Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2021 Playbill
The 2021 summer season, the first under the leadership of Executive Director Tiffani Gavin, will be held in a hybrid format — both online and in-person. In addition to a return to live performances, the season includes 14 free events and eight online events which will be available to artists, audiences, and supporters across the nation. Throughout these programs the mission & values of the O’Neill remain vibrant and vital. Join us to see how support for artists, a welcoming environment for imaginative discovery and celebration, and the safety of our community are at the forefront of this #ONeillSummer!
The 2021 summer season, the first under the leadership of Executive Director Tiffani Gavin, will be held in a hybrid format — both online and in-person. In addition to a return to live performances, the season includes 14 free events and eight online events which will be available to artists, audiences, and supporters across the nation. Throughout these programs the mission & values of the O’Neill remain vibrant and vital.
Join us to see how support for artists, a welcoming environment for imaginative discovery and celebration, and the safety of our community are at the forefront of this #ONeillSummer!
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57 TH SUMMER SEASON
eugene o’neill theater center
board of trustees
Thomas Viertel, Chairman
Ruth Hendel, Vice Chair
Stephen Hendel, Treasurer
Linda Mariani, Secretary
Jeff Aiosa
Leslee Asch
Jim Calhoun
Pat Calhoun
Roger S. Christiansen
Ron Cowen
Jason Crosby
Armand A. Della Monica
Colman Domingo
Michael Douglas
Lily Fan
George C. White, Founder
Tiffani Gavin, Executive Director
Lynn R. Fusco
Alva Greenberg
Carolyn Greenspan
Riccardo Hernández
Genia Kaplan Quinn
Tom Kitt
Rita Pietropinto-Kitt
Herb Kohler, Jr.
Daniel Lipman
Soraya Nadia McDonald
David Preka
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Ellen Quinn
Michael Rauh
Scott Richards
Madeline Sayet
Bernie Schilberg
Beth Schilberg
Sally Speer
Betsy White
George C. White
Amanda Kay Ritchie, Editor
Kelsey Houlihan, Editor & Art Director
Isaak Berliner, Photographer
Cover Art by Kelsey Houlihan, Photo by Isaak Berliner; Additional photos by Isaak Berliner, Richard Termine, John Russo, Amy Lane
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eugene o’neill theater center
staff
Tiffani Gavin, Executive Director
Rachel Jett, Artistic Director, National Theater Institute
Pam Arciero, Artistic Director, National Puppetry Conference
Alexander Gemignani, Artistic Director, National Music Theater Conference
Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director, National Playwrights Conference
Chris Jones, Director, National Critics Institute
John McDaniel, Artistic Director, Cabaret & Performance Conference
Aanika Allen, Associate Director of NTI
Shaun Anderson, IT Coordinator
Eric Bemont, Director of Operations
Isaak Berliner, Media Associate
Clara Blickenstaff, Business Manager
Rebecca Brill Weitz, Production Manager
Natalie Canfield, Housekeeper
Sophia Chapadjiev, Director of Education & Young Playwrights Festival
Jenna Doherty, NTI Program Coordinator
Rory Haff, Assistant Chef
Kelsey Houlihan, Marketing Associate
William Hurst, Facilities Assistant
Corey Jones, Security Guard
Harvey Lee Jones, Head Chef
Lexy Leuszler, Literary Manager & Dramaturg
Wayne Lipphardt, Facilities & Grounds Assistant
Jake Miller, Facilities Supervisor & Pub Manager
Rob Mooney, Director of Development
Jeff Moulton, Executive Assistant
Scott Murphy, NMTI Artistic Associate
Charlotte Newman, NTI Program Representative & Admissions Coordinator
Carrigan O’Brian, NTI Lead Program Representative & Teaching Artist
Laura Padilla, NTI Administrative Assistant
Vinnie Pecoraro, Kitchen Assistant
Wilson Plonk, Business Management Associate
John Reinschmidt, Individual Giving & Special Events Manager
Amanda Kay Ritchie, Director of Marketing & College Relations
Mack Ryan, Security Guard
Chandler Smith, Associate Producer
Stephanie Sutera, Head of Housekeeping
Darcy Van Ness, Institutional Giving Associate
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summer staff
2021 apprentices
Imani Champion, Production Stage Manager
Noah Ezell, Writer's Assistant
Carl Hinebaugh, Bartender
Etan Klau, Facilities Assistant
Kalina Ko, Wirter's Assistant
Julia Egizio
Akari Izumi
Chamari White-Mink
Abi Anderson
Sierra Lancaster
Alice Zelenko
Nadiya Atkinson
Laura Padilla
Lucia Guzman
Jacob Montgomery, Associate Audio Supervisor
Ben Otten, Company Manager
Joanne Pan, Assistant Stage Manager
Jeff Sherwood, Audio Supervisor
Ellie Simonett, Master Electrician
Julie Smart, Bartender
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eugene o'neill theater center
our values
DISCOVERY: We commit to the discovery of new and daring voices, vital to
the future of American theater, through rigorous and direct outreach in our
open submission process, and the curation of our artistic programs.
DIVERSITY: Our community strives to honor the experiences, abilities,
heritage, and expression of all artists, faculty, students, and staff. Within our
artistry and administration, we pledge to empower a full range of individual
identities.
COLLABORATION: We endeavor to provide time and space for artistic
collisions, bold risk-taking, and deep reflection by all of our artists.
RISK. FAIL. RISK AGAIN: These words ring out from every rehearsal room,
performance space, classroom, office, and individual on the O’Neill’s
campus. We encourage artistic impulse and exploration of the exchange
between art and audience.
EDUCATION: To be in the theater is to be a student for life. Whether one
comes to the O’Neill early or the midst of their career, we work to offer a
radically accepting space of mentorship, collaboration, and camaraderie.
COMMUNITY: The O’Neill’s legacy and artistry relies upon its engagement
with the robust and vibrant local audiences. We create spaces and
programming in support of one another, the Waterford community, and the
American theater.
our mission
In the pioneering spirit of its namesake, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
discovers, develops, and empowers new work, new voices, and creative
risk-taking. By introducing innovative artists, essential to broadening the
national cultural landscape, the O’Neill serves as the Launchpad of the
American Theater.
HATE HAS NO BUSINESS HERE.
We stand with BLACK LIVES MATTER.
We respect WOMEN.
We stand with our LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
We stand with IMMIGRANTS and REFUGEES.
We stand with INDIGENOUS communities.
We celebrate PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS.
We stand with OUR COMMUNITY.
ALL ARE WELCOME
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2021 guest playwrights
Hall of Fame by Sara Cove; Rockville High School; CT
The Golden Age of Friendship by Pamela Durango-Ramirez; Lincoln School; RI
From the Flames of Disease by Zaya Haglund; ISAAC; CT
Judged by the Look by Aisha Hashimi; Fitch High School; CT
Open Wounds by Nazariah Isaac; New London High School; CT
The Stupidity of Pink & Blue by Mirabelle Meek; Lincoln School; RI
So Get This by Addison Mobley; Clark Lane MS; CT
Borderline by Ariana Rosado; Waterford High School; CT
Scrapyard Goals by Cameron Webster; Clark Lane MS; CT
Chutes & Ladders by Lilly Werling; Pittsburgh CAPA; PA
support for the 2021 young playwrights
festival is provided in part by:
Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut, CT Automotive Retailers Association’s GHADA
Foundation, Waterford Education Foundation, and Eversource Foundation - Community Impact
Program
2021 young playwrights
Emma Courtright, What the Future Holds, Old Saybrook Middle School
Jasper Galouzis, Breakfast, Robert E. Fitch High School
Shelby Pauloski, Dear Diary, Old Saybrook Middle School
Hazel Siu, The Will of Walter, Clark Lane Middle School
Paige Walstra, Integrity, Waterford High School
Thank you
Eugene O’Neill
Theater Center
for your ongoing
support of the
American Stage.
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PUPPETRYMASTERCLASSES
KATHRYN MULLEN
(USA, BERMUDA) MONDAY •JUNE 7
Kathy will talk about her experiences creating
informational and educational puppet videos for
children around the world. She will discuss why
puppets are a good choice for getting across
important messages to kids in dire and scary situations
and how the non-profit puppet production company,
No Strings (of which she is a co-founder) goes about creating films.
Kathryn is the co-founder and Artistic Director of No Strings Productions. No
Strings is a not-for-profit organization that makes puppet videos that address
important issues concerning at-risk children worldwide. Kathryn started her
career as a puppeteer. She joined Jim Henson’s Muppets in 1980 and was
featured in many Muppet productions including The Great Muppet Caper, The
Muppets Take Manhattan, Labyrinth, numerous Muppet Specials, Little Muppet
Monsters, The Christmas Toy and Sesame Street. She performed the heroine,
Kira, in the Henson fantasy film, The Dark Crystal and played Mokey Fraggle
and Cotterpin Doozer on the HBO series Fraggle Rock. Later she played the
title role in the Nickelodeon series Allegra’s Window and helped to create and
produce the PBS literacy series Between the Lions. These days Kathryn mostly
produces, writes and directs for No Strings, but she will still put her hand into a
puppet if that extra hand is needed.
