Escaped Alone, Yale Repertory Theatre, 2024

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CONTENTS A Note from the Artistic Director......5

For This Production............................ 24

Title Page..................................................7

Yale Repertory Theatre Staff........... 25

Cast Page..................................................8

Accessibility Services and Team..... 28

From Our Dramaturgs.......................... 11

Youth Programs...................................30

Cast Bios.................................................. 16

David Geffen School of Drama Board of Advisors............................. 31

Understudy Bios................................... 18 Creative Team Bios.............................. 19

Our Donors............................................. 31

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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,

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MARCH 8–30, 2024 YALE REPERTORY THEATRE

James Bundy, Artistic Director | Florie Seery, Managing Director PRESENTS

Caryl Churchill Directed by Liz Diamond By

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

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:

Technical Director

Keira Jacobs Vocal and Dialect Coach

Julie Foh Casting Director

Calleri Jensen Davis Stage Manager

Charlie Lovejoy

Season Sponsor:

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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............................................................................................................................ Chloe Howard Vi .................................................................................................................................... Anna Roman Mrs. Jarrett.......................................................................................................... Lauren F. Walker Lena........................................................................................................................ Amelia Windom Assistant Stage Managers.................................................................................................. Adam Taylor Foster

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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

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A World Adrift: Caryl Church 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.

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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.

ill 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.

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.

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.

—Karoline Vielemeyer, Production Dramaturg

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CAST

in alphabetical order

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LaTonya Borsay* she/her/hers

Mary Lou Rosato* (Vi) Broadway:

(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.

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

Rita Wolf* she/her/hers (Lena)

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.

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.

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UNDERSTUDY CAST in alphabetical order

Chloe Howard (understudy for Sally)

Lauren F. Walker (understudy for

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

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.

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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

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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.

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CREATIVE TEAM in alphabetical order

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Liz Diamond (Director) is a Resident

Julie Foh she/her (Vocal and Dialect

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.

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.

(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

(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.

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

Charlie Lovejoy* (Stage Manager)

Catherine Sheehy she/her

Chloe Xiaonan Liu* she/her

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

(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.

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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 22

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.

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FOR THIS PRODUCTION ARTISTIC Assistant Director

Alexis Kulani Woodard Assistant Scenic Designer

Anthony Robles Assistant Costume Designer

Laize Qin Associate Lighting Designer

Graham Zellers

John Horzen, Ein Kim, Sam Skynner, Ke Xu Projection Programmer

Wiktor Freifeld Front of House Mix Engineer

Robert Salerno Run Crew

Assistant Lighting Designer

Ida Cuttler, Amani Jaramoga, Austin Riffelmacher

Celia Chen

Run Crew Swings

Associate Sound Designer

comfort ifeoma katchy, ML Roberts

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

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Projection Content Creators

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

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

Projection Design Advisor Shawn Lovell-Boyle

Senior Administrative Assistant for the Acting Program Krista DeVellis

Sound Design Advisor Jill BC Du Boff

Library Services Erin Carney

Voice and Text Advisor Grace Zandarski

PRODUCTION Production Management

Resident Fight and Intimacy Directors Kelsey Rainwater Michael Rossmy Stage Management Advisor Narda E. Alcorn

Director of Production Shaminda Amarakoon Production Manager Jonathan Reed

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

Production Manager for Studio Projects and Special Events C. Nikki Mills

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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

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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

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

Director of Audience Services Laura Kirk

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.

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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.

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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

Marydell Merrill (Audio Describer)

(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.

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.

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!

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

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EVENTS!

YOUTH PROGRAMS WILL POWER! is Yale Rep’s

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.

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All events are subject to change.

