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CAST

Whitney Andrews
David Greenspan
Robert M. Johanson
Jo Lampert
Irene Sofia Lucio
Heath Saunders

BAND

Music Director/Keys/Bass Matt Duncan
Associate Music Director/Keys Nick Kassoy
Guitar/Bass Guitar Matt Katz-Bohen
Drums Gintas Janusonis

SONGS

All songs are music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, Martha Redbone, Aaron Whitby.
Just Like a Man
Perfume and Cigarettes
Artist, Philosopher, Queer***
The Charm of the Forbidden
The Heroine
Pansy Craze
Naked and Gay
***Music  by Michael Friedman and Stephen Trask
Lyrics by Stephen Trask

CREATIVE PRODUCTION

Based on the Book by George W. Henry
Written and directed by Steve Cosson
Co-Writer James La Bella
Co-Conceived with Jessica Mitrani
Original music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, Aaron Whitby,
Martha Redbone, and Michael Friedman
Movement Director Sean Donovan
Dramaturgs Jocelyn Clark, Melissa Hardy, Phoebe Corde
Set Designer David Zinn
Costume Designer Emily Rebholz
Lighting Designer Amith Chandrashaker
Sound Designer Drew Levy
Video Designer Jessica Mitrani
Associate Video Designer Attilio Rigotti
Associate Set Designer Oscar Escobedo
Associate Costume Designer Maeve Rose
Associate Lighting Designer Stoli Stolnack
Associate Sound Designer Brandon Bulls
Music Supervisor Wiley DeWeese
Music Assistant Nick Kassoy
Producer Margaret Moll
Associate Producer Melissa Hardy
Casting Consultant Geoff Josselson, CSA
Production Stage Manager E Sara Barnes
Assistant Stage Manager Aisling Galvin
Assistant Director Sammy Zeisel
Production Manager Libby J’Vera
Technical Director Steven Brenman
Assistant Production Manager Sophie Larin
Properties Supervisor Thomas Jenkeleit
Lighting Programmer Bev Fremin

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. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
† Member of United Scenic Artists. Designers in LORT Theaters are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.USA

CAST BIOS

Whitney Andrews (she/her) recent graduate of David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Regional Credits: the ripple the wave that carried me home(Yale Rep). TV: Manifest, Wu Tang: An American Saga, Happy!, Gotham.Instagram @whitneyjanell.

David Greenspan has appeared in his plays Dead Mother, She Stoops to Comedy, Go Back to Where You Are, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Memory Motel and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia; performed solo renditions of Barry Conners’ romantic comedy The Patsy, Eugene O’Neill’s six-hour, nine-act drama Strange Interlude and Gertrude Stein’s experimental Four Saints in Three Acts; acted in many contemporary plays, notably Terrence McNally’s Some Men, Joey Merlo’s solo play On Set With Theda Bara and revivals of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band and Goethe’s Faust. Honors include six OBIES.

Robert M. Johanson is a performer and composer. He is a founding member of Nature Theater of Oklahoma, and has performed with them in No Dice, Poetics: a Ballet Brut, Romeo and Juliet, No President, and composed music for and performed in Life and Times: Episodes 1-9 and Burt Turrido. Recently his new music theater piece Hilma premiered at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. Robert has worked for many companies both in New York and abroad including: Elevator Repair Service, 7 Daughters of Eve, Radiohole, The Civilians, Witness Relocation, Jim Findlay, Morgan Green, Pan Pan, Von Kralhi and Spreafico Eckly.

Jo Lampert  Selected Off-Broadway: Open Throat (Little Island), Orlando (Signature), Ariel in The Tempest (Shakespeare in the Park), Hundred Days (NYTW), Joan in Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (Public Theater), The Civilians’ Rimbaud in NY (BAM), New York Animals (New Ohio), Iphigenia in Aulis (CSC), Dance, Dance Revolution (Ohio). Regional: Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyric Opera), Marie Antoinette (A.R.T./Yale Rep), Prometheus Bound (A.R.T.), The Last Goodbye (Williamstown). TV: HBO’s BETTY, Amazon’s Transparent, Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, Hulu’s The Path.

