Esme by Doug Robinson, David Geffen School of Drama, 2022

Esme

LANGSTON HUGHES FESTIVAL OF NEW WORK | 2022–23 SEASON

NOVEMBER 15–19, 2022

Production Staff

DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF DRAMA AT YALE

Associate Safety Advisor

Megan Birdsong

James Bundy, Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean Florie Seery, Associate Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean

Associate Production Manager

Kino Alvarez

Technical Supervisor

John Simone

PRESENTS

Production Stage Manager

Esme

Charlie Lovejoy Production Crew

Jason Dixon

by Doug

Robinson directed by Garrett Allen dramaturgy by Rebecca

Run Crew

Aidan Griffiths Jasmine Moore

Flemister

Administration Cast

Production Stage Manager

Jalice/Bandaged Boy

Faella/Priest

Assistant Stage Manager

Syl/Jakan

Dinah

Josie Cooper

Matthew Sonnenfeld

in alphabetical order

Sam Douglas

Sufiyan Farmer Eloma/Boaz

Karl Green

The Langston Hughes Festival of New Work productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes this process.

Associate Managing Director

Creative Team Ellora Venkat

Yale University acknowledges that Indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land.

Karen Killeen Caro Riverita Esme

Amelia Windom

Gurwen/Messenger

Malik James

Setting:

A fictional country bisected by a great river There will be one ten-minute intermission.

This production is supported by The Benjamin Mordecai III Production Fund.

Management Assistants

Jeremy Landes Roman Sanchez House Manager

Spencer Knoll

THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND, established by a graduate of the School, honors the memory of the Tony Award-winning producer who served as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, 1982–1993, and as Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Program from 1993 until his death in 2005.

Production Photographer

Maza Rey

David Geffen School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.

All patrons must wear masks at all times while inside the theater except when eating or drinking. Our staff, backstage crew, and artists will also be masked at all times.

The taking of photographs or the use of recording devices of any kind in the theater without the written permission of the management is prohibited.

NOVEMBER 15–19, 2022

Production Staff

DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF DRAMA AT YALE

Associate Safety Advisor

Megan Birdsong

James Bundy, Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean Florie Seery, Associate Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean

Associate Production Manager

Kino Alvarez

Technical Supervisor

John Simone

PRESENTS

Production Stage Manager

Esme

Charlie Lovejoy Production Crew

Jason Dixon

by Doug

Robinson directed by Garrett Allen dramaturgy by Rebecca

Run Crew

Aidan Griffiths Jasmine Moore

Flemister

Administration Cast

Production Stage Manager

Jalice/Bandaged Boy

Faella/Priest

Assistant Stage Manager

Syl/Jakan

Dinah

Josie Cooper

Matthew Sonnenfeld

in alphabetical order

Sam Douglas

Sufiyan Farmer Eloma/Boaz

Karl Green

The Langston Hughes Festival of New Work productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes this process.

Associate Managing Director

Creative Team Ellora Venkat

Yale University acknowledges that Indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land.

Karen Killeen Caro Riverita Esme

Amelia Windom

Gurwen/Messenger

Malik James

Setting:

A fictional country bisected by a great river There will be one ten-minute intermission.

This production is supported by The Benjamin Mordecai III Production Fund.

Management Assistants

Jeremy Landes Roman Sanchez House Manager

Spencer Knoll

THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND, established by a graduate of the School, honors the memory of the Tony Award-winning producer who served as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, 1982–1993, and as Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Program from 1993 until his death in 2005.

Production Photographer

Maza Rey

David Geffen School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.

All patrons must wear masks at all times while inside the theater except when eating or drinking. Our staff, backstage crew, and artists will also be masked at all times.

The taking of photographs or the use of recording devices of any kind in the theater without the written permission of the management is prohibited.

Esme

LANGSTON HUGHES FESTIVAL OF NEW WORK | 2022–23 SEASON