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By Beirut Balutis | Directed by Adam Kassim

A BU New Play Initiative, produced by Boston Playwrights’ Theatre

and Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre

Tickets: (866) 811-4111 or BostonPlaywrights.org April 18-28

A WELCOME FROM OUR ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

Friends,

Welcome to the fourth and nal new play of our Season—Dead House by

Beirut Balus, directed by Adam Kassim. You may remember Adam’s wonderful

work on Leo McGann’s The Honey Trap (winner of the 2018 Kennedy Center

American College Theater Fesval’s Naonal Student Playwring Award). Leo’s

naonal award is only one example of the successful collaboraon between

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and the BU School of Theatre’s directors, designers,

and actors working on new plays.

It’s a pleasure to bring you Beirut’s Dead House. Beirut and Adam have been

exploring the world of Appalachian teenagers for the last year. Beirut’s inspired

rendion of this somemes dangerous, somemes hilarious, but always

mysterious world mixes with the desperaon and hope of its young people. It’s

not always a prey world, but it’s never a boring one.

Next season, our talented alumni are on parade. First on the bill is Karen

Zacarias’s The Book Club Play. Karen (BU GRS’95) is one of the most-produced

playwrights in the country this year with her comedy Nave Gardens. We know

you’re going to laugh and learn from her singular take on literature among

friends. Then, Ronan Noone (Hunngton Theatre Company’s The Second

Girl and The Atheist, BPT’s Lile Black Dress, and more) brings us his award-

winning one-man play-in-verse The Smuggler. And, last but not least, our third

producon will be…a surprise! Look for our special announcement in our fall

brochure.

Once again, thank you for your connued support of new plays—it’s paying

o in producons all over the world. Recent alumna Alexis Scheer (this year’s

Laughs in Spanish) will premiere her play Our Dear Dead Drug Lord in the fall in

New York’s o-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre and WP Theater. Watch for it!

And…we connue (thanks to you)!

With warmest regards,

Jim Petosa, Director Kate Snodgrass, Director

School of Theatre MFA in Playwring/English Department

College of Fine Arts Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Dead House

By Beirut Balus

Directed by Adam Kassim

A BU New Play Iniave, produced by Boston Playwrights’ Theatre

and Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre

Scenic Design

Lighng Design

Sound Design

Costume Design

Fight Choreographer

Dramaturg

Stage Manager

Assistant Scenic Design

Assistant Costume Design

Assistant Lighng Design

Producon Manager

Producon Assistant

Master Electrician

Electricians

Carpenters

Lighng Board Operator

Paint Charge

Painter

Costume Masters

Properes Master

Run Crew

House Managers

Front of House Sta

Steven Doucee

Hannah Solomon

J Jumbelic

Ruth King

Jessica Scout Malone

Daniel Blanda

Briney Page*

Emma Barron

Maddy Brown

Ma Robson

Jerey Petersen

Carey Accola-Gavin

PJ Strachman

Ma Borah, Sam Haiman,

Amanda Holt, Maureen McCann,

Jennifer Timms

Jacob DeSousa, Steven Doucee

Travis Doughty

Patricia Hawkins

Linda Seminario

Eliana Pipes, Ally Sass

Eliana Pipes

Rona Moriah

Anna Oehlberg, Linda Seminario

Daniel Blanda, Cayenne Douglass,

Emily Keebler, Mavis Manaloto,

Eliana Pipes, Ally Sass, Sarah Shin,

Caity-Shea Violee

Dead House runs 85 minutes with no intermission.

The producon includes a gun shot sound eect.

*Member, Actors’ Equity Associaon

The video and/or audio recording of this performance

by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

CAST

Leah Gillespie

Merle

Levi

Max

Prairie

June

Barbie

Chrisne Hamel*

Thomas Mitsock

Christopher Reilly

Trey Shields

Amanda Figueroa

Liana Giangiulio

Isabella Lampson

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PLAYWRIGHT

Award-winning playwright, educator, and Vising Professor of Playwring Gary

Garrison talks with playwright Beirut Balus about the inspiraon behind Dead

House.

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Beirut: Football was a big ritual in my area. In a place that is very rural, football

was the weekly ramp up. If you were anyone you’d watch the high school games

and aerwards go to the bonre the church across the street held. Even if you

didn’t watch the game—the social aspect of being at a game was important.

