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The Creative Team

ROBERT WOODRUFF (Co-Adaptor/Director)

has directed over 60 productions across the US at theatres including Lincoln Center Theater, The Public Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Conservatory Theater, Guthrie Theater, and Mark Taper Forum, among others. Most recently, he directed Chair at Theatre for a New Audience and created Ifigeneia in Aulis with Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Philip Glass’s Appomattox for the San Francisco Opera. Internationally, his work has been seen at the Habimah National Theatre in Israel, Sydney Arts Festival, Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Hong Kong Festival of the Arts, Jerusalem Festival, and Spoleto Festival USA. Mr. Woodruff has taught at the University of California campuses at San Diego and Santa Barbara, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Columbia University. He is now on the faculty of Yale School of Drama. In 1972, he co-founded the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco, where he served as Artistic and Resident Director until 1978. In 1976, Mr. Woodruff established the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a summer forum for the development of new plays that is still flourishing. From 2002 to 2007, Mr. Woodruff was the Artistic Director of American Repertory Theatre. He was named a 2007 USA Biller Fellow by United States Artists, an arts advocacy foundation dedicated to the support and promotion of America’s top living artists.
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RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY (Translators)

Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture. Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian. Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated Dead Souls and The Collected Stories by Nikolai Gogol; The Complete Short Novels by Chekhov; The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, The Idiot, and The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were twice awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for their version of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and for Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina). Their translation of Dostoevsky’s Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.
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DAVID ZINN (Scenic Designer)

designed the costumes for Yale Rep’s production of Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella in 2002. His New York credits include costumes for the Broadway productions of A Tale of Two Cities and Xanadu; and Off-Broadway his recent set and costume design credits include Chair (Theatre for a New Audience); Back Back Back, The Four of Us (Manhattan Theatre Club); and The Sound and the Fury (Elevator Repair Service). His regional credits include sets and/or costumes for The Seagull, The Island of Slaves, Olly’s Prison, Orpheus X, Highway Ulysses (American Repertory Theatre); Tobacco Road (La Jolla Playhouse); and most recently, costumes for In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) at Berkeley Rep; as well as productions at the Guthrie, Alliance Theatre, Spoleto Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Rep, and CENTERSTAGE, among many others. His set and costume designs for opera have been seen at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass, New York City Opera, and others. He is the recipient of the 2008 OBIE Award for Sustained Achievement in Set and Costume Design and the 2005 TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award.
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MORIA SINE CLINTON (COSTUME DESIGNER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include I Am a Superhero and Peer Gynt. The recipient of two Kennedy Center American College Theatre Awards, the 2003 National Barbizon Costume Design Award for Scapino, and the 2004 National Mehron Award in Makeup Design for Bondagers, her other credits include Korean Elektra, The Underneath, Bone Songs, The Do-Over (Yale Cabaret); Grey Gone (Impact Theatre, NY); Arms and the Man (Theatre in the Round, MN); Commedia and dance productions at Humboldt State University, CA; productions at St. Croix Valley Summer Theatre, WI; Phipps Center for the Performing Arts, WI; and the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Moria will return to The Santa Fe Opera for her eighth summer to assist on Elixir of Love.
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MARK BARTON (Lighting Designer)

Off-Broadway credits include The Shipment, Chair, The Sound and the Fury (April 7th, 1928), Paradise Park, Church, All the Wrong Reasons, No Child…, Five Course Love, and Thom Pain (Based on Nothing). Other New York credits include many productions with companies including Elevator Repair Service, New York Theatre Workshop, Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Theatre for a New Audience, Target Margin Theater, Signature Theatre Company, Salt Theater, P.S.122, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, HERE Arts Center, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Edge Theater Company, among many others. Productions of Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz in Brussels, Amsterdam, Zurich, Minneapolis, Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Lisbon, Vienna, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, Dublin, Chicago. Regional work includes productions at Perseverance Theatre, REDCAT, Berkeley Rep, Los Angeles Theater Center/Kirk Douglas Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, American Repertory Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Southern Rep, and Hangar Theatre. Other credits include Wozzeck, Ainadamar, Albert Herring, L’Ormindo, The Magic Flute, and Postcard from Morocco with The Curtis Opera Theater in Philadelphia.
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PETER NIGRINI (Projection Designer)

