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OnStage – DisgracedDisgraced Features2 From the Headlines to the Footlights: The Enduring, Worldwide Relevancy of Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced4 Disgraced: A Production History | A Set Designer’s Perspective6 Disgraced and Islamic Art: The Gap Between Optics and Truth 10 A Conversation with Disgraced Playwright Ayad Akhtar and Director Kimberly Senior The Production12 Why Disgraced? 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Crain’s Custom Media provides production, printing, and media sales services for Goodman Theatre’s program books. For more details or to secure advertising space in the programs, please contact:CRAIN’S CUSTOM MEDIADirectorFrank Sennett, 312.649.5278fsennett@Sales ManagerChris Janos, 312.280.3132cjanos@Project Manager:Joanna Metzger, 312.649.5241jmetzger@Crain’s Custom Media150 N. Michigan AvenueChicago, IL 60601From the Headlines to the Footlights: The Enduring, Worldwide Relevancy of Ayad Akhtar’s DisgracedBy Thomas ConnorsAyad Akhtar’s globally-minded drama Disgraced was certainly timely when it premiered in early 2012. And in light of subsequent events, from the advances of ISIS, to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, the play—which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama on April 15, 2013, the day of the Boston Marathon bombing—has lost none of its relevance. In fact, 32 productions of the play will be staged worldwide over the next two years. Disgraced revolves around Amir, a Pakistani-born apostate living the good life as a successful lawyer in New York. But once the World Trade Center is sent crashing down so too does his carefully wrought sense of self. That history-altering event propelled Akhtar into his own period of contemplation and questioning and on course to write a seven-piece cycle of works that attempt to offer, as he explains, “a full-bodied, contradictory, multi-valance portrait of Muslim-American life at this moment.” The characters in these works, which also include his novel American Dervish, as well as the plays The Who and The What and The Invisible Hand, “deal with the challenges of faith and identity in the modern world,” according to Akhtar. “This is a very confused time for the Muslim community in America, but also a very rich one.”Raised in Milwaukee by Pakistani immigrant physician parents and educated at Brown University and Columbia University, Akhtar recalls his upbringing taking place in “an odd community, in the sense that you had all kinds of people hanging out who probably wouldn’t spend time together back home. Just because they all spoke the same language, ate the same food and came from the same country.” Akhtar’s early religious experiences were varied. He describes his father as “a militant atheist” and his mother’s creed as “an American individualist spirituality with an Islamic cast—Oprah meets Emerson.” But he was close to his deeply observant aunt, and he maintains an urge to process the mysteries of faith. “I don’t take any particular expression of religious truth as having any ultimate reality. I find meaning in Judaism and Christianity. And Islam. It’s an important part of my life and many of my characters’ lives, whether they are reacting to it and try to understand or undermine it.”Like many immigrant and first generation Americans, Akhtar had to negotiate those byways on the road of the American Dream peculiar to the newcomer. As the complexion of the country shifts, that experience is becoming increasingly central in the lives of numerous citizens. Akhtar’s own journey included a not-uncommon period of dissociation, marked by the determination to be perceived solely as an American and not a hyphenated resident of the United States. Sri Lankan-born actor Bernard White, who plays Amir in the Goodman production, experienced similar issues after relocating to the Midwest with his family at a young age. “On spiritual, emotional, political and cultural levels, this play is very close to home and heart,” he said. “My father was adamant that we mark the ‘Caucasian’ box on all forms. He saw that it was very important to align with the white majority in order to receive the privileges of the new country.” Co-star J. Anthony Crane, who portrays Isaac, an art dealer, believes the play requires audiences to reexamine the country’s social progress. “We’re dealing with a time in America where we feel we’ve answered so many questions about how we perceive each other based on class, color and religion, but we’ve barely scratched the surface,” he suggests. “We’ve given ourselves permission not to care about these things anymore. I don’t know if Disgraced makes any decisions or answers any questions for us, but it certainly makes us well aware that they still need to be asked.” Although it is natural to focus on how the cultural specifics of Akhtar’s works spark discourse about contemporary society in general, the playwright himself sees even deeper currents at work in our world today. “If I am really honest about all this, we are dealing with much, much bigger problems,” he states. “The tectonic shift, the seismic shudders that have hit the geo-political order of the last 15 or 20 years, are not just about tribalism and race. They have to do with globalization and the increasing anxiety of the species on some level.” Whether or not one admits a connection between the perceived hegemony of the one percent and, say, the devastating inroads of ISIS, there seems to be no question that the world—even here at home—has become increasingly defined as a matter of us-and-them. No playwright can hope to succeed where the United Nations and Congress have faltered. But as Zakiya Young, who plays Jory, an African American lawyer at Amir’s firm, expresses, “My hope is that after seeing the show, people will begin to have conversations they may not have felt comfortable having before, and that these conversations will lead us to greater acceptance and respect for our similarities and differences.” Thomas Connors reports regularly on the visual and performing arts. He is a contributor to The International Encyclopedia of Dance and the author of New and Far: Looking Through Steve Roots. His articles and reviews have also appeared in a range of publications, including American Theater, Fine Art Connoisseur and Town & Country.Disgraced: A Production HistoryNow among the most celebrated plays in America, Disgraced will soon become one of the most performed, with more than 30 productions scheduled worldwide in the next two years. Read below for a production history of the play. Fall 2010 Disgraced, one of four new plays Ayad Akhtar has composed over eight months, receives its first public reading, sponsored by AracaWorks, a program of Araca Productions, which would eventually produce the play on Broadway. The reading is held in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, part of New York’s Roundabout Theatre Company complex.January–March 2012 Disgraced receives its first full production at Chicago’s American Theatre Company, directed by Kimberly Senior. Earning overwhelmingly positive reviews, the production also receives the Jeff Award for Best New Work.October-December 2012 The play receives its first New York staging at Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, again under Senior’s direction. Featuring Aasaf Mandvi as Amir, the play receives an Obie Award and is nominated for the Outer Critics Circle’s John Gassner Award.April 2013 Disgraced receives the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.May-June 2013 The play receives its first international production at London’s Bush Theatre, directed by Nadia Fall. Hari Dhillon plays Amir, a role he will reprise on Broadway.October 2014-March 2015 Disgraced comes to Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, once again under the direction of Senior. The production stars Dhillon, Gretchen Mol, Josh Radnor, Karen Pittman and Danny Ashok and earns a Tony Award nomination for Best Play.September-October 2015 Goodman Theatre opens its 91st season with Disgraced, again directed by Senior. Among the cast is Behzad Dabu, an original cast member of American Theatre Company’s production.A Set Designer’s PerspectiveDisgraced unfolds in the luxurious Manhattan apartment of wealthy lawyer Amir Kapoor and his wife Emily. Tony Award-winning set designer John Lee Beatty was tasked with creating the Upper East Side abode, filling the apartment with the glamorous amenities laid out in the script by Ayad Akhtar, including parquet floors, crown molding, a marble fireplace and paintings that create a “lustrous and magnetic” effect. A sketch below shows Beatty’s initial vision for the couple’s home. Disgraced and Islamic Art: The Gap Between Optics and TruthBy Jonathan L. GreenIn the opening moments of Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced, we see an intimate image: Emily, a young, white artist, is sketching her husband Amir, a well-to-do Pakistani American lawyer. Emily reveals that the idea for this new sketch was inspired both by a minor run-in with a racist waiter the night before, as well as Diego Velázquez’s 1650 portrait of Juan de Pareja. “You made him see that gap. Between what he was assuming about you, and what you really are,” Emily says of the interaction with the waiter. Emily also notes original viewers of Velázquez’s portrait of de Pareja, who was his slave and studio assistant, thought they were “looking at a picture of a Moor. An assistant… [But] that portrait has more nuance, complexity, life than his paintings of kings and queens.” The inspirations for both artworks stem from brown skin, from Orientalism (a Western stereotyping of the cultures of the Middle East, Asia and North Africa) or its progeny Islamophobia. Both inspirations deal with the difference between appearance and truth.That Emily’s figurative drawing of Amir is the first thing seen on stage is telling of Amir’s relationship with Islam, the religion taught in his home during his youth. In many cases Islam as a religion is traditionally aniconic, eschewing figurative art, and instead embracing elaborate geometric patterns and calligraphy (though there are exceptions to this, especially from cultures within the Mughal Empire). Creating images of God and the Prophet Muhammad is strictly forbidden in nearly all practices of Islam, but many Sunni hadith (reports of the deeds and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad) are interpreted, especially in more conservative practices, as forbidding man-made images of sentient beings in general. “Angels of mercy do not enter a house where there are pictures,” says one hadith. Another translation reads, “The people who will receive the severest punishment on the Day of Resurrection will be those who try to make the like of God’s creations.” God is here likened to an artist, a creator, and humans striving to imitate God’s act of creation commit heresy. To attempt to show the living “truth” of a person or project one’s soul in something man-made can be sacrilege. There is a similar aniconic prohibition against the imaging of God in the teachings of Judaism, though for the majority of the history of the Christian church, there is a rich tradition of the imaging of Jesus and other holy figures.In Disgraced, Amir describes himself as an apostate—in his adolescence, he shed the conservative Islamic traditions taught by his parents. Emily is also irreligious—she serves pork during a dinner party to other agnostic characters raised Muslim and Jewish, though both religions forbid the consumption of the meat. Today, people frequently confuse race and religion. Even in the secular world of Disgraced, Amir must deal with how others see him, as they wield racial prejudices and the expansive USA Patriot Act, to mistake his ethnicity for his religious beliefs.Though Emily is not Muslim, her art practice often engages with forms traditional to Islamic art—geometry, patterning, tiling, tessellation, developing incredible ingenuity and complexity from a simple grid—that celebrate Islamic tenets of unity, peace, perspective and universality, and avoids idolatry. One such piece hangs in her and Amir’s living room above the mantle, all blues and whites, “lustrous and magnetic,” as the script describes the art work in the stage directions. This new portrait of Amir stands out from the rest—it’s figurative, representational. Compared to her other artwork, the portrait is unusual and certainly from a more Western tradition. Emily’s friend Isaac, taken by her Islam-inspired work, playfully accuses her of Orientalism. “You’ve even got the brown husband,” he jokes. She counters, saying, “We’ve all gotten way too wrapped up in the optics… We’ve forgotten to look at things for what they really are.”Of course, Emily’s statement can also apply to the prejudices, fears and power dynamics of the world of Akhtar’s story. Orientalist beliefs target “Eastern” ethnicity, but starting in the 1990s (and especially after the September 11 attacks of 2001), we’ve seen a cultural and societal shift in some areas from American Orientalism to American Islamophobia: destructive stereotypes of the ethnic “Arab” (like the Arab oil barons in the 1981 film Rollover or the Arab terrorists in 1976’s Black Sunday) have transitioned to hateful stereotypes of Muslims, regardless of the actual religious beliefs or ethnicities of their targets. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 allowed the US government to target and prosecute non-profit Muslim charities sending aid to the underserved in predominantly Muslim areas, based on charges that they were supporting “terrorist” organizations. Simple figural traits, like having brown skin, or wearing a turban or veil, can incite hate and violence. In the months following the September 11 attacks, for example, reports of murders and assaults of not only practicing Muslims but also Sikh Indians, Indian Hindus, Coptic Christians and others increased 1500% as anti-Muslim sentiment swept across America, despite the fact that the attacked victims did not practice Islam or were not of Arab descent. At that same time, a disturbing Gallup poll showed that roughly one third of Americans supported the idea of internment of Muslim Arab Americans. Muslim immigrants were targeted and surveilled through the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System. In the 2008 presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obama was repeatedly accused of being secretly Muslim and therefore unfit for national leadership—something he denied but stopped short of calling problematic and racist.In Disgraced, Amir has made the personal and complicated decision to separate himself from his religious and cultural upbringing many years prior to the beginning of the play. He married a white woman and has a high-paying job at a mostly Jewish law firm. He wears high-end suits and crisp $600 dress shirts. And yet, despite all efforts to seem wholly Western, Amir still must submit himself to manual searches at the security line in the airport. When he makes an off-hand comment to the media about a local imam in legal trouble, eyebrows raise. In a representational society where skin color can determine one’s fate far more easily than skill or character, “optics” have great power.Misrepresentation begins first with simplified representation—these are the building blocks of stereotyping and, further, racializing—whether in 2-D art or in popular society. In his blistering play Akhtar challenges our perceptions of what it means to misrepresent and to be misrepresented: what are we showing when we depict another person, whether in art, word or deed? What are we showing when we reveal or hide depictions of ourselves? Amir’s ancestral culture placed great value on character, on belief, on truth, shunning representative figuration, relying instead on principles of unity and universality. On what sort of representation does our own culture place value?A Closer Look at Diego Velázquez’s Portrait of Juan de ParejaBy Rachel WeinbergIn Disgraced, Emily’s portrait of her husband in the style of Diego de Silva y Velázquez’s 1650 Portrait of Juan de Pareja becomes one of the central images of the play. Regarded as one of the finest painters of the Baroque period, the Seville-born Velázquez (1599–1660) was not born into a noble family but gained status as the court painter for King Philip IV of Spain.The painting of Velázquez’s assistant Juan de Pareja represents a more personal side of the artist’s work. Velázquez created the painting during a trip to Italy in preparation for his commissioned portrait of Pope Innocent X. Like Velázquez, Pareja was born in the Andalusia region of Spain. Pareja likely served as Velazquez’s slave and was freed in 1654. Some sources dispute Pareja’s slave status, however, as he was registered as a painter—a profession prohibited to slaves—as early as 1630. Velázquez’s portrait of Pareja possesses an informality and unique intimacy likely due to their close relationship. Art historians commend the painting’s incredible lifelike quality. In the portrait, Pareja gazes directly at the viewer, which gives him an inherent strength, and the portrait conveys an overwhelming sense of human dignity. Velázquez treats Pareja with the same respect and solemnity seen in his royal portraits. Emily likely identifies with this overarching sense of humanity and hopes to emulate this quality in her painting of her husband.A Conversation with Disgraced Playwright Ayad Akhtar and Kimberly SeniorDisgraced, by playwright, novelist, screenwriter and actor Ayad Akhtar, premiered in Chicago in 2012 at American Theatre Company. The play then went on to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater, subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize, and later transferred to Broadway where it earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. Chicago-based director Kimberly Senior (Goodman Theatre’s Rapture, Blister, Burn) has accompanied Akhtar at every step of the play’s continued journey, helming the original Chicago production as well as both New York mountings. Now Akhtar and Senior return to Chicago to present a new production of the gripping drama. Akhtar and Senior spoke with the production’s dramaturg Jonathan L. Green about their enduring collaboration.Jonathan L. Green: Ayad, in the published version of this script you make a note that although Disgraced is a play dealing with big ideas, it’s actually written to be entertainment: comedy, thriller, tragedy. Why did you feel this story needed to be a play rather than a book or screenplay?Ayad Akhtar: I got to a point where I was writing screenplays, but none of the films I wrote were getting made. I knew I wanted to write a play ever since college, but I never really did it. I had ideas for different stories, and all that just started percolating into something about this character Amir. The earliest draft of the play, which very few people have seen, begins with a monologue that Amir delivers to the audience. He’s remembering and talking about this dinner party, and that’s how it started. I just followed it from there.Kimberly Senior: Having also read your novel, American Dervish, I believe there is something to the medium of theater that denies the audience an interior experience [inside the minds] of the characters. That’s essential to Disgraced. We are constantly assessing people’s motives and allegiances and constantly switching sides. We are presented solely with what they say and do. We don’t get to know what they think. Whereas [Akhtar’s novel] is intended as a partnership with the reader; [in the novel] we know what’s going on inside the characters’ heads.JLG: The play’s protagonist is a Muslim-raised apostate and many religions are discussed in the play. Did your religious or irreligious upbringings affect your work on the play?KS: In a larger sense, when an audience interacts with Disgraced, they think they’re signed up to align with the person who looks most like them or who has the same background. They find very quickly that’s not the case. As an Arab-Jewish woman, I never feel more Jewish than when I am the only Jew in the room. And the least Jewish I’ve felt in my entire life was when I visited Israel. You have no need to assert yourself then. But when I’m sitting in a room full of white people, then I’m like, “Oh, by the way, I’m only half white.” The play makes the characters have to stand by their identities in a way that they might not otherwise because each of them is a minority. They have to defend their point of view. The play made me assess that. Which of these traditions do I practice? Are they old and meaningless, or actually valuable? JLG: Kimberly remarked earlier that the characters in Disgraced are all, in a way, minorities. They’re heartfelt and also very conflicted and complicated. Have you seen any particular embrace or push-back from any communities—religious, ethnic or otherwise?AA: Both embrace and rejection. And very, very vigorous. The play seems to function as a weird kind of litmus test. It tells you where you are in society and has the capacity to connect people to themselves in a more heartfelt way, and to connect them to others as well. I know a lot of people resist that. Some people feel like the mirror aspect says stuff it shouldn’t say, and some people feel the mirror does stuff it shouldn’t do. I’ve gotten an equal amount of feedback from both sides of the Muslim community with some people asking, “Why are you doing this?” and others saying, “Thank God you are doing this!”JLG: Kimberly, you made your Broadway debut directing this play, but you’ve been directing in Chicago for years. What was your Broadway experience like, in contrast to working in some of Chicago’s biggest and smallest theaters?KS: The amount of work, the love and everything that I put into the play is the same whether the theater is above a Mexican restaurant or on [Broadway]. The language I use and the way that I speak about the work is the same. The biggest thing is in the difference between commercial and non-profit theater. Directing Disgraced for the Goodman, I’m part of the theater’s rich history; I’m on a continuum of American theater that’s happening here. There’s a whole machine working to make this play and many other plays happen. Whereas on Broadway, I was the theater company. You know? That was it. I was like the creative head of a theater company called Disgraced. It’s very different making a singular entity in that way. I couldn’t have done it without all 20 of those years of making plays in Chicago storefronts and the confidence that I’ve gained from so many fantastic people here.NotesWhy Disgraced?It begins innocuously enough. A young, upwardly mobile Wall Street attorney (and lapsed Muslim) and his beautiful, idealistic (and Caucasian) artist wife are throwing a small dinner party for a similarly successful couple, a Jewish art curator (who’s about to feature his hostess’ paintings in a new show) and his African American wife, another rising young lawyer who works in the same office as her host. At first the talk is mundane but cordial: the latest loss by the Knicks, a fancy dessert picked up at Magnolia Bakery, gossipy chat about the law firm’s senior partners and the latest trends in downtown art. But slowly the Scotch-fueled discussion ventures into more complicated territory: musings about race and culture, power and privilege and the seething tensions triggered by religious tenets and practices from antiquity to today. As theoretical discussion morphs into personal revelation and private concerns become public, a celebratory dinner among four smart, engaging and personable friends becomes something dramatically different.This is the central event of Ayad Akhtar’s vivid and controversial Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced. After premiering at Chicago’s American Theatre Company in 2012, the play received subsequent productions (first at Lincoln Center Theater in New York, then on Broadway, where it received a Best Play Tony Award nomination). The play garnered critical raves and fueled heated audience response to its exploration of identity, religion, politics and class in the bewilderingly complex, “politically correct” landscape of 21st century urban America. Amir, the aforementioned attorney at the center of the play, has distanced himself from the religious principles of his youth as he aims for success in his career—but he finds that the costs of that disassociation may be more profound than he could imagine. At the same time, his wife Emily celebrates the Muslim world in her life and her work, without completely understanding the tensions inherent in her adoration for (or appropriation of) another culture. Wittily engaging and rigorously smart, Disgraced is neither a solemn political polemic nor an impassioned plea for a particular point of view. The play presents successful and intelligent characters forced to grapple with questions and challenges that cannot be readily addressed or easily solved in a society whose quest for correctness and justice may have resulted in neither.I am very pleased to welcome director Kimberly Senior (whose production of Rapture, Blister, Burn was one of the highlights of our 2014/2015 Season) back to the Goodman to bring this brilliant play to the Albert stage—fittingly, since she has shepherded it from its first off-Loop production to its recent success on Broadway.Ultimately, of course, there are no easy answers to the questions that Disgraced explores with devastating humor and explosive emotion; they are the questions that we must all wrestle as we negotiate the cultural minefield that is America in the 21st century.Robert FallsArtistic DirectorGoodman TheatreRobert Falls, Artistic DirectorRoche Schulfer, Executive Directorin association with Seattle Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory TheatrepresentsDisgracedBy Ayad AkhtarDirected by Kimberly SeniorSet Design by John Lee BeattyCostume Design by Jennifer Von MayrhauserLighting Design by Christine A. BinderSound Design by Jill BC DuboffNew York Casting by David Caparelliotis, CSACasting by Adam Belcuore, CSA; Erica Sartini-CombsDramaturg Jonathan L. GreenProduction Stage Manager Joseph Drummond*Stage Manager Briana J. Fahey*Disgraced was developed in part at the New Writers New Plays residency at Vineyard Arts Project (Ashley Melone, Founder and Artistic Director).New York premiere produced by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 2012Original Broadway production produced by The Araca Group, Lincoln Center Theater, Jennifer Evans, Amanda Watkins, Richard Winkler, Rodger Hess, Stephanie P. McClelland, Tulchin/Bartner Productions, Jessica Genick, Jonathan Reinis, Carl Levin/Ashley De Simone/TNTDynaMite Productions, Alden Bergson/Rachel Weinstein, Greenleaf Productions, Darren Deverna/Jere Harris, The Shubert Organization and The David Merrick Arts Foundation Disgraced had its world premiere in January 2012 at American Theatre Company, Chicago, Illinois (PJ Paparelli, Artistic Director).Sponsor Partner: Abbott FundAirline Partner: American