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Cast
Creative Team
Lauren Gunderson
Margot Melcon
Janis Stevens
Michael Stevenson
Keith Riedell
Suzanne Tyler*
Olivia Amore
Tony Gabrielson
Caleb Jones
Eric Broadwater
Patrick O'Reilly
Gail Russell
Ed Lee
Riley Cisneros-Gruenthall
Corey D. Winfield
Samantha McLean Haas
Nicole C. Limón
Jenny Giering
Christopher Kriz
Special Thanks
Joe Bertolucci, Affordable Heating & Air, Inc.
Di Arie Vineyard & Winery
Donald Fraulob & Melissa Brown at Fraulob-Brown
Jim Hensley, President Abbey Flooring, Inc.
Oak Park Brewing Company
Production Staff
Artistic Director - MICHAEL STEVENSON
Production & Company Manager - TONY GABRIELSON
Technical Director - CALEB JONES
Lead Carpenter - CONOR WOODS
Carpenter - SUNNY MACKEY
Scenic Designer - ERIC BROADWATER
Scenic Charge Artist - SAMANTHA McLEAN HAAS
Sound Designer & Engineer - ED LEE
Lighting Designer - PATRICK O'REILLY
Lead Electrician - SHAE MERCER
Electricians - ISAIAH LEEPER, SHAE MERCER
Stage Manager - SUZANNE TYLER*
Assistant Stage Manager - OLIVIA AMORE
Properties Designer - RILEY CISNEROS-GRUENTHAL
Costume Designer - GAIL RUSSELL
Costume Design Assistants - GIGI LINGUIST, ZAINAB HEILMAN
Hair & Make-Up Designer - COREY D. WINFIELD
Build Crew - SUNNY MACKEY, CONOR WOODS
Painters - SAMANTHA McLEAN HAAS, CALEB JONES, SUNNY MACKEY, CONOR WOODS
Wardrobe/Run Crew - RACHEL LAU-KEE BROWNE^, JAROD WIGGINS^
Sub Run Crew - KATIE HALSTEAD^, ZAARA LITTLE^
Understudies - KATIE HALSTEAD^, ZAARA LITTLE^, JAROD WIGGINS^
Production Associate - YASMINE SALMERON
Dramaturg/Intimacy Coordinator/BIAPOC Liaison - NICOLE C. LIMON
Resident Dramaturg - K. KEVYNE BAAR
Infection Control Manager - ELIJAH PETERS
House Manager - THEODORE ALEXANDER
Graphic Designer, Webmaster - MISTY MCDOWELL
Photographer - CHARR CRAIL
^ Capital Stage Apprentice | * Member Actors' Equity Association
About The Play
by K. Kevyne Baar, PhD
“Music is a universal language. And women should have a voice in all things universal as they are not only participants but creators in this world...If a world ruled by men does not include us, we must create a space for ourselves or else forgo what is universally ours, and that I refuse to do. Music belongs to me just as much as it does to any man. That…is the point.”
– Georgiana Darcy
Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, not the zombie version, nor the vampire version, nor the Bridget Jones diary version, nor the other dozen versions truly compare to the original tale which begins in the England of 1812, where we learn it is most important above all else for the five Bennet sisters to marry and marry well. When the story ends in October of 1813, three of the sisters, Jane, Elizabeth, and the hapless Lydia are married. This leaves us to wonder what will happen to the remaining two Bennet sisters, Mary and Kitty, as well as one sister-in-law, Georgiana Darcy.
Enter the playwrights Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, who decided to continue the story for us by creating three plays taking place simultaneously two years after the curtain fell on the weddings of Jane Bennett to Charles Bingley and Elizabeth Bennet to Fitzwilliam Darcy. For those not up on their Austen, Lydia was married a bit earlier in the story to one George Wickham.
The first of the three plays is Miss Bennet wherein Mary, the shy and nerdy middle sister meets her match in both areas when Arthur de Bourgh comes to visit the Darcy home. His aunt, Catherine de Bourgh has already wrecked a bit of havoc in Pride & Prejudice, and his cousin Anne de Bourgh almost does in the chance for happiness for Mary and Arthur. Fear not, by the end we are only one Bennet sister short of an upcoming wedding.
Play number two is The Wickhams, which moves us to the downstairs where true romance will find a way to be delivered by two members of the staff. At the same time, Lydia is finally freed from the ugliness of being married to George Wickham by being allowed to sever the relationship.
