Artistic Director Michael Stevenson & Managing Director Keith Riedell Present Northern California Premiere & Co-Production with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley & Aurora Theatre Company THE HEART SELLERS
by Lloyd Suh
Directed by Jennifer Chang
October 16-November 17, 2024 PERFORMANCE LENGTH:  1 Hour, 30 Minutes, No Intermission
FEATURING:
Nicole Javier*      Wonjung Kim*
	Assistant Director Rebs Chan
Scenic Designer Arnel Sancianco		Lighting Designer  Isaiah Leeper
Sound Designer Ed Lee		Costume Designer Lisa Claybaugh
Properties Coordinator Capital Stage Riley Cisneros-Gruenthal		Properties Coordinator TheatreWorks Christopher Fitzer
	Stage Manager Erika L. Placencia*
Assistant Stage Manager Olivia Amore
SEASON WINE SPONSOR:
THE HEART SELLERS is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by TRW PLAYS 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.trwplays.com The Heart Sellers By Lloyd Suh was commissioned by Milwaukee Repertory Theater as part of the John (Jack) D. Lewis New Play Development Program Mark Clements, Artistic Director Chad Bauman, Executive Director and received its first public performance on February 7, 2023
*Member Actors' Equity Association

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Special Thanks

Joe Bertolucci, Affordable Heating & Air, Inc.

Marcy Barnett

Donna Chipps

Josh Costello

Di Arie Vineyard & Winery

Dean & Sandi Karaganies

Jeffrey Lo

Oak Park Brewing Company

Giovanna Sardelli

Owen Smith

Production Staff

Artistic Director - MICHAEL STEVENSON

Director - JENNIFER CHANG

Assistant Director - REBS CHAN

Production & Company Manager - TONY GABRIELSON

Technical Director - CALEB JONES

Lead Carpenter - CONOR WOODS

Technician & Marketing Assistant - ANDREW FRIDAE

Carpenter, Painter - SUNNY MACKEY

Lead Electrician - SHAE MERCER

Scenic Charge Artist - SAMANTHA McLEAN HAAS

Sound Designer & Engineer - ED LEE

Lighting Designer & Supervisor - ISAIAH LEEPER

Electricians - ISAIAH LEEPER, SHAE MERCER, EVA HERNANDEZ

Stage Manager - ERIKA PLACENCIA*

Assistant Stage Manager - OLIVIA AMORE

Scenic Designer - ARNEL SANCIANCO

Properties Coordinator for Capital Stage - RILEY CISNEROS-GRUENTHAL

Properties Coordinator for TheatreWorks - CHRISTOPHER FITZER

Costume Designer - LISA CLAYBAUGH

Build Crew - SUNNY MACKEY, CONOR WOODS 

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

Wardrobe/Run Crew - ZAARA LITTLE^, KATIE HALSTEAD^

Sub Wardrobe/Run Crew - JAROD WIGGINS^, RACHEL LAU-KEE BROWNE^ 

BIAPOC Liaison - MATTHEW HANJOONG

Dramaturg - NICOLE C. LIMÓN

Resident Dramaturg - K. KEVYNE BAAR 

Infection Control Manager - ELIJAH PETERS

Graphic Designer, Marketing Manager, Webmaster - MISTY MCDOWELL

Photographers - CHARR CRAIL, MISTY MCDOWELL

^ Capital Stage Apprentice  |  * Member Actors' Equity Association

About The Play

by K. Kevyne Baar, PhD

“I think at the foreground of everything here is that these are two people who want to make a friend. They want to entertain each other, they want to make each other feel safe, they want to make each other have a good time so that they can make a real, honest connection.” – Lloyd Suh 

Very much as he did in The Chinese Lady, Lloyd Suh has given us another beautiful two-hander. This time the characters owe their being in the United States to the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965. Upon signing this act, then President Lyndon Baines Johnson stated:

“This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives....This bill says simply that from this day forth those wishing to immigrate to America shall be admitted on the basis of their skills and their close relationship to those already here....Those who can contribute most to this country—to its growth, to its strength, to its spirit—will be the first that are admitted to this land.

