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Engaging and eclectic in the East Bay.Oakland is the gateway to the East Bay with a little bit of everything to offer, and St. Paul’s Towers gives you easy access to it all. An artistic, activist, and intellectual Life Plan Community, St. Paul’s Towers is known for convenient services, welcome comforts and security for the future.

With classes, exhibits, lectures, restaurants, shops and public transportation within walking distance, St. Paul’s Towers is urban community living at its best.

Get to know us and learn more about moving to St. Paul’s Towers. For information, or to schedule a visit, call 510.891.8542.

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Engaging and eclectic in the East Bay.Oakland is the gateway to the East Bay with a little bit of everything to offer, and St. Paul’s Towers gives you easy access to it all. An artistic, activist, and intellectual Life Plan Community, St. Paul’s Towers is known for convenient services, welcome comforts and security for the future.

With classes, exhibits, lectures, restaurants, shops and public transportation within walking distance, St. Paul’s Towers is urban community living at its best.

Get to know us and learn more about moving to St. Paul’s Towers. For information, or to schedule a visit, call 510.891.8542.

A not-for-profit community owned and operated by Covia. License No. 011400627 COA# 327

100 Bay Place, Oakland, CA 94610www.covia.org/st-pauls-towers

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Cal Shakes would like to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is traditional Chochenyo Ohlone territory. For those of us

who are not Indigenous to this land, the Shuumi Land Tax is a way to acknowledge the history of the land we live on, facilitate the

return of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship, and contribute to the Ohlone

community’s current work to create a vibrant future. sogoreate-landtrust.com/shuumi-land-tax

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Harvest FestivalSaturday, September 28 10:00am – 5:00pmAdult: $30 | Youth 5-17: $13 Child 3-4: $5 | 2 and under: Free

Orchard DaySaturday, October 12 10:00am – 5:00pm$10 Adults | $5 Children, plus the cost of Filoli admission

Bluegrass at the BarnSundays, October 13, 20 & 27 1:00pm – 3:00pm$10 Adults | $5 Children, plus the cost of Filoli admission

NEST: Creating HomeNow through November 10Learn about the people, plants, and animals that have created a home on the Filoli estate.

For details, visit: filoli.org/fall. Use code SHAKES to get $2.00 OFF General Admission. Restrictions apply.

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September 2019 | Volume 28, No. 4

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Dear Friends,

Macbeth may be our last show of the season, but for me it’s just the beginning of my adventures with Cal Shakes! There are many things I’m looking forward to now that I’m offi cially on board. I’m particularly excited to welcome over 2,500 young people to the Bruns to see Macbeth as part of our Student Discovery Matinees.

I remember attending student matinees when I was growing up. While I participated in lots of theater activities, it wasn’t often that I attended performances as an audience member. Every moment—from the bus ride to downtown Kansas City to the buzz of energy as my classmates and I settled into our seats to that anticipatory moment as the lights dimmed—felt exciting to me. And that was indoor theater—there wasn’t even the possibility of a cow sighting! To watch a young person watch a play is a palpable experience. I love observing what they react to, what resonates, and hearing the questions they ask at the post-show talkback. It’s a beautiful reminder to continue to cultivate my own curiosity. To listen in a different way. To be expressive in my responses. To ask more questions every day.

Which leads me to something else I’m excited about: asking questions. There’s so much to know about Cal Shakes. I look forward to speaking with everyone—our talented staff and artists, our committed board of directors, our generous supporters, and our amazing audiences. What excites you about Cal Shakes? What shows have resonated with you? There are so many of you who have been attending shows and supporting Cal Shakes for a long time—what keeps you coming back? How do you describe Cal Shakes to your friends? I really look forward to learning from—and learning with—you.

There is one thing I already know: that we couldn’t make the work onstage or produce the myriad programs that happen offstage without the support of all of you. Thank you for making the choice to be here with us tonight. Thank you for choosing to support programs like the Student Discovery Program and for dropping a few (or more than a few!) dollars into the buckets at the end of the show as part of the Pay it Forward Campaign. Thank you for engaging with the work and being a part of the Cal Shakes community. Your support matters deeply, and this I know without even having to ask.

Yours Sincerely,

Sarah


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If there has been for me a thread connecting our season of stories, it’s been the complexities (and contradictions) of being human. From the inversions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the banal concerns of play-making in the face of a natural world in chaos; to the schism of the selfl ess and selfi sh in the bodies of Shen Te and Shui Ta in Brecht’s Good Person of Szechwan; to Madhuri Shekar’s young bodyguard embracing her responsibility, not just to her job, not just to herself, not just to another

person, but to the whole community of people in the House of Joy that surrounded her, raised her, defi ned her; and now, here, fi nally, to Macbeth.

Soldier, husband, friend. A decent man, who, at one point in his life saw all the possibility ahead—a wife, a child, a home, a decent life in service to a decent cause. What happens when the path to that future is twisted, by loss, by war, by betrayal, by the sort of trauma that isolates us in a specter of regret and paranoia, sleeplessness, a quickness to anger? It’s not hard to blame, to vilify, to say this person is evil, to judge a person by their greatest trespasses. But theater challenges us to linger in the complexities of our actions, to unearth motivations that dispute the easy answers. None of this is to say there are no victims. There are, of course, and we must never forget. Rather, I wonder, if we can but recognize that we, all of us, have trespassed in our time, in our own way; that none of us are above the human fray. And I like to think that, once there, we might begin to heal the very real wounds we all carry, like so much blood, invisible to anyone but ourselves.

I want to thank you for joining us this season and every season—what an extraordinary summer it’s been. With each new year we’ve worked hard to open our arms a little wider, to respond with generosity and courage to the ever more challenging world we live in, to fi nd strength in our collective grace. We’ve worked hard to set a big table here at Cal Shakes, and your company at that table has been a true and wondrous gift. I look forward to next time.

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What is the role of joy in our movement building, our resistance, and our art?During previews for our production of House of Joy, Cal Shakes Artistic Engagement hosted a pre-show conversation with playwright Madhuri Shekar, assistant director Kimiya Shokri (Literary Manager, TheatreFIRST), SK Kerastas (Artistic Producer, Cal Shakes), and Ciera-Jevae “CiCi” Gordon, (Media, Arts, & Culture Program Manager, RYSE Center) as they shared about their work, experiences, and connections around this key question. Some responses from participants:

“If you’ve ever read anything about oppression, that’s usually what they’re trying to take from people, is joy.”

“The feeling of safety is what gives us joy and enables us to make our art.”

“We talked about, at our table...how…[joy] is a reservoir to draw from in hard times in order to get through.”

“What gives me joy is recognizing that of course I grow and change, because I’m a part of nature.”

“Joyful people tend to generate a lot of solutions...if they’re given that access.”

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What is the role of joy in our movement building, our resistance, and our art?During previews for our production of House of Joy, Cal Shakes Artistic Engagement hosted a pre-show conversation with playwright Madhuri Shekar, assistant director Kimiya Shokri (Literary Manager, TheatreFIRST), SK Kerastas (Artistic Producer, Cal Shakes), and Ciera-Jevae “CiCi” Gordon, (Media, Arts, & Culture Program Manager, RYSE Center) as they shared about their work, experiences, and connections around this key question. Some responses from participants:

“If you’ve ever read anything about oppression, that’s usually what they’re trying to take from people, is joy.”

“The feeling of safety is what gives us joy and enables us to make our art.”

“We talked about, at our table...how…[joy] is a reservoir to draw from in hard times in order to get through.”

“What gives me joy is recognizing that of course I grow and change, because I’m a part of nature.”

“Joyful people tend to generate a lot of solutions...if they’re given that access.”

Listen to the podcast (recorded by We Rise Production) and learn more about Artistic Engagement at calshakes.org/blogPO

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Resident dramaturg Philippa Kelly and director Victor Malana Maog; photo by Zhanara Baisalova.

“Macbeth is a play not about monsters, but about people.

The monstrosity that we think is “out there”... what if we fi nd it within ourselves? Do we dare to even dabble with that? I’m interested in the humanness of all the characters. Our production will explore the danger of interpretations and this quest for power, certainty, and an ever-elusive completeness.”

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Over 2,500 students from all over the Bay Area willsee this production of Macbeth at our StudentDiscovery Matinees, and we’re engaging theirteachers for workshops and in-depth classroomresidencies.

Cal Shakes Artistic Learning and Artistic Engagement partnered with local teaching artists and educators to create curriculum that directly speaks to this production: centering on toxic exceptionalism, what the role of art is in times of political violence, and giving students tools for engaging with this story, written and developed by our 2019 LEARN Luminary, Lauren Spencer.

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by PHILIPPA KELLY, Resident Dramaturg

“Tragedy…teacheth the uncertainty of this world, and upon how weak foundations gilden roofs are builded,” observes Sir Philip Sidney in An Apologie for Poetry, written in 1595, a decade before Macbeth hit the boards. In Macbeth’s Porter scene, and its recurrent theme of rebellion, Shakespeare alludes to the failed Gunpowder Plot against the life of King James I in 1605. It is remarkable to think of the new British king watching this play that signals a world both “fair” (a celebration of James’ recent ascendancy to the British throne) and “foul” (a warning to the king to trust no one). The play begins with reports of not one but three battles of insurrection and invasion that have been quelled by the two noble thanes, Macbeth and Banquo; and in the course of its brief journey (about one month in play-time and two hours in real time), the “gilden roofs” of majesty are twice toppled, with yet a third king crowned in the very last scene.

How does this happen? And how so quickly? All kinds of answers hover in an atmosphere made foggy and unclear by actions imagined and all-too-suddenly concluded. From the deeply feudal times in which the play is set arises the question of how a brilliant, loyal and noble soldier sacrifi ces his hard-won honor to unreasoned ambition. As if she hears ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us from the golden round,” including her husband’s scruples. She sloughs off all conventional associations of femininity, calling on the powers of the universe to “unsex” her and take away her nurturance, replacing it with “gall.” And she urges her husband to do the same. “Are you a man?” she asks him? Three times she goads him with accusations of “shame.” So Macbeth, mired in uncertainty, pulls on the garments of manliness that have served him so well in battle, taking action in a manner that is not valiant, but cowardly: he kills in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, once a great soldier, wears the garments of “a dwarfi sh thief.”

Actions can be imagined; but “if it [is] done when ‘tis done,” an action has consequences—and if we are thinking and feeling beings, consequences can’t be ignored.

CAN WE FORGIVEOURSELVES?

in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king,

ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her

“Are you a man?” she asks him? Three times she goads him with accusations of “shame.” So Macbeth, mired in uncertainty, pulls on the garments of manliness that have served him so well in battle, taking action in a manner that is not valiant, but cowardly: he kills

ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us from the golden round,” including her husband’s scruples. She sloughs off all conventional associations of femininity, calling on the powers of the universe to “unsex” her and take away her nurturance, replacing it with “gall.” And she urges her husband to do the same.

but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king,

him so well in battle, taking action in a manner that is not valiant, but cowardly: he kills So Macbeth, mired in uncertainty, pulls on the garments of manliness that have served

in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king,

“Are you a man?” she asks him? Three times she goads him with accusations of “shame.” So Macbeth, mired in uncertainty, pulls on the garments of manliness that have served

but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king,

from the golden round,” including her husband’s scruples. She sloughs off all conventional

away her nurturance, replacing it with “gall.” And she urges her husband to do the same.

So Macbeth, mired in uncertainty, pulls on the garments of manliness that have served


ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her

in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, him so well in battle, taking action in a manner that is not valiant, but cowardly: he kills



away her nurturance, replacing it with “gall.” And she urges her husband to do the same. away her nurturance, replacing it with “gall.” And she urges her husband to do the same.

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husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us

him so well in battle, taking action in a manner that is not valiant, but cowardly: he kills


ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us

associations of femininity, calling on the powers of the universe to “unsex” her and take

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husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us




ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her


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“Tragedy…teacheth the uncertainty of this world, and upon how weak foundations “Tragedy…teacheth the uncertainty of this world, and upon how weak foundations

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by PHILIPPA KELLY, Resident Dramaturg

“Tragedy…teacheth the uncertainty of this world, and upon how weak foundations gilden roofs are builded,” observes Sir Philip Sidney in An Apologie for Poetry, written in 1595, a decade before Macbeth hit the boards. In Macbeth’s Porter scene, and its recurrent theme of rebellion, Shakespeare alludes to the failed Gunpowder Plot against the life of King James I in 1605. It is remarkable to think of the new British king watching this play that signals a world both “fair” (a celebration of James’ recent ascendancy to the British throne) and “foul” (a warning to the king to trust no one). The play begins with reports of not one but three battles of insurrection and invasion that have been quelled by the two noble thanes, Macbeth and Banquo; and in the course of its brief journey (about one month in play-time and two hours in real time), the “gilden roofs” of majesty are twice toppled, with yet a third king crowned in the very last scene.

How does this happen? And how so quickly? All kinds of answers hover in an atmosphere made foggy and unclear by actions imagined and all-too-suddenly concluded. From the deeply feudal times in which the play is set arises the question of how a brilliant, loyal and noble soldier sacrifi ces his hard-won honor to unreasoned ambition. As if she hears ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us from the golden round,” including her husband’s scruples. She sloughs off all conventional associations of femininity, calling on the powers of the universe to “unsex” her and take away her nurturance, replacing it with “gall.” And she urges her husband to do the same. “Are you a man?” she asks him? Three times she goads him with accusations of “shame.” So Macbeth, mired in uncertainty, pulls on the garments of manliness that have served him so well in battle, taking action in a manner that is not valiant, but cowardly: he kills in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, once a great soldier, wears the garments of “a dwarfi sh thief.”

Actions can be imagined; but “if it [is] done when ‘tis done,” an action has consequences—and if we are thinking and feeling beings, consequences can’t be ignored.

CAN WE FORGIVEOURSELVES?

in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king,

ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her

“Are you a man?” she asks him? Three times she goads him with accusations of “shame.” So Macbeth, mired in uncertainty, pulls on the garments of manliness that have served him so well in battle, taking action in a manner that is not valiant, but cowardly: he kills

ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us from the golden round,” including her husband’s scruples. She sloughs off all conventional associations of femininity, calling on the powers of the universe to “unsex” her and take away her nurturance, replacing it with “gall.” And she urges her husband to do the same.

but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king,

him so well in battle, taking action in a manner that is not valiant, but cowardly: he kills So Macbeth, mired in uncertainty, pulls on the garments of manliness that have served

in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king,

“Are you a man?” she asks him? Three times she goads him with accusations of “shame.” So Macbeth, mired in uncertainty, pulls on the garments of manliness that have served






ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her

in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, him so well in battle, taking action in a manner that is not valiant, but cowardly: he kills



away her nurturance, replacing it with “gall.” And she urges her husband to do the same. away her nurturance, replacing it with “gall.” And she urges her husband to do the same.

husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us from the golden round,” including her husband’s scruples. She sloughs off all conventional associations of femininity, calling on the powers of the universe to “unsex” her and take

husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us



ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us

associations of femininity, calling on the powers of the universe to “unsex” her and take

ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her


husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us husband’s letter and galvanizes into action, preparing to do battle with “all that keeps us




ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her ringing in her ears such questions as to means and timing, Lady Macbeth receives her


in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king,

“Are you a man?” she asks him? Three times she goads him with accusations of “shame.” “Are you a man?” she asks him? Three times she goads him with accusations of “shame.” away her nurturance, replacing it with “gall.” And she urges her husband to do the same. associations of femininity, calling on the powers of the universe to “unsex” her and take

but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, in one evening three people defenseless in sleep. He is still a successful killing machine, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king, but no longer one clothed in honor. Scotland is turned upside down, and the new king,

“Tragedy…teacheth the uncertainty of this world, and upon how weak foundations “Tragedy…teacheth the uncertainty of this world, and upon how weak foundations

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Much of Macbeth’s imagery of the fall of majesty and the consequences of over-reaching is supplied by the tortured protagonist himself: it is Macbeth who sees Duncan as “sainted,” “so clear in his great offi ce,” and who sees the planned assassination (Shakespeare coins this word for him) as a deed “[which] might appal the devil…” Macbeth, the very same warrior who, at the top of the play, is honored for his killing, is at the action’s end reviled as “this bloody butcher” whose queen is “fi end-like.” And Macbeth is in agreement on the very night of the murder: “Renown and grace is dead, and the mere lees/Is left this life to brag of.” He sees in the death of his king the death of his own honor.

