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Returning to this theatre each fall fills me with a sense of awe. Some forty years ago, when Robert Brustein and his colleagues reclaimed the former Calvary Baptist Church as a new home for theatre in downtown New Haven, they may have imagined the millions of theatre-goers who would attend over the years, and the thousands of talented artists who would make their homes, for a time, in this theatre. They may also have imagined a range of plays, classic and new, that would comprise the repertoire through the decades.

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Even more important, though, I am sure they imagined this space would be filled by events and happenings and ideas that would be, in a profound sense, unimaginable—the product of diverse creative collaborations—and therefore most surprising and compelling.

To revisit Richard II in this political season has been such a wondrous experience for me. On its face, the play is magically humane and epic history, raising vital questions of leadership and legitimacy encoded in the culture of monarchism. Remarkably, at this moment in our democracy, all of us, like the characters in the play, bear responsibility—both for the end of one administration, and for the competition for succession. And already, well over a year before our next presidential election, we heatedly probe these same questions of leadership and legitimacy in what we now call the “24-hour news cycle.”

So often, in that news cycle, the really exciting questions are ducked, spun, or obscured.

That is what the competitors do, and Shakespeare knew it. He lived in the age of a monarch who strived mightily to burnish her public image and hide her private foibles, and whose own standing was threatened by unsuccessful military adventures abroad.

He also had the advantage, as a dramatist, of being able to imbue his characters with a sense of responsibility for confronting the consequences of their actions. Any of us might wish for such a power in real life, but all of us can benefit from witnessing it applied in art, as imagined by the playwright and rendered by this inventive and indefatigable company.

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CAST George Bartenieff / Brian Robert Burns / Jeffrey Carlson Caroline Stefanie Clay / Caitlin Clouthier / Alvin Epstein Jonathan Fried / Kristjiana Gong / Christopher Grant Billy Eugene Jones / Alex Knox / Brent Langdon Michael Leibenluft / Christopher McFarland / Christopher McHale Dan Moran / Edward O’Blenis / Josh Odsess-Rubin Joseph Parks / Allen E. Read / Joe Tapper

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C AS T in order of speaking JEFFREY CARLSON

King Richard II

ALVIN EPSTEIN

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Richard’s uncle

BILLY EUGENE JONES

Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, Gaunt’s son

CHRISTOPHER GRANT

Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk

CAROLINE STEFANIE CLAY BRENT LANGDON ALLEN E. READ JOSH ODSESS-RUBIN BRIAN ROBERT BURNS

Duchess of Gloucester Duke of Surrey Duke of Aumerle, York’s son Bolingbroke’s Herald Mowbray’s Herald

JOSEPH PARKS

Sir Henry Green

CHRISTOPHER McFARLAND

Sir John Bushy

ALEX KNOX GEORGE BARTENIEFF CAITLIN CLOUTHIER JONATHAN FRIED JOE TAPPER EDWARD O’BLENIS MICHAEL LEIBENLUFT BRIAN ROBERT BURNS DAN MORAN CHRISTOPHER McHALE BRENT LANGDON DAN MORAN KRISTJIANA GONG ALVIN EPSTEIN

Sir William Bagot Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, Richard’s uncle Queen Isabelle Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland Lord Ross Lord Willoughby Harry Percy, Northumberland’s son Lord Berkeley Bishop of Carlisle Earl of Salisbury Sir Stephen Scroop Lady-in-Waiting Gardener

JOSH ODSESS-RUBIN

Gardener’s Man Gardener’s Man

DAN MORAN CHRISTOPHER GRANT ALEX KNOX

bolingbroke’s supporters

York’s Servant

MICHAEL LEIBENLUFT CAROLINE STEFANIE CLAY

richard’s favor-

Abbot of Westminster Duchess of York Sir Piers of Exton Exton’s Man

CHRISTOPHER McFARLAND

Prison Keeper

JOSEPH PARKS

Stable Groom

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FAMILY PLOT

OF COUSINS AND CROWNS THE BACKSTORY At the age of ten, Richard II was crowned King of England, a title he inherited from his grandfather Edward III. (Richard’s father, Edward “the Black Prince,” had died the year before.) Richard’s uncle John of Gaunt, one of Edward III’s seven sons, acted as a mentor to Richard until the young king came into his own.

Devoted to the old ideal of the Divine Right of Kings and worried about losing his crown, Richard dismantled the Lords Appellant, a powerful group of barons who, led by his uncle the Duke of Gloucester, had attempted several times to seize power. In response, Richard had the Earl of Arundel executed and banished the Earl of Warwick. Gloucester was murdered while imprisoned at Calais awaiting his trial.

LIFE PORTRAIT OF KING RICHARD II, LATE 14TH CENTURY, © DEAN AND CHAPTER OF WESTMINSTER.

1327

Murder of Edward II; Accession of Edward III

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1330

THE PLAY BEGINS King Richard II’s cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, brings Sir Thomas Mowbray to the royal court to accuse him of murdering the Duke of Gloucester, a charge Mowbray denies. Unable to resolve the quarrel by peaceful means, Richard, who may or may not have ordered Mowbray to kill Gloucester, agrees to a duel between the two men at

Birth of his son Edward, called “The Black Prince” because of the black armor he wore

1337

Edward III claims French Throne; Hundred Years War begins

1339

Edward III invades France

at Coventry. Interrupting the contest before harm can befall either combatant, Richard banishes both from England—Bolingbroke for six years and Mowbray forever. Heartsick at the sentence, John of Gaunt,

ENGLISH OR FRENCH ARTIST, RICHARD II PRESENTED TO THE VIRGIN AND CHILD BY HIS PATRON SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST AND SAINTS EDWARD AND EDMUND (LEFT PANEL OF “THE WILTON DIPTYCH”), CIRCA 1395-1399, © THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON. BOUGHT WITH A SPECIAL GRANT AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SAMUEL COURTAULD, VISCOUNT ROTHERMERE, C.T. STOOP, AND THE ART FUND, 1929.

Bolingbroke’s father, dies. Richard seizes Gaunt’s estate to furnish his ill-advised wars in Ireland. While Richard is away, the banished Bolingbroke returns to reclaim his father’s lands, goods, and title, gradually winning popular support and political favor with the common people and many nobles.

Finding all of his former friends have either abandoned him or been murdered by his challenger, Richard admits defeat and, humbled, agrees to abdicate. The newly crowned King Henry IV sends Richard to prison in Pomfret Castle and presides over the royal court where allegiances are still tangled between Richard’s supporters and those of the new king. Exton, one of the court, overhears King Henry’s impulsive wish to be rid of Richard and takes it upon himself to murder the deposed king. Given the news that Richard is dead, King Henry IV realizes that as long as he rules England, his reign— like Richard’s before him—will be tainted by the fact “that blood should sprinkle [him] to make [him] grow.”

IN THE NEXT INSTALLMENT King Henry IV’s reign is plagued by guilt, border disputes, attempts on his life and crown, and troubles with his eldest son Henry (known to Shakespeare’s audiences as Prince Hal), who displays little interest in the royal court. The king must now protect himself against Scotland, Wales, and the Percy family, all while preparing Hal for the role of a lifetime—King Henry V. — REBECCA PHILLIPS, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG

1340

Birth of John of Gaunt

1348

Black Death strikes France

1349

Black Death strikes England

1367

Birth of Richard II and Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV)

1376

Death of The Black Prince

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PROFESSOR WILL’S HISTORY LESSON RICHARD II AND THE HENRIAD As 1593 drew to a close, William Shakespeare had good reason to rejoice. His nascent playwriting career in the competitive London theatre was taking off. His first cycle of history plays—Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 and Richard III, chronicling the decline and fall of the Houses of Lancaster and York—was enormously popular. How would he follow up such success? As George Lucas would do with his Star Wars series four hundred years later, Shakespeare turned to the beginning of the story.

Richard II is the first play in what is commonly known as the Henriad, the series of history plays that includes Richard II, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. Set in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, Richard II depicts the early stages of the struggle between the noble houses of Lancaster and York. The conflict was known as the War of the Roses because followers of Lancaster, whose emblem was a red rose, and York, whose insignia bore a white rose, fought for control of the English crown. Long before Henry VI is drawn into a bloody civil war and the hunchback Richard III begs for a horse, the country is ruled by young Richard II.

