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WWe put together this season of dissncsve American voices back in November 2015. At the sme we could not predict the outcome of the U.S. elecson, or the divisions and dangers exposed by such brutal and cynical poliscal grandstanding. Nevertheless, we did anscipate that something classic and smeless, with a good dose of humor, earnestness, love, and irreverence might be a valuable tonic for what ails us all. Wilder dWilder defies category and expectasons with this play. He offers us characters equally unpredictable, riotous and romansc, brilliant and blind. These are very American hearts and spirits on stage. May our rendezvous with them nourish and invigorate our wintry souls.

Welcome,

Graham Smith in The Rainmaker, 2013. Kathryn Petersen in Dividing the Estate, 2011. Photos by Mark Garvin.

- Zak Berkman, Producing Director

In 1938, at age 41, Thornton Niven Wilder had already published 4 novels as well as numerous plays and essays, been produced on and off Broadway, translated works from French and Danish, written for Hollywood, and become a much sought-after lecturer. He had more than arrived on the literary and theatre scenes. His most recent work at the time, the play Our Town, challenged the prevailing mode of theatrical realism, enjoyed a successful run on Broadway, and won him a second Pulitzer Prize, making Wilder the only writer to have ever won the award in both literature and drama. And so it seems a curious choice that, writing amidst the larger context of the Great Depression and as Europe hurtled towards war that Wilder described as a “rush to the abyss...visible all over the world,” that one of American’s most celebrated writers at the time would give us what he called a “broad low comedy, based upon a Viennese classic of 1842” by Johann Nestroy.

Nestroy’s three-act musical comedy called Einen Jux will er sich machen (or “He Just Wants to Have Fun”) was also an adaptation of an earlier comedy by Englishman John Oxenford, whose one-act A Day Well Spent dates back to 1835. Wilder borrowed from Nestroy’s text, resulting in The Merchant of Yonkers. After a short unsuccessful run on Broadway, Wilder shelved it, calling it his “Ugly Duckling” but still had hopes for it in the future. A World War and economic recovery later, one of Wilder’s actor friends, Ruth Gordon, who he wanted as Dolly originally, convinced him to revise the play and it opened (with very little script changes) as The Matchmaker in London and then New York in 1954. That gets adapted into the hugely successful musical Hello Dolly! in 1964. But why was Wilder writing a farce/comedy to begin with in the 1930s, when up to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed? Was it simply, as Wilder’s biographer put it, “a belief that in dark and perilous times, people need and want the ballast of laughter”?

In a 1939 interview, Wilder described his work as “French in form...German in sentiment...and American in eagerness and energy.” This youthful spirit and forward lean can easily be located in America, which, as Wilder’s close friend Gertrude Stein professed, “has always identified itself with world destiny.” This sentiment was most recently echoed in President Obama’s Farewell speech on January 10: “The work of democracy has always been hard... But the long sweep of America has been defined by forward motion, a constant widening of our founding creed to embrace all and not just some.”

While on his lecture tours in the American heartland during the 1930s, Wilder witnessed Depression era hardships and despair first hand, but also noted countless variations of American grit and ingenuity and diversity. When he was in Chicago in 1933, he gradually became enthralled with the sprawling Century of Progress Exhibition. In a letter to Ruth Gordon he wrote, “Artistically it’s one big lapse of taste, but on such a big scale that it becomes somehow important. I love it; I trudge all over those bright awkward acres, staring at my fellow-citizens. I see the back side of it: the immense personnel a little frantically earning a living, because scores of my students are selling hotdogs and pushing rickshas [sic] and holding information booths.” He was elated when the Exhibition officials asked him to compose an attendance certificate. Wilder knew what a special event this was in the lives of Depression era visitors who gathered hard-earned money to travel to and see the fair. It read:

Be it known to my grandchildren, and to their grandchildren that I [insert name] was present at the Century of Progress, an exposition raised in a time of doubt and hesitation by the gallantry of the American spirit; lighted through the genius of man by the rays of [the star] Arcturus; and that there I obtained instruction, enjoyment and the sense of wonder.

The optimistic eagerness, joyful energy, and sense of adventure integral to this story are much more than a diversion, but an expression of Wilder’s great love, admiration, and hope for America’s buoyant spirit. As we begin a new year and a new chapter in America, let’s answer the plea in this play for a more free and full participation in life and embrace the creative demand of our consummate forward motion, ingenuity, and grit that is uniquely ours as Americans.

Wilder’s Comedy and the Gallantry of the American Spirit By Gina Pisasale

WILDER’S EARLY YEARS, 1897-19151897 Born in Madison, Wisconsin1906 Moves to Hong Kong (May) and to Berkeley, California (October)1906-10 Attends Emerson Public School in Berkeley1910-11 Attends China Inland Mission School, Chefoo (Yantai), China1912-13 Attends Thacher School, Ojai, California The Russian Princess, Wilder’s first play known to be produced, is performed by

Thacher students1915-16 Graduates from Berkeley High School; active in school dramatics

UNIVERSITY YEARS, 1915-261915-17 Attends Oberlin College; publishes regularly1920 Receives BA, Yale College (with brief service with U.S. Army in 1918); many publications1920 Teaches at Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey (’21-’25, and ’27-’28)1924 First residency at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire1926 Receives M.A. degree in French, Princeton University The Trumpet Shall Sound produced in New York Off-Broadway The Cabala (first novel)

EARLY CAREER, 1926-371927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Pulitzer Prize)1930s Part-time teacher, University of Chicago (comparative literature and composition);

lectures across the country; first visit to Hollywood (1934); extensive foreign travel1930 The Woman of Andros (novel)1931 The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays (six full one-act plays)1932 Lucrece (translation of André Obey’s Le Viol de Lucrèce) opens on Broadway1935 Heaven’s My Destination (novel)1937 Adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House for Broadway

OUR TOWN AND THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH, 1938-481938 Our Town opens on Broadway (Pulitzer Prize); performs role of The Stage Manager1942 The Skin of Our Teeth opens on Broadway (Pulitzer Prize) Writes screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Shadow of a Doubt1942-45 Military service with Army Air Force Intelligence in North Africa and Italy1948 The Ides of March (novel) Performs in his plays in summer stock The Victors off-Broadway (translation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Morts Sans Sépulture)

MIDDLE YEARS, 1949-571949 Major role in Goethe Convocation in Aspen; lectures widely abroad1951-52 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard1952 Gold Medal for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters1953 On cover of Time Magazine (January 12)1955 The Matchmaker opens on Broadway with Ruth Gordon The Alcestiad produced at Edinburgh Festival (as A Life in the Sun)1957 Awarded German Booksellers Peace Prize, first American to receive this award

LATER YEARS, 1961-751961 Opera version of The Long Christmas Dinner (music by Paul Hindemith, libretto by Wilder)

premieres in Mannheim, Germany (December 20)1962 Plays for Bleeker Street (Someone from Assisi, Infancy, and Childhood) performed at Circle in

the Square Theater in New York City Operatic version of The Alcestiad (music by Louise Talma, libretto by Wilder) premieres in

Frankfurt, Germany (February 28)1963 Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom1964 Hello, Dolly! Opens on Broadway starring Carol Channing1965 Awarded National Book Committee’s Medal for Literature1967 The Eighth Day (novel); receives National Book Award for Fiction1975 Dies in sleep in Hamden, Connecticut (December 7)

Thornton Wilder Chronology

Director of Production CHARLES T. BRASTOW*

Set Designer Costume Designer TONY STRAIGES MARLA JURGLANIS

Lighting Designer Composer/Music Director/Sound Designer DENNIS PARICHY LIZ FILIOS

