Sanctuary City digital program

Home. Family. Love. Country.

These themes are always present in Martyna Majok’s plays, but they feel particularly urgent right now. In times that are as confusing, as conflicted, as dangerous as these, the reality of home becomes all the more precious. To be able to choose where you live, and with whom, should be one of the core freedoms to which we are all entitled. We know this is not the case for a huge number of people, including the young folks at the center of Martyna’s story, for a variety of reasons – from an individual’s country of origin or their politics, to their financial status, religious practices, or sexual identity, among others.

What Martyna brings to light, with her inimitable gift for making the political personal, is the injustice that B and G and their families face, as well as the depth of the sacrifice these two teenagers are willing to make for each other. She and director David Mendizábal’s theatrical craft make this story both intimate and epic, grounded in the specific reality of these two DREAMers – with all their longing for the normalcy of adolescence (whatever that might be!) from homework to prom – and the shattered world which they must try to make home.

I am so proud, with this production, to welcome these artists to Berkeley Rep. While Martyna has been here before as part of our Ground Floor Summer Residency Lab, David and the cast and design team are brand new to Berkeley Rep. It is a privilege to welcome them, and the stories they hold, into our theatre, our shared home.

Thank you for being with us.

Warmly,
Johanna Pfaelzer

How lucky we are to have Martyna Majok and her perfectly attuned Sanctuary City to help us make some sense of the personal in a national discussion that is raging around us. It is so easy, in this world of hyperbole and seemingly constant mass hysteria, to lose sight of the deeply human impacts of our national policies. We make national decisions based on what we perceive to be national threats or opportunities. And stories, big and small stories, are the tools we have to offer that help the universal become personal. With stories, we illustrate the impacts and the meanings of bigger forces. We crystallize the human within the bureaucratic.

What Martyna and director David Mendizábal have given us with this story is not only the opportunity to follow and observe the tensions inherent to an undocumented life, but also a chance to live in that world of young, raw emotions. In some sense, they have given us an old American story that is also quite distinctly fresh and new. This is a story that each generation writes anew.

Susie Medak

David Israel Reynoso is an internationally renowned scenic, costume, and exhibit designer, as well as the Obie Award-winning costume designer of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (Boston, New York, and Shanghai). His celebrated theatrical designs have been featured at The Finnish National Ballet, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theater, Portland Center Stage, American Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, among many others. He is the founder of OPTIKA MODERNA and the creator of Portaleza (2020), Las Quinceañeras (2019), and Waking La Llorona (2017). Reynoso’s scope of work extends beyond theatre/film to include designs for globally recognized theme parks as well as companies such as Meow Wolf and The San Diego Museum of Us. Reynoso is the recipient of the Creative Catalyst Grant of the San Diego Foundation, an Elliot Norton Award, and multiple Craig Noel, IRNE, and BroadwayWorld award nominations. More at davidreynoso.com.

Cha See is from Manila, Philippines based in Brooklyn, New York. She is grateful and excited to be here at Berkeley Rep. Off Broadway shows includes soft (MCC Theater), Exception to the Rule (Roundabout), The Fever (Audible Theater), one in two (Signature Theatre), What To Send Up When It Goes Down (The Movement), The Alchemist (Red Bull Theater). Upcoming: On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages), Dom Juan (Bard Center). Training: MFA NYU Tisch. Nominated for and Audelco Award. For more seelightingdesign.com  @seethruuu any pronoun

Fan Zhang is a sound designer and composer based in New York. Her recent design and original music credits include At the Wedding (Lincoln Center Theatre), Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage), A Kid Like Rishi (Origin Theatre), The Golden Age (59E59), Paris (Atlantic Theater), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage & WP), Pumpgirl (Irish Rep), Suicide Forest (Ma-Yi & ART), Molly Sweeney (Theatre Row), Round Table (59E59), Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio), The Trail of the Catonsville Nine (Transport Group), Scissoring (INTAR), Three Girls Never Learnt the Way Home (Cherry Lane), Tania in the Gateway Van (The Flea). Selected regional: The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage), White Noise and Pipeline (Studio Theatre, D.C.), Seven Guitars (Yale Rep), Redeem (Cincinnati Ballet), Revolutionist (Pittsburgh City Theatre), Red Maple (Capital Rep). Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama. fanzhangsound.com

Cara Hinh (she/they) is an NYC-based queer, fat, mixed Viet theatre director and educator originally from Indiana. As the daughter of a Vietnamese refugee and a southern Appalachian, she is drawn to work that is about and explores the diaspora. They rejoice in work that speaks to the complicated and messy intersectionalities of holding a multiplicity of cultures and identities. They are a proud member of the Roundabout Directors Group. Prior, Cara was a 2021-22 Drama League Hangar Fellow, a Directing Apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville, SDC Observer on Hadestown with Rachel Chavkin and a Learning Fellow at Baltimore Center Stage. carahinh.com

As one third of the Artios Award-winning Calleri Jensen Davis (with James Calleri and Paul Davis), Erica’s theatre casting credits include shows for Actors Theatre of Louisville, Classic Stage Company, Rattlestick Theater, City Theater, McCarter Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and The Flea Theater. Broadway credits include Thoughts of a Colored Man, For Colored Girls… (2022), Fool for Love, Hughie, A Raisin in the Sun, Of Mice and Men, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. TV credits include Queens, Love Life, Dickinson, Lipstick Jungle, and The Path.

Elisa Guthertz has been a stage manager in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years. She has worked on many shows for Berkeley Rep including Big Love, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Collected Stories, Rhinoceros, Cloud Tectonics, and Suddenly Last Summer. Most recently she stage managed Fefu and Her Friends at American Conservatory Theater. Some of her other ACT credits include Toni Stone, Testmatch, Rhinoceros, Seascape, Sweat, and Hamlet. Other credits: Georgiana and Kitty Christmas at Pemberley and Failure: A Love Story at Marin Theatre Company; Big Love at Long Wharf Theatre, Goodman Theater and Brooklyn Academy of Music; A Thousand Splendid Suns at ACT, The Old Globe, and Theatre Calgary; The Vagina Monologues with Eve Ensler at Alcazar Theatre; The Good Body with Eve Ensler at the Booth Theater on Broadway.

