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The Invisible HandBy Ayad Akhtar
2015 - 16 SEASON | JUNE 2 – 26
Jasson Minadakis | ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S 49TH SEASON | JUNE 2 – 26
5 FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
6 SUMMER WITH MTC EDUCATION!
9 OUR NEW PLAYWRIGHT-IN-RESIDENCE
11 PROGRAM
13 CAST OF THE INVISIBLE HAND
14 LIVING FOR THE TRADE, TRADING FOR A LIFE
17 PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
22 WHO’S WHO
28 MTC STAFF AND BOARD
30 THANKS TO OUR DONORS
37 PATRON INFORMATION
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One of the most exciting moments in the theatre is when a brilliant young playwright bursts onto the scene with a new play that captures the imagination of the world. Ayad Akhtar not only managed to do just that with Disgraced, but he also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and elevated our ongoing conversation about the Muslim American experience in America. For me, an even more exciting moment is when I get to experience the next play from a playwright like Ayad. It’s the work we prize here at Marin Theatre. Berkeley Rep brought our community the regional
premiere of Disgraced earlier this season, and now MTC is delighted to bring you Ayad’s newest play, The Invisible Hand, a story that continues his exploration of the intersection of the contemporary Muslim world and the West, and more specifically, the Western–influenced financial world.
I am writing this on the morning of Thursday, May 19, on our 9th day of rehearsal; our first preview audience is two weeks from tonight. Right now the actors are working with our dialect coach, and having their costume fittings. And when we reconvene as a group, we are going to jump into another of the most exciting and terrifying things that occasionally happen in rehearsals for a new play: we’re going to read a new draft of the play. It just arrived this morning, and is dated May 16, 2016. We’ve been handed brand new pages, dialogue and a few brand new scenes that the playwright just put to paper three days ago. Everything Ayad learned from audiences in the first few productions has been brought into this new script. It’s going to require some incredible flexibility on the part of all of our artists, but this is the great joy of new plays – we have been given the opportunity to do the first production of this new script. And we get to share it with you.
As always, I invite you to join us after the production for our traditional Question & Answer session with a member of our artistic staff and perhaps a few of our actors; I guarantee we have some stories to share about the uniqueness of this process.
And it goes without saying that I cannot praise these artists enough for their amazing work. I’m not sure what the next two weeks will bring but one thing I guarantee is that these generous, talented artists will astound you with this important new play.
Thank you for sharing your time with us. As we wrap up this phenomenal 49th season we are all looking to the Fall with great expectation and excitement. Please consider joining us as a subscriber for our thrilling 50th anniversary season. We open with the Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County from Tracy Letts, a 13-actor extravaganza that redefines the great American family play. After that we will experience five new plays from six of our brightest new American writers including our new three-year playwright in residence Lauren Gunderson, Pulitzer nominee Rajiv Joseph, and author of The Whipping Man Matthew Lopez. I hope you will join us for all the excitement.
Enjoy this very new production of Ayad Akhtar’s The Invisible Hand.
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F E AT U R I N G
Barzin Akhavan*, Jason Kapoor*, Pomme Koch* and Craig Marker*
JASSON MINADAKIS | ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
The Invisible HandBy Ayad Akhtar
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Cast of Charactersin order of appearance
Dar � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Jason Kapoor*
Nick Bright � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Craig Marker*
Bashir � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Pomme Koch*
Imam Saleem � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � Barzin Akhavan*
*Member, Actors’ Equity Association
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Photographs and recordings of any kind are strictly prohibited.
Place Somewhere in Pakistan.
Time In the very near future.
There will be one 15 minute intermission.
Please join us for a Q&A Discussion led by a member of our artistic staff immediately following this performance
(except on Saturdays and Opening and Closing Nights).
The Invisible HandBy Ayad Akhtar
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By Lydia Garcia In The Invisible Hand, global financial markets loom large in the midst of a strained hostage situation, where economic philosophies and trading practices are discussed and applied not as distractions from the plight of an American banker caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, but as the very key to his survival.
Playwright Ayad Akhtar began his initial work on The Invisible Hand in late 2009 and early 2010, in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse. After coming across David Rohde’s account of being kidnapped and held for seven months by the Taliban, published by The New York Times in a five-part series in 2009, Akhtar began to seek out other captive narratives from the Middle East and South Asia, such as the infamous killing of journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. He was gripped by the question: how does one get out, and at what price? Akhtar, a self-described “follower of the markets” for most of his adult life, began to imagine an American trader caught in such a situation, forced by his Islamist jailers to use his trading skills to raise his own ransom. From those explorations, Akhtar conceived of the story of Nick and Bashir, whose complicated captor-
captive relationship has unforeseen consequences.
At times, the action of The Invisible Hand sounds uncannily like a graduate-level economics course. Talk of assets, puts, futures, options, shorts, and currency baskets flies by in an adrenaline-fueled staccato rush. Multimillion dollar financial positions are risked and rewarded. Scraps of insider information are used to their fullest advantage. As their bond develops, Nick and Bashir while away their time debating the merits of Bretton Woods, the financial system developed at a 1944 conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to establish a post-World War II international economic system among independent nation-states, a system that would eventually include the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Nick, who wrote his undergraduate Princeton thesis on Bretton Woods, sees the monetary policy that emerged in the postwar years—a system that maintained a measure of stability by tying international exchange rates to the U.S. dollar—as a mechanism that brought about a lasting peace. Bashir, seeing the effects of American speculation on wheat prices as it
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Living for the Trade, Trading for a Life
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triggers a food shortage in Pakistan, has a different opinion about the benefits of an international market anchored by the dollar.
