SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTSTHE WORLD PREMIERE OF

WRITTEN BY PENELOPE LOWDERDIRECTED BY MICHAEL A. SHEPPERD

SET DESIGN: STEPHEN GIFFORD

LIGHTING DESIGN: DONNY JACKSON

SOUND DESIGN: JESSE MANDAPAT

PROJECTION DESIGN: DAVID MURAKAMI

COSTUME DESIGN: MYLETTE NORA

PROPS: MICHAEL O’HARA

ORIGINAL MUSIC: MICHAEL TEOLI

PUBLICIST: JUDITH BORNE

GRAPHIC DESIGN: GUILLERMO PEREZ

CASTING: RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS

REHEARSAL STAGE MANAGER: GARRETT CROUCH

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER: CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN

FIGHT COORDINATOR: JEN ALBERT

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: AMY PELCH

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: ANDREW BRIAN CARTER

OPENING NIGHT: FEBRUARY 1, 2020

PRODUCERS: GARY GROSSMAN AND MICHAEL KEARNS

“West Adams” was developed in SkyLab – Skylight’s resident playwright’s program under the direction of Lee Blessing.

“There is a Chinese curse which says ‘May he live in interesting times.’Like it or not we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty;

but they are also more open to the creative energy of men than any other time in history.”

- June 1966, John F. Kennedy, Cape Town South Africa

There is no doubt that our times are interesting, and if indeed times like ours foster inspiration and creative energy, then perhaps its no surprise that 2020 marks an artistic milestone for Skylight Theatre Company. For the first time in our 37-year history we will present three world premiere plays created and developed in our resident playwrights program.

Nine years ago, when Skylight decided to launch a writer’s lab with the help of Shem Bitterman, there were few theatres in Los Angeles that housed playwrights and no intimate theatre with a real residency program. Over those years the membership became richer, more diverse and in 2018 Lee Blessing, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Tony Award nominated playwright became the Director. Known as PlayLAb until recently, the Skylab playwright’s program includes a unique feature; each year members create a brand new play from scratch rather than rewrite a work born several years earlier. The results are plays that reverberate with immediacy. That brings us to our New Season….

Penelope Lowder’s dark comedy set in the historic “West Adams” district, takes an uncomfortable look at two subjects in our daily news, race and class. It’s followed by Roger Q. Mason’s “Lavender Men – An Emancipation Play” where Taffeta, a self-proclaimed “fabulous queer creation of color,” will take you into a historical fantasia as she invades the private world of Abraham Lincoln to confront issues of LGBTQ+ inclusion and visibility that still challenge us today. In the fall, “Emmylu” will taunt your sensibilities in an all too familiar world where sound bites are news and facts are negotiable. Boni B. Alvarez’ story is a look at the conversations and issues tearing at the fabric of our country when a Filipino immigrant family divided, polarized and politicized is thrown into the media circus following a mass shooting.

Yes we live in interesting times, but perhaps with the unflinching vision of artists like these, times are beginning to change.

Gary GrossmanProducing Artistic Director

Michael A. Shepperd with Penelope Lowder

CASTMICHAEL HILLS...........CLAYTON FARRISJULIE CHO HILLS..................JENNY SOOEDWARD APAZA..........ANDRÉS M. BAGGSARAH APAZA..............ALLISON BLAIZE

SETTINGTime: Now

Place: West Adams, Los Angeles

“West Adams” is performed without intermission

ANDRÉS M. BAGG (Edward) Honored to be making his debut at Skylight Theatre! Other theater credits: Midsummer Night’s Dream (Principe Gran Via, Madrid), Shrek The Musical (Teatro Maipo, Buenos Aires), Rent (Teatro Konex, Buenos Aires), The Three Musketeers (Teatro Armenia, Buenos Aires), Wojtyla (Latín American tour), I Love You Because (El Cubo, Buenos Aires), among others. Film: Stolen Tango, The Rati Horror Show, 27, Coyote Lake, Left for Dead. My love to Moshi and my family.

