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May 6-June 7, 2026 PERFORMANCE LENGTH: 2 Hours, 5 Minutes, 1 Intermission ADVISORY: Strobe effects and loud thunder sounds will be used during the performance. Depictions of intoxication and simulated intercourse. Mentions of sexual assault. Descriptions of imagined torture scenes. |
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"Espejos: Clean" received a rolling world premiere production in March 2022 between South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA, USA) and Neworld Theatre (Vancouver, BC, Canada). Clean-Espejos was developed and workshopped with the support of The Lab at South Coast Repertory Theatre (2021 Pacific Playwrights Festival), Neworld Theatre (Vancouver), Theatre Aspen (Solo Flights Festival), and Tarragon Theatre (Urjo Kareda Residency, Toronto), and received additional support from Aluna Theatre (Toronto), the Playwrights Lab at the Banff Centre the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council (Canada). "Espejos: Clean" was dramaturged by Daniela Atiencia "Espejos: Clean" is produced by permission of the Playwright and Marquis Literary (Colin Rivers) www.MQlit.ca |
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Spanish Translation of Curtain Speech
Discurso de Agradecimiento - ESPEJOS: LIMPIO
SALUDOS:
¡Bienvenidos a la sexta producción de la 21ª temporada de Capital Stage! Continuamos nuestra temporada con el estreno de ESPEJOS: CLEAN por Christine Quintana, con traducción y adaptación en español por Paula Zelaya Cervantes. Tenemos algunos anuncios antes de empezar. Favor de aprovecharlos para apagar sus móviles.
PATROCINADORES:
Nuestro sincero agradecimiento a CapRadio por ser los patrocinadores de esta obra. También le brindamos agradecimiento a Joe Bertolucci de Affordable Heating & Air por la instalación y el mantenimiento de nuestro nuevo sistema de HVAC. Y otro agradecimiento especial a nuestro patrocinador de Wine Wednesdays, Di Arie Vineyard & Winery, y a nuestro socio de Beer Fridays, Oak Park Brewing Company.
ARTISTA INVITADO:
Capital Stage tiene el honor de ser el anfitrión las obras de arte de Verónica Kovats Sánchez, las cuales estarán colocadas en el Patron Lounge durante el curso de nuestra producción de ESPEJOS: CLEAN. Su espectáculo es titulado "Roots & Reverie." Pueden aprender más sobre Verónica y su trabajo en su página de web www.veronicakovatsart.com
A CONTINUACIÓN:
A continuación, en Capital Stage, se estrenará por primera vez en Sacramento la obra por Carla Ching titulada THE TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP. Jeffrey Lo regresara para dirigir esta obra "finamente escrita" sobre el enamorarse y desenamorarse de un mejor amigo. Mostrándose del 24 de junio al 26 de julio. ¡Los boletos ya están disponibles!
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CAPCHATS (domingo 17 de mayo, jueves 21 de mayo, domingo 24 de mayo, domingo 31 de mayo, y jueves 4 de junio): La obra de hoy será seguida por una charla con los actores. ¡Asegúrense de acompañarnos!
CIERRE:
La función de hoy durará 2 horas con un intermedio. Por su seguridad, favor de no mantenerse parados en los pasillos o en las puertas colocadas al entrar al escenario. Los pasillos son utilizados a menudo por nuestros actores y miembros del equipo. Si necesita salir del teatro por cualquier motivo, por favor espere a que nuestro encargado de la casa le ayude a regresar a su asiento. La fotografía o grabación durante el espectáculo está estrictamente prohibida. En casos de emergencia, por favor salga por las mismas puertas por las que entró al teatro.
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Si le gusto el trabajo que hacemos aquí en Capital Stage, por favor cuénteselo a sus amigos y familiares. Su apoyo hace toda la diferencia.
Y ahora, por favor, disfrute nuestra producción de ESPEJOS: CLEAN.
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Cast
Creative Team
Christine Quintana
Paula Zelaya Cervantes
Dena Martinez
Michael Stevenson
Liz Gray
Tony Gabrielson
Caleb Jones
Melissa Jernigan*
Hailey Bowland^
Tricia Tecson
Shae Mercer
EJ Agata
Stephanie Dittbern
Ed Lee
Morgan Sommer
Samantha McLean Haas
Nicole Limón
Elio Gutierrez
Special Thanks
Joe Bertolucci, Affordable Heating & Air, Inc.
