METAMORPHOSESBased on the Myths of OvidWritten and originally directed by Mary ZimmermanDirected by Doug Hara

October 1 - November 1

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Based on the myths of OVIDWritten and originally directed by MARY ZIMMERMAN

Scenic Designer

BRIAN SIDNEY BEMBRIDGE+

Lighting Designer

THOM WEAVER+

Stage Manager

ALEC E. FERRELL*

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TWO TRAINS RUNNINGTWO TRAINS RUNNING By August Wilson By August Wilson

Book and Lyrics by

Marsha Norman

Music by Lucy Simon

The

Secret Garden

Oct 1 - Nov 1, 2015F. Otto Haas Stage

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Metamorphoses was originally produced by Lookingglass Theatre Company, Chicago, October 1998. Premiered in New York City by The Second Stage Theatre, New York, September 2001, Artistic Director: Carole Rothman, Managing Director: Carol Fishman,

Executive Director: Alexander Fraser. Ovid’s Metamorphoses translated by David Slavitt, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994Rainer Maria Rilke’s Poem, Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes. Translated by Stephen Mitchell, 1995 Modern Library.

ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

Based on the myths of OVIDWritten and originally directed by MARY ZIMMERMAN

Directed by DOUG HARA

Scenic Designer

BRIAN SIDNEY BEMBRIDGE+

Lighting Designer

THOM WEAVER+

Stage Manager

ALEC E. FERRELL*

Costume Designer

OLIVERA GAJIC+

Sound Designer

CHRISTOPHER COLUCCI

Assistant Director

CHRISTINE FREIJE

This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY

2015/16 SEASON

Subscribe for the greatest savings.

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A World Premiere by Bruce GrahamA World Premiere by Bruce GrahamA World Premiere by Bruce Graham

Equivocation

A new play by Bill Cain

TWO TRAINS RUNNINGTWO TRAINS RUNNING By August Wilson By August Wilson

Book and Lyrics by

Marsha Norman

Music by Lucy Simon

The

Secret Garden

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Welcome to the start of our 2015/16 season. As a theatre dedicated to telling great stories by great storytellers, I have long wanted to produce Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, for this piece is at its essence a celebration of storytelling. I went to college with Mary Zimmerman and have loved following her extraordinary work over the years. Throughout her career, she has been drawn to ancient texts and stories based in the oral tradition, stories such as The Odyssey and The Arabian Nights (which the Arden produced

in 2004). She is a singular artist: fiercely intelligent, deeply inquisitive, surprisingly irreverent. She has described herself as an archeologist, dusting off these tales so that their true shape — their full power — comes to the stage, continually asking the question, “Why has this story lived for so long and why does it want to keep on living?” What is also remarkable is that Mary finds the contemporary in these ancient texts. Most significantly, she has a deep and powerful belief in the power of stories to connect us with our shared humanity — and ourselves. I am thrilled to welcome Doug Hara as the director of this production. Doug first appeared at the Arden as Owen in our 2006 production of A Prayer for Owen Meany and has, since then, become an important force in the Philadelphia theatre community. Doug has a long-standing relationship with Mary Zimmerman and appeared in the original production of Metamorphoses. He has spent many hours in this beautiful pool, and it’s been inspiring to watch him lead the creation of this new production. I love this piece. It reminds me of why I love going to the theatre — and of the power and possibility of storytelling. Great stories bring us together, whether we gather around a fire, a kitchen table, or, in this case, 2,600 gallons of water. And so together, we dive into a new season. Enjoy.

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THE ARDEN’S 2015/16 SEASONMetamorphoses tells stories of transformation. Looking ahead, the notion of change and transformation runs throughout our 2015/16 season:

Equivocation is a new play based on The Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to assassinate King James I by blowing up the House of Lords. In Equivocation, William “Shagspeare” (playwright Bill Cain’s favorite spelling of the famous playwright’s name) is commissioned by the crown to write a play telling the official version of the plot. Equivocation follows Shag’s attempt to figure out what actually transpired and how to write the history of an event he doubts ever took place. The play is a valentine to the theatre (think Shakespeare in Love) and also a political thriller. A thrilling play that is theatrical and suspenseful and brim-ming with the joy of creation. You can learn more about this play later in this stagebill, where we have provided a more detailed description of the plot.

Bruce Graham is one of Philadelphia’s leading playwrights, with a gift for creating extraordinary characters and sharp writing and often very funny dialogue. With Funnyman, Bruce has created Chick Sherman – an aging vaudevillian star who’s found fame and fortune making people laugh, but whose career has been reduced to doing shtick for television commercials. And then Chick’s long-time agent Junior brings him an offer: to appear in an avant-garde absurdist play in a shabby Off-Broadway theatre. Chick is a star; he’s never even been to an off Broadway production; and he doesn’t understand this avant-garde play (the play Chick is being offered is inspired by the plays by Samuel Beckett; audience members who were puzzled by our production of Endgame might relate to his plight). Funnyman poignantly and powerfully depicts one man’s struggle to remain relevant, valued – and still funny.

Two Trains Running is set in 1969 and takes place in a small restaurant owned by Memphis Lee in the Hill District of Pittsburgh. At the top of the play, Sterling, a young man who grew up in the neighborhood and has recently been released from prison, shows up. Unlike the others who frequent the restaurant, Sterling is excited by the possibilities of change, energized by a rally for racial justice commemorating the birthday of Malcolm X that is soon to be held, and determined to make his way in the rapidly changing world. Though set against the backdrop of the late 1960’s, the contemporary resonances of Two Trains Running are striking. As a critic for Chicago Sun Times recently wrote: “While all of Wilson’s plays may be loosely pegged to a historical moment, what is most remarkable about listening to this one is just how much of it sounds as if it had been penned at this very moment.” The cast will include Johnnie Hobbs, Jr. as Memphis Lee. Johnnie, who was in Blue Door and The Whipping Man at the Arden, is one of Philadelphia’s leading actors and will receive this year’s Barrymore Award for Lifetime Achievement.

The Secret Garden is a musical with great heart and a thrilling and beautiful score. We will bring together some of Philadelphia’s finest musical theatre performers for this production, including Jeff Coon (George in Sunday in the Park); Alex Keiper (Petra, A Little Night Night Music); and Elisa Matthews (Johanna, Sweeney Todd). These artists have the ability to make this score sing: Alex will shake the rafters of the Haas belting out “Move On.” Elisa will make you cry with the soaring “How Could I Ever Know?” And Jeff Coon was born to sing these songs. The Secret Garden is a gorgeous story that celebrates new beginnings and a great musical with which to end our 2015/16 season.

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Eric Hissom will appear in Equivocation

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DIRECTOR’S NotesWhat do I want to read about a play before it begins? Ideally, very little. I have come for a story, and the artists assembled are about to tell me one. That is enough. Turn off the lights and let’s go.

But…I do have one thought to offer you. There is one basic fact about this play that has amazed me ever since I performed in the first production 17 years ago, and every time it returns to me my astonishment is undiminished. I offer it to you here in capital letters because whenever I think these words I feel as if I am shouting them in my own head:

THESE STORIES WERE WRITTEN DOWN MORE THAN 2000 YEARS AGO.(And that does not include the unknown number of years they had existed before then, and were passed down orally through the generations.)

Please let that sink in.

8 A.D.

That is the year they were put on parchment by a 51 year old poet named Publius Ovidius Naso. (In that same year the man we now call Jesus Christ was a 13-year old boy. The New Testament would not be put in ink for another 100 years.) And, somehow, miraculously to my mind, these most ancient of ancient myths are still familiar, relevant, and wholly affecting in 2015 A.D. We recognize these people. They are immediate and present in our minds. These people are us.

Now I am not a scholar. I cannot put these stories in any illuminating context with the generations of literature that have come since. But if these foundational myths are the bedrock from which all of western literature has sprung, then perhaps, in some basic sense, we have simply been telling the same stories over and over for 2000+ years, dressing them in different robes and colors. Can we not, in the end, draw a satisfactory line from Ovid, to Shakespeare, to the Brothers Grimm, to Toni Morrison, to J.K. Rowling? This may sound reductive or even profane, but I don’t think I’m too far from the truth of it. Love. Loss. Transformation. Rinse and repeat. I find this thread, this connection, this familiarity with the ancient incredibly moving and inspiring.

