At the Tony Awards
School of Drama alumni were represented with two wins and an additional six nominations at the 2011 Tony Awards, which were handed out on June 12. Lynne Meadow ’71MFA, artistic director of Manhattan Theatre Club, was nominated as producer of Best Play nominee Good People starring Frances McDormand ’82MFA, who received the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress. Director Anna D. Shapiro ’93MFA and scenic designer Todd Rosenthal ’93MFA were both nominated for their work on The Motherf**ker with the Hat. Scott Pask ’97MFA received the award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for The Book of Mormon; Derek McLane ’84MFA was also nominated in the same category for Anything Goes. In the Best Costume Design of a Play category, Jess Goldstein ’78MFA, who teaches at the School of Drama, and Catherine Zuber ’84CDR were nominated for their work on The Merchant of Venice and Born Yesterday, respectively.
Premieres and Classics at Yale Rep
Yale Rep’s 2011–12 season opens in September with two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl’s new version of The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. A coproduction with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where it played earlier this year, the play is directed by Les Waters, who also staged Ruhl’s Eurydice at the Rep in 2006. The season also includes the world premieres of Belleville by Amy Herzog ’06MFA, directed by Anne Kauffman, who staged last season’s world premiere musical, We Have Always Lived in the Castle; and Pulitzer Prize finalist Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses,directed by Sam Gold. Both plays were commissioned by Yale Rep through the Yale Center for New Theatre. Christina Anderson ’11, who just received her MFA in playwriting, will make her Yale Rep debut with the world premiere of Good Goods. Liz Diamond, chair of the directing department, will stage Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale, and Christopher Bayes, head of physical acting at the school, returns to the Rep to direct a new production of Moliere’s A Doctor in Spite of Himself.
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