Artistic Director Michael Stevenson & Managing Director Keith Riedell Present Sacramento Premiere KING JAMES
by Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Michael Stevenson
June 25-July 27, 2025 PERFORMANCE LENGTH:  2 Hours, 15 Minutes, 1 Intermission
FEATURING:
Ian C. Hopps*      Tarig Elsiddig
Scenic Designer Stephen C. Jones+		Lighting Designer Sarah Winter
Sound Designer Ed Lee		Costume Designer Yasmine Salmeron
Properties Designer Riley Cisneros-Gruenthal		Dramaturg K. Kevyne Baar, PhD
	Stage Manager Erika L. Placencia*
Assistant Stage Manager Rachel Lau-Kee Browne^
SPONSORED BY:
Ted Cobb & CapRadio
SEASON WINE SPONSOR:
King James was co-commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Anna D. Shapiro, Artistic Director, David Schmitz, Executive Director, and Center Theatre Group, Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director, Douglas C Baker, Producing Director, and received its world premiere in 2022 in co-productions at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago and  Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles
*Member Actors' Equity Association | ^Capital Stage Apprentice +Member of United Scenic Artist local 829

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Donna Chipps

CSUS Department of Theater & Dance

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Oak Park Brewing Company

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Joaquin Ortiz

UC Davis Dept of Theater & Dance

Production Staff

Director/Artistic Director - MICHAEL STEVENSON

Production & Company Manager - TONY GABRIELSON

Technical Director - CALEB JONES

Lead Carpenter - CONOR WOODS

Carpenter, Painter - SUNNY MACKEY

Lighting Designer - SARAH WINTER

Lead Electrician - SHAE MERCER

Lighting Supervisor - ISAIAH LEEPER

Electricians - ISAIAH LEEPER, SHAE MERCER

Scenic Charge Artist - SAMANTHA McLEAN HAAS

Sound Designer & Engineer - ED LEE

Stage Manager - ERIKA L. PLACENCIA*

Assistant Stage Manager - RACHEL LAU-KEE BROWNE^

Scenic Designer - STEPHEN C. JONES+

Properties Designer - RILEY CISNEROS-GRUENTHAL

Costume Designer - YASMINE SALMERON

Build Crew - SUNNY MACKEY, CONOR WOODS, CALEB JONES

Painters - SAMANTHA McLEAN HAAS, CALEB JONES, SUNNY MACKEY, CONOR WOODS

Wardrobe/Run Crew - RACHEL LAU-KEE BROWNE^, KATIE HALSTEAD^, ZAARA LITTLE^, JAROD WIGGINS^ 

Resident Dramaturg - K. KEVYNE BAAR, PHD

Infection Control Manager/Admin Assistant - ELIJAH PETERS

Graphic Designer, Marketing Manager, Webmaster - MISTY MCDOWELL

Photographer - CHARR CRAIL

^ Capital Stage Apprentice  |  * Member Actors' Equity Association | +Member United Scenic Artists 829

About The Play

by K. Kevyne Baar, PhD

“Team sports, especially of the kind associated with regions and cities, are about a great deal more than simply watching one’s favorite athletes in action. There’s so much of one’s identity, one’s upbringing, one’s family and friends that’s connected to the performance of a team…that sense of it, the sense of belonging somewhere. All those factors are kind of what inspired the play somewhere for me.”

– Rajiv Joseph, October, 2024

Passion for sports creates friendships where there were none, lifts a city like Cleveland that is burned into our consciousness as jokes by late night comedians, makes grown people weep and then believe in miracles. Rajiv Joseph loves basketball, comes from that very city, and has written for us an exciting, sad, funny and joyful play. King James is not a bible story nor a Shakespearean tragedy. Set in the form of the four quarters of a basketball game, it is the story of a kid named LeBron James from Akron, Ohio, preternaturally tall and talented in a sport where both are useful. He’s on the cover of a major sport’s magazine at the age of 16, a Cleveland Cavalier at 20 who makes a heartbreaking decision to leave at 26, returns at 30 and finally two years later gives the city the miracle it was waiting for before he leaves again.

