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2018/19 SEASON A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS | A PEOPLE’S HISTORY | IN THE HEIGHTS | LAST OF THE BOYS THE WOMAN IN BLACK | A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 | NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN | TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
OCTOBER 5 - NOVEMBER 10, 2018
A THOUSAND
SPLENDIDSUNS
by URSULA RANI SARMABASED ON THE BOOK BY KHALED HOSSEINI
ORIGINAL MUSIC WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY DAVID COULTER
DIRECTED by CAREY PERLOFF
OCTOBER 2018
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Braden Abraham † Seattle Repertory Theatre
Clodagh Ash Civic Leader
Susan Ashmun Civic Leader
Lynne Bush Civic Leader
Debra Canales Providence Health & Services
SRO PRESIDENT Diane Cody † Civic Leader
Jim Copacino Copacino+Fujikado, LLC
Tracy Daw Funko, LLC
Juli Farris Keller Rohrback LLP
Donte Felder Seattle Public Schools
Karen Fletcher Civic Leader
Scottland Glenn* Kantor Taylor PC
MANAGING DIRECTOR Jeffrey Herrmann † Seattle Repertory Theatre
Alyssa Hochman Point B
Winky Hussey Civic Leader
SRO REPRESENTATIVE Robert Jenkins † Civic Leader
Bruce E.H. Johnson Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
Deborah T. Killinger Civic Leader
Gwenann Kroon Civic Leader
Mandy Leifheit* Microsoft Corporation
Rachel Lerman The Seattle Times
Marko Liias Washington State Senator 21st District
Charlotte Lin Civic Leader
Marcella McCaffray Civic Leader
Sandy McDade Civic Leader
Rick McMichael Civic Leader
Terri Olson Miller Civic Leader
Glenna Olson U.S. Bank
Anita Ramasastry University of Washington
Tim Rattigan Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Anne Simpson Civic Leader
Richard B. Stead, M.D. Bio-Pharma Consulting Services LLC
SRT FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVE Carlyn Steiner † Civic Leader
John Stilin Civic Leader
Janice Tsai Mozilla
Marisa Walker Baird Private Wealth Management
Nancy Ward World Justice Project
Tom Wright Filmmaker
† ex-officio* ArtsFund Board Fellow
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Show ......................5
Meet the Cast .........................6
From the Artistic Director .... 12
Beyond the Stage ................. 14
Donor Recognition .............. 19
TRUSTEES EMERITIPam AndersonRobert S. Cline Bill Gates, Sr. John HempelmannToni HoffmanBrent JohnsonRobert L. King, Jr.H.L. (Skip) Kotkins, Jr.Lynn ManleyIlse OlesAnn Ramsay-JenkinsDeborah RosenStanley SavageCarlyn SteinerJanet TrueJames F. TuneJean Viereck
Jill WatkinsShauna Woods
ADVISORY COUNCILDr. Laila AbdallaSheetal AgarwalDavid AlhadeffKenny AlhadeffMarleen AlhadeffJoanne Euster Carver GaytonTiffany GortonMary Kay HaggardChris KevorkianDavid SchneidermanAnthony Shoecraft
Paul StamnesMarty TaucherJane Zalutsky
HONORARY TRUSTEESChap AlvordBill FranklinPhil McCuneNancy MertelRobin NelsonHal Strong Tammy TalmanRichard Weisman
SRT FOUNDATION BOARDBruce E.H. Johnson
Chair
Carlyn SteinerVice-Chair
Alta BarerMargaret ClappAllan DavisJohn Keegan†
Stellman Keehnel†
Terri Olson Miller†
Kevin Millison†
Elizabeth D. RudolfJanet True Shauna Woods†
OCTOBER 2018
THE ODYSSEY (2017) PICTURED: TERENCE ARCHIE PHOTO BY JIM BENNETT
CHAIR John Keegan Civic Leader
PRESIDENT Stellman Keehnel DLA Piper LLP (US)
VICE PRESIDENT/CHAIR-ELECT Amy Bautista Kosmos Management
PAST-PRESIDENT Earle J. Hereford Kutscher Hereford Bertram Burkart PLLC
VICE PRESIDENT Elizabeth Choy, M.D. Civic Leader
VICE PRESIDENT Donna M. Cochener HomeStreet Bank
VICE PRESIDENT Adam Cornell Snohomish Co. Prosecuting Attorney
VICE PRESIDENT Brent Deim Amazon
VICE PRESIDENT Rebecca Pomering Moss Adams Wealth Advisors LLC
TREASURER Kevin Millison Boeing Commercial Airplanes
SECRETARY Becky Lenaburg Microsoft Corporation
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Rowena Yow
EDITOR Noelle McCabe
ART DIRECTOR Shannon Loys
PHOTOGRAPHER Angela Nickerson
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Braden Abraham † Seattle Repertory Theatre
Clodagh Ash Civic Leader
Susan Ashmun Civic Leader
Lynne Bush Civic Leader
Debra Canales Providence Health & Services
SRO PRESIDENT Diane Cody † Civic Leader
Jim Copacino Copacino+Fujikado, LLC
Tracy Daw Funko, LLC
Juli Farris Keller Rohrback LLP
Donte Felder Seattle Public Schools
Karen Fletcher Civic Leader
Scottland Glenn* Kantor Taylor PC
MANAGING DIRECTOR Jeffrey Herrmann † Seattle Repertory Theatre
Alyssa Hochman Point B
Winky Hussey Civic Leader
SRO REPRESENTATIVE Robert Jenkins † Civic Leader
Bruce E.H. Johnson Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
Deborah T. Killinger Civic Leader
Gwenann Kroon Civic Leader
Mandy Leifheit* Microsoft Corporation
Rachel Lerman The Seattle Times
Marko Liias Washington State Senator 21st District
Charlotte Lin Civic Leader
Marcella McCaffray Civic Leader
Sandy McDade Civic Leader
Rick McMichael Civic Leader
Terri Olson Miller Civic Leader
Glenna Olson U.S. Bank
Anita Ramasastry University of Washington
Tim Rattigan Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Anne Simpson Civic Leader
Richard B. Stead, M.D. Bio-Pharma Consulting Services LLC
SRT FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVE Carlyn Steiner † Civic Leader
John Stilin Civic Leader
Janice Tsai Mozilla
Marisa Walker Baird Private Wealth Management
Nancy Ward World Justice Project
Tom Wright Filmmaker
† ex-officio* ArtsFund Board Fellow
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Show ......................5
Meet the Cast .........................6
From the Artistic Director .... 12
Beyond the Stage ................. 14
Donor Recognition .............. 19
TRUSTEES EMERITIPam AndersonRobert S. Cline Bill Gates, Sr. John HempelmannToni HoffmanBrent JohnsonRobert L. King, Jr.H.L. (Skip) Kotkins, Jr.Lynn ManleyIlse OlesAnn Ramsay-JenkinsDeborah RosenStanley SavageCarlyn SteinerJanet TrueJames F. TuneJean Viereck
Jill WatkinsShauna Woods
ADVISORY COUNCILDr. Laila AbdallaSheetal AgarwalDavid AlhadeffKenny AlhadeffMarleen AlhadeffJoanne Euster Carver GaytonTiffany GortonMary Kay HaggardChris KevorkianDavid SchneidermanAnthony Shoecraft
Paul StamnesMarty TaucherJane Zalutsky
HONORARY TRUSTEESChap AlvordBill FranklinPhil McCuneNancy MertelRobin NelsonHal Strong Tammy TalmanRichard Weisman
SRT FOUNDATION BOARDBruce E.H. Johnson
Chair
Carlyn SteinerVice-Chair
Alta BarerMargaret ClappAllan DavisJohn Keegan†
Stellman Keehnel†
Terri Olson Miller†
Kevin Millison†
Elizabeth D. RudolfJanet True Shauna Woods†
OCTOBER 2018
THE ODYSSEY (2017) PICTURED: TERENCE ARCHIE PHOTO BY JIM BENNETT
CHAIR John Keegan Civic Leader
PRESIDENT Stellman Keehnel DLA Piper LLP (US)
VICE PRESIDENT/CHAIR-ELECT Amy Bautista Kosmos Management
PAST-PRESIDENT Earle J. Hereford Kutscher Hereford Bertram Burkart PLLC
VICE PRESIDENT Elizabeth Choy, M.D. Civic Leader
VICE PRESIDENT Donna M. Cochener HomeStreet Bank
VICE PRESIDENT Adam Cornell Snohomish Co. Prosecuting Attorney
VICE PRESIDENT Brent Deim Amazon
VICE PRESIDENT Rebecca Pomering Moss Adams Wealth Advisors LLC
TREASURER Kevin Millison Boeing Commercial Airplanes
SECRETARY Becky Lenaburg Microsoft Corporation
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Rowena Yow
EDITOR Noelle McCabe
ART DIRECTOR Shannon Loys
PHOTOGRAPHER Angela Nickerson
From the Vault
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Code of ConductWe are committed to being a racially, culturally, and socially just organization. We uphold a safe environment wherein all people are treated with respect and dignity. It is our expectation that all staff, visitors, and patrons comply with this code of conduct and we reserve the right to relocate or remove any person from our theatre who disregards our commitment.
Evacuation ProceduresIn an emergency, wait for an announcement for further instructions. Ushers will be available for assistance. Familiarize yourself with the exit route nearest your seat.
Phones and CamerasCell phones disrupt the performance. Please turn them off. Audio and video recording and photography are prohibited.
Coat CheckCheck items for $1 each.
Food and BeveragePatrons are welcome to bring drinks in plasticware into the theatre. Food and glassware are not allowed in the theatre. You can avoid lines by pre-ordering drinks for intermission!
Emergency NumberIn case of emergency, doctors and other emergency contacts may
reach you by calling 206.443.2222. Give your name and seat location to the house manager if you expect to be contacted.
Accessibility ServicesWheelchair-accessible ticketing available. Inquire or check with the Box Office at the time of your ticket purchase.
Seattle Rep is equipped with a hearing loop which uses a wireless signal to transmit the sound from the theatre’s PA system to the T-coils in your implant or hearing aid, as well as to receivers that are available on loan at Coat Check. Coverage is provided wherever you see the T-coil symbol.
We offer select captioned, audio-described, and ASL-interpreted performances for our season. Large print programs are available at Coat Check.
Smoking PolicySmoking is not allowed in our building or within 25 feet of any entrance.
Firearms PolicyNo firearms of any kind are allowed in any part of the building.
CONTACT SEATTLE REPBOX OFFICE 206.443.2222
ADMINISTRATIVE206.443.2210
BOX OFFICE HOURS Noon to curtain
ADDRESS 155 Mercer St., P.O. Box 900923, Seattle, WA 98109
Group SalesGroups of 10+ save! 206.443.2224 [email protected]
DISGRACED (2016) PICTURED: NISI STURGIS PHOTO BY LIZ LAUREN
FOLLOW US @SEATTLEREP
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MISSIONSeattle Repertory Theatre collaborates with extraordinary artists to create productions and programs that reflect and elevate the diverse cultures, perspectives, and life experiences of our region.
VISIONTheatre at the heart of public life.
VALUESArtistic VitalitySustainabilityGenerous and Inclusive Practices
From the VaultFOR OUR PATRONS
BY Ursula Rani Sarma
BASED ON THE BOOK BY KHALED HOSSEINI
ORIGINAL MUSIC WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY DAVID COULTER
DIRECTED BY Carey Perloff
OCTOBER 5 - NOVEMBER 10, 2018
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
† Alternating performances
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE
COSTUME DESIGNER
Linda ChoLIGHTING DESIGNER
Robert WierzelSOUND DESIGNER
Jake Rodriguez
STAGE MANAGER
Dani Bae*ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Stina Lotti*
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Braden AbrahamMANAGING DIRECTOR
Jeffrey HerrmannPRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH A.C.T.
Babi / Mullah / Interrogator / Zaman .......... John Farrage*
Laila ........................................................... Rinabeth Astopol*
Fariba / Nana / Doctor ................................ Lanna Joffrey*
Rasheed / Talib .......................................... Haysam Kadri*
Mariam ....................................................... Denmo Ibrahim*
Tariq ........................................................... Antoine Yared*
Abdul Sharif / Jalil / Wakil .......................... Jason Kapoor*
Aziza .......................................................... Nikita Tewani*
Zalmai ........................................................ Ty Ho†
Zalmai ........................................................ Rowan Santos†
Ensemble ................................................... Fatima Wardak*
Ensemble ................................................... Hisam Goueli
PRODUCING SPONSOR
SEASON SPONSOR
PLEASE NOTE
This show contains physical violence, mature themes, usage of guns, and haze.
RUN TIME
Approximately 2 hours, 40 minutes including one intermission.
Originally commissioned by American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, CA
CAREY PERLOFF, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PETER PASTREICH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
World Premiere production of A Thousand Splendid Suns co-presented by American Conservatory Theater and Theatre Calgary in 2017
CAST(in order of appearance)
FIGHT DIRECTOR
Jonathan RiderASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Haysam KadriDRAMATURG
Michael Paller
SCENIC DESIGNER
Ken MacDonald
CHOREOGRAPHER
Stephen Buescher
ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER
Andrew Griffin
ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER
Beth Lake
ORIGINAL CASTING
Janet Foster CSA
SEATTLE CASTING
Kaytlin McIntyre
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Code of ConductWe are committed to being a racially, culturally, and socially just organization. We uphold a safe environment wherein all people are treated with respect and dignity. It is our expectation that all staff, visitors, and patrons comply with this code of conduct and we reserve the right to relocate or remove any person from our theatre who disregards our commitment.
Evacuation ProceduresIn an emergency, wait for an announcement for further instructions. Ushers will be available for assistance. Familiarize yourself with the exit route nearest your seat.
Phones and CamerasCell phones disrupt the performance. Please turn them off. Audio and video recording and photography are prohibited.
Coat CheckCheck items for $1 each.
Food and BeveragePatrons are welcome to bring drinks in plasticware into the theatre. Food and glassware are not allowed in the theatre. You can avoid lines by pre-ordering drinks for intermission!
Emergency NumberIn case of emergency, doctors and other emergency contacts may
reach you by calling 206.443.2222. Give your name and seat location to the house manager if you expect to be contacted.
Accessibility ServicesWheelchair-accessible ticketing available. Inquire or check with the Box Office at the time of your ticket purchase.
Seattle Rep is equipped with a hearing loop which uses a wireless signal to transmit the sound from the theatre’s PA system to the T-coils in your implant or hearing aid, as well as to receivers that are available on loan at Coat Check. Coverage is provided wherever you see the T-coil symbol.
We offer select captioned, audio-described, and ASL-interpreted performances for our season. Large print programs are available at Coat Check.
Smoking PolicySmoking is not allowed in our building or within 25 feet of any entrance.
Firearms PolicyNo firearms of any kind are allowed in any part of the building.
CONTACT SEATTLE REPBOX OFFICE 206.443.2222
ADMINISTRATIVE206.443.2210
BOX OFFICE HOURS Noon to curtain
ADDRESS 155 Mercer St., P.O. Box 900923, Seattle, WA 98109
Group SalesGroups of 10+ save! 206.443.2224 [email protected]
DISGRACED (2016) PICTURED: NISI STURGIS PHOTO BY LIZ LAUREN
FOLLOW US @SEATTLEREP
#THOUSANDSPLENDIDSUNS
MISSIONSeattle Repertory Theatre collaborates with extraordinary artists to create productions and programs that reflect and elevate the diverse cultures, perspectives, and life experiences of our region.
VISIONTheatre at the heart of public life.
VALUESArtistic VitalitySustainabilityGenerous and Inclusive Practices
From the VaultFOR OUR PATRONS
BY Ursula Rani Sarma
BASED ON THE BOOK BY KHALED HOSSEINI
ORIGINAL MUSIC WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY DAVID COULTER
DIRECTED BY Carey Perloff
OCTOBER 5 - NOVEMBER 10, 2018
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
† Alternating performances
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE
COSTUME DESIGNER
Linda ChoLIGHTING DESIGNER
Robert WierzelSOUND DESIGNER
Jake Rodriguez
STAGE MANAGER
Dani Bae*ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Stina Lotti*
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Braden AbrahamMANAGING DIRECTOR
Jeffrey HerrmannPRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH A.C.T.
