Yura Kordonsky – Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Yura received his M.F.A. degrees in acting and directing from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts, Russia, under the direction of Lev Dodin. He has taught, performed, and directed internationally since 1989. Directing credits include his original play Disappearance and House of Bernarda Alba (Maly Drama Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia); Uncle Vanya, The Marriage, Crime and Punishment, Marble, Bury Me Under the Baseboard, and Zinc Boys (Bulandra Theatre, Bucharest, Romania); The Lower Depths, The Cherry Orchard (Hungarian Theatre, Cluj, Romania); The Encounter (UNESCO ITI congress, Manila, Philippines); Fatherlessness (Orkeny Szinhaz, Budapest); Last Day of Youth (National Theatre “Radu Stanca,” Sibiu, Romania); The Seagull, Erendira (German National Theatre, Timisoara, Romania); The Heart of a Dog, Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre, Bucharest); Peer Gynt, Oedipus Rex, The Bald Soprano (Wesleyan University); A Diary of a Madman (West End Theatre, Gloucester, Massachusetts); and Canterbury Tales (Riverside Theater, New York), among others. International awards include Golden Light, Governor’s Award, and Bravo Award for Best Production (Russia), Union of European Theatres’ Award for Best Production (Italy), multiple UNITER Awards for Best Production and Best Director (Romania), and the Special Prize of the Romanian Ministry of Culture. In the U.S., he has taught at Wesleyan University, where he served as Professor and Chair of Theater Department, Columbia University, UC San Diego, George Washington University, Colgate University, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He currently serves as Associate Chair of Directing and Professor in the Practice of Directing at David Geffen School of Drama.

Arseniy Gusev is a graduate of the Yale School of Music and currently a student at The Juilliard School. Arseniy has been pursuing a double career, as a composer and concert pianist. Since his orchestral debut at the age of 15, Gusev’s compositions have been performed in such venues as Mariinsky Theater, Carnegie Hall, Konzerthaus Dortmund, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Shanghai Philharmonic; they present a colorful variety of styles and genres, some of which are solo, collaborative, orchestral and chamber music, film and theater scores, electronic compositions, lofi, techno, ballet, and opera. Several of Gusev’s works notably explore alternative and imaginative history, as well as its cultural oddities, such as Madrigals on Ancient Egyptian Poetry, Fragments from Wojciech Bobowsky’s Diary, Mandrakes from the Garden of Rudolf II, among others.

Silin Chen is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where she designed Uncle Vanya and Cactus Queen. She designs for stage and exhibitions. @de.silin | silindesign.com

KT Farmer they/them is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where their credits include Hamlet: princesa de dinamarca). Other costume design credits include Intimate Apparel, Heart of a Dog, and Twelfth Night. Assistant credits include productions at Synetic Theater, Yale Rep, the Geffen School, and VCU Raymond Hodges Theatre. KT has won multiple awards in the arts field, including the SETC Undergraduate Costume Design Award in first place (2021) and honorable mention (2022), Bobby Chandler Award for Theatre Technology (2022), and the Georgia Shorts Film Festival Best Animated Short Film in first place (2022). In addition, KT has worked as a freelance illustrator, painter, and theater craftsperson for more than a decade. KT received their B.F.A. in theater from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Now more than ever, love and protect your community. I love you Mom and Mama. ktfarmer.com, @creatikt

Masha Tsimring Off-Broadway: A Woman Among Women (Bushwick Starr), Six Characters (LCT3), Coach Coach (Clubbed Thumb), Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons), Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb), Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Playwrights Horizons/Abrons Art Center), Self Portraits (Bushwick Starr), Montag (Soho Rep). Regional: Primary Trust (La Jolla Playhouse), English (Barrington Stage), Eternal Life, Part 1 (The Wilma), The Appointment (Lightning Rod Special), Vietgone (Guthrie), Tick Tick…Boom! (Portland Center Stage). Dance/Opera: Terce (Prototype), Me. You. We. They. (LA Dance Project/Paris Philarmonie), morning/mourning (Prototype/HERE), Deepe Darknesse (Lisa Fagan/Lena Engelstein/New York Live Arts), Unstill Life (LA Dance Project), The Hunt (Miller Theater), Rodelinda (Hudson Hall/Santa Fe Opera), Der Freischütz (Wolf Trap Opera). In addition to design, Masha’s interests include working towards a more ethical model of making in the American theater. She is a proud member of USA829. mashald.com