Dan Brunner
Darkstarr
Donna Chipps
Richard Falcon
Priority Parking
Naomi Williams
Production Staff
Artistic Director - MICHAEL STEVENSON
Production & Company Manager - TONY GABRIELSON
Director - DENA MARTINEZ
Stage Manager - MELISSA JERNIGAN*
Assistant Stage Manager - HAILEY BOWLAND^
Technical Director - CALEB JONES
Scenic Designer - TRICIA TECSON
Scenic Charge Artist - SAMANTHA McLEAN HAAS
Lead Carpenter - CONOR WOODS
Carpenter, Painter - SUNNY MACKEY
Lighting Designer, Lead Electrician - SHAE MERCER
Projections Designer, Supertitle & Projection Engineer - EJ AGATA
Costume Designer - STEPHANIE DITTBERN
Dialect Coach - ELIO GUTIERREZ
Sound Designer & Engineer - ED LEE
Properties Designer - MORGAN SOMMER
Build Crew - SUNNY MACKEY, CONOR WOODS, CALEB JONES
Painters - SAMANTHA McLEAN HAAS, CALEB JONES, SUNNY MACKEY, CONOR WOODS
Wardrobe/Run Crew - HAILEY BOWLAND^, LYDIA CRIST^, JAMES SIMPSON^
Dramaturg - NICOLE LIMÓN
Resident Dramaturg - K. KEVYNE BAAR, PHD
BIAPOC Liaison - NICOLE ANNE SALLE
Infection Control Manager/Admin. & Payroll Assistant - ELIJAH PETERS
Graphic Designer, Marketing Manager, Webmaster - MISTY MCDOWELL
Photographer - CHARR CRAIL
^ Capital Stage Apprentice | * Member Actors' Equity Association
About The Play
by K. Kevyne Baar, PhD
“English is not the only language that matters here...If we really want to know one another, and be privy to the experiences of one another, we’re going to have to really listen to each other in a way that we don't necessarily expect to or in a way we’re not used to."
“El inglés no es el único idioma que importa aquí... Si realmente queremos conocernos y ser partícipes de las experiencias de los demás, tendremos que escucharnos verdaderamente de una manera que no necesariamente esperamos, o de una forma a la que no estamos acostumbrados.”
Christine Quintana
A hint of what will soon appear before you can be found in the quotes above. This is a bilingual play in English and Spanish with translations supplied in both languages throughout. Each of these two characters speaks her own language and shares her unique experiences directly with the audience. Their infinitely different realities are seen in parallel as if in a mirror (espejos) which brings them together, revealing and magnifing a mutual pain. Broadway World calls this play by Christine Quintana, adapted and translated by Paula Zelaya-Cervantes, “A fascinating investigation of class, trauma, wealth, poverty, and the agonizing need to confront one's past.”
In his review of a 2023 production of this play at Studio Theatre, critic Alberto Roblest writes of the mirror as “an object of vanity, but also a manner of recognizing ourselves in an image that simultaneously reflects and observes us. But the mirror is also a smoky portal from which we can discover the toll of years—what we are and what we were.” We are reminded of Lewis Carrol “who puts Alice behind a looking glass that reflects an upside-down world, where everything means something else.”
Quintana set her play in this location because for her, “Resorts are weird places...it’s supposedly Mexico, but it's more of a performance of Mexico by American-run companies using Mexican labour. It’s also very beautiful and very luxurious, and there's a lot about it that's very alluring, but there's a very insidious undertone to the whole thing.” The setting allows her to tell the story of “the lives of two women [whose] very different worlds collide...exposing us to the reality of vacation paradises, where the client is king and the customer is always right, bringing a confrontation between two worlds, two realities, and two perspectives on life.”
Adriana is the hardworking Mexican manager of the housekeepers. She seeks to stay clean of her history in Chetumal by living and working in Cancún. On the flip side is Canadian Sarah, one of those visitors, who is the self-proclaimed family disaster. She is trying to fulfill the duties as her sister’s maid of honor at this desination wedding while fighting down the secret she’s been carrying for years. They meet by chance and are forced to face their traumas causing our playwright to note that, “none of us can ever know what’s happening with someone else and how they are responding.” Perhaps as you reach the end of this play, you will know and understand these two disparit and lonely souls just a bit more in a place and a play where they are here, but they are not here. Están aquí pero no están aquí.
About The Playwright
by K. Kevyne Baar, PhD
“I think it's good for people who are not multilingual to open their eyes and their ears to the breadth of linguistic, and therefore cultural, experience that is all around us."