Babi / Mullah / Interrogator / Zaman .......... John Farrage*
Laila ........................................................... Rinabeth Astopol*
Fariba / Nana / Doctor ................................ Lanna Joffrey*
Rasheed / Talib .......................................... Haysam Kadri*
Mariam ....................................................... Denmo Ibrahim*
Tariq ........................................................... Antoine Yared*
Abdul Sharif / Jalil / Wakil .......................... Jason Kapoor*
Aziza .......................................................... Nikita Tewani*
Zalmai ........................................................ Ty Ho†
Zalmai ........................................................ Rowan Santos†
Ensemble ................................................... Fatima Wardak*
Ensemble ................................................... Hisam Goueli
PRODUCING SPONSOR
SEASON SPONSOR
PLEASE NOTE
This show contains physical violence, mature themes, usage of guns, and haze.
RUN TIME
Approximately 2 hours, 40 minutes including one intermission.
Originally commissioned by American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, CA
CAREY PERLOFF, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PETER PASTREICH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
World Premiere production of A Thousand Splendid Suns co-presented by American Conservatory Theater and Theatre Calgary in 2017
CAST(in order of appearance)
FIGHT DIRECTOR
Jonathan RiderASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Haysam KadriDRAMATURG
Michael Paller
SCENIC DESIGNER
Ken MacDonald
CHOREOGRAPHER
Stephen Buescher
ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER
Andrew Griffin
ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER
Beth Lake
ORIGINAL CASTING
Janet Foster CSA
SEATTLE CASTING
Kaytlin McIntyre
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Rinabeth ApostolLailaRinabeth Apostol is thrilled to make her Seattle Rep debut in A Thousand Splendid Suns. It is her second Khaled Hosseini novel
adaptation, as she originated the roles of Soraya and Mrs. Nguyen in The Kite Runner (San Jose Rep, Arizona Theatre Company). Recent projects include the world premieres of Two Mile Hollow (Ferocious Lotus); we, the people (Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga (TheatreWorks; Theatre Bay Area Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical nominee); Peerless (Marin Theatre Company; Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Principal Actress in a Play); and A Thousand Splendid Suns (American Conservatory Theater). Select credits include The Hard Problem and Monstress (A.C.T.), Dogeaters (Magic Theatre), Othello (Marin Theatre Company), Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (B Street Theatre), Of Mice and Men (San Jose Rep), and Red (TheatreWorks), as well as collaborations with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Playwrights Foundation, Crowded Fire Theater, and Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, among others. Apostol also appears onscreen in several independent films, commercials, and national campaigns. She is a proud member of PlayGround, Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company, and SAG-AFTRA.
John FarrageBabi/Mullah/Interrogator/ZamanJohn Farrage is thrilled to be back at Seattle Rep where he has previously been seen in the staged reading of The Good
Book, as Bashir in the staged reading of Lidless, and as Italian Waiter in Betrayal. John has been a steady presence on Seattle stages for the last 25 years. He is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. His favorite local roles include Ravana/Viswamitra in Ramayana and Iraqi Exile in Stuff Happens at ACT Theatre; Brother Juniper in The Bridge of San Luis Rey with Strawberry Theatre Workshop; and Ferdinand in Ferdinand the Bull with Book-It Repertory Theatre.
Hisam GoueliEnsembleHisam Goueli is honored to be making his debut at Seattle Repertory Theatre with the cast of A Thousand Splendid Suns. He was most
recently seen as LH/Mr. Millicent in The Rules of Charity (Sound Theatre Company). His other credits include Dan in Next to Normal, Rocky in Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Braid Beard in How I Became A Pirate. He most recently ran for Seattle City Council (2017) and emphasized the importance of the arts in heightening empathy, deepening empowerment, and developing creative solutions to ameliorate complex social issues.
Ty HoZalmaiTy Ho is making his first professional theatrical appearance. He first became interested in the performing arts two years ago when he heard the
call for actors from Actors, Models and Talent for Christ (AMTC). Since then, he has been improving his skills via camps, performances, and private coaching. He was the prince in The Little Mermaid for Missoula Children’s Theatre; Puss in Puss and Boots, and Dad in Tesla at the University of Washington summer camp. In addition, Ty got his first booking for a Committee of Children commercial last month. He is enthusiastically developing his skills for a leading role one day. But for now, he is extremely thankful and blessed for all the opportunities as well as support from his families and friends.
Denmo IbrahimMariamDenmo Ibrahim is an actor, writer, and theatre maker. She is reprising the role of Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns (The Old Globe and
A.C.T.), after originating the roles of Fariba/Nana in the world premiere at A.C.T. and Theatre Calgary. Some U.S. credits include New York Theatre Workshop, California Shakespeare Theater, Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Playwrights Foundation, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has collaborated with playwrights Mac Wellman, Eric Ehn, Yusef El Guindi, Kristoffer Diaz, Thomas Bradshaw, Melinda Lopez, Dustin Chinn, and Tanya Saracho, and originated roles with composers Claudio Bohorquez, Rinde Eckhert, and Carla Kihlstedt. Her devised work has toured to international festivals in Egypt, France, and Germany. She is the recipient of a Theatre Bay Area Award and a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. Ibrahim has an M.F.A. in Lecoq-Based Actor-Created
Physical Theatre from Naropa University and a B.F.A. in Acting from Boston University. She is a founding artistic director of Mugwumpin, a commissioned playwright with Crowded Fire and a resident artist of Golden Thread Productions.
Lanna JoffreyFariba/Nana/DoctorLanna Joffrey is an actor, spoken-word performer, and writer working in the U.K. and U.S. Her select performances include The Profane (Playwrights
Horizons), Muse of Fire and Sonnet Walks (Shakespeare’s Globe), Cause (Vaults Festival), The Soulless Ones (Hammer House of Horror), I Call My Brothers (Gate Theatre), Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida (The Factory Theater), Sad and Merry Madness and Measure for Measure (The Public Theater), 9 Parts of Desire (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston; IRNE Award), and 1001 (Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Denver Post Ovation Award). Joffrey’s critically acclaimed verbatim play Valiant has traveled the U.K. and U.S., going to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Theatre503, Women and War Festival, Women of the World Festival, and InterAct Theatre Company, and earning a FringeNYC Award. Joffrey received her M.A. in Acting from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and her B.F.A. in Acting from Syracuse University. lannajoffrey.com
Haysam KadriRasheed/Talib/Associate DirectorHaysam Kadri has appeared in A Thousand Splendid Suns (The Old Globe, Theatre Calgary, A.C.T.); Enron, To Kill a
Mockingbird, Much Ado About Nothing, The Crucible, and A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); The Hollow, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Twelve Angry Men, Dr. Jeykll & Mr. Hyde, and Black Coffee (Vertigo Theatre); Richard III, Macbeth, Othello, William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead, and The Winter’s Tale (The Shakespeare Company); and The Last Wife, Cockroach, The Motherfu**er with the Hat, Shakespeare’s Dog, Robin Hood, and Oliver Twist (Alberta Theatre Projects). His film and TV credits include The Revenant and Hell on Wheels. Kadri is the artistic producer of The Shakespeare Company and program director of Theatre Calgary’s Shakespeare by the Bow.
MEET THE
CASTJason KapoorAbdul Sharif/Jalil/WakilJason Kapoor is reprising his roles from the 2017 world premiere production of A Thousand Splendid Suns
at A.C.T. and Theatre Calgary. Past A.C.T. credits include Indian Ink, King Charles III, and The Hard Problem. Most recently, he was seen in the San Francisco Playhouse production of Born Yesterday. His other Bay Area credits include Ideation (SF Playhouse, off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters); Guards at the Taj, The Legend of Georgia McBride, and The Invisible Hand (Marin Theatre Company); and Life is a Dream (California Shakespeare Theater). Kapoor received his B.A. from San Jose State University and his M.A. from the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art.
Rowan SantosZalmaiThis is Rowan Santos’ first professional acting role and Rowan is excited to be part of the cast. Rowan is in 4th grade and has participated in
summer camp musicals at Auburn Community Junior Players. Productions include Alice in Wonderland (Little Alice); Beauty and the Beast (Chip); Shrek (Pied Piper). Besides theatre, Rowan also likes singing, math, piano, and martial arts. Rowan and family are very active in supporting the arts and gender equality. Rowan is grateful for this opportunity and thanks the teachers, family, and friends who continue to believe in Rowan’s dream to be in theatre. In Rowan’s words, “I feel free when I’m on stage!”
Nikita TewaniAzizaNikita Tewani is reprising her role from the 2017 world premiere production at A.C.T. She is a New York-based actress and graduate
of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her recent off-Broadway and regional theatre credits include The Who & The What (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns (A.C.T., Theatre Calgary, The Old Globe), The Fall (SoHo Playhouse), and A Muslim in the Midst (Thespis Theater Festival). Her TV credits include “The Affair” (Showtime) and “Falling Water” (USA Network). Nikita will also be seen as the lead in the upcoming feature film Forbidden Steps as Dua Khawar. Tewani has also appeared in national commercials and ad campaigns. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.
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Rinabeth ApostolLailaRinabeth Apostol is thrilled to make her Seattle Rep debut in A Thousand Splendid Suns. It is her second Khaled Hosseini novel
adaptation, as she originated the roles of Soraya and Mrs. Nguyen in The Kite Runner (San Jose Rep, Arizona Theatre Company). Recent projects include the world premieres of Two Mile Hollow (Ferocious Lotus); we, the people (Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga (TheatreWorks; Theatre Bay Area Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical nominee); Peerless (Marin Theatre Company; Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Principal Actress in a Play); and A Thousand Splendid Suns (American Conservatory Theater). Select credits include The Hard Problem and Monstress (A.C.T.), Dogeaters (Magic Theatre), Othello (Marin Theatre Company), Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (B Street Theatre), Of Mice and Men (San Jose Rep), and Red (TheatreWorks), as well as collaborations with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Playwrights Foundation, Crowded Fire Theater, and Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, among others. Apostol also appears onscreen in several independent films, commercials, and national campaigns. She is a proud member of PlayGround, Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company, and SAG-AFTRA.
John FarrageBabi/Mullah/Interrogator/ZamanJohn Farrage is thrilled to be back at Seattle Rep where he has previously been seen in the staged reading of The Good
Book, as Bashir in the staged reading of Lidless, and as Italian Waiter in Betrayal. John has been a steady presence on Seattle stages for the last 25 years. He is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. His favorite local roles include Ravana/Viswamitra in Ramayana and Iraqi Exile in Stuff Happens at ACT Theatre; Brother Juniper in The Bridge of San Luis Rey with Strawberry Theatre Workshop; and Ferdinand in Ferdinand the Bull with Book-It Repertory Theatre.
Hisam GoueliEnsembleHisam Goueli is honored to be making his debut at Seattle Repertory Theatre with the cast of A Thousand Splendid Suns. He was most
recently seen as LH/Mr. Millicent in The Rules of Charity (Sound Theatre Company). His other credits include Dan in Next to Normal, Rocky in Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Braid Beard in How I Became A Pirate. He most recently ran for Seattle City Council (2017) and emphasized the importance of the arts in heightening empathy, deepening empowerment, and developing creative solutions to ameliorate complex social issues.
Ty HoZalmaiTy Ho is making his first professional theatrical appearance. He first became interested in the performing arts two years ago when he heard the
call for actors from Actors, Models and Talent for Christ (AMTC). Since then, he has been improving his skills via camps, performances, and private coaching. He was the prince in The Little Mermaid for Missoula Children’s Theatre; Puss in Puss and Boots, and Dad in Tesla at the University of Washington summer camp. In addition, Ty got his first booking for a Committee of Children commercial last month. He is enthusiastically developing his skills for a leading role one day. But for now, he is extremely thankful and blessed for all the opportunities as well as support from his families and friends.
Denmo IbrahimMariamDenmo Ibrahim is an actor, writer, and theatre maker. She is reprising the role of Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns (The Old Globe and
A.C.T.), after originating the roles of Fariba/Nana in the world premiere at A.C.T. and Theatre Calgary. Some U.S. credits include New York Theatre Workshop, California Shakespeare Theater, Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Playwrights Foundation, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has collaborated with playwrights Mac Wellman, Eric Ehn, Yusef El Guindi, Kristoffer Diaz, Thomas Bradshaw, Melinda Lopez, Dustin Chinn, and Tanya Saracho, and originated roles with composers Claudio Bohorquez, Rinde Eckhert, and Carla Kihlstedt. Her devised work has toured to international festivals in Egypt, France, and Germany. She is the recipient of a Theatre Bay Area Award and a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. Ibrahim has an M.F.A. in Lecoq-Based Actor-Created
Physical Theatre from Naropa University and a B.F.A. in Acting from Boston University. She is a founding artistic director of Mugwumpin, a commissioned playwright with Crowded Fire and a resident artist of Golden Thread Productions.
Lanna JoffreyFariba/Nana/DoctorLanna Joffrey is an actor, spoken-word performer, and writer working in the U.K. and U.S. Her select performances include The Profane (Playwrights
Horizons), Muse of Fire and Sonnet Walks (Shakespeare’s Globe), Cause (Vaults Festival), The Soulless Ones (Hammer House of Horror), I Call My Brothers (Gate Theatre), Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida (The Factory Theater), Sad and Merry Madness and Measure for Measure (The Public Theater), 9 Parts of Desire (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston; IRNE Award), and 1001 (Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Denver Post Ovation Award). Joffrey’s critically acclaimed verbatim play Valiant has traveled the U.K. and U.S., going to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Theatre503, Women and War Festival, Women of the World Festival, and InterAct Theatre Company, and earning a FringeNYC Award. Joffrey received her M.A. in Acting from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and her B.F.A. in Acting from Syracuse University. lannajoffrey.com
Haysam KadriRasheed/Talib/Associate DirectorHaysam Kadri has appeared in A Thousand Splendid Suns (The Old Globe, Theatre Calgary, A.C.T.); Enron, To Kill a
Mockingbird, Much Ado About Nothing, The Crucible, and A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); The Hollow, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Twelve Angry Men, Dr. Jeykll & Mr. Hyde, and Black Coffee (Vertigo Theatre); Richard III, Macbeth, Othello, William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead, and The Winter’s Tale (The Shakespeare Company); and The Last Wife, Cockroach, The Motherfu**er with the Hat, Shakespeare’s Dog, Robin Hood, and Oliver Twist (Alberta Theatre Projects). His film and TV credits include The Revenant and Hell on Wheels. Kadri is the artistic producer of The Shakespeare Company and program director of Theatre Calgary’s Shakespeare by the Bow.
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CASTJason KapoorAbdul Sharif/Jalil/WakilJason Kapoor is reprising his roles from the 2017 world premiere production of A Thousand Splendid Suns
at A.C.T. and Theatre Calgary. Past A.C.T. credits include Indian Ink, King Charles III, and The Hard Problem. Most recently, he was seen in the San Francisco Playhouse production of Born Yesterday. His other Bay Area credits include Ideation (SF Playhouse, off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters); Guards at the Taj, The Legend of Georgia McBride, and The Invisible Hand (Marin Theatre Company); and Life is a Dream (California Shakespeare Theater). Kapoor received his B.A. from San Jose State University and his M.A. from the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art.
Rowan SantosZalmaiThis is Rowan Santos’ first professional acting role and Rowan is excited to be part of the cast. Rowan is in 4th grade and has participated in
summer camp musicals at Auburn Community Junior Players. Productions include Alice in Wonderland (Little Alice); Beauty and the Beast (Chip); Shrek (Pied Piper). Besides theatre, Rowan also likes singing, math, piano, and martial arts. Rowan and family are very active in supporting the arts and gender equality. Rowan is grateful for this opportunity and thanks the teachers, family, and friends who continue to believe in Rowan’s dream to be in theatre. In Rowan’s words, “I feel free when I’m on stage!”