Minjae Kim 김민재 he/him is a Korean-Canadian theater artist and a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. He discovered his passion for theater design as an undergraduate at Princeton University before coming to Yale to specialize in sound. He is excited to mark the culmination of his time here by collaborating with friends and peers on The Inspector. Recent select sound and/or composition credits include Metamorphoses, rent free, Cleansed (the Geffen School); Ghost Quartet (Princeton Summer Theater), The Match Girl (Cellunova), Mary Stuart—A New Translation (Princeton); and The Hello Girls (McCarter). He hopes to continue exploring his artistry as a designer, director, playwright, and performer. mondayminjae.com

Matthew Armentrout previously worked at Yale Rep on The Far Country, Escaped Alone, Wish You Were Here, The Brightest Thing in the World, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Today is My Birthday, and Manahatta. Broadway: Birthday Candles, Paradise Square, Flying Over Sunset, and Bernhardt/Hamlet. Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), Othello (Shakespeare in the Park). Regional: Bliss (The 5th Avenue Theatre), Jitney (National Tour), Paradise Square (Berkeley Repertory Theatre).

Cian Jaspar Freeman they/he is a third-year student pursuing their M.F.A. in technical design and production at David Geffen School of Drama, where his credits include serving as Technical Director for the 2024 Carlotta Festival, an Assistant Technical Director for Ghosts, as well as The Salvagers and falcon girls at Yale Rep. Prior to Yale, Cian worked as the Assistant Technical Director at the McGlothlin Center for the Arts, while pursuing their B.F.A. in theatrical design and production from Emory & Henry University. Cian is incredibly grateful for everyone who has had the patience to help guide him through this process.

Sophia Carey she/her is a third-year M.F.A. candidate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at David Geffen School of Drama, where she was the production dramaturg on Metamorphoses, Uncle Vanya, Running Play by Ida Cuttler, and Measure for Measure, which she co-adapted. Yale Cabaret credits include Every Brilliant Thing, Pride of Doves, Tobie, and Annunciation, which she wrote. In 2021 she was named a Beinecke Scholar. Her writing engages art that draws from epic and mythological sources to center women’s voices and explore contemporary questions about gender, childhood, and magic. She is originally from Seattle and holds a B.A. in English from the University of Washington.

Georgia Petersen is a second-year M.F.A. candidate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at David Geffen School of Drama and a managing editor at Theater magazine, Yale’s journal of theater and performance. She most recently worked as a dramaturg on Escaped Alone at Yale Rep. She holds a B.F.A. in acting with a minor in creative writing from New York University.

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 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.

Kelsey Rainwater is an intimacy coach, fight director, and actress based out of the ancestral lands of the Quinnipiac people. Kelsey’s work was recently seen in the premiere of Sally & Tom at the Guthrie. Some of her other credits include In the Southern Breeze at Rattlestick, The Public Theater’s Measure for Measure and White Noise by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Oskar Eustis; Blues for an Alabama Sky with the Keen Company; Bess Wohl’s film, Baby Ruby; falcon girls, Wish You Were Here, A Raisin in the Sun (canceled due to COVID-19), 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. She is a Lecturer in acting at David Geffen School of Drama, co-teaches stage combat and intimacy, and is a Resident Fight and Intimacy Director for Yale Rep.

Michael Rossmy is a Resident Fight and Intimacy Director for Yale Rep, a lecturer in acting at David Geffen School of Drama, and Stage Combat and Intimacy Advisor for Yale College. Broadway credits include A Tale of Two Cities, Cymbeline, and Superior Donuts. Regional theater credits include The Public Theater, Roundabout, The Atlantic, Primary Stages, Westport Country Playhouse, Goodspeed Musicals, Paper Mill Playhouse, Asolo Rep, The Old Globe, TheaterWorks Hartford, Princeton University, The Acting Company, Soho Rep, the Geffen Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Kansas City Rep, People’s Light & Theatre, and others. He was nominated for a 2017 Drama Desk Award for The Public’s production of Troilus and Cressida and is a 2024 Barrymore Award nominee for Bonez at People’s Light. Upcoming: the Broadway premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose directed by Phylicia Rashad.

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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Adam Taylor Foster is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where credits include Marys Seacole, How to Live on Earth, HELLYOUTALMBOUT, and Measure for Measure. Other select credits: Escaped Alone (Yale Rep); Three Sisters, Dindin, Buried Child, The Ballad of Bobby Botswain, Liv at Sea (Harbor Stage Company); Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice (UMass Boston). Thank you to Megan for marrying me.