Choreographer Dramaturg SAMANTHA READING GINA PISASALE

Stage Manager AUDREY M. BROWN*

Abigail Adams, Artistic Director & CEO

Ellen Anderson, General Manager & CFO Zak Berkman, Producing Director

THEATRE ARTISANS

Technical Director Assistant Technical Director JOSEPH FRANZ DYLAN JAMISON

Scenic Artist Scenic Carpenter WILL SCRIBNER ERIC LANG

Master Electricians Costume Shop Manager GREGORY SCOTT MILLER MARLA J. JURGLANIS EMALYN WITTER

Properties Master Cutter/Draper SARAH PIERCE LEIGH PARADISE

Assistant Properties Master Wardrobe DANIELLE FITZGEORGE BRIDGET BRENNAN

Sound Engineer LUCAS FENDLAY

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by Thornton WilderDirected by Abigail Adams

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THE CASTHorace Vandergelder

Ambrose KemperJoe Scanlon/AugustGertrude/The Cook

Cornelius HacklErmengarde

Malachi StackMrs. Levi

Barnaby TuckerMrs. MolloyMinnie FayA Cabman

RudolfMiss Flora Van Huysen

MusicianMusician

Graham Smith*James Ijames*Stephen Novelli*Marcia Saunders*Brandon Meeks*Mina Kawahara*Pete Pryor*Kathryn Petersen*Christopher R. BrownTeri Lamm*Tabitha Allen*Mark Lazar*Peter DeLaurier*Melanye Finister*Liz Filios*Melanie Hsu

TIME Late 1880s

PLACE ACT I: Vandergelder’s store and home in Yonkers, NY

ACT II: Mrs. Molloy’s hat shop, New York

ACT III: The Harmonia Gardens Restaurant on the Battery

ACT IV: Miss Van Huysen’s house, New York

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Thanks to Pat and Jane Lusk for their extraordinary commitment to this production.

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Thornton Wilder PlaywrightThornton Wilder (1897-1975) was a novelist and playwright whose works celebrate the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. He is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both drama and fiction: for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and two plays, Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth. His other novels include The Cabala, The Woman of Andros, Heaven’s My Destination, The Ides of March, The Eighth Day and Theophilus North. His other major dramas include The Matchmaker (adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!) and The Alcestiad. The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Pullman Car Hiawatha and The Long Christmas Dinner are among his well-known shorter plays. He enjoyed enormous success as a translator, adaptor, actor, librettist and lecturer/teacher and his screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day. Wilder’s many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. More information on Thornton Wilder and his family is available in Penelope Niven’s definitive biography, Thornton Wilder: A Life (2013) as well as on the Wilder Family website, www.thorntonwilder.com.

Abigail Adams DirectorCompany Member since 1975. People’s Light: Artistic Director & CEO. During her 39-year association with the Theatre, Abbey has directed more than sixty plays, including Auctioning the Ainsleys, How to Write a New Book for the Bible, The Cherry Orchard, The Rainmaker, The Trip to Bountiful, Dividing the Estate, Nathan the Wise, and In the Blood. Theatre Includes: Directed readings and workshops of new plays for Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Circle Rep, New York Stage and Film, and the Public Theatre. Teaching: Swarthmore College, New York University, Bryn Mawr College, Carnegie Mellon University, and The Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Ursinus College.

Tabitha Allen Minnie FayPeople’s Light: Sleeping Beauty, The Three Musketeers (The Later Years), and Cinderella. Theatre Includes: The Taming of the Shrew (DSF), This is the Week That Is! (1812), Failure: A Love Story, Local Girls (Azuka), Always Coming Soon: The Future (BRAT), and Vainglorious (Applied Mechanics).

Christopher R. Brown Barnaby Tucker People’s Light: Richard III. Theatre Includes: Ensemble in Macbeth (dir: Kenneth Branagh), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Occupy Verona), Othello in Othello (No Stone Theatre Company), and Flip in Uniform Justice (dir: Chuk Obasi/Intersections International [Fringe Festival]). Film/Television Includes: Mysteries of Laura (co-star), Zachary Romero. Training: BFA, NYU; Stella Adler

Conservatory and Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Website: Christopherr-brown.com.

Peter DeLaurier RudolfCompany Member since 1981. People’s Light: Artistic Associate; recent productions include Richard III, How to Write a New Book for the Bible, The Cherry Orchard, Ghosts, The Trip to Bountiful, The Winter’s Tale, and Of Mice and Men. Also: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Man From Nebraska, King Lear, Sherlock Holmes in two productions, Anne of Green Gables (which

he also adapted), Holes, In the Blood, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol (also adaptor), Romeo & Juliet (also director), Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Voir Dire, Abundance, Sister Carrie and Kabuki Achilles. Theatre Includes: Acted and directed extensively with the Lantern Theater - An Iliad, Underneath the Lintel (twice), Skylight, QED (twice), Uncle Vanya, Heroes, Emma and Train

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Driver, (Directed 36 Views, Sizwe Bansi..., The Island and Vigil) and many other local theatres. Cofounded Delaware Theatre Company. Artistic Director of New Stage Theater, Jackson, MS. Awards: Two Barrymore Awards and six nominations.

Liz Filios Musician/Composer/Music Director/Sound DesignerPeople’s Light: Arthur and the Tale of the Red Dragon, Cinderella, Noises Off. Theatre Includes: As You Like It (Lantern Theater); Passion (Arden Theatre); Into The Woods (Theatre Horizon); Midsummer (Inis Nua); Eurydice (Wilma Theater); Vincent In Brixton (Walnut Street Theatre); The Tempest (South Coast Rep). Sound Design/Music Directing credits include: An Iliad (Lantern

Theater); Hamlet (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, WillPower Tour); The Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). Liz has been honored as a Barrymore Award winner, an Independence Fellow, and an F. Otto Haas Award winner. Training: BFA in Musical Theatre, University of Michigan; Cudamani Summer Institute, Bali, Indonesia; Canada’s National Voice Intensive, Vancouver, B.C.; Directing Apprentice, Cape Town Opera Company, South Africa.

Melanye Finister Miss Flora Van HuysenCompany Member since 1991. People’s Light: All My Sons, Fences, The Winter’s Tale, Seven Guitars, The Return of Don Quixote, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Something You Did, Fabulation, and The Member of the Wedding. Theatre Includes: Wilma Theater, Arden Theatre Company, Flashpoint Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Philadelphia

Theatre Company, Venture Theatre, Temple Theaters and Walnut Street Theatre. Training: BFA, Carnegie Mellon University. Melanye is an artist and resident company member at People’s Light, a member of Wilma Hothouse, and a board member at PlayPenn.

Melanie Hsu MusicianPeople’s Light debut. Theatre Includes: Music for Redbone: A Biomythography by Mahogany L. Browne (Poetic License Theater Festival), Going Down Mt. Moriah (FringeArts), Diecious (Source Festival). Film/Television Includes: Music for Funny Bunny (Magic Owl @ SXSW), The Never Bell (Daggewood Films @ BAM), Names of Women (The Collective Sex). Personal work: I

Was a Phoenix (2016), Call Home the Crow (2014), This Living Room (2011). Training: Wesleyan University, Music at Port Milford, Lincoln Center Teaching Artist Development Lab. Website: www.melaniehsu.com.

James Ijames Ambrose KemperPeople’s Light: Gossamer, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Shipwrecked. Theatre Includes: Wilma Theatre, Arden Theatre, Interact Theatre, Philadelphia Theater Company, Delaware Theatre Company and Baltimore Center Stage. Training: BA from Morehouse College, MFA from Temple University. James is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Villanova University.

Website: www.jamesijames.com.

Mina Kawahara ErmengardePeople’s Light debut. Theatre Includes: A New Brain (Theatre Horizon); Twelfth Night, Godspell, Sometimes in Prague (University of the Arts). Training: BFA in Musical Theatre, University of the Arts.

