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A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Welcome to the world premiere of War!

I am delighted that Yale Rep audiences are the first to experience this richly imaginative new work by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose plays Appropriate and An Octoroon were honored with the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play earlier this year. Later this season in New York, his play Gloria will debut at the Vineyard Theatre and An Octoroon will be restaged at Theatre for a New Audience.

It is also my pleasure to introduce you to director Lileana Blain-Cruz, a recent graduate of Yale School of Drama, making her Yale Rep debut, and the extraordinary cast of actors and members of the creative team with whom she and Branden are bringing War to such vivid life for the first time.

With breathtaking theatricality, bracing humor, and deep compassion, War explores the contours of a contemporary American family confronted with a shocking revelation that causes them to reconsider much of what they believed to be their own history. At the same time, the play masterfully asks the audience to examine our basic human need to communicate with one another—how language connects us and also profoundly fails us, often at the same time, and especially when the stakes are highest.

War is the first of three Yale Rep-commissioned world premieres supported by the Binger Center for New Theatre this season. Pulitzer Prize finalist Danai Gurira (In the Continuum, co-written with Nikkole Salter, 2007; and Eclipsed, 2009) returns in January with her new play Familiar, and Sheila Callaghan makes her Yale Rep debut with the romantic comedy Elevada in the spring.

Thank you for being with us today. As always, I’d love to hear what you think about War or any of your experiences at Yale Rep. My email address is james.bundy@yale.edu.

I look forward to seeing you back at Yale Rep soon!

Sincerely,

James BundyArtistic Director

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yale rep commissioned Branden Jacobs-Jenkins four years ago; over that time, supported by yale’s Binger center for new Theatre, he’s been working on his play War—in residencies here in new haven; in workshops in new york city; and now, in the rehearsal hall at yale rep, preparing for the play’s world premiere. over the past four years, Branden has received critical acclaim for his plays Neighbors, An Octoroon, and Appropriate, these last two honored with the 2014 oBie award for Best new american Play. and now new haven audiences are the first to see his newest play. literary manager and Production Dramaturg amy Boratko sat down with Branden to talk about his process writing War.

amy BoraTko: What was your initial

inspiration for War?

BranDen JacoBs-Jenkins: Images

and ideas come to me in pieces

and then suddenly stick together to

become something whole. So there

were many things that came together

to become War. I wanted to write a

play about black Germans for a very

long time—specifically something

that dealt with the mischlingkinder

(children born to white Germans and

African American soldiers during the

American occupation of post-WWII

Germany). I’m obsessed with World

War II and black American soldiers

and relationships between the Cold

War and the Civil Rights movement in

our country.

aB: Yale Rep commissioned you in

2010, just before you left for Germany

on a Fulbright.

BJJ: Yes. I received the commission,

which was the first major commission

of my career, just as I was about to

move to Germany for what became

two years. I set out to study German

dramaturgy—how plays and theatre

get made over there versus here. I

wanted to expose myself to some

new ideas of structure and how

people deal with ethnic difference

and to do a little research around the

mischlingkinder. The fact that Yale

Rep commissioned me right before I

left was incredible. And, because the

theatre is embedded in a research

institution, and has resources to

support new plays, I felt like I could

embark on writing a big play dealing

with history and multiple languages.

If I was going to tackle these ideas in

a play anywhere, Yale was the perfect

place to do it.

On Writing War: An interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

BRaNDeN JaCoBs-JeNkINs. PhoTo BY ImoGeN heaTh.

aB: What characters or images

emerged first with War?

BJJ: one of the first images of the

play came to me when I came to New

haven to participate in Paula Vogel’s

Boot Camp alongside grad students

here at Yale School of Drama. You

spend several intense days doing

writing exercises led by Paula. She

charged us with the task of writing

an impossible stage direction. What

can you not do on stage? You can’t

tell apes what to do. I described apes

trapped in a glass cage, and they can

use some sort of sign language. a fire

breaks out in their cage, but the word

that they sign for “help” is actually

the word for “theatre.” And that’s

where I started writing War from.

aB: Once you had this initial image,

how did you approach writing the

play? Is your process similar from play

to play, or does it vary depending

upon the project?

BJJ: I don’t know if I have a set way

that I approach work. I do know that

I have a long incubation process. As

with War, I’m attracted to a set of

mysteries and questions, and I spend

a lot of time reading around those

mysteries and questions. Generally,

out of that, characters arrive. I start

thinking about these characters

and how they relate to each other.

A map forms connecting all these

relationships, and suddenly, a play

starts to emerge.

I’ve been called very “process-

oriented.” There are some playwrights

who can be done with their plays

on the first day of rehearsal, but

I’m always trying to create a vivid

theatrical experience. I can’t seem

to just do that in front of my laptop.

Being a playwright, for me, is about

being attuned to three different

things at different times. Part of me

is sitting at a computer, by myself,

trying to generate words. Then,

I’m sitting in the rehearsal room,

responding to what’s happening with

the actors and director. Beyond that,

I’m also engaged with the designers

and having conversations outside of

the rehearsal room. I try to square

away what I see visually with the story

I want to tell.

On Writing War: An interview with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

aB: What does it mean to respond

to what’s happening with the actors

during the rehearsal process? how

are your plays affected by the work

actors bring to the process?

BJJ: I used to be a performer—and

even recently performed in the

Soho Rep. production of my play

An Octoroon—and sometimes that

experience comes into play when

I write. I feel the need to be loose

sometimes and allow other artists to

have the room to make choices. I try

to pay close attention to the strengths

that each artist brings to a process. I

love actors—that each of them brings

their own unique instruments. I’m

always hungry for the moments when

something catches fire in rehearsal.

aB: You’ve known director Lileana

Blain-Cruz for well over a decade,

but this is the first time she’s

directing the world premiere of one

of your plays. What is she bringing

to the process as you’re exploring in

rehearsal?

BJJ: Lileana and I have a short-hand.

We went to college together, and we

came up together professionally.

Along the way, we’ve exposed each

other to things that we both like—and

we know each other’s tastes and

instincts. It feels like making work

with a family member, which is fitting,

as I’m trying to explore what it means

to write a family drama. It’s also

coming home for both of us: Yale Rep

is an institution that began to support

me early in my career, and Lileana

graduated from Yale School of Drama.

aB: Can you talk about this idea of

the “family drama” more? You’ve

spoken about how you want to

investigate what it means to write a

black family drama.

BJJ: Yes. I’ve been curious about

what that means. Is it different from

a family drama? how? Why? “Black”

is such a funny, false adjective in

many ways—what does it mean to

essentialize it in a family? I’m also

interested in what “black drama” is

and how we make assumptions about

black drama in a solely American

context.

aB: Since you began this process

inspired by German, how is that

affecting how you explore an

American concept of black family

drama?

BJJ: Contemporary theatre culture in

Germany is a different experience

from what we Americans are used to.

Stuff over there seems to be generally

quite immersive—very long, hyper-

designed, not particularly occupied

with audiences “recognizing their

furniture” on stage. You’re just

sort of thrown into another world

and another sensibility. The work

I really responded to there was

about the emotional exhaustion—of

yourself, of the actors, of the space,

of the stories—to get at something

else behind all the furniture and

costumes. I’m not trying to ape

German practices, but I’m trying to

make a patchwork quilt of what I like

from their tradition and ours. There’s

an American way of viewing, which I

love, that is mostly naturalistic and

fetishizes time and psychology. I want

to take a play like that and put a sort-

of one-woman show in the middle of

and all around it. I know that I ask the

audience to be ready to shift gears

several times, but also: why not?