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. *deceased

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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

Jacob G. Padrón Max Leventhal Ross S. Richards Matthew H. Lewis Russ Rosensweig Eric Lin Traci D. Shed Charles H. Long Barbara Siegler Virginia (Wendy) Riggs Slotznick Family Fund, John McAndrew a charitable fund of Kellen McNally The Foundation for Cathy C. Mock Enhancing Janice Muirhead Communities Vicki Nolan and Shepard and Marlene Clark Crolius Stone Janet Oetinger Courtney B. Vance Arthur Oliner Carol M. Waaser F. Richard Pappas DIRECTOR’S Shana C. Waterman Jonathan Pellow CIRCLE George C. White Dw Phineas Perkins ($1,000–$2,499) Carolyn Seely Wiener Louise Perkins and Chuck Adomanis Kim Williams Jeff Glans Laura and Victor Altshul The Raul Yanes and Sara Jeffrey Powell and Debby Applegate and Hazelwood Foundation Adalgisa Caccone Bruce Tulgan Kathy and George Priest Paula Armbruster Alec Purves PARTNERS Richard C. Beacham Faye and Asghar ($500–$999) John Lee Beatty Rastegar Donna Alexander Anne and Guido Jon and Sarah Reed ASSA ABLOY Calabresi Anne Renner Shaminda and Carole James Chen Ted Robb Bob and Priscilla Dannies Amarakoon Howard Rogut Richard and Alice Baxter Elwood and Catherine Russ Lori Rosensweig David J. Berendes Davis Robin Sauerteig Ashley Bishop Ramon Delgado Florie Seery John and Suzanne Lynn Doucette-Stamm Anna Deavere Smith Bourdeaux Melanie Ginter Matthew Specter and Shawn Boyle Jon Farley Marjan Mashhadi Kate Burton Lindy Lee Gold Dr. and Mrs. Dennis D. Joy Carlin LT Gourzong Spencer Lawrence Casey Eric M. Glover James Steerman Sarah Bartlo Chaplin Rob Greenberg Kenneth J. Stein Daniel Cooperman and Mark Haber and Chiyo David Sword Mariel Harris Moriuchi Josh Taylor Laura Copenhaver William B. Halbert John Turturro and Sean Cullen Jane Head Katherine Borowitz Robert Dealy Dale and Stephen Paul Walsh Sasha Emerson Hoffman Stephanie Waaser Peter Entin Suzanne Jackson Kristan and Nathaniel Betty and Joshua Pam Jordan Wells Goldberg Abby Kenigsberg Vera Wells Paul Goldberg Fran Kumin Walton Wilson The Ethel & Abe Lapides Bill and Marcy Grambo Steven Wolff Carolyn Gray Foundation Amanda Wallace Woods Regina Guggenheim Charles Letts Robert Zoland Andy Hamingson Kenneth Lewis Steve Zuckerman Judy Hansen Jennifer Lindstrom David Henry Hwang Chih-Lung Liu INVESTORS Sanghun Joung Brian Mann Helen Kauder and ($250–$499) John McAndrew Barry Nalebuff Actors’ Equity Jim and Eileen Mydosh Harvey Kliman and Foundation Stephen Newman in Sandra Stein Clayton Austin memory of Ruth Hunt Corby S. Kummer Alexander Bagnall Newman

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Michael Bianco Susan Brady and Mark Loeffler James and Dorothy Bridgeman Chris Brindley Tom Broecker Suzanne Bruhn Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buckholz Michael Cadden Sarah Cain Nicholas Cimmino Jeffrey Cohen Daniel Cress Claire A. Criscuolo Janet Cunningham Rick Davis Ramiro Diaz Kem and Phoebe Edwards Kenneth Elliott Robert Emmons Michael Fain Richard and Barbara Feldman Deborah and Henry Fernandez Tony Forman David Freeman Richard Fuhrman Randy Fullerton Shaina Graboyes Casey Grambo Ann Hanley Judith Hansen Karen Hansen and Andrew Bundy Jennifer Hershey Chuck Hughes John Huntington Candace Jackson Chris Jaehnig Galen Kane Edward Kaye Alan Kibbe Hedda and Gary Kopf Mitchell Kurtz Gabriela Lee Irene Lewis Thomas G. Masse and James M. Perlotto, MD Pamela and Donald Michaelis Kathryn Milano David Muse Regina and Thomas Neville