“But I wasn’t always like this,” Macbeth could say at the close if his bloody head could talk. He has been valiant: does this count for anything? Can we human beings forgive ourselves for irremediable transgressions? Only, it seems, if we can learn how to live without conscience, without imagination. Watching Macbeth at a banquet table arguing with a ghost whom no one else sees; and, later, his wife sleep-walking, her mind distracted in sleep as she tries to wash from her hands blood that only she can see, we can apprehend the loss of honor to unreason. Macbeth retrieves himself from the torment of the banquet scene by pushing away all conscience and declaring “the fi rstlings of my heart [to] be the fi rstlings of my hand”—but his wife, the force of their joint strength right up until she faints at the close of the banquet, is overcome by conscience and fi nally dies “by selfsame hand.”

Dramatically speaking, it’s possible that Shakespeare decided to grant Lady Macbeth an early, clear-sighted intellectual complexity that later disintegrates into an emotional demise in order to clear the road for all eyes to fi x on Macbeth as the play hurtles toward its conclusion. But what intrigues me about the husband/wife pairing is that conscience—the faculty that is possibly unique to humans amongst all creatures—is never absent from their relationship. It is the glue, and it is the element that tears them apart. In the fi rst half of the play, conscience makes Macbeth literally “brainsick” as his wife attempts to shore him up: “You do unbend your noble strength, to think/So brainsickly of things.” And in the latter half, the brave warrior of recent days despises his descent into cowardice as others do his dirty work—he fi nally puts on the “harness” of war again so as to erase the entire period since he became king, dying the warrior he once was. And as Macbeth enacts this arc, he is completely separated from his “dearest partner of greatness” (we don’t even see Lady Macbeth between the banquet scene and the sleepwalking scene), leaving her to sleepwalk to her death. (continued on page 19)


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Melissa TorchiaCostume Designer

Russell H. ChampaLighting Designer

Elizabeth RhodesSound Designer

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PRESENTERSEllen & Joffa Dale, Jean Simpson, Sharon Simpson, Kate Stechschulte & David Cost Jr., Jay Yamada

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERSCristina, Marc & Gabriella Bensadoun, Tish & Steve Harwood, Ray Lifchez, Shelly Osborne & Steve Tirrell

PRODUCERSJoe Di Prisco & Patti James

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERSMike & Virginia Ross, Beverly & Loring Wyllie

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Video and photos of this performance are prohibited. If you post pre- or post-show images of the stage online, please credit the designers, above.

Philippa KellyResident Dramaturg

Talli JacksonMovement

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Jessica BermanVocal/Text Coach

Dave Maier Resident Fight

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LeeAnn DowdCasting Manager

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AM ERIC TING Artistic Director SARAH WILLIAMS Managing Director

MACBETHwritten by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

directed by VICTOR MALANA MAOG

Adam RiggScenic Designer

Melissa TorchiaCostume Designer

Russell H. ChampaLighting Designer

Elizabeth RhodesSound Designer

CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER

September 18 - October 13

PRESENTERSEllen & Joffa Dale, Jean Simpson, Sharon Simpson, Kate Stechschulte & David Cost Jr., Jay Yamada

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERSCristina, Marc & Gabriella Bensadoun, Tish & Steve Harwood, Ray Lifchez, Shelly Osborne & Steve Tirrell

PRODUCERSJoe Di Prisco & Patti James

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERSMike & Virginia Ross, Beverly & Loring Wyllie

PRESENTING PARTNERS

SEASON PARTNER

PRODUCTION PARTNER

SEASON UNDERWRITERS

STUDENT DISCOVERY UNDERWRITERS

Video and photos of this performance are prohibited. If you post pre- or post-show images of the stage online, please credit the designers, above.

Philippa KellyResident Dramaturg

Talli JacksonMovement

Choreographer

Jessica BermanVocal/Text Coach

Dave Maier Resident Fight

Director

LeeAnn DowdCasting Manager

Cheryle Honerlah Stage Manager

Sara SparksAssistant Stage

Manager

This production is part of Shakespeare in American Communities, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

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SETTING Legendary Scotland, a country ravaged by the tyrannical

exercise of power, secrecy and paranoia.

SYNOPSISUpon returning from battle, Macbeth encounters three witches who give him and his fellow soldier prophesies of greatness. When the first of the predictions comes true moments later, Macbeth plots with his wife to remove all further obstacles in his way. Macbeth’s rise to power is marked with murder, betrayal, and terror. As he descends into paranoia and madness, one final visit from the witches predicts Macbeth’s ultimate downfall, and the country’s restoration to peace and order.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

Warren David KeithDuncan, Porter

Rey LucasMacbeth

Catherine LuedtkeRoss

Joseph Patrick O’MalleyMalcom

Liz SklarLady Macbeth

Jomar TagatacBanquo

Dane TroyMacduff

Rotimi AgbabiakaAngus

Anna IshidaLennox, Fleance

Lyndsy KailLady Macduff,

Donalbain


VICTOR MALANA MAOG (Director) Victor, named one of American Theatre Magazine’s “People to Watch,” makes his Cal Shakes debut with Macbeth. Most recently he staged Mfoniso Udofia’s Her Portmanteau (A.C.T.) and In Old Age (World Premiere, Magic Theater). He has also directed and developed work at The Public Theater, Berkeley Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Classic Stage Company, Hartford Stage, Signature Theatre Company, Mabou Mines, Drury Lane Theatre, ABC/Disney, and large-scale stage shows, live events, and spectaculars at Disney Parks Live Entertainment. Maog is the recipient of the NEA/TCG Directing Fellowship, Second Stage Van Lier Directing Fellowship, Cornerstone Theater Altvater Fellowship, and was recently chosen as an inaugural TCG SPARK Leadership Fellow. Board President, Consortium Of Asian American Theaters and Artists. B.A. NYU/Gallatin. Upcoming: Poor Yella Rednecks by Qui Nguyen at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. www.victormaog.com

ACTING COMPANY

ROTIMI AGBABIAKA(Angus) Rotimi Agbabiaka (he/him) returns to Cal Shakes after playing Salima in House of Joy and Joseph Asagai in Raisin In The Sun. He most recently appeared Off Broadway in If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons) and has performed with Yale Rep, A.C.T., Magic Theatre, Marin Theater Company, TheatreWorks, Shotgun Players, Brava (Bootycandy, TBA award), Word for Word, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he is a collective member. His solo plays include Homeless (Best of SF Fringe) and Type/Caste (TBA award) and he co-wrote the musical Seeing Red with Joan Holden and Ira Marlowe. Rotimi directed the world premiere of VS. at TheatreFIRST and teaches theater to students from pre-school through college. www.rotimionline.com

ANNA ISHIDA(Lennox, Fleance) Anna (she/her) was last seen in the Bay as Gwendolen in Aurora’s The Importance of Being Earnest this Spring. NYC: National Asian American Theater Co. (Henry VI: Parts 1 & 2—Drama Desk nomination); Sam Chanse’s Trigger with Leviathan Lab (premiere). Regional: Berkeley Repertory Theater (It Can’t Happen Here), American Conservatory Theatre (Mr. Burns: a post-electric play), TheatreWorks (Water by the Spoonful), and numerous other Bay Area productions. She has toured regionally & internationally with Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage (Jason Craig/Dave Malloy), which was featured in the New Yorker’s “Top 12 Best Off-Broadway Shows” (2009) and was the recipient of an Edinburgh Fringe Herald Angel Award. She will appear in Dave Malloy’s upcoming Moby-Dick at American Repertory Theater under the direction of 2019 Tony winner, Rachel Chavkin. She stars in San Francisco director H.P. Mendoza’s critically acclaimed experimental horror film I Am a Ghost. www.annaishida.com

LYNDSY KAIL(Lady Macduff, Donalbain) Lyndsy Kail’s theater credits include B Street Theatre, Capital Stage, Sacramento Theater Company, Center Repertory Company, San Jose Stage, San Jose Repertory Theater, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and California Shakespeare Theater. Off the stage and in the booth include games such as BioShock Infinite, XCOM, Mafia I, Call of Duty, SimCity, NBA2K, Monster High, and FortNite. She holds a B.A. in Classics from U.C. Berkeley, a graduate of The Groundlings School.

WARREN DAVID KEITH(Duncan, Porter) Warren David Keith (he/him) is delighted to return to Cal Shakes where he was previously seen in Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, and As You Like It. His stage credits include productions at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Magic Theater Company, San Francisco Playhouse, TheaterWorks, Marin Theater Company and most recently in G.B. Shaw’s Widower’s Houses at Aurora Theatre and as Ram Dass in Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass at the Marsh Theater. On screen he can be seen in “Raising Arizona”, “The Big Lebowski”, “Haiku Tunnel”, and “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and heard in “Fargo”, and “A Serious Man.” He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and The Yale School of Drama and presently teaches at American Conservatory Theater.

REY LUCAS(Macbeth) Rey (he/his) is so honored to be making his Bay Area debut at Cal Shakes! THEATRE: The Roundabout (Broadway); The Public, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick, INTAR, The Lark and New Dramatists (NYC); The Goodman and Victory Gardens (Chicago); Arena Stage (D.C.); Long Wharf, Yale Rep and The O’Neill (CT); The Old Globe (San Diego); Williamstown Theatre Festival (MA); The Alliance (Atlanta); and The Denver Center (CO). TV: Series Regular on “The First” (Hulu), recurring on “Manifest” (NBC), “Luke Cage” (Netflix), “Blue Bloods” (CBS), “Believe” (NBC), and appearances on “God Friended Me” and “Instinct” (CBS), “The Path” (Hulu), “Orange Is the New Black” (Netflix), “The Mysteries of Laura” (NBC) and “Weeds” (Showtime). FILM: Human Resources, About Alex, Keep in Touch, Allegiance and On the Job Training. B.A. in English & Government from Wesleyan University (CT). M.F.A. in Acting from The Yale School of Drama. Thank you Victor, Eric, and my family for your trust and support. www.reylucas.com

CATHERINE LUEDTKE(Ross) Catherine Luedtke (she/her) is a British actor who works in the Bay Area and Europe. She was last seen in the National Theatre/Young Vic/Good Chance production of The Jungle (Curran Theatre). She is a Resident Artist at Crowded Fire and a Company Member at Custom Made. Macbeth is Catherine’s third show at Cal Shakes (The War of The Roses, Pygmalion).

Other theaters include: Actors Theatre/Director’s Theatre, Third Cloud From The Left, PlayGround, VIlla Design Group at M. I. T., The Breadbox, Stanford Rep, RVP, NCTC and YBCA. Her international work with Artist Than Hussein Clark has been seen in Prague, Paris and London. Film: Love at The Frankfurt Auto Show, and The Bride of Death. She is a TBA, SFBATCC, and Titan award finalist. She studied Acting at Studio A.C.T., and Shakespeare at RADA. Catherine seeks to do work that challenges, unites, and heals our communities; she thanks you for supporting live theater. @luedtkecat, catluedtke.com

JOSEPH PATRICK O’MALLEY(Malcolm) Joseph Patrick O’Malley returns to Cal Shakes following last year’s The War of the Roses. He has performed regionally at The Guthrie Theatre, The Kennedy Center and La Jolla Playhouse. Bay Area work includes Aurora Theatre Co. (Creditors, A Number), Marin Shakespeare Co. (Measure for Measure, SPAMALOT!) Marin Theatre Co. (Ms. Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly), Theatreworks, Center REP, B Street Theatre, Shotgun Players, Just Theatre, Killing My Lobster and Bay Area Playground. On Film: Blood Ties, brief. (NVFF 2017). Joseph is an adjunct professor in Theatre and Film at Napa Valley College and holds an MFA from USC.

LIZ SKLAR(Lady Macbeth) Liz Sklar (she/her) is thrilled to be back at the Bruns where she was last seen in as Desdemona in Othello. Most recently she originated the role of Sophie in the World Premiere of Jen Silverman’s Wink at Marin Theater Company. Other Bay Area credits include Major Powell in ACT’s production of Men on Boats, Annie in The Real Thing at Aurora Theatre Company, Trouble Cometh and Becky Shaw at San Francisco Playhouse, Care of Trees at Shotgun Players and The Wolves, Anne Boleyn, The Whale, Failure: A Love Story, Lasso of Truth, Othello, Seagull and Bellwether all at Marin Theater Company. Sklar holds a BA in Theater Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Acting from A.C.T.

JOMAR TAGATAC(Banquo) Jomar (he/him) was last seen at Cal Shakes in The War of the Roses. Previously, he was a Somebody in Everybody, played Jaques in As You Like It, and was Clarin in Life Is a Dream. His most recent credits include George in The Language Archive (Theatreworks), Playwright/Bobby in Vietgone (A.C.T), Quang in Vietgone (Capital Stage), Mr. Botard in Rhinoceros (A.C.T), Samurai in Rashomon (Ubuntu Theater Project), Actor 1 in King of The Yees (SF Playhouse), Perlita/General Ledesma in Dogeaters (Magic Theatre), Lin Bo in Caught (Shotgun Players), , and Fortunado/Mata in Monstress (A.C.T.’s The Strand). Jomar holds a B.A. in Theater from San Diego State University and an M.F.A. in Acting from American Conservatory Theater.

COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES


VICTOR MALANA MAOG (Director) Victor, named one of American Theatre Magazine’s “People to Watch,” makes his Cal Shakes debut with Macbeth. Most recently he staged Mfoniso Udofia’s Her Portmanteau (A.C.T.) and In Old Age (World Premiere, Magic Theater). He has also directed and developed work at The Public Theater, Berkeley Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Classic Stage Company, Hartford Stage, Signature Theatre Company, Mabou Mines, Drury Lane Theatre, ABC/Disney, and large-scale stage shows, live events, and spectaculars at Disney Parks Live Entertainment. Maog is the recipient of the NEA/TCG Directing Fellowship, Second Stage Van Lier Directing Fellowship, Cornerstone Theater Altvater Fellowship, and was recently chosen as an inaugural TCG SPARK Leadership Fellow. Board President, Consortium Of Asian American Theaters and Artists. B.A. NYU/Gallatin. Upcoming: Poor Yella Rednecks by Qui Nguyen at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. www.victormaog.com

ACTING COMPANY

ROTIMI AGBABIAKA(Angus) Rotimi Agbabiaka (he/him) returns to Cal Shakes after playing Salima in House of Joy and Joseph Asagai in Raisin In The Sun. He most recently appeared Off Broadway in If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons) and has performed with Yale Rep, A.C.T., Magic Theatre, Marin Theater Company, TheatreWorks, Shotgun Players, Brava (Bootycandy, TBA award), Word for Word, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he is a collective member. His solo plays include Homeless (Best of SF Fringe) and Type/Caste (TBA award) and he co-wrote the musical Seeing Red with Joan Holden and Ira Marlowe. Rotimi directed the world premiere of VS. at TheatreFIRST and teaches theater to students from pre-school through college. www.rotimionline.com

ANNA ISHIDA(Lennox, Fleance) Anna (she/her) was last seen in the Bay as Gwendolen in Aurora’s The Importance of Being Earnest this Spring. NYC: National Asian American Theater Co. (Henry VI: Parts 1 & 2—Drama Desk nomination); Sam Chanse’s Trigger with Leviathan Lab (premiere). Regional: Berkeley Repertory Theater (It Can’t Happen Here), American Conservatory Theatre (Mr. Burns: a post-electric play), TheatreWorks (Water by the Spoonful), and numerous other Bay Area productions. She has toured regionally & internationally with Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage (Jason Craig/Dave Malloy), which was featured in the New Yorker’s “Top 12 Best Off-Broadway Shows” (2009) and was the recipient of an Edinburgh Fringe Herald Angel Award. She will appear in Dave Malloy’s upcoming Moby-Dick at American Repertory Theater under the direction of 2019 Tony winner, Rachel Chavkin. She stars in San Francisco director H.P. Mendoza’s critically acclaimed experimental horror film I Am a Ghost. www.annaishida.com

LYNDSY KAIL(Lady Macduff, Donalbain) Lyndsy Kail’s theater credits include B Street Theatre, Capital Stage, Sacramento Theater Company, Center Repertory Company, San Jose Stage, San Jose Repertory Theater, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and California Shakespeare Theater. Off the stage and in the booth include games such as BioShock Infinite, XCOM, Mafia I, Call of Duty, SimCity, NBA2K, Monster High, and FortNite. She holds a B.A. in Classics from U.C. Berkeley, a graduate of The Groundlings School.

