Something You Did Program

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SOMETHING YOU DID
By Willy Holtzman August 28–October 3 By Neil Simon October 23–November 28

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OY VEY IN A MANGER
December 18–January 2
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By Ghassan Kanafani Adapted by Boaz Gaon January 15–30
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SOMETHING YOU DID

August 28–October 3, 2010

From the Artistic Director
Welcome to a brand new season and a newly transformed
season-opener, ingeniously updated by its author from his drama that first ran Off-Broadway during the 2008 presidential campaign; a campaign that, for all its calls for “Hope” and “Change,” cast unequivocally harsh light on the radical social change and anti-war activism of a previous generation. The wages of that activism are under the microscope tonight, in Willy Holtzman’s play that we in the office affectionately refer to as “The Play That Saved the Day” or “The Play that Found its Way To The Top Of The Heap” in the mad scramble before news was about to hit that we were to be Losing Madoff and Mourning the Disenchantment of Elie Wiesel (whose character was later written out of Deb Margolin’s Imagining Madoff, slated to have opened our season before being withdrawn by the playwright as she contemplated its revision). Holtzman’s play was the strong finisher in a marathon selection frenzy where the goal was to fill a very particular slot; that of our August/October opener, hop-scotching the High Holidays—the momentous Days of Awe—playing while people prayed (or rather, before and after); a month of personal and collective reflection in our communal gathering spaces. Something You Did presents itself, like its season-opening predecessor, as both vigorously topical and a richly textured personal inquiry, taking on a dialectical perspective about the past—in this case, examining radical activism from a morally-critical point of view, while re-inscribing meaning to the legacy of a time we reverentially still refer to as “The ‘60s.” Holtzman’s play has stayed relevant by revising itself to keep up with the changing administrations in the White House and the shifting political discourse in our land, as our media culture grows more toxic and the instruments for disseminating that vitriol grow more pervasive and shrill. But more meaningful than its up-to-date plot points, Something You Did is galvanized by the embattled principles of its protagonist, displaying an almost classical sense of reckoning by the end. Alison Moulton may indeed be an emblem for our times in that she is, without question, a lightning rod; heroine to some; terrorist to others; an idealist who persists in keeping the faith, besmirched by violence, hubris, and bypassed by time; holding onto the hope that goodness might reemerge from within; that redemption might be achieved through acts of justice for sins committed; contrition for entitlement gone amuck. The actual transcript of Alison’s real-life precursor, Kathy Boudin, in her third appearance before the New York State parole board, reveals a woman still defending her principles while eloquently evincing self-knowledge, self-criticism, even self-belittlement; seeing in her younger self a flimsiness of identity and a need to be taken seriously, suggesting a desire to have impact while ignoring the impact that her actions had upon the victims who were just as legitimate in their pursuit of life as were the misfortunate she was trying to help. Alison enacts her own process of Truth and Reconciliation with the self and society. She forces us to see that we all wind up intersecting with history through various stages in our lives, and that history—both personal and collective—is one where we will inevitably do bad things, even while pursuing what we believe to be good. This play says, in no uncertain terms, that we all will have blood on our hands, and asks whether we will be worthy of being saved. Will our guilt ever end? How does this play end? How do we resolve with each other; we who find ourselves on opposite sides of political and cultural divides all the time now, having torn the fabric of our civil society in this toxic mud-sling we call the public realm? Let’s hope that in this theater, with this play, we might build toward a more perfect union. Happy New Year, and come on back for the exciting new season that lies ahead!
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-Ari Roth

Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater/Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts

August 28–October 3, 2010
Theater J presents

SOMETHING YOU DID
By Willy Holtzman Directed by Eleanor Holdridge+

Cast

Arthur Norman Aronovic* Gene Rick Foucheux* Lenora Aakhu Freeman* Alison Deborah Hazlett* Uneeq Lolita-Marie

Artistic & Production Team
Scenic Designer Luciana Stecconi Lighting Designer Jason Arnold** Costume Designer Frank Labovitz Sound Designer Veronika Vorel** Properties Designer Michelle Elwyn Production Stage Manager Roy A. Gross* Assistant Director David Conison Assistant Stage Manager Jill Berman Scenic Artist Amy Kellett Head Electrician Garth Dolan Sound Operator Daniel Risner Lighting Operator Stephanie P. Freed Dramaturgical Consultant Deryl Davis Casting Director Naomi Robin
The play will be performed without an intermission
Produced through special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc. The script to this play may be purchased from B P P I at BroadwayPlayPubl.com

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association ** Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 + Stage Directors and Choreographers Society

Theater J would like to extend special thanks to Roz and Don Cohen, Chuck Fox of Arena Stage, Maureen Karl and the Arlington County Library, Burton Wides, Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American, David Streeter of National Jewish Democratic Council, Aurora Hill branch of Arlington County Library and Dan Murch of Cayenne Creative
Something You Did was originally commissioned by Center Stage (Irene Lewis, Artistic Director) in Baltimore. It premiered at People’s Light and Theater Company in Malvern, PA, directed by Abigail Adams. It opened in New York in April, 2008, produced by Primary Stages in association with Nancy Cooperstein and Betty Ann Besch Solinger.

Patrons are requested to turn off pagers, cellular phones and signal watches during performances. Please do not text message during the performance. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in this auditorium.

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Theater J’s Angels Generous support for SOMETHING YOU DID provided by
Evelyn Sandground & Bill Perkins

The Fisher Family Visiting Artists Program
Robert M. Fisher Memorial Foundation Arlene & Robert Kogod

The Arlene and Robert Kogod New Play Development Program Theater J’s Passports Educational Program
The Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation

Theater J Council
Marion Ein Lewin Co-Chair Paul Mason Co-Chair Lois Fingerhut Vice-Chair Mara Bralove Treasurer Ellen Malasky Secretary Natalie Abrams Patty Abramson Michele G. Berman Deborah Carliner Mimi Conway Myrna Fawcett Ann Gilbert Cheryl Gorelick Carolyn Kaplan Yoav Lurie Amelia S. Mattler Jack Moskowitz Elaine Reuben Evelyn Sandground Hank Schlosberg Andy Shallal Patti Sowalsky Stephen Stern Manny Strauss Barbara Tempchin Trish Vradenburg Joan Wessel Rosa Wiener Irene Wortzel Margot Zimmerman

Washington DCJCC Leadership
President Mindy Strelitz Chief Executive Officer Arna Meyer Mickelson Chief Operating Officer Margaret Hahn Stern Chief Financial Officer Judith Ianuale Chief Development Officer Mark Spira Chief Programming Officer Joshua Ford

Books for Prisons
In partnership with the Washington DCJCC Morris Cafritz Center for Community Service, Theater J invites audience members to bring in books to donate to local prison libraries through the DC Books for Prisons Project. The DC Books for Prisons Project provides a critical link between citizens who are incarcerated and those outside prison walls by sending donated reading material to prisoners and educating the public about issues surrounding prisoner education and literacy. Needed Donations Include: •Dictionaries (English, Spanish-English by far most popular request) •Atlases and almanacs •Learning a language (especially Spanish) •How-to (especially woodworking, plumbing, gardening, car mechanics, motor repair) Books can be used or new. All books must be paperback copies!