ALLISON BLAIZE (Sarah) was most recently in the  Spanish Prayer Book at the Road Theatre. Other credits include: A Splintered Soul (ICT); Cardboard Piano (ICT); Stupid Kid (Road); The Play About the Baby (Road); A Delicate Ship (Road-U/S);  Secure Storage(HFF2017);  No Place to be Somebody (Robey). www.allisonblaize.com

CLAYTON FARRIS (Michael) is honored to be a part of the world premiere of West Adams. He was most recently seen as Rob in the world premiere of She’s Not There at the Zephyr Theatre. He will be reprising his role as Neil Simon in The Art Couple at this years CTG Block Party at the Kirk Douglas. Recent Film/TV: Seal Team, Ratched, Days of Our Lives, All Rise. @claytonfarris

JENNY SOO (Julie) Favorite LA theater credits: Hot Cat, D Deb Debbie Deborah, Dry Land, and Gloria (2019 Stage Raw Best Female Comedy). TV: Parks & Rec, LA to Vegas, Reverie. Her passion project, the award-winning feature, For Izzy is finishing its festival run and available on VOD: www.forizzy.com. BFA: NYU. MFA: A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard

WHO’S WHOCAST

WHO’S WHOPRODUCTION

PENELOPE LOWDER (Writer) is a playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Some of her many works include West Adams, Reaching Autonomy and A Drop of Sun. Her plays have been produced in New York and Los Angeles. Lowder’s most recent film 15 Minutes will premiere at the 2020 Pan African Film Festival. She is adapting her debut novel Three Seconds of Hell, the story of her father’s experiences in a 1950’s southern motorcycle gang, into a screenplay. Lowder is a current member of Skylight Playwrights Lab. She is a recipient of the Marvin Miller Screenwriting Fellowship and

the Los Angeles Theater Center Playwrights Residency. Lowder holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theater from University of Southern California. She teaches writing at USC through the Community Literature Intensive Program. Additionally, she serves as a playwriting mentor to at risk youth in south Los Angeles. Lowder resides in Los Angeles.

MICHAEL A. SHEPPERD (Director) is very happy to be back with his Skylight Family. Michael is the Artistic Director of Los Angeles’ award-winning Celebration Theatre. Recent Directing credits include: The Boy From Oz (Ovation Award, LADCC Award, Best Director), Rotterdam (LADCC Award Best Production, Stage Raw award for Best Production (win) and Best Director, nom Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Director of the Year, Scenie Award, BWW nom, Best Director) The View Upstairs (BWW award, Best Director) Never Ever Land, Sucker Punch , Too Heavy for Your

Pocket, The Next Fairy Tale , [title of show] , Rent. Acting roles include The Producers (Roger DeBris), Fences (Troy; Ovation, LADCC noms), BootyCandy (LADCC nom, Ovation, Stage Raw win), The Color Purple (Mister; Ovation award), Steel (Ovation Award), Master Harold and the Boys ( NAACP theatre award nom), Intimate Apparel (NAACP Theatre Award), Choir Boy (NAACP nom), and Shout Sister Shout. Broadway/Regional credits include: Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan, The Seafarer, Little Shop of Horrors, Caroline, or Change, Whipping Man. TV: Why Women Kill, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Soul Man, Hot In Cleveland, Wizards of Waverly Place, Monk, Criminal Minds, NCIS. Olive Ewe all the time boo

GARY GROSSMAN (Producer) is Skylight’s Producing Artistic Director and the recipient of the inaugural Henry Ong Award for Leadership in the Los Angeles Theatre Community, and Stage Raw’s 2016 Career Achievement Award. His career began in New York, owning two theaters and a theatrical lighting company by the age of 23. Gary worked at the Public Theatre, Café La Mama, and Sheraton Square Playhouse before joining Los Angeles’ emerging theatre movement in the 70’s. Producing over 300 stage plays and more than 65 world premieres, some of his celebrated productions are Rotterdam (3 LADCC Awards including Best Production and 2 Stage Raw Awards 2018 - performed at CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in 2019), Church & State (performed Off-Broadway 2017), The Wrong Man (3 Ovation Awards; performed Off-Broadway 2019), Bronco Billy – The Musical (2 Ovation Awards 2019), Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (Steinberg/National Theatre Critics Citation with Lower Depth Ensemble), El Grande CIRCUS de Coca- Cola, Obama-ology, Pray To Ball (1 Ovation Award), Years to the Day, Hermetically Sealed, Bullrusher, Mad Women (LA Weekly Award), Romeo and Juliet directed by Milton Katselas (3 LADCC Awards), Dylan (3 LADCC Awards), AIDS/US Portraits In Courage, Influence, America Adjacent, The Madres, Dream Man, Beautified and Never Is Now.

