ASSASSINS BOOK BY JOHN WEIDMAN MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM DIRECTED BY JAMES BUNDY

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1 February 10, 2017 For Immediate Release Contact: Steven Padla / / steven.padla@yale.edu YALE REPERTORY THEATRE PRESENTS ASSASSINS BOOK BY JOHN WEIDMAN MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM DIRECTED BY JAMES BUNDY MARCH 17 APRIL 8 YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) continues its 50 th Anniversary Season with a new production of ASSASSINS, book by John Weidman, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, directed by James Bundy, March 17 April 8, at the University Theatre (222 York Street). Opening Night is March 23. The creative team is comprised of Andrea Grody (Music Director), Daniel Schlosberg (Associate Music Director), David Dorfman (Musical Staging), Riccardo Hernandez (Scenic Designer), Ilona Somogyi (Costume Designer), Yi Zhao (Lighting Designer), Nathan A. Roberts and Charles Coes (Sound Designers), Michael Commendatore (Projection Designer), Matthew Conway and Lynda A. H. Paul (Production Dramaturgs), Steph Waaser (Technical Director), Ron Carlos (Dialect Coach), Rick Sordelet (Fight Director), Paula R. Clarkson (Stage Manager), and Shelby North (Assistant Stage Manager). The cast of ASSASSINS is Stanley Bahorek, Stephen DeRosa, Lucas Dixon, Austin Durant, Dylan Frederick, P.J. Griffith, Richard R. Henry, Fred Inkley, Courtney Jamison, Jay Aubrey Jones, Robert Lenzi, Lauren Molina, Julia Murney, Brian Ray Norris, Sana Prince Sarr, and Liz Wisan. ABOUT ASSASSINS United in states of disillusionment and alienation, nine men and women emerge from the shadows of the 19 th and 20 th centuries to take what they believe is their best and only shot at the American Dream. Fueled by our national populism in politics and in

2 song, this Tony Award-winning musical masterpiece is a bone-chilling thrill ride through U.S. history. Assassins is the second of Yale Rep s two WILL POWER! productions this season. The run includes 10:15AM performances on April 4 and 6, available only to high school groups. For information on WILL POWER! performances, please contact Roger-Paul Snell at yalerep@yale.edu. Assassins is supported in part by a generous gift from The Ted & Mary Jo Shen Charitable Gift Fund. TICKET INFORMATION AND PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Tickets for Assassins range from $12 99 and are available online at yalerep.org, by phone at (203) , and in person at the Yale Rep Box Office (1120 Chapel Street). Student, senior, and group rates are also available. Friday, March 17 Preview, Post-Show Conversation Saturday, March 18 Preview, Post-Show Conversation Monday, March 20 Preview, All Tickets $12 20 Tuesday, March 21 Preview, All Tickets $12 20 Wednesday, March 22 Preview, All Tickets $12 20 Thursday, March 23 Opening Friday, March 24 Saturday, March 25 2PM Talk Back Saturday, March 25 Tuesday, March 28 Wednesday, March 29 2PM Senior Reception Wednesday, March 29 Thursday, March 30 Friday, March 31 Saturday, April 1 2PM Audio Described, Talk Back Saturday, April 1 Tuesday, April 4 Wednesday, April 5 Thursday, April 6 Friday, April 7 Saturday, April 8 2PM Open Captioned Saturday, April 8 ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM JOHN WEIDMAN (Book Writer) has written the books for a wide variety of musicals, among them Pacific Overtures (Tony nomination, Best Book), Assassins (Tony Award, Best Musical Revival), and Road Show (Lucille Lortel nomination, Best Musical), all with scores by Stephen Sondheim; Contact (Tony nomination, Best Book; Tony Award, Best Musical), co-created with director/choreographer Susan Stroman; Happiness, score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman; Take Flight and Big (Tony nomination, Best Book), scores by Richard Maltby Jr. and David

3 Shire; and the new book, co-authored with Timothy Crouse, for the Lincoln Center Theater and Roundabout Theatre revivals of Cole Porter's Anything Goes (Tony Award, Best Musical Revival; Olivier Award, Best Musical Production). Since his children were preschoolers, Weidman has written for Sesame Street, receiving more than a dozen Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Children's Program. From 1999 to 2009 he served as President of the Dramatists Guild of America. STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Composer and Lyricist) wrote the music and lyrics for Saturday Night (1954), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), The Frogs (1974), Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweeney Todd (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Into the Woods (1987), Assassins (1991), Passion (1994), and Road Show (2008), as well as lyrics for West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959) and Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), and additional lyrics for Candide (1973). Anthologies of his work include Side by Side by Sondheim (1976), Marry Me a Little (1981), You're Gonna Love Tomorrow (1983), Putting It Together (1993/99), and Sondheim on Sondheim (2010). He composed the scores of the films Stavisky (1974) and Reds (1981) and songs for Dick Tracy (1990) and the television production Evening Primrose (1966). His collected lyrics with attendant essays have been published in two volumes: Finishing the Hat (2010) and Look, I Made A Hat (2011). In 2010 the Broadway theatre formerly known as Henry Miller's Theatre was renamed in his honor. JAMES BUNDY (Director) is in his 15th year as Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. In his first 14 seasons, Yale Rep has produced more than 30 world, American, and regional premieres, nine of which have been honored by the Connecticut Critics Circle with the award for Best Production of the year and two of which have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. During this time, Yale Rep also has commissioned more than 50 artists to write new work and provided low-cost theatre tickets to thousands of middle and high school students from Greater New Haven through WILL POWER!, an educational program initiated in In addition to his work at Yale Rep, he has directed productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater Festival, The Acting Company, California Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Juilliard School Drama Division. A recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle s Tom Killen Award for extraordinary contributions to Connecticut professional theatre in 2007, Mr. Bundy served from on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for nonprofit theatre. 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. He is a graduate of Harvard College; he trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Yale School of Drama. ANDREA GRODY (Music Director) is making her Yale Rep debut. Recent projects include the world premieres of The Band's Visit (Atlantic Theater Company), Cake Off (Signature Theatre/Bucks County Playhouse), The Fortress of Solitude (The Public Theater/Dallas Theater Center), Unknown Soldier (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and Love s Labour s Lost (Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park); and the New York premieres of The Great Immensity and Venice (The Public). Other favorites include Robin Hood as Composer/Music Director (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and the upcoming Public Works adaptation of As You Like It. Writing credits include the full-

4 length musical Strange Faces and several songs for The Civilians Let Me Ascertain You series. Andrea is an Associate Voice Teacher at New York Vocal Coaching. BA, Princeton University; MA, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. DANIEL SCHLOSBERG (Associate Music Director), a composer and pianist, previously served as music director for Yale Rep s production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle. He is a recipient of the 2014 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and 2014 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. His compositions have been performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Detroit Institute of Arts, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Beijing Modern Music Festival, and Royal Albert Hall. He is currently working on commissions for the Dover Quartet, Albany Symphony, and Chamber Music Northwest. He is a cofounder of the composer-performer ensemble Invisible Anatomy and co-music Director of Heartbeat Opera. Education: BA, Yale College; MM and MMA, Yale School of Music. DAVID DORFMAN (Musical Staging) is pleased to return to Yale Rep, where he served as choreographer on last season s Indecent (opening on Broadway this spring). He is the Artistic Director of David Dorfman Dance, celebrating its 30 th anniversary in 2017 with a new dance, Aroundtown, and is also Professor of Dance at Connecticut College since He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, four NEA fellowships, a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award, and a Best Choreography Barrymore Award in Philadelphia for Green Violin, directed by Rebecca Taichman. In DDD traveled to Central Asia via the State Department, DanceMotion USA, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, where DDD has appeared in three Next Wave Festivals. David also tours the serio-comic, Live Sax Acts, with long-time collaborator, Dan Froot. daviddorfmandance.org RICCARDO HERNANDEZ (Scenic Designer) Yale Rep: Indecent, Marie Antoinette, Autumn Sonata, Battle of Black and Dogs, The Evildoers, The America Play. Broadway: The Gin Game; The Gershwins Porgy and Bess; The People in the Picture; Caroline, or Change (National Theatre); Elaine Stritch at Liberty (Old Vic); Topdog/Underdog (Royal Court); Bells Are Ringing; Parade (Tony, Drama Desk