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October 15-November 16, 2025 PERFORMANCE LENGTH: 1 Hour, 40 Minutes, with 1 Intermission |
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Dramaturg K. Kevyne Baar, PhD |
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“Eureka Day” is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service imprint. (www.dramatists.com) Originally commissioned and produced by Aurora Theatre Company |
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Cast
Creative Team
Jonathan Spector
Amy Resnick
Michael Stevenson
Liz Gray
Tony Gabrielson
Caleb Jones
Melissa Jernigan*
Maddie Hardiman
Eric Broadwater
Patrick O'Reilly
Naomi Saraceno Wiemken
Ryan McKinney
Ethan Hollinger
EJ Agata
Rebecca A. Valentino
Riley Cisneros-Gruenthal
Ed Lee
Hailey Bowland^
Samantha McLean Haas
Nicole C. Limón
K. Kevyne Baar, PhD
Special Thanks
Joe Bertolucci, Affordable Heating & Air, Inc.
Sonia Carrillo
CapRadio
Jim Hargrove
Marin Theatre Company
Darcia Tipton
UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance
Production Staff
Artistic Director - MICHAEL STEVENSON
Director - AMY RESNICK
Production & Company Manager - TONY GABRIELSON
Stage Manager - MELISSA JERNIGAN*
Assistant Stage Manager - MADDIE HARDIMAN
Technical Director - CALEB JONES
Lead Carpenter - CONOR WOODS
Carpenter, Painter - SUNNY MACKEY
Lighting Designer - PATRICK O'REILLY
Associate Lighting Designers - NAOMI SARACENO WIEMKEN, RYAN MCKINNEY
Scenic Designer - ERIC BROADWATER
Costume Designer - REBECCA A. VALENTINO
Projections Designer - ETHAN HOLLINGER
Assistant Projections Designer - EJ AGATA
Lead Electrician - SHAE MERCER
Scenic Charge Artist - SAMANTHA McLEAN HAAS
Sound Designer & Engineer - ED LEE
Assistant Sound Designer - HAILEY BOWLAND^
Properties Designer - RILEY CISNEROS-GRUENTHAL
Build Crew - SUNNY MACKEY, CONOR WOODS, CALEB JONES
Painters - SAMANTHA McLEAN HAAS, CALEB JONES, SUNNY MACKEY, CONOR WOODS
Wardrobe/Run Crew - STEPHEN BYRUM^, JAMES SIMPSON^
Resident Dramaturg - K. KEVYNE BAAR, PHD
Intimacy Coordinator - NICOLE C. LIMÓN
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
“The people in this play are struggling toward something beautiful—for a place where everybody’s okay. Yet the question that keeps getting begged is, who gets to decide what everybody being okay is?”
– Anna D. Shapiro
“At forward-thinking Eureka Day School, all decisions are made by consensus, and everyone’s opinion is valued. But when a crisis puts their children in danger, it turns out that Eureka Day parents have different definitions of safety.”
In numerous interviews about researching his play, our playwright Jonathan Spector, spoke of something he had not expected. “I’d had the experience a few times in the Bay Area of talking with people who I know are super smart, highly educated people with whom I agree on 99% of issues and then being shocked to discover that on this one thing we existed in different realities. So that was interesting to me.
Also, unlike gun control or abortion or climate change, beliefs around vaccines don’t track closely with political beliefs. There are vaccine skeptics on both the left and the right (although they get there different ways).”
In this play that was the first commission from Aurora’s Originate+Generate program, you will more than likely find that the debate over vaccinations, which is actually more intense now then when this play premiered in 2018 (and remains set at that date), hits home as the school community confronts the central question of our era: how do you find consensus when you can’t agree on the facts?
In an interview a few months after the Broadway production had closed and the play was beginning to be performed far and wide, Spector was asked, “Did you ever think in 2017 that Eureka Day would fare as well as it has, or that it would be so on point in 2025?”
He replied, “ I certainly never imagined that it would have so much life beyond Berkeley. You know, it was commissioned for a theater in Berkeley – and I was living in Berkeley – and really I was just trying to write something that would be the most Berkeley thing I could for that audience and that theater. And people responded really positively to it in that first production in Berkeley, but you know, I didn’t really know if that was just because people like seeing themselves reflected on stage. Would it actually resonate with anybody outside of Berkeley? So it was really exciting to see how much people connected to it I guess in that classic universality through specificity kind of thing.”
