Just as the Yale Cabaret 2010-11 season was concluding and the Summer Cabaret Shakespeare Festival was getting trumpeted louder and louder, along came the just-in-time announcement of who will be running the school-term Cabaret next year:
Sunder Gangliani
Kate Attwell,
Lileana Blain-Cruz
Michael “Micky” Place
plus Matthew Gutschick as the Managing Director.
That’s right, four co-Artistic Directors, again rewriting the rules of how the Yale Cabaret can be run. The place has been co-administrated by multiple people before, but usually bearing more “advisory” titles. The recent norm has been one or two artistic directors and one managing director.
A pack of five bodes well for the sort of ensemble work which has distinguished the Cabaret in recent seasons. Blain-Cruz, for instances, oversaw the memorable devised work based on Wilde’s Salome which ended the 2009-10 season, as well as the solo show (performed by Sheria Irving) Hollow Roots this past season. Attwell directed Amelia Roper’s Hong Kong Dinosaur: A Real Aussie Love Story. Gutschick was credited as producer of the penultimate 2010-11 Cabaret attraction, Dorian Gray, while Gangliani both acts and plays viola in the final show of this season, The Perks: A Rite of Spring.
No time for audience interest to wane. The 2010-11 season is only just ending, and anticipation for the next is already burning within me.