nominations); Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk; The Tempest. He has designed over 250 U.S. and international theatre and opera productions, most recently including Red Speedo (Drama Desk nomination), The Invisible Hand (Henry Hewes Design Award) at New York Theatre Workshop; Splendid s (Théâtre national de la Colline); The Father, A Doll s House (Theatre for a New Audience); Don Giovanni (Santa Fe Opera); Grounded (The Public Theater); La Mouette (Cour d honneur, Palais des papes: Festival d Avignon); Abigail s Party (Oslo National Theatre); The Dead (Abbey Theatre). He serves on the faculty of Yale School of Drama. ILONA SOMOGYI (Costume Designer) Recent New York area productions include Gloria (Vineyard Theatre and Goodman Theatre); Nice Fish (St. Ann s Warehouse, ART and London s West End); Body of an American, Satchmo at the Waldorf, My Name Is Asher Lev (Westside Theatre, also Long Wharf); A Soldier s Tale (Zankel Hall); Clybourne Park (Broadway and Playwrights Horizons); Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall); Almost an Evening, Scarcity (Atlantic Theater Company); and the original production of Wit. Her many regional credits include Three Sisters, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Passion Play (Yale Rep); Cloud 9, Romeo and Juliet, The

5 Crucible, Gem of the Ocean, Tom Sawyer, Noises Off, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hartford Stage); Disgraced (Long Wharf Theatre); The Torchbearers, The Autumn Garden, Sweet Bird of Youth, Top Girls, On the Razzle (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Tartuffe and Suddenly Last Summer (Westport Country Playhouse). Ilona is a proud graduate of Yale School of Drama and is a member of its faculty. YI ZHAO (Lighting Designer) Previous Yale Rep credits include War, In a Year with 13 Moons (co-designed with Jennifer Tipton), and A Doctor in Spite of Himself, which was also seen at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Other credits include The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., FUTURITY (Soho Rep.); Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop); Henry IV Part 1, The Winter s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); and productions with The Guthrie Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, The Wilma Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Hoi Polloi, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, and New Georges. His designs for opera, music, and dance have been seen at ArtsEmerson, Curtis Institute of Music, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and Nichole Canuso Dance Company. He is a graduate of Yale School of Drama and is a recipient of the 2016 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Theatre. yi-zhao.com NATHAN A. ROBERTS (Sound Designer) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, instrument-maker, and sound designer who specializes in creating original music and soundscapes for plays, often live onstage. Original music and design credits include: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Baltimore Center Stage); Sense and Sensibility (Guthrie Theater, Dallas Theater Center); Tokyo Fish Story (The Old Globe); In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Syracuse Stage); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre); The Widow Lincoln, Our Town (Ford s Theatre); Twelfth Night, The Tempest (Hartford Stage); The Servant of Two Masters (Theatre for a New Audience, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre); Julius Caesar, Macbeth (The Acting Company); and It s a Wonderful Life (Long Wharf Theatre). Nathan earned his MFA from Yale School of Drama, and teaches in the Theater Studies Program of Yale College. CHARLES COES (Sound Designer) Previous credits include Passion Play and Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Yale Rep), as well as productions at Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, The Old Globe, Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, ArtsEmerson, Wilma Theater, Two River Theater, North Shore Music Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, HERE Arts Center, Ford's Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre Company, and South Coast Rep. Tours: Peter and the Starcatcher (Phoenix); Into the Woods (Fiasco/NETWorks); Julius Caesar and Macbeth (The Acting Company). He has designed several shows for Royal Caribbean, Queen of the Night, Puppet UP! (Las Vegas), and has collaborated on installations with artists Anne Hamilton, Abelardo Morell, and Luis Roldán. He has worked as associate on 19 Broadway shows, including Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; Jitney; and The Glass Menagerie. He is a graduate of and now teaches at Yale School of Drama. MICHAEL COMMENDATORE (Projection Designer) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include New Domestic Architecture, Some Bodies Travel, Amy and the Orphans, The Oresteia, and The Winter s Tale. Other