WAr IN REhEARSAL, BELOW, FROM ThE LEFT: DONTÉ BoNNeR aND PhIlIPPe BoWGeN; DIRECTOR LILEANA BLAIN-CRuz AND TONYA PINkINS; RAChAEL hOLMES AND TREzANA BEVERLEY. PhOTOS BY JOAN MARCuS.

Trezana Beverley (ELFRIEDE) is making her Yale Rep debut. Ms. Beverley is the winner of the distinguished Tony Award for her performance in for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. She has also performed extensively in regional theatre and on film. Noted highlights include Mother Courage and Her Children, A raisin in the Sun (Center Stage); The Bacchae (Guthrie Theater); Peer Gynt (Shakespeare Theatre Company); The Nacirema

Society (Alliance Theatre); Flyin’ West (Crossroads Theatre Company); the title role in King Lear and Medea (Take Wing and Soar Productions). her film credits include resurrection, Beloved with Oprah Winfrey, Carolina Skeletons, and Sister Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies. Trezana is also a director and currently is a directing faculty guest at The Juilliard School. her production company is The Trezana Projects. trezanabeverley.com

DonTÉ Bonner (TATE) This is Donté Bonner’s debut at Yale Rep. he studied at the university of Central Florida. his stage credits include romeo and Juliet on Broadway and the east coast premiere of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. Film and television credits include Sydney White and the upcoming hBO miniseries Crime.

PhiliPPe BowGen (TOBIAS) is making his Yale Rep debut. Recent New York credits include Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 at 59E59, as well as workshops at New York Theatre Workshop, MCC Theater, and Atlantic Theater Company. Recent regional theatre: Antony and Cleopatra directed by Emily Mann (McCarter Theatre), Oedipus El rey (Dallas Theater Center), Darko Tresnjak’s repertory of Macbeth and La Dispute (hartford Stage), Caviar on Credit (Guthrie Theater), Kingdom of Earth

(Triad Stage), King Lear directed by Robert Falls (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Othello (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), His Girl Friday (Trinity Repertory Company), Lysistrata (Synetic Theatre); upcoming Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Paper Mill Playhouse). he is a Scotsman Fringe First winner for Bang, Bang...You’re Dead! Film: Son of a Kingpin, Sobrevivo, and The remains of Something Whole. Education/Training: MFA, Brown/Trinity Repertory Company; London Academy of music and Dramatic art; Georgetown University.

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Tyrone miTchell henDerson (ALPhA, NuRSE) previously appeared at Yale Rep in The America Play, The Piano Lesson, and The Winter’s Tale. New York credits include The Piano Lesson; Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk (national tour), The Tempest with Patrick Stewart, Two Noble Kinsmen, The Public Sings, King Lear, and Letters to the End of the World. Regional credits include The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures,

Angels in America, The Trip to Bountiful, An Enemy of the People, Tartuffe, radio Golf, The 39 Steps, romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra with Suzanne Bertish, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet, Topdog/Underdog, Intimate Apparel, Yellowman, Jitney, All My Sons, The Crucible, and Blues for an Alabama Sky with Phylicia Rashad. Film and television: ride for Your Life, The Treatment, Unforgettable, The Following, Boardwalk Empire, Suits (pilot), and five episodes of the Law & Order franchise. honors: AuDELCO, kevin kline nominations; Dallas Theatre Critics, Connecticut Critics Circle, and Leon Rabin Awards. tyronemitchellhenderson.com

rachael holmes (JOANNE) is making her Yale Rep debut. her New York credits include ruined directed by kate Whoriskey (Manhattan Theatre Club); Persephone’s Cowboy: A Musical directed by Alex Timbers; 365 Days/365 Plays with directors michael Greif (The Public Theater), leigh silverman and hal Brooks (Epic Theatre). Regional credits: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike directed by Jonathan Moscone (Alley Theatre); Good People directed by kate Whoriskey

(huntington Theatre); ruined directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, The Book Club Play directed by Molly Smith (Arena Stage); richard II directed by Michael kahn, Julius Caesar directed by David Paul (Shakespeare Theatre); and Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet directed by Timothy Douglas (Studio Theatre). She recorded Lady Macbeth and Titania for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Luminary Shakespeare App. Television: The Mysteries of Laura, The Good Wife, Dirt, as well as national commercials and voice-overs. She received her MFA from NYu and teaches at New Victory Theatre and New York Film Academy. rachael.biz

GreG keller (MALCOLM) previously appeared at Yale Rep in Belleville. Broadway: Wit (Manhattan Theatre Club). Off-Broadway: The Who and The What (Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3); Somewhere Fun (Vineyard Theatre); Belleville (New York Theatre Workshop); Cradle and All (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Seagull with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming (Classic Stage Company); That Pretty Pretty, Steve & Idi (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Telethon (Clubbed Thumb); reborning

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(The Public Theater/Summer Play Festival); and Smudge (Women’s Project). Los

Angeles: Seminar with Jeff Goldblum and 33 Variations with Jane Fonda (Ahmanson

Theatre). Television: Orange is the New Black, The Good Wife, Lipstick Jungle, Law &

Order. mFa: NYU. Greg was a lila acheson Wallace playwriting fellow at The Juilliard

School. his plays have been produced at Cherry Lane, Williamstown Theatre Festival,

Berkshire Theatre Festival, and LAByrinth Theater Company, where he is a member.

Tonya Pinkins (ROBERTA) is making her Yale Rep

debut. her Broadway credits include Jelly’s Last Jam (Tony,

Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Clarence Derwent Awards);

Caroline, or Change (oBIe, lortel, Garland, l.a. Drama

Critics, NAACP, AuDELCO Awards; Tony, Drama Desk, Drama

League, What’s On Stage, Olivier nominations); Play On (Tony

nomination); Holler If Ya Hear Me, A Time to Kill, radio Golf,

The Wild Party, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and Merrily We

roll Along. Time Out New York named Tonya “One of the Top 25 All-Time Broadway

Divas.” She has been nominated for the Joseph Jefferson, Noel, and helen hayes

Awards for her work in regional theatres. Tonya spent 20 years in daytime television

on As the World Turns and All My Children. her other film and television appearances

include Enchanted, Fading Gigolo, 24, Army Wives, The Closer, Law & Order, Cold

Case, and this season’s Nurse Jackie. She has released two CDs: Live at Joe’s Pub and

Live at Joe’s Pub Too. She is the author of Get Over Yourself!: How to Drop the Drama

and Claim the Life You Deserve (hyperion). Ms. Pinkins is a Beinecke Fellow at Yale

School of Drama this fall.

lileana Blain-crUz (DIRECTOR) is from New York City. She is currently working

on a new production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Recent projects include Christina Anderson’s Hollow roots, which premiered in the

under the Radar Festival (The Public Theater); a new translation of The Bakkhai at

the Fisher Center of Performing Arts at Bard College; and A Guide to Kinship and

Maybe Magic, a collaboration with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and choreographer

Isabel Lewis at Dance New Amsterdam. She is the co-founder and director of the

ensemble company Overhead Projector, which devises new work. She received her

MFA in directing from Yale School of Drama, where she directed Doctor Faustus Lights

the Lights, The Taming of the Shrew, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, Cavity, Fox Play,

and Buffalo, Maine. She was one of the co-artistic directors of the 2011–2012 Yale

Cabaret, where she directed Funnyhouse of a Negro, SALOME, and Vaska Vaska,

Glöm. She received both the Julian Milton kaufman Memorial Prize and the Pierre-

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André Salim Prize for her leadership and directing. She was an Artistic Associate of

The Exchange and The Orchard Project, a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s

