100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION PROGRAM

Opening Remarks by Kate Alexander, Suffragist Project Director

A Personal Message from City of Sarasota Mayor Jen Ahearn-Koch

The Voices of the Suffragists: Speeches of the EraKatherine Michelle Tanner..............................The Woman Without RightsKim Crow.................................................Elizabeth Cady Stanton & OthersAriel Blue...........................................................................Sojourner TruthRachel Moulton......................................The Voices of the Silent Sentinels Carolyn Michel..................................................................Inez Milholland

Reflections by Special Guest Speaker Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Two Minutes of Silence and Tribute featuring the video Forward Into Light: Artists Around the Country Recognize Their Suffragist Sisters.

Closing Remarks by Kate Alexander, Suffragist Project Director

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Special Thanks

Jim Prosser, Accompanist

Pre-show introduction by Meg Gilbert, Suffragist Project Assistant Director Dangerous Ladies Documentary Trailer by METV & BTN Films with Directors Charles Clapsaddle, Judge Charles Williams, and Judge Durand Adams. Forward Into Light video edited by Ellie Mooney.

August 20, 2020 | 5:30PM

SUFFRAGIST PROJECT SPONSORS

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

Foundation Sponsors

Underwriters Shelley & Sy Goldblatt

Susan Fromm Shimelman

Co-Producers Jane Plitt & Jim Bruen

Ina SchnellJennifer Michell Charitable Gift Fund

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Media Sponsors

“I know nothing of man’s rights or woman’s rights;human rights are all that I recognize.”

-Sarah Moore Grimke, 1838

Official Magazine Sponsor

MEET THE ARTISTS

KATE ALEXANDER is the Associate Director At-Large of FST, Founder of the FST Theatre School, and Project Director for The Suffragist Project. Alexander has directed

numerous productions and premieres on the FST stages including Bright Star; American Son; Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow; Alabama Story; Cherry Docs; Straight White Men; Always...Patsy Cline; The Things They Carried; Native Gardens; Heisenberg; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey; brownsville song (b-side for tray); and many more. Ms. Alexander has also been a resident actress for over 25 years. She is the recipient of numerous acting, directing, and public service awards, including FAER, She Knows Where She’s Going Award (Girls, Inc.), The Woman of Light Award, National Council of Jewish Women Award, The Woman of Power Award, the Sarasota County Arts Leadership Award, Education Award, Sarasota Manatee Jewish Federation, The Unity Award, and most recently, the One World Award.

MAYOR JEN AHEARN-KOCH has been the Mayor of the City of Sarasota since November 2019, and was elected as an At-Large Sarasota City Commissioner in May 2017. She earned

a Masters degree in International Political Economy from Columbia University in NYC and a BA in International Affairs from the American University in Paris. Ahearn-Koch also lived abroad in Paris, France for 12 years and is fluent in both French and German. She later went on to work in marketing in Sarasota, Florida where she eventually created her own consulting business.

Mayor Ahearn-Koch’s community involvement, neighborhood leadership, and background in business has helped her gain community trust.

CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT is an award-winning American newspaper reporter and broadcast journalist who covered current events, geopolitics, and issues of race. Hunter-

Gault worked for The New Yorker magazine (1963-67) and joined The New York Times as a staff reporter (1968-77), eventually becoming the newspaper’s Harlem bureau chief. Hunter-Gault gained a national audience after she joined the PBS news program “MacNeil/Lehrer Report” in 1978, and in 1983 became its national correspondent. In 1997, Hunter-Gault left PBS to become the Africa bureau chief for NPR, and in 1999 she was named Johannesburg bureau chief for CNN, a post she held until 2005. She published a memoir, In My Place (1992), and New News Out of Africa (2006), a book documenting positive developments in Africa. In 2005 Hunter-Gault was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame.

