Escaped Alone, Yale Repertory Theatre, 2024

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Artistry

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We build our collective work on a foundation of mutual respect, prizing the contributions and accomplishments of the individual and of the team.

Discovery

We wrestle with compelling issues of our time. Energized by curiosity, invention, bravery, and humor, we challenge ourselves to risk and learn from failure and vulnerability.

Alma Martinez and Camila Moreno in a scene from Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles by Luis Alfaro, directed by Laurie Woolery. Photo © Joan Marcus, 2023.

A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Welcome to Yale Repertory Theatre and Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone!

In a career spanning more than half a century, Caryl Churchill has distinguished herself as one of the English language’s greatest, and most subversive, playwrights. From her earliest professionally produced play, 1972’s Owners (seen at Yale Rep in 2013); to modern masterpieces such as Cloud Nine (1979), Top Girls (1983), and Serious Money (1987, staged here in 2002); and more recent plays including Far Away (2000), A Number (2002), and Love and Information (2013), her work reveals a lifelong engagement with issues related to gender, politics, power, and personal responsibility.

Today’s play is no exception. Reading Escaped Alone a year ago, with my colleagues on the season planning committee, was a gut-wrenching experience; and the play seems only to have grown in relevance in the time since. Set over tea on a series of afternoons in an English garden, the play is by turns deeply funny and harrowing, juxtaposing quotidian chitchat and looming cataclysms.

It has been a joy to see a script as meaningful as this one in the hands of Resident Director Liz Diamond, who marks her 19th production at Yale Rep with this play. I celebrate her collaboration with a creative and production team comprising students, faculty, and alumni of the David Geffen School of Drama. It is a special privilege to showcase the talent and imagination of our quartet of distinguished actors—LaTonya Borsay, Mary Lou Rosato, Sandra Shipley, and Rita Wolf. In the parlance of the day, they are iconic.

Up next, we finish our season with Lloyd Suh’s The Far Country, a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Directed by Ralph B. Peña, who staged Suh’s The Chinese Lady at Long Wharf Theatre in 2021, the play is set in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act and follows a family’s journey from rural Taishan to the Angel Island Detention Center in the hope of making lives for themselves in San Francisco. The show plays April 26–May 18: I hope you will join us!

Thank you for being here today. Whether you are a longtime audience member or first time attendee, your presence inspires us and makes it possible for us to wrestle—in person!—with compelling issues of our time. As always, I look forward to hearing your thoughts about Escaped Alone or any of your experiences at Yale Rep. My email address is james.bundy@yale.edu.

Sincerely,

James Bundy

MARCH 8–30, 2024

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE

James Bundy, Artistic Director | Florie Seery, Managing Director

PRESENTS

By Caryl Churchill

Directed by Liz Diamond

Scenic Designer

Lia Tubiana

Costume Designer

Yu-Jung Shen 沈毓融

Lighting Designer

Stephen Strawbridge

Sound Designer

Sinan Refik Zafar

Projection Designer

Shawn Lovell-Boyle

Music Director

Liam Bellman-Sharpe

Hair Designer

Matthew Armentrout

Production Dramaturgs

Catherine Sheehy

Karoline Vielemeyer

Technical Director

Keira Jacobs

Vocal and Dialect Coach

Julie Foh

Casting Director

Calleri Jensen Davis

Stage Manager

Charlie Lovejoy

Escaped Alone was first presented by The English Stage Company at The Royal Court Theatre, London, on 28th January 2016. The U.S. premiere was presented at BAM Harvey Theater, New York, on 15th February 2017, directed by James MacDonald.

Escaped Alone is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. concordtheatricals.com

Yale Repertory Theatre gratefully acknowledges Carol L. Sirot for generously funding the 2023–24 season.

Yale Repertory Theatre thanks our 2023–24 season funders:

Season Sponsor:

Cast in alphabetical order

Mrs. Jarrett ............................................................................................................

LaTonya Borsay

Vi Mary Lou Rosato

Sally .......................................................................................................................... Sandra Shipley

Lena Rita Wolf

Place & Time

Sally’s back garden

A summer afternoon; a number of afternoons.

Escaped Alone is performed without an intermission.

Understudy Cast in alphabetical order

Sally ...........................................................................................................................

Vi

Mrs. Jarrett .........................................................................................................

Chloe Howard

Anna Roman

Lauren F. Walker

Lena Amelia Windom

Assistant Stage Managers

Adam Taylor Foster ................................................................................................

Chloe Xiaonan Liu ................................................................................................................................

Content Guidance

This production contains graphic descriptions of human and environmental apocalypse.

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TEMP(O) WORK:

Caryl Churchill Makes Time for Us

Four older ladies sit in a garden having what the Brits like to call a natter. There’s tea, of course, for what’s a natter without a cuppa? The time is now, the present, though the fact of their decades-long friendships means that their staccato verbal shorthand constantly hales their memories (common and competing) right into the garden with them: families and fashions, jobs and joint pains, triumphs and tristesse. Then, just as our ears adjust to the up tempo of their banter, wham! We’re left asking not only where but when in the world are we? That is the exhilaration of Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone

There is no writer working today who has greater faith in the potentialities of time or who possesses a more supple touch or better ear for ringing the changes of those potentialities. Churchill plays time like it’s an accordion, expanding and contracting the unwieldy instrument with tremendous finesse to create sometimes exquisite, sometimes dissonant chords of meaning.

Her facility results from a combination of gift and grit; after all, she’s been at her craft for more than half a century with time not only as her instrument but often as her subject and her medium. Audiences were dazzled in 1979 when her first big success, Cloud Nine, featured a first act set in 1800s colonial Africa and a second act set in 1970s London with characters who age only 25 years in the century that passes during intermission. Her next major work was Top Girls which premiered just three years later and begins with the play’s heroine Marlene hosting women, real and fictional, from different periods of history at dinner in a nice restaurant. 1987’s Serious Money is a murder mystery written largely in rhymed couplets excoriating the ugly rapaciousness of Thatcherite (and Reaganite) economics and deregulation. But Churchill kicks the play off by lifting a scene from Thomas Shadwell’s 1692 play, The Volunteers or The Stock Jobbers; then, without transition, that archaic, 17th-century prose slams into the dazzling present-day jargon from frenzied scenes on the floor of London’s International Financial Futures and Options Exchange.

Of course, Caryl Churchill doesn’t only manipulate temporal adjacency; she’s just as adept at stretching and slowing the inexorable wingèd chariot. Escaped Alone deploys a kind of epiphanic suspension of the tyrant time. Flashes of truth are given the poetic space to allow them to inspire—breathe insight into—character and audience alike.

Then there is the work she does with time on our side of the footlights. Like her acknowledged influence, Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill, with her expansive artistic imagination, has become a minimalist to the max, able to distill intense human experiences down to breathtaking brevity. Performances of her most recent plays often don’t outlast the running of an actual hourglass. As you’ll see, that’s true of this play, but when it’s over and done, what a time you will have had!

