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2008/09 Season

by WWaajjddii MMoouuaawwaaddtranslated by LLiinnddaa GGaabboorriiaauu

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the exhilarating finale TO THE WILMA’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

by TERRY JOHNSONdirected by JIRI ZIZKAMay 13 - June 14, 2009Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedyand based on an historical meeting between two ofthe world’s greatest and most eccentric men –Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dalí – Hysteria is amadcap comedy full of mistaken identities, missingclothing, and dazzling surprises. Set in London in1938, this wild comedy showcases Freud as he dealswith several unexpected encounters with his physician, a persistent young woman who delves intohis past, and his biggest fan, surrealist Salvador Dalí.Soon Dalí’s surreal imagery begins to take over bothFreud’s consciousness and his study in this explosivecomedy full of mix-ups, misunderstandings, scantilyclad women, and Freudian slips.

“Hysteria is an exuberant surprise...as unexpectedly resonant as a crazy sonnet!”-THE NEW YORK TIMES

FREE EVENT FOR ALL SCORCHED TICKET-HOLDERS!"NOW THAT WE'RE TOGETHER, EVERYTHING FEELS BETTER"

Scorched follows the return of twins to their late mother's Middle Eastern homeland, devastated by a civil conflict. A distinguished panel will explore how civil, ethnic, and religious conflicts arise, as well as ways theseknots, and their aftereffects on the individuals who live through them, might be unraveled. Is it possible to recreatehumanity in the aftermath of the atrocities that characterize this sort of conflict? Panelists include HELENA COBBAN,

JONATHAN GLOVER, and JUDITH GRAVES MILLER.

Monday, March 9th at 7:30pmFree for all Scorched ticket-holders, otherwise $10. Seating is limited. For tickets, call the

Box Office at 215.546.7824 or email tickets@wilmatheater.org.

This symposium is co-sponsoredby the Middle East Center at the

University of Pennsylvania

The Wilma Theater's Symposium Series is supported by The Wallace Foundation ExcellenceAward grant. The Wallace Foundation Excellence Awards were created to support exemplary artsorganizations to pioneer effective practices to engage more people in high-value arts activities.

Dear Audience Members,

It’s a great honor to introduce to you a refreshingly original and significant playwright, Wajdi Mouawad, who has had his work produced all around theworld. His play Incendies, which was translated from French into Englishthree years ago by Linda Gaboriau under the title Scorched, has had over ahundred productions in French speaking countries, but our production is onlythe second one in the United States. When we received a press releasefrom Tarragon Theatre in Toronto about their season two years ago, thedescription of Scorched immediately aroused our curiosity.

What we especially like about Scorched is that, although the play deals witha conflict in an unspecified Middle Eastern country, Wajdi Mouawad avoids taking sides or casting blame. He is much more interested in exploring boththe human potential for hate, revenge, and destruction and the potential for consolation, forgiveness, and love. The writing rises to mythical dimensions.We think of Scorched as a modern version of a Greek tragedy. It’s both a family mystery play and an epic play.

The play’s two main themes resonate with our understanding of life, ourhopes for moral values that give guidance, and our fears of the unpredictability and irrationality of human behavior. One theme lies in thetwins’ realization that they must act if they want to succeed in discoveringwho their parents were -- and subsequently, in understanding who they areas well. The second theme deals with the experience of civil war, when reason loses to passions, compassion to wrath, tolerance to hatred, andempathy to revenge. It is the moral heroism of Nawal, the twins’ mother,which makes the play extraordinarily moving and ultimately uplifting.

Blanka Zizka Jiri Zizka

In This IssueSponsors....................................p.4Production Information...............p.5Meet the Artists...........................p.7Open Stages.............................p.11 Wilma Staff...............................p.19About the Wilma.......................p.21Supporters................................p.22

Wilmabill InformationLayout & design......Nora Sidoti

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For information about upcoming sponsorship opportunities, please contact Lea Montalto-Rook, Director of Individual and Corporate Relations, at 215.893.9456 x109.

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Season Sponsor Artistic Lead Sponsor

30th Anniversary Season Partner

Scorched Production Support

Building the Audiences of Tomorrow Sponsor

With additional support from the Charlotte Cushman Foundation

Scorched has been fundedby a grant from The Pew

Center for Arts and Heritage,through The Philadelphia

Theatre Initiative, with additional support from the

Marketing InnovationProgram

Quebec Government Office in New York

presents

Blanka ZizkaArtistic Director

Jiri ZizkaArtistic Director

James HaskinsManaging Director

Set DesignerOla Maslik

New York CastingJerry Beaver Associates

Jolly Abraham, Jacqueline Antaramian, Aadya Bedi, Leila Buck, Janis Dardaris, Omar Koury, Benjamin Lloyd, J. Paul Nicholas, Ariel Shafir

featuring(in alphabetical order)

Costume DesignerOana Botez-Ban

Lighting DesignerThom Weaver

Stage ManagerPatreshettarlini Adams

Production ManagerIain Campbell

Directed byBlanka Zizka

under the direction of

The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ EquityAssociation, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

This theater operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres andActors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in theUnited States.

Sound DesignerJorge Cousineau

DramaturgWalter Bilderback

Fight DirectorMichael Cosenza

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by Wajdi Mouawadtranslated by Linda Gaboriau

ComposerAmir ElSaffar

Scorched, the English language version of Incendies, received its world premiere in 2007 in a co-production by Canada’s National Arts Centre English Theatre(Ottawa) and Tarragon Theatre (Toronto).Scorched was commissioned and developed by the National Arts Centre English Theatre with financial support from the Interdepartmental Partnership with theOfficial-Language Communities (IPOLC), and initiative of the Department of Canadian Heritage. Scorched received public readings in 2005 at the NAC’s On theVerge Festival, and at The Old Vic Theatre in London as part of “4play Canada,” a showcase.

Philadelphia CastingRichard W. Kotulski

Cast(in order of appearance)

Children PolicySome subject matter may be deemed objectionable for children; therefore, children under 12will not be permitted in the theater.

Distracting NoiseThe noise of cellular phones, electronic devices and candy wrappers is distracting to both audiences and actors. Please turn off all cellular phones and electronic devices. Also, pleasebe sure that your watch alarm does not sound during the performance.

Smoking, eating and drinking are prohibited inside the theater.

Please notePhotography or sound recording inside thetheater, without the written permission of themanagement, is prohibited by law. Violatorsmay be asked to leave the theater and maybe liable for financial charges.

The Wilma Theater proudly participates in the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, Philadelphia's premier professional theatre awards program. The Wilma Theater is a member of the following organizations: Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Greater PhiladelphiaCultural Alliance, League of Resident Theatres, Rittenhouse Row, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, and Theatre CommunicationsGroup, Inc.

Alphonse Lebel..........................................................................................................................................................Benjamin LloydSimon.................................................................................................................................................................................Ariel ShafirJanine.................................................................................................................................................................................Leila BuckRalph.........................................................................................................................................................................J. Paul NicholasNawal (aged 14 - 19)........................................................................................................................................................Aadya BediWahab................................................................................................................................................................................Ariel ShafirJihane............................................................................................................................................................Jacqueline AntaramianNazira...........................................................................................................................................................................Janis DardarisElhame.........................................................................................................................................................................Jolly AbrahamAntoine.............................................................................................................................................................................Omar KourySawda..........................................................................................................................................................................Jolly AbrahamNawal (aged 40 - 45).....................................................................................................................................Jacqueline AntaramianMilitiaman #1.............................................................................................................................................................J. Paul NicholasMilitiaman #2..............................................................................................................................................................Benjamin LloydAbdessamad, Guide, Janitor, Malak................................................................................................................................Omar KouryNawal (aged 60 - 65)...................................................................................................................................................Janis DardarisNihad.........................................................................................................................................................................J. Paul NicholasPhotographer, Chamsaddine...........................................................................................................................................Omar Koury

IntermissionThere will be one fifteen minute intermission.

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Wajdi Mouawad(Playwright) was bornin Lebanon in 1968. In1980, his family fledLebanon, first settlingin France and then inQuebec, whereMouawad finished hiseducation andembarked on a careeras an actor, writer,director and producer.

In all his work, from his own plays—a dozen so far,including Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons’, Tidelineand Dreams—Wajdi Mouawad is guided by the centralnotion that “all art bears witness to human existencethrough the prism of beauty.” From 2000–2004 he wasthe artistic director of Montreal’s Théâtre deQuat’sous. In 2005 he founded two companies specializing in the development of new work, one inCanada and one in France. He is the recipient ofnumerous awards and honors for his writing anddirecting, including the 2000 Governor General’sLiterary Award for Tideline, the 2002 Chevalier del’Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres (France) andthe 2004 Prix de la Francophonie. He is currentlyArtistic Director of the National Arts Centre FrenchTheatre. In accepting the position, Mouawad promised, “I intend to maintain that [high] standard oftheatre, to reinvent it in the context of my duty toexplore my own radicality, which I feel confident I cando. Theatre is still a place for exploring. It allows thebreathtaking suspension that reveals inexpressiblebeauty.” He is currently touring the world performingin a play he wrote for himself, Seuls.

