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ARTSY | WAXINGHYPNOTIC

Beat by KYLO

Lyrics by ESTÉE ASTRA

Send that projection back to sender 

Unqualified pretender 

Committed to surrender 

And relishing in splendor 

New Renaissance vibration 

Re son ate liberation 

Consensus deviation 

Penetration

Spiritual masturbation 

Dead like a corporation 

10th house of reputation

Soul reconciliation 

Occult initiation 

Social configuration 

Emo manipulation 

“Get it, get it” 

Deflecting deceiving corrupting program anagram for moronic 

Busy bodies be asking how do you suggest we keep it hegemonic?

Constructed confusion illusion amnesia platonic plutonic 

Turn 

leave it 

stop it 

format it 

you keep it awake 

and I’ll keep it 

I’ll keep it hypnotic 

Google allopathic apartheid 

Social engineering in hindsight 

So sure

So convinced you’re the right side 

Teleprompter whores on primetime 

Pyramids with sights on all sides 

I watch what I eat 

I don’t eat what I say 

“Maria, maria”

Distracted synastry overlay 

Saturnian truancy 

Bacchanalian lunacy 

Blessed by the spirit and Intermittent ingenuity 

Activating creativity 

Ecliptic

A mystic 

Apoplectic when in captivity 

I got beef with academia 

Allergic to comedia

Fake love for Dionysia 

Corralling perception like catatonic Schizophrenia 

The artist to asset line, controlling what’s in the media 

Conditioned commissioned to practice inner world bulimia  

She’ll see her name in lights, she will go far, call her Taina 

Sovereignty mercy

Your inner child is thirsty 

Let go of what you’ve outgrown and begin a self love journey 

Abandoning monotony 

That tenacity nasty 

The only thing left to do embody infinity

Connecting with that subtle body ody ody ody

Don’t need permission

Sheer contrition

Join the pineal party

She illumines ego illusions yeah that means she’s artsy

Translating god in gentle form because that shit is gnarly 

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LALALAND | WAXINGHYPNOTIC

Beat by KYLO

Lyrics by ESTÉE ASTRA

Echoes in my mind 

Subconscious bespoke design 

Etching loopholes once divined 

Don’t get confused let me opine 

Inner archetypes aligned 

Make this ego wanna shine 

Sacred science before swine 

Bleeding hunger of the pine 

And I’m crazy for asking the right kind if people, adrenal

The wrong kind of questions 

Audaciously curious 

Seventh Aquarius 

Amputating your assumptions 

Burning energy source

That just can’t be ignored 

Leo rising commands your attention

Water-bearer age 

All the world’s a stage

When you live in la-la land 

La la la la land

La la la la land

La la la la land

La la la la land

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Distracted 

Doped up orphans 

Pineal distortions 

Tough that your misfortune 

Is something you attracted 

Shame based voices and curated choices 

Of thought forms and forces 

Gatekeeping the 

House of the other 

Project and you suffer

Lay down your ego and forgive your mother

Bitch take a seato

Your soul’s incognito 

High voltage exposure 

And boom, clap, magneto

Self contained electricity

Ancient, futuristic technology

Elegance

In a trance 

Eccentricity

Fertile ground 

Spirit bound 

Femininity 

Sit criss cross and surrender to the ambiguity

Visual acuity

The answer is inside of me

We laugh to keep from crying 

Ignoring what’s underlying 

“The truth comes, we can’t hear it”

I say to myself, they must be going crazy in

La la la la land

La la la la land

La la la la land

La la la la land

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TWWINFLAMME | WAXINGHYPNOTIC

Beat by ASTRID BEATS

Lyrics by ESTÉE ASTRA

Bitch, is that a new neurochemical retrie·val?

Rahu-Ketu

Like emoti·onal libido

Remeber you’re dealing with highly sensitive people

So x-ray perceptive 

Wanna make it illegal 

I feel so hard motherfuckers wanna redesign me

Innerstand

Had a lot of latter manly 

Humanly 

Let a lady down kindly 

Denied me

Charisma misguides me

Chemistry justifies me

Co·de·pen·den·cy beef with me

I sound just like Per·se·pho·ne 

I had to loose you to love me

1, 2, 3, 4

I declare 

Subconscious warfare 

In this atmosphere 

I met a British sceptic 

With a big dick

Saw the writing on the wall

Didn’t listen

Opened up myself to the wound dia·lec·tic 

Sera·to·nin

You can call it eclectic 

Conditioned consensus relating

Covert online encounters that feel like you’re dating

Young lady

Overcomplicating 

It’s not like you two ever ended up mating 

Plutonic obsessions be suffocating 

Uranian aspects alientating 

Ignoring the lack of recripricotating 

Illuminating 

Is any of this resonating?