MICHAEL KEARNS (Producer) began his association with Gary Grossman and the Skylight Theatre in 1984 with the groundbreaking production of AIDS/US, which he directed and co-produced. Kearns’ theatrical career—encompassing acting, directing, playwriting and producing—became aligned with determined activism which has never abated. His favorite Skylight collaborations include starring in James Carroll Pickett’s Dream Man (which went on to tour America and abroad), the QueerWise production of Shades of Disclosure (which he directed) and the INKubator and workshop productions of his two most recent plays, Bang Bang and Bloodbound.

SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY received two 2020 Ovation Awards for their World Premiere production of Bronco Billy - The Musical (Book, Music & Lyrics for an Original Musical). In 2019 they were honored to have Center Theatre Group produce their multi-award winning production of Rotterdam at the Kirk Douglas Theatre as part of Block Party. The production won three 2018 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards (Best Production, Writing and Lead Actress). It also received top honors at the 2018 Stage Raw Awards (Production of the Year, Leading Actress). Recognized as a “powerhouse of new play development” by Dramatist Magazine, in just the last four years two plays developed and premiering at Skylight have been performed Off Broadway, The Wrong Man and Church & State; the later has had 50 productions in 32 states. Dontrell, Who Kissed The Sea (co-production with Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble) received the prestigious Steinberg American Theatre Critics Association Citation and multiple productions nationally. Skylight’s resident writers have also enjoyed productions nationwide, and been awarded the esteemed USA Ford Fellowship in Theater and Performance (Sigrid Gilmer), and a Humanitas/CTG Playwriting Prize (Louisa Hill – Lord of the Underworld’s Home for Unwed Mothers). The resident playwright’s program is helmed by the Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Tony Award nominated playwright, Lee Blessing.

ANDREW BRIAN CARTER (Assistant Director) directed productions of The Loveliest Afternoon Of The Year; Philip Glass Buys A Loaf Of Bread; Stoop; Backstory. Recent acting credits: Never Ever Land (Theatre Unleashed); Bliss (Moving Arts); Die Mommie Die (Celebration/Kirk Douglas Theatre). He wrote, directed and stars in the short film A Perfect Fit, now on the festival circuit. Select television appearances: Truth Be Told, Criminal Minds, Lopez, 2 Broke Girls, New Girl, Castle. Please visit abcisme.com.

GARRETT CROUCH (Rehearsal Stage Manager) is a multi-hyphenate human with a deep passion and love for entertainment. Actor, writer, musician, technician, director, and stage manager are a few hats he wears. He recently collaborated with the Puckwit Gang in a successful run of Dangerous Cures of Dr. B, which he co-wrote the script and score for. When he isn’t writing scores or acting out, you can usually find him here, managing at Skylight Theatre, where he was Production Stage Manager of the multiple award-winning Rotterdam.

STEPHEN GIFFORD (Scenic Design) Stephen’s design work has been featured at numerous theatres in the LA area including: Ensemble Theatre Company Santa Barbara, La Mirada Performing Arts Center/McCoy Rigby, 3D Theatricals, The Gary Marshall Theatre, A Noise Within, The Theatre @ Boston Court, The Antaeus Company, International City Theatre, Celebration Theatre and many more. He has garnered many awards and nominations for his work including seven Ovation Award nominations and was awarded The Bob Z Award for career achievement in set design by the LADCC. More info can be found at www.stephengifforddesign.com

WHO’S WHO

CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN (Stage Manager) Christopher recently performed in Skylight’s World Premiere of Hostage. He is Skylight’s resident Production Stage Manager and Production Coordinator. He has been building sets and running light boards ever since high school. During college he worked at LATC and for the Los Angeles Opera as well as on the running crew for countless shows at The Shrine Auditorium. In New York, Chris got to work in a ton of great theaters as well as building half a dozen or so shows from the ground up on Theater Row. During his years working for the Skylight Theatre Company, he has worked on the world premieres of Bronco Billy - The Musical, America Adjacent, Never Is Now, Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea, Church & State, Lord of the Underworld’s Home for Unwed Mothers, El Grande CIRCUS de Coca-Cola, Pray To Ball, Forever House, The Wrong Man, The Madres, Beautified, Hermetically Sealed, A Death in Colombia, La Ronde de Lunch, Bulrusher, Obama-ology, and the Rogue Machine’s Dirty Filthy Love Story.

