May 28–Jun 29, 2014 By Colman DomingoDirected by Jeremy B. Cohen

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A Civil War Christmas

Stones in His Pockets

Twelfth Night

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Wild with Happy

Grief is a funny thing. Gil’s boyfriend has left him, his acting career isn’t exactly taking off, and his mother just passed away. He’s not taking it all very well….

AUNT GLO. You’re in GRIEF! GRIEF! I saw that on that Dr. Medical something. That woman wrote about it. Lizabeth...Cuba...Gooding! The stages of grief! You got, stage one and two! Denial mixed in with a little anger.

In her 1969 book On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Cuba Gooding Kübler-Ross introduced the theory of the five stages of grief. Often applied not just to the dying, but to anyone going through a life-threatening or life-altering event, these stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

In Wild with Happy, Gil faces the loss of his mother at a time when he already feels alone and rejected—both by work and by his former lover. To top it all off, he must also deal with the presence of his Aunt Glo, who copes with her own grief by clinging to the funeral rites of their community.

But Glo isn’t far off in her assessment of Gil’s state. Despite all evidence to the contrary—and his insistence that he’s fine—Gil has detached himself, in a phase of denial and isolation, from family and the traditions that Aunt Glo wants for his mother.

Resisting the consoling efforts of a sensitive funeral director and his outrageous best friend, Gil can’t repress the memory of the times he should have been there for his mother as she faced her fate. In an attempt at avoidance, and denying his need to grieve, he rushes back to his familiar—albeit floundering—life in New York.

In his haste to deal with his loss and move on, Gil lashes out in anger. He refuses to see what good religion ever did for his mother. He fights against Glo’s demand for a big memorial. He blames his mother for what he considers her naively childlike belief in magic, wonder, and hope.

Gil may think he’s had the last word, but as Kübler-Ross warns, there are still more stages left on the road to acceptance.

AUNT GLO. Strange you laughing like that.

GIL. I feel like I am having an out-of-body experience.

AUNT GLO. Mmm hmm. I don’t know what stage that is.

An Introduction to the World of the Play

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World Premiere production byThe Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director)

Wild with Happy was developed, in part, with the assistance of The Sundance Institute Theatre Laboratory.Wild with Happy was also developed at TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA

as part of their New Works Festival (Robert Kelly, Artistic Director; Phil Santora, Managing Director).

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Wild with HappyBy Colman Domingo

Directed by Jeremy B. Cohen

THE CAST (in order of appearance)

Forrest McClendon* Gil

James Ijames* Terry, Church Nurse

Chivas Michael* Mo, Elder Bovane

Stephanie Berry* Adelaide, Aunt Glo

Laura Smith* Stage Manager

Caitlin Powers* Assistant Stage Manager * Member of Actors’ Equity Association

THE ARTISTIC TEAM Jeremy B. Cohen Director

Tony Cisek Scenic Designer

Alejo Vietti Costume Designer

Robert Wierzel Lighting Designer

Robert Kaplowitz Sound Designer and Additional Music

Jeff Sugg Projection Designer

Catherine María Rodríguez Production Dramaturg

Pat McCorkle Casting Director

May 28–Jun 29, 2014

2 TheSetting

3 MeetthePlaywright

4 LeaningintoGrief

6 CinderellaasInspiration

9 Bios:TheCast

10 Bios:TheArtisticTeam

12 Bios:TheStaff

13 Q&AwithKwameandStephen

15 AudienceServices

19 SupportingtheAnnualFund

25 Preview:2014/15Season

26 CenterStageCelebrates

28 Staff

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TIME: The Present

PLACE: Philadelphia & on the Road

SEttiNgTIME AND PLACE

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PlaywrightCOLMAN DOMINGO Colman Domingo is an award-winning

actor, playwright, and director known

for his work on stage, television, and

film. The proud son of Clarence and

Edith Bowles, Domingo was born

and raised in Philadelphia, where he

completed a degree in journalism

at Temple University and where the

journey of Wild with Happy begins.

To pen Wild with Happy, Domingo drew inspiration from a trip to Disney World, from his mother’s passing, and from the experiences of close friends. The play is a celebratory satire about love, loss, and faith. Reflecting on Wild and his work as a playwright, Domingo shared, “I’m trying to take you to a place in your dreams. Other playwrights can write about the troubles in the world and the politics of the world. I want to focus on magic and taking your breath away.”

As a playwright, Domingo showcases a range of influences, from magical realism to Shakespeare and Ionesco. His plays, in which he frequently acts, have enjoyed productions and critical success across the United States and internationally. Domingo is currently under commission from American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater Underground, the off-Broadway Inner Voices series, and People’s Light and Theater Company. He has been awarded residencies at Sundance Theater Lab, Yaddo, and Banff Playwrights Colony (Canada).

Domingo has starred on Broadway (including The Scottsboro Boys with Forrest McClendon, seen in this production as Gil), television, and in film. In addition to his artistic credits, Domingo also serves as an educator. He is on the faculty of The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and has taught, guest lectured, and mentored at various institutions, including the Savannah College of Art and Design, The New York Writers Institute, Temple University, The Art Institute of San Francisco, and Community College of Philadelphia (The Center for Male Engagement).

MEEtThe playwrighT

TIME: The Present

PLACE: Philadelphia & on the Road When asked what fairy tale

character he would be if given the

choice, Domingo laughed, “This

sounds so silly, but I would be

Dopey from Snow White and the

Seven Dwarfs. He’s marching to his

own drum. I don’t know if he’s really

aware of the story in many ways.

But I think he’s an innocent.

He may be a little off—but very

sweet and earnest.”

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Leaning intoInterview by Catherine María Rodríguez, Production Dramaturg

Catherine Maria Rodriguez: I’ve heard you say that in your own healing process, after losing your mother, you “leaned into grief.” What do you mean by that?

Colman Domingo: No one ever knows unless you lose a parent and you hear those words that your mother’s gone...and I know a sound came out of me that I’ve never heard before, and I never will hear again, hopefully. But it was an animal sound. It was that deep. It was howling for, I don’t know, the Alpha and the Omega. I have no idea. But once you feel that, you think you’re devastated and you’ll never be the same. I really didn’t know who I was anymore. All of a sudden I’m an orphan. A dear friend said to me “Let it wash over you. Don’t fight it.” I took that advice. I didn’t try to hold it in. I was raw. It hurts, and you have to allow it to happen.

Was Wild with Happy a part of that healing process for you?

I think so. I wrote another play, A Boy and His Soul, which was more of that process of picking up the pieces. Wild with Happy was more of an examination of grief, and a satire. Really looking at all the absurdities that surround death. You know, like the idea that one minute she’s your mother, the next someone is calling her “the body.” No one prepares you for any of this. I remember when we were at the funeral home, one of

my dearest friends shows up late. He has a baby in his arms—no one still knows who the baby was. He runs up, puts the baby down with someone, and comes up. For my brothers and sisters and me, it’s this precious moment, the last time we’re gonna see mom’s face. And all of a sudden, my friend sticks his face in. I’m like “What the—what are you doing?!” So not everyone is really equipped to handle grief. But they love you, and they’re doing their best. And that’s the thing, I think, especially around death: everyone is doing their best with what they can.

This is a new play woven from personal stories, but it also borrows from—and winks at—a very old and universal tale: it’s a Cinderella story.

Wild with Happy is a lot of gathered stories. For me, honestly, this story is not about me: this is your story. It’s all of our story. It started to become that fairy tale. I already had this protagonist, and I already knew that he lost his mother, so it’s kind of a happy accident that these two thematically and structurally make sense. With all the research I was doing, I was looking at deconstructing these characters, to heighten everything a bit. We’re able to examine human conflict and very deep things like grief if there’s a little satire attached to it.