Bitch, drop him

And pick up your soul

Just kidding about the drop him

This ain’t a diss hymn

Looking in the mirror 

Synonym 

Knowing thyself 

Expanded definition 

Entangled by distance 

A fractal existence 

It made sense very rarely 

When I came back to my body 

I barely 

Believed burly bros acted so debonairly 

Just for fun

Fliritng unfairly 

Libra rising

That’s on me

It’s not surprising 

This neptunian disguising

Habitual adon·i·sing 

Transactional chit chat

Emotional whiplash 

Nodal axis clash

Potentiality flash

Transformational rehash

Energetically mismatched 

Avoidantly attached

Judgement where my teeth gnashed 

Godly,

The outcome

Pro·ba·bly 

Ma·tu·ri·ty necessary to look back at it fondly 

Oddly

Ec·cen·tric ca·ma·ra·de·rie

Might fuck around and ride his uh like a Harley

Then pull off in his Ferari 

Just kidding he drives a Tesla

Just kidding he doesn’t have a car 

He rides the tube 

Please mind the gap. 

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Lyrics by DARIO & ESTÉE ASTRA

(Dario) No disciple I don’t follow Pave my own path Find myself, not Waldo Oye, hermano Desperado En tu mano Tiene’ el mapa del dorado Where the pyramids? Tainted syllabus Where the spirit is? Feel my lyrics, kid Where the pyramids? Tainted syllabus Where the spirit is? Feel my lyrics, kid Power is not limited Doctrines got you riveted Don’t judge by appearances The verdict says you’re gods Don’t you feel the power Racing through your veins now Don’t you live in vain, huh Toast to all your pain Register the change Quarters for the train My mind is full of planes I can’t only stay insane They told me what I can’t Then I showed them who I am They thought it was my end But I’ve only just began I went and paid my dues Right on time, just like the rent These haters hit the snooze When I’m all they’ve ever dreamt Get up out your bed Go to school, you gon’ learn Left my text on read ‘cause probably can’t discern The highest in the room Man, I think I should descend Like Prometheus, I promise you The fire is within I’m bleeding through my pen Naked truth, but not ashamed A Phoenix in the rain Wildin’ out, never been tamed They can’t contain my fire The firemen have failed I went through livin’ hells And by heaven, don’t repent They told me “let it vent” This storm feels like torment Foundations to my home Stay grounded, like cement Stop with all the chant Now, excuse me, here’s a rant Teach children ‘bout the land The land before we landed We came from other planets That’s truth, believe it’s cannon Descendants of Atlantis See now, young Nostradamus Stranded out in Patmos You write yourself a Bible Higher than the atmos I fear, you false like idols Like serpents in the desert Don’t cross me, see me from miles Numbers, chapter twenty one, four Read up, gentiles Are we really pious? If we seek to glorify us? Your Midas touch is cursed You’re twisted, that’s arthritis Are we really pious? If we seek to glorify us? That’s complex, like messiahs Don’t save me from the fire

(Estée Astra) I came, I saw, I witnessed You can’t call me a pedestrian Made up of never ending loving hope and estrogen And peace The kind that never leaves The divots in your grey matter cut by your beliefs Motifs Perceiving dreams and streams Gas, liquid, solid and everything in the between Don’t disavow invitations to your crown To your inner Dionysus Fire always rises Surprises Alchemize and turn down for the essence like galactomyces  The price is The difference betwixt Your ego eclipsed Sacrificed on the a milli, a milli of revivification Lit up DNA with new information That’s the situation That’s what’s going on Don’t save me from the fire This is how I feel Don’t save me from the fire I’m a feel what I’m a feel, I’m a feel what I’m a feel Don’t save me from the fire I'm one with my desire and I'm ok, I’m ok

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SPIRITUAL_SCANDAL aka WAXINGHYPNOTIC

Instagram Archive. 2018-2022.

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SPIRITUAL_SCANDAL aka WAXINGHYPNOTIC

Instagram Archive. 2018-2022.