The fairness of this standard is so self-evident that we may well wonder that it has not always been applied. Yet the fact is that for over four decades the immigration policy of the United States has been twisted and has been distorted by the harsh injustice of the national origins quota system. Under that system the ability of new immigrants to come to American depended upon the country of their birth. Only 3 countries were allowed to supply 70 percent of all the immigrants. It has been un-American in the highest sense... Our beautiful America was built by a nation of strangers... Those who do come will come because of what they are, and not because of the land from which they sprung.”

Our play opens on a Thanksgiving evening in 1973. Enter two young Asian women: Luna and Jane. Having seen Jane in the supermarket, both looking at frozen turkeys, Luna impulsively asks Jane over to her apartment. The two young women are in the United States as their husbands have been “admitted to immigrate to the US on the basis of their skills.”

They are young, they are curious, they are a bit homesick. Over the course of the next 90 minutes, these two recent immigrants, will share feelings of loneliness, the dreams, difficulties, and possibilities that come from being in this America, and the ultimate challenge, how on earth does one defrost and cook a rather large turkey.

Critics have said of this play that it is “Filled with the hope and promise of new beginnings.” Even more, it is “Politically astute and threaded with subtly devastating lines...[it], is about intelligent, curious, creative women who find themselves bereft in a new country — where they recognize something in each other and cheer each other on.”

“Written with tenderness...this touching narrative explores the immigrant experience with humor and compassion, posing the poignant question: what does it mean to truly call a place home?” For you our audience, Suh’s play, of course, will make you think. It will also make you laugh. As we are being challenged by so many issues surrounding immigration, the story that is this play, has the power to speak to everyone.

About The Playwright

by K. Kevyne Baar, PhD

“The plays that I’ve been writing recently on Asian American history, I realized that they’re all part of the same impulse. My parents are first-generation immigrants. My children are third generation, but they have very little tangible connection to my parents’ journey beyond what we can tell them. So how do we tell that story?” – Lloyd Suh

Lloyd Suh, a 1998 graduate of Indiana University, is the recent recipient of the 2022 Steinberg Playwright Award and the author of The Chinese Lady (produced at Capital Stage in 2023), The Far Country, Bina’s Six Apples, Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, Franklinland, American Hwangap, The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go!, Jesus in India, and others, produced with Ma-Yi, Magic Theatre, EST, NAATCO, PlayCo, Denver Center, Milwaukee Rep, ArtsEmerson, Children's Theatre Co, and more, including internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and with PCPA in Seoul, Korea. 

From 2005-2010 he served as Artistic Director of Second Generation and Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and has served since 2011 as the Director of Artistic Programs at The Lark, and since 2015 as a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. He has received support from the NEA Arena Stage New Play Development program, Mellon Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA, Jerome, TCG, Dramatists Guild, and residencies including NYS&F and Ojai. He has earned the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in 2019 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow Award in 2020. In 2023, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play The Far Country. He is an alum of Youngblood and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.

During a 2023 interview on NPR, Suh delved ever deeper into what led him to write The Heart Sellers. "It occurred to me that the Hart-Celler Act was a kind of bookend piece of legislation and that if I was really going to examine the early days of my mother... that it was really very similarly about the aftereffects of that legislation. It was kind of an involuntary impulse that led me down to write about history...It's an intense feeling to just feel like, “Oh wow, I can trace this history along such a long continuum.”

He went on to say that, “This play was written largely during the pandemic. It was a very intense time in a lot of ways — a time of intense national reckoning over this country's relationship to race. It was a time of intense loneliness, and all of those things felt like they were part of what I was dealing with. And when you're ... writing about history, you obviously want to root it in the time period it's in. But it's impossible not to feel the echoes, not just to the present ... but to the beginning of that continuum."

In the progam of a previous production of this play, Suh noted, “I never thought of this as, ‘I’m writing a play about immigrant women.’ I thought of it as ‘I’m writing a play about my mother.’ Suddenly you become the only person who can tell that story.”