6 design credits include Collisions, I m with you in Rockland (Yale Cabaret); Macbeth (Gamm Theatre); and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Wilbury Group). Assistant design credits include The Stone Witch (Berkshire Theatre Group) and War (Yale Rep). He has designed installations Hearing Rothko (Yale Art Gallery) and A Journey Through Time and Space (Beinecke Library). Michael has a BA in film media and a BFA in theatre with a concentration in directing. MATTHEW CONWAY (Production Dramaturg) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include and sometimes why. Additional credits include production dramaturgy and assistant directing with Obie Award-winner David Levine, Boston Children s Theatre, and the Williams College Summer Theatre Lab. He has served as Artistic Director of Cap & Bells Theatre Company as well as a teacher of acting and dramatic literature at Phillips Academy, Andover. Matthew holds a BA in history and theatre from Williams College, graduating in He is a grateful recipient of the George Pierce Baker Memorial Scholarship from Yale School of Drama. Matthew s current academic interests include the relationship between political performance and national identity, especially in totalitarian regimes. LYNDA A. H. PAUL (Production Dramaturg) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include The Three Sisters and Some Bodies Travel. She served as production dramaturg for Cymbeline and assistant director for The Moors, both at Yale Repertory Theatre. A multi-disciplinary theatre practitioner, Lynda has been seen as an actor, vocalist, bassoonist, and saxophonist at Yale Cabaret. Directing credits include Leoš Janáček s Cunning Little Vixen (Opera Theatre of Yale College); Christopher Chen s Caught and Leonard Bernstein s Trouble in Tahiti (Yale Cabaret). Lynda trained at British American Drama Academy and holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, University of Chicago, and Yale University, where she received distinction on her PhD in music and afterwards held the position of Postdoctoral Associate in the Integrated Humanities at Yale. TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting Director) has been casting at Yale Rep since Selected Broadway: Falsettos; A Bronx Tale; Dear Evan Hansen; Cats; Disaster!; School of Rock; Doctor Zhivago; It Shoulda Been You; Gigi; Bullets Over Broadway; Aladdin; Les Misérables; Mothers and Sons; Big Fish; The Heiress; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; A Little Night Music; Billy Elliot; Shrek; Guys and Dolls; Young Frankenstein; The Little Mermaid; Mary Poppins; Spamalot; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Jersey Boys; The Phantom of the Opera. Off-Broadway: Here Lies Love; Old Jews Telling Jokes; Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Bucks County Playhouse. STEPH WAASER (Technical Director) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama making her Yale Rep debut. She served as a technical director for Williamstown Theatre Festival s Nikos Stage 2016 season. She has also worked as Shop Foreman at PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as well as with Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Baltimore Center Stage, and central North Carolina s live event production company, Creative Visions. Steph earned her bachelor s degree at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

7 RON CARLOS (Dialect Coach) teaches Speech and Dialects at Yale School of Drama and has taught at Harvard University, City College of New York, Marymount Manhattan College, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and The National Student Leadership Conference. Coaching credits include The Glass Menagerie and It s Only a Play on Broadway; Party People, Sweat, Plenty, Privacy (The Public Theater); Seven Guitars, War (Yale Rep); The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage); Misalliance, Love s Labour s Lost (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); The Lily s Revenge, The Snow Queen (American Repertory Theater); Master Harold and the Boys (Gloucester Stage Company); television: Orange Is the New Black, Madam Secretary, Power, Unforgettable, and Fringe; and film: Look Away. He received his MFA in voice and speech pedagogy from the ART Institute at Harvard University and is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. RICK SORDELET (Fight Director) and his son, Christian Kelly-Sordelet, are the creators of Sordelet Inc., a stage combat company. Among their credits are 72 Broadway productions, including The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, and more than 60 firstclass productions on five continents in hundreds of cities around the world. Rick and Christian have been fight directors for dozens of regional theatres around the U.S. Their shows range from Sam Shepard to William Shakespeare. They