ARIEL BLUE is an actor, singer, and writer, based in Florida. She has been performing for the past twelve years in Mainstage productions with Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, FST

Improv, and The Golden Apple Dinner Theatre, and has performed behind legends like Christopher Williams and Sharon Scott. She’s also performed with the circus in Europe. “I’m just a vessel, serving up a smile at a time, using my unique brand of #BlackGirlMagic - it’s my purpose.” simplyarielblue.com

MEET THE ARTISTS

KIM CROW is a busy Emmy® nominated actress, voice over talent, and more. 7 Mainstage Productions for FST, Founder (1979) of Theatre Huntsville. Trained in London & Catholic U.,

Summa Cum Laude. In 9th grade, Kim was selected to put a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. As a college sophomore, she entertained the NATO troops in Germany for AFPEO Special Services, 7th Army. In 1979 she revolutionized audio artificial intelligence as the first voice to be digitized for use in NATO fighter planes and the Space Shuttle, a.k.a “Bitchin” Betty. Voicing for Kennedy Space Center. Kim also appeared as the first Mars Base Commander in their featured “Mars Mission.” Proud to be a “Dangerous Woman.”

CAROLYN MICHEL recently won the best actress award at the Oniros Film Festival in Italy. She has appeared on Broadway with Sid Caesar in Sid Caesar & Company. She was a resident actor

at the Asolo Repertory Theatre for 24 seasons. At Florida Studio Theatre, she has performed five one woman plays: All five characters in Family Secrets; Rose in Rose; Dorothy Parker: One Foot in Scarsdale; Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; and Ann Landers in The Lady with All the Answers. Additional Roles at FST include Sylvia as Sylvia the Dog; Lillian Hellman in Cakewalk, as well as Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, among others.

RACHEL MOULTON is now in her first season as an Associate Artist at FST. Rachel has performed in 10 productions with FST, including four world premieres on the Mainstage

and in FST’s Stage III series: Grounded (2017 Handy Award), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Heisenberg, Honor Killing, Jericho, and Alabama Story. Other select regional theatre credits at Pioneer Theatre Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Stage, Syracuse Stage, and Florida Rep. A graduate of Syracuse University, B.F.A. and Interlochen Arts Academy. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association (14 years) and SAG-AFTRA. rachelmoulton.com

KATHERINE MICHELLE TANNER is the Owner and Artistic Director of TREE FORT PRODUCTIONS, a production company and studio. Best known for her multi-award winning

performance of The Amish Project (Off Broadway and US Tour). Florida favorites include: Proof, The Exonerated, Gidion’s Knot, August Osage County, Hamlet, Metamorphoses, The Glass Menagerie, A Doll’s House, and many more. Film: Waiting on Mary, 15 Minutes of Faye, A Chance to Live, and the Academy Award-Nominated Respire Mon Amie. Katherine’s award-winning Suffragist Musical, NINETEEN, airs on NPR WUTC 88.1FM 8/23 at 8PM EST. Listen online at wutc.org. She has directed the films The Crimson Cloak, Living, Losing, Loving, and Pay Attention. B.A. triple major - St. Olaf College and M.F.A in Acting - F.S.U. Asolo Theatre Conservatory.

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SUFFRAGIST PROJECT PARTNERS

SUFFRAGIST PROJECT LEADERSHIPRichard Hopkins - Producing Artistic Director

Kate Alexander - Project DirectorCatherine Randazzo - Associate Artist

Meg Gilbert - Assistant DirectorAlex Drinnen - Artistic Support

For a full staff list, please see the back of the program

CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE Gaele Barthold

Cathi M. Carson-Freymann Mary Dailey

Sonia Fuentes Kitty Gallica Marty Katz

Beatriz Paniego-BéjarJane Plitt

Diana SellsDebby Wendell

SUFFRAGIST ACTORSAlicia Taylor Tomasko

Ariel BlueCarolyn MichelJ. Paul Nicholas

Katherine Michelle Tanner Kim Crow

Rachel Moulton Susan Greenhill

Zoe Speas

ADDITIONAL ACTORS Alex Teicheira

Brooke EmmerichJeffrey PlunkettMarc Johnson

Reilly O’ConnellSam Mossler

Samantha Dempsey Tim HiemstraWill Stapleton

SUFFRAGIST COMMISSIONED

PLAYWRIGHTSJacqueline Goldfinger

Rachel Lynett Sandy Rustin

Mark St. Germain

ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS Adria Jenson

American Association of University WomenAngie Zhang

Art Center of ManateeArt Center SarasotaArt Ovation Hotel

Artist Concert Series of SarasotaArts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County