Playwright Colman Domingo on Grief, Healing, and Cinderella Stories

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Satire is, I think, very honest. Maybe it’s my point of view as a playwright. I’m not the child of August Wilson; I think I’m more of the child of Nicky Silver, of Ionesco. There’s something about lifting our experience up so that it doesn’t just live in realism; I think that we live in magical realism as well. Also, this state of grief, for me, is odd. Just like a fairy tale, it’s surreal. I think it’s fun that the audience puts it together that they’ve been living in a fairy tale the whole time. There’s always that moment [in fairy tales] where they’re like, “Oh… I already had the power, I had it inside of me all along.” But no matter what, you can’t deny it—if you are a princess, you’re going to be a princess, you know?

This is the first production in which you’re not playing the character of Gil. What’s changed for you in that time? And how is it to just watch?

It’s great. I think I’m able to clarify the thoughts even more. I see even more objectively how tough a play this is—it’s really hard to do. Where I am with [the play] now, I am very proud that it’s out into the world and that it’s for another actor to experience. I get to just watch and be delighted by the way I’m hearing lines. I’m a playwright who will change something based on what the actor is doing. I can actually help give you words, or just change something because I think it makes more sense coming out of your mouth this way. I’m all for it.

What sparked you to write Wild with Happy?

Two events. One, I was inspired by the loss of my own mother, and the losses of many of my friends and their mothers. I was interested in what people do when they’re grieving to cover

things up, to fill a void. Two, I was also inspired by faith and belief. Anika, my best friend, took me to Disney World. (She gave me the title of the play, because she actually said, “Look at these people! Everybody’s just wild with happy.”) That place really takes everyone back to their childhood to believe in magic again. I wanted to take a character and take everything away from him and then challenge him to believe again. Because my own personal belief is that you’ve got to believe in something in order to live. You gotta have some faith, some hope; if you don’t, you’re a walking corpse.

Who is Wild for? And what are you looking to leave your audiences with?

I honestly think that Wild is for everyone, but especially for the cynics in the world. For those people who have seen everything, but somewhere in their most private moments they want to believe again. I want to be breathless in the theater, I do. I want everyone shoulder to shoulder, laughing together, crying together, saying, “Oh my God, that’s my story, too.” I want to come and be taken away somewhere with everyone else. I really hope that young people come to see this show, as well as people who’ve seen everything, maybe a bit more jaded. That’s my audience. The more jaded, the better. Because I have a challenge for you: I’d like for you to just relax your arms, open up your heart again. That’s the power of theater and what we can do. To just lift us, maybe to lift us to possibility again, and to hope.

Leaning into

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In search of my mother’s garden,

I found my own.–Alice Walker

A dream is a wish your heart makes

When you’re fast asleep.

In dreams you lose your heartaches:

Whatever you wish for, you keep.

–Walt Disney’s Cinderella

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

–Veronica Roth, Divergent

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

–Seneca

It’s all right to cry

Crying gets the sad out of you

It’s all right to cry

It might make you feel better.

–Free To Be You and Me

There was once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she felt her end drawing near she called to her daughter to come near her bed, and said, “Dear child, be pious and good, and God will always take care of you, and I will look down

upon you from heaven, and will be with you.” And then she closed her eyes and expired. The maiden went every day to her mother’s grave and wept, and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came in the early spring [it] melted it away.

[…] and to Cinderella, her father gave [a] hazel-twig. She thanked him, and went to her mother’s grave, and planted this twig there, weeping so bitterly that the tears fell upon it and watered it, and it flourished and became a fine tree. Cinderella went to see it three times a day, and wept and prayed, and each time a white bird rose up from the tree, and if she uttered any wish the bird brought her whatever she had wished for.

–Cinderella, Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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FromaconversationwithProfessorJackZipes:

There’s something very natural that Cinderella represents, this story represents: that natural love, deep love that binds mother and child together. The key is a turning point, when the protagonist (whether male or female) shows true grief. It is at that point that other people come to the aid of the person who’s crying or weeping. You don’t find that type of grieving—or protecting of the child— in other tale types.

• • •

If you show true sorrow in a fairy tale, that can show your integrity, your loyalty, your faith; and it will be heard—not by, say, God or anything like that, but other people—good people, or sometimes animals, who then come to the rescue of the protagonist who has suffered a loss or is being misjudged or treated unkindly.

These tales were told to give people hope that you could work through sorrow, that you could work through loss, that you could work through injustice.

• • •

The tales tend to be counter-tales to the reality in which the tellers or writers are living. We could even say that today. We’re living in a really perverse world. And why do we tell tales and go to see movies that have these fairy tale motifs? There is hope; we can see that things could be different. The fairy tales offer alternatives to the perverse world. That notion in Cinderella and many other tales that you can work through sorrow, loss, and injustice is really crucial for understanding what the fairy tales are all about; they’re very serious.

Don’t be ashamed to weep; ‘tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit

cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time,

and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

–Brian Jacques, Taggerung

You’re in GRIEF! The stages of grief! You got, stage one and two! Denial, mixed with a little anger. It’s something.

People must know when it’s their time.

—Aunt Glo, Wild with Happy

For Wild with Happy, playwright Colman Domingo drew from many inspirations, including his own fractured take on the

traditional Cinderella story. For some insight on grief and loss in fairy tales generally,

and the very special role of the mother in Cinderella, production dramaturg Catherine

María Rodgríguez turned to Jack Zipes— one of the world’s foremost experts on folk

and fairy tales, and Professor Emeritus of German and Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota. Here are a few of his thoughts.

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Center Stage staff and guests gather to greet the cast and crew of Wild with Happy, a tradition the Theater enjoys at the first rehearsal of every show. After welcoming remarks and introductions, the Artistic Team gives presentations of their work and vision, offering the staff deeper insight into the play. Staff and guests are then invited to observe the first reading.

Clockwise from top left: Scenic Designer Tony Cisek; Director Jeremy Cohen and Stephanie Berry; Forrest McClendon and Cohen; James Ijames; Colman Domingo and Cohen; seated from left: McClendon, Cohen, Berry; standing: Robert Kaplowitz, Domingo, Chivas Michael.

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Stephanie Berry*—Adelaide/Aunt Glo. Center Stage: Gleam. Broadway & Off Broadway—credits include her one-woman show, The Shaneequa Chronicles: The Making of a

Black Woman in New York (Obie Award, two Audelco Awards); Classical Theatre of Harlem: Henry V (King of France/Hostess); Woodie King’s New Federal Theatre: Cool Blues; National Black Theatre: Macbeth; National Black Theatre Festival: Iced-Out, Shackled and Chained. Regional—Denver Center Theatre: Gee’s Bend; Studio Theatre: Marcus and the Secret of Sweet; Milwaukee Rep: Trouble in Mind, Gem of the Ocean; Mark Taper Forum: Distracted; Philadelphia Theatre Company: Intimate Apparel; Delaware Theatre: Spunk; Portland Center Stage: King Lear; Oberlin: Hamlet; Arden Theatre Company: Fences (Barrymore Award Nomination). Film/TV—The Delivery Man, Invasion, No Reservations, Finding Forrester, Blue Bloods, Louie, all of the Law & Order programs, among numerous others. Awards—Recognized as “Making a Difference” local hero of PS 123 in Harlem; 2010 recipient of the TCG/Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship as a Distinguished Artist. Other Professional—Founding member of Blackberry Productions Theater Company, a Harlem-based organization that develops new works and brings theater to underserved populations throughout New York. Ms. Berry is a veteran actor, writer, and teaching artist and has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of Arts in Education.

