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A Note From the Artistic Director Welcome to the world premiere of Field Guide! I am delighted to welcome Rude Mechs back to New Haven for their third show at Yale Rep, where Now Now Oh Now and The Method Gun were presented in recent seasons to standing room only audiences as part of our annual No Boundaries performance series. The Method Gun, in particular—about a long-aborning production of A Streetcar Named Desire performed without any of its main characters—was a transformational production for me as an audience member and as an artist: it was unlike anything I had ever witnessed on stage before and so different from anything I would be remotely capable of doing myself. I kick myself to this day that when Now Now Oh Now played here in New Haven I was ill and missed seeing it, but I am thrilled that this new show will give many more Yale Rep audience members the chance to experience the astonishing magic this company has been honing in Austin, Texas, and touring across the country, for more than two decades. Field Guide was commissioned by Yale Rep and represents a unique partnership between our theatre and Rude Mechs, whose collaborative approach to making plays relies on each member of the company contributing to the entire production. Much of the work on Field Guide coincided with a time of transition for the company: Yale Rep has supported their work through several residencies here on campus as they have faced the daunting task of finding a new permanent home for the company in Austin. This play, I think it is safe to say, will feel singular to you. But if you have had the chance to see The Method Gun or Now Now Oh Now here, or any of Rude Mechs’ other work in New York or on tour around the country, you will likely recognize the company’s remarkable ability to explore weighty themes—like morality, faith, and failure—in generously theatrical ways and always with a sense of humor. I’m so glad you are here with us today and I hope that you will return soon. Up next at Yale Rep is Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3, the first installment of a new American Odyssey by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Liz Diamond, running March 16–April 7. And later in the spring, we will close the season with Kiss, a remarkable new play by acclaimed Chilean theatre artist Guillermo Calderón, staged by Evan Yionoulis, April 27–May 19. As always, I look forward to hearing your thoughts about Field Guide or any of your experiences at Yale Rep. My email address is james.bundy@yale.edu. Sincerely, James Bundy Artistic Director 4
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PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
CREATED BY RUDE MECHS INSPIRED BY THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV BY FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Text
HANNAH KENAH
Direction SHAWN SIDES
Scenic Design
ERIC DYER
Sound Design
ROBERT S. FISHER
Original Music
GRAHAM REYNOLDS
Lighting Design
BRIAN H SCOTT
Costume Design
SARAH WOODHAM
Production Dramaturgy
Stage Management
BIANCA A. HOOI
Fight Direction
RICK SORDELET
Technical Direction
AMY BORATKO
STEPH WAASER
Field Guide was commissioned by Yale Rep. Development and production support are provided by Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre. Yale Repertory Theatre gratefully acknowledges Carol L. Sirot for generously funding the 2017-18 season and Time Warner Foundation Inc. for its support of the Binger Center for New Theatre. Yale Rep is supported in part by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development.
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PERFORMERS
in alphabetical order Alyosha MARI AKITA Fyodor LOWELL BARTHOLOMEE Smerdyakov ROBERT S. FISHER Ivan THOMAS GRAVES
Grigory, Katya, Grushenka
HANNAH KENAH
Dmitri LANA LESLEY
Rude Mechs creates new works collaboratively and relies on every artist in the room contributing to everything from design and direction to text and performance. Field Guide was created by Mari Akita, Lowell Bartholomee, Kenny Chilton, Madge Darlington, Eric Dyer, Robert S. Fisher, Aaron Flynn, Thomas Graves, Kevin Jacaman, Hannah Kenah, Lana Lesley, Kirk Lynn, Graham Reynolds, Brian H Scott, Shawn Sides, and Dallas Tate.
