Finding Your Place and Taking Up Space
Langston Hughes Festival of New Plays
Who says you can’t get over fuckbois? You’re smart, confident, caring, and hot. (I mean, really, who’s not?) Yes, you make mistakes, and sometimes you fuck things up. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t know how to deal with your own shit. You kill someone? You bury them. Someone left you? You get over it. Has anyone ever told you that you’re not good enough? Well, fuck ’em. You don’t need anybody to reaffirm your value. Oh wait, you need this one thing though—true friendship. Today, we’re proud to present three bad-ass black girls—Virgo Giselle, Aquarius Esther, and Scorpio Liya—who’re getting over fuckbois and banding together to teach them a lesson. Too many boys have told these girls that they are not enough or—worse—that they’re too much, that they’re too fragile or too sincere. Actually, it hasn’t only been the boys, has it? The whole, entire world’s been telling black girls the same thing. How Black Girls Get Over Fuckbois, Vol. 1 is a celebration of black girls and their bonds, their bodies, and their agency while they work through this bullshit. Maybe we’re finally tired of seeing these women getting hurt for others’ amusement. Sure, we love happy endings, but do we really feel like it’s the height of happiness for Tiana to marry the Frog Prince? Do we truly believe A Raisin in the Sun’s Beneatha Younger will be happier leaving
How Black Girls Get Over Fuckbois, Vol. 1
home with her doctor-to-be boyfriend? Perhaps we can learn to love watching strong black women claim themselves on a stage of their own. So, here we are now. Look around where you’re sitting. Do you see them in their space? —JISUN KIM, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG
DECEMBER 6 AND 10 AT 4PM DECEMBER 7 AND 11 AT 8PM ISEMAN THEATER, 1156 CHAPEL STREET 2019–20 STUDIO SERIES
YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA
Artistic Staff Assistant Director
James Bundy, Dean Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Assistant Dean
Tiffany Fomby
Festival Sound Engineer
Liam Bellman-Sharpe
PRESENTS
How Black Girls Get Over Fuckbois, Vol. 1 By Angie Bridgette Jones Directed by Christopher D. Betts
Creative Team Choreographer
Christopher D. Betts Sound Designer
Bailey Trierweiler Production Dramaturg
Jisun Kim
Stage Manager
Joanie Polk
Cast
Sam Tirrell
How Black Girls Get Over Fuckbois, Vol. 1 is performed without an intermission.
Production Staff
Special Thanks
Associate Safety Advisors
Cam Camden Kelly O’Loughlin
Associate Production Manager
Matthias Neckermann Properties Supervisor
Eric Walker Run Crew
Perry Keller Adago Bekah Brown James L. Fleming Madeline Pages
Administration
Richard “Richie” Clark
Associate Managing Director
The Watcher
Nefesh Cordero Pino Giselle Howard
Alexandra Maurice Esther Brown
Malia Imani West Liya Tesfaye
Adrienne Wells
Supported by The Benjamin Mordecai III Production Fund.
A fictional Northeastern American city, sandwiched somewhere between New York and D.C.
Production Stage Manager
in alphabetical order Robert Lee Hart
Setting
Caitlin Volz
Assistant Managing Director
William Gaines
Management Assistants
Jason Gray Sarah Scafidi
House Manager
Sarah Cain
Yale School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.
Earon Neely, for wigs and hairstyles The Studio Series productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at Yale School of Drama to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes this process.
THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND, established by a graduate of the School, honors the memory of the Tony Award-winning producer who served as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, 1982–1993, and as Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Department from 1993 until his death in 2005.
YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA
Artistic Staff Assistant Director
James Bundy, Dean Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., Assistant Dean
Tiffany Fomby
Festival Sound Engineer
Liam Bellman-Sharpe
PRESENTS
How Black Girls Get Over Fuckbois, Vol. 1 By Angie Bridgette Jones Directed by Christopher D. Betts
Creative Team Choreographer
Christopher D. Betts Sound Designer
Bailey Trierweiler Production Dramaturg
Jisun Kim
Stage Manager
Joanie Polk
Cast
Sam Tirrell
How Black Girls Get Over Fuckbois, Vol. 1 is performed without an intermission.
Production Staff
Special Thanks
Associate Safety Advisors
Cam Camden Kelly O’Loughlin
Associate Production Manager
Matthias Neckermann Properties Supervisor
Eric Walker Run Crew
Perry Keller Adago Bekah Brown James L. Fleming Madeline Pages
Administration
Richard “Richie” Clark
Associate Managing Director
The Watcher
Nefesh Cordero Pino Giselle Howard
Alexandra Maurice Esther Brown
Malia Imani West Liya Tesfaye
Adrienne Wells
Supported by The Benjamin Mordecai III Production Fund.
A fictional Northeastern American city, sandwiched somewhere between New York and D.C.
Production Stage Manager
in alphabetical order Robert Lee Hart
Setting
Caitlin Volz
Assistant Managing Director
William Gaines
Management Assistants
Jason Gray Sarah Scafidi
House Manager
Sarah Cain
Yale School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.
Earon Neely, for wigs and hairstyles The Studio Series productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at Yale School of Drama to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes this process.
THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND, established by a graduate of the School, honors the memory of the Tony Award-winning producer who served as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, 1982–1993, and as Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Department from 1993 until his death in 2005.
Finding Your Place and Taking Up Space
Langston Hughes Festival of New Plays
Who says you can’t get over fuckbois? You’re smart, confident, caring, and hot. (I mean, really, who’s not?) Yes, you make mistakes, and sometimes you fuck things up. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t know how to deal with your own shit. You kill someone? You bury them. Someone left you? You get over it. Has anyone ever told you that you’re not good enough? Well, fuck ’em. You don’t need anybody to reaffirm your value. Oh wait, you need this one thing though—true friendship. Today, we’re proud to present three bad-ass black girls—Virgo Giselle, Aquarius Esther, and Scorpio Liya—who’re getting over fuckbois and banding together to teach them a lesson. Too many boys have told these girls that they are not enough or—worse—that they’re too much, that they’re too fragile or too sincere. Actually, it hasn’t only been the boys, has it? The whole, entire world’s been telling black girls the same thing. How Black Girls Get Over Fuckbois, Vol. 1 is a celebration of black girls and their bonds, their bodies, and their agency while they work through this bullshit. Maybe we’re finally tired of seeing these women getting hurt for others’ amusement. Sure, we love happy endings, but do we really feel like it’s the height of happiness for Tiana to marry the Frog Prince? Do we truly believe A Raisin in the Sun’s Beneatha Younger will be happier leaving
How Black Girls Get Over Fuckbois, Vol. 1
home with her doctor-to-be boyfriend? Perhaps we can learn to love watching strong black women claim themselves on a stage of their own. So, here we are now. Look around where you’re sitting. Do you see them in their space? —JISUN KIM, PRODUCTION DRAMATURG
DECEMBER 6 AND 10 AT 4PM DECEMBER 7 AND 11 AT 8PM ISEMAN THEATER, 1156 CHAPEL STREET 2019–20 STUDIO SERIES