Teri Lamm Mrs. MolloyCompany Member since 2015. People’s Light: Cydney Malloy in The Harassment of Iris Malloy, Fanny Dashwood/Charlotte Palmer in Sense and Sensibility, Annalee in Auctioning the Ainsleys, Varya in The Cherry Orchard, Leah in Row After Row, Jessie Mae in The Trip to Bountiful, Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice. Theatre Includes: The Iceman Cometh (Broadway), Cyrano

de Bergerac (Roundabout), Palace of the End, Hannah and Martin, Habitat, Little Eyolf, Time and the Conways (Epic Theater Ensemble), Midsummer, Equus, Flea in Her Ear, Devil’s Disciple (The Alley Theater), How I Learned to Drive (Dallas Theater Center). Film/Television Includes: Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Third Watch, Trifling With Fate. Training: MFA, NYU.

Mark Lazar A CabmanCompany Member since 1998. People’s Light: Sense and Sensibility, The Cherry Orchard, The Rainmaker, Master Builder, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Of Mice and Men, King Lear, The Foreigner, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, and all the pantos. Theatre Includes: North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (12 seasons; 10 Christmas Carols as Ebenezer

Scrooge), Madison Repertory Theatre (10 seasons; Founding Member), American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Rep and most of Wisconsin’s other professional theatres. Also: Charlotte Rep, Festival Stage of Winston-Salem, New American, Cider Mill and East Lynn. Film/Television Includes: Frame of Mind, Folkbooks (PBS Award), Shake Rag Alley. Radio: Ebenezer Scrooge, Delaware Public Radio’s annual theatrical broadcast of A Christmas Carol, 15 years Broadcaster (USA and International). National Tour: Charlotte’s Web. Training: B.A. Theatre, Dean’s List, University of Wisconsin.

Brandon Meeks Cornelius HacklPeople’s Light debut. Theatre Includes: Hamlet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth, Henry VIII, King John, The Tempest, Shakespeare For Kids, Snow White, Romeo and Juliet, Comedy of Errors (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); A Christmas Carol, The Winter’s Tale, Beautiful in the Extreme, The Red Badge of Courage (Roxy Regional Theater). Film/Television Includes: Olives.

Stephen Novelli Joe Scanlon/AugustCompany Member since 1974. People’s Light: Artistic Associate; Co-Artistic Director 1993-1997; Associate Artistic Director 1997-2009. Actor: Hamlet, Sister Carrie, The Playboy of the Western World, Sacco and Vanzetti: A Vaudeville, A Christmas Carol, The Little Foxes, Julius Caesar, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Legacy of Light, King Lear, The Masterbuilder, The Winter’s Tale,

The Cherry Orchard, How to Write a New Book for the Bible, and Richard III. Director: Dutchman, Glengarry Glen Ross, Valley Song, Measure for Measure, Camping With Henry And Tom, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes. Theatre Includes: The Beaux Stratagem (Barter Theatre), Philadelphia, Here I Come (Soho Rep), Rumors (Walnut St. Theatre), The Tempest (Arden Theatre Co.), A Skull in Connemara (Lantern Theatre), Eurydice and Angels in America (Wilma Theatre), Inherit The Wind (Bristol Riverside Theatre).

Kathryn Petersen Mrs. LeviCompany Member since 1986. People’s Light: Most recently appeared in Ghosts. As a playwright, Kathryn has written six of People’s Light’s holiday pantos. Theatre Includes: Over seventy productions regionally. She is an Associate Professor of Theater at Arcadia University, where she recently directed Picnic by William Inge.

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Pete Pryor Malachi StackAssociate Artistic Director and Company Member since 2010. People’s Light: Director: Sleeping Beauty, The Three Musketeers (The Later Years), Stella and Lou, Arthur and the Tale of the Red Dragon*, Bach at Leipzig, Cinderella, Aladdin*, Noises Off, Mr. Hart & Mr. Brown, Treasure Island (*co-author). Actor: The Harassment of Iris Malloy, Richard III, The Three Musketeers (The

Later Years), Biloxi Blues, The Cherry Orchard, Pride and Prejudice, The Rainmaker, The Winter’s Tale, Of Mice and Men, Treasure Island, A Wrinkle in Time. Pete has directed the last eight holiday pantos. His play Beautiful Boy was produced at People’s Light in 2012. Theatre Includes: The Wilma, The Arden Theatre, Act II Playhouse, The Philadelphia Theatre Co, Theatre Exile, Azuka, 1812 Productions, Montgomery Theatre, PA Shakespeare, Delaware Theatre Co, Cape May Stage, The Boarshead, and Pittsburgh City Theatre. Co-founder and former Producing Artistic Director of 1812 Productions. Resident artist/drama instructor at the Pathway School since 2005. Pete is a Lunt-Fontanne fellow and Independence Fellowship Artist and winner of four Barrymore Awards. Film/Television Includes: Limitless, Lebanon Pa, Cellar, Backwards, Mayor Cupcake, Seduction of the Will, Hack, The In Crowd, NBFS, Surrender Dorothy.

Marcia Saunders Gertrude/The CookCompany member since 1976. People’s Light: Over 85 productions including Mrs. Jennings in Sense and Sensibility, Stella in Stella and Lou, Mrs. Bennet in Pride & Prejudice, Dotty in Noises Off, Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Skin of our Teeth, My Mother Said I Never Should, A Room Of One’s Own,

Heartbreak House, Abelard & Heloise, Toys in the Attic, Memory of Water, The Stonehouse, Hamlet, The Misanthrope, The Taming of the Shrew. Theatre Includes: Recently made her directorial debut at Candlelight Theater in Delaware directing Steel Magnolias. Off Broadway: The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic Theatre Co.) Regional: The Wilma, Arden Theatre, Two River Theater, Quintessence Theater. Playing Claire in A Delicate Balance garnered Marcia a Best Supporting Actress award and she has received numerous Barrymore nominations including Best Actress for Stella and Lou and A Man from Nebraska. Training: Graduate Programs, LAMDA.

Graham Smith Horace VandergelderCompany Member since 1999. People’s Light: A Single Shard, The Cherry Orchard, King Lear, Dividing the Estate, The Rainmaker, Shipwrecked, Valley Song, A Delicate Balance, Camping With Henry and Tom, The Miser, The Crucible, Twelfth Night. Theatre Includes: Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Oedipus, A Man for All Seasons (NC Shakespeare), As You Like It, The Tempest,

Dracula, Humanafest (Actors Theatre Louisville), Proof, Misanthrope, Angels in America, The Substance of Fire, Dinner With Friends, (Charlotte Repertory), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Moonlight and Magnolias, Red (Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach), Best of Enemies, The Seafarer, 12 Angry Men, Camping With Henry and Tom, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Florida Rep). Training: 13 tours with family vaudeville-magic show, Saucy Sorcery, BA, Davidson College; MFA, Hilberry Classic Theatre.

Charles T. Brastow Director of ProductionCompany Member since 1987. People’s Light: Director of Production for last eight seasons, previously Resident Stage Manager for 15 years and Sound Designer for over 125 Productions. Theatre Includes: Arena Stage, Arden Theatre, Primary Stages, Delaware Theatre Company, Philadelphia Shakespeare Company, PlayPenn, Nickelodeon, Greg Thompson Productions, Carnival Cruise Lines, Zap Productions, Miller-Reich Productions,

MLR Theatrical. Training: Clarion University of Pennsylvania; MA in History from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Audrey M. Brown Stage ManagerCompany Member since 2015. People’s Light: 16 shows over 19 years. Theatres Include: Riverside Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Florida Rep, NC Shakespeare, Festival Stage of Winston-Salem, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Rep, The Shakespeare Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center.

