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From the Director

“The difference between the who and the what at the heart of love, separates the heart. It is often said that love is the movement of the heart. Does my heart move because I love someone who is an absolute singularity, or because I love the way that someone is? That is to say, the history of love, the heart of love, is divided between the who and what.”

Jacques Derrida

Zarina is a brilliant, strong-willed, and independent young woman—an

aspiring author who’s determined to tell the human story of the man

known as the Prophet, Muhammad. After years of being taught by

her devoted yet overbearing father all of the “what’s” of the Prophet’s

life—Aisha was his favorite wife, he had a gap between his teeth—she’s

committed herself to the task of sifting out the “who.” Heedless of her

younger sister Mahwish’s assertion that women in Islam are “just fine,”

Zarina is determined to shine a light on “what the faith does to women.”

Zarina’s father, Afzal, has other plans in mind. A charming and savvy

businessman from Pakistan, he prides himself on knowing what’s best

for everyone—particularly Zarina. When he successfully matchmakes

Zarina with Eli, a patient and good-natured white convert who runs a

masjid, Afzal is certain he’s found the answers to her endless questions

about Islam and about love. When the truth about Zarina’s book is finally

revealed, however, everyone is forced to confront the source of their own

love and test the bounds of their forgiveness.

The story of an immigrant family at odds with itself is an old one. At its

heart, Akhtar’s play is about a father unwilling to change in order to keep

up with the new world in which his daughters now live. Yet The Who

& The What feels newly poignant in this moment of extreme national

separation. Not only is our country visited by deep religious and political

divides, but we find ourselves physically divided in new ways as well,

forced to breach even longer distances to reach our families.

I hope this fierce and tender story resonates with all of you. In a year

marked by unfamiliar distance, it feels so special to have come together to

share this story and to invite you back into the theatre.

Aneesha Kudtarkar

The World Premiere of THE WHO & THE WHATProduced in 2014 by La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, California

Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director & Michael S. Rosenberg, Managing Director

Produced by LCT3/ Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 2014

THE WHO & THE WHAT is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

Actors appear with the permission of SAG/AFTRA

THE CAST (alphabetical order)

Photos by Brian Prather

Afzal

Eli

Mahwish

Zarina

RAJESH BOSE

STEPHEN ELROD

SANAM LAILA HASHEMI

JESSICA JAIN

TheaterWorks • 233 Pearl Street • Hartford, CT 06103 • 2020

TheaterWorks is celebrating its 35th season as a non-profit, professional theater company. Founded in 1985.

THE WHO & THE WHAT is the 3rd production of the 2020-2021 Season.

THE WHO &

THE WHAT by Ayad Akhtar

directed by Aneesha Kudtarkar

Set Design BRIAN PRATHER

Adapted from a design for the stage by MICHAEL SCHWEIKARDT

Costume Design MIKA EUBANKS

Lighting Design AMITH CHANDRASHAKER

Sound Design S.R.

Video Production MICELI PRODUCTIONS

Casting DESTINY LILLY, CSA

Production Stage Manager KATE J. CUDWORTH

RAJESH BOSE (Afzal) is thrilled to be returning to TheaterWorks Hartford after appearing in their recent production of The Invisible Hand. Other Regional and Off-Broadway favorites include: The Crucible (Bedlam), Henry VI (NAATCO), Pygmalion (Bedlam), Against the Hillside (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Indian Ink (Roundabout), Oslo

(St. Louis Rep), Mary Stuart (Folger Theatre), Guards at the Taj (Capital Stage), Disgraced (Playmakers Rep, Huntington Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre – Connecticut Critics Circle Award, IRNE Nomination), and The Who & The What (Gulfshore Playhouse). Film & Television: Quantico, Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Elementary, Damages, Nurse Jackie, Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, Law & Order: SVU, Criminal Minds, the series finale of The Sopranos, and the Academy Award nominated film Frozen River.

STEPHEN ELROD (Eli) is making his TheaterWorks Hartford debut. Off-Broadway: Sideways (Theatre at St Clement's), When It Happens To You (The Sheen Center). Regional: Macbeth, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Songs of Bilitis (South Coast Repertory).