1377

Death of Edward III; Accession of Richard II

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1381

Peasants’ Revolt; Death of Edmund Mortimer

Shakespeare populates Richard’s court with characters who figure prominently in the Henriad: Henry Bolingbroke, shortly to become the Lancastrian King Henry IV; the soon-to-be rebels Henry Percy, the Earl of Northumberland, and his son Harry, not yet known as Hotspur. There is even a tantalizing mention of Prince Hal, that “unthrifty son,” idling happily with his “unrestrainèd loose companions,” presumably including Falstaff. These men all have a hand in the bloodshed that extends through Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, and Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3. The violence culminates in the demise of the House of York in Richard III and the creation of the House of Tudor under Henry VII, grandfather to Shakespeare’s monarch, Elizabeth I. Throughout the Henriad, Shakespeare obsesses over the nature of power, governance, and

1382

Marriage of Richard II and Anne of Bohemia

1385

Richard’s expedition to Scotland

kingship. The world of Richard II transitions from the feudal vision of England as the “sceptered isle,” where God’s anointed king rules by divine right, to a realm guided more by coldly calculated realpolitik than by heavenly involvement. These philosophical differences have real implications for Richard and Bolingbroke.

If a lawful king is unprincipled and cruel, should he keep his crown?

If a capable challenger deposes God’s chosen ruler, what might befall the new king’s reign?

As King Richard II descends into oblivion and King Henry IV ascends triumphantly, each taking his place in the pantheon of English rulers, the gathering shadows of history remind us that this story is far, far from over.

— LYDIA GARCIA, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG

1386

John of Gaunt’s Spanish expedition

1387

1389

John of Gaunt Gloucester, returns to England Arundel, and Warwick revolt against Richard II

1394

Death of Anne of Bohemia; Richard leaves for Ireland

1395

Richard returns from Ireland

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A BLACK PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES Disease and the Fall of the Plantagenets

A standard analysis of King Richard II’s reign (1377-1399) paints an unflattering portrait of the ill-fated monarch; he is often accused of having been a careless and crooked politician who had only himself to blame for his fall from political grace. While he ruled England, Richard drained the royal coffers and racked up huge debts among foreign allies to pay for his extravagant lifestyle. Moreover, it was probably he who ordered the Duke of Gloucester killed and banished the loyal Sir Thomas Mowbray for carrying out the murder.

EDWARD OF WOODSTOCK

WILLIAM

died in infancy

LIONEL OF CLARENCE PHILIPPA

m. Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March

EDWARD died 1371

ROGER MORTIMER Earl of March

RICHARD II

But this reading of history fails to take into account one small thing—the oriental rat flea.

There is little even the wisest monarch could have done to have stopped the rat that carried the flea that carried the germ that brought Europe to its knees.

Richard’s England was recovering physically, spiritually, and economically from the Bubonic Plague that had ravaged the entire kingdom less than a half century before, destabilizing every class of feudal society. Peasants and nobles alike began to question the “divine right” of kings who, despite having been chosen by God, could not protect their people from the horrible contagion.

1396

Richard marries Isabelle of France; 25-year truce with France begins

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1397

Coronation of Isabelle; Lords Appellant dissolved; Earl of Arundel executed, Earl of Warwick exiled, and the Duke of Gloucester murdered in captivity

1398

Bolingbroke and Mowbray clash at Richard’s court, both are sentenced to exile

1399

John of Gaunt dies; Richard fights rebels in Ireland; Bolingbroke returns to England; Richard is deposed; Bolingbroke crowned as Henry IV

A standard analysis of King Richard II’s reign (1377-1399) paints an unflattering portrait of the ill-fated monarch; he is often accused of having been a careless and crooked politician who had only himself to blame for his fall from political grace.

While he ruled England, Richard drained the royal coffers and racked up huge debts among foreign allies to pay for his extravagant lifestyle. Moreover, it was probably he who ordered the Duke of Gloucester killed and banished the loyal Sir Thomas Mowbray for carrying out the murder.

EDWARD III

But this reading of history fails to take into account one small JOHN OF GAUNT

EDMUND

Duke of Lancaster

Duke Of York

WILLIAM

died in infancy

THOMAS

Duke of Gloucester

EDWARD

Earl of Rutland, Duke of Aumerle

thing—the oriental rat flea. There is little even the wisest monarch could have done to have stopped the rat that carried the flea that carried the germ that brought Europe to its knees.

HENRY IV

Richard’s England was recovering physically, spiritually, and economically from the Bubonic Plague that had ravaged the entire kingdom less than a half century before, destabilizing every class of feudal society. Peasants and nobles alike began to question the “divine right” of kings who, despite having been chosen by God, could not protect their people from the horrible contagion.

HENRY V

More than just shaking the Plantagenet family tree on which

1400

Uprisings in Scotland and Wales

1402

Henry marries Joan of Brittany

1403

Percy Rebellion; Battle at Shrewsbury

1408

Battle of Bramham Moor; Northumberland killed

1413

Death of Henry IV; Accession of Henry V

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CAST GEORGE BARTENIEFF* (DUKE OF YORK). Last Yale Repertory

Theatre appearance as Cadmus in The Bacchae (1968). Recently appeared in Romeo and Juliet at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, Prometheus Bound at Classic Stage Company, and Stuff Happens at The Public Theater (Drama Desk Award).

Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Misalliance, The Whole World Over, Box Mao Box, Cop-Out, Room Service, and Unlikely Heroes.

Off-Broadway: I Will Bear Witness (Obie Award), Krapp’s Last Tape, Zoo Story, The Brig (The Living Theatre), All’s Well That Ends Well, The Memorandum, Dead End Kids, Cymbeline, and American Notes. Regional: Tuesdays with Morrie (Philly Award), Valley Sung, The Cherry Orchard, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Tempest, and The Lady’s Not for Burning. George initiated Theater for the New City in 1970; among the 900 new plays and community related events it has produced are Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child and the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. He is the recipient of three Obie Awards.

Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

BRIAN ROBERT BURNS (MOWBRAY’S HERALD and

HARRY PERCY) appeared last season in Bibles and Candy,

Titus Andronicus, and Marat/Sade (Yale School of Drama), A Number (Yale Cabaret), and most recently in The Vote: Bacchae (Yale Summer Cabaret). Other credits include The Young Man from Atlanta (Newport Theatre Arts Center) and The Blue Room (Renegade Theatre). Training: MFA, expected 2008, Yale School of Drama.

JEFFREY CARLSON*

(KING RICHARD II). Broadway: Marilyn in Taboo, Valère in

Tartuffe, Billy in Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? PreBroadway: James Keller in The Miracle Worker. Off-Broadway: Bach at Leipzig at New York Theatre Workshop; Manuscript at the Daryl Roth Theatre; Last Easter at Manhattan Class Company; Thief River at Signature Theatre Company. Regional: title roles in Hamlet and Lorenzaccio at the Shakespeare Theatre Company; Prince Hal in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (also part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival); Marchbanks in Candida and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at McCarter Theatre; Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference; Cape Cod Theatre Project. Film: Nowhere to Go but Up, Hitch, Backseat, The Killing Floor. TV: Contract player (Zoë) on “All My Children;” Plainsong (CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame); featured in PBS “American Masters” documentary on The Juilliard School; “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Awards: 2004 Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Fellowship.

Training: The Juilliard School; University of California, Davis; Guthrie Theater.

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CAROLINE STEFANIE CLAY* (DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER and DUCHESS OF YORK) has appeared at Yale Repertory

Theatre in Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Broadway and national tour: Doubt. Broadway: Drowning Crow. Off-Broadway: Doubt at Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, and Atlantic Theater Company. Regional: Long Wharf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre, McCarter Theatre, and Cleveland Play House. Caroline is a narrator for Recorded Books Audio Books. Film: Allergic to Nuts, The Heights, Sherrybaby, and the upcoming Made For Each Other. TV: “Law & Order” and “All My Children” (recurring role as Nurse Hazel).

CAITLIN CLOUTHIER (QUEEN ISABELLE) has appeared in

Yale School of Drama productions of Our Town, The Lacy Project, The Seagull, Zero Hour, Venus, and Speaking Our Mind. Yale Cabaret and Summer Cabaret credits include Three Birds, The War Is Over, and Zero Hour (workshop production). Recently she played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Chautauqua Theater Company. Training: BA in Drama from the University of Washington; MFA, expected 2008, Yale School of Drama.

ALVIN EPSTEIN* (JOHN OF GAUNT and

GARDENER) is a founding member and former Associate Director

of Yale Repertory Theatre. Richard II marks his 35th production at Yale Rep, where his acting and directing credits also include Dynamite Tonite!, Happy End, Don Juan, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, The Importance of Being Earnest, Heartbreak House, and Black Snow. He has staged more than 20 productions, and acted in more than 150. His Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include King Lear, the American premieres of Waiting for Godot and Endgame, the world premieres of When the World Was Green and Tuesdays with Morrie, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Threepenny Opera, No Strings, and many others following his 1955 New York debut with Marcel Marceau. For 20 years he performed A Kurt Weill Cabaret with Martha Schlamme on and off Broadway and on tour in the U.S. and South America and is again singing that repertoire in Songs Degenerate and Otherwise with Beth Anne Cole. Mr. Epstein is a founding member of American Repertory Theatre and former Artistic Director of the Guthrie Theater. Awards: Most Promising Actor Award from the New York Drama Critics (1956), the Obie Award for Dynamite Tonite!, the Jason Robards Award for Dedication to Theatre, and in 2007, the Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement.

