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2012–13 season
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october 30 to november 3 iseman theater Source: Q1 2012 Omniture; Jan. 2012 Comscore.
2012–13 season
october 30 to november 3, 2012
Yale School of Drama James Bundy, Dean
Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Presents
creating lasting impressions
among the stars Adapted from Euripides by Benjamin Fainstein Conceived and directed by Jack Tamburri CREATIVE TEAM Choreographer Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Composer and Sound Designer Projection Designer Production Dramaturg Stage Manager
Jabari Brisport Christopher Ash KJ Kim Benjamin Ehrenreich SteveN Brush Michael F Bergmann Benjamin Fainstein Robert Chikar
CAST in alphabetical order
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Orestes, Achilles Herdsman, Old Slave Thoas, Menelaus Artemis, Clytemnestra Chorus Iphigenia Chorus Pylades, Agamemnon Chorus
Mamoudou Athie Chris Bannow Winston Duke Ceci Fernandez Ashton Heyl Sheria Irving Marissa Neitling Paul Pryce Carly Zien
There will be onE fifteen-minute intermission.
A massive army converged on the military outpost Aulis, fourth moon of Thebes, under Agamemnon’s command. But the fierce goddess Artemis placed a storm of cosmic radiation in the Greeks’ path, preventing their voyage across the sea of stars.
At the center of the universe, thirteen planets hang, suspended in space. Collectively, these allied worlds are known as Greece.
King Agamemnon, son of Atreus, rules the Greek planet Argos, and his brother Menelaus sits upon the throne of Sparta.
These brothers are descendants of a gory house. As a power play, Atreus slaughtered his nephews and fed them to their father. Outraged by this abomination, the cosmic immortal entities (“gods”) placed a curse on the family.
Years later, two sisters— Clytemnestra and Helen—married the brother kings. Clytemnestra bore three children to Agamemnon: Iphigenia, Electra, and Orestes.
Calchas, the Oraculon, leader of the ancient race of prophets, declared that Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter to appease the goddess.
These star-crossed siblings desperately try to outrun the savage fate determined by the family curse, but no mortal can escape the black hole of destiny…
images courtesy of nasa.
The prince of the Trojan nebula stole Helen from Sparta, and Menelaus called upon the Grecian fleet to wage war against Troy.
In a remote corner of the galaxy, a nameless planet is home to creatures called Taurians, who demonstrate their devotion to Artemis by sacrificing all outsiders who touch down on their land.
With a heavy heart, Agamemnon connived to bring Iphigenia to Aulis. At the moment of sacrifice, however, the goddess intervened, saving the girl from doom by replacing her with a fawn on the altar…
It is here, on this wild and inhospitable rock, that Artemis deposited Iphigenia, installing her as high priestess of the Taurian temple. She is lost to her family, to friends, even to Greece for whom she was willing to die…
—benjamin fainstein, production dramaturg
A massive army converged on the military outpost Aulis, fourth moon of Thebes, under Agamemnon’s command. But the fierce goddess Artemis placed a storm of cosmic radiation in the Greeks’ path, preventing their voyage across the sea of stars.
At the center of the universe, thirteen planets hang, suspended in space. Collectively, these allied worlds are known as Greece.
King Agamemnon, son of Atreus, rules the Greek planet Argos, and his brother Menelaus sits upon the throne of Sparta.
These brothers are descendants of a gory house. As a power play, Atreus slaughtered his nephews and fed them to their father. Outraged by this abomination, the cosmic immortal entities (“gods”) placed a curse on the family.
Years later, two sisters— Clytemnestra and Helen—married the brother kings. Clytemnestra bore three children to Agamemnon: Iphigenia, Electra, and Orestes.
Calchas, the Oraculon, leader of the ancient race of prophets, declared that Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter to appease the goddess.
These star-crossed siblings desperately try to outrun the savage fate determined by the family curse, but no mortal can escape the black hole of destiny…
images courtesy of nasa.
The prince of the Trojan nebula stole Helen from Sparta, and Menelaus called upon the Grecian fleet to wage war against Troy.