My school had these grass hills around the eld; kids would lay blankets out

to socialize and gossip. My mother is a big inspiraon for this play. She’s the

football person in our family—every game, every Super Bowl, she’s watching.

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Beirut: Oh man, that’s tough. Yes, in an abstract way. I think the stories my

family tells are the root of my inspiraons. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania,

oral story telling is a part of life. I remember my father telling adventures he

had growing up all the me. I loved when we had dinners with family, my father

would retell the stories I’ve heard me and me again. I loved watching the

reacons of the people he was telling them to.

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Beirut: I think this play is about identy in a place that is unforgiving and

the adaptaon of identy to t into a place like that. Identy can become

so skewed and hidden—could you ever return to who you were? Even if it’s

dangerous. I always call the part of Pennsylvania I’m from a conservave

wonderland. It’s one of the most scenically beauful places I know—there’re

waterfalls, mountains, miles of orchards but in that beauty is this somemes

unforgiving darkness created by the people there based on supersons

and fear of the unknown. Mainly queer hate. When we rst started this play,

Adam Kassim was looking up my area and, in 2015, a group of students in this

Pennsylvania school encouraged classmates to wear annel and create an an-

gay day in response to the “Day of Silence.”

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Beirut: I think this play is about watching a stranger learn, adapt and navigate

at the drop of a hat in territory he’s never seen and the consequences of a toxic

society. If you enter pure of heart will you come out the same? I think that

message is universal—not just for the queer community but with any perceived

‘outsider.’

CAST & CREW

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to be working at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre for the rst me. Originally from

Providence, she is currently a stage management student at Boston University

also pursuing a concentraon in costume design. Previous credits at BU include

The Directors’ Project (SM), Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (SM), and La

Traviata (ASM). Regionally, she has interned at Opera House Arts in Stonington

Maine, where she worked as an ASM on The Tempest and I Have Seen Horizons,

Ruth Moore’s Stories from Maine.

BEIRUT BALUTIS is an Appalachian playwright. His works have

been developed or produced at the Boston Theater Marathon, Cape May Play-

wright Symposium, Mt. Gretna Theatre Fesval, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre,

and the Hershey Area Playhouse. Beirut previously earned his rst MFA in

Stage and Screen at Lesley University. He is currently producing and performing

within a Boston art collecve.

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theatre arst from Alpharea, GA. His works have appeared in the New South

Young Play Fesval, the Naonal Playwright Symposium at Cape May Stages,

the Boston Theater Marathon and the Boston One-Minute Play Fesval, among

others. Daniel is a rst year MFA Playwring student at Boston University and

a graduate of Columbus State University where he received his BFA in The-

atre Performance. He is proud to have worked for the world famous Drama

Bookshop in New York City and is thankful to be a part of Boston Playwrights’

Theatre.

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sity studying Costume Design. She previously assisted on Winter People at BPT,

as well as designed and assisted on several shows at Boston University School

of Theatre. Maddy worked as a wardrobe intern at Commonwealth Shake-

speare Company last season, and greatly ancipates her role as a costume

intern for The Public Theater this summer.

 is an arst and theatre-maker based out of

Boston; he will soon graduate from Boston University School of Theatre with a

BFA in Scenic Design (May 2019). Outside of the world of scenery, Steven works

as a props technician, writes plays and poetry, sews, and performs in drag. Bos-

ton University credits include 1984 (scenic/projecons design), When the Rain

Stops Falling (props master), Angels in America (wing arsan/designer), Rhinoc-

eros (props master), These Three Sisters (scenic designer), Mother Courage and

Her Children (scenic designer), The Cradle Will Rock (props master), Hydrogen

Jukebox (props master).

 is a senior Acng major at Boston University’s

School of Theatre. This is her second me joining the BPT family, having played

Izzy in The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood by Kira Rockwell last fall. Recent produc-

ons include Runaways, The Shakespeare Project, and Yo Soy Lola, a yearly

showcase performance of Lanx arsts who raise money for scholarships for

local Lanx youth. Also, Amanda just completed her senior thesis, in which she

self-directed and performed 10 self-selected pieces. She is graduang this May

and, although she is excited to move to New York, she will denitely miss the

Boston community. Amanda is very humbled to be a part of such a spectacular

cast and crew, and can’t wait to see what the future will bring.