DONNY JACKSON (Lighting Design) Career highlights include the West Coast premiere of In the Heights (Casa 0101 Theatre), the NY premiere of Four Clowns (La MaMa), God Looked Away, starring Al Pacino and Judith Light (Macha Theatre), A Singular They (Blank Theatre)-Stage Raw nomination, Transition (Lounge Theatre)-NAACP Award, and Arrival & Departure (Fountain Theatre)-Broadway World Award. Recent productions include Into the Woods, as featured during ABC’s reality TV event, Encore!, the KJAZZ Fall Benefit Concert (Wallis Annenberg) and The Christians (Actors Co-op). He is a Professor of Theatre at Cypress College and holds an MFA in Lighting from UCLA. www.DonnyJackson.com

JESSE MANDAPAT (Sound Design) Recent sound designs: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Greenway Court Theatre); Defenders (Broadwater Black Box); The Chinese Lady (Artists At Play); Be A Good Little Widow (Odyssey Theater Ensemble); The Castle Rock Live Experience (Hulu @ San Diego Comic-Con); Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic Theatre Company); Fool For Love (Theatre for the New City); Exit Strategy (LA LGBT Center); 1984 (Greenway Court Theatre); Locusts Have No King (INTAR NYC). Education: MFA Sound Design, CalArts. BA Music, UC San Diego.

DAVID MURAKAMI (Projection Design) is a projection designer and film director focused on the union between the cinematic and theatrical. Recent productions in Los Angeles include Luis Valdez’ Zoot Suit and Valley of the Heart at the Mark Taper Forum, Bronco Billy at Skylight Theatre Company, Singin’ in the Rain with McCoy Rigby, Sense and Sensibility at South Coast Repertory, and Gordon Getty’s Scare Pair at LA Opera Off Grand. Other design credits include Opera Parallèle’s Dead Man Walking, Champion, Les Enfants Terribles, Heart of Darkness, and Little Prince; Minnesota Opera’s Das Rheingold, Elektra, and Flight; Sun Valley Summer Symphony’s Daphnis et Chloé, and the sci-fi musical revue 5-SK1-E-S aboard Princess Cruises. Other companies include Opéra de Montréal, San Jose Repertory Theater, SFJazz, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Arizona Opera, and LA Opera. David also teaches projection design at the University of California, Irvine. www.davidmurakami.com

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MYLETTE NORA (Costume Design) has won the NAACP Theatre Award for best costumes and is listed in the honors edition of the Cambridge Registry of Who’s Who Among Executive and Professional Women. Her work, which consists of television, film, and stage, was seen nightly on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The famed artist Synthia St. James noted Mylette as being the inspiration for her world renowned painting Ensemble which graced the cover of the best selling novel Waiting To Exhale by Terry McMillan. Mylette’s talents continue with her creative line of heirloom dolls called My Mind’s Eye and a line of designer doggie wear called From the Heart Doggie Wear. www.FromTheHeartDoggieWear.com

MICHAEL O’HARA (Properties Design) - A freelance props designer, his work has appeared on stage at Celebration Theatre, Circle X, East West Players, the Blank, Theatre of NOTE, Coeurage Theatre, The Road Theatre, the Garry Marshall, Skylight, IAMA Theatre, Sacred Fools, and Artists at Play to name a few. He was the original Props Designer for three shows at CTG’s Block Party (Failure: A Love Story - 2017; Die, Mommie, Die - 2018; Rotterdam - 2019). His original props design for Canyon for IAMA Theatre will appear at Block Party this spring. Thank you for supporting Los Angeles theatre.

AMY PELCH (Associate Producer) is a graduate of NYU where she studied Metropolitan Studies and Mathematics. She was a Marketing Intern at Skylight Theatre in the summer of 2016 and now works as an Associate Producer and Beyond Conversation Coordinator. Amy also works at Housing Works, Club 21 Learning & Resource Center, and as a member of Skylight’s Front of House Staff.

RAUL CLAYTON STAGGS (Casting Director) is a freelance casting director thrilled to be working at The Skylight again. Previous projects for The Skylight include Never Is Now, American Adjacent, Rotterdam, Hostage, and The Madres. Other recent credits include Las Mujeres Del Mar, The End Of Beauty, Southernmost and I Go Somewhere Else (Playwrights’ Arena), Safe Harbor (Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble), The Best Man and The Direction Home (Theatre Planners), and Evangeline: Queen Of Make-Believe (About Productions.) Raul is a 2018 Recipient of Playwrights’ Arena’s Lee Melville Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Los Angeles Theatre Community.