Irene Sofia Lucio Broadway: Slave Play, Wit. Off-Broadway: Wolf Play (MCC), Romeo y Julieta (Public Theater), Slave Play, Love & Information (NYTW), Orange Julius (Rattlestick), Undertaking (BAM), King Liz (Second Stage), We Play for the Gods (WP). TV: The Americans, Bartlett, Casi Casi. Co-creator of BUTS Webseries (NBCU Short Film Festival winner, Imagen Award Nom.). Education: Princeton & Yale School of Drama. Native of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Heath Saunders is an actor, director, composer, teacher, and diversity dramaturg. Broadway: Company, …the Great Comet of 1812. Theater: Once (Hangar Theater), Jesus Christ Superstar (Chicago Lyric), Alice By Heart (MCC Theater), RENT (Atlanta Opera). TV: Jesus Christ Superstar Live! Their 2020 EP “Does Not Play Well With Others (I Hope You’re Not ‘Others’)” can be heard wherever you stream music. They are also co-founder and CCO of a tech start-up with their family (mother and siblings), which you can read about at www.spectramediacollective.com. Keep track of their personal antics and/or try to date them more or less everywhere else. @feeltheheath

CREATIVE TEAM BIOS

Steve Cosson (co-Writer/Director) is a director, writer, and Artistic Director of The Civilians. He’s led many projects with the company created from interactions with the public, working with various communities ranging from Evangelical Christians to LA’s porn industry, to inmates in Colombia’s national women’s prison. With The Civilians, was the first theater company to be artist-in-residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recent theater credits include writer/director of Artificial Flavors, Marin Gazzaniga’s The Unbelieving, Sam Chanse’s what you are now, Duncan Sheik & Kyle Jarrow’s musical Whisper House, Paul Swan is Dead and Gone by Claire Kiechel, bookwriter and director of The Abominables at Children’s Theater Company, writer/director of The Undertaking at BAM Next Wave and international tour, director of José Rivera’s Another Word for Beauty (Goodman Theatre), director of Michael Friedman and Bess Wohl’s musical Pretty Filthy, the Off Broadway revival of The Belle of Amherst, and he directed the world and New York premiere of Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a post-electric play.

James La Bella (co-Writer) is a writer and dramaturg. James’ writing has been seen onstage with The Prelude Festival, Joe’s Pub, PS21, Life World, WNYC’s Greene Space, The Brick, Art Cafe + Bar, Lost Bag and in print in The Washington Square Review, The Maine Review, McSweeney’s, and Emerge. James is a 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow and 2023/24 Civilians R&D Group member. As a dramaturg he’s worked with Playwrights Horizons, New Georges, The Mercury Store, Hedgepig Ensemble, PlayPenn, BAI, and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. James works at Clubbed Thumb as deputy literary wrangler. MFA Brown University. Jameslabella.com

Jessica Mitrani (Co-Conceiver and Video Designer) is a Colombian-born, New York-based artist working in performance and video. Her multivalent works are fundamentally concerned with exploring social, linguistic, and aesthetic constructs of the feminine. She is interested in the function and circulation of gendered cultural symbols, and how they both articulate and conceal political significance. Her previous collaboration with the Civilians, The Undertaking, was performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s New Wave Festival. Her work has been exhibited, screened, and broadcast internationally.

Stephen Trask (Composer) For over 30 years Stephen has been actively involved in the theatre, film and music business. Stephen is best known as Composer/Lyricist of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The original production of Hedwig and the subsequent film version released by Fine Line Features went on to win an Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, a 1998 New York Magazine Award, Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Music, Lyrics and New Musical, a Grammy nomination for Best Cast Album, two GLAMA Awards as well as Entertainment Weekly’s Best Soundtrack Award for 2001. Hedwig’s Broadway revival won four Tony Awards in 2014. In 2018 The Atlantic Theater produced the world premiere of his rock opera, This Ain’t No Disco. Currently he is working on a semi-autobiographical podcast with Aurin Squire entitled American Shtetl.

Aaron Whitby (Composer) is a multi-award-winning record producer, composer, songwriter, pianist, engineer known for his work with an array of noteworthy artists, including George Clinton, Natalie Cole, Randy Brecker. Known for his work with his longtime collaborator/wife, Martha Redbone. Brainchild behind Cousin From Another Planet -a Jazz and Visual exploration project, receiving critical acclaim and accolades from the late music critic Greg Tate as “captivating, motivating…”. The Redbone/Whitby composer team works include Revelation by Flannery O’Connor, directed Karin Coonrod, Colombari, HUMAN directed by Nehprii Ameni, Stars -Privacy in the Digital Age in 5-Minute Plays, New York Theater Workshop.

