Armsand the Man

Department of Theatre & Drama • February 17 - 20, 2011 • Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

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The University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre & Dance,Department of Theatre & Drama presents

by George Bernard ShawDirector

Assistant DirectorScenic Designer

Costume DesignerLighting Designer

Wig DesignerStage Manager

Philip Kerr*Sarah-Jane Gwillim*Michael Bou-MarounJessica HahnMary Clare Blake-BoothDawn RivardKelsy Durkin

Setting:Major Petkoff’s house in a small Bulgarian town near the Dragoman Pass, 1885-1886Act I: Scene 1 - Raina’s Chamber, November 1885; Scene 2 - The Garden, March 1886

Act II: The Library, after lunch

Arms and the Man will be performed with one intermission.

Arms and the Man is dedicated to Jeffrey Kurason his 25th anniversary as Director of University Productions.

* Member, Stage Directors and Choreographers SocietyArms and the Man is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

The performers in this production are undergraduate students in the Dept. of Theatre & Drama. The designers are students and faculty in the Dept. of Theatre & Drama. Scenery, costumes, properties, sound, and lighting were realized by the students and staff of University Productions, the producing unit of the SMTD. Ticket sales assist in providing SMTD students with practical training experience before live audiences. Thank you for supporting our educational mission.

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Cast of CharaCters (in order of appearance)

Raina Petkoff, a young Bulgarian woman ...............................................Arielle Goldman

Catherine Petkoff, Raina’s mother ..........................................................Margot McGrath

Louka, the Petkoffs’ maid.......................................................................... Emily Berman

Captain Bluntschli, a Swiss mercenary in the Serbian army ............................. Kris Reilly

Major Plechanoff, a Russian Officer ......................................................... Matthew Socha

Nicola, the Petkoffs’ butler .......................................................................Josh Berkowitz

Major Paul Petkoff, Raina’s father and a major in the Bulgarian army .......Reed Campbell

Major Sergius Saranoff, a major in the Bulgarian army and Raina’s fiancé .........Paul Koch

Jeffrey Kuras, Director of University Productions, came to this university twenty-five years ago to assume his current position. Since that time, the production arm of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance has grown, spaces have increased, personnel has enlarged, and new challenges have constantly arisen. His unflagging energy, skills, diplomacy, and good humor have charted a course of the highest standards for productions in a variety of disciplines and venues.

Jeffrey and his team are the engine which drives each production venture, and his patience and talents are the unsung heroes of every curtain call.

Bravo, Jeffrey! Congratulations on your Silver Anniversary, and on to the future.With wonder and thanks, this production of a sparkling comedy of wit, energy, and rational good sense is respectfully dedicated to your efforts and leadership.

— Philip Kerr, Director

aCknowledgments Special thanks to Mark Lamos and Yuriy Sardarov. Additional thanks to Lee Graff and Wando Longo at CoverFX.

This production is entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC/ACTF). The aims of this national

theater education program are to identify and promote quality in college-level theater productions. To this end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a regional KC/ACTF representative, and certain students are selected to participate in KC/ACTF programs involving awards, scholarships, and special grants for actors, playwrights, designers, and critics at both the regional and national levels.

Jeffrey on the set of Cosi fan tutte, 2007.

Arms and the Man’s Enduring LegacyArms and the Man debuted at the Avenue Theatre in

London on April 21, 1894. Its title is taken from a line in Virgil’s Aeneid, “Of arms and the man I sing,” which was meant to glorify war, but George Bernard Shaw employed the phrase ironically as a critique of war. Although the play is set against the backdrop of the Serbo-Bulgarian War, it was not originally written with this war in mind, showing that the choice of war was not necessary to the theme. In Shaw’s view, the play was a bleak criticism of daily life and the war machine, with the collision of knowledge and illusion resulting in pervasive humor. Audiences and actors, however, quickly picked up less somber tones and ran in the direction towards comedy.

The initial response to the play was divided. Arms marked Shaw’s first commercial success — a Broadway production followed shortly after the English premiere along with numerous subsequent revivals on both continents — but some audiences were critical of Shaw’s work. After the premiere performance, one particularly unhappy audience member expressed his dislike by booing, to which Shaw famously replied, “I assure the gentleman in the gallery that he and I are of exactly the same opinion, but what can we do against a whole house who are of the contrary opinion?”