of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre Barbara and William Nordhaus Adam O’Byrne Kevin and Margaret O’Halloran Steven Padla Gamal Palmer Michael Parrella Michael Posnick Dr. Michael Rigsby and Prof. Richard Lalli Steve Robman Erin Rocha Chantal Rodriguez Constanza Romero Allen Rosenshine Nan Ross Donald Sanders Suzanne Sato Kenneth Schlesinger Georg Schreiber Paul Selfa David Soper and Laura Davis Erich Stratmann Matthew Tanico Deb Trout Lisa Yancey

FRIENDS ($100–$249)

Ikeena Aberdeen Jessica Adler Michael Albano Sarah Albertson Narda E. Alcorn Jeffrey Alexander Glenn Anderson Kaitlyn Anderson Michael Annand Anonymous William Armstrong Nancy Babington Michael Banta Dr. Francis A. Baran Warren Bass William and Donna Batsford Michael Baumgarten Richard Beals James Bender Vivien Blackford Mark Bly Joseph Brennan Amy Brewer and David Sacco* Emiko Brewer

Linda Broker Ann Farris Chloe Knight Arvin Brown Paul Fiedler and Susan Steve Koernig Christopher P. Brown Birke Fiedler Daniel Koetting Donald and Mary Brown Terry S. Flagg David and Julie Koppel Stephen and Nancy Brown Sarah Fornia Bonnie Kramm Colin Buckhurst Raymond Forton David Kriebs Stephen Bundy Keith Fowler Joan Kron Katherine and Chava Walter M. Frankenberger III Azan Kung Burgueño Gerald E. Gaab Susan Laity Richard Butler Carol Gallagher Marie Landry and Peter Susan Byck Don and Margery Galluzzi Aronson Kathryn A. Calnan Leah C. Gardiner Michael Lassell Vincent Cardinal Rachana Garg Martha Lidji Lazar Catherine and Steven Christopher Geary Elizabeth Lewis Carlson Tobe Gerard Fred Lindauer Andrew Carson Barry Gladue Jerry Lodynsky Sami Joan Casler Stephen L. Godchaux Robert H. Long II Zoe Z. Chance Lorraine Golan Everett Lunning King-Fai Chung Carol Goldberg Nancy F. Lyon Nicole Ciomek Donna Golden Andi Lyons Cynthia Clair Susan Goldin Peter Malbuisson Susan Clark Naomi Grabel Jonathan Marks Geoffrey Cohen Charles Grammer Edwin Martin Audrey Conrad Hannah Grannemann Sarah Masotta Aaron Copp Jason Gray Robert McCaw Jennifer Corman Stephen R. Grecco Deborah McGraw Jane Cox Greg Guthe Bill McGuire Caitlin E. Crombleholme Julie Haber James Meisner and Douglas and Roseline Dr. James L. Hadler Marilyn Lord Crowley Marion Hampton Jonathan Miller Samanta Cubias Alexander Hammond Cheryl Mintz Phyllis Cummings-Texeira Scott Hansen Marta Moret John Cunningham Roberta and Lawrence Richard Mone Jonathan Daen Harris Michele Moriuchi Anne Danenberg Michael Haymes Beth Morrison Timothy Davidson James Hazen Jason Najjoum Connie and Peter Steve Hendrickson James Naughton Dickinson Thomas Herman Tina Navarro Derek DiGregorio Ashton Heyl Kaye Neale Trinh DiNoto Elizabeth Holloway* Jennifer Harrison Melinda DiVicino Nicholas Hormann Newman Donna Doherty Kathleen Houle Jane Nowosadko Dennis Dorn Evelyn Huffman Deb and Ron Nudel Patricia Doukas Charles Hughes Tom O’Connor Megan and Leon Doyon Derek Hunt Leah Ogawa Samuel Duncan Jennifer Ito Max Okst John Duran Tatsuya Ito Kendric T. Packer Ann D’Zmura Carla L. Jackson Dr. and Mrs. Michael Parry Laura Eckelman John W. Jacobsen Linda and Peter Perdue Fran Egler Eliot and Lois Jameson William Peters Robert Einenkel Jean Jones Linda Polgar Nancy Reeder El Bouhali Jonathan Kalb William Purves Samantha Else Jay B. Keene Norman Redlich Robert Emmons Kiernan Kelly Ralph Redpath Frank and Ellen Estes Young H. Kim Deborah J. Reissman Femi Euba Amir Kishon Carolyn Richer Connie Evans Lawrence Klein Joan Robbins Teresa Eyring Fredrica Klemm Nathan Roberts *deceased