And why have so many theatres across the country chosen to do this play? I think that Cleveland Play House’s Artistic Director, Michael Barakiva, speaks for many of them when he says, “If you identify as a sports lover, I have good news: you are going to love this play, about a friendship between two men centered on their love of LeBron James, Cleveland, and the game of basketball. If you have almost no interest in spectator sports, I’ve also got good news: this play is so beautifully written, and its themes so universal, that you will fall in love with it, just as I did, which is why I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to produce King James.”

Joseph, when speaking of the seeds of the play says, “It started with nostalgia: I had been rooting for LeBron for so many years at that point. I was aware of how much this guy had been in my life, and I think I was feeling pre-nostalgia. You know, ‘it’s gonna be sad when LeBron’s no longer playing basketball, when this guy’s no longer in my life as an athlete.’ And when I feel that pang of nostalgia, my instinct is to write about it. Because that’s a way of holding on to something.”

“But the heart of the play is friendship. Specifically, that uniquely masculine friendship, where sports provides a cover for the emotional vulnerability that men have traditionally not allowed themselves to express.”  A true friend of Joseph’s, Glenn Davis, who played Shawn in the original production remembers earlier conversations between the two. “It’s a way that we relate. It’s not meant to end, it’s not meant to convince. It’s a way of saying to the other person ‘I appreciate you, and I want to be engaged in this dialogue with you. I appreciate who you are in my life.’”

About The Playwright

by K. Kevyne Baar, PhD

“At least in the sort of heteronormative world in which I grew up, it was a struggle for young American men to communicate emotion. Sometimes a love of the game is the only way people who have difficulty expressing their feelings are able to articulate them. We were a Cleveland family — we watched the Cavs, we watched the Indians, we watched the Browns, and all of our moods fluctuated accordingly.” – Rajiv Joseph

Rajiv Joseph was born and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood he has set his recent play. He still shares family time while calling Brooklyn, New York home. In 1996, he graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a degree in Creative Writing, but instead of pursuing another degree, he packed his bags and headed to the West African Republic of Senegal where he spent the next three years in the Peace Corps. In any number of interviews, he comments on the experience. “Being in Senegal, more than anything else in my life, made me into a writer.”

When he returned, a friend “gave hm the idea to attend grad school and study screenwriting.” Although he has written a few screenplays and a bit of television, we are very fortunate that the school he chose was New York University where “he found himself inspired by theatre for the first time.” Seeing the work of Stephen Adly Guirgis and Lynn Nottage, he decided “I want to do that.” Joseph earned his MFA in Dramatic Writing in 2004. His first play, Huck and Holden, debuted at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2006, followed in quick succession by All This Intimacy also in 2006, The Leopard and the Fox in 2007, and Animals Out of Paper in 2008.

Enter Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo first presented at Los Angeles’ Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in 2009, followed by a production at the Mark Taper Forum in 2010, and an auspicious Broadway debut in 2011, with Robin Williams heading the cast, and yours truly a fortunate audience member. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for this play. Awards and recognition have been following him ever since including two Obie Awards for Best New American Play, first in 2016 with Guards at the Taj (presented at Capital Stage in 2017) and Describe the Night in 2022.

Joseph, like so many other playwrights, found himself caught in the pandemic chaos that gripped the country starting in 2020 when King James was due a production at the Mark Taper Forum. A fan of rewriting, he had been working on a number of projects including his play Archduke (first performed in 2017 also at the Taper) which made it to Capital Stage in 2023. And finally, King James found its way back to the Taper in 2022.

Of writing King James, Joseph remarked, “I thought this would be an interesting way of exploring my own relationship with LeBron. This play is a sort of alchemy of stories I’ve heard, conversations I’ve had with people and the general sense of being a young person in Cleveland Heights and those heightened emotions that come out when you start arguing about sports.  There’s so much of one’s identity, one’s upbringing, one’s family and friends that’s connected to the performance of a team… that sense of it, the sense of belonging somewhere. All those factors are kind of what inspired the play somewhere for me.” 

