Parents Marjorie and Joseph Perloff at the Grand Hotel in Cabourg, Normandy, early 1980s. PHOTO COURTESY CAREY PERLOFF

Carey (left) with her sister, Nancy Perloff, at Chatham, Massachusetts, 1963. PHOTO COURTESY CAREY PERLOFF

Carey Perloff as a young ballerina in The Washington Ballet’s Nutcracker, 1967. PHOTO COURTESY CAREY PERLOFF

Carey Perloff as a teenage archaeologist in New Mexico, 1975. PHOTO COURTESY CAREY PERLOFF

Carey Perloff and Harold Pinter during rehearsals of The Birthday Party at New York’s Classic Stage Company, 1989. PHOTO BY TOM CHARGIN

Carey and baby Lexie with Lauren Bacall and Jean Stapleton at Classic Stage Company, 1989. PHOTO © TED KEENAN, 1989

Interior of The Geary Theater in ruins after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. PHOTOS BY JOHN SUTTON

Carey Perloff’s appointment calendar for her first month as artistic director of A.C.T., 1992. PHOTO COURTESY CAREY PERLOFF

Anthony Giles and Carey Perloff with their daughter, Alexandra, in 1992, one week after arriving in San Francisco to begin the job at A.C.T. PHOTO COURTESY CAREY PERLOFF

Nicholas Perloff-Giles with Anika Noni Rose at the 2009 A.C.T. gala. PHOTO BY DREW ALTIZER PHOTOGRAPHY

Alexandra and Nicholas Perloff-Giles, 2006. PHOTO COURTESY CAREY PERLOFF

Renovated interior of The Geary Theater, 1996. PHOTO COURTESY AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER

Carey Perloff at the ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the centennial of The Geary Theater, 2010. PHOTO BY TIMOTHY FAUST

Exterior of The Geary Theater, 1987. PHOTO COURTESY AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER

Carey Perloff with (left to right) Charles Lanyer, Scott Asti, Benton Greene, Claire Winters, and Chris Ferry in rehearsal of Pirandello’s Enrico IV at A.C.T., 2001. PHOTO BY KEVIN BERNE

Carey Perloff with Joshua Roberts in an A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program workshop, 2010. PHOTO BY KEVIN BERNE

(Left to right) Anthony Fusco, Andrew Polk, Jack Willis, and Kenneth Welsh in The Homecoming at A.C.T., 2011. PHOTO BY KEVIN BERNE

Sabina Allemann and Jack Willis in The Tosca Project at A.C.T., 2010. PHOTO BY KEVIN BERNE

Gregory Wallace (left) and Peter Frechette in Waiting for Godot at A.C.T., 2003. PHOTO BY KEVIN BERNE

Tom Stoppard and Carey Perloff in rehearsal of The Real Thing at A.C.T., 2004. PHOTO COURTESY DAVIDALLENSTUDIO.COM

Carey Perloff with Alan Stein at the opening night of Travesties at A.C.T., 2006. PHOTO COURTESY AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER

Carey Perloff and Olympia Dukakis, 2006. PHOTO COURTESY CAREY PERLOFF

Carey Perloff at A.C.T.’s 2007 fundraising gala. photo by drew altizer photography

Rendering of the exterior of A.C.T.’s new Strand Theater. COURTESY SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL LLP

Renovation of The Strand Theater gets underway, 2014. PHOTO BY DENYS BAKER

Carey Perloff with composer Byron Au Yong discussing the renovations of The Strand Theater. PHOTO BY DENYS BAKER