Bank of AmericaBarbara Banks Photography

Barbara Peters Smith Belle Canto

Booker High School Law AcademyBookstore1Sarasota

Boxser Diversity InitiativeBrandeis National Committee

BTN FilmsCanned Ham Vintage

Carolyn Fitzgerald Carrie Seidman

Charlayne Hunter-GaultCharlie Ann Syprett

Choral Artists of SarasotaClarance JonesCompass Rose

Dancing in The MomentDean Yoleidy Rosario

Democratic Women’s Club of Charlotte CountyDemocratic Women’s Club of Sarasota

Dr. Lonnetta GainesDr. Queen Mecca Zabriskie, New College

Dr. Timothy McCarthy, Harvard University Eileen Fisher

Embracing Our DifferencesFlorida Association for Women Lawyers

Florida Bar AssociationFlorida Maritime Museum

Friends of the East Manatee Library at Lakewood Ranch

Gaele BartholdGFWC Woman’s Club of Sarasota, Inc

Gritty GirlHistoric Spanish Point

Ilyes SayegJane Plitt

Jessica FarrellyJoan Krauter

SUFFRAGIST PROJECT PARTNERS

Judge Charles E. WilliamsJudge Durand Adams

Karen Sullivan: Faculty, Ringling College of Art and Design

Kate BoyerKim HackettKirstin Minor

League of Women Voters ManateeLeague of Women Voters Sarasota

Leah Verier-Dunn, Moving Ethos Dance CompanyLiterary Managers and Dramaturgs

of the AmericasManatee County Democratic Black Caucus

Manatee Village Historical ParkMaria Vesperi

Maryland Women’s Heritage CenterMerrillMETV

Michele Redwine National Women’s History Project

New College of FloridaNora Mitchell Pam Daniel

Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida

Republican Women’s Club of SarasotaRingling College of Art and Design

Robert NemserRose Chapman

Sarasota Contemporary Dance CompanySarasota County Bar Association

Sarasota County Centennial 2021 CommitteeSarasota County Libraries and Historical Resources

Sarasota County School SystemSarasota Film Festival

Sarasota Ministerial AssociationSarasota Orchestra

Sonia FuentesStephanie Murphy

Susan BurnsThe Friends of the Central Library

The Hermitage Artist RetreatThe Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

The Links, IncorporatedThe Ringling

United States National Convention of UN Women

USF Center for PAInT (Partnerships for Arts-Integrated Teaching)

Venice Area Historical SocietyVickie Oldham

Waterworks Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe

Women Journalists of Sarasota/ManateeWomen on 20s

FORWARD INTO THE LIGHT VIGILAlice Gatling

Alicia TomaskoAlmeria Campbell

Ann SchwantesAriel Blue

Ariel LadretBeth Knopik

Carolyn MIchelCarolyn Popp

Deyahna NelsonDeysha Nelson

Doaa OufElise Rodriguez

Ellie MooneyJannie JonesJessica Smith

Kate AlexanderKatherine Tanner

Kim CrowLaurie Miller and Shanti Tollefson

Liz PowerMalaan SmithMary Martello

Meg GilbertNora Mitchell

Rachel MoultonRebecca Hopkins Rebecca Robbins

Sandy RustinStacey Harris

Susan GreenhillVickie DIagnaultVictoria Pruden

THANK YOU TOThe Boxser Diversity InitiativeGeorgia Court & Bookstore1

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FST COMPANYEDUCATION & TOURS

Director of Children’s Theatre .....................Caroline Kaiser Director of Education ...............................................Josh FordTeaching Artist/YPF Coordinator ...................Adam Ratner

COMMUNITY RESOURCE GROUP

AUDIENCE ENRICHMENT GROUP

OUTSIDE ASSISTANCEHouse Counsel ..............................................Michael E. Siegel.................................................................. Shutts & Bowen LLPFacility Custodian ..............Confidence Cleaning Company