Where Bashir and Nick find unexpected agreement—though with devastatingly different interpretations—is in Adam Smith’s metaphor of the “invisible hand,” which gives the play its title. Describing the self-regulating nature of the marketplace in The Wealth of Nations (1776), Smith believed that an individual has the power to make profit without the intervention of the government, and that an individual’s efforts to maximize their own gains
may benefit a free market society:“Every individual necessarily labours
to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public
interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it … He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for society that it was no part of his intention. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes
that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”
The Invisible Hand first rehearsal. Cast members Jason Kapoor (Dar), Craig Marker (Nick Bright) and Barzin Akhavan (Imam Saleem).
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“Eight hundred years ago, we could’ve talked about the reigning ideological order guiding individuals and nations, and we would’ve called it the church. Today we call it the economy.”—Ayad Akhtar, playwright
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Suddenly, the esoteric manipulations of the global marketplace—where a transaction made on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange can affect the price of potatoes in Jhelum—becomes a far larger debate about the role of capitalism, religion, and self-interest in attaining an elusive “public good.” “Public good” as defined by whom? At what cost? For what purpose? As Nick and Bashir delve ever deeper into the murky recesses of the world of high finance, both learn the extent to which they can sway the invisible hand, and begin to comprehend the ways they are in its iron grip.
In a conversation with Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Sarah Rose Leonard, Akhtar spoke about his interest in the intersection of religion and the financial world today, calling them “the two central issues of our times.”
“I think that the language of finance and the dilemmas of faith are the two central narrative axes of the collective
psyche of the fading, late, capitalist empire that we are. For me, it is not a matter of a conscious choice to write about that; it’s the emanation of a natural interest on my part. I read the Wall Street Journal every day. I have been preoccupied with issues of faith most of my life. I think that, actually, writing about the financial world is writing about religious ideology. I think that free-market capitalism has all of the hallmarks of religious ideology: assumptions about reality, enacted rituals, the expectation that certain rituals will lead to certain outcomes when it’s patently the case that it never does, vociferous belief, and the marshaling of national and personal resources to justify unproven and unprovable assumptions about reality. Eight hundred years ago, we could’ve talked about the reigning ideological order guiding individuals and nations, and we would’ve called it the church. Today we call it the economy.”
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Cast members Pomme Koch (Bashir) and Jason Kapoor (Dar).
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Ayad Akhtar (playwright) was born in New York City and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a novelist and author of American Dervish, published in over 20 languages worldwide and named a 2012 Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, Toronto's Globe and Mail, Shelf Awareness, and O, The Oprah Magazine. His play Disgraced won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, ran on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre and is currently the most produced play in the country. In addition to Disgraced, his plays The Who & The What and The Invisible
Hand received Off-Broadway runs and are currently being produced at theaters across the country. Ayad was listed as the most produced playwright for the 2015/16 season by American Theatre. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within. He has been the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Djerassi, the Sundance Institute, Ucross, and Yaddo, where he currently serves as a Board Director. He is also a Board Trustee at PEN/America.
Jasson Minadakis (director) is in his tenth season as artistic director of MTC, where he has directed Anne Boleyn, The Convert, The Whale, Failure: A Love Story, 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 Theatre 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.
Barzin Akhavan (Imam Saleem) is proud to make his MTC debut with The Invisible Hand. Other credits include: Guthrie Theatre, The Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (four seasons), Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Lookingglass Theatre, San Jose Rep (world premiere Kite Runner, SFBATCC best lead actor nomination), Arizona Theatre Company, Mixed Blood Theatre Company, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, four seasons with the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival,
Virginia Stage Company, Merrimack Rep, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Idaho Rep. International tour: NYTW/ArkType:Aftermath. Film/Television: The Jew of Malta,
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Anniversary, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Smash. Training: M.F.A., University of Washington Professional Actor’s Training Program.
Jason Kapoor (Dar) is proud to be making his MTC debut with The Invisible Hand. Born and raised in San Jose, he has appeared in both the world premiere and the recent off-Broadway productions of Ideation by Aaron Loeb. Most recently seen in the Bay Area with California Shakespeare Theatre in Life is a Dream and prior to that at A.C.T in Indian Ink. He has also appeared at San Jose Repertory Theater in The Dresser and on tour as Lennie in Of Mice and Men. Mr. Kapoor earned a B.A. in Theatre Arts from San Jose State University
and his M.A. in Classical Acting from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Pomme Koch (Bashir) Is thrilled to be making his Marin debut, 23 years after taking his very first acting classes as a kid at MTC. Recent New York credits include the workshop of a new musical at The Public Theater, A Tale Told By An Idiot at Lincoln Center Educational, Becket at The Gene Frankel Theatre, and the New York Times Critics' Pick, Who's Your Baghdaddy. Select regional credits include productions of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at Round House Theatre and San Francisco Playhouse, Much Ado About Nothing at The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Admission at Theater J, A Composer Fit For A King with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at The Studio Theatre, and multiple projects and productions with The Folger Shakespeare Library and Theatre. The University of Michigan.