Lab, and an Allen Lee hughes Directing Fellow at Arena Stage. As a recent 2050

directing fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, Lileana developed an adaptation of

the alejandro Jodorowsky film, EL TOPO.

monTana levi Blanco (CosTUme DesIGNeR) is a third-year MFA candidate

at Yale School of Drama, where he has designed costumes for The Visit and

THUNDErBODIES. At Yale Cabaret, he has designed costumes for The Defendant,

The Brothers Size, and Look Up, Speak Nicely, and Don’t Twiddle Your Fingers All the

Time. Previously he worked in the curatorial departments of the National hispanic

Cultural Center, the RISD Museum of Art, and the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio,

Texas. Montana is the recipient of the Fellowship for the Study of the Public history

of Slavery (Brown university), the Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts Fellowship (McNay

Art Museum), the Presidential Public Service Fellowship (Yale university), and the

Donald and zorka Oenslager Scholarship in Stage Design (Yale School of Drama,

2013–2015). Montana holds degrees from Oberlin College, Oberlin Conservatory of

Music, and Brown university.

amy BoraTko (PRoDUCTIoN DRamaTURG) is the Literary Manager at Yale Rep

and has previously served as dramaturg on the Yale Rep productions of The Fairytale

Lives of russian Girls, Dear Elizabeth, The realistic Joneses, Good Goods, Belleville,

Autumn Sonata, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Battle of Black and Dogs,

Compulsion, Notes from Underground, A Woman of No Importance, Eurydice, and The

Cherry Orchard. Other dramaturgy credits include The Time of Your Life, The Summer

People, romeo and Juliet, The War Is Over (Yale School of Drama), as well as Voice

and Vision’s ENVISION Retreat at Bard College. She has been a teaching fellow at Yale

College and Yale School of Drama and was a managing editor of Theater magazine.

A graduate of Rice university, she received her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic

Criticism from Yale School of Drama.

ron carlos (VOICE AND DIALECT COACh) is a New York-based teacher of

voice, speech, and dialects. he currently teaches at The City College of New York,

Marymount Manhattan College, and Yale School of Drama. his recent voice and

dialect coaching credits include The Glass Menagerie directed by John Tiffany

(Broadway), Pippin directed by Diane Paulus (American Repertory Theater), and

The Witch of Edmonton directed by Jesse Berger (Red Bull Theater), as well as the TV

series Unforgettable (CBS), Madam Secretary (CBS), and Fringe (Fox). he received

his MFA in Voice and Speech Pedagogy from American Repertory Theater Institute at

harvard university and is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®.

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krisTen FerGUson (PRoJeCTIoN DesIGNeR) is a third-year MFA candidate at

Yale School of Drama. her credits include projection design for The Visit (Yale School

of Drama), La Bohème and Iolanta (Yale Opera). She was the assistant projection

designer for Iphigenia Among the Stars (Yale School of Drama), Stones in His Pockets,

and Dear Elizabeth (Yale Repertory Theatre). She has also exhibited installation work

at Yale University art Gallery. kristen received her BFa in studio art with an emphasis

in transmedia from the university of Texas at Austin.

mariana sanchez hernanDez (sCeNIC DesIGNeR) is a third-year MFA

candidate at Yale School of Drama. her theatre credits include set design for As You

Like It, Peter Pan (Yale School of Drama); The Bird Bath, all of what you love and none

of what you hate (Yale Cabaret); and Cenizas de Piedra (Teatro de la Paz, Mexico City).

Before coming to New haven, she assisted leather designer Jason Ross on several

collections for Donna karan and henry Beguelin in New York. She previously lived in

Mexico City, where she was an independent architect and, prior to that, she worked

for the architecture firm Javier sanchez arquitectura. she also served as assistant to

set and lighting designer Sergio Villegas in Mexico City. Mariana holds a bachelor’s

degree in architecture from the National university of Mexico (uNAM). She is a

recipient of the Alfred and Nancy L. McDougal Scholarship from Yale School of Drama

and an artistic achievement award from FONCA, Mexico’s national culture and art

institution.

BranDen JacoBs-Jenkins (PlaYWRIGhT) Off-Broadway: Appropriate (OBIE

Award, Outer Critics Circle nomination; Signature Theatre Company), An Octoroon

(OBIE Award; Soho Rep.), and Neighbors (The Public Theater). upcoming: Gloria

(Vineyard Theatre) and An Octoroon (Theatre for a New Audience). his work has

been seen at actors Theatre of louisville, Victory Gardens Theater, Woolly mammoth

Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, The Matrix Theatre Company in Los Angeles, Mixed Blood

Theatre in Minneapolis, CompanyOne in Boston, and the highTide Festival in the

u.k. he is currently a Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and under

commissions from Lincoln Center/LCT3 and Manhattan Theatre Club. A former Lila

Acheson Wallace fellow at the Juilliard School, his honors include a Paula Vogel

Award and the Sundance Institute’s inaugural Tennessee Williams Award.

DaviD neUmann (ChoReoGRaPheR) has worked at Yale Rep as choreographer

for The Birds in 2001 and In a Year with 13 Moons in 2013. As artistic director of

advanced Beginner Group, Neumann’s original work has been presented in New York

at PS122, New York Live Arts, The kitchen, Central Park Summerstage, Symphony

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space, and The Whitney. aBG has also performed at the Walker art Center, alverno

College, and MASS MoCA, among others. Neumann has been a featured performer

in the works of Big Dance Theater, Susan Marshall, Sally Silvers, and club legend

Willi Ninja. he was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers and an eight-year original

member and collaborator with the Doug Elkins Dance Company, with whom he toured

nationally and internationally. he continues to perform and choreograph for theatre,

opera, and film, including The Total Bent by Stew, and he created two duets that he

performed with Mikhail Baryshnikov. he is currently the director of The Object Lesson

for BAM’s Fisher Space/Next Wave Festival and will premiere a new original work, I

Understand Everything Better, at Abrons Arts Center in NYC this coming April. he is

currently professor of theatre at Sarah Lawrence College.

Bray Poor (soUND DesIGNeR) Previous Yale Rep credits include Dear Elizabeth,

Eurydice, and The Evildoers. his Broadway credits include the current production

of The real Thing, In the Next room (or the vibrator play), and The American Plan.

his other sound design and original music work includes productions at New York

Theatre Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights

horizons (Lortel Award nomination for The Flick), Signature Theatre Company, Second

Stage Theatre (Drama Desk Award nomination for Wings), Soho Rep., Long Wharf

Theatre, Trinity Rep, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Actors Theatre of

Louisville, among others. he has also designed sound and created music for several

videos and installations.

Tara rUBin casTinG (CasTING DIReCToR) has been casting at Yale Rep since

2004. Selected Broadway: Bullets Over Broadway; Aladdin; A Time To Kill; Big

Fish; The Heiress; One Man, Two Guvnors (u.S. Casting); Ghost; How to Succeed in

Business Without really Trying; Promises, Promises; A Little Night Music; Billy Elliot;

Shrek; Guys and Dolls; The Farnsworth Invention; Young Frankenstein; The Little

Mermaid; Mary Poppins; Les Misérables; Spamalot; Jersey Boys; The 25th Annual

Putman County Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; The Phantom of the

Opera; Contact. Off-Broadway: Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Old Jews Telling Jokes.