Meanwhile, we continue upstairs with the play you are seeing this evening. Georgiana Darcy, younger sister of Fitzwilliam Darcy, is an accomplished pianist but wary of romance. Kitty Bennet, sister number four in the Bennet line, is a bright-eyed optimist and a perfect best friend. “These two younger sisters are ready for their own adventures in life and love, starting with the arrival of an admirer and secret correspondent. Meddlesome families and outmoded expectations won’t stop these determined friends from forging their own way in a holiday tale filled with music, ambition, sisterhood, and forgiveness” in this, the final play in the Christmas at Pemberley trilogy. A second act change of venue is only one of the lovely surprises awaiting the audience here at this performance. Suffice it to say, it wouldn’t be fair to reveal the other surprises here.
Let us leave the last word on these tales with playwright Gunderson, “You know what people love? Jane Austen. You know what people really love? Christmas and Jane Austen.” From the playwrights and all of us at Capital Stage, sit back and enjoy the “music” that is Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley.
About The Playwrights
by K. Kevyne Baar, PhD
“The most salient quality of the holidays is being with family, specifically the way you’re all on top of each other, and everybody brings their current self, and yet you also can’t help but turn into this person your family thinks you are.” – Margot Melcon
The story of how these writers got together and decided that these three plays needed to exist, has become a thing of legend as the inception was a drive for its two authors, and friends, Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, from San Francisco to Ashland, Oregon. It was on this drive that Melcon, a former literary manager, reminded Gunderson that every theatre needs a holiday show: something clever, heartwarming, and family-friendly enough to entice an audience inured to “A Christmas Carol.” Six hours and several scribbled-on napkins later, they had started the writing process that would end in a rolling world premiere in 2016 of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, which was followed in 2018 by “the much-anticipated companion piece,” The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, and ends in 2021 with the premier of Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley. All three stories, which reviewers have heralded as a “seasonal confection,” pick up two years after the end of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and take place all at the same time in the home of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Gunderson, the more familiar of the two, is one of the most produced playwrights in America. She has now topped the list three times starting in 2015 and including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, as well as a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting. A recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Residency with Marin Theatre Company, she studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Gunderson is the book writer with Ari Afsar of the musical Jeannette, and with Dave Stewart and Joss Stone on Built for This and The Time Traveller’s Wife that just opened in London. She is also a board member of The Playwrights Foundation. For Gunderson “There’s this space for genuine human feeling and heart and soul...It’s easy to not write that, out of fear of being cheesy or whatever, but I think that’s the bravest thing you can do onstage—to be fully alive and emotional and vulnerable. That swell of heart is what I go to the theater for.”
Margot Melcon’s Northern California credentials are undeniable. She is a graduate of California State University Chico and a Bay Area resident who has worked with Marin Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, and Shotgun Players. She has worn many artistic hats so far in her career as a Director of New Play Development, dramaturg, freelance writer for American Theatre magazine, and the Program Executive for Promoting Culture at the Zellerbach Family Foundation. Although she had never had a particular interest in turning her hand to playwriting, Melcon found that working on Miss Bennet was “a nice soft entry into the world of playwriting because I was working with one of the most prolific playwrights in America today.” In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Melcon has said that she wanted to write a Christmas play that captured her own experience of the holiday.
