northlight - stella and lou

BJ Jones Timothy J. Evans ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Scenic Design Brian Sidney Bembridge, USA

Costume Design Rachel Laritz, USA

Lighting Design JR Lederle Sound Design Andrew Hansen Dramaturg Kristin Leahey, Ph.D. Production Stage Manager Rita Vreeland, AEA

THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

DIRECTED BY BJ Jones

BY

Bruce Graham

presents

OPENING NIGHT: MAY 10, 2013At the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie

This play was originally commissioned by Northlight Theatreas the annual recipient of the Selma Melvoin Playwrighting Award.

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Francis Guinan* .............................................................................................................. LouEd Flynn* ................................................................................................................... DonnieRhea Perlman* .............................................................................................................Stella

CAST (in order of appearance)

Understudies: Lucinda Johnston (Stella), Andy Luther (Donnie), Steve Schine (Lou)

Understudies will not substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

*Member of the Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.

Stella & Lou will be performed without an intermission.

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Casting Director ........................................................................................... Lynn BaberProps Master ................................................................................................ Brad SauperAssistant Props Designer ........................................................................... Jillian LuceCostume Supervisor .......................................................................... Maureen StrobelAssistant to the Director ...............................................................................Cody Estle

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When I first talked to Bruce Graham about writing a new play after his success with the Jeff Award-winning The Outgoing Tide, our discussion centered around the characters that would inhabit the play. He had written a film years before with characters that continued to fascinate him, and interestingly were facing life choices that mirror those faced by our audience. There are members of our audience, as in theatres across the country,

who are older and single by virtue of divorce or the death of a spouse. In some cases they are reviving their interest in life and are searching for a companion to share that new energy with. There are some, however, who have lost the road map for their lives since the person that was reading that map is no longer in the passenger seat. Stella and Lou are two such people: one yearning for a new life, one mourning a loss of direction, both still vital and worthy of sharing their lives with another. This critical crossroads is a moment to either embrace or to succumb to for people at a certain age (and the “baggage” they lug with them). Many of us are there, at that turning point, and whether or not we make the “right” choice, it will and can only be our choice.

We’re living longer, hopefully healthier, and with a renewed sense of purpose this time of life can be vivid and exciting. It will determine the legacies by which our loved ones will remember us. How do we wish to live this next chapter? How do we wish to honor those that have gone before, and how do we want to reawaken the spirit of our youth in our later years?

I know my answer...how about yours?

BJ Jones, Artistic Director

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

KRISTIN LEAHEY: What has been Stella & Lou’s development process? BRUCE GRAHAM: Stella & Lou began as a screenplay about twenty-five years ago, entitled Riley’s Last Request. Hollywood wasn’t interested in a middle-aged love story because the couple’s ages were “unattractive” by movie standards. So, I put it on a shelf. A couple of years ago, BJ asked about developing another piece. I kept returning

to the story of Stella and Lou. I wrote it as a two-character play originally. Donnie, the third character who appears in the play, is in the film. I did two readings with the work as a two-character play and two readings with the addition of the third character, Donnie. It was the first time I have ever added a character to a later draft of a new play. I’ve cut characters before, but I’ve

INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT BRUCE GRAHAM by Resident Dramaturg Kristin Leahey, Ph.D.


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never added a character. I thought thematically it worked, and it really helped the play. It is the quietest play I’ve ever written.

KL: What is the relevance of Philadelphia in your work?BG: I grew up in Philadelphia and have lived there most of my life. To me, Philadelphia is a muse. Tennessee Williams had New Orleans and the South and Clifford Odets had New York; I have a fondness for Philly. I do think that where you grow up influences your writing. With Philadelphia, I also locate the blue-collar characters I write about, although everyone can empathize with them and their situations regardless of where the plays is set or who you are. As long as the emotions are universal, you can set the play on the moon.

KL: How autobiographical is Stella & Lou?BG: The initial situation of a woman asking a man out on a date, after they have known each other for a long time, is autobiographical. My mother died over thirty years ago. A few years later a woman asked my father out on a date and they ended up living together for twenty-seven years. She was terrific and a real godsend for us all. I didn’t know what to do with my father – he wasn’t a sociable guy. It’s not like he was going out to clubs and having a good time; he went to work and he came home. It is a real problem with people as they get older; you lose a spouse and it is not like you can or want to run out and start over again.

KL: Any other plays or films that are going into production?BG: My play North of the Boulevard just opened at the Theatre Exile. They produced Belmont Avenue Social Club a few years back at an actual social club. It was the best set: I could smell the cigarettes and everything! And I have a play opening up off-Broadway in April. It’s an old play called According to Goldman. In the span of one month I will have an opening in Philadelphia, New York, and Skokie.