have four National Tours running across America and Beauty and the Beast internationally. Both Rick and Christian are stunt coordinators for television and film with over 1000 episodes of daytime television and numerous feature films. Rick teaches stage combat for Yale School of Drama and with Christian at HB Studio in NYC. sordeletink.com PAULA R. CLARKSON (Stage Manager) is excited to return to Yale Repertory Theatre, where she previously served as assistant stage manager onthe Moors. Other favorite credits include The White City, Ship Show (Yale Institute for Music Theatre); The Belle of Amherst (Mirror Repertory Theatre); Some Bodies Travel, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Troublesome Reign of King John (Yale School of Drama); and Chinglish (assistant stage manager, Syracuse Stage). She is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama and holds a BA in drama from Ithaca College. Proud Member: AEA. SHELBY NORTH (Assistant Stage Manager) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Bulgaria! Revolt!, Macbeth, and Best Lesbian Erotica Other credits include Thoreau, or Return to Walden; Fiorello!; Constellations (Berkshire Theatre Group); Bat-Hamlet and Sleeping Country (Essential Theatre). Shelby has a BA in drama from College of Charleston. ABOUT THE CAST STANLEY BAHOREK (Giuseppe Zangara) is making his Yale Rep debut. Broadway and Off-Broadway credits: The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, West Side Story (Carnegie Hall), Amazing Grace, February House (The Public Theater, Long Wharf), LaChiusa s Queen of the Mist, See Rock City (Transport Group), Inventing Avi (Abingdon Theater Company), The Explorers Club (Manhattan Theatre Club), and Little Me (Encores!). Regional: Ludwig s Baskerville (Arena Stage, McCarter Theatre Center), McNally s And Away We Go, Nerds (North Carolina Theatre/Philadelphia Theatre Company), the title roles in Candide (5 th Avenue Theatre) and Amadeus (Alley Theatre), and Tom Sawyer in Big River (DeafWest). TV: HBO s Boardwalk Empire, and Law and

8 Order: CI. Film producing: Sent By Hand, Sign (2016 LA Outfest). BFA, University of Michigan; MA, Baruch College, expected Upcoming: season two of Aziz Ansari s Master of None on Netflix. STEPHEN DeROSA (Charles Guiteau) Yale Rep: These Paper Bullets!, Twelfth Night. Broadway: On the Town, Betrayal, The Nance, Hairspray, Henry IV, Twentieth Century, The Man Who Came to Dinner (recorded live for PBS), and the Baker in the revival of Into the Woods. Off-Broadway: The Mystery of Irma Vep; Romeo and Juliet, directed by James Bundy; and the world premiere of Love s Fire, an evening of Shakespeareinspired one acts written by John Guare, Wendy Wasserstein, William Finn, and Tony Kushner (The Acting Company). Regional: Goodspeed Musicals, Westport Country Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, and five seasons at Berkshire Theatre Group. Film and TV: Woody Allen's Cafe Society, Elementary, The Good Wife; HBO s Divorce, Vinyl, Show Me a Hero, and Eddie Cantor on Boardwalk Empire. MFA, Yale School of Drama. LUCAS DIXON (John Hinckley) is thrilled to be making his Yale Rep debut. His theatre credits include Three Sisters, Elijah, Love's Labour s Lost (Chautauqua Theater Company); Western Country, House of Home (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, King Lear (Utah Shakespeare Festival); and hey brother, 9 Circles, The Minister s Black Veil in Los Angeles; Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline, Passing, Henry VI Parts 1 and 2, The Taming of the Shrew, Jib, The Friendship of Her Thighs, Uncle Vanya, Elijah, Thriftcrawl, and One Day It Came (Yale School of Drama). Film and television credits include A Picture of You, Z: The Beginning of Everything, Masters of Sex, Elementary, and Mystery of Matter. BFA, Otterbein University; MFA, Yale School of Drama. AUSTIN DURANT (Proprietor) is happy to return to Yale Rep, where he previously appeared in American Night: The Battle of Juan José, Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, and Passion Play. His other credits include You Can't Take It With You (Broadway); War (LCT3); War Horse, Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theater); Much Ado About Nothing (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); The Illusion, One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, Oklahoma! (Berkshire Theatre Festival). He has also appeared on the television programs Nurse Jackie, Person of Interest, and Elementary. He received his BA from Temple University and his MFA from Yale School of Drama. Austin was a 2012 Leonore Annenberg Fellow. DYLAN FREDERICK (Balladeer) is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where he has been seen in Bulgaria! Revolt!, The Dog Pack Play, New Domestic Architecture, Women Beware Women, The Skin of Our Teeth, and Deer and the Lovers. Other credits include Episode #121: Catfight and Roberto Zucco at Yale Cabaret. Last summer his play, Boy Gets Violent, premiered at Ars Nova s ANT Fest. Dylan holds a BFA in theatre performance from the University of Evansville. P.J. GRIFFITH (Leon Czolgosz) New York credits include St. Jimmy in American Idiot (Broadway); Jett Rink in Giant (The Public Theater); Sleep No More; A Scythe of Time (New York Musical Festival), Romeo and Juliet (La MaMa E.T.C.). Tours: We Will Rock You and Mamma Mia!. Regional: Georama (world premiere, The Repertory Theatre of

