Bossa Nova

CREATIVE TEAM

KIRSTEN GREENIDGE (PLAYWRIGHT)

is the author of the plays Milk Like Sugar, The Luck of the Irish, Rust, The Curious Walk of the Salamander, Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land, 103 Within the Veil, and The Gibson Girl. She has developed her work at Sundance (Utah and Ucross), Magic Theatre, National New Play Network, Cardinal Stage, South Coast Repertory, Madison Rep, Page 73, Hourglass, Bay Area Playwrights, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, The Mark Taper Forum, A.S.K., The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Guthrie Theater, Mixed Blood, McCarter Theatre Center, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Moxie, and New Georges. She is the recipient of a Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellowship, an NEA/TCG residency at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and was recently playwright-in-residence at CompanyOne. She has also received Sundance's Time Warner Award for Bossa Nova. Kirsten attended Wesleyan University and The Playwright's Workshop/University of Iowa and is a member of New Dramatists and Rhombus. She is currently working on a commission from Yale Repertory Theatre.
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EVAN YIONOULIS (DIRECTOR)

is a resident director at Yale Rep, where her productions include The Master Builder, Richard II, Black Snow, The People Next Door, The King Stag, Heaven, and Galileo. New York credits include Howard Brenton's Sore Throats, Adrienne Kennedy's Ohio State Murders (Lucille Lortel Award, Best Revival) at Theatre for a New Audience; Daisy Foote's Bhutan (Cherry Lane Theatre); as well as Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour (Broadway), Everett Beekin (Lincoln Center Theater), and Three Days of Rain (Manhattan Theatre Club, OBIE Award for Direction). With frequent collaborator, composer/lyricist Mike Yionoulis, she has written and directed the short film Lost and Found (Cleveland International Film Festival) and a new musical, Redhand Guitar, workshopped last fall at Arena Stage. Other credits include productions at the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, Huntington Theatre Company, New York Shakespeare Festival, Vineyard Theatre, Second Stage, Dallas Theater Center, and many others. She has directed Seven, a documentary theatre piece about extraordinary women across the globe who work for human rights, in New York, Boston, Washington, Aspen, London, Deauville, and New Delhi. She is the recipient of a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship and the Foundation's prestigious statuette. Professor (Adjunct), Yale School of Drama's Department of Acting.
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ANA M. MILOSEVIC (SCENIC DESIGNER)

originally from Serbia, is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she designed costumes for Every Other Hamlet In The Universe and sets for Phèdre. She studied industrial and interior design at the High School for Design and received her BFA in theatre production design from Ohio University. Her theatre credits include set design for American Schemes (New York Summer Stage); costumes for Complete Female Stage Beauty, Happyslap, Safe (performer, director, and designer); assistant set designer for Reckless and The Taming of the Shrew. She was the production designer for the feature film Distortion. Awards and achievements include: SAFE, USITT Award for Excellence in Performing Arts 2007, and PQ2007 participant in two categories (Prague 2007).
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SUMMER LEE JACK (COSTUME DESIGNER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include the things are against us and The Seagull. Her New York credits include A Piece of My Heart, Who Will Carry the Word? (Red Fern Theatre Company); The Wild Party (Gallery Players); The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) and Nevermore (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). She received her BA from Arizona State University.
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LAURA J. ECKELMAN(LIGHTING DESIGNER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include elijah, Orlando, Phèdre, and Hamlet. Other credits include Good Words, Far Away, Radio Station, Hold for Beauty, and Three Sisters, or the Dormouse's Tale (Yale Cabaret); Fly By Night, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Late: A Cowboy Song (Yale Summer Cabaret); Crave, Somewhere in the Pacific, Scenes from an Execution (Potomac Theater Project); Ghosts and BusStop (Columbia University). She has received regional and national awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and holds a BA from Middlebury College.
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MICHAEL VINCENT SKINNER (SOUND DESIGNER)