Martha Redbone (Composer) is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, educator, and United States Artist Fellow. Working in partnership with longtime collaborator/husband Aaron Whitby, their works give voice to issues of social justice, connecting cultures and celebrating the human spirit. Composers, Arrangers and Original score for 2022 Broadway revival of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuff, the 1976 choreopoem by the late Ntozake Shange, and recipients of 2020 Drama Desk Award, 2020 Audelco Award for the Off-Broadway revival at the Public Theater. Currently in development; Black Mountain Women, The Public Theater, NYC, and Conversations, The Civilians, Brooklyn NY.

Michael Friedman (Composer) Credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Broadway and the Public Theater) Unknown SoldierThe Fortress of SolitudeLove’s Labour’s Lost, and Mr. Burns. With The Civilians: Canard Canard GooseGone Missing,Nobody’s LunchThis Beautiful CityIn the FootprintThe Great ImmensityParis CommunePretty Filthy, and The Abominables. He was the Artist-in Residence and Director of the Public Forum at the Public Theater and Artistic Director of City Center Encorse! Off-Center. He received the 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence as well as a star on the Playwright’s Sidewalk at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Sean Donovan (Movement Director) is an actor, singer, dancer, writer, and choreographer. Recent original works include Cabin (The Bushwick Starr, NYC), The Reception (HERE Arts, NYC), and 18 1/2 Minutes (JACK, NYC). His work has also been presented in The Under the Radar Festival (NYC), CUNY’s Prelude Festival (NYC), FAE Festival in Panama, Stanford University (CA), New York University (NYC), and others. Beyond his own work he has choreographed works for acclaimed theater companies, The Talking Band and The Civilians, as well as for Taylor Mac. As a performer, Sean won a 2022 Lortel Award for his performance in Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things at Ars Nova. Recent theater and dance credits: Bark of Millions (BAM Harvey), The Trees (Playwrights Horizons), Elements of OZ (Skirball Center), Thank You for Coming (BAM and World Tour). Television and Film: Law & Order: Organized Crime, Feast of the Epiphany. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Theater Department at NYU: Tisch School of the Arts. www.seanpdonovan.com.

Jocelyn Clarke (Dramaturge) is a dramaturg for stage and screen. He is a writer/supervising producer on P-Valley, Katori Hall’s acclaimed TV series -he is also executive story editor of the BBC/RTE TV series Young Offenders. He was Senior Dramaturg at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., Theatre Advisor to the Arts Council of Ireland and Literary Manager of the Abbey, Ireland’s national theatre. He has worked as a dramaturg with writers such as Katori Hall, Taylor Mac, Lydia Diamond, Abhishek Majumdar, Raphael Khouri, Eduardo Machado, Lisa Kron, Tazewell Thompson, Carl Hancock Rux, Kenneth Lin, Nathan Alan Davis, Hilary Bettis, Mary Kathryn Nagle, and Karen Zacarias.

David Zinn (scenic design) Recent: Stereophonic, The Mother Play, The Notebook, Enemy of the People (costumes), Here We Are, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. Also: Kimberly Akimbo, Funny Girl, The Minutes, The Humans (set design); SpongeBob SquarePants, Fun Home (set/costume design); Off-Broadway: Playwright’s Horizons, MTC, NYTW, LCT, MCC, 2d Stage,Public. Also: A.C.T., A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, The Guthrie, The Old Globe, CTG, La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Seattle Rep; and The National, Young Vic (UK), Berlin Staatsoper, and Theater Basel. He’s received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic’s Circle, Hewes and Obie Awards for his work

Emily Rebholz (Costume Designer) NEW YORK: Civilians: Artificial Flavors, The Unbelieving, Pretty Filthy, Another Word For Beauty, and Mr. Burns.  Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical!, Jagged Little Pill (Tony Award nomination), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Getting the Band Back Together; Indecent; Oh, Hello on Broadway; If/Then; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Many Off Broadway, Regional and Opera productions. MFA: Yale.