WARREN DAVID KEITH(Duncan, Porter) Warren David Keith (he/him) is delighted to return to Cal Shakes where he was previously seen in Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, and As You Like It. His stage credits include productions at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Magic Theater Company, San Francisco Playhouse, TheaterWorks, Marin Theater Company and most recently in G.B. Shaw’s Widower’s Houses at Aurora Theatre and as Ram Dass in Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass at the Marsh Theater. On screen he can be seen in “Raising Arizona”, “The Big Lebowski”, “Haiku Tunnel”, and “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and heard in “Fargo”, and “A Serious Man.” He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and The Yale School of Drama and presently teaches at American Conservatory Theater.

REY LUCAS(Macbeth) Rey (he/his) is so honored to be making his Bay Area debut at Cal Shakes! THEATRE: The Roundabout (Broadway); The Public, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick, INTAR, The Lark and New Dramatists (NYC); The Goodman and Victory Gardens (Chicago); Arena Stage (D.C.); Long Wharf, Yale Rep and The O’Neill (CT); The Old Globe (San Diego); Williamstown Theatre Festival (MA); The Alliance (Atlanta); and The Denver Center (CO). TV: Series Regular on “The First” (Hulu), recurring on “Manifest” (NBC), “Luke Cage” (Netflix), “Blue Bloods” (CBS), “Believe” (NBC), and appearances on “God Friended Me” and “Instinct” (CBS), “The Path” (Hulu), “Orange Is the New Black” (Netflix), “The Mysteries of Laura” (NBC) and “Weeds” (Showtime). FILM: Human Resources, About Alex, Keep in Touch, Allegiance and On the Job Training. B.A. in English & Government from Wesleyan University (CT). M.F.A. in Acting from The Yale School of Drama. Thank you Victor, Eric, and my family for your trust and support. www.reylucas.com

CATHERINE LUEDTKE(Ross) Catherine Luedtke (she/her) is a British actor who works in the Bay Area and Europe. She was last seen in the National Theatre/Young Vic/Good Chance production of The Jungle (Curran Theatre). She is a Resident Artist at Crowded Fire and a Company Member at Custom Made. Macbeth is Catherine’s third show at Cal Shakes (The War of The Roses, Pygmalion).

Other theaters include: Actors Theatre/Director’s Theatre, Third Cloud From The Left, PlayGround, VIlla Design Group at M. I. T., The Breadbox, Stanford Rep, RVP, NCTC and YBCA. Her international work with Artist Than Hussein Clark has been seen in Prague, Paris and London. Film: Love at The Frankfurt Auto Show, and The Bride of Death. She is a TBA, SFBATCC, and Titan award finalist. She studied Acting at Studio A.C.T., and Shakespeare at RADA. Catherine seeks to do work that challenges, unites, and heals our communities; she thanks you for supporting live theater. @luedtkecat, catluedtke.com

JOSEPH PATRICK O’MALLEY(Malcolm) Joseph Patrick O’Malley returns to Cal Shakes following last year’s The War of the Roses. He has performed regionally at The Guthrie Theatre, The Kennedy Center and La Jolla Playhouse. Bay Area work includes Aurora Theatre Co. (Creditors, A Number), Marin Shakespeare Co. (Measure for Measure, SPAMALOT!) Marin Theatre Co. (Ms. Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly), Theatreworks, Center REP, B Street Theatre, Shotgun Players, Just Theatre, Killing My Lobster and Bay Area Playground. On Film: Blood Ties, brief. (NVFF 2017). Joseph is an adjunct professor in Theatre and Film at Napa Valley College and holds an MFA from USC.

LIZ SKLAR(Lady Macbeth) Liz Sklar (she/her) is thrilled to be back at the Bruns where she was last seen in as Desdemona in Othello. Most recently she originated the role of Sophie in the World Premiere of Jen Silverman’s Wink at Marin Theater Company. Other Bay Area credits include Major Powell in ACT’s production of Men on Boats, Annie in The Real Thing at Aurora Theatre Company, Trouble Cometh and Becky Shaw at San Francisco Playhouse, Care of Trees at Shotgun Players and The Wolves, Anne Boleyn, The Whale, Failure: A Love Story, Lasso of Truth, Othello, Seagull and Bellwether all at Marin Theater Company. Sklar holds a BA in Theater Arts from Brown University and an MFA in Acting from A.C.T.

JOMAR TAGATAC(Banquo) Jomar (he/him) was last seen at Cal Shakes in The War of the Roses. Previously, he was a Somebody in Everybody, played Jaques in As You Like It, and was Clarin in Life Is a Dream. His most recent credits include George in The Language Archive (Theatreworks), Playwright/Bobby in Vietgone (A.C.T), Quang in Vietgone (Capital Stage), Mr. Botard in Rhinoceros (A.C.T), Samurai in Rashomon (Ubuntu Theater Project), Actor 1 in King of The Yees (SF Playhouse), Perlita/General Ledesma in Dogeaters (Magic Theatre), Lin Bo in Caught (Shotgun Players), , and Fortunado/Mata in Monstress (A.C.T.’s The Strand). Jomar holds a B.A. in Theater from San Diego State University and an M.F.A. in Acting from American Conservatory Theater.

COMPANY BIOGRAPHIESDANE TROY(Macduff) Dane is thankful to Victor & Cal Shakes for this opportunity. Dane is a performance artist from the heart of Atlanta, Georgia. He has studied improv comedy & sketch comedy at iO Chicago, iO West, The Groundlings, The Second City: Hollywood & UCB: LA. Dane was a performer/writer in the 2018 CBS Diversity Showcase in LA. Look for him in the new iFC Original Comedy Series “Sherman’s Showcase.” Dane sends love to his family, Paige Mayes & his late mentor Lynwoodt Benard Jenkins. Go Braves! Contact him at [email protected].

CREATIVE TEAM

ADAM RIGG(Scenic Designer) Adam Rigg (they/them) is a 2015 Princess Grace Award and a three-time Henry Hewes Award nominee. Recent: Fabulation (Signature Theater), Continuity(Manhattan Theater Club), Blue Ridge (Atlantic Theater Company), Prism (LAOpera), The House That Will Not Stand (New York Theater Workshop), Is God Is (SOHO REP), Actually (Williamstown Theater Festival), Henry IV Parts 1&2 (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Breaking The Waves (Opera Philadelphia). Other credits include: The Public Theater, The Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, REDCAT, Cincinnati Symphony, Manhattan Theatre Club, Yale Rep, A.R.T., Theatro Municipal-Brazil, The Kennedy Center, and The Foundry Theatre. BA UCLA, MFA Yale School of Drama. Upcoming: Fefu and Her Friends (Theatre For A New Audience), White Noise (Berkeley Rep), Girls (Yale Rep), Lord of Cries (Santa Fe Opera) and Giustino(Theater An Der Wien-Vienna) www.adamriggdesign.com

MELISSA TORCHIA(Costume Designer) Melissa (she/her) is thrilled to be back at Cal Shakes where she costumed As You Like It, You Never Can Tell, King Lear and The Verona Project. Melissa is currently based in Ashland and is a company member with The House Theatre of Chicago. Projects include: Pride and Prejudice and Invisible Hand (Kansas City Rep); The Last Defender, Rose and the Rime, and The Magnifi cents(The House Theatre); City of Angels (San Francisco Playhouse); Silent Night (Opera San Jose); Native Son and The Mountaintop (Court Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (Cleveland Playhouse); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Peter Pan (Lookingglass Theatre); Samuel J and K (Steppenwolf Theatre); Grease (American Theatre Company); Robin Hood (First Stage Milwaukee); Gypsy and Aida (Drury Lane Oakbrook); The Importance of Being Earnest (Jeff Nomination, Remy Bumppo Theatre); and Abigail’s Party (A Red Orchid Theatre). Upcoming: Peter and the Starcatcher (Oregon Shakespeare Festival).

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Does ambition breed villainy? If so, the human imagination—that precious faculty of reach and depth and scope—must be at fault, because imagination breeds ambition. Does an increase in stature create an unquenchable thirst for power? These questions aren’t clearly answered in Macbeth—things are true and not-true, foul and fair. But what this play suggests is that the capacity to look back, to feel remorse, to experience conscience—in other words, to be fully and unmistakably human—is to fl irt dangerously with wholeness of mind and integrity of purpose.

Can we humans re-tell our stories? Can we start again, and do we truly get second chances? Not that often—people judge us; and conscience makes us judge ourselves. It’s because of his conscience that Macbeth can’t make a U-turn and do life over again. Another murderer—Bolingbroke, for instance, the father of Hal in Henry IV—might easily close the book on murder and call it “a new regime.” But Macbeth is not about the making of history—it’s about the suffering in the mind that plagues a history-maker.

Thus we, the audience, go on a roller-coaster with a hero-turned-villain and his wife, who enfold us in terrible images of pain—the scorpions in the mind, the unraveling of peaceful sleep, the horrors of a blood-stained hand, the strutting and fretting on a frail and pointless stage. The breadth and scope of this play is in the journey it traces, triggered by that amazing faculty, the human imagination, fi rst embodied in the witches’ predictions. Actions can be imagined; but “if it [is] done when ‘tis done,” an action has consequences—and if we are thinking and feeling beings, consequences can’t be ignored. Macbeth temporarily shrinks his sensibility so as to slice away those who stand in his path: but his wife’s psychological disintegration and untimely death jolt him back to the reality of what he has done, and what they have become together; from the heights of dizzy achievement we travel with the Macbeths on a journey toward abandonment of all hope: “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…” And yet it is a journey full of imagery beautiful, brutal, and poignant—a journey that is exquisite to go on and something of a relief to end.


RUSSELL H. CHAMPA(Lighting Designer) Russell is excited to be back at Cal Shakes; his last Cal Shakes project was Othello (dir. Eric Ting). Upcoming and recent projects include Becky Nurse (Berkeley Rep), Wakey Wakey (A.C.T.), About Alice (TFANA), Romeo And Juliet (Huntington), Everest (Kansas City Opera) and Thresh|Hold (Pilobolus). Broadway credits include China Doll (Gerald Schoenfeld Theater), In The Next Room, or the vibrator play (Lyceum Theatre/Lincoln Center Theater), and Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theatre). New York work includes Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, The Public, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC, Julliard and New York Stage and Film. Regional work includes Steppenwolf, The Old Globe, The Wilma, Trinity Rep, Mark Taper Forum, and The Kennedy Center. Thanks J + J. PEACE.

ELIZABETH RHODES(Sound Designer) (she/her) New York credits include the world premiere of Steve Martin’s adaptation of The Underpants, and the premieres of John Patrick Shanley’s Dirty Story and Sailor Song. LAByrinth credits include Stephen Belber’s A Small Melodramatic Story and Robert Glaudini’s Dutch Heart of Man. Other New York credits include Chuck Mee’s Paradise Park with director Daniel Fish (Signature), Philip Roth in Khartoum and Sweet Storm (Public Lab); Future Me with original music by Stew (SPF); The Winter’s Tale with director Barry Edelstein (CSC); Trial By Water (Ma-Yi); Regional credits include Lee Blessing’s Winning Streak (George Street Playhouse), Stones In His Pockets (Alley Theatre), Double Indemnity (The Old Globe), and The Colored Museum (Crossroads).

DAVE MAIER (Fight Director) he/him. 2019 marks Dave’s 14th season as the resident fight director with Cal Shakes. He is also the resident fight director at SF Opera and his work has been seen at many Bay Area theaters including A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Aurora Theatre, SF Playhouse, Berkeley Playhouse, Center Rep, Marin Theatre Co. and Shotgun Players. He has won several awards including the 2018 Theatre Bay Area award for outstanding fight choreography for his work on Quixote Nuevo at Cal Shakes. Dave is recognized as a Master Fight Director and Senior Instructor with Dueling Arts International and he teaches combat related courses at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, St. Mary’s College of California and Berkeley Rep School of Theatre.

TALLI JACKSON(Movement Choreographer) Talli Jackson (he/him) is a choreographer, teacher, performer and organizer based in the Bay Area. Under Bill T. Jones he was the Assistant Choreographer for the new musical, Paradise Square, which had its national premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theater in the fall of 2018. Talli’s work has been presented at Tisch School for the Arts, ODC, FABnyc, The Milkbar, SAFEhouse Arts and Temescal Art Center. As a performer, Talli was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2009-2017. He was a lead organizer and teacher for the Bill

T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Summer Workshop and has been teaching contemporary dance forms at studios, colleges, and universities around the US and abroad since 2009.

JESSICA BERMAN(Vocal/Text Coach) Jessica Berman (she/her) is a dialect, voice, and text coach. With Cal Shakes she has coached A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The War of the Roses, and Fences. Recent dialect and vocal coaching credits include: Kiss My Aztec!, The Good Book, Paradise Square: A New Musical, Angels in America, and What the Constitution Means to Me (Berkeley Rep), An American in Paris (North American Tour), In Old Age, The Eva Trilogy, Sojourners, and runboyrun (Magic Theatre), and Oslo, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, and The Who and the What (Marin Theatre Company). Jessica teaches at U.C. Berkeley and A.C.T. (STC and SF Semester). She holds an M.A. from the Birmingham School of Acting, and an M.F.A. from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

CHERYLE HONERLAH(Stage Manager) Cheryle (she/her) is currently at Cal Shakes for her seventh season. Previous productions include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, black odyssey, Quixote Nuevo and The Glass Menagerie. Previously, she worked as Production Assistant on several shows at the Bruns including A Raisin in the Sun, Twelfth Night, and Othello, and was a member of Cal Shakes’ Internship program in 2013. She has had the pleasure of working with several theaters in the Bay Area, including A.C.T., TheatreWorks, Shotgun Players, Douglas Morrisson Theatre, and African-American Shakespeare Company. Cheryle holds a B.A. in Technical Theatre from CSU East Bay, and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

SARA SPARKS(Assistant Stage Manager) Sara Sparks (she/her) was last seen at Cal Shakes as the Assistant Stage Manager for Quixote Nuevo and has worked all around the Bay, including Theatreworks, San Francisco Playhouse, Center REPertory Company, Shotgun Players, 42nd Street Moon, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Aurora Theatre Company, San Jose Stage Company, Pear Theatre, Palo Alto Players, Silicon Valley Shakespeare, Eugenie Chan Theater Projects and RE:ACT.

