Alumni Notes
Teresa Eyring ’89, the new Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group. or on the rocks. We also relate our journey to parenthood and even have a word or two for singles! But we have survived and thrived in this town because we have made a commitment that our marriage is more important than what we do. The book was published in February of 2007.” As Director of New Play Development for Arena Stage, Mark Bly ’80 has recently commissioned new plays from Yale School of Drama alumni Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ’03, Kenneth Lin ’05, Marcus Gardley ’04, and James Magruder ’88. Mark just completed a three-week workshop as dramaturg for Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations, which will premiere in the fall of 2007 at Arena. Mark is also working on Arena premieres of a musical adaptation of Gloria Naylor’s Women of Brewster Place by Tim Acito ’02 and an adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by James Magruder, which is now set in Washington, D.C., in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. He moderated a panel at Georgetown University entitled 21st Century Issues in Playwriting that featured Nilo Cruz (Former Faculty), David Henry Hwang ’83, Charles Randolph-Wright and Karen Zacarias. The panel’s transcript was published by American Theatre in April 2007. Kate Burton ’82 recently starred as Madam Ranevskaya in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of The Cherry Orchard,
translated by Richard Nelson, (Faculty). Donald Holder ’86 designed the lights for the show. Richard “Rick” Butler ’87 has had a busy year as Production Designer for the new NBC series “The Black Donnellys,” being filmed in New York. He traveled to the Venice International Film Festival for the opening of his second movie for actor/director Ethan Hawke entitled The Hottest State, which will be in theatres in August 2007. His designs for Rocket Science were on display at this year’s Sundance Film Festival (the movie won the Director’s Prize), and it will also be on the big screen later this year. Flakes, a comedy set in New Orleans with Christopher Lloyd and Zoe Deschanel that takes place in the pre-Katrina days, opened in March 2007 at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Ben Cameron ’81 (Faculty) became the Program Director, Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in New York in 2006, supervising a $15.6 million grants program focusing on organizations and artists in the theatre, contemporary dance, jazz, and presenting fields. Previously, he served for more than eight years as the Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group. In April 2007, he was inducted into The College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, an honorary organization comparable in theatre to the National Academy of Sciences. Previous inductees include Jennifer Tipton (Faculty), Ming Cho Lee (Faculty), and the late Lloyd Richards. Bennett Cohen ’84 wrote that a book he co-wrote with Prentice Earl Sanders, the first African-American Chief of the San Francisco Police Department, is being published in September 2007 by Arcade Publishing. The title is The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights. More about the book can be found at www.arcadepub.com or by e-mailing Bennett at bencohen@earthlink. net. After four years, Marion Koltun Dienstag ’83 left the post of Executive Director at Dance Theatre Workshop in New York to become the National Director of Major Gifts for the Jewish Tehological Seminary’s William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education. Teresa Eyring ’89 is the new Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group (TCG). She was most recently the Managing Director of The Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Marcus Giamatti ’87 has a recurring role on the new HBO series “Tell Me You Love Me.” He
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Lost Alumni: 1980s We’ve lost touch with the following alumni! If you know how to reach them, please pass on their contact information by e-mailing ysd.alumni@yale.edu or calling 1-800-YSD-CUES. Elizabeth Adams ’86 Wendy Ayers ’87 Mary Ball ’88 Peter Bartholomew ’84 Patricia Benoit ’81 D. Stuart Browne ’82 Barbara Carroll ’85 Daniel Cork ’81 Thomas Costello ’85 David Cunningham ’86 Anne Doughty ’85 Danna Doyle ’85 John Durst ’87 Michael Engler ’85 Linda Funsten ’88 Elizabeth Geertruida ’89 Keith Grant ’82 Gordon Gray ’83 Hope Hartup ’82 Sharon Helsel ’85 Bruce Hurlbut ’84 Amy Hurlow ’83 Seth Jacobs ’84 Tama Janowitz ’83 Michael Johnson ’87 Ann Justin ’84 Philippa Keil ’83 Lenore Kletter ’83 Raymond Kluga ’81 Joshua Kovar ’89 Gene Lakin ’82 William Lang ’86 Louis Lappin ’81 David Layman ’84 D. Michael Lazo ’86
Judith Lewis ’82 Keh-Hua Lin ’89 Jan Matlis ’80 Theresa McElwee ’86 Melvern McKenzie ’87 Michael Michalski ’88 Isabell Monk ’81 Julie Moore ’89 Philomena Muinzer ’80 David Nelson ’86 Sue Nilsson ’86 Howard O’Brien ’82 Philip O’Donnell ’80 Won Park ’87 A. Ivan Polley ’86 Tamara Revels ’88 Roxanne Rogers ’86 Laurence Schwartz ’84 Gail Shapiro ’89 George Sharp ’89 Lynn Siefert ’83 Mark Simon ’86 Cameron Smith ’89 Roger Smith ’83 Mark Stradinger ’80 Jeffrey Tagher ’86 Carolyn Talarr ’88 Tamara Turchetta ’88 Susan Wigger ’85 David Wiles ’80 Rose Winters ’86 Craig Wolfe ’87 Judy Zanotti ’82
is also working as a professional session and live bass guitarist in Los Angeles. Anne Hamburger ’86 reports, “I have now been at Disney for six and a half years as the Executive Vice President of Creative Entertainment for Disney Parks and Resorts. It has been a terrific experience, bringing in great creative theatrical writers, directors, composers and designers to work in the parks. Our most recent show was Finding Nemo: The Musical. Bobby Lopez (of Avenue Q fame) and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, wrote the book, lyrics and score. Peter Brosius directed and it included a terrific group of designers including Skip Mercier ’83. We’ve also worked with scores of other Yale School of Drama alumni designers including Myung Hee Cho ’95, Matt Frey ’96, Donald Holder ’86, and Walt Spangler ’97. I’m enjoying life
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