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1916-2016
HORTON FOOTE
CENTENNIAL

THE ROADS TO PRIMARY STAGES
Welcome to the first production of Primary Stages 32nd Season, our first full season at the
Cherry Lane Theatre. Since 1984, Primary Stages has followed our own roads to become
one of the most recognized homes for American playwrights as we have proudly pursued
our mission of inspiring, supporting, and sharing the art of playwriting.
With this production of The Roads to Home we celebrate Horton Foote’s centennial. Horton
was a major American dramatist and Primary Stages had the great fortune of working
directly with him on his plays Dividing the Estate (which we moved with Lincoln Center
Theatre to Broadway) and The Day Emily Married. Horton also directed When They Speak
of Rita by Daisy Foote for us and we produced his Harrison, TX, directed by Pam McKinnon,
in 2012.
Horton was instrumental in fostering a sense home at Primary. He created work that
chronicled the American home, shared his actual family with us, and employed his
infectious charm and generosity wherever he went. When he was with us, he attended
almost every performance, always sitting in the same seat. At intermission, audience
members would line up to share a word with him, often extending the break, much to the
chagrin of our house manager, but to the delight of Horton and everyone else in the room.
Although Horton is no longer with us, the feeling of home he created lives on, through
his plays, his family, and of course you, the audiences who so love and support his
work. Horton’s plays are the gold standard of what American playwriting can be and we
are honored to be an enduring home for Horton’s plays, family, and legacy. As Horton’s
characters discover, home can be a place, a memory, a longing, a person, a family, or
even an idea. In the theater, we are lucky. We get to create homes of people, of stories,
and of places we love on stage night after night, season after season. We thank you,
our adventuresome audience, for sharing our enthusiasm for new American plays and
playwrights and for being part of the Primary family.
Welcome to The Roads to Home. Welcome home to Primary Stages.
Casey Childs
Executive Producer
Andrew Leynse
Artistic Director
Shane D. Hudson
Executive Director

CHERRY LANE THEATRE
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF ANGELINA FIORDELLISI
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
CASEY CHILDS
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
ANDREW LEYNSE
EXECTUIVE DIRECTOR
SHANE D. HUDSON
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
CATHERINE ADLER AND JAMIE deROY
PRESENTS
THE ROADS
TO HOME
BY HORTON FOOTE
WITH DEVON ABNER, DAN BITTNER, REBECCA BROOKSHER,
HARRIET HARRIS, HALLIE FOOTE, MATT SULLIVAN
SET DESIGN
JEFF COWIE
COSTUME DESIGN
DAVID C. WOOLARD
LIGHTING DESIGN
DAVID LANDER
ORIGINAL MUSIC
& SOUND DESIGN
JOHN GROMADA
WIG DESIGN
PAUL HUNTLEY
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
ROBERT BENNETT
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
MIND THE GAP
CASTING
STEPHANIE KLAPPER CASTING
GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE
MATT ROSS PUBLIC RELATIONS
GENERAL MANAGER
DEAN A. CARPENTER
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
ERICA RAVEN-SCORZA
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING
PHIL HAAS
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL WILSON
BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE CHERRY LANE THEATRE
The Roads to Home received its world premiere at Manhattan Punch Line in 1982, directed by Calvin Skaggs.
A revised version was subsequently produced at the Lamb’s Theatre Company in 1992 under the direction of the author.
This production made possible through the generous support of Jane Harmon, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation,
The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, and The Richenthal Foundation.
Primary Stages season support generously provided by Daniel and Rosele Frishwasser.
The Roads to Home is not a production of Cherry Lane Alternative. Cherry Lane Alternative is a not-for-profit corporation.
Revenue derived from the rental of the theatre is used to further the work of the Cherry Lane Alternative.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Born in 1916, HORTON FOOTE left Wharton, Texas to study acting, first in California
then in New York. At the suggestion of choreographer Agnes de Mille he began writing
plays, dramatizing stories of his hometown, as he would in most of his more than fifty
plays. “It’s a very mysterious process, this finding what you want to write about and how
it appears and how it urges you to finish it and to go through all the pain,” Foote said in
2005. “I’ve just never had a desire to write about any place else.”
Since his first play, Texas Town, premiered Off- Broadway in 1941, his plays have been
produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway and at theaters around the
country. In 1995 Foote won a Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta. In 2008,
Foote’s Dividing the Estate moved from Primary Stages to Broadway earning a Tony
nomination for Best Play. Other plays include The Trip to Bountiful, The Day Emily Married
(produced by Primary Stages in 2004), The Old Friends, The Carpetbagger’s Children,
The Last of the Thorntons, The Traveling Lady, and The Orphans’ Home Cycle. Foote also
occasionally directed his own plays and, in 2000 his daughter Daisy’s When They Speak
of Rita at Primary Stages,
Foote was a leading writer of television dramas during its “Golden Age,” working for Kraft
Playhouse, Playhouse 90 the Philco-Goodyear Hour, and others. He later won an Emmy
for his teleplay The Old Man (1997). His work in film includes Storm Fear (1956), Baby
the Rain Must Fall (1964), The Trip to Bountiful (1985), and Of Mice and Men (1992).
He received Academy Awards for his adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) and his
original screenplay Tender Mercies (1983).
Individual plays in Foote’s epic nine-play The Orphans’ Home Cycle were produced
around the country, and film versions were made of Convicts, Lily Dale, Courtship, On
Valentine’s Day, and 1918. In 2009 Foote’s re-imagined, three-part The Orphans’ Home
Cycle was produced in its entirety at Hartford Stage and then moved to New York’s
Signature Theatre, earning Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk and New York Drama
Critics Circle awards.
Foote’s awards include Obie, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, and Drama Desk Awards, an
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal, PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award,
New York State Governor’s Award and the 2000 National Medal of Arts Award from
President Bill Clinton. Foote died in 2009, shortly after finishing his adaptation of The
Orphans’ Home Cycle.
*cover photo of Horton Foote by Keith Carter