Craig Marker (Nick Bright) returns to Marin Theatre Company fresh from his roles as King Henry VIII and James I in Anne Boleyn. Other roles at MTC include Iago in Othello, Daniel Reeves in 9 Circles, Sharpe in Equivocation, Jim in Glass Menagerie, Trigorin in Seagull, and Bo Decker in Bus Stop. Regionally, Mr. Marker has performed for California Shakespeare Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, The
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Aurora Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, Center REPertory Company, Shotgun Players, and San Francisco Playhouse. Mr. Marker’s television and film credits include Trauma, Bye-Bye, Bin Laden, Generic Thriller and Night of Henna; and his voice work includes several characters in the video game Brutal Legend starring Jack Black. craig-marker.com
Sean McStravick (stage manager) has previously stage managed MTC’s productions of Anne Boleyn, Gem of the Ocean, My Mañana Comes, The Oldest Boy, Choir Boy, The Convert, The Whale, Fetch Clay, Make Man and Good People. He has worked for numerous Bay Area theaters including Shotgun Players, 42nd Street Moon and Willows Theatre Company, where he was the production
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stage manager from 2010 to 2012. Regionally, he has also supported productions at North Coast Repertory Theatre, Blue Trunk Theatre Company, Back Seat Theatre, the Reduced Shakespeare Company and Actors Alliance of San Diego. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Kat Conley (scenic designer) is ecstatic to be returning to Marin Theatre Company, after previously designing The Whipping Man, The Glass Menagerie and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Based in Atlanta, GA since 2000, Kat has designed scenery for The Arena Theater, The Kennedy Center, The Alliance Theater, Orlando Shakespeare, Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre, Virginia Stage, Georgia Shakespeare, the Atlanta Ballet, Actor’s Express, The Center for Puppetry Arts, 7 Stages, and Theatrical Outfit, among
others. She is an Associate Artist with both Georgia Shakespeare and Actor’s Express. For the past 16 seasons Kat has also served as the Charge Scenic Artist for the Alliance Theater. Whether dramatically challenging, visionary or escapist, all theater and art is important, thank you for supporting it in your community..
Callie Floor (costume designer) has designed costumes for MTC’s productions of Choir Boy, Lasso of Truth, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Topdog/Underdog, Seven Guitars, Fuddy Meers, 9 Circles, Sunlight, boom, My Name is Asher Lev, Magic Forest Farm, Lydia, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and The Subject Tonight is Love. Her work was most recently seen in The Lyons at Aurora Theatre Company and Elephant Man for Circle of Life Theatre. She has designed for many other Bay Area theaters including A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Magic Theatre, San Francisco Mime Troupe and West Bay Opera. Floor is the resident designer for the California Revels and currently holds the position of Costume Rentals Supervisor for A.C.T. She has a BFA from the University of Utah and a Higher Diploma in Theatre Design from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She is currently working on Persuasion for Livermore Shakespeare Festival.
York Kennedy (lighting designer) designs for both Performing Arts and Architecture. His designs for MTC include Failure: A Love Story, 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. His designs have been seen in theatres and attractions across America, Europe and Asia in companies including Arena Stage, Chicago Shakespeare, Hartford Stage, Sibiu International Arts Festival,
Seattle Repertory, American Conservatory Theatre, Macedonian Arts Festival, Polish National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, The Alley Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Denver Center. He has designed over 45 productions for The Old Globe in San Diego, CA and spent six seasons as resident lighting designer for the company’s Shakespeare Festival. In the dance world he has
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designed for Malashock Dance, Brian Webb and Tracey Rhodes. Architectural lighting designs include both national and international themed environments, theme park, residential, retail, restaurant and museum projects. Current projects include Moscow Dream Island (Russia), Motiongate (Dubai), Ocean Flower (China) and Rear Window (Broadway). He is a graduate of the California Institute for the Arts and the Yale School of Drama.
Chris Houston (sound designer) is a pianist, composer and sound designer. He has composed music and/or designed sound for over 30 MTC productions, including The Oldest Boy, The Convert, The Whale, Failure: A Love Story, August Wilson’s Fences, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, The Whipping Man , Waiting for Godot, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Topdog/Underdog, Othello, the Moor of Venice, The Glass Menagerie, the world premiere of Bellwether, Seven Guitars, In the Red and Brown Water 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.
Lynne Soffer (dialect coach) has provided coaching for 29 MTC productions, including The Convert, Good People, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Othello, the Moor of Venice, A Steady Rain and The Glass Menagerie. She has served as dialect/text coach on over 250 theater productions, including A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Magic Theatre, Cal Shakes. SF Playhouse, Marin Shakespeare Company, the Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, Arizona Theatre Company, the Arena Stage, Seattle Rep and Denver Center Theatre Company. Her film and television credits include Fruitvale Station, Metro, Duets, The Land of Milk and Honey and America’s Most Wanted. Soffer is a professional actor, director and teacher of actors. She is the recipient of the 2011 Actors’ Equity Association Lucy Jordan Humanitarian Award.