James Ijames*—Terry/ Church Nurse. Center Stage: debut. Regional—Arden Theatre: Empty Plate at the Cafe du Grand Beouf, James and the Giant Peach, Romeo and Juliet, Superior Donuts

(Barrymore Award, Supporting Actor), The Whipping Man, Endgame, Three Sisters; People’s Light and Theatre: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Gossamer,

Shipwrecked; Wilma Theatre: Angels in America Part 1 and 2 (Barrymore Award, Supporting Actor); Philadelphia Theatre Company: Grey Gardens, Ruined; Mauckingbird Theatre: The Threshing Floor, The Importance of Being Earnest; InterAct Theatre: We Are Proud To Present…. Education—BA in Drama Morehouse College, MFA in Acting Temple University. 2011 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Artist recipient. Professional—Assistant Professor of Theatre, Villanova University. James is thrilled to be making his Center Stage debut in this production of Wild with Happy.

Forrest McClendon*— Gil. Center Stage: debut. Broadway/London—The Scottsboro Boys (Tony Award nomination). Off Broadway—Vineyard Theatre: The Scottsboro Boys; New Federal

Theatre: James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire. Other New York—Theater at St. Clements: Mandela: A New Musical (Thembi). Regional—Guthrie/Philadelphia Theatre Company: The Scottsboro Boys (Barrymore Award); North Carolina Shakespeare Festival: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Lawrence); Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre: Othello (title role); Lantern Theater Company: Julius Caesar (title role); Zach Scott Theatre: The America Play (B. Iden Payne and Central Texas Critics Table Awards); Westport Playhouse: A Christmas Carol (Christmas Past); Two River Theater: Jacques Brel Is Alive…and Living in Paris (Man #1); Walnut Street Theatre: The Maids (Claire); Wilma Theater: The Threepenny Opera (Street Singer); 11th Hour Theatre Company: Avenue X (Barrymore Award). Education—University of Connecticut. Professional—Adjunct Professor, Brind School of Theater, University of the Arts; Artist-in-Residence, Boyer College of Music & Dance, Temple University. Awards—2014 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship; Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship/Interdisciplinary New Performance Forms. www.forrestmcclendon.com

Chivas Michael*— Mo/Elder Bovane. Center Stage: debut. Off Broadway— The Public Theater/Royal Shakespeare Co/GableStage: Antony & Cleopatra; Classic Stage Co: Romeo & Juliet;

BAM: Brooklyn Omnibus (Song Cycle, soloist); Lincoln Center: The Broadway Problem; NYTW: Sliding into the Beast. Regional—Guthrie Theater: Servant of Two Masters; Yale Rep/Berkeley Rep: A Doctor in Spite of Himself; Shakespeare on the Sound: Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Williamstown Theatre Festival: A Funny Thing…; Tulane Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet; Porthouse Theatre: Oklahoma!; Mahogany Theatre: I Am a Man, Once on This Island, Flyin’ West, A Chorus Line. Film—Fish: The True Story of a Boy in a Men’s Prison. University—New York University: The Winter’s Tale, Our Lady of 121st St., Kalakkuta Show, Rocket to the Moon, Gem of the Ocean, A Month in the Country, A Raisin in the Sun; Dillard University: The Wiz, El Haj Milik. Education—MFA, NYU Graduate Acting Program.

BioSTHE CAST

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Colman Domingo is an award-winning actor, playwright, and director. He is the author of Wild with Happy (2013 Audelco Awards for Best Production and Best Playwright), A Boy and His Soul (2010 Lucille Lortel Award Best Solo Show and GLAAD Media Award for Best Production on or off Broadway), Up Jumped Springtime, and the short plays Mission of a Saint and Redemption of a Sinner. He is currently under commission from The American Conservatory Theater, Off Broadway’s Inner Voices Series, and People’s Light and Theater Company. His plays have been produced at The Public Theater, The Vineyard Theater, Theatreworks, The Tricycle Theater (London), Brisbane Powerhouse (Australia), Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Theater Rhinoceros, Thick Description Theater, and The Philadelphia Theater Company. He has received residencies from Sundance, Banff Playwrights Colony, and Yaddo.

Mr. Domingo, as an actor, has starred on Broadway in Passing Strange, Chicago, Well, and The Scottsboro Boys and has co-starred in films such as Lee Daniel’s The Butler, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer, Passing Strange, Miracle at St. Ana, King of the Bingo Game, Hairbrained, and Newlyweeds among many others. The acting work of Mr. Domingo has been honored with Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Audelco, and What’s on Stage (London) nominations as well as winning the Obie, Connecticut Critics Circle, and Bay Area Theater Critics Circle. www.colmandomingo.com

Jeremy Cohen—Director—is the Artistic Director of the Playwrights’ Center. Center Stage: US premiere of Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Let There Be Love w/ Avery Brooks. Regional/NYC—Associate Artistic Director/Director of New Play Development at Hartford Stage (2003-10) directing credits included Snow Falling on Cedars, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mistakes Were Made, The Scene (with George Street Playhouse), Mahalia: A Gospel Musical, I Am My Own Wife, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Bad Dates, A Christmas Carol. Cohen recently directed a new Off Broadway musical My Mother Has

Four Noses by singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke (The Duke on 42nd St.), and the world premiere of Aditi Kapil’s Brahman/i (Mixed Blood). Other Regional—Credits include world premieres of Theresa Rebeck’s The Novelist (Dorset Theatre); Smart Cookie (Alliance); Adam Rapp’s Ghosts in the Cottonwoods (Victory Gardens); Scott McPherson’s Scraped (Bailiwick); The Idiot Box (Naked Eye Theatre Company, Open Fist Theatre). Other—US premiere of Mom’s the Word (Metropolis Theatre/Royal George); East Coast premiere of Closet Land (NY Performance Works); and the Midwest premiere of Shopping and F***ing (Bailiwick); The Scene, Bad Dates, and Trip to Bountiful (Alley Theatre); the four-city tour of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Rep Theatre of St. Louis, Kansas City Rep, New Victory Theatre); Hannah and Martin (Theater J); Nickel and Dimed (Steppenwolf); The Unexpected Man (Adirondack Theatre). Founding Artistic Director of Naked Eye Theatre Company in Chicago, where he has developed/directed 20 plays, including world premieres of Jamie Pachino’s Waving Goodbye (Steppenwolf) and Timothy Mason’s Cannibals and Midwest premieres of Adam Rapp’s Nocturne and Naomi Wallace’s One Flea Spare (Goodman). Workshops/Development—Seminar (NYSF), Brahman/i (LaJolla Playhouse), Some of the People, All of the Time (Pasadena Playhouse), Good on Paper (Denver Center), Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods (New Harmony), The Radiant Abyss (Woolly Mammoth), plays by Adam Bock, Michael Elyanow, Barbara Field, Basil Kreimendahl, Dan O’Brien, Hana Sharif, Mat Smart, and Victoria Stewart. Awards—numerous awards and nominations, including Jeff, Helen Hayes, After Dark. Other Professional—Director and part of the Directing Faculty at the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference/National Theatre Institute, recipient of an NEA/TCG Directors Fellowship, and a Northwestern University award for his play 12 Volt Heart.

Tony Cisek—Scenic Designer. Center Stage: debut. Off Broadway—Roundabout: Beyond Glory; New York Theatre Workshop: columbinus. Regional—Ford’s Theatre, Arena

Stage, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Cleveland Play House, South Coast Rep, Folger, Woolly Mammoth, Round House, Indiana Rep, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Intiman Theatre, Two River Theatre, Virginia Stage, Delaware Theatre Company, Theatre Alliance, Theater J, GALA, Signature, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare & Company, The Kennedy Center. Education—New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Awards—four Helen Hayes Awards, Washington; four Drammy Awards, Portland; Barrymore nomination, Philadelphia. www.tonycisek.com.