AirlinesAdditional Support provided by the Season and Production SponsorsGoodman Theatre proudly thanks its Major Contributors for their generous support of the 2015/2016 SeasonAbbott/Abbott Fund, Sponsor Partner for Disgraced and the Season Opening CelebrationLester and Hope Abelson Fund for Artistic Development, Instituting New Work InitiativesAllstate Insurance Company, Major Corporate Sponsor for Wonderful Town, Community Engagement Partner and Sponsor Partner of the Goodman GalaPaul M. Angell Family Foundation, Major Support of General OperationsThe Edith-Marie Appleton Foundation/Albert and Maria Goodman, Principal Season SponsorsJulie and Roger Baskes, 2015/2016 Season SponsorsBMO Harris Bank, Major Contributor, Benefactor of the Season Opening Celebration and the Goodman GalaJoyce Chelberg, Major ContributorThe Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, Major Support of New Play DevelopmentThe Chicago Community Trust, Major Support of General OperationsJoan and Robert Clifford, 2015/2016 Season SponsorsComEd/Exelon, Official Lighting Sponsor for Wonderful Town, Guarantor of the Season Opening Celebration and Benefactor of the Goodman GalaPatricia Cox, Albert Season and New Work SponsorThe Crown Family, Major Support of the Student Subscription SeriesThe davee foundation, Major Support for the expansion of New StagesShawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly, Major ContributorsEdelman, Major ContributorEfroymson Family Fund | Efroymson-Hamid Family Foundation, Education and Community Engagement Season SponsorsJulius N. Frankel Foundation, Major Support of General OperationsRuth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnis, 2015/2016 Season SponsorsGoodman Theatre Scenemakers Board, Sponsor Partner for the PlayBuild Youth IntensiveGoodman Theatre Women’s Board, Major Production Sponsor for The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s WindowAdnaan Hamid and Elissa Efroymson, Major ContributorsIrving Harris Foundation, Major ContributorThe Joyce Foundation, Principal Support for Diverse Artistic and Professional DevelopmentJPMorgan Chase, Major Corporate Sponsor for Wonderful Town, Benefactor of the Season Opening Celebration and the Goodman GalaKatten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Major Corporate Sponsor for Another Word for Beauty and Guarantor of the Season Opening CelebrationThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Major Support of General OperationsSwati and Siddharth Mehta, Major Contributorspepsico, Official Beverage Sponsor for A Christmas Carol polk bros. foundation, Principal Foundation Support of the Student Subscription SeriesCarol Prins and John Hart, Albert Theatre SponsorsAlice and John J. Sabl, Major Contributorsmichael a. sachs and family, Education and Community Engagement Season SponsorsThe Shubert Foundation, Leading Contributor of General Operating SupportTarget, Major Corporate Sponsor of the Target Student MatineesTime Warner foundation, Major Support of New Play DevelopmentThe Wallace Foundation, Lead Support of New Work Audience DevelopmentKimbra and Mark Walter, 2015/2016 Season SponsorsAs of August 27, 2015Cast (in alphabetical order)IsaacJ. Anthony Crane*AbeBehzad Dabu*EmilyNisi Sturgis*AmirBernard White*JoryZakiya Young*SettingA spacious apartment on New York’s Upper East Side.The first two scenes take place in late summer 2011. The third scene takes place three months later during the fall. The fourth scene takes place six months later during the spring.Additional StaffAssociate Director: Nate SilverFight Direction: UnkleDave’s Fight-HouseAssociate Set Designer: Kacie HultgrenAssociate Lighting Designer: Joshua BenghiatAssociate Sound Designer: Janie BullardFight Captain: J. Anthony CraneDisgraced is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, NYC. Understudies never substitute for a listed player unless an announcement is made at the beginning of the play. Jennifer Coombs*—Emily; Tania Richard*—Jory; Amro Salama*—Amir; Adarsh Shah—Abe; Dan Stearns—IsaacThe video and/or recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.Goodman productions are made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; and a CityArts 4 program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.Goodman Theatre is a constituent of the Theatre Communications Group, Inc., the national service organization of nonprofit theaters; the League of Resident Theatres; the Illinois Arts Alliance and the American Arts Alliance; the League of Chicago Theatres; and the Illinois Theatre Association.Goodman Theatre operates under agreements between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States; the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union; the Chicago Federation of Musicians, Local No. 10-208, American Federation of Musicians; and the United Scenic Artists of America, Local 829, AFL-CIO. House crew and scene shop employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local No. 2. *Denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.ProfilesJ. Anthony CRANE* (Isaac) makes his Goodman Theatre debut. Chicago credits include The Recruiting Officer and Our Country’s Good (Buffalo Theater Ensemble). Broadway credits include The Country House, Sight?Unseen (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Winslow Boy (Roundabout Theatre Company) and Butley with Nathan Lane.?Off-Broadway credits include Modern Orthodox, Relativity and The Brothers Karamazov. Regional credits include Scar in the first national tour of The Lion King, The Music Man (Theatre Under the Stars), The Odd Couple (Dallas Theater Center), Absalom (Humana Festival of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville), Farragut North and 50 Words (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Sight Unseen (The Old Globe) and Spamalot (Wynn Las Vegas). Other credits include All My Sons, Our Country’s Good, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, The Glass Menagerie, Long Day’s Journey into Night and Closer. Film and television credits include Life on Mars, Ugly Betty, The Practice, Third Watch, JAG, Six Degrees, Frasier, CSI and The Big Easy. Mr. Crane is a graduate of Northwestern University. BEHZAD DABU* (Abe)?returns to the Goodman after previously appearing in A Christmas Carol. Chicago credits include?Inana, Blood and Gifts and The History Boys?(TimeLine Theatre Company); Samsara (Jeff Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role) and Disconnect (Victory Gardens Theater);?Disgraced?(American Theatre Company); Twelfth Night?(First Folio Theatre); Holes?(Adventure Stage Chicago) and We Live Here (Theatre Seven of Chicago).?Film and television credits include You’re So Talented, King Rat, Chicago P.D. and Imperfections.?He is a member of The Chicago Inclusion Project and an associate artist with TimeLine Theatre Company.?Mr. Dabu attended Columbia College Chicago and is represented by Paonessa Talent.?NISI STURGIS* (Emily) A recent Chicago transplant, Ms. Sturgis makes her Goodman Theatre debut. New York credits include The 39 Steps, Intimate Apparel, Dysphoria?and?The Less We Talk.?Regional credits include?In The Next Room, or the vibrator play?(Cleveland Play House);?A Doll’s House,?Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,?Life of Riley, Pentecost, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing and?Pericles (The Old Globe);?Mrs. Warren’s Profession,?Pride and Prejudice,?Doubt,?You Can’t Take It with You and?Richard III?(Denver?Center Theatre Company);?A Streetcar Named Desire, To Kill a Mockingbird, Arms and the Man, Our Town and?Trelawny of the Wells?(Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Hamlet and Emma (Pioneer Theatre Company);?Failure: A Love Story?and?Macbeth (Illinois Shakespeare Festival);?Twelfth Night (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre) and Trying (Merrimack Repertory Theatre). Television credits include the recurring role of June Thompson on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. She received her MFA from The Old Globe.BERNARD WHITE* (Amir) makes his Goodman Theatre debut. Off-Broadway credits include The Tempest and The Death of Garcia Lorca (The Public Theatre/NYSF), The Who and the What and Blood and Gifts (Lincoln Center Theater), Landscape of the Body (Signature Theatre Company) and Sakharam Binder (Play Company). Regional credits include Troilus and Cressida and Henry V (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Art (East/West Players); The Who and the What, The Seven and Dogeaters (La Jolla Playhouse); Wings of Desire (American Repertory Theatre/Toneelgroep Amsterdam) and Blithe Spirit and Lucy and the Conquest (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film credits include Miss India America, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Vino Veritas, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Quarantine, The World Unseen, American Dreamz, Land of Plenty, Raising Helen, The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions, The Scorpion King, Pay it Forward and City of Angels. TV credits include recurring roles on The Brink and Silicon Valley in addition to Grey’s Anatomy, Touch, Castle, N.C.I.S. and The Good Wife.ZAKIYA YOUNG* (Jory) makes her Goodman Theatre debut. Broadway credits include Stick Fly, The Little Mermaid and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Off-Broadway credits include Storyville (Audelco Award nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Musical–Female) and Tenderloin at York Theatre Company, The Lightning Thief at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Chasing the Bird at The Joyce Theater and Greenwood at The New York Musical Theater Festival. Regional credits include Good People at George Street Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theatre, Aida at Music Theatre Wichita and Starlight Theatre, It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman at Dallas Theater Center, White Christmas at Syracuse Stage and Little Miss Sunshine at La Jolla Playhouse. Television credits include Orange is the New Black, Made in Jersey, This American Life–Live at BAM (video and radio), the web series Submissions Only and various commercials. AYAD AKHTAR (Playwright) Mr. Akhtar’s plays include?Disgraced (Broadway, LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2013 Obie Award?for Extraordinary Achievement),?The Who and the What?(LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater and La Jolla Playhouse) and?The Invisible Hand?(New York Theatre Workshop/The Repertory Theater of St. Louis). Also a novelist, Mr. Akhtar is the author of?American Dervish, published in 2012 by Little, Brown and Company, also in 20 languages worldwide. He co-wrote and starred in The War Within?(Magnolia Pictures), which was released internationally and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay. As an actor, Mr. Akhtar also starred as Neel Kashkari in HBO’s adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book?Too Big to Fail.??He studied at Brown University and Columbia University’s School of the Arts.Kimberly Senior (Director) returns to Goodman Theatre, where she directed Rapture, Blister, Burn during the 2014/2015 Season. Chicago credits include The Diary of Anne Frank,?Hedda Gabler and?The Letters (Writers Theatre, where she is a resident director); 4000 Miles and?The Whipping Man?(Northlight Theatre);?Want and The North Plan?(Steppenwolf Theatre Company);?Inana, My Name is Asher Lev,?All My Sons and?Dolly West’s Kitchen?(TimeLine Theatre, where she is an associate artist);?Disgraced?(American Theatre Company); The Great God Pan,?After the Revolution,?Madagascar,?The Overwhelming?and?The Busy World is Hushed (Next Theatre Company); Waiting for Lefty?(American Blues Theatre); Uncle Vanya, Conquests of the South Pole, Fuddy Meers, The Cherry Orchard and Old Times (Strawdog Theatre Company); Bug (Redtwist Theatre) and Cassanova, Apocalyptic Butterflies, The Life and Times of Tusla Lovechild: a Road Trip, Trojan Women and Three Sisters (Collaboraction, of which she is a founder). Ms. Senior recently directed the Broadway premiere of Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced, which she previously directed off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater. Additional off-Broadway credits include The Who and the What (Lincoln Center Theater). Regional credits include Little Gem?(City Theatre), Murder on the Nile and A Few Good Men?(Peninsula Players), The Who and the What (La Jolla Playhouse) and Mauritius?