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Spring Celebration

Spring Celebration

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Party with A.R.T. at our Spring Celebration, co-hosted by Brittney Mack and featuring special appearances and performances by beloved A.R.T. artists. Plus, every attendee of the free event will join in on first access to purchase subscriptions to A.R.T.’s 2021/22 programming!

Friends, fans, and supporters are invited to party with A.R.T. as the theater reflects on the year that’s passed and celebrates what’s to come with unmissable sneak peeks of new work that will premiere in an upcoming season. The one-hour live program will be co-hosted by Brittney Mack (SIX) and feature a tribute to departing Executive Producer Diane Borger by special guests and beloved A.R.T. artists.

Our Spring Celebration is charged with raising critical funds that support the theater’s mission and work—from the free virtual programs we’ve offered since March 2020, to our collaborations with local students and community members, all the way to our plans for safely reopening and welcoming audiences back into our spaces.

By becoming a sponsor today, you and your guests will be able to enjoy the event and have access to one-of-a-kind sponsorship benefits that begin the day you send in your RSVP all the way through the 2021/22 Season.

For more information and to learn how you can get involved, please contact A.R.T. Development staff at Art_Events@harvard.edu.

Guests

Todd Almond

Special Guest

Todd Almond

Todd Almond

Special Guest

Todd Almond

Sara Bareilles

Special Guest

Sara Bareilles

Sara Bareilles

Special Guest

Sara Bareilles

A.R.T.: Waitress. Sara Bareilles first achieved mainstream critical praise in 2007 with her hit “Love Song,” which reached #1 in 22 countries around the world from her debut album Little Voice. Since then, the Eureka, CA native has sold millions of albums worldwide and received five Grammy nominations including Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for “Love Song.” Bareilles’ highly anticipated sophomore release Kaleidoscope Heart debuted at #1 on the Billboard top 200 chart in September 2010 and has gained praise everywhere including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, People and Los Angeles Times. The album yielded the hit single “King of Anything,” which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was certified platinum by the RIAA. In 2011, Bareilles joined the judges’ panel on the hit NBC show “The Sing-Off.” Soon after, she released her highly revered Once Upon Another Time EP, produced by singer/songwriter and fellow “Sing-Off” judge Ben Folds. Sara’s highly acclaimed third studio album, The Blessed Unrest, released in 2013 via Epic Records, debuted at #2 on the Billboard album chart and was nominated for two Grammy Awards including “Album of the Year” and “Best Pop Performance” for her hit single “Brave.” Bareilles’ upcoming book, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) In Song, is slated to be released on October 6 by Simon & Schuster. Sara is also releasing a solo studio album featuring music from Waitress due out this fall on Epic Records.

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Gavin Creel

Special Guest

Gavin Creel

Gavin Creel

Special Guest

Gavin Creel

Broadway: Hair (Tony nomination); La Cage Aux Folles; Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony nomination). London: Hair, Mary Poppins. Regional: Bounce, The Goodman Theatre/Kennedy Center. Television: “Eloise at the Plaza,” “Eloise at Christmastime.” Original recordings: Goodtimenation, Quiet (both on iTunes). Passion: Marriage Equality.

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Brittney Mack

Performer

Brittney Mack

Brittney Mack

Performer

Brittney Mack

A.R.T.: SIX. Off-Broadway: Black Nativity. Tour: Memphis (Ethel/Ensemble), Networks. Regional: SIX, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Beehive (Tina Turner), Merry-Go-Round Playhouse; Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Charlaine), Avenue Q (Gary Coleman, 2014 ariZoni Theatre Awards), Memphis (Ensemble/Dance Captain), All Night Strut (Myself), Beehive (Tina Turner/Dance Captain), Little Shop of Horrors (Crystal/Dance Captain), Phoenix Theatre; All Shook Up (Lorraine), The Palace Theatre; Hairspray, (Lil Inez), All Shook Up (Lorraine, 2011 ariZoni Theatre Awards) Arizona Broadway Theatre; The Wiz (Ensemble/Evilene u/s), Maine State Music Theatre; In the Heights (Carla), Shrek (Voice of Gingy/Sugar Plum Fairy), Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts; Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Charlaine), Roxy Regional Theatre; RENT (Alexi Darling/Ensemble), All Shook Up (Lorraine), Seacoast Repertory Theatre. International: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (Production Singer). TV: “Empire” (Feature Dancer), FOX. Education: Certificate from Integrated Program, American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

