CREATIVE TEAM

Sarah Ruhl . Sarah Ruhl’s 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 midcareer playwrights, and the MacArthur Award. You can read more about her work on www.SarahRuhlplaywright. com. Her 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.

Todd Almond is a composer, lyricist, and playwright. For The Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park, he wrote the music and lyrics for the Public Works production of The Tempest at the Delacorte Theater (a production in which he also starred as Ariel). His musicals include Girlfriend (Berkeley Rep., and Actors Theatre of Louisville, with songwriter Matthew Sweet, dir: Les Waters); Melancholy Play (13P, with playwright Sarah Ruhl, dir: Davis McCallum); We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Yale Repertory Theater, with playwright Adam Bock, dir: Anne Kauffman); On The Levee (LCT3, dir: Lear deBessonet); The Odyssey (The Old Globe, dir: Lear deBessonet) and Iowa (Playwrights Horizons, 2015, with playwright Jenny Schwartz, dir: Ken Rus Schmoll). Almond musicdirected and arranged Sherie Rene Scott’s hit show Piece of Meat (54 Below and Hippodrome in London) and can be heard on Laura Benanti’s live album In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention. He has released two solo albums: Mexico City, and Memorial Day.

CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA

Ralph Zito (he, him) is in his thirteenth year as chair of the Department of Drama. He came to Syracuse University from the Juilliard School Drama Divi- sion, where he had been a teacher and director from 1992 to 2010 and chair of the Voice and Speech Department since 1999. He was a director and adjunct lecturer in the Barnard College Theater Department

CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA

from 2006 until 2010 and has been a guest artist at training programs across the country, including the Old Globe in San Diego, The University of Texas at Austin, and the Academy for Classical Acting in Washington, DC. Directing credits for the Department of Drama include: The Spitfire Grill, As You Like It, Gruesome Playground Injuries, and The Aliens. He has served as a voice, text or dialect consultant for numerous professional productions both on and off-Broadway, including: The Light in the Piazza; Awake and Sing!; The Herbal Bed; Mrs. Klein; The Fiery Furnace; The Time of the Cuckoo (Lincoln Center Theatre); Tongue of a Bird; The Merchant of Venice (New York Shakespeare Festival); The Pitchfork Disney (Blue Light Theatre Company); Birdy (The Women’s Project); The Model Apartment (Primary Stages); the New York premiere of Tony Kushner’s SLAVS! (New York

Theatre Workshop); and The African Company Presents Richard III (The Acting Company). His regional theater credits include numerous productions at The Shakespeare Theatre and Arena Stage in Washington, DC; Syracuse Stage; Baltimore CENTERSTAGE; Hartford Stage; and the McCarter Theatre, among others. A former touring member of The Acting Company, he served as artistic associate of The Chautauqua Theatre Company for seven years and was a member of the Board of Directors of The American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) for six years. He is a graduate of Harvard University, The Juilliard School, and the American Center for the Alexander Technique. He was recently awarded the prestigious Juilliard President’s Medal in recognition of his contributions to both Juilliard and to the broader performing arts community.

About The Department Of Drama

Part of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Syracuse University Department of Drama offers degree programs in acting, musical theater, theater design and technology, stage management, and theater management utilizing conservatory-style training in a university setting and in collaboration with Syracuse Stage. With much appreciation, the Department of Drama wishes to acknowledge the valuable contribution of the Syracuse Stage staff.

Syracuse University Department Of Drama

Chair.......................................................................................................................................Ralph Zito

Business Manager.................................................................................................................Lisa Tucci

Administrative

Director, Tepper Semester in NYC...............................................................................Erica Jensen

Academic Operations Manager, Tepper Semester

Associate Music Director.................................................................................................Jacob Carll

Dean, VPA...................................................................................................................Michael S. Tick

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Christine Albright-Tufts

Robert Andrusko

Rufus Bonds, Jr.

Jacob Carll

Kiira Schmidt Carper

Brian Cimmet

James A. Clark

Stephen Cross

Danyon Davis

Izmir Ickbal

Rebecca Karpoff

Andrea Leigh-Smith

Daisy Long

David Lowenstein

Celia Madeoy

Carmen Martínez

Adjunct Faculty

Jill Anderson

Dianna Angell

Alec Barbour

Kathleen Baum

Bradley Beckman

Kerry Bereza

Dave Bowman

Don Buschmann

Diane Coloton

Gretchen Darrow-Crotty

Marina de Ratmiroff

Danita Emma

Kathryn Fathers

Marcus Herndon

Jacqueline R. Herter

Emily Holm

Robert Hupp

Sandra Knapp

Richard Koons

Nicholas Kowerko

Zizi Majid

Michael McCurdy

Aldo Katton Santiago

Mendez

Kathryn Miranda

Amanda Moore

Accompanists

Kerry Bereza, Abel Searor

Katherine McGerr

Thom Miller

Ricky Pak

Felipe Panamá

Holly Thuma

Kathleen Wrinn

Ralph Zito

Leslie Noble

Whitney Pak

Stuart Plymesser

Rebecca Schuetz

Hanni Schwarzlander

Abel Searor

Blake Segal

SEVAN

Randy Steffen

Bradley Stone

Joseph Whelan

Matthew Winning

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