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FIELD GUIDES FOR FIELD GUIDE Fyodor Dostoevsky (1820–1881) wrote The Brothers Karamazov at the end of his life. At once a sprawling family drama and a gripping whodunit, this great novel depicts the realities of 19th-century Russian life while posing powerful philosophical questions about the existence of God, the truth of human nature, and the complexities of morality. It is the Rude Mechs’ intuition that investigations contain more than just Dostoevsky’s idiosyncratically personal preoccupations. Might Dostoevsky have created more than a masterful novel? What if he wrought something deeper—a story that might guide us through our lives, a field guide for living? —AMY BORATKO, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY FIELD GUIDE TO
KARAMAZOV WATCHING
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Kar ama zov Wat chin g:
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THE MALE OF THE SPECIES
The male Karamazov comes in five dominant, but distinct, varieties. Because some Karamazov men are dangerous, one should observe the male from a distance, perhaps from a comfortable perch with the aid of binoculars, to verify before approaching in the wild.
Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov
The Sensualist The oldest son who doesn’t fall so far from the tree. Like Papa Fyodor, loves drinking and women. In desperate need of his inheritance. Though engaged to Katya, has a passion for a woman named Grushenka.
Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov
The Father Twice-married decadent sponge, clawing his way up the landowning class ladder. A buffoon, loves to ridicule others. Prone to insolence, misogyny, and greed. Women should be especially cautious upon encountering him.
Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov The Spiritualist Also known as “Alyosha,” this Karamazov has a penchant for religiosity. Can be found at the monastery, following his beloved Father Zosima. Dreams of becoming a monk. Enjoys levitation.
ABLE SPECIES
Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov
The Intellectual Often found brooding over life’s philosophical questions. He can’t understand how God can exist when there is so much suffering in the world. To coax him closer, one might offer a volume of Kant’s writings or memorize some long-form poetry about the Spanish Inquisition.
Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov
The Bastard He’s a Karamazov by blood, but his name literally means “son of the stinking one.” Raised by the old servant Grigory, often acts—and feels—more like household help than a member of the family. Stray cats should be especially cautious upon encountering him.
PREY OR PREDATOR? FEMALE BIRDS TO WATCH Although The Brothers Karamazov seems dominated by these massive bears, look to the skies to see these beautiful doves.
Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva
Dmitri’s Fiancée Also known as “Katya.” Engaged to Dmitri but desired by Ivan.
Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova
A Charming Vixen Also known as “Grushenka.” Can be found at the apex of a love triangle with Fyodor and Dmitri.
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Travel S KARAMAZOV TOP SIX EVENTS IN THE BROTHER and extremely long—novel? Only have 48 hours to experience Dostoevsky’s grand— weekend. Here are some of the highlights for an exciting 19th-century Russian
TOP ATTRACTIONS
The Grand Inquisitor. This poetic parable, recited by Ivan, posits an encounter in Inquisition Spain between Christ and the Grand Inquisitor. Are humans free? Does the divine exist? Does Ivan—or his holy brother Alyosha—hold the keys to unlock life’s fundamental mysteries?
The Stinking Death of Father Zosima. The holy Elder, teacher to Alyosha, dies. The locals—and his fellow monks—believe the body of such a pure soul will not decay. But, alas, mere hours after Zosima’s death, his body begins to stink. Does this shake the fundamental faith of believers or cast doubt upon the worthiness of Zosima’s soul?
FAMILY
Love Triangles. Dmitri loves the vibrant and vivacious Grushenka, but he’s still engaged to Katya and is financially indebted to her. Ivan loves Katya and thinks Dmitri is unworthy of her steadfast devotion. Fyodor, however, finds Grushenka tantalizing, forcing a rivalry between father and son for her affections.
FAMILY
Fyodor’s Murder. With a father so despicable and grotesque, all of the Karamazov brothers have motive to kill. But who actually ends up with Fyodor’s blood on his hands?
The Trial. In a satire of the Russian court system, passions run to a frenzy. Ivan descends into a madness—his own guilt and morality manifesting itself physically—as he recalls a confession that his half-brother Smerdyakov made to him about Fyodor’s death. Katya, worried about Ivan’s health, produces a letter written by a drunk Dmitri: he writes that he wants to kill his father. Dmitri’s words damn him, but was justice really served?