KL: Do you feel like these plays have a different resonance in each city?BG: That’s interesting; my plays don’t have an abstract concept behind them. I did The Outgoing Tide with Northlight, in Delaware, Philly, and New York, and it has been pretty much the same everywhere. Primal emotion wise my plays kinda play the same. When Northlight did Belmont Avenue Social Club, and I first met BJ, he asked me, “Do you mind if we set it in Chicago.” He said, “Instead of bushel of crabs we say bucket of clams, and instead of down the shore, we say down the lake.” With just a couple of regional changes, I said go ahead. I have such a good feeling in Chicago. I love Chicago. If I didn’t live in Philadelphia, I’d live here.

KL: What are your favorite sports teams?BG: I’m a huge baseball and football fan from Philly. My brother and I like the Flyers. I also love college basketball. If the Eagles were out, I would root for the Bears.

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INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT cont.


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NORTHLIGHT’S INTERPLAY READING SERIES

There is nothing quite like being in the audience as a play is performed for the first time - hearing it come to life and getting behind-the-scenes insight from the playwright, the director, and the actors. Providing audiences the opportunity to witness a part of the evolutionary process from initial idea to full theatrical production is the mission of the Interplay Reading Series at Northlight Theatre. Since its inception in 2006, Interplay has presented exciting new works by American and international playwrights and granted audiences a glimpse into the critical stages of early play development. The series helps Northlight learn about emerging

writers and artists and further solidify relationships between artists and the theatre, while serving as an important development step for many of the plays before they move on to full productions. In preparation for the Interplay presentations, the director, dramaturg, and casts rehearse for one or two days, where many important questions and ideas are raised about the continued development of the play.

As of spring 2012, Interplay has staged readings of 24 new plays, over 20 of which have gone on to full productions at Northlight, in Chicago, and around the country, and two of which continued to international acclaim at Ireland’s Galway Arts Festival. From Interplay, Northlight has fully produced many important works you have seen on our stage, including Lady by Craig Wright (2007), Po Boy Tango by Kenneth Lin (2007), Better Late by Larry Gelbart and Craig Wright (2009), The Outgoing Tide by Bruce Graham (2011), Ten Chimneys by Jeffrey Hatcher (2012), and the production you are attending today– Stella & Lou by Bruce Graham. And next season Northlight will produce Chapatti by Christian O’Reilly, which was showcased at Interplay last fall. The staggering success rate has established Interplay as a valuable incubator for new work in the American theatre. With nearly

40 world premieres produced by Northlight in our 38-year history, Northlight has become an important contributor to the American theatrical canon.

John Mahoney, Linda Kimbrough and Mike Nussbaum, Better Late Interplay, 2008.

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THE MAKING OF STELLA & LOU

The artistic relationship between BJ Jones and playwright Bruce Graham began when Jones appeared in Graham’s play The Belmont Avenue Social Club at Northlight Theatre in 1992. When Jones became Artistic Director of Northlight Theatre in 1998, interested in Bruce’s writing, he actively began reading and following the writer’s new plays in consideration for the Northlight stage.

In 2009, Jones approached Graham to pen a play as a vehicle for actor John Mahoney, which led to The Outgoing Tide. In the spring of 2009, with a first but strong draft of the play, The Outgoing Tide was workshopped and read in our Interplay Reading Series. By engaging with the audience in a post-reading discussion, the playwright was able to directly ask them about their thoughts, which further assisted him in crafting the work.

In April of 2011, Northlight began rehearsals for the full production of The Outgoing Tide with the stellar acting company of John Mahoney, Rondi Reed, and Thomas Cox. Graham joined the rehearsal process, where he made changes to the end of the play. He returned again during the preview process, where he was able to see the full production and continue to finesse the work.

The play was a box-office smash and a major critical and artistic achievement for Northlight Theatre. The Outgoing Tide was nominated for a number of

2011 Chicago Jeff Awards and was awarded “Best New Play.” In 2012, the production transferred to the Galway Arts Festival, where it was met with an equally enthusiastic response from both Irish audiences and critics. Perhaps most importantly, Graham was provided an artistic home and the flexibility to work with Northlight Theatre on how to best develop his plays.

As a result of this important and successful collaboration, Northlight commissioned Stella & Lou. Graham describes the piece as an intimate departure from his more robust, comic work, in which characters are trying to define their rather fragile and new relationship.

During the spring of 2012, Northlight held an invitation-only reading in our rehearsal room for an audience of previous Interplay attendees. In addition, Northlight held a closed reading of the piece at the famed

Ed Flynn, Rhea Perlman and Francis Guinan, Stella & Lou Interplay, 2013.


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Case in Point: Playwright Bruce Graham

“A play cannot be written in a vacuum. A good play should run the audience through a gamut of emotions. We want you to laugh, cry, fall in love, get angry, be scared. Smart playwrights LISTEN to an audience. That joke you wrote that was hilarious on Monday morning just dies on Friday night. That touching love scene has people shifting in their seats and looking at their watches. That bold moment of revelation in Act Two gets unintentional laughs.