MICHAEL TEOLI (Original Music) Before graduating from Berklee College of Music, Teoli worked on Howard Shore’s Music Team for Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. He’s since scored/worked on music for over 70 films and 30 plays/musicals. Favorite/recent credits include scoring Shudder’s Video Palace podcast, The Vernardos Circus and new musical Dear Jerry Seinfeld. Teoli’s Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera plays around the country and a live album is available from Broadway Records. www.michaelteoli.com

WHO’S WHO

LAVENDER MEN: An Emancipation Playby Roger Q. Mason

Directed by Lovell HolderOn Sale: Feb 25Opens April 25, 2020

PRODUCTION STAFF

STAGE MANAGERS: CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN, GARRETT CROUCH

FIGHT COORDINATOR: JEN ALBERT

SET CONSTRUCTION: CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN, GARRETT CROUCH

SCENIC PAINTING: ORLANDO DE LA PAZ

PROJECTION ASSISTANT: SAM CLEVENGER

PUBLICIST: JUDITH BORNE

GRAPHIC DESIGNER: GUILLERMO PEREZ

PHOTOGRAPHER: ED KREIGER

SPECIAL THANKSLee Blessing, Boni Alvarez, Meredith Besser, Shem Bitterman, Mariana Cerreño KingJonathan Ceniceroz, Fielding Edlow, Tim Furlong, Ton Lavagnino, Rhea MacCallum

Roger Mason, David Myers, ETC Lighting

Buck Henry and Irene Ramp for their many years of friendship and support.

SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY STAFFPRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: GARY GROSSMANCO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: TONY ABATEMARCOEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: SANDEE GROSSMANDEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR: LAURA SALVATOARTISTIC ASSOCIATE: MICHAEL KEARNSSKYLAB DIRECTOR: LEE BLESSING PLAY READING COORDINATOR: CELIA MANDELA RIVERAARTISTIC LEADERS: SHAINA ROSENTHAL, CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN, VICTORIA PEARLMAN, CELIA MANDELA RIVERABEYOND CONVERSATION COORDINATOR: AMY PELCH PUBLICIST: JUDITH BORNEGRAPHIC DESIGN: GUILLERMO PEREZPRODUCTION COORDINATOR: CHRISTOPHER HOFFMANSTAGE MANAGERS: BEN ALTMAN, GARRETT CROUCHFRONT OF HOUSE: CARLEE WILSON, AMY PELCH, JILL ABATEMARCO, MADELAINE FELDER, MARISA CADDICKVIDEO PROMOTION: MAXWELL MORRO

BOARD OF DIRECTORSFR. GREGORY GOETHALS CHAIR WILLIAM SLOCUM TREASURER DALE RAOUL SECRETARY

BRADFORD BANCROFT, GARY GROSSMAN, WENDY KOUT, MICHAEL KEARNS

ARTISTIC ADVISORY BOARDAndy Ackerman, Brooke Adams, Ed Asner, Dan Bucatinsky, Marcia Milgrom Dodge,

Scott Ellis, Johnny Galecki, Peter Gallagher, John Benjamin Hickey, Winnie Holzman,

Dr. Jorge Huerta, Robert Israel, Sheryl Kaller, Stacy Keach, Sharon Lawrence, Eric McCormack,

Terrence McNally, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Nauffts, Billy Porter, Joan Rater, Jeffrey Richman,

Thomas Sadoski, Don Roos, Chip Rosenbloom, Marc Shmuger, Joe Spano, Marcelo Tubert

Thank You to Our 2019 Contributors (January - December) INNOVATOR $50,000+AnonymousD. Richard Odle, in memory of

SUSTAINER $25,000+The Ahmanson FoundationRalph M. Parsons Foundation

ANGEL 10,000+Paul and Monica Bancroft Family FoundationThe James Irvine FoundationLos Angeles County Arts Commission

SPONSOR $2,500+Nancy E. Barton FoundationBroadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, IncGail and Robert IsraelWendy KoutDale Raoul and Ray ThompsonMary Jo and David Volk

SUPPORTER $1,000+Caplin Foundation, Cate CaplinDiane Carey and James ParriottEdlow Family Fund, Fielding EdlowRick FeldmanPatty Glaser and Sam MudieIndustrial Strength Inc., Bradley KesdenDavid Kobrin, in honor of Michael KearnsCarol and Craig KapsonMillin FamilyJan MunroeJohn Pasquin and JoBeth WilliamsJohn RothmanDeborah and David Trainer

