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CONTENTS Yale University acknowledges that Indigenous peoples and

A Note from the Artistic Director..............5 Title Page..........................................................7 Cast Page..........................................................9 From Our Dramaturgs: Journey to the Other America............10

nations, including

Luis Alfaro’s Mestizo Theater.............. 12

Mohegan, Mashantucket

Cast Bios.......................................................... 15

Pequot, Eastern Pequot,

Understudy Cast Bios.................................. 17 Creative Team Bios......................................19

Schaghticoke, Golden

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Hill Paugussett, Niantic,

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

and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands

Youth Programs........................................... 28 Accessibility Services and Team............. 29 David Geffen School of Drama Board of Advisors..................................... 31 Our Donors..................................................... 31

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between these peoples and nations and this land.

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A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Welcome to Yale Repertory Theatre!

I am delighted you are here today for Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, the first work by Luis Alfaro to be produced at Yale Rep. Luis is a bright light and artistic leader in the American theater, not only as a playwright—for which he has been honored with a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the PEN America/ Laura Pels International Foundation Theater Award for a Master Dramatist, among other richly deserved accolades—but also as a producer and a professor at University of Southern California.

It is my pleasure also to welcome back director Laurie Woolery, whose work in New Haven includes Dream Hou$e at Long Wharf, as well as Manahatta, El Huracán, and Imogen Says Nothing here at Yale. Director of Public Works at The Public Theater, where her acclaimed musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It returned for an extended encore run in Central Park last summer, earning her a prestigious OBIE Award, Laurie is one of the field’s most gifted and generous artists.

Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles is part of a trilogy that transplants the ancient Greek tragedies of Electra, Oedipus the King, and Medea to the streets of 21stcentury Los Angeles. It has been inspiring to witness the artistry and compassion Laurie and our remarkable company of actors and artistic collaborators have brought to bear on Luis’s stunningly beautiful tale of an undocumented Mexican family caught in the grip of the American immigration system.

This production marks the return of in-person WILL POWER! programming for the first time since 2019. Our annual education initiative includes three morning matinee performances of the play for high school students from New Haven Public Schools, entirely free of charge.

Whether you are a long-time audience member or are one of the hundreds of students seeing your first show at Yale Rep, thank you for joining us today. As always, I look forward to hearing your thoughts about this production or any of your experiences at Yale Rep: my email address is james.bundy@yale.edu.

I hope you will come back for the ripple, the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson, who received the 2022 Horton Foote Prize, which recognizes excellence in the American theater, for this play. The poignant, transporting, and quietly subversive story of justice, legacy, and forgiveness will be staged by Resident Director Tamilla Woodard and run April 28–May 20.

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

MOJADA

A MEDEA IN LOS ANGELES

BY LUIS ALFARO DIRECTED BY LAURIE WOOLERY Scenic Designer

Marcelo Martínez García Costume Designer

Kitty Cassetti Lighting Designer

Stephen Strawbridge Projection Designer

Shawn Lovell-Boyle Sound Designer

Bryn Scharenberg

Mojada is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

The New York premiere was produced by The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director).

The West Coast premiere of Mojada was first performed at the Getty Villa, Los Angeles on September 10, 2015.

The Mojada world premiere was produced by Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, Illinois (Chay Yew, Artistic Director; Chris Mannelli, Managing Director).

Production Dramaturgs

Bruja, a first adaptation of Medea, was commissioned, developed, and received its world premiere in 2012 by Magic Theatre, San Francisco, California (Loretta Greco, Producing Artistic Director).

Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas Nicholas Orvis

This production is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Wig Designer

Krystal Balleza/Wig Associates

Technical Director

Andrew Riedemann Vocal and Dialect Coach

Cynthia Santos DeCure Fight and Intimacy Director

Yale Repertory Theatre thanks our 2022–23 season funders:

Kelsey Rainwater Casting Director

Calleri Jensen Davis Stage Manager

Aisling Galvin

Season Sponsor:

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MOJADA

A MEDEA IN LOS ANGELES Cast | in order of appearance: Tita........................................................................................................................... Alma Martinez Medea..................................................................................................................... Camila Moreno Acan.................................................................................................................. Romar Fernandez Hason........................................................................................................Alejandro Hernández Josefina............................................................................................................. Nancy Rodríguez Armida................................................................................................................. Mónica Sánchez

Understudy Cast Tita..................................................................................................................... Catalina Maynard Medea......................................................................................................................... Caro Riverita Acan..........................................................................................................................Adrian Guillen Hason................................................................................................................... Alfredo Antillon Josefina................................................................................................................. Renata Eastlick Armida.................................................................................................................. Gabriela Garcia Assistant Stage Manager...................................................................................... Ellora Venkat

Setting Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles is performed without an intermission.

Content Guidance This play includes themes related to the trauma of crossing the Mexico-United States border and the difficulties that migrants face to establish themselves and to assimilate in U.S. society.

The play contains descriptions of sexual assault; depictions of and descriptions of violence, both in the context of an intimate partner relationship and against a child; profanity and racial slurs in both English and Spanish; sexual situations; and sexual innuendo.

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When they must suddenly leave their home near Zamora, Medea and her family pay human traffickers to smuggle them north and across the U.S.-Mexico border. It is a journey of more than 1800 kilometers (1120 miles), about two days’ driving in long stretches. They follow a route that many migrants from Mexico and countries further south take, along the west coast of Mexico and then through the Sonoran Desert. It is a journey from rural to urban, from one America to another, from home to exile.

Zamora is a city of 186,000 people in the Mexican state of Michoacán.

Located in a wide, flat valley on a plateau 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) above sea level, the city sits among mountains but is surrounded by fertile agricultural land, the result of an ancient floodplain. The climate is humid and semitropical; the area is named the Tziróndaro Valley, which means “swamp place” in the indigenous Purépecha language spoken in the region. It’s a good climate for growing many things, including avocados—Michoacán is the largest grower of avocados in Mexico, which is itself the largest exporter of the fruit in the world.

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Reaching to the Pacific coast, the city sits at or just above sea level; its highest point is just 93 meters (305 feet). L.A. has a “Mediterranean” climate, with hot, dry summers and mild, slightly damper winters, but it gets far less rain than most locations at that latitude—a fact made worse by waves of droughts, which have become more frequent and more intense in the last several decades.

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Nogales Tucson The U.S.-Mexico “border wall” is in fact a series of disconnected barriers, some of which are designed to block vehicles only and some of which prevent passage on foot. At its highest point, the wall tops 27 feet—the same height as the highest walls on the set of Yale Rep’s Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles.

