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Arnie Burton (Clown)
made his Broadway debut in Amadeus. His Off Broadway credits
include the critically acclaimed run of The Merchant of Venice/The Jew of
Malta in New York and at the Royal
Shakespeare Company in England; Mere Mortals and Others by David Ives, The Last Sunday in June,
The Baltimore Waltz, and The
Venetian Twins. Other New York theatre
appearances include shows at Primary Stages, Circle Repertory Company, The
Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Pearl Theatre Company, and Theatre for a New
Audience. Mr. Burton's regional work includes the Los Angeles premiere of All
in the Timing (Geffen Playhouse); the world
premiere of Lives of the Saints
(Philadelphia Theatre Company); The Seagull, Taming of the Shrew, and Santaland Diaries (The Old Globe); and I Am My Own Wife (Kevin Kline Award for Best Actor) and Frozen (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). Other theatre
credits include shows at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Studio
Arena Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cape Playhouse, and Actors Theatre
of Louisville. Mr. Burton's television credits include guest appearances on
"Frasier," "Hope & Faith," "Caroline in the City," "Law & Order,"
"Sister, Sister," and "Six Degrees." His films include Igby Goes Down and Game 6.
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Charles Edwards
(Richard Hannay) created the role of Richard Hannay for Maria Aitken's original
production of The 39 Steps at the Tricycle Theatre in London. He
played Judi Dench's crazed fan Sandy Tyrell in Coward's Hay Fever, directed by Peter Hall at the Theatre Royal
Haymarket; also for the Peter Hall Company he played Don Pedro in Much
Ado About Nothing, and Victor in Coward's Private
Lives opposite Greta Scacchi as Amanda. For
the Royal National Theatre, he played Antonio in The Duchess of Malfi opposite Janet McTeer, and George in Howard Davies'
award-winning production of All My Sons with Julie Walters and, for the revival the following year, Laurie
Metcalf. Other credits include the U.K. premiere of Wendy Wasserstein's The
Heidi Chronicles (Greenwich Theatre),
Somerset Maugham's Our Betters
opposite Kathleen Turner (Chichester Festival Theatre), and Orin in Mourning
Becomes Electra with Helen Mirren (Royal
National Theatre Studio). For television, Mr. Edwards played Conan Doyle in a
series of feature-length dramas for the BBC, "The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock
Holmes." He recently completed work on the forthcoming series "Midsomer
Murders," and a new show for the BBC, "Mistresses." He was Vanessa Redgrave's
son Noel in The Shell Seekers,
and King Edward VIII in Bertie and Elizabeth with Eileen Atkins and Alan Bates. Mr. Edwards' film
work includes Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, Mr. Yates in Mansfield Park, and Longitude. He
trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
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Jennifer Ferrin
(Annabella Schmidt/ Pamela/Margaret) is best known for her work on "As The
World Turns," for which she garnered two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. After
graduating from North Carolina School of the Arts in 2003, Ms. Ferrin has appeared
on "Rescue Me," "3 lbs." opposite Stanley Tucci, and Hallmark's "The Locket"
alongside Vanessa Redgrave. Most recently she was seen on Spike TV's "The Kill
Point" starring John Leguizamo.
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Cliff Saunders
(Clown) originated the role of Bilbo Baggins in the world premiere stage
production of The Lord of the Rings. Other selected theatre
credits include Danny, King of the Basement
(Roseneath Theatre); Habeas Corpus
(CanStage); The Drowsy Chaperone (Winter
Garden Theatre); A Flea in Her Ear
(Soulpepper Theatre Company); Crackwalker and A Wind in the Willows
(The Grand Theatre, London); Beauty and the Beast (Princess of Wales Theatre); Possible Maps (Tarragon Theatre); A Servant of Two
Masters, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Pinocchio (Young People's Theatre); and Biloxi Blues and The Foreigner (Royal Alexandra Theatre). Mr. Saunders can be seen
in the upcoming feature film Outlander. His selected film and television credits include the Academy
Award-winning Chicago, A Lobster Tale, Open Range, Spider, The Fool,
The Music Man, Midwives, Joan of Arc, Eloise, Eloise at Christmas Time, Harlan
County War, Catch a Falling Star, Flowers for Algernon, The Crossing,
Deathlands, "Monk," "Doc," "Sue Thomas
F.B.EYE," "La Femme Nikita," and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."