SANAM LAILA HASHEMI (Mahwish) is so excited to be making her TheaterWorks Hartford debut! Recent credits: Pilgrims Musa & Sheri in the New World (Mosaic Theater); Tiny Beautiful Things (Lake Dillon); The Christians (Virginia Rep/Cadence Theatre); Dance Nation (TheatreLAB). Sanam is a proud member of the Pipeline New Works

Fellowship and holds a B.A. from Virginia Tech. She is grateful to her family and friends for their support. sanamlailahashemi.com

JESSICA JAIN (Zarina) is thrilled to tell this story with this team. She is making her TheaterWorks Hartford debut. Favorite Credits include: Pitch Perfect, The Last Word, The Metal Children, Pride and Prejudice, and Godspell. Proud graduate of the Louisiana State M.F.A. actingprogram. Great lover of her dog Clifford (and all

dogs), plants, and The Jains.

AYAD AKHTAR (Playwright) was born in New York City and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of the recently published and critically acclaimed novel Homeland Elegies. He was also recently named president of the prestigious PEN America, the nation’s foremost literary and free expression organization. He is a playwright,

screenwriter and novelist. His play Disgraced played at New York's Lincoln Center Theater in 2012 and premiered at the Bush Theater in London. Disgraced won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His play The Invisible Hand was nominated for the ATCA/Steinberg Award, and won Best New Work 2013 from the St. Louis Theater Critics Circle. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within. He has received commissions from Lincoln Center and the Oregon

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Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of Brown and Columbia Universities with degrees in Theater and Film Directing.

ANEESHA KUDTARKAR (Director) is a New York-based theatre director. She is a trained Indian Classical dancer who calls upon her background in dance to create compositionally driven pieces of theatre that often centralize and celebrate underrepresented communities. Her recent directorial projects include Men on Boats (Southern

Methodist University), [Veil Widow Conspiracy] (National Asian American Theatre Company), LOCUSTS, Trouble in Mind (Yale School of Drama), The Purple Flower (Yale Cabaret), Mud (Hangar Theatre). Aneesha is an alumna of the Drama League Directors Project and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

BRIAN PRATHER (Set Design) is always excited to design for his adopted artistic home. His most recent TheaterWorks Hartford designs include: American Son, Fully Committed, Girlfriend, The River, and Relativity, among many others. Recent Off-Broadway designs include: Caesar and Cleopatra (GTG), Daniels’s Husband (Primary Stages), Widower’s Houses (TACT/Gingold), A Christmas Carol (St. Clement’s), Becoming Dr. Ruth (Westside), Freud’s Last Session (New World Stages), and The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons). International: Chung-mu Art Hall (South Korea). Regional: Alley Theatre, Asolo Rep, Goodspeed Musicals, Barrington Stage Co., Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Capitol Rep., among many others. Jeff Award winner (Chicago), Emmy nomination (New England) for “The Kate” on Public Television, two-time Berkshire Theatre Critics Assoc. Awards winner, Associate Artist at Barrington Stage Co. and member of USA Local 829. Brian is the Resident Designer and Design Coordinator for TheaterWorks Hartford. brianprather.com.

MIKA EUBANKS (Costume Design) received her MFA in Costume Design at Yale School of Drama where she has designed Death of Yazdgerd and Tent Revival. Other work includes Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., In the Red and Brown Water, School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play, The Purple Flower (Yale Cabaret); Feeding Beatrice (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Harry and the Thief (Strand Theater); Animals Out of Paper (Silver Spring Theater); and The Clothesline Muse (National Black Theatre Festival). Currently in New York, but hailing from Baltimore, Mika has worked at Center Stage, the Hippodrome, and Morgan State University. She earned the Leo Lerman Graduate Fellowship in 2019, the Jada Pinkett Smith Applied Arts Award in 2015, and holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. In Spring 2019 she designed Twelfth Night at the Yale Repertory Theatre, for which she received the Connecticut Critic Circle Award for outstanding costume design. mikaeubanks.com