“We need an audience – real, live people - to tell us this stuff. On a practical matter, it’s much more economical to find out if a play works or not using one day of rehearsal, some actors and a couple of chairs as opposed to a full production. Play readings are good business sense.

“George Burns once lamented the death of vaudeville by saying, ‘Now young comics have no place to be lousy.’ Well, none of us set out to write a lousy play but sometimes we do. Or write good plays with lousy sections. Interplay – and programs like it – make it possible for us to see the lousy stuff, fix it, and write better plays.”

– Bruce Graham, writer of The Outgoing Tide and Stella & Lou

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Players Club in New York City. As a result of these readings and rigorous note sessions with the Northlight artistic team, Graham added the third character of Donnie, in hopes of fleshing out the narrative, and removed the intermission in an effort to drive the pace of the piece, among other reasons.

This past fall, in collaboration with Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre and Arden Artistic Director Terry Nolen, a reading took place in the city where the play is set. Graham learned more about what played in his hometown, as well as its universality. In January of 2013, an Interplay reading of the work was performed at Northlight with Ed Flynn, Francis Guinan, and Rhea Perlman, who reprise their roles in our current production. We hope that by sharing a glimpse into of our development processes through Interplay, it will help us continue to create new plays and musicals for our Northlight audience and the American Theatre.

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Ed Flynn (Donnie) couldn’t be happier to be standing on a stage in Chicago. Notable credits include Troy in I Am Going To

Change The World (Chicago Dramatists), Scott in Suicide, Incorporated (Gift) and Mitch (as a performing understudy) in David Cromer’s A Streetcar Named Desire (Writers’). Ed is a member of the Gift Theatre Company, where he is Co-Artistic Director of giftFILM and is a founding member of NATURAL GAS, the Gift’s house improv team. Ed is a graduate of Steppenwolf, The Second City, iO and UCB. He is not a graduate of Ohio State. Ed currently lives in Los Angeles, and yet remains very pale.

Francis Guinan (Lou) returns to Northlight where he was seen in Season’s Greetings and Inherit the Wind. He has been a member of

the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble since 1979 where he has appeared in over 30 productions including The Birthday Party, Time Stands Still, The Book Thief, American Buffalo, and August: Osage County. He has also appeared at Victory Gardens (A Guide for the Perplexed), Goodman (Seagull) and American Blues (Rantoul and Die). Television appearances include Boss in the role of Gov. Cullen, filmed here in Chicago; Eerie, Indiana, ER, Frasier and several Star Trek franchise episodes. Film roles include appearances in The Last Airbender, Typing, Low Tide, and Constantine. For Kate, always.

Rhea Perlman (Stella) is a four-time Emmy winner for her role as Carla on the NBC TV show Cheers and has been a star of television,

stage and film for more than 30 years. Stage credits include Love, Loss and What I Wore (in which she appeared with her daughter Lucy) at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles and on Broadway; the Broadway production of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; the Off-Broadway play The Exonerated; the Los Angeles production of Last Night at Ballyhoo and the London West End revival of Boeing-Boeing. Film credits include The Sessions, Sunset Park, Canadian Bacon and Carpool, and Matilda, co-starring and directed by her husband, Danny DeVito. Television credits include Taxi, Hung, Law & Order: SVU, Kate Brasher, Hot in Cleveland, and Pearl, in which she starred and executive produced, and television movies including The Christmas Choir, Houdini, Secret Cutting and How to Marry a Billionaire. This fall Perlman reunites with Kirstie Alley in TV Land’s new comedy, Kirstie’s New Show in which she plays Alley’s assistant and best friend, Thelma. Perlman lives with her family in Los Angeles.

BJ Jones (Director and Northlight Artistic Director) is in his 15th season as Artistic Director of Northlight Theatre where he directed the world premieres of The Outgoing Tide (Jeff Nomination – Best Director), Lady, Better Late, Rounding Third with George Wendt, and Sky Girls, as well as productions of The Odd Couple, Grey Gardens, Season’s Greetings, The Lady with All the Answers, A Skull in Connemara, The Cripple of Inishmaan, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. He has guided the world premieres of The Last Five Years, The Gamester, and Studs Terkel’s ‘The Good War’. Other Chicago directorial credits include: Pitmen Painters (Jeff Nomination –

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Best Director, Timeline), A Number (Next), 100 Saints You Should Know (Steppenwolf), The Dresser (Body Politic). Regional: Glengarry Glen Ross (Suzie Bass Nominee - Best Director, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre), Enchanted April (Asolo Theatre), and productions at Cherry Lane Theatre NY, Galway Arts Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, and Utah Shakespeare Festival. As a performer, Mr. Jones is a two-time Jeff Award winner and has appeared at Northlight, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court, and other theatres throughout Chicago. Film/TV credits include The Fugitive, Body Double, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Early Edition, Cupid and Turks, among others.