Meet the Company
Megan Wicks*
Megan Wicks feels incredibly lucky to be returning to Pemberly this holiday season! She has previously lived and performed in both New York City and San Francisco. Local credits include: GEORGIANA & KITTY, HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING & THE ARSONISTS (Capital Stage), ROBIN HOOD, CHRISTMAS CAROL, FRANKENSTEIN, STOP KISS (B Street Theatre), THE SPEAKEASY (Boxcar Theatre SF), WHERE THE BOYS ARE (A.C.T. Strand). Wicks is a voiceover actor and has been featured in a dozen commercials and several video games. She is an audiobook narrator with over 25 books available on Audible. Follow along @meganwicks
Fatemeh Mehraban
Fatemeh is a proud '23/24 Capital Stage Apprentice class Alumna. She is a queer Iranian performing artist and has received her associate’s degree in theatre arts from American River College. She has had the privilege of participating in various theatrical productions ranging from classics, staged readings, devised works, and musicals. Her most recent work includes TWELFTH NIGHT (California Stage), THE NEWLYWED GAME (B Street Theatre), GEORGIANA & KITTY (Capital Stage), THE MOST MASSIVE WOMAN WINS (Capital Stage), FOR THE LOVE OF DOG (The Stage at Burke Junction), and SAWYER THOMPSON (The Geery Theatre). Fatemeh is beyond thrilled to be back at Pemberley this year, and she hopes you enjoy the show as much as the cast and crew have—Happy Holidays!! Instagram: @fatemeow
Taylor Fleer*
As a graduate of Sacramento State, Taylor Fleer has performed with many theatres in the Sacramento region. Some of her favorite shows include RIDE, SALLY RIDE and SWORD IN THE STONE at B Street Theatre, REBORNING at Big Idea Theatre, and of course PRIDE AND PREJUDICE at Hummingbird Theatre. Taylor has recently moved abroad to teach English in both Italy and Spain. Her focus is on teaching through theatre and play. She has recently directed shows in Italy for a Theatre in English school tour, teaching English to students all around Italy. She is so happy to be on stage again, especially as Elizabeth! She thanks her friends, family, and partner for always loving her and encouraging her in all her endeavors.
Shelby Saumier
Shelby is overjoyed to be playing the role of Lydia in GEORGIANA AND KITTY: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY. Shelby is a former Capital Stage apprentice and an alum of Sacramento State. Recent acting credits include: Gerte Schulte in CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY (Celebration Arts), Sir Andrew Aguecheek in TWELFTH NIGHT (The Happy Hour Theatre), Cel in THE MOST MASSIVE WOMAN WINS (Capital Stage), and News Reporter/Basketball Opponent in AMERICAN FAST (Capital Stage). Shel is extremely thankful for the opportunity to work again under the incredible direction and technique of Janis Stevens. Shel is most grateful for the unwavering love and support of their family, friends, and life partner Reilly.
Nicole Anne Salle
Nicole Anne (she/her) is thrilled to return to Pemberley for the holidays! Past Capital Stage credits include: NOW CIRCA THEN, THE GREAT LEAP, and MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY. Other Sacramento credits: LUNGS (The Ooley Theater), GLORIA: A LIFE (Sacramento Theatre Company), and SUPERMA’AM (Big Idea Theatre). Nicole Anne earned her BA in Theater from Sacramento State University and is a proud Capital Stage apprentice alum. Mga minamahal kong pamilya at kaibigan. @nicoleannesalle or www.nasalle.com
Leah Daugherty
Leah is honored to join the Pemberly family this year at Capital Stage. Leah was last seen at Cap Stage in THE WOLVES. Other favorite credits include TEMPODYSSEY and BACHELORETTE at Big Idea Theatre, and DOROTHEA PUENTE TELLS ALL! at the California Stage. As a BIT company member, Leah has recently ventured into directing with TWELFTH NIGHT and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Ms. Daugherty is a proud alumna of both UC Davis and the Cap Stage apprenticeship program. She would like to thank her husband Thomas for his love and support.
Andrew Fridae
Andrew Fridae is delighted to return to Pemberley with this incredible team of artists after focusing on directing productions such as RIDERS TO THE SEA, and MENDACITY (Happy Hour Theatre), ART and CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (WTC), TWELFTH NIGHT, COMEDY OF ERRORS, and THE TEMPEST (Winters Shakespeare Workshop) and his own SLUG LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID (Capstage Apprentice team of 21-22.) Acting credits include SHERLOCK HOLMES (NWCT), ZEN SHORTS (Rogue Artists Ensemble), and 20,000 LEAGUES (Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre). Andrew is also developing an original play in collaboration with Capital Stage, THE CIGARETTE TREE.
Braeden Harris
Braeden (he/him) is thrilled to return to Capital Stage! Credits include: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (SF Playhouse), THE NEWLYWED GAME (B Street Theatre), INSERTION (Murphys Creek Theatre), FOR THE LOVE OF DOG (The Stage at Burke Junction), THE MOUSETRAP, LOST GIRL, and ANIMAL CRACKERS (American River College), THE KILLING (Actors Ensemble of Berkeley). Braeden earned his Associates Degree in Theatre Arts from American River College and is a two-time nominee for the Irene Ryan Scholarship from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He thanks his high school theatre teacher, Jennifer Ray, for inspiring him to pursue acting. @braedenharris
Tarig Elsiddig*
Tarig Elsiddig is 34 years old, born in Hayward California, and has been performing in Sacramento for the last 10 years. Tarig is thrilled to return to Capital Stage, last appearing in their production of SWEAT by Lynn Nottage. Recent credits also include BLUE DOOR by Tanya Barfield, THE WHIPPING MAN, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, HAIRSPRAY, THE SKELETON CREW and GOLDEN WINGS.