Alejo Vietti—Costume Designer. Center Stage: debut. Broadway—Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Other New York—credits include works for Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, MCC, Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, Irish Rep, The New Group, Rattlestick, Cherry Lane, Soho Rep, Club Thumbed, and Estudio Ensemble, among others. Selected Regional—Alley Theatre (over 20 productions), Hartford Stage Company, Old Globe Theatre, St. Louis Rep, Signature Theatre in Virginia, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Guthrie Theater, Pasadena Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre in DC, Long Wharf, Pittsburgh Public, Pasadena Playhouse, NY Stage and Film, Arizona Theatre Company, and 5th Ave Seattle, among others. Opera—New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Opera, Wolf Trapp Opera, Opera Santa Barbara. Ballet—Donesk Opera (Ukraine) and Colorado Ballet. Awards—Recipient of the 2010 TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award.

Robert Wierzel—Lighting Designer. Center Stage: Into the Woods, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Little Night Music, Day of Absence, Open Admissions. Broadway—Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill; Fela!, musical directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones. Off Broadway—NYSF/Public, Signature, MCC, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, Mostly Mozart Festival, BAM, Lincoln

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Center Festival, Gotham Chamber Opera. Regional—includes Arena Stage, A.C.T., San Francisco, Shakespeare (DC), Chicago Shakespeare, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Goodman, Yale Rep, Guthrie, Mark Taper, Berkeley Rep. Opera—NYCO, Glimmerglass, Paris Opera (Garnier), Tokyo, Toronto, Boston, San Diego, SFO, HGO, Omaha, Washington National, Seattle, Virginia, Chicago Lyric, Chicago Opera Theatre, Montreal, Vancouver, Minnesota, FGO, Portland. Dance—numerous collaborations (27 years) with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Doug Varrone, Donna Uchizono, Sean Curran, Liz Gerring, Andrea Miller, Lyon Opera Ballet. Awards—Tony Nomination, Fela!, Obie (Special Citation), Bessie (Dance and Performance), American Theatre Wing. Professional—Adjunct Instructor, NYU/TISCH. Education—University of South Florida, Yale.

Robert Kaplowitz—Sound Design and Additional Music. Center Stage: debut. Broadway—Bill T. Jones’ Fela (Tony Award for Best Sound Design); Roundabout: An Almost Holy Picture. Other NYC— the Public/NYSF: John Beluso’s The Poor Itch, Lemon Anderson’s County Of Kings, Neil LaBute’s Wrecks, others. NYTW: Lucidity Suitcase’s Red Eye to Havre de Grace, Kia Corthron’s Light, Raise the Roof; MTC: Abbey Spallin’s Pumpgirl, Chloe Moss’s This Wide Night (Naked Angels); SoHo Rep: Adam Bock’s The Thugs; Playwrights Horizons: A Small Fire; Second Stage, LAByrinth, LCT3, MCC, Primary Stages, The Vineyard, and many 99-seat theaters south of 14th St. Philadelphia—PlayPenn, Arden, Interact, Wilma, PTC, PLTC, Azuka, Lantern, Walnut Street. Regional—O’Neill Theater Conference, Sundance, Guthrie, Alley, DTC. Installation—Lincoln Center Library Museum. Upcoming—Pig Iron’s Live Faster, the Public’s Fortress of Solitude, Tuomonan & Cromie’s Lautrec Project. Education—Lecturer in Sound Design, Princeton. As always, for N&K.

Jeff Sugg—Projection Designer, is a Brooklyn-based designer and multi-award winner. Center Stage: debut. Broadway—Macbeth (LCT), A Time to Kill, Bring It On, Magic/Bird, 33 Variations. Off-Broadway—An Octoroon, Last Five Years, This Clement

World, Tribes, Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, The Accidental Trilogy. Regional—Dallas Theatre Center: Fortress of Solitude; Alley: Elephant Man; The Mountaintop; Arena: The Mountaintop; Shakespeare Theater: As You Like It. He has also worked with Cynthia Hopkins, Laurie Anderson, and The Wooster Group. Awards—a Lortel, an Obie, a Bessie, and two Hewes Awards.

Laura Smith*—Stage Manager. Center Stage: Resident Stage Manager: Twelfth Night; Stones in His Pockets; dance of the holy ghosts; Clybourne Park; Beneatha’s Place; Bus Stop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man; Gleam; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Cyrano; Working it Out; Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Regional—Everyman: Pygmalion, Shipwrecked, The Exonerated, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Gem of the Ocean, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, A Number, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Yellowman; Woolly Mammoth: Gruesome Playground Injuries, House of Gold, The Unmentionables, Vigils, After Ashley; Folger: Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors (ASM); Olney Theatre: Stuff Happens; Theater Alliance: Headsman’s Holiday, Pangea [sic], Catalyst: Cloud 9, Longacre Lea: Man with Bags.

Caitlin Powers*—Associate Stage Manager. Center Stage: Assistant Stage Manager for Twelfth Night, The Whipping Man, A Skull in Connemara, American Buffalo; Associate Production Manager 2012–14. Regional—Contemporary American Theater Festival: Assistant Stage Manager for Captors, In a Forest, Dark and Deep, Race, We Are Here. Arts Emerson: The Color of Rose (World Premiere). Fringe NYC 2009: Muffin Man: The Musical.

Catherine María Rodríguez—Production Dramaturg—is a New Orleans native, who made her Center Stage debut with dance of the holy ghosts. She has been named a 2014 Leadership Institute Fellow by the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). Catherine is the dramaturg and archivist for Un Encuentro: Theater from the Borderlands, a

new transnational collaboration between Borderlands Theater (Tucson) and El Círculo Teatral (Mexico City). Notable past credits include production dramaturgy for Stones in His Pockets at Center Stage; The NOLA Project with the New Orleans Museum of Art; assisting on two National New Play Network rolling world premieres; administrative and producing work at Steppenwolf; and performance studies research at Northwestern. Catherine holds a BFA in Dramaturgy and a BA in Hispanic Studies from Carnegie Mellon. In 2013, she received the LMDA & Kennedy Center Regional Student Dramaturgy Award and debuted as a Dramaturgy Panelist at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education national conference. Saludos a todos and laissez les bons temps rouler!

Pat McCorkle—Casting Director. Center Stage: Twelfth Night, A Civil War Christmas, Animal Crackers, The Mountaintop, Bus Stop, Gleam. Pat McCorkle (C.S.A.) is currently casting several Broadway productions including Amazing Grace and Long Days Journey into Night with Jessica Lange. Broadway cast highlights include End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A Few Good Men, and recent New York premiers of Our Town, Tribes, Almost Maine, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Lady Day, and Driving Miss Daisy. Film credits include Junction, Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Basic, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television—Saint George (George Lopez show), Twisted (ABC Family), humans for Sesame Street, Californication (Emmy nomination), Hack (CBS), Max Bickford (CBS), Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, Chapelle’s Show, among others.

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Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE, an award-winning British playwright, director, actor, and broadcaster, is in his third season as Artistic Director of Center Stage in

Baltimore, Maryland. At Center Stage he has directed dance of the holy ghosts (City Paper Top Ten Productions of 2013); The Mountaintop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man (City Paper Top Ten Productions of 2012), for which he was named Best Director; and Naomi Wallace’s Things of Dry Hours. Among his works as playwright are Elmina’s Kitchen and Let There Be Love—which had their American debuts at Center Stage—as well as A Bitter Herb, Statement of Regret, and Seize the Day. His latest play, Beneatha’s Place, debuted at Center Stage in 2013 as part of the ground-breaking Raisin Cycle. His other directorial credits include Let There Be Love and Seize the Day at the Tricycle Theatre, Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew at the Lark Play Development Center in New York, New York’s Public Theater’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, the World Premiere of Detroit ’67 (nominated for Best Director) at New York’s Public Theater, and the World Premiere of The Liquid Plain at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Kwame has served on the boards of The National Theatre and The Tricycle Theatre, both in London. He served as Artistic Director for the World Arts

Festival in Senegal, a month-long World Festival of Black Arts and Culture, which featured more than 2,000 artists from 52 countries participating in 16 different arts disciplines. He was named the Chancellor of the University of the Arts London, and in 2012 was named an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Stephen Richard is the Managing Director of Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland. Stephen most recently worked as Vice President, External Relations, for the new National

Children’s Museum. Previously, he served 18 years as Executive Director of Arena Stage, where he planned and managed the theater’s capital campaign for the Mead Center for American Theater. Until recently a professor of Arts Management at Georgetown University, he has served on the boards and committees of some of the nation’s most prestigious arts organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, American Arts Alliance, the League of Resident Theatres, and the Theatre Communications Group, and currently serves on the Advocacy Committee of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and on the board of directors of the Maryland Citizens for the Arts.