In a remote corner of the galaxy, a nameless planet is home to creatures called Taurians, who demonstrate their devotion to Artemis by sacrificing all outsiders who touch down on their land.
With a heavy heart, Agamemnon connived to bring Iphigenia to Aulis. At the moment of sacrifice, however, the goddess intervened, saving the girl from doom by replacing her with a fawn on the altar…
It is here, on this wild and inhospitable rock, that Artemis deposited Iphigenia, installing her as high priestess of the Taurian temple. She is lost to her family, to friends, even to Greece for whom she was willing to die…
—benjamin fainstein, production dramaturg
CAST MAMOUDOU ATHIE (ORESTES, ACHILLES) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Fox Play. New York credits include Reality Sandwiches at Dixon Place, The Wedding Reception at Columbia Stages, as well as various workshops and readings with Youngbloods, La MaMa E.T.C., NYU, and Freedom Train Productions. Regional credits include The Zoo Story, Tripolitania, Becoming Sylvia (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theatre Company). At Yale Cabaret he was seen in The Yiddish King Lear, Funnyhouse of a Negro, and Fatal Eggs. Mamoudou previously studied at the William Esper Studio and is a proud recipient of the Lloyd Richards Scholarship in acting.
CHRIS BANNOW (HERDSMAN, OLD SLAVE) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Petty Harbour. His regional credits include A Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre Company); The Elephant Man, The Comedy of Errors (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Speech and Debate (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); The Tempest (Olney Theatre); The Winter’s Tale and Three Sisters (Yale Repertory Theatre, understudy). He also appears in the film Not Fade Away, directed by David Chase, to be released this winter. Chris grew up in New Haven, studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and received his BFA from Boston University. WINSTON DUKE (THOAS, MENELAUS) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Gary in Fox Play, Shamraev in The Seagull, and Win in Blacktop Sky. He is a native of the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago. He attended the University at Buffalo, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in acting. His other credits include Lit 401, To Kill a Mockingbird, and understudying roles in The Winter’s Tale, Three Sisters, and The Piano Lesson at Yale Repertory Theatre.
CECI FERNANDEZ (ARTEMIS, CLYTEMNESTRA) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Petty Harbour and 101011010011. Other credits include The Fatal Eggs, Chamber Music, and Martyna Majok’s reWilding (Yale Cabaret); Mr. Marmalade, Mister Beast, Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy (Mad Cat Theatre Company); three seasons of Summer Shorts (City Theatre); Betrayed (GableStage); Vanity Fair and Romeo and Juliet (Bristol Old Vic). Film and television credits include Tori in Squad 85 and Nancy II in The Way to a Woman’s Heart. Ceci is from Miami and received her BFA from New World School of the Arts. ASHTON HEYL (CHORUS) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Fen. She appeared Off-Broadway in Belles (Theatre Row). Her regional credits include After the Revolution, Golden Gate, and The Egg-Layers with the Fellowship Company (Williamstown Theatre Festival); 1776, Julius Caesar,
Twelfth Night (Texas Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the LIVE! Company (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), and The Winter’s Tale (Yale Repertory Theatre, understudy). Ashton received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and is the proud recipient of the Lotte Lenya Scholarship.
SHERIA IRVING (IPHIGENIA) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Seagull, Outlaw Jean, and Blacktop Sky. She has also been seen in The Winter’s Tale (Yale Repertory Theatre); Trannequin! A New Musical, Hollow Roots (Yale Cabaret); Becoming Sylvia, Tripolitania, Anna Bella Eema (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Cleopatra, Bench Women, Bridges (AFW Repertory Theater); and Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s workshop of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Again and Again in New York. She studied at the British Academy of Dramatic Arts in Oxford, England, and holds a BA in economics from Florida State University. MARISSA NEITLING (CHORUS) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama where she appeared in Fen, Julius Caesar, Rodeo, The Tall Girls, and Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika. Other credits include Chamber Music, Dracula, Georgia in Trannequin! A New Musical (Yale Cabaret); Diana in A Chorus Line, Sister Mary Leo in Nunsense (Broadway Rose Theatre Company); Nancy in Oliver!, Alice in You Can’t Take It With You, Cinderella in Into the Woods (Lakewood Theatre Company); Sara in Stop Kiss, April in Company, and Florence in Waiting for Lefty (University of Oregon). Marissa graduated from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon where she majored in mathematics and theatre arts.
