Fifth Annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays, Yale School of Drama, 2010.

MAY 7 TO 16, 2010

ya l e s c h o o l o f d r a m a james bundy, dean victoria nolan, deputy dean paula vogel, chair, playwriting ken prestininzi, Associate chair presents the

elijah

by Michael Mitnick directed by Christopher Mirto

the things are against us [les choses sont contre nous]

by Susan Soon He Stanton directed by Jesse Jou

Every Other Hamlet In The Universe

by Kimberly Rosenstock directed by Jen Wineman season media sponsor

additional support provided by

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MAY 7 TO 16, 2010

ya l e s c h o o l o f d r a m a james bundy, dean victoria nolan, deputy dean paula vogel, chair, playwriting ken prestininzi, Associate chair presents the

elijah

by Michael Mitnick directed by Christopher Mirto

the things are against us [les choses sont contre nous]

by Susan Soon He Stanton directed by Jesse Jou

Every Other Hamlet In The Universe

by Kimberly Rosenstock directed by Jen Wineman season media sponsor

additional support provided by

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With great pride and pleasure, I welcome you to this year’s Carlotta Festival of New Plays—our fifth festival to celebrate our graduating MFA playwrights, and their sendoff into the wider theatrical world.

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CARLOTTA FESTIVAL PLAY SCHEDULE

Not that they’ve been cloistered on the Yale School of Drama campus: these three writers, in their three years here, have had their works represented on stages from Honolulu to Denver, Portland to Washington, DC, and New York. But while here, they’ve also been produced in the Cabaret, and every nook and cranny this School holds. They’ve mentored students in the public schools, had tea and coffee with their undergraduate playwriting colleagues, and created installations with graduate artists in the studios in the School of Art (please walk down the hallway and look into the galleries).

These three plays in repertory also traverse the country and the last century: from an early 20th century Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn to the temptations of a secular Paris (Michael Mitnick’s elijah); to three decades of artists struggling to perform comedy in Greenwich Village and Shakespeare in Northhampton, Massachusetts (Kim Rosenstock’s Every Other Hamlet In The Universe); and last but not least, Susan Stanton’s time travelling sisters, fleeing New York City for the temptations (and entrapment) of a strange 19th century house with a history that does not bode well for a tourist destination (the things are against us).

Underlying all these plays is a vital belief in the transformational possibilities of art, while acknowledging the struggle that every artist here in the School of Drama knows full well: a love and pain entwined as we seek growth in our art, mixed with an undercurrent of sadness and anger at this country’s under-appreciation of the importance of art. But the breadth and scope of these writers is in itself a cause for hope and faith in the theatre; and the collaborative generosity of the actors, directors, designers, dramaturgs, technicians, stage managers, and theatre managers that you will witness here wins the argument that a life in the theatre is a path worth pursuing.

For those of us on the playwriting faculty, witnessing the playworlds of Michael Mitnick, Kim Rosenstock, and Susan Stanton in the past three years has strengthened our faith as well.

For the gifts of the artists in all of the departments at this school, we on the playwriting faculty (Ken Prestininzi, Lynn Nottage, Lisa Kron, Frank Pugliese, Rachel Sheinkin, Michael Korie, and I) would like to give thanks from all of our writers.

Hope to see you in the lobby,

Paula Vogel Chair, Playwriting Department

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Welcome!

With great pride and pleasure, I welcome you to this year’s Carlotta Festival of New Plays—our fifth festival to celebrate our graduating MFA playwrights, and their sendoff into the wider theatrical world.

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CARLOTTA FESTIVAL PLAY SCHEDULE

Not that they’ve been cloistered on the Yale School of Drama campus: these three writers, in their three years here, have had their works represented on stages from Honolulu to Denver, Portland to Washington, DC, and New York. But while here, they’ve also been produced in the Cabaret, and every nook and cranny this School holds. They’ve mentored students in the public schools, had tea and coffee with their undergraduate playwriting colleagues, and created installations with graduate artists in the studios in the School of Art (please walk down the hallway and look into the galleries).

These three plays in repertory also traverse the country and the last century: from an early 20th century Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn to the temptations of a secular Paris (Michael Mitnick’s elijah); to three decades of artists struggling to perform comedy in Greenwich Village and Shakespeare in Northhampton, Massachusetts (Kim Rosenstock’s Every Other Hamlet In The Universe); and last but not least, Susan Stanton’s time travelling sisters, fleeing New York City for the temptations (and entrapment) of a strange 19th century house with a history that does not bode well for a tourist destination (the things are against us).

Underlying all these plays is a vital belief in the transformational possibilities of art, while acknowledging the struggle that every artist here in the School of Drama knows full well: a love and pain entwined as we seek growth in our art, mixed with an undercurrent of sadness and anger at this country’s under-appreciation of the importance of art. But the breadth and scope of these writers is in itself a cause for hope and faith in the theatre; and the collaborative generosity of the actors, directors, designers, dramaturgs, technicians, stage managers, and theatre managers that you will witness here wins the argument that a life in the theatre is a path worth pursuing.

For those of us on the playwriting faculty, witnessing the playworlds of Michael Mitnick, Kim Rosenstock, and Susan Stanton in the past three years has strengthened our faith as well.

For the gifts of the artists in all of the departments at this school, we on the playwriting faculty (Ken Prestininzi, Lynn Nottage, Lisa Kron, Frank Pugliese, Rachel Sheinkin, Michael Korie, and I) would like to give thanks from all of our writers.

Hope to see you in the lobby,

Paula Vogel Chair, Playwriting Department

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elijah

play notes Drawing on the Don Juan myth and other picaresques, elijah tells the story of a young composer’s journey from Prohibition-era Brooklyn to the Paris of the Lost Generation,

by Michael Mitnick

directed by Christopher Mirto

where he tries to outrun visions and memories of home. elijah explores the dangers of trying to forge a reality that ignores inconvenient but insistent facts.

“I like experimenting with narrative,” says Michael Mitnick, the playwright of elijah.

“I like trying to teach an old dog new tricks, as opposed to getting a new dog that might just tear up my entire living room and never learn any tricks at all.”

One new trick that Michael puts to work in elijah has given his collaborators—the

ARTISTIC TEAM

director, actors, and designers—almost unprecedented freedom: the play has no

Scenic Designer

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stage directions. At Michael’s urging, this production explores the possibilities for

Costume Designer

aaron P. mastin

dissonance between the written narrative and what the audience sees on stage.

Lighting Designer

laura j. eckelman

Sound Designer

scott L. nielsen

Dramaturg

anne seiwerath

Stage Manager

karen hashley

CAST

memory.

—anne seiwerath, production dramaturg

about playwright Michael Mitnick Michael’s recent plays include Babs the Dodo, a voyage through home shopping and loneliness (developed at Babel Theater Project and The Blank in LA); Learning

in alphabetical order

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This is only one of many possible productions of elijah, as malleable and elusive as

Russian, a story of identity theft (produced at Hangar Theatre; published in 2008 by

Father

WILLIAM DeMERITT

BPPI); and Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman, a play about a bar in outer

Otto Hoch

LUCAS DIXON

space (developed by Studio 42). Recent music theatre works include Fly By Night

Élisa Broussard

MIRIAM A. HYMAN

Elijah

BRIAN LEWIS

film Winning Caroline at the Ivy Film Festival; 2007 Robert Sherman Award for Best

Frieda Hoch

IRENE SOFIA LUCIO

Comedy Songwriting from Broadcast Music Inc.; and he was a 2009 Theater Master

Nicholas Stoughton

SEAMUS MULCAHY

Hélèn Roux

LUPITA Z. NYONG’O

Rich; Sex Lives of Our Parents (The Kennedy Center); and The Current War, directed by

Sara

ALEXANDRA TROW

Sam Buntrock. He is currently working on a commission from The Denver Center for a

Rivka Feinberg

ADINA VERSON

(Yale Summer Cabaret) and The Current War, the true story of the race to light up the globe (Yale School of Drama). He received the 2004 Best Comedy Award for his short

in Aspen. His short play, Life Without Subtext, will be published in a new anthology

by Vintage in 2011. His upcoming projects include Pencils Down written with Simon

new multimedia play about the end of death.

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elijah

play notes Drawing on the Don Juan myth and other picaresques, elijah tells the story of a young composer’s journey from Prohibition-era Brooklyn to the Paris of the Lost Generation,

by Michael Mitnick

directed by Christopher Mirto

where he tries to outrun visions and memories of home. elijah explores the dangers of trying to forge a reality that ignores inconvenient but insistent facts.

“I like experimenting with narrative,” says Michael Mitnick, the playwright of elijah.

“I like trying to teach an old dog new tricks, as opposed to getting a new dog that might just tear up my entire living room and never learn any tricks at all.”

One new trick that Michael puts to work in elijah has given his collaborators—the

ARTISTIC TEAM

director, actors, and designers—almost unprecedented freedom: the play has no

Scenic Designer

po-lin li

stage directions. At Michael’s urging, this production explores the possibilities for

Costume Designer

aaron P. mastin

dissonance between the written narrative and what the audience sees on stage.

Lighting Designer

laura j. eckelman

Sound Designer

scott L. nielsen

Dramaturg

anne seiwerath

Stage Manager

karen hashley

CAST

memory.