*member of actors’ equity association, union of professional actors and stage managers in the united states.

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CAST JONATHAN FRIED* (EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND). New York:

Durwood Peach in Landscape of the Body at Signature Theatre; The Two Noble Kinsmen, Hamlet, Richard III at The New York Shakespeare Festival; Coriolanus at Theater For A New Audience; 1951 at New York Theatre Workshop; Angelique at Manhattan Class Company; Sleep Deprivation Chamber at Signature Theatre. Regional: Slavs at the Mark Taper Forum; Harry Brock in Born Yesterday at Arena Stage; The Constant Wife at American Conservatory Theater; The Cherry Orchard, Midsummer’s Night Dream, Landscape of the Body at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; Love! Valour! Compassion! at the Berkshire Theater Festival; Our Town and Slavs at La Jolla Playhouse; Orson Welles in Orson’s Shadow at the Globe; Tales of the Lost Formicans at the Humana Festival; The Trojan Women at the Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC; Baltimore’s CenterStage, Seattle, and others. As a Company Member at the American Repertory Theater, Mr. Fried appeared in many plays, including King Lear (playing Edmund to Alvin Epstein’s Gloucester). Mr. Fried was also a Company Member at Trinity Repertory Company where his roles included Treplev, Marc Antony, and Tom Wingfield. Film: B.A.P.S, Kate and Leopold, Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End. TV: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” and “One Life to Live” (recurring role ), and “The Immigrants” for PBS. Up next: Our House, by Theresa Rebeck.

KRISTJIANA GONG (LADY-IN-WAITING) is a second-year

undergraduate student at Yale College. While in high school she played the roles of Ado Annie in Oklahoma!, Tess in Crazy for You, and Hope Harcourt in Anything Goes. This is her debut with the Yale Repertory Theatre.

CHRISTOPHER GRANT (THOMAS

MOWBRAY and SIR PIERS OF EXTON)

was last seen at Yale Repertory Theatre as Morgan in All’s Well That Ends Well. New York credits include The Horton Foote Project at 78th Street Theatre Lab. As an actor at Yale School of Drama, he has appeared as the Stage Manager in Our Town and Dr. Dorn in The Seagull, as well as in Zero Hour, Marat/Sade, and Edward II. At Yale Cabaret, he performed in Caryl Churchill’s Hotel: Eight Rooms. He holds a BFA in theatre performance from the University of Evansville. MFA, expected 2008, Yale School of Drama.

BILLY EUGENE JONES* (HENRY BOLINGBROKE). Yale Repertory Theatre: Breath, Boom!. Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf. Off-Broadway: Waiting for Godot (Classical Theatre of Harlem), and The Actor’s Rap (Acorn Theater).

Has appeared in numerous Shakespeare plays, such as Othello (title role), Hamlet, Macbeth, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well, Julius Caesar, and Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2. Selected regional credits: Gee’s Bend (world premiere), 16

Jitney, Fences, Angels in America, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Living Room in Africa (world premiere), The Wild Duck, Guys and Dolls, and Ain’t Misbehavin’. Billy will be appearing in August Wilson’s 20th Century at the Kennedy Center in spring 2008. Film: Hexed, High Ambitions, The Peanut Man: The Story of George Washington Carver. TV: “Comic View,” “Wishbone,” and “Madison Heights.” Graduate of Yale School of Drama.

ALEX KNOX (SIR WILLIAM BAGOT and EXTON’S MAN) is a

second-year actor at Yale School of Drama, where he’s performed in Camino Real as Lord Byron, Speaking Our Mind (Carlotta Festival), and The Illusion (Yale Cabaret). Alex created, directed, and performed in Eye, a mask/physical theatre piece that premiered at Yale Summer Cabaret. BFA in Theatre, University of California, Santa Barbara. MFA, Yale School of Drama, expected 2009.

BRENT LANGDON* (DUKE OF SURREY and EARL OF SALISBURY) is making his Yale Repertory Theatre

debut in Richard II. Regional: Henry V at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Murderers at Philadelphia Theatre Company; Crimes of the Heart, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), Dracula, and A Christmas Carol at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Hamlet at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre; Three Days of Rain at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati; The Dazzle at B Street Theatre; Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, 2, Marvin’s Room, and The Grapes of Wrath at PlayMakers Repertory Company. TV: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “Conviction.” Graduate of the University of Evansville.

MICHAEL LEIBENLUFT (YORK’S SERVANT and GARDENER’S MAN) is making his Yale Repertory Theatre debut in Richard II.

He hails from Washington, DC, where he appeared as Balthasar in Romeo and Juliet at the Folger Theatre, Joe and Si Crowell in Our Town at Round House Theatre, a reading of Lorenzaccio at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, a workshop of The Velvet Sky at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and Nick in A Little House Christmas at Adventure Theatre. He is a sophomore Theater Studies and East Asian Studies major at Yale College, where he has appeared in Antigone and the World Performance Project’s 365 Days / 365 Plays. He will direct the New Haven premiere of Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City this December.

*member of actors’ equity association, union of professional actors and stage managers in the united states.

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CAST CHRISTOPHER McFARLAND (SIR JOHN BUSHY and

PRISON KEEPER) is making his Yale Repertory Theatre debut in

Richard II. Previous Shakespearean roles include Abhorson in Measure for Measure at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; the title role in Hamlet, Rosse in Macbeth, and Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors at the Arizona Shakespeare Festival; and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at No Holds Bard Theatre.

MFA, expected 2009, Yale School of Drama.

CHRISTOPHER McHALE* (BISHOP OF CARLISLE).

Yale Repertory Theatre: Night Is Mother to the Day, The Beach, Figaro/ Figaro, Pentecost, Petersburg, and Iphegenia at Aulis. Broadway: Piaf, The Iceman Cometh, Execution of Justice, King Lear, and Julius Caesar. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park productions of Julius Caesar, Two Gentlemen of Verona, King John, Macbeth, Othello, and Richard II. He also appeared in Domino at New York Theatre Workshop. Regional: Shakespeare Festival of Washington, DC; Arena Stage; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; The Cleveland Play House; and Merrimack Repertory Theatre, among others.

DAN MORAN* (LORD BERKELEY, SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,

and ABBOT OF WESTMINSTER). Broadway: Julius Caesar, The Man Who Had All the Luck, A Month In the Country. OffBroadway: Henry V, Pericles, Macbeth, and True West at The Public Theater; Hiding Behind Comets at 29th Street Rep; Sam & Lucy, and originated roles in Sideman, Dark Rapture, Escape from Happiness, and Ella & Miles at New York Stage and Film. Regional: A Streetcar Named Desire at Arena Stage; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Escape from Happiness at CenterStage; Macbeth, As You Like It, and A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream at Shakespeare & Company; Happy Days at The Whole Theater. Film: American Gangster and Winter of Frozen Dreams (both in post-production), Rick, Happiness, Mighty Aphrodite, Celebrity, Deconstructing Harry, Sweet & Lowdown, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Maximum Risk, Arresting Gena, Ball in the House, Mob Queen, and Hamlet. TV: “Law & Order,” “Homicide,” and “One Life to Live,” among others.

EDWARD O’BLENIS* (LORD WILLOUGHBY). Yale Repertory

Theatre: The Birds. Off-Broadway: Tall Grass. Other New York credits: Big Trouble in Little Hazard, Spring Awakening, Einstein’s Dreams, Hamlet, Home Affairs. Regional: The Member of the Wedding and The Old Settler at Westport Country Playhouse; Fabulation at People’s Light and Theater; Peter Pan at Intiman Theatre; Caliban in The Tempest and Proteus in The Two Gentleman of Verona at Nebraska Shakespeare Festival; Lobby Hero at New Century Theater; Laertes in Hamlet at the Actors’ Shakespeare 18

Project; The Invisible Man, Pink and Say, and A Wrinkle in Time at Seattle Children’s Theater; Orsino in Twelfth Night at Hampton Shakespeare Festival. Film: Eden, Proud, On the Outs. TV: “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Bill Nye the Science Guy.” Awards: Fox Fellowship. Education: BFA, Cornish College of the Arts; MFA, Yale School of Drama. A proud member of Actors’ Equity.