Regional: The kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, The Old

Globe, Westport Country Playhouse, Bucks County Playhouse. Film: Lucky Stiff, The

Producers.

will rUcker (sTaGe maNaGeR) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School

of Drama, where his credits include Cardboard Piano, Platonov, and The Two

Gentlemen of Verona. At Yale Repertory Theatre, he was the assistant stage manager

for Accidental Death of an Anarchist. he has worked as a director and production

manager and has taught theatre in Virginia juvenile detention centers. Will is an

artistic director of the Yale Cabaret’s 47th season.

yi zhao (lIGhTING DesIGNeR) Previous Yale Rep credits include In a Year with

13 Moons (co-designed with Jennifer Tipton) and A Doctor in Spite of Himself, which

was also seen at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Other collaborations with Lileana

Blain-Cruz include Much Ado About Nothing (Princeton university and upcoming at

Oregon Shakespeare Festival) and The Bakkhai (Fisher Center at Bard College). Other

projects include Hamlet and upcoming rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (The

Wilma Theater); Becoming Cuba (huntington Theatre Company); La Cenerentola

(Curtis Institute of Music); Chairs and a Long Table, Livin’ La Vida Imelda (Ma-Yi

Theatre Company); with hoi Polloi: republic (Duke Performances & JACk), Beckett

Solos (JACk), Winter Journey (PS122); Blown Youth (New Georges); La Prose du

Transsibérien (Beinecke Library); Paola Prestini’s Labyrinth Installation Concertos

(krannert Center for the Performing Arts); The Garden (Nichole Canuso Dance

Company); Saori’s Birthday! and The Misanthrope (Performance Space 122). he

is a graduate of the university of Chicago and Yale School of Drama. yi-zhao.com

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yAlE REpERTORy THEATREJAmEs BundY (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR) is in his 13th year as Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. In his first 12 seasons, Yale Rep has produced more than 30 world, american, and regional premieres, eight of which have been honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle with the award for Best Production of the year and two of which have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. During this time, Yale Rep also has commissioned more than 40 artists to write new work and provided low-cost theatre tickets to thousands of middle and high school students from Greater New haven through WIll PoWeR!, an educational program initiated in 2004. In addition to his work at Yale

Rep, he has directed productions at oregon shakespeare Festival, Great lakes Theater Festival, The Acting Company, California Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Juilliard School Drama Division. A recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle’s Tom killen Award for extraordinary contributions to Connecticut professional theatre in 2007, Mr. Bundy served from 2007–13 on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for nonprofit theatre. Previously, he worked as associate Producing Director of The Acting Company, Managing Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, and artistic Director of Great lakes Theater Festival. he is a graduate of harvard College; he trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Yale School of Drama.

vicTORiA nOLAn (maNaGING DIReCToR) is in her 22nd year as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, serves as Deputy Dean of Yale School of Drama, and is on its faculty. She was previously Managing Director of Indiana Repertory Theatre, Associate Managing Director at Baltimore’s Center Stage, Managing Director at Ram Island Dance Company in Portland, Maine; and she has held various positions at Loeb Drama Center of harvard University; TaG Foundation, an organization producing Off-Broadway modern dance festivals; and Boston university School for the Arts. Ms. Nolan has been an evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, for which she has chaired numerous grant

panels, and has served on other panels and foundation review boards including the AT&T Foundation, The heinz Family Foundation, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, and the Metropolitan Life Foundation. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and on numerous negotiating teams for national labor contracts. A Fellow at Yale’s Saybrook College, she is the recipient of the Betsy L. Mahaffey Arts Administration Fellowship Award from the State of Connecticut and the Elm/Ivy Award, given jointly by Yale university and the City of New haven for distinguished service to the community.

JEnnifER KigER (ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND DIRECTOR OF NEW PlaY PRoGRams) is in her tenth year as associate artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre and is also the Director of New Play Programs of Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre, an artist-driven initiative that supports the creation of new work for the American stage through commissions, residencies, workshops, and productions. Since its founding in 2008, the Binger Center has supported the work of more than 40 commissioned artists and underwritten the world premieres and subsequent productions of 18 new American plays and musicals

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at Yale Rep and theatres across the country. Ms. kiger came to Yale Rep from South Coast Repertory, where she was Literary Manager from 2000–2005 and served as Co-Director of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. she was dramaturg for more than 40 new plays at sCR. Prior to that, she served as production dramaturg at American Repertory Theater, collaborating with directors Robert Brustein, Robert Woodruff, Liz Diamond, and kate Whoriskey. She adapted Robert Coover’s Charlie in the House of rue and Mac Wellman’s Hypatia for the stage with director Bob mcGrath. she has been a dramaturg for the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis and Boston Theatre Works and a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. Ms. kiger completed her training at the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at harvard university, where she taught courses in acting and dramatic arts. She is currently on the playwriting faculty of Yale School of Drama.

BROnisLAw sAmmLER (hEAD OF PRODuCTION) has been Chair of Yale School of Drama’s acclaimed Technical Design and Production Department since 1980. In 2007 he was named the henry McCormick Professor (Adjunct) of Technical Design and Production by Yale’s President, Richard C. Levin. he is co-editor of Technical Brief and Technical Design Solutions for Theatre, Vols. I, II, & III. he co-authored Structural Design for the Stage, which won the united states Institute of Theatre Technology’s (UsITT) Golden Pen award. Demonstrating his commitment to excellence in technical education and professional production, he co-founded uSITT’s National Theatre

Technology Exhibit, an on-going biennial event; he has served as a commissioner and a director at-large and is a lifetime Fellow of the Institute. he was honored as Educator of the Year in 2006 by the New England Theatre Conference and chosen to receive the uSITT Distinguished Achievement Award in Technical Production in 2009. his production management techniques and his introduction of structural design to scenic technology are being employed in both educational and professional theatres throughout the world.

JAmEs mOunTcAsTLE (PRoDUCTIoN sTaGe maNaGeR), has been at Yale Rep since 2004. he has stage managed productions of Arcadia, The House that will not Stand, A Streetcar Named Desire, American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, Three Sisters, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Master Builder, Passion Play, Eurydice, and the world premiere of The Clean House. Broadway credits include Damn Yankees, Jekyll & Hyde, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Boys from Syracuse, The Smell of the Kill, Life x(3), and Wonderful Town. Mr. Mountcastle spent several Christmas seasons in New York City as stage manager for the now legendary production of A Christmas Carol

at madison square Garden. Broadway national tours include City of Angels, Falsettos, and My Fair Lady. he served as Production Stage Manager for Damn Yankees starring Jerry Lewis for both its national tour and at the Adelphi Theatre in London’s West End. In addition, Mr. Mountcastle has worked at The kennedy Center, Center Stage in Baltimore, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and elsewhere. James and his wife Julie live in North haven and are the very proud parents of two beautiful girls: Ellie, who is 15 years old, and katie, age 13.

