The Ambassador

LOS ANGELES PREMIERE Fri, Feb 27 Directed by John Tiffany & Sat, Feb 28 Freud Playhouse Gabriel Kahane Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Wurlitzer 8pm Alex Sopp Keyboards, Vocals, Flutes Electric Guitars RUNNING TIME: Casey Foubert Electric Bass and Programming Approximately 75 minutes; Ted Poor Drums No intermission Laura Lutzke Violin Nathan Schram Viola PRE- AND POST-SHOW EVENTS: Andrea Lee Cello Pre-show interactive exhibit and film screenings Fri and Sat in Freud Courtyard. Christine Jones Set Designer Jane Cox Lighting Designer Sat Feb 28 post-show discussion moderated by Joshua Higgason Video Designer David Kipen of Libros Schmibros. Bart Fasbender Sound Effects Designer

CAP UCLA SPONSORS: Supported in part by the Kevin Jeske Young Artist Fund, Henry Mancini Tribute Fund and Anchor Watch LLC Production Management National Endowment for the Arts. Additional Mary-Susan Gregson Production Stage Manager support provided by an Anonymous donor. Brett Banakis Associate Set Designer Annie Tippe Assistant Director Mary Ellen Stebbins Associate Lighting Designer Brenndan McGuire Sound Engineer MEDIA SPONSOR: Commissioned by: BAM Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA Laguna Beach Music Festival

Development funded through the generous support of: Linda and Stuart Nelson

Additional support provided by: Jerry Kohl Ted and Mary Jo Shen Edward Helms Bronya and Andy Galef

Music from The Ambassador: Sony Masterworks

*Albums on Sale in the Freud Courtyard

MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER: Films Life in Los Angeles can be confounding and confronting as often Echo Park Film Center as it is inspiring and culturally enthralling. We regularly exist The Sound We See: A Los Angeles City Symphony here together in a sort of shared state of communal isolation. Filmmakers: Maya Abee, Juliette Allen, Bridgette Asturias, We, more often than not, spend a great deal of time alone in our Andrew Becerra, Nicola Celada, Albert Celis, Brian Chavez, cars, carving our own personal ant trails through this city of Kathy Choi, Danielle Dickerson, Hayley Elliot, Elena Gabbro, cities, sometimes as intrepid adventurers from east to west or Cuauhtemoc Hernandez, Diana Hernandez, Marilyn Hernandez, north to south, sometimes as hibernators in our own particular Paola Hernandez, Anais Hinojosa, Ish Lipman, Danny neighborhood pockets of existence. Lougnaxay, Felix Martinez, James Noel, Alyssa Osorio, Emille Palamides, Ellie Parker, Chloe Reyes, Sam Ribakoff, Isabella That drive-time isolation is perhaps why we are so prone to Mae Robbins, Ashley Ruiz, Naima Sabur, Angelo Sanchez, John talk to one another about the routes we take and the time spent Stockburger, Aura Oropeza Tellez, Penelope Uribe Abee, Charles marking the distance between two places. Perhaps it pulls us Valencia, Walter Vargas, Victoria Velasco, Bobby Villagomez, out of the isolation and back into that state of shared existence, Kathryn Wilkins memory and exploration. OUT THE WINDOW, a program of Freewaves There’s something about this city that evokes feelings. Or as Clean Square: by Jason Jenn and Roland Rodriguez Gabriel Kahane said was part of the impetus for this work: “I #Lanature: by Julian Brummitt and Keelin S. Clark wanted to know why the city made me feel so much.” Take Fountain: by Stephen van Dyck Grapevine Land Scan: by Center for Land Use Interpretation As we’ve collaborated with Gabriel and worked toward this Juan Fish Testimonial: by Arturo Rono-Santillano weekend’s performances of The Ambassador, we’ve also invoked Cine(ma): by Paolo Davanzo a keen sense of curiosity about our city and why it makes us feel www.out-the-window.org so much, how it is reflected in the eyes of art and literature, the www.freewaves.org architecture around us and the perceptions of the people whose lives form the millions of intersecting trail lines on a map of L.A. Peter Rand Artifact Los Angeles: Five Easy Steps Looking through the lens of film and music and books, we www.peterrandart.com invite you to share experiences and thoughts about Los Angeles through our interactive exhibits on site tonight. After the curtain Special thanks to Joel Hurwit for the Los Angeles album art and falls on Saturday night, we’ll dive deeper into the concept of to UCLA professor Brenda Stevenson, author of The Contested Los Angeles as literary muse as Gabriel is joined by L.A. Times Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne and author Richard of the LA Riots who earlier this week participated in a special Rayner, in a discussion titled Ten Million Aphorists in Search of discussion with Gabriel Kahane about the importance of a City moderated by David Kipen of iconic eastside bookstore documentary storytelling and the way it metabolizes in different Libros Schmibros. mediums.

