Alumni Notes with her colleagues and students. She bought a new home in the area, and is designing locally at Shakespeare & Company and New Century Theatre. ● Nelson Eusebio ’07 shot his first short film using visual effects (VFX) in Los Angeles. Back east, Nelson directed It’s a
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Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Center Stage with a group of artists including Pun Bandhu ’01, Burke Brown ’07, Michael Locher ’08, Sarah Pickett ’08, and Alixandra Gage Englund ’06. Nelson was also selected as one of the 10 inaugural SPARK Leaders of Theatre Communications Group, joining Jacob Padron ’08, Snehal Desai ’08, and Karena Fiorenza Ingersoll ’12. ● This
50 48 48 Karron Graves ’03 with her husband, Rolando Briceno, daughter, Jackie Jo, and son, Jude, born in January 2015.
year IndigoH2O, the bottled water company founded by Yuri Cataldo ’08, was selected to be in the gift bags at the Oscars, won the Gold Medal at the 25th annual Berkley Springs International Water tasting, making it the best tasting water in the world, and was featured on CNN, CNBC, ESPN, and PBS, and in INC Magazine and 30 other articles and new stories. ● In May 2015, Joseph Cermatori ’08 hosted and
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dramaturged a workshop presentation of a
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new play, Ruzzante, at Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA). Based on the plays of 16th-century Italian comedian Angelo
51 Paola Allais Acree ’08, SOM ’08 and Alex Acree, along with their children, Achilles, Martyn, and baby Seren, who was born on March 5, 2015.
Beolco, Ruzzante was previously workshopped at Yale, with the text adapted by Christopher Bayes (Faculty), who also directed, in collaboration with Steve Epp. Also involved were Carter Gill ’09 as assistant director, Gabe Levey ’14 and
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Liz Wisan ’10 as performers, and Susanna Gellert ’06 as TFANA associate producer. ● Life has brought Jason Fitzgerald ’08 back to New Haven, where his partner has completed his first year of coursework in Yale’s PhD American Studies program. Being ensconced in Madison Towers is a very different New Haven
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49 Sarah Bierenbaum ’05, her husband, Kurt Uy, and their daughter, Annabel Mae.
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