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CREATIVE TEAM

CHRISTINA ANDERSON (PLAYWRIGHT)

Plays include: Drip, Hollow Roots, Blacktop Sky, Inked Baby, and Man in Love. Her work has been produced by or developed with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Crowded Fire, American Conservatory Theater, About Face, The Public Theater, Penumbra Theatre, and other theatres all over the country. Awards and honors include the PONY Fellowship nomination, ASCAP Cole Porter Prize (Yale School of Drama), Schwarzman Legacy Scholarship awarded by Paula Vogel, two Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominations, Lorraine Hansberry Award (American College Theater Festival), Van Lier Playwriting Fellowship (New Dramatists), Wasserstein Prize nomination (Dramatists Guild), Lucille Lortel Fellowship (Brown University), and Core Writer (Playwrights' Center). American Theatre magazine selected Anderson as one of fifteen up-and-coming artists "whose work will be transforming America's stages for decades to come." Born and raised in Kansas City, KS, she obtained her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Yale School of Drama. Through the National New Play Network, Anderson is currently a playwright-in-residence with Magic Theater in San Francisco, CA. christinaranderson.com 

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TINA LANDAU (DIRECTOR)

is a writer and director and an ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where her directing credits include Hot L Baltimore, The Brother/Sister Plays, Superior Donuts, The Tempest, The Time of Your Life (also at Seattle Rep, American Conservatory Theater), The Diary of Anne Frank, The Cherry Orchard, and Chuck Mee's Berlin Circle and Time to Burn. New York credits include Tarell Alvin McCraney's Wig Out! (Vineyard Theatre) and In the Red and Brown Water (The Public Theater), Mee's Iphigenia 2.0 (Signature Theatre Company), and the Broadway productions of Superior Donuts and Bells Are Ringing (revival). Tina's other directing work includes Antony and Cleopatra (Hartford Stage), Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas (Long Wharf), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (McCarter Theatre), while her original writing work includes the upcoming musical Beauty with composer Regina Spektor and lyricist Michael Korie, Floyd Collins with Adam Guettel (Playwrights Horizons, Prince Theatre, The Old Globe, Goodman Theatre), Dream True with Ricky Ian Gordon (Vineyard Theatre), and her plays Space (The Public, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf) and Beauty (La Jolla Playhouse). Tina's a graduate of Yale College, is a USA Fellow, and is the author, with Anne Bogart, of The Viewpoints Book.

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JAMES SCHUETTE (SCENIC DESIGNER)

has worked with Tina Landau on over 25 productions, including Tarrell Alvin McCraney's The Brother/Sister Plays (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Public Theater, McCarter Theatre), Tracy Letts's Superior Donuts (Broadway), Ricky Ian Gordon's Sycamore Trees (Signature Theatre), and Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas (Long Wharf). Recent work includes Carmen (Glimmerglass Opera); La Fille du Regiment and The Death of Klinghoffer (Opera Theatre of St. Louis). His work has been seen at the Vineyard Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Playwrights Horizons, American Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Court Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep, Trinity Rep, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, New York City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Washington National Opera, Minnesota Opera, Santa Fe Opera and internationally. He is a member of Anne Bogart's SITI Company and is a graduate of Yale School of Drama. 

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TONI-LESLIE JAMES (COSTUME DESIGNER)

Broadway credits include The Scottsboro Boys; Finian's Rainbow; Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; King Hedley II; One Mo' Time; The Wild Party; Marie Christine; Footloose; The Tempest; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Angels in America: Millennium Approaches & Perestroika; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; and Jelly's Last Jam. Off-Broadway: multiple productions at Lincoln Center Theater, The Public Theater, The Vineyard Theatre, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, and 16 productions for the City Center Encores! series. Television: Whoopi for NBC, five specials for WNET/13's Great Performances series, As the World Turns, and The Huey P. Newton Story. Ms. James has been honored with a Tony nomination, three Drama Desk nominations, a Lucille Lortel nomination, the Hewes Design Award and three additional nominations, the Connecticut Critics Circle Award, The Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award, and the 2009 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design. She is Director of Costume Design at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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SCOTT ZIELINSKI (LIGHTING DESIGNER)

New York credits include Topdog/Underdog (Broadway), Atlantic Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, Lincoln Center Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Signature Theatre Company, Theatre for a New Audience, among others. Regionally he has designed at numerous theatres throughout the U.S. Internationally he has designed in Adelaide, Amsterdam, Avignon, Berlin, Bregenz, Edinburgh, Fukuoka, Gennevilliers, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Linz, London, Lyon, Melbourne, Orleans, Oslo, Ottawa, Paris, Reykjavik, Rouen, St. Gallen, Singapore, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Vilnius, and Zurich. Dance credits include American Ballet Theatre, American Dance Festival, Boston Ballet, Centre National de la Danse, Houston Ballet, Joyce Theater, Kennedy Center, National Ballet of Canada, and San Francisco Ballet. His opera work includes Arizona Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Canadian Opera Company, English National Opera, Gotham Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lithuanian National Opera, Minnesota Opera, Nederlandse Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Colorado, Pittsburgh Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Spoleto Festival USA. Upcoming productions include Miss Fortune at Royal Opera House (London), Abigail's Party at National Theatre (Oslo), Lear Dreaming at TheatreWorks Singapore, and The Seagull at Festival d'Avignon (Cour d'Honneur). scottzielinski.com

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JUNGHOON PI (SOUND DESIGNER)

made his Yale Rep debut last season with The Piano Lesson. He is a composer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist from South Korea. He has composed scores for mainstream Korean films including Wandeuki (Berlin Film Festival, 2012), Finis Operis (Cannes Film Festival, 2011), and A Better Tomorrow (Venice Film Festival, 2010). K-Pop credits include Crown J, Spacecowboy, Shinhwa, Roo'ra, and R.ef. New York and regional theatre credits include Walkabout Yeolha (The Riverside Theatre), Blood Wedding (Schapiro Theatre), and Price (New York International Fringe Festival). He received his BM and MM from Yonsei University and Dongguk University, and he is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he is the recipient of the Eldon Elder Fellowship and where his credits include Twelfth Night and Every Other Hamlet In The Universe. At Yale Cabaret: Electra: Mask Ritual, The Other Shore, Out of the Blue, Creation 2011. junghoonpi.com

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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 Belleville, 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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ALEXANDRA RIPP (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG)

is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama and a current managing editor of Theater magazine. She served as assistant dramaturg on The Piano Lesson and production dramaturg on Belleville at Yale Rep. She was literary intern at McCarter Theatre, where she was the assistant dramaturg on Take Flight and Fetch Clay, Make Man. 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 Yale Cabaret in the fall.

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JANE GUYER FUJITA (VOCAL AND DIALECT COACH)

is a Lecturer in Acting at Yale School of Drama. Her coaching credits include productions at Yale Rep (Bossa Nova, We Have Always Lived in the Castle), American Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theater, 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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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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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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MARIA CANTIN (STAGE MANAGER)

previously worked at Yale Repertory Theatre as the Assistant Stage Manager for The Piano Lesson and Three Sisters. She is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Tall Girls, A Streetcar Named Desire, Every Other Hamlet In The Universe, The Droll, The Seagull, and Buffalo, Maine. Other credits include Normal, Future Oprah Lovesong (Yale Cabaret), and Stuck Elevator (Yale Institute for Music Theatre). She is a graduate of Hillsdale College. She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.

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