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To share stories that uplift our spirits, deepen self-awareness and nurture compassionate community.

Andrew Teufel (Board President)

William AdlerSusan AthertonWilkes BashfordBrittny BottorffAndre Glenn ChenowethSusi Damilano

Bill EnglishRobert HultengGeoffrey JueJohn KalinHelen E. LandSteven MayerWilliam O’Keeffe

Louis ParnellSandra RobbinsDana ShapiroChristian Chadd TaylorAma TorranceRowland Weinstein

Board of Directors

Our Mission

Louis ParnellSandra RobbinsDana ShapiroChristian Chadd TaylorAma TorranceRowland Weinstein

BILL ENGLISHArtistic Director

SUSI DAMILANOProducing Director

FEATURING (In Order of Appearance)

MRS JESSALYN PRICE Cathleen Riddley*

LEO PRICE Carl Lumbly*

DIDI MARCANTEL Susi Damilano*

JJ PRICE Tristan Cunningham*

SET DESIGN Nina Ball+

LIGHTING DESIGN Michael Oesch+

SOUND DESIGN Theodore J. H. Hulsker

COSTUME DESIGN Abra Berman

PROPS ARTISAN Jacquelyn Scott

STAGE MANAGER Tatjana Genser*

CASTING DIRECTOR Lauren English

This production is made possible by the Schubert Foundation, the Bernard Osher Foundation, SF Grants for the Arts, the Taproot Foundation, and all of our generous volunteers, donors and supporters.

We are grateful.

BY JULIE HEBERTDIRECTED BY JON TRACY

PRODUCERS: Clay Foundation – WestASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: Bruce and Ellen Hall

* Members of Actors’ Equity Association. This theatre operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.+ Represented by United Scenic Artists – Local USA 829.

MRS JESSALYN PRICE Marjorie Crump-Shears

LEO PRICE Berwick Haynes*

DIDI MARCANTEL Jennifer Gregory

JJ PRICE Regina Fields

understudies

creative team

PRODUCTION TEAMPRODUCTION MANAGER Maggie Koch

TECHNICAL THEATRE MANAGER

Zach Sigman

MASTER ELECTRICIAN Molly Stewart Cohn

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Issere Christopher

CARPENTERS Latisha Leung, Charles McKeithan, Avery McKeithan, Adrianne Gradey, Michael Palladino, John McMillin, Danielle Pena

SCENIC PAINTERS Ewa Muszynska, Evandro Conceicao

ELECTRICIANS Jackson Wijtman, Corey Schaeffer, Eric Witzke, Kourtney McCrary, Lauren Wright, Thomas Weaver, Del Medoff, Andrea Schwartz, Will Poulin

SOUND TECHNICIAN Anton Hedman

PRODUCTION INTERN Elizabeth Hall

STAFFARTISTIC DIRECTOR Bill English

PRODUCING DIRECTOR Susi Damilano

STAGE & PRODUCTION MANAGERS

Tatjana Genser, Maggie Koch

ASSOC. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jordan Puckett

CASTING DIRECTOR Lauren English

EDUCATION DIRECTOR Indiia Wilmott

MARKETING DIRECTOR Donny Gilliland

MARKETING ASSOCIATE Fei Cai

ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER Charlotte Brockman

ACCOUNTING MANAGER Camille Chenoweth

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Hans Cardenas

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Daniel Kessler

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Hillary Bray

BOX OFFICE MANAGER Tiiu Eva Rebane

BOX OFFICE ASSOCIATE Noelle Harrison

CONCESSIONS MANAGER Natalia Hermosilla

LEAD HOUSE MANAGER Kathleen Lee

FRONT OF HOUSE TEAM Anthony Aranda, Jessica Charles, Alex Fine, Angela Knutson, Jonathan Ramos, Sarah Selig

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Caitlin Quiat

ARTISTIC ASSISTANT Eliana Meyerowitz

DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT De’Ron McDaniel

GRAPHICS Chad Vaughan, Tatjana Genser

PUBLICIST Anne Abrams

VIDEOGRAPHY Shawn Lafrance

PHOTOGRAPHY Jessica Palopoli, Lauren English

Welcome to the

WALTER CASPER TEUFEL JR AUDITORIUM

Our new auditorium is dedicated and named after Walter Casper Teufel Jr. (1932-2012). This fulfilled his wish to bequeath a portion of his estate to an arts organization where his impact would be significant. And indeed it is. His gift gave us the confidence to move into a much needed larger space and continue our mission to share stories that deepen self-awareness, nurture compassionate community and inspire.

