Esme
LANGSTON HUGHES FESTIVAL OF NEW WORK | 2022–23 SEASON
NOVEMBER 15–19, 2022
Production Staff
DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF DRAMA AT YALE
Associate Safety Advisor
Megan Birdsong
James Bundy, Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean Florie Seery, Associate Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean
Associate Production Manager
Kino Alvarez
Technical Supervisor
John Simone
PRESENTS
Production Stage Manager
Esme
Charlie Lovejoy Production Crew
Jason Dixon
by Doug
Robinson directed by Garrett Allen dramaturgy by Rebecca
Run Crew
Aidan Griffiths Jasmine Moore
Flemister
Administration Cast
Production Stage Manager
Jalice/Bandaged Boy
Faella/Priest
Assistant Stage Manager
Syl/Jakan
Dinah
Josie Cooper
Matthew Sonnenfeld
in alphabetical order
Sam Douglas
Sufiyan Farmer Eloma/Boaz
Karl Green
The Langston Hughes Festival of New Work productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes this process.
Associate Managing Director
Creative Team Ellora Venkat
Yale University acknowledges that Indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land.
Karen Killeen Caro Riverita Esme
Amelia Windom
Gurwen/Messenger
Malik James
Setting:
A fictional country bisected by a great river There will be one ten-minute intermission.
This production is supported by The Benjamin Mordecai III Production Fund.
Management Assistants
Jeremy Landes Roman Sanchez House Manager
Spencer Knoll
THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND, established by a graduate of the School, honors the memory of the Tony Award-winning producer who served as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, 1982–1993, and as Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Program from 1993 until his death in 2005.
Production Photographer
Maza Rey
David Geffen School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.
All patrons must wear masks at all times while inside the theater except when eating or drinking. Our staff, backstage crew, and artists will also be masked at all times. The taking of photographs or the use of recording devices of any kind in the theater without the written permission of the management is prohibited.
NOVEMBER 15–19, 2022
Production Staff
DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF DRAMA AT YALE
Associate Safety Advisor
Megan Birdsong
James Bundy, Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean Florie Seery, Associate Dean Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean
Associate Production Manager
Kino Alvarez
Technical Supervisor
John Simone
PRESENTS
Production Stage Manager
Esme
Charlie Lovejoy Production Crew
Jason Dixon
by Doug
Robinson directed by Garrett Allen dramaturgy by Rebecca
Run Crew
Aidan Griffiths Jasmine Moore
Flemister
Administration Cast
Production Stage Manager
Jalice/Bandaged Boy
Faella/Priest
Assistant Stage Manager
Syl/Jakan
Dinah
Josie Cooper
Matthew Sonnenfeld
in alphabetical order
Sam Douglas
Sufiyan Farmer Eloma/Boaz
Karl Green
The Langston Hughes Festival of New Work productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes this process.
Associate Managing Director
Creative Team Ellora Venkat
Yale University acknowledges that Indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land.
Karen Killeen Caro Riverita Esme
Amelia Windom
Gurwen/Messenger
Malik James
Setting:
A fictional country bisected by a great river There will be one ten-minute intermission.
This production is supported by The Benjamin Mordecai III Production Fund.
Management Assistants
Jeremy Landes Roman Sanchez House Manager
Spencer Knoll
THE BENJAMIN MORDECAI III PRODUCTION FUND, established by a graduate of the School, honors the memory of the Tony Award-winning producer who served as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, 1982–1993, and as Associate Dean and Chair of the Theater Management Program from 1993 until his death in 2005.
Production Photographer
Maza Rey
David Geffen School of Drama productions are supported by the work of more than 200 faculty and staff members throughout the year.
All patrons must wear masks at all times while inside the theater except when eating or drinking. Our staff, backstage crew, and artists will also be masked at all times. The taking of photographs or the use of recording devices of any kind in the theater without the written permission of the management is prohibited.
Esme
LANGSTON HUGHES FESTIVAL OF NEW WORK | 2022–23 SEASON