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WELCOMEFrom Seattle Theatre Group, a non-profit arts organization

We proudly welcome you to the start of Seattle Theatre Group’s 2019/2020 Performing Arts Season, featuring a lineup of proficient, innovative artists who bring a wide range of talent to our historic venues!

As the people’s theatre, where all are welcomed and represented, STG is committed to advocating for greater participation in the arts by granting access for all, reducing barriers, and including diverse people, cultures, and perspectives on our stages. This season has been carefully curated to support these values, and as we kick off our season with these fall events, we look forward to the varied experiences and conversations we hope these performances will inspire.

The season opens with the world premiere of The Sun Still Burns Here, an evening-length dance and music project created by Seattle-based choreographer Kate Wallich and her company The YC and musician/composer Mike Hadreas of the band Perfume Genius. The piece, which was commissioned by STG, blends Hadreas’ music with Wallich’s choreographic narratives to radically integrate an indie rock performance with contemporary dance.

Throughout the month of October, we are working in association with LANGSTON to present our Silent Movie Mondays: Pioneers of African American Cinema Series, which highlights influential and innovative African American artists from the silent era, bringing attention to the significant role these artists played in the early days of cinema.

In a special collaboration, we are partnering with On the Boards to present composer Bryce Dessner’s and librettist Korde Arrington Tuttle’s Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), which uses music, images, poetry, and a performance by vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth to capture the complex effects of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s works. Electro-acoustic polymath MAX RICHTER then rounds out the month of October in a performance with American Contemporary Music Ensemble and Grace Davidson.

In November, we present two performances that bridge cultures and expand boundaries. First is Indian Ink Theatre Company’s Mrs. Krishnan’s Party—at the Erickson Theatre—which offers an evening of laughter, tears, good music, and great food as the audience is invited around a dining table in the back room of an Indian-run convenience store. Then comes our annual Global Party show, a high energy performance of cultural and contemporary dance and music that gives students and families the opportunity to learn more about their world and the diverse Seattle community.

With the success of last year’s sold-out performance, we welcome The Hip Hop Nutcracker back to The Paramount for two performances this holiday season. This contemporary dance spectacle set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless music is a modern take on a beloved classic and is not to be missed.

We want to thank you for helping us kick off our new season, and we look forward to sharing these, and all of our upcoming performances with you throughout the coming year!

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SEASON PARTNERS Kate Wallich + The YC x Perfume Genius

The Sun Still Burns HereKate Wallich (Co-Director + Choreographer + Performer)Mike Hadreas (Co-Director + Composer + Performer)Alan Wyffels (Composer + Performer + Collaborator)Lavinia Vago (Rehearsal Director + Performer + Collaborator)Andrew Bartee (Performer + Collaborator)David Harvey (Performer + Collaborator)Thomas House (Performer + Collaborator)Sam Gendel (Musician)Darren Weiss (Musician)Laura Carella (Apprentice + Collaborator)Amiya Brown (Production Designer)Christine Tran/cuniform (Costumer)Colton Dixon Winger/cuniform (Costumer)Andrew J.S. (Art Director)Deanne Franklin (Sound Engineer)Alex Hyman (Company Manager)

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The Sun Still Burns Here is an evening-length dance and music collaboration between Perfume Genius and Kate Wallich + The YC commissioned by Seattle Theatre Group, The Joyce Theater and MASS MoCA. The Sun Still Burns Here had its World Premiere at The Moore Theatre in Seattle and will tour to The Joyce Theater, The Walker Art Center Co-Presented by SPCO’s Liquid Music Series, and ICA Boston.

Combining Perfume Genius’ unique sound with the exacting craft of Kate Wallich’s choreographic narratives and Amiya Brown’s expansive production design, The Sun Still Burns Here unravels themes of deterioration, catharsis, and transcendence from the body. Wallich and Hadreas unite a team of musicians, dancers, and designers to create a stunning and emotionally complex performance that radically integrates indie rock with contemporary dance.

The Sun Still Burns Here was created in collaboration with longtime Perfume Genius collaborator Alan Wyffels, the artists in Wallich’s company The YC, costume stylists cuniform, Art Director Andrew J.S., and Production Designer Amiya Brown. The work features Perfume Genius, Kate Wallich, Lavinia Vago (The YC, RUBBERBandance, Sidra Bell), Thomas House (The YC, Kyle Abraham, Merce Cunningham Trust), David Harvey (The YC, Alonzo King Lines Ballet) and Andrew Bartee (The YC, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet BC). This work was developed over the course of 18 months, supported by creative residencies at the Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center and technical residencies at MASS MoCA and at The Moore Theatre in Seattle. ‘The Sun Still Burns Here’ is commissioned by Seattle Theatre Group and MASS MoCA and was commissioned and created, in part, with the support of The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center, made possible by lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Sun Still Burns Here was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from The Andrew Mellon Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Production of ‘The Sun Still Burns Here’ is made possible with major support from Studio Kate Wallich. This presentation of The Sun Still Burns Here was made possible through generous support from Hotel Theodore and Hotel Max, Provenance Hotels.

About Perfume Genius:Perfume Genius is the nom de poster-wraith of American pop-star Mike Hadreas, whose 2014 breakout album Too Bright marked a musical and performative leap that sounds unlike anything before or since. With the songs on his wildly acclaimed Blake Mills-produced, GRAMMY nominated 2017 album No Shape, he’s gone even further, merging church music, makeout music, R&B, art pop, krautrock, and queer soul into his take on stadium anthems.  This is church music the same way Prince’s Black Album is — too dirty. And it is femme art pop the way Kate Bush’s The Dreaming is — too scary — its emotions arranged all along the slippery continuum from rage to irony to love. 

Perfume Genius has graced the stages of late night television shows (Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Show with David Letterman, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), prominent venues including the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley, and Forest Hills Stadium in New York among many others. They have been featured in publications including GQ, New York Times, Pitchfork, The Guardian, Vogue, and the cover of The FADER.

About The YCThe YC was co-founded by Kate Wallich and Lavinia Vago in 2010 and is a program of Studio Kate Wallich. The YC is comprised of world-class dance artists who research and collaborate on new works under Artistic Director Kate Wallich and Rehearsal Director Lavinia Vago. The company has premiered five evening-length works and multiple short-form works including Super Eagle (Velocity Dance Center, 2014), Splurge Land (On the Boards, 2015), Industrial Ballet (Velocity Dance Center/Seattle Theater Group, 2016), Dream Dances (On the Boards, 2017) and The Sun Still Burns Here (Seattle Theatre Group/The Joyce Theater/MASS MoCa, 2019). Additionally, The YC has toured nationally and internationally to acclaimed institutions Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Boris Hristov House of Culture in Bulgaria, and Newfields/IMA; upcoming tours include The Joyce Theater, Walker Art Center & Liquid Music, and ICA Boston. The company also works on design and film projects that have been presented as books, in forums, at film festivals and on the internet. 

About Studio Kate WallichStudio Kate Wallich is a non-profit organization founded by Kate Wallich in 2016 and based in Seattle, Washington. Studio Kate Wallich is dedicated to cultivating a community of artists and the public through dance-based, design-forward experiences. Studio Kate Wallich envisions a collaborative and connected community that engages and supports uncompromising dance projects. Studio Kate Wallich supports the work of the YC, YC2, Dance Church® + more. 

Kate Wallich | Choreographer + Co-Director + PerformerKate Wallich is a Seattle-based choreographer, director and educator – named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch”. She has left a significant mark in the Pacific Northwest with commissions and presentations from leading institutions including On the Boards, Seattle Theatre Group, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle Art Museum, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Whim W’Him and Northwest Dance Project; nationally at Walker Art Center with Liquid Music, MASS MoCa, The Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Newfields/IMA, ICA Boston; internationally at Springboard Danse and SPOTLIGHT: USA in Bulgaria. In 2010 she co-founded her company The YC with Lavinia Vago and has gone on to create five evening-length works and three large scale site-specific works with the company since.

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In 2010 she founded an all-abilities, community-focused class Dance Church® (no religious affiliation) which reaches over 550+ attendees per week and is taught by professional dance artists weekly in New York City, Seattle, Portland, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and has popped up in cities worldwide. Dance Church has partnered with local and national organizations including Gibney, Mark Morris Dance Center, LA Dance Project, Newfields/IMA, BodyVox, Adidas Studio London, Velocity, On the Boards, The Sweat Spot, Design Week Portland and goop among others. In 2016 she founded Studio Kate Wallich, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to cultivating a community of artists and the public through dance-based, design-forward experiences. Through the support of the Studio, Kate founded YC2 — a new platform for professional dance professionals — in 2016.

Kate was a 2013 and 2015 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow and a 2018 Ucross Foundation Fellow, and has received awards and grants from 4Culture, Artist Trust, The Glenn H. Kawasaki Foundation, MANA Contemporary, and Seattle Magazine. She has been a Visiting Artist at the National Center for Choreography at University of Akron, University of Washington, University of Oregon and University of Utah as well as Cornish College of the Arts and Beloit College.

Mike Hadreas | Co-Director + Composer + PerformerMike Hadreas, better known by his stage name Perfume Genius, is a Los Angeles-based solo artist. His debut album Learning (2010) on Matador Records was followed by Put Your Back N 2 It (2012) Too Bright (2014) and his most recent release No Shape (2017).

Alan Wyffels | Performer + Composer + CollaboratorAlan Wyffels is a Los Angeles based pianist with a degree in piano performance from Purchase College. Alan is the primary Perfume Genius collaborator and has toured with the band internationally for the last 10 years.

Lavinia Vago | Performer + Collaborator + Rehearsal DirectorLavinia Vago is a Seattle-based dance artist from Italy, working between Montréal, New York, Berlin, and Vienna. She holds a BFA Magna cum Laude from Cornish College of the Arts.

Lavinia has created, performed and toured internationally with Sidra Bell Dance New York, Loni Landon Projects, Vim Vigor Dance Company, Tom Weinberger, and more extensively with Montrèal based RUBBERBANDance Group. Since 2017, she has worked with Saint Genet (Wiener

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Festwochen / Holland Festival), most recently performing an eight hour madness opera at WUK Performing Arts. She will be joining Tianzhuo Chen’s new 12 hour performance “Ksana”, premiering at M WOODS in Beijing. 

Lavinia researches, creates and collaborates with Berlin-based artist Harald Stojan. Their work “NOESIS X, a solo for two” premiered in Seattle February 2019.

