FUN HOME
2019–20 SEASON
DECEMBER 14–20, 2019 YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA James Bundy, Dean Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Assistant Dean PRESENTS
FUN HOME
MUSIC BY JEANINE TESORI BOOK AND LYRICS BY LISA KRON BASED ON THE GRAPHIC NOVEL BY ALISON BECHDEL DIRECTED BY DANILO GAMBINI
Music Director
JILL BRUNELLE
Scenic Designer
JIMMY STUBBS
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
NOEL NICHOLS
Projection Designer
CAMILLA TASSI
Puppet Designer
Production Dramaturg
EMILY SORENSEN
Technical Director
DOMINICK PINTO
Stage Manager
EDMOND O’NEAL
PHUONG NGUYEN NICOLE E. LANG
ANATAR MARMOL-GAGNE
Fun Home is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company. Originally produced on Broadway by Fox Theatricals: Barbara Whitman, Carole Shorenstein Hays, Tom Casserly, Paula Marie Black, Latitude Link, Terry Schnuck/Jane Lane, The Forstalls, Nathan Vernon, Mint Theatricals, Elizabeth Armstrong, Jam Theatricals, Delman Whitney and Kristin Caskey, and Mike Isaacson. The world premiere production of Fun Home was produced by The Public Theater—Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director—in New York City on October 22, 2013. Fun Home was developed, in part, at the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at White Oak and the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort.
SUPPORTED BY THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND. SEASON SPONSOR: HOUSE OF NAAN
Cast
in alphabetical order
Small Alison
TAYLOR HOFFMAN Medium Alison
Yale School of Drama is proud to join the celebration of the 50th anniversary of women in Yale College and the 150th anniversary of the first women students at Yale University.
DOIREANN MAC MAHON Helen Bechdel
ZOE MANN
Christian Bechdel
JULIANA AIDEN MARTINEZ Bruce Bechdel
JJ MCGLONE John Bechdel
LAURIE ORTEGA-MURPHY Alison Bechdel
ELI PAULEY
Roy/Mark/Pete/Bobby Jeremy
DARIO LADANI SANCHEZ Joan
MADELINE SEIDMAN
Fun Home is performed without an intermission.
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Musical Numbers “It All Comes Back (Opening)” “Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue”
A Unique & Distinct Caterer
“Come to the Fun Home” “Helen’s Etude” “Party Dress” “Changing My Major” “Maps” “Raincoat of Love” “Pony Girl” “Ring of Keys” “Days and Days”
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“Telephone Wire” “Edges of the World” “Flying Away (Finale)”
Musicians JILL BRUNELLE................. Keyboard 1 LIAM BELLMAN-SHARPE........ Guitar MARGARET E. DOUGLAS.......... Bass Stacey Ference stacey@savour.catering 203.906-7144 www.savour.catering
SOOMIN KIM.................... Keyboard 3 FRANCES POLLOCK........ Keyboard 2 JIM STAVRIS.............................. Drums EMILY DUNCAN WILSON........ Reeds
Finding the Key :
Making Fun Home Sing
Alison Bechdel grew up in a family of artists—actors, musicians, historical decorators—while she herself drew cartoons. It was also a family whose secrets would take her years to uncover and understand, as she peeled back the veneer of their life applied as carefully as the William Morris wallpaper that adorned their Beech Creek home.
Alison first acquired a following for her comic Dykes to Watch Out For, which chronicled the soap-operatic lives of a group of (mostly lesbian) politically active city-dwellers. It was this strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, that launched the now-famous “Bechdel Test,” three rules to assess a movie’s portrayal of women. In 2006, Alison returned to her childhood memories to create the graphic memoir—what she describes as “a family tragicomic”—Fun Home. The book garnered acclaim from literary and cartoon enthusiasts alike, and sparked the interest of playwright Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori, who worked on the musical for seven years before it debuted first Off-Broadway in 2013 and then on Broadway in 2015. TOP LEFT: AN EXCERPT FROM DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR BY ALISON BECHDEL, 1985, FAIR USE, WIKIPEDIA.ORG; TOP RIGHT, FROM FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC BY ALISON BECHDEL, COPYRIGHT © 2006 BY ALISON BECHDEL, USED BY PERMISSION OF HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. BOTTOM PANEL ILLUSTRATIONS BY EMILY SORENSEN.