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LUIS ALFARO’S MESTIZO THEATER Chicano playwright Luis Alfaro has adapted Greek tragedies to address the experiences of his communities in Los Angeles, California. Sophocles’ Electra has become Electricidad (2003); his Oedipus the King has turned into Oedipus El Rey (2008); and Euripides’ Medea has been rewritten into Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (2013). He sees his work in theater as a labor of transformation: “It all comes back to politics because I’m a Chicano, a Mexican-American.

My parents were farm workers, I was raised in what they called abject poverty. We didn´t cross the border, the border crossed us. I am someone who believes in social justice, so I fell into the theater as a way of changing the world.”

He uses the stories of ancient Greek rulers as a blueprint to analyze el barrio, the prison system, the patriarchy in Latine communities, the U.S.-México border. Alfaro says, “These plays are attempts not only to bring the Classics to my community,

but to bring my community into the Classical realm,” and so he creates a chorus where the voices of European antiquity sing and yell with the Nahua spirits in these lands we now call the Americas. The indigenous nations that flourished before European colonization are still alive, and despite centuries of oppression, this past is very present all across the continent.

Because Latinoamérica es mestiza.

Latin American cultures were born from a wound that is still bleeding.

The Spanish, English, Dutch, and Portuguese kingdoms invaded indigenous societies using genocide, torture, extermination, rape, and exploitation—trying to erase the civilizations they found and imposing their culture on those who survived the invasion. We, Latin American and Latines, are the children of colonization. But this violence could not erase the Indigenous societies of the continent. Mestizo cultures and hybrid societies were created out of this clash, ones that are reborn

*Quotes from Luis Alfaro come from a Zoom interview conducted on February 15, 2023, by Chantal Rodriguez for Yale Rep’s WILL POWER! Program.

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everyday from their Indigenous roots, the worldview imposed by the invaders, the culture of Black folx who were brought as slaves and from folx of Asian origin, some who came as migrants and some who were brought to exploit their labor. Our culture was born from historical trauma through the combination of multiple sources.

But we must not romanticize this mestizaje. It was usually the consequence of brutal violence and imposition. Even today, Latinoamérica es indígena, but the system of colonial exploitation is sustained through antiIndigenous and anti-Black beliefs and policies. Historically, the elites of the region have tried to erase or obscure these roots in order to resemble the cultures of the colonizers. But we cannot return to a lost past, and we cannot become Europeans. At the same time, colonizing gazes look down on us even today, seeing us as uncivilized and exotic; as violent, disruptive citizens who start fruitless revolutions; as invading aliens who

need to be deported. Maybe this flattening of our humanity stems from a fear of a righteous fury for the pain that was inflicted. What we can do is reclaim this mestizaje by understanding the hybridity of who we are.

Luis Alfaro’s Griego trilogy is, precisely, an act of intentional mestizaje, or reconciliation of his multiple roots. Specifically, Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles is a tragedy about undocumented migration— about that journey of millions seeking a better future or escaping violence. It’s about an unspeakably dangerous quest that turns those who succeed into criminals, deprived of basic rights. This play tells the story of a family leaving México to seek a new life, examining the systemic conditions that create their pain. Alfaro challenges audiences and questions our complicity with these systems. But there is a crucial inversion here: Greek tragedy shines a light on our interconnectedness

Mural on the corner of East 4th and South Mott Streets in Boyle Heights painted

by Ricardo Estrada and Raul Gonzalez of Mictlan Murals, 2010.

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“When you humanize immigration, you change immigration. You make laws that protect your country, but also that protect people. If I could tell one story about one crossing, I might be able to question the audience. What the Greeks do is ask us a question and not give us the answer. We are supposed to wrestle with that.”

—Luis Alfaro and how the actions of one individual can affect the whole community. To highlight this, the Classic pieces by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides centered stories of rulers, kings and queens to dramatize how their errors brought down entire societies. Alfaro’s characters are disempowered folx from marginalized communities, struggling with oppressive systems of power. His characters have to make life-changing decisions. But their options are constrained, over and over, and they

need to wrestle with these few, often challenging, choices. And maybe, even if they had chosen differently, tragedy would still be waiting for them.

Ancient voices resonate in the land.

Actors channel them and make them sing on stage. The theater we inherited from the Greeks is a ritual, and our ceremony today wants to purge the violence grafted in the flesh. Embracing this mestizaje can start a reconciliation.

Even if it is not enough to achieve the catharsis we desperately need.

—Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas, Production Dramaturg

Learn more: Click to watch interviews about the theme and content of the play.

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CAST

in alphabetical order

Romar Fernandez (Acan) is an

Alma Martinez* (Tita) This production

energetic and dedicated 10-year-old young man. His passion for acting began three years ago. Romar’s most recent project was playing “Young Mondo” in the upcoming comedy series Primo, premiering May 2023.

Romar is very excited to be working on this project at Yale Repertory Theatre. His goals as a young actor consist of starring in a major motion picture and working as a network series regular. The sky’s the limit for Romar!

marks Ms. Martinez’s debut at Yale Repertory Theatre.

Broadway: In the Summer House. OffBroadway: Green Card.

Regional: El Teatro Campesino, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakes, Santa Cruz Shakes, Berkeley Repertory, San Jose Repertory, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, San Diego Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company, Denver Theatre Center, South Coast Repertory, Asolo Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Long Beach Civic Light Opera, Pennsylvania Stage, Marin Theatre Company, Fiesta Dinner Theatre San Antonio, Odyssey Theatre, Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, Old Globe Playhouse, Sundance Theatre Lab. Television: Undone, Bosch: Legacy, I Love Dick (Amazon); The Terror Infamy (AMC); Gentefied (Netflix); The Bridge (F/X, Peabody Award Season 1); Corridos: Tales of Passion and Revolution (PBS, Peabody Award); Queen Sugar (OWN/WB); Last Man On Earth (Fox-TV); Good Behavior (TNT); Dating Game Killer (Discovery); The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (F/X); Strange Angel, MacGyver, The Unit, Nash Bridges (CBS); Elena of Avalor (Disney); 500 Nations (WarnerNetflix); Grey’s Anatomy (ABC). Film: Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zoot Suit, Born in East LA, Under Fire, Barbarosa, Find My Daughter, The Darkness, Transpecos, Greater Glory, Maria’s Story, Panama Deception,

Alejandro Hernández* (Hason) is a Nuyorican actor based in NYC. Theater: Between Riverside and Crazy (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Peter and the Starcatcher, Wondrous Strange (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival); The First Immigrant, Orpheus in the Berkshires (Williamstown Theatre Festival); El Hurácan (workshop) at MCC. Television/film: The Horror of Dolores Roach (Amazon Prime Video, summer 2023); New Amsterdam, Law & Order: SVU (NBC); Partner Track, Set It Up, Monster (Netflix); Instinct, FBI, Elementary, Madame Secretary (CBS). Training: B.F.A., Montclair State University; Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Lucid Body House with Fay Simpson.