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Brandon Michael Nase
Brandon Michael Nase

Performer

Brandon Michael Nase

A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinaryThe Black Clown. Regional: Ragtime (Coalhouse), Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre; Evita, Asolo Rep; Les Misérables, Dallas Theater Center; Joseph…, 3D Theatricals. Workshops: Frozen (Olaf); Shout Sister Shout!; Beatsville. Concerts: Showboat: In Concert, Bucks County Playhouse. Education/Training: BM, Music, University of North Texas; MM, Musical Theatre/Vocal Performance, NYU.

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Jack Noseworthy

Special Guest

Jack Noseworthy

Jack Noseworthy

Special Guest

Jack Noseworthy

Claudia Rankine

Special Guest

Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine

Special Guest

Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; numerous video collaborations, and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. For Citizen, Rankine won the Forward Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (Citizen was also nominated in the criticism category, making it the first book in the award’s history to be a double nominee), the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the NAACP Image Award. A finalist for the National Book Award, Citizen also holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category. Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.

Photo: John Lucas

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Bill Rauch

Special Guest

Bill Rauch

Bill Rauch

Special Guest

Bill Rauch

A.R.T.: Othello, All the Way (IRNE Award, Best Director), Fingersmith (IRNE Award, Best Director). Currently Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (since 2007) and inaugural Artistic Director of the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center; Founding Artistic Director, Cornerstone Theater Company (1986- 2006). Broadway: All the Way (winner of 2014 Tony Award for Best Play). New York: Night is a Room, Signature Theatre; The Clean House, Lincoln Center. Additional directing credits: world premieres by Lisa Loomer, Lynn Nottage, Robert Schenkkan, Bill Cain, Alison Carey, Culture Clash, Dan O’Brien, Sarah Ruhl, Jeff Whitty, and others, along with classical plays at Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Guthrie Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Arena Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Portland Center Stage. TV: “Judging Amy.” Selective Awards: Fichandler Award, TCG Visionary Leadership, Margo Jones Award, U.S. Artists Fellowship, Leadership for a Changing World, Grammy nomination. Education: Harvard University.

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Julia Riew

Special Guest

Julia Riew

Julia Riew

Special Guest

Julia Riew

Julia Riew is a composer-lyricist and writer from STL and NYC. In addition to being a graduate of the Harvard University class of 2022, Julia has been the winner of the Fred Ebb Award, Playbill’s Featured Songwriter of the Month, a Woman to Watch on Broadway, and the recipient of the Harvardwood Artist Launch Fellowship. Her musical Dive is currently being developed with Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus and GLAAD Award-winning playwright Diana Son for the American Repertory Theater. Past works at A.R.T. include Thumbelina: A Little Musical and Jack and the Beanstalk: A Musical Adventure.

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Abbie Sage

Special Guest

Abbie Sage

Abbie Sage

Special Guest

Abbie Sage

Abbie Sage is a senior at Harvard College studying History & Literature and Zooming in from Hinsdale, Massachusetts, hoping to pursue a career in stage management and arts administration.

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Anna Deavere Smith

Special Guest

Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith

Special Guest

Anna Deavere Smith

(she/her) A.R.T.: Notes from the FieldLet Me Down Easy, Fires in the Mirror (Pulitzer Prize runner-up). Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright, teacher, and author. She is credited with having created a new form of theater. Smith’s work combines the journalistic technique of interviewing her subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance. President Obama awarded Smith the National Humanities Medal in 2013. Additional honors include the prestigious MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for achievement in the arts, the George Polk Career Award in Journalism, two Tony nominations, and several honorary degrees. She was runner up for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Smith has created over fifteen one-person shows based on hundreds of interviews. Her most recent play, Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, looks at the vulnerability of youth, inequality, the criminal justice system, and contemporary activism. The New York Times named it among The Best Theater of 2016 and Time magazine named it one of the Top 10 Plays of that year. In 2018, HBO premiered the film version of Notes from the Field. Smith’s play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 was recently named one of the best plays of the last twenty-five years by The New York Times. Smith currently appears on the hit television show “Black-ish.” Previously she appeared in “For the People,” “Nurse Jackie,” and “The West Wing.” Films include The American President, Philadelphia, and Rachel Getting Married. She is a University Professor at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

