Bossa Nova

CREATIVE TEAM

EDWARD ALBEE (PLAYWRIGHT)

was born on March 12, 1928, and began writing plays 30 years later. His plays include The Zoo Story (1958), The Death of Bessie Smith (1959), The Sandbox (1959), The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961–62, Tony Award), Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award), All Over (1971), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize), Listening (1975), Counting the Ways (1975), The Lady from Dubuque (1977–78), The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981), Finding the Sun (1982), Marriage Play (1986–87), Three Tall Women (1991, Pulitzer Prize), Fragments (1993), The Play About the Baby (1997), The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? (2000, 2002 Tony Award), Occupant (2001), At Home at the Zoo (Act 1: Homelife. Act 2: The Zoo Story) (2004), and Me, Myself & I (2008). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, and President of The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr. Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980. In 1996 he received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts. In 2005, he was awarded a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. Mr. Albee is a Beinecke Fellow at Yale School of Drama this fall.
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JAMES BUNDY (DIRECTOR)

is in his ninth year as Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. In his first eight seasons, Yale Rep has produced more than twenty world, American, and regional premieres, five of which have been honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle with the award for Best Production of the year, and two of which have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. During this time, Yale Rep has also commissioned more than two dozen artists to write new work and provided low-cost theatre tickets and classroom visits to thousands of middle and high school students from Greater New Haven through WILL POWER!, an educational program initiated in 2004. Mr. Bundy's directing credits include The Psychic Life of Savages, The Ladies of the Camellias, All's Well That Ends Well, A Woman of No Importance, and Death of a Salesman at Yale Rep, as well as productions at Great Lakes Theater Festival, The Acting Company, California Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Juilliard School Drama Division. A recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle's Tom Killen Award for extraordinary contributions to Connecticut professional theatre in 2007, Mr. Bundy currently serves on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for nonprofit theatre. Previously, he worked as Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company, Managing Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, and Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater Festival. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale School of Drama.
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VICTORIA NOLAN (MANAGING DIRECTOR)

is in her 18th year as Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, serves as Deputy Dean of Yale School of Drama, and is on its faculty. She was previously Managing Director of Indiana Repertory Theatre, Associate Managing Director at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE, Managing Director at Ram Island Dance Company in Portland, Maine; and she has held various positions at Loeb Drama Center of Harvard University; TAG Foundation, an organization producing Off-Broadway modern dance festivals; and Boston University School for the Arts. Ms. Nolan has been an evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, for which she has chaired numerous grant panels, and has served on other panels and foundation review boards including the AT&T Foundation, The Heinz Family Foundation, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, and the Metropolitan Life Foundation. She has also served on the Executive Committee of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and on numerous negotiating teams for national labor contracts. A Fellow at Yale's Saybrook College, she is the recipient of the Betsy L. Mahaffey Arts Administration Fellowship Award from the State of Connecticut and the Elm/Ivy Award, given jointly by Yale University and the City of New Haven for distinguished service to the community.
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CHIEN-YU PENG (SCENIC DESIGNER)