Dmitri’s Punishment. Convicted of killing his father, Dmitri is sentenced to a Siberian labor camp. But others hope to bribe guards and facilitate his escape. Will Dmitri escape the twenty-year sentence and flee to America?
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Rude Mechs RUDE MECHS is an Austin, Texas-based theatre collective that has created a
genre-averse slate of about 30 new plays since 1996. What these works hold in common are the use of play to make performance, the use of theatres as meeting places for audiences and artists, and the use of humor as a tool for intellectual investigation. They tour their original work nationally and abroad whenever they can; maintain Rude Studios, a suite of studios in Austin for use by arts groups of every discipline; manage a scenic lending library; and run a year-round arts education program for teens. Thrilled to be back in New Haven for their third production at Yale Rep, the Rudes touring productions include The Method Gun, I’ve Never Been So Happy, Get Your War On, Cherrywood, Lipstick Traces, Match-Play, Now Now Oh Now, Stop Hitting Yourself, and How Late It Was, How Late.
Field Guide Company MARI AKITA (ALYOSHA) is a dancer and performance artist based in Austin, Texas. In addition to creating and performing her own original dance performance works, Mari has performed in Phil Soltanoff’s i/o, L.A. Party, and An Evening with William Shatner Asterisk; LOLA’s Chamber Opera We Might Be Struck by Lightning; and The Neal Medlyn Experience, Linda Mary Montano as Mother Teresa. She has collaborated with Lauren K. Tietz for her video projects and choreographed for Monkey Town 6 and the band Foot Patrol. Mari has performed in Fusebox, Coil, PuSh, Mass Live Arts, and LAX Festival. LOWELL BARTHOLOMEE (FYODOR) is a Rude Mechs company member and has appeared in company productions of 300 Plays About Vladimir Putin, Decameron: Day 7: Revenge, Pale Idiot (2005), Get Your War On! (European Tour), The Method Gun (workshop), I’ve Never Been So Happy, Fixing King John, and Fixing Timon of Athens and has served as their stage manager for the touring productions of The Method Gun and Now Now Oh Now. He has numerous credits and local awards as an actor, video and sound designer, producer, and director for various theatre companies in Austin, Texas. His film and television credits include American Crime (ABC), The Leftovers (HBO), and several independent films including Holy Hell, which he co-wrote, produced, and premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2009. AMY BORATKO (PRODUCTION DRAMATURGY) is the Literary Manager at Yale Rep and has previously served as dramaturg on the Yale Rep productions of Mary Jane, Imogen Says Nothing, peerless, Indecent, War, The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, Dear Elizabeth, The Realistic Joneses, Good Goods, Belleville, Autumn Sonata, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Battle of Black and Dogs, Compulsion, Notes from Underground, A Woman of No Importance, Eurydice, and The Cherry Orchard. Other dramaturgy credits include The Time of Your Life, The Summer People, Romeo and Juliet, The War Is Over (Yale School of Drama), as well as Voice and Vision’s ENVISION Retreat at Bard College. She has been a teaching fellow at Yale 15
College and Yale School of Drama and was a managing editor of Theater magazine. A graduate of Rice University, she received her MFA in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from Yale School of Drama.
ERIC DYER (SCENIC DESIGN) is a Brooklyn-based artist, builder, and theatremaker. He is a founding member of the performance ensemble Radiohole, with whom he has produced 12 original productions, two plays, and co-founded the venue the Collapsable Hole. Radiohole has also performed at P.S. 122, the Kitchen, La Mama E.T.C., the Performing Garage, as well as toured nationally and internationally. This spring at Stanford University, the company will deliver a lecture and workshop on its production Inflatable Frankenstein to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The company also plans to present its most recent production, Tarzana (text by Jason Grote) in Berlin this fall. Radiohole is currently at work on a new piece based on its response to the #metoo movement. Eric has also worked with the Wooster Group, Richard Foreman, Elevator Repair Service, Young Jean Lee, NYC Players, The Builders Association, and many others as a designer, technical director, production manager, or performer. ROBERT S. FISHER (SOUND DESIGN; SMERDYAKOV) is a Rude Mechs company member and Creative Director of Audio Art & Science. As a sound designer, musician, and performer with Rude Mechs, Robert has co-created, designed and/or performed in Rude productions since 2000, including most recently Requiem for Tesla, Fixing Timon of Athens, Match-Play, and Now Now Oh Now. Also a member of Hyde Park Theatre, Robert recently designed the southwestern premieres of The Wolves, The Moors, and John.
