Patricia McGregor (Artistic Director)

Patricia McGregor was born on St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands. A third year MFA student, shows directed at Yale include Sidewalk Opera, Dancing in the Dark, Romeo and Juliet, The Covering Skyline is Nothing, In the Meantime, In the Cypher, Imaginary Audience, The Twenty-Four Hour Plays, and Guernica-The Musical!. Other directing credits include 365 Days 365 Plays at the Public Theater, Clarrise and Laromn, Totems, and My Children My Africa . Patricia was a Van Lier Directing Fellow at Second Stage Theater. She has worked at BAM, the O'Neill National Playwriting Conference, Lincoln Center Institute, and on Broadway with Deborah Warner’s Medea. Performance history includes her solo-show Luggage Not Baggage which premiered at the Jose Quintero Theater in New York. Currently, she is developing a production of Blood Dazzler about hurricane Katrina with poet Patricia Smith and her sister, choreographer Paloma McGregor and her thesis production of Jelly’s Last Jam. A volunteer with the 52nd Street Project, at Yale she is a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow as well as a McDougal Scholar. She is committed to promoting under-told stories, diversifying representations, and creating simple magic in theater.

Aurélia K. Fisher (Managing Director)

Aurélia hails from South Jersey. She received a B.A. from Hamilton College and is currently a candidate for a M.F.A. in Theater Management at Yale School of Drama. After Hamilton, she spent three years at the Metropolitan Opera as Technical Archivist (fancy title for photo taker). In 2004, she founded Pig Brooch, a theater company dedicated to ensemble theater in New York City. She spent the spring of 2008 as the Development Fellow at the Orange County Performing Artscenter in Costa Mesa, California. Aurélia was last seen at the Cabaret as the daughter in WASP.

Donesh Olyaie (Associate Artistic Director)

Donesh Olyaie was born in La Mirada, California, a suburb in southern Los Angeles County. The eldest of three children, Donesh was raised in southern California and attended college at the University in Southern California. While there Donesh was engaged in numerous social justice movements cumulating in his co-chairing the nineteenth annual National Student Conference Against Hunger and Homelessness. Since then Donesh has pursued his interests in the arts and enrolled in the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism program at the Yale School of Drama in 2007. Dramaturgy projects have included playwrights’ new work, Dialogues of the Carmelites for Opera Theatre of Yale College, and Sidewalk Opera for the Yale Cabaret. Donesh has also worked with the Cincinnati Opera, collaborating on a cut of Hansel and Gretel for youth audiences. He will be co-dramaturging Yale Rep’s production of Death of a Salesman in the spring.

Jane Jung (Associate Managing Director)

Jane Jung is currently a second year Theater Management student at the Yale School of Drama. She grew up in Northern Virginia and attended Mount Holyoke College where she majored in Anthropology. While at Mount Holyoke, she interned for two years with New WORLD Theater in Amherst, MA and founded the group AiR, an all women’s Asian American performing arts troupe. After college, she moved to Boston and worked for three years in arts funding and for two years at a community center in Boston’s Chinatown. Throughout her five years in Boston, she worked with local non profits, such as the Asian American Resource Workshop and Boston Progress Arts Collective, to produce original interdisciplinary performances. Jane spent summer and fall of 2008 as a Management and Marketing Fellow at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA.

Chi Chan (Lighting Design)

Chuan-Chi Chan,Credit included, Peer Gynt (YSD),Woyzeck (Tainan Jen Theater),The one is jailed by moonlight(Taiwan artist theater) ,Angels in America(National Taiwan University). And also work as Master Electrician, Programmer and Electrician with Cloud Gate Dance Theater, Assembly Dance theater, Tainan Jen Theater and other performing arts groups. Drama and Theater major, National Taiwan University, 2005; M.F.A. expected 2010 Yale School of Drama.

Donald Claxon (Stage Management)

Donald E. Claxon is overjoyed to be back at YSD after spending the summer at Glimmerglass Opera. He looks forward to a year which includes working at the Cabaret where he has Stage Managed Crave and Mr. and Mrs. Hollywood and Lighting Design for The Donny Hathaway Story. When not watching films or reading Donald likes to remember a simpler time filled with G.I. Joes, Popples, baseball cards, and Big League Chew.

Charles Coes (Sound Design)

Charles Coes is a third-year MFA candidate at Yale School of Drama, where his credits include Grace, or the Art of Climbing and A Month in the Country. His Yale Cabaret credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Bone Songs, Hillbilly Antigone, Perk/Pussy/Pathos, and WASP.

