THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE STAFF ARTISTIC
Jesse Rasmussen, Assistant Director Joo Hyun Kim, Assistant Scenic Designer An-lin Dauber, Assistant Costume Designer Andrew F. Griffin, Assistant Lighting Designer Ian Williams, Associate Sound Designer Mitch Massaro, Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer Kristen Ferguson, Assistant Projection Designer Paul Rubin, Aerial Effects Choreographer Shannon L. Gaughf, Fight Captain Kelly Montgomery, Assistant Stage Manager
PRODUCTION
Kat Wepler, Associate Production Manager Rose Bochansky, Technical Director Emily Erdman, Michael Hsu, Assistant Technical Directors Scott Keith, Assistant Properties Master Krystin Matsumoto, Master Electrician Jeong Sik Yoo, Projection Engineer Paula R. Clarkson, Ben Pfister, Production Assistants Grier Coleman, Elizabeth Dinkova, Adrian Martinez Frausto, Josh Goulding, William Hartley, Corin Killins, Maria Inês Marques, Leora Morris, Jason Najjoum, Tori Sampson, Rebecca Stoll, Nahuel Telleria, Run Crew
ADMINISTRATION
Emily Reeder, House Manager
UNDERSTUDIES
Sebastian Arboleda, Fat Prince, Lavrenti, Ensemble Jenelle Chu, Natella, Sister-in-Law, Ensemble Paul Cooper, Adjutant, Yussup, Ensemble Anna Crivelli, Ludovica, Ensemble Ricardo Dávila, Shauva, Ensemble Edmund Donovan,** Governor, Monk, Ensemble Brontë England-Nelson, Cook, Mother-in-Law, Ensemble Dylan Frederick, The Singer/Azdak Eston Fung, Corporal, Ensemble Jonathan Higginbotham, Simon, Ensemble Sean Patrick Higgins, Servant, Ensemble Maura Hooper, Grusha Galen Kane, Valet, First Ironshirt, Ensemble Sydney Lemmon, Nurse, Elder Lady, Ensemble Kourtney Savage, Michael Bradley James Tejeda, First Doctor, First Architect, First Lawyer, Ensemble Fred Thornley IV, Michael Ariana Venturi, Second Doctor, Second Architect, Second Lawyer, Ensemble Benjamin Wallace, Musician ** Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
SPECIAL THANKS
Ralph Chipman and Hanna Diamond Chipman; David Chambers; Eric Ting
FROM THE DIRECTOR
I would like to thank Yale School of Drama’s “College of Directors” for their generous and imaginative contributions to my work on this production. Our explorations of The Caucasian Chalk Circle in labs and seminars over the past year have helped me immeasurably in deepening my understanding of this great play. Images and ideas have found their way into the show from our testing and “trying on of ideas” together. To Sara Holdren, Jessica Holt, Andrej Visky, Yagil Eliraz, Luke Harlan, Leora Morris, Elizabeth Dinkova, Kevin Hourigan, Jesse Rasmussen, Sonja Berggren, Mohammad Aghebati, Cole Lewis, Katherine McGerr, and Dustin Wills—heartfelt thanks.
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YALE REPERTORY THEATRE STAFF James Bundy, Artistic Director Victoria Nolan, Managing Director Jennifer Kiger, Associate Artistic Director Director of New Play Programs
ARTISTIC
Resident Artists Paula Vogel, Playwright in Residence Liz Diamond, Evan Yionoulis, Resident Directors Catherine Sheehy, Resident Dramaturg Michael Yeargan, Set Design Advisor, Resident Set Designer Ilona Somogyi, Costume Design Advisor Jess Goldstein, Resident Costume Designer Jennifer Tipton, Lighting Design Advisor Stephen Strawbridge, Resident Lighting Designer David Budries, Sound Design Advisor Walton Wilson, Voice and Speech Advisor Rick Sordelet, Fight Advisor Mary Hunter, Stage Management Advisor Associate Artists 52nd Street Project, Kama Ginkas, Mark Lamos, MTYZ Theatre/Moscow New Generations Theatre, Bill Rauch, Sarah Ruhl, Henrietta Yanovskaya Artistic Management 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 Tara Rubin, C.S.A.; Laura Schutzel, C.S.A.; Lindsay Levine, C.S.A.; Kaitlin Shaw C.S.A.; Eric Woodall, C.S.A.; Scott Anderson, Casting 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
PRODUCTION
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 Emmet Sellars, Carpenter Samantha Catanzaro, Kelly Rae Fayton, Alexandra Reynolds, Assistants to the Technical Director