executive producers
MIKE DONAHUE (Executive Producer) graduated from Harvard in 2005 with a special concentrations B.A. in Performance Studies: Directing. At Harvard, he studied under Robert Woodruff, Marcus Stern, Gideon Lester and Robert Scanlan; was the 2005 recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for artistic excellence; served as a proctor for the Freshman Arts Program; sat on the executive board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club; and produced numerous productions and festivals on campus. Productions directed at Harvard include: Closer, Tartuffe, Hedda Gabler (Loeb Experimental Theatre); She Loves Me (Adams Pool Theatre); The Physicists, The Oresteia (Loeb Mainstage). At the St. Louis MUNY, Mike served as the Assistant to the Executive Producer for the 2001-2003 seasons, and then as the Associate Producer for the 2004 season. He is currently a third-year director at Yale School of Drama. Productions directed at Yale include The 60’s: Nov. 22, 1963 – April 4, 1968, Ways to Survive the World: Parts I – III (Studio Theatre); Electronic City (Yale Cabaret); Bibles and Candy (New Theatre); Brand (Yale Cabaret); Titus Andronicus (New Theatre).
ROBERTA PEREIRA (Executive Producer) is a third-year MFA candidate in the Theater Management department at Yale School of Drama. She is originally from Brazil and has an interest in international and avant-garde theatre. She is currently the Assistant Director of Development for Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale School of Drama. In September, she will be Associate Managing Director for Yale Repertory Theatre, working with the World Performance Project. In 2006, she was the coordinator of auxiliary events for the 2006 Dublin International Theatre Festival.
STEPHANIE YBARRA (Executive Producer) is a third-year Theater Management student at the Yale School of Drama (’08), and is the 2007-08 Associate Managing Director of the Yale School of Drama and New Play Production. She was the recipient of the inaugural Producers Chair Award from the Foundry Theatre (New York) for her work as a Co-Producer of The Brothers Size, which premiered at The Public Theatre’s 2007 Under the Radar Festival. At Yale, she served as Program Director for the Dwight/Edgewood Project, Assistant Director of Marketing for Yale Repertory Theatre, and Associate Producer for Yale Cabaret’s production of The Seven Deadly Sins. Stephanie also worked as Assistant Director of Development for Dallas Children’s Theater, Publications Manager for Dallas Theater Center and Deputy Director of Program Operations for Citizen Schools, a national after school program based in Boston. Her consulting work includes fundraising for Wizard Music (New York), New Jersey Repertory Company, and strategic development for the Disaster and Training Department of the American Red Cross Greater New York.