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

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CAST

in alphabetical order Crossing Over, Answer to My Prayers, Only in Dreams, Family Cena, Tyger Tyger, Cake, Ms. Purple, and Clemency (winner, 2019 Sundance Grand Jury Award). Training: Ph.D. directing and dramatic criticism, Stanford University; M.F.A., acting, USC; B.A., theater, Whittier College. Additional training; Lee Strasberg, Jerzy Grotowski, Ariane Mnouchkine, Augusto Boal, Luis Valdez, Patsy Rodenburg, RADA, and Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT), University of Mexico. Membership: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Actor’s Branch; Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Actor’s Branch; AEA; SAG AFTRA; SDC; and ANDA (Mexican Actors’ Union).

A published author, her current article will appear in the upcoming anthology print-book Latinx Actor Training, Routledge Press, due spring 2023. Dr. Martinez is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of La Verne, La Verne, California.

Camila Moreno* (Medea) A fresh new face in the entertainment industry, actress Camila Moreno, has quickly positioned herself as a oneto-watch. Last year, Moreno was seen in her first professional role as a series regular in Ava DuVernay’s highly anticipated superhero series Naomi for The CW. Moreno is a native of Puerto Rico.

She went to the Universidad de

Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras where she majored in acting under their Drama department. There she won the Victoria Espinosa Award, for best actress of her graduating class. She received her M.F.A. from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, where she had the opportunity to play characters such as Irina in The Three Sisters, Mayannah in Brainpeople, Cordelia in King Lear, and Ophelia in Hamlet. Moreno currently splits her time between New York and Puerto Rico. ¡Los Amo Mami y Papi! ¡Gracias por tenerme!

Nancy Rodríguez* (Josefina) Broadway: The Great Society, Cymbeline.

Off Broadway: The Public Theater, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, INTAR, Irondale Ensemble.

Regional: ten seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Two River Theater, Shakespeare Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Studio Theatre.

Film: Detachment, Indigo, Into Me See, Cricket Head. Television: FBI: Most Wanted, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Special Victims Unit, Mercy, One Life to Live. Audio: Play On Shakespeare Podcast: Coriolanus. Awards: HOLA Award for Outstanding Ensemble.

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

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CAST

UNDERSTUDY CAST

Mónica Sánchez* (Armida) Mojada:

Alfredo Antillon* (Understudy for

A Medea in Los Angeles marks the East Coast debut for actor/playwright Mónica Sánchez.

Originally from New Mexico, she has worked extensively on the West Coast with (among others) El Teatro Campesino, Playwrights Arena, Strasberg Center, Cornerstone, South Coast Rep, Magic Theatre, Campo Santo, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Eureka Theatre Co., Asian American Theatre Center, Thick Description, Latino Theatre Co., and San Diego Rep, where she last appeared as Jocasta in Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey. Television and film credits include House of Cards, Big Sky, Walker Independence, Primo; Trigger Warning, When You Finish Saving the World, and Julie Taymor’s biopic on the remarkable life and work of Gloria Steinem, The Glorias: My Life on the Road, in which she portrayed the indefatigable social justice warrior, Dolores Huerta.

Mónica is an Assistant Professor of Playwriting and Performance at Colorado College. She is elated and grateful to be part of this production with longtime and newfound collaborators. dramatista.com

Hason) is from Los Angeles, California.

After getting his M.F.A. in acting from the Brown University/Trinity Repertory program, he moved to New York City, where he now resides. His theater credits include Astolfo, Sueño, Oscar, Sweat (pandemic-interrupted); Abel (u/s), Fade, Scrooge (u/s), A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep); The Late Wedding, Macbeth, Summer and Smoke (Brown/ Trinity Rep); Don John and Much Ado About Nothing/Tanta Bulla...¿Y Pa Que? (Bilingual Shakespeare) for Teatro en El Verano. He is excited to be working with such extremely talented artists on this beautiful piece.

He is grateful to the ancestors and his mother for crossing borders and risking it all so her kids could have a chance to dream and make those dreams a reality. ¡Gracias Mamá!

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Renata Eastlick* she/her (Understudy for Josefina) is a multilingual actor and voiceover artist.

She is best known for voicing “Caveira” in the hit UBISOFT video game Rainbow Six: Siege. Off-Broadway: for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf (The Public Theater). Regional: Dream Hou$e (Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage), Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too, August Wilson)

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UNDERSTUDY CAST in alphabetical order

(Orlando Shakes), 7 Deadly Sins (Miami New Drama), AZUL (NAMT Festival), Letters to Kamala (American Stage), The Royale (Hippodrome Theatre), Ruined (GableStage), among others.

Television: Burn Notice (USA), Mad Dogs (Amazon), Magic City (STARZ).

Film: God’s Waiting Room. B.F.A.: New World School of the Arts (University of Florida). renataeastlick.com

Gabriela Garcia* (Understudy for Armida) is an artist who divides her time between the TV/ film, theater, dance, commercial, and education industries.

Theater: Chicago, On Your Feet!, Roman Holiday, Half Time, Little Duende, Carousel, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Television: Law & Order: Organized Crime and SVU, New Amsterdam, Succession, Jessica Jones. Film: In the Heights, Enchanted. Associate work: director/choreographer for ¡Viva Broadway! When We See Ourselves; Twelfth Night the musical (Delacorte); Movement Associate for Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street Theater); and Chicago (Düsseldorf). She has narrated over 100 audiobook titles in Spanish and English, and holds a B.A. in performing arts from Saint Mary’s College of California. She is the co-founder of R.Evolución Latina. Gabriela-Garcia.com

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Adrian Guillen* (Understudy for Acan) I’m an 11-yearold boy with a passion for music, art, sports, and helping others. I learned how to talk when I was just 11 months old. And from then on I have loved to communicate with others. In kindergarten my first play was called The Gingerbread Man. I played as the old man. After I did the performance, I knew I wanted acting to be my profession. Music is very important for me and my family. When I got into middle school, I joined the band class. It makes me feel joyful to make people happy with my music.

I’m a fast learner and that has helped me to do great things professionally like being part of my school spelling bee contest, taekwondo, soccer, band class, and acting class.

Catalina Maynard* (Understudy for Tita) was previously seen at Yale Rep in Lydia by Octavio Solis.