originally from Taiwan, is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his recent credits include the sets for A Midsummer Night's Dream and La Ronde. He received his BA in theatre and drama from National Taiwan University, where he designed Twelfth Night. His other credits include Nijinsky's Last Dance (Yale Cabaret), The Branks, A Lover's Discourse, Woyzeck, and K24. For more information, please visit chienyupeng.viewbook.com
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AARON P. MASTIN (COSTUME DESIGNER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he designed the costumes for Orlando and elijah (Carlotta Festival of New Plays). Other costume design credits include Ragtime, Carousel, 1776, Sweeney Todd (New Jersey Performing Arts Center); York College; Battery Dance Company (NYC and international tours); and Manhattan Children's Theatre. Set design credits include Two Headed (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Ascension, Acts of Love (Theatre Row); Ragtime, Brigadoon, Camelot, Hello, Dolly!, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Riverside Center); as well as the 2004 main stage and cabaret seasons at Millbrook Playhouse. Production work includes Death in Love (independent film, assistant costume designer); HBO's John Adams (background costumer); The Good Shepherd, Without a Trace, Gossip Girl (wardrobe); and New York Fashion Week for Tomer Gendler, FORM, Ports 1961 (production and production design). He holds a BFA in drama from Carnegie Mellon University.
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ALAN C. EDWARDS (LIGHTING DESIGNER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Every Other Hamlet In The Universe, the things are against us, La Ronde, and Love's Labour's Lost. Other credits include Hedwig and the Angry Inch (also set design), The Phoenix, Muse (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Maids, A Day in Dig Nation, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, See What I Wanna See (Yale Cabaret); The Pulp of the Matter (Connecticut College Dance); and The Marriage of Figaro (Tri-Cities Opera). While studying at Ithaca College, he designed Urinetown, Burn This, and scenery for the opera Acis and Galatea. His New York credits include the Broadway productions of A Catered Affair (set design assistant), Boeing-Boeing and The Country Girl (props); and the Off-Broadway production of Amazons and Their Men (props).
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SARAH PICKETT (COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER)

previously designed the sound for Yale Rep's productions of Death of a Salesman (2009) and Richard II (2007). Her other theatre credits in sound design and/or composition include Zero Hour (Yale School of Drama); Max Out Loud, The Bacchae (Yale Cabaret); Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); All's Well That Ends Well (American Players Theatre); The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, All My Sons, The Importance of Being Earnest (PlayMakers Repertory Company); The Winter's Tale (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Women's Project); Measure for Measure, Othello (Theatre for a New Audience); No Child… (Capital Repertory Theater and Hangar Theatre); The Great Peanut Butter Radio Hour (co-author), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (also played "Yitzhak," music director), and The Santaland Diaries (Syracuse Stage). She received her BFA from Syracuse University, her MA from Cornell University, and her MFA from Yale School of Drama.
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CATHARINE M. KOLLROS (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she served as co-adaptor and dramaturg on last season's
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Last season, she also served as assistant director on the world premiere of POP! at Yale Rep. This season, Catharine will be working as the dramaturg for the Yale Opera production of Don Giovanni. She received her BA in comparative literature from the University of Chicago.
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TARA RUBIN CASTING (CASTING DIRECTORS)

has been casting at Yale Rep since 2004. Broadway: Promises, Promises; A Little Night Music; Billy Elliot (adult casting); Shrek; Guys and Dolls; The Little Mermaid; Mary Poppins; Jersey Boys; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; The Phantom of the Opera; The Country Girl; Young Frankenstein; The Farnsworth Invention; Rock 'n' Roll; The History Boys (US casting); Les Misérables; Spamalot; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Pirate Queen; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses (New York casting). Lincoln Center Theater: Happiness, The Frogs, Contact, Thou Shalt Not, A Man of No Importance, Anything Goes (concert). The Kennedy Center: Mame, Mister Roberts, The Sondheim Celebration, and Tennessee Williams Explored. The Old Globe: Robin and the Seven Hoods, The First Wives Club, Sammy. Film: The Producers: The Musical. Members, Casting Society of America.
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LINDSEY TURTELTAUB (STAGE MANAGER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Seagull, Always Almost Something, The Tempest, and Man in Love. Other recent production credits include POP! and Battle of Black and Dogs at Yale Repertory Theatre; New Works-In-Progress 2010 at New York Theatre Workshop, featuring works by Motti Lerner, Harrison Rivers, and Joan Vail Thorne; Readings Festival 1 at New York Stage and Film, featuring new plays by Yussef El Guindi, Theresa Rebeck, Julian Sheppard, and Bryan Delaney; Love's Labour's Lost, Pericles on the High Seas, Gulliver's Travels, and Carnage, A Comedy with The Actors' Gang. She received her BA in theatre arts from UCLA.
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