Safi Manzoor (cultural consultant) joined MTC in May 2013 as Business Manager. He previously worked as a contractor with the United States Department of Defense, where he held several positions including Executive Administrative Assistant and Linguists’ Site Manager. He has also worked with IBM as Linguistic Consultant in building Machine Translation Devices for the DoD. He holds a BS in physiology and an AA in Business Administration.
Lizabeth Stanley (props artisan) recently returned to Marin Theatre Company after a year as the Production Manager for Bay Area Children’s Theatre. Her recent credits include The Unfortunates and Monstress at A.C.T, The Comedy of Errors and Year of the Rooster at Impact Theatre and the 2015 ReOrient Festival at Golden Thread. Her upcoming shows include Chester Bailey at A.C.T. and A House Tour of the Infamous Porter Family Mansion With Tour Guide Weston Ludlow Londonderry at ZSpace. Lizabeth has a B.A. in
Theatre Arts from The Ohio State University.
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Lydia Garcia (literary manager & resident dramaturg) joined Marin Theatre Company as the Literary Manager and Resident Dramaturg in April 2016. Before becoming a member of the MTC team, she was the Resident Dramaturg at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she dramaturged more than 20 plays in 8 seasons including the world premieres of Sean Graney’s The Yeomen of the Guard, Alexa Junge’s Fingersmith, Tracy Young and Oded Gross’s The Imaginary Invalid and The Servant of Two Masters, and Octavio Solis’s Quixote. Garcia is a current member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the
Americas (LMDA). In addition to her dramaturgical work, she is a trained staff facilitator for issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity, and a proud member of the artEquity facilitator team led by Carmen Morgan. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama.
Dori Jacob (casting director) joined Marin Theatre Company as the Casting Director in May 2015. For the previous 4 seasons, she served as the Director of New Play Development for Magic Theatre in San Francisco and dramaturged the world premieres of Octavio Solis’ Se Llama Cristina, Linda McLean’s Every Five Minutes, Christina Anderson’s PEN/MAN/SHIP and John Kolvenbach’s Sister Play. As the resident producer for Magic Theatre’s developmental programming, Jacob’s credits include 2011 - 2015 Virgin Play Series, the 2012 Asian Explosion Reading Series and the 2013 Costume Shop Festival. Further Bay Area dramaturgy/producing/casting credits include Assassins at Shotgun Players, Marilee Talkington’s The Creative Process at SOMArts, and Laura Schellhardt’s The Comparables and Elizabeth Hersh’s Shelter In Place at Playwrights Foundation. Jacob previously served on the executive board and literary committee for the National New Play Network, is a current member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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 focused on new American plays, and a four-show Family Series. We are committed to the development and production of new plays, with a comprehensive New Play Program that includes productions of world premieres, two nationally recognized annual playwriting awards and readings and workshops by the nation’s best emerging and established playwrights. Our numerous education programs serve more than 9,300 students from over 40 Bay Area schools each year. MTC strives to create intimate, powerful and emotional experiences that engage audiences to discuss new ideas and adopt a broader point of view. We believe in taking risks and inspiring people to participate in live theater, regardless of personal means. MTC celebrates the intellectual curiosity of our community, and we believe that theater is an important tool to help build empathy. MTC was founded in 1966 and is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
MTC is a proud member of the National New Play Network, the country’s alliance of nonprofit professional theaters that champions the development, production and continued life of new plays for the American theater.
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MTC STAFF & BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jasson MinadakisArtistic Director
ARTISTIC
Lydia Garcia | Literary Manager & Resident
Dramaturg
Dori Jacob | Casting Director
Trevor Scott Floyd | Company Manager
& Artistic Associate
Lauren Gunderson | Playwright-in-Residence
Thomas Bradshaw, Martyna Majok, Amelia
Roper | Playwrights Under Commission
DEVELOPMENT
Noralee Monestere McKersie | Major Gifts
Officer
Gabriella Giannini | Development Associate
Lauren Luedtke | Special Events Associate
Aurélia Fisher Cohen | Grant Writer
ADMINISTRATION
Safi Manzoor | Finance Manager
Pablo Hamlin | Office Manager
Perotti And Carrade | Auditors
EDUCATION
Courtney Helen Grile | Director of Education &
Engagement
Ashleigh Worley | Education Program Manager
Haley Bertelsen | Education Coordinator
& Resident Teaching Artist
Hannah Keefer | Resident Teaching Artist
Michael Barr | Resident Teaching Artist
ARTS LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM
Matthew Fauls, Trevor Scott Floyd, Maddie
Gaw, Caroline Gully Brown
MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS
Sara Waugh | Marketing Director
Jeff Berlin | Graphic Designer
FRONT OF HOUSE
Bethany Byrd-Hill | Director of Ticketing &
Audience Services
Rena Lourie | Box Office Associate
Sissel Grove, Donna Platt, Sue Urquhart | Café
PRODUCTION
Mike Post | Production Manager
Rachel Hurado | Asst. Production Manager
Jeff Klein | Technical Director
Danny Osburn | Master Electrician
Ashley Holvick | Costume Shop Manager
Betsy Norton | Production Assistant
Liam Rudisill | Lead Carpenter
Paul Collins, Xander Ritchey | Carpenters
Lizabeth Stanley | Props Artisan
Zoe Gopnick- McManus, Elly Lassen Hines
Ewa Muszynska | Scenic Artists
Rachel Hurado | Board Op
Cassie Barnes, Charles Clear, Seth Gorrin,
Tiffany Hou, Melissa Ramirez, Mineva
Ramirez, Ericka Sokolower-Shain |
Electricians
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B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S
Fred W. TaylorPresident
John Chesley Secretary
Robin RiceTreasurer
Kipp DelbyckVice President
A D V I S O R Y B O A R D
Linden Berry
Joseph Bodovitz
Jerry Cahill
David Catania
Bobby Chapman
Doug Ferguson
Nancy Goldberg
Gerry Goldsholle
Brian Golson
Gail Harris
Tracy Haughton
Peter Jacobi
Dirk Langeveld
Lori Lerner
Shirley Loubé
Melanie Maier
Peter Maier
Andrew Poutiatine
Chris Raker
Laura Scott
Dana Shapiro
Gary Shapiro
Christopher B. Smith
Tara Sullivan
Kathleen Taylor
Jennifer Yang Weedn
Philip Woodward
Sponsor a child to attend Summer Camp at MTC!Please help a budding young artist with limited financial resources attend summer camp at MTC!