PAUL PRYCE (PYLADES, AGAMEMNON) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he appeared in Twelfth Night or What You Will, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, Othello, Fox Play, and Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika. He has toured the U.S. in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and has worked extensively in theatre in New York City over the last seven years. His other credits include and The Game Room, Funnyhouse of a Negro (Yale Cabaret); the world premiere of PreDisposal by John Prescod, Pecong featuring Tony Award-winner Lillias White (National Black Theatre of Harlem); Lamp and Moth (The Public Theater); and Harry The Hunk On His Way Out (Cherry Lane Theatre). Paul is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, where some of his credits include Carnival Messiah, Jesus Christ Superstar, and MANtalk. In Trinidad and Tobago he produced and starred in the Caribbean classic Smile Orange (2011) and in the summer of 2012 produced Rum and Coca Cola.
CARLY ZIEN (CHORUS) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she was last seen in Fox Play. Other credits include Carnival/Invisible (Yale Cabaret); Kaspar Hauser, Cato (The Flea Theater); and Charlotte’s Web (Theatreworks USA). She holds a BA from Yale College, where she appeared in many plays, including Angels in America, Our Town, and Miss Julie.
CAST MAMOUDOU ATHIE (ORESTES, ACHILLES) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Fox Play. New York credits include Reality Sandwiches at Dixon Place, The Wedding Reception at Columbia Stages, as well as various workshops and readings with Youngbloods, La MaMa E.T.C., NYU, and Freedom Train Productions. Regional credits include The Zoo Story, Tripolitania, Becoming Sylvia (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theatre Company). At Yale Cabaret he was seen in The Yiddish King Lear, Funnyhouse of a Negro, and Fatal Eggs. Mamoudou previously studied at the William Esper Studio and is a proud recipient of the Lloyd Richards Scholarship in acting.
CHRIS BANNOW (HERDSMAN, OLD SLAVE) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Petty Harbour. His regional credits include A Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre Company); The Elephant Man, The Comedy of Errors (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Speech and Debate (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); The Tempest (Olney Theatre); The Winter’s Tale and Three Sisters (Yale Repertory Theatre, understudy). He also appears in the film Not Fade Away, directed by David Chase, to be released this winter. Chris grew up in New Haven, studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and received his BFA from Boston University. WINSTON DUKE (THOAS, MENELAUS) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Gary in Fox Play, Shamraev in The Seagull, and Win in Blacktop Sky. He is a native of the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago. He attended the University at Buffalo, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in acting. His other credits include Lit 401, To Kill a Mockingbird, and understudying roles in The Winter’s Tale, Three Sisters, and The Piano Lesson at Yale Repertory Theatre.
CECI FERNANDEZ (ARTEMIS, CLYTEMNESTRA) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Petty Harbour and 101011010011. Other credits include The Fatal Eggs, Chamber Music, and Martyna Majok’s reWilding (Yale Cabaret); Mr. Marmalade, Mister Beast, Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy (Mad Cat Theatre Company); three seasons of Summer Shorts (City Theatre); Betrayed (GableStage); Vanity Fair and Romeo and Juliet (Bristol Old Vic). Film and television credits include Tori in Squad 85 and Nancy II in The Way to a Woman’s Heart. Ceci is from Miami and received her BFA from New World School of the Arts. ASHTON HEYL (CHORUS) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Fen. She appeared Off-Broadway in Belles (Theatre Row). Her regional credits include After the Revolution, Golden Gate, and The Egg-Layers with the Fellowship Company (Williamstown Theatre Festival); 1776, Julius Caesar,
Twelfth Night (Texas Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the LIVE! Company (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), and The Winter’s Tale (Yale Repertory Theatre, understudy). Ashton received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and is the proud recipient of the Lotte Lenya Scholarship.