Herself a lesbian activist, Kron didn’t want to write the song “Ring of Keys,” now so iconically associated with the musical. More precisely, she didn’t want to musicalize the panel from the Fun Home book that depicts a butch woman in a diner. Though a young Alison doesn’t know the woman, she feels “a surge of joy” upon seeing her. It’s a fleeting moment, quickly quashed by Alison’s father, but vital all the same. Kron knew that butch women were all too frequently the butts of jokes and feared that putting this moment in the musical would be unintentionally parodic. Tesori, however, insisted—it was too key to leave out. So “Ring of Keys” was born, in which Small Alison sings “I know you / I know you / I know you” in jubilant recognition, suddenly able to imagine herself and her identity in a new way. The story of this moment, in picture and in song, would provide that empowering recognition to thousands more. —EMILY SORENSEN, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG
Cast Taylor Hoffman (Small Alison)
was recently seen in Untitled Ke$ha Project and UNAMUSED during the 2019 Satellite Festival at Yale Cabaret. Taylor’s other credits include Backbeard (New York Musical Festival); Hairspray (Consortium Actors); Freckleface Strawberry and Spring Awakening (Russell Sage College). Originally from Troy, New York, Taylor holds a B.S. in musical theater from Russell Sage College.
Doireann Mac Mahon (Medium
Alison) is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Othello, Rock Egg Spoon, The Girl Is Chained, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and Henry VI, Part 3. She recently performed her own play, How to Relearn Yourself, at Yale Cabaret. Other credits include the Irish tour of Angela’s Ashes: The Musical (Pat Moylan Productions) and Wrong Turn at Lungfish (Viking Theatre/Civic Theatre Dublin). Doireann holds a B.A. with honors in drama and theater studies from Trinity College in Dublin.
Zoe Mann (Helen Bechdel)
is a third-year actor at Yale School of Drama, where she was seen in Pivot, Trouble In Mind, shakespeare’s as u like it, and Tent Revival. Her other credits include Girls (Yale Repertory Theatre); Bakkhai, The Swallow and the Tomcat (Yale Summer Cabaret); Avital, Wolf/Alice, and directing Burn Book (Yale Cabaret). She has appeared in productions with Hudson Theatre, The Players Theatre, and The McCarter Theatre.
Juliana Aiden Martinez (Christian
Bechdel) is a third-year actor at Yale School of Drama, where she was seen in Reykjavík; Tent Revival; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Henry VI, Part 3; and Shoot Her, Shooter. Her other credits include the west coast premiere of To the Bone (Ubuntu Theatre Project, nominated for Best Supporting Actor); Electra (Theatre Row); For the Love Of (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); and Fade (Yale Cabaret). Select film and television credits include The Mysteries of Laura (NBC), The Bodega (Univision, Hulu), Boundary and Tarpit. She also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
JJ McGlone (Bruce Bechdel) is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Reykjavík, Pivot, Othello, Seven Spots On The Sun, The Seagull, and The Girl Is Chained. Other credits include The Guadalupes, Enter Your Sleep, and his new play Burn Book (Yale Cabaret). He studied at the British American Drama Academy and earned a B.F.A. in acting from DePaul University. Laurie Ortega-Murphy (John
Bechdel) is a third-year M.F.A. candidate in theater management at Yale School of Drama. Their acting credits include Fuck Her, Sea Witch, Waste // Land, and The Whale in the Hudson at Yale Cabaret, where they were also a puppeteer in Sea Witch and produced Re:Union, Fuck Her, For Your Eyes Only, Fade, and Burn Book. Last year, they served as Assistant Managing Director of Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory
Theatre, and as Artistic Programming Fellow at The New Victory Theater in New York. Currently, they are the Managing Editor of the Yale Theater Management Knowledge Base. Laurie holds a B.A. in creative writing and medieval studies from Seattle University.
Eli Pauley (Alison Bechdel) is a
third-year actor at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Tempest, Rock Egg Spoon, and shakespeare’s as u like it as well as Bakkhai with Yale Summer Cabaret. New York and regional credits include OKAY (Ugly Rhino); Downsizing Camus (The Apothetae); Tribes (Barrington Stage); and Dracula (Williamstown Theatre Festival). She has also appeared in workshops with Two River Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights Realm, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and Wildwind Performance Lab. She holds a B.F.A. in acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers. elipauley.com
Dario Ladani Sanchez (Roy/
Mark/Pete/Bobby Jeremy) is a thirdyear actor at Yale School of Drama, whose credits include Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; Othello; Seven Spots On The Sun; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; and Henry VI, Part 3. Other work: The Swallow and the Tomcat, Latinos Who Look Like Ricky Martin (Yale Summer Cabaret); Fade, Non-Player Character (Yale Cabaret); Hand to God (SpeakEasy Stage); a wake for david’s fucked-up face (Sam French OOB Festival); and Welcome to Arroyo’s (Circuit Theatre). He was a founding member of Trinacria Theatre
Company and an ensemble member with Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare.