Shaw revisited the play frequently. He was not satisfied with the original manuscript, which was written rather hastily after a commission issued by the feminist actress Florence Farr, for whom Shaw originally wrote Raina. (Farr would go on to play Louka in other productions.) Shaw revised the final line of the play three times over the course of approximately fifty years.

Arms and the Man continues to be widely produced and adapted. It is a particularly attractive play to well-established actors. In 1944, Laurence Olivier took on the role of Sergius. More recently, in 1985 John

Malkovich directed a production with Kevin Kline as Bluntschli. Various film, TV, and musical adaptations have garnered impressive success. The operetta The Chocolate Soldier (1908) by Oscar Straus, which Shaw detested, ultimately outgrossed the original production of the play. Audiences’ and artists’ similar desire to revisit Arms and the Man speaks both to Shaw’s acute social commentary and continued relevancy nearly 100 years after its first performance.

— Aislinn Frantz, Dramaturg

about the Play

Photos: Top: Original 1894 London production of Arms and the Man. [Source: http://www.turgingsomedrama.com/armsandtheman/armsproductionhistory.htm]. Bottom: Original production of The Chocolate Soldier, 1910. [Source: “The Chocolate Soldier”, Play Pictorial, April 1910 p. 114]

about the Playwright

george bernard shaw, born in Dublin in 1856, began his writing career as a novelist and journalist, but gained his great fame as a playwright. Most people consider Shaw to be the second greatest playwright in the English language, after only Shakespeare.

Growing up in Dublin, Shaw developed a wide knowledge of music, art and literature under the influence of his mother, a singer and vocal music teacher. At age 20 he moved to London, where he spent his afternoons in the British Museum and his evenings pursuing his informal education by attending lectures and debates. He declared himself a socialist in 1882 and joined the new “Fabian

Society” in 1884. Soon he distinguished himself as an effective public speaker, and an incisive and irreverent critic of music, art and drama.

As a critic, he grew weary of the fashionable but intellectually barren melodramas of the 19th century. His admiration for the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (about whom he wrote influential essays) encouraged Shaw to reshape the English stage with sophisticated comedies that presented what he considered important social issues.

Shaw’s first play, Widowers’ Houses, was produced at a private theatre club in 1892. It was followed by The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren’s Profession. These three plays were published as Plays Unpleasant (1898). More palatable, though still rich with challenges to conventional middle-class values, were his Plays Pleasant published the same year: this volume included the plays Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny and You Never Can Tell. In 1897 Shaw attained his first commercial success with the American premiere of The Devil’s Disciple, the income from which enabled him to quit his job as a drama critic and to make his living solely as a playwright.

In 1898 he married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, an Irish heiress whom he had met through his Fabian friends Beatrice and Sidney Webb.

Although Shaw’s plays were not popular initially, in the period 1904-07 he began to reach a larger audience through an influential series of productions at London’s Royal Court Theatre. His plays became known for their brilliant arguments, their wit, and their unrelenting challenges to the conventional morality of his time. His best-known play, Pygmalion, was first performed in 1913. Two generations later, it attained even greater fame as the musical My Fair Lady.

During World War I, Shaw’s anti-war speeches and a controversial pamphlet entitled Common Sense About the War made him very unpopular as a public figure. In Heartbreak House (performed 1920) Shaw exposed, in a countryhouse setting, the spiritual bankruptcy of the generation responsible for the carnage. Next came Back to Methuselah (1922) and Saint Joan (1923), acclaim for which led to his receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1925.

Shaw continued to write plays and essays until his death in 1950 at the age of 94.

— Biography courtesy of the Shaw Festival, Photo courtesy of Berkeley Repertory Theatre

miChael bou-maroun (Scenic Designer) is a senior BFA in the Dept. of Theatre and Drama concentrating on scenic design. UM: Armide (ASD). MUSKET: Kiss of the Spider Woman. Basement Arts: Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Summertime, Senior Directing Thesis Marisol.  Regional Theatre: Lookinglass Theatre Co., Lookingglass Alice (Props Intern 2010); Dog and Pony Theatre Co., Dead Letter Office (ASD 2010); Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Julius Caesar, All’s Well That Ends Well (Props Apprentice 2008). www.boumaroundesign.com

mary Clare blake-booth (Lighting Designer) is a junior BFA candidate in the Dept. of Theatre & Drama. UM: Lighting design: Gibson Fleck, Asst. lighting design: Armide; MUSKET: Asst. lighting design: Hair; Basement Arts: How Love is Spelt, Lost in Yonkers, A Very Potter Musical.