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Claire Brownell's
(u/s Annabella Schmidt/ Pamela/Margaret) theatre credits include Dirge
(Target Margin Theater); The Rivals, A Christmas Carol, and the staged reading of Phedre with Olympia Dukakis (American Conservatory
Theater); Bring Love to My Doorstep
and Postcards from Earth which
she assistant directed (Guthrie Theater); Twelfth Night (Montana Shakespeare Company); The Lost
Journals of Lewis and Clark (Masquers
Theatre Company); and Caucasian Chalk Circle, Richard III, Oedipus
Rex, The Crucible, The Serpent Woman, and Red
Cross (American Conservatory Theater M.F.A.
Productions). Her film credits include Farm Girl in New York. Miss Brownell is a recent graduate of the American
Conservatory Theater's M.F.A. program in San Francisco and has trained with
Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.
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Cameron Folmar (u/s
Clowns) originated the role of Candy Delaney in Five by Tenn at
The Kennedy Center in D.C. and at Manhattan Theatre Club (New York Drama League
nomination for Outstanding Performance, 2004). His other credits include The
Merchant of Venice/The Jew of Malta (The
Duke Theatre, NYC, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon), Waiting
for Godot (New York International Fringe
Festival), Scapin (Denver Center
Theatre Company), The Tempest
(McCarter Theatre), Don Juan
(Seattle Repertory Theatre), and Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and King Lear (Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.). Mr. Folmar is a graduate of The
Juilliard School.
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Mark Shanahan's (u/s
Richard Hannay) New York Stage credits include As Bees In Honey Drown
(Lucille Lortel Theatre); The Internationalist (45 Bleecker Theatre, FTC); Madame Killer (Ohio Theatre); The Appearance of
Impropriety (Judith Anderson Theatre); and Philadelphia,
Here I Come! (Roundabout Theatre Company);
among others. His regional credits include Journey's End, David
Copperfield, and Sedition (Westport Country Playhouse); Witness For
The Prosecution, Tryst, Hitchcock Blonde,
and Treasure Island (Alley
Theatre); Andromeda Shack (The
Kennedy Center); One Foot on the Floor (Denver Center Theatre Company); The West End Horror (Bay Street Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company); and Augusta (Merrimack Repertory Theatre). Mr. Shanahan's films
include Bug, Safe Men, The Kinsey Three, and Endsville. On
television, he appeared on "David Letterman" and "All My Children." Mr.
Shanahan is an Edgar nominated playwright, award-winning voice over artist,
co-writer of the screenplay The Troubleshooter for Universal Studios, and a graduate of Brown
University (B.A.) and Fordham University (M.A.), where he teaches.
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Patrick Barlow
(Adaptor) created the National Theatre of Brent in 1980, in which he plays
Artistic Director and Chief Executive Desmond Olivier Dingle. Their legendary
two-man epics for the theatre include The Charge of the Light Brigade,
Zulu!, The Black Hole of Calcutta, Wagner's Right Cycle, The Messiah
(Tricycle Theatre), The Complete Guide to Sex, The Greatest Story Ever Told (Tricycle Theatre), Love Upon the Throne:
The Charles and Diana Story (Olivier Award
nomination), and The Wonder of Sex.
The National Theatre of Brent now consists of Mr. Barlow, John Ramm, and Martin
Duncan. Mr. Barlow also wrote the libretto for Judgement of Paris for the Covent Garden Venture (music by John
Woolrich) and Requiem for a Relationship for the Gogmagog Theatre Company (music by Django Bates). His film and
television writing credits include Messiah, Van Gogh (Prix Futura Berlin Film Festival), Revolution!! (Best Comedy Film, Jerusalem Film Festival), The
Young Visiters starring Jim Broadbent and
Hugh Laurie, "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole," "The Ghost of Faffner Hall,"
"Scarfe on Sex," "Mighty Movements from World History," "True Adventures of
Christopher Columbus," "Queen of the East," "Massive Landmarks of the 20th Century."
