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N E W C O N S E R VAT O R Y T H E AT R E C E N T E R

By Martin Sherman Directed by Arturo Catricala

WEST COAST PREMIERE DEC 3, 2021 JAN 9, 2022

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WELCOME

from the Founder & Artistic Director

Our past informs our future.

Societies advance when the wisdom of experience bonds with the imagination of the generations that follow. Martin Sherman’s tender and epic play, Gently Down the Stream, wends its way in a gripping nonstop story that considers queer life then and now. A heart-strong intergenerational reflection that both flows with the currents of time as much as it fights against them. Through the play’s characters we are reminded that the cycle of life drifts with or without our consent. Sink or swim, it’s all about what we learn and share while paddling down the many tributaries of our existence. I dedicate our production of this extraordinary play to my longtime friend and Bay Area actor, the late Richard Ryan. He is the one who brought Martin’s play to my attention when it was playing at the Public Theatre in New York a few years back. Richard went on and on about how beautifully the story was told, the history it revered, and the fresh perspective it provided on contemporary same-sex love. After pitching it for a future NCTC season with everything in his arsenal, he looked me straight in the eye and capped it off with his best Bea Arthur style deadpan and delivered, “of course darling, there is a great part in it for me.” That’s the thing about life. There is a great part in it for all of us. While they may not all be leading roles it’s really about the ensemble anyway. The collaboration in the collective narrative that we write together is what provides the meaning and purpose. That which drives us all forward hopefully with one eye in the rear-view mirror for continuity. Whether we are riding the rapids or floating gently down the stream we need each other desperately. Here’s to a joyous holiday season and a bright, healthy new year.

Founder & Artistic Director

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from the Executive Director

For those of you that have been part of the NCTC family for a while now, you may have noticed something missing from our Fall lineup, namely our Pride Party. It’s an opportunity we take every November (until 2020) to shine the spotlight on all our programming, and to show our appreciation for all of our supporters (accompanied by bubbly and an enormous amount of lavash wraps.)



In Association with NORMAN ABRAMSON IN MEMORY OF DAVID BEERY / Season Producers MICHAEL GOLDEN & MICHAEL LEVY / Season Producers ROBERT HOLGATE/ Season Producer LOWELL KIMBLE / Season Producer TED TUCKER / Season Producer GARY DEMYEN & LES PARTRIDGE / Executive Producers BILL GREGORY / Executive Producer JORGE R. HERNÁNDEZ & RON JENKINS / Executive Producers DAVID MEDERS / Executive Producer ANDREW LEAS & JUANCHO “BONG” VILLA-LEAS / Producers JEFF MALLOY & DEAN SHIBUYA / Producers KEN PRAG & STEVE COLLINS / Producers

It is also when we traditionally launch our end of year fund raising drive. This year as we enter the season of gratitude and joy, we are so grateful for all of you that have ventured back to live theatre. We are also grateful to every person who, in the last year, joined us for an online class, listened to one of our podcasts, sent messages of support and overall let us know you were cheering us on. It made all the difference. We are emerging in time to celebrate our 40th anniversary, but still have some big challenges ahead - it will take a while for ticket sales to rebound to pre-pandemic levels. In the meantime, we must rely not on the “kindness of strangers” but on the sturdy, generous support of our NCTC family. We hope you will consider including NCTC as part of your year-end philanthropic plans. Your gift will ensure that NCTC survives and thrives and will be here next year to celebrate in person. I’ll have the lavash ready. Warmest wishes for a safe and joyful holiday season.

by Martin Sherman Directed by Arturo Catricala Executive Director

A SWANKY COCKTAIL LOUNGE WITH A VINTAGE JAZZ-ERA VIBE

SETTING Beau’s London flat, 2001-2014 CAST BEAU HARRY RUFUS

Donald Currie Sal Mattos Daniel Redmond

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VOCAL COACH SOUND DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER STAGE MANAGER SET DESIGNER DIALECT COACH, BEAU DRAMATURG LIGHTING DESIGNER PROPS DESIGNER DIALECT COACH, HARRY

Russell Deason Daniel Hall Jorge R. Hernández Kit Lanthier Kuo-Hao Lo Melinda Marks Tim Miller Haley Miller Tom O’Brien Patricia Reynoso

Props provided by STROLLER SPAS The video and/or audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited.

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NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER PRESENTS

“My grandmother, my mother and I believe that when song, dancing and ceremony stop so does the earth.” - “Kanyon Coyote Woman” Sayers-Roods

WELCOME At NCTC, we believe in fostering a safe and vibrant place for our community to connect. New Conservatory Theatre Center is a queerpositive and anti-racist institution devoted to learning and we welcome you with great joy, open- heartedness, and respect. Find our commitments to become a more inclusive organization at nctcsf.org/NCTC-Commitments.

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SITTING DOWN WITH SHERMAN: AN INTERVIEW WITH THEATRE ICON MARTIN SHERMAN by Tim Miller

Photo by Lois Tema

The following interivew originally appeared in the Nov. 30, 2021 issue of the BAY AREA REPORTER. Martin Sherman changed the direction of theatre in the US, the UK and all over the world in so many remarkable ways. Since the late 1970s his work’s embrace of the full heat of queer and Jewish identity and the larger swirl of history that his plays explore created so much new space for theatre to stretch its legs and grow into. As a young performance artist, newly arrived in NYC at nineteen, the first play I saw on Broadway in 1979 was Martin Sherman’s Bent which famously introduced the world to the hidden history of gay men sent to concentration camps by the Nazis and forced to wear the pink triangle. In one night at the New Apollo Theatre Theatre I was bequeathed an amazing gift of queer history, anger and the potential of gay love & sexuality that has sustained me and my work in the four decades since. Sherman’s work has consistently explored history even while he was making history with the audacity of his plays. I have known Martin since the mid 80s and I had the pleasure of speaking with him about his new play Gently Down the Stream. 8 NCTC 2016-2017 SEASON