—anne seiwerath, production dramaturg

about playwright Michael Mitnick Michael’s recent plays include Babs the Dodo, a voyage through home shopping and loneliness (developed at Babel Theater Project and The Blank in LA); Learning

in alphabetical order

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This is only one of many possible productions of elijah, as malleable and elusive as

Russian, a story of identity theft (produced at Hangar Theatre; published in 2008 by

Father

WILLIAM DeMERITT

BPPI); and Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman, a play about a bar in outer

Otto Hoch

LUCAS DIXON

space (developed by Studio 42). Recent music theatre works include Fly By Night

Élisa Broussard

MIRIAM A. HYMAN

Elijah

BRIAN LEWIS

film Winning Caroline at the Ivy Film Festival; 2007 Robert Sherman Award for Best

Frieda Hoch

IRENE SOFIA LUCIO

Comedy Songwriting from Broadcast Music Inc.; and he was a 2009 Theater Master

Nicholas Stoughton

SEAMUS MULCAHY

Hélèn Roux

LUPITA Z. NYONG’O

Rich; Sex Lives of Our Parents (The Kennedy Center); and The Current War, directed by

Sara

ALEXANDRA TROW

Sam Buntrock. He is currently working on a commission from The Denver Center for a

Rivka Feinberg

ADINA VERSON

(Yale Summer Cabaret) and The Current War, the true story of the race to light up the globe (Yale School of Drama). He received the 2004 Best Comedy Award for his short

in Aspen. His short play, Life Without Subtext, will be published in a new anthology

by Vintage in 2011. His upcoming projects include Pencils Down written with Simon

new multimedia play about the end of death.

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cast: elijah WILLIAM DEMERITT (FATHER) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama.

(Williamstown Theatre Festival Fellowship Projects); Hedda Gabler, Laughing Wild, and

His credits at Yale include the new musical Missed Connections (Yale Cabaret). Prior

Romeo and Juliet. She also appeared in the HBO Latino movie Casi Casi. Irene graduated

to Yale he appeared in numerous productions, including Mom, How Did You Meet the

from Princeton University with a degree in comparative literature.

Beatles? (The Public Theater), Edward II (Red Bull Theater), Tartuffe (Arclight Theatre), Hamlet (Bridge Lane Theatre, London), The Slam Jam (Upright Citizens Brigade

SEAMUS MULCAHY (NICHOLAS STOUGHTON) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale

Theatre), The Rivals (Abingdon Theatre Company), Lessen (Bailiwick Repertory

School of Drama. His theatre credits include Salome (Yale Cabaret); the Off–Broadway

Theatre, Chicago), Liz Swados’s Violence Project (La MaMa E.T.C./New York Stage and

production of Our Town, directed by David Cromer; “MASTER HAROLD”… and the

Film), King John (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), and The Compleat Works of

boys (Delaware Theatre Company); Henry V, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,

Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) in Hoboken. TV appearances include Law & Order: SVU and

King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); as well as productions at Paper Mill

Guiding Light. He received his BFA in theatre from Marymount Manhattan College.

Playhouse, Chautauqua Theater Company, and Peterborough Players. He also appeared in the film One Fall. This summer, Seamus will attend the British Academy of Dramatic

LUCAS DIXON (OTTO HOCH) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama,

Art in Oxford. www.seamusmulcahy.com

where his credits include One Day It Came and Thriftcrawl. His other stage credits include Normal, 4.48 Psychosis (Yale Cabaret); Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, and King

LUPITA Z. NYONG’O (HÉLÈN ROUX) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama.

Lear (Utah Shakespearean Festival). He received his BFA from Otterbein College and

Her stage credits include Sister in Radio Station (Yale Cabaret), Rikiyatu in The Princess

is a 2010 Williamstown Theatre Festival fellow.

and the Golden Yam (Bantabaa Theatre), the title role in in Ruby Red (The Co-op/Dixon Place), and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Phoenix Players). She is a graduate of Hampshire

MIRIAM A. HYMAN (ÉLISA BROUSSARD) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School

College.

of Drama. Recent credits include Dreamer Examines His Pillow (Shakespeare & Company); What You Will, The Skin of Our Teeth (Bristol Riverside Theatre); Young

ALEXANDRA TROW (SARA) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where

Lady From Rwanda, Twelfth Night, The Man From Nebraska (Peoples Light & Theatre

she has appeared in Buffalo, Maine. Her other credits include Salome, Evil Dead: The

Company); The BFG (Arden Theatre Company); The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and

Musical, and Radio Station (Yale Cabaret). She received her BA in theatre studies

Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); The Story

and English from Yale College, where she performed in over two dozen productions,

(Philadelphia Theatre Company); Resurrection Blues (Wilma Theatre); Artist Workshop

including Summer and Smoke (Yale Dramat) and Faith Healer. Alex is a founding member

(Azuka Theatre Collective); Black Nativity (Freedom Theatre). Television and film

of the Overhead Projector Ensemble.

credits include The Wire, Conviction, Law & Order, Malevolence, Angel Rodriguez, Inclinations, and Music City. She received her BFA from The University of the Arts.

ADINA VERSON (RIVKA FEINBERG) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Her credits include Rough Crossing (Yale Repertory Theatre), Savage in Limbo

BRIAN LEWIS (ELIJAH) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where

(The Bowery Electric), The Hot L Baltimore (The Actors Company Theatre), Five Women

his credits include The Bottle Breakers and Othello. He also appeared in Normal at

Wearing the Same Dress (Gene Frankel Theatre), Win Win Power Auction (La MaMa

Yale Cabaret. His television credits include As the World Turns and Home Court. Brian

E.T.C.), and Big Doolie (New York International Fringe Festival). Adina was nominated for

received his BA in theatre from Amherst College.

a Connecticut Critics Circle Award for her role in The Mikado at River Repertory Theatre, and is a founding member of the Overhead Projector Ensemble. She is a graduate of the

IRENE SOFIA LUCIO (FRIEDA HOCH) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School

Chicago Academy for the Arts, and received her BFA from The Boston Conservatory.

of Drama, where her credits include Orlando, The Droll, The Bedtrick, and Jelly’s Last Jam. Her other credits include The Master Builder (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Surrender Tree, Antibiosis: (Yale Cabaret); After the Revolution, Golden Gate 6

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cast: elijah WILLIAM DEMERITT (FATHER) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama.

(Williamstown Theatre Festival Fellowship Projects); Hedda Gabler, Laughing Wild, and

His credits at Yale include the new musical Missed Connections (Yale Cabaret). Prior

Romeo and Juliet. She also appeared in the HBO Latino movie Casi Casi. Irene graduated

to Yale he appeared in numerous productions, including Mom, How Did You Meet the

from Princeton University with a degree in comparative literature.

Beatles? (The Public Theater), Edward II (Red Bull Theater), Tartuffe (Arclight Theatre), Hamlet (Bridge Lane Theatre, London), The Slam Jam (Upright Citizens Brigade

SEAMUS MULCAHY (NICHOLAS STOUGHTON) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale

Theatre), The Rivals (Abingdon Theatre Company), Lessen (Bailiwick Repertory

School of Drama. His theatre credits include Salome (Yale Cabaret); the Off–Broadway

Theatre, Chicago), Liz Swados’s Violence Project (La MaMa E.T.C./New York Stage and

production of Our Town, directed by David Cromer; “MASTER HAROLD”… and the

Film), King John (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), and The Compleat Works of

boys (Delaware Theatre Company); Henry V, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,

Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) in Hoboken. TV appearances include Law & Order: SVU and

King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); as well as productions at Paper Mill

Guiding Light. He received his BFA in theatre from Marymount Manhattan College.

Playhouse, Chautauqua Theater Company, and Peterborough Players. He also appeared in the film One Fall. This summer, Seamus will attend the British Academy of Dramatic

LUCAS DIXON (OTTO HOCH) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama,

Art in Oxford. www.seamusmulcahy.com

where his credits include One Day It Came and Thriftcrawl. His other stage credits include Normal, 4.48 Psychosis (Yale Cabaret); Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, and King

LUPITA Z. NYONG’O (HÉLÈN ROUX) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama.

Lear (Utah Shakespearean Festival). He received his BFA from Otterbein College and

Her stage credits include Sister in Radio Station (Yale Cabaret), Rikiyatu in The Princess

is a 2010 Williamstown Theatre Festival fellow.

and the Golden Yam (Bantabaa Theatre), the title role in in Ruby Red (The Co-op/Dixon Place), and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Phoenix Players). She is a graduate of Hampshire

MIRIAM A. HYMAN (ÉLISA BROUSSARD) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School

College.

of Drama. Recent credits include Dreamer Examines His Pillow (Shakespeare & Company); What You Will, The Skin of Our Teeth (Bristol Riverside Theatre); Young

ALEXANDRA TROW (SARA) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where

Lady From Rwanda, Twelfth Night, The Man From Nebraska (Peoples Light & Theatre

she has appeared in Buffalo, Maine. Her other credits include Salome, Evil Dead: The

Company); The BFG (Arden Theatre Company); The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and

Musical, and Radio Station (Yale Cabaret). She received her BA in theatre studies

Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); The Story

and English from Yale College, where she performed in over two dozen productions,

(Philadelphia Theatre Company); Resurrection Blues (Wilma Theatre); Artist Workshop

including Summer and Smoke (Yale Dramat) and Faith Healer. Alex is a founding member

(Azuka Theatre Collective); Black Nativity (Freedom Theatre). Television and film

of the Overhead Projector Ensemble.

credits include The Wire, Conviction, Law & Order, Malevolence, Angel Rodriguez, Inclinations, and Music City. She received her BFA from The University of the Arts.