Meet the Company

Nicole Javier*

Luna

Nicole (she/hers) is delighted to be making her debut at Cap Stage. This is also extra special as she is reprising the role of Luna from the world premiere of THE HEART SELLERS at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Regional work includes San Francisco Playhouse, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Aurora Theatre Company, Crowded Fire Theatre, Silicon Valley Shakespeare, New Conservatory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory, South Coast Repertory, Provincetown Playhouse, and Shakespeare Orange County. TV: Bosch Legacy, Film: We’re All Gonna Die. Nicole earned her BFA from Chapman University and MFA from UC San Diego, and is a Resident Artist at A Noise Within in Pasadena, CA. More at www.nicolejavier.com, IG: @nicjavi. Maraming salamat sa aking pamilya at mga kaibigan <3

Wonjung Kim*

Jane

Wonjung Kim is a Korean American actor based in LA & NYC. Since graduating from University of Southern California with an MFA in Acting, Wonjung has performed in regional theaters and in New York including Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Fountain Theater. She is also actively pursuing on-camera work and has filmed several projects including various commercials. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading role for NYC Web Festival in 2024. Wonjung is represented by Vanguard Management. AEA and SAG/AFTRA eligible.

Lloyd Suh

Playwright

Lloyd Suh is the author of plays including THE FAR COUNTRY (2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist), THE HEART SELLERS, THE CHINESE LADY, FRANKINLAND, BINA’S SIX APPLES, AMERICAN HWANGAP, and many others. His work has been produced across the country, including at Atlantic Theater Company, The Public, Alliance, Huntington, Berkeley Rep, and with Ma-Yi Theatre Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre among others, and internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and with PCPA at the Guerilla Theatre in Seoul, Korea. Awards include the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Horton Foote Prize, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. He was elected in 2016 to the Dramatists Guild Council, and serves as a Professor of the Practice at Princeton University.

Jennifer Chang

Director

Jennifer Chang is a multihyphenate storyteller. Select theatre directing credits: PRIMARY TRUST (Barrington Stage), WHAT BECAME OF US (World Premiere at Atlantic Theater Company), THE FAR COUNTRY (West Coast Premiere at Berkeley Rep), KING OF THE YEES (Signature Theatre DC, Helen Hayes nom Best Production), ON GOLD MOUNTAIN with LA Opera, VIETGONE (LADCC AWARD for Direction). New Play/ Musical Development/ Residencies: Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, The Mercury Store, The Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Ashland New Plays Festival, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, Center Theatre Group, Sông Collective, Black and Latino Playwrights’ Conference, Theatre Mu, Chance Theater, Boston Court, PlayOn!, East West Players, Artists at Play. Playwriting: THE DEVIL IS A LIE at Quantum Theatre. Geffen Writers Room 23-24, Drama League Beatrice Terry Residency. Member: SDC, AGMA, SAG-AFTRA, AEA. Drama League New York Fellowship, Classical Directing Fellow at The Old Globe. BFA – NYU, MFA – UCSD. Associate Professor UCLA. More info: www.changinator.com.

Rebs Chan

Assistant Director

Rebs Chan is a multidisciplinary theatre artist based in the Bay Area. They have developed and presented original work through Yun Theatre, Festival Playhouse, Queer Theatre Kalamazoo, the Theatre Kalamazoo New Playfest, Taipei Shorts 6, and the Asian American Music Video Fest. Current In Dialogue Coordinator at Berkeley Rep, Artistic Associate at Center REP, and Head of Dramaturgy and Audience Engagement at Bay Area Independent Chinese Dancers. Former Peter F. Sloss Artistic Fellow at Berkeley Rep and English Teaching Assistant through Fulbright Taiwan. Previous assistant directing credits include POTUS, THE FAR COUNTRY, and MOTHER ROAD at Berkeley Rep.