—Catherine Sheehy, Production Dramaturg

Little Green Apotheosis: A Field Guide to

Throughout centuries of cultivation, the British garden has at once been a place of deep serenity and of world-historical forces as they germinate and collide. In Caryl Churchill’s short masterwork, four contemporary women give voice to how we might see this green space as a physical inflection point, always and already seeding profound change.

Native Plants

Aliena legata

Far from the colorful flower gardens on display from the early modern period, most of Britain’s native flora is green. The popularization of vibrant floral displays peaking in the Victorian era relied on a wide new palette of foreign plants, the spoils of aggressive imperial expansion through violence and plunder. Many of today’s most quintessentially British flowers are of foreign—that is, colonized— provenance: (a) Dahlias, from South Africa; (b) Chrysanthemums, from China; (c) Asters, from North America.

Hotbeds

Socialis mutatio

Britain’s cold, harsh climate would have been prohibitive for new flowers if not for the 17th-century advent of climate-controlled raised beds. These not only allowed plants to grow in more familiar soil but helped them gradually adapt to European conditions. Seen this way, “hotbed for change” appears either like a figure of speech in favor of assimilation, or—as Churchill might have it—like a move toward re-politicizing the garden, exposing the unsettled parts below its surface.

Escaped Alone

Garden Walls

Occultata consilio

Borders have played multiple roles in the history of garden design in Britain. In the 17th century and before, walls restricted gardens reserved for private contemplation by landed gentry; in the landscape movement of the 18th century, hidden garden walls called ha-has separated livestock from areas newly designated for activity; in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, borders delineated small “rooms” of larger plots as gardens began to mirror domestic spaces; and in the postwar period, tight grids allowed for even allotments as gardening gained popularity with a growing working and middle class. Blurred, too, was the line between egalitarianism and sequestration.

Labyrinths Ambulans per vitam

Employed as Catholic symbols as early as the 16th century in British gardens, these winding, circular pathways symbolized in miniature the penitent’s slow walk through life. The labyrinth, real or implicit, has remained a fixture, turning the smallest plot into a space rich for meditation. While four women can sit reminiscing and reflecting, so too can they see the entire life cycle of a plant as it blooms, dies, and blooms again over the course of a year.

Publics Populi Churchillus

Derby Arboretum (left), Britain’s first public park, opened in 1840 as a democratized green space for the working public who had built the gardens reserved for an exclusive aristocracy. In the nearly two centuries since, industrial agriculture, urban expansion, and gardening programs on TV and radio have extended access to more and more people. In 2024, nearly 90% of British households have gardens; the solitude of the garden, if it can still be called solitude, is one enjoyed by a vast majority of Britons today.

A World Adrift: Caryl Churchill

During a storm in 1992, nearly twentynine thousand “Friendly Floatees,” including red beavers, blue turtles, green frogs, and most famously yellow ducks, spilled into the Pacific Ocean from a ship on its way from Hong Kong to Tacoma, Washington. The first “survivors” were soon found on Alaskan beaches while others traveled around the globe. After fifteen years, some had made it all the way to European waters and began washing up on British shores. This incident seems like a prank Mother Nature played on us for the way we’ve treated the world, making it a perfect entry point into understanding the universe Caryl Churchill crafts in Escaped Alone

Those thousands of little bits of plastic whimsy that survived salt water, Arctic ice, and the test of time could have been invented by Churchill for this play in which she explores how human convenience and greed can quickly become both disastrous and absurd.

Churchill uses humor—sometimes sly, sometimes wonderfully silly—to tackle a topic so big it can stymie all response: environmental and societal collapse. Her vehicle? Four older women who grew in the fertile soil of her imagination to then be planted in a modest British garden as world messengers. These women take us on a journey through intimate and global topics, guiding us through everything from quotidian, personal squabbles to large existential questions. Sally, Lena, Vi, and Mrs. Jarrett, all weathering their own storms within a chaotic world, find comfort in each other’s company.

Churchill Imagines Apocalypses

That comfort, however, is far from stable as Churchill’s apocalyptic visions of human greed and carelessness taken to satirical extremes function as distorted mirrors of the absurdities of real-life events.

These actual disasters that Churchill’s words inspire us to reflect on, range from mere thoughtlessness—like a gender reveal party causing a wildfire—to deliberately harmful activities such as burning down the Amazon rain forest for farmland to satiate a global desire for beef.

In this vast whirlwind of global unknowns, Sally’s little garden filled with wit, laughter, and perseverance becomes an intimate raft of belonging for these four women and an invitation for everyone else to come aboard.

—Karoline Vielemeyer, Production

Dramaturg

CAST

in alphabetical order

LaTonya Borsay* she/her/hers

(Mrs. Jarrett) is thrilled to return to Yale Repertory Theatre; previous productions at Yale Rep are Jenny in Death of a Salesman and Darlene in dance of the holy ghosts. Other regional theater credits include the role of Grace in The West End (Cincinnati Playhouse), and Delia in Blues for an Alabama Sky (Crossroads Theatre Company). She has also worked at Philadelphia Theater Company, The Passage Theatre Company, Denver Center, and Indiana Repertory. OffBroadway credits include Mistress Prattle in The Saintliness of Margery Kempe, Mrs. Drinkwater in Des Moines (The Flea Theater); Georgia Hayes in The Exonerated (Bleecker Theater); James Baldwin in Civil Sex, and Second Witch in Macbeth (The Public Theater). Television and film credits include The Gilded Age, City on Fire, For Life, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Luke Cage, The Knick, Show Me a Hero, Orange Is the New Black, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, The Wire, ED, Sisterhood of Night, Lights Out, and It Takes Two. Upcoming releases: Netflix’s Eric and FX’s American Sports Story: Gladiator LaTonya is a Beinecke Fellow at David Geffen School of Drama this spring. “Give light and people will find the way.”—Ella Baker.

Mary Lou Rosato* (Vi) Broadway: Once Upon a Mattress, The Suicide, The School for Scandal, The Inspector General. Off-Broadway: Henry V, The Skin of Our Teeth (Theatre for a New Audience); The Government Inspector (Red Bull); The Misanthrope, The Winter’s Tale (Classic Stage Company); King Philip’s Head Is Still on That Pike Just Down the Road (Clubbed Thumb). The Acting Company (seven seasons): The School for Scandal (Drama Desk Award), The Robber Bridegroom (Drama Desk nomination), The Cradle Will Rock (Off-Broadway/Old Vic, London). Regional: American Repertory Theater, Guthrie Theater, Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Theatre, South Coast Rep, McCarter, Yale Rep (Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman, The Alchemist), and St. Nicholas/ Chicago (Jeff Awards: The Primary English Class, The Curse of an Aching Heart). Television/film: Warehouse

13, Law & Order: SVU, Titus, Caroline in the City, Two Bits, Quiz Show, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Wedding Banquet, Illuminata, Spike of Bensonhurst. Mary Lou is a Lecturer in Acting at David Geffen School of Drama, CalArts (CoHead, B.F.A. acting program), Tisch at NYU, Stella Adler, BADA in Oxford. Directing credits include As You Like It (Juilliard), Henry V (TAC), The Beaux’ Stratagem (Pearl Theater), Richard II (Creative Pulse, LA). Member AEA, SAGAFTRA, SDC. Founding Member of The Acting Company. Education: Juilliard Drama (Group 1). Mary Lou is a Beinecke Fellow at David Geffen School of Drama this spring.