ADINA VERSON (RIVKA FEINBERG) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Her credits include Rough Crossing (Yale Repertory Theatre), Savage in Limbo

BRIAN LEWIS (ELIJAH) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where

(The Bowery Electric), The Hot L Baltimore (The Actors Company Theatre), Five Women

his credits include The Bottle Breakers and Othello. He also appeared in Normal at

Wearing the Same Dress (Gene Frankel Theatre), Win Win Power Auction (La MaMa

Yale Cabaret. His television credits include As the World Turns and Home Court. Brian

E.T.C.), and Big Doolie (New York International Fringe Festival). Adina was nominated for

received his BA in theatre from Amherst College.

a Connecticut Critics Circle Award for her role in The Mikado at River Repertory Theatre, and is a founding member of the Overhead Projector Ensemble. She is a graduate of the

IRENE SOFIA LUCIO (FRIEDA HOCH) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School

Chicago Academy for the Arts, and received her BFA from The Boston Conservatory.

of Drama, where her credits include Orlando, The Droll, The Bedtrick, and Jelly’s Last Jam. Her other credits include The Master Builder (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Surrender Tree, Antibiosis: (Yale Cabaret); After the Revolution, Golden Gate 6

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artistic team: elijah LAURA J. ECKELMAN (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Orlando, Phèdre, and Hamlet. Other

CHRISTOPHER MIRTO (DIRECTOR) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School

credits include Fly By Night, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Late: A Cowboy Song (Yale

of Drama, and currently serves as the Co-Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret’s 42nd

Summer Cabaret); Hold for Beauty and Three Sisters, or the Dormouse’s Tale (Yale

season. His School of Drama credits include Phèdre, Hamlet, Cygnus, and Lone

Cabaret); Crave, Somewhere in the Pacific, Scenes from an Execution (Potomac

Pilots of Roosevelt Field. His Yale Cabaret credits include the musicals Hillbilly

Theater Project); Ghosts and Bus Stop (Columbia University). She received her BA

Antigone, Missed Connections, Strange Love In Outer Space, and Three Sisters, or

from Middlebury College and has received regional and national awards from the

The Dormouse’s Tale, for which he also co-wrote the book. At Yale Rep he served as

Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

assistant director on Happy Now? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Liz Diamond. This summer he will serve his third year as a director for the Dwight/Edgewood Project

KAREN HASHLEY (STAGE MANAGER) recently served as production stage manager

(Yale Repertory Theatre/Yale School of Drama). In New York City, he directed the

for Yale Rep’s production of Eclipsed and as assistant stage manager for The Master

revival of Dionysus in 69 by Richard Schechner, Tough by George F. Walker, Four Twins

Builder and Passion Play. She is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama,

by Copi, and White Embers by Saviana Stanescu. Mirto produced Olsen Terror by

where her credits include American Catnip, Good Egg, The Ghost Sonata, Pericles,

Chris Wells at Joe’s Pub, Dixon Place, and the New York International Fringe Festival.

and 99 Ways to F@%k a Swan. Other credits include All My Sons, The Last Night

As an actor he has performed as Kabe in One Flea Spare (Columbia University) and

of Ballyhoo, Pentecost, and The Trial, as well as the U.S. premiere of Sir Fredrick

in Richard Foreman’s The Gods Are Pounding My Head aka Lumberjack Messiah and

Ashton’s Cinderella with the Joffrey Ballet. Karen received a BFA in stage management

Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead. He holds a BFA in acting and

from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

English literature from New York University.

PO-LIN LI (SCENIC DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of

SCOTT L. NIELSEN (SOUND DESIGNER) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School

Drama, where he designed the sets for Orlando. Other credits include José Rivera’s

of Drama. He received his BA with a double major in sociology and theatre from the

Flowers and Other Stories (Yale Cabaret); Macbeth, Hello Out There, The Loveliest

University of California, San Diego in 2007. His sound design and original music

Afternoon of the Year, Merrily We Roll Along, Emma, and Rent at National Taiwan

composition credits include The Master Builder (Yale Repertory Theatre); Macbeth,

University, where he received his BA in theatre and drama. www.polinli.com

The Robbers, Hamlet (Yale School of Drama); Waiting for Lefty, Second Sites: Tales of Alternate Routes, Red State Bluegrass (UCSD); Moms in America (Guise Gallery);

AARON P. MASTIN (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale

Pacific Tales: Santiago vs. the Seven-Legged Squid Monster (Marie Hitchcock Puppet

School of Drama. Other costume design credits include Ragtime, Carousel, 1776,

Theater); and Be Aggressive (Yale Cabaret). Aside from his theatrical endeavors,

Sweeney Todd (New Jersey Performing Arts Center); York College; Battery Dance

Scott has worked as a musician and sound artist creating, composing, recording, and

Company (NYC and international tours); and Manhattan Children’s Theatre. Set

performing experimental music and sonic art for more than 18 years.

design credits include Two Headed (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Ascension, Acts of Love (Theatre Row); Ragtime, Brigadoon, Camelot, Hello Dolly!, A Funny Thing

ANNE SEIWERATH (DRAMATURG) is a first-year MFA candidate in Dramaturgy and

Happened on the Way to the Forum (Riverside Center); as well as the 2004 main

Dramatic Criticism. Previous productions include Caroline V. McGraw’s Thriftcrawl

stage and cabaret seasons at Millbrook Playhouse. Production work: Death in Love

(Yale School of Drama); Radio Station, Wuthering Heights (Yale Cabaret); and Andrew

(independent film, assistant costume designer), HBO’s John Adams (background

Ondrejcak’s WONDER/LUST (Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York). She

costumer), The Good Shepherd, Without a Trace, Gossip Girl (wardrobe). For New York

holds degrees in English literature from Barnard College and the University of Toronto.

Fashion Week production/production design for: Tomer Gendler, FORM, Ports 1961.

He holds a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University.

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artistic team: elijah LAURA J. ECKELMAN (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Orlando, Phèdre, and Hamlet. Other

CHRISTOPHER MIRTO (DIRECTOR) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School

credits include Fly By Night, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Late: A Cowboy Song (Yale

of Drama, and currently serves as the Co-Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret’s 42nd

Summer Cabaret); Hold for Beauty and Three Sisters, or the Dormouse’s Tale (Yale

season. His School of Drama credits include Phèdre, Hamlet, Cygnus, and Lone

Cabaret); Crave, Somewhere in the Pacific, Scenes from an Execution (Potomac

Pilots of Roosevelt Field. His Yale Cabaret credits include the musicals Hillbilly

Theater Project); Ghosts and Bus Stop (Columbia University). She received her BA

Antigone, Missed Connections, Strange Love In Outer Space, and Three Sisters, or

from Middlebury College and has received regional and national awards from the

The Dormouse’s Tale, for which he also co-wrote the book. At Yale Rep he served as

Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

assistant director on Happy Now? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Liz Diamond. This summer he will serve his third year as a director for the Dwight/Edgewood Project

KAREN HASHLEY (STAGE MANAGER) recently served as production stage manager

(Yale Repertory Theatre/Yale School of Drama). In New York City, he directed the

for Yale Rep’s production of Eclipsed and as assistant stage manager for The Master

revival of Dionysus in 69 by Richard Schechner, Tough by George F. Walker, Four Twins

Builder and Passion Play. She is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama,

by Copi, and White Embers by Saviana Stanescu. Mirto produced Olsen Terror by

where her credits include American Catnip, Good Egg, The Ghost Sonata, Pericles,

Chris Wells at Joe’s Pub, Dixon Place, and the New York International Fringe Festival.

and 99 Ways to F@%k a Swan. Other credits include All My Sons, The Last Night

As an actor he has performed as Kabe in One Flea Spare (Columbia University) and

of Ballyhoo, Pentecost, and The Trial, as well as the U.S. premiere of Sir Fredrick

in Richard Foreman’s The Gods Are Pounding My Head aka Lumberjack Messiah and

Ashton’s Cinderella with the Joffrey Ballet. Karen received a BFA in stage management

Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead. He holds a BFA in acting and

from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

English literature from New York University.

PO-LIN LI (SCENIC DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of

SCOTT L. NIELSEN (SOUND DESIGNER) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School

Drama, where he designed the sets for Orlando. Other credits include José Rivera’s

of Drama. He received his BA with a double major in sociology and theatre from the

Flowers and Other Stories (Yale Cabaret); Macbeth, Hello Out There, The Loveliest

University of California, San Diego in 2007. His sound design and original music

Afternoon of the Year, Merrily We Roll Along, Emma, and Rent at National Taiwan

composition credits include The Master Builder (Yale Repertory Theatre); Macbeth,

University, where he received his BA in theatre and drama. www.polinli.com

The Robbers, Hamlet (Yale School of Drama); Waiting for Lefty, Second Sites: Tales of Alternate Routes, Red State Bluegrass (UCSD); Moms in America (Guise Gallery);

AARON P. MASTIN (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale

Pacific Tales: Santiago vs. the Seven-Legged Squid Monster (Marie Hitchcock Puppet

School of Drama. Other costume design credits include Ragtime, Carousel, 1776,

Theater); and Be Aggressive (Yale Cabaret). Aside from his theatrical endeavors,

Sweeney Todd (New Jersey Performing Arts Center); York College; Battery Dance

Scott has worked as a musician and sound artist creating, composing, recording, and

Company (NYC and international tours); and Manhattan Children’s Theatre. Set

performing experimental music and sonic art for more than 18 years.

design credits include Two Headed (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Ascension, Acts of Love (Theatre Row); Ragtime, Brigadoon, Camelot, Hello Dolly!, A Funny Thing

ANNE SEIWERATH (DRAMATURG) is a first-year MFA candidate in Dramaturgy and

Happened on the Way to the Forum (Riverside Center); as well as the 2004 main

Dramatic Criticism. Previous productions include Caroline V. McGraw’s Thriftcrawl

stage and cabaret seasons at Millbrook Playhouse. Production work: Death in Love

(Yale School of Drama); Radio Station, Wuthering Heights (Yale Cabaret); and Andrew

(independent film, assistant costume designer), HBO’s John Adams (background

Ondrejcak’s WONDER/LUST (Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York). She

costumer), The Good Shepherd, Without a Trace, Gossip Girl (wardrobe). For New York

holds degrees in English literature from Barnard College and the University of Toronto.