Christina Hogan (she/her) returns to Berkeley Rep after working on It Can’t Happen Here. Her other theatre credits include Fefu and Her Friends, Gloria, Top Girls, Edward Albee’s Seascape, Men on Boats, Hamlet, Monstress, and Love and Information (American Conservatory Theater); Georgiana and Kitty, Pass Over, and Skeleton Crew (Marin Theatre Company); In Old Age, The Baltimore Waltz, runboyrun, and And I and Silence (Magic Theatre); and Ripped (Z Space). Hogan has a BA in theatre arts from Saint Mary’s College of California.

Intimacy Coordinator
Maya Herbsman

Vocal Coach
Lisa Anne Porter

Assistant Directors
Des’ree Brown (Bret C. Harte Artistic Fellow)
Abigail Holland (Peter F. Sloss Artistic Fellow)

Assistant Lighting Designer
Kiahana Toomer (Electrics Fellow)

Assistant Sound Designer
Akari Izumi (Harry Weininger Sound Fellow)

Rehearsal Production Assistant
Olivia McQuerry (Stage Management Fellow)

Costume Assistant
Rachel Mandelstam (Costume Fellow)

Light Board Operator
Richard Fong

Wardrobe Crew
Eliza Oakley

Scene Shop
J Joseph · August Lewallen · Carl Martin · Sean Miller · Thomas Nguyen · Sam Schwemberger · Tyler Smith · Zach Wziontka · Maggie Wentworth (Scenic Construction Fellow)

Scenic Art
Jimmy Nguyen (Scenic Art Fellow)

Props
Kate Fitt · Garner Takahashi Keene · Sofie Miller · Brittany Watkins · Robin Maegawa-Goeser (Properties Fellow)

Electrics
Maya Bailey · Nikola Capp · Travis Clark · Richard Fong · Michael Kessel · Charlie Mejia · Caitlin Steinmann

Sound
Camille Rassweiler · C. Swan-Streepy

Stage Ops
Anthony Martin · Alaiya Morgane

Assistant Production Manager
Emily Betts (Production Management Fellow)

Assistant Company Manager
Naomi Schiller (Company Management Fellow)

Education Programming Support
Elijah Punzal (Education Fellow)

COVID Safety Officer
Kathleen Parsons

Medical consultation for Berkeley Rep provided by Agi E. Ban DC, John Carrigg MD, Cindy J. Chang MD, Christina Corey MD, Neil Claveria PT, Patricia I. Commer DPT, Brenton Dowdy DPT, Kathy Fang MD PhD, Steven Fugaro MD, Whitney R. Johnson DDS, Olivia Lang MD, Allen Ling PT, and Christina S. Wilmer OD.

What originally drew you to Sanctuary City?

I first read the play when I was working at a theatre in New York and the script came across my desk, and I think the title alone captured me. My dad is an immigrant from Ecuador, and he is sort of the American Dream story. He came to New York when he was 15, was a New York City cab driver, went to law school at Harvard, and is now an immigration attorney. Growing up, I remember my dad telling me stories of his clients; so many of them were seeking asylum, and looking for a better life. I grew up really understanding storytelling through the narrative of immigrants and their personal lives, so reading the title Sanctuary City, immediately I was like, “I’m so excited.”

Then when I read the play, I was really struck by it. Martyna [Majok, playwright] is an incredible writer; she’s able to capture something that is so raw, politically and socially, through the lens of a relationship. That to me is the most thrilling kind of theatre — it’s not a didactic soapbox, it’s not telling you what to think, but it's really letting you into the lives of people. People that you can recognize, that you know, that are your neighbors, that are your friends, that might be you yourself. Theatre that helps us understand the ways in which policy, politics, and the social world we live in directly affect people.

These two young kids are just trying to grow up and go to prom — to navigate the already hellish landscape that is high school. Then on top of that, they’re doing it in a world that doesn’t want to see them thrive, simply because of their nationality and their immigration status. The play personalizes these issues; you don’t get to separate them and say, “Well, that’s not me,” or “That’s not something I deal with.” When I read the play, I saw myself, I saw my friends, I saw my family. I saw the stories of my father’s clients that I grew up listening to. I thought: I have to do this play. I love this play.

What’s exciting to you about bringing this story to Berkeley and the Bay Area?

One of the gifts of this play is that while it is set specifically in Newark, New Jersey, there’s also a universal sensibility. It’s grounded in specific details, but also feels like this could be, and is, everywhere, any city in this country — and in this world where people are seeking sanctuary, whether that is political or emotional or familial. When talking with Johanna [Pfaelzer, Artistic Director] about the play, it was exciting to think about how it would resonate with the communities in the Bay Area, a place with such a diverse population of narratives, of stories, of cultures.

Especially now, I think post-...well, we’re not “post-pandemic;” we’re still deeply in it…but in the wake of a shutdown and a lot of political upheaval and revolution that is ongoing, and the growing xenophobia we’ve experienced over the last two decades (and throughout this country’s history) — and after we’ve all experienced so much distance and isolation and longing to connect — I’m excited to tell a story about two people seeking connection, seeking home, seeking family, seeking belonging. I hope we can all relate to that.

I’m catching you the morning after your very first day of rehearsal. At this moment, what are you really interested in diving into and investigating for yourself? What questions are alive for you right now?

As a director, the kind of work that I’m excited by answers the question “Why theatre?” We’ve spent the last two years mostly without theatre, and we all...or I’ll speak for myself: I turned to Netflix and Hulu and every other “Plus.”

Too many Pluses.

So many Pluses. We got to see stories told through a cinematic lens, through a television lens. That has made me even more curious about that question: “Why theatre?” This play is so inherently theatrical. The structure of the narrative, the way in which Martyna writes, the explosiveness of the dialogue, the structural repetition, the cycles, the loops — it is a director’s playing field.