THOMAS GRAVES (IVAN) is a Co-Producing Artistic Director for Rude Mechs in Austin, Texas. As such he has developed, performed in, and produced The Method Gun, I’ve Never Been So Happy, Now Now Oh Now, and Stop Hitting Yourself. He is currently directing and designing one of Rude Mechs’ next projects, Not Every Mountain, which will appear at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis in the summer of 2018. Along with Philadelphia-based artist Jennifer Kidwell, Graves is building a new performance piece entitled Table. He was a co-creator and performer of Dayna Hanson’s The Clay Duke and has performed across North America and Europe as a dancer and choreographer for the queer performance group Christeene. Thomas holds an MFA in performance as public practice from the University of Texas at Austin. BIANCA A. HOOI* (STAGE MANAGEMENT) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka, The Three Sisters, and Our Lady of 121st Street, and she was the assistant stage manager for The Oresteia and New Domestic Architecture. Her other credits include assistant stage manager for Seven Guitars and production assistant for the world premiere of Indecent, both at Yale Rep. *MEMBER OF ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, THE UNION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS.
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Field Guide Company HANNAH KENAH (TEXT; GRIGORY, KATYA, GRUSHENKA) is a performer, writer, and company member
with Rude Mechs and has been developing work with the company since 2008, including national tours of The Method Gun and Stop Hitting Yourself. She served as the writer for Rude Mechs’ Now Now Oh Now. With Salvage Vanguard Theater, Hannah wrote and performed in Guest by Courtesy which was selected for Fusebox Festival 2013, then traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, and was produced by Brooklyn Yard. SVT produced her play, With Great Difficulty Alice Sits, in fall 2016. Her play Everything Is Established received an honorable mention on the 2015 Kilroys List and was produced by Harbor Stage Company in the summer of 2017. Hannah received her BA from Dartmouth College, attended Dell’Arte International, and is currently studying playwriting as a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
LANA LESLEY (DMITRI) A Co-Founder and Co-Producing
Artistic Director for Rude Mechs, Lana has created, produced, and/or performed in over thirty original Rude Mechs productions, including Stop Hitting Yourself, Now Now Oh Now, I’ve Never Been So Happy (co-director), and The Method Gun. Lana has performed in select festivals and venues including Brisbane’s WTF, BITE, Culturgest, The Arches, Kiasma Festival, Szene Salzburg, Philadelphia Live Arts, UCLA Live!, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Lana’s work as a voice-over artist includes Hawk Girl, Lady Blackhawk, and Giganta for DC Universe Online, Ibuki (feature role) in the Dai Guard series, and Saki (starring role) in the live-action film Gun Crazy: A Woman from Nowhere. Lana is currently co-creating a new play with Peter Stopschinski and Paul Soileau, Design for Everyone, and working on a graphic novel version of Rude Mechs’ adaptation of Greil Marcus’s book Lipstick Traces.