J. Jared Janas Wig & Hair DesignPeople’s Light: Sense and Sensibility, All My Sons, The Cherry Orchard, Fences, and Seven Guitars. Theatre Includes: Broadway designs and consultations include The Visit, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Motown the Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher, All About Me, and Next to Normal. Recent off-Broadway designs include Invisible Thread, Allegro, Passion, Father Comes Home from the Wars, Atomic, Lady Day, Bad Jews, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, and Detroit ‘67. Recent regional designs include The Bandstand (Paper Mill Playhouse), Les Miserables (Dallas Theater Center), His Girl Friday, Breaking the Code, Kiss Me Kate and On the Town (Barrington Stage). Film/Television Includes: Gotham, Inside Amy Schumer, 30 Rock, Lola Versus, and Angelica.

Marla Jurglanis Costume DesignerCompany member since 1998. People’s Light: Most recently The Mountaintop, Ring of Fire, Sense and Sensibility (Barrymore Award), All My Sons, Biloxi Blues, The Cherry Orchard, Row After Row, Bach at Leipzig (Barrymore Award) and Pride and Prejudice (Barrymore Award). Past designs include Ghosts, Noises Off, Hatchetman, Legacy of Light, Nathan the Wise, A Tale of Two Cities and Six Characters in Search of An Author. She has designed over 100 productions for People’s Light. Theatre Includes: Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Villanova Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Arden Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, AMTF, Virginia Stage Company, Alliance Theatre Company and George Street Playhouse. Training: MFA, Florida State University.

Dennis Parichy Lighting DesignerCompany Member since 2004. People’s Light: Sense and Sensibility, Auctioning the Ainsleys, How to Write a New Book for the Bible, The Cherry Orchard, Ghosts, The Rainmaker, The Trip to Bountiful, Seven Guitars, Dividing the Estate, Legacy of Light, King Lear, The Day of the Picnic, Nathan the Wise, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Of Mice and Men, In the Blood, The Member of the Wedding. Theatre Includes: Broadway: Talley’s Folly, Knock Knock, Fifth of July, As Is, Crimes of the Heart, Burn This, Redwood Curtain. Off-Broadway: Ashes, Playland, Valley Song, The Cryptogram, The Road to Mecca. Other: Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike, The Pajama Game, Book of Days, Sunset Boulevard, Sorrows and Rejoicings, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Life on the Mississippi, A Streetcar Named Desire. Awards: An OBIE, A Drama Desk Award, two Dramalogue Awards.

Gina Pisasale DramaturgCompany Member since 2012. People’s Light: Mr. Hart and Mr. Brown, Seven Guitars, This Wonderful Life, Noises Off, The Rainmaker, The Devil’s Music, Ghosts, Pride and Prejudice, Dear Elizabeth, Bach at Leipzig, Fences, Row After Row, The Cherry Orchard, Biloxi Blues, All My Sons, Sense and Sensibility, Richard III, A Single Shard, The Harassment of Iris Malloy, The Mountaintop and all the pantos since 2012. Theatre Includes: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2006 & 2014), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cyrano de Bergerac, A View from the Bridge, Hamlet (Grammy Nominated), Twelfth Night (all at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Throne of Blood (World Premiere, OSF & BAM), The Arabian Nights (Arden), Topdog/Underdog (GoKash Productions),

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Henry V (Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival), The Winter’s Tale (University of Maryland), Villanova Theatre (set design), 1812, Media Theatre, Hedgerow Theatre, Greenlight Productions, Genesis Shakespeare Festival. Other Dramaturgy credits: Rock Idol Week (A&E Biographies). Training: M.A. (Villanova), PhD candidate (University of Maryland, College Park).

Samantha Reading ChoreographerCompany Member since 2010. People’s Light: Director: Richard III, Biloxi Blues, Pride & Prejudice, Stargirl, Beautiful Boy, A Wrinkle in Time, Kidnapped. Choreographer: Sleeping Beauty, Sense and Sensibility, The Cherry Orchard, Arthur and the Tale of the Red Dragon, Cinderella, Noises Off, The Winter’s Tale, Aladdin, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Fight Director: All My Sons, Fences, Bach at Leipzig, Of Mice and Men, The Three Musketeers, Legacy of Light. Playwright: Co-Author Musical Pantos Sleeping Beauty, Arthur and the Tale of the Red Dragon, and Aladdin. Theatre Includes: Passage Theatre, McCarter Theatre, 1812 Productions, Arden Theatre Company, Lantern Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Delaware Shakespeare Festival, Act II Playhouse, Mauckingbird Theatre Company and Villanova Theatre. Samantha co-founded Dancing With The Students, a non-profit organization that offers ballroom dance instruction to 5th - 8th grade students in North Philadelphia, teaches at Drexel University, is an eight time Barrymore Nominee, and received the 2014 & 2015 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Choreography/Movement.

Tony Straiges Set DesignerPeople’s Light: The Cherry Orchard, Dividing the Estate, Shipwrecked, Noises Off. Theatre Includes: Broadway: Timbuktu!, Golden Child, I Hate Hamlet, History of the American Film, Artist Descending a Staircase, Rumors, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Enchanted April, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual. Off Broadway: From Door to Door, Meet Me In St. Louis, Tea at Five, Treasure Island, Summer. Regional: Lady Windermere’s Fan, Savages (Baltimore Center Stage); The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Yale Rep); A Flea in Her Ear, Angels in America (Alley Theater); Learned Ladies of Park Avenue, The Glass Menagerie (Hartford Stage). Designed for Royal Swedish Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet. Design models and sketches are included in the Tobin Theater Collection at the McHay Art Museum, San Antonio; Lawrence and Lee Theater Institute at the University of Ohio; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Library, New York City; and the Harvard Theater Collection, Harvard University.

Abigail Adams Artistic Director & CEODuring her 39-year association with the Theatre, Abbey has directed more than sixty plays, including Auctioning the Ainsleys, How to Write a New Book for the Bible, The Cherry Orchard, The Rainmaker, The Trip to Bountiful, Dividing the Estate, Nathan the Wise, and In the Blood. She has directed readings and workshops of new plays for Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey,

Circle Rep, New York Stage and Film, and the Public Theatre. Abbey served for ten years on the faculty of Swarthmore College and has also taught at New York University, Bryn Mawr College, Carnegie Mellon University, and The Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. She holds an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Ursinus College. She is married to Lee Devin.

Ellen Anderson General Manager & CFOEllen has been at People’s Light since 2005. She has twenty-five years of experience in finance and accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant in Pennsylvania and New York. In 2011, Ms. Anderson was given leadership of the Theatre’s wholly-owned, for-profit subsidiary, The Farmhouse Bistro and Catering facility. Prior to joining People’s Light, Ms. Anderson was the Director

of Finance at The Pennsylvania Ballet for fifteen years. She started her accounting career in the audit division of Ernst & Young LLP in New York and Philadelphia. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Manhattan College. She is married and has two sons, Erik and Reid.

Zak Berkman Producing DirectorZak has been at People’s Light since 2011. He has over twenty years of experience producing theatre and developing new plays. Zak was Associate to Broadway producer, Margo Lion, and the Founding Executive Director of Artistic Programming with the multiple award winning Epic Theatre Ensemble in New York City. Zak is a playwright, director, dramaturg, and former soap

opera writer. His play, Beauty on the Vine, is published by Dramatist Play Service and was produced in New York starring Olivia Wilde. His new play The Harassment of Iris Malloy premiered at People’s Light in June 2016 and will be produced this season at Detroit Public Theatre. Howlround.com publishes Zak’s series about the New Play Frontiers Residency & Commission program at People’s Light as well as other essays. Zak is married to Teri Lamm. They have two sons, Eliot and Theo.

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION

VISIONWe’ll make a future rooted in our history of artistic achievement

and fiscal discipline. Our core values are these: excellence in the quality of our plays and programs; service to our community; depth and longevity in our relationships; ongoing engagement with our company, audiences, students, teachers, and funders; and dedication to arts education. They inspire and guide us as we aim to become a place where people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy a range of theatre experiences that begins with entertainment and invites deep learning. We seek to become essential to the civic and cultural life of the Philadelphia region and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

MISSIONPeople’s Light, a professional theatre in Chester County,

Pennsylvania, makes plays drawn from many sources to entertain, inspire, and engage our community. We extend our mission of making and experiencing theatre through arts education programs that excite curiosity about, and deepen understanding of, the world around us. These plays and programs bring people together and provide opportunities for reflection, discovery, and celebration.