Sandra Shipley* (Sally) was born and raised in England. She attended New College of Speech and Drama and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, appeared at the Royal Court and on the West End, and in regional repertory. Broadway credits include Present Laughter with Kevin Kline, Indiscretions, Pygmalion, The Importance of Being Earnest, Vincent in Brixton, Equus, and Retreat from Moscow. Off-Broadway: Venus, Stuff Happens (The Public Theater); Suddenly Last Summer (Roundabout); The Daughter in Law, Hindle Wakes (Mint), Phaedra in Delirium (Classic Stage Company), Gentleman Prefer Blondes (Encores), Man in Snow (La MaMa). National and International tours: Anything Goes and Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C., McCarter, The Old Globe, Guthrie, ART, Long Wharf Theatre, Humana Festival. Previously at Yale Rep: You Never Can Tell, The Way of the World, The Adventures of Amy Bock, and Venus. Sandra is a Beinecke Fellow at David Geffen School of Drama this spring.

Rita Wolf* she/her/hers (Lena)

Recent theater: Out of Time at The Public Theater and Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance for The Transport Group, both coproductions with NAATCO. Other recent credits include The Michaels and What Happened? The Michaels Abroad, the final two installments of Richard Nelson’s Rhinebeck Plays (The Public Theater and Hunter College); the world premiere of Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul at New York Theatre Workshop, Mark Taper Forum, and BAM; David Grieg’s The American Pilot (MTC, Drama Desk nomination: Featured Actress); David Hare’s Stuff Happens (The Public Theater); Hammad Chaudhry’s An Ordinary Muslim (New York Theatre Workshop); and Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba (Mark Taper Forum). Television and film work includes My Beautiful Laundrette (Hanif Kureishi/Stephen Frears), Girl Six directed by Spike Lee, Law & Order, and The Good Wife. Audio work includes Madhuri Shekar’s Evil Eye for Audible (Winner, Audie for Best original work 2020). Rita also has extensive theater, film, and television credits in the UK and is the co-founder of the London-based Kali Theatre Company which exclusively produces and promotes the work of South Asian female playwrights. In her free time, she studies yoga and the classical Indian dance form, Bharatnatyam. Rita is a Beinecke Fellow at David Geffen School of Drama this spring.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

UNDERSTUDY CAST in alphabetical

order

Chloe Howard (understudy for Sally) is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. She is the co-creator and lead of VIRAL, a web series that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and subsequently screened at SeriesFest and Stareable Fest LA, where she was nominated for Best in Acting. Chloe grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, attended Northwestern University, and most recently lived in New York where she acted in several developmental processes for new plays and musicals. chloe-howard.com

Anna Roman she/her (understudy for Vi) is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where she has been seen in Uncle Vanya, Fucking A, and How to Live on Earth. Other credits include stray dogs by comfort ifeoma katchy and The Lighthouse Keepers (Yale Cabaret); The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (Tampa Repertory Theatre); Cannabis Passover by Sofya-Levitsky Weitz, and Pride and Prejudice (Chautauqua Theater Company). She has a B.F.A. in theater performance from the University of Florida. She is honored to be making her Yale Rep understudy debut with this dream of a group and alongside her brilliant teacher, Mary Lou. Love always to her family and E. @a.rom

Lauren F. Walker (understudy for Mrs. Jarrett) is a second-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include Cleansed, The Alley, and Furlough’s Paradise. As an artist who is dedicated to telling stories that make space for the complexities of humanity, Lauren is honored to uplift this story. Lauren’s previous credits include Charmed (MCC), Cullud Wattah (The Public Theater), That Damn Michael Che (HBO), and Bad Monkey (Apple TV+). Lauren would like to send a special thank you to God, her family, and her support system here at Yale. LaurenFWalker.com | @lovevolvz

Amelia Windom she/her (understudy for Lena) is in her fourth year at David Geffen School of Drama, where she was seen in Measure for Measure, HELLYOUTALMBOUT, Marys Seacole, and Affinity. Previous theater credits include A Christmas Carol, Wonderous Strange, Coffee Break (Actors Theatre of Louisville); and The Piano Teacher (Kitchen Theatre Company). Television credits include Law & Order: SVU, The Sinner, High Fidelity, and The Flight Attendant Amelia received her B.F.A. in acting from Ball State University.

CREATIVE TEAM in alphabetical order

Matthew Armentrout (Hair Designer) previously worked at Yale Rep on Wish You Were Here, The Brightest Thing in the World, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Today is My Birthday, and Manahatta. Broadway: Birthday Candles, Paradise Square, Flying Over Sunset, and Bernhardt/ Hamlet. Off Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), Othello (Shakespeare in the Park). Regional: Bliss (The 5th Avenue Theatre), Jitney (National Tour), Paradise Square (Berkeley Repertory Theatre).

Liam Bellman-Sharpe (Music Director) is a multi-disciplinary practitioner working primarily in sound and music for live performance. Liam specializes in devising unique musical and sonic scores and environments for theater, dance, installation, and hybrid forms, as well as designing sound delivery systems and digital tools to realize these scores. As a composer, sound designer, orchestrator, musician, and music director, Liam’s work has been heard in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, and Australia. Liam holds an M.F.A. in sound design from David Geffen School of Drama, and a B.H.Mus from the Melbourne Conservatorium of music. Liam’s theatrical credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Classical Theatre of Harlem); Everybody (Yale Dramat); Manning, Mr. Burns: a post-electric play, shakespeare’s as u like it, and The Tempest (the Geffen School); The American Unicorn (Long Wharf Theatre); Bakkhai (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Ugly One, Mud, Phosphene, and Camille: A Tearjerker (Yale Cabaret). With dancer Sarah

Xiao, he has presented untitled semi-improvised dance/music piece (Yale Cabaret) and from/to nothing (International Festival of Arts & Ideas).

Calleri Jensen Davis (Casting Director) is a creative casting partnership among James Calleri, Erica Jensen, and Paul Davis of over 20 years. They began their collaboration with Yale Rep last season with Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles and the ripple, the wave that carried me home. Broadway credits: The Piano Lesson, Topdog/Underdog, for colored girls..., Thoughts of a Colored Man, Burn This, Fool for Love, The Elephant Man, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Of Mice and Men, Venus in Fur, A Raisin in the Sun, 33 Variations. Television: Love Life, Queens, Dickinson, and The Path, to name a few. callerijensendavis.com

Caryl Churchill (Playwright) was born on September 3, 1938, in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first play written while she was still at university, was first staged in 1958 and won an award at the Sunday Times National Union of Students Drama Festival. Caryl Churchill’s plays include Owners, Traps, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud 9, Top Girls, Fen, Serious Money, Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Skriker, Blue Heart, This Is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?, Seven Jewish Children, Love and Information, Here We Go, and Escaped Alone Music theater includes Lives of the Great Poisoners and Hotel, both with Orlando Gough. Caryl has also written for radio and television.