He goes on to say, “Any time you write a play, at least when I write a play but I think most people, you become very obsessed with something to the degree that you’re much more obsessed with it than everybody else and they get annoyed hearing you talk about it. So it was very strange that what felt like a private obsession of mine became sort of a global obsession. We all had to wrestle with these ideas and these terms and these realities and these choices.”
Isn’t the opportunity to wrestle with ideas like these, these realities and choices, one of the reasons we come to Capital Stage?
About The Playwright
by K. Kevyne Baar, PhD
“Whenever you’re writing anything that has any kind of political valence, the danger is always that you’re gonna offer up some neat answer on a platter to an audience—which leaves no space for the audience, and it feels false, because we know life is messier than that.”
–Jonathan Spector
Jonathan Spector, an award-winning playwright based in Northern California, found himself majorly feted in 2025 when his play, EUREKA DAY, won the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Drama League Award, for Best Revival of a play. His other award-winning works have been produced on and off Broadway, regionally, and internationally, including his plays THIS MUCH I KNOW (Edgerton Award); BIRTHRIGHT; BEST AVAILABLE (Elizabeth George Commission); and SIESTA KEY.
His plays have been produced at theaters across the United States and a few across the various oceans from his former home theatre, the Aurora in Berkeley (the birthplace of EUREKA DAY), to the Burgtheater, The National Theater of Austria. To this list, one can add the Manhattan Theater Club, The Old Vic/Sonia Friedman Productions, Hampstead Theater, Theater J, Miami New Drama, Asolo Rep, Syracuse Stage, InterAct, Shotgun Players, Mosaic Theater, Colt Coeur, Just Theater, and the State Theater of South Australia.
On his website, Spector likes to describe himself as “a graduate of the much-besieged New College of Florida and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State. In his misspent youth as an aspiring director, he was a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a frequent collaborator with The Civilians, and a dealer at New York's largest underground poker club.”
In spite of or perhaps because of that seemingly checkered past, Spector’s honors list includes two Glickman Awards for Best Play to premiere in the San Francisco Bay Area, two Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards, the Rella Lossy Award, Theater Bay Area Award, and a WhatsOnStage Award Nomination. He has been a Playwrights Center Core Writer, as well as a TheatreWorks Core Writer, and MacDowell Fellow. Spector’s numerous residencies have included SPACE at Ryder Farm Resident, and Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright. He is currently working on commissions from the Roundabout Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse and Manhattan Theater Club with his work being published by Dramatists Play Service/Broadway Licensing.
Spector cares deeply about the audience, and their reaction to a play. In an interview/discussion shortly before the Broadway production went into rehearsal Spector spoke about what would become a notable scene in the play, and I have no doubt you will know when you see it. “The most out-of-body experience I’ve ever had in the theatre was during the first preview of this play. I really did not understand how that live-stream scene works, and none of us working on the production had any idea that the audience was going to respond in the way they did...You just cannot understand what a play is until you have an audience.”
Meet the Company
Kurt Johnson*
Kurt returns to Capital Stage with EUREKA DAY. An active member of the Sacramento theatre scene since 1994, he has performed in or directed over one hundred productions. Favorites include THE CHRISTIANS, WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF?, and ESCANABA IN DA MOONLIGHT (B Street Theatre); THE GRAPES OF WRATH (Sacramento Theatre Company); CABARET (Sacramento Music Circus); and his last appearance at Capital Stage, MAURITIUS (2010, on the Delta King riverboat). Kurt is semi-retired from acting and works as a computer programmer at UC Davis. He thanks his wife, Hilary, for her love and tolerance, and his kids, Cameron, Jake, and Kate, for enduring the bad dad jokes and "unique" dance moves.
Shannon Mahoney*
Shannon Mahoney is thrilled to be back at Capital Stage! She is a Sacramento-based actor, director, and choreographer. Acting credits include FAIRVIEW, GLORIA, MAPLE AND VINE, CLYBOURNE PARK, and ENRON at Capital Stage; THE LADIES FOURSOME and THE SOUND OF FREEDOM at B Street Theatre; Sacramento Theatre Company’s production of THE CRUCIBLE; KILLER JOE and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Big Idea Theatre. Some recent choreography credits include: VIETGONE, MR. BURNS, ANNA KARENINA at Capital Stage; MR. BURNS, CABARET, RENT at Falcon’s Eye Theatre. She holds an MFA from CSU Fullerton and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.
