Bossa Nova

The Cast

HANNAH CABELLFRAnCESCA CHOY-kEE (DEE PARADIS)

is delighted to be making her Yale Rep debut. Her New York stage credits include Letters to the End of the World (At Hand Theatre Company); Young Jean Lee's The Shipment, Evergreen (Prospect Theater Company); Athol Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Constant Wife, Picnic, and As You Like It (NYU's Graduate Acting Program). Her regional and international credits include work at The Kennedy Center; The Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, Germany; Nicholas Martin's She Stoops to Conquer (McCarter Theatre); Mat Smart's Chopin's Preludes, and Sam Forman's Please Stop Talking (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film credits include Sharon Greytak's Archaeology of a Woman starring Sally Kirkland. She received her undergraduate degree from Tisch School of the Arts and RADA and her MFA in 2009 from NYU's Graduate Acting Program.
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MANDY PATINKINEMILY DORSCH (JOAN CABOT)

is thrilled to be making her Yale Rep debut, having graduated from Yale School of Drama in 2007. Her Broadway credits include the Lincoln Center Theater production of Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (understudy) and
A Man for All Seasons at the Roundabout Theatre Company. She has also appeared in The Miracle Worker at Paper Mill Playhouse and on television in Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Gossip Girl, and New Amsterdam.
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STEPHEN BARKER TURNERELLA JOYCE (LADY PARADIS)

made her Yale Rep debut in the world premiere of August Wilson's Two Trains Running, opposite Laurence Fishburne, in 1990. Her other theatre credits include the world premieres of Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage, for which she received both the Jeff Award and the Black Theatre Alliance Award (Goodman Theatre), and August Wilson's King Hedley II (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Fences (National Black Theatre Festival); Don't Get God Started; Brothers, Sisters, Husbands & Wives; Barefoot in the Park; and her own one-woman play, A Rose Among Thorns: A Tribute to Rosa Parks, which she has performed for more than three years at venues across the country. She was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for her role as Eleanor on the hit sitcom Roc. Her other film and television credits include Set It Off; Bubba Ho-Tep; Selma, Lord Selma; Dead of Winter; Uncle P; Who Made the Potatoe Salad?; A Simple Promise; Stranger Inside; Salvation; Preacher's Kid; Our Family Wedding; My Wife & Kids; Eve; The Jamie Foxx Show; In the House; Seinfeld; and the award-winning music video for TLC's Waterfalls. www.ellajoyce.com
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EMILY DeCOLATOMMY SCHRIDER (MICHEAL CABOT)

made his Yale Rep debut last season in Robert Woodruff's production of Battle of Black and Dogs. His New York credits include Close Ties (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Septimus & Clarissa (Red Bull/Ripe Time); Acts of Mercy, St. Crispin's Day (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); She Stoops to Conquer, Pigtown (Irish Rep); RACE (Classic Stage Company); Greek Holiday (Abingdon Theatre Company); Indoor/Outdoor (Summer Play Festival); and Bread & Roses (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional theatre credits include productions at South Coast Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford TheaterWorks, Virginia Stage, Portland Stage, Pioneer Theatre, Hangar Theatre, and Andrew's Lane in Dublin, Ireland. Film and television credits include The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, Medium, Numb3rs, Law & Order, Whoopi, and As the World Turns. He received his MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program.
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LIAM HURLEYMALENKY WELSH (JANE PARADIS)

is making her Yale Rep debut. Malenky's first stage experience was in the world premiere of Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas at Long Wharf Theatre, and she also appeared in the same show at New Haven Theater Company the following year. She is delighted to be working with her sister Remsen, who is understudying the role of Jane in this production. Malenky has worked for Wilhemina Models in New York and has performed in a children's music video. She is a member of the Elm City Girls Choir, and in her free time, she enjoys reading, drawing, playing with her sisters, and skateboarding. Her dream is to be a veterinarian one day.
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ERIC WRIGHTLIBBY WOODBRIDGE (GRACE MAHONEY)

is making her Yale Rep debut. Her theatre credits include Gabriel (Atlantic Theater Company), Moonlight (The Studio Theatre, DC), Rock 'n' Roll (Wilma Theater), and Third (understudy, Huntington Theatre Company). She also participated in the 2010 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Libby holds a BFA from Boston University.
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