As an educator, Lavinia teaches improvisational contemporary practices, Dance Church®, the RUBBERBAND Method, and Dance for People with Parkinson’s Disease. She also works as a choreographic assistant and rehearsals director for choreographers Victor Quijada, Loni Landon and Kate Wallich. She is Associate Artistic Director of Studio Kate Wallich, the Rehearsal Director for YC2 and has been co-directing, creating and performing with Kate Wallich and The YC since 2010. www.laviniavago.com

Andrew Bartee | Performer + CollaboratorAndrew is a dance artist, maker and educator based in Vancouver, Canada. He has danced, created and toured nationally and internationally with Ballet BC, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Whim W’him, and Kate Wallich + The YC. In 2007 he received a Princess Grace Award, and was the first recipient of the Fleming Halby Exchange with The Royal Danish Ballet. In 2015 he was one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch”. In 2017/18 Andrew was artist in residence of Ballet BC. Currently Andrew is full time dance faculty at Arts Umbrella in Vancouver. He has made dances for Pacific Northwest Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet Company, Whim W’Him, Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts, Seattle International Dance Festival, Arts Umbrella Dance Company, the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, Alberta College of Art and Design, the University of British Columbia Medicine, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet School.Andrew has been performing with The YC since 2012.

David Harvey | Performer + CollaboratorDavid Harvey is a Seattle-based dance artist and educator. He studied at Interlochen Arts Academy, The Kirov Academy of Ballet and Alonzo King Lines Ballet School. Harvey then danced for Alonzo King Lines Ballet from 2007-2014, and continues his relationship with AKLB School as a returning faculty member and choreographer. He has also collaborated with and performed work

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by Bobbi Jene Smith, Tom Weinberger, Sarah Foster Sproull and David Raymond+Tiffany Tregarthen. Harvey began working with Kate Wallich and The YC in 2015. 

Thomas House | Performer + CollaboratorThomas House is a dance artist, creator, and educator based in Seattle, WA. Raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Thomas received his BFA in dance from Purchase College, SUNY in 2014. He has performed nationally and internationally with companies including Aszure Barton & Artists, Abraham in Motion, Kate Wallich + The YC and the Merce Cunningham Trust. Thomas has presented creations with composer Kayla Cashetta in Seattle and New York City. He recently was a resident artist through an emerging platform for new dance PILOT where he worked on a new performance creation. He worked as movement director for screen dance THE CALLING, a film directed by Jeff Schick premiering Fall 2019. Currently, Thomas is a dancer with Kate Wallich + The YC, a rehearsal assistant for YC2, and a Dance

Church® teacher—all of which are projects of Studio Kate Wallich, a dance-based, design-forward non-profit for which Thomas is an associate and board member. Thomas is certified in Cunningham Technique®. @tomhouse90

Darren Weiss | MusicianDarren Weiss is a song writer and drummer from Los Angeles. He has recorded and performed with artists like T Bone Burnett, Florence and The Machine, Lana Del Rey, Girls, and Albert Hammond Jr, but most people know him from his body of work fronting his own projects PAPA and Monastereo. He lives in California with his wife and son.

Sam Gendel | MusicianSam Gendel lives in Los Angeles. His primary instrument is the saxophone. Find him online.

Laura Carella | Apprentice + Collaborator Laura Carella was born and raised in

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Toronto, Ontario. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in dance. She spent a semester studying abroad at the Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts. In 2016 Laura joined Kristen Carcone’s immersive work ‘4-7-8’ which continues to tour across New York and Toronto. Since moving to Seattle in 2018, Laura has worked with YC2 performing works by Tom Weinberger, Sidra Bell and Kate Wallich. She has also worked with Coleman Pester //Tectonic Marrow Society and zoe | juniper. This is Laura’s first project with The YC. 

Amiya Brown | Production Designer Amiya Brown is a Lighting Designer and visual artist based in Seattle. She holds a Master’s Degree in Theatrical Lighting Design from the University of Washington. Designing nationally and internationally for theatre, dance, and opera, she specializes in site-specific and devised performance.  Her work has been presented at The Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York Live Arts, The Joyce SOHO (NYC), On the Boards (Seattle, WA), The Moore (Seattle, WA), REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA) and many others. She received a Gypsy Rose Lee Award in 2012 for her work on The Skriker (Janet Findley Production) and designed lights for Pat Graney’s Bessie award-winning production Girl Gods. Amiya has been collaborating with Kate Wallich since 2012, designing lighting and visual elements for 4 of the YC’s full-length productions.

Andrew J.S. | Art DirectorAndrew J.S. is a New York–based visual director dealing in the realms of photography, music, design, and performance.

cuniform | Costumescuniform is a sliding scale personal styling and creative agency. Co-founders, Christine Tran and Colton Dixon Winger, each have a background of 13 years experience in the fashion industry. cuniform operates out of five major cities, working with individual clients and collaborators to promote authenticity, self-discovery, connection, subversion, and transformation. This is their fifth project with Studio Kate Wallich.

Alex Hyman | Company ManagerAlex Hyman was born in Bellingham, Washington and has been the Executive Director of Studio Kate Wallich since September 2016.

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Seattle Theatre Group’s Education and Community Programs (ECP) invest in meaningful experiences for our community and future generations of performing artists. Each season, STG offers over 260+ education programs impacting over 56,000 students and community members from diverse ages and backgrounds. These programs deepen significance to performances through opportunities to engage with artists, inspire youth and local artists through training and performance opportunities, and provide exposure to the arts through access initiatives.

Over the years, we’ve seen numerous ECP participants build upon the skills they’ve learned in our sessions to create successful and fulfilling careers. Below is a snapshot of past ECP participants who have done just that!

Multi-Grammy Award winning hip-hop artist Macklemore participated in STG’s first ever More Music @ The Moore program in 2002.

Dancer Aaron Alexander participated in STG’s DANCE This program. He has choreographed and performed hip-hop in Los Angeles and Seattle, and in 2016, was cast in the Chicago production of Hamilton.

Former DANCE This participant Aaron Loux attended Juilliard before dancing with The Metropolitan Opera and Arc Dance Company. He has danced with Mark Morris Dance Group since 2010.

Pamela Yasutake, from Northwest Tap Connection, is also a DANCE This alum who performed with Savion Glover on the Paramount stage before making her Broadway debut in the 10-time Tony nominated musical Shuffle Along.

Seattle-based hip-hop artist and producer Otieno Terry is a former participant of STG’s More Music @ The Moore program. He was recently featured on Macklemore’s new album Gemini, opened for Macklemore at his Seattle concert last year, and has played Sasquatch! and Bumbershoot.

Seattle’s own ParisAlexa is a young songwriter on the rise and former More Music @ The Moore participant. She has since worked on her songwriting chops in STG’s Songwriters Lab and recently competed in NBC’s new songwriting TV show Songland.

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The Paramount Theatre is lucky to house Wurlitzer opus 1819, one of only about 40 theatre organs still playing in their original venues. Built to allow a single musician to create a “symphony” of sound, this intricate instrument was installed for the Paramount’s grand opening in 1928 and has flourished well beyond its expected lifespan.

Volunteers from the Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society (PSTOS) have been maintaining this beautiful Publix 1 organ for the past 50 years, and also work closely with STG to provide educational opportunities involving the organ and the silent films it was invented to accompany. In recent years, PSTOS has been conducting an extensive restoration of the organ to repair inevitable deterioration that has occurred during the nearly 90 years it has been in the theatre. The most recent phase of this process has been restoration of the console (the organ’s operator interface) and installation of a new digital control system, as a result of which the organ doesn’t look or sound appreciably different; it just works much better.

We are extremely grateful to those who have made contributions to this restoration project, making it possible for present and future generations to experience the magic of our Mighty Wurlitzer. To make your donation to ensure the health of the Paramount’s historic instrument, please visit the PSTOS website at PSTOS.org.

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As we look back in cinematic history on the importance of these three significant African American films, we also look to now and legendary filmmakers like Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins and locally to LANGSTON’s Seattle Black Film Festival. The opening film is a rare surviving example of what the movie industry once labeled “race movies,” films with African American casts intended for African American audiences. The next two films are by Oscar Micheaux, who broke cinematic barriers as the first African American filmmaker, and made movies about the perils of racial inequality. He mobilized his actors to blur and destabilize the color line and operated independently of the Hollywood industry. Micheaux was a Pullman porter, farmer, homesteader, publisher, writer, director in the areas of Chicago, South Dakota and Sioux City, Iowa and traveled all over the country to distribute his films. We urge you to explore more found and restored films from Kino Lorber’s collection of Pioneers of African-American Cinema.

Vicky Lee, Curator of Silent Movie MondaysDirector of Education & Performance Programs, Seattle Theatre Group

ABOUT THE FILMS

October 7: SCAR OF SHAME (1927), directed by Frank Perugini, tells the story of when a young woman escapes from her abusive father and is rescued by an aspiring composer but encounters opposition from his class-conscious mother. The film, a collaboration between races, was produced by Colored Players Film Corporation out of Philadelphia.

Print source 35mm from the Library of Congress restoration in 2015.

Introduction and post-screening CineClub hosted by Andrea Stuart-Lehalle, Director for LANGSTON's Seattle Black Film Festival, and joined by Roger Guenveur Smith, acclaimed film star in many Spike Lee films.

October 14: BODY AND SOUL (1925) is written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux and stars Paul Robeson in his first film role.  He plays twin brothers, one a badly behaved minister and the other an ordinary working man, both vying for the affection of a young woman who is trying to abide by the misguided wishes of her devout mother.

Print source DCP from Kino Lorber restoration.

Introduction and post-screening CineClub hosted by Zola Mumford, Curator for LANGSTON’S Seattle Black Film Festival.

October 21: WITHIN OUR GATES (1920) is written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux and is the earliest surviving feature film by an African American director. Micheaux made this groundbreaking film as a bold response to D.W. Griffith’s controversial film “Birth of a Nation.” The story involves an idealistic young woman who attempts to raise money for an elementary school to serve the Black community. The film touches upon themes that recur throughout the filmmaker’s career such as the promise of rural life vs. the corruptive influence of the city, and the use of religion as a means of misleading the Black community. The film is included in the Library of Congress National Film Registry as a significant film in the history of African American cinema.

Print source DCP from Kino Lorber restoration.

Introduction and post-screening CineClub hosted by Vivian Phillips, Arts & Cultural Instigator/Consultant.

Silent Movie Mondays THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE OCTOBER 7 – 21

SILENT MOVIE MONDAYSPIONEERS OF AFRICANAMERICAN CINEMAIn association with LANGSTON

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PLEASE JOIN US AFTER THE FILM IN THE PARAMOUNT BAR FOR CineClub, A COMMUNITY DISCUSSION EXPLOR-ING THE FILM ITSELF AND THE ART OF SILENT CINEMA.

TEDDE GIBSON CREATED SCORES FOR ALL THREE FILMS AND ACCOM-PANIES ON THE MIGHTY WURLITZER ORGAN.

