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Friday, June 15, 2012

Dwight/Edewood Project Presents 8 Student Presentations

Yale Repertory Theatre andYale School of Drama presents the 17th annual Dwight/Edgewood Project (D/EP): eight original one-act plays written bystudents from Augusta Lewis Troup School and designed, produced, and performed by Yale School of Drama students, will be presented for two performances only on June 22 and June 23 at 7 pm at the Off-Broadway Theater (41 Broadway, New Haven).

Admission is free. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.

D/EP pairs eight sixth- and seventh-graders fromAugusta Lewis Troup School, who were selected based on their interest in writing and storytelling, with mentors from Yale School of Drama. During the month of June, the students work one-on-one with their mentors and learn about theatre and playwriting through interactive games and writing exercises. Each student then writes an original one-act play, which is designed, directed, and performed by the same Yale School of Drama artists who have served as teachers and mentors to the young playwrights.

The program onFriday, June 22 features: Revorby Saran Toure, Chaotic Friendship Duo byParis Ransom, What Are We? by Saschin Choy, and The Kings of Friendsby Nikolaos Constantopoulous.

The program on Saturday, June 23 features: Helping out Cheat byRaQuan Jones, Little Big Footby Ashley Chapman, Trust Me When Feeling Down by Daneel Morrison, andNo Such Thing As Perfect byKiyesha Smith.

The staff of the Dwight/Edgewood Project 2012 includesMerlin Huff and Melissa Zimmerman (Co-Producing Directors), Jack Tamburri and Dustin Willis (Directors),Rachel Gordon Smallwood (Scenic Designer),Nikki Delhomme (Costume Designer), Benjamin Ehrenreich (Lighting Designer), Keri Klick (Sound Designer/Composer), Sonja Thorson (Production Stage Manager), Brian Smallwood (Technical Director), and Maree Barbara Tan-Tiongco (Assistant Technical Director). Mentors include Jabari Brisport (Yale Presidential Public Service Fellow), Ceci Fernandez,Sophie von Haselberg, Mary Laws, Dan O’Brien, Emily Reilly,and Jon Wemette. The Teaching Artist isMichael Walkup.

The Dwight/Edgewood Project 2012 is made possible in part by Yale Repertory Theatre/Yale School of Drama, Yale University Office of New Haven and State Affairs, Ms. Esme Usdan, The Lucille Lortel Foundation, Allegra Print and Imaging, and individual donors.

For more information, please call (203) 432-2174.
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Lauren Yarger has written, directed and produced
numerous shows and special events for both secular and Christian audiences. She co-wrote a Christian musical version of “A Christmas Carol” which played to sold-out audiences of over 3,000 in Vermont and was awarded the 2000 Vermont
Bessie (theater and film awards) for “People’s Choice for Theatre.”

Yarger trained for three years in the Broadway
League’s Producer Development Program, completed the Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Three-Day Training and produced a one-woman musical about Mary Magdalene that toured nationally and closed with an off-Broadway
run.

She was a Fellow at the National Critics Institute at the O'Neill
Theater Center in Waterford, CT. She writes reviews of Broadway and off-Broadway theater (the only ones you can find in the US with an added Christian perspective) at http://reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com/. She
is editor of The Connecticut Arts Connection (http://ctarts.blogspot.com), CT Press Club's award winner of first place for web editing and second place in feature writing for the web in 2012.

She is a contributing editor for BroadwayWorld.com and is a theater reviewer for the Manchester Journal-Inquirer. She previously served as Connecticut theater editor
for CurtainUp.com and as Connecticut and New York reviewer for American Theater Web. Yarger is a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly and freelances for other sites. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

She is a freelance writer and playwright and member of The Drama Desk, The Outer Critics Circle, The American Theater Critics Association and The League of Professional Theatre Women. She served as a judge for the SDX Awards presented
by the Society of Professional Journalists. She also is a member of the Connecticut Critics Circle (awards committee).

A former newspaper editor and graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, Yarger also worked in arts management for the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts,
the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and served for nine years as the Executive Director of Masterwork Productions, Inc. She lives with her husband in West Granby, CT. They have two adult children.

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