Book-collection boxes will be located in the 16th Street Lobby from August 31–October 3
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From The Playwright
Think back to a time when protestors daily filled the streets; when bizarrely dressed activists denounced government officials in extreme and offensive ways; when Saul Alinsky provided the road map for militant grassroots organizing. Now ask yourself this: when you think of that time, who is in the White House, Richard Nixon or Barack Obama? Something You Did takes aim at the paradoxical nature of American political life. It is inspired by real events, namely the parole appeal of one-time Weather Underground extremist Kathy Boudin, who was an accomplice in an armored car robbery that left three men dead, incluing an African-American police officer. Boudin’s release after more than 20 Willy Holtzman years in prison drew the fury of the PBA (Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association) and the political right, yet no critic was more corrosive than former radical turned outspoken neo-conservative, David Horowitz. Horowitz was quick to label Boudin a terrorist and equate her with “Islamofascists.” But he was not without his own moral baggage, having possibly contributed to the death of his colleague Betty van Patter through a misguided association with the Oakland Black Panthers. Sportswriters dream about contests that never were - Ali versus Marciano, the 1917 White Sox versus the 1961 Yankees. Playwrights are driven to draw unacquainted antagonists into a common dramatic arena. Something You Did is about the collision of the ‘60s New Left and the post-9/11 New Right, lately known as the Tea Party. It asks whether the radical sins of the past can be forgiven even as the reactionary sins of the present multiply. So why have I fictionalized a story based on public figures? Because as Emerson famously said, “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” This play is not merely the literal stuff of polemics and political pundits. It is meant to go to the very core of who we are as a people. In a truly personal way it asks whether we are victims of terror, perpetrators, or both? I am a child of the ‘60s and these are the questions that compelled me to write this play. I’m not interested in some nostalgic romanticization of the past or, for that matter, a facile denunciation of it. I’m interested in the way the past reaches into the present - the way a Presidential candidate can be excoriated for seemingly casual contact with a reformed self-confessed bomber. Is the past a contagion to be eradicated at all costs? Is it a kind of moral Mobius strip that loops back on itself in a continuum of political reversal? Or, as Bob Dylan put it somewhat prophetically in Subterranean Homesick Blues, is it simply history repeating itself? Look out, kid/It’s somethin’ you did God knows when/But you’re doin’ it again....

An iconic SNCC poster, based on a photograph by Danny Lyon

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Dramaturgy

Who is Alison Moulton?
Something You Did introduces us to the fictional protagonist Alison Moulton, a character with a number of non-fictional ties. The play suggests that Alison was a member of a radical left-wing organization that emerged in the late-1960s; a group we immediately identify as the Weathermen. The Weathermen initially formed as a splinter group of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). Founded in late 1959, the SDS had strong involvement in the civil rights movement. SDS was initially guided by the Port Huron Statement, a political manifesto that laid out a philosophy for post-Vietnam America. As US involvement in Vietnam grew, so too did SDS membership. By April of 1965, SDS was able to organize a march on Washington, DC, beginning a more militant phase in the organization’s history which included taking over college campuses and occupying administration buildings of schools across the country. As the war continued on, more and more groups splintered away from the SDS, until its dissolution in the mid-1970s. The most infamous offshoot of the SDS became known as the Weathermen. The Weathermen first came to prominence at a 1968 SDS meeting where a pamphlet (written by Weathermen founders Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, and John Jacobs) entitled “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” (quoting Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues) called for radical revolution in line with The Black Panthers. The culmination of this early phase were the Days of Rage riots, a four-day, violent demonstration that coincided with the trial of The Chicago 7. The increasing internal splintering of the SDS allowed Dohrn to lead an overt takeover in 1969. The Weathermen became the effective leaders of the SDS, with all official SDS propaganda and literature promoting the Weathermen agenda. In late 1969, the Weathermen held the last SDS “National Council” meeting where they discussed how to organize cells, what it meant to go underground and terrorist protest tactics. The Weathermen hoped to organize semi-autonomous cells under a central leadership in almost every major city. In actuality, only a few cells were effective, with New York City (led by John Jacobs and Terry Robbins) comprising the largest numbers.
The cover of an organizing pamphlet for SDS, 1969

In March 1970, a nail bomb blew up a Greenwich Village town house being used as a Weathermen safe house. The blast killed several members of the NYC leadership, including Terry Robbins. Robbins’ girlfriend, Cathy Wilkerson, and fellow Weatherman Kathy Boudin escaped the blast. Though the incident hurt morale within the group, The Weathermen endured and the remaining members decided to go underground. Now the Weather Underground, followers assumed fake identities.
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Firemen contain a blaze caused by an accidental bomb detonation at a Weathermen hideout in Greenwich Village