Camps open for sponsorship: • Creative Dramatics for $475 • Disney’s Aristocats KIDS for $900• Legally Blonde Jr. $1100
With your support, we can bring the magic of theatre to more children across Marin County this summer !
For info please contact Gabriella Giannini at 415-388- 5200 x3317 or [email protected]
Terry Berkemeier
Carl Berry
Cheryl Brandon
David Chapman
Suzanne Darley
Molly Dick
Michael V. Dyett
Gale Gottlieb
Brian Haughton
Susan Holdstein
Lori Horne
Barbara Kautz
Carol Kurland
Buffington Miller
Ivan Poutiatine
Peter Poutiatine
Robert Reynolds
Stacy Scott
Martha Smolen
Vickie Soulier
Beverly Tanner
H. Hugh Vincent
Suparna Vohra
Beth Wintersteen
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INDIVIDUALS
PARTNER CIRCLEMTC Sponsor$100,000 and aboveTerry Berkemeier & Lori LernerN. J. "Sky" CooperGage SchubertChristopher B. & Jeannie Meg
SmithVickie SoulierBeth & James Wintersteen
MTC Partner$50,000 to $99,999Dr. Hugh Vincent & Joan
Watson
Season Partner$25,000 to $49,999Linden & Carl BerryMrs. Gale K. GottliebTracy & Brian HaughtonCarol & Duff KurlandShirley LoubéBuffington Clay Miller & George
MillerFred & Kathleen Taylor
PRODUCER CIRCLEVIP Producer$15,000 to $24,999Gerald Cahill & Kathleen KingJohn & Shelley ChesleyMolly & Brett DickSusan & Russ HoldsteinBarbara & Jim KautzMelanie & Peter MaierKiki Pescatello
Executive Producer$10,000 to $14,999The Dave & Bobbie Chapman
Family Trust
The Brown Ortiz-Aragon Family Fund
Lynne CarmichaelSandra HessTina McCarthur & Richard
RubensteinIvan & Lochiel PoutiatinePaula & Bob ReynoldsStacy Scott & Chuck Ciaccios
Producer$5,000 to $9,999Cheryl & Rick BrandonKen & Jackie Broad Family
FundSuzanne & Mark DarleyMarden N. PlantKipp & Roy DelbyckDennis & Susan GilardiKenneth & Joan GoslinerLori & Mark HorneFrank LossyKen & Vera MeislinRobin & Rick RiceDana & Gary ShapiroThe Ira and Leonore Gershwin
Philanthropic Fund, Michael & Jean Strunsky
Beverly Tanner & Jerry HermanSuparna Vohra DDS - Marin's
Family Dentist
Associate Producer$3,000 to $4,999David Catania & Diana Gay-
CataniaDrue & Arthur GenslerGerry Goldsholle & Myra
LevensonRosenberger Family Fund
Eric Schwartz & Magda Wesslund
Susan & Joel Sklar
Premiere Producer$1,000 to $2,999Kedar K. AdourEllen & Ron ArensonNeil & Gene BarthSusan & Bill BeechRichard Bergmann & Denise
FilakoskyJohn Boneparth & Gail HarrisJosh Brier & Grace AlexanderMarcus & Sara ByruckNancy & Gary CarlstonCastilian FundBrenda ChapmanGeorge & Katherine CouchSteven De Hart & Sheldon
DonigValerie & Paul Crane DorfmanDyett / Richardson Family FundAnthony & Martha EasonBuck Farmer & Leida SchoggenVirginia & William Felch JrAmy & Mort FriedkinRabbi Brian & Caroline Fromm
LurieSteven & Jill FugaroGatian's FundBrian & Alisa GolsonLauren Gunderson & Nathan
WolfeElisabeth & Howard JaffeDwight L. JohnsonBarbara LavaroniJudith LeashNancy Livingston & Fred LevinTracy MacLeod
MARIN THEATRE COMPANY ACKNOWLEDGES THE GENEROUS SUPPORT of the following individuals, foundations and corporations whose contributions make our extraordinary theatre productions and outreach programs possible. To join our family of contributors, or get information about gift opportunities, please contact MTC’s Development Department at 415.388.5200 x3306. The following gifts were received between May 2, 2015 and May 2, 2016.
