School Notes: David Geffen School of Drama
May/June 2019

Design showcase and the Carlotta Festival of New Plays

This spring, Yale School of Drama inaugurates the Yale Design Showcase, an opportunity for theater professionals to visit the campus and meet the 2019 class of scenic, costume, lighting, sound, and projection designers, and to see their work up close.

“We are thrilled to be able to showcase the work of this amazingly gifted graduating class of designers. Visitors will be impressed by the originality and the range and depth of the creative output that they will encounter,” said Stephen Strawbridge ’83MFA, on behalf of his design department cochair Michael Yeargan ’73MFA and sound design chair David Budries. “We especially look forward to introducing these emerging artists to the many distinguished theater professionals that are expected to attend.”

The Yale Design Showcase, which takes place May 13–15, coincides with the school’s annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays: three fully produced new plays by graduating playwrights, featuring work by students from every department of the school, and performed in rotating repertory May 8–15. This year’s plays are YELL: A “documentary” of my time here by Jeremy O. Harris ’19MFA; Pivot by Alex Lubischer ’19MFA, and Locusts by Christopher Gabriel Nùñez ’19MFA.