About the Dramaturgy Artists
As the Weather Underground, the group embarked on a series of bombings. People were not targeted; rather warnings were issued shortly before each blast in order to eliminate casualties. Notable bombing targets included The Pentagon and NYC Police Headquarters. As the fervor of the anti-war movement died down towards the end of the 1970s, many members came out from underground and surrendered to the authorities. The remaining few continued to attack targets through the early 1980s, one of which resulted in the arrest of Alison Moulten’s closest true-life parallel, Kathy Boudin. Kathy Boudin was born in 1943 to a wealthy family in Manhattan, with a history of leftist politics. Her father was lawyer Leonard Boudin, known for representing figures like Fidel Castro, Paul Robeson, and a number of those subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Boudin was actively involved in the Weathermen from the beginning. She was one of the only survivors of the Greenwich Village town house explosion, and while awaiting trial she fled underground. In 1981 Boudin and several members of the Weather Underground and the Black A 1970 FBI wanted poster seeking Bill Ayers, Panthers planned and executed Kathy Boudin, Judith Clark, and Bernadine Dohrn a robbery of a Brinks armored car in Rockland County, New York. The robbery was botched, resulting in the death of three men: a security guard and two police officers. Boudin was apprehended as she fled. At her trial, lawyer Leonard Weinglass (who worked for Leonard Boudin) managed to get a plea bargain that sentenced Boudin twenty years to life. At her third parole board hearing, in August, 2003, Boudin was asked to reflect on the ways in which prison had changed her. The following is excerpted from her response. “It’s hard to face the suffering when you’re responsible for people’s death. I first got myself on my feet in here, and then after I felt a little time had gone by, I wanted to face it. I wanted to read the newspapers and know what I was responsible for. I wanted to meet people who had suffered because of what I had done. I had the fortunate experience of meeting one of the women that was the victim of the crime…and the experience of meeting with her was the beginning of my hearing her on a personal level of what it was like to be in a robbery and what it meant…And I tried to imagine what it was like the morning that Patrick Paige left and said goodbye to his wife, and then he’s just doing his job and a robbery happens and he’s killed. And I just felt that I will always live with that responsibility. And also that this 22 years, and I feel that remorse has also given me hope that I don’t have to be frozen in that past, that by feeling the remorse that I feel it allowed me to change and that I have a dream of being able to go home and take the really hard lesson and be able to work at home and do things and just be a normal hard working person. Thank you.” Boudin served 23 years. In 2003, she successfully achieved parole.
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About the Artists
Norman Aronovic (Arthur) Most recently appeared at Gala Hispanic Theatre in Beauty of the Father. At the Ford’s Theatre grand re-opening he was seen as the abolitionist John Brown in The Heavens Are Hung In Black. He appeared at The Olney Theatre Center as Rabbi Verble in King of the Jews and at the Shakespeare Theatre Company he was part of the Ensemble in the Helen Hayes Award winning production of King Lear, directed by Robert Falls and starring Stacy Keach. Here at Theater J he was seen in Pangs of the Messiah and David in Shadow and Light, and at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company as Lenny in Billy Nobody. On the west coast he portrayed Mark in Deep Eyes at the Los Angeles Theatre Center and at Theatre Geo in Hollywood as the Director in Intermission. For L.A. Theatre Works he recorded the Telephone Repairman in Barefoot in the Park and at the Laguna Beach Playhouse appeared in Breakfast with Les and Bess. Norman has appeared in the films The Pelican Brief and Species 2. He has also appeared on television in episodes of The Wire, Homicide, Unsolved Mysteries and A Man Called Hawk. Rick Foucheux (Gene) returns to Theater J with much excitement as an Associate Artist-in-Residence. He will also appear this season in The Odd Couple and in The Chosen, adapted and directed by Aaron Posner in Theater J’s guest company residency at Arena Stage. Rick has been performing in Washington’s vibrant theatre scene for 26 years. His previous appearances with Theater J include Ari Roth’s Born Guilty, Peter and the Wolf and Talley’s Folly, for which he received a Helen Hayes Award nomination. He also performed in Theater J’s co-production of Homebody/Kabul with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. In 2008, Rick appeared as Willy Loman in Arena Stage’s revival of Death of A Salesman, and he was recently featured there in R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (And Mystery) of the Universe. Rick played Mr. Van Daan in Roundhouse Theatre’s The Diary of Anne Frank, Erie Smith in Hughie at the Washington Stage Guild, Sir Toby in the Shakespeare Theatre’s Twelfth Night, the title role in Folger Theatre’s I Henry IV, and Stephen Douglas in last season’s The Rivalry at Ford’s Theatre. He also appeared at New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre in their 2009 hit revival of The Emperor Jones. Rick received the Helen Hayes Outstanding Lead Actor Award in 2000 for Edmond at Source Theatre and in 2006 for Take Me Out at The Studio Theatre. Aakhu Freeman (Lenora) appeared recently in Much Ado About Nothing at the Folger Theatre with Timothy Douglas as director and The Soul Collector at Everyman Theatre with Jennifer Nelson as director. Other credits include Insurrection: Holding History and The Bluest Eye at Theatre Alliance, directed by Timothy Douglas and David Muse, respectively; Our Lady of 121st Street at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, directed by John Vreeke; The Amen Corner at ACTCo, directed by Darryl V. Jones; Fences at Everyman Theatre, directed by Jennifer Nelson; The Great White Hope and All My Sons with M. Emmett Walsh at Arena Stage, directed by Molly Smith and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Kennedy Center, directed by Mark Lamos. She also appeared in the film Talk To Me and the Showtime special presentation Middle Passage -NRoots. Ms. Freeman holds a BFA from Howard University, and an MA from American University. Deborah Hazlett (Alison) has appeared in Bug at Syracuse Stage, Frozen at Playmaker’s Repertory Theatre and Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre. At Florida Stage, she appeared in The Count and Mezzulah 1946. She has been in eight productions at The Shakespeare Theatre Company, including Henry IV Parts I and II, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night and Macbeth. At Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, she performed in the US premeire of Bug. Ms. Hazlett appeared in Crave and The Blue Room at Signature Theatre. She recently received a Helen Hayes nomination for Best Ensemble for Rabbit Hole at Olney Theatre Center. At Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre, she has appeared in Much Ado About Nothing, Sight Unseen, Betrayal, Candida, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler, Sideman, Proof, and The Pavilion, as well as A Delicate Balance, Watch on the Rhine, The Crucible, The Road to Mecca, Voir Dire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She was in Arcadia at Rep Stage, and at Totem Pole Playhouse she appeared in Crimes of the Heart, Proof, and Sylvia. Ms. Hazlett’s 7