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMLighting Fellow ....................................................Justen ZhangPlaywriting Fellow ..............................................Alex DrinnenLiterary Intern ........................................................Jala BennettLiterary Intern ................................................. Allyson BroylesLiterary Intern ...............................................Benedict BurgessLiterary Intern .................................................Brent LeibowitzLiterary Intern .........................................Randall C. SimmonsDevelopment Intern ............................................ Jessica Burke Directing and Education Fellow ....................Kyle Van FrankProduction Management Intern ..................... Kelsey HarlowScenic Production Intern ..................................... Justin AllanScenic Production Intern ..............................Mesha McClaryScenic Production Intern ............................. Joshua WilliamsSound Fellow .................................................... David SabbaghStage Management Intern .............................. Amanda BalterStage Management Intern ...............................Henry HansonStage Management Intern ...............................Helena RankinStage Management Intern .............................. Shira Lebovich Stage Management Intern ............................ Lindsey Boyette

PLAYWRIGHTS COLLECTIVE

Larry ColemanShirley FeinMaddy FreshwaterCarol GilbertSy Goldblatt Jim GoldmanSandy GoldmanRobert GradyWendy GradyBonny IsraeloffValerie JoelsPatricia Kordis

Marie KroppSusan Landau

Frank MalicksonMatty Matheson

Graci McGillicuddyJill Ross

Ina SchnellAlan SchottensteinLois Schottenstein

Lois StulbergCharlie Ann Syprett

Martin Taffel

Ina SchnellCommissioner Willie

Charles ShawHoward Tevlowitz

Honorable Charles E.WilliamsRose Chapman

Hon. Larry L. EgerTrevor HarveyThe Jewish Federation of Sarasota-ManateeGilbert KingMichéle D. RedwineDr. Eddy Regnier

BOARD OF TRUSTEES President ............................................... Dennis McGillicuddyVice-President ............................................. Richard HopkinsSecretary/Treasurer ......................................Patricia Courtois Trustee ..............................................................Gaele BartholdTrustee ...............................................................Georgia CourtTrustee ................................................................Jeff HotchkissTrustee .............................................................Robert IsraeloffTrustee ..............................................................Barbara LupoffTrustee ................................................................Patrick MulvaTrustee ..................................Honorable Charles E. Williams

EXECUTIVE STAFFProducing Artistic Director ....................... Richard HopkinsManaging Director ......................................Rebecca Hopkins

ARTISTIC STAFF

Associate Director At-Large .........................Kate AlexanderCasting/Hiring Coordinator ........................... Alexa Doggett Resident Pianist ..................................................... Jim ProsserAssociate Artist ................................................. Jason CannonAssociate Artist .......................................Catherine RandazzoDirector of Improvisation ......................................Will LueraAssistant to the Artistic Director .....................Doris IemoloSuffragist Project Asst. Director ......................... Meg Gilbert

PRODUCTION STAFFProduction Manager ..............................................Lizzi NehlsTechnical Director .............................................. Roland BlackSound Supervisor ..................................................Thom Korp

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFFGeneral Manager .............................................Jill ZakrzewskiDirector of IT .................................................... Clarke Weigle Business Manager .......................................Carmen GonzalezAssociate Business Manager ........................ Orville CorderoBusiness Office Associate ................................David WallaceAsst. to the Managing Dir .............................. Sarah DurhamFacilities Manager .......................................Joseph Goepfrich Facilities Technician .............................. Mark Quackenbush Company Manager ...........................................Luke JohnsonDirector of Marketing .....................................Becca JenningsPublic Relations Associate ................................. Lydia Baxter Marketing Associate............................................. Sarah HaleyDirector of Indiv. Giving ................ Melody Mora-Shihadeh Development Associate ................................ Rachel MoultonEvents Coord./Gen. Mgmt. Asst.................................JT Priar Patron Services Manager .................. Kelsey Wehde-WilsonBox Office Manager ............................................Gigi DelperoAsst. Box Office Manager ...............................Andie AntonikRestaurant Manager .............................................. Tom Curry

Sarah BierstockDeborah BrevoortJose CasasJeffrey CouchmanSean DanielsThomas GibbonsJacqueline Goldfinger

Kate HamillKenneth JonesRachel Lynett

Jason Odell WilliamsSandy Rustin

Mark St. Germain