cast: Cardboard Piano MELANIE FIELD (CHRISTINA) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. She recently made her Yale Cabaret debut in The Defendant. Her professional credits include the Broadway companies of The Phantom of the Opera and Evita (2012 revival), as well as the first national tour of Wicked. Melanie received her BM in vocal performance from NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Favorite NYU credits include The Light in the Piazza (Margaret), A Little Night Music (Petra), and Twelfth Night (Olivia).
JONATHAN MAJORS (PIKA, PAUL) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His most recent credits include the world premiere of Cry Old Kingdom at the 2013 Humana Festival of New American Plays and the August Wilson’s American Century Cycle recordings of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Fences at the Greene Space. Jonathan holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
JULIAN ELIJAH MARTINEZ (SOLDIER, FRANCIS) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. His credits include The Brothers Size, We Fight We Die, The Defendant (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, All’s Well That Ends Well (Orlando Shakespeare Theater); and Flyboy (Unstrung Harpist Theater Company, Best of Fringe at the Capital Fringe Festival). Julian holds a BFA from Elon University.
SHAUNETTE RENÉE WILSON (ADIEL, RUTH) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. She appeared in The Defendant at Yale Cabaret. Other credits include The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Undone, Macbeth, A Dybbuk, and Romeo and Juliet (Queens College). Shaunette is a part of the acting ensemble of this summer’s 40th anniversary season of Yale Summer Cabaret.
creative team: Cardboard Piano WHITNEY DIBO (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG) is a third-year year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her dramaturgy credits include Fox Play, No More Sad Things, and Romeo and Juliet. She is also one of the CoArtistic Directors of Yale Cabaret, where her credits include The Twins Would Like to Say (co-director) and The Yiddish King Lear (co-creator, director). Prior to Yale, she worked in the education and literary departments at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she served as program assistant on First Look 5