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film and television credits include Law and Order, Homicide, and Young Americans. She earned her MFA at the Univesity of South Carolina, and narrates books for Harper Collins and BBC America. Lolita-Marie (Uneeq) is thrilled to be making her debut with Theater J! Recent credits include Blues for an Alabama Sky with Angelisa Gillyard as director for African Continuum Theatre; The Vagina Monologues with Grace Overbeke, Christie Walser, and Rayona Young as directors at Silver Spring Stage; The Constellation with Jessica Burgess as director at Active Cultures Theatre; Raisin in the Sun with Richelle Howie as director at Tantallon Players and Doubt with Gloria Dugan as director for Elden Street Players. Lolita has appeared in the film Too Saved (Shuaib Mitchell, director). Lolita holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from Howard University. For a full resume, visit www.lolitamarie.com. Lolita-Marie thanks God for his continual blessings and her family and friends for their love and support! Willy Holtzman (Playwright) Plays include The Morini Strad (PlayPenn, Perry-Mansfield New Play Festival, regional premiere this fall at City Theatre Company), The Real McGonagall (New Harmony Project Walt Wangerin Fellowship, regional premiere this season at Portland Stage), Something You Did (Primary Stages, People’s Light and Theatre), Sabina (Primary Stages, New Jewish Theatre, Portland Stage Little Festival), Hearts (People’s Light and Theatre, Asolo Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Alliance Theatre, New Jewish Theatre, Barrymore Award, Arthur Miller Award, Smith and Kraus Best New Plays), Bovver Boys (Primary Stages, Cleveland Play House, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Curtain Theatre), The Closer ( GeVa Theatre - Davie Award, Working Theatre), Inside Out (Theatre for a New Audience, Portland Stage, Nebraska Rep), Blanco (book, Goodspeed Opera House), San Antonio Sunset (New York, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Bombay; Best Short Plays) and White Trash (West Bank Downstairs Cabaret). For film and television he has written Edge of America (Peabody Award, Humanitas Prize, Writers Guild Award, Sundance Film Festival Opening Night 2004), Voices in Conflict (Emmy Nomination), Blood Brothers (HBO, Cine Golden Eagle Award). Willy received the HBO Award at the National Playwrights Conference. He was a Lila Wallace resident playwright at Juilliard, and he serves on the board of directors at New Dramatists and Harlem Stage Company. Eleanor Holdridge (Director) Off-Broadway productions include Steve & Idi by David Grimm at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Cycling Past The Matterhorn at the Clurman Theatre, The Imaginary Invalid and Mary Stuart at the Pearl Theatre Company. Among her regional productions are Gee’s Bend (the Arden Theatre), The Crucible and Much Ado About Nothing (Perseverance Theatre); Noises Off, Art and The Blond, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead (Triad Stage); Julius Caesar and Macbeth (Milwaukee Shakespeare); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Hamlet (premiere, national tour and remount) and As You Like It, Lettice And Lovage, The Tempest and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare & Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis); Henry V (Shakespeare On The Sound); The Taming Of The Shrew and The Tempest (Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival); Betrayal (Portland Stage Company); The Lion In Winter (Northern Stage); and The Cenci and The Two Noble Kinsmen (Red Heel Theatre Company). In the past, she has held positions as Artistic Director for the Red Heel Theatre Company, Resident Assistant Director at the Shakespeare Theatre and Resident Director at New Dramatists. She has directed and taught students at the Yale School of Drama, NYU’s graduate program and the Juilliard School, among others, and just moved to DC as Head of the Directing Program at The Catholic University of America. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. Luciana Stecconi (Scenic Designer) is a set designer and scenic artist currently based in the Washington DC metro area. Recently she designed the set for Zero Hour at Theater J; In The Red and Brown Water, The Year of Magical Thinking, Stoop Stories, Amnesia Curiosa (created and performed by rainpan43), Souvenir, and Lypsinka: The Passion of the Crawford at The Studio Theatre. She also designed A Beautiful View, All That I Will Ever Be, Crestfall, That Face and 60 miles to Silver Lake for The Studio 2ndStage. Other credits include Wandering Alice (cre8

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ated and performed by Nichole Canuso Dance Company in Philadelphia), The Two Orphans and Scenes From An Execution for the Brandeis Theatre Company. Luciana holds an MFA in Set Design and Painting from Brandeis University. She is the recipient of the 2006 Ira Gershwin prize, and was named the 2010 Outstanding Emerging Artist at the Mayor’s Arts Awards. Jason Arnold (Lighting Designer) Previous designs for Theater J include Zero Hour, Honey Brown Eyes, Sandra Bernhard’s Without You I’m Nothing, The Price, Family Secrets, A Bad Friend, Oh the Innocents and Talley’s Folly. Other lighting design credits include Resurrection (Philadelphia Theatre Company, Hartford Stage), Emergence-See! (Arena Stage), The Neverending Story, The Jungle Book, Junie B. Jones, Seussical and Bunnicula (Imagination Stage) and Intelligence, The Santaland Diaries, A Shayna Maidel and Mrs. Farnsworth (Rep Stage). Jason teaches at American University. Frank Labovitz (Costume Designer) is pleased to be working once again with the wonderful people at Theater J, where he has previously designed Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears and the staged readings of Shlemiel the First and Shylock. He has designed costumes for many area theatres including Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The Olney Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Second Stage, Imagination Stage, Rorschach Theatre, Theater Alliance, Catalyst Theater, The National Players and The Potomac Theatre Project. Frank received an MFA from The University of Maryland. Veronika Vorel (Sound Designer) has designed Mikveh at Theater J; Full Circle, Eclipsed and Fever/Dream at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Black Pearl Sings! at Ford’s Theatre; The Way of the World at the Shakespeare Theatre Company; Alice at Round House Theatre; Arcadia and Henry IV Part One at Folger Theatre and The Bread of Winter at Theatre Alliance. Regionally, she designed Anything Goes at the Kansas City Starlight Theatre; Boleros For the Disenchanted at the Yale Repertory Theatre and Peer Gynt and Titus Andronicus at the Yale School of Drama. She was a member of the Sound Design Staff for West Side Story on Broadway and at the National Theatre. Ms. Vorel received her training at the Prague Conservatory of Music, California Institute of the Arts and the Yale School of Drama. She garnered three Helen Hayes Award nominations for her work in the 2009 season. Michelle Elwyn (Properties Designer) designed the properties for Theater J’s Mikveh, Lost in Yonkers, The Accident, The Seagull on 16th Street, Honey Brown Eyes, David In Shadow and Light, Speed the Plow, Pangs of the Messiah, Either Or, Sleeping Arrangements, Picasso’s Closet and The Disputation. Other props design projects include: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Permanent Collection, Camille and A Prayer for Owen Meany at Round House Theatre; Arcadia, A Winter’s Tale, Henry IV Part I, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Measure for Measure at Folger Theatre; Two-Bit Taj Mahal at Theater of the First Amendment; Meet John Doe, Jitney at Ford’s Theatre; Assassins at Signature Theatre; Afterplay, The Life of Galileo; The Shape of Things, Privates on Parade and Hambone at The Studio Theatre. She has also co-designed stage sets for Marsha Norman’s Getting Out at Florida Studio Theatre and the Ringling Museum of Art’s Medieval Fair. David Conison (Assistant Director/Dramaturg) is the co-founder and director of La Rinascita, an international theater ensemble that creates original, experimental works for the stage. With La Rinascita, David co-wrote and directed The Fugitives which played DC (Capitol Hill Arts Workshop), Prague (Divadlo na Pradle), and Chicago (Dream Theater). David and La Rinascita were selected as artists in residence for Montana Artists Refuge from October to December 2010, where they will create and premiere new work. David holds a BA from American University and has studied with Dell’Arte School of Physical Theater (Blue Lake, CA) and at the LaMaMa E.T.C. Director’s Symposium (Umbria, IT). For more information, visit him at www. LaRinascitaTheatre.com Roy A. Gross (Stage Manager) recently was the stage-manager for Theater J’s New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza. He has worked as a producer, production manager, stage manager, and writer in the DC metro area for ten years. A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, he serves as a member of the DC/Baltimore AEA Liaison Committee and the regional campaign coordinator for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Roy had 9