Katie Halstead^
Katie is thrilled to join Capital Stage as a 24/25 season apprentice! They graduated Sacramento State in 2022 with a BA in Theatre and has been acting locally. Favorite roles include Melchior in SPRING AWAKENING, Hedda in HEDDA GABBLER, Viola/Cesario in TWELFTH NIGHT and Mary Warren in THE CRUCIBLE. When they’re not in the theatre, they can be found managing their small jewelry business, making coffee for the people of East Sac or at home with their lovely partner and cat. They are enthusiastic about the journey ahead and can’t wait to be a part of the incredible work happening at Capital Stage.
Zaara Little^
Zaara is beyond excited to be joining Capital Stage as an apprentice this season. A proud graduate of the School of Hard Knocks, she harbors a deep passion for creating. Though performing has taken the main brunt of her attention, she also enjoys sewing, makeup, and costume design. After years of performing in shows such as HAIR, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, CHICAGO, HAIRSPRAY, and WEST SIDE STORY, she has a devotion to diversity and inclusion in theatre that she hopes to expand upon in this program. She would like to once again thank Capital Stage for this thrilling opportunity.
Jarod Wiggins^
Jarod Wiggins was born and raised in Sacramento and graduated in 2023 from Sac State with a degree in Theatre Arts. They have performed at various theatres in the Sacramento area with their most recent performance being Hummingbird Theatre company’s production of ROCK OF AGES. Besides acting/singing, Jarod’s biggest passion in theatre is fight choreography, and this past summer they tested to become an Actor Combatant in the Society of American Fight Directors. Jarod’s love of performing also goes beyond theatre and they love playing music with their band Midnight Zombies. They look forward to growing all their skills in an amazing creative environment!
Lauren Gunderson
Lauren M. Gunderson is one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015 topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I AND YOU and THE BOOK OF WILL, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her play THE CATASTROPHIST, about her husband virologist Nathan Wolfe, premiered digitally in January 2021. She co-authored the MISS BENNET plays with Margot Melcon, and THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE premiered off-Broadway and at Audible.com. Her work is published at Playscripts (I AND YOU; EXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR; THE TAMING and TOIL AND TROUBLE), Dramatists Play Service (THE REVOLUTIONISTS; THE BOOK OF WILL; SILENT SKY; BAUER, NATURAL SHOCKS, THE WICKHAMS and MISS BENNET) and Samuel French (EMILIE). Her picture book DR WONDERFUL: BLAST OFF TO THE MOON is available from Two Lions/Amazon. She is the book writer for musicals with Ari Afsar (JEANNETTE), Dave Stewart and Joss Stone (THE TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE), Joriah Kwamé (SINISTER), Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk (JUSTICE and EARTHRISE), and Kira Stone (BUILT FOR THIS). She is a board member of The Playwrights Foundation. LaurenGunderson.com
Margot Melcon
Margot Melcon is an artist, arts administrator and writer. She co-wrote MISS BENNET, THE WICKHAMS and GEORGIANA & KITTY with Lauren Gunderson, the CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY trilogy. She was the Director of New Play Development at Marin Theatre Company for seven years, where she dramaturged over 30 productions – including six world premieres – and administered the company’s two annual new play prizes and commissioning program. She has developed plays with TheatreWorks, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Crowded Fire Theater, Shotgun Players, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, the Kennedy Center, the New Harmony Project, and The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. She currently manages arts and culture grantmaking at the Zellerbach Family Foundation. Margot is a graduate of California State University, Chico and currently lives in San Francisco with her family.
