10th Annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays, Yale School of Drama, 2015.

2014–15 SEASON

Carlotta Monterey, the widow of Eugene O’Neill, chose Yale University Press as the publisher of A Long Day’s Journey into Night. It is written on the copyright page of the first paperback edition that the proceeds from the publication of one of America’s greatest plays are to go to playwriting at Yale University.

Thank you, Carlotta.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE MAY 8 8PM Deer and the Lovers

MAY 9 8PM Preston Montfort

MAY 10 8PM The Children

MAY 11 8PM Deer and the Lovers

MAY 12 2PM Preston Montfort 8PM The Children

MAY 13 2PM Deer and the Lovers 8PM Preston Montfort

MAY 14 2PM The Children 8PM Deer and the Lovers

MAY 15 2PM Preston Montfort 8PM The Children

CARLOTTA MONTEREY PHOTO BY MARCIA STEIN, 1922. COURTESY OF CONDÉ NAST ARCHIVE/CORBIS.

MAY 8–15, 2015

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA James Bundy, Dean Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Joan Channick, Associate Dean Jeanie O’Hare, Chair of Playwriting

PRESENTS

Deer and the Lovers

By EMILY ZEMBA Directed by SARA HOLDREN

Preston Montfort An American Tragedy

By RYAN CAMPBELL Directed by ANDREJ VISKY

The Children

Music, Book, and Lyrics by PHILLIP HOWZE Directed by JESSICA HOLT Yale School of Drama thanks Nina Adams and Moreson Kaplan for their generous support of these productions.

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Welcome!

Welcome to Yale School of Drama to celebrate a decade of The Carlotta Festival.

This highlight of the new play calendar was originally established by Richard Nelson, continued by Paula Vogel, and now reaches its 10th birthday under my leadership.

Our graduating playwrights, Ryan Campbell, Phillip Howze, and Emily Zemba, have spent three valuable years writing and producing plays in the fully immersive conservatory training that the School of Drama offers.

They have worked with innovative sound designers; field-leading projection designers; award-winning set, costume, and lighting designers; consummate stage managers; and visionary directors. They have collaborated with fine artists from across the Yale campus, written and sung songs with composers, and had their minds blown by dramaturgical and producing conversations. They have made experimental work at Yale Cabaret, run electrics crew, worked frontof-house tearing tickets, and exerted themselves at 2AM striking sets. In short, they have been thrown into the deep end of everything that this theatre culture of ours has to offer.

Now it is time for them to take up their places in a field that anticipates and salutes their genius. The Carlotta Festival is a celebration of that coming of age.

We are very pleased you can be the audience with the keenest eye for new talent and the biggest welcome to these new adventurers.

Yours,

Jeanie O’Hare Chair, Playwriting Department

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Deer and the Lovers

DEER AND THE LOVERS

By EMILY ZEMBA Directed by SARA HOLDREN

CREATIVE TEAM Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Projection Designer Production Dramaturg Stage Manager

IZMIR ICKBAL SYDNEY GALLAS ELIZABETH MAK TYLER KIEFFER RASEAN DAVONTE JOHNSON KELLY KERWIN VICTORIA WHOOPER

CAST Qiana Marnie Peter Felix Lenny

JULIANA CANFIELD ANNA CRIVELLI EDMUND DONOVAN DYLAN FREDERICK SEAN PATRICK HIGGINS

THERE WILL BE ONE TEN-MINUTE INTERMISSION.

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“I used to think that I was the strangest person in the world,

but then I thought, ‘There’s a lot of people like that in the world. There has to be someone like me, who feels brave and damaged in the same way as I feel.’

I imagine her, and I imagine that she, too, must be out there thinking about me. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this, know that yes, it’s true, I’m here.

I’m just as strange as you are.”

—FRIDA KAHLO, TRANSLATED BY NAHUEL TELLERIA

EL VENADO HERIDO (THE WOUNDED DEER) BY FRIDA KAHLO, 1946.

About the Playwright: EMILY ZEMBA Emily is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Her plays include Have You Been There?, But if the Train Comes to Her, I’m Sorry I Brought Up God (Yale School of Drama); We Know Edie La Minx Had a Gun (co-written with Kelly Kerwin), Look Up, Speak Nicely, and Don’t Twiddle Your Fingers All the Time (Yale Cabaret); and Uninviting Margaret. This year at Yale Cabaret she co-produced and co-hosted the Third-Annual Yale School of Drag. She is a founding member of Guided Tour, a collective that devises and performs site-specific, fairly ridiculous, participatory theatrical tours. Her work has been developed with The Middle Voice (Rattlestick Theater’s Apprentice Company), Labyrinth Theater Company (One-Act Experiment, 2014), the Theater Masters National MFA Playwright’s Festival, and she is currently a Core Apprentice with The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. She has mentored with the Yale Co-Op Eugene O’Neill Playwriting Program, MCC Theater’s Freshplay Festival, and taught playwriting at Wesleyan University. Emily is a recipient of The Shubert Scholarship and holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She will be at Great Plains Theatre Conference this month as part of PlayLab.

DEER AND THE LOVERS

—COMPILED BY KELLY KERWIN, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG

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Cast JULIANA CANFIELD (QIANA) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Her credits include Leonce and Lena, Episode #121: Catfight (Yale Cabaret); Fortuna Fantasia (New York International Fringe Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Real Thing, Valhalla, and Anna in the Tropics.

Juliana holds a BA in English from Yale College.

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ANNA CRIVELLI (MARNIE) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Her credits include Leonce and Lena (Yale Cabaret), as well as various productions with Fordham College at Lincoln Center (where she received a BA in theatre) such as Non tutti i ladri vengono per nuocere (Rome, Italy), Mixed Doubles (London, England), and What of the Night? (New York).