Amith Chandrashaker (Lighting Design) is a Tony Nominated Lighting Designer who works in Theater, Opera, and Dance. His credits include Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (Tony Nom.) and Merrily We Roll Along. Off Broadway: The Public, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, The Atlantic, and The Signature. Regional Theaters: Second Stage, Manhattan Theater Club, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, The Geffen, and The Huntington. Opera: The Glimmerglass Festival, Houston Grand Opera, and Washington National Opera. Dance: Staatstheater Nuremberg, The Lyon Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet of New Zealand, The Joyce, and The National Dance Company of Wales. He is the recipient of The Drama Desk and Henry Hewes awards; Union Trustee for United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE; MFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and faculty at The University of Maryland’s School for Theatre Dance and Performance Studies.

Drew Levy (Sound Design, he/him) Broadway: Oh, Mary!, A Strange Loop (Tony nom.), Oklahoma! (Tony nom., Drama Desk nom.), Honeymoon in Vegas (Drama Desk nom.), Chaplin (Drama Desk Award), The Winslow Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Present Laughter. West End: A Strange Loop, Oklahoma! (Olivier nom.). Off-Broadway: Drag: The Musical, Oh Mary!, Brynolf & Ljung’s Stalker, The Gardens of Anuncia (LCT), Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory). Regional: ACT, CTG, The Old Globe, ART, Williamstown, Huntington, Westport, Two River Theater, McCarter Theater, Arena Stage, Long Wharf. Other: Reconfiguration: An Evening with Other Lives at BAM; Metropolitan Opera 125th Anniversary Gala; annual holiday installations for Saks 5th Avenue, Cartier, and others.

Oscar Escobedo (Assoc. Set Designer, He/him) Escobedo is originally from San Diego and is now a New York City-based creative. Oscar collaborates on storytelling for theater, opera, dance, and immersive events always relying on his zeal for craft to tell stories. Special projects include Book of Travelers/Mag. Bird (Annie Tippe), Bark of Millions (Taylor Mac), Used Records (Jack Cummings III), Proud to Present (Nigel Semaj), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Arin Arbus), MFA: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts @Oscar_D_Escobedo

Maeve Rose (Associate Costume Designer) Maeve is thrilled to be working with the team at The Civilians! Selected credits: Spelling Bee at the Kennedy Center (Assoc. Costume Designer), Maggie at Goodspeed Opera House (Assoc. Costume Designer), Scarlett Dreams at Greenwich House Theater (Asst. Costume Designer), The Outside at Metropolitan Playhouse (Costume Designer), Casual with We Who Wander (Costume Designer). Wardrobe Supervisor: Clubbed Thumb, Bedlam, The Actors Studio Drama School. Graduate of The New School. “Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.”

Stoli Stolnack (Assoc. Lighting Designer, they/he) is an NYC-based lighting associate. Associate: Discoshow (Spiegelworld), Dear World (Encores), Prayer for the French Republic and How I Learned to Drive (MTC-Friedman), Jagged Little Pill National Tour, The Harder They Come and Fire in Dreamland (The Public), Dance Nation and Wives (Playwrights Horizons).

Attilio Rigotti (Assoc. Video Designer)  is a Chilean technology artist, game designer, and teacher. Along with Orsolya Szánthó, he founded GLITCH, a company seamlessly combining digital and physical mediums to create new forms of storytelling. Their technology design has been featured in collaborations with Kaki King, Kennedy Center, and The Juilliard School, and their video design work has been a part of Broadway and Off Broadway productions such as Macbeth and White Girl in Danger. Attilio’s work has been recognized by The New York Times, Vulture, and American Theatre Magazine, and his experimental video game work was celebrated by INDIECADE, CYSTEM, and the Wasserman Scholar Award.

Wiley DeWeese (Music Supervisor) is a music director/supervisor, arranger, and pianist. Broadway: Girl from the North Country (also national tour and The Public Theater), The Lightning Thief (also national tour and off-Broadway), Amelié (also CTG and Berkeley Rep). Other Off-Broadway: Whisper House, The Lucky Ones, The Wildness, Preludes, First Daughter Suite, The Fortress of Solitude. Other regional: Gatsby: An American Myth (American Repertory Theater), Prelude to a Kiss (Milwaukee Rep/South Coast Repertory), The Abominables (Children’s Theater Company). Wiley served as the music supervisor, orchestrator, and co-producer for the Michael Friedman Recording Project. For Mom and Dad, always.