His radio writing includes "The Compleat Life and Works of William
Shakespeare," "The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Experience" with Imelda
Staunton; and with the National Theatre of Brent, "All the World's a Globe"
(Sony Radio Award and Premier Ondas Award for Best European Comedy) and "The
Complete and Utter History of the Mona Lisa" (Sony Gold Award for Best Comedy,
New York Festival Gold Award for Best Comedy). As an actor, Mr. Barlow's
theatre credits include The Knack, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum, Loot, The Common Pursuit, Silly Cow, and Toad in Alan Bennett's The Wind in the Willows. He also appeared in the films Shakespeare
in Love, Notting Hill, The Girl from Rio, Bridget Jones' Diary, and most recently Nanny McPhee. His television acting credits include "Talk to Me,"
"All Passion Spent," "Aristophanes," "Cow," "French and Saunders," "Absolutely
Fabulous," "A Bit of Fry and Laurie," "Is it Legal?," "Goodbye Mr. Steadman,"
"Hans Christian Andersen," "Murder in Suburbia," "Shakespeare's Happy Endings,"
"Marpe," and "Jam and Jerusalem." Mr. Barlow won an Olivier Award and a What's
Onstage Award for Best New Comedy for his adaptation of The 39 Steps.
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Maria Aitken's
(Director) productions in America and the U.K. include the current Olivier
Award-winning West End production of The 39 Steps; Simon Gray's Japes (Bay Street Theatre), Rattigan's Man and
Boy (Duchess Theatre, London), Coward's Easy
Virtue (Chichester Festival Theatre), Vita
and Virginia (Sphinx Theatre Company), Lady
Bracknell's Confinement (Vineyard Theatre,
New York), School for Scandal
(Clwyd Theatr Cymru), As You Like It
(Regent's Park), Ludlam's The Mystery of Irma Vep (Leicester Haymarket & Ambassadors, London), Are
You Sitting Comfortable (Watford Palace
Theatre), The Rivals (Court
Theatre, Chicago), After the Ball Was Over (The Old Vic, London), Private Lives (Oxford Playhouse), and Happy Family (Duke of York's Theatre, London). As a leading
actress, her credits have included Blithe Spirit and Bedroom Farce (Royal National Theatre), Travesties,
Waste, and The Happiest Days of
Your Life (Royal Shakespeare Company), and
West End productions of Humble Boy, Sylvia, Hay Fever, Other People's
Money, The Vortex, The Women, Sister Mary Ignatius..., Design for Living, Private
Lives, and A Little Night Music. Her film credits include A Fish Called
Wanda, Asylum, The Grotesque, and Mary
Queen of Scots. Her television work
includes "Love on a Branch Line," "The Good Guys," "Quiet as a Nun," and
"Ripping Yarns." Ms. Aitken is a visiting teacher at the British American Drama
Academy, The Juilliard School, Yale School of Drama, New York University, The
Actors Center in NYC, and The Academy for Classical Acting. She is the author
of two books, A Girdle Round the Earth and Style: Acting in High Comedy.
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Peter McKintosh's
(Set & Costume Designer) theatre work includes the West End productions of The
39 Steps, Fiddler on the Roof, The Dumb Waiter, Summer and Smoke, Donkeys'
Years, The Home Place, The Birthday Party, Ying Tong, A Woman of No Importance,
and Boston Marriage. Other credits
include King John, Brand, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pericles, Alice
in Wonderland, and Through the
Looking Glass for the Royal Shakespeare
Company, and Honk! and Widowers'
Houses for the National Theatre. Mr.
McKintosh's other theatre work includes John Gabriel Borkman and The Cryptogram (Donmar Warehouse), Cloud Nine and Romance (Almeida Theatre), The Home Place (Dublin's Gate Theatre), Honk! (U.K. tour, Boston, Chicago, Tokyo, and Singapore), The Scarlet
Letter, Just So, and Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Rivals (Bristol Old Vic), The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), The Black
Dahlia (Yale Repertory Theatre), Romeo
& Juliet (Washington, D.C.), and Fiddler
on the Roof, The Romans in Britain, Assassins, Ain't Misbehavin', and Guys & Dolls (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield). His opera credits
include the world premiere of The Handmaid's Tale (Royal Danish Opera, English National Opera, and
Canadian Opera Company) and the U.K. premiere of Michael Nyman's Love
Counts and The Silent Twins (Almeida Opera). His dance work includes Cut
to the Chase (English National Ballet).
Most recently, he designed the world premiere of the musical Kirikou
and Karaba, currently playing at the Casino
de Paris.