CROSSROADS
Like most of Horton Foote’s plays, The Roads to Home concerns Harrison, the
fictionalized version of Foote’s own hometown of Wharton in Southeastern Texas.
Though much of the conversation is about Harrison, it doesn’t take place there, but
rather in Houston and Austin. In the mid-1920s, when the play is set, Houston was a fastgrowing
city, fighting for its place as an important center of shipping, finance and politics
(it hosted the 1928 Democratic Convention). It bustled with streetcars, movie theatres,
traffic accidents, and newly rich oilmen. Austin was home to the government, the
university and the State Lunatic Asylum, which featured Japanese gardens, manicured
lawns, and and weekly concerts, all of which were thought to be humane and effective
ways to treat the mentally ill in an era before psychotropic drugs. (The idyllic grounds
drew weekend picnickers from around Austin.) Both are very different sorts of places
than Harrison with its cotton farmers, barely paved roads, and Baptist church imbroglios.
The roads connecting all these towns would have been the railways, which crisscrossed
the state and made Houston an intersection of travel and commerce.
The Roads to Home itself represents many intersections, with trails leading to other
plays and productions and people. Its characters and stories connect to The Last of
the Thorntons and the nine plays in The Orphans’ Home Cycle; its themes to The Trip
to Bountiful and The Carpetbaggers Children. The Elizabeth and Laura Vaughn Annie
talks about in the play have their real-life counterparts in Foote’s mother and aunt. And
for Foote, the plays’ 1992 revival at Lambs Theater in New York— which he directed
and which featured Hallie Foote as Annie— was the beginning of renewed interest in
in his work. Primary Stages and Signature Theatre would become artistic homes for
him. Signature devoted its 1994/95 season to his plays, including The Young Man
from Atlanta, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize. After four decades, Foote returned
to Broadway with The Young Man from Atlanta and the Primary Stages production of
Dividing the Estate, set in Harrison. And four years ago, Primary Stages presented a trio
of Foote’s one acts, under the title Harrison, Texas. “I think essentially I’ve always known
that the search will always take me back here to Wharton, Texas, at least for the place,”
said Foote. “But of course I call my town Harrison, not Wharton. But you know it’s based
on my experiences here, things I’ve observed and grown up with.” Roads lead back to
Harrison, back to Wharton, back to home.
—Christopher Baker, Dramaturg
Horton Foote quotes from Conversations with Texas Writers,
The University of Texas Press, 2005, edited by Frances Leonard and Ramona Cearley.

CAST
(IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
MABEL VOTAUGH....................................................................................................HALLIE FOOTE
VONNIE HAYHURST............................................................................................HARRIET HARRIS
ANNIE GAYLE LONG.................................................................................... REBECCA BROOKSHER
MR. LONG...............................................................................................................DAN BITTNER
JACK VOTAUGH......................................................................................................DEVON ABNER
EDDIE HAYHURST................................................................................................ MATT SULLIVAN
DAVE DUSHON........................................................................................................DAN BITTNER
CECIL HENRY.........................................................................................................DEVON ABNER
GREENE HAMILTON............................................................................................. MATT SULLIVAN
DEVON
ABNER
DAN
BITTNER
REBECCA
BROOKSHER
HALLIE
FOOTE
HARRIET
HARRIS
MATT
SULLIVAN
ACT ONE
Scene One: A Nightingale
The home of Jack and Mabel Votaugh
Early April, 1924.
Scene Two: The Dearest of Friends
Six Months Later
SETTING
ACT TWO
Spring Dance
A garden outside an auditorium, Austin, Texas
Four years later
WHO’S WHO
DEVON ABNER was directed by Horton Foote in his
1918, Night Seasons, and the 1992 The Roads
to Home. Some NY plays: The Orphans’ Home
Cycle (Drama Desk Award); The Trip to Bountiful
(Drama Desk nomination) with Lois Smith and on
Broadway with Cicely Tyson; Dividing the Estate
on Broadway and at Primary Stages; two roles
in Harrison, TX at Primary Stages. Film: Robert
Duvall’s Wild Horses. TV: four episodes of “The
Office.”
DAN BITTNER. Broadway: The Vertical Hour.
Off-Broadway: Farragut North (Atlantic Theatre
Company), The House in Town (Lincoln Center).
TV/Film: Marshall, Hunter & Game, The Wolf of
Wall Street, All That I Am, That Awkward Moment,
Adventureland, “The Leftovers,” “BrainDead,”
“The Good Wife,” “Believe,” “Person of Interest,”
“Elementary,” “Bored to Death,” “Law & Order,”
and “Wallykazam.” Proud AEA member.
REBECCA BROOKSHER. New York Credits: Loot
(Red Bull); Dying City (Lincoln Center, Lortel
nomination); Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Public
Theater); White People (Atlantic). Regional Credits:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Anna Christie (Berkshire
Theatre Festival); Golden Age (The Kennedy
Center); Twelfth Night (McCarter Theatre); Mr. Wolf
(Cleveland Playhouse); All My Sons (Barrington
Stage). TV/Film: “Elementary,” “Ugly Betty,”