Scott Dougan (Set Design)

Scott is a third year design student at the Yale School of Drama. At the Yale Cabaret he has designed sets The Illusion (2007), In the Cypher: A Poetry Slam (2007), Going Public (2007), Mr. & Mrs. Hollywood (2007), and Bill Clinton Goes to the Bathroom (2008). He also designed projections for In the Cypher: A Poetry Slam (2007), Dancing in the Dark (2008), and The Sidewalk Opera (2008). Last year at the drama school, he designed sets for The Ghost Sonata, and I Am a Superhero. Currently he is working on productions of What You Will: The Twelfth Night Parking Lot Project in Ashland, Oregon; The Dead Women of J-Town and Smiley by Victor Cazares; and a production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice at Amherst College. As an assistant he has worked for numerous set designers including Santo Loquasto, Derek McLane, Ming Cho Lee, and Alec Hammond. Scott worked as an assistant and a set designer on the recent films First Daughter (2004), Flightplan (2005), and Southland Tales (2006). Scott is a proud member of Teatro Indocumentado, and is the 2008-2009 recipient of the Donald M. Oenslager scholarship in stage design. BA 2004 from Amherst College, MFA expected 2009 Yale University.

Kyoungjun Eo (Technical Design and Production)

Kyoungjun graduated with a B.A. in Film and Drama, at Hanyang University in Seoul. He was a stage carpenter for 35 theatrical performances and a international exhibit (OISTAT), a scenic designer for four theatrical performances and three independent short films, a technical directior for 12 theatrical performances, one video production and one theme park production, the art director for two commercial movies, and technical director for Seoul Institute of the Arts in South Korea. He is the owner of a scene shop, called 'KINESIS'.

Jesse Jou (Directing)

Originally from Houston, TX, Jesse Jou lived and worked in New York City before coming to Yale School of Drama. His favorite directing projects include Estrella Cruz [The Junkyard Queen] (Yale Cabaret); Learning Russian (Yale School of Drama); Take on Me: adoption, addiction, and a-Ha (NY International Fringe Festival); My Mom Across America (The Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, NY); and Greyhounds (The Lion Theatre, Theatre Row). He is a proud member of the HKK. Jesse is a second-year MFA directing student and is excited to be a part of this year’s Cabaret team.

Aaron Moss (Acting)

Recently, Aaron has appeared as Hortensio in Taming of the Shrew, Oberon and Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Publius in Titus Andronicus at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Other regional theatre and university credits include: A Woman of No Importance and Richard II (Yale Rep), Romeo and Juliet (Yale School of Drama), All?s Well That Ends Well (Theatre Hopkins), Dancing in the Dark and Hotbox (Yale Cabaret). Television credits include: The Wire (HBO), The Corner (HBO), Homicide: Life on the Streets (NBC), and Peacing it Together (WETA). Additionally, he has starred in and recorded voice-overs for a dozen local and national commercials, and a book narration.

Kay Perdue (Theater Management)

Kay Perdue is from Boston originally, and is this year’s Associate Managing Director to Yale Rep for her third year PWA. Kay is on this year’s Artistic Board for the Yale Cabaret. Kay wrote her case study on the Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise, Idaho, and spent 2nd year Fellowship at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, and 2nd year rotation in Marketing. Before coming to Yale, Kay was a professional performer, writer, and director in Chicago and was the Managing Director of a small ensemble company called A Red Orchid Theatre. Kay finally succumbed to living on Howe Street from East Rock this year with her lively and gregarious fiancé, Justin, who is a writer and local New Haven icon. Kay likes bicycles, monks, swimming, poetry, porter ales, and is a Patriots fan.

Rebecca Phillips (Dramaturgy)

Rebecca Phillips (Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism ’09) graduated with honors in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago, where she was awarded the Francis X. Kinahan Memorial Prize in the Humanities for her original translation of Jean Giraudoux's There Will Be No Trojan War (La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu). She is also a proud member of Off-Off Campus, the U of C’s improvisational and sketch comedy troupe founded by Bernie Sahlins in 1986. Dramaturgy credits include Richard II (Yale Rep); Romeo & Juliet, Camino Real (Yale School of Drama); Bone Songs, and The Illusion (Yale Cabaret). At the Cabaret, Rebecca performed in Bicycling for Ladies and Hillbilly Antigone, translated and adapted Blood Box: An Evening of Grand Guignol, and most recently co-wrote and directed The Five Fists of Science. MFA expected, 2009.

Kim Rosenstock (Playwrighting)

Kim Rosenstock's plays include Lone Pilots Of Roosevelt Field, Tigers Be Still, Discovering Columbus and In Search Of Stanley Hammer. In NY she served as Associate Producer of Ars Nova Theater for two seasons, where she produced new work in theater, music and comedy. She holds a BA in English from Amherst College.