PING CHONG (USA)
TUESDAY •JUNE 8
Ping Chong was born in Toronto in 1946 and raised
in the Chinatown section of New York City. He
studied filmmaking and graphic design at the School
of Visual Arts and the Pratt Institute. Ping Chong
began his theatrical career as a member of Meredith
Monk's The House Foundation. He collaborated with her on several major
works including The Travelogue Series and The Games, for which they shared
the Outstanding Achievement in Music Theatre Award in 1986.
In 1972, Ping Chong gathered a group of artists at Meredith Monk’s loft in New
York City to create Lazarus, his first independent theatre work. Since then, he has
created over 100 major works for the stage. Over the years, he has expanded
the range of his explorations to include video and visual arts installations. A
National Medal of the Arts recipient, Ping Chong is recognized as one of our
country's most significant multidisciplinary artists.
MERVYN MILLAR (England)
WENDNESDAY•JUNE 9
Mervyn Millar is a director and puppet designer,
and director of Significant Object. He was part of the
original creative team of the National Theatre’s War
Horse, also appearing at the NT and directing casts
in London, New York, Toronto and Berlin. His work
with puppets includes Aïda (Opera National de Paris); Circus 1903 (Southbank
Centre, international tour); As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors and Great
Expectations (Royal Shakespeare Company); Appreciate (Paul McCartney);
Fox-Tot! (Scottish Opera); Die Walküre, Siegfried (Opera National du Rhin);
The Thief of Baghdad (Royal Opera House); Stiller (Residenz Munich); Crow
(Handspring UK), and work for the National Theatre, Burgtheater Vienna,
Schauspielhaus Zürich, NT Scotland, and the Royal Court. Forthcoming this
year: The Hatchling and The Magician's Elephant (RSC).
His books include Puppetry: How to Do It, The Horse’s Mouth, and The Journey
of The Tall Horse. Awarded an Arts Foundation Fellowship 2010 for his work in
puppetry. In 2017 he had the pleasure of leading a workshop at the O'Neill's
National Puppetry Conference, and has also taught at many UK drama schools
and universities as well as the Curious School of Puppetry.
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FRANÇOIS DELAROZIÈRE
(La Machine, France) THURSDAY•JUNE 10
Born in Marseille in 1963, François Delarozière
chooses the path of fine arts following five years of
agricultural studies, taking full advantage of these
years to explore all techniques associated with
visual arts. In 1983 in Aix en Provence, he meets the
company Royal de Luxe with whom he embarks upon a long companionship
focused on street theatre. Most notably, he designs and leads the construction
of The Giant, The Rhinoceros, The Little Giant, The Giraffes and The Little Girl
Giant. In 1999, he creates La Machine, a non-profit organization, constructing
theatre sets, carousels for children and machines for productions. As artistic
director of the company, François Delarozière ceaselessly explores the art of
moving machines and their capacity to arouse emotion in the spectator. In this
respect, his approach to street theatre is more visual design than narrative.
François Delarozière is also a scenographer and director. As such, he started
the Le Grand Répertoire-Machines de Spectacle, an exhibition-show presented
between 2003 and 2006 in Nantes, Calais, Toulouse, Anvers, Marseilles
and Paris and which attracted more than 700,000 spectators. In 2003 he
creates La Symphonie Mécanique, combining the world of classical music and
mechanical sounds. This philarmotechnical piece was co-written with Mino
Malan. In 2008, Les Mécaniques Savantes are presented as a world-wide
exclusive for Liverpool, European Capital of Culture. This mechanical bestiary
is also presented the following year in Japan for the 150th anniversary of the
opening of the port of Yokohama. In 2010, a new production Le Dîner des
petites Mécaniques is created, showing a new way to prepare and present
food, whilst the Expédition Végétale and its team of botanists take flight. His
latest creation, “Long Ma Jing Shen”, stages a Dragon-Horse created for the
50th anniversary of Franco-Chinese diplomatic relations in Beijing in 2015.
CHIA-YIN CHENG
(Lìzé Puppet Art Colony, Taiwan)
FRIDAY•JUNE 11
How Cheng become a puppeteer. A brief
introduction of features of the Puppet & Its Double
Theater, its belief and art. How the company works
in an unconventional way to create new work and
current productions and international collaborations.
After Cheng got her master degree in puppet arts at UConn, she co-founded
the Puppet & Its Double Theatre, the first contemporary puppet company in
Taiwan in 1999. Cheng has devoted herself to show audience the exquisiteness
of the puppets, and kept breaking the boundary of this puppet arts. Her works
are well known of their wide range of themes and extinguished by their poetic
quality. Many of her directing works have won or made to the final list of Art
Awards and have been presented in 15 countries.
Cheng has followed several puppet masters including Albrecht Roser
(Germany), Richard Bradshaw (Australia), Larry Reed (USA), Philippe Genty
(France), and Eric Bass (USA) in the international master classes. She is keen
to pass on the legacy she got from those masters (include her professor, Bart
P. Roccoberton) by giving training course and holding international exchange
programs. In 2013, Cheng started an ambitious project to set up the “Lìzé
Puppet Art Colony”in Yi-lan. Renovated from the old rice barns, Lìzé Puppet Art
Colony is equipped with performing studios, craft shops, exhibition hall, and
artist residency. It was opened in February 2017, constantly holding festivals
and artist in residence program to serve as the international laboratory for
puppet arts.
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2021STRANDS
ALLCONFERENCEEVENTS
MAKING MANUAL CINEMA - MANUAL CINEMA
MOVEMENT WARM-UPS WITH ALICE GOTTSCHALK
STRING THEORY - NEHPRII AMENII
CREATING MUSIC AT HOME FOR PUPPETRY
PROJECTS - MELISSA & MATT DUNPHY
THE LANGUAGE OF MATERIAL AND OBJECTS:
MOVEMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL PUPPETRY
- ALICE GOTTSCHALK
MASTER CLASSES
TEA TIME CONVERSATION WITH JUDY ROSE
PUPPETS IN THE PUB HOSTED BY TYLER BUNCH &
JONATHAN LITTLE
MARIONETTE CONSTRUCTION - KURT HUNTER
TEACHES THE TECHNIQUES OF MARIONETTE
MASTER JIM ROSE
THE SOLO SHOW CHALLENGE - JEAN MARIE
KEEVINS & GUEST MENTORS
CHARACTER AND CRAFT - KEN WEITZMAN
SOCK PUPPETS GONE WILD - TIM LAGASSE &
MARTIN ROBINSON
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national puppetry conference participants
national puppetry conference staff
Maite Agopian
Susan Aziz
Ginew Benton
Hali Bickford
Edna Bland
Amanda Bothma
Sarah Bourne
Kate Brehm
Helena Burgueño
Andrew Cano
Amanda Card
Kanja Chen
Brittany Clemons
Elise Collins
Jimmica Collins
Austin Costello
Emily Czudak
Marsian De Lellis
Christine Dempsey
Audrey Densmore
Joe Detullio
Michelle Finston
Amanda Friou
Charlotte Lily Gaspard
Leila Ghaznavi
Alexandra Gorlin-Crenshaw
Iain Gunn
Kevin Hale
Sarah Beth Hester
Veda Hingert-McDonald
Connor Hopkins
Cloteal Horne
Alyse James
Heather Jarry
A. Tony Jerome
Erika Ji
Liz Joyce
Francine Kliemann
Zachary Kolodziej
Rebekah Lane
Gerson Lanza Ruiz
Aaron Lathrop
Phoenix Leigh
Monica Lerch
Danysha Ligon
Sifiso Mabena
Kalob Martinez
Lauren McCall
Lindsay McCaw
Michael McMillan
Carrie Morris
Liam Mulshine
Maisie O'Brien
Chase O'Neill
Isabel Olson
Christina Ostner
Fergie Philippe
Adelka Polak
Sherwin Rackal
Caroline Reck
Lavinia Roberts
Jenny Rogers
Alva Rogers
Bridget Rountree
Heidi Rugg
Ailin Ruiz
Laurencio Ruiz
Stoph Scheer
KT Shivak
Nana Neva
Anastassia Vertjanova
Nina Vogel
Oanh Vu
Anna Wang
Mobi Warren
Linda Wingerter
Jane Wong
Andrew Young
Shannon Young
Teddy Yudain
Pam Arciero, Artistic Director
Jean Marie Keevins, Associate Artistic Director (Director of Participant Projects)
Nehprii Amenii
Jonathan Little
Molly Burdick
Jane Martineau
Tyler Bunch
Mervyn Millar
Chia-yin Cheng
Julia Miller
Ping Chong
Kathy Mullen
François Delarozière
Bobbie Nidzgorski
Drew Dir
Emily Orr
Matt Dunphy
Martin P. Robinson
Melissa Dunphy
Bart Roccoberton
Georgina Escobar
Jim Rose
Sarah Fornace
Judy Rose
Alice Gottschalk
Richard Termine
James Godwin
Ken Weitzman
Kurt Hunter
Derron Wood
Tim Lagasse
Nina Lauren
scholarship support
Our deepest gratitude to those who have supported our puppetry scholarships:
Allelu Kurten Generous Spirit Scholarship
Connecticut Guild of Puppetry Scholarship in honor of Margo Rose
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Scholarship
Jerry Nelson Scholarship
Jim Rose Memorial Scholarship
Lisa Simon Scholarship
National Puppetry Conference Alumni Scholarship
Bruce Cannon Diversity & Inclusion Scholarship
funding for the national puppetry conference
is provided by:
The Jane Henson Foundation, John Olivia & Nancy Jean Krant
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Join us for Garden Gatherings, casual concerts featuring solo performances from
O'Neill alumni in a COVID-responsible environment. Bring your beach blankets and
chairs to a dedicated and distanced circle on the grass in the Sunken Garden.