Associate Artistic Director/Director of Dramaturgy Gavin Witt came to Center Stage in 2003, after nearly 15 years in Chicago as an actor, director, dramaturg, translator, and teacher—and

co-founder of the classically based greasy joan & co theater. In addition to working as a dramaturg on scores of productions, readings, and workshops at Center Stage, he has helped develop new work around the country. Before making his Center Stage mainstage directorial debut with Twelfth Night, Gavin directed more than a dozen Young Playwrights Festival entries, as many new play readings, and last year’s 50th Anniversary Decade Plays for Center Stage. A graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago, he has taught at the University of Chicago, DePaul, and locally at Towson; served on the advisory boards of several theaters; and spent more than a decade as a regional vice president of the national association of dramaturgs, LMDA.

CENTER STAGE ADVISORY BOARDThe Center Stage Advisory Board is a group of Artistic Directors from theaters across the country. We thank these experienced professionals who are on hand to provide guidance and advice to Center Stage leaders, board, and staff.

Susan Booth, Artistic Director at Alliance Theatre

James Bundy, Artistic Director at Yale Repertory Theatre

Marc Masterson, Artistic Director at South Coast Repertory

James Nicola, Artistic Director at New York Theatre Workshop

Diane Paulus, Artistic Director at the American Repertory Theater

Neil Pepe, Artistic Director at Atlantic Theater Company

Carey Perloff, Artistic Director at the American Conservatory Theater

Bill Rauch, Artistic Director at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director at Center Theatre Group

Tim Sanford, Artistic Director at Playwrights Horizons

BioSThe Staff

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What was your first encounter with Colman Domingo’s work?Stephen Richard: Although my wife has worked with him several times, and loves him dearly, the first time I saw him or met him was when we saw Wild with Happy.

Kwame Kwei-Armah: I first saw him in Scottsboro Boys years ago and he was just brilliant. And when he was working Lee Daniel’s The Butler with my nephew, my name come up and Colman went “Oh my god, is that your uncle? I’ve been dying to speak to him.” And when my nephew told me about him I went, “Oh my god, Colman, I’ve been dying to speak to him!” So we spoke to each other over Instagram, actually for the first time. Then we went to see Wild with Happy.

Why bring Wild with Happy to Baltimore?KKA: Quite frankly, it’s hilarious, it’s heartwarming, and I cried when I saw it. We get a chance as Artistic Directors every now and again to go, “I just love that play, I think that play is going to work for our audiences. Let’s do it.”

SR: It is zany and hilarious, with a huge, huge heart.

Why is it important to bring new works to Baltimore?KKA: It’s important that part of the gig is to bring new things to your audience, that you introduce them to things that other parts of the country are celebrating. The gig is to say, look at this, this is fun, this is what’s moving. It is part of what we should be doing. And part of the job of many Artistic Directors is to contribute to the canon, to develop work and pass it on. The more theaters that do it, the more that this play will become part of the canon and represent the new America. This kind of play represents an American sensibility that I think a Baltimore audience will just eat up.

SR: The way I think about it is that there is nothing wrong with turning on the TV and watching AMC movie classics—but imagine only doing that. It’s about going out to the theater and seeing something new. It’s that balance that I think audiences desire, and we certainly like providing.

What is unique about the process here compared to previous productions of Wild with Happy? KKA: I think what’s interesting is that this is the first time that [playwright] Colman Domingo hasn’t been in it. The first time he has been able to look at it from the outside, and maybe, with the director, Jeremy Cohen, say, “I’d like to change that bit, or refine this.”

What might our audiences get from this play?KKA: One of the things that I said when I got here was that I wanted to be sure that every part of our multicultural and diverse audiences, would at one point find themselves, excuse the pun, center stage in our storytelling. And it was important to me to find a play—and even a little bit in Vanya and Sonia…, where our gay community felt that they were center stage. It’s not a show specifically for the gay community, it’s a universal show, but the story is coming through the lens of gay characters, written by a gay playwright. And at the end, it is a universal, heartwarming story about a son and his love for his mother.

What note does this play leave the season on as we look at next season?KKA: At the end of our season of “Theater for the Heart,” I hope it leaves our audiences with a feeling of joy and warmth.

Q & Awith Kwame and Stephen

A conversation with Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah and Managing Director Stephen Richard

Join the conversation!Email info@centerstage.org with your questions for Kwame and Stephen.

centerstagemd @centerstage_md

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DININGSascha’s Express, our pre-performance dinner service, is located up the lobby stairs in our Mezzanine café. Service begins two hours before each performance. DRINKSYou are welcome to take beverages with lids to your seats! But please, no food. PHONESPlease silence all phones and electronic devices before the show and after intermission.RECORDINGPhotography and both audio and video recording are strictly forbidden.ON-STAGE SMOKINGWe use tobacco-free herbal imitations for on-stage smoking and do everything possible to minimize the impact and amount of smoke that drifts into the audience. Let our Box Office or front of house personnel know if you’re smoke sensitive.ACCESSIBILITYWheelchair-accessible seating is available for every performance.We offer free assistive listening devices, braille programs, and magnifying glasses upon request. An Open Captioned performance* is available one Sunday performance of each production. Several performances also feature Audio Description*.

PARKINGIf you are parking in the Baltimore Sun Garage (diagonally across from the theater at Monument & Calvert) you can pay via credit card at the pay station in the garage lobby or at the in-lane pay station as you exit. If you have a pre-paid voucher, proceed directly to your vehicle and enter your voucher after inserting the parking ticket you received upon entering the garage, in the machine as you leave. We are unable to validate parking tickets.

FEEDBACKWe hope you have an enjoyable, stress-free experience! Your feedback and suggestions are always welcomed: info@centerstage.org.

*OpenCaptioning&AudioDescriptionperformancesforWild with Happy:Sun,Jun22.AudioDescriptionatboth2pmand7:30pm,OpenCaptioningat7:30pm.

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The following list includes gifts of $250 or more made to the Center Stage Annual Fund between October 30, 2012 and May 5, 2014. Although space limitations make it impossible for us to list everyone who helps fund our artistic, education, and community programs, we are enormously grateful to each person who contributes to Center Stage.

We couldn’t do it without you!

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INDIVIDUALS & FOUNDATIONSThe Center Stage Society represents donors who, with their annual contributions of $2,500 or more, provide special opportunities for our artists and audiences. Society members are actively involved through special events, theater-related travel, and behind-the-scenes conversations with theater artists.