“Creo que es bueno para las personas que no son multilingües abrir los ojos y los oídos a la amplitud de la experiencia lingüística —y, por ende, cultural— que nos rodea.”
Christine Quintana
On her website, Christine Quitana, our playwright, describes herself as “a theatre person living on the stolen, unsurrendered territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. My dad was Mexican-American, born in El Paso Texas, and my mom is a Dutch-British settler born in Edmonton, Alberta [Canada]. I was born on Tongva land (Los Angeles), and I grew up in East Van [Vancouver] seeing every show I could at The Cultch and the Vancouver Playhouse – I am now grateful to be employed acting, writing, and otherwise making theatre things happen on stages and spaces in my neighbourhood and across Canada.”
She is “inspired by artists and stories that look at our most uncomfortable contradictions through a lens of compassion, humour, and beauty. My plays explore memory, relationships, grief, and love. I have a special interest in capturing the vitality and complicated realities of my East Van neighborhood, Commercial Drive. I’m also busily engaged with many incredible change-makers in our community who are working to shift the balance of power in the Canadian scene – advocacy and community engagement is inseparable from my art practice.”
Quintana is the winner of the 2023 Ted Schmitt Award for the world premiere of an outstanding new play for Espejos: Clean She was the Miriam Bennet Artist in Residence at the Arts Club Theatre Company in Vancouver. She has worked on a commission for the Manhattan Theatre Club and is developing a new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Usually, when an author writes in two languages, they are fluent in each. In this case, playwright Quintana confessed in an earlier program to having only “intermediate” Spanish skills. As a result, she joined with Mexican playwright, screenwriter, director, and translator Paula Zelaya-Cervantes and worked with her to translate the play into the two languages. Zelaya-Cervantes graduated from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, with a double major in Theatre and Honours English Literature and has adapted and translated close to thirty plays, several of which she has also directed.
Now living in East Vancouver, a Canadian city where less than 2% of the population is Latinx, Quintana feels the weight this story holds on stage both personally and in the wider context of Canada’s theatre community. “When voices are already underrepresented, the representation that finally does arrive falls under intense scrutiny.”
When discussing how audiences might receive this play, Quintana admitted that she wanted to “subvert the assumption that she would tell the audience how to think about her characters.” Instead, “she hoped to engage audiences who want to be challenged. She prefers the audience arrive ready to deeply listen and form their own understanding of these characters.” As she sees it, “there are many ways to engage in passive entertainment, and the theatre isn’t one of them.”
Meet the Company
Sarita Ocón*
Sarita Ocón* is an award winning actor, producer, and multidisciplinary theatre artist, thrilled to be making her Capital Stage debut. Recently seen in MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Countess Elena Andrenyi) Zach Theater. Regional credits: PRIVATE LIVES (Amanda) American Conservatory Theater, Arizona Theatre Company; AMERICAN MARIACHI (Amalia) Alley Theater; ROMEO Y JULIET (Romeo) California Shakespeare Theater. Additional credits: Berkeley Repertory, Huntington Theatre, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Oakland Theater Project, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Round House Theatre, South Coast Repertory, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, among others. Awards: TCG Fox Foundation Actor Fellowship, California Arts Council Impact Award, RHE Foundation Artistic Fellowship. BA Stanford University.
Stephanie Altholz*
Stephanie is a proud B Street Core Acting Company Member. B Street credits include DRACULA, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, PICKLEBALL, THE LAST MATCH, ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, AIRNESS, WE’RE GONNA BE OKAY, and many more. She has also appeared in many B Street Family Series productions, as well as writing and starring in an original play, TREATMENT. She is part of MAXIMUM OCCUPANCY, and SEEKERS OF THE STRANGE in B Street’s ‘Upstairs at the B’ space. Capital Stage credits include ALABASTER, SLOWGIRL, REASONS TO BE PRETTY, CLYBOURNE PARK, and ERRATICA.