ABOUT THE MUSICIAN:Tedde Gibson started playing the piano at age 4. He is one of a few musicians able to play not only classical and theatre pipe organ, but also jazz and gospel

organ on the Hammond and piano and integrates these styles into his playing of the Mighty Wurlitzer organ. A native of Tacoma, Tedde studied pipe organ with the late Dr. Edward Hansen, president of the American Guild of Organists and organ professor at the University of Puget Sound; David Dahl, organist emeritus of Pacific Lutheran; Dr. J. Melvin Butler of the University of Washington and St. Marks Cathedral; and while attending UW, with Dr. Carol Terry. Tedde has also coached with international theatre organist Jonas Nordwall of Portland and the late Andy Crow of Olympia. Since moving to the DC area in 2003, he has studied classical organ with Dr. Mickey Thomas Terry, editor of the 7+ volume anthology of organ works by African American composers. Tedde also studied organ performance at The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In the DC area he is organist/musician-in-residence at First Baptist Church of Highland Park; organist at Capitol Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church and Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Roman Catholic Church and teaches music at Highland Park Christian Academy. Tedde is on the board of directors for the American Theatre Organ Society, an international non-profit organization comprised of worldwide volunteer members who are committed to helping preserve and perpetuate the musical theatre pipe organ heritage that began in the

early 20th century. Tedde has been accompanying films for Silent Movie Mondays since 2015.

Special thanks to:Andy Gault, American Sign Language Interpreter for IntroductionsKurt Morrison, for song selections on Knabe Ampico reproducing grand piano in Lobby MezzaninePhil Hargiss and Puget Sound Theatre Organ SocietyMiles McRae, ProjectionistScarecrow VideoHotel Theodore Seattle

The Paramount Theatre is home to Wurlitzer opus 1819, one of only about 40 theatre organs still playing in their original venues. Volunteers from the Puget

Sound Theatre Organ Society (PSTOS) have been maintaining this beautiful Publix 1 organ for the past 50 years, and also work closely with STG to provide educational opportunities involving the organ and the silent films it was invented to accompany. In recent years, PSTOS has been conducting an extensive restoration of the organ to repair inevitable deterioration that has occurred during the nearly 90 years it has been in the theatre. The most recent phase of this process has been restoration of the console (the organ’s operator interface) and installation of a new digital control system, as a result of which the organ doesn’t look or sound appreciably different; it just works much better. To learn more about the organ, or to contribute to its restoration, please visit the PSTOS table in the lobby, or visit the PSTOS website at www.pstos.org.

The Paramount Theatre’s Knabe Ampico reproducing grand piano located in the first mezzanine is playing again thanks to the efforts of the Pacific Can-Am

chapter of AMICA (Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors Association) International. Local AMICA and PSTOS member Kurt Morrison restores, maintains and demonstrates this historic instrument. www.amica.org.

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Don’t miss LANGSTON’s Seattle Black Film Festival, April 23-26, 2020langstonseattle.org

UPCOMING SILENT MOVIE MONDAYS

Special presentation in partnership with Seattle Jewish Film Festival

March 23: THE ANCIENT LAW/DAS ALTE GESETZ (1923) with live music by composer/violinist Alicia Svigals, pianist Donald Sosin and clarinetist Laura DeLuca

Star Power Series

April 6: A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS (1928) starring Greta Garbo, with music by Christian Elliott on the Mighty Wurlitzer

April 13: BLOOD AND SAND (1922) starring Rudolph Valentino, with music by Christian Elliott on the Mighty Wurlitzer

April 20: GET YOUR MAN (1927) starring Clara Bow, with music by Donna Parker on the Mighty Wurlitzer

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Produced by ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann in Cooperation with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

Composed by Bryce DessnerLibretto by korde arrington tuttle Featuring words by Essex Hemphill & Patti SmithDirected by Kaneza SchaalFeaturing Roomful of Teeth with Alicia Hall Moran and Isaiah RobinsonAssociate Director/Touring Jennifer H. NewmanAssociate Director/Development Lilleth GlimcherMusic Direction & Conducting by Brad WellsContributing Choreographer & Performer Martell Ruffin

Set & Costume Design by Carlos SotoLighting Design by Yuki NakaseVideo by Simon HardingSound Design by Dylan Goodhue / nomadsound.netProduction Management William KnappDramaturgy by Talvin Wilks & Christopher Myers Managing Producer, ArKtype J.J. El-Far Associate Music Director William Brittelle Lighting Supervisor Kathrine R. MitchellAssociate Video Designer Moe ShahroozProduction Stage Manager Megan Schwarz DickertCompany Manager Iyvon Edebiri Session Copyist & Score Manager Dominic MekkyConsulting producer Gill GrahamPublic relations Carla Parisi / Kid Logic Media

ROOMFUL OF TEETH

Sarah Brailey, Martha Cluver, Eliza Bagg, Virginia Kelsey, Thomas McCargar, Thann Scoggin, Jason Awbrey, Steven Hrycelak Jessica McJunkins, violin; Joe Gottesman, viola; Virginia Dziekonski, cello; Jen Harrison, French horn; Jennifer Nelson, clarinet/bass clarinet; Kate Campbell, piano/harmonium; Donnie Johns, percussion; Chris Monroe, percussion; James Moore guitar

Music by Bryce Dessner is used with permission of Chester Music Ltd.

“The Perfect Moment, For Robert Mapplethorpe” by Essex Hemphill, 1988. Courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, reprinted by permission of The Frances Goldin Literary Agency.

Bryce Dessner + korde arrington tuttle’sTRIPTYCH (EYES OF ONE ON ANOTHER)Featuring Roomful of Teeth In partnership with On the Boards

Bryce Dessner

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Program Note by Christopher MyersThere is a stream of thinking in the West that associates “the beautiful” with, as Kant calls it, a “disinterested pleasure.” “Interested” pleasures like pornography and propaganda were contrasted with more noble pursuits, for example, the nude or classical dramas. This disinterest lays the foundations for high modernism, its formalisms, its universalist fallacies, the abstractions that purport to be thin as the canvases they are painted on, the movement vocabularies that pretend to come from the deepest recesses of the human soul, the radical borrowings that see all forms as somehow “neutral.”

Though several generations of artists and thinkers have made clear that there is no such thing as “disinterested pleasure,” for a certain era of makers who lived on the cusp of the transition from high modernism to the hydra of forms that have followed, they discovered in the double-speak of modernist ‘universalities’ a certain liberation. Robert Mapplethorpe was one such artist who photographed bodies, practices, and selves that were considered abject or taboo at the time but was able to do so with the assurance that his interest in these forms was “disinterested.” He said, about the work he showed in his 1986 solo exhibition “Black Males,” “I’m photographing them as form, in the same way I’m reading the flowers.” Mapplethorpe’s work, its beauty and its controversies, its legal challenges, most notably the obscenity trial in Cincinnati surrounding the exhibit, “The Perfect Moment,” all spun on the question of this “disinterested” beauty. Were these photographs pornography or were they nudes?

But what are we to make of the work in our current moment of understanding, that there are no disinterested pleasures, that the white marble figures that Mapplethorpe referenced so cleanly in his photographs were originally splashed with vibrant color, that the valorization of Greco-Roman bronzes or nearly grain-less black and white photography is as culturally specific as saying that the only real music was written by Beethoven. Artists like Glenn Ligon, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, and less directly, Catherine Opie, have addressed some of the complications of Mapplethorpe’s oeuvre. Essex Hemphill, Mapplethorpe’s contemporary, who along with Marlon Riggs delineated a set of

“American Wedding” by Essex Hemphill, from Ceremonies, Cleis Press, 1992, reprinted by permission of The Frances Goldin Literary Agency.

“The Boy Who Loved Michelangelo,” by Patti Smith, from The Coral Sea, 2012.

“Untitled,” by Patti Smith, June 1988, from The Perfect Moment Exhibition Catalogue COMMISSIONER CREDITS

Produced in Residency with and Commissioned by University Musical Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Co-produced by Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel Music and Artistic Director.

TRIPTYCH was co-commissioned by Luminato Festival, Toronto, Canada; BAM; Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center as part of the Nostos Festival, Athens, Greece; Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati, OH; Cal Performances, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Stanford Live, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Adelaide Festival, Australia; John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for performance as part of DirectCurrent 2019; ArtsEmerson: World on Stage, Emerson College, Boston, MA; Texas Performing Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; the Momentary, Bentonville, AR, Celebrity Series, Boston, MA; and developed in residency with MassMOCA, North Adams, MA.

Our deepest thanks to Joree Adilman and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation for their care and support in bringing this work to life.

Very special thanks to the commissioning partners who made this project possible, Josh LaBelle, Jack McLarnan, and Seattle Theatre Group Team, Joseph V. Melillo, Michael Kondziolka, Josephine Ridge, Gill Graham, James Rushton, Rob Bailis, Mary Hickson, Daniel Fish, Ashley Tata, Jim Findlay, Robert O’Hara, David Lang, Ashton Muñiz, Shanta Thake, Rachel Chanoff, Sue Killam, Curt Leclair, Jesse Ontiveros, Sunny Cyr, Victoria Nassif, Trevor Litsey, Daniel Alexander Jones, Jeff Miller & Williams College, Beth Given, Ted Pallas, Ryan Gohsman, Heather Englander, Mily Paschali, Ad Van der Koog, Jeremy Geffen, Robin Pomerance, Chris Lorway, Nat Trottman and The Guggenheim.

African American gay sensibilities provides an alternative way of viewing some of the same bodies Mapplethorpe depicts, and forms one cornerstone of the present oratorio, Triptych (Eyes of One on Another).  But still the question lingers: How do we as contemporary viewers acknowledge and embrace all of the ways, all of the vantage points, from which we can see this work?

In Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), Bryce Dessner and korde arrington tuttle, in collaboration with Kaneza Schaal, Roomful of Teeth, producer ArKtype, and with texts from Essex Hemphill, Patti Smith, and the Cincinnati obscenity trial, rethink Mapplethorpe’s work as not only an intersection of the photographer’s interests and multiple positionalities, but also to imagine the work itself as a locus around which various communities find themselves both included and alienated by the work itself, often at the same time.

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film, and experimental music, 80’s downtown performance, Ailey and classical ballet, inhabit the space between the photographic work and its audiences. Much like the fable of The Blind Men and the Elephant, they cobble together a landscape of viewerships. The artists ask questions of the work and of themselves within the work.

Is it possible to imagine these men who are photographed with the impersonal intimacy of flowers, or bronze sculptures, as full human beings, with desires and pleasures of their own? Can we read the desire of the photographer, his conflicts and self-denials, in his steadfast commitment to a classical language that recasts leather daddies and daddy’s boys into upper-middle class living room fantasies? Where in this thorny bramble of gazes, objectification, outrage and intimacy do our own wants and expectations as an audience live?