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DRAMATURGY TM: Martin, I am struck by how much of your work (Bent, Messiah, When She Danced and your fantastic film with Judi Dench, Mrs Henderson Presents) is a conversation with history, memory and love. As your character Rufus says in Gently Down the Stream “The past is sexy!” Your play Rose, which starred Olympia Dukakis on Broadway, was a fierce dive into the Holocaust and the 20th century through one Jewish women’s memory and feels very connected to Gently Down the Stream. This new play marks the journey of a gay elder Beau and lives in that spark-filled sexy fugue terrain of how his stories, his gay histories, are communicated in intergenerational relationships. What pulled you to the memory space of Gently Down the Stream? MS: I suppose I don’t think of it as memory space, but rather, as you said, a conversation with history, which is somehow different. But a history that is very personal to me, although not necessarily autobiographical. A history, it should be stated, of a gay white cis-gendered man in the twentieth century; there are many other histories that are now finally being written. I dont want to pass mine off as anything other than what it is. But as what it is, it becomes part of the mosaic of past experience and past lives that have shaped our lives

today, and are often unspoken or forgotten. I wrote a play in 1999 called Rose about Jewish life in the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of one woman. I wanted to create a companion piece about gay life in the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of one man. But I didn’t know how. Rose is a monologue; I didn’t want to repeat that. I tried to write it as an epic; but that was frankly dire. I wrestled with it for seemingly forever. I had a title, I always had the title, Gently Down the Stream, but I had no play. And then after about fifteen years, I was crossing a street in London one afternoon, and it was as if a pigeon was flying overhead and just dropped an idea plop onto my head, absolutely unrequested and seemingly out of nowhere. The pigeon’s idea was an intergenerational affair. And literally in that moment, I had my play. I suppose the lesson is never turn your subconscious off when crossing a street. TM: It feels so human-scaled and intimate as it tackles the queer history and memory that fills the play. I was struck by the sense of generational knowledge-passing in Gently Down the Stream: from older lover to younger, from gay elder to a baby in the beautiful final scene. How important is this passing of memory? MS: I was in Morocco once and an old man was sitting in the 9

DRA M A T U R GY middle of a square, surrounded by people, and he was telling stories, that was his profession; it was magic and deeply moving. He was part of an honoured tradition, he was keeping history alive. He was keeping heritage alive. And it was personal. It’s important to hand down stories, the stories of us. Gay people in particular tend to lack generational knowledge. Our biological families can only provide the stories of blood ancestors, which are important, but gay lives have been informed by gay lives that preceeded them, and we need to know about them. That’s beginning to change; we are beginning to learn; the largest information gaps are now about trans history, but that too will change. Now that I am very old, I realize that one of the most profound fears about dying is the thought that we will not be remembered. TM: This play is so full of sounds, songs and echoes. What do you hear as you are writing? Do you write for a specific voice? MS: This sounds awful, I know, but I just hear the play. That’s all. The characters do literally speak in my ear. And often say the most surprising things. That, incidentally, is only true if my subconscious is engaged, and can be channeled through conscious craft. If it’s merely my brain talking, it won’t tell me anything I don’t know, and it won’t produce anything that can be acted. 10

TM: Martin, your work has claimed so many spaces, queer, Jewish, big historical personalities, but the hugeness of your claiming theatre space for gay men in their complexly human and sexual selves is such an important achievement and continues so strongly in Gently Down the Stream. Broadway was never the same after the wildly sex positive second act of Bent, gay desire made present even in the horror of a concentration camp. How well that lesson served young gay men like me just two years later as AIDS arrived in NYC. How did you come to bring queer identity so strongly forward in your work? What were the rewards and consequences? MS: I probably discovered my queer identity by mischance. I was professionally (and personally, for that matter) going nowhere. I had nothing to lose. Successful writers, on the other hand, had a lot to give up by being openly gay. I wrote a play called Passing By (in the early seventies) about a loving affair between two men who happened to be homosexual. The queerness was never an issue in the play, it just was, and the relationship was a healthy one, and I suppose that made it groundbreaking. I wasn’t trying to break ground, however, as ground wasn’t something I had to stand on; I just thought what the hell, no one will produce me anyhow, so I might as well tell the truth. It wasn’t brave. It came out of a kind of golden desperation.

In 1975, the play was produced in London by a new radical theatre group, The Gay Sweatshop, and they politicised me, so that my personal gay identity was able to become public. And Bent came out of that. Once the Gay Sweatshop entered my life, I knew intellectually what I had already discovered instinctively - that it was folly to be anything other than who I was. I suppose that then there might have been career consequences. But really - how can you harm a career by being openly queer if that career only exists because you are openly queer? Everything I write comes from an inner core that is both queer and Jewish. As the immortal Zaza says, “I am what I am.” TM: Through your main character the play charts some of the charged places of recent queer history that carry ongoing pain and trauma, but the story also claims such a strong space of

hope and ongoing life. How do you maintain that feeling in your work? MS: I wrote the play pre-Covid and slightly pre-Trump. Hope wasn’t yet an endangered species. But also the truth is, despite all ongoing injustices, queer life has changed immeasurably in the last few years - well, Western queer life (that distinction must always be made) and changed for the better. For instance, when I was a young man, the idea of same sex marriage would have been fantasy. Even that term same sex - a very comfortable, acceptable, legal kind of phrase - would have been beyond our thinking. We have accomplished more than we once thought possible, and that should be acknowledged; although obviously it mustn’t be an excuse for complacency. It’s a delicate balance, but the acknowledgment is as important as the caution.

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PR OF I L E S DONALD CURRIE (Beau, pronouns: he/him) is a returning actor at NCTC, having performed here in Sex and Mayhem, Sons of the Prophet, and Le Switch. He has also worked at Theatre Rhino, where he won a Best Actor award from Theatre Bay Area for the lead role in Habit of Art. He is thrilled to be back with his NCTC family to perform in this beautiful play.