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University and they are excited to perform in their BPT debut! They are

originally from Philadelphia and interned last summer at InterAct Theatre

Company. Recently, she originated the role as Martha in BU STAMP’s producon

of The Real Nestwives of the Cretaceous. She is grateful for the support of the

BPT community, her parents, her teachers, and her class. She hopes you enjoy

the show! Instagram: @liana_tcg

 is returning to BPT aer dialect coaching

several producons and appearing in A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Other

credits include Brecht on Brecht (PTP-NYC/Atlanc Stage); Ideaon (IRNE

nominaon – Best Supporng Actress), Brecht on Brecht, Broken Glass, On

the Verge, Ragme, Sweeney Todd (New Repertory Theatre); Tongue Tied

Tight And Delivered (Hunngton Theatre Company Summer Workshop); A

Disappearing Number (Underground Railway Theater); The Winter’s Tale

(Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Devanaughn Theatre); Miracle on 34th Street,

A Prayer for Owen Meany (Greater Boston Stage Company); Trumpery (Olney

Theatre Center); Season’s Greengs, Our Town (Wellesley Repertory Theatre);

Spinning Into Buer, The Importance of Being Earnest (Village Theatre Project);

Proof (Apollinaire Theatre); and The Glass Menagerie (Boston Center for

American Performance). Chrisne is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Acng

at BU School of Theatre and works extensively as a voice and text coach; she

is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher and holds a Teaching Cercate in the

Michael Chekhov Acng Technique. Chrisne is a graduate of Williams College.

MFA: BU.

 ( has New England credits that include A Doll’s

House, Part 2 (Hunngton Theatre Company); Lost Tempo, Every Piece of Me,

Franklin, The Honey Trap, Faithless (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Vicuña, A

Great Wilderness, Cakewalk, The Boys in the Band, The Submission, The Big

Meal, Bent, The Normal Heart (Zeitgeist Stage Company); My Three Angels,

Ghost Train, Spamalot (The Barnstormers Theater); Small Cra Warnings (Prov-

incetown Tennessee Williams Fesval); The Laramie Project (Curry College); and

9 Parts of Desire (Capital Repertory Theatre), as well as sound composions in

collaboraon with local Massachuses choreographers. Currently he is at work

on The Handmaid’s Tale (Boston Lyric Opera).

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atre and working on Beirut’s thesis play. He previously directed Leo McGann’s

KCACTF award-winning The Honey Trap at BPT in 2017, which The ARTery

named one of the “high points of the theatrical season.” This season, Adam had

the pleasure of assisng Jim Petosa on Dolores Claiborne at the Boston Uni-

versity Opera Instute and Elaine Vaan Hogue on Straight White Men at New

Repertory Theatre. Adam is a sta member and MFA Direcng candidate at BU

School of Theatre. Recent SOT direcng credits include Agamemnon at Dawn,

In the Heart of America, Ghosts, and Mrs. Packard. In addion, he has worked

with numerous theatre companies in the Boston area, including Fresh Ink The-

atre, New Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, The Nora Theatre Company, and

Bad Habit Producons. BFA: Boston University, 2005.

 is a senior costume design student at Boston

University with a minor in lm and television. She previously earned her associ-

ate’s degree in fashion design at The Fashion Instute of Technology in New

York City. Ruth has previously assisted on Angels in America at the Booth The-

atre, as well as Black Snow, and other various shows at BU. She is excited and

grateful to make her Boston design debut at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

For more informaon, please visit .

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student, is thrilled to be cast in this producon at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

Prior to coming to BU she was in numerous community theatre producons in

Westchester, NY, including Westchester Sandbox Theatre (Heathers/Heather

Chandler, Les Misérable/Cosee) and SOOP Theatre Company (The Wizard of

Oz/Dorothy, Annie/Lily St. Regis, Seussical/Gertrude McFuzz). She happily spent

summers at French Woods Fesval for the Performing Arts. Isabella is grate-

ful for the privilege of studying at Boston University’s School of Theatre, and

values the work being done. She adores her fellow BU theatre friends, and has

especially loved working with this cast, director, and playwright. She is happy to

have the support of her family as she follows her dreams.