Nikita TewaniAzizaNikita Tewani is reprising her role from the 2017 world premiere production at A.C.T. She is a New York-based actress and graduate
of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her recent off-Broadway and regional theatre credits include The Who & The What (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns (A.C.T., Theatre Calgary, The Old Globe), The Fall (SoHo Playhouse), and A Muslim in the Midst (Thespis Theater Festival). Her TV credits include “The Affair” (Showtime) and “Falling Water” (USA Network). Nikita will also be seen as the lead in the upcoming feature film Forbidden Steps as Dua Khawar. Tewani has also appeared in national commercials and ad campaigns. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.
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Fatima WardakEnsembleFatima Wardak is absolutely thrilled to be at Seattle Rep and to help tell the story of the land her parents fled as refugees. In 2016,
Fatima traveled to Afghanistan for the second time, after founding “The Journal Project,” a grassroots charity campaign that provided over 350 orphans living in Kabul with clothing, food supplies, a journal, and art supplies. She graduated from Western Washington University with a B.A. in Theatre and Political Science. She is a member of Seattle-based WanderLost Laboratory Theatre, as well as a returning participant and guest speaker at the Afghan-American Conference (Washington D.C., New York City). Credits: Here Lies Love (Seattle Rep); Nightmare...Street, Peace Signs (KPET tour, Northern CA); Seminar (Western Summer Theatre); Equus, God of Carnage, Corktown (WWU).
Antoine YaredTariqAntoine Yared, who was born in Lebanon and raised in Montreal, has performed in theatres across the Canadian
provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. He most recently appeared as Edgar in Groundling Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s LEAR in Toronto, and he played one of the titular roles in last season’s Romeo and Juliet at the Stratford Festival. His other recent theatre credits include The Madwoman of Chaillot, John Gabriel Borkman, Macbeth, As You Like It, The Physicists, King John, The Alchemist, Antony and Cleopatra, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Merchant of Venice, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Stratford Festival); and The Snow Queen (Theatre New Brunswick).
Ursula Rani SarmaPlaywrightUrsula Rani Sarma is an award-winning writer of Irish Indian descent. She has written plays for Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland in Dublin, A.C.T., Ambassador Theatre Group, Traverse Theatre, Paines Plough, and the BBC. Her recent productions include Joanne (Clean Break, Soho Theatre), Debris (Theatre La Licorne), The Ripple Effect (Ambassador Theatre Group/London Cultural Olympiad), Yerma (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Riot (A.C.T. Young Conservatory/Theatre Royal
Bath), The Dark Things (Traverse Theatre), and Birdsong (Abbey Theatre, Dublin). Sarma has been writer in residence for Paines Plough, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and the Royal National Theatre, among other companies. She is currently developing plays for Abbey Theatre, Traverse Theatre, and Djinn Theatre Company. For the screen, her work includes Raw, Red Rock, Anywhere but Here, and Judge Dee. She is currently adapting the book Henry’s Demons for BBC One and writing an original drama entitled “Guardian” for Channel 4.
Khaled HosseiniAuthorKhaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1976, his family relocated to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then, the Soviet invasion was under way, so the Hosseini family moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini went on to become a doctor, practicing medicine as an internist between 1996 and 2004. He is the author of three award-winning and internationally best-selling novels: The Kite Runner (2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), and And the Mountains Echoed (2013). In 2006, Hosseini was named a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency. After a trip to Afghanistan in this position, he was inspired to establish The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
Carey PerloffDirectorA.C.T. Artistic Director Emerita, Perloff recently completed an acclaimed 25-year tenure as Artistic Director of A.C.T., where she commissioned and developed this adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns, which just concluded runs in Canada, at A.C.T., and The Old Globe in San Diego. Known for innovative productions of classics and for championing new writing, she has directed classical plays from around the world, ten plays by Tom Stoppard, and productions by writers such as Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, José Rivera, Martyna Majok, and Philip Kan Gotanda. Other productions include Hecuba, Mary Stuart, The Tosca Project, Scorched, and Underneath the Lintel. Perloff is an award-winning playwright, whose works include Kinship, Higher, Luminescence Dating, and The Fit, which will be produced by San Francisco Playhouse in May 2019. Her book Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater was selected as San Francisco Public Library’s One City One Book selection for 2016. Before joining A.C.T., she was Artistic Director at Classic Stage Company. Perloff received a B.A. Phi Beta Kappa in classics and comparative literature from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Fellow at Oxford.
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David CoulterOriginal MusicDavid Coulter is an English-born multidisciplinary artist, musician, composer, director, and educator based in the Bay Area. His score for A Thousand Splendid Suns won a Betty Award in Canada in 2017 and was nominated for best score in the Bay Area Theatre Awards. Since the 1980s, he has directed shows, produced records, and played his musical saw and other assorted weird and less-weird instruments in studios, theatres, on stages, and on recordings around the world with the likes of The Pogues, Tom Waits and Robert Wilson, The Tiger Lillie’s, Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, Hal Wilner, and Gorillaz. Coulter curates and directs numerous multi-artist events. His many credits include Monkey: Journey to the West (Gorillaz/Chen Shi-Zheng), Double Fantasy Live, Rain Dogs Revisted, Twisted Christmas, In Dreams: David Lynch Revisited, Jim Jarmusch Revisited, and An Anatomy Act. He was also associate musical director and multi-instrumentalist on The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullet (A.C.T.). Recent scores include Carey Perloff’s production of Hamlet at A.C.T. in 2017. Earlier this year, he directed and performed in Great Australian Songbook as one of the opening concerts for Commonwealth Games 2018 on Australia’s Gold Coast. He is a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, and he has played the didgeridoo at the invitation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on a number of official occasions.
Ken MacDonaldScenic DesignerKen MacDonald has designed The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring (Canadian Stage, Vancouver Opera, Tapestry Opera); The Barber of Seville and Macbeth (Pacific Opera Victoria); The Threepenny Opera, The Rake’s Progress, and Susannah (Vancouver Opera); A Thousand Splendid Suns (A.C.T., The Old Globe, Grand Theatre, Theatre Calgary); Sovereignty and The Shoplifters (Arena Stage, Theatre Calgary); Engaged, Our Betters, and The Doctor’s Dilemma (Shaw Festival Theatre); Wanderlust, Moby Dick, and The Trespassers (Stratford Festival); Parfumerie, Blithe Spirit, The Government Inspector, and ‘night, Mother (Soulpepper Theatre Company); The Arsonists and Vigil (Canadian Stage); Sextet, The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, Marry Me a Little, Benevolence, and The Dishwashers (Tarragon Theatre); and The Waiting Room, Hamlet, and Art (Arts Club Theatre Company). MacDonald has received a Gemini Award for Outstanding Production Design (The Overcoat), four Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Betty Mitchell Award, and 17 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.
Linda ChoCostume DesignerLinda Cho’s Broadway credits include Lifespan of a Fact, Anastasia (Tony Award nomination), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical), and The Velocity of Autumn. Off Broadway, she has designed The Merchant of Venice for Theatre for a New Audience, and shows at Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, The Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Drama Department, The Acting Company, and Atlantic Theater Company. Regionally, her designs have been seen at Los Angeles Opera, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, The Old Globe, the Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Musicals, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and will open the 2018 season at Metropolitan Opera with Samson and Delilah. Internationally, Cho has designed costumes at the Royal Shakespeare Company in England and the Stratford Festival in Canada. She received her M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. She sits on the advisory committee for the American Theater Wing.
Robert WierzelLighting DesignerRobert Wierzel recently designed the lighting for A.C.T.’s new musical A Walk on the Moon. He has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in opera, theatre, dance, museums, and contemporary music, and on stages throughout the country and abroad. Wierzel’s theatre work has been seen on and off-Broadway, including Fela! (Tony Award nomination), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill starring Audra McDonald, David Copperfield: Dreams and Nightmares, and productions at New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Signature Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Mostly Mozart Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Acting Company, and Lincoln Center Festival/American Songbook. He has collaborated for decades with choreographer and director Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. He is on the faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a creative partner at Spark Design Collaborative.
Jake RodriguezSound DesignerJake Rodriguez is a sound designer and composer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. His recent credits include we, the invisibles (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Vietgone (A.C.T.), An Octoroon (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Events (Shotgun Players), A Thousand Splendid Suns (A.C.T., Theatre Calgary, Grand Theatre), The Christians (Playwrights Horizons, Mark Taper Forum), Girlfriend (Kirk Douglas Theatre), and
Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (A.C.T., the Guthrie Theater). Rodriguez is the recipient of a 2004 Princess Grace Award.
Stephen BuescherChoreographerStephen Buescher designed movement for Hamlet, The Orphan of Zhao, Monstress, Let There Be Love, Stuck Elevator, and Underneath the Lintel at A.C.T.; The Imaginary Invalid with Fiasco Theater at The Old Globe; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Private Lives at Long Wharf Theatre; and A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory Company. For A.C.T.’s Master of Fine Arts Program, he directed The Bacchae of Euripedes, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Black Orpheus: Una Historia de Amor, and The House of Bernarda Alba (which traveled to the Moscow Art Theatre). He has been the Head of Movement training at the American Conservatory Theater and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company. He has performed nationally and internationally with Dell’Arte International, and most recently with the American Conservatory Theater, Smith Wymore Disappearing Acts, Shotgun Players, Scott Wells & Dancers, and Deborah Slater Dance Theater. Buescher is Professor of Movement at the University of California San Diego and a graduate of Dell’Arte International and California Institute of the Arts.
Dani BaeStage ManagerDani Bae is excited to be bringing A Thousand Splendid Suns to Seattle! Recent A.C.T. credits include A Thousand Splendid Suns, Heisenberg, The Birthday Party, and the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns in 2017. Notable stage management credits include Detroit ‘67, Dry Powder (Aurora Theatre Company); the Bard Music Festival (Bard SummerScape); Urinetown: The Musical (American Theatre of Actors); Harvest, Earthquakes in London (Greenwich Theatre). Bae has a B.F.A. in stage management from Syracuse University.
Stina LottiAssistant Stage ManagerProduction Stage Manager, Seattle Rep. Select credits: The Servant of Two Masters (Seattle Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, ArtsEmerson); MAC BETH, The Odyssey, Here Lies Love, Well, A Raisin in the Sun, All the Way, The Great Society, The Piano Lesson, Boeing Boeing, Fences, You Can’t Take It With You, Gem of the Ocean (Seattle Repertory Theatre); The Sound of Music, Cinderella, Guys and Dolls, White Christmas, Cabaret (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Angels in America, A Doctor In Spite of Himself (Intiman Theatre); Brooklyn Bridge, Lyle the Crocodile (Seattle Children’s Theatre).
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Fatima WardakEnsembleFatima Wardak is absolutely thrilled to be at Seattle Rep and to help tell the story of the land her parents fled as refugees. In 2016,
Fatima traveled to Afghanistan for the second time, after founding “The Journal Project,” a grassroots charity campaign that provided over 350 orphans living in Kabul with clothing, food supplies, a journal, and art supplies. She graduated from Western Washington University with a B.A. in Theatre and Political Science. She is a member of Seattle-based WanderLost Laboratory Theatre, as well as a returning participant and guest speaker at the Afghan-American Conference (Washington D.C., New York City). Credits: Here Lies Love (Seattle Rep); Nightmare...Street, Peace Signs (KPET tour, Northern CA); Seminar (Western Summer Theatre); Equus, God of Carnage, Corktown (WWU).
Antoine YaredTariqAntoine Yared, who was born in Lebanon and raised in Montreal, has performed in theatres across the Canadian
provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. He most recently appeared as Edgar in Groundling Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s LEAR in Toronto, and he played one of the titular roles in last season’s Romeo and Juliet at the Stratford Festival. His other recent theatre credits include The Madwoman of Chaillot, John Gabriel Borkman, Macbeth, As You Like It, The Physicists, King John, The Alchemist, Antony and Cleopatra, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Merchant of Venice, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Stratford Festival); and The Snow Queen (Theatre New Brunswick).
Ursula Rani SarmaPlaywrightUrsula Rani Sarma is an award-winning writer of Irish Indian descent. She has written plays for Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland in Dublin, A.C.T., Ambassador Theatre Group, Traverse Theatre, Paines Plough, and the BBC. Her recent productions include Joanne (Clean Break, Soho Theatre), Debris (Theatre La Licorne), The Ripple Effect (Ambassador Theatre Group/London Cultural Olympiad), Yerma (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Riot (A.C.T. Young Conservatory/Theatre Royal
Bath), The Dark Things (Traverse Theatre), and Birdsong (Abbey Theatre, Dublin). Sarma has been writer in residence for Paines Plough, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and the Royal National Theatre, among other companies. She is currently developing plays for Abbey Theatre, Traverse Theatre, and Djinn Theatre Company. For the screen, her work includes Raw, Red Rock, Anywhere but Here, and Judge Dee. She is currently adapting the book Henry’s Demons for BBC One and writing an original drama entitled “Guardian” for Channel 4.
Khaled HosseiniAuthorKhaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. In 1976, his family relocated to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then, the Soviet invasion was under way, so the Hosseini family moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini went on to become a doctor, practicing medicine as an internist between 1996 and 2004. He is the author of three award-winning and internationally best-selling novels: The Kite Runner (2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), and And the Mountains Echoed (2013). In 2006, Hosseini was named a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency. After a trip to Afghanistan in this position, he was inspired to establish The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
Carey PerloffDirectorA.C.T. Artistic Director Emerita, Perloff recently completed an acclaimed 25-year tenure as Artistic Director of A.C.T., where she commissioned and developed this adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns, which just concluded runs in Canada, at A.C.T., and The Old Globe in San Diego. Known for innovative productions of classics and for championing new writing, she has directed classical plays from around the world, ten plays by Tom Stoppard, and productions by writers such as Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, José Rivera, Martyna Majok, and Philip Kan Gotanda. Other productions include Hecuba, Mary Stuart, The Tosca Project, Scorched, and Underneath the Lintel. Perloff is an award-winning playwright, whose works include Kinship, Higher, Luminescence Dating, and The Fit, which will be produced by San Francisco Playhouse in May 2019. Her book Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater was selected as San Francisco Public Library’s One City One Book selection for 2016. Before joining A.C.T., she was Artistic Director at Classic Stage Company. Perloff received a B.A. Phi Beta Kappa in classics and comparative literature from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Fellow at Oxford.
MEET THE
ARTISTIC TEAM
David CoulterOriginal MusicDavid Coulter is an English-born multidisciplinary artist, musician, composer, director, and educator based in the Bay Area. His score for A Thousand Splendid Suns won a Betty Award in Canada in 2017 and was nominated for best score in the Bay Area Theatre Awards. Since the 1980s, he has directed shows, produced records, and played his musical saw and other assorted weird and less-weird instruments in studios, theatres, on stages, and on recordings around the world with the likes of The Pogues, Tom Waits and Robert Wilson, The Tiger Lillie’s, Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, Hal Wilner, and Gorillaz. Coulter curates and directs numerous multi-artist events. His many credits include Monkey: Journey to the West (Gorillaz/Chen Shi-Zheng), Double Fantasy Live, Rain Dogs Revisted, Twisted Christmas, In Dreams: David Lynch Revisited, Jim Jarmusch Revisited, and An Anatomy Act. He was also associate musical director and multi-instrumentalist on The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullet (A.C.T.). Recent scores include Carey Perloff’s production of Hamlet at A.C.T. in 2017. Earlier this year, he directed and performed in Great Australian Songbook as one of the opening concerts for Commonwealth Games 2018 on Australia’s Gold Coast. He is a visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, and he has played the didgeridoo at the invitation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on a number of official occasions.
