Henrik Ibsen 1820-1908, often considered the father of modern European drama, continues to have a rich life on global stages. Yale Rep has produced Ibsen seven times in its history including, most recently, An Enemy of the People in 2017 and The Master Builder in 2009.

Paul Walsh — Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Walsh has worked as dramaturg, translator, and co-author at theater companies across the country, including nine years as dramaturg at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Six of his translations of plays by Henrik Ibsen (A Doll’s House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, and John Gabriel Borkman) have been produced at such theaters as the Yale Repertory Theatre, the American Conservatory Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Stratford Festival. With Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis, he collaborated on award-winning productions such as Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream, 1789, Don Juan Giovanni, Germinal, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Walsh received a Ph.D. from the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama at the University of Toronto.

James Bundy has served as Elizabeth Parker Ware Dean of David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre since 2002. He teaches in the Acting program at the School and in the Theater Studies program at Yale College. During his tenure, Yale Rep has produced more than thirty world, American, and regional premieres, nine of which have been honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle as Best Production of the year and two of which have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. Through WILL POWER!, an educational program initiated in 2004, Yale Rep has provided low-cost theater tickets and classroom visits to thousands of middle and high school students from Greater New Haven. The Binger Center for New Theatre, founded in 2008, has enabled the theatre to commission more than fifty artists to create new work. James has directed productions at the Mark Taper Forum, Theater for a New Audience, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater Festival, The Acting Company, California Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Juilliard School Drama Division. He served from 2007-13 on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group. Previously, he worked as Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company, Managing Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, and Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater Festival. James is a graduate of Harvard College and David Geffen School of Drama; he also trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Jessie Baldinger is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. Select previous credits include Metamorphoses (the Geffen School), Iolanta (Yale Opera), Pride of Doves (Yale Cabaret), As You Like It (Nashville Shakespeare Festival), Homofermenters (Ars Nova ANT Fest), and assistant set designer on JOB and I Need That (Broadway). Baldinger grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida, and is a graduate of Northwestern University.

Lyle Laize Qin 秦犮碩 he/him is a theater designer from China, whose work explores the intersection of history and contemporary storytelling, blending classical silhouettes with modern textures and cultural references. With experience across theater, television, fashion, and media he brings a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary approach to design. He holds a B.F.A. in environmental design (fashion and interior design) from the Sino-UK program between Donghua University and the University of Edinburgh and is currently a third- year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. His credits include Metamorphoses, Macbeth (the Geffen School); BAKAS (Yale Cabaret); and The Mailroom (New Haven Off-Broadway Theater), with assistant and collaborative credits on Fucking A (the Geffen School), Escaped Alone (Yale Rep), and Summer Refuge (television, assistant Art Director). Recipient of the 2024 Jay and Rhonda Keene Scholarship for Costume Design.

Larry Ortiz is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, originally from El Paso, Texas. Select lighting design credits include La muerte y la doncella, La pasion segun antigona perez (El Repetorio Espanol, Off-Broadway); Sort, Kilele, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (the Geffen School); Lepke in the Night, H.E.A.T.T. (Connecticut College); Can the Peruvian Speak?, Witch (Yale Cabaret); Let it Be-A Beatles Musical, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Okoboji Summer Theatre). Larry Ortiz graduated from The University of Texas at El Paso with a B.F.A. in theater.

Emilee Biles is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and engineer in her third year at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include Sort, Ain’t No Mo’, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, and several productions at Yale Cabaret. Select credits include Cost of Living (Broadway, Assistant Sound Designer), The Salvagers (Yale Repertory Theatre, Assistant Sound Designer), Into the Woods (Dallas Theater Center, Associate Sound Designer), The Manic Monologues (WaterTower Theatre), The Play that Goes Wrong (Stage West), and The Elephant Man (Theatre 3). Studio: letters to nowhere EP by e.vangeline (Recording Artist and Producer).

Matthew Armentrout — Broadway: Redwood, A Wonderful World, The Mother Play, Paradise Square (Drama Desk nominee), Birthday Candles, Flying Over Sunset, The Sound Inside, Bernhardt/Hamlet. Off-Broadway: The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (The New Group); The Gardens of Anuncia (Lincoln Center Theater); Dear World (NYCC Encores!); Suffs, The Visitor (The Public); Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout); Othello (NY Stage and Film). National Tour: Jitney. Regional: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (Signature Theatre); The Inspector, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Yale Rep); 3 Summers of Lincoln (La Jolla Playhouse); Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil (The Goodman Theatre); Gatsby (A.R.T.); A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group); Ava: The Secret Conversations (Geffen Playhouse); Bliss! (The 5th Avenue). Television: The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Emmy Nominee).