Linda Gaboriau(Translator) has translated some ninetyplays from the French,including the works ofsome of Québec’smost prominent playwrights. Her translations of plays

by Michel MarcBouchard, René-DanielDubois, Normand

Chaurette, Daniel Danis, Michel Garneau, GratienGélinas, Jovette Marchessault, Wajdi Mouawad andMichel Tremblay have been published and widely produced across Canada and abroad. She has beenshort-listed five times for the Governor General’sAward for Translation which she won in 1996 for Stoneand Ashes, her translation of Cendres de cailloux byDaniel Danis. For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again,her translation of Michel Tremblay's widely acclaimedplay, was seen in theatres across Canada, in theUnited States, and in Singapore. The TarragonTheatre (Toronto) production of Scorched is touringacross Canada this season. Linda has also worked asa free-lance journalist and broadcaster. She has alongstanding association with Montreal's Centre desauteurs dramatiques (CEAD) where she directed theplay development programme and coordinatednumerous translation and international exchangeactivities. For several years, she was an associatedirector of the Banff playRites Colony (in charge oftranslation projects) and was the founding director(2002-2007) of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.

Blanka Zizka (Director,co-Artistic Director)has been co-ArtisticDirector of The WilmaTheater since 1981.Blanka most recentlydirected Tom Stoppard’sRock ’n’ Roll. Her 2008production of Eurydicewas nominated for 7Barrymore Awards.Recently she directed

the opera Kát’a Kabanová by Leoš Janáček for AVA,Age of Arousal, The Life of Galileo, My Children! MyAfrica!, Ariel Dorfman’s The Other Side starringRosemary Harris and John Cullum at ManhattanTheatre Club, Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill, I Am MyOwn Wife by Doug Wright, the World Premiere of RawBoys by Dael Orlandersmith, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Barrymore Winner,Best Overall Production and Best Director), the WorldPremiere of Embarrassments by Laurence Klavan andPolly Pen, and the Philadelphia Premieres of LillianGroag’s The Magic Fire and Chay Yew’s Red. In 2002she directed the World Premiere of DaelOrlandersmith’s Yellowman at Manhattan TheatreClub, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf Theatre,ACT in Seattle, and at The Wilma Theater. She wasawarded the first Barrymore Award for Best Directionof a Play for Cartwright’s Road. She directed Jiler andLeslee’s Avenue X (Barrymore Winner, Best OverallProduction of a Musical and Best Direction of aMusical), Wright’s Quills (Barrymore Winner, BestOverall Production of a Play), and the East CoastPremiere of The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard(Barrymore Winner, Best Overall Production of a Playand Best Direction of a Play). Her other favorite productions include Orwell’s Animal Farm, O’Neill’sThe Hairy Ape, Ionesco’s Macbett, Fugard’sStatements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Actand Playland, Dulack’s Incommunicado, Sherman’sWhen She Danced, Stoppard’s Travesties, Brecht’sThe Threepenny Opera, Freed’s The Psychic Life ofSavages, Klavan and Pen’s Bed and Sofa,Sherwood’s Spin, Thompson’s Perfect Pie, Carr’sPortia Coughlan and Sherman’s Patience.

Jolly Abraham(Elhame/Sawda)Broadway: Coram Boyand Bombay Dreams.Off-Broadway: NathanThe Wise, TheOedipus Trilogy, TheConstant Couple,Hamlet (The PearlTheatre Company);The Grecian Formula(NYC Fringe Festival);

McReele (Roundabout). Regional: Vaidehi(Chautauqua Theatre Company); News To Me(Hartbeat Ensemble); Loves Labours Lost (TheShakespeare Theatre DC, RSC); and Pentecost (OldGlobe). Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference andLincoln Center Directors Lab 2002/2008. TV: GossipGirl, Sex and the City, Ed, Law & Order: SVU, andBedford Diaries. Film: Stay and Loving Leah.Company member of The Pearl Theatre. Jolly has aBFA from The North Carolina School of the Arts.

JacquelineAntaramian(Jihane/Nawal 40-45)Broadway: JuliusCaesar (with DenzelWashington), CoramBoy, Wrong Mountain.New York: Pride'sCrossing (LincolnCenter); TheImmigrant - TheMusical, The Seagull

in The Hamptons (McCarter Theatre); The Wild Duck.Regionally, over 60 plays in the past 20 years

including Regina in The Little Foxes (ACT SanFrancisco); Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra,Hannah in Arcadia, Serafina in The Rose Tattoo,Masha in Three Sisters, Olivia in Twelfth Night (OldGlobe Theatre, Denver Center Theatre); Mahala inHomebody/Kabul (Berkeley Repertory Theatre,Intiman Theatre); Elmire in Tartuffe, Abbie in DesireUnder the Elms, Elvira in Blithe Spirit, Titania in AMidsummer Night's Dream, Rose in Dancing atLughnasa, Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth, Portia inJulius Caesar, and the title roles in Miss Julie,Candida, and Hedda Gabler. Jacqueline won aBarrymore Award for her performance in the Wilma’s 9Parts of Desire in 2006. Television: Fringe, LipstickJungle, The Sopranos, Third Watch, Law & Order andDiagnosis Murder. Film: The Siege.

Aadya Bedi (Nawal14-19) Theatre:Betrayed (CultureProject, KennedyCenter, WilliamstownTheatre Festival); TheAmerican Pilot(Manhattan TheatreClub); Desire Caughtby the Tail (HERE ArtsCenter); Tara, A SmallFamily Business

(Theatre Group, Mumbai); Insomnia (The Edge +Royal Court). Film: Gitanjali, Split Wide Open.Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Chand Sitar,Betrayed (PBS). MFA, University of Iowa.

Leila Buck (Janine)Writer/Performer: Inthe Crossing (dir.Shoshana Gold,NYTW Dartmouth,ChautauquaInstitution; dir. JoBonney, New WorkNow!, Public Theater);Hkeelee (dir. ThomasCaruso, Middle East inPieces, Cherry Lane);

One (dir. Suzana Berger, First Vote, Epic);Sajjil:Record (dir. Maha Chehlaoui, Nibras, BestEnsemble Performance NY Fringe 2002); ISite (U.S.,Europe, China, Best Play Strawberry Festival 2000).Actress: Iraqi Refugee Project (Jessica Blank/ErikJensen, NYTW Dartmouth); The Fever Chart (NaomiWallace, dir. Isis Misdary, Nibras/NYTW, NYU); TheBlue Bird (Michael Friedman, dir. Annie Dorsen,Williamstown) Film: Carencia (Lead). Press/Awards:American Theatre; NY Times; Brian Lehrer Live; WBAINY; Etching our Own Image: Voices from the ArabAmerican Arts Movement. Usual Suspect, New YorkTheatre Workshop. Emerging Writers Group 2008,Public Theater. Special Jury Prize 2008, Middle EastAmerica – Lark/Silk Road/Golden Thread. MA, Arab-American autobiographical performance, NYU.

Janis Dardaris(Nazira/Nawal 60-65)Wilma: The MagicFire, Spin, OrpheusDescending, Quartet,Escape FromHappiness and Road.Regional: McCarterTheatre, Long Wharf,People’s Light,Philadelphia TheatreCompany, Pittsburgh

Public, Cleveland Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth,Kennedy Center, Arizona Theatre, Walnut StreetTheatre, InterAct, Three Rivers Shakespeare, andmost recently at the Humana Festival in the critically-acclaimed production of Becky Shaw.New York: Playwright’s Horizons, New YorkClassical Theatre, Westbeth, Summer PlayFestival on Theatre Row, and Breaking Legs withPhilip Bosco as well as the national tour with

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Meet the Artists

Danny Aiello. Janis received a Barrymore Award forher portrayal of Josie in A Moon for the Misbegotten.She was nominated as best actress for four consecutive years for her performances of Lady inOrpheus Descending, Terry in Sideman, Mrs.Betterton in Playhouse Creatures, and Elizabeth inEscape from Happiness. Film & Television: The SixthSense, Party Monster, Third Watch, Trial by Jury, Law& Order, The Sopranos, Lifetime TV, Bliss, Soundingwith Joel Coen, As the World Turns, and most recentlya lead role in a Sundance entry whose film title keeps changing so I can't name it!

Omar Koury(Antoine/Doctor/Abdessamad/Guide/School Janitor/Malak/Photographer/Chamseddine) isthrilled to be makinghis debut at The WilmaTheater during its 30thAnniversary Season.Omar is a co-foundingmember of Nibras Arab

American Theater Collective and a performer andwriter with the New York Arab American ComedyFestival. Theater credits include: The Poetry of Pizza(Mixed Blood Theater, Minneapolis); Guantanamo:Honor Bound to Defend Freedom (The Studio Theater,Washington DC); Iraq Refugees Project (New YorkTheater Workshop); Browntown (Lucille Lortel Theater,NY Fringe Festival); Sajjil:Record (Theater for the NewCity, NYC); When the Women Came Out to Dance(National Arts Club, NYC); Brave New World:American Theater Responds to 911 (Town Hall, NYC).Standup/Sketch Comedy: Joes’ Pub, Gotham ComedyClub, NY Improv, Standup NY. TV: The Unusuals, LateNight with Conan O’Brien, The Late Show with DavidLetterman, One Life To Live, As The World Turns, AllMy Children. Film: Devil’s Advocate, Jesus’ Son.