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Press:

Yale Summer Cabaret’s ‘VERANO’ explores Latinx theatre

-- YaleNews

The “VERANO” season was conceived and created by artistic directors Danilo Gambini and Jecamiah M. Ybañez, producing director Estefani Castro, managing director Oakton Reynolds, and director of production Martin Montaner V.

Marketing Assets:

Branding & Design by Neo Avila

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Yale Cab, Todo El Verano

-- New Haven Independent

Yale Summer Cabaret is Full “Swing”

-- Connecticut Critics Circle

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One, a web series produced by the Yale Schwarzman Center, highlights interdisciplinary approaches to the arts in relation to the Center’s values of collaboration, wellness and belonging.

Produced by:

Maurice L. Harris, PhD (Dir. of Marketing)

Jennifer H. Newman, MFA (Associate Artistic Dir.)

Estefani Castro, MFA (Associate Dir. for Stakeholder Engagement)

Season One, 2020-2021.

The inaugural season illuminates the creative and academic merits of student works impacted by social distance and explores perspectives on community-building among dispersed groups. The series title, One, is a nod to the Schwarzman Center’s aspiration to advance a sense of “One Yale” and create an interconnected community that builds new traditions of student engagement around the campus and into the world.

Episode #2

MFA student Camilla Tassi YSD ‘21 talks with Estefani Castro YSD ‘21 about her work in projection design—the integration of digital projection into live events. Tassi discusses how she uses technology to spark emotional connections in opera, classical music and experimental arts, and she reflects on physical distance as an opportunity for dialogue between artists and audiences.

Episode #4

Estefani Castro YSD ’21 interviews Frances Pollock YSM ’19MM ’23DM, Emily Roller YC ’07, and Danilo Gambini YSD ’20 about their novel approach to opera. The team discusses how they used social media as a performative and ideological stage for an original take on the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. A workshop of their production, Salt, premiered May 8 as part of the Yale Opera Studies Today (YOST 2020) program.

Episode #9

Estefani Castro YSD ’21 interviews Zachry Bailey, Brandon Burton, Alex Vermillion, and Jaime Totti on their experience leading the Yale Cabaret and its foray into radio, recalling the 1921 Tulsa race massacre as a response to both the current pandemic and systemic racial injustice. Bailey, Burton and Vermillion are 2020 Yale School of Drama graduates. Totti is a 2020 graduate of both Yale School of Drama and Yale School of Management.

Episode #18

Estefani Castro YSD'21 interviews Carrie Mannino YC'20 about her senior thesis project in creative writing. Mannino’s documentary play, It Couldn’t Happen Here, delves into the aftermath of the October 2018 shooting at Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The episode contains a dramatic reading of an excerpt from It Couldn’t Happen Here and explores insights from Mannino’s writing process.

Episode #19

Estefani Castro YSD’21 interviews Erin Sullivan YSD’20 and Liam Bellman-Sharpe YSD’20 about the intersectionality of their visual and audio works. Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s early work in motion picture, Sullivan juxtaposes real life bodies in motion with video frames that form a looped cycle. Similarly, Bellman-Sharpe uses human motion as a driver for musical improvisation using MIDI technology. Together, the creators explain how they might integrate their ideas on stage. This episode contains video footage of their multi-media creations.

Press:

Schwarzman Center an opportunity for “more porous boundaries,” admin says

-- Yale Daily News

“It’s really important for us to think about how to build the systems and the structures that are nimble and responsive not just to the needs and desires of students but also to the dreams that we can build out,” said Estefani Castro DRA ’21, assistant director of stakeholder engagement. “The Schwarzman Center will bring in large-scale projects, but it’s important to have a balance of that student-generated work.”

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Yale School of Drama Theater Management Case Study

prepared by Estefani Castro, MFA

In the days before Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s (BRT) spring 2019 board meeting, instead of counting sheep at night before going to sleep, Susan Medak—Managing Director—counted the number of buildings the theater owned and made rough estimates as to how much they had increased in value since being purchased. She found this exercise helpful as she contemplated the various ways BRT could approach improving the temporary housing it provided to visiting guest artists.

Publication Date: May 14, 2021

Citation: Estefani Castro, "Berkeley Repertory Theater (2019)," Yale Theater Management Knowledge Base Case 19-98, May 14, 2021.

Keywords: Berkeley, Facilities, Budgeting, Capital Project

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