When Martell Ruffin, the classically trained dancer who functions as a kind of ghost of both Mapplethorpe’s subjects and invisible audiences, enters he literalizes the sense of multiple viewerships and makes us aware that as we take in this work and Mapplethorpe’s work there are and will be other eyes, other ways of engaging with these bodies, these sounds, these hearts. Beauty is never “disinterested;” it is made of a thousand overlapping interests and wants and cares.  - Christopher Myers

Bryce Dessner (CONTINUED)

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Max Richter THE MOORE THEATRE OCTOBER 16

Max Richter Max Richter stands as one of the most influential figures of the contemporary music scene, producing ground-breaking work as a recording artist, composer, pianist, and collaborator. Long a staple of the avant-garde, by virtue of his influential solo albums that include The Blue Notebooks, Memoryhouse, Songs From Before, Infra, Vivaldi Recomposed, Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works and the eight-and-a-half hour epic Sleep. Sold-out overnight performances of Sleep at venues across the world and numerous Classical No. 1 records, are a testament to Richter’s wide appeal.

Richter has written widely for film and television with recent projects including Hostiles, Black Mirror, Taboo - which gained him an Emmy nomination, HBO series The Leftovers and My Brilliant Friend and most recently White Boy Rick, Mary Queen of Scots and the sci-fi drama Ad Astra starring Brad Pitt. His music also featured in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir and in the Oscar-winning Arrival by Denis Villeneuve.

MAX RICHTER Performing with American Contemporary Music Ensemble and Grace Davidson

American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)Clarice Jensen, cello & artistic directorBen Russell, violinLaura Lutzke, violinIsabel Hagen, violaClaire Bryant, cello

In a little more than a decade, led by cellist and artistic director Clarice Jensen, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) has risen to the highest ranks of American new music through a mix of meticulous musicianship, artistic vision, engaging collaborations, and unwavering standards in every regard. The membership of the amorphous collective includes some of the brightest young stars in the field. ACME recorded Max Richter’s Sleep and From Sleep for Deutsche Grammophon and frequently tours with the composer/pianist. They have joined Richter for epic 8-hour, overnight performances of Sleep in New York, Los Angeles, Auckland, at SXSW, and more. NPR calls ACME “contemporary music dynamos,” and The New York Times describes the group’s performances as “vital,” “brilliant,” and “electrifying.” www.acmemusic.org 

Grace Davidson Grace Davidson studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, specialising in Baroque music and now enjoys a busy and versatile career, performing in concert Halls and recording studios the world over. Her exceptional musicality and purity of tone has attracted many critically acclaimed conductors and composers. Grace has broadened her repertoire into the world of film and contemporary music, most notably working with Max Richter as a soloist on his Lullaby “Sleep” and “Three Worlds”, both recorded on the Deutsche Gramophone label. Grace is delighted to be returning to the U.S.A with Max and ACME.

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Indian Ink Theatre Company

Mrs. Krishnan’s Party Justin’s NotesEveryone loves a good party; endless laughter, catching up with friends, dancing on tables. But what if you don’t know anyone and feel self-conscious about your dancing? What if you’re not feeling a box of birds? Do you stay home or fake it till you make it? How do you set yourself free? Onam is such a great celebration because it shows there is more to happiness than just a smile, that to know joy you must also feel sorrow, without death there can be no rebirth. Maybe a party can change your life; you may meet someone who gives you the courage to set yourself free or shows you the resilience required to be truly happy. Thanks for coming out tonight. Justin Lewis

Jacob’s NotesFor the uninitiated Krishnan’s Dairy was the name of our very first play. A love story set in a corner shop, the power of which caught everyone by surprise – including us. That shop has kept its doors open for 20 years, touring the length and breadth of New Zealand and throughout the world, becoming as loved and cherished as a child. The story you’re taking part in tonight is somewhat of a sequel, but don’t worry, you don’t have to have seen Krishnan’s Dairy to enjoy the party. All you need is here, in the strangers that surround you and the imagination that abounds within, and the wonder of what’s going to happen next. That moment of not knowing, of being lost and confused, excited and a little scared is really what tonight is about: change. Something has to die in order for something to be renewed. It’s a tough lesson but a constant, existing at every stage of life and extremely present for us in a world that seems to be spinning ever faster. Rather than bemoan how hard it is to get to grips with all this shifting sand we want to celebrate the new castles we will build from it. Party on! Jacob Rajan

Indian Ink Theatre CompanyThe artistic partnership of Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis is now comfortably in its second decade. Inspired by a love of mask and story they continue to pursue their idea of the ‘Serious Laugh’ - opening mouths with laughter to slip serious ideas in. With a series of remarkable productions of intimate scale that blend western theatrical traditions with eastern flavours they have become one of New Zealand’s most successful theatre companies. They aim to leave an indelible imprint on your heart; that’s why they’re called Indian Ink.

Indian Ink is represented by David Lieberman Artists’ Representativesinfo@dlartists.com

Our PeopleJACOB RAJANWriterJacob is a founding partner of Indian Ink and co-wrote all of Indian Ink’s plays as well as performing in many of them. He is a

graduate of Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama school, Otago University (B.Sc Microbiology) and Wellington Teacher’s College. Jacob is an Arts Foundation Laureate and a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to theatre.

JUSTIN LEWISWriter and DirectorJustin is a founding partner of Indian Ink. He has co-written and directed all of Indian Ink’s plays. He was one of the founders

of Auckland’s Q Theatre and received a Kaupapa Oranga Award for his services to theatre. Justin is a graduate of the John Bolton Theatre School and the University of Auckland.

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ERICKSON THEATRE OFF BROADWAY NOVEMBER 15 – 24

SPONSORS

SEATTLE THEATRE GROUPSUSTAINING SUPPORTERS

KALYANI NAGARAJAN ActorThis is Kalyani’s second role with Indian Ink following 2017’s The Pickle King. She is very passionate about her

culture and representing her background in the arts industry. She practices bharatha natyam (Indian classical dance) and has a flair for accents. Kalyani is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School and studied in France with Philippe Gaulier.

JUSTIN ROGERS ActorThis is Justin’s first role with Indian Ink. He loves musical theatre and has performed with Auckland Theatre Company, most

recently in Shortland Street – The Musical. Justin is also a magician and magic consultant for theatre. He is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School.

MURRAY EDMONDDramaturge Murray has been dramaturge on all of Indian Ink’s productions. A poet and founder of Town and Country

Players (NZ), Murray has recently retired from his role as Professor of Drama at The University of Auckland where he headed the drama programme.

D. ANDREW POTVINProduction & Stage Manager Andrew toured extensively with Indian Ink for 2017’s The Pickle King and was the logistics

coordinator for the 2015 tour of Kiss the Fish. He is the Director of Andrew Potvin Designs Ltd which specializes in tour management, business development and lighting design.

JOHN VERRYTSet and Props DesignerJohn has worked on all of Indian Ink’s productions. With over 30 years’ experience John is a leading New Zealand stage

designer with an extensive portfolio of work including NZ Opera, Auckland Theatre Company, The Large Group and many others.

JANE HAKARAIALighting DesignerThis is Jane’s third production with Indian Ink following on from Welcome to the Murder House and The Elephant

Thief. Jane holds a degree in product design but her passion is lighting for theatre.

FIONA NICHOLS Costume DesignThis is Fiona’s second production for Indian Ink after her work on The Pickle King. She works mainly in film and

television with credits including Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, and Spartacus.

LIAM KELLYSound DesignThis is Liam’s first production with Indian Ink. He won an award for ‘Most Innovative Work’ at the 2018 Wellington Fringe

Festival and is part of Playshop - a late night improv group. Liam recently completed his Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Practice at Victoria University.

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GLOBAL PARTY

Produced by STG Education & Community Programs, GLOBAL PARTY is a high energy performance of cultural and contemporary dance and music. Celebrating 11 years, the performance features Northwest community performers representing the rich cultural traditions from around the world. It’s a not-to-be-missed experience for all ages. This

performance gives students and families the opportunity to learn more about their world and our diverse Seattle community. Think Global, Celebrate Local!

Global Party

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The Hip Hop NutcrackerSeattle Theatre Group

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THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE NOVEMBER 16 & 17

The Hip Hop Nutcracker, a contemporary dance spectacle set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless music, returns to The Paramount for two performances this holiday season!

Directed and choreographed by the Lucille Lortel and Bessie Award-nominated Jennifer Weber, The Hip Hop Nutcracker is an evening-length production performed by a supercharged cast of a dozen all-star dancers, a DJ, a violinist, and MC Kurtis Blow, one of hip hop’s founding fathers, who opens the show with a short set. The show is produced by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) with three-time Tony Award-winning Executive Producer, Eva Price, and co-commissioned by the United Palace of Cultural Arts.

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The Hip Hop Nutcracker THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE NOVEMBER 16 & 17(CONTINUED)

"We're thrilled to be back once again, bringing our show to new audiences as well as to those who have made The Hip Hop Nutcracker a holiday tradition," said NJPAC Producer David Rodriguez.

Just like the original, in The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Maria-Clara and the Nutcracker Prince go on a dream adventure battling a gang of mice, visiting the land of sweets and learning the lessons of the holiday season. Innovative digital graffiti and visuals transform the landscape of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s beloved story from traditional 19th Century Germany to the vibrant, diverse sights and sounds of contemporary New York City.

Each evening will kick off with a brief live set by hip-hop legend Kurtis Blow. Blow was 20 in 1979, when he became the first rapper to be signed by a major label. Mercury released

“Christmas Rappin’,” and it sold more than 400,000 copies, becoming an annual classic. Its gold follow-up, The Breaks, helped ignite an international “Rap Attack.” He released 10 albums in over 11 years: his full-length debut, Kurtis Blow; his second, Deuce, a Top 50 Pop album and a big hit across Europe; Party Time featuring a pioneering fusion of rap and gogo; and Ego Trip, including the hits “8 Million Stories,” “AJ” and “Basketball.” In 1985 he released America, featuring “If I Ruled the World,” a Top 5 hit on Billboard’s R&B chart; Columbia/Sony recording artist Nas debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Album chart with a cover of the song in 1997.

In addition to live performances throughout the country, this year PBS has exclusively partnered with the production to air ALL ARTS Presents The Hip Hop Nutcracker at NJPAC on the ALL ARTS broadcast and

streaming channels starting Friday, September 27 at 8 p.m. The full program will air this fall and winter on local PBS broadcast stations throughout the country and nationwide through the free ALL ARTS streaming app and on allarts.org.

"This year, not only will audiences experience the magic of The Hip Hop Nutcracker live, but they'll be able to re-live the magic in their own homes as well, through our partnership with PBS,” Rodriguez said.