Fashion Week production/production design for: Tomer Gendler, FORM, Ports 1961.

He holds a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University.

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the things are against us [les choses sont contre nous]

by Susan Soon He Stanton directed by Jesse Jou

artistic team Scenic Designer

jung kim griffin

Costume Designer

summer lee jack

Lighting Designer

alan c. edwards

Sound Designer

michael vincent skinner

Dramaturg

kee-yoon nahm

Stage Manager

allison hall johnson

cast in alphabetical order

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Lorca/Carlo/Father

danny binstock

Tessa

Hallie Cooper-novack

Yusef/bashir

chris henry

Caspar/Response

Michael Place

Solange

Jillian taylor

play notes Dearest Family, …The other day, at last, I really got lost. I went out to do some errands, and took the elevated train. But instead of the Sixth Avenue train I mistakenly caught the Ninth Avenue one, which took me in the wrong direction, to a place totally unknown to me. It was a huge city of low, wooden houses, full of Chinese people and signs in Chinese, with the muted music of player pianos and jazz orchestras…. Afterwards I went out and began to explore the city, a neighborhood about four times the size of Granada, and at last, since I knew I was lost, and had almost gotten lost on purpose, I began looking for the subway stops and the elevated train. But the stops I found weren’t the ones I needed, and they would have led me even farther astray. I felt a certain anguish, as though I were in a virgin forest or on an island on some planet not my own…. By the time I got back to Columbia it was midnight. Until something like this happens to you, you just don’t realize where you are, and how immense these streets are, and how many millions of people live here. Anyway, I am beginning to get to know the city.

Please don’t tell me to carry a map. The map never helps me at all, it’s useless….

A letter from Federico GarcÍa Lorca in New York City to his family in Granada, Spain; October 21, 1929

—kee-yoon nahm, production dramaturg

about playwright Susan Soon He Stanton Susan has had her plays produced or developed by The Kennedy Center, Ontario’s Kitchener Festival, Kumu Kahua, Honolulu Theater for Youth, London’s Institute of Contemporary Art, InkWell, Miles Memorial Playhouse, New Sounds Theatre, and Unicorn Theatre. Yale School of Drama and Cabaret productions include The Art of Preservation, Cygnus, and The Underneath. In 2009, Kumu Kahua Theatre produced two of her plays in rep, Whatever Happened to John Boy Kihano? and The Art of Preservation. The Underneath, workshopped at The Kennedy Center, is a commission by Kumu Kahua and will be produced in 2011. Her play, The Navigators, a commission from the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, will be produced this year. She has a feature film development grant and Best Screenplay Award from the Sloan Foundation for her full-length screenplay, Rosalind’s Helix, and a commission from Red Sky Films. In 2003, she became the Literary Manager of New Sounds Theatre. New Sounds commissioned her to write Edible Restaurant, a food-based musical with Australian composer Greta Gertler, performed at Joe’s Pub in 2007. She is a regular contributor for Audrey magazine. Susan has a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dramatic Writing. She is from Honolulu, Hawai’i.

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the things are against us [les choses sont contre nous]

by Susan Soon He Stanton directed by Jesse Jou

artistic team Scenic Designer

jung kim griffin

Costume Designer

summer lee jack

Lighting Designer

alan c. edwards

Sound Designer

michael vincent skinner

Dramaturg

kee-yoon nahm

Stage Manager

allison hall johnson

cast in alphabetical order

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Lorca/Carlo/Father

danny binstock

Tessa

Hallie Cooper-novack

Yusef/bashir

chris henry

Caspar/Response

Michael Place

Solange

Jillian taylor

play notes Dearest Family, …The other day, at last, I really got lost. I went out to do some errands, and took the elevated train. But instead of the Sixth Avenue train I mistakenly caught the Ninth Avenue one, which took me in the wrong direction, to a place totally unknown to me. It was a huge city of low, wooden houses, full of Chinese people and signs in Chinese, with the muted music of player pianos and jazz orchestras…. Afterwards I went out and began to explore the city, a neighborhood about four times the size of Granada, and at last, since I knew I was lost, and had almost gotten lost on purpose, I began looking for the subway stops and the elevated train. But the stops I found weren’t the ones I needed, and they would have led me even farther astray. I felt a certain anguish, as though I were in a virgin forest or on an island on some planet not my own…. By the time I got back to Columbia it was midnight. Until something like this happens to you, you just don’t realize where you are, and how immense these streets are, and how many millions of people live here. Anyway, I am beginning to get to know the city.

Please don’t tell me to carry a map. The map never helps me at all, it’s useless….

A letter from Federico GarcÍa Lorca in New York City to his family in Granada, Spain; October 21, 1929

—kee-yoon nahm, production dramaturg

about playwright Susan Soon He Stanton Susan has had her plays produced or developed by The Kennedy Center, Ontario’s Kitchener Festival, Kumu Kahua, Honolulu Theater for Youth, London’s Institute of Contemporary Art, InkWell, Miles Memorial Playhouse, New Sounds Theatre, and Unicorn Theatre. Yale School of Drama and Cabaret productions include The Art of Preservation, Cygnus, and The Underneath. In 2009, Kumu Kahua Theatre produced two of her plays in rep, Whatever Happened to John Boy Kihano? and The Art of Preservation. The Underneath, workshopped at The Kennedy Center, is a commission by Kumu Kahua and will be produced in 2011. Her play, The Navigators, a commission from the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, will be produced this year. She has a feature film development grant and Best Screenplay Award from the Sloan Foundation for her full-length screenplay, Rosalind’s Helix, and a commission from Red Sky Films. In 2003, she became the Literary Manager of New Sounds Theatre. New Sounds commissioned her to write Edible Restaurant, a food-based musical with Australian composer Greta Gertler, performed at Joe’s Pub in 2007. She is a regular contributor for Audrey magazine. Susan has a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dramatic Writing. She is from Honolulu, Hawai’i.

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cast: the things are against us DANNY BINSTOCK (LORCA/CARLO/FATHER) recently appeared in Yale Repertory Theatre’s world premiere production of POP!. He is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Macbeth, The Seagull, Paradise Lost, and Man in Love. Other credits include Nijinsky’s Last Dance, Bones in the Basket, Language of Angels (Yale Cabaret); as well as productions at the Signature

JILLIAN TAYLOR (SOLANGE) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama.

Her credits include Radio Station and Evil Dead: The Musical (Yale Cabaret); Lucia Mad, 28 Plays Later, and The Cherry Poppin’ Play Festival (Alive Theatre, founding member; Long Beach,CA); That Beautiful Laugh, Hair, and Women of Troy at California State University, Long Beach, where she received her BA in performance and directing.

Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, and the New York Music Theatre Festival. He received his BFA in music theatre from the University of Michigan.

HALLIE COOPER-NOVACK (TESSA) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Buffalo, Maine. Her stage credits include James V (The Tank) and This Place Is Always Here (Perfect Wave Gallery) in New York, as well as Salome (Yale Cabaret). She is a founding member of Overhead Projector Ensemble.

She has appeared on As the World Turns and Law and Order: Criminal Intent, as well as in the upcoming film Wah Do Dem (Winner of the LA Film Festival Juror’s Award). A graduate of Wesleyan University, Hallie is also a filmmaker and editor.

CHRIS HENRY (YUSEF/BASHIR) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His theatre credits include The Servant of Two Masters (Yale Repertory Theatre), as well as productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Origin Theatre Company, Columbia University, and Carnegie Mellon University. He has also appeared on All My Children. He received his BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University.

MICHAEL PLACE (CASPAR/RESPONSE) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama and recently directed Radio Station at Yale Cabaret. He was a founding Co-Artistic Director of Washington Ensemble Theatre (2004–2009), where he directed The Mistakes Madeline Made and performed in ten productions including Finer Noble Gases, Swimming in the Shallows, Crumbs Are Also Bread, Never Swim Alone, Mr. Marmalade, and God’s Ear. Other credits include The Neverending Story, The Outsiders (Seattle Children’s Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and this summer, Much Ado About Nothing (Seattle Shakespeare Company); and Bud, Not Buddy (Book-It Repertory Theatre). He is also a company member of the Pacific Performance Project East, where his credits include Myra’s War, Suite for Strangers, Next Tuesday, and Shogo Ohta’s The Water Station performed at the Here Arts Center. Michael holds a BA in theatre from the

artistic team: the things are against us ALAN C. EDWARDS (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include La Ronde and Love’s Labour’s Lost.

Other credits include The Pulp of the Matter (Connecticut College Dance); The Maids, A Day in Dig Nation, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, See What I Wanna See (Yale Cabaret); and The Marriage of Figaro (Tri-Cities Opera). While studying at Ithaca College, he designed Urinetown, Burn This, and scenery for the opera Acis and Galatea. His New York credits include the Broadway productions of A Catered Affair (set design assistant), Boeing-Boeing and The Country Girl (props); and the Off-Broadway production of Amazons and Their Men (props).

JUNG KIM GRIFFIN (SCENIC DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. She recently designed the set for Babs the Dodo and built masks for Mask Ritual: Electra at Yale Cabaret. Her previous New York credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Rothschild’s Fiddle, Dreams of a Picture Bride, Woyzeck, and What the Butler Saw. She is a graduate of Brooklyn College.