Madeline Seidman (Joan) is a
second-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she has been seen in Mr. Burns, a post-electric play and Pivot. Other credits include The Christians directed by Taibi Magar, One Man, Two Guvnors, and How the Light Gets In (Chautauqua Theater Company); Lenny’s Fast Food Kids Gang (Yale Cabaret); and workshops with New York Theatre Workshop, Clubbed Thumb, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She holds a B.A. in art history from Williams College.
Creative Team
Alison Bechdel (Graphic Novel) is
an American cartoonist, known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, which became a countercultural institution. Her graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, was adapted as a musical and won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. Alison’s comics have appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, McSweeney’s, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012 and is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award.
Jill Brunelle
(Music Director) Music directing credits: The Fantasticks (Ivoryton Playhouse); The Addams Family, Violet (Southern Connecticut State University); Steven Sondheim’s Passion (Yale School of Drama); The Apple Tree, Trouble in Tahiti, The Medium (Yale Cabaret). Yale
Creative Team Opera Chorus Master ensembles: Eugene Onegin, Hänsel und Gretel, Die Zauberflöte, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Le Nozze Di Figaro, and La Bohème. She has served as faculty at Boston University, New England Conservatory, Tufts University, Hartt School of Music, Connecticut Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, and Opera Boston. As a collaborative pianist she has performed internationally as well as at Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, and at numerous festivals. She collaborates frequently with Orchestra New England and Long Wharf Theatre, among others. Upcoming: Ragtime at Ivoryton Playhouse and Salt (world premiere).
Danilo Gambini (Director) is a
third-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he directed The Tempest and Rock Egg Spoon. As the Co-Artistic Director of the 2019 Yale Summer Cabaret, he directed Anne Carson’s adaptation of Euripides’s Bakkhai, and adapted and directed The Swallow and the Tomcat from the Brazilian children’s book O Gato Malhado e a Andorinha Sinhá by Jorge Amado. His other credits include Agreste (Drylands), Ni Mi Madre, Truck (parts I and II) (Yale Cabaret); Don Giovanni, Ariadne Auf Naxos, Eugene Onegin (Theatro São Pedro); and the rock opera The Who’s Tommy by Pete Townshend (Memorial da América Latina). He has assisted directors including Fernando Meirelles, Iacov Hillel, Laurie Woolery, Mauro Wrona, and Caetano Vilela. Danilo holds a B.A. in film and television (Curso Superior do Audiovisual) and an artist diploma as an actor from
the School of Dramatic Art (Escola de Arte Dramática–EAD) both from the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP). danilogambini.com
Lisa Kron (Book and Lyrics) is a
writer and performer whose work has been widely produced in New York, regionally, and internationally. Her plays include Well, 2.5 Minute Ride, and The Ver**zon Play. She wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Fun Home (with music by composer Jeanine Tesori), winner of five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Lisa and Jeanine were the first all-woman team to ever receive a Tony for Best Score. Honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artists Award, and the Cal Arts/ Alpert Award. She is a proud founding member of the OBIE- and BessieAward-winning collaborative theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers. Lisa currently serves as Secretary of the Dramatists Guild Council and on the boards of the McDowell Colony and the Lilly Awards.
Nicole E. Lang (Lighting Designer)
is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she designed Othello and assisted on shakespeare’s as u like it. Her other credits include Waste // Land, Bodyssey, The Purple Flower, The Whale in the Hudson, and projections for Fireflies (Yale Cabaret); DICK: After Melville (Dixon Place); Approaching Power Collision (Fisher Center); and co-design of Salome: Woman of Valor (Vancouver Chutzpah Festival). She holds a B.A. in psychology from Bard College. nicoleelang.com
Anatar Marmol-Gagne (Puppet
Designer) is originally from Caracas, Venezuela. She holds an M.F.A. in puppet arts from the University of Connecticut, and has as a B.A. in English and creative writing from Hunter College, New York. Her strong background in art, dance, writing, fiber, and fabrication all come together seamlessly with her love for puppetry. As a puppeteer, Anatar has trained at the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, taught children’s puppet workshops, performed in puppet slams and festivals, as well as curated and founded the Pinned & Sewtured Puppet Slam in New Haven, Connecticut.