THE NANCY BLAIR INNER CIRCLE LOUNGE

Our Inner Circle Lounge (to the left of the bar) is dedicated to Nancy Blair (1943-2012), a board member, producer, angel and friend.

PRODUCTION TEAMPRODUCTION MANAGER Maggie Koch

TECHNICAL THEATRE MANAGER

Zach Sigman

MASTER ELECTRICIAN Molly Stewart Cohn

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Issere Christopher

CARPENTERS Latisha Leung, Charles McKeithan, Avery McKeithan, Adrianne Gradey, Michael Palladino, John McMillin, Danielle Pena

SCENIC PAINTERS Ewa Muszynska, Evandro Conceicao

ELECTRICIANS Jackson Wijtman, Corey Schaeffer, Eric Witzke, Kourtney McCrary, Lauren Wright, Thomas Weaver, Del Medoff, Andrea Schwartz, Will Poulin

SOUND TECHNICIAN Anton Hedman

PRODUCTION INTERN Elizabeth Hall

STAFFARTISTIC DIRECTOR Bill English

PRODUCING DIRECTOR Susi Damilano

STAGE & PRODUCTION MANAGERS

Tatjana Genser, Maggie Koch

ASSOC. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jordan Puckett

CASTING DIRECTOR Lauren English

EDUCATION DIRECTOR Indiia Wilmott

MARKETING DIRECTOR Donny Gilliland

MARKETING ASSOCIATE Fei Cai

ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER Charlotte Brockman

ACCOUNTING MANAGER Camille Chenoweth

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Hans Cardenas

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Daniel Kessler

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Hillary Bray

BOX OFFICE MANAGER Tiiu Eva Rebane

BOX OFFICE ASSOCIATE Noelle Harrison

CONCESSIONS MANAGER Natalia Hermosilla

LEAD HOUSE MANAGER Kathleen Lee

FRONT OF HOUSE TEAM Anthony Aranda, Jessica Charles, Alex Fine, Angela Knutson, Jonathan Ramos, Sarah Selig

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Caitlin Quiat

ARTISTIC ASSISTANT Eliana Meyerowitz

DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT De’Ron McDaniel

GRAPHICS Chad Vaughan, Tatjana Genser

PUBLICIST Anne Abrams

VIDEOGRAPHY Shawn Lafrance

PHOTOGRAPHY Jessica Palopoli, Lauren English

A Note from the Artistic Director...

The script for TREE came to me from an agent in New York. He called to cancel an appointment with me, saying he was flying out to see one of his client’s plays. “No worries,” I said, “why don’t you send me a copy?” When I opened it, I was surprised and excited to see that the playwright was Julie Hébert, who I had worked with years ago at the Magic Theatre back in the John Lion era, when she was Associate Artistic Director and began her playwriting career.

When I was less than a third of the way through it, I was certain we would perform the play. Her voice was so unique, the twists on subject matter so continually surprising, and the structure such a bracing blend of kitchen sink realism with the poetry of the unconscious. That combined with the music of the bayou cried out to me for a production.

At that time, however, we were still in our old digs on Sutter Street, which lacked the height and depth to fully realize the scope of Julie’s play. So, we put it on hold. Now, of course, with our wonderful new theatre, we can accommodate the second story, the working kitchen, the front porch and the boat in the swamp of letters. So, now is the perfect time to bring you TREE.

I’ve talked a lot this season about the “moment of truth.” We all can remember these moments, times when our lives could have gone one or another way. When we took the road less travelled. When we threw ourselves into the unknown. Such a moment in TREE is the knock on Leo’s door. Always good formulas for drama, these moments throw our characters into the fire, forcing them to make choices that will change the course of their lives.

