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Laurie Churba Kohn (Costume
Designer) previously designed the costumes for the Huntington's productions
of The Cry of the Reed and Rabbit Hole. Her Broadway credits
include The Price, and her Off Broadway credits include The
Tricky Part; Private Jokes, Public Places; Something Old,
Something New; Golden Boy; and Waiting for Lefty.
Ms. Churba Kohn most recently designed the productions of Death of
a Salesman and A View From the Bridge (Arena Stage). Her
additional regional credits include The Threepenny Opera, Loot, The Price, Johnny on a Spot, Buffalo Gal, and Horse Heavens (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Sight Unseen and Comedy of Errors (The Old Globe); Hot 'n Cole, The Pavilion, Relatively Speaking, The Drawer Boy, Member of the Wedding, and "Master Harold" ...and the
Boys (Westport Country Playhouse); The Book Club Play,
Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Coastal Disturbances (Berkshire
Theatre Festival); and Amour (Goodspeed Opera House). Ms. Churba
Kohn was on the costume design team at "Saturday Night Live"
for 11 seasons, and is professor of costume design at Dartmouth College.
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Bethany Ford's (Production
Stage Manager) Off Broadway credits include The Waverly Gallery,
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage Theatre), Howard
Crabtree's When Pigs Fly, After-Play, and three seasons as resident
stage manager for Signature Theatre Company, working with Pulitzer Prize-winners
Edward Albee and Horton Foote. Most recently, Ms. Ford spent three seasons
as resident production stage manager at North Shore Music Theatre. Her
other regional work includes Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival
of New American Plays (Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom and
Memory House); Hartford Stage; Trinity Repertory Company; North Carolina
Theatre; Missouri Repertory Theatre; and Goodspeed-at-Chester. Ms. Ford's
opera credits include three seasons at Pittsburgh Opera. She will soon
be assuming the position of workshop and festival production manager
for The Public Theater/NYSF. Ms. Ford is a cum laude graduate of Chatham
College.
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Leslie Sears (Stage
Manager) has worked previously at the Huntington on The Rivals.
Her additional theatre credits include Little Women (NetWorks!
Tours); The Four of Us, Othello, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, Antony
and Cleopatra, and Two Noble Kinsmen (The Old Globe); and Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Ms. Sears' opera credits
include Flight, La Traviata, Thais, Madama Butterfly,
The Marriage of Figaro, and La bohéme (Boston Lyric Opera);
Cosi fan tutte and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
(Tanglewood Music Center); Abduction from the Seraglio (Connecticut
Opera Association); and Semele (Opera Boston). Ms. Sears is a
graduate of Boston University.
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Antje Ellermann's (Scenic
Design) scenic design credits include Novel (Summer Play Festival);
Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and R & J (Juilliard
Drama School); Realism/Jump! (The Exchange); The Pillowman
(Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Becoming Adele (Gotham Stage Company);
Xerxes (Pittsburgh Opera Center); 9 Parts of Desire (Arena
Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Geffen
Playhouse, and Manhattan Ensemble Theater); and Passin' It On
(Coconut Grove Playhouse). Ms. Ellerman has also worked as associate
scenic designer on Glengarry Glen Ross (Royale Theatre), Faust
(Metropolitan Opera Company), An Italian Straw Hat (National
Ballet of Canada), and Betrayal (Roundabout Theatre Company).
Her work on 9 Parts of Desire earned Ms. Ellermann nominations
for Lucille Lortel, L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation, and Helen Hayes Awards.
She has also been nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement
in Art Direction for her work on Becoming American: The Chinese Experience.
She is a graduate of Boston University.
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Rob Milburn & Michael Bodeen (Music Composition and Sound Design) have Huntington
credits that include sound for Bang the Drum Slowly, Nomatemba,
Jitney, King Hedley II, and music and sound for Hamlet,
Journey to the West, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Their
Broadway credits include music composition and sound for One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Speed of Darkness; music for
My Thing of Love; and sound for A Year with Frog and Toad,
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, King Hedley
II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu, and The
Grapes of Wrath. Their Off Broadway credits include music and sound
for After Ashley, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space,
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, and Marvin's Room. Their
recent projects include original music and sound for The
Bluest Eye (Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatre); The Crucible,
Good Boys and True, and The Pillowman (Steppenwolf Theatre
Company); Mrs. Packard (McCarter Theatre and The Kennedy Center);
Mirror of the Invisible World and Vigils (Goodman Theatre);
Mrs. Warren's Profession (Alliance Theatre); A Big Blue Nail
(Victory Gardens); sound for Superior Donuts, Anne Frank,
and The Unmentionables (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); The
Pain and the Itch (Playwrights Horizons); The Birthday Party (McCarter Theatre); Comedy on the Bridge; Brundibar; and original music, music direction, and sound for Life is a Dream
(South Coast Repertory). They have created music and sound at many theatres
including the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Comedy
Theatre in London's West End, The Barbican Centre, National Theatre
of Great Britain, The Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, Subaru Acting Company
in Japan, and festivals in Toronto, Dublin, Galway, Perth, and Sydney.