Through this re-mixed and re-imagined version of the classic, the dynamic performers of The Hip Hop Nutcracker take us on a journey that celebrates love, community and the magic of the holiday season!

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Dear STG Supporter,

I am the mother of a 9-year-old son with Down syndrome. Watching musicals, plays, and dance performances is something that our family values. However, knowing that my son may not be able to sit through entire performances, or that noises made by my son would make us feel pressured to leave, I’ve been hesitant to spend upwards of $100 on a Broadway ticket. Last winter, I heard that STG was presenting a senso-ry-friendly matinee performance of THE LION KING and that the tickets were underwritten by generous donors to the affordable prices of $15, $30, and $50! I immediately purchased tickets.

On the day of the performance, we arrived at The Paramount Theatre with great anticipation and many reservations. I quickly learned that STG thought of EVERYTHING to make this show comfortable for families like ours: reduced sound, family restrooms, noise-cancelling headphones, fidget toys, activity zones, and a leniency to allow food, talking, and movement at seats. All was going well for my son and I felt like my bases were covered. Then, we went to take our balcony-level seats and as soon as we walked into the auditorium he stopped and said, “No.” I convinced him to go see our seats, but he said, “Too high.” I had no idea that seat location would be an issue! I shared our predicament with a volunteer and within five minutes we were moved to floor-level seats. I was shocked and delighted.

The opening scene started with the animals walking down the aisle and my son’s face lit up with delight! It was at that moment that I started crying. I was crying because attending a show like this with my son was something that I thought would not happen for many years, if at all.

I am writing this letter to express to you that these kinds of experiences are necessary, deeply appreciated, and only possible with our community’s support. I hope you’ll read my story and want to bring the magic of live theatre to everyone diagnosed with Down syndrome, autism, and other sensory sensitivities. With your support, STG will be able to present another sensory-friendly performance of a Broadway hit musical – Disney’s FROZEN – on Saturday, February 22, 2020 at the Paramount Theatre. Please consider making a donation today to give community members like my son and me the ability to create amazing memories. I promise you, every family in the theatre that day will have their own story like mine.

Sincerely,

Rebecca WintersMother and STG Patron

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One of STG’s core values is to serve as stewards of Seattle’s historic Paramount, Moore, and Neptune Theatres, and part of our commitment to keeping these spaces healthy and vibrant is to welcome a new generation of visitors and patrons to experience their magic firsthand. That’s why STG is proud to offer free Historic Theatres Tours, led by members of our well-versed volunteer staff.

“Over 450,000 patrons pass through the doors of The Paramount each year. These free tours give the public a chance to learn more about this historic Theatre while giving them a glimpse behind the scenes.” - Josh LaBelle, Executive Director of Seattle Theatre Group

Tours of the Paramount Theatre take place on the first Saturday of every month and guests should meet in front of the main entrance, on the corner of 9th and Pine. Tours of the Moore Theatre are the second Saturday of every month and guests should meet in front of the main entrance, on the corner of 2nd and Virginia. Neptune Tours are the third Saturday of every month and guests should meet in front of the main entrance, on the corner of NE 45th St. & Brooklyn Ave. All tours begin at 10 a.m.

Additionally, Seattle Theatre Group is able to schedule tours upon request for student groups ages 7 and up. This is an excellent way for students to experience the technical aspects of the stage, take a behind-the-scenes look at backstage operations, and get an introduction to the history of the building.

For more information on STG’s Historic Theatre Tours, and to access virtual tours of the Paramount, Moore, and Neptune, please visit STGPresents.org/tours p

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BridgesDarwin ViernesAlisa & Josh VitelloMartin WalkerJan & Nancy WanamakerBruce & Peggy WantaMike WatersSteven WayneWeisman Family FoundationDeb WellerKeith WhittemoreScott & Linda WhittleseySteve WicklundAllen & Janice WiesenStephanie WildmanElizabeth WillisDeana L. WilsonMelinda & Sterling WilsonJennifer WoldChristopher WrightWyman Youth TrustDanielle & Jay YedinakJennifer Yi

$1,000 - $2,499Anonymous (2)Sylvia AbrahamssonLuba AbramovaACME FoodsCeleste Adame & Tanya KeeneClaudine AdamoJoanie & Craig AdamsA. Michael & Pamela AdamsSusan AdelmanKenneth & Marleen AlhadeffJay & Sandy AllenHeather Andersen & Leslie

ChristianLindsay Anderson & Janet PiehlMark & Caryl AndrewsDarryl AokiSherry V AppletonWayne ArakiLiat AramaAnne BackstromCraig BarkerDavid & Jacqui BarnesAndre BearfieldKatherine Beck FeyKate Becker & Michael ComptonChris & Michelle Becker

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SUPPORTERS of Seattle Theatre Group

Claire & Douglas BeighlePaul BergEric BissellStephen Black & Kevin McNamaraMary Ann BolteMarni BonninShaun BothaJulie BourmBarbara & Don BoxTim BoydGeorge BrewerTammra BrougherAlan BrownThe Edge Apts. LLC – Craig

BrownS. Lori BrownRobert & Lisha BrownShavondelia BrownSusan BrownDan & Pat BrzusekMark & Tiffany BuerkTom & Linda BurleyMark ByersKaren CaldwellEdward & Nancy CallawayLori CampanaRoger CampbellKim & Blake CantrellPam & Steven CardamenisJoseph CarlucciKevin & Megan McCarpenterSteve CarstensenPaul & Beverly CascioPaul & Theresa CaseyRichard CastanedaMyla Causing & Todd VersawTim & Sarah CavanaughJoe & Sara CerrellAatman ChaudharySuzan & Richard ChavezAmanda ChinJane ChuaDerick & Tracey ClackMatt ClarichGloria FernSharon & Melanie ColemanDebbie & Anna CollinsMatteo & Rachel ColomboJason & Lisa ColtonErin Combs & Mike MonroeRoss & Linda ComerDavid & Sherie CoonsJeremy Court & Deryn DovertyMichael CovarrubiasJohnna CraigJohn & Emily CrandallGail Crawford & John BarnardDonna J. Crider, DvmKristy & Dan CrouseKevin CurrierSarah D’OnofrioAnna DaniellRobert DavissonMonica & Stephen DayMichael DeerDan & Natalie DeloreyKathleen & Philip DemareeAlex DeutmeyerCatherine DhankiSuzanne DilanzoJaennae DiniusGail M. DollDonald Family FoundationMark Donovan & Erica ChrissGay Dorsey & Mike PoppoffJulie & Brook DurantLouise Durocher & Mike NelsonNathan DwyerOlga & Curt DyckmanKaren EastonDerek & Juiling EdmondsSteve EggeDavid McShea & Sophia EitelBrandt Elster

Chad ErrettEddie Escardo-Raffo & April

BaileyRachel EscotoElizabeth & Jeff EvansMark Everts & Will HowingtonLilia FanninMaritza FarrantLisa Fazio & Greg SchwartzRod FichterLani FisherWilliam FitzharrisCecilia FlombaumMichael & Marta FortinAlbert FosterDeborah FoutsChris & Christy FraryMichele FreedJames Paul FridenmakerMaureen FrischJamie FullenGlynn & Jessica FurbyKevin GeloffEric & Siege GetsingerEmily GigotGinny GilderLynn & Colleen GiroirLaura GlassThomas & Tracey GlembinJoanna Glickler & Brenda MajercinTurner GochanourAnna GoekeCorey GoldenIrwin GovermanDouglas GradyPeggy GravingBob GrecoDan & Gigi GreenTim & Michelle GreenMark & Stacey GriffithGerard GrohlThomas GuinnMaria GunnCari GunterCatherine HaapalaAndrew & Michelle HainesAlexander & Rebecca HamiltonSonia Handforth-Kome & Chris

BobbittEdward & Marybeth HarleyA. Gustav HartmannPete HayesSeattle GeneticsTammy HeldridgeJan Hendrickson & Chuck

LeightonBob & Jennifer HenningMichael & Kim HensleyCharles & Lisa HerbSandra HermanKelly & Michael HersheyLenee HicksCharlie Hill & Sarat Vann-HillChristina HitchcockDavid Holt, Arnp & William

FreestoneDouglas & Andrea HoltanJeffrey Howard & Jan CarltonMarie HuweTony IbrahimErik IsmertPeter JahnKevin & Nina JahneJessica JamtaasBrady JohnsonAsha Johnston & Tina DishmanHarvey Jones & Nancy IannucciJessica JonesMeg JonesJeff KauferJeanine KielbDale KingmanMatthew KinzelmanKimberley Kirkland

John & Karen KoisWilliam KonradyJeb KorziliusHenry & Jackie KotkinsSusan KramerEkawee Kriengkraipetch &

Michael WilsonElisa Krinsky-UnserElizabeth KronoffEmily KrouseRobin KruegerTim KruegerCathy Krug & Erik LundbergAmelia & Ana KrumholzRyan MaddenMonica LaneHolly & Taryn LanevilleDave LarsonIan LathamRobert LeetTherese Leggiere & Matthew

PoroskyThomas Leonard & Marianne

LesliePhyllis LeventhalJ.C. LevequeKasey LewisSharon LottSallie LumleyJulie LymanGrant & Sarah MacLeodDeming & Michelle MacliseCasey & Philip MadsenMona Lisa MagalDeborah MagallanesJohn MaganasMartha Makosky & Stephen

PrenticeSally MaloneyLori & Stephen MarkowitzTrisha MarshallAnthony ViggianoDonna MartinMichael MassaroBruce C MatheyFrank MaxwellCharles & Janette MayesStephen MccandlessMary Mcclellan AronenSusan McConnellNicole & Kirk McdonaldKristofor MckeanMegan MclaughlinMichelle MejiaLinda & Robert MelinJulie MetzgerEric Middleton & Doug AlderChad MonsonMargaret MontoyaJennifer & Aaron MorganThe Almo Group at Morgan

StanleyMitzi & John MorrisManette Moses & Dan JayneScott Murray & Peter CorippoJonathan NadeauRebecca & Rod NelsonDr. Neil NicholsonNintendo of America, Inc.George & Gloria NorthcroftAlicea & Nathaniel NovakAlida & Douglas OlesVictoria & Jacob OlsonJoe & Kathy OrnelasJessica OstrowJoe & Lea Anne OttingerTerry & Joe OzimekMichelle & Greg PageRuthann ParishEmily ParsonsSean PelletierVic PentzCatherine PetermanAutumn Peterson

Dave & Kristy PetersonMary PigottScott & Lisa PoradBill PredmoreRyan PricePricewaterhouseCoopers LLPDiana & Michael PriseMichelle PruittJudy QuickToni Kuhl-RadfordJim & Patricia RamsethAdam ReinekeRao RemalaKevin & Patrick RichardsonBrian Richmon & Kathleen

