Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928, and began writing plays 30 years later. His plays include The Zoo Story (1958), The Death of Bessie Smith (1959), The Sandbox (1959), Fam and Yam (1959), The American Dream (1960), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961–62, Tony Award), Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award), Malcolm (1966), Everything in the Garden (1969), Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung: Two Inter-Related Plays (1969), All Over (1971), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize), Listening (1975), Counting the Ways (1975), The Lady from Dubuque (1977–78), The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981), Finding the Sun (1982), Marriage Play (1986–87), Three Tall Women (1991, Pulitzer Prize), Fragments (1993), The Play About the Baby (1997), The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? (2000, 2002 Tony Award), Occupant (2001), Knock! Knock! Who’s There!? (2003), At Home at the Zoo (Act 1: Homelife, Act 2: The Zoo Story) (2004), and Me, Myself & I (2008). He was a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and President of The Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr. Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980. In 1996 he received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts. In 2005, he was awarded a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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.

Miguel Urbino he/him/his is a queer, first generation, Filipino-American, designer at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he was the scenic designer for She Kills Monsters. Other credits include more more more (Yale Cabaret, scenic and costumes), soft apples (Yale Cabaret, costumes), The Tap Dance Kid (New York City Center Encores!, associate scenic), The Van Gogh Café (Yale Cabaret , costumes), The Motherfucker With The Hat (T. Schreiber Studios, scenic), The Widow of Tom’s Hill (59E59, scenic). Miguel has also collaborated with Studio McLane, Clint Ramos Design, and others. He received a B.A. in theater arts from Marymount Manhattan College. Miguel is a proud new member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE.
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Kyle J. Artone is a fourth-year costume designer at David Geffen School of Drama and looking forward to graduating this May. He is incredibly excited and grateful to be making his Yale Rep debut designing the costumes for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Credits include Gidion’s Knot (Theatre Row Off-Broadway); the father, the son, and the holy spirit (Yale Summer Cabaret); She Kills Monsters (David Geffen School of Drama); Polkadots (Virginia Rep); Xanadu and The Sound of Music (State Theatre Center for the Arts); Little Shop of Horrors (Raymond Hodges Theater); Venus in Fur, The 39 Steps, and The Nightman Cometh (Shafer Street Playhouse). Kyle has won awards for Little Shop of Horrors, Venus in Fur, and The Nightman Cometh.

Broadway: Macbeth (associate hair designer); Chicken and Biscuits (associate wig and makeup designer); Sweat (associate makeup designer). Other design: Dames at Sea, Kinky Boots (Bucks County Playhouse); The Last Supper (SOPAC); Twelfth Night (Marcus Garvey Park) On Killing (Soho Rep); Fat Ham, Cullad Wattah, Mojada (The Public Theater); Little Girl Blue (Goodspeed, New World Stages); Meet Vera Stark, Matilda (Colorado University); On Sugarlad (New York Theatre Workshop); Nina Simone: Four Women (Berkshire Theatre Group); Once on This Island (Pioneer Theatre Company); Little Women (Dallas Theater Center); Oklahoma!, Patsy Cline (Weston Playhouse); Memphis, Dream Girls (Cape Fear Regional Theater); Cadillac Crew, Twelfth Night (Yale Rep).

Jiahao (Neil) Qiu is a fourth-year M.F.A. lighting design candidate at David Geffen School of Drama, where his credits include She Kills Monsters, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure; as well as Over Easy and Radiant Vermin at Yale Cabaret. Other credits include Mirage, Metamorphosis International Residency Shanghai, Xiang Xiang, Dreamers, and Awakening. For more information, please visit neilqiu.com | @neilqiu_design

Joe Krempetz is a sound designer and composer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent credits include Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Yale Rep); Fucking A, Julius Caesar (David Geffen School of Drama); Transpositions (Yale Schwarzman Center); and Upwelling (multiple Bay Area venues). As a sound engineer, Joe has worked with Microsoft, Stanford University, Berkeley Rep, Theaterworks Silicon Valley, IFAI, and many others. Recently, Joe designed sound for Voices of the New Belarus, an installation for the Oslo Freedom Forum. He is easily Google-able.

James Mountcastle has been at Yale Rep since 2004, where he has stage managed productions of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Girls, An Enemy of the People; Scenes from Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince; Arcadia; A Streetcar Named Desire; American Night: The Ballad of Juan José; Three Sisters; The Master Builder; Passion Play; Eurydice; and the world premiere of The Clean House. Broadway credits include Damn Yankees, Jekyll & Hyde, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Boys from Syracuse, The Smell of the Kill, Life (x) 3, and Wonderful Town, as well as A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden. National tours include City of Angels, Falsettos, and My Fair Lady. He was Production Stage Manager for Damn Yankees starring Jerry Lewis for both its national tour and at the Adelphi Theatre in London’s West End. In addition, Mr. Mountcastle has worked at the Kennedy Center, Center Stage in Baltimore, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and elsewhere. M.F.A.: David Geffen School of Drama, 1990.

Nicholas Orvis he/him is a dramaturg, critic, and director in his final year at David Geffen School of Drama. His work at Yale includes Green Suga Bloos and Almost (Nearly) Fucking Finally (Geffen School); Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Hedgehog’s Dilemma (Yale Cabaret); and the father, the son, and the holy spirit (Yale Summer Cabaret). Prior to beginning at the Geffen School, Nick was the Literary Associate for Premiere Stages at Kean University, where he helped develop new plays by writers including Deborah Brevoort, Nicole Pandolfo, Keith Josef Adkins, and Tammy Ryan. Nick is a former managing editor of Theater magazine and a co-creator and producer of the ongoing Dungeons + Drama Nerds, a podcast exploring the intersections between theater and tabletop roleplaying games.