AMITH CHANDRASHAKER (Lighting Design) Theater credits include: Russian Troll Farm, Actually, Fade (TheaterWorks Hartford), The Underlying Chris (Second Stage), Gnit (TFANA), Wives (Playwrights Horizons), A Human Being, Of A Sort (Williamstown), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Boesman and Lena (DD & Hewes Award, The Signature), Blue Ridge (The Atlantic), Cardinal (2ST), Twelfth Night (The Public), Fairview (Soho Rep,

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Christmas on the Rocks, which he also conceived. His Broadway credits include Looped (starring Valerie Harper in a Tony-nominated performance) and High (starring Kathleen Turner) which had its world premiere at TWH. He also conceived and directed the musical revue Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn which moved off-Broadway and was nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Rob conceived and directed Ella, a musical about Ella Fitzgerald, which saw sold-out runs in 24 regional theaters and was produced as a National Tour. His work on plays and musicals has received multiple awards in Connecticut and around the United States. In his eleventh collaboration with Goodspeed Musicals, Rob directed Oliver, where he also directed many award-winning musical productions. His adaptation of Show Boat is now being licensed by the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. Internationally he directed Fiddler on the Roof in Athens, Greece.

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Robert and Francine GoldfarbTed and Adlyn Loewenthal

Marjorie E. MorrisseyRichard E. and Paula MusgraveThomas W. and Emily B. Nissley

LEADING DONORS

Gifts of $1,000+

Michael G. Albano and Nancy B. AlisbergAnonymous (4)Ivan A. Backer and Paula FisherThomas O. and Melanie A. BarnesJulie A. Brogan and Christopher A. UhrichJames Bruno and William GratzJohn* and Karen K. Byrne

Ann M. CatinoAlison and Tony CaxideAmy Charney and Lewis K. WiseJames N. and Amy Jane CohenSue Ann CollinsRichard A. and Aida CyphersMelissa J. Taylor-Doyle and Chris DoyleJack and Alice Ellovich

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George BouthetAnne and Bruce BowmanWhitney Boynton and Kevin GalvinMary BozzaKathleen BradleyLucy BrakonieckiTodd BrandtDavid and Ann BrandweinNicole BraunBill and Sheryl BreetzJoel Brehm and Rodney DugasGlen and Joyce BrelandJames P. and Patricia G. BrennanJames and Riki BrodeyKathy BrookmanJames L. Brother and Margie Helme- BrotherEllen M. BrownKaren and Tim BrownSandra and Kevin BrownAvery and Eileen BuellRichard and Mary BurkeMary and Ritchard CableDiane Cadrain and Joseph RubinShari and Michael CantorBlanche M. Capilos and David BiklenLisa CaseyChip Caton and Catherine LyonsJane Chafe-MooteMichael ChampnessSusan R. ChandlerJared ChaseCatherine and Brad Chhabra

Cynthia L. AbramsAcorn-Alcinda FoundationDoug and Sheryl AdkinsVictoria F. and Leonard AlbertP. K. and Phoebe R. AllenLois and Bruce AndersonKarin and Peter FesterMr. Peter Arakas and Ms. Karen KellermanJoyce and Richard ArmstrongJohn R. and Angela ArringtonStephen and Judy AugustKandyce M. and Richard T. AustAnn Azevedo and Donato T. DiGenovaLynn BaccaroStaci BachmanPierre and Kate BarbourDonna and Thomas R. BarnasDavid S. and Jill P. BarrettAnn and Randy BartonEdwin L. and Edith G. BaumAnthony and Beverley BellisioLaura and Jerry BellizziLarry and Jannie BermanLeon P. Bernard and Richard FitolJon D. and Cheryl BertusBarbara and Jack BlechnerAvrum H. and Edlyn R. BlitzerKenneth and Katherine BobenskiScott Boden and Mary AyreMichael BoratkoJudy BorusPaul and Joanne Bourdeau