IndIvIdual SeaSon SponSorS($50,000+)Ellen and Ed BernardLynn and Tony DeeringJane and Larry DroppaJudy and Scott PharesMr. and Mrs. Philip RauchJay and Sharon SmithMs. Barbara Voss and Charles E. Noell, III

preSIdentS’ CIrCle($50,000+)The Annie E. Casey FoundationThe Charlesmead FoundationThe Shubert Foundation, Inc.Harold and Mimi Steinberg

Charitable TrustMs. Katherine L. Vaughns†

artIStS’ CIrCle($25,000-$49,999)The Miriam and Jay Wurtz Andrus TrustWilliam G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund,

creator of the Baker Artist AwardsPenny BankStephanie and Ashton CarterJames and Janet ClausonEdgerton Foundation New American

Play AwardsKathleen HyleJI FoundationMarilyn MeyerhoffTerry H. Morgenthaler and

Patrick Kerins

produCerS’ CIrCle($10,000- $24,999)The William L. and Victorine Q. Adams

Foundation and The Rodgers Family Fund

Peter and Millicent BainThe Jacob and Hilda Blaustein

Foundation, Inc.The Bunting Family FoundationThe Nathan & Suzanne Cohen

FoundationThe Helen P. Denit Charitable TrustMs. Nancy Dorman and

Mr. Stanley MazaroffFascitelli Family FoundationDaniel P. GahaganJohn Gerdy and E. Follin Smith

The Goldsmith Family FoundationThe Laverna Hahn Charitable TrustFrancie and John KeenanMr. and Mrs. E. Robert Kent, Jr.Kenneth C. and Elizabeth M. LundeenThe Andrew W. Mellon FoundationJoseph & Harvey Meyerhoff

Family Charitable FundsMr. J. William MurrayGeorge RocheMr. and Mrs. George M. ShermanMr. Louis B. Thalheimer and

Ms. Juliet A. EurichDepartment of VSA and Accessibility

at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

playwrIghtS’ CIrCle($5,000- $9,999)

James T. and Francine G. BradyMary Catherine BuntingAugust and Melissa ChiaseraThe Jane and Worth B. Daniels, Jr.

Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Doggett, IIIBrian and Denise EakesDick and Maria GamperCarole and Neil GoldbergFredye and Adam GrossMartha HeadMurray KappelmanKwame and Michelle Kwei-ArmahThe John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc.The Macht Philanthropic FundRobert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda BeckerStephen Richard and Mame HuntThe Jim & Patty Rouse

Charitable FoundationCharles and Leslie SchwabeMr. Gilbert H. Stewart and

Ms. Joyce L. UlrichDr. Edgar and Betty Sweren, in honor of

Center Stage’s 50th AnniversaryMr. and Mrs. J.W. Thompson WebbMs. Linda Woolf

dIreCtorS’ CIrCle($2,500- $4,999)AnonymousThe Lois and Irving Blum FoundationDrs. Joanna and Harry BrandtSylvia and Eddie BrownMarjorie Rodgers Cheshire and

Mark CheshireMr. John DavisonGene DeJackome and Kim GingrasThe Mary & Dan Dent Fund of the

Baltimore Community Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Mathias J. DeVitoMr. and Mrs. Michael FalconeMs. Suzan GarabedianThe Harry L. Gladding Foundation/

Winnie and Neal BordenGoldseker Foundation/ Ana GoldsekerRobert and Cheryl GuthThe Hecht-Levi Foundation, Inc.David and Elizabeth JH HurwitzSteve and Susan ImmeltJonna and Fred LazarusMr. and Mrs. Earl & Darielle Linehan/

Linehan Family FoundationMrs. Diane MarkmanLinda and John McClearyJohn and Mary MessmoreJim and Mary MillerMr. and Mrs. Hugh Mohler, Jr.John and Susan NehraDr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. PakulaLainy Lebow Sachs and Leonard SachsMonica and Arnold SagnerMr. and Mrs. Todd SchubertScott and Mimi SomervilleScot T. SpencerMr. Michael StyerMr. and Mrs. Harry ThomasianMr. and Mrs. Donald and

Mariana ThomsTrexler Foundation, Inc. -

Jeff Abarbanel and David GoldnerKathryn and Mark VaselkivMr. and Mrs. Loren and Judy WesternTed and Mary Jo WieseCheryl Hudgins Williams and

Alonza WilliamsMr. Todd M. Wilson and

Mr. Edward DelaplaineDrs. Nadia and Elias Zerhouni

Robert W. Smith, Jr., PresidentEdward C. Bernard, Vice PresidentJuliet Eurich, Vice PresidentTerry H. Morgenthaler, Vice PresidentE. Follin Smith, TreasurerJ.W. Thompson Webb, Secretary

Penny BankKatharine C. Blakeslee*James T. BradyC. Sylvia Brown*Stephanie CarterAugust J. ChiaseraJanet ClausonLynn DeeringJed DietzWalter B. Doggett, IIIJane W.I. DroppaBrian EakesBeth W. FalconeDaniel GahaganC. Richard Gamper, Jr.Suzan GarabedianCarole GoldbergAdam GrossCheryl O'Donnell GuthMartha Head*Elizabeth J. Himelfarb HurwitzKathleen W. HyleTed E. ImesMurray M. Kappelman, MD*John J. KeenanE. Robert Kent, Jr.Joseph M. Langmead*Kenneth C. Lundeen*Marilyn Meyerhoff*Hugh MohlerJ. William MurrayCharles E. NoellEsther Pearlstone*Judy M. PharesJill PrattPhilip J. RauchHarold RojasMonica Sagner*Renee C. Samuels RosenfeldTodd SchubertCharles SchwabeGeorge M. Sherman*Scott SomervilleScot T. SpencerMichael B. StyerHarry ThomasianDonald ThomsKatherine Vaughns+Cheryl Hudgins WilliamsLinda S. Woolf

* Trustee Emeriti+ Center Stage honors the legacy of

Katherine Vaughns and her many contributions as a Trustee, patron, donor, and friend of our theater.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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aSSoCIateS($1,000- $2,499)AnonymousMayer and Will Baker,

in honor of Terry MorgenthalerMs. Taunya BanksMr. and Mrs. Marc BlumJohn and Carolyn BoitnottDr. and Mrs. Donald D. BrownSandra and Thomas BrushartMeredith and Joseph CallananThe Campbell Foundation, Inc.Caplan Family Foundation, Inc.Rose CarpenterSally and Jerry CaseyJohn ChesterAnn K. ClappCombined Federal CampaignConstantinides Family FoundationThe Richard and Rosalee C. Davison

FoundationAlbert F. DeLoskey and

Lawrie DeeringMr. Jed Dietz and Dr. Julia McMillanMr. and Mrs. Eric DottJack and Nancy DwyerThe Epp FamilyDennis and Patty FlynnDr. and Dr. Matthew FreedmanFrank and Jane GaborJose and Ginger GalvezPamela and Jonathan Genn,

in honor of Cindi Monahan and Beth Falcone

Richard and Sharon Gentile, in honor of the Center Stage Costume Shop

Sandra Levi GerstungMr. and Mrs. Benjamin H.

Griswold, IVF. Barton Harvey, III and

Janet Marie SmithBill and Scootsie HatterDonald and Sybill HebbSandra and Thomas HessDrs. Dahlia Hirsch and Barry WohlLen and Betsy HomerThe A. C. and Penney Hubbard

FoundationMs. Harriet F. IglehartJoseph J. JaffaMax JordanMr. and Mrs. Mark K. Joseph,

in honor of Lynn DeeringFrancine and Allan KrumholzH.R. LaBar Family Foundation

Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Sandy and Mark LakenAndie Laporte, in honor of

Philip and Lynn RauchDr. and Mrs. George Lentz, Jr.Maryland Charity CampaignRobert and Susan MathiasMr. and Mrs. Steven and

Karen McCurdyJoseph and Jane MeyerMr. and Mrs. John and

Beverly MichelTom and Cindi Monahan

The Israel & Mollie Myers Foundation/ Herschel and Judith Langenthal and Jonathan and Beverly Myers

Roger F. Nordquist and Joyce WardIrene E. NortonMr. and Mrs. Lee OgburnDr. Bodil OttesenLinda Hambleton PanitzDave and Chris PowellJill and Darren PrattThe James and Gail Riepe

Family FoundationNathan and Michelle RobertsonThe Rollins-Luetkemeyer

FoundationKurt and Patricia SchmokeGail B. SchulhoffThe Tim and Barbara Schweizer

Foundation, Inc.Bayinnah Shabazz, M.D.Barbara and Sig ShapiroThe Earle & Annette Shawe