Each $25 circle provides the space for up to six members of a household or bubble
to enjoy an afternoon concert overlooking the Long Island Sound. Take advantage of
this low-priced ticket (~$4 per person) and try something new at the O'Neill!
Michael R. Jackson (NMTC '18), with pianist
Sean P. Cameron, sang some of his favorite
original songs and gave our audiences a sneak
peek into what new projects he's working on
Mary Kate Morrissey (NMTC '17) and Ginna
Claire Mason, AKA Double Name Witches,
sang through the history of Broadway in a
magical show with accompanist Madeline Smith.
Sponsored by Beer'd Brewing Co.
June 13, 2021
Michael R. Jackson (NMTC '18)
with pianist Sean Cameron
July 11, 2021
Mary-Kate Morrissey (NMTC '17)
and Ginna Claire Mason
June 20, 2021
Rebecca Hart (NPC '10 & NMTC '11)
and The Wrong Band
Rebecca Hart (NPC '10, NMTC '11) and The
Wrong Band performed original folk music, plus
a song from her own musical IRON JOHN: An
American Ghost Story.
Pomme Koch (NPC '16) brought Springsteen to
the Sunken Garden, with his friends AJ Holmes
and Bligh Voth.
June 20, 2021
Pomme Koch (NPC '16)
feat. AJ Holmes & Bligh Voth
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WEDDINGS
AT THE EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER CENTER
Love takes center stage
Fall in love with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Situated on 11-acres,
19 th -century mansions, cottages, and barns dot the historic property which
opens up to a rolling lawn with panoramic views of the Long Island Sound.
Massive Copper Beech trees, a lighthouse-inspired cottage, and a white
gazebo add to the New England charm, making it the perfect venue to
host your wedding.
For more information, visit www.theoneill.org/rentals
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Rachel Jett, Artistic Director
From the O’Neill’s flagship educational program the National
Theater Institute, the Theatermakers Summer Intensive trains students
in a credit-earning curriculum of acting, directing, and playwriting.
2021 theatermakers ensemble
Catherine Alam-Nist
Rachel Billings
Ryan Crants
Abigail Devine
Grafton Reyes Doyle
Matthew Fisher
Dan Foster
Margaret Gleason
Madison Goldberg
Stefania Gonzalez
Sydney Green
Maddie Groff
Nadel Henville
Devyn Itula
Teralin Jones
Justin Kuhn
Andrew Martinez
Ferdinand Moscat
Alex Passanisi
Jenn Pillaga
Gage Pipkin
Audrey Senior
Yvonne Rose
Sydney Terry
Mario Vega
Gracie Wilson
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national theater institute
Imagine an entire semester devoted to studying theater. Only theater. Every person there is utterly
devoted to the same thing. A community of practitioners all working towards the same goals. That
is the National Theater Institute. Founded in 1970, a “semester-away” at NTI is a crucible unlike
any other credit-earning undergraduate training program in the nation. Offered in the spring and the
fall, NTI is for driven young artists eager to learn from master teachers ten hours a day, seven days
a week training in acting, directing, playwriting, design, voice, and movement. Additionally, two
weeks each semester are spent studying in London. NTI also offers semesters in Advanced Directing
and Advanced Playwriting.
national music theater institute
Called the place for those “who will be writing, designing, staging, and performing the Broadway
musicals of the 2020s and beyond” by Playbill, NMTI is offered every fall for students seeking a
launchpad into the music theater profession through ensemble training in all aspects of music theater.
The program offers a conservatory-like training regimen with a faculty of professional artists and a
two-week residency in New York City. NMTI is an ideal springboard for those pursuing a career in
music theater to hone their craft, find their voice, and meet with like-minded collaborators.
moscow art theatre semester
Semester-long credit-earning theater training at the Eugene O'Neill
Theater Center, recipient of two Tony Awards and
the National Medal of Arts
NTI’s Moscow Art Theatre Semester is a prestigious, credit-earning 13-week study abroad program
offered at the Moscow Art Theatre, the birthplace of modern theater and contemporary actor training.
Conservatory rigor meets cultural immersion with classes in acting, movement, voice, Russian theater
history, design, and language at the famed school. In 2016, the program celebrated 25 years of its
historic partnership.
RISK. FAIL. RISK AGAIN.
With a singular schedule and an unmatched breadth of training, NTI’s six semester-long programs
offer students a springboard to the professional world at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and
Moscow Art Theatre School. Founded in 1970, NTI’s credit-earning theater intensives, taught by
industry professionals and master teachers, train actors, singers, directors, dancers, designers,
playwrights, and composers.
National Theater Institute • National Music Theater Institute
Moscow Art Theatre Semester • Advanced Playwrights
@NTIRiskFailRisk
www.NationalTheaterInstitute.org
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ABOUT THE MUSICAL
In 1900, Kansas is a Dry state – but it looks pretty Wet from where
Temperance activist Carry Nation is sitting. Rather than enforce the state’s
Prohibition Amendment, government officials are flouting the laws and
skimming off the top. Gawd appears one night to show Carry what she
needs to do – pick up some friggin bricks and break those big bad bottles
herself. She gains notoriety, supporters, and a Very Important Hatchet,
all of which aid in her fight to bring Temperance to the masses – whether
they like it or not.
AMY JO JACKSON (they/she) is a
performer, writer, voice/text director,
and Glitter Alien based in New York
City. Their first musical, Hatchetation,
slated for participation in the Eugene
O’Neill Theater Center’s 2021
National Music Theater Conference,
has been developed through She-
Collective and Fresh Ground Pepper’s
PAL program. The recipient of the 2019
Denovan Residency in Cabaret for their
solo piece The Brass Menagerie, AJJ has created concerts and cabarets
at venues in NYC and across the country, most notably Feinstein’s/54
Below (multiple solo engagements; producer/host of The Broadway
Villains Party and 54 Sings Annie Lennox) and on the high seas with
Atlantis Events.
Most recently, they played the Devil in Company XIV’s glittering production
of Seven Sins. NYC: Ensemble Studio Theatre; Exit, Pursued by a Bear;
Prospect Theatre Company. Selected Regional: Fun Home (SpeakEasy
Stage; IRNE nom), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (SpeakEasy Stage;
Eliot Norton and IRNE noms), The Little Mermaid (Arkansas Rep),
Cymbeline (Opera House Arts), Boeing Boeing (Seven Angels), The
Wizard of Oz (Syracuse Stage), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wellfleet
Harbor Actors Theatre). As Dialect Coach: Broadway, First National Tour,
and Toronto productions of Kinky Boots, as well as many Off-Broadway,
regional, workshop, and film/tv credits. Throughout the pandemic, they
have appeared regularly in Eschaton, a digitally immersive nightclub,
and have performed in readings and events with RedBull, Lost Immersive,
The Sappho Project, Playthings Theatre, Now Spinning, and No Exit
Theatre Collective. They co-host a weekly podcast called And Almost
Starring, which is available wherever you source your pods. BFA, Boston
Conservatory.
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ABOUT THE MUSICAL
In the land of Elflán, life and beauty flourish. We meet Adelita, an
adventurous and curious young elf eager to find what lies beyond the
horizon. When the evil spirit of La Mancha kidnaps her mother and
destroys her home, Adelita is forced to travel north to the land of the
Hadaseñas in hopes of being reunited with her again. Using fairy tales
and mythological themes, Little Duende comments on real-world matters
as it explores the border crisis, dual citizenship, and the consequences
of a dark family secret.
GEORGINA ESCOBAR is a queer Mexican
playwright and maker of sci-femme narratives,
ultra-humanistic mythos, frontera-funk stories,
and Latinx futurity plays. She works textually
and visually with plasticity, mobility, wabisabi,
and the Latin American perspective in
drama. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Djerassi
Artist, Fornés Writing Workshop fellow, and the
recipient of the Kennedy Center Darrell Ayers Playwriting Award (2011).
She received the Outstanding Service to Women on the Border award in
2004 for her work as co-producer of the VDAY: Spotlight on the Women
of Juárez Campaign starring V (formerly Eve Ensler), Jane Fonda, and
Sally Field.
Her work has been featured in the Kilroy’s List, The Texas Review, Los
Bárbaros, McSweeney’s Anthology, and New Passport Press. Her plays
appear in books including “Scenes for Latinx Actors,” “Lighting The
Way”, and “El Fuego: Fueling the American Theatre with Latinx Plays.”