PetersonRush & Susan RieseChuck & Jane RileyThe D&P Roberts Family

FoundationBarbara RoperZan RossShawn & Jessica RourkRobin & William RutherfordAllan RyanDebra L. SandVictoria SandersAnthony SantosIsaiah SchaffMaren & John SchnebeckMark SchulzErin Schwartz & Adam JohnsonMolly & Lindsey SchwartzBryan & Stephanie ScottErin & Mark ShagrenMichelle ShawDeLee & Dick ShoemakerRachel Sirkin & Brian BowmanRyan Slaugh - Slaugh EngineeringTyler & Maggie SloneJohn SpodenDana StirnAmanda StofferDeborah & Keith StreeterRobin Supplee & Mike DerzonMichael SwillingOrsolya SzokeAndrew TammBG & Leslie TanzerRose Tatlow & Neil RosemanKenneth TemiyasathitSandra & Brian TennysonKristina Thomas & Lindsey LindGrant TillemansJennifer & Mark TomasTimothy Tomlinson & Vu PhamTandy & Susan TrowerLinda TuckerCornelis Van RijAdam VwichCelia Fulton WaldenEric WallaceBrett & Lisa WalldenMelanie & Jeff WalshClifford & Scott WebsterJosiah WedgwoodGary WenetDaryl Whitley & Greta MuslandLiesl & Jeff WilkeByron & Alonda WilliamsJari & Jill WilliamsSherry WilsonAmy WindhamBruce WisemanMatt WoltmanSteven & Mary WoodKate WoodcockAdrienne WuGrace & David YuanMark ZimmermanSara & Andy ZuchettoJim Zurcher

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SUPPORTERS of Seattle Theatre Group

$500 - $999Anonymous (3)Dan & Daria AbsherNick AchmonJon AguirreCarla & Mark AinsworthKim AlbrechtRaven AlderDoreen AliRene AlkoffBarbie AllenTom & Linda AllenHolly AllevaKen & Jennifer AltenaTrae & Amy AndersenMegan & Christopher AndersonHeather AndrewJessica AngelPatricia AroCassandra AspinallMatthew BaileyRich Baker & Katie McEachern-

BakerSusan BakerKate Endle & Chris BallewMichael BarclayJacqueline BarnesJeff & Carmen BarrAnne BartolKenneth BayerKatherine BealErin WeledDawn BeattyMerrill BehnkeShawn BehrensIn Memory Of Ron BellMarc Bellis & Lauri BurroughsJordi BengtssonGregg & Lauren BennettYoram & Maya BernetAnthony Beyer-TylerTushar BhatnagarA.K. BishopSally BjerklieMichael & Bryn BlackVirginia BlaineDonald Blair & Kathleen BemisGary BlevinsFrancie & Jason BlumingJonathan Bockelman & Margo FlynnEmerald City GuitarsSarah BossLinda & Nicholas BoxwellChristopher BoydTrevor BrauserPhilip BrazilBrenda BreuerSandee BrockMartha BrockenbroughRay & Yuko BroscovakKari Brotherton & Merrily BetzoldMark & Jen BroughtonPamela BrounsAllyson Brown & Greg McnuttZane BrownJohn & Amy BruceSean BulgerSarah & Tom BullockTracy N BurgessDina BurlingameTom & Yelena ButtonDennis ByrdJoan CainanSamantha CaplanJanet CaraganMarshall CarterPatricia CartmillMarianne CartwrightGreg & Mark CastelinDerek CastroAdrienne Caver-HallBarbara & Paul ChamberlainBeth Chandler

Grace ChangJessica & Eric ChanteloisAndrea ChatardPete & Robin ChikosM Patrick ChinnEric Chipps & Jennifer PettyjohnSteve ChoGrace ClarkSean ClarkKim ClausonJeff & Kathi CofflerCharles CollinsDow & Shirley ConstantineMr. Ari ConsulCeleste CosgroveAaron CrawfisCC & Bill CrenshawJulie CrudeleJohn Cunningham &

Karen GentlesCory Curtis & David AdamsDale CurtisCynthia & Mike D’AngeloRuss & Gemma DaggattJeff DanielLisa & Terry DavenportAddy DavisLeslie DeckerDave DedererDevon DehaasJeff DelongThomas DesLongchamp &

Jessica PhoenixDan DixonMatt DixonBeverly DoleacClaire M DonahueAlfred DonohueMarie Doyle & Robert IngmanRalph & Freddie DreitzlerRichard DuncanErin DziedzicDuane S EasterlyTerry & Robin EmminghamRenee EngelkingAndrew & Stacy ErismanAndrew EstesLinda EtimKelly Evans & Greg SherlesRobert EveristKay Nozaki EwingExpedia Inc.Juli FarrisAnn FeltonElayna FergusonPaul FerraroAvi FinkelBruce FischerTom Fisher & Kathy JorgensenKashawna FosterThe Dan Foster FamilyMichele FowlerSally & Eben FrankenbergJesse FreitasGreg & Lorien FriedmanDick & Sharon Friel Family

FoundationHolly FritzJerry FulksLana Fuller & Ted SiebertJames M. FursmanBrian & Kristi GalanteErica Garcia & JJ JaramilloAnnabel Lee Garcia-AndresenMark & Kathleen GarridoSheri GazittAnna GentrySarah GilesJonathan GillShelley & Lee GillMarc & Heather GilletteBrian GishDavid Giuliani

Michelle Goldberg & Michael AdlerNathan GoldbergPaul & Leisa GoldbergRonald & Elizabeth GoldbergBeth GoldeJennifer GoldsteinJonathan GoodmanSteven GottliebAgnes Govern & Mary PetersonLaura B. GowenJeffrey GrahamChristopher GreenwoodBarbara GriffinTroy GuilaoPatricia HaightGeorge HallJeff Hall & Karen O’BrienTom HallKate HallahanJim Hamilton & Billie CoopwoodSuzette & George HamiltonSarah & Mike HamrickMarcus & Michelle HandlerAnnette HankinsMarlene & John HarmelingAshley HarperKatherine Haselton & Benjamin

AndrewsKaren & Mark HaywardJames HeineMarilyn & Richard HerzbergHigashiyama Family Charitable

FundJaclynn HiranakaWilliam Hochberg & Anna ChoiKaren Holeman-BrownRobert & Linda HollandAndrea HollimanWayne HollisterLeslie & Daniel HopkinsMary P HoranAlisa HorwitzTina HoustonTami HurwitzKatherine & Brian HustedSteven Ip & Tina PhamRobert JackDaniel & Carol JacksonLarry Jacobson & Heather TrimJack & Sheila JaynesCameron JezorekRobert & Barbara JirsaBen JohnsonFrederick JohnsonKen JohnsonDana JohnstonJett JonesPaula Jones GongJudy JorgensenThe Judson Family FundChristian JuenkeJudy KalbRob & Joyce Kalivas-GriffinNandita KamathJessica KennedyRobert KennedySandy KennedyRuth KerrBerb KidderJill KillenLorna KneelandLindsay KnickelbeinKoh-Lee FoundationJohn KohlsaatStephanie & Aaron KornblumSara & Mark KranwinkleMichael Kuhnsman & Adrian

BennettPerry & Janet KusakabeBeverly LakeyRobert LaksKatharine LampertiNicholas Lane

Sierra LarkinShannon LassenGeorge LawsDavid LecompteAngelina LeeSe-Wai LeeFrank & Waltraut LehmannSanni LemonidisEric & Suzi LevineJan LevyCharles LibanChristopher, Jessica, & Alexander

LiderArmin & Kelly LiedtkeRoland LindseyDoug & Nan LittleJay & Jenifer LoomisAndrea LottJohn & Jennifer LovikLowen Family FoundationChris & Katharine LucasDillon Lynch & Ikuyo TsunodaLibby G. MacPheeAriana MagedsonChristine & Steve MalloukJames & Tracy ManloveNaomi Marquez-Blake &

Bruce BlakeChristopher MarrMaria MarsansSherry & Mitchell MaurerDani McdonoughScott McfaddenPatrick & Keri McgillKen & Lisa McGrawTracy McguireDavid & Karin MckeeBret MeakerJohn & Tammy MeehanShevaun MeggittDr. Marcy MeyerHeather MicklerEmmanel Miranda-SteinerManoranjan MishraKassandra & Aaron MitchellJudy MockAndrew & Annette MonaryRebecca MonkGabrielle & Michael MorgantiSean MorseMeg & David MourningChristine MoweryJanet MuldrowLiberty MunsonDoug & Suzy MyersCarolyn Nance & Klaus LusticaMichael NeufeldRandall NewellNextune, Inc.Julie NgoJennifer NicholAmy NiermeyerKevin NormanErika NusserNW Rain Gutter SystemsSteven O’BrienJohn O’NeillSheila O’Sullivan & David LeenAllison OdenthalTimothy OharaYasemin L. OktayGary OlsonJanice & Jack OlsonKaren Ortiz, PhdSusan & Carl OttJeremy PagetCarin & Andrew ParcelTanya ParypaMichael PasewarkMara PattonDarren PetersonEric PettigrewNoah Pittis

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SUPPORTERS of Seattle Theatre Group

Eric Pokorny & Jessica Kurtz Pokorny

Ken PottsBec PowellPaul PradelSusan PrayJames PressonTrish PriestTony S. Quang, MD, JDDavid R. QuickJuli RasmussenBrian & Mina RauschenbachRebecca & Barry RayJennifer Raz-LevakeTristan ReidfordGeoffrey ReimanKenneth ReimersJennifer ReinerLauri & Mike ReinhartSonia RekdahlRenee Remlinger-Tee & James TeeJane RepensekPatrick & Sarah RhoadsMatt & Laurel RichardsonMichael Rider & Lisa HoganRobert RiggleTimothy RiggsKaren Rilke & Roger DubbsMichaela RipleyThe Roarty FamilyColin RobinsonDon & Judy RogersSara RoggeLetcher RossJacob RossiAshley & Chris RossmanJim & Ann RuddMike RyanDavid SalamonRaymond SamShirley SanchezCarol Sanders & John LouxJudie SandersPeter SandersonFaith & Jason SandmaierMichael SarabosingMicah SaraceniJonathan SchmidtJoe SchwartzRockwell ScottScott & Meredith SelfonMatt Shaw & Tirza Sanchez-ShawUzma SiddiqiLillis SilbernagelNancy Simon & Mark IgraCarol & Stacy SimpsonKristina SimpsonArunjeet Singh & Navjot KaurVirtaj Singh & Sarah

Sullivan-SinghDavid & Catherine SkinnerSylvain SlatonAngie SmithBrian Smith & Megan DomenechChristina SmithDebra SmithKaren SmithNicole SmithTracey Smith & Eric KetoDavid SousaMerwin Moe SpencerAlexander C. & Tilly S. Speyer