Meet the Company

Ian C. Hopps*

Matt

Ian is excited to be returning to Capital Stage for this production of KING JAMES. Previous appearances at CapStage include: CLYDE’S, HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING, PASS OVER, SWEAT, LUNA GALE, STUPID F##KING BIRD. Other local credits include: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, HAMLET, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, MACBETH, THE TEMPEST (Sacramento Theatre Company); COMEDY OF ERRORS, MARY STUART, ROMEO & JULIET, BELLS ARE RINGING, SHE LOVES ME and others (Davis Shakespeare); AN IDEAL HUSBAND, THE 39 STEPS, THE ROVER (Big Idea Theatre). Ian extends immense thanks to everyone supporting live theatre, especially here in the Sacramento region.

Tarig Elsiddig

Shawn

Tarig trained with Celebration Arts and his mentor James Wheatley, performing in Sacramento now for the last 11 years. Tarig is thrilled to return to Capital Stage for the third time, last appearing in their production of GEORGIANA & KITTY: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY and SWEAT by Lynn Nottage. Recent credits also include LOBBY HERO, BLUE DOOR by Tanya Barfield, THE WHIPPING MAN, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, HAIRSPRAY, THE SKELETON CREW and GOLDEN WINGS.

Rajiv Joseph

Playwright

Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from Miami University with a BA in Creative Writing and from New York University with an MFA in Dramatic Writing. He has been writing steadily since his first play, HUCK & HOLDEN, debuted off-Broadway in January 2006. One of his best-known plays, BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO debuted in May 2009 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play, about two American Marines and an Iraqi translator who encounter a tiger stalking the streets of Baghdad, had a 2011 Broadway production with actor Robin WIlliams in the title role of Tiger. GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES, Joseph’s most-produced play, is a two-person one-act that explores the relationship of two people over a period of 30 years. Joseph’s work is influenced by his mixed-race background, with issues of identity and culture often at the forefront. His plays frequently feature a character who is an outsider-often a young Indian American, drawing on his father’s Indian ethnicity. He also draws on his experience in Senegal as a member of the Peace Corps for three years. In addition to plays, Joseph has written for two seasons of the TV series “Nurse Jackie” and was a co-writer of the films “Draft Day” and “Army of One”. Joseph’s plays have been produced at the Mark Taper Forum, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, and Steppenwolf Theatre. In 2018, his play DESCRIBE THE NIGHT won the Obie Award for Best New American Play.

Michael Stevenson

Director/Artistic Director

For Capital Stage, Michael has directed 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.

Keith Riedell

Managing Director

Keith Riedell is celebrating his 19th year at Capital Stage and brings to the company his varied experiences in the theatre, management, team building, counseling, training and corporate improvement. While at Capital Stage he has grown box office operations and installed online ticketing and donor systems, developed sound accounting and financial policies and systems, led efforts to provide living wages and benefits to the staff and artists, and has been an outspoken voice for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging efforts. Working with the board of directors Mr. Riedell is leading a five-year strategic planning process with Michael Kaiser and the DeVos Institute of Arts Management. The plan, completed in the Summer of 2023 is now in the implementation phase. Along with Artistic Director Michael Stevenson, Keith has worked on capacity building projects with Third Plateau and the University of the Pacific.

Tony Gabrielson

Production & Company Manager

Tony has worked with many theaters and dance companies locally and around the country over the last 20 years as a stage manager, carpenter, painter, and technician. Favorite productions include: DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST with Barter Theater in Abingdon, VA, ON BORROWED TIME at Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ, and developmental workshops of BOTTLESHOCK! THE MUSICAL. He is blessed and beyond grateful to continue working as an artist in our community. Love and thanks to Jessa and Piper - his favorite people.

Caleb Jones

Technical Director

Caleb is proud to be Capital Stage's Technical Director since the 23/24 Season. He is new to Sacramento but has worked at the San Diego REPertory theater and with several theaters within Fresno County. This year serves as his 11th year in the field, and he hopes you enjoy our shows. Lots of love to Clarissa and all of his loved ones.

