Meet the Cast
Name: Maureen Anderman (as Laurie Jameson)
Hometown: Weston, CT
Last Seen In: I was a standby for Vanessa Redgrave in The Year of Magical Thinking on Broadway. I was last seen at the Huntington in Rabbit Hole last season and in The Sisters Rosensweig.
What do you like most about the Huntington?: The whole environment: the wardrobe, the sets, backstage. It's my theatre home right now; it's my family.
Maureen Anderman
(Laurie Jameson) previously appeared with the Huntington as Nat in Rabbit
Hole and Sara Goode in The Sisters Rosensweig. Her numerous Broadway credits include The
Year of Magical Thinking; Edward Albee's Seascape, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Lady From Dubuque; Benefactors; Social Security; You
Can't Take It With You with Jason Robards
and Colleen Dewhurst; The Last of Mrs. Lincoln with Julie Harris; Hamlet and Macbeth (both for Lincoln Center Theater); The Man Who Came to Dinner with Nicholas Martin; Christopher Durang's A
History of American Film; and Moonchildren. Off Broadway she appeared in Passion Play, Later Life, Ancestral Voices; and The
Waverly Gallery. Regionally, she has worked
at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage,
Long Wharf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The Old Globe, and Guthrie Theater. Ms.
Anderman's film and television credits include Final; Man, Woman, and Child; The Seduction of Joe Tynan; "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Homicide,"
"Law & Order," and recurring roles on "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd"
and "The Equalizer." She has been honored with IRNE, Drama Desk, and Tony Award
nominations, and has received Theatre World and Connecticut Critics Circle
Awards.
Name: Halley Feiffer (as Emily)
Hometown: New York City, NY
Last Seen In: Off Broadway in None of the Above, and in Margot at the Wedding, a film in theatres now.
Most Memorable Role: I participated in a synchronized swimming production in high school. I don't know what possessed me.
Halley Feiffer
(Emily) Off Broadway credits include Jenny Lyn Bader's None of the Above (dir.
Julie Kramer), Josh Tobiessen's Election Day (Second Stage Theatre, dir. Jeremy Dobrish), Eric Bogosian's subUrbia (dir. Jo Bonney), Allison Moore's Urgent
Fury (Cherry Lane Theatre, dir. Richard
Caliban), and Jules Feiffer's Feiffer's People (dir. Thomas Kail). Her regional credits include Knock,
Knock! at the Vineyard Playhouse and Jules'
Blues at the Schoolhouse Theatre and the
Powerhouse Theater through New York Stage & Film. Her television and film
credits include "Law & Order," and the Sundance Award-winning films You
Can Count on Me, Stephanie Daley, and Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the
Whale (as Sophie), as well as his most
recent film Margot at the Wedding
(as Maisy). Ms. Feiffer's work as a playwright has been produced at the Cherry
Lane Theatre (Young Playwrights' Festival XXII) and the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival. She graduated last May from Wesleyan University.
Name: Graham Hamilton (as Woodson Bull III)
Hometown: Santa Monica, CA
Last Seen In: Dan Sullivan's Hamlet at South Coast Repertory. I also recently shot a live action animated feature with Australian director Paul Curriew (the title of which I'm contractually bound to keep secret ).
Favorite Shakespeare Play: As of now Romeo & Juliet is my favorite, but when I take on the role of Woodson Bull III it will be King Lear.
Graham Hamilton
(Woodson Bull III) appeared Off Broadway in The Two Noble Kinsmen
for The Public Theater/NYSF. His regional credits include Hamlet (South Coast Repertory), Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello,
Vincent in Brixton, Antony
& Cleopatra, and The Two
Noble Kinsmen (The Old Globe), Romeo
& Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library), Mozart (Walt Disney Concert Hall), and Two
Gentleman of Verona (Shakespeare
Festival/L.A.). His film and television credits include the The Last
Magi, How I Got Lost, "Cold Case," "Lincoln Heights," and "The Guiding
Light." Mr. Hamilton received his B.F.A. from The Juilliard School.
Name: Jonathan McMurtry (as Jack Jameson)
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Most Memorable Role: Iago in Othello.
Favorite Shakespeare Play: Antony and Cleopatra. I once played Octavius Caesar.
Who was your favorite teacher?: John Barton. He taught Shakespeare, coincidentally.
Jonathan McMurtry
(Jack Jameson) has appeared in over 200 productions at The Old Globe since
1961, including Restoration Comedy, Trying (San Diego Critics Circle Award), Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, Henry IV,
Henry V, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello,
Timon of Athens, King
Lear, As You Like It, Bus Stop,
Da, The Seagull, American Buffalo, Home,
Waiting for Godot, There's
One in Every Marriage (San Diego Critics
Circle Award), Rashomon, Dear
Liar, and Moby Dick Rehearsed. His other theatre credits include A Life
in the Theatre (San Diego Critics Circle
Award) for North Coast Rep and Gaslamp Quarter Theatre; Picasso at
the Lapin Agile, A Christmas
Carol, and Uncle Vanya (San Diego Repertory Theatre); and leading roles at
South Coast Repertory, Alley Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Syracuse Stage,
Arizona Theatre Company, San Jose Rep, Alaska Repertory Theatre, Ahmanson
Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and Berkeley Repertory
Theatre. Mr. McMurtry is the recipient of the KPBS Patté Award's "Shiley Award
for Lifetime Achievement," the '92 Joe Callaway Award, an L.A. Critics Circle
Award, and 30 Drama-Logue Awards. His film and television credits include Beautiful
Joe (with Sharon Stone), Best
Laid Plans (with Reese Witherspoon), Little
Nikita (with Sidney Poitier), Point
Blank (with Lee Marvin), "Encore! Encore!,"
The Skin of Our Teeth (live PBS telecast from The Globe), "thirtysomething,"
"Cheers," "Almost Perfect," "The Naked Truth," "Wings," and "Frasier." Mr.