(Theatre Squared). She was a 2013 finalist for the SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award and the Zelda Fichandler Award.JOHN LEE BEATTY (Scenic Designer) Broadway credits include Disgraced, The Heidi Chronicles, The Country House, Love Letters, Chicago, The Nance, Outside Mullingar, Venus in Fur, Other Desert Cities, Good People, Rabbit Hole, After Midnight, The Color Purple, Doubt, Proof, The Sisters Rosensweig, Talley’s Folly, Fifth of July, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress and Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Recent off-Broadway credits include Shows for Days, The City of Conversation and Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear in Central Park. Designer of more than 100 Broadway shows, he is the recipient of multiple Tony, Obie, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards and a member of the Theater Hall of Fame.JENNIFER VON MAYRHAUSER (Costume Designer) Broadway credits include Disgraced, Wit, Rabbit Hole, Knock Knock, Hay Fever, The Heidi Chronicles, Night of the Iguana, Talley’s Folly, Da, Execution of Justice, Baby, Beyond Therapy and Angels Fall. Off-Broadway credits include work with Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theatre and Circle Repertory Company. She received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. Film credits include Hateship Loveship, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Captain Ron, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, I’m Not Rappaport, Lean on Me, The Real Blonde and Mystic Pizza. Television credits include The Slap, Unforgettable, Under the Dome and Law & Order (Emmy Award nomination). CHRISTINE A. BINDER (Lighting Designer) Chicago credits include Follies (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Hedda Gabler (Writers Theatre), Lookingglass Alice (Lookingglass Theatre Company), 4000 Miles (Northlight Theatre), An Issue of Blood (Victory Gardens Theater) and Swan Lake (Joffrey Ballet). Her opera designs include work at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, San Diego Opera, New York City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Houston Grand Opera, as well as the recent Eugene Onegin for Geneva Opera in Switzerland. Upcoming designs include Heir Apparent (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Eugene Onegin (Houston Grand Opera), Thaddeus and Slocum: A Vaudeville Adventure (Lookingglass Theatre Company) and Cinderella (Joffrey Ballet). Ms. Binder has received Jeff Award nominations for her work with Court Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company and Northlight Theatre. JILL BC DUBOFF (Sound Designer) Broadway credits include Disgraced, Hand to God, The Heidi Chronicles, Picnic, Wit, Other Desert Cities, Good People, The Constant Wife, The Good Body and Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home. Off-Broadway credits include work at Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, Vineyard Theatre, MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Women’s Project Theater, New Georges, The Flea Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre, Signature Theatre Company, Clubbed Thumb (affiliate artist) and Penguin Rep Theatre. Regional credits include work with Bay Street Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport County Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Long Wharf Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Humana Festival of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Adirondack Theatre Festival. Radio credits include Studio 360, Naked Radio and Radiolab. Ms. DuBoff has received the Ruth Morley Design Award, an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence and a Lilly Award. She has also been nominated for Drama Desk and Henry Hewes awards and is an adjunct professor at Sarah Lawrence College.UNKLEDAVE’S FIGHT-HOUSE (Fight Direction) is a team of fight directors led by David Anzuelo. Core members also include Jesse Geguzis, Sean Griffin and Gerardo Rodriguez. Broadway credits include An American in Paris and Disgraced. Off-Broadway credits include Mercury Fur (The New Group), And I and Silence (Signature Theatre Company), To The Bone (Cherry Lane Theatre), The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters (Playwrights Horizons), Adoration of the Old Woman (Intar Theatre), The Muscles In Our Toes (Labyrinth Theater Company) and The Hill Town Plays (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). Film credits include Poor Behavior, Big Al and Emoticon.JONATHAN L. GREEN?(Dramaturg) is the Goodman’s literary management associate. As a dramaturg and director, he has worked with Lookingglass Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Sideshow Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, Theatre Seven of Chicago and Pavement Group, among others. Mr. Green is also the artistic director of Sideshow Theatre Company, where his recent projects include Stupid F**king Bird, The Golden Dragon and Idomeneus. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and serves on the board of directors of the League of Chicago Theatres.JOSEPH DRUMMOND* (Production Stage Manager) is in his 42nd season with Goodman Theatre, where last season he stage-managed Smokefall as well as the Goodman’s productions of The White Snake in China and The Iceman Cometh at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Other Goodman credits include Luna Gale, Pullman Porter Blues, The Iceman Cometh, Race, Red, House and Garden, Death of a Salesman (also on Broadway and at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles), Candide, Turn of the Century, Desire Under the Elms, Rock ’n’ Roll, Animal Crackers, Passion Play, King Lear, The Clean House, Finishing the Picture, The Rose Tattoo, The Beard of Avon, Drowning Crow, The Visit, The Odyssey, All the Rage, Arcadia, Another Midsummer Night, The Night of the Iguana, On the Open Road, Book of the Night, Landscape of the Body, The Gospel at Colonus and 12 productions of A Christmas Carol. In December 2011, he received the Del Hughes Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Stage Managers’ Association. He is included in the 2012 edition of Marquis’ Who’s Who in America. Mr. Drummond is the recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Lifetime Achievement after 25 years of stage management at the Goodman. He is a 44-year member of Actors’ Equity Association.BRIANA J. FAHEY* (Stage Manager) is in her third season with Goodman Theatre. Goodman credits include The Little Foxes, Rapture, Blister, Burn, Smokefall, The White Snake, Luna Gale, Pullman Porter Blues and Pedro Páramo. Her regional credits include stage managing at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, Magic Theatre, Center REP Theatre and the Utah Shakespeare Festival.Robert Falls (Goodman Theatre Artistic Director) Most recently, Mr. Falls reprised his critically acclaimed production of The Iceman Cometh, featuring the original cast headed by Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Last season, he also directed Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles and a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Other recent productions include Measure for Measure and the world and off-Broadway premieres of Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian. This season at the Goodman, Mr. Falls and Goodman Playwright-in-Residence Seth Bockley will co-direct their world premiere adaptation of Roberto Bola?o’s 2666, and Mr. Falls will also direct the Chicago premiere of Rebecca Gilman’s Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976. Among Mr. Falls’ other credits are The Seagull, King Lear, Desire Under the Elms, John Logan’s Red, Jon Robin Baitz’s Three Hotels, Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio and Conor McPherson’s Shining City; the world premieres of Richard Nelson’s Frank’s Home, Arthur Miller’s Finishing the Picture (his last play), Eric Bogosian’s Griller, Steve Tesich’s The Speed of Darkness and On the Open Road, John Logan’s Riverview: A Melodrama with Music and Rebecca Gilman’s A True History of the Johnstown Flood, Blue Surge and Dollhouse; the American premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s House and Garden and the Broadway premiere of Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida. Mr. Falls’ honors for directing include, among others, a Tony Award (Death of a Salesman), a Drama Desk Award (Long Day’s Journey into Night), an Obie Award (subUrbia), a Helen Hayes Award (King Lear) and multiple Jeff Awards (including a 2012 Jeff Award for The Iceman Cometh). For “outstanding contributions to theater,” Mr. Falls has also been recognized with such prestigious honors as the Savva Morozov Diamond Award (Moscow Art Theatre), the O’Neill Medallion (Eugene O’Neill Society), the Distinguished Service to the Arts Award (Lawyers for the Creative Arts) and the Illinois Arts Council Governor’s Award. ROCHE EDWARD SCHULFER (Goodman Theatre Executive Director) is in his 36th season as executive director. On May 18, 2015, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the League of Chicago Theatres. In 2014, he received the Visionary Leadership Award from Theatre Communications Group. To honor his 40th anniversary with the theater, Mr. Schulfer was honored with a star on the Goodman’s “Walkway of Stars.” During his tenure he has overseen more than 335 productions, including close to 130 world premieres. He launched the Goodman’s annual production of A Christmas Carol, which celebrates 38 years as Chicago’s leading holiday arts tradition this season. In partnership with Artistic Director Robert Falls, Mr. Schulfer led the establishment of quality, diversity and community engagement as the core values of Goodman Theatre. Under their tenure, the Goodman has received numerous awards for excellence, including the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theater, recognition by Time magazine as the “Best Regional Theatre” in the US, the Pulitzer Prize for Lynn Nottage’s Ruined and many Jeff Awards for outstanding achievement in Chicago area theater. Mr. Schulfer has negotiated the presentation of numerous Goodman Theatre productions to many national and international venues. From 1988 to 2000, he coordinated the relocation of the Goodman to Chicago’s Theatre District. He is a founder and two-time chair of the League of Chicago Theatres, the trade association of more than 200 Chicago area theater companies and producers. Mr. Schulfer has been privileged to serve in leadership roles with Arts Alliance Illinois (the statewide advocacy coalition); Theatre Communications Group (the national service organization for more than 450 not-for-profit theaters); the Performing Arts Alliance (the national advocacy consortium of more than 18,000 organizations and individuals); the League of Resident Theatres (the management association of 65 leading US theater companies); Lifeline Theatre in Rogers Park and the Arts & Business Council. He is honored to have been recognized by Actors’ Equity Association, for his work promoting diversity and equal opportunity in Chicago theater; the American Arts Alliance; the Arts & Business Council, for distinguished contributions to Chicago’s artistic vitality for more than 25 years; Chicago magazine and the Chicago Tribune, as a “Chicagoan of the Year”; the City of Chicago; Columbia College Chicago, for entrepreneurial leadership; Arts Alliance Illinois; the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee, for his partnership with Robert Falls; North Central College, with an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree; Lawyers for the Creative Arts; Lifeline Theatre’s Raymond R. Snyder Award for Commitment to the Arts; Season of Concern, for support of direct care for those living with HIV/AIDS; and the Vision 2020 Equality in Action Medal, for promoting gender equality and diversity in the workplace. Mr. Schulfer is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Theatre School at DePaul University and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he managed the cultural arts commission.BEREKELY REPEROTY THEATRE has grown from a storefront stage to an international leader in innovative theater. Known for its core values of imagination and excellence, as well as its educated and adventurous audience, the non-profit has provided a welcoming home for emerging and established artists since 1968. In four decades, four million people have enjoyed nearly 400 shows at Berkeley Rep. These shows have gone on to win five Tony Awards, seven Obie Awards, nine Drama Desk Awards, one Grammy Award and many other honors. In recognition of its place on the national stage, Berkeley Rep received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre in 1997. Its bustling facilities–which include the 400-seat Thrust Stage, the 600-seat Roda Theatre, the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, the Osher Studio and a spacious new campus in West Berkeley–are helping revitalize a renowned city. Learn more at .SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE was founded in 1963 and is currently led by Acting Artistic Director Braden Abraham and Managing Director Jeffrey Herrmann. One of America’s premier non-profit resident theaters, Seattle Repertory Theatre has achieved international renown for its consistently high production and artistic standards, and was awarded the 1990 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. With an emphasis on entertaining plays of true dramatic and literary worth, Seattle Rep produces a season of plays along with educational programs, new play workshops and special presentations.HistoryCalled America’s “Best Regional Theatre” by Time magazine, Goodman Theatre has won international recognition for its artists, productions and programs, and is a major cultural, educational and economic pillar in Chicago. Founded in 1925 by William O. Goodman and his family in honor of their son Kenneth (an important figure in Chicago’s cultural renaissance in the early 1900s), Goodman Theatre has garnered hundreds of awards for artistic achievement and community engagement, including Tony Awards and two Pulitzer Prizes. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Robert Falls and Executive Director Roche Schulfer, the Goodman’s priorities include new plays (over 100 world or American premieres in the past 30 years), reimagined classics (including Falls’ nationally and internationally celebrated productions of Death of a Salesman, Long’s Day’s Journey into Night, King Lear and The Iceman Cometh, many in collaboration with actor Brian Dennehy), culturally specific work, musical theater (26 major productions in 20 years, including 10 world premieres) and international collaborations. Diversity and inclusion are primary cornerstones of the Goodman’s mission; over the past 25 years, more than one-third of Goodman productions (including 31 world premieres) have featured artists of color, and the Goodman was the first theater in the world to produce all 10 plays in August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle.” Each year the Goodman’s numerous education and community engagement programs, including the innovative Student Subscription Series, serve thousands of students, teachers, life-long learners and special constituencies. In addition, for nearly four decades the annual holiday tradition of A Christmas Carol has led to the creation of a new generation of theatregoers in Chicago.Goodman Theatre’s leadership includes the distinguished members of the Artistic Collective: Brian Dennehy, Rebecca Gilman, Henry Godinez, Steve Scott, Chuck Smith, Regina Taylor, Henry Wishcamper and Mary Zimmerman. The Chairman of Goodman Theatre’s Board of Trustees is Joan E. Clifford; Swati Mehta is President of the Woman’s Board.From the Goodman Archives: The Visit, 2001Goodman Theatre’s 2001/2002 Season opener featured a true Broadway legend: Chita Rivera in the world premiere of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical version of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit. A darkly comic parable of failed romance, greed and revenge, the musical featured Rivera in the role of Claire Zachanassian. Now the world’s wealthiest woman, Claire has come home to Brachen, Switzerland, possibly to offer assistance to the now-impoverished village—and to reconnect with Anton, the shopkeeper who loved, then abandoned her. Featuring a subversively romantic score, a libretto by Terrence McNally, direction by Frank Galati and dances by the incomparable Ann Reinking, The Visit won plaudits from Goodman audiences and critics; but hopes for a Broadway transfer dimmed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Revivals of the show in 2008 (at Washington’s Signature Theatre) and 2014 (at the Williamstown Theatre Festival) kept interest alive, though, and on March 26, 2015, The Visit made a long-anticipated Broadway debut—once again starring the redoubtable Ms. Rivera, who received a Tony Award nomination for her performance.The TheaterGOODMAN THEATRE 170 North Dearborn Street | Chicago, Illinois 60601 | 312.443.3800 | Box Office Hours: Daily 12–5pmSUBSCRIPTION AND TICKET INFORMATIONSubscriptions and tickets for Goodman productions are available at the Goodman Box Office. Call 312.443.3800 or stop by the box office. All major credit cards are accepted: American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa. Tickets are available online: GROUP DISCOUNTS Discounts are available for your group of 10 or more for most Goodman productions, except A Christmas Carol, for which the minimum is 15. 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Smoking is not permitted.EMERGENCIESIn case of an emergency during a performance, please call Goodman Security at 312.443.5555.StaffRobert falls, Artistic Director roche schulfeR, Executive DirectorArtistic CollectiveSTEVE SCOTT, ProducerCHUCK SMITH, Resident DirectorMARY ZIMMERMAN, Manilow Resident Directorhenry godinez, Resident Artistic AssociateBRIAN DENNEHY, REBECCA GILMAN, REGINA TAYLOR, HENRY WISHCAMPER, Artistic AssociatesSETH BOCKLEY, Playwright-in-ResidenceAdministrationPeter Calibraro, Managing DirectorJohn collins, General ManagerCarolyn Walsh, Human Resources DirectorJODI J. BROWN, Manager of the Business OfficeRichard Glass, Systems AdministratorCRISTIN BARRETT, Assistant to the DirectorDANA BLACK, Assistant to the Executive DirectorASHLEY JONES, Business Office AssociateERIN MADDEN, Company ManagerOWEN BRAZAS, IT General Help DeskMarissa Ford, Special Projects AssociateArtisticADAM BELCUORE, Associate Producer/Director of CastingTANYA PALMER, Director of New Play DevelopmentNEENA ARNDT, Associate Dramaturgerica sartini-combs, Associate Casting Director JULIE MASSEY, Assistant to the Artistic DirectorJonathan L. Green, Literary Management AssociateJoseph Pindelski, Assistant to the Producerrachael jimenez, Casting AssistantDevelopmentDORLISA MARTIN, Director of Development holly hudak, Associate Director of Development/Senior Director of Major Gifts JEFF M. CIARAMITA, Senior Director of Special Events & Stewardship SHARON MARTWICK, Director of Institutional Giving KATE WELHAM, Director of Institutional Grants and Development Operationsmartin grochala, Director of Special Gifts and Planned GivingVICTORIA S. RODRIGUEZ, Manager of Stewardship and Community Engagement Events SCOTT PODRAZA, Manager of Annual Giving Alli Englesma-Mosser, Manager of Individual and Major Gifts CHRISTINE OBUCHOWSKI, Development/Board Relations CoordinatorAMY SZERLONG, Institutional Giving Coordinator Michelle Neuffer, Development Communications CoordinatorPAUL LEWIS, Prospect Research CoordinatorJosh Carter, Development AssistantVictoria Perez, Institutional Giving AssistantJocelyn Weberg, Women’s Board & Benefit Events AssistantEducation & Community EngagementWilla taylor, Director of Education& Community EngagementTERESA RENDE, Education & Community Engagement CoordinatorELIZABETH RICE, Education Programs AssociateBobby Biedrzycki, Curriculum and Instruction AssociateMarketing/Public RelationsLORI KLEINERMAN, Marketing & PR DirectorJay Corsi, Director of Advertising & SalesKIMBERLY D. FURGANSON, Marketing Associate/Group Sales ManagerGABRIELA JIRASEK, New Media ManagerJenny Gargaro, Marketing ManagerMichael Mellini, Marketing Communications Coordinatorrachel weinberg, New Media Assistanthank greene, Audience Development AssociateDavid Diaz, Marketing Project AssociateErik Scanlon, Content CreatorCASEY CHAPMAN, Subscription Sales and Telefund Campaign Managershari Eklof, Telemarketing Sales AssociateJillian Meuller, Shift SupervisorJANET BALOU, John Donnell, Fredericka Gaston, RAY JAMES, Susan Monts-Bologna, Jillian Mueller, James Mulcahy, WILL OPEL, scott ramsey, Subscription Sales/FundraisingPublicityDENISE SCHNEIDER, Publicity DirectorKiana Harris, Publicity Managerramsey carey, Publicity AssociateGraphic Designkelly rickert, Creative DirectorCori Lewis, Cecily Pincsak, Graphic DesignersCameron Johnson, VideographerTicket ServicesERIK SCHNITGER, Director of Ticket ServicesSUMMER SNOW, Associate Director of Ticket ServicesBridget Melton, Ticket Services ManagerCLAIRE GUYER, Assistant Ticket Services ManagerEmmelia Halpern-Givens, Ticket Services Supervisor PHILIP LOMBARD, Group Sales RepresentativeTerri GONZALEZ, Keyana Marshall, ALex Martinez, RON POPP, rachel robinson, SHAWN SCHIKORA, Ticket Services RepresentativesProductionSCOTT CONN, Production ManagerMATTHEW CHANDLER, Associate Production Manager, AlbertAMBER Porter, Assistant to the Production ManagerStage ManagementJoseph Drummond, Production Stage ManagerBriana J. Fahey, Stage ManagerJennifer Gregory, Floor ManagerScenic ArtKarl Kochvar, Resident Scenic Artist, USAADonna Slager, Scenic ArtistSceneryRYAN SCHULTZ, Technical DirectorLuke Lemanski, Andrew mccarthy, Assistant Technical Directors JOHN RUSSELL, Scene Shop ForemanSANDY ANETSBERGER, Josh Edwards, stephen geis, CASEY KELLY, DAVE STADT, CarpentersMICHAEL FROHBIETER, Scene Shop AssistantMichael Bugajski, William Czerwionka, Assistant CarpentersJason Huerta, DraftspersonJAMEs Ward, Logistics AssistantJAMES NORMAN, House CarpenterJESS HILL, House Rigger CarpenterMorgan Hood, StagehandPropertiesALICE MAGUIRE, Properties SupervisorBret Haines, Properties HeadCHRISTOPHER KOLZ, Properties CarpenterJeff Harris, Properties ArtisanRACHELLE MOORE STADT, Properties AssistantNick Heggestad, Assistant to the Properties Supervisor ElectricsGINA PATTERSON, Lighting SupervisorPatrick Feder, Assistant Lighting Supervisor SHERRY SIMPSON, Electrics HeadMIKE DURST, PATRICK HUDSON, JAY REA, ElectriciansErik Barry, Arianna Brown, Brian Elston, David Goodman-Edberg, Bill mcghee, Tristan Meredith, Eric Vigo, Electrics OverhireSoundRICHARD WOODBURY, Resident Sound Designer DAVID NAUNTON, House Audio SupervisorStephanie Farina, Audio HeadCostumesHeidi Sue McMath, Costume Shop ManagerEileen Clancy, Assistant to the ManagerNoel Alyce Huntzinger, Assistant to the DesignerJessica Rodriguez, Shop AssistantBirgit Rattenborg Wise, Head DraperHyunjung Kim, First HandAmy Frangquist, Kelly Rose, StitchersSusan Lemerand, CraftsColleen Hagerty, WardrobeJene? Garretson, Wardrobe HeadOperations & Facilitiesjustine bondurant, Director of OperationsChris Smith, Front of House Manager Kyle Shoemake, Guest Services ManagerDemi Smith, Melissa Yonzon, House ManagersARTHUR MATHEWS, Assistant House ManagerChina Whitmire, Andy Meholick, Guest Services AssociatesSamantha Buckman, Daniel Gomez, Kiersten Kolstad, Part-Time Guest Services AssociatesJoshua sumner, Facilities CoordinatorRodrigo Garcia, Adam Kaufman, Facilities Techniciansjavier martinez, Security OfficerTAWANDA BREWER, Miguel Melecio, Randy Sickels, CustodiansSTEPHANIE BOUDREAUX, elizabeth crea, ValenTino davenport, allison duda, Margaret Dunn, kate fitzgerald, Cristina Granados, Michael Krystosek, JUDY LOYD, Keri Mack, Rebecca Miles-Steiner, Lauren Paustian, Taylor Pittman, Rebecca Cao Romero, Kristyn Zoe WIlkerson, Jordan Zeman, Front of House StaffAffiliated ArtistsScott T. Barsotti, Mia McCullough, Bonnie Metzgar, Carlos Murillo, Playwrights UnitMarti Lyons, Maggio Directing FellowConsultants & Special ServicesCrowe horwath LLP, AuditorsM. GRAHAM COLEMAN/DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP, Legal CounselRichard L. Marcus/OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART P.C., Local Labor CounselCAMPBELL & COMPANY, Fundraising ConsultantsELLWOOD & ASSOCIATES, Investment ConsultantsMEDICAL PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING ARTISTS, Medical ConsultantsIntegrated Facility Management Consulting, LLC, Facility Management ConsultantsHMS Media, Inc., Video ProductionInterns Alex Koszewski, Stage ManagementEmily Hart, Marketing/PR/PublicityKatie Callahan, CastingMargaret Cole, Education and Community EngagementAnnika Bennett, Mary Lynne Anderson-Cooper, Literary Management and Dramaturgylucinda allen, ProducingMorgan Lake, SoundCivic CommitteeHonorary ChairsThe Honorable Mayor Rahm Emanuel, The Honorable Governor Bruce RaunerCivic Committee MembersEllen Alberding, President, The Joyce FoundationKris and Trisha Rooney AldenJames L. Alexander, Co-Trustee, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable TrustHeather Y. Anichini, The Chicago Public Education FundBrian Bannon, Commissioner, Chicago Public LibraryMelissa L. Bean, Chairman of the Midwest, JPMorgan Chase & Co.Philip Bahar, Executive Director, Chicago Humanities FestivalMr. and Mrs. Norman BobinsMichelle T. Boone, Commissioner, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special EventsKevin J. Brown, President & CEO, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc.Patrick J. Canning, Managing Partner, Chicago Office, KPMG LLPGregory C. Case, President and CEO, Aon Corporation Gloria Castillo, President, Chicago UnitedAdela Cepeda, President, A.C. Advisory, Inc.John Challenger, CEO, Challenger, Gray & ChristmasFrank Clark, Former Chairman and CEO, ComEdLester and Renée Crown, Crown Family PhilanthropiesPaula and James Crown, Crown Family PhilanthropiesThe Honorable Richard M. DaleyDouglas Druick, President and Eloise W. Martin Director, Art Institute of ChicagoChaz EbertRichard J. Edelman, President and CEO, EdelmanTorrey N. Foster, Jr., Regional Leader (Chicago), Heidrick & StrugglesAnthony Freud, General Director, Lyric Opera of ChicagoDenise B. GardnerSarah Nava GarveyElisabeth Geraghty, Executive Director, The Elizabeth F. Cheney FoundationMadeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Sandra P. Guthman, President and CEO, Polk Bros. FoundationJoan W. Harris, The Irving Harris FoundationChristie A. HefnerAnne L. KaplanRichard Lariviere, President and CEO, The Field MuseumCheryl Mayberry and Eric T. McKissackTerry Mazany, President and CEO, The Chicago Community TrustMichael H. Moskow, Vice Chairman and Senior Fellow of the Global Economy, The Chicago Council on Global AffairsLangdon Neal and Jeanette SublettRichard S. Price, Chairman and CEO, Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.Jim Reynolds, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Loop CapitalLinda Johnson Rice, Chairman, Johnson PublishingJohn Rowe, Former Chairman and CEO, Exelon CorporationJesse H. Ruiz, Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPMichael and Cari SacksVincent A.F. Sergi, National Managing Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLPRobert Sullivan, Regional President, Fifth Third Bank Franco Tedeschi, Vice President (Chicago), American AirlinesGenevieve Thiers and Daniel Ratner, Founder, SitterCity, ContactKarma, Opera ModaElizabeth Thompson Maria (Nena) Torres and Matthew PiersMr. Carlos E. Tortolero, President, National Museum of Mexican ArtArthur Velasquez, Chairman, Azteca Foods, Inc. Frederick H. Waddell, Chairman and CEO, Northern Trust CorporationLaysha L. Ward, President, Community Relations, Target Corporation and President, Target FoundationBenna B. Wilde, Program Director, Arts and Culture, Prince Charitable TrustDonna F. Zarcone, President and CEO, D.F. Zarcone & Associates LLC*As of August 2015LeadershipGOODMAN?THEATRE?BOARD?OF?TRUSTEESChairJoan E. Clifford?Vice ChairmenRoger Baskes?Alice Young Sabl?Patrick Wood-Prince?PresidentAdnaan