EDMUND DONOVAN (PETER) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. This winter he appeared in Leonce and Lena and Quartet (Yale Cabaret). Other credits include The Snow Geese (Manhattan Theatre Club, understudy), Hot Fun in the Summertime (Cherry Lane Theatre), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Shakespeare & Company), and Macbeth (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), as well as readings and workshops with Labyrinth Theater Company and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. He received his BFA from Boston University.

DYLAN FREDERICK (FELIX) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His regional credits include work with Children’s Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Illusion Theater, Workhaus Collective, and Playwrights’ Center. He can be seen in his musical Summer Valley Fair at the New York Musical Theatre Festival this July. Dylan holds a BFA in theatre performance from the University of Evansville.

SEAN PATRICK HIGGINS (LENNY) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he has been seen in The Winter’s Tale, Paradise Lost, The Tempest, This Flat Earth, and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Regional credits include Pericles (Elm Shakespeare Company); The Liar, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet (Livermore Shakespeare Festival); Noises Off and The Taming of the Shrew (Idaho Repertory Theatre).

Sean holds a BFA from the University of Wyoming and is a proud recipient of the Wesley Fata Scholarship.

Creative Team SYDNEY GALLAS (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she designed the costumes for Don Juan.

Her design credits include The Hotel Nepenthe (Yale Cabaret); The Orpheus Variations (Deconstructive Theatre Project; The Public Theater’s Under the

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SARA HOLDREN (DIRECTOR) is a theatre maker from Charlottesville, Virginia, and a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Credits include Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, the new plays Tiny Boyfriend by Phillip Howze and Have You Been There? by Emily Zemba (Yale School of Drama); and the new plays The Zero Scenario and A New Saint for a New World by Ryan Campbell (Yale Cabaret). Other directing credits include Leonid Andreyev’s He Who Gets Slapped, Peter Barnes’s Red Noses, and her own adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays, as well as The Tempest, Richard III, and As You Like It. Sara has a passion for Shakespeare and for making theatre with young people, most recently directing Romeo and Juliet for the young company of the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale College (BA, theatre studies) where she directed and performed with The Control Group Experimental Theater Ensemble. She is also a graphic designer and a graduate of the Acting Shakespeare program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. This summer she will serve as the Artistic Director of Yale Summer Cabaret 2015: Rough Magic, where she will direct a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando.

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Radar Festival); Bastianello and Lucrezia (Urban Arias); Macbeth for iBook (New Book Press); Leave the Balcony Open (New Feet Productions); As You Like It, Fefu and Her Friends, The Tempest (The New School); Ivanov, The Ghost Sonata (Columbia University); Future Anxiety (#serials@theflea, The Flea); After Robert Hutchens, When the Tanks Break, and A Map of Virtue (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Sydney is also the co-creator of The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll, a new play that premiered at Pasadena’s Boston Court this year. She has assisted notable and award-winning costume designers including Gregg Barnes, Gabriel Berry, David Farley, Jane Greenwood, Susan Hilferty, and Ann Hould-Ward at respected institutions such as Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Public Theater, and New York City Opera. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. SydneyGallas.com

IZMIR ICKBAL (SCENIC DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include The Troublesome Reign of King John. Other credits include Touch, A New Saint for a New World (Yale Cabaret); The Gunpowder Trail, Hearth (The Esplanade Theatre Studio, Singapore); Nadirah, Charged, Not Counted (Teater Ekamatra, Singapore); Dairyland, and The Guadalupe (Chautauqua Theater Compnay). Izmir holds a BA in theatre studies and English literature from the National University of Singapore.

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Creative Team

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RASEAN DAVONTE JOHNSON (PROJECTION DESIGNER) is a secondyear MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include The Master and Margarita and The Troublesome Reign of King John. He also served as assistant projection designer at Yale Repertory Theatre for These Paper Bullets! and Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Other projection credits include The Untitled Project, 50:13, Solo Bach, MuZeum, We Fight We Die, The Brothers Size (Yale Cabaret); La Cenerentola (Yale Opera); as well as collaborations with Court Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, ArtsEmerson, Porchlight Music Theatre, Manual Cinema, the Catharsis Junkies, Collaboraction, Stoptime 341, Shadowbox Live, and American Theater Company. Rasean received his BA in theatre, focusing on video art, from Ohio State University. raseanjohnson.squarespace.com KELLY KERWIN (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. She was an artistic director for Yale Cabaret’s 46th Season, where she also directed and co-wrote (with Emily Zemba) We Know Edie La Minx Had a Gun. This season at Yale Cabaret, she directed Rose and the Rime, produced Look Up, Speak Nicely, and Don’t Twiddle Your Fingers All the Time, and co-produced and co-hosted the Third-Annual Yale School of Drag. Selected dramaturgy credits include The Seagull, Tiny Boyfriend, Lottie in the Late Afternoon (Yale School of Drama); Hit the Wall (Steppenwolf’s Garage Rep, The Inconvenience); Oblivion (Steppenwolf’s First Look Rep); and The Sparrow (The House Theatre of Chicago), which received the Jeff Award for Best New Play. Prior to Yale, she served as a member of the artistic staff at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Atlantic Theater Company, The House Theatre of Chicago, and as the associate producer at Chicago’s Collaboraction. She also helped found Chicago’s Salonathon, a weekly series specializing in underground performance. Additionally at Yale, she is a founding member of Guided Tour, where she devises and produces theatre experiences in non-traditional spaces. Kelly holds a BFA from the Theatre School at DePaul University. Upcoming: Kelly, along with Shane D. Hudson (DRA ‘14), is founding Envelope, a New York-based theatre company.