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the privilege of stage managing Tribute Productions’ Beyond Glory, bringing the piece to the US Military around the world as part of Operation Homecoming, a program jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Defense. Roy is the recipient of a US Army Southern European Task Force Scroll of Appreciation, US Army 282nd Base Support Battalion Scroll of Appreciation, and a League of Washington Theatres Offstage Honor Award. Currently Roy is the Executive Director of Artists’ Bloc, an organization that presents the developing performing art work of over 40 creating artists each year. Ari Roth (Artistic Director) is beginning his 14th season as Artistic Director at Theater J where, together with a dedicated staff, he has produced 93 full productions, including 33 English language world premieres, and many more workshop presentations. Also a playwright, Mr. Roth has seen his work produced across the country, as well as at Theater J, where productions include Goodnight Irene, Life In Refusal, Love & Yearning in the Not-for-Profits, Oh, The Innocents, and a repertory production of Born Guilty, originally commissioned and produced by Arena Stage, based on the book by Peter Sichrovsky, together with its sequel, The Wolf in Peter (a fused version of both plays will be presented October 17, 2010 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage by the Epic Theatre Ensemble, featuring Rick Foucheux). His adaptations include The Seagull on 16th Street, Still Waiting (companion to Waiting for Lefty); Remaking a Melting Pot; the American adaptation of Hillel Mitelpunkt’s The Accident, and his current Ali Salem Rides Again, based on Ali Salem’s travel memoir, A Drive To Israel: An Egyptian Meets His Neighbor. His plays have been nominated for five Helen Hayes Awards, including Best Resident Production and two Charles A. MacArthur Awards. He is a 1998 and 2003 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts playwriting grant, three-time winner of the Helen Eisner Award, two-time winner of the Avery Hopwood, four-time recipient of commissions from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and recipient of the Myrtle Wreath Award from Hadassah. He was recently named one of The Forward 50, a recognition from The Forward newspaper honoring fifty nationally prominent “men and women who are leading the American Jewish community into the 21st century.” He has taught for the University of Michigan for 14 years, currently for their “Michigan in DC” program, as well as for Brandeis, NYU and Carnegie Mellon Universities. Patricia Jenson (Managing Director) is pleased to be in her eighth season with Theater J. After over 500 performances as an actress in Minnesota, her second career has her overseeing personnel, budgets, ticket services, fundraising and council relations. She graduated with a degree in both Theater and Economics from The George Washington University and interned with Arena Stage. In 2008 she received the Washington DCJCC’s Lynn Skolnick Sachs Award for Program Excellence.

Theater J Staff
Artistic Director Ari Roth Managing Director Patricia Jenson Production Manager Delia Taylor Director of Marketing and Communications Grace Overbeke Marketing & Group Sales Associate Becky Peters Director of Literary & Public Programs Shirley Serotsky Director of Patron Services Tara Brady Development Associate Gavi Young Casting Director Naomi Robin Technical Director Tom Howley Master Carpenter Ellen Houseknecht MCCA Associate Technical Director Daniel Risner Construction & Load-in Crew Antonio Bullock, Ellen Houseknecht, Tad Howley, Kevin Laughon, Cathryn Salisbury-Valerien and Adam Wyron Front of House Raha Behnam, Bonnie Berger, Elizabeth Heir, Katherine McCann and Hadiya Rice For a full list of Theater J staff bios, visit theaterj.org and click on “About Us”

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PLE D COU n D 28 THE Oeil Simo ovember The Annual Arthur Tracy By N ber 23–N “The Street Singer” o Oct Endowment Production
Directed by Jerry Whiddon Featuring Rick Foucheux and J. Fred Shiffman With Lise Bruneau, Marcus Kyd, Paul Morella, Helen Pafumi, Jefferson Russell and Michael Willis.

BUDDIES BANTER BELLY-LAUGHS

SENSATIONAL SUBVERSIVE

THE O KIN Dece Y VEY I SEY SI mbe N A M CKS I r 18 ANG N –Jan ER uary SASSY 2

“If Dame Edna somehow mated with the Bobs, their offspring might resemble The Kinsey Sicks, a San Francisco-based drag quartet that apparently has never encountered a tune it couldn’t twist and bend to suit its own wickedly amusing purposes” - The Washington Post

RE EAT I TH VIV ER FA n AM L A E C OF TE ENTS HAI az Gao TH S TO o PRE

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Directed by Sinai Peter Adapted by Boaz Gaon from the novella by Ghassan Kanafani

HISTORY HOME HUMANITY

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Performed in Hebrew with English sur-titles.

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WASHINGTON DCJCC PARKING LOT Limited parking available. COLONIAL PARKING 1616 P Street between 16th & 17th Streets, just 2 blocks away!

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Additional Programming for SOMETHING YOU DID
Theater J is dedicated to taking its dialogues beyond the stage, offering an array of innovative public discussion forums and outreach programs which explore the theatrical, psychological and social elements of our art. Discussions take place weekly, following Sunday matinees and other selected evenings. All topics, panelists and dates are subject to change. For additional discussions, names of panelists, and updates, please visit theaterj.org.

Saturday, August 28, 9:30 pm: Post-Preview Talkback Sunday, August 29, 9:00 pm: Talkback with the Playwright and Creative Team Sunday, September 5, 4:30 pm: Our new Intercultural forum, Scripture Unscripted: Clerical Perspectives on Protest & Punishment, Prisons & Parole Sunday, September 12, 4:30 pm: How the 1960s Changed the World 9:00 pm: When Protest Comes to Shove: How Far is Too Far? Thursday, September 16, 9:00 pm: Cast Talkback Sunday, September 19, 4:30 pm: Switching Sides: Neo-Conservatism and the Journey of Gene Biddle Sunday, September 26, 4:30 pm: Protest Movements and the Internet: Political Activism Yesterday and Today Tuesday, September 28, 9:00 pm: Peace Café: Defining Terrorism

The Return of the 5 X 5: Playwrights respond to SOMETHING YOU DID
Sunday, October 3 at 4:30 pm: Scenes from “After the Revolution”
Theater J invites local playwrights to respond to the pertinent issues of smear politics, 1960s revisionism, the desire to rejoin society, and the anti-war movement, as dramatized by Something You Did. Playwrights are asked to attend a performance, then write a five minute play inspired by the show. Five of these plays will be chosen to be read by professional actors following the October 3 matinee of Something You Did. The deadline for play submission is Friday, September 15, 2010. Plays can be submitted via email to [email protected]. Call (202) 777-3228 or email for more information.