The only other thing I want to say is that my direction owes much to Mary Zimmerman and her extraordinary vision, her original production, and the score or more of cast members I have been honored to perform this play with over the years from the first production in 1998 to the recent revival in 2012/13. I have borrowed from them all without shame.

This Arden production contains the signature artistry of amazing new designers, actors, and technicians. All of us have assembled to tell you some stories.

I hope you enjoy them.

Doug Hara

Cast of Characters

In alphabetical order:

Aphrodite and others ............................................................Krista Apple-Hodge*

Orpheus and others .......................................................................... Sean Bradley*

Myrrha and others ................................................................................. Leigha Kato

Alycone and others .............................................................................Alex Keiper*

Nursemaid and others ................................................................... Sharina Martin*

Midas and others ......................................................Christopher Patrick Mullen*

Eurydice and others ...................................................................... Clare O’Malley*

Phaeton and others ............................................................................. Steve Pacek*

Vertumnus and others ....................................................................Brandon Pierce

Erysichthon and others..................................................................Lindsay Smiling*

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UNDERSTUDIES: Madison Auch (Alycone and others), Dorien Belle (Midas and others),

Chase Byrd (Orpheus and others), Ife Foy (Nursemaid and others), Daniel Ison (Erysichthon and others), Gracie Martin (Myrrha and others),

Clare Mahoney (Aphrodite and others), Liam Mulshime (Phaeton and others, Vertumnus and others), Grace Tarves (Eurydice and others)

Cast of Characters

UNDERSTUDIES: Madison Auch (Alycone and others), Dorien Belle (Midas and others),

Chase Byrd (Orpheus and others), Ife Foy (Nursemaid and others), Daniel Ison (Erysichthon and others), Gracie Martin (Myrrha and others),

Clare Mahoney (Aphrodite and others), Liam Mulshime (Phaeton and others, Vertumnus and others), Grace Tarves (Eurydice and others)

Who’s WhoKRISTA APPLE-HODGE (Aphrodite and others) Arden: Romeo & Juliet, Our Town. Regional: Hamlet/Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Rapture, Blister, Burn, In the Next Room (Vibrator Play) (The Wilma Theater); Mary Stuart, Creditors (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective); Other Desert Cities, Proof (Walnut Street Theatre); Henry V (Lantern Theater Company); In a Daughter’s Eyes (InterAct The-atre Company). Film/Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC). Training: BA Kenyon College, MFA Acting Temple University. Krista is also a Faculty Member at University of the Arts. Many thanks to Doug and the Arden. Love to DH. Upcoming: The Hard Problem (The Wilma Theatre). www.kristaapple.com

SEAN BRADLEY (Orpheus and others) Arden: Donalbain/Seyton in Macbeth, Kulygin (u/s) in Three Sisters, Lockwood (u/s) in The History Boys. Regional: Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie (Act II Playhouse); Hotspur in Five Kings (Revolution Shakespeare); Albert the Horse in The Wind in the Willows, Laertes in Hamlet (Quintessence Theatre Group). Training: BFA University of the Arts, MA Drama and Performance Studies University College Dublin. Sean thanks Doug and Terry for the opportunity, his parents Mike and Elaine for their love and support, and Clare for everything. Upcoming: Hansel in Hansel and Gretel (Quintessence Theatre Group).

LEIGHA KATO (Myrrha and others) Arden: Anne (u/s) in A Little Night Music. Regional: Little Red/Rapunzel in Into the Woods (Theatre Horizon); Amanda in 4000 Miles (Philadelphia Theatre Com-pany); Margaret Mead/Angela in HAIR (Chance Theater). Training: BFA Musical Theatre University of the Arts. Love to my family and Lee. Leighakato.com

ALEX KEIPER (Alycone and others) Arden: La Bête, Incorruptible, Sideways Stories, Parade, A Little Night Music, Cinderella, Tulipomania, Flea and the Professor. Regional: Field Hockey Hot, Ordinary Days, Rooms (11th Hour Theatre Company); Down Past Passyunk (InterAct Theatre Company); Assas-sins (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Proof (Walnut Street Theatre); Kimberly Akimbo, Spelling Bee (Theatre Horizon). Training: BFA Musical Theater University of the Arts, Atlantic Acting School Summer Intensive. Thanks to Doug, Alec, Matt, Terry and this beautiful group of artists. Love to M, D, R, M & D. Upcoming: Alex will be returning to the Arden for her 10th production this spring in The Secret Garden. www.alexkeiper.com

SHARINA MARTIN (Nursemaid and others) Arden debut. Off-Broadway: The Talk (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: The Beautiful Sea Next Door (Ars Nova); Alls Well That Ends Well, Another Part of the Forest, Major Barbara (American Players Theatre); Heartbreaker (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center); Fedra, Black Diamond (Lookingglass Theatre); Macbeth (Greasy Joan & Co.). Film/Televi-sion: In Between Men, Happily After, RedRum, Mixed Up. Training: Northwestern University, School at Steppenwolf, William Esper Studio. Special thanks to J. Nicole Brooks. sharinamartin.com

CHRISTOPHER PATRICK MULLEN (Midas and others) Arden: Macbeth, A Little Night Music, Candide, Assassins, The Stinky Cheese Man, Hamlet, The Girl With The Silver Eyes. Broadway/Touring: West Side Story (1st National Tour). Off-Broadway: The Runner Stumbles (revival). Company member of People’s Light, recent productions include Arthur and the Tale of the Red Dragon, Cinderella – A Musi-cal Panto, The Winter’s Tale, Mr Hart and Mr Brown, King Lear. 26 productions at Pennsylvania Shake-speare Festival including Pericles and Henry VIII. The Whaleship Essex (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse); Hamlet, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and others (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre). Training: DeSales University. Upcoming: Chip and Gus (Centenary Stage).

CLARE O’MALLEY (Eurydice and others) Arden: The Threepenny Opera. Regional: Private Lives (Wal-nut Street Theatre); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Philadelphia Theatre Company); The Credeaux Canvas (Theatre Horizon). International: Grease (The Gaiety Theatre); The Dead (The Abbey Theatre); The Last Summer (Gate Theatre); The Life/Death of Eric Argyle (Edinburgh Fringe). Film: Creed (MGM). Training: BFA Musical Theatre University of the Arts. Clare thanks Doug, Terry and all the Arden family. Much love to the O’Malley/Bradley clan. www.clareomalley.com

STEVE PACEK (Phaeton and others) Arden: Sideways Stories, Robin Hood, Clybourne Park, The Borrow-ers, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Franklin’s Apprentice, Pacific Overtures, The Dead. Regional: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Little Shop of Horrors (Hangar Theatre); Into the Woods, The 39 Steps (Theatre Ho-rizon); Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Theatre Confetti); A Christmas Carol (Delaware Theatre Company); Gutenberg (Act II Playhouse & Montgomery Theater); Ordinary Days, The Bomb-itty of Errors (11th Hour Theatre Company); The Bomb-itty of Errors (Milwaukee Repertory Theater). Train-ing: BFA Ithaca College. Many thanks to Doug and the entire Arden family. Upcoming: Peter and the Starcatcher (Arkansas Repertory Theatre).

BRANDON PIERCE (Vertunmus and others) Arden: Avery in Charlotte’s Web. Regional: Hands Up (Flashpoint Theatre Company); Mullisheg in The Fair Maid of the West (Philadelphia Artists’ Col-lective); Malik in Milk Like Sugar (Simpatico Theatre Project); Mansa Konfara in Sunjata Kamalenya (Experiential Theatre Company); Eric in Dutch Masters (Azuka Theatre); Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona (Delaware Shakespeare Festival). Training: BFA Acting University of the Arts. Thanks to Doug, the cast and crew. Love to Mom and Dad. Love to Francesca. Upcoming: Roe in Local Girls (Azuka Theatre). LINDSAY SMILING (Erysichthon and others) Arden: Great Expectations. Regional: Moon Man Walk (Orbiter 3); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Hamlet, Don Juan Comes home From Iraq (The Wilma Theatre); A Number (Tiny Dynamite); The Learned Ladies (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Macbeth, Comedy of Errors (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); North of the Boulevard (Theatre Ex-ile); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Syracuse Stage); Beautiful Boy (People’s Light and Theatre Company); Othello (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Superior Donuts (Dorset Theatre Festival). Training: BS Illinois State, MFA Temple University. Adjunct Professor at Temple University. Upcoming: The Hard Problem (The Wilma Theater). www.lindsaysmiling.net

MARY ZIMMERMAN (Playwright) is the recipient of a 1998 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2002 Tony Award for Best Direc-tor of a Play and numerous Jeff Awards (including Best Production and Best Direction). She is an Artistic Associate of Goodman Theatre, a member of Lookingglass Theatre Company and a professor of performance studies at Northwestern University. Ms. Zimmerman has adapted and directed Metamorphoses, which appeared on Broadway and at Lookingglass Theatre Company; The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci; Journey to the West; The Odyssey; Mirror of the Invisible World and Silk; Arabian Nights; Argonautika; The Secret in the Wings; Eleven Rooms of Proust; a new opera with Philip Glass, Galileo Galilei; Candide; The Jungle Book and The White Snake. In addition, Ms. Zimmerman has directed Shakespeare’s Pericles and All’s Well That Ends Well at the Goodman and Henry VIII and Measure for Measure at New York Theater Festival’s Shakespeare in the Park. She made her Metropolitan Opera directorial debut in 2007 with Lucia di Lammermoor. Subsequent Met productions include Armida and La Sonnambula.