Ken MacDonaldScenic DesignerKen MacDonald has designed The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring (Canadian Stage, Vancouver Opera, Tapestry Opera); The Barber of Seville and Macbeth (Pacific Opera Victoria); The Threepenny Opera, The Rake’s Progress, and Susannah (Vancouver Opera); A Thousand Splendid Suns (A.C.T., The Old Globe, Grand Theatre, Theatre Calgary); Sovereignty and The Shoplifters (Arena Stage, Theatre Calgary); Engaged, Our Betters, and The Doctor’s Dilemma (Shaw Festival Theatre); Wanderlust, Moby Dick, and The Trespassers (Stratford Festival); Parfumerie, Blithe Spirit, The Government Inspector, and ‘night, Mother (Soulpepper Theatre Company); The Arsonists and Vigil (Canadian Stage); Sextet, The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, Marry Me a Little, Benevolence, and The Dishwashers (Tarragon Theatre); and The Waiting Room, Hamlet, and Art (Arts Club Theatre Company). MacDonald has received a Gemini Award for Outstanding Production Design (The Overcoat), four Dora Mavor Moore Awards, a Betty Mitchell Award, and 17 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.
Linda ChoCostume DesignerLinda Cho’s Broadway credits include Lifespan of a Fact, Anastasia (Tony Award nomination), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Musical), and The Velocity of Autumn. Off Broadway, she has designed The Merchant of Venice for Theatre for a New Audience, and shows at Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, The Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Drama Department, The Acting Company, and Atlantic Theater Company. Regionally, her designs have been seen at Los Angeles Opera, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, The Old Globe, the Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Musicals, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and will open the 2018 season at Metropolitan Opera with Samson and Delilah. Internationally, Cho has designed costumes at the Royal Shakespeare Company in England and the Stratford Festival in Canada. She received her M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. She sits on the advisory committee for the American Theater Wing.
Robert WierzelLighting DesignerRobert Wierzel recently designed the lighting for A.C.T.’s new musical A Walk on the Moon. He has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in opera, theatre, dance, museums, and contemporary music, and on stages throughout the country and abroad. Wierzel’s theatre work has been seen on and off-Broadway, including Fela! (Tony Award nomination), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill starring Audra McDonald, David Copperfield: Dreams and Nightmares, and productions at New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Signature Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Mostly Mozart Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Acting Company, and Lincoln Center Festival/American Songbook. He has collaborated for decades with choreographer and director Bill T. Jones and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. He is on the faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a creative partner at Spark Design Collaborative.
Jake RodriguezSound DesignerJake Rodriguez is a sound designer and composer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. His recent credits include we, the invisibles (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Vietgone (A.C.T.), An Octoroon (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Events (Shotgun Players), A Thousand Splendid Suns (A.C.T., Theatre Calgary, Grand Theatre), The Christians (Playwrights Horizons, Mark Taper Forum), Girlfriend (Kirk Douglas Theatre), and
Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (A.C.T., the Guthrie Theater). Rodriguez is the recipient of a 2004 Princess Grace Award.
Stephen BuescherChoreographerStephen Buescher designed movement for Hamlet, The Orphan of Zhao, Monstress, Let There Be Love, Stuck Elevator, and Underneath the Lintel at A.C.T.; The Imaginary Invalid with Fiasco Theater at The Old Globe; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Private Lives at Long Wharf Theatre; and A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory Company. For A.C.T.’s Master of Fine Arts Program, he directed The Bacchae of Euripedes, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Black Orpheus: Una Historia de Amor, and The House of Bernarda Alba (which traveled to the Moscow Art Theatre). He has been the Head of Movement training at the American Conservatory Theater and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company. He has performed nationally and internationally with Dell’Arte International, and most recently with the American Conservatory Theater, Smith Wymore Disappearing Acts, Shotgun Players, Scott Wells & Dancers, and Deborah Slater Dance Theater. Buescher is Professor of Movement at the University of California San Diego and a graduate of Dell’Arte International and California Institute of the Arts.
Dani BaeStage ManagerDani Bae is excited to be bringing A Thousand Splendid Suns to Seattle! Recent A.C.T. credits include A Thousand Splendid Suns, Heisenberg, The Birthday Party, and the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns in 2017. Notable stage management credits include Detroit ‘67, Dry Powder (Aurora Theatre Company); the Bard Music Festival (Bard SummerScape); Urinetown: The Musical (American Theatre of Actors); Harvest, Earthquakes in London (Greenwich Theatre). Bae has a B.F.A. in stage management from Syracuse University.
Stina LottiAssistant Stage ManagerProduction Stage Manager, Seattle Rep. Select credits: The Servant of Two Masters (Seattle Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, ArtsEmerson); MAC BETH, The Odyssey, Here Lies Love, Well, A Raisin in the Sun, All the Way, The Great Society, The Piano Lesson, Boeing Boeing, Fences, You Can’t Take It With You, Gem of the Ocean (Seattle Repertory Theatre); The Sound of Music, Cinderella, Guys and Dolls, White Christmas, Cabaret (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Angels in America, A Doctor In Spite of Himself (Intiman Theatre); Brooklyn Bridge, Lyle the Crocodile (Seattle Children’s Theatre).
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Seattle Repertory Theatre is honored to recognize DLA Piper LLP as the Producing Sponsor for A Thousand Splendid Suns.
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. A core commitment of DLA Piper is pro bono legal assistance to support access to justice and social and economic development for clients in under-served and vulnerable regions, like the people and community central to tonight’s show. At Seattle Rep, we are proud to have Stellman Keehnel, founder of DLA Piper’s Northwest Litigation Group, as President of our Board of Trustees. We are grateful for his dedicated service, and for DLA Piper’s generous support of this production.
Thank You to OurPRODUCING SPONSOR
Seattle Repertory Theatre is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), a nationwide association of not for profit theatres.
This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the I.A.T.S.E. Scenery Construction and Operations performed by employees represented by I.A.T.S.E. locals 15 and 488. Wardrobe services are performed by employees represented by T.W.U Local 887
Seattle Repertory Theatre is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the nonprofit professional theatre.
Seattle Repertory Theatre is a member of Theatre Puget Sound.
AFFILIATIONS
ADDITIONAL STAFF
Amy JurkiewiczChild Supervisor
A.C.T.Co-ProducerAmerican Conservatory Theater, San Francisco’s Tony Award–winning nonprofit theatre, nurtures the art of live theatre through dynamic productions, intensive actor training, and engagement with our community. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon, we embrace our responsibility to conserve, renew, and reinvent our rich theatrical traditions, while exploring new artistic forms and communities. Founded by William Ball, A.C.T. opened its first San Francisco season in 1967. We have since performed more than 350 productions to more than seven million people. With the appointment of Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon and Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein, and our continuing commitment to the development of new work and new artists, A.C.T. plays a leadership role in securing the future of theatre for San Francisco and the nation.
Braden AbrahamArtistic DirectorBraden Abraham joined Seattle Rep in 2002, starting as an artistic intern, then holding several positions on the artistic staff. He served as Associate Artistic Director for seven years before assuming artistic leadership of the theatre in 2014. During his tenure, Braden has re-envisioned the New Play Program, and initiated the Rep’s new program Public Works Seattle. An accomplished director, he has directed many productions for the Rep, including David Grimm’s Ibsen in Chicago, Lisa Kron’s Well, Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale, Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Samuel D. Hunter’s A Great Wilderness, and Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51. He has developed plays with The O’Neill, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Denver Center, Inge Festival, Portland Center Stage, The Playwrights’ Center, and Perseverance Theatre.
Jeffrey HerrmannManaging DirectorJeffrey Herrmann joined Seattle Rep in July 2014 after seven years as Managing Director at Washington, D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. During his time there, he oversaw 18 world premieres, a 100% increase in the operating budget, the execution of a $4 million artistic capital campaign, and the purchase of Woolly’s award-winning theatre facility. Prior to joining Woolly Mammoth, he served as Producing Director for eight years at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. Jeffrey received his B.A. in English
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SEATTLE REP
at Vassar College and his M.F.A. in Theatre Management at the Yale School of Drama.
Seattle Repertory TheatreFounded in 1963, Seattle Rep is led by Artistic Director Braden Abraham and Managing Director Jeffrey Herrmann. One of America’s premier not-for-profit resident theatres, Seattle Repertory Theatre has achieved international renown for its consistently high production and artistic standards, and was awarded the 1990 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. With an emphasis on entertaining plays of true dramatic and literary worth, Seattle Rep produces a season of plays along with educational programs, new play workshops, and special presentations. Visit seattlerep.org.
Seattle Repertory Theatre is a member of NAMT, a not-for-profit organization serving the musical theatre community
The director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
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Seattle Repertory Theatre is honored to recognize DLA Piper LLP as the Producing Sponsor for A Thousand Splendid Suns.
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. A core commitment of DLA Piper is pro bono legal assistance to support access to justice and social and economic development for clients in under-served and vulnerable regions, like the people and community central to tonight’s show. At Seattle Rep, we are proud to have Stellman Keehnel, founder of DLA Piper’s Northwest Litigation Group, as President of our Board of Trustees. We are grateful for his dedicated service, and for DLA Piper’s generous support of this production.
Thank You to OurPRODUCING SPONSOR
Seattle Repertory Theatre is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), a nationwide association of not for profit theatres.
This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the I.A.T.S.E. Scenery Construction and Operations performed by employees represented by I.A.T.S.E. locals 15 and 488. Wardrobe services are performed by employees represented by T.W.U Local 887
Seattle Repertory Theatre is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the nonprofit professional theatre.
Seattle Repertory Theatre is a member of Theatre Puget Sound.
AFFILIATIONS
ADDITIONAL STAFF
Amy JurkiewiczChild Supervisor
A.C.T.Co-ProducerAmerican Conservatory Theater, San Francisco’s Tony Award–winning nonprofit theatre, nurtures the art of live theatre through dynamic productions, intensive actor training, and engagement with our community. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon, we embrace our responsibility to conserve, renew, and reinvent our rich theatrical traditions, while exploring new artistic forms and communities. Founded by William Ball, A.C.T. opened its first San Francisco season in 1967. We have since performed more than 350 productions to more than seven million people. With the appointment of Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon and Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein, and our continuing commitment to the development of new work and new artists, A.C.T. plays a leadership role in securing the future of theatre for San Francisco and the nation.
Braden AbrahamArtistic DirectorBraden Abraham joined Seattle Rep in 2002, starting as an artistic intern, then holding several positions on the artistic staff. He served as Associate Artistic Director for seven years before assuming artistic leadership of the theatre in 2014. During his tenure, Braden has re-envisioned the New Play Program, and initiated the Rep’s new program Public Works Seattle. An accomplished director, he has directed many productions for the Rep, including David Grimm’s Ibsen in Chicago, Lisa Kron’s Well, Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale, Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Samuel D. Hunter’s A Great Wilderness, and Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51. He has developed plays with The O’Neill, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Denver Center, Inge Festival, Portland Center Stage, The Playwrights’ Center, and Perseverance Theatre.
Jeffrey HerrmannManaging DirectorJeffrey Herrmann joined Seattle Rep in July 2014 after seven years as Managing Director at Washington, D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. During his time there, he oversaw 18 world premieres, a 100% increase in the operating budget, the execution of a $4 million artistic capital campaign, and the purchase of Woolly’s award-winning theatre facility. Prior to joining Woolly Mammoth, he served as Producing Director for eight years at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. Jeffrey received his B.A. in English
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SEATTLE REP
at Vassar College and his M.F.A. in Theatre Management at the Yale School of Drama.
Seattle Repertory TheatreFounded in 1963, Seattle Rep is led by Artistic Director Braden Abraham and Managing Director Jeffrey Herrmann. One of America’s premier not-for-profit resident theatres, Seattle Repertory Theatre has achieved international renown for its consistently high production and artistic standards, and was awarded the 1990 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. With an emphasis on entertaining plays of true dramatic and literary worth, Seattle Rep produces a season of plays along with educational programs, new play workshops, and special presentations. Visit seattlerep.org.
Seattle Repertory Theatre is a member of NAMT, a not-for-profit organization serving the musical theatre community
The director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
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ISTORY, WHAT WE KNOW OR DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE PAST AND WHY, PLAYS A PROMINENT ROLE IN OUR EXCITING NEWseason. This wasn’t intentional on my part, but perhaps the theme surfaced naturally from a desire to make
sense of the precarious times we are living in. It’s explicitly the subject of our next show, Mike Daisey’s one-man epic A People’s History, in which Mike uses Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States to explore the story we tell about America. In the winter, I’ll direct Last of the Boys, one of my favorite plays by Steven Dietz, about two old friends who must face what it means to have a true change of heart about the Vietnam War. And this spring, Christina Ham’s powerful and nuanced play, Nina Simone: Four Women, re-imagines the confluence of the singer’s activism and creative genius through her visceral response to the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963. But first, we begin our season with a wondrous adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s saga of modern Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns.
THE U.S. WAR IN AFGHANISTAN ENTERS ITS18th year this October, and I think it’s fair to say that most Americans still know little about the people and culture of the country in which the United States is fighting the longest war in our history. This is not entirely an issue of our short attention spans or desire to keep the difficult Afghanistan “problem” out of sight and mind. Positioned in the heart of Central Asia on the Silk Road, Afghanistan is one of civilization’s great crossroads and has an ancient and glorious history. But to be fair, the land is, for Americans, remote and its long history arcane. Its recent history, 40 years of heart-wrenching strife, is tangled and difficult for outsiders to grasp. Some Americans may remember that in the 1980s, the U.S. supported Mujahideen freedom fighters fighting the then, Soviet-occupied Afghan government. The U.S. invaded in 2001 and toppled the Taliban, the radical religious extremists who in 1996 imposed on the nation a totalitarian regime of shocking brutality that particularly targeted women. And we know we are still fighting the Taliban today. But the more geopolitical local tensions shaping the history and day-to-day life of the country due to 40 years of war—tensions between ethnic groups, regions, tribes, and tradition and modernity—largely remain a complex and ever-changing environment. WHICH IS ONE REASON WHY THE NOVELS OF AFGHAN- born American novelist Khaled Hosseini are so important and powerful. The mystery and magic of narrative art, whether in fiction or drama, is that it enables us to experience and see the world as other people do and does so even when those people are of
a different culture or age. This is what Hosseini achieves. Ignoring the generalities of news headlines and pundit soundbites, Hosseini chronicles the lives of ordinary Afghans—and in A Thousand Splendid Suns, the lives of Afghan women and how they survive in a society bound by ancient and entrenched laws that ensured women’s protection, but which also rendered them powerless. It is a novel that “gives voice to the voiceless” and also spurs us to consider the role women’s rights, and opposition to women’s rights, has had on Afghan history and perhaps our own.
ADAPTING AN EPIC FIVE-DECADE, MULTI -GENERA-tional novel to the stage is a daunting undertaking, but director Carey Perloff, former Artistic Director of San Francisco’s American
Conservatory Theater, initiated the adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns and shepherded it through several years of development, clearly understanding the hard choices and special creativity such a project requires. From the start, Carey envisioned a show that would be less a realistic literal dramatization of the novel than a poetic or mythic ‘theatricalization.’ Carey and playwright Ursula Rani Sarma made the canny choice of focusing the play on the story of two very different women whose lives intersect in the chaos of the 1990s: Mariam, who grew up in the conservative part of the country, the illegitimate daughter of a disgraced provincial servant; and Laila, raised in cosmopolitan Kabul by an educated and progressive father. The project’s long development process wasn’t only for the script; Carey and her colleagues delved into cultural context, and explored how to use staging,
movement, lighting, set design, props, sound, and music to better evoke the novel’s world and vision. THE RESULT IS A SHOW IN WHICH SARMA’S SCRIPT,Perloff’s staging, Humaira Ghilzai’s cultural input, Robert Wierzel’s lighting, Ken MacDonald’s set, Linda Cho’s costumes, and David Coulter’s music (which, when performed live by David, becomes like a Greek chorus responding to the action onstage), combine to create theatre of sweeping and overwhelming emotional force. It leaves one haunted by the unrelenting and ubiquitous malevolence women face, but also awed by their resilience, sacrifice, and everyday—if rarely acknowledged—heroism. Thank you for joining us.