Benjamin Lloyd(Alphonse Lebel/Militiaman #2) waslast seen at the Wilmaas Pater andLaboucher in TheInvention of Love. Hisfirst role in Philly wasthe Wilma’sTravesties(see photo in lobby).Other Philly creditsinclude two Tuna plays

(Walnut Street Theatre), Rev. Hale in The Crucible(People's Light), Katarina in Taming of the Shrew(Lantern). Ben has acted and directed in New York,Edinburgh and Prague, he is the author of The Actor'sWay (www.actorsway.com), he is a graduate of theYale School of Drama, and he teaches at TempleUniversity. He is also a Quaker, and is deeply gratefulto “live in the virtue of that life and power that [takes]away the occasion of all wars.”

J. Paul Nicholas(Ralph/Militiaman#1/Nihad) is thrilled tofinally work at theWilma. He was mostrecently in StuffHappens at OlneyTheatre in Marylandand in Romeo & Juliet,Cymbeline, and TheCount of Monte Cristoat Alabama

Shakespeare Festival. He has also worked Off-Broadway in Ibsen’s Rosmersholm at 59E59 Theaters.Regionally he has performed at Geva Theatre inRochester, NY; Seattle Repertory Theater; WoollyMammoth Theatre in DC; Alliance Theatre in Atlanta;Everyman Theatre in Baltimore; and in 6 shows at TheShakespeare Theatre in DC. He can also currently beseen as Attorney Linden Delroy on TV’s Law & Order:

SVU. Paul earned an MFA from the Academy forClassical Acting at The George Washington University.

Ariel Shafir (Simon/Wahab) makes hisWilma debut withScorched. Ariel enjoyscollaborating on newplays that bring insightto cultural and politicalinteractions that yearnfor healing and evolution includingAswat: Voices ofPalestine (Nibras/

NYTW), Jason Grote’s 1001 (CATF), Robert O’hara'sAntebellum and American Maul (O'Neill Center/CultureProject), Dan Fogler’s Elephant in the Room (NYFringe), Itamar Moses’ Celebrity Row (Portland CenterStage), Naomi Wallace’s A State of Innocence(Hartford Stage: Brand New), and Frank Puglese’sPirendello Project (NYTW). New York Credits:Rattlestick, The Flea, Epic Theatre Center, CultureProject, NYTW, HERE Arts Center. Regional: Alliance(Suzi Bass Award), Portland Center Stage, A.C.T,Huntington, Vineyard Playhouse, Cape Playhouse,Papermill Playhouse, Coconut Grove Playhouse,Merrimack Rep, Cal Shakes. TV: Nash Bridges,Guiding Light. Film: The 9th Dot (writer/ actor), BrideWars, What Happens in Vegas, Dan Fogler'sHysterical Psycho.

Ola Maslik (SetDesigner) lives in NewYork City and works onAmerican and international stages. Olais originally from Polandwhere she studied atthe Academy of Fine Artand received her MFA inGraphic Design. Shebegan working on theater through puppet

design. In 2006 she received an additional MFA fromYale School of Drama. Her work is a unique combination of fine arts, puppetry and stage design.Selected recent work can been seen at theGuggenheim Museum, Two River Theatre, The PlayCompany, Poland, and in film and television.

Oana Botez-Ban(Costume Designer), anative of Romania, hasdesigned for major theater and dance companies includingThe National Theater ofBucharest and wasinvolved in differentinternational theater festivals such as theQuadrennial

Scenography Show in Prague. Oana is part of the firstRomanian theater design catalogue, Scenografica.Since 1999 her New York costume collaborations intheater and dance include Robert Woodruff, RichardForeman, Maya Beiser, Richard Schechner, BlankaZizka, Brian Kulick, Zelda Fichlandler, Karin Coonrod,Jay Scheib, Eduardo Machado, Gus Solomon Jr. &Paradigm, Carmen de Lavallade, Dusan Tynek, GiselaCardenas, Pavol Liska, Matthew Neenan,Pennsylvania Ballet, Curtis Institute of Music,Elizabeth Stevens, Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey,Molissa Fenley, Zishan Ugurlu, Erin Mee, Judith Ren-Lay, Michael Sexton, Pig Iron Theatre Company,Play Company, Charles Moulton, Doris Mirescu, LoyArcenas, Ripe Time. MFA in Design from NYU/TischSchool of the Arts. Princess Grace Recipient.

Thom Weaver (Lighting Designer) Recent projectsinclude My Name is Asher Lev (Arden); ReENTRY, AYear with Frog and Toad (Two River); Two Rooms(Lion Theatre, NY); Five Fingers of Funk (Children’s

Theatre Company); Twelfth Night (Cal Shakes);Eleanor, Pageant Play (BTF); Aaron Posner andTeller’s Macbeth (Two River, Folger); Frankenstein (37Arts). Other: CENTERSTAGE, Syracuse Stage,Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown TheatreFestival, Signature Theatre Company, BerkshireOpera, Delaware Theatre Company, York Theatre,Summer Play Festival, Media Theatre, SpoletoFestival USA, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre,and Yale Rep. Upcoming: Theatre Exile, Asolo, Folger,DTC, and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. 2007AUDELCO Award for Signature Theatre’s King HedleyII. Thom now happily makes his home in SouthPhiladelphia. Education: Carnegie Mellon and Yale.

Jorge Cousineau (Sound Designer) is excited tocontinue his line of work at the Wilma, where he previously designed sound for Eurydice, Ying Tong,Enemies, A Love Story and set and sound for I Am MyOwn Wife. He usually designs sounds, sets and videofor dance and theater productions in and aroundPhiladelphia. Recent highlights include James and theGiant Peach and Candide at the Arden, This Is TheWeek That Is with 1812 Productions and Frozen atInterAct.

Amir ElSaffar(Composer), anaccomplished jazztrumpeter and composer, was the winner of the 2001Carmine CarusoInternational JazzTrumpet competition. In2002 Amir traveled toIraq, throughout theMiddle East, and to

Europe to study the music of his father's ancestralpast, the Iraqi maqam. Over the next few years, hediscovered ways to adapt the microtones and ornaments of the maqam to his trumpet playing,learned to play the santoor (Iraqi hammered dulcimer)and sing, and he now leads Safaafir, the only ensemble in the US performing Iraqi maqam. His 2007Pi Recordings release, Two Rivers, a suite that blendsIraqi musical traditions with modern jazz, wasdescribed by All About Jazz as "a stirring example ofthe creative possibilities of international jazz in the21st century," and was on several top 10 jazz lists of2007. In 2008, Amir performed a large ensemblearrangement of Two Rivers at the Made in ChicagoFestival at Millennium Park, in front of an audience of5000. Amir composed for the Wilma’s 2006 productionof Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire. He will be performing with Raffo at the Kennedy Center as partof the Arabesque Festival in March. Amir alsoappeared in Jonathan Demme’s recent film, RachelGetting Married.

Michael Cosenza(Fight Director) is veryproud to continue working with The WilmaTheater. Michael cameto stage combat in arapier and daggerclass. As soon assomeone put a sword inhis hand he took offrunning, and has beenin love with stage

combat ever since. His work has been featured at thePhiladelphia Shakespeare Festival, Luna TheaterCompany, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey andSimpatico Theatre Company. He has choreographedproductions and taught at Temple University,Swarthmore College, and is currently adjunct faculty atArcadia University. The creative team of this show wasnear perfection. Michael would like to thank everyoneinvolved, his actors, and his director for all of theirhard work. Love to Natalie for her constant supportand inspiration.

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Walter Bilderback(Dramaturg/LiteraryManager) has been theWilma’s Dramaturgsince 2004. In additionto assisting in allaspects of season planning, he also helpsto communicate theWilma’s mission throughediting and writing forOpen Stages, pre- and

post-show discussions, and the Wilma’s SymposiumSeries, bringing leading thinkers in a wide range ofsubjects to the Wilma stage for informed and stimulating conversations with Wilma patrons. Walterhas worked as a dramaturg for more than 20 years,working at regional theaters across the country and onBroadway. Walter has contributed numerous articles toAmerican Theatre magazine and the newly-publishedColumbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. He wasalso an NEA site visitor for the last 15 years of thatprogram.