 ( is a Boston-based theatre

arst, choreographer, themed-drink enthusiast, and avid consumer of polical

podcasts. She’s thrilled to be back at BPT with this team of smart, silly, and pas-

sionate people. With more than 17 years of movement training inuencing her

work, Jess is passionate about invesgang the ways human bodies create nar-

rave and meaning, both alone and with others, onstage and o. Jess holds a

BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University and is an Actor Combatant cered

by the SAFD. Her work can be seen with companies like Also Known As Theatre,

Anthem Theatre Company, Company One, and New Repertory Theatre. For

more informaon please visit: .

 is an actor in his nal year at Boston University

School of Theatre. Previous credits include: Angels in America, Part One:

Millennium Approaches (Louis), When the Rain Stops Falling (Gabriel Law),

and Tiger at the Gates (Ulysses). Originally from Massachuses, Thomas grew

up seeing new work at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and he feels extremely

grateful to work on this play. For more informaon, visit .

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wrights’ Theatre aer working on Lost Tempo in 2017. Previous producon

credits include Opera Bites and The Scarlet Ibis (Boston Opera Collaborave),

Road Show (Lyric Stage Company), Twelh Night of the Living Dead, and The

DARE Project (Anthem Theatre Company). Briney thanks her husband and

family for their steady paence and support. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts

from Boston University.

 ( is a playwright, lmmaker, and actor. Recent

playwring work includes Cowboy and the Moon (NNPN MFA Workshop);

DREAM HOU$E (O’Neill Finalist); Stand and Wait (Ganey Naonal Playwring

Prize Winner); Sleo Envy (Samuel French O-O Broadway Fesval, Boston

Theater Marathon). Her work has been developed with the 24 Hour Plays

Naonals and Checkmark Theater Company. She received a BA in English from

Columbia University, and is currently a rst year in Boston University’s MFA

Playwring program. More at .

CHRISTOPHER REILLY is a sophomore Acng major in the Boston Univer-

sity School of Theatre. Since being at BU he has been in Beowulf: A Thousand

Years of Baggage, People, Places and Things, and Our Country’s Good. He is

thrilled to be working on Dead House at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre with

such an amazing and collaborave cast and creave team. Before aending BU,

he went to The Boston Conservatory studying Musical Theatre. He grew up in

California, and would like to give a shout out to his phenomenal parents who

have always supported him throughout his life. Enjoy the show!

 is an acng major at the Boston University School of

Theatre from the small town of Kalispell, Montana. He has done the majority

of his collegiate acng at Boston University, acng in more experimental shows

such as Alice Birch’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. As an advocate for truth-

ful storytelling, he has spent his spare me pursuing an educaon in history

and internaonal relaons, with an intenon to establish a concentraon in

historic dramaturgy. Coming from a small town, he hopes to nd a way to make

art more accessible to all parts and demographics of the world—not just the

populous cultural hubs.

 is very excited for her second me

designing at BPT! Hannah is a graduang senior in Lighng Design at Boston

University. She is a designer, assistant, draswoman, and lighng programmer.

The relaonship BU has with BPT has allowed her to get rsthand experience

diving into new work. Working on Dead House with this incredible team has

been such an honor. Congratulaons to everyone who has made this process

happen! Special shout out to Jerey Petersen—a ROCKSTAR! Hannah’s previous

works include her recent design for Laughs in Spanish at BPT and Revolt. She

Said. Revolt Again. at the College of Fine Arts. She also assisted at Hunngton

*Actors’ Equity Associaon (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the

rst of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance,

promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essenal

component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than

49,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in

hundreds of theatres across the United States.

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SPECIAL THANKS

Shane Morin and Boston College Football, Greg Jones, Gary Garrison, Nicholas

Delgado, Tabitha, Diane, and Ronald Balus, Mary-Alice and Thomas Koch, Neil

Connelly, Paris Peet, Laura Young

Theatre Company and Wheelock Family Theatre on A Doll’s House Part 2 and

Ragme, respecvely. This season she is also working on her undergraduate

thesis The Earth is Red, an immersive gallery experience debung at the Booth

Theatre at the end of March. 