Upcoming Readings
On selected weekday afternoons, professional actors read the best new work emerging from the Arlene and Robert Kogod New Play Development Program in an intimate setting with tea and cookies. All readings are $5.

Monday, September 27 at 2:00 pm

HAYMARKET By Zayd Dohrn
The true story of the terrorist bombing that rocked the city of Chicago in the summer of 1886. The play begins moments after the dynamite is thrown, and follows the lives of anarchists, policemen, elected officials, and ordinary citizens in the aftermath of tragedy and through the first “red scare” in American history.
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Join us for more readings in the fall! All dates and times posted at theaterj.org

Save The Date: One Night Only!
Join us on Monday, February 28, 2011 for a benefit performance of

Neil Simon’s THE SUNSHINE BOYS
Starring Theodore Bikel
of SHOLOM ALEICHEM:

LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS

Currently on tour in Europe and across the US!

Jim Brochu
of ZERO HOUR Now Off-Broadway at the DR2!

With an All-Star DC Supporting Cast!

Directed by Derek Goldman

Early-bird Special: Save 20% on tickets before December 1 Tickets are on sale now at (202) 777-3225 or theaterj.org
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Theater J is, at its core, a playwrights’ theater and as such, we have named our giving levels in honor of Jewish playwrights and two of their director/producers. We gratefully acknowledge the following generous donors who gave during the 2010 fiscal year and allowed us to meet our 2009/2010 season budget. We also gratefully acknowledge those who have given since July 1, 2010 towards our 2011 fiscal year (as indicated by a carrot ‘^’). We ask our many long-time supporters and new friends of the theater to join them in underwriting this exciting season. (This list is current as of August 11, 2010.)
Executive Producing Show Sponsor ($25,000 and above) The Robert M. Fisher Memorial Foundation^ The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington^ The Shubert Foundation The National Endowment for the Arts Wendy Wasserstein Grand Angel ($15,000 - $24,999) Arlene & Robert Kogod Charlotte & Hank Schlosberg Patti & Jerry Sowalsky^ The George Wasserman Family Foundation Harold Clurman Champion Angel ($10,000 - $14,999) Carolyn & Warren Kaplan The Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation Trish & George Vradenburg Irene & Alan Wurtzel Tony Kushner Collaborating Angel ($7,500 - $9,999) Deborah Carliner & Robert Remes^ The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Jacqueline & Marc Leland Evelyn Sandground & Bill Perkins Ellen & Bernard Young Joseph Papp Producing Angel ($5,000 - $7,499) Patty Abramson & Les Silverman Esthy & James Adler American Jewish World Service The Family of H. Max & Josephine F. Ammerman and Andrew Ammerman Ryna, Mel, Marcella & Neil Cohen Lois & Richard England Lois & Michael Fingerhut Cheryl Gorelick Hamilton Street Family Foundation G. Scott Hong Barbara & Jack Kay Judy & Peter Kovler Marion & Larry Lewin The Omega Foundation Rosa Wiener Judy & Leo Zickler^ Lillian Hellman Supporting Angel ($2,500 - $4,999) Natalie & Paul Abrams Michele & Allan Berman Embassy of Israel Myrna Fawcett Lisa Fuentes & Tom Cohen^ Betsy Karmin & Manny Strauss Sandra & Arnold Leibowitz Zena & Paul Mason Faye & Jack Moskowitz Al Munzer & Joel Wind Diane & Arnold Polinger Elaine Reuben Loretta Rosenthal Joan Wessel Betty L. Ustun^ Beverly Walcoff Anthony & Janet Walters Diane Abelman Wattenberg

Friends Of Theater J

Arthur Miller Mentor ($1,500 - $2,499) Susan & Dixon Butler Ruth & Mortimer Caplin Mimi Conway & Dennis Houlihan Barbara Kurshan Chaya & Walter Roth Marjan & Andy Shallal^ Victor Shargai Margot & Paul Zimmerman David Mamet Muse ($1,000 - $1,499) Agatha & Laurence Aurbach Mara Bralove & Ari Fisher Jane & Charlie Fink Ann & Frank Gilbert Marjory Goldman Shoshana & Peter Grove Ira Hillman & Jeremy Barber Rachel Jacobson & Eric Olsen Rona & Allan Mendelsohn Melanie Franco Nussdorf & Lawrence Nussdorf Toby Port Hillary & Jonathan Reinis Margaret Hahn Stern & Stephen Stern Saul Stern* Neil Simon Stage Benefactor ($500 - $999) Margery Cunningham Miriam J. Cutler & Paul Saldit Steven des Jardins^ Barbara & Samuel Dyer Robert Eager Ina Ginsburg^ Frances Goldman Paula Siegle Goldman Michael Gottesman Meliha & Joshua Halpern Edith & Arthur Hessel Rosalyn & Gary Jonas Dianne & Herbert Lerner Amelia & Mike Mattler Jeff Menick Trudy & Gary Peterson^ Shira Piven & Adam McKay Tina & Albert Small Jr. Marsha E. Swiss & Ronald M. Costell Barbara & Stanley Tempchin Francine Zorn Trachtenberg & Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

Sholom Asch Admirer ($350 - $499) Richard Arndt Bonnie & Jere Broh-Kahn Brenda Gruss & Daniel Hirsch Deborah Lerner Cohen & Edward Cohen Eugene Herman Estelle & Irving Jacobs Cookie Kerxton Dana & Ray Koch Iris & Michael Lav^ Yoav Lurie Ellen & Gary Malasky^ Michelle Sender Suzan & Ronald Wynne Paddy Chayefsky Champion ($175 - $349) Anonymous Rabbi & Babs Abramowitz Cecily Baskir & John Freedman Goldie Blumenstyk^ Susan & Steven Bralove Beth Chai - Greater Washington Jewish Humanist Congregation Mady Chalk Rosalind & Donald Cohen* Edward Collins David Culp Susan & George Driesen Alison Drucker & Thomas Holzman Susan & Jay Finkelstein Debra Goldberg & Seth Waxman Jeanette & Leonard Goodstein Martha Winter Gross & Robert Tracy Elizabeth Grossman & Joshua Boorstein Ritalou Harris Lauren & Glen Howard Julie Jacobson Rebecca Klemm Nal Krucoff^ Michael Lang Arthur Le Van Joy Lerner & Stephen Kelin Freddi Lipstein & Scott Berg Pat & Larry Mann Tina Martin & Mita Schaffer^ Caroline & Michael Mindel Janice & Andy Molchon Sue Morss^ Undine & Carl Nash Louisa Foulke Newlin & William Newlin Muriel Miller Pear

