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Nancy E. Carroll
(Woman) returns to the Huntington where she appeared as Miss Erickson in Present
Laughter, the Strega in The Rose Tattoo, and Mrs. Martin in Dead End. She appeared Off Broadway in Balancing
Act (Westside Theatre). Her regional
credits include Winnie in Happy Days,
Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories,
and Mathilde Giffard in My Old Lady
(Gloucester Stage Company); Amanda in The Glass Menagerie (Lyric Stage Company of Boston); Nancy in Frozen, Evelyn in Kindertransport, and Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (New Repertory Theatre); Homebody in Homebody/Kabul (Boston Theatre Works); Nancy Blake in The
Women and Joanne in Company (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Lily in A Man
of No Importance (SpeakEasy Stage Company
and The Sœg‡n Theatre Company co-production); Mommo in Bailegangaire (The Sœg‡n Theatre Company); Halie in Buried
Child and The Woman in The
Unexpected Man (Nora Theatre Company); the
Nurse in Romeo and Juliet (North
Shore Music Theatre); Delores in Melinda Lopez' The Order of Things (Centastage); Gertrude in Hamlet and Paulina in The Winter's Tale (Publick Theatre); and Kate in Dancing at
Lughnasa (Foothills Theatre Company).
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Ciaran Crawford
(Steveo, et al) was last seen in the Breaking Ground Festival reading of Brendan
(then titled Smiler Becoming Yank) for
the Huntington. He most recently played Steve in the Off Broadway production of
Ronan Noone's The Blowin of Baile Gall and Yowsa in the off Off Broadway production of Noone's The
Lepers of Baile Baiste. His other roles include
Jake in Stones in His Pockets,
Kellogg in The Lepers of Baile Baiste (The Sœg‡n Theatre Company), and Steve in The Blowin of
Baile Gall (Boston Playwrights Theatre).
Mr. Crawford can also be seen in the film The Strangler's Wife as the Strangler, a serial-killing security guard.
He also appeared in an episode of "The Sopranos" and in the Showtime series
"The Brotherhood."
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Dashiell Eaves
(Brendan) previously appeared in Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards
the Somme and the Breaking Ground Festival reading of PathŽtique for the Huntington. He has appeared on Broadway in
Coram Boy, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, James Joyce's The Dead, 1776, and The Sound of Music. His Off Broadway and regional work includes Quincy
Long's People Be Heard and James
Joyce's The Dead (Playwrights Horizons), Observe
the Sons of Ulster... (Lincoln Center
Theater), A Midsummer Night's Dream
and Street Scene (Williamstown
Theatre Festival), Caryl Churchill's Not... Enough Oxygen (The Drama League Directors Project), Martha Clarke's
Hans Christian Anderson (American
Conservatory Theater), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Barrington Stage Company). He was an original U.S.
cast member and traveled all over the world with the percussion troupe STOMP.
Recently, he collaborated with author Tim O'Brien and American Place Theatre on
a one-man stage adaptation of O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Mr. Eaves' film and television work includes Luc
Besson's Arthur and the Invisibles,
Jonathan Demme's Beloved, "Law
& Order: Criminal Intent," "Third Watch," and the HBO special "STOMP Out
Loud."
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Natalie Gold's
(Rose) Broadway credits include Festen. She appeared in the Off
Broadway productions of Howard Katz
(Roundabout Theatre Company), Twelfth Night (The Public Theater/ NYSF), and Unfold Me (Summer Play Festival). Her film and television
credits include Noise, Sydney
Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Six Degrees,"
"Without a Trace," and "Guiding Light."
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Kelly McAndrew
(Maria) appeared in the Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Her Off Broadway credits include The Cataract (Women's Project), Book of Days (Signature Theatre), and Trout Stanley (Culture Project). Other New York theatre credits
include Greedy (Clubbed Thumb)
and Topsy Turvy Mouse (Cherry
Lane Mentor Project). Regionally, she has appeared in The Bald
Soprano (The Shakespeare Theatre of New
Jersey), Three Sisters (American
Repertory Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival), Eugene's Home (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Proof (George Street Playhouse), Talley's Folly (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati
Playhouse in the Park), The Miracle Worker and The Great White Hope
(Arena Stage), and Holiday (Olney
Theatre Center, Helen Hayes nomination for Best Actress). Other regional
appearances include Shakespeare on the Sound, Pioneer Theatre Company, Arizona
Theatre Company, and the Unicorn Theatre. Ms. McAndrew's film and television
credits include Superheroes, New Guy, Company K, Out of the Darkness, "Law & Order: SVU," and "As the World Turns."
