By Kate Attwell
Directed by Sivan Battat
Commissioned by Yale Repertory Theatre
Agamemnon is dead, and the House of Atreus is now home to three generations of women. As Clytemnestra prepares for a vow ceremony with her new Evangelical husband Aegisthus, she has her hands full with her aging mother, two grown daughters, and an infant. Electra, still grieving the loss of her father, is suspicious of her mother’s motives and will stop at nothing to halt the proceedings. Electra America is a darkly comic, propulsive, and haunting new play that reimagines the ancient Greek tragedy as an edge-of-your-seat thriller for the 21st Century.
Development and production support for Electra America provided by Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre.
Special performances
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Wednesday Matinee
January 27, 2:00 pm
Meet the Artists
Biographies are submitted by the artists and edited for common house style by Yale Rep.
Creative Team
Kate Attwell
Playwright
Kate Attwell
Kate Attwell is a writer who works in London and New York. Commissions include Playwrights Horizons (Wold Meteor, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting), MTC / Sloan, A.C.T., EST, WRAPT Films/OpenSky, and Yale Rep. She is part of the Royal Ballet & Opera’s Jette Parker Artists program, Making the Future of Opera. Recent productions include The Assemblywomen at CSULB/Cal Rep and Cornerstone Theater Company, Testmatch at The Orange Tree, Octagon Bolton, and A.C.T. (“Riveting” –The Guardian), Big Data at A.C.T., (“a masterclass in live theater” –Forbes), Jesus in Manhattan at EST (“Ambitious and memorable” –The New York Times), and Demonstrating the Imaginary Body at The Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival and REDCAT. Big Data will make its European premiere at the Valmieras Teatris in Latvia. Kate is an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award Winner and an L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award Finalist. She has been a member of Ars Nova’s PlayGroup, Page 73’s writers’ group, a Mabou Mines Resident Artist and The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group. Her plays are published by Nick Hern.
Sivan Battat
Director
Sivan Battat
Sivan Battat she/they is originally from Woodbridge, Connecticut, in Greater New Haven and is a proud alum of New Haven’s ACES Educational Center for the Arts on Audubon Street. Now based in New York City, Sivan is a theater director and cultural organizer and is thrilled to be returning to Yale Rep. Recent credits include Wish You Were Here (Yale Repertory Theatre), Empty Ride (The Old Globe), In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons), Problems Between Sisters (Studio Theatre), Layalina (Goodman Theatre), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Studio Theatre), Backstroke Boys (Fault Line Theatre), Angels in America (NYU Grad Acting), Trouble in Mind (AD, Broadway), Coexistence My Ass (Edinburgh Fringe). Sivan has developed work with companies including Roundabout, the Park Avenue Armory, NYTW, Atlantic, Ars Nova, Berkeley Rep, New Georges, New York Stage & Film, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Long Wharf, MCC, p.73 and more. Fellowships include Roundabout Directing Fellow, Drama League Directing Fellow, TCG Rising Leaders of Color & The Workshop, centering the work of JOCISM (Jews of Color, Jewish-Indigenous, Sephardi & Mizrahi) artists and culture-makers. sivanbattat.com