Phuong Nguyen (Costume
Designer) is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama. Her credits include Two Mile Hollow, Boddysey, Lenny’s Fast Food Kids Gang, Alma (Yale Cabaret); The Danube, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (Hangar Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Columbia University); and Who Love You (Amherst College), among others. She holds a B.A. in theater arts and East Asian studies from Mount Holyoke College, where she designed Intimate Apparel and No Exit. phuongtlnguyen.com
Noel Nichols (Sound Designer) is a
second-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama. Her design credits include We are Proud to Present a Presentation…, How to Relearn Yourself (Yale Cabaret); Latinos Who Look Like Ricky Martin (Yale Summer Cabaret); Ghost Card (Fullstop Collective); and Counting Pebbles (Faultline Ensemble).
She was the sound engineer for The Prisoner at Yale Rep and Yale School of Drama’s 2019 Carlotta Festival of New Plays, and the sound supervisor for Sundown Yellow Moon and the tour of Underground Railroad Game with Ars Nova. NoelNicholsDesign.com.
Edmond O’Neal (Stage Manager)
is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include The Tempest and, as assistant stage manager, Locusts and Seven Spots On the Sun. His other credits include We Are Proud to Present a Presentation…, School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (Yale Cabaret); Latinos Who Look Like Ricky Martin (Yale Summer Cabaret); Grey Gardens, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Flick, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Lyric Repertory Company); and Gertrude and Claudius (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre). He holds a B.A. in theatre students from University of Central Florida.
Dominick Pinto (Technical
Director) is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he was the assistant technical director for Othello. He was an assistant technical director on Cadillac Crew, and the master electrician on The Prisoner at Yale Rep. His technical design credits include The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Memorial Auditorium); Pride and Prejudice (Alexander Kasser Theatre); The Persians, and The Big Meal (L. Howard Fox Theatre). Dominick has worked at companies including blackwalnut, McCarter Theatre Company, and HERE! Theatre Company. He holds a B.F.A.
Creative Team in theater production and design from Montclair State University.
Emily Sorensen (Production
Dramaturg) is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include LOCUSTS, The Tempest, and Shoot Her, Shooter. Other credits include Waste // Land (Yale Cabaret); Bakkhai, and coadapting The Swallow and the Tomcat (Yale Summer Cabaret). Prior to Yale, Emily worked as the dramaturg for Olney Theatre Center, in the literary offices of Second Stage Theatre, WP Theater, The Lark, and Manhattan Theatre Club, and in publications at Samuel French and Playscripts, Inc. Emily holds a B.A. in English and theater from Columbia University.
Jimmy Stubbs (Scenic Designer)
is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he assisted on Trouble in Mind and the 2019 Carlotta Festival. His other credits include Bodyssey, The Whale in the Hudson (Yale Cabaret); projection design for The Pirates of Penzance (Yale School of Music); Misterman (Solas Nua); and The Who’s Tommy (Open Circle Theatre). He recently assisted Doug Fitch on Pùnkitititi!, an original piece in development with the Salzburg Marionette Theatre for Mozart Week 2020. He holds a B.A. in theater from the University of Maryland College Park, where he assisted Misha Kachman. jimmystubbs.com
Camilla Tassi (Projection Designer) is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she assisted on Seven Spots On the
Sun and The Tempest. Other credits include The Rules (Yale Cabaret); The Magic Flute (Berlin Opera Academy); Il Primo Omicidio (Yale Voxtet), Stinney: An American Execution (PROTOTYPE Festival); The Fall of the House Usher (MASS MoCA); and L’Orfeo (Apollo’s Fire), among others. Originally from Florence, Italy, Camilla is also a director, producer, and coloratura soprano. She holds a B.S. in computer science and a B.A. in music from University of Notre Dame, and an M.A. in digital music from Dartmouth College. camillatassi.com
Jeanine Tesori (Music) Broadway
musicals include Fun Home (2015 Tony Award Winner, Pulitzer finalist); Violet; Caroline, or Change; Shrek the Musical; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Twelfth Night (Lincoln Center Theater); John Guare’s A Free Man of Color; Mother Courage (Delacorte Theater). She has received five Tony nominations, three OBIE Awards, and three Drama Desk Awards. Her operas include The Lion, the Unicorn and Me; Blizzard on Marblehead Neck; and an upcoming collaboration with Tazewell Thompson, Blue (Glimmerglass). She is the founding artistic director of Encores! OffCenter and the founding creative director of the non-profit A BroaderWay, an arts empowerment program for young women. Tesori received the Einhorn Mentorship Award by Primary Stages for her exceptional work with young artists. She is a lecturer in music at Yale and on faculty at Columbia University.