Atim Udoffia*
Atim Udoffia is an actor, director, and mother of two working in theatre and film in the Sacramento and Bay Area. Udoffia recently produced and adapted her first grass-roots theatre project at the CLARA Auditorium, Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT, playing the role of Rosalind. She has appeared at Capital Stage (AMERICAN FAST, DISGRACED, CLYBOURNE PARK), STC (MACBETH, THE TEMPEST), Aurora Theatre Company (THE ROYALE), and other Bay Area and L.A. stages. Udoffia has directed multiple shows at Big Idea Theatre, where she received two theatre-festival Best Director awards. Udoffia earned a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University before pursuing acting training in London and Los Angeles. She thanks Michael Stevenson and Amy Resnick for this beautiful ride in EUREKA DAY.
Mayette McDonald
Mayette McDonald is a local Filipina-American actor and voiceover artist. She holds a BA in Theatre from California State University, Sacramento. Previous credits include POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE (Big Idea Theatre), AFTER THE BLAST (Big Idea Theatre), GLORIA (Capital Stage), THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN OF JENNY CHOW (B Street Theatre), and several seasons of B Street Theatre’s School Tour throughout Northern California and the Bay Area. She has won several acting awards from the Sacramento Film and Music Festival.
Chris Sharpe
Chris Sharpe is excited to be returning to the Capital Stage Family with EUREKA DAY, he has been previously seen as Trifko Grabez in ARCHDUKE, Sam Hendrix in WAIT UNTIL DARK, Gaston in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Tommy in A DREAMER EXAMINES HIS PILLOW, and Officer Tierney in CLARA. He would like to take this opportunity to thank the Sacramento community for always supporting the arts. You can find him displaying and selling his artwork at the Midtown Farmers Market and at www.renegadecompass.com
Lydia Crist^
Lydia is so happy to be making her debut at Capital Stage! She has her degree in acting and directing from George Fox University, and is currently part of the Capital Stage Apprenticeship Program. She has previously played Annelle in STEEL MAGNOLIAS and Nellie in JEKYLL AND HYDE at Convergence Theatre Company. Enjoy the show!
Michael Cross
Michael is honored to be part of the EUREKA DAY cast here at CapStage. Past roles include Erik in THE HUMANS at the Geary theatre, Colonel Mustard in CLUE the musical, Narrator/Mysterious Man in INTO THE WOODS, Mr. Mushnik in A LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Maury in DISASTER THE MUSICAL, Tevye in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, and Harry Bright in MAMMA MIA. Love to Christina Rae Cross for all her support.
Taylor Burris
Taylor Burris is thrilled to be part of this production. Recent Sacramento theatre credits include Ann in IN THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM with Black Point Theatre, Louise in WILD DUST at Resurrection Theatre, and Ivy in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at Capital Stage. Taylor holds a degree in Theatre from Ball State University and currently serves as a Program Director at NorCal Arts.
Taylor Vaughan
Taylor Vaughan’s productions include: Maria in TWELFTH NIGHT at Sacramento Theatre Company, Dido in AN OCTOROON at CapStage, Regan in BACHELORETTE at Big Idea Theatre, Tituba in THE CRUCIBLE, and Rosencrantz in HAMLET at STC. During the pandemic, she performed THE M(O)THERS on Zoom, exploring police violence in the Bay Area. She also played Eugene in *DIRECT FROM DEATH ROW: SCOTTSBORO BOYS in 2023 at Celebration Arts and most recently was in TINY TRAILBLAZERS: KIDS WHO CHANGED THE WORLD at B Street Theatre. Taylor made her feature film debut in WHIRLPOOL (Amazon Prime) and starred in the short film I REMEMBER YESTERDAY (YouTube) both with Imani Mitchell. She’s thrilled to be back at CapStage!
LiLi Young
LiLi Young is excited to work with Capital Stage for the first time in EUREKA DAY. Past credits include Wendy in LOST GIRL at American River College and Sunny Li in THE WORLD OF EXTREME HAPPINESS at UC Santa Barbara. LiLi took a hiatus from acting to receive her degree in Film Studies from UC Santa Barbara, but is looking forward to returning to the world of theater. Enjoy the show!