9 St. Louis), Parade (Donmar Warehouse/Mark Taper Forum), Rent (Musical Theatre West), Giant (Dallas Theater Center), the L.A. revival of The Who's Tommy, Setup and Punch (world premiere, The Blank Theater; 2010 L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), and Macbeth (Los Angeles Theatre Center). Film and television: Jessica Jones, Gotham, The Good Wife, The Mysteries of Laura, The Dark Knight Rises, Without a Trace, House, and Easter Mysteries. Graduate of NYU's Tisch School of The Arts. RICHARD R. HENRY (Samuel Byck) previously appeared at Yale Rep in American Night: The Ballad of Juan José and The Winter s Tale. His other theatre credits include Fiorello (City Center Encores!), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Public Theater), as well as the National Tours of Sweet Charity, Urinetown, Man of La Mancha, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Regionally he has appeared in Tis Pity She s a Whore (Baltimore Center Stage), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Intiman Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Long Wharf Theatre), Moby Dick: Rehearsed (Berkshire Theatre Festival), The Music Man (Guthrie Theater), Candide (Arden Theatre Company), Love s Labour s Lost (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), A Midsummer Night s Dream (Folger Theatre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Old Globe), and Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla, Papermill Playhouse). FRED INKLEY (Bystander) New York credits include Les Misérables (Valjean), Annie (Drake, FDR, Bert Healy), The Addams Family (Lurch, Mal Beineke), A Tale of Two Cities (Stryver), The Boys from Syracuse (Sergeant), all on Broadway; Company (Vocal Minority) with New York Philharmonic and The Nutty Professor (Murray and Maury) with Broadway at Birdland series. Tours: The Little Mermaid (King Triton), Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Les Misérables (Valjean). Regional: Ever After (Auguste), Paper Mill Playhouse; Les Misérables (Valjean), North Shore Music Theater and Pittsburgh CLO; Aida (Zoser), Pittsburgh CLO; the title roles in Jekyll and Hyde, Ritz Theater; Boston Pops Guest Artist. Proud member of Actor's Equity. COURTNEY JAMISON (Bystander) is a second-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Bulgaria! Revolt!; Bluebeard s Wife, A Tale of (gay) marriage and (queer) death; The Three Sisters; and Some Bodies Travel. Other credits include In the Red and Brown Water and The Slow Sound of Snow (Yale Cabaret). She has performed regionally in Dreamgirls and The Color Purple (Virginia Repertory Theatre). Courtney holds a BA in musical theatre from James Madison University, where she appeared in How I Learned to Drive, Spring Awakening, Trojan Women, and All Shook Up, among others. CourtneyJamison.com JAY AUBREY JONES (Bystander) is making his Yale Rep debut. Broadway credits include How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Cats. Metropolitan Opera: Porgy and Bess. Off-Broadway: Take Me Along, Oh Captain!, Inacent Black and the Brothers, Divine Hysteria, The Cradle Will Rock. Regional theatre credits: Anything Goes, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Gotham!, A Little Night Music, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Crucifer of Blood, The Threepenny Opera. Film and television: Shortcut to Happiness, Gotham, The Michael J. Fox Show, The Electric Company, All My Children, One Life to Live, Guiding Light. He is a graduate of Syracuse University. ROBERT LENZI (John Wilkes Booth) Broadway credits include Miles Tuck in Tuck Everlasting and South Pacific (Lincoln Center Theater). Off-Broadway: Dogfight (Second

10 Stage Theatre) and Hello Again (Transport Group). Regional: A Sign of the Times (Goodspeed Musicals),Tuck Everlasting (Alliance Theater), Road Show (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Into the Woods (Baltimore Center Stage and Westport Country Playhouse). Film and television credits include The Last Airbender, Sex and the City 2, The Happening, The Village, The Good Fight (CBS), Deception (NBC), Blue Bloods (CBS), One Life to Live (ABC), Live from Lincoln Center (PBS), and Clubhouse (CBS). Robert received a BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University. For Mom, Dad, and Krystina. LAUREN MOLINA (Lynette Squeaky Fromme) Broadway credits: Regina in Rock of Ages and Johanna in the Sweeney Todd revival directed by John