Thank you to everyone who has shared music memories of L.A. And thank you, for being here with us tonight. through our #LAMusicMap project. Please continue to share on social media, let’s keep the conversation going.

Many Los Angeles artists have participated in our Los-Angeles centric Art in Action activities presented in conjunction with The Ambassador. Thanks to everyone who lent their creativity to this project! ABOUT THE ARTISTS Carnegie Hall, at the Library of Congress with fellow composer/ performer , and on tour throughout North America GABRIEL KAHANE with cellist . Hailed by as “one of the year’s very best albums”, Gabriel Kahane’s major label debut, The Ambassador (Sony Music Kahane’s musical February House received world premiere Masterworks) is a meditation on the underbelly of Los Angeles seen productions at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven and New through the lens of ten street addresses. Bruce Willis’ hair, detective York’s Public Theater in 2012; an original cast album was released fiction, modernist architecture, and race riots all provide fodder for on StorySound Records. Upcoming theater projects include this collection of songs that is as sonically varied as it is thematically commissions from the Public Theater in New York and Signature focused. Gabriel was born in Venice Beach but spent his childhood Theater in Arlington, VA, as well as a collaboration with Pulitzer on the East Coast and in Northern California. With the release of Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker. The Ambassador— produced by Kahane along with Ma! Johnson (St. Vincent), Casey Foubert (), and Rob Moose (Bon He lives in , NY. Iver)— Gabriel turns his gaze toward his birthplace. JOHN TIFFANY In December of 2014, Kahane and his band appeared at the BAM John Tiffany is Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre. Harvey Theater in the critically-acclaimed NY premiere of the Credits include Hope and The Pass (Royal Court), Let the Right One staged version of The Ambassador directed by Tony-winner John In (Dundee Rep, Royal Court and West End. South Bank Show Tiffany Once,( Black Watch), and designed by Tony-winner Christine Sky Arts Award), The Glass Menagerie (A.R.T. & Broadway), Once Jones (Spring Awakening, American Idiot). The Ambassador will be (Broadway & West End. Tony Award for Best Director. Obie and seen again this season at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. Outer Critics’ Circle Award), Macbeth (also Broadway), Enquirer (co-directed with Vicky Featherstone), The Missing, Peter Pan, The A tireless collaborator, Kahane’s recent credits include a track House of Bernarda Alba, Transform Caithness: Hunter, Be Near Me, on this year’s Beck Song Reader (Warby Parker), an album that Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, The Bacchae, Black Watch (Olivier also features Jack White, Jarvis Cocker, , and Beck Award, Best Director. Critics’ Circle award, Best Director. South himself; appearances on ’ Heigh Ho; several projects with Bank Show Award), Elizabeth Gordon Quinn, Home: Glasgow (National Theatre of Scorland, founding Associate Director), Sufjan Stevens; as well as performances and recordings Chris Jerusalem (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Las Chicas del Tres y Media Thile of Punch Brothers, for whom Gabriel will be opening on tour Floppies (Granero Theatre, Mexico City; Edinburgh Fringe); If throughout the U.S. this spring. Destroyed True, Mercury Fur, The Straits, Helmet (Paines Plough, Associate Director); Gagarin Way, Abandonment, Among Unbroken Dividing his time between the club and the concert hall, Kahane Hearts, Passing Places (Traverse, Edinburgh). John Tiffany trained has been commissioned by, among others, the Brooklyn Academy at Glasgow University gaining an MA in Theatre and Classics. From of Music, Carnegie Hall, the , Kronos 2010-11 John was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. Quartet, and Orpheus Chamber , with whom he toured in the spring of 2013 performing Gabriel’s Guide to the 48 States, CHRISTINE JONES an hour-long cycle on texts from the WPA American Guide Series. Christine Jones is a Tony Award-winning set designer and the He has appeared in recital with string quartet at Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Theatre for One, a portable private performing arts space for one actor and one Prague , and Hamlet in London with Benedict Cumberbatch. audience member. For director John Tiffany she designed Let the Opera designs include Lucia di Lammermoor at Sydney Opera Right One In, which recently closed in London. She directed the House and Houston Grand Opera and Don Giovanni at New York sensational immersive nightclub dining experience Queen of the City Opera. Jane designs regularly for the Oregon Shakespeare Night, which New York Magazine has called the “Hottest Nightlife Festival, and has been a member of the Monica Bill Barnes dance Experience in