The Yale University Dramatic Association, Inc

President: Meredith Davis, CC '13
The President assumes responsibility for coordinating the activities of the Board and the effective functioning of all departments of the Association. She represents the Association in any negotiations with Yale University and presides at all meetings of the Executive Board and of the Producing Membership. 

Meredith is a junior American Studies major originally from Mexico City and a proud Hounie. Her favorite things are traveling, coffee, and theater. Sometimes, all three of those things happen at the same time, and then you know it's a good day.

Vice President: Amelia Urry, TD '13 
The Vice-President assists the President and conduct meetings in the absence of the President. She takes responsibility for all Association Correspondence, including that with the alumni, as well as being in charge of fundraising. 

Amelia is a junior in TD and an English Major/Lighting Designer. When not leaning on tiptoe out of a swaying genie, she likes to indulge a geriatric fondness for cats and rooms full of books.

Secretary: Chris Bakes, MC '14 
The Secretary takes minutes at all Board meetings. He is also responsible for the administration of all e-mail lists, as well as for compiling and sending out the weekly Theater Bulletin. The secretary is also responsible for many of the daily operations of the Dramat, including coordinating elections.

Chris is a Morse sophomore, a French major, and a Connecticut Yankee who has yet to visit King Arthur's Court. Hobbies include donning tweed and bow ties (and sometimes tweed bow ties).

Treasurer: Melissa Cail, PC '13 
The Treasurer is in charge of the Dramat's finances. She runs financial strikes, writes and deposits checks, and does the Dramat's taxes. She also creates yearly financial reports to track the Dramat's costs and expenditures. 

Melissa, a native of Manchester, NH, is a junior American Studies and Theater Studies major in Pierson College. She produced last semester's mainstage, Sweeney Todd, and is excited to spend even more of the Dramat's money this semester as treasurer. If Melissa had her way, there would be wenzels at every Dramat event.

Production Officer: Samantha Hansen, SM '13 
The Production Officer is responsible for communication between the Dramat and the Drama School, and is also the primary liaison to the Technical Advisor. She is in charge of ensuring that all show activities are carried out safely and efficiently, and that all Drama School facilities and equipment are treated with the utmost care. She is in command during load-ins and strikes of all Dramat shows 

Sam is a junior history major in Silliman. She is often found in the theater, in a hard hat, with her Moleskine in one hand and a chai in the other. Away from the Dramat, Sam is found constantly listening to her iPod and obsessively checking her BlackBerry for emails. She also loves the Yankees, animated films, and late night chat sessions with her friends.

Marketing Director: Zoe LaPalombara, SM '13 
The Marketing Director works with graphic designers to create posters, programs, and a signboard to advertise each Dramat show. She is also responsible for securing advertising contracts for programs. She coordinates with Yale and local media for advertising and reviews of Dramat shows. 

Zoe is a Psychology major in Silliman. Her primary focus in theater is lighting design, though she enjoys being a master electrician and a member of sets crew as well. Her interests outside of theater include playing the vocal trumpet, air drums, air guitar, and the occasional real instrument.

Special Events Coordinator: Connor Lounsbury, CC '14 
The Special Events Coordinator organizes all of the extra events for the membership, such as the birthday party, membership dinner, and DRAMATalks. 

Connor is a sophomore Theater Studies and Political Science major in Calhoun College who loves to be onstage. His favorite things outside of the theater are political campaigns, Starbucks, and the beach. He wears-flips year-round.

Fall Mainstage Producer: Emma Hills, TC '14 
The Fall Mainstage Producer produces the Yale-Harvard Weekend Show. Her responsibilities include (in collaboration with the rest of the Executive Board) selection of the plays and hiring the professionals. She lines up the student staff and crew, organizes auditions, creates the budget, runs production meetings, and coordinates with the fire and safety inspectors. Ultimately, she makes sure that the show goes up on time, within the budget, and in the best form possible. 

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

Spring Mainstage Producer: Yuvika Tolani, TC '14 
The Spring Mainstage Producer's duties are essentially the same as those of the Fall Mainstage Producer. However, the Spring Mainstage is generally a straight play, and exceptional students are given the opportunity to design alongside the professional director and designers.

Yuvika is a sophomore in Trumbull considering a double major in Theater Studies and Psychology. She grew up in India, lived in Singapore, and doesn't really understand snow. Her favorite things are singing with her a cappella group, working on productions, waffle quesadillas, and eating peanut butter.

Associate Board

The Associate Board is appointed by the Executive Board on an application basis. The term of an Associate Board member lasts one semester.

Costume Shop Manager: Dara Eliacin, BR '15 
The Costume Shop Manager is responsible for maintaining an efficient costume shop. This includes keeping the costume shop clean and orderly, keeping an accurate inventory of the costumes and supplies the Dramat owns, and managing the costume shop budget. She also offers at least one workshop per semester on costuming-related techniques, such as sewing machine use. Finally, she is responsible for the coordination and oversight of rentals, including both rentals of Dramat-owned costumes to non-Dramat shows and rentals of YSD-owned costumes by Dramat shows (both in terms of coordination with the YSD Costume Shop and maintenance of accurate rental records.)

Dara is a freshman in Branford who has a rare condition that causes her to grow in both energy and weirdness the longer you get to know her. All "normal" people beware.

