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Sarah Karl

The Summer I Ate Ice Cream and Cried

Sarah Karl is originally from Miami, Florida, where she received formal training in visual arts. She holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase in Theatre Design/Technology with a concentration in Scenic Design, and a minor in Visual Arts. She recently graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in Scenic Design. Sarah is currently a New York City-based designer for theater, opera, film + television, and events. Her most recent work includes The Plot (Yale Repertory Theatre), and Hamlet (Yale School of Drama).

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Ilia Isorelýs Paulino

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Ilia Isorelýs Paulino is a recent Graduate of the Yale School of Drama '20, where she honed her acting skills and grew immensely as an artist. Hailing from the beautiful Island of the Dominican Republic where art and culture combine to create an explosion of life. Where her love language is delicious food, and lively music. She is hungry to work and to start healing the world through laughter and craft.

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Branson Rideaux & Jax Blaska

Living as a HumanPerson(™)

Jax and Bran have been two peas in a anti-social quarantine pod since their first year of college. Long before the virus, the unnecessarily rigid frameworks of some theater traditions & methods found them imagining new possibilities. Passionate collaborators and close friends, Jax and Bran are so excited to be working on "Living as HumanPerson", their first collaborative project as diploma-holding young adults. Jax graduated as a double major in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Theater and Performane Studies, while Bran studied African American Studies with a concentration in Critical Race Theory and Performance Studies. Both have been working in theatre for the last four years, both on-campus (The Dramat, Control Group, Heritage Theatre Ensemble, and Undergraduate Productions) and off-campus (The Public Theatre, Dixon Place, JACK, Ely Center of Contemporary Art). This intersectional duo can't wait to play with the themes of personhood, performativity, race, gender, beauty, and wellness that surrounds their new work. 

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Alexis Robbins

When you're supposed to perform but the world shuts down... a quarantine film project

Since 2015, kamrDANCE has been intricately fusing tap, percussive movement, and contemporary dance with humor to investigate the female experience, laughter, and absurdity. Under the direction of Artistic Director and Choreographer Alexis Robbins, kamrDANCE has performed at venues across the northeast, including Woods Hole Community Hall, Arlington Center for the Arts, Hudson Guild Theater, Triskelion Arts, Actors Fund Arts Center, Dixon Place, Center for Performance Research, Highline Ballroom, Symphony Space, AS220 and more. In 2018, Robbins was the NACHMO featured artist for the NACHMO Theater Shows and produced her first evening-length show Defining Characteristics at SMUSH Gallery in Jersey City for two nights of sold out audiences. This work was also commissioned to be shared at the Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn, in which subway cars and platforms became an interactive performance space.

kamrDANCE has self produced two dance films which have been screened in New York, New Jersey, Texas, and Bergen, Norway. In 2019, Robbins was selected to create a new dance film for One Day Dance Season Two and is a commissioned choreographer through Artspace New Haven for City Wide Open Studios. Most recently, kamrDANCE performed one of their newest work's "Are you or do you?" in FEMME FEST at Dixon Place in NYC and was invited to perform and teach in Atlanta, GA by Zoetic Dance Ensemble. Robbins is also a recent recipient of the Arts Workforce Initiative Sponsorship through the New Haven Arts Council and the Connecticut Office of the Arts for producing monthly, community tap jams with live music. 

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Zak Rosen

Godscrawl

Zak is a recent Yale graduate with a double major in Theater Studies and Ethics, Politics, and Economics with the Energy Studies special program. He has worked in all aspects of theater from writing to tech to directing but loves acting the most.

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The Truck

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The truck was born in 1990 and purchased by Brenton F. Douglas (father of the playwright Margaret E. Douglas) in the fall of that year in Panama City, Florida. A large car, its early purpose was to transport the Douglas family as they moved from Florida to Alaska to Massachusetts to New Hampshire, as stationed by the United States Air Force. Upon her graduation from high school Margaret E. Douglas became the primary owner of the vehicle. The truck travelled across the country and back again, then settled into a quiet block in the Ditmas Park neighborhood of Brooklyn while Margaret attended Brooklyn College. During this time the truck spent summers working as a transport vehicle for the Appalachian Mountain Club and still sports its iconic SHELTERS logo proudly on its back door. A recent fixture semi legally parked in various areas of the Yale School of Drama, the truck has been a featured artist in the Yale Cabaret Satellite Festival, starring as the truck in Truck, Truck II, and Truck III. At 30 years old, the truck has lived a long and wild life alongside its friend and collaborator Margaret E. Douglas. Facing health problems such as rust and a failure to pass inspection, the truck now plans to retire to Arizona and lounge about the yard of another long time friend, Hillary F. Douglas. 

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