Three Sisters

CREATIVE TEAM

AMY HERZOG (PLAYWRIGHT)

is making her Yale Rep debut. Her plays include 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3, upcoming at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center), After the Revolution (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons; John Gassner Award nomination, Lilly Award), Hungry (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Belleville (commissioned by Yale Rep). She has had readings/workshops at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Stage and Film, Arena Stage, and Soho Rep, among others. She holds commissions from Yale Rep and Playwrights Horizons and is an alumna of Youngblood, Play Group, and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab; a Helen Merrill Award recipient, a former Playwrights' Realm Fellow, and Playwright-in-Residence at Ars Nova in 2010. She has taught playwriting at Bryn Mawr and Yale. Amy received her MFA from Yale School of Drama.

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ANNE KAUFFMAN (DIRECTOR)

made her Yale Rep debut last season with the world premiere of We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Her New York theatre credits include This Wide Night (Naked Angels, Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Stunning (Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3), Sixty Miles to Silverlake (Page 73 Productions/Soho Rep), God's Ear (Vineyard Theatre/New Georges), The Thugs (Soho Rep, OBIE Award), Dot (Clubbed Thumb), You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents' divorce (The Civilians), Have You Seen Steve Steven? (13 Playwrights), The Ladies (The Civilians/Dixon Place/Cherry Lane Theatre), and The Loyal Opposition (New York Theatre Workshop). Her other theatre credits include The Flea and the Professor (Arden Theatre Company); Maple and Vine, Act A Lady (Humana Festival of New American Plays); You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents' divorce, Six Degrees of Separation (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Becky Shaw (Wilma Theater; Barrymore Award, Outstanding Direction); The Winter's Tale (Chautauqua Theater Company); Communist Dracula Pageant (American Repertory Theatre); Expecting Isabel, Doubt (Asolo Repertory Theatre); The Typographer's Dream (Encore Theatre Company/Shotgun Players); and The Children's Hour (Loyola University, Big Easy Entertainment Award). She is the recipient of a Lilly Award and the Theatre Communication Group's Alan Schneider Director Award. Artistic Affiliations: Drama League; The Civilians, Founding Associate Artist; Clubbed Thumb, Artistic Associate; New York Theatre Workshop, Usual Suspect; New Georges Kitchen Cabinet; Soho Rep, Artistic Council.

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JULIA C. LEE (SCENIC DESIGNER)

Originally from Taiwan, Julia is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her set design credits include Eurydice and Passing (Carlotta Festival of New Plays). She received her BA with a double major in theatre and sociology from National Taiwan University. She is the recipient of the Donald and Zorka Oenslager Scholarship in Stage Design and the Eldon Elder Fellowship. Her other theatre credits include sets Hollow Roots, Erebus and Terror, and Salome (Yale Cabaret); The Dining Room, Under Queen's Bridge, and 4.48 Psychosis (National Taiwan University). She has also worked as an assistant director for The Spurt of Blood (National Taiwan University) and actor for Black White Zoo (Critical Point Theatre Phenomenon).

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MARK NAGLE (COSTUME DESIGNER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Jib and Passing (Carlotta Festival of New Plays). He is the recipient of the Donald M. Oenslager Scholarship in Stage Design. Some of his other design credits include sets for Far Away and costumes for pleasureD (Yale Cabaret); The Rose Mark'd Queen, The Tempest (Yale Summer Cabaret); Invisible Cities (Red Light New Music); Close Up Space (Chautauqua Theater Company), and String Fever (Yellow Taxi Productions). He also was the in-house costume assistant at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco for two seasons. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in social work.

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NINA HYUN SEUNG LEE (LIGHTING DESIGNER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she has designed lighting for Macbeth, A Streetcar Named Desire, and both Blacktop Sky and The Tall Girls in the Carlotta Festival of New Plays. Her Yale Cabaret credits include Vaska Vaska, Glöm. 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.

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ROBERT KAPLOWITZ (SOUND DESIGNER)

has had the privilege to write music and/or create sound designs for hundreds of plays and is flattered to have been honored with both a Tony Award for Fela! and an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence. Selected credits include John Beluso's The Poor Itch, Lemon Anderson's County Of Kings, Neil LaBute's Wrecks (The Public Theater); The Art Spiegelman/Pilobolus collaboration Hapless Hooligan; David Adjmi's Stunning (Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3); Kia Corthron's Light, Raise the Roof (New York Theatre Workshop); Abbie Spallen's Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club); Chloe Moss's This Wide Night (Naked Angels); Adam Bock's The Thugs (Soho Rep) and A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons); as well as designs for Second Stage Theatre, LAByrinth Theater Company, MCC Theater, Primary Stages, Vineyard Theatre, Sundance, PlayPenn, the O'Neill Playwrights Center, and others. He is married to a former John Deere Catalog Model whom he loves, along with his son Niall, more than any work he's ever done.