TYLER KIEFFER (SOUND DESIGNER) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama and is serving as an artistic director of Yale Cabaret this season. His credits include Peter Pan, The Troublesome Reign of King John (Yale School of Drama); Arcadia (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Maids, Lindberg’s Flight, The Defendant, The Untitled Project, Radio Hour, The Most Beautiful Thing in the World, and Small Things (Yale Cabaret). Other credits include Ain’t Gonna Make It (Ars Nova) and Pride and Prejudice (Swine Palace). Tyler hails from the New Orleans area and holds a BA in theatre from Louisiana State University.

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ELIZABETH MAK (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Her credits include The Seagull, Twelfth Night (Yale School of Drama); Leonce and Lena, 50:13, Crave (Yale Cabaret); Beckett Shorts, The Flu Season (American Repertory Theater Institute); Counterpoint, 35 (Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company); House of Yes, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Far Away, The Balcony (Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club); and projects with Urbanity Dance, NineSidedBox, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Singapore International Arts Festival. Independent productions: Graveyard Book and Waiting. elizabethmak.com

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VICTORIA WHOOPER (STAGE MANAGER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Measure for Measure, Paradise Lost, and The Commedia Project: Altogether Reckless. At Yale Repertory Theatre she was the assistant stage manager for War. She also stage managed The Untitled Project (Yale Cabaret); served as the stage management intern at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; was the lighting intern at Oak Park Festival Theater in Oak Park Illinois; and was the Production Stage Manager at Triton College. Victoria holds a bachelor’s degree in theatre arts from Dominican University, where she was the 2011 recipient of the Sister Gregory Duffy award of excellence and dedication in theatre.

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Preston Montfort An American Tragedy

PRESTON MONTFORT

By RYAN CAMPBELL Directed by ANDREJ VISKY

CREATIVE TEAM Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Projection Designer Production Dramaturg Stage Manager

CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON FABIAN FIDEL AGUILAR ELIZABETH MAK JING (ANNIE) YIN RASEAN DAVONTE JOHNSON HUGH D. FARRELL EMELY SELINA ZEPEDA

CAST Foster Montfort Christopher Kendrick First Chorus Juliana Montfort Edward Montfort The Civilian Preston Montfort Second Chorus Third Chorus

SEBASTIAN ARBOLEDA ANDREW BURNAP BAIZE BUZAN BRONTË ENGLAND-NELSON ESTON J. FUNG ANNE KATHERINE HÄGG JONATHAN HIGGINBOTHAM ANNELISE LAWSON JULIAN ELIJAH MARTINEZ

PRESTON MONTFORT IS PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION.

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“Trauma destroys the fabric of time….In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards into an eddy or bouncing like a rubber ball from now to then to back again.…In the traumatic universe the basic laws of matter are suspended: ceiling fans can be helicopters, car exhaust can be mustard gas.”

­—DAVID J. MORRIS, THE EVIL HOURS

This wasn’t always the case. Throughout history societies created rituals around such reckoning and the ancient Greeks included it in what we now describe as theatre. Their theatre was really more of a civic ritual, the (male) population of an entire state communing with gods in an emotional debate about pretty heavy things. They had a god of love, sex, and pleasure. They had a god of intelligence, skill, and peace. They had gods for agriculture, wine (importantly), the underworld, and the sea. Everything bigger and more important than one individual, they had a god for it. So they

had a god of war. And in their theatre they would commune with that god, as well, and think about the problems war was causing, and try to heal and renew their society through that ritual. It’s a sophisticated way of thinking about the world, together. They would use these rituals to look at their mistakes, draw a line under the horror, and heal.

In 416 BCE when the people of Athens gathered in their thousands to watch Euripides’s Herakles, the story of the soldier, the trained killer trying to return to civilian life, Athens had been at war for sixteen years. America, today, has been at war for fifteen. Alone, however, behind our screens, can we really empathize with the violence committed to protect us? Isn’t it time, in the words of yet another anthem of the 1960s, to “come together, right now?”

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“War, huh, good God, What is it good for?” Good God indeed. Since war became a televised event, through both the screens in our homes and the screens used to operate unmanned drones, it has become increasingly difficult to determine the true cost of war.

—HUGH D. FARRELL, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG

About the Playwright: RYAN CAMPBELL Ryan is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His plays include Dead Ends. (Yale School of Drama); A New Saint for a New World, The Zero Scenario (Yale Cabaret); and Fourteen Flights (2011 NYC International Fringe Festival Encore Series). Ryan holds degrees in theatre and liberal arts from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Cast

PRESTON MONTFORT

SEBASTIAN ARBOLEDA (FOSTER MONTFORT) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His credits include Leonce and Lena, Episode #121: Catfight (Yale Cabaret); Romeo and Juliet, Fool for Love, Lobster Alice (CSULB University Players); and Lemon Boots (Hollywood Fringe). Sebastian holds a degree in performance and organizational communication from California State University, Long Beach.

ANDREW BURNAP (CHRISTOPHER KENDRICK) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include The Seagull, Paradise Lost, and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Other credits include The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Repertory Theatre); King Lear (The Public Theater); The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Maids and Rose and the Rime (Yale Cabaret). BFA, University of Rhode Island.

BAIZE BUZAN (FIRST CHORUS) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. She was recently seen in Sister Sandman Please at Yale Cabaret.

Chicago credits include Failure: A Love Story (Victory Gardens Theater); Fat Pig (Steppenwolf Garage); Look Back in Anger, The Cripple of Inishmaan (Redtwist Theatre); Rich and Famous (Jackalope Theatre), and multiple workshops at Writers Theatre. Baize is a graduate of Vassar College and The School at Steppenwolf.