Catalina has worked regionally at the Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center, PCPA, TheatreWorks, Mixed Blood Theatre, Children’s Theatre Minneapolis, San Diego Rep, Cygnet Theatre, Moxie Theatre, Moonlight, North Coast Rep, New Village Arts, Arizona Theatre Co., La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe (San Diego), and Off-Broadway at the Peter J. Sharp Theatre. She was also a member of iON Theatre company

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

for eight years. Currently, she is a Learning Specialist in Narrative Medicine for the UniversityLink Medical Science Program at University of California, San Diego.

Caro Riverita (Understudy for Medea) is an actor from Manatí, Puerto Rico. She is a thirdyear M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include Macbeth, Affinity, and Bodas de sangre. She holds a B.A. in humanities with a concentration in drama from Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras where she performed in La Senda del Cafetal

by José Luis Ramos Escobar. She has also performed for secondary school audiences across some of the archipelago’s best theaters with La Escuela de Hoy by Gerardo Rodriguez.

CREATIVE TEAM in alphabetical order

Luis Alfaro (Playwright) is a Chicano playwright born and raised in downtown Los Angeles. He is also an Associate Professor at University of Southern California. He has received fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; United States Artists; Ford Foundation Art of Change; Joyce Foundation; Mellon Foundation and is the recipient of the PEN America/ Laura Pels International Foundation Theater Award for a Master Dramatist.

He was the inaugural Playwrightin-Residence for six seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (20132019); Playwright’s Ensemble at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre (2013-2020); Inaugural Latinx Playwrights at the Los Angeles Theatre Center (2021); and Ojai Playwrights Conference member since 2002. His plays include Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, and Mojada and have been seen at regional theaters throughout the United States and Europe. Luis spent two decades in the Los Angeles Poetry and Performance Art communities.

Krystal Balleza (Wig Designer) Opera: Opera Theatre of St. Louis 2023 Season. Off-Broadway: At the Wedding (Lincoln Center); Americano!

(New World Stages); Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida (Gingold Group). Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Barrington) and Angels in America, Part One (Arena Stage). Krystal is the Hair and Makeup Department Head at SIX: The Musical on Broadway. Krystal holds a B.F.A. in wig and makeup design from Webster Conservatory, and is co-owner of The Wig Associates with her design partner, Will Vicari. wigassociates.com 956 por vida Joel Britt (Associate Lighting Designer) Selected Design work includes American Buffalo (Backyard Renaissance); A Kind of Weather, Significant Other, EightySixed (Diversionary Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun, Taming of the Shrew(d), Vieux Carré, Angels in America (UCSD); The Who’s

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Tommy Benefit Concert (La Jolla Playhouse); Little Women and Peter and the Starcatcher (The Barn Stage Company). Selected Assistant/Associate work includes Hamilton (National Tours/ Germany); Summer, The Donna Summer Musical (La Jolla/Broadway/National Tour); Come From Away (National Tour/Apple TV+); The Band’s Visit (National Tour); Freaky Friday (La Jolla Playhouse); The Lorax, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe). Joel is a proud member of USA829. joelbritt.com

Kitty Cassetti she/her/hers (Costume Designer) is a fourth-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include Romeo and Juliet and Manning.

Costume design credits include BURNBABYBURN: an american dream (Yale Summer Cabaret); In Between Bitches, Maggie and Iris (Yale Cabaret); and To Be Swallowed Whole (Hampshire College Productions).

Assistant design credits include The Notebook: A New Musical (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination: Nine Solo Shows (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Endlings (ART); Alice and Mr. Burns, a post-electric Play (David Geffen School of Drama). Kitty holds a B.A. from Hampshire College.

Cynthia Santos DeCure she/her/ ella (Vocal and Dialect Coach) is an actor, voice, and dialect coach. She is an Associate Professor of Acting at David Geffen School of Drama, certified in both Knight-Thompson Speechwork® and as Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, specializing

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in accents, dialects, and culturally inclusive pedagogies. Some dialect credits: Laughs in Spanish (Denver Center); Queen of Basel (TheaterWorks Hartford); Cymbeline (New York Classical Theatre); Quixote Nuevo (Denver Center, Round House Theatre); Scenes with Cranes (REDCAT); Today is My Birthday, El Huracán (Yale Rep); In the Heights (Phoenix Theater, Chance Theater); The Long Road Today (South Coast Rep); Orange is the New Black (Netflix); and The Affair (Showtime).

Member of SAG/AFTRA, AEA. She is co-editor, Scenes for Latinx Actors, and Latinx Actor Training (Routledge 2023).

Calleri Jensen Davis (Casting Director) is a creative casting partnership among James Calleri, Erica Jensen, and Paul Davis of over 20 years. They are thrilled to begin this collaboration with Yale Rep. 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

Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas he/ him/él (Production Dramaturg) is a Peruvian theater artist and researcher, who focuses on queer stories and how these are shaped by the colonial histories of the Americas. He is author of several award-winning plays, including El Rancho De Los Niños Perdidos, Una Historia De (Poli) Amor, Debut (with Caro Black Tam), Nunca Estaremos En Broadway (with

Rodrigo Yllaric), Hasta Que Choque El Hueso (with Mario Zanatta), and Can The Peruvian Speak? As dramaturg, he worked on Expats Anonymous

by Rachel Chin, directed by Alex Keegan (Yale Cabaret); Exposed

by Laura Goodenow (Real Women Make Waves); and Between Two Knees by The 1491s, directed by Eric Ting (Yale Repertory Theatre). He is currently an M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama.

Aisling Galvin* (Stage Manager) is a fourth-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. Previous credits include Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Yale Rep and Affinity at the Geffen School.

Shawn Lovell-Boyle (Projection Designer) has designed projections for theater, dance, music, installation, and themed entertainment across the United States and internationally.

Organizations include Atlantic Theater Company, Tulsa Ballet, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Denver Center, Lagoon Park, the Alliance Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Berkshire Theater Group, Cork Opera House, and Ogunquit Playhouse. Broadway: Paradise Square. Previous credits with Yale Repertory Theatre: 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

Marcelo Martínez García he/ him/él (Scenic Designer) is a proud Mexican scenic designer and architect.

His recent credits include Love’s Labor’s Lost and Bodas de sangre (David Geffen School of Drama); BURNBABYBURN: an american dream (Yale Summer Cabaret); L’Orfeo (Yale Baroque Opera); Dragaret ’22, Radiant Vermin, Let’s Go to the Moon, and littleboy/littleman (Yale Cabaret).