Mia Sara Haiman is a fourth-year M.F.A. candidate in the Technical Design and Production program at David Geffen School of Drama, where her credits include Measure for Measure, She Kills Monsters, Carlotta Festival of Plays, and Yale Summer Cabaret 2021. Yale Rep credits include Girls, The Plot, Manahatta, and A Raisin in the Sun (canceled due to COVID. As a project and production manager, Mia has worked in live entertainment for Broadway, regionally, and abroad. Prior to Yale, Mia worked as Production Manager at Boston Center for the Arts, and at the Cameri Theatre of Tel-Aviv. Most recently, Mia worked on multiple Broadway and regional productions at ShowMotion, Inc.

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; 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 his work on Troilus and Cressida for The Public Theater’s production in Central Park and a 2024 Barrymore Award nominee for his work on Bonez at Peoples Light. His work can also be seen in the upcoming independent film Floating Carousel.

Tara Rubin, C.S.A. has been casting at Yale Rep since 2004. Selected Broadway/National Tours: KPOP, Mr. Saturday Night, Six, Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, A Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, School of Rock, Les Misérables, The Heiress, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Café, Jersey Boys, Here Lies Love. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Bucks County Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse. Film: Billy Crystal’s Here Today.  tararubincasting.com

Walton Wilson was trained and designated as a voice teacher by Kristin Linklater and was later trained and certified as an associate teacher by Catherine Fitzmaurice. He also studied with Richard Armstrong, Andrea Haring, Meredith Monk, Patsy Rodenburg, and members of the Roy Hart Theatre. As a voice/dialect coach, his New York credits include The Violet Hour and Golden Child on Broadway; the world premiere productions of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later; and Endangered Species. Regional credits include productions at Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theater, Berkshire Theatre Group, Double Edge Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. At Yale Rep, he has served as voice and dialect coach for 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.

Erica Fae is a theater/filmmaker, actor, and teacher. Her first feature film, To Keep the Light, was awarded the Fipresci Prize (International Critics’ Prize/Mannheim), Best Director (Berlin Independent Film Festival), Best of Show (Bendfilm), Best Emerging Director, two Best Narrative Feature Awards, and two Best Cinematography Awards, and is available on Amazon Prime. Recent works for theater as creator/co-creator/performer are Saved Again and by Him and Take What Is Yours, a New York Times Critic’s Pick. As an actor, she has appeared in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Random Acts of Flyness, and Doll & Em; and the films First Reformed, Little Children, and Synecdoche, New York. She will be seen on Netflix’s upcoming Partner Track and is currently in development on her second feature film. She is a Lecturer in Acting at David Geffen School of Drama.

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René Augesen previously appeared at Yale Rep in Good Faith, Arcadia, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Woman of No Importance, and The Beaux’ Stratagem. She was a core acting company member at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco for twelve seasons, where she appeared in more than three dozen productions. In New York, she has appeared in Spinning into Butter (Lincoln Center Theater), Macbeth (The Public Theater), It’s My Party… (ArcLight Theatre), and Overruled (Drama League). Her other regional theatre credits include productions at South Coast Repertory, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Baltimore’s Center Stage, the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and Stage West. Film and television: The Battle Studies, Law & Order, Guiding Light, Another World, and Saint Maybe (Hallmark Hall of Fame). As a 2011 Ten Chimneys Foundation Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, she was recognized for her extraordinary contributions to her community and to the overall quality of the American theater. She is a graduate of David Geffen School of Drama.

Dan Donohue Broadway: “Scar” in The Lion King. Over 30 roles at Oregon Shakespeare Festival including “Henry V”, “Iago”, “Richard III”, and “Hamlet”. Other regional theaters include the Goodman, The Geffen, Long Wharf, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep and more. Recent television credits include recurring roles on For All Mankind, Longmire, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, and Damnation. A recording of his Hamlet at Oregon Shakespeare Festival received a Grammy Nomination in 2011.

Nate Janis is an actor, singer, and writer based in New York City. Recent credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Classical Theatre of Harlem), The Heidi Chronicles (Guild Hall of East Hampton), The Fantasticks (Infinity Theatre Company), tenderly (Edinburgh Fringe), and Three Sisters (Columbia Stages). He is over the moon to be back at his alma mater performing one of his favorite plays. Training: B.A., Yale University; William Esper Studio; Columbia M.F.A. Special thanks to Felicia Sager, Avalon Artists, Tara Rubin Casting, Brian McManamon, Ron Van Lieu, James Calleri, and friends and family.

Emma Pfitzer Price is thrilled to be making her Yale Rep debut. Emma appeared in productions of Major Barbara, Black Snow, A Bright Room Called Day, As You Like It, and The CherryOrchard, among others at The Juilliard School, where she recently received her B.F.A. in drama. Other theater includes Steel Magnolias (Virginia Theatre Festival). She has most recently appeared in Showtime’s American Rust. Originally from Kentucky, Emma is a Governor’s School for the Arts Scholar of Drama. She is beyond grateful for this opportunity to bring one of her favorite plays to life.