Meryl was Yale's leading lady. The School recognized her remarkable talent and worked her unmercifully.
Christopher Durang

1972-73
"Shearwater" - William Hauptman
"The Royal Pardon" - John Arden
"Major Barbara" - George Bernard Shaw
"Lower Depths" - Maxim Gorky

1973-74
"Edward II" - Christopher Marlowe
"The Brothers Karamazov" - Christopher Durang
"The Balcony" - Jean Genet
"Cock-a-Doodle Dandy" - Sean O'Casey
"The Frogs" - Stephen Sondheim

1974-75
"The Possessed" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Idiots Karamazov" - Christopher Durang/Albert Innaurato
"Happy End" - Bertolt Brecht
"The Father" - August Strindberg
"Shaft of Love" - Charles DiZenzo
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" - William Shakespeare


Special thanks to Janine and Pamela at The Yale School of Drama for researching Meryl's credits for MSO, and to Jamie for contributing the above photo of Meryl (center) as Miss Havisham in The Idiots Karamazov. Photographer unknown.