LOYAL SUPPORTERSGifts of $250+

LEADING DONORSGifts of $1,000+

The Fechtor Family FundJocelyn and Dan FenynGrace Figueredo and Ken GostylaMuriel and Karl FleischmannCatherine FranksWilliam FullerRobert and Lee GoodeWilliam T. Gough and Mary J. CookPeter Grzybala and Diane KorntheuerLaura HarrisBrian E. Harvey and Sherry A. ManettaSuzanne M. Hopgood and Frank C. Lord*Gordon and Kelly HuiDouglas and Tita HylandSharon and David JepsonDavid and Jan KleinDr. and Mrs. Bernard KostoSupriya and Vijay LaknidhiWally and Chris LambKatherine J. LambertSarah LarkinsJudy LewisSteve and Sheila LitchfieldDavid T. and Judith W. MacriKenneth and Cynthia Malm

Leta W. MarksSheila MarksPeggy and Alan MendelsonDaniel and Lori O'ConnellGerald Pastor and Jane PorterfieldMatthew K. PolandRoberta W. Prescott and Robert O. HurwitzElenor G. ReidJoan and Allan B. ReiskinMartey S. RhineChristina and Ezra RippleElaine SayadoffAmy Lynn SilvermanThe Carol Sirot FoundationTara SpainRobert Stillman and Leslie FassDonna M. and Sam StoutThomas and Donna Swarr Robert H. TabsheyTapper Charitable FoundationAllan B. and Sally S. TaylorMara A. Whitman and Marc EdrichEdward and Brooke Whittemore Elliot Zweig and Doreen Fundiller-Zweig

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Gifts of $250+ Edward and Tracy ChurchAnn Clark and David EhlerJonathan ClarkJennifer CoffeyDavid and Doris CohenDouglas Cohen and Phyllis F. ShikoraLinda F. CohenSteven and Elaine CohenAbby ColePhilip and Clio ColesDonna CollinsConnecticut Convention & Sports BureauDenise CormierAmy CostaLinda and Fred CoteJoseph and Erin CotierJane V. Coughlin and Keith R. CudworthStephen and Suzanne CoutureJames and Sheryll-Ann CovillEvan Cowles and Brie QuinbyCharles CrociniWilliam Cuddy and Vivien BlackfordJay M. and Harriet L. CudrinMarc and Karyn d'AvignonJanice DabateCatherine Daly and Roy DionJD DawKurtis L. DenisonTimothy and Rebecca DerbySusan and John DewolfJennifer and Marc A. DiBellaMichele and John L. DolanGail A. DonahueKim DorfmanHollis DormanIvy and Jim DoyleMichelle and John DrainFrederick A. and Bebe DudleySusan and Ned P. DunnMarian Dziama and Karen CormierJosephine DziobaDr. Barbara EdelsteinSharon and Bob EfronMs. Mary-Jane Eisen and Robert K. YassDiane EllsworthCarolyn EmersonSusan EngelWendy and Richard FairWilliam and Joan FarquharAnn and Michael FeinbergDr. Edward J. and Mrs. Sherry S. FeinglassStanley and Susan P. FellmanBarbara and Ted FichtenholtzSusan Fierberg and Howard ScheinblumDaniel and Joan S. FineRobert and Beth FinnanceMichael and Martha FlanneryElinor R. and Herbert FlinkF. Bernard Forand and Sandra Wood ForandJane M. and Ralph FormicaErika ForteChantal Foster