SHERIA IRVING (IPHIGENIA) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Seagull, Outlaw Jean, and Blacktop Sky. She has also been seen in The Winter’s Tale (Yale Repertory Theatre); Trannequin! A New Musical, Hollow Roots (Yale Cabaret); Becoming Sylvia, Tripolitania, Anna Bella Eema (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Cleopatra, Bench Women, Bridges (AFW Repertory Theater); and Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s workshop of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Again and Again in New York. She studied at the British Academy of Dramatic Arts in Oxford, England, and holds a BA in economics from Florida State University. MARISSA NEITLING (CHORUS) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama where she appeared in Fen, Julius Caesar, Rodeo, The Tall Girls, and Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika. Other credits include Chamber Music, Dracula, Georgia in Trannequin! A New Musical (Yale Cabaret); Diana in A Chorus Line, Sister Mary Leo in Nunsense (Broadway Rose Theatre Company); Nancy in Oliver!, Alice in You Can’t Take It With You, Cinderella in Into the Woods (Lakewood Theatre Company); Sara in Stop Kiss, April in Company, and Florence in Waiting for Lefty (University of Oregon). Marissa graduated from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon where she majored in mathematics and theatre arts.
PAUL PRYCE (PYLADES, AGAMEMNON) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he appeared in Twelfth Night or What You Will, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, Othello, Fox Play, and Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika. He has toured the U.S. in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and has worked extensively in theatre in New York City over the last seven years. His other credits include and The Game Room, Funnyhouse of a Negro (Yale Cabaret); the world premiere of PreDisposal by John Prescod, Pecong featuring Tony Award-winner Lillias White (National Black Theatre of Harlem); Lamp and Moth (The Public Theater); and Harry The Hunk On His Way Out (Cherry Lane Theatre). Paul is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, where some of his credits include Carnival Messiah, Jesus Christ Superstar, and MANtalk. In Trinidad and Tobago he produced and starred in the Caribbean classic Smile Orange (2011) and in the summer of 2012 produced Rum and Coca Cola.
CARLY ZIEN (CHORUS) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she was last seen in Fox Play. Other credits include Carnival/Invisible (Yale Cabaret); Kaspar Hauser, Cato (The Flea Theater); and Charlotte’s Web (Theatreworks USA). She holds a BA from Yale College, where she appeared in many plays, including Angels in America, Our Town, and Miss Julie.
Creative Team CHRISTOPHER ASH (SCENIC DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he worked on the 2012 Carlotta Festival of New Plays. His other design credits include sets for Christie in Love and Chamber Music, lighting and projections for The Yiddish King Lear, projections for Rey Planta (Yale Cabaret), and assistant scenic design for Belleville (Yale Repertory Theatre). His designs for dance, theatre, opera, theme parks, film, and music video have been seen throughout the world. He has received awards and nominations in Chicago, Los Angeles, and International arenas. You can see more of his work at ChristopherAsh.com. MICHAEL F BERGMANN (PROJECTION DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he designed the projections for Fox Play and served as assistant projection designer on The Seagull and Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika. Other projection design credits include Creation 2011 and Dracula (Yale Cabaret); Terre Rouge and The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Théâtre Glendon). Other credits include lighting design for A Summer’s Day (Play Inc.) and The Centre of Everything Civilized (Winterbird Arts); and directing Mute (Toronto Fringe Festival) and This Still Night (Prague Fringe Festival). Through his Toronto-based company BergARTS, he has produced and co-produced a variety of theatre and film projects including Under Milk Wood and Leer (Abrams Studio), and the short An Encounter. He received his BFA in theatre performance production from Ryerson University in Toronto. bergarts.com
JABARI BRISPORT (CHOREOGRAPHER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he was seen in Vieux Carré and Fox Play. His other credits include Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Macbeth (New York Classical Theatre), Political Subversities (The PIT), Good Goods (Yale Repertory Theatre, understudy), and Funnyhouse of a Negro (Yale Cabaret). Jabari holds a BFA with honors from New York University, and is also the face and voice of in-room movie rental services for many national hotel chains. STEVEN BRUSH (COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER) is an award-winning composer and sound designer for theatre, film, and video games. His film music credits include the short film Wally and Zip which won the Best Orchestration award at the Garden State Film Festival (2011) and the short film Dolci which was nominated for Best Music at the Action on Film Film Festival (2012). His theatre credits include several MFA productions at the University of Washington including the world premiere of The Last Witch by Rona Munro, The Mystery Plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and The Love Talker by Deborah Pryor. Steven is currently a secondyear MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama.