Janis Stevens
Janis Stevens is elated to return to direct the outstanding cast of GEORGIANA & KITTY: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY. Previous directorial credits with Capital Stage include FOOL FOR LOVE, AMERICAN BUFFALO, HEDDA GABLER, A DOLL’S HOUSE, THE HOMECOMING and BETRAYAL. Regional credits include: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, TWELFTH NIGHT, PRIDE @ PREJUDICE, TALLEY’S FOLLY for the Theater at Monmouth, Maine; SEX WITH STRANGERS at American Stage, Florida; THE TEMPEST, Arizona Shakespeare Festival in Mesa. “Locally”: OLEANNA at Sierra Rep, PROOF for Mendocino Theatre Company; THE BELLE OF AMHERST at STC, THE MOORS at Big Idea, THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM for Black Point Theatre and, most recently, TWELFTH NIGHT for Happy Hour Theatre Company. Next, Janis will be directing The Diamond Stage Company's production of I'LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS starring Natasha Hause, opening January 11th at Sacramento's Wilkerson Theater.
Michael Stevenson
Keith Riedell
Suzanne Tyler*
Olivia Amore
Olivia Amore is very excited to be back at Capital Stage once again! She has been an Assistant Stage Manager for Capital Stage's NOW CIRCA THEN and the most recent show, THE HEART SELLERS. Olivia loves theatre from all angles; from being onstage to backstage. She has been a part of a cast ensemble for THE MUSIC MAN and THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL and has been the Production Stage Manager for many musicals such as PETER PAN, THE WIZARD OF OZ, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's CINDERELLA. Olivia is excited to be a part of more shows to come!
Tony Gabrielson
Caleb Jones
Eric Broadwater
Patrick O'Reilly
Gail Russell
Ed Lee
Riley Cisneros-Gruenthall
Corey D. Winfield
Samantha McLean Haas
Nicole C. Limón
Jenny Giering
Christopher Kriz
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA)
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Capital Stage Staff
MICHAEL STEVENSON - Artistic Director
KEITH RIEDELL - Managing Director
KIRK BLACKINTON - Development Manager
TONY GABRIELSON - Production & Company Manager
MISTY MCDOWELL - Marketing Manager
LOGAN JACOB GERMANO-HELLER – Education & Box Office Manager
AVERY HERSEK - Audience Services Manager
THEODORE ALEXANDER - House Manager
CALEB JONES - Technical Director
CONOR WOODS - Lead Carpenter
SUNNY MACKEY - Carpenter
ED LEE - Resident Sound Designer & Engineer
ISAIAH LEEPER - Lighting Supervisor
SHAE MERCER - Lead Electrician
CECILIA CASTILLO JUAREZ - Concessions & Box Office Associate
YASMINE SALMERON - Production Associate
K. KEVYNE BAAR - Resident Dramaturg
JAMIE JONES, PETER MOHRMANN, GAIL RUSSELL, JANIS STEVENS – Associate Artists
ELIJAH PETERS - Infection Control Manager, Payroll & Administrative Assistant
2024/25 SEASON APPRENTICE COMPANY - Katie Halstead, Rachel Lau-Kee Browne, Zaara Little, Jarod Wiggins
Capital Stage Board Members
Chastity E. Benson
California State Association of Counties
Dan Brunner, Treasurer
Arts Patron
Kathryn E. Doi, Board President
Feldesman Leifer LLP
Sherry Hartel Haus
Downey Brand
Beth Hassett
CEO WEAVE
Stephen C. Jones
Professor & Vice Chair of the CSUS Dept of Theatre and Dance
Leili Khalessi
California Dept. of Human Resources
Steve Koonce
Arts Patron
Elena Lopez-Gusman
Executive Director, California Chapter, American College of Emergency Physicians
Dena Martinez
Talent Agent, Director, Actor
Kristi Quesada Mathisen