SAL MATTOS (Harry, pronouns: he/him) has worked with NCTC on the premiere of You’ll Catch Flies, as well productions of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, From White Plains, Treefall, and more. Other credits include The Language of Wild Berries (Golden Thread), Slaughterhouse Five, In Love and Warcraft (Custom Made), Hideo (Four Lights Productions), and many more. You can catch his drag persona Fran Zaya at venues around the Bay. Follow him on Twitter, IG, and TikTok @ salmattos. DANIEL REDMOND (Rufus, pronouns: he/him) holds a Masters in Theatre. Credits include STEVE (New Conservatory Theatre Center), Daniel’s Husband (New Conservatory Theatre Center), Mother and Sons (New Conservatory Theatre Center), The First Supper (Altarena Playhouse, TBA nominee), One Man Two Govnors (Berkeley Rep, BATCC and TBA nominee), The Homosexuals (New Conservatory Theatre Center), My Beautiful Laundrette (New Conservatory Theatre Center), Aladdin (The Old Vic), Mother Clap’s Molly House (The Royal National Theatre), The People Next Door (Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Broadway and European Tour). On Screen: Red Tails (Lucas Films).

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MARTIN SHERMAN (Playwright, pronouns: he/ him) was born in Philadelphia, raised in New Jersey, educated at Boston University, and lives in London. He was a resident playwright at Playwrights Horizons in New York and was a member of the ground-breaking theatre company Gay Sweatshop in London. His plays have been produced in over sixty countries and include Passing By, Cracks, Rio Grande, Bent (twice in London with Ian McKellen and once with Alan Cumming, and on Broadway with Richard Gere), Messiah, A Madhouse In Goa, When She Danced (the latter two starring Vanessa Redgrave on London‘s West End), Some Sunny Day (Hampstead Theatre, London, with Rupert Everett), Rose (London’s National Theatre and Broadway with Olympia Dukakis), Onassis (West End, with Robert Lindsay) and Gently Down The Stream (Public Theatre, New York, with Harvey Fierstein). His stage adaptations include E.M. Forster’s A Passage To India; Tennessee Williams’ The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone (Parco Theatre, Tokyo); a new version of a Pirandello play, Absolutely (perhaps!) (directed by Franco Zeffirelli in London, with Joan Plowright); and Chekhov‘s The Cherry Orchard (Mark Taper, Los Angeles, with Annette Benning and Alfred Molina; and Theatre Royal, Windsor, with Ian McKellen and Francesca Annis). He wrote the musical The Boy From Oz which caused a sensation on Broadway starring Hugh Jackman. Martin’s screenplays include The Summer House with Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright and Julie Walters; Alive And Kicking with Jason Flemyng, Anthony Sher and Bill Nighy; the film version of Bent with Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Mick Jagger and Ian McKellen; Franco Zeffirelli‘s Callas Forever with Fanny Ardant and Jeremy Irons; The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone with Helen Mirren and Anne Bancroft; Mrs. Henderson Presents with Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins; and the forthcoming Smyrna, written in collaboration with Mimi Denissi. The streaming version of his play Rose, with Maureen Lipman, was seen on Sky Arts in England and is available on Broadway HD. He has been nominated for two Tonys, two BAFTAS and two Oliviers.

ARTURO CATRICALA (Director, pronouns: he/him)Is delighted to be back at New Conservatory Theatre Center after what has

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been the longest intermission of his life. Past NCTC productions: The Gentleman Caller, The Homosexuals, Other Desert Cities, It’s Only a Play, Leaving the Blues, Rights of Passage, The Perfect Ganesh, Master Class and others.

Community Players, and The Masquers Playhouse. When not working backstage, Kit cohosts a podcast about nature and the seasons, Season by Season, which you can find at seasonbyseason.org. Much love to Cyrus, Mom, and Michele & Dave.

RUSSEL DEASON (Vocal Coach, pronouns: he/him) is an award-winning pianist and accompanist, vocal artist, actor, performance coach, arranger and producer. Russell started playing piano at 5, encouraged by his mother, who was the first to identify his talent. Russell has worked professionally since he was 13 and performs for weddings, parties, clubs, piano bars, churches, singers, and funeral services. His acting credits include The Sound of Music, Mame, his Liberace impersonation, and The Holy Homo to name a few. Russell is the founder and Artistic Director of cabaret troupe The Velvet Variety, producer/accompanist/host of the 2+2=Cabaret shows. Russell is a staff pianist at the famed Martuni’s Piano Bar in San Francisco. russelldeason.com

KUO-HAO LO (Set Designer, pronouns: he/ him) has been working as a set designer since 2001. His designs received numerous awards including: Theatre Bay Area Awards for Outstanding Scenic Design for It’s Only a Play (2018), Mothers and Sons (2016), Die Mommie, Die! (2015) at NCTC and August, Osage County (2014) at CCCT, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Outstanding Achievement Award Set Design for Dames at Sea (2009), Sugar Witch (2010) at NCTC, he was a 2013 Faces of Theatre Bay Area Honorees. He holds a B.F.A in theatre from National Taiwan Arts Academy in Taipei, Taiwan, and M.A in Theatre from Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri. Currently he is a resident at Washington State and continues working as a freelance set designer. www.kuohaolodesign.org

DANIEL HALL (Sound Designer, pronouns: he/him, they/them) is a Queer, Korean, Bay Area artist. With nearly a decade’s background in event production and assisting with Sound and Lighting Designs, this is Daniel’s debut as a solo Sound Designer. He has assisted with shows such as EVERYBODY (Stanford Taps) and Sugar in Our Wounds (NCTC). He was also Master Electrician for As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SF Shakespeare) and is currently the Lead Production Technician for Z Space.

MELINDA MARKS (Dialect Coach, Beau, pronouns: they/them) is a longtime Bay Area actor and director, and the editor and casting director of San Jose - based production company Play on Words. Other dialect work includes The Gentleman Caller (New Conservatory Theatre Center), Equivocation (Dragon Productions), Shakespeare in Love (Palo Alto Players), and the upcoming production of Shoggoths on the Veldt (Dragon Productions).