GRAHAM REYNOLDS (ORIGINAL MUSIC) Called “the quintessential modern composer” by the London Independent, Austin-based composer-bandleaderimproviser Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theatre, dance, rock clubs, and concert halls. Heard throughout the world in films, television, stage, and radio, he’s worked with collaborators ranging from Richard Linklater and Jack Black to DJ Spooky and Ballet Austin. He is a company member with the internationally acclaimed Rude Mechs theatre collective, resident composer with Salvage Vanguard Theater and Forklift Danceworks, and Artistic Director of Golden Hornet, a commissioning and concert producing non-profit. He recently scored Linklater’s Last Flag Flying, featuring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne, for Amazon Studios. His many accolades include a Creative Capital Award for Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance, a chamber opera created with librettists Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (Mexico City) and director Shawn Sides, the final part of his decade-long project, The Marfa Triptych. Find out more at grahamreynolds.com
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BRIAN H SCOTT (LIGHTING DESIGN) is a theatrical designer working primarily in the medium of light. As a SITI Company member and resident Lighting Designer since 1997, he has had the good fortune to focus on the creation of new work and the re-investigation of classic texts through a contemporary, as well as, a physically and visually rigorous lens. His collaborations as a company member of Rude Mechs in Austin, Texas, have offered equally invigorating opportunities to create new work through contemporary eyes, in addition to sweeping adaptations of such literary works as Greil Marcus’s look at the history of counter culture, Lipstick Traces, and James Kelman’s book, How Late It Was, How Late. SHAWN SIDES (DIRECTION) is a Co-Founder and a Co-Producing Artistic
Director of Rude Mechs in Austin, Texas, where she has co-conceived, co-adapted, and directed a new work every year, give or take, since 1996, including Off-Broadway and touring productions of Lipstick Traces, Stop Hitting Yourself, Get Your War On, The Method Gun, and Dionysus in 69 in ’09. She most recently directed Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance, a chamber opera by Graham Reynolds, libretto by Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol. Shawn is a 2015 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award recipient.
RICK SORDELET (FIGHT DIRECTION) and his son, Christian Kelly-Sordelet, are the creators of Sordelet Inc., a stage combat company. Among their credits are 72 Broadway productions, including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, and more than 60 first-class productions on five continents in hundreds of cities around the world. Rick and Christian have been fight directors for dozens of regional theatres around the U.S. Their shows range from Sam Shepard to William Shakespeare. They have four National Tours running across America and Beauty and the Beast internationally. Both Rick and Christian are stunt coordinators for television and film with over 1000 episodes of daytime television and numerous feature films. Rick teaches stage combat for Yale School of Drama and with Christian at HB Studio in NYC. sordeletink.com STEPH WAASER (TECHNICAL DIRECTION) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Previous Yale Rep credits include An Enemy of the People (assistant technical director) and Assassins (technical director). Her professional production work includes Williamstown Theatre Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, and Hudson Scenic Studios, among others. Steph earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. SARAH WOODHAM (COSTUME DESIGN) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Hour of Great Mercy, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, and Amy and the Orphans. Other credits include Styx Songs (Yale Cabaret); Phaedra’s Love and Adam Geist (Yale Summer Cabaret). She holds a BFA in fashion and design from The University of Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean Academy of Fashion and Design), where she designed An Echo in the Bone for The Trinidad Theatre Workshop. She is a winner of the Meiling Designer Critique Award, a freelance storyboard artist, graphic designer, and co-director of her own fashion print house, A Memory Emerging New (A.M.E.N.) Print House. 18
Yale Repertory Theatre JAMES BUNDY (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR) is in his 16th year as Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. In his first 15 seasons, Yale Rep has produced more than 30 world, American, and regional premieres, nine of which have been honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle with the award for Best Production of the year and two of which have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. During this time, Yale Rep also has commissioned more than 50 artists to write new work and provided low-cost theatre tickets to thousands of middle and high school students from Greater New Haven through WILL POWER!, an educational program initiated in 2004. In addition to his work at Yale Rep, he has directed productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater Festival, The Acting Company, California Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Juilliard School Drama Division. A recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle’s Tom Killen Award for extraordinary contributions to Connecticut professional theatre in 2007, Mr. Bundy served from 2007–13 on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for nonprofit theatre. Previously, he worked as Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company, Managing Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, and Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater Festival. He is a graduate of Harvard College; he trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Yale School of Drama. VICTORIA NOLAN (MANAGING DIRECTOR) is in her 25th year as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, serves as Deputy Dean of Yale School of Drama, and is on its faculty. She was previously Managing Director of Indiana Repertory Theatre, Associate Managing Director at Baltimore’s Center Stage, Managing Director at Ram Island Dance Company in Portland, Maine; and she has held various positions at Loeb Drama Center of Harvard University; TAG Foundation, an organization producing Off-Broadway modern dance festivals; and Boston University School for the Arts. Ms. Nolan has been an evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, for which she has chaired numerous grant panels, and has served on other panels and foundation review boards including the AT&T Foundation, The Heinz Family Foundation, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, and the Metropolitan Life Foundation. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and on numerous negotiating teams for national labor contracts. A Fellow at Yale’s Saybrook College, she is the recipient of the Betsy L. Mahaffey Arts Administration Fellowship Award from the State of Connecticut and the Elm/Ivy Award, given jointly by Yale University and the City of New Haven for distinguished service to the community.
