Yale Cabaret: Hot & Cold Showers

A Note from the Cab Team

Blood, violence, and death might not seem like the best way to welcome you back to Cab, but we assure you it is!

All season, we’ve hoped to produce theater that invites risk, and today we’re honoring a genre that was once too risky. From a small theater in Paris to a small basement theater in New Haven, Grand Guignol lives on. We’re reaching back to the late 1800s to share stories about pain, pleasure, and passion that is fundamental to the human experience. We’re (still) coming out of isolation and as a Cab team we felt it was important to tell our community that the ghost of seclusion haunts us all. Together, in this audience, we’re shouting into the dark— letting the past know that we’re not afraid. We’re sitting side by side laughing at pain from the past and reflecting on the harm we still must tend to. Hot&ColdShowers:AnEveningofGrandGuignolinvites us all to come out of the shadows together.

-Jason, Kayodè & Ashley

Hot&ColdShowers

AnEveningofGrandGuignol

Created, Directed & Proposed by

Roman Sanchez and Mikayla Stanley

PRODUCED BY

Roman Sanchez, Mikayla Stanley & Victoria Pekel*

CREATIVE TEAM

Directors Roman Sanchez* & Mikayla Stanley*

Stage Managers Anne Ciarlone & Madeline Pages

Puppetry Design Hit The Lights! Theater Co.*

Scenic Consultant Suzu Sakai

Props & SFX Design Bennet Goldberg*

Costume Design Micah Ohno

Lighting Design Jasmine Moore*

Asst. Lighting Design Eitan Acks*

Sound Design Samuel Ostrove

Asst. Sound Design Tyler Schroder*

Asst. Sound Design Miriam Huerta*

Composer Maxwell Brown*

Intimacy Coordinator Andrew Aaron Valdez

Fight Choreography Casey Leach*

Technical Director Aholibama Castañeda*

CAST

Calum Baker*

Caroline Campos*

Cindy De La Cruz*

Grayson Richmond*

Anna Roman*

Neal Sarin*

Kamal Sehrawy*

Marlon Vargas*

Lil Wenker*

*Yale Cabaret Debut

Special Thanks

Michael Fields, Jen McClure, “Maggie” The Cat, Angie Negrete, Celine Sanchez, Raymond Scholl II

Mission

Yale Cabaret 55 is a transition; a space to place your art and watch it transform. We do not suggest that your art begins or ends with us, but it will change with us. We invite our community to take risks with us. Failure is not an option; it is an illusion. Like Pantone Color of the Year: Very Peri, we know that “as we emerge from an intense period of isolation, our notions and standards are changing, and our physical and digital lives have merged in new ways.” We seek to be a holding space to explore these changes. Cabaret 55 is a shared experiment of what it means to come back to theater.

Values

• The Cab is a studio

• The Cab is a space for trial and error

• The Cab is a space for fellowship

• There is no utopia, only risk and commitment

• There are no assignments, only invitations

Land Acknowledgement

The state of Connecticut and Yale University occupy the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, Quinnipiac, and other Algonquian speaking peoples. We honor and respect their continued relationship with and stewardship of this land, and we acknowledge that Yale University, Yale Cabaret, and those affiliated have benefited from the oppression of these Nations.

Labor Acknowledgement

Yale University does not exist independently from the centuries of forced labor and economic extraction of enslaved people, primarily of African descent, on which this country was built. We are indebted to their labor and their unwilling sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the ongoing violence inflicted on Black and brown people and the resulting impact and generational trauma still felt today.

Leadership Team

Executive Artistic Director

Jason Gray

Graphic Designer

Mikayla Johnson

Website Designer

Kayodè Soyemi

Producing Artistic Director

Kayodè Soyemi

Production Managers

Producing Artistic Director

Ashley M. Thomas

Leo Surach & Cameron Waitkun

Collaborators

Community Engagement a.k. payne

Marketing Associate

Roman Sanchez

Anchor Spa x Yale Cabaret

Chef Kendall Thigpen

Cabaret Assistant

Sarah Machiko Haber

Advisory Board

Stage Management

Nakia Avila

Theater Management

Fanny Abib-Rozenberg

Dramaturgy

Lily Haje

Playwriting

Danielle Stagger

Sound

Evdoxia Ragkou

Scenic

Cat Raynor

Projections

John Horzen

Acting

Lucas Iverson

Technical Design

Eugenio Saenz Flores

Lighting

Jiahao (Neil) Qui

Directing

Garrett Allen

Costumes

Kyle Artone

Board of Directors

Chair

Wendy Davies

Jacob Basri

Samanta Yunuen Cubias

Eric M. Glover

L.T. Gourzong

Doug Robinson

Linda-Cristal Young

About the Cab

In 1968, the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale students established a basement performance venue in the former home of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at 217 Park Street. Envisioned as an alternative outlet for drama school students’ creativity and experimentation, Yale Cabaret became a forum for our expanded New Haven communities, whom we invite to gather around food, drink, conversation, fellowship, and artistry.

Since its founding, the Cabaret has remained in continuous operation, including pivoting to virtual performance during the 2020/21 season. The Cab has produced hundreds of plays, old and new, alongside musicals and musical revues, comedy shows, dance, performance art, and genre-defying performance.

Our supporters have made this storied history happen. With their partnership, we continue this tradition into 2022 and beyond.

Our Supporters

Honorary Season Producer ($7,500+)

Indira Etwaroo & The Benevity

Community Impact Fund

Parachuter ($5,000-$7,499)

Santino Blumetti

Brian Tyree Henry

Champion ($2,500-$4,999)

Wendy Davies

R. Lee Stump

Partners ($1,000-$2,499)

Nina Adams & Moreson Kaplan

Joan Channick

Eric M. Glover, PhD

James G. Hood

Bennett Pudlin & Ann Judd

Bill & Sharon Reynolds

Elaine Ring

Show Sponsors ($500-$999)

Audrey Conrad

Betty & Josh Goldberg

Jim & Eileen Mydosh

Anne Renner

Enthusiasts ($250-$499)

James A. Bundy & Anne Tofflemire

Sarah Cain

Pamela C. Jordan

Corby S. Kummer

Erin Rocha

What’s Next SPRING SEASON

Cab 7

February 9-11th

DRAGARET

HouseofParachute:ABallroomCelebration

Produced by Anne Ciarlone, Kemar Jewel, and Natalie King Renaissance. Tens Across The Board. The ninth annual drag show is sure to be the hottest ticket in town. Dragaret is an annual show committed to honoring queer history with performances from drag queens, kings, and thems. This year we’re uplifting Black Drag culture with House of Parachute: A Ballroom Celebration!

Cab 8

February 16-18th

MarryMeaLittleby Stephen Sondheim

Proposed by Kemar Jewel & Fanny Abib-Rozenberg

What’s love got to do with it? You’re invited to enter the home of two New Yorkers, forced to share an apartment in 2020. Join them as they explore what happens when your dreams come true, and the downside of what happens when your dreams come true. Come and witness a Sondheim show unlike you’ve ever seen before!

Cab 9

February 23-25th

Udo

Written & Proposed by Abigail Onwunali &

Nomè SiDone

A Nigerian immigrant couple trying to create roots in a new country begin trying for a baby. What should be a simple process of love making amongst husband and wife turns into a tumultuous, life altering night of betrayal, submission and pain. Is their love strong enough to keep them anchored to each other? Or will they admit defeat, disappointing not only themselves but everyone back home?

Tickets on sale now!

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