Bruce Graham (Playwright) Plays: The Outgoing Tide (2011 Jeff Award – Best New Play), Burkie, Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar & Grille, Moon Over the Brewery, Belmont Avenue Social Club, Desperate Affection, Coyote on a Fence (Winner of The Rosenthal Prize, Two Drama Desk Nominations), According to Goldman, The Philly Fan, Mister Hart and Mister Brown. He has won consecutive Barrymore Awards for Best New Play for Something Intangible and Any Given Monday. Film: Dunston Checks In, Anastasia, Steal This Movie. TV: Roseanne, Ring of Endless Light (Humanitas Award Winner – Best Children’s Screenplay), The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Trading Christmas. Graham is a past winner

of the Princess Grace Foundation Statuette. Along with Michele Volansky, he is the author of the book The Collaborative Playwright. Graham teaches film and theatre courses at Drexel University. He lives in South Philly with Stephanie and Truman, a beagle.

Brian Sidney Bembridge (Set Design) Chicago: Northlight, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Second City, Lookingglass (production affiliate), Court, Ravinia, Drury Lane, Writers’, Victory Gardens, TimeLine (artistic associ-ate), Teatro Vista (artistic associate), among others. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, Second Stage, Jean Cocteau Repertory, Kids with Guns and Theatre @ St. Clement’s. International: Theatre Royal Stratford East in London, and CarriageWorks in Sydney Australia. Regional: Guthrie, Children’s Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alliance, Arden, California Shakespeare, Round House, Virginia Opera, Opera Omaha, Milwaukee Repertory, Madison Repertory, St. Louis Repertory, Asolo Repertory, and Circle X Theatre Co. (company member), among others. Production Design: Wallace Shawn’s Marie and Bruce, Holding Out, Stray Dogs, and sets for Muppets from Space. Awards: five Jeff Awards, two Hewes Design Award nomina tions, two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards, two Back Stage Garland awards, an Ovation Award, an L.A.

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Rachel Laritz (Costume Design) is happy to be joining Northlight for the twelfth time including this season’s The Whipping Man and The Odd Couple. Off-Broadway: Pearl Theatre. Regional Theatre: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Court Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Remy Bumppo, Peninsula Players, Timeline, Route 66, Next Act, Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Skylight Opera, Children’s Theatre Madison, and the University of Michigan. Other professional credits include: NBC’s Law & Order, American Players Theatre, Chicago Opera Theatre, Garsington Opera (London, England) and the Spoleto Festival USA. Rachel is a recipient of a 2011 Emerging Artist Alumni Award from the University of Michigan and a 2009 Jeff Award for Voysey Inheritance and is an adjunct instructor at DePaul University.

JR Lederle (Lighting Design) Northlight credits include The Odd Couple, Ten Chimneys, Season’s Greetings, The Outgoing Tide and Better Late (both also at the Galway Arts Festival, Ireland), A Life, Grey Gardens, The Retreat From Moscow, Lady. Other work has been seen at Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, About Face, Remy Bumppo, Writers’, Steppenwolf, and Walkabout. JR designed lighting for seven years of the Steppenwolf Traffic Series, and five Steppenwolf performances in Chicago’s Millennium Park. He has served as head of the Lighting Department at Steppenwolf since 1995.

Andrew Hansen (Original Music and Sound Design) returns to Northlight where he previously collaborated on The Odd Couple, The Outgoing Tide, She Stoops to Conquer and Mauritius. Andy is an Associate Artist at TimeLine Theatre where he has

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been designing since 1999. Recent productions include Frost/Nixon, To Master The Art, In Darfur, and The Front Page at Timeline, Do The Hustle and Heartbreak House at Writers’ Theatre, and Mary and A Christmas Carol at The Goodman. Regionally he has composed for American Players Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Summer Shakespeare at Notre Dame, and Montana Shakespeare in the Parks.

Rita Vreeland (Production Stage Manager) has been stage managing at Northlight Theatre since 2007. Most recent Northlight credits: Woody Sez, [title of show], Black Pearl Sings!, Snapshots, and The Outgoing Tide. Recent credits elsewhere in the Chicagoland area include Little Shop of Horrors and many other productions at Theatre at the Center; The Christmas Schooner (Mercury); and the World Premieres of A Twist of Water (Route 66), El Nogalar (Goodman), and We Are Proud to Present... (Victory Gardens). Rita was the set designer at Harold Washington College from 2001-2012 and is a member of the Route 66 Theatre Company in Chicago. She is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado and a proud member of Actors Equity. All my love to Tom and Charlie!

Dr. Kristin Leahey (Dramaturg) is the Resident Dramaturg at Northlight Theatre and formerly the Literary Manager at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC. Her dramaturgical credits include productions with the Goodman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Cleveland

Play House, Victory Gardens Theater, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Collaboraction, Teatro Luna, Teatro Vista, Eclipse Theatre Company, Redmoon Theater, Next Theatre Company and A Red Orchid Theatre, among others. Her publications include articles in Theatre Topics, Theatre History and Theatre Studies. Her teaching credits include courses taught at The University of Texas, Lake Michigan College, DePaul University, and Columbia College. She received her doctorate in dramaturgy and performance studies at The University of Texas at Austin.

