A Welcome from our Board President
OK, it’s 1920. Jazz was the music of popular choice, Gershwin was king and the Charleston was the dance. Talking pictures has just come on the scene and Woodrow Wilson was POTUS. Arizona was eight years old, and Phoenix Theatre was born. That’s right, Phoenix Theatre is beginning its 89th year, a claim very few organizations can make in this extraordinary and quite wonderful city.
Some call Phoenix a big town (in fact, most anyone from the east coast does) but it is, in fact, a city. A distinction without a difference? Not when Webster says a “city is an inhabited place more important than a town.” And Phoenix Theatre is This City’s Theatre.
Why theatre at all?
We offer theatre not just so we can all relax,
not just so we can have fun,
but so we will, perhaps, recognize beauty more easily,
so we will gain a greater measure of sensibility,
so we can see that a problem may have more than one solution,
so we can celebrate multiple perspectives of the world,
so we can learn to communicate better through imagery,
so we can feel, have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more goodness, more life.
Theatre is about nothing less than these things.
A great season awaits, and we hope you will embrace it, enjoy it, and come back often.
Robert Hopkins
President, Phoenix Theatre Board of Directors
Executive Board
President, Robert Hopkins
Vice President, St. Joseph’s Foundation, Barrow Neurological Foundation
Treasurer, Mike Hansberger
C.S. & W. Contractors, Inc.
Secretary, Michelle Taylor
Watson Wyatt
Leslie Shell Benner
Marketing Manager, Cox Communications
Dean Duncan
Salt River Project
C.A. Howlett
President, US Airways Community Foundation
Melissa Leonesio
Sr. V.P. of Community Relations &
Director of Charitable Giving, O Premium Waters
Linda Pope
Giving Hearts Foundation
Emeritus, Todd Peterson
C.S. & W. Contractors, Inc.
Emeritus, Mark Hiegel
Vice President, R & R Partners
Emeritus, Dave Howell
Vice President, Government & Community Relations, Wells Fargo
Board Members
Corinne Quayle Berger
Principal, Berger Holdings, LLC & President, MCQB, LLC
Gary Birnbaum
Mariscal Weeks, McIntyre and Friedlander; P.A
Ira Gaines
Peachtree Partners
Don Henninger
Publisher, The Business Journal
Benée Hilton Spiegel
Community Volunteer
Darlene Keller-Price
Mortgage Broker
Patsy Kelly
Secretary, Phoenix Theatre Guild
John Adam Kowalski
President, Pivot Productions
Carole Machiz
Community Volunteer
Vicki Marce
Community Volunteer
Vicki McDonald
VP of Marketing, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
Jan Moorad
Community Volunteer
Stefan Palys
Associate, Lewis & Roca, LLC
Caleb Reese
Professional Singer/Actor
Mario Romero
The Romero Team Relators
Robin Sewell
AZ Highways Television
Sue Sisley, MD
St. Joseph’s Hospital & Ensuring Tomorrow Productions
Carol Sheehan
Owner, Sheehan Coaching & Consulting
Patrick van den Bossche
Chief Operating Officer, Barrett-Jackson Auction Co., LLC
Connie Waddell
President, Phoenix Theatre Guild
Tom Whalen
Technology Manager, Wells Fargo Bank
Paul Yatkowski
Havens Charitable Foundation