Katherine O’Neill (Costume Design)

Katherine is pursuing an MFA in Design from Yale School of Drama. Most recent work includes Strinberg’s Ghost Sonata and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, both Yale School of Drama productions. Previous to Yale she studied theater and Latin American literature at Temple University in Philadelphia, as well as fine arts training in Buenos Aires and Madrid. Currently, Katherine is developing a comic book for Romeo and Juliet that is set in New Orleans in the 1930’s. Upcoming projects include Death of a Salesman starring Charles S. Dutton at Yale Repertory Theater and developing work with her theater company, Teatro Indocumentado.

Jenna Woods (Stage Management)

Jenna Woods is a 2nd Year student in the Stage Management Department. She has Stage Managed the YSD productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Covering Skyline is Nothing, and Assisted on Baal and Grace, or The Art of Climbing. Jenna was also the Season Stage Manager for the 2008 Summer Cabaret where she also moonlighted as a french horn player in Tommy. Previous to YSD, Jenna has spent six years on several tours including work as Props Supervisor for the National Tour of The Music Man and Wardrobe Supervisor for the North American Tour of Riverdance. Jenna holds a BFA in Theater Design from the University of Kansas.

Anna Stirgwolt (Yale Engineering)

Yahonnes Cleary (Yale Law)

Yahonnes Cleary is a third-year Yale Law School student from the Bronx. He has a Master's degree in History from Oxford University and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Columbia University

Erik Grahm-Smith (Yale Divinity)

Erik Graham-Smith was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida (the super-classy part of the state). After eighteen years of tanning intermixed with hurricanes, nightmares about the alligator in the creek next to his house, and being grounded for messing with the a/c, Erik left for the frontiers of Boston. The Puritanical little city that could was an exciting place to be in the early '00s. Erik quickly found employment as a prospector of knowledge in the cavernous libraries of Chestnut Hill. After many years of researching ancient texts left behind by previous civilizations, he discovered that the secret of life indubitably revolves around sunshine, beer and puppies. Armed only with this new revelation (and a BA), he once again set out for new adventures. After years of a journeyman life that led him from Boston to San Diego to Wyoming, he decided to come back to New England to settle down in the paradisaical New Heaven [sic]. Erik now works as the Director of Gryphon's Pub (GPSCY), sans puppy or tan, as he signed a lease that forbade puppies and apparently Connecticut has no sunshine. In his spare time, he is also a 3rd year Masters of Divinity student at Yale's Divinity School. With this degree, he hopes to become overqualified to keep working at GPSCY and maybe become a preacher. Erik likes peaches (an obsession from an early age), sunshine, spermology and writing profiles. He also really likes the Yale Cabaret.

Daphne Arthur (Yale Art)

Daphne Arthur was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Attended The Juilliard School in 1999-2002, where she studied piano under the tutelage of Richard Alston and Thomas Martin. She received her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, and is currently completing her second year MFA candidacy in the Painting Department of the Yale School of Art.

Meghan Pressman (Yale School of Management)

Quincy O’Neal (Yale College)

Quincy was born and raised in Clayton, North Carolina. He is a junior at Yale College, majoring in African American Studies and Theater Studies. He made his Yale Cabaret debut in In the MEANtime and has worked extensively with Heritage Theatre Ensemble, starring in The Diva Daughters DuPree, and assistant producing The Colored Museum and The Story. He hopes to direct a one-act during December?s ?Heritage Week.? Other acting credits include kaleidoscope with the Yale College Dean?s Office, Jitney, Barefoot in the Park, A Midsummer Night?s Dream, You?re A Good Man, Charlie Brown and A Fiddler on the Roof. A southern gentleman by nature, he loves fishing and simply enjoying the Carolinian mountains, beaches and everything in between. GO TARHEELS & PANTHERS!!

Stephen Sherrill (Yale College)

New Haven favorite Anna of Anna’s

Anna has been catering in the greater New Haven area since 1987 and has owned a gourmet take-out shop for eight years. She is thrilled to earn a living playing with food! Her food reflects her life experiences, with cuisines from many cultures, and is particularly interested in creating food that is flavorful without a lot of fat. “Food is my passion and feeding people is my greatest joy!”

On the fun side: She is not quite four eleven and obsessed with food. When she’s not cooking, she is eating. Bed, computer, car--crumbs everywhere! She trained to be a lawyer, but could not keep her mind off food. A woman of many tastes: she is a huge sports fan (Patriots, the Spurs, the Celtics, and Rafa Nadal), loves music and concerts (U2, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Abba and Journey). Current Obsession: David Cook, the latest American Idol.