Marcelo holds a degree in architecture from ITESM MTY, a specialization in scenic design from CENTRO CDMX, and is currently in his final year pursuing an M.F.A. in theater design at the Geffen School. Upcoming works include Torera (Alley Theater, Houston) and La Doriclea (Yale Baroque Opera). More at marcelomg.com | @marcelomgdesigns Nicholas Orvis he/him (Production Dramaturg) is a dramaturg, critic, and director in his final year at David Geffen School of Drama. His work at Yale includes Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

(Yale Repertory Theatre); Green Suga Bloos and Almost (Nearly) Fucking Finally (Geffen School); The Hedgehog’s Dilemma (Yale Cabaret); and the father, the son, and the holy spirit (Yale Summer Cabaret). Prior to beginning at the Geffen School, Nick was the Literary Associate for Premiere Stages at Kean University, where he helped develop new plays by writers including Deborah Brevoort, Nicole Pandolfo, Keith Josef Adkins, and Tammy Ryan. Nick is a former managing editor of Theater magazine and a co-creator and

*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

producer of the ongoing Dungeons + Drama Nerds, a podcast exploring the intersections between theater and tabletop roleplaying games.

Kelsey Rainwater (Fight and Intimacy Director) is an intimacy coach, fight director, and actress based out of the ancestral lands of the Quinnipiac people. Kelsey’s most recent work was seen in the premiere of Sally and Tom at The Guthrie. Some of her other credits include In the Southern Breeze at Rattlestick, The Public Theater’s Measure for Measure and White Noise by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Oskar Eustis; A Raisin in the Sun (canceled due to COVID) and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Yale Rep; Blues for An Alabama Sky with the Keen Company; and Bess Wohl’s film, Baby Ruby. She is a Lecturer in Acting at David Geffen School of Drama, co-teaching stage combat and intimacy, and is a Resident Fight and Intimacy Director for Yale Rep.

Andrew Riedemann (Technical Director) is a fourth-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. He has served as assistant technical director for Next to Normal at the Geffen School, as well as for Choir Boy and Manahatta at Yale Rep. Prior to the Geffen School, Andrew was the Technical Instructor of the Scene Shop at New York University in Abu Dhabi for four years. He would like to thank the technical direction team and the Geffen School staff for all the work that has been put into this show. Andrew would also like to thank his parents and his partner Mia for all their love and support.

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Bryn Scharenberg (Sound Designer) is a fourth-year M.F.A. candidate in sound design. She grew up in Seattle, where the sound of rain is near-constant. The damp and the dark are a core themes in her designs, as well as an earnest love for the melodramatic. She received a B.S. in music and technology from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and her professional credits include a mix of designing, assistant designing, and engineering for Pittsburgh Musical Theater, Front Porch Theatricals, David Geffen School of Drama, and Yale Cabaret, among others. Brynscharenberg.org

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 and Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night’s Dream 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 Lighting Advisor for Yale Rep.

Ellora Venkat (Assistant Stage Manager) is a stage manager from Los Angeles, California. She is a first-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include Marys Seacole and the Langston Hughes Festival show, Esme. She recently received her B.A. in theater production and design at Pepperdine University. She has a love for original works which extends to production managing Americana: A Murder Ballad at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Elsewhere the musical by Lexi Weakley. Ellora is eternally grateful to Ais for imparting wisdom and joy in this process.

Laurie Woolery she/her/ella (Director) is an OBIE Award-winning director, playwright, community activist, and citizen artist, who has worked at theaters across the country including The Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New York City Center/Encores! Off Center, Trinity

Repertory, Goodman Theatre, Kennedy Center, Cornerstone Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, and Yale Rep, where she has directed Manahatta, El Huracán, and Imogen Says Nothing.

She is the Director of Public Works at The Public Theater, where her musical adaptation of As You Like It was named among “The Best Theater of 2017” by The New York Times and returned last summer to Free Shakespeare in the Park. Laurie also directed the rolling world premiere of Eliana Pipes’s Dream Hou$e at the Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and Baltimore Center Stage. She produced the documentary Under the Greenwood Tree and curated the national public art project The Seed Project. Laurie has developed new work with diverse communities ranging from incarcerated women to residents of a Kansas town devastated by a tornado. She creates site-specific work that ranges from a working sawmill in Eureka to the banks of the Los Angeles River. Laurie is a founding member of The Sol Project and a proud recipient of the Fuller Road Fellowship for Women Directors of Color. Laurie is a 2020 United States Artist recipient, 2021 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities and the 2022 Person of the Year Award for the National Theatre Conference.

Laurie is a Beinecke Fellow at David Geffen School of Drama this spring.

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FOR THIS PRODUCTION ARTISTIC Assistant Director

Sarita Ocón

Assistant Scenic Designer

George Zhou

Assistant Costume Designer

Rea J. Brown

Associate Lighting Designer

Joel Britt

Assistant Lighting Designer

Jiahao (Neil) Qiu

Assistant Projection Designer

Ein Kim

Projection Content Editor

Doaa Ouf

Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer

Stan Mathabane Craft Artisans

Susan Aziz, Juliann (Julz) Kroboth

Barbara Bodine Run Crew

Anne Ciarlone, Joyce Ciesil, Adam Taylor Foster, Malik James, KIM KIM (Juhee Kim), Emma Bee Pernudi-Moon, Arthur Wilson, Mike Winch Rehearsal Assistants

Chloe Xiaonan Liu, Alexus Coney, Nakia Shalice Avila, Charlie Lovejoy

ADMINISTRATION Associate Managing Director

Sarah Scafidi

Assistant Managing Director

Natalie King

Management Assistants

Anne Ciarlone, Sarah Machiko Haber, Adrian Hernandez Company Manager

Chloe Knight

Assistant Company Managers

Youth Supervisors

Allyse Corbin, Daniel McGurk, Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel

Fanny Abib-Rozenberg, Roman Sanchez, Mikayla Stanley, Andrew Aaron Valdez

Tutor

House Managers

Jacqueline Stacks

Adrian Hernandez, Jeremy Landes

PRODUCTION

SPECIAL THANKS

Associate Production Manager

Krista Bianchini, Mirna Calderon, Megan Fountain, Dean Eileen Galvez and La Casa Cultural, Jesus Guillen Gutierrez, Juana Islas, La Tapatia Bakery, Enrique Mayobanox Fernandez Nin, Erica Melendez, Catalina y Antonio Ortega Ocón, The Public Theater, Public Works, Laura Ramos Woolery, Adriana Rodriguez and the Spanish Community of Wallingford, Hossna Samadi, Juana Valle, Elena Vidaurre Ramos, Yale Latino Networking Group.