CAL SHAKES STAFF

ERIC TING(Artistic Director) Eric (he/him) is an Obie Award-winning director and was appointed Artistic Director of California Shakespeare Theater in November of 2015. For Cal Shakes: The Good Person of Szechwan, Shakespeare’s Othello; Marcus Gardley’s black odyssey (West Coast premiere); The War of the Roses co-adapted with Philippa Kelly from Shakespeare’s Henry VI Parts 1-3 and Richard III. Other recent credits include: Between Two Knees by The 1491s (World Premiere, Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap (World Premiere, Denver Center, Seattle Rep); An Octoroon (Berkeley Rep).

Upcoming: Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (A.C.T.). Eric is a proud member of the SDC Board.

SARAH WILLIAMS(Managing Director) Sarah Williams (she/her) comes to Cal Shakes after four years at Berkeley Repertory Theatre where she served as the Associate Managing Director. In her role at Berkeley Rep, Sarah managed the administrative operations of The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work, producing new play workshops, readings, and The Ground Floor’s cornerstone program, the Summer Residency Lab; as well as producing Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, The Second City’s Dysfunctional Holiday Revue and Left Leaning and Always Right, and Fran Lebowitz: In Conversation; and she served as tour manager for Berkeley Rep’s production of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations at the John F. Kennedy Center. Sarah previously served as the Associate Managing Director at Yale Repertory Theatre and held positions with the Huntington Theatre Company, and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Sarah has served for five years on the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, and serves on the board of Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco. She holds a BA from Boston College and an MFA from Yale School of Drama where she was the recipient of the Morris J. Kaplan prize for recognition in theater management.

SK KERASTAS (Artistic Producer) SK (they/them) is a theater artist, facilitator, organizer, and the current Artistic Producer at Cal Shakes. They are a co-founder of #BreakingtheBinary, a series of arts programming and EDI Workshops for arts organizations with the goal of creating and supporting sustainable practices for trans inclusion and accessibility. They were a Visiting Artistic Associate at Berkeley Repertory Theatre through Theatre Communication Group’s Leadership U: One-on-One Grant, Round 2. Prior to that, SK served as the Education Director at About Face Theatre in Chicago where they directed and managed the queer and trans youth theater program and all outreach programs with an emphasis on intersectional identity politics. They are an Executive Co-Chair of the Pride Youth Theatre Alliance and a member of the inaugural artEquity cohort.

CLIVE WORSLEY (Director of Artistic Learning) Clive (he/him) assumed the leadership of California Shakespeare Theater’s Educational programs in 2013, having been one of its premier Teaching Artists since 2002. He was instrumental in the development of their Classroom Residency programs, has taught and directed at its Summer Shakespeare Conservatories and is the moderator of the popular Student Discovery Matinee program. He was formerly the Artistic Director of the Town Hall Theatre (2008-13), a company member at Shotgun Players (2000-05), TheatreFirst (2008-15), Aqueduct Theater Company (1994-98) and a founding member of Armitage Shanks sketch comedy troupe (1992-95). As an award-winning actor he has appeared on many Bay


RUSSELL H. CHAMPA(Lighting Designer) Russell is excited to be back at Cal Shakes; his last Cal Shakes project was Othello (dir. Eric Ting). Upcoming and recent projects include Becky Nurse (Berkeley Rep), Wakey Wakey (A.C.T.), About Alice (TFANA), Romeo And Juliet (Huntington), Everest (Kansas City Opera) and Thresh|Hold (Pilobolus). Broadway credits include China Doll (Gerald Schoenfeld Theater), In The Next Room, or the vibrator play (Lyceum Theatre/Lincoln Center Theater), and Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theatre). New York work includes Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, The Public, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC, Julliard and New York Stage and Film. Regional work includes Steppenwolf, The Old Globe, The Wilma, Trinity Rep, Mark Taper Forum, and The Kennedy Center. Thanks J + J. PEACE.

ELIZABETH RHODES(Sound Designer) (she/her) New York credits include the world premiere of Steve Martin’s adaptation of The Underpants, and the premieres of John Patrick Shanley’s Dirty Story and Sailor Song. LAByrinth credits include Stephen Belber’s A Small Melodramatic Story and Robert Glaudini’s Dutch Heart of Man. Other New York credits include Chuck Mee’s Paradise Park with director Daniel Fish (Signature), Philip Roth in Khartoum and Sweet Storm (Public Lab); Future Me with original music by Stew (SPF); The Winter’s Tale with director Barry Edelstein (CSC); Trial By Water (Ma-Yi); Regional credits include Lee Blessing’s Winning Streak (George Street Playhouse), Stones In His Pockets (Alley Theatre), Double Indemnity (The Old Globe), and The Colored Museum (Crossroads).

DAVE MAIER (Fight Director) he/him. 2019 marks Dave’s 14th season as the resident fight director with Cal Shakes. He is also the resident fight director at SF Opera and his work has been seen at many Bay Area theaters including A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Aurora Theatre, SF Playhouse, Berkeley Playhouse, Center Rep, Marin Theatre Co. and Shotgun Players. He has won several awards including the 2018 Theatre Bay Area award for outstanding fight choreography for his work on Quixote Nuevo at Cal Shakes. Dave is recognized as a Master Fight Director and Senior Instructor with Dueling Arts International and he teaches combat related courses at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, St. Mary’s College of California and Berkeley Rep School of Theatre.

TALLI JACKSON(Movement Choreographer) Talli Jackson (he/him) is a choreographer, teacher, performer and organizer based in the Bay Area. Under Bill T. Jones he was the Assistant Choreographer for the new musical, Paradise Square, which had its national premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theater in the fall of 2018. Talli’s work has been presented at Tisch School for the Arts, ODC, FABnyc, The Milkbar, SAFEhouse Arts and Temescal Art Center. As a performer, Talli was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2009-2017. He was a lead organizer and teacher for the Bill

T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Summer Workshop and has been teaching contemporary dance forms at studios, colleges, and universities around the US and abroad since 2009.

JESSICA BERMAN(Vocal/Text Coach) Jessica Berman (she/her) is a dialect, voice, and text coach. With Cal Shakes she has coached A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The War of the Roses, and Fences. Recent dialect and vocal coaching credits include: Kiss My Aztec!, The Good Book, Paradise Square: A New Musical, Angels in America, and What the Constitution Means to Me (Berkeley Rep), An American in Paris (North American Tour), In Old Age, The Eva Trilogy, Sojourners, and runboyrun (Magic Theatre), and Oslo, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, and The Who and the What (Marin Theatre Company). Jessica teaches at U.C. Berkeley and A.C.T. (STC and SF Semester). She holds an M.A. from the Birmingham School of Acting, and an M.F.A. from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

CHERYLE HONERLAH(Stage Manager) Cheryle (she/her) is currently at Cal Shakes for her seventh season. Previous productions include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, black odyssey, Quixote Nuevo and The Glass Menagerie. Previously, she worked as Production Assistant on several shows at the Bruns including A Raisin in the Sun, Twelfth Night, and Othello, and was a member of Cal Shakes’ Internship program in 2013. She has had the pleasure of working with several theaters in the Bay Area, including A.C.T., TheatreWorks, Shotgun Players, Douglas Morrisson Theatre, and African-American Shakespeare Company. Cheryle holds a B.A. in Technical Theatre from CSU East Bay, and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

SARA SPARKS(Assistant Stage Manager) Sara Sparks (she/her) was last seen at Cal Shakes as the Assistant Stage Manager for Quixote Nuevo and has worked all around the Bay, including Theatreworks, San Francisco Playhouse, Center REPertory Company, Shotgun Players, 42nd Street Moon, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Aurora Theatre Company, San Jose Stage Company, Pear Theatre, Palo Alto Players, Silicon Valley Shakespeare, Eugenie Chan Theater Projects and RE:ACT.

CAL SHAKES STAFF

ERIC TING(Artistic Director) Eric (he/him) is an Obie Award-winning director and was appointed Artistic Director of California Shakespeare Theater in November of 2015. For Cal Shakes: The Good Person of Szechwan, Shakespeare’s Othello; Marcus Gardley’s black odyssey (West Coast premiere); The War of the Roses co-adapted with Philippa Kelly from Shakespeare’s Henry VI Parts 1-3 and Richard III. Other recent credits include: Between Two Knees by The 1491s (World Premiere, Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap (World Premiere, Denver Center, Seattle Rep); An Octoroon (Berkeley Rep).

Upcoming: Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (A.C.T.). Eric is a proud member of the SDC Board.

SARAH WILLIAMS(Managing Director) Sarah Williams (she/her) comes to Cal Shakes after four years at Berkeley Repertory Theatre where she served as the Associate Managing Director. In her role at Berkeley Rep, Sarah managed the administrative operations of The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work, producing new play workshops, readings, and The Ground Floor’s cornerstone program, the Summer Residency Lab; as well as producing Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, The Second City’s Dysfunctional Holiday Revue and Left Leaning and Always Right, and Fran Lebowitz: In Conversation; and she served as tour manager for Berkeley Rep’s production of Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations at the John F. Kennedy Center. Sarah previously served as the Associate Managing Director at Yale Repertory Theatre and held positions with the Huntington Theatre Company, and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Sarah has served for five years on the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, and serves on the board of Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco. She holds a BA from Boston College and an MFA from Yale School of Drama where she was the recipient of the Morris J. Kaplan prize for recognition in theater management.

SK KERASTAS (Artistic Producer) SK (they/them) is a theater artist, facilitator, organizer, and the current Artistic Producer at Cal Shakes. They are a co-founder of #BreakingtheBinary, a series of arts programming and EDI Workshops for arts organizations with the goal of creating and supporting sustainable practices for trans inclusion and accessibility. They were a Visiting Artistic Associate at Berkeley Repertory Theatre through Theatre Communication Group’s Leadership U: One-on-One Grant, Round 2. Prior to that, SK served as the Education Director at About Face Theatre in Chicago where they directed and managed the queer and trans youth theater program and all outreach programs with an emphasis on intersectional identity politics. They are an Executive Co-Chair of the Pride Youth Theatre Alliance and a member of the inaugural artEquity cohort.

CLIVE WORSLEY (Director of Artistic Learning) Clive (he/him) assumed the leadership of California Shakespeare Theater’s Educational programs in 2013, having been one of its premier Teaching Artists since 2002. He was instrumental in the development of their Classroom Residency programs, has taught and directed at its Summer Shakespeare Conservatories and is the moderator of the popular Student Discovery Matinee program. He was formerly the Artistic Director of the Town Hall Theatre (2008-13), a company member at Shotgun Players (2000-05), TheatreFirst (2008-15), Aqueduct Theater Company (1994-98) and a founding member of Armitage Shanks sketch comedy troupe (1992-95). As an award-winning actor he has appeared on many Bay

Area stages including Cal Shakes, Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks, Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, Center REP, Shotgun Players, TheatreFirst, and many others.

ROZELLA KENNEDY(Director of Marketing & Development) she/her. A New York native, Rozie fi rst worked in media in Paris and Bristol, UK; in New York with Time Inc., the ACLU, and Oxygen.com, and then a decade in New Mexico, helping establish the New Mexico Centennial, Creative Santa Fe, and the award-winning Santa Fe New Music. With her consulting arm, Santa Fe Accompli, she served concerns across the nonprofi t spectrum, from human service (NM Hunger Coalition), to arts (Santa Fe Desert Chorale and the Santa Fe Arts Institute). Since relocating to the Bay Area in 2012, she’s worked for a variety of nonprofi ts in executive and front-line fundraising capacities. A graduate of NYC’s Brearley School, Tufts, and L’Universite de Paris, she’s also a published essayist and ghost writer. She lives in the East Bay with her husband, the composer/conductor John Kennedy, with whom she has two college-age daughters.

JAMILA COBHAM (Production Manager) Jamila (she/her) is a production, stage, and event manager with over 13 years of experience working in the United States and the Caribbean. She is currently in her sixth season at Cal Shakes, four of which she’s served as the Production Manager. Previously, she was the Interim Production Manager for Magic Theatre; Event Planner for Barbados’ National Cultural Foundation, and Interim Theater Manager for The Errol Barrow Center for Creative Imagination (EBCCI). Jamila has been a panelist for various panels at the Theatre Bay Area’s annual conference and the United States Institute of Theater Technology (USITT) conference. She has also participated in USITT’s Gateway Mentorship Program as a professional mentor during the 2017 conference and is happy to be returning as a mentor for the 2019 program. She holds an MFA in Production, Technology, and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

PHILIPPA KELLY(Resident Dramaturg) Dr. Kelly’s (she/her) work has been supported by many foundations and organizations, including the Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Walter and Eliza Hall Foundations, the Commonwealth Awards, the Centre for Human Emotions, the Walter and Elise Haas Foundation, the California Arts Council, and the Bly Awards for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. The best known of her several books is The King and I, critically acclaimed for framing King Lear through an Australian lens for social justice. With Amrita Ramanan (Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Dr. Kelly is editing a fi eld-wide volume of case studies, Diversity, Inclusion, and Representation in Contemporary Dramaturgy: Case Studies from the Field, to be published by Routledge in the summer of 2019.

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MEYER SOUND LABORATORIES (Presenting Partner) Meyer Sound continually strives to elevate the overall dialogue about sound and bring greater awareness to the importance of how we hear and listen. A collaborative, results-focused approach to sound solutions drives a company philosophy where creative thinking, old-fashioned craftsmanship, and entrepreneurial technology are strongly intertwined. Meyer Sound systems are installed in many top Bay Area institutions, including Davies Symphony Hall, SFMOMA, Berkeley Rep, California Memorial Stadium, Zellerbach Hall, BAMPFA, and the Exploratorium. Scientifi c acoustical research and product development have earned Meyer Sound more than 60 US and international patents and numerous awards since its founding in 1979 by John and Helen Meyer.

CITY NATIONAL BANK (Season Partner) Founded in California more than 60 years ago, City National Bank supports organizations that contribute to the economic and cultural vitality of the communities it serves. City National has grown to more than $45 billion in assets, providing banking, investment and trust services through 72 offi ces, including 16 full-service regional centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, Nevada, New York City, Nashville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia. The corporation and its wealth management affi liates oversee more than $55 billion client investment assets, and has been listed by Barron’s as one of the nation’s top 40 wealth management fi rms for the past 15 years. City National Bank provides entrepreneurs, professionals, their businesses, and their families with complete fi nancial solutions on The way up®.

PEET’S COFFEE (Season Partner) Peet’s Coffee is proud to be the exclusive coffee sponsor of the California Shakespeare Theater 2019 season and salutes Cal Shakes on another wonderful season of reimagining the classics and bringing new works to the stage. In 1966, Alfred Peet opened his fi rst store on Vine and Walnut in Berkeley and Peet’s has been committed to the Berkeley community ever since. As the pioneer of the craft coffee movement in America, Peet’s is dedicated to small-batch roasting, superior quality beans, freshness and a darker roasting style that produces a rich, fl avorful cup. Peet’s is locally roasted in the fi rst LEED® Gold certifi ed roaster in the nation.