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WAR STAFF

ARTisTic Taylor Barfield, Assistant DirectorClaire DeLiso, Assistant Scenic DesignerRebecca Welles, Assistant Costume DesignerMarika kent, Assistant Lighting DesignerFan zhang, Associate Sound DesignerEmily Erdman, Assistant Sound Designer and EngineerMichael Commendatore, Assistant Projection DesignerVictoria Whooper, Assistant Stage Managerken Greller, Assistant to the Playwright

PROducTiOn James Lanius III, Associate Production Managerkate Newman, Technical Directorkrystin Matsumoto, Alexandra Reynolds, Jonathan Seiler, Assistant Technical Directors Thomas harper, Mechanical DesignerBen Clark, Assistant Properties Master Jeong Sik Yoo, Master ElectricianNick Vogelpohl, Projection EngineerRasean Davonte Johnson, Projection ProgrammerFabian Fidel Aguilar, Paula R. Clarkson, Michael Commendatore, Melanie Field, Tommy Rose, Christopher Ross-Ewart, Sean k. Walters, Emely Selina zepeda, run Crew

AdminisTRATiOn Flo Low, House Manager

undERsTudiEsLauren E. Banks,** robertaAto Blankson-Wood,**TateJuliana Canfield, JoanneJames Cusati-Moyer, TobiasCornelius Davidson, Alpha, NurseChalia LaTour, ElfriedeMatt Raich, Malcolm

** Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

sPEciAL THAnKsJasmine Batchelor, Alex Blain-Cruz, Marie Blain-Cruz, Xavier Blain-Cruz, Daphne Brooks, David Clauson, Corey Dorris, Christopher Durang, Danaya Esperanza, Betty Gabriel, molly hennighausen, Patricia Jacobs, Sam Lilja, Stephanie Mareen, Marsha Norman, Antje Oegel, Alex Ripp, Andrew Robson, Austin Smith, James Speiser, Liesl Tommy, Derek zasky

yAlE REpERTORy THEATRE STAFFJames Bundy, Artistic DirectorVictoria Nolan, Managing DirectorJennifer kiger, Associate Artistic Director Director of New Play Programs

ARTisTicResident ArtistsPaula Vogel, Playwright-in-residenceLiz Diamond, Evan Yionoulis, resident DirectorsCatherine Sheehy, resident DramaturgMichael Yeargan, Set Design Advisor, resident Set Designer Ilona Somogyi, Costume Design AdvisorJess Goldstein, resident Costume DesignerJennifer Tipton, Lighting Design AdvisorStephen Strawbridge, resident Lighting DesignerDavid Budries, Sound Design AdvisorWalton Wilson, Voice and Speech AdvisorRick Sordelet, Fight AdvisorMary hunter, Stage Management Advisor

Associate Artists52nd street Project, kama Ginkas, mark lamos, mTYZ Theatre/moscow New Generations Theatre, Bill Rauch, Sarah Ruhl, henrietta Yanovskaya

Artistic managementJames Mountcastle, Production Stage ManagerAmy Boratko, Literary Managerkay Perdue Meadows, Artistic AssociateBenjamin Fainstein, Artistic Coordinator helen C. Jaksch, kelly kerwin, Literary AssociatesTara Rubin, C.S.A.; Laura Schutzel, C.S.A.; Lindsay Levine, C.S.A.; kaitlin Shaw C.S.A.; Eric Woodall, C.S.A.; Scott Anderson, CastingLindsay king, Teresa Mensz, Library ServicesJosie Brown, Senior Administrative Assistant to the Artistic Director and Associate Artistic DirectorLaurie Coppola, Senior Administrative Assistant for the Directing, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Playwriting, and Stage Management DepartmentsMary Volk, Senior Administrative Assistant for the Design, Sound Design, and Projection Departments

PROducTiOn Production managementBronislaw J. Sammler, Head of ProductionJonathan Reed, Production ManagerSteven Schmidt, Associate Head of Production and Work-Study SupervisorGrace o’Brien, Senior Administrative Assistant to the Production and Theater Safety and Occupational Health Departments

sceneryNeil Mulligan, Matt Welander, Technical DirectorsAlan hendrickson, Electro Mechanical Laboratory SupervisorEric Sparks, Shop ForemanBrandon Fuller, matt Gaffney, Ryan Gardner, Sharon Reinhart, Master Shop CarpentersSamantha Catanzaro, kelly Rae Fayton, Alexandra Reynolds, Assistants to the Technical Director

Yale Repertory Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the united States.

The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT are represented by united Artists Local uSA-829, IATSE.

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The Director and Choreographer aremembers of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a nationaltheatrical labor union.

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PaintingRu-Jun Wang, Scenic ChargeLia Akkerhuis, Nathan Jasunas, Assistant Scenic ArtistsEmily Baldasarra, Assistant to the Painting Supervisor

PropertiesBrian Cookson, Properties Master David P. Schrader, Properties CraftspersonJennifer McClure, Master Properties AssistantBill Batschelet, Properties Stock ManagerAshley Flowers, Assistant to the Properties Manager

costumesTom McAlister, Costume Shop ManagerRobin hirsch, Associate Costume Shop ManagerClarissa Wylie Youngberg, Mary zihal, Senior DrapersDeborah Bloch, harry Johnson, Senior First HandsLinda kelley-Dodd, Costume Project CoordinatorDenise O’Brien, Wig and Hair DesignBarbara Bodine, Company HairdresserLinda Wingerter, Costume Stock ManagerChristina king, Assistant to the Costume Shop Manager

ElectricsDonald W. Titus, Lighting SupervisorBrian Quiricone, Linda-Cristal Young, Senior Head Electricians

soundMike Backhaus, Sound SupervisorMonica Avila, Staff Sound EngineerJessica hawkins, Stephanie Smith, Assistants to the Sound Supervisor

ProjectionsErich Bolton, Projection SupervisorMike Paddock, Head Projection Technician

stage OperationsJanet Cunningham, Stage Carpenterkate Begley Baker, Head Properties runnerElizabeth Bolster, Wardrobe SupervisorJacob Riley, FOH Mix Engineer

AdminisTRATiOngeneral managementLouisa Balch, Sarah Williams, Associate Managing Directors Libby Peterson, Stephanie Rolland, Assistant Managing DirectorsEmalie Mayo, Senior Administrative Assistant to the Managing DirectorGretchen Wright, Company ManagerAdam Frank, Jason Najjoum, Assistant Company Managers

development and Alumni AffairsDeborah S. Berman, Director of Development and Alumni AffairsJanice Muirhead, Senior Associate Director of Developmenteric Gershman, Associate Director of DevelopmentBarry kaplan, Senior Staff WriterSusan C. Clark, Development and Alumni Affairs Officerkatherine Ingram, Development AssociateBelene Day, Senior Administrative Assistant to Development and Marketing & Communications

finance and Human Resourceskatherine D. Burgueño, Director of Finance and Human resourcesJonathan Rohner, Business ManagerCristal Coleman, Joanna Romberg, Jennifer Truong, Business Office SpecialistsJanna J. Ellis, Director, Yale Tessitura ConsortiumToni Ann Simiola, Senior Administrative Assistant to Business Office; Technology, Media, and Web Services; Operations; and Tessitura

marketing, communications, and Audience servicesDaniel Cress, Interim Director of MarketingSteven Padla, Interim Director of CommunicationsAnh Lê, Associate Director of Marketing Marguerite Elliott, Publications ManagerCaitlin Griffin, Marketing and Communications AssistantEmily Reeder, Marketing AssistantPaul Evan Jeffery, Art and DesignJoan Marcus, Production PhotographerLaura kirk, Associate Director of Audience ServicesShane Quinn, Assistant Director of Audience Services Tracy Baldini, Subscriptions CoordinatorRoger-Paul Snell, Audience Services AssistantJanie Alexander, Charles Cowen, Nathaniel Dolquist, Paul hanna-Cook, Adam Jenkinson, katie Metcalf, Andrew Moore, Peter Schattauer, Box Office Assistants

OperationsDiane Galt, Director of Facility OperationsNadir Balan, Interim Operations AssociateIan Dunn, Operations Associate—on leaveJoe Proto, Arts and Graduate Studies SuperintendentVondeen Ricks, Team LeaderMichael humbert, Facility StewardLucille Bochert, Tylon Frost, kathy Langston, Warren Lyde, Patrick Martin, Louis Moore, Mark Roy, Custodians

Technology, media, and web servicesSarah Stevens-Morling, Director of Technology, Media, and Web ServicesDaryl Brereton, Associate Director of Technology, Media, and Web Serviceskathleen Martin, Web Services Associate

Theater safety and Occupational HealthWilliam J. Reynolds, Director of Theater Safety and Occupational HealthJacob Thompson, Security OfficerEd Jooss, Audience Safety Officerkevin Delaney, Fred Geier, Patrick Grant, John Marquez, Customer Service and Safety Officers

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Yale RepeRtoRY theatRe, the internationally celebrated professional theatre in residence at Yale School of Drama, has championed new work since 1966, producing well over 100 premieres—including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists—by emerging and established playwrights. Twelve Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and eight Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.