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Becoming Dr. ruth

by MARK ST. GERMAIN

dir ected by STEPHEN NACHAMIE

heartwarming biographical comedy

APr 27-mAY 19/2019

Follow Dr. Ruth Westheimer’s journey from refugee

to world famous radio personality in this lively and

humorous play.

SCHOOL OF THEATRE

The School of Theatre at the College of Fine Arts at Boston University is a leading

conservatory for the study of acng, stage management, design, producon, and all

aspects of the theatrical profession. These programs of study are enriched by the

School’s access to the greater liberal arts programs at Boston University. The School

of Theatre values the noon of “the new conservatory” and seeks to provide students

with opportunies for arsc growth through a rigorous curriculum, professional

connecons, and an emphasis on collaboraon and new work.

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Beth Barefoot Business Manager

Allyson Beheler Administrave Coordinator – Design & Producon

Todd Burgun Scene Shop Manager

McCaela Donovan Assistant Director

Brian Dudley Administrave Coordinator; Administrave

Program Head — BUSTI

Adam Kassim 855 Producon Manager

Johnny Kontogiannis Producon Manager

Penney Pinee Costume Shop Manager

Emily Ranii Academic Program Head – BUSTI

DESIGN & PRODUCTION FACULTY: Jorge Arroyo, Joel Brandwine*, Diane Fargo, Julie

Hennrikus, Nancy Leary*, Collee Livingston, James McCartney, Seághan McKay, James

Noone*, David Remedios*, Jon Savage*, Mark Stanley*, Crisna Todesco, Mariann

Verheyen*, Denise Wallace-Spriggs, Ryan Winkles, and Renee E. Yancey*

PERFORMANCE FACULTY: Judy Braha*, Yo-EL Cassell, Mark Cohen, Kirsten Greenidge,

Chrisne Hamel, Kyna Hamill, Michael Hammond, Clay Hopper, Melodie Jeery-Cassell,

Michael Kaye*, Paula Langton*, Krisn Leahey, Georgia Lyman, Maurice Parent, Jim

Petosa, Betsy Polan, Rebecca Schneebaum, Mahew Stern, Micki Taylor-Pinney, and

Elaine Vaan Hogue*

* Denotes Program Head

BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Founded in 1839, Boston University is an internaonally recognized instuon of

higher educaon and research. With more than 33,000 students, it is the fourth

largest independent university in the United States. BU consists of 16 schools and

colleges, along with a number of mul-disciplinary centers and instutes integral to

the University’s research and teaching mission. In 2012, BU joined the Associaon

of American Universies (AAU), a consorum of 62 leading research universies

in the United States and Canada. Established in 1954, Boston University College of

Fine Arts (CFA) is a top-er ne arts instuon. Comprised of the School of Music,

School of Theatre, and School of Visual Arts, CFA oers professional training in the

arts in conservatory-style environments for undergraduate and graduate students,

complemented by a liberal arts curriculum for undergraduate students.

  Dean, College of Fine Arts

  Director, School of Visual Arts

  Director ad interim, School of Music

  Director, School of Theatre

BOSTON UNIVERSITY NEW PLAY INITIATIVE

The School of Theatre has a long tradion of embracing the value of the professional

theatre’s parcipaon in the educaon of our students. We have now arrived at a

landmark number of professional theatre ventures that embrace, in a special way, the

possibilies of building strong bridges between the study and pracce of the theatre

arts.

Boston University’s Professional Theatre Iniave provides opportunies for

smulang, creave interacons between parcipang theatres and our students. In

many instances, we have created models for producing relaonships that deepen the

educaonal experience, providing a special path for professional experimentaon, and

creang new possibilies for the creaon of new plays for the theatre.

We are pleased to celebrate our professional partners in this endeavor. In this

region, New Repertory Theatre and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre are the most recent

cornerstones of the iniave. Reaching outward, relaonships with Actors’ Shakespeare

Project in Boston, Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., along with Williamstown Theatre

Fesval and Glimmerglass further enhance the possibilies of this iniave.

As part of our Professional Theatre Iniave, the New Play Iniave provides playwrights

and directors with a variety of developmental opons to support the creaon of new

work for the theatre. The semi-annual season of fully produced new plays wrien by our

MFA Playwring students, and directed by their MFA Direcng colleagues, is a highlight

of this endeavor.