One of the things that’s so thrilling about the play is that everybody is right. Nobody’s wrong, and that makes for a thrilling conflict. You might be looking for a villain, for someone to blame, for the character who’s a “bad person.” But no one is. These are people struggling with real issues. How do we find understanding? And how, through listening, can we really understand each of these characters’ deep human needs and deep human flaws?

I’m so excited about finding a physical vocabulary for how the play moves, that supports the language. It moves fast, and there’s a built-in rhythm and pattern to the language. It is inherently theatrical, so I think for me, I’m leading with the question: How do we unlock that theatricality and remind people of the power of being in a room together? How do we achieve that inexplicable moment where our heartbeats sync up, or we’re breathing together?

We have such an incredible cast and group of designers who I think all have deep, personal connections to different parts of the narrative and are able to bring their own personal truths and selves to the work. I love theatre because it’s collaborative, and I mean that. I love not knowing a lot going into a process, and I love learning in collaboration.

Martyna has described the structure of the play as being like a snow globe that shatters. Are you drawn to plays with structures that break or expand like that?

Yes. The personal intimacy of these two characters, and (without revealing too much) the twists that happen in the narrative and the way in which the narrative breaks form, are unique. I’m such a fan of breaking convention like that — of plays that are trying something big, bold, and adventurous.

I also love that it’s so intimate and yet feels epic and sweeping.

Sanctuary City is a period piece, set in the recent past of the early 2000s. How do you see it speaking to us today?

It’s immediately post-9/11 — and like these characters, I was in high school myself then; I remember the way the world changed. Now I’m teaching and have students who didn’t live through that — they don’t realize that there was a world before that was different, when you could go and drop off your people at the airport all the way to the gate, right. There have been massive shifts in the ways we relate to each other.

There has been progress since then, but we are currently living in a political climate in which things we believed to be true and stable because they became law are now being revoked. Our humanity is constantly under attack. There are things I know I have taken for granted in the past, thinking, “There’s no way we’re going to go back, right?” And we continue to find ourselves, as a society, stuck in these loops where we’re moving backwards.

Sometimes, looking back even just over the last 20 years, we don’t realize how fast things are changing. Generations have gotten shorter and shorter; the way the world has changed over the last five years — over the last two years, even — is huge. I think it’s important sometimes that we look back to the recent past to recognize the ways in which things were so different. It’s Pride Month, and while we are celebrating so much progress, we’re also in a period where there are communities that are under violent attack and unprotected. Not to give too much away about the play, but there are some truths that we need to revisit and recognize that we can’t just take for granted. We can’t take our rights for granted.

You are both a working director and a producing artistic leader with The Movement Theatre Company. Does your producing work inform your work as a director, and vice versa?

Yeah, absolutely. When I am only directing, it’s lovely; when I’m only producing, it’s lovely; but I miss the other part of me. I’m also a designer — I gave that up for a long time, and then when I got to do that again, it was so thrilling. I grew up learning about theatre as a whole artist — I was taught that you learn about everything, you learn what everyone does, and for me that really helps the collaborative process: to understand what people are doing, to have walked in those shoes at one point.

As a director, you seldom get to see other directors at work. Once you’ve moved on past the assisting and associate jobs, you don’t have access to other people’s rehearsals. That access is such a gift: access to brilliant directors, artists, designers, actors, and collaborators that I’ve not worked with in my own processes as a director, but I’ve gotten access to as a producer, and had the opportunity to learn from them. I have learned not only about how to make theatre, and what drives others to make theatre, but also how to show up with more grace as a producer — what it really means to center artists. And as an artist, to know the things that you need in your process, and how to ask for them.

I have an appreciation for producers trying to make work that is impactful, that’s reaching new audiences, and who are finding holistic ways to make theatre. Without that understanding and knowledge of all of the parts — all the people, all the crew members, artisans, administrators, and community that really takes to make theatre — I don’t know that I would be the artist I am today, if I weren’t also a producer.

You talk about rooting your artistic practice in social justice, radical inclusion, and anti-racism. How do those values show up in the rehearsal room?

These are values that I have lived my whole life, so I have recognized and seen a lot of artists and theatres in the field, wake up to this movement recently. Which is not to say that I’m up ahead of it; it is a journey we are all learning. I believe deeply that you are only as good as the company and the community that you build around a project. I love having as diverse a creative team, design team, and cast as possible, to bring in all those voices.

But it’s not just about having the right people in the room — it’s not about tokenization or checking boxes. It’s about saying, “Bring your whole self, I want your voice, I want that collaborative, rigorous conversation. I want there to be joyful disagreement.” Because that’s what gets us beyond the surface and down into the deep truths, where we get to mine the complexity of humanity. Two things can and often do exist at the same time. It’s about not just inviting people into the room, but also how they’re welcomed, how they are invited to show up at the table. If you’re sitting in the room and you feel like you can’ talk, that’s a waste of a brain, that’s a waste of experience. We are all here to bring all our full expertise, knowledge, and selves to the work. My job as a director is to model that and lead that ship, and be an editor in a lot of ways, and make sure that we keep us focused on the vision and the story that we’re telling.

Shifting gears a bit — I have a couple fun thematic questions for you. Because prom shows up in the play: did you go to prom?

I did go to prom. I went to both my junior and senior proms. My senior prom I remember going with a date who was dressed like Barbie, but like this Christmas Barbie — just this red, fabulous ball gown; it was epic. And there was a part of me that was like, “Oh God, I wish I was wearing that.” But it was really magical. I mean, prom is such a milestone, it’s such a marker of an ending and a beginning. It’s the end of a period of your life and also the beginning of your adult life, right?

I love to dance and let loose, and I remember it just being a good time with community and with friends, and just a fabulous date who looked gorgeous.

Did you have a best friend, or super-close friend, in high school? Are you still close?

Yeah, and she is deeply still a part of my life. My best friend, my sister, my confidant, my soulmate. I am who I am because of my relationship with her, and we met in high school. We were best friends and worst enemies at the same time. We fought like siblings. We have come to realize now, so many years after, what a deep connection we had, both being brown and from first-generation immigrant families. We shared this very deep, unbeknownst to us, connection of a lived experience and I would say trauma. We were navigating a predominantly white institution and city, which Orlando was at the time. And we shared a deep, deep love for theatre.