BRONTË ENGLAND-NELSON (JULIANA MONTFORT) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Her credits include Episode 121: Catfight (Yale Cabaret), As You Like It (Hudson Shakespeare Company), The Three Musketeers (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), and The Seagull (University of California Santa Cruz). Brontë holds a BA in theatre arts from UC Santa Cruz.

ESTON J. FUNG (EDWARD MONTFORT) is a first-year actor at Yale School of Drama. His credits include A Dream Play (HERE Arts Center) and After the Fall (Circle in the Square). Television and film: USA Network’s Royal Pains and Nickelodeon’s Gym Teacher: The Movie. Eston is a graduate of Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre School. estonfung.com ANNE KATHERINE HÄGG (THE CIVILIAN) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Don Juan, THUNDERBODIES, Paradise Lost, and This Flat Earth. Other credits include The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Repertory Theatre); A New Saint for a New World (Yale Cabaret), Dancing at Lughnasa (Irish Repertory Theatre), Boeing-Boeing (New Harmony

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Theatre), and The Most Happy Fella (The Acorn at Theatre Row). Annie received a BA in history from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

JONATHAN HIGGINBOTHAM (PRESTON MONTFORT) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. He was recently seen in Episode #121: Catfight (Yale Cabaret). Jonathan holds a degree in theatre from Hamilton College.

JULIAN ELIJAH MARTINEZ (THIRD CHORUS) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include The Winter’s Tale, Don Juan, Cardboard Piano, Paradise Lost, and Riverbank: A Noh Play for Northerly Americans. Other credits include Summer Shorts: A Festival of New Voices, We Are Proud to Present a Presentation..., A Map of Virtue, Middletown (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Brothers Size, The Defendant, Solo Bach, We Fight We Die (Yale Cabaret); 9 Circles (Forum Theatre, Helen Hayes Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Play nomination); Locomotion (The John F. Kennedy Center); The Hampton Years (Theater J); Jekyll & Hyde (Synetic Theater); Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cymbeline (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company); Man of La Mancha (Hangar Theater); Hamlet and All’s Well That Ends Well (Orlando Shakespeare Theater). Julian holds a BFA from Elon University.

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ANNELISE LAWSON (SECOND CHORUS) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Troublesome Reign of King John, The Tempest, and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Other credits include Arcadia (Yale Repertory Theatre); Middletown, A Map of Virtue, Summer Shorts: A Festival of New Voices (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Hotel Nepenthe, The Crazy Shepherds of Rebellion (Yale Cabaret); The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (First Folio); Peter Pan’s Shadow Parts 1 & 2, and The Grisly/Glorious Adventure of Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Billy Moon (Dream Theatre Company). Annelise has a certificate in acting from the Moscow Art Theatre Summer Academy and a BA in theatre studies and psychology from Carleton College.

Creative Team FABIAN FIDEL AGUILAR (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include The Master and Margarita. His other credits include He Left Quietly (SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto and Yale Cabaret); Quartet, Zero Scenario, A New Saint for a New World (Yale Cabaret); and the 2014 Dwight/Edgewood 13

Creative Team Project. He has worked for various theatres, conservatories, and universities in Boston including American Repertory Theater, Boston Ballet, Moscow Ballet, and the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, among others. He will be designing costumes for the first two productions of Yale Summer Cabaret 2015: Rough Magic. Originally from El Paso, Texas, Fabian received his BA from Boston University.

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HUGH D. FARRELL (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama and an Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret.

Originally from Ireland, he completed his undergraduate degree in English and theatre studies at Trinity College, Dublin before coming to Yale. He was the production dramaturg for Caryl Churchill’s Owners at Yale Repertory Theatre and previously worked as web editor for Theatre magazine.

RASEAN DAVONTE JOHNSON (PROJECTION DESIGNER) Please see page 8.

ELIZABETH MAK (LIGHTING DESIGNER) Please see page 9.

CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON (SCENIC DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he designed The Master and Margarita. Other designs include He Left Quietly (SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto and Yale Cabaret); The Untitled Project, The Zero Scenario (Yale Cabaret); A Map of Virtue, We Are Proud to Present a Presentation..., Middletown (Yale Summer Cabaret); Class (Penguin Rep), Proof, An Ideal Husband (Sink or Swim Rep); Cosi, The Woman Standing on the Moon (Urban Stages); Lady Windermere’s Fan, Bronx Kiss (Purchase Repertory Theatre); and The Mock Tempest (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). His assistant and associate credits include Owners (Yale Repertory Theatre), the 2014 Carlotta Festival of New Plays (Yale School of Drama), the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, New Year’s Eve in Times Square, Macy’s Holiday Windows, and For Colored Girls (Tyler Perry Studios).

Christopher will be designing the first two productions for Yale Summer Cabaret 2015: Rough Magic. He holds a BFA in scenic design from SUNY Purchase College. CTSetDesign.com ANDREJ VISKY (DIRECTOR) is a director and performer from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Molière’s Don Juan, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and Emily Zemba’s I’m Sorry I Brought Up God. He directed Beginners by Raymond Carver, or What We Talk About When We Talk About Love at Yale Cabaret. Andrej is a founding member of Waiting Room Project, a theatre company devoted to experimental work. During his time with the company he

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directed Bánk Bán by Katona József and adapted, co-directed, and performed in Karl Wittlinger’s Do You Know the Milky Way?. In 2011, Andrej served as an assistant director at the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, where he worked with directors from Romania and the United States. He has assisted directors Robert Woodruff, Karin Coonrod, and Mihai Mâniutiu, and was an Assistant Lecturer in acting at Babe-Bolyai University. Andrej holds a BFA and MFA in acting from Babe-Bolyai University, where he is currently a PhD candidate.