DOUG HARA (Director) Arden: Great Expectations, The Cat in the Hat, Pinocchio, Cyrano, Threepenny Opera, Something Intangible, Sleeping Beauty, Go, Dog. Go!, Lookingglass Alice, and A Prayer for Owen Meany. Broadway: The Boys of Winter and Metamorphoses. Regional: Goodman Theatre, About Face Theatre, Jellyeye Drum Opera, Huntington Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Alliance Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and The Joyce Theatre. Doug is an ensemble member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company where he has participated in over 20 productions. Doug’s work is dedicated with love to his family and friends.

BRIAN SIDNEY BEMBRIDGE (Scenic Designer) Arden: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Cat in the Hat, Beauty and the Beast, Go, Dog. Go!, Hard Times. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, Kids With Guns, Theatre at St. Clements. International: Theatre Royal Stratford East, Town Hall Theatre Company, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre and Platform Hip Hop Festival. Regional: Over 30 theatres, including: The Guthrie Theater and Children’s Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, TimeLine Theatre Company, Lookingglass Theatre, The Second City, Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre. Awards: 6 Jeff Awards, 2 LA Drama Critic Circle Awards, 3 Garland Awards, Ovation Award, LA Weekly Award. brian-sidneybembridge.com

Who’s Who

Who’s WhoOLIVERA GAJIC (Costume Designer) Arden: Great Expectations, Three Sisters, The Flea and the Professor. Off-Broadway: American Symphony Orchestra, Vineyard Theatre, The Juilliard School. Off-off Broadway: HERE, The Chocolate Factory, Company XIV, New Georges, Rattlestick Theater, The Ohio Theater, Primary Stages. Regional: Trinity Repertory Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Two Rivers The-ater, Riverside Theatre and Opera, Playmakers Repertory Company, California Shakespeare Theater, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Theatreworks. International: Jedermann (Salzburg Festival, Austria). Olivera has been part of the US National Exhibit at the 2004 & 2007 Prague Quadrennial. Awards: NEA/TCG CDP for Designers, IT Award, TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, Barrymore Award, Bessie Award.

THOM WEAVER (Lighting Designer) Arden: 19 productions including Passion, La Bête, Great Expectations, and Under the Skin. Philadelphia: The Wilma Theater, People’s Light, UArts, Lantern Theater Company, Delaware Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre, EgoPo Classic Theatre, Curtis Opera Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, New Paradise Laboratories, 1812 Productions, Headlong Dance Theatre, Theatre Exile, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, and Flashpoint Theatre Company (Artistic Director). Regional: Shakespeare Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Theater J, Two River, California Shakespeare Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company. 3 Barrymore Awards (21 nominations), 2 AUDELCO Awards, 3 Helen Hayes nominations. Education: Carnegie Mellon and Yale.

CHRISTOPHER COLUCCI (Sound Designer) Arden: Charlotte’s Web, The Whipping Man, Gee’s Bend. Regional: Sound Design/Original Music for The Whale (Theatre Exile); Sound Design/Original Music for Arcadia (Lantern Theater Company); Sound Design for Outside Mullingar (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Sound Design for Other Desert Cities (Walnut Street Theater); Sound Design/Original Music for Angels in America (Wilma Theatre). Awards: 6 Barrymore Awards, Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts. Thanks, Dan Perelstein, and John Kolbinski, Esther Walsh and the Kimberton Waldorf School for the instruments; and to Rachel Camp (harp), Sarah Gliko (flute), and Andrew Nelson (bass). For more sounds please visit soundcloud.com/cmsound and youtube.com/user/cmsound

CHRISTINE FREIJE (Assistant Director) Arden debut. Regional: Coriolanus: Russian Roulette Shakespeare (Reject The-atre Project); Fair Maid of the West (Philadelphia Artists’ Collective); The Lion in Winter (Berkshire Theatre Group). Training: BA Holy Cross. Christine was also a Walnut Street Theatre Apprentice. Christine is a company member of the Reject Theatre Project and Philadelphia’s Emerging Artists Collective; her work was recently featured in SHE Directs: An Evening of Emerging Female Artists. Thanks and love to Mom and Dad. Upcoming: Chicago (Holy Cross’s Alternate College Theatre).

ALEC E. FERRELL (Stage Manager) Past Arden credits include: Passion, Macbeth, La Bête, Incorruptible, Three Sisters, Parade, A Raisin in the Sun, Next to Normal, August: Osage County, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Ghost-Writer (World Premiere), Blue Door, Rabbit Hole, My Name is Asher Lev (World Premiere). Other Work with Theatre Horizon, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, PTC@Play, PlayPenn. Proud Member of AEA, SMA. Love and thanks to the family.

TERRENCE J. NOLEN (Producing Artistic Director) is co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Arden Theatre Company. Favorite Arden productions include all-Philadelphia casts of August: Osage County, Death of a Salesman, The Grapes of Wrath and Hedda Gabler; and such musicals as Next to Normal, Sweeney Todd, Pacific Overtures, Violet, and Caroline, or Change. Terry directed the inaugural production of Arden Children’s Theatre, Charlotte’s Web. He has directed seven world-premiere plays by Michael Hollinger, three by Dennis Raymond Smeal, three by Michael Ogborn, two by Rogelio Martinez, and Bruce Graham’s Something Intangible. Terry has been nominated for 24 Barrymore Awards for his directing work at the Arden and received awards for The Baker’s Wife, Sweeney Todd, Opus, Winesburg, Ohio, Assassins, and Something Intangible. He directed Michael Hollinger’s Opus at Primary Stages in New York and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director. His short film The Personal Touch was nominated for an Emmy Award.

AMY L. MURPHY (Managing Director) A Philadelphia native, Amy co-founded the Arden in 1988 with Terrence J. Nolen and Aaron Posner. She is especially proud of the Arden Professional Apprentice program and its contribution to the Philadelphia cultural community. A graduate of Susquehanna University, Amy received the university’s first-ever Young Alumni Achievement Award. She completed the Executive Program for Nonprofit

Who’s WhoLeaders-Arts. Amy serves on the Board of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and Theatre Philadelphia. She has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Arts Council, Theatre Communications Group and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and the Local Advisory Council of the Non Profit Finance Fund. Amy was named a Hepburn Fellow 2008-09 by the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at Bryn Mawr College.

ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY Founded in 1988, Arden Theatre Company is dedicated to bringing to life great stories by great storytellers — on the stage, in the classroom, and in the community. We stage five productions each sea-son as part of our Mainstage series and two productions through Arden Children’s Theatre, the city’s first resident professional children’s theatre program. We create and produce new work through the Independence Foundation New Play Showcase. The Arden Professional Apprenticeship program trains future theatre leaders, and Arden Drama School classes teach children and teens about the craft of making plays. Our in-school arts education program, Arden for All, makes our work available to the entire community through subsidized tickets and books for economically disadvantaged young people and our Arden Arts Education Fund provides scholarships for Arden Drama School classes and camps. The Arden has received ten Philadelphia Magazine “Best of Philly” Awards, the Arts & Business Council’s Arts Excellence Award, five City Paper “Reader’s Choice” Awards, four Philadelphia Inquirer “Theatre Company of the Year” citations, 62 awards and 307 nominations from Theatre Philadelphia’s Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, and was named “Best Theatre Company” by Philadelphia Weekly in 2009. Arden Theatre Company, a professional, nonprofit 501(c)(3) theatre company, is a member of the Theatre Communications Group, the League of Resident Theatres, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Old City Arts Association. The Arden participates in The Barrymore Awards, a program of Theatre Philadelphia.