Braden AbrahamArtistic Director
The mystery and magic of narrative art, whether in fiction or drama, is that it enables us to experience and see the world as other people do
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FROM THE
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
THE CAST OF
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS AT THE OLD GLOBE. PHOTO BY JIM COX.
S E AT T L E R E P E RTO RY T H E AT R E I S H O N O R E D TO D E D I CAT E its 2018/19 season to the memory of Nancy Alvord (1922-2017) and Dorothy (Dottie) Lewis Simpson (1924-2018), two pioneering women and extraordinary philanthropists who left an indelible mark on the Rep through more than 50 years of leadership, service, and support. Nancy and Dottie each joined Seattle Rep’s Board of Trustees in the 1960s, and rose to executive positions in the 1970s.
Nancy was the first woman to serve as President of the Board of Trustees, leading the Rep from 1979 to 1982 during a crucial period of expansion and growth. Dottie served as Vice President during this time and was the driving force behind the campaign to build the Bagley Wright Theatre, before succeeding Nancy as Board President in 1982.
Both were later recognized as members of the Rep’s Trustee Emeriti Board, and were beloved fixtures at the Theatre’s events into their final years. Without Nancy’s and Dottie’s generous contributions of time and financial support, Seattle Rep would not be the institution it is today. We will miss their warm laughter, wise counsel, and civic spirit.
This season is for them.
S E AS O N D E D I CAT I O N I N M E M O RY O F
Honoring Their LegaciesNancy’s and Dottie’s passion for the arts and years of service at the theatre were profound, and their dedication to the Rep continues to have an impact that will carry on for generations to come. Please join us in celebrating their generous spirits and honoring their legacies by making a gift to the theatre this season in their memory.
Give Online seattlerep.org/support
Nancy Alvord
Dorothy (Dottie) Lewis Simpson
Nancy Alvord & Dorothy (Dottie) Lewis Simpson
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ISTORY, WHAT WE KNOW OR DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE PAST AND WHY, PLAYS A PROMINENT ROLE IN OUR EXCITING NEWseason. This wasn’t intentional on my part, but perhaps the theme surfaced naturally from a desire to make
sense of the precarious times we are living in. It’s explicitly the subject of our next show, Mike Daisey’s one-man epic A People’s History, in which Mike uses Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States to explore the story we tell about America. In the winter, I’ll direct Last of the Boys, one of my favorite plays by Steven Dietz, about two old friends who must face what it means to have a true change of heart about the Vietnam War. And this spring, Christina Ham’s powerful and nuanced play, Nina Simone: Four Women, re-imagines the confluence of the singer’s activism and creative genius through her visceral response to the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963. But first, we begin our season with a wondrous adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s saga of modern Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns.
THE U.S. WAR IN AFGHANISTAN ENTERS ITS18th year this October, and I think it’s fair to say that most Americans still know little about the people and culture of the country in which the United States is fighting the longest war in our history. This is not entirely an issue of our short attention spans or desire to keep the difficult Afghanistan “problem” out of sight and mind. Positioned in the heart of Central Asia on the Silk Road, Afghanistan is one of civilization’s great crossroads and has an ancient and glorious history. But to be fair, the land is, for Americans, remote and its long history arcane. Its recent history, 40 years of heart-wrenching strife, is tangled and difficult for outsiders to grasp. Some Americans may remember that in the 1980s, the U.S. supported Mujahideen freedom fighters fighting the then, Soviet-occupied Afghan government. The U.S. invaded in 2001 and toppled the Taliban, the radical religious extremists who in 1996 imposed on the nation a totalitarian regime of shocking brutality that particularly targeted women. And we know we are still fighting the Taliban today. But the more geopolitical local tensions shaping the history and day-to-day life of the country due to 40 years of war—tensions between ethnic groups, regions, tribes, and tradition and modernity—largely remain a complex and ever-changing environment. WHICH IS ONE REASON WHY THE NOVELS OF AFGHAN- born American novelist Khaled Hosseini are so important and powerful. The mystery and magic of narrative art, whether in fiction or drama, is that it enables us to experience and see the world as other people do and does so even when those people are of
a different culture or age. This is what Hosseini achieves. Ignoring the generalities of news headlines and pundit soundbites, Hosseini chronicles the lives of ordinary Afghans—and in A Thousand Splendid Suns, the lives of Afghan women and how they survive in a society bound by ancient and entrenched laws that ensured women’s protection, but which also rendered them powerless. It is a novel that “gives voice to the voiceless” and also spurs us to consider the role women’s rights, and opposition to women’s rights, has had on Afghan history and perhaps our own.
ADAPTING AN EPIC FIVE-DECADE, MULTI -GENERA-tional novel to the stage is a daunting undertaking, but director Carey Perloff, former Artistic Director of San Francisco’s American
Conservatory Theater, initiated the adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns and shepherded it through several years of development, clearly understanding the hard choices and special creativity such a project requires. From the start, Carey envisioned a show that would be less a realistic literal dramatization of the novel than a poetic or mythic ‘theatricalization.’ Carey and playwright Ursula Rani Sarma made the canny choice of focusing the play on the story of two very different women whose lives intersect in the chaos of the 1990s: Mariam, who grew up in the conservative part of the country, the illegitimate daughter of a disgraced provincial servant; and Laila, raised in cosmopolitan Kabul by an educated and progressive father. The project’s long development process wasn’t only for the script; Carey and her colleagues delved into cultural context, and explored how to use staging,
movement, lighting, set design, props, sound, and music to better evoke the novel’s world and vision. THE RESULT IS A SHOW IN WHICH SARMA’S SCRIPT,Perloff’s staging, Humaira Ghilzai’s cultural input, Robert Wierzel’s lighting, Ken MacDonald’s set, Linda Cho’s costumes, and David Coulter’s music (which, when performed live by David, becomes like a Greek chorus responding to the action onstage), combine to create theatre of sweeping and overwhelming emotional force. It leaves one haunted by the unrelenting and ubiquitous malevolence women face, but also awed by their resilience, sacrifice, and everyday—if rarely acknowledged—heroism. Thank you for joining us.
Braden AbrahamArtistic Director
The mystery and magic of narrative art, whether in fiction or drama, is that it enables us to experience and see the world as other people do
“
H
FROM THE
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
THE CAST OF
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS AT THE OLD GLOBE. PHOTO BY JIM COX.
S E AT T L E R E P E RTO RY T H E AT R E I S H O N O R E D TO D E D I CAT E its 2018/19 season to the memory of Nancy Alvord (1922-2017) and Dorothy (Dottie) Lewis Simpson (1924-2018), two pioneering women and extraordinary philanthropists who left an indelible mark on the Rep through more than 50 years of leadership, service, and support. Nancy and Dottie each joined Seattle Rep’s Board of Trustees in the 1960s, and rose to executive positions in the 1970s.
Nancy was the first woman to serve as President of the Board of Trustees, leading the Rep from 1979 to 1982 during a crucial period of expansion and growth. Dottie served as Vice President during this time and was the driving force behind the campaign to build the Bagley Wright Theatre, before succeeding Nancy as Board President in 1982.
Both were later recognized as members of the Rep’s Trustee Emeriti Board, and were beloved fixtures at the Theatre’s events into their final years. Without Nancy’s and Dottie’s generous contributions of time and financial support, Seattle Rep would not be the institution it is today. We will miss their warm laughter, wise counsel, and civic spirit.
This season is for them.
S E AS O N D E D I CAT I O N I N M E M O RY O F
Honoring Their LegaciesNancy’s and Dottie’s passion for the arts and years of service at the theatre were profound, and their dedication to the Rep continues to have an impact that will carry on for generations to come. Please join us in celebrating their generous spirits and honoring their legacies by making a gift to the theatre this season in their memory.
Give Online seattlerep.org/support
Nancy Alvord
Dorothy (Dottie) Lewis Simpson
Nancy Alvord & Dorothy (Dottie) Lewis Simpson
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N OCTOBER OF 2002, THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL PASSED RESOLUTION 1325 ON PEACE, WOMEN, AND SECURITY, WHICHacknowledged the grave impact of war on women, girls, and children. Of course, this belated resolution
came at a time when Afghan women had already suffered 23 years of war bookended by the Russian invasion in 1979 and the U.S. occupation, which had commenced in 2001.
Governments often measure the success or failure of war by citing the number of wounded or killed combatants, the number of cities captured or lost, and more often than not, the exorbitant cost of war. What rarely gets recorded, however, especially in a country like Afghanistan where women don’t often have a voice, is the collateral damage—the unintended civilian deaths; rape and exploitation of women; food scarcity and malnutrition of children; and truncated health services for women and girls. There is also the heavy cost of brain drain, emigration of highly trained members of the population, and school closures due to the breakdown of societal infrastructures.
THESE THEMES RUN THROUGH PLAYWRIGHT URSULARani Sarma’s adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Afghan American writer Khaled Hosseini’s award-winning second book.
In this play, war is practically a living, breathing character within itself. In the opening scene, Afghanistan is immersed in civil war that has erupted after nine years of Russian occupation. Even in a moment of mother-daughter intimacy where Laila, the protagonist, and her mother talk about boys and wedding dresses, war growls and purrs in the background. When a shell destroys Laila’s house, she not only becomes an orphan, but also lands into the home of Rashid, a married neighbor, who deceives her into marrying him.
As an audience, it’s easy to blame Rashid for the brutality, betrayal, and violence that the women of A Thousand Splendid Suns endure, but what we have to recognize is that this household is a microcosm of the collateral damage of war—unemployment, hunger, malnutrition, lack of health care, and oppression of women under the guise of ensuring their safety.
WITH FOUR DECADES OF TURMOIL, WAR HASbecome the backdrop for Afghans whether they live in Afghanistan or have become a refugee in an adopted country. Unlike Laila, my family was able to escape the war. We did not face the atrocities that Afghan women suffered in the 39 years of ongoing conflict, but the presence of the distant war was always present in our home like an unwanted guest, even after we resettled in the United States.
Shortly after the first gun was fired by Afghan communists, after almost 45 years of peace, my parents realized life as we knew it was over. Within months, my older siblings and diplomat father left Afghanistan because they were most at risk of being affected by the new regime. My mother, who had mostly focused on raising her children, was left with
me and two other siblings, a devalued home, and all the worldly goods my parents had accumulated in their upper-middle-class life.
WHILE KABUL RESIDENTS WERE SHOUTING “ALLAH-u-akbar” from their rooftops, a protest against infidels taking over their country, my mother managed to sell our two-story modern home in exchange for a suitcase of devalued currency. She gave away everything we owned and hired smugglers to take us across the border to Peshawar, Pakistan. She spent the last of our remaining funds to cobble together fake passports and airline tickets to Germany, where we lived on food stamps and in refugee housing until we received a visa to the United States, where we joined the rest of our family.
BEYOND THE STAGE
In this play, war is practically a living, breathing character within itself.
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BY HUMAIRA GHILZAI
Women and Girls of Afghanistan
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An Afghan girl attends a female engagement team meeting
in Balish Kalay Village, Urgun District, Afghanistan.
Women and children attended the meeting with
the FET of Paktika Provincial Reconstruction Team to discuss
issues and concerns.
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DESPITE MY LACK OF ENGLISH LANG-uage skills or cultural acumen, I embraced my new life as an American while my mother suffered from PTSD, culture shock, the language barrier, and her internal struggle to be a good Afghan mother. The ideals, expectations, and wisdom that served her well as a middle-class wife of a diplomat in Afghanistan did not equip her to support a teenager straddling two identities. While I mourned the loss of school friends, cousins, and our dog, Rusty, my mother mourned the loss of dignity, status, and the beautiful life she had left behind in Kabul.
Whether it’s the fierce brutality and setbacks Afghan women and girls have faced, as portrayed in A Thousand Splendid Suns, or the psychological effects of displacement that plagued my family, we Afghans are all collateral damage of war.
Whether we are Afghans living in Afghanistan, Afghans who grew up in the diaspora, or Afghan children who are born into the ongoing war, there’s no denying that war is a central element of Afghanistan’s history, so it’s hard to ignore its effects on people’s everyday lives.
Since resolution 1325 passed, the UN Security Council has initiated measures to serve the needs of women and girls during armed conflict, repatriation, reconstruction, and reintegration, but much work needs to be done. As world leaders do their part to
shed light on Afghan women’s needs, I hope that more theatres, films, and other forms of art showcase diverse stories of women from around the world because when we know each other’s hopes, dreams and suffering, it’s easier to relate to one another, and for me, this is a better way to reduce collateral damage than with further resolutions. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Humaira Ghilzai is a writer, speaker, and Afghanistan Cultural Consultant focused on projects that bring positive social change. Our world is changing, but many of us aren’t equipped to change with it. For people who are curious and want to move past the stories in the media, Humaira helps to open their eyes to the realities of other cultures by highlighting their faces, names, and identities.
Humaira co-founded Afghan Friends Network and instituted a Sister City relationship between Hayward, California, and Ghazni, Afghanistan, where she has done extensive work to improve education for girls, boys, and women. Humaira is a sought-after cultural expert on Afghanistan, its people, and history. She works with theatres, films, authors, and playwrights on cultural authenticity of their creative work relating to Afghanistan and the Islamic world. Humaira has worked on the adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns for the past four years with director Carey Perloff and playwright Ursula Rani Sarma. Humaira helps the audience connect with stories on a human level, because at the end of the day we are all fighting the same issues.
REFERENCES: UNICEF; UN Office of Special Adviser on Gender Issues, Common Dreams; Wikipedia
The photo was taken in 1977 in Bagh e bala, a park of Kabul. I have my hand wrapped around my brother Tamim. My
cousin Toro, who is also in the photo never left Afghanistan. After we left the country in 1979, the next time I saw him was in 2006.
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N OCTOBER OF 2002, THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL PASSED RESOLUTION 1325 ON PEACE, WOMEN, AND SECURITY, WHICHacknowledged the grave impact of war on women, girls, and children. Of course, this belated resolution
came at a time when Afghan women had already suffered 23 years of war bookended by the Russian invasion in 1979 and the U.S. occupation, which had commenced in 2001.
Governments often measure the success or failure of war by citing the number of wounded or killed combatants, the number of cities captured or lost, and more often than not, the exorbitant cost of war. What rarely gets recorded, however, especially in a country like Afghanistan where women don’t often have a voice, is the collateral damage—the unintended civilian deaths; rape and exploitation of women; food scarcity and malnutrition of children; and truncated health services for women and girls. There is also the heavy cost of brain drain, emigration of highly trained members of the population, and school closures due to the breakdown of societal infrastructures.
THESE THEMES RUN THROUGH PLAYWRIGHT URSULARani Sarma’s adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Afghan American writer Khaled Hosseini’s award-winning second book.
In this play, war is practically a living, breathing character within itself. In the opening scene, Afghanistan is immersed in civil war that has erupted after nine years of Russian occupation. Even in a moment of mother-daughter intimacy where Laila, the protagonist, and her mother talk about boys and wedding dresses, war growls and purrs in the background. When a shell destroys Laila’s house, she not only becomes an orphan, but also lands into the home of Rashid, a married neighbor, who deceives her into marrying him.
As an audience, it’s easy to blame Rashid for the brutality, betrayal, and violence that the women of A Thousand Splendid Suns endure, but what we have to recognize is that this household is a microcosm of the collateral damage of war—unemployment, hunger, malnutrition, lack of health care, and oppression of women under the guise of ensuring their safety.