JING (ANNIE) YIN (SOUND DESIGNER) Originally from China, Annie is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Don Juan, Platonov, Dead Ends., and As You Like It. anniejinying.com

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EMELY SELINA ZEPEDA (STAGE MANAGER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Master and Margarita, Twelfth Night, Tiny Boyfriend, Cardboard Piano, and Hedda Gabler. At Yale Repertory Theatre, she was the assistant stage manager for Familiar. Prior to her work at Yale, Emely served as the assistant stage manager at TriCities Opera, was the stage manager for a co-production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Binghamton University and DUOC Universidad in Chile), and stage manager for Clouds Are Pillows for the Moon (Yale Institute for Music Theatre). This summer, Emely will be one of two stage managers for Yale Summer Cabaret 2015: Rough Magic.

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The Children Music, Book, and Lyrics by

PHILLIP HOWZE Directed by JESSICA HOLT

THE CHILDREN

CREATIVE TEAM Music Director, Orchestrator, Arranger Choreographer Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Projection Designer Production Dramaturg Stage Manager

AVI AMON JENNIFER HARRISON NEWMAN ALEXANDER WOODWARD ALEXAE VISEL ANDREW F. GRIFFIN BRIAN HICKEY RASEAN DAVONTE JOHNSON TAYLOR BARFIELD ANITA SHASTRI

CAST Jack Victoria Hero Rohan Portia Chloe Affinity Jesus Max Princess Mom

TIM CREAVIN RICARDO DÁVILA LELAND FOWLER GALEN KANE CHALIA LaTOUR SYDNEY LEMMON JONATHAN MAJORS BRADLEY JAMES TEJEDA CARA WASHINGTON MALENKY WELSH SHAUNETTE RENÉE WILSON

MUSICIANS Piano, Keyboard Bass, Upright Bass Percussion Guitar

AVI AMON CHRISTOPHER ROSS-EWART GEORGI VIDENOV IAN WILLIAMS

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PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA BOX.

The characters in The Children are a part of this community. They face the same world in which, in many places, people not only seek to hinder their expression, but go out of their way to snuff it out. They face negative media representation, bullying, hate crimes, and anti-LGBTQ legislation. Some are even shunned by their own families. Instead of allowing the weight of these realities to discourage them, these children resist by shouting, protesting, beatboxing, singing, dancing, and engaging in perhaps the most revolutionary act of all, fighting for the right simply to be who they are.

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In her 2005–12 photography project, INVISIBLE, Samantha Box uses a black and white aesthetic to capture New York’s community of homeless LGBTQ youth. In an interview about her work, Box says, “The young people that I photograph are some of the most resilient people that I have ever met: despite facing the societal animosity of homo- and transphobia, and the burden of a broken system that conspires to keep them homeless…they continuously work for a future where their talents and intellect can be used, where they have a home, a family, and a life of stability.”

—TAYLOR BARFIELD, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG

About The Playwright: PHILLIP HOWZE Phillip is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His plays include Tiny Boyfriend (Yale School of Drama), all of what you love and none of what you hate (Yale Cabaret), and abominable (Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2014; Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Summer 2015). He has been a finalist for the National New Play Network/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop and the 2014 Global Age Project (GAP) Award at Aurora Theatre Company. His plays have been developed at The Bushwick Starr, Dixon Place, Theater Masters National MFA Playwrights Festival, and Playwrights Foundation. He is also a lyricist and composer. Prior to attending Yale, he worked in advocacy at the Open Society Foundations where he managed grant projects that intersect arts, culture, and education across Southeast Asia. He worked as an educator at the US Embassy’s cultural center in Rangoon, Burma, from 2005–2007. He is the recipient of the Stephen B. Timbers Scholarship and is a member of the board of directors of freeDimensional.org and Yale Cabaret. BA: NYU.

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Cast

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AVI AMON (MUSIC DIRECTOR, ORCHESTRATOR, ARRANGER, PIANO, KEYBOARD) writes music and creates soundscapes for theatre, film, and dance.

With collaborator and pal, Julia Gytri, Avi wrote The White City (O’Neill 2014 National Music Theatre Conference, Discovery New Musical Theater Festival at Ball State University, finalist for the 2015 Richard Rogers Award) and Step on a Crack (featured in Prospect Theater’s Seventh Annual Music Theater Lab). The team is working on a new show, Salonika, which is a fusion of obscure fairytales paralleled with the extermination of the Ladino-speaking Jewish community of Salonika, Greece. In addition to being an active performer in New York, Avi is a volunteer composer for the 52nd Street Project, a member of the Institute for Collaborative Theater Making with Target Margin Theater, and an alumnus of the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn where he tends to his immense plant collection and builds furniture for friends. aviamon.com TIM CREAVIN (JACK) is a senior theatre studies major at Yale College, where his credits include The Tell-Tale Heart; The Rocky Horror Show; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; A Prayer for Owen Meany; #romeojuliet; Bent; Anna in the Tropics; Man of La Mancha; and Hair. Other credits include Then... (Manhattan Repertory Theatre).

Tim has worked extensively with the Yale Dramatic Association and The Control Group, Yale’s only experimental theatre ensemble.

RICARDO DÁVILA (VICTORIA) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His credits include Leonce and Lena (Yale Cabaret); The Mysteries (The Flea); Mariquitas (Theater for the New City); and Mary Stuart (New York University). He holds a degree in acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

LELAND FOWLER (HERO) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His most recent credits include 50:13, The Untitled Project (Yale Cabaret); Songs to Grow On and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Alliance Theatre).

Leland earned his BA in drama from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He has also studied at the British American Drama Academy.