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National Philanthropic TrustPECO Energy Company, an exelon CompanyPenn Virginia CorporationPfizer FoundationThe Philadelphia FoundationPNC FoundationQuaker Chemical CorporationRobert Wood Johnson FoundationSaint-Gobain Corporation FoundationSap America INCSubaru of America FoundationUnited WayThe Vanguard Group FoundationWilliam Penn Foundation

Corporate, Foundation & Government Support$100,000 & aboveThe Albert M. Greenfield FoundationHamilton Family Foundation Independence FoundationAnne M. and Philip H. Glatfelter Family FoundationThe Pew Center for Arts & HeritageThe Pew Charitable Trusts Philadelphia Cultural Leadership ProgramWilliam Penn FoundationWyncote Foundation

$50,000 to $99,999Comcast NBC10 Telemundo62The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable TrustThe Horace W. Goldsmith FoundationShubert Foundation

$15,000 to $49,999ACE GroupArcadia FoundationBoeing CorporationCampbell Soup FoundationFox Chase BankThe Geraldine R. Dodge FoundationHarmelin MediaHirsig Family Fund of The Philadelphia FoundationLincoln Financial FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsPECO

Pennsylvania Council on the ArtsThe Philadelphia Foundation’s Fund for ChildrenThe Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com+Target

$7,500 to $14,999AnonymousPhiladelphia Cultural FundSamuel S. Fels FundSusquehanna BankThe Wells Fargo Foundation

$2,500 to $7,499Caroline J.S. Sanders Charitable Trust IICatherine R. and Anthony A. Clifton FoundationThe Charlotte Cushman FoundationChristian R. and Mary F. Lindback FoundationChristopher Ludwick FoundationCivic FoundationCorinne R. and Henry Bower Memorial TrustDolfinger-McMahon FoundationEnterprise Holdings FoundationEthel Sergeant Clark Smith Memorial FundGreater Philadelphia Cultural AllianceHaley FoundationJenkintown Building Services+Leo Niessen, Jr. Charitable TrustLouis N. Cassett Foundation

Paul E. Kelly FoundationRosenlund Family FoundationSubaru of America FoundationThe Victory FoundationUniversal Health Services, Inc.Wines ‘Til Sold Out+The Whimsie FundZeldin Family Foundation

$750 to $2,499Actors’ Equity FoundationAlex J. Ettl FoundationArronson FoundationThe Asplundh FoundationBluestone FoundationDrumcliff FoundationThe Elder Family FoundationGraboyes Commercial Window CompanyThe Hassel FoundationHatboro Beverages+Lagunitas Brewing Co.+Philadelphia Convention and Visitor’s Bureau+Rittenhouse FoundationSavills Studley+Union Benevolent AssociationVisit Philadelphia+

$749 & underAmazonSmileCafé Excellence+William Goldman Foundation

+denotes gifts of services or goods

Looking for a business tax break in 2015?Receive a tax credit through the Pennsylvania Education Improvement Tax Credit Program by supporting the Arden’s education outreach program!

Eligiblity info: Mimi Meserve at 215.922.8900 x26 or mmeserve@ardentheatre.orgor visit www.ardentheatre.org/support/eitc.html Special thanks to EITC contributors ACE Group, Comcast NBC 10 Telemundo, PECO, Susquehanna Bank, Harmelin Media, and Universal Health Services, Inc.

Sassafras Grove ($10,000 and above)Mr. Frederick W. Anton, IIIThe CHG Charitable TrustMr. and Mrs. N. Peter HamiltonHirsig Family Fund of The Philadelphia FoundationAnn Marie and Terry Horner^^Wyncote Foundation, at the recommendation of Leonard C. Haas

Cherry Grove ($5,000-$9,999)AnonymousAnn DieboldBob and Nancy ElfantMarie and Joseph Field Ms. Elizabeth Gemmill Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation^^Kristen Phillips and Matt Schreck^Suzanne F. Roberts Cultural Development FundCharles and Mindy Goldberg Rose^Monica and Philip RosenthalLee and Christopher van de VeldeRosalyn and Stephen WeinsteinTed and Stevie WolfJune and Steve Wolfson Family FoundationZeldin Family Foundation

Filbert Grove ($2,500-$4,999)

AnonymousJohn Alchin and Hal MarryattBethany Asplundh^Carol and Tom BeamLois G. Brodsky Susan and John ColemanAnne M. CongdonPaul Dennhardt+

Robert M. DeverStephen J. Falchek and John A. Offidani, IIISandi Foxx-JonesLinda and David GlicksteinEileen Heisman and Martin Tuzman+Drs. Paula and Thomas J. HumphriesLeslie and Barbara KaplanSandra and Peter KlugmanWilliam A. LoebDrs. Robin and Saifuddin Mama^^Alice Milrod and Tony KrolPeggy and Steve MorganKeith and Jim StrawEllen Yin+

Mulberry Grove ($1,000-$2499)AnonymousBrian Abernathy and Elizabeth IrelandHenry R. Adamczyk, Jr. and Iris MelendezRebecca and John AdamsAlex Alexander and Kathryn DoyleBrett and Nan AltmanStan and Lisa AltmanPeggy AndersonJanet and Jim AverillSally and Michael Bailin^Rhonda BallSheryl and Allen BarIvy BayardSandy and Mickey BernsteinSandy and David BeswickMarilyn and Robert BirnhakJohn Bitman^Reggie Blaszczyk and Lee O’Neill Louis BluverPhilip and Elaine BobroveJean G. BodinePatricia BowmanAlmut F. Breazeale

• Gift of cash or stock• Matching gift through your employer

DID YOU KNOW?

Visit www.ardentheatre.org/support

Ways to give...

The Sylvan Society recognizes individuals who support the Arden’s work by making annual gifts of $1,000 or more. 

The special generosity of our members enables the Arden to tell great stories by having the resources to achieve the highest level of artistic quality. 

• Gift of cash or stock• Matching gift through your employer

Visit www.ardentheatre.org/support

Ways to give...

The Sylvan Society recognizes individuals who support the Arden’s work by making annual gifts of $1,000 or more. 

The special generosity of our members enables the Arden to tell great stories by having the resources to achieve the highest level of artistic quality. 

**denotes deceased supporters * denotes gifts made through the United Way +denotes gifts of services or goods ^^in support of Arden for All ^includes a matching gift

DeDe and Tony BrownNancy Burd and Mel NasielskiCheryl and Bob CarfagnoCarol and Bruce CaswellRayenne ChenChristina Clay, MDCordelia ClementPriscilla and John ClementGlenna Crooks, Ph.D.Marta Dabezies, in honor of Lisa BurnsCharles and Susan Davidson^^Joy De Jesús and Jamie ReynoldsDorothy DelbuenoTobey and Mark DichterMarie DoonerMichael A. Donato and Edward C. SpelmanShafiq EbrahimSteven Engelmyer and Lisa WershawCarolyn N. and Joseph M. Evans, Jr.Jane and Wally EvansJames R. Fairburn and David A. WickardShannon and Edward FarmerJill Fisch and John GassenheimerJeanne FisherEllen and Tim Foster^Michael and Rawan FrielDavid and Christina Fryman*Andrea and Reed GelzerGeorge and Pooh GephartSusan and Larry GorenTerry GraboyesJoel Greenberg and Marcy GringlasMichael Golden and Susan Jacobson*Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. GreenfieldMaryJane and David Hackney

Ann and Glenn Haig^Ronna and Robert HallMr. and Mrs. Jon HarmelinDon Haskin and Lynn Martin HaskinJanis R. Hawes and Patrick M. CunninghamCarolyn and James Hessinger^^Jane and Steve HeumannKaren and Mark Hite Carol KelleyCaroline KemmererKount KitHolly KinserJosephine KleinEve and Kenneth KlothenSharon and Joel KoppelmanBeth and Bill LandmanPeter and Emilie Lapham David Lerman and Shelley WallockWinnie and Eric LienRichard Maimon and Susan SegalTina MancoGloria and Dan MarianoJean MarkovitzJackie and David MassariLee Marks and Lisl ZachBarbara and Don MathesonJohn and Amy McCawley*Andrea Mengel and George A. RitterSeymour MillsteinA.C. MissiasJerome Napson, in honor of Annie Richardson^^Terrence J. Nolen and Amy L. MurphyMichael Norris and Matt VarratoDorothy R. Novick and Peter N. Kenney

