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Fortune’s rigorous two- campus, over 2,500 employees provide in-person care to
step ranking process was more than 3,600 seniors each day. Notably, 90 percent of
based on an initial general MorseLife employees who responded to the survey cited
industry survey of over that they feel good about the ways the company contributes
six million employees to the community. MorseLife Foundation funds multiple
working at thousands of programs supporting vulnerable seniors living amid the
organizations nationwide, prosperity of Palm Beach County, including delivery of
then re-evaluated for more than 50,000 nutritious meals annually to homebound,
responses specifically needy seniors.
pertaining to the aging To ensure its valued team can continue to provide
services industry. The survey the best care for seniors, MorseLife offers employees
consisted of statements and numerous benefits and wellness programs, including
questions pertaining to their exercise classes, counseling, and even emergency services
perceptions of an equitable during hurricanes. The company provides optional paid
workplace, along with their employee training courses that include clinical and
overall employee experience hospitality classes and is training and certifying nursing
as defined by levels of trust, students, staff, and community members to meet the
respect, credibility, fairness, Staff celebrate Carmen Shell, a senior vice president at MorseLife, who was recently awarded growing need for senior care professionals.
pride, and camaraderie. executive of the year by LeadingAge Florida for upholding and advancing the company’s
At MorseLife’s 50-acre standards for excellence in care. Photo courtesy of MorseLife. Reginald Rose’s Classic
Twelve Angry Men Opens

at Palm Beach Dramaworks

The strengths and flaws of the American jury system are
laid bare – as are the prejudices and social attitudes of those
standing in judgment – in Reginald Rose’s classic Twelve
Angry Men, which opened at Palm Beach Dramaworks earlier
this month and continues through Dec. 24. J. Barry Lewis
directs.
Rose made a name for himself in the 1950s as one of the
preeminent writers for the Golden Age of Television. He had
a passion for social justice, and his best work tended to focus
on controversial issues – the kind that could, and often did,
make networks uncomfortable, like prejudice and torture.
12 Angry Men (the numeral is used in the title of both the
teleplay and subsequent film) was written for the prestigious
Season Tickets, Mini-Plans, & anthology show Studio One in 1954 and follows 12 New York

jurors who deliberate the fate of a teenager accused of killing
Group Packages Are On Sale Now! his father. Eleven of the men are instantly ready to convict, but
the lone holdout, Juror 8, compels them to carefully examine
the evidence. The teleplay received accolades, and three years
later Rose adapted and fleshed out the script, and coproduced
the film with Henry Fonda, who played Juror 8. The film script
served as the basis for the play, which premiered in London
25 in 1964. It took an additional 40 years for the play to make
FEBRUARY it to Broadway – two years after Rose’s death in 2002.

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PBD’s production is set during the Eisenhower era, in
1954, the year the teleplay premiered. Although women and
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12 13 14 15 16 17 18 York at that time, the jury pools were overwhelmingly made
up of white men – and subsequently, so were juries. Rose
very deliberately made the choice of an all-white, male jury,
and PBD is following his lead. Producing Artistic Director
1:05 PM 1:10 PM 1:10 PM 1:10 PM 1:05 PM 1:10 PM 1:05 PM William Hayes and director J. Barry Lewis believe that the
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 makeup of the jury serves to illuminate the fervid battle for
gender and racial equality in America in 2022 and illustrate
how far the country has and hasn’t traveled in the 68 years
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Twelve Angry Men features a cast of PBD veterans: Cliff
26 27 28 29 30 31 Goulet (Guard), Tim Altmeyer (Juror 1), Michael McKeever
(Juror 2), William Hayes (Juror 3), Gary Cadwallader (Juror
4), Jim Ballard (Juror 5), Matthew W. Korinko (Juror 6), John
1:10 PM 1:05 PM 1:05 PM 1:05 PM Leonard Thompson (Juror 7), Tom Wahl (Juror 8), Dennis
Times and Opponents are subject to change Creaghan (Juror 9), Rob Donohoe (Juror 10), David Kwiat
(Juror 11), and Bruce Linser (Juror 12). Scenic design is
by Victor A. Becker, costume design is by Brian O’Keefe,
lighting design is by Kirk Bookman, and sound design is by
Roger Arnold. David A. Hyland is the fight choreographer.
12 Angry Men launched the film career of director Sidney
HOME GAME HOME GAME Lumet, who had directed over 60 TV episodes prior to
making his big-screen debut. The movie has inspired many
legal professionals, including Supreme Court Justice Sonia
FOR MORE INFORMATION: (561) 775-1818 Sotomayor, who has said, “It was a very important film in
terms of developing me both as a lawyer and subsequently
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