Erika L. Placencia*

Stage Manager

Erika Placencia is ecstatic about being the Production Stage Manager for KING JAMES. She has also been with Capital Stage as the Production Stage manager for ENGLISH, THE HEART SELLERS, NOW CIRCA THEN and CRY IT OUT. She has been an assistant stage manager at Capital Stage for AMERICAN FAST, HOMBRES and HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING. She has a bachelor’s in communications studies and a Bachelors in Theatre Arts. As a 21-year Air Force Veteran, her husband and family have been by her side through one career and fully support her in her new endeavors. She would like to say that “It’s never too late to follow your dream!” GO FOR IT!

Rachel Lau-Kee Browne^

Assistant Stage Manager

Rachel is excited to join Capital Stage for the 24/25 season to follow her heart and pursue her love of theatre after over a decade away. Recent productions include A LITTLE MORE BLUE (NYC, LA) and the world premiere of MY HOME ON THE MOON (SF Playhouse), as well as FAIRVIEW, GEORGIANA & KITTY: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY, ENGLISH, UNSEEN, and the world premiere of EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL HAPPENS AT NIGHT (CapStage). Rachel is grateful to her family and friends for their love and encouragement, her parents for always being her biggest supporters, and Chris and Bruce for believing in her even before she did herself.

Stephen C. Jones+

Scenic Designer

Selected recent credits include: Disney theatrical, Utah Shakespeare Festival (UT), Orlando Shakespeare Theatre (FL), Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CO), Portland Stage Company (ME), Sacramento Ballet (CA), Alley Theatre (TX), Capital Stage Theatre Company (CA), Sting and Honey (UT), THE DRESSMAKER’S SECRET (Off-Broadway). Publishing credits include contributing writer for the book: Experimental Theatre-Praxis-based approaches to training 21st century Artists; Contributing writer for the book World Scenography, and Technical Editor for a book on computer aided drafting. He speaks at international conferences, and has been highlighted repeatedly for the creativity of his design process using 3D software. Stephen is Vice Chair and Professor of Scenography and Theatre Technology at the California State University Sacramento.

Sarah Winter

Lighting Designer

Sarah Winter is thrilled to be designing her first show with Capital Stage. She brings over a decade of experience in theatre arts, having worked across the Central Valley, San Francisco, East Bay, and Sacramento regions. She holds an MFA in Theatre Design and Technical Production from San Francisco State University, with credits including San Francisco Ballet, Exit Theatre, Z Space, Epiphany Dance Theater, and Sacramento Theatre Company. Sarah currently serves as Arts and Outreach Coordinator at Natomas Charter School’s Performing and Fine Arts Academy, where she manages multiple performance venues, builds community partnerships, and expands access to arts education.

Yasmine Salmeron

Costume Designer

Yasmine is thrilled to be a part of the team at Capital Stage. Recent graduate from the University of California Davis earning a BA in Theatre & Dance and Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies. At UC Davis earning credits as ASM for DEATH AND HARRY HOUDINI (The Musical) and ALONE/TOGETHER. In collaboration with directors and designers they have also assisted on SMART PEOPLE, GLORIA, THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY, and THE CHINESE LADY. A true jack of many trades - stagehand, wardrobe and makeup assistant, production manager, etc. Yasmine looks forward to fostering community through her passion for theatre and the arts and continuing to master her craft.

Ed Lee

Sound Designer

Ed is delighted to be part of another season at Capital Stage. He has been involved in almost every production since the company’s aquatic days at the Delta King, from artwork for SPEECH AND DEBATE to appearing in FIRST PERSON SHOOTER. Favorite sound design credits include: MASTER CLASS; SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME; 4000 MILES; MISTAKES WERE MADE; RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN; and UNCANNY VALLEY.

Riley Cisneros-Gruenthal

Properties Designer

Riley Cisneros-Gruenthal is thrilled to be part of the team for KING JAMES, her tenth show with Capital Stage (their work was previously seen in UNSEEN, EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL HAPPENS AT NIGHT, ENGLISH, GEORIGIANA & KITTY: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY, THE HEART SELLERS, CLYDES, ARCHDUKE, & CRY IT OUT). Riley graduated Magna Cum Laude from Southern Oregon University in 2020 with a degree in Theatre Arts. Previous credits include props designer for CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME, WAIT UNTIL DARK, and MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at Sacramento Theatre Company.

