*Marin Independent Journal*The Shubert Foundation YP*

PRODUCER CIRCLE

VIP Producer$15,000 to $ 24,999The Capital Group

CompaniesThe Haughton Family

Charitable FundKCBS All News 740AM &

106.9FM*Marin Community

FoundationNational New Play NetworkVenturous Theater Fund

of the Tides Foundation

Executive Producer$10,000 to $14,999Bernard Osher FoundationClay Foundation – West

The Kimball FoundationKurland Family FounationNational Endowment for

the ArtsNordstrom, Inc. Stacy Scott Catering*Yelp*

Producer$5,000 to $9,999California Arts CouncilNational New Play NetworkSavory ThymesThe Shenson FoundationThe Tournesol Foundation

Associate Producer$3,000 to $4,999Whole Foods

Premiere Producer$1,000 to $2,999AnonymousBank of America

Matching FundsThe Barth FoundationCenter for Cultural

InnovationCheveron Texaco Matching

Gift ProgramCMS, Inc.*County of MarinFirst GivingFrancis S. North Foundation

Koret FoundationMarin Charitable Mill Valley MarketMill Valley Rotary ClubPeju Province Winery*Wigt Printing

CREATIVE CIRCLE

$150 to $499 Apple Matching Gifts ProgramArgo Group Matching

Contribution ProgramDee’s Executive

Limousine ServiceMacy’s Foundation

Matching GiftsRedwood Security SystemsThe Rock FoundationThe Samuel & Natalie

Lipsett FoundationStrahm Communications*Wells Fargo Community

Support

* Denotes an in-kind

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CAST PARTY! DONORS

A.C.T.Asian Art MuseumAt the Top Salon and GalleryBardessono Napa Valley –

Lucy RestaurantBay Area Discovery MuseumBear Valley Music FestivalBerkeley Repertory TheatreBeth & James WintersteenBeverly Tanner &

Jerry HermanBob McGregorBob ReithermanBody Kinetics of Mill ValleyBook PassageBR Cohn Winery &

Olive Oil CompanyBrian & Tracy HaughtonCailfornia Film InstitueCalistoga InnCarl & Linden BerryCarol SeligCharles SchwabCheryl & Rick BrandonChristopher & Jeannie SmithContemporary Jewish MuseumCooper Alley SalonDaunielle RasmussenDave & Bobbie ChapmanDavid Catania &

Diana Gay-Catania David Haydon, Il DavideTodd diPietroEmporio Rulli

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

First Republic BankFoodniksFrantoio RistoranteFred & Kathleen TaylorGail HenricksonGale K. GottliebGrilly’s RestaurantIlene WolfIris & Henry MetzIvan & Lochiel PoutiatineJacqueline GersonJacqueline Schwartz,

RSVP CateringJasson MinadakisJerry Cahill & Kathy KingJohn & Shelley Chesley Joshua Ets-HokinKathy A. Fields, MDKelny DenebeimKiki PescatelloKimpton HotelsKipp & Roy DelbyckLagunitas Brewing CompanyLark TheaterLauren Gunderson &

Nathan WolfeLinda Cahill & Jim HorioLori & Mark HorneLuna Blu RestaurantMarin AirporterMarin Brewing CompanyMarin Shakespeare Company

Marin Symphony AssociationMarin Theatre Company

Board of DirectorsMark & Suzanne DarleyMartha & Jonathan SmolenMary Catherine & John SiebelMary W. MizrochMeg PearsonMichael Chiarello, CoquetaMichael Dyett &

Heidi RichardsonMichael MerrillMill Valley FlowersMolly & Brett DickMort & Amy FriedkinMountain Play AssociationNina McLemoreOctavia RiggsOregon Shakespeare FestivalPaddi MenzioParadise FoodsPeju Family WineryPeter & Melanie MaierPeter HaywoodPiatti Mill ValleyPresidio Bowling CenterRAB MotorsRachel ParkerRistorante FabrizioRobin & Rick RiceRocco’s PizzaRuth Livingston StudioRound House TheatreSF Jazz

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Thank you to everyone who donated to and attended our annual spring fundraiser Cast Party! You raised $190,000 for our artistic and education programs.

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CAST PARTY! ATTENDEES

Dennis & Tracy Albers Grace Alexander Lee AubryRichard BarnesTerry Berkemeier &

Lori LernerCarl & Linden BerrySoraya BetteronJoe & Nancy BlumJoseph Bodovitz &

Margaret KaufmanColleen BrandonRick & Cheryl BrandonJosh BrierCarter & Donna Brown Janet BrownGeorge Calys Bill & Karen Carmen Brian Chadbourne &

Diane MurakarrDave & Bobbie ChapmanJohn & Shelley Chesley Peter CoyoteDan & Leslie Davidson Kelny Denebeim Paul & Valerie Crane-Dorfman Mark & Suzanne Darley Brett & Molly DickMichael Dyett &

Heidi RichardsonBrent & Lauren Elliott Dick & Diane EinsteinSteve & Bunny FayneMorey & Ellen Filler Steve & Jill Fugaro Diana Gay-Catania