I could talk on the phone with her for hours (I still can!). We would sit on the phone for six hours after school, and my parents would be like, “Who is still on the phone?” And we wouldn’t even talk to each other, we just sit there and breathe. But it was like we just wanted to connect. We dealt with a lot; we grew up fast. I see so much of that relationship in this play. I see us — the good, the bad and the ugly. I think that was also a deep reason I wanted to direct this play: as a love letter to a person who changed my life.

Wow. I hope she’s going to come out for opening night!

Yes, she’s going to come!

What are the places you call home, either spiritually or geographically?

I think of New York City as home. I’ve been there for 20 years and I think I found myself, and I continue to find myself there as an artist. It is where I have a physical home, an apartment with my partner of almost eight years, and our dog, and they are home to me. I have a sister who also lives in New York, so there is a deep community. Home is my theatre company, both The Movement Theatre Company and the Sol Project. It is with my collaborators, the playwrights who I have continued to make theatre with, and other producers and designers and artists who, every time we work together, I feel like I learn something more about myself.

Home is also Orlando, where my blood family lives. It was a place that for a long time, I felt like I couldn’t be myself, and now as I have found myself in New York and been able to bring that part of me back home, Orlando does feel like home. I have a lot of love for the people I met there.

And the theatre feels like home. I mean, truly...a costume shop, any costume shop, feels like home. When I’m there, I feel the spirit of my ancestors. My grandmother was a seamstress. Behind a sewing machine is home.

Theatres are their own forms of a sanctuary space. It’s such a gift to be able to work in any theatre, especially now, when we lost it for so long.

What do you hope people will leave the play thinking about?

I hope that people will recognize the relationships. I hope that people will not see the characters as “those people over there,” but recognize that we’re in community and connected to each other. And that there are lived experiences that many of us, me included, are privileged to not have had. I hope we recognize our responsibility to take actions toward making a safer world for all people, regardless of any identity marker, seen or unseen. I hope that they leave feeling a little more open. I hope that they leave feeling like they should look into some things that they don’t know about.

I am not one of those people who believes that going to see a play is the work; I think going to see a play provides you an opportunity to think about the ways you show up in your own communities, in the world, in your families, and consider how you can begin or continue the work of showing up more fully as a citizen of this global community. That, to me, is how theatre changes the world. It’s not seeing a play; it’s not standing up and applauding. It’s what you choose to do with what you saw. I think that’s the gift that theatre gives us: the opportunity to show up more, tomorrow and the next day, and the next day, and the next day.

Five days after my 21st birthday, I married a man who was not an American citizen. I vividly remember the bewildering tangle of bureaucracy we had to try to decipher, and the crushing worry about whether we’d be believed as a real couple. This was Los Angeles in 1994. I had just started my senior year of college, and still naively bought into the melting pot mythology hook, line, and sinker. I really thought the huddled masses just had to fill out a few forms to be welcomed with open arms. Needless to say, I was in for a rude awakening.

I was lucky. I didn’t have to navigate a language barrier (unless you count government-ese, which is real), childcare, lost wages, or racial prejudice while trying to wade through the endless lines and agents and paperwork and redirections. It was still terrifying and seemingly insurmountable. Instructions were a joke — a garbled mass of gobbledygook. There was a phone number to call with questions, where you’d sit on hold for 45 minutes before the line invariably went dead. You could show up to the immigration office, stand on line all day, and never even make it inside the building. It took us three tries — we arrived the third time at 4am and stood alongside families camped out with coolers, tents, children, and pets who had clearly been there for days. The lines for the shockingly small number of clerks who spoke Spanish circled around the block. It didn’t take long to realize that the system was not set up for people to succeed. Those who did, did so despite the system, not because of it.

Playwright Martyna Majok has an uncanny ability to channel the inner lives of humans living on the margins of the American Dream. She paints striking pictures of people living between worlds: teenagers, immigrants, semi-orphans, those denied the right to marry. And that’s just in Sanctuary City alone. Her writing puts the disenfranchised front and center, and exquisitely evokes the longing to belong that many of us share; which gets exponentially magnified when circumstances deny someone their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

In addition to her sublime character depictions, Martyna writes deeply nuanced dialogue. What appears simple on the surface begins to reveal layers of subtext. She does not spell everything out for us directly, but rather invites us to participate by filing in blanks and putting pieces together. One of my favorite examples of this is thinking about the way Martyna uses names in the play. Our two protagonists are listed in the script as “B” and “G” and they never refer to each other by name. The one character who does have a name, Henry, also happens to be the only character whose home is not built on shifting sands. Henry knows who he is and where he belongs. The layers deepen when Henry gives G the nickname “Boston,” dripping with both accusation and irony. Boston is where she wants to go to college — it is privilege, escape, fantasy, success, and yet, somehow we know it will never really belong to her.

The play employs a fascinating structure — utilizing repetition to indicate that we are jumping around chronologically. It ends up giving us a feeling of time passing and standing still all at once. A really interesting moment comes when one of the characters exasperatedly shouts “It’s 2006!” implying that our nation has been around for hundreds of years and if we haven’t figured out how to live up to our ideals by now, we never will. My brain immediately started to think: “OK, but this character clearly doesn’t know what happens in the future. Things get better. The Supreme Court takes huge steps toward ensuring equality for all, so this feels a little bit dated.” And then I thought, “Hmm. Today in 2022, the Supreme Court just overturned a major decision and threw precedent out the window, so really, the ground is never as stable as we think it is.”

Which brings us to the crux of the play. The United States talks a good talk about being a refuge for all. But our power structures aren’t set up to benefit the masses, though politicians like to pretend they are. The reality is that some people get lucky, while others get brushed off the nation’s desk like sandwich crumbs. All too often, who wins and who loses depends on arbitrary circumstance rather than what is fair or just. This country was founded on a belief that everyone deserves access to opportunity; but we’ve historically had a pretty selective definition of “everyone.” Martyna’s story reminds us that even as we inch toward making our imperfect system better, we can’t turn away from the people we are leaving behind. 