Yesenia Lopez
Yesenia Lopez is a bilingual actor, teaching artist, and theatre maker based in Sacramento, CA. Most recently, she appeared in EL BORRACHO with Teatro Nagual and served as the understudy for NOSOTROS LA GENTE at B Street Theatre. During her time in Oregon, she performed with Milagro Theatre and Bag&Baggage Productions in EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS, ¡ALEBRIJES!, ISLAND IN THE WINTER, and AMOR AÑEJO. In Sacramento, her Teatro Espejo credits include ELECTRICIDAD, ZOOT SUIT, WOMEN OF JUAREZ, ENSLAVED, FRIDA KAHLO, and TAMALERAS, and she served as assistant director on LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
Lydia Crist^
Christine Quintana
Born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-American father and a Dutch-British-Canadian mother, Christine grew up as a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Christine is an actor, playwright, and co-Artistic Producer of Delinquent Theatre. In these various capacities, she has worked with Tarragon Theatre, the Arts Club Theatre Company, Bard on the Beach, The Cultch, Neworld Theatre, Electric Company Theatre, Rumble Theatre, Boca Del Lupo, Zee Zee Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Pi Theatre, Gateway Theatre, Nightswimming Theatre, Belfry Theatre, Stratford Festival, and Young People’s Theatre. Her writing has been translated and performed in Spanish, French, ASL, and German. Creation/performing highlights include EL TERREMOTO (Tarragon Theatre); AS ABOVE (Belfry Theatre); SOMEONE LIKE YOU (Arts Club Theatre Company); ESPEJOS: CLEAN (translated and adapted by Paula Zelaya Cervantes), with Neworld Theatre and South Coast Repertory; NEVER THE LAST (co-created with Molly MacKinnon), produced by Delinquent Theatre, recipient of 5 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations including Outstanding Production and Outstanding New Script and winner of Significant Artistic Achievement; SELFIE (commissioned by Théâtre la Seizième in French, and Young People’s Theatre in English, Governor General’s Award nominee, winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding TYA Play, the Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Script by an Emerging Playwright, and the Tom Hendry award for TYA); GOOD THINGS TO DO (rEvolver Festival and FoldA), and EAST VAN PANTO: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and EAST VAN PANTO: ROBIN HOOD, co-written with Jiv Parasram. As an actor, Christine has recently played in HAMLET and TWELFTH NIGHT (Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival); MADE IN CANADA (rice & beans theatre), ANYWHERE BUT HERE (Electric Company Theatre), THE COYOTES (Caravan Farm Theatre), MARINE LIFE (Ruby Slippers Theatre), YOGA PLAY (Gateway Theatre), EAST VAN PANTO: THE WIZARD OF OZ (Theatre Replacement and The Cultch). She was honored with the 2017 Siminovitch Protege Prize for Playwriting from Marcus Youssef, and holds a BFA in Acting from the University of British Columbia.
Paula Zelaya Cervantes
Mexican playwright, screenwriter, director, and translator Paula Zelaya-Cervantes graduated from UBC in Vancouver, Canada, with a double major in Theatre and Honours English Literature thanks to the support of the International Leader of Tomorrow Scholarship granted to only thirteen students worldwide each year. Paula has written and directed several plays including THE ORBWEAVER/EL HILADOR (Teatro Helénico 2018, Mexico City; Vancouver Fringe Festival International Mainstage Selection, 2016) and 245 ACTS OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL, which she co-wrote with Ana González Bello and which won the Latino National Playwright Award granted by the Arizona Theatre Company and the Sharon Enkin Play for Young People Award granted by the Playwright’s Guild of Canada. Paula has adapted and translated close to thirty plays, several of which she has also directed.
Dena Martinez
Dena Martinez is a Board Member and Company Member of Capital Stage and has directed for Capital Stage, FADE, THE HOMBRES and THE ROOMATE and 2 seasons for the Playwrights Revolution. She has also performed as an actress with Capital Stage in ENGLISH, MR BURNS POST ELECTRIC PLAY, BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY and AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY. Directing credits elsewhere include: EL HENRY for Remote Theater, MARISOL for ARC, LA PASTORELLA, At the Crest Theater for Latino Center for Art and Culture, MANZI THE STORY OF CESAR CHAVEZ for The Bay Area Children’s Theater, THE PRAYING MANTIS for City Lights Theater, and directed over many years for The Marsh and Vector Theater Co. She was part of the Directing Team for LOVE IS A DREAM HOUSE IN LOREN with Shotgun Players. She has also directed 20 years at the Sierra Institute for Arts and Music where she runs the theater arts program and was Artistic Director of Latina Theater Lab in San Francisco, which she founded. Dena Martinez is a national theater actress and is a Talent Agent and Actress with Cast Images Talent Agency.