Dennis & Susan Gilardi Gerry Goldsholle &

Mira LevensonGale K. GottliebRoberta GrubmanKathryn HarrisonBrian & Tracy HaughtonPeter & Maggie Haywood Gail HenricksonRuss & Susan HoldsteinMark & Lori Horne Steve HorowitzKim Jessup Marshall & Patricia Kilduff Mitch & Jane Kramer Duff & Carol Kurland John LoganHersh MarkusfeldMichael & Sharron Marron Tina McArthur &

Richard RubensteinBill McGinnisKevin & Paula Weaver McGrathRandy MichelsonGeorge & Buffy Miller Vivienne MillerMilan & Tish MomirovDiane Murakami Ivan & Lochiel PoutiatineBob & Donys Powell Tim & Lori Rathje Bob Reitherman &

Noralee McKersieRick & Robin Rice Peter & Jane Richmond Erica Rosenblat

Paul & Sylvia RoyeArnold & Madeline Schuster James & Connie ShapiroJoel & Susan Sklar Vickie SoulierAlex SpivackLaura SutphenPeter & Irene TabetBob Tandler & Valli Benesch Beverely TannerFred & Kathleen Taylor Andrew ThompsonBrian & Donna Urey James & Beth Wintersteen Dick & Sue Wollack Alan & Monica Zimmerman

SPECIAL GUESTSArwen Anderson, actorAldo Billingslea, actorL. Peter Callender, actorRod Gnapp, actorLauren Gunderson,

playwrightBrian Herndon, actorChris Houston, composerPatrick Kelly Jones, actorLiz Sklar, actorMegan Smith, actorKat Zdan, actor

SPECIAL THANKSStacy Scott CateringChad Carvey, auctioneerPeter & Melanie Maier

Shirley LoubéShowroom 383Silverado Resort and SpaSloat Garden CenterSol FoodSoul CycleSouth Coast RepertorySpot Pet CareStacy Scott &

Chuck CiaccoStacy Scott CateringStefano’s PizzaSteve Fayne

Susan & Russ HoldsteinSylvia GillTara Sullivan & Jim HoranTed SawyerTelford’s Pipe and CigarTerry Berkemeier &

Lori LernerThe CantinaThe Club at Harbor PointThe Half Day CaféThe Image FlowThe Melting PotThrockmorton Theatre

Tina McArthur & Richard Rubenstein

Toy CrazyTrader Joe’sTwo Percent GalleryV. Sattui WineryWe PlayersWellspring Acupuncture William Farmer &

Leida SchoggenWillits Sawyer &

Rosalie Hornblower Woody’s Frozen Yogurt Place

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Love it LIVE! 14/15 S E A S O N

Love it LIVE! begins on Saturday, September 13, 2 014 with our second Waterfront Pops outdoor concert —Hooray for Hollywood— movie music classics with a fireworks finale! Virtuoso cellist Zuill Bailey returns as the soloist for our first Masterworks concerts, French Reverie, on September 28 and 30, 2 014. Our season finale is the world premiere of Star Trek in Concert on Saturday, June 6, 2 015.

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Main Stage Group Sales: Groups of 15 or more receive a discounted rate plus one free ticket for every 15 purchased. Julie Knight, 415.388.5200 x3302, julie@marintheatre.org.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Tue, Thu, Fri, and Sat 8:00pm

Wed 7:30pm

Sun 7:00pm

Matinees (please check dates online): Thu 1:00pm • Sat & Sun 2:00pm

TICKET PRICES Prices start at:

Previews: Thu through Sun, $37

All Other Performances:Tue, $42/37 (excludes Opening)

Wed, Thu eve & Sun eve, $47/$42

Fri, $53/48

Sat eve, $58/53

Matinees Thu, Sat & Sun $47/$42

Opening Night with Cast Reception, $58/53

Note: Price difference is between center and side sections. Prices subject to change.

TICKET DISCOUNTS

Under 30: $20, in advance or at the door for all performances, must show valid ID

Seniors: $4 off tickets to all performances

Rush tickets: $20 (cash only, sales begin one hour prior to curtain, based on availability)

SERVICES & INFORMATION

Arrive on time: Performances begin promptly. There are no refunds for latecomers. Late patrons cannot be seated until a designated seating break or possibly intermission. Patrons returning late from intermission will be seated at the discretion of the House Managers.

MTC Café: Food and beverages are available before performances and during intermission. Save time and order intermission refreshments prior to the start of the performance.

Recycling: Please help MTC conserve resources. Recycle your programs in the racks provided on the way out of the theater, and use the labeled recycling bins for cans, bottles and paper.

Recording Equipment: The use of sound, video or photographic recording equipment during performances is prohibited.

Listening Devices: For patrons with impaired hearing, listening devices are available for free. Please see the box office for details.

For information about physical and program access at MTC, please

call 415.388.5208 or dial 711 to use the California Telecommunications Relay Service.

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