Luanne Jubsee

Assistant Technical Directors

Constanza Etchechury López, Shawn Poellet, LukeTarnow-Bulatowicz Properties Manager

Bennet Goldberg

Production Electrician

Ro Burnett

Light Board Programmer

Kyle Stamm

Projection Programmer

John Horzen 24

Wig and Hair Technician

Yale Rep thanks Dr. Manuel Aguilar-Moreno for consulting on the Nahautl language. We would like to thank R. Réal Vargas Alanis, Margarita Alanis Cacho, and Trinidad J. Vargas for consulting on traditional Nahua, Purépecha, and curandera practices.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE STAFF Artistic Director James Bundy Managing Director Florie Seery Associate Artistic Director, Director of New Play Programs Jennifer Kiger 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 Sound Design Advisor Mikaal Sulaiman Voice and Text Advisor Grace Zandarski Resident Fight and Intimacy Directors Kelsey Rainwater Michael Rossmy Stage Management Advisor Narda E. Alcorn

Associate Artists 52nd Street Project Kama Ginkas Mark Lamos MTYZ Theatre/Moscow New Generation Theatre Bill Rauch Sarah Ruhl Henrietta Yanovskaya

Artistic Management Production Stage Manager James Mountcastle Senior Artistic Producer Amy Boratko Artistic Associate Kay Perdue Meadows Artistic Fellow Jisun Kim Casting James Calleri Erica Jensen Paul Davis Senior Administrative Assistant to the Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director Josie Brown

Production Manager for Studio Projects and Special Events C. Nikki Mills Senior Administrative Assistant to Production and Theater Safety Grace O’Brien

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 Kat McCarthey Sharon Reinhart

Senior Administrative Assistant for Directing, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Playwriting, and Stage Management Laurie Coppola

Carpenters Barrett Doyle Doug Kester

Senior Administrative Assistant for Design Kate Begley Baker

Scenic Artists Lia Akkerhuis Nathan Jasunas

Senior Administrative Assistant for the Acting Program Krista DeVellis

Properties

Arts Librarian Tess Colwell

PRODUCTION Production Management

Director of Production Shaminda Amarakoon Production Manager Jonathan Reed

Painting

Paint Shop Supervisor Ru-Jun Wang

Properties Supervisor Jennifer McClure Properties Craftsperson David P. Schrader Properties Associate Zach Faber Properties Stock Manager Mark Dionne Properties Intern Bennet Goldberg

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YALE REPERTORY THEATRE STAFF Costumes

Costume Shop Manager Christine Szczepanski Senior Drapers Clarissa Wylie Youngberg Mary Zihal Senior First Hands Deborah Bloch Patricia Van Horn

Lead Light Board Operator Alary Sutherland FOH Mix Engineer Abe Joyner-Meyers

ADMINISTRATION General Management

Costume Project Coordinator Linda Kelley-Dodd

Associate Managing Directors Sarah Scafidi Matthew Sonnenfeld

Costume Stock Manager Jamie Farkas

Assistant Managing Director Natalie King

Electrics

Senior Administrative Assistant to the Managing Director and General Manager Emalie Mayo

Lighting Supervisor Donald W. Titus Senior House Electricians Jennifer Carlson Linda-Cristal Young Electricians Alary Sutherland Racheal Daigneault Eitan Acks Electrics Intern Jasmine Moore

Management Assistants Anne Ciarlone Sarah Machiko Haber Adrian Hernandez Maya Louise Shed Company Manager Chloe Knight

Sound Supervisor Mike Backhaus

Assistant Company Managers Fanny Abib-Rozenberg Roman Sanchez Mikayla Stanley Andrew Aaron Valdez

Lead Sound Engineer Stephanie Smith

Development and Alumni Affairs

Sound

Sound Interns Saida Joshua-Smith Zoey Lin

Projections

Acting Projection Supervisor Eric Lin Projection Engineer Mike Paddock Projection Intern Erin Sims

Stage Operations Stage Carpenter Janet Cunningham

Lead Wardrobe Supervisor Elizabeth Bolster

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Lead Properties Runner William Ordynowicz

Finance, Human Resources, and Digital Technology Director of Finance and Business Administration/ Lead Administrator Nicola Blake Finance Consultants Regina Bejnerowicz Katherine D. Burgueño Denise Zaczek Director of Human Resources Trinh DiNoto Director, Yale Tessitura Consortium, and Web Technology Janna J. Ellis Manager, Business Operations Martha Boateng Digital Communications Associate George Tinari Business Office Specialists Aditya Agarwal Moriah Clarke Andrea Valcourt Business Office Assistant Asberry Thomas Digital Technology Associates Edison Dule Garry Heyward

Director of Development and Alumni Affairs Deborah S. Berman

Interim Digital Technology Associate Shontay Jones

Deputy Director of Operations for Development and Alumni Affairs Susan C. Clark

Senior Administrative Assistant to Business Office, Digital and Web Technology, Operations, and Tessitura Shainn Reaves

Associate Director of Development Casey Grambo Senior Administrative Assistant to Development and Alumni Affairs Jennifer E. Alzona Development Associate Delaney Kelley Development Assistant Fanny Abib-Rozenberg

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 Senior Administrative Assistant for Marketing and Communications Mishelle Raza Marketing Assistant Jeremy Landes Mikayla Stanley Publications Manager Marguerite Elliott Production Photographer Joan Marcus Art and Design Paul Evan Jeffrey/ Passage Design Videographer David Kane Director of Audience Services Laura Kirk Assistant Director of Audience Services Shane Quinn Subscriptions Coordinator Tracy Baldini Audience Services Associate Molly Leona

Customer Service and Safety Officers Ralph Black, Jr. Kevin Delaney Ed Jooss John Marquez—on leave Box Office Assistants Jordi Bertrán Ramírez Sydney Raine Garick Jordan Graf Daliya Habib Aaron Magloire Kenneth Murray a.k. payne Dominic Sullivan Jessica Wang Ushers Tracy Bennett Danielys Batista Maura Bozeman Regina Carson Amalia Crevani Gerson Espinoza Campos Nina Gaither Madi Garfinkle Lydia Gompper Şeyma Kaya Spencer Knoll Di’Jhon McCoy Justin Meadows Keenan Miller Bonnie Moeller William Romain Jana Ross Joe Webb Larsson Youngberg

Theater Safety and Occupational Health

Director of Theater Safety and Occupational Health/ COVID Compliance Manager Anna Glover

Assistant Director of Theater Safety Kelly O’Loughlin COVID Compliance Coordinator Amy Stern Associate Safety Advisor Aholibama Castañeda Gonzalez

Operations

Director of Facility Operations Nadir Balan Operations Associate 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 Rodney Heard Andrew Martino James Hansberry Sybil Bell Jerome Sonia Willia Grant Melloney Lucas Tylon Frost

Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, March 10–April 1, 2023, University Theatre, 222 York 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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YOUTH PROGRAMS WILL POWER! is Yale Rep’s annual educational initiative, designed to bring middle and high school students to see live theater. Since our 2003–04 season, WILL POWER! has served more than 20,000 Connecticut students and educators. In 2022–23, we will offer programming centered on Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles to New Haven Public Schools students and educators. The program has included early schooltime 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 community in late June.