Madeleine Oldham

By Des’ree Brown

Whether you’ve met someone who has been through the process of gaining citizenship or naturalization, or you’ve watched a show like 90-Day Fiancé, you may have some understanding of how complex it can be to become a citizen of the United States. The process goes far beyond reciting the Pledge of Allegiance or naming all 50 states. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services website outlines several ways obtain your permanent resident card, also known as a green card, which is needed in order to go through the naturalization process and become a U.S. citizen. Eligibility categories include:

1. Through family: being an immediate relative of a U.S. citizen, being a widow or widower of a U.S. citizen, being a fiancé of a U.S. citizen, or being an abused spouse of a U.S. citizen.
2. Through employment: being an international student, a skilled worker, or committing full time to an underserved area in clinical practices. Immigrants can also gain a green card by investing over $1M towards a new commercial enterprise in the U.S.
3. Special immigrant: To obtain special immigrant status, one must be a religious worker, a neglected or abused juvenile, an Afghan or Iraqi interpreter for the U.S. government, an international broadcaster, or a member of NATO, either retired or current.
4. People who are seeking asylum or are refugees.
5. People who are victims of human trafficking or crime (to gain a green card through this process, applicants must obtain another visa specific to their circumstances).
6. People who are victims of abuse (such as the previously listed neglected or abused juveniles or abused spouses, but also those who are abused by Cuban or Haitian citizens).

Several other acts and programs allow people in certain communities to gain their green cards, including anyone who has resided continuously in the U.S. since before 1972.

Even with these many different paths toward gaining a green card, the process can be demanding, confusing, expensive, and arduous. Applicants must compile binders filled with records of their travel and family histories, keep track of petitions and waivers that must be submitted on exactly the right dates, and pay a variety of fees. Many roadblocks can arise. When the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same sex-marriage in 2015, this also applied to those seeking a K-1 visa (or gaining a green card “through family”). However, if someone or their spouse were previously in a heterosexual relationship and obtained a K-1 visa, suspicion of a fraudulent marriage may arise during their interview, and their application may be denied. “As it becomes harder to immigrate to the United States, the idea of the green-card marriage looms ever larger,” notes Finnish writer and immigrant Kalle Oskari Mattila in a Washington Post opinion piece on dating as an immigrant and a queer man. “TV shows like 90-Day Fiancé perpetuate an image of immigrants who will go to extreme lengths to secure a green card from a relationship. Unequal immigration statuses become a power imbalance, similar to those created by a large income gap or age difference.”

If someone is in the United States and wants to apply for a green card, they must already have an immigrant visa, an approved immigrant petition, or file for both at the same time. If they are applying from outside the U.S., they must go through consular processing (for which they also need an approved immigrant petition), which requires even more applications, documentation, fees, and time. The American Dream can feel more like a nightmare for someone who is stuck waiting for years to learn about their status. And if their green card expires, is damaged or lost, or if they leave the U.S. without the proper paperwork, they must either start the process from scratch or lose the ability to gain citizenship entirely.

Let’s dig a bit deeper on the fees. For a family-based green card, an application can cost anywhere between $1,200 and $1,800. Medical examinations range from $100 to $500. Other expenses can include lawyer fees, shipping costs, and traveling requirements. Immigrants whose first language is not English often must also pay translation fees for their documents and paperwork.

Obtaining U.S. citizenship is even more grueling for undocumented immigrants, as for the characters B and G in Sanctuary City. “The odds are against you,” says Ecuadorian-American writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio in a PBS interview discussing her mental health living as an undocumented immigrant. “It’s not like […] the propaganda that we have been fed [that if] you follow the American Dream, and if you are playing the cards right and work hard at school […] that’s not what makes you survive and makes you thrive. A lot of it is luck, and a lot of it is resources.” Undocumented immigrants continue to play an essential role in the United States, from rebuilding New York and New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy to providing essential labor during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. As Villavicencio notes, “these are people who have [put] their lives on the line to protect American citizens’ convenience and comfort […] if these people are willing to risk their lives with [little] pay [and] no health insurance […] shouldn’t they be able to apply for a green card?”

By Katie Craddock

The events of Sanctuary City take place in and around Newark, New Jersey between 2001 and 2006. While that is the not-so-distant past, it’s a time distinct from our present moment in ways that are germane to the story, from the sociopolitical to the cultural. We compiled this list of select goings-on in that period to jog your memory (or, for our Gen Z friends, to illuminate a period when you were too little to pay attention to such things!).

2001

Major Events

• Almost 3,000 people are killed in four suicide attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania, launching the global War on Terrorism.

• A series of anthrax attacks commence as letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to major news sources, including ABC and the New York Post.

• The United States invades Afghanistan, accompanied by other nations, in Operation Enduring Freedom.

Politics

• George W. Bush is sworn in as the 43rd President, and Dick Cheney as the Vice President.

• U.S. Senators Durbin and Hatch propose the first Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which would provide a pathway to legal status for Dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents as children. The bill doesn’t pass.

• The Bush administration withdraws U.S. support for the Kyoto Protocol on the reduction of greenhouse gases.

• Mississippi votes to keep the 1898 version of its state flag, which features the Confederate battle flag in the canton; it is not replaced until 2021.

• In the first such act since World War II, President Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the United States.

Pop Culture & Technology

• Apple releases the Mac OS X operating system and the first iPod.

• Shrek, Monsters, Inc., Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone, and The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring premiere.

• Nintendo releases the Nintendo GameCube.

• “Hanging by a Moment” by Lifehouse, “Fallin” by Alicia Keys, and “All for You” by Janet Jackson are the year’s top three singles.

2002

Major Events

• President Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, marking the largest American government reorganization since 1947.

• The first detainees arrive at Guantanamo.

• Kidnapped reporter Daniel Pearl of The Wall Street Journal is murdered in Karachi.

Politics

• Congress authorizes the Iraq War Resolution.

• President Bush signs the No Child Left Behind act into law.

• The asylum case of Adelaide Abankawh, who claimed to have fled female genital cutting in Ghana, is heard in New York. She had been detained by INS in Queens for over two years.