But most surprising and gratifying about TREE is that what seems to be a play about race, ends up being about something even deeper and more elemental. Just when we think we know our family, that we have their “number,” we are surprised to find there is so much more there for us. To support us, to understand us, to be our reflection and our refuge.

Bill English, Artistic Director

TREE was born out of a lifetime of attempting honest conversations about race... and running into minefields of confusion, hurt feelings and unintended consequences. When I grew up in south Louisiana the Jim Crow laws were still in place and I have vivid memories of a so-called “separate but equal” culture and its humiliations. At the same time, our white family lived down the block from several black families and there were many friendships and intimacies that transcended the boundaries of color. Despite the interweaving of our lives, I learned early on that to discuss race openly was explosive and dangerous; consequently, I was drawn to the subject.

I have a friend, Rosalind Bell, an African-American writer who grew up near me in south Louisiana, and is my age. We have so much in common - geography, language, religion, music, humor, recipes - and yet her experience as a black child was so different from mine. Originally, I started TREE as a story about two sisters, one white, one black, but it never quite took off. When I had the idea to make one sibling a brother, the play ignited.

The other major inspiration for the play is a trove of about two hundred letters my father wrote to my mother during his years as a Marine in the Korean Conflict. When I read these, written by a young man of 19, 20, 21, I was taken by his youth, his dreams, his sense of humor and the love and tenderness he clearly had for his girl. I was so moved by their relationship and their hopes for a life together, and simultaneously struck by the known facts of my mother and father’s life which had very little to do with the plans they had as a young couple. The letters gave me insight into my parents, especially my Dad, and I felt there was something to be mined in terms of exploring what we actually know - and don’t know - about individuals in our families.

I started to write about race and ended writing about family, and how we keep each other honest. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes painful, but being known over time, recognizing yourself in others, continuing relationships after betrayal and suffering - gives us a chance to learn the big lessons. And with family, if you don’t learn it the first time, they just keep coming at you. I’m trying to understand my life through writing, and my family and closest relationships are the teachers and inspirations.

Julie Hébert

From theAuthor

The Cast

TRISTAN CUNNINGHAM* (JJ Price) started her performing days when she was only ten with Vermont’s own country circus, Circus Smirkus. After touring for eight years, she decided to change her focus to acting and recently graduated with a B.F.A from S.U.N.Y Purchase Acting Conservatory. Her Bay Area credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream with The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, A Winter’s Tale,The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with California Shakespeare Theater, and The Arsonists with The Aurora Theater. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and she is honored to be work with San Francisco Playhouse for the first time.

SUSI DAMILANO* (Didi Marcantel) is the co-founder and Producing Director of San Francisco Playhouse. She is a five-time recipient of the SF Bay Area Theatre Critic Circle award for Best Female Performance in Abigail’s Party, Harper Regan, Bug, Six Degrees of Separation, and Reckless. Last fall she made her off-Broadway debut in the Playhouse transfer of Bauer. Other plays she has held leading roles at the Playhouse include Coraline, Slasher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, First Person Shooter, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Kimberly Akimbo and The Smell of the Kill. Directing credits include A Behanding in Spokane, Den of Thieves, Into the Woods, Wirehead, west coast premieres of Honey Brown Eyes, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Coronado, The Mystery Plays, Roulette and world premieres of Rhett Rossi’s From Red to Black and Daniel Heath’s Seven Days.

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CARL LUMBLY* (Leo Price), last seen at San Francisco Playhouse as Chester Kimmich in John Patrick Shanley’s Storefront Church, Carl Lumbly has been busy. Recently, Carl played the lead role, Mr. Ames, in the world premiere of Regina Taylor’s Off-Broadway play, Stop. Reset at the Signature Theatre in NYC. Bay Area audiences last saw Carl as Troy in August Wilson’s Fences at Marin Theatre Company, directed by Derrick Sanders.