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MACBETH ADDITIONAL CREDITS

LANA RUSSELL ?LANA RUSSELL ? (Assistant Director)LINDSAY BEDNAR-CARTER (SDC Directing Observer)NATALIE BARSHOW(Costume Design Assistant) MIRANDA WALDRON (Assistant Lighting Designer) KERSTIN HEINRICH(SM Apprentice) LINDA GIRÓN, MARIA ASCENSIÓN (SM Apprentice) LINDA GIRÓN, MARIA ASCENSIÓN (SM Apprentice)

LEIGH, MICHELLE NAVARRETE, SOPHIE NELSON, DOUG NOLAN, JOURDÁN OLIVIER-VERDE, BRENNAN SOPHIE NELSON, DOUG NOLAN, JOURDÁN OLIVIER-VERDE, BRENNAN SOPHIE NELSON, DOUG NOLAN,

PICKMAN-THOON, DANE TROY, DREW WATKINS (Understudies)

AFFILIATIONSThis Theater 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 Directors, Fight Directors, and Choreographers are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union. The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound designers are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. California Shakespeare Theater is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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MARCUS GARDLEY’SA Thousand Ships, his take on Twelfth Night

OCTAVIO SOLIS’ Quixote Nuevo

LEILA BUCK & EVREN ODCIKIN’S1001 Nights: A Retelling

This page: (top left) J. Alphonse Nicholson and Safi ya Fredericks in black odyssey; (top right) the cast of Quixote Nuevo; photos by Jay Yamada. Opposite, from top: Omoze Idehenre, Molly Holmes, and Linda Tillery in rehearsal for black odyssey; photo by Sonjhai Meggette// Esoteric Images. Emilio Delgado and Octavio Solis join others for the Quixote Nuevo story circles; photo by den. Emma Van Lare and Sango Tajima in fi ght rehearsals for House of Joy; photo by Alicia Coombes. Othello story circle participants at ICCNC; photo by den. Fences story circle at Allen Temple Arms; photo by Sonjhai Meggette// Esoteric Images.


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NEW CLASSICS?

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

We have a $30k match from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation! All new donors who contribute to the New Classics Initiative will have their gift doubled—give at calshakes.org/NEW.

MARCUS GARDLEY’Sblack odyssey

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MADHURI SHEKAR’S House of Joy

MARCUS GARDLEY’SA Thousand Ships, his take on Twelfth Night

OCTAVIO SOLIS’ Quixote Nuevo

LEILA BUCK & EVREN ODCIKIN’S1001 Nights: A Retelling

This page: (top left) J. Alphonse Nicholson and Safi ya Fredericks in black odyssey; (top right) the cast of Quixote Nuevo; photos by Jay Yamada. Opposite, from top: Omoze Idehenre, Molly Holmes, and Linda Tillery in rehearsal for black odyssey; photo by Sonjhai Meggette// Esoteric Images. Emilio Delgado and Octavio Solis join others for the Quixote Nuevo story circles; photo by den. Emma Van Lare and Sango Tajima in fi ght rehearsals for House of Joy; photo by Alicia Coombes. Othello story circle participants at ICCNC; photo by den. Fences story circle at Allen Temple Arms; photo by Sonjhai Meggette// Esoteric Images.

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Original music workshops and intergenerational Latinx story circles around aging and family.

Commissioning support and play readings and story circles with MENASA (Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian) community members.

Original music workshops with Linda Tillery & Molly Holmes, additional rehearsal time, and commissioning support.

Playwright in rehearsals, extra fi ght work (#womenkickingass), and casting support from MAIA Directors.

Commissioning support and partnership with Richmond’s RYSE Center & Allen Temple Arms for intergenerational dialogues about family connected to the Richmond Shipyards.


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THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!INDIVIDUALS Cal Shakes would like to acknowledge the generous support of the many contributors who make our work possible! The following list reflects cumulative gifts made between July 1, 2018–August 21, 2019. We strive to ensure accuracy: if we have made an error, please accept our apologies and contact Shanti Peterson at 510.899.4907 or [email protected]

(gifts of $50,000 or more)Ellen & Joffa Dale Tish & Steve HarwoodJean SimpsonSharon SimpsonKate Stechschulte & David Cost Jr.Jay Yamada

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS (gifts of $25,000–$49,999) Cristina, Marc & Gabriella Bensadoun Ray LifchezShelly Osborne & Steve Tirrell

PRODUCERS (gifts of $12,000-$24,999)AnonymousSimon & Emilie BakerRichard & Barbara BennettBluesCruise.comJoe Di Prisco & Patti JamesJim & Nita RoetheDebbie Sedberry & Jeff KlingmanShelly Osborne & Steve TirrellCharles & Heidi Triay

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS (gifts of $6,000-$11,999)

Anonymous (2)Melissa Allen & Elisabeth AndreasonValerie BarthJeff BharkhdaWai & Glenda ChangErin Jaeb & Kevin KellyMaureen & Cal KnightShelly & Blake LarkinToni Rembe & Arthur RockMichael & Virginia RossMichele & John RuskinBarbara Sahm & Steven WinkelMonica Salusky & John SutherlandBeverly & Loring Wyllie

DIRECTORS (gifts of $3,000-$5,999)Anonymous (2)Steven & Karin ChasePhil & Chris CherninRonald ClancyLois De DomenicoVera & Henry EberleJessica & James FlemingRena & Spencer FulweilerHarvey & Gail GlasserPatrick Golden & Susan OverhauserBonnie & Tom HermanKen HitzDaisy & Duke KiehnJenny MasonWalter Moos & Susan MillerMary PrchalEdith Jackson & Thomas RichardsonWilliam & Nathalie Schmicker

Gail & Rick StephensVirginia & Thomas SteuberElizabeth Streeter & Robert McFarlaneChristine & Curtis SwansonWendy & Michael ThomasKaren & Sean van Der LindenTracey & Todd WalthallMichael H. Zischke & Nadin Sponamore

LEADING PLAYERS (gifts of $1,200-$2,999)Claire & Kendall AllphinMr. & Mrs. David BeachMichael & Phyllis CedarsDorian & Gordon ChongJosh & Janet CohenCorinne & Michael DoyleAndrew Ferguson & Kay WuGita & Louis C. FisherTerri FosterCarol & Richard GilpinDavid & Diane GoldsmithRemy & Joanna HathawayRuth HendricksonPaul Hennessey & Susan DagueYie-Hsin HungBarbara E. JonesNancy Kaible & David AndersonGerald N. KurtzJennifer Marie Geiger LongmanRichard & Eileen LoveThomas McKillopBrad MillerPatricia & David MunroNancy & Gene ParkerBerniece & Charles PattersonPaul A. Renard & John A. BlyttMark & Claire RobertsMaria & Danny RodenMary Jo & Arthur ShartsisGary Sloan & Barbara KomasValerie SopherJennifer & Will SousaeRobert St. John & M. Melanie SearleAlexandra & Peter StarrMark Toney & Sharon CornuCarol Jackson UpshawJeff & Carolee WagnerDana & Doug WelshVictor WillitsRoger Wood

STAGE MANAGERS (gifts of $600–$1,199)AnonymousElizabeth & Philip AcombStephanie & N. Thomas AhlbergHarry L. Jacobs & Katherine AkosJoyce & Charles BattsRichard W. BlackMichelle Branch & Dale CookMarilyn & George BrayJean & John Brennan

Susan BryanDebbie ChinnJane & Larry ClintonCraig CongdonDiana & Ralph DavissonDennis DeDomenico & Sandra BrodEric Dittmar & Gayle TupperLinda Dubins & David BaerLisa & Charles EitzelSharon & Leif EricksonMary & Benedict FeinbergMimi & Jeff FelsonDale & Jerry FlemingKerry Francis & John JimersonDavid GraevenGarrett Gruener & Amy SlaterKristi & Arthur HaighGeorge Haley & Theresa ThomasJoyce Hawkins & John W. SweitzerLynda & Rusty HayMargaret HeggChris & Marcia HendricksKathleen HuntCraig & Margaret IsaacsDennis & Kathleen KelleherThomas Koegel & Anne LaFolletteJennifer Kuenster & George MiersKathy & Anthony LagliaRandall & Rebecca LittenekerAlan MarkleElena Maslova & Eugene LevineElaine & John McClinticPaul & Ellen McKaskleBrian MurphyRebecca O’BrienCandace & Dick OlsenRekha PatelJonathan PerlowRuth Major & William C. ReuterSean & Patricia RositanoLesah & Jeffrey RossVanessa RowlandPatricia & Glenn RudebuschJulie & Andrew SauterLaura Sawczuk & Luke EllisPatricia SaxAlan Schnur & Julie LandresDavid Shapiro, M.D. &

Sharon WheatleyMargie & Jim ShaughnessyHollis ShumwayNeil SitzmanBetsy SmithStephanie & Robert SorensonFrank & Carey StarnM.J. Stephens & Bernard TagholmMichael StephensCasey & Rich ThompsonSusan TingTracy TingMari TischenkoJamie & Gerry ValleViviana Wolinsky

SUPPORTING CAST (gifts of $300-599)

AnonymousFrank AcunaCharles AndersonBarbara Aumer-Vail & Steve VailRose Marie & Roger AveryAndrea BakerSandy BarnettSara BensonJanet BerckefeldtStephen BlairJim BoesseneckerKaren BourisErin Bydalek & Patrick BengtssonPamela & Christopher CainRick CallawayPatrick & Shirley CampbellWayne CanterburyJoy CarlinJanelle Cavanagh & Dominic WalsheChristine Schwinn & David CherryKatherine & Henry ChesbroughDarrell & Lisa ClaridgeBarbara CohenSusan & Don CouchJane & Thomas CoulterJacqueline Carson & Alan CoxRobin Dandridge & Stephen CorlettMary & Larry Del SantoBridget DobbinsKarin EamesThomas W. Edwards & Rebecca Parlette-EdwardsRhondda & Steven EtheredgeSharon & Eric EwenSusie Falk & York KennedyClaudia Fenelon & Mark SchoenrockKarin FetherstonPeter FisherDr. Eva GlazerBeverly & Marty GlickKaren & Kenneth HarleyTim HarwoodDarlene & Peter HattersleyBeatrice HeggieBetty HoDaniel HorowitzAnn & Donald HughesLeslie & George HumeRichard & Anne IngallsDon & Linda JenkinsKen & Judith JohnsonJeff JonesBill & Joey JudgeGavin KermodeJuanita & Alan KizorLeah & James LaneMargaret & King LipS LipowDorothy LloydKate & Thomas F. LoughranElizabeth LoweElise & Norman Lustig


THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!INDIVIDUALS Cal Shakes would like to acknowledge the generous support of the many contributors who make our work possible! The following list reflects cumulative gifts made between July 1, 2018–August 21, 2019. We strive to ensure accuracy: if we have made an error, please accept our apologies and contact Shanti Peterson at 510.899.4907 or [email protected]

(gifts of $50,000 or more)Ellen & Joffa Dale Tish & Steve HarwoodJean SimpsonSharon SimpsonKate Stechschulte & David Cost Jr.Jay Yamada

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS (gifts of $25,000–$49,999) Cristina, Marc & Gabriella Bensadoun Ray LifchezShelly Osborne & Steve Tirrell

PRODUCERS (gifts of $12,000-$24,999)AnonymousSimon & Emilie BakerRichard & Barbara BennettBluesCruise.comJoe Di Prisco & Patti JamesJim & Nita RoetheDebbie Sedberry & Jeff KlingmanShelly Osborne & Steve TirrellCharles & Heidi Triay

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS (gifts of $6,000-$11,999)

Anonymous (2)Melissa Allen & Elisabeth AndreasonValerie BarthJeff BharkhdaWai & Glenda ChangErin Jaeb & Kevin KellyMaureen & Cal KnightShelly & Blake LarkinToni Rembe & Arthur RockMichael & Virginia RossMichele & John RuskinBarbara Sahm & Steven WinkelMonica Salusky & John SutherlandBeverly & Loring Wyllie

DIRECTORS (gifts of $3,000-$5,999)Anonymous (2)Steven & Karin ChasePhil & Chris CherninRonald ClancyLois De DomenicoVera & Henry EberleJessica & James FlemingRena & Spencer FulweilerHarvey & Gail GlasserPatrick Golden & Susan OverhauserBonnie & Tom HermanKen HitzDaisy & Duke KiehnJenny MasonWalter Moos & Susan MillerMary PrchalEdith Jackson & Thomas RichardsonWilliam & Nathalie Schmicker

Gail & Rick StephensVirginia & Thomas SteuberElizabeth Streeter & Robert McFarlaneChristine & Curtis SwansonWendy & Michael ThomasKaren & Sean van Der LindenTracey & Todd WalthallMichael H. Zischke & Nadin Sponamore

LEADING PLAYERS (gifts of $1,200-$2,999)Claire & Kendall AllphinMr. & Mrs. David BeachMichael & Phyllis CedarsDorian & Gordon ChongJosh & Janet CohenCorinne & Michael DoyleAndrew Ferguson & Kay WuGita & Louis C. FisherTerri FosterCarol & Richard GilpinDavid & Diane GoldsmithRemy & Joanna HathawayRuth HendricksonPaul Hennessey & Susan DagueYie-Hsin HungBarbara E. JonesNancy Kaible & David AndersonGerald N. KurtzJennifer Marie Geiger LongmanRichard & Eileen LoveThomas McKillopBrad MillerPatricia & David MunroNancy & Gene ParkerBerniece & Charles PattersonPaul A. Renard & John A. BlyttMark & Claire RobertsMaria & Danny RodenMary Jo & Arthur ShartsisGary Sloan & Barbara KomasValerie SopherJennifer & Will SousaeRobert St. John & M. Melanie SearleAlexandra & Peter StarrMark Toney & Sharon CornuCarol Jackson UpshawJeff & Carolee WagnerDana & Doug WelshVictor WillitsRoger Wood

STAGE MANAGERS (gifts of $600–$1,199)AnonymousElizabeth & Philip AcombStephanie & N. Thomas AhlbergHarry L. Jacobs & Katherine AkosJoyce & Charles BattsRichard W. BlackMichelle Branch & Dale CookMarilyn & George BrayJean & John Brennan

Susan BryanDebbie ChinnJane & Larry ClintonCraig CongdonDiana & Ralph DavissonDennis DeDomenico & Sandra BrodEric Dittmar & Gayle TupperLinda Dubins & David BaerLisa & Charles EitzelSharon & Leif EricksonMary & Benedict FeinbergMimi & Jeff FelsonDale & Jerry FlemingKerry Francis & John JimersonDavid GraevenGarrett Gruener & Amy SlaterKristi & Arthur HaighGeorge Haley & Theresa ThomasJoyce Hawkins & John W. SweitzerLynda & Rusty HayMargaret HeggChris & Marcia HendricksKathleen HuntCraig & Margaret IsaacsDennis & Kathleen KelleherThomas Koegel & Anne LaFolletteJennifer Kuenster & George MiersKathy & Anthony LagliaRandall & Rebecca LittenekerAlan MarkleElena Maslova & Eugene LevineElaine & John McClinticPaul & Ellen McKaskleBrian MurphyRebecca O’BrienCandace & Dick OlsenRekha PatelJonathan PerlowRuth Major & William C. ReuterSean & Patricia RositanoLesah & Jeffrey RossVanessa RowlandPatricia & Glenn RudebuschJulie & Andrew SauterLaura Sawczuk & Luke EllisPatricia SaxAlan Schnur & Julie LandresDavid Shapiro, M.D. &

Sharon WheatleyMargie & Jim ShaughnessyHollis ShumwayNeil SitzmanBetsy SmithStephanie & Robert SorensonFrank & Carey StarnM.J. Stephens & Bernard TagholmMichael StephensCasey & Rich ThompsonSusan TingTracy TingMari TischenkoJamie & Gerry ValleViviana Wolinsky

SUPPORTING CAST (gifts of $300-599)

AnonymousFrank AcunaCharles AndersonBarbara Aumer-Vail & Steve VailRose Marie & Roger AveryAndrea BakerSandy BarnettSara BensonJanet BerckefeldtStephen BlairJim BoesseneckerKaren BourisErin Bydalek & Patrick BengtssonPamela & Christopher CainRick CallawayPatrick & Shirley CampbellWayne CanterburyJoy CarlinJanelle Cavanagh & Dominic WalsheChristine Schwinn & David CherryKatherine & Henry ChesbroughDarrell & Lisa ClaridgeBarbara CohenSusan & Don CouchJane & Thomas CoulterJacqueline Carson & Alan CoxRobin Dandridge & Stephen CorlettMary & Larry Del SantoBridget DobbinsKarin EamesThomas W. Edwards & Rebecca Parlette-EdwardsRhondda & Steven EtheredgeSharon & Eric EwenSusie Falk & York KennedyClaudia Fenelon & Mark SchoenrockKarin FetherstonPeter FisherDr. Eva GlazerBeverly & Marty GlickKaren & Kenneth HarleyTim HarwoodDarlene & Peter HattersleyBeatrice HeggieBetty HoDaniel HorowitzAnn & Donald HughesLeslie & George HumeRichard & Anne IngallsDon & Linda JenkinsKen & Judith JohnsonJeff JonesBill & Joey JudgeGavin KermodeJuanita & Alan KizorLeah & James LaneMargaret & King LipS LipowDorothy LloydKate & Thomas F. LoughranElizabeth LoweElise & Norman Lustig

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...AND SOIS LIFE.