• Queen Elizabeth II gives Rudy Giuliani an honorary knighthood.

Pop Culture & Technology

• Halle Berry is the first Black actress to win the Best Actress Academy Award.

• Lilo & Stitch, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Ice Age, City of God, and Gangs of New York premiere.

• “How You Remind Me” by Nickelback, “Foolish” by Ashanti, and “Hot in Herre” by Nelly top the charts.

2003

Major Events

• The new Department of Homeland Security begins operations, absorbing the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Customs Service, and the Secret Service.

• The U.S.-led Iraq War begins. About $1 billion is taken from Iraq’s Central Bank by Saddam Hussein and his family, just hours before the U.S. begins bombing Baghdad.

• In Newark, Sakia Gunn, a 15-year-old Black lesbian, is murdered while waiting for the bus downtown; her murder is deemed a hate crime and sparks protests and demands for Mayor Sharpe James’ office to do more to protect queer youths.

Politics

• The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules anti-gay laws against same-sex marriage unconstitutional in Massachusetts.

• The Supreme Court declares sodomy laws unconstitutional.

• The U.S. Census Bureau announces that with 37 million, Hispanics constitute the largest minority (compared with 36 million African Americans).

• The Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in university admissions.

• President Bush concedes there is no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks. He requests $87 billion from Congress for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Pop Culture & Technology

• Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on what turns out to be its last flight.

• “In da Club” by 50 Cent, “Ignition” by R. Kelly, and “Get Busy” by Sean Paul top the charts.

• Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and The Matrix Reloaded are released.

• Myspace launches.

2004

Major Events

• Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse is revealed on 60 Minutes.

• Hurricanes Ivan, Jeanne, and Frances cause deaths, injuries, and widespread damage.

• The U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq transfers sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government.

Politics

• President Bush is elected for a second term, defeating John Kerry.

• 11 American states ban gay marriage.

• The City and County of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act of civil disobedience.

• Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage.

• New Jersey governor James McGreevey announces he is “a gay American” and resigns.

Pop Culture & Technology

• Facebook launches.

• Google becomes a publicly traded company.

• “Yeah!” by Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris, “Burn” by Usher, and “If I Ain’t Got You” by Alicia Keys top the charts.

• The final episodes of Friends and Frasier air.

• Shrek 2, Spider-Man 2, The Passion of the Christ, and The Incredibles are the top-grossing movies.

2005

Major Events

• Ten people are killed in the Red Lake shootings, the worst school shooting since Columbine.

• Hurricane Katrina devastates the U.S. Gulf Coast, becoming the costliest hurricane in U.S. history.

• The U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000. People worldwide protest the Iraq War.

• Wholesale inflation increased by the highest amount since 1990.

Politics

• The 11th Circuit of Appeals refuses to stop the euthanasia of Terri Schiavo.

• John Roberts is confirmed to the Supreme Court, replaces William Rehnquist after his death.

• Ten years after reaching the million mark, the U.S. prison population reaches 2.5 million.

Pop Culture & Technology

• YouTube goes online.

• Reddit launches.

• Top-grossing movies include Wedding Crashers, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and The Office debuts on NBC.

• “We Belong Together” by Mariah Carey, “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani, “Let ME Love You” by Mario, and “Since U Been Gone” by Kelly Clarkson top the charts.

2006

Major Events

• Saddam Hussein is executed.

• The housing bubble bursts, starting a chain of events that eventually develop into a full-blown market meltdown.

• The Great American Boycott takes place as millions of people protest a proposed change to immigration policy, which would raise penalties for illegal immigration and classify undocumented people and anyone who helped them enter or remain in the U.S. as felons. Protestors call for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

Politics

• Cory Booker becomes mayor of Newark.

• A Maryland judge strikes down a state law banning same-sex marriage.

• Mid-term elections result in Democrats gaining control of both houses of Congress.

• Massive anti-war demonstrations and a march down Broadway in NYC mark the third year of the Iraq War.

Pop Culture & Technology

• “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter, “Temperature” by Sean Paul, “Promiscuous” by Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland, and “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt top the charts.

• Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion.

• Nintendo’s Wii is released in America.

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Da Vinci Code, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Casino Royale are the highest-grossing films.

Check out some of the podcasts, documentaries, and articles the cast and creative team devoured during the Sanctuary City rehearsal process!

• “The Donut King,” directed by Alice Gu, follows Ted Ngoy, a Cambodian refugee who arrived in California in the 1970s and built a multimillion-dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry.

• In her book The Undocumented Americans, DACA recipient Karla Cornejo Villavicencio recounts her trip across the United States to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants.

• “Waking Dream,” directed by Theo Rigby, follows six undocumented young people as they fight for legal status in the U.S. (Available to borrow and stream through the Berkeley Public Library.)

• In the wake of the 2003 downtown Newark murder of 15-year-old Sakia Gunn, Anne Hull crafted the four-part series “Young and Gay in Real America” for The Washington Post. Part III focuses on Felicia Holt, Sakia’s friend.

• Anna Chai and Aaron Saidman’s 2019 Netflix docuseries “Living Undocumented” follows eight undocumented families and the ways they are impacted by changes to U.S. immigration policy.

• In an episode of the podcast Borderline, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker, and producer Jose Antonio Vargas talks about his experience of being undocumented and his advocacy work for the human rights of immigrants.

And just for fun....

• The early 2000s era of Sanctuary City had a distinctive soundtrack all its own. Groove to a playlist made by our director David Mendizábal, and contribute your own favorite tunes from the time to our Aughts Jams playlist!

By The School of Theatre

One of the questions at the heart of Sanctuary City is, What does it mean to build community? In Martyna Majok’s play, community lies in the unrelenting spirit of two young people fighting to establish space for themselves in America. For the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, it is the teachers, administrators, and educators who work tirelessly to foster the success and wellbeing of our younger generations.

This spring, the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre was proud to honor and uplift our community of Bay Area educators by hosting our first ever Teacher Appreciation Night. We were thrilled to host educators in-person from across all nine Bay Area counties for an evening of celebration including a reception, an audience with Managing Director Susie Medak and Director of the School of Theatre Anthony Jackson, followed by a performance of Berkeley Rep’s acclaimed production of Octet. 