JORGE R. HERNÁNDEZ (Costume Designer, pronouns: he/him) has performed most of his life. He worked as assistant costumer with the Lamplighters in Bitter Sweet and My Fair Lady. Some of his NCTC credits include Dames At Sea, The Stops, The Temperamentals, Maurice, Marvelous Wonderettes, Divine Sister, Die Mommy Die, Still At Risk, When Pigs Fly (TBA awarded), Steve, and You’ll Catch Flies. He also costumes for ballroom and practices the art of Traditional Japanese Massage. KIT LANTHIER (Stage Manager, pronouns: she/her) is thrilled to return to NCTC after stage managing the (pre-pandemic) production of You’ll Catch Flies in early 2020! Previously, she has worked with Theatre Lunatico, Pinole

HALEY MILLER (Lighting Designer, pronouns: she/her) is a San Francisco Bay Area based production manager, lighting designer, and video designer/programmer. She works as the Production Manager at California Shakespeare Theater (Cal Shakes), and freelances as a production manager, designer, and programmer. Haley earned a BFA in Technical Direction with an emphasis in Lighting and Production/Stage Management from the University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts. TIM MILLER (Dramaturg, pronouns: he/him) is a performer and author of five books including A Body in the O and 1001 Beds. He has performed at NCTC many times and can be reached at his website timmillerperformer.com

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PROF I L E S TOM O’BRIEN (Props Designer, pronouns: he/ him) is pleased to be back at NCTC. Tom has designed props for theatre and photography for many years. Based in San Francisco, he has had opportunities to work with very talented theatre groups. Credits include: Universal Robots for Quantum Dragon Theatre, Passion for CustomMade Theatre, The Full Monty at Bay Area Musicals, and The Cake at NCTC. He has been nominated for a BACC Scenic Design Award for The Mousetrap (Ross Valley Players).

PATRICIA REYNOSO (Dialect Coach, Harry, pronouns: she/her) is delighted to be coaching her 24th production with NCTC and the talented, hard-working, welcoming NCTC family. Previous productions include The Cake, Steve, Cardboard Piano, Le Switch, Leaving the Blues and Sordid Lives. Other companies include Off-Broadway West, Diva Fest and Performers Under Stress NORMAN ABRAMSON In Memory Of DAVID BEERY (Season Producers) Let’s be simple. Theater is important. Training young actors is important. Talented performers on stage are important. Production design is important. New plays are important. Sharing LGBTQ experiences is important. These make New Conservatory Theatre Center. We are with you. And, to show how we are with you, besides our annual support, we have also named New Conservatory Theatre Center as a beneficiary of our estate. MICHAEL GOLDEN & MICHAEL LEVY (Season Producers) are longtime patrons and avid supporters of NCTC. They are thrilled to be Producers again this season. Besides attending countless theater productions each year, “the Michaels” can regularly be found square dancing. Michael L is also a square dance caller and sings with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, while Michael G immerses himself in his eclectic books. They live in the Castro with their adorable but crazy cats, Margot and Wendy.

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ROBERT HOLGATE (Season Producer) a a longtime interior designer who retired this year. Philanthropist working to better the life of all who are disadvantaged and don’t have a voice. San Francisco has been home for over 38 years, and I love living here.

LOWELL KIMBLE (Season Producer) Even though I left the Bay Area, I still look forward to supporting NCTC’s mission. Over a decade ago Mason and I began our support because of the offerings by NCTC: training for youth, outreach to schools with YouthAware, opportunities offered by local artists and the presentation of new plays by upcoming playwrights. It’s with pleasure, I continue my support of NCTC. TED TUCKER (Season Producer) feels blessed to be able to participate as a Season Producer. Ted has attended NCTC for a very long time, and he strongly believes that the NCTC is critical to the LGBTQ community, as well as the entire Bay Area. GARY DEMYEN & LES PARTRIDGE (Executive Producers) have been together for 40 years and are 27-year subscribers to NCTC. They enjoy live theater and appreciate having a wonderful gay theater company dealing with topics from their community. NCTC’s mission resonates with them; live gay theater, bringing gay themed plays to communities outside the Bay area and involving youth in educational theater. They are longtime San Francisco residents and retired chemists who are now able to help support the arts. It is their pleasure and honor to support NCTC and its mission.

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BILL GREGORY (Executive Producer) I have always been one foot from the stage! My passion in life has been theater. But, being a star in my Nora Springs, Iowa (population 1,200) High School is no guarantee of making it on Broadway. So, as much as I wanted to be a Drama Queen upon entering Iowa State Teachers College in 1957, my impoverished background quickly turned to a secure and noble major in Speech Correction and Audiology. There was such a demand for this new field as well as other areas of special education. So, those 34 years of secure employment in the public schools with their generous vacation schedules, allowed me and my partner of 47+ years to buy, improve and sell real estate. I am enjoying and sharing those rewards with San Francisco since the death of my partner, Richard Ingraham, several years ago. My goals may be a bit self-centered in that I want to improve San Francisco theatre so I don’t need to travel six hours to get my “theater fix” in New York.

and performers, a large number of productions possess this transformative sparkle. David hopes you enjoy Gently Down the Stream — perhaps it will even change the way you look at some things.

JORGE R. HERNÁNDEZ & RON JENKINS (Executive Producers) Jorge is well known here at NCTC, costuming shows each season since 2009. He also does traditional Japanese massage, or Anma-Shiatsu. Ron is an HR professional by day and a competitive same-sex ballroom dancer by night. He also is a long-time country western dancer and teaches classes regularly at Sundance Saloon. Jorge and Ron met in 1996 at Martuni’s and in January 2014 finally tied the knot at SF City Hall. They are happy to support NCTC!

JEFF MALLOY & DEAN SHIBUYA (Producers) have been integrally involved with the SF arts scene for more than 18 years. Jeff, former General Manager of the American Conservatory Theater, is now with the Heising-Simons Foundation. Dean is an architect and scenic designer and has designed sets for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, A.C.T.’s Young Conservatory, Theatre Rhinoceros, our own NCTC, and opera and theatre companies in Thailand, Finland and Sweden. Together they produced Carol Channing’s one-woman show in San Francisco and Honolulu. They are thrilled to be a part of NCTC’s community and the exciting artistic work of this incredible company!

DAVID MEDERS (Executive Producer) is a live performance junkie who regularly attends dance and music performances in the Bay Area and beyond. NCTC has been a favorite venue for years. He feels that good theatre is always entertaining, but great theatre has the capacity to alter your perceptions. It can change the way you see yourself, others, or parts of the world. One reason he loves supporting NCTC in particular is because, with the help of so many gifted artists

ANDREW LEAS & JUANCHO “BONG” VILLALEAS (Producers) have been season ticket holders at NCTC for over 25 years. They have been heavily involved with Children’s Charities, including Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California, where Andy is a past Board member, and Society for Handicapped Children and Adults in Modesto, California, where he is the former President. Andy and Bong are both very proud of NCTC, especially the exciting and creative work done in the YouthAware program as well as the Conservatory and Satellite Schools programs. This is another of several shows they’ve helped underwrite at NCTC, the last being The View Upstairs, the last season of in person shows, and their first show being Executive Producers of Avenue Q at its premiere.

