KEN ROHT (CHOREOGRAPHER) is an artist from Los Angeles. His directing/ choreography credits include Offenbach!!! (Bard Summerscape); Breasts/Tears, The Good Soldier Schweik (Long Beach Opera); Last Resort, an operetta which he also wrote (REDCAT); seven seasons of the 99¢ Holiday Spectacles, which he also wrote (Bootleg Theater, LA); and the feature film musical, The Bloody Indulgent. He has also worked as a choreographer at New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, La Jolla Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (seven seasons), Los Angeles Center Theatre Group, Michael Counts’s GAle GAtes, as well as on music videos for Sanrio and Jamie Cullum. He is the recipient of grants and/or commissions from Plum Foundation, Good Works Foundation, Department of Cultural Affairs-Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Durfee Foundation, and Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater Projects.
TARA RUBIN CASTING (CASTING DIRECTOR) has been casting at Yale Rep since 2004. Broadway: The Heiress (upcoming); Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson (upcoming); Ghost; One Man, Two Guvnors (US casting); Jesus Christ Superstar (US casting), Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway; How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying; Promises, Promises; A Little Night Music; Billy Elliot; Shrek; Guys and Dolls; The Country Girl; Rock ’n’ Roll; The Farnsworth Invention; Young Frankenstein; The Little Mermaid; Mary Poppins; My Fair Lady; The Pirate Queen; Les Misérables; The History Boys; Spamalot; Jersey Boys; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; The Phantom of the Opera; Oklahoma!; Contact. Off-Broadway: Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Second Stage Theatre. Regional: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center, The Old Globe, Westport Country Playhouse. Film: Lucky Stiff, The Producers.
MARTIN T. SCHNELLINGER (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include The Bachelors and Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika. He also worked on Basement Hades: Songs from the Underworld, A Thought in Three Parts, Church, and Hong Kong Dinosaur at Yale Cabaret. Prior to Yale, Martin lived for six years in Washington, DC, where his credits include Beauty of the Father; Momia en el Closet: The Return of Eva Perón; El mejor alcalde, el rey; The Aging of the Plum; Blood Wedding; Valor, agravio y mujer, all at GALA Hispanic Theatre; After Juliet (Imagination Stage); The Winter’s Tale (The Academy for Classical Acting at Shakespeare Theatre Company); and Abstract Nude (Capital Fringe Festival). His opera credits include Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicci (Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy) and L’heure Espagnole (College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati).
VICKI SHAGHOIAN (SINGING COACH) Previous Yale Rep credits include the world premieres of Adam Bock and Todd Almond’s musical We Have Always Lived in the Castle and David Rabe’s The Black Monk, as well as Iphigeneia at Aulis and Serious Money. Her other credits include Athol Fugard’s Coming Home and Have You Seen 21