McMurtry is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Name: Robin Pearson Rose (as Nancy Gordon)
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Last Seen In: You Can't Take it With You at the Rubicon Theatre Company in L.A. (as I matter of fact, I closed the day before I flew to Boston!).
Favorite Shakespeare Play: I wish I could say King Lear, but I confess to loving A Midsummer Night's Dream best.
Robin Pearson Rose
(Nancy Gordon) appeared in the Broadway productions of Holiday
and The Visit (Hal Prince, dir.), and
the Off Broadway production of Summer and Smoke (Roundabout Theatre Company). Her regional theatre
credits include Vincent in Brixton,
All My Sons (San Diego Theatre
Critics Circle's Craig Noel Award for Best Actress), Da, Voir Dire, Dancing at Lughnasa, Wonderful
Tennessee, and Remembrance (The Old Globe), Happy Days, All My Sons, and You Can't Take it With You (Rubicon Theatre Company), Carpetbaggers Children and Dragon Lady (South Coast Repertory), Juno and the Paycock (American Conservatory Theater), Measure
for Measure and The Drunkard (Williamstown Theatre Fetival), and Bourgeois
Gentleman and Baal (Yale Repertory Theatre). Ms. Rose's film
appearances include Something's Gotta Give, What Women Want, Speechless, Fearless
(Peter Weir, dir.), Last Resort
opposite Charles Grodin, and An Enemy of the People opposite Steve McQueen. On television, she was seen
in recurring roles on "Grey's Anatomy," "Vanished," "The Days and Nights of
Molly Dodd," "Night Court," and "Empty Nest," and as a series regular on "White
Shadow." Other television appearances include "Life," "The Nine," "Boston
Legal," "Cold Case," "Close to Home," "Without a Trace," "Boston Public,"
"Judging Amy," "ER," "Party of Five," "Murder One," "L.A. Law," Secret
Sins of the Father (Beau Bridges, dir.),
Hallmark Hall of Fame's A Place for Annie, HBO's "The Pack," and Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter. Ms. Rose is an associate artist of The Old Globe
and received her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama.
Wendy Wasserstein's
(Playwright) play The Heidi Chronicles won the 1989 Pulitzer
Prize, Tony Award, and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; the New York Drama Critics
Circle, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards; and earned her a grant
from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. For The Sisters
Rosensweig she received the 1993 Outer
Critics Circle Award, a Tony Award nomination, and the William Inge Award for
Distinguished Achievement in American Theatre. Her other plays include Third, Old Money, and An American Daughter
(Lincoln Center Theater); Uncommon Women and Others (Phoenix Theater); Isn't It Romantic (Playwrights Horizons); a musical, Miami (with Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman); Waiting
for Philip Glass, included in Love's
Fire (The Acting Company); and Welcome
to My Rash (Theater J). Ms. Wasserstein's
wrote the screenplay for The Object of My Affection, starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd. For PBS
Great Performances she has written Kiss, Kiss Darling; Drive,
She Said; adaptations of John
Cheever's The Sorrows of Gin, and
her own Uncommon Women and Others.
She also adapted The Heidi Chronicles for TNT (1996 Emmy nomination for Best Television Movie) and An
American Daughter for Lifetime Television.
She is the author of Pamela's First Musical, a children's book, which she adapted with Cy
Coleman into a musical. Her other books include the novel Elements of
Style, the essay collections Shiksa
Goddess (Or How I Spent My Forties), Bachelor
Girls, and Sloth. She contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Woman, and Harper's Bazaar,
among many other publications. Ms. Wasserstein was the recipient of an NEA
Grant, Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
She taught at Columbia University, New York University, Julliard School, and
Princeton University, and held an Honorary Doctorate from Mount Holyoke
College. She also started The Open Doors Program (run by the Theater
Development Fund in New York), which brings New York City Public High School
students to plays accompanied by professional theatre artists. She received a
B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.
Richard Seer
(Director) appeared as an actor in two productions during the inaugural season
of the Huntington, Translations and The Taming of the Shrew. An award-winning actor and director for over
thirty-five years, he has performed on Broadway, Off Broadway, on film and
television, and has directed or performed in over 60 productions at regional
theatres in this country and Great Britain. On Broadway he originated the role
of Young Charlie (Theatre World Award) in the 1978 Tony Award-winning
production of Hugh Leonard's Da.
Other theatre credits include productions at the Goodman Theatre, The Kennedy
Center, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Washington
D.C.'s Young Playwrights' Theater, Studio Arena Theatre, Edinburgh
International Festival, and the Sybil Thorndike Repertory Theatre in Great
Britain, to name a few. As resident director of The Old Globe in San Diego, he
has directed productions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Vincent in Brixon, Blue/Orange (2003 Critics Circle Award, Best Director and Best Production), All
My Sons, Da, and Old Wicked Songs, among others. He received his M.F.A. in directing
from Boston University, where he was awarded the prestigious Esther B. Kahn
Career Entry Award in 1985, and was invited to be an associate professor of
acting and directing in 1990. Mr. Seer is currently a professor of theatre at
the University of San Diego, where he has been director of The Old Globe/University
of San Diego graduate actor training program since 1993.