She received her M.F.A. from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
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Kathleen McElfresh
(Daisy, et al) appeared Off Broadway in The Frugal Repast
(Abingdon Theatre Company). Her regional credits include Pride and Prejudice at Dallas Theater Center, The Jammer at Edinburgh Fringe Festival (winner of Fringe First
Award), and Steel Magnolias at
Theatre Southeast. Ms. McElfresh received her M.F.A. from the Yale School of
Drama, where she was the recipient of the Rebecca West Scholarship and the
Herschel Williams Acting Award.
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Cliff Odle's (Fred,
et al) previous Huntington credits include understudy work in two August Wilson
productions, Radio Golf and King Hedley II, in the latter of which he performed for seven
shows. Off Off Broadway, he has appeared as Aaron in Titus Andronicus (FNF Company), and Lucien P. Smith in The
Boys Next Door and Walker Harris in Two
Rooms (Circle Players). His other credits
include Mitch in Mitch's Blues
and Carl in Dirty Hearts (Ed
Bullin's Roxbury Crossroads Theatre), Troy Maxon in Fences (Up You Mighty Race Performing Arts Company),
Pontius Pilate in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Company One), and Orgon in Tartuffe (Theater in the Open). He has also appeared in
several productions in the San Diego area such as David in Bed (Fritz Theater), Friar Laurence in Romeo
and Juliet (North County Productions), and
various roles in Passion & Honey
(Ira Aldridge Players). He has also appeared as Terrell in "Waterfront" for CBS
and several training videos for Staples. Mr. Odle is currently a graduate
student in Boston University's playwriting program.
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Tommy Schrider
(Josh, et al) previously appeared as Costard in Love's Labour's Lost
for the Huntington. His Off Broadway credits include Acts of Mercy and St. Crispin's Day (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), She
Stoops to Conquer and Pigtown (The Irish Repertory Theatre), Race (Classic Stage Company), Indoor/Outdoor (Kirk Theatre/Summer Play Festival), Bread
& Roses (New York Theatre Workshop),
Miss Julie (Culture
Project/FringeNYC), and Uncivil Wars
(37 Arts/David Gordon's Pick Up Performance Company). Other credits include
Hamlet in Hamlet (Syracuse
Stage), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Einstein Project
(Berkshire Theatre Festival), Journey's End (Westport Country Playhouse), Vincent in
Brixton (Virginia Stage Company), Lobby
Hero (Portland Stage Company), This
Is Our Youth (Philadelphia Theatre
Company), East of Eden I & II, In Her Sight, and Miss Julie (Actors Theatre of Louisville), The Rivals and The Blue Demon (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The
Playboy of the Western World (Pioneer
Theatre Company), and Composition
(TheaterWorks, Hartford). Film and television credits include The
Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom (HBO), "WHOOPI!,"
and "As The World Turns." Mr. Schrider received his M.F.A. from New York
University.
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Bradley Thoennes
(Bum, et al) most recently appeared as F.X. Wohltat in King of the Jews
at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre, and as Michal in The Pillowman at New Repertory Theatre. He has worked extensively
in regional theatres in Philadelphia (Roderigo in Othello at the Philadelphia Drama Guild and Taylor in Prelude
to a Kiss at the Philadelphia Theatre
Company), Delaware (Jaques in As You Like It and T. Stedman Harder in A Moon for the
Misbegotten, both for Delaware Theatre
Company), New Jersey (Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), and
Washington, D.C. (Pater in The Invention of Love at The Studio Theatre). A veteran of dozens of
commercial voice-overs, Mr. Thoennes will appear in the upcoming film 21, starring Kevin Spacey.