FRIENDS OF THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

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Stephen M. Zide (LAW’86) ◊∂

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Bobbi Hamill ◊∂

Luo Yan (CFA’90) and

Hugo X. Shong (COM’87, GRS

‘92) ◊∂

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John A. Carey ◊#∂

Cynthia K. Curme (CFA’76,’80)

and Oliver D. Curme ◊#∂

Andrew R. Lack (CFA’68) ∂

Stewart F. Lane (CFA’73) and

Bonnie Comley ◊#∂

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SungEun E. Han-Andersen

(BUTI’81, CFA’85) and

G. Chris Andersen ◊∂

John C. Yates and

Ellen C. Yates ◊#∂

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Cathedral Fund

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Lost & Foundaon Inc.

Stewart F. Lane &

Bonnie Comley Foundaon

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Fidelity Charitable Gi Fund

G. Chris Andersen Family

Foundaon

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The Andrew B. Kim &

Wan Kyun Rha Kim

Foundaon Inc.

Ann and Gordon Gey

Foundaon

We are grateful to the generous donors who support our gied students in music,

theatre, and visual arts, and to our CFA alumni who donate to Boston University.

These gis drive important capital iniaves, scholarships, educaonal outreach,

performances, and exhibions all of which directly benet students across campus.

For more informaon about how you can join our growing list of supporters, please

would love to welcome you into our donor community! *

Chervenak Nunnalle

Foundaon

Clovelly Charitable Trust

The M&T Charitable

Foundaon

Robert Lloyd Corkin Charitable

Foundaon

The San Francisco Foundaon

TUP

UBS Donor-Advised Fund

Viking Fuel Oil Company, Inc.

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Bank of America Charitable

Gi Fund

Carriuolo Family Foundaon,

Inc.

Curriculum Associates LLC

The Frederick Zollo Company

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Gulf Coast Community

Foundaon, Inc.

Levi Foundaon, Inc.

Rosie’s Place

Santa Barbara Foundaon

Theatre Venture Inc.

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Allinson Lamb Family

Foundaon

Ayco Charitable Foundaon

Bee Davis Foundaon, Inc.

The Block Grausman Fund

Community Foundaon of

Sarasota County, Inc.

Full Paige, Inc.

The Presser Foundaon

Wingate Studio

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Anonymous

Avedis Zildjian Company

Georgiana Trust

Schwab Charitable Fund

Title Greenspan Revocable

Trust

Willard C. & Audrey G. Bear

Charitable Foundaon Trust

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Cue The Accountant, LLC

Jack M. Soble Family

Foundaon

Willow Pond Foundaon

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David Neigher Associates

E. Jorgensen & I. Yob Rev Trust

Harold Seligman Esq. PC

Holderried Nominee Trust

The Joan G Buccino Revocable

Trust

Morgan Investment Trust

Owl Mountain Music, Inc.

Susan G Innocenzi Living Trust

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Amundi Pioneer

Bank of America Corporaon

Cizens Banking Corporaon

FM Global

General Electric Foundaon

Merck & Co., Inc.

Raytheon Company

Wells Fargo Bank

*This list reects donaons

made between July 1, 2017

and June 30, 2018. If you

believe your name has been

omied from this list, please

so that we can correct our

records. For a complete list

of donors, visit 

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◊ – Annual Fund Leadership

Giving Society Member

Φ – Young Alumni Giving

Society Member

¤ – Faculty/Sta Member

⌂ – Deceased

# – Parent

∂ – Loyalty Society Member

^ – First-me Donor

JACK WELCH PLAYWRIGHTS’ FUND

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June Lewin

Jack Welch

In-Kind Contribuons

Hunngton Theatre Company

Kalman Zabarsky

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Peter Loewinthan

William and Anastasia Lyman

Chuck Schwager

Paul Walsh

In-Kind Contribuons

Deirdre Girard

Phil Schroeder

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Anonymous x 3

Rosanna and Gustavo Alfaro

Fred and Lynn Basch

David Berndt

Judy Braha and Richard Fisher

Alan and Paula Brody

Jim Brown

Cris Ca and

Jim Loutzenhiser

Maureen Conboy and

Marc Olivere

Bonnie Costello

Harold S. Crowley, Jr.