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Sergio Trujillo

Special Guest

Sergio Trujillo

Sergio Trujillo

Special Guest

Sergio Trujillo

(he/him) A.R.T.: Arrabal. Broadway: A Bronx Tale, On Your Feet! (Tony Award Nominee, Outer Critics Circle/Astaire Awards), Memphis (Tony Award Best Musical, Olivier/OCC Award, Drama Desk/Astaire Award nominations), Jersey Boys (Best Musical Tony Award, OCC/Greenroom/Dora/Drama Desk nominations), The Addams Family, Next to Normal, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk nomination), Leap of Faith (Drama Desk nomination), Guys and Dolls (Astaire Awards nomination), All Shook Up. Other theater: Invisible Thread, 2econd Stage; Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Musical (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Olney Theatre; Freaky Friday, Signature; Flashdance, National Tour; The Wiz, La Jolla Playhouse. International work includes Tarzan, Disney; Peggy Sue Got Married, West End; The Sound of Music and West Side Story, Stratford Festival. Upcoming: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, La Jolla Playhouse; Ain’t Too Proud, Berkeley Rep.

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V (formerly Eve Ensler) Headshot

Special Guest

V (formerly Eve Ensler)

V (formerly Eve Ensler) Headshot

Special Guest

V (formerly Eve Ensler)

V (Formerly Eve Ensler) (she/her) is the Tony Award-winning playwright and author of the Obie Award-winning theatrical phenomenon The Vagina Monologues, (translated into 48 languages and performed in 140 countries) along with many other plays. She is the author of a number of books including her latest bestsellers The Apology (translated into more than 15 languages) and In the Body of the World, as well as the New York Times bestseller I am an Emotional Creature. She starred on Broadway in The Good Body, and most recently Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club in the critically acclaimed In the Body of the WorldWILD is her third production at The American Repertory Theater originating new work, following O.P.C. and In the Body of the World. During the COVID-19 pandemic she helped create That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words, a tribute to nurses presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music in accordance with theaters all across the country. Film credits include The Vagina Monologues (HBO) and What I Want My Words to Do to You (Executive Producer, Winner of the Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award, PBS) and Mad Max: Fury Road (Consultant). She is founder of V-Day—the 23-year-old global activist movement which has raised over 120 million dollars to end violence against all women (cisgender and transgender), those who hold fluid identities, nonbinary people, girls, and the planet—and founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries, as well as a co-founder of City of Joy. She writes regularly for The Guardian.

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Spring Celebration Sponsors

Amy and David Abrams
Yuriko Jane Anton and and Philip Anton
Hilary and Philip Burling
Laurie Burt
Katie and Paul Buttenwieser
Chung Family Foundation
Lizabeth Cohen and Herrick Chapman
RoAnn Costin
Priscilla H. Douglas
Michael Feinstein and Denise Waldron
Jonathan Glazer and Hadley Leach
David E. and Stacey L. Goel
Rachael Goldfarb and Mark Slovenkai
Sally McNagny and Robert Green
Barbara and Steve Grossman
Ann and Graham Gund
Jeanne Hagerty
The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust
Sarah Hancock
Peggy Hanratty
The Office of the Provost at Harvard University
Sharlyn Heslam
Linda A. Hill and Dr. Roger E. Breitbart
Brenda Jarrell
Abby Johnson and Chris McKown
Jerry Jordan
Jason Kemper and Thor Perplies
Lisa and Stephen Knight
Judith and Douglas Krupp
Philip L. Laird
William and Leslie Lee
Serena and Bill Lese
Ivana Magovcevic-Liebisch and Lars Liebisch
James Moses and Philip Lovejoy
Jenny Toolin McAuliffe
Jo Frances Meyer
Lucy and Ward Mooney
John and Carol Moriarty
Alison and Bob Murchison
Annette and Dan Nova
Marjorie and Robert Ory
Myran Parker-Brass
Cokie and Lee Perry
Mr. Joseph M. Pizza
Janet and Irv Plotkin
Stan Ponte and John Metzner
Patricia Romeo-Gilbert and Paul Gilbert
Karen Sage
Molly Schoeck and Guy Macdonald
Maggie Gold Seelig & Family and MGS Group Real Estate
Ellen Semonoff
Maureen and Mike Sheehan
Lisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay
Bina and Robin Thompson
Sarasina and Mike Tuchen
Donald and Susan Ware
Jane Wolfson
Michael Yogman, M.D. and Elizabeth Ascher, M.D.