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Bunny Martin & David KurtzmanJohn McGeheeKimberly MedlinJohn Menzies & Jessica MoshofskyJoseph & Elena MetzAllan & Neanna MilesElaine MoalKathy MorrisSusan MorrisBlue MudbharyBrenda NirensteinMarie & James O’BrientKirk PattersonSean PerlmutterHerbert Wayne PerryRegina PhelpsToni Raymus & Andrew SephosKaren & Jeffery RichardsonDavid & Carla RiemerNoralee & Tom RockwellAnne RosenthalTed RussellDiana Sanson & Ben ComptonRick SasnerTherese & Richard SchoofsDebbra SchwartzAli Shamsi & Andrea LeszekDr. Brenda B. ShankJanelle SheetsCandace SimmsJean & John SimutisCorinne SklarMartha & Bill SlavinDr. & Mrs. L.W. SorensonJames SuttonRagesh Tangri & Daralyn DurieJim TibbsGregory Tiede & Lori Leigh GieleghemDelinda & Thomas TrowbridgeWilliam Van Dyk & Margaret SullivanGerald Vurek-MartynElizabeth Werter & Henry TrevorMartha Truett & David WhiteAnn K. WilloughbyMuriel Fitzgerald WilsonJohn & Bobbie WilsonGeorge & Kathleen WolfDr. Marie-Anne WoolleyMonique YoungMark Zitter & Jessica Nutik Zitter

ENSEMBLE (gifts of $150-299)Anonymous (2)Kay & David AakerIda & Myles AbbottNancy & Tom AcordAnn & Russ AlbanoFaris & Laurence AndersonMarianne & Tom AudeSusan M. Avila & Stephen GongJane BarrettL. Karin & Bob BenningKeith BerryDwight & Mina BissellTodd BlaettlerDarby BrennanAlexander Brennen & Wendy NilesBarbara Brenner BuderLewis BrentanoRay & Barbara BreslauTracy Brog

Michael BrunsKimberly BudilMimi BuppMaureen BurchertJohn & Valarie BurgessKatharine ByrneCharles CammackPatrick & Jacqueline CarewElizabeth ChosakVictoria ChrysAngus CochranMurray CohenJohn Collins & David NicollsDr. Kevin CoppersmithRebecca & Al CourchesneKathleen CourtsAlicia & Kevin CragholmChris & Lynn CrookLeslie DauphineeMarc DavidPam DavisonAllan DefragaAnn Del SimoneLeslie DelaneyJan Deming & Jeff GoodbyLinda Derivi & Steve CastellanosDonald D. DevincenziRichard & Tamara DishnicaLydia DuborgBarbara DuffLori & Gary DurbinMary K. DurbinTony EichersDr. & Mrs. Moshe ElitzurSue & Peter ElkindRobert & Cheri EtheredgeClaudia FalconerNancy & Jerry FalkProf. Marla FellerMichelle & Jonathan FieldmanKevin FinckSally & Michael FitzhughVirginia FontanaLorraine ForceJan & Robert FormanekRuth & Douglas FortuneGeorgina FrancoChristie FraserMaribel & Jack FraserBarbara FredericksTad FreeseSuzanne FriedmanKelli FrostadJudith A. GirardBarbara Gordon & Peter KaneRuth & Gregg GorrinGene GottfriedDavid W. GreenElizabeth & Philip GreeneMonica GreeneAnne & Marshall GrodinRoger Guy-BrayAnne HallinanJames HansenLeslynn & Cliff HartleyHelen HashimotoLucinda R. Henderson-Nigro &

Henry S. NigroMarjorie HolmesKaren & Robert HoltermannRosalie HoltzJoyce HonerlahSharon IversenDon F. JaveteBarbara & Thomas JobCarole & Philip JohnsonMarianna JuergensDenya & Tom JurKaren KartenMike & Joci KelleherPamela KendallStephen KestlerThomas KingJean & Jack Knox

Adam LarnerVictoria Wells & Richard John LarsonChris Laszcz-Davis & Stephen DavisSusan & Bob LebermanSusan Carol LedfordRay & Jill L’EsperanceHelen Ann & Norman LichtAndrew & Susan LivingstonBeth & Tom LoreyCory LusherLaura MarlinEllen & Cullen McCaigGail & Chris MeadPhyllis MeyerHarriett & John MichaelDana Lee MillerStephanie MooersThomas C. MooreGeraldine & Gary MorrisonJerry MosherAmy L. MuellerJanet & Dennis MulshineThe Napell FamilyBill NewmeyerJulia O’BrienJill OlsonNancy OlsonSusan & Paul OpsvigPatricia & Larry PagendarmIan PattenCarol & Mark PenskarDon PerezDawn Polvorosa & Frank ReichertBarry PosnerLauren PostJeanette ProvidenceReetta Raag & Marc WhitlowDavid RamosNina RastogiJoyce S. RatnerRobert & Priscilla RichBenjamin Riley & Janet McCormick RileyAlice Robinson-Simikic &

Dragan SimikicJoan RoosDavid RosenAlex & Tinka RossClaire RothAndrea RushBruce SaldingerErin & Andrew SchultzCraig SemmelmeyerLynn Sherard-StuhrShari S. SilvaJohn & Katherine SimpsonMark SingletonPatty & Lawrence SiskindRichard SobelSolera FamilyJanai SouthworthEvanthia SpanosAnn & Robert SpearsMary StemmlerMike StokesLarry StrieffRuth Ann TaylorJeremy ThornerBarbara ThornhillPeter TongVincent ToolanJames Topic & Terry PowellMark & Rosie TraylorCarol & James TruslerAnthony L. TuranoCara VaronC. Daniel & Mary VencillLaurence & Ruth WalkerJennifer & Perry WallersteinMs. Li-Hsia WangBeth Ann & Michael WardDiane & Keith Wardin

Oct 3 ZELLERBACH HALL

Oct 6 ZELLERBACH HALL

Jan 23 ZELLERBACH HALL

Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of ZamarGospel sensation Trey McLaughlin and his expert 20-voice choir bring a deep experience of musical communion to every concert hall they visit, with soul-stirring arrangements and fresh takes on familiar hits.

Maggie HabermanThe Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, New York Times White House correspondent, and CNN political analyst discusses lessons learned in her long experience covering Donald Trump.

Jemele Hill|Emmy-winning sports journalist Jemele Hill opens up about her career at the controversial intersection of sports and race in the United States. A staff writer at the Atlantic, Hill was formerly co-anchor of ESPN SportsCenter, and was chief correspondent to ESPN’s The Undefeated.

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$100,000 and aboveThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation*BARTDean and Margaret Lesher

Foundation*Hewlett 50 CommissionsMeyer SoundThe James Irvine Foundation*The William and Flora Hewlett

Foundation*

$50,000-$99,999The Shubert FoundationTheatre Communications Group

Audience (R)Evolution program Walter & Elise Haas Fund*

$25,000–$49,999City National BankChevronNational Endowment for the Arts:

Art WorksOtter Cove FoundationPeet’s CoffeeShakespeare in American

Communities: National Endowment for the Arts in Partnership with Arts Midwest

$10,000-$24,999AnonymousArcher NorrisBaker Avenue Asset ManagementBluesCruise.comBlue Shield of California

California Arts Council: Artists in Communities

California Arts Council: Arts in Education -

ExposureCalifornia Arts Council: Youth Arts

ActionClassic CateringDale Family FundJohn Muir HealthMCJ Amelior FoundationMcRoskey Mattress CompanyPeet’s Coffee & TeaPure Dana FundSidney E. Frank FoundationTriumph Wine Group

$5,000–$9,999Alameda StopWaste.orgBernard Osher FoundationCharles Schwab CorporationThe Ida & William Rosenthal

FoundationNeda Nobari FoundationNeiman MarcusPricewaterhouseCoopers LLPRead InvestmentsRHE FoundationSam Mazza Foundation

Up to $4,999Ann & Gordon Getty FoundationAnonymousEastbay Community FoundationCouncilONE

EndsightFrog Holllow FarmJulia Holian & AssociatesKiwanis Club of Moraga ValleyPacific Diversified InsuranceTides FoundationUniversity of California, Santa CruzWendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP

ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING MATCHING GIFTSAppleArcher NorrisBank of AmericaCA Health CareCaterpiller FoundationCharles SchwabChevronClorox Company FoundationMacy’s EastSalesforceSVB Wealth Advisory

Don’t see your company on this list? Let us know if they match giving!

*Multiyear grants

BUSINESS, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORTWe are grateful for the generous investment of the following businesses, foundations, and government agencies, which support our 2019 artistic and educational programs.

Kelvin WateMeredith & Jeffrey WattsGene D. WeinsteinH. Victoria WelshHelen E. & Andrew WilliamsLinda & Andrew WilliamsDavid WilnerDoug WilsonChristy WinterDanuta Zaroda & Mark Whatley

LEGACY CIRCLE Mary Jo & Bruce BysonPhil & Chris CherninDebbie ChinnEllen & Joffa DalePeter FisherAaron Goldsmith*Paul & Julie HarknessDouglas HillXanthe & Jim HoppDavid Ray JohnsonMark JordanDebby & Bruce LiebermanTina MorgadoRichard NorrisShelly Osborne*James & Nita RoetheLaura & Robert SehrBarclay & Sharon SimpsonValerie SopherKate Stechschulte & David Cost, In Memory of Margaret CostM.J. Stephens & Bernard TagholmJanis Turner*Carol Jackson UpshawJamie & Gerry ValleArthur WeilJay YamadaMonique Young

*In Memoriam

MORE SHAKESPEARE? MORE THEATER?

Celebrate Autumn in Oregon!

Extend your enjoyment of world-class theater with our friends at Oregon Shakespeare Festival! We’re excited that one of the hit shows this season has been Between Two Knees, a rollicking intergenerational story of familial love, loss, and connection, directed by our own Eric Ting! If you’re going to Ashland, we recommend a stay at the Ashland Springs Hotel, walking distance from the festival.

Book now for 15% off:neumanhotelgroup.com/fall-getaway ACT-SF.ORG | 415.749.2228 |

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$100,000 and aboveThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation*BARTDean and Margaret Lesher

Foundation*Hewlett 50 CommissionsMeyer SoundThe James Irvine Foundation*The William and Flora Hewlett

Foundation*

$50,000-$99,999The Shubert FoundationTheatre Communications Group

Audience (R)Evolution program Walter & Elise Haas Fund*

$25,000–$49,999City National BankChevronNational Endowment for the Arts:

Art WorksOtter Cove FoundationPeet’s CoffeeShakespeare in American

Communities: National Endowment for the Arts in Partnership with Arts Midwest

$10,000-$24,999AnonymousArcher NorrisBaker Avenue Asset ManagementBluesCruise.comBlue Shield of California

California Arts Council: Artists in Communities

California Arts Council: Arts in Education -

ExposureCalifornia Arts Council: Youth Arts

ActionClassic CateringDale Family FundJohn Muir HealthMCJ Amelior FoundationMcRoskey Mattress CompanyPeet’s Coffee & TeaPure Dana FundSidney E. Frank FoundationTriumph Wine Group

$5,000–$9,999Alameda StopWaste.orgBernard Osher FoundationCharles Schwab CorporationThe Ida & William Rosenthal

FoundationNeda Nobari FoundationNeiman MarcusPricewaterhouseCoopers LLPRead InvestmentsRHE FoundationSam Mazza Foundation

Up to $4,999Ann & Gordon Getty FoundationAnonymousEastbay Community FoundationCouncilONE

EndsightFrog Holllow FarmJulia Holian & AssociatesKiwanis Club of Moraga ValleyPacific Diversified InsuranceTides FoundationUniversity of California, Santa CruzWendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP

ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING MATCHING GIFTSAppleArcher NorrisBank of AmericaCA Health CareCaterpiller FoundationCharles SchwabChevronClorox Company FoundationMacy’s EastSalesforceSVB Wealth Advisory

Don’t see your company on this list? Let us know if they match giving!

*Multiyear grants

BUSINESS, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT SUPPORTWe are grateful for the generous investment of the following businesses, foundations, and government agencies, which support our 2019 artistic and educational programs.

Kelvin WateMeredith & Jeffrey WattsGene D. WeinsteinH. Victoria WelshHelen E. & Andrew WilliamsLinda & Andrew WilliamsDavid WilnerDoug WilsonChristy WinterDanuta Zaroda & Mark Whatley

LEGACY CIRCLE Mary Jo & Bruce BysonPhil & Chris CherninDebbie ChinnEllen & Joffa DalePeter FisherAaron Goldsmith*Paul & Julie HarknessDouglas HillXanthe & Jim HoppDavid Ray JohnsonMark JordanDebby & Bruce LiebermanTina MorgadoRichard NorrisShelly Osborne*James & Nita RoetheLaura & Robert SehrBarclay & Sharon SimpsonValerie SopherKate Stechschulte & David Cost, In Memory of Margaret CostM.J. Stephens & Bernard TagholmJanis Turner*Carol Jackson UpshawJamie & Gerry ValleArthur WeilJay YamadaMonique Young

*In Memoriam

MORE SHAKESPEARE? MORE THEATER?

Celebrate Autumn in Oregon!

Extend your enjoyment of world-class theater with our friends at Oregon Shakespeare Festival! We’re excited that one of the hit shows this season has been Between Two Knees, a rollicking intergenerational story of familial love, loss, and connection, directed by our own Eric Ting! If you’re going to Ashland, we recommend a stay at the Ashland Springs Hotel, walking distance from the festival.

Book now for 15% off:neumanhotelgroup.com/fall-getaway ACT-SF.ORG | 415.749.2228 |

NOV 29–DEC 24 GEARY THEATER JAN 23–FEB 16 GEARY THEATER FEB 13–APR 12 STRAND THEATER

MAR 5–29 GEARY THEATER APR 23–MAY 17 GEARY THEATER JUN 4–28 GEARY THEATER

@ACTSanFrancisco

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IN MEMORYThe Lt. G.H. Bruns III Memorial Amphitheater is named in memory of the late son of George and Sue Bruns of Lafayette. Lt. George Bruns was born in Hollis, NY, on December 14, 1942. He came to California with his family at the age of seven, and attended Pleasant Hill High School, where he played football and took the North Coast Championship in Greco-Roman wrestling. At the Air Force Academy, he became the AAU wrestling champion. He earned a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University. George rode Brahma bulls and saddle broncs, and loved to ride horses through the Siesta Valley where the Amphitheater now sits. Lt. Bruns was killed in June 1967, in an automobile accident just before he was due to ship out for service in Vietnam.

In 2019, California Shakespeare Theater celebrated 28 years at the Bruns, honoring the memory of Lt. George H. Bruns III.