WITH FOUR DECADES OF TURMOIL, WAR HASbecome the backdrop for Afghans whether they live in Afghanistan or have become a refugee in an adopted country. Unlike Laila, my family was able to escape the war. We did not face the atrocities that Afghan women suffered in the 39 years of ongoing conflict, but the presence of the distant war was always present in our home like an unwanted guest, even after we resettled in the United States.
Shortly after the first gun was fired by Afghan communists, after almost 45 years of peace, my parents realized life as we knew it was over. Within months, my older siblings and diplomat father left Afghanistan because they were most at risk of being affected by the new regime. My mother, who had mostly focused on raising her children, was left with
me and two other siblings, a devalued home, and all the worldly goods my parents had accumulated in their upper-middle-class life.
WHILE KABUL RESIDENTS WERE SHOUTING “ALLAH-u-akbar” from their rooftops, a protest against infidels taking over their country, my mother managed to sell our two-story modern home in exchange for a suitcase of devalued currency. She gave away everything we owned and hired smugglers to take us across the border to Peshawar, Pakistan. She spent the last of our remaining funds to cobble together fake passports and airline tickets to Germany, where we lived on food stamps and in refugee housing until we received a visa to the United States, where we joined the rest of our family.
BEYOND THE STAGE
In this play, war is practically a living, breathing character within itself.
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BY HUMAIRA GHILZAI
Women and Girls of Afghanistan
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
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An Afghan girl attends a female engagement team meeting
in Balish Kalay Village, Urgun District, Afghanistan.
Women and children attended the meeting with
the FET of Paktika Provincial Reconstruction Team to discuss
issues and concerns.
FOLLOW HUMAIRA@HUMAIRAGHILZAI
HUMAIRAGHILZAI.COM
DESPITE MY LACK OF ENGLISH LANG-uage skills or cultural acumen, I embraced my new life as an American while my mother suffered from PTSD, culture shock, the language barrier, and her internal struggle to be a good Afghan mother. The ideals, expectations, and wisdom that served her well as a middle-class wife of a diplomat in Afghanistan did not equip her to support a teenager straddling two identities. While I mourned the loss of school friends, cousins, and our dog, Rusty, my mother mourned the loss of dignity, status, and the beautiful life she had left behind in Kabul.
Whether it’s the fierce brutality and setbacks Afghan women and girls have faced, as portrayed in A Thousand Splendid Suns, or the psychological effects of displacement that plagued my family, we Afghans are all collateral damage of war.
Whether we are Afghans living in Afghanistan, Afghans who grew up in the diaspora, or Afghan children who are born into the ongoing war, there’s no denying that war is a central element of Afghanistan’s history, so it’s hard to ignore its effects on people’s everyday lives.
Since resolution 1325 passed, the UN Security Council has initiated measures to serve the needs of women and girls during armed conflict, repatriation, reconstruction, and reintegration, but much work needs to be done. As world leaders do their part to
shed light on Afghan women’s needs, I hope that more theatres, films, and other forms of art showcase diverse stories of women from around the world because when we know each other’s hopes, dreams and suffering, it’s easier to relate to one another, and for me, this is a better way to reduce collateral damage than with further resolutions. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Humaira Ghilzai is a writer, speaker, and Afghanistan Cultural Consultant focused on projects that bring positive social change. Our world is changing, but many of us aren’t equipped to change with it. For people who are curious and want to move past the stories in the media, Humaira helps to open their eyes to the realities of other cultures by highlighting their faces, names, and identities.
Humaira co-founded Afghan Friends Network and instituted a Sister City relationship between Hayward, California, and Ghazni, Afghanistan, where she has done extensive work to improve education for girls, boys, and women. Humaira is a sought-after cultural expert on Afghanistan, its people, and history. She works with theatres, films, authors, and playwrights on cultural authenticity of their creative work relating to Afghanistan and the Islamic world. Humaira has worked on the adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns for the past four years with director Carey Perloff and playwright Ursula Rani Sarma. Humaira helps the audience connect with stories on a human level, because at the end of the day we are all fighting the same issues.
REFERENCES: UNICEF; UN Office of Special Adviser on Gender Issues, Common Dreams; Wikipedia
The photo was taken in 1977 in Bagh e bala, a park of Kabul. I have my hand wrapped around my brother Tamim. My
cousin Toro, who is also in the photo never left Afghanistan. After we left the country in 1979, the next time I saw him was in 2006.
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PRODUCER’S CIRCLE $5,000 - $9,999
Marleen & Kenny AlhadeffPaige & Doug ArmentroutAmy & Bob BautistaD’Anne Bissell & Janice NewellGlenn Bonci & Joan RonnenkampPatricia Anne BonnellJeanne & Jon CantaliniTom & Cynthia CaptainTamra Chandler & Jeff Mosier
Deanna CochenerAdam & Whitney CornellDarrel S. CowanDick & Jill DavisTracy & Suzanne DawSusan & Dave DentonJeanne Eagleson & John V. GrayLonnie & Susan EdelheitJoanne R. EusterDick & Mary Beth GemperleNatalie GendlerPeter Goldman & Martha KongsgaardTiffany R. GortonEdith W. HardingMr. & Mrs. Richard C. HedreenKristin Ovregaard HeeterHirayama FamilyToni & Rod HoffmanElise Holschuh & Brian McAndrewsParul & Gary HoulahanDonna & Gary IversonJudith Jesiolowski & David ThompsonKawasaki FoundationTim & Megan KirleyCathy KittoKaren Koon & Brad EdwardsMoe & Susan KrabbeCaptain M. Thomas & Gwenann KroonMichael LeakeCara Beth Lee & Amy TheobaldDena & Ron LevineLaura & Roy LundgrenMaria Mackey GunnLora & Parker MasonBlanche & Stephen MaxwellPhilip & Jill McCuneKaren & Rick McMichaelSarah Burnell MeardonEverett P. & Andrea PaupJudy PigottMary PigottRebecca & Grant PomeringKate RiordanNicholas Roberts & Yvonne Chang RobertsValerie RobinsonJudy & Kermit RosenDeborah & Doug RosenAaron & Erika RubensonAnne Simpson & Charlie ConnerMrs. Dorothy L. Simpson †
David & Catherine SkinnerSherry & John StilinHelen R. Stusser
Maryanne Tagney & David JonesAnnette Toutonghi & Bruce ObergHoward & Joan VoorheisMarisa & Brad WalkerBruce & Peggy WantaJohn Wicher & Travis PennShannon WilliamsShauna Woods & Benjamin ArenasBrien WygleWyman Youth TrustAnonymous (2)
PLAYWRIGHT’S CIRCLE $3,000 - $4,999
Adrienne & BlaiseBob & Ali AlexanderRene AlkoffRhoda Altom & Cory CarlsonPam AndersonWilliam & Nancy BainEileen BirgeSu Chang & Peter WilliamsSusan CorwinTodd & Sylvie CurrieDennis & Deborah DeYoungEmily Evans & Kevin WilsonSandy & Katie FarewellPeter Feichtmeir & Sarah PattonAnne Middleton FosterGinny Gilder & Lynn SlaughterDan & Molly GoldmanLynn & Brian Grant FamilyKatharine GraubardJean-Pierre Green & Jennifer LaddElizabeth & Stephen GussMary Kay HaggardLaura & David HeardJan Hendrickson & Chuck LeightonJeffrey Herrmann & Sara WaisanenPeter Hiatt & Ron HudenGrady & Heather HughesConnie & Dan HungateNancy Iannucci & Harvey JonesJoan E. Mathews JulnesMike & Debbie KossMorris & Carolyn KremenChristopher & Alida LathamRoss & Tracy LincoffGreg & Diane LindJ. Pierre & Felice LoebelMike & Lisa LoshKevin McCarthy & Annalisa GironiMay McCarthy & Don SmithKaren & Jeffrey McHenryWayne & Carla MillageMark & Susan Minerich
Tribute GiftsTribute gifts to Seattle Repertory Theatre are a wonderful way to remember a loved one, honor a friend, or celebrate a special occasion.
TRIBUTES IN HONOR OF ALL CANADIANS by Lisa Engle and by Richard Orr | CHRISTINE BOYLE by Mary Prosser Brock Zimmerman | EVAN CARTWRIGHT by Shaina Shepherd | JOANNE EUSTER by Sharon Euster | TONI HOFFMAN by Moe & Susan Krabbe | FRANKIE T. MANNING by Mary Harris | KAYTLIN MCINTYRE by Doreen Sayegh | JANET NYDEGGER by Anonymous | BARACK & MICHELLE OBAMA by Marjorie Lynn | MICHELLE REICHENBACH by Trina Whitaker | RESIDENTS OF GANDER, NEWFOUNDLAND by Jeanne Lundquist | TRICIA PEARSON & DECLAN O’NEILL by Korum Bischoff, by Emma Cantrell, by Edward Kenny, by Thore Korsmo, by Sue Meza, by Kristin Pearson, by Alexandra Reinken, by Patrick Siver, by Sara Ann Skelding, by Jamie Swedler, by Sheila Underwood, and by Anonymous | NANCY WARD by Elizabeth Steudel
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
TRIBUTES IN MEMORY OF ROBERT BARTELL by Mary Ann Bartell | NANCY BURRILL by Arthur Burrill | LORRAINE CAMPBELL M. by Nancy Campbell | HOPE CHAPIN by Nancy Chapin & Leah Shafer | AL & CAROLE FEIGE by Margaret Feige | MARILYN GREY by Karol Gadwa | DAVID M. MARRIOTT by Pete & Merrily Chick | JERRY MARSHALL by Bart Goft | CHRISTOPHER MONCK by Susan K. Jones | DOROTHY “DOT” RASMUSSEN by Nancy Martin | NANCY RUST by Richard Rust | RAY SIMPSON by Trevor Simpson | MIMI SOONG by Diana & Warren Aakervik, Jr. | TERRY’S SISTER VICKI by Lorna Baxter | DON TUFTS by Anonymous | JEAN & JAY VANCE AND THEIR VISITS TO NEWFOUNDLAND by Tiffany C. Vance | SANDY WALKER by Muffy Walker | RUTH PARKER WINQUIST by Sally & Lee Morris | CLEONA Y. YOUNG by Sylvia M. Young | SEPTEMBER 11 , 2001 by Rebecca Riesen
THE K OF D: AN URBAN LEGEND (2011) PICTURED: RENATA FRIEDMANPHOTO BY CHRIS BENNION
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INDIVIDUAL DONORS
† Deceased
The accuracy of this list is important to us; we welcome notification of unintended omissions.
Matt & Jenny MuilenburgJerry NagaeSamantha Temple NeukomGrace Nordhoff & Jonathan BeardJohn & Joyce O’ConnellCarol & Doug PowellAnn PrydeMary PughPaul Purcell & Barbara GuzzoScott & Shawn RedmanGreg Smith & Betty Mattson-SmithCarlyn J. SteinerDelphine & Charles StevensLeonard & Marsha StevensTodd & Jane SummerfeltTammy A. TalmanVijay & Sita VasheeMichael & Marsha WardenKinnon W. WilliamsJane Zalutsky & Mark KantorAnonymous (6)
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $1,200 - $2,999
Brian P. Abeel & Leticia Lopez • Braden Abraham & Cheyenne Casebier • Nancy Abramson • Nikhil & Sheetal Agarwal • Will Ahrens • Patricia Akiyama & David Larsen • Mary & David Alhadeff • David & Gay Allais • Jon Anderson & Frederique Levrat • Phoebe Andrew • Patty & Jimmy Barrier • Craig S. Bartholomew • Douglas & Maria Bayer • Stephen W. Behnen • George & Joan Berry • Bill & Sabra • Luther Black & Christina Wright • Larry Blake • Susan & William Block • Susan Brandt & Van White • Kent R. Burnham • Werner & Janet Cadera • Betsy & John Cadwallader • Rita Calabro & Jim Kelly • Patrick & Mary Callan • Gretchen C. & Don E. Campbell • Sonya Campion • Roland Carette-Meyers & Kiki Penoyer • Stephen & Stacy Carlson • Bill Cavender & Mary K. Neumeister • D. Thompson & Karen Challinor • Bernard Choi & Scott Gregory • Sarah Cole • Theodore J. & Patricia S. Collins • Ben Coscarart • Jennifer Coursen • Dan Crawford & Cora Breuner • W. Michael Crenshaw & Mary Brodd • Mr. & Mrs. James P. Crutcher • Heidi de Laubenfels & Harris Clarke • Leslie Decker & Steve Rimmer • Dottie Delaney • Dan & Mimi Dixon • Bob Dowdy & Cherry Tinker • Elizabeth & Miles Drake • Theodore J. Dubinsky MD, Jean K. Dubinsky, RN • Jim & Gaylee Duncan • Susan Dunn • Betty Dykstra • Jon & Laurene Ekse • Richard & Marlene Fallquist • Elisabeth Farwell-Moreland & Gary Moreland • Lyn & Paul Fenton • Stan & Jane Fields • Carol Finn • Nancy Gallup • Mr. & Mrs. Carver Gayton • Nick Gerner & Susan Moskwa • Lynne Graybeal & Scott Harron • Timothy Greenleaf & Rebecca Roe • Eric Gustafson & Martin Sanchez • Andrew
& Michelle Haines • Jeannie Hale • Adrienne L. Hall • Kathleen Hamilton • Drs. Michael & Teresa Hart • Jan P. Havlisch • Roger & Kelly Heeringa • John Hempelmann & Mary McGill • Amy Henry • Jamie Herlich & Joe McIalwain • Wanda Herndon • Andrew & Delney Hilen & the Hilen Foundation • Steve & Sandy Hill • Alyssa Hochman • Bruce & Bridget Horne • Eric & Mary Horvitz • Shaun & Kathleen Hughbanks • Mark Igra & Nancy Simon • Emily & Joe Inslee • Dean M. Ishiki • Jon Jensen & Kathy Early • Jonelle Johnson • Gary & Susan Jones • Robert Kaplan & Margaret Levi • Daphne & Brett Kelley • Lorna Kneeland • Therese & Bruce Kroon • Jim & Jean Kunz • Rosanne Lapan • Liam Lavery & Yazmin Mehdi • Eileen Lennon & Barrie Carter • Rachel Lerman • Marko Liias • Abe Lillard & Julia Kalmus • Donald Marcy • Joy McNichols • Frances Mead • Brian Meenaghan • John, Gail, Daniel & Ian Mensher • Susan Mersereau & Philip White • Chuck & Nancy Mertel • Michael Milligan & Jeanne E Fund & Bainbridge Foundation • Pamela & Donald Mitchell • Marcia Nagae • Robert & Claudia Nelson • Erika J. Nesholm • Joe G. Norman, Jr. • Ilse H. Oles • Declan & Tricia O’Neill • John Palo • Stewart Parker • Lee & Alison Parsons • Terri & Ron Pehrson • Kyle & Michele Peltonen • Anthony & Sharon Perez • Donald Pogoloff • K. R. Prabha & Unmesh Wankhede • Geoffrey T. Prentiss • Nancy & Kelley Price • Andrea & Alan Rabinowitz • Dr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Ragen • Anita Ramasastry & Walter Walsh • Sharon K. & Paul B. Ramey • Kirk Redmond & Connie Clark-Redmond • Michael Repass • Jeffrey Robinson & Mary Dicke • John Ryan & Jody Foster • Bill & Rae Saltzstein • Barbara Sando • Ingrid & Stanley Savage & the Hilen Foundation • Joe Schwartz • Seattle Spine & Sports Medicine • Jeanne Sheldon & Marvin Parsons • Richard & Barbara Shikiar • Evelyn Simpson • H. Warren & Nancy Smith • Robert & Susan Spieth • Kathleen & Rob Spitzer • Paul & Michelle Stamnes • David & Nancy Thacher • Rick & Suzy Titcomb • Judge Brian & Mrs. Linda Tollefson • Bill & Alice Van Pelt • Michael Von Korff & Linda Le Resche • Mary M Webster • Judith A. Whetzel • Heather Wilde & James Gierman • Jay & Linda Willenberg • Chelle Williams • Matthew Williams & Patricia Read-Williams • John & Marta Wilson • Mrs. Howard S. Wright • Scott & Jenny Wyatt • John Zagula • Anonymous (12)