Edward and Alexis PappasScott J. ParkerTom Petro and Kristine MessnerDr. and Mrs. Joel PorterIlene Poses^^Laura and Douglas PrattKaren and David PresselAnn and Frank Reed, through the Malfer FoundationMary-Ann and Kurt ReissCintra and Franklyn RodgersSidney Rosenblatt Mike Salmanson, Tobi Zemsky and familyEllen Schwartz and Jeremy SiegelKathleen SernakSusan and Steven M. ShubertLaura and Ron Siena, in honor of Nancy and Bob ElfantHether, Don and Sarah SmithRichard and Amanda Smoot Barbara and Mike SorokerAnne SpeyerMarilyn and Dean R. StaatsKathleen A. StephensonWilliam K. Stewart FoundationAdelaide Sugarman and Marshall GreenbergHarvey B. SwedloffRuss Troyer and Anne CookSally Walker and Tom GilmoreRichard E. Woosnam and Diane Dalto WoosnamHope Yursa

To join or for more information, please contact Lauren Hughes,

Development Director at 215.922.8900 x49 or

lhughes@ardentheatre.org.

• Make the Arden part of your will or estate plans through our planned giving program

• Give through the United Way (Donor Choice Number 14198)

Only 60% of the Arden’s costs are covered by ticket sales. For the remainder, we rely on the generosity of our donors. Please consider making a gift today.

for more information & to donate online.

Thank You to Our Supporters$500-$999Anonymous Judy Auritt KleinCarol Baker and Mark Stein+Maureen Barret and Mike TempletonSheila BellBarbara CobbRay Costello*Warren and Kaye CrownTika DjerassiCarole M. Foley*George and Dona Garrettson+Charles Gear and Ann Lee MorganEmily Gerasimoff^Shaina and Nathaniel P. Hamilton Jr.National Philanthropic TrustGlenna HulsSteven B. King*Barbara and Leonard KlinghofferMary Ellen KroberDrs. Frank B. and Sally MalloryMary Louise and Gerald MartinWendy ParsonsCynthia and Samuel PlumPaul Rabe and Cheryl GunterRobin ReismanMarilyn SanborneKaren and Robert SharrarMary Beth Simon, in memory of Robert R. and Kathleen K. SineGayle and David SmithNaomi and Harvey SpectorHarold and Emily StarrEric Tamulonis and Deirdre GibsonStephen and Kathy ThompsonEdna and Stephen VassoNancy WingoThomas and Jackie ZemaitisJoseph and Renee Zuritsky

$250-$499Carol and Bennett AaronHoward Aaronson

Mr. David AdlerDirk and Charlotte AveDrs. Rita Axelrod and Howard NaidechRon and Joyce BayerSusan Becker and Aaron RubinRichard and Joan BehrPatricia and Tom BenderPeter and Lynne BermanAlden and Linda BlythJanice and Roger BoeIn honor of Lawrence MandelThomas and Mary Pat BoyleMarlin G. Brown*Jessica Calter and Michael FentonChip CapelliCaroline CastagnoSara and Michael ChernoffJean CohenMarc and Margie CohenJeff CoonJames Crawford and Judith DeanTheresa Dame-BellasarioThomas and Eileen DavisMichele and Ray DeckerBeverly DotterJonathan and Ella EdwardsAnne EwersJudith and Paul FarberJeffrey Farenback-BratemanRuth FerberLarry S. Friedman and Dean H. RishelPaula FuchsbergSteve Fukuchi and Laura OffuttDan GannonMark GarvinRichard and Rita GoldbergBob and Jan GorenSusan and Larry GorenWilliam and Virginia GormleyNancy and Richard GroveBetty and Gary GrunderMary and Bill Hangley

Mary HarbisonBarbara HauptfuhrerCynthia Heininger and James FeeneyRonald HermanRichard and Barbara HirshJacqueline JerrehianDavid and Beth Medoway KaganPhilip and Marge KalodnerPhyllis KauffmanCeleste Simon and Brian KeithKate Kidder DoerrChristina and Harold KleinGeorge Koch and Santo DiDonatoBernadette KollerMarilyn KrautPeter and Ruth LaibsonEllen LeRichard LeeDavid and Deborah LesherWarren and Arline LiebermanDavid and Kim LipetzBen LovellJohn and Martha LubellDr. Edward Lundy and Debra ReiffAlexander and Tatiana Lutsik+Linda McAleer and Maitlon RussellGeorge and Judy McCarthyGloria McNuttMissy and Bob McQuistonMadeline Miller and Gordon LeggettAlan and Susan MillerDouglas and Fredaricka MoffittTheodore and Theresa Munz Jr.Paul Coff and Susan OdesseyCarol Ann and Thomas O’LearyBrenda J. OliphantDon and Barbara ParmanVincent and Carmen PezzulloValerie and Tal PipanoDulcie Pomerantz RommDr. and Mrs. Sidney and Sandy PortnoyDaniel Promislo

The Legacy SocietyArden Theatre Company would like to recognize the following supporters who have included the Arden in their wills or estate plans. Their planned gift provides support which will help sustain the Arden’s work for decades to come.

We hope you will consider including the Arden in your will or estate plans. To be recognized as a member of the Legacy Society or with questions regarding planned giving, please contact Lauren Hughes, Development Director at 215.922.8900 ext. 49.

AnonymousPeggy AndersonStanley D. Baurys**Jane BerrymanLou BluverMary P. BurrPearl CarpelLarry S. Friedman and Dean H. RishelEllis K. Ginsberg**

Peter Gistelinck and Kim BloomJames and Suzanne HillMary Ellen KroberWilliam A. LoebDonald J. Martin and Richard RepettoMadeline PortnoyDr. Harry RosenthalMarilyn and Dean StaatsGrace Gonglewski and Eric Schoefer

Alan Reinach and Dana PerlmanAlice Reyes and David GlanceyJoy RickabaughJohn and Claire RodgersDaniel and Faye RossJohn and Melanie RowleyIrwin C. and Carole M. SaftJane ScaccettiHarold and Sharon SchwalmAntoinette SeymourJoseph and Louise ShafferMarie and James ShewEllen Schwartz and Jeremy SiegelWilliam Sigmund and Vito IzzoCaroline Simon+James L. SmithLarry Smoose and Linda LeeStanton and SaraKay SmullensWayne SnoverNicholas A. Spennato and Charlotte S. RoedeRoy and Corinne StahlRobert Stewart and Barbara Barnett- StewartHelene and William Van HoevenTom and Patricia VernonLewis and Hella VolgenauMichael Walraven and Mary Lou StarlingDonna and Andrew WechslerMarlene WeinbergJudy and Julian WeinsteinFred and Arleen WeinsteinJoann White and William BeckettMatthew A. White*Julie D. WilliamsM. Jane WilliamsTheresa and Peter WilliamsMr. and Mrs. Harry WoodcockTom Woodward^Carol and Jeff YetterBenjamin Zuckerman and Marian Robinson

$125-$249Barbara AbrahamsEmely AikenJanet and Roger AlwangDr. and Mrs. Anthony J. AndrewsJennifer and Stephen ArmsLynda BarnessLynda and Murray BattlemanThe Rev. Judith BeckJoseph and Lisa BeckerBikki BevelhymerJane BibermanDoris and Aaron BitmanThomas and Ann BlackburnBenjamin and Libby BlankAllen BonnerViola BosticMarcia BowerEadie and Allan BrooksAnn and David Brownlee