“The Confession,” “Happyish,” “The Good Wife,”
“Canterbury’s Law,” “Cold Souls.” Juilliard (Group
34). Proud AEA member.
HALLIE FOOTE returns to Primary Stages where she
appeared in Daisy Foote’s When They Speak of
Rita and Him, and her father, Horton Foote’s, The
Day Emily Married; Harrison, Texas, and Dividing
The Estate, for which she received the Richard
Seff Award and a Tony Award nomination. She
dedicates her performance to her dear friend,
Betty Joyce Sikora.
HARRIET HARRIS. Broadway: It Shoulda Been
You, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella,
Present Laughter, Cry Baby: The Musical, Old
Acquaintance, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002
Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Featured Actress
in a Musical), The Man Who Came to Dinner.
Encores: Little Me. Off-Broadway: Standing on
Ceremony, Yeast Nation, Jeffrey (Drama Desk
nomination), Bella, Belle of Byelorussia (Drama
Desk nomination). San Francisco Opera: Show
Boat. Film: Love Is Strange, Memento, Nurse
Betty, Addams Family Values. TV : “Desperate
Housewives,” “Frasier.”
MATT SULLIVAN. Minetta Lane Theatre: Standing
on Ceremony. NY Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth,
Coriolanus. Guthrie: Hay Fever. Four seasons
with The Acting Company including: Richard III,
Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Ten
by Tennessee, Macbeth. Seven seasons with
Shakespeare Theatre of NJ including: Tovarich, I
Capture the Castle. The Juilliard School.
MICHAEL WILSON (Director) directed the 2013
Broadway revival, as well as the 2014 Emmy
nominated Lifetime/Ostar Productions film, of
Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, for which he
received a 2014 DGA nomination for Best Director.
He received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle
awards for his production of Foote’s nine-hour
epic The Orphans’ Home Cycle. Also on Broadway,
he directed Foote’s Tony-nominated Dividing the
Estate, as well as Gore Vidal’s The Best Man,
Enchanted April, and Old Acquaintance. Off-
Broadway, he directed Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s
Children and The Day Emily Married; premieres
by Eve Ensler, Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman,
David Grimm, John Guare, Beth Henley, Tina Howe,
Chris Shinn, and Tennessee Williams; and revivals
of Lanford Wilson and Arthur Miller (Incident at
Vichy at Signature Theater Company, which was
subsequently filmed for television by WNET 13
with BroadwayHD). His other screen work includes
the award-winning indie film Showing Roots.
Internationally, he directed Tony Kushner’s Angels
in America for the 1995 Venice Biennale. From
1998 to 2011, he was Artistic Director of Hartford
Stage, where he commissioned and developed
numerous plays, including Quiara Alegria Hudes’
Pulitzer Prize-winning Water By the Spoonful.
A recipient of the Princess Grace Fellowship and
Statue Awards, as well as Daryl Roth’s Creative
Spirit Award, he most recently directed the Los
Angeles premiere of Grey Gardens starring Betty
Buckley and Rachel York.
JEFF COWIE (Set Design). Designs for Horton Foote:
The Death of Papa (PlayMakers/Hartford Stage);
Carpetbagger’s Children (Alley Theater Houston,
Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Lincoln Center
Theater); Daisy Foote’s When They Speak of Rita,
The Day Emily Married (Primary Stages); The Old
Friends (Signature Theater/Alley Theater); The
Orphans’ Home Cycle (co-design with David Barber
at Hartford Stage/Signature Theater). Broadway:
The Trip to Bountiful (LA Drama Critics Circle
Scenic Design Award); Dividing the Estate. Special
Drama Desk & American Theatre Wing’s Henry
Hewes Awards.
DAVID C. WOOLARD (Costume Design) received
Tony Award nominations for The Rocky Horror
Show and The Who’s Tommy. He has designed
over 20 shows on Broadway and over 200 shows
around the world. Credits: West Side Story,
Damn Yankees, the operas Cold Mountain and
Everest. In addition to his Tony nominations, Mr.
Woolard has won a Drama Desk Award, the Henry
Hewes Design Award and was nominated for an
Olivier Award. For additional credits please visit:
davidcwoolard.com.
DAVID LANDER (Lighting Design). Broadway: The
Heiress, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Drama
Desk Award, Tony, Outer Critics nominations);
33 Variations (Tony nomination); I Am My Own
Wife (DD, Outer Critics nominations); A Man for
All Seasons, among others. Off-Broadway: The
Tempest, Cymbeline (NYSF); Incident at Vichy (dir.
Michael Wilson); Posterity, The Library, among
others. Regional credits include: Alley Theatre;

Arena Stage; Goodman Theater; Kennedy Center;
La Jolla Playhouse; Old Globe. International
theater and opera productions in London, Caracas,
Sydney, Singapore, Japan, and Mumbai.
JOHN GROMADA (Original Music & Sound Design).
Select Broadway: The Elephant Man, The Trip
to Bountiful (Tony nom.), The Best Man (Drama
Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, The
Columnist, Next Fall, Proof, Twelve Angry Men, A
Few Good Men. Other NY includes: Old Hats, Dada
Woof Papa Hot, Incident at Vichy, Domesticated,
Measure for Measure (Delacorte); The Orphans’
Home Cycle (Drama Desk and Henry Hewes
Awards); Shipwrecked! (Lucille Lortel Award); The
Skriker (Drama Desk Award); Machinal (OBIE
Award). Film credits include a score for the Emmynominated
The Trip to Bountiful.
PAUL HUNTLEY (Wig Design). London-born, Paul
Huntley has worked on hundreds of Broadway
shows which include the original productions
of Amadeus, Cats, Evita, The Producers, and
Hairspray. He is also a recipient of the Drama
Desk and Tony awards. Current projects include A
Bronx Tale and The Cherry Orchard.
CARRIE MOSSMAN (Props Supervisor). Credits
include: Out of The Mouths Of Babes (Cherry Lane
Theatre); The Effect (Barrow Street); Lost Girls
(MCC); Perfect Arrangement (Primary Stages);
Hamlet (CSC); Faustus (CSC); Bright Half Life
(Women’s Project Theater); The Bandwagon
(NYCC Encore Series). She received her MFA from
Brandeis University.
ROBERT BENNETT (Production Stage Manager).
Broadway: Peter Brook’s The Cherry Orchard, The
Trip To Bountiful, The Lyons, Stick Fly, Bent, I Love
My Wife, Macbeth, American Buffalo, I Remember
Mama, the Musical. Tours: Grey Gardens, La
Cage Aux Folles, Sugar Babies, Evita, My Fat
Friend, Grease, Shenandoah, Guys and Dolls.
Off-Broadway: Incident At Vichy, Inner Voices.
Artistic Associate at The National Music Theater
Conference. General Manager at BAM and Vice-
President Stage Operations Radio City Music Hall.
JEREME KYLE LEWIS (Assistant Stage Manager).
Broadway: Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Sylvia, Hand
to God, The Trip to Bountiful. Off-Broadway: The
City of Conversation, The Madrid. Regional: The
Wallis, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, About Face
Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Tours:
Grey Gardens, The Trip To Bountiful, Macbeth, A
Connecticut Yankee.
CHRISTOPHER BAKER (Dramaturg). Over 80
productions, including The Orphans’ Home Cycle
Off-Broadway and productions at Hartford Stage,
The Shakespeare Theatre, and Alley Theatre.
Plays: Pride and Prejudice (Center Stage); Calliope
Jam (Alley). Books: Shakespeare In An Hour;
Molière In An Hour. Contributor to The Production
Notebooks and African American Connecticut
Explored.
JONATHON K. MUSSER (Associate Director). The
City of Conversation (The Wallis) Incident At Vichy
(Signature), The Old Friends (The Alley), New York
Story (radio play), the world premiere of The Old
Friends (Signature). Regional: Intimate Apparel,
Nora (Westport Playhouse); The Grapes of Wrath,
Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Asolo Rep). Special
thanks to Michael, Hallie, and Andrew for bringing
me back to Harrison with Horton. JKMusser.com.
HOPE CLARKE (Movement Consultant). New York:
Free Man of Color (Lincoln Center); Jelly’s Last
Jam; Caroline, or Change; The Tempest. Off-
Broadway: Spunk, The Colored Museum, The
Caucasian Chalk Circle (The Public); Fly (Lincoln
Center). Regional: Resurrection, Jesus Christ
Superstar (Alliance Theatre); Cabaret, Mack
& Mabel, Alice Revisited (Barrington Stage),
Porgy and Bess; Cosi fan Tutti; The In-Gathering;
Hallelujah, Baby!; Frida; South Pacific.
JANE GUYER FUJITA (Dialect Coach) is a New Yorkbased
voice specialist and dialect coach on faculty
at ESPA and New York University’s Graduate Acting
program at Tisch. She has coached accents and
dialects for productions on Broadway as well as at
the American Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory
Theatre, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Primary
Stages, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar
Festival, Signature Theatre, Ensemble Studio
Theater, Ugly Rhino, and Shakespeare in the
Parking Lot.
STEPHANIE KLAPPER CASTING’s work is frequently
seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally,
internationally, on television, film and the internet.
Resident Casting Director for Primary Stages as

