Alumni Notes work on a feature film about his parents’ love story. Anna G. Jones ’06 founded Bone Orchard in July 2007 with Roweena Mackay ’05. They have just completed their third full-length production, TIMES 365:24:7, which examined the impact of the news on journalists, their subjects and their audience. TIMES 365:24:7 played at The Brick Theater for five weeks in March and April 2009. Maiko Chii ’07 designed the set. They worked with David Giambusso, a freelancer for The New York Times and The Newark Star Ledger, and did field trips to various news sites around the city including MSNBC, The New Yorker, and The Financial Times. Their next steps include gaining more traction as an institution and developing their producing and fundraising efforts to continue to make visceral contemporary theatre. For more information, please see www.boneorchard.org or contact anna@boneorchard.org or roweena@ boneorchard.org. Peter Katona ’01 recently hosted Ashton Kutcher’s Pop Fiction, and he is producing a travel show called The Escape Artists Going Global. Jennifer Lim ’04 was cast as the lead in This Isn’t Romance by Verity Bargate Award winner In-Sook Chappell and directed by Lisa Goldman at the Soho Theatre in London. She played Ophelia in a Chinese production of Hamlet from Shanghai, directed by Richard Schechner for the Grotowski Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. The cast included Benjamin Mosse ’04. Michael Locher ’08 designed the set for the Guthrie Theater’s new production of Beckett’s Happy Days, directed by Rob Melrose ’96. Claire Lundberg ’01 started a new job in December, as the New York book and theatre Jennifer Lim ’04 and Mo Zainal in This Isn’t Romance. Photo by Simon Kane.
Nathan McLaughlin, son of Ann (Hamada) McLaughlin ’03 scout for MGM and United Artists. The studio has recently revamped itself under the leadership of Mary Parent, and Claire is enjoying working there; their first release, the remake of Fame, brought back memories of acting in the Yale Cabaret version years ago. She also got married this past July to Matt Valley, at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. There were some Yale School of Drama alumni there: Matt Richards ’01, Tak Kata ’01, Fitz Patton ’01, Georgia Lee ’01, and Glynis Rigsby ’01. She’s continuing to work on producing film and theatre projects independently as well, and is currently working with Jesse Eisenberg on his play The Revisionist. Neveen Mahmoud ’00 is working on the stage version of Dirty Dancing in Los Angeles. Kathleen McElfresh ’06 did a production of The Women at The Old Globe this past year. In January, May Adrales ’06 invited her to do a workshop of Olives and Blood at The Lark Theatre, and she and Bill Camp, along with some musicians, did a reading for Nine Circles Chamber Theatre of the new theatre/ music piece Falling Bodies. Kathleen has been a guest artist teacher for The National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped for the past two years, and this summer she got married! Ann (Hamada) McLaughlin ’03 and husband Chad welcomed Nathan Robert in May 2009. He has brought them enormous joy. Ben Merrick ’06 and his wife, Alison (who worked as Properties Assistant for five years) had twin girls on June 12: McKayla Jocelyn Merrick and Samantha Marie Merrick. Derek Milman ’02 was recently seen in the Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning John Adams miniseries on HBO. He also filmed a role in a new Fox pilot, White Collar, and a new movie, The Rebound, a romantic comedy
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written and directed by Bart Freundlich, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. Beth Morrison ’05 and her production company Beth Morrison Projects produced Binibon by Elliott Sharp and Jack Womack at The Kitchen in NYC in May 2009, and the piece included Yale School of Drama alumni: Tea Alagic ’07 directed; Zane Pihlstrom ’06, Gina Scherr ’06, and Jen Moeller ’06 designed; actors Joe Tapper ’06, Jedadiah Schultz ’05, and Ryan Quinn ’06 performed. Beth Morrison Projects also produced Making of Americans at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the New York premiere of a oneman opera at Le Poisson Rouge, Soldier Songs; the Asian tour of Sleeping Beauty, a Yale Cabaret piece directed by Yana Ross ’06 for the Seoul Performing Arts Festival; and two major Lincoln Center concerts. In addition, Beth was named producer of the new Yale Institute for Music Theatre. The inaugural season finished on June 20th and was a resounding success! Katherine Hampton Noland ’01 and husband William had a baby boy on March 14, 2009, named Leslie James. David Nugent ’05 saw a production of his
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