town”. Her set design for American Idiot, A Punk company for fifteen years. She also teaches classes in light in Rock Musical directed by Michael Mayer, won the Tony Award for artistic expression, theater design and collaboration at Princeton best set design in 2009, and in 2012, Jones made her debut at The University, and has a working relationship with the Tisch Design Metropolitan Opera with her design for Rigoletto, set in 1960s Las Department at NYU. Vegas. Her Broadway credits include Hands on a Hardbody; On a Clear Day; Spring Awakening (Tony Nomination); The Green JOSHUA HIGGASON Bird, with director Julie Taymor (Drama Desk Nomination); Joshua Higgason’s recent designs include Radiolab’s Apocalyptical and Everyday Rapture, starring Sherie-Renee Scott. Jones has tour (Video and Scenic for Workhorse Design Co; WNYC); designed sets for Coraline, adapted from Neil Gaiman’s popular Platonov; Or the Disinherited (Video and Scenic; The Kitchen, book with music by Stephen Merritt; The Book of Longing, based on NYC and La Jolla Playhouse); Powder Her Face (Video; New the poems of , with music by Philip Glass (Lincoln York City Opera); Ich, KurbisGeist (Video; Big Dance Theater); Center Festival); The Onion Cellar (Elliot Norton Award); which Sontag: Reborn (Scenic; The Builder’s Association); World Of she co-created with director Marcus Stern and The Dresden Wires (Video and Lighting; The Kitchen, Poland tour, France tour, Dolls; Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park); Burn ICA-Boston); Bellona- Destroyer of Cities (Video; The Kitchen, This, starring Ed Norton, Catherine Keener, Ty Burrell and Dallas France, ICA). Video Engineering for Planetarium (BAM; Sufjan Roberts (Signature Theatre); and True Love, for which she created Stevens, , Bryce Dessner; Designer: Deborah Johnson The Zipper space, infamous for its use of car seats in the audience. for Candystations); Sufjan Stevens’ Age of Adz (Euro Tour; Designer: Jones has designed numerous , including The Elephant Man Candystations). He has taught interactive media workshops at (Minnesota Opera); Lucia de Lammermoor (New York City Opera); Princeton, Duke, NYU, Bennington, and LIU: MFA. and Guilio Cesare (Houston Grand Opera). Her designs were featured in the 2008 exhibition Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century BART FASBENDER of Women Designers for Live Performance at Lincoln Center Library Bart Fasbender’s New York credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew for Performing Arts. She has lectured at Princeton University and Jackson (Bernard Jacobs and The Public), Loneliness of the Long teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Distance Runner, Storefront Church and Port Authority (Atlantic Theater Company); Lonely, I’m Not and Mr. and Mrs. Fitch (Second JANE COX Stage Theatre); The Good Mother, Burning and Russian Transport Jane is a lighting designer based in Brooklyn. Exciting theater (The New Group); The Long Shrift, The Revisionist, Ascuncion projects last season included Machinal (for which she was and The Aliens (Rattlestick), Apple Cove (Women’s Project); Three nominated for Tony and a ); All the Way; Dinner Changes and Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons); Graceland with Friends and Color Purple in London. In the previous season, (LCT3); A Body of Water (Primary Stages). Regional: The Guthrie, Jane was awarded the Henry Hewes Design Award for her work The Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage and on The Flick at Playwrights Horizons, as well as a Drama Desk Film, Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Bay nomination for her work on Sondheim’s Passion at CSC. Upcoming Street Theater, Center Theatre Group (Mark Taper Forum and Kirk projects include Sondheim’s Allegro; Head Over Heels (a new Douglas Theatre), TheatreWorks Hartford, Virginia Shakespeare, musical by Jeff Whitty); Love and Sex at Lincoln Center, ToasT with Virginia Playwrights Theater and Two River Theater. Lemon Anderson at the Public Theater; an opera of R.U.R. at the BRETT BANAKIS Brett J. Banakis’ upcoming projects include Big Love (Signature Theater) and OPC (American Repertory Theater). NYC: What’s It All About? (NYTW, Co-Design with Christine Jones); Titus Andronicus (Public Theater); Tamar and the River (Prospect Theater Co.); Happy Birthday, Lovers, Children, and Three Men on a Horse (TACT); And Baby Makes Seven (New Ohio); The Little Death: Vol. 1 (Ontological). Regional: As You Like It (Two River Theater), Oklahoma!, The Lion in Winter, Edith, and A Class Act (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Bashir Lazhar (Barrington Stage). As Associate Set Designer: The Last Ship, If/Then, Hands on a Hardbody, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Broadway); Rigoletto (Met Opera). Awards: Robert L. B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase of OPERA America; “Young Designer to Watch,” LiveDesign Magazine. Education: NYU, UCLA.