Samantha McLean Haas

Scenic Charge Artist

Samantha has been painting sets for over a decade in the greater Sacramento area. She’s thrilled to be painting for her fifth season with Capital Stage. In addition to Capital Stage, she’s worked at Sacramento City College, Sierra College, University of California Davis, Sacramento Theatre Company, B Street, and Broadway at Music Circus.

K. Kevyne Baar, PhD

Resident Dramaturg

Kevyne is thrilled to be a member of the Capital Stage family as the Resident Dramaturg. Productions include GLORIA, HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING, PREDICTOR, ARCHDUKE, NOW CIRCA THEN and EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL HAPPENS AT NIGHT. This year Kevyne is also serving in the role of Literary Manager as Capital Stage brings back its popular Playwrights' Revolution. A member of Viola Spolin’s Young Actors’ Company who became an Equity Stage Manager, and then the Field Representative for Actors’ Equity’s Western Regional Office, she returned to school in 2001 to work on a PhD. This led to her being Equity’s archivist at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. Kevyne moved from Brooklyn, NY to Davis, CA in 2015, and in 2019 her book, BROADWAY AND THE BLACKLIST was published.

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

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, Painter

ED LEE - Resident Sound Designer & Engineer

ISAIAH LEEPER - Lighting Supervisor

SHAE MERCER - Lighting Designer & Lead Electrician

CECILIA CASTILLO JUAREZ - Concessions & Box Office Associate 

RACHEL LAU-KEE BROWNE - Assistant Stage Manager

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 - Jarod Wiggins, Rachel Lau-Kee Browne, Zaara Little, Katie Halstead

Capital Stage Board Members

Lori Abbott Moreland
Arts Patron

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 and Vice Chair of the CSUS Dept of Theatre and Dance

Leili Khalessi, Board Vice President
California Dept. of Human Resources

Steve Koonce
Arts Patron

Elena Lopez-Gusman
Executive Director, California Chapter, American College of Emergency Physicians

Dena Martinez
Talen Agent, Director, Actor

Kristi Quesada Mathisen, Board Secretary
Sacramento Country Day School

Clif McFarland
Attorney

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 6/18/24 to 6/18/25

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
Donna Chipps
Drs. John & Lois Crowe
Kathryn Doi
Golden 1 Credit Union
Lesley & Steve Koonce
Sacramento City Office of Arts and Culture
The Shubert Foundation
Chuck & Nancy Shulock

Executive Producer: $10,000+

Chastity Benson
Rebecca Boyd
Gloriette C. Fong
James McElroy & Ann Gerhardt
Leonard Vincent Sales
Anita Scuri & James Simon
Patricia Wall & David Stavarek

Producer: $6,000+

Walter & Linda Barnes
Marcy Barnett
Susan Edling
Gail Finney
Deborah Franklin & Douglas Mitten
Linda McAtee & Steve Sphar
Art & Sue Scotland
Howard Slyter & Marge Ginsburg

Director: $3,000+

Susie & Jim Burton
Ted Cobb
Kathleen Collins
Melissa Conner & Theodore Harris
Theresa Corrigan
Kathy Davenport & Ken Weiss
Steven Debry
Lisa Foster
James R Hargrove
Beth Hassett
Dean & Sandi Karagianes
Robert Klass & Katy Globus
Michael Koltnow & Kathleen Stack
Scott & Linda Lasher
Dennis Link
Bob Mandelson
Clif McFarland
Gretchen Peralta
Rani Pettis
Stephanie Rowe
Peter Saucerman & Susan Twining
Diane Schertz
Tom & Hedda Smithson
Barbara Sommer
Marty & Janet Steiner
Shirlee Tully
Susan Wheeler