She has written articles as a lead contributor for American Theatre
Magazine, Industry Magazine, HowlRound, Culturebot, Extended Play,
TCG Circle, No Passport Blog, and Café Onda, among others. Her plays
have been produced across the USA and internationally in México, the
UK, Denmark, and Sweden. Artistic homes and presenters include INTAR
(Off Broadway), New York Children’s Theatre, Dixon Place, Clubbed
Thumb (EWG), Lincoln Center (Director’s Lab), and Bushwick Starr in
New York, Two Rivers (NJ), Milagro (PDX), Aurora Theatre (GA), and the
University of Texas at El Paso. Her plays include Then they forgot about
The Rest, Stone Heart (Kilroy’s), Ash Tree (Darrel Ayers Award), Sweep,
and Species:Human.
ROBI HAGER is a Mexican-American
musical theatre writer and performer. Shortly
after moving to the US from Mexico City at
the age of fourteen, his passion for the arts
grew rapidly and developed into a career
choice. He appeared on Broadway in the
2006 Tony Award-winning musical Spring
Awakening, as well as How To Succeed in
Business Without Really Trying, Bye Bye
Birdie, and Doctor Zhivago. He toured the
country with the 2015 Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home and
Spring Awakening. Regionally he appeared at Arden Theatre Company
in Ragtime, Next To Normal, Parade, and Fun Home. He played the role
of Clyde Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde at Theatre Under the Stars.
As a composer, he wrote songs "Quiero Soñar" and “Maduros” along
with friend Alex McCabe which appeared in films Top Five and Can You
Ever Forgive Me. His solo concert Robi Hager: So Far was part of the
Arden’s 2021 virtual season which featured his musical compositions, so
far. Robi is the creator of the LGBTQ musical Basic Witches, for which he
received a 2018 Barrymore Award nomination for best original score.
He is the composer for a new musical called Silueta, inspired by the art
of Ana Mendieta, being developed with Power Street Theatre Company
in Philadelphia. His most personal project yet is Little Duende, a Mexican
musical about courage, love, and family, as it explores the border crisis
and the hardships children go through in search of a better life. For more
information, visit robihager.com
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2020 & 2021 nmtc finalists
2021 nmtc readers
In light of the impact of COVID-19 upon our 2020 season and the national playwriting
community at large, the O'Neill provided all 2020 finalists the option to remain in
consideration for the 2021 National Music Theater Conference. This incredible list
represents finalists from both the 2020 and 2021 submission cycles.
This exceptional assemblage of writers and their work represent the forefront of artistry,
curiosity, and perspective. These voices are essential to our shared understanding of
the human experience as they imagine thrilling theatrical and social futures across their
work. We highly encourage you to investigate and connect with these artists and firmly
believe they deserve the attention of a national new work audience.
TL;DR: Thelma Louise;Dyke
Remix
Book and Lyrics by EllaRose Chary
Music and Lyrics by Brandon James
Gwinn
AT THIS PERFORMANCE
Book and Lyrics by Kellen Blair
Book and Music by Joe Kinosian
MĀYĀ
Book and Music by Cheeyang Ng
Book and Lyrics by Eric Sorrels
AZUL
Book by Melis Aker and Tatiana
Pandiani
Music by Jacinta Clusellas
Lyrics by Jacinta Clusellas and Rubén
Darío
Telo
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Julián
Mesri
Half the Sky
Book and Lyrics by Isabella Dawis
Music by Tidtaya Sinutoke
Big Country
Book by Emily Mann
Music by Lucy Simon
Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead
Call Me From the Grave
Book by Harold Hodge Jr.
Music and Lyrics by Charlie Romano
funding for the national music theater conference
is provided by:
The Shubert Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Rodgers & Hammerstein
Foundation, Actors’ Equity Foundation, Marty & Perry Granoff, and The Jerome Robbins
Foundation.
FIRST ROUND
Tatiana Weschler
Rodd Farhadi Cyrus
Aimée Steele
Amanda Baschnagel
Lindsay Levine
Tiffany Wang
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Ray Lee
Michael McElroy
Ricky Ubeda
Em Grosland
Helena Pennington
Jonathan Kirkland
Erica Piccininni
nmtc staff
Meg Zervoulis
Emma Goidel
Nathan Lee Graham
Gisell Byrd
Taylor Nicole Lewis
Megan McGinnis
Caeser Samayoa
SECOND ROUND
Caridad Svich
Pearl Sun
Anika Chapman
Brittany Bradford
Carrie Chapter
Alexander Gemignani, Artistic Director
Imani Champion, Production Stage Manager
Joanne Pan, Assistant Stage Manager
Little Duende:
Melissa Crespo, Director
Jessie Rosso, Music Director
Jesse Sanchez, Arranger
Lexy Leuszler, Dramaturg
Erin Reifler, Music Assistant
Hatchetation:
Arpita Mukherjee, Director
Madeline Smith, Music Director
Pearl Rhein, Music Director
Lexy Leuszler, Dramaturg
Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh, Music Assistantm
Christie Evangelisto
Asmeret Ghabrimichael
Manu Nayran
Lily Ling
Charity Wicks
Brian Quijada
Martine Kei Green
Hansol Jung
Stephanie Machado
Kelsey Baehrens
Lexy Leuszler
Scott Murphy
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NMTC: The Evolution of a Song • June 26, 2021
National Music Theater Conference's Artistic Director Alexander
Gemignani, writer Amy Jo Jackson (NMTC '21), and arranger Pearl Rhein
discuss the evolution of a song from an impulse to draft to performance.
Amy Jo Jackson, with arranger Pearl Rhein gave audiences a sneak peek into their writing process
for Hatchetation, performing songs - some even cut! - from their original musical.
July 24, 2021 •Family Night
PUP: Bonnie Duncan Presents "Squirrel Stole My Underpants"
July 24, 2021
National Puppetry Conference alumnus Bonnie Duncan brings Squirrel
Stole My Underpants, a 35-minute adventure tale for families, to the
amphitheater. Join us for a show and talkback, hosted by PUP Artistic
Director Pam Arciero. Using rod puppets, hand puppets, and object
manipulation, she brings to life an unordinary world. Blending puppetry,
dance, and physical theater, the performance explores that delicate time
in childhood when you desperately want to be a grown-up but still need
your blanket to make you feel safe.
PUP alumna Bonnie Duncan presented Squirrel Stole My Underpants for kids and families, plus
teaching them how they too can become puppet artists!
NCI: Back on Broadway
August 7, 2021
National Critics Institute Director and Chicago Tribune critic and columnist
Chris Jones, joined by leading critics and Broadway personalities, will
take us behind-the-scenes to look at the impact the past 18 months have
had on Broadway as well as chart the course for recovery for the theater
industry at large.
NCI Director Chris Jones, joined by Tiffani Gavin, Tom Viertel, NCI Associate Director Naveen
Kumar, Steve Hendel, & David Stone had an intriguing conversation on COVID-19's impact on
Broadway and where they see the industry changing for the better.
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national playwrights conference staff
Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director
Adam Kassim, Assistant to the Artistic Director
Imani Champion, Production Stage Manager
Joanne Pan, NPC Assistant Stage Manager
Reza Behjat, Lighting Designer
Lawrence E. Moten III, Scenic Designer
Ilona Somogyi, Costume Designer
2021 npc artistic council
Suzanne Agins
John Baker
Chris Bannow
Nan Barnett
Melia Bensussen
Carrie Chapter
Inda Craig-Galván
Josh Epstein
Georgina Escobar
Charly Evon Simpson
Tiffani Gavin
Jonathan Green
Amy Handlesman
Jo Holcomb
Ramona King
Peggy Koenig
Kristin Leahey
Lexy Leuszler
Linda Lombardi
Larissa Lury
Kelly Miller
Tanya Palmer
Greg Shepard
Chandler Smith
Martha Wade Steketee
Gregg Wiggans
Jenna Worsham
DIRECTED BY: REGINALD DOUGLAS
DRAMATURG: JOHN BAKER
ABOUT THE PLAY
Ben and Jasmine are the only two Black teachers at Penn Valley, a liberal, private
Quaker school. Jasmine is passionate and boundary pushing, while Ben has worked his
way up the ranks at the school to be Diversity Dean thanks to his “agreeable” nature.
A racially-charged discipline decision ignites a divide at the school and in Jasmine and
Ben’s collegial relationship.
NICK MALAKHOW (he/him/his) is a
Dominican and Ukrainian playwright and
teacher based in Boston. His full-length work
includes Seeing Eye (developed with Victory
Gardens, Fresh Ink Theatre, 2019 O'Neill
Finalist, the 2018 LTC/HowlRound Carnaval,
and the 2020 In-Progress Reading Series at
the Unicorn Theatre), A Picture of Two Boys
(developed with Abingdon Theatre Company,
Mirrorbox Theatre Company, Skylight Theatre
Company, the Quarantine Series), and Grit
(developed with Playhouse on Park, Fuse
Theater, Theatre@First). His other work has
been developed or produced by the Ithaca College Theatre Department, Theatre Rhino,
Open Theatre Project, the Q Collective, the Boston Theater Marathon, and others.
funding for the national playwrights conference
is provided by:
The National Endowment for the Arts, The Shubert Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith
Foundation, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Actors’ Equity Foundation, Tom & Michelle
Marra, and The Caplin Foundation.