Patreshettarlini Adams(Production StageManager/ AEA) hasbeen the productionstage manager at TheWilma Theater since the theater made their newhome on the Avenue ofthe Arts. She is celebrating her “Bakers’Dozen” as the Wilmacelebrates 30 years of

outstanding theater! She is very happy to be a part ofthe Philadelphia theater family. Prior to her cominghome to Philly, “Pat” was stage manager at the TonyAward® winning Crossroads Theatre in NewBrunswick, NJ. She was privileged to work with anawesome array of playwrights, directors, designers,musicians and actors. Some of her fondest memoriesencompass the productions of Sheila’s Day, Mothers,The Screened-In Porch, Betsey Brown, HarlemNocturne, The Love Space Demands, and Two Hah-Hahs and a Homeboy. In past years, Pat has workedthe National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta and theNational Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem.When not at the Wilma, she has found herself traveling the world with critically-acclaimed dancecompany Noche Flamenca! Recently, Pat became theproud grandmother of Isaiah Nathaniel. God Is Good!

Iain Campbell (Production Manager) is in his firstyear at The Wilma Theater. Prior to arriving inPhiladelphia, Iain served as the Managing Director forBuffalo’s Studio Arena Theatre, taught at the StudioTheatre School, and served as the Secretary for theTheatre Alliance of Buffalo. Iain has also beeninvolved with production management at Baltimore’sEveryman Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, andChicago’s Court Theatre. While in Chicago, he freelanced in production management with companiessuch as European Repertory Theatre in theSteppenwolf Studio and Chicago Opera Theatre. Inaddition to freelancing, he has also worked as a facility consultant in San Jose and as a ProductionConsultant for the Clarice Smith Performing ArtsCenter on the University of Maryland campus. Iain is agraduate of the Theatre Arts Management program atIthaca College.

Jerry Beaver Associates (New York Casting) JerryBeaver has been casting for The Wilma Theater for 12years. His credits include Schmucks, Rock ’n’ Roll,Eurydice, Ying Tong - A Walk with the Goons, Age ofArousal, Amadeus, Enemies, A Love Story, ThePillowman, A Number, 9 Parts of Desire, Shakespearein Hollywood, Raw Boys, The Clean House, Night andDay, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Wintertime,Embarrassments, Resurrection Blues, Red, Big Love,The Magic Fire, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor,Dirty Blonde, Indian Ink, Yellowman, Les Liaisons

Dangereuses, Passion, Patience, Cherry Docs, BlackComedy, Perfect Pie, Arcadia, On the Razzle, TheInvention of Love, and many others. In New York,Jerry was the resident casting director of the SignatureTheatre Company for ten years casting plays byRomulus Linney, Lee Blessing, Edward Albee, HortonFoote, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Arthur Miller,John Guare, Marie Irene Fornes, and Lanford Wilson.He has worked for Seattle Repertory Theatre, AlleyTheatre, Hartford Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville,The O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and is theFounding President of the Black Bear Film Festival inMilford, PA.

Jiri Zizka (co-ArtisticDirector), born inPrague and educatedat Charles IVUniversity, became anArtist in Residence atthe Wilma in 1979 andco-Artistic Director in1981, where he hasdirected over 60 productions. Some ofthe highlights included

Orwell’s Animal Farm, Camus’ The Stranger, Brecht’sMother Courage, Capeks’ The Insect Comedy, Weiss’Marat/Sade, his own adaptation of Wilde’s The Pictureof Dorian Gray, Brecht/Weill’s Happy End, Orwell’s1984 (also at the Kennedy Center and Off-Broadway),Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and the U.S.Premiere of Havel’s Temptation (a co-production withJoseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival). Jirihas also directed a feature film of Vaclav Havel’sLargo Desolato, adapted by Tom Stoppard, starring F.Murray Abraham for PBS’s Great Performances. Hewrote and directed Inquest of Love, a film nominatedfor an Emmy Award. His theater credits also includeGeorge F. Walker’s Love and Anger, MartinMcDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, David Gow’sCherry Docs (with David Strathairn), Stoppard’s TheReal Inspector Hound, Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy,Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, Christopher Hampton’sLes Liaisons Dangereuses, Stoppard’s Indian Ink,Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues, Charles L. Mee’sBig Love and Wintertime. He also directed a co-production between the Wilma and The PhiladelphiaOrchestra of Tom Stoppard’s and André Previn’s EveryGood Boy Deserves Favor, a play for actors and a philharmonic orchestra, at The Kimmel Center’sVerizon Hall. Jiri directed Tom Stoppard’s Night andDay, Itamar Moses’ Outrage, Ken Ludwig’sShakespeare in Hollywood, Mark Saltzman’s The TinPan Alley Rag (Carbonell Award for Best Director),Caryl Churchill’s A Number, Martin McDonagh’s ThePillowman (6 Barrymore nominations), SarahSchulman’s adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’snovel Enemies, A Love Story, Peter Shaffer’sAmadeus, and most recently Roy Smiles’ Ying Tongand Schmucks.

James Haskins(Managing Director)joined the staff of TheWilma Theater asManaging Director inJune 2006. He beganhis work in theatreadministration as BoxOffice Manager ofCircle RepertoryCompany and went onto work with a number

of New York theatres, including National ShakespeareCompany, Symphony Space, ProvincetownPlayhouse, Actor’s Playhouse, Triplex Performing ArtsCenter and Astor Place Theatre. In Seattle, he servedas Business Manager of Seattle Group Theatre andworked for Ticket/Ticket, Seattle’s half-price ticketbooth. In 1999, James moved to Philadelphia andworked as Managing Director of InterAct TheatreCompany, while also serving for three years on theBoard of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphiaas Chair of the Barrymore Awards OversightCommittee. He later moved into the Executive Directorposition of the Theatre Alliance and once again serveson the Board. Also an actor and director, James holdsan MFA from the University of Washington and a BAfrom the College of Wooster (Ohio), where he currently serves as President of his alumni class.James is honored to serve on Philadelphia MayorMichael Nutter’s Cultural Advisory Council.

Assistant Director..............................Sarah BowdenAssistant Stage Manager........................Debby LauAssistant Costume Designer................Abby WaltonWig Designer........................................Megan DiehlAssistant Sound Designer...............Andrea SotzingProp Master......................................Kimitha CashinLight Board Programmer.................Andrew CowlesLight Board Operator.......................Ashley W. MillsSound Board Operator....................Andrea SotzingWardrobe Supervisor .........................Regina RizzoWardrobe Crew .....................................Alison LevyRunning Crew..............Melanie Leeds, Matt Zumbo Master Carpenter..................................Matt ZumboCarpenters.....................Steve Gravelle, Scott Hitz,

Lance Kniskern, Alison Levy, Georgia Schlessman

Electricians..........Andrew Cowles, Brendan Gawel,Christine Richards, Nicole Rolo,

Georgia SchlessmanScenery Constructed by.......Proof Productions, Inc.

Special Thanks:Scott AtranSara BarclayHelena Cobban

Middle East Center, University of PennsylvaniaAshraf OsmanIgor Rivin

Vrej Zarikian

ScorchedProduction Crew

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Lobby Art InstallationIn a collaboration between Moore College of Art and Design and The Wilma

Theater, students from Martha Gelarden's 3D sculpture class have designed aninteractive art installation on display in the Wilma's lobby throughout the run ofScorched. The joint project is part of Moore College's Culture in the Classroominitiative and The Wilma's education program Wilma Classroom. Both programs

strive to bring learning to life by extending the boundaries of the traditional classroom and engaging students in the cultural life of the city. Student Artists: Dana Osburn, Chloe Muxart, Jamie Moore,

Emma Pouncey, Amanda Moore, Rosie Raizen

ORIGINAL RECORDED MUSICVocals/Vocal Coach.......................Gaida HinnawiOud, Violin, Percussion.......................Zafer TawilCello.........................................Rufus CappadociaTrumpet, Santour, Buzuq.................Amir ElSaffar

Recorded by Adel Hinawi

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Open Stages Editor Walter Bilderback

Open Stages Designer Nora Sidoti

Contributing WritersWalter Bilderback

Richard W. KotulskiTHE JOURNAL OF THE WILMA THEATER

THE WILMA THEATER

co-Artistic DirectorBlanka Zizka

co-Artistic DirectorJiri Zizka

Managing DirectorJames Haskins

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Scorched February 25 - March 29, 2009

ajdi Mouawad was born inLebanon in 1968. While hewas still a child, his family

fled Lebanon during that country’scivil war, settling first in France andthen in Quebec, where Mouawad finished his education and began a multifaceted career in theater. Hehas said the central notion of hiswork is that “all art bears witness tohuman existence through the prismof beauty.”

Scorched is the second part of a proposed tetralogy of plays thatbegan with Tideline and has continued with the four hour epicForêts, which has been produced inQuebec and in Europe but is not yettranslated into English. His foremostsources of inspiration in his work arechildhood, war and exile, reflectingthe author’s own experience. A question he asked himself at thetime he wrote Scorched was: “whatstories can we trust to provide agathering place for our individual and

collective souls?” Writer MichelArsenault says Mouawad’s “avowedgoal remains to repair deep traumaby breaking the silence.”