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JENNIFER KIGER (ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND DIRECTOR OF NEW PLAY PROGRAMS) is in her 13th year as the Associate Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre and is also the Director of New Play Programs of Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre. Since its founding in 2008, the Binger Center has supported the work of more than 50 commissioned artists and underwritten the world premieres and subsequent productions of 27 new American plays and musicals at Yale Rep and theatres across the country. Ms. Kiger came to Yale Rep from South Coast Repertory, where she was Literary Manager from 2000–2005 and Co-Director of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Prior to that, she was a production dramaturg at American Repertory Theater and adapted Robert Coover’s Charlie in the House of Rue and Mac Wellman’s Hypatia for the stage with director Bob McGrath. She has been a dramaturg for the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis and Boston Theatre Works; a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council; and a consultant for the Fuller Road Artist Residency. She is a founding member of the theatre and television company, New Neighborhood. Ms. Kiger completed her professional training at the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, where she taught courses in acting and dramatic arts. She is currently on the playwriting faculty of Yale School of Drama.
SHAMINDA AMARAKOON (DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION) was recently appointed Chair of the Technical Design and Production Department for Yale School of Drama. Previously, he was the production manager at Second Stage Theatre, coordinating the execution of all design elements and consulting on the renovation of their new Broadway house, the Helen Hayes Theatre. Prior to joining Second Stage, he worked for various Broadway, Off-Broadway, and national tours through Tech Production Services and Lincoln Center Theater. He has also worked as a carpenter, technical director, project manager, and in production management at Yale Repertory Theatre, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse (Auburn, New York), Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.), Center Theater Group (Los Angeles), and Show Motion (Milford, CT). Regional credits include: Jersey Boys (National and Asian tours), Rock of Ages (Las Vegas), Seminar (Los Angeles). Off-Broadway credits include Notes from the Field (starring Anna Deavere Smith, Second Stage); Dada Woof Papa Hot, Preludes (Lincoln Center Theater). Broadway credits include The Heiress, Ann, Lucky Guy (starring Tom Hanks), Rocky, and The King and I; and YouTube Brandcast 2014 at Madison Square Garden. BA, Alfred University; MFA, Yale School of Drama.
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Yale Repertory Theatre JONATHAN A. REED (PRODUCTION MANAGER) has been the Production Manager for Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre since 2013. Also a member of the Technical Design and Production faculty, teaching courses in management, planning, and technology, Mr. Reed serves on the Yale Summer Cabaret advisory board and as a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. Prior to Yale, he worked as the Technical Director for the Cornell College Department of Theatre and Communication Studies and the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre. Mr. Reed has also served as a freelance lighting and sound designer for companies including the Riverside Theatre, Orchesis Dance Company, Open Stage Theatre, and Pennsylvania Centre Stage. He is married to soprano Sarah Comfort Reed, and they have two children, Emma and Henry. BFA, Pennsylvania State University; MFA, Yale School of Drama.