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Kevin Adams
(Lighting Designer) previously designed Betty's Summer Vacation, The Rose
Tattoo, and Hedda Gabler for
the Huntington. His Broadway credits include Spring Awakening (2007 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a
Musical), Take Me Out, and Hedda
Gabler, as well as solo shows for Eve
Ensler (The Good Body), John
Leguizamo (Sexaholix), and Kevin
Bacon (An Almost Holy Picture).
For his work Off Broadway, which includes the rock/pop hits Hedwig
and the Angry Inch, Spring Awakening, and Passing
Strange, Mr. Adams has received two Lucile
Lortel Awards and an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence.
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Mic Pool (Sound
Designer) has had a thirty-year career in theatre sound, and has been resident
designer at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, Royal Court Theatre, Tyne Theatre
Company, and toured internationally with Ballet Rambert. He has designed the
sound for over 350 productions including more than 200 for the West Yorkshire
Playhouse where he is currently director of creative technology. He received a
TMA award in 1992 for Best Designer (Sound) for Life is a Dream
and was nominated for both the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards for
Outstanding Sound Design 2001 for the New York production of The Unexpected
Man. He was also nominated for a 2007
Oliver Award for his sound design for The 39 Steps at London's Criterion Theatre. Mr. Pool's recent
theatre work includes The Hound of the Baskervilles (Duchess Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse), The
Postman Always Rings Twice (Playhouse
Theatre), Ying Tong (New
Ambassadors Theatre), The Solid Gold Cadillac (Garrick Theatre), Brand (Royal Shakespeare Company, West End), Art (West End, Broadway, worldwide), Shockheaded
Peter (Cultural Industry world tour, West
End), and Beauty and the Beast, Victoria, and The Roundhouse Season of Late Shakespeare Plays (Royal Shakespeare Company). He also works as a
video designer and has recently completed Der Ring des Nibelugen (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) and Bad
Girls The Musical (Garrick Theatre).
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Stephen Gabis'
(Dialect Coach) recent credits include The Corn is Green, The Front Page,
and Blithe Spirit (Williamstown Theatre
Festival), and Black Comedy
(Barrington Stage Company). His Broadway and Off Broadway credits include 110
in the Shade, Coram Boy, Butley, Legally Blonde, Heartbreak House, The
Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Jersey Boys, The Voysey
Inheritance, Frozen, Stuff Happens, and Doubt, as well as productions as miscellaneous venues
including Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights
Horizons, MCC Theater, The New Group, Yale Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage,
McCarter Theatre, Houston's Alley Theatre, Signature Theatre, The Public
Theater, and Atlantic Theater Company. Mr. Gabis' film credits include The
Savages, Across the Universe, Bernard and Doris (for Ralph Fiennes), Dark Matter, The Notorious Bettie Page,
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and Boys
Don't Cry (for Chlo‘ Sevigny).
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Toby Sedgwick
(Original Movement) trained at the Jaques Lecoq School in Paris, where he
founded The Moving Picture Mime Show, which established itself as one of the
innovators of a new style of physical theatre throughout the world. As an
actor, his theatre credits include The Magical Olympical Games
(National Theatre), Wiseguy Scapino (Clwyd
Theatr Cymru), The Servant of Two Masters (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Harpo Marx in Animal Crackers (Royal Exchange Theatre and West End), and The
Play What I Wrote (1st national tour). With
Complicite (which he co-devised and performs in) his appearances include Help!
I'm Alive, Out of a House Walked a Man É, The Noise of Time, and Light. As movement director and/or actor Mr. Sedgwick's theatre credits
include Ben Hur (Battersea Arts
Centre), The Taming of the Shrew
and The Tempest (Royal Exchange Theatre),
The Nativity (Young Vic Theatre),
The Master and Margarita, The Government Inspector, King Lear, and 5/11
(Chichester Festival Theatre), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Marat/Sade (National Theatre), Bartholomew Fair and Everyman (Royal Shakespeare Company), Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (Barbican Theatre and tour), STOMP: The
Lost and Found Orchestra (Brighton
Festival), and The 39 Steps
(Tricycle Theatre and Criterion Theatre, West End). Mr. Sedgwick's film and
television credits include 28 Days Later, Laisser-passer, Vacuums,
Shrooms, "Monster Café," "Pirates," and "My
Family." He is currently working on Warhorse as an actor and director of movement at the National
Theatre.