Michael Stevenson
Liz Gray
Tony Gabrielson
Caleb Jones
Melissa Jernigan*
Melissa most recently worked at Capital Stage on FAT HAM, EUREKA DAY, UNSEEN and the world premiere of EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL HAPPENS AT NIGHT. She has been stage managing at Capital Stage since 2016. Some of her favorites include VIETGONE, THE NETHER, STUPID F##KING BIRD, CLYDE’S and THE HOMBRES. Other credits include being a PA on Broadway’s LENNON, Off-Broadway: FELA! the Lagos Tour, David Cromer’s OUR TOWN, John Leguizamo: A WORK IN PROGRESS, BEAUTY OF THE FATHER at Manhattan Theatre Club, BREATH & IMAGINATION at Hartford Stage, OUR TOWN starring Helen Hunt at The Broad Theatre in Santa Monica. She was a sub stage manager on HARRY POTTER & THE CURSED CHILD in SF and this past holiday season returned to her roots as an ASM on ELF: THE MUSICAL at Broadway at Music Circus. She is a proud Equity Member. When she’s not inside the stage management booth with her good friend Ed Lee, Melissa enjoys spending time with her Husband and two sons.
Hailey Bowland^
Tricia Tecson
Shae Mercer
EJ Agata
Stephanie Dittbern
Ed Lee
Morgan Sommer
Samantha McLean Haas
Nicole Limón
Elio Gutierrez
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Capital Stage Staff
MICHAEL STEVENSON - Artistic Director
LIZ GRAY - Managing Director
KIRK BLACKINTON - Development Manager
TONY GABRIELSON - Production & Company Manager
MISTY MCDOWELL - Marketing Manager
LOGAN JACOB GERMANO HELLER – Education & Box Office Manager
THEODORE ALEXANDER - House Manager
CALEB JONES - Technical Director
CONOR WOODS - Lead Carpenter
SUNNY MACKEY - Carpenter, Painter
ED LEE - Resident Sound Designer & Engineer
SHAE MERCER - Lead Electrician
CECILIA CASTILLO JUAREZ - Concessions & Box Office Associate
YASMINE SALMERON - Production Associate
K. KEVYNE BAAR, PhD - Resident Dramaturg
JAMIE JONES, PETER MOHRMANN, GAIL RUSSELL, JANIS STEVENS – Associate Artists
ELIJAH PETERS - Infection Control Manager, Payroll & Administrative Assistant
2025/26 SEASON APPRENTICE COMPANY - Hailey Bowland, Lydia Crist, James Simpson
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Dan Brunner, Treasurer
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Professor and Vice Chair of the CSUS Dept of Theatre and Dance
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Elena Lopez-Gusman, Chair of Governance
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Dena Martinez
Talen Agent, Director, Actor
Kristi Quesada Mathisen, Board Vice President
Sacramento Country Day School
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Stephanie Gularte, Founding Artistic Director
Capital Stage
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Julie Stark
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Donors
Special Thanks to our Donors
Donation Totals from 5/6/25 to 5/6/26
Please alert us to any errors or omissions by contacting Development Manager, Kirk Blackinton at kblackinton@capstage.org.
Founder's Circle: $20,000+
John Abbott & Lori Abbott Moreland
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Lesley & Steve Koonce
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Ann Siprelle
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Harry & Linda Struthers
Shirley Toy & Dwight Crocker
Stephanie Tucker
Harold & Ilah Turner
Kim Varner
Denise Verbeck
James O Walker Jr
Karen Willstatter
John Wilson & Susie Monary-Wilson
Carol Wolff Barnes
Suzanne & Jesse Womack
Ensemble: $300+
Candace & Doug Adams
John & Kathleen Agnew
Wendell Alderson & Ken Nather
David Alois & Jacquie Embs
Kathleen Anderson
John Angell
Karen Auwaerter
Robert & Laura Jane Young
Don Beckham
Ruthann Biel & Bill Claypool
Barbara Black
Peter Botto
Bruce Bowers
Karen Broido
Dr. William Bronston & Lisa Levering
Carin & Bob Bryans
Steve Buri
Marilyn Champa