ABOUT PEOPLE’S LIGHTFounded in 1974,

People’s Light serves asone of Pennsylvania’s largest professional non- profit theatres, known for our resident company of artists, eclectic mix of productions, and innovative work with young people. In our 8-9

play season, we present stories drawn from ancient times through tomorrow that have direct relevance to our communities and their concerns. In support of this range, we produce classics and contemporary plays, and commission and produce new work: of our 418 productions, over a third (164) have been world or regional premieres.

At People’s Light we enhance our stage work with a variety of Surround Activities that connect us with many Delaware Valley communities near our seven-acre Malvern campus. Arts Discovery extends our mission with school residencies, student matinees that bring youth from 21 high schools to People’s Light each year for free, and a broad array of theatre classes for grades K through 12. This suite of education programs inspires and informs our production work in a reciprocal dance of influence and support. New Play Frontiers explores our American identity by commissioning leading playwrights to create plays informed by meaningful stories of nearby populations, and simultaneously develops audiences with a stake in the work. Community Matters sparks dialogue about vital social issues with free staged readings and town hall-style discussions co-hosted by the Theatre and local service organizations.

People’s Light has always called Chester County home. In 1979 we moved to our current location in Malvern, which includes two black box theatres with 340 and 160 seats respectively; offices; scenic shops; rehearsal halls; classrooms; a restored 18th-century farmhouse to house guest artists; the Bistro restaurant; and the Farmhouse banquet and catering facility that can be rented for special events. The Theatre employs 100 full- and permanent-part-time artists and staff members, most of whom live within 15 miles of the campus, and almost 200 guest artists each season from Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C., and beyond. We operate with an annual budget of $6.2 million and serve 80,000 patrons, guests, students, and community members each year.

STAFFArtistic Director & CEO ABIGAIL ADAMS*General Manager & CFO ELLEN ANDERSONProducing Director ZAK BERKMAN*ARTISTIC & EDUCATIONAssociate Artistic Director PETE PRYOR*Interim Producer for Arts Discovery Programs

DEVON LAUDENSLAGERResident Director SAMANTHA READING*Director of Design JAMES F. PYNE, JR.*Resident Costume Designer MARLA J. JURGLANIS*

Resident Dramaturg GINA PISASALE*Senior Dramaturg LEE DEVIN*Co-Founder/Guest Director KEN MARINI*Artistic Associates PETER DELAURIER* MARY ELIZABETH SCALLEN*

STEPHEN NOVELLI* KATHRYN PETERSEN*New Play Frontiers Commissioned Writers

EISA DAVIS COLMAN DOMINGO KATE FODOR KAREN HARTMAN DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU

KATHRYN PETERSEN*Nat King Cole Project Commission

COLMAN DOMINGO PATRICIA MCGREGORADMINISTRATIONDirector of Data Insight and Tessitura Specialist

AMY WILSONExecutive Associate ERIN SHEFFIELD

Accounting Manager LESA FRANZAccounting Associate CATHERINE KILBURNAdministrative Consultant GRACE GRILLET

Administrative Apprentice GERI NONNEWITZPATRON SERVICESDirector of Patron Services KYLE CANNONSBox Office Manager MARK BLOMEBox Office Manager LEWIS JOHNSONPatron Services Representatives

KAREN BARNETT RACHEL JACOBY

JANE MACMANUS JORIE MOSS LEE STOVERFront of House Manager AMANDA FRANGOULIS House Management Staff TIA ALLEN IAN BRASTOWNATHANIEL BRASTOW

GINA CASTA OWEN COREY TARA CUNNIFFE

LISA D’ANNUNZIOCORINNE DIFRANCESCO

NICOLE FAMIGLETTI ALEX FRANGOULIS CURITA GOODE RACHEL JACOBY STEPHANIE LAVORGNA AGATHA LEACH DAVE MACMURTRIE CARA NARDONE LANEY PLEASANTON JESSICA REAGAN

CAROL RIBNER MARY RYAN DAN SACHAIS MARY SACK

EVE TROJANOV JEFF TUCKER

AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT/COMMUNICATIONSDirector of Marketing & Communications

SHAWN STONEMarketing Manager ROSEMARY DEVINE Design & Digital Manager TORI HARVEY Group Sales Associate KELLY BENEDICT Marketing Apprentice MICHELLE REYESSales Representatives DAVE CLEMENS KAREN HARLIN MICHELL MULDOON

DEVELOPMENTDirector of Development JANE P. MOSSSpecial Events Manager DEBORAH YODERDevelopment Coordinator JENNIFER MULLENDevelopment Associate MEGAN LEACorporate Giving Associate LISA OSTER Development Intern VYN DAVIS COMMUNITY INVESTMENTDirector of Community Investment

MARCIE BRAMUCCIPRODUCTIONDirector of Production CHARLES T. BRASTOW*Technical Director JOSEPH FRANZAssistant Technical Director DYLAN JAMISONScenic Carpenter ERIC LANGScenic Artist WILL SCRIBNER

Properties Master SARAH PIERCEAssistant Properties Master DANIELLE FITZGEORGEMaster Electricians GREGORY SCOTT MILLER

EMALYN WITTERSound Engineer LUCAS FENDLAY

Costume Shop Manager MARLA J. JURGLANIS*Cutter/Draper LEIGH PARADISE Wardrobe Supervisor BRIDGET BRENNANCostume Staff CLAIRE INIE-RICHARDS* MINOU POURSHARIATI

Production Stage Manager KATE MCSORLEY FOSSNER*

Production Associates LIZZIE NIXON SARA O’DONNELL

OPERATIONSFacilities STEPHEN BARNAIKLandscaping PENNSYLVANIA LANDSCAPE

MANAGEMENTFarmhouse/Catering THE FARMHOUSE & BISTRO

Executive Chef JOSEPH MAGUIREChef de cuisine MATTHEW TENNERSous Chef JORGE MEZA CASTRORestaurant Managers STEPHANIE OLIN FRANK SUBRAMANIAN

playbill advertisingED DAVIS ValleyDel Publications 610.918.9300 EdDavis@ValleyDel.com

BOARD AND COMPANYBOARD OF TRUSTEESBrian D. Doerner, PresidentKenneth B. Mumma,

Vice President & TreasurerKatherine H. McNabb,

SecretaryAbigail AdamsBarbara A. AustellJeb BarthTed Capaldi Marc DuvivierKathleen C. GubanichKenneth R. HammChristopher W. Harris Dylan JamisonThomas H. JohantgenDeborah A. LoganPatrick D. Lusk Jeffrey B. McGroartyJessie MooberryMo PaknejadRomona Riscoe BensonNabila SajidNicole Sakowitz

Michael SmithSarah Laureene Snyder John E. Spellman L. Frederick Sutherland Karin B. TakiffRia Walsh Brian C. ZwaanTerence Farrell, ex-officio

HONORARY BOARD OF TRUSTEESKenneth D. Hill, ChairEarl M. BakerGladys BlackWilliam C. BuckSally S. BullardAnne M. CongdonWilliam F. Drake, Jr.Carole Haas GravagnoLeonard C. HaasJosephine KleinPaul J. LevineMargarett F. McKeelSam S. McKeelBenjamin R. Neilson

Hal RealMarilyn SteinbrightPenelope P. Watkins

COMPANY OF ARTISTSAbigail AdamsWendy Bable Carla BelverKevin BergenZak BerkmanDavid BradleyCharles T. BrastowAudrey M. Brown Alda CorteseRussell DavisPeter DeLaurierLee DevinElizabeth Webster DukeMelanye FinisterKate McSorley FossnerLeonard C. HaasSaige Hassler David IngramClaire Inie-Richards Marla J. Jurglanis

Andrew KaneTeri Lamm Mark LazarLouis LippaLarry Malvern Ken MariniRosemarie McKelveySusan McKeyAubie MerryleesPaul MeshejianChristopher Patrick MullenStephen NovelliDennis ParichyKathryn PetersenGina Pisasale Pete PryorJames F. Pyne, Jr.Samantha ReadingMarcia SaundersMary Elizabeth ScallenCathy SimpsonGraham SmithTom TetiGreg WoodJulianna Zinkel

* Member of Resident Ensemble

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MEMBERS AND DONORSWe are deeply grateful to the following individuals for their generous financial support of People’s Light. Benefactors, Patrons and Friends enjoy a number of wonderful benefits, including ticket discounts, special opportunities and invitations to our Annual Members’ Reception. If you would like to learn more about the benefits available to you as a donor, please contact Jennifer Mullen at 610-647-1900, ext. 115 or mullen@peopleslight.org. To make an online donation, visit PeoplesLight.org and click on Get Involved.