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Friends Of Theater J Continued
Barbara Rappaport^ Erica & Doug Rosenthal Faye & Norman Seltzer Beverly & Harlan Sherwat Susan Talarico John Tolleris Debby & Donald Tracy In memory of Marjory Hecht Watson Marjorie & Allan Weingold^ Linda Winograd Carolyn & William Wolfe Ellen Wormser Richard Young Ben Hecht Booster ($75 - $174) Anonymous Patricia Andringa Leslie Barr Rosalyn Bass & James Greene Byrna Bell Sharon Bernier^ Sue Boley Andrea Boyarsky-Maisel Edith Bralove David Cantor Wallace Chandler^ Timothy Christensen Margaret Sohn & Harvey Cohen^ David Connick Hellen Darling & Brad Gray^ Leona & Donald Drazin Peter & Shelley Dreifuss^ Kenneth Dreyfuss Gitta Fajerstein Anne & Al Fishman^ Ruth & Barry Fishman Richard Frankel Linda & Jay Freedman Renee Gier^ Stacie & Bruce Goffin F. Goldsman Morton Goren^ Hilton Graham Wendy Gray & Steven Pearlstein Judith & Albert Grollman Merna & Joseph Guttentag Cindy Hallberlin & Joel Kanter Faye & Aaron Hillman Linda & Steven Hirsch Ann Hoffman Robert Honeygosky Lorna Jaffe Sarah Kagan Helene & Allan Kahan^ Pamela Kahn Jean & Robert Kapp Phyllis Kline & Norman Lord Dana & Ray Koch^ Ellen Kolansky Adrienne Kohn & Garry Grossman Nancy Korman Beth Kramer^ William Kreisberg Martin Krubit Michael Lewis^ Hannah & Tim Lipman^ David Lipton Marjory & Sheldon London Madeline & Gerald Malovany* Marlene & Ken Markison Lynne Martin

Johana McCarthy John McGraw Gloria Meade Thomas Merrick Steven Metalitz Neil Miller Nancy & Richard Millstein Mona & Leonard Mitnick Dorothy Moss & Larry Meyer^ David & Margaret Nalle Tena Nauheim & David Harrison^ Joan Nathan & Allan Gerson Stephanie Paul Dori Phaff & Dan Raviv Suzy Platt Nikki & Michael Rabbino Ellen Miles Ratner & Phillip Ratner Joan & Ludwig Rudel^ Leona & Jerrold Schecter Diane Schroth Rochelle & Richard Schwab Steve Shapiro Arlene Farber Sirkin & Stuart Sirkin Janet Solinger Kathy Sreedhar Sandy Stern Sandra Stewart Helen & Jonathan Sunshine Elizabeth & Joel Ticknor Stephanie & Fernando van Reigersberg Virginia & James Vitarello* Jonathan Waxman Leslie H. Weisman Stephen Werner^ Phyllis & John Wimberly

Washington DCJCC Donors
$100,000 + Ann Loeb Bronfman The Robert M. Fisher Memorial Foundation The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington $50,000 - $99,999 The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation DC Office on Aging Melanie Franco Nussdorf & Lawrence Nussdorf Howard & Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation ServeDC - The Mayor’s Office on Volunteerism David Bruce Smith United Jewish Endowment Fund $25,000 - $49,999 Jamie & Joseph A. Baldinger Diane & Norman Bernstein DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Louie & Ralph Dweck

The Washington DCJCC wishes to thank all those who made contributions to the 16th Street J to help support our programs during the 2010 fiscal year (July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010). Your support has been invaluable in allowing us to create and sustain programs of excellence throughout the year.
Brenda Gruss & Daniel Hirsch Tamara & Harry Handelsman Stuart Kurlander National Endowment for the Arts The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Robert H Smith* Family Foundation Patti & Jerry Sowalsky

Michele & Allan Berman Susie & Kenton Campbell Deborah Carliner & Robert Remes Debra Lerner Cohen & Edward Cohen Lois & Richard England Family Foundation Rena & Michael Gordon Susy & Thomas Kahn $15,000 - $24,999 Judy & Peter Kovler Lisa & Josh Bernstein Thelma & Melvin Lenkin Ryna, Melvin, Marcella & Neil Cohen Marion & Larry Lewin Ginny & Irwin Edlavitch Faye & Jack Moskowitz Susan & Michael Gelman Diane & Arnold Polinger Alexander Greenbaum Deborah & Michael Salzberg Martha Winter Gross & Robert Tracy Rhea Schwartz & Paul Wolff Carolyn & Warren Kaplan The Abe & Kathryn Barbara & Jack Kay Selsky Foundation Arlene & Robert Kogod Francine Zorn Trachtenberg & Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Charlotte & Hank Schlosberg Trish & George Vradenburg Schoenbaum Family Foundation George Wasserman Family Foundation, Inc. Natalie Wexler & James Feldman Carolyn & William Wolfe Irene & Alan Wurtzel $10,000 - $14,999 Judy & Leo Zickler Patty Abramson & Les Silverman Esthy & Jim Adler 16

$5,000 - $9,999 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences American Jewish World Service The Family of H. Max & Josephine F. Ammerman & Andrew Ammerman Melinda Bieber & Norman Pozez Max N. Berry Ann & Donald Brown Naomi & Nehemiah Cohen Foundation Sara Cohen & Norman Rich Rose & Robert Cohen CrossCurrents Foundation The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Embassy of Israel Lois & Richard England Federal Emergency Management Agency Marilyn & Michael Glosserman Cheryl Gorelick Deborah Harmon & Robert Seder G. Scott Hong Humanities Council of Washington,DC William Kreisberg Jacqueline & Marc Leland Joy Lerner & Stephen Kelin Elyse & Jeffrey Linowes Linda Lipsett & Jules Bernstein MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger Linda & Sid Moskowitz Kathy & Thomas Raffa Renay & William Regardie Elaine Reuben Rae Ringel & Amos Hochstein Beth Rubenstein & Evan Markiewicz Lynn & John Sachs Evelyn Sandground & Bill Perkins Emily Schoenbaum Tina & Albert Small Jr. Barbara & Michael Smilow Mindy Strelitz & Andrew Cornblatt Lori & Les Ulanow Joan Wessel Rosa D. Wiener Ellen & Bernard Young Rory & Shelton Zuckerman $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous Rabbi & Babs Abramowitz Natalie & Paul Abrams Amy & Stephen Altman Larry Axelrod Joan & Alan Berman Elizabeth Berry Rita & David Brickman Nicholas Chocas Cyna & Paul Cohen Margery Doppelt & Larry Rothman Exxon Mobil Corporation Myrna Fawcett Lois & Michael Fingerhut Joanne Fungaroli