Mary-Jane FosterC. Joseph and Beth FoxJerry and Ida FranklinMeghan FreedHarry and Cay FreemanDr. Stephen L. Alloy and Ms. Sharron FreemanNeal B. Freuden and Andrea F. LevyTimothy A. and Roxane M. FromsonDavid and Renee FrostMichael and Adrienne FulcoElizabeth GagneRachel GalliganPeter and Melissa GambardellaMarilda Gandara and Scott O'KeefeRobert GarreyTom and Cynthia GartenHarold and Ava GeetterElaine Geha and Fred BrownsteinKen and Jennifer GeislerPeggy GindenRaymond and Barbara GirardRobert V. and Jean GiuntaBeverly and Abraham GlassmanCatherine GodinAlice and Gary GoldFelice GoldmanLinda and Ira GoldmanMegan and Jay GoldsteinFirooz and Maria GolkarLaurel GoodgionAnn C. Gowdey and Dr. Bruce A. BackusCate Grady-BensonPamela and Timothy GranucciDaniel G. Green and Walter LangnerFloyd W. Green, IIIAlbert and Judith GreenspoonMartha GriffinElizabeth and Richard J. GruberPierre and MaryEllen GuertinRobyn GuimontVivian HaasFrank HagamanDiana Haghighat and Gerardo GutierriezElisa Hale and Donald GroveJohn and Marian HansonWilliam and Marsha HarbisonPatricia Hartman and Michelle St. MarieNanci and Andrew HarveyNeil and Roxy HassettRozanne Hauser and Louis MazzottaFrank Haviland and Shirley Mae NeuAngeline HeinDavid J. and Lauren D. HenryRonald V. and Patricia HensleyCharles J. and Karen HerbertDebbie HershMaureen HesneyRobert B. Hewey and Carol SimpsonRobert and Colleen HilliardCathy HitchcockAlden Hobart

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Elisabeth HolderWarren HollisterSusan Holmes and Bessy ReynaMarianne HornKennedy and Jennifer HudnerDorinda HultgrenPolly HuntingtonLinda JainchillMolly JamesKeats and Joseph JarmonEvan H. Johnson and Kevin ChickGeorge and Janet JonesFellis and Harold JordanJeanne KaiserDaniel J. and Lori KaseJohn and Dorothy KaszyckiHarriet R. and I. William KatzAlan and Carolyn KaufmanKaren Kelleher*Marian KellnerPatty and Steve KelmarHilda and Arthur KestenDonna M. KidwellJennifer and James KimenkerKitchen and Bath Design ConstructionMyra R. and William KleinmanMark F. and Carolyn J. KorberDavid J. and Ruth KrugmanChristine C. and Roy KrumpermanLinda LamotheValerie A. LaMotteSheena LandfearSusannah LandisMarilou and Mike LangJanet Lapierre-GreenAndrea LaplacePaula LaroccoMarcia LattimoreAnn and Bill LazarekLaurie LeaderElizabeth LeeteDawn LegerWilliam and Deanna LeikinJohn W. and Joyce R. LemegaMichael S. and Carolyn W. LevineMichael LevinsonSandra P. LewisLorraine LibbyKaren LichtDoreen LintonBarbara and Bing LiuPhilip and Sharen LomJudith LoopstokPeggy LorenceJennifer and Richard LotsteinElaine LowengardJia Luo and Michael MontsKevin M. and Denise LynchPatty and William MaceGlen MacLeodRon and Laura MaggioStacy MandelkerRobert and Terri MansfieldGuy and Sharon Marhewka

Eileen M. Marks and Ed MikolowskyMary Martin and Jeff A. AmellMichael Martone and Jose Fernando Zapata SalazarAlan and Claudette MarvelliFran Mayer and David WeillBetsy McAleerErin McGurkJoe Ann and Samuel McKayTara Trifon and Matthew MetnetskyThomas and Marjorie MichalskiFrancoise and Hans MillerKathleen MillerDr. M. Stephen and Miriam MillerRachel MillerDavid Miner and Stephanie RobinerAnn and Gregory MittelmannSusan Monks and Mary-Ann McNamaraRobert and Stephanie MooreJames and Joanne MorganJean MoriartyPat and Larry MorrisonDr. Theodore F. and Carole MuchaJan and Ken MusenBarbie Nadal-Cristofaro and Victor CristofaroPhyllis and Don NaplesDonna and Jack NashDanielle K. and Jim NaylorCarolyn NeelyLeigh Newman and Gary StarrMaureen NicholsonKathy and Walter NicksaJenifer NobleDon NoelWil NoelChristiane NollRobert D. Norman and Laura CracoSean and Paula O'BrienEileen O'DonnellBill and Joy O'SullivanTracey OBrienHarriet OdlumWilliam S. Okeson and Beverly SimsMichelle and Sam OlivaRichard Orr and Cynthia CourtneyJoseph PaceVittoria Pace Kathi and Andy PackerAnn D. and Borden W. Painter, Jr.Scott and Susanne PapeAlan and Michele ParkerMarlene PassmanDavid Pavis Penny A. and John E. PearsonGinny PerkinsRalph PerkinsGail and Michael PerlmanMaryjane PerrierCharles and Jean PickensSarajane and Barry PickettDave PickusDaria and Peter PlummerJack and Lynn Plummer