This event both reaffirms Berkeley Rep’s commitment to Bay Area schools and explores new realms of partnership and engagement opportunities as we emerge from the pandemic with a reinvigorated passion for serving and uplifting surrounding communities.

“We are so thrilled to honor the heroic work that teachers have done over these past few years,” said Medak. “I want teachers to know that their impact stems far beyond just one student; whether it’s investing the extra time to make sure a student succeeds, or a moment of connection with a parent, the work that teachers do inspires countless generations, and we as a community are all the better for it.” 

To further this commitment to students and educators, Berkeley Rep will also be bringing back our popular student matinee programming for the 2022/23 season with thrilling new shows such as Wuthering Heights and Cambodian Rock Band. For those who cannot join us in-person, the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre will also be launching a new digital initiative, spearheaded by the school’s new Associate Director, Dylan Russell. This pioneering initiative will offer free digital access to Berkeley Rep’s shows for all California middle school and high school students. “We are aiming to reach all 65,000 ninth graders in Northern California in the next five years,” Jackson revealed. “Whether through our in-school workshops, Teen Council programming, or streaming initiative, we are so excited to be back in the classroom and back in community with these wonderful schools!” 

Steve is a retired real estate developer, and Susan a retired architect. Their main focus now is the Chamberlin Education Foundation, which focuses on K-12 education issues in the West Contra Costa Unified School District. Susan has been a season ticket holder for over 25 years.

Warren and Frances are avid watchers of live theatre, which includes Berkeley Rep and an annual pilgrimage (when COVID allows) to London's West End. Having loved Berkeley Rep for years, they are thrilled to sign on as 2021/22 season sponsors. They are very proud of the cutting edge, exceptional theatre that Berkeley Rep continuously produces. Frances' day job is as Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley and Warren is a Machinist and Welder at 5th Street Machine Arts.

Betty and Jack are proud to support Berkeley Rep. Jack is a sustaining advisor of the Theatre, having served on the board for many years, and is now on the board of San Francisco Opera. He is an emeritus board chair of the San Francisco Art Institute and the Oxbow School. In San Francisco, Betty is involved with Wise Aging, a program for adults addressing the challenges of growing older. She serves on several non-profit boards. They have three daughters and eight grandchildren.

Roger Strauch is chair of The Roda Group. He has served on Berkeley Rep’s Board of Trustees for over twenty years, often as an executive member. Roger is an engineer, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist. He has helped build technology companies that have had public stock offerings or have been sold to global industry leaders. Currently, Roger focuses on the development of several enterprises whose products and services will mitigate the negative impact of industry on global climate change and human health. Roger serves on the boards of the Chart Industries (NYSE:GTLS); Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI); Northside Center in Harlem, NYC, a mental health service agency; and UC Berkeley's College of Engineering. He is the leader of the Mosse Art Restitution Project, a major international effort to restitute stolen art from his great step family during the Third Reich. Roger and his wife, Dr. Julie Kulhanjian, a retired pediatric infectious disease physician, have three adult children. Roger and Julie divide their time between Piedmont, CA and Martha’s Vineyard.

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Peet’s Coffee is proud to be the exclusive coffee of Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the namesake of Berkeley Rep’s state-of-the-art Peet’s Theatre. In 1966, Alfred Peet opened his first store on Vine and Walnut in Berkeley and Peet’s has been committed to the community ever since. Supporting Berkeley Rep’s high artistic standards and diverse programming is an extension of this mission. As the pioneer of the craft coffee movement in America, Peet’s is dedicated to smallbatch roasting, superior quality beans, freshness, and a darker roasting style that produces a rich, flavorful cup. Peet’s is locally roasted in the first LEED® Gold certified roaster in the nation.

John and his late wife Stephanie have enjoyed Berkeley Rep since moving to the Bay Area in 1987. Stephanie was a registered Art Therapist and retired in 2004 from The California School for the Blind where she ran the Art Program. She was the board chair of Art4Moore, which she started in memory of her mother. Art4Moore gives grants to provide art supplies and resources to schools and programs for teachers, students of all ages, the elderly, and the disabled. John is the CEO Emeritus of Helm Financial Corporation, which is now a part of Wells Fargo. He served on the board of Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito and Gateway High School, a charter school in San Francisco, and is on the Board of Trustees at Washington University in St. Louis where he and Stephanie both graduated from college.

Artistic Director
Johanna Pfaelzer

Managing Director
Susie Medak

Artistic

Director, The Ground Floor / Resident Dramaturg
Madeleine Oldham

Artistic Associate
Katie Craddock

Artists Under Commission
Todd Almond · Christina Anderson · Rafael Casal · Daveed Diggs · Dipika Guha · Richard Montoya · Nico Muhly · Lisa Peterson · Sarah Ruhl · Tori Sampson · Jack Thorne · Joe Waechter