Doyle. Off Broadway: co-starred in Sondheim s Marry Me A Little (Drama League nomination) and originated the role of Megan in Nobody Loves You at Second Stage Theatre. Regional credits: Eileen in Wonderful Town (Goodman Theatre), Countess in A Little Night Music (Huntington Theatre Company), Cunegunde in Candide (Goodman, Huntington, Shakespeare Theatre; Helen Hayes Award), Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (Cleveland Play House), Janet in The Rocky Horror Show ( Bucks County Playhouse). Television: The Good Wife. She s half of the acclaimed comedy-pop duo The Skivvies. LaurenMolina.com TheSkivviesNYC.com JULIA MURNEY (Sara Jane Moore) last appeared on Broadway as Elphaba in Wicked after playing the role on the National Tour, for which she received an Acclaim Award. Other New York credits include Lennon, The Wild Party (Drama Desk nomination), Falling (Drama Desk nomination), A Class Act, The Landing, Queen on the Mist, and Time and Again (Lucille Lortel nomination). Television credits include Madam Secretary, 30 Rock, Sex and the City, all the Law & Order series, First You Dream, and about a gazillion voiceovers. A Syracuse University graduate, her recordings include her solo album I m Not Waiting, available on itunes. She is a Beinecke Fellow at Yale School of Drama this spring. BRIAN RAY NORRIS (Bystander) is thrilled to be making his Yale Rep debut. Brian was most recently in A Dog Story Off-Broadway (Davenport Theater) and before that played Lord Middleton in Paul Gordon's Sense and Sensibility (The Old Globe). Favorite roles include Mr. Bumble in Oliver, Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid (Theatre Under the Stars); Jean-Michael in Cinderella, Big Davey in Billy Elliot (Gateway Playhouse); Luther Billis in South Pacific; Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd; and touring North America in Mamma Mia!. SANA PRINCE SARR (Bystander) is delighted to be making his Yale Rep debut. He recently appeared in Westport Country Playhouse s production of Lerner and Loewe s Camelot as Tom of Warwick. He also performed in Bridgeport Downtown Cabaret s Bye Bye Birdie. At school, Sana has performed in musical productions of Shrek and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. He was featured on WNPR in October Sana lives in Bridgeport with his parents and younger brother, Ali. He loves singing, reading, and sports. LIZ WISAN (Bystander) Yale Rep credits include The Caucasian Chalk Circle, These Paper Bullets! (also Atlantic Theater Company), The Servant of Two Masters (Theatre

11 for a New Audience, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, ArtsEmerson, Seattle Rep), and A Woman of No Importance. Other credits include Other Desert Cities (Lincoln Center Theater, Broadway); The Tempest (La MaMa E.T.C.); Bill W. & Dr. Bob (Soho Playhouse), Baskerville (Old Globe); Absurd Person Singular (Two River Theater); The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide (Berkeley Rep); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Theatre Company); and productions at Premiere Stages, Chautauqua Theater Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Television and film: Elementary, Ready or Knot, and Bitches (short). Member of New Neighborhood and The Actors Center. MFA, Yale School of Drama. Iizwisan.com ABOUT YALE REPERTORY THEATRE Yale Repertory Theatre, the internationally celebrated professional theatre in residence at Yale School of Drama, has championed new work since 1966, producing well over 100 premieres including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists. Twelve Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and eight Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Established in 2008, Yale s Binger Center for New Theatre has distinguished itself as one of the nation s most robust and innovative new play programs. To date, the Binger Center has supported the work of more than 50 commissioned artists and underwritten the world premieres and subsequent productions of 24 new American plays and musicals at Yale Rep and theatres across the country including this season s Scenes from Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince by Sarah Ruhl, Imogen Says Nothing by Aditi Brennan Kapil, and Mary Jane by Amy Herzog. Indecent, created by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman, commissioned and first produced by Yale Rep in 2015, will open on Broadway this April. For more information, including a complete list of Yale Rep commissioned artists, please visit yalerep.org/center. NEXT AT YALE REP World Premiere MARY JANE By Amy Herzog Directed by Anne Kauffman April 28 May 20, 2017 Yale Repertory Theatre gratefully acknowledges The Burry Fredrik Foundation and Carol L. Sirot for generously supporting the 50th anniversary season. Yale Repertory Theatre is supported in part by the State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development. # # # #