Matthew Hanjoong
Matthew is always excited for an opportunity to be back at Capital Stage. Born and raised in Sacramento, he studied Theatre Arts at American River College and UCLA, and graduated from Sacramento State University. Capstage credits include THE GREAT LEAP, WICKHAMS, and FAIRVIEW. Other stage credits: THE PASSING STORM (Playground SF) and A GREAT MIGRATION (B Street). Film credits: SON-MAT (Place Called Sacramento Film Festival) [awarded Best Actor] and SACRAMENTO. Join the journey on all social media platforms! @matthewhanjoong
Jonathan Spector
Jonathan Spector is Tony Award-winning playwright based in Northern California, whose work has been produced on and off Broadway, regionally, and internationally. His plays include EUREKA DAY (2025 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award, for Best Revival); THIS MUCH I KNOW (Edgerton Award); BIRTHRIGHT; BEST AVAILABLE (Elizabeth George Commission); and SIESTA KEY.
Spector’s plays have been produced at theaters including Manhattan Theater Club, The Old Vic/Sonia Friedman Productions, Aurora Theater, Hampstead Theater, Theater J, Miami New Drama, Asolo Rep, Syracuse Stage, InterAct, Shotgun Players, Mosaic Theater, Colt Coeur, Just Theater, the State Theater of South Australia and Burg Theater (The National Theater of Austria).
Honors include two Glickman Awards for Best Play to premiere in the San Francisco Bay Area, two Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards, Rella Lossy Award, Theater Bay Area Award, and a WhatsOnStage Award Nomination. He has been a Playwrights Center Core Writer, TheatreWorks Core Writer, MacDowell Fellow, SPACE at Ryder Farm Resident, Playwrights Foundation Resident Playwright and is currently working on commissions from Roundabout Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse and Manhattan Theater Club, His work is published by Dramatists Play Service/Broadway Licensing.
Jonathan is a graduate of the much-besieged New College of Florida and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State. In his misspent youth as an aspiring director, he was a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a frequent collaborator with The Civilians, and a dealer at New York's largest underground poker club. He is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone entertainment.
Amy Resnick
Amy Resnick is happy to be back in the director's chair at Capital Stage. Directing credits include: BAD JEWS, Capital Stage, BAD JEWS: American Stage, BELOW THE BELT: B St Theatre, WHY WE HAVE A BODY: B Street Theatre, THE AFFECTIONS OF MAY: B Street Theatre, THE AGENT: New Georges (Off Broadway), THIS IS OUR YOUTH: B Street Theatre, COWS, CARS AND CAFFEINE: Theatre Rhinoceros. Amy is a proud member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. She is also an actor of stage, tv and film and has appeared in many shows at Capital Stage.
Michael Stevenson
For Capital Stage, Michael has directed THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, KING JAMES, ARCHDUKE, HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING, GLORIA, THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT, ADMISSIONS, THE HUMANS, THE OTHER PLACE, SWEAT, THE THANKSGIVING PLAY, LUNA GALE, STUPID F##KING BIRD, HOW TO USE A KNIFE, DISGRACED, MR. BURNS, IDEATION, CLYBOURNE PARK, MAURITIUS, ERRATICA (World Premiere), and LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES. He has directed at regional theaters including: B Street Theater, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Company, Perseverance Theater Company, and Sacramento Theater Company. As an actor he has appeared at many regional theaters including: 42nd Street Moon, American Conservatory Theater, The Aurora Theater, Bailiwick Repertory Theater, Capital Stage, B Street Theater, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theater. He holds an M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater.
Liz Gray
Tony Gabrielson
Caleb Jones
Melissa Jernigan*
Melissa most recently worked at Capital Stage on 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.
Maddie Hardiman
Eric Broadwater
Patrick O'Reilly
Patrick O’Reilly is delighted to be working with the talented folks at Capital Stage again. Previous designs include THE HOMBRES, GEORGIANA & KITTY: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY and THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY at Capital Stage, DEATH & HARRY HOUDINI and RANKED at UC Davis, IN LOVE & WARCRAFT and THE WIZ at American River College. He is the Head Electrician with the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance. He holds AAs in Technical Theatre and Acting from American River College and a BS in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara.