KEN PRAG & STEVE COLLINS (Producers) are longtime patrons and supporters of NCTC. They are active in many LGBT organizations and especially enjoy traveling and all that the Bay Area has to offer. They are thrilled to be producing their sixth show at NCTC and hope that you enjoy the performance!

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ANNUAL FUND DONORS On behalf of our artists, students and staff, NCTC’s Board of Directors wishes to extend its heartfelt appreciation for your generosity. The following includes all contributions processed May 11, 2020 - November 11, 2021.

* indicates member of the Repertory Circle, NCTC’s recurring donor program ◊ indicates a multi-year gift with Future Stages ENCORE SOCIETY NCTC’S PLANNED GIVING PROGRAM Anonymous Norman Abramson & David Beery Roderick G. Baldwin Robert H. Beadle James L. Coran Ed Decker & Robert Leone Jonathan Domash & Stewart Kramer Richard Galbraith Dr. Allan P. Gold William Gregory Lowell Kimble & Mason Cartmell Victoria Kirby Ron & Alison Limoges Gary L. Lomax Dave Madsen & Richard Norris Jeff Malloy Gerard McCauley David Meders Deb Mosk Andrew Nance Kenneth Noyes & Alan Pardini William Oman & Larry Crummer Tom Pajak Victor Rodriguez Andrew Smith & Brian Savard Thaddeus Trela Matt Vandeberg Chris Yaros CHAMPION ($50,000+) Norman Abramson ◊ - in memory of R. Jack Redford & David V. Beery Robert Holgate - in memory of Al Baum ◊ Lowell Kimble The Estate of Joe Ries Ted Tucker ◊ SEASON PRODUCER ($30,000-$49,999) Michael Golden & Michael Levy ◊ The Williams & Hart Rainbow Fund of Horizons Foundation IMPRESARIO ($10,000-$29,999) William Gregory ◊ David E. Meders* ◊ Richard Meiss & Peter Rudy Andrew Nance & Jim Maloney ◊ The Bob A. Ross Foundation Andrew Smith & Brian Savard ◊ Larry M. Vales EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ($5,000-$9,999) Anonymous Gary J. Demyen & Les Partridge Jonathan Domash & Stewart Kramer - in memory of Joan Domash Richard Galbraith Jorge R. Hernández & Ron Jenkins ◊ Dennis Hopkins & Jordan Smith

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Tom W. Kelly James Lombardi* Eve & Niall Lynch Alan Mattacola ◊ Charles Matteson & Oakley Stephens Dr. Christopher L. Murriel & Mr. Andrew M. Duszak* Renee Roux Randall A. Shields & Harrison Yeoh Jim Taul & Dave Hopmann Eric Valko & Brad Sullivan Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Brad Coley & Lila Coley Frank Yellin & Mark Showalter Claus Zielke & A W Bannowsky PRODUCER ($2,500-$4,999) Anonymous (2) William Baird - in memory of John Francis Kennedy Robert L. Baker Laurence Brenner & Angelo Figone - in memory of Dan Tiret Dennis Buckley Steve Carney & CW Hobbs John L. Carpenter Arturo Catricala & Justo Talamantez Tim J. Collins & Darrell Stone Ed Decker & Robert Leone*◊ - in honor of Terrell David Walker Mr. Alan Ferrara & Dr. Allan P. Gold ◊ J. Conrad Frank & Michael Young James C. Hormel & Michael Nguyen Maurice Kelly & Eric Jansen Eli Lazarus - in honor of Barbara Hodgen Bennet Marks & Kim Harris The Marks-Mitchel Family E. Mireault Kenneth A. Moore Ken Prag & Steve Collins Charles Renfroe* Dennis & Beverly Rose - in honor of Kate Butler Bev Scott & Courtney ◊ PLAYWRIGHT ($1,000-$2,499) Anonymous Robert H. Beadle - in honor of Ed Decker Roy C. Bergstrom & Allan Chinen William Bombria Robert Burkes & Son Nguyen Rob Cabrera* Paula Campbell Michael Carson & Ronald Steigerwalt, Ph.D. Juliet & Jamil Dawsari William Dickey Ellen Frankel Richard Giardina Martha Goldin Dan Henkle, Steve Kawa & Michael Henkle-Kawa Barbara Hodgen Leah A. Hofkin

OUR THANKS

- in memory of Joe Di Vito and Rich Froehlich* John Hudson & Peter Weiser Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee Damien Keller & James Sokol Cole Kinney Lawrence C. Klein Li Chow Family Fund - in honor of Arturo Catricala Luedde-Gajewski Gay Affirming Fund of Horizons Foundation Jim Lowry* Jeff Malloy & Dean Shibuya ◊ Dr. RJ Moriconi & Mr. Tony Alonzo - in honor of the NCTC Staff Peter Nye & Jamie Marks Kate O’Hanlan & Leonie Walker - in memory of Al Baum Andrea Partridge Tim Pinckneey Queer Acceptance Fund of Horizons Foundation - in memory of David George The Eddie Reynolds & Hernán Correa Family Fund Anne & Michael Romero Ann Schaefer-Reid & Andy Reid AJ Shepard & Anthony Chiu, MD Patrick Smith Larry Stites Thaddeus Trela & Steven Rivas Stephanie L. Walker Judge James L. Warren (Ret.) Kenneth Wright

DIRECTOR ($500-$999) Anonymous (4) Anonymous - in memory of Michael John Atwood & Sofia Ahmad Jean Barkocy Dik Behm Peter Benson & Thomas Savignano Leo & Michael Berry-Lawhorn Hilary & Edmund Billings Tom Bruett - in memory of Susan Bruett Thomas R. Burke & Axel T. Brunger - in honor of Ed Decker Philip Charney Jay Cohen - in memory of Al Baum John Collet - in memory of Peggy Cooper Christopher Damon Hanna Decker Jacque, Keith & Sydney Duncan Dennis Q. Edelman & Marc E. Minardi - in honor of al patrons affected by Covid-19 Farouk & ShuSheng Family Fund of Horizons Foundation Julian A. Fountain* - in memory of Matthew Simmons, AKA Peggy L’Eggs Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP Philip Goward Ray Hanssen Kevin J. Harty & Rick Tempone - in honor of Richard Meiss & Peter Rudy Daniel Healy & Gerald LaBuda Adrienne Hirt & Jeffrey Rodman Clark Johnson & Ismael Basco*