BENEFACTORAnonymous (5)Eleanor and James BarkleyRobert and Elaine BielskiRichard P. Brown Jr.Cynthia and Wayne BullaugheyChristopher CarverBarbara R. CobbGrace E. Grillet and Rich EaganNancy and Dick EalesHedy and Joseph ElefritzLaura and Anthony FiorenzaIn Memory of Mike McCarthyCarl and Ann GersbachMelissa and Greg GonvilleBob HaverRichard and Barbara HellerMr. and Mrs. William J. HillPete JakubowskiChristine KanterLewis B. Kinter and Terry

Timberlake-KinterPeg and Michael KramerDebra KratzerRichard Feynman

Eliza LewisSally and Eric LokenEstate of Mary Mathews BrionIn memoriam - William Lyster MayJay and Sue MeloyThe Molinari FamilyDoug and Pat MooberryPaul Nemeth and Jean FloodThe Norris Family Charitable FundBrenda J. OliphantHal Real and Anne SheppardMichael and Sharon ReddingRomona Riscoe BensonMr. and Mrs. Lawrence SagerRoy and Corinne StahlGlenn StroudCharlotte P. TaylorDrake and Sandy WilliamsKent Willing

PATRONAnonymous (3)Peg AllenMarvin and Kathryn AndersenMr. and Mrs. John D. AndersonCharles Arnao and Rosemary Watt

Elisa and John BarbisElizabeth BennettWes and Annette BowersSue and Bob BuccoMr. and Mrs. James M. Buck IIIHans and Wendy BuitendijkYvette and Earle BradfordMr. and Mrs. Peter M. CarnahanChristine and Taylor CaseyKaren Y. CromleyBetsey and Neil CullenEileen CunniffeLawrence Davidson and Janet

AmighiNancy B. DavisPam and Bob DiFilippoBrooke DolanMr. and Mrs. Joseph M. DonleyThomas and Catherine ElderMiriam and Reese EwingAlison and Robert FanelliRuth and Ed FackenthalMorton and Georgia FeingoldTerry and Frank FosterWendy and Calvin Fox

Linda Ann GalanteGottlieb FamilyThe Bruce and Adele Greenfield

FoundationSassan Hejazi and Yassmin GramianTom and Sheila HinkleFrances HoekstraLeon and Danuta HrebienAnn IngramMelanye Finister and David IngramTeri JenkinsJP Morgan Chase EmployeesCaroline R. KemmererLee and Sheri KentnerIn Honor of Barbara and Rhett

AustellRick and Maria KirijanRobert KirkwoodMelissa KobelinDrs. Ernest and Helen KorchakMr. and Mrs. Robert C. LegniniPaul and Sally LevineEllen Losano-RamseyKathleen and Paul MacMurrayBernadette Manning

THE LEGACY CIRCLEIt is with gratitude and pride that People’s Light recognizes the members of the Legacy Circle at People’s Light. These forward-thinking individuals have informed us that the Theatre is included in their estate plans. For more information about joining the Legacy Circle and helping to secure the future of People’s Light with a planned gift, please contact Jane Moss, Director of Development, at 610-647-1900 x102 or moss@peopleslight.org or Grace Grillet at x122 or grillet@peopleslight.org. There is also information available at http://peopleslight.org/legacycircleAbigail Adams and Lee DevinGladys BlackRebecca H. BradbeerDr. Maria Cuddy-Casey and

Mr. Thomas Casey Grace E. Grillet

Estate of Alexandra Hawkins*Dr. Deane Lappin Mrs. Anne Congdon LaRossa and

Dr. Don LaRossa*Ms. Ruth Hauptfuhrur Lott

Katherine H. and F. William McNabb

Robin and Jonathan MollFM and David Mooberry*Ken and Moira Mumma

Michael Smith and Amy Smith-Moniz

Mr. and Mrs. L. Frederick SutherlandJoan and William* Walkup Hon. and Mrs. Tom WatkinsDeborah Holt Weil

*Deceased

THE SPOTLIGHT SOCIETYThe Spotlight Society is comprised of individuals who support People’s Light with gifts of $1,000 or more. We are deeply grateful to everyone listed below for their generosity toward and their belief in People’s Light and its future. Spotlight Society members enjoy a number of exclusive benefits that provide rich behind-the-scenes experiences of the Theatre and its programs. If you are interested in learning more about The Spotlight Society, contact Jane Moss at 610-647-1900, ext.102. To make an online donation, visit PeoplesLight.org and click on Get Involved.PARTNERGladys M. BlackBill and Laura BuckAnne M. CongdonBrian and Lucy DoernerMr. Marc and Dr. Evelyn DuvivierThe June Corey and Richard O.

Smith Charitable Lead UnitrustKatherine and William McNabbDave MooberryKen and Moira MummaDr. and Mrs. John S. SchmaderMichael Smith and Amy Smith-

MonizMr. and Mrs. L. Frederick

SutherlandHon. and Mrs. Tom WatkinsDeborah Holt WeilWyncote Foundation

PRODUCERAnonymousMr. and Mrs. David BishopMrs. W. Perry GreshKathy and Chris Gubanich

Mrs. Josephine KleinDr. and Mrs. John E. Spellman

ACTORBarbara and Rhett AustellJanet and Jim AverillRebecca H. BradbeerMichael and Clairellen Catalano-

JohnsonThomas Johantgen and Leslie RoyPatrick and Janietta LuskJeffrey and Darcy McGroartyMargarett and Sam McKeelMr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. NeilsonAlexander and Marianne NikasRia Walsh and Michael MorgartDon and Nancy Weaver

PLAYWRIGHTAnn Sullivan and Alice L. BartmerLarry and Pat BrotzgeThe Frederick and Colette B.

Heldring Charitable FundL. Stockton Illoway and Eleanor

Morris IllowayRita and Keith Kaplan

Kumi and Bill MartinNicole Sakowitz and Bill PikounisBrian and Diane Zwaan

DESIGNERAnonymousMr. and Mrs. Leonard BerkmanCapaldi FamilyBob and Cheryl CarfagnoTom and Michelle GargMr. William G. Gross IV and Ms.

Janice ClarkeDeborah A. LoganMr. and Mrs. Nicholas LudingtonMr. and Mrs. John E. NashJoan Walkup

DIRECTORMr. and Mrs. Jeb BarthMarilyn B. Benoit, MDPeter A. Benoliel and Willo CareyTerri Lamm and Zachary BerkmanMrs. J. Mahlon Buck Jr.John and Nona ClarkeMichael and Emme DaleyCarole and Ron Davis

Emilio Emini and Janet SkidmoreKarin Takiff and John FranckJohn and Sally FridyKenneth R. HammMrs. Mary E. HeiserThe HolzlesGay and Allan KlienWanda and Donald LammJeff Lewis and Mary Ann RossiSandra L. McNair and Barry

McHaleRobin and Jonathan MollDouglas Myers and Kimberlee

Brosnan-MyersMo and Debra PaknejadTony and Joyce RingDr. Daniel T RubinoCatherine SchneiderJameson TroutmanThomas WardJune and Steve Wolfson Family

FoundationJean and Charles Zeien

List complete as of January 9, 2017.