Dr. Bernard and Pamela BrownsteinMichael P. BuckleyCarol BuettgerDeirdre Julia CallahanAnthony and Jaque CampChip CapelliSara and Michael ChernoffScott and Nelly ChildressMary ChomitzAnnemarie F. Clarke and David L. BuchRick Greenstein and Claudia TesoroDr. Marie ConnMolli and Joe Conti, in honor of Holly KinserJohn CookeSandra and James CorryMary Ann and Jacob DaileyF. Mitchell DanaBarbara DaneluzziDaniel DevlinMr. and Mrs. Stuart and Diana DonaldsonEllen DooneiefMichael DotseyRuby and Angela DowdLucille DrakeLeah Chaplin and Eileen GildeaPaul and Mary Lynn EllisBarry and Beth EvansWilliam and Anne EwingNorma FabianAdam N. FoxxJohn and Elaine FrankKenneth and Cecile FrankEllen and David FreemanGreg GephartGrace Gonglewski and Eric SchoeferPaul GreenSusan Greene and Kathleen SheridanRobin GreeneBernadette and Edwin HaighRichard Willis and Linda HartnettVirginia HeddenBetsy and Ted HershbergTerry HirshornMichael J. Hozik and Margaret L. ReaKerry HuntsmanE. Ashley IzardJacqueline JeffersonJervay TrapierTimothy and Carol JohnsonSarah C. and Joe JordanNancy KaneBonnie-Ann Brill Keagy, in honor of Donald J. Martin and Richard RepettoMr. and Mrs. Douglas and Ruth KeatingMargaret KellerCecilia KellerSusan Kellogg and Dick HoffmanMr. and Mrs. Stephen and Barbara Kieran

Lorraine and David KilmerPatricia and Charles KlingSteven KnepperEden Kratchman^Marilyn Kutler and Ira SilbermanDavid LadovJoyce LaskinBob and Mary LawlerLinda L. LenardRuth LesserBob and Lynn LevittCraig and Stephanie LewisLaurel and Robert LipshutzPerry Watts and Samuel LitwinF. Joseph Loeper, in honor of Holly KinserLynn and Joe MankoGlenda MarshallMary Ellen MarzulloKathy McMasterSally MercerSandra and Martin MillerMarianne T. MillerPaul and Lee MillerJudith MontgomeryMartha MooreKenneth and Susan MyersBonnie and Eliot NiermanEtta and Chuck NissmanPaul Coff and Susan OdesseyRichard PariseauMichael and Judy PaulMarcia PaullinJohn and Judith PeakesAnn and Andrew PerchMartha Platt and Marlis Kraft-ZemelDavid and Amy PollackIlene and Coleman PosesNancy PostJanet PothJennifer PottsJohn and Margaret PregCatherine A. PullenMs. Aneira PuttaswamyKurt and Mary-Ann ReissLeslie Rescorla and Thomas AchenbachRachel ReynoldsDavid and Diane RichmanElizabeth R. and William H. Rivers, Jr.Sharon and Mark RobbBernard and Camille RosenbergKenneth and Shelley RosenbergJerry and Bernice RubensteinAdelle RubinJoan Ryder and Robert LudwigRuth and Marvin SachsJoan and Bill SaidelDebbie SchragerJim Klein and Adeline SchultzWarren and Carole Lee SchwomeyerKaren Schermerhorn and Evan SeymourPolly Shaffer

Thank You to Our Supporters

Thank You to Our SupportersLenore and Bernard ShermanElaine Sherman and Robert CohanJim and Cathy ShippenJohn and Maryann ShiversRoy and Lee ShubertSusan and Charles ShubinJames Akerberg and Larry SimmonsToby L. Simon*Bob and Harriet SingerCarleene and David SlowikLucinda Smith, in honor of Holly KinserR. John and Susan StedmanRuth and Norman StuessyJoyce Ann SwoyerLinda TraverLisa TrucksessJohn UrofskyEmily and Charles WagnerDebbie and Tom WalkerTom and Beth WarmsThomas WatkinsJeannine and David WebberSharon Weil-ChalkerVivian WeinblattLeslie and Ellen WelsonBertram and Lorle WolfsonBarbara WrightSam and Kuna YankellDr. and Mrs. Herbert and Carol Zemble

$75-$124Lawrence AbramsonDavid ArdreyKay and Scott ArmstrongAlan and Sandy AultSylva BakerDonald Bakove and Margaret McLaughlinPamela BarrowayCarolyn and George BassettEileen BazelonFlora BeckerTimothy BergerDavid and Nancy BergmanConstance and Richard W. BermanCharlotte BiddleJocelyn BlockJudith BorieHazel BowersFrank BoyerJoseph and Mary Lou BreidenstineBeth Brennan, in honor of Holly KinserCharles BrennanRosemary Brody, in honor of Holly KinserPatricia BrubakerCharlotte E. CadyMs. Anne CampbellWilliam and Lillian CasselAlice A. ChittendenMonica Choi

Sandra and Jean-Marc ChoukrounSaul and Sandra ClairAnnemarie F. Clarke and David L. BuchRobert and Sandy Clay BauerRhoda CobenJennifer and Daniel CoffeySteve and Helene CohenHenry and Edna CohenSusan B. CohenJanet and Richard ConnJanet CookJohn CookeBarbara CookeElizabeth CornmanB. Karen CoyneKaren CuzzolinoDaniel DagleBarbara DaneluzziJoseph and Helen D’AngeloMichael and Robin DaumNancy and Michael DavisEmily L. DavisRobert and Bonnie DeAngeloStephanie and Seamus DevineyMiriam and Samuel DiamondColleen DonofrioMr. and Mrs. Donald and Geraldine DuclowJohn Dulik and Sandra FolzerJohn and Lois S. DursoSheila Dyan and Charles GagliaW. Wallace and Joanne C. DyerPatricia EamesDaniel and Nina EdelmanLinda V. EllsworthDebbie and Jerry EpsteinWendy Epstein and James SteikerCindy and Fred FarlinoAnne and Steven FasslerDr. and Mrs. Mark FeitelsonMilton and Charlotte FeldmanAnnette FieldJohn and Nancy FischerMargaret ForgioneSara and Dieter ForsterJudy FrankAllyson J. FrankMs. Mary FrantzJim and Fran FrazerFran Freedman and Jon BlumAllan P. Freedman and Amy RappaportMichael and Helene FreidmanPaula FreilichBrenda FurtakDoug and Jean GesslSteven and Susan GlauserPeggy GloverJoan GmitterDiane GraboyesMarianne and Donald GreenLarry and Ann GreenAdele and Bertram GreenspunPriscilla Grosick

Marsha and Paul Gross and SiegelRobert and Lisbeth GrossmanMarcia HalbertMia Hallet Bernard^Jessica Dunn HamiltonOna and Stephen HamiltonGail HauptfuhrerBeverly Hayden and James TaylorAngela and Michael HennesseyColin D. Hennessy and Dr. Jeremy S. CohenRuth HerdSusan W HerronLynn HewittTom and Wendy HibberdDaniel and Monica HilfertyMorton and Lois HoffmanDonna and Bill HowerThomas Hurster and Jacqueline SalmonPeter and Barbara HutcheonRichard Izard and Helen AngelinaDr. and Mrs. William and Nancy JantschRobert C JonesJennifer JulianJeffrey KahnKomal Kapoor and Lowell FoxSandra KarlsonGail KassRobert and Ellen Baxter KavashElina Kazan^Margaret KellerCaroline R. KemmererMarjorie Epps KennedyCaren and Brian KirschnerRichard and Marcia KlafterJoanne and Alex KleinPatricia and Charles KlingEllen KopelandIna Li and Michael KostalWalter Kraft and Deborah HungVicki KramerMelvin and Rhoda S. KreinerJames KronzerBarry and Janet KushnerNeil KutnerLisa LeeAnne Silvers LeeEmma LefkowitzRobert and Joyce LeonettiMaria LewisNorman and Sylvia LiebermanWinnie and Eric LienBarbara and Richard LindeKaren LiskerLinda and Dan LitwinLeroy and Ruth LoewensternDonald and Nancy MaclayBarbara and Bob MaertenCirel and Howard MagenTheodore and Rowena MannLinda and David MarderMilton and Renee Margulies