Yale Rep’s youth programs are supported in part by:

NewAlliance Foundation and Esme Usdan

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ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES For this production: March 18 at 8PM American Sign Language (ASL) An ASL-interpreted performance for patrons who are deaf or have hearing loss.

March 21 at 8PM

Available at the concierge desk in the theater lobby: Assistive listening devices

Braille Programs

Spanish Language Captioning This performance will be captioned in Spanish.

La presentación del 21 de marzo será subtitulada en español.

Large Print Programs

March 25 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.

Yale Repertory Theatre gratefully acknowledges the

Carol L. Sirot Foundation

for underwriting the assistive listening systems in our theaters.

April 1 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.

For more about Yale Rep’s accessibility services, please contact Laura Kirk, Director of Audience Services: 203.432.1522 | laura.kirk@yale.edu

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ACCESSIBILITY TEAM David Chu/c2inc-caption coalition (Open Captioner) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit

consultant and the leading provider of professional Live Performance Captioning (sm) for theatrical and cultural presentations. c2 members hold the distinction of being the very first to caption live theater (the Paper Mill Playhouse, NJ), the first to debut on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and have introduced open captioning in prestigious theaters across the country and in London.

Captioning in theater has gained momentum and acceptance by theatergoers since its debut in 1996. It addresses the needs of a far larger audience of hard of hearing and deaf people, which includes those who do not use sign language, are late deafened, not self-identified with hearing loss, and those who simply might have missed a punch line.

Dave Heard (Audio Describer) is a Boston native who began his acting career on stage, touring nationally and internationally with Broadway’s Hairspray. He went on to join the international tour of Dreamgirls, and to perform at several regional theaters in New England before making the leap to the big screen. Dave graduated from Fordham University with a BA in English-creative writing, and while there, he studied at the Alvin Ailey School of Dance in New York City. Dave is most recently known for portraying Rickey Minor in the Whitney Houston Biopic: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (released nationwide Dec 2022). Dave is also an educator and a supporter of bringing arts inclusivity to all audiences. In this capacity he began Audio Description training and performing for theaters and live performances across New England. Dave is excited to be audio describing his third show at Yale Rep, having just completed work at Boston’s Huntington and the Wheelock Family Theatre. When not in front of the camera, or behind the stage, Dave enjoys work as a performance coach (acting, fitness, life) and spends time at home teaching his toddler how to tumble! More information can be found at juststartwithdave.org Emilia Lorenti-Wann (ASL Interpreter) has interpreted Aladdin, On Your Feet!, West Side Story, Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast, and Godspell on Broadway along with Yale Rep productions including El Huracán and Twelfth Night. She also does various music concerts at Madison Square Garden and Universal Studios with well-known artists and festivals. Emilia was the featured interpreter/trainer for the cruise industry for five years, interpreting shows every night from musicals to comedy acts and trained a team of over 200 interpreters. Emilia is of Uruguayan descent, and Spanish is her first language.

JO Welch she/her (ASL Interpreter) a certified Interpreter, is a first-generation

American of Colombian parents. She grew up in the marginalized space between Latinx and American cultures. JO is influenced by her commitment to the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing communities, in which she began her performing arts work, on and backstage. She has worked with several companies including Broadway in Boston; American Repertory Theater; El Huracán at Yale Rep; OTC/Woolly Mammoth Theater Company; and NYC’s Signature Theater for My Broken Language

by Quiara Alegrìa Hudes. JO sang the national anthem at Fenway Park with Elbert Joseph who performed in ASL, a dream come true. JO Welch is an author, entrepreneur, and coach. She is a founding Board of Director of Mystic River Theater Co, a teen-run LGBTQ+ theater company. Loved by Mike Welch, and her amazing JQ, MRTC President who is pursuing Directing at Pace University. jowelch.com

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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 Clare Brinkley Sterling B. Brinkley, Jr. YC ’74 Kate Burton ’82 James Chen ’08 Lois Chiles Patricia Clarkson ’85 Edgar M. Cullman III ’02, YC ’97

Michael David ’68 Wendy Davies Michael Diamond ’90 Polly Draper ’80, YC ’77 Charles S. (Roc) Dutton ’83 Sasha Emerson ’84 Lily Fan YC ’01, LAW ’04 Terry Fitzpatrick ’83 Marc Flanagan ’70 Anita Pamintuan Fusco YC ’90 David Marshall Grant ’78 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 Tracy Chutorian Semler YC ’86 Tony Shalhoub ’80 Michael Sheehan ’76 Anna Deavere Smith HON ’14 Andrew Tisdale Edward Trach ’58 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 Estate of James T. Brown* Lois Chiles Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development Estate of Nicholas Diggs* Estate of Richard Diggs* Anita Pamintuan Fusco and Dino Fusco David Geffen Foundation The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation David G. Johnson Victoria B. Mars Estate of June M. Rosenblatt The Shubert Foundation Jeremy Smith Woody Taft Stephen Timbers Edward Trach Esme Usdan Donald R. Ware

GUARANTORS ($25,000–$49,999) James and Deborah Burrows Foundation Abby Kenigsberg Sarah Long Neil Mazzella National Endowment for the Arts Estate of Eugene Shewmaker* The Sir Peter Shaffer Charitable Foundation Estate of William Swan*

BENEFACTORS ($10,000–$24,999)

Nina Adams and Moreson Kaplan Americana Arts Foundation Rudy Aragon Carmine Boccuzzi and Bernard Lumpkin Lynne and Roger Bolton Burry Fredrik Foundation Wendy Davies Michael Diamond In honor of Neville and Dorothy Etwaroo Mabel Burchard Fischer Grant Foundation Lucille Lortel Foundation

Cathy MacNeil-Hollinger and Mark Hollinger Tracy Chutorian Semler Michael and Riki Sheehan Estate of Merrill L. Sindler* Carol L. Sirot Trust for Mutual Understanding

