Creative Team

The Yale Repertory Theatre Production of

HAPPY DAYS

By Samuel Beckett   
Featuring Dianne Wiest and Jarlath Conroy
Directed by James Bundy

Set Designer: Izmir Ickbal; Costume Designer: Alexae Visel; Lighting Designer: Stephen Strawbridge; Sound Designer: Kate Marvin;
Assistant Stage Manager: Helen Irene Muller*; Production Stage Manager: Kelly Montgomery*

*Actors and Stage Managers appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association.

JAMES BUNDY (Director) Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre since 2002, has directed for Yale Rep; The Acting Company; Great Lakes Theater Festival; Alabama, California, and Oregon Shakespeare Festivals; and the Juilliard School, among others. He was the 2007 winner of the Connecticut Critics Circle’s Tom Killen Award for extraordinary contributions to theatre in the state, and served on the board of directors of Theater Communications Group from 2007-2013. A graduate of Harvard College, he trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Yale School of Drama.
JARLATH CONROY (Willie). Broadway: The Seagull; The Weir; The Iceman Cometh; On the Waterfront; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Visit; Ghetto; Macbeth; Comedians. Off-Broadway: Loot, The Coward, A Man of No Importance, Pigtown, A Life, Our Lady of Sligo, A Couple Blaguards, Gardenia, the American premiere of Translations, and The Matchmaker. Regiona: Hamlet; Outside Mullingar; The Homecoming; Da; The Steward of Christendom (Barrymore Award); Juno and the Paycock (Helen Hayes Award); Henry V (Helen Hayes nom.); Faith Healer; Molly Sweeney; Twelfth Night; Ah, Wilderness!; The Plough and the Stars; and A Christmas Carol. At the Royal Court: Cromwell and Hamlet. He has also directed productions of True West and Human Resources. Film/TV: Putzel, True Grit (2010), The Art of Getting By, Across the Universe, Kinsey, Stay, Day of the Dead, Heaven’s Gate, Law & Order: SVU, NYPD Blue, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Beat, Summer, and A Marriage: O’Keefe and Stiegletz.
DIANNE WIEST (Winnie). New York theater credits include Rasheeda Speaking (The New Group), The Cherry Orchard (Classic Stage Company), Arthur Miller’s All My Sons on Broadway, The Seagull (CSC), Third, Memory House, Salome and Oedipus with Al Pacino, The Shawl, Hunting Cockroaches, After the Fall, Beyond Therapy, and The Art of Dining. For Yale Rep, she previously appeared in Hedda Gabler and A Doll House. Her film credits include Five Nights in Maine; Sisters; The Humbling; Synecdoche, New York; A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints; Hannah and Her Sisters (Academy Award); The Purple Rose of Cairo; Radio Days; September; Bullets Over Broadway (Academy Award); Parenthood (Academy Award nomination); Rabbit Hole; Footloose; Edward Scissorhands; and The Birdcage. She received Emmy Awards for her performances in The Road to Avonlea and the HBO series In Treatment and currently appears in the CBS series Life In Pieces.