Nick was a Company One Playlab Unit member for C1's 2019 season. He has also
taught theater, English, and creative writing at the secondary level for over ten years in
the greater Philly and Boston areas. He grew up in the diverse town of Teaneck, NJ. BA:
Swarthmore College, MA: Emerson College
CAST:
Charlotte Booker
Jonathan Burke
Jasmine Carmichael
Jack Rento
Alice Zelenko
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DIRECTED BY: JENNIFER CHANG
DRAMATURG: LEXY LEUSZLER
ABOUT THE PLAY
It’s 1999, and Ami is an awkward, Japanese American highschooler whose world comes
crashing down with a terrible discovery: her family is responsible for manufacturing
MSG, the poison spice getting all the kids hooked! Meanwhile, a cool new girl, Exotic
Deadly, arrives from Japan, and she’s not playing by the rules. In this time-traveling
adventure, Ami vows to save the world from MSG and realizes what she’s capable of,
if she could just get off the ocean floor...
KEIKO GREEN is a Nintendo-loving, half-
Japanese playwright and performer, looking
forward to starting her third and final year
at UCSD’s MFA Playwriting program under
Naomi Iizuka. She was born in Atlanta,
Georgia to a bilingual household and writes
often about the collision of cultures. Keiko
lived in Seattle for six years, where she is still
a Core Company Member at ACT Theatre
and a former member of the Seattle Repertory
Theatre's Writers' Group. Her plays have
been developed and/or produced by ACT
Theatre, the Kennedy Center, National New
Play Network, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, Playwrights Realm, and
Actors Express. Her play Nadeshiko won Seattle’s Gregory Award for Outstanding
New Play and was an Honorable Mention on the Kilroy’s List. She has been a finalist
for the Neukom Playwriting Award, the Blue Ink Prize, Seven Devils Playwrights Festival,
and both the Many Voices and Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights Center. She was
recently selected for the UCSD Friends of the International Center Fellowship and is
hoping to conduct research on a ghost story in rural Japan this winter. As an actor,
Keiko has performed at the Denver Center of Performing Arts, Seattle Repertory Theatre,
ACT Theatre, among others. Keiko's original work ranges from comedy to horror and
everything in between, spinning narratives to centralize characters that are usually plot
devices. BFA: NYU Tisch.
CAST:
Jake Choi
Kahyun Kim
Kalina Ko
Raymond Lee
Poppy Liu
Sabrina Liu
Daisuke Tsuji
Amy Waschke
DIRECTED BY: BERNARDO CUBRÍA
DRAMATURG: JOHN BAKER
ABOUT THE PLAY
When Kat Chan's ex-husband posts revenge porn of her online and tags everyone she
knows, she has to wrestle with a choice: be humane to someone she used to love or
take him out in a very public way? A play about public shaming, ownership of women’s
bodies and images, and the earthquakes that come from dissolving a marriage.
A native (and current) Angeleno, CARLA
CHING called NYC home for 16 years.
She started off writing/performing
autobiographical work with the pan-Asian
collective Peeling. Her plays include Nomad
Motel (NY Premiere: Atlantic Theater
Company; NNPN Rolling World Premiere:
City Theatre Company, Horizon Theatre
Company, Unicorn Theatre Company),
Fast Company (South Coast Rep, Ensemble
Studio Theatre), The Two Kids That Blow
Shit Up (Artists at Play, Mu Performing Arts)
and TBA (2g). Her work’s been developed
or produced by Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Rep, CTG Writers’ Workshop, Huntington
Theatre Company, The Lark Playwrights Workshop, Lyric Stage, Ma-Yi, the Eugene
O’Neill Theater Center, and The Women’s Project among others. Former Artistic Director
of 2g. She’s writing a play called Revenge Porn, or The Story of a Body as a Toulmin
Commission for The Atlantic. Founding member of The Kilroys and proud member of
New Dramatists. Co-recipient of the Horton Foote Playwriting Award from the Dramatist
Guild. TV credits: Graceland, Fear the Walking Dead, I Love Dick, The First, Preacher,
Home Before Dark, and the forthcoming Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-created by Francesca
Sloane, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Donald Glover.
CAST:
Amy Hill
Tina Huang
Kahyun Kim
Christopher Larkin
Sierra Lancaster
Andrew Pang
Roland Ruiz
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DIRECTED BY: LAMAR PERRY
DRAMATURG: MADISON MAE WILLIAMS
ABOUT THE PLAY
How can I get over slavery if I can't even get over my ex? Watch Me takes place in
the subconscious void of an interracial couple in a reckoning with ancestry, love, and
Black Jesus.
DAVE HARRIS is a writer from West Philly.
He is the Tow Playwright-in-Residence at
Roundabout Theatre Company. His play
TAMBO & BONES will be produced at
Playwrights Horizons and Center Theatre
Group, and his play EXCEPTION TO THE
RULE will be produced at Roundabout
whenever theatre allows. His work has been
seen at Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana
Festival of New American Plays, Roundabout
Underground, Manhattan Theatre Club,
Center Theatre Group, The Goodman, The
Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, SPACE on Ryder Farm, The Ground
Floor at Berkeley Rep, and Ojai Playwrights Conference amongst others.
Honors include: the 2019 Ollie Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Award and the Mark
Twain Award from The Kennedy Center, the International Commendation for The
Bruntwood Prize, the 2018 Venturous Fellowship from The Lark, and a Cave Canem
poetry fellowship, amongst others. His adapted film Summertime had its premiere at
Sundance in 2020 and will be released in 2021. His first full-length collection of poetry,
Patricide, was published in May 2019 by Button Poetry. Dave received his B.A. from
Yale University and his MFA from UC San Diego.
CAST:
Anthony Adu
Israel Erron Ford
Sheria Irving
Jason Michael Snow
Emily Stout
Natalie Walker
Chamari White-Mink
Renika Williams
Rebecca Adelsheim
Aanika Allen
Shanna Allison
Nadiya Atkinson
Natalie Ault
Nan Barnett
Isaak Berliner
Clara Blickenstaff
Sasha Bratt
Rebecca Brill Weitz
Torrence Browne
Ryan Bruce
Molly Burdick
Janyce Caraballo
Ludmila Cardoso de Brito
Serena Cates
Sophia Chapadjiev
Jacinta Clusellas
Miranda Coble
Amanda Connors
Emma Cordray
Bedatri D. Choudhury
Raquel Davis
Jenna Doherty
Cayenne Douglass
Laurie Dowling
Esma Eddeb
Shelby Fairchild
Annie Fang
Jacob Farber
Haley Fluke
Aislinn Frantz
Jeri Frederickson
Robbi Fryer
Jessica Gardener
Henry Giardina
Jenn Goddu
Lily Gonzales
Shayla Gordon
Terry Guerin
Lulu Guzman
Mattie Hawkinson
Michael Herwitz
Jessi Hill
Bryan Howard
Matt Hubbs
Betsy Huggins
Christina Hurtado-Pierson
Julia Hutton
Daniel Jakes
Rachel Jett
Abraham Johnson
Lydia Johnson
Corey Jones
Natalie Kane
Adam Kassim
Alex Keegan
Nicky Khor
Emma Kimball
Dariya Kimmes
Kalina Ko
Peggy Koenig
Daniel Krane
Laura Kressly
Portia Krieger
Samantha Lancaster
Amelia Lembeck
Sam Lilja
Linda Lombardi
Emily Lovett
Leah Lowe
Alexis Elisa Macedo
Evan Marks
Emily McClanathan
Aileen McGroddy
Jessie Mhire
Jake Miller
Liza Miller
Rob Mooney
Charlotte Newman
Claudia Nolan
Carrigan O'Brian
Gail Obenreder
D. Ohlandt
Isabel Olson
Ben Otten
Tatiana Pandiani
Susanne Parker
Jane Peña
Helena Pennington
Annika Perez-Krikorian
Daniel Perks
Gabrielle Piazza
Andy Pierce
Jessica Pressman
Ellen Quinn
Dhyana Rabe
Elaine Rava
Billy Recce
EJ Reifler
John Reinschmidt
Anders Rhodin
Hallie Riddick
Amanda Ritchie
Courtney Roque
Zoe Rosenfeld
Alix Rosenfeld
Susan Russell
Max Sarkowsky
Rachel Schmeling
Keri Schultz Kent
Nate Shelton
Joseph Sims
Chandler Smith
M. Graham Smith
Sabrina Sonner
Allison Spann
Florian Staab
Marianna Staroselsky
Steven Strauss
Sam Theobald
Libby Tofig
Caroline-Michele Uy
Leya Van Doren
Eddie Vitcavage
Lily Webb
Bryn Weiler
Eliza Wilkins
Olivia Wilson
Hannah Wolf
Samuel Yates
Remy Zaken
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2021 npc finalists
In light of the impact of COVID-19 upon our 2020 season and the national
playwriting community at large, the O'Neill provided all 2020 finalists the option
to remain in consideration for the 2021 National Playwrights Conference. This
incredible list represents finalists from both the 2020 and 2021 submission cycles.
This exceptional assemblage of writers and their work represent the forefront
of artistry, curiosity, and perspective. These voices are essential to our shared
understanding of the human experience as they imagine thrilling theatrical and
social futures across their work. We highly encourage you to investigate and
connect with these artists and firmly believe they deserve the attention of a national
new work audience.