Hamid?Vice PresidentsSunny P. Chico?Rebecca Ford?Rodney L. Goldstein?Maria Green?Catherine Mouly?Michael D. O’Halleran?Kimbra Walter?TreasurerDavid W. Fox, Jr.?Assistant TreasurerJeffrey W. Hesse?SecretarySusan J. Wislow?Immediate Past ChairmanRuth Ann M. Gillis?Founding ChairmanStanley M. FreehlingHonorary ChairmanAlbert Ivar Goodman?Honorary PresidentLewis ManilowHonorary Life TrusteesThe Honorable Richard M. Daley and Mrs. Maggie Daley*Life TrusteesJames E. Annable?María C. BechilyDeborah A. BrickerPeter C.B. Bynoe?Lester N. Coney?Patricia Cox?Shawn M. DonnelleyPaul H. Dykstra?Stanley M. FreehlingRuth Ann M. GillisAlbert Ivar Goodman?Sondra A. Healy?Lewis ManilowJames F. Oates?Carol Prins?MembersKristin Anderson-Schewe?Anjan AsthanaDouglas BrownLamont Change?Philip B. ClementKevin ColeLoretta CooneyKathleen Keegan CowieMarsha CruzanJulie M. Danis?Brian DennehyRobert F. DenvirSuzette DeweyBilly DexterRobert A. Falls?Kristine R. Garrett?Harry J. Harczak, Jr.?Brian L. HecklerSteve HiltonDeidre HoganVicki V. Hood?Linda Hutson?Carl JenkinsSherry JohnCathy KenworthyJeffrey D. KorzenikSheldon LavinJoseph Learner?Elaine R. LeavenworthGordon C.C. LiaoAnthony F. MaggioreAmalia Perea MahoneyThomas P. Maurer?Nancy Lauter McDougalSwati Mehta?Gigi Pritzker Pucker?Alison P. RanneyElizabeth A. RaymondTimothy M. RussellRyan RuskinRoche Schulfer?Vincent A.F. SergiJill B. SmartChuck SmithShelly StayerSteve TraxlerPatty VanLammerenJ. Randall White?Neal S. Zucker?Emeritus TrusteesKathy L. BrockJoe CalabreseAlvin GolinRichard GrayLeslie S. HindmanH. Michael KurzmanEva LosaccoRichard L. PollayCarole David StoneLinda B. ToopsDia S. WeilMaria E. WynneEugene Zeffren ?Executive Committee Member *Deceased GOODMAN?THEATRE?Women’s BoardOfficersPresidentSwati Mehta1st Vice PresidentMargie Janus2nd Vice PresidentCynthia Scholl3rd Vice PresidentChristine PopeTreasurerDarlene BobbSecretaryMarcia S. CohnCommittee Chairs Annual FundJoan LewisCarole WoodAuctionDiane LandgrenCynthia SchollCivic EngagementAnu BehariNancy SwanEducationRenee TyreeLorraine WeissGalaLinda KrivkovichSusan J. WislowHospitalityLinda W. AylesworthMembershipFrances Del BocaMonica Lee HughsonMargie JanusProgramDenise Stefan GinascolMember-at-LargeAndra S. PressPast PresidentsSherry JohnJoan E. CliffordAlice Young SablSusan J. WislowLinda HutsonCarol PrinsSondra A. HealyMembersSharon AngellChristine BranstadMary Ann ClementJane K. GardnerEllen GignilliatJudy GoldbergAva LaTanya HiltonJulie KorzenikWendy KriminsDiane LandgrenKay MabieAmalia Perea MahoneyPauline M. MontgomeryMerle ReskinMary SchmittBeth Herrington StamosSara F. SzoldSustaining MembersKathleen FoxDr. Mildred C. HarrisMary Ann KarrisCynthia E. LevinNancy ThompsonHonorary MembersKatherine A. AbelsonMrs. James B. CloonanJoan M. Coppleson~Nancy S. LipskyNancy Lauter McDougalKaren Pigott~Gwendolyn RitchieMrs. Richard A. Samuels~Orli StaleyCarole David Stone~Mrs. Philip L. Thomas~Rosemary Tourville~Susan D. Underwood~ ~Past PresidentGoodman theatre SCENEMAKERS BOARDThe Scenemakers Board is an auxiliary group comprised of diverse, young professionals who support the mission of the theater through fundraising, audience development and advocacy.PresidentGordon C.C. LiaoVice PresidentJason Knupp TreasurerJustin A. KulovsekSecretaryKelli GarciaMembersNirav D. AminBrigitte R. AndersonElizabeth M. BalthropLauren Blair~Shelly BurkeTom CassadyTracy CliffordChanel ConeyVanessa CórdovaMorgan CrouchErin DraperStephanie E. GiomettiTony GlennHeather M. GroveJackie Avitia GuzmanKevin E. JordanDe-Anthony King, MBAShannon Kinsella~Megan A. McCarthyCraig A. McCawCheryl McPhilimy~Lee S. MickusTeresa MuiGary NapadovJessey R. NevesMollie E. O’BrienEddie PatelJaimie Mayer PhinneyDesmond D. PopeCaitlin Powell GimpelDella D. RichardsKristin M. RylkoJeffrey P. SenkpielDavid H. SmithKristin Atchison ThompsonStephen VaughnAnne C. Van WartStephanie D. WagnerMaria WattsGinger Wiley ~Past Presidentgoodman theatre SPOTLIGHT?SOCIETYWe gratefully recognize the following people who have generously included Goodman Theatre in their wills or estate plans. For more information on the Spotlight Society call Marty Grochala at 312.443.3811 ext. 597. Anonymous (4)Kristin L. Anderson-Schewe and Robert W. ScheweSusan and James AnnableJulie and Roger BaskesJoan I. BergerDrs. Ernest and Vanice BillupsNorma BorcherdingDeborah A. BrickerJoe and Palma CalabreseRobert and Joan CliffordLester N. ConeyPatricia CoxTerry J. CrawfordJulie M. DanisRon and Suzanne DirsmithShawn M. DonnelleyPaul H. DykstraStanley M. FreehlingGloria FriedmanHarold and Diane GershowitzEllen and Paul GignilliatDenise Stefan GinascolMichael GoldbergerJune and Al GolinAlbert I. GoodmanRichard and Mary L. GrayMarcy and Harry HarczakSondra and Denis HealyVicki and Bill HoodLinda HutsonShelly IbachWayne and Margaret JanusB. JoabsonStephen H. JohnsonMel and Marsha KatzRachel E. KraftH. Michael and Sheila KurzmanAnne E. KutakRichard and Christine LiebermanNancy S. Lipsky Dr. Paul M. Lisnek Dorlisa Martin and David GoodMeg and Peter MasonTom and Linda MaurerElizabeth I. McCannKaren and Larry McCrackenNancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougalKevin C. McGirrJames F. OatesElizabeth Anne PetersKaren and Dick PigottPeter and Susan PiperSusan PowersCarol PrinsConnie PurdumCharlene RaimondiElizabeth A. RaymondMerle ReskinAngelique A. Sallas, PhDNatalie SaltielRoche SchulferMr. and Mrs. Robert E. ShawRose L. ShureMichael SilversteinElaine SoterHal S. R. StewartCarole David StoneJudith SugarmanMarlene A. Van SkikeDia S. WeilRandy and Lisa WhiteMaria E. WynneJames G. YoungThe Goodman holds dear the memory of the following individuals who have honored the work on our stages with a bequest. Their generosity will help to ensure that future generations will be able to share in their passion for live theater. Hope A. AbelsonAlba Biagini TrustGeorge W. Blossom IIICamilla F. Boitel TrustEstate of Marjorie DouglasBettie DwinellJoan FreehlingFlorence GambinoBernard Gordon TrustEvolyn A. HardingePatricia D. KaplanTheodore KasselCharles A. KolbKris MartinMr. and Mrs. William McKittrickNeil Pomerenke Carol Ann PorembaAlice B. RapoportGladys L. RipleyVerla J. RowanGeorge Northup Simpson, Jr. Vlada SundersLenore SwoiskinSpotlight Society Advisory CouncilThe Advisory Council is a group of estate planning professionals who aid the Goodman with its planned giving program. The Goodman is grateful to its members for the donation of their time and expertise.Anita Tyson, Council Chair, JPMorgan Private Bank Christine L. Albright, Holland & Knight LLPSusan T. Bart, Sidley Austin LLPGwen G. Cohen, Morgan StanleyBeth A. Engel, Wells Fargo Private BankRobert G. Gibson, Clifton Allen LLPBarbara Grayson, Mayer Brown LLPRobert E. Hamilton, Hamilton Thies & Lorch LLPDavid A. Handler, Kirkland & Ellis LLP Charles Harris, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLPLouis S. Harrison, Harrison & Held, LLPKim Kamin, Gresham Partners, LLCThomas F. Karaba, Crowley Barrett & Karaba Ltd.Rick Knoedler, Northern TrustKevin Lane, Vedder Price PCMichael A. Levin, BMO Harris Bank N.A.Sandra K. Newman, Perkins CoieLucy K. Park, Perkins CoieRuth A. Pivar, Quarles + Brady LLPTerry L. Robbins, Robbins & Associates LLCEileen B. Trost, Freeborn & Peters LLPImpact Creativity, a program of theatre ForwardImpact Creativity is an urgent call to action to save theater education programs in 19 of our largest cities. Impact Creativity brings together theaters, arts education experts and individuals to help over 500,000 children and youth, most of them disadvantaged, succeed through the arts by sustaining the theater arts education programs threatened by today’s fiscal climate. For more information on how “theater education changes lives,” please visit: ($100,000 or more)AOL?The Hearst Foundations($50,000 or more)The Schloss Family FoundationWells Fargo($25,000 or more)Buford Alexander and Pamela FarrSteven and Joy BunsonJames S. and Lynne Turley($10,000 or more)Dorfman & Kaish Family FoundationAlan and Jennifer FreedmanJonathan Maurer and Gretchen ShugartNational Endowment for the ArtsLisa OrbergFrank and Bonnie OrlowskiRBC Wealth ManagementGeorge S. Smith, Jr.Southwest Airlines?TD Charitable Foundation($2,500 or more)Paula DominickJohn R. DuttChrist and Anastasia EconomosBruce R. and Tracey EwingJessica FarrMason and Kim GrangerColleen and Philip HemplemanHoward and Janet KaganJoseph F. KirkSusan and John Major Donor Advised Fund at the Rancho Santa Fe FoundationJohn R. MathenaDaniel A. SimkowitzJohn ThomopoulosIsabelle Winkles($1,000 or more)Leslie ChaoSteven & Donna GartnerRuth E. GitlinKaren A. and Kevin W. Kennedy FoundationAdrian LiddardRobin & Bob Paulson Charitable FundMark RosenblattStephanie Scott ?In-kind supportBusiness CouncilCo-ChairsJoan Clifford (ex officio)Billy Dexter, Heidrick & StrugglesMaria Green, ITWJoe Learner, Savills Studley, Inc.Robert A. Wislow (founding Chair), CBRE/U.S. Equities Realty, Inc.Steering CommitteeBarbara Grant Bereskin, Lincoln Avenue PartnersMarsha Cruzan, U.S. BankKristine R. Garrett, The PrivateBankRodney L. Goldstein, Frontenac CompanyMembersAnjan Asthana, McKinsey & CompanyDoug Brown, Exelon CorporationPeter C.B. Bynoe, Equity Group InvestmentsJoe Calabrese, Geller Family Office Services, LLPLamont Change, Change Advisory GroupSunny P. Chico, SPC Educational SolutionsPhilip B. Clement, Aon CorporationRobert A. Clifford, Clifford Law OfficesKevin L. Cole, Ernst & Young LLPLester N. Coney, Mesirow FinancialSarah Copeland, GCM GrosvenorStephen D’Amore, Winston & Strawn LLPRobert F. Denvir, Winston & Strawn LLPSidney Dillard, Loop CapitalPaul H. Dykstra, Ropes and Gray LLPTherese K. Fauerbach, The Northridge Group, Inc.David W. Fox, Jr., Northern TrustKate S. Gaynor, Marsh Private Client ServicesRuth Ann M. Gillis, Exelon Corporation (Retired)Harry J. Harczak, Jr., CDW (Retired)John H. Hart, Hart Davis Hart WineSondra A. Healy, Turtle Wax, Inc.Brian L. Heckler, KPMG LLPSteve Hilton, McDonalds CorporationRenee Hochberg, Towers WatsonDeidre Kiselus Hogan, American AirlinesJeffrey W. Hesse, PWC, LLPSteve Hilton, McDonalds CorporationVicki V. Hood, Kirkland & Ellis LLPRalph V. Hughes, Macy’sCarl A. Jenkins, BMO Harris BankPeter C. John, Williams Montgomery & JohnCathy Kenworthy, Interactive HealthJeffrey D. Korzenik, Fifth Third BankElaine R. Leavenworth, AbbottAnthony F. Maggiore, JPMorgan ChaseWilliam F. Mahoney, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd.Michael D. O’Halleran, Aon CorporationMarshall Peck, InterParkSteve Pemberton, WalgreensMichael A. Pope, McDermott Will & EmeryElizabeth A. Raymond, Mayer Brown LLPTimothy M. Russell, CDK GlobalJohn J. Sabl, Sidley Austin, LLPVincent A.F. Sergi, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLPMarsha Serlin, United Scrap Metal, Inc.Steve Traxler, Jam Theatricals, Ltd.Steve Trepiccione, HSBCPatty VanLammeren, Allstate Insurance CompanySteven A. Weiss, Schopf & Weiss LLPJ. Randall White, The Nielsen Company (Retired)Patrick Wood-Prince, Jones Lang LaSalleNeal S. Zucker, Corporate Cleaning ServicesSupportHonor and Memorial Gifts Honor gifts provide an opportunity to celebrate milestones such as anniversaries, birthdays, graduations or weddings. Memorial gifts honor the memory of a friend or loved one. Due to space limitations we are unable to include gifts of less than $100. Below are the commemorative gifts made between August 2014 and August 2015.In Honor of Kristin Anderson-ScheweBea AndersonThea IdeIn Honor of James AnnableBettylu and Paul SaltzmanSteve and Florence ZellerIn Honor of Debbie BrickerSteven and Lauren ScheibeMarc and Cindy LevinIn Honor of Peter CalibraroSheldon and Goldie HolzmanIn Honor of the New Stages reading of CarlyleBernard and Marcia KamineIn Honor of Jeff Ciaramita on his 30th AnniversaryGoodman Theatre Women’s BoardIn Honor of Marcia CohnNorman and Virginia BobinsIn Honor of Patricia CoxKristin Anderson-Schewe and Robert SchewePriscilla and Steven KerstenIn Honor of Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGuinnisExelon CorporationLisbeth StiffelIn Honor of Lindsey and Jenna GoodDennis and Nancy GoodIn Honor of Albert and Maria GoodmanLinda and E. Radford DeckerIn Honor of Linda Hutson’s BirthdaySallyan WindtIn Honor of Scott and Bobbi LebinDennis and Vivian CallahanIn Honor of David Naunton and Alice MaguireDavid and Mary SkinnerIn Honor of Jim Oates’ 90th BirthdayRandy and Lisa WhiteIn Honor of Jim Oates and Adam GrymkowskiJames and Judith OatesIn Honor of Christine PopeAnonymousDian and Ted EllerHolly Hayes and Carl W. SternIn Honor of Carol PrinsSylvia Neil and Daniel FischelMaril, Joe and Jane PattIn Honor of Alice SablKathleen and Nicholas AmatangeloSuzanne Martin and Hart WeichselbaumJosephine StraussIn Honor of Steve ScottSteven and Susan MarcusIn Honor of Barbara Stone SamuelsW. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation Trustee Emeritus GrantIn Honor of Regina TaylorKristin Anderson Schewe and Bob ScheweJoan and Robert CliffordRuth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnisIn Honor of Willa TaylorJo G. MooreIn Honor of Susan UnderwoodRichard and Elaine TinbergIn Honor of Lorrayne WeissSudy and Thomas AltholzIn Honor of Susan WislowMs. Barbara NeubergPatty and Dan WalshIn Memory of Hoda AboleneenOmar, Ashraf and Hani KhalilIn Memory of Dr. Morton A. ArnsdorfRosemary CrowleyIn Memory of Rev. Willie Taplin BarRev. Calvin S. Morris, Ph.D.In Memory of George S. BrengelJanyce D. BrengelIn Memory of Connie S. CarimiAnglique A. Sallas, Ph.DIn Memory of Rosaline CohnAlice SablIn Memory of Donald W. CollierKay Lemmer CollierIn Memory of Shirley ConeyKristin Anderson-Schewe and Bob ScheweTerry AthasNandi BallardKelli CaudillJackie CollinsBrian DiedrichEllie FormanAdam and Charmaine GoldmanLinda Johnson RiceMarty KaplanElaine R. LeavenworthRachel and Marc MangoubiMike MarkowitzDorlisa Martin and David GoodDana MikstayRichard PriceKristin ProvencherKristen SchaffnitDenise SchneiderKatie SeemanRoche Schulfer and Mary Beth FisherMichael SimonFrancois TeissonniereDaniel and Elizabeth WeilKneeland and Sharon YoungbloodIn Memory of Elizabeth Elser DoolittleSusan and Peter CoburnIn Memory of Margueite C. GainesStephanie R. GainesIn Memory of Sarah GoldbergNancy ThompsonIn Memory of Carlo MaggioShawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. KellyDouglas R. Brown and Rachel E. KraftRoche Schulfer and Mary Beth FisherIn Memory of Michael MaggioLeigh and Henry BienenSandra GidleyRachel E. KraftCarlo and Genevieve MaggioJames F. Oates and Adam GrymkowskiIn Memory of Abby S. Magdovitz-WassermanDr. David WassermanIn Memory of Barbara B. SchultzBurton J. SchultzIn Memory of the Honorable Stephen R. YatesDeborah YatesInstitutional Support - Corporate, Foundation and?Government?DonorsGoodman Theatre is grateful to all of its institutional donors for their generous support between August 2014 and August 2015. Listed below are contributors at or above the $1,000 level.Ovation Society ($200,000 and above)Goodman Theatre Women’s Board The Shubert FoundationThe Wallace Foundation?Program Sponsors ($100,000 – $199,999)Paul M. Angell Family FoundationEdith-Marie Appleton FoundationThe Joyce FoundationPolk Bros. FoundationProducer’s Circle ($50,000 – $99,999)Abbott/Abbott FundAllstate Insurance CompanyBMO Harris Bank?The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation?The Chicago Community TrustThe Crown Family?EdelmanEdgerton FoundationExelon/ComEdFifth Third BankGoodman Theatre Scenemakers BoardJPMorgan ChaseJulius N. Frankel FoundationKatten Muchin Rosenman LLPThe John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation?National Endowment for the ArtsPepsiCo?Target CorporationTime Warner Foundation?Director’s Circle ($30,000 – $49,999)American AirlinesBlue Cross Blue Shield of IllinoisErnst & Young LLPGCM GrosvenorIllinois Arts Council AgencyITWKPMG LLPLaurents/Hatcher Foundation, Inc.PwC LLPThe Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust?Premiere Circle ($20,000 – $29,999)Clifford Law OfficesCNAConant Family FoundationJacky and Michael Ferro — The Sun-Times Foundation/The Chicago Community TrustThe Glasser and Rosenthal FamilyInteractive HealthJohnsonville Sausage, LLCMacy’sMarsh Private Client ServicesMayer Brown LLPMcDonald’s CorporationMesirow Financial Prince Charitable TrustsThe Rhoades FoundationUnited Scrap Metal, Inc.U.S. BankPatrons ($15,000 – $19,999)Baxter International Inc.Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc.John R. Halligan Charitable FundHeidrick & StrugglesHSBC North American HoldingsWalter E. Heller FoundationLoop CapitalThe Northridge Group, Inc.The PrivateBankTowers WatsonWalgreen Co.Winston & Strawn, LLPDistinguished Guarantors ($10,000 – $14,999)AnonymousHelen V. Brach FoundationThe Buchanan Family FoundationFTD Group, Inc.Harris Family FoundationKirkland & Ellis LLPMadden, Jiganti, Moore & Sinars LLPMcKinsey & Company, Inc.Peoples GasGuarantors ($5,000 – $9,999)Automatic Building ControlsArdmore Associates, LLCCramer-KrasseltDr. Scholl FoundationHolland Capital ManagementINTREN, Inc.Jenner & Block LLPLeo Burnett WorldwideNeiman Marcus Michigan Ave.Nesek DigitalOgletree DeakinsEdmond and Alice Opler FoundationThe Siragusa FoundationStandard ParkingPrincipals ($2,500 – $4,999)Robert W. Baird & Co. IncorporatedIngredionKatz & Stefani, LLCKlearsky SolutionsLichten Craig Architecture & InteriorsMarquette AssociatesWilliam Blair & CompanyWSF Associates & Partners, LLCSustainers ($1,000 – $2,499)Adage TechnologiesAltair Advisers, LLCThe Bill Bass FoundationLauren Blair ConsultingButler Family FoundationComplete Mailing Service, Inc.Corporate Value ManagementHuber Financial AdvisorsPMI Energy Solutions, LLCPrimera Engineers, Ltd.Pritzker Traubert Family FoundationBenjamin J. Rosenthal FoundationSahara Enterprises, Inc.W.R. Weis Company, Inc.Individual?Premiere?Society?Members And Major DonorsThe Premiere Society is a group of Goodman friends providing the core support for outstanding productions and award-winning education programs that reflect and enrich Chicago’s diverse cultural community. Membership in the Goodman Premiere Society is extended to individuals and couples who make an annual gift of $2,000 or more. Ovation Society ($100,000 and above) Julie and Roger BaskesJoan and Robert CliffordThe Davee FoundationRuth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnisAlbert and Maria GoodmanKimbra and Mark WalterDirector’s Circle ($50,000 – $99,999) Joyce ChelbergPatricia CoxShawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. KellyEfroymson-Hamid Family FoundationSherry and Peter JohnSwati and Siddharth MehtaCarol Prins and John HartMerle ReskinAlice and John J. SablHelen and Sam ZellChairmans Circle ($25,000 – $49,999)Anonymous (2)Susan and James AnnableBill and Linda AylesworthDeborah A. BrickerMarcia S. CohnDoris and Howard Conant Family FoundationJulie M. Danis and Paul F. DonahueDrs. Robert and Frances Del BocaEllen and Paul GignilliatMarcy and Harry HarczakRoy and Diane LandgrenAndra and Irwin PressMichael A. Sachs in Memory of Alice B. RapoportCynthia and Michael R. SchollShaw Family Supporting OrganizationLorrayne and Steve WeissSusan and Bob WislowPremiere Circle ($15,000 – $24,99)AnonymousDarlene and Robert BobbChristine and Paul BranstadLinda and Peter BynoeGery and Sunny ChicoCecilia Conrad and Llewellyn MillerJames and Kathleen CowiePaul Dykstra and Spark CreminJohn and Denise Stefan GinascolMr. and Mrs. Rodney L. GoldsteinMonica and William HughsonPatricia L. Hyde/The Komarek-Hyde-McQueen FoundationWayne and Margie JanusLinda and Peter KrivkovichJulie and Joe LearnerDr. Marc and Cindy LevinMichael and Debra LiccarMr. and Mrs. Thomas P. MaurerCatherine Mouly and LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.M. Ann O’BrienChristine and Michael PopeJ.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family FoundationOrli and Bill StaleySara F. SzoldJames L. and Renee L. TyreeRandy and Lisa WhiteDress Circle ($10,000 – $14,999) Anonymous (3)Mr. and Mrs. Douglas BrownMaria GreenBruce and Jamie HagueSondra and Denis Healy/Turtle Wax, Inc.Jeffrey W. Hesse and Julie Conboy HesseDavid D. HillerVicki and Bill HoodThe Margaret and James C. Johnson Charitable FoundationJoan and Rik LewisAmalia and William MahoneyDonald L. Martin IIChris and Eileen MurphyAlexandra and John NicholsJames F. OatesElizabeth Raymond and Paul HybelRyan Ruskin and Mike AndrewsMary and Edward H. Schmitt, Jr.Nancy and Kevin SwanDistinguished Guarantors ($5,000 – $9,999) Anonymous (4)Kristin Anderson-Schewe and Robert ScheweSharon and Charles AngellRajeev and Monika BahriJohn and Caroline BallantineMary Jo and Doug BaslerMaría C. Bechily and Scott HodesAnjan Asthana and Anu BehariMaria and Robert BernacchiSteve and Lynn BolanowskiMs. Jean BramletteDouglas R. Brown and Rachel E. KraftMary Kay and Art BushonvilleCarol and Tom ButlerTom and Dianne CampbellKevin and Eliza ColeBob and Loretta CooneyBrad and Becky CosgroveSheryl and Dominic CurcioJudy and Tapas K. Das GuptaJames and Nina DonnelleyFeitler Family FundChristine FinzerDavid and Alexandra FoxAlbert and Suzanne Friedman/Friedman PropertiesJane K. GardnerJonathan and Kristine GarrettMr. and Mrs. Alvin GolinSabrina and AntonioBrenda and James GruseckiJoseph S. HaasMary Kay and Ed HabenLynn Hauser and Neil RossKeith and Jodi HebeisenBrian L. Heckler and Coley M. GallagherKimberlee S. HeroldLeslie S. HindmanLinda HutsonFruman, Marian, and Lisa JacobsonRussell N. Johnson and Mark D. HudsonLoretta and Allan KaplanJoseph B. Kastenholz and Mary GriffinDietrich and Andrew KlevornJean A. KlingensteinRobert Kohl and Clark PellettRobert and Cheryl KopeckyElaine R. LeavenworthDr. Paul M. LisnekMs. Eva T. LosaccoJim and Kay MabieOrlanda B. Mackie, M.D.Anthony and Julianne MaggioreRalph and Terrie MannelJane and William McMillan, Ph.D.Ms. Iris NicholaichukKatherine and Norm OlsonMs. Abby O’Neil andMr. Carroll JoynesBruce and Younghee OttleyMs. Marianne J. 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Featuring a handful of the best new plays we’ve read over the course of the last year, the annual New Stages Festival serves as a testing ground, drawing our audiences into a conversation about the works we’re considering for future seasons. New Stages also functions as a laboratory where accomplished theater artists from Chicago and around the country can experiment with new and ambitious ideas on a larger scale than many new play development processes allow. The goal is to create a pathway for new plays to move to full productions at the Goodman and the work has paid off: each year since its inception, at least one play from New Stages has gone on to be presented as part of the Goodman’s regular season, including this season’s Feathers and Teeth, Another Word for Beauty, Carlyle and the special theatrical event 2666. Moving a new play from words on a page to full production is a labor-filled and time-intensive process. The writer often begins in isolation, but by definition a play relies on a group of collaborators–actors, designers, a director–for it to take shape. In spite of the months, sometimes years, of work that goes into the creation of a new play, playwrights often aren’t truly able to see what they’ve created until the moment the play is in front of an audience. With this in mind, the Goodman expanded New Stages in 2011, adding three fully staged developmental productions to its existing lineup of staged readings. These productions, which offer three weeks of rehearsal, modest production values and multiple performances, provide playwrights with all the elements of a full production without some of the pressures of a world premiere–such as the scrutiny of critics. This year’s plays are wildly ambitious in terms of the scope of stories being told and the theatrical language used to tell them. Full descriptions of the New Stages developmental productions and staged readings follow on the next pages. Remember, tickets to all New Stages readings and productions are free. We hope to see you at the theater, where you will be among the first to see these compelling new stories and take part in the conversation about the future of American theater. Sincerely, Tanya PalmerDirector of New Play DevelopmentMother Road (Developmental production)by Octavio SOlisdirected by Juliette CarrilloOctober 28 – November 14Originally commissioned by the National Steinbeck Center, Octavio Solis’ Mother Road is inspired by John Steinbeck’s Depression-era masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck’s novel depicts the Joad family’s journey from Oklahoma to California in search of work after they were drove from their home by drought and economic hardship. Set in the present day, Mother Road serves as a reimagining of Steinbeck’s work. In the play, we meet farmer William Joad, the last remaining member of a branch of the Joad family who stayed behind in Oklahoma. He fought to hold on to the family farm, and now, old and childless, William has no kin left to whom he can pass down the land. He hires a private detective in hopes of finding another surviving member of the Joad clan. The detective proves successful, but the man he finds is not who William expected. Enter Martín Jodes, a young Mexican American man descended from Steinbeck’s protagonist, Tom Joad. Tom ran off to Mexico, where he raised a family; some of his descendants, including Martín’s mother, returned to California in search of work. And so William Joad meets Martín Jodes in Weedpatch, California, once the government work camp site where Tom Joad and other laborers found work and shelter during the Depression. Now, that same town is home to migrant farm laborers arriving from across the southern border—facing many of the same economic hardships, exploitive work conditions and systemic prejudice that Joad and his fellow Okies faced when they migrated to California over 80 years ago. What follows is a journey like the one the Joads embarked on in The Grapes of Wrath. Rendered with a combination of mythic theatricality, precisely observed naturalism and raucous humor, Solis’ revisionist look at this quintessentially American story reveals a country that is both changed and unchanged, where the land and its people continue to be in peril, but where home and family can mean safety and survival.Objects in the Mirror (Developmental production)by Charles Smithdirected by Chuck SmithOctober 30 – November 15In 2009, playwright Charles Smith traveled to Adelaide, Australia, to see a production of his play Free Man of Color. The production featured a young Liberian actor named Shedrick Yarkpie in the title role. Impressed by Shedrick’s talent and intrigued by his life story, Smith got to know the actor and learned about his tumultuous journey from war-torn Liberia, through a number of refugee camps in Western Africa, before his final relocation to Australia.Shedrick came of age during the bloody rule of Charles Taylor, an American-educated freedom fighter turned warlord who served as president of Liberia from 1997 to 2002, during which time he ran the country as a personal fiefdom, looting its resources and instigating rebellion across the region. Opposition to his rule culminated in the outbreak of a civil war that lasted from 1999 to 2003, a conflict marked by