JAMES MOUNTCASTLE (PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER) has been at Yale Rep since 2004. He has stage managed productions of An Enemy of the People; Scenes from Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince; Arcadia; A Streetcar Named Desire; American Night: The Ballad of Juan JosÊ; Three Sisters; The Master Builder; Passion Play; Eurydice; and the world premiere of The Clean House. Broadway credits include Damn Yankees, Jekyll & Hyde, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Boys from Syracuse, The Smell of the Kill, Life (x) 3, and Wonderful Town. Mr. Mountcastle spent several Christmas seasons in New York City as stage manager for A Christmas Carol The Musical at Madison Square Garden. Broadway national tours include City of Angels, Falsettos, and My Fair Lady. He served as Production Stage Manager for Damn Yankees starring Jerry Lewis for both its national tour and at the Adelphi Theatre in London’s West End. In addition, Mr. Mountcastle has worked at The Kennedy Center, Center Stage in Baltimore, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and elsewhere. James and his wife Julie live in North Haven and are the proud parents of two girls, Ellie and Katie.
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Field Guide Staff
Yale Repertory Theatre Staff
ARTISTIC Aneesha Kudtarkar, Assistant Director Alicia Austin, Assistant Costume Designer Megumi Katayama, Associate Sound Designer Wei Hsuan Wang, Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer Olivia Plath, Assistant Stage Manager
James Bundy, Artistic Director Victoria Nolan, Managing Director Jennifer Kiger, Associate Artistic Director Director of New Play Programs
PRODUCTION William Neuman, Associate Production Manager Hao-En Hu, Erin Keller Tiffany, Assistant Technical Directors Jonathan Jolly, Assistant Properties Master Robin Hirsch, Costume Craft Artisan Harry Beauregard, Master Electrician Dani Barlow, Kari Olmon, Charles O’Malley, Ariel Sibert, Run Crew ADMINISTRATION Laurie Ortega-Murphy, House Manager UNDERSTUDIES José Espinosa, Ivan Patricia Fa’asua, Fyodor Amandla Jahava, Dmitri Jake Ryan Lozano, Alyosha Sohina Sidhu, Grigory, Katya, Grushenka Devin White, Smerdyakov Rude Mechs Exclusive Worldwide Tour Representation: ArKtype Thomas O. Kriegsmann, President 917.386.5468 fax: 212.749.7696 tommy@arktype.org arktype.org The Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT are represented by United Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. Yale Repertory Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Field Guide January 26–February 17, 2018 Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street
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ARTISTIC Resident Artists Tarell Alvin McCraney, Playwright in Residence Liz Diamond, Evan Yionoulis, Resident Directors Catherine Sheehy, Resident Dramaturg Michael Yeargan, Set Design Advisor, Resident Set Designer Ilona Somogyi, Costume Design Advisor Jess Goldstein, Resident Costume Designer Jennifer Tipton, Lighting Design Advisor Stephen Strawbridge, Resident Lighting Designer David Budries, Sound Design Advisor Walton Wilson, Voice and Speech Advisor Rick Sordelet, Fight Advisor Mary Hunter, Stage Management Advisor Associate Artists 52nd Street Project, Kama Ginkas, Mark Lamos, MTYZ Theatre/Moscow New Generations Theatre, Bill Rauch, Sarah Ruhl, Henrietta Yanovskaya Artistic Management James Mountcastle, Production Stage Manager Amy Boratko, Literary Manager Kay Perdue Meadows, Artistic Associate Jocelyn Prince, Artistic Coordinator Ashley Chang, Literary Associate Tara Rubin, CSA; Lindsay Levine, CSA; Laura Schutzel, CSA; Kaitlin Shaw, CSA; Merri Sugarman, CSA; Eric Woodall, CSA; Claire Burke; Felicia Rudolph, Casting Josie Brown, Senior Administrative Assistant to the Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director Laurie Coppola, Senior Administrative Assistant for the Directing, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Playwriting, and Stage Management Departments Kate Begley Baker, Senior Administrative Assistant for the Design and Sound Design Departments Ellen Lange, Senior Administrative Assistant for the Acting Department Lindsay King, Library Services