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 Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Department at Yale School of Drama from 1993 until his death in 2005. During his tenure as Yale Rep’s Managing Director alongside Dean/Artistic Director Lloyd Richards, 1982–1993, he developed a model of professional
producing that changed the course of new play development in the American theatre. His 25 Broadway credits included Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, as well as work by Anna Deavere Smith, Athol Fugard, David Henry Hwang, Terrence McNally, Robert Schenkkan, and perhaps most significantly August Wilson, with whom he collaborated on each of the ten plays in the epic 20th Century Cycle.
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2019–20 SEASON
Fun Home Staff Artistic
Production
Assistant Scenic Designer
Associate Safety Advisors
Assistant Costume Designer
Production Manager
Juhee Kim
Kyle J. Artone Assistant Lighting Designer
Graham Zellers Assistant Projection Designer
Henry Rodriguez
Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer
Joe Krempetz Assistant Stage Manager
Run Crew
Mia Sara Haiman HaoEn Hu
Projection Engineer
Alicia J. Austin Sophie Greenspan Tatsuya “Tito” Ito Audley Puglisi Jiahao Qiu Evdoxia Ragkou Seun Soyemi Ashley M. Thomas Faith-Marie Zamblé
Assistant Technical Directors
Keyboard Programmer
Administration
Kelly O’Loughlin Cam Camden Samantha Else
Associate Production Managers
Megan Birdsong Katherine Byron
Properties Master
Master Electrician
Francesca DeCicco Erin Sims
Kevin James
Stage Carpenter
Dani Mader
Hyejin Son
House Manager
William Gaines
Special Thanks Neo Avila, Stephanie Hubbard, Yale Band
Brandon Lovejoy
Yale School of Drama Staff Dean
James Bundy Deputy Dean
Victoria Nolan Associate Dean
Chantal Rodriguez
Assistant Dean
Kelvin Dinkins, Jr.
Artistic Artistic Management
Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Play Programs
Jennifer Kiger
Production Stage Manager
James Mountcastle Literary Manager
Amy Boratko
Artistic Associate
Kay Perdue Meadows
Artistic Fellow
Senior Administrative Assistant for the Directing, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Playwriting, and Stage Management Departments
Senior Administrative Assistant to the Technical Deisgn & Production and Theater Safety & Occupational Health Departments
Senior Administrative Assistant for the Design and Sound Design Departments
Technical Directors
Laurie Coppola
Kate Begley Baker
Senior Administrative Assistant for the Acting Department
Ellen Lange
Library Services
Lindsay King
Production Production Management
Director of Production
Shaminda Amarakoon Production Manager
Charles O’Malley
Jonathan Reed
Literary Fellow
Production Manager for Student Projects and Special Events/Student Labor Supervisor
Molly FitzMaurice
Senior Administrative Assistant to the Dean
Josie Brown
C. Nikki Mills
Interim Scenic Artists
Tamar Klausner Klein Amelia Pizzoferrato
Properties
Properties Master
Grace O’Brien
Jennifer McClure
Scenery
Properties Craftsperson
Neil Mulligan Matt Welander
Master Properties Assistant
Electro Mechanical Laboratory Supervisor
Alan Hendrickson Shop Foreman
Eric Sparks
Master Shop Carpenters
Matt Gaffney Ryan Gardner Kat McCarthey Sharon Reinhart Libby Stone
Interim Shop Carpenter
Doug Kester
Scenery Intern
Jenna Carroll
Painting
Scenic Charge
Ru-Jun Wang
Scenic Artists
Lia Akkerhuis Nathan Jasunas
David P. Schrader
Zach Faber
Properties Stock Manager
Mark Dionne
Properties Interns
Katie Pulling Tiago Rodrigues
Costumes
Costume Shop Manager
Christine Szczepanski Senior Drapers
Clarissa Wylie Youngberg Mary Zihal Senior First Hands
Deborah Bloch Patricia Van Horn
Costume Project Coordinator
Linda Kelley-Dodd
Interim Draper
Stephanie Taff
Costume Stock Manager