CREATIVE TEAM in alphabetical order

Liz Diamond (Director) is a Resident Director at Yale Repertory Theatre and serves as Chair of the Directing program at David Geffen School of Drama. Productions at Yale Rep include The Winter’s Tale; Lucinda Coxon’s Happy Now? (also at Primary Stages in New York); Marcus Gardley’s dance of the holy ghosts (world premiere); Strindberg’s Miss Julie; Sunil Kuruvilla’s Fighting Words and Rice Boy (world premiere); Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy; Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle and St. Joan of the Stockyards; and SuzanLori Parks’s The America Play (world premiere), The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (world premiere), and Father Comes Homes

From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3. She has directed new plays, adaptations, and classical works at theaters including the Alliance, American Repertory Theater, The Public Theater, Vineyard Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Westport Country Playhouse, and has won the OBIE and the Connecticut Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Direction. Additional projects at Yale include Diamond’s staging of her translation of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat, in a joint David Geffen School of Drama/Yale School of Music production at Carnegie Hall, as well as Matthew Suttor’s and Timothy Young’s musical adaptation of Blaise Cendrar’s epic poem, La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France for the Beinecke Library’s 50th-anniversary celebration.

Julie Foh she/her (Vocal and Dialect Coach) is a voice, text, and dialect coach and is an Associate Professor Adjunct of Acting at David Geffen School of Drama. Previous coaching credits include the ripple, the wave that carried me home (Yale Rep); The Winter’s Tale (Hartford Stage); Othello, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus (Next Chapter Podcasts); A Man for All Seasons, And a Nightingale Sang, The Caretaker, A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Belfast Girls (Irish Rep); Mlima’s Tale (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Westport Country Playhouse); Ride the Cyclone: The Musical, Sleuth (McCarter Theatre Center); Wolverine: The Lost Trail (Marvel podcast); As You Like It, King Charles III (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Sherwood (Cleveland Play House); Pygmalion (BEDLAM); Familiar (Woolly Mammoth); Trans Scripts, Cardenio (American Repertory Theater); The Tallest Tree in the Forest (Tectonic Theater Project); and others. She is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, a Master Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork, and co-author of Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training. Adam Taylor Foster (Assistant Stage Manager) is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where credits include rent free, Marys Seacole, How to Live on Earth, HELLYOUTALMBOUT, and Measure for Measure. Other select credits: Three Sisters, Dindin, Buried Child, The Ballad of Bobby Botswain, Liv at Sea (Harbor

Stage Company); Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice (UMass Boston). Thank you to Megan for marrying me.

Keira Jacobs (Technical Director) is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include Ghosts (assistant technical director), Julius Caesar (projection engineer), The Carlotta Festival (associate production electrician), and Yale Rep’s Wish You Were Here (assistant technical director). Prior to Yale, Keira was a freelance carpenter and technical director based in Chicago, where she held positions with Chicago Opera Theater, Lookingglass Theatre Company, and First Folio Theatre, among others. She holds a B.A. in theater and drama and a minor in German from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Chloe Xiaonan Liu* she/her (Assistant Stage Manager) is a Chinese M.F.A. candidate in her fourth year at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include The Alley, Next to Normal, Green Suga Bloos, The Cherry Orchard, Twelfth Night, as well as Choir Boy at Yale Rep. Chloe holds a B.A. from Shanghai Theatre Academy. Her working experience in China included the Disney musicals Beauty and The Beast and The Lion King as well as Man of La Mancha and The Sound of Music national tours.

Charlie Lovejoy* (Stage Manager) is a fourth-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. OffBroadway and NYC: Kimberly Akimbo (Atlantic Theater Company), Seagull

(Elevator Repair Service). Regional: The Brightest Thing in the World (Yale Rep); Otello, Kiss Me Kate (Central City Opera). Chicago: The Santaland Diaries, Incendiary, graveyard shift (Goodman Theatre); Miracle: A Musical 108 Years in the Making (Royal George Theatre); La Ronde (American Theater Company). Academic: Moonie, BURNBABYBURN: an american dream (Yale Cabaret); Moe’s a D*ck, littleboy/ littleman, Romeo and Juliet, Bodas de sangre/Blood Wedding (The Geffen School). B.A., University of Chicago.

Shawn Lovell-Boyle (Projection Designer) has designed projections for theater, dance, music, installation, and themed entertainment across the United States and internationally. Organizations include Atlantic Theater Company, Tulsa Ballet, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Denver Center, Lagoon Park, Alliance Theatre, Yale Rep, Goodspeed Musicals, Berkshire Theater Group, Cork Opera House, and Ogunquit Playhouse. Broadway: Paradise Square. Previous credits at Yale Rep include Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, peerless, and Elevada (Connecticut Critics Circle Award). Shawn is a member of United Scenic Artists I.A.T.S.E. Local 829 Projection & Lighting. B.F.A., Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts; M.F.A., David Geffen School of Drama, where he is also a faculty member. ShawnBoyleDesign.com

Catherine Sheehy she/her (Production Dramaturg) is Resident Dramaturg at Yale Repertory Theatre and the Chair of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at David Geffen

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

CREATIVE TEAM in alphabetical order

School of Drama. Her Yale Rep credits include Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3, Happy Days, Elevada, These Paper Bullets!, In a Year with 13 Moons, The Winter’s Tale, Bossa Nova, POP!, Trouble in Mind, and The King Stag (which she also co-adapted with Evan and Mike Yionoulis). She’s a founding member of Rolin Jones’s Dwight Street Book Club and New Neighborhood. Her television work with Rolin includes HBO’s Perry Mason and AMC’s Interview with the Vampire. Her adaptation of Pride and Prejudice has been produced at Asolo Repertory Theatre and Dallas Theater Center. She has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Public Theater, Yale Institute for Music Theatre, the Signature Theatre, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Center Stage, and in New York and Ireland with the late Joseph Chaikin. For four seasons she was Festival Dramaturg at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. She is a former associate editor of American Theatre and a former editor of Theater magazine.

Yu-Jung Shen 沈毓融 (Costume Designer) is a painter-artist from Taiwan and a 2024 M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. His/ ta-de current focus is dramatic art and design. He received a 2017 World Stage Design Gold Medal award for Pool (No water), award-sponsored by OISTAT (International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians) with his Taiwan Taipei National University of the Arts undergrad colleagues. He has worked mostly as a costume assistant, illustrator, tailor, draper, milliner, embroiderer, and textile artist for various companies: Axiom Space, 中 華民國 Taiwan Ministry of National

Defense, Saudi Arabia’s at-Turaif Living Museum, AMC Networks, The University of Texas at Austin, ZACH Theater, Ping-Fong Acting Troupe, and Godot Theatre Company.