kelsy durkin (Stage Manager) is a junior BFA candidate in the Dept. of Theatre & Drama concentrating in stage management. UM: All’s Well That Ends Well (SM), Into the Woods (1st ASM), Tartuffe (1st ASM), 42nd Street (ASM); Basement Arts: Altar Boyz, Placebo; MUSKET: Parade (ASM). Other: Maine State Music Theater (Company Management Intern, 2010).

sarah-Jane gwillim (Assistant Director) Numerous British theatre and television appearances, with Judi Dench, Malcolm McDowell, Tim Dalton, and including Howard’s End opposite Glenda Jackson. U.S. — Broadway: Saint Joan with Lynn Redgrave, Macbeth with Christopher Plummer, Major Barbara. Off-Broadway: You Never Can Tell, Roundabout Theatre Company. Regional Theatre: McCarter Theatre, Annenberg Center, Hartford Stage, St. Louis Rep., Goodman Theater, Walnut Street Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre and Regina Stage West in Canada; California and Stratford Shakespeare Festivals. Other: Graduate of London’s Central School of Speech and Drama; Member British, Canadian, and American Actors’ Equity Associations; SDC.

about the Cast Josh berkowitz (Nicola) senior, BFA Perf., West Bloomfield, MIemily berman (Louka) junior, BFA Perf./senior, BA Economics, Chicago, ILreed CamPbell (Major Petkoff) junior, BFA Perf., San Francisco, CAarielle goldman (Raina Petkoff) senior, BFA Perf., Potomac, MDPaul koCh (Major Saranoff) senior, BFA Perf., Mill Valley, CAmargot mCgrath (Catherine Petkoff) junior, BFA Perf., Mill Valley, CAkris reilly (Captain Bluntschli) junior, BFA Perf., Detroit, MI

matthew soCha (Major Plechanoff) junior, BFA Perf., Naperville, IL

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about the artists JessiCa hahn (Costume Designer) Assoc. Professor, Head of Design and Production, Dept. of Theatre & Drama. UM: Much Ado About Nothing, Ragtime, Pride and Prejudice, Madmen and Specialists, You Never Can Tell, J.B., Playing for Times. Regional Theatre: Virginia Stage Company; Goodman Theatre; Lyric Opera Center; Northlight Theatre; Court Theatre; Roundabout Theatre, N.Y.; Utah Shakespearean Festival; Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Co.; former resident designer: Hubbard St. Dance Co., National Jewish Theatre. Awards: Seven nominations and three Joseph Jefferson Awards, Charles MacArthur Award. Other: Member, USAA; MFA in Design, Carnegie Mellon University.

PhiliP kerr (Director) Broadway: Macbeth, Otherwise Engaged, The Jockey Club Stakes, Three Sisters, Tiny Alice, A Flea in Her Ear. Off-Broadway: Public Theatre, Roundabout Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Manhattan Theatre Club, CSC, Playwrights Horizons. Regional Theatre: Guthrie Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Yale Rep., Alley Theatre, Seattle Rep., Cleveland Play House, Hartford Stage, St. Louis Rep., Kennedy Ctr, McCarter Theatre, La Jolla, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Manitoba Theatre, Clarence Brown, American Conservatory Theatre, various Shakespeare Festivals and summer stock. Awards: Chicago’s Jefferson Award, UM School of Music Faculty Achievement Award. Other: Honors graduate of Harvard and LAMDA; Member AEA, SAG, AFTRA, SDC.

dawn rivard (Wig Designer)  World Premieres:  Ragtime, Sunset Boulevard, Showboat, Rio de Sangre.  International Theatre:  Teatro Alla Scala, Rinaldo;  Award winning productions of Cats and Beauty and the Beast in Germany & Switzerland. TV/Film: Emmy Award for Feast of All Saints, wig builder for Hairspray, Skinwalkers, and Mike Myers’ The Love Guru. Clients have included Sir Peter Ustinov, Donald Sutherland,  Neve Campbell,  Stockard Channing, Shawn Ashmore, and Louis Gossett, Jr. 