The French multimedia artist JeanCocteau called for a poetry “of thestage, not on it:” drama whose form,whose use of the materials of thestage, created its own reality tomatch the words spoken. Like muchQuébécois playwriting, Scorched

seems an answer to Cocteau’s call.Time and location are often blurred and interchangeable. “Poetry isreally the language of war,”Mouawad told a TV interviewerrecently, because it is abstract andbecause it “belongs to mothers andchildren, the greatest victims of suffering during war.”

And the lens Mouawad uses inScorched is a mother and her children. The play starts with a portrait of a family torn apart at the

seams. Its action begins with two siblings confronted by seemingly nonsensical demands left by a deadmother from whom they’ve long beenestranged and who, in fact, has notspoken for five years. They have todecide if they want to discover the

secrets of her life – “someone whowas young, who was an adult, whowas old” – to break the silence theyhave grown up in.

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B r e a k i n g t h e S i l e n c e

A father and his two children stand next to a holein their apartment created by a mortar shell.

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“I belong...to allthis violence”corched is set in a countrymuch like Lebanon, and

many of the events in the play aredrawn from that country’s troubledhistory. As a child Mouawad witnessed the event usually considered the beginning of theLebanese civil war – the burningof a bus full of Palestinianrefugees by Christian militiamen.He is interested, however, in amore universal meditation onmass violence and the possibilityof hope: “how can we be happy,personally, within an unhappy collective experience?” “I tried tosay the real names: Palestineans,Israelis, Syrians, Lebanese butevery time I make that, the poetryand the theater stray far awayfrom me,” he told a Canadian journalist in 2005. AlthoughLebanese politics is governed byreligious identity, and one’s nameis often an indication of one’s religious background, the namesof most characters in Scorchedgive nothing away. Religion, infact, is not mentioned.

“I stand nowhere, I have no party,”Mouawad wrote in 2006. “I amsimply overwhelmed because Ibelong, as a whole, to all this violence. I look at the land of myfather and my mother and I seemyself, me: I could kill and I couldagree with both sides, six sides,twenty sides. I could invade and Icould terrorize. I could defendmyself and I could resist and totop it all off, if I were one or if Iwere the other, I would know howto justify each one of my actions,and justify the injustice that fillsme, I would find the words withwhich to express how they slaughter me so, how they removeall possibility for me to live.”

Family dramas can deal with exceedingly mundane subjects, butmany of the greatest dramas withthe largest scope have also beenabout families: Long Day’s JourneyInto Night, Death of a Salesman,Mother Courage, Ghosts, King Lear,Oedipus Rex. Many of these playsforce the protagonist to solve a mystery that might explain why thisparticular family is as it is. “They fuckyou up,” poet Philip Larkin wroteabout the family. “They may notmean to, but they do.” Family isoften where the conflicting passionsof love and hate are the most difficultto disentangle. “Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like acoastal shelf,” Larkin added.

In the conclusion to his bookHumanity: A Moral History of theTwentieth Century, philosopherJonathan Glover writes, “Central tothe moral imagination is seeing whatis humanly important.” This isMouawad’s greatest aim inScorched. Scorched, he has said, “ispersonal and at the same time collective. Personal because it happens within the family, but collective because it’s political, it’sabout war and catastrophe.”

“Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphereand context so conversation can flow back and forth andwe can be influenced by each other.” - W.E.B. DuBois

ccording to historian DavidArmitage, 115 of the 122wars since 1990 have been

civil wars or ethnic conflicts, andin 2006, the most recent year forwhich a count is available, therewere 32 such conflicts takingplace, including a war in SriLanka that has lasted nearly 40years. These wars tend to bemore violent and dirtier than conventional wars, partially perhaps because the participantson both sides tend to be so similar in other ways, and (asanthropologist Scott Atran hasnoted) the issues and geographyhold such strong “sacred values”for both sides, regardless ofwhether conflict has a religiouselement or not. Usually both sidesfeel their actions are in responseto legitimate grievances and thatthey have no other option. One

study of Hutus who participated inthe Rwandan massacres discovered that the primary motivation for their actions, brutalas they were, was not hatred, butfear that the same or worse wouldhappen to them if they didn’t act.

W.H. Auden told us, “those towhom evil is done do evil inreturn,” which Jonathan Gloverreminds us “is not a universaltruth…but it is true enough.” Inher book Beirut Fragments, JeanSaid Makdisi wrote that, “Theworst danger of all, in this blood-bath into which we have beenplunged, is not the loss of life, butthe loss of faith. I don’t mean lossof faith in God: I mean loss offaith in humanity and in eachother.”

Many have warned us against thissort of endless revenge. “Treat

every man according to hisdessert, and who shall ‘scapewhipping?” Hamlet asked (inanother family drama). Gandhireminded us that, “an eye for aneye and a tooth for a tooth leavesthe world blind and toothless.”

Philosopher Kwame AnthonyAppiah argues that the “challenge…is to take minds andhearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troopsand equip them with ideas andinstitutions that will allow us to livetogether as the global tribe wehave become.”

When the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollahwar broke out in Lebanon,Mouawad wrote in a Montrealpaper: “Do not believe those whosay ‘that there are not enoughwords to describe…’ When wehave nothing left, we still have

words; if we begin to say thereare no words left, then all is trulylost, blackness, blackness.” AsTony Kushner’s Prior Waltersays in Angels in America, “It’sso much not enough, so inadequate but . . . .”

Wajdi Mouawad titled his introduction to the published version of Scorched “a ruthlessconsolation,” an oxymoron worthconsidering as you watch theplay.

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“ W h e n w e h a v e n o t h i n g l e f t , w e s t i l l h a v e w o r d s ”

A group of young children plays war in a neighborhood in Lebanon.

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FURTH ER R EAD I NG AND V I EW I NGr e c o m m e n d a t i o n s b y t h e w i l m a ’ s l i t e r a r y d e p a r t m e n t

El AtlalEnglish translation of the Arabic poem

recited by Nawal and Sawda

My love, everything is destined;

It is not in our hands that we were born miserable.

Perhaps our fates would bring us together

One day after they’ve kept us apart.

So if one of us denies the other,

And met as if we were strangers,

And went each on his way,

Do not say we willed it so, it is luck that did.

Written by Ibrahim NagiTranslated by Ashraf Osman

f o r m o r e v i s i t w w w .w i l m a t h e a t e r . o r g

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Dear Friend of The Wilma Theater,Please help us achieve our 30th Anniversary Challenge!We’re delighted to announce that in celebration of our 30th Anniversary and their 100th Anniversary, Rohm and Haas has set the stagefor our season by awarding the Wilma a $30,000 challenge sponsorship to be matched by new or increased individual donations dur-ing this anniversary year. It is thanks to your enduring loyal support that the Wilma has been able to reach this 30th Anniversary milestone. And we have accom-plished so much during the past 29 years!

ÿ We have produced over 120 plays in Philadelphia that have boldly explored major issues of contemporary life with humor, artistry and daring theatricality.

ÿ We have achieved our goal to become one of the country’s premiere regional theaters while remaining at thecenter of Philadelphia’s cultural life.

ÿ And we have grown our vital community programs. Last year, we successfully launched our new program to Build the Audiences of Tomorrow which, among other positive results, served more than 4,500 students through our Ticket Subsidy program, representing a total student ticket subsidy of $136,246.

And today, as we look to the future, we need your help as much as ever!Our total annual fund goal for our 30th Anniversary Season is $150,000, which represents our 5,000 subsidized student tickets to our2008-09 Wilma performances. Your generous contribution to our annual fund will directly subsidize our ability to offer deeply discountedstudent tickets. If every single member of the Wilma family helps to support us, we can continue our vital community programs,particularly those created for our young audience members. Please consider making your fully tax-deductible gift by July 31, 2009. Pleaseuse the form below or donate by phone at 215.893.9456 x109 or online at wilmatheater.org.Please demonstrate your love for the Wilma and help launch us into the future. You make the difference!Thank you very much.Sincerely,

Blanka Zizka Jiri Zizka James Haskinsco-Artistic Director co-Artistic Director Managing Director

P.S. Don’t forget, as a non-profit organization, the Wilma’s ticket prices cover less than 50% of the cost of producing first-rate theaterand cover none of our essential community programs. Please become a 2008-09 Wilma annual fund donor and inspire the youth inour community today! They are the community leaders of tomorrow.