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER’S CIRCLE$10,000 - $14,999
Diana & Warren Aakervik, Jr.AHS FoundationMarleen & Kenny Alhadeff Fund forTheatre PractitionersMary Blodgett & Carlton CalvinElizabeth Choy & James E. LobsenzEstate of Phyllis ClarkJames & Jacqueline CopacinoBrent Deim & Michael Rivera-DirksJuli FarrisEllen Ferguson & Diana SillKaren & Doug FletcherWilliam E. FranklinAnne E. GittingerMaureen & John HarleyJohn & Ellen HillBrent JohnsonBruce E. H. Johnson & Sandra E. DavisNorman & Lisa JudahLeslie LackeyLynn Manley & Lex LindseyGlenna Olson & Conrad WoutersDavid RobinsonLee & Stuart RolfeHerman & Faye SarkowskyCharitable FoundationCarlo & Lalie ScandiuzziCynthia StroumJames & Katherine TuneShirley & David UrdalRichard L. WeismanMelinda & Sterling WilsonThomas Wright & Alexandra Brouwer-WrightAnonymous (2)
PRODUCER’S CIRCLE$5,000 - $9,999
Marleen & Kenny AlhadeffPaige & Doug ArmentroutAmy & Bob BautistaD’Anne Bissell & Janice NewellGlenn Bonci & Joan RonnenkampPatricia Anne BonnellJeanne & Jon CantaliniTom & Cynthia CaptainTamra Chandler & Jeff Mosier
Deanna CochenerAdam & Whitney CornellDarrel S. CowanDick & Jill DavisTracy & Suzanne DawSusan & Dave DentonJeanne Eagleson & John V. GrayLonnie & Susan EdelheitJoanne R. EusterDick & Mary Beth GemperleNatalie GendlerPeter Goldman & Martha KongsgaardTiffany R. GortonEdith W. HardingMr. & Mrs. Richard C. HedreenKristin Ovregaard HeeterHirayama FamilyToni & Rod HoffmanElise Holschuh & Brian McAndrewsParul & Gary HoulahanDonna & Gary IversonJudith Jesiolowski & David ThompsonKawasaki FoundationTim & Megan KirleyCathy KittoKaren Koon & Brad EdwardsMoe & Susan KrabbeCaptain M. Thomas & Gwenann KroonMichael LeakeCara Beth Lee & Amy TheobaldDena & Ron LevineLaura & Roy LundgrenMaria Mackey GunnLora & Parker MasonBlanche & Stephen MaxwellPhilip & Jill McCuneKaren & Rick McMichaelSarah Burnell MeardonEverett P. & Andrea PaupJudy PigottMary PigottRebecca & Grant PomeringKate RiordanNicholas Roberts & Yvonne Chang RobertsValerie RobinsonJudy & Kermit RosenDeborah & Doug RosenAaron & Erika RubensonAnne Simpson & Charlie ConnerMrs. Dorothy L. Simpson †
David & Catherine SkinnerSherry & John StilinHelen R. Stusser
Maryanne Tagney & David JonesAnnette Toutonghi & Bruce ObergHoward & Joan VoorheisMarisa & Brad WalkerBruce & Peggy WantaJohn Wicher & Travis PennShannon WilliamsShauna Woods & Benjamin ArenasBrien WygleWyman Youth TrustAnonymous (2)
PLAYWRIGHT’S CIRCLE$3,000 - $4,999
Adrienne & BlaiseBob & Ali AlexanderRene AlkoffRhoda Altom & Cory CarlsonPam AndersonWilliam & Nancy BainEileen BirgeSu Chang & Peter WilliamsSusan CorwinTodd & Sylvie CurrieDennis & Deborah DeYoungEmily Evans & Kevin WilsonSandy & Katie FarewellPeter Feichtmeir & Sarah PattonAnne Middleton FosterGinny Gilder & Lynn SlaughterDan & Molly GoldmanLynn & Brian Grant FamilyKatharine GraubardJean-Pierre Green & Jennifer LaddElizabeth & Stephen GussMary Kay HaggardLaura & David HeardJan Hendrickson & Chuck LeightonJeffrey Herrmann & Sara WaisanenPeter Hiatt & Ron HudenGrady & Heather HughesConnie & Dan HungateNancy Iannucci & Harvey JonesJoan E. Mathews JulnesMike & Debbie KossMorris & Carolyn KremenChristopher & Alida LathamRoss & Tracy LincoffGreg & Diane LindJ. Pierre & Felice LoebelMike & Lisa LoshKevin McCarthy & Annalisa GironiMay McCarthy & Don SmithKaren & Jeffrey McHenryWayne & Carla MillageMark & Susan Minerich
Tribute GiftsTribute gifts to Seattle Repertory Theatre are a wonderful way to remember a loved one, honor a friend, or celebrate a special occasion.
TRIBUTES IN HONOR OF ALL CANADIANS by Lisa Engle and by Richard Orr | CHRISTINE BOYLE by Mary Prosser Brock Zimmerman | EVAN CARTWRIGHT by Shaina Shepherd | JOANNE EUSTER by Sharon Euster | TONI HOFFMAN by Moe & Susan Krabbe | FRANKIE T. MANNING by Mary Harris | KAYTLINMCINTYRE by Doreen Sayegh | JANET NYDEGGER by Anonymous | BARACK & MICHELLE OBAMA by Marjorie Lynn | MICHELLE REICHENBACH by Trina Whitaker | RESIDENTS OF GANDER, NEWFOUNDLANDby Jeanne Lundquist | TRICIA PEARSON & DECLAN O’NEILL by Korum Bischoff, by Emma Cantrell, by Edward Kenny, by Thore Korsmo, by Sue Meza, by Kristin Pearson, by Alexandra Reinken, by Patrick Siver, by Sara Ann Skelding, by Jamie Swedler, by Sheila Underwood, and by Anonymous | NANCY WARD by Elizabeth Steudel
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
TRIBUTES IN MEMORY OF ROBERT BARTELL by Mary Ann Bartell | NANCY BURRILL by Arthur Burrill | LORRAINE CAMPBELL M. by Nancy Campbell | HOPE CHAPIN by Nancy Chapin & Leah Shafer | AL & CAROLE FEIGE by Margaret Feige | MARILYN GREY by Karol Gadwa | DAVID M. MARRIOTT by Pete & Merrily Chick | JERRY MARSHALL by Bart Goft | CHRISTOPHER MONCK by Susan K. Jones | DOROTHY “DOT” RASMUSSEN by Nancy Martin | NANCY RUST by Richard Rust | RAY SIMPSON by Trevor Simpson | MIMI SOONG by Diana & Warren Aakervik, Jr. | TERRY’S SISTER VICKI by Lorna Baxter | DON TUFTS by Anonymous | JEAN & JAY VANCE AND THEIR VISITS TO NEWFOUNDLAND by Tiffany C. Vance | SANDY WALKER by Muffy Walker | RUTH PARKER WINQUIST by Sally & Lee Morris | CLEONA Y. YOUNG by Sylvia M. Young | SEPTEMBER 11 , 2001 by Rebecca Riesen
THE K OF D: AN URBANLEGEND (2011) PICTURED: RENATA FRIEDMANPHOTO BY CHRIS BENNION
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INDIVIDUAL DONORS
† Deceased
The accuracy of this list is important to us; we welcome notification of unintended omissions.
Matt & Jenny MuilenburgJerry NagaeSamantha Temple NeukomGrace Nordhoff & Jonathan BeardJohn & Joyce O’ConnellCarol & Doug PowellAnn PrydeMary PughPaul Purcell & Barbara GuzzoScott & Shawn RedmanGreg Smith & Betty Mattson-SmithCarlyn J. SteinerDelphine & Charles StevensLeonard & Marsha StevensTodd & Jane SummerfeltTammy A. TalmanVijay & Sita VasheeMichael & Marsha WardenKinnon W. WilliamsJane Zalutsky & Mark KantorAnonymous (6)
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $1,200 - $2,999
Brian P. Abeel & Leticia Lopez • Braden Abraham & Cheyenne Casebier • Nancy Abramson • Nikhil & Sheetal Agarwal • Will Ahrens • Patricia Akiyama & David Larsen • Mary & David Alhadeff • David & Gay Allais • Jon Anderson & Frederique Levrat • Phoebe Andrew • Patty & Jimmy Barrier• Craig S. Bartholomew • Douglas & Maria Bayer• Stephen W. Behnen • George & Joan Berry • Luther Black & Christina Wright • Larry Blake • Susan & William Block • Susan Brandt & Van White • Kent R. Burnham • Werner & Janet Cadera • Betsy & John Cadwallader • Rita Calabro & Jim Kelly • Patrick & Mary Callan • GretchenC. & Don E. Campbell • Sonya Campion • RolandCarette-Meyers & Kiki Penoyer • Stephen & StacyCarlson • Bill Cavender & Mary K. Neumeister •D. Thompson & Karen Challinor • Bernard Choi &Scott Gregory • Sarah Cole • Theodore J. & PatriciaS. Collins • Ben Coscarart • Jennifer Coursen• Dan Crawford & Cora Breuner • W. MichaelCrenshaw & Mary Brodd • Mr. & Mrs. James P.Crutcher • Heidi de Laubenfels & Harris Clarke •Leslie Decker & Steve Rimmer • Dottie Delaney• Dan & Mimi Dixon • Bob Dowdy & CherryTinker • Elizabeth & Miles Drake • Theodore J.Dubinsky MD, Jean K. Dubinsky, RN • Jim &Gaylee Duncan • Susan Dunn • Betty Dykstra •Jon & Laurene Ekse • Richard & Marlene Fallquist • Elisabeth Farwell-Moreland & Gary Moreland •Lyn & Paul Fenton • Stan & Jane Fields • CarolFinn • Nancy Gallup • Mr. & Mrs. Carver Gayton• Nick Gerner & Susan Moskwa • Lynne Graybeal& Scott Harron • Timothy Greenleaf & RebeccaRoe • Eric Gustafson & Martin Sanchez • Andrew
& Michelle Haines • Jeannie Hale • Adrienne L. Hall • Kathleen Hamilton • Drs. Michael & Teresa Hart • Jan P. Havlisch • Roger & Kelly Heeringa • John Hempelmann & Mary McGill • Amy Henry • Jamie Herlich & Joe McIalwain • Wanda Herndon • Andrew & Delney Hilen & the Hilen Foundation• Steve & Sandy Hill • Alyssa Hochman • Bruce& Bridget Horne • Eric & Mary Horvitz • Shaun &Kathleen Hughbanks • Mark Igra & Nancy Simon• Emily & Joe Inslee • Dean M. Ishiki • Jon Jensen & Kathy Early • Jonelle Johnson • Gary & SusanJones • Robert Kaplan & Margaret Levi • Daphne& Brett Kelley • Lorna Kneeland • Therese & Bruce Kroon • Jim & Jean Kunz • Rosanne Lapan • Liam Lavery & Yazmin Mehdi • Eileen Lennon & BarrieCarter • Rachel Lerman • Marko Liias • Abe Lillard & Julia Kalmus • Donald Marcy • Joy McNichols• Frances Mead • Brian Meenaghan • John, Gail,Daniel & Ian Mensher • Susan Mersereau & PhilipWhite • Chuck & Nancy Mertel • Michael Milligan& Jeanne E Fund & Bainbridge Foundation •Pamela & Donald Mitchell • Marcia Nagae •Robert & Claudia Nelson • Erika J. Nesholm • JoeG. Norman, Jr. • Ilse H. Oles • Declan & TriciaO’Neill • John Palo • Stewart Parker • Lee & Alison Parsons • Terri & Ron Pehrson • Kyle & MichelePeltonen • Anthony & Sharon Perez • DonaldPogoloff • K. R. Prabha & Unmesh Wankhede• Geoffrey T. Prentiss • Nancy & Kelley Price •Andrea & Alan Rabinowitz • Dr. & Mrs. PatrickA. Ragen • Anita Ramasastry & Walter Walsh •Sharon K. & Paul B. Ramey • Kirk Redmond &Connie Clark-Redmond • Michael Repass • JeffreyRobinson & Mary Dicke • John Ryan & Jody Foster • Bill & Rae Saltzstein • Barbara Sando • Ingrid& Stanley Savage & the Hilen Foundation • JoeSchwartz • Seattle Spine & Sports Medicine •Jeanne Sheldon & Marvin Parsons • Richard &Barbara Shikiar • Evelyn Simpson • H. Warren &Nancy Smith • Robert & Susan Spieth • Kathleen& Rob Spitzer • Paul & Michelle Stamnes • David& Nancy Thacher • Rick & Suzy Titcomb • JudgeBrian & Mrs. Linda Tollefson • Bill & Alice Van Pelt • Michael Von Korff & Linda Le Resche • Mary MWebster • Judith A. Whetzel • Heather Wilde &James Gierman • Jay & Linda Willenberg • ChelleWilliams • Matthew Williams & Patricia Read-Williams • John & Marta Wilson • Mrs. HowardS. Wright • Scott & Jenny Wyatt • John Zagula •Anonymous (12)
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CUMULATIVE GIFTS RECEIVED/PLEDGES MADE JULY 1, 2017 - AUGUST 31, 2018
Italics represent in-kind gifts. * Includes capital support
ATLAS WorkbaseBank of America Charitable FoundationBECU People Helping People AwardsThe Boeing CompanyHomeStreet Bank
Homewood Suites by HiltonThe Morgan Fund at Seattle FoundationRobert Chinn FoundationTreeline FoundationU.S. Bank Foundation
John GrahamFoundation
*
Seattle Repertory Organization
The Chisholm Foundation
The Ballinger Family Foundation
Edgerton Foundation New Play Award
HD Fowler Company
Elizabeth George Foundation
Seattle Repertory Theatre is proud to acknowledge the support of the following regional and national organizations, whose generous grants and sponsorships make possible a wide variety of artistic and audience programs that serve more than 125,000 theatregoers each year, including the Rep’s mainstage productions, new play readings and workshops, youth arts education offerings, public programs, and community engagement initiatives.
Join these philanthropic leaders in supporting great theatre in Seattle.
Thank You
INSTITUTIONAL DONORS
For more information
Melissa Husby Associate Director of Development 206.443.2202 x1014 [email protected]
$500,000+
Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation
$150,000 - $499,999
$100,000 - $149,999
Washington State Building for the Arts Program*
$50,000 - $99,999
$25,000 - $49,999
Bruce G. Cochener Foundation*
$10,000 - $24,999
AT&TCity Catering CompanyDavis Wright TremaineForest FoundationHazel Miller FoundationKutscher Hereford Bertram Burkart PLLCLoeb Family Charitable Foundations
Macy’sMoccasin Lake FoundationPuyallup Indian Tribe Charity Trust BoardSellen Community FoundationSummit Law Group U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management
$5,000 - $9,999
$2,500 - $4,999Alaska AirlinesDeLille CellarsFales Foundation TrustHorizons FoundationMorgan Stanley Private Wealth ManagementPerkins Coie LLPWashington State Arts CommissionVIETGONE (2016)
PICTURED: JEENA YI AND JAMES RYEN PHOTO BY NAVID BARATY
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MEDIA SPONSORS
Theatre Foward’s Advancing Theatre Program
SRO EXECUTIVE BOARD
Diane CodyPRESIDENT
Laurette Poulos SimmonsFIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Lina WillenbergSECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Judy HuckaTREASURER
Cathy KittoRECORDING SECRETARY
Carmen SpoffordCORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Robert JenkinsSRT REPRESENTATIVE
SEATTLE REPERTORY ORGANIZATION (SRO)
The Seattle Repertory Organization is a 100+ member volunteer group established in 1963 for the purpose of supporting Seattle Repertory Theatre. Through The Shop at the Rep, New York and London theatre tours, and more, the SRO donates more than $30,000 and over 12,000 volunteer hours each season.