Thank You to Our SupportersMary and Jack MarkovPeter and Louise Marshall KellyIrwin Matusow and Barbara RudnickRosalie MatzkinKenneth and Margery MaurerLinda McAleer and Maitlon RussellPam and Joe McCormick, in honor of Holly KinserJohn McCormick and Ken SchmittAlice McCreary and David EplerJohn and Rhoda McFaddenTom and Helen McNuttBarbara MillerJeff and Maxine MorganDavid and Laurel MostellerJohn and Margo NafzigerJoan NerenbergMichelle Niedermeier, in honor of Holly KinserAndrew NortonFrances NovackMatt and Judy OchsJudith and James O’DellBetsy OliphantLinda OslerStanton S. OswaldSandra and John PackelMichael and Judy PaulElisa PedutoEllen and Clifford PembertonMary and F. Laurence PethickClaire J PisapiaJason PizziDonald and Carol PlankStephen Platt and Robin SchauflerLois and Paul PlotnickJeff and Elizabeth PodrazaMadeline PortnoyMargaret and Nicholas PotalivoLinda Putnam EratLinda QuamBarbara Quinn

Abi and Craig ReedEleanor and Joseph ReinhardtKaren and Jon RichterClifford Ridley and Betsey HansellLorraine RiesenbachLinda Robinson, Ph.D. and Peter KrillMaxine RosenJ. Randall RosensteelMichele RossAlan Rothenberg and Enid KrasnerJoan RozanskiMartin and Sue RubelBernard and Barbara RuekgauerDiane Rurode and Jim LordMitchell RussellBill and Denise RyanRoberta SampsonJean SamuelsGerald Satlow and Beth ZatuchniRuth Ann SchlesingerMary Ellen and Carl SchneiderJim Klein and Adeline SchultzDeborah SchultzCarleton SchwagerSandra SchwartzKaren and Bob SerenbetzNancy SewerynKathy and Richard SextonThomas and Janice ShowlerNeil and Cheryl ShustermanJay SnydermanBarbara and Steven SpeeceMargaret R. SpencerPhillip and Karen Spiker, in honor of Courtney Spiker MartinGayle and Ed Sproul, in honor of Donald J. Martin and Richard RepettoDaniel and Judith SteikerRuth and David SteinmanJoel and Barbara StewartCorinne StoneMargaret Sweeney^

Daniel Szyld and Kathleen RossSusan and Robert TafelCecilia TannenbaumJohn TarvesJoel and Mary Jane TempleJoseph TerryLetty D. ThallLorraine TojiPaul ToyMarian TraceyBrenda Freitag and Chet TuthillApril TvarokConstance VilliersIan Wachstein and Michele ZeldnerSharon and Paul WaimbergSusan and Tom WaltherBeth Brooks and Robert WaterstonNicholas WattsJenny and Bill WebbOscar WeberJudy WeinbergerHarold WeinerElizabeth WeinrebThomas and Dawn WeissConstance WestHarold and Janet WhalingJames WilsonLouisa WilsonWilliam A. Zeidner*Rebecca and James Zug

* Denotes gift made through the United Way** Denotes a deceased supporter+ Denotes gift of goods or services^ Includes a matching gift

List represents gifts made between August 1, 2014 and September 1, 2015.

Many companies will match charitable contributions made by their employees, and may even match gifts made by retirees and/or spouses. Please contact your human resources or corporate giving department to learn about your employer’s matching gift policy.

Double the value of your contribution to the Arden at no cost to you!

Board and Committee Members

2015/16 Board of DirectorsBrian Abernathy, PresidentNancy Burd, Vice PresidentHolly Kinser, Vice PresidentMichael A. Donato, TreasurerNancy Hirsig, SecretaryRhonda BallRayenne ChenJoy L. De JesúsNancy ElfantRobert ElfantSteven EngelmyerJeanne FisherDavid FrymanElizabeth H. GemmillAlbert M. Greenfield, IIIN. Peter HamiltonJoanne HarmelinEileen HeismanRichard L. MaimonDr. Saifuddin T. MamaJohn J. McCawleyAmy L. MurphyTerrence J. NolenKristen PhillipsCharles H. RoseH. Hetherington SmithLee van de VeldeSteve WolfsonDiane Dalto WoosnamEllen Yin

The Cornerstone SocietyFrederick W. Anton, IIIGerard J. Conway, Sr.Carole Haas GravagnoAaron Posner

Board Executive CommitteeBrian Abernathy, chairNancy BurdMichael A. DonatoNancy ElfantN. Peter HamiltonNancy HirsigHolly KinserCharles H. RoseH. Hetherington SmithLee van de Velde

Board Development Committee Brian AbernathyJoy L. De JesúsMichael DonatoN. Peter HamiltonEileen HeismanHolly KinserLee van de VeldeDiane Dalto Woosnam

Engagement CommitteeNancy Elfant, co-chairLee van de Velde, co-chairRhonda BallNancy BurdAnne CookRobert Elfant Jeanne FisherNancy HirsigHolly KinserSteve Wolfson

Facilities Committee H. Hetherinton Smith, chairMike Green James KronzerRichard L. MaimonJohn J. McCawleyChris van de Velde

Finance Committee Michael A. Donato, chairNancy BurdEllen P. FosterElizabeth H. GemmillKristen PhillipsHarvey SwedloffSteve Wolfson

Personnel CommitteeDavid Fryman, chairElizabeth H. GemmillAlbert M. Greenfield, IIICharles H. Rose

Strategic Planning CommitteeBrian Abernathy, chairJoy L. De JesúsMichael A. DonatoNancy ElfantEllen P. FosterDavid FrymanLee van de Velde

The Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Teen CouncilOctober Elections Coming Up!Maria BanguraDalia CousineauAiden DooleyAlicia EasterdayGia GenoveseAndrew GorenAnna GoulaJamara GriffinCaitlyn McCuenKieran O’ConnorEmily PinskyEli RussellBecca Walker

LOOKING TO HOST AN EVENT?CELEBRATING? Why don’t you have your next party at the Hamilton Family Arts Center. Your reception, anniversary, rehearsal dinner, or next birthday party would be a dramatic affair in one of our many unique spaces!

MEETING? Bring your next board meeting, corporate retreat, or annual meeting to the new Hamilton Family Arts Center. We have large rooms, multiple breakout rooms and we provide a unique venue to take your meetings “on the road!”

Email jgrassey@ardentheatre.org for more information.

Staff

Producing Artistic Director ............................................................................................................ Terrence J. NolenAssociate Artistic Director ............................................................................................................. Matthew DeckerCommissioned Playwrights ............................Greg Banks, James Ijames, Kait Kerrigan and Brian LowdermilkCasting Associate .................................................................................................................................... Jonathan SilverArtistic Intern ....................................................................................................................................... Dani O’Callahan

Managing Director ............................................................................................................................... Amy L. MurphyGeneral Manager ........................................................................................................................................ John GrasseyDirector of Finance and Administration ............................................................................Courtney Spiker MartinAssociate General Manager ..............................................................................................................Mary Beth SimonGeneral Management Assistant ................................................................................................................Regina HaighArden Professional Apprentices ..........................Brittany Brewer, Nicole Metas, Alison Pajonk, Ethan Polson,

Patrick Ressler, JD Stokely, Kevin White

Director of Marketing and Communications...................................................................................... Stephen RappArt Director ................................................................................................................................................Kristy GiballaMarketing Manager ....................................................................................................................................Maura RochePublicist ...............................................................................................................................................Christine KozsuchGroup Sales Manager ................................................................................................................................Gilberto Vega

Development Director ..........................................................................................................................Lauren HughesDevelopment Manager ............................................................................................................................ Mimi MeserveDevelopment Assistant ................................................................................................................................ Will Freske

Director of Drama School ................................................................................................................Amanda MortonDirector of Education Outreach ................................................................................................................. José AvilésArden Teaching Artists ........................................ Madison Auch, Rachel Beecher, Terry Brennan, Rachel Camp,

Mike Dees, Tara Demmy, Tom Fosnocht, Terrell Green,T.J. Harris, Alex Keiper,

Matthew Mastronardi, Amanda Morton, Katie Sink, Harry Watermeier

Box Office Manager .................................................................................................................................Corey Masson Assistant Box Office Manager ................................................................................................................. Tara BankardHouse Manager................................................................................................................................................Kaitlyn IdeFront of House Assistants ..................................................... Cheyenne Barboza, Galen Blanzaco, Victoria Daly,

Sarah Dugan, Bryant Edwards, Eliana Fabiyi, Matthew Falance, Chelsey Gaskins, Laurel Hostak, Eva Fae Rodriguez,