well as numerous companies in NYC and regionally
and has a number of very exciting upcoming and
running projects. Recent projects include: Edwin…;
That Golden Girls Show!; The Good Swimmer
(HERE/Prototype Festival); Another Dance of
Death (short film); Jules Verne… (BAM). Member:
CSA and LPTW.
MIND THE GAP (Production Supervisor). Primary
Stages: Exit Strategy, The Body of an American,
Perfect Arrangement, Informed Consent, Lives
of the Saints, While I Yet Live, Poor Behavior, The
Tribute Artist. Other scenic credits include: Smart
People, The Substance of Fire, Sex With Strangers
(Second Stage); Hand to God, The Village Bike
(MCC); The Heir Apparent (CSC); Measure for
Measure (Fiasco Theatre at the New Victory);
No Exit (Pearl). Other events include The Webby
Awards, Rescue the Runway, and the opening
for the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. MTG is a
fully functioning scene shop that provides both
production management and labor services for
corporate and theatrical events.
CATHERINE ADLER (Co-Producer) recently partnered
with Primary Stages on Exit Strategy, Off-Broadway
Alliance Award winner for Best New Play. She is
a three-time Tony-winning producer: Skylight;
Gentleman’s Guide; Vanya, Sonia… Other
Broadway: On Your Feet; Elephant Man (Drama
Desk); After Midnight (Drama Desk). West End:
People, Places and Things; Elephant Man. Off-
Broadway: Small Mouth Sounds; Butler; The Flick.
JAMIE deROY (Co-Producer). Three-time Tony
Award winner: Gentleman’s Guide, Vanya & Sonia,
Norman Conquests. Other Broadway credits:
Bright Star, American Psycho, China Doll, Gin
Game, Sylvia, Fiddler, Cinderella, Addams Family,
Finian’s Rainbow, Ragtime, Blithe Spirit, Seagull,
Thurgood, etc. Off-Broadway: Exit Strategy, Butler,
The Lion, Cagney, Turn Me Loose, Black Tie, Opus,
etc. TV: “Jamie deRoy & friends,” “CityArts.” Films:
Broadway: The Golden Age.
CHERRY LANE THEATRE. In 1924 colleagues of
Edna St. Vincent Millay opened the Cherry Lane
Playhouse, establishing a future home for the
seminal voices of the American stage, among
them F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, Elmer Rice,
O’Neill, O’Casey, Odets, Auden, Gertrude Stein,
T.S. Eliot, William Saroyan, Beckett, Albee, Pinter,
Ionesco, LeRoi Jones, Sam Shepard, Lanford
Wilson, Joe Orton and David Mamet. In 1996
Angelina Fiordellisi revived Cherry Lane, preserved
the building and detailed history, and founded
the Cherry Lane Alternative, creating programs
to launch the next generation of American
playwrights, among them David Adjmi, Anne
Washburn, Katori Hall, and Rajiv Joseph. For a
detailed history visit cherrylanetheatre.org
CASEY CHILDS (Founder & Executive Producer,
Primary Stages) founded Primary Stages in
1984 and has directed many productions for
the company. He served as the Artistic Program
Director for the New Dramatists from 1981-1985
and was the recipient of the Carnegie Mellon
Commitment to New Playwrights’ Award, as well
as two Emmy Awards and many nominations
for his extensive work in television. He is a past
Vice President of the Directors’ Guild of America
and a past trustee of The National Association
of Television Arts and Sciences. Casey has a BFA
in acting and an MFA in directing from Carnegie
Mellon University.
ANDREW LEYNSE (Artistic Director, Primary Stages)
is currently in his 14th season as Artistic Director
of Primary Stages. Andrew is a director and
founding member of the Dorothy Strelsin New
American Writers Group now in its 21st year,
teaches for Primary Stages ESPA and The Tepper
Semester Syracuse University, and is the Artistic
Director of Perry-Mansfield’s New Works Festival
in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Andrew is a
proud Board Member of A.R.T/New York and is a
graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s Directing Program.
SHANE D. HUDSON (Executive Director, Primary
Stages) is a graduate of the Yale School of
Drama and Emerson College. Shane has served
as Director of Development at Elevator Repair
Service, Managing Director of the Yale Cabaret,
Associate Director of Development at PlayMakers
Repertory Company, General Manager/Marketing
Director for Blue Man Group, Theater Manager of
the Charles Playhouse, and Executive Director of
StageSource.

ABOUT PRIMARY STAGES
PRIMARY STAGES is an Off-Broadway not-for-profit theater company dedicated to inspiring,
supporting, and sharing the art of playwriting. We operate on the strongly held belief that
the future of American theater relies on nurturing playwrights and giving them the artistic
support needed to create new work. Since our founding in 1984, we have produced more
than 125 new plays, including In Transit (premiering on Broadway this season) by James
Allen-Ford, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth; Donald Margulies’
The Model Apartment (1995 premiere and 2013 revival); David Ives’ All in the Timing
(original 1993 production and 2013 revival) and Lives of the Saints; Billy Porter’s While I
Yet Live; Deborah Zoe Laufer’s Informed Consent; Charles Busch’s The Tribute Artist and
Olive and the Bitter Herbs; A.R. Gurney’s Black Tie; Horton Foote’s The Day Emily Married,
Harrison, TX and Dividing the Estate (Two 2009 Tony Award nominations); Daisy Foote’s
When They Speak of Rita and Him; Theresa Rebeck’s Poor Behavior; Tanya Barfield’s The
Call; Brooke Berman’s Hunting and Gathering; Terrence McNally’s Dedication or the Stuff
of Dreams and The Stendhal Syndrome; Dan O’Brien’s The Body of an American, Danai
Gurira and Nikkole Salter’s In the Continuum (which went on to tour the U.S., Africa, and
Scotland); and Conor McPherson’s St. Nicholas (which marked the playwright’s U.S. debut).
Our productions and artists have received critical acclaim, including numerous Tony,
Obie, Lortel, Off-Broadway Alliance, AUDELCO, Outer Critics’ Circle, Drama League, and
Drama Desk awards and nominations. Primary Stages supports playwrights and develops
new works through commissions, workshops, readings, and our education and training
programs: The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Marvin and Anne Einhorn
School of Performing Arts (ESPA), the Fordham/Primary Stages MFA in Playwriting, and the
newly launched Primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral History Project. Through these programs,
Primary Stages advocates for our artists, helping them make important—and often
transformative—connections within the theater community.
For more information on Primary Stages and our various programs, please visit us at:
primarystages.org.