Sponsorships

Everyone Raise a Glass

$15,000+
10 Logins

  • Access to the A.R.T. Spring Celebration livestream for ten (10) households and a private virtual event space for you and your guests to watch the livestream together
  • Ten (10) house seats with the Prosecco Lounge experience for 1776 at A.R.T.
  • Verbal recognition from Diane Paulus during the livestream broadcast and visual recognition on screen during the event*
  • A printed copy of the Spring Celebration program, signed by Diane Paulus
  • Full-page advertisement in our Spring Celebration digital program*
  • A special A.R.T. swag bag shipped to you and your Spring Celebration guests (US addresses)†
  • Invitation for ten (10) people for special in-person event to celebrate the theater’s reopening
  • Invitation for you and your guests to a virtual thank you event with Diane Paulus and A.R.T. staff
  • Invitation for you and your guests to a virtual pre-show event with A.R.T. staff and artists
  • Tickets to all 2021/22 Behind the Scenes events and post-show Virtual Green Room experiences
  • Recognition in our digital program, promotional emails, and the event webpage
  • On demand access to Spring Celebration content after the live event

Everyone Raise a Glass Sponsorship

 

You Matter to Me

$10,000 – $14,999
8 Logins

  • Access to the A.R.T. Spring Celebration livestream for eight (8) households and a private virtual event space for you and your guests to watch the livestream together
  • Five (5) house seats with a Prosecco Lounge experience for 1776 at A.R.T.
  • Half-page advertisement in our Spring Celebration digital program*
  • A special A.R.T. swag bag shipped to you and your Spring Celebration guests (US addresses only)†
  • Invitation for five (5) people to a special in-person A.R.T event to celebrate the theater’s reopening
  • Invitation for you and your guests to a virtual thank you event with Diane Paulus and A.R.T. staff
  • Invitation for you and your guests to a virtual pre-show event with A.R.T. staff and artists
  • Tickets to all Behind the Scenes events and all post-show Virtual Green Room experiences from September to December 2021
  • Recognition in our digital program, promotional emails, and event webpage
  • On demand access to Spring Celebration content after the live event

You Matter to Me Sponsorship

 

We’ve Got Magic to Do

$5,000 – $9,999
5 Logins

  • Access to the A.R.T. Spring Celebration livestream for five (5) households
  • Invitation for two (2) people to a special in-person A.R.T. event to celebrate the theater’s reopening
  • Invitation for you and your guests to a virtual thank you event with Diane Paulus and A.R.T. staff
  • Invitation for you and your guests to a virtual pre-show event with A.R.T. staff and artists
  • Tickets to all fall Behind the Scenes events and access to two Virtual Green Room experiences
  • Recognition in our digital program
  • On demand access to Spring Celebration content after the live event

We’ve Got Magic to Do Sponsorship

 

Yours, Yours, Yours

$1,000 – $4,999
2 Logins

  • Access to the A.R.T. Spring Celebration livestream for two (2) households
  • Invitation for you and your guests to a virtual thank you event with Diane Paulus and A.R.T. staff
  • Tickets to all fall Behind the Scenes events and access to one Virtual Green Room experience
  • Recognition in our digital program
  • On demand access to Spring Celebration content after the live event

Yours, Yours, Yours Sponsorship

 

* Sponsorship must be received by June 1 to be eligible.
† Sponsorship must be received by May 24 to receive swag bags for June 5. For sponsorships received after May 24, swag bags may arrive after June 5.

The A.R.T. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Tax ID #: 04-2665867.

Please note that recent Treasury guidance provides that grants for event sponsorship or tickets from exempt organizations, including Donor Advised Funds may not provide any personal benefit to the donor. If you do not attend the event, your sponsorship may be funded 100% through your DAF. The American Repertory Theater recommends that Spring Celebration sponsors consult their donor-advised fund manager, tax advisor, and legal counsel for definitive tax guidance.