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David MadfesWilliam & Janet McAllisterPatricia MelvinIris & Henry MetzEllen MichelsonVivienne MillerMilan & Letitia MomirovSuzie PollakBob & Donys PowellToni RembeDeborah L. Robbins & Henry
NavasThomas & Jill SampsonSusan & Michael SchwartzLaura & Michael ScottDiana & Richard ShoreKathleen SkeelsLiz Sklar & Matthew PurdonJane & Dan SlackDavid & Vicki StollmeyerBob & Valli TandlerWill & Leslie ThompsonHarry & Muffy ThorneMeg Wallhagen & William
StrawbridgeEthan & Regina WeinsteinValerie Barth & Peter WileyHarvey & Susan WittenbergWendy WyseSusan York
CREATIVE CIRCLEDirector | $500 to $999Anonymous (1)Tom AhlbergRobert & Irene BelknapStephen Bischoff
Dr. Mel & Marilyn BlausteinEric Bolt & Georgia HughesJoan & Nick BoodrookasJohn & Deborah BuehlerDr. Paula CampbellBrian Chadbourne & Diane
MurakamiDiane & William ClarkeTom DeleboStuart & Emily DvorinReverend Richard G. FabianSeth & Alison FergusonCheryl Finley & Barry NealBonnie FrankDonna & Michael FranzblauLeland & Susan FaustSteve GenslerHelene & Lewis GibbsLenore GordonDavi & Michael HarringtonSally Holland & Jerome
SchoffermanBonnie & Peter JensenBob Kaliski & Linda NelsonDan & Lyra KellyDamon & Janet KerbyNancy KittleHarriet & Tom KosticDirk & Madeleine LangeveldSteve & Gail LazarusDavid LesniniBarry & Ellen LevineWarren & Barbara LevinsonGarrett Loube & Marcie
RodgersScott MacLeod & Linda
Kislingbury
Diane & Larry MartinHerbert MillerJohn S. Osterweis Philanthropic
FundRoland Cline & Mary PapenfussRussell & Joan PrattHector RichardsLeigh & Ivy RobinsonArthur RockMeline & Jirayr RoubinianSylvia & Paul RoyeFred & Dolores RudowRob & Lise SalmonFrancis ScherDr. Stephen Schoen & Ms.
Margot FraserArnold & Madeline SchusterSusan SeefeldGlenn SmithHarriet WellerJohn & Kathy WoldrichJim & Travis Wright
Designer | $250 to $499Anonymous (2)Drs. Paul & Geraldine AlpertJulia AlthoffRobert Anderson & Lois StevensCharles & Leslie AndersonTom & Lois AshleyMs. Mary Jane BairdHoward & Susan BlairJoseph Bodovitz & Margaret
KaufmanMelinda Booth & Robert LeaCarrie Brandon
Cast Party! 2016 was MTC's most successful fundraiser ever. Thanks to everyone who participated.
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Ute & Jack BrandonWendy BuchenNick CarlinRon Clyman & Francoise
MaurayJanet & Alan ColemanConnie VandamentRichard & Loree DraegerThomas W. Edwards & Rebecca
Parlette-EdwardsRobert FossumHugh & Elizabeth FullertonSusan Moseley GeorgeSteven & Jacqueline GrossmanRobert HallAlex HargraveWilliam & Kathryn HarrisonIldi HaymanMarc & Peggy HaymanHeidi CaryWilliam & Susan HoehlerBill & Catherine HonigAnne IrwinCary & Elaine JamesShawn Kelley & Ellie KennedySusan KolbLucienne O'KeefeMichael & Sharon MarronChantelle & John MasdeaJohn & Cindy McCauleySteve & Patricia McMahonPatti McWilliamsBarbara Meislin, In Memory of
Vivienn FosmanJudith & Jerry MillerMary Ann MullensKelli Murray & Laurence
PulgramRobert NewcomerVirginia NewhallAmy PalmerLynn PerryStephen PiatekDr. Janice & James ProchaskaBill & Meghan ReillyBill & Barbara RichAlan & Enid RubinAngelo & Kimberly SalarpiGaby Schneider
Beverly & Harold SchneirSteve & Sally SchroederMichael & Jane ScurichRod & Sandy SeegerRolf & Jettie SelvigJames & Connie ShapiroMarsha & Michael SilbersteinShelagh & Philip SmithDrs. Shayna & Elliott SteinStolyavitch FundKathy & Rick StraussLarry & Judy SweetBeryl Jean SymmesUtta & William TelliniBlake & Beverly ThormanBeatrice TocherMary & Herman WaetjenKirke & Patty Wrench
Actor | $150 to $249Anonymous (3)Helen BaconA.M. BaeleRichard & Ruth BiegelDaniel & Betsy BikleJanis & Paul BosenkoElias & Carroll BotvinickRaymond BridgesAlan & Caren CascioJudith CianiGordon ClessJames & Linda CleverAnn CoffeyCheryl ColesBob & Betty CoppleTom DiettrichRoberta DillonCarol Dutton-HollenbergJohn Eichhorst & Jennifer