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The Wilma Theater StaffArtistic Director......................................................................................Blanka ZizkaArtistic Director.............................................................................................Jiri ZizkaManaging Director..............................................................................James Haskins

ArtisticDramaturg/Literary Manager..........................................................Walter BilderbackLiterary Programming Assistant..................................................Richard W. KotulskiLiterary Intern.....................................................................................Emily Feldman

MarketingMarketing Director...........................................................................Aaron ImmediatoGroup Sales & Special Events Manager..........................................Julie RossnagleMarketing Assistant..................................................................................Nora SidotiMarketing Interns...............................Heather Fox, Megan Gillespie, Raven Valdes

DevelopmentDirector of Individual and Corporate Relations............................Lea Montalto-RookGrants Manager......................................................................................Justin BauerTelefunding Manager.................................................................................Mark DahlTelefunding Representatives......................Tony Lankford, Dennis Leo, Terry Nibbs,

Shawn O’Shea, Joella Stephen, Joan StreckerEducationEducation Director............................................................................Anne K. HolmesEducation Fellow...........................................................................Nickclette IzuegbuTeaching Artists..................Kristyn Chouiniere, Mike Dees, Liz Filios, Tara Keating,

Carol Laratonda, Mary McCann, Kathryn MacMillan, Aaron Oster, Greg Romero, Catherine Rush, Jay Wahl, Celeste Walker

BusinessGeneral Manager............................................................................Maggie ArbogastBusiness & IT Assistant.........................................................................Beth Bannon

ProductionProduction Manager.............................................................................Iain CampbellTechnical Director...............................................................................Clayton TejadaProduction Stage Manager.....................................................Patreshettarlini AdamsCompany Manager/Administrative Director..........................Maribeth MaksymowichFacilities Manager............................................................................Kenneth DeprezMaster Electrician..............................................................................Ashley W. MillsSound Engineer.................................................................................Andrea SotzingWardrobe Supervisor............................................................................Regina RizzoProduction Fellow...............................................................................Melanie LeedsStage Management Fellow.......................................................................Debby Lau

Front of HouseBox Office Manager.............................................................................James SpechtAssistant Box Office Manager..........................................................Crystal WhybarkBox Office Staff........................................................Joel Chartkoff, Sienna CordobaVolunteer Coordinator....................................................................Cynthia DiClaudioHouse Manager.................................................................................... Javier Mojica

ServicesPublicity...............................................Megan Wendell, Canary Promotion + DesignGraphic Designer.............................................................................Caren GoldsteinPhotographer.......................................................................Jim Roese PhotographyPrinting Services.............................CRW Graphics, Color Reflections, Media Copy,

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How to contact usThe Wilma Theater, 265 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Administrative: 215.893.9456 Box Office: 215.546.7824 Fax: 215.893.0895

Website: www.wilmatheater.org

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About the WilmaBeginning with their adaptation of GeorgeOrwell’s Animal Farm in 1979 for TheWilma Project, Blanka Zizka and Jiri Zizkahave created some of the most memorabletheatrical productions in Philadelphia for 30years.

The Wilma Project, founded in 1973, challenged Philadelphia audiences with productions from avant-garde theatertroupes such as Bread & Puppet theatre,Mabou Mines, Charles Ludlam’s RidiculousTheatrical Company, The Wooster Group,Ping Chong & the Fiji Company, andSpalding Gray. The Zizkas arrived inPhiladelphia from their nativeCzechoslovakia in 1977, and soon afterthey joined The Wilma Project as artists-in-residence.

In 1981, following the Board of Directors’offer to assume the artistic leadership ofthe project, the Zizkas converted an oldwarehouse on Sansom Street into a 100-seat space where The Wilma Theater, as itis known today, was founded. On SansomStreet, the Wilma mounted 16 acclaimedseasons, operating to full capacity.

In 1985, a decision was made to find alarger space for the theater and in 1989, alocation was identified at the corner ofBroad and Spruce Streets. The Wilmaopened its new facility on Philadelphia’sAvenue of the Arts in 1996. The first newtheater to be built in Center City since1928 was designed by renowned theaterarchitect Hugh Hardy. The 300-seat theaterallows for intimacy and closeness betweenthe audience and the actors, while providing ample space on stage for morespectacular productions.

Productions by the Wilma have been seenat the International Theater Festival in theCzech Republic; in New York at the PublicTheater and Manhattan Theatre Club; TheKennedy Center for the Performing Arts inWashington, DC; McCarter Theatre Centerin Princeton, NJ; Long Wharf Theatre inConnecticut; and ACT Seattle. In additionto their presentations and festivals, theWilma has produced over 100 productions,including 16 World Premieres, 12 USPremieres, 3 East Coast Premieres, and64 Philadelphia Premieres. The Wilma co-produced a feature film broadcast nationally on Great Performances. The the-ater has worked with notables such asStephen Sondheim, Tom Stoppard,Christopher Hampton, Doug Wright, andArthur Miller as well as playwrights such asClaudia Shear, Lillian Groag, Chay Yew,Charles L. Mee, Jason Sherman, DaelOrlandersmith, Robert William Sherwood,Sarah Ruhl, Polly Pen, and LaurenceKlavan.

The theater has won 40 Barrymore Awardsfor Excellence in Theater and has receivedhigh critical acclaim from many publications throughout the tri-state regionand from national publications such as TheNew York Times, The New York Post,TIME, USA Today, The Washington Post,The Chicago Tribune and The Wall StreetJournal.

Why the NameWilma?In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolfimagines Shakespeare’s sister Judith, as brilliant as her brother but beaten intosilence—both literally and figuratively—bythe age she lives in. To explain how thelives of two siblings could so dramaticallydiverge, Woolf recalls a bishop whoexplained to an inquiring parishioner that,just as cats don’t go to heaven, so cannotany woman possess the talent ofShakespeare: “How much thinking thoseold gentlemen used to save one! How theborders of ignorance shrank back at theirapproach! Cats do not go to heaven.Women cannot write the plays ofShakespeare.” It was simply a given.

The Wilma Theater inherited its name fromthe original Wilma Project, which began in1973 as a feminist collective. They choseto name their theater after an invented sister of Shakespeare, but not after Woolf’sJudith. The founders created the fantasticalWilma, a talented sister with a room of herown, the means and freedom to expressherself. When Blanka Zizka and Jiri Zizkatook over The Wilma Project, they did not

abandon its namesake. The Zizkas’ TheWilma Theater does not take the statusquo as a given. Instead, it constantlystrives for new ways of expression andrevelation, social significance and impact.

MissionThe Wilma Theater exists to present theater as an art form, engaging artists andaudiences in an adventure of aestheticphilosophical reflection of the complexitiesof contemporary life. We accomplish ourmission by producing thoughtful, well-crafted productions of intelligent, daringplays that represent a range of voices,viewpoints, and production styles.

Board of DirectorsOfficersPeggy Greenawalt, Chair Lewis H. Johnston, Vice Chair John D. Rollins, Vice Chair A. E. (Ted) Wolf, Vice Chair David E. Loder, SecretaryThomas Mahoney, Treasurer

Board MembersAutumn BaylesArjun Bedi Clare D’Agostino, Esq. Mark S. Dichter, Esq. Herman C. Fala, Esq. Linda Glickstein Sudhakar Goverdhanam Jeff Harbison Erin Kuhls Robert E. Linck Sissie Lipton James F. McGillin Donald F. Parman Ronald Rock Mary RucciAllen Sabinson Dianne L. Semingson Ellen B. Solms Evelyn G. SpritzDavid U’Prichard Gillian Wakely Andrew B. Williams Elizabeth A. W. Williams Jeanne P. Wrobleski, Esq.

Ex-OfficioJames HaskinsBlanka ZizkaJiri Zizka

EmeritusHarvey KimmelDr. R. J. Wallner

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FOUNDATION, GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATEDONORS

Aqua AmericaAnonymousAvencia IncorporatedDavid M. Banet & AssociatesThe Barra FoundationBerwind CorporationBlank Rome LLPBrokerage ConceptsThe BWF FoundationCapital Management

EnterprisesLouis N. Cassett FoundationCBIZ, Benefits & Insurance

ServicesCDI CorporationThe Charlotte Cushman

FoundationCitizens BankCommonwealth of

Pennsylvania, Departmentof Community & EconomicDevelopment

Connelly FoundationThe Dolfinger-McMahon

FoundationDrexel UniversityThe Elsie Lee Garthwaite

Memorial FoundationSamuel S. Fels FundGlaxoSmithKlineThe Horace W. Goldsmith

FoundationThe Hamilton Family

FoundationHistoric Landmarks for LivingHoly Redeemer Health

SystemIndependence Blue CrossIndependence FoundationJefferson Health SystemsKeystone Mercy Health PlanVirginia and Harvey Kimmel

Arts Education Fund of ThePhiladelphia Foundation

The Patricia Kind FamilyFoundation

Knowledge Rules, Inc.KPMG LLPLincoln Financial FoundationChristian R. & Mary F.