Emily Schuman, Jack Tamburri, Corey Wilson

Production Manager ........................................................................................................................... Courtney RiggarTechnical Director ................................................................................................................................. Glenn PerlmanAssociate Production Manager ..................................................................................................... Jessica Day WestMaster Carpenter/Shop Foreman ......................................................................................................... Justin RomeoMaster Electrician .............................................................................................................................. Martin StutzmanCostume Supervisor .............................................................................................................................. Alison RobertsProperties Master ............................................................................................................................. Christopher HaigCharge Scenic Artist ..................................................................................................................... Kristina ChadwickStage Managers ............................................................................... Alec E. Ferrell, Kate Nelson, Katie RingwoodAssistant Director..................................................................................................................................Christine FreijeAssistant to the Stage Manager.......................................................................................................... Bryant EdwardsAudio Engineer ......................................................................................................................................... John KolbinskiWardrobe Supervisor ..............................................................................................................................Rebecca RoseDeck Crew .................................................................................................................................................Case NafzigerCostume Intern ....................................................................................................................................Nicole RothbergProps Intern............................................................................................................................................ Scott McMasterElectricians ..................................................................Amanda Jenson, Jackson Katz, Lucas Nguyen, Swift ShukerLight Board Programmers ........................Peter Escalada-Mastick, Maria Shaplin, Lucas Nguyen, Jeremy Jason Stitchers .......................................................................................................................... Kayla Speedy, Rufus CottmanCarpenters ............................................................................................................................. April Tvarok, Flora VassarScenic Construction Intern ...........................................................................................................................Paula Leite

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EquivocationUP NEXT ON THE ARDEN STAGE:

What’s Equivocation about?

It’s London, 1606. William Shakespeare (in the play spelled Shagspeare, or Shag) has just been made an offer he can’t refuse: King James I wants him to write a play about the recently foiled Gunpowder Plot. Shagspeare is leery: it’s dangerous for playwrights to write about current events. Robert Cecil, the king’s ruthless chief advisor, gives Shag the sanitized version of events, telling him to just add some dialogue — and witches. The king wants witches. The rest of Equivocation is about Shagspeare’s struggle to write a play that will please — or at least not offend — the king.

Shagspeare, like any good writer, is working on more than one play at once — specifically Macbeth and King Lear. And, of course, the themes from those works can’t help but invade his commission for the king — as well as those of Equivocation. The word equivocation means, “A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth” or, as Father Garnet says in the play, a way “to speak the truth in difficult times.”

Simply put, the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a failed assassination attempt by a group of English Catholics against King James I. The plot intended to kill the king and most of the Protestant aristocracy by blowing up the Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. But, as we all know too well, politics and history are never simple. Although Robert Catesby (who is a character in Equivocation) led the plot, there is another name that has gone down in history: Guido (aka Guy) Fawkes who was recruited to execute the plan due to his military background. He was caught while guarding the gun powder. More than 400 years later, British children still roam the streets in the days leading up to Guy Fawkes Day (November 5) carrying effigies known as “Guys” and asking passers-by for a “penny for the guy.” Also known as Bonfire Night, families gather to celebrate the defeat of Fawkes and his other conspirators with fireworks, childish rhymes (see below) and bonfires.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot.

King James I was first King James VI of Scotland, rising to power at the ripe old age of 13 months. He became King of England and Ireland in 1603, succeeding Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudors (like that HBO series). He then ruled the kingdom of England, Scotland, and Ireland for 22 years, often using the title King of Great Britain, until his death at the age of 58.

When Bill Cain began writing Equivocation in 2004, he steeped himself in 16th and 17th century England, but contemporary concerns couldn’t help but creep in—the search for WMDs, Abu Ghraib, and the two wars. “There are many, many questions [from 17th-century England] identical to the invasion of Iraq,” recalls Cain. “And that was a big motive for writing the play. It was about seeing this stuff and going, ‘Wait a minute. We’ve got plenty of people dying over there and we’re killing people by the tens of thousands, based upon what was a lie.’”

Used with permission from Seattle Repertory Theatre.

Cast (l-r): Eric Hissom, Dan Hodge, Sean Lally, Anthony Lawton, Campbell O’Hare, Ian Merrill Peakes

On stage OCT 22 - DEC 13

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Grounding the Present, Nurturing the FutureMembers of the Sylvan Society play a significant role in helping the Arden tell great stories that enrich the lives of the region’s adults and children. An annual fund gift of $1,000 or greater provides the Arden with the resources needed to achieve the

highest level of artistic quality.

Join the Arden’s Sylvan Society family and enjoy invitations to

Sylvan exclusive events including opening night festivities, backstage tours

and special “insider” events with access to Arden artists.

Please join us as a Sylvan Society member.Contact Lauren Hughes at 215.922.8900 x49 or lhughes@ardentheatre.org.

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Everything was going swimmingly for the Arden Theatre Company as its gala evening was beginning... and it ended with an exhilaration no one could have planned.

The Arden was presenting its first-ever Master Storyteller Award to the master of the American musical, Stephen Sondheim. At Zahav restaurant, Sondheim and about 80 others were dining on lamb and a selection of appetizers....Back at the Arden on Second Street, people were beginning to file in early for a concert that would honor Sondheim with 30 performers and presenters, a 14-piece orchestra and a post-concert reception....Everyone was dressed. Back-stage. Ready.

And then, powerless. Just before 7, an electrical outage hit a portion of Old City. People filed into an Arden lobby suddenly illuminated by only the dwindling daylight and a few candles...

Live theater can be exciting because anything can happen, but exciting was probably not the word that came to mind when associate artistic director Matthew Decker placed a call to producing artistic director Terrence J. Nolen and his wife, managing director Amy L. Murphy, both dining with Sondheim and the donors...

There’d be no time for a full concert, and with no electricity, plans would have to be revamped quickly. Decker and Nolen immediately began cutting the concert in half, over the phone....The orchestra was sent home. So were the artists whose numbers were no longer to be done. In the Arden lobby concert-goer Betsy Oliphant contacted Amy Murphy at Zahav. “I texted, ‘Tell me what I can do to help,’” Oliphant said. She texted back: “Pray.”

Meanwhile, the Arden staff scrambled to set up a new venue — the stage company’s large scene shop in its education building several doors north on Second Street, where the power was unaffected. They had to remove worktables and equipment, set up a stage and rearrange as much as they could to make space...

...Murphy entered the Arden and announced to the crowd below: “It’s not the event that was beautifully staged ... but we will have as great an event as humanly possible...” “The show must go on!” someone hollered from the audience, and a noisy cheer went up.

From that point, everything seemed remarkably organized... Members of the Arden staff found flashlights and lined Second Street every few yards so they could guide concert-goers through the rain and to the scene shop. More staffers directed people inside the building. At 9 p.m., an hour late, Nolen took to the stage and looked out over an audience sitting under industrial fluorescent lights — Sondheim in the front and two-by-fours, scraps of building materials, and other set-building implements lining the sides.

“Our mission is to tell great stories by great storytellers, and that mission hasn’t changed,” he said. “The most perfect recipient of our first master storytelling award is Stephen Sondheim...He has shown us how an entire story can be told in a single song — and in a single line.”

...Sondheim, a young-looking 85, told the audience that if he were running a gala and concert “and the lights went out and the electricity stopped, I would be hysterical. Terry Nolen was not. And that’s just one reason you should support the Arden. It’s in good hands.”

“I want to thank you all for supporting this wonderful organization that does great work. I would go on, but I would start to cry,” said the winner of eight Tony Awards, an Academy Award, a Pulitzer Prize and others, including his newest from the Arden. After the hour-long concert, the crowd — buoyed by being part of a night of surprises both planned and not planned — walked back to the Arden’s main building, now re-electrified, for a reception.

At Arden Theatre’s gala to award Stephen Sondheim, surprises planned and unplanned

Terry Nolen & Stephen Sondheim

This article excerpt has been reprinted with permission from newsworks.org

Grounding the Present, Nurturing the FutureMembers of the Sylvan Society play a significant role in helping the Arden tell great stories that enrich the lives of the region’s adults and children. An annual fund gift of $1,000 or greater provides the Arden with the resources needed to achieve the

highest level of artistic quality.

Contact Lauren Hughes at 215.922.8900 x49 or lhughes@ardentheatre.org.

On June 1, 2015, the Arden presented the inaugural Master Storyteller Award to Stephen Sondheim. Here is what happened on that extraordinary evening, as reported by Howie Shapiro of newsworks.org

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