CATHLEEN RIDDLEY* (Mrs. Jessalyn Price) is so proud to be back at San Francisco Playhouse. She was previously seen here as Aldonza in Man of La Mancha and Ghost in Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge. Favorite roles include Nurse in Medea at African American Shakespeare Company, Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance at Berkeley Playhouse, and Calpurnia in To Kill A Mockingbird at TheatreWorks. She has been seen in many Bay Area theaters including Marin Theatre Company, Central Works, ACT, Lorraine Hansberry Theater and Magic Theatre. Cathleen is a proud member of AEA and TBA, an Associate Artist at Alter Theater, and is a PlayGround company member. She is an alumna of The Juilliard School Drama Division, a certified ASL Interpreter and has an MA from UPenn. A current project close to her heart is working with incarcerated men in San Quentin in their violence prevention program called No More Tears/Healing Circle. This one’s for my daddy.

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Creative Team

NINA BALL+ (Set Design) is an award-winning scenic and costume designer whose designs have been seen at San Francisco Playhouse (Camelot, My Fair Lady, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Period of Adjustment, Reborning, The Fantasticks), American Conservatory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, Aurora Theatre Company, Center Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Z Space, Marin Shakes, among many others. She is also a proud company member at Shotgun Players. Upcoming shows include Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Cal Shakes and Twelfth Night and Our Town at Shotgun Players. ninaball.com

ABRA BERMAN (Costume Designer) has been designing costumes for over twenty five years. Collaborations include San Francisco Playhouse, Berkeley Playhouse, West Bay Opera, Marin Shakespeare Company, Company C Contemporary Ballet, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Berkeley Opera, Brava Theatre, Pocket Opera, Lamplighters Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Alameda Civic Light Opera, Palo Alto Players, The De Young Museum, The Museum of Performance and Design, Hillbarn Theatre, Arclight Theatre, Contra Costa Musical Theatre, Ballet Califia, Cinnabar Theatre, and Sonoma County Repertory Theatre, among others. Abra has an MFA from UCLA in theatrical costume design.

ISSERE CHRISTOPHER (Production Assistant) is thrilled to be working at the Playhouse and loves the world of theatre.

BILL ENGLISH (Artistic Director) spent his life producing works of art. Bill is an accomplished singer, pianist and composer. He has acted in films, television and professional theatre and is a member of all the performing unions. Bill’s work has been recognized with numerous awards for acting, directing, sound and set design. Under Bill’s leadership The San Francisco Playhouse, has earned multiple nominations and awards making it the fastest growing and most awarded theatre company in San Francisco.

TATJANA GENSER* (Production/Stage Manager) is classically trained in philology and an autodidact in everything that’s practical theatre. She’s proud to be an AEA stage manager, production manager, props mistress and costume designer. She’s also a mean monkey on a ladder and a wizard of tape. Thanks to you for supporting independent theatre and to B. for the late night dinners and love.

THEODORE J.H. HULSKER (Sound Design) is pleased to return to San Francisco Playhouse after designing for Jerusalem and Storefront Church. Theodore’s recent work includes Mugwumpin’s The Great Big Also, San

Francisco Playhouses’s Sandbox production of Grounded, NCTC’s American Dream, Shotgun Player’s Strangers, Babies and Cutting Ball’s The Chairs. He was the 2012 recipient of the Eric Landismen Fellowship for an emerging designer. Go Gators.

MAGGIE KOCH* (Production Manager) A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Maggie graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Technical Theatre. In 2005 she began as an intern with San Francisco Playhouse and has been with the company ever since—now taking on the role as a Resident Stage Manager. Some of her favorite productions include: Art, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Coronado, Cabaret, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Den of Thieves, Slasher, Wirehead, Tigers Be Still, Period of Adjustment, The Aliens & A Behanding In Spokane, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and reasons to be pretty. She would like to thank: her fiance, Ed—for always making her laugh, her family—for believing, the SFPH company—for being her second family and her friends—for providing constant support. Go Steelers!

MIKE “MIGUEL” MARTINEZ (Fight Choreography) is a thirty-five year veteran of the stunt industry, who began his stage combat career in the Wild West Stunt Shows before going on to work in film, television, and commercials. Some of his film credits include, Stunt Double for Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Angels in the Outfield, The Matrix: Reloaded – more recent works are Transformers: Age of Extinction, San Andreas, Looking, and the upcoming Wachowski Siblings series Sense8. He first worked with San Francisco Playhouse as Fight Choreographer for Camelot, winning the Theater Critics Circle Award for Fight Choreography. His work with San Francisco Playhouse includes Camelot, Ideation, Jerusalem, Promises, Promises, and the Sandbox Series From Red to Black, and 77%. “I grew up going to musicals and cabaret shows with my mother, and became a fan of musicals and theater.”

