Editor’s Letter Dear Friends, As I look over the stories assembled for this issue of the YSD Annual Magazine, I can’t help but think about movement. The movement of our former students through time and place. Their flights of inspiration and innovation. And their journeys of exasperation, dedication, and yes, exaltation. They have spread their wings and left us for Broadway and beyond, campuses across the country, new urban centers of arts and culture, and countries around the world. As we have exhorted them to, they send back word of their comings and goings to the nest. We very proudly share their accomplishments with you. I hope you will be moved. After successful turns as a director in every medium, Tom Moore ’68 found new vitality and inspiration as he dared himself to fantastic feats of flying on the trapeze. So energized by this finally realized boyhood dream, Tom expanded it into yet another directorial medium, as a documentarian, producing a filmed portrait of one of the great trapeze families. Four recent alumni, Nelson Eusebio ’07, Snehal Desai ’08, Jacob Padrón ’08, and Karena Fiorenza Ingersoll ’12, were selected for a new professional development program that thrust them into the center of the national conversation about diversity and inclusion. They jumped at the chance to make their voices heard, eager for the opportunity to move themselves ahead and make a difference. Stephen Haff ’92 and Reg Flowers ’93 planted their feet so they could push the needle in underserved neighborhoods, reaching out to neglected populations where the talents of young people can often go sadly unnoticed. Stephen and Reg don’t talk about theories of how to help but create programs and environments that realize the artistic potential of a new generation. Creating one memorable character after another in three classic television series would seem to supply sufficient laurels on which to rest. Not for Chris Noth ’85. Always up for a challenge, this year he took advantage of down time from The Good Wife, to assay one of the most difficult roles in the theatrical canon, Doctor Faustus in Christopher Marlowe’s play. Why? Chris says it’s because he wanted to climb the mountain. Maybe climbing the mountain is what all of our alumni are doing. As you scale new mountains, keep us posted. We love sharing your stories.
editorial staff Deborah S. Berman editor Barry Jay Kaplan associate editor Alice Kenney associate editor Belene Day managing editor Leonard Sorcher copy editor David Bruin contributing editor Katherine Ingram contributing editor Susan Clark editorial coordinator contributors Elizabeth Bennett Baize Buzon Eli Epstein-Deutsch Liz Diamond Flo Low Maria Marques Davina Moss Jason Najjoum Lynda Paul Catherine Sheehy Sally Shen Matthew Suttor Ron Van Lieu Special thanks to Jon Roberts design SML Design www.s-ml.org
Warmly,
Deborah S. Berman Editor Director of Development and Alumni Affairs
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