THEATER AND PRODUCTION STAFF
STAFF FOR THE ROADS TO HOME
Assistant Stage Manager.........................................Jereme Kyle Lewis
Associate Director..................................................Jonathon K. Musser
Dramaturg................................................................. Christopher Baker
Movement Consultant........................................................Hope Clarke
Dialect Coach..............................................................Jane Guyer Fujita
Props Coordinator........................................................Carrie Mossman
Assistant Costume Designer............................................ Tyler Gunther
Assistant Lighting Designer.............................................Greg Solomon
Technical Director.....................................................................Peter Fry
Production Manager................................................ J. Michael Stafford
Assistant Production Manager.................................................Will Duty
Production Electrician..............................................................Tom Dyer
Production Audio.........................................................Graham Johnson
Deck Carpenter.................................... Michael Leahy, Michael Hetzer
Wardrobe Supervisor.........................................................Gillian Green
Wig Runner....................................................................Joya Giambrone
Light & Sound Board Operator..................................... Heather Arnson
Production Assistant.......................................................Rachael Albert
Production Intern..............................................................Kelly Hartnett
Director Intern.......................................................Hero Hendrick-Baker
CREDITS
Scenery constructed by Mind the Gap; Costumes by Colin Davis
Jones Studio and Giliberto Designs; Vintage Costumes by Helen
Uffner Vintage Clothing LLC; Additional sound provided by Sound
Associates.
SPECIAL THANKS
Staff of the Cherry Lane Theatre; Staff of TheaterMania and
OvationTix; Staff of The Lucille Lortel Foundation; Goodspeed
Costume Collection and Rentals
STAFF FOR THE CHERRY LANE THEATRE
Founding Artistic Director........................................Angelina Fiordellisi
Producing Artistic Directors............ Serafina Lawrence, Janio Marrero
Financial Director.......................................... Joyce DeNicola-Friedman
Theater Manager.............................. Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation
Facility Director................................................................. Janio Marrero
Literary Manager...................................................... Serafina Lawrence
General Manager...........................................................Diane Alianiello
Development Manager......................................................Reed Ridgley
Administrative Assistant....................................................Caitlin Bower
Box Office Treasurer............................................................ Neil Bradley
House Managers......................................Mary Geerlof, Michael Denis
For theater bookings, please contact Nancy Hurvitz, Lucille Lortel
Foundation.
WARNING
The photographing or sound recording of any performance or
the possession of any device for such photographing or sound
recording inside this theatre, without the written permission of the
management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by
ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money
damages.
FIRE NOTICE
The exit indicated by a red light and sign nearest to the seat you
occupy is the shortest route to the street. In the event of fire or
other emergency please do not run—walk to that exit. Thoughtless
persons annoy patrons and endanger the safety of others by
lighting matches or smoking in prohibited areas during the
performances and intermissions. This violates a city ordinance
and is punishable by law.
PRIMARY STAGES STAFF
Founder and Executive Producer.......................... Casey Childs
Artistic Director.................................................. Andrew Leynse
Executive Director........................................... Shane D. Hudson
Artistic Associate.....................................................................Erin Daley
Associate to the Artistic Director..................................Lucy McMichael
Literary Assistant..................................................Sean-Patrick O’Brien
Off-Broadway Oral History Project Director...........................Sally Plass
Associate Director of Education, ESPA.......................Sarah Matteucci
ESPA Coordinator.......................................................... Miranda Wilson
Co-Director, Fordham/Primary Stages MFA in Playwriting.....Elliot Fox
Education Program Administrator................................. Will Pomerantz
Director of Development..............................Erica Raven-Scorza
Government and Education Affairs......................................Sue Breger
Development Assistant................................................... Patrick Scheid
Director of Marketing...................................................Phil Haas
Marketing Associate.........................................Chelsea Anderson-Long
Marketing & Ticketing Assistant..................................... Veronica Shea
Graphic Designer.........................Ted Stephens III, The Numad Group
Online Marketing Resident.......................................... Nathaniel Myers
Photographer....................................................................James Leynse
General Manager........................................... Dean A. Carpenter
Assistant Company Manager..........................................Claudia McCoy
IT and Rentals Manager..........................................David L. Goldsmith
Audience Concierge...................................................... Eleanor Konrad
Interns.........................Emmy Albritton, Kristi Long, Dorian McDonald,
Kirsten Sweeney, Sarah Tahir, Nina Tandilashvili
General Press Representative...................Matt Ross Public Relations
Matt Ross, Nancy Alligood, Claire Wojciechowski, Sarah Sgro
Primary Stages Casting Director ............................ Stephanie Klapper
Casting Assistants......................................Alexa Magnotto, Ari Rudess
Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group.......................................
Jon Caren, Ryan King, Josh Koenigsberg,
Rehana Lew Mirza, Cheri Magid, Caroline McGraw,
Mat Smart, Susan Soon He Stanton, Leah Nanako Winkler
Louise Rockwell Scholars..............................Emily Daly, Ria T. DiLullo,
Timothy French, Nick Ong, Vanessa Pereda-Felix
PRIMARY STAGES SPECIAL SERVICES
Auditor...........................................Fried & Kowgios Partners CPA’s LLP
Legal..................................................................Nevin Law Group PLLC,
Donald C. Farber, Jonathan C. Herzog, Esq., Andrea Risoli, Esq.
Insurance.................................................................DeWitt Stern Group
Custodian.............................................................................Keith Daniel
ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRES
Primary Stages is a member of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/
New York, the service organization for NYC’s non-profit Off- and
Off-Off-Broadway theatres. Primary Stages is a Constituent of
Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization
for the American theatre.
The actors and stage managers employed in
this production are members of Actors’ Equity
Association, the union of professional actors
and stage managers in the United States.