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AMY BORATKO (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG)

is the Literary Manager at Yale Rep and has previously served as dramaturg on the Yale Rep productions of Autumn Sonata, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Battle of Black and Dogs, Compulsion, Notes from Underground, A Woman of No Importance, Eurydice, and The Cherry Orchard. Other dramaturgy credits include The Time of Your Life, The Summer People, Romeo and Juliet, The War Is Over (Yale School of Drama); as well as Voice and Vision's ENVISION Retreat at Bard College. She has been a teaching fellow at Yale College and Yale School of Drama and was a managing editor of Theater magazine. A graduate of Rice University, she received her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama.

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ALEX RIPP (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG)

served as assistant dramaturg on The Piano Lesson at Yale Rep last season. She is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama and a current Managing Editor of Theater magazine. She was literary intern at McCarter Theatre, where she was the assistant dramaturg on Fetch Clay, Make Man, and Take Flight. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she majored in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Culture. Alex's translation of Rey Planta by Chilean theatre artist Manuela Infante, was produced by the Yale Cabaret this semester.

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BETH McGUIRE (VOCAL AND DIALECT COACH)

Vocal and dialect credits include the Off-Broadway productions of The Overwhelming (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop); Five by Tenn (Manhattan Theatre Club); People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons); Candida, Gas Light (The Roundtable Ensemble); Free Market (The Working Theatre); Exit Cuckoo; Art of Memory (Company SoGoNo); and In Darfur (The Public Theater). Regional: The Piano Lesson, The Servant of Two Masters, Eclipsed, Death of a Salesman, Lydia, All's Well That Ends Well, dance of the holy ghosts, The Mystery Plays, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Kingdom of Earth (Yale Rep); Hamlet, Carnival, King John, The Glass Menagerie (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); The Cook (Hartford Stage); and Crimes of the Heart (The Cape Playhouse). Ms. McGuire is currently on faculty at Yale School of Drama; is a member of VASTA (The Voice and Speech Trainers Association), Actors' Equity, SAG, and AFTRA; and is an actress with over 30 years of performance experience.

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RICK SORDELET (FIGHT DIRECTOR)

Fifty Broadway productions, including Disney’s The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, The Little Mermaid, and Aida. More than fifty productions all over the world, including Cyrano de Bergerac starring Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House, and La Scala in Milan. Stunt coordinator for the films The Game Plan starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche, and Hamlet starring Campbell Scott. He served as the chief stunt coordinator for Guiding Light. Rick sits on the board of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and is a company member of Drama Dept. He teaches at Yale School of Drama, The New School for Drama, and The Neighborhood Playhouse; and he is the author of the play Buried Treasure. Rick is a proud recipient of the Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence from the Lucille Lortel Foundation. He is married to actress Kathleen Kelly and has three children: Kaelan, Christian, and Collin.

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JEFF BARRY (FIGHT DIRECTOR)

is thrilled to be back at Yale Rep, where he performed in The Comedy of Errors and worked with fight director Rick Sordelet on King Lear, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, and Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play. As an actor, Jeff works in theatre, film, and television. Regional credits include productions at the Guthrie Theater, The Huntington Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, Dorset Theatre Festival, and the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Film and TV credits include Guiding Light, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Last Harbor, The Company Men, and Date Night. He is the co-artistic director of Miscreant Theatre Company, and he can be seen in the upcoming film How We Got Away With It. Jeff is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, where he received the Oliver Thorndike Award in Acting.

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TARA RUBIN CASTING (CASTING DIRECTOR)

has been casting at Yale Rep since 2004. Broadway: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Promises, Promises; A Little Night Music; Billy Elliot; Shrek; Guys and Dolls; The Country Girl; Rock 'n' Roll; The Farnsworth Invention; Young Frankenstein; The Little Mermaid; Mary Poppins; My Fair Lady; The Pirate Queen; Les Misérables; The History Boys; Spamalot; Jersey Boys; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Imaginary Friends; The Phantom of the Opera; Oklahoma!. Lincoln Center Theater: Happiness, The Frogs, Contact, Thou Shalt Not. Off-Broadway: Love, Loss, and What I Wore and Second Stage Theatre. Regional: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center.

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GINA NOELE ODIERNO(STAGE MANAGER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Ruzzante, Eurydice, Othello, House of Cards, Orlando, and elijah (Carlotta Festival of New Plays). Other credits include The Profit of Creation (Yale Institute for Music Theatre), as well as productions with the Marion County Center for the Arts, Carnival Cruise Lines, California Theatre Center, and Central Piedmont Summer Theatre. She is a graduate of Florida State University School of Theatre, where she received her BFA in design and technology. Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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