Established in 2008, Yale’s BingeR CenteR foR new theatRe has distinguished itself as one of the nation’s most robust and innovative new play programs. To date, the Binger Center has supported the work of more than 40 commissioned artists and underwritten the world premieres and subsequent productions of 18 new American plays and musicals at Yale Rep and theatres across the country—including this season’s War by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Familiar by Danai Gurira, and Elevada by Sheila Callaghan.

For more information, including a complete list of Yale Rep commissioned artists, please visit yalerep.org/center.

binger CenTer FOr neW THeATre

These Paper Bullets! adapted by Rolin Jones from William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, with songs by Billie Joe Armstrong; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2014.

Winner! 2014 Outstanding Production of a Play ConneCtiCut CritiCs CirCle

“An occasion worth celebrating! A pleasurable rush virtually unmatched

by anything this season.” the new York times

Winner! 2013 Outstanding Production of a Play ConneCtiCut CritiCs CirCle

“One of ten reasons for theatre lovers to leave New York in 2014!” time magazine

Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi; Yale Rep and American Repertory Theater, world premiere, 2012; Soho Rep., New York premiere, 2013.

The House that will not Stand by Marcus Gardley; Yale Rep and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, world premiere, 2014.

“An ecstasy of theatrical surprises!” new haven advoCate

Top Ten Plays of the Year,

2011 and 2013! the new York times

The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2012; Broadway premiere, 2014.

In a Year with 13 Moons adapted by Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff from the film and screenplay by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2013.

Belleville by Amy Herzog; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2011; New York Theatre

Workshop, New York premiere, 2013. Photos by T. Charles Erickson, Joan Marcus, Carol Rosegg, and Richard Termine.

Belleville by Amy Herzog; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2011; New York Theatre

Workshop, New York premiere, 2013.

Yale RepeRtoRY theatRe, the internationally celebrated professional theatre in residence at Yale School of Drama, has championed new work since 1966, producing well over 100 premieres—including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists—by emerging and established playwrights. Twelve Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and eight Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.

Established in 2008, Yale’s BingeR CenteR foR new theatRe has distinguished itself as one of the nation’s most robust and innovative new play programs. To date, the Binger Center has supported the work of more than 40 commissioned artists and underwritten the world premieres and subsequent productions of 18 new American plays and musicals at Yale Rep and theatres across the country—including this season’s War by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Familiar by Danai Gurira, and Elevada by Sheila Callaghan.

For more information, including a complete list of Yale Rep commissioned artists, please visit yalerep.org/center.

binger CenTer FOr neW THeATre

These Paper Bullets! adapted by Rolin Jones from William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, with songs by Billie Joe Armstrong; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2014.

Winner! 2014 Outstanding Production of a Play ConneCtiCut CritiCs CirCle

“An occasion worth celebrating! A pleasurable rush virtually unmatched

by anything this season.” the new York times

Winner! 2013 Outstanding Production of a Play ConneCtiCut CritiCs CirCle

“One of ten reasons for theatre lovers to leave New York in 2014!” time magazine

Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi; Yale Rep and American Repertory Theater, world premiere, 2012; Soho Rep., New York premiere, 2013.

The House that will not Stand by Marcus Gardley; Yale Rep and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, world premiere, 2014.

“An ecstasy of theatrical surprises!” new haven advoCate

Top Ten Plays of the Year,

2011 and 2013! the new York times

The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2012; Broadway premiere, 2014.

In a Year with 13 Moons adapted by Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff from the film and screenplay by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2013.

Belleville by Amy Herzog; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2011; New York Theatre

Workshop, New York premiere, 2013. Photos by T. Charles Erickson, Joan Marcus, Carol Rosegg, and Richard Termine.

Belleville by Amy Herzog; Yale Rep, world premiere, 2011; New York Theatre

Workshop, New York premiere, 2013.

how To reach UsYale Repertory Theatre Box office1120 Chapel Street (at York St.)PO Box 208244, New haven, CT 06520203.432.1234Email: yalerep@yale.edu

Box oFFice hoUrsMonday to Friday from 10AM to 5PMSaturday from 12PM to 5PMuntil 8PM on all show nights

Fire noTice Illuminated signs above each door indicate emergency exits. Please check for the nearest exit. In the event of an emergency, you will be notified by theatre personnel and assisted in the evacuation of the building.

resTrooms Restrooms are located in the lower level of the building.

emerGency calls Please leave your cell phone, name, and seat number with the concierge. We’ll notify you if necessary. The emergency-only telephone number at Yale Rep is 203.764.4014.

GroUP raTes Discounted tickets are available for groups of ten or more. Please call 203.432.1234.

seaTinG PolicyEveryone must have a ticket. Sorry, no children in arms or on laps. Patrons who become disruptive will be asked to leave the theatre.

Yale Repertory Theatre offers all patrons the most comprehensive accessibility services program in Connecticut, including a season of open-captioned and audio-described performances, a free assistive FM listening system, large-print and Braille programs, wheelchair accessibility with an elevator entrance into the Yale Rep Theatre located on the left side of the building, and accessible seating. For more information about the theatre’s accessibility services, contact Laura kirk, Associate Director of Audience Services, at 203.432.1522 or laura.kirk@yale.edu.

aUDio DescriPTion (aD)A live narration of the play’s action, sets, and costumes for patrons who are blind or low vision.

oPen caPTioninG (oc)A digital display of the play’s dialogue as it’s spoken.

Open Captioning and Audio Described performances are on Saturdays at 2PM. AD pre-show description begins at 1:45PM.

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As a part of Yale Rep’s commitment to our community, we provide two significant annual educational outreach programs. WILL POWER! offers specially-priced tickets and early school-time matinees for middle and high school students for one of Yale Rep’s productions every season. Since our 2003–04 season, WILL POWER! has served more than 20,000 Connecticut students and educators. The Dwight/Edgewood Project brings middle school students to Yale School of Drama for a month-long, after-school playwriting program designed to strengthen their self-esteem and creative expression.

Yale Rep’s education programs are supported in part by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation; Allegra Print and Imaging; Alyssa Anderson; The Anna Fitch-Ardenghi Trust, Bank of America, Trustee; Susan C. Clark; CT humanities; Bob and Priscilla Dannies; The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation; Bruce Graham; the George a. & Grace l. Long Foundation, Bank of America, N.A. and Alan S. Parker, Esq., Co-Trustees; the Lucille Lortel Foundation; Romaine A. Macomb; mrs. Romaine macomb; Dawn G. miller; Beth Morrison; Arthur and Merle Nacht; NewAlliance Foundation; Barret O’Brien; Bryce Pinkham; Jorge Rodríguez; Robbin A. Seipold; Sandra Shaner; Target ;® Cheever and Sally Tyler; Esme usdan; Charles and Patricia Walkup; Bert and Martha Weisbart; Jonathan Wemette; and Becca Wolff

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Thank you to the generous contributors to yale school of Drama and yale repertory Theatre:

John B. Beinecke, chairJohn Badham, vice chairJeremy smith, vice chair

Amy Aquino

Sonja Berggren

Lynne Bolton

Clare Brinkley

Sterling B. Brinkley, Jr.