Stephen Strawbridge (Lighting Designer) has designed more than 200 productions on and off Broadway and at most leading regional theaters and opera houses across the U.S. Internationally he has helped create major premieres in Bergen, Copenhagen, The Hague, Hong Kong, Linz, Lisbon, Munich, Naples, São Paulo, Stockholm, Stratford-Upon-Avon (for the Royal Shakespeare Company), Wrocław, and Vienna. Artistic collaborators have included such notable directors and choreographers as Robert Brustein, James Bundy, Martha Clarke, Graciela Daniele, Barry Edelstein, Richard Foreman, Athol Fugard, Loretta Greco, Mark Lamos, Emily Mann, Kathleen Marshall, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Diane Paulus, Erica Schmidt, Bartlett Sher, Rebecca Taichman, John Tillinger, Robert Wilson, Mark Wing-Davey, and Robert Woodruff. He has numerous pieces in the repertories of Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Alison Chase/ Performance. Recent credits include King Lear with Joe Morton at Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, The Taming of the Shrew directed by Shana Cooper, A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Patricia McGregor, and Twelfth Night directed by Kathleen Marshall, all at The Old Globe in San Diego. He has been recognized with numerous awards and nominations including the American Theatre Wing, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Connecticut Critics Circle, Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum, Drama

Desk, Helen Hayes, Henry Hewes Design, and Lucille Lortel. He is head of the lighting design concentration at David Geffen School of Drama and a Lighting Advisor for Yale Rep.

Lia Tubiana (Scenic Designer) is a French-Tunisian scenic designer and architect, currently in her final semester pursuing an M.F.A. at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include Julius Caesar and littleboy/littleman. She is also the associate set designer for Les Paravents opening in June at the Théâtre de L’Odéon in Paris.

@lia_louna

Karoline Vielemeyer (Production Dramaturg) is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where credits include Moe’s a D*ck and How to Live on Earth Originally from Germany, she holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in theatre arts and French and graduated from Prague Film School specializing in directing. Before pursuing her M.F.A., Karoline worked as a director, assistant director, and editor for cinema and television productions. Her most recent credits include assistant directing the feature documentary Rock Chicks—I am not female to you and directing the short film Woman in the Mirror—moments before Mata Hari’s first performance, both released in 2023. She is thrilled to collaborate on this production of Churchill’s magnificent play with this wonderful cast and creative team.

Sinan Refik Zafar he/him/his (Sound Designer) is an award-winning sound designer and composer from NYC. Credits include What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway, National Tour, New York Theatre Workshop); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (National Tour, Playwrights Horizons); English [Obie Award], Shhh (Atlantic Theater Company); Letters from Max (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations, Signature Theatre); Which Way to the Stage, All the Natalie Portmans (MCC Theater); To My Girls (Second Stage); The Vagrant Trilogy, Cullud Wattah (The Public Theater); Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons), Montag (Soho Rep). Regional: Kennedy Center, Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Williamstown, among others. M.F.A., David Geffen School of Drama. sinanzafar.com

Concord Theatricals is the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of R&H Theatricals, Samuel French, TamsWitmark and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, plus dozens of new signings each year. Our unparalleled roster includes the work of Irving Berlin, Agatha Christie, George & Ira Gershwin, Marvin Hamlisch, Lorraine Hansberry, Kander & Ebb, Tom Kitt, Ken Ludwig, Marlow & Moss, LinManuel Miranda, Anaïs Mitchell, Dominique Morisseau, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Thornton Wilder, and August Wilson. We are the only firm providing truly comprehensive services to the creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording, and first-class production. Follow us @concordshows.

FOR THIS PRODUCTION

ARTISTIC

Assistant Director

Alexis Kulani Woodard

Assistant Scenic Designer

Anthony Robles

Assistant Costume Designer

Laize Qin

Associate Lighting Designer

Graham Zellers

Assistant Lighting Designer

Celia Chen

Associate Sound Designer

Mike Winch

Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer

Shawn Poellet

Assistant Projection Designer

Christian Killada

Assistant Dramaturg

Georgia Petersen

PRODUCTION

Associate Production Manager

Steph Burke

Assistant Technical Directors

Lilliana Gonzalez

Isaac Lau

Matthew Phillips

Assistant Properties Manager

Leo Surach

Production Electrician

Luke Tarnow-Bulatowicz

Projection Engineer

Luanne Jubsee

Projection Content Creators

John Horzen, Ein Kim, Sam Skynner, Ke Xu

Projection Programmer

Wiktor Freifeld

Front of House Mix Engineer

Robert Salerno

Run Crew

Ida Cuttler, Amani Jaramoga, Austin

Riffelmacher

Run Crew Swings

comfort ifeoma katchy, ML Roberts

ADMINISTRATION

Associate Managing Director

Jake Hurwitz

Assistant Managing Director

Jeremy Landes

Management Assistants

Mithra Seyedi

Kavya Shetty

Taylor Ybarra

Company Manager

Sarah Machiko Haber

Assistant Company Managers

Claudia Campos, Joy Chen, Victoria

McNaughton, Sarah Saifi, Mithra Seyedi

House Managers

Claudia Campos

Iyanna Huffington Whitney

SPECIAL THANKS

Ralph Chipman, Hanna Diamond Chipman, Odysseus Szarabajka,The Ray Charles Foundation, Lily Thorne

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE STAFF

Artistic Director

James Bundy

Managing Director

Florie Seery

Associate Artistic Director, Director of New Play Programs

Chantal Rodriguez

General Manager

Carla L. Jackson

ARTISTIC

Resident Artists

Playwright in Residence

Tarell Alvin McCraney

Resident Directors

Lileana Blain-Cruz

Liz Diamond

Tamilla Woodard

Dramaturgy Advisor

Amy Boratko

Resident Dramaturg

Catherine Sheehy

Set Design Advisor

Riccardo Hernández

Resident Set Designer

Michael Yeargan

Costume Design Advisors

Oana Botez

Ilona Somogyi

Resident Costume Designer

Toni-Leslie James

Lighting Design Advisors

Alan C. Edwards

Stephen Strawbridge

Projection Design Advisor

Shawn Lovell-Boyle

Sound Design Advisor

Jill BC Du Boff

Voice and Text Advisor

Grace Zandarski

Resident Fight and Intimacy Directors

Kelsey Rainwater

Michael Rossmy

Stage Management Advisor

Narda E. Alcorn

Associate Artists

52nd Street Project, Kama Ginkas, Mark Lamos, MTYZ

Theatre/Moscow New Generation Theatre, Bill Rauch, Sarah Ruhl, Henrietta Yanovskaya

Artistic Management

Production Stage Manager

James Mountcastle

Senior Artistic Producer

Amy Boratko

Associate Producer

Kay Perdue Meadows

Artistic Fellows

Jisun Kim

Madeline Pages

Casting

James Calleri

Erica Jensen

Paul Davis

Senior Administrative

Assistant to the Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director

Josie Brown

Senior Administrative

Assistant for Directing, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Playwriting, and Stage Management