Family FoundationBarbara P. SheltonMr. and Mrs. Robert N. SmelkinsonMr. and Mrs. Robert and Terri SmithMr. and Mrs. Scott SmithJudith R. and Turner B. SmithMs. Kimberly StokesDr. and Mrs. John StrahanSusan and Brian SullamRobert and Patricia TarolaMr. and Mrs. Ronald W. TaylorJohn A. UlatowskiUnited Way of Central Maryland

CampaignNanny and Jack Warren,

in honor of Lynn DeeringJanna P. WehrleSydney and Ron WilnerAnn Wolfe and Dick MeadJohn W. WoodEric and Pam YoungDr. Laurie S. ZabinMr. Calman Zamoiski, Jr.,

in honor of Terry Morgenthaler

ColleagueS($500-$999) AnonymousMs. Diane Abeloff,

in memory of Martin AbeloffMr. and Mrs. Delbert L. AdamsThe Alsop Family FoundationMrs. Alexander ArmstrongMr. Alan M. Arrowsmith, IIMr. and Mrs. Robert and

Dorothy BairMr. and Mrs. Raymond Bank

Family Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation

Charles and Patti BaumJaye and Dr. Ted Bayless Fund

of the Baltimore Community Foundation

Judge Robert BellSteve and Teri BennettHarriet and Bruce BlumJan BoyceCindy Candelori

Ms. Sue Lin ChongMr. and Mrs. Carl F. ChristWilliam and Bonnie ClarkeCombined Charity CampaignJoan Develin Coley and Lee RiceBarbara Crain and

Michael BorowitzRobert and Janice DavisRichard and Lynda DavisJames DeGraffenreidt and

Mychelle FarmerThe Honorable and

Mrs. E. Stephen DerbyLynne Durbin and

John-Francis MergenPatricia Yevics-Eisenberg and

Stewart EisenbergThe Eliasberg Family FoundationBuddy and Sue Emerson, in

appreciation of Ken and Elizabeth Lundeen

Mr. Donald M. and Mrs. Margaret W. Engvall

Sandra and John FerriterBob and Susie FetterDavid and Merle FishmanMs. Nancy FreymanDr. Joseph Gall and Dr. Diane DwyerFrank and Tara GallagherMegan M. GillickTerry L. GladdenMary and Richard GormanStuart and Linda GrossmanTerry Halle and Wendy McAllisterVicki and Jim HandaMrs. Heidi HoffmanJames and Rosemary HormuthDr. and Mrs. J. Woodford HowardRalph and Claire HrubanMr. James HughesMr. and Mrs. Theodore ImesRichard Jacobs and Patricia LasherMs. Mary Claire JeskeKirk and Debbie JoyDr. and Mrs. Juan M. JuanteguyMr. and Mrs. Peter KaplanMs. Shirley KaufmanDonald Knox and Mary Towery,

in memory of Carolyn Knox and Gene Towery

B. KellerMr. and Mrs. Padraic KennedyMr. George W. KingRoland King and Judith Phair KingStewart and Carol KoehlerJoseph M. and Judy K. LangmeadClaus Leitherer and Irina FedorovaDr. and Mrs. Ronald LesserMarilyn LeutholdKenneth and Christine LoboDr. and Mrs. Thomas J. LynchThe Dr. Frank C. Marino Foundation,

Inc.Mary L. McGeadyThe Honorable Diana and Fred

Motz, in memory of Nancy RocheGeorge and Beth MurnaghanRex and Lettie MyersMs. Jennifer Nelson

Ms. Jo-Ann Mayer OrlinskyMichael and Phyllis PanopoulosMr. and Mrs. James and Mimi

Piper Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation

Pitt O’Neill FamilyRobert E. and Anne L. PrinceMr. and Mrs. Richard RadmerMrs. Peggy L. RiceJane and Stanley Rodbell and

James R. ShapiroMr. and Mrs. Harold RojasDorothy L. and Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr.Renee Samuels Rosenfeld and

Jordan RosenfeldKevin and Judy RossiterMrs. Bette RothmanSheila and Steve SachsEugene and Alice Schreiber

Philanthropic FundThe Sinksy-Kresser-Racusin

Memorial FoundationSusan Somerville-Hawes, in honor

of The Encounter ProgramMs. Jill StemplerSanford and Karen TeplitzkyMr. and Mrs. Barbara and

Paul Timm-BrockDavid and Sharon TufaroMr. and Mrs. George and

Beth Van DykeMr. John WessnerMr. Michael T. WhartonDr. and Mrs. Frank R. WitterMr. Norman YouskauskasMr. Paul Zugates

advoCateS($250-$499)

AnonymousRita and Walter AbelMs. Lisa AbramsBradley and Lindsay AlgerMr. Wayne ArvinMrs. Darlene E. AustinAyd TransportMichael BakerMr. and Mrs. Martin BeerMelissa A. BehmS. Woods and Cathy BennettMr. and Mrs. Alfred and

Muriel BerkeleyRachel and Steven Bloom,

in honor of Beth FalconeMr. and Mrs. Charles BryanDr. and Mrs. Arthur Burnett, IIMs. Deborah W. CallardMs. Darlene CampbellThe Jim and Anne Cantler

Memorial Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. David CarterMr. Andrew J. CaryMr. and Mrs. James CaseBrenda M. Cley, M.D.Mr. and Mrs. Stanton CollinsCombined Charity CampaignDavid and Sara CookeB.J. and Bill Cowie

Mr. and Mrs. David and Gloria Crockett

Gwen DavidsonJay and Bette DemarestMs. Alice M. DibbenEd and Ina DreibandStacie C. DunlapDeborah and Philip EnglishMs. Vicky FavorMs. Rhea Feikin,

in memory of Colgate SalsburyFaith and Edgar Feingold,

in memory of Sally W. FeingoldGenine and Josh Fidler,

in honor of Ellen and Ed BernardBill and Winnie FlatteryDr. and Mrs. Robert P. FleishmanDonna FlynnJoan and David ForesterElborg and Robert ForsterDr. Neal M. Friedlander and

Dr. Virginia K. AdamsMark and Patti GillenHal and Pat GilreathHerbert and Harriet GoldmanMr. Bruce GoldmanDr. Larry Goldstein and

Dr. Diane PappasMs. Hannah B. GouldMr. Howard GradetJoseph GriffinThomas and Barbara GuarnieriMr. and Mrs. James HackmanChristine B. HallAda HamoshMelanie and Donald HeacockAaron Heinsman and Nick SimkoWilliam and Monica HendersonBetsy and George HessSue HessMr. Donald H. Hooker, Jr.Ms. Irene HornickMs. Sarah IssacsMr. William JacobJames and Hillary Aidus JacobsMs. Monica JamesA.H. Janoski, M.D.,

in honor of Jane Stewart JanoskiMr. and Mrs. James and

Julie JohnstoneRichard and Judith KatzDr. and Mrs. Myron KellnerStephen and Laurie Kelly, in

memory of Rodney StieffMs. Kim-Khoi KhueDavid and Ann KochThomas and Lara KopfLarry Koppelman and Liz RitterBarry KropfGina KotowskiEdward KuhlMs. Dorothy KuhlmanDrs. Don and Pat LangenbergMr. Richard M. LansburghMr. and Mrs. William LarsonLeadership—Baltimore CountyMarty Lidston and Jill LeukhardtDr. and Mrs. John Lion

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Ms. Cheryl LondonScott and Ellen LutreyNancy Magnuson and

Jay Harrell, in honor of Betty and Edgar Sweren

Frank and Joyce MargolisMr. Elvis MarksJoan and Terry MarshallDon MartinEleanor McMillanMary and Barry MenneBruce MentzerMs. Darlene MillerTracy Miller and Paul Arnest,

in honor of Stephanie Miller

Minds Eye CinemaThe Montag Family Fund

of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, in honor of Beth Falcone

