Suzanne Appel joined The Cutting Ball Theater as its first Managing Director in June 2011. Appel completed her dual MBA/MFA in theater management from Yale’s schools of Management and Drama in May 2011. At Yale she served as Associate Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre where she presented No Boundaries: A Series of Global Performances in association with the World Performance Project at Yale. In that role she also managed Yale Rep’s touring production of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground in a new translation by Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff. Before attending Yale, she was the Director of Individual Giving at Dance Theater Workshop and the Assistant Director of the Wesleyan Annual Fund at Wesleyan University.