Laurie Coppola

Senior Administrative Assistant for Design

Kate Begley Baker

Senior Administrative Assistant for the Acting Program

Krista DeVellis

Library Services

Erin Carney

PRODUCTION

Production Management Director of Production

Shaminda Amarakoon

Production Manager

Jonathan Reed

Production Manager for Studio Projects and Special Events

C. Nikki Mills

Scenery

Technical Director for Yale Rep

Neil Mulligan

Technical Directors for David Geffen School of Drama

Latiana “LT” Gourzong

Matt Welander

Electro Mechanical

Laboratory Supervisor

Eric Lin

Scene Shop Supervisor

Eric Sparks

Senior Lead Carpenter

Matt Gaffney

Lead Carpenters

Ryan Gardner

Doug Kester

Kat McCarthey

Sharon Reinhart

Carpenter

David Di Fabio

Carpentry Intern

Isaac Lau

Painting

Scenic Charge

Mikah Berky

Scenic Artists

Lia Akkerhuis

Nathan Jasunas

Kathleen Kennan

Paint Interns

Nicole Goldstein

Laam Tsang

Properties

Properties Supervisor

Jennifer McClure

Properties Craftsperson

David P. Schrader

Properties Associate

Zach Faber

Properties Stock Manager

Mark Dionne

Properties Intern

Destany Langfield

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE STAFF

Costumes

Costume Shop Manager

Christine Szczepanski

Senior Drapers

Clarissa Wylie Youngberg

Mary Zihal

Interim Senior Draper

Susan Aziz

Senior First Hands

Deborah Bloch

Patricia Van Horn

Costume Project Coordinator

Linda Kelley-Dodd

Costume Stock Manager

Jamie Farkas

Costume Interns

Amani Jaramoga

Annie Wang

Electrics

Lighting Supervisor

Donald W. Titus

Senior House Electricians

Jennifer Carlson

Linda-Cristal Young

Electricians

Katie Brown

Alary Sutherland

Ryan White

Sound

Sound Supervisor

Mike Backhaus

Senior Lead Sound Engineer

Stephanie Smith

Sound Intern

Robert Salerno

Projections

Projection Supervisor

Anja Powell

Stage Operations

Stage Carpenter

Janet Cunningham

Lead Wardrobe Supervisor

Elizabeth Bolster

Lead Properties Runner

William Ordynowicz

Light Board Programmer

Sabrina Idom

ADMINISTRATION

General Management

Associate Managing Directors

Jake Hurwitz

Chloe Knight

A.J. Roy

Assistant Managing Director

Jeremy Landes

Senior Administrative Assistant to the Managing Director and General Manager

Sarah Masotta

Management Assistant

Taylor Ybarra

Company Manager

Sarah Machiko Haber

Assistant Company Managers

Joy Chen

Victoria McNaughton

Development and Alumni Affairs

Senior Director of Development and Alumni Affairs

Deborah S. Berman

Deputy Director of Operations for Development and Alumni Affairs

Susan C. Clark

Senior Associate Director of Development

Casey Grambo

Associate Director of Development and Alumni Affairs

Jacob Santos

Assistant Director of Development and Alumni Affairs

Mikayla Stanley

Senior Administrative Assistant to Development and Alumni Affairs

Jennifer E. Alzona

Development Associate

Delaney Kelley

Finance, Human Resources, and Digital Technology

Director of Finance and Business Administration/Lead Administrator

Nicola Blake

Human Resources Business Partner

Trinh DiNoto

Director, Yale Tessitura Consortium, and Web Technology

Janna J. Ellis

Manager, Business Operations

Martha Boateng

Business Office Analyst

Shainn Reaves

Digital Communications Associate

George Tinari

Business Office Specialists

Moriah Clarke

Karem Orellana-Flores

Business Office Assistant

Asberry Thomas

Digital Technology Associates

Edison Dule

Garry Heyward

Senior Administrative

Assistant to Business Office, Digital and Web Technology, Facility Operations, Human Resources, Tessitura

Monique Moore

Database Application Consultants

Ben Silvert

Erich Bolton

Bo Du

Marketing, Communications, and Audience Services

Director of Marketing

Daniel Cress

Director of Communications

Steven Padla

Senior Associate Director of Marketing and Communications

Caitlin Griffin

Associate Director of Marketing and Communications

Samanta Cubias

Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications

Roman Sanchez

Community Engagement Associate

a.k. payne

Senior Administrative Assistant for Marketing and Communications

Mishelle Raza

Interim Senior Administrative Assistant for Marketing and Communications

Rachel Zwick

Marketing and Communications Assistant

Mithra Seyedi

Publications Manager

Marguerite Elliott

Production Photographer

Joan Marcus

Art and Design

Paul Evan Jeffrey/ Passage Design

Videographer

David Kane

Director of Audience Services

Laura Kirk

Assistant Director of Audience Services

Shane Quinn

Subscriptions Coordinator

Tracy Baldini

Audience Services Associate

Molly Leona

Customer Service and Safety Officers

Ralph Black, Jr.

Kevin Delaney

Ed Jooss

Box Office Assistants

Pilar Bylinsky, Jordi Bertrán Ramírez, Emma Fusco, Sydney Raine Garick, Jordan Graf, Elliot Lee, Kenneth Murray, Timothy “TJ” Wildow

Accessibility Assistant

Prentiss Patrick-Carter

Ushers

Calum Baker, Danielys Batista, Tracy Bennett, Maura Bozeman, Logan Carr, Josh Ellis, Gerson Espinoza Campos, Megan Foster, Lydia Gompper, Celete Kato, Şeyma Kaya, Di’Jhon McCoy, Keenan Miller, Bonnie Moeller, William Romain, Jana Ross, Mao Shiotsu, Jonathan Singleton, Nicole Stack, Larsson Youngberg

Theater Safety and Occupational Health

Director of Theater Safety and Occupational Health

Anna Glover

Assistant Director of Theater Safety

Kelly O’Loughlin

Associate Safety Advisors

Cian Jaspar Freeman

Luanne Jubsee

Operations

Director of Facility Operations

Nadir Balan

Associate Director of Operations

Brandon Fuller

Operations Assistant

Kelvin Essilfie

Arts and Graduate Studies Superintendents

Jennifer Draughn

Francisco Eduardo Pimentel

Custodial Team Leaders

Andrew Mastriano

Sherry Stanley

Facility Stewards

Ronald Douglas

Marcia Riley

Custodians

Tylon Frost, Willia Grant, Cassandra Hobby, Melloney Lucas, Shanna Ramos, Jerome Sonia

Escaped Alone, March 8–30, 2024. Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut.

Yale Repertory Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT are represented by United Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES

For Escaped Alone

March 23 at 2PM

Audio Description

Pre-show description begins at 1:45PM

A live narration of the play’s action, sets, and costumes for patrons who are blind or have low vision.

Touch Tour

Prior to a performance, patrons who are blind or have low vision touch fabric samples, rehearsal props, and building materials to understand what better comprises the production design.