They recently composed music and designed sound for the opening ceremonies
of the Amateur International Boxing Association at the Chicago Theatre.
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Japhy Weideman's (Lighting
Design) recent projects include
Little Flower of East Orange directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman
(The Public Theater), Curse of the Starving Class directed by
Peter DuBois (American Conservatory Theater), and Bluebeard's Castle/Il
Prigioniero directed by Peter Stein (Teatro alla Scala in Milan).
In New York City, Mr. Weideman has designed at The Public Theater, New
York City Center, Soho Rep, and the Juilliard Opera Center, among others.
Internationally, he has designed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in
Stratford, The Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland, the Albery
Theatre in London's West End, Opera de Lyon in France, the National
Theatre of Greece in Epidaurus, and The National Theater of Korea in
Seoul. Mr. Weideman received 2007 Drama Desk, Lortel, and Hewes Design
Award nominations for Jack Goes Boating at The Public Theater
(directed by Peter DuBois), and a 2005 Drama Desk nomination for The Flying Machine's Frankenstein at Soho Rep.
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Thomas Schall (Fight Director)
previously worked at the Huntington on The Cry of the Reed. Mr.
Schall's Broadway credits include The Seafarer, Rock 'n' Roll,
Pygmalion, Coram Boy, Journey's End, Legally Blonde,
Woman in White, Sixteen Wounded, Wicked, Noises
Off, The Women, Art, The
Iceman Cometh, The Retreat from Moscow, The Little Foxes,
and Life (x) 3. His Off Broadway credits include A Midsummer
Night's Dream, In Darfur, Durango, and Mother Courage
and her Children (The Public Theater/NYSF); Homebody/Kabul
(Brooklyn Academy of Music); Dessa Rose, Belle Epoque,
Chaucer in Rome, God's Heart, The Time of the Cuckoo,
and A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center Theater); A Lesson
Before Dying (Signature Theatre); and What the Butler Saw
and Good Thing (The New Group). Regionally, Mr. Schall has worked
at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Arena Stage, Folger
Shakespeare Theatre, and Dallas Theater Center. His has also worked
on the film Internet Stories.
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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 Sand for the Women's Project in
New York City. Past credits include productions for Soho Rep 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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Ron Campbell (Abe) has played leading roles with such theatres as The Actors' Gang, Seattle
Repertory Theatre, The Habima Theatre (Israel), The Mercury Theatre
(Chicago), The Old Globe, The Old Red Lion Theatre (London), American
Conservatory Theater, MetroStage (Washington, D.C.), Intiman Theatre
(Seattle), and the Mark Taper Forum. Mr. Campbell's one man shows include
The Thousandth Night (London Fringe One-Man Show of the Year Award,
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Bay Area Critics Circle Award,
and Helen Hayes Award nomination), R. Buckminster Fuller (Bay
Area Critics Circle Award; Jeff Award nomination, Chicago), Shylock,
and A Tale of Two Cities. He has appeared in the title roles
of Richard III, Cyrano de Bergerac, Tartuffe, and
The Imaginary Invalid, as well as the Chef in Teatro Zinzanni.
Mr. Campbell is an associate artist of California Shakespeare Theater,
and received the 2008 Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement.
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Chris Henry Coffey's
(Hank Daley) theatrical credits include The P.R. Man (dir. Robert
Lyons, Ohio Theatre); Richard Nelson's Frank's Home (dir. Robert
Falls, Playwrights Horizons and Goodman Theatre); Hildy Johnson in
The Front Page (dir. Gordon Edelstein, Long Wharf Theatre); Skip
Cheeseboro in Resurrection Blues (dir. Mark Lamos, The Old Globe);
Dennis McCleary in The Violet Hour and Tesman in Hedda Gabler
(dir. Ron Daniels, Dallas Theater Center); Rodolpho in A View from
the Bridge and Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir.
