CAST DANIEL SCHLOSBERG (MUSIC DIRECTOR, MUSICIAN) is a recipient of the 2014 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and 2014 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. His compositions have been played by the Dover Quartet, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Yale Philharmonia, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Antico Moderno, Lorelei Ensemble, Yale Baroque Ensemble, New Morse Code, and counter)induction. Various recent credits include his chamber opera Frau Trude (Center City Opera Theater, Philadelphia); Peter Pan, Sunday in the Park with George (Yale School of Drama); The Seven Deadly Sins (Heartbeat Opera); A Lover’s Tale (Berkshire Theatre Festival); his choral pieces Letter (Yale Glee Club, Hong Kong) and nightingale + rose (Simon Carrington, Norfolk Music Festival); strange ancestors (Carnegie Hall); and RiteNow Project. Daniel has written for and performed with David Shifrin, Fred Sherry, Ani Kavafian, Peter Wiley, and Tara Helen O’Connor. He currently holds commissions from BodyVox Dance Company, Mousai Ensemble, and the Yale Symphony Orchestra. He is a cofounder of the composer/performer ensemble INVISIBLE ANATOMY, which will debut with concerts in New York and Beijing in April and June. Education: BA, Yale College; MM and MMA, Yale School of Music. danschlosbergmusic.com
STEVEN SKYBELL* (THE SINGER/AZDAK) previously appeared at Yale Rep in Ah, Wilderness!, Apocalyptic Butterflies, Sarcophagus, and Neapolitan Ghosts. His Broadway credits include Pal Joey, Wicked, The Full Monty, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Cafe Crown, and Ah Wilderness! Off-Broadway: Antigone in New York (OBIE Award, Vineyard Theatre); The Lesson (Atlantic Theater Company); The Controversy (US premiere), Antony and Cleopatra, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Troilus and Cressida, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry VI Parts I, II, and III (The Public Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Classic Stage Company); Richard II, Richard III, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, Tamburlaine the Great (Theatre for a New Audience); and What Didn’t Happen (world premiere, Playwrights Horizons). Regional credits include Camelot (Helen Hayes nomination), Uncle Vanya (McCarter Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse), and Hamlet (California Shakespeare Festival). He is an inaugural company member of Shakespeare’s Globe. Film and television: Elementary, 666 Park Avenue, Simply Irresistible, Cradle Will Rock, Tom and Francie, Everybody Wins, Sex and the City, Law & Order, and Queens Supreme. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama; BA, Yale College; Certificate in Acting, British American Drama Academy, Balliol College, Oxford.
JULYANA SOELISTYO* (COOK, MOTHER-IN-LAW, GRANNY, ENSEMBLE) previously appeared at Yale Rep in Iphigenia at Aulis. Broadway: David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child (Drama League Award, Clarence Derwent Award; Outer Critics Circle, Tony nominations). Off-Broadway credits include Seven with Meryl Streep (directed by Julie Taymor), Armanda Ragusa in The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theater), On The Town (City Center), The House of Bernarda Alba, and Pericles directed by 20