FoundationJennie & David SpohrKristi SpouseCharlie StantonJames & Barbara StapperIan StarkCassi & Ciara Gadler & Lori

StephensKristin SternbergDarby StewartMelanie Stewart

Daniel StricklandWilliam SugarmanStuart SulmanGordon & Jennifer SunChristopher SvaraPenn TasingaTracy TavisJeannette DelayScott TaylorStauffer Taylor & Annie PoetkerRobin ThomasJyl & Michael ThompsonPaul ThorpeAndrew TonerJessica Torrez-RileyToby & Jen TravisMichael TrzupekClint TsengRalph & Jeanette TulianoScott UngerAnnie UranRonneil Valdez & Dustin ClewellChelsea & Connor ValentineVanessa VallejosJonathan VangstadDonna VanSwearingenMikal & Jenifer ViencekJim VirgilJohn & Janet WalkerKate WaltersChia WangVincent & Ami WardSusan WarwickGeir & Mary WatlandJerry & Vreni WattCrystal WillitsWayne & Laurie WennemanElizabeth WeybrightMerianne WhiteKC WhitehouseDavid WhitneyCarolyn WhitverKarri WickaDean & Nancy WieseHeather WildeFred & Deborah WildsRachel WilkaRob WillitsBrianna WinnSherri WolsonStephen WoodlandSung Yang & SoYoung KwonChristopher Yee MonAnn & David YostHilary YoungCraig ZajacMary ZavalaRobert Zipp

$250 - $499Anonymous (2)Oscar AbelloPaul Abundis Jr.Chrissy AcarreguiDiane AckGary Ackerman & Robin DearlingDoug & Shelly AckermanBethany AcreeJulie Adam & Tom BoriottiAetna Matching GiftsYonatan AhdutBryan & Yuko AlbertsAmanda AldousAudrey AlexanderRachel AllenSpencer AmbauenCasey & Melinda AndersonDouglas AndersonJennifer AndersonMari Anderson & Terry GreenMary AndersonSheila AndersonTerra AndersonNwando Anyaoku

Melanie & Casey ArenaMichael AspiAT&T Matching GiftsDorothy AtewologunSusan AznoffJan Backstrom & Brian HansonBadgley + PhelpsTammy & Joel BahrDavid BaldwinMichael BarnardCorrin BauerSteve BeanEdward Ben-JudahJeff BiddyEric & Elaine BidstrupJayanne BixbyBrian & Denise BlackMona BladMatthew & Joanna BoisenAnn BorelliRandall BosemanLisa BouchardJerry BougieMichael BoyleJulia BraidBrandt Forensic EconomicsElisabeth BratlienRebecca & Jody BraytonDavid & Satin BrennanPamela & Thomas BreskeDavid BreskinSara BrinShane Brooks & Martin PearceJoe BrownStephen & Lise BrownSusan BrownMelanie BurchPaula BurkeSara BurkeJoshua Busch & Cara OliverTania Busch IsaksenAlan CabodiJanet Moulton CalerMaxwell & Mindy CameronAndrew CantorMicah CarcellarSenator Reuven CarlyleLauri CarterBrian & Melanie CasparroCorey CasperArianna CastorJean-Pierre ChamberlandArti Chandra & Paul GastDoug CharlesElaine & Kierin ChaseSteven ChauKristen ChickM.E. ChisholmMarie ChongKyle ChristensenPatricia ChristensonAndrea ChymiyPenny ClaytonKathryn CoatsTimothy CoffeyRobin L ColeDoug & Jodi CollinsPaige & Ross CollinsDawn ColstonGeorge CookRick Kustina & Nancy CooperPatti & Peter AmundsonJennifer CotaWilliam CourshonMeaghan CraigCatherine CrandellDaric CravenKim CripeJill & Kellee CrisafulliJulie & Brian CunninghamPatti & Tom CunninghamLuke & Misha DacyKathryn & Rick Dalzell

Alan & Karin DashenGretchen DaveyJudith DaveyHeather DavidsonThomas & Launa DavisO’Donnell DayLeonardo Del RiegoSharon DelabarreJacki DeleckiWendy & Peter DelucaJeffrey & Nancy DensonRobert DeweeseAmy & Derreck DicksonRichard Dizon & Louise ParkerChristopher DollJana DombrowskiNancy DombrowskiDundeana & Eamon DoyleRadu DraganJosh DudashJennifer DurandMark DurfeeCheryl DuryeaJanet DuvardoMalaika & Michael EatonDwayne & Kristin EdwardsMalinda & Jean-Emile ElienWendy EllingtonChris ElliottBrian EllisRichard ElyCindi EngelhardtTodd EnsignTamara ErhartCatherine EricksonPhilip & Michele EricksonAlicia EvansMarci EversoleDan & Jeanne EvertsLaura EwbankLauren & Andrew ExniciosJonathan FeifsRobert & Ramona FemianoDoug & Robin FergusonKent FerrisAlyx FierRobyn FinkbeinerBen FjosneJeff & Kristy FlagelFlatstick PubHolly FlattKevin FlemingJed & Michelle FosterLee & Sally FoucheBelinda FuJoe FullerSusan FungBrian FuscoMary GalashSteven GalesJohn Gallagher & Michael

BittermanKelley & Larry GarciaStanley GarlingtonWilliam H. Gates IIIConnie GereauxMary Kay GermanyGregory GessellKaren & Thomas GetzingerRenee GiuglianoRobert GlaserVicki Godden-AllenJohn GoebelNeil GompertzE.J. GongIlene GorskiBenjamin GoseBrittany & Darin GrangerStephanie GreenbergDarlyne GreenwaltJennifer GreerMarilyn GrenetGordon Griggs & Valerie Stevens

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SUPPORTERS of Seattle Theatre Group

Katharine GrubbJennifer GuildDebra GumbardoSabrina GundersonCarol HagenStephen & Vicki HagenMr. & Mrs. John HambacherOsama & Kisah HamdanErick & Sarah HammersmarkKelli HanenbergJessica HansonGreg & Leslie HarlowKendal HarrGretchen HarrellChristian HaselbachCarolyn HastingsJason & Stacie HaworthMarlo HaynesMohamed HegazyEric & Monica HeinbergHeather HeinzenIan & Jana HellenMaryjo HellerPatricia HellrigelThomas & Patricia HendersonMarnie HendrixChuck & Christine HendryxBradley HenryMiguel & Christine HerreraDavid HerreraDick & Sheila HessPeter & Jane HessleinTony & Vicki HewlettTara HicksAnn Hicks-ThomasMichael HillsLarry & Mary HobackDarren HochstedlerErin Ellen HoffChristine HogleSteve & Michelle HoglundBrenna & Jerry HolkinsKaty HollenbaughMelissa HolschbachBeau HoltHarvey & Barbara HoltBettie HopkinsSarah & Sam HuberJoleen HughesMichael HuiRachel HungerfordNathan & Melissa IngersollMichelle & Jack IretonMichelle IrwinJocelyn & Scott IsaacsKerry & Steve ItamiScott IwataLesley JacobsJessica & Rajit JainGail JamesErik JansenPurnam JantraniaJeri JardineLaura & Mark JenningsAlyssa JohnsonDianna JohnsonTracy & Greg JohnsonBen JonesLoretta JuarezLeni KarrEduardo KassnerDeborah KatzTerry & Lori KatzakianGordon C KeithMark & Jeanette KellerKaylynn KelleyElise KellySallie KesseyDavid KikerLisa KimmetJoshua & Heidi KingLauren KingLindsey King

Glynnis KirchmeierRobert KirshenbaumKenneth & Lisa KlionsTracy KnoxMark KoningsAmanda KopmanMargaret KovacsJohn KovalScott KrahlingStephanie KristenDieter & Jing KrumpelmannXavier LambarriKaren & David LaneCarrie LangTheresa & Bryce CarabelloGregory LanterJeni LargentMatt LathropErin & Mike LavinBrian & Suzanne LeavittHerb & Deborah LebeauShannon ReynoldsHock Lee & Sok SeahRob & Kelly LeeWilliam LeveringLisa Levine & Eddie RehfeldtNeil LevineDana LevyGreg & Teresa LineberryDonald & Joellen LoebMark LombardiBrandy LongGabriel LongoriaJeremiah LopezRichard & Alexandra LowellJustin LugerIvan LyseneShawn & Laura MacDougallJonathan & Susan MacLarenMurdock & Agnes MacPhersonMark MadsenSharon MahsmanScott & Leigh Anne MalavotteChristopher & Kristin MaloneyJoseph ManalangDavid MannBurnie & Penni MaplesJeffrey MargolisMichael MarshallSandra & Steve MarshallIrene & Jim MartelAnne MartinDiane MartinJeremiah MartinWendi MartinEstela D MartinezTrenton MastMichael MathieuJohn Maynard & Sally AnnabellaCameron MccollBarbara & Jerry McculloughLiz McdanielCeline McleanVictoria Henson & Howard

MeachamCarin MengertSteve MenteleErin & Joseph MilanSheree Miller & Ben GreerTristan & Carole MillsLindsey MillsBob & Peggy MooreCole MoraBecky MorenoWendy & Kevin MoreyKathy & John MorrowMarc Mrkvicka & Cynthia PierceJohn & Ann MuellerSanaya & Rachana MundraMJ MunsellAileen MurphyFranco & Jacklyn NalingJames Navone

Patricia NefKendra NeilBonnie NelsonRocky NewtonSusan O’NeillKimberly OlivasKevin OngMichele OrricoThomas OrtenziBarbara A OsborneShana OsmerJanice Oten-JensenLindsay & Behzad PakzadJason PankowSusan ParkerRobert ParnellKimberly & James PedersenRussell PengellyMinerva Del Razo & Cesar PerezLiz & Nick PermannYan Perng & David SongGary PetermanCarol PetersElton PintoKathleen PittsBrian & Joan PoorAnthony PorrasGary PounderKenneth PowersJoseph PruittDenise & Robert PutnamSteve PuzRoger QuigleyDiann RainerSteve RansomColby RayKevin & Robbi ReedHarry ReinertCindy & Rick ReishusJulia RenouardMark Rentz & Rupa PatelKaren Resquer BurnhamTracy ReuterDonna ReynoldsSean ReynoldsRodney & Sandy RichNicholas RieslandJoe & Linnet RobertsShawn Roberts & LaShon WatsonBethany RobinsonDorothy RocaKirsten RogersScott RosenLaurie Rosen-RittRyan & Jeanine Pang-RubianesMeegan RuckerChuck & Jessica RullmanElizabeth RummagePatricia RussellAndrea RyderBarry SacksBrian SandersMark & Sylvia SandsBrenna SandstromSarah SappLinda & Michael SchieweDavid & Janet SchumacherLarry SetlowGeorge & Sovanny Sexton Inc.Jake & Ruth Ann ShannonGlen Shapiro & Sebina SetiaMeghan & Dan SheridanDana ShimminChuck & Gretchen ShivelyEvan ShusterRudy & Brennan SiasVirginia SimmonsJoel SimpsonAmy PowellCheryl Lee & Rick SkadanMike & Megan SladeRobin SloaneElon Slutsky