BlackmanKit & Caroline EvertsErdmuth FolkerLee & Lyn FollettPat & Jennifer Forbeck Mark & Louise GaumondRita & Kent GershengornArlene GetzTheresa & Richard GordonLaurel & Michael Gothelf
Michelle GriffinSheryl HausmanCathryn HilliardBart & Auban JacksonHermia JamesMary JanigianBreton Kaiser-Shimm & Anne
D. KaiserCharles Kleiman & Dorothy
KleimanJeanne KlineKathleen LeonesMyrna & Fred MargolinAlbert Martin & Diana
RichmondMary McLain & Barry BramMargot Melcon & Jon WolanskeFranklin & Mary MeredithDon MillerWorth MillerMargaret MosterChris & Bonnie MumfordRuth & Steve NashGary Nelson & Kellie MageeBetty ObataJack & Gail OsmanDerek & Nancy ParkerGary & Gisela PeasleyJonathan & Susan PeckAudrey & Bob PedrinHenk PeetersWendy Polivka & Evan PainterMichael & Hailey PoutiatinePeter & Leila PoutiatineMary & Marco QuazzoBarbara & Joel RenbaumEdward L. Reynolds & Ed JonesDavid Galin & Ruth RosenMeika Rouda & Chris BrownMr. Bruce RubinMark & Tobi RubinJulianne RumseyRichard & Sandra SchaeferEllen & Donald SchellHerb SchuytenBarry & Esther ShafranEve & Ryan SimonKay & Roger SmithLauren SpencerTimothy Standing
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D O N O R S
CORPORATIONS / FOUNDATIONS / GOVERNMENT
Philip & Cherie StephensTara J. Sullivan & James
Horan Jr.Joe & Eileen TennKerry Weiner & Andy ElkindValerie Westen
Memory Gifts Barbara J. Meislin, in memory
of Vivienn FosmanCarol Svetcov, in memory of
Sanford Svetcov
In Honor GiftsAlexander Fetter & Lynn
Bunim, In Honor of Molly Dick
Jacqueline Gerson, In Honor of Molly Dick
Susan & Jay Mall, In Honor of Molly Dick
Linda Zweig, In Honor of Molly Dick
Sue & Richard Wollack, In Honor of Molly Dick
Gifts in Kind, Producer level and aboveTerry Berkemeier & Lori LernerLinden & Carl BerryCheryl & Rick BrandonDavid Catania & Diana Gay-
CataniaJohn & Shelley ChesleyGale K. Gottlieb
Melanie & Peter MaierStacy Scott & Chuck Ciaccio
To join our family of donors or increase your gift, call MTC's Development Department @ 415.388.5200x3317.
Current donors, please let us know if your name has been misspelled or omitted.
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PARTNER CIRCLE
MTC Partner$50,000 & AboveThe Bellebyron FoundationThe William & Flora Hewlett
FoundationAndrew W. Mellon FoundationShubert Foundation
Season Partner$25,000 to $49,999Clay Foundation - WestGoogle, Inc.*Marin Community FoundationMarin Independent Journal*Venturous Theater Fund of the
Tides Foundation
PRODUCER CIRCLE
VIP Producer$15,000 to $ 24,999The Haughton Family
Charitable Fund National Endowment for the
ArtsNational New Play NetworkStacy Scott Catering*
Executive Producer$10,000 to $14,999Bernard Osher Foundation
Producer$5,000 to $9,999Acqua Hotel*Kiddo Mill Valley Schools
Community FoundationNordstrom, Inc.The Playwrights Realm, Inc.The Tournesol FoundationSuparna Vohra DDS - Marin's
Family Dentist
Associate Producer$3,000 to $4,999Haywood Winery*Lagunitas Brewing Company*Whole Foods*
Premiere Producer$1,000 to $2,999Neil & Gene Barth, Barth
FoundationCenter for Cultural InnovationCMS, Inc.*Dramatists Guild Fund
The Enersen FoundationKatz Family FoundationKoret FoundationMarin Charitable National Philanthropic TrustPacific Union Real EstateThe Shenson FoundationWells Fargo Foundation
CREATIVE CIRCLE$150 to $999 7 on LocustActors' Equity Foundation Inc.Capretta PropertiesExxonMobil Cultural Matching
Gift ProgramFirst Republic BankJust GiveMacy's Foundation Matching
GiftsMill Valley MarketPiazza D'Angelo Ristorante*Seagate PropertiesStrahm Communications*Sweet Things*
*Denotes an in-kind donation
Cast Party! 2016 Committee co-chairs Tracy Haughton & Kathleen Taylor.