SUMMER LEE JACK (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Seagull. Her New York credits include A Piece of My Heart, Who Will Carry the Word? (Red Fern Theatre Company); The Wild Party (Gallery Players); The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) and Nevermore (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). She received her BA from Arizona State University.

ALLISON HALL JOHNSON (STAGE MANAGER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Orlando, Thriftcrawl, The Current War, Jelly’s Last Jam, and The Bedtrick. Her other credits include Eclipsed (Yale Repertory

University of Washington in Seattle.

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cast: the things are against us DANNY BINSTOCK (LORCA/CARLO/FATHER) recently appeared in Yale Repertory Theatre’s world premiere production of POP!. He is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Macbeth, The Seagull, Paradise Lost, and Man in Love. Other credits include Nijinsky’s Last Dance, Bones in the Basket, Language of Angels (Yale Cabaret); as well as productions at the Signature

JILLIAN TAYLOR (SOLANGE) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama.

Her credits include Radio Station and Evil Dead: The Musical (Yale Cabaret); Lucia Mad, 28 Plays Later, and The Cherry Poppin’ Play Festival (Alive Theatre, founding member; Long Beach,CA); That Beautiful Laugh, Hair, and Women of Troy at California State University, Long Beach, where she received her BA in performance and directing.

Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, and the New York Music Theatre Festival. He received his BFA in music theatre from the University of Michigan.

HALLIE COOPER-NOVACK (TESSA) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Buffalo, Maine. Her stage credits include James V (The Tank) and This Place Is Always Here (Perfect Wave Gallery) in New York, as well as Salome (Yale Cabaret). She is a founding member of Overhead Projector Ensemble.

She has appeared on As the World Turns and Law and Order: Criminal Intent, as well as in the upcoming film Wah Do Dem (Winner of the LA Film Festival Juror’s Award). A graduate of Wesleyan University, Hallie is also a filmmaker and editor.

CHRIS HENRY (YUSEF/BASHIR) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His theatre credits include The Servant of Two Masters (Yale Repertory Theatre), as well as productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Origin Theatre Company, Columbia University, and Carnegie Mellon University. He has also appeared on All My Children. He received his BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University.

MICHAEL PLACE (CASPAR/RESPONSE) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama and recently directed Radio Station at Yale Cabaret. He was a founding Co-Artistic Director of Washington Ensemble Theatre (2004–2009), where he directed The Mistakes Madeline Made and performed in ten productions including Finer Noble Gases, Swimming in the Shallows, Crumbs Are Also Bread, Never Swim Alone, Mr. Marmalade, and God’s Ear. Other credits include The Neverending Story, The Outsiders (Seattle Children’s Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and this summer, Much Ado About Nothing (Seattle Shakespeare Company); and Bud, Not Buddy (Book-It Repertory Theatre). He is also a company member of the Pacific Performance Project East, where his credits include Myra’s War, Suite for Strangers, Next Tuesday, and Shogo Ohta’s The Water Station performed at the Here Arts Center. Michael holds a BA in theatre from the

artistic team: the things are against us ALAN C. EDWARDS (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include La Ronde and Love’s Labour’s Lost.

Other credits include The Pulp of the Matter (Connecticut College Dance); The Maids, A Day in Dig Nation, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, See What I Wanna See (Yale Cabaret); and The Marriage of Figaro (Tri-Cities Opera). While studying at Ithaca College, he designed Urinetown, Burn This, and scenery for the opera Acis and Galatea. His New York credits include the Broadway productions of A Catered Affair (set design assistant), Boeing-Boeing and The Country Girl (props); and the Off-Broadway production of Amazons and Their Men (props).

JUNG KIM GRIFFIN (SCENIC DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. She recently designed the set for Babs the Dodo and built masks for Mask Ritual: Electra at Yale Cabaret. Her previous New York credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Rothschild’s Fiddle, Dreams of a Picture Bride, Woyzeck, and What the Butler Saw. She is a graduate of Brooklyn College.

SUMMER LEE JACK (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Seagull. Her New York credits include A Piece of My Heart, Who Will Carry the Word? (Red Fern Theatre Company); The Wild Party (Gallery Players); The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) and Nevermore (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). She received her BA from Arizona State University.

ALLISON HALL JOHNSON (STAGE MANAGER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Orlando, Thriftcrawl, The Current War, Jelly’s Last Jam, and The Bedtrick. Her other credits include Eclipsed (Yale Repertory

University of Washington in Seattle.

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Theatre); Fly By Night, The Mystery of Irma Vep (Yale Summer Cabaret); Evil Dead: The Musical, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Babs the Dodo, and A Portrait of the Woman as a Young Artist (Yale Cabaret); Blues in the Night (Post Street Theatre); and Joe Goode Performance Group’s Humansville (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts). She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 with a BA in theatre and performance studies and a minor in African American studies.

JESSE JOU (DIRECTOR) is originally from Houston, Texas, but lived and worked in New York City before attending Yale School of Drama, where his credits include La Ronde and 99 Ways to F@%k a Swan. His other credits include Take on Me: Adoption, Addiction, and a-ha (New York International Fringe Festival); My Mom Across America (Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, NY); Estrella Cruz [The Junkyard Queen], Mask Ritual: Electra, Flowers and Other Stories, Language of Angels, and Passing (Yale Cabaret). At Yale, he is the recipient of the Edgar and Louise Cullman Scholarship. Jesse is the Artistic Director of the 2010 Yale Summer Cabaret (summercabaret.org).

KEE-YOON NAHM (DRAMATURG) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. He received his BA in English literature and Korean literature from Korea University in Seoul. He has written about Lee Breuer for the anthology Contemporary Western Theatre Directors, Volume 2, soon to be published in Korea.

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MICHAEL VINCENT SKINNER (SOUND DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Phèdre and The French Play.

Other credits include: Evil Dead: The Musical, Cloud Tectonics, Bitter Sauce, Drowning The Sun, Cracked (Upon A Time), Pulling Apart, Arsenic and Old Lace, PVT. Wars!, Cannibal! The Musical, A Piece of My Heart, Anything Goes, Pink Floyd’s The Wall, The Who’s Tommy, Gathering Shells, The Mystery of Twicknam Vicarage, The Radical Radio Show, Medea, Seussical the Musical, Honk, The Musicality Series, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Mike has designed

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for Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University, Amherst College, New Haven Public School System, Royal Penguin Collective, Puzzle Piece Players, Crescent Players, The Black Onion Players, and many more performing arts groups. Film credits: The Seven Brothers of Waterbury. Mike received a BA in theatre at Southern Connecticut State University and has been designing in the Greater New Haven area since 1993. Mike currently is the bass player in the local Beatles tribute band BECAUSE!.

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Theatre); Fly By Night, The Mystery of Irma Vep (Yale Summer Cabaret); Evil Dead: The Musical, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Babs the Dodo, and A Portrait of the Woman as a Young Artist (Yale Cabaret); Blues in the Night (Post Street Theatre); and Joe Goode Performance Group’s Humansville (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts). She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 with a BA in theatre and performance studies and a minor in African American studies.

JESSE JOU (DIRECTOR) is originally from Houston, Texas, but lived and worked in New York City before attending Yale School of Drama, where his credits include La Ronde and 99 Ways to F@%k a Swan. His other credits include Take on Me: Adoption, Addiction, and a-ha (New York International Fringe Festival); My Mom Across America (Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca, NY); Estrella Cruz [The Junkyard Queen], Mask Ritual: Electra, Flowers and Other Stories, Language of Angels, and Passing (Yale Cabaret). At Yale, he is the recipient of the Edgar and Louise Cullman Scholarship. Jesse is the Artistic Director of the 2010 Yale Summer Cabaret (summercabaret.org).

KEE-YOON NAHM (DRAMATURG) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. He received his BA in English literature and Korean literature from Korea University in Seoul. He has written about Lee Breuer for the anthology Contemporary Western Theatre Directors, Volume 2, soon to be published in Korea.

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MICHAEL VINCENT SKINNER (SOUND DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Phèdre and The French Play.

Other credits include: Evil Dead: The Musical, Cloud Tectonics, Bitter Sauce, Drowning The Sun, Cracked (Upon A Time), Pulling Apart, Arsenic and Old Lace, PVT. Wars!, Cannibal! The Musical, A Piece of My Heart, Anything Goes, Pink Floyd’s The Wall, The Who’s Tommy, Gathering Shells, The Mystery of Twicknam Vicarage, The Radical Radio Show, Medea, Seussical the Musical, Honk, The Musicality Series, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Mike has designed

1166 Chapel Street New Haven, CT 06511 203.777.4367

for Southern Connecticut State University, Quinnipiac University, Amherst College, New Haven Public School System, Royal Penguin Collective, Puzzle Piece Players, Crescent Players, The Black Onion Players, and many more performing arts groups. Film credits: The Seven Brothers of Waterbury. Mike received a BA in theatre at Southern Connecticut State University and has been designing in the Greater New Haven area since 1993. Mike currently is the bass player in the local Beatles tribute band BECAUSE!.

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Every Other Hamlet In The Universe

by Kimberly Rosenstock directed by Jen Wineman artistic team Scenic Designer

Dede M. Ayite

Costume Designer

Ana Milosevic

Lighting Designer

Alan C. Edwards

Sound Designer

Junghoon Pi

Video Designer

Sarah Lasley

Dramaturg

Elliot B. Quick

Stage Manager

Lee N. Micklin

cast Marcel Abrams

Tomas AndrÉn

Jerome

Trai Byers

Claude Versailles

Will Cobbs

Allison Weinstein

Laura Gragtmans

Marcel Abrams, Sr.

