James Bundy (born May 8, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American theatre director and teacher who has served as Dean of Yale School of Drama and Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre since 2002. (wikipedia)
It's shocking. August is so full of life and energy and creativity and joy.
Every time a sentence about great American writers is written, it will include August's name, ... He defined the Yale Rep's relationship to groundbreaking American theater.
She contributed to the American theater in a lot of other ways than being a gifted playwright.
We all mourn the work that he won't get to go on and do, but there is consolation in the way his legacy will continue to inform the American experience for generations to come, and the Rep was a part of that.
She was a marvelous playwright who wrote vital, important female characters and vital, important male characters. Like many writers, she drew on personal experiences. But she was also a gifted observer of the human condition.
