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Nutshell, Sonnambula (HERE Arts Center); Look Away (Schapiro Theater); and Uncanny (Littlefield). Hannah’s installation and video work has been exhibited in Brighton, London, and at the National Review of Live Art Festival in Glasgow. She received her BA in music and visual art from the University of Brighton.

LES WATERS (DIRECTOR) Previous Yale Rep productions include Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl and her adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters. An OBIE Award winner, Les is the Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, where his productions include Long Day’s Journey into Night, Charles Mee’s Big Love, and At the Vanishing Point by Naomi Iizuka. From 2003–2011, he was Associate Artistic Director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In the last six years, his shows have ranked among the year’s best in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Magazine, Time Out New York, and USA Today. In 2009, he made his Broadway debut with Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), which began at Berkeley Rep. His other productions at Berkeley Rep include the world premieres of Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, Fêtes de la Nuit, Finn in the Underworld, Girlfriend, and To the Lighthouse; the American premiere of TRAGEDY: a tragedy; the West Coast premiere of Eurydice; and extended runs of The Glass Menagerie, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Pillowman, and Yellowman. Les has numerous credits in New York (The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre Company Clubbed Thumb, and the Next Wave Festival at BAM), his native England, and at theatres across America. He led the MFA directing program at University of California, San Diego, and is an associate artist of The Civilians in New York.

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