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The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is a graduate professional school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut.Founded in 1924 as the Department of Drama in the School of Fine Arts, the school provides training in every discipline of the theatre – acting, design (set design, costume design, lighting design, projection design, and sound design), directing ...
The dean of Yale School of Drama is the artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, with Lloyd Richards (who most notably nurtured the career of August Wilson) serving in this capacity 1979–1991, Stan Wojewodski, Jr., 1991–2002, and James Bundy since 2002. Benjamin Mordecai served as managing director from 1982 to 1993. [1]
The Yale Dramatic Association, also known as the "Yale Dramat," is the second oldest college theater company in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founded in 1901 by undergraduates at Yale University , the Dramat has been producing student theatre in the United States for over a century.
Robert Sanford Brustein (April 21, 1927 – October 29, 2023) was an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded the Yale Repertory Theatre while serving as dean of the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the American Repertory Theater and Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts ...
The play was first staged by Yale Repertory Theatre from April 28-May 20, 2017, directed by Anne Kauffman. The play was commissioned through Yale's Binger Center for New Theatre. The play was the recipient of the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and was also awarded a grant through the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation.
From 1989-91, he was the Managing Director of Cornerstone Theatre Company prior to enrolling in Yale School of Drama in 1992. He served as Associate Producing Director of The Acting Company in New York City from 1996–98 and Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, 1998-2002.
Winkler grew up in New York and was a student in the Yale School of Drama. During the summers, he and his Yale classmates stayed in New Haven and opened a summer stock theater called the "New Haven Free Theater." [1] They performed various plays including Woyzeck, [1] and Just Add Water (improv night). [1]
Hammond was a teacher at the Juilliard School, the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and the Yale School of Drama, [5] specializing in Shakespeare and the performance of classic texts, and he directed numerous productions for A.C.T. and the Yale Repertory Theatre, including a production of George Bernard Shaw's Philanderer, which was an "effective" production of a hundred year ...