Amy Lawson & Scott Fittje Robin & David Lee Mark Leno - in honor of Al Baum & Robert Holgate Richard Lynch & Frank Steil - in memory of Mimi Streleck Christine Macomber Allan Mann & Seiji Morikawa Sean McBride & Steve Cary Cathy McIntosh & Jan Pardoe Carolyn Nakano - in memory of Toshiyuki Nakano Dirk Nettles & Mario Champagne Brian Olkowski* Queer Acceptance Fund of Horizons Foundation - in memory of David George Desiree Rogers Barbara L. Scrafford Stephen Shorette & Steven Chickering* Lyle Swallow & Jack Becker Alexander Thompson & Rachel Lewis The Den of Ursine Creatures Wayne/Welte Family Randy Weled* Matthew Westendorf* ACTOR ($250-$499) Anonymous Richard & Susan Baker-Lehne Carol Bauss Eric Birnbaum Alan Blackman - in memory of Stephen Blackman James Bohannon Alex Borders & Christine McKay Kyle Brisby Tony Cavagnaro Paul Colfer James L. Coran Nancy E.H. Durgin - in honor of Ed Decker & Barbara Hodgen Rik Elliott & Steve Slack* Dr. W. B. R. Ryan Fahrner Paul Feasby Keri Fitch AmazonSmile Foundation Armando & Tonia Fox Joseph Gold John Golding & Martin Mass* William Goldstein & Christopher Archuleta Chip Heath - in memory of Mark Hennen Ronald Hirsch Eric G. Hoberg Bennett Janken & Paul Hein

Son Nguyen & Bob Burkes with Del Shores

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Dan Joraanstad & Bob Herman Faith in the Future Fund Jeffrey Jorgenson John & Carol Keane Susan Ledford Richard & Anne Lee - in honor of Ed Decker Susan McDevitt Henry B. Milich* Robert & Carol Mills - in honor of Stephanie Temple Enrique A. Monagas Kenneth Noyes & Alan Pardini Vern E. Nuanez, Jr. Caryn Nutt Bob Penrod Richard Piguet Laura Poppiti Maya Rogers Rick Ruvolo & Hassan Fauzy - in memory of democracy Steve Shilling Amy Smith Steve Susoyev Stephanie Temple Mike Tolentino Karen & Leon Traister Harry Waters Jr. - in honor of Jewelle & Diane Evan Weaver Bill Weihl & Lisa Mihaly Heidi Werbel - in memory Christy Kearney Dana Zook Kathy Zumski

ENSEMBLE ($100-$249) Anonymous (10), Anonymous - in memory of Robert English, John Alecca & Phill Barber, Newton Allen, Cynthia Armijo, Reagan Arthur, Tami Avery & Cole Tom, Charles Bailey, Jr., M Charlotte Baltus , Marion Merriouns, Isaac & Marge Barpal, Jonathan Bartlett, Daria Bauer - in memory of Jim Dunn, David & Mary Clare Bennett - in honor of Lucy Bennett, Wally Bee, Bruce Blouin, Brittny Bottorff, Ali Bouzari, Sean Bowman, Kahla Broussard - in honor of John Cavellini, Wayne Bryan, Nathan Campbell, Aubrey Carrier, Deborah Carswell, Lori Cassels & Mary Ross, John Cavellini - in honor of Katya Smirnoff-Skyy, Dennis Fong, Wayee Chu, William Cleaveland, Geoffrey Colton, Bill Coppock - in memory of Jon H. Conway, Rita Damaso and Stephanie Costa, Scott Cox, Donald Cremers, Larry Crummer & William Oman - in honor of Ed Decker, Fred Cummins, Joseph A. Czuberki, Daniel Daly, Jennifer Daly, Dennis Di Donato & Martin Taras, Gary Dickinson, Timothy Dobbins, The Fringers, Chuck Dybdal, Elana Dykewomon - in honor of Jewelle Gomez, James Eason & Jeffrey Hookom, William Elias, Brad Erickson, Richard Falls, John Fanning - in honor of Maurice Antoinette Kelly, John Felitti, Vincent J. Felitti, MD - on behalf of Una Lynch, Marsha Felton, Bonnie Feuer - in memory of Brenda Fahie, Ryan Flores, Brian Forney & Jack Thompson, D. Robert Foster, Thomas Foutch, Rose Franco, Alden, William, Kate & Mark Frankel, Michael Gagne, Susan Gangel, Kristine Geerds, E.J. Gibbons, Alan Gilmore, Joe Godfrey - in honor of Ed Decker, Laura Goldin, Stefan Gruenwedel, Toni Guidry, Helga Hallgrims, Thomas Hanley, Alan Haviside, Hallie Henle, Jeffrey Hershberger & Mark Calvey, Richard Hewetson,