Production and Company Management

Director of Production
Audrey Hoo

Associate Production Manager
Kali Grau

Company Manager
Peter Orkiszewski

Stage Operations

Stage Supervisor
Julia Englehorn

Staff Stage Crew
James McGregor

Properties

Properties Supervisor
Jillian A. Green

Associate Properties Supervisor
Amelia Burke-Holt

Scene Shop

Co-Technical Directors
Jim Smith · Matt Rohner

Head Carpenter
Read Tuddenham

Scene Shop Supervisor
Patrick Keene

Scenic Carpenter
Lisa Fong

Scenic Art

Charge Scenic Artist
Lisa Lázár

Costumes

Costume Director
Maggi Yule

Draper
Star Rabinowitz

Wardrobe Supervisor
Barbara Blair

Resident Design Associate
Kiara Montgomery

Electrics

Master Electrician
Frederick C. Geffken

Associate Master Electrician
Sarina Renteria

Production Electrician
Kenneth Coté

Production Electrician
Desiree Alcocer

Sound and Video

Sound and Video Supervisor
Lane Elms

Associate Sound and Video Supervisor
Chase Nichter

Sound Engineers
Angela Don

Administration

Interim General Manager
Sara Danielsen

Finance Director
Jared Hammond

Associate Managing Director
Sunshine Deffner

Associate General Manager
Amanda Williams O’Steen

Executive Assistant
Kate Horton

Associate Finance Director
Katie Riemann

Bookkeeper and Payroll Administrator
Jennifer Light

CRM Project Manager
Destiny Askin

Web and Database Specialist
Christina Cone

Director of Human Resources and Diversity
Modesta Tamayo

Development

Director of Development
Lynn Eve Komaromi

Associate Director of Development
Daria Hepps

Director of Individual Giving
Laura Fichtenberg

Institutional Grants Manager
Kelsey Scott

Special Events Manager
Elaina Guyett

Development Coordinator
Nicky Martinez

Marketing and Communications

Director of Marketing and Communications
Steve Tate

Associate Director of Marketing
Seth Macari

Director of Public Relations
Tim Etheridge

Communications and Digital Content Director
Karen McKevitt

Senior Videographer and Producer
Marianna Ellina

Video and Multimedia Content Creator
Calvin Ngu

Marketing Associate
Katherine Gunn

Operations

Facilities Director
Mark Morrisette

Facilities Manager
Adam Johnson

Building Engineers
Kevin Pan · Thomas Tran

Building Technician
Jesus Rodriguez

Facilities Assistants
Lemont Adams · Theresa Drumgoole · Sophie Li · Guy Nado

Patron Services

Director of Patron Experience
Brian Davis

Front of House Director
Kelly Kelley

Front of House Manager
Phoenyx Butts

Patron Experience Representatives
Lindsay Abbott · Jessica Bates · Alicia Battle · Megan Bedig · Matthew Canter · Jerry Chirip · Maggie Collette · Fillomena Franchina · Nina Gorham · Kimberly Haynie · Monica Herbert · Saguaro Hurtado · Claire Michael · Rafael Moreno · Leigh Nelson · Tuesday Ray · Anna Riggin · Stephen Salmons · James Sant’Andrea · Alana Scott · Debra Selman · Lena Sibony

Subscription Manager
Laurie Barnes

Box Office Manager
Julie Gotsch

Box Office Agents
Alecia Baxter · Oliver Kampman · Mikee Loria · Alanna McFall · Cassidy Milano · Dom Refuerzo · Gianna Francesca Vescio

Berkeley Rep School of Theatre

Director of the School of Theatre
Anthony Jackson

Associate Director
Dylan Russell

Director of Classes and Summer Programs
MaryBeth Cavanaugh

Curriculum and Educational Programs Manager
Si Mon’ Emmett

Classes and Communications Administrator
Ashley Lim

Programs Administrator
Tate Lancaster

2021/22 Teaching Artists
Miriam  Ani · Bobby August Jr. · Nicole Bruno · Ron Campbell · Rebecca Castelli · Kate Cherry · Iu-Hui Chua · Jiwon Chung · Don Colliver · Emily Cooper · Jim Edgar · Deb Eubanks · Lisa Ferreira · Maria Frangos · Zoe Galvez · Adrian Gebhart · Christine Germain · Nancy Gold · Gary Graves · Marvin Greene · Maya Herbsman · William Thomas Hodgson · Andrew Hurteau · Kasey Klemm · Karen Law · Jennifer LeBlanc · Dave Maier · Josh Matthews · Janel McDowell · Colum Morgan · Edward Morgan · Christopher Morrison · Hans Probst · Kenneth Ransom · Alyson Schacherer · Kimiya Shokri · Joyful Simpson · Mia Tagano · Dawn Troupe · James Wagner

2021/22 Berkeley Rep Fellowships

Bret C. Harte Artistic Fellow
Des’ree Brown

Company Management Fellow
Naomi Schiller

Costumes Fellow
Rachel Mandelstam

Development Fellow
Maya Simon

Education Fellow
Elijah Punzal

Harry Weininger Sound Fellow
Akari Izumi

Lighting Fellow
Kiahana Toomer

Peter F. Sloss Artistic Fellow
Abigail Holland

Production Management Fellow
Emily Betts

Properties Fellow
Robin Maegawa-Goeser

Scenic Art Fellow
Jimmy Nguyen

Scenic Construction Fellow
Maggie Wentworth

Stage Management Fellow
Olivia McQuerry

President
Emily Shanks

Vice Presidents
Jill Fugaro
Bruce Golden
Stewart Owen
Sudha Pennathur

Treasurer
Henning Mathew

Secretary
Leonard X Rosenberg

Chair, Governance Committee
Anne Nemer Dhanda

Chair, Audit Committee
Kerry L. Francis

Board Members
Edward D. Baker
Erica Brown
Susan Chamberlin
David Cox
Lauren Edgerton
Sandra Eggers
William T. Espey
Chuck Fanning
Steven Goldin
Scott Haber
Jonathan C. Logan
Sandra R. McCandless
Susie Medak
Juan Oldham
Johanna Pfaelzer
Chris Rupp
Sherry Smith
Roger A. Strauch
Gail Wagner
Brian Watt
Steven C. Wolan
Felicia Woytak

Past Presidents
Helen C. Barber
A. George Battle
Carole B. Berg
Robert W. Burt
Shih-Tso Chen
Narsai M. David
Thalia Dorwick, PhD
Nicholas M. Graves
Richard F. Hoskins
Jean Knox
Robert M. Oliver
Stewart Owen
Marjorie Randolph
Harlan M. Richter
Richard A. Rubin
Edwin C. Shiver
Roger A. Strauch
Gail Wagner
Martin Zankel

Sustaining Advisors
Rena Bransten
Diana Cohen
Robin Edwards
William Falik
David Fleishhacker
Paul T. Friedman
Karen Galatz
David Hoffman
Richard F. Hoskins
Helen Meyer
Dugan Moore
Peter Pervere
Marjorie Randolph
Patricia Sakai
Jack Schafer
William Schaff
Richard M. Shapiro
Michael Steinberg
Jean Z. Strunsky
Michael S. Strunsky
Martin Zankel

Founding Director
Michael W. Leibert
Producing Director, 1968–83