its unprecedented use of child soldiers, most of whom were between the ages of eight and 10.It was from this environment that the young Shedrick escaped with his uncle John, moving from refugee camp to refugee camp in hopes of finding their names on a list of those shortlisted for relocation to the United States. Along the way, Shedrick lost family members to war and disease—and when his dead cousin Zaza’s name appeared on a list of refugees granted asylum in Australia, Shedrick took on his late relative’s identity in order to gain a new home and life. He arrived safely in Adelaide, but Shedrick Yarkpie had vanished in the rearview mirror, leaving Zaza Workolo in his place. Shedrick lost his country, childhood, family and own name. He’s haunted by the ghost of the cousin and can’t relinquish the person he used to be. Smith, reunited here with longtime collaborator and Goodman Resident Director Chuck Smith, chronicles Shedrick’s quest to recover his sense of self in this moving new play about hope, memory and survival.King of the Yees (Developmental production)by Lauren Yeedirected by Joshua K. BrodyNovember 1 – 15Visit any Chinatown in America and you will likely find a small sign posted over an inconspicuous door with this family name character: 余The Yee Fung Toy (the Yee Family Association) originated in 1886 when Yee clansmen immigrated to America during construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad. The men created the association to establish a gathering space for celebrations and social services like medical care and funerals. Since that time, Yee Family Associations have sprung up around the country and world. Only male Yees can join the association and all business is conducted in Cantonese. Larry Yee of San Francisco is one of the grand elders of the national organization. His daughter, Lauren Yee, is a playwright whose new play King of the Yees explores the world of her father, dying Chinatowns and how we honor the lineage of our families when that lineage is hundreds of years in the past and thousands of miles away. In King of the Yees, Lauren takes us down a rabbit hole into the imagined streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown, introducing us to characters at the same time foreign and familiar, racing through time and space to find her now-missing father. Lauren is also a character in her own play. In the midst of King of the Yees, while Lauren is still writing the play, she assembles a team of actors on stage to play herself, her father, disgraced state senator Leland Yee, stylish criminal Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow and the 1,000 year-old Revered Yee Chung-Sheung, among others. Bitingly hilarious and heartbreakingly honest, King of the Yees presents a shockingly funny and confusing world similar and true to our own. King of the Yees leaps across cultural and national borders to examine just how much of ourselves comprises our own identities and how much is influenced by what our family wants us to be.Lady in Denmark (Staged reading)by Dael Orlandersmith directed by Chay YewSaturday, November 14, at 10:30amOwen TheatreIn this one-woman show, Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith takes us through the life of Helene, a Danish American woman who, in the wake of her husband’s death, finds solace in the music of Billie Holiday. Known for her darkly poetic style and piercing insight into human psychology, Orlandersmith weaves a narrative that explores jazz, family and the end of life.The Amateurs (Staged reading)by Jordan Harrisondirected by Oliver ButlerSaturday, November 14, at 2pmOwen TheatreMr. Larking is God. Or at least he’s playing God in a 14th century production of the story of Noah’s flood. As his co-stars prepare to perform for the Duke, the crew is plagued by deadlines, a fear of the Black Death (which already claimed one of the leads) and a secret that could divide them all. The Amateurs is a comic tale of plagues, purpose and finding your voice in the moment.R?dvinsv?nster (Red-Wine Leftists): 1977 (Staged reading)by Rebecca Gilman directed by Wendy C. GoldbergSunday, November 15, at 10:30amOwen Theatre Kyle, an auto worker from Reynolds, Wisconsin, has been chosen by his union to travel to socialist Sweden to see how Volvo has reimagined the assembly line for its workers. The play is part of a trilogy from Goodman Theatre Artistic Collective member Rebecca Gilman that also includes Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976, which will be produced in the Owen Theatre this spring.Public EventsWant to learn more about what inspires the work on our stages? Take advantage of these events to enrich your Goodman Theatre experience.Artist Encounter: DisgracedModerated by Chicago Tribune’s Chief Theater Critic Chris Jones Sunday, September 20 | 5–6pmHealy Rehearsal RoomJoin Disgraced’s Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar and director Kimberly Senior for an in-depth conversation about the play. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for Subscribers, Donors and students.Playtalks: DisgracedSeptember 25, October 2, 9 and 16Upper Lobby of Goodman TheatreOne hour prior to select performances, members of the Goodman’s artistic staff present interactive talks to give patrons a deeper understanding of the work they are about to see. FREE.Playbacks: DisgracedAlbert TheatreFollowing each Wednesday and Thursday evening performance of Disgraced, patrons are invited to join us for a post-show discussion about the play with members of the Goodman’s artistic staff. FREE.Context: Dinner and DisgracedTuesday, October 13 | 6:30pmMoxee Restaurant | 724 W. Maxwell St.At the end of Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced, audiences are left grappling with the complexities of culture and identity that inform who we are and how we interact in today’s global society. Join us for an evening of intimate dinner discussions inspired by Disgraced as we take the conversations presented on stage and explore them in our own community. Entry is free; food and beverage will be available for purchase.Dive into Goodman Theatre’s History at a New Exhibit at the Newberry Library!Stagestruck City: Chicago’s Theater Tradition and the Birth of the GoodmanSeptember 18 – December 31The Smith Gallery in the Newberry Library 60 W. Walton St.FREE and open to the publicThis fall, the Newberry Library presents an exhibition entitled Stagestruck City: Chicago’s Theater Tradition and the Birth of the Goodman, which explores the founding of the Goodman within the context of more than 60 years of a robust and ever-changing Chicago theater scene. Colorful programs and posters offer a glimpse of the city’s late 19th and early 20th century theater, and letters, scripts and photographs shed light on the life of Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, the Chicago businessman/playwright after whom the theater was named in 1925. For more information please visit Stagestruck-City.Curator-led Exhibition Tours:September 29, 6pmNovember 12, 6pmDecember 12, 11amAccessibility performances of Disgraced:ASL-Signed PerformanceSeptember 30 | 7:30pmAudio-Described PerformanceOctober 10 | 2pmTouch tour at 12:30pmOpen-Captioned PerformanceOctober 17 | AccessJoin the Premiere Society: Support Goodman Theatre’s productions and programsGoodman Theatre has won international renown for the quality of its productions, the depth and diversity of its artistic leadership and the excellence of its many education and community programs.As a not-for-profit, the Goodman cannot sustain its standard of excellence on ticket sales alone. By providing additional financial support, our donors help keep our stages full of thought-provoking productions, support our free education and community programming and champion the theater’s commitment to developing new plays.Premiere Society members enjoy the definitive theatergoing experience, including Premiere Concierge services, opportunities to meet artists and attend VIP events with behind-the-scenes access at the theater.For more information, visit Support, call 312.443.3811 ext. 220 or email Development@.Engaging Communities. Expanding Minds.The Alice B. Rapoport Center for Education and Engagement at Goodman TheatreOpening Early 2016The new Center will offer nationally renowned, arts-centered programs for Chicago teachers, students and lifelong learners. These immersive and illuminating programs will impact thousands of individuals through the transformative power of theater. Working in active collaboration with educators and other community partners, we aspire to create a home for all. Please join us. To learn more about the Alice B. Rapoport Center for Education and Engagement visit Center or call 312.443.3811 ext. 597.Exploring Identity with Students and Youth Artists at the GoodmanBy Teresa Rende“You made him see that gap. Between what he was assuming about you, and what you really are,” Emily says to her husband, Amir, in the first scene of Disgraced, the opening production of the Goodman’s 2015/2016 Season. The couple is recounting a recent experience in which a waiter made racist assumptions about Amir, and the speed with which those assumptions were upended once Amir spoke. This gap, between what others assume about us and who we really are, is a divide which Goodman Education and Community Engagement is particularly curious to explore. Each summer we have the joy of welcoming 80 students from across Chicagoland into Goodman Theatre’s PlayBuild Youth Intensive, our six-week program for 14-to-18-year-olds. PlayBuild is designed to validate the voices of its participants and inspire them to examine their own potential for creativity through storytelling techniques. The program culminates in a public presentation of an original performance conceived and executed by the participants. In light of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and the unrest facing our nation in recent years in the wake of deaths of men of color such as Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Grey, the young artists of PlayBuild 2015 spent the summer investigating image and identity. Their performance was built around the central metaphor of water, an element capable of providing life and taking it away. The stories shared during PlayBuild forced each of us to consider our true selves and the biases that may shape our perception of those we encounter every day. We are excited to carry this crucial investigation of identity into the 2015/2016 Student Subscription Series (SSS), during which Goodman education staff will work with teachers to design lesson plans to enhance their theatergoing experience. This season, SSS students will attend performances of Disgraced, A Christmas Carol, Another Word for Beauty, Carlyle and The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window. Each of these works uniquely explores the self that we are now, expected to be and hope to become. They also ask us to examine how we manage our professional, religious and familial relationships when opinions don’t align. Are we beholden to something greater than ourselves? Who has the right to define beauty, and when and where we can experience it? What are the ethics of representation and who governs them? How is the self manipulated in social and mass media, and is our reputation a reflection of action or opinion?In PlayBuild Youth Intensive’s culminating performance, The Water is Rising, the ensemble asked themselves and their audience, “Who am I? Who was I yesterday, who will I be tomorrow and how do I make the world better for those who come next?” While the 80 artists of The Water is Rising started this investigation with Goodman Education and Community Engagement this summer, we cannot wait to continue exploring identity throughout the 2015/2016 school year with the 2,800 Chicago public high school students who will join us for these ing SoonBah Humbug! Holiday Shows:Goodman Theatre’s 38th annual production of A Christmas Carol November 14 – December 27 | Albert Theatrepresented in partnership with the second city: Twist Your DickensDecember 4 – December 27 | owen TheatreVisit for more informationNew Stages FestivalOctober 28 – November 15 | owen TheatreNew Stages is a celebration of innovative new works designed to give playwrights an opportunity to take risks and experiment. Chicago audiences get a first look at these new plays, many of which go on to become successful full productions. New Stages productions are FREE. More on Page 40 ?january 16 – february 21, 2016 | Albert Theatre Another Word for Beautyby JOS? RIVERA | music by H?CTOR BUITRAGO directed by Steve Cosson Each year the female inmates at a Bogotá, Colombia, prison compete in a beauty pageant intended by their jailers to motivate and rehabilitate them. Inspired by true events, Another Word for Beauty is a haunting and soulful examination of women trapped within a prison’s walls and the events and circumstances that led to their arrests.On Stage NowSeptember 19 – October 18 | Owen Theatre Feathers and Teethby Charise Castro Smith directed by Henry Godinez Home-sweet-home turns into a haunted house for 13-year-old Chris when Carol—her stepmother from hell—moves in. Struggling with the recent death of her mother, Chris is convinced her father’s new live-in fiancée is evil, but she just can’t persuade Dad to her point-of-view. When a mysterious and potentially dangerous creature is found in the family’s backyard, Chris assumes it’s a sign from above to eliminate Carol once and for all. ................
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