kate Burton

Lois Chiles

Patricia Clarkson

Edgar M. Cullman III

Scott Delman

Michael Diamond

Polly Draper

Charles S. Dutton

Sasha Emerson

heidi Ettinger

Terry Fitzpatrick

Marc Flanagan

Marcus Dean Fuller

Anita Pamintuan Fusco

Donald Granger

David marshall Grant

Ruth hendel

David henry hwang

Ellen Iseman

David Johnson

Asaad kelada

Sarah Long

Donald Lowy

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hollinger

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Drew McCoy

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David Milch

Arthur Nacht

Carol Ostrow

Amy Povich

Liev Schreiber

Tony Shalhoub

Michael Sheehan

Anna Deavere Smith

Edward Trach

Courtney B. Vance

henry Winkler

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LEAdERsHiP sOciETY($50,000 and above)Anonymous (2)John B. BeineckeSonja Berggren and Patrick SeaverLynne and Roger BoltonSterling and Clare BrinkleyLois Chiles and Richard GilderEdgar M. Cullman, Jr.Edgar M. Cullman IIIConnecticut Department of Economic and Community DevelopmentAnita Pamintuan Fusco and Dino FuscoStephen J. hoffmanFrederick IsemanDavid JohnsonAdrian and Nina JonesJennifer LindstromAndrew W. Mellon FoundationPam and Jeff RankRobert RiordanRobina FoundationLinda Frank RodmanTalia Shire SchwartzmanThe Shubert FoundationStephen TimbersEdward Trachkara unterbergEsme usdan

guARAnTORs($25,000–$49,999)AnonymousThe Alec Baldwin FoundationBurry Fredrik Foundation

CT humanities Council, Inc.Educational Foundation of Americaheidi EttingerRuth and Steve hendelNational Endowment for the ArtsNeil Mazzella James MunsonTracy Chutorian SemlerEugene ShewmakerJeremy SmithG. erwin steward

BEnEfAcTORs($10,000–$24,999)Nina Adams and Moreson kaplanAmericana Arts FoundationMary L. BundyJohn ConklinThe Cornelius-Schecter Family FundMichael DiamondChristopher DurangEdgerton Foundationalbert R. GurneyCatherine MacNeil- hollingerRocco LandesmanSarah LongLucille Lortel FoundationDonald LowyThe Adam Mickiewicz InstituteCarol Ostrow Joan Pape The Seedlings FoundationTed and Mary Jo ShenTrust for Mutual understandingCarolyn Seely Wiener

PATROns($5,000–$9,999)The Josef and Anni Albers FoundationDeborah Applegate and Bruce TulganFoster BamThe eugene G. and Margaret M. Blackford Memorial Fund, Bank of America, Co-TrusteeCarmine Boccuzzi and Bernard LumpkinJim BurrowsThe Noël Coward FoundationScott DelmanPolly DraperJane headTerry FitzpatrickMarc FlanaganBarbara and Richard FrankeDonald GrangerMabel Burchard Fischer Grant FoundationEllen IsemanBen Ledbetter and Deborah FreedmanArthur and Merle NachtNewAlliance FoundationMichael and Riki SheehanPhilip J. SmithWarner Bros. EntertainmentGary and Jo Williams

PROducER’s ciRcLE($2,500-4,999)Anna Fitch Ardenghi Trust, Bank of America, TrusteeJohn Badham Janice Johnson Barnum

Donald BrownBen CameronSasha EmersonMarcus Dean FullerFred Gorelick and Cheryl MacLachlan Diana and David JacobsThe Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation The George a. and Grace L. Long Foundation William LudelJenny Mannis and henry WishcamperDW Phineas PerkinsBen and Laraine SammlerJoel and Joan Smilow

diREcTOR’s ciRcLE($1,000–$2,499)Amy Aquino and Drew McCoyThe Loreen Arbus FoundationAlexander BagnallJody Locker BergerDeborah S. and Bruce M. BermanJeffrey A. BlecknerEdward BluntCyndi BrownThomas BruceIan CalderonJames BundyJoan D. Channicksue ann Gilfillan and Tony ConversePeggy CowlesMichael S. DavidRamon DelgadoThe Frederick A. DeLuca FoundationThe Cory & Bob Donnalley Charitable FoundationGlen R. Fasman

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melanie Ginter and John Lapidesstephen GodchauxBetty GoldbergJames W. GousseffJudith hansenkarsten harries and Elizabeth LanghorneRichard harrisonCarol Thompson hemingwayMary and Arthur huntJames Earl JewellRolin JonesReed and Elizabeth hundtAlan kibbeJane kaczmarekDr. Gary and hedda kopfMildred kunerMichele LeeGeorge N. lindsay, Jr.Jane LymanRobert MarxPeter MarshallThomas Masse and Dr. James PerlottoDawn G. millerDonna MillsDavid and Leni Moore Family FoundationGarrett and mary moran Gregory murphyVictoria Nolan and Clark CroliusChris NothRichard OstreicherF. Richard PappasLucy and Piers Playfairkathy and George PriestFred A. RappoportDr. Michael Rigsby and Prof. Richard LalliJoumana RizkGordon RogoffLiev SchreiberMarie S. ShererBenjamin SlotznickDr. Matthew Specter and Ms. Marjan Mashhadikenneth J. SteinShepard and Marlene StoneLee StumpArlene SzczarbaMatthew SuttorTargetJohn henry ThomasPatricia ThurstonJoan van ArkCourtney B. VanceCarol M. WaaserCliff WarnerBarbara WohlsenGeorge Zdru

PARTnERs($500–$999)Actors’ Equity FoundationMr. and Mrs. B. N. ashfieldEmily BakemeierRobert L. BarthJohn Lee BeattyIrving and Jackie BlumMichael BombaraMark BrokawJames T. and Alice B. BrownJudith h. BrownDr. Michael Cappello and kerry RobinsonJoy G. CarlinJoyce CarmenJim ChervenakPaul ClearyErnestine and Ronald CwikBob and Priscilla DanniesRichard Sutton DavisRobert DealyBernard EngelRoberta Enoch and Steven CannerPeter EntinTeresa EyringDebbie Bisno and David Goldman Rob GreenbergJess GoldsteinRegina GuggenheimWilliam B. halbertkatherine W. haskinsBarbara hauptmanJane C. headDonald holderJohn Robert hoodBarnet kellmanAlan kibbekatherine Anne LathamCharles Long and Roe CurtisLinda Lorimer and Charles EllisChih-Lung LiuDr. and Mrs. Robert W. LyonsRomaine A. MacombBrian MannVanessa MarshallJohn McAndrewTarell McCraneyGeorge miller and Virginia FallonDaniel MufsonJanice MuirheadArthur OlinerLouise Perkins and Jeff GlansAmy Povich

Brittany Behrens and William RallBill and Sharon Reynoldskimberly RosenstockAbigail RothAlvin SchechterMr. and Mrs. Michael SchmertzlerSandra ShanerCheever and Sally Tylerzelma WeisfeldVera WellsSteven WolffEvan YionoulisAlbert zuckermanSteve zuckerman

invEsTORs($250–$499)Victor and Laura AltshulFrances AshleyMary Ellen and Thomas AtkinsClayton Mayo AustinSandra and kirk BairdJames BakkomRobert BaldwinLee-ann BoatwrightSusan Brady and mark loefflerTom BroeckerClaudia BrownWilliam J. BuckJonathan BuskyDr. Adalgisa Caccone and Prof. Jeffrey Powellanne and Guido CalabresiLawrence CaseyCosmo Catalano, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. W.k. ChandlerBarbara Jean and Nicholas CimminoAurélia and Ben CohenWilliam ConnollyAudrey ConradStephen CoyJohn W. CunninghamCharles DillinghamDennis DornTerrence DwyerPat EganDustin EshenroderSusan and Fred FinkelsteinJoel FontaineAnthony FormanWalter M. Frankenberger IIIJoseph GantmanBruce Grahamelizabeth m. Greeneanne k. Gregersoneduardo GroismanDouglas harveyBarbara hauptman