Timothy J. Evans (Executive Director) Prior to his arrival at Northlight, Tim spent a 20-plus year career at Steppenwolf Theatre where he served in management and producing positions. He created, curated and produced Steppenwolf’s acclaimed TRAFFIC Series, which included a partnership with Chicago Public Radio for subsequent broadcasts. Tim founded Steppenwolf Films, of which he is still a partner with Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry, to develop film and television projects. He produced the feature films Diminished Capacity with Matthew Broderick (premiered 2008 Sundance Film Festival) and The Last Rites of Joe May with Dennis Farina (premiered 2011 Tribeca Film Festival). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the League of Chicago Theatres, previously served on the board of the Independent Film Project (IFP) and was a charter member of the Governor’s Task Force for Media Development.

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NORTHLIGHT SUPPORTERS

Cheney Foundation || Clune Construction || Cramer Krasselt || Kirkland & Ellis || Madison

Dearborn Partners || Melvoin Award for Playwriting || North Shore Center for the Performing

Arts Foundation || Nuveen Investments || The Pauls Foundation ||

The Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Foundation || The Saints || The Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation

MERLE RESKIN

THE SULLIVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION

KATTEN MUCHINROSENMAN

THE OFFIELD FAMILYFOUNDATION

BOARD OF TRUSTEESTimothy P. Sullivan, ChairmanSusan Karol, PresidentDan Peterson, Vice PresidentRahul Roy, SecretaryEileen Frank, TreasurerMichael R. Callahan*Timothy J. EvansHoward A. FeinsteinMichael GuerraFreddi GreenbergBJ JonesPaul Lehman*Jennifer NewtonEvelyn Salk*Robert S. Silver Bob SilvermanJill SoderbergThomas D. Stringer Greg TaubeneckMatthew UdoniMichael Pauken, ex officioNorman Rosen, ex officio

ADVISORY BOARDJoan Barr Smith*, Chair Steven J. BernsteinKarl BerolzheimerGerhard BetteH. Woods BowmanMargo BrownJoe CappoJack CrockerStephen EngelmanPaul Finnegan*Craig GoldenEleanor HallLynn HiestandHarry J. LennixJames LytleMax McGeeSteve Mullins*Mike NussbaumSheldon PatinkinMerril PragerSandra RosenbloomEsther Saks*David Seidman*Trimmy Stamell*Susan Van Dusen

Patricia VileBernice WeissbourdGeorge Wendt

ASSOCIATES BOARDJennifer Newton, ChairNoah EisnerRoss ErlebacherRandal HamburgHannah OlsenLesli JenningsLeslie SchreiberAbby StraussChris Walsh

*Past President/Chairperson

NORTHLIGHT BOARDS



CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENT AGENCIESPrincipal Sponsors$50,000 and AboveThe John D. & Catherine T.

MacArthur FoundationThe Offield Family FoundationThe Shubert Foundation, Inc.The Sullivan Family Foundation

Premiere Sponsors$20,000 - $49,999BMO Harris Bank ComEdEdgerton Foundation New

American Plays AwardKirkland & Ellis Foundation

Executive Sponsors$10,000-$19,999Draftfcb ChicagoIllinois Arts CouncilMadison Dearborn PartnersNorth Shore Center for the

Performing Arts FoundationNuveen Investments The Pauls FoundationThe Daniel F. & Ada L. Rice

FoundationTom Stringer Design Partners

Presenting Sponsors$5,000-$9,999The Elizabeth F. Cheney

FoundationClune ConstructionErnst & YoungEvanston Community FoundationHomestead/QuinceMid-Atlantic Foundation

USArtists InternationalNorthShore University

HealthSystemSanborn Family FoundationThe Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation

Lead Sponsors$2,500-$4,999Arts Midwest Touring FundBloomingdale’s Fund of the Macy’s

FoundationCramer-KrasseltFirst Bank & Trust of EvanstonMcKinsey & Company ChicagoPlante MoranRoom and BoardThe Pritzker Pucker Family

Foundation

The Saints Sage Products

Sponsors$1,000 - $2,499The Allyn FoundationFlorida Association of Medical

Staff ServicesGand Music and SoundThe Irving Harris FoundationThe Joyce FoundationModestus Bauer FoundationPolk Bros FoundationSkokie Fine Arts CommissionTarget

Under $1,000Francis Beidler III and Prudence R.

Beidler FoundationGoodSearchIllinois Risk Management ServicesMassachusetts Association of

Medical Staff ServicesMole-Richardson Co.Morrisey Associates, Inc.NAMSSNew York State Association of

Medical Staff ServicesNorth Shore Community Bank &

TrustProfessional Facilities

Management, Inc.

