The Servant of Two Masters

The Creative Team

ROBERT WOODRUFF (DIRECTOR)

co-adapted and directed Yale Rep’s 2009 production of Notes from Underground, which will be seen at La Jolla Playhouse next season. He 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. Recent credits include Madame White Snake, a new opera by Zhou Long for Opera Boston, which will play in Beijing in the fall of this year; Orpheus X for Theatre for a New Audience; 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 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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MICHAËL ATTIAS (TRANSLATOR AND COMPOSER)

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. A recording artist and leader of several ensembles, he has composed and designed for dance, theatre, and film, both in the US and Europe. His collaborations with Robert Woodruff include Theatre for a New Audience’s production of Edward Bond’s Chair (The Duke on 42nd Street) and Yale Rep’s production of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, for which he designed sound, composed music, and in which he also performed.
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RICCARDO HERNANDEZ (SCENIC DESIGNER)

Broadway credits include Caroline, or Change; Elaine Stritch at Liberty (also National Tour, London); Topdog/Underdog (also London); Bells Are Ringing; Parade (Tony, Drama Desk nominations); Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk (also National Tour, Japan); and The Tempest. He designed Yale Rep’s world premiere of The Evildoers in 2008. Recent credits include Fetch Clay/Make Man (McCarter Theatre); Philip Glass’s Appomattox (directed by Robert Woodruff, San Francisco Opera), Let Me Down Easy, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith (Second Stage); Lost Highway (London’s English National Opera/Young Vic); Julius Caesar (American Repertory Theater, Festival Automne Paris); The Seagull (American Repertory Theater) and Alice Vs. Wonderland (Moscow MXAT Institute), both directed by János Szász; Ethan Cohen’s Offices and Almost an Evening (Atlantic Theater Company). He has designed over 200 productions in the US and internationally at New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, BAM, New York Theatre Workshop, MTC, Guthrie Theater, Goodman, Mark Taper Forum, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, London’s National Theatre, Old Vic, Royal Court, Centre Dramatique Orleans France, and Det Norske Teatret Oslo. Upcoming: Il Postino (Los Angeles Opera, Vienna, and Paris). He is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.
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TOM McALISTER (COSTUME DESIGNER)

has been costume shop manager for Yale Repertory Theatre/Yale School of Drama for twenty-one years, supervising over 250 productions. In the course of his nearly forty-year career, he has worked on such diverse projects as the world premieres of Paula Vogel’s Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief (Circle Repertory Theatre/Bay Street Theatre), The Great Gatsby (Metropolitan Opera Company), and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (Broadway); as well as Muppet Babies on Tour, Live from Lincoln Center: Juilliard at 80 (PBS-TV), and Wayne’s World 2; and has had the pleasure of dressing such actors as Colleen Dewhurst, Christopher Walken, Blythe Danner, Richard Thomas, and Dianne Wiest, among others. New York and regional theatre credits include productions at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boston Lyric Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. Tom is a professor in the Technical Design and Production Department at Yale School of Drama.
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ILONA SOMOGYI (COSTUME DESIGNER)

Recent New York area productions include Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons); Crooked (Women’s Project); Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall); Almost an Evening, Scarcity (Atlantic Theater Company); The Piano Teacher (Vineyard Theatre); Fever Chart, Controversy at Vallalodid, Fucking A (The Public Theater); Emma (New York Musical Theatre Festival); The American Pilot (Manhattan Theatre Club); Hot ’n’ Throbbin’ (Signature Theatre Company); Savannah Bay (MCC); as well as God of Hell, Wit, Swimming with Watermelons, Unwrap Your Candy, Tabletop, and Hard Times. She also designed Princess Wishes for Disney on Ice, currently on tour. Her many regional credits include Passion Play, As You Like It (Yale Rep); Noises Off, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage); Lil’s 90th (Long Wharf Theatre); The Torchbearer, The Autumn Garden, Sweet Bird of Youth, Top Girls, On the Razzle (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Scramble, Vigil, and Sedition (Westport Country Playhouse). She was also associate costume designer for Spamalot, The Crucible, and Art on Broadway, and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Ilona is a graduate of Yale School of Drama and is currently a member of its faculty.
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STEPHEN STRAWBRIDGE (LIGHTING DESIGNER)

has designed the lighting for productions on and off Broadway, at most leading regional theatre and opera companies across the US, and internationally in Bergen, Copenhagen, The Hague, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Munich, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, and Vienna. Recent work includes Athol Fugard’s Coming Home for Berkeley Rep and Long Wharf Theatre; School Boy Play for the Linz 09 Festival in Austria; Having Our Say (McCarter Theatre); At Home at the Zoo (American Conservatory Theater); Crime and Punishment (Berkeley Rep); The Glorious Ones, Bernarda Alba (Mitzi Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center); Prayer for My Enemy (Playwrights Horizons); Shipwrecked! (Primary Stages); and Souls of Naples (Mercadante, Naples, Italy, and Theatre for a New Audience). He has been nominated for or won the American Theatre Wing, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum, Helen Hayes, and Lucille Lortel awards. He is co-chair of the Design Department at Yale School of Drama and resident lighting designer at Yale Repertory Theatre.
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CHAD RAINES (SOUND DESIGNER)

is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Orlando (sound design and composition) and Baal (composition). He appeared as Tommy in The Who’s Tommy and played drums for Fly-By-Night: A New Musical, both at Yale Summer Cabaret. He also wrote and performed in Missed Connections, a new musical for Yale Cabaret. As associate sound designer for this year at Yale Cabaret, he sound designed Nijinsky’s Last Dance and Language of Angels. He occasionally performs with the electro-pop group, The Simple Pleasure.
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AMY BORATKO (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG)

previously served as dramaturg on the Yale Rep productions of 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 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)

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 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 served as 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. Back to top

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 Violet Hour, Golden Child, and Victor/Victoria on Broadway; and the world premiere productions of The Laramie Project, Argonautika, and Endangered Species. 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 Notes from Underground, 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 DIRECTORS)

has been casting at Yale Rep since 2004. Broadway: 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. Film: The Producers: The Musical. Members, Casting Society of America.
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JENNA WOODS (STAGE MANAGER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Man=Man, Romeo and Juliet, Baal, and Grace, or the Art of Climbing. Previous Yale Rep credits include the world premiere of POP! earlier this season and last season’s Notes from Underground. Jenna has toured with the national tours of The Music Man and Footloose (Props Supervisor) and the North American tour of Riverdance (Wardrobe Supervisor). Jenna holds a BFA in theatre design from the University of Kansas.
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