PRODUCTION Production Management Shaminda Amarakoon, Director of Production Jonathan Reed, Production Manager C. Nikki Mills, Associate Head of Production and Student Labor Supervisor Grace O’Brien, Senior Administrative Assistant to the Production and Theater Safety and Occupational Health Departments
Electrics Donald W. Titus, Lighting Supervisor Jennifer Carlson, Linda-Cristal Young, Senior Head Electricians Daniela Fresard, Assistant to the Lighting Supervisor
Scenery Neil Mulligan (on leave), Matt Welander, Technical Directors Lily Twining, Interim Technical Director Alan Hendrickson, Electro Mechanical Laboratory Supervisor Eric Sparks, Shop Foreman Matt Gaffney, Ryan Gardner, Sharon Reinhart, Libby Stone, Master Shop Carpenters Jessica Hernandez, Erin Tiffany, Assistants to the Technical Directors
Projections Erich Bolton, Projection Supervisor Mike Paddock, Head Projection Technician Ellen Reid, Assistant to the Projection Supervisor
Painting Ru-Jun Wang, Scenic Charge Lia Akkerhuis, Nathan Jasunas, Scenic Artists Hyejin Son, Assistant to the Painting Supervisor Properties Jennifer McClure, Properties Master David P. Schrader, Properties Craftsperson Ashley Flowers, Properties Assistant Molly Gambardella, Interim Properties Stock Manager Amanda Creech, Madeleine Winward, Assistants to the Properties Master Costumes Tom McAlister, Costume Shop Manager Harry Johnson, Clarissa Wylie Youngberg, Mary Zihal, Senior Drapers Deborah Bloch, Patricia Van Horn, Senior First Hands Linda Kelley-Dodd, Costume Project Coordinator Denise O’Brien, Wig and Hair Design Barbara Bodine, Company Hairdresser Elizabeth Beale, Costume Stock Manager Logan Baker, Assistant to the Costume Shop Manager
Sound Mike Backhaus, Sound Supervisor Stephanie Smith, Staff Sound Engineer Ruoxi Jia, Assistant to the Sound Supervisor
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2014 OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY CONNECTICUT CRITICS CIRCLE
These Paper Bullets! by Rolin Jones, with songs by Billie Joe Armstrong; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2014; Geffen Playhouse, west coast premiere, 2015; Atlantic Theater Company, New York premiere, 2015.
BINGER CENTER FOR NEW THEATRE YALE REPERTORY THEATRE, the internationally celebrated professional theatre in residence at Yale School of Drama, has championed new work since 1966, producing well over 100 premieres—including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists—by emerging and established playwrights. Seventeen Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and 10 Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Established in 2008, Yale’s BINGER CENTER FOR NEW THEATRE has distinguished itself as one of the nation’s most robust and innovative new play programs. To date, the Binger Center has supported the work of more than 50 commissioned artists and underwritten the world premieres and subsequent productions of 27 new American plays and musicals at Yale Rep and theatres across the country.
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27War by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2014; Lincoln Center Theatre’s LCT3, New York premiere, 2016.
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TWO 2017 TONY AWARDS Indecent created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman; Yale Rep and La Jolla Playhouse, world premiere, 2015; Vineyard Theatre, New York premiere, 2016; Broadway premiere, April 2017.
“THE BEST NEW PLAY SO FAR THIS YEAR!”
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Mary Jane by Amy Herzog; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2017; New York Theatre Workshop, New York premiere, 2017.
Familiar by Danai Gurira; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2015; Playwrights Horizons, New York premiere, 2016.
“FEMINISM, UN-WHITEWASHED. BEAUTIFUL, FUNNY, AND CHILLING.” NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
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