Lindback FoundationMaxwell Strawbridge TrustMcGillin Architecture Inc.Merck & Co.Metropolitan District Council

of Carpenters ofPhiladelphia and Vicinity

Morgan, Lewis &Bockius, LLP

Nararo FoundationThe National Endowment for

the ArtsNorfolk Southern FoundationParkway CorporationPECOPennsylvania Council on the

Arts, a state agencyPennsylvania Humanities

CouncilThe Pew Center for Arts and

Heritage, through thePhiladelphia CulturalManagement Initiative

The Pew Center for Arts andHeritage, through ThePhiladelphia TheatreInitiative, with additionalsupport from the MarketingInnovation Program

The Pew Charitable TrustsThe Philadelphia Cultural

FundPhiladelphia Department of

CommercePrime Technology Group, Inc.Rohm & HaasThe Rosenlund Family

FoundationClarence A. Rowell Trust 2The Caroline J. Sanders

TrustThe Shubert Foundation, Inc.Staywell Custom

CommunicationsTierney CommunicationsUSI AffinityThe Wachovia FoundationThe Wallace FoundationThe William Penn FoundationWolfBlock LLPThe Zeldin Family Foundation

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of Human PotentialJewish National FundKellijaneLe Bar LyonnaisManhattan Theatre ClubMr. Todd MarroneMcCormick & Schmick’s

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OPENING NIGHTDONORS

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New York

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ACE INA FoundationCovidienExxonmobil FoundationGlaxoSmithKline Matching

Gifts ProgramIBM Matching GiftsJohnson & Johnson Family of

CompaniesMerck & Co.Norfolk Southern FoundationThe Pew Charitable Trusts

Matching Gift ProgramThe PNC FoundationPrudential Foundation

Matching GiftsQuaker Chemical FoundationThe Rockefeller FoundationThe Robert Wood Johnson

FoundationSAP America, Inc.The William Penn Foundation

INDIVIDUAL DONORS

The Premiere CircleThe Premiere Circle is agroup of our area’s leaderswho demonstrate their love ofthe performing arts throughtheir generosity to the Wilmawith gifts of $1,000 or over.The benefits of the PremiereCircle are designed to bringmembers closer to the artistswhose work they make possi-ble. For more information,please contact Lea Montalto-Rook, Director of Individualand Corporate Relations, at215.893.9456 x109. A plussign (+) denotes five-yearconsecutive donors.

$5,000 and aboveValerie A. Arkoosh and

Jeffrey T. Harbison+Daniel Berger+Mr. Joseph Dante+Mark & Tobey Dichter+Michael J. FinneyLinda and David Glickstein+Phoebe W. Haas Charitable

Trust “A” recommended byCarole Haas Gravagno+

Peggy and Rich Greenawalt+Otto Haas Charitable Trust+Phoebe W. Haas Charitable

Trust “B” recommended byLeonard C. Haas+

Harvey & Virginia Kimmel+Mrs. Patricia Kind+Ms. Josephine Klein+Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Linck+David E. Loder and Nadya

Shmavonian+Mr. and Ms. Donald F.

Parman+The Suzanne F. Roberts

Cultural DevelopmentFund+

John and Theresa Rollins+Ellen & Steve Solms+Gillian Wakely+Albert E. “Ted” & Stevie Wolf+

$2,500 to $4,999Mrs. Valla Amsterdam+Arjun BediMs. Laurie CousartClare D'Agostino, Esq.+Herman and Helen Fala+Matt and Marie Garfield+Mr. and Mrs. Sudhakar

GoverdhanamJohn C. and Chara C. Haas+Lewis and Ellen JohnstonErin and Joseph KuhlsMargaret Meigs and Paul

Laskow

Dianne Semingson and CraigLewis+

Tom and Betsy Mahoney+James and Eleanor McGillin+Sissie & Herb Lipton+Ronald and Janet RockMary RucciMs. Evelyn Spritz+Andy and Sally WilliamsElizabeth A. W. WilliamsThe June and Steve Wolfson

Family Foundation+Jeanne P. Wrobleski, Esq.+Stephen and Florence Zeller+Dr. R. J. Wallner+

$1000 to $2,499Peter Benoliel and Willo

Carey+Buzz and Lisa BissingerLouis BluverMs. Jacqueline BodinSheldon and Jill Bonovitz+Lois and Julian Brodsky+John and Priscilla Clement+Dr. and Mrs. Stephen W.

DirectorMr. Joe DudeBetsy Gemmill+Eduardo Glandt+Mr. and Mrs. Bernard

GlassmanJames Haskins and Michael

WhistlerHerman and Jerry Finklestein

FoundationAlan and Nancy Hirsig+Mr. and Mrs. Richard V.

Holmes+Robert and Sally HuxleyGay and Donald Kimelman+Megan and Lou Minella+Bill Felty and Antonio Muniz+Russell Palmer and Stephen

JanickMr. Jack PiccininniJudy Sullivan and Gilbert

RosenthalJohn and Linda Rosenthal+Carol and George

Sabochick+Sam and Charles FoundationDr. Nathan and Dolly

Beechman Schnall+Mari M. ShawKathleen StephensonHarvey B. Swedloff+Charles and Melissa Thorne+Barbara Yaseen Tiffany Fund

of The PhiladelphiaFoundation

Sally Walker and TomGilmore

Blanka Zizka

A Special Note to Our DonorsIn these uncertain times, when we are all a bit anxiousabout what tomorrow may hold, we at the Wilma are sograteful for our dear friends. We want you to know how

important you are to us. This list acknowledges all donorsabove $150 from January 1, 2008 through January 26,

2009. If your name has been omitted or misprinted, pleaseaccept our apologies. Notify us of the change by contacting

Lea Montalto-Rook, Director of Individual and CorporateRelations, at 215.893.9456 x109.

Thank you for all your kind support.

Student Sunday EveningsThis program is generously underwritten by the

Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Endowment Fund.

This program provides $10 tickets to students.

2330th AnniversarySeason Annual FundA plus sign (+) denotes five-year consecutive donors.

$750 to $999Mr. Jay BarnettMs. Susan Basile+Mr. Jeff BenolielMs. Patricia Henriques+Sally Steffen and Geoffrey

HerreraAllen C. SabinsonDr. Edward J. Speedling and

Jane Isaacs Lowe+

$500 to $749Archie’s Circle FoundationPeter ArgerMr. and Ms. Charles

Benshetler+Al and Marilyn BlatterTony and Harriet Crane+Allitia DiBernardo and

Matthew BrenerJohn R. and Karen S. FultonPaul H. Kahn and Janet

Alden Kahn+Ms. Pepper KrachMr. Robert Q. KreiderDavid Lerman and Shelley

WallockDr. Rafael and Nancy

Levites+Mr. William A. LoebMr. Robert MacbethDiane Cribbs and Arthur

MannMr. and Mrs. Jerry MartindaleLaura and Marc McKennaFrank and Fiona Murray+Ms. Barbara Oldenhoff+Andrew Sacksteder and

Colleen Murphy+Karen ScholnickGary R. Segal+Mr. and Ms. John Stiklorius+Mr. and Mrs. Peter SvandaLouis Thompson and Sherryl

KuhlmanUnited Way of Southeastern

PennsylvaniaSallie and James Warden+Bob Weinberg and Eleanor

Wilner+Wendy, Larry and Miriam

White+Ms. Wendy E. Wilson+Marian and Norman Wolgin

$250 to $499AnonymousAnonymous+ (3)Phyllis and Charles Adams+Mr. Craig AmmermanJames and Sandra Andrews+Mr. Mark N. BaerMr. and Mrs. Roger H. BallouMs. Sarah BaltzellAlan Barstow and Jennifer

Clarke+Mr. and Ms. Gerald BarthRichard and Eileen Bazelon+Mr. Frank A. BernardMr. and Ms. Barry Bevacqua+Gene Bishop and Andrew

Stone+

Libby Cone and TomBorawski+

Ms. Susan H. BrayRobert and Linda BrockwayMr. James BrysonDebbie and Alan Casnoff+Ms. Doris Casper+Mrs. Carol Caswell+Norman D. Cotterell and

Tuesday VanstoryMr. Mark A. DahlMs. Sarah T. Darrow+Ms. Nina DeatsRobert DuPlessis and Rachel

Blau DuPlessisJohn T. Durkin and Rebecca

L. Stanley+Dr. and Ms. Joel K.

Edelstein+Ms. Susan J. Ellis+Mr. Stephen Falchek+Ms. Helen F. Faust+Jill K. FentonRob and Susan FlemingRalph and Carol Flood+W. Roderick & Pamela

GagneCharles M. and Ellen

Gallagher+Mr. Arnold GalmanHarry and Jeanne Gelman+Mr. James GiblinMs. Deborah E. GlassDr. Steven and Mrs. Susan

Glauser+Michele Goldfarb and Tony

RostainMs. Criswell GonzalezMr. and Mrs. Lon GreenbergVahe HadajianMr. Mark H. Haller+Robert and Dianne Harnish+Peter and Donna HasselmoMr. and Mrs. William

Hensinger+Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S.

Hirshorn+Mr. Thomas Holland+Mr. and Mrs. Joseph

Holman+Michael Hozik and Margaret

Rea+Mrs. Madeline JanowskiMr. Ross Kardon+Mr. Cameron KlineMr. Jeff KoopmanMr. Kenneth D. Kopple+Peg and Michael Kramer+Mr. and Ms. Clive LandaNancy LanhamEva and Michael Leeds+Rachelle and Wayne Leese+Joe and Ginny Leonard+Mr. William Leonard+Clifford and Elizabeth

Levine+Mr. and Mrs. Howard H.

Lewis+Frank and Sally MalloryMr. Dale MandelMrs. Jeannie MarcusGordon and Louise Marshall+Ms. Lynne MaxwellMs. Ilene W. McCaffrey+J. McGrutherMr. and Ms. David Miller+Mr. and Mrs. Edward J.