staff for arms and the man

SCHOOL OF MUSIC, THEATRE & DAnCEDean .........................................................Christopher Kendall

DEPARTMEnT OF THEATRE & DRAMAChair ...............................................................Priscilla LindsayDepartment Administrator ............................... Jennifer KnappStudent Services ...........................................Becky SeauvageauAdministrative Asst ............................................... Tim AbbottPerformance/Directing .. Erik Fredricksen, Sarah-Jane Gwillim, Philip Kerr, Annette Masson, Janet Maylie, John Neville-Andrews, Jerry Schwiebert, Malcolm TulipDesign/Production ................... Toni Y. Auletti, George Bacon, Mark Allen Berg, Gary Decker, Douglas Edwards, Jessica Hahn, Richard W. Lindsay, Jr., Vincent Mountain, Rob Murphy, Christianne Myers, Henry Reynolds, Arthur Ridley, Nancy UffnerTheatre Studies/Playwriting .........................Glenda Dickerson, Mbala Nkanga, OyamO, E.J. Westlake, Leigh WoodsArts Mgmt. .......... Jeffrey Kuras, Greg Poggi, Kerianne M. TupacInterarts..................................... Holly Hughes, Malcolm TulipProfessors Emeriti ....................... Jack E. Bender, Alan Billings, John Russell Brown, Peter W. Ferran, Zelma Weisfeld

UnIVERSITy PRODUCTIOnSDirector ................................................................Jeffrey KurasDepartment Administrator ............................. Fatima AbdullahOffice Assistant III/Usher Coordinator .................Shelda SmithMarketing & Communications Dir. ........... Kerianne M. TupacGraphic Design ....................................................CAP DesignsPhotographer .................................... Peter Smith PhotographyInformation Systems Manager .........................Henry ReynoldsFacilities Manager ................................................Shannon RiceHouse Manager ............................................ Dianne WidzinskiSenior Backstage Operations Mgr. .........................Barry LaRueBackstage Operations Mgrs. ........Mark Gordon, David Pickell, Kurt Thoma, Donald C. WatkinsAdministrative Office Assistants ................. Zoë Allen-Wickler, Allison Brown, Abrielle Case, Sara Shvartzman, Kevin Tan,

PRODUCTIOn STAFFProduction Manager .....................................Amanda MengdenProduction Stage Manager...................................Nancy UffnerProduction Office Assistants ....... Sophie Boudreau, Bianca Lee, David Lee, Brandon Penberton, Elise WootenTechnical Dir. (Power) ................................... Douglas EdwardsMaster Carpenter (Power) .................................Michael BraicoCarpenter (Power) ......................................... Brandon CarruthTechnical Dir. (Walgreen) ......................Richard W. Lindsay, Jr.Carpenter (Walgreen) ...................................... Robert MichaelCharge Scenic Artist ...........................................Toni Y. AulettiScenic Artist .....................................................Beth SandmaierProperties Master ................................................Arthur RidleyAsst. Properties Master ........................................Patrick DroneMaster Electrician............................................Mark Allen Berg

Sound Engineers .......................Roger Arnett, Henry ReynoldsCostume Shop Manager ................................... Lynn HolbrookAssoc. Costume Shop Manager .......................... George BaconCutter/Drapers ...........................................Virginia R. Luedke, Lea M. Morello, T J WilliamsonCrafts Artisan ...........................................Elizabeth GundersonCostume Stock Administrator .............................. Renae Skoog