Tim Hartel is a second-year M.F.A. candidate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at David Geffen School of Drama and a managing editor for Theater magazine. Before coming to Yale, Hartel worked for several years in the performing arts and film department of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, where he was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship. As a theater artist, researcher, and curator, Hartel’s work is particularly interested in questions around modernity, experimentation, and memory. He holds a B.A. in theater from Hamilton College.

Steph Lo 盧胤沂 from Hong Kong and based in Taipei, is a technical director and lighting designer whose work merges technical innovation with poetic light. They are completing an M.F.A. in technical design and production at David Geffen School of Drama, after earning an M.F.A. in lighting design from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2020. Their technical direction work includes We TAIWAN—Telling Tent (Expo 2025, Osaka), Taipei Lantern Festival’s Main Lantern “TAIPEI 40” spaceship, and “Cyborg Eros” by Anarchy Dance Theater. In 2022, Steph Lo and collaborator Cathy Ho won First Place in Technical Invention Prize (TIP), and their designs Resonance and The Bacchae were finalists for Emerging Lighting Design at World Stage Design.

Kelsey Rainwater is an intimacy and fight director, and actress based out of the ancestral lands of the Quinnipiac people. Rainwater’s recent work was seen in The Last Five Years on Broadway and Saturday Church at NYTW. Some of her other credits include Liberation at Roundabout, and Hell’s Kitchen on Broadway; Walden at Second Stage; Hot Wing King at Hartford Stage; In the Southern Breeze, Measure for Measure, Jordans, Manahatta, and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Sally and Tom and White Noise at The Public Theater; Blues for an Alabama Sky with the Keen Company; Notes on Killing…, The Inspector, Wish You Were Here, Between Two Knees, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, and the ripple, the wave that carried me home at Yale Rep. Film and television: Baby Ruby, The Green Veil. She is a Lecturer in acting at David Geffen School of Drama, where she co-teaches stage combat and intimacy, and is a Resident Fight and Intimacy Director for Yale Rep.

Walton Wilson he/him is a member of the Acting faculty at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He was trained and designated as a voice teacher by Kristin Linklater and was later trained and certified as an associate teacher by Catherine Fitzmaurice. His ongoing studies include working with voice teachers such as Richard Armstrong, Andrea Haring, Meredith Monk, Natsuko Ohama, Patsy Rodenburg, and members of the Roy Hart Theatre. As a voice and dialect coach, his New York credits include The Violet Hour and Golden Child on Broadway as well as the world premiere productions of The Laramie Project, The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later; and Endangered Species. Regional credits include serving as a voice and dialect coach on productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theater, Berkshire Theatre Group, Dorset Theatre Festival, Double Edge Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Swine Palace Theatre, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. At Yale Rep, he has served as voice and dialect coach for Nikolai Gogol’s The Inspector, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, peerless, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, In a Year with 13 Moons, A Doctor in Spite of Himself, Autumn Sonata, Battle of Black and Dogs, Notes from Underground, Boleros for the Disenchanted, The Evildoers, The Unmentionables, The Cherry Orchard, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, The Black Monk, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, Betty’s Summer Vacation, The Birds, and Richard III.

Calleri Jensen Davis is a creative casting partnership among James Calleri, Erica Jensen, and Paul Davis of over 20 years. They began their collaboration with Yale Rep in 2023 with Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles and the ripple, the wave that carried me home. Broadway credits: The Piano Lesson, Topdog/Underdog, for colored girls…, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Burn This, Fool for Love, The Elephant Man, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Of Mice and Men, Venus in Fur, A Raisin in the Sun, 33 Variations. Television: Love Life, Queens, Dickinson, and The Path, to name a few.

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Narda E. Alcorn she/her is Chair of the Stage Management program and Professor in the Practice at David Geffen School of Drama. For Yale Repertory Theatre, Narda has managed August Wilson’s Radio Golf and Antigone in New York. Broadway credits include Othello, Mary Jane, Choir Boy, The Iceman Cometh, four August Wilson premieres, two August Wilson revivals, two revivals of A Raisin in the Sun, and a decade with The Lion King. Narda has worked as a cultural facilitator for several shows, including the Broadway productions of Fat Ham and SUFFS. SHe is co-author of Stage Management Theory as a Guide to Practice: Cultivating a Creative Approach.