Mitchell

Fredaricka and DouglasMoffitt+

Michael and StephanieNaidoff

Dr. and Mrs. AndrewNewman

Quan A. Nguyen and JessicaLynn Geyer+

Mr. and Mrs. Gene Nicholls+Annette and Noah OsnosMr. Arthur Panfile+Milton and Ruth Parnes+Guido and Aileen PasquelMr. and Ms. Philip Paul+Marcelle Pick+Elizabeth and Jerome

Pontillo+Bill and Mary Jo PotterMr. and Mrs. Kurt W. Reiss+Dr. Ken Richman+Ms. Jean RidgwayDebi RochelleMr. Joseph RonanGordon and Karen Rose+Mr. Lionel RossignolVesna and Howard SacksMs. Nora Salzman+Mr. John F. Sanford+Dr. Simon and Mrs. Nicola

SinclairDavid and Gayle SmithHarold and Emily Starr+Jonathan and Judith Stein+Mark Stein and Carol Baker+Mr. Richard D. StoyMr. and Mrs. Norman

Stuessy+Pat and Elaine Sweeney+Bruce and Christina Tarkoff+Mr. Eric VaccaSigrid and Doug VeaseyHella and Lewis Volgenau+Mr. Michael Harry WallaceMs. Marion M. WalterRichard and Beatrice WernickBarbara and Peter

Westergaard+Barbara and Richard Woods+Mr. F. Gordon YasinowPeter Zutter and Tom

Murphy+In Honor of Mark Dichter (7)

$150 to $249Anonymous (2)Ms. Natalie AbbottMr. and Ms. Reid Addis+Ms. Mary AshleyMs. Ann AuerbachMr. Joseph F. Baker+Dr. Donald Bakove and

Margaret G. McLaughlinMr. Ralph Bean+Ann and Tom Blackburn+Ms. Kathleen BlandfordMr. Stanley BodeenMr. and Mrs. Robert

Bornemann+Mr. and Ms. David BrownleeMr. Norman BrumbergMr. and Mrs. Mark E. BurgertJosie BurriMr. and Mrs. Robert ButtelBarbara and Bruce Byrne+Scott and Anne CampbellMs. Lee CanterAnne and Thomas

Caramanico+

Mr. Edward CarringtonMs. Alice ChaleffRonnie and Jack CimprichPaul Coff and Susan OdessyRabbi and Mrs. Henry

Cohen+Mr. Robert ConnerMs. Susan CostelloMr. Jerry Cross+Granville CrothersMr. Chester T. Cyzio+Dr. Christopher D'AmandaMr. Ivan DevorenMr. David J. DotzertMr. Spencer B. DowningMr. Daniel C. Drecksage and

Ms. Leslie Sudock+Mr. and Mrs. Lee F.

Driscoll Jr.Maxine DubinMr. and Mrs. John W. DursoCraig and Alice EatonMs. Sylvia EgnalMr. Howard EmersonMs. Anna EnsorMr. and Mrs. Leonard EvelevPaul and Judith Farber+Dr. Charles FarthingJanet and Edward FieldingMr. and Mrs. Douglas FisherMr. and Mrs. Alfred Ford+Mr. Henry FradellaMs. Ashley FrazierRobert Freeman and Beverly

Caplan-FreemanMr. and Ms. Peter FreydAnn Green and Edward

FristromMs. Karen M. GelfandMr. and Mrs. Philip K. GlickJohn and Elizabeth Gontarz+Mr. David GottliebMonique GramasMs. Susan V. GreeneMs. Margaret Grip+Ira and Jane Grushow+Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Harrison+Ms. Marion V. Heacock+Mr. and Ms. Herbert Henze+Ms. Terry HirshornMarjorie E. Johnson and

Edward J. Hochreiter+Ms. Kathleen HutchinsMr. and Ms. Donald JohnsonLinda JonesMr. and Mrs. Richard T.

KanterMrs. Caroline R. KemmererKaren and Daniel KesslerMr. John S. KileyMs. Kaori Kitao+Mr. and Ms. Craig KnauerMr. and Ms. Bruce LamontCharles and Lucinda

Landreth+Mr. Eric LeichterMs. Jess LeventhalMs. Terri A. LewisMr. Christopher LewisMs. Diane LewisGreg and Cyndi LineMr. and Ms. Brett A. LinsonAnn T. Loftus, Esquire and

Eileen Talone+Dr. Marc LowensteinRichard and Sandra Malkin+Fran MartinMr. and Mrs. Oscar Martinez

Ms. Rachel MazzagattiDot and Joe McGrew+Mr. and Mrs. Donald McKay+Mr. and Ms. Sean McLarneyMr. Mike McPhilmyLawrence Meehan and Susan

Tomita+David and Judith MercurisMr. and Ms. Thomas MollenMr. Brian P. MooreJames and Joan MooreMs. Jonni MooreChristiaan Morssink and

Shirika Kumanyika+Mr. and Ms. Kenneth MummaMr. Jerome Napson+Mr. and Ms. Nathaniel NucciDr. Alan PalmerMr. and Ms. Robert PanaccioMr. and Ms. John PeakesRobert and Margaret PelosoMr. and Mrs. John A.

Philbrick III+Ms. Harriet PotashnickCharles and April ReganDr. and Mrs. Wolfram RiegerMs. Suzanne Rommel+Barbara and Tony Rooklin+Joan and Earl Rosen+Mr. and Ms. Michael Rosen+Joan and Joel RosenbloomEdwin and Sally RosentholBarbara and Daniel

RottenbergMr. and Ms. Leon Rozinsky+Lynn and Anthony C. SalvoMr. and Ms. David Sautter+Mr. and Mrs. Carl SchneiderMr. and Ms. Lee SchneiderTom and Elinor Seaman+Mr. Gino Segre and Ms.

Bettina HoerlinGerald and Linda Senker+Sharon and Irv Shapiro+Ms. Claudia P. Simon+Mr. James SisnerosElizabeth and Richard SoltanMs. Louisa Spottswood+Mr. Peter StamblerMark Steinberger and Ann

Lebowitz+Mr. Stephen A. Stumpf+Ms. Nina E. Tafel+The Toner FamilyTONTO IIMs. Mae K. TrebingMr. and Ms. David UhrichMarit and Willem

Vanderlinde+Daniel and Marilyn Veber+Eddie WallaceMs. Wendy WarnerMr. Vince WebbJohn Weidman and Ebony

StatonMs. Margie WeingartenMr. and Ms. Michael WertMr. Chester WichowskiElvedine WilkersonBernhard and Elizabeth

Witter+Ms. Pamela WoldowM.L. Kelly WolfingtonMs. Mary Ann Woodcock+Mr. Neil M. YoungThomas and Jacqueline

Zemaitis+In Honor of Mark Dichter

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There are other ways you can make a difference!

1) You can double or triple your donation to the Wilma by asking your workplace if they have a Matching Gifts program.

2) You can give to the Wilma through The United Way.

3) You can donate In-Kind Gifts, or Gifts of Stock, or Real Estate.

4) You can remember the Wilma through Planned Giving.

Please contact our Development Office at 215-893-9456 x109 for more information.

The Wilma Theater is grateful for significant support provided by:

THEHORACE GOLDSMITH

FOUNDATION

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR EDUCATION PROGRAMS VISIT

WILMATHEATER.ORG

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Introducing Pre-Theater DinnerAbove the Avenue of the Arts

Experience the Flavors of XIXwith a Three-Course Cafe Table Dinner

Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue. 19th Floor.

Broad and Walnut Streets. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania 19102

TELEPHONE 215.790.1919 FACSIMILE 215.732.8518

www.nineteenrestaurant.com

FRIDAY – SATURDAY

5:30-9 :30PM

$30 PER PERSON

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Try our

INCREDIBLE$1.95 late night

Happy Hour Menu!

9:30pm to 11pmServed Monday through Friday

Daily menu items vary in availability and prices. Please visit or call our restaurant for today’s Bar Food Menu.

One South Broad Street(directly across from City Hall)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107

Phone: (215) 568-6888 -or- 1-888-344-6861

Valet parking available

McCormick and Schmick's Seafood Restaurant features over 30 varieties of fresh seafoodflown in daily from around the globe. Our popular, lively bar features a selection of

micro-brewed beers and ales, regional wines, single-malt scotches, fresh squeezed juicesand hand-shaken cocktails. McCormick and Schmick's serves lunch Monday through

Friday, dinner seven days a week and offers a $1.95 bar menu twice daily. Dinner Reservations are encouraged.

"A lively bistro-type place where impeccably fresh fish reigns." - USA Today

Where Philadelphia’s leading arts,

political, business and

social leaders go to stay fit.

It’s time you joined them.

Call the membership office at

215.985.2160 to arrange a tour and

a two day pass.

220-224 South Broad Street l Philadelphia, PA 19102 l 215.985.9876 l 215.985.9158 l www.sportingclubbellevue.com