2020
Bill Barclay, The Chevalier
Aleta Barthell, WINDOW OF SHAME
Jane Bernhard, Unit 13
Dan Caffrey, The Amphibians
Matthew Capodicasa, Next/Life
Ed Cardona Jr, Lychee Martini
John J Caswell Jr, Wet Brain
Vichet Chum, Go
Mia Chung, THIS EXQUISITE CORPSE
Clarence Coo, Chapters of a Floating Life
Meredith Cope-Levy, The Hills
J Joseph Cox, The Nothing That Is
Something
Kristoffer Diaz, Football Football Football
Football (Or I Love Lave Dash)
Mathilde Dratwa, A Play about David
Mamet Writing a Play about Harvey
Weinstein
Jessica Fechtor, BOOK OF HOURS
Morgan Gould, Jennifer Who Is Leaving
Enid Graham, Pathological Venus
Jason Grote, Desire Path
Dave Harris, WATCH ME
David Hilder, Those Days Are Over
Beth Hyland, Killed a Man (Joking)
Exal Iraheta, They Could Give No Name
Daniel K. Isaac, FULLERTON
Julia Izumi, (An Audio Guide for) Unsung
Snails and Heroes
MJ Kaufman, we know who we are by
our fireside dances
Claire Kiechel, SOPHIA
Hanna Kime, The Targeted
John King, 7 MINUTES
Zoe Lasden-Lyman, Bunyip
John Lavelle, Inhalation
Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Cannabis Passover
Donja Love, The Trade
Nikhil Mahapatra, American Hunger
Hannah Manikowski, The Sunrise from
the Moon
Shannon McInally and Jessika
McQueen, 36 Juniper
Tegan McLeod, Lover Think Lover
Tara Moses, Quantum
Jessica Moss, Funnie: The Most
Lamentable Comedie of Jane the Foole
Steve Moulds, Sergio's Museum
Tom Nieboer, Minnesota
NSangou Njikam, When We Left pt. 1
Ryan Oliveira, Take Care
Susan Pak, Miguk Saram
Ayvaunn Penn, For Bo
Eliana Pipes, Cowboy and the Moon
Larry Powell, THE GAZE (NO HOMO:
PART ONE)
Shanti Reinhardt, Kill 'Em With Aloha; Or,
Da Big Mouth Pidgin English Play
Kira Rockwell, Oh, to Be Pure Again
Jan Rosenberg, GUSHER!
Andrew Rosendorf, One-Shot
Jaymes Sanchez, The Cucuy Will Find
You
Eric Schmiedl, My Hemisphere
Cary Simowitz, All The Oxytocin in
Your Fingertips
Vera Starbard, Native Pride (and
Prejudice)
Andrea Stolowitz, Recent Unsettling
Events
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, Flying
Bird's Diary
Patrick Vermillion, The Good Boy
Game
Eljon Wardally, Black Americanah for
Sale
Pravin Wilkins, Moreno
2021
Samer Al-Saber, My Arab
Amanda L. Andrei, Lena Passes By
Jacqueline Bircher, Webster's Bitch
Kate Brennan, let me see you be free
Erin Considine, Raising the Dead
Lisa Sanaye Dring, SUMO
Alisha Espinosa, The Language of the
Unheard
Leigh Flayton, Classic Six
Emma Gibson, If nobody does
remarkable things
Keelay Gipson, The Red and the Black
Emma Goidel, Women and Children
Franky Gonzalez, Even Flowers Bloom
in Hell, Sometimes
Sam Grabiner, Next Year in Jerusalem!
Katherine Gwynn, Skin Song
Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Bayano
JuCoby Johnson, 5
Amanda Keating, WITH FELLOWSHIP
Hanna Kime, The Best Damn Thing
Ken Levine, Smoke Gets in Your House
Naomi Lorrain, how to roll a blunt
Rachel Lynett, Black Mexican
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, I DON'T
HAVE A GUN, STOP SHOOTING! An
American Tragedy
Lisa Mammel, (W)Hole
Daria Miyeko Marinelli, Beautiful
Blessed Child
Eric Marlin, Denial
Rehana Mirza, Words We Believe
Alex Moon, G-Town
Carol Mullen, For the People
Jay Muskett, Painted Red
Jeffrey Neuman, The Headliners
Kathy Ng, Happy Life
Ciara Ni Chuirc, JUGGERNAUT
Tom Nieboer, The Pale Stranger
Diana Oh, My H8 Letter to the Gr8
American Theatre
Matthew Paul Olmos, that drive thru
monterey
Susan Pak, The F*ck House
Zack Peercy, Essential Starlite
Kate Pressman, Pair
Jordan Ramirez Puckett, A Driving Beat
Nia Akilah Robinson, "WP" Means
"White People"
Nandita Shenoy, Baby Camp
Phillip Christian Smith, A Handbag is
Not a Proper Mutha
Danielle Stagger, CONTENT
Caridad Svich, Clara Thomas Bailey
Sarah Tuft, ABIGAIL
Collin Van Son, Two-Man Rule
Hope Villanueva, The QoL Mandate
Bruce Walsh, Essential Reading for This
Moment in History
Holly Webber, The Pond in Winter
Mallory Jane Weiss, The Page Turners
Haygen-Brice Walker, manpussy. a shit
show
Douglas Williams, White Ally
Deborah Yarchun, Atlas, the Lonely
Gibbon
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Chris Jones, Artistic Director
Naveen Kumar, Associate Director
2021 nci fellows
Ann Marie Baldonado
Manuel Betancourt
Rosa Cartagena
Rosalind Cummings-Yeates
Hannah Edgar
Matthew Eggers
Isabelia Herrera
Ren Jender
Quinci LeGardye
Dara McBride
Amelia Merrill
Ade J. Omotosho
Ayanna E. Prescod
Jessi Roti
Brittani Samuel
Emma Sarappo
2020 National Critics Institute Reunion in August 2021
Lead Funding for the National Critics Institute is provided by the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
scholarships provided by:
John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Clara Hieronymus
Fund, American Theater Critics Association Foundation, Theater Communications
Group, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
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OPENINGNIGHT
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 • 7PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 • 7PM
Welcome back for our first night of the Conference with our Grammy & Emmy
Award-winning Artistic Director John McDaniel, our Junior Fellows director
Brad Simmons, & returning Master Artist Teacher Lennie Watts. Lots of songs
and laughs are in store, along with a great deal of gratitude to be back singing
together at the O’Neill!
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 • 7PM
Telly Leung, with music director Rick Hip-Flores, told the story of his family's escape
from China and his journey to Broadway, in a set list that mixed the classic rock of
his childhood with Disney standards.
Beth Leavel made her return to the stage in a new show of her Tony-winning performances
with music director Phil Reno.
cabaret & performance conference staff
John McDaniel, Artistic Director
Brad Simmons, Artistic Associate/Junior Fellows Program Director
Michael Holland, Junior Fellows Music Director & Arrangements
Lennie Watts & Natalie Douglas, Master Teacher/Artist
Mark Hartman & Tracy Stark, Music Directors
Madison DeCoske, Cabaret Production Stage Manager
Veronica Sprague & Andie Burns, Calling Stage Manager
Alan C. Edwards, Lighting Designer
Joshua D. Reid, Sound Designer
Lawrence E. Moten III, Scenic Consultant
Austin Hayes, Spot Operator
Akari Izumni & Andrew Yoder, Assistant Audio
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11 • 8PM
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10 • 7PM & 9PM
The 2021 Junior Fellows, directed by Brad Simmons, had a rockin'
evening of Billy Joel songs, expertly mashed-up and arranged by music
director Michael Holland. 2021 Junior Fellows include: Evan Anderson,
Christopher-David Caraballo, Chloé Kolbenheyer, Hugo Lehrach,
Makayla O'Connor, Erich Phelps, Spencer Stanley, Arielle
Sussman, and Maggie Welch.
The 2021 Cabaret Fellows, with music directors Tracy Stark and Mark
Hartman, shared their own heartfelt stories, in a night curated by Master
Artist Teachers Lennie Watts and Natalie Douglas. 2021 Fellows include:
Vita Drew, Matt Gittins, Mark Propst, Randy Taylor, Melissa
Rostkoski, and Peggy Schwartz.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 • 7PM
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 • 7PM
Our Conference staff and artists came together once more, with special guest
L Morgan Lee, to close out the Cabaret & Performance Conference and our
2021 Summer Season.
Natalie Douglas, with music director Mark
Hartman, took us through the life and career of
Sammy Davis, Jr. with his landmark songs.
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and the Peabody Award. Most recently, they wrote the book for Betty
Blue Eyes, which was produced in London’s West End by Sir Cameron
Mackintosh and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Musical.
"Being at the O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference
was a transformative experience for us, as it is for
everyone who has ever attended one of their programs. It was where
we began a professional and personal relationship that has lasted a
lifetime. To say that the O’Neill is significantly responsible for one’s life
may sound overly “dramatic” -- but in our case, it's true. So it seems
fitting to want to give back. To say thank you. And to encourage
others whose lives have been touched by the O’Neill to do the same.
We would like our legacy not just to be our work, but also to ensure
that the O'Neill will continue to provide the opportunities and
experience for new artists for a long time to come.”
Photo Credit: John Russo
The O’Neill is pleased to share that the 1964 Society has been renamed
for two longtime members of the O’Neill family, writers and trustees Ron
Cowen and Daniel Lipman, in recognition of their recent commitment with
a significant bequest.