GALEN KANE (ROHAN) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Paradise Lost, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, and The Winter’s Tale. Other credits include The Brothers Size, The Untitled Project, The Hotel Nepenthe (Yale Cabaret); Fences and The Color Purple: The Musical (University of Maryland Eastern Shore). Galen holds a degree in business administration marketing from UMES, and a certificate in photography from Boston University Center for Digital Art. CHALIA LaTOUR (PORTIA) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she has appeared as Clara Gordon in Paradise Lost, and as Blanche/Lord Pembroke in The Troublesome Reign of King John. Other credits

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include Idea Velasquez in The Defendant (Yale Cabaret), Romeo and Juliet (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and Sleep Rock Thy Brain (Humana Festival of New American Plays). Miss LaTour holds a degree in acting from California State University-East Bay and is an alumna of the Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Company 2012–13.

SYDNEY LEMMON (CHLOE) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Previous credits include Quartet, Sister Sandman Please (Yale Cabaret); Rancho Mirage, Romeo and Juliet, Animal Farm (Olney Theatre Center); Othello (Actors Shakespeare Project); and The Tempest (Cape Verde National Theatre).

Education: BFA, Boston University; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts; Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. Sydney looks forward to a summer studying at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford.

CHRISTOPHER ROSS-EWART (BASS, UPRIGHT BASS) is a first-year MFA candidate in sound design at Yale School of Drama. His credits include MuZeum and Sister Sandman Please (Yale Cabaret). He has a BA in drama from the University of Toronto.

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JONATHAN MAJORS (AFFINITY) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include The Seagull, Paradise Lost, and Cardboard Piano. Other credits include The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Repertory Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest (Chautauqua Theater Company); the world premiere of Cry Old Kingdom (Humana Festival of New American Plays); and the August Wilson’s American Century Cycle recordings of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Fences (The Greene Space). Jonathan holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts

BRADLEY JAMES TEJEDA (JESUS) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he was seen in The Winter’s Tale, Don Juan, and Bird Fire Fly. Other credits include Arcadia (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Hotel Nepenthe, We Fight We Die, The Defendant (Yale Cabaret); and King John (Marin Shakespeare Company). Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, he holds a BA in theatre arts from the University of the Incarnate Word.

GEORGI VIDENOV (PERCUSSION) is a Bulgarian-born percussionist currently pursuing his MM at Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Professor Robert van Sice. In January, Mr. Videnov performed with the Yale Percussion Group at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall as part of the Yale in New York Concert Series.

Last season’s edition of Yale in New York featured him as one of the musicians for Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat directed by Liz Diamond. Mr. Videnov has participated in a number of international competitions. Before coming to Yale, he was appointed as timpanist/percussionist at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra in Japan for its 2012–13 season. In the fall of 2016, Georgi will join the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as their assistant timpanist/percussionist.

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Cast CARA WASHINGTON (MAX) is a freshman at Yale College in the American Studies department. Her credits include The Bluest Eye (FOLKS at Yale School of Drama); Once on This Island, and Oklahoma! (The Lawrenceville School).

Cara is a member of the Yale Dramatic Association at Yale College.

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MALENKY WELSH (PRINCESS) is a performer and artist from Branford.

Her credits include A Civil War Christmas (Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven Theatre Company); the world premiere of Bossa Nova by Kirsten Greenidge, The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Hundred Dresses directed by Lara Morton; and Freewheelers (A Broken Umbrella Theatre Company). Malenky was born in New York and worked exclusively for Wilhelmina Models. She also performed in a children’s music video. Malenky, a junior at Common Ground High School—when not doing homework—enjoys reading, drawing, dancing, and spending time with family and friends.

IAN WILLIAMS (GUITAR) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama.

His credits include Associate Sound Designer for The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Repertory Theatre); sound designer for Touch and 50:13 (Yale Cabaret); Purple Eyes (Florida State University); Dissassociation a sound art installation (A+D Gallery); Renita & Fred (C33 Gallery) Facing East (PROP THTR); Jesus Christ Superstar, Crazy For You (Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre). Ian holds an MA in interdisciplinary arts from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in theatre arts and philosophy from Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. He is also a proud member of the National Speech & Debate Association.

SHAUNETTE RENÉE WILSON (MOM) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Seagull, Paradise Lost, and Cardboard Piano. Other credits include The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Repertory Theatre); We Are Proud to Present a Presentation..., Ron Bobby Had Too Big a Heart, M.A.H. (A Museum Play), an excerpt from Undesirables, Your Living Room Is Full of Ghosts, Middletown (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Undone, Macbeth, A Dybbuk, Romeo and Juliet (Queens College); The Defendant and Look Up, Speak Nicely, and Don’t Twiddle Your Fingers All the Time (Yale Cabaret).

Creative Team TAYLOR BARFIELD (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his dramaturgy credits include Paradise Lost. Yale Cabaret credits include 50:13, The Hotel Nepenthe, Touch, The Brothers Size, and The Defendant. Taylor received his BA in biology and English from Johns Hopkins University.

ANDREW F. GRIFFIN (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he designed Don Juan, The Master and Margarita, and Measure for Measure. Selected credits include Shiny Objects, The Zero 20

Scenario, The Brothers Size, The Crazy Shepherds of Rebellion, He Left Quietly, Bound To Burn (Yale Cabaret); Henry V, Twelfth Night, Othello (Folger Theatre); You for Me for You, The K of D, and The Last Cargo Cult (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); Avenue Q, A Chorus Line, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Olney Theatre Center). He has also collaborated on designs with companies including Yale Summer Cabaret, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Synetic Theater, Tri-Cities Opera, Theater J, Forum Theatre, Adventure Theatre, UrbanArias, GALA Hispanic Theatre, Faction of Fools, Imagination Stage, Everyman Theatre, The Delaware Shakespeare Festival, MetroStage, and Michigan Opera Theatre Children’s Chorus. Andrew received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for his designs of Henry V at Folger Theatre and King Lear at Synetic Theater. Upcoming: The Producers (Olney Theatre Center), Yale Summer Cabaret 2015: Rough Magic. AFGLighting.com