Michael Stevenson

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 17th 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 15 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 joining Capital Stage as Technical Director for 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 10th 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 L. Placencia is excited to be the Production Stage Manager for this show. She has also been with Capital Stage as the production stage manager for 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 was also a stage management intern at Broadway at Music Circus. She was also assistant stage manager for B Street Theatre’s ‘TIS THE SEASON. She earned her first degree in Media and Communication studies from University of Maryland University College and received her second degree from William Jessup University with Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts. She is a proud Air Force Veteran and is happy being able to live her dreams through the support of her family.

Olivia Amore

Assistant Stage Manager

Olivia Amore is very excited to be back for Capital Stage's 20th Anniversary Season! Since wrapping NOW CIRCA THEN in July, she feels blessed to be backstage assistance for Capital Stage once again. 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 very excited to be back in 2025 for another Capital Stage performance!

Arnel Sancianco

Scenic Designer

Arnel is a multi award-winning set designer with a nationally recognized portfolio. He’s currently the Head of Scenic Design at UC Berkeley. His credits include productions at The Kennedy Center, The Muny, The Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Woolly Mammoth, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Writers Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Court Theatre, American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Rep. For an in-depth look at his work visit www.ArnelDesigns.com

Isaiah Leeper

Lighting Designer

Isaiah Leeper is very excited to be lighting up Capital Stage again after working on NOW CIRCA THEN, AMERICAN FAST, CLYDE’S, PREDICTOR, HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING, THE ROYALE, SMART PEOPLE, PASS OVER, and others. He was also able to bring light to the world CABARET at Folsom Lake College. He would like to take the time to thank the cast, crew, and entire company for their support and wonderful energy.

Lisa Claybaugh

Costume Designer

Lisa Claybaugh has more than 20 years’ experience in costumes. This is her first production with Capital Stage. Lisa is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and by day is the Costume Assistant at Theatreworks Silicon Valley. She also designs for many Bay Area theaters including Silicon Valley Shakespeare, Musical Theatre Works, Palo Alto Players, Santa Clara Players, Los Altos Stage, and Sunnyvale Community Players. She holds degrees in Dance and German Translation from Rutgers University. She is grateful for the support of her family, especially Marc, Aidan and Xander.

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.

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.

Riley Cisneros-Gruenthal

Properties Coordinator for Capital Stage

Riley Cisneros-Gruenthal is thrilled to be part of the team for THE HEART SELLERS, her fifth show with Capital Stage (their work was previously seen in FAIRVIEW, 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.

Christopher Fitzer

Properties Coordinator for TheatreWorks

Christopher Fitzer (Properties Director, TheatreWorks) (he/him) is an award-winning freelance theatre designer in the Bay Area and the properties director for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. His previous design credits for Capital Stage include sets for NOW CIRCA THEN, sets and costumes for HOLD THESE TRUTHS, and projections for THE GREAT LEAP. His other design credits include productions at Sacramento Music Circus, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco Playhouse, Aspen Opera Theater Center, World Literature Today’s Puterbaugh Festival, San Jose Stage Co., Hillbarn Theatre, Woodminster Summer Musicals, Oklahoma City Theatre Co., Flat Rock Playhouse, Oakland Theatre Project, Los Altos Stage Co., Douglas Morrisson Theatre, Palo Alto Players, and Foothill Music Theatre. He holds a BFA in theatrical design from the University of Oklahoma. www.christopherfitzer.com

Nicole C. Limón

Dramaturg

Nicole C. Limón is a multidisciplinary theatre artist: an actor/director/dramaturg, and theatre faculty at California State University, Sacramento. She most recently directed: BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK (Celebration Arts, ) JUST A PINCH: A UTERUS PLAY (Matriarchy,) EVERYBODY; and DANCE NATION (CSUS,) and WATER BY THE SPOONFUL (Teatro Espejo.) She is also a Theatrical Intimacy Director committed to creating consent-forward spaces for artists, and locally she has consulted and staged intimacy for Capital Stage, B Street Theatre, CSUS, Teatro Espejo, Celebration Arts and Sacramento Theatre Company. She is founder of Matriarchy Theatre and local collective Sacramento Theatres of Color, an associate member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and holds an MFA in Acting from UC Davis. Follow Nicole’s work @matriarchytheatre