BRENNDAN MCGUIRE Brenndan McGuire studied at the SOHN institute for Audio and Electronics and has been involved heavily with Live and Studio sound production since 1988. He recorded and produced over 100 records before becoming physically ill from the effects of multitrack recording in the early 2000’s, and now continues to mix for live concerts by such artists as Sufjan Stevens, Feist, Patti Smith, Lucius, Bahamas, Sam Roberts, James Vincent McMorrow and Gabriel Kahane, to name a few. Brenndan lives off-the-grid in a refurbished 1969 Airstream trailer and is a huge proponent of nano homes, doing design and fabrication of alternative housing, custom furniture and vehicles.

ANNIE TIPPE Annie Tippe is thrilled to be working with John and Gabriel on The Ambassador. Directing credits include Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet (The Bushwick Starr); Aaron/Marie (w. , Hall, Wembley Arena and the Sydney Opera House, appearances Under the Radar Incoming! Series; PRELUDE Festival; Ars Nova on , Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and the ANT Fest), I Heard Sex Noises (ANT Fest), Debutante. (Bernie Wohl Colbert Report, a Gold record, and two Grammy wins for “Best New Center; ANT Fest), A Quiet Sip of Coffee (Summerworks Festival Artist” and “Best Alternative Album.” As violinist and violist, Moose & Wildside Festival, Canada), The Fall of Hotel Mudafier (SWIFT) is an active recording artist, having played on over 200 albums by and Dinosaur Play (HERE Arts). She was the Associate Director artists ranging from to to Joshua for the TEAM’s production of Mission Drift, Australia/Hong Kong Bell, as well as appearances on Grammy Award-winning albums Tour (dir. Rachel Chavkin). Williamstown Theater Directing Intern by and Loudon Wainwright III. Equally in demand as 2012, and a director for HERE Arts’ Smith & Tinker Writers Group an arranger, his work has been performed or recorded by Alabama 2013. Shakes, The National, tUnE-yArDs, Interpol, St. Vincent, , , and Punch Brothers. MARY ELLEN STEBBINS Mary Ellen Stebbins is an NYC-based lighting designer. Recent CASEY FOUBERT work: Columbine’s Paradise Theater (eighth blackbird--tour), Casey Foubert is a producer, engineer, songwriter, and multi- The Wedding Singer (New York Film Academy), The Traveling instrumentalist currently living in Madison, Wisconsin. In addition Imaginary (Orbiting Human Circus--tour), The Seven (Columbia to his work with Gabriel Kahane he has worked with Sufjan Stages), On the Verge (NewRep). NYC credits include work with Stevens, Richard Swift, David Bazan, Damien Jurado, and many Gotham Chamber Opera; Sightline; Atlantic Arts Foundation; others. Columbia Stages; Target Margin; Waterwell; Heiress; Royal Family; and Ritual Theatre. Regional credits include eighth ALEX SOPP blackbird; New Repertory Theatre; Peabody Essex Museum; Bristol Alex Sopp is the flutist of The Knights, yMusic, and NOW Valley Theater; UCSD Dept of Music; Princeton University; and Ensemble, and frequently performs with the NY Philharmonic, Silk Interrobang. Mary Ellen is the Resident Lighting Designer for the Road Ensemble, and International Contemporary Ensemble. She Encounters Ensemble at the Peabody Essex Museum and also for has recently made guest appearances with the Mariinsky Orchestra, Sightline Theater. Mary Ellen received the 2011 USITT Barbizon the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and the Los Angeles Lighting Design Award and was a 2009 Hangar Theatre Lab Chamber Orchestra. Alex made her Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist Company Design Fellow. She holds an MFA from Boston University with the NY Youth Symphony and was featured as a soloist with the and an AB from Harvard College. NY Philharmonic under the direction of David Robertson. She has commissioned, premiered, recorded, and closely collaborated with ROB MOOSE the most exciting composers and songwriters of our time including Rob Moose has emerged in the last decade as one of the most sought Nico Muhly, , Philip Glass, Jonsí, , -after instrumentalists, arrangers and producers of his generation. Oswaldo Golijov, Gabriel Kahane, , Sufjan Stevens, The As violinist and guitarist, Moose has toured with Antony & the National, Björk, Dirty Projectors, Son Lux, and St. Vincent. In Johnsons, Sufjan Stevens, , and addition to her musical adventures, Alex is active as a visual artist Glen Hansard. In 2011, he joined , writing arrangements and has done artwork for several albums, websites, as well as and recording strings for the group’s sophomore album. Highlights private commissions. Alex is a native of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, of that experience included sold-out concerts at Radio City Music and completed her education at The Juilliard School. ARTIST BOOKSHELF