Company Manager
Electrics
Assistant Company Managers
Elizabeth Beale
Lighting Supervisor
Donald W. Titus
Senior Head Electricians
Jennifer Carlson Linda-Cristal Young Electrics Interns
Perry Keller Adago Cameron Waitkun
Sound
Sound Supervisor
Mike Backhaus
Staff Sound Engineer
Stephanie Smith
Sound Interns
Joe Krempetz James T. McLoughlin
Projections
Projection Supervisor
Eric Lin
Head Projection Technician
Mike Paddock
Projection Intern
Erin Sims
Stage Operations
Stage Carpenter
Eliza Orleans
Alumni Affairs
Director of Development and Alumni Affairs Deborah S. Berman
David Willmore
Interim FOH Mix Engineer
Eric Norris
Administration General Management
Associate Managing Directors
Lucia Bacqué Gwyneth Muller Caitlin Volz
Assistant Managing Director
Molly Leona
Interim Business Office Specialist
Box Office Assistants
T. Charles Erickson
Dani Barlow
Associate Director of Development Communications and Alumni Affairs
Casey Grambo
Senior Administrative Assistant to Development and Marketing & Communications
Jason Gray Sarah Scafidi
Finance, Human Resources, and Digital Technology
Director of Finance and Human Resources, and Interim Director of Digital Technology
Katherine D. Burgueño
Director, Yale Tessitura Consortium and Interim Director of Web Technology
Janna J. Ellis
Business Manager
Martha Boateng
Business Office Analyst
Senior Administrative Assistant to the Deputy Dean and Assistant Dean
Digital Communications Associate
Management Assistants
Shainn Reaves
Database Application Consultants
Stacie Wcislo
Cameron Frostbaum Jason Gray Sarah Scafidi
Audience Services Assistant
Associate Director of Development and Alumni Affairs
Senior Associate Director of Operations for Development and Alumni Affairs
William Gaines
Emalie Mayo
Tracy Baldini
Asberry Thomas
Janice Muirhead
Development Assistants
Light Board Programmer
Shane Quinn
Subscriptions Coordinator
Susan C. Clark
Senior Associate Director of Institutional Giving
Wardrobe Supervisor
Billy Ordynowicz
Assistant Director of Audience Services
Mikaela Boone Morgan Cronin Samantha Else Mona Gandhi Jordan Graf Paige Hann Kenneth Murray a.k. payne Amir Rezvani Irene Vazquez
Jennifer E. Alzona
Head Properties Runner
Andre Griffith
Senior Administrative Samanta Yunuen Cubias Assistant to Business Office, Digital Caitlin M. Dutkiewicz Technology, Operations, Development & and Tessitura
Janet Cunningham Elizabeth Bolster
Digital Technology Associate
George Tinari
Business Office Specialist
Preston Mock
Sharon S. Brown
IT Support Specialist
Chris Atchley
Business Office Assistant
Ashlie Russell
Finance Office Assistant
Bo Du Ben Silvert
Financial Aid and Registrar
Financial Aid Officer
Production Photographer
Theater Safety & Occupational Health
Director of Theater Safety and Occupational Health
Andre Massiah
Anna Glover
Registrar/Admissions Administrator
Customer Service and Safety Officers
Ariel Yan
Senior Administrative Assistant to the Financial Aid Officer and Registrar/ Admissions Administrator
Laura Torino
Marketing & Communications and Audience Services Director of Marketing
Daniel Cress
Director of Communications
Steven Padla
Senior Associate Director of Marketing & Communications
Caitlin Griffin
Associate Director of Marketing and Communications
Markie Gray
Marketing & Communications Assistant
Wendy Davies
Director of Audience Services
Laura Kirk
Kevin Delaney Ed Jooss John Marquez
Operations
Director of Facility Operations
Jennifer Gonsalves Operations Associate
Nadir Balan
Operations Assistant
Devin Matlock
Arts & Graduate Studies Superintendents
Jennifer Draughn Michael Halpern Team Leaders
Andrew Mastriano Sherry Stanley Facility Stewards
Michael Humbert Marcia Riley
Custodians
Sybil Bell Christina Davis Tylon Frost Cassandra Hobby Kathy Langston Mark Roy Jerome Sonia