Fisher Neal

Joanne Abrams

Sarah Sokolovic

Prudence

Shannon Sullivan

Voice of Gary

Blake Segal

The Barn Theater Players

Michael Backhaus

Hsiao-Ya Chen

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Martyna Majok

play notes “Look it just, it just has everything in it. You know. You gotta deal with your best friend.

You gotta deal with your lady. You gotta deal with your lady and does she love you or doesn’t love you. You gotta deal with your feelings about ladies. You gotta deal with your mother. You gotta deal with your father. You gotta deal with ghosts and ghosts— are they real or aren’t they real. Um...spirits, gods. Uh...truth. Lies. Politics. It’s just—it’s just all there.”

Mandy Patinkin, interviewed by Trevor Nunn for the 1985 film The Great Hamlets There has never been a time when there aren’t 800 Hamlets…You are aware consciously that there is a history about it. You see this list of Hamlets and you think, “Oh, my God, no. And there’s Adrian [Lester] opening in five minutes. There’s Olivier.

There’s Gielgud.”…But you have to—as Adrian says—start from scratch.”

Simon Russell Beale, interviewed with Adrian Lester by Matt Wolf for The New York Times, April 8, 2001 Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.

The Ghost, Hamlet, 1.5.91 —elliot b. quick, production dramaturg

about playwright Kimberly Rosenstock Kimberly’s plays produced at Yale School of Drama include 99 Ways to F@%k a Swan and Lone Pilots of Roosevelt Field. She served as Artistic Director for the 2009 season of Yale Summer Cabaret for which she conceived and co-wrote the original musical Fly

By Night. Her plays have been developed by Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, The Kennedy Center, Ars Nova, The Old Vic’s US/UK Exchange at The Public Theater, New York Stage and Film, The Playwrights Realm, and Aspen Theater Masters. In 2009 she was a finalist for the Wasserstein Prize, and the recipient of Portland Stage Company’s Clauder Prize and Yale’s Eugene O’Neill Memorial Scholarship. This September her play Tigers Be Still will receive its world premiere production at Roundabout Underground in New York. Prior to pursuing playwriting, she worked for several years in Manhattan as Associate Producer of Ars Nova where she developed and produced new works of music, comedy, and theater. She first began writing plays at Amherst College under the mentorship of Constance Congdon. She is from Baldwin, Long Island.

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Every Other Hamlet In The Universe

by Kimberly Rosenstock directed by Jen Wineman artistic team Scenic Designer

Dede M. Ayite

Costume Designer

Ana Milosevic

Lighting Designer

Alan C. Edwards

Sound Designer

Junghoon Pi

Video Designer

Sarah Lasley

Dramaturg

Elliot B. Quick

Stage Manager

Lee N. Micklin

cast Marcel Abrams

Tomas AndrÉn

Jerome

Trai Byers

Claude Versailles

Will Cobbs

Allison Weinstein

Laura Gragtmans

Marcel Abrams, Sr.

Fisher Neal

Joanne Abrams

Sarah Sokolovic

Prudence

Shannon Sullivan

Voice of Gary

Blake Segal

The Barn Theater Players

Michael Backhaus

Hsiao-Ya Chen

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Martyna Majok

play notes “Look it just, it just has everything in it. You know. You gotta deal with your best friend.

You gotta deal with your lady. You gotta deal with your lady and does she love you or doesn’t love you. You gotta deal with your feelings about ladies. You gotta deal with your mother. You gotta deal with your father. You gotta deal with ghosts and ghosts— are they real or aren’t they real. Um...spirits, gods. Uh...truth. Lies. Politics. It’s just—it’s just all there.”

Mandy Patinkin, interviewed by Trevor Nunn for the 1985 film The Great Hamlets There has never been a time when there aren’t 800 Hamlets…You are aware consciously that there is a history about it. You see this list of Hamlets and you think, “Oh, my God, no. And there’s Adrian [Lester] opening in five minutes. There’s Olivier.

There’s Gielgud.”…But you have to—as Adrian says—start from scratch.”

Simon Russell Beale, interviewed with Adrian Lester by Matt Wolf for The New York Times, April 8, 2001 Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.

The Ghost, Hamlet, 1.5.91 —elliot b. quick, production dramaturg

about playwright Kimberly Rosenstock Kimberly’s plays produced at Yale School of Drama include 99 Ways to F@%k a Swan and Lone Pilots of Roosevelt Field. She served as Artistic Director for the 2009 season of Yale Summer Cabaret for which she conceived and co-wrote the original musical Fly

By Night. Her plays have been developed by Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, The Kennedy Center, Ars Nova, The Old Vic’s US/UK Exchange at The Public Theater, New York Stage and Film, The Playwrights Realm, and Aspen Theater Masters. In 2009 she was a finalist for the Wasserstein Prize, and the recipient of Portland Stage Company’s Clauder Prize and Yale’s Eugene O’Neill Memorial Scholarship. This September her play Tigers Be Still will receive its world premiere production at Roundabout Underground in New York. Prior to pursuing playwriting, she worked for several years in Manhattan as Associate Producer of Ars Nova where she developed and produced new works of music, comedy, and theater. She first began writing plays at Amherst College under the mentorship of Constance Congdon. She is from Baldwin, Long Island.

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cast: Every Other Hamlet In The Universe TOMAS ANDRÉN (MARCEL ABRAMS) grew up in Stockholm, Sweden and is a secondyear MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where recent credits include Feste/ Sebastian in Twelfth Night, Orlando, and The Seagull. He is a graduate of New School University in New York, where he majored in music.

TRAI BYERS (JEROME) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he has appeared in Orlando, The French Play, Jelly’s Last Jam, and Good Goods.

WILL COBBS (CLAUDE VERSAILLES) recently appeared in The Servant of Two Masters at Yale Repertory Theatre. A first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, he began his career in Atlanta working at theatres including Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Theatre in the Square, and Alliance Theatre. His theatre credits include Yellowman and In the Red and Brown Water. He also played PFC Brian Day on Lifetime’s Army Wives.

LAURA GRAGTMANS (ALLISON WEINSTEIN) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include One Day It Came and Thriftcrawl. Other credits include Radio Station (Yale Cabaret); we declare you a terrorist . . . (New Harmony Project); Quelque chose, A Contre de Deux (College Internationale de Cannes); Into the Woods, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and 1918 (Shanklin Theatre). She received her BS from the University of Evansville.

FISHER NEAL (MARCEL ABRAMS, SR.) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His Yale Cabaret credits include Missed Connections, Radio Station, and Salome. Recent regional credits include Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the Shakespeare Live! company at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; The Little Foxes and King Lear, also at STNJ; The Marriage of Bette and Boo at Clarence Brown Theatre; and Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. Fisher is a founding member of Overhead Projector Ensemble and received his BA from the University of Tennessee.

SARAH SOKOLOVIC (JOANNE ABRAMS) is a second-year acting student at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Othello, Paradise Lost, The French Play, Man in Love, and The Seagull. Other credits include Waking, Skintight (Yale Cabaret); Fly By Night (Yale Summer Cabaret); Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Killer Joe, Bash (Bialystock and Bloom); A Month in the County, Translations (Milwaukee Rep); A… My Name Is Alice (Madison Repertory Theatre); Medea, Homebody/Kabul, Under 18

Milk Wood (Chamber Theatre); The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline (Milwaukee Shakespeare); The Taming of the Shrew and Cymbeline (Montana Shakespeare in The Park).

SHANNON SULLIVAN (PRUDENCE) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Othello, La Ronde, Paradise Lost, Man in Love, The French Play, and Phèdre. Her Yale Cabaret credits include The Maids as well as her original play Antibiosis:. Shannon received her BFA from University of California, Santa Barbara’s actor training program.

artistic team: Every Other Hamlet In The Universe DEDE M. AYITE (SCENIC DESIGNER), originally from Ghana, is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. She received her BA in theatre and behavioral neuroscience from Lehigh University. Past design credits include The Seagull (Yale School Of Drama); Passing, Orestes (Yale Cabaret); Frozen, The Fantasticks, and No Exit. Dede has also worked as a Scenic Artist for The Santa Fe Opera, The Studio Theatre, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Gateway Playhouse, and the Sono Dance Company’s production of The Nutcracker.

ALAN C. EDWARDS (LIGHTING DESIGNER) See page 13.

SARAH LASLEY (VIDEO DESIGNER) teaches video art at Yale University and at the Yale/ Norfolk Summer Program. Her projection design credits include The Current War, 99 Ways to F@%k a Swan (Yale School of Drama); Missed Connections and Babs the Dodo (Yale Cabaret). Her filmmaking credits include Gloria Mundi and EVE. She received her BFA from the University of Louisville in Kentucky and MFA from Yale School of Art. LEE N. MICKLIN (STAGE MANAGER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Phèdre, Love’s Labour’s Lost, American Catnip, Man=Man, and The State of Affairs. His other credits include Pamela Precious and Flowers and Other Stories at Yale Cabaret. He recently directed Evil Dead: The Musical at the Cabaret. He received his BA in theatre from Lehigh University and recently worked as a production assistant on Camelot at Goodspeed Musicals. He has also worked in New York at Food for Thought Productions and the Pascal Rioult Dance Company and has stage managed shows at the New York International Fringe Festival and Midtown International Theatre Festival.