ROBERT CHIKAR (STAGE MANAGER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include stage managing Julius Caesar and assistant stage managing for Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights and The Bachelors. He worked as the stage management intern for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Pirates of Penzance. Other credits include The K of D, The Secret
in the Wings (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Yiddish King Lear (Yale Cabaret), King Lear, and Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice. Originally from Ventura, California, he holds a BFA in stage management from Southern Oregon University.
BENJAMIN EHRENREICH (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he designed Antony and Cleopatra last season and served as assistant lighting designer on Petty Harbour and Cymbeline. Other lighting design credits include Belleville (assistant, Yale Repertory Theatre), A View From the Bridge (Vertical Player Repertory, NYC), and Macbeth (Community20 Productions, London). He was the Allen Lee Hughes Lighting Fellow at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, from 2008–2009 and received his BA in theatre from Binghamton University. BENJAMIN FAINSTEIN (ADAPTOR, production DRAMATURG) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Julius Caesar, Ruzante, The Tall Girls, and The Game Room. He was the production dramaturg for A Doctor in Spite of Himself at Yale Repertory Theatre. This year, Benjamin is an associate artistic director of Yale Cabaret, where he has worn a variety of creative hats since arriving in New Haven. He holds a BA from Middlebury College and originally hails from Houston, Texas. Iphigenia Among the Stars is his first full-length adaptation. KJ KIM (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a second-year year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she graduated from the University of Evansville with a BA in costume design. In January 2011, she received the USITT Young Designers and Technicians Award in Makeup Design and placed first in Alcone Company’s Makeup Design Award for Region III. In April 2011, she went to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, as one of eight national finalists in her field, making it her second year advancing to a national competition. artekj.com
JACK TAMBURRI (DIRECTOR) is a director, writer, performer, and musician pursuing his MFA in Directing at Yale School of Drama. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and a member of the Chicago-based new works theatre company The Plagiarists. With The Plagiarists, Jack wrote, produced, and performed in the annual American Stage Sessions series as well as the Internet radio comedy series, The Brandy Winefingers Mysteries, and directed The Wreck of the Medusa, a new play based on the infamous shipwreck and the painting it inspired. In Chicago, Jack also worked with the Neo-Futurists, The Hypocrites, The House Theatre of Chicago, American Theater Company, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., and the Court Theatre, among others. Directing highlights include Chuck Mee’s bobrauschenbergamerica, Mac Wellman’s Seven Blowjobs, and Powerless: Issues 1-3 (a new piece of comic book theatre featuring projection design by a national roster of illustrators). At Yale School of Drama, Jack has directed productions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Titus Andronicus, and new plays by MFA-candidate playwrights Justin Taylor, Martha Jane Kaufman, and Amelia Roper. At Yale Cabaret, he directed Young Jean Lee’s Church (codirector/co-producer) and Mac Wellman’s Dracula. yale.edu/drama/ViewFromHere
Creative Team CHRISTOPHER ASH (SCENIC DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he worked on the 2012 Carlotta Festival of New Plays. His other design credits include sets for Christie in Love and Chamber Music, lighting and projections for The Yiddish King Lear, projections for Rey Planta (Yale Cabaret), and assistant scenic design for Belleville (Yale Repertory Theatre). His designs for dance, theatre, opera, theme parks, film, and music video have been seen throughout the world. He has received awards and nominations in Chicago, Los Angeles, and International arenas. You can see more of his work at ChristopherAsh.com. MICHAEL F BERGMANN (PROJECTION DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he designed the projections for Fox Play and served as assistant projection designer on The Seagull and Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika. Other projection design credits include Creation 2011 and Dracula (Yale Cabaret); Terre Rouge and The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Théâtre Glendon). Other credits include lighting design for A Summer’s Day (Play Inc.) and The Centre of Everything Civilized (Winterbird Arts); and directing Mute (Toronto Fringe Festival) and This Still Night (Prague Fringe Festival). Through his Toronto-based company BergARTS, he has produced and co-produced a variety of theatre and film projects including Under Milk Wood and Leer (Abrams Studio), and the short An Encounter. He received his BFA in theatre performance production from Ryerson University in Toronto. bergarts.com