MICHAEL OESCH+ (Lighting Design) is a lighting designer for dance, theatre, opera, musicals, installation, and film. Since first working with San Francisco Playhouse in 2007, he has designed lights for Man of La Mancha, The Scene, Cabaret, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Animals Out of Paper, The Fantasticks, Coraline, Tigers Be Still, Period of Adjustment, Becky Shaw, My Fair Lady, Reasons To Be Pretty, and Camelot. He has also designed lighting for numerous companies in the bay area including Smuin Ballet, The Magic Theatre, Trinity Lyric Opera, Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre, 13th Floor Dance, West Wave Dance Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, El Teatro Campesino, Theatre Artaud, Solano College Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, New Conservatory Theatre Center, as well as other companies in the bay area. He was recently nominated for a BATCC award for best lighting design of a musical.

JACQUELYN SCOTT (Props Artisan) works as production designer and propsmaster for theaters and film companies throughout the Bay Area. Previous credits include Into The Woods, Bauer, Jerusalem, Abigail’s Party, A Behanding in Spokane, Reborning (San Francisco Playhouse), Bad Jews, Buried Child, The Happy Ones, Annapurna, The Lily’s Revenge, The Brothers Size, Oedipus El Rey, Goldfish, Octopus (Magic Theatre), Assassins, God’s Plot (Shotgun Players), Companion Piece (Z Space), American Hwangap (The Play Company, New York) and all around art department for Lucky Dragon Productions, Terri Timely, Park Pictures and Heist.

LYNNE SOFFER (Dialect Coach) has served as dialect/text coach on over 235 productions at A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Magic Theatre, Cal Shakes, Marin Shakes, the Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, Arizona Theatre Co., Arena Stage, Seattle Rep and Denver Center among others including six productions for San Francisco Playhouse. Her film and television credits include Fruitvale (the Oscar Grant story - 2013), Metro, Duets, The Land of Milk and Honey and America’s Most Wanted. Ms Soffer is also a professional actor, director and teacher of actors and is the recipient of the 2011 Actors’ Equity Lucy Jordan Humanitarian Award.

JON TRACY (Director) returns to San Francisco Playhouse after directing the opening show for their new theater at 450 Post with Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson. Additional shows with the Playhouse include Track-in-a-Box, Slasher, Bug, Man of La Mancha and First Person Shooter. He is a Director, Playwright, Designer, Educator and Associate with many Bay Area theaters including: Shotgun Players (Company Member), Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theatre, Darkroom Productions (Founder, Former Artistic Director), Willows, TheatreFIRST, Berkeley Playhouse and Playground (Company Member and Resident Director). A graduate of Solano College Theatre’s Actor Training Program, he is also the recipient of the Kennedy Center Meritorious Achievement Award, fifteen North Bay Arty Awards, a Sacramento Elly Award, Bay Area Critics Circle Award and is a grant recipient from Theatre Bay Area and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a proud member of Theatre Bay Area’s Gender Parity Commission and of SDC, the union for stage directors and choreographers.

Translation of AUX NATCHITOCHES (In Natchitoches)

In Natchitoches there’s a brunetteFor her I want to make everything fine

I only have Sundays to see herOne misty morning

I found her lying on her bedSleep, darling, dream,

I only think of you and our love.I can neither sleep nor doze

I can’t sleep all night.My dear love, I only think of you.

My dear love, will we marry?I’ll build a secluded hutMy food will be grassAnd my drink tears.

For two lovers living only in longing.And if you have to get a dress,

Get it the color of ashes,For that’s the saddest color

For two lovers living only in longing.

From the CD “Folksongs of the Louisiana Acadians”Recorded by Dr. Harry Oster, on Arhoolie Records.

Recording Number 359, Song 14. Vocals by Bee Deshotel.