JOSH ODSESS-RUBIN (BOLINGBROKE’S HERALD and GARDENER’S MAN) is making his Yale Repertory Theatre

debut in Richard II. He is a senior Theater Studies major at Yale College where credits include Curse of the Starving Class, Oleanna, Copenhagen, The Lion in Winter, An Infinite Ache, and Macbeth, as well as Sincerity Forever at Yale Cabaret. Josh will next appear in David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow in October, at Yale’s Whitney Theater, as part of his senior thesis project in acting.

JOSEPH PARKS* (SIR HENRY GREEN and STABLE GROOM). Yale Repertory Theatre: Orpheus in Sarah

Ruhl’s Eurydice. Off-Broadway: Eurydice at Second Stage Theatre.

Regional: The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and Slay the Dragon at American Conservatory Theatre; the American premiere of The Sweetest Swing in Baseball at The Magic Theatre; and Wintertime at San Jose Repertory Theatre. At Yale School of Drama: In the Red and Brown Water, Venus, Marat/Sade, and Edward II. MFA, expected 2008, Yale School of Drama. Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.

ALLEN E. READ* (DUKE OF AUMERLE). Yale Repertory

Theatre: The Black Dahlia. New York credits: Playwrights Horizons, The Actors Company Theatre, Ars Nova. Regional: Alliance Theatre Company, Geva Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, 7 Stages, Horizon Theatre Company. Graduate of Yale School of Drama.

JOE TAPPER* (LORD ROSS) is making his Yale Repertory

Theatre debut in Richard II. Regional credits: Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; and in Ithaca, New York, Spinning Into Butter at Hangar Theatre, and Shakespeare’s R & J at Kitchen Theatre Company. TV: “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” He has a BFA from Ithaca College and an MFA from Yale School of Drama.

*member of actors’ equity association, union of professional actors and stage managers in the united states.

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CREATIVE TEAM JI-YOUN CHANG (LIGHTING DESIGNER). New York credits: My Kitchen Wars, Train

to Nibroc, See Rock City, The Frog Prince, Mark of Cain, The Water Engine, A Lesson From Aloes, and Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, all at 78th Street Theatre Lab; The Flood, The Pursuit of Persephone, The House of Bernardo Alba, Dido (& Aeneas), The Alchemists, and Danton’s Death at Prospect Theatre Company; Once on This Island and The Wiz at Abrons Arts Center of the Henry Street Settlement; and The Uses of Enchantment at West End Theatre.

International: Boy Steals Train at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Yale School of Drama: Hamlet, Zero Hour, Speaking Our Mind, and The Wendy Play. Yale Cabaret: Booty Fire, The Boss in the Satin Kimono, Electronic City, Shadowless, The Firebugs, The Love Suicide at Sonezaki, Brand, Live Radio, Seven Deadly Sins, Pornographic Angel, and The Vote: Bacchae. MFA, expected 2008, Yale School of Drama.

BRENDA DAVIS (SCENIC DESIGN). Yale School of Drama credits: Zero Hour, Dwight/

Edgewood Project 2006 and 2007, costume design for The Wendy Play, Carlotta Festival 2007. Awards: 2001 American College Theatre Festival national award for set design and Donald Oenslager scholarship in stage design. Six years assisting set designer Daniel Ostling, most recently on Lucia di Lammermoor for the Metropolitan Opera.

KEELY EASTLEY (VOCAL and TEXT COACH) has worked with the companies of

Lulu at Yale Repertory Theatre; King John, The Taming of the Shrew, and As You Like It at Shakespeare & Company; and Fires in the Mirror with Anna Deavere Smith at The Public Theater. A Linklater Designated Teacher since 1987, Ms. Eastley’s teaching credits include Yale School of Drama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Boston Conservatory, NYU-Experimental Theatre Wing, Circle-in-the-Square, Classic Stage Company, New Actor’s Workshop, Trinity Rep, Syracuse University, Shakespeare & Company where she is a master teacher of voice, and Toi Whaakari-The New Zealand Drama School where she was head of voice and movement. As an actor she has worked with John Cullum in Look Homeward, Angel; The Custom of the Country with Jeffery Jones; played Emilia in Othello and Gertrude in Hamlet at Shakespeare & Company to name a few. Also in NYC she was a member of The Barrow Group and can be seen in re-runs of “Law & Order” as Judge Lillian Barone. As a vocal and text coach, she has a particular love of Shakespeare.

LYDIA GARCIA (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG) has served as production dramaturg for

Twelfth Night, Flicker, and Breakers at Yale School of Drama. Education: BA, English and American Literature, Harvard University; MFA, expected 2008, Yale School of Drama.

JAMES MOUNTCASTLE (STAGE MANAGER). Please see page 25 for his biography.

REBECCA PHILLIPS (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG) is a second-year student in the

Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism program at Yale School of Drama (MFA, expected 2009).

Previous YSD credits include Camino Real, The Private Life, and The Illusion. As a translator, Rebecca has worked on Jean Giraudoux’s There Will Be No Trojan War, and Blood Box: An Evening of Grand Guignol, an original adaptation currently in production at Yale Cabaret.

Rebecca holds an AB in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago.

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SARAH PICKETT (SOUND DESIGN). Yale School of Drama: original music and

sound design for Zero Hour and Edward II; assistant sound design for Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, The Lacy Project, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet. Yale Summer Cabaret: composer, musical director, sound designer for The Vote: Bacchae; music and sound design for God Is a DJ; ensemble member and sound design for Savage Love and Tongues; and sound design for Zero Hour (workshop). Yale Cabaret: ensemble member in Out of the Box–The Pandora Effect; sound design for Bondage, The 24-Hour Theater Festival ’07, and The Three Birds. Hangar Theatre: original music and sound design for Rough Magic; sound design for Stones in His Pockets, Fixed, Topdog/Underdog, Bach at Leipzig, and Proof. Syracuse Stage: co-author and composer of The Great Peanut Butter Radio Hour; and musical director for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Multi-media music compositions: A Space of Time (aspaceoftime.net), Bio-Dot installation U.U. Gallery Sacramento, and original film score Memoriter. MFA in Sound Design, expected 2008, Yale School of Drama.

TARA RUBIN CASTING (CASTING). Broadway: Young Frankenstein, The Little

Mermaid, Mary Poppins, The Farnsworth Invention, Rock ’n’ Roll and The History Boys (U.S. casting), Les Misérables, Spamalot, Jersey Boys, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, The Phantom of the Opera, Pirate Queen, Good Vibrations, Bombay Dreams, Oklahoma!, Flower Drum Song, Imaginary Friends, Metamorphoses (New York casting). Lincoln Center Theater: The Frogs, Contact, Thou Shalt Not, A Man of No Importance, Anything Goes (concert). Off-Broadway: Second Stage Theatre. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; La Jolla Playhouse (New York casting); Mame, Mister Roberts, The Sondheim Celebration, and Tennessee Williams Explored at The Kennedy Center. Film: The Producers: The Musical. Members, Casting Society of America.

RICK SORDELET (FIGHT DIRECTOR) has staged 38 Broadway productions,

including Disney’s The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, The Little Mermaid, and Aida; also Curtains, Mauritius, and Crybaby. Off-Broadway: Overwhelmed at the Roundabout Theatre Company, Cymbeline at Lincoln Center, Spain for MCC, and American Sligo for Rattlestick. He has staged the fights for the opera Cyrano de Bergerac starring Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House, Les Arts in Valencia, Spain, and the LaScala in Milan, Italy. He has staged the fights for over 40 first class productions on five continents. Film: The Game Plan starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, and Dane Cook, and Hamlet starring Campbell Scott. He is the chief stunt coordinator for the television series “The Guiding Light” and staged the fights for First Jedi, a CD-Rom for George Lucas. Mr. Sordelet teaches at Yale School of Drama, The New School for Drama, and The Neighborhood Playhouse. He is a company member of The Drama Department, a board member of The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, and the author of the play Buried Treasure. He is married to actress Kathleen Kelly and has three children: Kaelan, Christian, and Collin.

MELISSA E. TRN (COSTUME DESIGNER). Richard II marks her Yale Repertory 21

CREATIVE TEAM Theatre debut. Yale School of Drama credits: Marat/Sade and Speaking Our Mind.

Yale Cabaret credits: The Seven Deadly Sins, The Last 5 Years, We’re Celebrities..., and Epicene, or The Silent Woman. Film: Death of a Healer, Dial M for Hobo, Return of the Rival Guns of Fortune, among others. Melissa spent five seasons with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where she recently was assistant designer for two seasons. Training: BFA in Costume Design, Conservatory of Theater Arts at Webster University in St. Louis. MFA, expected 2008, Yale School of Drama.