Learn more about SRO at seattlerep.org/volunteer
* Indicates an employee of 10 or more years.
** Indicates an employee of 20 or more years.
Bold = member of Seattle Rep Senior Leadership Team
Meet the artists of A Thousand Splendid Suns. SRO Spotlight luncheons and interviews are an opportunity to informally visit with the cast members, theatre artists, and staff who make each show possible.
seattlerep.org/SROspotlights
upcoming SRO SPOTLIGHT:
Thursday, October 1811:00 a.m. in the Rotunda
Artistic
Kaytlin McIntyreCASTING DIRECTOR
William (L.B.) Morse*RESIDENT DESIGNER
Angie KamelPUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR
Jéhan ÒsanyìnPUBLIC WORKS CURRICULUM MANAGER
Lia FakhouriPUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATE
Hattie Claire AndresASSISTANT TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE
EDUCATION
Arlene Martínez-VázquezEDUCATION DIRECTOR
PRODUCTION
Elisabeth Farwell-Moreland*PRODUCING DIRECTOR
Christy Bain**DIRECTOR OF ARTIST RELATIONS
Tyler KriegARTIST RELATIONS ASSOCIATE
Brian Fauska*TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Matt GilesASSOCIATE PRODUCING DIRECTOR
Sann HallPRODUCTION MANAGER
WileyASSOCIATE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Stina LottiPRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Robert J. Aguilar*LIGHTING DESIGN ASSOCIATE
CARPENTERS
Jon Zucker**SCENE SHOP FOREMAN
Denny Hartung**MASTER SHOP CARPENTER
Patrick Robinson*Randall ReeceMichael McKennaSCENIC CARPENTERS
COSTUME SHOPDenise Damico*COSTUME DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR
Emily BlancheASSISTANT COSTUME DEPARTMENT MANAGER
Danielle NievesCOSTUME DESIGN ASSOCIATE
Naomi Weber Christina HobbsTAILORS/DRAPERS
Lisa Lockard**Laura Mé Smith**FIRST HANDS
Sarah Gladden**COSTUME STOCK MANAGER
Joyce Degenfelder**WIG MASTER
Brent RobertsDYER/PROPS ARTISAN
Imelda Daranciang*BAGLEY WRIGHT WARDROBE SUPERVISOR
Cindy Sabye*LEO K. WARDROBE SUPERVISOR
Ivy Ash Maggie Carrido AdamsDRESSERS
K.D. Schill Kelly SchmidtWIG CREW
PROPERTIES
Jolene Obertin**PROPERTIES DIRECTOR
Karla DavenportPROPERTIES ASSISTANT
James Severson*Nicolette Vannais*Angela ZyllaPROPERTIES ARTISANS
SCENIC ARTS
Maureen Wilhelm*CHARGE SCENIC ARTIST
Ruth GilmoreLEAD SCENIC ARTIST
Beth PetersonSCENIC ARTIST
STAGE CREWSBAGLEY WRIGHT THEATRE
Dave ScamporlinaINTERIM MASTER STAGE CARPENTER
Andrew Willhelm*MASTER ELECTRICIAN
Jeremiah Foglesong*MASTER PROPERTIES
Nathan Kahler*HEAD SOUND ENGINEER
Tony SmithHEAD FLYMAN
Dave MisnerINTERIM SWING TECHNICIAN
LEO KREIELSHEIMER THEATRE
Joel WilmotMASTER STAGE CARPENTER
Desirae BrownleeMASTER ELECTRICIAN
Mark KridaHEAD SOUND ENGINEER
STAGE MANAGEMENTDanie Bae Jessica C. Bomball Rachel Dorman Michael John Egan Stina Lotti Adrienne Mendoza Michael B. Paul Shellie Stone
EXECUTIVE
Alyssa BostwickEXECUTIVE ASSISTANT & BOARD LIAISON
ADMINistration & HUMAN RESOURCES
Stuart JenningsINTERIM DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES
FINANCE & OPERATIONS
Rachel M. Robert**DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS
Gi Hara**CONTROLLER
John R. McNamara**OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Debra Forman*RECEPTIONIST
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Colin Warriner*INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR
Ingrid RichterINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANT
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Andrew L. HainesDIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Steve BrownMARKETING DIRECTOR
Rowena YowCOMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
Michelle S. LeyvaPUBLICIST
Noelle McCabeMARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS PROJECT MANAGER
Shannon LoysLEAD GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Angela NickersonMULTIMEDIA MANAGER
Richie CarpenterWEB PRODUCTION SPECIALIST
Allison DunmoreDIGITAL & SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Veliere CrumpGROUP SALES MANAGER
PATRON EXPERIENCE
Evan CartwrightBUSINESS OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Ryan RowellTESSITURA OPERATIONS MANAGER
Joanna BarnebeyDATA OPERATIONS MANAGER
PATRON SERVICES
Claire KoleskePATRON SERVICES MANAGER
Sutton ViePATRON SERVICES ASSISTANT MANAGER
Marcus WilliamsPATRON SERVICES LEAD
Dylan Gervais Alyssa Hall Emily HallCeline Myer Nan TilghmanPATRON SERVICES SPECIALISTS
FRONT OF HOUSE
Lance ParkAUDIENCE SERVICES DIRECTOR
Kiefer HarringtonLEAD LOBBY MANAGER & VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Zach Gray Taylor Kesterson Carlos SalazarHOUSE MANAGERS
Sheryl KoolASL INTERPRETING COORDINATOR
DEVELOPMENT
Jamie HerlichDIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Melissa HusbyASSOC. DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Sasha HabashANNUAL GIVING DIRECTOR
Darragh KennanDONOR RELATIONS OFFICER
Janet ShaughnessyDONOR RELATIONS OFFICER
Chris QuiliciDONOR SERVICES SPECIALIST
Anna StricklandDONOR STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATE
Lori GicklhornGRANTS ASSOCIATE
Sarah TackettDEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST
Sarah WrightINDIVIDUAL GIVING ASSISTANT
PROFESSIONAL ARTS TRAINING PROGRAM
Zoe SonnenbergLITERARY
Ben Swenson-KlattDEVELOPMENT
Jennifer BurkleyPROPS
Sara AlbertsonEDUCATION
Sulaiman As-SalaamLIGHTS
Natalie H. BergShay TrustySTAGE MANAGEMENT
Jasmine B. GuntarDIRECTING/CASTING
Tessa BroylesPAINT
ARTIST IN RESIDENCEConstanza Romero
STAFF
Jeffrey Herrmann Managing DirectorBraden Abraham* Artistic Director
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CUMULATIVE GIFTS RECEIVED/PLEDGES MADE JULY 1, 2017 - AUGUST 31, 2018
Italics represent in-kind gifts. * Includes capital support
ATLAS WorkbaseBank of America Charitable FoundationBECU People Helping People AwardsThe Boeing CompanyHomeStreet Bank
Homewood Suites by HiltonThe Morgan Fund at Seattle FoundationRobert Chinn FoundationTreeline FoundationU.S. Bank Foundation
John GrahamFoundation
*
Seattle Repertory Organization
The Chisholm Foundation
The Ballinger Family Foundation
Edgerton Foundation New Play Award
HD Fowler Company
Elizabeth George Foundation
Seattle Repertory Theatre is proud to acknowledge the support of the following regional and national organizations, whose generous grants and sponsorships make possible a wide variety of artistic and audience programs that serve more than 125,000 theatregoers each year, including the Rep’s mainstage productions, new play readings and workshops, youth arts education offerings, public programs, and community engagement initiatives.
Join these philanthropic leaders in supporting great theatre in Seattle.
Thank You
INSTITUTIONAL DONORS
For more information
Melissa Husby Associate Director of Development 206.443.2202 x1014 [email protected]
$500,000+
Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation
$150,000 - $499,999
$100,000 - $149,999
Washington State Building for the Arts Program*
$50,000 - $99,999
$25,000 - $49,999
Bruce G. Cochener Foundation*
$10,000 - $24,999
AT&TCity Catering CompanyDavis Wright TremaineForest FoundationHazel Miller FoundationKutscher Hereford Bertram Burkart PLLCLoeb Family Charitable Foundations
Macy’sMoccasin Lake FoundationPuyallup Indian Tribe Charity Trust BoardSellen Community FoundationSummit Law Group U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management
$5,000 - $9,999
$2,500 - $4,999Alaska AirlinesDeLille CellarsFales Foundation TrustHorizons FoundationMorgan Stanley Private Wealth ManagementPerkins Coie LLPWashington State Arts CommissionVIETGONE (2016)
PICTURED: JEENA YI AND JAMES RYEN PHOTO BY NAVID BARATY
From the Vault
MEDIA SPONSORS
Theatre Foward’s Advancing Theatre Program
SRO EXECUTIVE BOARD
Diane CodyPRESIDENT
Laurette Poulos SimmonsFIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Lina WillenbergSECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Judy HuckaTREASURER
Cathy KittoRECORDING SECRETARY
Carmen SpoffordCORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Robert JenkinsSRT REPRESENTATIVE
SEATTLE REPERTORY ORGANIZATION (SRO)
The Seattle Repertory Organization is a 100+ member volunteer group established in 1963 for the purpose of supporting Seattle Repertory Theatre. Through The Shop at the Rep, New York and London theatre tours, and more, the SRO donates more than $30,000 and over 12,000 volunteer hours each season.
Learn more about SRO at seattlerep.org/volunteer
* Indicates an employee of 10 or more years.
** Indicates an employee of 20 or more years.
Bold = member of Seattle Rep Senior Leadership Team
Meet the artists of A Thousand Splendid Suns. SRO Spotlight luncheons and interviews are an opportunity to informally visit with the cast members, theatre artists, and staff who make each show possible.
seattlerep.org/SROspotlights
upcoming SRO SPOTLIGHT:
Thursday, October 1811:00 a.m. in the Rotunda
Artistic
Kaytlin McIntyreCASTING DIRECTOR
William (L.B.) Morse*RESIDENT DESIGNER
Angie KamelPUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR
Jéhan ÒsanyìnPUBLIC WORKS CURRICULUM MANAGER
Lia FakhouriPUBLIC WORKS ASSOCIATE
Hattie Claire AndresASSISTANT TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE
EDUCATION
Arlene Martínez-VázquezEDUCATION DIRECTOR
PRODUCTION
Elisabeth Farwell-Moreland*PRODUCING DIRECTOR
Christy Bain**DIRECTOR OF ARTIST RELATIONS
Tyler KriegARTIST RELATIONS ASSOCIATE
Brian Fauska*TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Matt GilesASSOCIATE PRODUCING DIRECTOR
Sann HallPRODUCTION MANAGER
WileyASSOCIATE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Stina LottiPRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Robert J. Aguilar*LIGHTING DESIGN ASSOCIATE
CARPENTERS
Jon Zucker**SCENE SHOP FOREMAN
Denny Hartung**MASTER SHOP CARPENTER
Patrick Robinson*Randall ReeceMichael McKennaSCENIC CARPENTERS
COSTUME SHOPDenise Damico*COSTUME DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR
Emily BlancheASSISTANT COSTUME DEPARTMENT MANAGER
Danielle NievesCOSTUME DESIGN ASSOCIATE
Naomi Weber Christina HobbsTAILORS/DRAPERS
Lisa Lockard**Laura Mé Smith**FIRST HANDS
Sarah Gladden**COSTUME STOCK MANAGER
Joyce Degenfelder**WIG MASTER
Brent RobertsDYER/PROPS ARTISAN
Imelda Daranciang*BAGLEY WRIGHT WARDROBE SUPERVISOR
Cindy Sabye*LEO K. WARDROBE SUPERVISOR
Ivy Ash Maggie Carrido AdamsDRESSERS
K.D. Schill Kelly SchmidtWIG CREW
PROPERTIES
Jolene Obertin**PROPERTIES DIRECTOR
Karla DavenportPROPERTIES ASSISTANT
James Severson*Nicolette Vannais*Angela ZyllaPROPERTIES ARTISANS
SCENIC ARTS
Maureen Wilhelm*CHARGE SCENIC ARTIST
Ruth GilmoreLEAD SCENIC ARTIST
Beth PetersonSCENIC ARTIST
STAGE CREWSBAGLEY WRIGHT THEATRE
Dave ScamporlinaINTERIM MASTER STAGE CARPENTER
Andrew Willhelm*MASTER ELECTRICIAN
Jeremiah Foglesong*MASTER PROPERTIES
Nathan Kahler*HEAD SOUND ENGINEER
Tony SmithHEAD FLYMAN
Dave MisnerINTERIM SWING TECHNICIAN
LEO KREIELSHEIMER THEATRE
Joel WilmotMASTER STAGE CARPENTER
Desirae BrownleeMASTER ELECTRICIAN
Mark KridaHEAD SOUND ENGINEER
STAGE MANAGEMENTDanie Bae Jessica C. Bomball Rachel Dorman Michael John Egan Stina Lotti Adrienne Mendoza Michael B. Paul Shellie Stone
EXECUTIVE
Alyssa BostwickEXECUTIVE ASSISTANT & BOARD LIAISON
ADMINistration & HUMAN RESOURCES
Stuart JenningsINTERIM DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES
FINANCE & OPERATIONS
Rachel M. Robert**DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS
Gi Hara**CONTROLLER
John R. McNamara**OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Debra Forman*RECEPTIONIST
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Colin Warriner*INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR
Ingrid RichterINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSISTANT
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Andrew L. HainesDIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Steve BrownMARKETING DIRECTOR
Rowena YowCOMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
Michelle S. LeyvaPUBLICIST
Noelle McCabeMARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS PROJECT MANAGER
Shannon LoysLEAD GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Angela NickersonMULTIMEDIA MANAGER
Richie CarpenterWEB PRODUCTION SPECIALIST
Allison DunmoreDIGITAL & SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Veliere CrumpGROUP SALES MANAGER
PATRON EXPERIENCE
Evan CartwrightBUSINESS OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Ryan RowellTESSITURA OPERATIONS MANAGER
Joanna BarnebeyDATA OPERATIONS MANAGER
PATRON SERVICES
Claire KoleskePATRON SERVICES MANAGER
Sutton ViePATRON SERVICES ASSISTANT MANAGER
Marcus WilliamsPATRON SERVICES LEAD
Dylan Gervais Alyssa Hall Emily HallCeline Myer Nan TilghmanPATRON SERVICES SPECIALISTS
FRONT OF HOUSE
Lance ParkAUDIENCE SERVICES DIRECTOR
Kiefer HarringtonLEAD LOBBY MANAGER & VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Zach Gray Taylor Kesterson Carlos SalazarHOUSE MANAGERS
Sheryl KoolASL INTERPRETING COORDINATOR
DEVELOPMENT
Jamie HerlichDIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Melissa HusbyASSOC. DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Sasha HabashANNUAL GIVING DIRECTOR
Darragh KennanDONOR RELATIONS OFFICER
Janet ShaughnessyDONOR RELATIONS OFFICER
Chris QuiliciDONOR SERVICES SPECIALIST
Anna StricklandDONOR STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATE
Lori GicklhornGRANTS ASSOCIATE
Sarah TackettDEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST
Sarah WrightINDIVIDUAL GIVING ASSISTANT
PROFESSIONAL ARTS TRAINING PROGRAM
Zoe SonnenbergLITERARY
Ben Swenson-KlattDEVELOPMENT
Jennifer BurkleyPROPS
Sara AlbertsonEDUCATION
Sulaiman As-SalaamLIGHTS
Natalie H. BergShay TrustySTAGE MANAGEMENT
Jasmine B. GuntarDIRECTING/CASTING
Tessa BroylesPAINT
ARTIST IN RESIDENCEConstanza Romero
STAFF
Jeffrey Herrmann Managing DirectorBraden Abraham* Artistic Director
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