Lead Actor: $1,200+

Jacob Appelsmith
Peggy Beasley
David Bell & Katherine Newman
Carol Buck & Dennis Beaty
Margaret L Buss
Ellen Covairt & Bernard Kalscheuer
Cindy Dunning
Jeffrey Farley & Mike Tentis
Patty French
Carole Fritz
Curtis Fritz
Helen & Glenn Hakanson
Matt Hart
Sherry Haus
Jane Hing
Lisa & Garen Horst
Stephanie & David Hunt
Laura Jackson
Barbara Jeffus
Janet Jensen
Dawn & Dave King
Brian & Dorothy Landsberg
Marion Leff
Tiffany Little Canfield
Dena Martinez & Paul Verke
Eugene Masuda
Kristi Quesada Mathisen & Josh Mathisen
Peter Mohrmann & David Harris
Gail Pereira
Christopher Price
Laurie Nelson Randlett & Jim Randlett
Brian Rickel
Amy & Jason Rogers
Jim Rolewicz & Tim Curfman
Glenn Rondeau
Ken Rothaus
Lori Saper
Owen Smith
Roger & Barbara Smith
Rae-Nani Stokes
Ed Telfeyan & Jeri Paik
Robert & Michele Van Eyken
Denise Verbeck
Megan Van Voorhis
Peggy Wheeler
Claudia Wrazel & Frank Horowitz

Designer: $600+

Chris Abare
Kathleen Anderson
Stephen & Melva Arditti
David & Marsha Baskins
Barbara Black
Peter Botto
Linda Brandenburger
Dr. William Bronston & Lisa Levering
Les & Peggy Chisholm
Annabel Cooper
Gayle Dax-Conroy
Fred Deneke & Jim Eastman
Matt Donaldson & Steve Kyriakis
Carol Enns
Nancy Erman
Wiley Fowler
David Fulk & Keith Riedell
Brian Galacio
Randy Getz
Carol & Steven Goldberg
Linda Gregory
Dennis Gunvalson & Richard Bay
Ed Hall & Warren Lindeleaf
Team Hanseth
Eileen Heaser
Josh Horowitz & Patti Baggett
Laura Kee & Daryl Browne
Charles & Elizabeth Kuehner
Sandy Lee
Janet Lial
Elena Lopez-Gusman
Shannon Mahoney & Kirk Blackinton
Steven Meinrath & Helen Nusbaum
Ed Mills
Julie Morandi
Catherine O'Brien
John Peirce
Ann Siprelle
Robert Thompson
Harold & Ilah Turner
Catherine Van Aken
Kim Varner
Chris Wagner
Buzz Wiesenfeld
Karen Willstatter
John Wilson & Susie Monary-Wilson
Carol Wolff Barnes

Ensemble: $300+

Candace & Doug Adams
Elaine Alexander
Jean Alford
David Alois & Jacquie Embs
John Angell
Kristine Backus
Robert & Laura Jane Young
Eloise & James Barter
Sue Blosl
Robert & Jean Bonar
Karen Broido
Margaret & Stephen Brush
Carin & Bob Bryans
Celia Buckley
Lyndsay Burch
Steve Buri
Henry Chambers
Marilyn Champa
Timothy Corcoran
Gail Dartez & Don McGillivray
Laura Dirrim
Katherine Downey
Stuart Eldridge
Richard & Barbara Falcon
Tracie & Richard Fike
Clint Fleener
Niva Flor
Muffy & Terry Francke
Anne Geraghty
Cynthia Gerber
Mary Graziose
S. B. Hadley Wilson
Linda & Simon Haines
Linda Hansen
Polly Hasemann
Zheyla Henriksen
Robert Herne
Theresa Holden
Mike & Doris Horton
Patrick Hunt
Kim Hunter
Don Johnson & Elizabeth Miller
Leili Khalessi
Jolanta Kieturakis
Jane Kirkland
Pamela Kisor
Derry Knight
Sally Knost
Beverly & Ronald Lamb
Dr. John & Rosemary Lamb
Dan & Stephanie Leahy
John Leonard
David & Ruth Lindgren
Dennis Mangers & Michael Sestak
John Marinko
Terry McLean
George Meyer
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