december 10–16 ISEMAN THEATER 2 0 1 0 – 1 1 s e as o n
DECEMBER 10 TO 16, 2010
Yale School of Drama James Bundy, Dean Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean Presents
by tennessee williams Directed by charlotte brathwaite ARTISTIC TEAM Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Composer Projection Designer Dramaturg Stage Manager
wan ki lo kristin fiebig hyun seung Nina lee elizabeth atkinson hannah wasileski anne erbe maria cantin
CAST in alphabetical order
Stanley Steve Mitch Blanche Street Performer/Young Man/Pablo Stella Eunice
trai byers will cobbs ben horner miriam a. hyman andrew z. kelsey da’vine joy randolph shannon sullivan
Where: New Orleans, FEMA trailer, Lower Ninth Ward When: 2010 The art installation on display in the lobby was created by Yale School of Art students Abigail DeVille and Tameka Norris. A Streetcar Named Desire is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. on behalf of The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. there will be one 10-minute intermission. Season Media Sponsor
And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice. —from Hart Crane’s The Broken Tower excerpted by Tennessee Williams in his inscription for A Streetcar Named Desire
Cast TRAI BYERS (STANLEY) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he has appeared in Every Other Hamlet In The Universe, Orlando, The French Play, Good Goods, and Jelly’s Last Jam.
WILL COBBS (STEVE) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. He began his career working in Atlanta at Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Theatre in the Square, and Alliance Theatre. His credits include The Servant of Two Masters (Yale Rep); Every Other Hamlet In The Universe, Thriftcrawl (Yale School of Drama); as well as Yellowman and In the Red and Brown Water. He also played PFC Brian Day on Lifetime’s Army Wives.
BEN HORNER (MITCH) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Previous credits include The Gods Are Pounding My Head! and Zomboid, both written and directed by Richard Foreman (Ontological-Hysteric Theater); Bingo with the Indians, written and directed by Adam Rapp, Smoke and Mirrors, seatingARRANGEMENTS (Flea Theater); As You Like It, The Tempest (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Macbeth (Wachovia Playhouse); Mustard (La MaMa E.T.C.); Eurydice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, House of Cards, Bones in the Basket, Hamlet, The French Play (Yale School of Drama); The Phoenix, and Sarah Ruhl’s Late: A Cowboy Song (Yale Summer Cabaret).
MIRIAM A. HYMAN (BLANCHE) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she was recently seen in elijah and Thriftcrawl. Other credits include The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (Shakespeare & Company); What You Will, The Skin of Our Teeth (Bristol Riverside Theatre); Young Lady From Rwanda, Twelfth Night, The Man From Nebraska (Peoples Light & Theatre); The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) (Arden Theatre Company); The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); The Story (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Resurrection Blues (The Wilma Theater); An Artist’s Workshop (Azuka Theatre); and Black Nativity (Freedom Theatre). Television and film credits include The Wire, Conviction, Law & Order, Malevolence, Angel Rodriguez, Inclinations, and Music City. She received her BFA from The University of the Arts and is a proud member of SAG and Actors’ Equity Association.
ANDREW Z. KELSEY (STREET PERFORMER/YOUNG MAN/PABLO) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Orlando, Phèdre, Hamlet, and Jelly’s Last Jam. Other theatre credits include The Whale Play (new theater house), Dead Letter Office (HERE Arts Center), As Much As You Can (Celebration Theatre), Good Boys and True (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), The Automata Pieta (Magic Theatre), Time on Fire (Magic Theatre/Royal
Cast National Theatre), and The Rose Tattoo (American Conservatory Theater). Andrew is a frequent volunteer with the 52nd Street Project in New York, and he is co-director of Core Company at the Orchard Project, a summer theatre apprenticeship program in the Catskill Mountains. He is a graduate of Amherst College.
DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH (STELLA) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Orlando, The Seagull, The French Play, and Jelly’s Last Jam. She also appeared in Yale Rep’s The Servant of Two Masters. She received her BA from Temple University, where she portrayed the Witch in Into the Woods, Norca in Our Lady of 121st Street, the title role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and also appeared there in Hair.
SHANNON SULLIVAN (EUNICE) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Emilia in Othello, Sweet Young Thing in La Ronde, Paradise Lost, Phèdre, The French Play, Every Other Hamlet In The Universe, and Eurydice. Yale Cabaret credits: Madame in The Maids, Nelly in Wuthering Heights, and Ragnar in Yale Summer Cabaret’s The Phoenix. Shannon’s original play Antibiosis: was produced as a part of Yale Cabaret’s 2009–10 season. She received her BFA in acting at University of California, Santa Barbara.
CREATIVE TEAM ELIZABETH ATKINSON (SOUND COMPOSER) is a second-year MFA candidate student at Yale School of Drama. Liz came to New Haven from Pittsburgh, where she was resident sound designer at City Theatre for twelve years. Her extensive freelance career included regional theatre credits at Hartford Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Emelin Theatre, Pittsburgh Playhouse Repertory, Quantum Theatre, and Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre. The Pittsburgh PostGazette named her Sound Designer of the Year in 2003, 2006, and 2007. She was also an adjunct faculty member at Point Park and Carnegie Mellon Universities.