Gregg & Marlene Cook
Timothy Corcoran
Maryann Crawford
Jim Dodds
Katherine Downey
Andrew Enberg
Tracie & Richard Fike
Clint Fleener
Kelli Frostad
Anne Geraghty
Carol & Steven Goldberg
William & Margaret Gray
Mary Graziose
Dennis Gunvalson & Richard Bay
Chris Huber & S. B. Hadley Wilson
Linda Hansen
Polly Hasemann
Dr. Brian & Sherry Haus
Eileen Heaser
Mike & Doris Horton
Patrick & Suzanne Hunt
Gary & Eva Incaudo
Lydia Inghram
Lawrence Jacobs
Aisha Johnk & David O'Brien
Don Johnson & Elizabeth Miller
Jo Ann Joye
David & Kathy Kahn
MaryBeth Kavanagh
Linda Kingsley & Sharon Liberatore
Jane Kirkland
Pamela Kisor
Dr. John & Rosemary Lamb
Susan & Jeffrey Leider
Rick Martinez
Cheryl & Lee McDonald
Terry McLean
Steven Meinrath & Helen Nusbaum
Lynne Meredith
George & Carolyn Meyer
Hallie Morrow
Becky & Bob Norris
Steve Patwell
John & Sandy Peirce
Ted Prim & Marian M. Johnston
Enid Pritikin
James Queirolo
Sherry Reser
Amy & Jason Rogers
Carol Rogers & Jon Courtway
Bob & Shirley Rosenberg
Laura Rosenthal
JC Sales
Ann Samuelson
Brian Sehnert
Joe Shea
Janet S Shibamoto-Smith
Elaine Silver
Susan & Ross Siragusa
James & Janet Soller
Peggy Stare
Patricia Sturdevant
Patricia Symkowick
Dan & Karen Tajbl
Nina Thomson
Rachel Tooker & Randy Roberts
Michael & Barbara Ullman
Marian Ver Wey
Elaine Verbarg
Phillip Vulliet
Iris Vuong & Markus Jackson
Patricia Wall & David Stavarek
Bryan Weare
LeRose Weikert
Richard & Kathy Williams
Lulu Wong
Claudia & Olin Woods
Wendy & Mark Zlotlow
Patron: $150+
Ryan Adame
Elaine Alexander
Rebecca Armstrong
Terri Auwaerter
Debra Baldwin
Heidi Ballard
Kim Barragan
Ricki Bergado
Brenda Betts
Rick Boeck
Janis Briggs
Sandra Briggs-Howell
Constance Brown
Terry Brown
Ted Calvert
Barbara Celli
Bernice Chin
Allison Claire
Idelle & Dan Claypool
John Collet
Michelle Collins
Dennis & Susan Cook
Marilyn Cooper
Thomas Cross
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Prietto Cueto Fund
Gretchen Cypin
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William Hunter
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Clif McFarland
Karen Morrison
Scott Moyer
Kimberly Mueller
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Erin O'neil
Julie F. Owens
Barbara Payne
Larry Pearson
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Nancy Petrisko
Sarah Phelan
Jessica M. Powell
Karyn Quan
Nathan Rangel
Mary Reed
Rachel Roberts
Patrick Romano
Dr Kurt Rosen & Ms Dominique Pollara
Ruth Rosenberg
Linda Roth
Elizabeth Sachs
Vicki Sarantopulos
Kevin Schunke
Elyse Sharp
Shonna Shearson
Adrienne Sher
Jean & David Shiomoto
Michael Sicilia
Karen Smith
Robert Snider
Susanne Sommer & George Ramsey
Neill SooHoo
Julie Stein
Craig Stevens
Pamela Stewart
David Stolcenberg
Claire Tauzer
Adele Taylor
Sharon Taylor
Susan & Ken Taylor
Patty Torbert & Ken Graber
Mildred Torrance
Dennis Valentine
Kristina Vandershaf
Roger Vincent
Kevin Walsh
John Weber
John & Carole Whitelaw
Steven Winlock
Arnold Wolf & Fern Tablin
Megan Wygant
Ellie Zacks & Kathy Buxton
Elaine & Dimitris Zorbas
"The Crew" - Recurring Donors
Chris Abare
John Abbott & Lori Abbott Moreland
Candace & Doug Adams
John Angell
Walter & Linda Barnes
Peggy Beasley
Chastity Benson
Bill Bronston
Celia Buckley
Steve Buri
Margaret L Buss
Bernice Chin
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Kathleen Collins
Gayle Dax-Conroy
Katherine Downey
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Ellen Ferguson
Lisa Foster
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Adrienne Graham
Mary Graziose
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Beth Hassett
Stephanie & David Hunt
Kim Hunter
Linda Iseri
Leili Khalessi
Pamela Kisor
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John Marinko
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Gloria Woodlock
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