Jim & Laura SmithSmith-Stoe FamilyTracy SpeedLana StaheliDorothy SterlingBret StoroRosa SuenRobert & Patricia SullivanLoren SuppT-Mobile, USA, Inc.Mary MartensJulie & Tom TaylorLogan Jay TaylorLisa & Marty ThenellHeather ThibaultJordan ThompsonMichelle TiederMichelle TiegsDr. John & Joan TornowPaula TowneJeannie ToyEvelyn TrabantFrida Cecilia TrollbyPatricia Tucker-DolanSharleen TuftsChris & Lori TwomeyLaura TylerAllan & Barbara TysonMichelle UrbergMurray UrquhartJolianne ValentinoJennifer & Donald Van DykeRobert Van GorkomTara Van NimanMonserrat VargasLeroy Vaughn-OginRichard & Marcia VenneJeremy VermilyeaJay VictorSara WadeEden & Hank WaggonerJessica WagonerBeth WannRobert & Becky WardTyler & Jenny WeaverEdward WebberDawn WebsterWilliam & Judy WeinbergerEric & Blaine WellerMark & Jennifer WenrickKathryn WerdalBrad Wethington & Liliana RoblesBranston & Kelly WeyerJake & Katie WhamShannon WhitemarshStephanie WielandAndre WigginsJeff & Monica WilcoxJordan WilcoxMargaret WiltzChristopher WinchesterDamion WinshipMichael WinterKarl WirsingWill Witherspoon & Anna KalatMarcus WolfingtonCarol WorkmanMonty & Amy WrightJackie WuJohn & Katia WuestKen & Jan YalowitzLynn YanagidaBrian YeeRob & Diane YoungMichael YoungNathan YoungMichael Yurka & Michelle Philbin

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BOARD OF DIRECTORSMasha Hart, PresidentBob Lipman, TreasurerSteve Peltin, Vice PresidentShavondelia Brown, SecretaryRicardo Frazer, Chairman DirectorsLindsay AndersonJan BlockBecky BogardLarry CohenPeter DavisJames KraftBrian LangstraatJim MargardDavid McSheaGeorge NorthcroftTina PodlodowskiNatalie RobbeckeRon Wilkowski

HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS

Ida Cole, Founding Director

CENTERSTAGE COUNCIL Ted and Danielle Ackerley Howie Barokas Ann Deutscher Janie Hendrix Marty Loesch and Cyndi Lewis John Maynard Chris McReynolds Tina Pappas and Robert Aigner Paul Pradel Stephen and Sheila Salamunovich Michael Shrieve Jeff Trisler Gigi and Alan White

IN MEMORIAM

Kabby Mitchell, III

SLATE OF OFFICERS 2018 – 2020

Bonnie Briant Chairperson

Melinda Wilson Vice-Chair

Arlene Rankin Secretary

MembersCarol AllenJoAnn FieldSara HartSusan JacksonLinda MiddlebrooksGinny RabagoLynn ThrasherMarian Thrasher

Honorary MembersPhil Hargiss, Puget SoundOrgan Society

STG Volunteer Office Coordinator

Jim Malatak

MEMBERS OF STAFFEXECUTIVE OFFICEJosh LaBelleExecutive DirectorDavid AllenChief Operating OfficerOlivia ThomasExecutive Assistant

PROGRAMMINGAdam ZacksChief Programming OfficerRyan CookSenior Talent BuyerDebra Heesch Special Events Manager Jack McLarnanManager of Fine Arts ProgramsNadia QuitslundBooking & Sales ManagerMackenzie MercerBooking Associate

MARKETINGKen PottsDirector of Marketing & CommunicationsKina AckermanSocial Media & PR AssociateLauren DanielsDigital Communications ManagerEmily KrahnPublic Relations ManagerKevin HarrisGraphic DesignerStevie HollowayDigital Communications AssociateKelly McMahonData ManagerHilary NorthcraftMarketing Manager, Season ProgramsJason RossSenior Marketing ManagerMarcus ShriverJunior Marketing Manager

DEVELOPMENTMaura AhearneDevelopment DirectorAnna CulpMajor and Planned Gifts DirectorBrian LaytonHistoric Facilities Program DirectorAngela LindouGrants ManagerMyra MushallaCorporate Relations CoordinatorAngela Neubauer Donor Relations ManagerDanielle OlsonDirector of Corporate RelationsAaron Semer Director of Individual Giving

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMSVicky LeeDirector of Education & Performance ProgramsShawn RobertsAiley Camp Director & Dance for PD DirectorSarah StrasbaughAssociate Director of Community ProgramsMarisol Sanchez BestAssociate Director of Education ProgramsAmberlee JoersBroadway AdministratorRex KinneyDance Education & Performance ManagerAlexis RamirezProgram AssistantMartin SepulvedaSpecial Artistic Projects Manager

PATRON SERVICESTory Wimer ContrerasDirector of Sales and Patron ServicesJeff BeauvoirDirector of TicketingPhil Brock, Greg Pacenti, Stefanie WolfShow SupervisorsHeather Doublestein Club Relations ManagerAlicia GibsonClub Relations & Events Assistant ManagerMandi Kimes Club Relations CoordinatorEvan FrolovPatron Services LeadNgai KwanTicketing ManagerJenny LachutaClub Relations & Ticketing Assistant ManagerBryan LineberryCommunity Sales ManagerPJ Mertz Sales ManagerZach AdamsSeason Sales CoordinatorJoe Maxwell Patron Services CoordinatorSara SucharskiConcert Ticketing CoordinatorElizabeth Davenport Front Desk AdministratorSusie ChavezPatron Services AssistantGustavo Amaya, Cenee Cain, Courtney Comfort, Jessica Davis, Rodney Dungo, Sophia El-Wakil, Chad Gabagat, Brandon Peck, Mia SessionsBox Office Associates

PHONE ROOMJordan AcostaPhone Campaign Manager Tom Barnes, Derek Felter, Scott Fisher, Jeff Kahrs, Cathy Krug, Penelope Loucas, Cheryl Nance, Andrew Peate, Frida WeismanCallers

HUMAN RESOURCESNate DwyerDirector of Human Resources Misty StevensHR/Safety Manager

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATIONGary CorringtonChief Financial OfficerPat Butler ControllerBrianna EvansVenue AccountantJennifer MooreAccountantKaty RoffeAccountant Payable SpecialistEllen TrowbridgePayroll SpecialistEva Cooperman Accounting Assistant

THEATRE OPERATIONSDavid AllenChief Operating OfficerDean WattlesOperations ManagerMichael von KempfNetwork Administrator

HOUSE STAFFMason SherryTheatre Manager

Ted DowlingHouse ManagerBrandon CyprianHouse ManagerLila HughesHouse Manager Bob Phare House ManagerBillie WebberHouse Staff

MAINTENANCEJeff DeVickDirector of Building ServicesJulia BeckleyBuilding Services ManagerJudith Carroll, Grant Fryer, Robert Phare, Connor SturzenMaintenance Staff

CUSTODIALDembo HatuBuilding Services Assistant Manager

Joshua Aberilla, Denise Antoine, Alex Arthur, David Beckley, Brenton Bennett, David Breyman, Jordan Elliott, Fadumo Farah, Skylar Ford, Orlando Garcia, Eugene Garrett, Michael Girardi, Andrea Groce, Lonnie Haynes, Chris Last, Renica Leach, Nikita Pines, Sherry Procell, Nathan Ranft, Nikita Tarver, Kirk ThompsonCustodial Staff

LEAD CREW PARAMOUNTMike MilesTechnical Director/Master CarpenterIan GardnerMaster CarpenterByron ReynoldsHead FlymanJeff PayneHead ElectricianMike MillerHead Sound EngineerJason MontgomeryHead Props Pam FarrowHead of Hair & Makeup Delia MulhollandWardrobeRoy NiendorfAssistant CarpenterKelly MickelsonAssistant Sound

LEAD CREW MOORERobert MargoshesTechnical Director/Head Electrician Steve MartinStage ManagerAnneka KielmanElectrician

LEAD CREW NEPTUNEDan Reinharz Theatre ManagerMark McLean Head Electrician/Lighting DesignerJohnny Venegas Stage ManagerKristopher Couture Head Audio EngineerMiranda Lerian House Manager Josh Bahr Key Grip

HISTORIC THEATRES LIBRARYStaffed by volunteers

Josh LaBelle, Executive Director VISION To enrich, inspire, challenge and expand our world through the arts

MISSION Making performances and arts education in the Pacific Northwest enriching, while keeping Seattle’s historic Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatres healthy and vibrant

CORE VALUES • Stewards of historic theatres • Catalysts for community alliances • Passion for diversity in the arts, artists and audiences • Arts leadership locally, regionally and nationally

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As the steward of three historic theatres, STG places great emphasis on protecting the rich history of the Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatres and the countless, diverse performances that have taken place on their stages. Because of this, STG created the Seattle Theatre Group Historic Theatres Library. Located on the fourth floor of the Paramount Theatre Office Tower adjacent to the theatre, the STG Historic Theaters Library is free and open to the public every Tuesday and Thursday from 10am to 3pm, as well as during all public and student tours of the Paramount.

The Library first opened its doors to the public on March 1, 2012, though the project began early in December 2010. It required the gathering, sorting, documenting, cataloging, and preserving of over 100 years of historical data. With tens of thousands of volunteer hours to date, this continues to be an on-going project.

The objective of STG’s Historic Theatres Library is three-fold:• To ensure historical material that exists of the three theatres is properly preserved and documented for future

generations.• To provide an educational environment for youth that would offer an opportunity to learn and experience the

remarkable history of the three theatres.• To offer the community a setting in which to become better acquainted with the history and thereby develop a

deeper understanding of three of the few remaining historic theatres in Seattle.

Managed by our long-term volunteers, The Thrashers, and aided by several other dedicated volunteers, the library’s collection includes: materials about the performers that graced the stages over the many decades, documents depicting the peaks and valleys that these theatres had to endure, information on the visionaries responsible for these theatres, priceless memorabilia, and countless signed posters, among other historical resources.

The collection’s contents are searchable by and accessible to everyone, both at the library location in the Paramount building and on STG’s website. For more information about the Library and its services, please visit stgpresents.org/library.

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