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George A. Heymont, Chris Holland , Marian Hom, Henry Hopkins, Raphael Hu, Randy Hensley & Allan Hurst, Beth Hutchins, Neema & Sarah Jalali, Lisa Kadyk, Rick Kaplowitz, Nancy D. Kates - in honor of Graham Smith, John A Kelley, Yunah Kim, Tommy Kocon, Barbara Koehler, Jamie Kravitz, Louis Kravitz & Charles Lagrave, Kuehn Family, George Lai, Thomas Lambert, Richard George Laufman, Forrest Laureano, Scott Lawrie, Chris Leader, Andrew Leas & Bong Villa-Leas, Christopher Leason III - in memory of Dennis Zaborowski, Meredith Lee, Joseph Leonardi, John L. Lewis, Sue & Shel Lewis - in honor of Jacob & Nathan Thompson, Tommy & Bonnie Lim, Leslie Lopato and Skip Getz, Mary Willis, Jason Macario, Mark Mackler & Wendell Choo, David Mahon, Nic Maloney, Jay Manley, Evelyn Martinez, Lloyd Matheson, Steve & Lynn Matsumoto, Saverio & Jason, Richard Mazzarisi, Ash McNeely, Betsy Mercer, Terry Meyerson & David Retz, Julie Van Reyper Miller & Taylor Miller, Deb Mosk & Debra Shapiro, Marissa Nakano & Samuel Perez - in honor of Randy Nakano, Randall & Shirlene Nakano - on behalf of Miyo Nakano, Carolyn & Stefanie Nardelli-Bean, Mark Niu & Bradford Thomas, Celeste Oberfest, Jason Oberfest & Nina Oberfest, Jim Oerther, Shay Oglesby-Smith, Arthur Ong, Jack O’Reilly, Ayofemi Oseye, Justin Partier, Sylvia Pascal, Jeffrey Pekrul, Don Ramos & Alan Sauer, Dick Rees, Tom Reilly, Ruth Astle-Samas, Russell Rice & Dr. Helen Spivak - in honor of Arianna Rice, Silvio Ronutti, Richard Roos & Jim Glanton, Cary Ann Rosko & Matthew Hancher, Tom Rothgiesser & George Lucas, Richard Royse, Stephen Rupsch & Brett Leemkul, Samuel Wantman, Kent L. Sack, MD, Megan Samartzis, Timothy Schuman, Dennis J. Setlock - in memory of Lee Reeder, Blaine Shirk, Liz Sizenksy - in honor of Anne and Rodney Vaughan, Jim Skeen & Ken Avery, Jim Smoldt, Matt Stevens, Douglas Stoddard, Edward Tanovitz, Robert Tat, Mark Allen Terrell, Mark Terrell, Robert Tinkler, Jennifer Tonnelli - in honor of J. Conrad Frank & Katya Smirnoff-Skyy, Sue Trowbridge, Judy Ung, Carole Vandermeyde, Kendrick Vaughn, Feliciano Villegas, Lourdes Ayala & Diego Villegas, Pam Volberding, Charles Wagner & Thomas Culp, W.J. Waldon III, Hilary Walker, Robert Walker, Eileen Walsh, Eric Weiss, Dale & Janet Westfall, Steve Wilson, Ronald Wolberg, Angelo Wong, Arthur Yang, Virginia Yee, Ingu Yun, Linda zj. Zimmerman ry of Christy Kearney, Dale & Janet Westfall, Stephen Wilson, Ronald Wolberg, Angelo Wong, Arthur Yang, Virginia Yee, Ingu Yun, Linda Zimmerman ARTIST ($1-$99) Anonymous - in honor of Dana Zook, Anonymous - in memory of Steven Salzman, Anonymous (21), Elie Abi-Jaoude, Sheri Ahl, Ken Alexander, Lada Alexeenko, Rox Allen, Alex Anderson, Miscellaneous Anonymous, Tony Henderson, Walt Anthony, Bruce James Antink, Dr. Demetry Apostle, Renard Philippe Aron, Daniel Ray Bacon, Danny Baker and Mike Russin, Peter Balon, Jeremy Barcan, Walter N Barnes Jr. & Doug Lucas, Daniel Barpal, Donna Barpal, Arthur Bayol & Tony Spruill, Paul Bell, Bill Clawson and Frank Benedito, William K. Benson, Guy Berryessa, Shari Bethel, Wendy Bjorklund, R.W. Blue, Gerry Blunt, Leanne Borghesi - in honor of Countess Auntie Katya, Brandon Bowen, Richard D. Brabham - in memory Thomas J Harrison, John Brandeau, Harry Breaux, Sean Brient, Mark Briggs, Katrina Broomall, Christopher Brown, Craig Burke, Shawn Burke, Patricia Byrne, Andre Camire, Steaven Campbell, Mackenzie Canniff & Susan Penelope Rix, John G. Capo - in

OUR THANKS

memory of Earl Diskin, Carl Stein, Nancy Cave, Ronald Schafranek, Annalee Schafranek & Sean Schafranek, Gina Cavellini - in honor of John Cavellini aka Summer Clearance, David McCrory, Carol Chen, Denise C Chiang in memory of Sabrina Chiang, James Clarkson & Douglas Scott, Caitlin Clayton, Victor Cordon, Robert Costello, Anonymous , Philip Dawkins, Deana Deatherage, Arnold Dito - in memory of David Beery, David Doan, Kathryn Douglas, Roberta Drake, Gary Drew, Allyson Dwyer, Cheryl Eccles - in honor of The Lynch Family, Mark Eden, Claudia Ehrlich, Ellie Carhart, Jessica Ellis, Anke Ente, Birgit Eschmann, J M Eskin, Beth Feingold - in honor of Maurice Kelly, Rochelle Felitti, Duncan Findlay, Krystyna Finlayson, Jeffrey Foldvik, Wanda Fox, Karen Frasier Kolligs, Mark Freeman, James Frieberg, E. Frusztajer, Michael Fry, Jonathan Funk & John Arnold, Ilya Garelik, Susan Julian Gates, Richard Hocker, H. Gelfand in honor of Yilong Liu, Anirvan Ghosh, Dorothy Giammona, Fred Girodat, Paul Goetz, Michaela Goldhaber, David Grabstald - in memory of Mrs. Ann Getty, Mary E. Grant, Karen Greig, Ray Grimsinger, Eleanor Hansen, Susan & Nasus Hansen, H. Adam Harris - in honor of Ed Decker, Anthony Harrison, Jean Hartman, Michael A. Hathaway, Shelley Hawkins, Kevin Hazelwood, Judy Helfand, Sandrah Henry, Kenneth Hensel, Her Urban Herbs , Amy Hillard, Colin Hodgen, Jeffrey Hoffman & Don Labit - in memory of Ms. Mildred Peveto, Dr. Jerry Hofkin & Ms Lynda Stotsky - in honor of Leah Hofkin, Katie Holt, Eric Hsu & James Chambers, Timothy Huls, Jan Hunter, Brandon Jackson, Candice Jacobus, Nola Jesenko, Michael Job, Cecil Johnson & Gary Richards, Jonckheer Family, Brandy Jones, “Julia Kochi”, Gregory Jurin & Jim McCrea, William Kaiser, Steve Kehrli & Pablo Patino, Yonju Kim, Victoria Kirby, Ron Kisling, Leonard Klosinski, Vivian Kramp, Gary Kukus, Thomas Lakritz, Roberta Langren, Casey Larson, Barry Lawrence, Kathleen Lee, Joan Lefkowitz & Stacey Shuster, Anonymous , Matthew Levie, Anonymous, Alison & Ron Limoges, Kuo-Hao Lo, Gary Lomax, Emmy Longo, Karen Lylis, Patricia K. Mack, Paul Maiorana - in honor of MacKenzie Atwood, Aimee Mao, Eugene Marangoni, Laura Marlin, Lori Martin, Christoph Maurath, Michele McDonald, Paul Melcon - in honor of Summer Clearance, Michael Merrigan, Amy Meyers, Shannon A Miller, Bill Kaiser - in honor of The Purple Circuit Theatres, Ryan Moore, Nicole Moreno-Deinzer, Patricia Morin, Jonathan Moscone, Richard Mosqueda, Patrick Murray, Scott Najima - in honor of Randy Nakano, Zolboo Namkhaidorj, Melanie Nathan, Duy Nguyen , Mike Nickel, Siobhan Noble, Ron Noriega, Elizabeth O’Connell, Tania Odesho, Christina O’Halloran - in honor of Andrea Partridge, Claudine Ozzello, Mary Padilla, Elaine Page, Paul Anderson, Meredith Pelrine, Joel T. Perlstein, Robert P Pittman, Susan Petit, Beth Phillips, Robert Pittman, Steven Polsky & Mark Oliver, Patricia Ponzini, Michael Popalardo, Anne Prewitt, Brian Quigley, Casey Quinn, Vanessa Ramos, Kevin Rayburn, Arianna Rice, Adele Rios, Robert Ripps & Steven Spector, Michael Rossman,