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Friend $250 - $499

Anonymous (x2)Beresford AmorosoCharles AndersonElizabeth AppellLauren & David BermanRonald & Susan BermanRobin BrassoMarilyn & George BrayAlex & Ann CampbellDavid CarsonAlice ChamblissSharon & Dennis Clisham *Bernice ClymanJudith Cohen & Malcolm

GissenJim & Jocelyn Colopy *Betty & Patrick Crowley *Robert & Carol FreidenbergMort & Amy FriedkinDiana Gay-Catania & David

Catania *

Gary Glaser & Christine Miller *

Jean & Milton GoldbergJoAna GrayJustin & Corina GreyElizabeth Groenewegen *Ronald GuttmanMarge Harburg *Fred HartwickPeggy HeinemanAlbert & Beverley HillmanFlora Lynn IsaacsonMichael JordanKaren Kidwell & Rodney

FarrowLucinda Lee *Rita LonerganSarah MurrayErica NietfeldKenneth OdomGene PaigeSusan Petit *Ellen RichardJon & Carol Richards *Mary Ann RobertsonSusan Robertson *Horacio RodriguezAnne RoherLinda & William SchieberFrederica ShockleyClint & Marilyn SmithEric SternbergerBonnie StilesStephen SueltzCarol Sundell *Fred & Kathleen Taylor

Kenneth & Marilyn WebbDiane & Richard WiersbaWilder Family

Patron $100 - $249

Anonymous (x4)Robert F. AdamsDavid Alcocer & Steven

Thompson *Bruno AlganMattie Alperton *Sue AnawaltPaul AsenteDeborah Van Atta *Aj Baker *Loretta & Hendrik BakkerKirk BaldwinMillie & John BarrettEve Barringer *Allan Basbaum *Nanci BeattyRichard Behrendt *Suzanne BeimJoe & Joanne BellanRuth BerggrenKaren & Haskell BernsonBarbara BernsteinStuart & Helen BesslerSandra & Bruce Beyaert *Sandra BlairSheila Bost *Michael & Renette Brady *Nelson Bragg *Julian & Beth Brandes *

Carole BreenPatricia Brill *Dustin Brown *Howard Brownstein *Wayne BryanSusan BydeThomas CalderolaChristine CarbonelHans Cardenas *Summer & Adolfo Castells*Daniel Caul *Hella & Mel Cheitlin *Len ChristensenArlene Waksberg & CharlesM ClarkGail ClarkKenneth Clark *Paula ClarkAngela Cohen *Douglas & Rosemary CorbinJay M. Corey *Rafael CostasDavid & Ann CrockettMike Crosby *Suzanne CrossMary & Guy CumminsGerry & Kathleen DamonLynda Beigel & Ellen Davis *Debbie Degutis *Andrea Delman *David Desler *Gerry Devito *Charles Dorris *Robert Eakin & Alvis HendleyConor Egan *Carol EmoryMichael EnnisLexi Feinberg *Elizabeth FerrariAlexander FetterSusan K. FisherLaura B. Fleming *Susan Fogarty *Catz & Jean Forsman *Carolyn FossStephen FrancisJeanne Franken *Enrique GarciaMiriam GaussSarah Gill *Mitch Gitin *Glennis Lees Glazeski &

Michael Glazeski *Alberto GobbiPaul GoetzBurton Goldfine *Judy & Mike GoldmanKeith Goldstein *Laura Kipnis & Sidney

GoldsteinStephen Goldstine & Emily

KeelerMichele GollerRonald Goodman & Richard

LeadbetterDerek Gordon

Piers J.C. Greenhill *Dennis Gregg *Peter Groubert *Albert HalffJane HansenMary Lou & Sam HartshornWill Harvey *Mary Rose & Patrick Hayes *Mark HernandezRichard Hewetson *Irene HilgersAl HoffmanHeidi HollandKyra Hubis *Joan Huff *Andrea IndartLyn IsbellRuth JamesCarolyn Jayne *Rosemary Jenckes *William Jervis & Barushka