Matching Gift Companies Bank of AmericaComputing Technology Industry

Association, Inc.Markel CorporationNuveen InvestmentsOcé North America, Inc.PepsiCo FoundationPolk Bros Foundation

NORTHLIGHT ARTISTIC CIRCLEExecutive Producers$25,000 and aboveAnonymousPaul Lehman & Ronna StammMelanie & Dan PetersonEvelyn SalkThe Sullivan Family Foundation

Producers$10,000 - $24,999Mr. & Mrs. Nick AlexosMichael & Joan CallahanFreddi Greenberg & Daniel PinkertBJ Jones & Candy Corr

Carole & Joseph LevyHugo & Lois MelvoinCarol & Steve MullinsMerle ReskinRobert S. & Sandra G. SilverThomas D. Stringer & Scott E.

WallerGreg & Anne Taubeneck Family

FundMatt & Christine Udoni

Playwrights$5,000 - $9,999AnonymousSandra Barnett-White & Jim WhiteGerhard & Kathy BetteJoyce ChelbergRobert & Maurita FreasThe Friedland Family in honor of

Waldo & Lucille FriedlandM.J. O’Brien Family FoundationSam & Marianne OlivaRahul & Anuradhika Roy

Directors$2,500 - $4,999 Julie & Josh ChernoffRichard & Catherine CorrBernard DowlingKathy & Stuart EdwardsHoward Feinstein & Brenda

HansenSusan Karol & Glenn WarningSamuel & Ann MencoffCarol Saunders & Greg HarbaughBob & Lisa SilvermanGloria Yuen

Designers$1,000 - $2,499AnonymousA.R.T. League, Inc.Larry & Mary BoederColleen & Joe ChappelleLynne CurtisJoseph DannoTimothy & Jane EvansChris & Karen FelixPaul & Mary FinneganEileen & Peter Frank in memory of

Arthur KlawansColleen Hughes & Donald

RothschildCameron & Emily Jones Vivian S. KaplanSuzanne & Jim KenneyKlaff Family FoundationJohn MahoneyColon McLean & Matthew Holt

DONORSNorthlight Theatre is deeply grateful to the following contributors for their generous support. This list reflects gifts received January 1, 2012 through April 1, 2013. If you would like your name to appear differently or prefer to remain anonymous, please contact Carrie Cole at 847.324.1616 or [email protected].


Charlie & Nancy McPikeAudrey MorrisJennifer NewtonTom & Karen O’KeefeNorma OlsenSanford & Jody PerlMerril Prager & John LevineFrank QuinnMr. & Mrs. Joel RadakovitzSusan & Tim SalisburyDavid & Christine SeidmanDr. G. Stephen & Ellen Scholly Francis SheahenNeal & Trimmy StammelLynn & Douglas SteffenAvy & Marcie SteinAndrew & Rosemary ThomasJim ThompsonJim & Kim WalshBernice Weissbourd

INDIVIDUAL ANNUAL FUND DONORSPartners$500 - $999Anonymous (4)Ellen & Richard AndersonMr. & Mrs. Ronald R. BaadeFrank & Barbara Brady in honor of

BJ Jones Douglas R. BrownRichard CampbellMary Anne & Joe CappoLloyd & Monica CassidyPeter M. Christie & Joan CorwinJohn Cialone & David SelebBruce Ettelson P.C. & Missy Bundy Mark Evans & Maureen MoranThomas & Patricia GahlonEleanor Northrop HallEmily & Kevin HansenMolly & Scott HansenLynn HiestandJanet & Brian HoffmanMr. & Mrs. HornerMel & Annie KahnKennedy Family FoundationMartin J. & Susan B. Kozak Fund Ted & Almeda MaynardPeter McGuire & Kate BriandBill & Maureen McInernyJohn & Linnea MeadRobert & Linda MeyersBill & Pepe MillerNeal Moglin & Mark TendamMike & Gina MoormanEllen K. Munro in honor of John

MahoneyAdele & Seymour NeemsDonald & Mary Ellen NewsomHon. Sheila O’Brien & Hon. Wayne

Andersen in honor of BJ Jones and Jim & Debby Shellard

Joe O’LearyRichard PorterErica Regunberg & Rob Dann

Jeffrey RichardsNorman & Sally RosenJonathan & Piper RothschildEsther S. Saks in honor of Evelyn SalkStan & Kay Schlozman in honor of

Paul Lehman & Ronna StammNancy & Tom SilbermanAnita & Praba SinhaDiane SobelAbby StraussWilliam & Barbara WelkeAvers & Gloria WexlerSeymour Zitomersky & Barbara

LaSpesa

Advocates$250 - $499Anonymous (4)Robert & Barbara Agdern Moreen AlexanderEve & Maurice AlfillePeggy Bagley & Rabbi Douglas