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Christopher Bayes
(Additional Movement) began his theatre career with Theatre de la Jeune Lune,
where he worked as an actor, director, composer, designer, and artistic
associate. In 1989 he joined the acting company of the Guthrie Theater, where
he appeared in over twenty productions. In 1993, commissioned by the Guthrie
Theater, he produced his one-man show This Ridiculous Dreaming
based on Heinrich Boll's novel The Clown.
In New York, Mr. Bayes has directed Red Noses by Peter Barnes, Four by Feydeau, The
Bourgeois Gentleman, The Moliere One Acts,
and The Love of Three Oranges by
Carlo Gozzi (The Juilliard School); The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere, The New Place by Carlo Goldoni, We Won't Pay... by Dario Fo, and his new adaptation of Moliere's The
Reluctant Doctor of Love (New York
University's Graduate Acting Program); The Raven by Carlo Gozzi (NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing); Ubu
Roi (NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing and
Fordham University); and Timeslips
(HERE Arts Center). Additionally, he has staged several original works
including Wreckage (Performance
Space 122), The Big Day (a clown show) and The Fiasco Brothers Circus (The Juilliard School), Zibaldoné (HERE Arts Center and Present Company Theatorium), The
Fools/Los Locos Del Pueblo (Touchstone
Theatre), and Necromance: A Night of Conjuration (Dixon Place). Other directing credits include Scapin (Seattle's Intiman Theater, Chicago's Court Theatre,
and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival), and Len Jenkin's new adaptation of The
Birds (Yale Repertory Theatre). Mr. Bayes
is a former Fox Fellow, and has served on the faculty of The Juilliard School,
The Actors Center, The Academy for Classical Acting at The Shakespeare Theater
(Washington, D.C.), and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Most
recently, he served as head of movement and physical theatre at the Brown
University/Trinity Rep Consortium, and is currently head of physical acting at
the Yale School of Drama.
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Jay Binder C.S.A./Jack Bowdan C.S.A. (Casting), with Mark Brandon and Sara Schatz, have
cast more than 50 Broadway shows including the upcoming Is He Dead?,
as well as Grease (2007 revival), Inherit
the Wind, Journey's End, Butley, A Chorus Line
(2006 revival), Well, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2005 revival), Sweet Charity, Wonderful
Town, Movin' Out, Urinetown, 42nd Street, The Dinner Party, The Music Man, The
Iceman Cometh, The Sound of Music, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, The
Last Night of Ballyhoo, Chicago, The King and I, Damn Yankees, Lost in Yonkers,
The Goodbye Girl, and New York City
Center's Encores! series. Film and television credits include Dreamgirls,
Chicago, Once Upon A Mattress, The Music Man,
and "I'll Fly Away." Regional credits includes six seasons at the Huntington
from 1987 to 1993. They are seven-time Artios Award winners.
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Nevin Hedley
(Production Stage Manager) comes to the Huntington directly from the world
premiere of the new Lynn Ahrens/Steven Flaherty musical, The Glorious Ones
in Pittsburgh. His Broadway credits include Medea and Peter Pan.
Internationally, Mr. Hedley has served as the production stage manager for the
Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, the Teatro National de Sao Carlos and
the Belem Cultural Center, both in Lisbon, and Edinburgh's Royal Eagle. Off
Broadway and regionally, he has managed multiple productions at La Jolla
Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Town Hall, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Bay
Street Theatre, the Arvada Center, Ahmanson Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The
Muny, La Mirada Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, Aaron Davis Hall, and Northern
Stage. Mr. Hedley has been a guest speaker at Carnegie Mellon University,
Illinois State University, and the University of California, San Diego.
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Janet Takami (Stage
Manager) previously stage managed The Rose Tattoo and Heartbreak
House for the Huntington. Other selected
credits include the Broadway production of The Wedding Singer and the Off Broadway productions of A
Second Hand Memory and Writers
Block (both written and directed by Woody
Allen), Sea of Tranquility, The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite, and Minutes from the Blue Route (Atlantic Theater Company); A Man of No
Importance, The Carpetbagger's Children, Spinning Into Butter, The Time of the
Cuckoo, and Far East (Lincoln Center Theater); Crazy Mary and From Above (Playwrights Horizons); and Cellini, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley (Second
Stage Theatre). She has also stage managed productions for New York City Opera,
New York Stage & Film, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Ms. Takami is a
graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
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