Ron (NPC '67 - '69, '72) and Dan (NPC '72) first came to the O’Neill
as playwrights during the formative years of the National Playwrights
Conference. Cowen’s first play, Summertree, premiered at the O’Neill
in 1967 and was produced the following year at Lincoln Center where
it won the Drama Desk Award. After meeting at the O'Neill in 1972 they
began a lifelong personal and professional relationship that would result
in the creation of numerous plays, the groundbreaking TV series Queer
as Folk (U.S.) and Sisters, and their most important work: An Early Frost,
which aired on NBC in 1985. It was the first major film to ever address
the AIDS epidemic, and won for them the Emmy Award for their teleplay
The Cowen & Lipman Society recognizes those individuals who have
included a bequest or other type of planned gift for the O’Neill in their
estate plans; members are acknowledged in donor listings and invited
to an annual event at the O'Neill. If you have already named the
O'Neill in your estate plans, we hope you will let us know by contacting
Rob Mooney, Director of Development, at 860.443.5378 x 212 or via
email at rmooney@theoneill.org.
We would be honored to have you join Ron, Dan, and the following
individuals in the Cowen & Lipman Society, and to thank you for the
future gift that will ensure the endurance of a world-renowned haven
for new work and new artists for decades to come.
Anne Sullivan Calanquin
Jed Coffin
Ron Cowen & Dan Lipman
Susan Kelly
Lee & David Snyderman
George & Betsy White
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The following list includes contributions above $50 made between June 1, 2020 - June 24, 2021.
Thank you to the many donors who suported the O’Neill with a gift of $50 or below.
Please let us know of any errors so we may correct our records by emailing development@theoneill.org.
FOUNDATIONS,
CORPORATIONS,
INSTITUTIONS &
GOVERNMENTS
ANGELS
Connecticut Department of
Economic and Community
Development - Office of the Arts
The Ford Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight
Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Miranda Family Fund
CHAMPIONS
Dominion Energy Charitable
Foundation
The Jane Henson Foundation
The Jerome Robbins Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
The Town of Waterford
BENEFACTORS
Burry Fredrik Foundation
Community Foundation of
Eastern Connecticut
Geraldine Stutz Trust
The Horace W. Goldsmith
Foundation
Nan H. Altmayer Charitable Trust
Silver Mountain Foundation for
the Arts
SPONSORS
The Chelsea Groton Foundation
The Frederick Loewe Foundation
Fredric R. Coudert Foundation
The Jim Henson Foundation
PATRONS
Actors' Equity Foundation
Eversource Energy Charitable
Giving
Foundation of the American Theatre
Critics Association
Joseph C. & Esther Foster
Foundation
The Mohegan Tribe/Mohegan Sun
Sustainable Arts Foundation
SUPPORTERS
The New London Education
Foundation/Karl Kelly Fund
The Rodgers & Hammerstein
Foundation
INDIVIDUAL
DONORS
ANGELS
Jason Crosby
Marty & Perry Granoff
Alva Greenberg
Stephen & Ruth Hendel
Ron Cowen & Dan Lipman
John Logan
Wendy MacDonald
Luis Miranda & Luz Towns-Miranda
Nedenia Rumbough
Sally Speer
BENEFACTORS
Bernie & Beth Schilberg
Carolyn Greenspan & Marshall
Ruben
Cheryl Henson & Ed Finn
Ellen Quinn & Robert Rohrbaugh
George & Betsy White
Lily Fan & Anthony Arnold
Linda Mariani & David Neusner
Lynn Fusco
Myrna & Stephen Greenberg
Peggy Koenig
Tom Viertel & Pat Daily
SPONSORS
Cate Caplin
Herb Kohler & Natalie Black
Jerome & Rosylyn Meyer
John & Katy Shaw
Megan Savage
Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-
Lopez
Thomas Kail
Tom & Michelle Marra
Genia Kaplan-Quinn & Dr. Bruce
Quinn
PATRONS
Anonymous
Anne Calanquin
Annella Preble
Barb Keller
Chris Jones & Gillian Darlow
Chris Pennington & Jeff Kazin
Christina Goode
Debby Beal
Doug Hughes
Elise Thoron
Elizabeth Hara
Hansol Jung
Heather Henson
Holly Zaitchik
Jeffrey & Nancy Hoffman
Jeffrey Seller
Joe & Rebecca Newman
John Coffin IV
John Oliva & Nancy Jean Krant
Karen Prell
Kathryn Dupree & Joseph Marafito
Keith & Emily Turner
Kim Curtin
Linda Rubin
Lori Tan Chinn
Mark & Nan Lvoff
Peter & Anne Thomas
Roger & Barbara Whiteway
Roger Christiansen
Scott & Betsy Richards
Steve & Debra Daren
SUPPORTERS
Allan Dodds Frank & Lilian King
Assaad & Leslie Nasr
Austin Costello
Brenna Ross
Carol Trobe
David & Caroline Croen
David Auburn
David Preka
Deb Hertzberg
Drew McCoy & Amy Aquino
Elise Weingarten
Eric Janney
Francis Pavetti
Frank Ribas & David Lewis
Herbert & Rosemary Grove
Jane Rosenthal
Jeff Stockwell
Jeremiah Bartram
John & Marcia McGowan
Kate & Arnold Schmeidler
Katherine Reilly
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supporters, donors, & members
Kristofer Updike
Louis & Mary Tagliatela
Miranda Barry
Nathan Lane & Devlin Elliott
Pam Arciero
Peter Dixon
Preston Whiteway
Richard & Toni Sonet
Ryan Dillon
Tony Fross
Will Dunne
Zachary Prince
FRIENDS
Alejandro Fundora
Barbara Whitman
Beatrice Chase
Beverly Ihnen
Christine Barker
Daniel Neiden
David Keefe
Drake Lucas
Edward Thomas
Elizabeth Florence
Everett Stanton
Genna Beth Davidson
Heather Toyen
Helen Kauder
Jim Kroupa
John & Angela Hess
John Cody
John Good
John S. Johnson
Jonathan & Doreen Joslow
Kathy Baker & Steven Robman
Kelly Wright
Lynn Kennedy & Michael Burke
Mark Rubnitz
Marty Robinson & Annie Evans
Mary Beth Pemberton
Patrick Weigand
Paul & Nel Lazour
Richard Powers
Robert Fleri
Ron Newman
Sherburne Stidfole
Susan Kenyon
Theodore & Joanna Chapin
Theresa Broach
Trent Rhoton
CONTRIBUTORS
A.E.O. Goldman
Adam LeFevre
Alesia Sullivan Zaionz
Alex Leydenfrost
Alexander Mantia
Alissa Hunnicutt
Alma Cuervo
Alyssa Bongiorno
Amy West
Anatar Marmol-Gagne
Andrea & Howard Stillman
Andrew Massey
Ann & Sultan Ahamed
Anthony Ward
Arielle Boucher
Arthur Poore
Audrey Daigneault
Aurin Squire
Barbara Bellman
Barry Levinson & Pam Akins
Beau Brown
Beth Henley
Biddle & Jo Ann Morris
Bob Russell
Bobbi Nidzgorski
Bonnie & Mark Kramm
Bradley Kemp
Brendan Schweda
Brett Elliott
Brian & Kimberly Estep
Brian Newman
Caitlin Johnston
Cameron Garrity
Carla Ching
Carol Geu
Carol Sirugo
Carol Sterling
Catherine Baumer
Catherine Jhung
Cathy & Jim Elliott
Chad & Brenda Floyd
Charles Banks
Charlie Ewers
Cheryl Delehanty
Chet & Suzanne Kitchings
Christian & Maureen Robertson
Christopher Cardoni & Amy
Hannum
Christopher Cooley
Christopher Rawson
Claude & Louise LaPointe
Claude LaPointe
Colette Searls
Courtney Roque
Courtney Weber Hoover
Craig & Carol Melin
Dan Getzoff
Dana Oviatt
Dana Pollak
Dann Fink
David & Emily Shufrin
David Hilder
David Lane
David Smith
Deborah Zoe Laufer
Donna Nadler
Dustin Curtis
Eileen Smith
Eleanor Comegys
Elissa Lash
Elizabeth Dapo
Elizabeth Loredo
Elizabeth O'Brien
Elizabeth Pite
Ellen Reilly
Elliot & Victoria Brown
Eric Berg
Eva Aldrich
Evan Hilsabeck
Evan Nisenson
Felice Amato
Ferginho Philippe-Auguste
Frank & Cynthia Goldberg
Franklin & Joanne Friedman
Frederic & Donanne Hunter
G. Michael & Linda Hewitt
Gary Decker
George Brant
Heather-Renae & Kevin Paul
Helen Lindberg
Holly Soares
Hunter Lowell
Ira & Andrea Feinberg
Isaak Berliner
Jack & Gail Feinberg
Jaime Duquette
James McDaniel
Jeanne Muller-Johngren
Jeff & Jill Aiosa
Jeff Lentz
Jeffrey Hatcher
Jennie Brockett
Jerome & Christine Fischer
Jim Geoghan
Jim Wood
Jo Holcomb
Joanne Slotnik & Stephen Trimble
Jocelyn Byrne
Joe & Liz Kassim
Joe DeTullio
Joey Guastella
John & Diane Whiteway
John & Karen Foley
John Kanabis
John Sinner
Jonathan Slavin
Jordan Harff
Joseph Legg
Joshua Metzger
Joshua Rebell
Joy Viertel
Karen Leeds
Kari Alterman
Kathleen Clark & Richard Frankel
Keith Belzer
Keli Goff
Kevin Hale
Kevin Marinelli
Kristen Earls & John Miscione
Kurt Hunter
Kurtis Hunter
Lana & Demetrios Orphanides
Lance Ball
Larry Perlstein
Laura Harrington
Lauren Fitzgerald
Lauren Nickerson
Laurie Everitt
Leah Garland
Leslee Asch
Lia Romeo
Linda & Leonard Cohen
Linda & Reid MacCluggage
Lindsay Ragheb
Lisa Kovetz
Lisa Lucas
Lissa Van Dyke
Lois McDonald
Lori Robishaw
Lou & Holly Camerota
Lucia Rivieccio
Lynne & Donald Jennings
Maite Agopian
Marc Bruni
Marcus Bergen
Marcus Weiss
Marianne Melchionde
Marilyn & Dan O'Connell
Mark Irish
Marla Shaffer
Martha Marx
Martin Kovalik Haas
Martin Zeldis
Mary Radulescu
Matt & Erica Lynn Picheny
Matthew Lessall
Melissa Perenson
Michael & Becky Hoag
Michael Hogan
Michelle Roden Conway
Mike Latini
Mike Lew & Rehana Hus Mirza
Morgan & Lisa McGinley
Ms. Elizabeth Binger & Mr. George
Dowker
Muireann O'Callaghan
Myrna Schwartz
Natalie & Bill Billing
Nina Lauren
Norbert Alberts
Oliver Butler
Pam Wade
Pamella Pearl
Patricia Morrison & Maren Brown
Patricia Storace
Patrick Shields
Paul Thureen
Penny Benson
Phil & Starr Sayres
Pierre Royer
Rachel Herrick
Rachel Madorsky
Rachel Roccoberton-Griffin
Rebecca Kneale Gould
Rhonda Pohl & Mark Feldman
Richard & Amanda Heller
Robert & Jill Patten
Robert & Karen Emery
Robert Hamilton
Robert L. LaBrie, Jr.