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Leslie PollackAbbi and Vinny PollicitaFrances PorterSandra and George PruceAnita and Monty RackowMarion and Seth RadeenJo-Anne Rankin and John WilliamsSusan RathgeberAnn ReedPatricia and Edgar ReedAlvin B. ReinerMargaret and Charles RichJoan and Barry RichterMs. Annemarie H. RiemerJudith RifkinNancy and Stephen Roberts Deborah RoncariChris and Kathleen RohrsWilliam RosedaleJune RosenBarbara J. and Alan RosenbergMichele RosenbergMonica and Cliff RosenbergJune M. RosenblattDavid and Jane RosenfieldJoanna and Eric RosenthalSari and Jim RosokoffEnid M. RossMarjorie RossDonald and Nancy RosslerDr. Anne Rothstein and Jane HellmanJoel and Susan RottnerBarbara RubinBarbara RudnickSteven Russo and Elizabeth ChristieWilliam Goba and Joan Russoniello- GobaAlan and Jan RustJennifer and Christian SagerLinda M. SamoncikMartha Sandefer and Frederick SweitzerDency C. Sargent and Bob SawyerCarolyn and Frank SatalineMeg SautterGuthrie Sayen and Patricia BaroneBernice SchaeferSusan SchenkerJohn J. and Suzanne D. SchlossRalph D. and Louise SchmollMalcolm and Sally SchneiderLinda ScusselPedro Segarra and Charlie OrtizEileen SeigerLeon H. and Brenda SeitelmanBernie SeligJudith and Gerard SelzerAndrew and Karen SerioCandance J. and William ShanahanMelissa Sheffy HouseholdRobert SheplerJulie W. and Steven ShifreenJoseph Shortall and Sara BernsteinShortell FramingBarbara Sicherman

Penny and Steve SigalIrene E. and Allen B. SilbersteinDina SilvaBruce and Sandra SimondsIrene SimoneDarlene C. and Guy A. SimonianDouglas and Roberta SimpsonEllen SiutaRichard and Raimi SlaterMark SlittGilbert and Ruth L. SmallPhyllis and Howard SmallLeslie Smith and Philip WellmanMary A. and William H. SmyersShari and Howard SolonRuth and Howard SovronskyDeborah L. SpencerCatherine J. SperaErnest H. SpielerFelix J. and Helene L. SpringerAnne E. Stanback and Charlotte M. KinlockGlenn StanisewskiLawrence StarrScott and Jane StearnsDot and George StoneMs. Janet StultingJames G. and Marcia E. SuttonPatricia Tanger and Ken RawolleJerry and Eve TarreRae and Margery Tattenbaum-FineJohn and Barbara TaussigAllan B. and Sally S. TaylorThe Betty Knox FoundationTownsend ThomasJeffrey R. and Laurie TishlerKaren Tomasko and Robert GoodmanHumphrey Tonkin and Jane EdwardsDan and Janet TracySally F. and Thomas TresseltRoberta TyskaDouglas and Mildred UnfriedGary and Pam VollingerJames and Kay WadeLaura and Matthew WallaceAnn WassellCarolyn WeiserVeronika WestbrookReeves Westmoreland*Robert and Penelope WhalenDan and Isabelle WheltonGretchen H. WiedieSherwood S. and Magrieta L. WillardCarolyn and Paul WilsonVirginia WolfArnold and Myrna WyseJoann ZamparoMary ZemanAmy ZittounLiz and Richard ZlatkusMargaret ZornShari Zwick

*deceased

9.1.19 - 10.14.20 9.1.19 - 11.10.20ANNUAL FUND DONORSANNUAL FUND DONORS 9.1.19 - 11.10.20