The Cast

• MICHAËL ATTIAS (APOLLON/MUSICIAN/
  COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER)
• BILL CAMP (MAN/C0-ADAPTOR)
• MERRITT JANSON (LIZA/MUSICIAN)

MICHAËL ATTIAS (APOLLON/MUSICIAN/
COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER)

is a New York City-based saxophonist/composer. He has performed concerts in clubs and festivals throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Japan with musicians such as Paul Motian, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Oliver Lake, and many others. Pursuing multifarious action as recording artist and leader of several ensembles, he has also composed and designed for dance, theatre, and film, both in the US and Europe; most recently Theatre for a New Audience’s production of Edward Bond’s Chair, directed by Robert Woodruff, at The Duke on 42nd Street this past December.
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BILL CAMP* (MAN/C0-ADAPTOR)

previously appeared in the Yale Rep production of Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde. In New York, his credits include the Broadway productions of St. Joan, The Seagull, Jackie: An American Life, Heartbreak House, and Coram Boy; and Off-Broadway: Homebody/Kabul (OBIE Award), Lydie Breeze, The Demons, The Misanthrope, Beckett Shorts (New York Theatre Workshop); Macbeth, Measure for Measure (Theatre for a New Audience); One Flea Spare (The Public Theater); and Inferno (Jewish Rep). At American Repertory Theatre, he appeared in Henry IV, Parts I and II; Henry V; Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Long Day’s Journey into Night (Elliot Norton Award, Best Actor); Richard II; The Provok’d Wife; and Olly’s Prison. Other US theatre credits include productions at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and Hartford Stage, among others. Television and film credits include Public Enemies, The Guitar, Coach, Deception, The Dying Gaul, Brotherhood, Law and Order, Joan of Arcadia, and The Great Gatsby.
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MERRITT JANSON* (LIZA/MUSICIAN)

is making her Yale Rep debut. Most recently she was seen in New York as Sophie Barger in Baal (The Riverside Theatre). She has appeared as Desdemona in Othello (Shakespeare & Company); the title role in Eurydice (The Wilma Theater); Chevalier in Theatre de la Jeune Lune’s The Deception (La Jolla Playhouse); Junia in Britannicus (IRNE nomination), The Onion Cellar (American Repertory Theatre); Emilia in The English Channel (Vineyard Playhouse); and Tuesday (Barrymore Award for Outstanding Ensemble, Amaryllis Theatre Company). Her film credits include Mail Order Wife (Best American Film, Santa Barbara International Film Festival) and Otto and Anna. Ms. Janson received her MFA from the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
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*MEMBER OF ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, UNION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS IN THE UNITED STATES.