Caileigh Potter she/her is a third-year M.F. A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. She holds a B.A. in theater and a minor in biology from Florida State University. Select stage management credits include The Inspector (Yale Rep); the Carlotta Festival, The Care and Keeping of You Pages 76-77, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cleansed, The Misanthrope (the Geffen School); Measure for Measure, Suor Angelica/ Gianni Schicchi, New Dances 2022 (The Juilliard School); Marisol, Hairspray, Pinkalicious the Musical (Florida State University). Caileigh is also a 2023 graduate of The Juilliard School Stage Management Apprenticeship Program. She would like to thank her family and friends for their endless love and support!

Payton Gunner she/her  is from Atlanta, Georgia and is a second-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include The Care and Keeping of You Pages 76-77, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, and Silence/The Village. Other credits include The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey); The Pickleball Wars (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Odyssey Opera).  B.A., Brandeis University. Payton sends her love and gratitude to her family and friends.

Austin Durant is happy to return to Yale Rep, where he previously appeared in Assassins, American Night: The Battle of Juan José, Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, and Passion Play. His other credits include Moulin Rouge! The Musical, You Can’t Take It With You (Broadway); War (LCT3); War Horse, Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theater); Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public Theater); Anna Christie, The Comedy of Errors (The Old Globe); A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Intiman Theater); Nathan the Wise (Classic Stage Company); Galas (Little Island); Mysterious Circumstances (Geffen Playhouse); The Illusion, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Oklahoma! (Berkshire Theatre Group). He has also appeared on the television programs Succession, Nurse Jackie, Person of Interest, and Elementary. He received his B.A. from Temple University and his MFA from David Geffen School of Drama. Austin was a 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellow.

Marianna Gailus recently performed the one-person play VANYA (adapted from Chekhov by Simon Stephens) as standby for Andrew Scott. Broadway: Patriots (Katya/Compromised Journalist). Off Broadway: cityscrape (Good Apples Collective). Regional: Lizzy Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (Cleveland Playhouse). Juilliard: Indecent (Halina) Three Sisters (Masha), All’s Well That Ends Well (Parolles). Television: Law & Order. Recipient of the Laura Pels Prize in Acting for outstanding achievement. B.A., history, Yale College; M.F.A., Juilliard Group 51. She also studied maritime and global history at Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK. Profound thanks to James Bundy, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Henrik Ibsen.

Felicity Jones Latta — Broadway: Metamorphoses. Broadway Tour: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Off Broadway: The Captain’s Tiger with Athol Fugard (MTC), Measure for Measure (NY Shakespeare Festival), As You Like It (The Acting Company). Regional: ACT, Berkeley Rep, Centerstage, Geva, Goodman, Hartford Stage, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter, Seattle Repertory, The Old Globe, Westport Country Playhouse, Yale Rep. Artistic Associate with Theatre de la Jeune Lune: 1985–95. Associate Director at Lattawork Productions: ME PLURIBUS UNUM. Film and Television: Signs, Julie & Julia, The Blacklist, The Carrie Diaries, Wonderland, Deadline, Ed, and Law & Order. She is a 2014 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.

Stephanie Machado is a Brazilian-American actor and singer based in NYC. Recent credits: Laughs In Spanish (Hartford Stage), Gods Untitled (Playwrights Horizons, New Works Lab), Two Sisters and a Piano (Miami New Drama), Bartolomé de las Casas Ruins My Pool (The Public, New Work Series), Laughs In Spanish (Denver Center), Sabina (Portland Stage), The Gradient (Repertory Theater of St. Louis), Measure for Measure (Actors Theater/Fiasco Theater), An Enemy of the People, Indecent, and Assassins (Yale Repertory Theatre). Educational: Passion, Amy and the Orphans, The Winter’s Tale, Blood Wedding, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Yale School of Drama). TV: Evil (CBS). MFA Yale Drama, BFA SMU.

Max Gordon Moore is thrilled to be returning to the Yale Rep after appearing in Indecent, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Arcadia. His appearances on Broadway include Elton John’s Tammy Faye, The Nap, Saint Joan (MTC); Indecent, and Relatively Speaking. Off-Broadway appearances include The Trees (Playwrights Horizons); The Golden Shield, Man From Nebraska (Second Stage); Love Love Love (Studio Theatre); Describe the Night (Atlantic Theater); Coriolanus (The Public Theater); The Master Builder (BAM); Mothers (the Playwrights Realm); Man and Superman, and It’s a Wonderful Life (Irish Rep). Television and film appearances include New Amsterdam, East New York, Here Today, Succession, NCIS: New Orleans, Instinct, Madam Secretary, and The Good Wife. Moore is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and David Geffen School of Drama. 