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cast: Every Other Hamlet In The Universe TOMAS ANDRÉN (MARCEL ABRAMS) grew up in Stockholm, Sweden and is a secondyear MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where recent credits include Feste/ Sebastian in Twelfth Night, Orlando, and The Seagull. He is a graduate of New School University in New York, where he majored in music.

TRAI BYERS (JEROME) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he has appeared in Orlando, The French Play, Jelly’s Last Jam, and Good Goods.

WILL COBBS (CLAUDE VERSAILLES) recently appeared in The Servant of Two Masters at Yale Repertory Theatre. A first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, he began his career in Atlanta working at theatres including Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Theatre in the Square, and Alliance Theatre. His theatre credits include Yellowman and In the Red and Brown Water. He also played PFC Brian Day on Lifetime’s Army Wives.

LAURA GRAGTMANS (ALLISON WEINSTEIN) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include One Day It Came and Thriftcrawl. Other credits include Radio Station (Yale Cabaret); we declare you a terrorist . . . (New Harmony Project); Quelque chose, A Contre de Deux (College Internationale de Cannes); Into the Woods, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and 1918 (Shanklin Theatre). She received her BS from the University of Evansville.

FISHER NEAL (MARCEL ABRAMS, SR.) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His Yale Cabaret credits include Missed Connections, Radio Station, and Salome. Recent regional credits include Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the Shakespeare Live! company at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; The Little Foxes and King Lear, also at STNJ; The Marriage of Bette and Boo at Clarence Brown Theatre; and Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. Fisher is a founding member of Overhead Projector Ensemble and received his BA from the University of Tennessee.

SARAH SOKOLOVIC (JOANNE ABRAMS) is a second-year acting student at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Othello, Paradise Lost, The French Play, Man in Love, and The Seagull. Other credits include Waking, Skintight (Yale Cabaret); Fly By Night (Yale Summer Cabaret); Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Killer Joe, Bash (Bialystock and Bloom); A Month in the County, Translations (Milwaukee Rep); A… My Name Is Alice (Madison Repertory Theatre); Medea, Homebody/Kabul, Under 18

Milk Wood (Chamber Theatre); The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline (Milwaukee Shakespeare); The Taming of the Shrew and Cymbeline (Montana Shakespeare in The Park).

SHANNON SULLIVAN (PRUDENCE) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Othello, La Ronde, Paradise Lost, Man in Love, The French Play, and Phèdre. Her Yale Cabaret credits include The Maids as well as her original play Antibiosis:. Shannon received her BFA from University of California, Santa Barbara’s actor training program.

artistic team: Every Other Hamlet In The Universe DEDE M. AYITE (SCENIC DESIGNER), originally from Ghana, is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. She received her BA in theatre and behavioral neuroscience from Lehigh University. Past design credits include The Seagull (Yale School Of Drama); Passing, Orestes (Yale Cabaret); Frozen, The Fantasticks, and No Exit. Dede has also worked as a Scenic Artist for The Santa Fe Opera, The Studio Theatre, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Gateway Playhouse, and the Sono Dance Company’s production of The Nutcracker.

ALAN C. EDWARDS (LIGHTING DESIGNER) See page 13.

SARAH LASLEY (VIDEO DESIGNER) teaches video art at Yale University and at the Yale/ Norfolk Summer Program. Her projection design credits include The Current War, 99 Ways to F@%k a Swan (Yale School of Drama); Missed Connections and Babs the Dodo (Yale Cabaret). Her filmmaking credits include Gloria Mundi and EVE. She received her BFA from the University of Louisville in Kentucky and MFA from Yale School of Art. LEE N. MICKLIN (STAGE MANAGER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Phèdre, Love’s Labour’s Lost, American Catnip, Man=Man, and The State of Affairs. His other credits include Pamela Precious and Flowers and Other Stories at Yale Cabaret. He recently directed Evil Dead: The Musical at the Cabaret. He received his BA in theatre from Lehigh University and recently worked as a production assistant on Camelot at Goodspeed Musicals. He has also worked in New York at Food for Thought Productions and the Pascal Rioult Dance Company and has stage managed shows at the New York International Fringe Festival and Midtown International Theatre Festival.

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ANA MILOSEVIC (COSTUME DESIGNER), originally from Serbia, is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she recently designed sets for Phèdre. She studied industrial and interior design at the High School for Design and received her BFA in theatre production design from Ohio University. Her theatre credits include costumes for Complete Female Stage Beauty, Happyslap, Safe (performer, director, and designer); assistant set designer for Reckless and The Taming of the Shrew. She was the production designer for the feature film Distortion. Awards and achievements include: SAFE, USITT Award for Excellence in Performing Arts 2007, and PQ2007 participant in two categories (Prague 2007).

JUNGHOON PI (COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. He is a composer and media artist from South Korea where he has written songs for major pop artists including Zaza, R.ef, Shinhwa, Roo’ra, and Crown J. He was awarded the Korea Advertisement Music Award in 2006. His film scoring credits include Modern Boy and The Destroyed Man. His theatre music credits include The Cherry Orchard (Lee-Hae-Rang Theatre), Price (Kraine Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival), Blood Wedding (Schapiro Theatre), and Mask Ritual: Electra (Yale Cabaret). He holds BM and MM degrees from Yonsei and Dongguk University.

ELLIOT B. QUICK (DRAMATURG) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include The Bottle Breakers. Other credits include Portraits: Untitled, Skin Tight, Normal, and Missed Connections (Yale Cabaret). Previously Elliot was the Literary Assistant at Playwrights Horizons, and he is a member of the Brooklyn-based puppetry ensemble Piehole. He received a BA in theatre studies from Brown University in 2007.

JEN WINEMAN (DIRECTOR) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Orlando, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Michael Mitnick’s new musical The Current War, and Susan Soon He Stanton’s new play The Art of Preservation. Other credits include Susan Soon He Stanton’s The Underneath, Annie Weisman’s Be Aggressive (Yale Cabaret); Sarah Ruhl’s Late: A Cowboy Song, Michael Barker’s Kids These Days (Yale Summer Cabaret); and a workshop of Office Space: The Musical (Yale College). In New York, her work has been seen at Classic Stage Company, HERE Arts Center, the Culture Project, American Place Theatre, the University Settlement, and the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. Regionally, she has directed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop, New York Stage and Film, WordBRIDGE, and most recently, Telluride, Colorado. Jen is a graduate of Vassar College and is a co-founder and board member of Studio 42, a New York-based theatre company that focuses on producing new work by emerging artists.

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ANA MILOSEVIC (COSTUME DESIGNER), originally from Serbia, is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she recently designed sets for Phèdre. She studied industrial and interior design at the High School for Design and received her BFA in theatre production design from Ohio University. Her theatre credits include costumes for Complete Female Stage Beauty, Happyslap, Safe (performer, director, and designer); assistant set designer for Reckless and The Taming of the Shrew. She was the production designer for the feature film Distortion. Awards and achievements include: SAFE, USITT Award for Excellence in Performing Arts 2007, and PQ2007 participant in two categories (Prague 2007).

JUNGHOON PI (COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. He is a composer and media artist from South Korea where he has written songs for major pop artists including Zaza, R.ef, Shinhwa, Roo’ra, and Crown J. He was awarded the Korea Advertisement Music Award in 2006. His film scoring credits include Modern Boy and The Destroyed Man. His theatre music credits include The Cherry Orchard (Lee-Hae-Rang Theatre), Price (Kraine Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival), Blood Wedding (Schapiro Theatre), and Mask Ritual: Electra (Yale Cabaret). He holds BM and MM degrees from Yonsei and Dongguk University.

ELLIOT B. QUICK (DRAMATURG) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include The Bottle Breakers. Other credits include Portraits: Untitled, Skin Tight, Normal, and Missed Connections (Yale Cabaret). Previously Elliot was the Literary Assistant at Playwrights Horizons, and he is a member of the Brooklyn-based puppetry ensemble Piehole. He received a BA in theatre studies from Brown University in 2007.

JEN WINEMAN (DIRECTOR) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Orlando, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Michael Mitnick’s new musical The Current War, and Susan Soon He Stanton’s new play The Art of Preservation. Other credits include Susan Soon He Stanton’s The Underneath, Annie Weisman’s Be Aggressive (Yale Cabaret); Sarah Ruhl’s Late: A Cowboy Song, Michael Barker’s Kids These Days (Yale Summer Cabaret); and a workshop of Office Space: The Musical (Yale College). In New York, her work has been seen at Classic Stage Company, HERE Arts Center, the Culture Project, American Place Theatre, the University Settlement, and the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. Regionally, she has directed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop, New York Stage and Film, WordBRIDGE, and most recently, Telluride, Colorado. Jen is a graduate of Vassar College and is a co-founder and board member of Studio 42, a New York-based theatre company that focuses on producing new work by emerging artists.