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Ronan Noone's
(Playwright) play The Atheist was recently presented by the
Huntington starring Campbell Scott. He began writing The Lepers of Baile Baiste, his first play, while working on Martha's Vineyard.
The play caught the attention of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, head of Boston
University's M.A. program in playwriting, and he was asked to join the program.
Lepers won the National
Playwriting Award at the American College Theatre Festival, was produced at The
Kennedy Center, and played off Off Broadway in 2004 at the Phil Bosakowski
Theatre. Mr. Noone's second play, The Blowin of Baile Gall, was nominated by the American Theatre Critics
Association for the Steinberg New Play Award, and won the prestigious Elliot
Norton Award for Outstanding New Script. Both plays shared the Independent
Reviewers of New England Award (IRNE) for Best New Script. Blowin was produced Off Broadway (Gabriel Byrne, producer)
in 2005. His plays have had productions in Los Angeles, Chicago, and London.
Mr. Noone has been chosen by Boston Magazine as a Best Young Playwright and is a Huntington
Playwriting Fellow. This play is for Lizzy.
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Justin Waldman
(Director) is the artistic associate of the Huntington and the producing
artistic director of Next Stages, which he founded. In September, he directed
Ronan Noone's The Atheist starring Campbell Scott for the
Huntington. Other Huntington credits include assistant director of Present
Laughter; Persephone; The Cherry Orchard; Love's Labour's Lost; Sonia Flew; The
Rose Tattoo; Springtime for Henry; and Breath,
Boom; and director of readings of Alexandros;
The Cry of the Reed; Mauritius; Persephone; Two Days at Home, Three Days in Prison;
Stabbing; and Carol Mulroney. Last year, he directed Brendan for the Boston University College of Fine Arts, and Sonia
Flew by Melinda Lopez for the Summer Play
Festival in New York. Other credits include Over It (Next Stages) and News Junkie (Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab) both by Marc
Ardito, This is Our Youth, 12 Angry Men, and three seasons as assistant director for Commonwealth Shakespeare
Company. He is a graduate of Tufts University.
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Alexander Dodge
(Scenic Designer) previously designed the Huntington's productions of Present
Laughter, Love's Labour's Lost, The Rivals (IRNE Award), Butley,
A Month in the Country (IRNE Award), Observe
the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Heartbreak House (Elliot Norton Award), and Hedda Gabler. For Broadway, he designed productions of Old
Acquaintance, Butley, and Hedda
Gabler. Off Broadway credits include Measure
for Pleasure (The Public Theater/NYSF); The
Water's Edge (Second Stage Theatre); Observe
the Sons of Ulster ... (Lucille Lortel Award)
and Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln
Center Theater); and Force Continuum
and Sexual Perversity in Chicago
(Atlantic Theater Company). His regional credits include productions at Alley
Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Baltimore's Centerstage, Dallas
Theater Center, Dublin's Gate Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, The
Old Globe, Stratford Festival of Canada, Triad Stage, Williamstown Theatre
Festival, and Yale Repertory Theatre. His opera credits include Der
Waffenschmeid (Munich), The Flying Dutchman (WŸrzburg), Lohengrin (Budapest), and Il Trittico (Berlin). Mr. Dodge is a graduate of the Yale School
of Drama.
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Mariann Verheyen
(Costume Designer) has designed for the Huntington since its premiere season, Present
Laughter being her most recent show. She designed Peter Pan for Broadway and her numerous Off Broadway credits
include work at The Public Theater/NYSF, The York Theatre, Second Stage
Theatre, and Hudson Guild Theatre Company. Additionally she has designed at
Ford's Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Missouri Repertory
Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Her
work has been seen at the Chicago, Oregon, Colorado, and Alabama Shakespeare
Theaters. Ms. Verheyen has also designed for Disney Cruise Lines and Disney
World's Animal Kingdom. Her awards include two IRNE Awards; two Best of Atlanta
Awards and the 2006 Atlanta Suzi Award; a Villager Downtown Theatre Award, NYC;
Chicago's 2002 Jeff Award and 2005 and 2007 Jeff nominations; an AUDELCO Award
nomination; and the Distinguished
Achievement Award in Humanities from her undergraduate alma mater, St. Norbert
College. She is head of the costume design program at the Boston University
College of Fine Arts, School of Theatre.