Hannah Louise Jones is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where select stage management credits include Ain’t No Mo’, Cactus Queen, The Misanthrope, and Furlough’s Paradise. Other credits include The Lesson (Ars Nova); the betrayal project, Alien Girls, and The Cycle (Yale Cabaret). Hannah was a Stage Management Apprentice for New York Stage and Film’s 2024 Summer Season. She thanks her incredible family and friends for their love and support.

Caileigh Potter she/her is a second-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 Care and Keeping of You Pages 76-77, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cleansed, The Misanthrope (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!

Whitney Andrews she/her is a Haitian American actor and is making her Yale Rep debut! Off-Broadway: Sex Variants of 1941 (Skirball). Television: Manifest, Wu Tang: An American Saga, Happy!, Gotham. M.F.A., David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. @whitneyjanell

Edoardo Benzoni is a third-year M.F.A. acting candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where he has been seen in Uncle Vanya, The Care and Keeping of You Pages 76–77, How to Live on Earth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other credits include The Far Country (Yale Rep, understudy); Pride and Prejudice and Cannabis Passover (Chautauqua Theater Company). He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Brandon E. Burton is excited to return to Yale! Last summer, Brandon was back in New Haven to do King Lear at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas under the direction of Karin Coonrod. You can catch Brandon this summer in Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s production of A Raisin in the Sun. Brandon wants to thank Mom, Dad, Nichole, Stephanie, Alicia, Evan, and George. 277 for Life. Other theater credits include Death of a Salesman (Broadway), Fences (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), The Folks at Home (Baltimore Center Stage), Merry Wives (Public Theater). Yale Rep: A Raisin in the Sun (Bobo, canceled due to COVID). Film/Television: Cram (Amazon/Tubi), Evil (CBS). M.F.A., David Geffen School of Drama.

Samuel Douglas New York: Wipeout (MTC). Regional: Leopoldstadt (Huntington Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company); The Comedy of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Arlington, The Betrayal Project (Yale Cabaret); Uncle Vanya, Macbeth (David Geffen School of Drama). M.F.A., David Geffen School of Drama (Oliver Thorndike Award); B.A., Northwestern University. @samwdouglas

Malik James is excited to be making his return to the Yale Rep stage, where he was previously seen in Choir Boy. He is a recent M.F.A. graduate of David Geffen School of Drama, where he was seen in Ruzante, Measure for Measure, The Alley, among others. Malik also holds a B.F.A. in acting from Texas State University. He would like to thank everyone involved in this production and his friends and family for their unwavering support. He dedicates this performance to his late Aunt Janice. maliktjames.com

Annelise Lawson is a bi-coastal actress and director. Recent credits include Masha in Three Sisters (Two River Theater); Anna in Babes in the Wood (Signature Theatre, world premiere); The Last Act (Israeli Stage, world premiere); √3 Sisters (International Festival of Arts & Ideas); Arcadia (Yale Rep); Midsummer (Edinburgh Fringe, The Araca Project); The Oresteia, Our Lady of 121st Street, The Troublesome Reign of King John (David Geffen School of Drama); Middletown, A Map of Virtue (Yale Summer Cabaret); The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe (First Folio). Film: The Familiars DnD (Twitch and YouTube Live) and Close-Up (NY Indie Theater Film Festival Winner). Voiceover: Hiding in Plain Sight (Ken Burns). Directing: How to Live on Earth (the Geffen School); The Climate Change Project (Whitman College); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Assistant Director, Yale Rep). She holds an M.F.A. in acting from David Geffen School of Drama and certificates in acting from the Moscow Art Theatre School, the British American Drama Academy, and iO.

Chinna Palmer is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. Her credits include Measure for Measure, Our Town (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Behind the Sheet (St. Louis Black Rep); and Fairview (Woolly Mammoth Theatre). Her hope as an artist is that everything she does is rooted in Love, driven with Purpose, in search of Truth. @chinna.palmer

John Evans Reese (The School Superintendent) is so grateful to return to Yale and the Rep. Off-Broadway: A Taste of Honey (Pearl Theatre Company, directed by Austin Pendleton), Way to Heaven (Repertorio Español, The New York Times Critics’ Pick). Regional: Lord of the Flies (Barrington Stage Company), An Inspector Calls (Pioneer Theatre Company), This is Our Youth (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre), The History Boys (Palm Beach Dramaworks), Shakespeare’s R&J (Cygnet Theatre), The Way of the World (Franklin Stage). Select Yale credits: Cock (Yale Cabaret, co-directed by Yura Kordonsky and Alex Keegan); In His Hands; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Shoot Her, Shooter; shakespeare’s as u like it (the Geffen School). John voices all characters in the new cartoon Nepo Babies created by Margaret E. Douglas and Stephanie Osin Cohen. He is the recipient of the Oliver Thorndike Acting Prize and a Jerome L. Greene Fellow. He is a proud member of the Actors Center Company. Training: David Geffen School of Drama, UNCSA. @johnevansreese