Naomi Saraceno Wiemken
Ryan McKinney
Ethan Hollinger
EJ Agata
Rebecca A. Valentino
Riley Cisneros-Gruenthal
Ed Lee
Hailey Bowland^
Samantha McLean Haas
Nicole C. Limón
K. Kevyne Baar, PhD
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA)
Founded in 1913, this union represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence.
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, Stephen Byrum, Lydia Crist, James Simpson
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Special Thanks to our Donors
Donation Totals from 10/14/24 to 10/15/25
Please alert us to any errors or omissions by contacting Development Manager, Kirk Blackinton at kblackinton@capstage.org.
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Buzz Wiesenfeld
Karen Willstatter
John Wilson & Susie Monary-Wilson
Ensemble: $300+
Candace & Doug Adams
John & Kathleen Agnew
Jean Alford
David Alois & Jacquie Embs
John Angell
Karen Auwaerter
Robert & Laura Jane Young
Eloise & James Barter
Don Beckham
Ruthann Biel & Bill Claypool
Barbara Black
Robert & Jean Bonar
Peter Botto
Margaret & Stephen Brush
Carin & Bob Bryans
Celia Buckley
Lyndsay Burch
Steve Buri
Marilyn Champa
Greg & Marlene Cook
Timothy Corcoran
Gail Dartez & Don McGillivray
Jim Dodds
Katherine Downey
Tracie & Richard Fike
Niva Flor
Patty Garcia & Jim Mattesich
Anne Geraghty
Cynthia Gerber
Adrienne Graham
William & Margaret Gray
Dennis Gunvalson & Richard Bay
Chris Huber & S. B. Hadley Wilson
Linda & Simon Haines
Linda Hansen
Polly Hasemann
Sherry Haus
Robert Herne
Theresa Holden
Mike & Doris Horton
Gary & Eva Incaudo
Lawrence Jacobs
Don Johnson & Elizabeth Miller
David & Kathy Kahn
Leili Khalessi
Jolanta Kieturakis
Allyce Kimerling
Jane Kirkland
Pamela Kisor
Derry Knight
Brian & Dorothy Landsberg
Dan & Stephanie Leahy
Jonathan C Lewis
Dennis Mangers & Michael Sestak
Terry McLean
George Meyer
Steve & Cheryl Meyer
Mr. Colin A. Miller
Becky & Bob Norris
Erin O'neil
Tracey O'Reilly
Steve Patwell
Enid Pritikin
James Queirolo
Patti Roberts
Bob & Shirley Rosenberg
Randy Sater
Fred & Polly Schack
Gerald Sharp
Joe Shea
Janet S Shibamoto-Smith
Elaine Silver
Karen Smith
Susanne Sommer & George Ramsey
Susan & Ken Taylor
Nina Thomson
Rachel Tooker & Randy Roberts
Michael & Barbara Ullman
Irene Velasquez
Elaine Verbarg
James O Walker Jr
Bryan Weare
LeRose Weikert
Jonathan Williams
Richard & Kathy Williams
Wendy & Mark Zlotlow
Patron: $150+
Meredith Abby
Elaine Alexander
Susan Andrews
Anonymous
Terri Auwaerter
Kristine Backus
Maria Balakshin
Debra Baldwin
Heidi Ballard
Kim Barragan
Susan Benson
Ricki Bergado
Best Best & Krieger LLP
Karen Bleuel
Lydia Bourne
Bruce Bowers
Todd Boyd
Daniel Braunstein
Janis Briggs
Constance Brown
Terry Brown
Ted Calvert
Henry Chambers
Bernice Chin
Allison Claire
Idelle & Dan Claypool
Marilyn Cooper
Lyn & Jim Crouch
Marcus Crowder & Laura Compton
Prietto Cueto Fund
Anthony & Margie Deriggi
Kelly Dodge
Kathy Dona
Deirdre Downes
Anne Duffey
Kathryn Dunker
Elizabeth Edwards
Stuart Eldridge
Linda Esten
Clint Fleener
Carolyn Foland
Leah E Frey
Kelli Frostad
Carol Goodman & Tony Gane