James W. and Shirley A. MooreMs. Cassie Motz,

in memory of Nancy RocheDr. and Mrs. C.H. MurphyStephen and Terry NeedelIn memory of

Nelson NeumanMs. Mildred NoheDr. and Mrs. Alex OberClaire D. O’NeillThe P.R.F.B. Charitable

Foundation, in memory of Shirley Feinstein Blum

Justine and Ken ParezoGeorge Edward Parrish, Jr.Fred and Grazina PearsonLinda and Gordon PeltzChris and Deborah

PenningtonDr. and Mrs. James M. PeppleMr. William PhillipsRobin and Allene Pierson,

in honor of Terry Morgenthaler

Ronald and Patricia PillingDr. and Mrs. Jeffrey PosnerMr. Rex Rehfeld and

Ms. Ellen O’BrienCyndy Renoff and

George TalerDr. Michael Repka and

Dr. Mary Anne FaccioloJohn and Dotty ReynoldsBob and Phoebe ReynoldsNatasha and Keenan RiceAlison and Arnold RichmanMr. Wilfred RoeslerSteven and Lee SachsEllen and Dino SangiamoDr. Chris SchultzClair Zamoiski Segal, in

honor of Judy Witt PharesLeslie ShepardMrs. Kimberly ShorterMr. and Mrs. L. SiemsMs. Pamela SkeldingDr. Donald and

Val Jean Slowinski.Reverend Sharon Smith

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honor of Bill GeenenBrenda and Dan StoneRenee Straber, in memory

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Amadeus ByPeterShafferSep 10–Oct 12“[An]angryandthrilling…

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PhotoSCELEBR ATIONS

Opening Night of Twelfth Night & the 2014/15 Season AnnouncementSinger/songwriter Letitia VanSant (below) entertained guests and the Twelfth Night cast. (Middle photo from back row, left to right: Vanessa Wasche, Allen McCullough, Caroline Hewitt, Julie-Ann Elliott, Linda Kimbrough, Jon Hudson Odom, Buddy Haardt, Gavin Witt. Front: William Connell, Ryan McCurdy, Brian Reddy.)

Board to Board Pre-show ReceptionThe Center Stage Board of Trustees invited the boards of Everyman Theatre, Single Carrot Theatre, and Chesapeake Shakespeareto a pre-show event for the Opening Night production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.Opening Night photography by Tyrone Eaton

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Opening Night of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and SpikeGuests and staff join cast and crew to celebrate Opening Night. (Bottom left, from left: Barbara Walsh, Brooke Redler, Susan Rome, Zachary Andrews, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Emily Peterson, Kerry Warren, Bruce Nelson, Eric Rosen, Victor En Yu Tan.)

The 28th Annual Benefit Gala for Center StageChristine Andreas (right) performed for guests at the Center Stage Gala in honor of the Costume Shop.

Gala photography by Shawn Ferry

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Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE–Artistic Director | Stephen Richard–Managing Director

AdministrationAssociate Managing Director–DelW.risbergExecutive Assistant–KacyArmstrongManagement Fellow–KevinMaroneyManagement Intern–KatieMacdonald

Artistic & DramaturgyAssociate Artistic Director/Director of Dramaturgy–

GavinWittArtistic and Dramaturgy Intern–

CatherineMaríarodríguezThe Lynn and Tony Deering Artistic Directing Fellow–

SamanthaGodfreyHot Desk Resident Playwright–MirandaroseHallPlaywrights under Commission–de'AdreAziza,Ken

Greller,JamesMagruder,Danielreitz,KJSanchez

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LindsayJacks,PaulWissman

AudioSupervisor–AmyWedelAudio Engineer–ChuckHarbertThe Jane and Larry Droppa Audio Intern–

DanielHoganMultimedia Fellow–GregoryTowle

Community Programs & EducationDirector–rosilandCauthenCommunity Programs & Education Fellow–

DustinMorrisCommunity Programs & Education Fellow–

KristinaSzilagyiCommunity Programs and Education Intern–

JoshuaThomasTeaching Artists–Seanelias,MirandaroseHall,

KimberlyLynne,JerryMiles,Jr.,CJayPhilip,Wambuirichardson,OranSandel,SusanStroupe,AnnTuriano

CostumesCostumer–DavidBurdickCraftsperson–WilCrowtherTailor–edwardDawsonThe Judy and Scott Phares Costumes Intern–

eileenChafferThe Terry H. Morgenthaler and

Patrick Kerins Wardrobe Intern–LucyWakeland

DevelopmentDirector–CindiMonahanAnnual Fund Manager–KatelynWhiteGrants Manager–DebbieJoyEvents Manager–BradNorrisDevelopment Administrator–LeeLawlorDevelopment Assistant–ChristopherLewisAuction Coordinator–SydneyWilnerAuction Assistant–NormaCohenThe Edward and Ellen Bernard Development Intern–

AstoriaAvilés

FinanceDirector–SusanroseberyBusiness Manager–KathyNolanAssociate–CarlaMoose

GraphicsArt Director–BillGeenenProduction Photographer–richardAndersonMarketing Multimedia Fellow–LeslieDatsisGraphics Intern–CallanSilver

Information TechnologiesDirector–JoeLongSystems Administrator–MarkSlaughter

ElectricsLighting Director–TamarGeistMaster Electrician–BevinMiyakeStaff Electricians–Anthonyreed&AaronHaagThe Gilbert H. Stewart and

Ms. Joyce L. Ulrich Lighting Intern–CarlyShiner

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Public Relations Intern–SarahBichselMarketing Intern–KateBondurantOperationsOperations Manager–ShawnWhitenackCustodial Services–MultiCorp.WylieShawSecurity Supervisor–JamesWilliams

Production ManagementDirector of Production–rickNobleAssociate Production Manager–CaitlinPowersCompany Manager–SaraGroveThe Philip and Lynn Rauch

Company Management Intern–SamanthaGloriaPropertiesProps Master–JenniferStearnsAssistant Manager–NathanScheifeleArtisan–SamanthaKuczynskiThe Kenneth C. and Elizabeth M. Lundeen

Properties Intern–elizabethChapman

SceneryTechnical Director–TomruppAssistant Technical Director–LauraP.HillikerShop Supervisor–TrevorGohrCarpenters–MikeKulha,HunterMontgomery,

ScottrichardsonScenic ArtScenic Artist–StephanieNimickScenic Art Intern–roxanneMiftahittin

Stage ManagementResident Stage Managers–CaptainKateMurphy,

LauraSmithThe Peter and Millicent Bain

Stage Management Intern–ChandalaeNyswongerStage Management Intern–TenleyPitonzoIntern–AlexisDavis

Stage OperationsStage Carpenter–ericBurtonWardrobe Supervisor–LindaCavell

The following individuals and organizations contributed to this production of Wild with HappyArtisans–LynneTwiningAssistant Director–AngelisaGillyardAssistant Lighting Designer–BrianJonesAssistant Projection Designer–DanVatskyCarpenters–BernarddredBANG,robertoCastrence,

Jakeepp,SethFoster,PeterGarretson-Butt,SheltonHall,Nathan“Scotty”Jones,BrianJamalMarshall,evanMcDougall,Johnreuter

Electricians–PaulCallahan,Jakeepp,Gabrielrodriguez Painters–SarahSeniorScenic Artist–roxanneMiftahittin

SpecialThankstoJackZipes,ProfessoremeritusofGermanandCulturalStudiesattheuniversityofMinnesota

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MusiciansengagedbyCenterStageperformunderthetermsofanagreementbetweenCenterStageandLocal40-543,AmericanFederationofMusicians.

CenterStageisaconstituentofTheatreCommunicationsGroup(TCG),thenationalorganizationforthenonprofitprofessionaltheater,andisamemberoftheLeagueofresidentTheatres(LOrT),thenationalcollectivebargainingorganizationofprofessionalregionaltheaters.

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