PRODUCTIOn CREWFirst Asst. Stage Manager .....................................Joshua BeurerAsst. Stage Managers ....................... Richie Grasso, Katie LantzDramaturg ......................................................... Aislinn FrantzAsst. to the Costume Designer .............................Meryl WaldoAsst. to the Wig Designer .........................MacKenzie DworkinScenery (Walgreen)...............................C. J. Eldred, Aimee Garcia, Nicole Gellman, Elisabeth Griebel, Andrew Klopach, Laura Reed, Eli Schlatter, Elliott Skylis*, Samantha Vettrus, Weston Wittry, students of Theatre 250Paint ..................... Neha Bhat*, Carisa Bledsoe, Claire DiVizio, Steve Eddy, Austin Kozlowski, Alicia Moore, Jordan Schroeder, Trevor St. John-Gilbert*, Nicolas Ward, students of Theatre 250Props .................. Rachael Albert, Daniel Belnavis, Jane Bruce*, Kerry Concannon*, Holland Grossman, Erik Heitz, Tyler Jones, Catherine Keys, Louis King, Mary Little*, Ashley Park*, Erika Peterson*, Trevor St. John-Gilbert, Dereck Seay*, Paige Silvester*, Erik Skoog, Katherine Thomas, Danny Wilfred*, students of Theatre 250Professional Stitchers ..................Patty Branum, Laura Kantner, Rene Plante, Suzanne YoungCostumes .......... Joshua Beurer, Amalea Chininis, Corey Davis, Elizabeth Evans*, Carrie Fisk, Catherine Herron, Austin Hoeltzel, Laura Irion, Adrienne Johnson, Shawn McCulloch, Maura Niemisto, Desiree Oakley, Yonit Olshan, Devon Perry*, students of Theatre 250 & 252Lighting ....................Rachael Albert, Mary Clare Blake-Booth, Carisa Bledsoe, Michelle Bryan, Andrew Burkhardt, Nathaniel Daly, Kimberly Hunter, Jennifer Jacobs, Claire Jaffe, Andrew Lott, Charles Malott, Adam McCarthy, Tess Nugent, Sarah Petty, Amanda Rutishauser, Aaron Tacy, William Welch, Andrew Wysocki, students of Theatre 250Sound......................................................................... Jesse Peri

RUnnInG CREWScenery .................................................................... Tim WoodProps ....................................... Ben Blackman, Melissa Golliday, Brene Jackson, Tim Markham, Kendra WilliamsLight Board Operator ..............................................Sarah KornLighting ..........................................................Conor McGiffinSound..................................................................... Bill Wiltse*Wardrobe .................................Carrie Fisk‡, Daniela Blechner, Logan McClendon, Alexandra SchraderWigs ............................................Clair DiVizio, Taylor Norton

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RECEnT nEWS FROM THEATRE & DRAMA ALUMS

Alex Bisker Directed a new play, Chinatown is Full of Rooms, at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre.

Zachary Booth (Dorff) ’04 Edward Albee’s Me Myself and I, Playwrights Horizons; Co-starred alongside Tony award winners Victoria Clark and Michelle Park and Tony nominee Jonathan Groff in Prayer for My Enemy, a new play by Craig Lucas at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. Series regular on Damages and What Goes On.

Sophina Brown ’98 Broadway: The Lion King; National Tour: Fame; Series Regular on Numb3rs, Shark, Chappelle’s Show, and Castle.

Esther Chae ’95 SMTD Emerging Artist Award from the UM Alumni Association.

Heather Chockley ’01 Current Stage Mgr. for Les Miserables National Tour.

Alix Claps ’02 Production Stage Mgr. and Production Mgr. for the NYU Steinhardt School.

Emily Cornelius ’03 Associate Rehearsal Administrator for the Metropolitan Opera.

Darren Criss ’09 Known for his role of ‘Harry Potter’ in A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel; ‘Blaine’ on Glee, FOX.

Treasure Davidson Recently completed training at the Actors Studio, NYC.Various acting jobs in NYC.

Bernardo De Paula ’98 Shakespeare Theatre: Edgar in King Lear, Mustardseed in Midsummer Night’s Dream, Harcourt in The Country Wife; National Shakespeare –NYC: Iago in Othello; plus many film and television credits.

Heather Dilly ’96 Off Broadway: Walk Two Moons directed by Melissa Kievman,

Lucille Lortel Theatre, Bag Fulla Money The Clurman Theatre. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Natural Selection directed by Marc Masterson.

Benjamin Endsley Klein ’02 Associate Dir. for The Coast of Utopia parts 1-3; Assistant Dir. for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Alex Farino ’95 Production Stage Mgr. for Minnesota Opera.

Cassandra Flowers ’09 Assistant Stage Mgr. for Minnesota Opera.

Brad Fraizer ’04 Played in Three on a Couch by Carl Djerassi @ Soho Playhouse, The Blue Man Group, and The Maids and Deathwatch .

Wendy Goldberg In her fifth season as Artistic Dir. of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center where she has developed over 40 projects for the stage.

Mandy Heuermann ’04 Assistant Stage Mgr. for Joffrey Ballet.