Mary Lou Rosato – Broadway: Once Upon a Mattress, The Suicide, The School for Scandal, The Inspector General. Off-Broadway: Henry V, The Skin of Our Teeth (Theatre for a New Audience); The Government Inspector (Red Bull); The Misanthrope, The Winter’s Tale (Classic Stage Company); King Philip’s Head Is Still on That Pike Just Down the Road (Clubbed Thumb). The Acting Company (seven seasons): The School for Scandal (Drama Desk Award), The Robber Bridegroom (Drama Desk nomination), The Cradle Will Rock (Off-Broadway/Old Vic, London). Regional: American Repertory Theater, Guthrie Theater, Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Theatre, South Coast Rep, McCarter, Yale Rep, St. Nicholas, Chicago (Jeff Awards: The Primary English Class, The Curse of an Aching Heart). Television/film: Warehouse 13, Law & Order: SVU, Titus, Caroline in the City, Two Bits, Quiz Show, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Wedding Banquet, Illuminata, Spike of Bensonhurst. Mary Lou is a Lecturer in acting at David Geffen School of Drama, CalArts (Co-Head, B.F.A. acting program), Tisch at NYU, Stella Adler, BADA in Oxford; Directing credits include As You Like It (Juilliard), Henry V (TAC), The Beaux’ Stratagem (Pearl Theater), Richard II (Creative Pulse, LA). Member AEA, SAG-AFTRA, SDC. Founding Member of The Acting Company. Education: Juilliard Drama (Group 1). Mary Lou is a Beinecke Fellow at Yale University this spring.

James Udom is thrilled to be returning home to the Yale Rep stage in Hedda Gabler. Off Broadway: Henry IV (Theatre for a New Audience), The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Center Theater), The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (The Playwrights Realm), Mies Julie (Classic Stage Company), Macbeth (The Public Theater), The Winter’s Tale (Pearl Theatre Company), Tamburlaine (Theatre for a New Audience). Regional: Primary Trust (La Jolla Playhouse); The Taming of The Shrew (The Old Globe); Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 (Yale Rep and American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Actor); Julius Caesar (Shakespeare and Company); Romeo and Juliet (Elm Shakespeare Company); Of Mice and Men, King Lear (Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall); Twelfth Night, The Odyssey (WE Players); among many others. Film and television: Chief of War, Echo 3 (Apple TV+); The Accused (Fox/Hulu); The Tragedy of Macbeth (A24); Murder City (Village Roadshow Pictures); Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.); Crown Heights (Amazon Studios); Chicago PD, Law and Order: SVU (NBC); Evil (CBS). M.F.A.; David Geffen School of Drama (Herschel Williams Prize). James is the recipient of the 2017 Princess Grace Award for Acting (Grace Levine Theatre award).

Jack Kelley is a second-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama and is thrilled to be part of this production. He received his B.F.A. in acting from Texas State University in 2024.

Rebecca Rivera is a second-year M.F.A. acting candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include Three Sisters and Silence/The Village. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She would like to thank her parents and sisters for their fierce and endless love and support.

Erik Manuel Robles is a proud Afro-Latino storyteller, born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, and a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. Recent credits: A Doll’s House, The Care & Keeping of You Pages 76-77, rent free (Geffen School); Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare); Sweat, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ironbound (Gamm Theatre); Burning Patience (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse). “Bienaventurado el que sabe que compartir un dolor es dividirlo y compartir una alegría es multiplicarla. Bienaventurado este lugar y este momento, amigo mío, porque la vida es aquí y ahora y contigo” —Facundo Cabral

Emma Steiner is a third-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama, where she has been seen in Three Sisters, Charity, Kilele, The Day the Butcher Shop Closed, A Doll’s House, and Pearl’s Beauty Salon. In 2021, she graduated with a B.F.A. in acting from the University of Michigan. Big, big love to her family and friends.

Mark Yarde is a second-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama, where he was recently seen in Three Sisters. You may recognize him from his work at Yale Cabaret, Is this Mom? and it’s not you, it’s the end of the world. He is excited to be part of this cast and team.

Grace Wissink is a second-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include Silence/The Village. Grace received her B.A. in Dramatic Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.