GoldhamerDiane & Karl BerolzheimerJohn BlanchardMargo & Paul BrownTed & Barbara BuengerMr. Frank Cella & Mr. Trev

Minnaert in honor of Neal Moglin & Mark Tendam

Lynn & Robert ClarkMarvin R. Cohen & Jane Richman

in honor of Paul LehmanEllen CollarMichael & Brenda CorrDavid & Kathy CudnowskiMr. & Mrs. Eldred DuSoldRoz & Seth EisnerMr. & Mrs. Albert Erlebacher

in honor of Robert & Sandra Silver’s 50th Wedding Anniversary

Maurice & Ruth EttlesonRoy & Marta Evans Mark FennellRaymond FesslerJerome FitzgeraldKenneth E. FrazeeRobert & Jessica FreasJanet Freund & Jo Mathews in

honor of Merril Prager & John Levine

William & Lynda FrillmanSusan Mabrey GaudLinda & Hal GerberLaura Glenn & John ListerAnneliese & Howard GlickDiane GottliebTim & Trude Harrington in honor

of Michael CallahanRobert & Elizabeth HaywardMitchell Hertz & Anne CarlucciJudy & Jay HeymanDon & Betsy HohmanDonna & Steven HorwitzAnne & Mike Houghton

Mr. & Mrs. Carter HowardKaren & David HughesLesley Hyatt & Bernard FriedmanMichaela JonesChris & Pamela KallosDennis & Barb KesslerDr. & Mrs. Barry Kirschenbaum Sandy & Saul KlibanowMark & Stephanie LaydenTom & Joan LindseyMs. Ethel Liten in honor of Evelyn

SalkJoe McInerneySheila & Harvey MedvinAlice MerrickEd MillsDennis & Linda Myers P.C.Bill & Jean O’NeillJim Ossyra & Carol RemenMichael & Diane PaleySheldon PatinkinHeidi & Greg PetersonSally PragerClay & Sharon PurdyMarilyn Melvoin RichmanMr. & Mrs. George C. RimnacRoberta & Howard RosellIra RosenthalJames & Cynthia RoweBruce Sagan & Bette Cerf HillAnthony SalkKeith & Ann Sarpolis in memory of

Richard SarpolisMargaret & Alan SilbermanPamela & Charles SmithMrs. Eleanor Springer in memory of

Jack Springer Ann StevensDonna SuheyEdward SwanThomas & Beverly TabernMs. Karen TeitelbaumVicki TruaxWilliam VickersPatricia VileStephen & Alice VileLorrayne & Steve WeissRobert WhiteLawrence & Nancy WojcikAlan WolfJulie WomackMichael Wright

Supporters$150 - $249Anonymous (6)Mr. & Mrs. AlbertiMr. & Mrs. Kirk Allen Patricia AndersonRobert & Joan Beaubaire in honor

of Robert & Sandra Silver’s 50th Wedding Anniversary

Debbie & Elliot BermanLois M. BermanWally BobkiewiczCarol & Roger Brice



Steven & Phyllis BrodyRuth & Ronald BuchananAllen & Barbara BullardPat ButkusRachel CantorRon & Mary CharlesBradley & Jennifer CohenJohn DainauskasBarbara & Peter DeBergeDavid & April DemingMaria DepaMary Louise DevensJoseph E. & Ruth B. DoningerJean & Dick DoubDeanna DunaganDavid DziedzicNoah & Gillian EisnerRoss & Susie ErlebacherMr. & Mrs. Robert FlynnSidney & Jackie FreedmanRuth & Nathaniel FriedmanSono Fujii & Claudio KatzNancy & James GoldingSally & Ralph GorenJohn & Angela GrahamRoz & David GreensteinMary Ann & David GrummanBetsy GutsteinSusan & Harlan HaimesJohn & Suzanne HalesDel & Ginger HallBecky HarrisGeorge & Marianne HartnettTom & Jan HazlettElaine & Richard HeubergerAllen & Nancy HirschfieldMary Jane & Lawrence HorwitzPacky HylandJudith Ivey in memory of Martin

PakledinazGitta K. JacobsDr. Claudia KatzMary KingDalia KleinmuntzLynn KoponRachel Kraft in honor of Tim EvansKaren KuehnerRobert & Sherry LabateJules H. & Marilyn R. Last FundMarianne & Michael LembeckKaren LeonardElaine & Steve LevSherry & Mel LopataCharles MacKelvieBrad & Sue MatsonMargaret F. MayMara & Bob MihlfriedMr. & Mrs. Thomas MonahanHoward & Marlene NagleMichael & Kathleen NashRoberta NicholsKathy Fredericks Oswald