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 & Lighting Designer

SHAE MERCER - Lead Electrician

ANDREW FRIDAE - Technician & Marketing Assistant

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

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 and 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
Talen 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 8/27/23 to 8/27/24

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
Golden 1 Credit Union
Lesley & Steve Koonce
Sacramento City Office of Arts and Culture
The Shubert Foundation

Executive Producer: $10,000+

Gloriette C. Fong
Sacramento Region Community Foundation
Art & Sue Scotland
Anita Scuri & James Simon

Producer: $6,000+

Chastity Benson
Susie & Jim Burton
Drs. John & Lois Crowe
Downey Brand
Susan Edling
James McElroy & Ann Gerhardt
Leonard Vincent Sales
 

Director: $3,000+

David Bell & Katherine Newman
Ted Cobb
Kathleen Collins
Melissa Conner & Theodore Harris
Theresa Corrigan
Kathy Davenport & Ken Weiss
Steven Debry
Jeffrey Farley & Mike Tentis
Gail Finney
Deborah Franklin & Douglas Mitten
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Clif McFarland
Gretchen Peralta
Diane Schertz
Howard Slyter
Marty & Janet Steiner
Ed Telfeyan & Jeri Paik
Susan Wheeler
Gloria & Don Yost

Lead Actor: $1,200+

Jacob Appelsmith
David & Marsha Baskins
Peggy Beasley
Linda Brandenburger
Dr. William Bronston & Lisa Levering
John & Randi Brooklier
Lyndsay Burch
Margaret L Buss
Annabel Cooper
Ellen Covairt & Bernard Kalscheuer
Jim & Kathleen Deeringer
Cindy Dunning
Donald Fraulob & Melissa Brown
Patty French
Carole Fritz
Curtis Fritz
Stephanie Gularte
Mary Hargrave
James R Hargrove
Sherry Haus
Eileen Heaser
Josh Horowitz & Patti Baggett
Lisa Horst
Stephanie & David Hunt
Janet Jensen
Robert Klass & Katy Globus
Charles & Elizabeth Kuehner
Marion Leff
Doron Levitan
Janet Lial
Kris Martin
Kristi Quesada Mathisen & Josh Mathisen
Ed Mills
Peter Mohrmann & David Harris
Katherine Muris
Richard Pearson & Jean Hart
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
Barbara Sommer
Rae-Nani Stokes & Griff Field

Designer: $600+

Chris Abare
John Angell
Stephen & Melva Arditti
Barbara Black
Karen Broido
Donna Campbell
Les & Peggy Chisholm
Edward Condon
Stuart Eldridge
Carol Enns
Richard & Barbara Falcon
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Brian Galacio
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Team Hanseth
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Jane Kirkland
Dr. John & Rosemary Lamb
Nancy Lee
Shannon Mahoney & Kirk Blackinton
Dennis Mangers & Michael Sestak
Dena Martinez & Paul Verke
Mr. Colin A. Miller
Keetha Mills & Phil Nanni
Roger & Kristina Montero
Shelley Mydans & John Griffing
Shirley Nelson
Suzanne Ness
Sara Nichols
Steve Patwell
Marshall & Maureen Rice
Glenn Rondeau
Fred & Polly Schack
Ann Siprelle
Susan & Ross Siragusa
Julie Stark
Stephanie Tucker
Kim Varner
Marian Ver Wey
Megan Van Voorhis
Chris Wagner
James Watkins
LeRose Weikert
Buzz Wiesenfeld
Karen Willstatter
John Wilson & Susie Monary-Wilson
Claudia Wrazel & Frank Horowitz

Ensemble: $300+

Elaine Alexander
David Alois & Jacquie Embs
Kathleen Anderson
Kristine Backus
Walter Barnes
Sue Blosl
Robert & Jean Bonar
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