JABARI BRISPORT (CHOREOGRAPHER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he was seen in Vieux Carré and Fox Play. His other credits include Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Macbeth (New York Classical Theatre), Political Subversities (The PIT), Good Goods (Yale Repertory Theatre, understudy), and Funnyhouse of a Negro (Yale Cabaret). Jabari holds a BFA with honors from New York University, and is also the face and voice of in-room movie rental services for many national hotel chains. STEVEN BRUSH (COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER) is an award-winning composer and sound designer for theatre, film, and video games. His film music credits include the short film Wally and Zip which won the Best Orchestration award at the Garden State Film Festival (2011) and the short film Dolci which was nominated for Best Music at the Action on Film Film Festival (2012). His theatre credits include several MFA productions at the University of Washington including the world premiere of The Last Witch by Rona Munro, The Mystery Plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and The Love Talker by Deborah Pryor. Steven is currently a secondyear MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama.
ROBERT CHIKAR (STAGE MANAGER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include stage managing Julius Caesar and assistant stage managing for Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights and The Bachelors. He worked as the stage management intern for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Pirates of Penzance. Other credits include The K of D, The Secret
in the Wings (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Yiddish King Lear (Yale Cabaret), King Lear, and Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice. Originally from Ventura, California, he holds a BFA in stage management from Southern Oregon University.
BENJAMIN EHRENREICH (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he designed Antony and Cleopatra last season and served as assistant lighting designer on Petty Harbour and Cymbeline. Other lighting design credits include Belleville (assistant, Yale Repertory Theatre), A View From the Bridge (Vertical Player Repertory, NYC), and Macbeth (Community20 Productions, London). He was the Allen Lee Hughes Lighting Fellow at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, from 2008–2009 and received his BA in theatre from Binghamton University. BENJAMIN FAINSTEIN (ADAPTOR, production DRAMATURG) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Julius Caesar, Ruzante, The Tall Girls, and The Game Room. He was the production dramaturg for A Doctor in Spite of Himself at Yale Repertory Theatre. This year, Benjamin is an associate artistic director of Yale Cabaret, where he has worn a variety of creative hats since arriving in New Haven. He holds a BA from Middlebury College and originally hails from Houston, Texas. Iphigenia Among the Stars is his first full-length adaptation. KJ KIM (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a second-year year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she graduated from the University of Evansville with a BA in costume design. In January 2011, she received the USITT Young Designers and Technicians Award in Makeup Design and placed first in Alcone Company’s Makeup Design Award for Region III. In April 2011, she went to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, as one of eight national finalists in her field, making it her second year advancing to a national competition. artekj.com