Scenic Shop Manager: Autumn Von Plinsky, TD '13 
The Scenic Shop Manager is responsible for maintaining a clean and orderly shop. This responsibility includes keeping an updated inventory of available supplies, ordering new tools and supplies when necessary, managing the scenic shop budget, and regularly working with the Production Officer and sets crews of Dramat shows to ensure the shop is appropriately cleaned. She works with the Assistant Production Officer to coordinate at least two workshops per semester on subjects such as tool use and construction techniques. 

Autumn is a junior art major in Timothy Dwight (Ashe, TD!), and in the Dramat loves being a paint charge, on sets crews, and being a TD.  Out of the Dramat she loves confusing her parents and friends by saying she's sometimes a TD TD, but not always, even though she is always in TD, except when she's not.

Electrics Shop Manager: Hillary Luong, PC '14
The Electrics Shop Manager is responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the Master Electrician's toolkit and the Dramat gel, lamp, and gobo inventory. This responsibility includes keeping an updated inventory of available supplies, ordering new supplies when necessary in conjunction with the Master Electrician of each show, and keeping the gel supply organized and easily accessible. The Electrics Shop Manager also assists the Scenic Shop Manager when necessary with larger projects, including the ordering of new tools and supplies and any scenic shop capital improvements.

The fur of an adult dingo is short, bushy on the tail, and varies in thickness and length depending on the climate.

Assistant Marketing Director: Sara Hendel, DC '14
The Assistant Marketing Director assists in the creative design of Dramat projects, and works with the Marketing Director to ensure that all advertising (such as posters, signboards, and banners) is in place during show runs. She also assists in the coordination of group sales.

Sara's alter ego is named Saranda. She wears hoop earrings.

Outreach Coordinator: Kyle Yoder, TC '15

The Outreach Coordinator egages with the Yale, New Haven, and Dramat alumni communities. He works with the Vice President to coordinate all fundraising campaigns, process donations and to maintain a working database of Dramat alumni. He also is responsible for assisting the Box Office Manager in working the box office before each performance, so he should be available to run the Box Office for the weekends of September 29th-October 1st, October 6th-8th, and November 16th-19th. Finally, he/she assists in the planning and carrying out of outreach events such as Info Sessions, and spearheads the Dramat’s collaboration with the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Charity.

Kyle Yoder is a freshman in Trumbull who enjoys pretending to be Irish, dangling eighty feet off the ground, stalking Chris Bakes, and doing a lot of generally theatre-y things.  His tool of choice is a sonic screwdriver.

Assistant Special Events Coordinator: Zina Ellis, CC '15
The Assistant Special Events Coordinator is responsible for organizing membership nights attending plays at the Rep and around Yale. She also assists in the organization of parties and DRAMATalks. 

Zina likes it when animals of different species are friends with each other. She also likes almost anything that is not sports or homework.

House Manager: Shannon Csorny, SY '15
The House Manager is responsible for finding ushers, coordinating concessions (both before and during the performances) and working with the Production Officer to schedule a walkthrough of theatre spaces with the YSD/YRT Operations Manager and acquire walkie talkies and assisted listening devices for each Dramat show. She is expected to attend each show to manage the ushers and sell concessions, or to find an appropriate substitute if necessary.

Shannon is a freshman in Saybrook, and is unreasonably fond of chocolate and Charlie Brown. When in a theater she is most often seen clambering around on scaffolding or jumping about like the Irish do. She also answers to Sassy Monkey.

Box Office Manager: Suzanna Fritzberg, CC '14
The Box Office Manager is responsible for ordering or printing tickets, tracking reservations online and keeping track of ticket stubs and box office revenue. She prepares reserved tickets before each show and finds personnel to assist in working the box office for each performance. He is expected to attend each show to run the box office at the door, or to find an appropriate substitute if necessary. She is also responsible for attending financial strike to assist the Treasurer in keeping track of box office revenue.

Suzanna Fritzberg is a sophomore in Calhoun College, and enjoys producing, stage managing, and peanut butter. Sadly, Suzanna neithercomes from Alabama nor plays the banjo.

Historian: Rebecca Miller, PC '14
The Historian works on maintaining Dramat archives and updating the large amount of files in a coherent and aesthetic fashion. She also works with the Development Assistant to research the history of the Dramat. 

Rebecca Miller is the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and Austrain photographer Inge Morath. She is most known for her films Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, The Ballad of Jake and Rose, Angela, and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. 

Assistant Production Officer: Laurel German, TD '15
The Assistant Production Officer is responsible for working with the Production Officer to schedule training workshops, scheduling load in and strike, setting up fire drills, and coordinating Dramat Board key distribution. She also maintains Crown Down and the Dramat Green Room and the Dramat office by regularly cleaning them so that they are up to YSD standards and may be used effectively for rehearsals and meetings. 

Laurel is a Timothy Dwight freshman from Los Angeles.  When she's not in the theatre, she gets worried about why she's not in the theatre.  She enjoys dancing, inventing sound effects, and spontaneous singing in public.  She may or may not secretly be a superhero.

Technology Coordinator: Ben Green, PC '14
The Technology Coordinator is responsible for updating the Dramat website with show information and with historical records. He also works with the Archivist to make photo CDs and DVDs for all Dramat shows.

Ben once left a piece of sushi on his plate at Miya's. He is yet to live it down.

Development Coordinator: Derek Braverman, PC '15

The Development Coordinator is responsible for working with Dramat shop managers to plan improvements for Dramat spaces, and researching and implementing institutional advancement

Derek Braverman is a freshman in Pierson College majoring in biology. While not producing or acting, he plays violin in the Davenport Pops Orchestra and serves as the teller of the Yale Political Union. He shares his birthday with Bobby Kennedy and Joe Biden.