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Lileana Blain-Cruz is a director from New York City and Miami. She is currently studying for her MFA in directing at the Yale School of Drama, where she has directed Cavity, Buffalo Maine, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, and The Taming of the Shrew. She is one of the co-artistic directors of the 2011-2012 Yale Cabaret, where she previously directed Salome; Vaska Vaska,Glöm; and Hollow Roots. She is a co-founder and director of the ensemble company Overhead Projector, which devises new work, an Artistic Associate of The Exchange & The Orchard Project, and a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. Lileana served as Assistant Director to Bartlett Sher on the Broadway revival of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. As the Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow at Arena Stage, Lileana assisted directors Lee Breuer, Tazewell Thompson, and Paulette Randall. She is a graduate of Princeton University. Lileana's production of Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights will be presented at Yale School of Drama from October 25 thru 29, 2011. |
Born in Bucharest, Romania, Alexandru Mihail earned his BA in theatre directing from The National University of Theatre and Film "I.L. Caragiale”. In 2005 he won the prestigious UNITER Prize for Debut for his production of Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. He also directed The Dresser by Ronald Harwood (Constanta State Theatre, 2009); Tlicked by Gabriel Pintilei (Odeon Theatre, Bucharest, 2010); and the television series Poor Man, Rich Man (MediaPro Pictures). In 2009, Alexandru won a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the MFA program at Yale School of Drama. At the Drama School and the Yale Cabaret, his productions have included Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Chekhov's The Wedding Reception. His production of Chekhov’s The Seagull will be presented at Yale School of Drama January 24 thru 28, 2012.
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Louisa Proske is from Berlin, Germany and is in her third year at the Yale School of Drama's MFA program in directing. Her theatre and opera productions include the world premiere of the opera Invisible Cities at the Italian Academy in New York; an international tour of Macbeth; As You Like It (Yale Summer Cabaret Shakespeare Festival); 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (The Tank, NYC); The Lover (Yale School of Drama); A Servant To Two Masters (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); The Barber Shop (Cambridge Footlights); 4.48 Psychosis; The Importance of Being Earnest; No Exit (all Apollonysus Theatre, York, UK); and a tour of a company-devised piece (Lucy's Dream) through schools and orphanages in India and Nepal. Louisa has assisted such prominent opera and theatre directors as Willy Decker, Harry Kupfer, and Robert Woodruff. Louisa received her BA in English Literature from Cambridge University, UK, and a second BA in Philosophy and Politics from York University. Louisa's next production will be Cymbeline, running December 10 thru 16, 2011 at Yale School of Drama
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