JACK TAMBURRI (DIRECTOR) is a director, writer, performer, and musician pursuing his MFA in Directing at Yale School of Drama. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and a member of the Chicago-based new works theatre company The Plagiarists. With The Plagiarists, Jack wrote, produced, and performed in the annual American Stage Sessions series as well as the Internet radio comedy series, The Brandy Winefingers Mysteries, and directed The Wreck of the Medusa, a new play based on the infamous shipwreck and the painting it inspired. In Chicago, Jack also worked with the Neo-Futurists, The Hypocrites, The House Theatre of Chicago, American Theater Company, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., and the Court Theatre, among others. Directing highlights include Chuck Mee’s bobrauschenbergamerica, Mac Wellman’s Seven Blowjobs, and Powerless: Issues 1-3 (a new piece of comic book theatre featuring projection design by a national roster of illustrators). At Yale School of Drama, Jack has directed productions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Titus Andronicus, and new plays by MFA-candidate playwrights Justin Taylor, Martha Jane Kaufman, and Amelia Roper. At Yale Cabaret, he directed Young Jean Lee’s Church (codirector/co-producer) and Mac Wellman’s Dracula. yale.edu/drama/ViewFromHere
staff FOR Iphigenia Among the Stars ARTISTIC Assistant Scenic Designer Chika Shimizu Assistant Costume Designer Steven Rotramel Assistant Lighting Designer Joey Moro Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer Jeong Sik Yoo Assistant Projection Designer Kristen Ferguson Assistant Stage Manager Will Rucker
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OCTOBER 26 TO NOVEMBER 17 yalerep.org
YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE DIRECTED BY ETHAN HEARD
DECEMBER 14 TO 20 drama.yale.edu
For tickets or more information, call 203.432.1234
staff FOR Iphigenia Among the Stars ARTISTIC Assistant Scenic Designer Chika Shimizu Assistant Costume Designer Steven Rotramel Assistant Lighting Designer Joey Moro Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer Jeong Sik Yoo Assistant Projection Designer Kristen Ferguson Assistant Stage Manager Will Rucker
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ADMINISTRATION Associate Managing Director Assistant Managing DIrector Management Assistant House Manager
Jennifer Lagundino Melissa Zimmerman Stephanie Rolland Reynaldi Lolong
Special Thanks Margot Bordelon, Sean Graney, Ethan Heard
opening night Sponsor
Iphigenia Among the Stars October 30 to November 3, 2012 Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel Street
1166 Chapel Street New Haven, CT 06511 203.777.4367 YALE REPERTORY THEATRE WORLD PREMIERE
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Associate Production Supervisor Mike Backhaus Technical Director Hannah Shafran Assistant Technical Directors Tommy Rose, Dade Veron Master Electrician Lee O’Reilly Properties Master Ted Griffith Projection Engineer Nicholas Johnson Stage Carpenter Rosalie Bochansky Costume Shop Manager Tom McAlister Associate Costume Shop Manager Robin Hirsch Senior Draper Mary Zihal Drapers Harry Johnson, Clarissa Wylie Youngberg Senior First Hand Deborah Bloch Staff Carpenter Ryan Gardner Scenic Charge Nathan Jasunas Head Electrician Alexander Zinovenko Staff Sound Engineer Paul Bozzi Build Crew Rosalie Bochansky, Matthew Groeneveld, Kenyth X. Thomason Props Crew Edward T. Morris Lighting Crew Joel Abbott, Joey Brennan, Alyssa K. Howard, Martha Jane Kaufman, Caitlin Smith Rapoport, Amelia Roper, Mariana Sanchez Sound Crew Jing (Annie) Yin Projection Crew Barbara Tan-Tiongco Run Crew Sang Ahn, Kate Atwell, Nicole Bromley, Nathan Jasunas, Tyler Kieffer, Amelia Roper, Joyoung Yoon, Elizabeth Zevin
MARIE ANTOINETTE BY DAVID ADJMI
DIRECTED BY REBECCA TAICHMAN A CO-PRODUCTION WITH AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER
OCTOBER 26 TO NOVEMBER 17 yalerep.org
YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE DIRECTED BY ETHAN HEARD
DECEMBER 14 TO 20 drama.yale.edu
For tickets or more information, call 203.432.1234
october 30 to november 3, 2012
Yale School of Drama James Bundy, Dean
Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Presents
creating lasting impressions
among the stars Adapted from Euripides by Benjamin Fainstein Conceived and directed by Jack Tamburri CREATIVE TEAM Choreographer Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Composer and Sound Designer Projection Designer Production Dramaturg Stage Manager
Jabari Brisport Christopher Ash KJ Kim Benjamin Ehrenreich SteveN Brush Michael F Bergmann Benjamin Fainstein Robert Chikar
CAST in alphabetical order
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Orestes, Achilles Herdsman, Old Slave Thoas, Menelaus Artemis, Clytemnestra Chorus Iphigenia Chorus Pylades, Agamemnon Chorus
Mamoudou Athie Chris Bannow Winston Duke Ceci Fernandez Ashton Heyl Sheria Irving Marissa Neitling Paul Pryce Carly Zien
There will be onE fifteen-minute intermission.