Robert Mooney
Robert Rodner
Robin Klein
Rollin Krewson
Rory Haff
Ruth Burack-Lamberson
Ryan Harris
Sandy Cleary
Saul & Esther Spigel
Saul Fussiner
Schuyler Bishop
Scott Joy
Scott Leff
Simone Genatt
Soshana Dos-Williams
Stephanie Heller
Stephen & Wendy McAuley
Stuart & Marilyn Adelberg
Susan Burghes
Susan Kelly
Susan Riley
Susan Schwartz & Andrew Lynn
Susanne Badgett
Suzanne Fuller
Suzanne Lanthier
Tau Bennett
Theodore Yudain
Theresa Jones
Thomas & Jane Matyas
Thomas Fogarty
Tim Shaw
Tom Kunhardt
Tony & Margaret Sheridan
Tracey Mikeska
Trent Anderson
Victoria Duarte
Wendy Koslow
Wendy Morton
William Partlan & Tina Charney
Willy Holtzman
Winsor Cooper
Yuk Yee Cheung
Zebediah West
GIFTS MADE IN
HONOR OF:
Dr. Joseph J. Castanza
Steve Daren
Joel Davis
Honey Goodenough
Alva Greenberg
Jane Henson
Caz Liske
Halyn Victoria Murtha
Norman Nadel
Stephen Henry Pianka
J. Ranelli
Jim Stidfole
Preston Whiteway
Robyn Wolman
Chase Woolner
CORPORATE
MEMBERS
PLATINUM
Chelsea Groton Bank
Production Resource Group (PRG)
SILVER
Montville Florist
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INDIVIDUAL
MEMBERS
PRODUCER
Anne Calanquin
Tara Grabel
Frank Ribas & David Lewis
Joe & Rebecca Newman
Liz Norris
David & Pamela Thompson
WRITER
Laurie Bernhard
Mitchel & Lori Corah
Patrick & Lauren Doherty
Jack & Gail Feinberg
Adelbert Hallisey
Linda & Reid MacCluggage
Alan & Peggy Mendelson
John Oliva & Nancy Jean Krant
Tracee Reiser & Robert Hayford
James & Sally Ritchie
Aurin Squire
Betty Ventry
Holly Zaitchik
DIRECTOR
Nicholas Alfiero
Cynthia Austin & J. Richard Ludgin
Frederick & Kathleen Barrett
Neal & Jane Lassen Bobruff
Steve & Debra Daren
Allan Dodds Frank & Lilian King
Joan & Jeffrey Donovan
Anthony & Elizabeth Enders
Anne & Martin Glavan
Frances Hogan & John Steffian
Glenn Jacobs
Eric Janney
Monique Brechter & Steven
Heinemann
Jennifer Keatley
Judith Leary
Robert & Stacey Lewis
Cameron MacKenzie
Martha Marx
Craig & Carol Melin
Thomas & Pamela Moriarty
Robert & Jill Patten
Richard Powers
Annella Preble
Stuart & Ellen Roth
Kate & Arnold Schmeidler
Richard & Toni Sonet
Dan & Kathy Steward
Sherburne Stidfole
David & Angela Taylor
Dan & Cindy Terry
Robert & Jean Tuneski
DESIGNER
Pam Akins & Barry Levinson
Carolyn Anglim
Greg Archer
Susanne Badgett
Gail Barley & Stephen Wood
Debby Beal
Monique Brechter
Rob & Patricia J. Brewer
Susan Burghes
Rosemarie Cruz
Peter Dixon
David Eder & Theresa Tuthill
Mike & Denise Feodorov
James Gleason
Sharon & Allan Goldfarb
Carl & Susan Hinebaugh
Pamela Jordan
Brandon Kirkham
Wendy Kwalwasser
Nina Lauren
Donna Leake
Alex Levy
Robert & Caren Linden
Hannah Lipow
Andrew Lynn & Susan Schwartz
John & Marcia McGowan
Joe & Renee Meaney
Marilyn Percy
Susan Rifkin
Max Sarkowsky
Carin Savel
Deborah & Tracey Sherman
Paul Tines
Heather Toyen
Krystin & Mark Uguccioni
CAST
Janet Adeletti
Eva Aldrich
Jeffrey Andersen
& Maureen McCabe
Cathy & Ron Apicelli
Joyce Armstrong
John & Christine Bairos
Josephine Beebe
Susan Benzyk
Natalie & Bill Billing
John Birkhoff
Marguerite Breen
Dorothy & Jim Bridgeman
Joan & Lyle Brundage
Eric Butler
Beth & Garon Camassar
Christopher Cardoni
& Amy Hannum
Mary & Bob Christina
Jo Ann Church & Jeanne Milstein
Kevin Clendennin
& Kathleen Leuze
Audrey Daigneault
Denise De Los Santos
John & Laurie Deredita
John Boone & Jenny Dixon
Linda Doran & Diane Goldsmith
Natalie Drenzewski
Juanita & Richard Durham
Cathy & Jim Elliott
Robert & Karen Emery
Carol Eschner
Ira & Andrea Feinberg
Sanford Greenhouse
& Jo-el Fernandez
Randy Fish
Lucretia Anne Flammang
Edie & Richard Freeman
Franklin & Joanne Friedman
Libby Friedman & Lee Howard
Kathleen Gielow
Cathy Glickman
Peter Green
Laurie Gwin
Andrea & Phillip Hagaman
Jacqueline Hand
Phyllis & Scott Hartzell
Susan C Hellen
Gail Heller
Katherine & Peter Hering
Peter & Joy Hewitt
Gerald & Margaret Holmberg
Dan Jakes & Maureen Murphy
Barnet Kellman & Nancy Mette
Mary Kelly
Susan Kelly
Lynn Kiah
Susan & Ted Kietzman
Gerry Klender
David Knapp
Diane Larson
Remi Lavergne
Kay & Gerry Love
Mary Lundy-Abbruzzese
Sylvia Malizia & Fred Paxton
Peter & Anne McAndrew
Susan H. McGuire
Carol Meade
Edith & Chris Morren
Biddle & Jo Ann Morris
Barbara Nawrocki
William O'Donnell
Lana & Demetrios Orphanides
Roger Orshal
Kathy & Joseph Pajor
Katherine & Theodore Parker
Bonnie & Gary Patterson
Amy Perry & William Posage
April Posson
James Quinn
Robert Richter
Jeff & Cathy Robbins
Phil Roberts
Robert Rodner
Scott Ross & Michael Wright
George Rubino
Amy Schancupp
& Steven Storozum
Nathan Schilberg
Cheryl & Elwin Schwartz
Marge & John Shenasky
Linda Sherbert
David & Emily Shufrin
Beverly Sims
Chris & Kathy Sinnett
Richard & Libby Smith
Saul & Esther Spigel
Martha Steketee
Bradley Stuebing
Gail Toivonen
Leah & John Van Ness
John Waller
Kimberly Welch
Donna Wexler
William & Sheila Widnall
John & Pandora Wohler
Margaret & Rick Woods
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