JESSICA HOLT (DIRECTOR) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. She is originally from San Francisco, California. Yale School of Drama credits include The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Twelfth Night by WIlliam Shakespeare, and Dead Ends. by Ryan Campbell. She also directed Have I None

by Edward Bond at Yale Cabaret. As the co-artistic director of the 2014 Yale Summer Cabaret, Jessica directed We Are Proud to Present a Presentation..., and Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. She also co-directed Summer Shorts: A Festival of New Voices. Before coming to Yale, Jessica spent three years as the Artistic Director of the Bay One Acts (BOA) Festival, where she produced, developed, and directed new plays by local playwrights.

She was an associate artist at the Magic Theatre, where she directed Act 5 of Taylor Mac’s five-hour epic The Lily’s Revenge and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. While in the Bay Area, she directed at Cutting Ball Theater (Aulis: An Act of Nihilism in One Long Act), Boxcar Theatre (The Glass Menagerie), New Conservatory Theatre Center (No Bull, Dis-Connected), and Playwrights Foundation (My New Best Friend), among others. Jessica graduated from UCLA with a BA in cultural anthropology and from UC Berkeley with an MA in performance studies. This summer, she will begin a year-long directing fellowship at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.

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BRIAN HICKEY (SOUND DESIGNER) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he designed the sound for Cardboard Piano and The Visit and was the assistant sound designer for Hedda Gabler and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. At Yale Repertory Theatre he designed Familiar and assisted with Arcadia, In a Year with 13 Moons, and Dear Elizabeth. Brian is also a musician and electronic music composer. He is a native of Long Island, New York, and holds a BA from Hofstra University.

RASEAN DAVONTE JOHNSON (PROJECTION DESIGNER) Please see page 8.

JENNIFER HARRISON NEWMAN (CHOREOGRAPHER) received her MFA in theater management from Yale School of Drama in 2011. A New York-based dance and theatre artist, Jennifer has worked with Franco Dragone, Amanda 21

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Palmer, Donald Byrd, David Rousseve, Ronald K. Brown, Michael Jackson, The Radio City Rockettes, as well as on Broadway in Saturday Night Fever and Disney’s The Lion King. Jennifer has choreographed for the plays Bull Rusher

by Eisa Davis, Woman Bomb by Ivana Sajko, Mary Becoming by John Ransom Phillips, and several plays at Yale Cabaret. Jennifer has been an artist-inresidence at The Field, Mabou Mines, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and 651 Arts.

As a teaching artist, Jennifer has taught dance workshops across the United States as well as in South Africa, China, and Mexico. She is currently on faculty at Central Connecticut State University.

ANITA SHASTRI (STAGE MANAGER) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Peter Pan, Vieux Carré, No More Sad Things, and Lottie in the Late Afternoon. Other credits include Familiar and These Paper Bullets! (Yale Repertory Theatre), as well as the WindhamCampbell Prize Readings at Yale. Anita will be returning to The Muny in St. Louis this summer to assistant stage manage The Buddy Holly Story and Beauty and the Beast. Her other Muny credits include Spamalot, Les Misérables, West Side Story, Billy Elliot, and Seussical. She received her BA in theatre and communications from Saint Louis University.

ALEXAE VISEL (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she recently designed Paradise Lost. Other designs include Zero Scenario and Episode #121: Catfight (Yale Cabaret).

Originally based in San Francisco, her designs were seen in The Coast of Utopia: Parts I and II, Sea of Reeds (Shotgun Players); The Comedy of Errors, Cymbeline, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival); and Octopus (Magic Theatre). Alexae holds a BFA in theatrical design and production from The College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.

ALEXANDER WOODWARD (SCENIC DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Don Juan.

Other credits include Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (Yale Summer Cabaret); Have I None, The Mystery Boy, Rose and the Rime (Yale Cabaret); Fingers & Toes (New York and Florida); Dixon Family Album, Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Ruby Place Nest on the Ground (Signature Theatre); 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti (59E59); 1940s Radio Hour (Cortland Repertory Theatre); What I Thought I Knew, the world premiere of Waiting for Spring (Kitchen Theatre Company); Oblomov (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical (Cardinal Stage); And a Child Shall Lead (HERE Arts Center); as well as numerous assistant and associate credits in New York and across the country including the Tonynominated designs for Bullets Over Broadway, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Assembled Parties, and Present Laughter. Alexander holds a BFA in scenic and costume design from Ithaca College.

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James Bundy, Dean Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Joan Channick, Associate Dean

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Sooyoung Hwang, Steven C. Koernig, House Managers

Artistic Management Jennifer Kiger, Associate Artistic Director Director of New Play Programs James Mountcastle, Production Stage Manager Amy Boratko, Literary Manager Kay Perdue Meadows, Artistic Associate Benjamin Fainstein, Artistic Coordinator Helen C. Jaksch, Kelly Kerwin, Literary Associates Lindsay King, Teresa Mensz, Library Services Josie Brown, Senior Administrative Assistant to the Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director Laurie Coppola, Senior Administrative Assistant for the Directing, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Playwriting, and Stage Management Departments Mary Volk, Senior Administrative Assistant for the Design, Sound Design, and Projection Departments

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PRODUCTION Kat Wepler, Associate Production Manager Will Rucker, Production Stage Manager Michael Best, Technical Director Tannis Boyajian, Ben Clark, Elise Masur, Assistant Technical Directors Emily Baldasarra, Scenic Charge Ashley Flowers, Properties Master Lydia Pustell, Assistant Properties Master Kelly Rae Fayton, Master Electrician Scott Keith, Assistant Master Electrician Stephanie Smith, Production Sound Engineer Krystin Matsumoto, Projection Engineer William Hartley, Stage Carpenter