Mitch Hodges ’10 Assistant Stage Mgr. for Les Miserables National Tour.

Andres Holder ’10 Production Mgr. for GALA Hispanic Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Beth Hoyt ’05 Played in A Light Lunch, a World Premiere by A.R. Gurney, and Twas the Night Before world premiere by Christopher Durang at The Flea Theatre (NYC). Collaborated piece Transition with Reggie Watts performed at the Time-Based Art Festival in Portland, OR, and produced by the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater in New York City. Performed with Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver in The Oldsmobiles (a new play by Roger Rosenblatt) for The Flea Theater (NYC). 

Chris Jamros ’99 Digital Design for The Today Show. Former Production Stage Mgr., Stage Mgr., Assistant Stage Mgr. of Wicked.

Angela Kiessel ’09 Current Stage Mgr. for Starkid Productions in Chicago.

nipper Knapp, Matthew Letscher, Andrew newberg Winners in the New York TV Festival’s Independent Pilot Competition for Best Writing. Title of their script: Gentrification.

Rachel Laritz ’02 Joseph Jefferson Award for The Voysey Inheritance at Remy Bumppo Theatre (Chicago, IL), Nominated for Joseph Jefferson Award for The Philadelphia Story.

Josh Lefkowitz ’03 Played The Dauphin in St. Joan at the Olney Theatre Center, Marion Johnson in One Red Flower at Signature Theatre, and recorded work for NPR’s All Things Considered. His solo piece, Help Wanted: A Personal Search for Meaningful Employment at the Start of the 21st Century was performed at The Single File Festival in Chicago, had a full production at the Access Theatre and Center Stage.

Jason Lindner Recently featured in the Dramatist Guild magazine. His play The Gog/Magog Project was recently produced in the UK. He is the author/co-author of several award-winning adaptations including The Ballad of Don Q. His work was featured in a festival of new work at the Steep Theatre.

Katie McKee ’06 Current Assistant Stage Mgr. for Hair National Tour.

Seth Moore, Playwright His play, Jonesin’, a UM 2009 mainstage play and Hopwood Award winner, has had a reading at the Flea Theatre in NYC.

Dominique Morriseau Author of two NAACP Image Award-winning plays; Participated with six other writers at the 2010 O’Neill Center’s Nat’l Playwrights Conference.

Eddie Murray Has been doing standup in NYC and writing comedy sketches.

Andrew newburg After getting his MFA from Columbia he’s been writing and has been produced in NYC.

Caitlin O’Rourke ’09 Stage Mgr. Intern for Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY.

Robin Quick ’99 Professor of Theater at Towson University; Elliott Hayes Award for Excellence in Dramaturgy by the Literary Mgr.s and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

Alex Reed ’07 In production for Clash of the Titans 2.

Maureen Sebastian Performing in The Arabian Nights at Arena Stage.

Mandy Siegfried ’94 Broadway: Noises Off Off Broadway: The Roundabout: The Mineola Twins Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Featured Actress, Playwrights Horizons: Our House and Refuge, The Edge Theatre: Blackbird.

Stephen Siercks ’07 Production Mgr. and Stage Mgr. for Universal Studios.

Daniel Silverman ’10 Interim TD for University of Toledo Theatre Department, Former Production Intern with the Kennedy Center, Former Stage Mgr. Intern with Florida Studio Theatre.

Matthew Smith His play Endoftheworld Lovesong was produced at the Flea Theatre.

Stephen Sposito Assistant Directed Broadway production Promises, Promises, Assistant Directed Broadway production Shrek The Musical.

Erin Whipkey ’05 Production Mgr. and Production Stage Mgr. for Opera Memphis.

James Wolk ’07 Brad Cohen in CBS/Hallmark Hall of Fame’s Front of the Class; Title role in ABC pilot Solving Charlie; Robert/Bob Taylor in FOX pilot Lonestar; role in upcoming Disney film You Again.