EVAN YIONOULIS (DIRECTOR) is a resident director at Yale Repertory Theatre where

her productions include Black Snow, The People Next Door, The King Stag, Heaven, and Galileo. New York credits include Howard Brenton’s Sore Throats for Theatre for a New Audience, Daisy Foote’s Bhutan at the Cherry Lane Theatre, and the upcoming Ohio State Murders, also at Theatre for a New Audience. She directed Richard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour (Broadway), Everett Beekin (Lincoln Center Theater), and Three Days of Rain (Manhattan Theatre Club, Obie Award for direction), having directed the premieres of all three at South Coast Repertory. Other credits include Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, Naomi Iizuka’s 36 Views, and Jon Robin Baitz’s Ten Unknowns (Huntington Theatre), Warren Leight’s Glimmer, Glimmer, and Shine (Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theatre Club), Wendy Kesselman’s The Notebook (Second Stage Theatre), Elizabeth Egloff’s Phaedra and the premiere of Nicky Silver’s The Maiden’s Prayer (Vineyard Theatre). She adapted Euripides’ Medea with composer Mike Yionoulis and collaborated with him on Flights of Angels, a music-theatre piece based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. They recently premiered their first short film, Lost and Found, at the Cleveland International Film Festival and are currently developing a new musical, Redhand Guitar. Early in her career, she received a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship and was subsequently awarded the Foundation’s prestigious statuette. She is currently an associate professor in Yale School of Drama’s Department of Acting, which she chaired from 1998 to 2003.

MIKE YIONOULIS (COMPOSER) has composed music for the productions of The

King Stag and Vampires in Kodachrome at Yale Repertory Theatre. Other theatre credits include Howard Brenton’s Sore Throats (Theatre for a New Audience), The Winter’s Tale (Pearl Theatre Company), premieres of Richard Greenberg’s Everett Beekin (Lincoln Center Theater) and Three Days of Rain (Manhattan Theatre Club), and several plays by Dick Beebe including The Guiteau Burlesque (PlayMakers Repertory Company) and Oh, Cloris! (West Bank Theater). He collaborated with director Evan Yionoulis on musical adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (entitled Flights of Angels) and Euripides’ Medea, and they are currently developing two original projects: a screenplay adaptation of their stage musical entitled Redhand Guitar, and the September 12th Project (working title), a contemporary silent film shot on the streets of New York and set to a cycle of his songs.

Their first short film, Lost and Found, premiered in 2006 at the Cleveland International Film Festival.

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YALE REPERTORY THEATRE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

JAMES BUNDY is in his sixth year as Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. In his first five seasons, Yale Rep has produced more than twenty world, American, and regional premieres, three 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 has also commissioned more than a dozen playwrights to write new work, and provided low-cost theatre tickets and classroom visits to thousands of middle and high school students from Greater New Haven through WILL POWER!, an educational program initiated in 2004. Mr. Bundy’s directing credits include The Psychic Life of Savages, The Ladies of the Camellias, and All’s Well That Ends Well at Yale Rep, as well as productions at 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 theater in 2007, Mr. Bundy currently serves 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 and Yale School of Drama.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

VICTORIA NOLAN is Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, Deputy Dean of Yale School of Drama, and serves on its faculty. She was previously Managing Director of Indiana Repertory Theatre, Associate Managing Director at Baltimore’s CenterStage, Managing Director at Ram Island Dance Company in Portland, Maine; and 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 is 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 2000 recipient of the Betsy L. Mahaffey Arts Administration Fellowship Award from the State of Connecticut and the 2005 recipient of the Elm/Ivy Award, given jointly by Yale University and the City of New Haven for distinguished service to the community. Ms. Nolan is married to Clark Crolius.

They have two daughters, Covey and Wilhelmina.

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

JENNIFER KIGER is in her third year as Associate Artistic Director and director of Yale Repertory Theatre’s new play program, an integrated, playwright-driven initiative that supports the creation of new plays for the American stage through commissions, residencies, workshops, and productions. Ms. Kiger came to Yale Rep from South Coast Repertory 24

(SCR), where she was Literary Manager from 2000 to 2005 and served as Co-Director of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. She was dramaturg on more than 40 new plays at SCR, including the world premieres of Rolin Jones’s The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Amy Freed’s The Beard of Avon, and the West Coast premieres of Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House and Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics. Prior to that, she served as production dramaturg at American Repertory Theatre, collaborating with directors Robert Brustein, Robert Woodruff, Liz Diamond, and Kate Whoriskey, and with multi-media director Bob McGrath on stage adaptations of Robert Coover’s Charlie in the House of Rue and Mac Wellman’s Hypatia. She has been a dramaturg for the Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis and Boston Theatre Works, a panelist for the California Arts Council, and is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Ms. Kiger completed her training in Dramaturgy at the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, where she taught courses in acting and dramatic arts.

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

BRONISLAW SAMMLER, Production Supervisor of Yale Repertory Theatre, has been Chair of Yale School of Drama’s acclaimed Technical Design and Production Department since 1980. In 2007 he was named the Henry McCormick Professor (Adjunct) of Technical Design and Production by Yale’s President, Richard C. Levin. He is co-editor of Technical Brief and Technical Design Solutions for Theatre Vols. I & II. His book Structural Design for the Stage won the United States Institute of Theatre Technology’s Golden Pen Award. Demonstrating his commitment to excellence in technical education and professional production, he founded USITT’s National Theatre Technology Exhibit, an on-going biennial event, has served as a commissioner and a director-at-large and is a lifetime Fellow of North America’s Theatre Technology Association. He was honored as Educator of the Year in 2006 by the New England Theatre Conference. His production management techniques and his introduction of structural design to scenic technology are being employed in both educational and professional theatres throughout the world.

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

JAMES MOUNTCASTLE has been the Production Stage Manager at Yale Rep since Fall 2004. He was stage manager for the 2006 production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, the 2004 world premiere of Ruhl’s The Clean House, and in 2005, a new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard. A professional stage manager for more than twenty years, he has worked in regional, stock, and Broadway theatre. 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 the now legendary production of A Christmas Carol 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, Centerstage in Baltimore, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and elsewhere. James and his wife Julie live in North Haven, and are the very proud parents of two beautiful girls: Ellie, who is 8 years old, and Katie, age 6.

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THEATRE STAFF James Bundy, Artistic Director Victoria Nolan, Managing Director Jennifer Kiger, Associate Artistic Director

ARTISTIC

Resident Artists Liz Diamond, Evan Yionoulis, Resident Directors Catherine Sheehy, Resident Dramaturg Ming Cho Lee, Set Design Advisor Michael Yeargan, Resident Set Designer Jane Greenwood, 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 Administration Tara Rubin, CSA, Laura Schutzel, CSA,

Casting Directors Eric Woodall and Merri Sugarman,

Casting Associates Paige Blansfield, Rebecca Carfagna, Dale Brown,

Casting Assistants Ruth M. Feldman, Manager of Education

and Accessibility Services Amy Boratko, Michael Walkup,

Artistic Coordinators Rebecca Phillips, Kristina Williams,

Literary Associates Pamela C. Jordan, Librarian Teresa Mensz, Library Services Assistant Josie Brown, Senior Administrative Assistant to the

Artistic Director and Associate Artistic Director Mary Volk, Senior Administrative Assistant for the

Design and Sound Design Departments

ADMINISTRATION

Hannah Grannemann, David Roberts,

Associate Managing Directors Stephanie Ybarra, Associate Managing Director,

Yale School of Drama and New Play Production Roberta Pereira Da Silva, Associate Managing

Director, Special Events Claire Shindler, Senior Administrative Assistant

to the Managing Director Meghan Pressman, Company Manager

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Development and Alumni Affairs Deborah S. Berman, Director of Development

and Alumni Affairs Debbie Ellinghaus, Senior Associate Director of

Development and Alumni Affairs Ann M.K. McLaughlin, Senior Associate Director

of Development, Yale Repertory Theatre AurĂŠlia Fisher, Assistant Development Director Susan C. Clark, Development Associate Finance and Information Technology Katherine D. BurgueĂąo, Director of Finance

and Human Resources Theodore DeLong, Associate Director of Finance Heide Janssen, Elizdalia Rivera, Jeff Rogers,

Associate Business Managers Randall Rode, Information Technology Director Daryl Brereton, Associate Information

Technology Director Anne Vantine, Tessitura System Administrator Dessara Bryant, Interim Senior Administrative

Assistant for Business Office/Information Technology/Operations/Tessitura Marketing, Communications, and Audience Services Anne Trites, Director of Marketing

and Communications Susan Hood, Senior Associate Director of Marketing

and Communications Daniel Cress, Marketing Manager, Single Tickets

and Special Events Joanna Romberg, Interim Marketing Manager,

Subscription and Trade Sponsorship Kay Perdue, Assistant Marketing Director Hellen Hom, Manager, Online Communications Maggie Elliott, Graphic Artist Laura Torino, Senior Administrative Assistant to