PARTNER $500+AnonymousYuval Bar-ZemerSondra Currie & Alan J. LeviFulcrum ArtsJeff Heglin and Randy SheriffBuck Henry Charitable FoundationRolin JonesPhillip KeeneJeffrey LeichterAlan MandellNancy and John ReinischJoey and Anthony RichJennifer and Matthew RowlandWilliam R. SlocumJohn TaylorSteve Warheit and Jean ChristensenMichele Willens

ADVOCATE $250+Bruno, in honor ofJohn DensmoreZo HarrisGina Hecht & Brian HerskowitzMelanie MarnichJeffrey RichmanRichard RossPam and Bart Wald

PATRON $100+Tony AbatemarcoLawrence AbrahamsAnonymousDoris BaizleyRuth BrandtSally ChasmanCynthia ComskySusan DonigerJenny Eisenpresser KwitJames FreedJeremy HammondLovell HolderGary T. IzumiJocelyn Jones WatkinsKatherine KearnsBarnet Kellman and Nancy MetteAntoinette Kirshbaum, in honor of Tony AbatemarcoDiana KnoxTom LavagninoJeff LeBeauDavid Levinson & Ellie HermanJudith MarlinPrice MarshallJoel MintzCarol and Bob NaceAnita NaglerArianne NeumarkJamie O’Halloran WhitmarshKay ParkJeff RenoGregory SmallJames R. SteinLisa RichardsLucia RosenbloomAurin SquireNeely and Larry SwansonEileen T’Kaye and David BischoffLori and Marcelo TubertJake ValentePatricia Wilson

FAN $25+AnonymousBradford BancroftSharon BarrRebecca BeechLeo BraudySue BruckerKyle ChaseSusanna ErdosYvette FarmerAshley FelknerGower FrostTim FurlongCalum GittinsMatt Gomez HidakaHoward Hesseman and Caroline DucrocoJohn IacovelliDani Klein ModisettLisa KotinKeri LassalleJan LevineRose LiSimon LevyJan LewbinSalvatore LopezJustin LordPenelope LowderJacqueline MaloufEvelyn ManciniDavid Misch & Dr. Amy GelfandKathryn RetskyBarbara RobertsRuth SimonAlberta WarnerJustin WhiteChana WiseLiana Yangson-WilcoxBetsy Zajko

FRIEND $50+Dr. Evie AbatJen AlmironAnonymousJill BaumanIvy BeechJay BevanLucy BroadbentMary CarleyAnthony CooksonDavid EganJacob EpsteinCheri Gaulke, in honor of Michael KearnsEd GreenbergDavid A. GrossCecelia HallBenjamin HirschhornMichael KafkaJoel KorotzerNorm KresgeEmily LawrenceRuth LerdahlLiz LinTimothy MasonAnna Mathias and Alan ShearmanDan McClearyDeanne MencherMatthew MitchellNetwork For GoodSteve OngPenny OrloffRobyn PetersonLarry and Susan RosenbergLinda RosmanGarland SchweickhardtMarcia Seligson and Tom DruckerHarry SondheimKirk StamblerBenjamin TiernanStephanie Waxman

WE DON’T JUST “PUT ON PLAYS,” WE CREATE OPPORTUNITIES, HELP LAUNCH CAREERS, AND SOMETIMES WE CHANGE MINDS.

At Skylight Theatre Company We Are Dedicated To The Idea That Artists Can Create Change. Diversity, equity and inclusion are more than multi racial casting. It’s telling stories that would go unnoticed or could be controversial. It’s taking a chance on someone without regard for age, gender, ethnicity or zip code. It’s also about who’s in the audience.

Contributing To Positive Change, But We Can’t Do It Alone.The stories we tell start conversations, opening doors to new ideas and new people. We offer free programs to Artists, Teens, Young Adults and lifetime learning for Audiences with Beyond Conversation.

Your Gift Makes A Big Difference.As a nonprofit intimate theatre, ticket sales cover only 25% of our annual costs. Contributions from individuals like you make up the difference and have a real impact.

Will You Help Us? You can contribute online at SkylightTheatre.org, by mail or by phone.

NOW MORE THAN EVER WE NEED THE COMPASSION AND UNDERSTANDING THAT LIVE THEATRE PROMOTES.

“The Skylight Theatre Company [is] known for creating stories to that help stimulate conversation, raise our consciousness, and expand our hearts.”

(BroadwayWorld)

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