Sacramento Country Day School
Clif McFarland
Attorney
Lori Abbott Moreland
Arts Patron
Brian Rickel
Dean of Arts, Media & Entertainment at Cosumnes River College
Stephanie Rowe
Professor, Sacramento City College
Vince Sales
Everyday Impact Consulting
Peggy Wheeler
California Hospital Association
Board Emeritus:
Stephanie Gularte, Founding Artistic Director
Capital Stage
Peter Mohrmann, Co-founder
Capital Stage
Jonathan Williams, Co-Founder
Capital Stage
Arlen Orchard
SMUD
Julie Stark
Arts Patron
Donors
Special Thanks to our Donors
Donation Totals from 12/3/23 to 12/4/24
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
Dan Brunner
Kathryn Doi
Gloriette C. Fong
Lesley & Steve Koonce
Executive Producer: $10,000+
Theresa Corrigan
Leonard Vincent Sales
Art & Sue Scotland
Anita Scuri & James Simon
Producer: $6,000+
Chastity Benson
Susie & Jim Burton
Susan Edling
Jeffrey Farley & Mike Tentis
Deborah Franklin & Douglas Mitten
Director: $3,000+
Ted Cobb
Melissa Conner & Theodore Harris
Kathy Davenport & Ken Weiss
Steven Debry
Gail Finney
Michael Koltnow
Brian & Dorothy Landsberg
Scott & Linda Lasher
Linda McAtee & Steve Sphar
James McElroy & Ann Gerhardt
Clif McFarland
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Diane Schertz
Howard Slyter
Tom & Hedda Smithson
Barbara Sommer
Marty & Janet Steiner
Ed Telfeyan & Jeri Paik
Susan Wheeler
Gloria & Don Yost
Lead Actor: $1,200+
Jacob Appelsmith
Stephen & Melva Arditti
David & Marsha Baskins
Peggy Beasley
David Bell & Katherine Newman
Dr. William Bronston & Lisa Levering
Lyndsay Burch
Margaret L Buss
Donna Chipps
Kathleen Collins
Annabel Cooper
Ellen Covairt & Bernard Kalscheuer
Drs. John & Lois Crowe
Cindy Dunning
Donald Fraulob & Melissa Brown
Patty French
Carole Fritz
Curtis Fritz
Helen & Glenn Hakanson
James R Hargrove
Sherry Haus
Josh Horowitz & Patti Baggett
Lisa Horst
Stephanie & David Hunt
Janet Jensen
Dawn & Dave King
Robert Klass & Katy Globus
Marion Leff
Doron Levitan
Janet Lial
Kris Martin
Ed Mills
Peter Mohrmann & David Harris
Katherine Muris
Gail Pereira
Christopher Price
Laurie Nelson Randlett & Jim Randlett
Nathan Rangel
Brian Rickel
Amy & Jason Rogers
Ken Rothaus
Lori Saper
Chuck & Nancy Shulock
Roger & Barbara Smith
Rae-Nani Stokes & Griff Field
Denise Verbeck
Chris Wagner
Designer: $600+
Chris Abare
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Celia Buckley
Donna Campbell
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Jim & Kathleen Deeringer
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Carol Enns
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David Fulk & Keith Riedell
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Suzanne Ness
Sara Nichols
Richard Pearson & Jean Hart
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Michael Scheible
Ann Siprelle
Susan & Ross Siragusa
Julie Stark
Stephanie Tucker
Harold & Ilah Turner
Kim Varner
Megan Van Voorhis
James Watkins
Peggy Wheeler
Buzz Wiesenfeld
Karen Willstatter
John Wilson & Susie Monary-Wilson
Claudia Wrazel & Frank Horowitz
Ensemble: $300+
Elaine Alexander
David Alois & Jacquie Embs
Kathleen Anderson
John Angell
Kristine Backus
Walter Barnes
Barbara Black
Sue Blosl
Robert & Jean Bonar
Peter Botto
Karen Broido
Margaret & Stephen Brush
Carin & Bob Bryans
Carol Buck & Dennis Beaty
Sharon Cammisa & Joseph Orr
Steven & Karin Chase
Idelle & Dan Claypool
Edward Condon
Marilyn Cooper
Gayle Dax-Conroy
Laura Dirrim
Katherine Downey
Anne Eisenberg
Lisa Foster
Muffy & Terry Francke
Patty Garcia & Jim Mattesich