PATRONS ($5,000–$9,999)

Foster Bam Pun Bandhu Richard C. Beacham Santino Blumetti James Bundy and Anne Tofflemire CT Humanities Michael S. David Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation Terry Fitzpatrick Barbara and Richard Franke* Howard Gilman Foundation Bigelow Greene The Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation Brian Tyree Henry Sally Horchow

Ellen Iseman in memory of Marjorie Frankenthaler Iseman Rolin Jones Rocco Landesman Tien-Tsung Ma Tarell Alvin McCraney David and Leni Moore Family Foundation James Munson Jason Najjoum NewAlliance Foundation Carol Ostrow Bill and Sharon Reynolds

PRODUCER’S CIRCLE ($2,500–$4,999) Anonymous Frances Black Ian Calderon Lily Fan JANA Foundation Ann Judd and Bennett Pudlin Fred Gorelick and Cheryl MacLachlan George Lindsay, Jr. Richard Ostreicher Abby Roth and R. Lee Stump *deceased

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Thank you to the generous contributors to David Geffen School DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($1,000–$2,499)

Harvey Kliman and Russ Rosensweig Sandra Stein Ben and Laraine Corby S. Kummer Sammler Nancy F. Lyon Slotznick Family Fund, Chuck Adomanis Virginia (Wendy) Riggs a charitable fund of Donna Alexander Lyons in memory of The Foundation for Laura and Victor Altshul Robert W. Lyons Enhancing Anonymous John McAndrew Communities Debby Applegate and Susie Medak and Greg Shepard and Marlene Bruce Tulgan Murphy Stone Amy Aquino and Jonathan Miller Matthew Suttor Drew McCoy Janice Muirhead John Thomas III Paula Armbruster Vicki Nolan and Clark Courtney B. Vance Mamoudou N. Athie Crolius Richard and Alice Baxter Carol M. Waaser Janet Oetinger Clifford L. Warner John Lee Beatty Arthur Oliner Shana C. Waterman Kate Burton F. Richard Pappas George C. White Anne and Guido Jonathan Pellow Carolyn Seely Wiener Calabresi Dw Phineas Perkins Steven Waxler Joan Channick Louise Perkins and James Chen Jeff Glans PARTNERS Audrey Conrad Point Harbor Fund of ($500–$999) Brett Dalton the Maine Community Donna Alexander Elwood and Catherine Foundation Shaminda Amarakoon Davis Amy Povich Ashley Bishop Ramon Delgado Jeffrey Powell and John Bourdeaux Anne S. Erbe Adalgisa Caccone Joy Carlin ERJ Fund Kathy and George Priest Lawrence Casey Tony Foreman Alec Purves Sarah Bartlo Chaplin Will Gaines Faye and Asghar Daniel Cooperman and Melanie Ginter Rastegar Mariel Harris Marc Flanagan Anne Renner Sean Cullen Eric Glover Bob and Priscilla Dannies Howard Rogut Rob Greenberg Robin Sauerteig Robert Dealy Jane Head Florie Seery Aziz Dehkan and Amy Herzog Anna Deavere Smith Barbara Moss Dale and Stephen Matthew Specter and Kelvin Dinkins, Jr. Hoffman Marjan Mashhadi and Alexis Rodda James Guerry Hood Dr. and Mrs. Dennis D. Sasha Emerson Suzanne Jackson Spencer Peter Entin Elizabeth Kaiden James Steerman Jon Farley Elizabeth Katz and Kenneth J. Stein Glen R. Fasman Reed Hundt David Sword Geballe Family Helen Kauder and Matthew Tanico Peter Gerwe Barry Nalebuff Sylvia Van Sinderen Betty and Joshua Fran Kumin and James Sinclair Goldberg The Ethel & Abe Lapides Paul Walsh LT Gourzong Foundation Vera Wells William J. Grambo Charles Letts Ray Werner Eduardo Groisman Kenneth Lewis Walton Wilson Regina Guggenheim Brian Mann Steven Wolff William B. Halbert Neil Mulligan Amanda Wallace Woods Andy Hamingson Jim and Eileen Mydosh Yaro Yarashevich Judy Hansen Barbara and William Albert Zuckerman Carl Holvick Nordhaus David Henry Hwang Pam and Jeff Rank INVESTORS Peter Hunt Lance Reddick ($250–$499) Pam Jordan Dr. Michael Rigsby and Bruce Ackerman and Roger Kenvin Prof. Richard Lalli Susan Rose-Ackerman Blair Kohan Elaine Ring Actors’ Equity Eric Lin Douglas and Terri Foundation Robinson

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Narda Alcorn Georg’Ann Bona Susan Brady and Mark Loeffler Tom Broecker Nancy and Stephen Brown Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buckholz David Budries Jonathan Busky Sarah Cain Paul Cleary William Connor Robert Cotnoir Claire A. Criscuolo William Cuddy John W. Cunningham William Curran F. Mitchell Dana Laura Davis and David Soper Rick Davis Dennis Dorn Kem and Phoebe Edwards Dr. Marc Eisenberg Richard and Barbara Feldman Joel Fontaine David Freeman Richard Fuhrman Randy Fullerton Eric Gershman and Katie Liberman Lindy Lee Gold Linda Greenhouse Emmy Grinwis Michael Gross Karen Hansen and Andrew Bundy Barbara Hauptman Jennifer Hershey Casey Grambo Chuck Hughes Joanna and Lee A. Jacobus Bruce Katzman Edward Kaye Alan Kibbe Amir Kishon Mitchell Kurtz Maryanne Lavan and Larry Harris Roberta and Lawrence Harris Bona Lee Irene Lewis Jennifer Lindstrom Jerry Lodynsky Charles H. Long

of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre Mary Lloyd Adam Man Peter Marshall Edwin Martin Thomas G. Masse and James M. Perlotto, MD Deborah McGraw Pamela and Donald Michaelis David Muse Regina and Thomas Neville Adam O’Byrne Kevin and Margaret O’Halloran Edward and Frances O’Neill Gamal Palmer Bruce Payne and Jack Thomas Michael Posnick Jon and Sarah Reed Ted Robb Steve Robman Erin Rocha Constanza Romero Nan Ross Jean and Ron Rozett Sarah Ruhl Robert Sandberg Suzanne Sato Robin Sauerteig Kenneth Schlesinger Georg Schreiber Kathleen McElfresh Scott Paul Selfa William Skipper Kenneth Stein Susan Stevens Erich Stratmann Wilma and Williams Summers Bernard Sundstedt Richard B. Trousdell Deb Trout Guy and Judith Yale

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