Trustee Don PerilleGenevieve F. PhelpsChuck & Judy PiperMr. & Mrs. Jonathan PlotkinMarion PorentoSandi RiggsEdwin & Susan RittsHenry & Dolores RosenbaumJeff & Lisa RosenkranzPatricia RothJane G. RozoffSue & Mike RubnitzPenelope & Toby SachsWarren & Beatrice SaundersJulie SchmidtMargot SersenArt & Jan ShermanBruce & Sarane SiewerthJill & Leif SoderbergElyssa Joy Springer in memory of

Jack SpringerLisa & Paul SternHarriet C. Stone in memory of

Norman A. StoneArthur StyzenGail & Bernard TalbertMr. & Mrs. John W. Taylor IIIMrs. Vernon B. ThomasBetsy E. TolstedtLori TuffieldLois & Sye UnellJames & Mary Ellen Van NessJ & JR WeertmanNancy M. WilliamsSylvia Wolfson & Seymour

NordenbergNettie ZelkowitzLaura & Bruce Zimmerman

IN KIND AnonymousAbt ElectronicsChristine & Dave AlexanderEve J. Alfille Gallery & StudioEmily BerezowskyBiaggi’s Ristorante ItalianoThe Blendermann FamilyBloomingdale’s Old OrchardBlue Plate CateringBMO Harris BankBuona Terra RistoranteMichael & Joan CallahanCharcoal Oven RestaurantJulie & Josh ChernoffChicago Public Media - WBEZCarrie & Andrew ColeThe Doubletree HotelDraftfcb ChicagoTimothy & Jane EvansFather & Son Italian KitchenHoward Feinstein & Brenda

Hansen

Francesca’s NorthGand Music and SoundGAVIN EvanstonGlunz Beers, IncHecky’s BarbecueHertz CorporationHilton Garden InnThe HomesteadHotaIllinois Holocaust Museum &

Education CenterJetBlue AirwaysThe Joffrey BalletJoseph Jefferson Awards

CommitteeJustin’s Bar ChicagoKabul HouseKatten Muchin RosenmanTim KazurinskyLettuce Entertain You Enterprises,

Inc.Libertad RestaurantLisa LukasBonnie & Jay LytleMaggiano’sMaplewood HotelMarigoldMcGaw YMCAMole-Richardson Co.Mumbai Indian GrillNew Prospects BoutiqueJennifer NewtonErrol & Fran PearlmanDan & Melanie PetersonPRP Wine InternationalQuince at The HomesteadRelevant TheatricalsRahul & Anuradhika RoyReal Russian VodkaRodeway Inn SkokieRoom & BoardSage ProductsCarol Saunders & Greg HarbaughSchaefer’s Fine Wines & SpiritsNeal & Trimmy StamellSteppenwolf Theatre CompanyThomas D. Stringer and Scott E.

WallerThe Sullivan Family FoundationSutton StudiosSweety Pies BakeryGeorge & Susan Van DusenVermilionKimberley VuitelWeber-Stephen ProductsGeorge WendtWhole Foods Market Downtown

EvanstonWhole Foods Market NorthbrookWicks Park Bar & GrilleWilliams Next DoorHarry Wojcik


To Make Your Gift Today : Contact Carrie at 847.324.1616 or [email protected], or donate online at northlight.org.


ARTISTICArtistic Administrator/ Casting Director/Internship CoordinatorLynn Baber

Resident DramaturgKristin Leahey, Ph.D.

InternsJerico BolingGina CiamettiBrandy Reichenberger

EDUCATIONDirector of EducationMechelle Moe

Education Associate and Performing Arts Camp DirectorAmanda Jane Dunne

EducatorsJoanne DubachMatt FarabeeSarah Rose GraberKristyn HegnerMichael LeonDiane MairSam RobersonJeff Trainor

ADMINISTRATIONGeneral ManagerJanet Mullet

Director of DevelopmentEmily Hansen

Associate Director of DevelopmentAndria Venezia

Development ManagerCarrie Cole

Director of Marketing & CommunicationsMara Mihlfried

Marketing AssociateL. Corwin Christie

Director of FinanceLisa Stern

Group Sales Coordinator/ Administrative AssistantMichelle Blendermann

Public RelationsCathy Taylor PR, Inc.

Usher CoordinatorVicki Weisberg, The Saints

InsuranceRobert Nichols

PRODUCTIONProduction ManagerChristopher J. Fitzgerald

Company Manager/Assistant Production ManagerVictoria Martini-Rosowicz

Technical DirectorMalcolm S. Brown

Production AssistantKelly Crook

Master Electrician/Light Board OperatorPaul Doran

Sound Engineer/Sound Board OperatorJennifer Udoni-Sharp

Wardrobe MistressJessica Korpela

Floor Manager Jason Shivers

Scenic ChargeJoanna Iwanicka

Master Carpenter Nate Crawford

CarpentersKevin BielJeremiah BarrRay FitzgeraldKevin Lynch

Artistic DirectorBJ Jones

Executive DirectorTimothy J. Evans

NORTHLIGHT STAFF

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