YALE CABARET: Theatre Camp

A NOTE FROM THE CAB LEADERSHIP We’re happy to welcome you back to our magical basement theater for our season’s festival: Theatre Camp! We are beyond grateful for all the support we’ve received since launching our season in September and cannot wait for you to experience this show.

When we were deciding what our theme for the festival would be, we wanted to center our season’s mission of showcasing art and talent of all kinds. This festival is our ode to our love of theatre and live performance.

With a blend of original plays, music, and classics everyone will know, we are lucky to host these talented artists in our home. We welcome you into Camp Sandbox and hope this will spark joy in you as it did for us programming it. Please continue to join us as we build a season of exploration, experimentation, and pushing boundaries at Yale Cabaret.

Out of the box and into our Sandbox!

— Doaa, Kyle, & Annabel

A NOTE FROM THE PRODUCERS Though they don’t include campfires or cabins, I have the fondest memories of attending theatre camp as a kid. These experiences not only helped put me on the path that led me to this school, they led me to a community I felt welcomed in and over time, allowed me to come into myself. I would wager a guess that many of my colleagues working on Theatre Camp have had experiences similar to mine, and that their creative work today is, at least in part, fueled by a desire to hold on to the joy of collaboration and creation they experienced first doing theatre as young people.

Students come to DGSD to deepen their artistry within a chosen discipline, but the truth is, many of us have theatrical backgrounds that are far more extensive than being JUST an actor, or JUST a stage manager. It’s been thrilling to watch our incredible company challenge themselves to participate in the theatrical process in new ways, or in ways they haven’t explored in a long time. One of our goals with Theatre Camp was to provide our community with an opportunity to rekindle their love of storytelling and get back in touch with whatever it was that led us to this art form with endless possibilities. I’m sure all of our inner theatre kids would be so proud to see where we ended up.

— Anne

SPECIAL THANKS Joe Krempetz

Federico De Michelis

Kavya Shetty

Grayson Richmond

Iyanna Huffington Whitney

Yun Wu

THEATRE CAMP

YALE CABARET’S SEASON 56 FESTIVAL

PRODUCTION TEAM Producer

Producer, Projection Designer

Scenic Designer

Scenic Designer, Stage Manager

Anne Ciarlone

Sound Designer

Audio Engineer

Samuel Ostrove

Jake Hurwitz

Doaa Ouf

Kyle Stamm

Xi (Zoey) Lin

Music Director

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Lighting Designer

Aura Michelle

David DeCarolis

Technical Director

Technical Director

Assistant Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

Leo Surach

Minjae Kim

Steph Burke

Destyne R. Miller*

PERFORMERS New Short Plays By Juliana Morales Carreño Claudia Campos Destyne R. Miller* Karen Loewy Movilla with direction by Jasmine Brooks*

Original Songs From a New Musical By Shyama Iyer

Musical Performances By Anne Ciarlone Shefali Gauri Das John Horzen Kalie Marsicano* Tojo Rasedoara & Nat Lopez

Additional Performances By Michael Allyn Crawford Tyler Loren* Augustine Lorrie Gretta Marston* Francisco Morandi Zerpa*

Slam Poetry By Andrew Aaron Valdez

Musical Accompaniment By Alyssa Chetrick, Lydia Gompper*, Jake Hurwitz, Minjae Kim, Xi (Zoey) Lin , and Tadea Martin-Gonzalez*

SHOW SPONSORS

Lynn Doucette-Stamm & The Mooney Basile Family *Yale Cabaret Debut

MISSION STATEMENT

Sandbox by definition, is “a shallow box in the ground partly filled with sand for children to play in”. We hope to create a similar sense of curiosity and playfulness, allowing artists to access creativity only possible when given the opportunity to dig and unearth treasures within themselves. Our season will focus on performance arts as a whole, not just script-based plays or musicals, it’s open to ALL. We aim to look at collaborators as they are, without limiting them to the role they hold within the DGSD community. We believe in a theater without labels, where artists are not limited by the hats they wear, but by the experience they bring into the room with them. As a collective, we will create theater that continues to reshape our ever-changing view on the world.

OUR SANDBOX IS...

A Celebration of Ideas: A place where no ideas are bad ideas Experimental: A space to try, fail, learn, and grow as a community A Resource: A pool of combined knowledge and artistry An Outlet: Magnifying unheard voices and underrepresented stories A Continuum: An application of skills learned Our Sandbox is a place where you can make your wildest dreams come true.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT The state of Connecticut and Yale University occupy the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, Quinnipiac, and other Algonquian speaking peoples. We honor and respect their continued relationship with and stewardship of this land, and we acknowledge that Yale University, Yale Cabaret, and those affiliated have benefited from the oppression of these Nations.

LABOR ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Yale University does not exist independently from the centuries of forced labor and economic extraction of enslaved people, primarily of African descent, on which this country was built. We are indebted to their labor and their unwilling sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the ongoing violence inflicted on Black and brown people and the resulting impact and generational trauma still felt today.

