The Yale Cabaret Recalibration

Ethan Heard, just-named Artistic Director of the 2012-13 Yale Cabaret.

At its final show of the 2011-12 season this past weekend, the Yale Cabaret announced who will be leading the student-run, experimental, underground, 44-year-old theater space at 217 Park Street next year:

Ethan Heard, Artistic Director

Jonathan Wemette, Managing Director

Benjamin Fainstein and Nicholas Hussong, Associate Artistic Directors

Xaq Webb, Asssociate Managing Director (Fall semester)

Serving on the Board of Artistic Associates:

Margot Bordelon (Directing)

Eric Casanova (Technical Design & Production)

Lauren Dubowski (Dramaturgy)

Alyssa Howard (Stage Management)

Martha Kaufman (Playwriting)

Jenny Lagundino (Theater Management)

Jack Moran (Acting)

Matt Otto (Sound Design)

Masha Tsmiring (Design)

So farewell then to the 2011-12 team of co-Artistic Directors Kate Attwell, Lileana Blain-Cruz and Michael Place. Managing Director Matthew Gutschick, Associate Managing Directors Jonathan Wemette (Fall) and Lico Whitfield (Spring),  and community board members Margot Bordelon, Ken Goodwin, Teddy Griffith, Kristin Hodges, Karena Fiorenza Ingersoll, Martyna Majok, Adam Rigg, Anne Seiwerath, Adina Verson, Karen Walcott and Hannah Wasileski.

You’ll see many of these students at work before the next Cabaret season begins, since May brings the Carlotta Festival of New Plays (written, directed, designed and performed—as are most things at the Cabaret—by Yale School of Drama students) and June/July/August is the Summer Cabaret at Yale, a repertory season whose theme this summer is 50 Nights: A Festival of Stories.

As for Ethan Heard, hopes are high for another diverse, multi-disciplinary, envelope-pushing season. Heard directed Trannequin! The Musical at the Cabaret in the spring of 2011 and Basement Hades: Songs from the Underground there just last month. Some of us even recall him as a Yale undergrad in the mid-‘00s. His extensive bio is here.