THIS IS YOUR
OFF-BROADW
HOME.
PRIMARY STAGES HAS BEEN SHARING THE ART
OF PLAYWRITING FOR OVER THREE DECADES
by producing over 130 critically acclaimed
productions. We further support the art of
playwriting by providing artistic and financial
resources to playwrights through commissions,
readings, and workshops. Over the course of our
history, Primary Stages has commissioned 20
new works, which have gone on to be produced
on our stage and by other theater companies
across the country.
“Primary Stages provided a home for me for
many years. I will always be grateful for their
kindness and generosity. Primary Stages is a
wonderful environment for a playwright.”
- HORTON FOOTE
For over 20 years, our FREE
STUDENT MATINEES PROGRAM
has provided NYC public high
schools with access to high-quality
professional theater. Following
each matinee, the cast returns to
the stage to participate in a talkback
session with the students.
Our playwrights often participate
in these talkbacks as well, giving
students the unique opportunity to
interact with the author of the play
As a continuation of the company’s
investment in the audiences of
the future, we created TIXTEEN, a
ticketing initiative enabling all NYC
middle and high-school students
attend Primary Stages production
free of charge.
The FORDHAM/PRIMARY STAGES MFA IN PLAYWRITING offers
writers the opportunity to develop and produce their work
in a rigorous university setting while fostering relationships
with Primary Stages. This two-year program provides two full
productions with professional directors, networking in the New
York industry, plus guidance from a broad range of professionals
in theater, television, and film.
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PRIMARY STAGES IS THE DEFINITIVE HOME FOR THE ART OF
NEW AMERICAN PLAYWRITING. Through our playwright driven
programming, our intensive and comprehensive education programs,
and our inclusive access programs, we nurture the art of playwriting.
Primary Stages is committed to supporting playwrights at all
stages of their careers and providing an artistic home where they
can hone their craft and develop their latest works.
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We inspire new playwrights through our
DOROTHY STRELSIN NEW AMERICAN
WRITERS GROUP, now in its 21st year. We
make a multi-year commitment that gives
writers the security of an artistic home and
provides them with the personal attention
they need to advance their work. Previous
members include: David Lindsay-Abaire,
Tanya Barfield, Nina Beeber, Dan O’Brien,
Lucy Thurber, Cusi Cram, Janine Nabers,
and Stephen Adly Gurgis.
The PRIMARY
STAGES OFF-
BROADWAY ORAL
HISTORY PROJECT
serves to fill a gap in
theater scholarship
about an innovative
period in post
WWII America by
establishing a video
archive featuring the
artists who created
Off- and Off-Off-
Broadway.
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Since its inception in 2007, PRIMARY STAGES ESPA (EINHORN SCHOOL
OF PERFORMING ARTS) has provided a home for over 2,800 artists
and has become a trailblazer in performing arts education, new play
development, and collaboration within the Primary Stages and greater
New York theater community. Its multidisciplinary curriculum focuses on
nurturing, honoring, and advocating for artists by providing them countless
developmental opportunities, space to write and rehearse, and a family of
collaborators. Students benefit from a kaleidoscope of perspectives and
methods from our award-winning family of devoted instructors and staff.
EENWRIGHTS, our newly launched young playwrights program, works
ith high school students in four boroughs to teach the art of playwriting.
tudents perform readings of their newly formed work at the end of
ach semester-long program which bridges the gap between writing,
erformance, and education.

JOIN PRIMARY STAGES IN 2017
AS OUR SEASON CONTINUES...
JANUARY-MARCH 2017
NEW YORK PREMIERE
FADE
BY TANYA SARACHO
DIRECTED BY JERRY RUIZ
Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter TANYA SARACHO (Mala Hierba at Second Stage;
writer and co-producer of the hit ABC series, “How to Get Away with Murder”) comes to
Primary Stages with the New York Premiere of Fade, a behind-the-scenes comedy about
the burgeoning friendship between Lucia and Abel, two Latinos of Mexican descent
working at a ruthless Hollywood studio. Lucia is a tenacious novelist, newly hired to write
for a TV detective series and struggling to find her place among a team of domineering
white male co-workers. Abel is one of the studio’s janitors, compassionate to Lucia’s
difficulties and generous with his opinions and personal anecdotes which keeps them in
an absorbing tête-à-tête throughout their workdays. As their bond grows, Abel’s stories
quickly blur with those Lucia is writing for the show and they both find themselves in the
center of their own not-quite-made-for-TV drama.
MARCH-MAY 2017
NEW YORK PREMIERE
DANIEL’S HUSBAND
BY MICHAEL McKEEVER
DIRECTED BY JOE BRANCATO
In MICHAEL MCKEEVER’s compelling new play, Daniel’s Husband, we see Daniel
and Mitchell enjoying life as the Perfect Couple. Perfect house, perfect friends, even a
mother who wants them to wed. What isn’t perfect is that Daniel longs to be married
and Mitchell does not. A turn of events forces both men to face the consequences of
their opposing views, and they learn that they are living in a world where fundamental
rights aren’t always so fundamental. Proclaimed by the Miami Herald as “beautifully
crafted, powerfully realized and emotionally devastating,” Daniel’s Husband takes an
unflinching look at how we choose to Tie the Knot. Or not. (Produced by Primary Stages
in association with Ted Snowdon.)
VISIT PRIMARYSTAGES.ORG FOR MORE INFO

SUPPORT
AMERICAN
PLAYWRITING AT
PRIMARY STAGES.
BECOME A PRIMARY PARTNER!
We are delighted to welcome theater-lovers like you into our family of playwrights, directors, and
performers. We view every Primary Partner as a true collaborator in our mission to inspire, support and
share the art of playwriting. All of our Primary Partners enjoy:
Guaranteed best seats, personal ticketing assistance with our patron hotline, invitations to readings
and intimate events with our artists, acknowledgement in our season programs
GIVING LEVELS:
IN THE WINGS - $500
1 premium seat to each of our productions
Reduced price guest tickets
Invitation to 1 Partner Appreciation Night
DOWNSTAGE - $1,000
2 premium seats to each of our productions
Invitations to all Partner Appreciation Nights
Complimentary admission to Primary Previews
play discussion seminar
UPSTAGE - $1,500
All of the above, plus:
Invitation to special salon events with our artists
Invitation to Annual Partner Breakfast with Primary
Stages Artistic Director
CENTERSTAGE - $2,500
All of the above, plus:
4 premium seats to each of our productions
Invitation to 1 opening night performance and
after party with the cast
Invitation to 1 first rehearsal of our productions
SPOTLIGHT - $5,000
All of the above, plus:
Invitation to all opening night performances and
after parties with the cast
Signed manuscript from a 2016/2017 Season
play, upon request
And much more!
To join, and for more benefit details:
Call: 212.594.2125
Email: patrick@primarystages.org
Visit: primarystages.org/partners