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Costume Shop Manager Tom McAlister Associate Costume Shop Manager Robin Hirsch Senior Draper Mary Zihal

production staff

Draper Clarissa Wylie Youngberg First Hand Deborah Bloch

Associate Managing Director Belina Mizrahi Associate Production Supervisor Shaminda Amarakoon Production Stage Manager Jessica Barker

Staff Carpenters Ryan Gardner Lisa McDaniel

Associate Marketing Director Shinhyoung Sohn

Scenic Charge Ru Jung Wang

Assistant Scenic Designers Sidney Erin Johnson Matt Saunders

Scenic Artist Julia C. Lee

Assistant Lighting Designers Hyun Seung Lee Yi Zhao Technical Director Steven A. Schmidt Master Electrician Brian Dambacher Assistant Master Electrician Bona Lee Properties Master Nishi L. Hamrick Assistant Properties Master Ryan Hales Production Sound Engineer Kenneth C. Goodwin Stage Carpenter Hsiao-Ya Chen

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Master Carpenters Matt Gaffney Sharon Reinhardt

Staff Sound Engineer Paul Bozzi Head Electricians Jason Wells Linda Young Build Crew Hsiao-Ya Chen Gwynedd Davis Sidney Erin Johnson C. Nikki Mills Robert C. Snipes Andrew V. Wallace Kate Wicker James Zwicky Electrics Crew Sarah Bishop-Stone Erich Bolton Hsiao-Ya Chen Justin Elie Miriam A. Hyman Sandra J. Jervey Wan Ki Lo Jorge J. RodrĂ­guez Jeff Smejdir

Changeover Crew Mikey Rohrer Jeffrey Smejdir Joe Stoltman Sound Crew Jennifer Johnson Properties Crew Justin Elie Program Design Maggie Elliott Program Cover Photo Yi Zhao Management Assistant Katie Liberman

Additional Staff for elijah Assistant Stage Manager Gina Noel Odierno Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer Kenneth C. Goodwin Assistant Technical Director Eric Chi-yeh Lin Deck/Props Catherine Costanzo Wardrobe Mark Nagle Light Board Operator Dipika Guha Sound Board Operator Jake Jeppson House Manager Whitney Estrin

Additional Staff for the things are against us

Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer Katherine Buechner Assistant Technical Director Shaina Graboyes Deck/Props Caroline V. McGraw Wardrobe Leon Dobkowski Light Board Operator Christina Anderson Sound Board Operator Chad Raines House Manager Luis P. Abril

Additional Staff for Every Other Hamlet in the Universe Assistant Stage Manager Maria Cantin Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer Nathan A. Roberts Assistant Technical Director Amy E. Jonas Deck/Props Michael Backhaus Wardrobe Martyna Majok Light Board Operator Meg Miroshnik Sound Board Operator Palmer Hefferan Video Engineer/Operator Eric Trester House Manager Whitney Estrin

Assistant Stage Manager Brandon Curtis

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Costume Shop Manager Tom McAlister Associate Costume Shop Manager Robin Hirsch Senior Draper Mary Zihal

production staff

Draper Clarissa Wylie Youngberg First Hand Deborah Bloch

Associate Managing Director Belina Mizrahi Associate Production Supervisor Shaminda Amarakoon Production Stage Manager Jessica Barker

Staff Carpenters Ryan Gardner Lisa McDaniel

Associate Marketing Director Shinhyoung Sohn

Scenic Charge Ru Jung Wang

Assistant Scenic Designers Sidney Erin Johnson Matt Saunders

Scenic Artist Julia C. Lee

Assistant Lighting Designers Hyun Seung Lee Yi Zhao Technical Director Steven A. Schmidt Master Electrician Brian Dambacher Assistant Master Electrician Bona Lee Properties Master Nishi L. Hamrick Assistant Properties Master Ryan Hales Production Sound Engineer Kenneth C. Goodwin Stage Carpenter Hsiao-Ya Chen

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Master Carpenters Matt Gaffney Sharon Reinhardt

Staff Sound Engineer Paul Bozzi Head Electricians Jason Wells Linda Young Build Crew Hsiao-Ya Chen Gwynedd Davis Sidney Erin Johnson C. Nikki Mills Robert C. Snipes Andrew V. Wallace Kate Wicker James Zwicky Electrics Crew Sarah Bishop-Stone Erich Bolton Hsiao-Ya Chen Justin Elie Miriam A. Hyman Sandra J. Jervey Wan Ki Lo Jorge J. RodrĂ­guez Jeff Smejdir

Changeover Crew Mikey Rohrer Jeffrey Smejdir Joe Stoltman Sound Crew Jennifer Johnson Properties Crew Justin Elie Program Design Maggie Elliott Program Cover Photo Yi Zhao Management Assistant Katie Liberman

Additional Staff for elijah Assistant Stage Manager Gina Noel Odierno Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer Kenneth C. Goodwin Assistant Technical Director Eric Chi-yeh Lin Deck/Props Catherine Costanzo Wardrobe Mark Nagle Light Board Operator Dipika Guha Sound Board Operator Jake Jeppson House Manager Whitney Estrin

Additional Staff for the things are against us

Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer Katherine Buechner Assistant Technical Director Shaina Graboyes Deck/Props Caroline V. McGraw Wardrobe Leon Dobkowski Light Board Operator Christina Anderson Sound Board Operator Chad Raines House Manager Luis P. Abril

Additional Staff for Every Other Hamlet in the Universe Assistant Stage Manager Maria Cantin Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer Nathan A. Roberts Assistant Technical Director Amy E. Jonas Deck/Props Michael Backhaus Wardrobe Martyna Majok Light Board Operator Meg Miroshnik Sound Board Operator Palmer Hefferan Video Engineer/Operator Eric Trester House Manager Whitney Estrin

Assistant Stage Manager Brandon Curtis

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SPECIAL THANKS Christina Acosta

Jack Fiarrelly

Max Moore

Matt Biagini

Sunder Ganglani

Lupita Nyong’o

Joshua Chapman

Babak Gharaei-Tafti

Donesh Olyaie

Walter Byongsok Chon

Tala Gharagozlou

Will Connolly

Dipika Guha

The Playwriting Workshop

Brett Dalton

Nishi Hamrick

Kevin Daniels

Ryan Hales

Bill DeMeritt

Stéphanie Hayes

Lucas Dixon

Jennifer Herbert

John Doherty

Jake Jeppson

Justin Elie

Ryan Lockwood

Joby Earle

Deb Margolin

Whitney Estrin

Donald Margulies

Luisa Proske Brenna Palughi Chad Raines Reese Smith Jill Taylor

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BOOK AND LYRICS BY ADAM BOCK MUSIC AND LYRICS BY TODD ALMOND BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SHIRLEY JACKSON

DIRECTED BY ANNE KAUFFMAN

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A DELICATE BALANCE DIRECTED BY JAMES BUNDY

October 22 to November 13, 2010 PENDING AUTHOR’S APPROVAL

WORLD PREMIERE

BOSSA NOVA

BY KIRSTEN GREENIDGE DIRECTED BY EVAN YIONOULIS

November 26 to December 18, 2010

AUGUST WILSON’S

THE PIANO LESSON DIRECTED BY LIESL TOMMY

January 28 to February 19, 2011

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

ROMEO AND JULIET

DIRECTED BY SHANA COOPER March 11 to April 2, 2011

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CARloTTA MonTEREy , the widow of eugene

BY INGMAR BERGMAN DIRECTED BY ROBERT WOODRUFF

o’neill, chose yale university press as the

April 15 to May 7, 2011

publisher of Long Day’s Journey into Night. it is written on the copyright page of the first paperback edition that the proceeds from this publication of one of america’s greatest plays are to go to playwriting at yale university. thank you, Carlotta.

Carlotta Festival of New Plays, May 7 –16, 2010 Yale School of Drama Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel Street 24

THE CAST OF THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS, PHOTO BY RICHARD TERMINE, 2010.

PLAYS, DATES, AND ARTISTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

SPECIAL THANKS Christina Acosta

Jack Fiarrelly

Max Moore

Matt Biagini

Sunder Ganglani

Lupita Nyong’o

Joshua Chapman

Babak Gharaei-Tafti

Donesh Olyaie

Walter Byongsok Chon

Tala Gharagozlou

Will Connolly

Dipika Guha

The Playwriting Workshop

Brett Dalton

Nishi Hamrick

Kevin Daniels

Ryan Hales

Bill DeMeritt

Stéphanie Hayes

Lucas Dixon

Jennifer Herbert

John Doherty

Jake Jeppson

Justin Elie

Ryan Lockwood

Joby Earle

Deb Margolin

Whitney Estrin

Donald Margulies

Luisa Proske Brenna Palughi Chad Raines Reese Smith Jill Taylor

SUBSCRIBE

NOW! SUBSCRIPTIONS START AT LESS THAN $30 PER TICKET!

Emily Trask Christopher Vorwerk Liz Wisan

YALEREP.ORG 203.432.1234

2010—11 SEASON WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE

BOOK AND LYRICS BY ADAM BOCK MUSIC AND LYRICS BY TODD ALMOND BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SHIRLEY JACKSON

DIRECTED BY ANNE KAUFFMAN

September 17 to October 9, 2010

EDWARD ALBEE’S

A DELICATE BALANCE DIRECTED BY JAMES BUNDY

October 22 to November 13, 2010 PENDING AUTHOR’S APPROVAL

WORLD PREMIERE

BOSSA NOVA

BY KIRSTEN GREENIDGE DIRECTED BY EVAN YIONOULIS

November 26 to December 18, 2010

AUGUST WILSON’S

THE PIANO LESSON DIRECTED BY LIESL TOMMY

January 28 to February 19, 2011

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

ROMEO AND JULIET

DIRECTED BY SHANA COOPER March 11 to April 2, 2011

U.S. PREMIERE

AUTUMN SONATA

CARloTTA MonTEREy , the widow of eugene

BY INGMAR BERGMAN DIRECTED BY ROBERT WOODRUFF

o’neill, chose yale university press as the

April 15 to May 7, 2011

publisher of Long Day’s Journey into Night. it is written on the copyright page of the first paperback edition that the proceeds from this publication of one of america’s greatest plays are to go to playwriting at yale university. thank you, Carlotta.

Carlotta Festival of New Plays, May 7 –16, 2010 Yale School of Drama Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel Street 24

THE CAST OF THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS, PHOTO BY RICHARD TERMINE, 2010.

PLAYS, DATES, AND ARTISTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.