U-M Friends of Theatre & Drama Annual Gifts from July 1, 2009 - January 20, 2011

Gifts provide scholarship support, funding for guest artists, and important performance opportunities for students.

gifts of $1,000 & above

AnonymousRichard & Mona AlonzoAnne & Jim DuderstadtPriscilla Lindsay & Richard Ferguson-WagstaffeLynn & Philip MetzgerP. LaMont & JoAnn King OkeyMark & Ora PescovitzJudith & Donald Rumelhart

gifts of $500-$999Herb & Carol AmsterRalph P. BeebeH. D. CameronJill & Jim GabbeBarbara GalvinPhyllis & David HerzigJohn & Gretchen Neal JacksonAlan & Jean KrischRobert & Pearson MacekMary & Chandler MatthewsGregory & Allison PoggiStuart Erwin SacksDr. William W. TaylorMichael Shoemaker Wright III

gifts of $250-$499William & Ilene BirgeJanet & Erik FredricksenJanet & David FritschJames B. Harris, Jr.Rose & John HendersonDiane KirkpatrickLockheed Martin CorporationShelley MacMillan & Gary DeckerPeggy McCracken & Douglas AndersonDr. & Mrs. James McNamara, Jr.Joseph A. PlacekRobert & Denise Richter

Clifford & Ingrid SheldonGeorge W. & Mary TewksburyBrent WagnerJack & Jerry WeidenbachZelma H. WeisfeldStephen Zuckerman & Darlene Kaplan

gifts of $100-$249Tim & Leah AdamsHarry & Kathryn BenfordFrank & Valerie BernackiSteven F. BestEric & Doris BillesJoan A. BinkowConstance & Dennis BurkeJill Chukerman Test & Thomas TestHal CooperDTE Energy FoundationMarilyn L. FriedmanSteve & Karen GeiringerJoyce & Steven GerberEdward B. & Mona L. GoldmanSusan Gratch & Patrick GleasonIrita & Robert GriersonCharlotte HansonJeffrey HeathNorman & Deborah HerbertJolene C. HermalinMarie & Thomas JarboeCharles KellyS. J. MacKinneyAnn Martin & Russell LarsonWalter Mugdan & Vivienne LenkDr. Kathryn Louise LongMelvin & Jean ManisColin & Nancy OatleyRobert & Zibby OnealP & G FundJames J. PiperJohn Romani & Barbara Anderson

For online giving, visit www.giving.umich.edu, e-mail Maureen Schafer at scafema@umich.edu or call 734-763-9769School of Music, Theatre & Dance • Development Office • 2005 Baits Drive • Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2075

I want to support the Dept. of Theatre & Drama with a gift to the: ❏ Friends of Theatre & Drama (364139) ❏ Friends of Theatre & Drama Endowment (796749)In the amount of: ❏ $1,000 ❏ $500 ❏ $250 ❏ $100 ❏Other ______

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❏ Enclosed is my employer (or my spouse’s) matching gift form.❏ My check is made payable to the University of Michigan.❏ Charge my gift to ❏ VISA ❏ Master Card ❏ Discover ❏ Amer. Exp.

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Bonnie R. SchaferMaureen Schafer & David KlerkxKim & Fay SebalyHarriet C. SelinNancy & James WhiteMarina & Bob WhitmanJames & Gladys YoungJ. Norman & Dorothy Wilkinson

gifts under $100Laurie G. AtwoodJohn D. & Nancy Webb BabingtonBank of America FoundationDr. Elizabeth S. BishopJonathan W. & Gertrude BulkleyDr. James CavalcoliElizabeth DexterLillian G. DruryEdison InternationalSuzy & Niels EnglebergDr. & Mrs. James E. FrounfelterJanice R. GeddesDr. & Mrs. Thomas D. GelehrterMary Sue GrantRobert A. Green, M.D.Kirk A. HaasDon Haefner & Cynthia StewartJessica M. Hahn

Michele HahnRuth Brown JonesErich J. JungwirthElaine M. KaiserBonnie S. KerschbaumDr. Marvin M. KirshMary A. & John KnoxSharon & Erich KrumreiJerold & Judith LaxMax Lepler & Rex L. DotsonBrigitte A. MaassenN. Harris & Margaret McClomrochJanis A. McDowellBill & Diana PrattRobert & Lisa ProuseJohn E. RhinehartAnna Sampson & Daniel HerbertDylan M. SaundersDr. & Mrs. Eugene M. SilvermanDr. & Mrs. Jeoffrey K. StrossCharlotte SundelsonVirginia O. VassJoseph C. WaltersCarl & Beth WilliamsDr. Leigh A. WoodsPamela & Nathan ZauelWanda E. Zissis

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