Development and Marketing and

Communications Departments Scott McKowen, Punch & Judy Inc.,

David Cooper, Photographer, Graphic Designers Joan Marcus, Production Photographer Tom Shultz, Creative Attitude, Web Design Janna J. Ellis, Director of Audience Services Tracy Baldini, Assistant Audience Services Director Audrey Rogers, Manager, Group Sales Nancy Genga, London Moses,

Audience Services Assistants Greta Fails, Ruth Kim, Valeria Lopez-Fadul, Sue Malone, Marc Osborne, Carrie Toole, Ryan Webb,

Box Office Assistants

Operations

William J. Reynolds, Director of Facility Operations Rich Abrams, Operations Manager Jacob Thompson, Security Officer Ed Jooss, Fred Grier, Michael Blatchley,

Customer Service and Safety Officers Ben Holder, Ron Maybrey, Custodial Supervisors

James Abbottello, Rigby Conyers, Ricardo Gonsalves, Lillian Orama, Fran Pisaturo, Curtis Reddick, Custodians

PRODUCTION

Bronislaw J. Sammler, Production Supervisor James Mountcastle, Production Stage Manager Jonathan Reed, Senior Associate

Production Supervisor Marla J. Silberstein, Senior Administrative Assistant

to the Production Department Costumes Tom McAlister, Costume Shop Manager Robin Hirsch, Associate Costume Shop Manager Mary Zihal, Senior Draper Clarissa Wylie Youngberg, Senior First Hand Linda Kelley-Dodd, Costume Project Coordinator Barbara Bodine, Company Hairdresser Martha Lehr, Costume Stock Manager Sarah DeLong, Assistant to the Costume

Shop Manager Electrics Donald W. Titus, Lighting Supervisor Jason Wells, Linda Young, Head Electricians Kathryn Sirico, Assistant to the Lighting Supervisor Painting Ru-Jun Wang, Resident Scenic Charge Angie Meninger, Scenic Artist Nora Hyland, Assistant Scenic Artist Patricia Sorbi, Assistant to the Painting Supervisor Properties Brian Cookson, Properties Master David P. Schrader, Properties Craftsperson Jennifer McClure, Properties Assistant Mark Villani, Properties Stock Manager Scenery Neil Mulligan, Technical Director Alan Hendrickson, Electro Mechanical

Laboratory Supervisor Eric Sparks, Shop Foreman Matt Gaffney, Sharon Reinhart, Master Carpenters Melissa Sibley, Assistant to the Technical Director Sound Brian MacQueen, Sound Supervisor Paul Bozzi, Staff Sound Engineer Bona Lee, Nicholas Pope, Assistants to the

Sound Supervisor Stage Operations Janet Cunningham, Stage Carpenter Kate Begley Baker, Properties Runner Jeanne Wu, Sound Operator Elizabeth Bolster, Wardrobe Supervisor

ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR RICHARD II

Becca Wolff, Assistant Director Danielle Federico, Assistant Stage Manager Jack Hilley, Associate Production Supervisor Nicholas Rastenis, Assistant Scenic Designer Min Sun Jung, Assistant Costume Designer Marie Yokoyama, Assistant Lighting Designer Michael Rossmy, Associate Fight Director Steven Neuenschwander, Technical Director Andrew Becker, Chris Brown, Assistant

Technical Directors

John McCullough, Assistant Properties Master Kellen McNalley, Master Electrician Russell Facente, Jim Shumway, Shop Carpenters Justin McDaniel, Sound Engineer Nikki Fazzone, Judianne Wallace, Drapers Harry Johnson, Martha Lehr, First Hands Denise O’Brien, Wig and Hair Design Fred Longtin of Handmade Shoes, Custom Footwear Luis Abril, Assistant Company Manager Alyssa Anderson, House Manager Andrew Boyce, Mike Donahue, Austin Durant, Amanda Haley, Soohee Kim, Jane Jung, Run Crew UNDERSTUDIES ZACH APPELMAN, Surrey, Salisbury, York’s Man, Gardener’s Second Man, and Mowbray’s Herald; MATT BIAGINI, Sir John Bushy, Prison Keeper, and Lord Ross; BRIAN ROBERT BURNS, Bishop of Carlisle; WILL CONNOLLY, John of Gaunt and Gardener; AUSTIN DURANT, Earl of Northumberland; JOBY EARLE, Berkeley, Scroop, Westminster, Gardener’s Man, Attendant, and Bolingbroke’s Herald; CHRISTOPHER GRANT, Henry Bolingbroke; SLATE HOLMGREN, Duke of York; ALEX KNOX, King Richard II; CHRISTOPHER MCFARLAND, Thomas Mowbray and Sir Piers of Exton; AARON MOSS, Sir William Bagot, Exton’s Man, and Lord Willoughby; JOSH ODSESS-RUBIN, Harry Percy, Sir Henry Green, Stable Groom; JOSEPH PARKS, Duke of Aumerle; RACHEL SPENCER, Queen Isabelle and Lady-in-Waiting; LIZ WISAN, Duchess of Gloucester and Duchess of York.

SPECIAL THANKS TO CITY THEATRICAL AND JANE NICHOLS 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.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT are represented by United Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

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Wiletta Mayer, an African American actress of a certain age, has spent her career playing stereotypes, trapped on a merry-go-round of mammies, maids, and other menials. The curtain rises on the first day of rehearsal for Chaos in Belleville, a Broadway-bound play that tackles the harsh truths of racism in America. But when those truths spill out of the play and into the rehearsal hall, will Wiletta’s insistence on her dignity cost her the work she desperately needs?

Trouble in Mind, Alice Childress’s funny, fierce, and moving comedy, became a smash hit Off-Broadway in 1955, and soon a move to Broadway was announced. But when Childress refused to accommodate the producers’ request to brighten the ending of the play for a commercial audience, the move was cancelled. Half a century later, the time for this wise and witty play

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to Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theatre GUARANTORS ($25,000 and above) Anonymous Anonymous John Badham Bank of America John B. Beinecke Edgar M. Cullman, Jr. Edgar M. Cullman III A.R. Gurney Jay Keene Jane Marcher Foundation Neil Mazzella Andrew W. Mellon Foundation David Milch Edward John Noble Foundation The Estate of Barbara E. Richter Michael and Riki Sheehan The Shubert Foundation Edward Trach Zelma Weisfeld

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Heidi Ettinger The John Golden Fund Ruth and Steve Hendel Mitchell W. Lichtenstein Sarah Long Mionetto USA Paul Newman Carol Ostrow Gerald Schoenfeld Liev Schreiber Talia Shire Schwartzman Eugene F. Shewmaker Carol Sirot Philip J. Smith

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($1,000-$4,999) Altria Group, Inc. Amy Aquino Anna Ardenghi Fitch General Charitable Purpose Trust Paula Armbruster Jeffrey A. Bleckner Sandra Boynton James Bundy CEC Artslink Patricia Clarkson Enrico L. Colantoni Community Foundation of Greater New Haven William R. Conner Sue Ann Gilfillan Converse Peggy Cowles William E. Curran, Jr. Scott M. Delman Michael Lloyd Diamond The ELA Foundation Peter and Mary Elder Terry Kevin Fitzpatrick Marcus Dean Fuller Donald N. Gellert Stephen L. Godchaux Fred Gorelick and Cheryl MacLachlan Donald Granger David Marshall Grant Anne Hamburger Carol Thompson Hemingway

James Earl Jewell Donald and Candice Kohn Rocco Landesman The Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Sasha Emerson Levin Jody Locker-Berger Santo R. Loquasto Linda Lorimer and Charley Ellis William Ludel Margaret B. Mack Fund of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven Romaine A. Macomb Peter A. Marshall Kenneth L. Martin Dawn G. Miller George Morfogen Merle and Arthur Nacht Laura Elizabeth Naramore NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights DW Phineas Perkins Amy Povich Sarah Rafferty Arthur I. Rank III Pamela Rank Mark C. Rosenthal Scoozzi Trattoria and Wine Bar Anthony M. Shalhoub Marie Saydah Sherer Benjamin Slotznick Jeremy Smith Kenneth J. Stein Shepard and Marlene Stone Shirin Devrim Trainer The United Illuminating Company Clifford Warner Tulgey Wood Foundation Stephen Zuckerman