PRIMARY STAGES BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Janet Reed Ahearn
Jonathan L. Bing
Sue Breger, President Emerita
Casey Childs, President Emeritus
Jamie deRoy
Douglas Durst
Marlene H. Freeman
Arlene L. Goldman, Secretary
Jonathan C. Herzog
Eleanor Holtzman
Shane D. Hudson
Ann Blumenthal Jacobs
Paul Kandel
Elisabeth Lerner
Andrew Leynse
Gregory M. Macosko, Treasurer
Jose Mendez
Doug Nevin, Vice President
Robin Rednor-Veghte
Carol Roaman
Janet B. Rosen
Jeremy Smith, Acting President
Ted Snowdon
Amit Solomon
Sarah Steinberg
Arline E. Vogel
Emeritus Members
Michael Fabrikant
Douglas M. Green
Karen LaRosa
In Memoriam
Geoffrey Chinn
Anne Einhorn
Marvin Einhorn
Louise Rockwell
Robert Sorenson
Sandy Westin
Elizabeth Wilson

PRIMARY STAGES CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION DONORS
Primary Stages gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following institutions:
$50,000 AND ABOVE
The Howard Gilman Foundation*
The Lucille Lortel Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
The Winston Foundation, Inc.
$25,000-$49,999
JTS Fund at the New York Community Trust
The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation
The Rockwell Foundation
The SHS Foundation
$10,000-$24,999
Durst Organization*
The Marc Haas Foundation
Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust
The Neuberger Berman Foundation
The Laura Pels International Foundation
for Theater
Richenthal Foundation
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
The Seth Sprague Educational & Charitable Trust
The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation*
Xerox Foundation
$5,000-$9,999
Axe-Houghton Foundation
Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust
Colgate-Palmolive Inner City Education Fund
The Friars Foundation
The John Golden Fund
HBO*
Hill-Snowdon Foundation
Jerome Robbins Foundation
May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation
Michael Tuch Foundation
$1,000-$4,999
Actors’ Equity Foundation
Bank of America
Creative Artists Agency*
The Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation
Dramatists Guild Fund
Dramatists Play Service
The Robert H. and Elizabeth Fergus Foundation
The Frey Foundation
Richard Frankel Productions*
The Herman Goldman Foundation
Jujamcyn Theaters*
The Karma Foundation
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club*
The Dorothy Loudon Foundation / Lionel Larner
Morgan Stanley
Music Theatre International*
The Nederlander Organization*
NEXT Magazine*
The Numad Group*
Off Broadway Angels
Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.*
Serino/Coyne*
The Geraldine Stutz Trust
Weissberg Foundation
* Includes gifts made to the 2015 Primary Stages Gala
PRIMARY STAGES GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
The Primary Stages season is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council
Members Daniel R. Garodnick, Corey Johnson, and Helen Rosenthal; the New York State
Council on the Arts; and New York State Assembly Member Richard N. Gottfried.

PRIMARY STAGES - PRIMARY PARTNERS
Primary Partners are generous individual donors who share a love of Primary Stages and our
mission. Partners can choose to either take a full tax deduction for their gift or receive exclusive
benefits including personal assistance from the Development Department staff, priority seating
in prime locations, invitations to intimate events with today’s leading playwrights and actors,
and much more. To learn more about becoming a Primary Partner and other giving opportunities,
please visit us online at: primarystages.org/support.
Angels
Catherine Adler*
Svante Bergstrom Theater Foundation
Anne L. Bernstein*
Sue Breger*
Casey Childs*
Daniel & Rosele Frishwasser
Arlene L. Goldman*
Herrick Theatre Foundation
Irwin & Ann Blumenthal Jacobs*
Jose Mendez & Katie Graziano*
Carol Roaman*
Janet B. & Marvin Rosen*
Jeremy T. Smith*
Ted Snowdon & Duffy Violante*
Barbara & David Thomas
Leading Players
Anonymous
The Kenneth H. and
Margaret L. Childs Trust
Jamie deRoy*
Douglas Durst*
Dasha Epstein*
Johanna & Leslie Garfield
Jay & Diane Goldsmith*
Carmen & John Grossman
Russel T. Hamilton
Alexander & Eleanor Holtzman*
Paul & Emily Kandel*
Andrea & Scott Kimmelman
Elisabeth Lerner*
Andrew Leynse & Mary Bacon*
Gregory Macosko & Sharon A. Zane*
Hubert Neumann
Doug Nevin*
Joe & Lauren Pizza*
Mary Ann & Bruno A. Quinson
Robin Rednor-Veghte &
Robert Kennedy
Arline Vogel & Harry Precourt*
Elizabeth Wilson, in memoriam
Spotlight
Anonymous
Jackie Barth & Jay Nydick*
Jonathan Bing & Meredith Ballew*
Cynthia D. Brodsky
Nancy & Ronald Carr*
Madelyn & Jay Coopersmith*
Bertha Goldman, in memoriam
Lydia Kotevski*
Jeffry Melnick
Lura Myers
Lisa Orberg
Dolores & Howard Reed, in memoriam
Carol Scibelli*
Sarah Steinberg*
Centerstage
Carol Auerbach & Al Berger*
Barbara & Paul Bernstein
Emma & Eli Bluestone
Diane L. Charlap*
Robert Donnalley
Dr. Leonard Freeman,
Marlene Freeman & Joy Freilich
Eve Goldman*
Karen Goldman & Steve Diamond*
Julia Hansen*
Jonathan C. Herzog &
Bradley D. Schiel*
Willy Holtzman & Sylvia Shepard*
Robin Jones
Rory & David Jones
Noelle Kalin*
Richard M. Leder & Guifeng Xia
Karolynn Lestrud*
Kristen Anderson-Lopez &
Robert Lopez*
Enken & Jerome Mayer
Jill Mortensen & Kay Phillips*
John K. Orberg
Marla Persky & Craig Heberton IV
Lisa Schultz*
Marc Shaiman*
Barton & Jane Shallat
Betsy Smith & John Barrie*
Ellen & Sam Sporn
Scott Wittman*
Donald & Barbara Zucker
Upstage
Constantin R. Boden
Jean & Juan Carlos Cappello
Cathy Chernoff
Janet Cohn & Mike Slosberg
Paula Kaminsky Davis
Fred & Suzan Ehrman
Henry Frommer & Cheryl Tuttle
Mary Gilbert
Steven Goldman*
Valerie Gordon-Johnson &
Doug Johnson*
Hugh Hayes*
Lee Laimbeer
Brian Lefton*
Allan & Anita Lubarsky
Sam Mendes*
Arlene & Chester Salomon
Karen & Charles Schader
Steve Shane*
Lorenzo Thione*
Jonathan Tolins & Robert Cary*
Bob & Ginny Walther
Hilda Wenig
Morton Wolkowitz & Anita Keal*
Janet Yaseen & Bruce Kaplan
Downstage
Anonymous
Amy Attas & Stephen Shapiro
George & Marilyn Berger
Michelle Bossy & Doug Coon*
George & Jane Bunn
Vivian Cardia
Helen & Abe Chutorian
Roma Connable,
Alfred Connable, in memoriam
Michael Ellenberg
Eleanor Fink
Roy Furman*
Bryan & Susan Garruto
Yvette Geary & Robert Astrowsky
Shirley & David Ginzberg
A.R. Gurney
Gunilla N. Haac
Andrea & David Holbrook
Martin Hummel
David & Martha Ives*
Jackie Judd*
Whitney & Fred Keen
Renee Landegger & Susan Rose*
Doria Lavagnino
Dr. Marlene Marko & Dr. Loren Skeist
Stephen & Carolyn McCandless
Craig Peligri*
Lori Perlow
Harold & Leslie Porosoff
Judy Lynn Prince
Daryl & Steven Roth*
Holly Rothkopf & Stuart Eisenberg
Sandra Samberg & Stephen Marshall
Dolores Seiler
Naomi Seligman
Susan & Zachary Shimer
Susan & Robert Skolnick
Tamar & Lawrence Skolnick
Jim Steinberg
Beth & Michael Stone*
Michelle & Stephen Stoneburn
Bernard & Shelia Teig
Claudia Weill*
Scott Zachek