Michael haymes and logan GreenDr. Lothar hennighausenJeffrey herrmannJennifer hershey-Benenkathleen houleJoanna and Lee A. JacobusElizabeth JohnsonAbby kenigsbergAshley kennedyharvey kliman and Sandra SteinDavid kriebsBernard kukoffFrances kuminWilliam kuxMaryanne Lavankenneth LewisPeter Andrew MalbuissonElizabeth MargidDeborah mcGrawBarry Nalebuff and helen kauderJames NaughtonJane NowosadkoWilliam and Barbara NordhausMaulik PancholyCesar PelliAndy PerkinsStephan PollackMichael PottsMeghan PressmanBennett PudlinCarol A. PrughAlec and Drika PurvesMargaret Adair QuinnFaye and Asghar RastegarJonathan and Sarah ReedBarbara and David ReifDaniel and Irene Mrose RissiSteve Robmanhoward RogutRuss RosensweigFernande RossJean and Ron RozettEdgar and Marion RussellEdward and Alice SaadSuzanne SatoJoel SchechterDr. Mark SchoenfeldGale sherwinMark and Cindy SlaneMary C. StarkRegina StarolisJames SteermanTed SteinBernard SundstedtMatthew SuttorDavid Sword Jack Thomas and Bruce Payne

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Patricia ThurstonSuzanne TuckerPaul WalshWilliam and Phyllis WarfelNathan WellsDana Westberghenry WinklerAlex WitchelAndrew and Fiona WoodJudith and Guy Yale Yale School of Drama, Acting Class of 2014

fRiEnds($100–$249)AnonymousPaola Allais AcreeAged In Wood, LLCMichael AlbanoSarah Jean AlbertsonChristopher AkerlindNarda AlcornIan and Rachel AldermanRichard AmbacherGlenn R. andersonSusan and Donald AndersonLeif AnckerWilliam AtleeAngelina AvalloneFrank and Eileen BakerRaymond Baldelli and Ronald NicholesMichael Baron and Ruth MagrawRobert BarrEdward and Barbara BarrySarah BartloWilliam and Donna BatsfordRichard BaxterNancy and Richard BealsJohn BeckJames BenderDeborah BerkeMelvin BernhardtDonald and Sandra BialosAshley BishopAnders BolangDebra BoothPaul BordeauMarcus and kellie BosenbergAmy Brewer and David SaccoLinda Briggs and Joseph kittredgeCarole and Arthur BroadusJulie BrownStephen and Nancy BrownRobert BrusteinJames Burch

Susan Wheeler ByckMichael Caddenkathryn A. CalnanIvan and Frances CapellaLisa CarlingAnna CascioSami Joan Casler Patricia Cavanaughsuellen G. Childs Susan and Fred Clarkkatherine D. ClineRobert S. CohenDennis and Wendy ColeMr. and Mrs. Thomas ColvillePatricia J. CollinsJudith ColtonForrest Comptonkristin ConnollyDavid Contekathleen and Leo CooneyGreg CopelandAaron CoppRobert Cotnoir Timothy and Pamela CroninJulie CrowderDouglas and Roseline CrowleySean CullenMarycharlotte CummingsScott CummingsWilliam CurranDonato Joseph D’AlbisF. Mitchell Danasue and Gus DavisNigel W. DawBelene and Neil Daykatherine DayMr. and Mrs. Paul DeCosterAziz Dehkan and Barbara MossElizabeth DeLucaJulia L. DevlinJose A. DiazMr. and Mrs. Peter DickinsonMelinda DiVicinoMerle DowlingMs. JoAnne E. Droller, R.N. Jeanne Drurymr. George and Diane DumiganJohn DuranRosemary DuthieLaura EckelmanR. kemerer and Phoebe EdwardsFran EglerNancy Reeder El BouhaliJanann EldredgeElizabeth EnglishJanna Elliskyoung-Jun EoDirk Epperson

David EpsteinJohn ErmanChristine EstabrookFrank and Ellen EstesConnie EvansJerry N. EvansDouglass EverhartJohn D. Ezell Michael FainAnn FarrisChristopher FeeleyRuth M. FeldmanPaul and Susan FiedlerAnne Flammang and Scott Deshongkeith FowlerDeborah Fried and kalman WatskyRichard FuhrmanRandy FullertonBarbara and Gerald GaabDr. and Mrs. James GalliganJosh Galperin and Sara kuebbingCharles and Jane Gardinersteven GefrohPatricia GilchristRobert GlenWilliam GlennNina Glickson and Worth Davidlindy lee GoldRobert GoldsbyNaomi Grabelkris and marc GranetzConnie GrappoBigelow Greensarah Greenblattelizabeth Greenspan and Walt Doldemichael GrossJohn GuareJessica and Corin GutteridgeDavid haleAmanda haleyAlexander hammondAnn and Jerome R. hanleyCharlene harringtonLawrence and Roberta harrisBrian hastertIra hauptmanIhor and Roma haydaJames hazenNicole and Larry heathSteve hendricksonRoderick hickeyNathan hintonDean hokansonElizabeth hollowayJames hoodNicholas hormann

David howsonEvelyn huffmanhull’s Art Supply and FramingDerek huntPeter h. huntJohn huntingtonJohn and Patricia IrelandSuzanne JacksonCary and Dick JacobsJohn W. JacobsenChris JaehnigIna and Robert JaffeeEliot and Lois Jamesonheide JanssenGeoffrey a. JohnsonMarcia JohnsonDonald E. Jones, Jr.Elizabeth kaidenJonathan kalbDavid and Linda kalodnerCarol kaplanJames D. karrDr. and Mrs. Michael kashgarianBruce katzmanRichard kayeJay keeneEdward kennedyRoger kenvinColette kilroyCarol Soucek kingMrs. Shirley kirschnerSusan kirschner- RobinsonLawrence kleinStephen kovelBrenda and Justin kreuzerJoan kronL. Azan kungMark kupfermanMitchell kurtzhoward and Shirley LamarStephanie LamassaMarie Landry and Peter AronsonEllen LangeJames and Cynthia LawlerWing LeeCharles E. Letts IIIIrene Lewishenry LowensteinSuzanne Cryer LukeAndi LyonsJane macfieTimothy MackabeeLizbeth MackayWendy MacLeodAlan MacVeyAnita MadzikLinda Maerz and David WilsonJocelyn Malkin, MD

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Arlene O’ConnellElizabeth O’ConnellDwight R. OdleRichard OlsonEdward and Francs O’NeillSara Ormondkendric T. PackerDr. and Mrs. Michael ParryWilliam PetersRoberta PiletteBryce PinkhamDavid PodellGladys PowersArt PriromprintrRobert ProvenzaWilliam PurvesJames QuinnSarah RaffertyRonald RecasnerCynthia ReikPeter S. RobertsLori RobishawCarolyn RochesterPriscilla RockwellConstanza RomeroJohn RothmanDean and Maryanne RuppOrtwin RuschTommy RussellMartin and Jane SachsSteven SakladClarence SalzerRobert SandbergGail sangreeFrank SarminentoPeggy SassoDenise SavageAnne Schenckkenneth SchlesingerRuth hein SchmittWilliam SchneiderCarol and Sandy SchreiberGeorg schreiberAlexander ScribnerForrest E. SearsPaul Selfa

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