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101 Cider Farm142 Throckmorton TheatreAce CiderMatt AfflixioAny Mountain Ski & SnowboardApplegarden FarmArtesa Vineyards Balboa CafeBay Area Discovery MuseumBenefit BoutiqueBerkeley Repertory TheatreLinden & Carl BerryDavid BullardTerry Berkemeier & Lori LernerBistro VisCheryl & Rick BrandonCalifornia Academy of SciencesCalifornia Film InstituteLynne CarmichaelCartelligentCavallo Point LodgeDave & Bobbie ChapmanJohn & Shelley ChesleyStacy Scott & Chuck CiaccioCibo of SausalitoCider BrothersBuffington Clay Miller &
George MillerCline CellarsCommonwealth Club of
CaliforniaSuzanne & Mark DarleyKipp & Roy DelbyckMolly & Brett DickTsering Dorjee (Bawa)Dutton EstateMichael Dyett & Heidi
RichardsonEmeritus VineyardsRick Evans, Architecture SFExploratoriumFarmshopLeland & Susan FaustVirginia and William Felch Jr.Norine & Michele Ferrante,
Gira PolliFrame Crafters GalleryFrantoio RistoranteLydia Garcia
Diana Gay-Catania & David Catania
Gene Hiller MenswearGet in Shape for WomenGood Earth Natural FoodsMrs. Gale K. GottliebGowans CiderGracianna WineryPatricia Green CellarsKathryn Gunderson, Grace &
Gusto CakesTracy & Brian HaughtonDavid Haydon, II DavideDavid HaymanHaywood WineryHeath CeramicsMichael HeightSusan & Russ HoldsteinHonig WineryLori & Mark HorneInsalata'sBarbara & Jim KautzCarol & Duff KurlandLark TheaterLarry Lautzker, Famous 4Liquid Assets Restaurant and
Wine BarMagic TheatreMarin Agricultural Land TrustMarin Shakespeare CompanyMassage EnvyMill Valley FlowersMill Valley MarketJasson MinadakisModern Sailing School and
ClubMountain Play AssociationChris & Jamie NorlanderO'Brien Estate Oregon Shakespeare FestivalPerry's Restaurant & BarElaine Petrocelli, Book PassagePiazza D' Angelo RistoranteNancy PickardPiperade RestaurantPixar Animation StudiosIvan & Lochiel PoutiatinePrecita Eyes Mural Arts CenterMatthew Purdon, Les VoleursRobin & Rick Rice
Katie Rodan & Kathy A. Fields of Rodan+Fields
Saltwater Oyster DepotLeslie SbraccoEric Schwartz & Magda
WesslundMichael & Susan SchwartzLaura ScottSF Maritime National Park
AssociationSignature TheatreSilk Road TeasSilverado Resort and SpaSimraceway Sonoma CountySloat Garden CenterSonoma CiderSoulCycleVickie SoulierSS Jeremiah O'BrienStacy Scott CateringStarry Night WineryTamalpieBeverly Tanner & Jerry
HermanFred & Kathleen TaylorKate TaylorThe Club at Harbor PointThe Foundation of The Sacred
StreamThe Terraces WineryTheatre for a New AudienceTilted Shed CiderworksTown Car Dave's Limo ServiceTroy CiderTurley Wine CellarsTwo Rivers CiderUrbanSitterVasco RestaurantDr. Hugh Vincent & Joan
WatsonSuparna Vohra & Antonio
PlutinoWalt Disney Family MuseumWe PlayersWild Cat Mountain VineyardWinesellers LtdBeth & James WintersteenYogaWorksKat Zdan
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CAST PARTY! 2016 DONORS
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and I can’t wait to see more of what they can do next season”
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entertainment” —Jean Schiffman,
San Francisco Examiner
“Excellent performances! Truly enjoyed this marvelous contemporary
take on a classical favorite!”—Nadine J.
“impressed the hell out of me”—Evelyn S.
2014 Winner of the Bay Area Theatre
Critics Circle Paine Knickerbocker Award
2014 Winner of the Theatre Bay Area Award for
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Principal Role in a Play by
Leontyne Mbele-Mbong (Medea)
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CONTACT US
Box Office: 415.388.5208Tues – Sat, 12–5pm On performance days, open noon until show time.
Address: 397 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941
General: 415.388.5200
Playbill Advertising: 415.322.6022
Main Stage Group Sales: Groups of 8 or more receive a discounted rate plus one free ticket for the organizer. Contact 415.388.5200 X3323 or [email protected].
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Tue – Sun 7:30pm
Matinees (please check dates online): Thu 1pm • Sat & Sun 2pm , Sun preview 4pm
TICKET DISCOUNTS
Teens: $10
Under 30: $20, in advance or at the door for all performances, must show valid ID
Seniors: $4 off tickets to all performances
SERVICES & INFORMATION
Arrive on time: Performances begin promptly. Late patrons will be seated at a designated
seating break or possibly intermission. Patrons returning late from intermission will be seated at the discretion of the house manager.
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. No food allowed in theater.
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.
New! Open Captioning during Thursday matinee performances* For patrons who are hard of hearing or deaf.Contact Box Office for dates and times.
Listening Devices: For patrons with impaired hearing, listening devices are available for free. Please see the box office for details.
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Marin Theatre Company operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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