CHARLOTTE BRATHWAITE (DIRECTOR) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. As a director, her work has been presented in America, Mexico, the Netherlands, Germany, and Croatia. Recently, she directed American Schemes by Radha Blank, commissioned and produced by NYC Summerstage, as well as Good Goods by Christina Anderson and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Yale School of Drama. A native of Toronto, Canada, she joined La MaMa E.T.C.’s Great Jones Repertory as an actor at the age of 16 and performed in New York and internationally in over a dozen countries with the company. She holds a BA from
CREATIVE TEAM the Amsterdam School for the Arts in the Netherlands and is the recipient of a 2010 Princess Grace Foundation George C. Wolfe Award. Upcoming projects include Heiner Müller’s MedeaMaterial for the BELEF Festival in Serbia.
MARIA CANTIN (STAGE MANAGER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Every Other Hamlet In The Universe, The Droll, The Seagull, and Buffalo, Maine. She is a graduate of Hillsdale College.
ANNE ERBE (DRAMATURG) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she has worked on director Charlotte Brathwaite’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and playwright Christina Anderson’s Good Goods. Formerly, she worked as a producer at The Foundry Theatre and as an independent producer and fundraising consultant with Lear deBessonet, Soho Think Tank, The Play Company, and International WOW Company in New York City.
KRISTIN FIEBIG (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Previous costume design credits include The Mad 7 (NYC Fringe Festival, McCarter Theatre Center’s In Festival); The Chimes, Missing Celia Rose (NYC Summer Play Festival); Radio Station, Passing (Yale Cabaret); A Streetcar Named Desire, Hedda Gabler, Uncommon Women and Others (Princeton University); Kiss Me, Kate and Floyd Collins (Syracuse University). She holds a BFA in costume design from Syracuse University.
HYUN SEUNG NINA LEE (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she has designed lighting for Macbeth. Yale Cabaret credits include Vaska Vaska Glom. She also designed lighting for Connecticut College’s 2010 senior dance show. She is a graduate of York University, Canada, where she received her BFA in theatre design.
WAN KI LO (SCENIC DESIGNER) was born and raised in Hong Kong. She is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. She has served as a design assistant on Eclipsed (Yale Rep), Orlando (Yale School of Drama), and The Maids (Yale Cabaret). She is the recipient of The Donald and Zorka Oenslager Scholarship in Stage Design (2010). Wan Ki is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong, where she received her BA in architectural studies. Prior to Yale, she was an apprentice to artist Sun-chang Lo and worked as an architectural assistant in Hong Kong and London. Her work can be seen at no-ism.net.
CREATIVE TEAM HANNAH WASILESKI (PROJECTION DESIGNER) is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Recent projection designs in New York City include My Life in a Nutshell, Sonnambula (HERE Arts Center); Look Away (Schapiro Theater); and Uncanny (Littlefield). Hannah’s installation and video work has been exhibited in Brighton, London, and at the National Review of Live Art Festival in Glasgow, UK. She received her BA in music and visual art from the University of Brighton.
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was one of America’s most prolific and important playwrights. His prodigious output included The Glass Menagerie (NY Drama Critics Award 1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (NY Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize 1947), Summer And Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (NY Drama Critics Award, Pulitzer Prize 1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (1963), Out Cry (1973), Vieux Carre (1977), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (1979), and Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1981). Not About Nightingales, which he wrote in 1947, was produced at the Royal National Theatre, London and at the Alley Theatre, Houston in 1998 with great success.
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a streetcar named desire production staff Associate Managing Director
Suzanne R. Appel
Associate Production Supervisor
Steven A. Schmidt
Associate Marketing Director
Rachel Smith
Assistant Managing Director
DeDe Jacobs-Komisar
Assistant Scenic Designer
Meredith Ries
Assistant Costume Designer
Nikki Delhomme
Assistant Lighting Designer
Solomon Weisbard
Assistant Sound Designer/Engineer
Matthew Otto
Assistant Projection Designer
Paul Lieber
Assistant Stage Manager
Alyssa K. Howard
Technical Director
Hsiao-Ya Chen
Assistant Technical Directors
Eric C. Lin, Jonathan Pellow
Master Electrician
Mikey Rohrer
Properties Master
Nora Hyland
Projections Supervisor
Erich Bolton
Projection Engineer
Brian D. Dambacher
Stage Carpenter
Karen Walcott
Costume Shop Manager
Tom McAlister
Associate Costume Shop Manager
Robin Hirsch
Senior Draper
Mary Zihal
Draper
Clarissa Wylie Youngberg
First Hand
Deborah Bloch
Staff Carpenter
Ryan Gardner
Crew
Geoffrey Boronda, Nicole Bromley, Ted Griffith, Allison Hall
Johnson, Nicole Marconi, C. Nikki Mills, Hannah Sorenson,
Benjamin Strange
Staff Sound Engineer
Paul Bozzi
Head Electrician
Jason Wells
Scenic Charge
Ru Jung Wang
Paint Crew
Jung Griffin, Allison Jackson, Po-Lin Li
Fight Director
Rick Sordelet
Vocal Coaches
Beth McGuire, Walton Wilson, Grace Zandarski
Program Design
Maggie Elliott
Management Assistant
Caitie Hannon
House Managers
Elizabeth Elliott, DeDe Jacobs-Komisar
Special Thanks: Matt Biagini, Alexandra Blisset, Brett Dalton, Abigail DeVille, Maruti Evans, Stacey Gemmill, StĂŠphanie Hayes, Marcus Henderson, Clinton Jukkala, Yale Fire Inspector Ralph Marguy, Samuel Messer, Edward Morris, Tameka Norris, Craig Pospisil, Chad Raines, Brian Reese, Michael D. Remer, Joe Roach, Shenelle Sansom and Family, Matt Saunders, Michael Skinner, Robert Storr, Jack Tamburri, Warner Bros. Entertainment, The Tennessee Williams Estate, Yale School of Art
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