CAST MONICA SANTANA* (RED ZORA, ENSEMBLE), a fortunate holder of Venezuelan and American passports, is making her Yale Rep debut. Theatre credits include Phoenician Women, The Country and the Happiness (Riverside Theatre); Play America (Sister Sylvester Company); Three Sisters (The Frankfurt School); Beyond the High Valley (Mettawee River Theatre Company); Puppetpalooza (The New Victory Theatre); and The Feast (Schapiro Theatre). She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
MICKEY SOLIS* (FRANK, STRANGER, ENSEMBLE) is making his Yale Rep debut. Off-Broadway credits include An Oresteia (Classic Stage Company), White People (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Night Over Taos (INTAR, directed by Estelle Parsons). Regional and other theatre credits: Desire Under the Elms, Olly’s Prison, The Provok’d Wife, Romeo and Juliet, Cardenio, The Seagull (American Repertory Theater); It’s Too Late (The Mother and the Whore adaptation), ...But the Next Morning (Celine & Julie adaptation), L’Amour Fou (Dangerous Ground Productions, Brooklyn; company member); Baal, The Error of Their Ways (HERE Arts); Beckett at 100: Three Plays (92nd Street Y, Appalachian Summer Festival, Hasty Pudding); Spring Awakening (Moscow Art Theater); House (Epic Theater); The Illusion (Triad Stage); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare on the Sound); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Kentucky Shakespeare). Film and television: michigan (writer), Lament for the Artist, Law & Order, and Law & Order: SVU. He has taught acting at Tisch School for the Arts at NYU. He studied comparative religion and drama at Western Michigan University and earned his MFA from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.
SATOSHI TAKEISHI (MUSICIAN) is a native of Mito, Japan. He has been living in New York since 1991, and he has performed and recorded in a vast variety of genres, from world music, jazz, and contemporary classical music to experimental electronic music with musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos “Patato” Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mary Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik Friedlander, Ned Rothenberg, Michaël Attias, Shoko Nagai, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoski Big Band, Ying String Quartet, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Dhafer Youssef, Lalo Schifrin, and Pablo Ziegler, to name a few. He continues to explore multicultural, electronic, and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.
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