The Servant of Two Masters

The Creative Team

CONSTANCE CONGDON (ADAPTOR)

Plays include Tales of the Last Formicans, which has had more than 200 productions worldwide; Casanova, Dog Opera (The Public Theater); Losing Father’s Body (Portland Stage); Lips (Primary Stages); Native American (Portland Stage, Lyric Hammersmith Studio); The Automata Pietà (Magic Theatre); and at American Conservatory Theater: A Mother starring Olympia Dukakis, a new verse version of The Misanthrope, Moontel Six (also London’s National Theatre), and Nightingales (also Theatre Royale Bath’s Youth Theatre). No Mercy and its companion piece, One Day Earlier, were part of the 2000 season devoted to Congdon at the Profile Theatre. Her latest play, Paradise Street, developed at New York Theatre Workshop, received its premiere production in Los Angeles at The Attic Theater by the Title 3 Company. She has also written a number of opera libretti and seven plays for the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis. Currently, she has two commissions: Take Me to the River (Denver Center Theatre) and a play about Robert Mapplethorpe (Primary Stages). She is the recipient of grants from the NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, W. Alton Jones Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Newsday, Arnold Weisberger, Berilla Kerr, Helen Merrill, and Great Plains Theatre Conference Awards. She is an alumnus of New Dramatists, a member of The Dramatists Guild and PEN, and has been teaching playwriting at Amherst College for fourteen years.
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CHRISTOPHER BAYES (DIRECTOR)

began his theatre career with Theatre de la Jeune Lune where he worked for five years as an actor, director, composer, designer, and artistic associate. In 1989 he joined the acting company of the Guthrie Theater for over twenty productions, including The Tempest, King Lear, Marat/Sade, The Triumph of Love, and his one-man show This Ridiculous Dreaming, based on Boll’s novel The Clown. Directing credits include Yale Rep (The Birds, 2001), Intiman Theatre, Court Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Touchstone Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival. In New York: HERE Arts Center, P.S. 122, Dixon Place, The Flea Theater, The Public Theater, The Juilliard School, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. He is part of the creative team for the Broadway and national touring productions of The 39 Steps (The Roundabout’s American Airlines, Cort, and Helen Hayes Theatres) for which he served as Movement Director and Creator of Additional Movement. He is a 1999/2000 Fox Fellow. He has served on the faculty of The Juilliard School, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, Head of Movement and Physical Theater at The Brown/Trinity Consortium and taught workshops for Cirque du Soliel, The Big Apple Circus, The Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab and Williamstown Theater Festival among others. He is currently the Head of Physical Acting and Associate Professor at Yale School of Drama.
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CHRISTOPHER CURTIS (COMPOSER / MUSICIAN)

New York composition credits include Red Noses by Peter Barnes, Four by Feydeau, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Molière One Acts, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, The Love of Three Oranges (The Juilliard School); Zibaldoni, The Reluctant Love Doctor, The Imaginary Invalid, The New Place, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! (New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program); and Timeslips (HERE Performing Arts Center). He has also co-composed and performed in Chris Bayes’s productions of The Big Day, The Fiasco Bros. Circus (Juilliard); The Birds (Yale Rep); The Molière Impromptu (Trinity Repertory Theatre). Other credits include Ballywoonde (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) as well as dance performances at Joyce SoHo and P.S. 122. Film credits include original score for To the Other Side, a documentary short by Drew Bracken; and the Cinema 16 short film series at the 92nd Street Y with Crown the Invisible. A graduate of Southern Methodist University, he plays viola and guitar in the New York City-based band Quiet Lights.
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AARON HALVA (COMPOSER / MUSICIAN)