BRUNS AMPHITHEATER Siesta Valley (the home of the Bruns Amphitheater) is one of the original land holdings of the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). In agreeing to lease to the Theater, EBMUD seeks to serve the public with a community facility while preserving the watershed with minimal disruption to the pastoral surroundings. This land may be open to the public for performances and private events, but remains restricted private property at all other times.

MISSION STATEMENT: Cal Shakes redefi nes the classical theater for the 21st Century, making works of extraordinary artistry that engage with our contemporary moment so we might learn about ourselves and each other in the fullness of our world.

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BOARDKate Stechschulte, PRESIDENTJean Simpson, IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Blake Larkin, TREASURERBetsy Streeter, SECRETARYJeff Bharkhda, VICE PRESIDENT Ellen Dale, VICE PRESIDENTEric Ting, VICE PRESIDENT*Sarah Williams, VICE PRESIDENT*

Valerie BarthCristina BensadounMichael CedarsPhil CherninMike ClelandJosh CohenJohn CollinsTish HarwoodShelly OsborneJim RoetheJohn RuskinSharon SimpsonMark ToneyTracey WalthallJay Yamada

* ex-offi cio


IN MEMORYThe Lt. G.H. Bruns III Memorial Amphitheater is named in memory of the late son of George and Sue Bruns of Lafayette. Lt. George Bruns was born in Hollis, NY, on December 14, 1942. He came to California with his family at the age of seven, and attended Pleasant Hill High School, where he played football and took the North Coast Championship in Greco-Roman wrestling. At the Air Force Academy, he became the AAU wrestling champion. He earned a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University. George rode Brahma bulls and saddle broncs, and loved to ride horses through the Siesta Valley where the Amphitheater now sits. Lt. Bruns was killed in June 1967, in an automobile accident just before he was due to ship out for service in Vietnam.

In 2019, California Shakespeare Theater celebrated 28 years at the Bruns, honoring the memory of Lt. George H. Bruns III.

BRUNS AMPHITHEATER Siesta Valley (the home of the Bruns Amphitheater) is one of the original land holdings of the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). In agreeing to lease to the Theater, EBMUD seeks to serve the public with a community facility while preserving the watershed with minimal disruption to the pastoral surroundings. This land may be open to the public for performances and private events, but remains restricted private property at all other times.

MISSION STATEMENT: Cal Shakes redefi nes the classical theater for the 21st Century, making works of extraordinary artistry that engage with our contemporary moment so we might learn about ourselves and each other in the fullness of our world.

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BOARDKate Stechschulte, PRESIDENTJean Simpson, IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Blake Larkin, TREASURERBetsy Streeter, SECRETARYJeff Bharkhda, VICE PRESIDENT Ellen Dale, VICE PRESIDENTEric Ting, VICE PRESIDENT*Sarah Williams, VICE PRESIDENT*

Valerie BarthCristina BensadounMichael CedarsPhil CherninMike ClelandJosh CohenJohn CollinsTish HarwoodShelly OsborneJim RoetheJohn RuskinSharon SimpsonMark ToneyTracey WalthallJay Yamada

* ex-offi cio

IMPORTANT INFORMATIONCONTACT US Box Offi ce: 510.548.9666 (Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm; Sat, 10am–2pm; Sun 12-4)Mailing & Box Offi ce Address: 701 Heinz Ave, Berkeley, CA 94710Website: www.calshakes.orgSocial Media: @calshakes

Group Sales (10+): 510.809.3290General: 510.548.3422 or [email protected]: 510.548.3422 x107 or [email protected] Advertising: Mike Hathaway, Encore Media Group, 800.308.2898 x105 or [email protected] Rental: 510.548.3422 x123Costume Rental: 510.548.3422 x111

TICKETS AND SEATINGTicket Exchange & Replacement: Free exchanges for Subscribers up to 24 hours in advance of the time and date of their scheduled performance; single ticket holders may exchange for a $10 fee. The Box Offi ce can replace lost or misplaced tickets at no extra charge.Information for Parents: We believe in opening young minds to the power and magic of live theater. However, we understand that not every production may be appropriate for every child or family. We are happy to speak with you further about the content of any of our productions to aid you in determining whether it is suitable for your children. Children under four are not permitted in the Amphitheater as a courtesy to our patrons and artists. Discounts: For information on discounted tickets for military, age 30 and younger, and student/senior rush, visit calshakes.org/discounts.20 for $20 Policy: We’ve set aside 20 $20 tickets for each performance this season, making it easier for more people to enjoy theater. Simply call the Box Offi ce between noon and 2pm the day of the show and ask to purchase “20 for $20” tickets. (Subject to availability.)Seating: Chairs are pre-placed in all sections. Terrace seating has low-to-the-ground beach chairs, all other sections have plastic patio chairs. Please contact the box offi ce for questions about accessibility.

BRUNS AMPHITHEATER 100 California Shakespeare Theater Way, Orinda, CA 94563Hours: Box offi ce and grounds open two hours before performance time. Come prepared for the outdoors: Layers and comfortable shoes are encouraged; warm clothes for evening performances and sunscreen/hats recommended for matinees. Blankets are available to the right of the main Amphitheater entrance for a suggested $2 donation. To keep yellow jackets at bay, keep food covered whenever possible and promptly dispose of trash and recyclables. Take BART and our free shuttle: Cal Shakes provides free, wheelchair lift-equipped shuttle service between the Orinda BART station and the Theater. Beginning 2 hours prior to and at the end of each performance, the shuttle runs approximately every 20 minutes. The fi nal shuttle leaves the Orinda BART station about 20 minutes before curtain.

SHARON SIMPSON CENTER AMENITIESCafé by Classic Catering: Offering a wide selection of gourmet meals, wine, beer, Peet’s coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and desserts, the café opens two hours before the performance and at intermission. Catering is available for groups (10+) and special events; call 925.939.9224.Bar: In addition to beer and wine at the café, we serve hand-crafted cocktails at our bar located next to the café.Gender-inclusive restrooms: Accessible restrooms (one with urinals and stalls, and another with stalls only) are located just off the plaza in the Sharon Simpson Center. Additional private stalled restrooms can be found in the portables located in the Upper Grove.First Aid: For assistance, please go to the House Management Offi ce, located inside to the left of the restrooms. Emergency Phone: Since we ask all patrons to silence cell phones during performances, you may leave the House Offi ce phone number (925.254.2395) as your contact number during a performance.

ACCESSIBILITYWheelchair Lift-equipped Shuttle: See “Take BART and our free shuttle.” Wheelchair seating: Available in sections A, C, Terrace Rear, and Boxes.We can also book seats, adjacent to yours, for up to three companions. (Make sure to request this seating at time of purchase.)Assistive Listening Devices: Available at no charge from the blanket kiosk on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis.Open-captioned Performances: Open captioning utilizes an unobtrusive screen at the front of the theater to display dialogue spoken during a performance. No special equipment is required by patrons.

FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL Be respectful: We aim to inspire and cultivate diverse and inclusive theater experiences. We reserve the right to ask patrons to leave.Arrive on time: Latecomers will be seated at an appropriate interval at the House Manager’s discretion.Silence all electronic devices before the performance begins.Recording: Do not take photos of the performance. The use of any type of camera, video or audio recorder in the amphitheater is strictly prohibited. Such devices may be confi scated at the House Manager’s discretion.Keep the aisles clear during the performance. Observe all signage including directional signage on the grounds. It is posted for your safety.Smoking/Vaping is restricted to the designated area on the plaza. Electronic cigarettes fall under California’s comprehensive smoke-free laws and are now banned in all the same places as traditional cigarettes.Be scentsitive: Perfumes or scented lotions may cause discomfort to other patrons and may attract yellow jackets. Picnicking: Food and beverages is welcome during the performance, but please be courteous to others. Unwrap all items before the performance begins or at intermission.

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIPThe Land: The land on which we gather is the ancestral home of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people. Currently, it is held by the East Bay Municipal Utility District. In agreeing to lease to the theater, EBMUD seeks to serve the public with a community facility while preserving the watershed with minimal disruption to the pastoral surroundings.Recycling: Please use the labeled recycling bins to discard glass, aluminum, plastic, and paper.Solar: Cal Shakes is one of the largest solar-powered outdoor professional theaters in the country. The 144 260-watt panels and four 9000-watt inverters of our Turn Key 37.4 kilowatt DC solar electric system are designed to supply up to 98% of the power needs to the Bruns Amphitheater.Living Roof: Like much of the Bruns Amphitheater grounds, the Sharon Simpson Center’s living roof boasts native, drought-resistant plants.


ARTISTIC COMPANYBrendan Aanes, SOUND DESIGNER

Rotimi Agbabiaka, ACTOR

Raji Ahsan, ACTOR

Ulises Alcala, COSTUME DESIGNER

Rinabeth Apostol, ACTOR

Nina Ball, SCENIC DESIGNER

Natalie Barshow, COSTUME DESIGN

ASSISTANT

Jessica Berman, VOCAL /TEXT/DIALECT

Oana Botez, COSTUME DESIGNER

Russell H. Champa, LIGHTING DESIGNER

Jiyoun Chang, LIGHTING DESIGNER

Ben Chau-Chiu, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Nina Fay, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Anthony Fusco, ACTOR

Arshan Gailus, ORIGINAL MUSIC &

SOUND DESIGN

Lance Gardner, ACTOR

Natalie Greene, MOVEMENT

CHOREOGRAPHER

Margo Hall, ACTOR

Ásta Hostetter, COSTUME DESIGNER

Anna Ishida, ACTORJ Jha, ACTOR

Jerrie Johnson, ACTOR

Min Kahng, COMPOSER & MUSIC

DIRECTOR

Lyndsy Kail, ACTOR

Phillippa Kelly, RESIDENT DRAMATURG

Kevin Kemp, ACTOR

Robyn Kerr, ACTOR

Warren David Keith, ACTOR

Wen-Ling Liao, LIGHTING DESIGNER

Monica Lin, ACTOR

Dean Linnard, ACTOR

Michael Locher, SCENIC DESIGNER

Rey Lucas, ACTOR

Catherine Luedtke, ACTOR

Patrick Mahoney, ASSISTANT LIGHTING

DESIGNER

Dave Maier, FIGHT DIRECTOR

Victor Malana Maog, DIRECTOR

Rami Margron, ACTOR & MOVEMENT

CHOREOGRAPHER

Armando McClain, ACTOR

Frecesca Fernandez McKenzie, ACTOR Lawrence E. Moten III, SCENIC

DESIGNER

Jenny Nelson, ACTOR

Joseph Patrick O’Malley, ACTOR

Kaylee Pereyra, COSTUME DESIGN

ASSISTANT

Tyne Rafaeli, DIRECTOR

Elizabeth Rhodes, SOUND DESIGNER

Adam Rigg, SCENIC DESIGNER

T. Carlis Roberts, SOUND DESIGNER

Amber Chardae Robinson, ACTOR

Mika Rubinfeld, COSTUME DESIGN

ASSISTANT

Megan Sandberg-Zakian, DIRECTOR

Lipica Shah, ACTOR

Nandita Shenoy, ACTOR

Madhuri Shekar, PLAYWRIGHT

Kimiya Shokri, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Vidhu Singh, DRAMATURG

Liz Sklar, ACTOR

Marcel Spears, ACTOR

Jomar Tagatac, ACTOR

Sango Tajima, ACTOR

Victor Talmadge, ACTOR

Melissa Torchia, COSTUME DESIGNER

Dane Troy, ACTOR

Lily Tung Crystal, ACTOR

Emma Van Lare, ACTOR

Phil Wong, ACTOR

Annie Worden, ACTOR

Bessie Zolno, ASSISTANT FIGHT

DIRECTOR

Joseph Ayers, Tanika Baptiste, Ed Berkeley, Eliza Boivin, Caleb Cabrera, Geoffrey Colton, Chibueze Crouch, Marisa Darabi, Alisha Ehrlich, Juliet S. Evens, Linda Girón, Lorenz Angelo Gonzales, Lijesh Krishnan, Maria Ascensión Leigh, Regina Monique, Gabriella Momah, Michelle Navarrete, Sophie Nelson, Doug Nolan, Jourdán Olivier-Verde, Ely Orquiza, Brennan Pickman-Thoon, Mohana Rajagopal, Liam Robertson, Radhika Rao, Amitis Rossoukh, David Schiller, Sharon Shao, Nic Sommerfeld, Emily Stone, Baela Tinsley, Dane Troy, Drew Watkins, Jennifer Vega, ENSEMBLE/

UNDERSTUDIES

TEACHING ARTISTSRotimi Agbabiaka, Carlos Aguirre, Andy Alabran, Tierra Allen, Joseph Ayers, April Ballesteros, Michael Barr, Jessica Bates, Gabby Battista, Ed Berkeley, Ron Campbell, Nancy Carlin, Elizabeth Carter, Rebecca Castelli, Scott Coopwood, Tristan Cunningham, Michael Curry, Marissa Darabi, Jordan Don, Jacquie Duckworth, Jessa Dunlap, Justin DuPuis, Lisa Evans, Caitlin Evenson, Amber Flame, Stephanie Ann Foster, Britney Frazier, Susan-Jane Harrison, Clara Kamunde, Donald Lacy, Thessaly Lerner, Amy Lizardo, Rebecca Longworth, Dave Maier, Victor Malana Maog, Laura Marlin, Erin Merritt, Theresa Miller, Lillian Myers, Carla Pantoja, Sologne Patterson, Susan Pfeffer, Kunal Prassad, Emily Radosevich, Vanessa Ramos, Stacy Ross, Patrick Russell, Dan Saski, Lindsey Schmeltzer, Sydney Schwindt, Michael Shipley, Anna Smith, Lauren Spencer, Teddy Spencer, Jacinta Sutphin, Tina Taylor, Cat Thompson, Trish Tillman, Maryssa Wanlass, Joshua Waterstone, Valerie Weak, Ginny Wehrmeister, Alison Whismore, Michael Ray Wisely, Wendy Wisely, Phil Wong, Elena Wright, Kat Zdan

ARTISTICSK Kerastas, ARTISTIC PRODUCER

LeeAnn Dowd, ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE &

CASTING MANAGER

Philippa Kelly, RESIDENT DRAMATURG

Dave Maier, RESIDENT FIGHT DIRECTOR

ARTISTIC ENGAGEMENTTierra Allen, ARTISTIC ENGAGEMENT

MANAGER

Ray Stubblefield-Tave, ARTISTIC

ENGAGEMENT ASSOCIATE

ARTISTIC LEARNINGClive Worsley, DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC

LEARNING

April Ballesteros, ARTISTIC LEARNING

ASSOCIATE

PRODUCTIONJamila Cobham, PRODUCTION MANAGER

Haley Miller, ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION

MANAGER

Jossue Gallardo, PRODUCTION

COORDINATOR

STAGE MANAGEMENTLaxmi Kumaran, PRODUCTION STAGE

MANAGER

Cheryle Honerlah, Laxmi Kumaran, Leslie M. Radin, STAGE MANAGERS

Laxmi Kumaran, Mark Seward, Sarah Sparks, Chris Waters, ASSISTANT STAGE

MANAGERS

Julia Formanek, Canelle Irmas PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

Justin Hes, Kaitlin Weinstein, Eva Hu, Kerstin Heinrich, STAGE MANAGEMENT

APPRENTICES,

Shuyi Zhal, DECK CREW

SCENERYSteven Schmidt, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Heidi Voelker, ASSISTANT TECHNICAL