Ellen Dolnansky and

Donald Ingber

Peter M. Floyd

Deborah Fortson

Benjamin Michael Gibson

Marjan Hadipour

Dennis Hart

W.J. Hughes and

Nancy Stauer

Donald and Mary Jansiewicz

Diane Lapins and Ferd Massari

Bill Laanzi

We are grateful to our friends for their support of our mission—to provide a home for

new works for the stage.

If you are interested in making a donaon to Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, please contact

Managing Director Jacob Strautmann at (617) 353-5899 or visit our online donaon form

at www.BostonPlaywrights.org.

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Sylvia and Ralph Memolo

Molly Metzler

Annee and Michael Miller

Vita Paladino-McElroy in

honor of Kate Snodgrass

Richard and Roni Schoer

Sayre P Sheldon

William Smith

Kate Snodgrass

John and Ellen Sullivan

Dawn Tucker

Joyce Van Dyke

Jaclyn Villano Parsons

Janine and Bryson Welch in

memory of Jack Welch

In-Kind Contribuons

Dolly Brooks

Mahew Goode and

Jerey Petersen

Dan Hunter

Maureen Keiller

Melinda Lopez

Ronan Noone

Kate Snodgrass

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Alley Cat Theater

Anonymous x 2

Ken Baln in memory of

Jon Lipsky

Maryl Bedenko

Valerie Courville

Sco Cummings

Tamzen Flanders

Fort Point Theatre Channel

Boris Furman and

Viktoriya Kovalenko

David Gammons

Sheree Galpert

Betsy Gibson

Emer Grall

Michael Hammond

Avriel Hillman

Leslie Hunter

K. Lyralen Kaye

Lawrence Kessenich

John Kuntz

Gloria Leipzig

Roxanna Myhrum

Robert C. Pascucci

Dossy Peabody

Paisley Piasecki

Paula Plum

Chrisne Power

Catherine Racer

Liz and Fred Robbins

Stanley Sharan

Philip Shedd

William J. Skocpol

Melanie Snider

Martha Stearns

Linda Sutherland

Kate Svirsky

Juliana Walsh Kaiser

Sandra Weintraub

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Anonymous x 2

David Berndt

Jim Brown

Michele Del Tergo

Richard Grossman

Jerey Henderson

Jerey Hughes and

Nancy Stauer

Leslie Hunter

Faith Jusce

Jennifer Lewis

William and Anastasia Lyman

Robert Murphy

Ronan Noone

Marta Rainer

William Skocpol

Jane Sloan

Linda Sutherland

Founded in 1981 at Boston University by Nobel Laureate Derek Walco, Boston

Playwrights’ Theatre is an award-winning professional theatre dedicated to

new works. At the core of our programs is the Playwring MFA oered in

the celebrated English Department in the College of Arts & Sciences and in

collaboraon with the award-winning School of Theatre in the College of Fine

Arts. Alumni of our program have been produced in regional and New York

houses as well as in London’s West End; our own producons of alumni work

have garnered regional and Boston awards, including numerous Best New Script

Awards from the Elliot Norton commiee and the Independent Reviewers of

New England.

From class workshops to our Season of New Plays, BPT employs the best of

New England’s professional actors, directors, and designers to bring each

playwright’s vision to its rst audiences.

Each spring we produce New Noises: Massachuses Young Playwrights’ Project.

Area high schools work with professional playwrights, directors, and actors to

see student works on stage for the rst me.

Fiy local theatre companies join us annually for the Boston Theater Marathon,

a showcase of new ten-minute plays by New England playwrights chosen each

year from hundreds of entrants. Each play is produced by a dierent New

England theatre company in a single ten-hour event with all proceeds going to

charity.

When we are not producing plays, we connue our mission through the New

Play Odyssey Program, which makes theatre space available to other New

England theatre companies and playwrights for readings and fesvals of new

plays.

Derek Walco, Founder

Kate Snodgrass, Arsc Director

Jacob Strautmann, Managing Director

Jerey Petersen, Technical Director and Producon Manager

K. Alexa Mavromas, Markeng Coordinator

Melinda Lopez, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ronan Noone, Adjunct Assistant Professor

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