Raised amongst polkas and hymns in Iowa, Aaron has since studied music in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Greece, and Spain. New York composition credits include Red Noses, Four by Feydeau, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Molière One Acts, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, The Love of Three Oranges, The Big Day, The Fiasco Bros. Circus, The Birds (The Juilliard School); The Imaginary Invalid, The New Place, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, The Reluctant Doctor of Love (New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program); and Timeslips (HERE Performing Arts Center). Other composition and performance credits include Ubu Rex (Yale Repertory Theatre), Ballywoonde (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and most recently, The Molière Impromptu (Trinity Repertory Company). Recent film credits include the upcoming Wall Street II as leader and arranger for Nu D’Lux, a New York-based Cuban/Latin style Son Montuno group.
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KATHERINE AKIKO DAY (SCENIC DESIGNER)

designed the costumes for Yale Rep’s production of The Master Builder earlier this season. She is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include the set for The Robbers and costumes for The Tempest. She received a BA in art history and film studies from Dartmouth College, where she designed sets for The Imaginary Invalid, The Distance from Here, A Number, The Lover, and sets and costumes for Betrayal.
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VALÉRIE THÉRÈSE BART (COSTUME DESIGNER)

designed the set for the world premiere of POP! at Yale Rep earlier this season. Valérie is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Tempest (sets) and The Robbers (costumes). Other costume design credits include Cabaret, The Wind in the Willows, James and the Giant Peach (Santa Ana College); Monster, One Flea Spare (Sight Unseen Theatre Group); Twelfth Night (Footprint on the Sun); Metamorphosis (UCLA Theatre). Film credits include The Commotion (Vanishing Pictures) and A Kiss on the Nose (USC Film). Valérie has also designed costumes for dance concerts at Santa Ana College, in which she danced herself, and has worked at South Coast Repertory Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, A Noise Within Theatre, and The Colorado Shakespeare Festival. She holds a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles. www.valeriebart.com
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CHUAN-CHI CHAN (LIGHTING DESIGNER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Bedtrick (Carlotta Festival of New Plays), The Robbers, and Peer Gynt. Other theatre design credits include Woyzeck (Tainan Jen Theater) and The One Jailed by Moonlight (Taiwan Artist Theater). She has worked as a designer, master electrician, and programmer with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Assembly Dance Theater, Tainan Jen Theater as well as other performing arts groups. She is a graduate of National Taiwan University.
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NATHAN A. ROBERTS (SOUND DESIGNER / MUSICAN)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include the La Ronde (original score), Man=Man (original score), Love’s Labour’s Lost, and The Bedtrick (Carlotta Festival of New Plays). His other theatre credits include Fly-By-Night, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Late: A Cowboy Song (original score), The Who’s Tommy, Traumland, Recess (Yale Summer Cabaret); Orestes, Flowers and Other Stories, One for the Road, Estrella Cruz [The Junkyard Queen] (Yale Cabaret); Ferdinand the Bull (Arden Theatre Company); and Faust (Blue Heron Arts Center).
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EMMY MILLER (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG)

is a first-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama. Previously she taught theatre studies and Latin at The Shipley School, where she also ran a Shakespeare performance program. Professional credits include directing Twelfth Night for the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival’s Young Professional Company and working as dramaturg for Brian Friel’s Translations at Brown University Theatre. Emmy received her BA and MA in Classics from Brown University.
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HANNAH RAE MONTGOMERY (PRODUCTION DRAMATURG)

is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where she has worked as a dramaturg on The Seagull and as a mentor with the Dwight/Edgewood Project. She is a recent graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where her dramaturgy credits included Suzan-Lori Parks’s national play-a-day festival 365 Days/Plays. A Colorado native, she has acted since age seven on professional stages in Boulder and Denver. Hannah has had several staged readings of her original plays at Denver’s Curious Theatre Company as part of the Curious New Voices program and the Playwright Showcase of the Western Region and has been a contest finalist in the Front Range New Playwrights’ Showcase.
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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

beth mcguire (vocal and dialect coach)

Vocal and dialect coach 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 (Midtown International Theatre Festival); and a workshop of In Darfur (The Public Theater). Regional: 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, Iphigenia 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 25 years of performance experience.
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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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BREE SHERRY (STAGE MANAGER)

is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The French Play, Paradise Lost, The Three Sisters, The Commedia Project, A Month in the Country, Troilus vs. Cressida, and If Found Please Return to Charles Darwin. Her professional theatre credits include Rough Crossing (Yale Repertory Theatre); Half a Sixpence (Goodspeed Opera); Cinderella, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray (North Shore Music Theatre); Chicago, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Cocoanuts (Seaside Music Theater). She received a BA in Theatrical Production and Design from Elon University.
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*member of actors’ equity association, union of professional actors and stage managers.