Theatre credits include White Embers (Samuel French 2010 OOB Short Play Festival Winner), Drowning the Sun, Cracked (Upon A Time), and PVT. Wars! (Royal Pyngwyn Collective), all in New York; the things are against us, Phèdre, The French Play (Yale School of Drama); The Rocky Horror Show, Far Away, Good Words, Evil Dead: The Musical, Bitter Sauce (Yale Cabaret); Cloud Tectonics (Amherst College); Pulling Apart, Arsenic and Old Lace, Cannibal! The Musical, A Piece of My Heart, Anything Goes (Southern Connecticut State University); Gathering Shells, Medea (Quinnipiac University); Pink Floyd's The Wall (Black Onion Players); The Who's Tommy, The Mystery of Twicknam Vicarage, The Radical Radio Show, The Musicality Series (Puzzle Piece Theatre); Seussical The Musical, Honk, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (City of New Haven). Associate Design: Compulsion (Yale Rep). Film: The Seven Brothers of Waterbury. A third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, he received his BA at Southern Connecticut State University. His designs have been recognized by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the New England Theatre Conference. Mike is currently in the local Beatles tribute band BECAUSE! and performed in Yale Summer Cabaret's Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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CATHERINE SHEEHY (DRAMATURG)

is Resident Dramaturg at Yale Repertory Theatre and the Chair of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama. Her most recent Yale Rep dramaturgy credits include POP!, Trouble in Mind, and The King Stag (which she also co-adapted with Evan and Mike Yionoulis). Her adaptation of Pride and Prejudice was recently produced at Asolo Repertory Theatre and Dallas Theater Center. She has worked at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, in New York and Ireland with the late Joseph Chaikin, at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE with Irene Lewis, and for four seasons as Festival Dramaturg at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. She is a former associate editor of American Theatre and a former editor of Theater magazine. She received her doctorate from Yale in 1999 for her dissertation: If You Care to Blast for It: Excavating the Lost Comic Masterpieces of the American Canon.
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ANNE SEIWERATH (DRAMATURG)

is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Michael Mitnick's elijah and Caroline V. McGraw's Thriftcrawl. Her other credits include Saviana Stanescu's White Embers (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival); Andrew Ondrejcak's WONDER/LUST (Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York); and, at Yale Cabaret, Radio Station, Wuthering Heights, Debut Track One Chord One Verse One (producer), and Crumbs (co-writer/director). She holds degrees in English literature from Barnard College and the University of Toronto.
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JANE GUYER (DIALECT COACH)

is a Lecturer in Speech at Yale School of Drama. Her coaching credits include productions at Yale Rep, American Repertory Theatre, Actors' Shakespeare Project, and Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. Jane received her MFA in voice and speech pedagogy from the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University and is an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®.
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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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LEE MICKLIN (STAGE MANAGER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Phèdre, Love's Labour's Lost, and Man=Man. Previous Yale Rep credits include We Have Always Lived in the Castle earlier this season and last season's Compulsion. Additional credits include Pamela Precious and Flowers and Other Stories at Yale Cabaret, where he also directed Evil Dead: The Musical. Recently Lee worked at Lincoln Center Theater's Directors Lab. He previously worked as a production assistant on Camelot at Goodspeed Musicals and in New York at Food for Thought Productions and the Pascal Rioult Dance Company. He has also stage managed shows at the New York International Fringe Festival and Midtown International Theatre Festival. Lee holds a BA in theatre from Lehigh University.
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TIMO SHANKO (ORIGINAL MUSIC)

originally Timo Kielnecker, was born in Los Angeles and began studying the electric bass at age eleven, and was playing in area bands by the time he was fourteen. He graduated magna cum laude from Berklee College of Music in 1989. He founded the band The Fully Celebrated Orchestra (FCO) with alto saxophonist Jim Hobbs; and toured extensively as band director with Eddie Kirkland, 1990–1994, playing with many blues legends. He also founded the Prodigal Suns, 1993–1995, and signed with Geffen Records. He can be heard on more than fifty recordings. In 2009, Timo joined G. Love and Special Sauce playing all the major venues all around the world.
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