ASSOCIATE COLLABORATORS

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

MOVEMENT/FIGHT/INTIMACY DIRECTOR

ASSISTANT FOR MOVEMENT

PAINT CHARGE

ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER

Julien Tornelli

Yo-El Cassell

Gaby Tovar

Rani O’Brien

Noah Wrafter

Production Crew

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

PHOTOGRAPHER

RUN CREW

Larissa Foxx

Rodrigo Larios

Amanda Miller

Olga

MADELYN GUYET

Andrei

OWEN SLOANE

Vershinin

KAMRAN BINA

Tuzenbach

TED DOYLE

Rodè

AMBRIA M. BENJAMIN

Cast

Masha

ANNA RIGGINS

Natasha

MADELEINE BEDENKO

Solyony

MATEEN BIZAR

Anfisa

MACY MCGRAIL

Irina

IMAYAH HAWKINS

Kulygin

SHAI VAKNINE

Chebutykin

KADEN MAYS

Fedotik

AVA LAROCHE

Ferapont

JADEN BRIDGES

Covers

YELISEY KAZAKAVICH

AMBRIA M. BENJAMIN

AVA LAROCHE

MACY MCGRAIL

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

-Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search For Meaning

In theatre we see ourselves reflected in another human’s joys and sufferings. Perhaps it’s a tiny moment we can have compassion for the battery commander’s plight. Or we put ourselves in the shoes of a young person who’s never worked a day in their life, newly struggling to find meaning due to the suffering they endure at their job. Or maybe it’s the perusal of unrequited and unwanted love that reminds us of a time we were on one end of this love equation, or the other.

Through our sinews we are impacted by this practice of compassion as we bear witness to moments of great truth. We are viscerally impacted by the unfolding of events in the space we inhabit and the story we’ve become participants in. Because of this, we live AS IF the character’s lives are real. AS IF it’s all happening now with us. AS IF we are more similar to the characters than we are different.

This allows us to be active participants in excavating the human condition, as it is now, today.

I invite you to wrestle with the great spirits and depths of humanity as seen through The Three Sisters. To bring your questions to each other. To talk and listen. To decenter moralizing and recenter the complexities of the world and what it means to be human.

Rani O’Brien , Director

Rani O’Brien (DIRECTOR) i nvestigates the truth of the human condition through irreverent play. Recent: Rani recently directed Robert O’Hara’s Mankind as her thesis production to culminate her M.F.A. in directing at BU. Rani has worked for Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The Second City, The Lark, Pacific Symphony, McCarter Theatre Center, The Vagrancy, Howl! Happening: an Arturo Vega Project, amongst others. NYC Directing: Modern Chalk Circle, A Midsummer Night’s DreamMachine, Disconnected Touch, Lights Out!, R&J workshop, and new play readings and workshops. Regional: Twelfth Night, Associate Director, K.C. Rep; Skylight, SDC Observer, McCarter Theatre. Other BU Directing: Hamlet, Constellations. Second City, LA, and Chicago Directing: Candidate Confessions: A 2016 Cabaret, Break In, Scifiology, Oh, The Magical Musical Places You Will Go!, The Big Funk, Les Miserablés Jr, and others. Rani produces new works and ensemble developed plays. SDC Associate. The Second City Directing program graduate. www.raniobrien.com

Sarah Ruhl’s (PLAYWRIGHT) plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Clean House, Passion Play, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Melancholy Play, For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, The Oldest Boy, Stage Kiss, Dear Elizabeth, Eurydice, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, Orlando, Late: a cowboy song, and a translation of Three Sisters. She has been a two-time Pulitzer prize finalist and a Tony award nominee. Her plays have been produced on and off Broadway, around the country, and internationally, where they have been translated into over fifteen languages.

Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She has received the Steinberg Award, the Samuel French Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Whiting Award, the Lily Award, a PEN Award for mid-career playwrights, and the MacArthur Award. You can read more about her work on www.SarahRuhlplaywright. com. Her new book 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write was a New York Times notable book of the year, and she most recently published Letters from Max with Max Ritvo. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her family.