Video design credits for theatre include the Broadway productions of Say Goodnight, Gracie and the upcoming 9 to 5: The Musical; the new musical Fela! conceived and directed by Bill T. Jones; Jean Genet’s Elle starring Alan Cumming (The Art Party, NYC); Biro (The Public Theater); Blind Date with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Camille, Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s La Dame Aux Camelias, directed by Kate Whoriskey; Sweet Bird of Youth (Williamstown Theatre Festival). His opera credits include the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s adaptation of Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (New York City Opera); world premiere of Frau Margot by Thomas Pasatieri and Angels in America by Peter Eötvös (Fort Worth Opera). Mr. Nigrini received his BA from Dartmouth College and his MA from Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design’s International Scenography Centre (London).
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DANIEL VATSKY (Associate Projection Designer)

Theatre projection design credits include The Psychasthenia Society (Collective Unconscious, NYC) and The Situation Room (New York International Fringe Festival). Film credits include animation for Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film and We Shall Remain: Tecumseh, both by Ric Burns; Summer Sun Winter Moon by Hugo Perez; and The Lord God Bird by George Butler. He has created onstage video content for Laurie Anderson’s Homeland and Chris Rock’s No Apologies tour and interactive exhibits for The New Museum and The Goethe Institut-New York. Mr. Vatsky holds a BFA from the State University of New York, Purchase College and an MS from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
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AMY BORATKO (Production Dramaturg)

previously served as dramaturg on the Yale Rep productions of 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 is the Literary Manager at Yale Rep. 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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RICK SORDELET (FIGHT DIRECTOR)

has staged 44 Broadway productions, including Disney’s The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Tarzan, The Little Mermaid, and Aida. He has staged the fights for the opera Cyrano de Bergerac starring Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House, and the LaScala in Milan, Italy; and for over 40 first-class productions on five continents. Film: The Game Plan starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson; Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche; and Hamlet starring Campbell Scott. He is the chief stunt coordinator for Guiding Light and staged the fights for First Jedi, a CD-ROM for George Lucas. Rick received the Lucille Lortel Award for Sustained Excellence in 2007. He teaches at Yale School of Drama, The New School for Drama, and The Neighborhood Playhouse. He is a company member of The Drama Dept., a board member of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and the author of the play Buried Treasure. He is married to actress Kathleen Kelly and has three children: Kaelan, Christian, and Collin.
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WALTON WILSON (Vocal Coach)

is head of Voice and Speech at Yale School of Drama. He was trained and designated as a voice teacher by Master Teacher Kristin Linklater and was trained and certified as an associate teacher by Master Teacher Catherine Fitzmaurice. He also studied with Richard Armstrong, Meredith Monk, and Patsy Rodenburg. His New York credits include the Broadway productions of The Violet Hour and Golden Child; and the world premiere productions of The Laramie Project, Humpty Dumpty, Argonautika, and Endangered Species. His regional theatre credits include productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. At Yale Rep, he has served as voice and dialect coach on Boleros for the Disenchanted, The Evildoers, The Cherry Orchard, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, The Black Monk, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, Betty’s Summer Vacation, The Birds, and Richard III.
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TARA RUBIN CASTING (CASTING)

has been casting at Yale Rep since 2004. Broadway: Billy Elliot, 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). Off-Broadway: Second Stage Theatre. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; La Jolla Playhouse (New York casting); Mame, Mister Roberts, The Sondheim Celebration, and Tennessee Williams Explored at The Kennedy Center. Film: The Producers: The Musical. Members, Casting Society of America.
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KRIS LONGLEY-POSTEMA* (Stage Manager)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his stage management credits include Ah, Americans!; Grace, or the Art of Climbing; Lone Pilots of Roosevelt Field; A Month in the Country; The Wendy Play; Venus; and Bibles and Candy. His other credits include The Evildoers (Yale Repertory Theatre); In the Cypher: A Poetry Slam (Yale Cabaret); as well as productions at The Playwrights’ Center, Glimmerglass Opera, and Riverside Theatre. He recently toured Hungary with DiCapo Opera’s production of The Crucible and served as Associate Production Supervisor on Happy Now? at Yale Rep.
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*MEMBER OF ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, UNION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTORS AND STAGE MANAGERS IN THE UNITED STATES.