Greg Boyd, Alley Theatre); and Claudio in Measure for Measure
(dir. Mark Rucker, Yale Repertory Theatre). Mr. Coffey's film credits
include The International, Thirteen Days (with Kevin Costner),
Play It by Ear (with Rita Moreno), Walking on the Sky, and
June among many independents. His selected television appearances
include "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: Criminal
Intent." He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
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John De Vries (George Demerest) was most recently seen in Bernard Weinraub's The Accomplices (The New Group) and Richard II (Classic Stage Company). His Broadway
credits include Devour the Snow, Major Barbara, Loose Ends, The Cherry Orchard, Execution of Justice, and Agammemnon. Off Broadway, Mr. De Vries has performed
in Goodnight Children Everywhere and The General from America, both by Richard Nelson, and Sight Unseen, The Persians, One Flea Spare, Kit Marlowe, Oedipus, Titus Andronicus, The Scarlett Letter, The Red Address, The Ballad of Soapy
Smith, The Good Woman of Setchuan, and Fragments of a Trilogy. His film and television credits include American Gangster; Evening; Guerilla; The Baxter; Fatman and Little Boy; City of Hope; Lianna; Rachel River; Zelda; Sarah, Plain and Tall; Skylark, Sarah II; Pathway to Paradise; Lincoln; the upcoming film The International; "Law & Order;" "Law & Order: Criminal Intent;" "Now and Again;" and "The Wright Verdicts."
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Mary Beth Fisher (Alice) most recently appeared in Dead Man's Cell Phone at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. Her New York credits include Richard Nelson's Frank's Home (Playwrights Horizons), Boy Gets Girl (Drama League Honoree, Lucile Lortel and Drama Desk nominations), The Radical Mystique, and By the Beautiful Sea (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Night of the Iguana (Roundabout Theatre Company), and Extremities (WestSide Arts). Her Chicago
credits include The Clean House, Dinner with Friends, Heartbreak House, Spinning into Butter, Design for Living, Light up the Sky, and Marvin's Room (Goodman Theatre); The Dresser and The Memory of Water (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); What the Butler Saw, Arcadia, The Glass Menagerie, and Travesties (Court Theatre); and
The Little Dog Laughed (About Face Theatre). Ms. Fisher has worked in regional theatres around the country. Her television and film credits include Formosa Betrayed, Dragonfly, Trauma, the award-winning short film Safe Storage, "Without a Trace," "Numb3rs," "Prison Break," "NYPD Blue," "Profiler," and "Early Edition."
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Kelly Hutchinson (Ruth Oldfield) previously appeared at the Huntington in Ah, Wilderness!. Her New York credits include Voyage of the Carcass (Soho Playhouse),
Homebody/Kabul (New York Theatre Workshop), Major Barbara,
and Macbeth. Regionally, Ms. Hutchinson has appeared in The
Unmentionables (Yale Repertory Theatre), Rocket to the Moon (Richard B. Fisher Center for Performing Arts), The God Committee (Barrington Stage Company), The Triangle Factory Fire Project (Clurman Theatre), Peter Pan (Baltimore's Centerstage), Ghosts (Indiana Repertory Theatre), and The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). Her film and television credits include Hysterical Psycho, Slippery Slope, Thoughtcrimes, Catch Me
If You Can, "The Jury," "Hack," "Cruel and Unusual," "Law & Order: SVU," and "Strangers
With Candy." She is a graduate of Boston University.
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Jeremiah Kissel (Edward Oldfield) has previously appeared with the Huntington in
The Cherry Orchard, Persephone, The Sisters Rosensweig,
Sonia Flew, A Month in the Country, and Betty's Summer
Vacation. His regional Shakespeare appearances include Cassius,
Leontes, Falstaff, Mark Antony, Jacques, Orsino, Pistol, Toby Belch,
Edmund, Pompey, Benedick, and most recently, Ghost/Player/Gravedigger
in Hamlet for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company on Boston Common.
In November, he will appear as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice for Actors' Shakespeare Project. A twenty-five year veteran of Boston's professional stages, he is the recipient of the first Elliot Norton
Award for a Boston actor (1990), and in June of 2003, was presented with the Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence.
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Will LeBow's (Thomas
Jefferson Calhoun) Huntington credits include The Cherry Orchard,
Love's Labour's Lost, the 2006 Breaking Ground Festival reading
of Property, The Rivals (IRNE Award, Best Supporting Actor),
and the world premiere of Sonia Flew. As a member of the acting
company at the American Repertory Theatre, Mr. LeBow has appeared in
more than fifty productions including Cardenio, Julius Caesar, Copenhagen, Donnie Darko, A Marvelous Party!, Oliver
Twist, Romeo and Juliet, No Exit, Three Sisters,
Amerika, The Miser, Marat/Sade, The Merchant of
Venice, The Birthday Party, Nocturne (Drama Desk nomination),
and Full Circle (Elliot Norton Award, Best Actor), among many
others. Other Boston stage credits include Twelfth Night (Commonwealth
Shakespeare Company); Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing,
and King Lear (Boston Shakespeare Company); Brian Friel's Faith Healer (Gloucester Stage Company); and the Boston Pops premiere of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. His film and television credits include Next Stop Wonderland, Second Sight, and six seasons as "Stanley" on the Cable Ace Award-winning animated series "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist."