Matt Duncan (Music Director) is a singer, songwriter, and producer with over a million monthly Spotify listeners. An aging punk turned accidental theater guy, he played Jacek in the Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and has worked on the creative end of musical theater with Stephen Trask, Chris D’Arienzo, and Kelli Lynn Woodend. Special thanks to my wife Emilie, without whom I never would have made it to the finish line.

Margaret Moll (Producer) has worked as an Arts Administrator for over 20 year and across multiple countries. She joined The Civilians in 2017 following a term as the Managing Director for The Anna Deavere Smith Pipeline Project, the centerpiece being the critically acclaimed play Notes From The Field. Before that Margaret was the Productions Director for Assembly Theatre (Edinburgh) and Riverside Studios (London) in the U.K. and was responsible for producing and touring Yaël Farber’s NIRBHAYA, a testimonial play about gender-based violence that played internationally to critical acclaim and sold-out houses.

E Sara Barnes (Production Stage Manager, she/her) NYC: Broadway Backwards (BC/EFA); Romeo & Juliet (NAATCO/Two River Theater); Sancocho, Weightless, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Greenwich House Theater), Jersey Boys (New World Stages), Pacific Overtures (Classic Stage); Oh, Hello (Cherry Lane); Straight (Theatre Row); By the Water (Manhattan Theatre Club); Pageant (Davenport Theater); Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova); The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise (Play Company);Three Men on a Horse, Bedroom Farce (The Actors Company Theatre); Twelfth Night (Sonnet Repertory Theatre). REGIONAL: Hair (Two River Theater); May We All (TPAC), Other World (DTC), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage Company), Gypsy! (starring Karen Ziemba, Sharon Playhouse), I Promised Myself to Live Faster, Twelfth Night, Zero Cost House (Pig Iron Theatre Co.); Guys and Dolls, Saving Aimee, Memphis!, Hello, Dolly! (5th Avenue Theatre).

Aisling Galvin (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with the Civilians once more. Previous credits include Artificial Flavors (The Civilians); MEMNON (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Yale Rep); Passing Strange (Long Wharf); Criminal Queerness Festival (National Queer Theatre); Paradise Ballroom (New York Stage and Film).

Libby J’Vera (Production Manager, she/her) Recent Productions: Hannah Gadsby’s Woof!, someone spectacular, Isabel, Oh Mary!, Rachel Bloom’s Death, Let Me Do My Show, KATE, Alison Leiby: Oh God, A Show About Abortion, Just For Us, Mike Birbiglia: The New One, Turn Me Loose, and Rinse, Repeat. Resident Production Manager at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. www.libbyjvera.comThomas Jenkeleit (Props Supervisor, he/they) is a prop & scenic designer from Queens, New York devoted to creating new, reimagined, and thought provoking work. Recent credits: The Park Avenue Armory, Soho Rep, BAM, Vineyard Theatre, En Garde Arts, Ensemble Studio Theater, HEREarts Center, New Ohio Theatre, IRT Theater, Zipline/SpotCo Media, People Magazine/Entertainment Weekly, Bay Street Theatre, Trove, NYU Tisch, Columbia University, New York Film Academy, Hippodrome Theatre, Iron Crow Theater, Hangar Theater Company, Kitchen Theater Company, The Cherry Arts. BFA Ithaca College. jenkeleit.com

Sophie Larin (Assistant Production Manager- also happily known as “Libby Junior”) is a theatre-maker, sketch producer and musical improv comedian. Notable credits-Switch Seats With Me, Lil’ Spoon’s The Improvised Audition, Hannah Gadsby’s WOOF!, Rachel Bloom’s Death Let Me Do My Show and from the producers of Sleep No More: Life & Trust.