DIRECTOR

Charlotte Wheeler, SHOP SUPERVISOR

Anya Kazimierski, SCENIC CHARGE

Lassen Hines, SCENIC PAINTER

Laura DeVeber, Tenaya Raives, Micaela Sinclair, CARPENTERS

Sean Key-Ketter, SCENIC OVERHIRE

ELECTRICSMiranda Waldron, MASTER ELECTRICIAN

Desiree Alcocer, ASSISTANT MASTER

ELECTRICIAN & BOARD OPERATOR

Richard Fong, LEAD ELECTRICIAN

Jacob “JJ” Joseph, Mamie Willis, SPOT OPS

Mitchell Jakubka, BOARD PROGRAMMER

Shae Burnette, Charles Clear, Camille Kelly, Stephanie Lapides, Edward Liptzin, Mike Lyons, Orly Raveh, Vivian Santana, Matt Sykes, Chloe Schweizer, OVERHIRE ELECTRICIANS

SOUNDMichael Kelly, SOUND ENGINEER &

MIXER

Chris Lossius, MIXER

Cecilia Pappalardo, Mari Nagao, A2

COSTUMES & WARDROBENaomi Arnst, COSTUME DIRECTOR

Jessa Dunlap, COSTUME

ADMINISTRATOR


ASSISTANT

Kitty Wilson, CUTTER/DRAPER

Tasa Gleason, FIRST HAND

Linda Ely, Kyo Yohena, STITCHERS

Julianne D’Errico, Nelly Flores, Milena Geary, OVERHIRE STITCHERS

Tyler Wolfe, COSTUME APPRENTICES

Suzanne Ryan, VOLUNTEER HAND

STITCHING

Marcy Frank, CRAFTS PERSON

Jessica Carter, WIGS & MAKEUP

Kaylee Pereyra, WARDROBE LEAD

Lyre Alston, DRESSER & WIG CREW

PROPERTIESKatelyn Fitt, PROPERTIES MASTER

Sofia Alvarez, SHOP ASSISTANT

Grace Ortega, PROPS OVERHIRE

FACILITIES & ITDonna Vennemeyer, FACILITIES MANAGER

Louis Fisher, ASSISTANT FACILITIES

MANAGER

Eric Butler, Eli Castro, Louis Tinei, FACILITIES AND EVENT SUPPORT

Ryan Gray, IT SUPPORT (LINDE GROUP)

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATIONKyle Fischer, GENERAL MANAGER

Sam Argawal, FINANCE DIRECTOR

Robyn Hockenhull, FINANCE

& PERSONNEL MANAGER

Melissa Dimon, SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

Issere Christopher, OPERATIONS

COORDINATOR

Neera Gunn, SR. HR CONSULTANT

(PENDOLINO GROUP)

MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT (MARKEVO)Rozella Kennedy, DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

& DEVELOPMENT

Andrew Page, DIRECTOR OF GRANTS,

STRATEGY & EVALUATION

Den Legaspi, ART DIRECTOR

Derik Cowan, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF

MARKETING & SALES

Alicia Coombes, CREATIVE CONTENT

MANAGER

Shanti Peterson, DONOR RELATIONS

MANAGER

Chapin Cole, DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST

Isabel Siragusa, COMMUNICATIONS

MANAGER

April Ballasteros, GRANTS ASSISTANT

Zhanara Baisalova, JUNIOR VISUAL

DESIGNER

BOX OFFICEKimberlee Hicks, SALES MANAGER &

GROUP SALES

Lindsay Ford, Farah Haidari, Rena Lourie, Jess McGovern, Willow Merker, Jacqueline Moore, Natalie Rich, Mariya Shpungina, BOX OFFICE ASSOCIATES

FRONT OF HOUSEStephanie Hambright, Carson King, Sara Thomas, HOUSE MANAGERS

Eli Castro, Tallulah Golde, Patricia Kelley, Charles Obendorf, Mark Schumacher, Jasmin Staffer, Shantal Stratton, HOUSE STAFF

Brittoni Taylor, SHUTTLE DRIVER

Listings current as of August 23, 2019.

2019 COMPANY

PRODUCTION PROGRAMVolume 28, No. 4Den Legaspi, ART DIRECTORAlicia Coombes, EDITOR-IN-CHIEFEric Ting & Rozella Kennedy, EDITORS

ERIC TING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SARAH WILLIAMS MANAGING DIRECTOR


ARTISTIC COMPANYBrendan Aanes, SOUND DESIGNER

Rotimi Agbabiaka, ACTOR

Raji Ahsan, ACTOR

Ulises Alcala, COSTUME DESIGNER

Rinabeth Apostol, ACTOR

Nina Ball, SCENIC DESIGNER


ASSISTANT

Jessica Berman, VOCAL /TEXT/DIALECT

Oana Botez, COSTUME DESIGNER

Russell H. Champa, LIGHTING DESIGNER

Jiyoun Chang, LIGHTING DESIGNER

Ben Chau-Chiu, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Nina Fay, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Anthony Fusco, ACTOR

Arshan Gailus, ORIGINAL MUSIC &

SOUND DESIGN

Lance Gardner, ACTOR

Natalie Greene, MOVEMENT

CHOREOGRAPHER

Margo Hall, ACTOR

Ásta Hostetter, COSTUME DESIGNER

Anna Ishida, ACTORJ Jha, ACTOR

Jerrie Johnson, ACTOR

Min Kahng, COMPOSER & MUSIC

DIRECTOR

Lyndsy Kail, ACTOR

Phillippa Kelly, RESIDENT DRAMATURG

Kevin Kemp, ACTOR

Robyn Kerr, ACTOR

Warren David Keith, ACTOR

Wen-Ling Liao, LIGHTING DESIGNER

Monica Lin, ACTOR

Dean Linnard, ACTOR

Michael Locher, SCENIC DESIGNER

Rey Lucas, ACTOR

Catherine Luedtke, ACTOR

Patrick Mahoney, ASSISTANT LIGHTING

DESIGNER

Dave Maier, FIGHT DIRECTOR

Victor Malana Maog, DIRECTOR

Rami Margron, ACTOR & MOVEMENT

CHOREOGRAPHER

Armando McClain, ACTOR

Frecesca Fernandez McKenzie, ACTOR Lawrence E. Moten III, SCENIC

DESIGNER

Jenny Nelson, ACTOR

Joseph Patrick O’Malley, ACTOR

Kaylee Pereyra, COSTUME DESIGN

ASSISTANT

Tyne Rafaeli, DIRECTOR

Elizabeth Rhodes, SOUND DESIGNER

Adam Rigg, SCENIC DESIGNER

T. Carlis Roberts, SOUND DESIGNER

Amber Chardae Robinson, ACTOR

Mika Rubinfeld, COSTUME DESIGN

ASSISTANT

Megan Sandberg-Zakian, DIRECTOR

Lipica Shah, ACTOR

Nandita Shenoy, ACTOR

Madhuri Shekar, PLAYWRIGHT

Kimiya Shokri, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Vidhu Singh, DRAMATURG

Liz Sklar, ACTOR

Marcel Spears, ACTOR

Jomar Tagatac, ACTOR

Sango Tajima, ACTOR

Victor Talmadge, ACTOR

Melissa Torchia, COSTUME DESIGNER

Dane Troy, ACTOR

Lily Tung Crystal, ACTOR

Emma Van Lare, ACTOR

Phil Wong, ACTOR

Annie Worden, ACTOR

Bessie Zolno, ASSISTANT FIGHT

DIRECTOR

Joseph Ayers, Tanika Baptiste, Ed Berkeley, Eliza Boivin, Caleb Cabrera, Geoffrey Colton, Chibueze Crouch, Marisa Darabi, Alisha Ehrlich, Juliet S. Evens, Linda Girón, Lorenz Angelo Gonzales, Lijesh Krishnan, Maria Ascensión Leigh, Regina Monique, Gabriella Momah, Michelle Navarrete, Sophie Nelson, Doug Nolan, Jourdán Olivier-Verde, Ely Orquiza, Brennan Pickman-Thoon, Mohana Rajagopal, Liam Robertson, Radhika Rao, Amitis Rossoukh, David Schiller, Sharon Shao, Nic Sommerfeld, Emily Stone, Baela Tinsley, Dane Troy, Drew Watkins, Jennifer Vega, ENSEMBLE/

UNDERSTUDIES

TEACHING ARTISTSRotimi Agbabiaka, Carlos Aguirre, Andy Alabran, Tierra Allen, Joseph Ayers, April Ballesteros, Michael Barr, Jessica Bates, Gabby Battista, Ed Berkeley, Ron Campbell, Nancy Carlin, Elizabeth Carter, Rebecca Castelli, Scott Coopwood, Tristan Cunningham, Michael Curry, Marissa Darabi, Jordan Don, Jacquie Duckworth, Jessa Dunlap, Justin DuPuis, Lisa Evans, Caitlin Evenson, Amber Flame, Stephanie Ann Foster, Britney Frazier, Susan-Jane Harrison, Clara Kamunde, Donald Lacy, Thessaly Lerner, Amy Lizardo, Rebecca Longworth, Dave Maier, Victor Malana Maog, Laura Marlin, Erin Merritt, Theresa Miller, Lillian Myers, Carla Pantoja, Sologne Patterson, Susan Pfeffer, Kunal Prassad, Emily Radosevich, Vanessa Ramos, Stacy Ross, Patrick Russell, Dan Saski, Lindsey Schmeltzer, Sydney Schwindt, Michael Shipley, Anna Smith, Lauren Spencer, Teddy Spencer, Jacinta Sutphin, Tina Taylor, Cat Thompson, Trish Tillman, Maryssa Wanlass, Joshua Waterstone, Valerie Weak, Ginny Wehrmeister, Alison Whismore, Michael Ray Wisely, Wendy Wisely, Phil Wong, Elena Wright, Kat Zdan

ARTISTICSK Kerastas, ARTISTIC PRODUCER

LeeAnn Dowd, ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE &

CASTING MANAGER

Philippa Kelly, RESIDENT DRAMATURG

Dave Maier, RESIDENT FIGHT DIRECTOR

ARTISTIC ENGAGEMENTTierra Allen, ARTISTIC ENGAGEMENT

MANAGER

Ray Stubblefield-Tave, ARTISTIC

ENGAGEMENT ASSOCIATE

ARTISTIC LEARNINGClive Worsley, DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC

LEARNING

April Ballesteros, ARTISTIC LEARNING

ASSOCIATE

PRODUCTIONJamila Cobham, PRODUCTION MANAGER

Haley Miller, ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION

MANAGER

Jossue Gallardo, PRODUCTION

COORDINATOR

STAGE MANAGEMENTLaxmi Kumaran, PRODUCTION STAGE

MANAGER

Cheryle Honerlah, Laxmi Kumaran, Leslie M. Radin, STAGE MANAGERS

Laxmi Kumaran, Mark Seward, Sarah Sparks, Chris Waters, ASSISTANT STAGE

MANAGERS

Julia Formanek, Canelle Irmas PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

Justin Hes, Kaitlin Weinstein, Eva Hu, Kerstin Heinrich, STAGE MANAGEMENT

APPRENTICES,

Shuyi Zhal, DECK CREW

SCENERYSteven Schmidt, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Heidi Voelker, ASSISTANT TECHNICAL

DIRECTOR

Charlotte Wheeler, SHOP SUPERVISOR

Anya Kazimierski, SCENIC CHARGE

Lassen Hines, SCENIC PAINTER

Laura DeVeber, Tenaya Raives, Micaela Sinclair, CARPENTERS

Sean Key-Ketter, SCENIC OVERHIRE

ELECTRICSMiranda Waldron, MASTER ELECTRICIAN

Desiree Alcocer, ASSISTANT MASTER

ELECTRICIAN & BOARD OPERATOR

Richard Fong, LEAD ELECTRICIAN

Jacob “JJ” Joseph, Mamie Willis, SPOT OPS

Mitchell Jakubka, BOARD PROGRAMMER

Shae Burnette, Charles Clear, Camille Kelly, Stephanie Lapides, Edward Liptzin, Mike Lyons, Orly Raveh, Vivian Santana, Matt Sykes, Chloe Schweizer, OVERHIRE ELECTRICIANS

SOUNDMichael Kelly, SOUND ENGINEER &

MIXER

Chris Lossius, MIXER

Cecilia Pappalardo, Mari Nagao, A2

COSTUMES & WARDROBENaomi Arnst, COSTUME DIRECTOR

Jessa Dunlap, COSTUME

ADMINISTRATOR


ASSISTANT

Kitty Wilson, CUTTER/DRAPER

Tasa Gleason, FIRST HAND

Linda Ely, Kyo Yohena, STITCHERS

Julianne D’Errico, Nelly Flores, Milena Geary, OVERHIRE STITCHERS

Tyler Wolfe, COSTUME APPRENTICES

Suzanne Ryan, VOLUNTEER HAND

STITCHING

Marcy Frank, CRAFTS PERSON

Jessica Carter, WIGS & MAKEUP

Kaylee Pereyra, WARDROBE LEAD

Lyre Alston, DRESSER & WIG CREW

PROPERTIESKatelyn Fitt, PROPERTIES MASTER

Sofia Alvarez, SHOP ASSISTANT

Grace Ortega, PROPS OVERHIRE

FACILITIES & ITDonna Vennemeyer, FACILITIES MANAGER

Louis Fisher, ASSISTANT FACILITIES

MANAGER

Eric Butler, Eli Castro, Louis Tinei, FACILITIES AND EVENT SUPPORT

Ryan Gray, IT SUPPORT (LINDE GROUP)

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATIONKyle Fischer, GENERAL MANAGER

Sam Argawal, FINANCE DIRECTOR

Robyn Hockenhull, FINANCE

& PERSONNEL MANAGER

Melissa Dimon, SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

Issere Christopher, OPERATIONS

COORDINATOR

Neera Gunn, SR. HR CONSULTANT

(PENDOLINO GROUP)

MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT (MARKEVO)Rozella Kennedy, DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

& DEVELOPMENT

Andrew Page, DIRECTOR OF GRANTS,

STRATEGY & EVALUATION

Den Legaspi, ART DIRECTOR

Derik Cowan, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF

MARKETING & SALES

Alicia Coombes, CREATIVE CONTENT

MANAGER

Shanti Peterson, DONOR RELATIONS

MANAGER

Chapin Cole, DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST

Isabel Siragusa, COMMUNICATIONS

MANAGER

April Ballasteros, GRANTS ASSISTANT

Zhanara Baisalova, JUNIOR VISUAL

DESIGNER

BOX OFFICEKimberlee Hicks, SALES MANAGER &

GROUP SALES

Lindsay Ford, Farah Haidari, Rena Lourie, Jess McGovern, Willow Merker, Jacqueline Moore, Natalie Rich, Mariya Shpungina, BOX OFFICE ASSOCIATES

FRONT OF HOUSEStephanie Hambright, Carson King, Sara Thomas, HOUSE MANAGERS

Eli Castro, Tallulah Golde, Patricia Kelley, Charles Obendorf, Mark Schumacher, Jasmin Staffer, Shantal Stratton, HOUSE STAFF

Brittoni Taylor, SHUTTLE DRIVER

Listings current as of August 23, 2019.

2019 COMPANY

PRODUCTION PROGRAMVolume 28, No. 4Den Legaspi, ART DIRECTORAlicia Coombes, EDITOR-IN-CHIEFEric Ting & Rozella Kennedy, EDITORS

ERIC TING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR SARAH WILLIAMS MANAGING DIRECTOR THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR OUR 2019 SEASON!

SEE YOU NEXT SPRING! CALSHAKES.ORG/MAKE

Clockwise from top: The cast of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; photo by Kevin Berne. Conservatory staff and campers at Camper Night; photo by Jay Yamada. Lipica Shah and Rotimi Agbabiaka in House of Joy; photo by Kevin Berne. Vidhu Singh, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, Kimiya Shokri, Madhuri Shekar, and guests at House of Joy opening night; photo by Jay Yamada. The cast of The Good Person of Szechwan; photo by Jay Yamada.

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