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Thank you to the generous contributors to David Geffen School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre Peter S. Roberts Brian Robinson Lori Robishaw Miguel Rosadu Robin Rose Donald Rossler David Sacco*and Amy Brewer Dr. Robert and Marcia Safirstein Steven Saklad Robert Sandberg Cynthia Santos-DeCure Peggy Sasso Joel Schechter Steven Schmidt Jennifer Schwartz Alexander Scribner

Patrick Seeley Tom Sellar Subrata K. Sen Suzanne Sessions Sandra Shaner John K. Sheehan Catherine Sheehy Lorraine Siggins Gilbert and Ruth Small Helena L. Sokoloff Suzanne Solensky and Jay Rozgonyi Aleta Staton Howard Steinman Rosalie Stemer Marcus Stern John Stevens Mark Stevens

Marsha Beach Stewart Mark Sullivan Thomas Sullivan Tucker Sweitzer Bob Tanner Michelle Tattenbaum Douglas Taylor Jane Savitt Tennen Ashley Thomas Patti Thorp David F. Toser Russell L. Treyz Lloyd Tucker Joan Van Ark Pamela Vercillo Elaine Wackerly Adin Walker Christine Wall

Jaylene Wallace Erik Walstad David Ward Joan Waricha Jon West Peter White Dr. Robert White Robert Wildman Alexandra Witchel Barbara Wohlsen

EMPLOYER MATCHING GIFTS

Ameriprise Financial The Benevity Community Impact Fund Covidien The Prospect Hill

Gifts to the For Humanity campaign and David Geffen School of Drama New Facility Fund Anonymous (3) Nina Adams and Moreson Kaplan Amy Aquino and Drew McCoy Rudy Aragon John Badham Pun Bandhu Frances and Ed Barlow John B. Beinecke Sonja Berggren and Patrick Seaver Carmine Boccuzzi and Bernard Lumpkin James Bundy and Anne Tofflemire Lois Chiles Michael David and Lauren Mitchell

Wendy Davies Michael Diamond* and Amy Miller Estate of Nicholas Diggs* Estate of Richard Diggs* Sasha Emerson Lily Fan Terry Fitzpatrick Barbara Franke Anita Pamintuan Fusco and Dino Fusco David Marshall Grant Gilder Foundation The Hastings and Barcone Trust Lane Heard and Margaret Bauer Cheryl Henson

Sally Horchow Ellen Iseman David G. Johnson Rolin Jones Jane Kaczmarek Cathy MacNeil-Hollinger and Mark Hollinger Brian Mann Jennifer Harrison Newman Richard Ostreicher Daphne Rubin-Vega and Thomas Costanzo Julie Turaj and Rob Pohly Tracy Chutorian Semler Michael and Riki Sheehan

Frances Black and Matthew Strauss Andrew and Nesrin Tisdale Ed Trach Esme Usdan Shana C. Waterman Amanda Wallace Woods and Eric Wasserstrom The Prospect Hill Foundation Jeremy Smith Woody Taft Courtney B. Vance Donald and Susan Ware Henry Winkler *deceased

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