ADMINISTRATION

Ian Williams, Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer Helen Muller, Assistant Stage Manager

FOR PRESTON MONTFORT— AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY Christopher Ross-Ewart, Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer Rebekah Heusel, Assistant Stage Manager

FOR THE CHILDREN Fan Zhang, Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer Paula R. Clarkson, Assistant Stage Manager Avi Amon, Music Copyist

SPECIAL THANKS Joshua Kahan Brody, Tommy and Karen Campbell, Alexandra Campeau, Frank and Wilma Coe, Zack Klim, Michael Korie, Kristen Parker Lovell, Kate Marvin Cover photos by Joan Marcus.

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Production Management Bronislaw J. Sammler, Head of Production Jonathan Reed, Production Manager Edward Lapine, Associate Head of Production and Student Labor Supervisor Grace O’Brien, Senior Administrative Assistant to the Production and Theater Safety and Occupational Health Departments Scenery Neil Mulligan, Matt Welander, Technical Directors Alan Hendrickson, Electro Mechanical Laboratory Supervisor Eric Sparks, Shop Foreman Matt Gaffney, Ryan Gardner, Sharon Reinhart, Master Shop Carpenters Samantha Catanzaro, Kelly Rae Fayton, Alexandra Reynolds, Assistants to the Technical Director Painting Ru-Jun Wang, Scenic Charge Lia Akkerhuis, Nathan Jasunas, Assistant Scenic Artists Emily Baldasarra, Assistant to the Painting Supervisor Properties Brian Cookson, Properties Master David P. Schrader, Properties Craftsperson Jennifer McClure, Master Properties Assistant Bill Batschelet, Properties Stock Manager Ashley Flowers, Assistant to the Properties Manager

Costumes Tom McAlister, Costume Shop Manager Robin Hirsch, Associate Costume Shop Manager Clarissa Wylie Youngberg, Mary Zihal, Senior Drapers Deborah Bloch, Harry Johnson, Senior First Hands Linda Kelley-Dodd, Costume Project Coordinator Denise O’Brien, Wig and Hair Design Barbara Bodine, Company Hairdresser Linda Wingerter, Costume Stock Manager Christina King, Assistant to the Costume Shop Manager Electrics Donald W. Titus, Lighting Supervisor Brian Quiricone, Linda-Cristal Young, Senior Head Electricians Sound Mike Backhaus, Sound Supervisor Monica Avila, Staff Sound Engineer Jessica Hawkins, Stephanie Smith, Assistants to the Sound Supervisor Projections Erich Bolton, Projection Supervisor Mike Paddock, Head Projection Technician Stage Operations Janet Cunningham, Stage Carpenter Kate Begley Baker, Head Properties Runner Elizabeth Bolster, Wardrobe Supervisor Jacob Riley, FOH Mix Engineer

ADMINISTRATION General Management Louisa Balch, Sarah Williams, Associate Managing Directors Steven C. Koernig, Stephanie Rolland, Assistant Managing Directors Emalie Mayo, Senior Administrative Assistant to the Managing Director Flo Low, Management Assistant Annie Middleton, Company Manager Emily Reeder, Assistant Company Manager Development and Alumni Affairs Deborah S. Berman, Director of Development and Alumni Affairs Janice Muirhead, Senior Associate Director of Development Eric Gershman, Associate Director of Development Barry Kaplan, Senior Staff Writer Susan C. Clark, Development and Alumni Affairs Officer Katherine Ingram, Development Associate Jason Najjoum, Development Assistant Belene Day, Senior Administrative Assistant to Development and Marketing & Communications

Finance and Human Resources Katherine D. Burgueño, Director of Finance and Human Resources Joanna Romberg, Jennifer Truong, Business Office Specialists Janna J. Ellis, Director, Yale Tessitura Consortium Toni Ann Simiola, Senior Administrative Assistant to Business Office; Technology, Media, and Web Services; Operations; and Tessitura Ashlie Russell, Business Office Associate Marketing, Communications, and Audience Services Daniel Cress, Director of Marketing Steven Padla, Director of Communications Anh Lê, Associate Director of Marketing Caitlin Griffin, Marketing and Communications Assistant T. Charles Erickson, Production Photographer Laura Kirk, Director of Audience Services Shane Quinn, Assistant Director of Audience Services Tracy Baldini, Subscriptions Coordinator Roger-Paul Snell, Audience Services Assistant Charles Cowen, Nathaniel Dolquist, Paul Hanna- Cook, Adam Jenkinson, Katie Metcalf, Andrew Moore, Kenneth Murray, Peter Schattauer, Box Office Assistants Operations Diane Galt, Director of Facility Operations Nadir Balan, Interim Operations Associate Ian Dunn, Operations Associate—on leave Joe Proto, Arts and Graduate Studies Superintendent Vondeen Ricks, Team Leader Michael Humbert, Facility Steward Lucille Bochert, Tylon Frost, Kathy Langston, Warren Lyde, Patrick Martin, Louis Moore, Mark Roy, Custodians Technology, Media, and Web Services Sarah Stevens-Morling, Director of Technology, Media, and Web Services Daryl Brereton, Associate Director of Technology, Media, and Web Services Kathleen Martin, Web Services Associate Theater Safety and Occupational Health William J. Reynolds, Director of Theater Safety and Occupational Health Jacob Thompson, Security Officer Ed Jooss, Audience Safety Officer Kevin Delaney, Fred Geier, Patrick Grant, John Marquez, Customer Service and Safety Officers

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