Mary Graziose
Linda Gregory
Patricia & James Grieshop
Dennis Gunvalson & Richard Bay
Suzanne Hanrahan
Polly Hasemann
Patricia Hull
Patrick Hunt
Linda Iseri
Barbara Jeffus
Don Johnson & Elizabeth Miller
Shenandoah & Andrew Kehoe
JR Keith
Jolanta Kieturakis
Jane Kirkland
Sally Knost
Anne Knuut
Nancy LaCasse
Beverly & Ronald Lamb
Dr. John & Rosemary Lamb
Susie LaPointe
John Leonard
David & Ruth Lindgren
John Marinko
Shirley Nelson
Danielle & Dean Newberry
Michele Noufer
Mary O'Byrne
Frank Pajerski
Steve Patwell
John Peirce
Lowell Richardson & Paula Sugarman
Ron Robie
Myrna Rodriguez
Bob & Shirley Rosenberg
Janet S Shibamoto-Smith
Elaine Silver
Susanne Sommer & George Ramsey
Patricia Sturdevant
Robert Suskind & Leslie Lewinter-Suskind
Carrie Thomsen
Nina Thomson
Rachel Tooker
Patty Torbert & Ken Graber
Shirlee Tully
Michael & Barbara Ullman
Elaine Verbarg
Patricia Wall & David Stavarek
Bryan Weare
LeRose Weikert
Martha West
Joan Williams
Richard & Kathryn Williams
Claudia & Olin Woods
Robert Young
Karen Ziskind
Wendy & Mark Zlotlow
Patron: $150+
Meredith Abby
Candace & Doug Adams
John & Kathleen Agnew
Susan Andrews
Rebecca Armstrong
Ann Arneill
John Atwood
Merle Axelrad
Brenda Betts
Karen Bleuel
Bruce Bowers
Eve Bressler
Donna Bridges
Sandra Briggs-Howell
Marc Brown & Althea Cervantes
Ken & Sheila Budman
Steve Buri
Allison Cagley & Farel Brosio
Susan & Richard Carlsen
Henry Chambers
Marilyn Champa
Allison Claire
Jay Cohen
Mary Jo Compton
Dennis & Susan Cook
Lyn & Jim Crouch
Daniel DeFoe
Fred Deneke & Jim Eastman
Anthony & Margie Deriggi
Lily Douglas
Anne Duffey
Daniel & Diane Durawa
Valerie Durbin
Rachel Falsetti
Stephanie Finelli
Clint Fleener
Jan Fleener
Sara Floor
Daphna Fram
Leah E Frey
Anne Geraghty
Cynthia Gerber
Wayne & Mary Ginsburg
Sam Goby
Lisa Goodwill
Barbara Greenwood
J Paul & Judy Guyer
Linda Hansen
Dalinda Harman
Beth Hassett
Mary Hellwig
Sharon Helmar
Robert Herne
Alexandra Hewitt
Beatrice Hildebrand
Hirst Law Group, P.C.
Mike & Doris Horton
Suzanne Houlton
Marlys Huez
Sumiko Ichikawa & Teruo Mizutani
Chris & Sarah Janus
John Johnson
Jamie Jones
David & Kathy Kahn
Margaret Kane & Richard Frey
Dean & Sandi Karagianes
Jacquelyn M. Kelly
Mimi Khan
Kay Michelle Khayat
Kellie Kilgore
Pamela Kisor
Joann Kleemann
Paul & Jane Lammerding
Renee Larsen
Sandy Lee
Lisa Luthra
Brian Lutz
Bob Mandelson
Carol McCormick
George Ed McCune
Delta Mello
Briel & Alexandra Melvin
Michele D Mickela
Livia Moe
Everett and Julia Moore
Hallie Morrow
Catherine Mulhall & Steve Danielson
Julia Mullen & Charlene Jones
Allison Noren
Becky & Bob Norris
Erin O'Neil
Tracey O'Reilly
Kellie Paredes
Barbara Payne
Rani H Pettis
Catherinie Pierini
Ann Porten
Enid Pritikin
Richard Rawson & Cynthia Neuman
David L. Reed
Tina Reynolds
Margaret Roberts
Nancy Roberts
Patti Roberts
Randy Roberts
Ramona Robinson
Carol Rogers & Jon Courtway
Sally Rogers
Patrick Romano
Sunny Romer
Kurt Rosen
Ruth Rosenberg
Laura Rosenthal
Linda Roth
Vera Sandronsky & Alan Hirsch
Peter Saucerman
Adrienne Shapiro
Adrienne Sher
Jean & David Shiomoto
Kim Silvers & Sheila Cardno
Harsev Singh
Chris & Julia Smith
Lauren Weil Solomon
Peggy Stare
Michael Stevenson
Daniel G. Stone
Harry & Linda Struthers
Shannon Sutherland
Penelope Taylor
Susan & Ken Taylor
Mildred Torrance
SHIRLEY TOY
Irene Velasquez
Marian Ver Wey
Roger Paul Villaluz
Peter & Karen Von Elten
Arnold Wolf & Fern Tablin
Lydia Zeidner
"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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