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Erik Lochtefeld (Buck Buchanan) appeared in the Broadway production of Metamorphoses.
His New York credits include But I'm a Cheerleader (New York
Musical Theatre Festival), as well as The Notebooks of Leonardo Da
Vinci and Metamorphoses (Second Stage Theatre). Mr. Lochtefeld's
regional credits include These Shining Lives (Baltimore's Centerstage); The Underpants (Two River Theatre Company); The Pillowman, The Glass Menagerie, Secret in the Wings, and Metamorphoses (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Safe in Hell (Yale Repertory Theatre);
Twelfth Night (Court Theatre); [sic] (Roadworks Productions);
Cloud 9 (About Face Theatre); Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare
Theater); and The Blue Demon (Williamstown Theatre Festival).
His television appearances include "Law & Order," "Third
Watch," and "All My Children."
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Sarah Nealis (Susan Calhoun) has regional credits that include An Ideal Husband,
Pericles, King Lear, and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas
Nickelby (California Shakespeare Theater); Iphigenia at Aulis, Moonlight & Magnolias, and Long Day's Journey Into Night (San Jose Repertory Theatre); The Trojan Women (West Coast premiere, Aurora Theatre Company); How The Other Half Loves (Center REPertory Company); A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville and Napa Valley Repertory Theatre); 4 Adverbs (Word for Word); Othello and Twelfth Night (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival);
and understudy for Speed The Plow (American Conservatory Theater).
Ms. Nealis holds a B.A. in theatre and performance studies from University
of California, Berkeley.
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Susannah Schulman (Kate Denim) has appeared in Bad Dates and The Two Gentlemen of
Verona (Geva Theatre); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Syracuse
Stage); Man From Nebraska, The Further Adventures of
Hedda Gabler, On the Mountain, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Dazzle, Nostalgia, Six Degrees of Separation, and The Taming of the Shrew (South Coast Repertory); All's Well That
Ends Well (Yale Repertory Theatre); The House of Blue Leaves
(Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Continental Divide (Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and the Barbican Theatre in London); Picnic (Marin Theatre Company); The Joan Rivers Theater Project
(Magic Theatre); the national tour of Steve Martin's Picasso at the
Lapin Agile; five seasons at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; and six seasons
at California Shakespeare Theater, where she is an associate artist.
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Joe Tapper (John Gough) has theatre credits that include work at Yale Repertory Theatre, The
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hangar Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company,
and The Edinburgh International Fringe Festival (The Jammer -
winner of Fringe First Award). Mr. Tapper has appeared on the television
series "Law & Order: SVU." He received his B.F.A. from Ithaca College, and his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama.
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Jonathan Moscone (Director) is in his ninth season as artistic director of California Shakespeare Theater where his credits include Man and Superman; As You
Like It; Hamlet: Blood in the Brain (world premiere);
The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby, Parts 1 & 2; A Midsummer Night's Dream; and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. His work has earned him Bay Area Critics Circle and Dean
Goodman Choice Awards for Best Direction and Production, and his productions
of Man and Superman, Nicholas Nickleby, Ghosts (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Twelfth Night, and The Seagull were all named among the ten best productions by The San Francisco Chronicle and other area newspapers. His regional credits include Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Goodspeed Musicals,
Portland Stage Company, and Magic Theatre. He will direct the upcoming
production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.
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Richard Nelson's (Playwright)
plays include Conversations in Tusculum, Frank's Home,
Rodney's Wife, Franny's Way, Madame Melville, Goodnight
Children Everywhere (Olivier Award, Best Play), The Vienna Notes
(OBIE Award for Playwriting), The General from America, New
England, Left, Misha's Party (with Alexander Gelman),
Columbus and the Discovery of Japan, Two Shakespearean Actors
(Tony nomination, Best Play), Some Americans Abroad (Olivier
nomination, Best Comedy), and Principia Scriptoriae. His musicals
include James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey; Tony Award,
Best Book of a Musical), My Life with Albertine (with Ricky Ian
Gordon), and Paradise Found (with Harold Prince, Jonathan Tunick,
and Ellen Fitzhugh). He has adapted and/or translated numerous classical
and contemporary plays including Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
for the Huntington in 2007. This year he received the PEN/Laura Pels
Master Playwright Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and
an honorary associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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