Grayson Richmond is making his Yale Rep debut and is a third-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. Acting: The Care and Keeping of You Pages 76–77, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Hamlet: princesa de Dinamarca, Grand Concourse, How to Live on Earth (Geffen School); Apologiae 4 & 5, The Horrors, The Betrayal Project, Hot & Cold Showers (Yale Cabaret); A Streetcar Named Desire (Costa Mesa Playhouse). Directing: The Aughts (Yale Cabaret). B.F.A. in screen acting, Chapman University. Thanks to the production team, the School, and especially Mom, Dad, Aria, Tamilla, Grace, James, Walton, Yura, Jeremy, Karoline, and Zak.

Darius Sakui he/him is extremely thankful to be a part of this talented cast and crew! He wants to thank his teachers, his friends, his family, and especially his mother for their love and support throughout the years! He is a second-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama, where he was seen in Metamorphoses.

Nomè SiDone Regional: Richard II, The Heart of Robin, The Sea Maid Music, The Taming of the Shrew (Hudson Valley Shakespeare). University: Macbeth, Hedda Gabler, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Udo (David Geffen School of Drama). M.F.A., David Geffen School of Drama; B.F.A., UNC School of the Arts/UNCSA). A proud immigrant from Lagos, Nigeria, Nomè is an actor/writer residing in NYC.

Elizabeth Stahlmann is proud to make her Yale Rep debut. She most recently led the world premiere of Tectonic Theater Project’s Here There Are Blueberries directed by Moisés Kauffman at New York Theatre Workshop, Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., and La Jolla Playhouse. Other theater credits include Slave Play (Mark Taper Forum, understudy for Broadway), Grounded directed by Liz Diamond (Westport Country Playhouse), and productions with The Alley Theatre, The Acting Company, The Guthrie Theater, Compagnia de’ Colombari, KrymovLab NYC . Television and film credits include City on a Hill, The Equalizer, Law & Order: SVU, and The Snare (in production). B.F.A., University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater; M.F.A., David Geffen School of Drama.

Kieron J. Anthony is a first-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama, hailing from the sunny twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. A University of Miami and Atlantic Acting School graduate, Kieron is grateful to be making his Yale Rep debut! Look at God! Selected credits include One Night in Miami (Colony Theater); King Lear (A.R.T./New York Theatres); KIN (WP Theater); Field, Awakening (Signature Theatre); Inventing Anna (Netflix).

Liam Beveridge is a first-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama. Liam grew up in Seattle and received his B.A. in theater from Lewis & Clark College. Liam is grateful to be working alongside so many talented collaborators at the Rep!

Shawn Bowers Shawn Bowers is a first-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. Yale Rep debut! Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations. Off-Broadway: Jelly’s Last Jam (City Center Encores), The Harder They Come (The Public Theater). Additional credits: Ragtime, Rent, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, After Midnight. Film: Rio Uphill (musical adaptation). Television: Tony Awards and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with the original cast of Ain’t Too Proud. He would like to thank his family and friends for their continuous love and support. Shawn is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. @shawnedwardbowers

Jeremy A. Fuentes he/him is a first-year M.F.A. acting candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. He was born and raised in Miami, Florida, and is a recent graduate of the University of Florida where he received his bachelor’s degree in public health. This is the first production that he has worked on at Yale. He is grateful to the faculty for their continuous guidance and wisdom.

Yishan Hao she/her is a first-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama. Previous credits include birds and the curiosity at Hollywood Fringe. B.A., UC Davis, psychology.

Dorottya Ilosvai is from Hungary and is a first-year M.F.A. candidate at David Geffen School of Drama. She just received her B.A. from New York University, Abu Dhabi.

Ameya Narkaris is a first-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama. He was born and raised in Mumbai, India. Ameya is grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow alongside such talented artists.

Olamide Oladeji she/her is a first-year actor at David Geffen School of Drama. Her previous theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard, Chicken and Biscuits, and Bite Me.