Gordon Sakaue, Mary Jo Schaeffer, Rebecca Schlichtig, Sherry Segura, Nora Segura-Barpal, RS&JJ, Anonymous, Sachiyo Shelton, Karen Sheridan, Robert Shultz, Evelyn Smith, Lisa Soberanes, Elise Sommerville, James Sotiros, Tony Spruill, Marc Stein & Jorge Olivares, Laurence R. Stevens - in memory of Peggy Cooper, Marjorie Suits, Beli Sullivan, Anthony Swanner, Tony Tantillo, Donna Telepak, Jerry Thornhill, Pamela Thornton, Jennifer Ting, Kathie Tompkins - in honor of John Cavellini, Francine Torres, Alina Trowbridge, Marcelle Trzcinski, Alberto & Vansit Vajrabukka, LaVonne Vashon, Kathryn Vercillo, Anna Verga, Rena Vilt, William Vilt, Annika Button & Sydney Button, Noel Viramontes, Yae Wada, Laurie Waldman, Michael Walensky, Isabel Sobozinsky- Wall, Angie Wang, Ron & Sharon Waterhouse - in honor of Dana Zook, Lisa Wayne, Mary Tienken and Isaac Wayne, Margaret Weadick, Matt Weimer, Wendy Weiner, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, William F. Wilson, Joshua Wilson, Timothy Wolfred, Scott Yeats, May Young - in honor of Randall Nakano INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS New Conservatory Theatre Center is sponsored in part by a grant from Grants for the Arts. $50,000+ William & Flora Hewlett Foundation San Francisco Grants for the Arts U.S. Small Business Administration San Francisco Arts Commission $25,000 - $49,999 San Francisco Department of Children, Youth & Their Families The Shubert Foundation Small Change Foundation Kimball Foundation $15,000 - $24,999 California Arts Council Miranda Lux Foundation $10,000 - $14,999 Sheri & Les Biller Foundation Bernard Osher Foundation Centers for Disease Control & Prevention $2,500 - $9,999 Fleishhacker Foundation Horizons Foundation Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this listing. If an error has been made, you would like to change your listing, or would like to make a gift, please contact Director of Individual Giving Nora Segura-Barpal at 415.694.6158 or [email protected].

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Support NCTC by making a secure donation online at nctcsf.org/donate or mail a check to: NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER, 25 Van Ness Ave., LL, San Francisco, CA 94102 NCTC also accepts bequests, stock transfers and in-kind contributions. For more information about supporting NCTC, please contact Nora Segura-Barpal, Director of Individual Giving 415.694.6158 | [email protected]

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STAFF

NCTC THANKS THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS FOR MATCHING THEIR EMPLOYEES’ DONATIONS

FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Ed Decker

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Barbara Hodgen

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Carlos Aceves

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Kate Jones Butler

MASTER ELECTRICIAN

William Campbell

SENIOR MARKETING & PRESS MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER & CASTING COORDINATOR CONSERVATORY SATELLITE PROGRAM DIRECTOR INSTITUTIONAL GIVING MANAGER YOUTHAWARE PROGRAM DIRECTOR & CASTING ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGER FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGER DIRECTOR OF INDIVIDUAL GIVING PHOTOGRAPHER CONSERVATORY DIRECTOR BOX OFFICE & PATRON SERVICES MANAGER

April Culver Stephanie Desnoyers Kathleen Lee Stephen McFarland Nicole Meñez Brad Pence Jack Sale Nora Segura-Barpal Lois Tema Stephanie Temple Scott TIgnor

B OAR D O F D I R E C TO R S Ed Decker - Artistic Director Larry Vales - Board Chair Eric Valko - Vice-Chair Eli Lazarus- Treasurer Dana Zook- Secretary Andrew Smith - Chair Emeritus J. Conrad Frank Leah A. Hofkin Robert Holgate Maurice Kelly

Eve Lynch Christopher Murriel Andrew Nance Melanie Nathan Charles Renfroe Desiree Rogers Renee Roux Stephanie Walker Nathan Williams

NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER 25 Van Ness Avenue at Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 BOX OFFICE: 415.861.8972 OFFICES: 415.861.4914

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New Conservatory Theatre Center is a constituent of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the National Organization for ­American Theatre, Associate Member National New Play Network, and a company member of Theatre Bay Area.

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