Jim and Cheryl MarpleMr. and Mrs. James E. McGrawHon. Daniel F. McLaughlinSheryl and Robert MeyerClaire A. MoltonPatrick and Susan MoranMr. and Mrs. Charles P. MorelliJim and Lisa MulherinJean and Peter OraschewskyNan Latimer and Bob PalmerKay and Edward PhilippsJoAnne and John PintoThomas and Patricia PlattBill and Bobbie PotsicPaul Rabe and Cheryl GunterLynn and Ken RadeloffBetty and Al ReadingMr. David and Dr. Helise

Bichefsky-ReillyMary Jo ReillySylvia Louise and James RylandJames M. SavageDr. Karyn L. ScherJohn and Jeanette SchmitzDonna Debs and Ray SchneiderMr. John Senior and Ms. Nancy

KimmonsElizabeth SiewertThe Sigal FamilyMr. and Mrs. Bradford Smith IIIRegina L. SmithMr. Robert C. Smith Jr. and Ms.

Patricia RocapAlbert Snite and Julia ConoverSerita SpadoniPamela Rootenberg and David

SpringerMr. and Mrs. C.M. Story IIIRobert and Leslie TelthorsterMrs. Mary ThompsonMaureen A. ThompsonDr. and Mrs. Stephen G.

UnderwoodLou Anne and Jim VikeBarb and Jim WakefieldNan WardBruce and Judy WeintraubAudrey and Peter WildingJean and Jim WilsonMinturn T. WrightJohn and Kirsten Yasneski

FRIENDAnonymous (9)Mr. William and Mrs. Deborah

AholaFiona and Duncan AllisonAnn and Joe ArmstrongDr. Gloria AvrechLeslie and Jonathan BassSteven and Lisa Baxter

Phyllis BelzakWendy BenderBill Benton and Margaret PerrymanWilliam and Susan BlackAlicia BlessingtonAllen Bonner and Carol BuettgerMr. and Mrs. James M. BoyceDavid and Margaret BradleyDavid and Tara BramwellBob and Pat BrownSusan and Stephen D. BrownJen and Neil BryantAnne and McBee ButcherTim and Mercedes CaseDr. Maria Cuddy-Casey and Mr.

Thomas CaseySarah L. CasparIris and Bob ChenowethDr. Joseph Cicala and Dr. Joanne

ConlonGeorge Cipperly and Liz BradleyDarlene M. ClappLisa J. ClarkLynda ClemensMr. and Mrs. Isaac H. Clothier IVThe Rev. Elizabeth W. ColtonBernadette ConnaughtonMr. and Mrs. John CorbettMr. and Mrs. Richard CosterNancy and Steven CottermanWendy and Len Cotton-OrlandoCarol A. CoyneKathy CrabbMr. and Mrs. Stephen CrescimannoRichard and Anne De FrancescoAnne-Sophie DeLong and David

DeLongMr. and Mrs. Charles R. DiPuppoJan Doeff and Sheila McGuireJeffrey and Nancy DoreBeverly M. DotterJames and Nancy EvansRuth and Ed FackenthalLinda and David FazziniDon and Gladys FellJack FischMr John Freas and Ms Wendy

BaigisPhil and Joan FredricksIn Memory of Jack FischMr. and Mrs. R.G. FrigerioLarry and Bonnie FullerCarol Napierkowski and Angelo

GadaletoIssy and John GallenDr. Michael J.J. Campbell and Ms.

Susan K. GarrisonDoug and Jean GesslPaul GetmanMaxine and Jay Goldberg

Janet M. Lis and Jerry M. GonzalesSally and George R. Graham Jr.Judy GuiseTim and Gretchen GuttmanCharlotte and Henk HamekaStephen and Ona HamiltonGary and Anita HardelKathy HeadRobbe HealeyLeslie HemplingLois V. HillKaren and Mark HiteMiya E. HolmesMr. and Mrs. James R. Holt Jr.Mr. Tayo and Mrs. Adetokunbo

IbikunleLeslie JonesStephen C. Jones and Mirna

McDonaldMike and Mindy KatzDeborah and Arthur KavanaughWill, Ann and Everett KeechJudy Love KeoghJoel KingCharles and Charline KitsonHarriet Ravdin and Greg KleiberJudy and Lance KnauthAngela and Karl KnightTom Kolessar and Cheryl Kenia-

KolessarWalter and Mary Alice KottmeyerTheresa KovachSue P. LapinSue and Walt LapinskyVivian LaskoMr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Leach IIIPauline LewinMr. and Mrs. Donald G. LittlewoodDr. and Mrs. James W. LockardDonna and Tom LoyleThomas LutterMr. and Mrs. James W. MackieEdward and Priscilla MacNealKaren and David MainhartMr. and Mrs. Thomas R. MarkleyDr. and Mrs. Davis B. Martin Jr.Lorraine and Larry McClainTaryl and Clyde McKeeMark McKinlay and Jennifer

HunterSteve and Margee MichaelsJacqueline and Aaron MillerPaul and Solange MintzMr. and Mrs. Lon MyersRobert and Liza NormanSusan and Dave NorrisThe Noyle FamilyJoe O’BryanMr. and Mrs. Savas OzatalayRichard J. Pariseau

Nicholas and Edwina PatrunoBill and Barbara PattenBarbara S. PeckBill and Melody PentzDonna Pironti and Matthew FreyStephen Platt and Robin SchauflerLynn and Joseph PokrifkaMr. and Mrs. Eugene H. PoppelNancy Shaw and Evan RadcliffeRobin M. RatliffHerbert and Rita ReichertPeter Rittenhouse and Denise

LokhorstJudith and Richard RossDr. and Mrs. Jeffrey SameroffEley SassaniMr. and Mrs. Robert P. SchmidtHideko SecrestCarolyn H. SeidleNancy SewerynWilliam and Linda SeyboldBob and Susan ShenkinMr. and Mrs. Peter J. Silvester, Jr.Bill and Elaine SimoneRegina L. SmithReid and Kristin SmithMs. Mary Rose SmochekKenneth R. Snyder and Susan

L. RettigSarah SnyderGrace and Ed CharltonPatricia SpampinatoJerry and Eileen SpinelliSusan and John StedmanEric SteelmanLee and Kaaren SteinerJean and Sam StrettonElizabeth and Michael SweeneyTim and Paula SweeneyJean and Steve ThomasMarlene TroisCaroline L. and Lloyd A. Unger IIILou Anne and Jim VikeInger WallinEverett and Shirley WarrenRichard J. and Yvonne WebsterCharmaine and Vicky WebsterThe Weisman FamilyPaul and Jacqueline WelleAnne W. WellsGlenn and Nancy WengerDale Wennagel and Roberta KankusDr. and Mrs. Mark WiegandKen and Tina WitekBertram and Lorle WolfsonNeil WunmerMark and Karene Zimmerman

List complete as of January 9, 2017.

CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES$25,000 and Above The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationCHUBBDoris Duke Charitable Foundation

and Theatre Communications Group

The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

Independence FoundationThe Marshall-Reynolds FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsPECOThe Shubert Foundation

The Pew Center for Arts & HeritageWilliam Penn Foundation

$10,000 - $24,999AnonymousConnelly FoundationDNB FirstThe Hamilton Family FoundationPhiladelphia Insurance CompaniesPhoenixville Community Health

FoundationVoya FinancialVoya Foundation

$5,000 - $9,999The 1830 Family FoundationMeridian BankPNC Equipment Finance LLCRosenlund Family Foundation

$2,500 - $4,999Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith

Memorial FundJ.P. Mascaro & SonsSEI CorporationTD Charitable FoundationWest Pharmaceutical Services

$1,500 - $2,499Andrea Mills Barbieri FoundationCitizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania

$1,000 - $1,499Naturescapes Landscape Specialists,

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$500 - $999Actors’ Equity Foundation Inc.Siemens Caring Hands Foundation

Due to space limitations, we are unable to list the hundreds of donors who contribute gifts of $1 - $124. Many, many thanks to these generous supporters.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

AC Lordi ConsultingACE GroupAbigail AdamsMr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Agulnick

Esq.Steven AlbertsonPeg AllenMr. and Mrs. Robert H. AndersonThe Andrew W. Mellon FoundationMr. and Mrs. Rhett AustellBaker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLPMr. and Mrs. Theodore W. BakerMr. and Mrs. Jeb BarthJohn and Carole BartholdsonAnn Sullivan and Alice L. BartmerMr. and Mrs. R. Gregory BartonBB&T Insurance Services - The

Addis GroupBeneficial BankMary-Jo BernhardTim BillowDavid and Diane BishopGladys M. BlackRebecca H. BradbeerPat and Larry BrotzgeElisabeth Jonsson BrownCharlotte and Robert BrownBrett CannaMr. and Mrs. Ted CapaldiMr. Robert J. CapriottiCareReviewMr. and Mrs. Michael Catalano-

JohnsonChirp Kids ClothesCHUBBMark and Barbara ComynsAnne M. CongdonCytosportElizabeth A. DiStefanoDNB FirstBrian and Lucy DoernerCindee DovePatrick and Theresa DuganMr. Marc and Dr. Evelyn Duvivier

Grace E. Grillet and Rich EaganLynne Watson and Jeff EdelsonHedy and Joseph ElefritzEYElizabeth FaccioloDavid FeldmanJulie and Ritson FergusonShelly and Scot FisherMr. and Mrs. Kevin FlansburyKarin Takiff and John FranckAmanda and Alex FrangoulisKirk and Sandi GormanTim and Rita GosnearGottlieb FamilyGreen Lawn FertilizingVance and Rose GrossoMr. and Mrs. John W. GroveKathy and Chris GubanichDennis GuinanJane and Sean HagertyKenneth R. HammJim HanMr. Thomas N. HansonPeter HarnRebekah and Chris HarrisBrenda HolstonDorrie and Bruce HopperWendy HuestisDan HustedIndependence FoundationJ.P. Mascaro & SonsTimothy JefferisLeslie Roy and Tom JohantgenRejoice JulaRita and Keith KaplanRita KaplanAllan KatsockTimothy C. KeisterMs. Margaret A. KellerKenefic Search LLCMatthew KeneficDave KillePaul KingKlehr | Harrison | Harvey |

Branzburg LLPJosephine KleinAnne KnapperKPMGBetsy and Bob LegniniSusan L. McKeyMr. Michael LundbergMr. and Mrs. Patrick LuskJim and Ellen LutzMark LynchMr. Kenneth P. MariniMichael and Rebecca McAndrewsWes McCorkleGwynne G. McDevittWilliam McEwan and Megan

AugustinJohn and Stephanie McGowanJeffrey and Darcy McGroartyVirginia and Lawrence McMichaelKatie and Bill McNabbElizabeth MilneWilliam MilneRobin and Jonathan MollDave MooberryKen and Moira MummaGia MyersMichael NicholsAlexander and Marianne NikasSean O’HaraRick Olmos and Wendy BableSean O’ReillyLisa OsterGreg and Laura ParisPennsylvania Landscape

ManagementPepsiCoDavid PetersNicole Sakowitz and Bill PikounisRyan PoetPNC BankJennifer RenoMr. and Mrs. Benjamin RichChristian RisingChris Roch

Glenn M. RussoSylvia Louise and James RylandSafeguard Scientifics Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Fred ScardelletteJohn SchaeferJohn and Sarah SchmaderMs. Beverly SeaverSedgwickSam and Happy ShipleySimkiss & BlockHeidi StamMr. Graham F. SmithMichael Smith and Amy Smith-

MonizSarah SnyderDr. and Mrs. John E. SpellmanSusquehanna Growth EquityMr. and Mrs. L. Frederick

SutherlandMr. and Ms. James M. SwopeThe Hamilton Family FoundationPew Center for Arts and HeritageThe Sharp Financial GroupMr. Rick ThomasSharon VansantJoan VolkertVoya FinancialRia Walsh and Michael MorgartErika WalterSusan and Donald WargoPenelope and Thomas WatkinsJeffrey and Melissa WawrzynekNelson WayDon and Nancy WeaverDeborah Holt WeilMs. Lizanne M. WentzWillis Towers WatsonJune and Steve Wolfson Family

FoundationWSFS BankWyncote FoundationBrian and Diane ZwaanMatt Zwaan

To learn more about special events, including our London Theatre Tour in February-March 2017, and Auction in May 2017, contact Debby Yoder at 610-647-1900 ext. 103 or yoder@peopleslight.org.

List complete as of January 9, 2017.

MATCHING GIFTS

The Boeing CompanyBNY MellonFMC CorporationGlaxoSmithKline Foundation HP Company Foundation

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

Merck Partnership for Giving MorganStanleyPECO

The Pew Charitable TrustsPfizerPhoenixville Community Health

FoundationQVC

Susquehanna International Group, LLP

The Vanguard Group FoundationVertexVoya Foundation

Does your company provide a match for your charitable contributions? If so, you could double or triple your gift to People’s Light. Ask your company today!

CORPORATE CIRCLE

Baker TillyBrandshareBuckley, Brion, McGuire &

Morris LLPCanna Milne Financial

Conlin’s Digital Print and Copy Center

CTDIExecuPharm, Inc.G.K. Management CompanyGMH Associates

Green Lawn FertilizingInsight GlobalInvestEdgeKenefic SearchMatthews Paoli FordNIIT Technologies

Safeguard ScientificsSpectrum Certified Herman MillerVoveo Marketing GroupWhite Dog CaféWSFS

We recognize the inaugural members of the People’s Light Corporate Circle. Members network with local businesses, entertain clients and employees with our world-class theatre productions, host events in our distinctive 18th century Farmhouse, and support the arts and cultural community in Chester County. For more information, visit our website or contact Lisa Oster at (610) 647-1900x116 or oster@peopleslight.org.

Thank you for your support of People’s Light!

Planned gifts to People’s Light help secure the Theatre for future

generations. Designating People’s Light in your will or other estate plans can

also provide excellent tax benefits. The Legacy Circle at People’s Light recognizes individuals who have

included the Theatre in their estate included the Theatre in their estate plans through a planned gift.

When you are ready to inform us of a planned gift or for further information,

please contact Jane P. Moss at 610.647.1900 x102 or moss@peopleslight.org.

The Legacy Circle610.644.3500 or peopleslight.org

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Exciting News!We’re expanding The Farmhouse to include a beautiful 2,000 We’re expanding The Farmhouse to include a beautiful 2,000

square foot pavilion that will accommodate events of any size, from an intimate dinner party or corporate lunch to large celebrations up to 300 guests. With cathedral ceilings, stone walls, and hardwood

floors, the addition will also provide a breathtaking on-site ceremony space for weddings. The expansion will be unveiled in March 2017. Visit farmhousepeopleslight.com for an immersive

video tour of the new pavilion. video tour of the new pavilion.

Contact the Sales Team at thefarmhouse@peopleslight.org or 610.647.1631 x156

Enjoy a prix xe dinner and a show package at our award-winning restaurant, The Farmhouse Bistro. Theatre ticket & dinner packages start at $76. That’s a savings of up

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