Marty Chandler, Ezra Stiles College

Martin Chandler has been a vital and important part of the theater scene at Yale. He completed his senior thesis in Theater and Performance Studies as a live, improvised performance play over Zoom as an experiment of improv in isolation. He submitted two plays, both of which look deeply at the “many-ness” of being human in ways that are both deep and gently humorous.

Schema is a quasi-memory play that “dis/integrates” a human soul to look at its multiplicity in harmony and conflict. A Butterfly in a Barbershop makes the tender ecosystem of a space of public engagement and self-care into a sweet place of revelation and confession.