LUKE HARLAN (YAKOV) is a second-year MFA candidate in Directing at Yale School of Drama. He recently served as Co-Artistic Director of Yale Summer Cabaret’s 40th Anniversary Season where he directed Will Eno’s Middletown and Erin Courtney’s A Map of Virtue. At Yale Cabaret, he directed Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size. Luke has developed new plays at such institutions as The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Tectonic Theater Project, The New Group, New Dramatists, and The Lark. Luke is the founding Artistic Director of Engine Company No. 11, a recipient of the SDC National Directing Award, co-founder of the Working Theater Directors Salon, directing fellow at the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, and member of the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange. Credits include the world premieres of Honky (Urban Stages, New York Times Critic’s Pick), home/sick (The Assembly, writer/ performer, New York Times Critic’s Pick), Westward Mutations (Hunter College), Dogs of Oklahoma (Brick Theater), and Memoirist (Flea Theater). Regional/ International: Shift (Old Vic Theatre, UK), Sousepaw: A Baseball Story (national tour), Fighting a Fish (Kennedy Center), and Insatiable Hunger, a new musical (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater). lukeharlan.net CHASTEN HARMON (NINA MIHAILOVNA ZARECHNAYA) is a thirdyear MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Master and Margarita (Yeshua), Lottie in the Late Afternoon (Lottie), As You Like It (Celia), and Platonov (Marya). She was also seen in A Raisin in the Sun (Beneatha) and The Tempest (Ariel) at Chautauqua Theater Company. Prior to Yale, she was seen as Éponine in the 25th Anniversary national tour of Les Misérables. New York credits include the Tony Award winning revival of Hair on Broadway and Iphigenia 2.0 directed by Tina Landau at Signature Theatre Company. Regional credits include Ado Annie in Oklahoma! (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Ti Moune in Once on This Island, and Lorraine in All Shook Up (Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre). Chasten received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
MAURA HOOPER (IRINA NIKOLAYEVNE ARKADINA) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she has been seen in The Master and Margarita, Measure for Measure, Peter Pan, Sagittarius Ponderosa, and Platonov. Her other credits include A New Saint for a New World, He Left Quietly (Yale Cabaret); Dear Elizabeth (understudy, Yale Repertory Theatre); Pygmalion (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Middletown, and Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (Yale Summer Cabaret). She is originally from Los Angeles and holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. PORNCHANOK KANCHANABANCA (THE MAID) is second-year MFA candidate in Sound Design at Yale School of Drama, where she recently designed Paradise Lost. Other credits include American Gothic, The Brothers Size, The Crazy Shepherds of Rebellion, The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife (Yale