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Jeff Croiter
(Lighting Designer) previously designed Kiki & Herb: Alive from
Broadway, Trumbo, and A Month in the Country for the Huntington. His New York credits include Kiki
& Herb: Alive on Broadway; Rufus
Wainwright's Judy Garland Concert at Carnegie Hall (London and Paris, too); The
Works (The New Victory Theater); concerts
at the New Amsterdam Theatre including Chess and On the Twentieth Century; The Voysey
Inheritance; The Accomplices; The Internationalist (Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Burleigh Grime$; Drumstruck;
Jacques Brel...; I Love You Because; Almost, Maine; Lone Star Love; Dedication;
Trumbo; Matt & Ben; Cam Jensen; Barbra's Wedding; Passion Play; The Eros
Trilogy; Miss Witherspoon; Privilege; The Dazzle; and Fiction. Regional
credits include productions for The Old Globe, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown
Theatre Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, George Street
Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cincinnati
Playhouse in the Park, Ford's Theatre, TheatreWorks, Goodspeed Opera House, and
New York Stage & Film.
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Fitz Patton (Sound
Designer) was the sound designer for the Broadway production of As Long As
We Both Shall Laugh, and the Off Broadway productions of This is
How it Goes directed by George Wolfe, Fran's
Bed and Modern Orthodox directed by James Lapine, A Soldier's Play directed by Jo Bonney, Barbra's Wedding and The Voysey Inheritance directed by David Warren, The Trip to
Bountiful directed by Harris Yulin, and Dirty
Tricks directed by Margaret Whitton. His
recent designs include Blithe Spirit
directed by Maria Mileaf, Some Men
directed by Philip Himberg, orchestrations for The Araboolies of
Liberty Street for Imagination Stage, Manic
Flight Reaction directed by Trip Cullman, Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof directed by Israel Hicks,
A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop
directed by Richard Jay Alexander, Warren Leight's James and Annie, Nilo Cruz' Anna in the Tropics, Naomi Wallace's Things of Dry Hours, Candida, Matt & Ben, and I Am My Own Wife. His most recent score and designs include Pride
and Prejudice directed by Stan Wojewodski,
and The Tempest directed by Davis
McCallum.
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Alaine Alldaffer, C.S.A., (Casting Director) is the casting director for Playwrights Horizons.
She cast "Knights of Prosperity" for ABC, Walmartopia the Off
Broadway musical, and is currently casting Sand for the Women's Project in New York City. Past credits include
productions for Soho Repertory Theatre and The Flea Theater in New York City,
and the Long Wharf Theatre in Connecticut. Her past associate credits include
"Ed" (NBC), "Monk" (USA), the Broadway production of A Raisin in the
Sun, and Heights, a feature film for Merchant Ivory. Ms. Alldaffer
works alongside associate Lisa Donadio.
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Eileen Ryan Kelly
(Production Stage Manager) has Huntington credits that include Present
Laughter, Well, The Cherry Orchard, Rabbit Hole, Radio Golf, Love's Labour's
Lost, The Hopper Collection, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Sisters Rosensweig,
Falsettos, 36 Views, Sonia Flew, and Bad Dates. Her other credits include productions at
Williamstown Theatre Festival, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Olney Theatre
Center, and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Ms. Kelly is an alumna of Boston
University's College of Fine Arts.
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Kelly Beaulieu
(Stage Manager) previously worked on both Love's Labour's Lost
and Falsettos for the Huntington. Her
Off Broadway credits include The Voysey Inheritance (Atlantic Theater Company), Our Leading
Lady (Manhattan Theater Club), The
Polish Play: A Conflation of Macbeth and Ubu
Roi (Katharsis Theater Company), Flags (59E59 Theater), and Drug Buddy (the stageFARM). Her regional credits include The
Corn is Green, The Front Page, Opposite of Sex, Anything Goes, On the Razzle, and Lady Windermere's Fan (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Indoor/Outdoor (Hangar Theatre), and Madama Butterfly (Connecticut Grand Opera). She received her B.F.A.
in stage management from Boston University.
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