“The Ambassador is so much a piece in which cultural artifacts “talk” to one another, a piece in which I’ve written songs in response to books, films, and buildings, and there are many books that had a direct impact on its creation. The first four titles on this list offer a kind of genealogy of writing about Los Angeles. For many, Esther McCoy is the matriarch of L.A. architecture criticism, and one can draw a line through her work to the British architectural historian Reyner Banham and then to Mike Davis. Each has provided us at least one volume that is totemic in its impact on how we read Los Angeles.

Next comes Joan Didion, one of the great scribes of Southern California, and one of the most elegant prose stylists of the century. We Tell Ourselves... is a bit of a cheat, inasmuch as it’s a massive collection of several non-fiction books, but with a writer as significant as Didion, it seems unfair to have to choose just one.

Speaking of prose stylists, James M. Cain is, I think, unfairly In keeping with our ongoing exploration into language and neglected as a writer of direct and yet stylish sentences. the written word, we’re asking artists on the season to share Overshadowed by the rather more blunt Chandler, whom I thoughts on what they’re reading and why. Gabriel Kahane also adore, Cain nevertheless left us with a handful of small shared a selection specifically related to the work you will see masterpieces, foremost among them being Mildred Pierce. tonight. For more artist selections visit cap.ucla.edu/artists_ I’ve included Chandler’s The Long Goodbye as well, the most bookshelf ambitious and autobiographical of the Marlowe detective novels, and the inspiration for the song Musso and Frank (6667 Hollywood Blvd.), featured in The Ambassador. • Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader • - Esther McCoy Finally, there’s the peculiar inclusion of the contemporary • Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies - Reyner German novelist W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. Though Sebald wrote Banham primarily about Europe, and in particular post-war Germany’s • City of Quartz - Mike Davis struggle to make sense of the legacy of Nazism, his central • The Ecology of Fear - Mike Davis concern as a writer seems to me to have been the question of • We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live: Collected Non- how memory and place relate to one another, a concern that is at fiction - Joan Didion the heart of The Ambassador.” • Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain • The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler - Gabriel Kahane • Austerlitz - W.G. Sebal Photo by Josh Goleman