THE CIVILIANS

Founded in 2001, The Civilians is dedicated to ambitious and exuberant new theater that creatively interrogates our lived experience; questions and tests the stories that shape our world; and awakens new thinking and perceptions. Its signature work is “investigative theater”— projects created through field research, community collaborations, and other methods of in-depth inquiry. Shows originated with The Civilians include Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, cited by The New York Times as the “4th Best Play of the Past 25 Years,” and Lucas Hnath’s Dana H., recently on Broadway and included in Top 10 of 2021 lists by The New York Times and Time magazine. Other shows include José Rivera’s Another Word for Beauty, and many works with composer Michael Friedman: Gone Missing, Pretty Filthy, Paris Commune, and more. The Civilians has participated in several BAM Next Wave Festivals, has been produced at many major regional and Off Broadway theaters, and was the first theater company to be Artist- in-Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With Ghostlight Records, The Michael Friedman Recording Project is creating nine albums of our founding member’s works. The company supports emerging and established artists each year through its new work programs which include the R&D Group new works lab, and a cabaret series of new musicals. The Civilians produces a podcast on SoundCloud; publishes Extended Play, an online journal about its work and the broader theater field; and sustains an active Education Program. To learn more about The Civilians visit: www.thecivilians.org

SPECIAL THANKS

Brittany K. Allen, Ava Burckhardt, Dan Domingues, Augustine Lorrie, New York University’s Graduate Prop’s Dept., Ella Pennington, The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton and the Princeton Atelier students, Maya Sharpe, Elena Siyanko, Jennifer Terry, Kelly Van Zile, Michael Waters, Ada Westfall Sex Variants was developed in residency at PS21 in December 2023, a vibrant center for contemporary performance on 100 acres of orchards and meadows in New York’s Hudson Valley, and a residency at The Mercury Store.

STAFF

Steve Cosson Artistic Director
Margaret Moll Managing Director
Melissa Hardy New Work Program Manager
Phoebe Corde Resident Dramaturg and Director of the R&D Group
Sarah Boess Marketing Consultant
Faith Zamblé Extended Play Editor
Patricia Taylor Finance Manager
Mission Forward Fundraising Development Consultants
Alan Buttar Graphic Design – Muse Graphic Design
David S. Berlin; Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham LLP Legal Services

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Alain Groenendaal Chair
Suany Chough Secretary
John Wood Treasurer
Steve Cosson Artistic Director
Jane Brandman, Jennifer Copaken, Henry Donahue, Michael Frazier, Jeanhee Kim, Julia Lazurus, Margenett Moore-Roberts, Jennifer Morris, Armen Nercessian, Ann Rubbe, Kerry Smtih, Alicia Villarosa

EMERITUS

Elizabeth Angell, Rick Dean, Jody Falco, Peter Friedland, Jessica Harris, Daniel P. Kim, David Singer

IN MEMORIAM

Michael Friedman

FUNDING

The Civilians is grateful for the support of The Howard Gilman Foundation; The Shubert Foundation; The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Tow Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts; The Leon Levy Foundation; MacMillan Family Foundation; The Axe-Houghton Foundation; The John Golden Fund; The Lucille Lortel Foundation; Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation; and many generous individual donors.

NYU SKIRBALL

NYU Skirball holds close James Baldwin’s dictum that “artists are here to disturb the peace.” Our mission is to present adventurous, cross-disciplinary work that inspires yet provokes, confirms yet confounds, and entertains yet upends. We proudly embrace renegade artists who surprise, productions that blur aesthetic boundaries, and thought-leaders who are courageous, outrageous, and mind-blowing. We are NYU’s largest classroom. We want to feed your head.

NYU SKIRBALL FUNDING

NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the Howard Gilman Foundation; Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater; Collins Building Services; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Villa Albertine; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; Goethe Institut; Austrian Consulate General New York; and Marta Heflin Foundation; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Allies for Arts Access Fund support.

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NYU SKIRBALL STAFF

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Supervisor, Lighting And Sound Emily Anderson
Ticket Operation Specialist Cliff Billings
Engagement Director J De Leon, PhD
Theater Technician Brian Emens
Company Manager Tayler Elizabeth Everts
Theater Technician George Faya
Theater Technician Angie Golightly
Operations Manager Jenny Liao
Marketing Manager Clare Lockhart
Box Office Manager Craig Melzer
Development Director Kimberly Olstad
Front of House Supervisor Jordan Peters
Production Manager Alberto Ruiz
Senior Supervisor, Lighting And Sound Don Short
Administrative Coordinator Caroline Grace Steudle
Operations Director Ian Tabatchnick
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