PARTNERS ($500-$999) Mr. and Mrs. B. Ashfield Alexander Bagnall

Paul G. Barash, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. John Beard Jack W. Belt Deborah S. Berman Richard Bey Alice B. and James T. Brown Bruce and Janet Bunch Ian Calderon Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Calica Joy G. Carlin Joan D. Channick John Conklin Mr. and Mrs. William Connolly Anna E. Crouse Bob and Priscilla Dannies Ramon L. Delgado Charles Dillingham Peter Entin Glen R. Fasman Randy Fullerton Robert W. Goldsby James W. Gousseff Robert J. Greenberg Kathryn Hahn Judith A. Hansen Richard A. Harrison Katherine W. Haskins Michael Haymes and Logan Green Jane C. Head Donald Holder Barnet K. Kellman Marie Kitchen Sanaa Lathan Ben Ledbetter and Deborah Freedman Francis N. Levy Kenneth Lewis George N. Lindsay, Jr Chih-Lung Liu Robert W. Lyons, M.D. Kenneth Martin John McAndrew Christopher Noth Richard Ostreicher Thomas J. Peterson George and Kathy Priest Jeffry Provost

Carol A. Prugh Howard Ramey Laila Robins Alan Rosenberg Dorothy B. Rostov David Saltzman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schmertzler G. Erwin Steward John M. Turturro and Katherine Borowitz Carol M. Waaser William and Phyllis Warfel Carolyn S. Wiener Alexandra Witchel Albert J. Zuckerman

INVESTORS ($250-$499) Anonymous Mary B. Arnstein Dylan Baker James Robert Bakkom Ray Baldelli and Ronald Nicholes Rick Bank John L. Beatty Richard E. Bianchi Susan Brady and Mark Loeffler Tom Joseph Broecker Mark Brokaw Claudia Brown William J. Buck Thomas Buttke and Judith Waters Michael William Cadden Donald I. Cairns Anne and Guido Calabresi Adrienne Carter Anna T. Cascio Daniel Chace Lewis A. Crickard Marycharlotte Cummings John W. Cunningham Ernestine and Ronald Cwik Richard Sutton Davis Constance Dimock Marc Flanagan David Freeman Joseph Gantman Anne K. Gregerson Michael Gross

Dick and Norma Grossi Brita Brown Grover William B. Halbert Shawn Hamilton Brown Barbara Hauptman Peter Hentschel and Elizabeth Prete Jennifer Hershey-Benen George C. and June Higgins John Robert Hood Denise Hudson David H. Hwang Masako and Masahario Ishii Cindy Katz Asaad N. Kelada Ashley York Kennedy Charles M. Kimbrough Evelyn K. Kossak David Kriebs Bernard Kukoff Frances Kumin Mildred C. Kuner James Lapine Michael John Lassell Suzanne Cryer Luke Thomas Lynch Brian Mann Julia and John McCarthy Arthur and Carol Mikesell Jeffrey Milet Philip Moon Carol Bretz Murray-Negron William Ndini NJNG Productions, LLC Victoria Nolan and Clark Crolius Sara and Nicholas Ohly Arthur Oliner James M. Perlotto Ronald Recasner Bill and Sharon Reynolds Harry M. Ritchie Dawn Robertson Steven Saklad Suzanne M. Sato Alexander Scribner Sylvan Seidenman Deborah and Magdi Semine Marian and Howard Spiro Mary C. Stark

Pam and Sandy Stoddard Bernard J. Sundstedt Mr. and Mrs. Robert Szczarba Paul Charles Tigue III Sally and Cheever Tyler Ron Van Lieu Elaine and Patrick Wackerly Joan Warburg David J. Ward Betsy and Harry Welch Hannelore Wilsch Evan D. Yionoulis

FRIENDS ($100-$249) Anonymous Emily Aber and Robert Wechsler David E. Ackroyd Nina Adams and Moreson Kaplan Lois Aden Joseph V. Agostini Roberto F. Aguirre-Sacasa Sarah Jean Albertson Michael Albano Narda Alcorn Bob Alexander William Allison Liz Alsina Bruce Altman Richard Ambacher Leif Ancker Bob and Jane Archibald Mary Ellen O’Brien Atkins Thomas Atkins Jayne Atkinson Clayton May Austin Angelina Avallone Ravat and Joe Avni-Singer Susanne and David Bailin Regina Bain Paul Baker Richard H. Bank Drs. M. Baron and R. Magraw Cornelia Barr Christopher Barreca Richard and Nancy Beals Alexander Beard

R. Sherman Beattie Robert L. Beatty, Jr. Spencer P. Beglarian Ursula Belden James C. Bellavance Melvin Bernhardt Robert Bienstock Ashley Bishop Virginia Blakeslee Deborah Bloch Julia and Sidney Bogardus John Cummings Boyd Lucia Brawley and Peter Macon Dene and John Breedis Russell and Freddie Brenneman Amy Brewer Cynthia Brizzell-Bates Meg Brogan Arvin B. Brown Shawn Hamilton Brown Robert Brustein Rene Buch Robert Bullock Kate Burton Gerard and Ann Burrow Robert and Linda Burt Sheldon Bustow Susan Byck Michael William Cadden Kathryn A. Calnan William E. Caruth Raymond E. Carver Sami Joan Casler Cosmo A. Catalano, Jr. Max Chalawsky Mary Chesnutt Suellen G. Childs Jane Cho Olive Chypre Christian Clemenson Becky and Gary Cline Katherine D. Cline Margaretta M. Clulow Joel Cogen and Elizabeth Gilson Gloria and Morris Cohen Robert S. Cohen Patricia J. Collins Forrest Compton James Congdon David M. Conte

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George Corrin, Jr. Robert Cotnoir Stephen Coy Dana S. Croll Jane Ann Crum Lisa Curran Donato Joseph D’Albis F. Mitchell Dana Richard Davis Sue and Gus Davis Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Daw Francis Degnan Stephen DeRosa Julia L. Devlin Richard Devlin Jose A. Diaz Francis X. Dineen Gene Diskey Melinda DiVicino Thomas Di Mauro Mark Dold Franchelle S. Dorn Merle Dowling Joanne E. Droller, R.N. D. William Duell Carolyn B. Dundes John A. Duran Michael Early Mr. and Mrs. David Ebbin Douglas Edwards Frances L. Egler Dr. and Mrs. Richard Ehrenkranz Marc and Heidi Eisenberg Nancy Reeder El Bouhali Janann Eldredge Eric S. Elice Mitchell Elkind Debbie Ellinghaus Robert and Sylvia Engelman Elizabeth English Dirk Epperson Edith Dallas Ernst Frank and Ellen Estes Jerry N. Evans Douglass Everhart Eva Ewing Teresa Eyring John D. Ezell Michael Fain Jim Farnam and Marcy Stovall

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Ann Farris Marilyn Feinstein Paul and Susan Fiedler Edmund Fisher Mrs. Richard Fleischer Joel C. Fontaine Keith Fowler Robert A. Fox Abigail Franklin Brackley Frayer Richard Fuhrman John Gaddis and Toni Dorfman David Gainey Jim and Eunice Galligan Dale and Arthur Galston Ralph R. Garrow, Jr. Steven Geffroh True Giffen Morfydd and Gilbert Glaser William Glenn Lindy Lee Gold Norma and Myron H. Goldberg John R. Goldin Cordelia Gonzalez David Gorton Naomi S. Grabel Kris and Marc Granetz Arnold Grant Charles F. Grammer Bigelow Green David Grillo Alan A. Grudzinski John Guare Regina Guggenheim Eugene Gurlitz Dr. Ronald and Maria Hagadus George K. Haines Phyllis O. Hammel Alexander Hammond Ann T. Hanley Jerome R. Hanley David W. Hannegan Scott Hansen Charlene Harrington Lawrence and Roberta Harris Walter and Betty Harris Douglas Harvey James T. Hatcher James Hazen

Ihor Hayda Robert C. Heller W. Thomas Hellyar Patricia Helwick Roderick Lyons Hickey, III Bente and Walter Hierholzer Susan Hilferty Elizabeth Holloway Carol V. Hoover Hull’s Art Supply and Framing Derek Hunt Mary and Arthur Hunt Peter H. Hunt Raymond P. Inkel Candace Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Herrick Jackson Kirk Jackson John W. Jacobsen Christine and Matt Jacobs-Wagner Paul Jaeger Chris Jaehnig Jim and Cynthia Jamieson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jaffee Jeffrey’s, a restaurant Geoffrey A. Johnson Marcia K. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Johnson Donald E. Jones, Jr. Jean C. Jones Rolin Jones Jennifer L. Julier Cynthia Kaback Elizabeth Kaiden Jonathan Kalb Carol Kaplan Lloyd A. Kaplan James D. Karr Dr. and Mrs. Michael Kashgarian Bruce Katzman Edward A. Kaye Arthur J. Kelley, Jr. Bettyann Kevles Colette Ann Kilroy Carol Souscek King Dragon Klaic Raymond Klausen Richard H. Klein Fredrica Klemm