been hailed by as an “elegant soloist” with a TED POOR sound “devotional with its liquid intensity.” Nathan explores other Upon graduating from the Eastman School of Music in 2003, musical interests by playing with an array of adventurous ensembles drummer Ted Poor moved to New York City, where he has made a such as Alarm Will Sound, ACME, New York Baroque Incorporated, deep impression on the jazz and improvised music scene. Modern , and the Wordless Orchestra. He is also a founding Drummer describes his playing as “adventurous, truly dynamic, and member of the jazz string trio Speed Bump, an ensemble devoted to forward-thinking.” Jazz Review writes, “Ted has an uncanny ability improvisation and performing their own compositions. Nathan is to shape the music and a refreshingly unique, organic approach to the Founding Director of Musicambia, a New York-based initiative playing the drums.” Ted has toured the world over and is a regular establishing a creative network of music conservatories within member of many bands, including those of Grammy award winning prisons and jails. In addition to their work in the U.S., Musicambia trumpeter Cuong Vu, guitarist Ben Monder, Todd Sickafoose, and has collaborated with projects in Venezuela and Scotland. the Respect Sextet. He leads several projects of his own including Mt. Varnum, Triggerfish, and the Ted Poor Quartet. As an in- LAURA LUTZKE demand sideman, Ted has appeared on dozens of recordings and has Laura Lutzke enjoys a musically versatile career, with a passion for shared the stage with many world renowned artists such as Kurt solo playing, chamber music and new ways of making music. She Rosenwinkel, Bill Frisell, Myra Melford, Eric Revis, Kenny Werner, has performed and taught at the Caramoor, Bowdoin, and Birdfoot Chris Potter, Shara Worden, Ben Street, Aaron Parks, Maria international music festivals. She also participates regularly in the Schneider, and Ralph Alessi. Ted is currently an Artist in Residence Cervo Chamber Music festival in Italy, Saronic Chamber Music at the University of Washington in Seattle. Festival in Poros, Greece, Lake Tahoe SummerFest in California, and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove. She is a current NATHAN SCHRAM member of the critically-acclaimed American Contemporary Music Nathan Schram is the violist of the Bryant Park Quartet as well as Ensemble (ACME), based in New York City. She has collaborated a member of the Carnegie Hall-trained ensemble Decoda. He has with Gabriel Kahane, Johann Johannsson, Nico Muhly, Stars of the Lid, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Yann Tiersen, among others. COMING UP AT CAP UCLA Laura earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of Lewis Kaplan, and she has most recently completed a second Master of Music with Distinction with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

ANDREA LEE Cellist Andrea Lee, who has been praised for her “elegant solo work” (New York Times) and “sublime” playing (Times Union), enjoys a busy freelance and teaching career in New York City. She makes frequent appearances with such ensembles as East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), IRIS Orchestra, yMusic, the Knights and A Far Cry, with whom she recorded the Grammy-nominated album, Dreams and Prayers. She has participated in festivals in the U.S. and Europe, including Taos School of Music, Spoleto Festival USA, IMS Prussia Cove, Holland Music Sessions, and Banff. Her love for chamber music has led her to work closely with members of the Tokyo, Takacs, Guarneri, Borromeo, Cleveland, and Brentano Pilc Moutin Hoenig Quartets, as well as collaborate in performance with members of Fri, Mar 6 at 8 pm the Borromeo, Jupiter, and Miami Quartets. Schoenberg Hall As a devoted teacher, Andrea serves on the faculties of the Chamber Music Conference of the East at Bennington College and the School Partnership Program. Her principal teachers include Richard Aaron, Yeesun Kim, and Timothy Eddy, and in masterclasses, she has received further guidance from Frans Helmerson, Janos Starker, Anner Bylsma, and Ralph Kirshbaum. She holds a BA in history with distinction from Yale University, whereupon graduating, she received the Bach Society Prize and the T. Whitney Blake Memorial Prize. She went on to earn graduate degrees in cello performance from New England Conservatory and Mannes College.

MARY SUE GREGSON Mary-Susan Gregson has stage managed over twenty-five productions for The New Victory Theater beginning with the Opening Celebration; she also opened the New 42nd season production coordinating for Lincoln Center Festival including Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Retrospective, Peony Pavilion, the Druid, Claire Chase: Harold Pinter, Brian Friel, and Beckett Festivals. At BAM: Dance Africa 35th with John Malkovich, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, Tan Dun’s Cerchio Tagliato dei Suoni and Density The Gate, Sufjan Steven’s BQE, and currently Gabriel Kahane’s The Sat, Apr 4 at 4 pm Ambassador. New York: 24 Hour Play Festival, New Island Festival Schoenberg Hall on Governors Island, Divinamente Festival, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Prince & The Pauper, The Jazz Nativity, Breaking the Code, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. For NJPAC: TD Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival, line producer for NJ Hall of Fame. Regional: Princeton Lewis Center for the Arts Dance Festivals, Montclair Peak Performances, McCarter Theatre, Yale Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival, Mass Moca, The Huntington, and the White House. Tours: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Elisa Monte, Jennifer Muller, Pilobolus and Forbidden Christmas starring Baryshnikov. St. Studios and The Duke.

The Ambassador images by Ben Cohen.

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