Lisa Goodwill
Patricia Gregory
Marina Gunst
J Paul & Judy Guyer
Ann & Charles Halsted
Suzanne Hanrahan
Dan Harlan
Linda Huang
Marlys Huez
Kim Hunter
Lydia Inghram
Jean Jackman
Samuel Jenkins
Anne Jennings
Lial Jones
Jason Jong
Jonel Jorgensen & Dennis Lloyd
Jo Ann Joye
Cat Karell
John Katonah
Jamie Khan
Mimi Khan
Kay Michelle Khayat
Anne Knuut
Nancy LaCasse
Paul & Jane Lammerding
Susie LaPointe
John Leonard
Janice Levin
Janet Lial
Joanne Matsui & Arthur Lai
Geoff Maxey
Nancy McDevitt & David Wolffs
Lynne Meredith
Connor Mickiewicz
Diane & Lisa Moore
Karen Morrison
Hallie Morrow
Scott Moyer
Kimberly Mueller
Carly Narlesky
Mary O'Byrne
Michael Paparian
David Paul
Barbara Payne
Larry Pearson
Jeff & Karin Pelz
Sarah Phelan
Karyn Quan
David L. Reed
Nancy Roberts
Rachel Roberts
Christine Rodrigues
Carol Rogers & Jon Courtway
Patrick Romano
Kurt Rosen
Ruth Rosenberg
Linda Roth
Ann Samuelson
Deborah Seiler
Adrienne Shapiro
Shonna Shearson
Adrienne Sher
Jean & David Shiomoto
Michael Sicilia
Nancy Silva
Susan & Ross Siragusa
Chris & Julia Smith
Robert Snider
James E Soller
Neill SooHoo
Pamela Stewart
David Stolcenberg
Harry & Linda Struthers
Patricia Sturdevant
Dan & Karen Tajbl
Adele Taylor
Penelope Taylor
Sharon Taylor
Patty Torbert & Ken Graber
Mildred Torrance
Devin Valdez
Dennis Valentine
Rebecca Valentino
Christi Van Eyken
Kristina Vandershaf
Peter & Karen Von Elten
Robin Wallace
Kevin Walsh
Martha West
John & Carole Whitelaw
Steven Winlock
Arnold Wolf & Fern Tablin
Mary Worthington
"The Crew" - Recurring Donors
Chris Abare
John Abbott & Lori Abbott Moreland
Candace & Doug Adams
John Angell
Merle Axelrad
Jose Barbosa
Peggy Beasley
Bill Bronston & Lisa Levering
Margaret & Stephen Brush
Celia Buckley
Margaret L Buss
Ann Byfield
Kathryn & Jim Carlson
Bernice Chin
Les & Peggy Chisholm
Kathleen Collins
Kaoru Cruz
Jennifer Cummings
Daniel DeFoe
Gail & Tom Devitt
Martha & Jim Dickson
Lily Douglas
Katherine Downey
Stuart Eldridge
Ellen Ferguson
Mary Helen Fischer
Sara Floor
Muffy & Terry Francke
Deborah Franklin & Douglas Mitten
David Fulk & Keith Riedell
Mary Graziose
Kathryn Grey
Stephanie Gularte
Suzanne Hanrahan
Courtney & Nate Hans
Dalinda Harman
Josh Horowitz & Patti Baggett
Suzanne Houlton
Stephanie & David Hunt
Kim Hunter & Sherry Reser
Linda Iseri
Eillen Jacobowitz
Anne Jennings
Iris Johnson
Maria Jurado
Dean & Sandi Karagianes
Pamela Kisor
Dr. John & Rosemary Lamb
Sandy Lee
Doron Levitan
Shannon Mahoney & Kirk Blackinton
John Marinko
Kristi & Josh Mathisen
Linda McAtee & Steve Sphar
Carol McCormick
Shelley & James McFarland
Peter Mohrmann & David Harris
Diane & Lisa Moore
Suzanne Ness
Ann OConnell
David Pitman & Rani Pettis
Laurie Nelson Randlett & Jim Randlett
Carol Rogers & Jon Courtway
Sunny Romer
Linda Roth
Donald Rubin
Leonard Vincent Sales
Peter Saucerman
Diane Schertz
Susan Scott
Chris & Julia Smith
Jennifer Sommer
Peggy Stare
Michael Stevenson
Michael Storey
Linda & Scott Taylor
Martha West
John Wilson & Susie Monary-Wilson
Claudia Wrazel & Frank Horowitz
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