Washington DCJCC Donors Continued
Marsha Gentner & Joe Berman Debra Goldberg & Seth Waxman The Aaron & Cecile Goldman Foundation Roberta Hantgan Horning Brothers Corporation Betsy Karmin & Manny Strauss Connie & Jay Krupin Barbara Kurshan Susan & Samuel Lehrman Sandra & Arnold Leibowitz Edward Lenkin Geoffrey Mackler Zena & Paul J. Mason Alfred Munzer & Joel Wind PNC Bank Points of Light Institute Posner-Wallace Foundation Toni Ritzenberg Loretta Rosenthal Debra & Jonathan Rutenberg Sandra & Ivan Sabel Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation Sanford Schwartz Sprint Foundation Saul I. Stern* Katherine & Thomas Sullivan Theatre Communications Group, Inc. The Washington Post Company Matthew Watson Diane Abelman Wattenberg Judith & Herbert Weintraub $1,000 - $2,499 Sandy & Clement Alpert American Technion Society Agatha & Laurence Aurbach Dorothy Bennett Linda & Michael Berg Tracy & Adam Bernstein Suanne & Richard Beyda Lynn & Wolf Blitzer Frances & Leonard Burka Susan & Dixon Butler Jane & Calvin Cafritz Ruth & Mortimer Caplin Mimi Conway & Dennis Houlihan Toby Dershowitz Faith Diamond Nava & Mark Ely Diana Engel Gayle & John Engel Laura & Michael Faino Jane & Charlie Fink Susan & Jay Finkelstein Linda & Jay Freedman Geico Philanthropic Foundation Richard Gerber German Embassy Donna & Jon Gerstenfeld Sarah & Bernard Gewirz Cathy & Michael Gildenhorn Carol & Henry Goldberg

Marjory Goldman Paula Seigle Goldman Shoshana & Peter Grove Erwin Gudelsky Istituto Italiano di Cultura Rachel Jacobson and Eric Olsen JCC Association Sally Kaplan Laine & Norton Katz Aviva Kempner Ceceile Klein Linda Klein Bette & William Kramer Lisa Landmeier & Hugo Roell Sandra & Stephen Lachter Dianne & Herbert Lerner The Samuel Levy Family Foundation Steven Lockshin Steven Lustig Ellen & Gary Malasky Peter Mancoll Cathryn & Scot McCulloch Rona & Allan Mendelsohn Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Lindsay & Aaron Miller Patrice & Herbert Miller Shirlee Ornstein Glenna & David Osnos Peggy Parsons Ruth & Stephen Pollak Toby Port Ravsak: The Jewish Community Day School Hillary & Jonathan Reinis Carol Risher Paula & Bruce Robinson Joan & Barry Rosenthal Chaya & Walter Roth Jane Nathan Rothschild Sharon Russ & David Rubin Victor Shargai Michael Singer Ann Sislen Richard Solloway Jane & Daniel Solomon Margaret Hahn Stern & Stephen Stern Marsha E. Swiss & Ronald M. Costell Embassy of Switzerland Tabard Corporation Tikkun Olam Women’s Foundation of Greater Washington Rita & David Trachtenberg United Way of the National Capital Area Marion & Michael Usher Lise Van Susteren & Jonathan Kempner Cynthia Wolloch & Joseph Reid Margot & Paul Zimmerman
Due to space limitations, only donors of $1,000 or more are listed. The Washington DCJCC would like to thank all of our many donors for the important impact they have on our work. * of blessed memory

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About Theater J
Hailed by The New York Times as “The Premier Theater for Premieres,” and nominated for over forty Helen Hayes awards, Theater J has emerged as one of the most distinctive, progressive and respected Jewish theaters on the national and international scene. A program of the Washington DCJCC, the theater works in collaboration with other components of the Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts: the Washington Jewish Film Festival, the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, and the Literary, Music & Dance Department. Theater J produces thought-provoking, publicly engaged, personal, passionate and entertaining plays and musicals that celebrate the distinctive urban voice and social vision that are part of the Jewish cultural legacy. Acclaimed as one of the nation’s premiere playwrights’ theaters, Theater J presents cutting edge contemporary work alongside spirited revivals and is a nurturing home for the development and production of new work by major writers and emerging artists exploring many of the pressing moral and political issues of our time. Dedicated above all to a pursuit of artistic excellence, Theater J takes its dialogues beyond the stage, offering an array of innovative public discussion forums and outreach programs which explore the theatrical, psychological and social elements of our art. We frequently partner with those of other faiths and communities, stressing the importance of interchange among a great variety of people wishing to take part in frank, humane conversations about conflict and culture. Performing in the 240-seat Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater in the vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood, Theater J works with some of the world’s most distinguished authors for the stage. It has produced world premieres by Richard Greenberg, Thomas Keneally, Robert Brustein, Joyce Carol Oates and Ariel Dorfman, with many debuts from emerging writers like Stefanie Zadravec and Sam Forman. The late Wendy Wasserstein’s play Third, which began at Theater J, received its New York premiere at Lincoln Center Theatre, while Neena Beber received an OBIE for her New York production of Jump/ Cut. Theater J’s diverse body of work features thematically linked festivals including its ongoing “Voices From a Changing Middle East” series. In 2009 Theater J received a special citation in The Washington Post recognizing Theater J’s Israel-related programming. With hit productions ranging from Talley’s Folly and The Disputation to Pangs of the Messiah, The Price, Honey Brown Eyes (Winner of the 2009 Helen Hayes Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play), Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears, The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall, Zero Hour (for which Jim Brochu won the 2010 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a non-resident production) In Darfur, Mikveh and New Jerusalem, it’s no surprise that Washingtonian Magazine notes, “Theater J productions keep going from strength to strength.” Winner of the 2008 Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline, Theater J offers a number of additional programs including Artistic Director’s Roundtables, Peace Cafés, Tea @ 2 (a monthly reading series) and the Passports Educational Program. Theater J has garnered support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and The Shubert Foundation. Theater J is a member of the Cultural Alliance, the League of Washington Theatres, TCG and Photos by Stan Barouh the Association for Jewish Theatre.
Washington DCJCC 1529 Sixteenth Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Info: (202) 777-3210 or [email protected]

Josh Lefkowitz and Maureen Rohn in The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall Robert Prosky in The Price Alexander Strain and Michael Tolaydo in New Jerusalem Holly Twyford in Lost in Yonkers

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