LEADERSHIP TEAM Co-Artistic Director

Co-Artistic Director

Doaa Ouf

Kyle Stamm

Managing Director

Annabel Guevara

COLLABORATORS Associate Managing Director

Anne Ciarlone

Graphic Designer

Cab Assistant

Joy Chen

Production Manager

Michelle Foley

Mara Bredovskis

Restaurant Partner

The Anchor Spa

ADVISORY BOARD Acting

Costume Design

Directing

Grayson Richmond

Caroline Tyson

Alexis Kulani Woodard

Dramaturgy

Lighting Design

Playwriting

Karoline Vielemeyer

David DeCarolis

Doug Robinson

Projection Design

Scenic Design

Kim Zhou

Sound Design

Joe Krempetz

Stage Managment

Technical Design

Theatre Management

John Horzen

Colleen Rooney

Leo Surach

Natalie King

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair

Wendy Davies Eric M. Glover

L.T. Gourzong

Linda-Cristal Young

Samanta Cubias

Gabrielle Hoyt

LAW

ABOUT THE CAB

In 1968, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale students established a basement performance venue in the former home of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at 217 Park Street. Envisioned as an alternative outlet for drama school students’ creativity and experimentation, Yale Cabaret became a forum for our expanded New Haven communities, whom we invite to gather around food, drink, conversation, fellowship, and artistry.

Since its founding, the Cabaret has remained in continuous operation, including pivoting to virtual performance during the 2020/21 season. The Cab has produced hundreds of plays, old and new, alongside musicals and musical revues, comedy shows, dance, performance art, and genre-defying performance.

Our supporters have made this storied history happen. With their partnership, we continue this tradition into 2024 and beyond.

JOIN US FOR DINNER The Anchor Spa at Yale Cabaret will be offering a dinner service for our 8pm Thursday through Saturday performances accepting orders from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.

at Yale Cabaret

The Anchor Spa boasts a pan-Caribbean menu and an outstanding cocktail program that represents a voyage around the world, including some unique international spirits rarely sampled in the U.S. From picking herbs a la minute from their garden to brewing up syrups and roasting their designer garnishes, The Anchor Spa applies the highest level of craft bartending principles in the pursuit of fun like no one else.

Chef Kendall Thigpen welcomes you!

JOIN US AT THE BAR Yale Cabaret will have a bar open 30 minutes before all performances including at intermission and after the show. You can find a range of alcoholic drinks, soft drinks, and snacks for sale at the bar.

OUR SUPPORTERS

Yale Cabaret is DGSD’s student-run theater and operates with the support of our generous donors. Your donation goes a long way to support the many artists that work in our theater. Please consider making a donation today and help us create in our Sandbox!

Champion ($2,500 - $4,999)

Wendy Davies

Show Sponsor ($500 - $999)

Shawn Boyle L.T. Gourzong Eileen & Jim Mydosh The Mooney Basile Family Bill & Sharon Reynolds Matthew Sonnenfeld Josh & Erin Taylor Paul Walsh Supporter ($100 - $249)

Ikenna Aberdeen Frances Anne Black Donald & Mary Brown Geoff Cohen Robert A. Emmons Alicia Guevara Chloe Knight Jerry Lodynsky Sarah Masotta Christine E Wall

Partner ($1,000 - $2,499)

Nina Adams & Moreson Kaplan Joan Channick Lynn Doucette-Stamm Bennett Pudlin & Ann Judd R. Lee Stump & Abigail Roth Enthusiast ($250 - $499)

James Bundy & Anne Tofflemire Ramiro Daniel Diaz Pamela Jordan Chantal Rodriguez Florie Seery Advocate ($50 - $99)

Casey Grambo & Nathaniel Gagnon Carla L. Jackson Cathy Levesque In Honor of Edgar Melgar Steven Padla Susan Ryan Jacob Santos Henry Stamm

THANKS TO OUR TECH WEEK SPONSORS

WHAT’S NEXT! PRIDE OF DOVES December 14th - 16th By: Doug Robinson

Survivors of the end of world Sylvia, Emmett, and Viktor search for what caused the brutal murder of a dove. With flying grenades, broken court systems, and a puppet show, Pride of Doves is an absurdist exploration of inaction, apathy, distraction and violence.

AND THE BEETLE HUMS January 11th - 13th By: Kim Zhou

Four characters (and a beetle) have been trapped in a sleepless limbo. At their wit’s end, they wrack their brains for absolutely any way to get out- and they make an unexpected rediscovery along the way.

CAN THE PERUVIAN SPEAK? January 25th - 27th By: Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas

Two queer migrants date and have a blast on the streets of New York City. They may have found someone who finally gets them in this strange land. But are they really connecting? A testimonial rom-com about connecting far away from home.

SEASON 56 DRAGARET February 9th & 10th

Coming Soon!

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