Sholty *Sheila-Merle Johnson *Karla Jones *Melanie Jones *Jeffrey JudsonRobert KaiserMike Kaplan *Earl KarnLeslie KarrenJose KatzBeryl KayMaxine KeninRichard Mountain in honor of

Jane KennedyDeb Kessler & Lou Michetti *Pat & Steve KlanskoGeorge M. Knuepfel *Kevin Koberle *Daniel KocherJoe & Peggy KomanDoug KoneckyAnn Kottler *Roman & Hamila Kownacki *Louis KravitzNancy KueflerMichael Kwiecien *Adrienne Lacau *Gary & Louise Lambdin *Lois Langer *Richard & Ann LanzerottiStephen LarucciaJoan Lasselle & Stanley ShellAon FoundationJack LeibmanEvelyn Levin *Sandra Levitan *Margaret Levitt *Michelle LiapesRashida LilaniSharon Litsky & John

Sampson *Warren & Susan Lortie *Judy LoveJohn LucaDave Lucas

Carol LudwigTheresa Lustig & Stanton

Koppel *Michael & Karen Macdonald *Jarrold Maki *Mare & Paul MananganHannah MarksRebecca Martinez *Sue McCone MacMillan *Danuta McCullaghDianne Mccutcheon *Michele A. McDonald *Bill & Christney McGlashanJohn McLeanMarilyn & Charles Meier *Carl & Judy MendozaMaeve MetzgerDana MerwinDenise Michael & David

Schirle *Anne Michel *Carol Mitchell & Peter JaritSheila Moore & John DaltonAmelia MotroniSamuel MuirJudith MyersDorothy Niccolls *Ruth NottJane NurreKristina OberPatricia O’Connor *Robert & Ruth O’ConnorJean O’DonnellEvan PainterLynne PainterPaula PaleyMaureen ParenAnne & John ParkerSylvia PascalKeiko Okano Pederson *John Pendleton & Natalie

RomeJulia PetersonDavid PezziRegina PhelpsJoy PorterLucille & Arthur PoskanzerMichael Powers *Barbara & Mike Purcell *Steve & Wilma Rader *Donald Ramos & Alan Sauer *Nick RayTuesday Ray *Elizabeth RaymondRose Reed *Gordon ReetzSteven & Chris Riess *Suzanne Riley *Judith RinoAlison RittgerWayne RobinsBarbara & Saul RockmanEdward Rodden *Jeff Rodman & Adrienne HirtRose Roskilly *Joan Rost in memory of

Clayton Rost *Jason & Beki RushGretchen Saeger *Theodore SavetnickLaurel Schaeffer-TrentRoberta SchearPenny SchreiberDavid Schubeck *Madeline & Arnold Schuster *Janet & Philip SeelingerJames SeemanBill & Holly ShepardRoland Sheppard & Connie

Suzuki *Gae ShulmanRon & Ellen ShulmanVladimir ShulmanSol Silver *Tom SimpsonEdward SmithFabienne SmolinskiBrenda SobonCindy Soloman *Ann & James Spencer *Thomas & Lucy SponslerBarbara SprungMichael SteelBill & Mary Ann SteinMonica SteinerJohn Steinfirst *John SternSusanne Stevens & Monte

Mansir *Lorna & Chris StrotzBarbara Stuart *Dorian Stull *Joan Sullivan *Virginia SummererCarolyn Sumrall *Daniel TanitaRonald Tauber *Marion TaylorDiana ThomasRobert TraskJim Turner *Kevin TurnerLinda Vallee *William van Dyk & Margi

SullivanAlyosha & Moya Verzhbinsky*Gretchen vonDueringMel Wasserman *Alan WeberJill & Philip WeinsteinLuke WeinsteinElaine & Stan WeissRichard WestRobert WestonAndrea WheelerMary Ann WhittenPatty WilkersonMichael WisperKarissa WongJoy WooAgnes Zarate *Norman Zilber *

YOU ARE AN ARTIST.You see the true beauty in creativeexpression. You strive to elevate our culture.You believe the arts make our communityand the world a richer place. For yourdedication and your passion, we salute you.

Union Bank® is proud to sponsor the 2014-15 San Francisco Playhouse Season.Congratulations to all the participants in tonight’s performance!

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