March 23 at 8PM

American Sign Language

(ASL)

An ASL-interpreted performance for patrons who are deaf or have hearing loss.

March 30 at 2PM

Open Captioning

A digital display of the play’s dialogue as it’s spoken for patrons who are deaf or have hearing loss.

c2 is pleased to be the official Open Captioning Provider of Yale Repertory Theatre.

Free listening devices, headsets, and neck loops as well as Braille and large print programs are available at the concierge desk in the theater lobby.

Yale Repertory Theatre gratefully acknowledges the Carol L. Sirot Foundation for underwriting the assistive listening systems in our theaters.

Plan Ahead!

Upcoming Accessibility Services for The Far Country by Lloyd Suh, directed by Ralph B. Peña.

Audio Description

May 11 at 2PM

Touch Tour

May 11 at 2PM

American Sign Language

May 11 at 8PM

Open Caption

May 18 at 2PM

Dates and times are subject to change.

For more information about our accessibility services or to provide feedback about your experience, contact Laura Kirk, Director of Audience Services: 203.432.1234 or laura.kirk@yale.edu.

ACCESSIBILITY TEAM

in alphabetical order

David Chu/c2inc-caption coalition (Open Captioner) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit consultant and the leading provider of professional Live Performance

Captioning (sm) for theatrical and cultural presentations. c2 members hold the distinction of being the very first to caption live theater (the Paper Mill Playhouse, NJ), the first to debut on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and have introduced open captioning in prestigious theaters across the country and in London. Captioning in theater has gained momentum and acceptance by theatergoers since its debut in 1996. It addresses the needs of a far larger audience of hard of hearing and deaf people, which includes those who do not use sign language, are late deafened, not self-identified with hearing loss, and those who simply might have missed a punch line.

Lisa Lockley (ASL Interpreter) is delighted to be part of this show. She is grateful to God for the opportunity to incorporate her enjoyment of theater and interpreting to provide accessibility. Her theatrical interpreting experience includes Professor Jurassic’s DinoStravaganza, Bird or Dinosaurio?, Boo at the Zoo: The Wildlife Witch’s Spooky Spectacular (The Bronx Zoo Wildlife Theater), Maestro’s Magical Music Box (Kraine Theatre); Sleeping Beauty, Dick Rivington & the Cat (Abrons Arts Center); The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre). Lisa thanks the community for their nurturing spirit: her family, friends, deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind, visually impaired, and other abilities!

Marydell Merrill (Audio Describer) is an audio describer for Yale Rep and Hartford Stage and the Artistic Director of Hamden High School’s Mainstage Ensemble. Credits include Yale Rep’s WILL POWER!; the Connecticut Association for Physical Fitness, Health, Recreation, and Dance; Breakdancing Shakespeare at Hartford Stage (Master Teaching Artist); and several regional and national educational theater festivals and conferences. Marydell is a national theater performance adjudicator and a member of the national screening team of exemplary high school theatrical productions for the Educational Theatre Association. Awards: 2014 Northeast Educational Theatre Festival Hall of Fame, 2014 International Thespian Society Inspirational Theatre Educator Award, and the 2017 Connecticut Theatre Educator of the Year from the Connecticut Chapter of the International Thespian Society. A member of Actors’ Equity Association, she has performed with several companies including Long Wharf Theatre and Connecticut Free Shakespeare.

JO Welch she/her (ASL Interpreter) is a first-generation Latina and Certified Interpreter. She grew up in the marginalized space between Latinx and American cultures and is influenced by her commitment to the Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard-of-hearing communities. For over 30 years, she has included performing arts work within these communities, both on and backstage. She has just returned from Skylight Music Theater’s 2024 Spring Awakening JO has also the honor of working with Broadway In Boston, A.R.T and the Signature Theatre, NYC. jowelch.com

EVENTS!

YOUTH PROGRAMS

Monday, March 4, 6–7:30PM

Yale Rep @ NHFPL Mitchell Branch Library

37 Harrison Street, New Haven

Join us for tea and conversation about Churchill with the production dramaturgs.

Saturday, March 9 at 3PM

Yale Rep @ NHFPL Wilson Branch Library

303 Washington Avenue, New Haven

Join us for an activity inspired by eco-drama.

Saturday, March 9 at 8PM

Monday, March 11 at 8PM

Post-Show Conversations

Join us in the August Wilson Lounge following the performance for a conversation about the show with our production dramaturgs.

Wednesday, March 20 at 1PM

Pre-Show Reception and Conversation

Please join us for refreshments in the August Wilson Lounge, where members of the creative team will hold a discussion about the play at 1:20PM.

Saturday, March 23 at 2PM

Talk Back

Join us after the show for a conversation about the play and its themes with members of the company.

Wednesday, March 27 at 8PM

Spanish Language Captioning La presentación del 27 de marzo será subtitulada en español. This performance will be open-captioned in Spanish.

All events are subject to change.

WILL POWER! is Yale Rep’s annual educational initiative, designed to bring middle and high school students to see live theater. Since our 2003–04 season, WILL POWER! has served more than 20,000 Connecticut students and educators. This spring we will offer programming centered on Lloyd Suh’s The Far Country to New Haven Public Schools students and educators. In previous seasons, the program has included early school-time matinees, free or heavily subsidized tickets, study guides, and post-performance discussions with actors and members of the creative teams. WILL POWER! is committed to giving teachers curricular support through free workshops and professional development about the content and themes of the plays.

THE DWIGHT/EDGEWOOD PROJECT (D/EP) is a community engagement program of Yale Rep and David Geffen School of Drama for middle school-aged students from Barnard Environmental Science and Technology Magnet School, a K-8 school located on the edge of the Dwight and Edgewood neighborhoods in New Haven. The students are paired with mentors from the Geffen School to write their own plays. The month-long program begins in late May, culminating in fully produced plays performed by the Yale mentors and presented for the New Haven

Yale Rep’s youth programs are supported by The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation, NewAlliance Foundation, and Esme Usdan.

DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF DRAMA BOARD OF ADVISORS

John B. Beinecke YC ’69, Chair

Jeremy Smith ’76, Vice Chair

Nina Adams MS ’69, NUR ’77

Rudy Aragon LAW ’79

Amy Aquino ’86

John Badham ’63, YC ’61

Pun Bandhu ’01

Sonja Berggren

Special Research Fellow ’13

Frances Black ’09

Carmine Boccuzzi YC ’90, LAW ’94

Lynne Bolton

Kate Burton ’82

James Chen ’08

Lois Chiles

Patricia Clarkson ’85

Edgar M. Cullman III ’02, YC ’97

Michael David ’68

Wendy Davies

Sasha Emerson ’84

Lily Fan YC ’01, LAW ’04

Terry Fitzpatrick ’83

Marc Flanagan ’70

Anita Pamintuan Fusco YC ’90

David Alan Grier ’81

Sally Horchow YC ’92

Ellen Iseman YC ’76

David G. Johnson YC ’78

Rolin Jones ’04

Sarah Long ’92, YC ’85

Cathy MacNeil-Hollinger ’86

Brian Mann ’79

Drew McCoy

David Milch YC ’66

Jennifer Harrison Newman ’11

Richard Ostreicher ’79

Carol Ostrow ’80

Maulik Pancholy ’03

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Tracy Chutorian Semler YC ’86

Michael Sheehan ’76

Anna Deavere Smith HON ’14

Woody Taft YC ’92

Andrew Tisdale

Edward Trach ’58

Julie Turaj YC ’93

Esme Usdan YC ’77

Courtney B. Vance ’86

Donald R. Ware YC ’71

Shana C. Waterman YC ’94, LAW ’00

Kim Williams

Henry Winkler ’70

Amanda Wallace Woods ’03

Thank you to the generous contributors to David Geffen School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre

LEADERSHIP SOCIETY

($50,000+)

Anonymous

John B. Beinecke

Sonja Berggren and Patrick Seaver

Lois Chiles

Estate of Nicholas Diggs*

Estate of Richard Diggs*

The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation

Anita Pamintuan Fusco and Dino Fusco

David Geffen Foundation

David G. Johnson

Neil Mazzella

Talia Shire Schwartzman

The Shubert Foundation

Jeremy Smith

Woody Taft

Stephen Timbers

Edward Trach

Esme Usdan

Donald R. Ware

GUARANTORS

($25,000–$49,999)

Americana Arts Foundation

Rudy Aragon

Reginald J. Brown and Tiffeny F. Sanchez

Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development

Sarah Long

National Endowment for the Arts

Tracy Chutorian Semler

The Sir Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation

BENEFACTORS ($10,000–$24,999)

Nina Adams and Moreson Kaplan

Lynne and Roger Bolton

James and Deborah Burrows Foundation

Burry Fredrik Foundation

Wendy Davies

Michael Diamond*

Mabel Burchard Fischer Grant Foundation

Lucille Lortel Foundation

Cathy MacNeil-Hollinger and Mark Hollinger

Princess Grace Foundation

Michael and Riki Sheehan

Carol L. Sirot

Trust for Mutual Understanding

PATRONS

($5,000–$9,999)

Pun Bandhu

Eugene G. & Margaret M. Blackford Memorial Fund for the Blind, Bank of America, N.A.,Trustee

Santino Blumetti

Carmine Boccuzzi and Bernard Lumpkin

James Bundy and Anne Tofflemire

CT Humanities

Michael S. David

Terry Fitzpatrick

Howard Gilman Foundation

Bigelow Greene

James Guerry Hood

Brian Tyree Henry

Sally Horchow

Ellen Iseman

Rolin Jones

Tien-Tsung Ma

David and Leni Moore Family Foundation

NewAlliance Foundation

Carol Ostrow

PRODUCER’S CIRCLE

($2,500–$4,999)

Anonymous

Ed Barlow

Lisa Barlow

Angela Bassett

Frances Black

Cyndi Brown

Ian Calderon

Joan Channick

Lily Fan

Deborah Freedman and Ben Ledbetter

Fred Gorelick and Cheryl MacLachlan

JANA Foundation

Ann Judd and Bennett Pudlin

Rocco Landesman

George Lindsay, Jr.

Thank you to the generous contributors to David Geffen School

Tarell Alvin McCraney

Leonard Molczadski in honor of Norman

Walsh Taylor

Richard Ostreicher

Pam and Jeff Rank

Bill and Sharon Reynolds

Estate of June M. Rosenblatt

Abby Roth and R. Lee Stump

Julie Turaj

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($1,000–$2,499)

Chuck Adomanis

Laura and Victor Altshul

Debby Applegate and Bruce Tulgan

Paula Armbruster

Richard C. Beacham

John Lee Beatty

Anne and Guido Calabresi

James Chen

Bob and Priscilla Dannies

Elwood and Catherine Davis

Ramon Delgado

Lynn Doucette-Stamm

Melanie Ginter

Jon Farley

Lindy Lee Gold

LT Gourzong

Eric M. Glover

Rob Greenberg

Mark Haber and Chiyo Moriuchi

William B. Halbert

Jane Head

Dale and Stephen Hoffman

Suzanne Jackson

Pam Jordan

Abby Kenigsberg

Fran Kumin

The Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation

Charles Letts

Kenneth Lewis

Jennifer Lindstrom

Chih-Lung Liu

Brian Mann

John McAndrew

Jim and Eileen Mydosh

Stephen Newman in memory of Ruth Hunt Newman

Jacob G. Padrón

Ross S. Richards

Russ Rosensweig

Traci D. Shed

Barbara Siegler

Slotznick Family Fund, a charitable fund of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities

Shepard and Marlene Stone

Courtney B. Vance

Carol M. Waaser

Shana C. Waterman

George C. White

Carolyn Seely Wiener

Kim Williams

The Raul Yanes and Sara Hazelwood Foundation

PARTNERS ($500–$999)

Donna Alexander

ASSA ABLOY

Shaminda and Carole Amarakoon

Richard and Alice Baxter

David J. Berendes

Ashley Bishop

John and Suzanne Bourdeaux

Shawn Boyle

Kate Burton

Joy Carlin

Lawrence Casey

Sarah Bartlo Chaplin

Daniel Cooperman and Mariel Harris

Laura Copenhaver

Sean Cullen

Robert Dealy

Sasha Emerson

Peter Entin

Betty and Joshua Goldberg

Paul Goldberg

Bill and Marcy Grambo

Carolyn Gray

Regina Guggenheim

Andy Hamingson

Judy Hansen

David Henry Hwang

Sanghun Joung

Helen Kauder and Barry Nalebuff

Harvey Kliman and Sandra Stein

Corby S. Kummer

Max Leventhal

Matthew H. Lewis

Eric Lin

Charles H. Long

Virginia (Wendy) Riggs

John McAndrew

Kellen McNally

Cathy C. Mock

Janice Muirhead

Vicki Nolan and Clark Crolius

Janet Oetinger

Arthur Oliner

F. Richard Pappas

Jonathan Pellow

Dw Phineas Perkins

Louise Perkins and Jeff Glans

Jeffrey Powell and Adalgisa Caccone

Kathy and George Priest

Alec Purves

Faye and Asghar

Rastegar

Jon and Sarah Reed

Anne Renner

Ted Robb

Howard Rogut

Russ Lori Rosensweig

Robin Sauerteig

Florie Seery

Anna Deavere Smith

Matthew Specter and Marjan Mashhadi

Dr. and Mrs. Dennis D. Spencer

James Steerman

Kenneth J. Stein

David Sword

Josh Taylor

John Turturro and Katherine Borowitz

Paul Walsh

Stephanie Waaser

Kristan and Nathaniel Wells

Vera Wells

Walton Wilson

Steven Wolff

Amanda Wallace Woods

Robert Zoland

Steve Zuckerman

INVESTORS ($250–$499)

Actors’ Equity Foundation

Clayton Austin

Alexander Bagnall

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