Donald Knight Linda Kosturko Stephen Kovel Denise Krause Mitchell Kurtz William Kux Amanda LaFollette Howard and Shirley Lamar Nina Landey Thomas Lanter James Larkin David Larson Gerard Leahy Elizabeth Leete Charles E. Letts, III Bradford Lewis Irene Lewis Alan Lichtenstein Dr. Robert and Inez Liftig Jennifer Lindstrom Mark Linn-Baker Romulus Linney Bruce Lockwood Stephen Loeffler Robert Hamilton Long II Paul David Lukather Patrick Lynch Andi Lyons Janell M. MacArthur Elizabeth M. MacKay Lizbeth Mackay Alan Mokler MacVey Peter Andrew Malbuisson Richard Maltby Joan Manning Elizabeth Margid Jonathan Marks Delia Maroney Robin Marshall Craig Martin Richard Mason Thomas McCarthy B. Robert McCaw Margaret T. McCaw Brian McEleney Ann and Chad McLaughlin Patricia McMahon Bruce W. McMullan Lynne Meadow Susan Watson Mendelsohn Stephen W. Mendillo Donald Michaelis

Andrea and Jon Miller George Miller Jonathan Miller Robert J. Miller Mary Jane Minkin and Steve Pincus Cheryl Mintz Lawrence Mirkin Stanley and Phyllis Mishkin Thomas Reed Mohan Richard R. Mone H. Thomas Moore Stephen Moore Donald W. Moreland Grafton V. Mouen Stephanie Nash James Naughton Tina C. Navarro Regina and Thomas Neville Martha New Ruth Hunt Newman Dean Nolen Quentin O’Brien Mimi and Harold Obstler Dwight R. Odle Janet Oetinger Ann Okerson Fran and Ed O’Neill Kendric T. Packer Maulik Pancholy W. Oren Parker Dr. and Mrs. Michael Parry Cesar Pelli Mary L. Pepe Louise Perkins and Jeff Glans Robert Perry John L. Peschel Zane Pihlstron Andrew Plumer Stephen B. Pollock Michael B. Posnick Michael Potts Gladys S. Powers Alvin S. Prusoff and Dr. Deborah DeRose Bill Prusoff Pun Punyaratabandhu Alec and Drika Purves William Purves Michael Quinn

Gail Reen Kathleen Reilly Sandra and Gernot Reiners James Reynolds Joe Reynolds Mary B. Reynolds Lori Robishaw Victoria Rodriguez- Hadelman Melina Root Claudia Arenas Rosenshield Russ Rosensweig John M. Rothman Ron and Jean Rozett Julia Meade Rudd Kevin Rupnik Ortwin Rusch, M.D. Frederick Russell Virginia Weaver Russell A. Raymond Rutan IV David A. Sacco Herbert Sacks Maher Riyad Said Peter Salovey and Marta Elisa Moret Robert Sandberg Peggy Sasso Cary Scapillato Alvin Schechter Joel Schechter Henry Scherer William Schneider Georg Schreiber Jennifer Schwartz Larry Schwartz Forrest E. Sears Paul Francis Selfa Sandra Shaner Jim Shanklin Jeremy Shapira John Shea Rachel Sheinkin Paul R. Shortt Anne W. Shropshire Carol M. Sica William Skipper Betsy and William Sledge Teresa Snider-Stein Suzanne Solensky and Jay Rozgonyi Ilona Somogyi

William Wallace Spangler Robert Spirito Marian and Howard Spiro Charles Steckler Louise Stein Roy Steinberg Neal Ann Stephens John Stevens Joseph C. Stevens Marilyn and Robert Stewart Forrest Stone Erich Stratmann Jaroslaw Strzemien Thomas Sullivan Bernard Sundstedt Sy Sussman David Loy Sword Jack Sydow Ted Tally Roberta Tansman Ashlee Temple Ari Teplitz Patrice Thomas Paul J. Tines Donald Tirrell David F. Toser Lisa and David Totman Russell L. Treyz Richard B. Trousdell Deborah Trout Miriam S. Tulin Russell Vandenbroucke Carrie Van Hallgren Barry and Hyla Vine Fred Voelpel Shay Wafer Anne Walsh Barbara Wareck and Charles Perrow Anne C. Washburn

Steven I. Waxler Gil Wechsler Joseph Weishar Thomas S. Werder Dana B. Westberg J. Newton White Kimberly Whitley Robert Wierzel Stanley Wiklinski Lisa A. Wilde Robert M. Wildman Walt Wilson Bess Wohl Robin B. R. Wood Tamilla Woodard Amanda Wallace Woods Judith Yale David R. York Arthur Zigouras Robert Michael Zoland Catherine J. Zuber

EMPLOYER MATCHING GIFTS Aetna Foundation Corning, Inc. General Electric Corporation IBM Mobil Foundation, Inc. Pfizer Pitney Bowes Procter & Gamble The Prospect Hill Foundation SBC Communications, Inc. United Technologies Corporation

This list includes current pledges, gifts and grants received from July 1, 2006 through August 31, 2007. For more information about making a donation to Yale Repertory Theatre, please contact Ann McLaughlin at 203.432.1536 or ann.mclaughlin@yale.edu.

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SPONSORSHIP CORPORATE SPONSORS

Bank of America Cosí Mionetto USA Mother Parker’s Tea and Coffee Scoozzi Trattoria and Wine Bar TIAA-CREF

COMMUNITY SPONSORS

Atticus Bookstore and Café BAR Barcelona Chow Connecticut Presort Fleur de Lys Floral and Gifts Hull’s Arts Supply and Framing Ideal Printing New Haven Advocate New Haven Register Thames Printing Company, Inc. WSHU Public Radio Group The Yale Bookstore Yellow Book Zinc

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WILL POWER! SPONSORS

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE’S ARTS EDUCATION INITIATIVE Anna Fitch Ardenghi General Charitable Purpose Trust Jane Marcher Foundation New Alliance Foundation Roly Poly, Orange The United Illuminating Company This list includes current pledges, gifts, and grants received from July 1, 2006 through August 31, 2007

DISCOUNT DINING PARTNERS

The following dining establishments offer discounts to Yale Rep subscribers throughout the season.

Atticus Bookstore and Café Barcelona Black Bear Saloon Brazi’s Italian Restaurant Bulldog Burrito Caffè Adulis Caffè Bottega Consiglio’s

Hot Tomato’s Indochine Pavillion Miya’s Sushi The Playwright Rusty Scupper Sullivan’s Thali Regional Cuisine of India Viva Zapata Zaroka

FOR YOUR INFORMATION HOW TO REACH US

IN PERSON: 1120 Chapel Street (at York St.) MAIL: Yale Repertory Theatre Box Office PO Box 1257, New Haven, CT 06505 PHONE: 203.432.1234 TTY (TELETYPE): 203.432.1521 E-MAIL: yalerep@yale.edu

BOX OFFICE HOURS

Monday to Friday from 10am to 5pm; Saturday from 12 to 5pm (until 8pm on show nights).

FIRE NOTICE

Illuminated signs above each door indicate emergency exits. Please check for the nearest exit. In the event of an emergency, you will be notified by theatre personnel and assisted in the evacuation of the building.

RESTROOMS

Restrooms are located downstairs. Please contact the concierge for assistance with the elevator.

EMERGENCY CALLS

Please leave your cell phone and/or beeper, name, and seat number with the concierge.

We’ll notify you if necessary. Emergency only telephone number at Yale Rep: 203.764.4014

GROUP RATES

Discounted tickets are available for groups of ten or more. Please call 203.432.1572.

SEATING POLICY

Everyone must have a ticket. Sorry, no children in arms or on laps. Patrons who become disruptive will be asked to leave the theatre.

ACCESSIBILIT Y SERVICES

Yale Repertory Theatre offers the most comprehensive accessibility services program in Connecticut, including open captioned and audio described performances, a free assistive listening system, large-print and Braille programs, a direct TTY (teletype) line to Yale Rep’s Box Office (203.432.1521), wheelchair accessibility with an elevator entrance into the Yale Rep Theatre located on the left side of the building, and accessible seating. For more information about the accessibility services program, contact Ruth M. Feldman at 203.432.8425 or rm.feldman@yale.edu.

open captioning: You’ll never again

have to ask, “What did they say?” Open captioning offers patrons a digital display of the play’s dialogue as it’s spoken.

audio description: A live narration of the play’s action, sets, and costumes for patrons who are blind or low vision.

Richard II Trouble in Mind Tartuffe The Evildoers A Woman of No Importance TBA

Oct 6 Nov 10 Dec 8 Feb 2

Oct 13 Nov 17 Dec 15 Feb 9

Apr 5 May 10

Apr 12 May 17

Open Captioned and Audio Described performances are at 2pm. AD pre-show description begins at 1:45pm.

c2inc is pleased to be the official Open Captioning provider of Yale Repertory Theatre.

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

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