In the Wings
Anonymous
Florence & Carlton Asher
David Ball
Nan Bases*
Maureen Canary*
Victoria Clark*
Neil & Doreen Davidowitz*
Ryan Donahue*
Emma Dunch*
Tom & Linda Dupree
Colm & Donna Feore*
Tom Fontana*
Nancy Nagel Gibbs*
Joe Godfrey*
Elissa Goldman*
David L. Goldsmith
Robert Goldwasser*
Carol P. Green
Mark Henkin*
Patrick Herold
Joan A. Kedziora
Sharon & Steve Kess*
Dr. Ezriel Kornel*
Fran Kumin & Richard Ticktin*
Kate Lear*
Gregory Lehane & Laurie Klatscher*
James & Wendy Leynse*
Hal Luftig*
Barbara Manocherian
Susan McGowan*
Carol Nevin*
Sue & Steve North*
Marc Platt*
Mickey Rolfe & Bruce Tracy*
Christina Rose*
Lisa Seidman*
Mark Sendroff*
Dan Shaheen*
Leslie M. Sloane*
Tina & Philip Vasan
Roy A. Weiss*
Michael & Wilhelmina Wiland*
Francesca Zambello & Faith Gay*
* Includes gifts made to the 2015 Primary Stages Gala
The list reflects contributions received as of August
24, 2016. We apologize for any omissions or errors.
Due to space limitations, we are unable to list all
contributors. Primary Stages wishes to thank all of our
generous donors.
PRIMARY STAGES EINHORN SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS
(ESPA) FOUNDING DONORS
The Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) has trained playwrights, actors, and
directors in all stages of their development and from all corners of the globe. Our focus is on
nurturing, honoring, and advocating for emerging artists by providing them countless developmental
opportunities, space to write and rehearse, and a family of collaborators. Students benefit from
a kaleidoscope of perspectives and methods from our award-winning family of instructors—all working
theater artists in NYC and around the country. Having provided a home for over 2,800 artists,
ESPA has become a trailblazer in performing arts education, new play development, and
collaboration within the Primary Stages and greater New York theater community.
Principals
Casey Childs
Douglas Durst
Helen Lee Henderson
Andrew Leynse & Mary Bacon
Ted Snowdon
Benefactors
Rhoda Herrick
Karen La Rosa &
Hugh Zurkuhlen
Patrons
Skip Chasey
Jamie deRoy
Kate & Stephen Einhorn
Kenneth & Lori Einhorn
Mitchell Erickson
Rosele & Dan Frishwasser
Martin Hummel
Jean A. Koegler
Renee Landegger
Clark S. Marlor
Gilbert Parker
Charlie Peters
Susan Rose
Dene Sarason
Jeremy T. Smith
Susan Sullivan
Morton Wolkowitz &
Anita Keal
Ellen & Allen Zerkin
Donors
Dan & Janet Reed Ahearn
Michelle Bossy
Norman W. Boyd Jr.
Ingrid Bracey
Donald Brennan
Cusi Cram & Peter Hirsch
Susan Drury
David & Judi Einhorn
Edgar & Barbara Einhorn
Harold & Judith Einhorn
Rob Einhorn
Elliot Fox & Stephanie Lubroth
Dr. Leonard & Marlene Freeman
Gina M. Gionfriddo
David Goldsmith
Seth & Elizabeth Gordon
Robert & Rhoda Gruen
A.R. & Molly Gurney
Steve & Rebecca Handler
Dana Handler
Willy Holtzman & Sylvia Shepard
Gen LeRoy & Tony Walton
Alice N. Levin
Samuel & Lisette Liff
Renee Lutz & Gordon Stanley
Donald Margulies & Lynn Street
Lucy McMichael
Audrey Roth
Ernest & Carol Sarason
Betty Anne Besch Solinger
Jerry & Adele Trupin,
In Honor of Bob & Renee Blank
John & Kathy von Hartz
Mac Wellman

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invites you to our
Gala
celebrating
THE HORTON FOOTE CENTENNIAL
HORTON FOOTE
Co-Chaired by
Charles Davis, Hallie Foote, David Richenthal, and Michael Wilson
Featuring Performances and Tributes by
Elizabeth Ashley, Harriet Harris, Jayne Houdyshell,
Estelle Parsons, Molly Ringwald, and surprise guests
(program subject to change)
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 | 6:30 PM
583 Park Avenue, New York City
Corner of Park Avenue and East 63rd Street
Cocktails, Hors d’oeuvres, Dinner, Live and Silent Auctions
Cocktail Attire
For more info, visit primarystages.org/gala.